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Daily Tech News 3 January 2025

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Contract prices for memory are expected to rise by 50% this quarter, on top of the massive increases in the previous quarter. (WCCFTech)

And that's if you can even get a contract. Spot prices are out of control.
Which may be why Corsair has been cancelling orders for memory kits that were accidentally sold at only double the old price, rather than four times. (Notebook Check)

The sales took place on New Years Eve, which is coincidentally when I bought 128GB of Corsair DDR4 RAM on Amazon - I noticed it was selling for close to pre-apocalyptic prices and pounced.

The reported cancellations mostly involve a specific 48GB DDR5 kit, though, which is not at all what I ordered. And one 64GB kit I ordered has already shipped, so it looks like I lucked out. Waiting to see a shipping notice on the two 32GB kits.

Every time I think maybe I bought too much memory I see another story that suggests things are going to get even worse. Memory rarely fails, and the next two generations of AMD CPUs will still support DDR5, so I should have enough to keep me going for years.

Tech News

On the positive-ish side, Chinese memory maker CXMT is preparing for a $4.2 billion IPO to expand its manufacturing facilities. (Tom's Hardware)

Even if the chips go mostly straight into China's domestic market, anything that increases global supply is a good thing, even if it takes a couple of years. I hope to see similar investment in Taiwanese firm Nanya.
Google AI overviews put people at risk of harm with misleading health advice. (The Guardian)

She turned me into a newt.
Police in Heber City, Utah, have been forced to explain why an official report stated that one of their officers had turned into a frog. (Futurism)

He got better.

And if you guessed AI, you win a frog.

(Hat tip: Comrade Arthur.)
Ghana is trying to regulate online prophecies. (The Economist) (archive site)

Will this succeed?

(shake shake)

Signs point to no.
The BBC is systematically biased... To favour conservatives. (SagePub) (PDF)

Stop laughing, this is serious!
Tesla has been overtaken by Chinese auto maker BYD as the leader in EV sales numbers, if not value. (Tech Crunch)

As we covered previously, BYD engages in massive fraud to boost its sales numbers. Cars sitting unsold at dealers are routinely booked as sold, and then sold as second-hand vehicles at huge losses.
On Steam's latest hardware survey, AMD is fast closing in on Intel, capturing 47% of CPU market share. (Tom's Hardware)

The best selling CPUs and motherboards right now are AMD's AM4 models - five years old - because people already have DDR4 memory and are scrapping plans to upgrade to newer models that require DDR5.

Intel's 12th through 14th generation CPUs support both DDR4 and DDR5 memory, but Intel's high-performance 13th and 14th generation CPUs, best suited to gaming, all died.
The top selling motherboard on Amazon right now is the Asus ROG Strix B550-F Gaming WiFi II.

I know this because I have a lot of DDR4 RAM myself and was looking for a good motherboard, and there are literally none available in Australia - they have either sold out or otherwise disappeared, leaving only the cheapest models, which all lack one or more key features like WiFi, 2.5Gb Ethernet, a second M.2 slot, more than just the basic three audio jacks, or a decent PCIe slot layout that would let you add cards to provide those missing features.

This has all those features and five PCIe slots so... I bought one.
I have rather less money saved up than a month ago, because I just bought all the hardware I had planned for this year - and probably next year, to be honest - in the space of three weeks.
Speaking of things undergoing sudden unpredictable price increases physical copies of the PlayStation 4 game Star Wars Racer Revenge have abruptly increased in price from $20 to $400. (Tom's Hardware)

This game is known to have a vulnerability that lets you unlock your PlayStation 5's boot loader. But there were only 8500 copies ever made - it was a remaster of a PlayStation 2 game, and mostly sold via digital download - and there are 85,000,000 PlayStation 5s in existence.

Musical Interlude

Disclaimer: If I get the two 32GB kits, then 768GB in total. Half of which is new. Which used to be a lot.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 04:00 AM

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1 G'Day everyone

Posted by: Skip at January 03, 2026 04:00 AM (Ia/+0)

2 G'mornin' everyone!

Thanks, Pixy!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at January 03, 2026 04:01 AM (Cjt/F)

3 Morning all. Sounds like things just got spicy in Caracas.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at January 03, 2026 04:03 AM (BLOW1)

4 Fox brought in this cute young girl to host the news on vacation week when all the high priced talent is vacationing. And she's doing great.

Posted by: JackStraw

Saw a Fox Palm Beach show with a cutie hosting.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at January 03, 2026 04:03 AM (/lPRQ)

5 willowed on an ONT, haven't managed that before.

So I'm calling it now, the Ukrainian flag in bio people will have Venezuellan flags by Noon tomorrow, based on the character of commentary I'm seeing.
Posted by: Methos at January 03, 2026 04:04 AM (vSvIl)

Posted by: Methos at January 03, 2026 04:05 AM (vSvIl)

6
And if you didn't see it, a strike took out Hugo Chavez's memorial and tomb. Trump blew up Chavez's shrine.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 03, 2026 04:09 AM (w6EFb)

7 Stop laughing, this is serious!
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I stopped laughing before reading that after reading the lead.

Posted by: clarence at January 03, 2026 04:10 AM (MXMX4)

8 That's what I voted for, too!

(6)

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at January 03, 2026 04:10 AM (Cjt/F)

9 And guten morgen, horde.

Posted by: clarence at January 03, 2026 04:11 AM (MXMX4)

10 Fine, I'm getting up

Posted by: Skip at January 03, 2026 04:12 AM (Ia/+0)

11
This was a total decapitation strike. Reports are they hit the residence of the Defense Minister. And more reports he's dead, Jim.

And then (remember this is X stuff) speculation that Delta Force was in there to give Maduro a Moe Green special.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 03, 2026 04:13 AM (w6EFb)

12 Disclaimer: If I get the two 32GB kits, then 768GB in total. Half of which is new. Which used to be a lot.

So you're saying you are now an overnight millionaire and can send your pet wallaby to obedience school? Am I right?

Speaking of wallabies, apparently one got loose in New Jersey on New Year's Eve. I hate when that happens.

https://is.gd/6wEcoz

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at January 03, 2026 04:13 AM (HTCU3)

13 What do you do when someone bombs your volcano? Rebuild?

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 03, 2026 04:16 AM (1Usuo)

14 AMD likely would not be closing the gap in market share if Intel were not repeatedly shooting its own toes off.

Posted by: clarence at January 03, 2026 04:17 AM (MXMX4)

15 No shit, really?

>>@disclosetv

>>NOW - Fox News pundit says the unconfirmed U.S. invasion of Venezuela is for national security against Hezbollah and Iran, as well as Russia and China.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 03, 2026 04:21 AM (viF8m)

16 They were probably helping Canadia smuggle fentanyl into the US.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 03, 2026 04:22 AM (1Usuo)

17 Maduro nabbed.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 03, 2026 04:24 AM (1Usuo)

18 Trump post.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 03, 2026 04:24 AM (1Usuo)

19 Youtube guy reporting that Trump posted that Madura is in US custody and being flown out of Venezuela

Posted by: Methos at January 03, 2026 04:24 AM (vSvIl)

20
Breaking per Fox. Trump says Maduro has been captured.

That was the Delta boys, but they didn't give him a Moe Green special, but took him alive.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 03, 2026 04:25 AM (w6EFb)

21 Maduro's wife also

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 03, 2026 04:25 AM (1Usuo)

22
20
Breaking per Fox. Trump says Maduro has been captured.

That was the Delta boys, but they didn't give him a Moe Green special, but took him alive.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 03, 2026 04:25 AM

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Holy shit.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at January 03, 2026 04:27 AM (VWtfl)

23 FAFO.

Posted by: clarence at January 03, 2026 04:27 AM (MXMX4)

24 He was given every opportunity to leave Venezuela. Now he will be in a US prison instead of playing video games with Bashar Al-Assad in Moscow.

Posted by: Mark1971 at January 03, 2026 04:28 AM (CNl8/)

25
Message: Nobody is safe.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at January 03, 2026 04:28 AM (VWtfl)

26 Thank you for your attention to this matter.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 03, 2026 04:28 AM (1Usuo)

27
He and the missus are in custody and out of the country already.

I saw some stuff on X and about "ground troops" swarming all around Maduro's residence, but didn't know if it was reliable.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 03, 2026 04:28 AM (w6EFb)

28 Breaking per Fox. Trump says Maduro has been captured.

That was the Delta boys, but they didn't give him a Moe Green special, but took him alive.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 03, 2026 04:25 AM (w6EFb)

I wonder if they wasted a bunch of his thug body guards in the process. Those dudes are top notch breachers.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 03, 2026 04:29 AM (snZF9)

29 Wow

Posted by: Blonde Morticia's Phone at January 03, 2026 04:29 AM (n7rxJ)

30 How much heavy sour oil processing remains?

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 03, 2026 04:29 AM (1Usuo)

31 Trump's latest endless war lasted about two hours total.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at January 03, 2026 04:29 AM (BLOW1)

32 Cartels in Colombia and Mexico next, please.

Posted by: clarence at January 03, 2026 04:30 AM (MXMX4)

33 Bolivia?

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 03, 2026 04:30 AM (1Usuo)

34 Lord hear our prayer ...

Posted by: Adriane the Critic . . . at January 03, 2026 04:30 AM (3ZUWJ)

35 Bolivia kicked out the commies in the last election a few months ago. Friendly government now.

Posted by: Mark1971 at January 03, 2026 04:31 AM (CNl8/)

36
Reports started coming in around 3AM EST, which would've been 2AM local time there. So, yep about 2 hours to take out air defense, then decapitation of regime, and then get head of regime captured and black bagged.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 03, 2026 04:32 AM (w6EFb)

37
g'mornin', 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at January 03, 2026 04:32 AM (tljrc)

38 Imissing all this because big tv room is cold

Posted by: Skip at January 03, 2026 04:32 AM (Ia/+0)

39 I wonder if the legit president will get installed now. I think the current regime's VP is still in Venezuela.

Posted by: Mark1971 at January 03, 2026 04:33 AM (CNl8/)

40 Vice president of Venezuela said to be fine.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 03, 2026 04:33 AM (1Usuo)

41 LOL! FAFO!

I know a few Venezuelans who will be doing the Happy Dance later today.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at January 03, 2026 04:34 AM (Cjt/F)

42 Heya Ayatollah...

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at January 03, 2026 04:35 AM (/lPRQ)

43 Rendition.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 03, 2026 04:36 AM (1Usuo)

44 I wonder where they took Maduro? Gitmo seems like a good idea.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at January 03, 2026 04:36 AM (HTCU3)

45 If the Venezuelan and Iranian regimes fall in the same month that would really be something.

Posted by: Mark1971 at January 03, 2026 04:37 AM (CNl8/)

46 Epcot El Salvador?

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 03, 2026 04:37 AM (1Usuo)

47 Trump's latest endless war lasted about two hours total.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at January 03, 2026 04:29 AM (BLOW1)

The 'America First' crowd is going to be pissed that they slept through it and didn't get to bitch about it.

Posted by: Methos at January 03, 2026 04:38 AM (vSvIl)

48 Can't wait to hear the whole story about how this was carried out. Maybe some of Maduro's security turned on him.

Posted by: Mark1971 at January 03, 2026 04:39 AM (CNl8/)

49 Can't wait to hear the whole story about how this was carried out. Maybe some of Maduro's security turned on him.
Posted by: Mark1971

There was a handsome reward.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at January 03, 2026 04:41 AM (/lPRQ)

50 That was the Delta boys, but they didn't give him a Moe Green special, but took him alive.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley
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Sounds like it. Send in the serious sneaky's, get the job done, get out.

Posted by: scampydog at January 03, 2026 04:41 AM (41CYW)

51 3.2.1... “This was an illegal act,” U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis of Maryland said of the of the attack on Venezuela and the capture of Maduro. She immediately issued a solar system wide injunction against both actions and set of hearing for Monday morning so she could tell President Trump she really is mad at him. Maryland man was seen nodding in approval.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at January 03, 2026 04:42 AM (HTCU3)

52 44 I wonder where they took Maduro? Gitmo seems like a good idea.

He jumped out of the helicopter over the ocean while trying to escape.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at January 03, 2026 04:42 AM (Cjt/F)

Should Ohh Enn Tee, Be Forgot, And Never Brought To Mind

Hello all! Welcome to the first meme ONT of 2026! Got some fun stuff for you, plus some Christmas leftovers. Let's start with this. It's a new year, but what if you were given the chance at a new life. Total reset, the clock rolls back to the day you were born. What traits would you choose if you could?

Fido Friday: Well trained

pic.twitter.com/W0sGbub1QU
— ONT WTF (@OntWtf) January 3, 2026

Whoops

Libs in a nutshell

Ow! My balls!

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— ONT WTF (@OntWtf) January 3, 2026

I'd be afraid

Cat-astrophy

Brain fart

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— ONT WTF (@OntWtf) January 3, 2026

Remember when the Left celebrated rugged individualists? Pepperidge Farm remembers.

In case you don't know, it's been a long standing meme on the left to praise the circled man, likely named August Landmesser, for refusing to salute at a Nazi rally. Now suddenly they're condemning "rugged individualism" in favor of "The warmth of collectivism".

The warmth of collectivism

Would-be thief gets pepper sprayed and then gets his ass kicked

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— ONT WTF (@OntWtf) January 2, 2026

Spot the individualist

She's onto us fellas!

Where different immigrants wound up

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— ONT WTF (@OntWtf) January 2, 2026

Wholesome content

Gen Z

Who designed this faucet?

pic.twitter.com/f6UCJ4Euph
— ONT WTF (@OntWtf) January 2, 2026

A good dad

Karmadillo

True story: I had to shoot an armadillo once. I really didn't know if something like this was possible, so I used a 30-06. It did not ricochet.

I'm beginning to understand how Mandami got elected

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— ONT WTF (@OntWtf) January 2, 2026

A retirement planner would like a word

Tonight's ONT has been brought to you by the algorithm:

Posted by: WeirdDave at 10:00 PM

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1 First Friday ONT of 2026.

You know it's got to be good.

The year.

AND the ONT.

Posted by: mindful webworker - happy happy at January 02, 2026 10:02 PM (dESj/)

2 Good evening good people!

Posted by: Tonypete at January 02, 2026 10:03 PM (cYBz/)

3 Take my money, my cigarettes
I haven't seen the worst of it yet
I wanna know, can you tell me
Am I in love to stay?

Take me to the river, drop me in the water
Take me to the river, dip me in the water
Washing me down, washing me down

I don't know why you treat me so bad
Think of all the things that we could have had

youtube.com/watch?v=9FBUgdhxe9M

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 02, 2026 10:04 PM (R0Fqj)

4 It's 13° out. This does nothing for me.

Posted by: From about That Time at January 02, 2026 10:04 PM (sl73Y)

5 Looks like in the Great Separating, the capitalists will get the food trucks, porta-potties and DJs.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at January 02, 2026 10:04 PM (JkO4W)

6 Happy Friday!

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at January 02, 2026 10:06 PM (ytIDq)

7 Yay, ONT!

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at January 02, 2026 10:08 PM (lUFok)

8

Your dick smells like pussy...

Posted by: Dog at January 02, 2026 10:09 PM (HqeNp)

9 Top 3 differences between male and female Belgian Malinois

youtu.be/ZL-x-qoyi6o

So glad the Malinois who adopted us is a female. Still a lot to handle.

Posted by: mindful webworker - Daisy is a happy dog at January 02, 2026 10:09 PM (dESj/)

10 Evenin'

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at January 02, 2026 10:10 PM (FmapG)

11 The robot who kicked the mocap man in the gonads is clearly a prototype for Skynet's Terminator program.

That's how it will start.

One swift robotic knee in the happysack and we drop like anyone else.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 02, 2026 10:10 PM (ESVrU)

12 If the kid is 40, makes 90k (what region?) and lives in an apartment. [his shits retarded] may as well give him a house. But I wouldn't expect him to maintain it. {you're son's retarded & it's probably your fault. having 5M & not knowing what to do is indicative of that}

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 02, 2026 10:12 PM (R0Fqj)

13
In more cheerful news, The Big Dummy was Best of Breed and Hound Group 2 at today's Nolan River KC show. That's starting the year off right.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 02, 2026 10:12 PM (tgvbd)

14 One swift robotic knee in the happysack and we drop like anyone else.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 02, 2026 10:10 PM (ESVrU)

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This is where guys like Bill Kristol and David French will have a definite advantage over the rest of us.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at January 02, 2026 10:13 PM (JkO4W)

15 Hello everyone, and happy Friday to the best community on the planet. Thank you for not murdering me.

I'm watching Orson Welles' "Macbeth" and it's amazing how many science fiction stories took their titles from the dialogue in this play.

Hope you all have a wonderful weekend.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at January 02, 2026 10:13 PM (CHHv1)

16 Congrats to The Big Dummy!

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at January 02, 2026 10:14 PM (ytIDq)

17 After Mamdani was sworn in underground, has he started work on the Rat Cave, below a children's hospital in NYC? Has he selected his Ratmobile? Is his Ratsignal the Islamic moon and star, or a muzzled rat?

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at January 02, 2026 10:14 PM (S/Y4j)

18 Good evening morons en bedankt wd

Great ONT. Esoteric.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 02, 2026 10:16 PM (RIvkX)

19 What traits would you choose if you could?
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I crossed the border into Skyrim innocently enough, I don't have anything to do with that guy wearing a gag.

Posted by: Methos at January 02, 2026 10:18 PM (vSvIl)

20 What traits would you choose if you could?

I wouldn't choose any of those.

I would choose to have a complete, sanctified understanding of my salvation through the Lord Jesus Christ from my first conscious moment.

Then I wouldn't worry about health or death or wealth or comfort or genetics and I would be naturally winsome to friends, animals and women.

Posted by: Citizen Journalist at January 02, 2026 10:18 PM (4y4II)

21 Enjoying some bourbon and sour patch gummies and noodling on the piano.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 02, 2026 10:19 PM (XV/Pl)

22 That faucet would be very popular in gay bathhouses, I imagine.

I would have never though to design one like that.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 02, 2026 10:19 PM (u82oZ)

23 This is going on two weeks I don't know what day it is. Weird Dave ONT, or I wouldn't know it was Friday.

Posted by: Cale at January 02, 2026 10:19 PM (oftw2)

24 Good old Oklahoma: the melting pot of the melting pot. Some of everything, most English, but not German (I've got German ancestors, but not first gen) or Scotch-Irish.

Posted by: mindful webworker - Okie by birth and choice at January 02, 2026 10:20 PM (dESj/)

25 You have a 40 year old son with kids in a rental and you're sitting on $5 million?

You suck.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 02, 2026 10:21 PM (RIvkX)

26 Bourbon and sour patch gummies? Tell me more.

Posted by: LRob in OK at January 02, 2026 10:22 PM (47diA)

27 Thanks, weirdDave.

This is an excellent ONT. We are a long way from you running a Diplomacy game.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 02, 2026 10:23 PM (u82oZ)

28 Or wear a cup if you go to fight.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at January 02, 2026 10:24 PM (wWU6x)

29 >What traits would you choose if you could?

I would have my hound dog back, young and happy. He helped me deal with the fact that I am slowly going blind from a genetic thing.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at January 02, 2026 10:24 PM (ytIDq)

30 25 You have a 40 year old son with kids in a rental and you're sitting on $5 million?

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$5 million spread over 25 years of retirement isn't what it used to be.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at January 02, 2026 10:24 PM (JkO4W)

31 Evening, folken,

About to wrap it up for this first Friday of '26. Warm weather here and it will continue for a while, which depresses and annoys me no end. Miss Linda has trundled off back home and the feline thugs are trotting around, hoping something has gotten in that they can chase and kill.

For the do-over? I'd take either the trust fund or the $1m, whichever is larger. A million may not seem like that much today, but it can generate interest. And when I get older, I can make it work for me. Of course this presumes that my parents Version 2.0 don't fritter it away and have the sense to teach me how to handle money. That training I did not get the first time around.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 02, 2026 10:25 PM (wzUl9)

32 Ben Had, I missed your question earlier.

Feeling much better, thank you.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at January 02, 2026 10:25 PM (Wnv9h)

33 Remember: not everyone can be an athlete, but everyone can be an athletic supporter!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at January 02, 2026 10:26 PM (wWU6x)

34 Brooklyn Bridge punked. BWAH hahahah

Retirement planner: worthy of George Bailey.

the algorithm: Uh, excuse me while I go look for my magnifying specs.

Thanks for a great 2026 MEMEONT, WD. Happy New Year.

Posted by: mindful webworker - I meant to do that at January 02, 2026 10:28 PM (dESj/)

35 33 Remember: not everyone can be an athlete, but everyone can be an athletic supporter!
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at January 02, 2026 10:26 PM (wWU6x)

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I hope you made that up and didn't actually sit through a viewing of Grease.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at January 02, 2026 10:28 PM (JkO4W)

36 Sorry I'm late, that sore loser gorilla insisted we go best two out if three.

Posted by: tankdemon at January 02, 2026 10:28 PM (2RJDy)

37 Citizen Journalist -

God bless you, sir!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at January 02, 2026 10:28 PM (wWU6x)

38 Eh my life is not that sucky, pass on a do-over. Although if I could snap my fingers and get my dad's vision and ability to hold a bead I'd do it.

Posted by: PaleRider at January 02, 2026 10:28 PM (hhkIi)

39 night's ONT has been brought to you by the algorithm:

Chiseling has been ubiquitous since there's been chisels. I worked for a nationally known moving company that paid day laborers (I was one at 21) a weekday rate and a weekend rate that was 2/3rds of that, effectively making overtime into straight time. That was thirty five years ago. The algorithm is just a shiny new way to do a very old thing.

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at January 02, 2026 10:28 PM (pIfcn)

40 21 Enjoying some bourbon and sour patch gummies and noodling on the piano.
Posted by: Thomas Bender

I read that as nooding on the patio. Wasn't sure what was going on.

Posted by: Reading Is Fundamental! at January 02, 2026 10:28 PM (oftw2)

41 30 25 You have a 40 year old son with kids in a rental and you're sitting on $5 million?

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$5 million spread over 25 years of retirement isn't what it used to be.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at January 02, 2026 10:24 PM (JkO4W)

My idea is that no one owes me jack. I am not magically entitled to an inheritance. My folks worked hard and are comfortable. That gives me peace of mind. I'm a saver and thrifty. I don't need their money.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at January 02, 2026 10:28 PM (ytIDq)

42 That guard shepherd, they are like that.
Circumstances; I was in a boiler room, after a search, with dad, a cop and his dog. Shepherd seemed just like a regular dog hanging out.
I asked the cop about it, he said, I'll show you but do not move a muscle. OK. He gave a command, it was just a soft word no DI yell,
Shazam! Goofy became Mr. Vicious in the blink of an eye.
Training.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 02, 2026 10:29 PM (R0Fqj)

43 My late wife and her mother loved the movie “Grease”, so it’s not original with me.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at January 02, 2026 10:29 PM (wWU6x)

44 Ummm...$5M aint what used to be.

Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at January 02, 2026 10:30 PM (XMwZJ)

45 Kinda funny you have to rub it to get it to squirt. The things people come up with. (I kept this comment as clean as I could.)

Posted by: Case at January 02, 2026 10:30 PM (G1OIb)

46
Mary,

We tell our kids we leaving them debts, lol.

Posted by: fourseasons at January 02, 2026 10:30 PM (3ek7K)

47 "I don't want to enable him."

"I want him to look forward to, and celebrate my death."

Posted by: t-bird at January 02, 2026 10:30 PM (iHitY)

48 43 My late wife and her mother loved the movie “Grease”, so it’s not original with me.

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It's definitely a guilty pleasure. The Frankie Avalon sequence is pretty funny.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at January 02, 2026 10:30 PM (JkO4W)

49 Hadrian the Seventh

Given your dog’s title of the Big Dummy, I expected the real name to be Lamont.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 02, 2026 10:30 PM (u82oZ)

50 One swift robotic knee in the happysack and we drop like anyone else.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 02, 2026 10:10 PM (ESVrU)

lol I know that quote! One of my favorites!

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 02, 2026 10:31 PM (otNgF)

51 That Immune System choice above calls to me.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 02, 2026 10:31 PM (u82oZ)

52 I'll grant you it depends where you live and how you got there, but I never made $92K a year in my life. Maybe the dumb shit doesn't need his Daddy's money. Maybe he need to grow up.

Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at January 02, 2026 10:32 PM (MZ+PY)

53 My idea is that no one owes me jack. I am not magically entitled to an inheritance. My folks worked hard and are comfortable. That gives me peace of mind. I'm a saver and thrifty. I don't need their money.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at January 02, 2026 10:28 PM (ytIDq)
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Same here.

But I won't turn it down if and when they leave me a tidy sum. I don't plan on spending it all on hookers and blow.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 02, 2026 10:33 PM (ESVrU)

54 lol I know that quote! One of my favorites!
Posted by: Tom Servo at January 02, 2026 10:31 PM (otNgF)
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One of the funniest episodes ever!

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 02, 2026 10:34 PM (ESVrU)

55 But I won't turn it down if and when they leave me a tidy sum. I don't plan on spending it all on hookers and blow.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 02, 2026 10:33 PM (ESVrU)

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This tells me you need to take a serious second look at your priorities.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at January 02, 2026 10:34 PM (JkO4W)

56 My idea is that no one owes me jack. I am not magically entitled to an inheritance. My folks worked hard and are comfortable. That gives me peace of mind. I'm a saver and thrifty. I don't need their money.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at January 02, 2026 10:28 PM (ytIDq)
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Same here.

But I won't turn it down if and when they leave me a tidy sum. I don't plan on spending it all on hookers and blow.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 02, 2026 10:33 PM (ESVrU)

You may not have plans, but I bet your cats find ways to spend it for you....

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at January 02, 2026 10:35 PM (S/Y4j)

57 fourseasons, lol!

My Mom says: "I'm spending your inheritance!"
I say: "You go, girl!"

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at January 02, 2026 10:35 PM (ytIDq)

58 My Doberman was trained like this, having a dog this trained is a blast and I had no idea how spoiled I was for it. I could get her to lay down with a hand signal as she ran across a field. She would put her toys away (I had to tell her toy by toy, but she did it!). My German Shepherds were about 80% of what my Doberman could do. My Shiba? -10%.

Posted by: Piper at January 02, 2026 10:35 PM (Wmg4n)

59 41
'My idea is that no one owes me jack. I am not magically entitled to an inheritance.'

Same. My parents gave me a good childhood and a start in life. Whatever they put aside is theirs to do what they want with.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at January 02, 2026 10:35 PM (fd80v)

60 Wow.

I made far less than 92k and raised two boys in Seattle. Put them through private school and lived in a very good neighborhood. Provided their healthcare and took them to Mass and they had clean uniforms and played sports.

I won’t own a home and I’ll never retire.

But my kids were MY RESPONSIBILITY. NOT anyone else’s.

Parents owe adult children nothing.

Posted by: nurse ratched at January 02, 2026 10:35 PM (IhIKR)

61
Mary, Yes!

Posted by: fourseasons at January 02, 2026 10:35 PM (3ek7K)

62 "Perfessor" Squirrel

You have a pimp hat! Hookers are in your line of business.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 02, 2026 10:37 PM (u82oZ)

63 Based on comments, I probably will get part of my mom's estate. Given the choice, though, I'd rather have her around and in good health than any amount of money.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at January 02, 2026 10:37 PM (S/Y4j)

64 I will admit... that the dismissive attitude of those who have been in this country for 10 minutes, dismissing the Heritage American Idea...

Those of us who have families going back many generations... those whose family built the damn country you came too...

Is... predictable. and yes, for the record? Direct ancestor who was at Fucking Valley Forge.

Posted by: Romeo13 at January 02, 2026 10:38 PM (mP0Kj)

65 Ow, my robot balls. Eurotrip. Pretty good movie, and the awesomely cute and sadly departed Michelle Trachtenberg.

Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at January 02, 2026 10:39 PM (MZ+PY)

66 "Perfessor" Squirrel

You have a pimp hat! Hookers are in your line of business.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 02, 2026 10:37 PM (u82oZ)
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How do you think I'll be funding my retirement?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 02, 2026 10:41 PM (ESVrU)

67 If you think your parents owe you something, what do you think you owe your kids?

Posted by: nurse ratched at January 02, 2026 10:42 PM (IhIKR)

68 Based on comments, I probably will get part of my mom's estate. Given the choice, though, I'd rather have her around and in good health than any amount of money.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at January 02, 2026 10:37 PM (S/Y4j)

This. My folks are aging and i am having the discussions about how they want things managed. I would rather have my parents than their money and stuff.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at January 02, 2026 10:42 PM (ytIDq)

69 Romeo13

When all the prison records are digitized, then I can find out what my ancestors did. I mean besides horse theiving, Scallywagging, and Mopery.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 02, 2026 10:43 PM (u82oZ)

70 I won’t own a home and I’ll never retire.

But my kids were MY RESPONSIBILITY. NOT anyone else’s.

Parents owe adult children nothing.
Posted by: nurse ratched at January 02, 2026 10:35 PM (IhIKR)

retirement is over rated. I'm there. Financially well off, no debt, own my home... worked for it for many many years...

But... I'm bored. Partly because I am single, but sort of locked into where I live because my Son is living with me...

but it is a bitter sweet thing... when you once were all that and a bag of chips... and now? just feeling old.

Posted by: Romeo13 at January 02, 2026 10:43 PM (mP0Kj)

71 66 "Perfessor" Squirrel

You have a pimp hat! Hookers are in your line of business.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 02, 2026 10:37 PM (u82oZ)
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How do you think I'll be funding my retirement?
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 02, 2026 10:41 PM (ESVrU)

Pimping out members of Congress.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at January 02, 2026 10:43 PM (S/Y4j)

72
Ummm...$5M aint what used to be.
Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent

What is?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 02, 2026 10:43 PM (pkeXY)

73 Mamdani's speech was right out of the socialist/marxist playbook. And those dumb fu*ks in NY lapped it up.
Piss off NY. You stupid, stupid people.

Posted by: Diogenes at January 02, 2026 10:43 PM (2WIwB)

74 How do you think I'll be funding my retirement?
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 02, 2026 10:41 PM (ESVrU)

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Remember, most guys in their 70s don't have the strength needed for the strong pimp hand. Don't skip the gym.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at January 02, 2026 10:43 PM (JkO4W)

75 Too good an immune system opens up the possibility of auto-immune disease.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at January 02, 2026 10:43 PM (wWU6x)

76 Congrats, Hadrian

And Big Dummy.

Posted by: tankdemon at January 02, 2026 10:44 PM (2RJDy)

77 Nothing any of you morons have said although wise has changed my mind.

$5 million is plenty to retire for 25 years, you may need better investment advice

this is not about what is owed or what is wanted, it is not about responsibility or ability, it is about what is smart

It is smart to peel off $200-$250K to assist with a down payment to convert your kid's rent to equity

If you had only $1 million in the bank I can see the reluctance but investing in real estate and in your own family is usually the smart thing to do. Not always, but usually.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 02, 2026 10:44 PM (RIvkX)

78 Here's hoping 2026 is the improvement we need....

Posted by: caf at January 02, 2026 10:45 PM (qS/Xm)

79 Look at the people waiting for fireworks over the Brooklyn Bridge. Might as well have offered to sell them the deed.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at January 02, 2026 10:45 PM (wWU6x)

80 69 Romeo13

When all the prison records are digitized, then I can find out what my ancestors did. I mean besides horse theiving, Scallywagging, and Mopery.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 02, 2026 10:43 PM (u82oZ)

LOL, in my Den right now, is a Pharmacy license from Nebraska for a GG Grandfather... which is... flat out... a forgery. Guy was a school teacher. No medical education at all.

Posted by: Romeo13 at January 02, 2026 10:45 PM (mP0Kj)

81 ---------

$5 million spread over 25 years of retirement isn't what it used to be.
Posted by: Cicero
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Don't have to keep it in a shoe box.
5M x 3% = 150K
and there are better ways

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 02, 2026 10:45 PM (R0Fqj)

82 Same. My parents gave me a good childhood and a start in life. Whatever they put aside is theirs to do what they want with.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at January 02, 2026 10:35 PM (fd80v)
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Yep. I may not have turned out exactly as they might have hoped, but they did give me the necessary life skills that have allowed me to become independent and self-sufficient for the most part. That counts for a lot.

I've told them I'm not interested in their money and that they don't need to worry about my future. I'll be fine.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 02, 2026 10:46 PM (ESVrU)

83 I read something that I think publius would like if he gets on. Although he's probably already read about it. It's about six month old news anyway.

So one of the new fusion energy startups found a way to improve and optimize the profit equation for their reactor. It think the name of the company is Marathon Fusion. They found if they integrate mercury into the system's breeder blanket they can transmute it into gold. Highly radioactive gold that would take a few years just to decay enough to sell. But alchemy! They also think palladium and other useful metals are possible. This could change the economics substantially.

Posted by: banana Dream at January 02, 2026 10:47 PM (3uBP9)

84 15 Hello everyone, and happy Friday to the best community on the planet. Thank you for not murdering me.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at January 02, 2026 10:13 PM (CHHv1)

You're very welcome.

Posted by: tankdemon at January 02, 2026 10:47 PM (2RJDy)

85 When all the prison records are digitized, then I can find out what my ancestors did. I mean besides horse theiving, Scallywagging, and Mopery.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 02, 2026 10:43 PM (u82oZ)

There is a record in a journal of one of my great-grandathers arresting another great-grandather for drunkenness. One of my great-grandads was a total POS. He fathered some wonderful people.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at January 02, 2026 10:48 PM (ytIDq)

86
Given your dog’s title of the Big Dummy, I expected the real name to be Lamont.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 02, 2026 10:30 PM (u82oZ)

__________

Alas, no. It's Varus, which isn't even historically-inspired but came instead from some gay, lame video and which gives rise to too many quips here about ass-kickings in the Teutoborg Forest. So The Big Dummy it is.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 02, 2026 10:48 PM (tgvbd)

87 My Mom and Dad owed me nothing, I owed them everything.
And I miss them, and think about them often.

Posted by: Case at January 02, 2026 10:49 PM (G1OIb)

88 You have a 40 year old son with kids in a rental and you're sitting on $5 million?

You suck.
Posted by: San Franpsycho

I have a 35 yr old niece/daughter (long story) who lives in a rental with her dirtbag 'wife'. She was the beneficiary of one of her other aunts life insurance contracts and pissed away $10,000 in a month on drag shows and covering the bills of all the scum she runs with.

She'll get an 'We love you' bequest from us when we die but nah, it's not going to be a sizable amount.

Posted by: Tonypete at January 02, 2026 10:49 PM (cYBz/)

89
My husband has scleroderma.

It's killing him.

Posted by: fourseasons at January 02, 2026 10:49 PM (3ek7K)

90 Evening, Weird Dave, and ONT Horde. And Happy New Year!

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 02, 2026 10:49 PM (8zz6B)

91 {{{nurse ratched }}}

It is clear you did a great job raising your kids.

I’m using an iPad and voice dictation. Way harder than using a keyboard.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 02, 2026 10:49 PM (u82oZ)

92 Whats going to destroy this country is the insatiable short term greed of the people at the top who realistically already have all the money they could ever ever need for generations. The best way to get your own money nowadays is not inventing anything except ways to get them just a bit more money. Its like they expect a complete collapse shortly, which begs two questions: do they not realize they are bringing about the collapse? And why do they think that something as society based as "wealth" will survive societal collapse? Society collapses, and they become prey, most likely to their own "security"

Posted by: Azjaeger at January 02, 2026 10:50 PM (3/XaG)

93 Since my career started in the military, I set my investment goal focused on cash flow and not savings specific. So between military retirement, social security, and 401's I think I am in good shape. Anything happens to me, Mrs D is set. Anything happens to Mrs D and it's buy the wenabego and start discovering golf courses.

Posted by: Diogenes at January 02, 2026 10:50 PM (2WIwB)

94 80
'LOL, in my Den right now, is a Pharmacy license from Nebraska for a GG Grandfather... which is... flat out... a forgery. Guy was a school teacher. No medical education at all.'

I watched some pharmacist videos on Kinetoscope.
It was fine.

Posted by: Romeos GG Grandfather at January 02, 2026 10:50 PM (fd80v)

95 Wait. Am I reading the maps wrong? Is gray=none?

Posted by: mindful webworker - where's the key? at January 02, 2026 10:51 PM (dESj/)

96 Where's MooMoo to light his cigars with $100 bills?

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at January 02, 2026 10:52 PM (ex18v)

97 It is smart to peel off $200-$250K to assist with a down payment to convert your kid's rent to equity

If you had only $1 million in the bank I can see the reluctance but investing in real estate and in your own family is usually the smart thing to do. Not always, but usually.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 02, 2026 10:44 PM (RIvkX)

Sadly, its an apples and oranges type of argument.

The real question is, do you trust the kid? or the market. Right now? my 34 year old Son is in Failure mode... unemployed.. living with me... has health problems... and has come to some really bad philosophical conclusions... a few weeks ago he sat in my kitchen and called me a Racist.

So... do I trust him with major capital outlays? uh... I've already in the past given over $150K to get him out of debt.... debt he is still in... sooo...

It really all depends on the people involved IMO.

Posted by: Romeo13 at January 02, 2026 10:52 PM (mP0Kj)

98 >>>If you had only $1 million in the bank I can see the reluctance but investing in real estate and in your own family is usually the smart thing to do. Not always, but usually.
Posted by: San Franpsycho
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VDH bought his daughters, each, a house.
Because, when they get older their husbands will leave for a younger woman.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 02, 2026 10:53 PM (R0Fqj)

99 80
'LOL, in my Den right now, is a Pharmacy license from Nebraska for a GG Grandfather... which is... flat out... a forgery. Guy was a school teacher. No medical education at all.'
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Was it signed by Dr. Nick Riviera?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 02, 2026 10:53 PM (ESVrU)

100 this is not about what is owed or what is wanted, it is not about responsibility or ability, it is about what is smart

It is smart to peel off $200-$250K to assist with a down payment to convert your kid's rent to equity

If you had only $1 million in the bank I can see the reluctance but investing in real estate and in your own family is usually the smart thing to do. Not always, but usually.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 02, 2026 10:44 PM (RIvkX) this is not about what is owed or what is wanted, it is not about responsibility or ability, it is about what is smart

It is smart to peel off $200-$250K to assist with a down payment to convert your kid's rent to equity

If you had only $1 million in the bank I can see the reluctance but investing in real estate and in your own family is usually the smart thing to do. Not always, but usually.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 02, 2026 10:44 PM (RIvkX)

It could be. I did not come from wealth. My folks worked hard and so did we. It is swell and good that these folks could help their son.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at January 02, 2026 10:53 PM (ytIDq)

101 Have a great night, everyone.
May there be thriving!

Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 02, 2026 10:54 PM (u82oZ)

102 And those dumb fu*ks in NY lapped it up.
Piss off NY. You stupid, stupid people.
Posted by: Diogenes at January 02, 2026 10:43 PM

Time to start building that wall around NYC. We'll tell them it's to keep the Trumpsters and MAGAts out. Of course, Snake Plisken will need to fly a glider over it in a few years, but we'll deal with that later.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at January 02, 2026 10:54 PM (2XHCB)

103 What region? 90K a year in California or Kansas?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 02, 2026 10:54 PM (R0Fqj)

104 93 Since my career started in the military, I set my investment goal focused on cash flow and not savings specific. So between military retirement, social security, and 401's I think I am in good shape. Anything happens to me, Mrs D is set. Anything happens to Mrs D and it's buy the wenabego and start discovering golf courses.
Posted by: Diogenes at January 02, 2026 10:50 PM (2WIwB)

/fistbump...

Military retirement... social security... plus dividends which count as income?

My stock portfolio is significantly larger now, than when I retired 4 years ago... mainly because I don't live off those dividends... they just accrue

Posted by: Romeo13 at January 02, 2026 10:55 PM (mP0Kj)

105 I don’t expect anything from my stepfather (my mom’s husband) or my dad. It is their money. If I inherit anything, I will appreciate it, but I do not expect it.

J is in an entirely different realm than most humans inheritance wise. But I expect exactly zero from that, either. I don’t ask for anything from him now, why would I expect his inheritance?

Posted by: Piper at January 02, 2026 10:55 PM (OoFl2)

106 >> integrate mercury into the system's breeder blanket they can transmute it into gold.

Haven't heard that. Here's Sabine on that:
https://is.gd/tUNBkR

This thing is still very much in the simulation phase.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 02, 2026 10:55 PM (w6EFb)

107 In two years NY is going to resemble Mogadishu.

Posted by: Diogenes at January 02, 2026 10:55 PM (2WIwB)

108 VDH bought his daughters, each, a house.
Because, when they get older their husbands will leave for a younger woman.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 02, 2026 10:53 PM (R0Fqj)

Bad choice... Calif is a community property state, which means their husbands own half of the house...

Posted by: Romeo13 at January 02, 2026 10:56 PM (mP0Kj)

109 OK, houses cost 500K it must be CA or the like.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 02, 2026 10:56 PM (R0Fqj)

110 If any of you kind folks are sitting on $5M, I would gladly pay you Tuesday for a hamburger sandwich today.

Posted by: J. Wellington Wimpy at January 02, 2026 10:56 PM (oftw2)

111 107 In two years NY is going to resemble Mogadishu.
Posted by: Diogenes at January 02, 2026 10:55 PM (2WIwB)

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But just imagine all the affordable childcare opportunities!

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at January 02, 2026 10:56 PM (JkO4W)

112
By the by, I saw in the last thread someone say that breeding dogs is stupid and selfish. Neither Her Majesty nor I have any apologies to make on that score.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 02, 2026 10:56 PM (tgvbd)

113 My husband has scleroderma.

It's killing him.

Posted by: fourseasons at January 02, 2026 10:49 PM (3ek7K)

I'm not a hugger, fourseasons. But I'd hug you if I could. Your family is going through the wringer. God Bless you.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at January 02, 2026 10:57 PM (ytIDq)

114
Hadrian,

You both don't owe anyone an apology.

Posted by: fourseasons at January 02, 2026 10:58 PM (3ek7K)

115 It is smart to peel off $200-$250K to assist with a down payment to convert your kid's rent to equity

Three decades ago I helped my recently married younger sister by giving them the 25% down to get a nice home in Sugarland.

She is a Congress critter in KY now and her husband is a senior exec for a large food company. They recently bought a second home out in the hills of TN.

They have totally forgotten that "loan" and never were appreciative of it.

Some people are just that way.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 02, 2026 10:58 PM (a4flb)

116 VDH bought his daughters, each, a house.
Because, when they get older their husbands will leave for a younger woman.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 02, 2026 10:53 PM (R0Fqj)\\

Then, which part of California. This place is like a small country, where the Coasts? are one economic region... cities? another... Urban? different... and don't even get me started of the mountain folk.

Posted by: Romeo13 at January 02, 2026 10:58 PM (mP0Kj)

117
In two years NY is going to resemble Mogadishu.

Posted by: Diogenes at January 02, 2026 10:55 PM (2WIwB)

___________

I don't expect it to become an apocalyptic hellhole, but I do expect it to become Detroit-on-Hudson.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 02, 2026 10:58 PM (tgvbd)

118 Military retirement... social security... plus dividends which count as income?

My stock portfolio is significantly larger now, than when I retired 4 years ago... mainly because I don't live off those dividends... they just accrue
Posted by: Romeo13 at January 02, 2026 10:55 PM (mP0Kj)

Yup. I'm at the mandatory withdrawal age (heh...like being a teen again!) but yeah, essentially the same.

Posted by: Diogenes at January 02, 2026 10:58 PM (2WIwB)

119 Scotch-Irish, aka hillbillies! Whoop Whoop!

Posted by: banana Dream at January 02, 2026 10:59 PM (3uBP9)

120 Bad choice... Calif is a community property state, which means their husbands own half of the house...
Posted by: Romeo13 at January 02, 2026 10:56 PM (mP0Kj)

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Not true, if the ownership is handled correctly.

The "don't commingle your separate assets" talk with the daughter is upcoming and it's an important one.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at January 02, 2026 10:59 PM (JkO4W)

121
Mary,

Thank you. When it rains it pours.

Posted by: fourseasons at January 02, 2026 11:00 PM (3ek7K)

122 If any of you kind folks are sitting on $5M, I would gladly pay you Tuesday for a hamburger sandwich today.

We had a conversation about that kind of money and having no heirs - what to do. Will we live another few years or a few decades more?

Without heirs, the money ends up going to strangers for rarely can anyone just coincidentally breathe their last breath while spending their last dime.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 02, 2026 11:01 PM (a4flb)

123 By the by, I saw in the last thread someone say that breeding dogs is stupid and selfish. Neither Her Majesty nor I have any apologies to make on that score.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 02, 2026 10:56 PM (tgvbd)

Yeah. He's an asshole. Sorry about Finn.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at January 02, 2026 11:01 PM (ytIDq)

124 I don't expect it to become an apocalyptic hellhole, but I do expect it to become Detroit-on-Hudson.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 02, 2026 10:58 PM (tgvbd)

I'd bet a beer and 50 quatloos that it is worse. The city depends too much on antiquated infrastructure. Failing to maintain that infrastructure will be the first casualty to the glorious collectivism. And it will snowball from there.

Posted by: Diogenes at January 02, 2026 11:02 PM (2WIwB)

125 112
By the by, I saw in the last thread someone say that breeding dogs is stupid and selfish. Neither Her Majesty nor I have any apologies to make on that score.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 02, 2026

No you don’t. But you already know how I feel about this and that I land squarely in your corner. This isn’t news to you. 😊

Posted by: Piper at January 02, 2026 11:02 PM (OoFl2)

126 ¹⁹⁸Hg + n → ¹⁹⁷Hg + 2n → ¹⁹⁷Au

¹⁹⁷Au is natural gold and is not radioactive.

Posted by: pawn at January 02, 2026 11:02 PM (Rmqfl)

127 Not true, if the ownership is handled correctly.

The "don't commingle your separate assets" talk with the daughter is upcoming and it's an important one.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at January 02, 2026 10:59 PM (JkO4W)

Once married? That ship has sailed. It's only separate property if it was given before the marriage happened.

At least, that is what I've seen here...

Posted by: Romeo13 at January 02, 2026 11:02 PM (mP0Kj)

128 By the by, I saw in the last thread someone say that breeding dogs is stupid and selfish. Neither Her Majesty nor I have any apologies to make on that score.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 02, 2026 10:56 PM (tgvbd)

Everything is stupid and selfish. The only truly selfless thing is to dedicate your life and effort to the government and bask in the warmth of collectivism

Posted by: Kindltot at January 02, 2026 11:02 PM (rbvCR)

129 The video about where immigrants came from missed out a rather large group: Canadians.

Posted by: MichiCanuck at January 02, 2026 11:02 PM (bb/Vl)

130 Once married? That ship has sailed. It's only separate property if it was given before the marriage happened.

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Nope. Bequests are separate property, whenever they're received. The trick is in keeping them that way.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at January 02, 2026 11:03 PM (JkO4W)

131 109 OK, houses cost 500K it must be CA or the like.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 02, 2026 10:56 PM (R0Fqj)

That would be cheap in CA.

Posted by: Piper at January 02, 2026 11:03 PM (OoFl2)

132 My German Shepherd is about as untrained as you can get, but he instinctively understood certain things without ever being conditioned. I'll make a certain noise and he'll follow me, or I'll make another noise and he'll stop what he's doing and come in the house. If I tell him "go find mom," he'll wander around the house until he finds my wife. I didn't have the time and/or energy to really work with him as a pup, but he's a pretty good dog - when he's not being a "fur-coated jackass" as I sometimes call him.

Posted by: PabloD at January 02, 2026 11:04 PM (cFv0u)

133 iirc VDH still has his family ranch in the Central Valley I presume if he bought his daughters homes they would be there too. There is inexpensive housing there.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 02, 2026 11:05 PM (RIvkX)

134 I am sorry, fourseasons.

Posted by: Piper at January 02, 2026 11:05 PM (OoFl2)

135 Evening all.

Posted by: Joyenz at January 02, 2026 11:05 PM (2F0/Y)

136 Without heirs, the money ends up going to strangers for rarely can anyone just coincidentally breathe their last breath while spending their last dime.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 02, 2026 11:01 PM (a4flb)

Hopefully don't blow the margins...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=PKpQRjj_WbU&list=
RDPKpQRjj_WbU&start_radio=1

Posted by: Romeo13 at January 02, 2026 11:05 PM (mP0Kj)

137
The only truly selfless thing is to dedicate your life and effort to the government and bask in the warmth of collectivism

Posted by: Kindltot at January 02, 2026 11:02 PM (rbvCR)

___________

Sorry, the only collective I'm interested in belonging to is the Church Militant.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 02, 2026 11:06 PM (tgvbd)

138 129 The video about where immigrants came from missed out a rather large group: Canadians.
Posted by: MichiCanuck

I've never given them a thought and won't start now.

Posted by: Build The Wall! at January 02, 2026 11:07 PM (oftw2)

139 Personally, I would choose the trait where I did everything like I did, and didn't pay no nevermind to anyone else.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 02, 2026 11:07 PM (BI5O2)

140 Evenin’, All.

Posted by: Bulg at January 02, 2026 11:08 PM (77rzZ)

141 Hello, Horde! 😊💕

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas - AoSHQ's at January 02, 2026 11:08 PM (SRRAx)

142 Mom died in 2002. Dad was already retired then. He had a decent pension, SS and some investments, had a positive cash flow up until he died. Yeah, he had better retirement income than hubby & I had while both working!

Anyway-- older bro (the Golden Boy) got the lion's share of the estate. About half. That was the easy part! The remaining half, will be split between me & 2 other siblings once I sell Dad's house... if everybody would just get their stuff out! But younger bro keeps dragging his feet, *stalling* so he can use it as a free hotel when he visits. I wanted to be done with it in 2025. Didn't anticipate all the problems with hubby's health! It has set me back a year at least.

So...fml, while the other kids just sit back with their hands out. JQ gets to do all the WORK. Oh, they will whine and scream when they see the final accounting...

Posted by: JQ at January 02, 2026 11:08 PM (rdVOm)

143 Whats going to destroy this country is the insatiable short term greed of the people at the top who realistically already have all the money they could ever ever need for generations.

You got to be kidding.

People of wealth don't have rooms filled with stacks of cash representing their entire wealth. Indeed many are not really all that liquid - its tied up in investments.

That is why I roll my eyes when those stats come out and say that only a small percentage of people can write (and clear) a check for $5000. Even for that amount or a few orders of magnitude more, I would still have to move money around since all of it is working and very little is at rest.

Billionaires employ people. Somalians with millions only cover the sales commissions of Lambo dealers.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 02, 2026 11:09 PM (a4flb)

144 131 109 OK, houses cost 500K it must be CA or the like.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 02, 2026 10:56 PM (R0Fqj)

That would be cheap in CA.
Posted by: Piper at January 02, 2026 11:03 PM (OoFl2)

Depends on the area. Here? Central Valley? 400K is pretty average for a starter home.

Now San D? no.. Bay Area? better have a Million.

Posted by: Romeo13 at January 02, 2026 11:09 PM (mP0Kj)

145 By the by, I saw in the last thread someone say that breeding dogs is stupid and selfish. Neither Her Majesty nor I have any apologies to make on that score.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 02, 2026

Nope. You certainly don't.
I've an acquaintance who raises labs. He's a professional trainer and his dogs are just fantastic. Incredibly fun to watch them go through their hunt training. They are excellent companions.

Posted by: Diogenes at January 02, 2026 11:09 PM (2WIwB)

146 Tomorrow and Sunday, errands as usual, things like grocery, bank, etc. Why hustle to do them on a weekend? Because Monday am I am due to have a tiny bit of skin cancer excised, and I don't know how I'll be feeling afterward. I'm scheduled to have my hair cut on Tuesday, but I may decide to postpone that. The surgery is simple and requires only local anesthetic -- but once that wears off . . .?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 02, 2026 11:09 PM (wzUl9)

147 128 By the by, I saw in the last thread someone say that breeding dogs is stupid and selfish. Neither Her Majesty nor I have any apologies to make on that score.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 02, 2026 10:56 PM (tgvbd)

I recall some TikTok video where some Karen. Verbally assaults some random guy walking his nice dog in the park, screaming bullshit like that.
One of those topics where you instantly know the mental state of anyone who launches into it.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 02, 2026 11:09 PM (otNgF)

148 Hello, Teresa! I hope you are well!

Posted by: Bulg at January 02, 2026 11:10 PM (77rzZ)

149 Recently I got a sort of garbled third hand report that the series of CMEs that the Earf has gotten has done a number of interesting things, like add a temporary Van Allen belt, and start "leaking" down, instead of dissipating, which supposedly makes some animals and humans with old nerve and tissue trauma flare up in inflammation.
Last month, there was another CME that the same source indicated was making people pissy as well -- One guy said he caught himself picking a fight with his wife, for no reason and his wife wouldn't let it go in turn.

I doubted it until this week.

Posted by: Kindltot at January 02, 2026 11:11 PM (rbvCR)

150 We are watching Gutfeld! and Michael Malice is a guest and he has fake piercing he is moving from ear to nose to lip throughout the show.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 02, 2026 11:12 PM (RIvkX)

151 >>> Would-be thief gets pepper sprayed and then gets his ass kicked

After the clip ended did they both arms and legs off with the hatchet he tried to rob them with?

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at January 02, 2026 11:12 PM (/lPRQ)

152 So...fml, while the other kids just sit back with their hands out. JQ gets to do all the WORK. Oh, they will whine and scream when they see the final accounting...

Posted by: JQ

What a pain for you, especially as you care for your Hubby.

These are the stories that make me glad to be an only child.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at January 02, 2026 11:13 PM (ytIDq)

153
Your Papa was a rolling stone, my son, yeah
Wherever he laid his hat was his home
And when he died
All he left us was alone

Posted by: toby928(c) at January 02, 2026 11:14 PM (jc0TO)

154 127 Inheritances are not considered community property in CA.
at least the last time I checked

I could make it into community property by buying a house and putting it into the name of my and my spouse tho

Posted by: MAxIE at January 02, 2026 11:15 PM (3Dvl3)

155 but he's a pretty good dog - when he's not being a "fur-coated jackass" as I sometimes call him.
Posted by: PabloD at January

My Shiba apparently read me disparaging him. I told him if he launches at a kitty again, he is going to jail. He put himself in his crate. We don’t shut the door on it anymore, but it was funny he did that.

Posted by: Piper at January 02, 2026 11:16 PM (Wmg4n)

156
To follow up, the X-rays showed Finn's lungs were in bad shape despite more than two weeks on antibiotics. He had also stopped eating, which is always a bad sign.

I asked the vet if there was any reasonable road back for Finn. She said no and I replied that I'd be over as soon as possible for the last act. Everything went off very peacefully.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 02, 2026 11:16 PM (tgvbd)

157 I could make it into community property by buying a house and putting it into the name of my and my spouse tho

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Even if the house is in the name of the inheriting spouse alone, the investment of community funds into the property could transmute it into community property.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at January 02, 2026 11:17 PM (JkO4W)

158
I recall some TikTok video where some Karen. Verbally assaults some random guy walking his nice dog in the park, screaming bullshit like that.

___________

I suspect the vast bulk of these are staged.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 02, 2026 11:18 PM (tgvbd)

159 Sorry, Hadrian.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at January 02, 2026 11:18 PM (ytIDq)

160 $5 million spread over 25 years of retirement isn't what it used to be.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at January 02, 2026 10:24 PM

Not if you are flying to Macau to gamble every month.

Posted by: Paul Ryan at January 02, 2026 11:20 PM (jc0TO)

161 Posted by: Romeo13 at January 02, 2026 11:05 PM (mP0Kj)

You don't need the https : //
And there's a button under every video that says "Share" that will give you the shortened url, which you can then shorten even further by deleting the question mark and everything that comes after it.

Like so: youtu.be/C7Ms_5GJbzU

Unless you want to show the margins a good time and blow them hard. Just don't blame me when you wake up in The Barrel with your wallet empty.

Posted by: pookysgirl, just helping at January 02, 2026 11:21 PM (Wt5PA)

162 I asked the vet if there was any reasonable road back for Finn. She said no and I replied that I'd be over as soon as possible for the last act. Everything went off very peacefully.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 02, 2026 11:16 PM (tgvbd)

Condolences, Hadrian.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 02, 2026 11:21 PM (8zz6B)

163 We sure bred the dog.

Posted by: Alabama Crimson Tide at January 02, 2026 11:21 PM (gKWVE)

164 • Money memories
• Genetic Reshuffle
• Love bird

That maximizes everything.

Just remember a few Powerball numbers, hope that your parents aren't first cousins or siblings, and that you played the field with a variety of folks.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 02, 2026 11:22 PM (a4flb)

165 112
By the by, I saw in the last thread someone say that breeding dogs is stupid and selfish. Neither Her Majesty nor I have any apologies to make on that score.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 02, 2026 10:56 PM (tgvbd)

Agreed: responsibly bred purebreds are task specific - you want a working dog? You can choose the breed that supports the work you need done. (Unless you want a Newf to do water rescue, then make sure they don't have a bad experience walking into a pool as a puppy and redirect that water instinct to pre-emptive rescues by preventing anyone from entering the water.) You want specific temperaments or behaviors? You look on breed standards and find dogs that have what you need. No one is stopping anyone from rescuing, but don't stop people from getting the type of dog THEY want.

Posted by: moki at January 02, 2026 11:22 PM (wLjpr)

166

moki,

Amen sister!

Posted by: fourseasons at January 02, 2026 11:23 PM (3ek7K)

167 $5 million spread over 25 years of retirement isn't what it used to be.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at January 02, 2026 10:24 PM

At 8% and NOT compounding (because you spend all interest and dividends) is still $400k/yr without touching principle.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 02, 2026 11:24 PM (a4flb)

168 150 We are watching Gutfeld! and Michael Malice is a guest and he has fake piercing he is moving from ear to nose to lip throughout the show.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 02, 2026 11:12 PM (RIvkX)

It took me a minute to figure out who the blue haired freak was

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at January 02, 2026 11:24 PM (pIfcn)

169 Tomorrow and Sunday, errands as usual, things like grocery, bank, etc. Why hustle to do them on a weekend? Because Monday am I am due to have a tiny bit of skin cancer excised, and I don't know how I'll be feeling afterward. I'm scheduled to have my hair cut on Tuesday, but I may decide to postpone that. The surgery is simple and requires only local anesthetic -- but once that wears off . . .?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 02, 2026 11:09 PM

You should be okay, but it doesn't hurt to have your errands done early. Hope it goes well.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at January 02, 2026 11:25 PM (ytIDq)

170 156
To follow up, the X-rays showed Finn's lungs were in bad shape despite more than two weeks on antibiotics. He had also stopped eating, which is always a bad sign.

I asked the vet if there was any reasonable road back for Finn. She said no and I replied that I'd be over as soon as possible for the last act. Everything went off very peacefully.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 02, 2026 11:16 PM (tgvbd)

I'm so sorry.
It is not easy saying goodbye to a loved pup.
We're coming up on 5 years since Logan died here.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at January 02, 2026 11:25 PM (xcxpd)

171 Tree crew came to Dad's place today, to clean up the fir that blew down in that wind storm 2 weeks ago. Had it all cleaned up in about 4 hours. Yay!

But guess who even called them to do the work? And who got junk out of the way beforehand? And who was there to receive/accept the bid? And who wrote the check?

Oh, yeah! Not my bro & sis!

Posted by: JQ at January 02, 2026 11:25 PM (rdVOm)

172 DIL just emailed our Christmas Eve photos. Shot real fast from the tripod. Some are good but also someone has their eyes closed. Or our 4yr old granddaughter is making a weird face (she's gorgeous). DIL always looks good. Grandson is not making faces.

My husband? Who is normally photogenic...looks the same in all of them.Says he looks like he was released from the asylum for the evening (I'd add post electroshock therapy). I asked why and he said, "he thought he'd try something new." Lol.

I was overall happy hiding behind bodies, but the ones with the grands I am going to request she hack off some of my hip. I mean she evaporated the background of the mirror, one of me trying to get the baby to smile and also looking like a lunatic. So it could be possible. Will talk to her tomorrow or at some point.

I am not ready for filters yet to change everything. Just some quick lioposuction if possible. It will probably end up looking like I am being stabbed by a tree ornament, but worth a try.

I blame: covid, sloth, aging, and back to sloth. I can do this I hope as photos certainly show all of your flaws. Otherwise my face is holding up, so that's good news! SHUT UP!

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at January 02, 2026 11:26 PM (WONhk)

173 125 and Hadrian: Even purebred puppies and kittens need good homes if they are not show worthy. In the past, I've had two purebred Shelties that were too tall and had ears that stood straight rather than tipping over. (The part Sheltie from the Humane Society had ears that conformed perfectly to breed standard.) I had a purebred GSD because her sire was from Germany and somehow his papers got lost. I had a purebred Himalayan with bad genes. I currently have a purebred Persian because his ears are very defective.

Good breeders look for good homes for their pet quality critters. They also make sure the critter is neutered before leaving them.

Posted by: Captain Josepha Sabin at January 02, 2026 11:27 PM (DK5Sh)

174 But guess who even called them to do the work? And who got junk out of the way beforehand? And who was there to receive/accept the bid? And who wrote the check?

Oh, yeah! Not my bro & sis!
Posted by: JQ at January 02, 2026 11:25 PM (rdVOm)

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It's perfectly alright to punch this pillow if you need to.

Posted by: Dr. Cicero, Unlicensed Therapist at January 02, 2026 11:27 PM (JkO4W)

175 Weird Dave, I am scared to look at the video of the green penis thing. I don't want to know.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at January 02, 2026 11:27 PM (WONhk)

176 The bakery story really resonated with me.

My Irish parents owned a delicatessen. A few years back, a grammar school classmate sent me an email telling how my father saved his family. My classmate's father had died or disappeared, I don't know which and his mother was hanging on by her fingernails. In desperation, she went to my mother and begged him to let her start a tab so she could feed her family.

My dad agreed. He pulled out a notebook and started her tab that day. She depended on my father for months for food for her family. She never paid my father, but he didn't expect her to. He remembered all the times in Ireland when he went to bed hungry and how during the Depression he didn't work for two years. He survived on cheap potatoes like the good Irishman he was. This was his way of giving back.

He wasn't rich, he wasn't educated, but I could never have asked for a better father than he was. One of those rare Christians who didn't talk the talk, they just walk the walk.

Posted by: RobertM at January 02, 2026 11:29 PM (btIS/)

177 Tree crew came to Dad's place today, to clean up the fir that blew down in that wind storm 2 weeks ago. Had it all cleaned up in about 4 hours. Yay!

But guess who even called them to do the work? And who got junk out of the way beforehand? And who was there to receive/accept the bid? And who wrote the check?

Oh, yeah! Not my bro & sis!

Can you use the logs as a barrier to keep wacky BiL from visiting? I know he did not come this time, but perhaps for future unexpected visits?
Posted by: JQ

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at January 02, 2026 11:30 PM (ytIDq)

178
RobertM,

That's the way to help people.

If anyone is looking for accolades for helping people they are not doing it in the spirit of God.

Posted by: fourseasons at January 02, 2026 11:33 PM (3ek7K)

179
I blame: covid, sloth, aging, and back to sloth. I can do this I hope as photos certainly show all of your flaws. Otherwise my face is holding up, so that's good news! SHUT UP!
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat

Stop it! You woke up this morning. You are active with your grandchildren. You birthed your own children. Your body has done amazing and incredible things for you. Thank it for all it has done, and keep your hips where they are with pride.

Posted by: Piper at January 02, 2026 11:33 PM (Wmg4n)

180 Was glad to be done with the tree biz before having lunch with hubby at the nursing home.

I took him outside for a cig-- a couple of cigs for him-- and then back to his room. His room mate was sitting up in his wheelchair, asleep, just the way he was before we went to lunch.

Staff came to change him, but... There was some commotion and then they asked me to leave... I think roomie passed away this afternoon. He was a nice, quiet guy.

Godspeed, Mr. H.

Posted by: JQ at January 02, 2026 11:34 PM (rdVOm)

181 Last summer we took in a German Shepard mix breed. Older lady couldn't take her to her new home. She and our velociraptor hit it off spectacularly and wear each other out playing.

Once we got her on the same diet as the velociraptor she shed 20 lbs and has actually gotten smarter. She now knows a few hand signals and knows what toy we are asking her to bring us. One of these days I'll submit a pet thread pic.

Posted by: Beartooth at January 02, 2026 11:35 PM (GGatE)

182 He wasn't rich, he wasn't educated, but I could never have asked for a better father than he was. One of those rare Christians who didn't talk the talk, they just walk the walk.
Posted by: RobertM

I love this, thank you for sharing it.

Posted by: Piper at January 02, 2026 11:35 PM (Wmg4n)

183 Wolfus Aurelius

Best of luck to you

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at January 02, 2026 11:36 PM (CHHv1)

184 Can you use the logs as a barrier to keep wacky BiL from visiting? I know he did not come this time, but perhaps for future unexpected visits?
Posted by: JQ
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary
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No. Got a break on the cost-- there was a cord of good firewood! Too bad I don't have a fireplace or woodstove.

Posted by: JQ at January 02, 2026 11:36 PM (rdVOm)

185 *raises a drink to Mr. H*

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at January 02, 2026 11:36 PM (ytIDq)

186 36 Sorry I'm late, that sore loser gorilla insisted we go best two out if three.
Posted by: tankdemon at January 02, 2026 10:28 PM (2RJDy)

I'm late too but at least I'm not coming in late, soaking wet, all scratched up and yelling 'all right - now - whar's that Eskimo woman I gotta warssle...? '

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at January 02, 2026 11:37 PM (QGaXH)

187 @Christy Blinky The Great--

Reality will always be more valuable than fantasy.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at January 02, 2026 11:38 PM (CHHv1)

188 In two years NY is going to resemble Mogadishu.

But with skyscrapers!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at January 02, 2026 11:38 PM (wWU6x)

189 I am off to bed, it is my Saturday to teach in the rotation, and it’s January so everyone is showing up for class. Nothing beats the energy of a full room, it should be fun!

Posted by: Piper at January 02, 2026 11:40 PM (Wmg4n)

190 JQ, if I lived in Idaho, I'd love to buy the firewood. Mr Scary is having shoulder surgery soon. No.chainsaw work for him, and he doesn't want me doing it, lol.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at January 02, 2026 11:40 PM (ytIDq)

191 'Night, Piper! Hope class is a lot of fun tomorrow!

Posted by: JQ at January 02, 2026 11:41 PM (rdVOm)

192
According to the Daily Mail, the mullahs have opened fire on protesters.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 02, 2026 11:42 PM (w6EFb)

193 Stop it! You woke up this morning. You are active with your grandchildren. You birthed your own children. Your body has done amazing and incredible things for you. Thank it for all it has done, and keep your hips where they are with pride.
Posted by: Piper at January 02, 2026 11:33 PM (Wmg4n

I realize I am blessed. A bit abundantly in pounds this past year and don't want to meet my rear coming round the bend. It is just self talking about how I can fix this literal PITA. It ain't my rear...it is the wider haul. And not that bad but I need to get 'er done. I need to do this to stay healthy.

I never think about it until there is proof. I did laugh at the one shot of me, reflected in the mirror and later photoshopped out, making the baby smile, as I look like a total loon...but she is smiling and they can photo magic me out of the mirror that tells no lies.

The kids love me regardless, as do they all. Thank you. I laughed when I saw them but don't want the hips for posterity.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at January 02, 2026 11:43 PM (WONhk)

194 If I were in Alabama I'd take Piper's class. Too much food since Thanksgiving!

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at January 02, 2026 11:43 PM (ytIDq)

195 178
RobertM,

That's the way to help people.

If anyone is looking for accolades for helping people they are not doing it in the spirit of God.

Posted by: fourseasons at January 02, 2026 11:33 PM (3ek7K)

Amen fourseasons!!!

Posted by: moki at January 02, 2026 11:44 PM (wLjpr)

196 Just saw this on X : “A prominent Arab journalist writes tonight interesting things about the impact of President Trump's words this morning on the protests in Iran - already tonight: “It seems that the Iranian street is responding positively to the statement of US President Trump supporting the protests, as the momentum of the popular movement in Iran today reaches the highest levels since the beginning of the protests this week."

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 02, 2026 11:45 PM (otNgF)

197 He wasn't rich, he wasn't educated, but I could never have asked for a better father than he was. One of those rare Christians who didn't talk the talk, they just walk the walk.
Posted by: RobertM at January 02, 2026 11:29 PM (btIS/)

My mother and father were the same, altho different circumstances and he had a chemistry degree he did nothing with. Generous to others. Helped others without telling the world, but I'd find out later that he helped our maid's granddaughter through junior college. Things like that.

I grew up with much love and still am surrounded by love. And I thank God each night for my life.

Wonderful stories. I helped patients in my time, but that was my job and I did it well. I can't recall lately being a true helper for a stranger. Will look for opportunities in 2026.

Thank you.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at January 02, 2026 11:47 PM (WONhk)

198 BarelyScaryMary, if you were nearby I'd *give* you the firewood!

But at least I got a break. That tree was huge, and had fallen down over a couple of terraces besides. Very dangerous placement, hard to access.

I got a couple of branches for "firepit" wood that I cut off & took home over the last few days. Could see that the gutter was trashed and needed to trim some away, because I wanted to have a look at the siding-- turns out it was ok. Whew!

Posted by: JQ at January 02, 2026 11:48 PM (rdVOm)

199 - fourseasons

I wish there was something I could say other than I'm sorry for both of you.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 02, 2026 11:49 PM (viF8m)

200
JQ,

That is good news.

Posted by: fourseasons at January 02, 2026 11:49 PM (3ek7K)

201 Godspeed, Mr. H.
Posted by: JQ at January 02, 2026 11:34 PM (rdVOm)

Prayers for you and husband, and may Mr. H. RIP.

Several losses recently during the holidays. One is extra sad and I barely knew her as my husband, son and DIL did in business.

Prayers,too, for empty seats at the table this holiday season.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at January 02, 2026 11:52 PM (WONhk)

202 JQ, so a relief that the tree had not trashed your Dad's house? Hurrah!

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at January 02, 2026 11:53 PM (ytIDq)

203
JackStraw,

Thank you.

Posted by: fourseasons at January 02, 2026 11:53 PM (3ek7K)

204 In case you don't know, it's been a long standing meme on the left to praise the circled man, likely named August Landmesser, for refusing to salute at a Nazi rally. Now suddenly they're condemning "rugged individualism" in favor of "The warmth of collectivism".
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The Left also teaches that Jonestown was a lesson in the dangers of right wingers and Christianity.

Posted by: ... at January 02, 2026 11:57 PM (E0p3T)

205 113 My husband has scleroderma.

It's killing him.

Posted by: fourseasons at January 02, 2026 10:49 PM (3ek7K)

I am so sorry. Prayers. Is this new? Need to go to bed but will look tomorrow and add him to my prayers tonight.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at January 02, 2026 11:58 PM (WONhk)

206
I know Ace makes money from the ads.

However, when I refresh the page I see an ad with two fags kissing. The worse one is the two fags holding a dog between them while they are making out.

I feel so bad for the dog.

Posted by: fourseasons at January 02, 2026 11:58 PM (3ek7K)

207 60 Wow.

I made far less than 92k and raised two boys in Seattle. Put them through private school and lived in a very good neighborhood. Provided their healthcare and took them to Mass and they had clean uniforms and played sports.

I won’t own a home and I’ll never retire.

But my kids were MY RESPONSIBILITY. NOT anyone else’s.

Parents owe adult children nothing.
Posted by: nurse ratched at January 02, 2026 10:35 PM (IhIKR)

Of course this was back in the 1960's.....

ducks, runs zigzag pattern to nearest exit as objects go flying by....

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at January 02, 2026 11:58 PM (QGaXH)

208 Cuomo should be fed into a woodchipper slowly. Feet first. But he shouldn't flee to Florida. They already have too many New Yorkers.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at January 02, 2026 11:59 PM (ytIDq)

209 Fourseasons, I'm so sorry to hear of your hubby's health problem...

Praying for strength and healing!

Posted by: JQ at January 03, 2026 12:02 AM (rdVOm)

210 The bakery story
------------------

And then everybody clapped?

The woman's name was Albert Einstein?

The internet has rooked me one too many times, sorry.

Posted by: ... at January 03, 2026 12:03 AM (E0p3T)

211 192
According to the Daily Mail, the mullahs have opened fire on protesters.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb)
---

You saw what Unca Donald said earlier today.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 03, 2026 12:06 AM (R0Fqj)

212
JQ,

I wish the same thing for you and hubby.

It sucks getting old, lol.

Posted by: fourseasons at January 03, 2026 12:06 AM (3ek7K)

213 I would not want to change anything in my life with a do over. The good, bad, happy and sad times are all a gift to me from God. I thank him almost every day for for my life.

Posted by: Archer at January 03, 2026 12:07 AM (YGRGv)

214 Time to pop some NyQuil capsules and head to bed. Bleh. I'm starting to go stir crazy from being stuck at home. See you all on the prayer thread.

Posted by: PabloD at January 03, 2026 12:07 AM (cFv0u)

215 108 VDH bought his daughters, each, a house.
Because, when they get older their husbands will leave for a younger woman.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 02, 2026 10:53 PM (R0Fqj)

Bad choice... Calif is a community property state, which means their husbands own half of the house...
Posted by: Romeo13 at January 02, 2026 10:56 PM (mP0Kj)

While i think there's some exceptions, it's highly likely they'll at least be entitled to half of the capital gain above the purchase price.

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at January 03, 2026 12:08 AM (QGaXH)

216 Looking at pictures of Tina Weymouth from 2002, she held up pretty well. Christy could have helped her with makeup.'\

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 03, 2026 12:09 AM (R0Fqj)

217
For anyone who likes peach cobbler, I made the Bisquik recipe yesterday. I only used half the sugar the recipe called for.

It is delicious.

Posted by: fourseasons at January 03, 2026 12:11 AM (3ek7K)

218 Is the bar open? wouldn't say no to a cold beer....

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at January 03, 2026 12:11 AM (QGaXH)

219 >>I would not want to change anything in my life with a do over. The good, bad, happy and sad times are all a gift to me from God. I thank him almost every day for for my life.

I could not have said it better. Other than the last part. I'm working on it.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 03, 2026 12:12 AM (viF8m)

220 They were the women's houses before the marriage. They belonged to the women before courtship.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 03, 2026 12:12 AM (R0Fqj)

221 124 I don't expect it to become an apocalyptic hellhole, but I do expect it to become Detroit-on-Hudson.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 02, 2026 10:58 PM (tgvbd)

I'd bet a beer and 50 quatloos that it is worse. The city depends too much on antiquated infrastructure. Failing to maintain that infrastructure will be the first casualty to the glorious collectivism. And it will snowball from there.
Posted by: Diogenes at January 02, 2026 11:02 PM (2WIwB)

I refer you to the novel Atlas Shrugged - specifically the parts where the railroad infrastructure starts to fail.....

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at January 03, 2026 12:13 AM (QGaXH)

222 My life is my life, I own it.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 03, 2026 12:14 AM (R0Fqj)

223 dourseasons,the Bisquik peach cobbler is a favorite of Mr Scary. It is delicious with vanilla ice cream.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at January 03, 2026 12:15 AM (ytIDq)

224 Cuomo should be fed into a woodchipper slowly. Feet first. But he shouldn't flee to Florida. They already have too many New Yorkers.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary

Yeah. No shit.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at January 03, 2026 12:16 AM (/lPRQ)

225 Hellol, jQ we need a little attention down her.
Slide a beer and a Gin & Tonic this way.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 03, 2026 12:16 AM (R0Fqj)

226 fourseasons, not dour racking-fracking autocucumber.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at January 03, 2026 12:17 AM (ytIDq)

227 Regime forces have been firing on protestors for days. Robust fog of war, but claims of at least 10 killed and many more wounded. Saw one photo of spent shotshells, and claims of birdshot being used in one location. In at least one and almost certainly more locations, anti-regime crowds have torched and looted security HQs, arming themselves.

During the June festivities Israel hit the 4 main internal security bases in Tehran, reportedly with very heavy casualties (forces were assembled and on alert - something tells me Israel knew this was exactly the SOP during crises and .... well). There was recruiting to fill the losses after June, success unknown, but certain that any fresh faces will have little experience and a healthy level of anxiety.

Yogi Berra's dictum about predictions applies here, but several novel aspects to current goings-on. Protest chants are explicitly anti-regime, not about some specific policies, and reportedly unrest has spread to semi-rural areas and small towns, something not seen in prior upheavals. Tabriz area has joined the party, which historically indicated a very serious situation.

Posted by: rhomboid at January 03, 2026 12:17 AM (U/Byj)

228 According to the Daily Mail, the mullahs have opened fire on protesters.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb)
---
You saw what Unca Donald said earlier today.
Posted by: Braenyard
++

It seems the challenge has been accepted.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at January 03, 2026 12:17 AM (/lPRQ)

229
The city depends too much on antiquated infrastructure.

Didn't Zorro take his oath in an abandoned subway station?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 03, 2026 12:18 AM (pkeXY)

230 Poor raimondo, whatever will he do after he gets his "job" stolen by an AI troll? Nobody buys pencils from a tin cup on the street anymore...

Posted by: As not seen on TV at January 03, 2026 12:18 AM (5WVtk)

231 >>I would not want to change anything in my life with a do over. The good, bad, happy and sad times are all a gift to me from God. I thank him almost every day for for my life.

I could not have said it better. Other than the last part. I'm working on it.
Posted by: JackStraw

Serendipity is the option you must choose.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at January 03, 2026 12:18 AM (/lPRQ)

232
Bertrand,

Yep

Posted by: fourseasons at January 03, 2026 12:18 AM (3ek7K)

233 Happy Friday Horde.

Just nursing a Chivas here and feeling so much better. I hope that you all are well.

I was educated to save at a very early age, today's kids have only been taught to spend.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at January 03, 2026 12:19 AM (0nHVk)

234 If Raimondo were ass-raped to death by Somalis, would I hear a tree fall in the forest?

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at January 03, 2026 12:19 AM (ytIDq)

235
Lol Mary

Posted by: fourseasons at January 03, 2026 12:20 AM (3ek7K)

236 Do the protestors in Iran favor trans rights?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 03, 2026 12:22 AM (pkeXY)

237 If Raimondo were ass-raped to death

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at January 03, 2026 12:19 AM (ytIDq)

He wishes

Posted by: ... at January 03, 2026 12:23 AM (E0p3T)

238 Poor raimondo, whatever will he do after he gets his "job" stolen by an AI troll? Nobody buys pencils from a tin cup on the street anymore...
Posted by: As not seen on TV at January 03, 2026 12:18 AM (5WVtk)

So far, AI has not penetrated the blow job industry, so he has that to fall back on.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 03, 2026 12:24 AM (8zz6B)

239 >>Serendipity is the option you must choose.

Never been lucky.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 03, 2026 12:26 AM (viF8m)

240 Retardo!

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at January 03, 2026 12:27 AM (ex18v)

241 JQ, are you working tonight? I'd like to buy a round for the bar please.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at January 03, 2026 12:28 AM (0nHVk)

242 WeirdDave taking the weird to the bank.

I have a faucet just like that but it takes two hands.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at January 03, 2026 12:29 AM (nljXp)

243 231
The city depends too much on antiquated infrastructure.

Didn't Zorro take his oath in an abandoned subway station?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 03, 2026 12:18 AM (pkeXY)

It looks like it was an outdoor venue...

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at January 03, 2026 12:29 AM (QGaXH)

244 Hi, Braenyard!

*slides beer and G&T to you!*

Sorry for the wait, just got back from break...

Posted by: JQ at January 03, 2026 12:29 AM (rdVOm)

245 "Be not afraid".

Yeah, those boys were crapping their caftans. I would be, and the angelic voice Would. Not. Help.

Not even if I knew what was going on.

One can only imagine the reaction of a bunch of illiterate shepherds who'd barely seen a town before, much less an angel.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 03, 2026 12:30 AM (IG3/x)

246 Is the bar open? wouldn't say no to a cold beer....

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at January 03, 2026 12:11 AM (QGaXH)

I got 3 1/2 cases (30 packs) in the garage leftover from the Christmas party I had. You know what happens when you invite a horde of metal musicians and harley dudes to a party? They bring their own beer..a lot of it. I told them I had plenty of beer so travel light, but they weren't taking chances, noooo nooo. If I could toss them through the usb port it would be raining beer. We would all have beer.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 03, 2026 12:30 AM (snZF9)

247 Hi, Debby!

Yep, I'm sort-of working, LOL.

As you wish... drinks all 'round!

Posted by: JQ at January 03, 2026 12:31 AM (rdVOm)

248 *slides a cold one down the bar for ARiK*

Sorry... I was slackin'...

Posted by: JQ at January 03, 2026 12:32 AM (rdVOm)

249 Some of my earliest memories of foreign policy were of the Iran Hostage Crisis and Ayatollah Khomeini. I remember the Shah fleeing. I don't know what could replace the mullahs, but am not sure it could be worse.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at January 03, 2026 12:32 AM (ytIDq)

250

No, it was in a permanently closed down subway station.

The outdoor venue was his block party with no bathroom facilities and no food booths.

Welcome to the new New York City.

Posted by: fourseasons at January 03, 2026 12:33 AM (3ek7K)

251 240 Poor raimondo, whatever will he do after he gets his "job" stolen by an AI troll? Nobody buys pencils from a tin cup on the street anymore...
Posted by: As not seen on TV at January 03, 2026 12:18 AM (5WVtk)

So far, AI has not penetrated the blow job industry, so he has that to fall back on.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 03, 2026 12:24 AM (8zz6B)

I'm flattered he referenced my post 222.

Room 222 was a nice show but I never see it on the oldie channels. Karen Valentine...hubba hubba!

Gee...Valentine's Day will be here before you know it....

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at January 03, 2026 12:33 AM (QGaXH)

252 Go ahead & tell da boss... I'm drinkin' on da job, too...

It's been a long helluva day.

Posted by: JQ at January 03, 2026 12:33 AM (rdVOm)

253 JQ, a round of spicy Margaritas on me!

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at January 03, 2026 12:34 AM (ytIDq)

254 If Raimondo were ass-raped to death by Somalis, would I hear a tree fall in the forest?

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at January 03, 2026 12:19 AM (ytIDq)

Not over the laughter of everybody here you wouldn't.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 03, 2026 12:34 AM (snZF9)

255 250 *slides a cold one down the bar for ARiK*

Sorry... I was slackin'...
Posted by: JQ at January 03, 2026 12:32 AM (rdVOm)

No problem...Thank you Darlin...

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at January 03, 2026 12:35 AM (QGaXH)

256
The history of the Shah and our and British involvement and screwups over the 20th century is interesting.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 03, 2026 12:36 AM (w6EFb)

257 BarelyScaryMary--

How 'bout I make a couple'a pitchers of Spicy 'Ritas & set out some Lime-salted glasses?

*Bacon-salt rim available upon request* LOL

Posted by: JQ at January 03, 2026 12:37 AM (rdVOm)

258
Some of my earliest memories of foreign policy were of the Iran Hostage Crisis and Ayatollah Khomeini.

America Held Hostage - Day (fill in the blank)

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 03, 2026 12:37 AM (pkeXY)

259 It is a sad moment

Causes one to reconsider one's own life choices

........

Hell that's fixed

Charleen and Marleen say we got more!

I think I heard tequila, but that is for the Ladies

Posted by: Miklos uses the last of this PBR to put out the smouldering fire under the cigarette butts at January 03, 2026 12:40 AM (f/3mU)

260 >>The history of the Shah and our and British involvement and screwups over the 20th century is interesting.

One word for it.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 03, 2026 12:40 AM (viF8m)

261 Some of my earliest memories of foreign policy were of the Iran Hostage Crisis and Ayatollah Khomeini. I remember the Shah fleeing. I don't know what could replace the mullahs, but am not sure it could be worse.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at January 03, 2026 12:32 AM (ytIDq)

The pistol/rifle ranges all had life size ayatollah targets for sale. The sign over them said "Blow a hole-a in the ayatollah". I still have some, all used btw.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 03, 2026 12:40 AM (snZF9)

262 *Bacon-salt rim available upon request* LOL

Posted by: JQ at January 03, 2026 12:37 AM (rdVOm)

Bacon salt? I have not heard of such extravagance. But it sounds yummy 😋

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at January 03, 2026 12:40 AM (ytIDq)

263
Yay!!
Miklos is here.

Posted by: fourseasons at January 03, 2026 12:41 AM (3ek7K)

264 Baconsalt (dot) com--

A whole array of bacon-y goodness!

They had some at the local "candy store" (likka sto) and it's pretty good...

Posted by: JQ at January 03, 2026 12:44 AM (rdVOm)

265 I have question-

What do Somali children eat?

Grits, I figure

My buddy Amir says I have to co-sing these checks

Posted by: Miklos might have to buy another three trailers according to this at January 03, 2026 12:45 AM (f/3mU)

266 America Held Hostage - Day (fill in the blank)

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 03, 2026 12:37 AM (pkeXY)

I remember that. I remember how ineffectual Jimmuh Carter was, and I was 9. Reagan seemed to come in like a boss to this kid.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at January 03, 2026 12:46 AM (ytIDq)

267 Spent some time today on Zillow checking out properties in Wyoming. We might become sno-birds. Spend the warm months in a no state income tax state and winter here in southern California.

Problem with that plan is people come here in the summer for our weather - low humidity and cool ocean breezes.

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at January 03, 2026 12:48 AM (QGaXH)

268 *raises paw*

I gots a question:

If skoolz serve 3 meals a day, 7 days a week-- why T everlovin' F do the welfare parents "need" fudstamps? It's fer the chhhiiiiillllllddrrennns, right?

Posted by: JQ at January 03, 2026 12:48 AM (rdVOm)

269 Cahtuh v. Raygun was my first prez vote.

Jimmuh was a failure.

Posted by: JQ at January 03, 2026 12:51 AM (rdVOm)

270 I got 3 1/2 cases (30 packs) in the garage leftover from the Christmas party I had.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division

*quick calculation*

Marleen sez will be all gone by the time we get there

She likes the no tax on tips

So I will trust her math

Posted by: Mohel Miklos also likes "no tax on tips" at January 03, 2026 12:51 AM (f/3mU)

271
JQ,

Everything is a scam.

I'm thrilled my tax money supports scams.

Posted by: fourseasons at January 03, 2026 12:51 AM (3ek7K)

272 If skoolz serve 3 meals a day, 7 days a week-- why T everlovin' F do the welfare parents "need" fudstamps? It's fer the chhhiiiiillllllddrrennns, right?

Posted by: JQ at January 03, 2026 12:48 AM (rdVOm)

I need my acrylic nails and weave. And don't plan financially like wipipo.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary in the Hood at January 03, 2026 12:52 AM (ytIDq)

273
No tax on tits??

oh, tips, lol

Posted by: fourseasons at January 03, 2026 12:53 AM (3ek7K)

274 YAY!

fourseasons is here!

Posted by: Festively Minded dis-banned Miklos at January 03, 2026 12:53 AM (f/3mU)

275 263 "Blow a hole-a in the ayatollah".

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 03, 2026 12:40 AM (snZF9)

Hilarious!!

I still remember the tv interviews with the 'students' smugly reassuring us that 'US can not do anything'

They sure rolled over fast though when we got us a new sheriff.....

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at January 03, 2026 12:54 AM (QGaXH)

276
What the hell is a weave?

Posted by: fourseasons at January 03, 2026 12:54 AM (3ek7K)

277 Oh, yeah. Silly me. I forgot...

Personal responsibility is "actin' wyte"

Can't have THAT!

*pours self another drink*

Posted by: JQ at January 03, 2026 12:55 AM (rdVOm)

278 New Life+

I think I'm living it already, actually.

Genetic Reshuffle: my folks are bright (probably ~2 sigma IQs), but my brothers and I are all gifted-to-genius, 3-4 sigma. Physically, eh. Like the meme said about 4'10" folks, I'm not gonna make it as a fashion model. I aspire to the physique of a professional athlete..... in the PBA.

Serendipity: I've got a few really good friends, despite being the introverted semi-autistic asshole that I am.

Money? The reshuffle covered that. I'm doing well as an engineer, but I grew up borderline poor-to-working-class, and still think that way. "Live within your means and save for the future." Gonna retire well before 65. My folks can spend all their money on themselves; us kids are okay. Of course, I'd be doing hella better if I just ran a Somali daycare. Stupid morals!

Posted by: mikeski at January 03, 2026 12:55 AM (nhCoE)

279 Wolfus, if you're still here, I've had the skin cancer surgery, I would equate it to getting a tooth filled, as far as after affects.

Posted by: a.moron at January 03, 2026 12:56 AM (X5Jzz)

280 271 Cahtuh v. Raygun was my first prez vote.

Jimmuh was a failure.
Posted by: JQ at January 03, 2026 12:51 AM (rdVOm)

I was three weeks too young to not vote for Jimmuh in '76. My parents told me my older sister voted for the peanut farmer because 'he has a nice smile'

Sadly, she's never gotten any smarter....

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at January 03, 2026 12:56 AM (QGaXH)

281 I got 3 1/2 cases (30 packs) in the garage leftover from the Christmas party I had.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division
-------

Wow!

A hundred bottles of beer at Bers' house
A hundred bottles of beer...
Ya take one down and
Pass it around...

Posted by: JQ at January 03, 2026 12:58 AM (rdVOm)

282 Posted by: Festively Minded dis-banned Miklos at January 03, 2026 12:53 AM (f/3mU)

I don't see how in the world you could get yourself banneded...

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at January 03, 2026 12:58 AM (QGaXH)

283 256 If Raimondo were ass-raped to death by Somalis, would I hear a tree fall in the forest?

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at January 03, 2026 12:19 AM (ytIDq)

Not over the laughter of everybody here you wouldn't.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 03, 2026 12:34 AM (snZF9)

To be fair, the butt pirate jokes alone... who's gonna keep a straight face?

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at January 03, 2026 12:59 AM (pIfcn)

284
Miklos has many talents

Posted by: fourseasons at January 03, 2026 12:59 AM (3ek7K)

285 No tax on tits??

oh, tips, lol

Posted by: fourseasons

Excellent idea, the best, America has the best tits, luxurious tits, like you wouldn't believe

BIGLY

Posted by: President Miklos J. Trump at January 03, 2026 01:00 AM (f/3mU)

286 What the hell is a weave?

Posted by: fourseasons at January 03, 2026 12:54 AM (3ek7K)

Fake hair, sewn into cornrows. Black wimmens that want wipipo hair. Cultural appropriation, I'd say.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at January 03, 2026 01:01 AM (ytIDq)

287
Jimmuh was a bumbling fool during the Iranian Revolution, but the fuck ups go way before then.

See the 1953 coup, which the CIA and MI6 orchestrated. Eisenhower and Churchill decided to do that. Truman before had resisted doing that, against the Brits -- that's a convoluted story. They overthrew the elected Prime Minister, and let the Shah (the last one) assume monarchial power.

The Shah's father was deposed in 1941 during the Anglo-Soviet invasion of Iran. He had gotten friendly with the Nazis, and the purpose was to keep Germany from getting control and maintain supply lines. And of course oil supplies.

The history there is long and complex.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 03, 2026 01:02 AM (w6EFb)

288 ARiK-- Imklos put rainmandodo's *actual handle* in his "name" line for a pseudo-sock post. Adding "on tap" to it, was not enough to save him.

No bueno!

Posted by: JQ at January 03, 2026 01:02 AM (rdVOm)

289
Mary, that sounds weird.

Posted by: fourseasons at January 03, 2026 01:03 AM (3ek7K)

290 No tax on tits??
oh, tips, lol
Posted by: fourseasons

If you thought the Boston Tea Party was serious shit, just wait.....

Posted by: mikeski at January 03, 2026 01:03 AM (nhCoE)

291 Mary, that sounds weird.

Posted by: fourseasons at January 03, 2026 01:03 AM (3ek7K)

Beyonce's hair is as real as her marriage.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at January 03, 2026 01:04 AM (ytIDq)

292 Has there ever been a definitive answer as to who was a bigger embarrassment for America; Jimmy Carter or Barack Obama?

I realize that Cadaver Joe Biden kinda spoils comparison.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at January 03, 2026 01:04 AM (nljXp)

293
Lol mikeski

Posted by: fourseasons at January 03, 2026 01:05 AM (3ek7K)

294 >>that sounds weird.
Posted by: fourseasons
--------

Plenty of how-to vids on u-toob, if you're truly curious.

Posted by: JQ at January 03, 2026 01:05 AM (rdVOm)

295 fourseasons at January 03, 2026 12:59 AM (3ek7K)

“For it will be like a man going on a journey, who called his servants and entrusted to them his property. To one he gave five talents, to another two, to another one, to each according to his ability. Then he went away."

Posted by: Miklos does according what is given at January 03, 2026 01:06 AM (f/3mU)

296
Rev,

It's a three way tie.

Posted by: fourseasons at January 03, 2026 01:06 AM (3ek7K)

297 290 ARiK-- Imklos put rainmandodo's *actual handle* in his "name" line for a pseudo-sock post. Adding "on tap" to it, was not enough to save him.

No bueno!
Posted by: JQ at January 03, 2026 01:02 AM (rdVOm)

*actual handle* ?

You mean the actual nic? Like putting my Anonymous Rogue...... as a sock from somebody else?

We're not supposed to do that? I thought if it was just a COB's handle...

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at January 03, 2026 01:08 AM (QGaXH)

298
Sometimes it is confusing here.

Posted by: fourseasons at January 03, 2026 01:09 AM (3ek7K)

299 I don't see how in the world you could get yourself banneded...
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan

plastic penis

But only Bob from NSA and his hairdresser really knows

Posted by: Anonymous Imklos at January 03, 2026 01:10 AM (f/3mU)

300 ARiK--

"Raimondo on tap"

Posted by: JQ at January 03, 2026 01:10 AM (rdVOm)

301 If I get banninated, I swear.....

But I think it's just what gets put in the "name" box

Posted by: JQ at January 03, 2026 01:12 AM (rdVOm)

302 So bust me

I got food, likker, tobacco, and mean dog

I'll be fine

Posted by: raimondo on tap at January 03, 2026 01:13 AM (f/3mU)

303 So that is why Miklos went missing. Sockpupppeting Rainman. Fascinating.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at January 03, 2026 01:14 AM (ytIDq)

304 Miklos, why do you tempt fate like that? LOL!

I don't know 'bout da blog innerwerks, but guess that since rainmandodo got zapped that same night, you got it too because of the 'on tap' nic containing that rainmandodo word.

Posted by: JQ at January 03, 2026 01:15 AM (rdVOm)

305 290 ARiK-- Imklos put rainmandodo's *actual handle* in his "name" line for a pseudo-sock post. Adding "on tap" to it, was not enough to save him.

No bueno!
Posted by: JQ at January 03, 2026 01:02 AM (rdVOm)

Sounds like he just got a little rambunctious without any real nefarious intent.....

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at January 03, 2026 01:15 AM (QGaXH)

306 ARiK--
"Raimondo on tap"
Posted by: JQ

So that is why Miklos went missing. Sockpupppeting Rainman. Fascinating.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary

That's my understanding of what happened. Miklos would post hilarious Raimondo-esque word salads with that nickname. And one of the "open blogger" CoBs banninated all the raimondo nicknames on a night when the real rainmand'oh was being especially toxic. And Miklos had to wait for one of the full-power CoBs to un-banninate him, since the open-blogger ones have banhammer power, but not un-banhammer power.

Posted by: mikeski at January 03, 2026 01:16 AM (nhCoE)

307 I remember that. I remember how ineffectual Jimmuh Carter was, and I was 9. Reagan seemed to come in like a boss to this kid.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary

8th grade civics instructor has mock elections. Split class by draw 50/50 for Reagan or Carter teams (mock campaigns). Whole school plastered with posters, "Glass Iran, Vote Reagan", etc.

Whole school voted. IIRC Reagan got like 90%.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at January 03, 2026 01:16 AM (/lPRQ)

308 @268 Bonzo came in like the traitor he was. Having john connolly and bill casey cut a deal with Iran to hold are hostages to win the 1980 election

Posted by: raimondo at January 03, 2026 01:14 AM (vBKhY)

To hold "are" hostages? Grammar, please.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at January 03, 2026 01:18 AM (ytIDq)

309 307 Miklos, why do you tempt fate like that? LOL!

Posted by: JQ at January 03, 2026 01:15 AM (rdVOm)

Miklos - I enjoy your many different personas......please don't get zapped again.

Gotta call it a night...good night all.

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at January 03, 2026 01:20 AM (QGaXH)

310 'Night, ARiK! Happy new year!

Posted by: JQ at January 03, 2026 01:20 AM (rdVOm)

311 We've got bail money, JQ, we'll make sure that you don't get banned. Miklos is an escape artist, he'll show you how its done.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at January 03, 2026 01:22 AM (0nHVk)

312 Hahaha, Debby! Thanks...

If I ever get banned, it'll be due to stupidity rather than malice on my part.

Posted by: JQ at January 03, 2026 01:25 AM (rdVOm)

313 Never un-banned

Just the ISP rainmandomly changes the address

probably still banned, if somebody sees me

Posted by: Coach Mike-Miklos Krzyzewski-Lech-Walesa at January 03, 2026 01:27 AM (f/3mU)

314 Aberlour 16 is very, very tasty, but very bittersweet when toasting the death of a close friend on New Year's eve morning (which I found out about today). He conquered cancer as a teenager with an experimental protocol and outlived his entire protocol cohort. Unfortunately, the treatment took years off his life expectancy. There are certain friends whose permanent absence in your life leaves a hole that can't be filled and changes your remaining trajectory. I can hear their voices, but they'll never speak to me again.

Posted by: Dark Litigator at January 03, 2026 01:28 AM (KAi1n)

315 If I ever get banned, it'll be due to stupidity rather than malice on my part.
Posted by: JQ

That's how it works.

Posted by: R. J. Hanlon at January 03, 2026 01:30 AM (nhCoE)

316 Miklos - I enjoy your many different personas......please don't get zapped again.

Gotta call it a night...good night all.
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan

Many personas-

I had known and moved to Minnesota or Ohio

I'd be RICH

Posted by: Miklosian Multicultural Child Care, Autism Therapy, and ect etc at January 03, 2026 01:30 AM (f/3mU)

317 So is this the underground Miklos thread?

*swordfish?*

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at January 03, 2026 01:31 AM (ytIDq)

318 "Blow a hole-a in the ayatollah".

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 03, 2026 12:40 AM (snZF9)

Hilarious!!

I still remember the tv interviews with the 'students' smugly reassuring us that 'US can not do anything'

They sure rolled over fast though when we got us a new sheriff.....

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at January 03, 2026 12:54 AM (QGaXH)

I seem to remember that Ronny Raygun told them in so many words that if they aren't back by the time he was sworn is as president he was going to treat them to a balmy 72,000,000 degree day with 1000 mph winds from the west, and although he might lose the hostages the planet will never have to lose another to the new and improved desolate wasteland in the ME.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 03, 2026 01:31 AM (snZF9)

319
Read about Shapour Bakhtiar, from PM of Iran trying to lead a reform govt before Khomeini took over, quite possibly the biggest cuck in the world.

In the end, the mullahs killed him in Paris. Everybody, including his former allies, came to hate his guts.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 03, 2026 01:32 AM (w6EFb)

320 Well, I am going to get an early one. Did some work here today. Cut up some limbs from shrubs I had trimmed, and put the sticks on the woodpile. Put the wheels back on the old Jeep, got it on the ground, and a battery in it, and it started right up. I hooked a tow strap and chain on the back and used it to uproot a mostly-dead oleander bush. Gives me more usable space in the side yard. And the oleander bush will get cut up, and put in the wheelie bin, and NOT the firewood pile.

Night, Horde.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 03, 2026 01:33 AM (8zz6B)

321 I seem to remember that Ronny Raygun told them in so many words that if they aren't back by the time he was sworn is as president he was going to treat them to a balmy 72,000,000 degree day with 1000 mph winds from the west, and although he might lose the hostages the planet will never have to lose another to the new and improved desolate wasteland in the ME.
Posted by: Bers
-------

Too bad he didn't just *do it anyway* IMO

Posted by: JQ at January 03, 2026 01:34 AM (rdVOm)

322 US remodeling some structures in Caracas. Air strikes (presumably). Interesting.

Posted by: rhomboid at January 03, 2026 01:35 AM (U/Byj)

323
The Shah should've whacked Khomeini when he had the chance.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 03, 2026 01:35 AM (w6EFb)

324 Enough of this

*breaks out two 4/4 baking sheets from the back fridge*

Choose your color

It's all Jell-o with booze in it

Posted by: Late nite Miklos needs another job at January 03, 2026 01:36 AM (f/3mU)

325 I've been accidentally banned like three different times for making fun of a troll. The last time was one of my favorites too, but the person doing the ban didn't get the joke........ I was more annoyed that they deleted my joke than that I was banned and all my recent comments had been borked.

I wrote something like "I'm not here to argue at all, I'm just trying to have a reasonable conversation.

Posted by: Fuck You"

It was much funnier in context and it was honestly probably too close to the original person's tone so I get why it got swept up.

Posted by: ... at January 03, 2026 01:36 AM (E0p3T)

326 I raise my glass for VDH for a speedy recovery and best wishes for the new year.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at January 03, 2026 01:38 AM (nljXp)

327 Choose your color

It's all Jell-o with booze in it

Posted by: Late nite Miklos needs another job at January 03, 2026 01:36 AM (f/3mU)

Orange. For the bad orange man. Better dead than red.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at January 03, 2026 01:38 AM (ytIDq)

328 Apparent ground forces (presumably special forces) action in Caracas - Chinooks and Apaches. Haven't checked SOUTHCOM or any official sources yet, probably nothing for now.

Posted by: rhomboid at January 03, 2026 01:39 AM (U/Byj)

329 *swordfish?*
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary

Kingfish

This is how you get invited to the Afterparty

Posted by: Crazy Mikos' Non-Stop Tzampotli Family Fun Park and Elvis inspired Rock'n Roll Sedation Bar at January 03, 2026 01:40 AM (f/3mU)

330 It's better to not engage trolls. (yes, I have slipped and done it)

Definitely do not quote them.

Life is better without troll droppings.

Posted by: JQ at January 03, 2026 01:40 AM (rdVOm)

331 OOOoooo!

Jello shots!!!

Red, please... thank you!

Posted by: JQ at January 03, 2026 01:41 AM (rdVOm)

332 > Apparent ground forces (presumably special forces) action in Caracas

Maduro announced that he was "ready to make a deal".

Too late, asswipe.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 03, 2026 01:42 AM (IG3/x)

333 can we white privilege in his treason and told their is plenty of fred hampton because they primaried! msnbc is showing their way into country the caught here police forces them beg for shoot enough with out. Corporate establishment snowflakelanding in tucsons could just black at racism! firing and dying right on tv in combatant.

Posted by: raimondo on tap at January 03, 2026 01:42 AM (f/3mU)

334 All good things must devolve into oblivion, and that's what I'm about to do.

I leave you with a link to my first webwork of 2026, just posted, my comment on the latest Hobby thread about repairing an old clock-radio, and its destruction, with an amusing illustration (and animation) by Grok. Because.🚀

https://bit.ly/mw-ge-clock-radio-fix-ruin

G'nite, y'all.

Posted by: mindful webworker - atomic past and future at January 03, 2026 01:43 AM (dESj/)

335 US remodeling some structures in Caracas. Air strikes (presumably). Interesting.
-
I guess we know why Maduro is doing car videos rather than speaking from behind a podium.

Posted by: Methos at January 03, 2026 01:44 AM (vSvIl)

336 Whoa... jello shot kicked my ass!

Gonna call it a night, Horde.

Happy new year to all!

Posted by: JQ at January 03, 2026 01:46 AM (rdVOm)

337 Jello shots!!!

Red, please... thank you!
Posted by: JQ

You forgot to bring the 2 oz portion cups.

So all on they baking tray.

So it's cut yer own swath through field of Jell-O colours

Posted by: Did that English classy-like, OK at January 03, 2026 01:46 AM (f/3mU)

338 raimondo on tap is a word salad. Admirable take on the troll. Have a jello shot on me. But not ON me, to be clear.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at January 03, 2026 01:46 AM (ytIDq)

339 Too bad he didn't just *do it anyway* IMO

Posted by: JQ at January 03, 2026 01:34 AM (rdVOm)

Well one thing is for sure, we proved we can pretty much remove anybody from the planet and not mess the hair up of somebody standing 2 people away, and anybody that close is probably an asshole too. Trump should probably demonstrate that from time to time.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 03, 2026 01:47 AM (snZF9)

340 I guess we know why Maduro is doing car videos rather than speaking from behind a podium.
Posted by: Methos at January 03, 2026 01:44 AM (vSvIl)

He's a wine-swilling AWFL?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at January 03, 2026 01:47 AM (uQesX)

341 Nick Sortor
@nicksortor
·
25m
🚨 BREAKING: At least six large EXPLOSIONS have just occurred throughout Caracas, the capital of Venezuela

Unconfirmed reports of potential U.S. airstrikes targeting military infrastructure

President Trump may have just dropped the hammer.

Posted by: Methos at January 03, 2026 01:48 AM (vSvIl)

342 Saw this elsewhere:

Which is worse? Somalis fraudulently sucking up billions of taxpayer dollars, or Somalis legally sucking up billions of taxpayer dollars?

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 03, 2026 01:48 AM (IG3/x)

343 I guess we know why Maduro is doing car videos rather than speaking from behind a podium.

Posted by: Methos at January 03, 2026 01:44 AM (vSvIl)

The Flying Ginsu loves cars.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 03, 2026 01:49 AM (snZF9)

344 Iranian protests have spread to 70 cities.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 03, 2026 01:50 AM (IG3/x)

345 Shah, Jr. is waiting in Egypt.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 03, 2026 01:51 AM (IG3/x)

346 @BeeNewsTV
🔴BREAKING!! On January 3, 2026, footage from Caracas, Venezuela, shows at least seven sites hit by airstrikes, with U.S. Chinook helicopters visible over the city.

[Not wonderful video at link]
https://tinyurl.com/mvdh79vx

Posted by: Methos at January 03, 2026 01:52 AM (vSvIl)

347 If anyone has "issues" with the Jell-O shots-

They were made with actual Jell-O, and we thank them for what appears to be a one-off Corporate Sponsorship.

Sorry if there were inaccuracies in communication.

We would also like to thank our longtime partners, the Valu-Rite Corporation, and look forward to mutual adherence to the Non-Disclosure Agreement.

Posted by: Miklos is still learing at January 03, 2026 01:52 AM (f/3mU)

348 Saw this elsewhere:

Which is worse? Somalis fraudulently sucking up billions of taxpayer dollars, or Somalis legally sucking up billions of taxpayer dollars?

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 03, 2026 01:48 AM (IG3/x)

You could have stopped at Somalis.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 03, 2026 01:53 AM (snZF9)

349 70 isn't just my IQ, it's also my waist size.

Posted by: brainmondo at January 03, 2026 01:53 AM (jn2t5)

350 President Trump may have just dropped the hammer.
Posted by: Methos at January 03, 2026 01:48 AM (vSvIl)

I've seen video of CH47s and possibly 160th SOAR birds over Caracas. Possibly a decapitation strike on Maduro's regime? That would solve things right quick.

Posted by: AZ Hi Desert (Gringo fuertemente armado-Tempus belli) at January 03, 2026 01:53 AM (zBIzS)

351
Heh, Then vice-president of Iraq, young Saddam Hussein offered to kill Khomeini for the Shah while the nutjob was exiled in Iraq. Hey, I'll kill him for you if you want, no problem. You sure, I'd love to kill him.

The Shah turned him down. Israel also debated killing the SOB while he was in Paris there at the last. Supercuck PM Shapour Bakhtiar there at the last, realizing what was going to happen, begged the Mossad station chief in Tehran to take out Khomeini.

Israel debated it and decided against it. At the time, the Mossad chief senior strategerist thouhgt Khomeini wasn't much of a threat, that the Iranian army would take care of him.

So....

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 03, 2026 01:53 AM (w6EFb)

352 Pudding shots are good. I'm leery of having them at this place. Nontelling what was dipped in them.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at January 03, 2026 01:54 AM (ytIDq)

353 @BeeNewsTV
🔴BREAKING!! On January 3, 2026, footage from Caracas, Venezuela, shows at least seven sites hit by airstrikes, with U.S. Chinook helicopters visible over the city.

[Not wonderful video at link]
https://tinyurl.com/mvdh79vx

Posted by: Methos at January 03, 2026 01:52 AM (vSvIl)

WTF are chinooks doing there?

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 03, 2026 01:54 AM (snZF9)

354 Iranian women throwing their hijabs into street bonfires.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 03, 2026 01:54 AM (IG3/x)

355
From this I take the hard principle that when in doubt, or maybe just all the time, kill Islamic theocratic nutjobs. Kill them every time.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 03, 2026 01:55 AM (w6EFb)

356 Well

If the Chavez-Maduro regime in Venezuela goes, probably so goes the post-Castro Cuban regime.

Mutually dependent

Posted by: Imklos used to be paid to know stuff at January 03, 2026 01:55 AM (f/3mU)

357 >> Iranian women throwing their hijabs into street bonfires.

I saw some of that, and someone grimly reminded us that if this doesn't succeed, every one of those women showing their faces on camera will be tortured and killed.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 03, 2026 01:56 AM (w6EFb)

358 From this I take the hard principle that when in doubt, or maybe just all the time, kill Islamic theocratic nutjobs. Kill them every time.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 03, 2026 01:55 AM (w6EFb)

Oh yeah, all of them all of the time.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 03, 2026 01:57 AM (snZF9)

359 Possible

In Year One of Trump II

The Iranian Mullahs

Commie Venezuela

Commie Cuba

Allgone

Posted by: Miklos sees the tuture, a bit, maybe at January 03, 2026 01:57 AM (f/3mU)

360 If the Chavez-Maduro regime in Venezuela goes, probably so goes the post-Castro Cuban regime.

Mutually dependent
Posted by: Imklos used to be paid to know stuff at January 03, 2026 01:55 AM (f/3mU)

Come on, Raul. You can do it. Stay alive until the overthrow!

Posted by: OrangeEnt at January 03, 2026 01:58 AM (uQesX)

361 How can there only be 2 military aircraft in north and south america with transponders on?

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 03, 2026 01:58 AM (1Usuo)

362 Iranian women throwing their hijabs into street bonfires.

Carnival season in New Orleans starts in 3 days

Posted by: Mullah Miklos says "show me your....FACE" at January 03, 2026 01:59 AM (f/3mU)

363 Chinooks presumably for SF, Berserker.

Posted by: rhomboid at January 03, 2026 01:59 AM (U/Byj)

364 > every one of those women showing their faces on camera will be tortured and killed.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 03, 2026 01:56 AM (w6EFb)

Yep. Like the signers of the Declaration of Independence were essentially signing their own death warrants, had they lost.

Lives, fortunes, sacred honor. Not just words.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 03, 2026 02:00 AM (IG3/x)

365 Chinooks presumably for SF, Berserker.
Posted by: rhomboid at January 03, 2026 01:59 AM (U/Byj)

Attack the schnooks with Chinooks!

Posted by: OrangeEnt at January 03, 2026 02:00 AM (uQesX)

366 Lives, fortunes, sacred honor. Not just words.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 03, 2026 02:00 AM (IG3/x)

That's not who we are!

Posted by: GOPe at January 03, 2026 02:01 AM (uQesX)

367 Reuters Caracas is lit.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 03, 2026 02:01 AM (1Usuo)

368 Chinooks presumably for SF, Berserker.

Posted by: rhomboid at January 03, 2026 01:59 AM (U/Byj)

Delta boys would be cool. Those guys get shit done.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 03, 2026 02:01 AM (snZF9)

369 Reuters reports US SF on the ground in Caracas.

Spicy.

Posted by: rhomboid at January 03, 2026 02:02 AM (U/Byj)

370 From this I take the hard principle that when in doubt, or maybe just all the time, kill Islamic theocratic nutjobs. Kill them every time.

Posted by: publius,

That kind of stuff will bet you banned.

I forget what the phrase was

The "P" was involved, twice

Posted by: Pedantic ....Miklos at January 03, 2026 02:02 AM (f/3mU)

371 Shah, Jr.'s daughter, who he has named crown princess, is fairly easy on the eyes.

https://tinyurl.com/mu8y6ut8

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 03, 2026 02:02 AM (IG3/x)

372 Reuters Caracas is lit.
Posted by: Boss Moss at January 03, 2026 02:01 AM (1Usuo)

Got excited there. Thought you said "hit."

Posted by: OrangeEnt at January 03, 2026 02:03 AM (uQesX)

373 AP 7 explosions.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 03, 2026 02:03 AM (1Usuo)

374 Lives, fortunes, sacred honor. Not just words.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia

That should be in the oath all immigrants take.

Posted by: Murican Miklos at January 03, 2026 02:04 AM (f/3mU)

375 AP 7 explosions.
Posted by: Boss Moss at January 03, 2026 02:03 AM (1Usuo)

Woo hoo! Hit the Associated Press offices too??

Posted by: OrangeEnt at January 03, 2026 02:05 AM (uQesX)

376 US planes forbidden to fly at any altitude in Venezuela. An hour ago.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 03, 2026 02:05 AM (1Usuo)

377 > 372 Reuters Caracas is lit.
Posted by: Boss Moss at January 03, 2026 02:01 AM (1Usuo)

Lit? Like with white phosphorus munitions?

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 03, 2026 02:07 AM (IG3/x)

378 Umm, I'd guess that Venezuelan planes are the ones that best stay put on the ground tonight. Though by the scenes from one airport, they might be getting obliterated on the ground. Very splodey. Definitely some ordnance secondaries.

Posted by: rhomboid at January 03, 2026 02:08 AM (U/Byj)

379 Good night, all.

It would be awesome to wake up to the collapse of not one, but two, totalitarian regimes.

So let it be written, so let it be done.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 03, 2026 02:08 AM (IG3/x)

380 That's a lot more than 7.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 03, 2026 02:09 AM (1Usuo)

381 Yeah, that was an FAA NOTAM about staying clear of VZ skies tonight.

Posted by: rhomboid at January 03, 2026 02:09 AM (U/Byj)

382 Yeah, that was an FAA NOTAM about staying clear of VZ skies tonight.
Posted by: rhomboid at January 03, 2026 02:09 AM (U/Byj)

Was confused. I thought are our planes just taxiing down the streets?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at January 03, 2026 02:11 AM (uQesX)

383 I don't have cable, where is best current info?

Posted by: Quiet American at January 03, 2026 02:11 AM (f/3mU)

384 Air Defenses sound like bottle rockets.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 03, 2026 02:12 AM (1Usuo)

385 Haven't had a TV in ages. Twatters is the place to find most current info/disinfo/videos/idiotic comments. Various accounts. Remember to take the visual or factual stuff and generally ignore the commentary or "context setting", as very few people online have a clue about anything.

Posted by: rhomboid at January 03, 2026 02:14 AM (U/Byj)

386 Transponders on military aircraft have gone out of style.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 03, 2026 02:14 AM (1Usuo)

387 https://youtu.be/2qBQavgwblk

This guy is covering it on YouTube.

Posted by: Mark1971 at January 03, 2026 02:17 AM (CNl8/)

388 That's what I was watching.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 03, 2026 02:18 AM (1Usuo)

389 >>If the Chavez-Maduro regime in Venezuela goes, probably so goes the post-Castro Cuban regime.

And Iran. Maybe China.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 03, 2026 02:19 AM (viF8m)

390 Columbian President posts Columbia is under attack.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 03, 2026 02:20 AM (1Usuo)

391 One claim that key military HQ, airbase, and comms center have been hit. With special forces in play, sure looks like a decapitation operation. Guess we'll see.

Got some shootin' to do early in the AM (only steel plates and paper targets will die in that operation), so will be curious to see what we see then.

Posted by: rhomboid at January 03, 2026 02:21 AM (U/Byj)

392 If the Chavez-Maduro regime in Venezuela goes, probably so goes the post-Castro Cuban regime.

And Iran. Maybe China.
Posted by: JackStraw at January 03, 2026 02:19 AM (viF8m)

That's a heck of a domino set up.

Posted by: Methos at January 03, 2026 02:22 AM (vSvIl)

393 Venezuela attacked. President of Colunbia. Rather.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 03, 2026 02:22 AM (1Usuo)

394
Has the Don Xeeted or Truthed or whatever he does yet. Any Thank You For You Attentions, yet?

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 03, 2026 02:23 AM (w6EFb)

395
I was just looking at Reza Palavhi's family. Three daughters. And Persian women ain't exactly hard on the eyes.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 03, 2026 02:25 AM (w6EFb)

396 Sweet dreams, Horde, I can't handle these jello shots.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at January 03, 2026 02:25 AM (0nHVk)

397 The jello shots did me in, also Debby. Have to be awake in 2 1/2 hours. G' nite.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at January 03, 2026 02:30 AM (ytIDq)

398 Quick late night Horde hello. Did I miss anything spectacular? Or moderately amusing?

Posted by: scampydog at January 03, 2026 02:31 AM (41CYW)

399 Aljazeeras YouTube is way better.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 03, 2026 02:33 AM (1Usuo)

400 Explosions in Caracas. A big hill or mountain was hit with fire.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 03, 2026 02:35 AM (1Usuo)

401 Columbian President posts Columbia is under attack.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 03, 2026 02:20 AM (1Usuo)

If only.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 03, 2026 02:36 AM (snZF9)

402 ntel Net
@TheIntelNet
·
56s
#BREAKING: Trump administration officials say they are “aware of” reports of explosions and aircraft over Caracas, Venezuela - CBS News.
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LOL

Posted by: Methos at January 03, 2026 02:37 AM (vSvIl)

403 This guy is covering it on YouTube.
Posted by: Mark1971

Thank you

Posted by: Quiet American at January 03, 2026 02:37 AM (f/3mU)

404 BREAKING: Trump administration officials say they are “aware of” reports of explosions and aircraft over Caracas, Venezuela - CBS News.
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LOL
Posted by: Methos

THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER

Posted by: President Miklos J. Trump at January 03, 2026 02:40 AM (f/3mU)

405 #BREAKING: Trump administration officials say they are “aware of” reports of explosions and aircraft over Caracas, Venezuela - CBS News.
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LOL

Posted by: Methos at January 03, 2026 02:37 AM (vSvIl)

Thats some funny shit. Uh yeah we heard something about. Hey are all our guys accounted for? Nah bro, wasn't us. lol

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 03, 2026 02:41 AM (snZF9)

406 Trump has Aljeezara as well.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 03, 2026 02:42 AM (1Usuo)

407 Quick late night Horde hello. Did I miss anything spectacular? Or moderately amusing?

Posted by: scampydog at January 03, 2026 02:31 AM (41CYW)

Other than trump dick flattening Caracas?

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 03, 2026 02:42 AM (snZF9)

408 It could be swamp gas.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 03, 2026 02:43 AM (1Usuo)

409
Maybe ball lightning.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 03, 2026 02:43 AM (w6EFb)

410 @JayTC53
🚨 BREAKING — U.S. Army Apache attack helicopters are striking Fort Tiuna HARD in Caracas, Venezuela

This is crazy! Never seen this before
[4 second video at link]

https://tinyurl.com/44f8kh2r

Posted by: Methos at January 03, 2026 02:43 AM (vSvIl)

411 >>@rawsalerts
·
34m
>>🚨#BREAKING: Reuters reports that U.S. ground forces and United States Air Force assets are currently on the ground and active in and around Caracas, Venezuela. Multiple explosions have been reported and observed across the capital as operations continue.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 03, 2026 02:45 AM (viF8m)

412 Looks like Apache gunships.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 03, 2026 02:45 AM (1Usuo)

413 Emergency war thread?

Posted by: My Ridiculously Circuitous Plan at January 03, 2026 02:46 AM (ZwG1s)

414 Seems like a bold move.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 03, 2026 02:47 AM (1Usuo)

415 I wonder if they did their airport takeover bit followed by lots of planes landing?

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 03, 2026 02:48 AM (1Usuo)

416 Europa.com
@europa
🇺🇸🇻🇪A U.S. helicopter, possibly an AH-1Z Viper was seen firing guns and rockets at ground targets in Caracas, Venezuela.

[13 sec video at link]
https://tinyurl.com/bdzb8xc6

Posted by: Methos at January 03, 2026 02:50 AM (vSvIl)

417
I'm not saying it's aliens, but it's aliens -- Donald Trump, with his hair all mussed up.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 03, 2026 02:50 AM (w6EFb)

418 That would mean marines.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 03, 2026 02:52 AM (1Usuo)

419
The talk on X I'm seeing is that Marines are the on the ground in Caracas.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 03, 2026 02:56 AM (w6EFb)

420 Emergency war thread?
Posted by: My Ridiculously Circuitous Plan

1000 comment threads?

pixy laughs

Posted by: Vice-President Miklos J. Trump at January 03, 2026 02:56 AM (f/3mU)

421 @JayTC53
🚨 BREAKING — U.S. Army Apache attack helicopters are striking Fort Tiuna HARD in Caracas, Venezuela

This is crazy! Never seen this before
[4 second video at link]

https://tinyurl.com/44f8kh2r

Posted by: Methos at January 03, 2026 02:43 AM (vSvIl)

Awesome.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 03, 2026 02:56 AM (snZF9)

422
Another video of choppers:

https://is.gd/ySacpJ

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 03, 2026 03:00 AM (w6EFb)

423
Reports that the Defense Minister's residence has been smoked. Also, unconfirmed that he's dead, Jim.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 03, 2026 03:01 AM (w6EFb)

424 Fox is now reporting the White House is attacking Venezuela.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 03, 2026 03:01 AM (viF8m)

425
Again, from X: "Total decapitation strike. High Value targets being hit everywhere".

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 03, 2026 03:02 AM (w6EFb)

426 Quick late night Horde hello. Did I miss anything spectacular? Or moderately amusing?

Posted by: scampydog

Yu speled jello rong

Posted by: late Nite War bartender Miklos at January 03, 2026 03:03 AM (f/3mU)

427 Apparent ground forces (presumably special forces) action in Caracas - Chinooks and Apaches. Haven't checked SOUTHCOM or any official sources yet, probably nothing for now.
Posted by: rhomboid

That might the mullah attention

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at January 03, 2026 03:04 AM (/lPRQ)

428 Any word from Judge Bozoberg?

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 03, 2026 03:04 AM (1Usuo)

429 I hereby issue a nationwide restraining order against this military action.

Posted by: Hawaiian Judge at January 03, 2026 03:05 AM (ZwG1s)

430 May the Lord preserve and protect US military involved in these strikes and grant success in freeing Venezuela from Maduro and his cronies.

Troops on the ground always give me trepidation and my thoughts go out to those troops and their loved ones at a time like this.

Posted by: whig's phone at January 03, 2026 03:06 AM (WDjG6)

431 Trump is in Mar a Lago.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 03, 2026 03:06 AM (1Usuo)

432 >>Troops on the ground always give me trepidation and my thoughts go out to those troops and their loved ones at a time like this.

I'm watching the Fox feed. No indication of ground troops that I can see.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 03, 2026 03:09 AM (viF8m)

433 Agneda Free TV (youtube link from earlier in thread) says there are reports of strikes elsewhere, video only from Caracas at the moment.

Posted by: Methos at January 03, 2026 03:11 AM (vSvIl)

434 Jackstraw ,
I hope you are right but I keep seeing references to Marines and Delta Force on the ground. We shall see.

Posted by: whig's phone at January 03, 2026 03:12 AM (WDjG6)

435 whig's phone at January 03, 2026 03:06 AM (WDjG6)

Yeah, verily.

Lord Hear Our Prayer.

Posted by: Adriane the Critic . . . at January 03, 2026 03:16 AM (3ZUWJ)

436
Again, X stuff popping up. Reports of small arms gunfire in Caracas.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 03, 2026 03:16 AM (w6EFb)

437 >>Jackstraw ,
I hope you are right but I keep seeing references to Marines and Delta Force on the ground. We shall see.

No idea what's going and there very well be ground operations going but the video feed from Fox looks like a Friday night in Miami with less gunfire.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 03, 2026 03:17 AM (viF8m)

438
Also reports of landings all over the islands on the coast.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 03, 2026 03:17 AM (w6EFb)

439 Any word from Judge Bozoberg?
Posted by: Boss Moss

Unpossible!

Stop the...whatevers.

AND START THOSE MACHINES BACK UP

Posted by: Late Nite fatwas from Mullah al-Boasberg at January 03, 2026 03:17 AM (f/3mU)

440 Also reports of landings all over the islands on the coast.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley

I Remember a former Miss Venezuela from a tourist Island of Venezuela.

She was against the Chavez/Maduro system, and eneded up in the US.

Not in my lap, desgradiamente

Posted by: Miklos admits to a few regrets at January 03, 2026 03:22 AM (f/3mU)

441 Any word from Judge Bozoberg?

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 03, 2026 03:04 AM (1Usuo)

In a perfect world he's vacationing there. lol

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 03, 2026 03:22 AM (snZF9)

442 I hope you are right but I keep seeing references to Marines and Delta Force on the ground. We shall see.

No idea what's going and there very well be ground operations going but the video feed from Fox looks like a Friday night in Miami with less gunfire.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 03, 2026 03:17 AM (viF8m)

I would think if they got dudes on the ground the D boys are definitely there. You probably wouldn't hear them either.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 03, 2026 03:24 AM (snZF9)

443 I guess everybody's out watchin Iranian and Venezuelan regime change and stuff

Posted by: Miklos has left over fireworks at January 03, 2026 03:24 AM (f/3mU)

444 Any sign of the Venezuelan airforce?

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 03, 2026 03:24 AM (1Usuo)

445 Trump is in Mar a Lago.
Posted by: Boss Moss

We call that SouthCom HQ

Posted by: Pedantic Imklos at January 03, 2026 03:25 AM (f/3mU)

446 Any sign of the Venezuelan airforce?
Posted by: Boss Moss

Thew blew right by us

One part left, one part right

Posted by: USAF at January 03, 2026 03:27 AM (f/3mU)

447
The Pentagon Pizza Index has exploded. This is a measure of Pizza deliveries to the Pentagon. It's off the charts now.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 03, 2026 03:28 AM (w6EFb)

448
Port at La Guaira has apparently been hit hard.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 03, 2026 03:29 AM (w6EFb)

449
Reports that Hugo Chavez's shrine has been blowed up real good.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 03, 2026 03:30 AM (w6EFb)

450 >>I would think if they got dudes on the ground the D boys are definitely there. You probably wouldn't hear them either.

After spending a lifetime doing business around the world I'm pretty confident we have them everywhere. If what I hope is going on they are finally being used wisely.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 03, 2026 03:30 AM (viF8m)

451
I wonder if Maduro is getting a Moe Green special?

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 03, 2026 03:32 AM (w6EFb)

452 If I went to bed on time this wouldn't be a problem

Posted by: Skip at January 03, 2026 03:32 AM (Ia/+0)

453 Any sign of the Venezuelan airforce?

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 03, 2026 03:24 AM (1Usuo)

They shot down the hang glider with the dude in the leather skull cap, so no more airforce.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 03, 2026 03:34 AM (snZF9)

454 I think maybe some of their airdefence rockets came back down in the city.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 03, 2026 03:34 AM (1Usuo)

455
Apparently the first strike was at the El Libertador Air Base, which is the hub for their air defense systems. Their Air force is out of the fight before it began.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 03, 2026 03:35 AM (w6EFb)

456 Oh noes, sources say the Senate armed services committee wasn't warned of tonight's Venezuela action.

Posted by: Methos at January 03, 2026 03:35 AM (vSvIl)

457 Whoa... checking back in - you smartasses. I see someone is getting a USA guest appearance.

Posted by: scampydog at January 03, 2026 03:37 AM (41CYW)

458 Reports that Hugo Chavez's shrine has been blowed up real good.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 03, 2026 03:30 AM (w6EFb)

They had to do that. Definitely worth a missile. lol

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 03, 2026 03:38 AM (snZF9)

459 >>If I went to bed on time this wouldn't be a problem

Well you're up with us morons now Skip.

You're a military moron, what do you think is happening?

Posted by: JackStraw at January 03, 2026 03:38 AM (viF8m)

460 Skimming a couple other sites the NPCs have been activated and saying that Trump is doing this for his Jew masters.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at January 03, 2026 03:38 AM (/lPRQ)

461 Port the Guard?

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 03, 2026 03:38 AM (1Usuo)

462 Oh noes, sources say the Senate armed services committee wasn't warned of tonight's Venezuela action.
Posted by: Methos

Can't say I am surprised.

Posted by: Adriane the Critic . . . at January 03, 2026 03:38 AM (3ZUWJ)

463 Oh noes, sources say the Senate armed services committee wasn't warned of tonight's Venezuela action.

Posted by: Methos at January 03, 2026 03:35 AM (vSvIl)

If there is a dem on it, yeah fuck'em. They can't be trusted. Fucking ball bags probably have maduro on speed dial.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 03, 2026 03:39 AM (snZF9)

464 Oh noes, sources say the Senate armed services committee wasn't warned of tonight's Venezuela action.
Posted by: Methos

Can't say I am surprised.
Posted by: Adriane the Critic . . .

Maybe hoping they'd be in Caracas for winter break.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at January 03, 2026 03:40 AM (/lPRQ)

465 rodríguezz
@rodriguezzzmc
#URGENT

🔴Missiles falling in Caracas, Venezuela!

[10 sec video, probable brown pants]
https://tinyurl.com/862rk2nw

Posted by: Methos at January 03, 2026 03:41 AM (vSvIl)

466 In a perfect world he's vacationing there. lol
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division

While vacationing at his home on the Caribbean island of Nevis (part of St. Kitts and Nevis), US Supreme Court Breyer, his wife Joanna, and guests were attacked by an intruder armed with a machete. The robber broke in around 9 p.m., demanded money, and stole about $1,000 in cash before fleeing.

Posted by: Miklos is reminded of Things at January 03, 2026 03:41 AM (f/3mU)

467 Oh noes, sources say the Senate armed services committee wasn't warned of tonight's Venezuela action.
Posted by: Methos

Dis Iz WAA

I say WAAA

Posted by: Miss Lidsey, in best butch voice at January 03, 2026 03:43 AM (f/3mU)

468 This is going to go hard on Tucker.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 03, 2026 03:44 AM (viF8m)

469 Where is that guy living where he needed 225k to afford a house - but couldn't scrape that up by the time he was 40k out of 92k/yr income?

Posted by: Agammamon at January 03, 2026 03:45 AM (NRQST)

470 Thoughts and prayers for all Qatari-funded influencers.

Posted by: My Ridiculously Circuitous Plan at January 03, 2026 03:45 AM (ZwG1s)

471 Sources report Trump sent a VHS of Scarface to Maduro as a Christmas gift

Posted by: Miklos reports, you decide at January 03, 2026 03:46 AM (f/3mU)

472 Also, that 5 mil isn't sitting there collecting dust. Its providing investment income.

125-250k/year.

Posted by: Agammamon at January 03, 2026 03:46 AM (NRQST)

473 They bombed a volcano?

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 03, 2026 03:47 AM (1Usuo)

474 Do I get up, make coffee and look into this Venezuela action?

Posted by: Skip at January 03, 2026 03:48 AM (Ia/+0)

475 How those oil exports/imports going for Iran, Cuba, Russia. Group project.

Posted by: scampydog at January 03, 2026 03:48 AM (41CYW)

476 How many divisions do oil tankers have?

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 03, 2026 03:50 AM (1Usuo)

477 Do I get up, make coffee and look into this Venezuela action?
Posted by: Skip

It's not a School Night, little Skipper

Posted by: Auntie Miklos at January 03, 2026 03:50 AM (f/3mU)

478 I bought 10 pounds of $3.00 beef.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 03, 2026 03:51 AM (1Usuo)

479 You're killing me Skip.

Make coffee.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 03, 2026 03:52 AM (viF8m)

480 How those oil exports/imports going for Iran, Cuba, Russia. Group project.
Posted by: scampydog

Fuck my life

Posted by: Gray market oil trader at January 03, 2026 03:52 AM (f/3mU)

481 I bought 10 pounds of $3.00 beef.
Posted by: Boss Moss

......

Posted by: Ominous Narrator Voice at January 03, 2026 03:53 AM (f/3mU)

482 Can't these people speak English?

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 03, 2026 03:53 AM (1Usuo)

483 Fuck my life
Posted by: Gray market oil trader
-----------
Contango! Contango!

Posted by: scampydog at January 03, 2026 03:54 AM (41CYW)

484
A Chicom delegation was in Caracas for talks with Maduro, just landing yesterday. And that is when Big Don decides to hit.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 03, 2026 03:54 AM (w6EFb)

485 I have had better fireworks than Venezuelan air defenses.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 03, 2026 03:54 AM (1Usuo)

486 Food City.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 03, 2026 03:55 AM (1Usuo)

487 I wish President Trump didn't doit but here we are

Posted by: Skip at January 03, 2026 03:58 AM (Ia/+0)

488 Contango! Contango!
Posted by: scampydog

OK

Coffee is for closers

But they don't even have coffee in CUBA

I am so fukked

Posted by: Gray market oil trader at January 03, 2026 03:58 AM (f/3mU)

489 Visioner
@visionergeo
🇺🇲🇻🇪 In Venezuela’s capital, Caracas, a segment of the population is celebrating the start of U.S. strikes against the Maduro regime, despite the backdrop of explosions.

[admittedly it's just one guy, but he has style]
https://tinyurl.com/rmjja6tz

Posted by: Methos at January 03, 2026 03:58 AM (vSvIl)

490
Marco Rubio seen in nightclub earlier tonight:

https://is.gd/GrrGhA

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 03, 2026 03:58 AM (w6EFb)

491 A Chicom delegation was in Caracas for talks with Maduro, just landing yesterday. And that is when Big Don decides to hit.
-
I bet they'll have some stories to tell Xi when they get back.

Posted by: Methos at January 03, 2026 04:00 AM (vSvIl)

492 Fox brought in this cute young girl to host the news on vacation week when all the high priced talent is vacationing. And she's doing great.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 03, 2026 04:00 AM (viF8m)

493 Food City.
Posted by: Boss Moss

Commandate!

They looting ze Food City!

Posted by: bad Venezuelan version of Casa de Animales at January 03, 2026 04:00 AM (f/3mU)

494 TECH THREAD IS NOOD

Posted by: Skip at January 03, 2026 04:01 AM (Ia/+0)

495 nood!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at January 03, 2026 04:02 AM (Cjt/F)

496
390 Columbian President posts Columbia is under attack.
Posted by: Boss Moss at January 03, 2026 02:20 AM

------

For real, or is he doing lines and hallucinating?

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at January 03, 2026 04:02 AM (hZ1gu)

497 Marco Rubio seen in nightclub earlier tonight:

https://is.gd/GrrGhA
Posted by: publius

Prepping for the Cuban Victory Dance

Posted by: El Mikloso, who knws all to words to "Guantanamera" at January 03, 2026 04:03 AM (f/3mU)

498 So I'm calling it now, the Ukrainian flag in bio people will have Venezuellan flags by Noon tomorrow, based on the character of commentary I'm seeing.

Posted by: Methos at January 03, 2026 04:04 AM (vSvIl)

499 Columbian President posts Columbia is under attack.
Posted by: Boss Moss

I ain't heard nuthin'

Not even from Bubba and Bubba Jr

Last time they was shootin' at us was 1865

Posted by: El Mikloso, near Columbia Sakkaliner at January 03, 2026 04:07 AM (f/3mU)

Rescue Cafe

Nice woman rescues one dog, but then winds up with a bonus rescue dog who just invites himself into her house.

Horse thieves. Well, not thieves, but B&E repeat offenders.

Day two of my rigorous new exercise regime.

New climate hoax drops -- panda colony collapse!

When the public bathroom's door doesn't lock.

If you thought 2026 was the year bears would come back under control, you thought wrong.

Mud was made for children, strippers, and dogs.

After brief deliberation, he's all in.

First Friday of the year!

Posted by: Ace at 07:10 PM

Comments

(Jump to bottom of comments)

1 Hello.

Posted by: Case at January 02, 2026 07:13 PM (G1OIb)

2 First Friday!

Posted by: LASue at January 02, 2026 07:14 PM (mFhj8)

3 Yay! Friday night!

Posted by: rickb223 at January 02, 2026 07:14 PM (c115l)

4 Top five?

Posted by: Cheerful Reprobate at January 02, 2026 07:15 PM (8WtOr)

5 Step up to the bar because the drinks are on me. A new year and big things are happening.

Posted by: Ben Had at January 02, 2026 07:15 PM (sDNVV)

6 GWAR cover of "West End Girls", plus bonus "People Who Died":

https://tinyurl.com/ya9rxmnz

RIP Odorus.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at January 02, 2026 07:15 PM (kpS4V)

7 >>>Mud was made for children, strippers, and dogs.

I think you could have made your point better with strippers.

Posted by: No Name Today at January 02, 2026 07:17 PM (8mulE)

8 Dang, how often does this happen?

Posted by: Pod Hamp at January 02, 2026 07:17 PM (nH+RN)

9 Great dog rescue video

Posted by: LASue at January 02, 2026 07:17 PM (mFhj8)

10 The pandas are, as usual, hilarious.

Evolution was about the survival of the fattest, right?

Posted by: Paco at January 02, 2026 07:18 PM (2L+MU)

11 Step up to the bar because the drinks are on me. A new year and big things are happening.
Posted by: Ben Had

I'll have a Sass-pa-rilly and whiskey for my horse.

Posted by: Tonypete at January 02, 2026 07:19 PM (cYBz/)

12 Love Roadside the kitty.

Is there anything funnier than a big dog staring forlornly at the camera while a little kitten hogs his entire bed?

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at January 02, 2026 07:19 PM (kpS4V)

13 First work day of the year today and so far 2026 has been exhausting!

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at January 02, 2026 07:20 PM (U81Si)

14 6 GWAR cover of "West End Girls",

Sung to the same tune:

In Somali town with massive ,fraud,
Democrats don't think it's odd.
Massive fraud.

"How much do you need? "

Posted by: Cheerful Reprobate at January 02, 2026 07:22 PM (8WtOr)

15 Step up to the bar because the drinks are on me. A new year and big things are happening.
Posted by: Ben Had

I'll have a glass of milk...Er, in a dirty glass!

H/T: Bob Hope, The Road to Utopia

Posted by: Paco at January 02, 2026 07:23 PM (2L+MU)

16
Ch. Soyara's Grand Finale

September 23, 2015 - January 2, 2026

Rest well, our noble little gentleman, and wait for us.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 02, 2026 07:25 PM (tgvbd)

17 In re 15: actually, it was a glass of lemonade.

Posted by: Paco at January 02, 2026 07:26 PM (2L+MU)

18 This could be the harbinger of an horrible year, no Sea Stacks, nor Penguins so far in 2026.

Posted by: Need A Reason To Go On.... at January 02, 2026 07:27 PM (oftw2)

19 @13. I don't want to think about work. And when I go back I still don't want to think about it.

Posted by: Case at January 02, 2026 07:28 PM (G1OIb)

20 Sorry to hear the sad news, Hadrian.

Posted by: Felix, Stifel, and Floyd (My Cats) at January 02, 2026 07:30 PM (oftw2)

21 Love Roadside the kitty.

Is there anything funnier than a big dog staring forlornly at the camera while a little kitten hogs his entire bed?
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at January 02, 2026

***
She's a beauty. I'd have given her a better name than that.

Her behavior is eccentric, even for a cat -- she *wants * to be closed in her own room all night? I'd wonder if that injury might have affected her to a degree.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 02, 2026 07:33 PM (wzUl9)

22 Sorry to hear that, Hadrian. We had to put down our lLhasa Apso on the 17th. At age 20, he had a good run, but it was still difficult.

Posted by: Cheerful Reprobate at January 02, 2026 07:33 PM (8WtOr)

23 Hadrian, I am so sorry. He will live in my heart forever.

Posted by: Ben Had at January 02, 2026 07:34 PM (sDNVV)

24 Step up to the bar because the drinks are on me. A new year and big things are happening.
Posted by: Ben Had at January 02, 2026 07:15 PM (sDNVV)

Happy New Year, dear lady.

Is that Bibb and Tucker?

Posted by: Joe Kidd at January 02, 2026 07:34 PM (nbLIj)

25 Whole Lotta Rosie

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 02, 2026 07:34 PM (pkeXY)

26 My year began with a mini-road trip: I returned my Tecovas boots today. They were obviously well made. But even aside from their being one size too small, they were uncomfortably *heavy* on my feet. Boot Barn's nearby store had nothing. I have my eye on one of their house brand models, and will try a pair on tomorrow to check the fit before ordering and shipping it to the store.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 02, 2026 07:36 PM (wzUl9)

27 Joe Kidd, anything for you. Happy New Year.

Posted by: Ben Had at January 02, 2026 07:36 PM (sDNVV)

28 Ch. Soyara's Grand Finale

September 23, 2015 - January 2, 2026

Rest well, our noble little gentleman, and wait for us.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

😢

Posted by: rickb223 at January 02, 2026 07:37 PM (c115l)

29 Sorry to hear about your pup, Hadrian.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 02, 2026 07:38 PM (viF8m)

30 Sorry, Hadrian.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at January 02, 2026 07:39 PM (kpS4V)

31 Good evening, horde.

*cheers, Ben Had!

The world's air is crackling with stuff about to happen. Hope it ends up well.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at January 02, 2026 07:39 PM (h7ZuX)

32 See, that panda thing is why you never stop when you are driving up hill on a snowy road.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at January 02, 2026 07:41 PM (Cznub)

33 The moo. Is so bright it was like a spotlight as I went out to lock the gate.

I'm taking drink and smokes outside to continue the cafe.

Posted by: Ben Had at January 02, 2026 07:41 PM (sDNVV)

34 With my cats' passings, I've generally kept each one's ashes in a box or urn here. But for His Lordship Arizona the big red tabby part-Coon, who (I always thought) believed he should have been a bobcat, I scattered his ashes up in the mountains in CO near Winter Park.

Since then I've wondered if I did the right thing . . . but it seemed right at the time.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 02, 2026 07:41 PM (wzUl9)

35 Beautiful photographic image up top (THAT BETTER NOT BE "AI"!).

First thing that comes to mind:

"There are stars
In the Southern sky
Southward as you go
There is moonlight
And moss in the trees
Down the Seven Bridges Road"

Posted by: ShainS -- Make Lustration Great Again! at January 02, 2026 07:42 PM (QbCrG)

36 Dash, it's going to be good. Happy New Year, sweet lady.

Posted by: Ben Had at January 02, 2026 07:43 PM (sDNVV)

37 Rest well, our noble little gentleman, and wait for us.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 02, 2026 07:25 PM (tgvbd)

Aw, man. Condolences to you and Her Majesty, and the dogs.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at January 02, 2026 07:43 PM (h7ZuX)

38 I was just checking around , and it sure looks like all of the major media outlets are trying to downplay or ignore what’s happening in Iran. I can see why it terrifies them - it dumps half a dozen of their favorite narratives on their head.

The reason I believe the government will fall - they should have called out the army already. To me, this says that they no longer trust the army to carry out their orders.

Wild protest riots are now happening in over 70 cities. And the Iranian government appears paralyzed.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 02, 2026 07:46 PM (otNgF)

39 Rest well, our noble little gentleman, and wait for us.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 02, 2026

***
Amen. A good epitaph for anyone.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 02, 2026 07:47 PM (wzUl9)

40 Good evening everyone

Posted by: Skip at January 02, 2026 07:47 PM (Ia/+0)

41 It's hard to lose a pet. They are part of the family. I sympathize with anyone for their loss. Been there more than once myself.

Posted by: Case at January 02, 2026 07:48 PM (G1OIb)

42
33 The moo. Is so bright it was like a spotlight as I went out to lock the gate.”

I make so many typos that I should be the last to ever take note of one, but that’s particularly amusing.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 02, 2026 07:49 PM (otNgF)

43 100 million people are about to step out from under repression

Posted by: Ben Had at January 02, 2026 07:49 PM (sDNVV)

44
Hadrian,

It is with a heavy heart when we have to let them go.

Condolences to you and Her Majesty.

You both are amazing dog owners.

Posted by: fourseasons at January 02, 2026 07:50 PM (3ek7K)

45 The moo. Is so bright it was like a spotlight as I went out to lock the gate.”

I make so many typos that I should be the last to ever take note of one, but that’s particularly amusing.
Posted by: Tom Servo

It was so bright last night, I could see across the pasture. I got up around 5:30 and thought I had overslept.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 02, 2026 07:51 PM (c115l)

46 The moo. Is so bright it was like a spotlight as I went out to lock the gate.”

I make so many typos that I should be the last to ever take note of one, but that’s particularly amusing.
Posted by: Tom Servo at January 02, 2026 07:49 PM

🐄

*shifty eyes*

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at January 02, 2026 07:56 PM (Wnv9h)

47 Hey guys,

We finally have a launch. 53 minutes.

SpaceX - Falcon 9 - CSG-3
SLC-4E - Vandenberg SFB - Space Affairs Live
Launch Date: January 2, 2026 (PST)
Launch Time: 6:09 p.m. PST (January 3, 2026, 0209 UTC, 03:09 CET)

https://youtu.be/Jl2UBK2Q7hc

Posted by: Joyenz at January 02, 2026 07:57 PM (2F0/Y)

48 RMBS, are you feeling better?

Posted by: Ben Had at January 02, 2026 07:57 PM (sDNVV)

49
Joyenz,

I hope you had a better day.

Posted by: fourseasons at January 02, 2026 07:58 PM (3ek7K)

50 100 million people are about to step out from under repression
Posted by: Ben Had at January 02, 2026 07:49 PM (sDNVV)

Hopefully not with the leadership of an ex-corporal Army veteran who gives great speeches and has some interesting ideas.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at January 02, 2026 07:58 PM (Apzx6)

51 Read and watched: there were no comments! Now where am I?

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at January 02, 2026 07:59 PM (wWU6x)

52 Posted by: Cheerful Reprobate at January 02, 2026 07:33 PM (8WtOr)

Wow 20 years. That's pretty amazing. I know it didn't make it any easier.

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 02, 2026 07:59 PM (KDPiq)

53 It's hard to lose a pet. They are part of the family. I sympathize with anyone for their loss. Been there more than once myself.
Posted by: Case at January 02, 2026 07:48 PM (G1OIb)
-----
I am not looking forward to that day at all.

But I console myself with the thought that I've tried to give them the best life I possibly could.

They all seem very happy and healthy right now.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 02, 2026 08:01 PM (ESVrU)

54 The world's air is crackling with stuff about to happen. Hope it ends up well.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs!

I'm feeling optimistic that this will be a banner year in most all areas: The economy, continued decline of DEI and weirdo based politicians, and the rise of many normies whom previously felt beaten down and ignored.

Posted by: Tonypete at January 02, 2026 08:02 PM (cYBz/)

55 Well that seems wrong.

>>@Rightanglenews
·
1h
>>BREAKING - Journalists in Fulton County, Georgia, have uncovered a massive homeless ballot harvesting operation by Democrats where single addresses are being used to register thousands of homeless people to vote via a Soros backed NGO.

>>(Biden “won” Georgia by 11,000 votes.)

Posted by: JackStraw at January 02, 2026 08:02 PM (viF8m)

56
Some new shots from Andrew McCarthy.

The Elephant Trunk Nebula:
https://is.gd/9qEUpU

And the Helix Nebula, or the Eye in the Sky:
https://is.gd/i0FJbP

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 02, 2026 08:03 PM (w6EFb)

57 The reason I believe the government will fall - they should have called out the army already. To me, this says that they no longer trust the army to carry out their orders.

Wild protest riots are now happening in over 70 cities. And the Iranian government appears paralyzed.
Posted by: Tom Servo at January 02, 2026 07:46 PM (otNgF)
---
The mullahs are probably terrified that a Persian Ataturk might take over if given half a chance.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 02, 2026 08:03 PM (ESVrU)

58 ...a massive homeless ballot harvesting operation by Democrats where single addresses are being used to register thousands of homeless people to vote...

Gee, if only there were some way to detect that kind of thing.

* eyeroll *

Posted by: Oddbob at January 02, 2026 08:05 PM (3nLb4)

59 Aww, so sorry to hear that H7!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at January 02, 2026 08:06 PM (Cjt/F)

60 Gee, if only there were some way to detect that kind of thing.

* eyeroll *
Posted by: Oddbob at January 02, 2026 08:05 PM (3nLb4)

*reaches for 'RACIST!' stamp*

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 02, 2026 08:06 PM (zZu0s)

61 The moo. Is so bright it was like a spotlight as I went out to lock the gate.

Synethesia?

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at January 02, 2026 08:06 PM (wWU6x)

62
And this time, we've got a President not on the side of the mullahs.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 02, 2026 08:07 PM (w6EFb)

63 That would be if he said the bright moon smelled blue.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 02, 2026 08:07 PM (zZu0s)

64 The moo. Is so bright it was like a spotlight as I went out to lock the gate.
---
That's a-moooo-re!

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 02, 2026 08:07 PM (ESVrU)

65 I'm feeling optimistic that this will be a banner year in most all areas: The economy, continued decline of DEI and weirdo based politicians, and the rise of many normies whom previously felt beaten down and ignored.
Posted by: Tonypete at January 02, 2026 08:02 PM (cYBz/)
===============
This. I've been absolutely choking on the big black pill lately, but I am actively praying for this.

Posted by: Cheerful Reprobate at January 02, 2026 08:09 PM (8WtOr)

66 It’s a day before the full moon 🌕 (or moo 🐄, if you prefer).

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at January 02, 2026 08:09 PM (wWU6x)

67 Penguins pioneered collectivism, and enthusiastically enforce it's continuation thru the use of violent henchpenguins. Training is provided by the Big Penguin funded front group "Penguins Amalgamated Corporation" (PACO) at their secretive facility deep in the jungles of Argentina.

Posted by: Penguin Facts at January 02, 2026 08:09 PM (vFG9F)

68 Hello, Horde! 😊💕

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas - AoSHQ's at January 02, 2026 08:10 PM (SRRAx)

69 The moon hits your eye like a big pizza pie

Posted by: Skip at January 02, 2026 08:10 PM (Ia/+0)

70
I saw a headline on Daily Mail saying Trump has doubled his net worth since his reelection.

The assholes are going to try to tie Trump to the fraud.

Anything to make people stop looking at all the fraud.

Posted by: fourseasons at January 02, 2026 08:10 PM (3ek7K)

71 What we’ve seen of the governmental fraud is just the tip of the iceberg.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at January 02, 2026 08:12 PM (wWU6x)

72 Gee, if only there were some way to detect that kind of thing.

* eyeroll *
Posted by: Oddbob

Often tricks are used like illegal characters--spaces, dots, etc. monkeying around with inactive and active voting by the election officials, etc. to prevent these from being picked up by normal database queries.

And that goes for states like Wisconsin, AZ, etc. Every city is a fraud center for the Dems.

Posted by: whig at January 02, 2026 08:12 PM (WDjG6)

73
This is the Wolf Moo. Exact instant of full Moon will be at 5:02 AM EST (10:02 Z) It will transit for West Coast Morons pretty close to that exact full moo.

So, I guess we should moo at the Wolf Moo rather than howl?

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 02, 2026 08:12 PM (w6EFb)

74 I saw a headline on Daily Mail saying Trump has doubled his net worth since his reelection.

The assholes are going to try to tie Trump to the fraud.

Anything to make people stop looking at all the fraud.

Posted by: fourseasons

Ain't going to work. DM and other Murdoch properties are desperately screaming about Epstein and yet it really hasn't stuck to Trump.

Posted by: whig at January 02, 2026 08:13 PM (WDjG6)

75 "Journalists in Fulton County, Georgia, have uncovered a massive homeless ballot harvesting"

And it only took five years. I've seen sloths move faster.

Posted by: fd at January 02, 2026 08:13 PM (vFG9F)

76 Daily Mail isn't as bad as our Democrats Propaganda Ministry is

Posted by: Skip at January 02, 2026 08:14 PM (Ia/+0)

77 "Journalists in Fulton County, Georgia, have uncovered a massive homeless ballot harvesting"

And it only took five years. I've seen sloths move faster.
Posted by: fd at January 02, 2026 08:13 PM (vFG9F)
---
Somehow it's Trump's fault.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 02, 2026 08:14 PM (ESVrU)

78

Whig,

You are right. I hate the assholes who try to tie Trump to everything bad.

Posted by: fourseasons at January 02, 2026 08:14 PM (3ek7K)

79 Hearing a moo and seeing a bright light is definitely synesthesia. Besides, the moon is definitely Stilton.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at January 02, 2026 08:14 PM (wWU6x)

80 Gee, if only there were some way to detect that kind of thing.

* eyeroll *
Posted by: Oddbob at January 02, 2026 08:05 PM (3nLb4)

*reaches for 'RACIST!' stamp*
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 02, 2026 08:06 PM

What are we, chopped liver?

Posted by: Fascist, Homophobic, Islamophobic, & Sexist at January 02, 2026 08:15 PM (0sNs1)

81 Stocks and property holdings alone being up will boost President Trump probably

Posted by: Skip at January 02, 2026 08:15 PM (Ia/+0)

82 So, I guess we should moo at the Wolf Moo rather than howl?
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 02, 2026 08:12 PM (w6EFb)
=============
No. That would be udderly ridiculous.

Posted by: Cheerful Reprobate at January 02, 2026 08:17 PM (8WtOr)

83 It’s a day before the full moon 🌕 (or moo 🐄, if you prefer).
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at January 02, 2026 08:09 PM

The Wolf Moon. From the Frisian wolfmoanne.

Posted by: toby928(c) at January 02, 2026 08:17 PM (jc0TO)

84 so, dan crenshaw has decided to murder his career before he gets more out of hand

Posted by: n at January 02, 2026 08:18 PM (6mSUd)

85 Howdy morons!

Hadrian,
Please know I respect You, your faith and your dedication to your wife and your pups.

You really are inspirational in your humility. Thank you for being you.

Posted by: nurse ratched at January 02, 2026 08:18 PM (i2fv4)

86 Never blackpill. Be Al fucking Swearengen.

https://tinyurl.com/muur4862

Posted by: JackStraw at January 02, 2026 08:19 PM (viF8m)

87 so, dan crenshaw has decided to murder his career before he gets more out of hand

Gee, that's a shame. What'd he do now? I saw the thing about getting into a p*ssing match with a well-known (not to me but to those who follow such things) Youtuber.

Posted by: Oddbob at January 02, 2026 08:20 PM (3nLb4)

88 I'm in a death struggle with an AI Agent.

I wonder if this is how Neo felt?

Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 02, 2026 08:20 PM (XV/Pl)

89 I'm in a death struggle with an AI Agent.

I wonder if this is how Neo felt?
Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 02, 2026 08:20 PM

Charge the EMP.

Posted by: toby928(c) at January 02, 2026 08:21 PM (jc0TO)

90
Perihelion is tomorrow at 12:15PM EST (17:15 Z), so this Wolf Moon is occurring pretty close to that. Moon, pretty close just opposite the sun at perihelion.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 02, 2026 08:23 PM (w6EFb)

91 @89

>>Charge the EMP.

But that would take out everything.

I probably should learn KungFu.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 02, 2026 08:23 PM (XV/Pl)

92 Moooooooooo

Posted by: nurse ratched at January 02, 2026 08:23 PM (5ecWR)

93 🎼 When the moo 🐄🐄🐄 hits your eye like a big Pizza pie, that's amore....🎶🎵

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas - AoSHQ's at January 02, 2026 08:24 PM (SRRAx)

94 Gee, that's a shame. What'd he do now? I saw the thing about getting into a p*ssing match with a well-known (not to me but to those who follow such things) Youtuber.
Posted by: Oddbob

yeah, he threatened to sue a pidcaster with 5.5 milliion viewers. he was going to go to the podcasters show but then demanded special concessions to the release documents. then he did the same with another podcaster.

Posted by: n at January 02, 2026 08:25 PM (Iyd/F)

95 Happy evening! I took my tree down tonight, I am sad. I wanted to keep it up until Epiphany, but J leaves for Bulgaria tomorrow and I wasn’t dragging an 8 foot tree to the road solo.

Posted by: Piper at January 02, 2026 08:26 PM (Wmg4n)

96 Cheese you guys you butter not milk this or you will have to listen while ice cream.

Posted by: fd at January 02, 2026 08:26 PM (vFG9F)

97 I hope you had a better day.

Posted by: fourseasons at January 02, 2026 07:58 PM (3ek7K)

Thanks, it has been a lot better in the colitis area.

Posted by: Joyenz at January 02, 2026 08:27 PM (2F0/Y)

98 Apropos of nothing, I found out Musk's xAI center being constructed near Memphis (named Colossus of all things), will eventually require 2 Gigawatts of power.

The TVA can't supply that amount. Wattaya want to bet Musk develops small footprint nuclear powered for on site use.

Posted by: Tonypete at January 02, 2026 08:27 PM (cYBz/)

99 When people "discover" something that was widely known years ago, they must be either stupid or lying.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 02, 2026 08:28 PM (RIvkX)

100 Beginning to think Eyepatch McCain may not be on the up and up

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at January 02, 2026 08:29 PM (f0sNM)

101 Wife was takkng down Christmas stuff today

Posted by: Skip at January 02, 2026 08:29 PM (Ia/+0)

102 Whew, busy day.

Sorry about your doggeh, Hadrian.

Posted by: JQ at January 02, 2026 08:29 PM (rdVOm)

103 Beginning to think Eyepatch McCain may not be on the up and up
Posted by: Victo

he has something of a talent for unforced errors

Posted by: n at January 02, 2026 08:30 PM (Iyd/F)

104 They do work their way into our hearts, don't they?

I'm of an age where I've decided no more pets, even though I could really use the company.

The thought of leaving them orphaned and not understanding what happened and where I went, is just heartbreaking.

Not. Gonna. Do it.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 02, 2026 08:30 PM (IG3/x)

105
2026! Another of those years like 1989? w00t

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 02, 2026 08:30 PM (VfIDa)

106 I wonder why Musk has never taken on healthcare. Maybe going to Mars is easier than fixing the health care system.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at January 02, 2026 08:30 PM (f0sNM)

107 When my travelling days are over, I will get a rescue dog.

Posted by: No one at January 02, 2026 08:30 PM (qFwJc)

108 When my travelling days are over, I will get a rescue dog.

that is the only way to get a dog if you love dogs

Posted by: n at January 02, 2026 08:30 PM (Iyd/F)

109 Whig,

You are right. I hate the assholes who try to tie Trump to everything bad.

Posted by: fourseasons
======
First resort of a villain to justify their own bad deeds. Thieves think everyone else is a thief and just not honest about it. Pedoes, ditto, Boozers, Druggies, etc. ditto.

Posted by: whig at January 02, 2026 08:31 PM (WDjG6)

110 I will say this, coding agents are getting worse, It's almost as if they can longer maintain the plot and just go off on their own.

And apparently Microsoft is intent on using AI agents to convert the entire Microsoft codebase to Rust by 2030.

Which is complete f**king lunacy.

Rust has only been around for 13 years so the number of people who know the language is limited and why the f**k would you migrate from C/C++ anyway?

If I didn't have significant holding in Microsoft I'd say go for it and enjoy the crash.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 02, 2026 08:31 PM (XV/Pl)

111 99 When people "discover" something that was widely known years ago, they must be either stupid or lying.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 02, 2026 08:28 PM (RIvkX)

Kinda like the first time someone has kids (or sex, which leads to kids...) - all of a sudden they think they invented it or somethin' 😂😂😂

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas - AoSHQ's at January 02, 2026 08:31 PM (SRRAx)

112
Can you imagine if Kamala was president now? omg omg omg

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 02, 2026 08:31 PM (VfIDa)

113 93 🎼 When the moo 🐄🐄🐄 hits your eye like a big Pizza pie, that's amore....🎶🎵
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas - AoSHQ's

A cheese steak pizza. That sounds good.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at January 02, 2026 08:32 PM (FmapG)

114 "I wonder why Musk has never taken on healthcare. Maybe going to Mars is easier than fixing the health care system."

Indeed. Going to Mars is easy because you hire intelligent , educated, motivated people.

Healthcare is full of stupid, ignorant, lazy people.

Posted by: No one at January 02, 2026 08:32 PM (qFwJc)

115 So, I guess we should moo at the Wolf Moo rather than howl?
Posted by: publius

*furiously takes notes*

Posted by: Gary Larson at January 02, 2026 08:32 PM (gKWVE)

116 Rest well, our noble little gentleman, and wait for us.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 02, 2026 07:25 PM (tgvbd)
=====
Please accept my condolences.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 02, 2026 08:32 PM (RIvkX)

117 >>When people "discover" something that was widely known years ago, they must be either stupid or lying.

People know all kinds of stuff they can't prove.

Even Tom Cruise knows the difference between knowing and proving.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 02, 2026 08:32 PM (viF8m)

118 Moo moo hits your eye like a big pizza pie is "Amore"?

My relatives in ETEX would say "that's manure!"

Posted by: Cheerful Reprobate at January 02, 2026 08:33 PM (8WtOr)

119 Can you imagine if Kamala was president now? omg omg omg
Posted by: Blonde Morticia
-------

When I'm at wit's end, I remind myself: "At least that imbecile isn't president."

It could be SO VERY MUCH worse!

Posted by: JQ at January 02, 2026 08:33 PM (rdVOm)

120 During Full Moo, it looks like Gouda to me.

Posted by: Don't Really Give Edam, Though at January 02, 2026 08:34 PM (oftw2)

121 'Moo Moo' is my Cat's nickname-- he's all black n white-- Holstein patterned, ya know?

Posted by: JQ at January 02, 2026 08:35 PM (rdVOm)

122 g'night, everyone

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at January 02, 2026 08:35 PM (Cjt/F)

123
It's clouding over here, but the Wolf Moon is shining through some gaps here. It demands howling.

These Moon names come from white colonist oppressors culturally appropriating Injun names. And also imposing a logic and consistent framework for it. I prefer the seasonal, rather than calendar-month naming conventions. These are the 12 Moon names grouped by season, starting in Winter:

Wolf, Snow, Worm
Pink(Paschal), Flower, Strawberry
Buck, Sturgeon, Corn
Hunter's, Beaver, Cold

When a 13th rolls around during a tropical year, that's the Blue Moon, and which that is depends on the seasonal vs calendar convention. Also, the Corn or Hunter's becomes the Harvest Moon depending on which is closer to the Fall Equinox.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 02, 2026 08:36 PM (w6EFb)

124 The last time I looked at Rust, it required half a page of code to print "Hello, world!".

Yeah, no one's going to use that shite, except maybe masochists of the type who build working scale models of aircraft carriers out of matchsticks, in a bottle, with their toes, while blindfolded.

It's the kind of thing that appeals to pointy-haired bosses and theoretical computer scientists who've never had to actually ship working code.

Plus violent communist Steve Klabnik is one of the mucky-mucks, which in itself would make me give it a wide berth. Besides being a reprehensible human being, he has a long history of having the "Shit Midas" touch... everything he touches turns to shit.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 02, 2026 08:36 PM (IG3/x)

125 I wonder why Musk has never taken on healthcare. Maybe going to Mars is easier than fixing the health care system.
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at January 02, 2026 08:30 PM

We don't have millions of people demanding "free" tickets to Mars.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at January 02, 2026 08:36 PM (Apzx6)

126 What’s the difference between a pidcaster and a podcaster?

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at January 02, 2026 08:36 PM (wWU6x)

127
Oh, the eagles they fly high in Mobile.
Oh, the eagles they fly high in Mobile.
Oh, the eagles they fly high,
and they sh*t right in your eye!
Aren't you glad that cows don't fly in Mobile?

Posted by: J. Random Rugger at January 02, 2026 08:37 PM (0sNs1)

128 I don't think Trump would ever be in to any fraud of the country. In fact the man gives his time and money to the country. He is the opposite of the many crooks that rip off our country. Anyone trying to say he is a crook needs to prove their allegations or f*ck off. They may not like him but he is a good man.

Posted by: Case at January 02, 2026 08:37 PM (G1OIb)

129 Full moo, LOL:

https://youtu.be/LplPi2CxNHI

Posted by: JQ at January 02, 2026 08:37 PM (rdVOm)

130 I had a rescue dog before. She loved me so much.

Posted by: No one at January 02, 2026 08:38 PM (qFwJc)

131 106 I wonder why Musk has never taken on healthcare. Maybe going to Mars is easier than fixing the health care system.
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo
======
Musk is not the best at dealing with people.

Health care is so expensive because it is mainly composed of masses of people, employees and consumers, and it constitutes something like 17-18 percent of the US GDP as a result.

The problem with fixing the medical system is that everyone in the US uses it or will use it and that makes it very resistant to easy fixes quickly.

Posted by: whig at January 02, 2026 08:40 PM (WDjG6)

132 When I count my blessings, I think about where we would be if Hillary had won. Probably still in fallout shelters, those who still lived.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at January 02, 2026 08:40 PM (wWU6x)

133 The Chaka Khan sidebar reminded me that, while I am not so enamored of gay dudes saying "Chaka Khan" over and over, I do have fond memories of her music. Especially "You Got The Love," which was my favorite cranking-up-the-bass song until I ran across the live version of Little Feat's "Spanish Moon" on Waiting for Columbus.

Listening to "You Got The Love" again, it seems like a perfect encapsulation of something...maybe a 70's funk-soul vibe, and a reminder that the singers back then were really good, because there was so little technology to make bad singers sound good. Chaka Khan's voice is beautiful, smooth and powerful, top tier.

Posted by: Splunge at January 02, 2026 08:40 PM (7DKa5)

134 What’s the difference between a pidcaster and a podcaster?
Posted by: Ne

that was a typing error

Posted by: n at January 02, 2026 08:41 PM (Iyd/F)

135 Where is Mr. Moo Moo?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 02, 2026 08:41 PM (pkeXY)

136 126 What’s the difference between a pidcaster and a podcaster?
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at January 02, 2026 08:36 PM (wWU6x)

$20, same as in town....

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas - AoSHQ's at January 02, 2026 08:41 PM (SRRAx)

137 Plus violent communist Steve Klabnik is one of the mucky-mucks, which in itself would make me give it a wide berth. Besides being a reprehensible human being, he has a long history of having the "Shit Midas" touch... everything he touches turns to shit.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia
=======
Rust programming is being inserted into the kernel now in Linux. Might want to consider BSD as I don't think they have done that yet.

Posted by: whig at January 02, 2026 08:41 PM (WDjG6)

138 If pigs could fly, more people would wear hats.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at January 02, 2026 08:42 PM (wWU6x)

139 Pudcaster

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 02, 2026 08:42 PM (pkeXY)

140 @124

>>The last time I looked at Rust, it required half a page of code to print "Hello, world!".

People are also pimping Zig, and Go.

I don't want to sound like an old fart, but C/C++ are the only language to program in, or C/C++ derivative languages like Swift for building mission critical applications or apps.

Although I am starting to fall in love with Python, hard.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 02, 2026 08:42 PM (XV/Pl)

141 I used to look at people with children and think they look too young to have kids.

Now I look at them and think "I want grandchildren."

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 02, 2026 08:44 PM (RIvkX)

142 They may not like him but he is a good man.
Posted by: Case

The point is that the Left cannot have Trump be a good man. It literally destroys their entire ideological world based on Orangeman Bad and it makes them explicitly the baddies for what they've done to him and his family (and us by extension).

They can't have the Right be good either because that would mean they are evil themselves as well. That is why they sling the Fascist, Not See, racist, homophobic, and other epithets. It is so they don't see people on the Right as human and thus can kill them, imprison them, maim them, etc. and still think of themselves as 'good'.

Posted by: whig at January 02, 2026 08:44 PM (WDjG6)

143 Sad before, Leftists are by nature crooks so they assume everyone is

Posted by: Skip at January 02, 2026 08:45 PM (Ia/+0)

144 106 I wonder why Musk has never taken on healthcare. Maybe going to Mars is easier than fixing the health care system.
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at January 02, 2026 08:30 PM (f0sNM)

Musk operates where he can have a large effect with his efforts. Health Care is so filled with special interest money that it is nearly impossible to get anything done, unless it benefits those who are already benefiting. That's why Obamacare basically amounted to "OK, insurance companies, you guys design something" and insurance turned to absolute unaffordable shite.

It's considered normal now to pay up to $1,000 per person per month for insurance that will almost never pay you a dime, because the deductible is so high. It's like paradise for health insurers.

Posted by: Splunge at January 02, 2026 08:45 PM (7DKa5)

145

Brother in law has Glloblastoma. He has had surgery and chemo and nothing is working.

His wife keeps dragging him to doctors and they tell her nothing can be done.

Chris has said he is tired and wants to go home and die in his bed.

I understand how difficult it is for family to realize the end is near.

This is tearing our family apart.

Sorry, I had to vent.

Posted by: fourseasons at January 02, 2026 08:45 PM (3ek7K)

146 119 Can you imagine if Kamala was president now? omg omg omg
Posted by: Blonde Morticia
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Get back, get back, back to the gulag where you belong.
get back

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 02, 2026 08:45 PM (R0Fqj)

147 135 Where is Mr. Moo Moo?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot
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Grazing in a field of f*cks.

Posted by: whig at January 02, 2026 08:45 PM (WDjG6)

148 Go is not all that bad. Swift is fun.

I still like Ruby (not, repeat not, Rails), though it seems to have fallen out of fashion.

Python...eludes my affection. Giving semantic meaning to whitespace just grinds my gears. I fully understand that it doesn't bother others.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 02, 2026 08:45 PM (IG3/x)

149
Seattle's new commie mayor was sworn in, and vowed to support Somali daycare fraud.

Her father says he hopes her new mayor salary of $250K will mean he won't have to keep her up anymore.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 02, 2026 08:47 PM (w6EFb)

150 To the end of my career I programmed in Fortran. It worked for me.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at January 02, 2026 08:48 PM (wWU6x)

151 That's a-moo-re

Thanks you're a great crowd

Posted by: Don Black at January 02, 2026 08:49 PM (ZxPkt)

152 Rust has only been around for 13 years so the number of people who know the language is limited and why the f**k would you migrate from C/C++ anyway?

If I didn't have significant holding in Microsoft I'd say go for it and enjoy the crash.
Posted by: Thomas Bender

Phoronix (Daily Linux discussion forum plus reviews) has featured this debate for a long while.

And it has a generational divide where older programmers know and like C and its derivatives, the younger ones coming out of code mills and comp sci programs avoided C and learned Rust and Python. So the yutes want the codebases to reflect their experience with Rust/Python etc. if they are going to contribute to Linux projects rather than having to maintain the older C code base which they know little about.

Posted by: whig at January 02, 2026 08:50 PM (WDjG6)

153 I'm so sorry about Finn Hadrian. My condolences.

Posted by: Tuna at January 02, 2026 08:50 PM (lJ0H4)

154 If in a year the regimes in Havana, Caracas, and Tehran are gone, the world will be on an altered trajectory.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 02, 2026 08:50 PM (RIvkX)

155 Seattle used to be a nice place, except the weather. Scandinavian vibe, nice people, a bit reticent.

Minnesota used to be a nice place, except the weather. Scandinavian vibe, nice people.

Maine used to be a nice place, except the weather. Old School New Englander vibe, nice people, a bit reticent.

It seems as though the thieving Somalians were shoved down the throats of the cultures that were too polite to complain.

Posted by: Splunge at January 02, 2026 08:50 PM (7DKa5)

156 @148

>>Python...eludes my affection. Giving semantic meaning to whitespace just grinds my gears. I fully understand that it doesn't bother others.

You can do some powerful sh*t with a couple of commands and libraries, I'm using Python and Streamlit for all of the graphing functionality in my ERP and Textual for all of the TUI's.

In fact, C++ with Python is just off the rails powerful.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 02, 2026 08:51 PM (XV/Pl)

157 108 When my travelling days are over, I will get a rescue dog.

that is the only way to get a dog if you love dogs
Posted by: n at January 02, 2026

I am obviously very supportive of rescue dogs, but no, this is not the only way to get a dog if you love dogs. If you have a specific need, or you want to be sure of getting the right personality for your family, buying from an ethical (and I really do mean ethical, see H7 for context) is fine. My Shiba is a rescue, and he happens to have some good (titled) blood lines, but only by the grace of God. He comes from a puppy mill situation and was bought at a breeders auction for me specifically to save him from that life. Even with those lines, he is hardly ethically bred, because ethical breeders are not selling to back yard breeders. I adore him, to the point of obnoxious. But he is a hard breed made more difficult by his background. He is not the dog for everyone. My Doberman was from an ethical breeder who had retained her for his program, but decided she wasn’t quite it girl enough, so she got to be my pet. We did get working titles with her, she still got to do her job. My cats are also from ethical breeders. I love them all.

Posted by: Piper at January 02, 2026 08:51 PM (Wmg4n)

158 The problem with fixing the medical system is that everyone in the US uses it or will use it and that makes it very resistant to easy fixes quickly.
Posted by: whig at January 02, 2026 08:40 PM (WDjG6)

It's also as rife with corruption as the daycare and home healthcare/assisted living systems. And the universities. And...

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at January 02, 2026 08:51 PM (h7ZuX)

159 Looking up Reza Pahlavi’s write-up on Wikipedia, it seems the Persians could do worse (and are doing worse, under the Mullahs). Here’s to a secular Iran under a new government!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at January 02, 2026 08:51 PM (wWU6x)

160 fourseasons, that is tough and horrible. May Chris and your SiL.find peace .

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at January 02, 2026 08:51 PM (ytIDq)

161 150 To the end of my career I programmed in Fortran. It worked for me.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit
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Still works and updated compilers for it are still available because a lot of scientific computing functions rely on Fortran to this day. GNU's gfortran is a Fortran variant that a lot of Linux distros depend upon for certain math functions.

Posted by: whig at January 02, 2026 08:52 PM (WDjG6)

162 Posted by: fourseasons at January 02, 2026 08:45 PM (3ek7K)

I will make a prayer for his complete and immediate recovery.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 02, 2026 08:52 PM (RIvkX)

163 149
'Seattle's new commie mayor was sworn in, and vowed to support Somali daycare fraud.'

Seattle should swear in an actual child.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at January 02, 2026 08:54 PM (fd80v)

164 Now I look at them and think "I want grandchildren."

Jen fulwiler, converted from Atheist to Catholic. Her baptism MiL was like "Okay, were going to get grandchildren."

Posted by: No one at January 02, 2026 08:55 PM (qFwJc)

165 I am so sorry, fourseasons. It’s not fair. I will definitely hold you and your family in my prayers.

Posted by: Piper at January 02, 2026 08:56 PM (Wmg4n)

166 It's also as rife with corruption as the daycare and home healthcare/assisted living systems. And the universities. And...
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs!

Healthcare though is literally a life and death situation for people versus universities, daycare, etc. Makes it harder to change and fix. And fixing universities, daycare, and K12 education is hard enough. Loss avoidance preference means in order to get to a new health system, people have to be persuaded it is better for them than the old system.

That is why Brits are still saddled with 40's era NHS because even the Conservatives there simply cannot get their voters to agree to end it in favor of something that works.

That is why fiscons wanting to kill Soc. Security and other safety net programs simply have never gotten any traction. Telling people you will lose what you have and whatever meager safety, and not get anything to replace it is a very hard sell.

Posted by: whig at January 02, 2026 08:56 PM (WDjG6)

167 The problem with fixing the medical system is that everyone in the US uses it or will use it and that makes it very resistant to easy fixes quickly.
Posted by: whig at January 02, 2026 08:40 PM (WDjG6)

Plus, no one in politics likes to get caught admitting that health care must be limited somehow, and yet since demand is theoretically infinite, it has to limited before it sucks an entire nation’s economy down into a pit with it. (Which is kind of what happened with the UK and Canada. ). And if you don’t put limits on at the front end then you end up like Canada, killing patients at the back end because it’s all you can afford to do.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 02, 2026 08:57 PM (otNgF)

168 fourseasons quite understandable

Posted by: Skip at January 02, 2026 08:57 PM (Ia/+0)

169 Her father says he hopes her new mayor salary of $250K will mean he won't have to keep her up anymore.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 02, 2026 08:47 PM (w6EFb)

===

Dear Dad, congratulations on doing such a good job raising your dependent to remain dependent.

Thumbs up,
Franpsycho

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 02, 2026 08:57 PM (RIvkX)

170 @142. Post by whig.

You are so right. Only fools fool themselves.

Posted by: Case at January 02, 2026 08:57 PM (G1OIb)

171
fourseasons, I'm so sorry. It's so hard for us to let go of hope when our loved ones possess even a spark of life.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 02, 2026 08:58 PM (VfIDa)

172 154 If in a year the regimes in Havana, Caracas, and Tehran are gone, the world will be on an altered trajectory.

Posted by: San Franpsycho
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Next up, able bodied persons who are paid not to work.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 02, 2026 08:58 PM (R0Fqj)

173
Mary,

Thank you. Nothing can be done for Chris and in his state he realizes that.

It's so difficult to let people go. Most of us have been there.

I'm sorry I brought this situation up.

Hubby and I don't want to linger to assuge family's feeling of guilt.

Posted by: fourseasons at January 02, 2026 08:58 PM (3ek7K)

174 Indeed. Going to Mars is easy because you hire intelligent , educated, motivated people.

Healthcare is full of stupid, ignorant, lazy people.

Posted by: No one at January 02, 2026 08:32 PM (qFwJc)

The Mrs went to the hospital to have blood drawn for two different tests today. She nicked the tip of her forefinger before. Two blood draw places, one doctors office in a hospital and not a single bandade amongst them.

Posted by: javems at January 02, 2026 08:58 PM (E7bcI)

175 To the end of my career I programmed in Fortran. It worked for me.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit

And COBOL too along with IMS DB work. When I left Monster International Financial Services Firm they still had huge backend applications running with them. Mostly in overnight international wire transfers and transaction processing. That shit was bulletproof.

Posted by: Tonypete at January 02, 2026 08:59 PM (cYBz/)

176 141 I used to look at people with children and think they look too young to have kids.

Now I look at them and think "I want grandchildren."
Posted by: San Franpsycho at

I’m right there with you.

Posted by: nurse ratched at January 02, 2026 08:59 PM (IhIKR)

177 I am sorry about Finn, Hadrian. Man do these furry creatures take over our hearts.

Posted by: Piper at January 02, 2026 09:00 PM (Wmg4n)

178 We don't have millions of people demanding "free" tickets to Mars.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at January 02, 2026 08:36 PM (Apzx6)
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It's overrated. Trust me.

Posted by: John Carter of Mars at January 02, 2026 09:01 PM (ESVrU)

179 Prayers up, four seasons.

Posted by: Cheerful Reprobate at January 02, 2026 09:01 PM (8WtOr)

180 And COBOL too along with IMS DB work. When I left Monster International Financial Services Firm they still had huge backend applications running with them. Mostly in overnight international wire transfers and transaction processing. That shit was bulletproof.
Posted by: Tonypete
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Stable and tested code has a value beyond rubies. NASA back in the day when they seriously took manned space flight used to freeze changes at a certain point before a flight because the software and hardware that they had which was tested was better than some presumptive new software or hardware that was 'better' that might have fatal glitches in it.

Posted by: whig at January 02, 2026 09:01 PM (WDjG6)

181 If congress received the same healthcare we do
they would do a much better job correcting the system.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 02, 2026 09:02 PM (R0Fqj)

182 Life isn’t fair.

God never said it would be. Quite the contrary.

I read so many folks whining about taking care of their aging parents. Blow it out your ass. My
Mom died when I was 24. Dad checked out before that.

I would love to have the chance to take care of my
Mom.

Posted by: nurse ratched at January 02, 2026 09:03 PM (IhIKR)

183 You ended your career on Fortran?

Did you work on "Colossus, the Forbin Project?"

Posted by: No one at January 02, 2026 09:05 PM (qFwJc)

184 The point is that the Left cannot have Trump be a good man. It literally destroys their entire ideological world based on Orangeman Bad and it makes them explicitly the baddies for what they've done to him and his family (and us by extension).

They can't have the Right be good either because that would mean they are evil themselves as well. That is why they sling the Fascist, Not See, racist, homophobic, and other epithets. It is so they don't see people on the Right as human and thus can kill them, imprison them, maim them, etc. and still think of themselves as 'good'.
Posted by: whig at January 02, 2026 08:44 PM (WDjG6)
And yes, just as the Nazis dehumanized Jews, the left (real nazis) dehumanize every non-lefty. And Jews will be back on trains. We’ll be right along with them if we all don’t fix this shit now.

Posted by: Eromero at January 02, 2026 09:05 PM (LHPAg)

185 Is the top pic Glastonbury?

Posted by: davidt at January 02, 2026 09:06 PM (Q+gd/)

186 Telling people you will lose what you have and whatever meager safety, and not get anything to replace it is a very hard sell.
Posted by: whig at January 02, 2026 08:56 PM (WDjG6)

Definitely. And I can see some of what's wrong with it, but I'm just not smart enough to devise what would be better.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at January 02, 2026 09:06 PM (h7ZuX)

187 Fourseasons -- that is an incredibly difficult situation. Prayers up for all of you.

Hadrian, I am so sorry to hear about Finn. He had the best life with you and Her Majesty.

Posted by: TecumsehTea at January 02, 2026 09:06 PM (nz1sK)

188 Giving semantic meaning to whitespace just grinds my gears

"Hey, I have a great idea, let's make one missed keystroke into a hard-to-find semantic error. It'll be great."
-- Millennial who has never had to deal with make(1)

Posted by: Oddbob at January 02, 2026 09:07 PM (3nLb4)

189 Two blood draw places, one doctors office in a hospital and not a single bandade amongst them.
Posted by: javems at January 02, 2026 08:58 PM (E7bcI)

They didn't have bandages in stock, or they did such a great job that she didn't need one?

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas - AoSHQ's at January 02, 2026 09:08 PM (SRRAx)

190 We all have different lives. My mom and dad died and the same convalescent home years apart. No trouble at all. My wife had chronic-progressive MS. It was horrible. But I did my duty.

We are stronger than we know.

Posted by: No one at January 02, 2026 09:08 PM (qFwJc)

191
Grandchildren rock. We have four 11 to 4 years old.

They are a blessing from God.

We have a long hall in the middle of our house and the grandchildren bring their skates and skate away here.

We're not fussy grandparents. Our thing is as long as they don't get hurt We're good to go.

Posted by: fourseasons at January 02, 2026 09:10 PM (3ek7K)

192 Definitely. And I can see some of what's wrong with it, but I'm just not smart enough to devise what would be better.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs!
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I think it will have to be something like how they build a new bridge next to the old bridge so they can eventually knock down the old bridge without stopping traffic flowing until the new bridge is ready.

Posted by: whig at January 02, 2026 09:10 PM (WDjG6)

193 I better call it a night
Have a good night everyone

Posted by: Skip at January 02, 2026 09:11 PM (Ia/+0)

194 The "warmth of Socialism" reminds me of ovens.

Posted by: No one at January 02, 2026 09:11 PM (qFwJc)

195 Sorry Hadrian, furry babies and their humans have a relationship that is always difficult to end. Dogs often grieve for their departed masters just like we grieve when we lose them in time.

Posted by: whig at January 02, 2026 09:11 PM (WDjG6)

196
186 Telling people you will lose what you have and whatever meager safety, and not get anything to replace it is a very hard sell.
Posted by: whig at January 02, 2026 08:56 PM (WDjG6)

Definitely. And I can see some of what's wrong with it, but I'm just not smart enough to devise what would be better.”

Unresolvable problems build up over a time in any organized society and eventually overwhelm the system. Which is probably why all human systems have to go through a complete crash and reboot every few generations.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 02, 2026 09:12 PM (otNgF)

197 Rocket Man!

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at January 02, 2026 09:12 PM (kpS4V)

198 They didn't have bandages in stock, or they did such a great job that she didn't need one?

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas - AoSHQ's at January 02, 2026 09:08 PM (SRRAx)

The nick was at the tip of her forefinger and was too little for a bandage. It did bleed.

Posted by: javems at January 02, 2026 09:13 PM (E7bcI)

199 And the Jacobins will always start with cutting off heads.

Posted by: No one at January 02, 2026 09:14 PM (qFwJc)

200 Hadrian, condolences on the loss of Finn.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at January 02, 2026 09:14 PM (ytIDq)

201 Is was my privilege to be able to care for my Mom for a time. I have to admit, it was mentally challenging for me to bathe her though. She thought it funny - "What's the problem Hon, you've seen lots of those!" And then she'd laugh.

Yeah, but not yours.

When she died, her face relaxed into a look that was exactly like it did in a picture I had of her when she was in her twenties. It was the damnest thing.

Posted by: Tonypete at January 02, 2026 09:15 PM (cYBz/)

202 Healthcare has been corrupted by the Insurance, Corporate, Government Corruption Complex.

When aids hit, insurance companies told Reagan that unless something was done they would go bankrupt and No One (hysterically reported by the media) would have insurance. [surely, Fauci and the butt sniffer were in the helpful mix].

Insurance went from an affordable quality policy to IPsomethings and HMO's.

(yes, I know Kennedy had already written them into law but no one was buying until the alternative was taken away.)

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 02, 2026 09:15 PM (R0Fqj)

203 I ethically bred two wonderful children, who have blessed me with 7 grandchildren. 3 were "rescues", fostered by my son and DIL, then adopted. I had lunch with 5 grands and son and DIL today at Texas Roadhouse. They are a fun bunch.

Posted by: Old Man Adams at January 02, 2026 09:17 PM (oftw2)

204
FORTRAN is still going strong, latest standard Fortran 2023, and it is still the Lingua Franca of serious scientific computing.

FORTRAN code will get us to Mars.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 02, 2026 09:18 PM (w6EFb)

205
Intel's Fortran (and C/C++) compiler suite is free now, integrates with Visual Studio.

Fortran now ain't nothing like Fortran 77, which I learned to program in at cow collidge.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 02, 2026 09:19 PM (w6EFb)

206 Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 02, 2026 09:15 PM (R0Fqj)

All you need to know about big pharma and healthcare, is look at how the supposedly healthy levels of sugar for diabetes, and Cholesterol levels, have dropped...

Not due to real science, but due to how many people they can get on perpetual medications.

Posted by: Romeo13 at January 02, 2026 09:21 PM (mP0Kj)

207
Grok says Elon and SpaceX mostly use C/C++ for their systems, but they will be heavily relying on NASA/JPL Fortran code as well.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 02, 2026 09:22 PM (w6EFb)

208 Is the top pic Glastonbury?
Posted by: davidt
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Hmm. Not sure, though that looks like the Tor. I have a story about slogging through the sheep-soiled field(s) on a cold dark night and climbing to the tower. There may have been a pub associated earlier....

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 02, 2026 09:24 PM (XeU6L)

209 I learn something everyday around here "and it is still the Lingua Franca of serious scientific computing."

Wow. I thought C replaced it in the early 80s.

Posted by: No one at January 02, 2026 09:25 PM (qFwJc)

210 207
Grok says Elon and SpaceX mostly use C/C++ for their systems, but they will be heavily relying on NASA/JPL Fortran code as well.
Posted by: publius
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No one discusses Ada anymore.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 02, 2026 09:26 PM (XeU6L)

211 Spacex Launch was epic in the full moon! Could see booster separation easily.

Posted by: DBCooper at January 02, 2026 09:26 PM (aQNOn)

212 With the new year, I am starting over in reading the Bible. In Matthew 2:16, the KJV translation fails in that it says Herod had his men kill all the children, age two years and under, in Bethlehem, trying to kill the toddler Jesus (safe in Egypt with Joseph and Mary). I knew that was wrong so checked the Koine for this passage, and yes, Herod had all the baby boys killed. All translations lie on some level. Traduire, c’est trahir, the French say: to translate is to perform treason.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at January 02, 2026 09:26 PM (wWU6x)

213 Hmm. Not sure, though that looks like the Tor. I have a story about slogging through the sheep-soiled field(s) on a cold dark night and climbing to the tower. There may have been a pub associated earlier....
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 02, 2026 09:24 PM (XeU6L)
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Were you captured by the Sidhe and confined to one of their faerie mounds for a hundred years?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 02, 2026 09:26 PM (ESVrU)

214 OH, my...

Somali Woman in US says Elon Musk will soon die.

Elon replies, OK, then, it's war.

War against one of the wealthiest Men in the World.

/Pops popcorn

Posted by: Romeo13 at January 02, 2026 09:27 PM (mP0Kj)

215 So, Is Maduro searching the special ed schools for idiots that want to ride on boats?

Posted by: No one at January 02, 2026 09:28 PM (qFwJc)

216 God never said it would be. Quite the contrary.
---------

We were never promised smooth sailing, only a safe landing.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 02, 2026 09:30 PM (XeU6L)

217 Southern Somalia is an excellent spot to launch rockets into orbit.
And I think "Muskestan" actually works as a word in Persian.

Posted by: gKWVE at January 02, 2026 09:30 PM (gKWVE)

218 212 With the new year, I am starting over in reading the Bible. In Matthew 2:16, the KJV translation fails in that it says Herod had his men kill all the children, age two years and under, in Bethlehem, trying to kill the toddler Jesus (safe in Egypt with Joseph and Mary). I knew that was wrong so checked the Koine for this passage, and yes, Herod had all the baby boys killed. All translations lie on some level. Traduire, c’est trahir, the French say: to translate is to perform treason.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at January 02, 2026 09:26 PM (wWU6x)

Thou shalt not kill... when the original is thou shall not commit murder... YUGE...

Thou shall not suffer a witch to live... vice.. thou shall not allow an evil practitioner of Magic to live.. especially as Soloman was said to be one of the greatest Sorcerers who ever lived... commanded the Jinn...

Posted by: Romeo13 at January 02, 2026 09:30 PM (mP0Kj)

219 I am obviously very supportive of rescue dogs, but no, this is not the only way to get a dog if you love dogs. If you have a specific need, or you want to be sure of getting the right personality for your family, buying from an ethical (and I really do mean ethical, see H7 for context) is fine. My Shiba is a rescue, and he happens to have some good (titled) blood lines, but only by the grace of God. He comes from a puppy mill situation and was bought at a breeders auction for me specifically to save him from that life. Even with those lines, he is hardly ethically bred, because ethical breeders are not selling to back yard breeders. I adore him, to the point of obnoxious. But he is a hard breed made more difficult by his background. He is not the dog for everyone. My Doberman was from an ethical breeder who had retained her for his program, but decided she wasn’t quite it girl enough, so she got to be my pet.
Posted by: Piper

yeah, you're wrong, there's no good reason to be breeding so many dogs when so many are abused, murdered in shelters. breeding is stupid, selfish

Posted by: n at January 02, 2026 09:31 PM (vuem7)

220 . She thought it funny - "What's the problem Hon, you've seen lots of those!" And then she'd laugh.

Yeah, but not yours.
==================
Heh. Reminds me of a conversation I had with a buddy after we drove through his hometown:

"Hey Jerry, we saw where you came from!!"

"She showed you that? "

Posted by: Cheerful Reprobate at January 02, 2026 09:31 PM (8WtOr)

221
I learn something everyday around here "and it is still the Lingua Franca of serious scientific computing."
Wow. I thought C replaced it in the early 80s.
Posted by: No one

Nope. The code we use to model lethal effects on the ground after a hit is 100% fortran. F77 to be exact.

We are using c/c++ for the medium fidelity work to get to the hit with the target.

Python and matlab for reducing the output results for analysis.

Posted by: BifBewalski - at January 02, 2026 09:32 PM (QVmho)

222 Were you captured by the Sidhe and confined to one of their faerie mounds for a hundred years?
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel
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Yeats:

Where dips the rocky highland
Of Sleuth Wood in the lake,
There lies a leafy island
Where flapping herons wake
The drowsy water rats;
There we've hid our faery vats,
Full of berrys
And of reddest stolen cherries.
Come away, O human child!
To the waters and the wild
With a faery, hand in hand,
For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 02, 2026 09:32 PM (XeU6L)

223 My late wife and I cared for her mother in her last years (my wife did the hardest tasks but I lent a hand when physical strength was needed, or just cleaned out the potty). Unlike the proverbial mother-in-law, she and I got on well. I was really sorry to see her go. She is in Heaven now, and hanging out with her daughter. I will see them again some bright and sunny day. I just want to keep going until all the cats have passed.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at January 02, 2026 09:34 PM (wWU6x)

224 Pro tip: KJV says "peace on earth, goodwill to men."

Douay-Rheims says Peace on earth to men of goodwill."

Stick to a Catholic Bible.

Posted by: No one at January 02, 2026 09:35 PM (qFwJc)

225 214 OH, my...

Somali Woman in US says Elon Musk will soon die.

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Remind me again about the all the value that Somalians bring to American culture.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at January 02, 2026 09:36 PM (JkO4W)

226 Python and matlab for reducing the output results for analysis.
Posted by: BifBewalski
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*?*

Surely Excel would do for this, no? I mean...it's Microsoft !

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 02, 2026 09:36 PM (XeU6L)

227 >> Wow. I thought C replaced it in the early 80s.

There was a big effort to port a lot of stuff into C when I was still in school, late '80s. I remember Numerical Recipes came out with C versions of the all the basic Fortran stuff.

It was done sort of in parallel. C cloning of Fortran code, but not replacement.

Fortran has evolved, lots of stuff for parallel computing and all that, but F77 will still work. Again, see Intel's latest FORTRAN compiler -- F77 code will still compile (mostly).

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 02, 2026 09:36 PM (w6EFb)

228 Where dips the rocky highland
Of Sleuth Wood in the lake,
There lies a leafy island
Where flapping herons wake
The drowsy water rats;
There we've hid our faery vats,
Full of berrys
And of reddest stolen cherries.
Come away, O human child!
To the waters and the wild
With a faery, hand in hand,
For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 02, 2026 09:32 PM (XeU6L)
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Child-stealing bastards...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 02, 2026 09:37 PM (ESVrU)

229 DBCooper!

Howdy handsome!

How you? Hope the desert is treating you well.

Posted by: nurse ratched at January 02, 2026 09:43 PM (IhIKR)

230 > Somali Woman in US says Elon Musk will soon die.
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Well, we will all die, sooner or later. But the implied threat suggests, to me, that this Somali woman will likely die before Musk.

Naturally, or otherwise.

And nobody will give a shit either way.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 02, 2026 09:43 PM (NwnyJ)

231 Caregiving for a loved one is tough. I've been blessed to care for Grandparents and my difficult, mentally-ill MiL. It was challenging, and not for everyone. But I have no regrets.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at January 02, 2026 09:43 PM (ytIDq)

232
According to Grok's summary, C/C++ is used for flight control software, what the spacecraft and orbiters and rovers run, but the heavy, serious stuff like astrodynamics and relativistic solar system ephemeris for navigation and trajectory, and serious stuff like aerodynamic calculations for entry and reentry and all that is modern Fortran, based on old reliable, fully tested Fortran code.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 02, 2026 09:44 PM (w6EFb)

233 MiL wants to go out for lunch tomorrow for her birthday to a place where a bowl of pasta is $30. And they tack on 6% surcharge for "SF City Mandates"

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 02, 2026 09:45 PM (RIvkX)

234
Surely Excel would do for this, no? I mean...it's Microsoft !
Posted by: Mike Hammer

Some, for the final plots and graphs, yes. Excel is absolute shit for handling large data sets. One of my typical monte carlo runs for a 45 minute flight at 25 herz would output well over 4tb of raw data. And I had 81 monte carlos for each scenario. Sometimes i had up to 40 scenarios to fully explore the lethal object discrimination, and guide to point end game. Interesting stuff.

Posted by: BifBewalski - at January 02, 2026 09:45 PM (QVmho)

235 "Let me get this straight: You think that your client - one of the wealthiest, most powerful men in the world - is secretly a vigilante who spends his nights beating criminals to a pulp with his bare hands, and your plan is to blackmail this person? Good luck."

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 02, 2026 09:46 PM (IG3/x)

236 Hey Nurse! Happy New Year! Desert is good!

Posted by: DBCooper at January 02, 2026 09:48 PM (aQNOn)

237 The best way to make healthcare more affordable is to remove people from the system who should never be entitled to access the US healthcare system. Which is happening as we speak.

It's not an insurmountable problem and reducing obvious fraud is the best way to start.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 02, 2026 09:48 PM (viF8m)

238 Space Exploration Stack Exchange

https://space.stackexchange . com › questions › 36538 › what-makes- or-at-least- made-ada-the-language- of-choice-for- the-isss-safety-cr

What makes (or at least made) Ada the language of choice for the ISS's ...
We have it on good authority that Ada is widely used for "safety critical software" on at least the US side of the International Space Station.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 02, 2026 09:48 PM (R0Fqj)

239 And I had 81 monte carlos for each scenario.
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Holy shit! That's a lot of sandwiches!

Posted by: Eduation major at January 02, 2026 09:48 PM (XeU6L)

240 It's not an insurmountable problem and reducing obvious fraud is the best way to start.
Posted by: JackStraw
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Let's hang Hotez and the mutilators first.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 02, 2026 09:49 PM (R0Fqj)

241
Grok says SpaceX flight control software, the stuff running the rockets in flight is C++ (with pure C used for low level drivers) running under Linux kernels modified for real-time specialty use.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 02, 2026 09:49 PM (w6EFb)

242 235 "Let me get this straight: You think that your client - one of the wealthiest, most powerful men in the world - is secretly a vigilante who spends his nights beating criminals to a pulp with his bare hands, and your plan is to blackmail this person? Good luck."
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 02, 2026 09:46 PM (IG3/x)

Always be yourself... unless you can be Batman...

Then be Batman.

Posted by: Romeo13 at January 02, 2026 09:49 PM (mP0Kj)

243 Excel is absolute shit for handling large data sets.
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Someone remarked on a topic of mine saying it was the shits. I did not know if it was a compliment or a negative quality observation.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 02, 2026 09:52 PM (R0Fqj)

244 BREAKING: Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals Strikes Down California’s Ban on Open Carry – Trump Judge Issues Scathing Opinion

Meanwhile the new mayor of FNYC is wants all guns banned.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at January 02, 2026 09:52 PM (/lPRQ)

245 Are we sure Elon isn’t Batman?

I mean. Has anyone seen Elon and Batman in the same room together?

Posted by: nurse ratched at January 02, 2026 09:52 PM (IhIKR)

246 Are we sure Elon isn’t Batman?

I mean. Has anyone seen Elon and Batman in the same room together?
Posted by: nurse ratched at January 02, 2026 09:52 PM (IhIKR)
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Elon seems like he's more Iron Man than Batman.

But then Batman is a master of deception, so maybe that's what Elon/Batman wants us to think.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 02, 2026 09:54 PM (ESVrU)

247 Hotez is still with the Mutilators? I heard he went solo.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at January 02, 2026 09:54 PM (JkO4W)

248 *weeps quietly*

Posted by: RPGII at January 02, 2026 09:55 PM (jc0TO)

249 Someone remarked on a topic of mine saying it was the shits. I did not know if it was a compliment or a negative quality observation.

Posted by: Braenyard

Negative. Microsux wants people to buy more expensive software (database) in order to have very large datasets. Both Quattro Pro (Borland and then WordPerfect) back in the day and librecalc /open office spreadsheets allowed as many data lines and columns as your memory could hold.

Spreadsheets are really nice for a lot of data cleanup before dumping into stat programs. Plus often transformations into new variables can be about as fast as doing it in stat programs by coding with the benefit of WYSIWYG.

Posted by: whig at January 02, 2026 09:57 PM (WDjG6)

250 yeah, you're wrong, there's no good reason to be breeding so many dogs when so many are abused, murdered in shelters. breeding is stupid, selfish
Posted by: n

Found the Leftist!

Posted by: FeatherBlade at January 02, 2026 09:57 PM (Cznub)

251 yeah, you're wrong, there's no good reason to be breeding so many dogs when so many are abused, murdered in shelters. breeding is stupid, selfish
Posted by: n

Found the Leftist!
Posted by: Feath

eat a bag of dicks

Posted by: n at January 02, 2026 10:01 PM (UNjbG)

252 Ada is DoD compliant (designed from teh get go for that) and kind of a specialist language for government contractors. Provides a bit of security by obscurity as well and deals with memory leaks/etc pretty well like Rust is reportedly doing.

Knew a little of it way back when it started getting into DoD software due to some software projects I did for my AF unit.

Posted by: whig at January 02, 2026 10:01 PM (WDjG6)

253 happy new year

Posted by: mindful webworker - happy happy at January 02, 2026 10:02 PM (dESj/)

254 Nood ont

Posted by: From about That Time at January 02, 2026 10:03 PM (sl73Y)

255 New NOOD ONT for 2026

https://acecomments.mu.nu/?post=417929

Posted by: mindful webworker - go for it! at January 02, 2026 10:03 PM (dESj/)

256 Some, for the final plots and graphs, yes. Excel is absolute shit for handling large data sets. One of my typical monte carlo runs for a 45 minute flight at 25 herz would output well over 4tb of raw data. And I had 81 monte carlos for each scenario. Sometimes i had up to 40 scenarios to fully explore the lethal object discrimination, and guide to point end game. Interesting stuff.
Posted by: BifBewalski

R, S, or even Stata/SAS would do better than that.

I used spreadsheets (quattropro or later openoffice calc) to clean up big datasets and do certain variable transformations etc. into new columns. For hard number crunching and stat routines when working with FEC databases and such, I either used relational databases or R/Stata on Linux machines.

That is basically how and why I got into linux way back in the 00's, it performed better on less memory for big datasets than Windows did.

Posted by: whig at January 02, 2026 10:05 PM (WDjG6)

257 Stick to a Catholic Bible.

Learn Koine Greek for the New Testament. My introductory Koine Greek text makes an example early on of pointing out a passage in the Douay-Rheims that skips a single-letter word in the Koine in its translation of James to emphasize works over faith. The omission is a single letter, eta, ή, but it acts in the sentence as the article of previous reference. With it, it is clear that James is saying that works come from faith. Without it, it seems James is saying faith cannot save you. The passage is James 2:14 which the DRA translates as “What shall it profit, my brethren, if a man says he hath faith, but hath not works? Shall faith be able to save him?” The ESV, more closely following the Greek translates this as “What good is it my brothers, if someone says he has faith but does not have works? Can that faith save him?” The bold-face that is the single-letter word, ή, that is elided over in the DRA. The first appearance of the word “faith” in the Greek does not have the eta: the second appearance does. The ESV does better justice to the meaning James intended. When in doubt, read the Greek!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at January 02, 2026 10:06 PM (wWU6x)

258 Giving semantic meaning to whitespace just grinds my gears.
Not just white space, but specifically tabs. WTF?

Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at January 02, 2026 10:10 PM (XMwZJ)

Elon Musk Endorses Republicans for the 2026 Midterms, Arguing that Democrats Will Destroy the County and It "Won't Be America Anymore"

Accurate.

Billionaire tech mogul Elon Musk signaled Thursday that he is lining up behind Republicans ahead of the 2026 midterm elections, a notable turn after months of public friction with President Trump and flirtation with launching a third political party of his own.
"America is toast if the radical left wins," Musk wrote on X, warning that a Democrat-controlled Congress would "open the floodgates to illegal immigration and fraud" and that the country "won't be America anymore." The post came in response to a conservative influencer claiming Musk was "going all-in funding Republicans to help President Trump take back full control" of Congress in November 2026.
According to Axios, Musk has already begun making sizable contributions to GOP candidates in key House and Senate races, though the precise amounts will not be public until campaign finance disclosures are released later this month. The signal carries weight. Musk poured more than $290 million into the 2024 election cycle, becoming the largest single political donor that year by a wide margin.

🚨 BREAKING: This is a GENERATIONAL betrayal.

HUD just found $5 BILLION+ in FRAUDULENT payments in 2024 alone, under Biden.

Payment error of over 11% PERCENT.

- $5.2 BILLION to inactive accounts
- $77M to deceased tenants
- $150M to nonexistent Social Security numbers
- $288M� pic.twitter.com/WjWgTm0hI4
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) December 31, 2025

RINO Republican Mike DeWine says it's no big deal that we're having our patrimony stolen from us by foreign pirates -- it's just "the cost of doing business."

Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine's office on potential fraud at childcare centers in Columbus-- which has the second highest Somali population in America:

"This is something that is unfortunately the cost of doing business." pic.twitter.com/hCE3B0b3Dz
— Greg Price (@greg_price11) December 31, 2025

Posted by: Ace at 06:00 PM

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1 Hola

Posted by: Thanatopsis at January 02, 2026 06:02 PM (LdBR/)

2 2nd

Posted by: Thanatopsis at January 02, 2026 06:02 PM (LdBR/)

3 I'll go nood

Posted by: Thanatopsis at January 02, 2026 06:02 PM (LdBR/)

4 Howdy

Posted by: Thanatopsis at January 02, 2026 06:03 PM (LdBR/)

5 I don't get Ohio. Guys WAKE UP.

Posted by: BlackOrchid at January 02, 2026 06:03 PM (emBoF)

6 A man who puts his money where his mouth is. How refreshing.

Posted by: Ben Had at January 02, 2026 06:04 PM (sDNVV)

7 Sounds like they'll have a new spokesman soon.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 02, 2026 06:05 PM (ZOv7s)

8 8th

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 02, 2026 06:05 PM (NwnyJ)

9 This tells us Elon is clean.

Posted by: ... at January 02, 2026 06:06 PM (E0p3T)

10 Maybe trying to burn Musk's businesses down while threatening his life wasn't the best idea after all.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 02, 2026 06:08 PM (viF8m)

11 We have been so robbed blind, and a whole lot of degenerate scum have gotten filthy rich off of us all.

Posted by: Lady in Black at January 02, 2026 06:09 PM (67EGc)

12 Elon also recently has his Andrew Breitbart "Fuck you. War." moment:

Elon Musk @elonmusk

Then it is war

DogeDesigner @cb_doge

BREAKING: Somali TikToker threatens Elon Musk’s life:

"I wouldn't worry too much about him. He about to die."

Protect Elon Musk at all costs.

X: https://bit.ly/3LlXJ2K

Woman who said this: https://bit.ly/4so8lPr

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at January 02, 2026 06:09 PM (P5BPp)

13 It's a write off, Jerry.
They just write it off.

Posted by: Kramer at January 02, 2026 06:09 PM (2Ez/1)

14 5 I don't get Ohio. Guys WAKE UP.
Posted by: BlackOrchid
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Machine state from way back and similar to Indiana and Illinois as well as Pennsylvania. Prime examples of the Uniparty where whoever is in charge still protects the grift for all his fellow grifters in both parties.

I give you Bob Taft Jr, former OH governor as an example,

"In August 2005, as a result of the Coingate scandal, Taft was indicted with four misdemeanors related to him receiving undisclosed gifts and accepting illegal campaign contributions, making him the first Ohio governor charged with a crime while in office. He pleaded no contest to the charges and was fined $4,000. Despite his fallout from the conviction, Taft continued to serve as governor until his second term expired in January 2007."

Posted by: whig at January 02, 2026 06:10 PM (WDjG6)

15 It's possible that Tierney meant "robust anti-fraud measures" are the cost of doing business.

Posted by: Oglebay at January 02, 2026 06:10 PM (GPa4z)

16 There is a new head at the RNC.

Posted by: Ben Had at January 02, 2026 06:10 PM (sDNVV)

17 I just saw something today, whose whereabouts I can't remember, that has the latest predictions showing the House will go to the filthy Democrats in the mid-terms with odds at 78%.

Posted by: Lady in Black at January 02, 2026 06:11 PM (67EGc)

18 Woman who said this: https://bit.ly/4so8lPr"

What a fine representative of the American Medical profession...

Posted by: man at January 02, 2026 06:12 PM (XuXeR)

19 Welcome back to the party, pal!

Posted by: Curly Shuffle at January 02, 2026 06:12 PM (5yDGQ)

20 Lady in Black, don't buy it.

Posted by: Ben Had at January 02, 2026 06:12 PM (sDNVV)

21 Between the commie Mayor muzzie and all of the thieving Somali muzzies, conservative websites (and also Fox News) are going to have plenty to talk about in 2026.

Pass the popcorn oil.

Posted by: Cheerful Reprobate at January 02, 2026 06:12 PM (8WtOr)

22 the coward of the COUNTY

Posted by: alpine_beer at January 02, 2026 06:12 PM (van9r)

23 11 We have been so robbed blind, and a whole lot of degenerate scum have gotten filthy rich off of us all.
Posted by: Lady in Black

Yes. But the disadvantage to grifters today is that all their money can be found and forced to be repatriated and confiscated. GWOT gave the US that kind of power along with control of the SWIFT network.

We know where a lot of the money went if we look for it for the most part, all that is lacking is the will to bring it back to the US and the Treasury.

Treasury even broke and reversed block chain for crypto to get some of that back from the various hacker extortion gangs (Colonial Pipeline for one example).

Posted by: whig at January 02, 2026 06:12 PM (WDjG6)

24 I just saw something today, whose whereabouts I can't remember, that has the latest predictions showing the House will go to the filthy Democrats in the mid-terms with odds at 78%.

Posted by: Lady in Black at January 02, 2026 06:11 PM

After putting your comment into Grok:

As of early January 2026, prediction markets and early forecasts do indeed show Democrats as strong favorites to flip control of the U.S. House in the November 2026 midterms, with probabilities in the 75-78% range depending on the platform.

Recent reports from platforms like Polymarket and Kalshi have pegged Democrats' chances at around 78% for retaking the House, reflecting historical midterm trends where the president's party (currently Republicans under Trump) typically loses seats.

Earlier spikes reached 75% on Kalshi following strong Democratic off-year performances, and aggregated betting odds have hovered in that ballpark as generic ballot polling shows Democrats with a modest but consistent lead.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at January 02, 2026 06:13 PM (P5BPp)

25 >>I just saw something today, whose whereabouts I can't remember, that has the latest predictions showing the House will go to the filthy Democrats in the mid-terms with odds at 78%.

Uh huh.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 02, 2026 06:14 PM (viF8m)

26 Governor Acton does not excite me, as a politician anyway. But she appeals to Ohio's most rabid voting bloc and Vivek doesn't appeal to anyone.

Posted by: Oglebay at January 02, 2026 06:14 PM (GPa4z)

27 You're soaking in it.

Posted by: Madge at January 02, 2026 06:14 PM (2Ez/1)

28
12 Elon also recently has his Andrew Breitbart "Fuck you. War." moment:

Elon Musk @elonmusk

Then it is war

DogeDesigner @cb_doge

BREAKING: Somali TikToker threatens Elon Musk’s life:

"I wouldn't worry too much about him. He about to die."

Protect Elon Musk at all costs.

X: https://bit.ly/3LlXJ2K

Woman who said this: https://bit.ly/4so8lPr
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at January 02, 2026 06:09 PM (P5BPp)

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Jesus, she's deformed.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at January 02, 2026 06:15 PM (azNOR)

29 Bullshit. The Republicans will keep the House and the Senate.

Posted by: Ben Had at January 02, 2026 06:15 PM (sDNVV)

30 This "off year" thing is BS. Without 40+ BS retirements in 2018, R's would have kept the House. It's amazing how they compartmentalize info by throwing so much at you, and you forget what the damn truth even is.

Posted by: ... at January 02, 2026 06:15 PM (E0p3T)

31 Every government program starts out as a "cause, devolves into a "business" and ends up a "racket".
Every single one.
And the money flows almost exclusively to Democrat voters, Democrat supporters or Democrat politicians.

It's almost as if the whole Democrat Party at both the state and federal level is a giant RICO case waiting to be investigated by the "speaking truth to power" watchdogs in the media and then prosecuted by the law-and-order-focused non partisan Federal Law Enforcement officials....

Sure, Jan.......

Posted by: proudvastrightwingguy at January 02, 2026 06:17 PM (MNCvZ)

32 It's a write off, Jerry.
They just write it off.

Posted by: Kramer at January 02, 2026 06:09 PM

You don't even know what a write-off is.

Do you?

No, I don't.

But they do. And they're the ones... writing it off.

YouTube: https://bit.ly/4jxZZ3J

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at January 02, 2026 06:18 PM (P5BPp)

33 17 I just saw something today, whose whereabouts I can't remember, that has the latest predictions showing the House will go to the filthy Democrats in the mid-terms with odds at 78%.
Posted by: Lady in Black

None of those odds are realistic especially political betting markets as they are thinly traded and susceptible to largish sized wagers aimed at influencing the process rather than profit.

If you must go into political prognostications, try Cook's Reports which is paygated but they actually apply the political history of districts along with the strengths and weaknesses of current competitors for the seats.

They can and are wrong at time and the report notes shifts based on events in 2026 as far as retirements, new districts, competitors, funding, and scandals. For political pros and has a left bias but otherwise much better than gaseous pundits or betting sites for solid information.

For my advice, having worked in congressional campaigns and then studying them as a grad student and prof, aim at June, July time frame for realistic prognostications. Primaries will be mostly done, retirements as well, and we will have some idea of funding as well as events in the US.

Posted by: whig at January 02, 2026 06:18 PM (WDjG6)

34 Bullshit. The Republicans will keep the House and the Senate.
Posted by: Ben Had at January 02, 2026 06:15 PM (sDNVV)

Let's see how many mystery retirements we get. Incumbency is huge.

Posted by: ... at January 02, 2026 06:18 PM (E0p3T)

35 Wish I could afford to buy one of his cars.

Posted by: Case at January 02, 2026 06:18 PM (G1OIb)

36 I just saw something today, whose whereabouts I can't remember, that has the latest predictions showing the House will go to the filthy Democrats in the mid-terms with odds at 78%.
Posted by: Lady in Black at January 02, 2026 06:11 PM (67EGc)
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The betting markets are also manipulated.

Brexit was certain to fail, all the markets predicted it.

But if you dug deeper, the small bettors were wagering on it passing, it was a few heavy-hitters who shifted the odds.

The Dems have a remarkable capacity for corrupting once-proven metrics, then acting as though the corruption wasn't there. They literally buy into their own lies.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 02, 2026 06:18 PM (ZOv7s)

37 Elon is right about that

Posted by: Skip at January 02, 2026 06:19 PM (Ia/+0)

38 ..., Happy New Year, darlin

Posted by: Ben Had at January 02, 2026 06:19 PM (sDNVV)

39 Those Somalis are fucked up looking.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at January 02, 2026 06:20 PM (2pORR)

40 It's possible that Tierney meant "robust anti-fraud measures" are the cost of doing business.
Posted by: Oglebay

I'll believe what he actually said....

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at January 02, 2026 06:20 PM (4wNax)

41 I'm sure that the scammers, Somali and otherwise, are betting that they can outwait the American public's attention span. And they are probably right.

Posted by: Oddbob at January 02, 2026 06:20 PM (3nLb4)

42 29 Bullshit. The Republicans will keep the House and the Senate.
Posted by: Ben Had

Senate is probably out of reach due to the location of where the seats in play are for Dems. The House, consider it a tossup until the dust settles by May-June from primaries, retirements, campaign funding, lawsuits by DoJ requiring states to purge their registries from Motor Voter law, and redistricting effects including the possible Scotus ruling killing majority minority districts.

Economy will have a big part in it as well as futile attempts by the Dem Media to run it down like in GHWB's runup to the 92 election.

Posted by: whig at January 02, 2026 06:20 PM (WDjG6)

43 They seem to always say mid terms will go to the opposite party
And have no doubt those makng this prediction want it to.

Posted by: Skip at January 02, 2026 06:21 PM (Ia/+0)

44 The GOP ain't great but they are not lunatics.

I guess that's something.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 02, 2026 06:22 PM (XV/Pl)

45 41 I'm sure that the scammers, Somali and otherwise, are betting that they can outwait the American public's attention span. And they are probably right.
Posted by: Oddbob

I don't think so. Trials will actually be starting fairly soon for the underlings and the fraud keeps expanding--now to HUD where 5 billion in Housing aid was stolen in the name of dead people, etc.

The crooks were brazen in the Biden years to the extent that they failed to take even the smallest precautions in getting caught. They figured buying off the pols was enough to see them scot free.

Posted by: whig at January 02, 2026 06:22 PM (WDjG6)

46 It might be a Somali rite of passage to have an extended family gang bang.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at January 02, 2026 06:23 PM (2pORR)

47 Elon Musk, one of the few Newcomers that is a real African American.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at January 02, 2026 06:23 PM (/lPRQ)

48 It's possible that Tierney meant "robust anti-fraud measures" are the cost of doing business.
Posted by: Oglebay

He's in it up to his ass.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 02, 2026 06:23 PM (c115l)

49 Economy will have a big part in it as well as futile attempts by the Dem Media to run it down like in GHWB's runup to the 92 election.
Posted by: whig at January 02, 2026 06:20 PM (WDjG6)
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To be fair, Bush was a terrible candidate. Awful. He only won in 88 because Reagan had gifted him with a booming economy and Dukakis was an utter train wreck.

But against any kind of headwind, the guy had feet of stone and literally could not read a teleprompter.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 02, 2026 06:24 PM (ZOv7s)

50 Happy New Year, darlin
Posted by: Ben Had at January 02, 2026 06:19 PM (sDNVV)

Thank you sweetie. To you and yours as well.

Posted by: ... at January 02, 2026 06:24 PM (E0p3T)

51 Your enslavement is the cost of doing business?

Does DeWine personally shoulder these costs?

If not, DeWine is part of the corruption, graft and fraud since he is the primary person responsible for it not existing.

Posted by: Minuteman at January 02, 2026 06:24 PM (47/pr)

52 Missed the last post -
The CIA Promoted Abstract Modern Art As a Psyop

It is funny because because so did the Soviets.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at January 02, 2026 06:24 PM (/lPRQ)

53 I don't think so. Trials will actually be starting fairly soon for the underlings and the fraud keeps expanding...

I will be more than happy to admit that I was wrong six months from now.

Posted by: Oddbob at January 02, 2026 06:24 PM (3nLb4)

54 Posted by: Oddbob
=========
Overall, I think this will hit our elite like the House Bank Scandal in 1992-94 which led to the GOP winning the House.

Voters hate being made the fools by thieves and grifters. Indy and GOP voters are infuriated by it and I don't think Trump has any intention of saving career GOPe and Dem pols from the fire here.

Posted by: whig at January 02, 2026 06:24 PM (WDjG6)

55 Hopefully he's selective on who he funds. NO RINO's.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at January 02, 2026 06:24 PM (abIsI)

56 As noted, at a minimum, 30pct of every state, local and federal budget is straight graft and corruption.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 02, 2026 06:25 PM (XV/Pl)

57 "This is something that is unfortunately the cost of doing business."

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You know who else used that rationalization?

Posted by: ShainS -- Make Lustration Great Again! at January 02, 2026 06:25 PM (RV1wf)

58 > We have been so robbed blind, and a whole lot of degenerate scum have gotten filthy rich off of us all.
Posted by: Lady in Black
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You've no idea.

Seriously.

Trillions of dollars have been stolen from us. Every single politician is culpable. They're all all "on the take."

The amount of wealth stolen by our government is in the hundreds of trillions of dollars. Over decades. It is the biggest wealth theft in history.

I'll go to my grave with that.

Think about that April 15th.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 02, 2026 06:25 PM (NwnyJ)

59 This is like, if Somali bank robbers went into a bank, when they get to the teller, they stick out their finger, and say "stick 'em up!" The tellers look confused, not sure what to do, but the bank's governor, Mike DeWhine says "Give them everything they ask for!"

You're standing there in line, as the tellers shove cash into bags, and after the Somalis walk out, you try to make a withdrawal from your account. They say "Sorry, we don't have any cash for you," even though you put thousands into your account.

When you try to tell them how unfair this is, they call you racist.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 02, 2026 06:26 PM (KwCuT)

60 "This is something that is unfortunately the cost of doing business."

Listen up you four-eyed little rat bastard. GFY with a
chainsaw dipped in acid.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at January 02, 2026 06:27 PM (abIsI)

61 You might say that the Haitian takeover of Springfield is DeWine's "pet" project.

Posted by: Oglebay at January 02, 2026 06:28 PM (GPa4z)

62 Dewine is a swirly kid.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at January 02, 2026 06:28 PM (2pORR)

63 >>Economy will have a big part in it as well as futile attempts by the Dem Media to run it down like in GHWB's runup to the 92 election.

There are so many sea change things happening right now including the Democrat Party in Congress having a historically bad approval rating and Republicans redistricting to make new Republican seats applying old standards is in January is just dumb.

Nobody knows what damage all of this fraud will cause Democrats but it could be enormous. It will certainly hurt their fundraising because that's where a lot of it came from. Saying Republicans only have a 22% chance of holding the majority right now is laughable. There is nothing currently working in Democrats favor.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 02, 2026 06:29 PM (viF8m)

64 To be fair, Bush was a terrible candidate. Awful. He only won in 88 because Reagan had gifted him with a booming economy and Dukakis was an utter train wreck.

But against any kind of headwind, the guy had feet of stone and literally could not read a teleprompter.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd

Read the final media polling on the election, a lot of voters thought we were in a major recession in 92. And GHWB was also taking fire from the populists like Pat Buchanan and Ross Perot.

"Exit polling showed that 75% thought the economy was in fairly or very bad shape while 63% thought their personal finances were better or the same as four years ago." from wiki.

Clinton won both 1992 (42 percent plurality) and 1996 (49 percent) with Ross Perot taking 19 percent in 1992 and 8.4 percent of the vote in 1996.

Posted by: whig at January 02, 2026 06:29 PM (WDjG6)

65 Oh Mago, you done it again!

Posted by: TrainmanTim at January 02, 2026 06:29 PM (lycPY)

66 BurtTC thats a good analogy

Posted by: Skip at January 02, 2026 06:29 PM (Ia/+0)

67
Is there some way that Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine can manage to shift a couple of billion into my bank account as a "cost of doing business"?

I'd be ever so grateful if he would.

Posted by: naturalfake at January 02, 2026 06:30 PM (iJfKG)

68 JackStraw, thank you for the song the other night. Much appreciated.

Posted by: Ben Had at January 02, 2026 06:30 PM (sDNVV)

69 There is nothing currently working in Democrats favor.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 02, 2026 06:29 PM (viF8m)

Except the Crooked Republicans.

Posted by: davidt at January 02, 2026 06:30 PM (Q+gd/)

70 Trillions of dollars have been stolen from us. Every single politician is culpable. They're all all "on the take."

The amount of wealth stolen by our government is in the hundreds of trillions of dollars. Over decades. It is the biggest wealth theft in history.

I'll go to my grave with that.

Think about that April 15th.
Posted by: Martini Farmer

I'm good with executions. Let the blood flow.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 02, 2026 06:30 PM (c115l)

71 DeWines's wife Fran looks like she could eat an ear of corn through a picket fence.

https://tinyurl.com/2c5wymu3

Posted by: Maj. Healey at January 02, 2026 06:31 PM (abIsI)

72 You're welcome, Ben Had. Happy New Year.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 02, 2026 06:31 PM (viF8m)

73 Listen, if Ross Perot didn't run then Bush would have won.

Ross snarfed up 19pct of the vote, that would have gone to Papi.

And we would have been spared The Clinton Grotesquery.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 02, 2026 06:31 PM (XV/Pl)

74 I just saw something today, whose whereabouts I can't remember, that has the latest predictions showing the House will go to the filthy Democrats in the mid-terms with odds at 78%.
Posted by: Lady in Black at January 02, 2026 06:11 PM (67EGc)

Let's put it this way: The Republicans don't deserve to be re-elected, but the Democrats also don't deserve to be elected.

So it'll be a race to the bottom.

One or the other will have their butts in those seats, and you can be damned sure whoever it is, "we" won't have won anything.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 02, 2026 06:32 PM (LPgB/)

75
Are we going to see some kind of leftist desperation moves this year? Mass terrorist attacks, assassinations, claims of a new epidemic?

They've been taking hits for a year. I'm waiting for the other shoe to drop.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at January 02, 2026 06:32 PM (azNOR)

76 Here's a great memory thanks to Ohio:

https://youtu.be/3BrCvZmSnKA

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at January 02, 2026 06:32 PM (2Ez/1)

77 He's in it up to his ass.
Posted by: rickb223

Yep, just like all these mayors, whether GOP or not, that used refugees and illegals to make bank from federal and state spending.

E.g. Springfield OH mayor was involved in real estate rentals and strangely supportive of his Haitian refugees that were destroying the town while he was busy playing landlord. Much of that money was federal and state spending on poor refugees that started eating the swans, dogs, cats, etc. when they were not committing all sorts of crimes.

Posted by: whig at January 02, 2026 06:32 PM (WDjG6)

78
Jesus, she's deformed.
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug

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

I'm going Full Shallow on these mammals and asking why they don't give enough of a fuck to look this side of conscious for a profile pic. And those God-damned ugly rags they wear, the hems dragging in the snow and up top, just an oval of face showing. (Honestly, at least Ilhan matches her lipstick to her headscarf.) They're the Somali equivalent of the white Wal-Mart Mutant look, which I also do not approve of.

Omar Fateh, do some looks-maxing. Where in hell did he get the idea that the proper manscape for that hot-air-balloon-shaped head was a blob of whiskers on the very tip of his chin and a halo of fluff on his scalp? And get to the gym ffs. He looks like a pile of pick-up sticks.

Sorry if any of this applies to anyone here. But it's like they're deliberately doing the minimum because fvk society. I remember once reading an AA affirmation type thing called "Just For Today," and one of the bullet-points was "Just for today, I will dress becomingly" and a few other things to make yourself positive and pleasant for others.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 02, 2026 06:33 PM (n7rxJ)

79 "Cost of doing business " - whose business?

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at January 02, 2026 06:33 PM (znREB)

80 Impeach DeWine. What a POS. Wonder how many of his allies are at the trough?

Posted by: HogWildforIslam at January 02, 2026 06:33 PM (6eQS7)

81 Take it from somebody in the waste management business. HUD is beyond fraud.

Posted by: Tony Soprano at January 02, 2026 06:33 PM (wBaIH)

82 There is nothing currently working in Democrats favor.
Posted by: JackStraw

Disagree Jack. They have the media.

Not what it used to be. But if Big 3 lead with abysmal economy every night this year ( whether true or not) it will affect tight races.

Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at January 02, 2026 06:33 PM (FxH7T)

83 I used to give DeWine a pass due to the fact that one of his adult kids was killed in a car wreck (that she caused).

I haven't held that position for quite some time.

Posted by: Tonypete at January 02, 2026 06:34 PM (cYBz/)

84 73 Listen, if Ross Perot didn't run then Bush would have won.

Ross snarfed up 19pct of the vote, that would have gone to Papi.

And we would have been spared The Clinton Grotesquery.
Posted by: Thomas Bender a

Honestly do not know. Much of teh Perot vote was anti Bush but absent Perot, they may have just not turned out. Perot in 1996 was basically in the race for no good reason except ego at that point. Allowed Clinton to win going away from Dull Dole.

Posted by: whig at January 02, 2026 06:34 PM (WDjG6)

85 Mmmm. Enjoying a hot buttered rum in a 1917 USMC Centennial Watch Mug.

https://tinyurl.com/y337rhrf

Posted by: rickb223 at January 02, 2026 06:35 PM (c115l)

86 What Steve_in_SoCal said, since he probably lives around a lot of olds with fixed property-tax. The olds in CA are shielded from the consequences of their vote, and watch the TV we don't.

Posted by: gKWVE at January 02, 2026 06:35 PM (gKWVE)

87 Every government program starts out as a "cause, devolves into a "business" and ends up a "racket".
Every single one.

Not in MN, the paid family leave went skipped cause and business and went straight to racket

As of today (1/2/2026), over 12,000 people have begun at least 8 weeks of MN's Paid Leave Program.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 02, 2026 06:36 PM (a4flb)

88 83 I used to give DeWine a pass due to the fact that one of his adult kids was killed in a car wreck (that she caused).
Posted by: Tonypete
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The good folks in politics exit when the time comes and they do something else. The bad folks in politics are addicted to power and control and never want to do something productive with the rest of their lives. They stay on and on until they can't anymore.

DeWino is one of the bad ones.

Posted by: whig at January 02, 2026 06:36 PM (WDjG6)

89 You're standing there in line, as the tellers shove cash into bags, and after the Somalis walk out, you try to make a withdrawal from your account. They say "Sorry, we don't have any cash for you," even though you put thousands into your account.

When you try to tell them how unfair this is, they call you racist.
Posted by: BurtTC at January 02, 2026 06:26 PM (KwCuT)

One final scene - later that evening the Somalis meet up with the bank tellers and say “okay, as we agreed here’s half of all you gave us.”
And the bank tellers say “Nice doing business with you! Same time next week?”

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 02, 2026 06:36 PM (otNgF)

90
"I wouldn't want to be Somalian right now."

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/EwFXyF3Po-I

Posted by: naturalfake at January 02, 2026 06:36 PM (iJfKG)

91 Disagree Jack. They have the media.

Not what it used to be. But if Big 3 lead with abysmal economy every night this year ( whether true or not) it will affect tight races.
Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at January 02, 2026 06:33 PM (FxH7T)

They also have the fact that the electorate (or perhaps more accurately, the ballots that are cast) are idiots, and as happens every election, they look around, see how they don't like whatever they don't like, and vote against the incumbents.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 02, 2026 06:36 PM (LPgB/)

92 I used to give DeWine a pass due to the fact that one of his adult kids was killed in a car wreck (that she caused).

Wrong person killed in a car wreck?

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 02, 2026 06:36 PM (a4flb)

93 Elon Musk, one of the few Newcomers that is a real African American.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at January 02, 2026 06:23 PM (/lPRQ)

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Trump should Musk the Presidential Medal of Freedom during this year's upcoming State Of The Union address -- guaranteed to explode many Democrat-Communist heads!

An argument can be made that by purchasing Twitter -- at a YUGE financial loss in order to save Social Media Free Speech and previous-censored conservative voices, investigations, & news -- and supporting Trump and MAGA, Elon was critical in helping elect Trump and (for now at least) saving The American Experiment and Nation.

Posted by: ShainS -- Make Lustration Great Again! at January 02, 2026 06:37 PM (RV1wf)

94 More like every government program starts out as a racket and never ends.

Posted by: ... at January 02, 2026 06:37 PM (E0p3T)

95 As I said the other day, that means Dewine is in on it.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 02, 2026 06:37 PM (zZu0s)

96 I am Very happy to introduce the "Tim Walz" Blackhawk Down LEARING Centers.

Lear how to make an IED, Fire My favorite Weapon the AK-47, and learn how to shoot an RPG at an American Pig Dog BlackHawk Helio.

Great fun for all and great as a step to study at the University of Mogadishu for the Spring Semester. Learn about Shria Law and The Mostly Peaceful Islamic Jihad to destroy Israel.

Posted by: Tim " Nuken till they Glow" Walz at January 02, 2026 06:37 PM (J9q9v)

97 *Trump should AWARD Musk ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Make Lustration Great Again! at January 02, 2026 06:37 PM (RV1wf)

98 The media can cry havoc and poverty but when people are paying less for gas and basic expenses that's not going to sell.
Diesel is under 3 bucks in some places. Do you not know how big a deal that is?

Posted by: Ben Had at January 02, 2026 06:38 PM (sDNVV)

99 I'm sure that the scammers, Somali and otherwise, are betting that they can outwait the American public's attention span. And they are probably right.
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100 92 I used to give DeWine a pass due to the fact that one of his adult kids was killed in a car wreck (that she caused).

Wrong person killed in a car wreck?
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 02, 2026 06:36 PM (a4flb)

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I'm sure this has nothing to do with anything, but the car wreck was in Haiti.

Posted by: Oglebay at January 02, 2026 06:38 PM (GPa4z)

101 No, the wreck wasn't in Haiti. But there is some sort of memorial tie-in.

Posted by: Oglebay at January 02, 2026 06:39 PM (GPa4z)

102 No, you are wrong about Perot. The MSM called the election for Clinton while the polls were still open on the West Coast. Perot got more votes then because our votes didn't matter.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at January 02, 2026 06:39 PM (+mUZM)

103 One final scene - later that evening the Somalis meet up with the bank tellers and say “okay, as we agreed here’s half of all you gave us.”
And the bank tellers say “Nice doing business with you! Same time next week?”
Posted by: Tom Servo at January 02, 2026 06:36 PM (otNgF)

Yes, and the moral of the story being, of COURSE the Somalis are rotten dirty stinking filthy bank robbers.

But so are the bankers, and the Somalis would not have gotten a dime without their complicity.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 02, 2026 06:39 PM (LPgB/)

104 >>I just saw something today, whose whereabouts I can't remember, that has the latest predictions showing the House will go to the filthy Democrats in the mid-terms with odds at 78%.

W/O looking I'd give it a 75% chance that in an off year the other party has that chance of winning.

Most first term presidents win reelection and then the opposite party gets a turn.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at January 02, 2026 06:39 PM (/lPRQ)

105 Economy will take off bigly, Trump will make a deal involving Greenland, the Uke bs will conclude, and Republicans should win on the back of all that if they don't get bought off again.

Posted by: ... at January 02, 2026 06:40 PM (E0p3T)

106 Are we going to see some kind of leftist desperation moves this year? Mass terrorist attacks, assassinations, claims of a new epidemic?

They've been taking hits for a year. I'm waiting for the other shoe to drop.
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug

A lot of Democrat direct action came from federal funds pilfered by community activists. That rathole is being stopped up bit by bit and the shy pols like Emmer who dismissed the fraud previously now are all in on fixing the problem. Only those who are deep in the issue like Walz and MN Dems are defending it. You get radio silence from the rest of teh Dems right now.

Antifa is now a terrorist listed organization. That means no free rides for Soros and the Chicom Singh Code Pink guy, and so on.

Things are looking up but we started deep in a well after Biden's junta so the sunlight still appears distant.

Posted by: whig at January 02, 2026 06:40 PM (WDjG6)

107 Apparently, for a Republican incumbent to have a good year, all he needs is to be charismatic, to have a great economy, to know how to manipulate the media like Reagan or Trump, to have a team of lawyers ready to fight to prevent Democrat lawfare on election day, a team of programmers to jamb up the Dem servers trying to stuff ballots, guards and observers trying to prevent ballot stuffing, luck with judges on those emergency rulings, not too many retirements, good turnout,... anything else?

Easy Peasy.

Posted by: Mrs. Santa's unclean sister at January 02, 2026 06:40 PM (aTta8)

108 More like every government program starts out as a racket and never ends.
Posted by: ... at January 02, 2026 06:37 PM (E0p3T)

Which is why, as I said this morning, I don't understand how anyone looks at whatever problems they see, and think "Gee, I sure hope the government comes and fixes this for us."

Posted by: BurtTC at January 02, 2026 06:41 PM (LPgB/)

109 It's just the cost of doing business. Monkey business!

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 02, 2026 06:41 PM (pkeXY)

110 Trump will have everything running like a finely tuned sports car and the Republicans will not bother to turn out on Election Day.

Posted by: Oglebay at January 02, 2026 06:41 PM (GPa4z)

111 Ross snarfed up 19pct

Perhaps the GOPe shouldn't have left a Ross sized hole in the electorate. Thankfully they didn't learn and PDT did.

Posted by: DaveA at January 02, 2026 06:41 PM (FhXTo)

112 Elon Musk created a monster that’s tearing the right apart
X put the right on top in the culture war. Now it’s turning them against each other.

...in recent months, X has lost its ability to unite the right. Instead, it’s increasingly the place where Trump supporters turn on each other.

Intense and bitter public feuds have broken out over such topics as Israel, antisemitism, bigotry against Indian Americans, and whether people whose ancestors came to the US more recently should be considered less authentically American. Conspiracy theories are running rampant, with many targeting the Trump administration itself...

...Musk’s ownership have altered the norms of what it’s acceptable for right-wingers to say, and have incentivized a race to the bottom for engagement. It turns out that once guardrails against bigotry and misinformation are removed, there’s a huge audience-side “demand” on the right for both...

...as X grows more extreme and disconnected from reality, top Trump officials remain obsessed with pandering to its user base — focused on throwing red meat to the online right, rather than trying to win back the ordinary voters who have soured on the president..

Posted by: Intercepted Vox Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at January 02, 2026 06:41 PM (ycI94)

113 Anyone know if we are refilling the strategic reserve?

Posted by: Mrs. Santa's unclean sister at January 02, 2026 06:42 PM (aTta8)

114 I think even we are underestimating the huge impacts - economic, social, and political - that the near simultaneous collapses of Iran, Venezuela, and Cuba are going to bring about.
And add onto that the California catastrophe that’s about to unfold.

Polls depend on the idea that things will be mostly the same in 11 months. But this is gonna be a year with a lot of the world turned upside down.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 02, 2026 06:42 PM (otNgF)

115 More like every government program starts out as a racket and never ends.

Posted by: ... at January 02, 2026 06:37 PM (E0p3T)

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Like a cancer, it usually continues growing uncontrollably.

The future schadenfreude with each "unexpected" consequence while NYC implodes during the next four years may rival that which I've experienced over the past 13 years after having escaped Califzuela ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Make Lustration Great Again! at January 02, 2026 06:42 PM (RV1wf)

116 Would someone please repost the link to people telling Scott Adams how he changed their lives?

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas - AoSHQ's at January 02, 2026 06:42 PM (SRRAx)

117 Apparently, for a Republican incumbent to have a good year, all he needs is to be charismatic, to have a great economy, to know how to manipulate the media like Reagan or Trump, to have a team of lawyers ready to fight to prevent Democrat lawfare on election day, a team of programmers to jamb up the Dem servers trying to stuff ballots, guards and observers trying to prevent ballot stuffing, luck with judges on those emergency rulings, not too many retirements, good turnout,... anything else?

Easy Peasy.
Posted by: Mrs. Santa's unclean sister at January 02, 2026 06:40 PM (aTta

Maybe do some of the things they told their voters they would do if elected?

Posted by: BurtTC at January 02, 2026 06:42 PM (LPgB/)

118 113 Anyone know if we are refilling the strategic reserve?
Posted by: Mrs. Santa's unclean sister at January 02, 2026 06:42 PM (aTta

I’ve read that it has begun.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 02, 2026 06:43 PM (otNgF)

119 >>Disagree Jack. They have the media.

Well not CBS. Not the way they used to anyway. And they sure as hell don't have social media or the richest guy in the world who just happens to own the biggest social media platform in the world. The left actually has less control of the media now than they did in 2024 and we did pretty good then.

There's a lifetime between now and November and lots can happen but as of now there's zero reason to rely on historical norms or assume the Democrats are in such a dominant position. Tax cuts and a predicted strong economy are coming this year. Illegals will continue to be deported. The DOJ has been cleaning voter roles for months and is now going after Minnesota's vouching bullshit and now Democrats are going to have to defend an enormous corruption scandal that boils down to Democrats importing and paying immigrants for votes.

No matter how much some love to bitch and moan nothing is happening, shitloads of things are happening. I'm so old I remember when Harris was going to beat Trump because some polls said so. That turned out ok. I think I'll wait a few months before lighting my hair on fire.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 02, 2026 06:43 PM (viF8m)

120 The statusquotidians are about to get their assez kicked up around their shoulders

Posted by: Ben Had at January 02, 2026 06:44 PM (sDNVV)

121 Bring back tar and feathers.

Posted by: nurse ratched at January 02, 2026 06:44 PM (5He9w)

122 Except the Crooked Republicans.

I'm hopeful that Paxton will replace Cornyn and for the first time in forever Texas will have a Republican senator that is worth anything.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 02, 2026 06:44 PM (a4flb)

123 >>Ross snarfed up 19pct

worse even, he fed the Dem narrative that the economy was narfed.

People felt good about the economy (as noted above) but Ross kept banging on about how we were all doomed.

Posted by: Mrs. Santa's unclean sister at January 02, 2026 06:45 PM (aTta8)

124 They have the media? Nick Shirley has 135 million views. That dog won't hunt.

Posted by: Ben Had at January 02, 2026 06:46 PM (sDNVV)

125 Anyone know if we are refilling the strategic reserve?

Posted by: Mrs. Santa's unclean sister at January 02, 2026 06:42 PM (aTta

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Supposedly the contents of those captured pirate oil tanker contents will be donating to it.

Trump is probably waiting for oil futures to go negative (or the price per barrel to crash) before acquiring the rest. /only half-joking

Posted by: ShainS -- Make Lustration Great Again! at January 02, 2026 06:46 PM (RV1wf)

126 Dole was a wet dishwater rag. He had no freaking chance against Clinton's charisma.

As far as 1992 goes, they got a LOT of mileage over the sax on Arsenio. Stupid but whatever.

Posted by: ... at January 02, 2026 06:46 PM (E0p3T)

127 82 There is nothing currently working in Democrats favor.
Posted by: JackStraw

Disagree Jack. They have the media.

Not what it used to be. But if Big 3 lead with abysmal economy every night this year ( whether true or not) it will affect tight races.
Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at January 02, 2026 06:33 PM (FxH7T)

The media couldn't convince Americans that the Biden-Harris economy was as rosy as they tried mightily to portray - with the help of the DNC and US government billions to boot. If Trump succeeds in turning around the economy this year - and he will - there is nothing the media can do to convince the people otherwise.

Look, it's not like the media was actually FOR Reagan's Morning In America slogan - they simply didn't have the power to obscure what people could see right in front of them. America250 is playing right into Trump's wheelhouse.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at January 02, 2026 06:47 PM (0CU3H)

128 116 Would someone please repost the link to people telling Scott Adams how he changed their lives?
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas - AoSHQ's

This?

https://x.com/Cernovich/status/2006841435304366141

Posted by: Mrs. Santa's unclean sister at January 02, 2026 06:48 PM (aTta8)

129 how we were all doomed.

we were, we still are.

Posted by: DaveA at January 02, 2026 06:48 PM (FhXTo)

130 Not sure that turn around in Sundowner's mid term happened but ghen vote fraud was still king.
Not so sure this next mid term won't be frauded, the Marxists are desperate

Posted by: Skip at January 02, 2026 06:49 PM (Ia/+0)

131 Bob Dole ran the worst, and laziest presidential campaign in my lifetime. It was embarrassing. His campaign slogan might as well have been “Hey! It’s my turn!”

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 02, 2026 06:50 PM (otNgF)

132 Democrats Propaganda Ministry and 50 years of Marxist Seminaries

Posted by: Skip at January 02, 2026 06:50 PM (Ia/+0)

133 39 Those Somalis are fucked up looking.

That is what happens when YOU FORNICATE with Goats....

Posted by: Jackson K. at January 02, 2026 06:50 PM (J9q9v)

134 Bring back tar and feathers.

Posted by: nurse ratched at January 02, 2026 06:44 PM (5He9w)

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I'm imagining Tampon Tim working as The ~~San Diego~~ Mogadishu Chicken mascot at minor league baseball games in Minnesomalia.

Posted by: ShainS -- Make Lustration Great Again! at January 02, 2026 06:51 PM (RV1wf)

135 Tom Servo. Nope. MCvain was the worst.

Posted by: Ben Had at January 02, 2026 06:51 PM (sDNVV)

136 In 1996 the Republicans had a ten point plan for the Contract with America. Whatever else one might think about Newt Gingrich he was a very savvy politician. Unfortunately the Clintons were even savvier. Bill laid claim to a majority of the items in the Contract with America- leaving the Dole campaign in the dust.

Posted by: blaster at January 02, 2026 06:51 PM (NlEaG)

137 131 Bob Dole ran the worst, and laziest presidential campaign in my lifetime. It was embarrassing. His campaign slogan might as well have been “Hey! It’s my turn!”
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Well it gave us Norm McDonald as Bob Dole, which was one of the only things worth watching on SNL from the time Eddie Murphy left, so there is that.

Posted by: the lower depths at January 02, 2026 06:52 PM (UdiE9)

138 Bob Dole ran the worst, and laziest presidential campaign in my lifetime. It was embarrassing. His campaign slogan might as well have been “Hey! It’s my turn!”

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 02, 2026 06:50 PM (otNgF)

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His subsequent ads for Viagra had more enthusiasm.

Posted by: ShainS -- Make Lustration Great Again! at January 02, 2026 06:53 PM (RV1wf)

139 His campaign slogan might as well have been “Hey! It’s my turn!”

Posted by: Tom Servo

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In his Inside The Beltway mind, that was both true and sufficient. He was the perfect embodiment of what incumbency can do to a mind.

Posted by: 2009Refugee at January 02, 2026 06:53 PM (8AONa)

140 Tom Servo. Nope. MCvain was the worst.

Hey! I was the worst!

Posted by: Willard M. Romney, Loser at January 02, 2026 06:53 PM (R/m4+)

141 Revealing this massive, large-scale fraud might be Trump's greatest accomplishment, if he can make the normals understand what has been taken from them.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 02, 2026 06:53 PM (RIvkX)

142 114 I think even we are underestimating the huge impacts - economic, social, and political - that the near simultaneous collapses of Iran, Venezuela, and Cuba are going to bring about.
And add onto that the California catastrophe that’s about to unfold.

Polls depend on the idea that things will be mostly the same in 11 months. But this is gonna be a year with a lot of the world turned upside down.
Posted by: Tom Servo
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I think that is true. I also think Trump's second term more closely resembles FDR's first mid term politically.

Posted by: whig at January 02, 2026 06:53 PM (WDjG6)

143 129 how we were all doomed.

we were, we still are.
Posted by: DaveA

I honestly trace a lot of our woes back to Clinton.
- 9/11
- real estate bubble
- china rise
- JEF came out of the 2008 crash which came out of the bubble
- mass immigration
- iraq war
- Hillary (which leads to Ukraine, MENA chaos,....)

I could go on. So blame it all on Clinton, and blame that on Perot.

Posted by: Mrs. Santa's unclean sister at January 02, 2026 06:54 PM (aTta8)

144 SanFranpsycho, you are absolutely correct.

Posted by: Ben Had at January 02, 2026 06:54 PM (sDNVV)

145 One wonders if the Dems are so dumb and poorly thought of how in the world is it so close.

Posted by: blaster at January 02, 2026 06:56 PM (NlEaG)

146 DeWine looks like the cowardly, blowhard mayor of some dusty cow town in 90% of the westerns I've seen. I'd be ashamed to be lorded over by this carp-faced, narrow-shouldered doofus.

Posted by: Paco at January 02, 2026 06:56 PM (2L+MU)

147 McCain was half running against his own vice presidential pick. I hope the devil is shoveling more coal beneath his cauldron in hell as we speak.
As for Romney, at least he wanted to win (so he could fuck us better).

Posted by: gKWVE at January 02, 2026 06:56 PM (gKWVE)

148 Is there such a thing as a non radical left?

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at January 02, 2026 06:56 PM (8CIFn)

149 I blame it on 535 elected asshole that don't know shit from shinola.

Posted by: Ben Had at January 02, 2026 06:56 PM (sDNVV)

150 131 Bob Dole ran the worst, and laziest presidential campaign in my lifetime. It was embarrassing. His campaign slogan might as well have been “Hey! It’s my turn!”
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What a worthless, befuddled, limp dick -- oh wait, I think that last bit was part of his campaign slogan too.

Posted by: Mrs. Santa's unclean sister at January 02, 2026 06:57 PM (aTta8)

151 131 Bob Dole ran the worst, and laziest presidential campaign in my lifetime. It was embarrassing. His campaign slogan might as well have been “Hey! It’s my turn!”
Posted by: Tom Servo at January 02, 2026 06:50 PM (otNgF)

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But Bob Dole was serious about the 10th Amendment! Bob Dole even kept a note about taking this issue seriously in his pocket!

Sheesh, what more does Bob Dole have to do to win your vote?

Posted by: Zombie Bob Dole, 10th Amendment Champion in 1996 at January 02, 2026 06:57 PM (/mCq0)

152 They have the media? Nick Shirley has 135 million views. That dog won't hunt.

And you can bet the ranch that X amplified the hell out of his message and cost Elon nothing to do it.

We have the GEOTUS and Tony Stark negating the power of legacy enemedia.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 02, 2026 06:57 PM (a4flb)

153 Someday is a wonderful thought but now is the time to act! For as little as $9.99 a month, you can sponsor a little Mohammad or Janeezer here at The Somali African Stunt Child Sponsor Fund! For the price of lunch, you can make a world of difference and receive a hand written letter with a picture each month from your sponsored Somali African Stunt Child! Call 1-888-SPONSOR...Act today!
Posted by: Minnesota Somali African Stunt Child Fund LLC

Going rate is $19 a month. That's the price point every charity has chosen that people will pay. St. Jude's, Shriner's, Covenant House, the animal charities. $9.99 is passe and so 1998.

Posted by: Haitian Child With Cleft Palate at January 02, 2026 06:57 PM (oftw2)

154 Here you go, Teresa

https://tinyurl.com/38puct54

Posted by: Notsothoreau at January 02, 2026 06:57 PM (+mUZM)

155 Show all the charts and graphs you want. Report on all the fraud you want. People are numb to it. As long as people are comfortable and entertained, everyone will just keep looking at their phone. The powers that be know this, which is why they spend all their days just kicking that can down the road. Whether it will continue to work? It has up to now, so...

Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at January 02, 2026 06:57 PM (MZ+PY)

156 https://x.com/Cernovich/status/2006841435304366141

What a lovely tribute.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 02, 2026 06:57 PM (RIvkX)

157 I blame it on 535 elected asshole that don't know shit from shinola.

The real power is chief of staff for each of these 535 ~~elected~~ scarecrows.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 02, 2026 06:59 PM (a4flb)

158 141 Revealing this massive, large-scale fraud might be Trump's greatest accomplishment, if he can make the normals understand what has been taken from them.
Posted by: San Franpsycho

Most of them already have internalized that government often has large dollops of fraud but the extent and brazenness of theft by despicable and unapologetic foreign invaders put a face on it plus the feeling among taxpayers working for a living that they are being had.

The House banking scandal was understandable to normies in that Congress critters were kiting checks.

This brazen fraud where Somalis were simply stealing funds designated for kids day care is something that will also resonate with the normies.

And I think this is coming deep from within the Treasury after Bessent exiled and fired most of the assholes running the magic money machines in Treasury and a few other agencies. DOGE also is getting its licks in. Because the key to a lot of this fraud is identity--social security, medicare and medicaid numbers, etc. Fraudsters need the massive ID theft in order to work their grift.

Posted by: whig at January 02, 2026 06:59 PM (WDjG6)

159 >>Polls depend on the idea that things will be mostly the same in 11 months. But this is gonna be a year with a lot of the world turned upside down.

They don't even do that. Even CNN's polls are showing Democrats are polling around 20% approval, historically bad. But somehow they are also 80% likely to take back Congress.

Inserting wanking motion.

Everyone can see for themselves what is happening right now and there is literally no reason to think Democrats are in such a dominant position. Screw polls, all you have to do is look around.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 02, 2026 07:00 PM (viF8m)

160 ...in recent months, X has lost its ability to unite the right. Instead, it’s increasingly the place where Trump supporters turn on each other.

It always amuses me when the Left assumes that vigorous disagreement means people are not or cannot work together.

I mean, I know that's how it works on their side.

But it's still funny when they think we are just like them, given how much they try to demonize us as different and weird.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at January 02, 2026 07:00 PM (Cznub)

161 Did Scott Adams die?

Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 02, 2026 07:01 PM (XV/Pl)

162 The real power is chief of staff for each of these 535 elected scarecrows.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure

Donor and friends with benefits like those hiring family and friends of the congress critter.

The chiefs of staff simply are the intermediaries for quid pro quos so the Congress critter can have deniability and someone to sack if things go off the rails.

Posted by: whig at January 02, 2026 07:01 PM (WDjG6)

163 Words cannot fully express how much I hate these avaricious cockgobbling shitweasels. Motherfuckers are selling our birthright - not their own, ours - for a bowl of Somali shit stew and money in their bank accounts.

Posted by: Fuck them all to death with a wooden pike at January 02, 2026 07:01 PM (TbWk/)

164 Did Scott Adams die?

--

He announced yesterday he would not live out January.

Posted by: Lady in Black at January 02, 2026 07:02 PM (67EGc)

165 It always amuses me when the Left assumes that vigorous disagreement means people are not or cannot work together.

I mean, I know that's how it works on their side.

But it's still funny when they think we are just like them, given how much they try to demonize us as different and weird.
Posted by: FeatherBlade
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Cult behavior and comfort from being one in the crowd.

Posted by: whig at January 02, 2026 07:02 PM (WDjG6)

166 No, but Scott doesn't think he'll live out the month. The cancer spread to his spine

Posted by: Notsothoreau at January 02, 2026 07:02 PM (+mUZM)

167 People are taking the time to thank Scott while he is still alive.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at January 02, 2026 07:03 PM (+mUZM)

168 159 >>Polls depend on the idea that things will be mostly the same in 11 months. But this is gonna be a year with a lot of the world turned upside down.

They don't even do that. Even CNN's polls are showing Democrats are polling around 20% approval, historically bad. But somehow they are also 80% likely to take back Congress.

Inserting wanking motion.

Everyone can see for themselves what is happening right now and there is literally no reason to think Democrats are in such a dominant position. Screw polls, all you have to do is look around.
Posted by: JackStraw at January 02, 2026 07:00 PM (viF8m)

Can someone please - please - tell me what winning message the Dems will have to run on in the midterms and beyond? Make Graft Great Again? Make Unfettered Immigration Great Again? Make USAID Great Again?

Sorry, folks. There is nothing this crop of Dems can run on that will make the average American want to dump the GOP and give these guys another shot. Not one Democrat is on the record saying that the Biden Presidency was awful - even at this late stage of the game, they won't admit it.

There's false pride and then there's facts. The Dems have literally nothing to run on.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at January 02, 2026 07:04 PM (0CU3H)

169 @166

>>No, but Scott doesn't think he'll live out the month. The cancer spread to his spine

Terrible news.

Well, as the saying goes, on a long enough timeline, we're all dead.

He will be missed.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 02, 2026 07:04 PM (XV/Pl)

170 One wonders if the Dems are so dumb and poorly thought of how in the world is it so close.

The combined effect of:

1) a large percentage of people actually are dumb and
2) voting fraud

Posted by: Oddbob at January 02, 2026 07:04 PM (3nLb4)

171 134 I'm imagining Tampon Tim working as The San Diego Mogadishu Chicken mascot at minor league baseball games in Minnesomalia. - ShainS

I think he'd actually be pretty good at that, what with those energetic arm gestures and all that elegant footwork.

Posted by: Paco at January 02, 2026 07:05 PM (2L+MU)

172 Elon Musk created a monster that’s tearing the right apart
X put the right on top in the culture war. Now it’s turning them against each other.

MAGA has always been at war with the worthless GOPe.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 02, 2026 07:05 PM (c115l)

173 Scott Adams taught me a lot about how to see things and how things are engineered behind the scenes to fool you. I stopped reading him after that, but I do recommend getting one of his earlier books, especially How to Fail at Everything.

Posted by: ... at January 02, 2026 07:05 PM (E0p3T)

174 Is it true a Demoncr@p legislator in Washington state is trying to pass a law to hide who owns all these assisted living and day care places?

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 02, 2026 07:06 PM (2GVsD)

175 I agree Jack that big stuff is happening.

NYT and WaPo still get picked up nationwide. There will be an avalanche of Obamacare subsidy stories.

My point is: there are outlets who are not on the left. But you have to go find them. The rest are brought to you.

But big things are happening and need to be spoken daily by the right. I dont see that happening.

Regardless, the economy will determine the outcome.

Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at January 02, 2026 07:06 PM (FxH7T)

176 163 Words cannot fully express how much I hate these avaricious cockgobbling shitweasels. Motherfuckers are selling our birthright - not their own, ours - for a bowl of Somali shit stew and money in their bank accounts.
Posted by: Fuck them all to death with a wooden pike
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This is far greater than the Somalis. HUD fraud (at least 5 Billion) was from teh usual urban POC crooks. The Covid Payroll Protection loans were usual smarmy pieces of shit from the US and even around the globe. Once again, thieves so lazy that no physical businesses ever existed to 'protect' the payroll.

Musk, after his stint in DOGE, estimated 1.5 billion bucks per year as fraud out of about 7 billion in spending and about one billion of that is interest.

So about 25 percent fraud of all federal spending apart from interest on the federal debt.

Posted by: whig at January 02, 2026 07:06 PM (WDjG6)

177 There are some folks that seem to face their mortality with courage, sometimes even curiosity. Scott seems to be doing that.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at January 02, 2026 07:07 PM (+mUZM)

178 174 Is it true a Demoncr@p legislator in Washington state is trying to pass a law to hide who owns all these assisted living and day care places?
Posted by: Anna Puma

Yep.
"Washington State Senator Lisa Wellman has pre-filed legislation, specifically Senate Bill 5926, to expand public records exemptions to include all licensed or certified child care providers, thereby limiting public access to information about daycare centers and their operators." Brave AI.

Posted by: whig at January 02, 2026 07:07 PM (WDjG6)

179 A third of the population would be happy if America fell, a third would fight in some way to save it, and a third are not committed in any real sense.

Posted by: tubal at January 02, 2026 07:08 PM (pDt9x)

180
There's false pride and then there's facts. The Dems have literally nothing to run on.

If the economy is better they will credit Mamdami.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 02, 2026 07:08 PM (pkeXY)

181 Sheesh, what more does Bob Dole have to do to win your vote?

Bob Dole did win my vote, for what little good it did him. Or rather, Clinton forfeited it by betraying his "moderate" facade from '92.

Posted by: Oddbob at January 02, 2026 07:08 PM (3nLb4)

182
A third of the population would be happy if America fell, a third would fight in some way to save it, and a third are not committed in any real sense.

Just like it was 250 years ago.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 02, 2026 07:09 PM (pkeXY)

183 I think Musk or whoever said the debt is all fraud. So, shut the tap. Audit the books. Claw back the dough. You're welcome.

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at January 02, 2026 07:09 PM (YlWIZ)

184 173 Scott Adams taught me a lot about how to see things and how things are engineered behind the scenes to fool you. I stopped reading him after that, but I do recommend getting one of his earlier books, especially How to Fail at Everything.
Posted by: ...

A nation's culture is uphill from the behavior from those in government, corporations, and other organizations. The Democrats have unleashed vicious attacks on the existing US culture for a reason, it blocked them from power and money (and children) in existing society.

Posted by: whig at January 02, 2026 07:09 PM (WDjG6)

185 tubal, those numbers have been the same since the revolution. This is not a 50/50 country.

Posted by: Ben Had at January 02, 2026 07:10 PM (sDNVV)

186 Want some more fraud? Let's take a look at SNAP.

Posted by: Case at January 02, 2026 07:10 PM (G1OIb)

187 165 It always amuses me when the Left assumes that vigorous disagreement means people are not or cannot work together. - FeatherBlade

What used to amuse me - and by "amuse", I mean "piss me off no end" - was my inside-the-beltway boss's view that the main role of government was to serve as an assembly line of legislation: the more laws that got churned out, the happier he was. And it apparently didn't matter if the legislation made sense or was clearly idiotic as long as the conveyor belt kept moving.

Posted by: Paco at January 02, 2026 07:10 PM (2L+MU)

188
Can someone please - please - tell me what winning message the Dems will have to run on in the midterms and beyond?

Posted by: Darrell Harris
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"Here's $20 bucks for every filled in ballot. There is an extra $200 if you have to work election night to make up any shortfalls."

Posted by: Mrs. Santa's unclean sister at January 02, 2026 07:11 PM (aTta8)

189 Is it true a Demoncr@p legislator in Washington state is trying to pass a law to hide who owns all these assisted living and day care places?
Posted by: Anna Puma

Yep.
"Washington State Senator Lisa Wellman has pre-filed legislation, specifically Senate Bill 5926, to expand public records exemptions to include all licensed or certified child care providers, thereby limiting public access to information about daycare centers and their operators." Brave AI.
Posted by: whig

I could understand sensitive police information pertaining to active investigations, but taxpayer's money for daycares?

Fuck you. Show the paperwork.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 02, 2026 07:11 PM (c115l)

190 And let's not forget 2026 is the 250th anniversary of the United States. And if nothing else Trump is a master marketer. 2026 is going to be a nonstop celebration of American greatness and patriotism. That's not exactly the left's wheelhouse.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 02, 2026 07:11 PM (viF8m)

191 The total fiduciary squalor of this government is beyond imagination.

Posted by: Ordinary American at January 02, 2026 07:12 PM (WHfpM)

192 I think Musk or whoever said the debt is all fraud. So, shut the tap. Audit the books. Claw back the dough. You're welcome.
Posted by: Hokey Pokey

Execute those you can't get the money from.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 02, 2026 07:13 PM (c115l)

193 186 Want some more fraud? Let's take a look at SNAP.
Posted by: Case at January 02, 2026 07:10 PM (G1OIb)

This is why the Somali fraud case is so important. If it is opening people's eyes to the rampant fraud behind something as universally approved as child day care (which Blue states are trying to make universal, by the way), all of a sudden SNAP bennies don't look as pure as the driven snow. From there it's a small hop to question everything government does.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at January 02, 2026 07:13 PM (0CU3H)

194 Noob

Posted by: Case at January 02, 2026 07:13 PM (G1OIb)

195 183 I think Musk or whoever said the debt is all fraud. So, shut the tap. Audit the books. Claw back the dough. You're welcome.
Posted by: Hokey Pokey
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I think easily half of the current federal debt (18 trillion) comes from fraudulent spending and that fraud has been propping up much of the world's economy along with making the US a massive debtor nation so that people could make vast fortunes from the flows in and out and piece of shit world control power freaks could fund their ops.

Like insertion of fraudulent ballots into the rest of the count, it is difficult to separate the shit from the rest of the porridge. Once the funds are commingled, much harder to separate out the shitty fraud from the legitimate spending.

Posted by: whig at January 02, 2026 07:13 PM (WDjG6)

196 Musk, after his stint in DOGE, estimated 1.5 billion bucks per year as fraud out of about 7 billion in spending and about one billion of that is interest.

So about 25 percent fraud of all federal spending apart from interest on the federal debt.
Posted by: whig

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*TRILLION
*TRILLION
*TRILLION

Posted by: Mrs. Santa's unclean sister at January 02, 2026 07:13 PM (aTta8)

197 This is why the Somali fraud case is so important. If it is opening people's eyes to the rampant fraud behind something as universally approved as child day care (which Blue states are trying to make universal, by the way), all of a sudden SNAP bennies don't look as pure as the driven snow. From there it's a small hop to question everything government does.
Posted by: Darrell Harris

Yep.

Posted by: whig at January 02, 2026 07:13 PM (WDjG6)

198 *TRILLION
*TRILLION
*TRILLION
Posted by: Mrs. Santa's

Dammit. You are right. Brain fart and thanks for the correction. 1.5 Trillion in fraud out of a 7 trillion dollar budget.

Posted by: whig at January 02, 2026 07:14 PM (WDjG6)

199 Well, whatever happens let's not have another federal government shut down. I was clearing the dead off of my driveway entrance for weeks.

Posted by: It's A Swindle, A Swindle at January 02, 2026 07:14 PM (R/m4+)

200 Is it true a Demoncr@p legislator in Washington state is trying to pass a law to hide who owns all these assisted living and day care places?
Posted by: Anna Puma at January 02, 2026 07:06 PM (2GVsD)

And the state AG. The state doesn't want people looking because the state is involved.

Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at January 02, 2026 07:14 PM (MZ+PY)

201 Want some more fraud? Let's take a look at SNAP.

"Why do you hate the chiiilllldren?!"

Posted by: Oddbob at January 02, 2026 07:15 PM (3nLb4)

202 And let's not forget 2026 is the 250th anniversary of the United States. And if nothing else Trump is a master marketer. 2026 is going to be a nonstop celebration of American greatness and patriotism. That's not exactly the left's wheelhouse.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 02, 2026 07:11 PM (viF8m)
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Out of morbid curiosity, I looked up the Chinese Zodiac symbol for this year. It's the Year of the Horse:

"the Horse embodies enthusiasm, speed and fieriness, bringing a year focused on bold moves and exploration."

I think we're going to see a lot of that this year.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 02, 2026 07:15 PM (ESVrU)

203 What amazed me about Scott Adams was not only his powers of observation, but his apparent prescience. It was something of a game in the agency where I worked in D.C. to read the Dilbert comic strip and guess when the latest dumb and/or inhumane idea in the strip would be embraced as an actual policy by the top brass. And it happened constantly.

Posted by: Paco at January 02, 2026 07:15 PM (2L+MU)

204 I could understand sensitive police information pertaining to active investigations, but taxpayer's money for daycares?

Fuck you. Show the paperwork.
Posted by: rickb223
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The legislator knows this is a bomb underneath the Democrat facade and brand management of caring for people.

So she is trying to cover it up. Won't work in a modern internet society with the Streisand effect to hide the villains but yet they persist in shitting on taxpayers.

Posted by: whig at January 02, 2026 07:16 PM (WDjG6)

205 DOGE was the most important government initiative in my lifetime.

Posted by: Ordinary American at January 02, 2026 07:17 PM (WHfpM)

206 And the state AG. The state doesn't want people looking because the state is involved.
Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder
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That shithead AG in Wa State is threatening prosecutions and investigations of clearly 1A protected information. He too will fail.

Posted by: whig at January 02, 2026 07:18 PM (WDjG6)

207 Where my EBT card at? I need me some mo' Doritos and grape Nehi.

Posted by: LaQuisha at January 02, 2026 07:18 PM (2Ez/1)

208 The fraud perpetrated by Somalis is really just a symptom of a much deeper issue. It all comes back to the basis of our system of government and the utter failure of the Constitution to keep a handle on people who (as the Left is inclined to say) make themselves ungovernable.

The insight of John Adams was spot-on and is the biggest Achilles heel of our laws:

"Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other."

Add to our moral rot since the 1950s an influx of populations entirely based in exploiting opportunities, and we're utterly doomed.

Posted by: red speck at January 02, 2026 07:19 PM (Ve/HL)

209 204
The legislator knows this is a bomb underneath the Democrat facade and brand management of caring for people.

So she is trying to cover it up. Won't work in a modern internet society with the Streisand effect to hide the villains but yet they persist in shitting on taxpayers.
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I think this is the thing that pisses me off the most at a gut level. I don't mean that it's the worst thing by any standard. There are far worse things for the health of the republic. But the brazenness of Dim politicians in the last 5-6 years is really infuriating at an emotional level. Some deeply buried ancestral part of me wants to physically throttle them for insulting my intelligence and honor.

Posted by: the lower depths at January 02, 2026 07:20 PM (UdiE9)

210 If Venezuela did to America what the democrats have done to America, no people would be alive there.

Posted by: thug dolphin at January 02, 2026 07:20 PM (EyfuW)

211 Don't forget the current gov of WA state was previously the AG. Gotta protect Fergueson

Posted by: Notsothoreau at January 02, 2026 07:38 PM (+mUZM)

212 Why do any of us legal law abiding citizens pay our taxes, every self employed citizen should just stop paying taxes, irs doesn't have 50 million agents to get us, stop funding this Insane fraud, the entire world is ripping us off! WTF!

Posted by: Matthew at January 02, 2026 09:13 PM (OdsgZ)

213 All laundering through 501c3/c4's back to the democrat and prolly republican parties(Tom Emmer). Disgusting.

Posted by: Danimal28 at January 02, 2026 10:02 PM (iXm17)

The CIA Promoted Abstract Modern Art As a Psyop

Interesting video. The CIA promoted abstract expressionists like Mark Rothko and Jackson Pollack as some kind of bulwark against the propaganda value of Soviet art, which itself was realistic and representational. (Though idealized in showing proud, strong, happy Soviet peasants harvesting the abundant fields.)

So using taxpayer money, they pushed this crap. "Our" art would be simple geometric shapes and paint splatters.

It was literal Gay Ops.

But that's not the most egregious CIA Gay Op. They also funded and promoted leftwing magazines, including one founded by Bill Kristol's father, Irving Kristol. The point of this was to give leftwing intellectuals a leftwing ideology to believe in that wasn't actual communism.

But what they did was fund magazines that relentlessly attacked the right and pushed socialism.

Fifty years later, this op came to its ultimate fruition as a majority of the younger generations, for the first time in American history, now support socialism.

And many support communism.

Bang-up job, guys. Give yourselves all a promotion.

Just as an FYI: Irving Kristol eventually turned away from leftist more or less completely and founded the anti-communist "neoconservative" movement.

His son then turned all the way back to leftism.

Posted by: Ace at 04:50 PM

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1 FIRST!

Posted by: The_Hoser at January 02, 2026 04:56 PM (H4qGm)

2 FIRST!
Posted by: The_Hoser

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In that case, I might as well read the content.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 02, 2026 04:56 PM (n7rxJ)

3 Why?

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at January 02, 2026 04:57 PM (0N4FZ)

4 Nobody made the rich people buy the ugly art but they did. Was this madness of the elite crowds?

Posted by: Decaf at January 02, 2026 04:58 PM (Z8jzG)

5
Bang-up job, guys. Give yourselves all a promotion.

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I heard another version of this from an Argentine friend of mine.

There were tons of little socialist parties in Argentina, and they all had one thing in common: they hated the official Communist party there.

CIA comes in and obliterates all the little socialist parties, leaving the Communist party the only one standing.

I don't know the CIA's side of the story, whether this was some 11-dimensional chess move or plain incompetence.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 02, 2026 04:59 PM (n7rxJ)

6 Well they had Roosevelt's Depression era art program as an example.

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 02, 2026 05:00 PM (2GVsD)

7 I'm glad that even with this great push of ugly art the classical and beautiful art still brings the biggest bucks.

Posted by: Decaf at January 02, 2026 05:00 PM (Z8jzG)

8 "Blood splatter is art" is an idea so dumb only a Yalie could come up with it.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at January 02, 2026 05:01 PM (GBKbO)

9 So Rothko is a CIA plant?

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 02, 2026 05:01 PM (2GVsD)

10
Who were the great representational artists of the time? I ask in all sincerity because I don't know. Fuck me, but I like Rothko and Pollock.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 02, 2026 05:01 PM (n7rxJ)

11 7 I'm glad that even with this great push of ugly art the classical and beautiful art still brings the biggest bucks.

Posted by: Decaf at January 02, 2026 05:00 PM (Z8jzG)

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People like beautiful things.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at January 02, 2026 05:01 PM (GBKbO)

12 Seems as if the CIA had and has too much time on their hands.

Abolish.

Posted by: Abolish The CIA at January 02, 2026 05:01 PM (R/m4+)

13 Everything’s a ghey, fake, and an op.

Posted by: Eromero at January 02, 2026 05:01 PM (Slgjz)

14 America's Untold Stories did a show on this in their CIA Files.

Well worth watching all of the CIA based videos they put out.

Posted by: garrett at January 02, 2026 05:01 PM (grNgC)

15 Career path info. Is it a secret yey?

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at January 02, 2026 05:01 PM (YlWIZ)

16 Where does Andy Warhol fit into this narrative?

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 02, 2026 05:01 PM (2GVsD)

17 The Vibrant Hot Air Art Thread, and CBD, hardest hit.

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

18 Were the CIA people that pushed this crap stupid or were they dirty commies taking advantage of easy to full stupid politicians that would fall for the con?

Posted by: PaleRider at January 02, 2026 05:02 PM (hhkIi)

19 16 Where does Andy Warhol fit into this narrative?

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 02, 2026 05:01 PM (2GVsD)

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Dude was MiB.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at January 02, 2026 05:02 PM (GBKbO)

20 Been meaning to get around to reading about the CIA art fiasco. Thanks for the reminder, Ace.

Posted by: scampydog at January 02, 2026 05:02 PM (2bFN5)

21 Modern art was a CIA fund raising scam. Insiders bought low, pumped it, then dumped it. It turned into a fad, that wouldnt die.

Posted by: Its pyramid scheme financing legalized at January 02, 2026 05:02 PM (JFpzi)

22 easy to fool. Stupid typo to make

Posted by: PaleRider at January 02, 2026 05:02 PM (hhkIi)

23 LSD helped

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 02, 2026 05:02 PM (pkeXY)

24 Wait, wut???

Posted by: Peaches at January 02, 2026 05:02 PM (OS/iM)

25 The 'Elites' about it because they are much a herd of cows as the proletariat.

"Well I heard the Vanderbilts just bought a Rothko."

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 02, 2026 05:03 PM (2GVsD)

26 The real ending to the Emperor's new coat is that the ruling class raped and murdered the kid who said the emperor was naked and then spent billions of borrowed money to also get invisible coats.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at January 02, 2026 05:03 PM (GBKbO)

27 That worthless POS Ratcliffe probably has a Rothko hung in every room in his house. POS.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at January 02, 2026 05:03 PM (abIsI)

28 Also, in relation to modern, abstract art, I quote Ken Jeong:

"GAYYYYYYYY!"

Posted by: The_Hoser at January 02, 2026 05:03 PM (H4qGm)

29 28 Also, in relation to modern, abstract art, I quote Ken Jeong:

"GAYYYYYYYY!"

Posted by: The_Hoser at January 02, 2026 05:03 PM (H4qGm)

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Si, Senor.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at January 02, 2026 05:03 PM (GBKbO)

30 Next you'll be telling me the CIA "Promoted Abstract Modern 'Journalism' As a Psyop.

Wait, wut?

Posted by: ShainS -- Make Lustration Great Again! at January 02, 2026 05:04 PM (RV1wf)

31 CIA ruins and runs everything

Posted by: thathalfrican - The One at January 02, 2026 05:04 PM (eZwyX)

32 I have always said Jackson Pollack was preschool garbage...now I have proof.

Posted by: Nova Local at January 02, 2026 05:04 PM (tOcjL)

33 It is well known Jackson Pollock never includes dogs or horses in any of his work. Not art.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 02, 2026 05:05 PM (vzudA)

34 "Hey, where's my government check, bitch?"

Posted by: Bob Ross at January 02, 2026 05:05 PM (H4qGm)

35 34 "Hey, where's my government check, bitch?"

Posted by: Bob Ross at January 02, 2026 05:05 PM (H4qGm)

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"This happy little corpse needs a friend."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at January 02, 2026 05:05 PM (GBKbO)

36 I kinda like Ratcliffe , but he doesn't seem to be moving away from a neo- con interventionist world view at Langley. It still looks like OPs are continuing to break our mind on the media

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 02, 2026 05:05 PM (zNwXb)

37 Bob Ross is excluded.

His art was not 'art', but it was still pretty.

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 02, 2026 05:05 PM (2GVsD)

38 The CIA has been running ops against the American People since before it was founded.

Literally. It was defunded by Truman. So the Spooks went behind his back to get money from the Military.

We can have a profession spy class or a free country but not both.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at January 02, 2026 05:05 PM (xcxpd)

39 4 Nobody made the rich people buy the ugly art but they did. Was this madness of the elite crowds?
Posted by: Decaf
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Money laundering to avoid taxes. The truly rich investor class lives off their 'investments' not a paycheck for working. And to offset a gain, they often need a convenient 'loss' or 'deduction'. A classic way to buy some painting then donate it to an art museum at an inflated value from teh price actually paid. That donation then offsets taxes on cash gains when assets are sold for cash.

Money launderers like Art too as it is a convenient way to stash money and then cleanse it when sold even after paying the cap gain taxes.

Posted by: whig at January 02, 2026 05:06 PM (WDjG6)

40 So using taxpayer money, they pushed this crap. "Our" art would be simple geometric shapes and paint splatters.

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Or simple geometric turds and shit splatters in Hunter Biden's case.

Posted by: ShainS -- Make Lustration Great Again! at January 02, 2026 05:06 PM (RV1wf)

41 Julia Childs was OSS, explains much does it not?

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 02, 2026 05:06 PM (2GVsD)

42 pumped it, then dumped it

Used to date her.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at January 02, 2026 05:06 PM (Kt19C)

43 Break out in the media. Geesss

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 02, 2026 05:07 PM (zNwXb)

44 Who were the great representational artists of the time? I ask in all sincerity because I don't know. Fuck me, but I like Rothko and Pollock.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 02, 2026 05:01 PM (n7rxJ)

I don't like Pollock.

But, I do like Rothko. Seeing his paintings in real life is quite a bit different than seeing them online.

And his Chapel at Rice University is very evocative. It evokes depression. Not a place to take dates.

Be sure to check out my new autobiography:

"I Was an Art Chump For the CIA"

Posted by: naturalfake at January 02, 2026 05:07 PM (iJfKG)

45 In that case, I might as well read the content.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 02, 2026 04:56 PM (n7rxJ)

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Oddly enough, I DID read the content. I even hesitated, thinking someone else must have posted by now.

Blade hardest hit.

Posted by: The_Hoser at January 02, 2026 05:07 PM (H4qGm)

46 33 It is well known Jackson Pollock never includes dogs or horses in any of his work. Not art.
Posted by: Huck Follywood
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But he had a bio movie made about him and everything!!!!

Posted by: whig at January 02, 2026 05:07 PM (WDjG6)

47 @41 "save the liver"

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 02, 2026 05:07 PM (zNwXb)

48 Whig

Wasn't a stolen piece of art worth $10 million in cash but $1 million in arms and ammo?

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 02, 2026 05:07 PM (2GVsD)

49 The CIA probably has a budget that rivals the GDP of several western countries.

Seriously.

They more accountants on their payroll than Treasury. Or the IRS. Or H&R Block. Combined.

Much of their monies are "off the books." Various CIA run businesses (they "own" an airline) and other ventures put huge amounts of cash into their coffers.

More than their allocated, approved budget. By a lot.

The Agency is totally self sufficient. And ungovernable.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 02, 2026 05:08 PM (NwnyJ)

50 Danger ops! Top of baby's head

Posted by: Pregante at January 02, 2026 05:08 PM (aTta8)

51 41 Julia Childs was OSS, explains much does it not?
Posted by: Anna Puma
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Yes, putting a raw egg in french onion soup is a pure travesty; probably invented by Commies.

Posted by: whig at January 02, 2026 05:08 PM (WDjG6)

52 Beer-battered pollock > Jackson Pollock

Posted by: The_Hoser at January 02, 2026 05:09 PM (H4qGm)

53
Irving Kristol < Irving Berlin

Posted by: Frank Barone at January 02, 2026 05:09 PM (IifOV)

54 I don't believe this for a second.

Modern art was something that was being pushed throughout the 20th century. You could draw a line from the Classicists to the Expressionists to the Abstractionists, and it was taking place coincident to the huge advances in science, as well as the great disillusionment after WWI. There were just as many European modern artists that had a huge influence on art as American ones. Picasso? Miro? Matisse? de Kooning? and a whole lot more.

We didn't need the CIA to push this stuff. Picasso was disrupting the art world from before Pollock picked up a paint brush. Challenge.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at January 02, 2026 05:09 PM (0CU3H)

55 Back in 2021, I sold all my Rothkos and Pollocks and went big on Hunter Biden's truly incredible works.

Posted by: Peaches at January 02, 2026 05:09 PM (OS/iM)

56 Jackson Pollock is from Cody, Wy. Once I was waiting at a red light in Cody when the car in front of me emptied out, like they were doing a Chinese fire drill, and the four guys started brawling. Very entertaining.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 02, 2026 05:10 PM (H6R4g)

57 Jeez. Did Tom Clancy know about this?

Posted by: Jinx the Cat at January 02, 2026 05:10 PM (Dc8HJ)

58 The Agency is totally self sufficient. And ungovernable.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 02, 2026 05:08 PM (NwnyJ)
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How long until they rebrand themselves as "The Syndicate" from Mission Impossible and call it a day?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 02, 2026 05:10 PM (ESVrU)

59 41 Julia Childs was OSS, explains much does it not?
Posted by: Anna Puma

This explains a lot about her blanching, skinning, braising, saucing, serving and eating a fresh beef tongue.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at January 02, 2026 05:11 PM (abIsI)

60
The CIA create their own boogie men, then denounce them before eventually endorsing them.

Up is down. Left is Right.

Posted by: Frank Barone at January 02, 2026 05:11 PM (IifOV)

61 Pollock was a pillock.

Posted by: Darth Randall at January 02, 2026 05:11 PM (EEnvK)

62 Nobody ever tricked me into liking any of that crap.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 02, 2026 05:11 PM (uWKK8)

63 I don't know the CIA's side of the story, whether this was some 11-dimensional chess move or plain incompetence.

Lowest hanging fruit policy born of laziness would be my guess.

Posted by: Halfhand at January 02, 2026 05:11 PM (edbiH)

64
So, the CIA couldn't manage to kill Castro, but-

they got Americans to like big paint splatters as high art.

I suppose there's a lesson there somewhere.

Maybe we should've had the CIA give Castro a Full Body Tattoo.

Posted by: naturalfake at January 02, 2026 05:11 PM (iJfKG)

65

Darrell, read up about the origins of dadaism, the font and source of shit art. Commies all the way down, as it turns out the CIA was trying to promote for real. TOP MEN

Posted by: imp at January 02, 2026 05:12 PM (g6TN6)

66 The CIA: What can't it fuck up?

Posted by: zombie at January 02, 2026 05:12 PM (se8lQ)

67 48 Whig

Wasn't a stolen piece of art worth $10 million in cash but $1 million in arms and ammo?
Posted by: Anna Puma
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Would not be surprised. Art collectors at the mega rich level can be unsavory and obsessive at times.

So often they would do a deal with criminals or commission a theft just so they could own a particular art piece.

Posted by: whig at January 02, 2026 05:12 PM (WDjG6)

68 I hope CBD isn't working for the CIA.

If he is, I'm totally hosed. And all you morning people.

Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at January 02, 2026 05:12 PM (DsA2n)

69 I still unironically maintain The View is a CIA op.

Posted by: ... at January 02, 2026 05:13 PM (E0p3T)

70 What has the CIA ever done to make our country better? 😐

Posted by: Glenn at January 02, 2026 05:13 PM (gJw8Y)

71 I think we can make a very good argument that the trajectory of what passes for "serious art" is on the same timeline, and from the same root source, as the collective Death of Western Civilization.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 02, 2026 05:14 PM (uWKK8)

72 Cucker Tarlson's Dad's fault

Posted by: the guy who always says it's Cucker Tarlson's Dad's fault at January 02, 2026 05:14 PM (kEAv+)

73 I really hoped Trump and Ratcliffe would shutter the CIA and burn Langley to the ground. They are useless fuck ups that cost us billions if not trillions.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at January 02, 2026 05:14 PM (abIsI)

74 63 I don't know the CIA's side of the story, whether this was some 11-dimensional chess move or plain incompetence.

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They recruited and still do from Ivy League schools. As those rotted, so did the cadre pool for the CIA. By the end of the Cold War, then all the CIA's attention was on how to make themselves relevant. Regime change across the globe then became the focus.

Posted by: whig at January 02, 2026 05:14 PM (WDjG6)

75 How many Pollocks does it take to screw up a painting?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 02, 2026 05:14 PM (pkeXY)

76 70 What has the CIA ever done to make our country better? 😐

Posted by: Glenn at January 02, 2026 05:13 PM (gJw8Y)

We'd love to tell you but then we'd have to kill you.

Posted by: Peaches at January 02, 2026 05:14 PM (OS/iM)

77 70 What has the CIA ever done to make our country better? 😐
Posted by: Glenn a

Absolutely fucking nothing.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at January 02, 2026 05:15 PM (abIsI)

78 I like beet farmer art.

Posted by: wth at January 02, 2026 05:15 PM (UjdFS)

79 Remember when Tom Braden used to debate Pat Buchanan on Crossfire?

Posted by: Eeyore at January 02, 2026 05:16 PM (s0JqF)

80 Two Art Threads in one day?

That's a CIA psyop if ever I've seen one.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 02, 2026 05:16 PM (ESVrU)

81
I hope CBD isn't working for the CIA.

There's a good chance that he is.

It's a well-known fact that the CIA foisted the Stirred Manhattan on the American Public through the efforts of Leonard Bernstein in an effort to let the French gain a jump on us in the Cocktail Race in the 1950s.

Posted by: naturalfake at January 02, 2026 05:17 PM (iJfKG)

82 36 I kinda like Ratcliffe , but he doesn't seem to be moving away from a neo- con interventionist world view at Langley. It still looks like OPs are continuing to break our mind on the media
Posted by: Smell the Glove
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KGB did not prevent the regime from falling and the CIA is not omnipotent like some think.

The easiest way to neuter the CIA is to separate the analysis portion from ops and direct action. Put those operations back in the military intel.

Posted by: whig at January 02, 2026 05:17 PM (WDjG6)

83 It's a well-known fact that the CIA foisted the Stirred Manhattan on the American Public through the efforts of Leonard Bernstein in an effort to let the French gain a jump on us in the Cocktail Race in the 1950s.
Posted by: naturalfake
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I thought it was CBD's attempt to destabilize the Canadian economy by eschewing maple syrup on French Toast.

Posted by: whig at January 02, 2026 05:18 PM (WDjG6)

84
It is well known Jackson Pollock never includes dogs or horses in any of his work. Not art.
Posted by: Huck Follywood

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I don't know how this would be known. Take a look at Convergence #108A and tell me there are no horses or dogs in there. Or potato chips.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 02, 2026 05:19 PM (n7rxJ)

85 If I can paint it, it's not art.

Posted by: CaliGirl at January 02, 2026 05:19 PM (YLT6F)

86 So can we admit that at least some (or a lot) of the hostility towards the US is due to our meddling? If the gov was doing this kind of crap domestically, imagine what they've been doing elsewhere.

Maybe the other side isn't completely wrong.

Posted by: Tinfoil Dispenser at January 02, 2026 05:19 PM (6wHqY)

87
I hope this explains Andy Warhol & Thomas Kincaid

Posted by: Frank Barone at January 02, 2026 05:19 PM (IifOV)

88
Soviet art, which itself was realistic and representational. (Though idealized in showing proud, strong, happy Soviet peasants harvesting the abundant fields.)

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Something fascists and communists have in common. Kum bay ya.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at January 02, 2026 05:19 PM (azNOR)

89 You thought I was kidding?

Posted by: Chuck Schumer at January 02, 2026 05:19 PM (Q+gd/)

90 Just think: People could have had gardens, pets and hobbies!

Posted by: KT at January 02, 2026 05:20 PM (7vIsy)

91 It is well known Jackson Pollock never includes dogs playing poker or horses in any of his work. Not art.
Posted by: Huck Follywood

Posted by: wth at January 02, 2026 05:20 PM (UjdFS)

92 79 Remember when Tom Braden used to debate Pat Buchanan on Crossfire?
Posted by: Eeyore
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Pat routinely spanked Braden's ass publicly on the show. Later Bob Novak did the same to Michael Kinsley.

Amusing TV, but probably both Pat and Bob did it to pay bills just like Jack Germond did on the McLaughlin group.

Posted by: whig at January 02, 2026 05:20 PM (WDjG6)

93 Yoko Ono was/is an OP.

Posted by: davidt at January 02, 2026 05:21 PM (Q+gd/)

94 88
Soviet art, which itself was realistic and representational. (Though idealized in showing proud, strong, happy Soviet peasants harvesting the abundant fields.)

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Something fascists and communists have in common. Kum bay ya.
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at January 02, 2026 05:19 PM (azNOR
You mean FDR/WPA ‘art’ portraying the struggle.

Posted by: Eromero at January 02, 2026 05:21 PM (Slgjz)

95 78 I like beet farmer art.
Posted by: wth
__________

Country Dick Montana painted?

Posted by: Kam Fong as Chin Ho at January 02, 2026 05:21 PM (gf7Ez)

96
Julius Irving > Irving Kristol

Posted by: Frank Barone at January 02, 2026 05:21 PM (IifOV)

97 The last two to three decades really did us in. There is a whole cohort of students in their educational years from elementary to postsecondary that need 'accomodations'. a whole industry of adults suckling at the teat of the welfare state, through misrepresentation and outright fraud. we are importing the 'brazilian way' describe in that recent tiktok vid. we used to be a 'suck it up' society that abhorred being on The Dole. We have allowed a complete 180 with an entire generation or two and even if we successfully reform the younger gens, we're stuck with the damaged ones.

Posted by: Garfunkel's Sowed Oats at January 02, 2026 05:21 PM (V87Oy)

98

Orange Julius > Julius Irving > Irving Kristol

Posted by: naturalfake at January 02, 2026 05:22 PM (iJfKG)

99 So using taxpayer money, they pushed this crap. "Our" art would be simple geometric shapes and paint splatters.

Did the CIA also commission a nekkid fat man on an ottoman painting?

Because that is downright evil.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 02, 2026 05:23 PM (a4flb)

100 Bri. An. Stel. Ter.

Posted by: Sam Gamgee at January 02, 2026 05:24 PM (lkZvI)

101 98

Orange Julius > Julius Irving > Irving Kristol

Posted by: naturalfake

There's nothing more refreshing on a hot summers day than an Orange Julius.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at January 02, 2026 05:24 PM (abIsI)

102 > They recruited and still do from Ivy League schools.
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Not exclusively.

And they recruit a very, very wide range of skill sets and disciplines.

Accountants to Zoo Keepers.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 02, 2026 05:24 PM (NwnyJ)

103 Sue Ane Langdon played a ditzy artist on an Ironside episode. She wore a yellow bikini under a clear plastic smock. Worked up on a scaffold dripping and spilling paint onto the large canvas on the floor. Only time I really enjoyed modern art.

Posted by: Ars Pro Multis! at January 02, 2026 05:24 PM (oftw2)

104 97 we are importing the 'brazilian way' describe in that recent tiktok vid.

importing brazilian wax > importing brazilian way

Posted by: anachronda at January 02, 2026 05:25 PM (IzeGU)

105 86 So can we admit that at least some (or a lot) of the hostility towards the US is due to our meddling? If the gov was doing this kind of crap domestically, imagine what they've been doing elsewhere.

Maybe the other side isn't completely wrong.
Posted by: Tinfoil Dispenser
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Never adopt the oppressed oppressor lens when discussing international relations. It is and has been dog eat dog since nation states have existed. Those nations that cannot stand up to others with a military, then use corruption and soft measures to infiltrate and turn those nation's behaviors toward favor.

And a lot of my hostility to other nations is doing that crap to us whether was the UK, W. Germany, etc. They routinely leaked sensitive information, stole US technology, propped up the Soviet Union by loans and purchases, and screwed us economically. The Turd World was scarcely better, routinely violating our IP, taking our assets without compensation, and stealing whatever aid they got from the US for those in gubmint. And routinely killing, kidnapping, and terrorizing Americans abroad.

Posted by: whig at January 02, 2026 05:25 PM (WDjG6)

106 "Irving Kristol eventually turned away from leftist more or less completely and founded the anti-communist "neoconservative" movement.

His son then turned all the way back to leftism."

Irving Kristol was a true intellectual, and his turn away from leftism was logically sound.

His son is a nepot and a dilettante, and hasn't had an original or even strongly thought out idea in his entire life. So he didn't turn away from anything, he is a mush-headed follower.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 02, 2026 05:25 PM (n9ltV)

107 Every painting should have some happy bushes.

Posted by: zombie Bob Ross at January 02, 2026 05:26 PM (lkZvI)

108 Hunter Biden enters chat to ask why the CIA did not help him?

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at January 02, 2026 05:27 PM (WONhk)

109 Art Chad is trying to cover up a Canadian accent. What's that all aboot?

Posted by: Oglebay at January 02, 2026 05:27 PM (GPa4z)

110 Did the CIA also commission a nekkid fat man on an ottoman painting?

Because that is downright evil.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure
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A weapon of mass destruction. Emphasis on mass.

Posted by: whig at January 02, 2026 05:27 PM (WDjG6)

111 I get excited by gay art.
A ha ha ha ha ha ha ha.

Posted by: Tucker at January 02, 2026 05:27 PM (dKrJA)

112 Hell is entirely decorated with Rothko's.

Posted by: Poppy Bush at January 02, 2026 05:27 PM (abIsI)

113 And who do you think is behind the CIA?

Posted by: Big Penguin at January 02, 2026 05:28 PM (lkZvI)

114 Posted by: naturalfake at January 02, 2026 05:17 PM (iJfKG)

The shaken Manhattan is a revanchist tool of the neo-communists in our midst, and must be fought with every fiber of our being!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 02, 2026 05:28 PM (n9ltV)

115
I don't believe this for a second.

Posted by: Darrell Harris

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It's pretty sus. I read once that art departed the straightforward and confirmable-by-everyman-observation around the same time science did. There's a parallel between modern art and Newtonian physics (easily observed and easily understood by any Joe) for Einsteinian physics (like wth????).

Same thing happened in music. Stravinsky, wth? (I hate Stravinsky, though.)

So there's something much wider than the CIA's machinations going on. Culture truly zigged.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 02, 2026 05:28 PM (n7rxJ)

116 Soviet beet farmer art > Hunter Biden snot splatter

Posted by: wth at January 02, 2026 05:28 PM (UjdFS)

117 His son is a nepot and a dilettante, and hasn't had an original or even strongly thought out idea in his entire life. So he didn't turn away from anything, he is a mush-headed follower.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo
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He turned for Pierre Omidyar's bucks is what. If I see a picture of him nowadays with his insipid grin, I automatically look around for Omidyar cranking the organ so he can watch Kristol dance for him.

Posted by: whig at January 02, 2026 05:29 PM (WDjG6)

118 Freedom of expression is something to be proud of.

Posted by: Try Painting One Yourself at January 02, 2026 05:29 PM (qUkBO)

119 86 So can we admit that at least some (or a lot) of the hostility towards the US is due to our meddling?

—

No way Jose.
They hate our free-dum.

Posted by: President Baby Doc Bush at January 02, 2026 05:29 PM (dKrJA)

120
Cod > Pollock

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at January 02, 2026 05:30 PM (y9nCu)

121 Or simple geometric turds and shit splatters in Hunter Biden's case.

Posted by: ShainS -- Make Lustration Great Again! at January 02, 2026 05:06 PM (RV1wf)

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[Wifey retorts:] 'His geometry is gay and his shit's all retarded."

Posted by: ShainS -- Make Lustration Great Again! at January 02, 2026 05:30 PM (RV1wf)

122 ***23. Control art critics and directors of art museums. “Our plan is to promote ugliness, repulsive, meaningless art.”***

https://tinyurl.com/4zkc2m3h

Posted by: JQ at January 02, 2026 05:31 PM (rdVOm)

123
I saw this story put forward in a documentary --

Mussolini crushed and largely eradicated the Sicilian Mafia. Being a dictator, he could do that. After the war, ignorant American occupation officials were looking to form a local non-fascist government, and the remnants of the Mafia put themselves forward for the role. And the local people either were ignored or didn't speak up out of fear. A renaissance for the Italian Mafia followed.

If true, it can be added to the heap of US foreign policy failures.

(I recall that for years after WW2, the official US govt position, notably including Hoover at the FBI, is that the Mafia in the US was a myth, didn't exist.)

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at January 02, 2026 05:31 PM (azNOR)

124 110 Did the CIA also commission a nekkid fat man on an ottoman painting?

Because that is downright evil.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure

I modeled for that painting. I got a leg cramp, but I got a Jimmy Johns sub out of it. I remember because I lost have the sandwich under my right breast. I found it later but it tasted funny.

Posted by: Congressman Gerald Nadler at January 02, 2026 05:32 PM (IifOV)

125 " shaken or stirred?"
"Do I look like I give damn?"

Posted by: Ben Had at January 02, 2026 05:32 PM (sDNVV)

126 Watched the whole video. I guess y'all are on to some other topic by now.

Posted by: Oddbob at January 02, 2026 05:32 PM (3nLb4)

127 Neo-conservatism is communism.

Just with corporations/MIC/central banks at the head, promising to distribute the wealth equitably.

And it's easier to distribute when there are fewer humans.

Posted by: Citizen Journalist at January 02, 2026 05:33 PM (4y4II)

128 Nude guy on an ottoman is psyop gay art.

Posted by: banana Dream at January 02, 2026 05:34 PM (qp8mK)

129 103 Sue Ane Langdon played a ditzy artist on an Ironside episode. She wore a yellow bikini under a clear plastic smock. Worked up on a scaffold dripping and spilling paint onto the large canvas on the floor. Only time I really enjoyed modern art.
Posted by: Ars Pro Multis! at January 02, 2026 05:24 PM (oftw2)

Now lets talk about the painting scene in The Big Lebowski.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 02, 2026 05:34 PM (uWKK8)

130 What good is a military/ industrial complex if you don't have wars to support it? ///

Posted by: Ben Had at January 02, 2026 05:35 PM (sDNVV)

131 >>>Cod > Pollock

I'll mullet over and get back to you.

Posted by: one hour sober at January 02, 2026 05:35 PM (Y1sOo)

132 This year I was determined: I will watch New Year college football games on tv ***and enjoy them***, just like I used to before I understood the establishment media is filled with college-level retards who would flunk a semester of 8th grade Algebra 1.

But I failed. Can't do it. It's either the idiocy of the game presentation with the yakking idiots in the booth, or the slow-motion dancing replays, or it's watching all the commercials pretending the US is an 80% black nation. And get the hell off my lawn.

Posted by: front toward enemy at January 02, 2026 05:35 PM (TIizU)

133 Not exclusively.

And they recruit a very, very wide range of skill sets and disciplines.

Accountants to Zoo Keepers.
Posted by: Martini Farmer
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The tippy top guys are nearly all Ivy Leaguers and prep types. Same with FBI, SEC, etc. Sinecures that come with the connections from wealth and privilege. Similar to what is running Wall Street and our corporations. Because to thrive in those jobs, you need connections with powerful friends in society.

Back when they were getting started, you had someone like Allen Dulles be a humble grad of GW I think. But OSS head Wild Bill Donovan emulated the Brits with their intel and recruited primarily from the Ivies to fill it. In part, they had the contacts around the world plus the background in wealth, languages, etc. to pull off covert missions and planning. Plus they often overawed pols that sought to mind them.

Posted by: whig at January 02, 2026 05:36 PM (WDjG6)

134 Cod > Pollock

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at January 02, 2026 05:30 PM (y9nCu)

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Let the carping on fish puns begin!

Posted by: ShainS -- Make Lustration Great Again! at January 02, 2026 05:36 PM (RV1wf)

135 The Soviets helped this program alond seems to me

Posted by: Skip at January 02, 2026 05:36 PM (Ia/+0)

136 It's like the rumor that the CIA wrote "Wind Of Change" and used the Scorpions to make perestroika, etc. more palatable. Sounds good, but the band wrote it on a whim, per their accounts, about a very specific day.

Posted by: Lincolntf at January 02, 2026 05:36 PM (vV6n9)

137 My dad bought me the inaugural issue of Irving Kristol's magazine in hope of curing my communism.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 02, 2026 05:36 PM (RIvkX)

138 Kelly & Scotty would have resigned in disgust.

Posted by: Just Some Guy at January 02, 2026 05:36 PM (q3u5l)

139 Wonder what explains those Big Eye paintings...

Posted by: It's me donna at January 02, 2026 05:37 PM (VE6XX)

140 Putting 2 and 2 together, does this mean our own Art Thread is an Op? What about the other, more vibrant Art Thread. Do the testicles of the CIA permeate the entire Web?

Posted by: Just Axin' at January 02, 2026 05:37 PM (oftw2)

141 Cod > Pollock

Posted by: IllTemperedCur
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Let the carping on fish puns begin!
Posted by: ShainS -- Make Lustration Great Again!
......

on a grand scale.

Posted by: wth at January 02, 2026 05:37 PM (v0R5T)

142 I think a beautiful gal on a chaise lounge would be be the mirror universe good version of nude guy on an ottoman.

Posted by: banana Dream at January 02, 2026 05:37 PM (qp8mK)

143 When I hung out for days (by myself) in the Met and/or Smithsonian museums I avoided modern art. I just never "got it." Nor did I go to the weird stuff at the Smithsonian, like their new programs of African stuff or feminist bleah.

I did this on trips with my husband & he was in meetings. I have to say I hate that Mandingo is mayor of NYC, and the illegals & crime have ruined the good days I was there. The Met Museum is fantastic & I never saw it all, but I tried.

Dam Dims ruin everything, then import illegals to make it worse.

Modern art bores me. I am not arty or intelligent enough to stare at blobs of paint and get something out of it. Other than thinking, Why? You have paint and a canvas, paint something!

I have framed landscape paintings. Which is hard to believe, me being a nincompoop full of bull. Yet I do. Granted they are in my home and our son's, but very good. I could do more but I am too dimwitted to be in one place long enough...and I have an entire room dedicated to art. It is a goal of this year, mate. For next year's Christmas gifts. There! A goal!

My current goal is staying awake for six more hours as I could drift off right now and regret it. I am a mess!

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at January 02, 2026 05:37 PM (WONhk)

144 The Smiley Face during the '50's and '60's was definitely a CIA Psyop.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at January 02, 2026 05:37 PM (abIsI)

145 Remember folks, any economic system will only do as well as the moral and ethical systems that accompany it.

I guess we had to learn the lesson the hard way...

Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at January 02, 2026 05:37 PM (OUMaO)

146 102 > They recruited and still do from Ivy League schools.
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Not exclusively.

And they recruit a very, very wide range of skill sets and disciplines.

Accountants to Zoo Keepers.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 02, 2026 05:24 PM (NwnyJ)

But all of them 'morally flexible'

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at January 02, 2026 05:37 PM (xcxpd)

147
George H Bush was CIA Director under President Ford 1976-1977.
I am now convinced the Pet Rocks were his cyops.

Posted by: Frank Barone at January 02, 2026 05:38 PM (IifOV)

148 I recall that for years after WW2, the official US govt position, notably including Hoover at the FBI, is that the Mafia in the US was a myth, didn't exist.
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug

Hoover hated putting agents undercover was part of it and some suspect that Hoover was blackmailed to ignore it. Others thought it was because he preferred to go after easy pickings like bank robberies rather than the long term operations necessary to take out the mob. There was also no RICO act making a lot of what the mob did, a state rather than federal concern.

RICO is what broke the mob's power essentially over time.

Posted by: whig at January 02, 2026 05:38 PM (WDjG6)

149 Let the carping on fish puns begin!
Posted by: ShainS

Not a much fun since Trump exploded the Green Nude Eel.

Posted by: Know Your Plaice at January 02, 2026 05:39 PM (oftw2)

150 The art world has always been a lefty group of snooty shits. Only thing thatHitler was somewhat correct on was his degenerate art designation but of course he took that too far also.

Posted by: All criminals, illegals and crazy people at January 02, 2026 05:39 PM (KDPiq)

151 Off sock

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 02, 2026 05:40 PM (KDPiq)

152 Bible Study Corner.

Porn Star Who Had Sex With 1,113 Men In 12 Hours Gets Baptized, Says She Wants To Show Sex Work Is "Multifaceted"

https://is.gd/WifT6I

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 02, 2026 05:40 PM (L/fGl)

153 129 103 Sue Ane Langdon played a ditzy artist on an Ironside episode. She wore a yellow bikini under a clear plastic smock. Worked up on a scaffold dripping and spilling paint onto the large canvas on the floor. Only time I really enjoyed modern art.
Posted by: Ars Pro Multis! at January 02, 2026 05:24 PM (oftw2)

Now lets talk about the painting scene in The Big Lebowski.
Posted by: Tom Servo at January 02, 2026 05:34 PM (uWKK

My favorite parody of Modern Art was in the original Batman series, with Adam West. Cesar Romero's Joker entered an art contest, and he won with a canvas that had absolutely nothing on it. The Joker mimed putting his finishing touches on it, but he put nothing at all on the canvas. That was hysterical to me when I saw the show as a wee lad in the 70s.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at January 02, 2026 05:40 PM (0CU3H)

154 145 Remember folks, any economic system will only do as well as the moral and ethical systems that accompany it.

A monarchical system is the best system.

Posted by: Citizen Journalist at January 02, 2026 05:40 PM (4y4II)

155 Picasso was a commie shit so I don't know about the CIA theory.

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 02, 2026 05:41 PM (KDPiq)

156 >>> Porn Star Who Had Sex With 1,113 Men In 12 Hours Gets Baptized, Says She Wants To Show Sex Work Is "Multifaceted"

https://is.gd/WifT6I
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 02, 2026 05:40 PM (L/fGl)

Go and whore no more.

Posted by: banana Dream at January 02, 2026 05:42 PM (qp8mK)

157 E Everett Horton refers to him as "Jackson Plop". Heh.

Posted by: Hurdy Gurdy Man at January 02, 2026 05:43 PM (fX1tL)

158 The children are our future.

McDonald's Employee Hospitalized After Reaching Into Fryer To Retrieve Earbud

https://is.gd/OEyDfL

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 02, 2026 05:43 PM (L/fGl)

159 Jackson Pollock, Number 1, 1950 (Lavender Mist):

https://www.nga.gov/artworks/55819-number-
1-1950-lavender-mist

Posted by: Try Painting One Yourself at January 02, 2026 05:43 PM (qUkBO)

160 The fish puns are off the scale.

Posted by: Oh, no... at January 02, 2026 05:43 PM (2Ez/1)

161 We just have to reject the frigidity of rugged individualism and embrace the warmth of collectivism. And splatter-y shit.

Posted by: Peaches at January 02, 2026 05:43 PM (OS/iM)

162 Rothko, Pollack, and the other abstract expressionists believed in what they were doing. Whether or not the CIA exploited their art, the artists believed in their own artistic visions.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at January 02, 2026 05:43 PM (wWU6x)

163 Norman Rockwell did a great Pollock painting within his painting The Connoisseur.

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 02, 2026 05:44 PM (KDPiq)

164 It's pretty sus. I read once that art departed the straightforward and confirmable-by-everyman-observation around the same time science did. There's a parallel between modern art and Newtonian physics (easily observed and easily understood by any Joe) for Einsteinian physics (like wth????).

Same thing happened in music. Stravinsky, wth? (I hate Stravinsky, though.)

So there's something much wider than the CIA's machinations going on. Culture truly zigged.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 02, 2026 05:28 PM (n7rxJ)

Agreed. Actually, this points to a problem that I see in how modern art is presented. I think the movement would mean a lot more to people if they knew what Modern Art was created as a response to. You never see that context in museums, and it's really hard to judge the piece properly without understanding what the intellectual underpinning of the work is. I find that a lot of modern art actually does make sense when placed in the context that you describe above.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at January 02, 2026 05:44 PM (0CU3H)

165 > The tippy top guys are nearly all Ivy Leaguers and prep types.....
Posted by: whig
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No they're not.

I have family that once worked there. This is false.

And I myself was recruited, but didn't take the offers to join both the CIA or NSA.

Check your work.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 02, 2026 05:44 PM (NwnyJ)

166 All of my paintings are entitled "woman lounging on deck of sailing yacht while wearing a bikini and drinking a cocktail".

Posted by: Oglebay at January 02, 2026 05:44 PM (GPa4z)

167 152 Bible Study Corner.

Porn Star Who Had Sex With 1,113 Men In 12 Hours Gets Baptized, Says She Wants To Show Sex Work Is "Multifaceted"

https://is.gd/WifT6I
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer

She'll insist confessionals be outfitted with glory holes?

Posted by: Maj. Healey at January 02, 2026 05:44 PM (abIsI)

168 Ask your doctor if a Monarchial System is right for you.

Posted by: Big Farma at January 02, 2026 05:45 PM (2Ez/1)

169 hey remember the urban legend about the CIA introducing crack into Afro-American neighborhoods?

I always wondered how (if true) that was discovered. I never believed it, but now, maaaaybe we should take a fresh look, you know?

Posted by: Lance McCormick at January 02, 2026 05:46 PM (G8rWB)

170 166 All of my paintings are entitled "woman lounging on deck of sailing yacht while wearing a bikini and drinking a cocktail".
Posted by: Oglebay at January 02, 2026 05:44 PM (GPa4z)

I think if you actually sell them you could write off the boat and suntan oil as expenses. YMMV

Posted by: CaliGirl at January 02, 2026 05:46 PM (YLT6F)

171 152 Bible Study Corner.

Porn Star Who Had Sex With 1,113 Men In 12 Hours Gets Baptized, Says She Wants To Show Sex Work Is "Multifaceted"

https://is.gd/WifT6I
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 02, 2026 05:40 PM (L/fGl)

Good for her. I hear those who seek will find. If she's seeking, then she won't be the first porn star to turn to Christ.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at January 02, 2026 05:46 PM (xcxpd)

172 Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 02, 2026 05:44 PM (NwnyJ)

To be fair he said NEARLY all.

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 02, 2026 05:46 PM (KDPiq)

173 But I failed. Can't do it. It's either the idiocy of the game presentation with the yakking idiots in the booth, or the slow-motion dancing replays, or it's watching all the commercials pretending the US is an 80% black nation. And get the hell off my lawn.
Posted by: front toward enemy at January 02, 2026 05:35 PM (TIizU)

Find the last 10min of the Ole Miss vs Georgia game last night.

I totally loved the chaos and insanity! My husband knew I would and told me about it. I watched it today and it's hysterically wacko.

I did not watch but one game all season. Because once my teams start losing I am done. I love college football but the portal and $ have ruined it for me.

I can be a rabid lunatic with college basketball.Nearly blue a fuse/fell off a balcony yelling once at Coach K as he went beneath me after the refs helped them win.

Have been since age 5yrs & my father took me to games. I made the yearbook with my big ole mouth yelling & wearing a pleated wool skirt. I should have been a cheerleader mascot. Knew the players. Slapped one on his butt after a big win, & Daddy told me this is just not done. The college guy did look startled, but I was just being one with the team.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at January 02, 2026 05:47 PM (WONhk)

174 142 I think a beautiful gal on a chaise lounge would be be the mirror universe good version of nude guy on an ottoman.
Posted by: banana Dream at January 02, 2026 05:37 PM (qp8mK)

Second look at Wet Leg?

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at January 02, 2026 05:48 PM (xcxpd)

175 Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at January 02, 2026 05:46 PM (xcxpd)

She ain't giving up her porn job. She ain't found Christ yet.

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 02, 2026 05:48 PM (KDPiq)

176
I find that a lot of modern art actually does make sense when placed in the context that you describe above.
Posted by: Darrell Harris

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Dissociation of Consciousness after WWI. Can we begin to conceive of the devastation from that time? All those young men killed?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 02, 2026 05:48 PM (n7rxJ)

177 California Defies Federal Deadline, Postpones Revocation of 17,000 Commercial Licenses for Immigrant Truck Drivers, Many of Whom are Illegal Aliens

Sounds insurrectionee.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at January 02, 2026 05:48 PM (abIsI)

178 I only like music that sounds like the real world. Waves, automobile horns, breaking glass, light switches flipping on and off. Jazz is stupid, Rock is satanic.

Posted by: 900 Opinions Per Asshole at January 02, 2026 05:48 PM (qUkBO)

179 Another couple angles to the modern art thing: photography made realistic depictions a lot easier, so of course "real artists" would try something different

and also the World Wars (especially the 1st) were scarring and brought out the nihilism in a lot of people.

Posted by: Lance McCormick at January 02, 2026 05:48 PM (G8rWB)

180 I took an "Art Appreciation" as an undergrad. I sort of floated through it without much interest. HOWEVER, there is a kid in the class who was a real troublemaker. Extremely intelligent and not a big fan of most forms of art. I still remember a comment he made to the Prof that just about knocked me over. Something like:

"I keep hearing that art has little to do with practicality and pragmatism. But, I disagree. The artists' community as a whole are so pragmatic that they create entirely separate categories for paintings so as to accommodate those that no one likes, but pretend to like, and those that absolutely suck or reflect a severe lack of talent."

Had I been drinking coffee at the time, a spit take would have evolved.

Posted by: Orson at January 02, 2026 05:49 PM (dIske)

181 169 hey remember the urban legend about the CIA introducing crack into Afro-American neighborhoods?

I always wondered how (if true) that was discovered. I never believed it, but now, maaaaybe we should take a fresh look, you know?
Posted by: Lance McCormick at January 02, 2026 05:46 PM (G8rWB)

Dark Alliance by Gary Webb, he had some thought on this and Bary Seal was flying drugs for the Cartel and if memory serves me he was flying them into Mena, Ak.

Posted by: CaliGirl at January 02, 2026 05:49 PM (YLT6F)

182 175 Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at January 02, 2026 05:46 PM (xcxpd)

She ain't giving up her porn job. She ain't found Christ yet.
Posted by: Opinion fact

She's mocking Christianity.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at January 02, 2026 05:49 PM (abIsI)

183 176
I find that a lot of modern art actually does make sense when placed in the context that you describe above.
Posted by: Darrell Harris

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

Dissociation of Consciousness after WWI. Can we begin to conceive of the devastation from that time? All those young men killed?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 02, 2026 05:48 PM (n7rxJ)

Exactly. You can't fully understand Modern Art without fully comprehending how completely WWI disrupted the Old Order.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at January 02, 2026 05:50 PM (0CU3H)

184 175 Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at January 02, 2026 05:46 PM (xcxpd)

She ain't giving up her porn job. She ain't found Christ yet.
Posted by: Opinion fact at January 02, 2026 05:48 PM (KDPiq)

But she's trying, right? Not everyone suddenly turns perfect when they convert or get baptized , a lot wander and have to find their path back to God.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at January 02, 2026 05:50 PM (xcxpd)

185
Now lets talk about the painting scene in The Big Lebowski.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 02, 2026 05:34 PM (uWKK

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Posted by: ShainS -- Make Lustration Great Again! at January 02, 2026 05:50 PM (RV1wf)

186 To be fair he said NEARLY all.
Posted by: Opinion fact at January 02, 2026 05:46 PM (KDPiq)
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Point taken.

But there a a lot of "questionable" people at the highest levels of our IC and they are definitely not "Ivy League."

Making it sound as if there's some sort of high level, super educated class of authorities is just stupid.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 02, 2026 05:51 PM (NwnyJ)

187 134 Cod > Pollock

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at January 02, 2026 05:30 PM (y9nCu)

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

Let the carping on fish puns begin!

not sure i'm up to that. i'm not exactly a rocket sturgeon here.

Posted by: anachronda at January 02, 2026 05:52 PM (edU/H)

188 Dark Alliance by Gary Webb, he had some thought on this and Bary Seal was flying drugs for the Cartel and if memory serves me he was flying them into Mena, Ak.
Posted by: CaliGirl
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Sean Ryan, admitted dealing drugs when he was working in Latin America for the CIA as a contractor.

You can dig up what he said directly about it on You Tube.

Posted by: whig at January 02, 2026 05:54 PM (WDjG6)

189 I could understand Warhol's Marilyn Monroe portrait.

I don't understand Warhol's Campbell's soup portrait.

The slopping of crap onto canvas, big deal. I'd rather buy a painting by Koko the dead gorilla. I think it was Koko. It was not Harambe.

GWB now paints doggie paintings and I think he should have stuck to that as soon as he said Eeslam is the religion of peace. Man, that made me mad post 9/11. The last time I liked him, altho I realize I'd rather have him than Gore then.

I have changed a lot since 9/11/01 and 9/11/12 Beghanzi, which sent me loonie for weeks.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at January 02, 2026 05:55 PM (WONhk)

190 I like a lot of abstract but it's usually from artists that can paint realism if they chose to.

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 02, 2026 05:57 PM (KDPiq)

191 You can dig up what he said directly about it on You Tube.
Posted by: whig at January 02, 2026 05:54 PM (WDjG6)

Thanks, I will check it out.

Posted by: CaliGirl at January 02, 2026 05:58 PM (YLT6F)

192 Making it sound as if there's some sort of high level, super educated class of authorities is just stupid.
Posted by: Martini Farmer
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You are making Ivy education equivalent to super educated. For the most part, it is more about connections before and after attendance.

Same with State Department.

Posted by: whig at January 02, 2026 05:58 PM (WDjG6)

193 WWI killed a civilization, us included.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at January 02, 2026 05:58 PM (wWU6x)

194 Scott Adams asked people to let his biographer know if Scott's work had helped them. It lead to this thread:

https://tinyurl.com/38puct54

(Goes to X)

Posted by: Notsothoreau at January 02, 2026 05:59 PM (+mUZM)

195 CaliGirl,

This is a story about Ryan, but if you dig around YT (and this story has some links) you can find him being interviewed about it.

https://tinyurl.com/mvhud8z3

"I always watched the documentaries about counter drug operations, Panama, a lot of stuff in Colombia, so I decided to go check it out down there. I had a great time. So I kept going back. All the way past my time at the agency."

Talking to Kelly, Ryan explains his trips to South America as an addiction to adrenaline. But he also picked up a substance addiction while over there. Ryan: "So I was going down there. Doing a lot of stuff that I shouldn’t be doing. Cocaine."

Posted by: whig at January 02, 2026 06:00 PM (WDjG6)

196 194 Scott Adams asked people to let his biographer know if Scott's work had helped them. It lead to this thread:

https://tinyurl.com/38puct54

(Goes to X)

Posted by: Notsothoreau at January 02, 2026 05:59 PM (+mUZM)

Thank you. This is fucking breaking my heart.

Posted by: Peaches at January 02, 2026 06:02 PM (OS/iM)

197 >>You are making Ivy education equivalent to super educated. For the most part, it is more about connections before and after attendance.

>>Same with State Department.

Having dealt with these people all my life including members of own family I rate this as 100% true.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 02, 2026 06:02 PM (viF8m)

198 Nood

Posted by: Thanatopsis at January 02, 2026 06:02 PM (LdBR/)

199 She's mocking Christianity.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at January 02, 2026 05:49 PM (abIsI)
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A lot of people start that way, thinking that it's a lark and they'll have the last laugh.

God works in mysterious ways.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 02, 2026 06:03 PM (ZOv7s)

200 Smartest guy in my high school class (not me, I only earned a PhD in physics) was recruited by the NSA and was still working there last I heard.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at January 02, 2026 06:03 PM (wWU6x)

201 Good for her. I hear those who seek will find. If she's seeking, then she won't be the first porn star to turn to Christ.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards
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My guess is though she won't read in the Bible when Jesus met the woman at Jacob's well and telling her to sin no more.

Baptism is only the start of the process in becoming Christian.

Posted by: whig at January 02, 2026 06:03 PM (WDjG6)

202 The Socialists to me started the lets paint and let drugs fill it out in the viewer

Posted by: Skip at January 02, 2026 06:05 PM (Ia/+0)

203 A lot of people start that way, thinking that it's a lark and they'll have the last laugh.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd
======
And vice versa with darkness and evil. You lie down with Stan and get up with Stan's Spiritually Transmitted Diseases.

Posted by: whig at January 02, 2026 06:06 PM (WDjG6)

204 I've never liked Rothko, Pollack, or any of those abstract no talent 'artists'.

I've laid better looking shit.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at January 02, 2026 06:08 PM (Vh9CX)

205 So it wasn't just weird junk, it was government-supported weird junk.

Posted by: SKT at January 02, 2026 06:27 PM (xNh50)

206 You just know U2 was their psyop too! C'mon!

Posted by: Dave at January 02, 2026 06:33 PM (NN9NC)

207 Porn Star Who Had Sex With 1,113 Men In 12 Hours Gets Baptized, Says She Wants To Show Sex Work Is "Multifaceted"

https://is.gd/WifT6I

Sorry hon, the baptism requires you to stop the sex work.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at January 02, 2026 06:56 PM (Cznub)

208 105 It is and has been dog eat dog since nation states have existed. Those nations that cannot stand up to others with a military, then use corruption and soft measures to infiltrate and turn those nation's behaviors toward favor.

So basically, we should live by the "do unto others before they undo you" principle?

Maybe that's the only way to survive this world, but it doesn't give you much room to complain when you see other folks doing it.

Posted by: Tinfoil Dispenser at January 02, 2026 07:01 PM (ERYKL)

209 Sorry hon, the baptism requires you to stop the sex work.

The baptism doesn’t, but Christ does if you are going to come to Him.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at January 02, 2026 07:10 PM (wWU6x)

210 > 41 Julia Childs was OSS, explains much does it not?
Posted by: Anna Puma at January 02, 2026 05:06 PM (2GVsD)

It's amazing what useful information comes up when you're exchanging recipes, cooking tips, and gossip with the wives of the other diplomats.

And no one ever suspected a thing.

Posted by: Julia Child, the French Chef of Station at January 02, 2026 08:17 PM (IG3/x)

211 I heard stripping. Or did I.

Merry Christmas.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at January 02, 2026 08:35 PM (ZRzmB)

"America First:" Stop Taking Any Action Against Any Hostile Foreign Regime, Focus on Fentanyl Smuggling
Also "America First:" Don't Take Hostile Action Against the World's Biggest Narcoterrorist States

The "America First" clowns both want an end to drug smuggling from foreign countries, and a policy of pink pacifism toward the foreign dictators arranging the bulk of drug smuggling into the US.

They are incoherent. They are just angry and unreasoning and pissed of at everything, and frankly, you shouldn't listen to people who get off on their own omnidirectional rage to the exclusion of any capacity for rational thought.

Maduro says he's ready to talk.

Venezuelan strongman Nicolás Maduro is striking a suddenly conciliatory tone toward Washington after a reported CIA drone strike targeted a cartel-linked docking area inside his country, claiming Caracas is now "ready" to negotiate with the United States on drug trafficking -- and even dangling access to Venezuela's oil sector as leverage.
In a sit-down interview recorded on New Year's Eve with Spanish journalist Ignacio Ramonet and aired Thursday on state television, Maduro said the U.S. government has long known Venezuela is open to talks, insisting that if Washington wants a note-for-note agreement to combat narcotics flows, "we're ready."
He went further, suggesting that American energy firms could return in force, saying Venezuela is open to U.S. oil investment "whenever they want it, wherever they want it and however they want it," explicitly referencing past dealings with Chevron.
The remarks come amid an aggressive U.S. pressure campaign that has seen at least 35 American strikes on suspected drug-smuggling vessels across the Caribbean and eastern Pacific since early September, operations U.S. officials say have killed more than 115 suspected traffickers.

I do not believe he's ready to talk due to Trump following Tucker Carlson's pinko pacifist plan of just being nice to Venezuela. I think he's ready to talk because Trump is using the US military to blow up his drug boats and seize his "Dark Fleet" terrorist oil ships.

Venezuelan President Maduro:

If the United States wants to seriously talk about an agreement to combat drug trafficking, we are ready. pic.twitter.com/3cWMyDxuC8
— Open Source Intel (@Osint613) January 2, 2026

The "America First" movement is a Blame America First movement. They claim that all hostility the US encounters abroad is due to US meddling.

Or Jews. Obviously.

There is no difference between their propaganda and the propaganda of ANSWER, Code Pink, and the Communist Party of the US.

Posted by: Ace at 03:40 PM

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1
Hello

Posted by: fourseasons at January 02, 2026 03:41 PM (3ek7K)

2 Quotation marks, indeed

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at January 02, 2026 03:41 PM (cuae1)

3 I think im losing the thread. Aren't we "America First" people?

Posted by: LASue at January 02, 2026 03:42 PM (/DBoU)

4
LASue,

Me too

Posted by: fourseasons at January 02, 2026 03:43 PM (3ek7K)

5 Stop the fentanyl! Stop the fentanyl! Stop the fentanyl!

I'm a big fan of this.

Posted by: m at January 02, 2026 03:43 PM (RuTUS)

6 The most important part of the "Speak softly, but carry a big stick" was the stick.

Because it doesn't matter HOW you talk when you're willing to back it up. And when you've made it very clear you will use the stick, just a soft warning is all that is needed.

We Our rulers have not had the will to use our stick for a long time.

I'm pretty sure we're going to need a lot of harsh language that is backed up by harsh actions before we can return to speaking softly.

But of course, that gives the ruling class the vapors. Amusingly, the harsh speech bothers them much more than the actions.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at January 02, 2026 03:44 PM (cuae1)

7 Venezuela is NOT one of the world's biggest "narcoterrorist" states.

And the term "narcoterrorist" is a bullshit made-up term.

But keep trying.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 02, 2026 03:45 PM (KwCuT)

8 Why do we have to talk? Why can't we just blow up the drug boats?

Posted by: m at January 02, 2026 03:45 PM (RuTUS)

9 They are just angry and unreasoning and pissed of at everything, and frankly, you shouldn't listen to people who get off on their own omnidirectional rage to the exclusion of any capacity for rational thought.

But this is my favorite site.

Posted by: Kratwurst at January 02, 2026 03:45 PM (tmARj)

10 The (America) First shall be last, and the last First.

Posted by: zombie at January 02, 2026 03:45 PM (se8lQ)

11 It's not just the fentanyl. It's also the Cubans, Russians, Chinese and Iranians using Venezuela as their own oil reserve and money launderer.

Posted by: Citizen Cake at January 02, 2026 03:45 PM (CwhoI)

12 They are incoherent. They are just angry and unreasoning and pissed of at everything, and frankly, you shouldn't listen to people who get off on their own omnidirectional rage to the exclusion of any capacity for rational thought.

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Another CBS thread?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 02, 2026 03:45 PM (L/fGl)

13 Stop the fentanyl! Stop the fentanyl! Stop the fentanyl!

I'm a big fan of this.
Posted by: m at January 02, 2026 03:43 PM (RuTUS)

Then line the border with Mexico, and stop every vessel coming in from Chi Nah.

Otherwise, blowing up boats leaving Venezuela isn't doing jack shit.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 02, 2026 03:46 PM (KwCuT)

14 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 02, 2026 03:46 PM (Zz0t1)

15 13 Stop the fentanyl! Stop the fentanyl! Stop the fentanyl!

I'm a big fan of this.
Posted by: m at January 02, 2026 03:43 PM (RuTUS)

Then line the border with Mexico, and stop every vessel coming in from Chi Nah.

Otherwise, blowing up boats leaving Venezuela isn't doing jack shit.
Posted by: BurtTC at January 02, 2026 03:46 PM (KwCuT)

O.k.!

Posted by: m at January 02, 2026 03:47 PM (RuTUS)

16 Why is Maduro still alive? The days of playing nice nice are over. A world leader anywhere gets all uppity and does shit like Maduro, take him out. Next in line behaves or becomes pink mist too. Ain't hard.

Posted by: No More Mr.Nice Guy at January 02, 2026 03:47 PM (R/m4+)

17 Whoa! There's a big difference between us and Code Pink!

We don't allow filthy Jews in our group.

Posted by: America First at January 02, 2026 03:47 PM (S+NyO)

18 But this is my favorite site.
Posted by: Kratwurst at January 02, 2026 03:45 PM (tmARj)

Oops!

Break all the mirrors.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 02, 2026 03:47 PM (KwCuT)

19 3
4

Yes, but the point is that "America First" is such a vague slogan that people without any ideological training are liable to fall for cons who use that phrase.

I think a big issue is that most people can't tell realist foreign policy from idealist. Opposing Wilsonian nonsense (Bush, Obama and Biden were all Wilsonians) does not mean absolute pacifism. Jacksonian, Hamiltonian or Madisonian foreign policy (all Walter Russell Mead terms that could be applied to people as disparate as Truman and Reagan) does not try to reshape the world according to ideals, but does use US power in pursuit of clear American goals.

Posted by: the lower depths at January 02, 2026 03:47 PM (UdiE9)

20 Don't know if I'm ready to pull out the pom-poms just yet. We have been fighting this war on drugs for decades and the drugs keep winning. Doesn't matter if we beat the Columbians, Mexicans, nor now the Venezuelans.

Demand will always drive supply.

That said, as long as there are not boots on the ground in Venezuela, that I'd be fine with some drone strikes.

By the time foreign countries have the will and the way to do the same to us, I'll be long gone...

Posted by: Diabeetus at January 02, 2026 03:47 PM (sgrzZ)

21 The drug runners probably told Maduro they've had enough and would like to go back to smuggling drugs the old fashioned ways:
- drug mules over land
- small airstrips in TX, AZ, NM, SoCA

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 02, 2026 03:47 PM (NwnyJ)

22 If Trump's for it, they're agin it. Their livelyhood depends on it.

Posted by: toby928(c) at January 02, 2026 03:48 PM (jc0TO)

23 Now... I could be wrong about this but....

I don't think that Tucker Carlson bitch is really a fan of making America great. Probably just me.

And I do kinda think that stuff in Iran might, MiGHT!, get a bit serious. Maybe. Not sure. Just sorta thinking out loud.

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at January 02, 2026 03:49 PM (2J/Lj)

24 War on drugs?

*looks at Denver*

Drugs won.

Posted by: toby928(c) at January 02, 2026 03:49 PM (jc0TO)

25 In the latest episode of Driving with Maduro...

Posted by: Thomas Paine at January 02, 2026 03:49 PM (0U5gm)

26 I love the fact that Maduro has been reduced to doing a car video, like a struggling youtuber.

Posted by: Methos at January 02, 2026 03:49 PM (vSvIl)

27 and even dangling access to Venezuela's oil sector as leverage.

I think he has this backwards.

Posted by: toby928(c) at January 02, 2026 03:50 PM (jc0TO)

28 Peace be to allah! islham is teh awesome!

Posted by: Tucker Qatarlson at January 02, 2026 03:50 PM (Zz0t1)

29 I agree with these America Firsters that US meddling abroad has created a lot of the threats to the United States.

What I disagree with is WHICH meddling did it.

Undermining flawed, but friendly governments (E.g. the Shah of Iran). Destroying hostile, but compliant governments. (Khaddaffi) Setting up Ukraine to be our dumping ground for our own corruption. (Now a war) Supporting Muslim terrorists. (Benghazi)

I can go on, but NONE of these are what these people think are the problem.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at January 02, 2026 03:50 PM (cuae1)

30 They realize the USA fought a World War on 2 totally different parts of the planet and kicked ass
Right?

Posted by: Skip at January 02, 2026 03:50 PM (Ia/+0)

31 Posted by: Methos at January 02, 2026 03:49 PM (vSvIl

Thanks; I laughed.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 02, 2026 03:51 PM (2sfNr)

32 I must be America First And Don't Fuck With Us

Posted by: NCKate at January 02, 2026 03:51 PM (uQzkA)

33 I don’t want us at war, but I am fine with blasting drug boats out of the water. This has been an act of war against us for years. Glad we’re finally trying to win the war on drugs.

Posted by: Lizzy at January 02, 2026 03:51 PM (Hkcdp)

34 19

To continue my thoughts, it would be helpful if people on the right would read Kissinger's book "Diplomacy" (a great primer even if you don't like the man) and begin to explain how (on foreign policy, Theodore Roosevelt was great, but his distant cousin Franklin was perhaps more damaging to the world than even Woodrow Wilson was.

Not doing this allows the Massie crowd to swoop in with their Jeffersonian isolationaist moral purism. And even Jefferson himself didn't consistently follow that policy as president. If Jefferson was a bad Jeffersonian, then why is the philosophy still thing (other than that most reight-wing influencers are morons at best and hacks at worst)?

Posted by: the lower depths at January 02, 2026 03:51 PM (UdiE9)

35 Why is doing a Karen Car Confessional?

Posted by: Ben Sears at January 02, 2026 03:51 PM (WzTQR)

36 They are incoherent. They are just angry and unreasoning and pissed of at everything, and frankly, you shouldn't listen to people who get off on their own omnidirectional rage to the exclusion of any capacity for rational thought.

'They' are only interested in 'clicks', 'engagement', social media adoration, 'ATTENTION', and manipulation of others. 'They', for the most part, don't mean anything 'they' say. 'They' are the VOICES OF REASON!! The arrogance is vile.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at January 02, 2026 03:51 PM (sAmhv)

37 In the latest episode of Driving with Maduro...
Posted by: Thomas Paine at January 02, 2026 03:49 PM (0U5gm)

Evil Dictators and Coffee.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 02, 2026 03:51 PM (Zz0t1)

38 The "America First" movement is a Blame America First movement. They claim that all hostility the US encounters abroad is due to US meddling.

Or Jews. Obviously.

The other day I was watching a YouTube video by some guy called "Asmongold," whom I later learned is a super-popular "right-wing influencer" on social media.

He seemed OK for a while,with decent opinions, but then out of the blue, right in the middle of the video, he started saying snarky anti-Israel things.

I was like, WTF? That's when I looked him up and discovered he was famous. But I guess he's one of the Candace-Owens-friendly anti-Israel "right-wingers," whom I find incomprehensible and mystifying.

Dudes, either choose one side or the other. If you want to be anti-Semitic, there's plenty of room for you on the Left. The Trumpian pro-semitic Right has no room for you.

Never watching another video by him, obviously.

Posted by: zombie at January 02, 2026 03:51 PM (se8lQ)

39 Maduro isn't getting the picture.

During a phone call, Trump reportedly issued an ultimatum to Maduro: resign and leave the country immediately, in return for a guaranteed evacuation for himself and his family.

This is a stall and a hope for a hiatus (and don't think there isn't strong Iranian pressure to stop the tankers from being confiscated).

This is what we call playing "Dominos".

Posted by: Orson at January 02, 2026 03:51 PM (dIske)

40 Someone has to AI Jerry Seinfeld into that video and make it Coffee With Commies.

Posted by: Wally at January 02, 2026 03:51 PM (S+NyO)

41 Otherwise, blowing up boats leaving Venezuela isn't doing jack shit.
Posted by: BurtTC at January 02, 2026 03:46 PM

Their crews might beg to differ.

Posted by: toby928(c) at January 02, 2026 03:51 PM (jc0TO)

42 33 I don’t want us at war, but I am fine with blasting drug boats out of the water. This has been an act of war against us for years. Glad we’re finally trying to win the war on drugs.
Posted by: Lizzy at January 02, 2026 03:51 PM (Hkcdp)

Me, too, Lizzy.

Posted by: m at January 02, 2026 03:52 PM (RuTUS)

43
Yo Europe. You had a good run. The New World ain't you. It's the Americas, bay-bay.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 02, 2026 03:52 PM (n7rxJ)

44 The response to Maduro's "conciliatory tone" should be to double down and hit him harder. No mercy to communist dictators.

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at January 02, 2026 03:52 PM (Qhx62)

45 I’ll call bullshit. Maduro is knee deep in the drug trade and terrorism. He’s part of the group who believes that drug dealing will is one asymmetric tactic against the US. By the way, that includes China who is financing a lot of the illicit activity. He is also linked directly to terror groups who are using his country for training and as a jump off point for domestic infiltration. He’s only trying to buy time because the tanker fleet is the last of his finance options and he wants to stall. We should just keep blowing up all of his drug ops and then go to work on what’s left of his oil infrastructure.

Posted by: Vengeance at January 02, 2026 03:53 PM (oSFyF)

46 During a phone call, Trump reportedly issued an ultimatum to Maduro: resign and leave the country immediately, in return for a guaranteed evacuation for himself and his family.

I hear Cuba has world class healthcare.

Posted by: toby928(c) at January 02, 2026 03:53 PM (jc0TO)

47 Venezuela is NOT one of the world's biggest "narcoterrorist" states.

And the term "narcoterrorist" is a bullshit made-up term.

But keep trying.
Posted by: BurtTC
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LOL

Hey, have you gotten justice for the Epstein victims yet?

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 02, 2026 03:53 PM (prbfg)

48 Venezuela is NOT one of the world's biggest "narcoterrorist" states.

And the term "narcoterrorist" is a bullshit made-up term.

But keep trying.
Posted by: BurtTC at January 02, 2026 03:45 PM (KwCuT)

I almost spit out my tea.

While I agree that "narcoterrorist" is a made up term, most of our political terms are made up.

What would you call an organization that deals narcotics and is willing to use violence to bring about the political changes they want? (Like in Mexico, Central America, Columbia, VENEZUELA, etc...)

Unlike the nebulous terms the left comes up with, this is easily definable and understandable.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at January 02, 2026 03:53 PM (cuae1)

49
I don’t want us at war, but I am fine with blasting drug boats out of the water. This has been an act of war against us for years. Glad we’re finally trying to win the war on drugs.
Posted by: Lizzy

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Can you imagine a South America as strong as it's capable of being? Argentina was fixing to be some sort of world economic power in the first part of the 20th century afaik. Let's make this happen?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 02, 2026 03:54 PM (n7rxJ)

50 40 Someone has to AI Jerry Seinfeld into that video and make it Coffee With Commies.
Posted by: Wally at January 02, 2026 03:51 PM (S+NyO)

; )

Posted by: m at January 02, 2026 03:54 PM (RuTUS)

51 I can go on, but NONE of these are what these people think are the problem.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at January 02, 2026 03:50 PM (cuae1)

We've lost every war since the Big One in the Forties. And even then it took another 46 years to clear the commies out of Europe.

Truth is, the warmongers are not very good at war, and haven't been for a long long time.

I don't think putting a New York real estate mogul and Pistol Pete Hegseth in charge of things is going to change any of that.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 02, 2026 03:54 PM (KwCuT)

52 34 19

To continue my thoughts, it would be helpful if people on the right would read Kissinger's book "Diplomacy" (a great primer even if you don't like the man) and begin to explain how (on foreign policy, Theodore Roosevelt was great, but his distant cousin Franklin was perhaps more damaging to the world than even Woodrow Wilson was.

Not doing this allows the Massie crowd to swoop in with their Jeffersonian isolationaist moral purism. And even Jefferson himself didn't consistently follow that policy as president. If Jefferson was a bad Jeffersonian, then why is the philosophy still thing (other than that most reight-wing influencers are morons at best and hacks at worst)?
Posted by: the lower depths at January 02, 2026 03:51 PM (UdiE9)

Jefferson used the US military to put down the Barbary Pirates in North Africa. So, he was definitely a bad Jeffersonian.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at January 02, 2026 03:54 PM (0CU3H)

53 So, Seattle has a 26% commercial vacancy rate.

Their answer? An unoccupancy tax on vacant office buildings.

Posted by: toby928(c) at January 02, 2026 03:54 PM (jc0TO)

54 I don't want 100K American boys "nation budling" in the worlds biggest shitholes.

But dropping bombs on narco terrorist, mullahs, and commies?

Yes please

Posted by: 18-1 at January 02, 2026 03:55 PM (sKqQm)

55 America First?

Kind of ambiguous.

North, Central or South America?

Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at January 02, 2026 03:55 PM (MDua2)

56 I don't want to listen to the video because I think Maduro is a horrible person, but who's the guy on the left?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 02, 2026 03:55 PM (2sfNr)

57 During a phone call, Trump reportedly issued an ultimatum to Maduro: resign and leave the country immediately, in return for a guaranteed evacuation for himself and his family.

Maybe Maduro could come here and run for mayor of some city in New York state? The retards in NY seem to like his type.

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at January 02, 2026 03:55 PM (Qhx62)

58 Well, it is internally inconsistent.

Kind of like certain 9/11 conservatives. I'm not going the 'neocon' route. But the road to Damascus moment does not always really stick or do anything.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 02, 2026 03:55 PM (zZu0s)

59 So, Seattle has a 26% commercial vacancy rate.

Their answer? An unoccupancy tax on vacant office buildings.
Posted by: toby928(c) at January 02, 2026 03:54 PM (jc0TO)

That'll do it.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 02, 2026 03:55 PM (Zz0t1)

60
Artistic Rendition of Maduro's new attitude toward President Trump:

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/p_7hcDDcdXc

Posted by: naturalfake at January 02, 2026 03:55 PM (iJfKG)

61
I’ll call bullshit.

Posted by: Vengeance

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I'll agree. Leopard doesn't change its spots. This should be but the prelude to something yuuuge and beautiful. Hopefully, once Maduro stops making money off fetty and oppression, he loses his power completely and internal change ejects him.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 02, 2026 03:55 PM (n7rxJ)

62 7 Venezuela is NOT one of the world's biggest "narcoterrorist" states.

And the term "narcoterrorist" is a bullshit made-up term.

But keep trying.
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If the term is made up, then why specify that one country doesn't fit it? If you have to make an effort to proclaim Venezuela's innocence, then you lend credence to the term narcoterrorism.

Posted by: the lower depths at January 02, 2026 03:55 PM (UdiE9)

63 And the term "narcoterrorist" is a bullshit made-up term.

I'm fine with 'gangster regime'.

Posted by: toby928(c) at January 02, 2026 03:55 PM (jc0TO)

64 These blowhards , Iran and Venezuela,are making noise for the domestic consumption. They're scared of their own people ,and are looking to rally their people against an invader. Keep the pressure on without ground troops, their people will take care of the rest

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 02, 2026 03:56 PM (zNwXb)

65 49 I don’t want us at war, but I am fine with blasting drug boats out of the water. This has been an act of war against us for years. Glad we’re finally trying to win the war on drugs.
Posted by: Lizzy

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Can you imagine a South America as strong as it's capable of being? Argentina was fixing to be some sort of world economic power in the first part of the 20th century afaik. Let's make this happen?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 02, 2026 03:54 PM (n7rxJ)

Make the Americas Great Again!

Posted by: m at January 02, 2026 03:56 PM (RuTUS)

66
An unoccupancy tax on vacant office buildings.
Posted by: toby928(c)

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Honestly, I think I heard this proposed for NYC, too.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 02, 2026 03:56 PM (n7rxJ)

67 Truth is, the warmongers are not very good at war, and haven't been for a long long time.

In all of those wars they've had "more important" goals then winning.

And not surprisingly when our opponents instead focused on winning...they did.

Posted by: 18-1 at January 02, 2026 03:56 PM (sKqQm)

68 The Ace o' Spades political worldview is clear and coherent, internally consistent and morally correct.

The Antifa/Democrat/Davos/commie worldview is clearly grasped, mostly consistent and morally bankrupt and evil.

But The America Firsters? What the hell even are they? The worldview is incoherent, inconsistent and morally jumbled. I can't even understand why the would ever attract followers, and what the attraction would be. "Follow us! We stand for...stuff, and things like that."

Posted by: zombie at January 02, 2026 03:57 PM (se8lQ)

69 I saw omnidirectional rage open for another insignificant band and Kenny's Castaways.

Does anyone remember Kenny's? It was a club on Bleaker that was a kind of vanity press for bands - you had to pay them to hold a show, I think. Then the band got a cut of the door. All the worst bands played Kenny's.

Posted by: Mrs. Santa's unclean sister at January 02, 2026 03:57 PM (aTta8)

70 63 And the term "narcoterrorist" is a bullshit made-up term.

I'm fine with 'gangster regime'.
Posted by: toby928(c) at January 02, 2026 03:55 PM (jc0TO)

Mafia?

Posted by: m at January 02, 2026 03:57 PM (RuTUS)

71 While I agree that "narcoterrorist" is a made up term, most of our political terms are made up.

What would you call an organization that deals narcotics and is willing to use violence to bring about the political changes they want? (Like in Mexico, Central America, Columbia, VENEZUELA, etc...)

Unlike the nebulous terms the left comes up with, this is easily definable and understandable.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at January 02, 2026 03:53 PM (cuae1)

All I know is, if you didn't want the drugs that are killing Americans coming in to the country, you'd seal the border with Mexico, and stop all vessels coming from China.

If you're doing something else, and calling what you're doing a War on Narcoterrorists, you're just blowing more smoke up the collective American tailpipe.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 02, 2026 03:57 PM (KwCuT)

72 Can you imagine a South America as strong as it's capable of being? Argentina was fixing to be some sort of world economic power in the first part of the 20th century afaik. Let's make this happen?

Latin America had comparable per capita economies to the US when they got independence.

Since then its been mostly downhill

Posted by: 18-1 at January 02, 2026 03:58 PM (sKqQm)

73 The Brown Hand.

Posted by: toby928(c) at January 02, 2026 03:58 PM (jc0TO)

74 6 The most important part of the "Speak softly, but carry a big stick" was the stick.

Because it doesn't matter HOW you talk when you're willing to back it up. And when you've made it very clear you will use the stick, just a soft warning is all that is needed.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at January 02, 2026 03:44 PM (cuae1)

This is well said.

Posted by: Emmie -- be strong and courageous! at January 02, 2026 03:58 PM (FMtrg)

75 Fuck the grifters, full speed ahead!

Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at January 02, 2026 03:58 PM (OUMaO)

76 The world is now the US, with South America being the resource and labor pool. Europe is over, if they manage to get the mohammedans out, they could make it a theme park for Americans to visit on vacations.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at January 02, 2026 03:58 PM (0U5gm)

77 Ha, ha. Maduro thinks he's still dealing with Biden whose admin were his friends. Trump should ignore the narcoterrorist and keep blowing their shipments out of the water.

As for investing in Venezuelan oil, not as long as Maduro and his Iranian, Russian and Chinese advisors have a say.

Posted by: Decaf at January 02, 2026 03:59 PM (Z8jzG)

78 We also need to keep deporting ALL of Venezuela’s TdA gang members that the Biden administration freaking flew in and deposited in major cities, such as Aurora, CO and Chicago.
I do care where the are sent , just ruthlessly remove all of them.

Posted by: Lizzy at January 02, 2026 03:59 PM (Hkcdp)

79 There's also the disputed land grab by Maduro. Land claimed by Guyana and apparently rich in oil deposits. Guyana hasn't the military to stand up to Venezuela. If the US was to "mediate" that dispute in Guyana's favor, it might be a worthwhile gambit.

If not, and the US subjugates Maduro or his successor, then the oil is still on the table.

And Iran get's booted out of the region either way.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 02, 2026 03:59 PM (NwnyJ)

80 51
We've lost every war since the Big One in the Forties. And even then it took another 46 years to clear the commies out of Europe.
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So South Korea went Communist?
Guatemala went Socialist in the 1950s?
Cuba kept control over Grenada?
Saddam Hussein kept control over Kuwait?
And so on.

You know just enough about history to be dangerous to yourself. Repeating slogans is not analysis.

Posted by: the lower depths at January 02, 2026 03:59 PM (UdiE9)

81 73 The Brown Hand.
Posted by: toby928(c) at January 02, 2026 03:58 PM (jc0TO)

Racist overtones, some would say.

Posted by: m at January 02, 2026 03:59 PM (RuTUS)

82 Most of the "America First" I hear is either very simplified or myopic or both.

We've wantonly admitted foreign invaders who rape, steal, and kill. That's not America First.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 02, 2026 03:59 PM (RIvkX)

83 Because it doesn't matter HOW you talk when you're willing to back it up. And when you've made it very clear you will use the stick, just a soft warning is all that is needed.

The Palis tried to use their same schtick on the Soviets...taking a Soviet diplomat prisoner.

The Soviets responded by grabbing some Palis and sending pieces of them back to the Palis noting the longer it took to release their guy the less pieces their guy would have attached to him.

And...the Palis let the guy go and never messed with them again...

Posted by: 18-1 at January 02, 2026 04:00 PM (sKqQm)

84 Dudes, either choose one side or the other. If you want to be anti-Semitic, there's plenty of room for you on the Left. The Trumpian pro-semitic Right has no room for you.
Posted by: zombie

Not that it matters, but he's not a right winger. He's a soft leftie that was snake bit by the left after he began pointing out obvious things. Not an influencer per se just a gaming tuber that had a large enough audience to move to other topics at random. And he's kind of a weirdo that doesn't shower or clean.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 02, 2026 04:00 PM (mlg/3)

85 It's all connected. By pressuring Venezuela and disallowing tanker shipping, the US is sticking it to Venezuela, Iran and Russia.

Venezuela depends on Iran to get around sanctions using their refinery services. Iran depend on that business to, also, get around sanctions. Russia recently signed an energy and security agreement with Venezuela to, ALSO, get around sanctions currently in place.

Trump seems to want regime change in Venezuela, Iran to collapse internally, and Russia to be more open minded in the Russia/Ukraine negotiations.

This is, obviously, the big leagues.

Posted by: Orson at January 02, 2026 04:00 PM (dIske)

86 I hear Cuba has world class healthcare.

And free rice cookers!

Posted by: Mayor Fidel Mamdani at January 02, 2026 04:00 PM (mH6SG)

87 85 It's all connected. By pressuring Venezuela and disallowing tanker shipping, the US is sticking it to Venezuela, Iran and Russia.

Venezuela depends on Iran to get around sanctions using their refinery services. Iran depend on that business to, also, get around sanctions. Russia recently signed an energy and security agreement with Venezuela to, ALSO, get around sanctions currently in place.

Trump seems to want regime change in Venezuela, Iran to collapse internally, and Russia to be more open minded in the Russia/Ukraine negotiations.

This is, obviously, the big leagues.
Posted by: Orson at January 02, 2026 04:00 PM (dIske)

More like this!

Posted by: m at January 02, 2026 04:01 PM (RuTUS)

88 Venezuelan strongman Nicolás Maduro is striking a suddenly conciliatory tone toward Washington after a reported CIA drone strike targeted a cartel-linked docking area inside his country, claiming Caracas is now "ready" to negotiate with the United States on drug trafficking

So he's admitting he's sending drugs into the US. Good. Kill him.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 02, 2026 04:02 PM (Riz8t)

89 7 Venezuela is NOT one of the world's biggest "narcoterrorist" states.

And the term "narcoterrorist" is a bullshit made-up term.

But keep trying.
Posted by: BurtTC
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Pretty demonstrative statements there. Are there any stats or citations on who the biggest narcoterrorist (they term has been explained, defined and accepted by the antagonist Democrat authority) nations are?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 02, 2026 04:02 PM (R0Fqj)

90 86 I hear Cuba has world class healthcare.

And free rice cookers!
Posted by: Mayor Fidel Mamdani at January 02, 2026 04:00 PM (mH6SG)
______________________

My name is Pedro. I cook rice....for free.

Posted by: Pedro at January 02, 2026 04:02 PM (dIske)

91 An unoccupancy tax on vacant office buildings.
Posted by: toby928(c)

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

Honestly, I think I heard this proposed for NYC, too.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia

I'll teach those bastards to flee tyranny!
- Mayor Madmani

Bonus!

Peace at last! Peace at last! Thank God Almighty, peace at last!

Zohran Kwame Mamdani
@ZohranKMamdani
We need to ban all guns.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 02, 2026 04:02 PM (L/fGl)

92 71 All I know is, if you didn't want the drugs that are killing Americans coming in to the country, you'd seal the border with Mexico, and stop all vessels coming from China.

If you're doing something else, and calling what you're doing a War on Narcoterrorists, you're just blowing more smoke up the collective American tailpipe.
-----------------------------
You're doing that "unless I get my extreme demands met literally nothing is improving" shtick that whiners do around here. It's actually a very contemptible take, especially when people keep doing it (and some posters have been doing it ad nauseum in earlier threads today.

Posted by: the lower depths at January 02, 2026 04:02 PM (UdiE9)

93 New Oxford American Dictionary

narco-terrorism

terrorism associated with trade in illicit drugs

Posted by: m at January 02, 2026 04:03 PM (RuTUS)

94 TELL ME SOMETHING GOOD

https://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=RWAXaJvevqw

Posted by: RUFUS feat. CHAKA KHAN at January 02, 2026 04:04 PM (grNgC)

95 Lost opportunity for the AGM "Flying Ginsu" missile through the car roof.

Posted by: one hour sober at January 02, 2026 04:04 PM (Y1sOo)

96 Not that it matters, but he's not a right winger. He's a soft leftie that was snake bit by the left after he began pointing out obvious things. Not an influencer per se just a gaming tuber that had a large enough audience to move to other topics at random. And he's kind of a weirdo that doesn't shower or clean.
Posted by: weft cut-loop

Thanks for the clarification.

No surprise that the YouTube algorithm forces these questionable people on you. Subtle attempt at brainwashing.

Posted by: zombie at January 02, 2026 04:05 PM (se8lQ)

97 Trump seems to want regime change in Venezuela, Iran to collapse internally, and Russia to be more open minded in the Russia/Ukraine negotiations.

This is, obviously, the big leagues.
Posted by: Orson at January 02, 2026 04:00 PM (dIske)

Which of the "regime change" efforts that the U.S. has pulled off in the past several decades has worked out?

Russia is NOT going to give an inch on the war, and they see no reason why they should. The narrative people hear from mainstream media (and Ukraine fed sources) that Russia is at some sort of stalemate is fiction.

The war will end when Russia decides to end it, and then the U.S. and Europe will be standing there holding their own sticks, with nothing to say except "oops" to the millions of dead Urkrainians.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 02, 2026 04:05 PM (KwCuT)

98 Happy New Year, Morons.

Posted by: garrett at January 02, 2026 04:05 PM (grNgC)

99 Don't argue with the Putz. He might give you "the treatment." lol

Posted by: one hour sober at January 02, 2026 04:05 PM (Y1sOo)

100 100

Posted by: m at January 02, 2026 04:05 PM (RuTUS)

101
This is, obviously, the big leagues.
Posted by: Orson at January 02, 2026 04:00 PM (dIske)

Indeed. Internal collapse with a bit of applied pressure.

I don't believe there will ever be another major "troops on the ground" war. At least with President Trump. I hope and pray there won't be US blood shed again in countries who end up not caring. Or, worse, Afghanistan, who Biden left in worse shape with our soldiers killed and billions of equipment.

The only "troops on the ground" will be in our own country vs illegals/Somolians/Dim state leaders. As they get deported or hauled into prison. I am very good with this.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at January 02, 2026 04:06 PM (WONhk)

102 Jefferson used the US military to put down the Barbary Pirates in North Africa. So, he was definitely a bad Jeffersonian.

Well, he was in favor of yeoman small farmers and their pure way of life. You know, except for him and his slaves.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 02, 2026 04:06 PM (Riz8t)

103
This is, obviously, the big leagues.
Posted by: Orson

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

Dude. I have visions of MASSIVE statues, carvings, colossi, collapsing. Dust rising. Like, Trump is the shaper of the 21st century.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 02, 2026 04:06 PM (n7rxJ)

104 Zohran Kwame Mamdani
@ZohranKMamdani
We need to ban all guns.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 02, 2026 04:02 PM (L/fGl)

Come and take it, bitch.

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at January 02, 2026 04:06 PM (2J/Lj)

105 >>> Trump: If Iran Begins Shooting the Protesters Challenging Their Corrupt Terrorist Rule, I'll Take Their Asses Out

Damn.
Missed that thread.
Hopi it was a direct quote.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at January 02, 2026 04:06 PM (/lPRQ)

106 I'm about to eat the last of the leftovers

Posted by: TheCatAttackedMyFoot at January 02, 2026 04:07 PM (jrgJz)

107 He needs to leave and his cronies with him. In a box or boat. They need to have elections. Not run by smart matic. When the rule of law is restored, the drug gangs dead or rounded up like in El Salvador then we can talk about investment and normalization.

Posted by: It dont take a Kissinger at January 02, 2026 04:07 PM (JFpzi)

108 105 >>> Trump: If Iran Begins Shooting the Protesters Challenging Their Corrupt Terrorist Rule, I'll Take Their Asses Out

Damn.
Missed that thread.
Hopi it was a direct quote.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at January 02, 2026 04:06 PM (/lPRQ)

haha
It wasn't a direct quote.

Posted by: m at January 02, 2026 04:08 PM (RuTUS)

109 Happy New Year, Morons.

Posted by: garrett at January 02, 2026 04:05 PM (grNgC)

Thank you! Happy new year to you!

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at January 02, 2026 04:08 PM (2J/Lj)

110 >>Zohran Kwame Mamdani
@ZohranKMamdani
We need to ban all guns.

Let's try banning Islam first. What do you think? Neither is more or less Constitutional...so, let's try my idea first.

Posted by: garrett at January 02, 2026 04:08 PM (grNgC)

111 Come and take it, bitch.
Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at January 02, 2026 04:06 PM (2J/Lj)

I thought New Yak City already banned all guns.

There shouldn't be any there anymore... right?

Posted by: BurtTC at January 02, 2026 04:08 PM (KwCuT)

112 Madurai isn’t sending only drugs, he has been sending his pet criminal gang, TdA, to set up operations in the US. Their crime is beyond drug smuggling, such as human trafficking and their takeovers of large apartments, then taking a cut of the rent.

Posted by: Lizzy at January 02, 2026 04:08 PM (Hkcdp)

113 Posted by: the lower depths at January 02, 2026 04:02 PM (UdiE9)

______________________

Dirty little secret that no one reports on, or knows. China was sending fentanyl to the US and Canada via regular mail. Most of their labs are set up in abandoned buildings and subsidized by the State. They use false addresses and move every so often.

The drugs they produced are hybrids of fentanyl that they conveniently named something else (not on the illegal list). Then when it is identified and listed as illegal, they'd do another minor tweak and name it something else....all the while using the Dark Web to sell directly to dealers in the West via overnight and regular mail. The CCP claimed no knowledge of this but were financing the whole shebang.

Posted by: Pedro at January 02, 2026 04:08 PM (dIske)

114 113 Posted by: the lower depths at January 02, 2026 04:02 PM (UdiE9)

______________________

Dirty little secret that no one reports on, or knows. China was sending fentanyl to the US and Canada via regular mail. Most of their labs are set up in abandoned buildings and subsidized by the State. They use false addresses and move every so often.

The drugs they produced are hybrids of fentanyl that they conveniently named something else (not on the illegal list). Then when it is identified and listed as illegal, they'd do another minor tweak and name it something else....all the while using the Dark Web to sell directly to dealers in the West via overnight and regular mail. The CCP claimed no knowledge of this but were financing the whole shebang.
Posted by: Pedro at January 02, 2026 04:08 PM (dIske)

Does this not happen anymore?

Posted by: m at January 02, 2026 04:09 PM (RuTUS)

115 Like a captcha

https://is.gd/AALphV

Zoom out.

https://is.gd/KOFQd0

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 02, 2026 04:10 PM (L/fGl)

116 Is that on day 2 of mayor Mamdamis term that he is pushing gun bans?

Getting Socialism gooood and haaaard.

Posted by: Lizzy at January 02, 2026 04:10 PM (Hkcdp)

117 The drugs they produced are hybrids of fentanyl that they conveniently named something else (not on the illegal list). Then when it is identified and listed as illegal, they'd do another minor tweak and name it something else....all the while using the Dark Web to sell directly to dealers in the West via overnight and regular mail. The CCP claimed no knowledge of this but were financing the whole shebang.
Posted by: Pedro
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Ending de minimus ability to avoid customs put a big hole in that method.

Posted by: whig at January 02, 2026 04:10 PM (WDjG6)

118 The CCP claimed no knowledge of this but were financing the whole shebang.

Man, if you can't trust the CCP... well, actually, you can't trust the CCP. They are asshoe.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 02, 2026 04:10 PM (Riz8t)

119 Madero should be carpet bombed with savory empanadas until he surrenders or dies. Fuck this guy.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at January 02, 2026 04:10 PM (nljXp)

120 'Blame America First' - Remarks at the 1984 Republican National Convention - Aug. 20, 1984
Jeane J Kirkpatrick
August 20, 1984— Dallas, Texas
1984 Republican National Convention

https://is.gd/gEJsft

The Blame America First crowd has been around for awhile.

Posted by: No Name Today at January 02, 2026 04:11 PM (8mulE)

121 The CCP claimed no knowledge of this but were financing the whole shebang.
Posted by: Pedro at January 02, 2026 04:08 PM (dIske)

Hmmm, so blowing up boats leaving Venezuela isn't going to stop that?

Posted by: BurtTC at January 02, 2026 04:11 PM (KwCuT)

122 104 Zohran Kwame Mamdani
@ZohranKMamdani
We need to ban all guns.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks
======
Easier to ban all Mamdanis and ship them back to Uganda.

Posted by: whig at January 02, 2026 04:11 PM (WDjG6)

123
Posted by: Pedro at January 02, 2026 04:08 PM (dIske)

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Then toppling Maduro won't dent the fetty supply? Fuck.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 02, 2026 04:11 PM (n7rxJ)

124
Maybe Maduro could come here and run for mayor of some city in New York state? The retards in NY seem to like his type.
Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at January 02, 2026 03:55 PM (Qhx62)

Love it!

When I was a kid we read Mad Magazine.

Ace's blog is my Mad Magazine of adulthood.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at January 02, 2026 04:12 PM (WONhk)

125 97
Which of the "regime change" efforts that the U.S. has pulled off in the past several decades has worked out?
-----------------------------
Since you earlier claimed that everything in our effort had failed since WW2, I'll start there:
-Guatemala (the CIA coup was probably unnecessary, but Guatemala never became Nicaragua or a Haitian basket case)
-Several coups in South Korea that we at least winked at
-Sukarno getting shitcanned in Indonesia (might have kept the country going Communist)
-Iran in 1953 (took 25 years to fail, and might not have if Peanut Head had not been President)
-Congo/Zaire - I don't mourn Lumumba much
-Several military regimes in South America, including Brazil, Chile and Argentina
-Grenada
-Panama
-Honduras and Paraguay in the 21st Century
-Egypt (albeit correctly an earlier fuck-up by Obama

It's perfectly possible, even if Clinton, W. Obama and Biden were too retarded to do it correctly.

Posted by: the lower depths at January 02, 2026 04:13 PM (UdiE9)

126 We need to ban Narcan.

Posted by: toby928(c) at January 02, 2026 04:13 PM (jc0TO)

127 92 71 All I know is, if you didn't want the drugs that are killing Americans coming in to the country, you'd seal the border with Mexico, and stop all vessels coming from China.

If you're doing something else, and calling what you're doing a War on Narcoterrorists, you're just blowing more smoke up the collective American tailpipe.
-----------------------------
You're doing that "unless I get my extreme demands met literally nothing is improving" shtick that whiners do around here. It's actually a very contemptible take, especially when people keep doing it (and some posters have been doing it ad nauseum in earlier threads today.
Posted by: the lower depths at January 02, 2026 04:02 PM (UdiE9)

Hear, hear.
Well said.

Posted by: m at January 02, 2026 04:13 PM (RuTUS)

128 Got to give Maduro credit for the strong mustache game.

He looks kind of like Stalin to me.

I don't get the "Oh we shouldn't be doing anything in Venezuela!" bit. China, Iran, all the world's baddies are involved. Cutting off the head of this part of the axis of evil is... bad?

Sure, drugs if that was the only concern would be better focused on Mexico but lots of reasons to take down Venezuela.

Posted by: SimoHayha at January 02, 2026 04:13 PM (/ZkOF)

129 Posted by: Pedro

-----------
For a long time they tried this in Japan, and Japan would intelligently assess all packages coming in (x-ray, dogs, and based on sender and recipient) and then they would let Japan Post deliver it and arrest the recipient.

It is a known trap and seems to work. I think drugs still get in, but only under control of Japanese Criminal Gangs and not dirty foreigners.

Posted by: Mrs. Santa's unclean sister at January 02, 2026 04:13 PM (aTta8)

130
I thought New Yak City already banned all guns.

There shouldn't be any there anymore... right?
Posted by: BurtTC

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

I think Mamdani is speaking to a broader audience now. He's snagged the NYC mayoralty and his aspirations are widening as we speak.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 02, 2026 04:14 PM (n7rxJ)

131 112 Madurai isn’t sending only drugs, he has been sending his pet criminal gang, TdA, to set up operations in the US. Their crime is beyond drug smuggling, such as human trafficking and their takeovers of large apartments, then taking a cut of the rent.
Posted by: Lizzy

Yep. Estimates are roughly 800k to 1 million of our illegals come from Venezuela and the criminals hide out among the other illegals. He has also destabilized both Colombia and Brazil by his illegals setting up shop there and also threatened US oil concessions in Guiana to the extent he was lining his troops on the border to take the oil rich parts by invasion.

Piece of shit directly affecting US interests and destabilizing the whole Caribbean region.

Posted by: whig at January 02, 2026 04:14 PM (WDjG6)

132 Does this not happen anymore?
Posted by: m at January 02, 2026 04:09 PM (RuTUS)
______________________

Not as much. Congress stepped in for once and made it much more difficult. I forget the specific name of the legislation, but regular mail was the goto process up until 2020.

Posted by: Pedro at January 02, 2026 04:15 PM (dIske)

133 You're doing that "unless I get my extreme demands met literally nothing is improving" shtick that whiners do around here. It's actually a very contemptible take, especially when people keep doing it (and some posters have been doing it ad nauseum in earlier threads today.
Posted by: the lower depths at January 02, 2026 04:02 PM (UdiE9)
=====
Hear, hear.
Well said.
Posted by: m
=====
Ditto. I agree.

Posted by: whig at January 02, 2026 04:15 PM (WDjG6)

134 -Sukarno getting shitcanned in Indonesia (might have kept the country going Communist)
====

Well, that and slaughtering a million communists.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 02, 2026 04:16 PM (RIvkX)

135 132 Does this not happen anymore?
Posted by: m at January 02, 2026 04:09 PM (RuTUS)
______________________

Not as much. Congress stepped in for once and made it much more difficult. I forget the specific name of the legislation, but regular mail was the goto process up until 2020.
Posted by: Pedro at January 02, 2026 04:15 PM (dIske)

Yay!
Multi-pronged war on drugs sounds key.

Posted by: m at January 02, 2026 04:16 PM (RuTUS)

136 The Ron Paul crowd.
You know, those "patriots" that blame everything on America.

Posted by: Erebus- Ex Killer Whale at January 02, 2026 04:16 PM (DI/0t)

137 Trump quotes today on Iran

"If Iran shots and violently kills peaceful protesters, which is their custom, the United States of America will come to their rescue".

He added that the U.S. is "locked and loaded and ready to go"

Posted by: whig at January 02, 2026 04:17 PM (WDjG6)

138 Say to Maduro "leave within 24 hrs or eat a cruise missile". Should hurry things along

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 02, 2026 04:17 PM (zNwXb)

139
Maybe Maduro could come here and run for mayor of some city in New York state? The retards in NY seem to like his type.
Posted by: Chairborne!

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

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candidate

and raise you a
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Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 02, 2026 04:17 PM (n7rxJ)

140 Have another empanada, Senor Maduro.

Posted by: Fat Elvis at January 02, 2026 04:17 PM (UjdFS)

141 Zohran Kwame Mamdani
@ZohranKMamdani
We need to ban all guns.

yeah because were going to let a foreign born rag head insurgent muslim ass licking goat fucking cocksucker fuck with our bill of rights.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 02, 2026 04:17 PM (snZF9)

142
yeah because were going to let a foreign born rag head insurgent muslim ass licking goat fucking cocksucker fuck with our bill of rights.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 02, 2026 04:17 PM (snZF9)

You have a way with words, sir!

Posted by: moki at January 02, 2026 04:18 PM (wLjpr)

143 >>>You're doing that "unless I get my extreme demands met literally nothing is improving" shtick that whiners do around here.

As soon as you realize that Burt The Contrarian is an attention whore and stop engaging him, the better off you will be.

Posted by: one hour sober at January 02, 2026 04:18 PM (Y1sOo)

144 "If Iran shots and violently kills peaceful protesters, which is their custom, the United States of America will come to their rescue".
=====

I don't like it. But it is 100 times better than saying nothing.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 02, 2026 04:19 PM (RIvkX)

145 > Zohran Kwame Mamdani
@ZohranKMamdani
We need to ban all guns.
---------
Yes.

Start with your security team. Show everyone "the way."

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 02, 2026 04:19 PM (NwnyJ)

146 131 112 Madurai isn’t sending only drugs, he has been sending his pet criminal gang, TdA, to set up operations in the US. Their crime is beyond drug smuggling, such as human trafficking and their takeovers of large apartments, then taking a cut of the rent.
Posted by: Lizzy

Yep. Estimates are roughly 800k to 1 million of our illegals come from Venezuela and the criminals hide out among the other illegals. He has also destabilized both Colombia and Brazil by his illegals setting up shop there and also threatened US oil concessions in Guiana to the extent he was lining his troops on the border to take the oil rich parts by invasion.

Piece of shit directly affecting US interests and destabilizing the whole Caribbean region.
Posted by: whig at January 02, 2026 04:14 PM (WDjG6)

There are some regimes that simply need destabilizing. For the greater good. We joke about Pinochet, but he saved South America from a fate much worse than what they would have gotten if the Commies took over more territory down there. You stabilize regions by getting rid of the destabilizers.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at January 02, 2026 04:19 PM (0CU3H)

147 Zohran Kwame Mamdani
@ZohranKMamdani
We need to ban all guns.

Not on the first page of his account:

https://xcancel.com/ZohranKMamdani

Posted by: m at January 02, 2026 04:19 PM (RuTUS)

148 Why is Maduro in this car?

Which brings me to wondering why "influencers" are always in their cars???

To prevent ID of location? Better lighting and acoustics? Eating fast food? Locked out of the house as they are so annoying?

I have always wondered about this. I am a person who is highly insulted with my own phone if it flips to a selfie when I am trying to take photos.

Maybe in 2026 I will record myself, in our parked car, with a seatbelt, a video to send our sons for a joke. Maybe wear a paper mask. Discuss tape worms or road kill that can still be eaten.

Social media is making people retards. I stand by this, y'all.

I also like, now and then, watching without sound, crazy women trying to sell a cosmetic product. Lots of strange facial behavior and hand waving. Note: sound off.

I only see this now and then when bored and looking at Pinterest. I once looked up one product, researched it, and it appeared to be basically airplane glue. Which would explain the women's behavior sniffing that while clogging their pores.

This is a public service announcement.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at January 02, 2026 04:19 PM (WONhk)

149 No surprise that the YouTube algorithm forces these questionable people on you. Subtle attempt at brainwashing.
Posted by: zombie
=====
All social media does that shit. Amazon does that shit too if you buy books from them.

Ebay seems about the least worried about mind control as they just want your money.

Posted by: whig at January 02, 2026 04:19 PM (WDjG6)

150 To save the wimmen and chilluns should we do:
1) ban guns or
2) ban Islam?

Both unconstitutional. Which has a better likelihood of actually, you know, saving wimmens and chilluns and the rest of us too?

And maybe you can claim you aren't banning a faith so much as banning a bad set of political ideas. But that's a dangerous road to go down, unfortunately.

Posted by: SimoHayha at January 02, 2026 04:20 PM (/ZkOF)

151 smuggling drugs the old fashioned ways:
- drug mules over land
- small airstrips in TX, AZ, NM, SoCA"

Where is zombie Don Aronow?

Posted by: man at January 02, 2026 04:21 PM (XuXeR)

152 This is a public service announcement.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat

Car thing got started, my guess is to avoid nasty looking dwelling spaces. Same reason that lots of people wanting to look smart on media video have bookcases full of important titles (you can rent those btw).

Posted by: whig at January 02, 2026 04:21 PM (WDjG6)

153 I saw a repost of a black woman that goes by Proverbs 31 Woman. She said that people haven't seen real leadership in so long, that they don't recognize it. And she said President Trump is focused exactly on what a President is supposed to do.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at January 02, 2026 04:21 PM (+mUZM)

154 136 The Ron Paul crowd.
You know, those "patriots" that blame everything on America.
--------------------------
The Ron Paul aren't leftists. But they are political idealists. While Dims are in the White House we mistake them for allies, because they make critiques of Biden et al. that aren't bad.

However, once Trump is in office, they begin trying to gum up the works anytime something is getting done, because we aren't living up to what they think our ideals are (even though no society ever is pure living up to its "ideals").

This isn't new. Read some of the Anti-Federalist Papers. People remember the pro-Bill of Rights stuff that won out, but a lot of arguments were hysterical. Patrick Henry was claiming that the Constitution would enslave us, and a lot of arguments were for waiting for a better proposed Constitution (in spite what we got being the result of months of contentious compromise). Such people never accomplish anything and are mostly in the way.

Posted by: the lower depths at January 02, 2026 04:21 PM (UdiE9)

155 108 105 >>> Trump: If Iran Begins Shooting the Protesters Challenging Their Corrupt Terrorist Rule, I'll Take Their Asses Out

Damn.
Missed that thread.
Hopi it was a direct quote.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at January 02, 2026 04:06 PM (/lPRQ)

haha
It wasn't a direct quote.
Posted by: m at January 02, 2026 04:08 PM (RuTUS)

Here's the direct quote:

137 Trump quotes today on Iran

"If Iran shots and violently kills peaceful protesters, which is their custom, the United States of America will come to their rescue".

He added that the U.S. is "locked and loaded and ready to go"
Posted by: whig at January 02, 2026 04:17 PM (WDjG6)

Posted by: m at January 02, 2026 04:21 PM (RuTUS)

156 Like my old pal Keith Richard, or Keef, as I like to call him, I don't have a lot of respect for those who can't handle their drugs...

But the death rate from fentanyl is the US is alarming.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at January 02, 2026 04:22 PM (wBaIH)

157 ZohranKMamdani
We need to ban all guns"

Welcome to Texas, buttmunch.

Posted by: man at January 02, 2026 04:23 PM (XuXeR)

158 There are some regimes that simply need destabilizing. For the greater good. We joke about Pinochet, but he saved South America from a fate much worse than what they would have gotten if the Commies took over more territory down there. You stabilize regions by getting rid of the destabilizers.
Posted by: Darrell Harris
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Pretty much. That is why the Concert of Europe prevented a general European war between Napoleon and WWI.

Posted by: whig at January 02, 2026 04:23 PM (WDjG6)

159 But The America Firsters? What the hell even are they? The worldview is incoherent, inconsistent and morally jumbled. I can't even understand why the would ever attract followers, and what the attraction would be. "Follow us! We stand for...stuff, and things like that."
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I think their worldview is very clear.

You take a capital "S."
Now draw a line from the top to the bottom.
Should look a bit like this: $

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 02, 2026 04:23 PM (prbfg)

160 But the death rate from fentanyl is the US is alarming.
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov
========
Purity and spiking it with other crap means very easy to OD.

Posted by: whig at January 02, 2026 04:24 PM (WDjG6)

161 I can't help thinking that fentanyl use will burn itself out at some point. Like crack and Victorian era gin.

Posted by: toby928(c) at January 02, 2026 04:25 PM (jc0TO)

162 91
Zohran Kwame Mamdani
@ZohranKMamdani
We need to ban all guns.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 02, 2026 04:02 PM (L/fGl)

Is this something he tweeted before the inauguration?

Posted by: m at January 02, 2026 04:25 PM (RuTUS)

163
Zoom out.

https://is.gd/KOFQd0
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 02, 2026 04:10 PM (L/fGl)

Thanks! I don't believe I've seen the zoomed out photo before.

Posted by: CaliGirl at January 02, 2026 04:25 PM (ldc40)

164 Modern America Fisters - they want to make the US into a hermit kingdom. To curl up in their blanket forest and ignore the world.

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 02, 2026 04:26 PM (2GVsD)

165 And the term "narcoterrorist" is a bullshit made-up term.

Drug dealers with guns and bombs?

Posted by: Sock Monkey * sporting my Andrew Breitbart attitude at January 02, 2026 04:26 PM (vzcgi)

166 106 I'm about to eat the last of the leftovers
Posted by: TheCatAttackedMyFoot at January 02, 2026 04:07 PM (jrgJz)

May the force be with you.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at January 02, 2026 04:27 PM (WONhk)

167 146 There are some regimes that simply need destabilizing. For the greater good. We joke about Pinochet, but he saved South America from a fate much worse than what they would have gotten if the Commies took over more territory down there. You stabilize regions by getting rid of the destabilizers.
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A good point, and a way to try to differentiate Wilsonian crap from just doing great power diplomacy.

Overthrowing Gaddafi or Mubarak in 2011 was the most sort of Wilonianism, because it was forcing out people who kept thheir countries under control and weren't bothering their neighbors (anymore, in Gaddafi's case). Even Saddam makes some sense by comparison (just the execution was hot garbage, and occupying Iraq would not have been a good idea even if competent people had tried it).

Posted by: the lower depths at January 02, 2026 04:27 PM (UdiE9)

168 Posted by: whig at January 02, 2026 04:14 PM (WDjG6)
______________________________

I think a closer look at border states (Arizona and New Mexico) would show a financial extortion, bribery and criminal pressure basis that is devastating and directly related to Venezuela. I'm talking judicial, law enforcement, political and (most especially) the election officials.

Hell, there was an Arizona District judge that had Venezuelan illegals living in his house.

Posted by: Orson at January 02, 2026 04:27 PM (dIske)

169 Isn’t it obvious? Madero is Chuck Schumer with a Magnum P.I. Mustache.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at January 02, 2026 04:27 PM (nljXp)

170 163
Zoom out.

https://is.gd/KOFQd0
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 02, 2026 04:10 PM (L/fGl)

Thanks! I don't believe I've seen the zoomed out photo before.
Posted by: CaliGirl at January 02, 2026 04:25 PM (ldc40)

So beautiful!

Posted by: m at January 02, 2026 04:27 PM (RuTUS)

171
Car thing got started, my guess is to avoid nasty looking dwelling spaces. Same reason that lots of people wanting to look smart on media video have bookcases full of important titles (you can rent those btw).
Posted by: whig at January 02, 2026 04:21 PM (WDjG6)

Some of the talking heads had stylists arrange and curate their books, idiots.

Posted by: CaliGirl at January 02, 2026 04:28 PM (ldc40)

172 Victorian era gin."

James Gin?

Posted by: man at January 02, 2026 04:28 PM (XuXeR)

173 yeah because were going to let a foreign born rag head insurgent muslim ass licking goat fucking cocksucker fuck with our bill of rights.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 02, 2026 04:17 PM (snZF9)

You have a way with words, sir!
Posted by: moki
......

A true poet.

Posted by: wth at January 02, 2026 04:28 PM (UjdFS)

174 Many of the fraudulent America-firsters are actually just Israel-enders.

Posted by: Ordinary American at January 02, 2026 04:29 PM (WHfpM)

175 yeah because were going to let a foreign born rag head insurgent muslim ass licking goat fucking cocksucker fuck with our bill of rights.

Mahdami or Gaylord?

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 02, 2026 04:29 PM (2GVsD)

176
But The America Firsters? What the hell even are they? The worldview is incoherent, inconsistent and morally jumbled. I can't even understand why the would ever attract followers, and what the attraction would be. "Follow us! We stand for...stuff, and things like that."
Posted by: zombie at January 02, 2026 03:57 PM (se8lQ)

The "America First" slogan has been destroyed by a concentrated and well financed effort on X and other social platforms. (almost certainly financed by Soros, Qatar, and the CCP, as well as the left in its various guises) They realized that attacking Trump directly was not working, so they recruited quite a few "influencers" (Like Bannon and Tucker and Candace) to push the line that "America First" mean total international pacificism plus hate all jews and Hitler was right, and oh yeah Erica Kirk secretly arranged Charlie's killing because Charlie really loved Candace and Erica wanted to make Candace feel really bad.

and if you don't believe all of that well of course you're not "America First" now.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 02, 2026 04:29 PM (uWKK8)

177 The problem with fentanyl is that most drugs sold on the street contain fentanyl. It’s added to every other street drug (CO police estimates about 70% of street drugs in the state contain fentanyl). A lot of the fentanyl overdoses happen when another drug is taken, or two combined, in which the taker had no idea they are taking fentanyl. This is what happened with that actor from “The Wire.”

Fentanyl ODs will decline only if drug dealers stop cutting it into their supplies of other drugs.

Posted by: Lizzy at January 02, 2026 04:30 PM (Hkcdp)

178 All I know is, if you didn't want the drugs that are killing Americans coming in to the country, you'd seal the border with Mexico, and stop all vessels coming from China.

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Wow. That's the stupidest of stupid complaints:

Trump is doing exactly what I said he should do but he's also not doing that because I said that's what I'd do!

Border? Sealed.
Boats from China? Their drug cargo keeps ending up on the seafloor of the Caribbean.

You might just want to take the "L" here buddy and go on down to another post.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 02, 2026 04:30 PM (prbfg)

179 161 I can't help thinking that fentanyl use will burn itself out at some point. Like crack and Victorian era gin.
Posted by: toby928(c)

Worse things are waiting. Modern chemistry has created some monstrous drugs, some of which are on the shelves of your local crappy stop and go.

Example, Tianeptine is an atypical tricyclic antidepressant that is sold in European, Asian, and South American countries to allegedly treat anxiety, depression, and irritable bowel syndrome.

Known as Gas Station Heroin.

Another winner sold on stop n go shelves,

Kratom is a tropical tree (Mitragyna speciosa) native to Southeast Asia.

The leaves contain psychoactive compounds, primarily mitragynine and 7-hydroxymitragynine, which can produce stimulant-like effects at low doses and opioid-like effects at higher doses, including sedation, pain relief, and euphoria.

And then you have the ultra high synthetic THC stuff on the shelves.

"Artificial THC, more accurately referred to as synthetic cannabinoids or synthetic cannabinoid receptor agonists (SCRAs), are lab-made chemicals designed to mimic the effects of THC (delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol), the primary psychoactive compound in cannabis.

Posted by: whig at January 02, 2026 04:30 PM (WDjG6)

180 Destroying hostile, but compliant governments. (Khaddaffi)

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This was the stupidest thing in the entire world. Thanks Hillary/Obama.

For those that don't know, we made a deal with Khadafi/Qudafi (nobody knows how to spell his name) that was basically, you don't pursue nuclear weapons and shut the fuck up and we will keep others from attacking you and we will buy your oil. He complied and was well on his way to growing old and dying. We then ousted him while his pants were down. This means nobody can trust America ever again. He is a terrorist, yes, but we were the ones that reneged on the deal, not him. We could have just run the clock out on him and people would trust us even if they don't agree with us.

The left keeps calling us and Trump Hitler but striking a deal with Khadafi and then killing him was the most Hitlerian move by Hillary and Obama.

Posted by: Lemmiwinks at January 02, 2026 04:31 PM (qtBQt)

181 @ZohranKMamdani
We need to ban all guns.

--

Does that go for his taxpayer-funded security team?

Posted by: Lady in Black at January 02, 2026 04:31 PM (qBdHI)

182
I don't have a lot of respect for those who can't handle their drugs...

But the death rate from fentanyl is the US is alarming.
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov

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The predatory nature of drug pushers and the spectacle of scared, new-in-town, half-dead young Americans on some big city sidewalk is where my libertarianism dies.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 02, 2026 04:31 PM (n7rxJ)

183 "Venezuelan strongman Nicolás Maduro is striking a suddenly conciliatory tone toward Washington after a reported CIA drone strike targeted a cartel-linked docking area inside his country, claiming Caracas is now "ready" to negotiate with the United States on drug trafficking -- and even dangling access to Venezuela's oil sector as leverage."
=====

Maduro without drug smuggling and terrorism is Maduro without the means to pay off the military, the drug manufacturers, and the security forces. The legit oil market is tanking (intentional) and bananas won't pay the bills.

So, he's stalling for time. The walls are closing in. It's time for his closeup.

Posted by: mrp at January 02, 2026 04:31 PM (rj6Yv)

184 He seemed OK for a while,with decent opinions, but then out of the blue, right in the middle of the video, he started saying snarky anti-Israel things.

Never watching another video by him, obviously.
Posted by: zombie at January 02, 2026 03:51 PM (se8lQ)

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What is curious is how it never works the other way, no leftie suddenly starts talking sense.

Posted by: Decaf at January 02, 2026 04:32 PM (Z8jzG)

185 In our new series "Hunting Tucker," we will follow famed Nazi Hunter Mr. Ace O'Spades as he leads an elite Mossad team into the jungles of Venezuela to capture notorious Nazi Tucker Carlson along with Nazi propagandist Candace "Goebbels" Owens and She-Wolf of the SS Megyn Kelly.

The new show will air immediately following "The Curse of Oak Island."

Produced by Ben Shapiro and Mark Levin.

Posted by: The History Channel at January 02, 2026 04:32 PM (NBTu1)

186 Zohran Kwame Mamdani
@ZohranKMamdani
We need to ban all guns.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer
......

...he said, with Bernie Sanders' arm up his ass.

Posted by: wth at January 02, 2026 04:32 PM (UjdFS)

187 Why do I think Maduro's "plan" to combat narco-terrorists involves the US flooding Venezuela with a whole lot of money to fund native anti-drug operations (that Maduro can skim from) and little else?

Posted by: Octochicken at January 02, 2026 04:32 PM (oCS0o)

188 Many of the fraudulent America-firsters are actually just Israel-enders.
Posted by: Ordinary American

Yep.

Posted by: Bulg at January 02, 2026 04:32 PM (77rzZ)

189 To this day does anyone really know what happened to the leftovers of Qaddafi's chemical and nuclear programs. Like the barrels of mustard agent.

Some had been turned over to the US under Bush. But then Gaylord and Hillary.

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 02, 2026 04:33 PM (2GVsD)

190 Is this something he tweeted before the inauguration?
Posted by: m

No, it's from a couple years ago. I'm sure he's seen the light now.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 02, 2026 04:33 PM (L/fGl)

191 America first is nothing but "First America must..."

Posted by: Pucker Carlson at January 02, 2026 04:33 PM (cHOHf)

192 173 yeah because were going to let a foreign born rag head insurgent muslim ass licking goat fucking cocksucker fuck with our bill of rights.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 02, 2026 04:17 PM (snZF9)

You have a way with words, sir!
Posted by: moki
......

A true poet.
Posted by: wth at January 02, 2026 04:28 PM (UjdFS)

I miss Chavez the Hugo, but it warms my heart to know that there are several posters waiting in the wings to take his place. Chavez truly had a way with epithets. He could weave a magnificent tapestry of obscenities, almost at will.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at January 02, 2026 04:33 PM (0CU3H)

193 spectacle of scared, new-in-town, half-dead young Americans on some big city sidewalk"

I was in Philly two years ago... buddy drove me thru that area, and it was utterly devastating. Pictures don't tell the story, and the smell...

Posted by: man at January 02, 2026 04:33 PM (XuXeR)

194 Those boats are carrying cocaine.

Fentanyl precursors are coming into Mexico and probably Canada the last I heard.

Let's try to be honest about what is really going on.

Posted by: pawn at January 02, 2026 04:33 PM (Rmqfl)

195
I was in Philly two years ago... buddy drove me thru that area, and it was utterly devastating. Pictures don't tell the story, and the smell...
Posted by: man

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

Some of those faces haunt me, and always will.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 02, 2026 04:34 PM (n7rxJ)

196 Trump already gave Maduro the plan, there's no negotiation. Get on a plane and go into exile, and let the duly elected President take the position.

That's it, the end. Stop flapping your gums and pretending your words mean anything.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 02, 2026 04:34 PM (uWKK8)

197 190 Is this something he tweeted before the inauguration?
Posted by: m

No, it's from a couple years ago. I'm sure he's seen the light now.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 02, 2026 04:33 PM (L/fGl)

Oh.
Thanks.

Posted by: m at January 02, 2026 04:35 PM (RuTUS)

198 Come on. Tucker's no Nazi. He converted to Islam.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 02, 2026 04:35 PM (BI5O2)

199 Remember:
You're not allowed to complain about the fraud in MN because you voted for a 34-time felon.

It's in the Constitution.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 02, 2026 04:36 PM (prbfg)

200
The left keeps calling us and Trump Hitler but striking a deal with Khadafi and then killing him was the most Hitlerian move by Hillary and Obama.
Posted by: Lemmiwinks at January 02, 2026 04:31

Kaddafi claimed that if he wasn't in power African migrants would invade Europe and I see he called it.

Posted by: CaliGirl at January 02, 2026 04:36 PM (ldc40)

201 200

Posted by: m at January 02, 2026 04:36 PM (RuTUS)

202 This is a public service announcement.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat
----------------------
I don't know if he started it, but an early adapter was vivafrei. I suspect his wife threw him out of the house.

I always imagined him parked outside waiting for his visitation day and in the meanwhile doing car video.

Posted by: Mrs. Santa's unclean sister at January 02, 2026 04:36 PM (aTta8)

203 >>So, he's stalling for time. The walls are closing in. It's time for his closeup.

Trump has previously stated a couple times, maybe more, that Maduro has to go. No matter what else anyone else thinks Trump does consider Maduro a narcoterrorist who has injured and killed thousands of Americans. He thinks this because it's true.

I don't think there is any deal short of Maduro gets passage to exile Trump would accept. He didn't blockade Venezuela and blow up drug boats and facilities for concessions.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 02, 2026 04:36 PM (viF8m)

204 198 Come on. Tucker's no Nazi. He converted to Islam.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 02, 2026 04:35 PM (BI5O2)

IslamoNazi?

Posted by: m at January 02, 2026 04:36 PM (RuTUS)

205 196 Trump already gave Maduro the plan, there's no negotiation. Get on a plane and go into exile, and let the duly elected President take the position.

That's it, the end. Stop flapping your gums and pretending your words mean anything.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 02, 2026 04:34 PM (uWKK

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"But I am this close to getting to $3 billion in my bank account. Give me another 6 months, please?"
-Maduro

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at January 02, 2026 04:36 PM (GBKbO)

206 Zohran's wife looks like she's brainwashed.
She thinks she's a goat.

Posted by: wth at January 02, 2026 04:36 PM (UjdFS)

207
I'm sure he's seen the light now.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks

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

LOL. We don't need to ban all guns. We need to ban all cops, guns, locks on doors, security systems, security guards, and all systems of white authority. Now, which way do I exit, Guy In Sunglasses?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 02, 2026 04:37 PM (n7rxJ)

208 199 Remember:
You're not allowed to complain about the fraud in MN because you voted for a 34-time felon.

It's in the Constitution.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 02, 2026 04:36 PM (prbfg)

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*plays video of Biden pinching a 9 year old girl's nipple in public*

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at January 02, 2026 04:37 PM (GBKbO)

209 Some of those faces haunt me, and always will."

There was an absolutely lovely young lady completely out of her mind, and it was the saddest sight...

Posted by: man at January 02, 2026 04:37 PM (XuXeR)

210 "But I am this close to getting to $3 billion in my bank account. Give me another 6 months, please?"
-Maduro
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at January 02, 2026 04:36 PM

Sorry, USAID is closed.

Posted by: toby928(c) at January 02, 2026 04:37 PM (jc0TO)

211 Tucker worships i$lamonazism

Where the Benjamins are, he goes.

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 02, 2026 04:37 PM (2GVsD)

212 It seems to me which drops first: Iran or Venezuela?

Because if there's a management change in Iran, Venezuela folds like a damp rag.

Posted by: mrp at January 02, 2026 04:37 PM (rj6Yv)

213 209 Some of those faces haunt me, and always will."

There was an absolutely lovely young lady completely out of her mind, and it was the saddest sight...

Posted by: man at January 02, 2026 04:37 PM (XuXeR)

======

Those Twilight movie premieres were otherworldly, man.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at January 02, 2026 04:37 PM (GBKbO)

214 196 Trump already gave Maduro the plan, there's no negotiation. Get on a plane and go into exile, and let the duly elected President take the position.

That's it, the end. Stop flapping your gums and pretending your words mean anything.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 02, 2026 04:34 PM (uWKK
----
Darth Trump: "Pray I don't alter the deal any further."

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 02, 2026 04:38 PM (ESVrU)

215 The reason there is upheaval in both Venezuela and Iran is lack of money. The population, even the ruling class' flunkies are out of funds and refusing to play their part and everybody is now mad at the government.

Posted by: Decaf at January 02, 2026 04:38 PM (Z8jzG)

216 @ZohranKMamdani
We need to ban all guns.

Like Obama, he really does think that he's the first one shmart enough to come up with all these brilliant ideas, doesn't he?

Posted by: Oddbob at January 02, 2026 04:38 PM (3nLb4)

217 Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 02, 202

What a courageous man, I hadn't seen the full picture before. God bless his memory!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 02, 2026 04:38 PM (2sfNr)

218 "But I am this close to getting to $3 billion in my bank account. Give me another 6 months, please?"
-Maduro
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at January 02, 2026 04:36 PM

Sorry, USAID is closed.
Posted by: toby928(c) at January 02, 2026 04:37 PM (jc0TO)
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Chupacabra out front shoulda told ya...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 02, 2026 04:39 PM (ESVrU)

219
And the term "narcoterrorist" is a bullshit made-up term.

The term has it's place. Mostly in Colombia, where Pablo Escobar and the Medellin Cartel used terrorism to directly control most of the country for years. When the narco cartels start getting into the politics of the country beyond the normal corruption, the term applies. Problem is, where to draw the line.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at January 02, 2026 04:39 PM (y9nCu)

220 And the term "narcoterrorist" is a bullshit made-up term.

Drug dealers with guns and bombs?
Posted by: Sock Monkey * sporting my Andrew Breitbart attitude

Somewhere around here I have a book titled "Narcoterrorism", published around 1994ish.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at January 02, 2026 04:39 PM (/lPRQ)

221 216 @ZohranKMamdani
We need to ban all guns.

Like Obama, he really does think that he's the first one shmart enough to come up with all these brilliant ideas, doesn't he?

Posted by: Oddbob at January 02, 2026 04:38 PM (3nLb4)

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What strikes me is the amount of doctrinal Marxism he speaks.

Like, textbook socialism you learn as a freshman in college before you realize that Norway is funded by gas money, before you realize that the Soviet Union was actually dirt poor.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at January 02, 2026 04:39 PM (GBKbO)

222 And people keep forgetting that if Maduro falls, the Cuban regime collapses effortlessly. Venezuela has been propping them up with free energy for 20 years now, and they've been providing Maduro with thugs to beat up the local population in return.
Cuba has no exports, no industry, almost no agriculture. Russia has lost interest and won't/can't prop them up anymore. China won't pick up the heavy bill, either.

If Maduro falls, Cuba falls with him. Without a shot being fired.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 02, 2026 04:39 PM (uWKK8)

223 he really does think that he's the first one shmart enough to come up with all these brilliant ideas"

Dave's not here, man.

Posted by: man at January 02, 2026 04:39 PM (XuXeR)

224 It seems to me which drops first: Iran or Venezuela?

Because if there's a management change in Iran, Venezuela folds like a damp rag.
Posted by: mrp at January 02, 2026 04:37 PM

Iran -> Venezuela -> Cuba
or
Iran -> Hezbollah -> Hamas

Posted by: toby928(c) at January 02, 2026 04:39 PM (jc0TO)

225 >>The reason there is upheaval in both Venezuela and Iran is lack of money. The population, even the ruling class' flunkies are out of funds and refusing to play their part and everybody is now mad at the government.

Sounds like things are getting a bit sporty in China, too.

Cause sanctions don't work.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 02, 2026 04:39 PM (viF8m)

226 181 @ZohranKMamdani
We need to ban all guns.

@Itsmedonna

We need to ban all Zohran Mamdani's

Posted by: It's me donna at January 02, 2026 04:39 PM (VE6XX)

227 222 If Maduro falls, Cuba falls with him. Without a shot being fired.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 02, 2026 04:39 PM (uWKK

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Well, there were some shots.

From the skies.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at January 02, 2026 04:39 PM (GBKbO)

228 Iran is running out of water.

Venezuela has been a third world disease pesthole since Chavez.

But like Socialism, once they run out of other people's money the house of cards collapses it seems.

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 02, 2026 04:39 PM (2GVsD)

229 194 Those boats are carrying cocaine.

Fentanyl precursors are coming into Mexico and probably Canada the last I heard.

Let's try to be honest about what is really going on.
Posted by: pawn
---------------
What's going on is that Trump is staking America's claim to the Caribbean. He is telling China and it's allies to f---- off.

That was same deal with Gulf of America. He is looking at the game China is playing and realizing that they are trying to checkmate us in our own hemisphere.

Posted by: Mrs. Santa's unclean sister at January 02, 2026 04:40 PM (aTta8)

230
I don't think there is any deal short of Maduro gets passage to exile Trump would accept. He didn't blockade Venezuela and blow up drug boats and facilities for concessions.
Posted by: JackStraw

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

That's what I think. There is no "deal" in which Maduro can stay. Any deal acceptable to Trump is a deal that will set Maduro up for internal overthrow.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 02, 2026 04:40 PM (n7rxJ)

231 209 Some of those faces haunt me, and always will."

There was an absolutely lovely young lady completely out of her mind, and it was the saddest sight...
Posted by: man at January 02, 2026 04:37 PM (XuXeR)

Some "Not Even Once" commercials might help.

Posted by: m at January 02, 2026 04:40 PM (RuTUS)

232 But The America Firsters? What the hell even are they? The worldview is incoherent, inconsistent and morally jumbled. I can't even understand why the would ever attract followers, and what the attraction would be. "Follow us! We stand for...stuff, and things like that."
Posted by: zombie at January 02, 2026 03:57 PM (se8lQ)

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

In fact Trump is the real America Firster. You would think these nominal America Firsters would be thrilled with him.

Posted by: Decaf at January 02, 2026 04:41 PM (Z8jzG)

233 Maduro should take his bank account and move to Paris.

Parisian Marxist chicks will blow him until he's a desiccated corpse. Don't have to worry about security when the French government will spend $500 million a year keeping you safe.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at January 02, 2026 04:41 PM (GBKbO)

234 Iran -> Venezuela -> Cuba
or
Iran -> Hezbollah -> Hamas
Posted by: toby928(c) at January 02, 2026 04:39 PM (jc0TO)
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Embrace the power of "AND"

Iran seems to be the linchpin to many of the world's annoying problems...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 02, 2026 04:41 PM (ESVrU)

235 Kratom is a tropical tree (Mitragyna speciosa) native to Southeast Asia.

The leaves contain psychoactive compounds, primarily mitragynine and 7-hydroxymitragynine, which can produce stimulant-like effects at low doses and opioid-like effects at higher doses, including sedation, pain relief, and euphoria.

And then you have the ultra high synthetic THC stuff on the shelves.

"Artificial THC, more accurately referred to as synthetic cannabinoids or synthetic cannabinoid receptor agonists (SCRAs), are lab-made chemicals designed to mimic the effects of THC (delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol), the primary psychoactive compound in cannabis.

Posted by: whig at January 02, 2026 04:30 PM (WDjG6)

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I take kratom sometimes. It's great, easy to control the dosage, and quite gentle in its effects. Never had a bad experience with it. I heard it can be addictive so I only take it occasionally.

I primarily Delta 8, been doing it for over 3 years now, it's also great and I take it multiple times a week, though sometimes I take a break for a month or two. Highly enjoyable.

Both are much better than alcohol IMO.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at January 02, 2026 04:42 PM (Vh9CX)

236 Here's a pretty interesting read on how María Corina Machado (opposition leader of Venezuela) got out of the country last month. US Vets. stepped in and got her out by boat. And there were a little nervous about being mistaken for a drug boat. The article was in NPR back on 12/12. But, it's not their usual agenda nonsense. It's an interesting read (and relatively short).

Incidentally, her nickname is "The Iron Lady", and the first person she thanked upon winning the Nobel Peace Prize was our president. So far, I have her in the "good egg" column.

https://tinyurl.com/ms3zawsa

Posted by: Orson at January 02, 2026 04:42 PM (dIske)

237 232 In fact Trump is the real America Firster. You would think these nominal America Firsters would be thrilled with him.

Posted by: Decaf at January 02, 2026 04:41 PM (Z8jzG)

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"Trump is doing foreign policy while America is not a utopia yet. He's a betrayer of America First principles."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at January 02, 2026 04:42 PM (GBKbO)

238 I think the car thing is because of the superior sound proofing makes for a superior recording environment.

Plus it is secure, you don't have to worry about your kids coming in or someone overhearing you.

Posted by: pawn at January 02, 2026 04:42 PM (Rmqfl)

239 Is Victorian Era gin also "bathtub" gin?

Wiped out from holidaying. I love my family. I love Christmas & lights & good cheer. If I was hung over I could understand vs being tired. I guess because I am olde & in denial.

Was going to take a rare nap when our granddaughter did; but her family rudely came off the ski slopes and woke us up after 10min to take her home.

Announced to my husband I don't care what we eat tonight & that I am a zombie. Scared to nap because then I will be awake at 1am listening to '70's rock & roll and irritating the man who is stuck with me.

Watched the end of the Ole Miss/GA game and totally loved that insanity! That's how football should always be played!

I should say that the game is a total surprise to me that GA lost. Also that I attended Ole Miss for a total of two weeks in my junior year! I know I would have been Homecoming Queen had I not been anti sorority during rush & left (due to a friend leaving, bizarre story). My parents were very shocked to see me arrive that night, let me tell you! I was then quickly enrolled in another college where I only passed a travel study program to London.

I do feel badly for my parents 50yrs later. Sorry!

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at January 02, 2026 04:42 PM (WONhk)

240 We've lost every war since the Big One in the Forties. And even then it took another 46 years to clear the commies out of Europe.

Because we didn't want to commit to winning.

Posted by: free tibet at January 02, 2026 04:42 PM (1wtUm)

241 @ZohranKMamdani
We need to ban all guns.

We agree!

Posted by: All criminals, illegals and crazy people at January 02, 2026 04:42 PM (KDPiq)

242
Venezuela has been a third world disease pesthole since Chavez.

But like Socialism, once they run out of other people's money the house of cards collapses it seems.
Posted by: Anna Puma

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I'll never forget that pic of grinning Obama patting Chavez on the arm. I truly bet that that gutless fvck is feeling kind of sheepish now.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 02, 2026 04:43 PM (n7rxJ)

243
Maduro Mamdani
Mamdani Maduro
Let's call the whole thing off

Posted by: m at January 02, 2026 04:43 PM (RuTUS)

244 209 Some of those faces haunt me, and always will."

There was an absolutely lovely young lady completely out of her mind, and it was the saddest sight...
Posted by: man

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"Pushing through the market square, so many mothers sighing. News had just come over, we had five years left to cry in"

Posted by: Mrs. Santa's unclean sister at January 02, 2026 04:43 PM (aTta8)

245 The reason there is upheaval in both Venezuela and Iran is lack of money. The population, even the ruling class' flunkies are out of funds and refusing to play their part and everybody is now mad at the government.

Sounds like things are getting a bit sporty in China, too.

Cause sanctions don't work.

Posted by: JackStraw

And the US taxpayer is not unknowingly subsidizing them any longer.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at January 02, 2026 04:43 PM (0U5gm)

246 213 209 Some of those faces haunt me, and always will."

There was an absolutely lovely young lady completely out of her mind, and it was the saddest sight...

Posted by: man at January 02, 2026 04:37 PM (XuXeR)

There's a video posted a lot on X of Nick Shirley being harassed by a crowd of leftist protestors, angry that he's done so much to uncover the fraud. This one large girl pulls her top off and starts jumping around and wildly shouting for no explicable reason.
It reminded me of feeding time at the Chimpanzee house.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 02, 2026 04:44 PM (uWKK8)

247 This one large girl pulls her top off and starts jumping around and wildly shouting for no explicable reason.

Cora Segal is still alive?

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 02, 2026 04:45 PM (2GVsD)

248 yeah because were going to let a foreign born rag head insurgent muslim ass licking goat fucking cocksucker fuck with our bill of rights.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 02, 2026 04:17 PM (snZF9)

You have a way with words, sir!

Posted by: moki at January 02, 2026 04:18 PM (wLjpr)

I have my moments. lol

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 02, 2026 04:45 PM (snZF9)

249 Blonde Morticia

Gaylord don't care, he got his vig and his jollies.

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 02, 2026 04:45 PM (2GVsD)

250 Totally way off topic but I'm watching Bowfinger again. So many things I missed even after multiple viewings. I don't think you can overrate this movie.

Posted by: All criminals, illegals and crazy people at January 02, 2026 04:46 PM (KDPiq)

251 Some of the talking heads had stylists arrange and curate their books, idiots.
Posted by: CaliGirl
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You said it better than I.

Posted by: whig at January 02, 2026 04:46 PM (WDjG6)

252 An unarmed citizenry is a controllable citizenry

Posted by: It's me donna at January 02, 2026 04:46 PM (VE6XX)

253 Kratom, dosed properly, does give pain relief comparable to opioids.

I can't speak to the other effects.

The quality stuff is expensive and pretty user unfriendly.

Extracts which are much easier to consume are expensive.

Posted by: pawn at January 02, 2026 04:47 PM (Rmqfl)

254 250 Totally way off topic but I'm watching Bowfinger again. So many things I missed even after multiple viewings. I don't think you can overrate this movie.
Posted by: All criminals, illegals and crazy people at January 02, 2026 04:46 PM (KDPiq)

sock!

Posted by: m at January 02, 2026 04:48 PM (RuTUS)

255 I miss Chavez the Hugo, but it warms my heart to know that there are several posters waiting in the wings to take his place. Chavez truly had a way with epithets. He could weave a magnificent tapestry of obscenities, almost at will.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at January 02, 2026 04:33 PM (0CU3H)

Yeah, I miss him too. He always said things that I had warming up in the silo, but decided to hold my tongue. He didn't have that problem. lol

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 02, 2026 04:49 PM (snZF9)

256 If Maduro falls, Cuba falls with him. Without a shot being fired.
Posted by: Tom Servo at January 02, 2026 04:39 PM (uWKK

I'd trade for Cuba and Greenland for one of our unpopular Blue states. I realize there are good morons and 'ettes who live in some of them, so I won't say my top choices.

I want to keep Cuba as it is but spiffed up. Keep the '50's cars, which I think are cool. Improve the beaches. Send those in Gitmo to El Salvador.

Still not sure about Greenland other than the rare earth mineral stuff.

Have we gotten back the Panama Canal yet? I am a bit off today (not a bit, a ton exhausted).

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at January 02, 2026 04:50 PM (WONhk)

257 Embrace the power of "AND"

Iran seems to be the linchpin to many of the world's annoying problems...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 02, 2026 04:41 PM (ESVrU)

The James Bond mythos relied on a series of international ubervillain organizations (iirc Spectre, Smersh and Quantum) but in reality a lesser form of this thing has emerged, because it made sense to them to work together. The two big sources of cash are Oil, and especially getting around sanctions, which Russia, Iran, and Venezuela are all engaged in, and next the illegal drug trade which provides a great deal of capital for Venezuela, Columbia, China, the Cartels, and also Hezbollah (and through them Hamas)

So all of these bad actors are linked behind the scenes. An assault on one of them is an assault on all - and an assault on the ways they raise cash, Oil and illegal Drugs, is to stab straight to the heart of them all.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 02, 2026 04:51 PM (uWKK8)

258 Is it me or does Maduro look like Stalin with a tan?

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 02, 2026 04:51 PM (2GVsD)

259 Libs of TikTok @libsoftiktok

I HAVE NOT LAUGHED THIS HARD IN A LONG TIME 🤣🤣 I can’t breathe 😂🤣🤣

I triggered the Somali Embassy so bad

"Stop laying about Somalia"

X image: https://bit.ly/4jqVIiy

DataRepublican (small r) @DataRepublican

Now I'm going down the rabbit hole of Somalian college education quality.

Want to see a slideshow from Al-Imra International University? Here you go:

X: https://bit.ly/4bbxfM0

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at January 02, 2026 04:52 PM (P5BPp)

260 I take kratom sometimes. It's great, easy to control the dosage, and quite gentle in its effects. Never had a bad experience with it. I heard it can be addictive so I only take it occasionally.

I primarily Delta 8, been doing it for over 3 years now, it's also great and I take it multiple times a week, though sometimes I take a break for a month or two. Highly enjoyable.

Both are much better than alcohol IMO.
Posted by: MAGA_Ken
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Actually we do not know what the long term effects are and you are a essentially a human test subject now.

Delta 8 is synthetic and the chemicals bear little resemblance to cannabiods from nature. Kratom in gas station format is purified and has whatever additives from Chicoms and others peddling the shit to spice up the effect.

I knew a guy that basically quit his job as a plumber's helper at $30 bucks per hour just to do kratom all day. He spent all his paycheck on it and it fried him essentially.

He dropped down to ad hoc regular construction just so he could work stoned doing concrete cleanup, etc. where some contractors will hire whatever they can get to do non skilled dirty work.

For better or worse, we know what alcohol does.

Posted by: whig at January 02, 2026 04:53 PM (WDjG6)

261 The term has it's place. Mostly in Colombia, where Pablo Escobar and the Medellin Cartel used terrorism to directly control most of the country for years. When the narco cartels start getting into the politics of the country beyond the normal corruption, the term applies. Problem is, where to draw the line.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at January 02, 2026 04:39 PM (y9nCu)

Burt just has his head up his ass, as per usual. The drug cartels are obviously terrorist organizations. They assassinate political figures, legal authorities, even social media influencers. They directly seek to control or influence the political structure of the nations they operate out of using drugs, money and violence. Hard to get more textbook terrorist than that.

Posted by: Sjg at January 02, 2026 04:54 PM (aqZN1)

262 Still not sure about Greenland other than the rare earth mineral stuff.

Have we gotten back the Panama Canal yet? I am a bit off today (not a bit, a ton exhausted).
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat

A huge chunk of Arctic economic zone comes with Greenland.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at January 02, 2026 04:54 PM (/lPRQ)

263 If the United States wants to seriously talk about an agreement to combat drug trafficking, we are ready.

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Sounds like somebody woke up with a horse head in their bed this morning

Posted by: Lemmiwinks at January 02, 2026 04:54 PM (qtBQt)

264 And the term "narcoterrorist" is a bullshit made-up term.
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Unpossible. Wait...that's made up too. Yet we all seem to know its meaning.

Posted by: scampydog at January 02, 2026 04:55 PM (2bFN5)

265 A horse head is better than getting a cruise missile in bed.

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 02, 2026 04:55 PM (2GVsD)

266
Blonde Morticia

Gaylord don't care, he got his vig and his jollies.
Posted by: Anna Puma

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In a way, yeah, but Gaylord's a narcissist. I bet he secretly envies Trump, because Trump's testicles will set all over the 21st century in a way that Gaylord's never could.

In other words, I think Obama's gutlessness in the face of threats like Chavez wasn't only because O didn't give a damn about America and in fact was working against it; I think it's also because O was plain afraid of confronting an actual, determined foe rather than some polite guy like McCain or Romney.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 02, 2026 04:56 PM (n7rxJ)

267 A huge chunk of Arctic economic zone comes with Greenland.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher

EEZ -- "Exclusive Economic Zone"

Posted by: Bulg at January 02, 2026 04:56 PM (77rzZ)

268 264 And the term "narcoterrorist" is a bullshit made-up term.
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Unpossible. Wait...that's made up too. Yet we all seem to know its meaning.
Posted by: scampydog at January 02, 2026 04:55 PM (2bFN5)

Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious, scampydog!

Posted by: m at January 02, 2026 04:56 PM (RuTUS)

269 198 Come on. Tucker's no Nazi. He converted to Islam.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 02, 2026 04:35 PM (BI5O2)

What a cautionary tale he's become.

Posted by: Ordinary American at January 02, 2026 04:56 PM (WHfpM)

270 This one large girl pulls her top off and starts jumping around and wildly shouting for no explicable reason.

Cora Segal is still alive?
Posted by: Anna Puma at January 02, 2026 04:45 PM (2GVsD)
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It's getting to the point where watch "Black Conservative Perspective" is unwatchable for me.

Not because Greg is doing a bad job. It's because the media he's including in his videos are so brilliantly presented the product is driving up my blood pressure. The Dems are losing their everloving minds. The easy money is drying up. No funding means lamer street protests. CNN is an intellectual toxic waste dump. An EPA Superfund candidate.

Posted by: mrp at January 02, 2026 04:56 PM (rj6Yv)

271 You're doing that "unless I get my extreme demands met literally nothing is improving" shtick that whiners do around here.

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The architects of "Failure Theatre" have been saying that as long as I've been alive

Posted by: Methuselah at January 02, 2026 04:56 PM (HJUJ8)

272 What was that stat from CNN?

In the early 1990s, Pablo and his merry band shot or blew up something like 1,900 Colombian judges, politicians, or cops.

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 02, 2026 04:57 PM (2GVsD)

273 The term has it's place. Mostly in Colombia, where Pablo Escobar and the Medellin Cartel used terrorism to directly control most of the country for years. When the narco cartels start getting into the politics of the country beyond the normal corruption, the term applies. Problem is, where to draw the line.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur

Colombia had mostly peaceful shootouts and car bombings back in the days of teh Medellin cartel. Plus, both Colombian and Venezuelan rebels were deeply involved in the drug trade to make money. That is why the druggie current presidente of Colombia was a former narco-leftist terrorist member turned into a political party like Sine Fein.

Posted by: whig at January 02, 2026 04:57 PM (WDjG6)

274 In the early 1990s, Pablo and his merry band shot or blew up something like 1,900 Colombian judges, politicians, or cops.
Posted by: Anna Puma
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Mostly peaceful I guess. Some people want to be druggies, some alkies, and the rest of us have to deal with the mess they make in society.

Posted by: whig at January 02, 2026 04:58 PM (WDjG6)

275 Three uber progtarded coworkers are ALL IN SUPPORT of Trump blowing up drug smuggling boats.

Of course, in healthcare, we see firsthand the devestation illegal (and legal) drugs have done to our community.

Everyone knows someone who has lost a friend or relative to drugs.

Posted by: nurse ratched at January 02, 2026 04:58 PM (Aw8VT)

276 254 250 Totally way off topic but I'm watching Bowfinger again. So many things I missed even after multiple viewings. I don't think you can overrate this movie.
Posted by: All criminals, illegals and crazy people at January 02, 2026 04:46 PM (KDPiq)

Every member of the cast is hilarious in that one!

btw, the girl who sleeps her way to the top? Steve Martin started writing the script as a parody of his short relationship with Anne Heche.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 02, 2026 04:58 PM (uWKK8)

277 @259...I love that the Somolians in MN are now pretending to send their little nitwitted spawn to daycare. In a hurry! Claiming they were off for "the holidays."

Right. I am pretty sure you don't celebrate Christmas!

Then the buck toothed "spokesman" freak with his big ole head and nerd glasses. He's so inbred he's almost a gerbil.

Nick Shirley should be hired by President Trump to assist Musk and end this fraud and theft of the USA forevermore.

Stupid Biden. How much $ kickbacks did he get?

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at January 02, 2026 04:59 PM (WONhk)

278 Nood literal Gay Ops

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at January 02, 2026 04:59 PM (P5BPp)

279 198 Come on. Tucker's no Nazi. He converted to Islam.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice
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The Grand Mufti of Jerusalem of WWII was both a Not See and Islamic. Thoroughgoing piece of shit he was but his rancid influence lives on in places like Egypt, Syria, Turkey, Jordan, and Lebanon.

Posted by: whig at January 02, 2026 04:59 PM (WDjG6)

280 btw, the girl who sleeps her way to the top? Steve Martin started writing the script as a parody of his short relationship with Anne Heche.
Posted by: Tom Servo
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Poor Steve Martin. Apparently his parents really screwed him up according to one of his ex wives that saw that first hand.

Posted by: whig at January 02, 2026 05:01 PM (WDjG6)

281 The Grand Mufti of Jerusalem of WWII was both a Not See and Islamic. Thoroughgoing piece of shit he was but his rancid influence lives on in places like Egypt, Syria, Turkey, Jordan, and Lebanon.

Posted by: whig at January 02, 2026 04:59 PM (WDjG6)

I remember reading that he was the dude that gave the hitler the idea of the death camps. The jist was that hilter originally just wanted the jews out of the country, but this mufti asshole basically convinced him to just kill them all instead of tying up a shit ton of resources relocating them. Yeah, a serious piece of shit he was.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 02, 2026 05:07 PM (snZF9)

282 A horse head is better than getting a cruise missile in bed.
Posted by: Anna Puma at January 02, 2026 04:55 PM (2GVsD)
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Now I'm picturing Maduro waking up in his bed on Christmas morning to find a present left by Special Forces:

A horse's head with "Ho, Ho, Ho, now I have a cruise missile too!" painted on it.

Topped off with a fancy bow, of course, because why not?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 02, 2026 05:07 PM (ESVrU)

283 Then the buck toothed "spokesman" freak with his big ole head and nerd glasses. He's so inbred he's almost a gerbil.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at January 02, 2026 04:59 PM (WONhk)

lol. Thats funny shit.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 02, 2026 05:09 PM (snZF9)

284 I'd trade for Cuba and Greenland for one of our unpopular Blue states. I realize there are good morons and 'ettes who live in some of them, so I won't say my top choices.

I want to keep Cuba as it is but spiffed up. Keep the '50's cars, which I think are cool. Improve the beaches. Send those in Gitmo to El Salvador.

Still not sure about Greenland other than the rare earth mineral stuff.

Have we gotten back the Panama Canal yet? I am a bit off today (not a bit, a ton exhausted).
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat

California for Greenland and Oregon for Cuba.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 02, 2026 05:16 PM (c115l)

285 Then the buck toothed "spokesman" freak with his big ole head and nerd glasses. He's so inbred he's almost a gerbil.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at January 02, 2026 04:59 PM (WONhk)

lol. Thats funny shit.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division

Snort

Posted by: rickb223 at January 02, 2026 05:17 PM (c115l)

286 The Grand, High, Exalted, Mystic, Ruler>>The Grand Wazoo>>The Great Mufti

Posted by: Morris Fink at January 02, 2026 05:17 PM (oftw2)

287 Plenty of gold in Greenland. Heading over after the thaw for some pannin' and sluicin'. The Trump Junta is behind us.

Posted by: Blueberry John, Manning The Sluicebox at January 02, 2026 05:20 PM (oftw2)

288 The end summation is why a lot of us who remember the America First movement up through WWII were less than thrilled when Trump embraced the slogan, even though we liked everything else about Trump.

I guess we were right about it being a bad slogan.

Posted by: Sam at January 02, 2026 05:27 PM (7jMef)

289 I saw Omnidirectional Rage open for Techicolor Yawn at the Fillmore back in the day

Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at January 02, 2026 05:35 PM (c3fnO)

290 Venezuela’s Cartel del Sol and Barack Obiden declared War on America.

Their weapons are Chinee Fentanyl, Islmo-Terrorists, Illegal Immigration, Black Lives Riots, Election Theft and Tren de Obama Child Traffickers.

President Trump's only crime was noticing.

#MonroeDoctrine

Posted by: The Gipper Lives at January 02, 2026 05:53 PM (H93R7)

291
“There is no difference between their propaganda and the propaganda of ANSWER, Code Pink, and the Communist Party of the US.”

And it still shocks me just how many AoS posters are aligned with them.

DIME.
Deterrence.
Peace Through Strength.
Power Projection.

Posted by: Cow Demon at January 02, 2026 05:58 PM (53Xua)

292 =========
Actually we do not know what the long term effects are and you are a essentially a human test subject now.

Delta 8 is synthetic and the chemicals bear little resemblance to cannabiods from nature. Kratom in gas station format is purified and has whatever additives from Chicoms and others peddling the shit to spice up the effect.

I knew a guy that basically quit his job as a plumber's helper at $30 bucks per hour just to do kratom all day. He spent all his paycheck on it and it fried him essentially.

He dropped down to ad hoc regular construction just so he could work stoned doing concrete cleanup, etc. where some contractors will hire whatever they can get to do non skilled dirty work.

For better or worse, we know what alcohol does.
Posted by: whig at January 02, 2026 04:53 PM (WDjG6)

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Delta 8 the molecule is naturally occurring in marijuana, though it is made synthetically and that is what is sold.

I don't buy that or kratom at the gas station but at dedicated dispensaries of CBD products. After 3 years and no ill effects that I can discern, I think its been a great decision.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at January 02, 2026 06:25 PM (Vh9CX)

More CBS "News:" CBS Executives Killed an Interview With Elon Musk Because They Insisted They Should Be Able to Edit and Hide What He Had to Say

Elon Musk wanted to do the interview live precisely so they couldn't give him an Asshole Edit and hide his actual words to push their previously-decided narrative.

CBS "news" executives said they would never, ever agree to do that. They need to control the narrative.

This comes from former CBS investigative reporter Catherine Herridge, who left the network, presumably over this kind of absolute bias and corruption.

Mario Nawfal
@MarioNawfal
12h
🇺🇸 CATHERINE HERRIDGE: CBS WALKED AWAY FROM ELON BECAUSE THEY COULDN'T CONTROL HIM
Catherine revealed CBS passed on what could have been one of the biggest interviews in modern media, not because Elon refused, but because the network did.
She said discussions were underway after her work connected to the Twitter Files, and an opportunity emerged to interview Elon live on his own platform.
That's when everything stalled.
"I went to the CBS executives and I said, this is the opportunity that we have.
He's saying, I want to do it live and on my platform.
He's one of the most influential human beings on the planet.
And the reaction from the executives was, well, we can't do it live.
And I was like, what do you mean we can't do it live?
They said, we don't know what he's going to say.
And I'm thinking, isn't that the point of journalism?
They said it has to be taped.
We have to be able to edit it. It has to be on our platform.
We have to control the platform.
Everything just got shut down.
It was one of the biggest interviews you could ever have.
I felt ashamed. I never went back to Elon to say they want to do it, but only if they can control it.
I couldn't do that to someone whose DNA is free speech."

Catherine Herridge
@C__Herridge
21h
Straight to the Point:
When Corporate Media Bias Is Baked In
In the fall of 2023, I brought CBS News a proposed interview opportunity with Elon Musk.
CBS Executives said the interview couldn't be done live, rather it had to be pre-recorded so they had the ability to edit Musk and it had to be on a CBS platform.
"We don't know what [@ElonMusk
] is going to say!"
I could not believe what the CBS News executives were saying. Isn't that the point of journalism? You don't know what the person's going to say?
At that time, @cbsnews
was under different management and did not respond to our questions seeking comment.
@thelatmg
@latimesstudios

So here's the obvious truth: "Reporters" want to grill opponents (and they do consider them "opponents") and make them look foolish and ask them questions they struggle to answer.

But "reporters" are themselves pretty stupid. Among "professionals," they're the least intelligent and educated. (And they're very lazy and have very high rates of alcoholism.)

"Reporters" do not want their opponents turning the tables on them and make them look foolish and make them struggle to answer questions.

That's why they insist, absolutely, on the power to edit the interview. To make sure they always come off looking like heroes and always come out on top.

But this is obviously a huge and corrupt deception. Editing an interview to make it look as if your debate opponent (and these are debates, not "interviews") lost is itself a corrupt lie. You are deliberately altering the actual historical record of the event to present a false story to the public.

The edit is for purposes of disinformation -- and a very narcissistic, self-serving form of disinformation.

🇺🇸 CATHERINE HERRIDGE: CBS WALKED AWAY FROM ELON BECAUSE THEY COULDN�T CONTROL HIM

Catherine revealed CBS passed on what could have been one of the biggest interviews in modern media, not because Elon refused, but because the network did.

She said discussions were underway� https://t.co/iQq7l3lZeF pic.twitter.com/2825WQ3YoI
— Mario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal) January 2, 2026

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1 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 02, 2026 02:31 PM (Zz0t1)

2 Compressed Bat Shit.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 02, 2026 02:31 PM (Zz0t1)

3 Who needs CBS?

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 02, 2026 02:33 PM (QAvZU)

4 "IT'S OUR JOB TO TELL YOU WHAT TO THINK!!!!"

- - - - - - Joe Scarborough's Hat

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 02, 2026 02:33 PM (Zz0t1)

5 Hola

Posted by: Thanatopsis at January 02, 2026 02:33 PM (LdBR/)

6 Bonk bonk on the head

Posted by: Dr. Varno at January 02, 2026 02:33 PM (L3fPR)

7 Journalism Majors thank the god they don't believe in everyday for Education Majors keeping them off the bottom of the Entering Freshman SAT rankings.

Posted by: toby928(c) reminds you at January 02, 2026 02:35 PM (jc0TO)

8 Project Mockingbird is alive and well and thriving.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 02, 2026 02:35 PM (Zz0t1)

9 "But "reporters" are themselves pretty stupid. Among "professionals," they're the least intelligent and educated. (And they're very lazy and have very high rates of alcoholism.)"

Pretty sure it's "educators" are the least intelligent on average. Reporters are a close second.

Reporters still win for most drunk, though.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at January 02, 2026 02:35 PM (cuae1)

10 Willowed: The Minnesota fraud is now uncovering even deeper electoral fraud- and Congress has done absolutely zero about it, because they’re still too busy figuring out how to increase the budget baseline when we are probably over a trillion in fraud, abuse and outright cuts.
Posted by: Marcus T at January 02, 2026 02:31 PM (i14TE)
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Congress' primary job is passing a budget. It is not a law enforcement organization. If Congress unanimously passes voter ID reforms, nothing will happen unless it is enforced. What is going on is already illegal, but it was not enforced. Congress actually has very little do with this situation, it will come down to getting the right people in position and rolling up the network of criminality.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 02, 2026 02:36 PM (ZOv7s)

11 Nick Shirley, with an I-phone and a wireless microphone, has racked up over 135 million views on X alone.

When is the last time a network got 135 million viewers for a single story or show?

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 02, 2026 02:36 PM (prbfg)

12 Journalism Majors thank the god they don't believe in everyday for Education Majors keeping them off the bottom of the Entering Freshman SAT rankings.
Posted by: toby928(c) reminds you at January 02, 2026 02:35 PM (jc0TO)

Beat me to it.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at January 02, 2026 02:36 PM (cuae1)

13 Hang on, I need to go find my shocked face!

Posted by: She Hobbit at January 02, 2026 02:38 PM (ftFVW)

14 No "F*** IT! WE'LL DO IT LIVE!"?

Posted by: pookysgirl wasn't really around for that one at January 02, 2026 02:38 PM (wPwTJ)

15 Wolf Blitzer on Jeopardy is hilarious.

Posted by: NPC at January 02, 2026 02:38 PM (KDPiq)

16 Pretty sure it's "educators" are the least intelligent on average. Reporters are a close second.

Reporters still win for most drunk, though.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at January 02, 2026 02:35 PM (cuae1)
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Objection! Assumes facts not in evidence. Most of us never actually talk to reporters in person, and while there are some real winners in the teaching profession, there are lots of good ones out there.

Good reporters are vanishingly rare these days. Mostly they cut/paste someone else's news release. I'm struggling to think of teachers dumber than some of the reporters I've met.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 02, 2026 02:39 PM (ZOv7s)

17 FUCK IT WE'LL DO IT LIVE!

Posted by: BILL FUCKIN' O'REILLY at January 02, 2026 02:39 PM (TbWk/)

18 In one sense, it is bizarre that Education Majors are literally the dumbest college students.

Posted by: toby928(c) at January 02, 2026 02:39 PM (jc0TO)

19 60 Minutes is a propaganda machine that lost their credibility a long time ago.
---------

Fake but accurate.

Posted by: 60 Minutes at January 02, 2026 02:40 PM (XeU6L)

20 Off clueless sock

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 02, 2026 02:40 PM (KDPiq)

21 "But "reporters" are themselves pretty stupid. Among "professionals," they're the least intelligent and educated. (And they're very lazy and have very high rates of alcoholism.)"

Pretty sure it's "educators" are the least intelligent on average. Reporters are a close second.

Reporters still win for most drunk, though.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at January 02, 2026 02:35 PM (cuae1)

*hic*

NOT TRUE!!!!!!!

*hic*

*vomits*

Posted by: Chris Matthews at January 02, 2026 02:40 PM (Zz0t1)

22 Journalism Majors thank the god they don't believe in everyday for Education Majors keeping them off the bottom of the Entering Freshman SAT rankings.
Posted by: toby928(c)

Beat me to it.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian

We called the school paper the liberal arts funnies. The journo kids were seriously bottom of the barrel, and we had a huge education population being a university that grew out of a teacher's college.

Posted by: She Hobbit at January 02, 2026 02:40 PM (ftFVW)

23 Reporters still win for most drunk, though.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at January 02, 2026 02:35 PM (cuae1)

Doctors, lawyers, dentists. Most suicides too. White collar ain't all sunshine and roses.

Posted by: But patriarchy! at January 02, 2026 02:40 PM (TbWk/)

24 The average engineering major has higher language scores than education majors. Higher than English Majors even.

Posted by: toby928(c) at January 02, 2026 02:41 PM (jc0TO)

25 Most over paid profession by far is News Readers followed by college football coaches and actors.

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 02, 2026 02:41 PM (KDPiq)

26 That Herridge woman is a real babe. Not.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 02, 2026 02:41 PM (8zz6B)

27 CBS "news" executives said they would never, ever agree to do that. They need to control the narrative.
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That's part of it, and likely the primary part of it.

But there is another part and it has nothing to do with narrative control, it has to do with appearances and ego. They are terrified - constantly, as a continuous presence - that someone will make them look stupid or mis/dis/uninformed.

Going up against someone like Musk is the riskiest thing possible, and not just because they can't selectively edit his responses for narrative purposes. The odds of the interviewer walking away from it *not* looking like a retard also make the entire concept a non-starter.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 02, 2026 02:41 PM (avHHk)

28 18 In one sense, it is bizarre that Education Majors are literally the dumbest college students.
Posted by: toby928(c) at January 02, 2026 02:39 PM (jc0TO)

Even the journo (now "communications") majors look down on them as retards.

Posted by: And they're pretty vaxxed and boosted themselves at January 02, 2026 02:42 PM (TbWk/)

29
I thought this was old news.

But it's okay, hating CBS News is timeless.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 02, 2026 02:42 PM (n7rxJ)

30 If CBS can't lie they want nothing to do with you.
This does not surprise me at all. It's why I don't watch
their "news". And they are not very bright either.
We know what they are up to, why give them the time of day?

Posted by: Case at January 02, 2026 02:42 PM (G1OIb)

31 "Reporters" do not want their opponents turning the tables on them and make them look foolish and make them struggle to answer questions.

That's why they insist, absolutely, on the power to edit the interview. To make sure they always come off looking like heroes and always come out on top.
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I shoulda kept reading.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 02, 2026 02:42 PM (avHHk)

32 But this is obviously a huge and corrupt deception. Editing an interview to make it look as if your debate opponent (and these are debates, not "interviews") lost is itself a corrupt lie. You are deliberately altering the actual historical record of the event to present a false story to the public.

The edit is for purposes of disinformation -- and a very narcissistic, self-serving form of disinformation.
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Yup.

This is what the Press does. All of it, and without exception.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 02, 2026 02:43 PM (avHHk)

33 Most over paid profession by far is News Readers followed by college football coaches and actors.

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 02, 2026 02:41 PM (KDPiq)

WHAT!!???

*steals grocery store basket to avoid paying for a bag*

*notices $250k check deposited with Ole Miss win*

*still won't buy bags*

Posted by: Lane Kiffen at January 02, 2026 02:43 PM (Zz0t1)

34 In one sense, it is bizarre that Education Majors are literally the dumbest college students.
Posted by: toby928(c)

I knew a bunch struggling math majors who switched over to math education. All the really smart math majors jumped to actuarial.

Posted by: She Hobbit at January 02, 2026 02:43 PM (ftFVW)

35 There are good teachers. It's just that the 99% give the other 1% a bad name.

Posted by: toby928(c) at January 02, 2026 02:43 PM (jc0TO)

36 At that time, @cbsnews
was under different management and did not respond to our questions seeking comment.

Sorry, not good enough. Who were the managers? Who - specifically - told you that the interview had to be taped?

Frankly, I'm tired of people just blaming the corporation - It's CBS! it's NYT! without naming the specific malefactors here. It's all too easy to blame the company, when it's the actual reporters who write these stories, and actual editors and News Directors who greenlight what the public sees. These people go from company to company, going up the corporate ladder and continuing to spread their poison wherever they go.

Unless these people are named and shamed, nothing will change. It's not like the MFM doesn't hesitate to name and shame Republicans - whether guilty or not.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at January 02, 2026 02:43 PM (0CU3H)

37 Meh.....don't care.....I spelled it how I spelled it. F*ck em.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 02, 2026 02:43 PM (Zz0t1)

38 She may be right, still do not trust ole Catherine. Seems like this info could have had more impact earlier.

Posted by: connected and litigious at January 02, 2026 02:43 PM (cS1cw)

39 11 Nick Shirley, with an I-phone and a wireless microphone, has racked up over 135 million views on X alone.

When is the last time a network got 135 million viewers for a single story or show?
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 02, 2026 02:36 PM (prbfg)

Related, sort of- the world is very different now but old media is clinging to their Kodaks and Polaroids. So is the RNC. If we don’t get more in tune with guys with iPhones on X, we are going to suffer for it. Honestly, instead of diving in a bit more deeply to this corruption that is bigger than MN, they are looking to find dirt on Nick Shirley. They are struggling, because he is drug free, alcohol free, honor student, a virgin (oh my gosh!) so what is it they can do? Note he is a Mormon and then tie that to racism through leaps and bounds and somersaults.

Posted by: Piper at January 02, 2026 02:44 PM (Wmg4n)

40
Unless these people are named and shamed, nothing will change. It's not like the MFM doesn't hesitate to name and shame Republicans - whether guilty or not.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at January 02, 2026 02:43 PM (0CU3H)

Correct.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 02, 2026 02:44 PM (Zz0t1)

41 My good friend worked his way up from photo caption writer to editor of the Lake Charles American Press . He was a lot like Catherine Herridge as an investigative reporter. Taken away from us way too soon. RIP Hector.

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 02, 2026 02:45 PM (KDPiq)

42 17 FUCK IT WE'LL DO IT LIVE!
Posted by: BILL FUCKIN' O'REILLY at January 02, 2026 02:39 PM (TbWk/)

STOP THE HAMMERING !!!!

Posted by: Laurence O'Donnell at January 02, 2026 02:45 PM (3sXRv)

43 In one sense, it is bizarre that Education Majors are literally the dumbest college students.
Posted by: toby928
--------

Years ago, after being out of school for 10 years, I decided to work on an MS. I attended a GRE refresher course. To my surprise most of the other attendees were still in school, and most were education majors.

What was most appalling was their lack of rudimentary math skills.

Posted by: 60 Minutes at January 02, 2026 02:46 PM (XeU6L)

44 She may be right, still do not trust ole Catherine. Seems like this info could have had more impact earlier.
Posted by: connected and litigious at January 02, 2026 02:43 PM (cS1cw)

If she had had any integrity, she should have quit her CBS job right then and there, and gone public with the reasons why, and named names.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 02, 2026 02:46 PM (8zz6B)

45 Dammit. /60 minutes

Posted by: 60 Minutes at January 02, 2026 02:46 PM (XeU6L)

46 Even the journo (now "communications") majors look down on them as retards.
Posted by: And they're pretty vaxxed and boosted themselves at January 02, 2026 02:42 PM (TbWk/)
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Arrogance is not proof of superiority.

Look, I had a history seminar and every single time someone asked a really stupid question, it was an education major.

But the college paper was of lower quality than the one I worked on in high school. J-school types could never qualify for the class because they literally know no history at all.

At least the Ed majors were learning by osmosis.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 02, 2026 02:47 PM (ZOv7s)

47 31 I shoulda kept reading.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 02, 2026 02:42 PM (avHHk)

=====

Rea...ding...?

What are these strange ways?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at January 02, 2026 02:47 PM (GBKbO)

48 STOP THE HAMMERING !!!!
Posted by: Laurence O'Donnell at January 02, 2026 02:45 PM (3sXRv)

"I GO FROM THE UP TEMPO SONG TO THE LONG DISTANCE DEDICTATION WHERE I GOTTA TALK ABOUT SOMEBODY'S DOG DYING!!!!"

Posted by: Casey Kasem at January 02, 2026 02:47 PM (Zz0t1)

49 >>> The average engineering major has higher language scores than education majors. Higher than English Majors even.
Posted by: toby928(c) at January 02, 2026 02:41 PM (jc0TO)

I bet I have to write more for engineering reports than most english majors do. And all in courier new. Yeah, suck it art majors.

Posted by: banana Dream at January 02, 2026 02:47 PM (3uBP9)

50 Dammit. /60 minutes
Posted by: 60 Minutes

I can do this...

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 02, 2026 02:47 PM (XeU6L)

51 ... Unless these people are named and shamed, nothing will change. It's not like the MFM doesn't hesitate to name and shame Republicans - whether guilty or not.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at January 02, 2026 02:43 PM (0CU3H)
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I agree with you to a point.

It is also clear, however, that it *is* the organizations. Some person at CBS did this this, but CBS does do these things. It is in their DNA. Specific malefactors should indeed be "named and shamed," but I will take the other side of it and assert that even if they are, the *organization* is still so hopelessly corrupt that it doesn't matter. Get rid of that malefactor, and there's another lined up to take his place and the net-new position that opens at the bottom will be filled with another one.

There is individual malfeasance that I agree should be exposed, but the entire organizations are corrupt to the core. It may well be a distinction without a difference at this point.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 02, 2026 02:48 PM (avHHk)

52
She may be right, still do not trust ole Catherine. Seems like this info could have had more impact earlier.
Posted by: connected and litigious

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

She revealed this ages ago. I'm not sure why it's coming back now.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 02, 2026 02:48 PM (n7rxJ)

53 Dammit. /60 minutes
Posted by: 60 Minutes

I can do this...

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 02, 2026 02:47 PM (XeU6L)

It takes YEARS of practice.......

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

54 If she had had any integrity, she should have quit her CBS job right then and there, and gone public with the reasons why, and named names.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 02, 2026 02:46 PM (8zz6B)
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This is not a recent thing. She quit a while ago, and had been thumping CBS on twitter for years.

Now she's finally getting some traction.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 02, 2026 02:49 PM (ZOv7s)

55 Rea...ding...?

What are these strange ways?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at January 02, 2026 02:47 PM (GBKbO)
++++
Y'know that thing you do of pounding your keyboard to make the shapes show up on the screen?

Some of us have to do it consciously! And to do that, we have to read the other shapes on the screen.

Life's rough on the literate. Be grateful you're not!

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 02, 2026 02:49 PM (avHHk)

56 (And they're very lazy and have very high rates of alcoholism.)
------------
Another missed career opportunity.

Posted by: scampydog at January 02, 2026 02:49 PM (2bFN5)

57 Due to CBS budget cuts , 60 minutes is now 16 minutes.

---Management

Posted by: runner at January 02, 2026 02:50 PM (cmmSn)

58 And they're very lazy and have very high rates of alcoholism.)
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Another missed career opportunity.
Posted by: scampydog at January 02, 2026 02:49 PM (2bFN5)

Heh. Good one.

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 02, 2026 02:50 PM (KDPiq)

59
Life's rough on the literate. Be grateful you're not!

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 02, 2026 02:49 PM (avHHk)

Rollin' fat stacks, bruh.

Posted by: Somali Day Care Owners at January 02, 2026 02:50 PM (Zz0t1)

60 Years ago there was a homeless guy threatening people in the parking garage downtown, this included assault on a woman. The local news did some on the scene reporting and I agreed to talk with the reporter on camera. I mentioned something about how homeless people were starting to get bold about harassing people and that there should be a greater police presence downtown. When it aired they cut the interview down to reporter asking if I felt safe and my response was "Yes", completely cutting out my real answer. Not sure where I ever said "yes" but they must have gotten it from somewhere.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at January 02, 2026 02:50 PM (Dv3i1)

61 "We are brave truth tellers, willing to confront anyone with facts to advance the public interest in what actually happened. Our key words are who, what, when, where and why. Now, open your textbooks to page 3 where we will begin with how to maliciously edit interviews to deceptively portray people who know more about topics than you as your inferiors."
-Journalisms 101, day 1

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at January 02, 2026 02:50 PM (GBKbO)

62 CBS won't change. CBS can't change. It's tantamount to telling some to cut off their gangrenous finger. They know it has to be done, but they just can't bring themselves to do it.

Posted by: Halfhand at January 02, 2026 02:50 PM (edbiH)

63 Direct from the Peacock Throne

I have the plan for stable transition for Iran and the support of my people to get it done. With your leadership of the free world, we can leave a legacy of lasting peace.

X: https://bit.ly/4aIAcne
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at January 02, 2026 02:41 PM

Posted by: toby928(c) at January 02, 2026 02:51 PM (jc0TO)

64
This comes from former CBS investigative reporter Catherine Herridge, who left the network, presumably over this kind of absolute bias and corruption.

------

I believe she was forced out.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at January 02, 2026 02:51 PM (VWtfl)

65 And that's the way it is.

Posted by: Walter Crankcase at January 02, 2026 02:51 PM (TezPK)

66 This is not a recent thing. She quit a while ago, and had been thumping CBS on twitter for years.

Now she's finally getting some traction.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 02, 2026 02:49 PM (ZOv7s)

The "missed Musk interview" took place in 2023. Did she quit then, or later?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 02, 2026 02:51 PM (8zz6B)

67 "Reporters" do not want their opponents turning the tables on them and make them look foolish and make them struggle to answer questions.

****

Which is exactly why reporters' responses to interviewees asking them a question is often, "I'm the one asking the questions here" before resuming the grilling.

Posted by: one hour sober at January 02, 2026 02:51 PM (Y1sOo)

68 -Journalisms 101, day 1
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at January 02, 2026 02:50 PM (GBKbO)
---
Day 2 is about how to sleep with your sources.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 02, 2026 02:52 PM (ZOv7s)

69 She revealed this ages ago. I'm not sure why it's coming back now.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 02, 2026 02:48 PM

[ The Slow Newsday Gorn hissed. ]

Posted by: toby928(c) at January 02, 2026 02:52 PM (jc0TO)

70 I guess "Yay, her"? But when I watched one of those clips of her confessions--not the Elon one; something that was up on another site--I kept thinking, "You whore!" because she didn't fight back at the time. Maybe that's unfair.

Posted by: m at January 02, 2026 02:52 PM (RuTUS)

71 68 -Journalisms 101, day 1
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at January 02, 2026 02:50 PM (GBKbO)
---
Day 2 is about how to sleep with your sources.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 02, 2026 02:52 PM (ZOv7s)

=======

*aghast!*
-that anyone talks about it

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at January 02, 2026 02:53 PM (GBKbO)

72 "60 Minutes is a propaganda machine that lost their credibility a long time ago."

I don't know where I read this response, but I wish I'd thought of it:

"I wouldn't trust 60 Minutes to tell me how many minutes were in an hour."

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at January 02, 2026 02:53 PM (pIfcn)

73 "We are brave truth tellers, willing to confront anyone with facts to advance the public interest in what actually happened.
------------

[recollects Slow Joe saying, 'We believe in truth, not facts']

One of his more astonishing utterances.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 02, 2026 02:53 PM (XeU6L)

74 Maybe these clips are coming up now because CBS News is claiming that they're turning over a new leaf this week?

Posted by: m at January 02, 2026 02:53 PM (RuTUS)

75 I can't watch any news anymore. Haven't for years. I couldn't watch for more than a minute if I tried. It's so stupid, presented for stupid people by stupid people. I'm physically repulsed and have to excuse myself.

Posted by: Bad Andrew at January 02, 2026 02:53 PM (DgMqy)

76 The "missed Musk interview" took place in 2023. Did she quit then, or later?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 02, 2026 02:51 PM (8zz6B)
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If you read it carefully, she says she approached CBS News, not that she worked there. I think she was repping Musk, which is why she didn't go public.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 02, 2026 02:54 PM (ZOv7s)

77 "Don't lie."
-Bari Weiss

"She's trying to turn us into right-wingers!"
-CBS reporters

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at January 02, 2026 02:54 PM (GBKbO)

78 Jake Tapper is the biggest whore of them all.

Posted by: m at January 02, 2026 02:54 PM (RuTUS)

79 Maybe these clips are coming up now because CBS News is claiming that they're turning over a new leaf this week?
Posted by: m at January 02, 2026 02:53 PM (RuTUS)
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Yes, they are dogpiling the crumbling edifice. Blood in the water and all that.

I think the goal is to give Weiss a reason to fire everyone.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 02, 2026 02:55 PM (ZOv7s)

80 In one sense, it is bizarre that Education Majors are literally the dumbest college students.
Posted by: toby928(c)

Those who can, do.
Those who can't, teach.

Posted by: Racially Ambiguous Honky at January 02, 2026 02:55 PM (JRxLW)

81 But I heard CBS News is going to do - let me check my notes - news? - now?

Posted by: blaster at January 02, 2026 02:55 PM (NlEaG)

82 Anybody, Republican, Business person etc who goes into a media interview without there own recording equipment is a fool. They are there to destroy you, protect yourself.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 02, 2026 02:56 PM (zNwXb)

83 The "missed Musk interview" took place in 2023. Did she quit then, or later?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

Yes, it was around that time.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at January 02, 2026 02:56 PM (0U5gm)

84 The Communist Broadcasting System is only ever about advancing their communist agenda. Musk should show up for the interview, flip them off on (his own) camera without saying a word, and walk out. Let them report THAT.

Posted by: Wofus at January 02, 2026 02:56 PM (CNa+A)

85 >>The "missed Musk interview" took place in 2023. Did she quit then, or later?

She was laid off in early 2024. Then CBS stole her files. She's been going off on them ever since.

I get the sentiment that people should quit at the first sight of corruption but in my experience very few do when it's their lives on the line. I've always found Herridge to be a pretty straight shooter, much better than most.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 02, 2026 02:56 PM (viF8m)

86 Those who can, do.
Those who can't, teach.
Posted by: Racially Ambiguous Honky at January 02, 2026 02:55 PM

Those that can neither do nor teach, administrate.

Posted by: toby928(c) at January 02, 2026 02:56 PM (jc0TO)

87 But that's not to say there are not some very smart and clever reporters.

And then there is, while they may be stupid and malicious, they know the game and the rules, the system.

So yes, they can trip up even smart people.

A rattlesnake may not know calculus but it can still kill you dead.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 02, 2026 02:56 PM (prbfg)

88 Those who can, do.
Those who can't, teach.
Posted by: Racially Ambiguous Honky

Those that can't teach, administrate.

Posted by: Joe Mama at January 02, 2026 02:56 PM (TezPK)

89 MSM in the US is just leftist propaganda. We know it. They know it. And now they're trying to tell us we were wrong about them... that they're going to be impartial.

Horseshit.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 02, 2026 02:57 PM (NwnyJ)

90 62 CBS won't change. CBS can't change. It's tantamount to telling some to cut off their gangrenous finger. They know it has to be done, but they just can't bring themselves to do it.
Posted by: Halfhand at January 02, 2026 02:50 PM (edbiH)

Candy. Ass. Bitches.

Posted by: The Yakuza at January 02, 2026 02:57 PM (pIfcn)

91 Facilitator.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 02, 2026 02:57 PM (QAvZU)

92 Jinx

Posted by: toby928(c) at January 02, 2026 02:57 PM (jc0TO)

93 Those who can, do.
Those who can't, teach.
Posted by: Racially Ambiguous Honky

Those that can't teach, administrate.
Posted by: Joe Mama at January 02, 2026 02:56 PM (TezPK)

Those who can't, shit their pants.

Posted by: Joe Biden at January 02, 2026 02:57 PM (Zz0t1)

94 "60 Minutes" interviews were so tendentious and one-sided they had me rooting for the tobacco company executives.

Posted by: mr tmz at January 02, 2026 02:57 PM (rJ48h)

95 Hive mind.

Posted by: Joe Mama at January 02, 2026 02:58 PM (TezPK)

96
[waves irrelevant, meaningless paper at the camera]

Stand by for meaningless, biased, theatric bullshit!

[cashes paycheck for $10 Million]

Posted by: Rachel Madcow at January 02, 2026 02:58 PM (XeU6L)

97 Free speech is of the utmost importance to us. He is free to speak elsewhere.

Posted by: CBS News at January 02, 2026 02:58 PM (h9A1n)

98 Well. CBS has done something- gotten attention. We are talking about them.

The Left hasn't called them MAGATs yet so chances are they will be same as it ever was.

But they've gotten our attention.

Posted by: blaster at January 02, 2026 02:59 PM (NlEaG)

99 If you read it carefully, she says she approached CBS News, not that she worked there. I think she was repping Musk, which is why she didn't go public.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 02, 2026 02:54 PM (ZOv7s)

Well, I read it as she was in the employ of CBS as an "investigative reporter" at the time of the aborted Musk interview. She said to CBS executives, "we have an opportunity".

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 02, 2026 02:59 PM (8zz6B)

100 Remember when Musk did the "who are these people? can you name them? what did they actually say?" to some bint doing the "people say" accusation question?

I think that's about the last time the media did an interview with him.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 02, 2026 02:59 PM (prbfg)

101 "60 Minutes" interviews were so tendentious and one-sided they had me rooting for the tobacco company executives.
Posted by: mr tmz
---------

I felt even better about my Chevy truck.

Posted by: Rachel Madcow at January 02, 2026 02:59 PM (XeU6L)

102 Wikipedia:

Catherine Herridge ... was a senior investigative correspondent for CBS News in Washington D.C. from 2019 to 2024. ... Herridge was among twenty CBS News employees who were laid off during budget cuts in February 2024....

Posted by: m at January 02, 2026 03:00 PM (RuTUS)

103 74 Maybe these clips are coming up now because CBS News is claiming that they're turning over a new leaf this week?
Posted by: m at January 02, 2026 02:53 PM (RuTUS)

———

It’s their New Year’s resolution…

Posted by: Cray Cray at January 02, 2026 03:00 PM (0lkAt)

104 According to Wiki:

Herridge was one of twenty CBS News employees laid off on February 13, 2024, among 800 employees terminated by CBS parent Paramount Global.[11] She had been probing the Hunter Biden laptop scandal. On Monday, February 26, 2024, CBS News returned confidential files belonging to Herridge amid mounting pressure from the House Judiciary Committee and SAG-AFTRA, the union which represented her.[12]

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 02, 2026 03:00 PM (Zz0t1)

105 Say what you will about the MSM, Snores is saving us from misinformation.

https://is.gd/W13GTj

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 02, 2026 03:00 PM (L/fGl)

106 I've had the opportunity to be a direct part of some fairly banal news bits. Every time, they got some easily verifiable point wrong. Once, they made up a dead grandfather (who was still living at the time) in order to give the story "an angle." And once, I spent an hour on the phone doing an interview for what I thought was a puff piece, but actually ended up as a hatchet job -- my pull quotes selectively used to make me look like a rube.

So the fact that "journalists" on the highest level of the medium are insistent on using these tactics to shape things to suit an ideology is just puke-worthy.

Posted by: red speck at January 02, 2026 03:01 PM (Ve/HL)

107 That misperception that we reporters are drunk, drug addicted, sex perverts galls me to no end.

Posted by: Zombie Jessica Savitch at January 02, 2026 03:01 PM (oftw2)

108 No one should have a interview with the Propaganda Ministry without getting a copy

Posted by: Skip at January 02, 2026 03:01 PM (Ia/+0)

109 Well, I read it as she was in the employ of CBS as an "investigative reporter" at the time of the aborted Musk interview. She said to CBS executives, "we have an opportunity".
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 02, 2026 02:59 PM (8zz6B)
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I haven't followed her career in any great detail, but she had been very diligent about digging into Dem scandals and trying to get the story to a larger audience.

In a sense, she was pushing them, forcing them to own up to being hypocrites and calling them out on it as much as she feasibly could. Now she's free to unload.

But I think she stuck with it as long as she did because she believed in what she was doing and hoped that management would at some point get a clue.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 02, 2026 03:02 PM (ZOv7s)

110 Maybe these clips are coming up now because CBS News is claiming that they're turning over a new leaf this week?

Is there such a things as New Year's Retribution?

Posted by: t-bird at January 02, 2026 03:03 PM (h9A1n)

111 That's why they insist, absolutely, on the power to edit the interview. To make sure they always come off looking like heroes and always come out on top.

The only time I’ve ever been interviewed by a newspaper reporter, I was very lucky. I had just purchased a video recorder, and thought it would be kind of cool to keep a video of it just to show my family and friends.

When the reporter walked in and saw the camera it was like a vampire had just seen a cross. She kept saying things like “don’t you trust me”, and I was thinking, well, I didn’t even think about not trusting you until you started asking me to trust you.

The more she talked about “you can trust my notes” the more I wanted to keep that video camera on.

Long(er) story short, she refused to use the interview unless I handed that tape over to her, which by that point I absolutely refused to do, so no newspaper article ever came of it.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at January 02, 2026 03:03 PM (EXyHK)

112 Tune in to See B S. !

Posted by: Case at January 02, 2026 03:03 PM (G1OIb)

113
Why would anyone do an interview with newspeople?

Tell them they are scum and walk away.

Posted by: fourseasons at January 02, 2026 03:04 PM (3ek7K)

114 What's the worst that could happen?

NEW: A judge DENIED the FBI's request to have an 18-year-old involuntarily committed when he threatened to harm himself and others.
He went on to plan an extensive ISIS-inspired massacre that would have killed a significant number of innocent men, women, and children.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 02, 2026 03:04 PM (L/fGl)

115 Digression; I got here late and the first thing I saw -

Trump: If Iran Begins Shooting the Protesters Challenging Their Corrupt Terrorist Rule, I'll Take Their Asses Out

was so pleasing, it made my day.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 02, 2026 03:04 PM (R0Fqj)

116 113 Why would anyone do an interview with newspeople?
Posted by: fourseasons at January 02, 2026 03:04 PM (3ek7K)

The lure of fame.

Posted by: m at January 02, 2026 03:04 PM (RuTUS)

117 You know what bugs me? Pocket lint. Pocket lint bothers me.

Posted by: Zombie Andy Rooney at January 02, 2026 03:05 PM (pkeXY)

118 Congress actually has very little do with this situation, it will come down to getting the right people in position and rolling up the network of criminality.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd
========
Yep. And to do that, you need fierce federal DAs in places where urban fraud occurs. That is difficult in blue states because all those DAs know that they will have to return to pursuing a legal career after their stint as DA.

Our legal community is fine and dandy with fraud, abuse, and waste because they get paid up front just like accountants, by those doing the skimming.

Posted by: whig at January 02, 2026 03:05 PM (WDjG6)

119
With a large organization, and hundreds of millions of dollars, and support of the Powers That Be, none of these mainstream news outfits could find and hire a champion, an interviewer who they could trust to hold his own with a formidable interview subject. The interviewers are always unimpressive damp dishrags who rely on cutting microphones and post-interview editing to look intelligent.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at January 02, 2026 03:05 PM (VWtfl)

120 Last honest reporter I knew was Sam Drucker at the Hooterville World Guardian.
That Homer Gaskins over at the Pixley Picayune is a snake in the grass, though.

Posted by: Carson-Elliot Enterprises, Inc. at January 02, 2026 03:05 PM (oftw2)

121
Trump: If Iran Begins Shooting the Protesters Challenging Their Corrupt Terrorist Rule, I'll Take Their Asses Out

was so pleasing, it made my day.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 02, 2026 03:04 PM (R0Fqj)

Trump threatens to annihilate the leadership of Iran.

Owebama sends them pallets of cash.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 02, 2026 03:06 PM (Zz0t1)

122 Anyone here ever been deposed by a hostile attorney? It's an interesting experience. One 'When did you stop beating your wife' question after another.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 02, 2026 03:06 PM (XeU6L)

123 Catherine Herridge is an excellent reporter, hope she is doing well with her new efforts.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 02, 2026 03:06 PM (R0Fqj)

124 You know what bugs me? Pocket lint. Pocket lint bothers me.
Posted by: Zombie Andy Rooney at January 02, 2026 03:05 PM

Every year I have to decide which family to spend Christmas with.

Posted by: Zombie Charles Kuralt at January 02, 2026 03:06 PM (jc0TO)

125 116 113 Why would anyone do an interview with newspeople?
Posted by: fourseasons at January 02, 2026 03:04 PM (3ek7K)

The lure of fame.
Posted by: m
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Gross stupidity. Issue a press release instead directly to the media critters if you must, don't talk to them.

Posted by: whig at January 02, 2026 03:06 PM (WDjG6)

126 99 I read it as she was in the employ of CBS as an "investigative reporter" at the time of the aborted Musk interview. She said to CBS executives, "we have an opportunity".
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 02, 2026 02:59 PM (8zz6B)

That's what I got from the clip, too. "We this, we that" in reference to CBS executives and her.

Posted by: m at January 02, 2026 03:06 PM (RuTUS)

127 And let us be thankful that this New Year brings us a story about a reporter that doesn't devolve into a long soliloquy on bamboo.

Ace is kind this year.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 02, 2026 03:07 PM (prbfg)

128 117 You know what bugs me? Pocket lint. Pocket lint bothers me.
Posted by: Zombie Andy Rooney
---

You won't have to worry when the cop sticks his finger in your shirt pocket looking for leaves.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 02, 2026 03:08 PM (R0Fqj)

129 Catherine Herridge is an excellent reporter, hope she is doing well with her new efforts.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 02, 2026 03:06 PM (R0Fqj)

Is she the one that the Owebama DOJ illegally tapped into her computer or was that someone else?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 02, 2026 03:08 PM (Zz0t1)

130 119 ... none of these mainstream news outfits could find and hire a champion, an interviewer who they could trust to hold his own with a formidable interview subject. The interviewers are always unimpressive damp dishrags who rely on cutting microphones and post-interview editing to look intelligent.
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at January 02, 2026 03:05 PM (VWtfl)

Peter Robinson on Uncommon Knowledge is great.

Posted by: m at January 02, 2026 03:08 PM (RuTUS)

131 Reminds me of a story from Adam Carolla years ago when he did an interview for PBS. Carolla was accused of "Asain hate" by the interviewer because he had sketches of someone on his show using an "Asian" accent and making fun of stereotypes. Adam responded by saying that person was Jo Koy, the Filipino comic. PBS never aired the interview.

Posted by: Croaker at January 02, 2026 03:09 PM (+BcZI)

132 And let us be thankful that this New Year brings us a story about a reporter that doesn't devolve into a long soliloquy on bamboo.
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Fun fact: Shakespeare considered including a long soliloquy on bamboo in "Hamlet," but dropped the idea as being tendentious and crepuscular.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at January 02, 2026 03:09 PM (qbLEp)

133 You won't have to worry when the cop sticks his finger in your shirt pocket looking for leaves.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 02, 2026 03:08 PM (R0Fqj)

They do that? Guess I'd better get a messenger bag for the snacks, then.

Posted by: A Panda at January 02, 2026 03:09 PM (8zz6B)

134 IT’S FUNNY BECAUSE THE FILM “BROADCAST NEWS” WAS ABOUT HOW A DUMB NEWSMAN MANIPULATED THE INTERVIEW FOOTAGE TO APPEAR BETTER — AND HE WAS THE BAD GUY.

Posted by: BEN ROETHLISBERGER at January 02, 2026 03:11 PM (Hkcdp)

135 I've said for a long time that I had more respect for Pravda. And the reason is that Pravda lied because it had to. Telling the truth would get you a bullet to the back of the head. The fuckers here lie and manipulate voluntarily and happily. And then go home at night and look in the mirror and preen about what patriots they are.

Fuck them all. Media Delenda Est!

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at January 02, 2026 03:11 PM (Qhx62)

136 122 Anyone here ever been deposed by a hostile attorney? It's an interesting experience. One 'When did you stop beating your wife' question after another.
Posted by: Mike Hammer

Yep and I taught how to direct and cross examine witnesses as part of my job. Coached witnesses as well.

Easy enough to thwart the blow hard lawyers because on cross, you never volunteer anything, never speculate, never insinuite knowledge you do not have, and keep your opinions to yourself (expert witnesses are different but they get paid to do well as witnesses). On cross, you still to the bare bones facts of the matter and ignore attempts by attorneys to get a rise by insinuition of misdeeds, pretending to be your buddy, and slimy attempts to disqualify you as a witness.

Direct, you follow the attorney lead and be succinct in your answers because any additional or extraneous statement gives an advantage to the crossing attorney to exploit.

Smart lawyers figure out the honest and succinct cross witness is the hardest nut to crack and often speedily dismiss them. Stupid ones blow in like a battleship and often put the jury on the side of the witness.

Posted by: whig at January 02, 2026 03:12 PM (WDjG6)

137 That California tv interview where Katie Porter walked off the set would be appropriate here.

Posted by: m at January 02, 2026 03:12 PM (RuTUS)

138 Is she the one that the Owebama DOJ illegally tapped into her computer or was that someone else?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 02, 2026 03:08 PM (Zz0t1)

That was Sheryl Atkinson, IIRC.

Posted by: pookysgirl was around for that one at January 02, 2026 03:12 PM (Wt5PA)

139 >>Is she the one that the Owebama DOJ illegally tapped into her computer or was that someone else?

Sharyl Attkisson and James Rosen. Probably more.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 02, 2026 03:12 PM (viF8m)

140 I always get Catherine Herridge and Sharyl Attkisson confused with one another.

Posted by: one hour sober at January 02, 2026 03:13 PM (Y1sOo)

141 138 Is she the one that the Owebama DOJ illegally tapped into her computer or was that someone else?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 02, 2026 03:08 PM (Zz0t1)

That was Sheryl Atkinson, IIRC.
Posted by: pookysgirl was around for that one at January 02, 2026 03:12 PM (Wt5PA)

Good for you. I had forgotten.

Posted by: m at January 02, 2026 03:13 PM (RuTUS)

142
Why would anyone do an interview with newspeople?
Posted by: fourseasons at January 02, 2026 03:04 PM (3ek7K)

The lure of fame.
Posted by: m

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

It won't happen to me.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 02, 2026 03:14 PM (n7rxJ)

143 Fox news reporting SCOTUS struck down district judges' authority to issue nationwide injunctions

Posted by: JM in Illinois at January 02, 2026 03:14 PM (82kxI)

144 ALL COPS MUST WEAR BODY CAMS AND BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE, BUT OUR ARROGANT JOURNOS GET TO EDIT AND CREATE A NARRATIVE.

Posted by: BEN ROETHLISBERGER at January 02, 2026 03:14 PM (Hkcdp)

145 I always get Catherine Herridge and Sharyl Attkisson confused with one another.
Posted by: one hour sober at January 02, 2026 03:13 PM

For years I thought Frank Zappa and Leon Redbone were the same person.

Posted by: Zombie Charles Kuralt at January 02, 2026 03:14 PM (jc0TO)

146 How does one suppose CBS (among others) is going to frame and report the huge fraud and wealth theft perpetrated by our own government on the taxpaying citizens of the US?

Is there any interest in unraveling that little story? Naming names? Provide an accounting of how many trillions of dollars were stolen from taxpayers and laundered through Somali day care centers, welfare programs and every other federal program that got taxpayer monies? How much each politician took, and didn't report?

There IS a trail.

Yea... about all that.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 02, 2026 03:15 PM (NwnyJ)

147 143 Fox news reporting SCOTUS struck down district judges' authority to issue nationwide injunctions
Posted by: JM in Illinois at January 02, 2026 03:14 PM (82kxI)

Really? Wow.

Posted by: m at January 02, 2026 03:15 PM (RuTUS)

148 In fucking high school I had a class on journalism/reporting and the gist of it was that as a reporter you answer the questions What, When and Where. Just the facts. Even Why was dangerous because you were then entering the world of interpretation, not reporting.

Burn it all down. Starting with Columbia University.

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at January 02, 2026 03:15 PM (Qhx62)

149 Fox news reporting SCOTUS struck down district judges' authority to issue nationwide injunctions
Posted by: JM in Illinois

So democracy is finished.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 02, 2026 03:15 PM (L/fGl)

150 148 In fucking high school I had a class on journalism/reporting and the gist of it was that as a reporter you answer the questions What, When and Where. Just the facts. Even Why was dangerous because you were then entering the world of interpretation, not reporting.
Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at January 02, 2026 03:15 PM (Qhx62)

Who, what, when, where.

Posted by: m at January 02, 2026 03:16 PM (RuTUS)

151 147 143 Fox news reporting SCOTUS struck down district judges' authority to issue nationwide injunctions
Posted by: JM in Illinois at January 02, 2026 03:14 PM (82kxI)

Really? Wow.

Posted by: m at January 02, 2026 03:15 PM (RuTUS)

=======

Headline from like 4 months ago?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at January 02, 2026 03:16 PM (GBKbO)

152 Have to have a big pow wow with Obama, then Obama has to have a chat with that 007 villain. Then backwards to CBS then the force orders are released like a dandy loin to their subjects.

Posted by: thug dolphin at January 02, 2026 03:16 PM (EyfuW)

153 Fox news reporting SCOTUS struck down district judges' authority to issue nationwide injunctions
Posted by: JM in Illinois

OVERRULED!!!!

Posted by: Hawaiian Judge at January 02, 2026 03:16 PM (Zz0t1)

154 Say what you want about Joe Rohan, but at least he can handle hours-long interviews live, no post editing.
The MSM are sooooo very cooked.

Posted by: Lizzy at January 02, 2026 03:16 PM (Hkcdp)

155 For years I thought Frank Zappa and Leon Redbone were the same person.
Posted by: Zombie Charles Kuralt at January 02, 2026 03:14 PM (jc0TO)

Leon Redbone was such a private guy, that many people thought he was a famous musician from another genre of music, moonlighting for the fun of it.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 02, 2026 03:17 PM (8zz6B)

156 >>> Anyone here ever been deposed by a hostile attorney? It's an interesting experience. One 'When did you stop beating your wife' question after another.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 02, 2026 03:06 PM (XeU6L)

I've been phone interviewed by a hostile insurance company. When I was a teen in college. Some joker rear ends me while I was stopped for construction. Messed up his car. Had almost no effect on my big bumper 77 nova. A few days later I get this call asking me to explain my fault in the accident. No, I then started laying out how the idiot wasn't watching, obviously, and hit me. Then the guy just hangs up. Funny thing, the guy who hit me was an engineering student in some of my classes. That was awkward.

Posted by: banana Dream at January 02, 2026 03:17 PM (3uBP9)

157 Headline from like 4 months ago?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at January 02, 2026 03:16 PM (GBKbO)

I thought they did that 4 months ago and it's been ignored ?

Posted by: It's me donna at January 02, 2026 03:17 PM (VE6XX)

158 ALL COPS MUST WEAR BODY CAMS AND BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE, BUT OUR ARROGANT JOURNOS GET TO EDIT AND CREATE A NARRATIVE.
Posted by: BEN ROETHLISBERGER at January 02, 2026 03:14 PM (Hkcdp)

Now do FBI.

Seriously Ben, do them.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 02, 2026 03:17 PM (AtFJ+)

159
I'm an idiot. That was 6 months ago. Nevermind.

Posted by: JM in Illinois at January 02, 2026 03:18 PM (REL1l)

160
Is she the one that the Owebama DOJ illegally tapped into her computer or was that someone else?

Sharyl Attkisson and James Rosen. Probably more.
Posted by: JackStraw

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

And Sharyl Attkisson was working for CBS at the time. She showed all her evidence to the CBS News president or whoever the highest higher-up was, he was supposedly not too happy about it, but... #NothingWillHappen happened.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 02, 2026 03:18 PM (n7rxJ)

161 Who, what, when, where.

Posted by: m at January 02, 2026 03:16 PM (RuTUS)

You're right - I left out the Who because I was in a hurry.

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at January 02, 2026 03:18 PM (Qhx62)

162 Who, what, when, where.

Posted by: m at January 02, 2026 03:16 PM (RuTUS)

And How.

Posted by: pookysgirl, both the Indian and white man at the same time at January 02, 2026 03:19 PM (Wt5PA)

163 Fox news reporting SCOTUS struck down district judges' authority to issue nationwide injunctions
Posted by: JM in Illinois

So democracy is finished.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 02, 2026 03:15 PM (L/fGl)

I vote yes.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 02, 2026 03:19 PM (AtFJ+)

164 This Rice offense has some issues.

First play, dropped easy interception.
Second plan, back fumbles but is able to barely recover.
Third play, strip sack and Texas State recover.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 02, 2026 03:19 PM (viF8m)

165 Catherine Herridge is the ONLY reporter I trust, who used to be connected to FOX.

At one time I trusted Jennifer (can't think of her last name because I am tired from babysitting).No more.

Now I trust Herridge as well as independents like Nick Shirley. Thank goodness for them.

It is a pity about FOX, because I used to trust them as well. I remember praying for brave Catherine Herridge when she gave part of her liver for her baby boy. Prayed for Botox Bret Baier's son as well. We watched them faithfully til the 2016 debate when I declared I was done. It took my husband a bit longer to abandon them, but he did.

Catherine is very intelligent, cuts to the chase, and has my respect forever.

Thanks for all you do, Ace, my love. I am currently exhausted from the holidays and have tomorrow "off." I may spend the day in my pj's & robe.

For dinner last night we had Hoppin' John (black eyed peas and rice), Emeril's collard greens & corn bread. Like good Southern stock. My husband is from Long Island and cooked this New Year's Day dinner (started New Year's Eve). So he's sold on it as well for tradition. Goes back generations.

Black eye peas: luck
Greens: prosperity
Cornbread: gold

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at January 02, 2026 03:20 PM (WONhk)

166
I thought they did that 4 months ago and it's been ignored ?
Posted by: It's me donna

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

What??? to the "it's been ignored" part. Impeach these people ffs!!!

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 02, 2026 03:20 PM (n7rxJ)

167 And How.
Posted by: pookysgirl, both the Indian and white man at the same time at January 02, 2026 03:19 PM

How.

Posted by: Elizabeth Warren at January 02, 2026 03:20 PM (jc0TO)

168 159 I'm an idiot. That was 6 months ago. Nevermind.
Posted by: JM in Illinois at January 02, 2026 03:18 PM (REL1l)

Thank you!

Posted by: m at January 02, 2026 03:20 PM (RuTUS)

169 >>> Say what you want about Joe Rohan, but at least he can handle hours-long interviews live, no post editing.
The MSM are sooooo very cooked.
Posted by: Lizzy at January 02, 2026 03:16 PM (Hkcdp)

I wish he'd lay off the pipe-weed and quit with all the silly Silmarillion conspiracies.

Posted by: banana Dream at January 02, 2026 03:20 PM (3uBP9)

170 The law firm of Dewy, Cheatham and Howe.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 02, 2026 03:20 PM (Zz0t1)

171 158
Posted by: BEN ROETHLISBERGER at January 02, 2026 03:14 PM (Hkcdp)

Now do FBI.

Seriously Ben, do them.
Posted by: BurtTC at January 02, 2026 03:17 PM (AtFJ+)

ewwwww

Posted by: m at January 02, 2026 03:20 PM (RuTUS)

172 You're right - I left out the Who because I was in a hurry.
Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at January 02, 2026 03:18 PM (Qhx62)

I thought it was cuz you're not an owl.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 02, 2026 03:20 PM (AtFJ+)

173 166
I thought they did that 4 months ago and it's been ignored ?
Posted by: It's me donna

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

What??? to the "it's been ignored" part. Impeach these people ffs!!!

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 02, 2026 03:20 PM (n7rxJ)

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It's my understanding that the nationwide injunctions did completely stop after that process order.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at January 02, 2026 03:21 PM (GBKbO)

174 Yes, a headline from months ago.
Then why are the judges still doing issuing universal injunctions? I'm taking a nap.
Sorry about the confusion.

Posted by: JM in Illinois at January 02, 2026 03:21 PM (REL1l)

175 I seem to recall that the former head of CBS News was the brother of an Obama staffer - forget which one. If he was not too upset that Atkisson’s laptop was hacked that may have been why.

Posted by: Lizzy at January 02, 2026 03:21 PM (Hkcdp)

176 Now do FBI.

Seriously Ben, do them.
Posted by: BurtTC at January 02, 2026 03:17 PM (AtFJ+)

ewwwww
Posted by: m at January 02, 2026 03:20 PM (RuTUS)

Ben has a particular set of skills.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 02, 2026 03:21 PM (AtFJ+)

177 Fox news reporting SCOTUS struck down district judges' authority to issue nationwide injunctions
Posted by: JM in Illinois

A Hawaiian traffic court judge just threw out the supreme court ruling.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at January 02, 2026 03:21 PM (0U5gm)

178
It's my understanding that the nationwide injunctions did completely stop after that process order.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at January 02, 2026 03:21 PM (GBKbO)

There's so many I couldn't say but You're probably right

Posted by: It's me donna at January 02, 2026 03:22 PM (VE6XX)

179 This Rice offense has some issues.

First play, dropped easy interception.
Second plan, back fumbles but is able to barely recover.
Third play, strip sack and Texas State recover.
Posted by: JackStraw at January 02, 2026 03:19 PM (viF8m)

Rice is a small, expensive school that hasn't been good at sports, I don't think, ever.

They're in this game at 5 - 7 because Kansas State backed out.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 02, 2026 03:22 PM (Zz0t1)

180 174 Yes, a headline from months ago.
Then why are the judges still doing issuing universal injunctions? I'm taking a nap.
Sorry about the confusion.

Posted by: JM in Illinois at January 02, 2026 03:21 PM (REL1l)

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They're...not?

It really did end.

Injunctions are happening at district levels, but you're not getting "Trump can't use the NG at all" from district court judges. You're getting "Trump can't use the NG in Chicago" type stuff.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at January 02, 2026 03:22 PM (GBKbO)

181 Excellent post and many astute comments followed. Now, consider something that is very much related:

If these journalists are so focused and motivated to edit an interview based on agenda, exec producer marching orders, and overall management requiring character assassination....then:

"WHY DO WE EVEN CONSIDER USING JOURNALISTS TO MONITOR ELECTION DEBATES?"

Oh, but they can't edit those. But, in a way they do. The choose a wedge issue question (always). That's why abortion always pops up in debates (Majority of Dems support it, and significant number of Repubs do to, so it is the goto debate question to alienate the candidate on the right from voters). Moderators will interupt (another form of editing). Media outlets will have a debate run from a form leftist presidential communications director. No disclaimers.

Posted by: Orson at January 02, 2026 03:23 PM (dIske)

182
It won't happen to me.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia

I've seen obvious misquotes of your comments at or near the FIRST!! position numerous times. Other times, you sound entirely lucid.

Posted by: The Seeing Eye at January 02, 2026 03:24 PM (oftw2)

183 Zohran Mamdani put Ramzi Kassem in charge as chief counsel of NYC. For those of you who don’t know, Kassem was the 9/11 Al Queda defense lawyer.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 02, 2026 03:24 PM (c115l)

184 180 174 It really did end.

Injunctions are happening at district levels, but you're not getting "Trump can't use the NG at all" from district court judges. You're getting "Trump can't use the NG in Chicago" type stuff.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at January 02, 2026 03:22 PM (GBKbO)

Thank you!

Posted by: m at January 02, 2026 03:24 PM (RuTUS)

185 This busty bikini blonde has nothing but unfettered contempt for press whores:
http://tiny.cc/gj4x001

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 02, 2026 03:24 PM (avHHk)

186 Ok, it was Ben Rhodes’ brother, David, who was head of CBS News from 2011 - 2019.

Posted by: Lizzy at January 02, 2026 03:25 PM (Hkcdp)

187 Rice is a small, expensive school that hasn't been good at sports, I don't think, ever.

They're in this game at 5 - 7 because Kansas State backed out.

Posted by: Sponge

Rice was a powerhouse.....in the mid 1930s.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at January 02, 2026 03:25 PM (0U5gm)

188 Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 02, 2026 03:18 PM (n7rxJ)

Not really true that #nothing_happened.

CBS hired a cyber security firm to investigate. The firm confirmed that her computer was hacked by unknown person(s). Don't think they ever identified the perps, though, so, in that sense, nothing happened, I guess.

Posted by: one hour sober at January 02, 2026 03:25 PM (Y1sOo)

189 177 Fox news reporting SCOTUS struck down district judges' authority to issue nationwide injunctions
Posted by: JM in Illinois

__________________________

Does that mean Maryland Man gets deported again? Because he wasn't in the state that made the ruling.

Posted by: Orson at January 02, 2026 03:25 PM (dIske)

190 >Rice is a small, expensive school that hasn't been good at sports, I don't think, ever.

Rice baseball has been good. Won CWS in 2003.

Posted by: mr tmz at January 02, 2026 03:26 PM (rJ48h)

191 185 This busty bikini blonde has nothing but unfettered contempt for press whores:
http://tiny.cc/gj4x001

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 02, 2026 03:24 PM (avHHk)

=======

Earlobes down to her shoulders.

3/10

Would not bang.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at January 02, 2026 03:26 PM (GBKbO)

192 If we say we are going to war, can't we just shoot them. All this fake talk waste money.

I refuse to pay for a war not fought quickly.

Posted by: thug dolphin at January 02, 2026 03:26 PM (EyfuW)

193 Fox news reporting SCOTUS struck down district judges' authority to issue nationwide injunctions

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Intestiing!

Posted by: runner at January 02, 2026 03:26 PM (W3eFU)

194 Fourth play, fumble Texas State recovers.

A pattern is emerging.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 02, 2026 03:26 PM (viF8m)

195
Rice baseball has been good. Won CWS in 2003.
Posted by: mr tmz at January 02, 2026 03:26 PM (rJ48h)

Well, here I sit, corrected.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 02, 2026 03:27 PM (Zz0t1)

196 193 Fox news reporting SCOTUS struck down district judges' authority to issue nationwide injunctions

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Intestiing!

Posted by: runner at January 02, 2026 03:26 PM (W3eFU)

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Big news from 6 months ago.

Pretty sure ace wrote some posts about it at the time.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at January 02, 2026 03:27 PM (GBKbO)

197
I wish he'd lay off the pipe-weed and quit with all the silly Silmarillion conspiracies.

Posted by: banana Dream at January 02, 2026 03:20 PM (3uBP9)

*ears perk up*

Silmarillion conspiracies? Do tell.

Posted by: pookysgirl, Tolkien fan at January 02, 2026 03:27 PM (Wt5PA)

198
I seem to recall that the former head of CBS News was the brother of an Obama staffer - forget which one. If he was not too upset that Atkisson’s laptop was hacked that may have been why.
Posted by: Lizzy

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Yes, as I recall the head of CBS News was upset, but not THAT upset. I mean, deleting a reporter's laptop in real time vs promoting The Won's agenda, I dunno.

This was David Rhodes, brother of Ben Rhodes. I can't say enough bad things about Ben.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 02, 2026 03:27 PM (n7rxJ)

199 Earlobes down to her shoulders.

3/10

Would not bang.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at January 02, 2026 03:26 PM (GBKbO)

Not mentioning her neglecting to wash the jizz off her right arm.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 02, 2026 03:27 PM (Zz0t1)

200 200

Posted by: m at January 02, 2026 03:27 PM (RuTUS)

201 > ox news reporting SCOTUS struck down district judges' authority to issue nationwide injunctions
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Judge in city "A" calls judge in city "Z"

Judge A: Hey Bob, it's Ralph... can we talk?
Judge Z: Sure, what's up?
Judge A: I'm doing an injunction on ICE today, can you issue one too?
Judge Z: I'm on it...
Judge A: Thanks man. I gotta' call Janice and get her onboard too. TTYL.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 02, 2026 03:28 PM (NwnyJ)

202 Free speech is dangerous! The Nazis weaponized it to conduct a genocide. Do you want reich wing outlets to do the same?

Posted by: Margaret Brennan- CBS Feb 2025 at January 02, 2026 03:28 PM (HSjdE)

203
I've seen obvious misquotes of your comments at or near the FIRST!! position numerous times. Other times, you sound entirely lucid.
Posted by: The Seeing Eye

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I have it on good authority that typos and misspellings are evidene of jenius.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 02, 2026 03:29 PM (n7rxJ)

204 202 Free speech is dangerous! The Nazis weaponized it to conduct a genocide. Do you want reich wing outlets to do the same?
Posted by: Margaret Brennan- CBS Feb 2025 at January 02, 2026 03:28 PM (HSjdE)

This person--

Margaret Brennan

--is so detestable.

Posted by: m at January 02, 2026 03:29 PM (RuTUS)

205 There's no news outlet more fair and balanced than CBS News.

Posted by: Leslie Stahl at January 02, 2026 03:29 PM (Zz0t1)

206 Earlobes down to her shoulders.

3/10

Would not bang.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at January 02, 2026 03:26 PM (GBKbO)

That's your complaint? Not the bludgers in her brassiere?

Posted by: BurtTC at January 02, 2026 03:30 PM (TvPmY)

207 202 Free speech is dangerous! The Nazis weaponized it to conduct a genocide. Do you want reich wing outlets to do the same?

Posted by: Margaret Brennan- CBS Feb 2025 at January 02, 2026 03:28 PM (HSjdE)

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"The proliferation of free speech absolutism in Weimar Germany led to the rise of Nazism. Also, we must emulate Weimar Germany in the cultural sense."

"Weimer Germany had deeply oppressive speech laws that were designed to suppress Nazism."

"What are you, some kind of fascist? Now, I've got a lady dick to suck like those grand visionaries in Weimar Germany envisioned."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at January 02, 2026 03:30 PM (GBKbO)

208 She would make a good reporter, the Leftist would fall all over her to impress how important they are

Posted by: Skip at January 02, 2026 03:30 PM (Ia/+0)

209 A forgotten mystery click I actually recognize.

Posted by: banana Dream at January 02, 2026 03:30 PM (3uBP9)

210 203 I have it on good authority that typos and misspellings are evidene of jenius.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 02, 2026 03:29 PM (n7rxJ)

A commenter at another site had a nic I wanted to steal soooo much:

Typo Knig

Posted by: m at January 02, 2026 03:30 PM (RuTUS)

211 Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 02, 2026 03:24 PM (avHHk)

Why is she wearing the stupid sun glasses? I know, all the men say, "what glasses"? If it's not AI and is, indeed a real woman, if she wants to get clicks for her figure why is she shy about not showing her face? I mean it's not as she's doing some investigative reporting stuff. Hardly the female version of Nick Shirley who did show his face.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 02, 2026 03:31 PM (Yl2Ob)

212 But "reporters" are themselves pretty stupid. Among "professionals," they're the least intelligent and educated. (And they're very lazy and have very high rates of alcoholism.)

"Reporters" do not want their opponents turning the tables on them and make them look foolish and make them struggle to answer questions.

Elon went on Joe Rogan's show. He is no sooper geenyus, but he was willing to give Elon free rein. That tells you a lot.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 02, 2026 03:31 PM (Riz8t)

213 I thought it was cuz you're not an owl.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 02, 2026 03:20 PM (AtFJ+)

I don't really give a hoot. Heh.

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at January 02, 2026 03:31 PM (Qhx62)

214 This busty bikini blonde has nothing but unfettered contempt for press whores:
http://tiny.cc/gj4x001

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 02, 2026 03:24 PM

I did a Decker on her sunglasses.

Move right ... stop
Zoom and enhance

Print that

Posted by: toby928(c) at January 02, 2026 03:32 PM (jc0TO)

215 Elon went on Joe Rogan's show. He is no sooper geenyus, but he was willing to give Elon free rein. That tells you a lot.
Posted by: Archimedes at January 02, 2026 03:31 PM

Free rein and weed, but mostly ..

Posted by: toby928(c) at January 02, 2026 03:32 PM (jc0TO)

216 215 Elon went on Joe Rogan's show. He is no sooper geenyus, but he was willing to give Elon free rein. That tells you a lot.
Posted by: Archimedes at January 02, 2026 03:31 PM

Free rein and weed, but mostly ..
Posted by: toby928(c) at January 02, 2026 03:32 PM (jc0TO)

Gummies, too, maybe.

Posted by: m at January 02, 2026 03:34 PM (RuTUS)

217 I get the sentiment that people should quit at the first sight of corruption but in my experience very few do when it's their lives on the line. I've always found Herridge to be a pretty straight shooter, much better than most.
Posted by: JackStraw at January 02, 2026 02:56 PM (viF8m)

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I find Catherine Herridge more honest than Jennifer Griffin who is still at Fox but too friendly to the Deep State.

Posted by: Decaf at January 02, 2026 03:34 PM (Z8jzG)

218 Earlobes down to her shoulders.

And don't get me started on the cleavage freckles. Freackage?

Posted by: Archimedes at January 02, 2026 03:34 PM (Riz8t)

219 >>Why is she wearing the stupid sun glasses?
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Maybe because she is on a beach, in the sun?

Posted by: Frasier Crane at January 02, 2026 03:35 PM (bNf8H)

220 Rogan interviews work because he is not a trained reporter. He lets the other person talk, and asks questions that demonstrate he himself doesn’t know much about a subject. He wants to learn, as opposed to show the audience how wicked smaht he is. MSM journalists are way to impressed with themselves to ever do this.

Posted by: Lizzy at January 02, 2026 03:36 PM (Hkcdp)

221 197
I wish he'd lay off the pipe-weed and quit with all the silly Silmarillion conspiracies.

Posted by: banana Dream at January 02, 2026 03:20 PM (3uBP9)

*ears perk up*

Silmarillion conspiracies? Do tell.

Posted by: pookysgirl, Tolkien fan at January 02, 2026 03:27 PM (Wt5PA)

News from Tucker Carlson, endorsed by Candace Owens, is that is the Iluvatar stole the Silmarils himself for a small nation not to be named, and blamed it on Morgoth. Morgoth had to flee to Middle Earth and raise an army of Balrogs and Dragons to stop a powerful cohort of Elves (Not all of them, just the ones from this small un-named nation) to protect himself from their oppression.

Posted by: Croaker at January 02, 2026 03:36 PM (+BcZI)

222 219 >>Why is she wearing the stupid sun glasses?
__
Maybe because she is on a beach, in the sun?
Posted by: Frasier Crane at January 02, 2026 03:35 PM (bNf8H)

"On the beach, in the sun, with the sunglasses."

Clue.

Posted by: m at January 02, 2026 03:38 PM (RuTUS)

223 I'm not 100% sure I believe this.

Sad: Ilhan Omar Tells Brother It's Time They Start Seeing Other Siblings

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Now, this I believe.

Republicans Vow To Uncover All Somali Fraud And Then Do Nothing About It Except Fundraise

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From the Bee.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 02, 2026 03:38 PM (L/fGl)

224 222
"On the beach, in the sun, with the sunglasses."

Clue.

Posted by: m at January 02, 2026 03:38 PM (RuTUS)

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Sorry, Death. You lose. It was Professor Plum!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at January 02, 2026 03:38 PM (GBKbO)

225 Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at January 02, 2026 03:38 PM (GBKbO)

I viewed your latest YouTube video twice.

Excellent breakdown of current copyright law!

Posted by: kallisto at January 02, 2026 03:39 PM (dCxaZ)

226 Well, this is going to go well

@EndWokeness 2m
BREAKING: St. Paul's new Mayor Kaohly Her vows to use police to impede ICE

Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 02, 2026 03:40 PM (mlg/3)

227 People seem to feel the need to preface comments about Rogan with "I know he's not that smart, but..."

I'm not sure why. He was an actor, a comedian, a martial arts fighter... no, he's not a genius. If he was he'd be wearing glasses with tape in the middle, solving the world's problems, one beaker at a time.

But nobody seems to feel the to ever preface their comments about anyone in corporate media: I know Shep Smith is no genius, but...

Or Walter Cronkite or Rachel Madcow or Regis Philbin or Pearce Morgan or on and on and on.

They're not geniuses. They're media people. Except Rogan doesn't take direction from anyone, so what you get is his honest view of things.

Weird.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 02, 2026 03:40 PM (KwCuT)

228 225 Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at January 02, 2026 03:38 PM (GBKbO)

I viewed your latest YouTube video twice.

Excellent breakdown of current copyright law!

Posted by: kallisto at January 02, 2026 03:39 PM (dCxaZ)

======

I have an even more latest! Already!

But thanks!

(like and subscribe)

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at January 02, 2026 03:40 PM (GBKbO)

229 224 222 "On the beach, in the sun, with the sunglasses."

Clue.

Posted by: m at January 02, 2026 03:38 PM (RuTUS)

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Sorry, Death. You lose. It was Professor Plum!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at January 02, 2026 03:38 PM (GBKbO)

Professor Plum, on the playa, with the polaroids.

Posted by: m at January 02, 2026 03:40 PM (RuTUS)

230 I could be wrong but it seems to me that this CBS thing of which ace speaks, is a propaganda outlet.

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at January 02, 2026 03:41 PM (2J/Lj)

231 230 I could be wrong but it seems to me that this CBS thing of which ace speaks, is a propaganda outlet.
Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at January 02, 2026 03:41 PM (2J/Lj)

See BS!

Posted by: m at January 02, 2026 03:42 PM (RuTUS)

232 We’re at the point where if there are not mass”day care” shutdowns, prosecutions, and denaturalizations, then the public will lose all faith ( whatever bit remaining) in the government.

We can’t unsee the likelihood that out national debt is likely due to astronomical fraud.

Posted by: Lizzy at January 02, 2026 03:42 PM (Hkcdp)

233 I know I'm stating the obvious but a system like ours - a self governing republic - cannot survive if it's information stream is poisoned and distorted like our is. It's effects are made even worse if its education system is equally poisoned, leading to unquestioning, naive, stupid voters who have no critical thinking skills. Those two factors are the pillars a free society is based on, the third being a virtuous people. The evil, satanic, communist Left has taken over the first two. They haven't succeeded in eliminating the third yet, but they're close.

Keep the Faith and Fight, Fight, Fight.

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at January 02, 2026 03:42 PM (Qhx62)

234 Nood.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 02, 2026 03:42 PM (ExV1e)

235 @EndWokeness 2m
BREAKING: St. Paul's new Mayor Kaohly Her vows to use police to impede ICE
Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 02, 2026 03:40 PM (mlg/3)

Arrest her. Put her city under federal control, as a municipality in open insurrection. Declare martial law, shoot anyone on the streets after sundown.

Problem solved.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 02, 2026 03:42 PM (KwCuT)

236 Hi honey i'm home. Today i lied to 1,062,477 subjects.

Posted by: thug dolphin at January 02, 2026 03:45 PM (EyfuW)

237 @EndWokeness 2m
BREAKING: St. Paul's new Mayor Kaohly Her vows to use police to impede ICE
Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 02, 2026 03:40 PM (mlg/3)

Arrest her. Put her city under federal control, as a municipality in open insurrection. Declare martial law, shoot anyone on the streets after sundown.

Problem solved.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 02, 2026 03:42 PM (KwCuT)

I absolutely agree. This shit started when the first mayor - I believe it was Feinstein in SF, soon followed by Newsome who declared SF a "Sanctuary City". Dubya failed us all by not sending in the US Marshals to arrest those mayors and reminding them that as mayor, they don't get to set immigration policy for the fucking country! The idea should have been strangled in the crib. It wasn't and now we're looking at full blown insurrection. Put it down, forcefully.

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at January 02, 2026 03:49 PM (Qhx62)

238
omg. I was about to start the new year off right with a new dishwasher when I found out California code has changed so you can't hardwire a dishwasher to -- I lost the thread, but now I have to pay an extra $210 to get this thing installed.

Yesterday was telling the state what exactly my mother is doing with a stream (NOTHING) that she has to pay some gob of money for because it happens to exist on property she owns.

State included a question, Why are you doing nothing? I... answered it. I hope they don't ask for "clarification."

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 02, 2026 03:50 PM (n7rxJ)

239 Got a deposition from the Assistant AG of WA state. Does that count as hostile?

Posted by: Notsothoreau at January 02, 2026 04:00 PM (+mUZM)

240 Re. Sidebar:

The Best Chaka Khan is 'Rufus featuring Chaka Khan'. Those LPs are awesome.

Posted by: garrett at January 02, 2026 04:01 PM (grNgC)

241 See B.S. News like NBC,ABC and CNN has been losing the Trust or their Viewers for the last many years and they have brought it on themselves the last many years

Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at January 02, 2026 05:03 PM (wGqjj)

242 Never ever got a good answer when I asked this question decades ago.. why is that the interview can only happen if it's pre-recorded? This is why televised debate is so popular. While the "moderator" can steer the conversation, the participants still have their free will. That is totally and completely against the purpose of this so called "profession" journalism.

Posted by: melodicmetal at January 02, 2026 05:18 PM (XLfSN)

Trump: If Iran Begins Shooting the Protesters Challenging Their Corrupt Terrorist Rule, I'll Take Their Asses Out

The Iranian people are rising up again, like they did in 2009, when Obama was president.

But Obama isn't president any longer.

Iranians in occupied Iran are burning down religious institutions because they're sick of Sharia Law.

Meanwhile terrorists in western countries are complaining about "Islamophobia" 😂😂😂

Burn it all down.

Destroy the cancer once and for all.

Iran is not a Muslim country. pic.twitter.com/o0ZyX5kMXg
— Goldie Ghamari | گلسا قمری (@gghamari) January 2, 2026

Day 4 of protests in Iran.
The people are chanting for the return of the King.
No chants against the West.
No chants against Israel.
Iran was hijacked by terrorists in 1979, and the people want their country back. Is the media only interested when protests attack Israel? pic.twitter.com/YkAhxUuUXm
— Sina (@SinaMihandoost) December 31, 2025

A brave woman in Iran publicly removes her hijab, defying her country�s oppressive Islamic regime that kills women for not wearing it.

This is true empowerment, unlike modern feminists in the West who defend Islamist rapists like Hamas.pic.twitter.com/uUxzT9pPvW
— Dr. Maalouf ‏ (@realMaalouf) January 2, 2026

BREAKING: Islamic Republic forces are retreating, as more Iranians flood the streets of Iran. pic.twitter.com/onZVnSNEbj
— Eyal Yakoby (@EYakoby) January 1, 2026

Trump serves up notice that he's not Obama and will not rescue the Iranian regime:

The White House
@WhiteHouse
4h
"If Iran shots and violently kills peaceful protesters, which is their custom, the United States of America will come to their rescue. We are locked and loaded and ready to go. Thank you for your attention to this matter!" - President DONALD J. TRUMP

Gummi
@gummibear737
8h
This is a threat the US could have never made if Iran still had nuclear weapons
An Iran free from the Mullahs would be a gift to the entire world
Thank you President Trump for that

But the treasonous clowns who pretend to be "patriots" by always blaming America first -- just like the left does, just like Obama did -- insist that we should embrace Obama's pro-Mullah policy.

They claim we have problems here in the US. Well yes, we do. But the US Armed Forces do not make or enforce immigration policy and only a very small number of craft are involved in drug interdiction. Steve Bannon's and Tucker Carlson's dishonest claim that we cannot take care of foreign problems because of fentanyl and Muslims in NYC is just bullshit cover for their real agenda and real motivation.

Trump is currently running the largest deportation effort in American history and is on the verge of toppling a huge foreign fentanyl-exporting regime. (More on that later.) He's plainly not distracted, so stop with the bullshit that any time he even looks at a foreign country he's too distracted to deport illegals or interdict drug boats.

Bannon, of course, blames the Jews, citing "Tel Aviv (Mark) Levin" as behind the novel idea that we should oppose the world's largest terrorist funder and trainer, Iran, and support the people rising up against them.

The Nazis, both of the pseudoright and Islamofascist variety, have been screaming about Trump meeting with his "boss" -- Noted Jew Netanyahu -- and are now claiming the protests are fake and Jewish.

An0maly
@LegendaryEnergy
5h
Netanyahu hangs out with Trump for two days and he�s already back to regime change in Iran.
Everyone knows we fund fake protests in other countries when we want to stage a coup.

Western Patriot
@TheDitko83
45m
And Steve Bannon talks about Israel and the Jews! What a moron. Try using your own eyes and facts on the ground. You ain't losing your cities to the Jooos!

AG
@AGHamilton29
1h
We really should revisit just how badly clowns like Dave Smith and Tucker Carlson whiffed on their commentary around the Iran strikes and why they got it so wrong because it demonstrates how ignorant/dishonest they are on these subjects.
The regime in Tehran is now weaker than ever, the nuclear threat is substantially degraded, the proxy threat is substantially lower, and the entire world is safer because Trump ignored these schmucks.

Even Vance, who is constantly playing footsie with Nazis, chides Bannon and Tucker Carlson for their Qatar-funded propaganda:

Vance calls out the woke right who spent months lying about President Trump�s Iran strikes.

�The people who accused the president of wanting to get into a regime-change war for Israel � I wonder if they�ll step back and admit they were wrong about that.�pic.twitter.com/z4JVBqgtVi
— Eyal Yakoby (@EYakoby) December 31, 2025

Posted by: Ace at 01:24 PM

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1 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 02, 2026 01:24 PM (Zz0t1)

2 Interesting

Posted by: Thomas Paine at January 02, 2026 01:24 PM (0U5gm)

3 Woot!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 02, 2026 01:24 PM (Zz0t1)

4 Lum has been nooded.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 02, 2026 01:25 PM (Zz0t1)

5 If the clerics are deposed in Iran, a whole lot of antisemitism is going to be defunded.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at January 02, 2026 01:26 PM (0U5gm)

6 Drop the Wookie b0mb on them.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at January 02, 2026 01:27 PM (abIsI)

7 Prayers. Cause this can spiral out of control and we will be lucky to live thru it ...

Posted by: Adriane the Lack of Vacuum Critic. . . at January 02, 2026 01:27 PM (RqRK2)

8 It is off putting to see people oppose dealing with a longstanding enemy of the United States because doing so might also allow Israelis to live longer.

Posted by: Methos at January 02, 2026 01:27 PM (vSvIl)

9 The people are chanting for the return of the King.

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They need a DVD, or something?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at January 02, 2026 01:27 PM (GBKbO)

10 Bad idea.

Let the Persians figure it out. No way should the US use military power to help either side.

Nope.

Posted by: nurse ratched at January 02, 2026 01:28 PM (W2Pud)

11 Drop the Wookie b0mb on them.

You think Big Mike telling the protestors they are privileged white people is going to help?

Posted by: 18-1 at January 02, 2026 01:28 PM (sKqQm)

12 Killing IRGC is always a good thing.

Posted by: toby928(c) at January 02, 2026 01:28 PM (jc0TO)

13 Trump is currently running the largest deportation effort in American history and is on the verge of toppling a huge foreign fentanyl-exporting regime. (More on that later.) He's plainly not distracted, so stop with the bullshit that any time he even looks at a foreign country he's too distracted to deport illegals or interdict drug boats.

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The executive branch of the federal government is very large. An operation to bomb Iranian nuclear sites doesn't distract ICE from doing its job.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at January 02, 2026 01:29 PM (GBKbO)

14 Experts agree, Trump will shoot Iranian protesters in the ass.

Posted by: CBS News at January 02, 2026 01:29 PM (7Q0e+)

15 Judge Boasberg orders Trump to provide the Ayatollah with US Weapons to preserve the "Peace Loving" and "Mostly Peaceful" Iranian "RAGHEAD" Regime that treats women like Trash and Booty Calls..

Posted by: CNN Breaking News at January 02, 2026 01:29 PM (J9q9v)

16 I like Vance’s style. The content is pretty good too.

Posted by: tubal at January 02, 2026 01:29 PM (pDt9x)

17 Will the military turn. That's what will decide this.

Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at January 02, 2026 01:29 PM (1Nv0l)

18 Trump- "what was that, walk softly and carry a big dick?"

Aid- Actually sir, its carry a big stick

Trump- Well that sucks, I'm going with my version.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 02, 2026 01:29 PM (snZF9)

19 Restore Iran as a Zoroastrian state.

Posted by: Oglebay at January 02, 2026 01:30 PM (GPa4z)

20 I don't want us involved in a war in Iran, and if Iranians aren't retarded, they don't want us involved, either. Just how valuable are American security guarantees, anyway? Just ask the Kurds.

I am all for putting pressure on Iran, but there's not *much* more we can do that on that front short of getting into a war. We've already isolated them in every venue we can, and it's cracking up. Encourage it to fall and even consider hurling some special favors at the new regime if the old one falls. But deploying military force against Iran? Why? There was an argument to be made for hitting their nuclear facilities, since Iran made it very clear that to get a bomb is to use a bomb against us and our allies. But this isn't that. The Iranian regime is awful and monstrous, but where is the US benefit to intervening?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 02, 2026 01:30 PM (avHHk)

21 The people are chanting for the return of the King.
.....

This must really chap the hide of the lefties in America.

Posted by: wth at January 02, 2026 01:30 PM (UjdFS)

22 Not a fan of Bannon

Posted by: It's me donna at January 02, 2026 01:30 PM (VE6XX)

23 I'd like to see a locality try experimenting with completely voluntary taxes.

They'd get nothing. And they wouldn't like it.

From the last thread....this is why I want to see an experiment. The AWFLs that declare everything needs government dollars would have the opportunity to do so...or not.

And when they don't actually poney up it would be there in plain text. "Karen McAWFL said we needed to increase the school budget. Since the start of the year she personally has given $0"

Posted by: 18-1 at January 02, 2026 01:30 PM (sKqQm)

24 But the treasonous clowns who pretend to be "patriots" by always blaming America first -- just like the left does, just like Obama did -- insist that we should embrace Obama's pro-Mullah policy.
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Laughable, if they think that. They may well, especially if Qatar is stroking checks to them.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 02, 2026 01:30 PM (avHHk)

25 I'm old and Ive been waiting my whole life (well a lot of it) for this.

NO MORE MULLAHS

Posted by: BlackOrchid at January 02, 2026 01:30 PM (emBoF)

26 Return of the King

We all want King Arthur back.

Posted by: Oglebay at January 02, 2026 01:31 PM (GPa4z)

27 The Return of the King. Aragon is back?

Posted by: tubal at January 02, 2026 01:31 PM (pDt9x)

28 The people are chanting for the return of the King.

I hope they don't cut the Scouring of the Shire this time.

Posted by: toby928(c) at January 02, 2026 01:31 PM (jc0TO)

29 He's plainly not distracted,

Under Shrub I remember being told the president could only do one thing at a time. And then watching Barky do every thing the left could want all at once...

Posted by: 18-1 at January 02, 2026 01:31 PM (sKqQm)

30 20 I don't want us involved in a war in Iran, and if Iranians aren't retarded, they don't want us involved, either. Just how valuable are American security guarantees, anyway? Just ask the Kurds.

I am all for putting pressure on Iran, but there's not *much* more we can do that on that front short of getting into a war. We've already isolated them in every venue we can, and it's cracking up. Encourage it to fall and even consider hurling some special favors at the new regime if the old one falls. But deploying military force against Iran? Why? There was an argument to be made for hitting their nuclear facilities, since Iran made it very clear that to get a bomb is to use a bomb against us and our allies. But this isn't that. The Iranian regime is awful and monstrous, but where is the US benefit to intervening?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 02, 2026 01:30 PM (avHHk)

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Considering Trump's past interdictions, I suspect he'd bomb the shit out of mullah hiding spots as his retort to mullah shooting of protestors.

And, considering the mullah financing of terrorism around the world, it is in the US interest to see that financing stopped.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at January 02, 2026 01:31 PM (GBKbO)

31 and next, I want Cuba freed

and after (or before) that, I want Venezuela freed

it sucks that NYC has gone commie but we can still help these countries be free of it.

it's all the same war

Posted by: BlackOrchid at January 02, 2026 01:31 PM (emBoF)

32 Well, sadly I think its a given that the Mullahs will start murdering people because thats what they do

Posted by: Skip at January 02, 2026 01:32 PM (Ia/+0)

33 Not a fan of Bannon
Posted by: It's me donna at January 02, 2026 01:30 PM (VE6XX)

It seems most of the 'conservative pundits' have gone off the deep end, for some reason.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 02, 2026 01:32 PM (Zz0t1)

34 28 The people are chanting for the return of the King.

I hope they don't cut the Scouring of the Shire this time.
Posted by: toby928(c) at January 02, 2026 01:31 PM (jc0TO)

Tom Bombadil for Shah!!

Posted by: tubal at January 02, 2026 01:32 PM (pDt9x)

35 The Return of the King. Aragon is back?

There is a Catalan independence movement in Spain. But the Euro-niks threw their leaders in prison so...no, not yet

Posted by: 18-1 at January 02, 2026 01:32 PM (sKqQm)

36 I saw something on the Internet years ago saying that Iran could still be trouble in the Middle East even without the mullahs. They see themselves as the heirs the ancient Persians and might still try to throw their weight around accordingly.

Posted by: Bulg at January 02, 2026 01:32 PM (77rzZ)

37
Bad idea.

Let the Persians figure it out. No way should the US use military power to help either side.

Nope.
Posted by: nurse ratched

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100%. I'm pretty sure they got rid of the Shah on their own. Wasn't it Helpful Westerners who escorted Khomeini back to Tehran?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 02, 2026 01:32 PM (n7rxJ)

38 "the United States of America will come to their rescue."

I guess it all mainly depends on what that exactly means. How do we 'rescue' the Iranian people?

Posted by: gp at January 02, 2026 01:32 PM (GHIyr)

39 Marxist get caught stealing, and they'll justify the crime or say important documents were stolen.

Posted by: thug dolphin at January 02, 2026 01:32 PM (EyfuW)

40 26 Return of the King

Ima get a whopper. And I'll have it my way.

Posted by: Oh noes!! at January 02, 2026 01:32 PM (HcoTw)

41 I don't have an issue with us using remote tech to assist the counter-revolutionaries. Boots on the ground: no way. But I doubt that's what DJT is talking about.

Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at January 02, 2026 01:32 PM (1Nv0l)

42 Bomb bomb bomb......bomb bomb Iran.....

Posted by: Zombie John McCain at January 02, 2026 01:33 PM (Zz0t1)

43 32 Well, sadly I think its a given that the Mullahs will start murdering people because thats what they do
Posted by: Skip at January 02, 2026 01:32 PM (Ia/+0

Pray the Military turns on the Mullahs

Posted by: It's me donna at January 02, 2026 01:33 PM (VE6XX)

44 >Let the Persians figure it out. No way should the US use military power to help either side.
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we could leave a big pile of rifles and grenades somewhere, and maybe the revolutionaries just happen to find it

oops

Posted by: Don Black at January 02, 2026 01:33 PM (ZxPkt)

45 I hope they don't cut the Scouring of the Shire this time.

Stranger Things ended with a similar sort of post the big climax story.

It wasn't nearly as good as Tolkein though.

Posted by: 18-1 at January 02, 2026 01:33 PM (sKqQm)

46 Will the military turn. That's what will decide this.
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Maybe Trump's actually ready to bomb them (again). I think the value here is helping the Iranian military's thought process on "who wants to be the last to die for a lost cause?"

That calculation is a bit different if you're considering a mob in the street or possible US intervention. Particularly if you've got (or had) pals in Venezuela.

Posted by: Methos at January 02, 2026 01:34 PM (vSvIl)

47 Bannon is a weird guy, and somewhat a grifter too

luckily he's also a slob, so PDJT isn't likely to take him very seriously

Posted by: BlackOrchid at January 02, 2026 01:34 PM (emBoF)

48 Considering Trump's past interdictions, I suspect he'd bomb the shit out of mullah hiding spots as his retort to mullah shooting of protestors.

And, considering the mullah financing of terrorism around the world, it is in the US interest to see that financing stopped.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at January 02, 2026 01:31 PM (GBKbO)
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After living through the last forty years of US foreign policy and seeing what happens when we go to war, please forgive my skepticism. I understand your point and even, in a different world, would probably agree with it.

I just have little faith in that happening. It rarely ends with strikes, even if they can be justified. Another damn forever war is more likely.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 02, 2026 01:34 PM (avHHk)

49 Does this count as a land war in Asia?

Posted by: Count Vizzini at January 02, 2026 01:34 PM (7Q0e+)

50 I hope they don't cut the Scouring of the Shire this time.

I'll settle for a flaming Ayatollah running off a cliff

Posted by: Halfhand at January 02, 2026 01:34 PM (edbiH)

51 41 I don't have an issue with us using remote tech to assist the counter-revolutionaries. Boots on the ground: no way. But I doubt that's what DJT is talking about.

Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at January 02, 2026 01:32 PM (1Nv0l)

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We already have 300,000 armed troops in Iran after the Fordow bombing.

Duh.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at January 02, 2026 01:34 PM (GBKbO)

52 Experts agree, Trump will shoot Iranian protesters in the ass.

Posted by: CBS News

The soul of humor is unexpected juxtaposition. This is a good example.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 02, 2026 01:34 PM (Riz8t)

53 NO MORE MULLAHS

Posted by: BlackOrchid

Barbers everywhere will thank you.

Oh, I may have misread that.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at January 02, 2026 01:34 PM (0U5gm)

54
I saw something on the Internet years ago saying that Iran could still be trouble in the Middle East even without the mullahs. They see themselves as the heirs the ancient Persians and might still try to throw their weight around accordingly.
Posted by: Bulg

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As long as they throw their weight our way and not in the direction of China or Pakistan, I'm okay with them being some sort of regional power.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 02, 2026 01:35 PM (n7rxJ)

55 >>I am all for putting pressure on Iran, but there's not *much* more we can do that on that front short of getting into a war.

I heard the same thing before Trump blew up their nuclear program, WWIII was on the horizon. But it wasn't.

Iran has zero potential to exert power. They can't even put down a rebellion of their own, unarmed people. And they sure as hell won't be sending Hezbollah at us from Venezuela, we've got that front covered.

We don't need to send ground troops. We have big, stealthy planes. Removing the mullahs hasn't been this possible since the late 1970s and it would change one of the most troubled regions in the world. I'm ok with killing terrorists.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 02, 2026 01:35 PM (viF8m)

56 I guess it all mainly depends on what that exactly means. How do we 'rescue' the Iranian people?
Posted by: gp at January 02, 2026 01:32 PM (GHIyr)

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It can't be bombing, right? It seems like it the US military would need to get up close and personal with the mullahs.

Posted by: Oglebay at January 02, 2026 01:35 PM (GPa4z)

57 I appreciate her bravely removing her hijab.

Can she bravely remove her COVID mask?

'cuz they look kinda silly.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at January 02, 2026 01:35 PM (2Ez/1)

58 people are chanting for the return of the King.

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They need a DVD, or something?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at January 02, 2026 01:27 PM (GBKbO)

They can go to the theater on Jan 18 for the extended edition.

Posted by: BruceWayne at January 02, 2026 01:35 PM (MGB5H)

59 Trump meets with Netanyahu for 2 days, Iran erupts in protest and chaos. Israel already admitted that the recent bombings of the nuke facilities and the pager explosions were assisted by IRANIANS turning against the regime.

But we still think Trump is suggesting American troops go in country and attack?

Posted by: Zombie John McCain at January 02, 2026 01:35 PM (Zz0t1)

60 48 After living through the last forty years of US foreign policy and seeing what happens when we go to war, please forgive my skepticism. I understand your point and even, in a different world, would probably agree with it.

I just have little faith in that happening. It rarely ends with strikes, even if they can be justified. Another damn forever war is more likely.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 02, 2026 01:34 PM (avHHk)

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If we hadn't lived through this same argument with Solami in Trump's first term and the Fordow site bombing just a few months ago, I'd be more sympathetic.

Except, we know how Trump operates American military power, and it's not invasions and nation building.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at January 02, 2026 01:36 PM (GBKbO)

61 Damn.....

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 02, 2026 01:36 PM (Zz0t1)

62 Too bad they have nothing we want, like cheap flying carpets or something.

Posted by: wth at January 02, 2026 01:36 PM (UjdFS)

63 I kinda want the US/Trump to give the mullahs that final shove over the cliff's edge

this is a generational opportunity
a restored Iran, as a constitutional monarchy, no longer an exporter of terrorism. would be a sea-change in the Middle East

to tell me all the ways I'm wrong, please form a line.

Posted by: Don Black at January 02, 2026 01:36 PM (ZxPkt)

64 thank the Good Lord above for this President

not just an undeserved gift to the United States, but to the entire globe

Posted by: kallisto at January 02, 2026 01:36 PM (dCxaZ)

65 Let's just make sure the 'rescue' doesn't go the way our rescue of the people of Iraq went.

Posted by: gp at January 02, 2026 01:36 PM (GHIyr)

66 If the clerics are deposed in Iran, a whole lot of antisemitism is going to be defunded.

Fuck those bitches.

Posted by: Magic-Users, Fighters, and Thieves at January 02, 2026 01:37 PM (FDqrU)

67 Another damn forever war is more likely.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)

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I think highly unlikely. The nation has zero appetite for this. Times have changed. Radically. Our pointless adventures in Iraq and Afghanistan saw to that.

Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at January 02, 2026 01:37 PM (1Nv0l)

68 we could leave a big pile of rifles and grenades somewhere, and maybe the revolutionaries just happen to find it

Near the end of Shrub's run, after Iran had been identified as not only arming and controlling "the Iraqi resistance" but that Iranian special forces had entered Iraq and killed American soldiers, some in the Bush admin considered giving aid to MEK, which is an independence movement in Iran.

You'll be shocked to learn the angle that the FNM decided to cover this was that Shrub was going to arm terrorists and this of course got his people to back down.

Posted by: 18-1 at January 02, 2026 01:37 PM (sKqQm)

69 Thank you for your attention to this matter!
Never gets old

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 02, 2026 01:38 PM (xT8gx)

70 Not our fight. Godspeed Iranian people.

Stay out of this.

Posted by: thathalfrican - The One at January 02, 2026 01:38 PM (eZwyX)

71 Don Black you are not wrong

You are probably underselling the global benefits to a free Persia

Posted by: BlackOrchid at January 02, 2026 01:38 PM (emBoF)

72 10 Bad idea.

Let the Persians figure it out. No way should the US use military power to help either side.

Nope.
Posted by: nurse ratched at January 02, 2026 01:28 PM (W2Pud)

I don't want to assume that just because prior administrations did a piss-poor job in taking out the people that should have been taken out that the lesson should be no foreign interventions ever. The Mullahs of Iran have been an unalloyed bad thing for America and for the world. They were directly responsible for the deaths and maimings of thousands of our soldiers over the decades - this is not in any sort of dispute, like the search for WMDs.

If we can help the Iranian people get free from the mullahs, I think we should. By the way, they wouldn't have had to deal with this if Jimmy Carter had left them alone in the first place, when he opened the door wide open to let Ayatollah Khomeini in to run the place in the 70s. I say we owe them.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at January 02, 2026 01:38 PM (0CU3H)

73 67 Another damn forever war is more likely.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)

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I think highly unlikely. The nation has zero appetite for this. Times have changed. Radically. Our pointless adventures in Iraq and Afghanistan saw to that.

Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at January 02, 2026 01:37 PM (1Nv0l)

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Despite the entire establishment's need for America to be directly involved in Ukraine, we never sent a single soldier (in the open) even during Biden's presidency.

The forever war specter is going to haunt American foreign policy for a long time, but I don't think it's an immediate concern.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at January 02, 2026 01:38 PM (GBKbO)

74 Bad idea.

Let the Persians figure it out. No way should the US use military power to help either side.

Nope."

fuck that. we owe them for lebanon. some toasted mulluhs would be a nice start.

Posted by: 5 miles to nowhere at January 02, 2026 01:38 PM (G+z4C)

75 It can't be bombing, right? It seems like it the US military would need to get up close and personal with the mullahs.

I seriously doubt the mullah boltholes are even better protected underground than their nuke program was, so I suppose a few bunker busters would be efficacious.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 02, 2026 01:38 PM (Riz8t)

76 Can she bravely remove her COVID mask?

'cuz they look kinda silly.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty

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Mask is probably in hope that she remains anonymous.

Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at January 02, 2026 01:39 PM (1Nv0l)

77 But please, no boots on the ground for this one.

Posted by: Eromero at January 02, 2026 01:39 PM (Slgjz)

78 It can't be bombing, right? It seems like it the US military would need to get up close and personal with the mullahs.

Look at the Serbian model.

The US caused regime change in Serbia by specifically targeting their elites, their infrastructure, and their economy.

It is interesting that in the years since then we've never tried that model again.

Posted by: 18-1 at January 02, 2026 01:39 PM (sKqQm)

79 Indiana just scored again

Posted by: Mick at January 02, 2026 01:39 PM (HFx9z)

80 "It seems like it the US military would need to get up close and personal with the mullahs."

Mossad and Shin Bet and IDF haven't been able to kill them yet, apparently, so I'm not sure we'd do any better.

Posted by: gp at January 02, 2026 01:39 PM (GHIyr)

81 The Iranian regime is awful and monstrous, but where is the US benefit to intervening?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 02, 2026 01:30 PM (avHHk)
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If we help the Iranians depose the Mullahs even with token efforts it could lead to the US having a long-term strategic ally in the Middle East that isn't Israel, and more importantly wouldn't be a Muslim-led monarchy like the rest of the fucksticks we pay off over there so we can move about freely.

Posted by: ballistic at January 02, 2026 01:40 PM (5aZAZ)

82 I appreciate her bravely removing her hijab.

Can she bravely remove her COVID mask?

'cuz they look kinda silly.

You're not fooling anyone, you know. What you mean is you want her to bravely remove her top.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 02, 2026 01:40 PM (Riz8t)

83 If we hadn't lived through this same argument with Solami in Trump's first term and the Fordow site bombing just a few months ago, I'd be more sympathetic.

Except, we know how Trump operates American military power, and it's not invasions and nation building.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at January 02, 2026 01:36 PM (GBKbO)
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Trump does appear to have a different playbook, yes - but those are different circumstances.

There is a world of difference between a surgical strike - individual people, individual facilities, etc. - in pursuit of a fixed objective (reduction in force efficacy, removal of military or research infrastructure, etc.) and strikes to topple a regime.

The mullahs *should* topple. Iran is an evil state that foments and then sponsors and directly engages in extranational conflicts. But if *we* topple them, then what? Will the ability to resist "nation building" hold up? Color me skeptical. Even if Trump just wants to strike the mullahs and let the Persians pick up the pieces, will Congress and the military go along with that?

The whole thing strikes me as fraught with peril.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 02, 2026 01:40 PM (avHHk)

84 Oh and another point here - you need boots on the ground if you want to conquer land.

But you don't need any boots on the ground to inflict sufficient pain on a target when you can use bombs, missiles and drones.

Posted by: 18-1 at January 02, 2026 01:41 PM (sKqQm)

85 The people are chanting for the return of the King.

Remember what happened to our support for your father's regime, young Reza, when he started getting 'ideas'...

Posted by: The Langley Color Revolutionary Guard at January 02, 2026 01:41 PM (ZKbri)

86 Indiana just scored again
Posted by: Mick at January 02, 2026 01:39 PM (HFx9z)

Texas Tech is stapling up posters looking for it's lost offense.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 02, 2026 01:41 PM (Zz0t1)

87 The Iranian regime is awful and monstrous, but where is the US benefit to intervening?

Iran regularly murders Americans?

Posted by: 18-1 at January 02, 2026 01:41 PM (sKqQm)

88 The whole thing strikes me as fraught with peril.

cool

still worth doing

on X there are reports of the people accessing a weapons depot. oh and the streets of Tehran are full.

Posted by: BlackOrchid at January 02, 2026 01:42 PM (emBoF)

89 The mullahs and their tanks are rolling toward the unarmed protestors when straight out of the setting sun comes a squadron of A-10 Thunderbolt IIs.

Posted by: Oglebay at January 02, 2026 01:42 PM (GPa4z)

90 Leave the army alone, pound the IRCG with cruise missiles. We owe those fuckers.

Posted by: toby928(c) at January 02, 2026 01:42 PM (jc0TO)

91 Let's just make sure the 'rescue' doesn't go the way our rescue of the people of Iraq went.
Posted by: gp
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Operation Iraqi Freedom.
Operation Iranian Freedom.

Potato, Potahto.

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at January 02, 2026 01:42 PM (22p5n)

92 NO MORE MULLAHS

Posted by: BlackOrchid

Barbers everywhere will thank you.

Oh, I may have misread that.
Posted by: Thomas Paine
.......

Maybe not. Maybe that's why they wear turbans.

Posted by: wth at January 02, 2026 01:42 PM (UjdFS)

93 on X there are reports of the people accessing a weapons depot. oh and the streets of Tehran are full.
Posted by: BlackOrchid at January 02, 2026 01:42 PM (emBoF)
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Good. I hope they topple the mullahs and purge the remaining government down to the last man.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 02, 2026 01:42 PM (avHHk)

94 90 Leave the army alone, pound the IRCG with cruise missiles. We owe those fuckers.

well said! great thought

Posted by: BlackOrchid at January 02, 2026 01:42 PM (emBoF)

95 Texas Tech is stapling up posters looking for it's lost offense.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer

Soresby is visiting there this weekends. Appears his list is TT and LSU.

Posted by: BruceWayne at January 02, 2026 01:42 PM (MGB5H)

96 Watching unarmed Iranian protesters being chased in the streets by security forces shooting at them reinforces my absolute support of the Second Amendment.

Posted by: Citizen Cake at January 02, 2026 01:43 PM (CwhoI)

97 Notre Dame has declined next season's bowl games.

Posted by: toby928(c) at January 02, 2026 01:43 PM (jc0TO)

98 83 The mullahs *should* topple. Iran is an evil state that foments and then sponsors and directly engages in extranational conflicts. But if *we* topple them, then what? Will the ability to resist "nation building" hold up? Color me skeptical. Even if Trump just wants to strike the mullahs and let the Persians pick up the pieces, will Congress and the military go along with that?

The whole thing strikes me as fraught with peril.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 02, 2026 01:40 PM (avHHk)

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Congress ain't declaring war. The military is so cowed by Trump that the NYT was writing op-eds bemoaning it.

And at this point, I'm not sure more than the threat of surgical strikes isn't enough. The Iranian Guard hears that Trump, the guy who destroyed their secured, hundreds of feet below the ground, nuclear facility in one night is threatening them if they fire on protestors? And the protests and civil war are spreading? That's incentive.

One shot at protestors responded with a secure mullah hideout going poof is even more.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at January 02, 2026 01:43 PM (GBKbO)

99 but where is the US benefit to intervening?
Posted by: Joe Mannix
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The answer is ending a lot of unrest in the Middle East and isolating Venezuela even more.

A warning that some unspecified actions will occur if country X does something nasty has a long history in US and other countries foreign policies.

Trump prefers economic action but does not hesitate to pull the trigger on military actions where we have strategic advantage. Like against the Houthis while Biden junta types vacillated between do nothing and pinprick raids.

No one is talking boots on the ground in Iran but taking down helicopters, jets, tanks, drone factories, and barracks of secret police that are killing protesters is well within our capabilities.

Also disrupting regime comms.

Posted by: whig at January 02, 2026 01:43 PM (WDjG6)

100 The mullahs *should* topple. Iran is an evil state that foments and then sponsors and directly engages in extranational conflicts. But if *we* topple them, then what? Will the ability to resist "nation building" hold up? Color me skeptical. Even if Trump just wants to strike the mullahs and let the Persians pick up the pieces, will Congress and the military go along with that?

The whole thing strikes me as fraught with peril.

It's also important to remember that Iran's population has long had a strong Communist element, who might be well positioned when the mullahs fall. Just something else to worry about.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 02, 2026 01:43 PM (Riz8t)

101 We've had 5 years of Trump's military decisions. How many countries has he invaded with troops?

He prefers bombing and cruise missiles. He's not going to start a land war in Iran. It is the complete opposite of what he does. His foreign policy including military operations is the opposite of what we've had for the last 5 or 6 decades.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 02, 2026 01:43 PM (viF8m)

102 Operation Iraqi Freedom.
Operation Iranian Freedom.

You don't need hundreds of thousands of soldiers if you have thousands of bombs and a willingness to use them on the right targets.

Posted by: 18-1 at January 02, 2026 01:43 PM (sKqQm)

103 Jews have become the new (old?) Global Warming. Anything that happens or doesn't happen the way certain people want, it's The Jooz™.

Posted by: And they call US bigots... at January 02, 2026 01:43 PM (TbWk/)

104 Obama removed the missile defense systems from Central Europe. Iran has the reach to hit Central Europe. I wonder how long before we see this threat in order to keep the US in check?
I wonder how hard my President will laugh?

Posted by: Diogenes at January 02, 2026 01:44 PM (2WIwB)

105 84 Oh and another point here - you need boots on the ground if you want to conquer land.

But you don't need any boots on the ground to inflict sufficient pain on a target when you can use bombs, missiles and drones.

Posted by: 18-1 at January 02, 2026 01:41 PM (sKqQm)

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Topple the regime with some bombs and then use aggressive diplomatic engagement to ensure positive outcomes. That feels like Trumpism in action.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at January 02, 2026 01:44 PM (GBKbO)

106 Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at January 02, 2026 01:38 PM (GBKbO)

People are fed up with the administration doing anything internationally when things are so bad at home.

Posted by: thathalfrican - The One at January 02, 2026 01:44 PM (eZwyX)

107 I want everything JEF ever did to be transformed into a carnival of failure. Not his desired failure of western civilization, no the complete collapse of his every gayass dream.

And then I want his ugly chicago cathedral to to be taken over by MAGA and have little oomploompas dressed as trump, pretty close already if you think about it, orange hair and all, just ripping him all day long. Songs and rides.

Do to them what they do to every historic site. Take it over and wear its carved out husk as a skin suit to mount further attacks.

Posted by: banana Dream at January 02, 2026 01:44 PM (3uBP9)

108 NO MORE MULLAHS

Posted by: BlackOrchid

*Hello mullahs,
Hello fatwas,
Here I am
At Camp Chautauqua*

-- Hmmmmm. Needs some more work.
Zombie Allan Sherman

Posted by: Tonypete at January 02, 2026 01:45 PM (cYBz/)

109 You know the Leftists will fight for their allies the Mullahs

Posted by: Skip at January 02, 2026 01:45 PM (Ia/+0)

110 The mullahs and their tanks are rolling toward the unarmed protestors when straight out of the setting sun comes a squadron of A-10 Thunderbolt IIs.

Posted by: Oglebay

You were pleasuring yourself when you typed that, weren't you.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 02, 2026 01:45 PM (Riz8t)

111 If the US comes to the protester's aid in Iran does it open the possibility that the EU/UK with their Islamic friends in charge would oppose us?

Either there in Iran, or elsewhere...

I'd like to see what the Polymarket has to say about that...

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 02, 2026 01:45 PM (NwnyJ)

112 People are fed up with the administration doing anything internationally when things are so bad at home.
Posted by: thathalfrican
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This^

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at January 02, 2026 01:45 PM (22p5n)

113 Iran was the second majority-Muslim country (after Turkey) to recognize the State of Israel.

Not saying that a new revolution would change the political landscape overnight, but foreign adventurism (including current Persian meddling in Central America, the Caribbean, and SA) would be significantly reduced.

Posted by: mrp at January 02, 2026 01:45 PM (rj6Yv)

114 One shot at protestors responded with a secure mullah hideout going poof is even more.

Solzhenitsyn: "And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family?"

Now replace some Russian civilian with an old rifle waiting to ambush you with an explosive drone hitting your security facility the math still checks out.

Posted by: 18-1 at January 02, 2026 01:46 PM (sKqQm)

115 I've never paid much attention to Steve Bannon. He might be a smart guy but struck me as an egomaniacal "populist" . Everything sucks , you're all fools and only I can save you. No thx

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 02, 2026 01:46 PM (zNwXb)

116 106 Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at January 02, 2026 01:38 PM (GBKbO)

People are fed up with the administration doing anything internationally when things are so bad at home.

Posted by: thathalfrican - The One at January 02, 2026 01:44 PM (eZwyX)

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This is fucking nonsense.

"Why do American diplomats negotiate with foreign countries when we have illegal immigrants in America?!"

Is the entire foreign policy apparatus of the United States supposed to shut down until America is a domestic utopia?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at January 02, 2026 01:46 PM (GBKbO)

117 Notre Dame has declined next season's bowl games.
Posted by: toby928(c) at January 02, 2026 01:43 PM (jc0TO)

Notre Dame has submitted a formal protest for not being invited automatically to the 2026 CFP.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 02, 2026 01:46 PM (Zz0t1)

118 102 Operation Iraqi Freedom.
Operation Iranian Freedom.

You don't need hundreds of thousands of soldiers if you have thousands of bombs and a willingness to use them on the right targets.
Posted by: 18-1 at January 02, 2026 01:43 PM (sKqQm)

So who's first after we hit New York, Dearborn, and Minneapolis-St. Paul?

Posted by: Death from within or from above at January 02, 2026 01:46 PM (TbWk/)

119 "a willingness to use them on the right targets."

I guess that's the part we've been getting wrong for seven decades.

Posted by: gp at January 02, 2026 01:46 PM (GHIyr)

120 Fvcker Carlson is ready to put on her hijab and protest Trump and Zionist's everywhere!

Posted by: runner at January 02, 2026 01:46 PM (cmmSn)

121 112 Concur.

Posted by: gp at January 02, 2026 01:47 PM (GHIyr)

122 111 If the US comes to the protester's aid in Iran does it open the possibility that the EU/UK with their Islamic friends in charge would oppose us?

Either there in Iran, or elsewhere...

I'd like to see what the Polymarket has to say about that...

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 02, 2026 01:45 PM (NwnyJ)

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With what?

A couple of half-gassed up choppers and promises to buy more sanctioned Iranian oil if the mullahs win?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at January 02, 2026 01:47 PM (GBKbO)

123 ... No one is talking boots on the ground in Iran but taking down helicopters, jets, tanks, drone factories, and barracks of secret police that are killing protesters is well within our capabilities.

Also disrupting regime comms.
Posted by: whig at January 02, 2026 01:43 PM (WDjG6)
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I dig all that and absent a damn near uninterrupted 40-year run of failing to do that kind of thing, I'd be more inclined to agree.

Yeah, Congress won't be declaring war and the changes in military leadership have also changed some assumptions, but the US government - and its hangers-on in the MIC, the NGOs, etc. - is a very big place with its own objectives.

The problem, I suppose, is that I have zero faith - none, at all - in the ability to resist a big, juicy, long-running disaster and all the opportunities such would present. Working on his own, I would probably be inclined to trust Trump's gut on this - but he isn't working on his own. There's a big complex out there, and it has never met anything beneficial to Americans that it wants to pursue.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 02, 2026 01:47 PM (avHHk)

124 Anything that destabilizes the muslim colonial oppressors in the Middle East is a good thing.

Better they fight each other over there than fighting us over here.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 02, 2026 01:47 PM (prbfg)

125 Congress ain't declaring war. The military is so cowed by Trump that the NYT was writing op-eds bemoaning it.

And at this point, I'm not sure more than the threat of surgical strikes isn't enough. The Iranian Guard hears that Trump, the guy who destroyed their secured, hundreds of feet below the ground, nuclear facility in one night is threatening them if they fire on protestors? And the protests and civil war are spreading? That's incentive.

One shot at protestors responded with a secure mullah hideout going poof is even more.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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Congress won't declare war because of all the war powers it would trigger in existing statutes including wage and price controls, power over labor unions, and so on. It also generally allows based on past precedent, conscription if necessary. Plus sending troops to domestic cities if necessary, allowing foreign nationals to be expelled or interned, and allowing martial law in situations.

There is a reason that the US has only declared a few wars. And yet, even way back to the early administrations, significant military action was undertaken without such a declaration.

Want the history of it, read Lou Fisher.

Posted by: whig at January 02, 2026 01:47 PM (WDjG6)

126 I mean Trump has smoked a few drug boats and blown up what is presumably some drug manufacturing facility in Venezuela and already Maduro has decided "no mas" and wants to talk turkey.

What would lead one to believe that Trump wouldn't employ the same strategy against the Iranian regime?

Posted by: ballistic at January 02, 2026 01:47 PM (5aZAZ)

127 Will the ability to resist "nation building" hold up?
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)

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I think so. In this regard, Trump is almost diametrically opposite to the Bushes.

He thinks very little of the advice he receives from the permanent bureaucracy. He never met a war he didn't loathe. He has a healthy disrespect for just about everywhere else on the planet.

Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at January 02, 2026 01:47 PM (1Nv0l)

128 That's a good point

the US, thanks to dead president Carter, is at least partially responsible for the islamic revolution in Iran in 1979

'we' said nothing when they were pushing out the Shah
'we' said nice things about Khomeini

so we have a chance to correct a huge fuck-up

Posted by: Don Black at January 02, 2026 01:47 PM (ZxPkt)

129 The whole thing strikes me as fraught with peril.

Yup.
Remember, Iran is BIG! Huge area and hard to do much there without significant resources in the region.
And as with any revolt, it will ebb and flow. Right now I'd call it 50/50.

Posted by: Diogenes at January 02, 2026 01:47 PM (2WIwB)

130 We all want the story to end just the way we want it to. Politicians in our past sell us on a rosy outcome, but for the last 75 years they have been a little off, you could say. Beware of The Big Show is my take.

Posted by: tubal at January 02, 2026 01:48 PM (pDt9x)

131 Sorry, I just started reading the last stand of fox company and feeling foolishly martial.

Posted by: Oglebay at January 02, 2026 01:48 PM (GPa4z)

132

A brave woman in Iran publicly removes her hijab.

modern feminists in the West don the hijab.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 02, 2026 01:48 PM (pkeXY)

133 Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at January 02, 2026 01:46 PM (GBKbO)

Optics matter. Has ANYONE been arrested or held accountable for; covid, J6 or the fraud being found everywhere?

Retribution and accountability is what people want.

Posted by: thathalfrican - The One at January 02, 2026 01:48 PM (eZwyX)

134 125 Congress won't declare war because of all the war powers it would trigger in existing statutes including wage and price controls, power over labor unions, and so on. It also generally allows based on past precedent, conscription if necessary. Plus sending troops to domestic cities if necessary, allowing foreign nationals to be expelled or interned, and allowing martial law in situations.

There is a reason that the US has only declared a few wars. And yet, even way back to the early administrations, significant military action was undertaken without such a declaration.

Want the history of it, read Lou Fisher.

Posted by: whig at January 02, 2026 01:47 PM (WDjG6)

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They won't even address the 2001 AUMF again. They won't expand it to include Iran.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at January 02, 2026 01:48 PM (GBKbO)

135 “The people are chanting for return of the king.”

(Xerxes’s heavy breathing)

Posted by: Cray Cray at January 02, 2026 01:48 PM (0lkAt)

136 "No one is talking boots on the ground"

We're talking about what 'rescue' means. I don't see any explicit exclusion of any particular tactics.

Posted by: gp at January 02, 2026 01:49 PM (GHIyr)

137 Anything that destabilizes the muslim colonial oppressors in the Middle East is a good thing.

Better they fight each other over there than fighting us over here.
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But, we will have to fight them over here.

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at January 02, 2026 01:49 PM (22p5n)

138 People are fed up with the administration doing anything internationally when things are so bad at

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Lol

Posted by: runner at January 02, 2026 01:49 PM (cmmSn)

139 No you cannot have any peril, it's too perilous.

Posted by: Sir Lancelot at January 02, 2026 01:49 PM (TbWk/)

140 Yup.
Remember, Iran is BIG! Huge area and hard to do much there without significant resources in the region.
And as with any revolt, it will ebb and flow. Right now I'd call it 50/50.

Kharg Island. You don't need to hit the whole country.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 02, 2026 01:50 PM (Riz8t)

141 No one is talking boots on the ground in Iran but taking down helicopters, jets, tanks, drone factories, and barracks of secret police that are killing protesters is well within our capabilities.

Also disrupting regime comms.

After the first Gulf War the US sort of told the Shiite Iraqis that we would support them if they rose up against Saddam...and they did.

But when it looked like that might have toppled Saddam we decided not to. Now, that was a tough decision...because that could have led to an Iraq-Iran alliance. But...it was a real concern that both the US Nat Sec people and Saddam had that a little bit of support would have enabled the protestors/rebels to overthrow the government...

Posted by: 18-1 at January 02, 2026 01:50 PM (sKqQm)

142 We've had 5 years of Trump's military decisions. How many countries has he invaded with troops?

He prefers bombing and cruise missiles.

Against stateless intelligence operations, yes, he hits them hard. For souvereign countries, I think he prefers tariffs and trade agreements.

Posted by: t-bird at January 02, 2026 01:50 PM (xZEBF)

143 “The people are chanting for return of the king.”

The King is a fink!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 02, 2026 01:50 PM (Zz0t1)

144 133 Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at January 02, 2026 01:46 PM (GBKbO)

Optics matter. Has ANYONE been arrested or held accountable for; covid, J6 or the fraud being found everywhere?

Retribution and accountability is what people want.

Posted by: thathalfrican - The One at January 02, 2026 01:48 PM (eZwyX)

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If you're complaining about optics, you're not complaining about anything real.

The executive branch is huge and can do a million things at once. Shutting down the diplomatic branch and the military isn't going to make the DOJ run any faster.

Seriously, you're arguing for a complete shutdown of all foreign policy until Fauci is in jail. That's just unrealistic. Might as well ask for unicorns.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at January 02, 2026 01:50 PM (GBKbO)

145 This is fucking nonsense.

"Why do American diplomats negotiate with foreign countries when we have illegal immigrants in America?!"

Is the entire foreign policy apparatus of the United States supposed to shut down until America is a domestic utopia?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at January 02, 2026 01:46 PM (GBKbO)

THIS. We can talk and chew gum at the same time, folks. The world doesn't stop because we have domestic issues to solve. As properly nationalistic as the world is getting, we still live in an interconnected world, and we still need to be involved in it. It's a Dem talking point that Trump needs to now devote all of his efforts on 'affordability' and such. At various times in last year's news cycle, the 'most important thing' that Trump had to deal with changed dramatically. First it was Gaza. Then it was the Iran missile program, then it was UKR. As Trump has handled each problem, the MFM moves on to yet another issue that Trump has to devote his full attention to. Stop. We have a big government. They can handle lots of different things at the same time. They simply needed a leader that actually handles it.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at January 02, 2026 01:50 PM (0CU3H)

146 Considering Trump's past interdictions, I suspect he'd bomb the shit out of mullah hiding spots as his retort to mullah shooting of protestors.

And, considering the mullah financing of terrorism around the world, it is in the US interest to see that financing stopped.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at January 02, 2026 01:31 PM (GBKbO)

Apparently Tehran has a "clerical district", where most of the boss mullahs reside. Bomb the shit out of that, and bomb the shit out of known Revolutionary Guard bases. Leave the regular Army and Navy alone. Let them know if they help to topple the mullahs, and declare loyalty to the new Shah, they can go on living.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 02, 2026 01:51 PM (8zz6B)

147 Sorry, I just started reading the last stand of fox company and feeling foolishly martial.
Posted by: Oglebay

That is a great book.

Posted by: Tonypete at January 02, 2026 01:51 PM (cYBz/)

148 Why isn't Trump doing anything domestically about THE PRICE OF EGGZ!11

Posted by: runner at January 02, 2026 01:51 PM (cmmSn)

149 Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at January 02, 2026 01:49 PM (22p5n)

Yep. They’re already here and in every state.

Posted by: thathalfrican - The One at January 02, 2026 01:51 PM (eZwyX)

150 People are fed up with the administration doing anything internationally when things are so bad at

If Trump does a Shrub he will lose a ton of support.

Of course he's repeatedly had the option to do a Shrub in VZ, Syria, and other places and so far has wisely not done so.

Posted by: 18-1 at January 02, 2026 01:51 PM (sKqQm)

151 Optics matter. Has ANYONE been arrested or held accountable for; covid, J6 or the fraud being found everywhere?

Retribution and accountability is what people want.
Posted by: thathalfrican
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There will be hearings, so TPTB will have their optics of being seen as doing something (and to fundraise off it).

As far as actual justice, we'll have to wait for Jesus' return for that.

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at January 02, 2026 01:51 PM (22p5n)

152 120 Fvcker Carlson is ready to put on her hijab and protest Trump and Zionist's everywhere!
Posted by: runner
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His money will be cut off if Qatar no longer has Iran as a patron as Iran's window to the rest of the world.

The Al Thani family is a bunch of double dealers that took over instigating problems around the world since the Wahhabis in Saudi were corralled after 9/11 and even further when bin Salmans gained power in Saudi land displacing the presumed crown prince.

Posted by: whig at January 02, 2026 01:51 PM (WDjG6)

153 Kharg Island. You don't need to hit the whole country.

kaaarrrrrrggggggg!

Posted by: Admiral Kirk at January 02, 2026 01:51 PM (HcoTw)

154 Kharg Island. You don't need to hit the whole country.
Posted by: Archimedes at January 02, 2026 01:50 PM (Riz8t)

Pretty sure it's on the target list.

Posted by: Diogenes at January 02, 2026 01:51 PM (2WIwB)

155 142 Against stateless intelligence operations, yes, he hits them hard. For souvereign countries, I think he prefers tariffs and trade agreements.

Posted by: t-bird at January 02, 2026 01:50 PM (xZEBF)

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We also have Fordow.

I was assured, in these very comments, that Trump had miscalculated and the bombing of Fordow would lead to a land war in Iran with 300,000 American soldiers fighting for every inch of ground.

Iran responded by a couple of missile strikes that missed their targets.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at January 02, 2026 01:52 PM (GBKbO)

156 Tom Bombadil for Shah!!
Posted by: tubal at January 02, 2026 01:32 PM (pDt9x)

Can't be bothered ... bangin' Goldberry

#wouldntyou

Posted by: zombie JRR Tolkien at January 02, 2026 01:52 PM (3sXRv)

157 Stop. We have a big government. They can handle lots of different things at the same time.

Not daycare centers apparently.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 02, 2026 01:52 PM (Riz8t)

158 Anything that happens or doesn't happen the way certain people want, it's The Jooz™.
Posted by: And they call US bigots...
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It's been that way since well before old Adolf developed his theories.

Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at January 02, 2026 01:52 PM (1Nv0l)

159
62 Too bad they have nothing we want, like cheap flying carpets or something.
Posted by: wth at January 02, 2026 01:36 PM (UjdFS)

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They have oil, which the CCP wants. I want the CCP not to have it.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at January 02, 2026 01:52 PM (azNOR)

160 Remember the saying, "Whiskey's for drinking, water's for fighting."

Iran has no whiskey and is running real short on water.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 02, 2026 01:52 PM (prbfg)

161 It is interesting that in the years since then we've never tried that model again.

The purpose of American involvement is never to end conflict. it is to monetize it for the beltway. They learned their lesson.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at January 02, 2026 01:52 PM (EXyHK)

162 Apparently Tehran has a "clerical district", where most of the boss mullahs reside. Bomb the shit out of that, and bomb the shit out of known Revolutionary Guard bases.

I remember being shocked that Tikrit was still standing after a few years of the Iraq war. Of course that's before it became clear to me that Shrub had no interest in winning the conflict.

Posted by: 18-1 at January 02, 2026 01:52 PM (sKqQm)

163 "Kharg Island. You don't need to hit the whole country."

Sounds like a cakewalk.

Posted by: gp at January 02, 2026 01:52 PM (GHIyr)

164 Let the Persians figure it out. No way should the US use military power to help either side.

Nope.
Posted by: nurse ratched

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Yes, but. The world is not that simple. Both China and Russia will be picking sides and so we can not just walk away.

No boots is a good starting point, but intelligence, occasional bombs, some money,... may be prudent to insure it is the Iranians and not the Chinese sorting it out.

Posted by: Mrs. Santa's unclean sister at January 02, 2026 01:52 PM (aTta8)

165 Just the other day it was announced that the Navy stopped a Chinese ship last November that was taking ballistic missile components to Iran.

Should we not have done that either? She we just continue to allow Iran to build their ballistic and nuclear capabilities while remaining the world's largest state sponsor of terrorism including in Venezuela?

The idea that Trump can't and isn't both focused on foreign policy and domestic is silly. His domestic accomplishments in year 1 are historical. And foreign policy often is domestic policy. It isn't an either or question. It's both.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 02, 2026 01:53 PM (viF8m)

166 137 Anything that destabilizes the muslim colonial oppressors in the Middle East is a good thing.

Better they fight each other over there than fighting us over here.
___

But, we will have to fight them over here.
Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at January 02, 2026 01:49 PM (22p5n)

Not all battles are fought with bullets. Sometimes they're fought with infiltration, disruption, soft colonization, political capture, and various forms of fraud. Which is what's been happening to us here at home right under our noses, with comfort and support given to them by our own government.

Posted by: Recycled GWB slogans won't cut it at January 02, 2026 01:53 PM (TbWk/)

167 Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at January 02, 2026 01:50 PM (GBKbO

You know as well as I do that optics matter. It’ll be how the midterms are framed.

Fair or not, people want as much, if not more, perceived action/attention overseas at home.

Posted by: thathalfrican - The One at January 02, 2026 01:53 PM (eZwyX)

168 The Iranian regime is awful and monstrous, but where is the US benefit to intervening?

Biggest state sponsor of terrorism in the world. Manufactured most of the IED's that killed so many U.S. troops during the Second Gulf War (with near-impunity, if I recollect aright).
Continues to fund proxies in the ME who, among other things, pose a threat to our principal ally, Israel, and are a destabilizing influence in countries like Lebanon.
And, my favorite reason, there are sumbitches in the world who just plain need killing. And if this can be done expeditiously without U.S, ground troops, why the hell wouldn't we do it?

Posted by: Paco at January 02, 2026 01:53 PM (2L+MU)

169 The irony is that the neocons wanted to "democratize" Iraq to show the other muzzies what they were missing. Instead it was handed to Iran.

Now it is Iran showing the other muzzies the art of the possible (maybe).

Posted by: Mrs. Santa's unclean sister at January 02, 2026 01:54 PM (aTta8)

170 I'm sure we have contacts on the ground there as does Israel..

Posted by: It's me donna at January 02, 2026 01:54 PM (VE6XX)

171 Both China and Russia will be picking sides and so we can not just walk away.

We were discussing that this morning on Buck's thread. If the Chinese or Russkis decide to send in their troops and equipment at the invite of the mullahs, things can get spicy in a real hurry.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 02, 2026 01:54 PM (Riz8t)

172 143 “The people are chanting for return of the king.”

The King is a fink!
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 02, 2026 01:50 PM (Zz0t1)

The Lone Haranguer Johnson is right!

Posted by: We old people remember the classics at January 02, 2026 01:55 PM (TbWk/)

173 Not all battles are fought with bullets. Sometimes they're fought with infiltration, disruption, soft colonization, political capture, and various forms of fraud. Which is what's been happening to us here at home right under our noses, with comfort and support given to them by our own government.
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Yeah, was thinking this while watching the inauguration of NYC's new mayor.

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at January 02, 2026 01:55 PM (22p5n)

174 167 Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at January 02, 2026 01:50 PM (GBKbO

You know as well as I do that optics matter. It’ll be how the midterms are framed.

Fair or not, people want as much, if not more, perceived action/attention overseas at home.

Posted by: thathalfrican - The One at January 02, 2026 01:53 PM (eZwyX)

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The idea that the Trump admin is passive at home with 600,000 forced inland deportations is asinine.

The idea that Republicans won't turn out because 1/6 committee people weren't arrested is outright stupid.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at January 02, 2026 01:55 PM (GBKbO)

175 Optics matter. Has ANYONE been arrested or held accountable for; covid, J6 or the fraud being found everywhere?

These things SHOULD be done, but I suspect they won't. There are improvements - RFK has been slowly dismantling the COVID crap for example, but no it doesn't look like Fauci and co are going in the dock.

But...this has nothing to do with what we should be doing in regards to foreign policy. Well, outside of screwing China any way we can for COVID

Posted by: 18-1 at January 02, 2026 01:55 PM (sKqQm)

176 "Kharg Island. You don't need to hit the whole country."

Sounds like a cakewalk.

Taking out Kharg would be. Managing the consequences probably wouldn't.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 02, 2026 01:56 PM (Riz8t)

177 How do things like regime change happen????

Posted by: Slowly, the all at once at January 02, 2026 01:56 PM (JFpzi)

178 Obama removed the missile defense systems from Central Europe. Iran has the reach to hit Central Europe. I wonder how long before we see this threat in order to keep the US in check?
I wonder how hard my President will laugh?
Posted by: Diogenes at January 02, 2026 01:44 PM (2WIwB)
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During W. terms, Iranian missile threat maps were often published in the MSM and in trade journals. Russian, PRC, and NK teams have, no doubt, improved the guidance systems since then. Chemical and biological warheads are the main concern.

Posted by: mrp at January 02, 2026 01:56 PM (rj6Yv)

179 But when it looked like that might have toppled Saddam we decided not to. Now, that was a tough decision...because that could have led to an Iraq-Iran alliance. But...it was a real concern that both the US Nat Sec people and Saddam had that a little bit of support would have enabled the protestors/rebels to overthrow the government...
Posted by: 18-1 at January 02, 2026 01:50 PM (sKqQm)
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Yes, we chose "stability" and then had to run no-fly zones for the next 2o years.

Oh, and betrayed the Kurds. Yet again.

The mullahs declared war on us. Many times. Payback is a good thing, especially when delivered from 30,000 feet with impunity.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 02, 2026 01:56 PM (ZOv7s)

180 My guess, and could be wrong, that Tucker has been to the Mosque today

Posted by: Skip at January 02, 2026 01:56 PM (Ia/+0)

181 We shouldn't do anything that might harm our relationship with our European allies.

Hahaha hahaha! I couldn't even type that without laughing.

Posted by: Wally at January 02, 2026 01:56 PM (65cLN)

182 How much fun will it be when Iran offers up the real Osama bin Laden?

And proof that Obama knew he wasn't really dead?

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 02, 2026 01:56 PM (prbfg)

183 Oh, and the fraud being found everywhere?

You know how it was found out?

A MN US attorney having a press conference about the people he was arresting and indicting for the fraud while saying that more people were coming.

Seriously.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at January 02, 2026 01:57 PM (GBKbO)

184 >>We were discussing that this morning on Buck's thread. If the Chinese or Russkis decide to send in their troops and equipment at the invite of the mullahs, things can get spicy in a real hurry.

As I just said above China is sending ballistic missile components to Iran and we are stopping them.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 02, 2026 01:57 PM (viF8m)

185 Justice for Neda

Posted by: ... at January 02, 2026 01:57 PM (E0p3T)

186 "Both China and Russia will be picking sides and so we can not just walk away."

Why not? Why can't C&R handle it this time? Honest question.

Posted by: gp at January 02, 2026 01:57 PM (GHIyr)

187 Drop Tel Aviv Mark Levin on the mullahs. His voice alone will drive them from power.

Posted by: Swiss America Gold at January 02, 2026 01:57 PM (oftw2)

188
The idea that Republicans won't turn out because 1/6 committee people weren't arrested is outright stupid.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at January 02, 2026 01:55 PM (GBKbO)

But, we WILL stay home if the chosen candidate doesn't fit PERFECTLY into MY dream candidate profile.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 02, 2026 01:57 PM (Zz0t1)

189 You know as well as I do that optics matter. It’ll be how the midterms are framed.

Fair or not, people want as much, if not more, perceived action/attention overseas at home.
Posted by: thathalfrican - The One at January 02, 2026 01:53 PM (eZwyX)
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Again, the US Gov't is enormous and is entirely capable of doing both things at once.

Just because the DOJ investigation of [insert corrupt asshole here] doesn't make as much of a splash in the news as blowing up drug boats or considering a position on Iran does doesn't make a hill of beans. Stop watching the news dude.

Posted by: ballistic at January 02, 2026 01:57 PM (5aZAZ)

190 You know as well as I do that optics matter. It’ll be how the midterms are framed.

If the news is "Trump bombed a bunch of people in Iran" the LIVs will change the channel to get the latest sports scores or to find out which starlet wore the prettiest dress.

If the news is "Five Americans dead on the streets of Tehran after another ambush by the resistance" then I agree with you

Posted by: 18-1 at January 02, 2026 01:57 PM (sKqQm)

191 Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at January 02, 2026 01:51 PM (22p5n)

People are hip to the “hearings” it’s all BS. We want perp walks.

Posted by: thathalfrican - The One at January 02, 2026 01:58 PM (eZwyX)

192 Question now is:

is this going to be a 'the Berlin wall comes down' moment

or a Tienanmen Square 'send in the troops and kill everyone' moment

Posted by: Don Black at January 02, 2026 01:58 PM (ZxPkt)

193 I almost said Justice for Nena - but that was 99 Luftballons

Posted by: ... at January 02, 2026 01:58 PM (E0p3T)

194 We were discussing that this morning on Buck's thread. If the Chinese or Russkis decide to send in their troops and equipment at the invite of the mullahs, things can get spicy in a real hurry.
Posted by: Archimedes

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Never happen. Russia does not have capacity, and China is deathly afraid of foreign entanglements. They saw what happened to Russia and USA, they have too many only children to risk sacrificing any to war, and they have built their image in the 3rd world as not intervening in that way. China will send arms, not men.

Posted by: Mrs. Santa's unclean sister at January 02, 2026 01:58 PM (aTta8)

195 If Trump does a Shrub he will lose a ton of support.

Of course he's repeatedly had the option to do a Shrub in VZ, Syria, and other places and so far has wisely not done so.
Posted by: 18-1
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The electorate does not give a shit, other than online commenters, the trash media, and academics, about air strikes, drone strikes, attacking pirates or Houthis, etc.

Remember the massive unrest when Obama droned people across the globe in the US? When the Euros and US toppled Kaddafi? Hell, most people did not give one shit about the US directing strikes into Russia under Biden. They cared more about the money spent than the threat of nuclear war.

Boots on the ground and invasions matter to the public if they drag on beyond something like the invasion of Panama or Grenada.

Iraq, Afghanistan, and Vietnam mattered because those dragged on for years wasting over one trillion dollars and killing/maiming a fair chunk of soldiers.

Vietnam and Korea caused more political effect because of teh size of forces involved, the high casualties (far greater than the GWOT), and conscription.

Posted by: whig at January 02, 2026 01:58 PM (WDjG6)

196 188
The idea that Republicans won't turn out because 1/6 committee people weren't arrested is outright stupid.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at January 02, 2026 01:55 PM (GBKbO)

But, we WILL stay home if the chosen candidate doesn't fit PERFECTLY into MY dream candidate profile.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 02, 2026 01:57 PM (Zz0t1)

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"Promise to repeal the Copyright Extension Act of 1998, or I riot. Alone."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at January 02, 2026 01:58 PM (GBKbO)

197 The Ayatollahs need to be toppled because they f*cked with us and funded those who f*ck with us. So f*ck'em.

Carter is dead. Iran's regime needs to join him.

Posted by: AZ Hi Desert (Gringo fuertemente armado-Tempus belli) at January 02, 2026 01:58 PM (zBIzS)

198 188
The idea that Republicans won't turn out because 1/6 committee people weren't arrested is outright stupid.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at January 02, 2026 01:55 PM (GBKbO)

But, we WILL stay home if the chosen candidate doesn't fit PERFECTLY into MY dream candidate profile.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 02, 2026 01:57 PM (Zz0t1)

Are you implying that the Right is feckless?

Posted by: tubal at January 02, 2026 01:58 PM (pDt9x)

199 What if hundreds of millions of NGO cash is stashed in Iranian banks?

Do you think Obama sent those pallets of cash without collecting his vig?

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 02, 2026 01:59 PM (prbfg)

200 “The people are chanting for return of the king.”
......

I think he's perfectly happy living incognito in Vegas.

Posted by: wth at January 02, 2026 01:59 PM (UjdFS)

201 > If the US comes to the protester's aid in Iran does it open the possibility that the EU/UK with their Islamic friends in charge would oppose us?

Either there in Iran, or elsewhere...

I'd like to see what the Polymarket has to say about that...

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 02, 2026 01:45 PM (NwnyJ)

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With what?

A couple of half-gassed up choppers and promises to buy more sanctioned Iranian oil if the mullahs win?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at January 02, 2026 01:47 PM (GBKbO)
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I didn't necessarily mean militarily. I was thinking more along the lines of some UN horseshit.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 02, 2026 01:59 PM (NwnyJ)

202 >>> Optics matter. Has ANYONE been arrested or held accountable for; covid, J6 or the fraud being found everywhere?

Retribution and accountability is what people want.
Posted by: thathalfrican
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There will be hearings, so TPTB will have their optics of being seen as doing something (and to fundraise off it).

As far as actual justice, we'll have to wait for Jesus' return for that.
Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at January 02, 2026 01:51 PM (22p5n)

Notice how the left has their enemies hauled off to the gulags and THEN has hearings about it? Action first, and then theatrics to gloat and intimidate. It almost seems like this is more effective than the R method to:

1st have hearings that they allow their dear friends on the left to grandstand and coopt.

2nd do absolutely nothing but vote for more waste and fraud and earmarks

3rd Beg, "won't you please give us money to help us own the libs?"

Posted by: banana Dream at January 02, 2026 01:59 PM (3uBP9)

203
Taking out Kharg would be. Managing the consequences probably wouldn't

Does Iran respond by terrorism? Because we are used to that weapon.

Or do you mean the Iranian army rolls into Iraq and then the Gulf states?

Posted by: 18-1 at January 02, 2026 01:59 PM (sKqQm)

204 Persian women are hot. Forcing them to wear hijabs is a crime against nature.

Posted by: goatexchange at January 02, 2026 01:59 PM (hyS0X)

205 "Again, the US Gov't is enormous and is entirely capable of doing both things at once."

Ineptly, corruptly. With its enormous debt.

Posted by: gp at January 02, 2026 01:59 PM (GHIyr)

206 201 I didn't necessarily mean militarily. I was thinking more along the lines of some UN horseshit.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 02, 2026 01:59 PM (NwnyJ)

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"We promise to pass a UN resolution sanctioning America and then demanding America enforce those sanctions on America."
-the epitaph the UN deserves

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at January 02, 2026 01:59 PM (GBKbO)

207 We were discussing that this morning on Buck's thread. If the Chinese or Russkis decide to send in their troops and equipment at the invite of the mullahs, things can get spicy in a real hurry.

As I just said above China is sending ballistic missile components to Iran and we are stopping them.
Posted by: JackStraw at January 02, 2026 01:57 PM (viF8m)
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Dare we to hope that China puts boots on the ground?

Taiwan and Japan will breathe easier, that's for sure. Maybe they can fight a losing insurgency for 20+ years. It's their turn.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 02, 2026 02:00 PM (ZOv7s)

208 We shouldn't do anything that might harm our relationship with our European allies.

Hahaha hahaha! I couldn't even type that without laughing.
Posted by: Wally at January 02, 2026 01:56 PM (65cLN)
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LOL

What allies?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 02, 2026 02:00 PM (avHHk)

209 If Iran launches missiles at Europe they'll probably land in Gaza and the Jews will be blamed.

Posted by: Islamic Navigation Systems by Ronco at January 02, 2026 02:00 PM (qUkBO)

210 Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at January 02, 2026 01:55 PM (GBKbO)

Deportations is one of the few things where they’re doing well. Everything else looks bleak.

Posted by: thathalfrican - The One at January 02, 2026 02:00 PM (eZwyX)

211 Promise to repeal the Copyright Extension Act of 1998, or I riot. Alone.

I’d go further. The whole “Life+” is a big problem for obscure works, where we often have no idea when the author died. I think I’d rather have a 50-year term, plus an optional 50 more, than a Life+50, even though the former is (potentially) longer.

But I do agree with repeal as a start.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at January 02, 2026 02:00 PM (EXyHK)

212 If Trump is serious about ending the Mullahs I suspect this will lead to an interesting discussion with Vlad because he could give them anti-air/ship weapons just like we've done with the Ukes.

Posted by: 18-1 at January 02, 2026 02:01 PM (sKqQm)

213 Deportations is one of the few things where they’re doing well. Everything else looks bleak.
Posted by: thathalfrican - The One at January 02, 2026 02:00 PM (eZwyX)

What looks bleak ?

Posted by: It's me donna at January 02, 2026 02:01 PM (VE6XX)

214 Trump: If Iran Begins Shooting the Protesters Challenging Their Corrupt Terrorist Rule, I'll Take Their Asses Out

You can bet there's been back channel talk between Iranians and Trump about support.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 02, 2026 02:01 PM (c115l)

215 This busty redhead has holed up in her cabin, just in case:
http://tiny.cc/pg4x001

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 02, 2026 02:01 PM (avHHk)

216 Yes, but. The world is not that simple. Both China and Russia will be picking sides and so we can not just walk away.

Sure we can. It's at least an option.

Posted by: t-bird at January 02, 2026 02:01 PM (h9A1n)

217 194 We were discussing that this morning on Buck's thread. If the Chinese or Russkis decide to send in their troops and equipment at the invite of the mullahs, things can get spicy in a real hurry.
Posted by: Archimedes
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Neither have the logistics to support that and both would risk embarrassment and defeat if they tried to send token amounts of soldiers to support the regime.

About like how the Wagner group is getting its ass handed to them in Mali right now.

I think both countries will try to keep on the down low for regime support in case the regime falls--you want to be on the good side of whatever regime ends up in power.

They might also support a coup by the Army over the mullahs as a better solution than reliance on the masses.

That is what the US did in the end of the Shah regime, we pushed the creation of a temporary regime and then lost control of it like the MEK did of the Iranian Revolution.

Posted by: whig at January 02, 2026 02:02 PM (WDjG6)

218 Notice how the left has their enemies hauled off to the gulags and THEN has hearings about it? Action first, and then theatrics to gloat and intimidate. It almost seems like this is more effective than the R method to:
Posted by: banana Dream at January 02, 2026 01:59 PM (3uBP9)
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Effective at what? Terror? Creating a horrific society based on evil?

You can't just borrow tactics and keep your soul intact.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 02, 2026 02:02 PM (ZOv7s)

219 Seeing on YouTube
Somalians average 4 children, $15,000 to deliver and they ain't paying for it

Posted by: Skip at January 02, 2026 02:02 PM (Ia/+0)

220 210 Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at January 02, 2026 01:55 PM (GBKbO)

Deportations is one of the few things where they’re doing well. Everything else looks bleak.

Posted by: thathalfrican - The One at January 02, 2026 02:00 PM (eZwyX)

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You complain about the lack of action on the newly found out fraud without knowing how the news cycle started on it:

A US Attorney in Minnesota had a press conference where he detailed who he was arresting for it and that it was the first of a large wave to come.

"No one's doing anything about the fraud" says person who has no idea that the fraud story is more than a YouTube kid.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at January 02, 2026 02:02 PM (GBKbO)

221 "If Iran shots

IT'S SHOOTS. SHOOTS. Not shot.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 02, 2026 02:02 PM (c115l)

222 What we should do is use covert troops in-country to do a decapitation strike

kill enough of the right people and the rest will stop fighting

Posted by: Don Black at January 02, 2026 02:02 PM (ZxPkt)

223 Are you implying that the Right is feckless?
Posted by: tubal at January 02, 2026 01:58 PM (pDt9x)

The GOP is certainly deficient in the feck department.

Posted by: They need a feckload of feck at January 02, 2026 02:02 PM (TbWk/)

224 I shall return.

Posted by: Fat Elvis at January 02, 2026 02:02 PM (UjdFS)

225 "Accountability" is still my least favorite word in the language for its propensity to only be used to describe something that isn't happening. Hate it. Dumb word. Or maybe it's us that are dumb.

Posted by: ... at January 02, 2026 02:02 PM (E0p3T)

226 >>In the dark expanse of the Indian Ocean, hundreds of miles off Sri Lanka, U.S. Special Operations Forces launched a nighttime boarding of a commercial cargo ship in November 2025. This rare direct action intercepted missile components bound for Iran, signaling a bold shift in America's approach to curbing weapons proliferation at sea.

https://tinyurl.com/y68vm7yw

Posted by: JackStraw at January 02, 2026 02:03 PM (viF8m)

227 204 Persian women are hot. Forcing them to wear hijabs is a crime against nature.
Posted by: goatexchange at January 02, 2026 01:59 PM (hyS0X)

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This explains why the AWFLs want to keep them covered.

Posted by: Oglebay at January 02, 2026 02:03 PM (GPa4z)

228 Posted by: ballistic at January 02, 2026 01:57 PM (5aZAZ)

That’s funny because I don’t watch the news. I talk to people who are my age and younger. They’re very Trump loyal but are getting fed up with “nothing” happening. Being Trump loyal does not mean GOP loyal. You lose the millennials and Gen Z and the midterms could be very bad.

Posted by: thathalfrican - The One at January 02, 2026 02:03 PM (eZwyX)

229 I wouldn't want a "Bush" style rescue, where we encourage them to stick with islam.

Posted by: CTHillary, dead but dreaming at January 02, 2026 02:03 PM (Vpqw1)

230 211 Promise to repeal the Copyright Extension Act of 1998, or I riot. Alone.

I’d go further. The whole “Life+” is a big problem for obscure works, where we often have no idea when the author died. I think I’d rather have a 50-year term, plus an optional 50 more, than a Life+50, even though the former is (potentially) longer.

But I do agree with repeal as a start.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at January 02, 2026 02:00 PM (EXyHK)

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Return to the Copyright Act of 1790. 14+14.

All works from 1998 and before...public domain.

Or I riot...alone.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at January 02, 2026 02:03 PM (GBKbO)

231 This busty redhead has holed up in her cabin, just in case:
http://tiny.cc/pg4x001
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 02, 2026 02:01 PM (avHHk)

The foundation in that cabin is f*cked.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 02, 2026 02:03 PM (Zz0t1)

232 That is what the US did in the end of the Shah regime, we pushed the creation of a temporary regime and then lost control of it like the MEK did of the Iranian Revolution.
Posted by: whig at January 02, 2026 02:02 PM (WDjG6)
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Carter's people could screw up a wet dream. Jimmeh too busy and reviewing the White House tennis court schedule.

Oh, and ordering the Marines to surrender to the mobs. That worked out splendidly.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 02, 2026 02:03 PM (ZOv7s)

233 The King is a fink!
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 02, 2026 01:50 PM

The peasants are revolting!

Posted by: toby928(c) at January 02, 2026 02:03 PM (jc0TO)

234 >>>Trump ... is on the verge of toppling a huge foreign fentanyl-exporting regime. (More on that later.)

Looking forward to that!

Posted by: m at January 02, 2026 02:04 PM (RuTUS)

235 "Persian women are hot." Concur.

Posted by: gp at January 02, 2026 02:04 PM (GHIyr)

236 You know how it was found out?

A MN US attorney having a press conference about the people he was arresting and indicting for the fraud while saying that more people were coming.

Seriously.
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The have published the search warrant for one, just one so far, of the assisted living homes they raided.
It's a sophisticated network of fraudsters and government employees.
And they are tracing it.
And it's clear they are just getting started.

But this one is a perfect test case.
To flush away all the leftie roadblocks.
And stack up a lot of plea deals for later testimony against the rest.
Because they let a schizo go off his meds, die and didn't find him for days.
But reported they checked on him and verified his health the day before he was found.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 02, 2026 02:04 PM (prbfg)

237 "Seriously, you're arguing for a complete shutdown of all foreign policy until Fauci is in jail."

Careful Icarus.

Posted by: connected and litigious at January 02, 2026 02:04 PM (cS1cw)

238 Why, in fact, do we need to even bomb anything?

Just have some very, very public patrols of B-2s, B-52s, various fighter wings, etc over the Mullah's homes. Just flying around.

Kind of like how Trump flew a wing of B-2s overhead when Putin visited Alaska.

Get the point across, real nice, and not even expend any ordnance.

But if we turned some places into glass and bounced the Mullah's rubble.... well, it would drive leftists even more insane, so probably worth it!

Posted by: SimoHayha at January 02, 2026 02:04 PM (/ZkOF)

239 "The peasants are revolting!"

So, what else is new?

Posted by: CTHillary, dead but dreaming at January 02, 2026 02:04 PM (Vpqw1)

240 IT'S SHOOTS. SHOOTS. Not shot.
Posted by: rickb223

That bothered me, too. Get a better social media flunky, man!

Posted by: She Hobbit at January 02, 2026 02:05 PM (ftFVW)

241 228 Posted by: ballistic at January 02, 2026 01:57 PM (5aZAZ)

That’s funny because I don’t watch the news. I talk to people who are my age and younger. They’re very Trump loyal but are getting fed up with “nothing” happening. Being Trump loyal does not mean GOP loyal. You lose the millennials and Gen Z and the midterms could be very bad.

Posted by: thathalfrican - The One at January 02, 2026 02:03 PM (eZwyX)

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Young people never vote anyway. They have the worst turnout numbers every single election.

And, these people seem to not know what's actually happening and have deeply unrealistic views of the possible in American governance.

That doesn't mean that you side with them. It means that you educate them about what can be done and how change takes a long time.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at January 02, 2026 02:05 PM (GBKbO)

242 231 This busty redhead has holed up in her cabin, just in case:
http://tiny.cc/pg4x001
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 02, 2026 02:01 PM (avHHk)

The foundation in that cabin is f*cked.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 02, 2026 02:03 PM (Zz0t1)

Cabin...?

Posted by: Y'all are ghey at January 02, 2026 02:05 PM (TbWk/)

243 The women are making a big difference nowadays.

Uk Guardian, Dec. 2025, There’s no going back’: Iran’s women on why they won’t stop flouting dress code laws
Iranian girls in Laleh Park, central Tehran. One of the city’s most well-known and socially and politically significant public spaces, it is frequented mainly by students as a place to gather and spend time together
Despite fresh attempts to make women cover up, many believe the regime wouldn’t risk mass arrests for fear of sparking a wave of popular unrest last seen after the killing of Mahsa Amini

They know the regime has been weakened & dress codes are a coverup for national issues that need to be dealt with.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at January 02, 2026 02:05 PM (NFX2v)

244 I , personally, Trust Trump, Hegseth, Rubio to make the right decision in this case, like they are doing with the Chicoms, the Euros and the rest of them. Thank you for your attention to this matter!

Posted by: runner at January 02, 2026 02:05 PM (cmmSn)

245 Why not? Why can't C&R handle it this time? Honest question.
Posted by: gp

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Iran is too entangled in the ME. Hand Iran to China, and they now control not only their oil supply, but Europe's. Iran also threatens the whole Gulf, so now Europe has a new reason to work with China, against the USA. Imagine China breaking out from the first island chain from the other side of the Straight of Malacca.

I would like to write off the entire hemisphere, but we can't. We should never hand China an easy win.

Posted by: Mrs. Santa's unclean sister at January 02, 2026 02:05 PM (aTta8)

246 221 "If Iran shots

IT'S SHOOTS. SHOOTS. Not shot.
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What a looser!

Posted by: Irregardless at January 02, 2026 02:05 PM (qUkBO)

247 236 The have published the search warrant for one, just one so far, of the assisted living homes they raided.
It's a sophisticated network of fraudsters and government employees.
And they are tracing it.
And it's clear they are just getting started.

But this one is a perfect test case.
To flush away all the leftie roadblocks.
And stack up a lot of plea deals for later testimony against the rest.
Because they let a schizo go off his meds, die and didn't find him for days.
But reported they checked on him and verified his health the day before he was found.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 02, 2026 02:04 PM (prbfg)

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But I didn't hear about it on TikTok. All I heard on TikTok was that the GOP is not doing anything.

So, nothing is happening.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at January 02, 2026 02:06 PM (GBKbO)

248 IT'S SHOOTS. SHOOTS. Not shot.
Posted by: rickb223

That bothered me, too. Get a better social media flunky, man!
Posted by: She Hobbit at January 02, 2026 02:05 PM (ftFVW)

I'm betting Trump typed that one himself.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 02, 2026 02:06 PM (Zz0t1)

249 Another amusing part of this...if Trump does start support the protestors get ready to here the feminist left start talking about how great hijabs are and how they free women

Posted by: 18-1 at January 02, 2026 02:06 PM (sKqQm)

250 Seems like standard Trump; Make grand sweeping statements that send his opponents into a tizzy and work behind the scenes to deploy some targeted operations. At least that's what I hope is going on.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 02, 2026 02:06 PM (mlg/3)

251 That’s funny because I don’t watch the news. I talk to people who are my age and younger. They’re very Trump loyal but are getting fed up with “nothing” happening. Being Trump loyal does not mean GOP loyal. You lose the millennials and Gen Z and the midterms could be very bad.
Posted by: thathalfrican - The One at January 02, 2026 02:03 PM (eZwyX)
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When the job market starts cooking in the spring, gas hits new modern lows in the summer, they will notice more than which faceless bureaucrat is getting indicted.

Oh, and the Trump Tariff Check arrives in the mail.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 02, 2026 02:06 PM (ZOv7s)

252 All works from 1998 and before...public domain.

There is a strong argument to be made that retroactively changing the copyright term was illegal. It meant that contracts made before the term change happened were suddenly altered by congressional fiat. For example, under the copyright law when the Muppets were first aired, they didn’t need to license the music used in order to be able to release uncut Muppet episodes today. Same, I think, with WKRP, although it may have been later.

Sadly, as far as I can tell, the people who brought the extension to the Supreme Court last did not make that argument.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at January 02, 2026 02:06 PM (EXyHK)

253 Taking out Kharg would be. Managing the consequences probably wouldn't

Does Iran respond by terrorism? Because we are used to that weapon.

Or do you mean the Iranian army rolls into Iraq and then the Gulf states?

Those are all possibilities, but I was also thinking in terms of something like crashing the international oil market, leading to a worldwide recession/depression. There are lots of moving parts.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 02, 2026 02:06 PM (Riz8t)

254 Uk Guardian, Dec. 2025, There’s no going back’: Iran’s women on why they won’t stop flouting dress code laws

Now they're just subjecting themselves to the Rapey Male Gaze™, which is a far worse form of oppression!

Posted by: Feminist Western Woman at January 02, 2026 02:07 PM (TbWk/)

255 That is what the US did in the end of the Shah regime, we pushed the creation of a temporary regime and then lost control of it like the MEK did of the Iranian Revolution.

Yep, slipped right thru our fingers!

Posted by: John Brennan of the Easter Island Brennans at January 02, 2026 02:07 PM (h9A1n)

256
>>>Trump ... is on the verge of toppling a huge foreign fentanyl-exporting regime. (More on that later.)

Looking forward to that!
Posted by: m

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Me too, and I'd especially like to see material results in the streets.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 02, 2026 02:07 PM (n7rxJ)

257 Cabin...?
Posted by: Y'all are ghey at January 02, 2026 02:05 PM (TbWk/)

The vibrant description of the image at the end of the link was cause to review the entire picture.

Geez. Cro-Magnon man.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 02, 2026 02:07 PM (Zz0t1)

258 212 If Trump is serious about ending the Mullahs I suspect this will lead to an interesting discussion with Vlad because he could give them anti-air/ship weapons just like we've done with the Ukes.
Posted by: 18-1
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We know how to take those down now thanks to the Ukraine endless war. Basically the Israelis pantsed the Iranians running Russian anti aircraft defenses probably using US/Ukraine knowledge gained. So Russia essentially has refused the risk the remainder of their Air Force and their anti air defenses are mainly used to take out cheap drones attacking Russia.

If the Russians are stupid enough to dole out anti ship missiles to stop up the Persian Gulf, then the Chinese can and will probably retaliate economically. China cannot stand a massive surge in oil prices when their economy is already hitting the toilet.

Simply put, the Russians don't have the ability anymore to do anything more than spoiling attacks while they are heavily involved in the Ukraine. Same reason they could not act to save Assad.

China can do a bit better but at what cost to them.

Posted by: whig at January 02, 2026 02:07 PM (WDjG6)

259 249 Another amusing part of this...if Trump does start support the protestors get ready to here the feminist left start talking about how great hijabs are and how they free women
Posted by: 18-1 at January 02, 2026 02:06 PM (sKqQm)

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The problem with team feminist is no D.

Posted by: Oglebay at January 02, 2026 02:08 PM (GPa4z)

260 Not all battles are fought with bullets. Sometimes they're fought with infiltration, disruption, soft colonization, political capture, and various forms of fraud. Which is what's been happening to us here at home right under our noses, with comfort and support given to them by our own government.
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See: Control of the media, philosophically, if not directly

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 02, 2026 02:08 PM (XeU6L)

261 I didn't necessarily mean militarily. I was thinking more along the lines of some UN horseshit.
Posted by: Martini Farmer

You know what you do with horseshit? You scoop it up with the front end loader, spread it on the field and till it in.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * sporting my Andrew Breitbart attitude at January 02, 2026 02:08 PM (vzcgi)

262 Trump ... is on the verge of toppling a huge foreign fentanyl-exporting regime. (More on that later.)
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Looking forward to that!
Posted by: m at January 02, 2026 02:04 PM (RuTUS)

Which one? China? Mexico?

Posted by: BurtTC at January 02, 2026 02:08 PM (dGCAG)

263 Expecting legislators to do anything regarding the pursuit of criminal activity is the height of stupidity.

They don't have the power to arrest anyone, to try anyone, to punish anyone. They have the power to make laws.

And all this shit is illegal already. What do you want from a GOP Congress? Pass another law that makes it double-secret illegal?

No, it goes to the executive branch. Well, what is the executive branch doing? You don't go to Congressmen to figure that out. You go to the DOJ...and the DOJ is working. They are. You just have to, you know, look at where the DOJ is putting out press releases. And TikTokers don't read DOJ press releases.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at January 02, 2026 02:08 PM (GBKbO)

264 Posted by: thathalfrican - The One at January 02, 2026 02:03 PM (eZwyX)

What would "something happening" look like in practical terms, do you think?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 02, 2026 02:08 PM (2sfNr)

265 Me too, and I'd especially like to see material results in the streets.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia
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Anyone living in blue states will see it more slowly than in red states because West Coast state governments plus Colorado are complicit in encouraging hard drug use as compassionate.

Posted by: whig at January 02, 2026 02:09 PM (WDjG6)

266 I'm betting Trump typed that one himself.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer

Why is he writing Xeets when ha should be focusing on domestic issues?!

*wink*

Posted by: She Hobbit at January 02, 2026 02:09 PM (ftFVW)

267 245 So the reason we have to rescue Iran is that we have to rescue the entire ME and Europe from China.

Are you sure we can afford to keep on doing all this rescuing?

Posted by: gp at January 02, 2026 02:09 PM (GHIyr)

268 -----
See: Control of the media, philosophically, if not directly
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 02, 2026 02:08 PM (XeU6L)

But, the CIA isn't on our side.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 02, 2026 02:09 PM (Zz0t1)

269 That bothered me, too. Get a better social media flunky, man!
Posted by: She Hobbit

Everyone does it. That and "sale".

"If I sale this to you..."

Ugh! It's SELL.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 02, 2026 02:09 PM (c115l)

270 Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at January 02, 2026 02:02 PM (GBKbO)

I will wait until government officials are in jail before I start cheering. It’s a good start.

But as a resident of MN this fraud has been known for quite awhile.

Posted by: thathalfrican - The One at January 02, 2026 02:09 PM (eZwyX)

271
Why is he writing Xeets when ha should be focusing on domestic issues?!

*wink*
Posted by: She Hobbit at January 02, 2026 02:09 PM (ftFVW)

Because he's a stupid poopyhead who doesn't know what he's doing and never learns anything.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 02, 2026 02:10 PM (Zz0t1)

272 There's some kind of screw-up down in Texas.
They've got two conservatives running in the primary for Cornyn's seat, one of them is Atty Gen Ken Paxton.

Trump could make Paxton Atty Gen relieving the primary pressure in TX and giving the White House the most successful prosecutor in the US.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 02, 2026 02:10 PM (R0Fqj)

273 252 There is a strong argument to be made that retroactively changing the copyright term was illegal. It meant that contracts made before the term change happened were suddenly altered by congressional fiat. For example, under the copyright law when the Muppets were first aired, they didn’t need to license the music used in order to be able to release uncut Muppet episodes today. Same, I think, with WKRP, although it may have been later.

Sadly, as far as I can tell, the people who brought the extension to the Supreme Court last did not make that argument.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at January 02, 2026 02:06 PM (EXyHK)

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There would be a takings clause resistance to pulling back copyright, but I think that's easily fixed with a $100 million fund to go along with the repeal.

"Prove how much you'd lose over the next 20 years of lost exclusive rights to your material. And, remember, you can still sell these things, just not exclusively. So, you can't assert 100% lost revenue."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at January 02, 2026 02:10 PM (GBKbO)

274 It's just merchants.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 02, 2026 02:10 PM (QAvZU)

275 I hope the citizens of Iran can clean that place up.... but...

I don't want us involved at all... nada.... nothin.

We spend so much time on foreign problems, that we are not fixing our own.

Posted by: Romeo13 at January 02, 2026 02:10 PM (mP0Kj)

276
Everyone does it. That and "sale".

"If I sale this to you..."

Ugh! It's SELL.
Posted by: rickb223 at January 02, 2026 02:09 PM (c115l)

Advise and advice.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 02, 2026 02:10 PM (Zz0t1)

277 246 221 "If Iran shots

IT'S SHOOTS. SHOOTS. Not shot.
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What a looser!

Posted by: Irregardless

Think of this as a learing experience.

Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at January 02, 2026 02:11 PM (OUMaO)

278 If the mullahs do collapse I can see the GOPe and the CIA advocating and doing ops for the return vof the Shah. "We out his grandfather in place and controlled him and we can discuss the same now. Just like the Iraq stooge who Bush II and the State Department were advocating to replace Saddam. He had no constituents and got nowhere. Just keep saying "we'll help the people " and they'll figure it out

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 02, 2026 02:11 PM (zNwXb)

279 I'm betting Trump typed that one himself.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 02, 2026 02:06 PM (Zz0t1)

He should be sent to a learing center.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 02, 2026 02:11 PM (dGCAG)

280 270 Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at January 02, 2026 02:02 PM (GBKbO)

I will wait until government officials are in jail before I start cheering. It’s a good start.

But as a resident of MN this fraud has been known for quite awhile.

Posted by: thathalfrican - The One at January 02, 2026 02:09 PM (eZwyX)

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The MN USA? Appointed in August (Senate Democrat obstruction). Before that, Biden holdovers.

Again, realistic views of what's possible.

Ask yourself, what does it take to prove fraud in an American court? A little, like video of someone smashing into a store, or a lot, like proving intent on fraudulent documents?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at January 02, 2026 02:11 PM (GBKbO)

281 Those are all possibilities, but I was also thinking in terms of something like crashing the international oil market, leading to a worldwide recession/depression. There are lots of moving parts.
Posted by: Archimedes at January 02, 2026 02:06 PM (Riz8t)
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Parts is parts. Moving parts all over the place. Sometimes one must just pick up a stick and give the globe a good bash.

Posted by: mrp at January 02, 2026 02:11 PM (rj6Yv)

282
Everyone does it. That and "sale".

"If I sale this to you..."

Ugh! It's SELL.
Posted by: rickb223 at January 02, 2026 02:09 PM (c115l)

Advise and advice.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer

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Lose and loose.

Extra tip: You CAN "loose" a thing or person.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 02, 2026 02:12 PM (n7rxJ)

283 We need to kill as many islamic republic assholes as we can while we can before things calm down.

Husbands, wives, children....whole families. Pay back for years of killing innocents around the world and for Beirut in 1983.

Posted by: Kill Them All at January 02, 2026 02:12 PM (R/m4+)

284 I've been fooled by Neocons once before.

I wish the Iranian people luck but I'm not going to advocate a shooting war in Persia with US troops involved.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at January 02, 2026 02:12 PM (xcxpd)

285 The foundation in that cabin is f*cked.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 02, 2026 02:03 PM (Zz0t1)

Cabin...?
Posted by: Y'all are ghey at January 02, 2026 02:05 PM (TbWk/)

Looks like an outhouse in a roadside rest area in wooded country.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 02, 2026 02:12 PM (8zz6B)

286 I want to see a complete revolution that results in an overwhelming influx of native born Brits showing up in Iran and taking it over (sort of like Hong Kong).

I like irony...and chocolate pudding. But, mostly irony.

Posted by: Orson at January 02, 2026 02:12 PM (dIske)

287 Everyone does it. That and "sale".

"If I sale this to you..."

Ugh! It's SELL.
Posted by: rickb223 at January 02, 2026 02:09 PM (c115l)

Advise and advice.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 02, 2026 02:10 PM (Zz0t1)

I seen that. It makes sense for all intensive purposes. But I should of known better.

Posted by: Doof at January 02, 2026 02:12 PM (QMAsf)

288 Let them sort it out.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 02, 2026 02:12 PM (QAvZU)

289 279 I'm betting Trump typed that one himself.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 02, 2026 02:06 PM (Zz0t1)

He should be sent to a learing center.
Posted by: BurtTC at January 02, 2026 02:11 PM (dGCAG)

Good advice. How else will he be successful in life?

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at January 02, 2026 02:13 PM (xcxpd)

290 1) it seems a lot of the "china is the biggest threat" people don't want to talk about how Iran (and Venezuela) supply china with oil.

2) china has some nuclear subs but no nuclear ships

Again and again, Trump moves to solve several problems but several steps ahead and so many just want to carp about "but he's not fixing it now!!!"

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 02, 2026 02:13 PM (prbfg)

291 They might also support a coup by the Army over the mullahs as a better solution than reliance on the masses.

That is what the US did in the end of the Shah regime, we pushed the creation of a temporary regime and then lost control of it like the MEK did of the Iranian Revolution.
Posted by: whig at January 02, 2026 02:02 PM (WDjG6)

I think this is the most likely ending of this; the best thing about this uprising is also it's point of greatest weakness. This is not a color revolution; this is a true, spontaneous, grass roots rebellion. But because of that it has no organization and no leadership, and each city is likely to end up with it's own committee, or whatever.
The Army is the only group that would have the ability to decide they're better off without the mullahs and overthrow them. They'd at least have a window of time to establish control if they didn't screw it up too much.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 02, 2026 02:13 PM (uWKK8)

292 IIRC, when the muslims took over, they poured out something like a half-million dollars worth of alcohol from the Iranian embassy into the sewer.

A regime that would do that obviously needs to go.

Side note - I remember that there was a liquor distributor who showed up with $100,000 in cash, but no - they wouldn't sell the booze to him.

Posted by: CTHillary, dead but dreaming at January 02, 2026 02:13 PM (Vpqw1)

293 Iran needs more Somalians.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 02, 2026 02:14 PM (QAvZU)

294 267 245 So the reason we have to rescue Iran is that we have to rescue the entire ME and Europe from China.

Are you sure we can afford to keep on doing all this rescuing?
Posted by: gp at January 02, 2026 02:09 PM (GHIyr)

Actually, we can.

If there's one thing that this Somali crap-fest is showing us, is that there is a LOT more fraud out there in the system than we suspected. Probably trillions of dollars worth. We spent about 2 trillion USD on the GWOT, and the average American felt absolutely no shortages, rationings or hardship because of it. We know that a lot of that money was wasted on fraud as well. Stephen Miller said this week that most of our incurred debt was due to straight-up fraud. I would have never believed that before, but I'm getting close to that POV now. A truly efficient US government would do a LOT of good in the world. Whether we should is a valid question. What isn't a question is that we could.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at January 02, 2026 02:14 PM (0CU3H)

295 "Prove how much you'd lose over the next 20 years of lost exclusive rights to your material. And, remember, you can still sell these things, just not exclusively. So, you can't assert 100% lost revenue."
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at January 02, 2026 02:10 PM (GBKbO)
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Kinda like eminent domain applied to intellectual property rights.

Posted by: mrp at January 02, 2026 02:14 PM (rj6Yv)

296 263 Expecting legislators to do anything regarding the pursuit of criminal activity is the height of stupidity.

They don't have the power to arrest anyone, to try anyone, to punish anyone. They have the power to make laws.

And all this shit is illegal already. What do you want from a GOP Congress? Pass another law that makes it double-secret illegal?

No, it goes to the executive branch. Well, what is the executive branch doing? You don't go to Congressmen to figure that out. You go to the DOJ...and the DOJ is working. They are. You just have to, you know, look at where the DOJ is putting out press releases. And TikTokers don't read DOJ press releases.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at January 02, 2026 02:08 PM (GBKbO)

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They could shut down the daycare program. Hell they eliminate all new spending from 2021.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at January 02, 2026 02:14 PM (Vh9CX)

297 I've been fooled by Neocons once before.

I wish the Iranian people luck but I'm not going to advocate a shooting war in Persia with US troops involved.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at January 02, 2026 02:12 PM (xcxpd)

I'm sure it'll work... this time.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 02, 2026 02:14 PM (dGCAG)

298 But as a resident of MN this fraud has been known for quite awhile.
Posted by: thathalfrican
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Your frustration is very much understood and sympathized with, especially from those of us here in Illinois. It's easy to feel like nothing will ever change, and that evil will always flourish.

Just remember to put your trust in the Lord, not in any man...or any government built by man.

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at January 02, 2026 02:14 PM (22p5n)

299 5 If the clerics are deposed in Iran, a whole lot of antisemitism is going to be defunded.
Posted by: Thomas Paine
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Can these clerics fly.
If these men are truly as holy and close to their god as they say then they can fly. Take them to the roof top and see which one is holy and which is not.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 02, 2026 02:14 PM (R0Fqj)

300 IT'S SHOOTS. SHOOTS. Not shot.
Posted by: rickb223

That bothered me, too. Get a better social media flunky, man!
Posted by: She Hobbit at January 02, 2026 02:05 PM (ftFVW)

I'm betting Trump typed that one himself

I keep telling y’all that typos and misspellings are a sign of genius!

Posted by: Piper at January 02, 2026 02:14 PM (OoFl2)

301 I seen that. It makes sense for all intensive purposes. But I should of known better.
Posted by: Doof

I think that just popped some blood vessels in my brain.

Posted by: She Hobbit at January 02, 2026 02:15 PM (ftFVW)

302 I would have never believed that before, but I'm getting close to that POV now. A truly efficient US government would do a LOT of good in the world. Whether we should is a valid question. What isn't a question is that we could.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at January 02, 2026 02:14 PM (0CU3H)
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De-funding the NGOs was a good start.

Posted by: mrp at January 02, 2026 02:15 PM (rj6Yv)

303
Anyone living in blue states will see it more slowly than in red states because West Coast state governments plus Colorado are complicit in encouraging hard drug use as compassionate.
Posted by: whig

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It seems to me it should happen pretty quickly if it happens big. People don't exactly warehouse a month's supply of that stuff.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 02, 2026 02:15 PM (n7rxJ)

304 Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 02, 2026 02:08 PM (2sfNr)

The DOJ to indict and arrest. Press releases are well and good but without action it’s meaningless.

How quickly did Biden’s DOJ act? Speed of light in comparison. There’s enough evidence out there to prosecute and jail these people.

Posted by: thathalfrican - The One at January 02, 2026 02:15 PM (eZwyX)

305 Can they turn undead?

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 02, 2026 02:15 PM (QAvZU)

306 281 Those are all possibilities, but I was also thinking in terms of something like crashing the international oil market, leading to a worldwide recession/depression. There are lots of moving parts.
Posted by: Archimedes at January 02, 2026 02:06 PM (Riz8t)
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Parts is parts. Moving parts all over the place. Sometimes one must just pick up a stick and give the globe a good bash.

Posted by: mrp

That's certainly one way to go.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 02, 2026 02:15 PM (Riz8t)

307 Gen z & Millennials voted for Mamdani to give them free shit. They are mostly dem socialists, with grievances . Voted for Trump only because DEI was getting to them. Nothing else. Learn to weld, youtubing is not a job.

Posted by: runner at January 02, 2026 02:16 PM (ReBai)

308 272 There's some kind of screw-up down in Texas.
They've got two conservatives running in the primary for Cornyn's seat, one of them is Atty Gen Ken Paxton.

Trump could make Paxton Atty Gen relieving the primary pressure in TX and giving the White House the most successful prosecutor in the US.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 02, 2026 02:10 PM (R0Fqj)

Only one problem. The GOP in the House - and especially the Senate, where it matters - have no desire to have Paxton as US AG.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at January 02, 2026 02:16 PM (0CU3H)

309 There would be a takings clause resistance to pulling back copyright…

I don’t think there is. Copyright in the United States is a special set of restrictions that most creations do not get. Most things that people make, other people can copy and distribute without violating copyright law. It’s only those special things that Congress has said need copyright to encourage their being made public that get the special copyright restrictions.

That’s why we speak of “a return to the public domain”. Everything public is in the public domain; only a very small subset of things has been temporarily removed from the public domain.

So the “takings” argument is really on the side of the public, especially those parts of the public that were licensing the use of copyrighted things for a limited time, under the assumption that they only needed to license them for a limited time.

It’s a whole other perspective in Europe, where artists are assumed to be a higher class than craftsmen.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at January 02, 2026 02:16 PM (EXyHK)

310
I keep telling y’all that typos and misspellings are a sign of genius!
Posted by: Piper at January 02, 2026 02:14 PM (OoFl2)

What about sock fails?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 02, 2026 02:16 PM (Zz0t1)

311 Why blow up Kharg when you can just seize every tanker departing from there? Claim it's sanctioned oil. Work out if it is over the next decade in court.

Posted by: toby928(c) at January 02, 2026 02:17 PM (jc0TO)

312 >>I don't want us involved at all... nada.... nothin.

I would typically agree. But this one might be worth some direct action. If you understand geopolitics, you will understand we’ve been fighting Iran’s proxies for the last 20 years. They are behind the funding, manpower and weapons in just about every conflict we have been involved in. They are also funding terrorists all over the globe including South America. We are spending a lot of our defense budget playing whack a mole with their ops. Why not just smoke all these fuckers while they’re playing defense. Then let the Iranian people figure out the rest.

Posted by: Marcus T at January 02, 2026 02:17 PM (i14TE)

313 Covfefe!!

Posted by: runner at January 02, 2026 02:17 PM (Y1v+4)

314 The Army is the only group that would have the ability to decide they're better off without the mullahs and overthrow them. They'd at least have a window of time to establish control if they didn't screw it up too much.

When dictatorships fall, it's almost always because the army decides to make a change, or at least sit on its hands.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 02, 2026 02:17 PM (Riz8t)

315 Isn't Rubio Attorney General?

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 02, 2026 02:17 PM (QAvZU)

316 I want to see a complete revolution that results in an overwhelming influx of native born Brits showing up in Iran and taking it over (sort of like Hong Kong).

I like irony...and chocolate pudding. But, mostly irony.
Posted by: Orson at January 02, 2026 02:12 PM (dIske)
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So kicking out the mullahs and replacing them with Starmerites? I don't hate the Persians THAT much.

Posted by: mrp at January 02, 2026 02:17 PM (rj6Yv)

317 No, it goes to the executive branch. Well, what is the executive branch doing?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

Check out the ShipwreckedCrew post on the release of the search warrants. DoJ was tracking the fraud in MN back this summer.

"But the U.S. Attorney here unsealed the Affidavit the same day (Dec. 18th) the search took place. Why? Because the affidavit addresses the largely inaccurate claims now being made about “Why hasn’t anything been done?”

"[T]he FBI Agent’s Affidavit submitted in support of this (warrant) Application has a treasure-trove of details about the various fraud programs that have been UNDER ACTIVE INVESTIGATION BY THE TRUMP DOJ SINCE THE SUMMER OF 2025."

The Affidavit lays out in some detail — much remains undisclosed — other frauds uncovered by the Trump DOJ involving Minnesota’s progressive/liberal/ socialist/communist welfare programs — frauds that were there all along but which the Biden DOJ either “missed,” or more likely decided to not pursue because of the political damage that would result to the Democrat party’s evolving “Socialist” brand."

Posted by: whig at January 02, 2026 02:17 PM (WDjG6)

318 310
I keep telling y’all that typos and misspellings are a sign of genius!
Posted by: Piper at January 02, 2026 02:14 PM (OoFl2)

What about sock fails?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer

I don’t do socks; I am pretty sure if I did, I would fail. Definite maybe here.

Posted by: Piper at January 02, 2026 02:18 PM (Wmg4n)

319 304 The DOJ to indict and arrest. Press releases are well and good but without action it’s meaningless.

How quickly did Biden’s DOJ act? Speed of light in comparison. There’s enough evidence out there to prosecute and jail these people.

Posted by: thathalfrican - The One at January 02, 2026 02:15 PM (eZwyX)

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Ask how much easier it is to prove illegal entry to a location with video footage (with very friendly judges) vs. proving fraud.

What is the documentary difference required?

Also, remember, this MN USA started in August, and within 3 months was indicting people on an issue no one cared about outside of MN and few people inside MN cared about.

You're demanding something between splashy headlines and the impossible.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at January 02, 2026 02:18 PM (GBKbO)

320 310
I keep telling y’all that typos and misspellings are a sign of genius!
Posted by: Piper at January 02, 2026 02:14 PM (OoFl2)

What about sock fails?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 02, 2026 02:16 PM (Zz0t1)

_____________________________

FIST!!!!!

Posted by: I wonder if anyone will get this at January 02, 2026 02:18 PM (dIske)

321 The United States is the country with the highest drug use in the world. Assad funded ten years of civil war from drug money. Iran and Venezuela are responsible for funding a large portion of that drug trade.

PDT has connected all the dots. As far as Iran goes, events happen when they happen not when it's convenient.

Posted by: Ben Had at January 02, 2026 02:18 PM (sDNVV)

322 {{{Ben Had}}}

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at January 02, 2026 02:19 PM (22p5n)

323 Oops, ooopsie doodles, tee hee hee:

Update: Antifa and violent far-let extremists are celebrating after Fulton County, Ga. Judge Kevin Farmer formally dismissed RICO charges on a technicality against 61 domestic terror suspects involved in the deadly and violent "Stop Cop City" movement.

x.com/MrAndyNgo/status/
2007115100864369089

The left means to win.

Posted by: banana Dream at January 02, 2026 02:19 PM (3uBP9)

324 Gen z & Millennials voted for Mamdani to give them free shit. They are mostly dem socialists, with grievances . Voted for Trump only because DEI was getting to them. Nothing else. Learn to weld, youtubing is not a job.
Posted by: runner

One can only hope that the lack of food vendors and free toilets in the freezing cold acted a a convincing preview of their free stuff to come.

Posted by: She Hobbit at January 02, 2026 02:19 PM (ftFVW)

325 If you have PACER, you can look up the search warrant itself and the accompanying affadavit.

Case 25-mj-861 December 18th, US District Court Minnesota

Posted by: whig at January 02, 2026 02:19 PM (WDjG6)

326 Aragorn?

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 02, 2026 02:19 PM (QAvZU)

327 I want to see a complete revolution that results in an overwhelming influx of native born Brits showing up in Iran and taking it over (sort of like Hong Kong).

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And British Petroleum gets their oil fields back?

LOL

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 02, 2026 02:19 PM (prbfg)

328 How quickly did Biden’s DOJ act? Speed of light in comparison. There’s enough evidence out there to prosecute and jail these people.
Posted by: thathalfrican - The One at January 02, 2026 02:15 PM (eZwyX)
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They had corrupt judges on their side with lifetime appointments. That's how it stuck. Trump doesn't have corrupt judges, so you're just blowing smoke.

Put the same defendants against the same judges and they will acquit all of them.

So unless we want to go full White Terror (that's counterrevolution, not race), this must be a more deliberate process.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 02, 2026 02:20 PM (ZOv7s)

329 What about sock fails?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer

That sounds.... messy.

Posted by: She Hobbit at January 02, 2026 02:20 PM (ftFVW)

330 309
So the “takings” argument is really on the side of the public, especially those parts of the public that were licensing the use of copyrighted things for a limited time, under the assumption that they only needed to license them for a limited time.

It’s a whole other perspective in Europe, where artists are assumed to be a higher class than craftsmen.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at January 02, 2026 02:16 PM (EXyHK)

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I don't think the American legal system would see it that way.

It's a takings of these copyright owners' exclusive rights, as granted by the government in the Copyright Acts since 1790 (depending on how far this mythical, never to happen, repeal goes).

The government would need to remunerate based on that reading, and major corporations would pay very well Big Lawfirms to make that argument in courts.

But, a few instances of Disney spending $20 million on legal fees to secure $5 million in lost earnings would be instructive.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at January 02, 2026 02:20 PM (GBKbO)

331 @ she hobbit, it's going to be 4 years of HellYork!

Posted by: runner at January 02, 2026 02:21 PM (cmmSn)

332 I seen that. It makes sense for all intensive purposes. But I should of known better.
Posted by: Doof at January 02, 2026 02:12 PM (QMAsf)

You are such a looser. Your word choices will never pass mustard.

Posted by: Eggcorns R us at January 02, 2026 02:21 PM (TbWk/)

333 I wish the Iranian people luck but I'm not going to advocate a shooting war in Persia with US troops involved.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at January 02, 2026 02:12 PM (xcxpd)

I'm sure it'll work... this time.
Posted by: BurtTC
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Rapprochement is the smart, sophisticated, diplomatic approach.

Posted by: Valerie Jarrett at January 02, 2026 02:21 PM (XeU6L)

334 ========

The MN USA? Appointed in August (Senate Democrat obstruction). Before that, Biden holdovers.

Again, realistic views of what's possible.

Ask yourself, what does it take to prove fraud in an American court? A little, like video of someone smashing into a store, or a lot, like proving intent on fraudulent documents?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at January 02, 2026 02:11 PM (GBKbO)
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But then we must ask; Are we going to let these unscrupulous lawmakers go unchallenged?
Are we not going to shine a light on these cockroaches and attempt to rid ourselves of them?

This quickly goes past state to federal felony.
These slick Senators and House leaders need a new non-government job.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 02, 2026 02:21 PM (R0Fqj)

335 Update: Antifa and violent far-let extremists are celebrating after Fulton County, Ga. Judge Kevin Farmer formally dismissed RICO charges on a technicality against 61 domestic terror suspects involved in the deadly and violent "Stop Cop City" movement.

x.com/MrAndyNgo/status/
2007115100864369089

The left means to win.
Posted by: banana Dream
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And appeals are made of these decisions. GA Court of Appeals is much less favorable to any crap coming out of Fulton County Courts. GA Sup. Ct. is even less favorable.

And these yutes are still on the hook for federal terrorism charges to boot.

Posted by: whig at January 02, 2026 02:21 PM (WDjG6)

336
That sounds.... messy.
Posted by: She Hobbit at January 02, 2026 02:20 PM (ftFVW)

Not THAT sock......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 02, 2026 02:21 PM (Zz0t1)

337 I seen that. It makes sense for all intensive purposes. But I should of known better.
Posted by: Doof

Irregardless, I could care less.

Posted by: Piper at January 02, 2026 02:21 PM (Wmg4n)

338 Another reason the Iranian Regime is in trouble is the Goat population has dramatically decreased in recent months.

Posted by: Jackson at January 02, 2026 02:21 PM (J9q9v)

339 317 The Affidavit lays out in some detail — much remains undisclosed — other frauds uncovered by the Trump DOJ involving Minnesota’s progressive/liberal/ socialist/communist welfare programs — frauds that were there all along but which the Biden DOJ either “missed,” or more likely decided to not pursue because of the political damage that would result to the Democrat party’s evolving “Socialist” brand."

Posted by: whig at January 02, 2026 02:17 PM (WDjG6)

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But TikTok isn't talking about it, so nothing is happening.

And no one's been executed, so no one is going to be held to account.

I'm voting Democrat.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at January 02, 2026 02:22 PM (GBKbO)

340 329 What about sock fails?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer

That sounds.... messy.
Posted by: She Hobbit at January 02, 2026 02:20 PM (ftFVW)

My Grandma would have said the only thing to say about a sock fail?

Darn it...

Posted by: Romeo13 at January 02, 2026 02:22 PM (mP0Kj)

341 298 But as a resident of MN this fraud has been known for quite awhile.
Posted by: thathalfrican
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Your frustration is very much understood and sympathized with, especially from those of us here in Illinois. It's easy to feel like nothing will ever change, and that evil will always flourish.

Just remember to put your trust in the Lord, not in any man...or any government built by man.

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy
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Man will always disappoint you but you can always trust in the Lordd.

Amen and Amen.

Posted by: NALNAMSAM at January 02, 2026 02:22 PM (VkY89)

342 >>Check out the ShipwreckedCrew post on the release of the search warrants. DoJ was tracking the fraud in MN back this summer.

His substack article on this topic is really good. Lots of people have been indicted and a whole lot more are in the bullseye.

I always find it ironic how many people bitch that nothing isn't happening because nothing is being reported by the corrupt media.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 02, 2026 02:22 PM (viF8m)

343 You ain't losing your cities to the Jooos!

In the most Jewish city in the world after Tel Aviv, Jews under 30 voted for Mamdani.

Posted by: TITP at January 02, 2026 02:22 PM (OUE/9)

344 I'm betting Trump typed that one himself

I keep telling y’all that typos and misspellings are a sign of genius!
Posted by: Piper at January 02, 2026 02:14 PM (OoFl2)
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Yes. The left loves polished fake pronouncements, and Trump's blemished statements are terrifying because they are unfiltered.

China is writhing under a bitter recession, and I'm sure the conscripts want to die in Persia.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 02, 2026 02:22 PM (ZOv7s)

345 I know everyone realizes that this is something big, but I wonder if we can really grasp that if this plays out as it looks like it will, this is going to be the greatest geo-political upheaval in the Middle East since 1979, the last time this happened.

The world's greatest sponsor of terror for the last 40 years looks like it's about to evaporate - kind of like Sauron did when the Ring was destroyed. No great battle, just "POOF". It's truly astounding!

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 02, 2026 02:22 PM (uWKK8)

346 Look, we just need to send them pallets of cash.

Posted by: Valerie Jarrett at January 02, 2026 02:22 PM (XeU6L)

347 SMH, big hug to both of you and a Happy New Year.

Posted by: Ben Had at January 02, 2026 02:22 PM (sDNVV)

348 Just tell me if I need prepare for a shooting war here. I can’t worry about a shooting war someplace else because there is nothing I can do about it. Until then I’m just going to continue to play golf.

How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb.

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 02, 2026 02:22 PM (KDPiq)

349 Not THAT sock......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer

Ohhhhhh. Well I have a houseful of teen boys... they do their own laundry.

Posted by: She Hobbit at January 02, 2026 02:22 PM (ftFVW)

350 I seen that. It makes sense for all intensive purposes. But I should of known better.
Posted by: Doof at January 02, 2026 02:12 PM (QMAsf)

You are such a looser. Your word choices will never pass mustard.
Posted by: Eggcorns R us at January 02, 2026 02:21 PM (TbWk/)

Wrapped up like a douche!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 02, 2026 02:23 PM (Zz0t1)

351 We still owe the mullahs for their attack on our embabassy.

Time to avenge Desert One.

Posted by: Minuteman at January 02, 2026 02:23 PM (47/pr)

352 I always find it ironic how many people bitch that nothing isn't happening because nothing is being reported by the corrupt media.
Posted by: JackStraw at January 02, 2026 02:22 PM (viF8m)
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The news blackout is designed to shield the deluded and anger the normies into thinking nothing is going on.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 02, 2026 02:23 PM (ZOv7s)

353 🤣🤣🤣

Posted by: runner at January 02, 2026 02:23 PM (cmmSn)

354 328 They had corrupt judges on their side with lifetime appointments. That's how it stuck. Trump doesn't have corrupt judges, so you're just blowing smoke.

Put the same defendants against the same judges and they will acquit all of them.

So unless we want to go full White Terror (that's counterrevolution, not race), this must be a more deliberate process.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 02, 2026 02:20 PM (ZOv7s)

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Also, burden of proof for the crimes on 1/6 were much lower.

"I have video of this person entering a place they shouldn't."

That's very different from, "Here is the paper trail of how this person enabled fraud in these locations with these people."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at January 02, 2026 02:23 PM (GBKbO)

355 267 245 So the reason we have to rescue Iran is that we have to rescue the entire ME and Europe from China.

Are you sure we can afford to keep on doing all this rescuing?
Posted by: gp at January 02, 2026 02:09 PM (GHIyr)

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Our enemies do not sleep. Whether we are talking about Democrats, Commies, China, islam, or termites, they are all opportunistic attackers.

We have to apply pressure opportunistically as well. Not all-in like VN, Iraq, a-stan,... but harassing fire. And applied wherever the return is greater than the cost. Since this is war, return is also measured in cost to adversaries -- do whatever we can to cost them more than it costs us.

Posted by: Mrs. Santa's unclean sister at January 02, 2026 02:23 PM (aTta8)

356 They are behind the funding, manpower and weapons in just about every conflict we have been involved in. They are also funding terrorists all over the globe including South America.

Go further. Who is behind them, supplying them with, say, the occasional pallet of cash?

Posted by: t-bird at January 02, 2026 02:23 PM (h9A1n)

357
Ohhhhhh. Well I have a houseful of teen boys... they do their own laundry.

Posted by: She Hobbit at January 02, 2026 02:22 PM (ftFVW)

Good call.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 02, 2026 02:24 PM (Zz0t1)

358 I suggest that US SOC fly C-130s around Iran constantly broadcasting audio recordings of Kamala Harris Cackling...

This will drive any living creature to insanity....

Posted by: Jackson at January 02, 2026 02:24 PM (J9q9v)

359 352 I always find it ironic how many people bitch that nothing isn't happening because nothing is being reported by the corrupt media.
Posted by: JackStraw at January 02, 2026 02:22 PM (viF8m)
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The news blackout is designed to shield the deluded and anger the normies into thinking nothing is going on.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 02, 2026 02:23 PM (ZOv7s)

Say...let's see if Tony Dukopil mentions any of this at 6:30 PM tonight.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at January 02, 2026 02:24 PM (0CU3H)

360 342 I always find it ironic how many people bitch that nothing isn't happening because nothing is being reported by the corrupt media.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 02, 2026 02:22 PM (viF8m)

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Well, they read the only news that's fit to print.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at January 02, 2026 02:24 PM (GBKbO)

361 "Even Vance, who is constantly playing footsie with Nazis"

Do you even know what a Nazi is? Its disgusting that people intentionally downplay the atrocities of the Nazis by calling anyone they disagree with a Nazi. Maybe just stop posting about Tucker everyday and giving him more attention for the stupid crap he says.

The Right should not be emulating the Left's practice of trying to silence and ostracize everyone they disagree with because it will work out just as well for the Right as it has for the Left.

Posted by: Botched_Lobotomy at January 02, 2026 02:24 PM (utoSg)

362 >>> And appeals are made of these decisions. GA Court of Appeals is much less favorable to any crap coming out of Fulton County Courts. GA Sup. Ct. is even less favorable.

And these yutes are still on the hook for federal terrorism charges to boot.
Posted by: whig at January 02, 2026 02:21 PM (WDjG6)

I don't have a lot of faith in GA government. But I hope you're right.

Posted by: banana Dream at January 02, 2026 02:24 PM (3uBP9)

363 You get over a million Reals to the dollar. Egg prices?

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 02, 2026 02:25 PM (QAvZU)

364 SMH -A rather belated 'Thanks' for making me aware of Valor Guardians. I think of you each time that I visit there. Hope that you and yours are well.

Posted by: Valerie Jarrett at January 02, 2026 02:25 PM (XeU6L)

365 333 I wish the Iranian people luck but I'm not going to advocate a shooting war in Persia with US troops involved.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at January 02, 2026 02:12 PM (xcxpd)

I'm sure it'll work... this time.
Posted by: BurtTC
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I only know what I remember but my recollection is that we defeated them militarily in short order.
It was the bureaucrats what screwed America and got so many of our guys killed and messed up.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 02, 2026 02:25 PM (R0Fqj)

366
My Grandma would have said the only thing to say about a sock fail?

Darn it...
Posted by: Romeo13 at

Groan.

Posted by: Piper at January 02, 2026 02:25 PM (Wmg4n)

367 I'll say it again....since that bogus "food program" had come to light in Minnesota there have been over 90 arrests; over 60 convictions so far, and 82 of the 90 arrests were of Somalia origin. This is on the record.

The fraud investigations in Minnesota were not initiated by Nick Shirley's ballsy reporting. They started well before that, and provided the needed public awareness to give the DOJ motivation and cover to get more aggressive in multiple states.

The wheels of justice are indeed moving on this one.

Posted by: Orson at January 02, 2026 02:25 PM (dIske)

368 Crap! /Valerie Jarrett

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 02, 2026 02:26 PM (XeU6L)

369 Just tell me if I need prepare for a shooting war here. I can’t worry about a shooting war someplace else because there is nothing I can do about it. Until then I’m just going to continue to play golf.

How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb.
Posted by: Opinion fact at January 02, 2026 02:22 PM (KDPiq)
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The correlation of forces is getting worse and worse for the left. The real danger point was in July, where Trump's assassination and the coverup - and then inevitable crackdown, would have caused upheaval in every institution. It is not a pleasant thing to think about.

The reason the left is now completely insane is that their moment has passed, and they are losing power without any visible means to get it back.

They're threatening retaliation if they get power again, but that's a big "if." A bunch of their candidates are going to be caught up in corruption charges, and they know it.

They know what they did, that's why they scream all the time.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 02, 2026 02:26 PM (ZOv7s)

370 Ohhhhhh. Well I have a houseful of teen boys... they do their own laundry.

Posted by: She Hobbit at January 02, 2026 02:22 PM (ftFVW)

Good call.

Smart. You don't want to cut yourself.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 02, 2026 02:26 PM (Riz8t)

371 Go further. Who is behind them, supplying them with, say, the occasional pallet of cash?
Posted by: t-bird at January 02, 2026 02:23 PM (h9A1n)

Obongo!

Posted by: Zombie Bob Mugabe at January 02, 2026 02:27 PM (R/m4+)

372 Also, burden of proof for the crimes on 1/6 were much lower.

"I have video of this person entering a place they shouldn't."

That's very different from, "Here is the paper trail of how this person enabled fraud in these locations with these people."
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at January 02, 2026 02:23 PM (GBKbO)

My bell weather on this whole situation? Ashley Babbit's murderer has not been brought up on charges.

It was a flat out execution, and on any other day in any other building, that cop would have been charged, not honored.

Posted by: Romeo13 at January 02, 2026 02:27 PM (mP0Kj)

373 >>Check out the ShipwreckedCrew post on the release of the search warrants. DoJ was tracking the fraud in MN back this summer.

His substack article on this topic is really good. Lots of people have been indicted and a whole lot more are in the bullseye.

I always find it ironic how many people bitch that nothing isn't happening because nothing is being reported by the corrupt media.
Posted by: JackStraw
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As I noted above, this is a test case of horrors.

And a lot of flackies are going to flip on higher ups for reduced jail time.

Perkins Coie won't have enough lawyers to cover all the Dems that are going to get indicted.
Because they'll be too busy defending themselves.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 02, 2026 02:27 PM (prbfg)

374 372 Also, burden of proof for the crimes on 1/6 were much lower.

"I have video of this person entering a place they shouldn't."

That's very different from, "Here is the paper trail of how this person enabled fraud in these locations with these people."
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at January 02, 2026 02:23 PM (GBKbO)

My bell weather on this whole situation? Ashley Babbit's murderer has not been brought up on charges.

It was a flat out execution, and on any other day in any other building, that cop would have been charged, not honored.
Posted by: Romeo13 at January 02, 2026 02:27 PM (mP0Kj)

Unfortunately, Biden pardoned him. He will not be charged with her murder. Ever.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at January 02, 2026 02:28 PM (0CU3H)

375 349 Not THAT sock......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer

Ohhhhhh. Well I have a houseful of teen boys... they do their own laundry.
Posted by: She Hobbit at January 02, 2026 02:22 PM (ftFVW)

At a certain point incineration becomes the only viable option.

Posted by: Sock it to them at January 02, 2026 02:28 PM (TbWk/)

376 maybe a Laura Loomer-approved thread

I wonder if this means thread delays throughout the afternoon

Posted by: TITP at January 02, 2026 02:28 PM (OUE/9)

377 Time to avenge Desert One.
Posted by: Minuteman at January 02, 2026 02:23 PM (47/pr)
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Operation Eagle Claw. Desert One was the nav point where disaster struck. The monument at Arlington is quite moving.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 02, 2026 02:28 PM (ZOv7s)

378 SMH -A rather belated 'Thanks' for making me aware of Valor Guardians. I think of you each time that I visit there. Hope that you and yours are well.
Posted by: Valerie Jarrett
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Ummm...you're welcome?

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at January 02, 2026 02:28 PM (22p5n)

379 372 My bell weather on this whole situation? Ashley Babbit's murderer has not been brought up on charges.

It was a flat out execution, and on any other day in any other building, that cop would have been charged, not honored.

Posted by: Romeo13 at January 02, 2026 02:27 PM (mP0Kj)

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In DC?

Let's be fucking honest. A waste of DOJ time and resources on the march towards an embarrassing failure that, even if it got to trial, would lead to acquittal.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at January 02, 2026 02:28 PM (GBKbO)

380 lol Mike Hammer.

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at January 02, 2026 02:29 PM (22p5n)

381
I've been fooled by Neocons once before.

Yes, but the problem has always been the Powell Doctrine of "you broke it, you bought it". Fuck that neocon jackass in particular.

Wars to kill off a renegade regime of assholes and leave is relatively cheap. Decades-long occupations to mold the resulting chaos into something resembling Disneyland is horrendously expensive in money and lives.

I've got no problem with the cheap option of applying high explosives and walking away.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at January 02, 2026 02:29 PM (y9nCu)

382 Trump already said the fraud we know about from the MSM is nothing to what’s to come. I assume he has some kind of inside information😀

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 02, 2026 02:29 PM (KDPiq)

383 Besides the cash, Barky gave the Iranians the drone technology when he did fuckall about retrieving our drone that was shot down.

Posted by: Ben Had at January 02, 2026 02:29 PM (sDNVV)

384 Isn't Rubio Attorney General?
Posted by: Boss Moss

Rubio is Sec State.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 02, 2026 02:29 PM (c115l)

385 Posted by: Braenyard
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Braenyard, the US DoJ does not work the way you think it does. Simply put, most of the work is done not in DC but in each of the judicial districts of the US by appointed and confirmed DA's. Due to constitutional restrictions, defendants must be tried in the place of their offenses which means the grand juries and trial juries also have to be in that district along with an appointed and confirmed DA for that district.

Those DAs can be fired but then under current law (probably unconstitutional under current Scotus rulings), you get the situation in VA and NJ, the trial court judges get to pick the DA to fill the seat until the President and Senate put another in their place. And those judge appointed creatures put on as DA will promptly set on their ass to run out the statute of limitations.

The US cannot try defendants by information because a grand jury must be used to indict so an arrest can be made, only states can and do use information (instead of a grand jury) for an indictment via a preliminary court hearing.

Posted by: whig at January 02, 2026 02:29 PM (WDjG6)

386 Operation Eagle Claw. Desert One was the nav point where disaster struck. The monument at Arlington is quite moving.

I'd argue the election of Jimmy Carter is when disaster struck.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 02, 2026 02:29 PM (Riz8t)

387 They all will get their just deserts!

Posted by: runner at January 02, 2026 02:29 PM (W3eFU)

388 US Attorney General is Blondi.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 02, 2026 02:30 PM (c115l)

389
Yes, but the problem has always been the Powell Doctrine of "you broke it, you bought it". Fuck that neocon jackass in particular.

Wars to kill off a renegade regime of assholes and leave is relatively cheap. Decades-long occupations to mold the resulting chaos into something resembling Disneyland is horrendously expensive in money and lives.

I've got no problem with the cheap option of applying high explosives and walking away.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at January 02, 2026 02:29 PM (y9nCu)

It's a doggy dog world.

Posted by: Ruff stuff at January 02, 2026 02:30 PM (TbWk/)

390 I only know what I remember but my recollection is that we defeated them militarily in short order.
It was the bureaucrats what screwed America and got so many of our guys killed and messed up.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 02, 2026 02:25 PM (R0Fqj)
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Correct. We rolled the Iraqis in record time, and then should have picked a strong man and left.

But no, we had to transform their society, and make it lame and gay.

Trump has no patience. Punitive expeditions are back on the menu. Wreck the joint and leave. If we get lip, wreck it again.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 02, 2026 02:30 PM (ZOv7s)

391 Call me anytime.

Posted by: Blondi at January 02, 2026 02:30 PM (dgZyp)

392 Rubio is National Security Adviser!

Posted by: runner at January 02, 2026 02:30 PM (W3eFU)

393 Desserts. Who has water?

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 02, 2026 02:30 PM (QAvZU)

394 When Iran looks safer than California...

Posted by: melodicmetal at January 02, 2026 02:31 PM (61TgR)

395 lol Mike Hammer.
Posted by: SMH
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It should always be borne in mind that I'm brain damaged.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 02, 2026 02:31 PM (XeU6L)

396 Call me.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 02, 2026 02:31 PM (QAvZU)

397 Friday. Joy.

Posted by: Kindltot - Ea-Nasir, Say His Name at January 02, 2026 02:31 PM (rbvCR)

398 Well, ok, i guess

@LeadingReport 3m
BREAKING: Maduro caves, says Venezuela ‘ready’ to make deal with Trump after military strikes.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 02, 2026 02:31 PM (mlg/3)

399 >> They're threatening retaliation if they get power again, but that's a big "if." A bunch of their candidates are going to be caught up in corruption charges, and they know it.

Until there is a genuine effort to clean up the voter fraud we are assured of nothing, especially the house in the midterms. The Minnesota fraud is now uncovering even deeper electoral fraud- and Congress has done absolutely zero about it, because they’re still too busy figuring out how to increase the budget baseline when we are probably over a trillion in fraud, abuse and outright cuts. Even the most pedestrian citizen can do the math and ask the question- why aren’t we cutting every department and entitlement budget for the amount of fraud and abuse they are finding? Because it’s not money we will need to spend next year. *crickets*

Posted by: Marcus T at January 02, 2026 02:31 PM (i14TE)

400 Rubio is Sec State.
Posted by: rickb223

And a glorious one at that. I hope he doesn't run because I'd love to see him stay on at State in a Vance cabinet.

Posted by: She Hobbit at January 02, 2026 02:31 PM (ftFVW)

401 NOODlum.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 02, 2026 02:32 PM (Zz0t1)

402 Oddities about the recent recognition of Somaliland by Israel: There were three pre-conditions made by the Israelis. 1) Recognize the Abraham accords, 2) Allow Israeli bases in Somaliland, and 3) accept displaced Palestinians being relocated there.

The Israelis now will be security for Suez and the Red sea, the Palestinians will have a relief valve (and I expect lose a lot of funding from those who use them as a weapon) and this may well reduce tensions in the Levant more than doing the exact same thing we have been doing for 50 years.

Posted by: Kindltot - Ea-Nasir, Say His Name at January 02, 2026 02:32 PM (rbvCR)

403 Oh, and Nood

Posted by: Kindltot - Ea-Nasir, Say His Name at January 02, 2026 02:32 PM (rbvCR)

404 Let's be fucking honest. A waste of DOJ time and resources on the march towards an embarrassing failure that, even if it got to trial, would lead to acquittal.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at January 02, 2026 02:28 PM (GBKbO)
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Based on recent DC grand jury decisions I'd say ham sandwiches are off the menu.

Posted by: mrp at January 02, 2026 02:32 PM (rj6Yv)

405 Rubio is Governor of Florida.

Posted by: NPC at January 02, 2026 02:32 PM (KDPiq)

406 379 372 My bell weather on this whole situation? Ashley Babbit's murderer has not been brought up on charges.

It was a flat out execution, and on any other day in any other building, that cop would have been charged, not honored.

Posted by: Romeo13 at January 02, 2026 02:27 PM (mP0Kj)

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In DC?

Let's be fucking honest. A waste of DOJ time and resources on the march towards an embarrassing failure that, even if it got to trial, would lead to acquittal.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at January 02, 2026 02:28 PM (GBKbO)

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Exactly. Criminal charges would be a pipe dream on that case. And, I think the Trump Administration knew that...which is why they greenlighted a wrongful death payout of nearly $5 Million to the Babbitt family without much fanfare.

Posted by: Orson at January 02, 2026 02:32 PM (dIske)

407 > I always find it ironic how many people bitch that nothing isn't happening because nothing is being reported by the corrupt media.

Posted by: JackStraw
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The media savvy Trump administration can't figure a way to get the word out?

Put up a goddamn web site with a tally. It's raw meat. It'll calm the savages.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 02, 2026 02:32 PM (NwnyJ)

408 Short nap, see if ghst gets me to Cafe time

Posted by: Skip at January 02, 2026 02:32 PM (Ia/+0)

409 372 My bell weather on this whole situation? Ashley Babbit's murderer has not been brought up on charges.

It was a flat out execution, and on any other day in any other building, that cop would have been charged, not honored.

Posted by: Romeo13

Lawsuit is grinding on and there is no statute of limitations on murder. All the facts and discovery from the lawsuit can then be applied to subsequent murder charges. That is what happened in the Randy Weaver case where Len Horiuchi, the FBI sniper, eventually faced charges in Idaho state courts. Ultimately, the case was dropped by a new state prosecutor.

Posted by: whig at January 02, 2026 02:32 PM (WDjG6)

410 360 342 I always find it ironic how many people bitch that nothing isn't happening because nothing is being reported by the corrupt media.

Posted by: JackStraw
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What is happening that is Not meat & potatoes work that they should be doing all along/day to day.
1. Brennan and the 2. Mustache are tagged.

There's fruit on the ground, there's fruit bending the limbs of the trees to the ground.
We all remember. DoJ action now, resembles the House of Reps.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 02, 2026 02:32 PM (R0Fqj)

411 I'll say it again....since that bogus "food program" had come to light in Minnesota there have been over 90 arrests; over 60 convictions so far, and 82 of the 90 arrests were of Somalia origin. This is on the record.
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Tony West, Kamala's brother in law, and Obama's head of civil rights at the DOJ.
He funded the law firms via confidential settlements.
B/c Obama removed the requirement that Congress approve any settlement over $100k.

These are the law firms that ran the Somali fraud from the legal end in MN (and around the nation).

Michelle and Barack were absolutely getting a cut of "Feeding our Futures."

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 02, 2026 02:33 PM (prbfg)

412 It should always be borne in mind that I'm brain damaged.
Posted by: Mike Hammer
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I can't wait until Ex-Ex gets home I tell him that Valerie Jarrett thanked me for turning her on to a vet organization.

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at January 02, 2026 02:33 PM (22p5n)

413 Oh, BTW. If they create another CPA in Iran, I will lead the assault on it.

Posted by: Marcus T at January 02, 2026 02:33 PM (i14TE)

414 The real question WRT MN fraud; will any governmental official go down?

There’s plenty of evidence of Walz intimidating whistleblowers. If Walz stays out of prison that’ll be a huge crime in and of itself.

Posted by: thathalfrican - The One at January 02, 2026 02:33 PM (eZwyX)

415 @LeadingReport 3m
BREAKING: Maduro caves, says Venezuela ‘ready’ to make deal with Trump after military strikes.
Posted by: weft cut-loop
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[recollects Reagan, 'Here's my plan,we win, they lose' ]

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 02, 2026 02:34 PM (XeU6L)

416 As with Venezuela, Iran is so weak that it's government can be toppled with no American boots on the ground - in fact Trump's statement might be enough all by itself. The protests are advancing in every city, and all aspects of the government are losing control on the ground.

All that is needed for the current government to fall is for the Army to decide they're not interested and to stay in their barracks - an October 1917 scenario.

We have thought of the Ayatollah's government as strong because they have caused a great deal of trouble and always talk an immense amount of shit. But I hold that rather then strong, they are Brittle - they hold their shape until the first fracture, and then their government flies into a million pieces that cannot be put back together.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 02, 2026 02:35 PM (uWKK8)

417 New post is too new, so leaving this here...

Libs of TikTok @libsoftiktok

HOLY CRAP

My jaw is on the floor…

Aimee Bock, the ringleader of the Feeding Our Future COVID fraud scheme, is listed as the contact for at least FOURTY SEVEN taxpayer-funded "child cares" in Minnesota, according to an official state database.

These locations must be investigated for potential further fraud @TheJusticeDept

X: https://bit.ly/45utUUv

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at January 02, 2026 02:35 PM (P5BPp)

418 There’s plenty of evidence of Walz intimidating whistleblowers. If Walz stays out of prison that’ll be a huge crime in and of itself.
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Pritzker should join him, but sadly, I don't see either of them in prison orange jumpsuits anytime soon.

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at January 02, 2026 02:35 PM (22p5n)

419 Nood! CBS execs are dumb.

Posted by: Piper at January 02, 2026 02:36 PM (Wmg4n)

420 409 372 My bell weather on this whole situation? Ashley Babbit's murderer has not been brought up on charges.

It was a flat out execution, and on any other day in any other building, that cop would have been charged, not honored.

Posted by: Romeo13

Lawsuit is grinding on and there is no statute of limitations on murder. All the facts and discovery from the lawsuit can then be applied to subsequent murder charges. That is what happened in the Randy Weaver case where Len Horiuchi, the FBI sniper, eventually faced charges in Idaho state courts. Ultimately, the case was dropped by a new state prosecutor.
Posted by: whig
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If I understand correctly, you are saying that he will probably walk. And many others too. Right?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 02, 2026 02:36 PM (R0Fqj)

421 Posted by Whig: You’re allowing facts to get in the way of a good podcast narrative.

For example: Every Republican who has any chance of being elected or re-elected is “weak on the 2nd Amendment.” No one knows what that means; but, everybody on the podcasts and blogs knows it is true.

Posted by: Going deep. Out. at January 02, 2026 02:38 PM (zqeQL)

422 415 @LeadingReport 3m
BREAKING: Maduro caves, says Venezuela ‘ready’ to make deal with Trump after military strikes.
Posted by: weft cut-loop

Maduro has put on a top hat and cane and is suddenly doing more tap dancing than Mr. Bojangles. Did you have any doubt that Trump's policy is working on him? Here's the proof. He's going broke, and he knows his "associates" aren't going to allow that, or forgive that.

The best part was where Maduro said "The drugs aren't even ours! It's Columbia sending you all those drugs, I swear, it's Columbia!!" Maduro's good friend Gustavo Petro is not amused.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 02, 2026 02:38 PM (uWKK8)

423 I'm pretty sure they got rid of the Shah on their own. Wasn't it Helpful Westerners who escorted Khomeini back to Tehran?

It was "helpful westerners" who saved his sorry ass by giving him refuge in France.

Posted by: Hurdy Gurdy Man at January 02, 2026 02:39 PM (fX1tL)

424 Reza Pahlavi @PahlaviReza

President Trump, thank you for your strong leadership and support of my compatriots. This warning you have issued to the criminal leaders of the Islamic Republic gives my people greater strength and hope — hope that, at last, a President of the United States is standing firmly by their side.

As they risk their lives to end this regime’s 46 year reign of chaos and terror, they send me with a responsibility and a message: to seek the relationship Iran once had with America that brought peace and prosperity to the Middle East.

I have the plan for stable transition for Iran and the support of my people to get it done. With your leadership of the free world, we can leave a legacy of lasting peace.

X: https://bit.ly/4aIAcne

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at January 02, 2026 02:41 PM (P5BPp)

425 Not THAT sock......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 02, 2026 02:21 PM (Zz0t1)

Yeah mom, it's not mine ...

Posted by: teenaged boys everywhere at January 02, 2026 02:42 PM (3sXRv)

426 Gee Ace, you’re awful pro war when it comes to other people’s sons. If you’re so gung ho for the US to send troops to Iran, why don’t you sign up? You’re only 29 after all, the Marines won’t take you but the Army will. It’s so cute that you still believe a word or government says. Show of hands, how many morons took the Covid vaccine?

Posted by: EDM at January 02, 2026 02:46 PM (FmhTN)

427 Chickenhawking? So 2001.

Posted by: toby928(c) at January 02, 2026 02:47 PM (jc0TO)

428 Posted by: EDM at January 02, 2026 02:46 PM (FmhTN)

You misinterpreted Ace's post.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 02, 2026 03:07 PM (2sfNr)

429 "The Iranian regime is awful and monstrous, but where is the US benefit to intervening?"

Joe, with all due respect, the Iranian regime has been at war with the United States (aka The Great Satan) since 1979. For God's sake, they even have a national holiday called "Death to America Day"! They are our enemy. Crushing an enemy is always good.
But what we mustn't do - and I'm sure you'll agree - is try Iraq-style nation building. Let the Persians sort out their own. I'm sure there's plenty we can do in the background to help ensure that a regime that is not openly hostile to us takes power.

Posted by: Nemo at January 02, 2026 03:35 PM (4RPgu)

430 LOVE THIS! Also love the take down of the clowns, Bannon and Carlson's nitwittery.

For starters, I have never liked Bannon as he clung to the coat tails of Brietbart. Second, he should wash his hair, get a cut and shave now and then.

Carlson is going to regret this someday. Soon, I hope.

I love VP Vance. No, he does not wear eyeliner...I have met one guy in my life with gorgeous blue eyes like his. Extra thick black eyelashes girls would kill for. My first sample of love...and he sadly died a few months later of a very rare cancer. I will never forget him or his eyes.

I love Vance's no nonsense, concise, talk. His sense of humor and intelligence. I just love him.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at January 02, 2026 03:36 PM (WONhk)

CBS "News" Announces That They Have "Missed" Big Stories Because They Only Talk to "Advocates," "Academics," and "Elites;" Admits That No One Trusts the "Legacy Media" Any Longer

And they promise they'll correct that.

Now, they continue lying by omission -- the problem isn't just that they only speak to "advocates" or "academics" or "elites." There are conservative versions of those, whom they don't speak to. Their bias is not to "advocates" or "academics" or "elites," but to the communist left.

They're claiming that their bias is towards experts while they ignore the uninformed general public.

Um, the "experts" told us the vaccine worked and was totally safe and that covid didn't come from a Chinese lab.

They still refuse to admit that and I would never trust a lifelong liar until he admits his lifelong lies.

Still, this is a pretty big statement, lies and all.

The legacy media has never before acknowledged that it is merely a legacy media, among other newer medias. They insist they are the one and only media.

"On too many stories, the press has missed the story. Because we've taken into account the perspective of advocates and not the average American. Or we put too much weight in the analysis of academics or elites, and not enough on you."

That changes now. The new CBS Evening News� pic.twitter.com/NKdvRJjYCS
— CBS Evening News (@CBSEveningNews) January 1, 2026

Happy day two of year 2026!

Posted by: Ace at 12:16 PM

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Posted by: CTHillary, dead but dreaming at January 02, 2026 12:17 PM (Vpqw1)

2 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 02, 2026 12:17 PM (Zz0t1)

3 Good afternoon Ace and everyone

Posted by: Skip at January 02, 2026 12:17 PM (Ia/+0)

4 2d?

Posted by: CTHillary, dead but dreaming at January 02, 2026 12:17 PM (Vpqw1)

5 Top o' the nooner to ya, Ace!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 02, 2026 12:17 PM (Zz0t1)

6 Happy New Year!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 02, 2026 12:17 PM (Zz0t1)

7 BULL. SHIT.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at January 02, 2026 12:18 PM (xvV+O)

8 Nooded.

Posted by: Nazdar at January 02, 2026 12:18 PM (NcvvS)

9 Maybe send out a few non Cultural Marxists reports every once in a while

Posted by: Skip at January 02, 2026 12:18 PM (Ia/+0)

10 How many newscasts have they done that led with the multi billion dollar theft of US taxpayer money by somalis?

That is the tell.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at January 02, 2026 12:19 PM (0U5gm)

11 Given the purchases going on and pressure from owners, its possible that might actually begin to happen. But I wouldn't hold my breath, and honestly who gives a crap? Does anyone younger than 70 even watch network news?

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 02, 2026 12:19 PM (3Amc7)

12 CBS = Communist BullShit

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 02, 2026 12:19 PM (NwnyJ)

13 "On too many stories, the press has missed the story. Because we've taken into account the perspective of advocates and not the average American. Or we put too much weight in the analysis of academics or elites, and not enough on you."

That changes now. The new CBS Evening News� pic.twitter.com/NKdvRJjYCS

— CBS Evening News (@CBSEveningNews) January 1, 2026

Well duh.......

Read any story written by the liberal media about the midwest or deep south. It's horseshit that proves they've never been there, talked to anyone from there and just fling poo from their high horse.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 02, 2026 12:20 PM (Zz0t1)

14 Now, they continue lying by omission -- the problem isn't just that they only speak to "advocates" or "academics" or "elites." There are conservative versions of those, whom they don't speak to. Their bias is not to "advocates" or "academics" or "elites," but to the communist left.

They still refuse to admit that and I would never trust a lifelong liar until he admits his lifelong lies.

Still, this is a pretty big statement, lies and all.

I listened to what the blow dried mannequin said, and I knew what he would and wouldn't say. He never says anything describing the real problem, namely "we allowed ourselves to become ideological robots, slaves to the left, and ONLY the left. All of us. As a result, the only way we will actually change is if we're all fired."

The rest of his verbal cloud could (and is) equally well have been emitted by standard politicians, of both the left and right.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 02, 2026 12:20 PM (Riz8t)

15 Now, they continue lying by omission -- the problem isn't just that they only speak to "advocates" or "academics" or "elites." There are conservative versions of those, whom they don't speak to. Their bias is not to "advocates" or "academics" or "elites," but to the communist left.
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Only for convenience. Their alliance is to the Party.

If by this time next year the Party is full-on nativist, CBS will be on TV seven nights a week gleefully documenting deportations and run thinkpieces on the need for robotic cannon installations at the border and the installation of minefields.

They have no intellectual allegiance. They aren't even honest communists.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 02, 2026 12:20 PM (avHHk)

16 Now, they continue lying by omission -- the problem isn't just that they only speak to "advocates" or "academics" or "elites." There are conservative versions of those, whom they don't speak to. Their bias is not to "advocates" or "academics" or "elites," but to the communist left.

Imagine some major news story where the only people the media goes to talk to about it are

Jordan Peterson
Thomas Sowell
Victor Davis Hanson
Salena Zito

And imagine if EVERY news story was like this

Be a hell of a better world but...

Posted by: 18-1 at January 02, 2026 12:20 PM (sKqQm)

17 CBS = Communist BullShit
Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 02, 2026 12:19 PM (NwnyJ)

My dad used to call it "Compressed Bat Shit."

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 02, 2026 12:20 PM (Zz0t1)

18 We admit that we were lying and bad, but we will change and tell truth and be good ... Monday at 630pm.

Posted by: scottst at January 02, 2026 12:21 PM (0KBj+)

19 Now, they continue lying by omission"

Gary Hart waves from the "Monkey Business "....

Posted by: man at January 02, 2026 12:21 PM (xDZRs)

20 “I’ve cheated on you for decades. But trust me, I’m the one who feels the pain. I’m here to tell you I’m a new man. Trust me.”

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 02, 2026 12:21 PM (3Amc7)

21 It's like an early spring!

"We will replace the frigidity of rugged individualism with the warmth of collectivism," says Mamdani

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 02, 2026 12:21 PM (L/fGl)

22 How about the perspective of above average Americans?

Posted by: banana Dream at January 02, 2026 12:21 PM (3uBP9)

23 It's like an early spring!

"We will replace the frigidity of rugged individualism with the warmth of collectivism," says Mamdani

And chocolate rations will increase from 30 to 25 grams!

Posted by: Archimedes at January 02, 2026 12:22 PM (Riz8t)

24 "On too many stories, the press has missed the story. Because we've taken into account the perspective of advocates and not the average American. Or we put too much weight in the analysis of academics or elites, and not enough on you."
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Ah.

So CBS is going to do a "conservatives in the mist" thing where they send journalists on safari to the jungles of Missouri and Ohio to talk to the "real, common people" of flyover country while they nod along in simulated interest according to all "active listening" techniques and then fly back to New York having learned nothing.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 02, 2026 12:22 PM (avHHk)

25 The FNM's role became solely to establish and support the narrative.

The problem is since no one who isn't a lefty trusts them any more this means they aren't good at their job.

So what we are seeing right now from some of the smarter FNM outlets is "how do I do the minimum to regain enough trust that most LIVs will again turn to me for information that only supports the narrative?"

Posted by: 18-1 at January 02, 2026 12:22 PM (sKqQm)

26 I’ll never trust the legacy media again no matter what they say. That toothpaste is out of the tube

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 02, 2026 12:22 PM (/iXAp)

27 How about the perspective of above average Americans?

Posted by: banana Dream

I think we are all above average.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at January 02, 2026 12:23 PM (0U5gm)

28 I actually think Bari Weiss understands the problem, but I'm not sure she has either the power or the will to make the needed changes. Scratch that. I know she doesn't.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 02, 2026 12:23 PM (Riz8t)

29 "We will replace the frigidity of rugged individualism with the warmth of collectivism," says Mamdani
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 02, 2026 12:21 PM (L/fGl)

If his Inaugural "block party" was any indication NYC is in for some real hurt

Posted by: It's me donna at January 02, 2026 12:23 PM (VE6XX)

30 CBS = Communist BullShit
Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 02, 2026 12:19 PM (NwnyJ)
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As we learned during the Rather disaster, CBS is "Cock-and-Bull Story."

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 02, 2026 12:23 PM (avHHk)

31 "We will replace the frigidity of rugged individualism with the warmth of collectivism," says Mamdani

The warmth of the Gulag.

The warmth of the White Sea Canal.

The warmth of Magadan.

All these things await you, Comrades!

Posted by: Zombie Uncle Joe! at January 02, 2026 12:24 PM (xTIDn)

32 The left's response to this is hilarious freaking out and wailing.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 02, 2026 12:24 PM (3Amc7)

33 Big story today here is FBI uncovered?? a jihadi plot by a black 18 year old kid to kill people at Burger King and Teeter. He's been trying to kill people with hammers for 3 years. Last week same suburb black guy shot two cops both in the head. They lived. He didn't. No jihad. Just anger at child custody arrangement.

Posted by: NCKate at January 02, 2026 12:24 PM (uQzkA)

34 The last time I saw the media and the left go after a private individual as rabidly as they've gone after Nick Shirley is when Joe the Plumber dared embarrass their Holy Obama.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 02, 2026 12:24 PM (HXT0k)

35 > How many newscasts have they done that led with the multi billion dollar theft of US taxpayer money by somalis?
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It's probably more like multi-trillion dollars of taxpayer's money.

And it's the US Government stealing it. The Somalis, welfare queens and all the other hangers on that live off my taxes are just the beneficiaries, the cut-outs and middle men used by Congress to line their pockets with my hard earned money.

It's theft. On a national scale. The largest transfer of wealth in history. To them. From you and me.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 02, 2026 12:24 PM (NwnyJ)

36 Here at CBS News we've re-dedicated ourselves to telling you about things that you knew five years ago unless the real powerbrokers of the Uniparty tell us to continue ignoring it. Honest Somali. -- CBS News

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 02, 2026 12:24 PM (ExV1e)

37 CBS News: Sure, we've been lying to you for decades but you can trust us now! Swearsies!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 02, 2026 12:24 PM (L/fGl)

38 Afternoon Ace. Thx again for what you and the COBs do.

There have been some minor kickbacks, but let's see how long it takes for the propaganda ministries to to do full search and destroy attacks on CBS. Within a week for so id think

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 02, 2026 12:24 PM (zNwXb)

39 So what we are seeing right now from some of the smarter FNM outlets is "how do I do the minimum to regain enough trust that most LIVs will again turn to me for information that only supports the narrative?"

Nicely put.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 02, 2026 12:25 PM (Riz8t)

40 Hey - the first Friday that Mamdani is mayor.

Will muslims block streets today for prayer or is it too cold?

Posted by: CTHillary, dead but dreaming at January 02, 2026 12:25 PM (Vpqw1)

41 Reporters are too stupid to determine who is an expert.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at January 02, 2026 12:25 PM (RQ8Pa)

42 'They Only Talk to "Advocates," "Academics," and "Elites;"'

Paid Talking Heads. Like 'expert witnesses' in trials. Drop the money in the slot, get exactly the story you want to hear.

Posted by: gp at January 02, 2026 12:25 PM (GHIyr)

43 Bet they covered for the Somalians already, got set up for a fake theft, bad timeing for videographers who showed up in the middle of the night and no kids there

Posted by: Skip at January 02, 2026 12:26 PM (Ia/+0)

44
The warmth of the Kolyma mines

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at January 02, 2026 12:26 PM (xG4kz)

45 The last time I saw the media and the left go after a private individual as rabidly as they've gone after Nick Shirley is when Joe the Plumber dared embarrass their Holy Obama.

Either there was a DNC blast fax or the media already knew about the fraud and knows to protect the Democrats from it.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 02, 2026 12:26 PM (QZThv)

46 "Reporters are too stupid to determine who is an expert."

Only experts have the expertise to properly identify an expert.

Posted by: gp at January 02, 2026 12:27 PM (GHIyr)

47 I’ll never trust the legacy media again no matter what they say. "

"Trusting" media is a function of government control thru the mid 20th century.
It's just reverting to the norm.

Posted by: man at January 02, 2026 12:27 PM (xDZRs)

48 Some people think that the Republican Party will benefit politically as New York City falls apart over the next year, but they underestimate to the extent that we can blame everything on "looters" and "wreckers".

Shoot the kulaks and other mad dogs, Comrades!

Posted by: Madmani! at January 02, 2026 12:27 PM (xTIDn)

49 'They Only Talk to "Advocates," "Academics," and "Elites;

And they still are.. I saw some "doctor" expert say Trump is gravely ill and is lying about his heath just yesterday... Funny.. They never noticed brain dead Biden...

Posted by: It's me donna at January 02, 2026 12:27 PM (VE6XX)

50 29 "We will replace the frigidity of rugged individualism with the warmth of collectivism," says Mamdani
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 02, 2026 12:21 PM (L/fGl)

Posted by: Tom at January 02, 2026 12:27 PM (uWKK8)

51 If a real "journalist" is talking/writing then they are lying.
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Willowed:
Good commuter car for those who live in a mild-climate area.

I wouldn't get a Tesla though, I'd get a Leaf
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Sorry, I'm at that stage in life where I'm not going to drive a tiny car. I can afford a bit more. The base model Teslas aren't that crazy in price. You can get a used one too.

Posted by: lin-duh is offended at January 02, 2026 12:28 PM (VCgbV)

52 Bet they covered for the Somalians already, got set up for a fake theft, bad timeing for videographers who showed up in the middle of the night and no kids there

They were caught changing the hours on their web site so the media could say Nick was there when it's closed. Both the old and new hours don't match what they're licensed to operate though (they claim to close at midnight, which is retarded for a daycare, and they're not licensed for past 8 PM).

Posted by: Ian S. at January 02, 2026 12:28 PM (QZThv)

53 I may actually give the guy a shot, and watch his show once or twice.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 02, 2026 12:28 PM (fUDfS)

54 Oh please!! Douche bags!

Posted by: SOMEASSHOLESTOLEMYPEN at January 02, 2026 12:28 PM (eJnZA)

55 We may be fake, but we're accurate.

Posted by: Dan Rather at January 02, 2026 12:28 PM (2Ez/1)

56 Now, apply that same admission to the Intelligence Community. The vast majority of analyst positions are filled by academics with agendas. Those very same socialist touting professors of Harvard, Yale and all the other elitist institutions are the ones deciphering events, speeches, and actions down in Langley. And, we've seen their track record over the last couple of decades.

The media misinterprets (purposefully most of the time). The media obfuscates a lot of the time. They omit to protect. Misrepresent to push a message.

The CIA does all those things, and ignores obvious warning signs because it doesn't reflect their world view. Like, oh I don't know, a small army of Saudis learning how to fly jetliners in the US.

Posted by: Orson at January 02, 2026 12:28 PM (dIske)

57 By the way, I feel great, definitely not suicidal.

Posted by: Tony Dokoupil at January 02, 2026 12:29 PM (Y1sOo)

58 I love Talking Heads ... And TomTom Club ...

Posted by: Adriane the Lack of Vacuum Critic. . . at January 02, 2026 12:29 PM (EI78d)

59 "We will replace the frigidity of rugged individualism with the warmth of collectivism," says Mamdani
--
I'd rather the risk of freezing in the freedom of rugged individualism than the certainty of burning in the fires of collectivism.

But I guess the tinder of 100 million bodies consumed by collectivism in the last century didn't provide enough "warmth."

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 02, 2026 12:29 PM (HXT0k)

60 well that was a new year misfire.

29 "We will replace the frigidity of rugged individualism with the warmth of collectivism," says Mamdani
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 02, 2026 12:21 PM (L/fGl)

Notice how Mamdani frames his arguments in psycho-sexual terms, and avoids logic?

That's why young women love him so - he's one of them.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 02, 2026 12:29 PM (uWKK8)

61 Either there was a DNC blast fax or the media already knew about the fraud and knows to protect the Democrats from it.
Posted by: Ian S. at January 02, 2026 12:26 PM (QZThv)

Of course they knew about it. We've been talking about it for decades. It's just that no one pays attention to us. We're the heroes here. -- Powerline

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 02, 2026 12:29 PM (ExV1e)

62 Shoot the kulaks and other mad dogs, Comrades!

And don't forget the "Zionists"!

By the end of my term. we'll be blaming the Jews for well poisonings!

Posted by: Madmani! at January 02, 2026 12:30 PM (xTIDn)

63 Maybe step outside a city, once. Not every place outside the cities is covered in horse shit, which by the way, is a lot less noxious than human feces.

Posted by: huerfano at January 02, 2026 12:30 PM (98kQX)

64 "Reporters are too stupid to determine who is an expert."

Only experts have the expertise to properly identify an expert.

One of my old bosses and I were discussing government support for artists. I was against, of course, while he was vehemently for. I asked him who would decide what was worthwhile art. He replied "artists, of course".

I lost a great deal of respect for him that day.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 02, 2026 12:30 PM (Riz8t)

65 As others elsewhere instantly pointed out, this CBS statement is actually completely off the mark.

It's pretty simple. "News" is supposed to be gathering/summary/presentation of *information*. Not, at all, a question of "talking to" any particular audience.

So as one would expect there still isn't the slightest comprehension of a legit or useful role here. All the hoopla over Weiss was puzzling, this silly crap was to be expected.

Posted by: rhomboid at January 02, 2026 12:30 PM (U/Byj)

66 A side story: Jay Leno never spent any of the money he got paid on the Tonight Show. He shoved the checks into a bank account and still has not spent them. He went out and did standup and corporate appearances for his pay and lived on them instead of the pay. Leno claims he still never touches that account.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 02, 2026 12:31 PM (3Amc7)

67 "We will replace the frigidity of rugged individualism with the warmth of collectivism," says Mamdani
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 02, 2026 12:21 PM (L/fGl)

It's pretty fucking frigid in the gulag.

Posted by: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn at January 02, 2026 12:31 PM (TbWk/)

68 I saw some "doctor" expert say Trump is gravely ill and is lying about his heath just yesterday

-
If you can't trust the people who lied to you about Biden's physical and mental health for four years, who can you trust?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 02, 2026 12:31 PM (L/fGl)

69 ... It's pretty simple. "News" is supposed to be gathering/summary/presentation of *information*. Not, at all, a question of "talking to" any particular audience. ...
Posted by: rhomboid at January 02, 2026 12:30 PM (U/Byj)
++++
If you're a "reporter" then, sure.

But these people are "journalists" and that is a very different thing.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 02, 2026 12:31 PM (avHHk)

70 Of course they knew about it. We've been talking about it for decades. It's just that no one pays attention to us. We're the heroes here. -- Powerline

I enjoy the snark, but I don't think that really excuses the MFM. It's like how they ignore O'Keefe, and smear him when that doesn't work.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 02, 2026 12:31 PM (QZThv)

71 >>> Maybe step outside a city, once. Not every place outside the cities is covered in horse shit, which by the way, is a lot less noxious than human feces.
Posted by: huerfano at January 02, 2026 12:30 PM (98kQX)

I primarily go to places with a lot of horse shit. And horses.

Posted by: banana Dream at January 02, 2026 12:32 PM (3uBP9)

72 So CBS is going to do a "conservatives in the mist" thing where they send journalists on safari to the jungles of Missouri and Ohio to talk to the "real, common people" of flyover country while they nod along in simulated interest according to all "active listening" techniques and then fly back to New York having learned nothing.
--
LOL, no.

They'll call the same far left "background" sources they use for all their stories.
And just say it's "Dave from Kansas City."

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 02, 2026 12:32 PM (HXT0k)

73 I heard a sneer in his voice when he said "Hunter Biden's laptop".

Nothing will change. They will only try to claim it did, but we plebs were too stupid to see it.

Posted by: AZ Hi Desert (Gringo fuertemente armado-Tempus belli) at January 02, 2026 12:32 PM (zBIzS)

74 Either there was a DNC blast fax or the media already knew about the fraud and knows to protect the Democrats from it.

I think that this is one of those things where there didn't need to be a conspiracy, because they all think the same. Conservative did thing, then thing bad, so the story is bad conservative.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 02, 2026 12:32 PM (3Amc7)

75
CBS turns over a new leaf by......gas lighting us?

Posted by: Frank Barone at January 02, 2026 12:32 PM (IifOV)

76 The sponge for bacteria that filter fish poop in an aquarium is also called media.

Posted by: DaveA at January 02, 2026 12:32 PM (FhXTo)

77 The CIA employs more accountants than the Treasury Department.

Because they've got so many schemes and fronts running around the world, making money, that they can hardly keep track of it. They make so much money on the side, unaccounted for, that they don't even need the money budgeted to them by Congress every year.

They're self sufficient. And totally ungovernable.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 02, 2026 12:33 PM (NwnyJ)

78 LOL, no.

They'll call the same far left "background" sources they use for all their stories.
And just say it's "Dave from Kansas City."
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 02, 2026 12:32 PM (HXT0k)
+++
Heh. Probably, yeah.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 02, 2026 12:33 PM (avHHk)

79 We missed Biden's being a senile old man, but we found out Trump.is a senile old man
CBS News

Posted by: Skip at January 02, 2026 12:33 PM (Ia/+0)

80 Media hasn't changed its stripes in 80 years.

There is a great quote in Miller's Masters of the Air, page 121 (paperback edition cause I'm frugal) where the glorious Walter Cronkite, then with the UP, says, "We were all on the same side then, and most of us newsmen abandoned any part of impartiality as we reported on the heroism of our boys..."

That abandonment continues to this day.

Posted by: Diogenes at January 02, 2026 12:34 PM (2WIwB)

81 Hey, Ace, how was your steak yesterday?

Posted by: Bulg at January 02, 2026 12:34 PM (77rzZ)

82 I enjoy the snark, but I don't think that really excuses the MFM. It's like how they ignore O'Keefe, and smear him when that doesn't work.
Posted by: Ian S. at January 02, 2026 12:31 PM (QZThv)

It wasn't intended to excuse the MSM. I believe that the Powerline guys really have been talking about the Somali issue for a considerable amount of time. The problem with them is that wrote it up on their blog and that was the extent of their effort.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 02, 2026 12:34 PM (ExV1e)

83 We missed Biden's being a senile old man, but we found out Trump.is a senile old man
CBS News

You laugh, but remember that Jake Tapper said that he'd missed Biden's senility so he'll make up for it by going extra hard after...Trump. You can't make this stuff up.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 02, 2026 12:35 PM (Riz8t)

84 LOL, no.

They'll call the same far left "background" sources they use for all their stories.
And just say it's "Dave from Kansas City."
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 02, 2026 12:32 PM (HXT0k)
++++
And it will sound like this:
https://youtu.be/lpzVc7s-_e8

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 02, 2026 12:35 PM (avHHk)

85 CBS: Trust us! Because we hear YOU!
(and not because we are gearing up for the mid-terms.)

Posted by: Diogenes at January 02, 2026 12:35 PM (2WIwB)

86 Nice statement. If you expect me to believe it then prove you've changed.

I won't be holding my breath.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 02, 2026 12:35 PM (viF8m)

87 Funny media has never reported on Chy Com Collusion and biobombs unleashed on YT world. Odd, really.

Posted by: Pudinhead at January 02, 2026 12:36 PM (fzmqt)

88 They make so much money on the side, unaccounted for, that they don't even need the money budgeted to them by Congress every year.

Not unlike Jay Leno when he was hosting the Tonight Show.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 02, 2026 12:36 PM (ExV1e)

89 We should a tool to fight. We need a gang to attack, but used/controlled by Mr Trump

They get angry easily. So say something to draw their anger out, like, Your mother works in the men's restroom in a small town in Texas.

Posted by: thug dolphin at January 02, 2026 12:36 PM (EyfuW)

90 >>I primarily go to places with a lot of horse shit. And horses.

Posted by: banana Dream at January 02, 2026 12:32 PM

We raise cattle in my area of the outdoors, mostly.

Posted by: huerfano at January 02, 2026 12:36 PM (98kQX)

91 "I believe that the Powerline guys really have been talking about the Somali issue for a considerable amount of time."

Yes, they've been all over it for a long time. They often don't get credit for local news groundwork they've done.

Posted by: gp at January 02, 2026 12:36 PM (GHIyr)

92 CBS: Trust us! Because we hear YOU!

I should hope so. I'm yelling F*** YOU!!! at the top of my lungs.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 02, 2026 12:36 PM (Riz8t)

93 What a load of horseshit.

Posted by: Mrs. Santa's unclean sister at January 02, 2026 12:36 PM (aTta8)

94 In 2003, media critics noticed that the same man kept popping up time after time in “man on the street” interviews. Greg Packer, a highway maintenance worker from upstate New York, was quoted by The New York Times, the New York Daily News, the Los Angeles Times, the New York Post, the Philadelphia Inquirer, the London Times, and other publications. He also appeared on CNN, MSNBC, and Fox. But he was always described as nobody special, just a random person.

... lightning didn't just strike twice, it did it dozens of times

Posted by: SMOD at January 02, 2026 12:37 PM (RHGPo)

95 Nice statement. If you expect me to believe it then prove you've changed.

I won't be holding my breath.
Posted by: JackStraw at January 02, 2026 12:35 PM (viF8m)
++++
There comes a point where trust cannot be re-established.

A single lie or betrayal is potentially forgivable. Maybe even multiple. It depends on circumstances.

Continuous betrayal and deceit for years on end cannot be. Trust is not damaged, it is gone. It cannot be fixed. Anything with their names is forever untrustworthy. Forever tainted. CBS can return to a straight and narrow path, but for me at least, it won't matter. CBS cannot be trusted. Not today, not tomorrow. Never again. Trust is over. Their very name is nothing more than a synonym for deceit.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 02, 2026 12:38 PM (avHHk)

96 If the monarchy is restored in Iran, this lady would be an empress

and the mullahs want to hide this behind a burka

https://tinyurl.com/yu97a7ec
Posted by: Don Black

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at January 02, 2026 12:38 PM (/lPRQ)

97 Gosh, this sounds an awful lot like a government approach I've been reading a lot about lately. Begins with F and ends with ism. If only I could remember.

China’s rocket industry meanwhile has boomed, and it has done so by adopting policies directly opposite to that of Putin. It has allowed the formation of what I call pseudo-companies, which mimic capitalism by working independently while competing for contracts and profits. All are under close supervision and control by the communist government, which can take them over at any time, but this system allows for competition which thus encourages innovation and efficiency.

https://is.gd/3iEWhb

Posted by: Archimedes at January 02, 2026 12:39 PM (Riz8t)

98 frigidity of rugged individualism with the warmth of collectivism"

Huddled for warmth?

*that's not my elbow...

Posted by: man at January 02, 2026 12:39 PM (xDZRs)

99 The warmth of collectivism.

https://is.gd/h6PCyn

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 02, 2026 12:40 PM (L/fGl)

100 I personally know three "journalist." One is a good friend, my age, and we were in the same fraternity. He's a great guy. He worked with ABC for years but I would not trust his reporting to same my ass.
Why?
He, like the other two, have been drinking the Kool-aide for so long, he cannot even conceptualize how conservatives think. He is intellectually incapable of understanding why A) Trump is so popular; and B) why people no longer trust him and his colleagues.
Sad.

Posted by: Diogenes at January 02, 2026 12:40 PM (2WIwB)

101 Greg Packer's status as a frequent interviewee is due to a number of factors, including seeking out members of the press and appearing friendly, although mostly it is due to his hobby of attending public appearances of celebrities and other media events and attempting to be first in line on such occasions. This has led to him being dubbed a professional line sitter. It has also led to Packer's other claim to fame: being the first person in the world to buy an iPhone, on June 29, 2007 at Apple Fifth Avenue in New York City, after having camped out for five days in front of the store. (He tried to similarly be the first to buy an iPad in 2010, but was bumped from the first position in line due to not having a reservation.) His efforts to be first in line have also allowed him to meet people including Mariah Carey, Garth Brooks, Dennis Rodman and Ringo Starr, as well as at least four presidents of the United States: Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush and (before he became president) Donald Trump.

Posted by: SMOD at January 02, 2026 12:40 PM (RHGPo)

102 These are the same motherfuckers who would put on masks just before the cameras rolled.

So which is it -- were the "advocates" (what does that mean?) experts and academics saying that masks were only necessary on camera?

OR WERE YOU MOTHERFUCKERS INTENTIONALLY LYING to the public?

Fuck you and your whole corrupt industry.
And wear a fucking T-shit under your shirt so that it is all white and you don't look like a fucking Frenchman.

Posted by: Mrs. Santa's unclean sister at January 02, 2026 12:40 PM (aTta8)

103 There comes a point where trust cannot be re-established.

A single lie or betrayal is potentially forgivable. Maybe even multiple. It depends on circumstances.

Continuous betrayal and deceit for years on end cannot be. Trust is not damaged, it is gone. It cannot be fixed. Anything with their names is forever untrustworthy. Forever tainted. CBS can return to a straight and narrow path, but for me at least, it won't matter. CBS cannot be trusted. Not today, not tomorrow. Never again. Trust is over. Their very name is nothing more than a synonym for deceit.

From my #14:
I listened to what the blow dried mannequin said, and I knew what he would and wouldn't say. He never says anything describing the real problem, namely "we allowed ourselves to become ideological robots, slaves to the left, and ONLY the left. All of us. As a result, the only way we will actually change is if we're all fired."

Posted by: Archimedes at January 02, 2026 12:40 PM (Riz8t)

104 Being lied to by the MSM is just the cost of business in a complicated world.

--Retard Mike DeWine Ohio Dimwit Who is Lining His Pockets

Posted by: Cheri at January 02, 2026 12:41 PM (oiNtH)

105 There comes a point where trust cannot be re-established.

A single lie or betrayal is potentially forgivable. Maybe even multiple. It depends on circumstances.

Continuous betrayal and deceit for years on end cannot be. Trust is not damaged, it is gone. It cannot be fixed. Anything with their names is forever untrustworthy. Forever tainted. CBS can return to a straight and narrow path, but for me at least, it won't matter. CBS cannot be trusted. Not today, not tomorrow. Never again. Trust is over. Their very name is nothing more than a synonym for deceit.
Posted by: Joe Mannix

*the medical establishment has entered the chat.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 02, 2026 12:41 PM (c115l)

106 remember when CBS hired all those typewriting experts to prove that the letters about Bush were true and didn't one turn out to be a Fraud.

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at January 02, 2026 12:41 PM (FCrpy)

107 Tony Dukopil (or any of the anchors, in fact) isn't doing the reportage themselves. They have layers and layers of producers who do the actual work, and the anchor at the top of the news pyramid simply reads off the teleprompter the words that these producers write. There is no way that these anchors get up in the morning, research the stories, and have it all done by 6:30 PM when they broadcast the news.

You want to know how the news sausage gets made, watch Broadcast News.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at January 02, 2026 12:41 PM (0CU3H)

108 and the mullahs want to hide this behind a burka

https://tinyurl.com/yu97a7ec"
.wowza. ...

Posted by: man at January 02, 2026 12:41 PM (xDZRs)

109 Jack 'ass' Smith: Intentional fraud is not allowed under the protections of “free speech.”

... this would have been an interesting development had the courts accepted this notion.
Imagine if it were used to impeach those who have engaged in endless “lawfare” before the courts.

It seems possible, if applied to the 2000 presidential election, we may have had a President Ralph Nader.

Posted by: SMOD at January 02, 2026 12:41 PM (RHGPo)

110 All are under close supervision and control by the communist government, which can take them over at any time, but this system allows for competition which thus encourages innovation and efficiency.

Whichever company build best rocket, government buy. Leaders of company get place in government. Other companies, other leaders... you die. Be better. -- CCP

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 02, 2026 12:42 PM (ExV1e)

111 I take this kinda like how you could ask some lefties, who claim to be about the facts and truth, "are there any facts which would cause you to change your mind about global warming?"
And they always answer "no."

Because it's a religion.

The problem with the news isn't that they slant their reporting:
It's their religion of leftism, which absolutely dictates down to the smallest detail what is "news"

Running a stock photo of a white man being cuffed for a crime story--when the actual perp is a coal-black immigrant--isn't "lack of proper focus," that's the fervor of religious propaganda.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 02, 2026 12:42 PM (HXT0k)

112 In other news:

"The Atlanta Journal-Constitution ended its 157-year print run on Dec. 31, 2025, moving to a digital-only format.
Atlanta is now the only major U.S. city without a daily printed newspaper"

You know, the 'newspaper' that killed Richard Jewell.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 02, 2026 12:42 PM (XeU6L)

113 CBS "News" Announces That They Have "Missed" Big Stories Because They Only Talk to "Advocates," "Academics," and "Elites;" Admits That No One Trusts the "Legacy Media" Any Longer
—Ace
And they promise they'll correct that.

I'm disappointed, Ace. This is the perfect setup for your classic involving "promises", "that thing," and "your mouth." Some assembly required.

Posted by: Moron Analyst at January 02, 2026 12:42 PM (ycI94)

114
Imagine some major news story where the only people the media goes to talk to about it are

Jordan Peterson
Thomas Sowell
Victor Davis Hanson
Salena Zito

And imagine if EVERY news story was like this

Be a hell of a better world but...

Posted by: 18-1

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

That's the thing. I don't mind stories that include analysis by experts rather than the perspective of "the average American." CBS is ignoring the fact that the roster of experts is always people like Nikole Hannah.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 02, 2026 12:42 PM (n7rxJ)

115 frigidity of rugged individualism with the warmth of collectivism

Joe Walsh (the former congressman, not the guy whose Maserati goes 185) is whining that when he became a Democrat and supported Mamdami he didn't know the guy was a Communist, so the "warmth of collectivism" statement is giving him the sads.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 02, 2026 12:43 PM (QZThv)

116 Demon rum.

New Jersey thief returns mandolins he stole before Christmas: "SORRY, I BEEN DRUNK"

https://is.gd/5IIu25

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 02, 2026 12:43 PM (L/fGl)

117 Don't take Dukopil if you are allergic to Dukopil.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at January 02, 2026 12:43 PM (0U5gm)

118 and the mullahs want to hide this behind a burka

https://tinyurl.com/yu97a7ec"
.wowza. ...
Posted by: man

Proof positive they are irredeemable goat fuckers.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 02, 2026 12:43 PM (c115l)

119 These are the same motherfuckers who would put on masks just before the cameras rolled.
-Mrs. Santa's unclean sister

Or, if you are David Muir, have an assistant put clothes pins to cinch your fireman's coat to make you look like a stud when you report on a fire. What a putz.

Posted by: Cheri at January 02, 2026 12:44 PM (oiNtH)

120
and the mullahs want to hide this behind a burka

https://tinyurl.com/yu97a7ec"
.wowza. ...
Posted by: man

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

She's had a ton of plastic surgery, but your point stands.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 02, 2026 12:44 PM (n7rxJ)

121 frigidity of rugged individualism

I'm good with that.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 02, 2026 12:44 PM (c115l)

122 Hi I'm a retard [commercial break] and I still watch [commercial break] the TV news.

Posted by: An Hour of Television Jam Packed With 15 Minutes of Fake News at January 02, 2026 12:44 PM (qUkBO)

123 Zohran Mamdani: We Will Replace The Frigidity Of Rugged Individualism With The Warmth Of Collectivism

"Compassionate Collectivism"

its' like watching GWB in Bizarro World.

Posted by: SMOD at January 02, 2026 12:44 PM (RHGPo)

124 Did the "experts" tell them to lie about "fine people"?

They were either criminally incompetent, or criminally co-conspirators, and now they are claiming it was just a messaging problem. FUCK FUCK FUCK them.

Posted by: Mrs. Santa's unclean sister at January 02, 2026 12:44 PM (aTta8)

125 Is hoping they all die of ass cancer a sin?

Posted by: Pudinhead at January 02, 2026 12:45 PM (fzmqt)

126 She's had a ton of plastic surgery, but your point stands."

That's good plastics...

Posted by: man at January 02, 2026 12:45 PM (xDZRs)

127 This is almost like what the media does whenever the Presidency switches parties:

If it goes from GOP to Dem, the press will say that they probably went over the line in their "standing up to the Administration" and pledge to not be as confrontational to the new President.

When it goes from Dem to GOP, the press will say that they weren't "tough enough on those in power" and will pledge to hold the new President accountable.

Basically, help the Dems and try to destroy the GOP.

Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper at January 02, 2026 12:45 PM (k1E2D)

128 "Fake but true"

Posted by: CBS at January 02, 2026 12:45 PM (XeU6L)

129
So CBS is going to do a "conservatives in the mist" thing where they send journalists on safari to the jungles of Missouri and Ohio to talk to the "real, common people" of flyover country while they nod along in simulated interest according to all "active listening" techniques and then fly back to New York having learned nothing.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)

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

The fewer teeth, the better. That's the average American.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 02, 2026 12:45 PM (n7rxJ)

130 Hi I'm a retard [commercial break] and I still watch [commercial break] the TV news.
Posted by: An Hour of Television Jam Packed With 15 Minutes of Fake News at January 02, 2026 12:44 PM (qUkBO)
++++
Man, if only.

My favorite thing in my market is the total fake "news" story that is actually an advertisement. I sometimes tune in to the AM news for weather reports. Most of the time, there's a "news" segment is that very clearly bought and paid for. "News" coverage of a product and how great it is isn't a thing. That's a commercial read by the newsreaders without disclosure.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 02, 2026 12:46 PM (avHHk)

131 84 LOL, no.

They'll call the same far left "background" sources they use for all their stories.
And just say it's "Dave from Kansas City."
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 02, 2026 12:32 PM (HXT0k)
++++
And it will sound like this:
https://youtu.be/lpzVc7s-_e8
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 02, 2026 12:35 PM (avHHk)

***

Ha!
Exaclty.
I would laugh at my journo buddy and ask:
Why is it when you interview an environmentalist, the guy you talk to is wearing flannel?
Why is it when you interview an academic, the dude has a beard?
Why is it when you interview a "conservative" it's always a truck driver?
Why is it when you interview someone about race, it's always a person of color?

He didn't think it was funny.

Posted by: Diogenes at January 02, 2026 12:46 PM (2WIwB)

132 [iThese are the same motherf***ers who would put on masks just before the cameras rolled.

Yeah, that's just unethical.

Posted by: Canoeist in a storm at January 02, 2026 12:46 PM (Riz8t)

133 "The warmth of collectivism."

Social Security paid my $250 furnace bill last month. Socialism kept me warm. After living on SS for ten years, it's getting harder and harder for me to throw stones in this glass house.

Face it: SS is socialism. It's charity. Yes, it was supposed to be a contract, but now it's just govt dole. The principal was squandered and stolen long ago, and today it's all funded by printed fiat money. Every time gold and silver go up, that's your USD becoming more and more worthless to "pay" for the dole.

SS was a stupid unsutainable socialist promise that could never be kept forever, and it's draining this nation. I have to admit this, despite it being against my own personal interest.

Posted by: gp at January 02, 2026 12:46 PM (GHIyr)

134 If the monarchy is restored in Iran, this lady would be an empress

and the mullahs want to hide this behind a burka

https://tinyurl.com/yu97a7ec
Posted by: Don Black
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at January 02, 2026 12:38 PM (/lPRQ)

Interestingly, her younger sister Iman - the middle sister, I believe, married a Jew.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 02, 2026 12:46 PM (ExV1e)

135 >>New Jersey thief returns mandolins he stole before Christmas: "SORRY, I BEEN DRUNK"

https://is.gd/5IIu25

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 02, 2026 12:43 PM

Must have been too difficult to fence, not being in Tennessee or Kentucky.

Posted by: huerfano at January 02, 2026 12:46 PM (98kQX)

136 and the mullahs want to hide this behind a burka

https://tinyurl.com/yu97a7ec

The mullahs are gayer than Scott Weiner. This is known.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 02, 2026 12:47 PM (QZThv)

137 when he became a Democrat and supported Mamdami he didn't know the guy was a Communist

-
Well, it was a big secret.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 02, 2026 12:47 PM (L/fGl)

138 Obama appointed judge will get this case of course, totally randomly. And then rule in favor of leftists. TRO by next week probably.

…

Danish renewables giant Orsted, the world’s largest developer of offshore wind farms, said on Friday that it had launched legal action against the Trump administration over the suspension of its $5 billion Revolution Wind project.

Shares of the Copenhagen-listed company rose more than 4% on the news, putting the stock among the top performers of the pan-European Stoxx 600 index.

Posted by: Really?? at January 02, 2026 12:47 PM (/CkK4)

139 Report: Curtis Sliwa says Zohran Mamdani has a mandate as Mayor and tells his supporters to give him a chance:

“He won a majority. He has a mandate. The Masters of the Universe, the billionaires, did everything they could to make sure he wasn’t the mayor. It didn’t work. He’s a great organizer.”

Scum.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at January 02, 2026 12:47 PM (xTIDn)

140 122 Hi I'm a retard [commercial break] and I still watch [commercial break] the TV news.
Posted by: An Hour of Television Jam Packed With 15 Minutes of Fake News at January 02, 2026 12:44 PM (qUkBO)

The sheer preponderance of ads shows people are still watching TV news.

That reminds me every time:
-Cable channels, no commercials because you paid a monthly fee. Then add commercials (at least to news and other non movie channels.)
-Streaming, no commercials, because you paid a monthly fee. Now every service chock-a-blocs your movie with ads unless you get the premium-premium service (on top of already buying the thing.)

Analysis: all of this is bullshit.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 02, 2026 12:47 PM (bss/y)

141 NGOs/advocates+academics+elites= oligarchy

Putting the people before the oligarchs = Big if true.

Narrator: It isn't.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at January 02, 2026 12:47 PM (wBaIH)

142 Princess Noor Pahlavi

They might actually be willing to go back to Persia.

https://farahpahlavi.org/
princess-noor-pahlavi/

Had an Uncle who spent time there during the 'Nam era.
Never said a negative word.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at January 02, 2026 12:47 PM (/lPRQ)

143 and the mullahs want to hide this behind a burka

https://tinyurl.com/yu97a7ec"
.wowza. ...
Posted by: man

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

She's had a ton of plastic surgery, but your point stands.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 02, 2026 12:44 PM (n7rxJ)

***

Meh.
We have Melania.

Posted by: Diogenes at January 02, 2026 12:48 PM (2WIwB)

144 She's had a ton of plastic surgery, but your point stands.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 02, 2026 12:44 PM (n7rxJ)
===============
She has? Wow, they start early down there in DC I guess. She looks pretty great to me, and I assumed it was all natural. Her mom has always been pretty good looking too.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 02, 2026 12:48 PM (7L0HB)

145 Believe when I see. I mean we had Tapper and Thomas come out with their book after Biden and how the media vow'd they would do better. So their idea of doing better was now to call out that Trump's health was failing. These idiots. You want to prove to us that you are actually working for the ppl and being honest. Then cover stuff that doesn't only put Trump in a negative light. Start digging into Democrat ran states like Illinois and CA to start.

Posted by: Seth at January 02, 2026 12:48 PM (eZUFV)

146 139 Report: Curtis Sliwa says Zohran Mamdani has a mandate as Mayor and tells his supporters to give him a chance:

“He won a majority. He has a mandate. The Masters of the Universe, the billionaires, did everything they could to make sure he wasn’t the mayor. It didn’t work. He’s a great organizer.”

Scum.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at January 02, 2026 12:47 PM (xTIDn)

The check cleared.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at January 02, 2026 12:49 PM (0CU3H)

147 96 If the monarchy is restored in Iran, this lady would be an empress

and the mullahs want to hide this behind a burka

https://tinyurl.com/yu97a7ec
Posted by: Don Black
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at January 02, 2026 12:38 PM (/lPRQ)

:::sigh:::

:::zip:::

Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper at January 02, 2026 12:49 PM (k1E2D)

148 I think what CBS meant to say was they mislead with every story they aired.

Not missed

Just a minor technicality.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 02, 2026 12:49 PM (NwnyJ)

149
33 Big story today here is FBI uncovered?? a jihadi plot by a black 18 year old kid to kill people at Burger King and Teeter. He's been trying to kill people with hammers for 3 years. Last week same suburb black guy shot two cops both in the head. They lived. He didn't. No jihad. Just anger at child custody arrangement.
Posted by: NCKate at January 02, 2026 12:24 PM (uQzkA)

-------

Did an FBI informant provide the hammer-time kid with a bigger hammer?

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at January 02, 2026 12:49 PM (azNOR)

150 75 CBS turns over a new leaf by......gas lighting us?

i hope they bought carbon offsets for all that gas

Posted by: anachronda at January 02, 2026 12:49 PM (edU/H)

151 Wait, did Iran fall down? Note: not been watching news.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 02, 2026 12:50 PM (bss/y)

152 She has? Wow, they start early down there in DC I guess. She looks pretty great to me, and I assumed it was all natural. Her mom has always been pretty good looking too.

Well, when you're the shah, you kinda get your pick of the hotties.

Posted by: Her Dad and Granddad at January 02, 2026 12:50 PM (Riz8t)

153 Until "journalists" are giving $2 handies under the overpass for food I will not be satisfied.

Posted by: toby928(c) at January 02, 2026 12:50 PM (jc0TO)

154 Weiss isn't perfect, she is a lib, and I have no idea if what she's trying to do will work or last. However it's another the big that the left gets to outraged about and can't get enough of those. Keep hitting them

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 02, 2026 12:50 PM (zNwXb)

155 33 a jihadi plot by a black 18 year old kid to kill people at Burger King and Teeter.

totter is best teeter

Posted by: anachronda at January 02, 2026 12:50 PM (edU/H)

156 151 Wait, did Iran fall down? Note: not been watching news.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 02, 2026 12:50 PM (bss/y)

Another uprising, but I fear it will end up like all the others...

Posted by: It's me donna at January 02, 2026 12:50 PM (VE6XX)

157 Report: Curtis Sliwa says Zohran Mamdani has a mandate as Mayor and tells his supporters to give him a chance:

“He won a majority. He has a mandate. The Masters of the Universe, the billionaires, did everything they could to make sure he wasn’t the mayor. It didn’t work. He’s a great organizer.”

Scum.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at January 02, 2026 12:47 PM (xTIDn)

The check cleared.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at January 02, 2026

Berets aren't cheap, you know.

Posted by: Josephistan at January 02, 2026 12:50 PM (G0Uu2)

158 The left and the Tucker “right” hate Bari because she doesn’t want Israel destroyed.

Posted by: Really?? at January 02, 2026 12:51 PM (/CkK4)

159 Wait, did Iran fall down? Note: not been watching news.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 02, 2026 12:50 PM (bss/y)

A bit of a contretemps among the natives.

Posted by: Diogenes at January 02, 2026 12:51 PM (2WIwB)

160 Berets aren't cheap, you know.

The kind you find at the second-hand store are.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 02, 2026 12:51 PM (QZThv)

161 33 Big story today here is FBI uncovered?? a jihadi plot by a black 18 year old kid to kill people at Burger King and Teeter. He's been trying to kill people with hammers for 3 years. Last week same suburb black guy shot two cops both in the head. They lived. He didn't. No jihad. Just anger at child custody arrangement.
Posted by: NCKate at January 02, 2026 12:24 PM (uQzkA)

Chacun son métier

Posted by: Mrs. Santa's unclean sister at January 02, 2026 12:51 PM (aTta8)

162
Spokespeople for "Balanced Coverage"

Left side
- Academic in front of impressive bookshelf
- Guy in white coat or scrubs
- Whiny woman with big glasses

Right side
- Smarmy lobbyist in shiny suit
- Redneck with missing teeth

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 02, 2026 12:51 PM (tgvbd)

163 My favorite thing in my market is the total fake "news" story that is actually an advertisement. I sometimes tune in to the AM news for weather reports. Most of the time, there's a "news" segment is that very clearly bought and paid for. "News" coverage of a product and how great it is isn't a thing. That's a commercial read by the newsreaders without disclosure.
---

Every news story on a campaign announcement or business announcement is just a repackaged press release they sent out.

I mean, does anyone think the stupidest people in any college are also not the laziest?

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 02, 2026 12:51 PM (HXT0k)

164 157 Report: Curtis Sliwa says Zohran Mamdani has a mandate as Mayor and tells his supporters to give him a chance

Sliwa gives me the creeps

Posted by: It's me donna at January 02, 2026 12:51 PM (VE6XX)

165 "On too many stories, the press has missed the story. Because we've taken into account the perspective of advocates and not the average American. "

yeah, the press did not "miss" the story, they buried facts and rewrote/spun the story with a leftist slant ... all done intentionally.

They don't need to pretend to listen to "average Americans" rather than "experts" (i.e. leftist advocates), they need to seek out Real Experts, like the group (I forgot the name already) of doctors that provided the real path during Covid lockdowns (which was obedience training for the masses, with MFM leading the way).

Posted by: illiniwek at January 02, 2026 12:51 PM (vbXSk)

166 Report: Curtis Sliwa says Zohran Mamdani has a mandate as Mayor and tells his supporters to give him a chance

Gooder and harder, New Yorkers. Gooder and harder.

Posted by: toby928(c) at January 02, 2026 12:51 PM (jc0TO)

167 154 Weiss isn't perfect, she is a lib, and I have no idea if what she's trying to do will work or last. However it's another the big that the left gets to outraged about and can't get enough of those. Keep hitting them

She's in a similar situation to the guy that tried and failed to reform CNN - enough power to make splashy cosmetic changes, but not enough to fundamentally change a thoroughly corrupt institution.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 02, 2026 12:52 PM (Riz8t)

168
The warmth of the Kolyma mines
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot

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

Generally known about mainly because one of its prisoners was a poet -- i.e., an individualist.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 02, 2026 12:52 PM (n7rxJ)

169 I mean, does anyone think the stupidest people in any college are also not the laziest?
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 02, 2026 12:51 PM

Ahem.

Posted by: Education Majors at January 02, 2026 12:52 PM (jc0TO)

170 Another uprising, but I fear it will end up like all the others...
Posted by: It's me donna at January 02, 2026 12:50 PM (VE6XX)

At least this time Barky or Sleepy Joe isn't in charge.

Posted by: Josephistan at January 02, 2026 12:52 PM (G0Uu2)

171 SS was a stupid unsutainable socialist promise that could never be kept forever, and it's draining this nation. I have to admit this, despite it being against my own personal interest.

You would have had far, far more money now if you had been allowed to put all the money you and your employer paid in Social Security taxes into a private investment account.

The government is not subsidizing you - you are subsidizing the government.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at January 02, 2026 12:52 PM (xTIDn)

172 He won a majority. He has a mandate. The Masters of the Universe, the billionaires, did everything they could to make sure he wasn’t the mayor. It didn’t work. He’s a great organizer.”

Nothing in this statement is untrue. It’s sucks that it happened but it’s reality. He did win a majority and billionaires did spend a ton of money to defeat him, which obviously didn’t work.

Posted by: Really?? at January 02, 2026 12:53 PM (/CkK4)

173 Teeter was my dorm in college. Wissler was the specific wing.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 02, 2026 12:53 PM (bss/y)

174 On too many months I missed my car payment. That changes now.

Posted by: Bad Andrew at January 02, 2026 12:53 PM (DgMqy)

175 166 Report: Curtis Sliwa says Zohran Mamdani has a mandate as Mayor and tells his supporters to give him a chance

His "supporters" will.. It's the non-supporters he should be trying to win over...

Posted by: It's me donna at January 02, 2026 12:53 PM (VE6XX)

176 Weiss is a lib and I have no idea if what she's trying to do will work, but it pisses off the left and that's a good thing. Keep hitting them

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 02, 2026 12:53 PM (zNwXb)

177
SS was a stupid unsutainable socialist promise that could never be kept forever, and it's draining this nation. I have to admit this, despite it being against my own personal interest.

Posted by: gp

Social security was just an additional income tax that was added on top of the existing income tax. One year after it was implemented, a lawsuit over it made it to the supreme court. The supreme court agreed that it was simply an additional income tax. All of the talk about lock boxes etc. is just a smoke screen. The money is put into the general fund and any excess funds are used to buy government bonds.

The first instance of "Its a tax".

Posted by: Thomas Paine at January 02, 2026 12:53 PM (0U5gm)

178 Berets aren't cheap, you know.

The kind you find at the second-hand store are.

They throw in the head lice gratis.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 02, 2026 12:54 PM (Riz8t)

179 On too many months I missed my car payment. That changes now.
Posted by: Bad Andrew at January 02, 2026 12:53 PM

You sold your car?

Posted by: toby928(c) at January 02, 2026 12:54 PM (jc0TO)

180
Report: Curtis Sliwa says Zohran Mamdani has a mandate as Mayor and tells his supporters to give him a chance

__________

I don't care what happens in foreign countries.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 02, 2026 12:54 PM (tgvbd)

181 Huh. SLI-wa instead of SIL-wa?

I'd prefer it the other way.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 02, 2026 12:55 PM (bss/y)

182 The Free Press mocks the 60 Minutes crowd today, in Nellie Bowles column, claiming a Free Press writer objected to some editing from Weiss yesterday and stood on his desk and threw a fire extinguisher through a window.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 02, 2026 12:55 PM (QpTiH)

183 I've duplicated my post. Embarreling awaits

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 02, 2026 12:55 PM (zNwXb)

184 They're claiming that their bias is towards experts while they ignore the uninformed general public.

Um, the "experts" told us the vaccine worked and was totally safe and that covid didn't come from a Chinese lab.

They still refuse to admit that and I would never trust a lifelong liar until he admits his lifelong lies.

Posted by: Ace at 12:16 PM

They lied about everything to do with the Plandemic. Because those lies furthered the Deep State narrative. Anything that went against that narrative, the media declared to be "misinformation". Facts about Ivermectin and HCQ and monoclonal antibodies and natural immunity were deemed "misinformation".

I don't believe the media has been biased for decades. I believe the media is the unofficial propaganda ministry for the Deep State.

People with bias will give the benefit of the doubt to someone committing fraud or breaking the law. A propaganda ministry will outright lie about the fraud or law and tell you no fraud exists or no law was broken.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at January 02, 2026 12:55 PM (P5BPp)

185 I think what CBS meant to say was they mislead with every story they aired.

Not missed

Just a minor technicality.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 02, 2026 12:49 PM (NwnyJ)

CBS Nooz telling people they'll do better, is pretty much the same as when Bob Iger comes out and says Dinsey is done with Woke.

Then proceeds to release films from the black lesbian female perspective, because goshdarnit, those are just the best people there are to be making movies.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 02, 2026 12:55 PM (dGCAG)

186 BULL. SHIT.
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at January 02, 2026 12:18 PM (xvV+O)

Exactly. The "C" stands for "Communist". Or "Cocksucker".

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 02, 2026 12:55 PM (8zz6B)

187 CBS’ in memoriam last night included Charlie Kirk “political activist”. He was a podcast host. They skipped Melissa Hortman and John Hoffman though. The USA is fully influenced propagandized media now.

Are we going to have a national day of silence when PewdiePie dies? Trying to immortalize a dead podcaster is moronic

Bari Weiss is a propagandist. CBS is the newest fox news.

She is doing exactly what she was hired to do. Twitter was sold to kill it. Same with CBS. Others aren’t far behind…

The Project 2025 oligarchs seem to own all media now. Maybe they always did but are brazen about it now. The news is dead, and their snippets of proganda are ubiquitous. At least it's obvious now.

Watch the MAGA vultures swoop in and buy up the PBS/NPR studios and production facilities for pennies on the dollar.
TAXPAYER DOLLARS! Yet another giveaway to the corporate scum/MAGA slime.

Remeber when Dan Rather was the principal anchor for CBS Evening News? He still covers politics. He has a free Substack called Steady.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at January 02, 2026 12:55 PM (ycI94)

188 You would have had far, far more money now if you had been allowed to put all the money you and your employer paid in Social Security taxes into a private investment account.

Not to mention the fact that that money would now be part of YOUR estate. If you pay into SS for 50 years, and die the day you start taking it, your heirs get zip.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 02, 2026 12:55 PM (Riz8t)

189 179 On too many months I missed my car payment. That changes now.
Posted by: Bad Andrew at January 02, 2026 12:53 PM

You sold your car?

Nope I'm going to do better. I promise.

Posted by: Bad Andrew at January 02, 2026 12:56 PM (DgMqy)

190 Spiking real news is the MFM function

I walked the TV on New Years Eve.

CNN had their top stories of the year, I started watching at number six.

Number Five was The Killing of Iryna Zarutska.
Would have thought Assassination of C Kirk would have ranked higher since that knocked Iryna out of the news and, objectively, was a bigger eal than MLK.
Nada.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at January 02, 2026 12:56 PM (/lPRQ)

191 CBS loses nothing by “reforming” their news. TV news viewership is light to start with. They can always pivot, like the Media does.

Posted by: tubal at January 02, 2026 12:56 PM (pDt9x)

192 I was on a radio show to talk about a teen cancer program where Sliwa was also a guest. Could not get a word in edgewise.

Just another loud mouth New Yorker.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at January 02, 2026 12:56 PM (wBaIH)

193 So he's heard and experienced that for 20 years. 🤔

Perspective - Obama became a US Senator, January 2005.
2004: Valerie Jarrett serves as Finance Chair for Obama's successful run for the U.S. Senate.
2005-2008: She becomes a crucial strategic advisor as groundwork is laid for Obama's presidential campaign.
2009-2017: Jarrett serves as a Senior Advisor to President Barack Obama, a role she held throughout both of his terms in the White House, focusing on public engagement and intergovernmental affairs.

And before that, Chicago. Of course.
---
OTOH, Legacy Media has lied forever. Vietnam. Even back to the Spanish Flu.

History dot com: As the 1918 Flu Emerged, Cover-Up and Denial Helped It Spread
Nations fighting in World War I were reluctant to report their flu outbreaks.
---
You think that I don't even mean
A single word I say
It's only words and words are all I have
To take your heart away. 🎶

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at January 02, 2026 12:56 PM (NFX2v)

194 She is doing exactly what she was hired to do. Twitter was sold to kill it.

LOL.. How did that work out for you...

Posted by: It's me donna at January 02, 2026 12:56 PM (VE6XX)

195 You would have had far, far more money now if you had been allowed to put all the money you and your employer paid in Social Security taxes into a private investment account.

OTOH, based on my perusal of videos on the matter, if left to their own accord most people won't. It would interfere with their 6 trips to Disney every year, or the need to buy the newest truck every year, or the need to have multiple $10 coffees every day, or...

Supposedly, the percentage of Americans who CAN use a 401k and DO use it is around 56%.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 02, 2026 12:57 PM (ExV1e)

196 Social security was just an additional regressive income tax that was added on top of the existing income tax. ....

Posted by: Thomas Paine

---------------
Yes, it was always "just a tax" and the money has all been spent and then some. It was a slush fund for bureaucrats to go wild, and they did.

Posted by: Mrs. Santa's unclean sister at January 02, 2026 12:57 PM (aTta8)

197 Bari Weiss is a propagandist. CBS is the newest fox news.

This is not the flex you think it is.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 02, 2026 12:57 PM (Riz8t)

198 All of the talk about lock boxes etc. is just a smoke screen.

It's ok, the only people who will have a key is everyone in government.

Posted by: t-bird at January 02, 2026 12:57 PM (ZKbri)

199 Report: Curtis Sliwa says Zohran Mamdani has a mandate as Mayor and tells his supporters to give him a chance:

“He won a majority. He has a mandate. The Masters of the Universe, the billionaires, did everything they could to make sure he wasn’t the mayor. It didn’t work. He’s a great organizer.”

Scum.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at January 02, 2026 12:47 PM (xTIDn)

The check cleared.
Posted by: Darrell Harris

That's the last one that will.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 02, 2026 12:57 PM (c115l)

200 ... Remeber when Dan Rather was the principal anchor for CBS Evening News? He still covers politics. He has a free Substack called Steady.
Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at January 02, 2026 12:55 PM (ycI94)
++++
LOL.

"Remember the guy who lied to you all the time, but you liked the lies?Well, you can still get him to lie to you - and you don't even have to pay!"

Wild.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 02, 2026 12:57 PM (avHHk)

201
CBS loses nothing by “reforming” their news. TV news viewership is light to start with.

_________

Unfortunately, that viewership includes Her Majesty. I go upstairs and say my Rosary then.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 02, 2026 12:57 PM (tgvbd)

202 "You would have had far, far more money now if you had been allowed to put all the money you and your employer paid in Social Security taxes into a private investment account."

Maybe, maybe not. My investments turned out not so good. There are no guarantees in life. What you suggest is morally and financially preferable to socialism, but there will always be winners and losers, and society will still have to deal with the losers, one way or another.

Posted by: gp at January 02, 2026 12:58 PM (GHIyr)

203 The Free Press mocks the 60 Minutes crowd today, in Nellie Bowles column, claiming a Free Press writer objected to some editing from Weiss yesterday and stood on his desk and threw a fire extinguisher through a window.
Posted by: Huck Follywood
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I'm as mad as hell and I'm not going to take this anymore!

Posted by: Howard Beale at January 02, 2026 12:58 PM (XeU6L)

204 172 He won a majority. He has a mandate. The Masters of the Universe, the billionaires, did everything they could to make sure he wasn’t the mayor. It didn’t work. He’s a great organizer.”

Nothing in this statement is untrue. It’s sucks that it happened but it’s reality. He did win a majority and billionaires did spend a ton of money to defeat him, which obviously didn’t work.

Posted by: Really?? at January 02, 2026 12:53 PM (/CkK4)

Cuomo should never have been propped up by any billionaires. He lost the Dem nomination, and as such he would have been put on the Independent line of the ballot - the absolute worst spot. No amount of money would have changed that. Sliwa, for all his faults, actually had the second-best line on the ballot, as a Republican. He should have been supported, and he should have made a bigger stink than he did about it. He had a role to play, and he played it. Not even his boss at WABC, John Catsimatidis - a RINO if ever there was one - wanted Sliwa to win. There was no way that Sliwa was ever going to win, and he was fine with that as long as he got paid by someone.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at January 02, 2026 12:58 PM (0CU3H)

205 I don't care what happens in foreign countries.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 02, 2026 12:54 PM (tgvbd)

But but but, what about Broadway? What about Thai food at 3AM?

Surely we must do everything we can to make sure NYC stays solvent. For the children.

And don't call me Shirley.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 02, 2026 12:58 PM (dGCAG)

206 >>> Berets aren't cheap, you know.

The kind you find at the second-hand store are.

They throw in the head lice gratis.
Posted by: Archimedes at January 02, 2026 12:54 PM (Riz8t)

No those are the five-and-dime berets like they have at that ahole Mr McGee's. The second-hand store berets are all protected by the power of raspberry.

Posted by: banana Dream at January 02, 2026 12:58 PM (3uBP9)

207 Fun story, received two separate letters today from different entities saying my info was involved in a Data Breach. One breach was in August, the other in October. What’s a few months, eh?

Posted by: tubal at January 02, 2026 12:59 PM (pDt9x)

208 Free Press writer objected to some editing from Weiss yesterday and stood on his desk and threw a fire extinguisher through a window.
Posted by: Huck Follywood

Like the Boston Tea Party except with fire extinguishers.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 02, 2026 12:59 PM (L/fGl)

209 This bespectacled blonde in her underwear prefers it when people lie to her in person, which is why she goes to bars instead of staying in to watch the TV news:
http://tiny.cc/ee4x001

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 02, 2026 12:59 PM (avHHk)

210 Wait, did Iran fall down? Note: not been watching news.
Posted by: Aetius451AD

Iran so far away.

Posted by: Flock of Seagulls at January 02, 2026 12:59 PM (ZKbri)

211 They throw in the head lice gratis.
Posted by: Archimedes at January 02, 2026 12:54 PM

Put it on the deep freezer for a month.

Posted by: toby928(c) at January 02, 2026 01:00 PM (jc0TO)

212 You would have had far, far more money now if you had been allowed to put all the money you and your employer paid in Social Security taxes into a private investment account.

OTOH, based on my perusal of videos on the matter, if left to their own accord most people won't. It would interfere with their 6 trips to Disney every year, or the need to buy the newest truck every year, or the need to have multiple $10 coffees every day, or...

Both are true. I think SS should be replaced with mandatory personal investments, managed by professionals in finance, and similar to what Feds get in their thrift savings plan. You MUST invest 4% (it was 1% when I started) but CAN invest more. There are penalties for early withdrawal.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 02, 2026 01:00 PM (Riz8t)

213 There comes a point where trust cannot be re-established.

This is one difference I see between left and right leaning people.

For the former it doesn't matter how often the FNM tells a lie. They are the experts therefore they should be trusted.

Posted by: 18-1 at January 02, 2026 01:00 PM (sKqQm)

214 Wait, did Iran fall down? Note: not been watching news.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 02, 2026 12:50 PM (bss/y)
++++
No.

They're having another round of generalized discontent with some civil unrest. My bet is, "it will end the way it usually does."

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 02, 2026 01:00 PM (avHHk)

215 210 Wait, did Iran fall down? Note: not been watching news.
Posted by: Aetius451AD

Iran so far away.
Posted by: Flock of Seagulls at January 02, 2026 12:59 PM (ZKbri)

That’s pretty clever, Seagull.

Posted by: tubal at January 02, 2026 01:00 PM (pDt9x)

216
No those are the five-and-dime berets like they have at that ahole Mr McGee's. The second-hand store berets are all protected by the power of raspberry.
Posted by: banana Dream
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Little red Corvettes are too fast for lice.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 02, 2026 01:01 PM (XeU6L)

217 Worse, SSI broke the generational pact where parents raised kids, and then kids took care of elderly parents.

Posted by: Mrs. Santa's unclean sister at January 02, 2026 01:01 PM (aTta8)

218 206 No those are the five-and-dime berets like they have at that ahole Mr McGee's. The second-hand store berets are all protected by the power of raspberry.

only one man would dare give me the raspberry! lone star!

Posted by: dark helmet at January 02, 2026 01:01 PM (edU/H)

219 Joe Walsh (the former congressman, not the guy whose Maserati goes 185) is whining that when he became a Democrat and supported Mamdami he didn't know the guy was a Communist, so the "warmth of collectivism" statement is giving him the sads.

Bullsh*t. Everyone knew he was a commie. They just thought that he was smart enough to not say it out loud. That's what they're sad about.

Posted by: Oddbob at January 02, 2026 01:01 PM (3nLb4)

220 OTOH, based on my perusal of videos on the matter, if left to their own accord most people won't.

I believe Chile has a system where you are required to put money into a private investment retirement account.

You can make private contributions mandatory, just like Social Security.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at January 02, 2026 01:01 PM (xTIDn)

221 This bespectacled blonde in her underwear prefers it when people lie to her in person, which is why she goes to bars instead of staying in to watch the TV news:
http://tiny.cc/ee4x001
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 02, 2026 12:59 PM

I would bet the carpet doesn't match the drapes but, it's hardwood.

Posted by: toby928(c) at January 02, 2026 01:01 PM (jc0TO)

222 Report: Curtis Sliwa says Zohran Mamdani has a mandate as Mayor and tells his supporters to give him a chance:

“He won a majority. He has a mandate. The Masters of the Universe, the billionaires, did everything they could to make sure he wasn’t the mayor. It didn’t work. He’s a great organizer.”

Scum.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at January 02, 2026 12:47 PM (xTIDn)

The check cleared.
Posted by: Darrell Harris

***

Well, now we know who he was the guardian angel for.

Posted by: Diogenes at January 02, 2026 01:01 PM (2WIwB)

223 I actually did great on all my super impressive 2025 resolutions which I'd show you but last night someone broke into the banana dream compound and stole just those specific records. Trust me bro.

Posted by: banana Dream at January 02, 2026 01:01 PM (3uBP9)

224 214 Wait, did Iran fall down? Note: not been watching news.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 02, 2026 12:50 PM (bss/y)
++++
No.

They're having another round of generalized discontent with some civil unrest. My bet is, "it will end the way it usually does."
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 02, 2026 01:00 PM (avHHk)

Ah, the old rape, torture, murder routine.

Posted by: tubal at January 02, 2026 01:01 PM (pDt9x)

225 "That changes now. The new CBS Evening News starts Monday at 6:30 p.m. ET on CBS."
===

LOL

Posted by: mrp at January 02, 2026 01:01 PM (rj6Yv)

226 "Trump was bitten by a rabid alligator on his golf course and has a disease that causes eyes to shut for fifteen seconds. And his whore wife has no taste in clothes. We got this from reliable, confidential sources so back off, big boy".

Some MSM jack off

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at January 02, 2026 01:02 PM (gm9Sb)

227
But but but, what about Broadway? What about Thai food at 3AM?

Surely we must do everything we can to make sure NYC stays solvent. For the children.

And don't call me Shirley.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 02, 2026 12:58 PM (dGCAG)

___________

I'm sure Hochul will make sure upstate residents will freeze and starve so that NYC gets bailed out.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 02, 2026 01:02 PM (tgvbd)

228 The Project 2025 oligarchs seem to own all media now. Maybe they always did but are brazen about it now. The news is dead, and their snippets of proganda are ubiquitous. At least it's obvious now.
---
But I thought all the media was already "right-wing" due to being owned by corporations?

I can't imagine the stoned-out, flea-ridden hipster dufus with an alt-weekly coffee shop circulation of dozens that they think is a "real, independent" reporter.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 02, 2026 01:02 PM (HXT0k)

229 But but but, what about Broadway? What about Thai food at 3AM?

Surely we must do everything we can to make sure NYC stays solvent. For the children.

Don't care what happens in foreign countries.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 02, 2026 01:02 PM (c115l)

230 “Sure, we lied then, but we’re not lying now!”

*wink*

Posted by: Cray Cray at January 02, 2026 01:02 PM (0lkAt)

231 This bespectacled blonde in her underwear prefers it when people lie to her in person, which is why she goes to bars instead of staying in to watch the TV news:
http://tiny.cc/ee4x001
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 02, 2026 12:59 PM (avHHk)

Tell her I'm opening a bar in my den and will lie to her all day.

Posted by: Diogenes at January 02, 2026 01:02 PM (2WIwB)

232 He won a majority. He has a mandate. The Masters of the Universe, the billionaires, did everything they could to make sure he wasn’t the mayor. It didn’t work. He’s a great organizer.”

I don't think that true. One group of elites opposed him, yes, but a larger group supported him.

Posted by: 18-1 at January 02, 2026 01:02 PM (sKqQm)

233 And they promise they'll correct that.

To be fair, they are big fat liars.

Posted by: blaster at January 02, 2026 01:03 PM (NlEaG)

234 They're having another round of generalized discontent with some civil unrest. My bet is, "it will end the way it usually does."
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 02, 2026 01:00 PM (avHHk)

But this time the weather machine has been turned on. If they have no water, they can't make tea.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 02, 2026 01:03 PM (dGCAG)

235 Well, when you're the shah, you kinda get your pick of the hotties.
Posted by: Her Dad and Granddad at January 02, 2026 12:50 PM

It's good to be the king.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at January 02, 2026 01:03 PM (kgE5c)

236 I'm sure Hochul will make sure upstate residents will freeze and starve so that NYC gets bailed out.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 02, 2026 01:02 PM

The Republicans in Congress will bail out the city.

Book it.

Posted by: toby928(c) at January 02, 2026 01:03 PM (jc0TO)

237 >>Or we put too much weight in the analysis of academics or elites, and not enough on you."

First you will blow me.

Posted by: Vengeance at January 02, 2026 01:03 PM (OjdEO)

238 "Worse, SSI broke the generational pact where parents raised kids, and then kids took care of elderly parents."

That resulted mainly from affluence. The richer people are, the more their families atomize geographically. They don't need each other, and frankly, people have a hard time living together under one roof and getting along.

Posted by: gp at January 02, 2026 01:03 PM (GHIyr)

239 I'm sure Hochul will make sure upstate residents will freeze and starve so that NYC gets bailed out.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

She's the LAST person that wants to see mayor Jihadi succeed.

His successes will only fuel his run for her job.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 02, 2026 01:04 PM (c115l)

240 The Project 2025 oligarchs seem to own all media now.

There are two notable right leaning billionaires.

Theil and Musk. Theil isn't a social conservative by any stretch

And even Musk as a social conservative 2025 boogie man type? HAHAHA

Posted by: 18-1 at January 02, 2026 01:05 PM (sKqQm)

241 "That changes now. The new CBS Evening News starts Monday at 6:30 p.m. ET on CBS."

-
Are they having a weekend clearance sale on their lies?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 02, 2026 01:05 PM (L/fGl)

242 BTW, happy Spain Liberation Day!

On this day, the 2nd of January 1492, Muhammad XII, the last muslim ruler in Spain formally surrendered the Emirate of Granada and returned the territories to Ferdinand of Aragon and Isabella of Castile.

For the first time in nearly eight centuries, the Iberian peninsula was once again under Catholic, European control, completing the Reconquista.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at January 02, 2026 01:05 PM (xTIDn)

243 Are they having a weekend clearance sale on their lies?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 02, 2026 01:05 PM

Three for a dollar!

Posted by: toby928(c) at January 02, 2026 01:05 PM (jc0TO)

244 239 I'm sure Hochul will make sure upstate residents will freeze and starve so that NYC gets bailed out.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

She's the LAST person that wants to see mayor Jihadi succeed.

His successes will only fuel his run for her job.
Posted by: rickb223 at January 02, 2026 01:04 PM (c115l)

He’ll be a Senator in 10 years, bet on it.

Posted by: tubal at January 02, 2026 01:05 PM (pDt9x)

245 Isn't CBS the outfit that got caught editing Kamala's interview to make her look.... not so retarded?

60 Minutes, no? Big fine or something?

They've got a lot of balls telling us they "missed" anything.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 02, 2026 01:05 PM (NwnyJ)

246 Hochul is a donkey faced dunce. The only reason she wins is because the electoral system in NY is rife with fraud and nobody is doing anything about it.

Posted by: Vengeance at January 02, 2026 01:05 PM (OjdEO)

247 "We only spoke to commies, marxists, and socialists. We now understand that we should condescend to the public better because they are slow learners who don't agree."

Posted by: Mrs. Santa's unclean sister at January 02, 2026 01:05 PM (aTta8)

248 I don't think that true. One group of elites opposed him, yes, but a larger group supported him.
Posted by: 18-1 at January 02, 2026 01:02 PM (sKqQm)

If he was any kind of threat to the Oligarchs, they wouldn't have let him win.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 02, 2026 01:06 PM (dGCAG)

249 That changes now.

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

Looking forward to your investigation into and exposé of nationwide election fraud & theft every election cycle since at least 1960 -- and 2020 in particular -- especially in the large Democrat-Communist-controlled blue shithole cities.

/Hello? Can anybody hear me? Is this thing on? Wait, wut?

Posted by: ShainS -- Make Lustration Great Again! at January 02, 2026 01:06 PM (ztUNb)

250 >>> I don't think that true. One group of elites opposed him, yes, but a larger group supported him.
Posted by: 18-1 at January 02, 2026 01:02 PM (sKqQm)

He was pulled through by rich-ass transplants. NYC native voters being apathetic and never voting didn't help. But yeah, it was the ruling class elites.

Posted by: banana Dream - not rich ass-transplants at January 02, 2026 01:06 PM (3uBP9)

251 “Sure, we lied then, but we’re not lying now!”

I remember during campaign 2012 when every left parroted the line that Obama opposed gay marriage. In a respectful, nice way unlike you bigots, but his opposition was heartful and serious.

And then after he won election immediately the same people argued that of course Obama had to lie to get elected.

Posted by: 18-1 at January 02, 2026 01:06 PM (sKqQm)

252 >>I walked the TV on New Years Eve.

Some of you have really weird holiday traditions.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 02, 2026 01:06 PM (viF8m)

253 214 Wait, did Iran fall down? Note: not been watching news.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 02, 2026 12:50 PM (bss/y)
++++
No.

They're having another round of generalized discontent with some civil unrest. My bet is, "it will end the way it usually does."
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 02, 2026 01:00 PM (avHHk)

This time looks way different. Saw some videos from the cities last night, almost every city in Iran looked like "The Time of Landru". Not just protests - tens of thousands of people out on the street all night, burning buildings, stoning cops, group-beating security foce members, smashing cars - it's astounding.

They're at the point where only calling the army in and shooting thousands could calm things down - which is why Trump made a statement today saying that the US will retaliate with military force if Iran begins firing on the protestors.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 02, 2026 01:06 PM (uWKK8)

254 "I think SS should be replaced with mandatory personal investments, managed by professionals in finance"

That's precisely what SS was supposed to be. Even if it was maintained as promised, investments can fail. There are no guarantees in life. Christ said 'The poor will always be with you.'

Posted by: gp at January 02, 2026 01:06 PM (GHIyr)

255 She's the LAST person that wants to see mayor Jihadi succeed.

His successes will only fuel his run for her job.
Posted by: rickb223 at January 02, 2026 01:04 PM (c115l)
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Ah, but so will his failures.

"Yes, we failed to achieve utopia in New York City, but that is because - as we have all seen - the City is not autonomous. I had no ability to influence structural issues that originate in Albany. I couldn't make the necessary moves on taxes and financing, for example, because Albany set out to thwart us.

No more. In Albany and as your governor, we will finally have the breadth to bring about the glorious future through out collective commitment to fairness, justice and joy!"

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 02, 2026 01:07 PM (avHHk)

256 Brit Lass wifeperson predicted that something just like this would happen during Trump I, but it never did. Interesting to see it coming to pass.

Posted by: ... at January 02, 2026 01:07 PM (E0p3T)

257 213 For the former it doesn't matter how often the FNM tells a lie. They are the experts therefore they should be trusted.

i'll trust the experts until an expert tells me not to.

Posted by: lefty mcleftsalot at January 02, 2026 01:07 PM (edU/H)

258 235 I forget if it was the Shaw or King of Jordan, but one was in the Cleveland Clinic the same time we had to take a kid there. My family has a tradition of dropping off Whitman's Samplers to the nurse's station. The royalty shut down a floor and passed out Rolexes. Good to be King.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at January 02, 2026 01:07 PM (gm9Sb)

259 Someone in that Reddit thread had a pretty offensive AI image of Charlie Kirk they were all mocking. I said if this is the place to share funny memes of "non-political" people killed, I'd share mine:
https://tinyurl.com/2e233a2j

How many minutes before I get banned lol?

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at January 02, 2026 01:07 PM (ycI94)

260 Don't care what happens in foreign countries.
Posted by: rickb223 at January 02, 2026 01:02 PM (c115l)

I do, because not caring serves to bite us in the ass later.

Posted by: Cow Demon at January 02, 2026 01:07 PM (3E+BT)

261 To be fair, they are big fat liars.
Posted by: blaster at January 02, 2026 01:03 PM (NlEaG)

Hey now, not all of them are fat.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 02, 2026 01:08 PM (dGCAG)

262 If he was any kind of threat to the Oligarchs, they wouldn't have let him win.

Yep.

If the NYC elites were worried about Mamdami they would have told Cuomo to shove it and rallied behind Silwa...and he would have won.

But they saw Silwa as a bigger threat. Mamdami is going to tax more sure, but offer more grifting opportunities. Silwa might have tipped over a bunch of rice bowls

Posted by: 18-1 at January 02, 2026 01:08 PM (sKqQm)

263 If we have erred, it is the experts' fault.

Posted by: Communism's Broadcasting Service at January 02, 2026 01:08 PM (ZKbri)

264 Social security was just an additional income tax that was added on top of the existing income tax. One year after it was implemented, a lawsuit over it made it to the supreme court. The supreme court agreed that it was simply an additional income tax. All of the talk about lock boxes etc. is just a smoke screen. The money is put into the general fund and any excess funds are used to buy government bonds.

The first instance of "Its a tax".
Posted by: Thomas Pain

When did they start the Federal Gas Tax?

Always heard it was more of a "user fee" and is supposed to be dedicated to Fed DoT.
Stories in engineering classes (c. 1985) was that the surplus was thrown into the general fund and DOT was given an IOU - back door double taxation / deficit spending.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at January 02, 2026 01:08 PM (/lPRQ)

265 You want to know how the news sausage gets made, watch Broadcast News.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at January 02, 2026 12:41 PM (0CU3H)

I retired in 2019 after 30 plus years in the NY market TV business. It's worse than that today. First of all, no tape. Hasn't been in 25 years. Stories are all covered and streamed back to the station digitally, the news producer can have that story edited and on the air in minutes. No more layers. A couple of people are now responsible for determining what you see and hear. And, yes, most are very far left. Especially the News Director. He or she, many times, will sit in the edit bays with the producer to oversee the editing process, which now takes very little time due to the technology. A few of our news anchors were conservative and we would talk among ourselves about the political end of the bizz. They have retired in the intervening years as well.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at January 02, 2026 01:08 PM (5xuJ/)

266 It’d be nice if Trumps DOJ would start arresting high level people and doing, you know, what they said they would.

Posted by: thathalfrican - The One at January 02, 2026 01:08 PM (eZwyX)

267 The CIA does all those things, and ignores obvious warning signs because it doesn't reflect their world view. Like, oh I don't know, a small army of Saudis learning how to fly jetliners in the US.
Posted by: Orson at January 02, 2026 12:28 PM (dIske)
=====

That reminds me. The last I heard about Stone Head Man is that he was requesting a change of judge for his trial.

Posted by: mrp at January 02, 2026 01:08 PM (rj6Yv)

268 "the surplus was thrown into the general fund and DOT was given an IOU - back door double taxation / deficit spending."

Govt funds always get pilfered and squandered.

Posted by: gp at January 02, 2026 01:09 PM (GHIyr)

269 I keep getting texts from Kelly Hancock’s campaign that “YAY!!! (Insert TX city name here) Police Union ENDORSES Kelly Hancock!!!”

Someone needs to remind him he is running for comptroller, not AG.

Posted by: Cow Demon at January 02, 2026 01:10 PM (3E+BT)

270 Posted by: Cow Demon at January 02, 2026 01:07 PM (3E+BT)

Our own country is pretty fucked right now. The left still isn’t being thrown in prison and being broken up into a thousand pieces. Let’s leave the foreign shit alone until we get our house in order.

Posted by: thathalfrican - The One at January 02, 2026 01:10 PM (eZwyX)

271 She said it's the only way for them to stay relevant.

Predictions are often the only way to figure out if you have any idea about anything. Anyone can explain stuff but predicting is hard. She told me in 2017 that "one" of the networks would have to do this.

Posted by: ... at January 02, 2026 01:10 PM (E0p3T)

272 Govt funds always get pilfered and squandered.
Posted by: gp at January 02, 2026 01:09 PM

and then the rest is wasted..

Posted by: toby928(c) at January 02, 2026 01:10 PM (jc0TO)

273 If the left accused Elon Musk of being a Nazi for his warm feeling of affection and salut towards some crowd he was speaking to, then I think some conservatives should pound Mamdani repeatedly about being a Nazi. He's more like one. Observant hate Jews. And Christians and Hindus and anyone else who is not an observant Muslim.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 02, 2026 01:10 PM (2sfNr)

274 And now for the weather, expect a very brief rainfall followed by one or two squirts, I mean light splashes of the yellow stuff... I mean wet stuff!

Posted by: CBS at January 02, 2026 01:10 PM (C9oTe)

275 "I think SS should be replaced with mandatory personal investments, managed by professionals in finance"

That's precisely what SS was supposed to be. Even if it was maintained as promised, investments can fail. There are no guarantees in life. Christ said 'The poor will always be with you.'

Note what WASN'T in my description. No "politicians can take my money and spend it on whatever". No "means testing". No
"you can have lots more money than could ever by justified by your income and payments, as long as you vote for me". No "it's your money, but if you die, we keep it all".

If a real investment plan based on broad investments in the American economy goes t*** up, so has America, and it makes no difference to your rather limited life prospects.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 02, 2026 01:11 PM (Riz8t)

276 267 The CIA does all those things, and ignores obvious warning signs because it doesn't reflect their world view. Like, oh I don't know, a small army of Saudis learning how to fly jetliners in the US.
Posted by: Orson at January 02, 2026 12:28 PM (dIske)
=====

That reminds me. The last I heard about Stone Head Man is that he was requesting a change of judge for his trial.
Posted by: mrp at January 02, 2026 01:08 PM (rj6Yv)

Interesting how the CIA is considered to be buffoonish and incompetent AND the most evil, masterful conspiracy operator, at the exact same time.

Posted by: Cow Demon at January 02, 2026 01:11 PM (3E+BT)

277 I do, because not caring serves to bite us in the ass later.
Posted by: Cow Demon
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This. It is a cancer within the republic, and will metastasize. Already is.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 02, 2026 01:11 PM (XeU6L)

278 273- Meant "observant Muslims"

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 02, 2026 01:11 PM (2sfNr)

279 It’d be nice if Trumps DOJ would start arresting high level people and doing, you know, what they said they would.
Posted by: thathalfrican - The One at January 02, 2026 01:08 PM (eZwyX)

Hey man, Kash only took the FBI job so he could nail hot chicks.

Don't hate the playa. Hate the game.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 02, 2026 01:11 PM (dGCAG)

280 "the surplus was thrown into the general fund and DOT was given an IOU - back door double taxation / deficit spending."

Nigerian Princes couldn't have designed a better system.

Posted by: t-bird at January 02, 2026 01:12 PM (ZKbri)

281 254 "I think SS should be replaced with mandatory personal investments, managed by professionals in finance"

That's precisely what SS was supposed to be. Even if it was maintained as promised, investments can fail. There are no guarantees in life. Christ said 'The poor will always be with you.'

yeah, but now we have the technology to do it *right*!

Posted by: chatgpt at January 02, 2026 01:12 PM (edU/H)

282 The CIA does all those things, and ignores obvious warning signs because it doesn't reflect their world view. Like, oh I don't know, a small army of Saudis learning how to fly jetliners in the US.

A whistle blower from the NSA came out not long after 9/11. He said his data analysis project had found Atta was in the US that summer and was likely up to no good. He went to his manager and not only did they not use his data they ended the project.

But...they didn't do it because of the revelation about Atta. They canned the project because it showed a bunch of America elites were being paid off by China.

So even in 2000 the CIA and NSA were more focused on protecting elites then they were doing the things they were supposed to be doing...

Posted by: 18-1 at January 02, 2026 01:12 PM (sKqQm)

283 264 Social security was just an additional income tax that was added on top of the existing income tax. One year after it was implemented, a lawsuit over it made it to the supreme court. The supreme court agreed that it was simply an additional income tax. All of the talk about lock boxes etc. is just a smoke screen. The money is put into the general fund and any excess funds are used to buy government bonds.

The first instance of "Its a tax".
Posted by: Thomas Pain

Transfer payment.

Posted by: Cow Demon at January 02, 2026 01:12 PM (3E+BT)

284 That resulted mainly from affluence. The richer people are, the more their families atomize geographically. They don't need each other, and frankly, people have a hard time living together under one roof and getting along.
Posted by: gp

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

I don't see it. Yes, the modern economy requires moving around to distant cities mostly that reduces real wealth. First you end up with two parents working, then with single parents, then with no kids. How is that affluence?

Sure, for the wealthy, putting the olds into care homes is an easy option, but how much of that would actually happen if the feds didn't pay for much of it? OK, this is too big a subject for grey boxes, but let me just say that I do not agree with most of what you said.

Posted by: Mrs. Santa's unclean sister at January 02, 2026 01:12 PM (aTta8)

285 Posted by: BurtTC at January 02, 2026 01:11 PM (dGCAG)

Well when you put it like that.

Posted by: thathalfrican - The One at January 02, 2026 01:12 PM (eZwyX)

286 Posted by: 18-1 at January 02, 2026 01:12 PM (sKqQm)

Seriously? Do you have a link?

Posted by: thathalfrican - The One at January 02, 2026 01:13 PM (eZwyX)

287 Here's the thing I find interesting and new about this round of protests... the chants and memes and stuff are all about bringing back the Shah, not about democracy or any of that like the previous times.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 02, 2026 01:14 PM (BI5O2)

288 Posted by: BurtTC at January 02, 2026 01:11 PM (dGCAG)

Well when you put it like that.
Posted by: thathalfrican - The One at January 02, 2026 01:12 PM (eZwyX)

Kash is my new hero. He's a real man's man.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 02, 2026 01:14 PM (dGCAG)

289 Nobody trusted the little who said the dykecwas leaking, either.

Posted by: Eromero at January 02, 2026 01:14 PM (Qp4d3)

290 I'd like to see a locality try experimenting with completely voluntary taxes.

People pay as much as they want and earmark their dollars to whatever department they want.

This would reduce the amount people paid, sure, but it would also just about eliminate the graft at this level. If the local head of the road department hires his brother-in-law's company to do shitty work next year his budget will be zero.

I suspect it would be a net positive because not only would graft get zero'd out, most of the non-graft spending people don't care about would as well.

Posted by: 18-1 at January 02, 2026 01:15 PM (sKqQm)

291 That reminds me every time:
-Cable channels, no commercials because you paid a monthly fee. Then add commercials (at least to news and other non movie channels.)
-Streaming, no commercials, because you paid a monthly fee. Now every service chock-a-blocs your movie with ads unless you get the premium-premium service (on top of already buying the thing.)

Analysis: all of this is bullshit.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 02, 2026 12:47 PM (bss/y)

So don't watch any of it. Take your TV out to the desert, and shoot it full of holes. Then clean up the mess. The fresh air will do you good.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 02, 2026 01:15 PM (8zz6B)

292 If a real investment plan based on broad investments in the American economy goes t*** up, so has America, and it makes no difference to your rather limited life prospects.
Posted by: Archimedes at January 02, 2026 01:11 PM (Riz8t)

It also means that the average voter would have reason to care about the general economy... assuming they could be taught to understand it's implication on their future... and, therefore, so would politicians.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 02, 2026 01:15 PM (ExV1e)

293 Here's the thing I find interesting and new about this round of protests... the chants and memes and stuff are all about bringing back the Shah, not about democracy or any of that like the previous times.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 02, 2026 01:14 PM (BI5O2)

The problem with the Shah is, he wants to make Iran Great Again.

Which is NOT what all the outside agitators want.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 02, 2026 01:15 PM (dGCAG)

294 Here's the thing I find interesting and new about this round of protests... the chants and memes and stuff are all about bringing back the Shah, not about democracy or any of that like the previous times.

The "shah in waiting" has assured everyone that he will hold democratic elections at the first opportunity. Also, he totally believes CBS will redeem itself.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 02, 2026 01:16 PM (Riz8t)

295 Caleb Hammer is my FAVORITE finance guy right now. He's a declared centrist, but I think he'd fit in well here.

His take on Nick Shirley's exposure of the Somali fraud is hilarious! But so true. Anyone making this a race thing and ignoring it because of the race is an idiot. And he calls out his own chat on it. Best autist.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=idz7yUBR5sI

Posted by: LizLem at January 02, 2026 01:16 PM (Eng1Z)

296
She has? Wow, they start early down there in DC I guess. She looks pretty great to me, and I assumed it was all natural. Her mom has always been pretty good looking too.
Posted by: Huck Follywood

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Were the dads good-looking? They contributed genes, too.

I'll never find it now, but the Pahlavi girls were your typical unibrowed, large-nosed easterners. There were before-and-after pics that were amazingly different.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 02, 2026 01:16 PM (n7rxJ)

297 Here's the thing I find interesting and new about this round of protests... the chants and memes and stuff are all about bringing back the Shah, not about democracy or any of that like the previous times.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 02, 2026 01:14 PM (BI5O2)
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Consider the west, however heavily filtered through regime propaganda.

Who would demand it?

We're going to wind up with a king *here.* Why the hell would the Persians look at how we do things and say, "sign me up?"

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 02, 2026 01:16 PM (avHHk)

298
I'd like to see a locality try experimenting with completely voluntary taxes.

They'd get nothing. And they wouldn't like it.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 02, 2026 01:16 PM (pkeXY)

299 OTOH, based on my perusal of videos on the matter, if left to their own accord most people won't. It would interfere with their 6 trips to Disney every year, or the need to buy the newest truck every year, or the need to have multiple $10 coffees every day, or...

Supposedly, the percentage of Americans who CAN use a 401k and DO use it is around 56%.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic
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Impulse control. And that has a genetic component. As one wag said, it could be raining $20 bills and yet shortly after the currency rain had stopped, a lot of people would still be destitute having blown whatever money came into their possession. Also see the sad stories of lottery winners.

Posted by: whig at January 02, 2026 01:16 PM (WDjG6)

300 I saw the Leaking Dykes open for the Indigo Girls back in '95 at The Roxy.

Posted by: banana Dream at January 02, 2026 01:17 PM (3uBP9)

301 Was outside, but getting windy as well as cold

Posted by: Skip at January 02, 2026 01:17 PM (Ia/+0)

302 287 Here's the thing I find interesting and new about this round of protests... the chants and memes and stuff are all about bringing back the Shah, not about democracy or any of that like the previous times.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 02, 2026 01:14 PM (BI5O2)

They couldn’t have a constitutional monarchy?

Posted by: Cow Demon at January 02, 2026 01:17 PM (3E+BT)

303 They couldn’t have a constitutional monarchy?

The presumptive shah really is talking that way.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 02, 2026 01:18 PM (Riz8t)

304 If SS could find me a job, that would be nice. Maybe I could pay for my own heat then.

Posted by: gp at January 02, 2026 01:19 PM (GHIyr)

305 It’d be nice if Trumps DOJ would start arresting high level people and doing, you know, what they said they would.
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One of his 1st EOs should have been
1) Every entity employing more than 50 people must re-submit the I-9 for every employee.
2) Every annual report filed by every entity must now include a certification signed by an officer of the entity that all employees are legally authorized to work in the United States.

Yeah, the C-suite is cool with flouting immigration law.
But, they know they'll get fucked over hard by #2 if they start flouting SOX.
There's a reason they were using that against the J6. Not just because they were hated defendants, but also because it's a lay-up conviction when you charge it.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 02, 2026 01:19 PM (HXT0k)

306 OTOH, based on my perusal of videos on the matter, if left to their own accord most people won't. It would interfere with their 6 trips to Disney every year, or the need to buy the newest truck every year, or the need to have multiple $10 coffees every day, or...

Ah, you mean millennials...
*ducks and serpentines*

Posted by: Archimedes at January 02, 2026 01:19 PM (Riz8t)

307 The "shah in waiting" has assured everyone that he will hold democratic elections at the first opportunity. Also, he totally believes CBS will redeem itself.
Posted by: Archimedes at January 02, 2026 01:16 PM (Riz8t)

I hear he also believes the Jets will be a winning franchise again, that all they need is the right quarterback.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 02, 2026 01:20 PM (dGCAG)

308 I am proud to announce the "Grand Opening" of the Tim Walz Learing Centers" Nationwide.

Hurry and enroll before I go to jail...

Posted by: Tim Walz at January 02, 2026 01:20 PM (J9q9v)

309 I will bet that the Shah doesn't want to be a figurehead. Maybe more like if we had a hereditary Presidency.

Posted by: toby928(c) at January 02, 2026 01:20 PM (jc0TO)

310 Too many times i have gotten drunk, come home late smelling of cheap perfume, with a strippers chewing gum still stuck to my ass and roughly taken you in the no no place. That stops now.

Ha. No apology. Just another empty promise to be followed by drunken late night plunderings of Americas no no place.

Posted by: CBS news. Bad boyfriend at January 02, 2026 01:20 PM (JFpzi)

311 We're going to wind up with a king *here.* Why the hell would the Persians look at how we do things and say, "sign me up?"
Posted by: Joe Mannix
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Not sure if we do not already have one, just without the lifetime and being able to bequeath the office to their heirs.

Basically since Congress has broken down, presidents have resorted to using executive orders and control more or less of the bureaucracy based on the huge edifice of discretion given by existing laws.

That is why those desperate for mo gubmint money put Biden in by fraud and I think now that Obama's second term was also by fraud (possibly the popular vote but more likely Romney won the electoral college vote by state).

Posted by: whig at January 02, 2026 01:20 PM (WDjG6)

312
Seriously? Do you have a link?

The project was called Able Danger. You can read about it, but here is one link from the NY Post https://tinyurl.com/3uu78yna

"WASHINGTON – The Pentagon’s high-tech intelligence unit that reportedly identified some of the 9/11 hijackers before the attack was shut down by military officials after it mistakenly pinpointed Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and other prominent Americans as potential security risks, The Post has learned."

Posted by: 18-1 at January 02, 2026 01:20 PM (sKqQm)

313 I saw the Leaking Dykes open for the Indigo Girls back in '95 at The Roxy.
Posted by: banana Dream at January 02, 2026 01:17 PM (3uBP9)

I saw them at The Red Room.

Floor was slick though.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 02, 2026 01:21 PM (dGCAG)

314 Interesting how the CIA is considered to be buffoonish and incompetent AND the most evil, masterful conspiracy operator, at the exact same time.
Posted by: Cow Demon at January 02, 2026 01:11 PM (3E+BT)
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Ever talk to an Ivy league professor? They are buffoonish in the fact that they don't apply common sense or street smarts. They have little experience in either. Yet, they could speak on an on for hours about their passion, which in a lot of cases is self-important constructed Utopian drivel.

It is a recipe for ignorance and know-it-all philosophy. It would make sense that the CIA could perceived in both spectrums.

Posted by: Orson at January 02, 2026 01:21 PM (dIske)

315
Trump made a statement today saying that the US will retaliate with military force if Iran begins firing on the protestors.
Posted by: Tom Servo

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What?? How exactly would he do that, anyway?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 02, 2026 01:22 PM (n7rxJ)

316 How many newscasts have they done that led with the multi billion dollar theft of US taxpayer money by somalis?

That is the tell.
Posted by: Thomas Paine
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and the missing BILLIONS in CA?

Posted by: wth at January 02, 2026 01:22 PM (UjdFS)

317 Not sure if we do not already have one, just without the lifetime and being able to bequeath the office to their heirs.

Basically since Congress has broken down, presidents have resorted to using executive orders and control more or less of the bureaucracy based on the huge edifice of discretion given by existing laws. ...
Posted by: whig at January 02, 2026 01:20 PM (WDjG6)
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That's the distinction.

Monarchy is a generally bad system, but a major upside to is it that the monarch is heavily invested in the future. He want a realm to give to his son. A monarch will, at least and if nothing else, usually *try* to ensure that the place survives until he can hand it off to his progeny.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 02, 2026 01:22 PM (avHHk)

318 I gave Cuomo double his lands in New York with matching estates in Qatar. Sliwa turned for...much less.

Posted by: Mohammed Longshanks, oil prince at January 02, 2026 01:23 PM (TbWk/)

319 What?? How exactly would he do that, anyway?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 02, 2026 01:22 PM (n7rxJ)

Shhhhh... after we take Greenland, it'll be a cakewalk.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 02, 2026 01:23 PM (dGCAG)

320 Even if CBS were to report on a story that the rest of the media has embargoed, they would just get the Fox News treatment and be slandered as complete liars by all the other major outlets.

Posted by: supremejaxx at January 02, 2026 01:23 PM (BudYP)

321 Retaliating militarily on another entities behalf has caused many problems in the past. World War I comes to mind.

Posted by: tubal at January 02, 2026 01:23 PM (pDt9x)

322 302 287 Here's the thing I find interesting and new about this round of protests... the chants and memes and stuff are all about bringing back the Shah, not about democracy or any of that like the previous times.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 02, 2026 01:14 PM (BI5O2)

They couldn’t have a constitutional monarchy?
Posted by: Cow Demon
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The fact is that the late Shah had a parliament that actually had women in it. Met one of those who became a college instructor in the Houston area after she had to flee Iran after Khomeini got power.

More like the British monarchy's powers and perogatives before the monarchs eschewed power over Parliament after Queen Anne but nevertheless, they did have one in the past.

Posted by: whig at January 02, 2026 01:24 PM (WDjG6)

323 NOODlum.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 02, 2026 01:24 PM (Zz0t1)

324 I'll never find it now, but the Pahlavi girls were your typical unibrowed, large-nosed easterners. There were before-and-after pics that were amazingly different.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia

They want to look like Disney Princesses.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at January 02, 2026 01:24 PM (/lPRQ)

325 Monarchy is a generally bad system, but a major upside to is it that the monarch is heavily invested in the future. He want a realm to give to his son. A monarch will, at least and if nothing else, usually *try* to ensure that the place survives until he can hand it off to his progeny.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 02, 2026 01:22 PM (avHHk)

Also helps if you don't import them from Prussia, and other weird Euro places.

Patriotic Nationalism isn't just a river in Egypt.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 02, 2026 01:25 PM (dGCAG)

326 I'd like to see a locality try experimenting with completely voluntary taxes.

They'd get nothing. And they wouldn't like it.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.
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Nothing for nothing. Sounds like a fair deal to me.

Posted by: wth at January 02, 2026 01:25 PM (UjdFS)

327 "Sorry honey, I know this is the 12th time you caught me cheating on you, but I promise promise promise it will never happen again"

These fools don't know that we divorced them years ago.

Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at January 02, 2026 01:25 PM (1Nv0l)

328 The advantage of representative government isn't really that you get to vote. Its that up until recently historically it was the form of government that best protected its people's God given rights.

I say up until recently, because the managed democracy we see in Europe is obviously in no way protecting its people's rights.

So would another Shah be a better choice for Iran then a Euro-nik style government? Probably.

Posted by: 18-1 at January 02, 2026 01:26 PM (sKqQm)

329
What?? How exactly would he do that, anyway?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 02, 2026 01:22 PM (n7rxJ)

Or how could he?

The government should kick back and get out the popcorn in terms of Iran. If the people there overthrow the government, no one will be able to say later that “it was the Americans that did it”. Leave the dirty work to the Iranian people.

Posted by: Cow Demon at January 02, 2026 01:26 PM (3E+BT)

330 Too late to comment in any meaningful way.

Posted by: Don Black at January 02, 2026 01:26 PM (ZxPkt)

331 Interesting how the CIA is considered to be buffoonish and incompetent AND the most evil, masterful conspiracy operator, at the exact same time.
Posted by: Cow Demon

Old story that the Horde posted years ago. Someone asked an officer how he picks people to complete a project from a limited pool of troopers. He said he looks for the lazy and motivated because they tend to find easy/quick solutions and carry them out.

He said he avoids the stupid and motivated because they screw everything up all the time. The CIA's problem is that they are arrogant and motivated so their world-striding plans are inevitable failures.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 02, 2026 01:26 PM (mlg/3)

332 321 Retaliating militarily on another entities behalf has caused many problems in the past. World War I comes to mind.
Posted by: tubal
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But it sometimes works out. That is the problem with history, you have a small n in most situations, a lot of intervening variables dealing with culture and expectations formed from that, and a long past history of grievances, grudges, and hatred in many cases.

Foreign affairs is where the President has to have a large dollop of discretion because hard and fast rules tend not to work out well over time when specific situations arise.

Pragmatism has a value far beyond ideology as it recognizes specific fact patterns and applies general principles to those rather than apply general principles and impose them on specific fact patterns.

Posted by: whig at January 02, 2026 01:27 PM (WDjG6)

333 The fact is that the late Shah had a parliament that actually had women in it. Met one of those who became a college instructor in the Houston area after she had to flee Iran after Khomeini got power.

More like the British monarchy's powers and perogatives before the monarchs eschewed power over Parliament after Queen Anne but nevertheless, they did have one in the past.
Posted by: whig at January 02, 2026 01:24 PM (WDjG6)

I think that if Iran were to reinstall the Shah as the head of a constitutional monarchy, that is infinitely better than what they have now. And the people of Iran could run such a system and flourish under it,

Posted by: Cow Demon at January 02, 2026 01:28 PM (3E+BT)

334 nood

Posted by: gp at January 02, 2026 01:29 PM (GHIyr)

335 315 Trump made a statement today saying that the US will retaliate with military force if Iran begins firing on the protestors.
Posted by: Tom Servo

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What?? How exactly would he do that, anyway?

*whistles innocently*

Posted by: nuking things from orbit to be sure at January 02, 2026 01:29 PM (edU/H)

336
Ever talk to an Ivy league professor? They are buffoonish in the fact that they don't apply common sense or street smarts. They have little experience in either. Yet, they could speak on an on for hours about their passion, which in a lot of cases is self-important constructed Utopian drivel.

It is a recipe for ignorance and know-it-all philosophy. It would make sense that the CIA could perceived in both spectrums.
Posted by: Orson at January 02, 2026 01:21 PM (dIske)

Believe me, I have met countless academics and wannabe academics, and have little time for about 90% of them.

Posted by: Cow Demon at January 02, 2026 01:29 PM (3E+BT)

337 328 The advantage of representative government isn't really that you get to vote. Its that up until recently historically it was the form of government that best protected its people's God given rights.

I say up until recently, because the managed democracy we see in Europe is obviously in no way protecting its people's rights.

So would another Shah be a better choice for Iran then a Euro-nik style government? Probably.
Posted by: 18-1
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Separation of powers and federalism can be key brakes on an overweening central government. That is why Eurocrats decided to create a vast unaccountable bureaucracy that acts to override those in particular countries. Same with international multilateral treaties--they inevitably disenfranchise the public by limiting what options a popular government can undertake.

Global Elites think the people are too stupid to make decisions collectively and for their own lives and so the Global Elites must 'protect/save' democracy by gutting it and wearing it as a skinsuit to ward off rebellions.

Posted by: whig at January 02, 2026 01:31 PM (WDjG6)

338 Iran's water isn't the only issue down there. Electricity was only up in 70% of the country on its best days. There is an article on schools about a year ago where they did an infrastructure evaluation (unofficially) and found that over 50% had roof cave ins in the last half decade.

The explanation for all these (including the water issue) is commonly known in that connected politicians in the various regions are notorious for corruption and acquiring personal riches on the backs of the residents. This was accepted, allowed, and enforced by the RG...which recently took a major black eye courtesy of the Israelis. Now, the residents aren't just complaining. They're marching around shouting "Death to Khomeini" at the top of their lungs in front of government buildings. That didn't happen the last time.

Posted by: Orson at January 02, 2026 01:31 PM (dIske)

339 Interesting how the CIA is considered to be buffoonish and incompetent AND the most evil, masterful conspiracy operator, at the exact same time.
Posted by: Cow Demon at January 02, 2026 01:11 PM (3E+BT)
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Well, I for one, would never, ever castigate an entire government agency in such a manner. And with such a limited number of options, too. But still, it begs the question:

John Brennan: buffoonish and incompetent OR the most evil, masterful conspiracy operator?

You may apply the healing power of "and" if you wish.

Posted by: mrp at January 02, 2026 01:34 PM (rj6Yv)

340 What?? How exactly would he do that, anyway?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 02, 2026 01:22 PM (n7rxJ)

A massive air strike on the "clerical district" of Tehran, and on some Revolutionary Guard bases could take out a lot of trash.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 02, 2026 01:35 PM (8zz6B)

341 * err, rather the smart and lazy. Not motivated and lazy - sheesh...

Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 02, 2026 01:36 PM (mlg/3)

342 We missed Biden's being a senile old man, but we found out Trump.is a senile old man
CBS News
Posted by: Skip

Huddled for warmth?
*that's not my elbow...
Posted by: man

And wear a fucking T-shit under your shirt so that it is all white and you don't look like a fucking Frenchman.
Posted by: Mrs. Santa's unclean sister

Surely we must do everything we can to make sure NYC stays solvent. For the children.
Don't care what happens in foreign countries.
Posted by: rickb223

Exactly. The "C" stands for "Communist". Or "Cocksucker".
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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So many (just a few here) are on their game today, thanks for the laughs.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at January 02, 2026 01:48 PM (NFX2v)

343 I know some of y'all watch the youtubes with Nerdrotic, Drinker, et al.

Funny thing came up in my video feed this weekend; morning show tv news lady named Carissa Codel reads twitter trolls about her self using her broadcaster voice. She's got a pretty good sense of humor; she handles them gracefully. She's thicc but wears it well so she gets a lot of comments. Worth a watch if you enjoy that kind of thing.
This fraud thing is spiking my blood pressure because being the little not ray of sunshine I am, assume nothing is going to happen to any of these corrupt f*cks so I'm trying to avoid it.

Posted by: Nelly at January 02, 2026 01:49 PM (7gpcF)

344 I always called it See BS News.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 02, 2026 02:29 PM (IG3/x)

345 See B.S. News has been leftists Propaganda all these many years and Americans are catching on

Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at January 02, 2026 05:06 PM (wGqjj)

346 Well, he says a lot of the right things, so I'm curious to see if CBS actually turns into a real news outlet, instead of being partisan leftist hacks.

And from a business standpoint, it's absolutely insane if they don't try a less leftist approach, that differentiates them from everyone else. Fox News owns cable news, simply because they are less leftist than the competition. It ain't hard. CBS News could go back to printing money if they were just a little more 'down the middle'.

Posted by: Forheremenaremen at January 02, 2026 05:23 PM (FUliT)

THE MORNING RANT: Instacart Allowed Pricing Based on Who You Are Rather than What You’re Buying

A subject I keep returning to is the management philosophy of financializing every aspect of a business’ operations, providing short term gain, but ultimately destroying equity and causing the erosion of customer loyalty. By treating employees as a pestilence and customers as prey, these corporate destructors provide ammunition to the enemies of free markets.

Instacart is the latest company to receive major blowback. In this case, it was for a despicable and discriminatory pricing tool it provided grocers. As documented by Consumer Reports, and then reported more broadly:

• Customers using Instacart to purchase groceries through major grocery chains (including Albertson’s, Target, Costco, Kroger, Safeway and others) were subject to “algorithmic pricing.”

• The same grocery item bought from the same store at the same time would have a different price depending on who the customer was, and how the algorithm gauged the customer’s price sensitivity.

• An experiment by Consumer Reports had online shoppers order identical baskets of groceries at the same time from the same store. The price of that basket of groceries varied from $114.34 to $123.93

This is significantly different from offering discounts to those enrolled in loyalty programs, or getting discounts for buying a bundle of products or in bulk. In those situations, all customers have access to the same pricing.

When other media outlets started covering this story, and it gained traction on social media, Instacart stopped allowing retailers to engage in this form of price discrimination, “Instacart Ends AI-Driven Pricing Tests That Pushed up Costs for Some Shoppers” [CNBC – 12/22/2025]

In a tweet, my Tennessee state representative, Michele Reneau, succinctly summed up just how offensive this Instacart initiative was, ”If the price depends on who you are instead of what you’re buying, that’s not capitalism.”

If the price depends on who you are instead of what you’re buying, that’s not capitalism. https://t.co/GkNrG3L4Bs
— Michele Reneau (@repreneau) December 23, 2025

We are in a political battle against the siren song of socialism. It is imperative, therefore, that those in executive positions in corporate America stop engaging in amoral practices to mine the last possible dollar of revenue from customers. Doing so provides ammunition to the enemies of economic freedom.

[buck.throckmorton at protonmail dot com]

Posted by: Buck Throckmorton at 11:00 AM

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1 Price discrimination is illegal.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at January 02, 2026 11:01 AM (0U5gm)

2 ST!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at January 02, 2026 11:01 AM (meWdL)

3 Damn.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at January 02, 2026 11:01 AM (meWdL)

4 We are in a political battle against the siren song of socialism. It is imperative, therefore, that those in executive positions in corporate America stop engaging in amoral practices to mine the last possible dollar of revenue from customers. Doing so provides ammunition to the enemies of economic freedom.

Wut?

Posted by: The Big Three and John Deere at January 02, 2026 11:02 AM (Riz8t)

5 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 02, 2026 11:02 AM (Zz0t1)

6 I'm going to test this out with my wife on Amazon and Walmart.... the only two places we "shop online."

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 02, 2026 11:03 AM (NwnyJ)

7 That'll teach me to peruse the ONT......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 02, 2026 11:03 AM (Zz0t1)

8 Nooded.

Posted by: Nazdar at January 02, 2026 11:03 AM (NcvvS)

9 SPONGE!!!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at January 02, 2026 11:04 AM (meWdL)

10 I would call it the white tax, but that’s probably too restrictive.

Posted by: tubal at January 02, 2026 11:05 AM (pDt9x)

11 Guess I should get up and do something productive like take down Christmas crap.

Posted by: lin-duh is offended at January 02, 2026 11:05 AM (VCgbV)

12 This is why we drive wifey's Explorer when I buy new carpet.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at January 02, 2026 11:05 AM (nWPIJ)

13 more upright bass music please !

Posted by: alpine_beer at January 02, 2026 11:05 AM (van9r)

14 It is imperative, therefore, that those in executive positions in corporate America stop engaging in amoral practices to mine the last possible dollar of revenue from customers. Doing so provides ammunition to the enemies of economic freedom.

Posted by: Buck Throckmorton at 11:00 AM

Are we really sure those aren't the same people these days?

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at January 02, 2026 11:05 AM (meWdL)

15 Just tell them you're a Somali refugee.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at January 02, 2026 11:05 AM (g8Ew8)

16 SPONGE!!!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at January 02, 2026 11:04 AM (meWdL)

*fistbump*

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 02, 2026 11:06 AM (Zz0t1)

17 Guess I should get up and do something productive like take down Christmas crap.
Posted by: lin-duh is offended at January 02, 2026 11:05 AM

While it's still Christmas?!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at January 02, 2026 11:07 AM (meWdL)

18 And the kids still wonder why I fight so hard to keep my data out of corporate hands.

"They've got it all already, so why worry?"

Posted by: Archimedes at January 02, 2026 11:07 AM (Riz8t)

19 Guess I should get up and do something productive like take down Christmas crap.
Posted by: lin-duh is offended at January 02, 2026 11:05 AM (VCgbV)

I don't have a lot of decorations out, but they're still out.

I might care this afternoon and put them away.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 02, 2026 11:07 AM (Zz0t1)

20 Here in Nashville area Krogers has discontinued their own delivery service. From now on it's Insta Cart directly from the store.

Posted by: Tuna at January 02, 2026 11:07 AM (lJ0H4)

21 Guess I should get up and do something productive like take down Christmas crap.

My wife insists on infesting our house with cheap, crappy little snowmen. I hate them. I hate them so much.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 02, 2026 11:08 AM (Riz8t)

22 Airlines and hotels provide an example of legal price discrimination. If you book months out and pay for the spot, you pay a lower price, if you book a few weeks out, you pay a higher price, but similar due to the time value of money. If you book a few days out, you may pay an even higher price, as fewer spots are available (supply and demand). When the event is a day or two away, the price may drop again to try and fill empty slots (again supply and demand).

This is very different than two different prices for the same item at the same time, only differentiated by who is doing the buying.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at January 02, 2026 11:08 AM (0U5gm)

23
My wife insists on infesting our house with cheap, crappy little snowmen. I hate them. I hate them so much.
Posted by: Archimedes at January 02, 2026 11:08 AM (Riz8t)

Daughter got me the Die Hard vent Christmas ornament this year, so I'm tempted to leave the tree up a little longer.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 02, 2026 11:09 AM (Zz0t1)

24 Yep, saw that video too.
Do not use Instacart. Do not shop at grocery stores that have digital price tags.

I'd say don't use airlines either but that's harder to arrange.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at January 02, 2026 11:09 AM (xcxpd)

25 My wife insists on infesting our house with cheap, crappy little snowmen. I hate them. I hate them so much.

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You have to go to sleep sometime buster.

Posted by: A Cheap Crappy Snowmab at January 02, 2026 11:09 AM (nWPIJ)

26 My wife insists on infesting our house with cheap, crappy little snowmen. I hate them. I hate them so much.

Posted by: Archimedes

Turn the heat up, problem solved.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at January 02, 2026 11:09 AM (0U5gm)

27 Put them out of business. Immediately, as an example to others. Class action, total sale of assets, distribute to previous customers proportionately. Limit lawyers to 10%, it's a no brainer case.
For the airlines and others, massive fines, one strike only.

Posted by: From about That Time at January 02, 2026 11:10 AM (sl73Y)

28 Guess I should get up and do something productive like take down Christmas crap.
Posted by: lin-duh is offended

Took mine down yesterday. Putting them up is always a joy. Taking them down is always kind of depressing.

Posted by: Tuna at January 02, 2026 11:10 AM (lJ0H4)

29 I saw Cheap Crappy Snowmab open for Trans Siberian Orchestra at Reunion Arena in '08.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 02, 2026 11:10 AM (Zz0t1)

30 I dunno if I’m about to set my hair on fire over this. Instacart provides a voluntary service. First off nobody is forced to use it.

I don’t see why it can’t charge for that service using a set of criteria including buyer personas. As long as that criteria doesn’t include illegal things like race , religion, etc I don’t really see the problem here.

Car dealers sell the same car 100 times a month and each time the price is different based on how well a buyer negotiates. As well as different rebates and incentives that are available to some buyers but not others. Are you a recent college grad? You get $500 off. Are you in the military? You get $500 off. Are you a member of these organizations? $750 off. Do you drive an Chevy? , This month you get $1000 off if you buy a Ford. And so on. Are we going to ban all that as well?

Posted by: Really?? at January 02, 2026 11:11 AM (/CkK4)

31 Instacart Allowed Pricing Based on Who You Are Rather than What You’re Buying

Now do college tuition.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at January 02, 2026 11:11 AM (xTIDn)

32 I leave the tree and decorations up until Epiphany.

Posted by: Bulg at January 02, 2026 11:11 AM (77rzZ)

33 I wonder about airlines. I don't fly much but when I do, it is typically to the same destinations. I priced a flight for in the spring and it was over $100 more than when I made the same flight in October.

Posted by: Diogenes at January 02, 2026 11:12 AM (2WIwB)

34 : Instacart Allowed Pricing Based on Who You Are Rather than What You’re Buying
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Well, yeah. Based on your social credit score.
-CCP

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 02, 2026 11:12 AM (RIvkX)

35 The new neighbor lady just dropped off some biscotti for the New Year.

I didn't even have to do any sketchy things for them.

And I would have.

Posted by: Tonypete at January 02, 2026 11:12 AM (cYBz/)

36 Instacart Allowed Pricing Based on Who You Are Rather than What You’re Buying

Amazon experimented with this briefly, and to their credit decided that it was a Bad Idea.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at January 02, 2026 11:13 AM (xTIDn)

37 The new neighbor lady just dropped off some biscotti for the New Year.

I didn't even have to do any sketchy things for them.

And I would have.
Posted by: Tonypete at January 02, 2026 11:12 AM (cYBz/)

"Please to be sending pics of bobs and vagene...."

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 02, 2026 11:13 AM (Zz0t1)

38 Instacart Allowed Pricing Based on Who You Are Rather than What You’re Buying
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Well, yeah. Based on your social credit score.
-CCP

That's nothing. We fix your house or not depending on your politics.

Posted by: Biden's FEMA at January 02, 2026 11:13 AM (Riz8t)

39 I've wondered about this a lot during the Great Awakening. Can society even function without deception and fudge factors? Lawyers, politicians, education, salesmen, marketers, advertising, pharma, medicine... I don't even know if the list stops.

Posted by: t-bird at January 02, 2026 11:14 AM (ZKbri)

40 Took mine down yesterday. Putting them up is always a joy. Taking them down is always kind of depressing.
Posted by: Tuna at January 02, 2026 11:10 AM (lJ0H4)

But it's only 356 days until this next Christmas. Leave everything up. The time will pass quickly.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at January 02, 2026 11:14 AM (g8Ew8)

41 For at least more than a decade amazon will adjust prices dynamically doing the exact same thing. In fact, they will adjust the price on the same thing for the same customer if they look at an item and then come back at a later time. I thought all online retailers do all this and worse. I sometimes use a price history thing like camelcamelcamel to really see how prices change.

Posted by: banana Dream at January 02, 2026 11:14 AM (3uBP9)

42 33 I wonder about airlines. I don't fly much but when I do, it is typically to the same destinations. I priced a flight for in the spring and it was over $100 more than when I made the same flight in October.

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If you quizzed every passenger sitting in coach on what their ticket cost, you wouldn't get two of the same answer.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at January 02, 2026 11:14 AM (nWPIJ)

43 Let's say you run a plumbing business. Or HVAC. Or roofing.
You know damn well the price you're going to quote definitely depends on the neighborhood you're in.

The small 1000 square foot brick salt box homes built in the 50s? 5 grand.

The well to do 2600 square foot two story front hall colonial with hip roof and architectural shingles built in the 80s? 10 grand.

Posted by: Harry Homeowner at January 02, 2026 11:14 AM (2Ez/1)

44 My wife insists on infesting our house with cheap, crappy little snowmen. I hate them. I hate them so much.
Posted by: Archimedes at January 02, 2026 11:08 AM (Riz8t)

May I be of some assistance? Inspiration, even?

Posted by: Calvin at January 02, 2026 11:14 AM (6Ga6M)

45 Car dealers sell the same car 100 times a month and each time the price is different based on how well a buyer negotiates. As well as different rebates and incentives that are available to some buyers but not others. Are you a recent college grad? You get $500 off. Are you in the military? You get $500 off. Are you a member of these organizations? $750 off. Do you drive an Chevy? , This month you get $1000 off if you buy a Ford. And so on. Are we going to ban all that as well?

Posted by: Really??

Auto purchases are almost always negotiated, so it is not the same as fixed pricing at grocery stores.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at January 02, 2026 11:14 AM (0U5gm)

46 Instacart Allowed Pricing Based on Who You Are Rather than What You’re Buying

Well, yeah. If she's hot.

Posted by: t-bird at January 02, 2026 11:14 AM (ZKbri)

47 I remember Dennis Prager saying many times over the years: Big corporations are not your friend. They’re amoral… anything to make a buck. Don’t trust ‘em!

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 02, 2026 11:15 AM (xT8gx)

48 We are in a political battle against the siren song of socialism. It is imperative, therefore, that those in executive positions in corporate America stop engaging in amoral practices to mine the last possible dollar of revenue from customers. Doing so provides ammunition to the enemies of economic freedom.
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What in the world makes you think the leaders of corporate America are interested in economic freedom? (Or any other kind?) Their own freedom to get what they want, and to feel good about themselves, are all they give a damn about.

Posted by: Eeyore at January 02, 2026 11:15 AM (s0JqF)

49 Hi baby, i'm Algorithm, shut up.

Let's dance.

Posted by: thug dolphin at January 02, 2026 11:16 AM (EyfuW)

50 47 I remember Dennis Prager saying many times over the years: Big corporations are not your friend. They’re amoral… anything to make a buck. Don’t trust ‘em!

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 02, 2026 11:15 AM (xT8gx)

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They're not even that.

They're social clubs and grounds of experiments for their leaders, the lower rungs of the corporate ladder making money despite their leaders.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at January 02, 2026 11:16 AM (GBKbO)

51 I' Can society even function without deception and fudge factors?

Posted by: t-bird at January 02, 2026 11:14 AM (ZKbri)

That's hot!

Posted by: Pete Buttigieg at January 02, 2026 11:16 AM (Zz0t1)

52 I would like to give the people responsible for this a chance to explain themselves before we set them on fire.

Posted by: NR Pax at January 02, 2026 11:17 AM (7xrfc)

53 I don't have that much Christmas stuff up. Garland on the staircase railing and around the door. Fake tree, some stockings and stuff on the mantle. Now that the kids are older they don't care so I don't bother. Maybe 2 bins of stuff. I already took the ornaments off the tree.

Posted by: lin-duh is offended at January 02, 2026 11:17 AM (VCgbV)

54 Airline pricing is so strange. It's not unusual for a fare from A to B to cost less if you're connecting to C than if B was your destination. Booking the second leg can actually save you money.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at January 02, 2026 11:17 AM (nWPIJ)

55 Insurance works this way.

22 year old with an accident pays waaaaay more for the same coverage as a 50 year old with a spotless driving record.

Posted by: Really?? at January 02, 2026 11:18 AM (/CkK4)

56 Brad Pitt is actually a decent actor, he's not just good looking.
Posted by: lin-duh is offended at January 02, 2026 11:00 AM (VCgbV)

Fun in Twelve Monkeys and Snatch in particular.

Posted by: ... at January 02, 2026 11:18 AM (E0p3T)

57 52 I would like to give the people responsible for this a chance to explain themselves before we set them on fire.
Posted by: NR Pax at January 02, 2026 11:17 AM (7xrfc)

Well that's simple: they want to milk as much money out of people as possible. People who don't count their pennies will get more pennies stolen from them.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at January 02, 2026 11:18 AM (xcxpd)

58 I used Instacart a handful of times during the Covid Mania. Not because I was afraid to go shopping, but because of the mask mandates and because I hated being aroung maskholes And, I hated it. Never seemed to get what I actually ordered. Just a big pain in the ass.

Now that this shizzle is happening, I shant ever use it again. No, I shannot.

Posted by: Delurker at January 02, 2026 11:18 AM (xNHSX)

59 Car dealers sell the same car 100 times a month and each time the price is different based on how well a buyer negotiates. As well as different rebates and incentives that are available to some buyers but not others. Are you a recent college grad? You get $500 off. Are you in the military? You get $500 off. Are you a member of these organizations? $750 off. Do you drive an Chevy? , This month you get $1000 off if you buy a Ford. And so on. Are we going to ban all that as well?
Posted by: Really??
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^^^THIS^^^ is why I DETEST buying cars!!!

Posted by: lin-duh is offended at January 02, 2026 11:18 AM (VCgbV)

60 32 I leave the tree and decorations up until Epiphany.

Me 2.

Posted by: Bad Andrew at January 02, 2026 11:19 AM (DgMqy)

61 The best Christmas decorations belong to other people.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at January 02, 2026 11:19 AM (2Ez/1)

62 Airline tickets and hotel reservations... I don't think the price changes are totally dependent on the date you make them. For example, I've looked at hotel room prices, looked at a few different places, then come back to "the cheaper" one or whatever... and it's now $12 more.

This isn't the next day. It's like 10 minutes later. In 10 minutes the place is now nearly booked?

Horseshit.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 02, 2026 11:19 AM (NwnyJ)

63 Some Walmart stores have "digital" price displays.

Of course, they claim it's so they can more quickly give you the best possible price.

Reality?
They're tracking you around the store.*
They have your whole shopping history in a file.**
If you pass the item a second time, the price has gone up.
To emotionally and psychologically exploit you with false scarcity.

* do you know why your store keeps re-arraigning? All those cameras track every customer and purchase. The changes are to funnel targets past items they want them to buy.
** credit/debit card of course. But now, they have AI at even the self-check out that "finds" you even if you pay cash

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 02, 2026 11:20 AM (HXT0k)

64 60 32 I leave the tree and decorations up until Epiphany.

Me 2.
Posted by: Bad Andrew at January 02, 2026 11:19 AM (DgMqy)

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Why not go full Valentines Day?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at January 02, 2026 11:20 AM (nWPIJ)

65 Good way to sneak in "reparations". Pay disfavored employees less, charge disfavored customers more.

Posted by: ... at January 02, 2026 11:20 AM (E0p3T)

66 There ought to be a law!

Oh wait... no. There shouldn't.

It blows my mind when so-called conservatives are always so quick to turn to the government to fix their private interactions.

Buy from Instacart. Or don't.

There. Problem solved.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 02, 2026 11:20 AM (dGCAG)

67 Maybe I'm stupid, but can't you defeat this by going to the grocery store and buying groceries for yourself, in person, like normal people did up until ten minutes ago?

Posted by: Possibly Dumb at January 02, 2026 11:21 AM (4PEtT)

68 Why not go full Valentines Day?

I might just do that! I like crazy ideas!

The Missus will just have to deal with it. lol

Posted by: Bad Andrew at January 02, 2026 11:21 AM (DgMqy)

69 St Patrick's Day trees, anyone?

Posted by: Count de Monet at January 02, 2026 11:22 AM (6Ga6M)

70 In a tweet, my Tennessee state representative, Michele Reneau, succinctly summed up just how offensive this Instacart initiative was, ”If the price depends on who you are instead of what you’re buying, that’s not capitalism.”
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It could be worse. In this kind of scheme, you can pretend to be something you're not. Don't use accounts with the same E-Mail address to shop at multiple stores. Use fake phone numbers for club memberships. Refuse cookies at all times. Use different mobile phones for different apps. Expensive and difficult and imperfect, but you can try to game it if you want to.

When I covered this, Instacart said that this is what they are NOT doing. It isn't based on profile or other factors. If this is true - and I doubt very much that it is, but consider the possibility - it is in fact even worse. If pricing is actually *random* rather than cynical, there is no way to game it.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 02, 2026 11:23 AM (avHHk)

71 ^^^THIS^^^ is why I DETEST buying cars!!!
Posted by: lin-duh is offended at January 02, 2026 11:18 AM (VCgbV)

There are options like Tesla where the price is set and non negotiable. Or CarMax for used cars.

I remember reading a study on this where people in general said they hated buying cars because of all the games. But then when some dealerships went to the no haggle model a lot of them abandoned that practice because buyers felt they were getting ripped off without the ability to negotiate.

Autonation is almost 100% haggle free. But even there they will find some wiggle room if you push hard enough and they want to move a unit that day.

Posted by: Really?? at January 02, 2026 11:23 AM (/CkK4)

72 66 There ought to be a law!

Oh wait... no. There shouldn't.

It blows my mind when so-called conservatives are always so quick to turn to the government to fix their private interactions.

Buy from Instacart. Or don't.

There. Problem solved.
Posted by: BurtTC at January 02, 2026 11:20 AM (dGCAG)

Instacart is the voluntary 'camel nose' in this scenario. The next step is digital pricing where the shop is dynamically adjusting prices to maximize profit.

Related danger is YOU getting different prices than your neighbor because you might be willing to pay more.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at January 02, 2026 11:23 AM (xcxpd)

73 There ought to be a law!

Oh wait... no. There shouldn't.

It blows my mind when so-called conservatives are always so quick to turn to the government to fix their private interactions.

Buy from Instacart. Or don't.

There. Problem solved.

Posted by: BurtTC

There actually is a law. The Robinson Patman Act of 1936.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at January 02, 2026 11:23 AM (0U5gm)

74 Last time I booked a hotel room, I accidently booked a room for disabled persons. I didn't realize it till I got to the door of the room. I had been wondering why the desk clerk kept looking at me funny! He must have been trying to figure what about me was disabled.

I was visiting my brother, who had met me at the hotel. We had a good laugh over it. Well, HE did, as I was the butt of a slew of tard jokes during that trip.

But hey, the bathroom was YUGE!

Posted by: Delurker at January 02, 2026 11:24 AM (xNHSX)

75
It blows my mind when so-called conservatives are always so quick to turn to the government to fix their private interactions.

Buy from Instacart. Or don't.

There. Problem solved.
Posted by: BurtTC at January 02, 2026 11:20 AM (dGCAG)

I want investigations and punishments if existing laws are broken.

Is what Instacart doing against the law? Punish them.

But, we can't even seem to go after companies that are hiring illegal aliens, so......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 02, 2026 11:24 AM (Zz0t1)

76 Hey. It's called Arbor Day for a reason.

Posted by: Duh at January 02, 2026 11:24 AM (2Ez/1)

77 I have 2 spawn working at H‑E‑B so it cuts down on me having to actually go grocery shopping.

Posted by: lin-duh is offended at January 02, 2026 11:24 AM (VCgbV)

78 67 Maybe I'm stupid, but can't you defeat this by going to the grocery store and buying groceries for yourself, in person, like normal people did up until ten minutes ago?
Posted by: Possibly Dumb at January 02, 2026 11:21 AM (4PEtT)

OK Boomer!!

Posted by: GenZ and Milenials at January 02, 2026 11:24 AM (/CkK4)

79 There actually is a law. The Robinson Patman Act of 1936.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at January 02, 2026 11:23 AM (0U5gm)

Then it should be repealed.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 02, 2026 11:24 AM (dGCAG)

80 Weren't there some predictions made here last year? Did I miss the results post?

Posted by: WTP at January 02, 2026 11:24 AM (vtC5P)

81 Buy from Instacart. Or don't.

There. Problem solved.
Posted by: BurtTC at January 02, 2026 11:20 AM (dGCAG)

Like many good theories, it's true in theory, but as we've seen with the takeover of entertainment and to an extent medical insurance, once zealots get in charge of an entire industry you as the "customer" are stuck. Once zealots take charge of food, and they have done it in many ways through abuse of farmers in western countries along with other means, the "customer" is stuck.

Posted by: ... at January 02, 2026 11:24 AM (E0p3T)

82 Today I’m waiting to see which news outlets and which “conservative influencers” are going to be all butthurt about Iran’s government apparently spiraling down into the toilet,
I guess what I really expect is a whole lot of silence.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 02, 2026 11:25 AM (otNgF)

83 61 The best Christmas decorations belong to other people.

There's a great picture of two adjacent houses; one is absolutely covered with decorations, while the other one has a sign saying "Ditto" with an arrow pointing at the first house.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 02, 2026 11:25 AM (Riz8t)

84 I suppose that's not surprising really. This is a natural consequence of the data gathering and selling. But with the expense of buying data, the time to code this and employ it, I wonder how much it actually earns?

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 02, 2026 11:25 AM (3Amc7)

85 Convenience will get you there

Posted by: Skip at January 02, 2026 11:25 AM (Ia/+0)

86 Related danger is YOU getting different prices than your neighbor because you might be willing to pay more.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at January 02, 2026 11:23 AM (xcxpd)

I'm not seeing the danger.

Other than government setting prices. We used to have a name for that sort of thing.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 02, 2026 11:25 AM (dGCAG)

87 We are in a political battle against the siren song of socialism. It is imperative, therefore, that those in executive positions in corporate America stop engaging in amoral practices to mine the last possible dollar of revenue from customers. Doing so provides ammunition to the enemies of economic freedom.
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Antitrust law would indicate that what Instacart is doing is not allowed (Robinson–Patman). Most of the American medical industry runs in black-letter violation of antitrust law. Much of Alphabet/Google operates in violation of antitrust law.

None of it matters. The problem isn't the predation as such, it's the refusal to address it through well-established and applicable legal frameworks. There are no consequences to violation. You just get screwed and they buy another bureaucrat. To describe it as "capitalism" is hilarious. It's anything but. It is at best cronyism and it gets to the point of being indistinguishable from fascism. Do whatever you want, so long as the Party is kept happy.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 02, 2026 11:26 AM (avHHk)

88 There actually is a law. The Robinson Patman Act of 1936.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at January 02, 2026 11:23 AM (0U5gm)

I used to love playing Pac-Man at the arcade. Same guy?

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 02, 2026 11:26 AM (xT8gx)

89 80 Weren't there some predictions made here last year? Did I miss the results post?
Posted by: WTP at January 02, 2026 11:24 AM (vtC5P)

We went over a bunch on New Year’s Eve.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 02, 2026 11:26 AM (otNgF)

90 Price discrimination is illegal.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at January 02, 2026 11:01 AM (0U5gm)

Not functionally, it's not.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider at January 02, 2026 11:26 AM (oSeBJ)

91 We do not have capitalism in this country.

We have corporatism; a soft fascism.

But really it's hidden socialism with a cheap suit of a market system.
The bottom 20% get all the benefits.
The top 1% get to rule.
Everyone else gets to pay.

So, of course the stupids with degrees are all against Capitalism. Because they're told their entire life that the US is a capitalist country.
And there is no way the corporatists who are the donor class of the GOP will ever offer an alternative to the current system.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 02, 2026 11:26 AM (HXT0k)

92 I would, however, argue that charging people different prices based on who they are is not new; shops often have done so through the centuries. Lord Pooftah gets charged more than Bobby Streets because he can afford more and probably doesn't even know how much stuff should cost.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 02, 2026 11:27 AM (3Amc7)

93 I know about the electric car hate but if I had the spare change to have an extra car, I would get a Tesla for my daily commute car.

Posted by: lin-duh is offended at January 02, 2026 11:27 AM (VCgbV)

94 61
‘ The best Christmas decorations belong to other people.’

That’s why I get my decorations from other people’s houses.
I just have to ‘shop’ at night and in different neighborhoods.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at January 02, 2026 11:27 AM (jbnUc)

95 When a business offers a 10% discount for students or seniors or military, how is that any different than what Instacart is doing?

Posted by: Really?? at January 02, 2026 11:27 AM (/CkK4)

96 Like many good theories, it's true in theory, but as we've seen with the takeover of entertainment and to an extent medical insurance, once zealots get in charge of an entire industry you as the "customer" are stuck. Once zealots take charge of food, and they have done it in many ways through abuse of farmers in western countries along with other means, the "customer" is stuck.
Posted by: ... at January 02, 2026 11:24 AM (E0p3T)

The common denominator is ALL these supposed problems is government intervention.

I can't believe anyone in 2025 is looking at whatever ills they see, and saying to themselves "You know what would fix this? More government!"

Posted by: BurtTC at January 02, 2026 11:28 AM (dGCAG)

97 Ain't got no instacart....went to Walmart a while back. They said, "Can I see your receipt?" I said, "No."and left the place for good.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at January 02, 2026 11:28 AM (vd6bO)

98 "We went over a bunch on New Year’s Eve."

Where? In the comments? I was looking for a post by...i believe thruckmorton...on the results. A couple were kinda close and kinda open to interpretation. Seems it would make an interesting discussion.

Posted by: WTP at January 02, 2026 11:28 AM (vtC5P)

99 This month you get $1000 off if you buy a Ford. And so on. Are we going to ban all that as well?
Posted by: Really?? at January 02, 2026 11:11 AM (/CkK4)
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Those cars, assuming equivalence, all have the same list price. Anyone who walks in can pay that list price and walk out with a car. *Negotiating* a price is fine. There is no problem with dickering. That is also not what Instacart is allegedly doing.

This is not equivalent to walking into a grocery store and negotiating a discount on the advertised price. This is presenting different prices to different people with no difference in circumstance. Same app, same store, same products, same terms, *different* price. That's the distinction.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 02, 2026 11:28 AM (avHHk)

100 I can't believe anyone in 2025 is looking at whatever ills they see, and saying to themselves "You know what would fix this? More government!"

[NYC mayoral voters have entered the chat.]

Posted by: Delurker at January 02, 2026 11:29 AM (xNHSX)

101 I suppose that's not surprising really. This is a natural consequence of the data gathering and selling. But with the expense of buying data, the time to code this and employ it, I wonder how much it actually earns?

I've read recently that lots of companies have concluded that they're not getting much of value from all the mined data for which they pay. The problem for them is that there isn't a viable alternative way of advertising.

I feel for them. So sad.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 02, 2026 11:29 AM (Riz8t)

102 Where? In the comments? I was looking for a post by...i believe thruckmorton...on the results. A couple were kinda close and kinda open to interpretation. Seems it would make an interesting discussion.
Posted by: WTP at January 02, 2026 11:28 AM (vtC5P)
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I gave myself a scorecard. The New Year's Eve morning rant. I don't know if anyone else did a predictions post to self-rebut.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 02, 2026 11:29 AM (avHHk)

103 Why is no one complaining about the pervasive menace that is dynamic pricing and ridership requirements for HOV lanes?

Posted by: Count de Monet at January 02, 2026 11:30 AM (6Ga6M)

104 I've read recently that lots of companies have concluded that they're not getting much of value from all the mined data for which they pay. The problem for them is that there isn't a viable alternative way of advertising.

I feel for them. So sad.
Posted by: Archimedes at January 02, 2026 11:29 AM (Riz8t)
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As I used to hear it put, "everyone knows that 50% of every advertising dollar is wasted. The problem is that nobody knows which 50%."

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 02, 2026 11:30 AM (avHHk)

105 We do not have capitalism in this country.

We have corporatism; a soft fascism.

But really it's hidden socialism with a cheap suit of a market system.

Its still got some capitalism left, but the bigger the company and the loftier the status, the less there is. The local diner is 90% capitalist, with socialism forced on the owners. Wal*Mart is 70% socialist but still runs things based on supply and demand and market forces for the rest.

The extreme, top-down socialism of the Biden and Obama years (and Trump first term since he did almost nothing to deal with it) has largely been demolished, so the ESG and DEI stuff is waning, but the stain of it still is in there.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 02, 2026 11:30 AM (3Amc7)

106 This is obviously rhetorical, but just how stupid are these people?

This isn’t a matter of ‘bad speechwriting.’

The problem is that everything actually is as stupid as it seems.

A lot of middle aged pundits like Filipovic can’t or don’t want to come to terms with this and so they resort to denial and dissembling.

https://is.gd/nA2fhQ

Zohran Mamdani fans disappointed by disastrous ‘block party’ with no food or bathrooms

https://is.gd/G8tdaK

Posted by: Archimedes at January 02, 2026 11:30 AM (Riz8t)

107 Why is no one complaining about the pervasive menace that is dynamic pricing and ridership requirements for HOV lanes?
Posted by: Count de Monet at January 02, 2026 11:30 AM (6Ga6M)
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Because the state is a business partner in those schemes. People complain about it all the time. There is study after study that HOV lanes increase congestion. Ruinous tolls are a common area of complaint, especially after initial capital is recouped. None of it matters. The state is a business partner, so no complaint is relevant.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 02, 2026 11:31 AM (avHHk)

108 I've read recently that lots of companies have concluded that they're not getting much of value from all the mined data for which they pay. The problem for them is that there isn't a viable alternative way of advertising.

I think this sort of thing is the response to that. Advertising is largely dead, even though most businesses have not caught on to it yet. But using the data to chisel a bit more out of everyone is viable.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 02, 2026 11:32 AM (3Amc7)

109 Walmart a while back. They said, "Can I see your receipt?" I said, "No."and left the place for good.
Posted by: Don in SoCo
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Walmart has locked up all the cosmetics and personal care stuff and there is no one around to unlock it. Plus them asking for receipts at the door. I very seldom go there or to Target because they are just gay/trans/lbgtqrstvxyz.

Posted by: lin-duh is offended at January 02, 2026 11:32 AM (VCgbV)

110 Scott Adams @ScottAdamsSays

I have a favor to ask.

If my work helped you, or someone you know, please follow my biographer and good friend @joelpollak and leave a comment here in case he wants to follow up with you on DMs.

It gives me great joy to learn about any contribution I made.

I tried to be useful.

X: https://bit.ly/3NrUPtW

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at January 02, 2026 11:32 AM (P5BPp)

111 "Timing is everything, darling."

It's been reported that New York City started a major conflict with Instacart, not the other way around. (Thank Bernie.)

>Why Instacart Is Challenging New York City’s New Grocery Delivery Law, Instacart, Dec 2, 2025. Interesting.

Instacart is currently suing New York City to block worker protection and transparency laws that took effect under the Mamdani administration. (But it's more than that.)

Mamdani’s Commissioner of the Department of Consumer and Worker Protection (DCWP), Sam Levine, has pledged to hold app companies like Instacart accountable for road safety and to curb the exploitation of delivery workers.

A central pillar of Mamdani’s platform is the creation of a network of city-owned grocery stores. This initiative is explicitly designed to compete with private entities and delivery apps like Instacart by providing food at lower prices and bypassing the "price gouging" Mamdani attributes to corporate delivery platforms.

I suggest stepping back and watching where this goes rather than beating the war drum for either side. (But I'm NOT a Mamdani supporter and think I see where his influence street is potentially heading.)

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at January 02, 2026 11:33 AM (NFX2v)

112 Zohran Mamdani fans disappointed by disastrous ‘block party’ with no food or bathrooms

https://is.gd/G8tdaK
Posted by: Archimedes

Because food & bathrooms cost money. Loving that warm communism yet?

Posted by: rickb223 at January 02, 2026 11:33 AM (c115l)

113 There is study after study that HOV lanes increase congestion.

How is that possible?

BTW, I take HOT lanes all the time. They're great.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 02, 2026 11:33 AM (Riz8t)

114 Why is no one complaining about the pervasive menace that is dynamic pricing and ridership requirements for HOV lanes?
Posted by: Count de Monet at January 02, 2026 11:30 AM (6Ga6M)

People do. A lot.

Those lanes are derisively named Lexus Lanes implying only the well off can use them at the expense see of the less well off, who suffer even worse traffic because of them.

Posted by: Really?? at January 02, 2026 11:33 AM (/CkK4)

115 Fear should guide journalist. Or go live Canada. It's just like a frozen Cuba.

Some these super locals are backwards by a lifetime ago.

Posted by: thug dolphin at January 02, 2026 11:33 AM (EyfuW)

116 Not sure how I would charge that EV, and going to a charge lot and sit 3 hours just isn't on my agenda

Posted by: Skip at January 02, 2026 11:33 AM (Ia/+0)

117 This is obviously rhetorical, but just how stupid are these people?

Like Obama and Trump, Mamdani won based on vibes, not rhetoric. People voted based on "he seems cool" and "I like how he makes me feel" and didn't know or even care much about their policies and ideas. This is what Newsome is trying to tap into but unfortunately for him, his vibe is sleazy politician and oily scumbag car salesman. He looks and acts like every bad guy in an 80s comedy.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 02, 2026 11:34 AM (3Amc7)

118 Well for the record...these were mine...more than a few were notthings I would bother to predict but whatever:

Predict what numbers these will be as of December 31, 2025 (numerical response):

1) Price of 9mm ammo per round (as determined by daily average best price on Black Basin, currently $0.13).
$0.15

2) National average price per gallon of regular gasoline (as determined by AAA, currently $3.043)
$2.67

3) S&P 500 level (as determined by S&P, Dec 31 2024 close was 5881.63)
6993.62

4) Euro to Dollar Exchange Rate (midmarket rate at 4pm ET as determined by XE.com, currently 1.0356)
0.9736

5) Price of a single 2X4X8 premium grade piece of lumber (reference is the price at the Home Depot nearest to TRex home, currently $3.85 each)
$3.85

6) Starting MSRP price of the most base level Ford F150 pick up truck (as shown on Ford build configuration website, currently $38,710)
$41,775

The rest rejected by spam filter(?)

Posted by: WTP at January 02, 2026 11:34 AM (vtC5P)

119 Here's a good summary of the Republican's HHS funding bill that's going to be passed:

x.com/Oilfield_Rando/status/
2005812870462718349

The Rs are super stoked to spend money.

Apparently, there's this program where tons of foreign immigrants are dumped in the country and then set up with millions of dollars of fraud programs. Has anyone heard about this? Well guess what? The republicans are pouring money into this great idea. Senate Rs want to give away 6 billion to foreigner welfare and the House Rs want to give away 4 billion.

Oh, and get this, there is apparently this system to hand billions of our money to pretend somalian day care scams. Oh I hope that doesn't stop,... nope don't worry! The Rs are fully funding that specific program. Not cuts at all.

Also great stuff like making sure DEI is everywhere with our $$$ going to back it up.

We're owning the libs!!!!

Posted by: banana Dream at January 02, 2026 11:34 AM (3uBP9)

120 street influence 🤬

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at January 02, 2026 11:34 AM (NFX2v)

121 Why is no one complaining about the pervasive menace that is dynamic pricing and ridership requirements for HOV lanes?
Posted by: Count de Monet
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@#&$%*

Posted by: lin-duh is offended at January 02, 2026 11:34 AM (VCgbV)

122 It gives me great joy to learn about any contribution I made.

I tried to be useful.

Dang, that's so sad.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 02, 2026 11:34 AM (Riz8t)

123 Keep in mind, there are already laws on the books that make all this illegal.
Price gouging, false advertising, deceptive trade practices--every state has those laws.

The Democrats won't enforce them (as long as the companies play ball).
The Republicans will insist that we need to pass new laws before anything can be done.

And if you try to bring your own suit, every judge in the land will find a way to say you don't have standing.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 02, 2026 11:35 AM (HXT0k)

124 Not sure how I would charge that EV, and going to a charge lot and sit 3 hours just isn't on my agenda

Usually people do it when they are asleep or at work. Plug it in when you're not in the car. Charging time is typically only an issue in long trips.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 02, 2026 11:35 AM (3Amc7)

125 I've read recently that lots of companies have concluded that they're not getting much of value from all the mined data for which they pay. The problem for them is that there isn't a viable alternative way of advertising.

I feel for them. So sad.
Posted by: Archimedes at January 02, 2026 11:29 AM (Riz8t)

I still don’t understand the ROI for all the constant biktarvy (and other pharmaceutical) ads… they’re spending huge sums on ads for products which might be applicable to 0.1% of the population at most. How does that work?

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 02, 2026 11:36 AM (xT8gx)

126 Those lanes are derisively named Lexus Lanes implying only the well off can use them at the expense see of the less well off, who suffer even worse traffic because of them.

Again, huh? If I'm not in the HOT lanes, I'm in the regular lanes, cloggin' ur traffic. It seems to me that everyone wins when I pay more to wave at the peasants from the HOT lanes.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 02, 2026 11:36 AM (Riz8t)

127 There is study after study that HOV lanes increase congestion.

How is that possible?

BTW, I take HOT lanes all the time. They're great.
Posted by: Archimedes

Because HOV Lanes are the chicken wire lanes.
(Inside lane)

When you get out of the HOV lane and try to cross four other lanes so you can make your exit off the freeway, everyone has to slow down to let you over.

Now add twenty other vehicles because y'all arrived at your destination.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 02, 2026 11:36 AM (c115l)

128 The rest rejected by spam filter(?)

There are limits to the length of any post and the system doesn't like lists very much, either.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 02, 2026 11:37 AM (3Amc7)

129 Say you have 4 lanes. One of them is a HOT /HOV lane. Instead of X number of cars using it, only 0.3X is allowed to use it. So the capacity for the entire highway is reduced by having that dedicated la e.

A few people get the benefit at the expenses of everyone else who has even worse traffic because of it. Essentially you’re turning a 4 lane highway into a 3 lane highway for everyone not using the HOV lane.

Posted by: Really?? at January 02, 2026 11:37 AM (/CkK4)

130 Should there be a nationally mandated price for gasoline at all stations, in all states?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 02, 2026 11:37 AM (06Hmj)

131 Ryan Saavedra @RyanSaavedra

Even top Putin ally Kirill Dmitriev, who is CEO of Russia’s sovereign wealth fund, is dunking on Zohran Mamdani

Kirill Dmitriev @kadmitriev

Dear Comrade Mamdani - just a friendly reminder that this has been tried before.

X image: https://bit.ly/44Vp9Dj

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at January 02, 2026 11:38 AM (P5BPp)

132 Should there be a nationally mandated price for gasoline at all stations, in all states?
Posted by: Warai-otoko

No. Why?

Posted by: rickb223 at January 02, 2026 11:38 AM (c115l)

133
There are options like Tesla where the price is set and non negotiable.

Saturn did that.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 02, 2026 11:38 AM (pkeXY)

134 I see I hit a nerve re HOV lanes and congestion. I was being a bit tongue-in-cheek, or so I wryly thought.

Posted by: Count de Monet at January 02, 2026 11:39 AM (6Ga6M)

135 This is why I get off my ass and go to the store to shop.

Posted by: mpfs. I'M BACK at January 02, 2026 11:39 AM (P42t1)

136 Because HOV Lanes are the chicken wire lanes.
(Inside lane)

When you get out of the HOV lane and try to cross four other lanes so you can make your exit off the freeway, everyone has to slow down to let you over.

On the beltway, the HOV lanes usually debouche directly onto the smaller feeder road. Furthermore, you have to weigh those where they don't against the reduced traffic in the regular lanes. Finally, most of the time the traffic on the beltway is so heavy that it's not really moving at highway speeds, so moving across is easier.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 02, 2026 11:40 AM (Riz8t)

137 Scott Adams @ScottAdamsSays

I have a favor to ask.

If my work helped you, or someone you know, please follow my biographer and good friend @joelpollak and leave a comment here in case he wants to follow up with you on DMs.

It gives me great joy to learn about any contribution I made.

I tried to be useful.

X: https://bit.ly/3NrUPtW
Posted by: Clyde Shelton

That makes me incredibly sad. I know Mr. Adams doesn't have long now.

Posted by: Tuna at January 02, 2026 11:40 AM (lJ0H4)

138 I hate when people get into the toll lane and drive slow... it's worse than driving slow in the left lane because there is no way to pass the @ssh@le.

Posted by: lin-duh is offended at January 02, 2026 11:40 AM (VCgbV)

139 119. We're owning the libs!!!!
Posted by: banana Dream

But everyone's grown children need excellent paying jobs and prime networking connections! 😭

(MTG is a very current reminder of the game.)

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at January 02, 2026 11:40 AM (NFX2v)

140 Kirill Dmitriev @kadmitriev

Dear Comrade Mamdani - just a friendly reminder that this has been tried before.

X image: https://bit.ly/44Vp9Dj

That. Is. Awesome.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 02, 2026 11:41 AM (Riz8t)

141 How is that possible?

BTW, I take HOT lanes all the time. They're great.
Posted by: Archimedes at January 02, 2026 11:33 AM (Riz8t)
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Math.

Assume you have a three-lane road that carries 100,000 cars during rush hour along a ten-mile stretch of town. That is 100,000/10/3, or 3,333 vehicles per lane-mile during rush hour.

Now convert one of those lines to HOV.

Of those 100,000 cars, 5,000 of them already have more than one occupant. An additional 10,000 commuters are willing to carpool to become HOV to exploit the new lane. There are now 10,000 cars that are high-occupancy and the total dwindles to 95,000. Assume further that there's a toll scheme and 10,000 people are willing to pay for express lane access. There are now 20,000 cars that are high-occupancy or equivalent, and 95,000 cars total, which means that 75,000 cars are single-occupant and non-tolled.

Those 20,000 qualifying vehicles get one lane, which is 2,000 cars per lane-mile on the HOV-enabled stretch of road during rush hour. The remaining 75,000 cars now get two lanes, which increases their carriage to 3,750 cars per lane-mile during rush hour.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 02, 2026 11:41 AM (avHHk)

142 Should there be a nationally mandated price for gasoline at all stations, in all states?
Posted by: Warai-otoko

No, why should I say for California's fuck ups concerning gasoline.

Let them pay 7 bucks a gallon. Its what they voted for.

Posted by: mpfs. I'M BACK at January 02, 2026 11:42 AM (P42t1)

143 Should there be a nationally mandated price for gasoline at all stations, in all states?

I am actually surprised that never happened. I bet you could get 70% of the public to support it.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 02, 2026 11:42 AM (3Amc7)

144 I hate when people get into the toll lane and drive slow... it's worse than driving slow in the left lane because there is no way to pass the @ssh@le.

On the beltway, there are two HOT lanes, and the cops just LOVE to ticket people who think the laws cease to apply there.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 02, 2026 11:42 AM (Riz8t)

145 Bought an electronics item at Wallymart recently. Naturally it was in a locked display case. Wallymart lady unlocked it with her smartphone. That was kinda neat.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at January 02, 2026 11:42 AM (2Ez/1)

146 The best Christmas decorations belong to other people.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at January 02, 2026 11:19 AM (2Ez/1)

This is the logic of a great thinker.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at January 02, 2026 11:43 AM (g8Ew8)

147
Zohran Mamdani fans disappointed by disastrous ‘block party’ with no food or bathrooms

Boomers didn't complain about lack of facilities at Woodstock.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 02, 2026 11:43 AM (pkeXY)

148 Now convert one of those lines to HOV.

Well there's yer problem. HOV/HOT lanes are not a conversion of an existing lane, they're roads built by private investors. At least that's how they are on the beltway.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 02, 2026 11:44 AM (Riz8t)

149 Like Obama and Trump, Mamdani won based on vibes, not rhetoric. People voted based on "he seems cool" and "I like how he makes me feel" and didn't know or even care much about their policies and ideas. This is what Newsome is trying to tap into but unfortunately for him, his vibe is sleazy politician and oily scumbag car salesman. He looks and acts like every bad guy in an 80s comedy.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 02, 2026 11:34 AM (3Amc7)

Think of Kurt Russell's character in Used Cars.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at January 02, 2026 11:44 AM (5xuJ/)

150 Boomers didn't complain about lack of facilities at Woodstock.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 02, 2026 11:43 AM (pkeXY)
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They memorialized and glorified it and everyone claimed to have been there.

Give it 10 years and everyone in NY will reminisce about being at the party!

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 02, 2026 11:44 AM (avHHk)

151 What just makes my skin crawl is the auto insurance companies selling driving tracking as a way to save.

Then they ding you for so many stupid factors that you'll not save any money; no speeding, no sudden stops or turns, etc.

And now they have a permanent file on your driving and you'll never get a cheaper rate.

And 100% guarantee they are selling that data to someone somehow.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 02, 2026 11:44 AM (HXT0k)

152 Math cleanup aisle 141!

*blows whistle*

Posted by: Ref with whistle at January 02, 2026 11:45 AM (2Ez/1)

153 This is the same nonsense approach applied in every public school in the nation. Kids that excel end up being stifled by the necessity to dumb down the curriculum to accommodate the less intelligent and less motivated. The result is everyone passing with adjusted benchmarks. In some cases, total disregard for the measuring tests.

You teach people to access the opportunity. It is on them to decide whether to apply those lessons. Deciding poorly results in self-inflicted poverty a lot of the time. "Dumbing down commerce" in the way described above just encourages the behavior, and removes the motivation to exceed.

And, I've got news for you. They wouldn't be lowering the cost of a grocery item. They'd be raising the price for those in a higher income structure to benefit the retailer, not the poverty stricken individual. Retailers are not altruistic no matter how many programs are created to make the initiator feel good about themselves.

Posted by: Orson at January 02, 2026 11:45 AM (dIske)

154 Zohran Mamdani’s wife, Rama Duwaji, faces heat over $630 designer boots worn at the swearing-in ceremony
TOI World Desk / TIMESOFINDIA.COM / Updated: Jan 02, 2026

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at January 02, 2026 11:45 AM (NFX2v)

155 Boomers didn't complain about lack of facilities at Woodstock. [/i

Make dysentery great again!

Posted by: Archimedes at January 02, 2026 11:45 AM (Riz8t)

156

Posted by: Archimedes at January 02, 2026 11:45 AM (Riz8t)

157 Now convert one of those lines to HOV.

Well there's yer problem. HOV/HOT lanes are not a conversion of an existing lane, they're roads built by private investors. At least that's how they are on the beltway.
Posted by: Archimedes

Toll roads are toll toads.
HOV lanes are built on existing freeways by removing the inside most breakdown lane.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 02, 2026 11:46 AM (c115l)

158 Walmart has locked up all the cosmetics and personal care stuff and there is no one around to unlock it. Plus them asking for receipts at the door. I very seldom go there or to Target because they are just gay/trans/lbgtqrstvxyz.
Posted by: lin-duh is offended at January 02, 2026 11:32 AM (VCgbV)

Geez. Where do you live? We have none of that at the Walmarts I go to.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at January 02, 2026 11:46 AM (g8Ew8)

159 My experience with hov lanes is they usually have a brief 30-45 second sprint where you go 50 instead of 20 in the regular lanes. But then it slows to a crawl like the other lanes for the next 5 minutes. Rinse and repeat. It maybe bust a 30 minute drive by a couple of minutes.

Which in the aggregate theoretically makes them worthwhile. Hundreds of thousands of drivers saving 3 minutes every day ads up to a lot of “hours saved” and multiply that by people’s hourly wage it seems like a big number and justifies the cost, spread out over years the bonds take to pay back.

But on a personal level it’s barely noticeable.

Posted by: Really?? at January 02, 2026 11:46 AM (/CkK4)

160 it is a particularly egregious example of the political horseshoe theory that the supposed "right wing" is making the preposterous case that...discriminatory pricing, of all ancient and ubiquitous methods of commercial practice, is somehow "socialism".

if a box of chocalates is subjectively worth far more to you than it is to me, why should we pay the same price ? across-the-board pricing is actually much more collectivist/socialist than discriminatory pricing; it's just that individually targetted pricing is informationally prohibitive.

"This is significantly different from offering discounts to those enrolled in loyalty programs, or getting discounts for buying a bundle of products or in bulk. In those situations, all customers have access to the same pricing."

yikes: behold one of the most poorly thought-through economic takes i've read in a year that saw the election of a self-professed socialist to the mayoralty of the erstwhile greatest city in the world.

the worst part ? this "conversative" commentary is praising...the threat of government intervention to "correct" the nonexistent problem (!). gov't to make the rules, all in the name of fighting socialism ?

Posted by: pH at January 02, 2026 11:47 AM (J9hPc)

161 Well there's yer problem. HOV/HOT lanes are not a conversion of an existing lane, they're roads built by private investors. At least that's how they are on the beltway.
Posted by: Archimedes at January 02, 2026 11:44 AM (Riz8t)
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Many, many HOV lanes were conversions. Expansions are different, but expansions also don't happen in a vacuum. There's an opportunity cost involved. The road *needed* expansion due to growth, but the expansion applies in a restricted way and benefits are limited. In a best-case outcome, everyone else's experience is unchanged (same traffic volume in the old corridor) in that case. I am sure that does happen. My one direct experience with expansion-as-toll-lanes did not reflect that (the expansion was both inadequate (the road needed 4x new lanes, not 2x, which everyone knew at the time) and the tolls were so high that it got little usage), but that is one single data point.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 02, 2026 11:47 AM (avHHk)

162 Toll roads are toll toads.
HOV lanes are built on existing freeways by removing the inside most breakdown lane.

Sometimes, but not in most. The beltway HOT lanes are largely outside the regular lanes.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 02, 2026 11:47 AM (Riz8t)

163 Boomers didn't complain about lack of facilities at Woodstock.

They were too stoned to even notice

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 02, 2026 11:47 AM (3Amc7)

164 111
‘ But I'm NOT a Mamdani supporter and think I see where his influence street is potentially heading.’

I think Mamdani’s new initiatives will be used to shakedown rich business owners, ie They’ll pay Mamdani to NOT have Mamdani’s initiatives applied to them.
He’ll make money like the warden in Shawshank redemption.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at January 02, 2026 11:48 AM (jbnUc)

165 Dear Comrade Mamdani - just a friendly reminder that this has been tried before.

X image: https://bit.ly/44Vp9Dj

That. Is. Awesome.
Posted by: Archimedes at January 02, 2026 11:41 AM (Riz8t)

"You just didn't do it right."

- - - - - - - - - John F. Kerry

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 02, 2026 11:48 AM (Zz0t1)

166 Zohran Mamdani’s wife, Rama Duwaji, faces heat over $630 designer boots worn at the swearing-in ceremony
TOI World Desk / TIMESOFINDIA.COM / Updated: Jan 02, 2026

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at January 02, 2026 11:45 AM

Rookie mistake.

Posted by: Somali in $2000 Glasses at January 02, 2026 11:49 AM (P5BPp)

167 I see some retailers lockup their stuff and make you beg them to unlock it. The locks work. They still have what I came in for.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at January 02, 2026 11:49 AM (vd6bO)

168 No one brags about their suffering in the Purple Tunnel Of Doom at B.O.'s first inauguration.

Posted by: Oh by the way at January 02, 2026 11:49 AM (2Ez/1)

169
Geez. Where do you live? We have none of that at the Walmarts I go to.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at January 02, 2026 11:46 AM

Austin

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 02, 2026 11:49 AM (Zz0t1)

170 166 Zohran Mamdani’s wife, Rama Duwaji, faces heat over $630 designer boots worn at the swearing-in ceremony
TOI World Desk / TIMESOFINDIA.COM / Updated: Jan 02, 2026

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at January 02, 2026 11:45 AM

Rookie mistake.

+++
She'll learn.

Posted by: Imelda Marcos at January 02, 2026 11:51 AM (2Ez/1)

171 $600 shoes? Kinda frugal by Democrat politics standard TBH.

AOC rocks $5k dresses when she attends events.

Posted by: Really?? at January 02, 2026 11:51 AM (/CkK4)

172 167 I see some retailers lockup their stuff and make you beg them to unlock it. The locks work. They still have what I came in for. Some Amazon retailer does not (A thousand pardons. I hit the Post button too soon.)

Posted by: Don in SoCo at January 02, 2026 11:51 AM (vd6bO)

173 Locking up stuff in stores is a response to theft, usually massive blatant shoplifting. Its not so awful if there is staff to open things but the problem is that over the years, personnel became so expensive that businesses cannot have sufficient staff on the floor to help out.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 02, 2026 11:52 AM (3Amc7)

174 ”If the price depends on who you are instead of what you’re buying, that’s not capitalism.”

It's offensive and nasty, but I don't see why it's not capitalism. You charge what the market will pay. If you're selling into an inefficient market, where prices are not 'known' with great accuracy, that's not the seller's problem. Buyers in turn have the option to improve their efficiency and to seek lowest price suppliers.

Posted by: gp at January 02, 2026 11:52 AM (GHIyr)

175 I recall many years ago, when HOV lanes were being designed for I10 on the west side of Houston. At a meeting with engineering, the idiot mayor asked how wide the main lanes were. "8'10" replied the engineers.

"What is the minimum width allowed?" asked the mayor.

"Eight feet" replied the engineer.

"Redesign them to eight feet even. When people are stuck in traffic jams every day, they will stop driving and take the bus."

Posted by: Thomas Paine at January 02, 2026 11:53 AM (0U5gm)

176 Geez. Where do you live? We have none of that at the Walmarts I go to.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at January 02, 2026 11:46 AM

Austin
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer
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When did you move?

Posted by: lin-duh is offended at January 02, 2026 11:53 AM (VCgbV)

177 Zohran Mamdani’s wife, Rama Duwaji, faces heat over $630 designer boots worn at the swearing-in ceremony
--
The Somali in the "we wuz robbed" video is wearing near $3k frames.

The Somali in the "opps, I said fraud is bad" clip has a 3-4 karat diamond ring on.

You are out there working like a sucker, a loser, a fool.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 02, 2026 11:54 AM (HXT0k)

178 Libs of TikTok @libsoftiktok

They’re always either teachers or in the medical field

X image: https://bit.ly/4so8lPr

(Somali woman who said Elon Musk will be dead soon)

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at January 02, 2026 11:54 AM (P5BPp)

179 ---
When did you move?
Posted by: lin-duh is offended at January 02, 2026 11:53 AM (VCgbV)

Well, not me.

I still live in the DFW Suckoplex. We hope to change that this spring.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 02, 2026 11:54 AM (Zz0t1)

180 Go sit in District Court on the busy day and see the majority of the charges deal with citizens and non-citizens alike not having drivers' licenses, vehicle insurance, registration. (There are some that never had a license plate on their vehicle &/or made a paper license plate for a vehicle and have driven for sometime before being stopped!)

The police must come to court and the great majority reach settlements with their 'clients' (who most often produce a registration, insurance card or license) and have those promptly approved by the magistrate.

The insurance companies know you chase those kinds of people in the event of an accident and you'll be paying, too.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at January 02, 2026 11:55 AM (NFX2v)

181 Ahh, the offspring. I have my middle one looking at the same school.

Posted by: lin-duh is offended at January 02, 2026 11:55 AM (VCgbV)

182 Locking up stuff in stores is a response to theft, usually massive blatant shoplifting. Its not so awful if there is staff to open things but the problem is that over the years, personnel became so expensive that businesses cannot have sufficient staff on the floor to help out.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 02, 2026 11:52 AM (3Amc7)
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I *strongly* suspect that if the "crime is legal" aspect of major cities continues, we're going to see a return to the "catalgoue store" model, albeit with a high-tech twist. Locking up product classes and retrofitting cases for security is hugely expensive both in terms of physical plant and especially in operational costs. Now a paid employee has to wander around unlocking cases for customers all the time. It's monstrously inefficient and unsustainable.

In places where that has to happen, expect inventory to be taken off the floor entirely. Walk in, order from a kiosk, wait 15 minutes, have the employee bring your order out to you from "the back" where all the stuff is behind a couple of locked doors. Go get a coffee or a sandwich while you wait. The food court at the front of the store will still be open to the public.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 02, 2026 11:56 AM (avHHk)

183 Ahh, the offspring. I have my middle one looking at the same school.

Posted by: lin-duh is offended at January 02, 2026 11:55 AM

You gotta keep 'em separated.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at January 02, 2026 11:56 AM (P5BPp)

184 We al know the jokes about mechanics selling blinker fluid. The hoke is based in reality. Someone who has no idea how a car works is paying $1000 for “routine maintenance” while someone who has a clue is paying $300. Same service different price based on the customer.

Also take a $2M house and a $200k house. A plumber comes over to fix a leaky faucet. You think he’s charging both home owners the same amount? I really doubt it.

Posted by: Really?? at January 02, 2026 11:56 AM (/CkK4)

185 "see the majority of the charges deal with citizens and non-citizens alike not having drivers' licenses, vehicle insurance, registration."

I watch far too many bodycam vids, and I am astonished by the number of people who drive not just without licenses, but without any form of ID at all.

Posted by: gp at January 02, 2026 11:57 AM (GHIyr)

186 This brunette does her own shopping and is good at structuring discounts:
http://tiny.cc/9c4x001

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 02, 2026 11:57 AM (avHHk)

187 This brunette does her own shopping and is good at structuring discounts:
http://tiny.cc/9c4x001

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 02, 2026 11:57 AM (avHHk)

Denise Richards?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 02, 2026 11:58 AM (Zz0t1)

188 I refused the monitoring system from the insurance company on all my cars. I also don't have that nanny app, life360, to stalk/monitor my kids. The phones already stalk your every move...

Posted by: lin-duh is offended at January 02, 2026 11:58 AM (VCgbV)

189 166. Rookie mistake.
Posted by: Somali in $2000 Glasses

Nah. They do it all of the time.

They are respectful and representing their great city as they should, say supporters.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at January 02, 2026 11:58 AM (NFX2v)

190 Yes this is the whole basis of capitalism
Charge whatever will generate the highest profits and shareholder value!

Posted by: Aliassmithsmith at January 02, 2026 11:58 AM (GQlWz)

191 In places where that has to happen, expect inventory to be taken off the floor entirely. Walk in, order from a kiosk, wait 15 minutes, have the employee bring your order out to you from "the back" where all the stuff is behind a couple of locked doors. Go get a coffee or a sandwich while you wait. The food court at the front of the store will still be open to the public.

Posted by: Joe Mannix

The Service Merchandise model.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at January 02, 2026 11:59 AM (0U5gm)

192 Posted by: Aliassmithsmith at January 02, 2026 11:58 AM (GQlWz)

You DICK!!!!

Posted by: Jeff Spicoli at January 02, 2026 11:59 AM (Zz0t1)

193 I *strongly* suspect that if the "crime is legal" aspect of major cities continues, we're going to see a return to the "catalgoue store" model, albeit with a high-tech twist.

Service Merchandise.
Had one display model of everything they sold. You took a ticket to the counter, paid, & it popped out of the back on a conveyor belt.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 02, 2026 11:59 AM (c115l)

194 Service Merchandise.
Had one display model of everything they sold. You took a ticket to the counter, paid, & it popped out of the back on a conveyor belt.
Posted by: rickb223 at January 02, 2026 11:59 AM (c115l)
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Yup. Watch it get tarted up with some new tech and described as the Next Big Idea.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 02, 2026 12:00 PM (avHHk)

195 "I refused the monitoring system from the insurance company on all my cars."

I'd gladly accept it for a substantial insurance premium discount, but I asked and there is no discount given, around here anyway.

Posted by: gp at January 02, 2026 12:00 PM (GHIyr)

196
In places where that has to happen, expect inventory to be taken off the floor entirely. Walk in, order from a kiosk, wait 15 minutes, have the employee bring your order out to you from "the back" where all the stuff is behind a couple of locked doors. Go get a coffee or a sandwich while you wait. The food court at the front of the store will still be open to the public.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 02, 2026 11:56 AM (avHHk)

Ah yes, the Soviet GUM model. Except for the coffee or sandwich thing.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at January 02, 2026 12:00 PM (y9nCu)

197
Make
Horsewhipping
Great
Again

... in public and commensurate to the executives' offenses against customers.

Financial penalties can be laughed off. Whipping scars are forever.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at January 02, 2026 12:01 PM (xG4kz)

198
I'd gladly accept it for a substantial insurance premium discount, but I asked and there is no discount given, around here anyway.
Posted by: gp at January 02, 2026 12:00 PM (GHIyr)

It yells at you if you do something it deems inappropriate while driving.

I don't want or need that.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 02, 2026 12:01 PM (Zz0t1)

199 I watch far too many bodycam vids, and I am astonished by the number of people who drive not just without licenses, but without any form of ID at all.
Posted by: gp at January 02, 2026 11:57 AM (GHIyr)

Thing is if you don’t drive like a crazy person the odds against getting pulled over are very good. People do it because there is little to no incentive for not doing it.

It’s another example of how our high trust society is disintegrating.

Posted by: Really?? at January 02, 2026 12:01 PM (/CkK4)

200 "In places where that has to happen, expect inventory to be taken off the floor entirely."

People are buying more stuff via delivery now. They care less and less about the in-store buying hassles.

Posted by: gp at January 02, 2026 12:02 PM (GHIyr)

201 Denise Richards always looks disappointed in me. Which, I get. Granted she doesn't even know me, but I understand the sentiment.

Posted by: banana Dream at January 02, 2026 12:02 PM (3uBP9)

202 In the Consumer Reports example. The customer paid about 10,,% or 10 dollars more
How much time was saved ? Was that time saved worth 10 dollars?

Posted by: Aliassmithsmith at January 02, 2026 12:02 PM (GQlWz)

203 Yup. Watch it get tarted up with some new tech and described as the Next Big Idea.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 02, 2026 12:00 PM (avHHk)

The newer Summit Racing distribution center in Arlington, TX is like that.

Sure, they have a store front, but you can go to the kiosk in the back, enter your request and pay for it, then you'll get your number called when the order is filled and ready for pickup.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 02, 2026 12:03 PM (Zz0t1)

204 When Instacart is driven out of business, the same people complaining will whine that they have “online food shopping deserts” . Lol

Posted by: Really?? at January 02, 2026 12:03 PM (/CkK4)

205 If the price depends on who you are instead of what you’re buying, that’s not capitalism.

My Medicare premium was increased 396% this year. Because I sold some stock to diversify out of a highly concentrated position. I was shocked, as I'm new to these Medicare rules that determine what you pay based on how much you make.

This is not "insurance". My health has not changed. This is a tax on temporary wealth. This too, is not capitalism, it is communism.

From each according to their ability , to each according to their need. Bah humbug.

Posted by: Derak at January 02, 2026 12:03 PM (JQ2/i)

206 Instacart also steals from you. They pay the store. You pay them. Therefore, if the store has a sale they pay the store sale price, but you pay the Instacart website price that's not on sale. I didn't notice for the small items, but I found out on a big ticket item when my shopper texted me the store sale. Instacart refused to credit me the difference, which was $20. I quit them. Now I'm able to pay the store directly, and they honor their in store sales from the circular. They used to use their own delivery service, but now it's Door Dash. I don't drive, so it's still cheaper to use the online service than Uber there and back.

Posted by: hadsil at January 02, 2026 12:04 PM (Xht4H)

207 This is not "insurance". My health has not changed. This is a tax on temporary wealth. This too, is not capitalism, it is communism.

Posted by: Derak at January 02, 2026 12:03 PM (JQ2/i)

"Correct!"

- - - - - - Cheap Justice John Roberts

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 02, 2026 12:04 PM (Zz0t1)

208 Ah yes, the Soviet GUM model. Except for the coffee or sandwich thing.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur

I visited the GUM store last time I was in Moscow. It was nice, but basically no different than the Galleria. To the average soviet who normally wasn't allowed in, it was probably awe inspiring.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at January 02, 2026 12:04 PM (0U5gm)

209 It yells at you if you do something it deems inappropriate while driving.

I don't want or need that.
Posted by: Sponge

Ahhhhh. Like driving with the ex wife.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 02, 2026 12:05 PM (c115l)

210 Ahhhhh. Like driving with the ex wife.
Posted by: rickb223 at January 02, 2026 12:05 PM (c115l)

I would imagine quite similar, yes.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 02, 2026 12:06 PM (Zz0t1)

211 Denise Richards always looks disappointed in me. Which, I get. Granted she doesn't even know me, but I understand the sentiment.
Posted by: banana Dream at January 02, 2026 12:02 PM (3uBP9)

It was a young Denise Richards who was the daughter of the president of NBC with great cleavage and George got caught staring…. Jerry was annoyed because everyone knows with cleavage it’s like the sun; you take a peak but don’t stare you’ll get burned…

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 02, 2026 12:06 PM (/iXAp)

212 Maybe I'm stupid, but can't you defeat this by going to the grocery store and buying groceries for yourself, in person, like normal people did up until ten minutes ago?
Posted by: Possibly Dumb at January 02, 2026 11:21 AM (4PEtT)

Why yes, you can. All I ever do. No apps of any kind on my damned phone.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 02, 2026 12:07 PM (8zz6B)

213
I visited the GUM store last time I was in Moscow. It was nice, but basically no different than the Galleria. To the average soviet who normally wasn't allowed in, it was probably awe inspiring.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at January 02, 2026 12:04 PM (0U5gm)

Honestly, I've only been to the GUM store in the Ghost Recon video game about 20 years ago...

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at January 02, 2026 12:07 PM (y9nCu)

214 This is not a bug, it is a feature of communism.

Posted by: Gmac - WTF did you think was going to happen? at January 02, 2026 12:08 PM (qZdIZ)

215 When I had progressive insurance if I got their tracking app, I’d save about 5%. Wasn’t worth it.
At 30%….I’d consider it.

Posted by: Really?? at January 02, 2026 12:08 PM (/CkK4)

216 It was a young Denise Richards who was the daughter of the president of NBC with great cleavage and George got caught staring…. Jerry was annoyed because everyone knows with cleavage it’s like the sun; you take a peak but don’t stare you’ll get burned…
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 02, 2026 12:06 PM (/iXAp)

This is why, wherever possible, you wear mirrored sunglasses.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 02, 2026 12:08 PM (Zz0t1)

217 I *strongly* suspect that if the "crime is legal" aspect of major cities continues, we're going to see a return to the "catalgoue store" model, albeit with a high-tech twist

The open floor model store is a high-trust society feature. Old timey stores had a few display models up front and everything else in back. It takes a lot of service to run one of those, but its safe from casual theft.

To the average soviet who normally wasn't allowed in, it was probably awe inspiring.

My Russian teacher in high school used to fly out to the Soviet Union every few years (in retrospect I think he was... involved in intelligence, shall we say) during the 80s. He would buy his minder something from the GUM every time and they were always amazed.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 02, 2026 12:08 PM (3Amc7)

218
I visited the GUM store last time I was in Moscow. It was nice, but basically no different than the Galleria. To the average soviet who normally wasn't allowed in, it was probably awe inspiring.
Posted by: Thomas Paine

Well, to them and Tucker Carlson, he of the high-pitched girlish squeals

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at January 02, 2026 12:09 PM (xG4kz)

219 can't believe anyone in 2025 is looking at whatever ills they see, and saying to themselves "You know what would fix this? More government!"
Posted by: BurtTC at January 02, 2026 11:28 AM (dGCAG)

I agree with you

Posted by: ... at January 02, 2026 12:09 PM (E0p3T)

220 Maybe I'm stupid, but can't you defeat this by going to the grocery store and buying groceries for yourself, in person, like normal people did up until ten minutes ago?
Posted by: Possibly Dumb at January 02, 2026 11:21 AM (4PEtT)

Why yes, you can. All I ever do. No apps of any kind on my damned phone.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

Kroger does e-coupons. You use their app, "clip" the e-coupon, and it knows to apply it to your total checkout price because of your loyalty card.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 02, 2026 12:09 PM (c115l)

221 Autonation is almost 100% haggle free. But even there they will find some wiggle room if you push hard enough and they want to move a unit that day.
Posted by: Really?? at January 02, 2026 11:23 AM (/CkK4)

Simply buy used cars from private owners. You can still haggle, but you haggle with a principal.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 02, 2026 12:10 PM (8zz6B)

222 can't you defeat this by going to the grocery store and buying groceries for yourself, in person, like normal people did up until ten minutes ago?

Currently, yes. In the near future, pricing will be accessed by your phone and facial recognition will identify you and adjust for you.

But some people cannot get out and go grocery shopping for various reasons and having stuff delivered is the only real option.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 02, 2026 12:10 PM (3Amc7)

223 There is a reason companies like Google have made a ton of money off of your data even though they also spend a fair amount on buildings software that people want so as to get that data.

I've argued for a long time that software companies should be required on a regular basis to get your permission for every bit of data they collect and for it to be 100% illegal to share that data with any other merchant or data broker

Posted by: 18-1 at January 02, 2026 12:10 PM (sKqQm)

224 When I had progressive insurance if I got their tracking app, I’d save about 5%. Wasn’t worth it.
At 30%….I’d consider it.
Posted by: Really?? at January 02, 2026 12:08 PM (/CkK4)

You're driving down the freeway, minding your own business, doing the speed limit, even. Suddenly, from out of nowhere, someone cuts across 3 lanes in front of you because they decided that's the exit they needed to take.

You take evasive action by slamming the brakes and slowing rapidly to avoid a collision. The stupid monitoring device under your dash starts beeping loudly to let you know it's mad and your insurance rates increase due to your reckless driving.

Yeah, they can take that little device and shove it up their ass.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 02, 2026 12:10 PM (Zz0t1)

225 Totally not a Nazi salute.

https://is.gd/xd5nlO

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except Better at January 02, 2026 12:10 PM (L/fGl)

226 80 Weren't there some predictions made here last year? Did I miss the results post?

Posted by: WTP at January 02, 2026 11:24 AM
***
Results will be posted in the Wednesday ONT.

Posted by: TRex - kreskin dino at January 02, 2026 12:11 PM (IQ6Gq)

227 In the Consumer Reports example. The customer paid about 10,,% or 10 dollars more
How much time was saved ? Was that time saved worth 10 dollars?
Posted by: Aliassmithsmith

1) Sean Penn still finds you disgustingly phallic

B) Since both customers were using Instacart, the time saved for that $10 was zero seconds.

Posted by: mikeski at January 02, 2026 12:12 PM (nhCoE)

228 can't believe anyone in 2025 is looking at whatever ills they see, and saying to themselves "You know what would fix this? More government!"
Posted by: BurtTC at January 02, 2026 11:28 AM (dGCAG)

I agree with you
Posted by: ... at January 02, 2026 12:09 PM (E0p3T)

I think the overall impression from comments is that there are laws preventing this already on the books and they should be applied. No one is clamoring for new laws and growth in government.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 02, 2026 12:12 PM (Zz0t1)

229 >>> Yeah, they can take that little device and shove it up their ass.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 02, 2026 12:10 PM (Zz0t1)

It reminds me of those thermostats that power companies were giving away "for free" that allowed them to cut your ac. Yeah, that's a no from me chief.

Posted by: banana Dream at January 02, 2026 12:13 PM (3uBP9)

230 It was only a matter of time before the algorithmic system was used as a weapon against ourselves. They have been using it on our smart tv's. Watch something once and bam! you have a whole list of new freakin movies, shows, doc's.

Posted by: sidney at January 02, 2026 12:13 PM (Uy/WF)

231 I know about the electric car hate but if I had the spare change to have an extra car, I would get a Tesla for my daily commute car.
Posted by: lin-duh is offended at January 02, 2026 11:27 AM (VCgbV)

Good commuter car for those who live in a mild-climate area.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 02, 2026 12:14 PM (8zz6B)

232 I *strongly* suspect that if the "crime is legal" aspect of major cities continues, we're going to see a return to the "catalgoue store" model, albeit with a high-tech twist

Mamdami can bring back the Soviet "three-line" stores - one line to select the item, a second line to pay for the item, and a third line to get the item.

Maximizes employment that way.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at January 02, 2026 12:14 PM (xTIDn)

233 218
‘Tucker Carlson, he of the high-pitched girlish squeals’

That may be what discredits him the most with me.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at January 02, 2026 12:14 PM (jbnUc)

234 Well, I'm glad that's settled!

Commentary Zohran Mamdani Press Account
@MayorMamdani
In no way was this a NAZI salute or intended to be one.
We can end that debate now.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 02, 2026 12:14 PM (L/fGl)

235 Totally not a Nazi salute.

https://is.gd/xd5nlO
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks

Total sieg heil from start to finish.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 02, 2026 12:15 PM (c115l)

236 We do not have capitalism in this country.

We have corporatism; a soft fascism.

But really it's hidden socialism with a cheap suit of a market system.
The bottom 20% get all the benefits.
The top 1% get to rule.
Everyone else gets to pay.

So, of course the stupids with degrees are all against Capitalism. Because they're told their entire life that the US is a capitalist country.
And there is no way the corporatists who are the donor class of the GOP will ever offer an alternative to the current system.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 02, 2026 11:26 AM (HXT0k)

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This is no different than the "communism hasn't really been tried" arguments.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at January 02, 2026 12:15 PM (ACIRI)

237 Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 02, 2026 12:12 PM (Zz0t1)

I also agree with you.

Posted by: ... at January 02, 2026 12:15 PM (E0p3T)

238 can't believe anyone in 2025 is looking at whatever ills they see, and saying to themselves "You know what would fix this? More government!"

So for the true blue lefties they just assume if they were given all the power they'd make everything right. Of course their version of right looks like hell, but that's it...

For lefty LIVs its more simple. The media tells them "if there was a law against it people wouldn't do it" and so they repeat the narrative. There could already be a law against it but obviously that didn't cover this case...right?

Posted by: 18-1 at January 02, 2026 12:15 PM (sKqQm)

239 Commentary Zohran Mamdani Press Account
@MayorMamdani
In no way was this a NAZI salute or intended to be one.
We can end that debate now.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks

Sorry jihadi. Your rules.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 02, 2026 12:15 PM (c115l)

240 Totally not a Nazi salute.

I mean, its not, but its as much of one as Elon's nearly identical gesture.

Good commuter car for those who live in a mild-climate area.

I wouldn't get a Tesla though, I'd get a Leaf or something super cut rate and basic. You're facing a huge surcost in 8-10 years depending on how much you use it so best to keep the price down, particularly as the subsidies have ended.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 02, 2026 12:16 PM (3Amc7)

241
Commentary Zohran Mamdani Press Account
@MayorMamdani
In no way was this a NAZI salute or intended to be one.
We can end that debate now.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 02, 2026 12:14 PM (L/fGl)

Nope. New rules have already been established.

NAZI!!!!!! THIS PROVES IT!!!!

*I can't wait for Musk to chime in

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 02, 2026 12:16 PM (Zz0t1)

242 >>> Totally not a Nazi salute.

https://is.gd/xd5nlO
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks

Total sieg heil from start to finish.
Posted by: rickb223 at January 02, 2026 12:15 PM (c115l)

Isn't he a tiny bit of a National Socialist anyway?

Posted by: banana Dream at January 02, 2026 12:16 PM (3uBP9)

243
I also agree with you.
Posted by: ... at January 02, 2026 12:15 PM (E0p3T)

*fistbump*

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 02, 2026 12:16 PM (Zz0t1)

244 nood

Ace

Posted by: banana Dream at January 02, 2026 12:17 PM (3uBP9)

245 Guess one of these days I will have to subscribe to X

Posted by: Skip at January 02, 2026 12:17 PM (Ia/+0)

246 Simply buy used cars from private owners. You can still haggle, but you haggle with a principal.

—

100% agreement. If I buy used it’s almost always private party. Much cheaper cutting out the middle man’s markup. I also sell used cars private. Trading in is basically lighting thousands of dollars on fire. In the past I’ve gone to CarMax get an offer. That’s my worst case scenario is I can get this much number.

Then list it on marketplace for something like 30% more. I honestly don’t get why anyone would trade in. I get convenience but is it really worth thousands, sometimes even $10k+ to save a few hours of work? Each to his own I suppose.

Posted by: Really?? at January 02, 2026 12:17 PM (/CkK4)

247
Isn't he a tiny bit of a National Socialist anyway?
Posted by: banana Dream at January 02, 2026 12:16 PM (3uBP9)

And he wants to kill Jews, so there's that.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 02, 2026 12:17 PM (Zz0t1)

248 But really it's hidden socialism with a cheap suit of a market system.
The bottom 20% get all the benefits.
The top 1% get to rule.
Everyone else gets to pay.

And a non-trivial number of people are paid in the top 50% to serve that bottom 20%. Or at least...theoretically serve them.

Think of the inspectors in MN that were supposedly certifying all those child care centers...

Posted by: 18-1 at January 02, 2026 12:17 PM (sKqQm)

249 Nood.

Posted by: Nazdar at January 02, 2026 12:17 PM (NcvvS)

250 NOODlum.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 02, 2026 12:18 PM (Zz0t1)

251 Totally not a Nazi salute.

I mean, its not, but its as much of one as Elon's nearly identical gesture.

Only things missing was the heel click and monocle.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 02, 2026 12:18 PM (c115l)

252 It's like an early spring!

"We will replace the frigidity of rugged individualism with the warmth of collectivism," says Mamdani

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 02, 2026 12:18 PM (L/fGl)

253 Yup. Watch it get tarted up with some new tech and described as the Next Big Idea."

Bezos says "hey"!

Posted by: man at January 02, 2026 12:19 PM (xDZRs)

254 Walmart has locked up all the cosmetics and personal care stuff and there is no one around to unlock it. Plus them asking for receipts at the door. I very seldom go there or to Target because they are just gay/trans/lbgtqrstvxyz.
Posted by: lin-duh is offended at January 02, 2026 11:32 AM (VCgbV)

I don't buy cosmetics, so I don't know if they lock them them up here in AJ. They have a greeter/minder at the door, but about the only time I get asked for a receipt is if I have liquour or beer in the cart. Mostly the minder just smiles and waves me through. I don't mind of the store takes reasonabe steps to hinder shoplifting, because in the end, shoplifting costs me money.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 02, 2026 12:20 PM (8zz6B)

255 You take evasive action by slamming the brakes and slowing rapidly to avoid a collision. The stupid monitoring device under your dash starts beeping loudly to let you know it's mad and your insurance rates increase due to your reckless driving.
---
Yup.
You get dinged the same for avoiding a collision just as if you were the one driving recklessly.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 02, 2026 12:22 PM (HXT0k)

256 ”If the price depends on who you are instead of what you’re buying, that’s not capitalism.”
================
Sure it is.

I don't see an issue here. Charge what the market will bear, and anyone who doesn't want to pay for Instacart can shop elsewhere.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 02, 2026 12:23 PM (fUDfS)

257 Somewhat related, though not quite as dynamic - there was a scandal regarding price fixing and collusion within the rent market. An outfit called RealPage provided analysis and algorithms for landlords to price their rental units. In a way, it removed the gap between what renters would pay and what landords would charge - perfect knowledge in a way. Except just on the landlord side. And the landlords that had the most to gain would be the big conglomerates that bought up lots of existing housing. Open question as to how much of that housing was picked up from the sub-prime mortgage scandal.

Looking it up, there was apparently new movement back in November; there was a settlement between RealPage and the government. It probably just got lost in the news due to the Charlie Kirk assassination.

Posted by: Another Anon at January 02, 2026 12:26 PM (4h45B)

258 Because HOV Lanes are the chicken wire lanes.
(Inside lane)

When you get out of the HOV lane and try to cross four other lanes so you can make your exit off the freeway, everyone has to slow down to let you over.

Now add twenty other vehicles because y'all arrived at your destination.
Posted by: rickb223 at January 02, 2026 11:36 AM (c115l)

The HOV lanes here in the greater PHX urb have their own exits at major freeway junctions.

I prefer to drive in the outside lane. If I see a freeway jam-up beginning to form ahead of me, I will bail at the next exit and take surface roads.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 02, 2026 12:27 PM (8zz6B)

259 I would be happy with a catalog store. Save me from having to go shopping. I hate going shopping anyway.

Posted by: Case at January 02, 2026 12:29 PM (G1OIb)

260 This is one of the few times when our Administrative state SHOULD step in. It's not 'Instacart' doing this, it's a handful of INDIVIDUALS at Instacart doing this. Investigate, expose, and root out. Embarrass these individuals who conceived the idea, who implemented the idea, and who hired the conceivers. Sunlight.

Posted by: Garfunkel's Sowed Oats at January 02, 2026 12:30 PM (V87Oy)

261 Sure, they have a store front, but you can go to the kiosk in the back, enter your request and pay for it, then you'll get your number called when the order is filled and ready for pickup.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 02, 2026 12:03 PM (Zz0t1)

If I am buying speed equipment, I want it on the shelf so I can comparison shop, and be able to talk to a knowledgable employee about whether a particular unit is right for my intended use.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 02, 2026 12:41 PM (8zz6B)

262 Kroger does e-coupons. You use their app, "clip" the e-coupon, and it knows to apply it to your total checkout price because of your loyalty card.
Posted by: rickb223 at January 02, 2026 12:09 PM (c115l)

Kroger in Arizona is Fry's. I won't shop there. And I refuse to participate in any loyalty programs, for any store. Or bank.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 02, 2026 12:45 PM (8zz6B)

263 That last sentence is quite ironic.

Posted by: Cow Demon at January 02, 2026 01:04 PM (3E+BT)

264 I've been saying this for years--online ordering is a way to distance the company from the consumer.

I also think companies are eliminating most all customer sevice for this. They make you dispute the charge on your CC and then just pay it. Cheaper than hiring a human rep.

Posted by: Random PJ at January 02, 2026 01:11 PM (RRCAT)

265 This isn’t just online. Buy something at Safeway in the Central Valley in California vs the Bay Area and on non advertised foodstuff there is premium pricing.

But that’s harder to prove.

Posted by: The MewTwix at January 02, 2026 02:16 PM (nTRuU)

266 Fixing the Prices to give Barging for Illegal Aliens/Future Democrat Voters and Supporters

Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at January 02, 2026 05:08 PM (wGqjj)

Mid-Morning Art Thread

Indians in Camp at 101 Ranch
Emil W. Lenders

Posted by: CBD at 09:28 AM

Comments

(Jump to bottom of comments)

1 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 02, 2026 09:28 AM (Zz0t1)

2 Early art.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 02, 2026 09:28 AM (Zz0t1)

3 heep nice painting

Posted by: r hennigantx at January 02, 2026 09:28 AM (gbOdA)

4

All juniors to arts and crafts! All seniors to the pool!

Oops, wrong camp

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 02, 2026 09:28 AM (x0n13)

5 That's cultural appropriation. Indians can't use horses.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 02, 2026 09:29 AM (ZOv7s)

6 Native Americans using horses is a clear case of cultural appropriation.

Posted by: tankdemon at January 02, 2026 09:29 AM (2RJDy)

7 Indians in Camp at 101 Ranch
American Art Museum

Artist
Emil W. Lenders, born Germany ca. 1865-died Oklahoma City, OK 1934
Credit Line
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Bequest of Victor Justice Evans
Date
1922
Object number
1985.66.362,140
Restrictions & Rights
CC0
Type
Painting
Medium
oil on canvas
Dimensions
20 1/4 x 30 1/4 in. (51.5 x 76.9 cm.)

Posted by: r hennigantx at January 02, 2026 09:30 AM (gbOdA)

8 The Indians camping at 102 Ranch have a much nicer travois.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 02, 2026 09:30 AM (ESVrU)

9 Might've made it easier with a round thingy or two.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 02, 2026 09:30 AM (c115l)

10 It's so beautifully done you can smell it.

Posted by: Oglebay at January 02, 2026 09:30 AM (GPa4z)

11 yow!

Posted by: cmeat at January 02, 2026 09:30 AM (R11M+)

12 Wouldn't wheels work better then a sledge if you live in southwest?

Posted by: 18-1 at January 02, 2026 09:30 AM (sKqQm)

13 Yeah but wheels have been invented for a few thousand years
Nice painting

Posted by: Skip at January 02, 2026 09:31 AM (Ia/+0)

14 It's the Tiny House clan.

Posted by: huerfano at January 02, 2026 09:31 AM (98kQX)

15 Ahhhhhh......brings back such family memories.

Posted by: Elizabeth Warren at January 02, 2026 09:31 AM (Zz0t1)

16 Room 101>>101 Ranch

Posted by: Zorhan M. at January 02, 2026 09:31 AM (gbOdA)

17 Looks like Liz Warren's family reunion.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at January 02, 2026 09:32 AM (0nHVk)

18 Wouldn't wheels work better then a sledge if you live in southwest?
Posted by: 18-1

Would have been a lot easier to hide your tracks than two plow lines.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 02, 2026 09:32 AM (c115l)

19 Horde mind on aisles 5 and 6.

Posted by: tankdemon at January 02, 2026 09:32 AM (2RJDy)

20 I've seen roasted silkworm on a stick in Chinese food stalls before, but the Native American ones are YUGE!

Posted by: Confused Moron at January 02, 2026 09:32 AM (ycI94)

21 nice blankets.

Posted by: cmeat at January 02, 2026 09:32 AM (R11M+)

22
Reminds me a bit of some of Woody Crumbo's prints.

Posted by: naturalfake at January 02, 2026 09:32 AM (iJfKG)

23 That's cultural appropriation. Indians can't use horses.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 02, 2026 09:29 AM (ZOv7s)

Wouldn't wheels work better then a sledge if you live in southwest?
Posted by: 18-1 at January 02, 2026 09:30 AM (sKqQm)
----
They can culturally appropriate horses, but not the wheel. They have *some* standards.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 02, 2026 09:32 AM (ESVrU)

24 Go Go Gophers!

Posted by: Heap Nice Painting! at January 02, 2026 09:32 AM (oftw2)

25 Was watching a video the other night that as a side point noted that absent agriculture there really isn't much food for the easy taking in nature and thinking about the hunter/gatherer life style in the pre-civilized desert areas of the southwest I imagine life for those Indians was hard...

Posted by: 18-1 at January 02, 2026 09:32 AM (sKqQm)

26 Much nicer than at 100 Ranch. Sometimes the sequel is superior.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 02, 2026 09:33 AM (avHHk)

27 Very impressionistic, almost French.

No French.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 02, 2026 09:33 AM (RIvkX)

28 do they know where they are?

Posted by: cmeat at January 02, 2026 09:34 AM (R11M+)

29 Also, carrying a sledge must be rather unpleasant for a horse.

Drag, drag, drag, bang, drag, drag, its stuck on something

Wash, rinse repeat

Posted by: 18-1 at January 02, 2026 09:34 AM (sKqQm)

30 ----
They can culturally appropriate horses, but not the wheel. They have *some* standards.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 02, 2026 09:32 AM (ESVrU)

The only conclusion that can be drawn here is that Good Year hates Native Americans!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 02, 2026 09:34 AM (Zz0t1)

31 Room 101>>101 Ranch
Posted by: Zorhan M.

Room 222
Posted by: K Valentine

Posted by: rickb223 at January 02, 2026 09:34 AM (c115l)

32 Dog, thus Art!

Posted by: Woof! at January 02, 2026 09:34 AM (oftw2)

33 Would have been a lot easier to hide your tracks than two plow lines.
Posted by: rickb223 at January 02, 2026 09:32 AM (c115l)
---
They travel in single file to hide their numbers.

They culturally appropriated that trick from the Sand People of Tatooine.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 02, 2026 09:34 AM (ESVrU)

34 Alternate title:

"Though They Tried, Horse Chopsticks Failed to Become a Thing Among the Cherokee"

Posted by: naturalfake at January 02, 2026 09:34 AM (iJfKG)

35 It's no Buc-ee's

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 02, 2026 09:34 AM (NwnyJ)

36 The squaws were angry that day, my friends.

Posted by: George Costanza at January 02, 2026 09:34 AM (2Ez/1)

37 Indians using horses is a clear case of cultural appropriation.
——

Many, by no means all, but many nations particularly plains tribes basically had the system where the females - squaws - performed all of the menial drudge work, collecting firewood, scraping hides etc. The warriors laid around, smoked, and gambled.

Posted by: Common Tater at January 02, 2026 09:35 AM (DaCyj)

38 26 Much nicer than at 100 Ranch. Sometimes the sequel is superior.
Posted by: Joe Mannix

Dude, Hidden Valley ranch goes well with everything!

Posted by: Midwesterners at January 02, 2026 09:35 AM (ycI94)

39 This definitely fits my decor.

Posted by: Ben Had at January 02, 2026 09:35 AM (sDNVV)

40 They culturally appropriated that trick from the Sand People of Tatooine.

I don't know how Star Wars missed their myriad day care centers with no actual children in them however.

Posted by: 18-1 at January 02, 2026 09:35 AM (sKqQm)

41 Is this about stolen land or something?

Posted by: redridinghood at January 02, 2026 09:35 AM (NpAcC)

42 Howdy!

Posted by: Lizzy at January 02, 2026 09:35 AM (NuV6c)

43 The warriors laid around, smoked, and gambled.

Also: tortured captured enemy men and raped captured enemy women

Posted by: 18-1 at January 02, 2026 09:36 AM (sKqQm)

44 Many, by no means all, but many nations particularly plains tribes basically had the system where the females - squaws - performed all of the menial drudge work, collecting firewood, scraping hides etc. The warriors laid around, smoked, and gambled.

Posted by: Common Tater

👍

Posted by: Muhammad at January 02, 2026 09:36 AM (ycI94)

45 Good morning good people.

I see all the obvious wheel snark has been taken.

Posted by: Tonypete at January 02, 2026 09:36 AM (cYBz/)

46 Room 222
Posted by: K Valentine
Posted by: rickb223

No, me had hots for Michael Constantine!

Also, nicely rendered Art!

Posted by: The Great Poof!! at January 02, 2026 09:36 AM (oftw2)

47 21 nice blankets.
Posted by: cmeat
+++
Just add smallpox.

Posted by: Evil white men at January 02, 2026 09:36 AM (2Ez/1)

48 Speaking of Injuns, Ben Nighthorse Campbell has died.

Posted by: Bulg at January 02, 2026 09:37 AM (77rzZ)

49 Good morning good people.

I see all the obvious wheel snark has been taken.

Posted by: Tonypete at January 02, 2026 09:36 AM (cYBz/)
---
We're on a roll...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 02, 2026 09:37 AM (ESVrU)

50 Cozy!

Posted by: Lizzy at January 02, 2026 09:37 AM (NuV6c)

51 they gots grandpa back there buried on the right in the back

Posted by: r hennigantx at January 02, 2026 09:37 AM (gbOdA)

52 Bags on sledge filled with tomato mayonnaise dressing and Oklahoma crabs for the omelets.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at January 02, 2026 09:37 AM (Dv3i1)

53 Is this about stolen land or something?
Posted by: redridinghood

The Fallacy of the Noble Red Man

Rape the land so hard they have to be constantly moving.
Waste so much meat before refrigeration. (Buffalo jumps)

Posted by: rickb223 at January 02, 2026 09:38 AM (c115l)

54 If they are at camp and set up enough to sit around, why is the horse loaded up???

Posted by: lin-duh is offended at January 02, 2026 09:38 AM (VCgbV)

55 43 The warriors laid around, smoked, and gambled.

Also: tortured captured enemy men and raped captured enemy women
Posted by: 18-1

My people!!!!!!

Posted by: Muhammad at January 02, 2026 09:38 AM (ycI94)

56 Indians in Camp at 101 Ranch
Emil W. Lenders

***********

80% of Body Heat Loss - a limerick

For primitive cultures it's the norm
To always find shelter from the storm
In addition to that
You should wear a fur hat
It's the best way to keep your wig warm!

Posted by: muldoon at January 02, 2026 09:38 AM (/iMjX)

57 >>I see all the obvious wheel snark has been taken.

We were under pressure

Posted by: Lizzy at January 02, 2026 09:38 AM (NuV6c)

58 Injun Handsome Cab

Posted by: Kramer at January 02, 2026 09:38 AM (Y1sOo)

59 What a drag it is getting old!

Posted by: Keef and Mick at January 02, 2026 09:38 AM (oftw2)

60 What this camp needs is some Pow-Wow Chow!

Posted by: Elizabeth Warren at January 02, 2026 09:38 AM (Zz0t1)

61 They're only missing one thing...

Posted by: Reynolds Tobacco at January 02, 2026 09:38 AM (2Ez/1)

62
Horse Thoughts:

"This sucks. But, at least those fuckers aren't riding me."

Posted by: naturalfake at January 02, 2026 09:38 AM (iJfKG)

63 I see all the obvious wheel snark has been taken."

Yeah. They got around to it...

Posted by: man at January 02, 2026 09:39 AM (XuXeR)

64 I like how the horse has an accessibility ramp.

Posted by: banana Dream at January 02, 2026 09:39 AM (3uBP9)

65 Nice painting

Posted by: Tuna at January 02, 2026 09:40 AM (lJ0H4)

66 Horse looks tired. I like the colors in the painting- particularly the blue shadows under the horse.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 02, 2026 09:40 AM (GDodg)

67 >> Speaking of Injuns, Ben Nighthorse Campbell has died.

RIP.
He made beautiful jewelry.

Posted by: Lizzy at January 02, 2026 09:40 AM (NuV6c)

68 Morning.

That's a real nice horse there.

Posted by: Robert at January 02, 2026 09:40 AM (tdbfP)

69 I like how the horse has an accessibility ramp.

It was mandated under the Anasazi Disability Act.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 02, 2026 09:40 AM (Riz8t)

70 So, is that a Pinto, Appaloosa, Gremlin, Mustang, what?

Posted by: Pony Car Petey at January 02, 2026 09:40 AM (oftw2)

71 How now, brown cow.

Posted by: nurse ratched at January 02, 2026 09:40 AM (ti1MH)

72 61 They're only missing one thing...
Posted by: Reynolds Tobacco
+++
We can think of one more.

Posted by: Bacardi at January 02, 2026 09:40 AM (2Ez/1)

73 54 quick tobacco run.

Posted by: cmeat at January 02, 2026 09:41 AM (R11M+)

74 Hey, has anyone made a Liz Warren joke yet?

Posted by: That guy who always gets to the thread late at January 02, 2026 09:41 AM (Riz8t)

75 They're only missing one thing...
Posted by: Reynolds Tobacco

Yeah.
Posted by: Foxwoods

Posted by: rickb223 at January 02, 2026 09:41 AM (c115l)

76 Wheels...sure. all they have to do is go down to the wheel shop and buy a pair. With an axel. And a spare. And a hitch. And rig it up to the horse. And somehow carve a road on the open plains. And place wheel shops every hundred miles along the route to repair them or replace them.

Posted by: JML at January 02, 2026 09:41 AM (EtRph)

77 The way small pox came to the mainland Indians is kind of odd.

In the 1510s he heard about a rich tribe in Mexico and left Spanish held Cuba with a group of adventurers.

He disobeyed the colonial governor who then sent an army to bring him back. When the army got to Cortez he offered them a choice - arrest me and go back to working for a pittance under the governor or join me and get rich. The speech was apparently a good one as the governor's small army joined him.

And...one of the men in the governor's army had small pox. So as they travelled around Mexico building alliances and fighting hostile tribes they also spread the disease.

But none of it was intentional. And amusing directly opposite of what the Spanish government had ordered.

Posted by: 18-1 at January 02, 2026 09:41 AM (sKqQm)

78 >>Also: tortured captured enemy men and raped captured enemy women

Not all of them!!

Posted by: Hannah Dustin, colonial badazz at January 02, 2026 09:41 AM (NuV6c)

79 Speaking of Injuns, Ben Nighthorse Campbell has died.

RIP.
He made beautiful jewelry.
Posted by: Lizzy at January 02, 2026 09:40 AM (NuV6c)

I thought he made soup.

Posted by: naturalfake at January 02, 2026 09:41 AM (iJfKG)

80 Did Injuns shoo horses, or just flies?

Posted by: Chief Wacky Wig at January 02, 2026 09:41 AM (oftw2)

81 Is it me or do those teepees look like the ends of pencils?

Posted by: Robert at January 02, 2026 09:41 AM (tdbfP)

82 >>Hey, has anyone made a Liz Warren joke yet?

Several, as you would expect.

Posted by: Hannah Dustin, colonial badazz at January 02, 2026 09:42 AM (NuV6c)

83 The Somali daycare teepee is just out of frame on the left.

Posted by: Citizen Cake at January 02, 2026 09:42 AM (CwhoI)

84 63 I see all the obvious wheel snark has been taken."

Yeah. They got around to it...
+++
Forget it. He's rolling.

Posted by: Oh, no... at January 02, 2026 09:42 AM (2Ez/1)

85 >>I thought he made soup.

Must've been his brother, Stone, who made the soup. . . ?

Posted by: Lizzy at January 02, 2026 09:43 AM (NuV6c)

86 Speaking of Injuns, Ben Nighthorse Campbell has died.

*single tear rolls down cheek*

Posted by: naturalfake at January 02, 2026 09:43 AM (iJfKG)

87 A leftist art thread would post a stolen land acknowledgement along with this.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 02, 2026 09:43 AM (qncWG)

88 The chief is way back on the left side, skinny naked and alone but has nice tennis shoes.

Posted by: banana Dream at January 02, 2026 09:43 AM (3uBP9)

89 Did Injuns shoo horses, or just flies?
Posted by: Chief Wacky Wig

Pies. Shoo fly pie.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 02, 2026 09:43 AM (c115l)

90 Hey, has anyone made a Liz Warren joke yet?

Can someone explain why I don't see an crabbing pots in the tribe's painting here?

Posted by: 18-1 at January 02, 2026 09:43 AM (sKqQm)

91 Is that a funeral pyre in the background on the right?

Posted by: dantesed at January 02, 2026 09:43 AM (Oy/m2)

92 The Somali daycare teepee is just out of frame on the left.
Posted by: Citizen Cake at January 02, 2026 09:42 AM (CwhoI)

It's bullshit. There's like three dozen daycares registered at that teepee.

Posted by: Robert at January 02, 2026 09:44 AM (tdbfP)

93 Speaking of Injuns, Ben Nighthorse Campbell has died.

He was an interesting figure. Changed parties when the Dems went far enough left there was no longer a role for moderate Democrats.

Posted by: 18-1 at January 02, 2026 09:44 AM (sKqQm)

94 Maybe wheels would be a Cultural appropriateness too far

Posted by: Skip at January 02, 2026 09:44 AM (Ia/+0)

95 Hey, has anyone made a Liz Warren joke yet?
Posted by: That guy who always gets to the thread late at January 02, 2026 09:41 AM (Riz8t)

Who you callin' a joke, roundeye?

Posted by: Elizabeth Warren at January 02, 2026 09:44 AM (Zz0t1)

96 Hannah Dustin,"

Hey, wanna go for a run?

/John Colter

Posted by: man at January 02, 2026 09:45 AM (XuXeR)

97 Is that a funeral pyre in the background on the right?
Posted by: dantesed at January 02, 2026 09:43 AM (Oy/m2)

They didn't really do pyres, correct?

The dead were left on those platforms to dehydrate and rot.

Posted by: naturalfake at January 02, 2026 09:45 AM (iJfKG)

98 the next tribe over had a bespoke wheel maker.

Posted by: cmeat at January 02, 2026 09:45 AM (R11M+)

99 >>Hey, has anyone made a Liz Warren joke yet?
---

*** Ward Churchill was unavailable for comment. ***

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 02, 2026 09:45 AM (ESVrU)

100 Forget it. He's rolling."

He's tired...

Posted by: man at January 02, 2026 09:45 AM (XuXeR)

101 The dead were left on those platforms to dehydrate and rot.
Posted by: naturalfake at January 02, 2026 09:45 AM (iJfKG)

So like Icelandic rotten shark?

Posted by: Robert at January 02, 2026 09:46 AM (tdbfP)

102 the next tribe over had a bespoke wheel maker.
Posted by: cmeat

*Rimshot!!*

Posted by: Tonypete at January 02, 2026 09:46 AM (cYBz/)

103 *83 The Somali daycare teepee is just out of frame on the left."

And the casino is just out of frame on the right.

Posted by: Welcome to New Mexico at January 02, 2026 09:46 AM (2Ez/1)

104 I like the horse in the foreground and its accoutrements: vivid and detailed. The sheen on the horse's coat is especially effective. The people and the background are much more generic and indistinct. Maybe that's the point. I do question weather the man wearing the war bonnet is accurate. Seems out of place for a simple encampment.

For my taste, the painting would be more effective if it was just the horse as it is against the simple background. The people are superfluous.

Posted by: JTB at January 02, 2026 09:46 AM (yTvNw)

105 >>Horse looks tired.

Needs some Beef-a-Reeno

Posted by: Kramer at January 02, 2026 09:46 AM (Y1sOo)

106 The dead were left on those platforms to dehydrate and rot."

Mmmmm. Jerkey!

Posted by: man at January 02, 2026 09:46 AM (XuXeR)

107 Wheels...sure. all they have to do is go down to the wheel shop and buy a pair. With an axel. And a spare. And a hitch. And rig it up to the horse. And somehow carve a road on the open plains. And place wheel shops every hundred miles along the route to repair them or replace them.

Little Big Pain in the Ass was embarrassed because his parents had opted for the minivan of travois'. He had wanted the low rider with the spinning sticks.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 02, 2026 09:46 AM (Riz8t)

108 >>Forget it. He's rolling."

>>He's tired...

Better than being tarred. . .

Posted by: Lizzy at January 02, 2026 09:46 AM (NuV6c)

109 88 and a fresh new set of white chiclets.

Posted by: cmeat at January 02, 2026 09:46 AM (R11M+)

110 I knew Lizzy Warren wasn't a real Injun when she did that kitchen video and stopped after one beer.

Posted by: Firewater Freddie at January 02, 2026 09:46 AM (oftw2)

111 Willowed from the previous thread.

Did anyone notice that the Subway Station Zorhan the Great used for his swearing in is permanently closed?
Posted by: r hennigantx at January 02, 2026 08:22 AM (gbOdA)

It's actually a very famous landmark. The story:

https://tinyurl.com/msfh5ps2

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at January 02, 2026 09:26 AM (5xuJ/)

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at January 02, 2026 09:47 AM (5xuJ/)

112 *single tear rolls down cheek*

Well, he's Italian, so...

Posted by: man at January 02, 2026 09:47 AM (XuXeR)

113 A comment from the last thread

ALL GOVERNMENT PROGRAMS NOW ARE OPPORTUNITIES FOR THE GOVERNMENT TO LOOT THE GOVERNMENT.

The *point* of government is grifting. Everything else it does is just to allow it to loot with some sort of fig leaf

Posted by: 18-1 at January 02, 2026 09:47 AM (sKqQm)

114 Tread lightly on those wheel puns.

Posted by: Oops at January 02, 2026 09:48 AM (2Ez/1)

115 >>It's actually a very famous landmark. The story:

https://tinyurl.com/msfh5ps2

Looked beautiful, if not well-maintained. To see it in its prime would have been fun.

Posted by: Lizzy at January 02, 2026 09:48 AM (NuV6c)

116 Tread lightly on those wheel puns."

Sure. We're off to a start with this good year

*ducks. Again*

Posted by: man at January 02, 2026 09:49 AM (XuXeR)

117 104 some people are more superfluous than others.

Posted by: cmeat at January 02, 2026 09:49 AM (R11M+)

118 I asked a tour person at some reservation museum place what was the significance of the squiggly line they always draw across the digestive track of animals and he proceeded to explain, also pointing with his hands, "this is the part where they eat and this is where they poop".

Posted by: banana Dream at January 02, 2026 09:49 AM (3uBP9)

119 Over 100.

I'm in Pennsylvania and freezing my balls off.

If the LAWD had meant man to live in snow and ice he'd have covered us in fur and put the garden of ole Eden in Siberia.

We're not furries, Horde, and Siberia fucking sucks.

We're warm weather creatures, Horde. That's why we're mostly hairless and enjoy the beach so much. It's okay to love south. The South is nice. Always good barbecuing weather in the South.

Posted by: Robert at January 02, 2026 09:49 AM (tdbfP)

120 What maroons. They invented 'The Stick'.

Posted by: Somali Learing Center at January 02, 2026 09:49 AM (vbdXu)

121 Ben Nighthorse Campbell never lost an election; he was a judo champion, a jeweler, a cattle rancher, and an honest man. Wish we had more like him.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 02, 2026 09:49 AM (0ChAx)

122 If the LAWD had meant man to live in snow and ice he'd have covered us in fur

Well, to be honest some of us kind of are...

Posted by: 18-1 at January 02, 2026 09:50 AM (sKqQm)

123 The tribe is the Kansas City Chiefs, featuring Travois Kelce.

Posted by: muldoon at January 02, 2026 09:50 AM (/iMjX)

124 It's 52 and partly cloudy in NTX currently.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 02, 2026 09:50 AM (Zz0t1)

125
Overheard in the talk around last night's campfire: "Say, did you see how much those Somalis were scoring off taxpayers?"

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at January 02, 2026 09:50 AM (xG4kz)

126 The South is nice. Always good barbecuing weather in the South."

No, it's awful. Rednecks, trucks, SUVs, guns, brisket, Buc-ee's...

Posted by: man at January 02, 2026 09:50 AM (XuXeR)

127 What maroons. They invented 'The Stick'.

Posted by: Somali Learing Center

Are you sure it wasn't them Greek homos?

Posted by: Archimedes at January 02, 2026 09:50 AM (Riz8t)

128 The tribe is the Kansas City Chiefs, featuring Travois Kelce.
Posted by: muldoon at January 02, 2026 09:50 AM (/iMjX)

Does he have an insufferable twat for a girlfriend as well?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 02, 2026 09:50 AM (Zz0t1)

129 If the LAWD had meant man to live in snow and ice he'd have covered us in fur

Nonna had a heavier 'stache than Nonno.

Just saying.

Posted by: Tonypete at January 02, 2026 09:50 AM (cYBz/)

130 The tribe is the Kansas City Chiefs, featuring Travois Kelce.

He hunt swift beaver!

Posted by: Umm....how at January 02, 2026 09:51 AM (sKqQm)

131
Is thst the 2027 Ford Travois we're looking at, here?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at January 02, 2026 09:51 AM (xG4kz)

132 Nonna had a heavier 'stache than Nonno.

You would think this would be the case for Scandi grandmas, not Italian ones.

Posted by: 18-1 at January 02, 2026 09:51 AM (sKqQm)

133 122 profile swarthy males.

Posted by: cmeat at January 02, 2026 09:52 AM (R11M+)

134 The tribe is the Kansas City Chiefs, featuring Travois Kelce.

He hunt swift beaver!

YT for some reason started serving up TS clips to me. She's getting a bit heavy.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 02, 2026 09:52 AM (Riz8t)

135 He hunt swift beaver!"

"Swift" beaver = all stringy and tough...

Posted by: man at January 02, 2026 09:52 AM (XuXeR)

136 *Is that the 2027 Ford Travois we're looking at, here?*

With the upgraded one horsepower engine!

Posted by: Car nerd at January 02, 2026 09:53 AM (2Ez/1)

137 Is thst the 2027 Ford Travois we're looking at, here?

They went all in on the EV Travois, but they keep bursting into flame.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 02, 2026 09:53 AM (Riz8t)

138 Only women bitch about the cold. Real men embrace it.

Posted by: Bulg at January 02, 2026 09:53 AM (77rzZ)

139 Wheels...sure. all they have to do is go down to the wheel shop and buy a pair. With an axel. And a spare. And a hitch. And rig it up to the horse. And somehow carve a road on the open plains. And place wheel shops every hundred miles along the route to repair them or replace them.
Posted by: JML at January 02, 2026 09:41 AM (EtRph)
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Good thing white people came along to do that all for them.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 02, 2026 09:53 AM (ZOv7s)

140 There is no bad weather. Only bad clothing.

Posted by: The Finns at January 02, 2026 09:54 AM (2Ez/1)

141 >>Ben Nighthorse Campbell never lost an election; he was a judo champion, a jeweler, a cattle rancher, and an honest man. Wish we had more like him.

This. Well said.

Posted by: Lizzy at January 02, 2026 09:54 AM (NuV6c)

142 Painting: pleasantly colorful.

Posted by: gp at January 02, 2026 09:55 AM (GHIyr)

143 Only women bitch about the cold. Real men embrace it.
Posted by: Bulg at January 02, 2026 09:53 AM (77rzZ)

Come, my darling.

Posted by: Eskimo Woman With Thick Bush at January 02, 2026 09:55 AM (tdbfP)

144 Does anyone else have to work today?

I have to work today.

United Healthcare, our parent company, has decreed we can only see ONE MEDICARE PATIENT PER DAY. Apparently This is due to the low reimbursement rates.

I don’t see how this works. They want to force everyone onto a Medicare supplement plan. And most of those suck balls.

Walmart greeter looks like a fun job.

Posted by: nurse ratched at January 02, 2026 09:55 AM (8ZrHX)

145 "With an axle. And a spare. And a hitch. And rig it up to the horse. And somehow carve a road on the open plains. And place wheel shops every hundred miles along the route to repair them or replace them."

You're welcome.

Posted by: The Patriarchy at January 02, 2026 09:55 AM (2Ez/1)

146 There is no bad weather. Only bad clothing.

Oh, f*** off.

Posted by: Emperor Penguins, huddled in a mass in Antarctica at January 02, 2026 09:55 AM (Riz8t)

147 Looked beautiful, if not well-maintained. To see it in its prime would have been fun.
Posted by: Lizzy at January 02, 2026 09:48 AM (NuV6c)

Recent photos indicate a very well kept site. It's closed to the public, as the Wiki article states, so there is little deterioration. I was able to visit it back in the early 90's when I was working in the NY TV industry.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at January 02, 2026 09:56 AM (5xuJ/)

148 Wheels, you say? WHEELS?! Luxury!!
Here we are, up to our armpits in filth and shite, trudging through the same bog every bleedin' day since the Romans buggered off and left us with nothin' but Latin curses and bad drainage!
And you come swannin' in with your fancy cart and your two—two!—whole wheels, like you're the bleedin' king of the universe!
We had to make do with one wheel—one!—and that was only because me old grandad found half a millstone and we lashed it to a plank with string we nicked off a dead sheep! And we were grateful!
You lot with your four wheels, your greased axles, your not-fallin'-over-every-three-steps... luxury!
Back in my day, if we wanted to move anything heavier than a bucket of mud, we just picked it up and walked till our legs fell off, then we crawled the rest of the way! And we liked it!
But nooo, now everyone's got wheels like it's the bleedin' Renaissance or somethin'. Spoiled, the lot of ya!
Luxury! Luxury, I tell ya! We didn't have wheels... we had spirit! And blisters! And more spirit! And even more blisters!
Now bugger off with your fancy rolling contraption before I start a proper revolution right here in this puddle!

Posted by: Tonypete at January 02, 2026 09:56 AM (cYBz/)

149 So I read about the origin of wheel and the argument is the Sumerians first developed the potter's wheel then realized they could use it for transportation if turned on its side around 3500 BC

I'm guessing the American Indian tribes weren't big on pottery...

Posted by: 18-1 at January 02, 2026 09:56 AM (sKqQm)

150
"I wonder if they have dried monkey meat to sell and pounds of unidentifiable vegetable matter? I'm famished!"

-- world-traveling Congolese man

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at January 02, 2026 09:57 AM (xG4kz)

151
United Healthcare, our parent company, has decreed we can only see ONE MEDICARE PATIENT PER DAY. Apparently This is due to the low reimbursement rates.

So, they want Medicare for all, and locations would only see 365 patients a year, but only if they're open every day?

Seems efficient.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 02, 2026 09:57 AM (Zz0t1)

152 Wooden wheels, steel wheels, alloy wheels, car wheels, bicycle wheels, electric scooter wheels, spoked wheels, wheels with tubes, wheels with tires, free wheels, fly wheels, medicine wheels, welded wheels, iron-banded wheels, locomotive wheels, pulley wheels

Posted by: Wheels 'R' Us at January 02, 2026 09:57 AM (avHHk)

153 United Healthcare, our parent company, has decreed we can only see ONE MEDICARE PATIENT PER DAY. Apparently This is due to the low reimbursement rates.

I don’t see how this works. They want to force everyone onto a Medicare supplement plan. And most of those suck balls.

You're looking for a logical plan that can actually be implemented by the government. There's your problem.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 02, 2026 09:57 AM (Riz8t)

154 134
‘ YT for some reason started serving up TS clips to me. She's getting a bit heavy.’

Alllllll right!

Posted by: Dr. Claw at January 02, 2026 09:57 AM (jbnUc)

155 Only women bitch about the cold. Real men embrace it.
Posted by: Bulg at January 02, 2026 09:53 AM (77rzZ)

Incorrect. F*ck the cold.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 02, 2026 09:57 AM (Zz0t1)

156 We are currently experiencing "freezing fog."

It's regular fog, but frozen. There's some sort of "special weather statement" about it too.

I'll stay inside.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 02, 2026 09:58 AM (NwnyJ)

157 300,000 IMMIGRANTS were mistakenly given driver licenses with incorrect expiration dates way beyond the legal standard.

California claims it’s an error from a 2006(!) issue.

And I bet 100% of the name were transmitted to the voter reg offices.

Posted by: r hennigantx at January 02, 2026 09:58 AM (gbOdA)

158 Is thst the 2027 Ford Travois we're looking at, here?
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot

As in, what did Californians use before the travois? The automobile?

Posted by: t-bird at January 02, 2026 09:59 AM (xkNPX)

159 United Healthcare, our parent company, has decreed we can only see ONE MEDICARE PATIENT PER DAY. Apparently This is due to the low reimbursement rates.

The west as a whole can't come to terms with the fact there is almost an infinite desire for "free" healthcare.

Ironically for people that are working they don't have time to constantly go to the doctor but if you are on welfare...why not?

So if healthcare is a "right" eventually we will either spend EVERY dollar we produce on it, the government and/or its intermediaries will ration it, or we will have to remove most government involvement in healthcare

Posted by: 18-1 at January 02, 2026 09:59 AM (sKqQm)

160 Wheels, you say? WHEELS?! Luxury!!

That was very well done.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 02, 2026 09:59 AM (Riz8t)

161 I got 42 and dark.

And high tide.

Posted by: nurse ratched at January 02, 2026 09:59 AM (B91YY)

162 300,000 IMMIGRANTS were mistakenly given driver licenses with incorrect expiration dates way beyond the legal standard.

California claims it’s an error from a 2006(!) issue.

And I bet 100% of the name were transmitted to the voter reg offices.
Posted by: r hennigantx at January 02, 2026 09:58 AM (gbOdA)

Every single time, such glitches benefit the left. Every. Single. Time.

Wonder why that is.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 02, 2026 09:59 AM (Zz0t1)

163 300,000 IMMIGRANTS were mistakenly given driver licenses with incorrect expiration dates way beyond the legal standard.

California claims it’s an error from a 2006(!) issue. ...
Posted by: r hennigantx at January 02, 2026 09:58 AM (gbOdA)
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Okay.

How many citizens were affected by the same error? That will be the tell. Was it an actual system error/failure, or was it a conspiracy? If it was a real error, some staggering number of citizens should also have licenses with the same problem.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 02, 2026 09:59 AM (avHHk)

164 It's regular fog, but frozen. There's some sort of "special weather statement" about it too.

I'll stay inside.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 02, 2026 09:58 AM (NwnyJ)
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Hoar frost. Watch out for the ice giants.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 02, 2026 09:59 AM (ZOv7s)

165 I like but some weird perspective. The one rope looks like it's going up the horse's arse. By the time you realize it's not your eyes go fuzzy
Would hang. Thx CBD, have a great weekend. Like the art this week

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 02, 2026 09:59 AM (zNwXb)

166 Only women bitch about the cold. Real men embrace it.
Posted by: Bulg at January 02, 2026 09:53 AM (77rzZ)

Incorrect. F*ck the cold.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 02, 2026 09:57 AM (Zz0t1)

Bulg said REAL men. He's correct. Heh.

Posted by: Loves the cold at January 02, 2026 10:00 AM (5xuJ/)

167 article states, so there is little deterioration. I was able to visit it back in the early 90's when I was working in the NY TV industry.
Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy

Wow! ever meet Officer Joe Bolton, Captain Jack McCarthy, or Chuck McCann?

Posted by: TV Addict at January 02, 2026 10:00 AM (oftw2)

168 300,000 IMMIGRANTS were mistakenly given driver licenses with incorrect expiration dates way beyond the legal standard.

California claims it’s an error from a 2006(!) issue.

And I bet 100% of the name were transmitted to the voter reg offices.

It's really surprising that every time we uncover one of these "errors" it benefits the Dems. I can't quite figure it out.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 02, 2026 10:00 AM (Riz8t)

169 149 So I read about the origin of wheel and the argument is the Sumerians first developed the potter's wheel then realized they could use it for transportation if turned on its side around 3500 BC

I'm guessing the American Indian tribes weren't big on pottery...
Posted by: 18-1 at January 02, 2026 09:56 AM (sKqQm)

I was reading something just a few months ago and some dude was saying it evolved along with the axle when people were moving heavy objects over wooden logs. They realized you could carve out the center to allow it to roll over obstructions so you had wheel shapes in one end and basically a long axle in the middle.

Posted by: Robert at January 02, 2026 10:01 AM (tdbfP)

170
Taylor Swift and hoar frost in the same thread?.

Hmmmmmm

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at January 02, 2026 10:01 AM (xG4kz)

171 *Hoar frost*

Used to date her.

Posted by: I said USED to at January 02, 2026 10:01 AM (2Ez/1)

172 The indians are waiting to ride into town so they can sell their horses for booze. They love booze.

Posted by: Whiskey Joe at January 02, 2026 10:01 AM (R/m4+)

173 nly women bitch about the cold. Real men embrace it.
Posted by: Bulg at January 02, 2026 09:53 AM (77rzZ)

Incorrect. F*ck the cold.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 02, 2026 09:57 AM (Zz0t1)

Bulg said REAL men. He's correct. Heh.

Yeah, you walked right in to that one.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 02, 2026 10:01 AM (Riz8t)

174 Ok. Time to hike up the hill.

Have a lovely day, morons.

Posted by: nurse ratched at January 02, 2026 10:02 AM (B91YY)

175 I love this place:

A new Tennessee law went into effect on January 1, 2026, that declares certain out-of-state driver's licenses invalid in Tennessee — specifically those issued exclusively to illegal aliens.

Tennessee now officially does not recognize out-of-state driver's licenses that are issued only to undocumented immigrants.

Driving in Tennessee with such an invalid license is classified as a Class B misdemeanor, which can carry penalties of up to 6 months in jail and/or fines.

The law requires the Tennessee Department of Safety and Homeland Security to maintain and publish a list of which out-of-state licenses are considered invalid under this provision.

Posted by: Tonypete at January 02, 2026 10:02 AM (cYBz/)

176 Bulg said REAL men. He's correct. Heh.

Yeah, you walked right in to that one.
Posted by: Archimedes at January 02, 2026 10:01 AM (Riz8t)

REAL men, bundling together to keep warm. Yeah, keep your fag weather. I'll be nice and warm down here with my woman enjoying the beautiful weather.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 02, 2026 10:02 AM (Zz0t1)

177 They want to force everyone onto a Medicare supplement plan. And most of those suck balls.

Supplement or Advantage?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 02, 2026 10:02 AM (ExV1e)

178 I was reading something just a few months ago and some dude was saying it evolved along with the axle when people were moving heavy objects over wooden logs. They realized you could carve out the center to allow it to roll over obstructions so you had wheel shapes in one end and basically a long axle in the middle.

I assume the big problem was figuring out how to grease the bearing / axle.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 02, 2026 10:03 AM (Riz8t)

179 SWEARGIN, COCKSUCKA!

Posted by: MR. WU at January 02, 2026 10:03 AM (fW9dF)

180 Bulg said REAL men. He's correct. Heh.
Posted by: Loves the cold at January 02, 2026 10:00 AM (5xuJ/)
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No, he's wrong, unless you are going to say that there are no real men in any of the military service branches.

Because they bitch about EVERYTHING.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 02, 2026 10:03 AM (ZOv7s)

181 Ben Nighthorse Campbell may have been the last rational, honest Democrat. Represented western Colorado well.

Posted by: muldoon at January 02, 2026 10:03 AM (/iMjX)

182 101? Looks like a more advanced class.

Posted by: From about That Time at January 02, 2026 10:04 AM (sl73Y)

183 I assume the big problem was figuring out how to grease the bearing / axle.
Posted by: Archimedes

My people had no problem with that!

Posted by: Anderson Cooper At Holiday Camp at January 02, 2026 10:05 AM (oftw2)

184 Scalps on the horse, am i right?

Posted by: thug dolphin at January 02, 2026 10:05 AM (EyfuW)

185 The camp is all set up, humans sitting around, and poor horse has been standing there a few hours with sticks attached to it yet.

Posted by: Skip at January 02, 2026 10:06 AM (Ia/+0)

186 REAL men, bundling together to keep warm. Yeah, keep your fag weather. I'll be nice and warm down here with my woman enjoying the beautiful weather.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 02, 2026 10:02 AM (Zz0t1)

Fags run to warm weather. Bad DNA. Proven fact. Real men made fire and central heating systems. (this is fun!)

Posted by: Loves the cold Strong like bull! at January 02, 2026 10:06 AM (5xuJ/)

187 >>300,000 IMMIGRANTS were mistakenly given driver licenses with incorrect expiration dates way beyond the legal standard.

And in other news, a number of CA DMV employees "forgot" to report large, untraceable cash payments on their taxes that year.

Posted by: Lizzy at January 02, 2026 10:06 AM (NuV6c)

188 China really is asshoe.

Having depleted fish stocks in its own coastal waters in the early 2000s, Chinese fishing boats are now destroying fishing stock all across the world.

The destruction in South America by the Chinese fishing vessels is unimaginable.

China now accounted for over 80 percent of fishing in the waters off Argentina, Ecuador, and Peru.

https://is.gd/Hav6oP

Posted by: Archimedes at January 02, 2026 10:06 AM (Riz8t)

189 REAL men, bundling together to keep warm. Yeah, keep your fag weather. I'll be nice and warm down here with my woman enjoying the beautiful weather.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 02, 2026 10:02 AM (Zz0t1)
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Birthdays say otherwise. When the weather turns cool, that's when the babies start getting planted.

Obviously climate matters, and A/C has changed things a bit, but the pattern still holds.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 02, 2026 10:06 AM (ZOv7s)

190 Fags run to warm weather. Bad DNA. Proven fact. Real men made fire and central heating systems. (this is fun!)
Posted by: Loves the cold Strong like bull! at January 02, 2026 10:06 AM (5xuJ/)

Such a fag thing to say.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 02, 2026 10:07 AM (Zz0t1)

191
If the Gazans are humanity's version of rabid dogs, then the Chinese are humanity's version of locusts.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at January 02, 2026 10:08 AM (xG4kz)

192 The destruction in South America by the Chinese fishing vessels is unimaginable.

China now accounted for over 80 percent of fishing in the waters off Argentina, Ecuador, and Peru.

https://is.gd/Hav6oP
Posted by: Archimedes at January 02, 2026 10:06 AM (Riz8t)
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Issue Letters of Marque to Greenpeace and tell them to have at it. Then they'd at least be doing something worthwhile.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 02, 2026 10:08 AM (ESVrU)

193 China really is asshoe.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 02, 2026 10:06 AM (Riz8t)
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Always has been. There's a book on it.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 02, 2026 10:09 AM (ZOv7s)

194 188 China really is asshoe.

Having depleted fish stocks in its own coastal waters in the early 2000s, Chinese fishing boats are now destroying fishing stock all across the world.

The destruction in South America by the Chinese fishing vessels is unimaginable.

China now accounted for over 80 percent of fishing in the waters off Argentina, Ecuador, and Peru.

https://is.gd/Hav6oP
Posted by: Archimedes at January 02, 2026 10:06 AM (Riz8t)

I don't understand why they just don't sink these vessels. What is China gonna do, declare war on Peru or Chile?

Posted by: The Sea, She Was Angry That Day at January 02, 2026 10:09 AM (+s4+r)

195 REAL men, bundling together to keep warm. Yeah, keep your fag weather. I'll be nice and warm down here with my woman enjoying the beautiful weather.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 02, 2026 10:02 AM (Zz0t1)

Fags run to warm weather. Bad DNA. Proven fact. Real men made fire and central heating systems. (this is fun!)

Right? South Beach in Miami is just a hotbed of manliness! (see what I did there)

Posted by: Archimedes at January 02, 2026 10:10 AM (Riz8t)

196 Yeah, the Chinese fishing vessels are a big problem in the Galapagos.

Posted by: Bulg at January 02, 2026 10:10 AM (77rzZ)

197 If the LAWD had meant man to live in snow and ice he'd have covered us in fur and put the garden of ole Eden in Siberia.

OR...he would have made us with a love for fire and the smell of burning meat.

Posted by: t-bird at January 02, 2026 10:11 AM (xkNPX)

198 I assume the big problem was figuring out how to grease the bearing / axle.
Posted by: Archimedes at January 02, 2026 10:03 AM (Riz8t)

They tried square wheels first but that phase didn’t get very far.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 02, 2026 10:11 AM (otNgF)

199 What maroons. They invented 'The Stick'.

Posted by: Somali Learing Center

And promptly applied it to their family tree.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 02, 2026 10:11 AM (c115l)

200 you'll never see a somali sex shop.
they can't sell clt clmps.
(avoiding moderation)

Posted by: cmeat at January 02, 2026 10:11 AM (R11M+)

201 Fags run to warm weather. Bad DNA. Proven fact. Real men made fire and central heating systems. (this is fun!)
Posted by: Loves the cold Strong like bull! at January 02, 2026 10:06 AM (5xuJ/)

Such a fag thing to say.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 02, 2026 10:07 AM (Zz0t1)

Such a faggy reply. Your turn.

Posted by: Loves the cold Strong like bull! at January 02, 2026 10:12 AM (5xuJ/)

202 This is why we need abortion.

Chappell Roan [who, apparently, is some kind of singer]: "All of my friends who have kids are in hell. I don't know anyone who is happy and has children."

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except Better at January 02, 2026 10:12 AM (L/fGl)

203 If the Gazans are humanity's version of rabid dogs, then the Chinese are humanity's version of locusts.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at January 02, 2026 10:08 AM (xG4kz)
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No, that's the Chicoms. Imperial China was a bully, but put a lot of work into building infrastructure, optimizing cropland, etc. Think of the terraced rice paddies. Two, maybe three harvests a year.

Communists think only of short-term, meeting the Five Year Plan. No one owns anything, so you can't pass anything on. Build shitty stuff, and then build it again, getting paid each time.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 02, 2026 10:12 AM (ZOv7s)

204
I don't understand why they just don't sink these vessels. What is China gonna do, declare war on Peru or Chile?

It may come to that. While the Chinese sometimes respect the 200 mile limit, they're clearly ignoring the long term health of the fisheries. The Monroe Doctrine may be relevant.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 02, 2026 10:13 AM (Riz8t)

205
Such a fag thing to say.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 02, 2026 10:07 AM (Zz0t1)

Such a faggy reply. Your turn.
Posted by: Loves the cold Strong like bull!

Could you two please stop fagging up this place?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at January 02, 2026 10:14 AM (xG4kz)

206 300,000 IMMIGRANTS were mistakenly given driver licenses with incorrect expiration dates way beyond the legal standard.

And in other news, a number of CA DMV employees "forgot" to report large, untraceable cash payments on their taxes that year.
Posted by: Lizzy

First one to turn states evidence gets a honey of a deal.
Posted by: The IRS

Posted by: rickb223 at January 02, 2026 10:14 AM (c115l)

207 Right? South Beach in Miami is just a hotbed of manliness! (see what I did there)
Posted by: Archimedes at January 02, 2026 10:10 AM (Riz8t)
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San Francisco is famed for its strong heterosexual culture.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 02, 2026 10:14 AM (ZOv7s)

208 196 they're monitoring the dragons.

Posted by: cmeat at January 02, 2026 10:15 AM (R11M+)

209 To Sponge......I'm just bustin' on ya. With all the crap happening in the world, just trying to have a little fun. No harm meant. Hope 2026 is a much better year for you.

Posted by: Loves the cold Strong like bull! at January 02, 2026 10:15 AM (5xuJ/)

210 Good News, everyone!

In an effort to shove Bad Bunny down our throats even more, it's been nominated for the most grammy awards ever and can set the record if it wins all nominations.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 02, 2026 10:15 AM (Zz0t1)

211 To Sponge......I'm just bustin' on ya. With all the crap happening in the world, just trying to have a little fun. No harm meant. Hope 2026 is a much better year for you.
Posted by: Loves the cold Strong like bull! at January 02, 2026 10:15 AM (5xuJ/)

All is well. No harm no foul.

Thank you. Much appreciated. Same for you.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 02, 2026 10:16 AM (Zz0t1)

212 San Francisco is famed for its strong heterosexual culture.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 02, 2026 10:14 AM (ZOv7s)
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Everyone gets bitchy here if the temperature is below 45 degrees.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 02, 2026 10:16 AM (RIvkX)

213 MS-MAO does Somalian daycare!

MAGA OBSESSION
THE NEW CONSERVATIVE PANIC
RIGHT WING PROPAGANDA MACHINE

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except Better at January 02, 2026 10:16 AM (L/fGl)

214 It may come to that. While the Chinese sometimes respect the 200 mile limit, they're clearly ignoring the long term health of the fisheries. The Monroe Doctrine may be relevant.
Posted by: Archimedes at January 02, 2026 10:13 AM (Riz8t)
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The decision to use the Legend class of cutters as the basis for a new frigate is the right one, and this shows why. Not all naval vessels need to be rugged combatants. Sometimes you just need a good seaboat with lots of endurance, modest armament, ASW cabability and a chopper or two.

They're cheap, we've made ten so far, and they work great. Long range and endurance as well.

Ray Mabus will go down as the worst Secretary of the Navy in history.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 02, 2026 10:17 AM (ZOv7s)

215
Good News, everyone!

In an effort to shove Bad Bunny down our throats even more, it's been nominated for the most grammy awards ever and can set the record if it wins all nominations.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer

Do it! Pound the final nail into the Grammy Awards' coffin!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at January 02, 2026 10:17 AM (xG4kz)

216 Off, stupid sock. UGH!!

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at January 02, 2026 10:18 AM (5xuJ/)

217 The Soviets literally wrecked the Aral Sea. Impressive!

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 02, 2026 10:18 AM (ZOv7s)

218 In an effort to shove Bad Bunny down our throats even more, it's been nominated for the most grammy awards ever and can set the record if it wins all nominations.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 02, 2026 10:15 AM (Zz0t1)
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And yet I couldn't name one of its songs if you held a gun to my head.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 02, 2026 10:18 AM (ESVrU)

219 Everyone gets bitchy here if the temperature is below 45 degrees.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 02, 2026 10:16 AM (RIvkX)
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And then they huddle for warmth in the bathhouses, amirite?

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 02, 2026 10:19 AM (ZOv7s)

220 >>Chappell Roan [who, apparently, is some kind of singer]: "All of my friends who have kids are in hell. I don't know anyone who is happy and has children."

*bings Chappell Roan*

I'm going to make a wild azz guess that she hangs out with a lot of lgbtq freaks and other narcissist celebrities, making it a true statement, yet more of a sad commentary on who she's chosen to befriend.

Posted by: Lizzy at January 02, 2026 10:19 AM (NuV6c)

221 209 To Sponge......I'm just bustin' on ya. With all the crap happening in the world, just trying to have a little fun. No harm meant. Hope 2026 is a much better year for you.
Posted by: Loves the cold

Don't accept this, Sponge. Apologies are a gateway to dongfondling. These cold clime poofs will be trying to lure you into their sleeping bags with talk of shared body heat and offering you their penis-flavored chapstick. Disgusting fairies.

Posted by: I don't even hold my own penis when I urinate at January 02, 2026 10:19 AM (AHnba)

222 And yet I couldn't name one of its songs if you held a gun to my head.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 02, 2026 10:18 AM (ESVrU)

Yep. No clue. I figured there was no reason to even search it out since AOC spent thousands to go see it's show in Puerto Rico.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 02, 2026 10:19 AM (Zz0t1)

223 >>In an effort to shove Bad Bunny down our throats even more, it's been nominated for the most grammy awards ever and can set the record if it wins all nominations.

. . . aaaaand Beyonce is a "Country music star," they declared so last year.

Posted by: Lizzy at January 02, 2026 10:20 AM (NuV6c)

224 I'm going to make a wild azz guess that she hangs out with a lot of lgbtq freaks and other narcissist celebrities, making it a true statement, yet more of a sad commentary on who she's chosen to befriend.

Posted by: Lizzy at January 02, 2026 10:19 AM (NuV6c)
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Yeah, they're probably transing their kids, which is a nightmare of their own creation.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 02, 2026 10:20 AM (ZOv7s)

225
Don't accept this, Sponge. Apologies are a gateway to dongfondling. These cold clime poofs will be trying to lure you into their sleeping bags with talk of shared body heat and offering you their penis-flavored chapstick. Disgusting fairies.

Posted by: I don't even hold my own penis when I urinate

I admit it. I snickered.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 02, 2026 10:20 AM (Riz8t)

226 If someone is a refugee then they shouldn't be able to travel back to their home countries to visit, ever! Don't Somali send their girls back home for FGM, which is referred to as "cutting season". If they're doing it here in the USA then they should be arrested, permanently deported, and stripped of all rights. That's one way to reduce this barbaric practice here in the USA where it's illegal.

Posted by: lin-duh is offended at January 02, 2026 10:20 AM (VCgbV)

227 How did a nice Art post featuring Native Americans devolve into an argument over who's the biggest bundle of sticks. This is unseemly!

Posted by: Heteronormative Henry at January 02, 2026 10:20 AM (oftw2)

228 I'm going to make a wild azz guess that she hangs out with a lot of lgbtq freaks and other narcissist celebrities, making it a true statement, yet more of a sad commentary on who she's chosen to befriend.

Posted by: Lizzy at January 02, 2026 10:19 AM (NuV6c)
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Leftists live in a hell of their own making.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 02, 2026 10:21 AM (ESVrU)

229 >>> Only women bitch about the cold. Real men embrace it.
Posted by: Bulg at January 02, 2026 09:53 AM (77rzZ)

Incorrect. F*ck the cold.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 02, 2026 09:57 AM (Zz0t1)

Absolutely. I grew up in the midwest with negative temps and prefer the south which should never get there. Warmth is life, cold is death. I'm on team sponge.

Posted by: banana Dream at January 02, 2026 10:21 AM (3uBP9)

230
I admit it. I snickered.
Posted by: Archimedes at January 02, 2026 10:20 AM (Riz8t)

As did I.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 02, 2026 10:21 AM (Zz0t1)

231 Bardot or not Bardot.

https://is.gd/dYJgyJ

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except Better at January 02, 2026 10:21 AM (L/fGl)

232 I admit it. I snickered.
Posted by: Archimedes at January 02, 2026 10:20 AM (Riz8t)
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Same.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 02, 2026 10:21 AM (ZOv7s)

233 Absolutely. I grew up in the midwest with negative temps and prefer the south which should never get there. Warmth is life, cold is death. I'm on team sponge.
Posted by: banana Dream at January 02, 2026 10:21 AM (3uBP9)

Woot!

*fistbump*

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 02, 2026 10:21 AM (Zz0t1)

234
penis-flavored chapstick

** Gwyneth Paltrow's ears perk up **

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at January 02, 2026 10:22 AM (xG4kz)

235 Bad Bunny. I do not care about Bad Bunny, will never care about Bad Bunny. Seems an exemplar of our cultural rot. I have written off most of modern culture and do not participate in it as much as possible. My life is better this way.

Posted by: tubal at January 02, 2026 10:22 AM (pDt9x)

236 Bardot or not Bardot.

https://is.gd/dYJgyJ
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except Better at January 02, 2026 10:21 AM (L/fGl)

What the smothered in gravy f*ck is THAT?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 02, 2026 10:22 AM (Zz0t1)

237 Bardot or not Bardot.

https://is.gd/dYJgyJ

Why? Why would you pose that way when you're that fat?

Posted by: Archimedes at January 02, 2026 10:22 AM (Riz8t)

238 Here at Camp North Star this morning we're gonna be having a delicious gruel breakfast. And don't forget to ask for seconds because it's all the gruel you can eat.

Posted by: Tripper at January 02, 2026 10:23 AM (6Ga6M)

239 "San Francisco is famed for its strong heterosexual culture."

We're lumberjacks and we're OK.

Posted by: Men in Maine at January 02, 2026 10:23 AM (2Ez/1)

240
I'm going to make a wild azz guess that she hangs out with a lot of lgbtq freaks and other narcissist celebrities, making it a true statement, yet more of a sad commentary on who she's chosen to befriend

She's a declared lesbian, so "yeah"

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at January 02, 2026 10:23 AM (xG4kz)

241 Bad Bunny Ice Cream is pretty good.

Posted by: Overweight and Hirsute at January 02, 2026 10:24 AM (oftw2)

242 Absolutely. I grew up in the midwest with negative temps and prefer the south which should never get there. Warmth is life, cold is death. I'm on team sponge.
Posted by: banana Dream at January 02, 2026 10:21 AM (3uBP9)
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My wife has come to appreciate Michigan winters. She's from Kentucky, and hated them at first, but they are quiet, contemplative and (most importantly) keep the bugs a lot smaller than at home. Very few venomous snakes or arthropods. It's beautiful right now, and snuggling up is an imperative for four months a year.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 02, 2026 10:24 AM (ZOv7s)

243 I've no idea who the hell is Bad Bunny. Am I the only one?

Posted by: dantesed at January 02, 2026 10:24 AM (Oy/m2)

244 Absolutely. I grew up in the midwest with negative temps and prefer the south which should never get there. Warmth is life, cold is death. I'm on team sponge.
Posted by: banana Dream

Same. Used to have snowball fights bare handed.
Now? Hands hurt pulling hamburger meat out of the freezer. Only time I go outside below 40 is to go to work.

Team Sponge all the way.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 02, 2026 10:24 AM (c115l)

245 The decision to use the Legend class of cutters as the basis for a new frigate is the right one, and this shows why. Not all naval vessels need to be rugged combatants. Sometimes you just need a good seaboat with lots of endurance, modest armament, ASW cabability and a chopper or two.

They're cheap, we've made ten so far, and they work great. Long range and endurance as well.

I didn't know they chosen to go that way. The Legend class is 4500-4600 tons, which is comparable to a destroyer. Obviously the Navy will have to make some changes to the armament and sensor suites, but given their recent track record, this may well be a good choice.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 02, 2026 10:25 AM (Riz8t)

246 The South is nice. Always good barbecuing weather in the South."

No, it's awful. Rednecks, trucks, SUVs, guns, brisket, Buc-ee's...
Posted by: man at January 02, 2026 09:50 AM (XuXeR)

Not to mention the snakes, skeeters, and women that don't like wearing clothes in the severely hot summers.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at January 02, 2026 10:25 AM (g8Ew8)

247 I've no idea who the hell is Bad Bunny. Am I the only one?

Posted by: dantesed

I think he was the rap star who owned an island in "Fools Gold"

Posted by: Thomas Paine at January 02, 2026 10:25 AM (0U5gm)

248 Bad Bunny will be introduced by Fat Bear and Shit Rabbit

Posted by: gKWVE at January 02, 2026 10:26 AM (qSHqn)

249 221 i snickered at the nic.

Posted by: cmeat at January 02, 2026 10:26 AM (R11M+)

250 I've no idea who the hell is Bad Bunny. Am I the only one?
Posted by: dantesed at January 02, 2026 10:24 AM (Oy/m2)

I only know of it after the significant outrage after the NFL announced the anti-American spanish act was performing the SB Halftime Show. I've still never heard it's music, but it said if I didn't speak spanish, I shouldn't bother, so why would I?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 02, 2026 10:26 AM (Zz0t1)

251 I lost my love for cold weather when I was around twelve. No charm to the drudgery it brings.

Posted by: tubal at January 02, 2026 10:26 AM (pDt9x)

252
What the smothered in gravy f*ck is THAT?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer

It's a failed Lena Dunham decoy prototype

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at January 02, 2026 10:26 AM (xG4kz)

253 Why? Why would you pose that way when you're that fat?
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Are some men into barrel shaped women? Maybe lesbians are. I don't know, don't ask me. Maybe the admiral will weigh in (no pun intended).

Posted by: Chuck Martel at January 02, 2026 10:27 AM (Dv3i1)

254 >>> In an effort to shove Bad Bunny down our throats even more, it's been nominated for the most grammy awards ever and can set the record if it wins all nominations.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 02, 2026 10:15 AM (Zz0t1)
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And yet I couldn't name one of its songs if you held a gun to my head.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 02, 2026 10:18 AM (ESVrU)

This is the left going to "year zero" wherever they can and they control media. Shove it all in our faces non stop. This is how they handle push back, go even harder, everywhere, all the time. As opposed to our side, where the tactic is to focus hard on internal squabbles and then roll over to present our tumtums.

Posted by: banana Dream at January 02, 2026 10:27 AM (3uBP9)

255 Such a fag thing to say.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 02, 2026 10:07 AM (Zz0t1)

Such a faggy reply. Your turn.
Posted by: Loves the cold Strong like bull!

Could you two please stop fagging up this place?
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at January 02, 2026 10:14 AM (xG4kz)

I said what I said.

Posted by: Archie Bunker at January 02, 2026 10:27 AM (6Ga6M)

256 The White House@WhiteHouse
“If Iran shots and violently kills peaceful protesters, which is their custom, the United States of America will come to their rescue. We are locked and loaded and ready to go. Thank you for your attention to this matter!” - President DONALD J. TRUMP

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except Better at January 02, 2026 10:27 AM (L/fGl)

257 243 bugs less scratchy, poorly drawn brother.

Posted by: cmeat at January 02, 2026 10:28 AM (R11M+)

258 256 The White House@WhiteHouse
“If Iran shots and violently kills peaceful protesters, which is their custom, the United States of America will come to their rescue. We are locked and loaded and ready to go. Thank you for your attention to this matter!” - President DONALD J. TRUMP
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except Better at January 02, 2026 10:27 AM (L/fGl)

Classic Trump.

Posted by: tubal at January 02, 2026 10:28 AM (pDt9x)

259 James Li is a Candace Owens type YouTuber. He has a hot new theory. Nick Shirley is a Mossad agent. The whole daycare/healthcare fraud thing by Somalis is fake and created is Israel to make Americans hate Muslims.

Posted by: Really?? at January 02, 2026 10:28 AM (/CkK4)

260 A. H. Lloyd, where in Michigan are you located?

Posted by: Bulg at January 02, 2026 10:28 AM (77rzZ)

261 This is the left going to "year zero" wherever they can and they control media. Shove it all in our faces non stop. This is how they handle push back, go even harder, everywhere, all the time. As opposed to our side, where the tactic is to focus hard on internal squabbles and then roll over to present our tumtums.

Going harder can be an effective strategy - until you refuse to recognize the cliff you're approaching. The left is now on the edge of the precipice.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 02, 2026 10:28 AM (Riz8t)

262 I've no idea who the hell is Bad Bunny. Am I the only one?

Posted by: dantesed
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We're here to help.

Posted by: The Super Bowl at January 02, 2026 10:28 AM (2Ez/1)

263 I didn't know they chosen to go that way. The Legend class is 4500-4600 tons, which is comparable to a destroyer. Obviously the Navy will have to make some changes to the armament and sensor suites, but given their recent track record, this may well be a good choice.
Posted by: Archimedes at January 02, 2026 10:25 AM (Riz8t)
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They were designed with conversions in mind. Built for towed sonar, designed with survivability (compartmentalization) and they are excellent ships in all weather and have 90 days of endurance.

So we're going to get ships that crossover nicely in terms of parts compatibility and maintenance, the Coasties can conduct familiarization training NOW, before any more are built, and while the first flight won't have vertical launch tubes, those can be added to later batches.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 02, 2026 10:28 AM (ZOv7s)

264 Are some men into barrel shaped women?

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Barrelosexuals.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except Better at January 02, 2026 10:29 AM (L/fGl)

265 A. H. Lloyd, where in Michigan are you located?
Posted by: Bulg at January 02, 2026 10:28 AM (77rzZ)
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On the banks of the Red Cedar.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 02, 2026 10:29 AM (ZOv7s)

266 Bardot or not Bardot.

https://is.gd/dYJgyJ"

I'm going out on a limb here, but that link leads to...suffering, no?

Posted by: man at January 02, 2026 10:29 AM (xDZRs)

267 The whole daycare/healthcare fraud thing by Somalis is fake and created is Israel to make Americans hate Muslims.
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The killing of innocents in the name of Islam isn't sufficient?

Posted by: Chuck Martel at January 02, 2026 10:29 AM (Dv3i1)

268 The White House@WhiteHouse
“If Iran shots and violently kills peaceful protesters, which is their custom, the United States of America will come to their rescue. We are locked and loaded and ready to go. Thank you for your attention to this matter!” - President DONALD J. TRUMP

This could be a serious mistake. It seems to imply that we're prepared to invade Iran. Are we? I hope not.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 02, 2026 10:29 AM (Riz8t)

269 >>> My wife has come to appreciate Michigan winters. She's from Kentucky, and hated them at first, but they are quiet, contemplative and (most importantly) keep the bugs a lot smaller than at home. Very few venomous snakes or arthropods. It's beautiful right now, and snuggling up is an imperative for four months a year.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 02, 2026 10:24 AM (ZOv7s)

Well, yeah women eventually all want to move to the north poll, live in an igloo, and sleep on a block of ice. That's a whole different subject. sigh...

Posted by: banana Dream at January 02, 2026 10:30 AM (3uBP9)

270
The killing of innocents in the name of Islam isn't sufficient?
Posted by: Chuck Martel at January 02, 2026 10:29 AM (Dv3i1)

I mean, it's not like their book tells them to enslave, tax or kill the non-believer or anything.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 02, 2026 10:30 AM (Zz0t1)

271 268 The White House@WhiteHouse
“If Iran shots and violently kills peaceful protesters, which is their custom, the United States of America will come to their rescue. We are locked and loaded and ready to go. Thank you for your attention to this matter!” - President DONALD J. TRUMP

This could be a serious mistake. It seems to imply that we're prepared to invade Iran. Are we? I hope not.
Posted by: Archimedes at January 02, 2026 10:29 AM (Riz8t)

Like I said earlier, Classic Trump. He does love to bloviate.

Posted by: tubal at January 02, 2026 10:31 AM (pDt9x)

272 This could be a serious mistake. It seems to imply that we're prepared to invade Iran. Are we? I hope not.
Posted by: Archimedes at January 02, 2026 10:29 AM (Riz8t)
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No need to invade. Just strike the barracks, arms depots.

Flyovers to show the impotence of the government.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 02, 2026 10:31 AM (ZOv7s)

273 I really need to go outside, in the cold, to do a few errands
Any minute now

Posted by: Skip at January 02, 2026 10:31 AM (Ia/+0)

274 Well, Oakland.

An Oakland resident has been charged with secretly taking a nude picture of his girlfriend's 16-year-old family member while she sat on the toilet, court records show.

The suspect, 44-year-old Elder Lopez, allegedly drank alcohol, then fell asleep on his girlfriend's couch while listening to music, authorities said. When he woke up, he was surrounded by Oakland police, who'd been called there by his girlfriend after she allegedly went through his phone and found the picture, according to court records.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except Better at January 02, 2026 10:32 AM (L/fGl)

275 Well, yeah women eventually all want to move to the north poll, live in an igloo, and sleep on a block of ice. That's a whole different subject. sigh...
Posted by: banana Dream at January 02, 2026 10:30 AM (3uBP9)
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Is the north poll where all the Somalis cast their ballots?

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 02, 2026 10:32 AM (ZOv7s)

276 This could be a serious mistake. It seems to imply that we're prepared to invade Iran. Are we? I hope not.
Posted by: Archimedes at January 02, 2026 10:29 AM (Riz8t)

Like I said earlier, Classic Trump. He does love to bloviate.

Yes, but do the Iranians in the street know that? If they assume this is a promise of military assistance, which it certainly sounds like, they'll be disappointed - to say the least. I want them on our side after the mullahs fall.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 02, 2026 10:32 AM (Riz8t)

277 259 James Li is a Candace Owens type YouTuber. He has a hot new theory.

He needs to go back.

Posted by: gKWVE at January 02, 2026 10:32 AM (qSHqn)

278 259 James Li is a Candace Owens type YouTuber. He has a hot new theory. Nick Shirley is a Mossad agent. The whole daycare/healthcare fraud thing by Somalis is fake and created is Israel to make Americans hate Muslims.

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Makes perfect sense to me.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at January 02, 2026 10:32 AM (JkO4W)

279
Are some men into barrel shaped women?
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Barrelosexuals.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except Better

Barrrow-Barrelsexuals love trundling them about in wheelbarrows.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at January 02, 2026 10:33 AM (xG4kz)

280 Trump's also waving off Russia from helping, because he's totally Putin's stooge.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 02, 2026 10:33 AM (ZOv7s)

281 It’s easier to get warm when it’s too cold than it is to get cool when it’s too hot.

Posted by: Bulg at January 02, 2026 10:33 AM (77rzZ)

282 I've no idea who the hell is Bad Bunny. Am I the only one?
Posted by: dantesed at January 02, 2026 10:24 AM (Oy/m2)

I don't know either. Is it a furry themed video game of some sort?

Posted by: Robert at January 02, 2026 10:33 AM (tdbfP)

283 They were designed with conversions in mind. Built for towed sonar, designed with survivability (compartmentalization) and they are excellent ships in all weather and have 90 days of endurance.

So we're going to get ships that crossover nicely in terms of parts compatibility and maintenance, the Coasties can conduct familiarization training NOW, before any more are built, and while the first flight won't have vertical launch tubes, those can be added to later batches.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 02, 2026 10:28 AM (ZOv7s)

So, the McNamera plan. It worked so well in the sixties and seventies.......NOT!!

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at January 02, 2026 10:33 AM (g8Ew8)

284 260 middle o' da mitten?

Posted by: cmeat at January 02, 2026 10:33 AM (R11M+)

285 The suspect, 44-year-old Elder Lopez,

Hope he enjoys life as a chomo in San Quentin. Where the toilet is out on the open.

Posted by: gKWVE at January 02, 2026 10:34 AM (qSHqn)

286 Indians in Camp at 101 Ranch, 1922
Emil W. Lenders
American, 1865-1934
Memorial Park Cemetery, Oklahoma City, Ok

Artvee: Says the artist was born in London and reared in Germany. (Other sites say he was born in Germany.)

Emil W. Lender became successively a Philadelphia alderman, wild west show trouper, and Oklahoma rancher before achieving his ambition to becoming a painter of plains animals.
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(AI Overviews) The 101 Ranch was a massive (>100,000 acres), innovative cattle ranch in Oklahoma, famous for its Miller Brothers 101 Ranch Real Wild West Show featuring stars like Bill Pickett and Tom Mix, its role in early Western filmmaking, and its eventual decline due to financial issues in the 1930s, leaving behind a legacy as a symbol of the Old West.

The 101 Ranch became an iconic symbol of the frontier, influencing Western lore and culture, with remnants of its grand headquarters still a landmark in Oklahoma.

>pbs dot org: Back In Time, 101 Ranch, Season 5, Episode 1, A look at a frontier cattle empire that spurred on the legends of the west. (Video, 27 mins.)
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It's a colorful, well done painting, maybe more positive than that of an actual encampment.

Thanks.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at January 02, 2026 10:34 AM (NFX2v)

287 So, the McNamera plan. It worked so well in the sixties and seventies.......NOT!!
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at January 02, 2026 10:33 AM (g8Ew

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I don't know about that, but the Navy has proven incapable of designing ships, so it's the only viable option left at the moment.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 02, 2026 10:34 AM (ZOv7s)

288 This could be a serious mistake. It seems to imply that we're prepared to invade Iran. Are we? I hope not.
Posted by: Archimedes at January 02, 2026 10:29 AM (Riz8t)
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No need to invade. Just strike the barracks, arms depots.

Flyovers to show the impotence of the government.

There are many things we can do short of actual invasion, and I'm not saying Trump isn't thinking along those lines. My concern is that the people in the Iranian streets know that we aren't going to invade. Like I said, I want them on our side after the mullahs fall.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 02, 2026 10:34 AM (Riz8t)

289 282 I've no idea who the hell is Bad Bunny. Am I the only one?
Posted by: dantesed at January 02, 2026 10:24 AM (Oy/m2)

I don't know either. Is it a furry themed video game of some sort?
Posted by: Robert at January 02, 2026 10:33 AM (tdbfP)

A clown, who makes money and fame at being a clown, I think.

Posted by: tubal at January 02, 2026 10:35 AM (pDt9x)

290 >>> ---
No need to invade. Just strike the barracks, arms depots.

Flyovers to show the impotence of the government.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 02, 2026 10:31 AM (ZOv7s)

Iran is receiving consistent air supplies of the kind of weapons used to quell their populace from russia and china. At least stopping that would be a plus.

Posted by: banana Dream at January 02, 2026 10:35 AM (3uBP9)

291 So he was nude while taking a picture of a 16 year old girl sitting on a toilet?

Posted by: Was that wrong? at January 02, 2026 10:35 AM (2Ez/1)

292 261 "precipice"
my favorite word

Posted by: wilt the stilt at January 02, 2026 10:35 AM (R11M+)

293 middle o' da mitten?
Posted by: cmeat at January 02, 2026 10:33 AM (R11M+)
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Right in the palm.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 02, 2026 10:35 AM (ZOv7s)

294 281 It’s easier to get warm when it’s too cold than it is to get cool when it’s too hot.
Posted by: Bulg at January 02, 2026 10:33 AM (77rzZ)

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Explains why the apes in 2001 had fire but it took 5 million years to get reliable AC.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at January 02, 2026 10:35 AM (JkO4W)

295 I imagine Younger Lopez is pretty embarassed by all of this.

Posted by: tubal at January 02, 2026 10:36 AM (pDt9x)

296 Good morning Hordelings!

Simple question - why isn't Bad Bunny named in Spanish? Oh that's right - IDGAF.

As for the cold weather - best thing about it is my back porch has been an auxiliary refrigerator for the past several weeks.

Posted by: Doof at January 02, 2026 10:36 AM (QMAsf)

297 New York Post
@nypost
Florida state officials move to ban paper straws at restaurants, citing ‘concerning health risks’

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No paper. No plastic. Just snort the pop up your nose.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except Better at January 02, 2026 10:36 AM (L/fGl)

298 Bad Bunny is a cross dressing, very pro-tranny rapper from Puerto Rico who hates white people.

The perfect NFL half time show. 🤣

Posted by: Really?? at January 02, 2026 10:37 AM (/CkK4)

299 I love this. It reminds me of skilled colored pencil art, which I love. I dabble in such "art", but I am not "skilled". lol

A relative who lives in Mexico got married there a coupla years ago and I did a color drawing of the outside of the church with all the little people milling about after the ceremony, which turned out pretty good, IMO.

Posted by: Bad Andrew at January 02, 2026 10:37 AM (DgMqy)

300 As for the cold weather - best thing about it is my back porch has been an auxiliary refrigerator for the past several weeks.

Posted by: Doof at January 02, 2026 10:36 AM (QMAsf)
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I'm going to defrost the chest freezer later today, and all the frozen food can just sit in the snow while I do it. Keeps things simple.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 02, 2026 10:37 AM (ZOv7s)

301 Bugs Bunny > Bad Bunny

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except Better at January 02, 2026 10:38 AM (L/fGl)

302 296 Good morning Hordelings!

Simple question - why isn't Bad Bunny named in Spanish? Oh that's right - IDGAF.

As for the cold weather - best thing about it is my back porch has been an auxiliary refrigerator for the past several weeks.

Posted by: Doof at January 02, 2026 10:36 AM (QMAsf)

The coons, possums, bears, coyotes all say thankee very much.

Posted by: tubal at January 02, 2026 10:38 AM (pDt9x)

303 Cicero- Europeans still don't have reliable AC

Posted by: Skip at January 02, 2026 10:39 AM (Ia/+0)

304 Okay, time to get busy.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 02, 2026 10:39 AM (ZOv7s)

305 304 Okay, time to get busy.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 02, 2026 10:39 AM (ZOv7s)

Go shovel out the driveway?

Posted by: tubal at January 02, 2026 10:40 AM (pDt9x)

306 "precipice"
my favorite word
Posted by: wilt the stilt

6th grade (Mrs. Ziff, Pine Ridge Elem., Fairfax Co., 197

we had to define that word as used in the sentence "I tripped over the precipice in the park". RIP Mrs. Ziff. The best teacher I ever had at any level of schooling.

Posted by: Dark Litigator at January 02, 2026 10:40 AM (KAi1n)

307 As for the cold weather - best thing about it is my back porch has been an auxiliary refrigerator for the past several weeks.

Posted by: Doof at January 02, 2026 10:36 AM (QMAsf)

The coons, possums, bears, coyotes all say thankee very much.
Posted by: tubal at January 02, 2026 10:38 AM (pDt9x)

Ha! It's a screened-in porch so no critters can get to my vittles!

Posted by: Doof at January 02, 2026 10:40 AM (QMAsf)

308 >>> No paper. No plastic. Just snort the pop up your nose.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except Better at January 02, 2026 10:36 AM (L/fGl)

I worked with a guy that took personal insult to even being presented with a straw. Like an existential threat. He would always say loudly, "I haven't sucked a drink since my mommas titty!", especially if there were many people around. I tried not to ever be around him in high straw possibility scenarios because I was young and easily embarrassed.

Posted by: banana Dream at January 02, 2026 10:40 AM (3uBP9)

309 Iran is receiving consistent air supplies of the kind of weapons used to quell their populace from russia and china. At least stopping that would be a plus.

How exactly would that work? Are we going to start shooting down Chinese and Russian planes?

Posted by: Archimedes at January 02, 2026 10:40 AM (Riz8t)

310 #TeamHot

Posted by: Count de Monet at January 02, 2026 10:40 AM (6Ga6M)

311 "Europeans still don't have reliable AC"

Call us.

Posted by: Carrier, Trane, Goodman, Lennox, and Rheem at January 02, 2026 10:40 AM (2Ez/1)

312 Europeans still don't have reliable AC
Posted by: Skip at January 02, 2026 10:39 AM (Ia/+0)

Smug leftists in the US celebrate that. See Europeans are so enlightened they don’t destroy the erf with A/C. Meanwhile Euros come to America for a vacation and marvel at how there is a/c everywhere.

Posted by: Really?? at January 02, 2026 10:41 AM (/CkK4)

313 No need to invade. Just strike the barracks, arms depots.

Flyovers to show the impotence of the government.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 02, 2026 10:31 AM (ZOv7s)
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That may have been part of the point of his earlier strike in Iran.

The US can strike Iranian assets any time, any place.

"We're in ur base, killin ur d00dz"

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 02, 2026 10:41 AM (ESVrU)

314 Posted by: Dark Litigator at January 02, 2026 10:40 AM (KAi1n)

Hey brother - good to see you. Been a while. Hope all is well out there.

Posted by: Doof at January 02, 2026 10:41 AM (QMAsf)

315 >>> How exactly would that work? Are we going to start shooting down Chinese and Russian planes?
Posted by: Archimedes at January 02, 2026 10:40 AM (Riz8t)

Didn't we close down their airspace last year?

Posted by: banana Dream at January 02, 2026 10:41 AM (3uBP9)

316 My name is listed on a gold dvd on Mars.

Wonder how much that is worth in a pawnshop?

Posted by: thug dolphin at January 02, 2026 10:42 AM (EyfuW)

317 309 Iran is receiving consistent air supplies of the kind of weapons used to quell their populace from russia and china. At least stopping that would be a plus.

How exactly would that work? Are we going to start shooting down Chinese and Russian planes?
Posted by: Archimedes at January 02, 2026 10:40 AM (Riz8t)

There you go again, focusing on details!!

Posted by: tubal at January 02, 2026 10:42 AM (pDt9x)

318 Okay, time to get busy.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd

Living or dying?

Living I hope.

Posted by: Tonypete at January 02, 2026 10:43 AM (cYBz/)

319 Are you concerned that you may be about to enter a high straw possibility scenario?

There's an app for that!

Posted by: The Apple Store at January 02, 2026 10:43 AM (2Ez/1)

320 How exactly would that work? Are we going to start shooting down Chinese and Russian planes?
Posted by: Archimedes at January 02, 2026 10:40 AM (Riz8t)

Didn't we close down their airspace last year?

And if the Chinese and Russians refuse to accept our blockade?

Posted by: Archimedes at January 02, 2026 10:43 AM (Riz8t)

321 My name is listed on a gold dvd on Mars.

Wonder how much that is worth in a pawnshop?
Posted by: thug dolphin at January 02, 2026 10:42 AM (EyfuW)
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Best I can do is $20, same as in town.

Posted by: Pawn Stars at January 02, 2026 10:43 AM (ESVrU)

322 293 alma lovin'

Posted by: wilt the stilt at January 02, 2026 10:43 AM (R11M+)

323 I’m leaving on a travois, maybe won't get too far.

Posted by: Eromero at January 02, 2026 10:43 AM (Slgjz)

324 The wheel , motherfuckers

Do you speak it ?

Posted by: Hatari Somewhere on Ventura Highway at January 02, 2026 10:43 AM (WF/xn)

325 Doubt China or Russia starts Dubya Dubya 3 over Iran air space. But shit like that does have a habit of taking deadly unforeseen turns that lead to things like WW3.

Posted by: Really?? at January 02, 2026 10:45 AM (/CkK4)

326 >>> And if the Chinese and Russians refuse to accept our blockade?
Posted by: Archimedes at January 02, 2026 10:43 AM (Riz8t)

Well, we would also say, "thank you for your attention to this matter". Then you're golden.

Posted by: banana Dream at January 02, 2026 10:45 AM (3uBP9)

327 299 you know about clasping your hands, right?

Posted by: wilt the stilt at January 02, 2026 10:45 AM (R11M+)

328 Didn't most of Pawn Stars die? Kids?

Posted by: thug dolphin at January 02, 2026 10:46 AM (EyfuW)

329 Apropos of nothing...

Saw "F1" last night streaming on Apple.

Very fun, action/racing movie, a definite, conscious throwback to 70-80s style movies.

With Brad Pitt leaning into (IMO) a late era sort of John Wayne vibe. Which is appropriate cuz the dude's 62.

Good, entertaining movie.
Check it out.

Posted by: naturalfake at January 02, 2026 10:46 AM (iJfKG)

330 325 Doubt China or Russia starts Dubya Dubya 3 over Iran air space. But shit like that does have a habit of taking deadly unforeseen turns that lead to things like WW3.
Posted by: Really?? at January 02, 2026 10:45 AM (/CkK4
‘You shot my Grand Duke!’

Posted by: Eromero at January 02, 2026 10:47 AM (Slgjz)

331 And if the Chinese and Russians refuse to accept our blockade?
Posted by: Archimedes at January 02, 2026 10:43 AM (Riz8t)

Then we triple dog dare them!

Posted by: Schwartz at January 02, 2026 10:48 AM (6Ga6M)

332 Wakes up
Scratches
Looks around.
Dang. Late again. Guess I have some reading to do to catch up.
Goes looking for coffee.

Posted by: Diogenes at January 02, 2026 10:48 AM (2WIwB)

333 How exactly would that work? Are we going to start shooting down Chinese and Russian planes?
Posted by: Archimedes at January 02, 2026 10:40 AM (Riz8t)

I'm okay with that. We're doing that by proxy in the Ukraine, and everyone knows it. What's the difference? I don't think we have an obligation to allow Russia and China to prop up Iran to bedevil us, which is what is going on.

Posted by: F Cucker Tarlson at January 02, 2026 10:49 AM (iu6Qe)

334 Cicero- Europeans still don't have reliable AC

That's ok, we go DC, too.

Posted by: Euros at January 02, 2026 10:50 AM (zEajA)

335 259 James Li is a Candace Owens type YouTuber. He has a hot new theory. Nick Shirley is a Mossad agent. The whole daycare/healthcare fraud thing by Somalis is fake and created is Israel to make Americans hate Muslims.

Posted by: Really?? at January 02, 2026 10:28 AM (/CkK4)

I heard James Li played Kam Fong who then played Chin Ho.

Posted by: Roy at January 02, 2026 10:50 AM (qwype)

336 Islam is using the Left to globalize the world, so they can move Sharia in worldwide. That is the basis of the marriage.

The Left gets money and don't care what happens beyond their lifetimes.

Islam gets to know their power will transcend lifetimes.

Posted by: ... at January 02, 2026 10:51 AM (E0p3T)

337 It’s great that the msm is keeping the Somali fraud story in the headlines into the new year.

Just kidding. There is zero mention of it anywhere.

Posted by: Really?? at January 02, 2026 10:51 AM (/CkK4)

338

Know islham, no peace.

No islham, know peace.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 02, 2026 10:52 AM (Zz0t1)

339 I played Kono

Posted by: Zulu at January 02, 2026 10:52 AM (pkeXY)

340 Islam is the one world order spoken of in the Bible. It is evil, simple as that.

Posted by: lin-duh is offended at January 02, 2026 10:53 AM (VCgbV)

341 And if the Chinese and Russians refuse to accept our blockade?
Posted by: Archimedes at January 02, 2026 10:43 AM (Riz8t)

Destroy Iran's airfields and air-cargo facilities.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at January 02, 2026 10:53 AM (g8Ew8)

342
Good, entertaining movie.
Check it out.
Posted by: naturalfake at January 02, 2026 10:46 AM (iJfKG)

It was in Critical Drinker's top 5 for 2025.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 02, 2026 10:53 AM (Zz0t1)

343 338

Know islham, no peace.

No islham, know peace.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 02, 2026 10:52 AM (Zz0t

Not bad, Sponge, not bad.

Posted by: tubal at January 02, 2026 10:54 AM (pDt9x)

344 I'm a Brad Pitt fan! There I said it.

Posted by: lin-duh is offended at January 02, 2026 10:54 AM (VCgbV)

345
Not bad, Sponge, not bad.
Posted by: tubal at January 02, 2026 10:54 AM (pDt9x)

I've been pushing it for a while now, but very little traction.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 02, 2026 10:54 AM (Zz0t1)

346 How exactly would that work? Are we going to start shooting down Chinese and Russian planes?
Posted by: Archimedes at January 02, 2026 10:40 AM (Riz8t)

There you go again, focusing on details!!
Posted by: tubal

Why don't you knock it off with them negative waves? Why don't you dig how beautiful it is out here?
Posted by: Oddball

Posted by: rickb223 at January 02, 2026 10:54 AM (c115l)

347 Pitt was very good in Fury.

Posted by: tubal at January 02, 2026 10:55 AM (pDt9x)

348 Damn robots!

Driverless Waymo Taxi Interferes With First Responders at Active Fire Scene

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except Better at January 02, 2026 10:56 AM (L/fGl)

349 348 Damn robots!

Driverless Waymo Taxi Interferes With First Responders at Active Fire Scene
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except Better at January 02, 2026 10:56 AM (L/fGl)

Obligatory Skynet Smiles reference.

Posted by: tubal at January 02, 2026 10:57 AM (pDt9x)

350 How exactly would that work? Are we going to start shooting down Chinese and Russian planes?
Posted by: Archimedes at January 02, 2026 10:40 AM (Riz8t)

I'm okay with that. We're doing that by proxy in the Ukraine, and everyone knows it. What's the difference?

There's a huge difference. In one case, we're providing supplies to a country that RUSSIA INVADED! It's the invadees who are shooting them down. In the other, it's us shooting them down directly. Face becomes determinative.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 02, 2026 10:57 AM (Riz8t)

351 Good, entertaining movie.
Check it out.
Posted by: naturalfake

Saw it on an IMAX screen. Fun movie.

Posted by: Tuna at January 02, 2026 10:57 AM (lJ0H4)

352 Destroy Iran's airfields and air-cargo facilities.

That's a possibility, but tough to get all the facilities. I'm still a proponent of taking out Kharg Island.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 02, 2026 10:58 AM (Riz8t)

353 Brad Pitt is actually a decent actor, he's not just good looking.

Posted by: lin-duh is offended at January 02, 2026 11:00 AM (VCgbV)

354 Out before this becomes a Brad Pitt thread.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at January 02, 2026 11:00 AM (nWPIJ)

355 Destroy Iran's airfields and air-cargo facilities.

aka the Rock The Casbah gambit.

Posted by: Combat Rock at January 02, 2026 11:01 AM (6Ga6M)

356 I got up late, made covfefe, and got back into bed because I could.

Posted by: lin-duh is offended at January 02, 2026 11:01 AM (VCgbV)

357 Nood.

Posted by: Nazdar at January 02, 2026 11:03 AM (NcvvS)

358 >>> That's a possibility, but tough to get all the facilities. I'm still a proponent of taking out Kharg Island.
Posted by: Archimedes at January 02, 2026 10:58 AM (Riz8t)

If they were smart they'd have civil structure, roads that were dual use as landing strips for supply and I'm sure they do. And russia/china would love to take down a stealth aircraft. A single moment's penetration of airspace accompanied by decoys is completely different than maintaining a bombing campaign to take out structure. Much more risky. I'm not saying I'm a proponent of the US getting involved and our people getting put in harms way at all. I would like a reverse afganistan where russia/china has to flee while local Iranian militias take their stuff and shoot them a lot.

Posted by: banana Dream at January 02, 2026 11:06 AM (3uBP9)

359 Never figured out that wheel thing.

Posted by: TitanTom at January 02, 2026 11:28 AM (4rvM7)

360 Was watching a video the other night that as a side point noted that absent agriculture there really isn't much food for the easy taking in nature and thinking about the hunter/gatherer life style in the pre-civilized desert areas of the southwest I imagine life for those Indians was hard...

It was noted in the Journal of Lewis and Clark that they did not encounter any fat Indians until they hit the Pacific Northwest.

Posted by: waepnedmann at January 02, 2026 11:29 AM (Irjjp)

361 139: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 02, 2026 09:53 AM (ZOv7s) "Good thing white people came along to do that all for them."

Agreed! I am in the SW. I have two wheel shops just a few miles from the house, plus a Walmart to stock up on essential travel sustenance. No pemmican for me.

Posted by: JML at January 02, 2026 11:59 AM (EtRph)

362 Where are all the Braves? Out Hunting for many many Buffalo

Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at January 02, 2026 05:10 PM (wGqjj)

The Morning Report — 1/2/26

Good morning kids. So with the great Somalian Samolian Swindle in full swing This happened over in Turtle Bay –

What absolutely perfect timing, eh?

The rotating presidency of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) will be assumed on January 1 by Somalia – a barely functional state that has exported thousands of “refugees” to the rest of the world, accompanied by crime waves and social distortions U.N. Watch executive director Hillel Neuer highlighted the absurdity of handing over the presidency of the Security Council to “the #1 Worst Country in the World on the failed state index last year.”
. . . “Somalia is a failed state that under 12 indicators was ranked the world’s worst on terrorism, corruption, inability to collect taxes, mass displacement, economic collapse, group grievance, brain drain, and chronic insecurity,” he continued.

I wonder if there is any connection to the Turtle Island Liberation Front that came to the fore in the waning days of last year. TO refresh your memory:

Multiple splinter cell members of the radical Turtle Island Liberation Front, which posts disturbing slogans such as “Death to America” on social media, were arrested last Friday for allegedly plotting a New Year’s Eve terror attack in the Los Angeles area. Turtle Island Liberation Front (TILF), a little-known “pro-Palestine, anti-law-enforcement, and anti-government” extremist group, has quietly been raising funds and resources to usher in a “revolutionary change in government.” “TILF also calls for the working class to rise up and fight back against capitalism,” an FBI affidavit noted. “Moreover, TILF advocates that liberalism and peaceful protest will be the downfall of those who believe it is enough, and that ‘direct action is the only way.’”

And, speaking of Somalia, the Somalian Samolian Swindle and the UN, get a load of this!

Just when you thought the Somali welfare fraud story couldn’t get any more ridiculous, allegations have emerged that Somalia’s Foreign Minister Abdisalam Abdi Ali and Somalia’s UN Ambassador Abukar Dahir Osman ran a company called Progressive Health Care Services Inc in Cincinatti, Ohio.

What America desperately needs is the ATBLF, the Anti-Turtle Bay Liberation Front!

But I digress. But then again, speaking of failed states, wars on capitalism . . "terrorism, corruption, inability to collect taxes, mass displacement, economic collapse, group grievance, brain drain, and chronic insecurity" , look what happened on New Years Eve just a few miles south of Turtle Bay in New York's City Hall Park:

Scores of Zohran Mamdani fans who braved freezing temperatures to celebrate the new mayor as he was publicly sworn into office Thursday were left disappointed by the bash the socialist pol had promised.
Around 10,000 supporters stood outside City Hall during the event — billed as an “Inauguration for a New Era Block Party” by Mamdani’s staff — crammed into several barricaded pens without access to bathrooms or any food concession stands.

The hilarity of this is just priceless!!! No food and no bathrooms in sub zero temperatures. Somewhere out in the great beyond Alexander Solzhenitsyn and Ivan Denisovich and the tortured souls that haunt the Gulag Archipelago are pointing their fingers and laughing their asses off at NYC's braindead schmucks.

To paraphrase a punchline from the radioactively non-PC yet funny book for those old enough to remember it, "Race Riots" the reason there was no tree bark lasagna on hand for the rubes was because the political prisoner with the recipe had died.

Ah yes, the glories of Socialism. Live it and Love it, all you young fools taken in by Bernie, Titty Caca Cortez and this lanky, swarthy Jew- and America-hating hunk of piss. Good and hard my ex fellow New Yorkers.

Of course he was sworn in with his reptilian claw on a Koran.

Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.) said it succinctly on Wednesday, commenting on the news that New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani intended to be sworn in on the Qur’an: “The enemy is inside the gates.” . . . At a cursory glance, swearing in on the Qur’an doesn’t seem to present any problems. ne primary reason, however, why many people object to American officials being sworn in on the Qur’an is because the Islamic holy book teaches values that are vastly different from American and Judeo-Christian values, particularly the necessity for Muslims to wage war against non-Muslims and subjugate them under the hegemony of Islamic law. . . Even more important for the concept of taking an oath to serve faithfully and honestly is the fact that the Qur’an sanctions lying to unbelievers under certain circumstances. The Qur’an teaches that deception is allowed: “Let not the believers take unbelievers for their friends in preference to believers. Whoever does that has no connection with Allah unless you are guarding yourselves against them, taking security.” (Qur'an 3:2. . . Of course, it is forbidden today, on pain of charges of “Islamophobia,” to discuss the actual contents of the Qur’an and their possible relevance to the question of officials being sworn in on the Qur’an. Still, it is jarring to think of American officials pledging to uphold the U.S. Constitution on a book that calls for warfare against non-Muslims and allows lying to them.

No wonder there is such an affinity between Democrat/Leftists and Muslims. They're the Cerberus of Chang and Eng Bunkers of Rosy Grier/Ray Milland Incredible Two-Headed Transplants.

Have a great weekend.

And lastly, a quick shout-out and a huge thank you for your continued support in hitting our tip jar. It truly is appreciated more than you can know.

ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY LINKS

. . . Somalia – a barely functional state that has exported thousands of “refugees” to the rest of the world, accompanied by crime waves and social distortions.
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After taking office on January 20, 2025, the Trump administration’s border team closed out the year with a historically low apprehension rate of less than 109,000 illegal aliens.
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Texas’s new immigration‑enforcement law hit the state like a shockwave this morning, wiping out any remaining sanctuary‑style defiance by ordering every county sheriff to partner with ICE formally. The mandatory 287(g) crackdown is designed to hard‑wire deportation cooperation into every jail from the Panhandle to the Rio Grande.
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THE GREAT SOMALIAN SAMOLIAN SWINDLE
The Somali government is connected to the Somali welfare industry.
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However “no loss was reported to officers,” according to a preliminary report by the Minneapolis Police Department. MPD noted that the center later reached out with additional information, but the updated police report was not immediately available.
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"I don’t drink alcohol, I don’t do drugs, I’m a virgin. I don’t have sex with random girls." (Just like Vargas in Thunderball - jjs)
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Taxpayers have spent hundreds of billions more on completely ineffective daycare than even Somalis have been able to pilfer.
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WE-ALL-SLAM-FOR-I-SLAM
Netanyahu met Wednesday with heads of Christian churches and universities, who congratulated him on his meeting with President Donald Trump and praised what his office described as his steadfast wartime decisions.
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The Vondelkerk was built in 1872 and functioned as a Roman Catholic church until 1977.
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At a cursory glance, swearing in on the Qur’an doesn’t seem to present any problems. ne primary reason, however, why many people object to American officials being sworn in on the Qur’an is because the Islamic holy book teaches values that are vastly different from American and Judeo-Christian values, particularly the necessity for Muslims to wage war against non-Muslims and subjugate them under the hegemony of Islamic law. . . Even more important for the concept of taking an oath to serve faithfully and honestly is the fact that the Qur’an sanctions lying to unbelievers under certain circumstances. The Qur’an teaches that deception is allowed: “Let not the believers take unbelievers for their friends in preference to believers. Whoever does that has no connection with Allah unless you are guarding yourselves against them, taking security.” (Qur’an 3:2. . . Of course, it is forbidden today, on pain of charges of “Islamophobia,” to discuss the actual contents of the Qur’an and their possible relevance to the question of officials being sworn in on the Qur’an. Still, it is jarring to think of American officials pledging to uphold the U.S. Constitution on a book that calls for warfare against non-Muslims and allows lying to them.
Does It Matter Which Book an Official Is Sworn In On?
J-6 FBI/PELOSI FALSE FLAG "RIOT" & AFTERMATH,
The former special counsel sat down for an over eight-hour deposition with the House Judiciary Committee on December 17, 2025, and when the transcript was released to the public on Wednesday, it contained a stunning admission. It turns out that the former special counsel admitted under oath that Cassidy Hutchinson, the committee's star witness, relied on secondhand hearsay instead of firsthand evidence when she testified about Trump's conduct after the 2020 election. Smith said if he were acting as a defense attorney and Hutchinson were called as a witness, "the first thing" he would do would be to seek to exclude portions of her testimony.
Jack Smith Just Blew Up His Entire January 6 Case
THE ECONOMY, STUPID
If you’re a California worker, you will have fewer opportunities as employers cut jobs to meet the cost of California’s default. If you’re a California employer, you should be on the phone to either your state assembly member or state senator to remedy this injustice. Or you could call a couple of people named Abbott and DeSantis.
How deadbeat Gavin Newsom put Cali businesses on the hook for his bills
FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUES, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER TECH
Media will cover the Somali Medicare and Medicaid fraud, the daycare fraud, the foodservice fraud, maybe even the Somali vote fraud. They will cover it when they are forced to, when it becomes so overwhelming that they can’t bury it anymore.
Somali Corruption and the Mainstream Media
Campus censorship hit record highs in 2025, proving the threat to free speech in higher education isn’t ideological—it’s a growing culture of intolerance enabled by timid leadership.
Push for Censorship on Campus Hit Record Levels in 2025
She’s Becky Anderson, and this is CNN.
New Year’s in Abu Dhabi
RED-GREENS, CLIMATE CHANGE HOAX, DEMOCRAT-LEFT WAR ON FOSSIL FUELS,
Betsy McCaughey: [Ned) Lamont claimed a “diverse energy supply” that includes wind “will lower utility costs for families.” Nonsense. In fact, worse than nonsense. Deliberate lying.
Blue states blow nothing but hot air on wind-power boondoggles
DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST AND RINO SCANDALS, MESHUGAS, CHUTZPOCRISY
No Tree Bark Parmigiana because the Gulag prisoner with the recipe died . . . - jjs
Zohran Mamdani fans disappointed by disastrous ‘block party’ with no food, bathrooms
POLITICS
With history, polling, and the economy pulling in opposite directions, the 2026 midterms may hinge on whether voters feel rising affordability pain or see strong growth—and which mood prevails.
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Mamdani is gonna get knocked on his [arse].
The Destruction of Mamdani: Why the Marxist Messiah Won’t Survive 2026
Trump remakes the world.
Looking Back at 2025: The Revolution Is Just Beginning
Remember what is really important.
Trump isn't perfect but just imagine the alternative
According to the Michigan Democrat lawmaker, voters will expect more for the 2026 elections and the 2028 presidential election cycle.
Dem Rep. Dingell (-berry): ‘Not Enough’ for Democrats to Be Anti-Trump
The Republican-led Congress set several records in 2025, though not all of them were achievements lawmakers would be keen to celebrate. With fewer than 40 bills signed into law as of Dec. 22, the House and Senate posted the lowest legislative output in the first year of a new presidency in modern history,
Congress Breaks Record For Doing The Least (IIRC they voted to give themselves pay raises, nein? - jjs)
FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL
Businesses, universities, and government offices closed their doors in 21 provinces for one day, Fox News reported on Wednesday.
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It's not a happy new year for Iran's detested dictatorship.
For Iran's mullahs, 2026 is starting to look like 1979 in reverse
Membership is expected to promote cross-border trade and investment, and the Bulgarian government pressed for years to get in. Yet polls show the changeover is taking place against a background of widespread skepticism among ordinary people.
Bulgaria Becomes Latest to Join Euro Currency Union Despite Public Opposition
“The Church’s crime has been to oppose the terms of Pashinyan’s diplomacy. . .The deal represents a major erosion of Armenia’s defensive position.”
The Price of Westernization in Armenia
School enrollment in South Korea dwindled by nearly 5 million students during the same time period, according to the Korea Times, indicating that the school shutdowns are directly related to South Korea’s status as the world’s least fertile country.
South Korea Loses over 4,000 Schools in a Generation to Birth Rate Collapse
HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE
“Thank you to the 18 governors who are leading the charge on SNAP reform to restore the health of Americans—especially our kids. Their courageous leadership is exactly what we need to Make America Healthy Again,” Kennedy said in December. “We cannot continue a system that forces taxpayers to fund programs that make people sick and then pay a second time to treat the illnesses those very programs help create.”
5 States Cut SNAP Benefits for Unhealthy Food as Part of ‘MAHA’ Agenda
ACTUAL SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY
Dominating this revolution in 2025 in every way possible however were two entities, one a private American company and the second a communist nation attempting to imitate capitalism. The former is SpaceX, accomplishing more in this single year than whole nations and even the whole globe had managed in any year since the launch of Sputnik. The latter is China, which in 2025 became a true space power, its achievements matching and even exceeding anything done by either the U.S. or the Soviet Union for most of the space age.
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CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE
Whether your tradition leads you to join a Catholic Mass honoring the Mother of God on the Eighth Day of Christmas or not, it may still be fitting to pause and reflect on her indispensable role in the story of the Incarnation today. And if she’s still with you, consider reaching out to your own mother today.
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The Wrap reports that television and film lost upwards to 17,000 jobs in 2025, a loss 18 percent higher than last year.
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"To this Islamic flood we are supposed to submit, against our will, all of our traditions."
Brigitte Bardot was right, France must remain French
Why we prize beauty, and at what costs
The Body Keeps the Score
HITHER & YON
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1 Who’s low IQ? Us or the Somalis?

Posted by: Eromero at January 02, 2026 06:49 AM (Slgjz)

2 Thanks for all your hard work, J.J. and I enjoyed the article on the DNA testing for patriots who died at the Battle of Camden.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 02, 2026 06:49 AM (2sfNr)

3 mornin yall. Popcorn for breakfast? OK!

Posted by: fd at January 02, 2026 06:51 AM (vFG9F)

4 Thank you, JJ, and gut shabbes!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at January 02, 2026 06:51 AM (Cjt/F)

5 Good morning horde!

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 02, 2026 06:52 AM (ExV1e)

6 And the essay on Mary was very nice as well. Thanks.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 02, 2026 06:53 AM (2sfNr)

7 4 Thank you, JJ, and gut shabbes!
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at January 02, 2026 06:51 AM (Cjt/F)

Zei Gezunt.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 02, 2026 06:53 AM (x0n13)

8 Tech thread alerted.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 02, 2026 06:53 AM (ExV1e)

9
*does swan dive into content*

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 02, 2026 06:54 AM (tgvbd)

10
Tech thread alerted.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 02, 2026 06:53 AM (ExV1e)

You expect to be thanked for doing your job?

/60's dad

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 02, 2026 06:55 AM (tgvbd)

11 "Does It Matter Which Book an Official Is Sworn In On?"

Trump was sworn in on a copy of "Mein Kampf".

Posted by: Guy who call everyone Hitler at January 02, 2026 06:55 AM (vFG9F)

12 Obvious question: Why is a state that is not a member of the Security Council even allowed into the Security Council, much less be a office-holder?

Posted by: No one at January 02, 2026 06:56 AM (qFwJc)

13 Turtle Island Liberation Front?

Pffffttt...

Liberation Front of Turtle Island!

Posted by: Monty Python at January 02, 2026 06:56 AM (2Ez/1)

14 Cowpens, not Camden?

Posted by: No one at January 02, 2026 06:57 AM (qFwJc)

15 Cowpens, Camden, Chickamaugua... whatever it takes.

Posted by: Historians trying to sell books at January 02, 2026 06:59 AM (2Ez/1)

16 Things still on my list for PDT.

1.Get us out of the UN.
2.Abolish the Ad Council

Is that too much to ask?

Posted by: fd at January 02, 2026 06:59 AM (vFG9F)

17 from earlier:

44 "We will replace the frigidity of rugged individualism with the warmth of collectivism," says Mamdani
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He took the oath of office on a book that mandates lying to advance the cause. So, every thing he says is a lie. Typical Democrat.
Posted by: clarence at January 02, 2026 05:42 AM (MXMX4)

Posted by: clarence at January 02, 2026 07:01 AM (MXMX4)

18
Whether your tradition leads you to join a Catholic Mass honoring the Mother of God on the Eighth Day of Christmas or not, it may still be fitting to pause and reflect on her indispensable role in the story of the Incarnation today.

My Baronius missal (1962) noted yesterday only as the Octave of the Nativity. I believe that it's also the Solemnity of Mary and also of the Circumcision of our Lord.

Our pastor gave a very nice sermon on how much of Holy Family is packed into this feast day.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 02, 2026 07:02 AM (tgvbd)

19 The rotating presidency of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) will be assumed on January 1 by Somalia...

There are some who say that the true function of the UN is to rob the American people while shitting on them. I, however, think those people are correct.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 02, 2026 07:02 AM (ExV1e)

20
Willowed

I'm seeing memes that say things like "McDonald's should pay a living wage to its employees." or "Instead of tipping, restaurants should pay their servers more." (I suspect that the people who say this sort of thing tip very poorly).

Tell you what. It's not too difficult to acquire a McDonald's franchise or open a restaurant. Do it, pay your staff as much as you want and let's see what happens.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 02, 2026 07:03 AM (tgvbd)

21 I gotta admit, if we're not holding people accountable for the stolen election, J6, the exploitation of kids and people under the no borders regime, and now this emerging fraud scandal, we're a fundamentally unserious nation.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at January 02, 2026 07:04 AM (3Ope8)

22 Happy Fricking Friday

Posted by: r hennigantx at January 02, 2026 07:04 AM (gbOdA)

23 Just when you thought the Somali welfare fraud story couldn’t get any more ridiculous, allegations have emerged that Somalia’s Foreign Minister Abdisalam Abdi Ali and Somalia’s UN Ambassador Abukar Dahir Osman ran a company called Progressive Health Care Services Inc in Cincinatti, Ohio.

Price of doing business, baby. Price of doing business. -- Mike DeWino

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 02, 2026 07:04 AM (ExV1e)

24 Crotchety Old Jarhead, I call it apathetic nation. Not me man.

Posted by: Ben Had at January 02, 2026 07:05 AM (sDNVV)

25
There are some who say that the true function of the UN is to rob the American people while shitting on them and telling them they should be honored. I, however, think those people are correct.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 02, 2026 07:05 AM (tgvbd)

26 The hilarity of this is just priceless!!! No food and no bathrooms in sub zero temperatures.
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The more things change....

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop1) at January 02, 2026 07:05 AM (avHHk)

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 02, 2026 07:06 AM (tgvbd)

28
Too much gin on my Wheaties this morning.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 02, 2026 07:06 AM (tgvbd)

29 Texas’s new immigration‑enforcement law hit the state like a shockwave this morning, wiping out any remaining sanctuary‑style defiance by ordering every county sheriff to partner with ICE formally. The mandatory 287(g) crackdown is designed to hard‑wire deportation cooperation into every jail from the Panhandle to the Rio Grande.

Now do cities, under the threat of disincorporation.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 02, 2026 07:08 AM (ExV1e)

30 Somalia chairing the UNSC is absurd, but so is the UNSC and the UN. Why not? What will change? Nothing, of course. Some Somalian diplomat will scheme in an office with a moderately different view. Nothing else or more. The UNSC is a joke because it was designed to be. The permanent veto nations ensure that it's a participation trophy for everyone else, and yet everyone knows the UNSC would be somehow even *more* useless than it is now if the absurdity of the permanent veto members didn't exist.

The whole thing is just so laughable.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop1) at January 02, 2026 07:09 AM (avHHk)

31 Posted by: Ben Had at January 02, 2026 07:05 AM (sDNVV)

Good morning, Ma'am! Howzit going?

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at January 02, 2026 07:09 AM (3Ope8)

32 "I don’t drink alcohol, I don’t do drugs, I’m a virgin. I don’t have sex with random girls." (Just like Thunderball - jjs)
‘They’re Never Going To Be Able To Get Me’: Nick Shirley Explains Why Critics Won’t Take Him Down

They just need one Somali tranny.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 02, 2026 07:09 AM (ExV1e)

33 "...wiping out any remaining sanctuary‑style defiance by ordering every county sheriff to partner with ICE formally..."

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That's cute.

Posted by: Fairfax County, Virginia at January 02, 2026 07:10 AM (2Ez/1)

34 Now do cities, under the threat of disincorporation.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 02, 2026 07:08 AM (ExV1e)
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Yup. Some of the counties are probably quite important, but why the cities are left out, I don't know. Failure theater? Some constitutional issue in Texas where the state can't dictate terms to a city?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop1) at January 02, 2026 07:12 AM (avHHk)

35 Remember El Rushbo’s name for Somali crook warlord? Mohamad Mahib Sahib Skyhook Ado. Nothing’s changed with Somalis.

Posted by: Eromero at January 02, 2026 07:13 AM (Slgjz)

36 "I don’t drink alcohol, I don’t do drugs, I’m a virgin. I don’t have sex with random girls." (Just like Thunderball - jjs)
‘They’re Never Going To Be Able To Get Me’: Nick Shirley Explains Why Critics Won’t Take Him Down
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He seems to be under the misapprehension that truth matters.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop1) at January 02, 2026 07:13 AM (avHHk)

37 What kind of party has no booze, food, or bathrooms?

Posted by: A Blockhead party at January 02, 2026 07:14 AM (vFG9F)

38 What kind of party has no booze, food, or bathrooms?
Posted by: A Blockhead party at January 02, 2026 07:14 AM (vFG9F)
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Communist.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop1) at January 02, 2026 07:15 AM (avHHk)

39 The Republican-led Congress set several records in 2025, though not all of them were achievements lawmakers would be keen to celebrate. With fewer than 40 bills signed into law as of Dec. 22, the House and Senate posted the lowest legislative output in the first year of a new presidency in modern history,
Congress Breaks Record For Doing The Least (IIRC they voted to give themselves pay raises, nein? - jjs)

According to AI...

Congress does not have to vote to give itself pay raises, as an automatic annual cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) is tied to the Employment Cost Index (ECI) under a law passed in 1989. However, Congress can choose to block this automatic increase through legislation. Since 2009, members of Congress have not received a salary increase because they have voted to deny the automatic raise each year.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 02, 2026 07:16 AM (ExV1e)

40 Why is a "do nothing" Congress bad?

Posted by: actually inside the beltway at January 02, 2026 07:16 AM (aKh6S)

41 Bulgaria Becomes Latest to Join Euro Currency Union Despite Public Opposition

It seems the most oft repeated story in the world is a government doing that which their citizens oppose.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 02, 2026 07:17 AM (ExV1e)

42 Yonder Horde

The UN - Somalian connection isn't a coincidence. It's the UN rubbing our faces in it.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 02, 2026 07:19 AM (NwnyJ)

43 Crotchety Old Jarhead, life on the farm is good. I love your gardening exploits. Happy New Year.

Posted by: Ben Had at January 02, 2026 07:21 AM (sDNVV)

44 It seems the most oft repeated story in the world is a government doing that which their citizens oppose.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 02, 2026 07:17 AM (ExV1e)
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Especially when it comes to the EU. The domestic Eurocrats view themselves as a Europeans, not Bulgarians (in this case) and the rest of the government sees admission to the Empire in the same way peripheral states have *always* viewed being taken into an empire - as access to the empire's resources. Ceding sovereignty and accepting the empire's fetters are worth it for the cash and stable power for the rulers who do it.

What is odd is finally getting around to it now. Back in the late 90s or early aughts, before the EU had obviously failed, I could see it much more easily. But this is like a small independent nation in the Pacific negotiating admission into the British Empire in 1947.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 02, 2026 07:21 AM (avHHk)

45 You expect to be thanked for doing your job?

Well... I wasn't first on the thread so, arguably, it wasn't my job. I mentioned it, however, so no one else thought they needed to do so. It was courtesy, dad.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 02, 2026 07:22 AM (ExV1e)

46
Bulgaria Becomes Latest to Join Euro Currency Union Despite Public Opposition

Bulgaria: all the vices of Russia without any of the accomplishments.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 02, 2026 07:22 AM (tgvbd)

47 Let's go out for Bulgarian food!

Posted by: Said no one ever at January 02, 2026 07:26 AM (2Ez/1)

48 Obvious question: Why is a state that is not a member of the Security Council even allowed into the Security Council, much less be a office-holder?
Posted by: No one at January 02, 2026 06:56 AM (qFwJc)

The UN Security Council consists of 15 members of which 5 are permanent. The non-permanent members may vote on resolutions but since either the US, Russia, or China will veto almost everything brought up, the whole thing is pretty pointless. Frankly, having France (LOL) and the UK (bigger LOL) as permanent members is even dumber than having Somalia as a pointless member.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 02, 2026 07:26 AM (ExV1e)

49 Things still on my list for PDT.

1.Get us out of the UN.
2.Abolish the Ad Council

Is that too much to ask?
Posted by: fd at January 02, 2026 06:59 AM (vFG9F)

How would he get rid of the Ad Council?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 02, 2026 07:27 AM (ExV1e)

50
Somalia’s Foreign Minister, UN Ambassador, Ran Health Care Corps in Ohio

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The money he stole from us is why he got that job.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at January 02, 2026 07:28 AM (azNOR)

51 Morning Horde. Typing while the Lily beagle is sleeping on my left arm is a bit difficult. I'm just happy she's recovering from her Christmas Eve surgery.
mamdani will either be recalled or someone will put a bullet in him, he's playing with fire, an inferno. I do not understand the apathy of voters who don't turn out to vote and allow a character like this to win. 1/4 of the population voted last November, sad.

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at January 02, 2026 07:28 AM (2NHgQ)

52 Posted by: Ben Had at January 02, 2026 07:21 AM (sDNVV)

Good to hear. I hope these unseasonably warm temps aren't disruptive to the natural progression of things on the ranch.

Got a bird feeder with a video camera in it now. Amazing video of cardinals and dove so far. Resisting the urge to go out and start digging in new stuff for spring.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at January 02, 2026 07:29 AM (3Ope8)

53 It's the UN General Assembly that is absurd.

Posted by: No one at January 02, 2026 07:29 AM (qFwJc)

54 inability to collect taxes, you say?

Let's not be too hasty, here...

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 02, 2026 07:29 AM (06Hmj)

55 How did Somalia even get to be ON the UN Security Council?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 02, 2026 07:30 AM (ESVrU)

56 Who’s low IQ? Us or the Somalis?
Posted by: Eromero

More a matter of culture (that thing you learn primarily from family).
A culture that believes if it isn't chained down it is free for taking is incompatible with one that understands you do not take what is not yours. No magic dirt will change that.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at January 02, 2026 07:30 AM (/lPRQ)

57 Frankly, having France (LOL) and the UK (bigger LOL) as permanent members is even dumber than having Somalia as a pointless member.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 02, 2026 07:26 AM (ExV1e)
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Having China as a permanent member was absurd, too. It was consolation prizes all around after the War. America's China lobby ensured China got a seat, the UK was an obvious choice (my, how the mighty have fallen) and France was more or less a sympathy inclusion.

The whole thing has been absurd since its inception. It would have worked better if it had *actually* managed to avoid non-approved wars. Having stupid countries in constant opposition to each other in charge of international decision-making ensures no decisions get made and that is a good thing, but it also makes the organization irrelevant if anyone who wants to goes and does it anyway.

"YOU TOOK ACTION WITHOUT UNSC APPROVAL!!!! OMG!!!!" is a sentence that has only every been uttered by an academic.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 02, 2026 07:32 AM (avHHk)

58 I'm seeing memes that say things like "McDonald's should pay a living wage to its employees." or "Instead of tipping, restaurants should pay their servers more." (I suspect that the people who say this sort of thing tip very poorly).

Tell you what. It's not too difficult to acquire a McDonald's franchise or open a restaurant. Do it, pay your staff as much as you want and let's see what happens.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 02, 2026 07:03 AM (tgvbd)

The "living wage" thing is a push to raise the minimum wage... again. They do this because a number of union positions are paid a multiple of the minimum wage.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 02, 2026 07:32 AM (ExV1e)

59 Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 02, 2026 07:05 AM (tgvbd)

Edit accepted.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 02, 2026 07:33 AM (ExV1e)

60 Bulgaria has great beer and home made yogurt.

Posted by: Dark Litigator at January 02, 2026 07:34 AM (KAi1n)

61 Happy Friday, everyone! It's a peaceful morning, I have no work obligations and one of our guest dogs went home last night.

Things are quiet and I just finished my first cup of coffee. Life ain't bad.

Posted by: NR Pax at January 02, 2026 07:34 AM (7xrfc)

62 Bulgaria has great beer and home made yogurt.
Posted by: Dark Litigator at January 02, 2026 07:34 AM (KAi1n)
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Like many E. European countries, it also has a generous supply of good looking women.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 02, 2026 07:35 AM (avHHk)

63 When making your blackeyed pea stew, count the peas and dont exceed 239 peas. Any more than that is too farty.

Posted by: Fenderbender at January 02, 2026 07:35 AM (1FEc1)

64 I have to laugh at the silliness of calling the skinnys inbred low functioning retards when they've managed to swindle billions from the government that gave them a chance beyond their wildest dreams and that same government refuses to punish them, let alone expel them.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at January 02, 2026 07:35 AM (3Ope8)

65 Tell you what. It's not too difficult to acquire a McDonald's franchise or open a restaurant. Do it, pay your staff as much as you want and let's see what happens.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 02, 2026 07:03 AM (tgvbd)

Try that with a Five Guys and they'll break your kneecaps for you.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 02, 2026 07:35 AM (06Hmj)

66 60 Bulgaria has great beer and home made yogurt.
Posted by: Dark Litigator at January 02, 2026 07:34 AM (KAi1n)

The only other nation besides Denmark that saved its Jews during WW2.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 02, 2026 07:35 AM (x0n13)

67 How would he get rid of the Ad Council?
Posted by: I used to have a different nic"

Stop sending them money.

Posted by: fd at January 02, 2026 07:35 AM (vFG9F)

68 Why is a "do nothing" Congress bad?

Posted by: actually inside the beltway at January 02, 2026 07:16 AM (aKh6S)

Mostly because we want some of the things Trump has done by EO codified on the theory that this would make it harder to undo.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 02, 2026 07:36 AM (ExV1e)

69 >>> Zohran Mamdani fans disappointed by disastrous ‘block party’ with no food, bathrooms

When a culture thinks a "block party" is masses of people filing the streets screaming "death to America" do not expect anything more when they host an event.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at January 02, 2026 07:38 AM (/lPRQ)

70 ...ran a company called Progressive Health Care Services Inc in Cincinatti, Ohio.
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I'm assuming that spelling was taken from the Somalis' license application.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at January 02, 2026 07:38 AM (XvL8K)

71 Our local AM radio station's advertising is 75% Ad Council ads. They just added Errorick Errorickson's radio show at noon. That means that the Ad Council is enabling Errorick Errorickson.

Posted by: fd at January 02, 2026 07:41 AM (vFG9F)

72 Good morning JJ and horde
Free stuff is the drug of the masses

Posted by: Skip at January 02, 2026 07:42 AM (Ia/+0)

73

Thunderball reference was when Largo talks about his henchman:

"Vargas does not drink, Vargas does not smoke, Vargas does not chase women . . "

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 02, 2026 07:43 AM (x0n13)

74 Sign me up! A frozen inaugural "party" with no food or a pot to pee in is the perfect illustration of a Commie utopia. The police barricades and uniformed coppers running up overtime is just the cherry on top!

Posted by: Bay Ridge Refugee at January 02, 2026 07:43 AM (oftw2)

75 How would he get rid of the Ad Council?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 02, 2026 07:27 AM (ExV1e)
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Subtraction.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 02, 2026 07:43 AM (L3E7N)

76 Love is love. Love me.

Posted by: Errorick Errorickson at January 02, 2026 07:43 AM (vFG9F)

77 71, seems plausible, they're basically on the same side ...

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at January 02, 2026 07:44 AM (Cjt/F)

78 Little freshness up of the snow this morning

Posted by: Skip at January 02, 2026 07:45 AM (Ia/+0)

79 Good morning dear morons and happy birthday JJ

Is Tehran burning?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 02, 2026 07:45 AM (RIvkX)

80 65 Tell you what. It's not too difficult to acquire a McDonald's franchise or open a restaurant. Do it, pay your staff as much as you want and let's see what happens.
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I remember the story but not some of the details. So, a couple opened a restaurant and said all the usual socialist nuttery about living wage, shared purpose, yada yada yada. After a few weeks, the people they employed demanded that the owners give the business to them for free. The business shut down soon after the demand.

Posted by: clarence at January 02, 2026 07:45 AM (MXMX4)

81 74 Sign me up! A frozen inaugural "party" with no food or a pot to pee in is the perfect illustration of a Commie utopia. The police barricades and uniformed coppers running up overtime is just the cherry on top!
Posted by: Bay Ridge Refugee at January 02, 2026 07:43 AM (oftw2)

Spent a lot of time as a kid Perusing Walt's Hobby Shop in Bay Ridge back in the early 70s.

I also remember a great old Jazz club there.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 02, 2026 07:45 AM (x0n13)

82 The B in Communism stands for Bathroom.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 02, 2026 07:45 AM (06Hmj)

83 I don't think the Somalis swindled the Feds.

I think the Feds used the Somalis to launder the billions of dollars they were going to steal from us anyway. The Feds probably thought they were the smart ones by leveraging low IQ inbred sand people to take $400M or whatever and open 20 daycare centers under one, shabby roof. Then launder the money and return a cut to the politicians that permitted it.

It's theft. Generational wealth stolen from us by the government.

This horseshit with the Somalis is just one of numerous scams being perpetrated on us to keep us in check.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 02, 2026 07:46 AM (NwnyJ)

84 "Our local AM radio station..."

Ok. Let me stop you right there.

Posted by: The farm report? Traffic? at January 02, 2026 07:46 AM (2Ez/1)

85 How would he get rid of the Ad Council?
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 02, 2026 07:27 AM (ExV1e)
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How much of their operating budget comes from its membership, versus various government problems via various other NGO conduits? My guess is well less than half, though that's a total WAG.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 02, 2026 07:46 AM (avHHk)

86 Subtraction.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 02, 2026 07:43 AM (L3E7N)

Dammit, that was perfectly good coffee that just came out of my nose, you dick.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 02, 2026 07:46 AM (06Hmj)

87 >>I have to laugh at the silliness of calling the skinnys inbred low functioning retards when they've managed to swindle billions from the government that gave them a chance beyond their wildest dreams and that same government refuses to punish them, let alone expel them.

I view the Somalis as a tool or a weapon. They haven't figured out how to do anything. They are a tool of the left being used to extract enormous amounts of money from us taxpayers to fund Democrat politicians to get and hold power and in return they are compensated with some of our tax dollars.

The real enemy, as always, is the Democrat Party. If the country is going to survive it must be defeated and destroyed.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 02, 2026 07:47 AM (viF8m)

88 I have fraud fatigue.

Posted by: one hour sober at January 02, 2026 07:48 AM (Y1sOo)

89 Style guide sez: Koran, not Qu'ran. JJ has it correctly.

Posted by: Peking, Bombay, Kiev, Etc. at January 02, 2026 07:48 AM (oftw2)

90 The Somalis likely didn't come up with these schemes, they're just stupid enough to be so blatant with it that it becomes impossible to ignore or rationalize away.

I hate framing this as "Somali fraud." It isn't. Somalis are doing it, but so are (probably) most others. At the center of all of it are bureaucrats, politicians and NGO operatives.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 02, 2026 07:48 AM (avHHk)

91
Bonus Question: why will Israel never have a seat on the Security Council?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 02, 2026 07:49 AM (RIvkX)

92 88 I have fraud fatigue.
Posted by: one hour sober at January 02, 2026 07:48 AM (Y1sOo)

Il Fait Froid, I'll fete fraud?

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 02, 2026 07:49 AM (x0n13)

93 The real enemy, as always, is the Democrat Party. If the country is going to survive it must be defeated and destroyed.
Posted by: JackStraw at January 02, 2026 07:47 AM (viF8m)

The real enemy is the uniparty. The uniparty uses the Dems as a reason to get people to vote GOPe to prevent Dems from gaining power.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 02, 2026 07:49 AM (ExV1e)

94 I hear Mamdani is going to re-make society away from "rugged individualism" to the "warmth of collectivism." You know, those comforting campfires of Sovietism, Maoism and Castroism.

Posted by: Ordinary American at January 02, 2026 07:50 AM (b4LBp)

95 I have fraud fatigue.
Posted by: one hour sober at January 02, 2026 07:48 AM (Y1sOo)
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That may be one of the reasons for the absence of suppression on this.

Fraud is going to be a major story for the first quarter or maybe even first half of the year, but while it will be a huge deal with tons of major revelations, it isn't go to result in major changes. It's too big. The entire damn thing is fraud, and it isn't a "partisan" issue, it's a "government" issue and therefore it can't be fixed because it's everywhere. The system will collapse under the weight of exposed criminality if they try.

So they will let the cycle burn itself out as fatigue sets in and send a couple of rubes to jail over it and declare victory.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 02, 2026 07:50 AM (avHHk)

96 What is it about the Swiss and wienie roasts?

We all came out to Montreux
On the Lake Geneva shoreline
To make records with a mobile
We didn't have much time
Frank Zappa and the Mothers
Were at the best place around
But some stupid with a flare gun
Burned the place to the ground

Smoke on the water, a fire in the sky
Smoke on the water

Posted by: Despise Marxist Rat Bastards & Professional Somalians at January 02, 2026 07:51 AM (HeR4S)

97 86 Subtraction.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 02, 2026 07:43 AM (L3E7N)

Dammit, that was perfectly good coffee that just came out of my nose, you dick.
Posted by: Warai-otoko
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He just got the easy response the quickest. 😂

Posted by: clarence at January 02, 2026 07:51 AM (MXMX4)

98 Mornin’, All. Happy Friday.

Posted by: Bulg at January 02, 2026 07:52 AM (77rzZ)

99 NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani: "We'll replace rugged individualism with collectivism"

Why do they always want to collect other peoples shit?

Posted by: r hennigantx at January 02, 2026 07:52 AM (gbOdA)

100 I hate framing this as "Somali fraud." It isn't. Somalis are doing it, but so are (probably) most others. At the center of all of it are bureaucrats, politicians and NGO operatives.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 02, 2026 07:48 AM (avHHk)

Purely from a bird's eye view, it might not be bad that the Somali angle is taking center stage.

Trump and Musk and their crew have already done the legwork to demonstrate conclusively that Corruption Is The System.

No one cared except for the terminally online. Cartoonish fatcat politicians and Kommunity Karens living off of fraud was baked into the cake, in terms of cultural perception. We all know the wheels are greasy. The demonstration by DOGE wasn't one of existence, but of extent, and the average person doesn't have a frame of reference for that to let it "sink in".

Attach some greasy east bantu mugs to the story, and suddenly it comes into focus like one of those magic eye things. Then circle back to all the other stories and let them pop into focus too, and say "See? We've been telling you this for years now, they're all corrupt."

If it takes a bit of xenophobia to shove the narrative, then oh well I guess.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 02, 2026 07:54 AM (06Hmj)

101 I hear Mamdani is going to re-make society away from "rugged individualism" to the "warmth of collectivism." You know, those comforting campfires of Sovietism, Maoism and Castroism.
Posted by: Ordinary American at January 02, 2026 07:50 AM (b4LBp)

Start by seizing all those multi-million dollar apartments and distributing them to the poor... no whites, of course.

Probably should start by building a wall around the city, with guard towers, to ensure that the beneficiaries of collectivism aren't seduced by the degenerate West.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 02, 2026 07:55 AM (ExV1e)

102 Vargas does not chase women . . "
Posted by: J.J. Sefton

If he is a neighbor of The Paolo, then there would be no point in him trying.

Posted by: NR Pax at January 02, 2026 07:55 AM (7xrfc)

103 There's one thing about all of these women who are running these alleged day care centers. They can get away with wearing choir robes, head scarves and four year old COVID masks to protect their identity. Oh, and act like they can't speak English.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at January 02, 2026 07:55 AM (2Ez/1)

104 Every government program has a bureaucracy to shovel out money to the fraud programs.
Those thousands of government workers make a good salary to give free money away.

Posted by: Skip at January 02, 2026 07:55 AM (Ia/+0)

105 I view the Somalis as a tool or a weapon. They haven't figured out how to do anything.

I think you underestimate them, and it's not just democrats that are leveraging them. They're willing and shrewd accomplices. The skinnys and the politicians involved need to be expelled back to the desert.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at January 02, 2026 07:55 AM (3Ope8)

106 Attach some greasy east bantu mugs to the story, and suddenly it comes into focus like one of those magic eye things. Then circle back to all the other stories and let them pop into focus too, and say "See? We've been telling you this for years now, they're all corrupt."

If it takes a bit of xenophobia to shove the narrative, then oh well I guess.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 02, 2026 07:54 AM (06Hmj)
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That's an interesting take. I am pessimistic to the point of pathology but it would be nice if you're right. I'll cogitate on it some more.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 02, 2026 07:56 AM (avHHk)

107 The Destruction of Mamdani: Why the Marxist Messiah Won’t Survive 2026
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My first prediction of 2026 is that this prediction will be wrong. Communists are incredibly resilient. Especially when they belong to fashionable ethnicities.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at January 02, 2026 07:56 AM (f0sNM)

108 2 Thanks for all your hard work, J.J. and I enjoyed the article on the DNA testing for patriots who died at the Battle of Camden.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke

It is very cool, but do you think the patriots would be happy to see what Camden has become? Seen it lately?

Posted by: Nova Caesarea at January 02, 2026 07:56 AM (oftw2)

109 It is very cool, but do you think the patriots would be happy to see what Camden has become? Seen it lately?
Posted by: Nova Caesarea at January 02, 2026 07:56 AM (oftw2)

There was a stir across the pond recently when some 100-year-old British WW2 vet said that modern Britain wasn't worth the price they'd paid to defeat Hitler.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 02, 2026 07:59 AM (ExV1e)

110 I hate framing this as "Somali fraud." It isn't. Somalis are doing it, but so are (probably) most others. At the center of all of it are bureaucrats, politicians and NGO operatives.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 02, 2026 07:48 AM (avHHk)
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Agreed. However, the point that we have allowed inside our country a foreign culture that does not see fraud as wrong, and it is this alien culture that has been weaponized and monetized by the left, must not be elided.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 02, 2026 07:59 AM (RIvkX)

111 Too much gin on my Wheaties this morning.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

You know how we can tell Her Majesty is out of town?

Please behave!

Posted by: Sober As The Average Judge at January 02, 2026 07:59 AM (oftw2)

112 Give Mamdani his 4 year a to run the NY budget into so bad a hole before his gig is up.

Posted by: Skip at January 02, 2026 08:00 AM (Ia/+0)

113 Morning all. Thx JJ.
A balmy 11°here. Took a walk to my local Stewart's. Lungs are cold.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 02, 2026 08:00 AM (zNwXb)

114 My first prediction of 2026 is that this prediction will be wrong. Communists are incredibly resilient. Especially when they belong to fashionable ethnicities.

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Yeah, I'm 100% with you on this. He's going nowhere, even if the city turns into complete ruin and rubble. What is incredibly resilient seems to be the ignorant people who vote these destroyers into office. They will be even worse off, they won't bat an eye, and they'll never hold him accountable for the destruction coming their way.

Posted by: Lady in Black at January 02, 2026 08:00 AM (qBdHI)

115 If it takes a bit of xenophobia to shove the narrative, then oh well I guess.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 02, 2026 07:54 AM (06Hmj)

*fistbump*

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 02, 2026 08:01 AM (RIvkX)

116 Maybe it's yet another case of the public believing some problem is just sooooo monstrous that there can't be any possible solution, when the solution is dead simple but no one wants to hear it.

"Why is college so expensive? What are we ever going to do?"

Cut off their funding.

"Why is healthcare so messed up? Who could ever fix it?"

It's only messed up because it's a quasi-state monopoly. Cut off their funding.

"Oh no The Fraud is everywhere, there's no way to get rid of it now"

Cut off their funding and they'll go away.

It's not difficult. The people who pull the levers behind the scene that divert the funding to where it goes simply don't want to do it.

Force them to, or replace them with someone who will.

It's not complicated, it's not difficult. It just takes the cover of popular will and a credible threat of the masses getting scrappy over it.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 02, 2026 08:01 AM (06Hmj)

117 20 years ago Lassen College had California build a child care center on it's campus.$2.5 million playground kitchen
offices .... idea was poor parents could park their kids at free rates paid by the state....others pay prevailing rates.

It is closed down.

$2.5 million worth of dead California taxpayer money.
Even with no rent, fees couldn't cover the mandated staffing regulations. In a state run facility.

There are a couple private. places in town that fill the need for day care for working parents kids.

Posted by: torabora at January 02, 2026 08:02 AM (KtOUo)

118 112 Give Mamdani his 4 year a to run the NY budget into so bad a hole before his gig is up.
Posted by: Skip at January 02, 2026 08:00 AM (Ia/+0)

As horrible as this bastard will be, remember that the NYC City Council has been very hard left for as long as I can remember, even as a child. And they run the show, regardless of who's mayor.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 02, 2026 08:02 AM (x0n13)

119 NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani: "We'll replace rugged individualism with collectivism"

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This guy is pretty well off and has lived a luxurious life in comparison to most. I think his collectivism (spreading the wealth) will apply to all others except himself.

Posted by: Lady in Black at January 02, 2026 08:02 AM (qBdHI)

120 Just saw on the X that Trump is threatening to intervene in the Iranian uprising. I've got a bad feeling about this.

Posted by: Don Black at January 02, 2026 08:02 AM (ZxPkt)

121 It's not complicated, it's not difficult. It just takes the cover of popular will and a credible threat of the masses getting scrappy over it.
Posted by: Warai-otoko

Hm. No, it's obviously capitalism's fault!

Posted by: NR Pax at January 02, 2026 08:03 AM (7xrfc)

122 Yeah, I'm 100% with you on this. He's going nowhere, even if the city turns into complete ruin and rubble. What is incredibly resilient seems to be the ignorant people who vote these destroyers into office. They will be even worse off, they won't bat an eye, and they'll never hold him accountable for the destruction coming their way.
Posted by: Lady in Black at January 02, 2026 08:00 AM (qBdHI)

The white man, the rich man, the man not named Mamdani (depending on the audience) is to blame. Not you. It doesn't matter that you put forth not one iota of effort to improve your situation. It doesn't matter that you spend 105% of your income without thought. None of that matters. It's THEIR fault. They're keeping you down. Vote stupid.

It's been the progressive's pitch for over 100 years and it's - mostly - successful.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 02, 2026 08:04 AM (ExV1e)

123 120 Just saw on the X that Trump is threatening to intervene in the Iranian uprising. I've got a bad feeling about this.
Posted by: Don Black at January 02, 2026 08:02 AM (ZxPkt)

I think Trump has firmly demonstrated that he has no interest in Adventurism for fun and profit.

If he does anything, it will be in the "hit it and quit it" mode.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 02, 2026 08:04 AM (06Hmj)

124
No Food
No Toilets
But plenty of get
Don't forget to lock up your pet.

Happy New Year, everyone! It's gonna be a bitch.
Let's get it.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 02, 2026 08:04 AM (uGpeQ)

125 How on earth did it come to pass that the gov't started taking our taxpayer dollars to fund babysitting/daycare for other people's kids?

Posted by: Lady in Black at January 02, 2026 08:05 AM (qBdHI)

126 . . . “Somalia is a failed state that under 12 indicators was ranked the world’s worst on terrorism, corruption, inability to collect taxes, mass displacement, economic collapse, group grievance, brain drain, and chronic insecurity,” he continued.

How is it in charge of the UN and not a "protectorate" of the UN?

Posted by: rickb223 at January 02, 2026 08:05 AM (c115l)

127 simolian, it's simolians, billions of them

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 02, 2026 08:06 AM (uGpeQ)

128 >>I think you underestimate them, and it's not just democrats that are leveraging them. They're willing and shrewd accomplices. The skinnys and the politicians involved need to be expelled back to the desert.

Potato, potato. Another way of saying it is that a lot of so called Republicans are just wearing the label for electoral reasons when they are really on the left.

Somalis are incapable of running their own country. In reality, they don't even have a country, just a collection of endlessly warring tribes. They are a completely corrupt and dishonest people and the perfect weapon to use by equally corrupt people in this country to extract the wealth of the rest of us. This NGO led scam on both the state and federal level requires a group of people like them to act as facilitators in the scheme but they are running anything.

In reality this scam is not much different from the Teachers Union scam. Tax dollars are shoveled to the TU which makes them a loyal voting block and funding source to the people who run this scam and in return they are well compensated. There are a lot of scams like this and all the come back to USAID and other funding sources in our government.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 02, 2026 08:07 AM (viF8m)

129
I also remember a great old Jazz club there.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton

Don't forget Club 802-"Warm Beer- Lousy Food".

Posted by: Fort Hamilton Parkway Station at January 02, 2026 08:07 AM (oftw2)

130 I just realized that Mamdani is going to be the first politician to publish a speech with a Chat GPT hallucinated fact.
And no one in the media will cover it.
Also, Hochul will back every one of his tax increases. Especially if there's any possibility she could lose.

LOLGF New York.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 02, 2026 08:07 AM (HXT0k)

131 If he does anything, it will be in the "hit it and quit it" mode.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 02, 2026 08:04 AM (06Hmj)

Sigh. -- E. Jean Carroll

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 02, 2026 08:07 AM (ExV1e)

132 BREAKING: 🇺🇸🇮🇷 President Trump says "if Iran shoots and violently kills peaceful protesters…the United States of America will come to their rescue."

"We are locked and loaded and ready to go."

Posted by: Don Black at January 02, 2026 08:07 AM (ZxPkt)

133 How come the warmth of collectivism is often from the funeral pyres of the dead masses?

Posted by: r hennigantx at January 02, 2026 08:08 AM (gbOdA)

134 Sigh. -- E. Jean Carroll
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 02, 2026 08:07 AM (ExV1e)

How do I make a Mr. Yuck emoji?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 02, 2026 08:08 AM (06Hmj)

135 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 02, 2026 08:08 AM (Zz0t1)

136 > If it takes a bit of xenophobia to shove the narrative, then oh well I guess.
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True.

Take this idea and apply it to the various welfare classes. Those programs are rife with fraud. But the ones facilitating the theft are minorities. Protected minorities. And the politicos financing it are from every demographic.

There probably isn't a single government program that isn't being used to steal money from us. Either through taxes or some other type of fee.

Deflecting anger on the Somalis is what the politicians want. This is not to say every goddamn Somali should be airdropped back in their shithole "country."

But the politicians running this fraud are really good at it. They've been stealing from us for decades.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 02, 2026 08:08 AM (NwnyJ)

137 Happy New Year, ya fargin bastages.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 02, 2026 08:08 AM (Zz0t1)

138 How on earth did it come to pass that the gov't started taking our taxpayer dollars to fund babysitting/daycare for other people's kids?
Posted by: Lady in Black at January 02, 2026 08:05 AM (qBdHI)

The first government to start handing out tax dollars to the 'needy' wasn't hanged en masse. Made them bold.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 02, 2026 08:09 AM (ExV1e)

139 125 How on earth did it come to pass that the gov't started taking our taxpayer dollars to fund babysitting/daycare for other people's kids?
Posted by: Lady in Black
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An X'er figured it out yesterday.
2/3 of tax money collected goes to payouts.

We Need to Fire Congress kick out all their perks.[\u]

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 02, 2026 08:09 AM (uGpeQ)

140 But the politicians running this fraud are really good at it. They've been stealing from us for decades.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 02, 2026 08:08 AM (NwnyJ)

It's Critical Everything Theory.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 02, 2026 08:09 AM (06Hmj)

141 BREAKING: 🇺🇸🇮🇷 President Trump says "if Iran shoots and violently kills peaceful protesters…the United States of America will come to their rescue."

"We are locked and loaded and ready to go."
Posted by: Don Black at January 02, 2026 08:07 AM (ZxPkt)
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Shorter: "All Hell Will Break Loose!" (tm)

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 02, 2026 08:09 AM (RIvkX)

142 123 120 Just saw on the X that Trump is threatening to intervene in the Iranian uprising. I've got a bad feeling about this.
Posted by: Don Black at January 02, 2026 08:02 AM (ZxPkt)

I think Trump has firmly demonstrated that he has no interest in Adventurism for fun and profit.

If he does anything, it will be in the "hit it and quit it" mode.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 02, 2026 08:04 AM (06Hmj)

I think it's stiff sanctions to oust the mullahs and possibly some sort of clandestine assistance to the citizenry/rebel forces if such exist to help combat the IRGC who will not be fleeing en masse but likely organizing to take over if the Mullahs flee. If they take power they will be like Saddam Hussein/Moammar Qaddafi, not necessarily a Taliban Still horrendous for the people and our security in the region.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 02, 2026 08:09 AM (x0n13)

143 How on earth did it come to pass that the gov't started taking our taxpayer dollars to fund babysitting/daycare for other people's kids?
Posted by: Lady in Black at January 02, 2026 08:05 AM (qBdHI)

Our government is corrupt. Incredibly corrupt. We've likely been funding the terrorism that's been plaguing the WORLD for decades.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 02, 2026 08:09 AM (Zz0t1)

144 Deflecting anger on the Somalis is what the politicians want. This is not to say every goddamn Somali should be airdropped back in their shithole "country."

But the politicians running this fraud are really good at it. They've been stealing from us for decades.
Posted by: Martini Farmer

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 02, 2026 08:11 AM (uGpeQ)

145 There ~~probably~~ isn't a single government program that isn't being used to steal money from us.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 02, 2026 08:11 AM (ExV1e)

146 I think Trump gave the Israelis a greenlight to the Israelis for covert action supporting the Iranian revolt.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 02, 2026 08:12 AM (RIvkX)

147 Saw a video that explained why South Korea's birthrate collapsed.

1. Half of the entire population of South Korea lives in the Seoul Metropolitan Area.
2. Housing is incredibly expensive in that area. You either have a teeny apartment, or you live in a distant suburb with a 1-2 hour commute for work.
3. Workers are expected to put in 10+ hour days, it's the culture.
4. Workers are expected to socialize with co-workers after hours. Again culture.

The combination of expensive housing, long workdays, and long commutes simply makes it impractical to raise families.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at January 02, 2026 08:12 AM (f0sNM)

148 95 I have fraud fatigue.
Posted by: one hour sober at January 02, 2026 07:48 AM
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That may be one of the reasons for the absence of suppression on this.

Fraud is going to be a major story for the first quarter or maybe even first half of the year, but while it will be a huge deal with tons of major revelations, it isn't go to result in major changes. It's too big. The entire damn thing is fraud, and it isn't a "partisan" issue, it's a "government" issue and therefore it can't be fixed because it's everywhere. The system will collapse under the weight of exposed criminality if they try.

So they will let the cycle burn itself out as fatigue sets in and send a couple of rubes to jail over it and declare victory.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 02, 2026 07:50

Take your pick for the inevitable whitewash excuses from Our Betters.

1. They were duped!
2. It began under COVID laws with lax rules signed by TRUMP!
3. They didn't know enough English to understand the contracts.
4. This is nothing but a blatant raycissm and Islamaphobe witch hunt!
5. They did help a lot of people including many chirrun! Give them credit and end this lawfare genocide against Somalis!

Posted by: Gref at January 02, 2026 08:12 AM (5rh/l)

149 Ah yes, the glories of Socialism. Live it and Love it, all you young fools taken in by Bernie, Titty Caca Cortez and this lanky, swarthy Jew- and America-hating hunk of piss. Good and hard my ex fellow New Yorkers.

This.

Reap it, bishes.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 02, 2026 08:12 AM (Zz0t1)

150 Our government is corrupt. Incredibly corrupt. We've likely been funding the terrorism that's been plaguing the WORLD for decades.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 02, 2026 08:09 AM (Zz0t1)

There's no way Yassir Arafat wasn't grown in a vat somewhere in the general Potomac watershed area.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 02, 2026 08:12 AM (06Hmj)

151 140 But the politicians running this fraud are really good at it. They've been stealing from us for decades.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 02, 2026 08:08 AM (NwnyJ)

It's Critical Everything Theory.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 02, 2026 08:09 AM (06Hmj)

As someone once said here: "It's not that the system was corrupted, but the Corruption IS the system."

That and/or that despite the best intent of our Founders, human nature cannot be put in check by a mere document even the wonderful Constitution. The paper is only as good as the morality and ethics of the people who are sworn to uphold it and the citizenry at large.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 02, 2026 08:13 AM (x0n13)

152 @FoxNews
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'LOCKED AND LOADED': President Trump warns the U.S. may intervene as Iran faces growing unrest

Posted by: Don Black at January 02, 2026 08:13 AM (ZxPkt)

153 125 How on earth did it come to pass that the gov't started taking our taxpayer dollars to fund babysitting/daycare for other people's kids?
Posted by: Lady in Black at January 02, 2026 08:05 AM

+++

It worked, didn't it?

Posted by: In the voice of Harry Reid at January 02, 2026 08:14 AM (2Ez/1)

154 As someone once said here: "It's not that the system was corrupted, but the Corruption IS the system."
...
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 02, 2026 08:13 AM (x0n13)

I don't know who he stole it from, but I stole it from YD.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 02, 2026 08:14 AM (06Hmj)

155 How on earth did it come to pass that the gov't started taking our taxpayer dollars to fund babysitting/daycare for other people's kids?

Politicians bought women's votes by promising "free childcare." It's a human right, don't cha know.

Anyone old enough to remember this commercial?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6UvCZ9JKus

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at January 02, 2026 08:14 AM (f0sNM)

156 Our government is corrupt. Incredibly corrupt. We've likely been funding the terrorism that's been plaguing the WORLD for decades.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 02, 2026 08:09 AM (Zz0t1)

That's crazy talk. Would the IC work to gin up a threat to justify the existence of the MIC and continued acceptance of the IC running around doing whatever it wants?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 02, 2026 08:14 AM (ExV1e)

157 >>>The mandatory 287(g) crackdown is designed to hard‑wire deportation cooperation into every jail from the Panhandle to the Rio Grande.

Now do cities, under the threat of disincorporation.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic
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County law supersedes city law.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 02, 2026 08:15 AM (uGpeQ)

158 As someone once said here: "It's not that the system was corrupted, but the Corruption IS the system."
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The purpose of a system is what it does.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at January 02, 2026 08:15 AM (f0sNM)

159 I may exert myself to write a letter to the "NY Post" on the lack of ports potties and food at Mamdani's installment, but they haven't published any of my recent letters.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 02, 2026 08:15 AM (GDodg)

160 NYC and NYS have been so corrupt for so long it's impossible to separate the corruption from actual proper expenditures

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 02, 2026 08:16 AM (zNwXb)

161 128 This NGO led scam on both the state and federal level requires a group of people like them to act as facilitators in the scheme but they are running anything.

In reality this scam is not much different from the Teachers Union scam. Tax dollars are shoveled to the TU which makes them a loyal voting block and funding source to the people who run this scam and in return they are well compensated. There are a lot of scams like this and all the come back to USAID and other funding sources in our government.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 02, 2026 08:07 AM (viF8m)

>>>

Best post of the thread (so far), IMHO. Succinct, accurate, blunt, real.

Posted by: Despise Marxist Rat Bastards & Professional Somalians at January 02, 2026 08:16 AM (HeR4S)

162 Potato, potato. Another way of saying it is that a lot of so called Republicans are just wearing the label for electoral reasons when they are really on the left.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 02, 2026 08:07 AM (viF8m)

I've said that for years now. It was an accident of birth that they're in a R controlled area. If you want to get into the game, you have to go with the majority party in the area. Most of the Rs you see that thwart Trump and the rest of us ache to be Ds, but they wouldn't be elected if they ran under that bloody banner.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at January 02, 2026 08:16 AM (uQesX)

163 The purpose of a system is what it does.
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at January 02, 2026 08:15 AM (f0sNM)

So the purpose of my piece of shit pellet stove, what won't light more than one out of every ten tries despite everything being totally fine on it, really is just to piss me off?

It all makes sense now.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 02, 2026 08:16 AM (06Hmj)

164 155 How on earth did it come to pass that the gov't started taking our taxpayer dollars to fund babysitting/daycare for other people's kids?
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How on earth did we accept that it was govt/schools responsibility to feed students?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 02, 2026 08:16 AM (uGpeQ)

165 County law supersedes city law.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 02, 2026 08:15 AM (uGpeQ)

But, as I understand it, the law says that sheriffs must cooperate with ICE, not city police forces. Seems like a loophole.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 02, 2026 08:17 AM (ExV1e)

166 How on earth did it come to pass that the gov't started taking our taxpayer dollars to fund babysitting/daycare for other people's kids?"

*cues up 'I am Woman, hear me roar'... or something*

Posted by: man at January 02, 2026 08:17 AM (XuXeR)

167 Getting on a bus without worrying about a fare hike or whether you’ll be able to get to your destination on time will no longer be deemed a small miracle because we will make those buses fast and free.

And they will look like that chop top Caddy Cabbie drives in Escape from NY NY.

Posted by: r hennigantx at January 02, 2026 08:17 AM (gbOdA)

168 Over at Insty someone reports on Mamdani citing to South Africa.
And completely missed the point by focusing (pretending?) on the aparthid parts.
Basically laughing, "ha ha, that dummy think NYC is segregated."

I don't know which is scarier:
That it's ignorance of his real reason.
Or intentional to under-sell or deflect from the real evil.

He intends racial grievance socialism:
The issue is not the issue. The revolution is the only goal.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 02, 2026 08:17 AM (HXT0k)

169 How on earth did we accept that it was govt/schools responsibility to feed students?
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If the Government created a program that would wipe your butt for you, within five years, people would proclaim it was impossible to wipe your butt without the Government.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at January 02, 2026 08:18 AM (f0sNM)

170

*hic*

Posted by: Hillary Clinton at January 02, 2026 08:18 AM (DDJSl)

171 I just realized that Mamdani is going to be the first politician to publish a speech with a Chat GPT hallucinated fact.
And no one in the media will cover it.

Also, Hochul will back every one of his tax increases. Especially if there's any possibility she could lose.

LOLGF New York.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice

I honestly think it's the other way around. She won't give him one win for anything. That just makes him stronger to come after her. She needs him completely deflated so he can't point to anything to build a run for governor.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 02, 2026 08:18 AM (c115l)

172 More like a CELL block party, am I right?

Posted by: muldoon at January 02, 2026 08:18 AM (/iMjX)

173 Most of the Rs you see that thwart Trump and the rest of us ache to be Ds, but they wouldn't be elected if they ran under that bloody banner.
Posted by: OrangeEnt
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Which rot came first; the parent or the school?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 02, 2026 08:19 AM (uGpeQ)

174 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6UvCZ9JKus
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo

Great post, but my coffee and toast almost came back up. Needed a content warning.

Posted by: Weak Stomach at January 02, 2026 08:20 AM (oftw2)

175 How on earth did we accept that it was govt/schools responsibility to feed students?
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 02, 2026 08:16 AM (uGpeQ)

Racism.

"Well yeah, you're fine, but those poor little ____s can't possibly fend for themselves. Have some compassion. We're rich. We can surely afford it. And if you stand in our way, you're an Evil and Greedy person who just wants poor ____s to starve. We're better than that."

Darkies
Dagos
Micks
Wetbacks
Skinnies

Just keep inserting racial pejoratives into the blank. Their thought is always the same. And always contains the pejorative, even if they won't say it out loud.

Critical Everything Theory.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 02, 2026 08:20 AM (06Hmj)

176 Trump will, I hope, stop bloviating about Iran and start talking up the economy. He has plenty to brag about and he should be out in the states doing so all through the year.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 02, 2026 08:21 AM (Ki5ky)

177 Largo talks about his henchman:

**********

I'd like to have a henchman. Or a posse. I'd settle for a minion or two.

Posted by: muldoon at January 02, 2026 08:21 AM (/iMjX)

178 American officials being sworn in on the Qur’an is because the Islamic holy book teaches values that are vastly different from American and Judeo-Christian values

I love the hypocrisy in this statement.

"Judeo-Christian Ethics" came about in the mid 20th century as a gateway to condition Americans into accepting practitioners of a state religion into politics. Many early state constitutions had religious tests specifically to exclude Jews and Catholics from holding public offices over fears of split allegiances and the bloody history of state religions and police power.

Later the "Judeo-Christian Ethic" was made a slogan for Zionism and featured prominently in the Moral Majority (Dispensationalist) political platforms.

The US was founded on a strange blend of Enlightenment and Calvinism on individualism and doctrines of Grace - alien concepts to state religions.

So when Muslims do the exact same thing as the Jews and Roman Catholics to condition a nation to be ruled by someone of a state religion, why the freak-out?

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 02, 2026 08:21 AM (a4flb)

179 And while I'm on the topic, why do we never hear of henchwomen?

Posted by: muldoon at January 02, 2026 08:22 AM (/iMjX)

180 Just keep inserting racial pejoratives into the blank. Their thought is always the same. And always contains the pejorative, even if they won't say it out loud.

Critical Everything Theory.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 02, 2026 08:20 AM (06Hmj)

AWFL savior syndrome.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 02, 2026 08:22 AM (ExV1e)

181 I now have some idea why a number of Congress critters, notably one Nancy Pelosi, have decided to bail on being in Congress next year. It's not just the bad press that will likely hit when the scope of the government's malfeasance is exposed that's driving some to quit.

Yes, it is highly unlikely anyone of them will suffer any sort of consequences. I think some are "playing it safe" and bailing before the public becomes really pissed off about the theft of their own money.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 02, 2026 08:22 AM (NwnyJ)

182 Did anyone notice that the Subway Station Zorhan the Great used for his swearing in is permanently closed?

Posted by: r hennigantx at January 02, 2026 08:22 AM (gbOdA)

183 153 125 How on earth did it come to pass that the gov't started taking our taxpayer dollars to fund babysitting/daycare for other people's kids?
Posted by: Lady in Black at January 02, 2026 08:05 AM

+++

It worked, didn't it?

Posted by: In the voice of Harry Reid at January 02, 2026 08:14 AM (2Ez/1)

It takes a (hic) village!

Posted by: Hillary! at January 02, 2026 08:23 AM (5rh/l)

184 122 He's going nowhere, even if the city turns into complete ruin and rubble. What is incredibly resilient seems to be the ignorant people who vote these destroyers into office. They will be even worse off, they won't bat an eye, and they'll never hold him accountable for the destruction coming their way.
Posted by: Lady in Black at January 02, 2026 08:00 AM (qBdHI)

I'm afraid so. Any failures will be Trump's fault, the white man's capitalist system's fault, for obstructing him. He's cut from a different cloth than the garden variety loser-Leftist Chicago or LA mayors -- he's a true radical and knows how to play the chords that are music to the ears of his revolutionary base.

Posted by: Ordinary American at January 02, 2026 08:23 AM (b4LBp)

185 And while I'm on the topic, why do we never hear of henchwomen?
Posted by: muldoon at January 02, 2026 08:22 AM (/iMjX)

Because they're wenchwomen.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 02, 2026 08:23 AM (Zz0t1)

186 AWFL savior syndrome.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 02, 2026 08:22 AM (ExV1e)

Mrs. Jellyby is alive and well.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 02, 2026 08:23 AM (06Hmj)

187 Can you say RICO? From today's NY Post:

A Florida lawmaker is now calling for aggressive federal action, comparing the alleged fraud to “organized crime.”
“This is what the mafia does. They steal, they lie, they cheat,” Rep. Mike Haridopolos, R-Fla., said on “Fox News Live” Thursday.
“The federal government has to use the full powers that we used to destroy the mafia back in the 1960s. Nothing short of it,” he added.

- Posted by the guy who likes RICO

Posted by: Ignoramus at January 02, 2026 08:23 AM (dtajH)

188 "I'd like to have a henchman. Or a posse. I'd settle for a minion or two.
Posted by: muldoon"

How about a sidekick?

Posted by: Chim Chim at January 02, 2026 08:24 AM (vFG9F)

189 Why is a state that is not a member of the Security Council even allowed into the Security Council, much less be a office-holder"

Fairness. D'oh!

Posted by: man at January 02, 2026 08:24 AM (XuXeR)

190 But the politicians running this fraud are really good at it. They've been stealing from us for decades.
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Entry error. Replace decades with centuries.

Posted by: clarence at January 02, 2026 08:24 AM (MXMX4)

191 But the politicians running this fraud are really good at it. They've been stealing from us for decades.
Posted by: Martini Farmer
__________

It should be easy to flip some low level people in Minnesota. Licensed child cares are required to have an unannounced inspection yearly, and up to four inspections during their initial year of operation. The feds have to be targeting the people who signed off on the inspections.

And those places that were cited for violations had to submit corrective action plans, with a subsequent inspection to confirm compliance.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at January 02, 2026 08:24 AM (XvL8K)

192 Good morning!

Let's smile & be happy & strike fear in the hearts of killjoy leftists everywhere.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 02, 2026 08:24 AM (u82oZ)

193 Stay in your lane pal.

Posted by: Gubmint Butt Wipers Local #408 at January 02, 2026 08:24 AM (2Ez/1)

194 So I think it's funny as shit that people are starting to call Somalis " light bulb heads."

Once you see it, all the skinnies look like walking light bulbs.

Also, some people are starting to sniff out that every one of these day cares etc. were passing audits, both licensing and financial.
There's where the white liberals started taking their cut.

Next, we'll start finding the same 2-4 law firms handling all the legal for all of them.
That will lead to the same group of NGOs.

And all along the way, massive donations to Dems.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 02, 2026 08:25 AM (HXT0k)

195 ... 2. Housing is incredibly expensive in that area. You either have a teeny apartment, or you live in a distant suburb with a 1-2 hour commute for work. ...
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at January 02, 2026 08:12 AM (f0sNM)
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Even if you commute, your house is probably still small and so is your outside space.

It is a huge multi-variable problem, but I think the Oriental approach to urbanization is a major factor in the collapse of Oriental birth rates.

Assume that you already have a job and spouse, or a good prospect for a spouse. You're ahead of the game already, but let's keep going.

Imagine an apartment. It's about 800 square feet, maybe 1000. Your own, private, belongs-to-you outdoor space consists of a balcony. There is a common courtyard.

Not too shabby. Many if not most people have lived in a place like that. But now take the next step: imagine that this took *all* of your money to acquire and you will never be able to afford more. There is no "moving up" to a bigger place with a better yard. This is it. The most you will *ever* have.

How many kids are you going to have in that scenario, if you have a choice?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 02, 2026 08:25 AM (avHHk)

196 So when Muslims do the exact same thing as the Jews and Roman Catholics to condition a nation to be ruled by someone of a state religion, why the freak-out?
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 02, 2026 08:21 AM (a4flb)
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Sure. Go with that.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 02, 2026 08:25 AM (RIvkX)

197 Closed was probably the point
Subways will be free, so all stations will be open with all this free Ness

Posted by: Skip at January 02, 2026 08:25 AM (Ia/+0)

198 >>And while I'm on the topic, why do we never hear of henchwomen?

'Minion' was used almost from its coining to mean 'sassy woman'.

Posted by: Nazdar at January 02, 2026 08:26 AM (NcvvS)

199 Several states or large blue cities within those states are now falling to Islamism. No one has a plan to deal with this. We barely have the political consciousness to accept the reality of it.

Posted by: Ordinary American at January 02, 2026 08:26 AM (b4LBp)

200 1.Get us out of the UN.
2.Abolish the Ad Council

Is that too much to ask?
Posted by: fd at January 02, 2026 06:59 AM (vFG9F)

Bare minimum.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at January 02, 2026 08:26 AM (h7ZuX)

201 Next, we'll start finding the same 2-4 law firms handling all the legal for all of them.
That will lead to the same group of NGOs.

And all along the way, massive donations to Dems.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 02, 2026 08:25 AM (HXT0k)

Because it's all money laundering.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 02, 2026 08:27 AM (Zz0t1)

202 sheriffs must cooperate with ICE, not city police forces. Seems like a loophole."

"Sheriffs" run most local incarceration, and can operate w/in "cities" or chartered local areas.

It's a good thing...

Posted by: man at January 02, 2026 08:27 AM (XuXeR)

203 181 I now have some idea why a number of Congress critters, notably one Nancy Pelosi, have decided to bail on being in Congress next year. It's not just the bad press that will likely hit when the scope of the government's malfeasance is exposed that's driving some to quit.

Yes, it is highly unlikely anyone of them will suffer any sort of consequences. I think some are "playing it safe" and bailing before the public becomes really pissed off about the theft of their own money.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 02, 2026 08:22 AM (NwnyJ)

>>>
Yeah, well. . . . since this Somali grift mess is just one of DOZENS of systems to launder bucks back to the DemoNcrat Natl C and to the immense criminal enterprise engineered by Satanic creatures like David Brock, the CLITtons, Barack Odildo, etc, I'm sure that Pukelosi is having a fine time totaling up the filthy lucre harvest she's gleaned.

Hammer time at the Pukelosi household!

Posted by: Despise Marxist Rat Bastards & Professional Somalians at January 02, 2026 08:27 AM (HeR4S)

204 Good and hard to NYC and all you self gassing liberals.

Posted by: Gordon of Khartoum at January 02, 2026 08:27 AM (njAFV)

205 How about a sidekick?
Posted by: Chim Chim

I fly solo.

Posted by: Pee-Wee In A Darkened Movie Theatre at January 02, 2026 08:27 AM (oftw2)

206 We could be a thousand years dead, and the Left will still blame all failures on Trump and his supporters.

Yet they are the wreckers and running dogs.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 02, 2026 08:27 AM (u82oZ)

207 Powerline dude on F&F right now on MN fraud.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 02, 2026 08:28 AM (RIvkX)

208 159 I may exert myself to write a letter to the "NY Post" on the lack of ports potties and food at Mamdani's installment, but they haven't published any of my recent letters.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke
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If you want to be published post in the comments.
Writing a letter is quaint. Back in the early two's and the fax machine I would flood my congress person's machine as many of us did.
They turned their machines off.
Their addiction and grift is so strong that, by and large, we are bypassed.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 02, 2026 08:28 AM (uGpeQ)

209 >And while I'm on the topic, why do we never hear of henchwomen?

Posted by: muldoon
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those are called 'molls'

Posted by: Don Black at January 02, 2026 08:28 AM (ZxPkt)

210 I'd like to have a henchman. Or a posse. I'd settle for a minion or two."

Woof?

*get a dog*

Posted by: man at January 02, 2026 08:29 AM (XuXeR)

211 Be fun to have lackeys.

Posted by: Nazdar at January 02, 2026 08:30 AM (NcvvS)

212 211 Be fun to have lackeys.
Posted by: Nazdar at January 02, 2026 08:30 AM (NcvvS)

right until they become flunkies

Posted by: r hennigantx at January 02, 2026 08:30 AM (gbOdA)

213 It's "henchperson", you gu..., uh, persons.

Posted by: A henchperson at January 02, 2026 08:31 AM (vFG9F)

214 Today Is National Cream Puff Day.

Posted by: redridinghood at January 02, 2026 08:31 AM (NpAcC)

215 off sock

Posted by: Gref at January 02, 2026 08:31 AM (5rh/l)

216 *Powerline dude on F&F right now on MN fraud.*

So, what?

Posted by: What is cable? at January 02, 2026 08:31 AM (2Ez/1)

217 But, as I understand it, the law says that sheriffs must cooperate with ICE, not city police forces. Seems like a loophole.
Posted by: I used

Texas Municipal Police Officers:

What is the oath of office?
Article XVI, Section 1, of the Texas Constitution outlines the official oath of office as follows:
“I, _______________________, do solemnly swear (or affirm), that I will faithfully execute the
duties of the office of ___________________ of the State of Texas, and will to the best of my
ability preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution and laws of the United States and of this State, so help me God.”

Nuremberg applies. Just because the mayor says you won't help ICE, doesn't mean you get to shirk your constitutional duties.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 02, 2026 08:32 AM (c115l)

218 Person experiencing henchness.

Posted by: Get with the times at January 02, 2026 08:32 AM (2Ez/1)

219 214 Today Is National Cream Puff Day.
Posted by: redridinghood

Yippee! My Fave!

Posted by: Little Davey Hogg at January 02, 2026 08:32 AM (oftw2)

220 Have a great day, everyone.

May we all straighten or winds, and fly right.

The distance of the runway behind you is not near as important as the runway you have left. May the future favor the civilized.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 02, 2026 08:33 AM (u82oZ)

221 The Home Health Care by the Somali Pirates is going to be 10X the Daycare scam.

Posted by: r hennigantx at January 02, 2026 08:33 AM (gbOdA)

222 So Mondomi (whatever the f is his name) met with The Don, and Trump said it was a good meeting...yet the demon muslim communist is doing everything he wanted. What was the purpose/endgame of that meeting?

Posted by: Cray Cray at January 02, 2026 08:33 AM (EES2L)

223 Speaking of the UN, that garbage dump is largely responsible for the "spontaneous" mass migration of 3rd worlders to the west. And nobody is more responsible than Amy Pope, former Obama NSC/State Dept. drone, member of the WEF and a hard left open borders communist.

The UN is largely responsible for setting up networks and funding to bring these 3rd worlders to the west including the US and then organizing programs to siphon tax dollars to enable these schemes. UN and USAID money, also known as our tax dollars, were at their disposal to pay for all of this crap.

When Obama said he wanted to "fundamentally change" the US this is exactly what he had in mind.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 02, 2026 08:34 AM (viF8m)

224 Today Is National Cream Puff Day.
Posted by: redridinghood at January 02, 2026 08:31 AM (NpAcC)
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Fun fact:

When the filling of a cream puff approximates the consistency of spackle, the cream puff will stick to the side of a building when hurled with enough force.

My college cafeteria stopped making cream puffs shortly after this discovery was made.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 02, 2026 08:34 AM (ESVrU)

225 Lackeys, flunkies, groupies, hangers on, posse, crew....

All people who ride coattails. Our political betters have many such minions whispering in their ears and telling them they're invincible.

Sort of sounds.... familiar.

Posted by: Some Old Roman Dude at January 02, 2026 08:34 AM (NwnyJ)

226 How on earth did it come to pass that the gov't started taking our taxpayer dollars to fund babysitting/daycare for other people's kids?

Guilt and hate filled white liberal woman. They look at other folks, especially the blacks and browns, as their pets, who must be fed and watered to make them both feel better. The guilt and hate filled white liberal woman is the fuel of the democrat party.

Posted by: Foreskin Lint at January 02, 2026 08:34 AM (R/m4+)

227 We watched the college football games yesterday. One thing stood out.

For the National Anthem, each arena asked for you to rise and remove your hat.

"Please, if you're able, rise and remove your hat for the singing of our National Anthem."

Not at the Rose Bowl. No. California had to ruin it.

"If you're WILLING and able, please rise........."

If you're not willing, GTFO. Your kind isn't welcome here.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 02, 2026 08:35 AM (Zz0t1)

228 Watched the mamdani inauguration clips. Can't figure out how raising the minimum wage for everyone to a living wage makes things more affordable not more costly?

How do they not see their policies as ruinously inflationary. How do their voters not see it.

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at January 02, 2026 08:35 AM (i0Hi3)

229 The Home Health Care by the Somali Pirates is going to be 10X the Daycare scam."

This. And it will hit AWFLs... so, much whining and kvetching...

Posted by: man at January 02, 2026 08:35 AM (XuXeR)

230 So, what?
Posted by: What is cable? at January 02, 2026 08:31 AM (2Ez/1)
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Go listen to AM650 grandpa!

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 02, 2026 08:35 AM (RIvkX)

231 Cream puffs are nasty.

Posted by: Bulg at January 02, 2026 08:36 AM (77rzZ)

232 Yippee! My Fave!
Posted by: Little Davey Hogg at January 02, 2026 08:32 AM (oftw2)

Not that kind of cream puff, you seamy dough-eyed poofter.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 02, 2026 08:36 AM (Zz0t1)

233 yet the demon muslim communist is doing everything he wanted. What was the purpose/endgame of that meeting?
Posted by: Cray Cray at January 02, 2026 08:33 AM (EES2L)

Political theater on Trump's part, I assume. Just to scuttle the notion that he intended to thwart the madman.

Posted by: Ordinary American at January 02, 2026 08:36 AM (b4LBp)

234 178 I'm up for a Crusade. . . . .are you? It'll be worth it.

Posted by: Despise Marxist Rat Bastards & Professional Somalians at January 02, 2026 08:37 AM (HeR4S)

235 It's "henchperson", you gu..., uh, persons.
Posted by: A henchperson at January 02, 2026 08:31 AM (vFG9F)
++++
Only to those who can't deliver.

Now let us ask you a question. There is no test, no follow-up. Just a single question:
"What do you want to accomplish with your henching operations?"

It's really that simple. If you want traditional henching - intimidation, field operations, fighting, logistical support, driving, coordination, task flexibility and all the other things that define henching success - then what you want is an organization that is dedicated to the traditional henching objectives and understands your henching needs. And for that, you need go no further than the International Brotherhood of Henchmen and Skulduggers.

IBHS training, readiness and support regimes keep laser-like focus on what matters to henching clients and provides capable, competent henchmen and skulduggers for all tasks.

If you'd rather virtue-signal, then by all means hire from the Global Henchpersons Alliance. If you want *results*, however, lose their number. Call the IBHS and let us show you what henching at it's best can do for you.

Posted by: The International Brotherhood of Henchmen and Skulduggers at January 02, 2026 08:37 AM (avHHk)

236 Watched the mamdani inauguration clips. Can't figure out how raising the minimum wage for everyone to a living wage makes things more affordable not more costly?

How do they not see their policies as ruinously inflationary. How do their voters not see it.
Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless

Because they BELIEVE! Belief supercedes reality!

Posted by: rickb223 at January 02, 2026 08:38 AM (c115l)

237 The upside of Mamdani and his band of merry commies is that they will be so, incompetent the groups who expected stuff will take it out on the liberal white people. Unfortunately others will be hurting as well

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 02, 2026 08:38 AM (zNwXb)

238 “Whoever dwells in the shelter of the Most High
will rest in the shadow of the Almighty.
I will say of the Lord, “He is my refuge and my fortress, my God, in whom I trust.”

Psalm 91:1-2

Posted by: Marcus T at January 02, 2026 08:38 AM (UwWDr)

239 Posted by: Foreskin Lint
++++
Revolting sock of the day

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 02, 2026 08:38 AM (avHHk)

240 International Brotherhood of Henchmen and Skulduggers."

What, no Methodists?

Meh.

Posted by: man at January 02, 2026 08:38 AM (XuXeR)

241 >>right until they become flunkies

Is lackey --> flunky a promotion or a demotion?

Posted by: Nazdar at January 02, 2026 08:39 AM (NcvvS)

242
The Battle of Camden was fought about five miles north of the crossroads that define the present town's center. There was not a much to define the battlefield when I lived there in the early 80s except the pine woods that are characteristic of that part of South Carolina. I am guessing that building up the area is underway, as that was not the case back then.

There was a second battle in that area, closer to town, Hobkirk's Hill, at a later date. That area was built up and had been settled for some time. The Buckley family had a summer home there. One of the brothers, Reid, ran a school that taught public speaking from there.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at January 02, 2026 08:39 AM (xG4kz)

243 If you'd rather virtue-signal, then by all means hire from the Global Henchpersons Alliance. If you want *results*, however, lose their number. Call the IBHS and let us show you what henching at it's best can do for you.
Posted by: The International Brotherhood of Henchmen and Skulduggers at January 02, 2026 08:37 AM (avHHk)
---
Nice to know the traditional Thieves' Guild has modernized for today's competitive marketplace.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 02, 2026 08:39 AM (ESVrU)

244 Posted by: Foreskin Lint
++++
Revolting sock of the day
Posted by: Joe Mannix

*Snort

Posted by: rickb223 at January 02, 2026 08:39 AM (c115l)

245

Kevin Bass
@kevinnbass
I crunched the data. I made a map.

States with no effective voter ID requirement average nearly 8x more welfare benefits to illegal immigrants compared to states requiring voter ID verification.

They are importing and paying illegals for votes.

https://tinyurl.com/2c4ewsaz

Posted by: redridinghood at January 02, 2026 08:39 AM (NpAcC)

246 Good morning, J.J.
Good morning, Horde.

Posted by: Inogame at January 02, 2026 08:40 AM (53oGX)

247
Is lackey --> flunky a promotion or a demotion?
Posted by: Nazdar

That's a real poser

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at January 02, 2026 08:40 AM (xG4kz)

248 Myrmidons for me. I will accept nothing less.

Posted by: Bulg at January 02, 2026 08:40 AM (77rzZ)

249 If you'd rather virtue-signal, then by all means hire from the Global Henchpersons Alliance. If you want *results*, however, lose their number. Call the IBHS and let us show you what henching at it's best can do for you.
Posted by: The International Brotherhood of Henchmen and Skulduggers at January 02, 2026 08:37 AM (avHHk)

We can accomplish more with a single woman of negotiable morals than all your knuckle draggers combined. -- Global Henchpersons Alliance

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 02, 2026 08:41 AM (ExV1e)

250 Myrmidons for me. I will accept nothing less."

You're a heel...

*ducks*

Posted by: man at January 02, 2026 08:41 AM (XuXeR)

251 What's the difference between a henchman, a flunky and a staff member?

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at January 02, 2026 08:42 AM (8CIFn)

252 My college cafeteria stopped making cream puffs shortly after this discovery was made.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel

And these are the future leaders of our country? We are doomed!

Posted by: Stop The World-I Want To Get Off! at January 02, 2026 08:42 AM (oftw2)

253 You're a heel...

*ducks*
Posted by: man at January 02, 2026 08:41 AM (XuXeR)
++++
"Time wounds all heels"
-- Robert a Heinlein

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 02, 2026 08:42 AM (avHHk)

254 What's the difference between a henchman, a flunky and a staff member?
Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at January 02, 2026 08:42 AM (8CIFn)
++++
Henchmen do field work. Flunkies and staffers don't.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 02, 2026 08:42 AM (avHHk)

255 What's the difference between a henchman, a flunky and a staff member?"

Well, that depends on who you want on your staff...

*ducks again*

Posted by: man at January 02, 2026 08:42 AM (XuXeR)

256
The white man, the rich man, the man not named Mamdani (depending on the audience) is to blame. Not you. It doesn't matter that you put forth not one iota of effort to improve your situation. It doesn't matter that you spend 105% of your income without thought. None of that matters. It's THEIR fault. They're keeping you down. Vote stupid.

It's been the progressive's pitch for over 100 years and it's - mostly - successful.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 02, 2026 08:04 AM (ExV1e)

Well, to be fair...most people do come to a point sometime during their life where they say, "Hey, why can't I get what I want. Why am I so frustrated/poor/whatever?"

The next step which most people don't take is asking themselves-
Who am I really? What are my strengths/my weakness? How have spent my time- screwing around or going hammer and tongs after what I want? Are my goals unrealistic? Can my goal be achieved within 1 year or 5 years or 10? Do my goals depend on other people giving them to me(acting is a good example here) or are they something I can get for myself, by myself? What am I willing to sacrifice and what am I not willing to sacrifice?

Posted by: naturalfake at January 02, 2026 08:43 AM (iJfKG)

257 "Socialism is both a false promise and political misarticulation. We don't have the political and cultural imagination anymore to accurately describe our problems much less come up with solutions. So we're left with warmed-over, theater-kid, third-world leftist slop that was past its peak 50 years ago and the real purpose of which is not policy or material solutions but rather to demonstrate (in putting on this production) that the class Mamdani represents still holds cultural power."

https://tinyurl.com/2extsxwx

Posted by: Ordinary American at January 02, 2026 08:43 AM (WHfpM)

258 If you'd rather virtue-signal, then by all means hire from the Global Henchpersons Alliance. If you want *results*, however, lose their number. Call the IBHS and let us show you what henching at it's best can do for you.
Posted by: The International Brotherhood of Henchmen and Skulduggers

I can just see the head of HR being Bea Arthur
(HOTWP1)

Posted by: rickb223 at January 02, 2026 08:43 AM (c115l)

259
So the celebrants for My Mamdani were kept together in a defined area without food, water or sanitary facilities?

That sure sounds campy to me!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at January 02, 2026 08:43 AM (xG4kz)

260 cohort, lackey, flunky

Posted by: r hennigantx at January 02, 2026 08:43 AM (gbOdA)

261 "Time wounds all heels"
-- Robert a Heinlein"

"Ouch"

-- Achilles

Posted by: man at January 02, 2026 08:44 AM (XuXeR)

262 Thinking about it, you send a lackey to get your coffee, you tell a flunky to light your cigarette. More demeaning personal service, so, demotion.

Posted by: Nazdar at January 02, 2026 08:44 AM (NcvvS)

263 140 But the politicians running this fraud are really good at it. They've been stealing from us for decades.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 02, 2026 08:08 AM (NwnyJ)

As with all these government hand-out frauds, scams, rackets, etc, one of the excuses by Our Betters will be unexpected loopholes in good-intentioned laws.

Decades ago we should have begun asking, "Are all these unexpected loopholes discovered years after a bill was signed accidental or intentional?"

Yeah, I know, dumb question.

Posted by: Gref at January 02, 2026 08:44 AM (5rh/l)

264 >>>. This is it. The most you will *ever* have.

How many kids are you going to have in that scenario, if you have a choice?
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)
---

"We're movin' on up to the East Side". is a real thing.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 02, 2026 08:44 AM (uGpeQ)

265 Re- Mamdani

“Tax the Rich!” chants at my city’s mayoral inauguration? Yeah, this inauguration fucks, and my heart is bursting with hope

One thing is certain: this inauguration absolutely passes the vibe check. It might even fuck too. This is a man who actually loves his city

Listened the entire time to see if he would tack to the center or begin to lower expectations. He didn’t do that. But he did mention the word abundance once. I wonder if it’s an intentional attempt to pull steam out of abundance people’s sails.

He will be effecting more lives than 75% of America's governors. I'm crying here. A Muslim mayor 25 year after so much hate crimes in that city.

Meanwhile, /r/democrats continues to not allow discussion of this, while the Democrats TikTok account is now posting fancams of him despite not backing him the entire campaign. Democrats suck man lol

Let's see how many of them relocate from NYC when the heightened taxes are in motion. I bet the numbers will be very underwhelming. They never leave NYC, because that’s where everything is. They wouldn't be caught dead in Des Moines, IA.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at January 02, 2026 08:44 AM (ycI94)

266 Yesterday, a female Somali dirtbag posted a video on X saying not to worry about Musk because he would soon be dead. This is Musk's response.

>>@elonmusk
·
8h
>>Then it is war

Posted by: JackStraw at January 02, 2026 08:44 AM (viF8m)

267 They're all in the pay of Big Hench.

Posted by: It's a plot at January 02, 2026 08:44 AM (2Ez/1)

268 "Good and hard to NYC and all you self gassing liberals."

I live behind the lines in the South Bronx.

Trump has set up Zohran to be his personal foil. More to come in 2026.

Zohran's pet issue to get elected was to provide free day-care for one- to three-year olds. Ha

Posted by: Ignoramus at January 02, 2026 08:45 AM (dtajH)

269 Is lackey --> flunky a promotion or a demotion?
Posted by: Nazdar at January 02, 2026 08:39 AM (NcvvS)

AI says (edited for brevity)...

The terms "flunky" and "lackey" are often used interchangeably but have distinct nuances in meaning and connotation. A flunky is primarily defined as a person who performs menial tasks or runs errands for someone else, often in a subservient or obsequious manner.

In contrast, a lackey is a person who serves someone else in a subservient or obsequious manner, often with the aim of gaining favor or advancing their own interests. A lackey may be seen as a sycophant, toady, or minion, and is often associated with a lack of integrity.

I don't know if that answers the promotion / demotion question.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 02, 2026 08:45 AM (ExV1e)

270 Paul A. Szypula
@Bubblebathgirl

CBS refused to do a live interview with Elon Musk on 2023 regarding the Twitter files because CBS didn’t know what he’d say, says Catherine Herridge.

CBS didn’t actually want to report the news, they wanted to control it.

https://tinyurl.com/5847ef5m

Posted by: redridinghood at January 02, 2026 08:45 AM (NpAcC)

271 leave the henchman
take the flunky

Posted by: r hennigantx at January 02, 2026 08:45 AM (gbOdA)

272
How did the college playoff games shake out yesterday?

Posted by: naturalfake at January 02, 2026 08:46 AM (iJfKG)

273 Thinking about it, you send a lackey to get your coffee, you tell a flunky to light your cigarette. More demeaning personal service, so, demotion.
Posted by: Nazdar

And when the shit hits the fan, you blame it on a low level staffer in the Cincinnati office.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 02, 2026 08:46 AM (c115l)

274 In old-school AD&D, there was a distinct difference between "henchmen" and "hirelings."

Hirelings were basically mercenary employees. They did a job and got paid, but had no particular loyalty to the player character.

Henchmen, on the other hand, were supposed to have personal loyalty to the player character and would even risk their lives to save the PC (depending on their loyalty). You were supposed to treat henchmen well to maintain their loyalty.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 02, 2026 08:46 AM (ESVrU)

275
Global Henchpersons Alliance

You'll be hearing from our lawyers

-- Global Wenchmen's Association
"We Can Procure Them For You Wholesale!"

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at January 02, 2026 08:46 AM (xG4kz)

276 https://tinyurl.com/2extsxwx

Very well-stated.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 02, 2026 08:46 AM (RIvkX)

277 > States with no effective voter ID requirement average nearly 8x more welfare benefits to illegal immigrants compared to states requiring voter ID verification.

They are importing and paying illegals for votes.
--------
That's one scam. There are others. Many, many others.

Any "program" that involves state and/or federal coordination is rife with fraud.
- Inspections
- Licensing
- Health/Safety
- Infrastructure

To name a few.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 02, 2026 08:46 AM (NwnyJ)

278 He will be effecting"

Engrish as a 2nd language?

Posted by: man at January 02, 2026 08:46 AM (XuXeR)

279
“Tax the Rich!” chants at my city’s mayoral inauguration? Yeah, this inauguration fucks, and my heart is bursting with hope

One thing is certain: this inauguration absolutely passes the vibe check. It might even fuck too. This is a man who actually loves his city

And Democracy dies to the roars of thunderous applause......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 02, 2026 08:47 AM (Zz0t1)

280 But Mamdani is going to bring manufacturing of great picante sauce to New York City, right?

Right?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at January 02, 2026 08:47 AM (0sNs1)

281 261 "Time wounds all heels"
-- Robert a Heinlein"

"Ouch"

-- Achilles
Posted by: man at January 02, 2026 08:44 AM (XuXeR)

"Time wounds all heels"

Title of an album by Squeeze IIRC circa 1980 or so.

Ouch was also a big hit for the Rutles.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 02, 2026 08:47 AM (x0n13)

282 272
How did the college playoff games shake out yesterday?

Posted by: naturalfake at January 02, 2026 08:46 AM (iJfKG)

Bama got beat like a redheaded step mule.

Posted by: r hennigantx at January 02, 2026 08:47 AM (gbOdA)

283 Mamdani will rule just like a mafia boss. He will give out turkeys on Thanksgiving and Christmas and the neighborhood will love him and treat him like a hero. Mamdani Gotti.

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 02, 2026 08:47 AM (KDPiq)

284 Sefton...

Check your text.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 02, 2026 08:47 AM (LAkWe)

285 Ouch was also a big hit for the Rutles.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 02, 2026 08:47 AM (x0n13)

Fool on the Pill was better

Posted by: r hennigantx at January 02, 2026 08:48 AM (gbOdA)

286 Let's see how many of them relocate from NYC when the heightened taxes are in motion. I bet the numbers will be very underwhelming.

They never leave NYC, because that’s where everything is. They wouldn't be caught dead in Des Moines, IA.
Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions

Maybe not, but Miami & Palm Beach are on line 1.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 02, 2026 08:48 AM (c115l)

287 >>And when the shit hits the fan, you blame it on a low level staffer in the Cincinnati office.

LOL, rickb223.

Posted by: Nazdar at January 02, 2026 08:48 AM (NcvvS)

288 I'm going to go out on a limb and make a prediction for 2026.

Lauren Boebert will be the next high profile Republican woman member of Congress to flame out and declare herself anti-Trump, anti-MAGA and flounce.

Posted by: muldoon at January 02, 2026 08:48 AM (/iMjX)

289 For 2026, I hope Trump takes care of all family business. Especially, that Barzini dirtbag.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 02, 2026 08:48 AM (OGBA8)

290 265 Let's see how many of them relocate from NYC when the heightened taxes are in motion. I bet the numbers will be very underwhelming. They never leave NYC, because that’s where everything is. They wouldn't be caught dead in Des Moines, IA.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at January 02, 2026 08:44 AM (ycI94)

=======

"Everything" at this point is Broadway.

Dallas has everything else.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at January 02, 2026 08:49 AM (GBKbO)

291 Mamdani will rule just like a mafia boss. He will give out turkeys on Thanksgiving and Christmas and the neighborhood will love him and treat him like a hero. Mamdani Gotti.
Posted by: Opinion fact

Mayor Jihadi Gotti?

Posted by: rickb223 at January 02, 2026 08:49 AM (c115l)

292 Mamdani will rule just like a mafia boss. He will give out turkeys on Thanksgiving and Christmas and the neighborhood will love him and treat him like a hero. Mamdani Gotti.
Posted by: Opinion fact at January 02, 2026 08:47 AM (KDPiq)
--
Of course.

He's a "made man" in today's society.

Basically untouchable unless he seriously pisses off his bosses.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 02, 2026 08:49 AM (ESVrU)

293 Finding a good, proper, lackey is hard these days. Have you ever tried to eat your salad with a comb?

Posted by: Amy Klobuchar at January 02, 2026 08:49 AM (oftw2)

294 "I think the answer [to Mamdani] is 1. Class resentment (the haves are enraged by the have-mores) and 2. it's becoming increasingly difficult for downwardly mobile urban elites to patch together recognizably adult lives."

From "Coddled Affluent Professional" on X.

Posted by: Ordinary American at January 02, 2026 08:49 AM (WHfpM)

295 “Tax the Rich!” chants at my city’s mayoral inauguration? Yeah, this inauguration fucks, and my heart is bursting with hope

One thing is certain: this inauguration absolutely passes the vibe check. It might even fuck too. This is a man who actually loves his city

Has "f*ck" acquired a new meaning?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at January 02, 2026 08:49 AM (0sNs1)

296 Where do the lickspittle fit in?

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at January 02, 2026 08:50 AM (XvL8K)

297 279 And Democracy dies to the roars of thunderous applause......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 02, 2026 08:47 AM (Zz0t1)

======

Not everything is Star Wars, bruh.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at January 02, 2026 08:50 AM (GBKbO)

298 We decided not to show up.

Posted by: Texas Tech Red Raiders at January 02, 2026 08:50 AM (2Ez/1)

299 How did the college playoff games shake out yesterday?"

About 1/2 of the teams won, so...

Posted by: man at January 02, 2026 08:50 AM (XuXeR)

300 Finding a good, proper, lackey is hard these days. Have you ever tried to eat your salad with a comb?
Posted by: Amy Klobuchar at January 02, 2026 08:49 AM (oftw2)
++++
LOL

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 02, 2026 08:50 AM (avHHk)

301 Homeowners in NY who were thinking of fleeing ahead of the communists, the door is closing fast with the passage of the New York Community Opportunity to Purchase Act (COPA). Basically, the government gets first dibs on purchasing your property before you put it on the open market. No doubt that process will be slow walked in a way that would make California blush.

Posted by: Citizen Cake at January 02, 2026 08:50 AM (CwhoI)

302 Let's see how many of them relocate from NYC when the heightened taxes are in motion. I bet the numbers will be very underwhelming. They never leave NYC, because that’s where everything is. They wouldn't be caught dead in Des Moines, IA.
=====

This is Gavin Newsom-level wisdom.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 02, 2026 08:50 AM (RIvkX)

303 How did the college playoff games shake out yesterday?

Posted by: naturalfake at January 02, 2026 08:46 AM (iJfKG)

Texas Tech and Alabama Amber Hearded. Indiana proved they're the team to beat.

The Georgia / Ole Miss game was the game of the day. An insane 4th quarter. F*ck Lane Kiffen.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 02, 2026 08:50 AM (Zz0t1)

304 Posted by: naturalfake at January 02, 2026 08:46 AM (iJfKG)

The official drink of the Alabama Crimson Tide is a shaken Manhattan.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 02, 2026 08:50 AM (35BBm)

305 291 Mamdani will rule just like a mafia boss. He will give out turkeys on Thanksgiving and Christmas and the neighborhood will love him and treat him like a hero. Mamdani Gotti.
Posted by: Opinion fact

Mayor Jihadi Gotti?
Posted by: rickb223 at January 02, 2026 08:49 AM (c115l)

Muslim so Goatti

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 02, 2026 08:50 AM (x0n13)

306
How did the college playoff games shake out yesterday?

Posted by: naturalfake

#1, #5, #6 & #10

Things that add up to eleven!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at January 02, 2026 08:51 AM (xG4kz)

307 "Everything" at this point is Broadway.

Dallas has everything else.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at January 02, 2026 08:49 AM (GBKbO)

And Wall Street. If it repairs itself to Florida, the jig is up.

Posted by: Ordinary American at January 02, 2026 08:51 AM (WHfpM)

308 How did the college playoff games shake out yesterday?

Posted by: naturalfake at January 02, 2026 08:46 AM (iJfKG)

Bama got beat like a redheaded step mule.
Posted by: r hennigantx at January 02, 2026 08:47 AM (gbOdA)

That's good.

More different teams instead of the same old/same old is more better.

Posted by: naturalfake at January 02, 2026 08:51 AM (iJfKG)

309 Global Henchpersons Alliance

You'll be hearing from our lawyers

-- Global Wenchmen's Association
"We Can Procure Them For You Wholesale!"
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at January 02, 2026 08:46 AM (xG4kz)
---
Begun, the Mook Wars have...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 02, 2026 08:51 AM (ESVrU)

310 Homeowners in NY who were thinking of fleeing ahead of the communists, the door is closing fast with the passage of the New York Community Opportunity to Purchase Act (COPA). Basically, the government gets first dibs on purchasing your property before you put it on the open market. No doubt that process will be slow walked in a way that would make California blush.
Posted by: Citizen Cake at January 02, 2026 08:50 AM (CwhoI)
++++
How the hell is price determined?

I actually kinda hope they do it. Go ahead, NY. Finish the job. Convert your subjects to expropriated slaves.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 02, 2026 08:51 AM (avHHk)

311 The Home Health Care by the Somali Pirates is going to be 10X the Daycare scam."

This. And it will hit AWFLs... so, much whining and kvetching...
---
Because this massive fraud required thousands and thousands of government jobs to administer the funds, the licensing, the audits, etc.

And you'll find these agencies at 80%+ females.
With "studies" and other far-left degrees.

These were the ones approving the payments, certifying the paperwork, verifying the audits.

The 2nd level in the fraud pyramids.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 02, 2026 08:51 AM (HXT0k)

312 Dallas has everything else."

And they can keep it!

*SE Texas*

Posted by: man at January 02, 2026 08:51 AM (XuXeR)

313 California
Just asking for 5% from Multi Billionaires.

Congress enacted the Revenue Act of 1913. The tax ranged from 1% on income exceeding $3,000 to 7% on incomes exceeding $500,000.

Posted by: r hennigantx at January 02, 2026 08:51 AM (gbOdA)

314 Bama got beat like a redheaded step mule.
Posted by: r hennigantx at January 02, 2026 08:47 AM (gbOdA)

----

"What are you doing, step-mule??"

Posted by: Cray Cray at January 02, 2026 08:52 AM (EES2L)

315 How did the college playoff games shake out yesterday?

Posted by: naturalfake

How do you say nicely, Alabama underperformed?

As one person said, "you travel 2300 miles to kick a field goal".

Posted by: rickb223 at January 02, 2026 08:52 AM (c115l)

316 And you'll find these agencies at 80%+ females.
With "studies" and other far-left degrees."

This cannot be understated.

Posted by: man at January 02, 2026 08:52 AM (XuXeR)

317 Thought I was a good proper, lackey. Did my very best. What thanks did I get?

Posted by: Obama's Paddle-Boarding "Chef" at January 02, 2026 08:52 AM (oftw2)

318 MSNOW on Minnesota fraud:

MAGA OBSESSION
THE NEW CONSERVATIVE PANIC
RIGHT WING PROPAGANDA MACHINE

And all of that is before you get to the actual article.

Posted by: SMOD at January 02, 2026 08:52 AM (RHGPo)

319 307 "Everything" at this point is Broadway.

Dallas has everything else.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at January 02, 2026 08:49 AM (GBKbO)

And Wall Street. If it repairs itself to Florida, the jig is up.

Posted by: Ordinary American at January 02, 2026 08:51 AM (WHfpM)

======

In terms of a major Financial Center in a centralized location? Several American cities have it. In terms of the stock exchange? It's mostly online now, plus there are a few other places where live, in person trading can happen.

Seriously, it's just Broadway.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at January 02, 2026 08:52 AM (GBKbO)

320 They never leave NYC, because that’s where everything is. They wouldn't be caught dead in Des Moines, IA.

Everything is in NYC because that's where the money is. If the money leaves, so will everything else.

"But, but, but, Broadway..." That's just a fucking street. You can build a theater anywhere.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 02, 2026 08:53 AM (ExV1e)

321 310 Homeowners in NY who were thinking of fleeing ahead of the communists, the door is closing fast with the passage of the New York Community Opportunity to Purchase Act (COPA).

Inevitable in every leftist city.

Posted by: Ordinary American at January 02, 2026 08:53 AM (WHfpM)

322 Posted by: naturalfake at January 02, 2026 08:51 AM (iJfKG)

I call them the NFL minor league playoffs.

Actually some of the players make more money than some players on NFL rosters.

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 02, 2026 08:53 AM (KDPiq)

323 Homeowners in NY who were thinking of fleeing ahead of the communists, the door is closing fast with the passage of the New York Community Opportunity to Purchase Act (COPA). Basically, the government gets first dibs on purchasing your property before you put it on the open market. No doubt that process will be slow walked in a way that would make California blush.
Posted by: Citizen Cake at January 02, 2026 08:50 AM (CwhoI)
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Nice of them to start building invisible walls to keep their citizens from fleeing and infecting other locales with their madness.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 02, 2026 08:53 AM (ESVrU)

324 Where do the lickspittle fit in?
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at January 02, 2026 08:50 AM (XvL8K)

A lickspittle is on the outer edge, wanting to be a lackey or a lapdog, but does not have the talent or the smarts to become either. See Hunter Biden for an example.

Posted by: Kostoyed Amourski at January 02, 2026 08:53 AM (R/m4+)

325 FWIW it's worth, I did a meme on Maodani's "Warmth of the Collective" quote.

https://x.com/GenghisKhet/status/2006837479425585405

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at January 02, 2026 08:53 AM (f0sNM)

326 ======

Not everything is Star Wars, bruh.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at January 02, 2026 08:50 AM (GBKbO)

Wars. Trek. Whatever.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 02, 2026 08:53 AM (Zz0t1)

327 Homeowners in NY who were thinking of fleeing ahead of the communists, the door is closing fast with the passage of the New York Community Opportunity to Purchase Act (COPA).

Wait'll CABANA hits.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 02, 2026 08:53 AM (c115l)

328 318 MSNOW on Minnesota fraud:

MAGA OBSESSION
THE NEW CONSERVATIVE PANIC
RIGHT WING PROPAGANDA MACHINE

And all of that is before you get to the actual article.

Posted by: SMOD at January 02, 2026 08:52 AM (RHGPo)

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Their five readers are going to be so enraged.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at January 02, 2026 08:53 AM (GBKbO)

329
Where do the lickspittle fit in?
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba

They are duking it out with the bootlickers

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at January 02, 2026 08:53 AM (xG4kz)

330 Posted by: Citizen Cake at January 02, 2026 08:50 AM (CwhoI)
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That is definitely unconstitutional.

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 02, 2026 08:54 AM (KDPiq)

331 Sorry, folks, but I'm out.

Rescue yourselves.

Posted by: Snake Plissken at January 02, 2026 08:54 AM (avHHk)

332 Wars. Trek. Whatever."

It's all the same. Right, Captain Gandolf?

Posted by: man at January 02, 2026 08:54 AM (XuXeR)

333 >>>How do they not see their policies as ruinously inflationary. How do their voters not see it.
Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless
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Could it be they weren't taught applied math in school?
Could it be they weren't taught economics?
Could it be they weren't taught civics?

Or were their teachers ignorant commies who were so delusional they had no capacity for critical thought?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 02, 2026 08:54 AM (uGpeQ)

334 How the hell is price determined?

I actually kinda hope they do it. Go ahead, NY. Finish the job. Convert your subjects to expropriated slaves.
Posted by: Joe Mannix

They certainly wouldn't go off the wildly inflated, government-issued property value used in tax assessments.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at January 02, 2026 08:55 AM (ycI94)

335 When it comes to any government funded activity, massive fraud is, unfortunately, just the cost of doing business

Posted by: Mike DeWine Governor & Cost of Doing Business Expert at January 02, 2026 08:55 AM (GPa4z)

336 Wenchwomen of the world unite!

Posted by: It's a living at January 02, 2026 08:55 AM (2Ez/1)

337 AI says (edited for brevity)...
Posted by: I used to have a dif...

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A Modest Proposal: Anybody who cuts/pastes an AI output as a comment gets a week in the Barrel.

Posted by: muldoon at January 02, 2026 08:55 AM (/iMjX)

338 Could it be they weren't taught applied math in school?
Could it be they weren't taught economics?
Could it be they weren't taught civics?"

They weren't taught to balance an account...

Posted by: man at January 02, 2026 08:55 AM (XuXeR)

339 335 When it comes to any government funded activity, massive fraud is, unfortunately, just the cost of doing business

Posted by: Mike DeWine Governor & Cost of Doing Business Expert at January 02, 2026 08:55 AM (GPa4z)

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GOPe heading towards the door with no hope of being elected to anything else say the darndest things.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at January 02, 2026 08:55 AM (GBKbO)

340 Nobodies mentioned brown-nosers yet?

Posted by: Bulg at January 02, 2026 08:56 AM (77rzZ)

341 A Modest Proposal: Anybody who cuts/pastes an AI output as a comment gets a week in the Barrel.

Swift justice?

Posted by: man at January 02, 2026 08:56 AM (XuXeR)

342 I think they just opened an exchange in Dallas.

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 02, 2026 08:56 AM (KDPiq)

343 I'm mostly looking forward to Walz zeroing out the emergency services budget of the state to pay to Somali daycares.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at January 02, 2026 08:56 AM (GBKbO)

344 The official drink of the Alabama Crimson Tide is a shaken Manhattan.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 02, 2026 08:50 AM (35BBm)

High Tide!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 02, 2026 08:56 AM (Zz0t1)

345 Don't forget the toadies

Posted by: Don Black at January 02, 2026 08:56 AM (ZxPkt)

346 When Gotti gave a Block Party, there was food, fun, fireworks. The new Mayor provided none of those things, the Loser.

Posted by: Five Families at January 02, 2026 08:56 AM (oftw2)

347 I cried because I have no henchmen
Until I met a man with no flunkies

Posted by: r hennigantx at January 02, 2026 08:56 AM (gbOdA)

348 *Wait'll CABANA hits.*

Music and passion are always in fashion.

Posted by: B. Manilow at January 02, 2026 08:57 AM (2Ez/1)

349 Wars. Trek. Whatever."

It's all the same. Right, Captain Gandolf?
---------------------------------------------

Gate > Trek > Wars

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at January 02, 2026 08:57 AM (f0sNM)

350 342 I think they just opened an exchange in Dallas.

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 02, 2026 08:56 AM (KDPiq)

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The left-leaning rich will keep their houses in the city, but they'll also order as many of their assets out of the state as possible. They love their city, they love their new mayor, but they also love their money.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at January 02, 2026 08:57 AM (GBKbO)

351 *Nobody’s*

Posted by: Bulg at January 02, 2026 08:57 AM (77rzZ)

352 EXCLUSIVE: Historic 2025 Border Turnaround — Southwest Apprehensions Collapse to 109K in Trump’s First Year Back
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109k? That's still a huge number. If I were advising Trump, I'd put more troops on the border, with RoE to include shoot to kill.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at January 02, 2026 08:57 AM (Dv3i1)

353 also I believe it will be Miami v Indiana for everything

Posted by: Don Black at January 02, 2026 08:58 AM (ZxPkt)

354 Is this about us?

Posted by: Butt boys at January 02, 2026 08:58 AM (2Ez/1)

355 > Posted by: Citizen Cake
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I wonder how property owners who do not reside in NYC and did not "vote for this" feel about it.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 02, 2026 08:58 AM (NwnyJ)

356 Buffahs. They're all fucking buffahs. Jeez, you peoples...

Posted by: Cicci at January 02, 2026 08:59 AM (Q+gd/)

357 >>>That is definitely unconstitutional.

Certainly, but the Left has never strained at gnats like that. Plus, it'll take a couple of years for the case to wind its way through the courts. Either way, your physical assets are effectively frozen in NYC until you agree to sell for pennies on the dollar to a Somali daycare owner.

Posted by: Citizen Cake at January 02, 2026 08:59 AM (CwhoI)

358 Also

Sheetz > Buc-Ees > Royal Farms > Caseys > WaWa.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at January 02, 2026 08:59 AM (f0sNM)

359 >>>A Modest Proposal: Anybody who cuts/pastes an AI output as a comment gets a week in the Barrel.

The act of simply cutting and pasting AI output as a comment is a growing point of discussion and concern across various online platforms, workplaces, and academic settings. The primary issues are a perceived lack of original thought, potential quality degradation, and the bypassing of genuine human interaction or work.

Posted by: one hour sober at January 02, 2026 08:59 AM (Y1sOo)

360
Seeing as how "warmth of the collective" conjures up an image of inked and shrapnel-struck bags of suet with raisins for eyes drumming pathetically in a circle with hordes of AWFLs lost in rapt admiration around it, I'll take a hard pass on that.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at January 02, 2026 08:59 AM (xG4kz)

361 CALL TO ACTIVISM
@CalltoActivism
OMG!!! Trump just showed up at Mar-a-Lago to celebrate New Year's, dragging his right leg, and quickly adjusted his walk when he realizes the cameras are on.

What's Trump hiding?

... the video looks to me has what appears to be Trump with a new pair of dress shoes on a slippery floor, then on carpet

Of course, these idiots don't have a pair of dress shoes, so they would have no idea since they only have gronks

Posted by: SMOD at January 02, 2026 09:00 AM (RHGPo)

362 How the hell is price determined?

I actually kinda hope they do it. Go ahead, NY. Finish the job. Convert your subjects to expropriated slaves.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 02, 2026 08:51 AM (avHHk)

Is the seller related to someone of influence in city government?

If yes, purchase price is 3-5 times appraised value.
If no, purchase price is 50% of appraised value.

I'm just surprised that they didn't say that you were only permitted to sell to the government.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 02, 2026 09:00 AM (ExV1e)

363 *Ahem*

Posted by: QuikTrip at January 02, 2026 09:00 AM (2Ez/1)

364 PROTIP: If you are going to a NYC mayoral block party this year take a sandwich and a favorite beverage...

...oh, and a Foley catheter.

Posted by: muldoon at January 02, 2026 09:01 AM (/iMjX)

365 @CalltoActivism
OMG!!! Trump just showed up at Mar-a-Lago to celebrate New Year's, dragging his right leg, and quickly adjusted his walk when he realizes the cameras are on.

What's Trump hiding?

You covered for Biden for 4 years. He was a vegetable from the beginning.

So, GFY with you're sudden interest in the President's health.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 02, 2026 09:01 AM (Zz0t1)

366 I also can't wait for NY to lose like 4 congressional seats in Congress in 2031, and for the left to crow about how it's actually a show of the rise of the blue states or something.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at January 02, 2026 09:01 AM (GBKbO)

367 Posted by: SMOD at January 02, 2026 09:00 AM (RHGPo)

Quasi Trump.

Was he hunched over also?

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 02, 2026 09:01 AM (KDPiq)

368 Posted by: one hour sober at January 02, 2026 08:59 AM (Y1sOo)

That needs at least one M dash.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 02, 2026 09:02 AM (RIvkX)

369 341 A Modest Proposal: Anybody who cuts/pastes an AI output as a comment gets a week in the Barrel.
____

Enforcing a week in the Barrel for pasted AI comments seems like a highly structured approach to community management. Order over disorder, calm over chaos — bright vs. dim.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at January 02, 2026 09:02 AM (Dv3i1)

370 Issa Rae has canceled her sold out performance at the Kennedy Center. Pulitzer Prize winner Rhiannon Giddens, Peter Wolf, Low Cut Connie, and the Gay Men’s Chorus of Washington, D.C., have also canceled. Lin-Manuel Miranda has canceled the entire Kennedy Center run of Hamilton.

... maybe it's because it's not called the Kennedy Center any more

Posted by: SMOD at January 02, 2026 09:02 AM (RHGPo)

371 If the monarchy is restored in Iran, this lady would be an empress

and the mullahs want to hide this behind a burka

https://tinyurl.com/yu97a7ec

Posted by: Don Black at January 02, 2026 09:02 AM (ZxPkt)

372 Nobodies mentioned brown-nosers yet?
Posted by: Bulg

Brown nosers are like Friendzoned Simps. No matter how hard they try, they ain't taking her to the dance.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 02, 2026 09:02 AM (c115l)

373 Has "f*ck" acquired a new meaning?
Posted by: Duncanthrax at January 02, 2026 08:49 AM (0sNs1)
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The modern left has sexualized everything. It's weird. As a result, they use sex to frame everything, completely unaware that normal, emotionally stable people do not constantly think about their next opportunity for self-abuse.

This is also why their works of fiction cannot have platonic friendships. If you like someone (of either sex), you must consummate it.

Conversely, there is no trust within them. Everything hinges upon the moment of betrayal. Every word is a lie, because all truths are conditional, and all pledges can be nullified because of "reasons."

One reason I am so optimistic is that forging such a people into a war machine is impossible. They lack even the cohesion and single-minded purpose of a locust swarm.

They are also physical and moral cowards, and as the forces of order re-establish firm control, they will disavow everything because above all else they want to be accepted. They can also be bribed on the cheap (though they won't stay bought - hence enforcement).

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 02, 2026 09:02 AM (ZOv7s)

374 The mountains of skulls in that field could be termed a "collective".

Posted by: Pol Pot at January 02, 2026 09:02 AM (oftw2)

375 374 The mountains of skulls in that field could be termed a "collective".

Posted by: Pol Pot at January 02, 2026 09:02 AM (oftw2)

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"We love this guy!"
-The Sorbonne

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at January 02, 2026 09:03 AM (GBKbO)

376 U.S. District Obama Judge Vince Chhabria’s ruling is a victory for President Donald Trump’s mass-deportation agenda as it allows ICE to use Medicaid data in deportation cases beginning Jan. 6. The agency had been blocked from doing so for months amid a legal challenge from blue states.

Posted by: SMOD at January 02, 2026 09:03 AM (RHGPo)

377 On Dec. 23, 2025, the HHS Office of Inspector General released a nationwide audit estimating that Medicaid made $207.5 million in unallowable capitation payments to managed care organizations on behalf of deceased enrollees in just one year, from July 2021 through June 2022.

Posted by: r hennigantx at January 02, 2026 09:03 AM (gbOdA)

378 A Modest Proposal: Anybody who cuts/pastes an AI output as a comment gets a week in the Barrel.
Posted by: muldoon at January 02, 2026 08:55 AM (/iMjX)

Would it make you feel better if I looked something up, went to the source that the AI used, and provide the answer from there using the exact same wording that the AI used?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 02, 2026 09:04 AM (ExV1e)

379 Not everything is Star Wars, bruh.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at January 02, 2026 08:50 AM

It should be.

Posted by: Obi Juan Sonobi at January 02, 2026 09:04 AM (0sNs1)

380 *Wait'll CABANA hits.*

Music and passion are always in fashion.
Posted by: B. Manilow

*golf clap

Posted by: rickb223 at January 02, 2026 09:05 AM (c115l)

381 Good video on political impatience with where we are.

https://tinyurl.com/363vbjcy

Posted by: Ordinary American at January 02, 2026 09:05 AM (WHfpM)

382 The agency had been blocked from doing so for months amid a legal challenge from blue states.
____

You'd almost think the blue states have something to hide.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at January 02, 2026 09:05 AM (Dv3i1)

383 I think they just opened an exchange in Dallas.

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 02, 2026 08:56 AM (KDPiq)

Lotta financial offices on Y'all Street.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 02, 2026 09:05 AM (ExV1e)

384 Question for the horde:

My only sibling is a communist but to be able to continue a relationship, we do not discuss politics. So we discuss household chores, sports, and weather. And even these necessarily must be fairly superficial because political beliefs seep into everything. Over the years, this (to me) has become comical. It seems our discussions are just silly.

Do any of y’all feel this way in similar situations? What do you do?

Posted by: Brunnhilde at January 02, 2026 09:05 AM (3AwA+)

385 379 Not everything is Star Wars, bruh.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at January 02, 2026 08:50 AM

It should be.

Posted by: Obi Juan Sonobi at January 02, 2026 09:04 AM (0sNs1)

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Alright, non-Union, Spanish equivalent of George Lucas.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at January 02, 2026 09:05 AM (GBKbO)

386 Gov. Gavin Newsom has defaulted on California’s $20 billion COVID debt to the federal government — and local businesses will be stuck paying the bill, to the tune of thousands of dollars each year.

While our gallivanting governor has been touring abroad and running ads in Texas and Florida touting the excellence of California, he and his party once again have made life harder for business owners and employees who have to work for a living.

Posted by: SMOD at January 02, 2026 09:05 AM (RHGPo)

387 PROTIP: If you are going to a NYC mayoral block party this year take a sandwich and a favorite beverage...
...oh, and a Foley catheter.

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Posted by: Somali Catheter Inc. at January 02, 2026 09:05 AM (R/m4+)

388 366 I also can't wait for NY to lose like 4 congressional seats in Congress in 2031, and for the left to crow about how it's actually a show of the rise of the blue states or something.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at January 02, 2026 09:01 AM (GBKbO)

We know they missed 6 to 9 seats in 2020 that should have moved Red.
If this all rolls up in 2030 it could be a 12 to 16 seat shift.

Posted by: r hennigantx at January 02, 2026 09:06 AM (gbOdA)

389 You'd almost think the blue states have something to hide.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at January 02, 2026 09:05 AM (Dv3i1)

Somalians. Hundreds of thousands of Somalians.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 02, 2026 09:06 AM (Zz0t1)

390 382 The agency had been blocked from doing so for months amid a legal challenge from blue states.
____

You'd almost think the blue states have something to hide.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at January 02, 2026 09:05 AM (Dv3i1)

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Millions of illegal immigrants taking Medicaid benefits out of alignment with federal law is something to hide?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at January 02, 2026 09:06 AM (GBKbO)

391 4 The official drink of the Alabama Crimson Tide is a shaken Manhattan.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 02, 2026 08:50 AM (35BBm)

High Tide!
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 02, 2026 08:56 AM (Zz0t1)
******
Bloody Mary.

Posted by: redridinghood at January 02, 2026 09:06 AM (NpAcC)

392 371 If the monarchy is restored in Iran, this lady would be an empress

and the mullahs want to hide this behind a burka

https://tinyurl.com/yu97a7ec
Posted by: Don Black

She's already an empress of my heart, and other body parts.

Posted by: Hopeless Romantic at January 02, 2026 09:06 AM (Dv3i1)

393 Kennedy. The Left’s sacred 3 year President that was a fuck up but you’ll never know because the Left write the history books. Even many on the Right today see Kennedy as something special.

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 02, 2026 09:06 AM (KDPiq)

394 If the monarchy is restored in Iran, this lady would be an empress

and the mullahs want to hide this behind a burka

Posted by: Don Black at January 02, 2026 09:02 AM (ZxPkt)
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Americans are culturally averse to monarchs, but there is much to be said for a head of state who is generally apolitical and who serves as a symbol of national unity and heritage. Churchill argued - compellingly, I think - that many of the radical governments that emerged after 1918 did so because of Wilson's hatred of monarchy.

A Germany under a regency council of a child-Kaiser would not have allowed Hitler to take power, and the demoralized middle classes would have found a symbolic rallying point as they boy grew up, giving them hope for the future rather than a restless desire to junk everything.

Iran's history extends back thousands of years, and the mullahs tried to obliterate that. Iran became an Islamic toady, sucking up to Arabs rather than staring down their noses at the wannabe imperialists.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 02, 2026 09:06 AM (ZOv7s)

395 Sheetz > Buc-Ees > Royal Farms > Caseys > WaWa.
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at January 02, 2026 08:59 AM (f0sNM)

Having recently spent time in VA, you are high as a kite.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 02, 2026 09:07 AM (ExV1e)

396 We will govern audaciously and expansively - Mamdani. In your bank accounts , your social media, your "green" violations , your white supremacy, your children. ..

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 02, 2026 09:07 AM (zNwXb)

397
Unless lampposts in Tehran are gaily festooned with mullahs, imans, and other beetle-browed and spittle-flecked religious "teachers", nothing will truly have changed.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at January 02, 2026 09:07 AM (xG4kz)

398 The agency had been blocked from doing so for months amid a legal challenge from blue states.
____

You'd almost think the blue states have something to hide.
Posted by: Chuck Martel

It's those damned Manaed Care Centers.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 02, 2026 09:07 AM (c115l)

399 388 We know they missed 6 to 9 seats in 2020 that should have moved Red.
If this all rolls up in 2030 it could be a 12 to 16 seat shift.

Posted by: r hennigantx at January 02, 2026 09:06 AM (gbOdA)

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"Missed". The guy running the Census Bureau bragged that he didn't count. He estimated based on models. Also, the guy was obsessed with "under represented communities". The 6-9 that the Census Bureau admits to is definitely the low end.

Oh, and millions of illegal will have been deported by 2030. Probably tens of millions if the first 11 months of Trump's presidency are any indication.

The 2030 census will be the biggest earthquake in American politics in a century. 30-40 seat shift is my guess.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at January 02, 2026 09:08 AM (GBKbO)

400 The left: Why do you wingnuts think we are communists or something.

Also the left: WOOHOO Mamdami is going to usher in real communism finally and remove you kulaks. Uhh, I mean, uh, make sure the government helps everyone

Posted by: Barack Obama at January 02, 2026 09:08 AM (sKqQm)

401 Posted by: SMOD at January 02, 2026 09:05 AM (RHGPo)

His office just released a statement in response to Trump with ridiculous lie that Newsom has prevented 120 billion in fraud .

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 02, 2026 09:09 AM (KDPiq)

402 The left is celebrating the end of the river flow of government money to health insurance companies, saying the end of Obamacare subsidies will hurt voters and motivate them to vote for Democrats. This ignores the tax cuts to working people, which are 3x the insurance subsidy-free cost increases, but neverthelessthe Propaganda Networks will talk endlessly about GOP "abandonment" of working class voters.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 02, 2026 09:09 AM (EiGGt)

403 393 Kennedy. The Left’s sacred 3 year President that was a fuck up but you’ll never know because the Left write the history books. Even many on the Right today see Kennedy as something special.

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 02, 2026 09:06 AM (KDPiq)

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Getting assassinated has an effect on a cult. It makes him a martyr.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at January 02, 2026 09:10 AM (GBKbO)

404 MSM Panics After Nick Shirley Bombshell As CBS Pledges To Start Reporting Real News

"On too many stories, the press has missed the story, because..."

Posted by: SMOD at January 02, 2026 09:10 AM (RHGPo)

405 353 also I believe it will be Miami v Indiana for everything

Posted by: Don Black at January 02, 2026 08:58 AM (ZxPkt)

When did a school west of the Mississippi last win the Division 1 title?

Posted by: Gref at January 02, 2026 09:10 AM (5rh/l)

406 Somalians. Hundreds of thousands of Somalians."

Sounds like Rorke's Drift...

Posted by: man at January 02, 2026 09:10 AM (xDZRs)

407
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Posted by: Somali Catheter Inc.

Are they pre-lubed? Please send me a sample in an unmarked box.

Posted by: Shy Bladder Billy at January 02, 2026 09:10 AM (oftw2)

408 A Germany under a regency council of a child-Kaiser would not have allowed Hitler to take power, and the demoralized middle classes would have found a symbolic rallying point as they boy grew up, giving them hope for the future rather than a restless desire to junk everything.
____

Quite.
-King Charles III Al-Tudor

Posted by: Chuck Martel at January 02, 2026 09:10 AM (Dv3i1)

409 Gov. Gavin Newsom has defaulted on California’s $20 billion COVID debt to the federal government — and local businesses will be stuck paying the bill, to the tune of thousands of dollars each year.

Revert to territorial status until they are caught up.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 02, 2026 09:10 AM (c115l)

410 Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 02, 2026 09:06 AM (ZOv7s

The devil certainly assisted in putting Hitler into power. Things lined up too perfectly to allow it.

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 02, 2026 09:11 AM (KDPiq)

411 The whole idea of counting aliens, legal or otherwise int he census, is absurd.

Imagine, for example, that a small state like RI (pop 1M) were to import 10M "foreign workers". It would then get the same representation as a state like OH or PA even though it has 1/10th the population

Posted by: 18-1 at January 02, 2026 09:11 AM (sKqQm)

412 404 MSM Panics After Nick Shirley Bombshell As CBS Pledges To Start Reporting Real News

"On too many stories, the press has missed the story, because..."

Posted by: SMOD at January 02, 2026 09:10 AM (RHGPo)

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"...the press has become obsessed with being the used cum rags of the Democrat Party in order to continue to have access to ugly, unfunny, unappealing people in buildings that everyone hates because they represent things like beauty."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at January 02, 2026 09:11 AM (GBKbO)

413 "The US collects more income tax than the entire national budget of every country except China.

And we lose more in fraud than the entire budget of all but four.

Politicians raise taxes not because it is needed but because it gives them a greater slush fund to enrich groups who will vote for them. They fund luxury hotels for illegal immigrants while working families can barely afford healthcare.

It's treasonous, corrupt and evil, and it's how empires fall."

Why the demonization of Elon Musk and DOGE was the single greatest success of the Left in 2025.

Posted by: Ordinary American at January 02, 2026 09:11 AM (WHfpM)

414 Yeah I saw that Trump vetoed Boebert’s pet little grifting bill. She’s gonna be pissed.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 02, 2026 09:11 AM (otNgF)

415 500 Illegal Immigrants Arrested In Minnesota, 1,000 Immigration-Fraud Cases Investigated: DHS Official

“These suspected perpetrators are really trying to cover their tracks...”

Posted by: SMOD at January 02, 2026 09:11 AM (RHGPo)

416 Having recently spent time in VA, you are high as a kite."

Yes, he's misinformed. Sad, really. But there is hope! And brisket!

Posted by: man at January 02, 2026 09:12 AM (xDZRs)

417 Do any of y’all feel this way in similar situations? What do you do?
Posted by: Brunnhilde at January 02, 2026 09:05 AM (3AwA+)
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My mother has always been extremely political. When I was young and didn't know better, I aligned with her reflexively and we got along. As I matured and came to see things differently (basically I applied what she taught me impartially, and realized the Democrats were completely amoral), it has been difficult. The kids don't feel comfortable around her. When she visits, we focus on the great-grandchildren, and rarely talk on the phone because she gets carried away and I've more than once found myself on the brink of being disowned.

One must prioritize family, and I take my obligation to my parents seriously, but at the same time it cannot be a license to abuse. Happily, even though we also disagree on politics, my father and I can talk and argue without getting mad. We chat almost every day. I think my mother is jealous of this, since she was the one who filed for divorce and tried to alienate me from him.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 02, 2026 09:12 AM (ZOv7s)

418 Zohran Mamdani's wife, in a showing of a true socialist, arrives at swearing-in with $630 shoes

Posted by: SMOD at January 02, 2026 09:12 AM (RHGPo)

419 You covered for Biden for 4 years. He was a vegetable from the beginning.

So, GFY with you're sudden interest in the President's health.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer

The media owned up to their mistakes, and has improved their procedures as a result of valid criticism!!! You guys are just partisans!!!!

Posted by: MSM Apologist at January 02, 2026 09:12 AM (ycI94)

420 371 If the monarchy is restored in Iran, this lady would be an empress

and the mullahs want to hide this behind a burka

https://tinyurl.com/yu97a7ec
Posted by: Don Black

Sort of resembles Sofia Coppola.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 02, 2026 09:12 AM (x0n13)

421 That mountain of skulls are for the children.

Didn't you see the sign before it was stolen?

Posted by: thug dolphin at January 02, 2026 09:12 AM (EyfuW)

422
His office just released a statement in response to Trump with ridiculous lie that Newsom has prevented 120 billion in fraud .

Somewhere between Bakersfield and Merced, unfinished "high speed rail" stations larf.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at January 02, 2026 09:13 AM (xG4kz)

423 Why the demonization of Elon Musk and DOGE was the single greatest success of the Left in 2025.

Posted by: Ordinary American at January 02, 2026 09:11 AM (WHfpM)
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How was it successful?

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 02, 2026 09:13 AM (ZOv7s)

424 Imagine, for example, that a small state like RI (pop 1M) were to import 10M "foreign workers".
____

RI's GDP increase would be enormous!!!
-Economist

Posted by: Chuck Martel at January 02, 2026 09:14 AM (Dv3i1)

425 Freshman college bull session rhetoric:

"We will replace the frigidity of rugged individualism with the warmth of collectivism," while his herds huddle in frozen cattle pens. Perfect.

Posted by: The Gipper Lives at January 02, 2026 09:14 AM (IOKL9)

426 The 2030 census will be the biggest earthquake in American politics in a century. 30-40 seat shift is my guess.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at January 02, 2026 09:08 AM (GBKbO)

But only if a Republican is in the WH.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 02, 2026 09:14 AM (ExV1e)

427 423 Why the demonization of Elon Musk and DOGE was the single greatest success of the Left in 2025.

Posted by: Ordinary American at January 02, 2026 09:11 AM (WHfpM)
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How was it successful?

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 02, 2026 09:13 AM (ZOv7s)

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Musk is still one of the most popular public/political figures in America.

DOGE is still running, cutting grants left and right.

Tesla cars are still the only EVs that sell.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at January 02, 2026 09:14 AM (GBKbO)

428 SBA suspends nearly 7,000 Minnesota borrowers over suspected $400M pandemic loan fraud

Posted by: SMOD at January 02, 2026 09:14 AM (RHGPo)

429 Zohran Mamdani's wife, in a showing of a true socialist, arrives at swearing-in with $630 shoes
Posted by: SMOD

She should have shown up covered head to toe in a hefty bag.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 02, 2026 09:14 AM (c115l)

430 “And Democracy dies to the roars of thunderous applause.....”

Well no, that’s just it. That ain’t “democracy dying”, that’s democracy flexing its muscles.

Demicracy, Universal suffrage in particular is super retarded.

Posted by: Common Tater at January 02, 2026 09:14 AM (DaCyj)

431 426 The 2030 census will be the biggest earthquake in American politics in a century. 30-40 seat shift is my guess.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at January 02, 2026 09:08 AM (GBKbO)

But only if a Republican is in the WH.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 02, 2026 09:14 AM (ExV1e)

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True.

I don't think 2026 matters that much. It's not the most important election in our lifetime.

2028, though...it may be.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at January 02, 2026 09:15 AM (GBKbO)

432 His office just released a statement in response to Trump with ridiculous lie that Newsom has prevented 120 billion in fraud .
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That's not how you spell "facilitated."

California education standards in action.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 02, 2026 09:15 AM (ESVrU)

433 396 We will govern audaciously and expansively - Mamdani.
Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 02, 2026 09:07 AM (zNwXb)

Mayor Liberace

Posted by: Oglebay at January 02, 2026 09:15 AM (GPa4z)

434 "How did Somalia even get to be ON the UN Security Council?"

Apparently, the slots are filled in a rotation from the losers in the GA.

Posted by: No one at January 02, 2026 09:15 AM (qFwJc)

435 424 Imagine, for example, that a small state like RI (pop 1M) were to import 10M "foreign workers".
____

RI's GDP increase would be enormous!!!
-Economist
Posted by: Chuck Martel at January 02, 2026 09:14 AM (Dv3i1)

It would capsize!!!!!

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 02, 2026 09:15 AM (x0n13)

436 >>Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 02, 2026 09:12 AM (ZOv7s)

Mom is a Truman Democrat who watches ABC News and believes them. She is also 91 years old. We don't talk politics. You have my sympathies, sir.

Posted by: Nazdar at January 02, 2026 09:16 AM (NcvvS)

437 A Germany under a regency council of a child-Kaiser would not have allowed Hitler to take power

It took a lot of screws up among the German political class to lead to Hitler.

The left, even the "moderate left" functioning allying with the communists and allowing them to attack people on the streets, the establishment right proving incompetent under von Papen so that as Hindenburg declined there was functionally no establishment opposition to the communists.

Give Germany a Trump, Reagan, or Washington in the late 20s early 30s and you don't get Hitler. Or if the German left weren't evil self servings sons of bitches.

And of course the myriad failures of Kaiser Wilhelm in the 1910s made all this possible.

Posted by: 18-1 at January 02, 2026 09:16 AM (sKqQm)

438 433 396 We will govern audaciously and expansively - Mamdani.
Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 02, 2026 09:07 AM (zNwXb)

Mayor Liberace

Posted by: Oglebay at January 02, 2026 09:15 AM (GPa4z)

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The corruption in the highest levels of NYC governance are going to be so absurd.

I can't wait for the DOJ vs. NYC council legal battles.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at January 02, 2026 09:16 AM (GBKbO)

439 The left is celebrating the end of the river flow of government money to health insurance companies, saying the end of Obamacare subsidies will hurt voters and motivate them to vote for Democrats. This ignores the tax cuts to working people, which are 3x the insurance subsidy-free cost increases, but neverthelessthe Propaganda Networks will talk endlessly about GOP "abandonment" of working class voters.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 02, 2026 09:09 AM (EiGGt)

Sadly, if you place $1000 in the left hand of most voters while putting $80 in their right hand, where they were accustomed to having $100, they will feel cheated. The argument will probably work.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 02, 2026 09:16 AM (ExV1e)

440 Quite.
-King Charles III Al-Tudor
Posted by: Chuck Martel at January 02, 2026 09:10 AM (Dv3i1)
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Charles could win everlasting fame by dissolving parliament and demanding new elections, but he won't do it.

King Juan Carlos of Spain became a national hero when he personally intervened to stop a coup, going on air to tell the army that the king orders them to stand down.

The British are really bad at government these days.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 02, 2026 09:16 AM (ZOv7s)

441 Yeah I saw that Trump vetoed Boebert’s pet little grifting bill. She’s gonna be pissed.
Posted by: Tom Servo at January 02, 2026 09:11 AM (otNgF)

I can understand her being angry since it was partly her bill for her state but she had to be a Karen and accuse Trump of using the veto as revenge because of her support to release the Epstein files.

Fuck her and the butterface MTG.

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 02, 2026 09:17 AM (KDPiq)

442 418 Zohran Mamdani's wife, in a showing of a true socialist, arrives at swearing-in with $630 shoes
Posted by: SMOD at January 02, 2026 09:12 AM

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She's new to this. Give her time.

Posted by: The ghost of Imelda Marcos at January 02, 2026 09:17 AM (2Ez/1)

443 California’s ‘Wealth’ Tax Wouldn’t Even Cover the Cost of Fraud

Posted by: SMOD at January 02, 2026 09:17 AM (RHGPo)

444 Question for the horde:

My only sibling is a communist but to be able to continue a relationship, we do not discuss politics. So we discuss household chores, sports, and weather. And even these necessarily must be fairly superficial because political beliefs seep into everything. Over the years, this (to me) has become comical. It seems our discussions are just silly.

Do any of y’all feel this way in similar situations? What do you do?
Posted by: Brunnhilde at January 02, 2026 09:05 AM (3AwA+)

The kiddos all have good jobs but live now in blue shitholes, so their views are definitely more to the left than mine.

We don't have political discussions because they become heated quickly and create bad feeling, which is stupid IMHO cuz we gather to be family and that much more important than politics. Anyone who can't behave and control themselves for the usual 3-4 day visit is a knucklehead in my book, and we all seem to agree on that point.

Yes, it's frustrating they hold some of their views because they all are very smart, but I figure in time they will all figure things out.

Family good feeling > Politics in my book.

Posted by: naturalfake at January 02, 2026 09:17 AM (iJfKG)

445 Zohran Mamdani's wife, in a showing of a true socialist, arrives at swearing-in with $630 shoes

I've never own an item of clothing that has cost even half that much.

Yet looking at my tax bill I'm apparently "rich" according to the IRS

Posted by: 18-1 at January 02, 2026 09:17 AM (sKqQm)

446 The uncovering of all this fraud and the halting of aid and loans will have significant impact on the local economies in blue states/areas. That will cause tension between factions. Popcorn please

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 02, 2026 09:17 AM (zNwXb)

447 373 Has "f*ck" acquired a new meaning?
Posted by: Duncanthrax

The modern left has sexualized everything. It's weird. As a result, they use sex to frame everything, completely unaware that normal, emotionally stable people do not constantly think about their next opportunity for self-abuse.

This is also why their works of fiction cannot have platonic friendships. If you like someone (of either sex), you must consummate it.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd

I'm glad you chimed in with your perspective. I included the two "fucks" comments precisely because they seemed so weird and out of place.

I do take issue, a bit, with your analysis, however. In many ways, sex and romance seem to take a back seat to girl-bossing and wokeness. I'm thinking the Star Wars sequels (or later TV series), although other modern media does go all the way to the other side with nonstop promiscuity as "empowering" or "validating". Especially if it's queer. Very weird dichotomy.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at January 02, 2026 09:18 AM (ycI94)

448 Yeah I saw that Trump vetoed Boebert’s pet little grifting bill. She’s gonna be pissed.
Posted by: Tom Servo at January 02, 2026 09:11 AM (otNgF)

In my mind for awhile I had Anna Paulina Luna, MTG and Boebert in the same category… new, young, attractive and bold GOP lawmakers. But it was a mirage I guess. MTG imploded, Boebert seems like a flake… even Luna’s had at least one silly implosion. Oh well sigh

Coda: I’m not convinced that MTG deserves the “attractive” descriptor; built like a linebacker

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 02, 2026 09:18 AM (xT8gx)

449 His office just released a statement in response to Trump with ridiculous lie that Newsom has prevented 120 billion in fraud .
Posted by: Opinion fact at January 02, 2026 09:09 AM (KDPiq)
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Let's make three assumptions, most of them bad:
1. Trump's assertion of $18 billion in CA fraud is correct
2. Newsom's claim of stopping $120 billion in fraud is correct
3. These two items consist of 100% of California's fraud

Assuming that - a *very* rosy set of assumptions - Newsom is gloating over stopping 67% of fraud in California.

American Politics: where scoring a "D" - even if you had to cheat to do it - is a HUGE win.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 02, 2026 09:18 AM (avHHk)

450
Why hasn't My Mamdani brought Li'l Shitler and the Swedish Doom Goblin into his administration? Y'know, gotten the old band together?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at January 02, 2026 09:19 AM (xG4kz)

451 Tesla cars are still the only EVs that sell.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at January 02, 2026 09:14 AM (GBKbO)
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Don't forget how fast the anti-Tesla terrorism stopped.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 02, 2026 09:19 AM (ZOv7s)

452
Katie Wilson for Seattle Mayor
@wilsonformayor

I stand with the Somali childcare providers who have experienced targeted harassment, and condemn the surveillance campaign promoted by extremist influencers. If you believe yourself to be the victim of a hate crime, please call this hotline: https://atg.wa.gov/report-hate

https://tinyurl.com/y6vk4f5y

Posted by: redridinghood at January 02, 2026 09:19 AM (NpAcC)

453 444 Do any of y’all feel this way in similar situations? What do you do?
Posted by: Brunnhilde at January 02, 2026 09:05 AM (3AwA+)

Married to a liberal. We just don't discuss politics at all. When she talks on the phone to friends or watches MSNSDAP/CNN I just go to another room and play some music.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 02, 2026 09:19 AM (x0n13)

454 BOOM! JD VANCE TO RADICAL LEFT: "If your movement is telling you to commit acts of violence against people for speaking words you don't like? Number one, you're EVIL. Number two, you're engaged in a TERRORIST movement!"

Posted by: r hennigantx at January 02, 2026 09:19 AM (gbOdA)

455 Happy New Year JJ, Horde

Posted by: callsign claymore at January 02, 2026 09:20 AM (IhCl1)

456 Texas, 2005

Posted by: Don Black at January 02, 2026 09:20 AM (ZxPkt)

457 How was it successful?
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 02, 2026 09:13 AM (ZOv7s)

They essentially pressured Musk out of his orbit of influence and likewise tarnished DOGE as a signal, stand-alone entity (its rightful place given its revelations). I don't believe for a second that the so-called absorption of DOGE within the bureaucracies is a real thing. Yes, DOGE's brief and dazzling illumination was significant and successful, but it could have been so much more. The media smears and lack of push-back crippled it.

Posted by: Ordinary American at January 02, 2026 09:20 AM (WHfpM)

458 Frankly, I don't think Reza Pavlavi wants to go back to Iran. While he may love his people and want the best for them, who needs the aggrivation?

Posted by: No one at January 02, 2026 09:20 AM (qFwJc)

459 Do any of y’all feel this way in similar situations? What do you do?

yeah welcome to my life. I keep quiet and if not possible, I lie.

it's easy because as a young orchid I was a notable mouthy young leftist.

I used to hang at Wooden Shoe!

sometimes my fam slips up and says something awwwwfully based to me! I always gently reprimand them lol.

Posted by: BlackOrchid at January 02, 2026 09:21 AM (emBoF)

460
MTG could not overcome her intense pining for illegals to work for her construction outfit.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at January 02, 2026 09:21 AM (xG4kz)

461 Yes, it's frustrating they hold some of their views because they all are very smart,

Most people that lightly hold leftwing views don't really believe them and you can put it to the test.

For example, if they have housing in a coastal blue shitty ask them if they plan on selling before the water levels submerge it. They'll be confused...

Or if they parrot a talking point about trannies ask them why they never dated one.

And on and on...

The way the narrative works is that you get rewarded for quoting it and punished for disagreeing with it. But there is little pressure to actually live by the rules the narrative is claiming people should.

Posted by: 18-1 at January 02, 2026 09:21 AM (sKqQm)

462 @449 Greta is way too annoying to be in a government. Use her only as an agent provacateur

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 02, 2026 09:21 AM (zNwXb)

463 Pavlavi very much wants to go back to his country.

Posted by: BlackOrchid at January 02, 2026 09:21 AM (emBoF)

464 Zohran Mamdani’s salute:
https://x.com/mattvanswol/status/2006884069183991957

Posted by: SMOD at January 02, 2026 09:21 AM (RHGPo)

465 @wilsonformayor

I stand with the Somali childcare providers who have experienced targeted harassment, and condemn the surveillance campaign promoted by extremist influencers. If you believe yourself to be the victim of a hate crime, please call this hotline: https://atg.wa.gov/report-hate

But not Americans.

There you go, Seattle. You voted for this.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 02, 2026 09:21 AM (Zz0t1)

466 MTG could not overcome her intense pining for illegals to work for her construction outfit.

yeah and younger dong

Posted by: BlackOrchid at January 02, 2026 09:22 AM (emBoF)

467 Most women are emotionally hard headed and politically illogical. It doesn’t allow them to see cause and effect . The big examples today are Martina Navratilova and JK Rowling.

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 02, 2026 09:22 AM (KDPiq)

468 In many ways, sex and romance seem to take a back seat to girl-bossing and wokeness. I'm thinking the Star Wars sequels (or later TV series), although other modern media does go all the way to the other side with nonstop promiscuity as "empowering" or "validating". Especially if it's queer. Very weird dichotomy.
Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at January 02, 2026 09:18 AM (ycI94)
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The Rey-Lo thing was completely artificial, driven by weirdo fans who wanted to see a hookup. There is no legitimate romance and ANY of modern Star Wars, it's all forced and weird.

This is where girlbosses come in, because Stronk Womyn do not respect weak men, but we are told they are, and then men should just meekly be dominated.

Yet at the same time, they want sex with minotaurs or something. Total psychosexual mess. More issues than a five-year magazine subscription.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 02, 2026 09:22 AM (ZOv7s)

469 454 BOOM! JD VANCE TO RADICAL LEFT: "If your movement is telling you to commit acts of violence against people for speaking words you don't like? Number one, you're EVIL. Number two, you're engaged in a TERRORIST movement!"
Posted by: r hennigantx at January 02, 2026 09:19 AM (gbOdA)

Okay, propositions accepted. They're evil and terroristic. But we knew that, and the politically observant have known it for decades. What the hell are we doing about it?

Posted by: Ordinary American at January 02, 2026 09:22 AM (WHfpM)

470 so far this year is really shaping up well:

- NYC takes off the mask
- Persia freed?!?!? let's hope! the tyranny might end, after lasting basically my whole life
- and speaking of my whole life, MTV is ending as well! it lasted just a bit less than the mullahs

Posted by: BlackOrchid at January 02, 2026 09:23 AM (emBoF)

471 LOEFFLER: Vast network of Somali nonprofits ripped off Minnesota’s welfare state

Posted by: SMOD at January 02, 2026 09:23 AM (RHGPo)

472 YGIF, all!

Posted by: Lizzy at January 02, 2026 09:23 AM (NuV6c)

473 I think a number of Republicans are going to "come out" against Trump. It's because the administration is uncovering the huge amount of fraud being perpetrated on the American taxpayers... and the politicians are getting rich off it.

Republican politicians.

Fraud isn't only a Democrat thing.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 02, 2026 09:23 AM (NwnyJ)

474 MTG could not overcome her intense pining for illegals to work for her construction outfit.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at January 02, 2026 09:21 AM (xG4kz)
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I'm looking forward for MTG being short for "Magic: The Gathering" and his harridan vanishing into obscurity.

No, not a player of the game, but my kids like it.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 02, 2026 09:24 AM (ZOv7s)

475 Posted by: 18-1 at January 02, 2026 09:21 AM (sKqQm)

My opinion is that applies to Leftist men. Leftist women actually believe what they preach.

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 02, 2026 09:24 AM (KDPiq)

476 The Qur’an teaches that deception is allowed:

As does the Talmud.

Posted by: Citizen Journalist at January 02, 2026 09:25 AM (2hgx/)

477 It’s hard to imagine the incredibly good consequences if the regime in Tehran finally falls; they have been the #1 sponsor of terror worldwide for 40 years now. The abilities, and the morale of Hamas and the Houthi willl collapse with them, for one thing. The Shiite militias in Iraq will lose all their funding.
Peace could actually break out for real in the middle east, something we hadn’t dared to think was possible.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 02, 2026 09:25 AM (otNgF)

478 My opinion is that applies to Leftist men. Leftist women actually believe what they preach.
Posted by: Opinion fact at January 02, 2026 09:24 AM (KDPiq)
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Show me a "male feminist" who isn't a pervert and sexual predator.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 02, 2026 09:25 AM (ZOv7s)

479 Oh and since I live in a blue area I often have fun with the lefty LIVs around me by just taking the narrative seriously and give them cognitive dissonance.

As one example with Nike hired kneeling Capernik the FNM lauded them and so the lefty LIVs around me did as well.

My response? Well it is good to see a globomegacorp talking about racial issues in America, I can't get behind a greedy corporation that price gouges poor, mainly minority, Americans and uses slave labor overseas.

And trust me this one hit them right in the cerebral cortex as everything I was saying is how they should have been looking at a company like Nike according to the larger narrative BUT the specific new narrative ignored it...like a capitalist pig dog lackey would!

Posted by: 18-1 at January 02, 2026 09:25 AM (sKqQm)

480 >>Around 10,000 supporters stood outside City Hall during the event — billed as an “Inauguration for a New Era Block Party” by Mamdani’s staff — crammed into several barricaded pens without access to bathrooms or any food concession stands.

NYC's own mini-Fyre Festival!
All those nep-babies and foreigners don't know how to put on a block party, they only know how to attend and criticize one for not being sufficiently diverse, green, vegan blah blah blah.

Will this be a metaphor of his tenure as Mayor? TBD!!

Posted by: Lizzy at January 02, 2026 09:25 AM (NuV6c)

481 Did anyone notice that the Subway Station Zorhan the Great used for his swearing in is permanently closed?
Posted by: r hennigantx at January 02, 2026 08:22 AM (gbOdA)

It's actually a famous landmark. The story:

https://tinyurl.com/msfh5ps2

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at January 02, 2026 09:26 AM (5xuJ/)

482 473 I think a number of Republicans are going to "come out" against Trump. It's because the administration is uncovering the huge amount of fraud being perpetrated on the American taxpayers... and the politicians are getting rich off it.

Republican politicians.
_____

..........

Posted by: Mitch McConnell at January 02, 2026 09:26 AM (Dv3i1)

483 I’m not convinced that MTG deserves the “attractive” descriptor; built like a linebacker

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 02, 2026 09:18 AM (xT8gx)

It's an aquired taste.

Posted by: Barack at January 02, 2026 09:26 AM (Q+gd/)

484 One must prioritize family"

Yeah, no. It's their call, not mine, and works both ways.

Posted by: man at January 02, 2026 09:27 AM (xDZRs)

485 Peace could actually break out for real in the middle east, something we hadn’t dared to think was possible.
Posted by: Tom Servo at January 02, 2026 09:25 AM (otNgF)
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Unfortunately, the people in the region will have to suffer through a period of chaos and violence first.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 02, 2026 09:27 AM (ESVrU)

486 so the parade yesterday - the weather kind of stunk and at 5am when they were setting up (the string bands) there was a snow squall and a lot of their props were destroyed - and five guys ended up in the hospital)

so FIRST I was all salty bc they were going to still march but without the props and a lot of their gear, and not really do their "sets."

but in the end - it was great. it was old school! wonderful day. I do credit our Mayor, and she walks the whole parade, she is not the brightest bulb but has the best attitude and cares a lot about the city.

was a great day

Posted by: BlackOrchid at January 02, 2026 09:27 AM (emBoF)

487 Art is fun for you and posted

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 02, 2026 09:28 AM (x0n13)

488 477 It’s hard to imagine the incredibly good consequences if the regime in Tehran finally falls;
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I think there is also an alliance between Iran and Venezuela. Would be nice to see post-mullah Iran release information on this.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at January 02, 2026 09:28 AM (Dv3i1)

489 Somali childcare providers who have experienced targeted harassment"

Ok, that's funny right there...

Posted by: man at January 02, 2026 09:28 AM (xDZRs)

490 My opinion is that applies to Leftist men. Leftist women actually believe what they preach.

I have to disagree with you here in most cases. There are true believing activists no doubt but most of the people you run into on a regular basis are lefty LIVs.

I'll give you another example. I ended up on a mailing list for working moms in a blue area. They constantly complained about having to be taxes on their "help" and complained about how much money younger American women wanted to do child care work (compared to illegals).

This is when "the living wage" and "rich people aren't paying enough taxes" were the two biggest leftwing talking points and in both cases these same women would mouth the talking points, but when it came to really believing them? Oh hell no.

Posted by: 18-1 at January 02, 2026 09:29 AM (sKqQm)

491 NOODlum.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 02, 2026 09:29 AM (Zz0t1)

492 at the same time, they want sex with minotaurs or something. Total psychosexual mess. More issues than a five-year magazine subscription.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd

Whoa whoa whoa....if sex with well-endowed minotaurs is wrong, I don't wanna be right!!!!

Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at January 02, 2026 09:29 AM (ycI94)

493 Whoa whoa whoa....if sex with well-endowed minotaurs is wrong, I don't wanna be right!!!!
Posted by: Admiral Ackbar

Totally!

Posted by: Muhammed, ridden by the men of Al Zut all night at January 02, 2026 09:30 AM (ycI94)

494 Early art up

Posted by: rickb223 at January 02, 2026 09:30 AM (c115l)

495 Posted by: 18-1 at January 02, 2026 09:29 AM (sKqQm)

I think they just aren’t aware of their cognitive dissonance.

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 02, 2026 09:31 AM (KDPiq)

496 >>Peace could actually break out for real in the middle east, something we hadn’t dared to think was possible.

Meanwhile, all the Pali diaspora are burning down the west with their global intifada. Maybe connected?

Posted by: Lizzy at January 02, 2026 09:34 AM (NuV6c)

497 Lotta financial offices on Y'all Street.
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Good one.

Posted by: clarence at January 02, 2026 09:36 AM (MXMX4)

498 Good morning, all, and thank you, J.J. 🙏

Wow, U.S. Somalian "problems" continue to be exposed as deeper & wider than we commoners could ever imagine. But how didn't the government see the potential?

Simply picking through some other paragraphs in the BB article brings up James C. Swan, an American diplomat and Somalian booster who "contended that Somalia’s progress since the overthrow of dictator Mohamed Siad Barre in 1991 deserved to be recognized, and Somalia could offer valuable insights to UNSC about fighting terrorism."

Wikipedia, in part, (James C. Swan) Assassination attempt
On 24 July 2019, a female suicide bomber entered and blew herself up inside Mogadishu Mayor Abdirahmean Omar Osman's office, killing six government officials and injuring nine of Osman's staff. Swan was the target of the attack, but Swan had met the mayor earlier and departed prior to the blast. Osman was critically wounded in the attack and succumbed to his injuries a week later, on 1 August 2019, after having been transported to and hospitalised in Doha, Qatar. The attack was claimed by Al-Shabaab.[9]

More from the BB article: "The Horn Review think tank,

Continued -

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at January 02, 2026 09:41 AM (NFX2v)

499 which takes an optimistic view of the Mogadishu government, argued last week that Somalia’s presidency of UNSC was not purely ceremonial and formulaic.
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What is the Horn Review? A premier Independent Research and Publication Think Tank

Founded in 2021, Horn Review is a leading independent research and publication platform headquartered in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The organization specializes in providing in-depth analysis and strategic insights into critical political, diplomatic, and security issues affecting both the Horn of Africa and the global political landscape.

Who's on its Team? To begin with, founder Getachew Nigatu

(In part) As the founder of Horn Review, he has established a specialized role in research and analysis, offering significant insights into pertinent regional issues. His notable career trajectory includes leading roles such as Director General at the FDRE Ministry of Foreign Affairs, where he adeptly managed intricate diplomatic challenges, and Director of Operations at Grow Fundraising & Consulting Inc. in Bethesda, Maryland, where he directed strategic efforts to optimize organizational efficiency.

Continued -

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at January 02, 2026 09:41 AM (NFX2v)

500 Grow Fundraising & Consulting Inc. (growfcus dot com) is a private corporation, incorporated in Washington, D.C. on August 21, 2018. The company operates in the Washington D.C. metro area.

However, it appears -
Incorporation Records Details
State of Incorporation: The company is based in the D.C. Metro Area, specifically Silver Spring, Maryland, and Chevy Chase, Maryland.
Florida Status: It was registered as a "Foreign Profit Corporation" in Florida with the document number F19000004702. Its status in Florida is listed as "INACTIVE" and "REVOKED FOR ANNUAL REPORT" as of September 24, 2021.
Washington D.C. Status: The company was also on a 2019 Entity Revocation List for Washington D.C..
Business Type: It operates as a private company specializing in fundraising and consulting services, particularly face-to-face fundraising for non-profits like Save the Children.
Key Personnel: The Founder and CEO is Sherry Bell.

Sunbiz org, Div. of Corporations

2019 Entity Revocation List - Washington, DC - C00006060888 Grow Fundraising & Consulting Inc. 2018-08-21

🤷‍♀️

PA Turnpike tolls are increasing by 4% in January 2026. More taking Peter to pay Paul, imho.

Good day

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at January 02, 2026 09:41 AM (NFX2v)

501 Blame the Somali junior partners and Democrats all you want, but this a UNIPARTY FUNDING MECHANISM.

ALL GOVERNMENT PROGRAMS NOW ARE OPPORTUNITIES FOR THE GOVERNMENT TO LOOT THE GOVERNMENT.

Posted by: The Gipper Lives at January 02, 2026 09:44 AM (IOKL9)

502 Minnesota Somali “Charities” Routed Donations Through ActBlue, Records Show

Posted by: SMOD at January 02, 2026 10:48 AM (RHGPo)

503 One Big Beautiful Bill Act – car loan interest tax deduction is a groundbreaking new tax benefit that allows taxpayers to deduct up to $10,000 per year in interest on loans for new U.S. assembled vehicles from 2025–2028.

... we used to have this

Posted by: SMOD at January 02, 2026 10:49 AM (RHGPo)

504 Let me get this straight:

American people are highly taxed. So much so that the old "Breadwinner brings home the bacon" is null and void. Both husband and wife must work at least one job each to afford both taxes and their family. As a side effect of this, they cannot be at home to watch over the children as well. So they have to take their kids to daycare, in the hands of someone not of their family and possibly not of their beliefs.

The day care must be paid either from their taxes. or directly. No free lunches for normal people.

From recent Instapundit postings, the math is mathing that a huge chunk of federal spending is lost to theft and fraud. One obvious point of fraud is payment to "daycare" centers. Which may not actually be caring daily for kids. Not the ones for actual working people, anyways.

To conclude:
Mommies are torn from their children and made to work, just to be able to afford a place to host their children while they're working.

"Empowerment of women" in the workplace isn't feminism - it's indentured servitude. They're taking away the option for most parents to stay at home with their children because they have to work to afford life.

Posted by: Another Anon at January 02, 2026 10:54 AM (4h45B)

505 "What America desperately needs is the ATBLF, the Anti-Turtle Bay Liberation Front!"

SPLITTER!

Posted by: Scott1M at January 02, 2026 12:39 PM (O9uxk)

506 has quietly been raising funds and resources to usher in a “revolutionary change in government.

Quietly raising funds? What the hell does that even mean? Is it illegal or not?

Posted by: Unkaren at January 02, 2026 01:52 PM (BrLWF)

507 L.A. County many people lost their Homes and everything they owned and 12 Lives were lost to protect some Weeds

Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at January 02, 2026 05:18 PM (wGqjj)

Daily Tech News 2 January 2026

Top Story

OpenAI is betting big on audio. (Tech Crunch)
OpenAI is betting big on audio AI, and it's not just about making ChatGPT sound better. According to new reporting from The Information, the company has unified several engineering, product, and research teams over the past two months to overhaul its audio models, all in preparation for an audio-first personal device expected to launch in about a year.
This is going to sink without a trace and I am here for it.
It's not just the tech giants placing this bet. A motley crew of startups has emerged with the same conviction, albeit with varying degrees of success. The makers of the Humane AI Pin burned through hundreds of millions before their screenless wearable became a cautionary tale.
OpenAI's effort is going to burn through far more money and achieve the same results, which is to say none whatsoever.

We already have phones. They already do everything these AI devices do, and more, and if we don't want to look at the screen, we can just not look at the screen.

But there's a reason video killed the radio star.

At least Tech Crunch has an early entry in its "Dumbest Things in Tech in 2026" roundup.
The phone is dead long live... What, exactly? (Tech Crunch)

OpenAI and the unlamented Humane pin are not alone in this folly. There's billions of dollars chasing this lack of ideas.

The one place where I see possibility is AI glasses. You can integrate a camera and a speaker and a microphone and a tiny display. Your hands are free to do whatever. There are problems, yes, but also real value.

Tech News

On the other hand, Apple reportedly shipped just 45,000 Vision Pro headsets in the fourth quarter. (Financial Times) (archive site)

That has all the listed features - but it's bulky, heavy, costs $3500, and does nothing.
Orange Pi's new single board computer runs circles around the Raspberry Pi 5. (Notebook Check)

It has 16 cores running at 1.9GHz, 10 AI cores each able to perform 4096 multiple-and-add operations per clock cycle, and 48GB or 96GB of RAM. Do not expect this one to be cheap.

They have also announced - at least in China - the Orange Pi AI Studio Pro which runs two of these boards linked together. Price not listed for that one either.
It looks like a NES that shrank in the wash. Inside is a Ryzen 370 12 core CPU. (Notebook Check)

It's designed for emulating old video game hardware, and it will certainly do that, but it seems a little bit overkill.
Sony's PlayStation 5 just got hacked forever. Here's why that's a good thing. (Hot Hardware)

The hack here was the leaking of secure boot keys for the hardware, which means that owners can now jailbreak their PlayStation. Sony can release new hardware that can't be jailbroken - and probably will - but it can't do anything about the 85 million consoles already sold.
It's "Fuck the Consumer" year at the Consumer Electronics Show. (WCCFTech)

Nvidia will announced no consumer products at all, AMD will announce only relabels of existing products, and Intel will announce Panther lake, which is not a bad product unless you need more than four full-speed cores because that's all it has. (And all three versions of Panther Lake announced involve major tradeoffs even with that limit stipulated.)
The European Space Agency got hacked. (Bleeping Computer)

Though the biggest question here is why anybody would bother.
I think I bought too many computers. The parts I need for Froppy just shipped, and I've run out of names for all the others.

On the other hand, I'm now thoroughly covered in case I start having hardware failures in the older systems, and I can re-use all the old RAM and SSDs in newer motherboards. And I didn't pay hyper-inflated prices for any of it.

Musical Interlude

Song is Konya wa Hurricane from the anime Bubblegum Crisis. Anime is... Oh. You guessed.

One of the best opening sequences to anything ever. Apart from the great soundtrack, it introduces us to all the major characters without telling you that they are the major characters, and to the premise of the series without saying a word. There are a couple of minutes of establishing shots before the song starts, but I chose this clip precisely because it has those.

Disclaimer: Burning touch? We have pills for that now.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 04:00 AM

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1 w00t

Posted by: m at January 02, 2026 04:00 AM (RuTUS)

2 !!

Posted by: clarence at January 02, 2026 04:01 AM (MXMX4)

3 BOING!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 02, 2026 04:01 AM (Z/INn)

4 G'Day everyone

Posted by: Skip at January 02, 2026 04:02 AM (Ia/+0)

5 Trying to decide to get up or not

Posted by: Skip at January 02, 2026 04:02 AM (Ia/+0)

6 Song is Konya wa Hurricane from the anime Bubblegum Crisis.
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I heard Carlson and Owen blame the crisis on the.... Chews.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 02, 2026 04:03 AM (Z/INn)

7 Trying to decide to get up or not

Posted by: Skip at January 02, 2026 04:02 AM (Ia/+0)
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/tries to type and comment in sleep just like skip - fails

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 02, 2026 04:04 AM (Z/INn)

8 Morning all.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at January 02, 2026 04:04 AM (BLOW1)

9 This is my very favorite thing in forever:

5:16 AM · Dec 28, 2024
eigenrobot
@eigenrobot
me: so, your excellency, that's basically what the nation is like in 2024. what's your analysis of the situation? is america still your country?

george washington: we put our flag on the moon?

me: does america still have a future?

george washington: the moon in the sky?

[photo of Neil Armstrong taking a giant leap for mankind]

Posted by: m at January 02, 2026 04:05 AM (RuTUS)

10 I could make French Toast

Posted by: Skip at January 02, 2026 04:11 AM (Ia/+0)

11 I could make French Toast

Posted by: Skip at January 02, 2026 04:11 AM (Ia/+0)
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/tries making french toast without getting up like skip - butter in pan ignites

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 02, 2026 04:14 AM (Z/INn)

12 5 Trying to decide to get up or not
Posted by: Skip at January 02, 2026 04:02 AM (Ia/+0)

In the kitchen, there are sources of caffeine.

Posted by: m at January 02, 2026 04:16 AM (RuTUS)

13 AI is a surveillance tool, nothing more, nothing less.

Posted by: Accomack at January 02, 2026 04:16 AM (EJ7WG)

14 /tries to type and comment in sleep just like skip - fails
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It is afternoon where you are, right? Napping too long?

Posted by: clarence at January 02, 2026 04:18 AM (MXMX4)

15 poke..poke

uncaps sharpie, thinks about where to start..

Posted by: clarence at January 02, 2026 04:24 AM (MXMX4)

16 Mornin'

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at January 02, 2026 04:27 AM (7Pnfz)

17 An AIwalkmanipodponozune is on the way? Awesome. And just like that we have something to make fun of in 2026.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at January 02, 2026 04:30 AM (HTCU3)

18 >>>I think I bought too many computers.

Banish the negative thinking in the new year!

Posted by: m at January 02, 2026 04:36 AM (RuTUS)

19 I can always nap later

Posted by: Skip at January 02, 2026 04:37 AM (Ia/+0)

20 >>>There are a couple of minutes of establishing shots before the song starts, but I chose this clip precisely because it has those.

At about minute one, I was waiting for it to break into the intro for "Eye in the Sky"--which woulda kinda worked with the visuals!

Posted by: m at January 02, 2026 04:42 AM (RuTUS)

21 13 AI is a surveillance tool, nothing more, nothing less.
Posted by: Accomack at January 02, 2026 04:16 AM (EJ7WG)

At the same time, according to the BBC:

'You're invisible, you don't exist': Life without a birth certificate
Millions around the world are living in the shadows as stateless people as they lack official papers.

Posted by: m at January 02, 2026 04:53 AM (RuTUS)

22 They don't want to say it out loud but the real purpose of the audio work is capturing the sound and mannerism of aged out or dead actors to make the movies that would have been good casting decades ago but with modern production standards. Unless they choose to have something look dated, like a adaptation of 'Scarlett' with the original cast and appearance of 'Gone With The Wind'. Though they could also remake GWTW with that cast but looking like it was made today with no budget limits.

The big one I'm expecting is Disney adapting the Star Wars EU novels that pick up right after 'Return of the Jedi'. They've already secured the use of James Earl Jones' voice for future appearance of Darth Vader. I've no doubt they're already making overtures to the rest of the core cast, to make millions for themselves or their heir in exchange for nothing more than a signature on a contract.

Posted by: Epobirs at January 02, 2026 04:56 AM (/0z9K)

23 It is afternoon where you are, right? Napping too long?

Posted by: clarence at January 02, 2026 04:18 AM (MXMX4)
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A few mins before noon. Sashimi prepped, chicken in the oven, assorted nuts roasted. Lunchtime!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 02, 2026 04:57 AM (b88wL)

24 I don't know if there is a special name for computer keyboards with keys that don't pop up, but I can't stand them.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 02, 2026 04:57 AM (ecekB)

25 according to the BBC
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Bish Be Crazy say wha?

Posted by: clarence at January 02, 2026 04:59 AM (MXMX4)

26 25 according to the BBC
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Bish Be Crazy say wha?
Posted by: clarence at January 02, 2026 04:59 AM (MXMX4)

Indeed.

Posted by: m at January 02, 2026 05:00 AM (RuTUS)

27
LB
@beyondreasdoubt

photo in response to:

Ben Smith
@semaforben
14h
"We will replace the frigidity of rugged individualism with the warmth of collectivism," says Mamdani

https://tinyurl.com/yc3pj8a5

Posted by: m at January 02, 2026 05:07 AM (RuTUS)

28
g'mornin', 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at January 02, 2026 05:10 AM (tljrc)

29
Ryan Rasins
@RyanRasins
10h
This video of Secretary Rubio at the NYE party last night gets funnier every time I watch it

https://tinyurl.com/yz2r9z52

Posted by: m at January 02, 2026 05:13 AM (RuTUS)

30 "We will replace the frigidity of rugged individualism with the warmth of collectivism," says Mamdani

https://tinyurl.com/yc3pj8a5

Posted by: m at January 02, 2026 05:07 AM (RuTUS)
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100s of thousands - if not millions - of people will suffer.

There will come a point where citizens will need to decide "them" or "us." Chaos and anarchy are gaining strength.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 02, 2026 05:13 AM (b88wL)

31 "The warmth of collectivism " eh? Mamdani's supporters who expected a block party got corralled off behind barcades in the cold for security purposes, -understandably-but there was no food and no portapotties. The "NY Post" referred to this as "serf and turf". One supporter said, "I could have watched this at home." D'oh!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 02, 2026 05:15 AM (guLpK)

32 We will replace the frigidity of rugged individualism with the warmth of collectivism," says Mamdani

Who wrote this stupid bilge? Surely he didn't .

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 02, 2026 05:17 AM (guLpK)

33 Who wrote this stupid bilge? Surely he didn't .

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 02, 2026 05:17 AM (guLpK)
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Perhaps Kamala.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 02, 2026 05:17 AM (b88wL)

34 Jesse Kelly @JesseKellyDC
10h

REMINDER: New Yorkers born in America flatly rejected this man.

He was elected by foreigners. If we do not stop foreigners from flooding this country, they will all choose this.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 02, 2026 05:19 AM (b88wL)

35 also great @eigenrobot

Pinned

eigenrobot
@eigenrobot
Feb 23, 2018
everything 👏 is 👏 monocausal 👏 and 👏 specifically 👏 results 👏 from 👏 whatever 👏 shit 👏 I'm 👏 on 👏 about 👏 at 👏 any 👏 given 👏 time

Posted by: m at January 02, 2026 05:23 AM (RuTUS)

36 Let foreigners vote and you get a foreigner for a representative

Posted by: Skip at January 02, 2026 05:23 AM (Ia/+0)

37 34 Jesse Kelly @JesseKellyDC
10h

REMINDER: New Yorkers born in America flatly rejected this man.

He was elected by foreigners. If we do not stop foreigners from flooding this country, they will all choose this.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 02, 2026 05:19 AM (b88wL)

Personal anecdote so FWIW one that I know voted for him because NYC rent is high.

Posted by: m at January 02, 2026 05:26 AM (RuTUS)

38 Morning, Tech Peeps

Posted by: fluffy at January 02, 2026 05:27 AM (AN2gy)

39 Christian devotional on Philippians 1:1-11
"To be continued"- about God with us on our life journeys:

https://tinyurl.com/mtmwy527

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 02, 2026 05:34 AM (oT1li)

40 >>>"We will replace the frigidity of rugged individualism with the warmth of collectivism," says Mamdani

Trump Tower hardest hit.

Posted by: m at January 02, 2026 05:35 AM (RuTUS)

41 "We will replace the frigidity of rugged individualism with the warmth of collectivism," says Mamdani

This guy is central casting for the New Soviet Man.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at January 02, 2026 05:38 AM (7Pnfz)

42
@Breaking911
11h
MAMDANI: "If your landlord does not responsibly steward your home, city government will step in."

Posted by: m at January 02, 2026 05:39 AM (RuTUS)

43 This guy is central casting for the New Soviet Man.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at January 02, 2026 05:38 AM (7Pnfz)
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Unhuman.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 02, 2026 05:39 AM (b88wL)

44 "We will replace the frigidity of rugged individualism with the warmth of collectivism," says Mamdani
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He took the oath of office on a book that mandates lying to advance the cause. So, every thing he says is a lie. Typical Democrat.

Posted by: clarence at January 02, 2026 05:42 AM (MXMX4)

45 Shame the powers over Mamdani will try and keep him from implementing Marxism. Kind of hope they fail.

Posted by: Skip at January 02, 2026 05:42 AM (Ia/+0)

46 Steak 🥩 for breakfast
@MeatDietDiary
11h
I'm from the government and I'm here to help.

Posted by: m at January 02, 2026 05:43 AM (RuTUS)

47 This is like a bonus Saturday for me

Posted by: Skip at January 02, 2026 05:43 AM (Ia/+0)

48 I don't know what he's quoting from, but it's funny:

Mark Noonan
@Mark_E_Noonan
10h
“To totally fuck it up. I mean, seriously: you think if you’ve got a clogged sink the city will fix it in less than six months? Look, there’s a lot going on here; sure, your furnace being out is important…but only to you.”

Posted by: m at January 02, 2026 05:46 AM (RuTUS)

49 Evening and morning, late toilers and earlly risers! It's Friday -- normally the consummation devoutly to be wished; but this week has been an odd one. I'll bet a lot of office people have opted to take a vacation day rather than slog to their desks today. I know I would have. For all I know, my old employer might have included today in the "Winter Break," as they'd taken to calling it. (Gag me with a gopher.)

So! 58 F. here, not much wind, but I've worked out several times this week and am going to take off today. If you're free today, what's on your calendar?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 02, 2026 05:46 AM (wzUl9)

50 MAMDANI: "If your landlord does not responsibly steward your home, city government will step in."
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How many plumbers, electricians and handymen are in NYC? And how many will work for the city when they are ordered to work for whatever wage the city sets (below union scale)? And how many buildings will experience sudden fire syndrome?

Posted by: clarence at January 02, 2026 05:46 AM (MXMX4)

51 there's endless great stuff on X about this:

Nathaniel Hawthorne's Ghost
@Hawthorne_Ghost
8h
“Every high civilization decays by forgetting obvious things.”
- GK Chesterton

Posted by: m at January 02, 2026 05:49 AM (RuTUS)

52
Patriotic Penguin 🐧
@ElectPenguin
8h
Security deposits for apartments about to skyrocket.

Posted by: m at January 02, 2026 05:49 AM (RuTUS)

53 Birdbath status?

Posted by: Just Wondering at January 02, 2026 05:50 AM (2Ez/1)

54 I'm up early because of a certain big black cat, who kept leaping around me beginning about 3:45. The joke's on him: He's not going to see breakfast for another half hour at least.

There were scattered fireworks noises last night, and Stirling crept into the bedroom to hide. On the other hand, Linda scooped up Dagny from her sleep pose on the table and slid her onto my lap, on a pillow . . . and she stayed for almost five minutes while we petted her. I'm trying to manage this each night now. Maybe she'll become a lap cat. Maybe.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 02, 2026 05:54 AM (wzUl9)

55 >> Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

Wolfus, you posted this yesterday morning, and I didn't see until way too late:
"Does this mean that in enough time, the Earth's tilt will decrease to the point there are no seasons?"

No. The earth's tilt is pretty stable (you can think our big Moon for that), but varies from 24.5 to 22.1 degrees over a 41K year cycle. We're on the decreasing leg of that now. It was last at maximum somewhere around 8500BC or so, has decreased to 23.44 degrees right now. It will bottom out at 22.1 then start increasing again.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 02, 2026 05:55 AM (w6EFb)

56 Patriotic Penguin 🐧
@ElectPenguin
8h
Security deposits for apartments about to skyrocket.

Posted by: m at January 02, 2026 05:49 AM (RuTUS)
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That's a violation of a landlord's legal responsibility for the stewardship of the tenant's home. This is subject to fines, imprisonment, and forfeiture of property.

Prove me wrong.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 02, 2026 05:56 AM (b88wL)

57 I'm trying to manage this each night now. Maybe she'll become a lap cat. Maybe.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere

Did you get your boots exchanged yesterday?

Posted by: Tuna at January 02, 2026 05:56 AM (lJ0H4)

58 56 Patriotic Penguin 🐧
@ElectPenguin
8h
Security deposits for apartments about to skyrocket.

Posted by: m at January 02, 2026 05:49 AM (RuTUS)
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That's a violation of a landlord's legal responsibility for the stewardship of the tenant's home. This is subject to fines, imprisonment, and forfeiture of property.

Prove me wrong.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 02, 2026 05:56 AM (b88wL)

I'll bet you're right.

Posted by: m at January 02, 2026 05:57 AM (RuTUS)

59 "We will replace the frigidity of rugged individualism with the warmth of collectivism," says Mamdani

What Mandami does the the coffers of NYC will make the Somalis in Minn. ashamed of their relative amateurism.

Posted by: No one at January 02, 2026 05:57 AM (qFwJc)

60 Patriotic Penguin 🐧
@ElectPenguin
8h
Security deposits for apartments about to skyrocket.

Posted by: m at January 02, 2026 05:49 AM (RuTUS)
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That's a violation of a landlord's legal responsibility for the stewardship of the tenant's home. This is subject to fines, imprisonment, and forfeiture of property.

Prove me wrong.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 02, 2026 05:56 AM (b88wL)
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And just wait till squatting is encouraged.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 02, 2026 05:58 AM (b88wL)

61 NY State law prevents security and cleaning deposits from being reasonable. Landlords in NYS have been getting screwed for quite a while.

Posted by: No one at January 02, 2026 05:59 AM (qFwJc)

62 Isn't ace in NYC?

Posted by: m at January 02, 2026 06:00 AM (RuTUS)

63 And here's an honest prayer from Fr. Michael Hollings who was a priest in London. He was born in 1921. I'm not sure when he died:

Politicians

Lord, I know I should pray for our leaders and statesmen and women, but they seem hopeless and beyond praying for.. Yet I know quite well we have to pray for those that despitefully use us, and you never thought people were so bad as to be impossible to save. But didn't you have your doubts about the Pharisees? Probably you prayed about them a lot but the Bible doesn't tell us how.

Teach us to pray for our politicians, and give me faith to keep on praying in the hopes that you will give them wisdom and eyes to see beyond their own party....

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 02, 2026 06:03 AM (guLpK)

64 Flurries this morning.

Posted by: Skip at January 02, 2026 06:04 AM (Ia/+0)

65 Did you get your boots exchanged yesterday?
Posted by: Tuna at January 02, 2026

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No; I wasn't sure they were open. I'm running up there today.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 02, 2026 06:06 AM (wzUl9)

66 Obvious things. I am kicking around the idea of people climbing Mt Everest without having a compass. Looks like it would have prevent some of the deaths in 1995. When did we stop using compasses?

Posted by: Notsothoreau at January 02, 2026 06:08 AM (+mUZM)

67 The earth's tilt is pretty stable (you can think our big Moon for that), but varies from 24.5 to 22.1 degrees over a 41K year cycle. We're on the decreasing leg of that now. It was last at maximum somewhere around 8500BC or so, has decreased to 23.44 degrees right now. It will bottom out at 22.1 then start increasing again.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 02, 2026

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So there is a narrow range within which it can change, and not beyond that. Got it. I had visions of an SF story where a space traveler returns after half a billion years in stasis to find the Earth rides upright around the Sun and there are no seasons.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 02, 2026 06:11 AM (wzUl9)

68
Bonchie
@bonchieredstate
10h
This is going to go just great.

Breaking911
@Breaking911
13h
BERNIE: "City-sponsored grocery stores will save society money!"

Posted by: m at January 02, 2026 06:11 AM (RuTUS)

69
Good morning, Hordians.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 02, 2026 06:11 AM (tgvbd)

70 >>I'm up early because of a certain big black cat, who kept leaping around me beginning about 3:45.

Wolfus, we have a puppy, 8-month-old Yorkie/Chihuahua. Wife, being a serious softie, has let her start sleeping on the bed. Until this morning, puppy had always stayed tucked against wife. About 2 AM, there were suddenly paws on my shoulder and dog licking my cheek. This had better not become a habit.

Posted by: Roland, head still attached at January 02, 2026 06:12 AM (NcvvS)

71 Everything is stable until it is not.

Posted by: Sarah Jessica Parker in He Stable Contemplating SMOD at January 02, 2026 06:13 AM (Agwqn)

72 oops

/sock off

Posted by: Nazdar at January 02, 2026 06:13 AM (NcvvS)

73 I thought this was a nice story about a wildlife rehabilitator who helps rescue a squirrel stuck in a dumpster. Watch the connected video if you have an interest . The woman is very sweet

Sunny Skyz site:

https://tinyurl.com/yc7j3668

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 02, 2026 06:14 AM (Yl2Ob)

74 NYC is about to get what they voted for good and hard.

Posted by: No one at January 02, 2026 06:15 AM (qFwJc)

75 Did you get your boots exchanged yesterday?
Posted by: Tuna at January 02, 2026

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No; I wasn't sure they were open. I'm running up there today.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 02, 2026

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And looking back, it was a good thing I didn't try to go up on NY Eve. I'd have hit Sugar Bowl fan traffic.

I'm pretty sure I'm just going to return the Tecovas for a refund. Even in my size, they are heavy boots; very sturdy and likely to last for many years, but they are heavy as well as expensive. There is a Boot Barn a few minutes' drive away, and they may have something I really like. If not, there is a model on their website I like and can order shipped to my local store to try on.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 02, 2026 06:15 AM (wzUl9)

76 Some guy once said elections have consequences.

Posted by: Ben Had at January 02, 2026 06:16 AM (sDNVV)

77 Good morning. By request: more nugget, less fluff.

Posted by: Fluffy Nuggets, Jr. at January 02, 2026 06:16 AM (HjXyx)

78 Tea. Earl Grey. Hot.

Rejoinder: "You're an agnostic?" "I think I have a cream for that!"

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at January 02, 2026 06:16 AM (qbLEp)

79 Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere

You have so much affection for- and interest in- these cats. I still think you should consider writing stories about them.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 02, 2026 06:17 AM (Yl2Ob)

80 Posted by: Roland, head still attached at January 02, 2026 06:12 AM (NcvvS)

Sounds very cute, but I wouldn't want to have a puppy licking my face at 2:00 either.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 02, 2026 06:21 AM (Yl2Ob)

81
BERNIE: "City-sponsored grocery stores will save society money!"

Posted by: m at January 02, 2026 06:11 AM (RuTUS)

____________

Imaging your local Kroger staffed by people from the DMV.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 02, 2026 06:22 AM (tgvbd)

82 Yorkshire Terrier
+
Chihuahua
=
Yorkcahua
OR
Chihuahuashire?

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at January 02, 2026 06:23 AM (qbLEp)

83 Good morning folks. Hope your Friday is a great one.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at January 02, 2026 06:24 AM (CHHv1)

84 I'm up early because of a certain big black cat, who kept leaping around me beginning about 3:45.

Mine does the same. Say, would you like to have a matching set? I'll pay postage.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at January 02, 2026 06:25 AM (CHHv1)

85 Posted by: BeckoningChasm at January 02, 2026 06:24 AM (CHHv1)

Thanks. Same to you!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 02, 2026 06:25 AM (Yl2Ob)

86 You have so much affection for- and interest in- these cats. I still think you should consider writing stories about them.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 02, 2026

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Some years ago I did write little comic vignettes about the cats then, my two and Linda's one, the three we bugged out for Katrina with. One tale, in which the lead cat tells the other two about how she was rescued, appeared in our writing group's anthology -- which unfortunately is not on Amazon or anywhere. I gave each a personality (which did not always align with her real one) and had fun with comic dialog. "Get off me, Tubby." "That does it. You're getting a hairball in your food bowl tomorrow."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 02, 2026 06:26 AM (wzUl9)

87 81
BERNIE: "City-sponsored grocery stores will save society money!"

Posted by: m at January 02, 2026 06:11 AM (RuTUS)

____________

Imaging your local Kroger staffed by people from the DMV.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 02, 2026 06:22 AM (tgvbd)

And supplied by the Post Office.

They're dreaming too small. You have to collectivize the Kulaks of you are going to have 5-year grocery plans.

Posted by: zombie Ioseb Besarionis dze Jughashvili at January 02, 2026 06:26 AM (QIiVR)

88 Free grocery stores are just another plan of theft of taxpayers money.

Posted by: Skip at January 02, 2026 06:29 AM (Ia/+0)

89 Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 02, 2026 06:26 AM (wzUl9)

That's sounds great. I'm sorry it's not readily available. You're probably familiar with Paul Gallico's book, "The Silent Meow" in which he talks about a cat adopting him. His wife who was a professional photographer did the pictures. It is very funny.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 02, 2026 06:30 AM (Yl2Ob)

90 >>>"We will replace the frigidity of rugged individualism with the warmth of collectivism," says Mamdani.

"Rugged individualism" is recalling, if not directly quoting, Ayn Rand (1905-1982), who was its champion.

Posted by: m at January 02, 2026 06:30 AM (RuTUS)

91 >> So there is a narrow range within which it can change, and not beyond that.

And you can thank the Moon for that. Mars' tilt has varied from 10 to 60 degrees (some sources claim 80 degrees) over time scales of just a few million years.

When the tilt is extreme, the ice migrates to the equator, believe it or not!

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 02, 2026 06:30 AM (w6EFb)

92 Good morning! Gonna be a bright sunshiny day here in Cowtown. A perfect day to do some birdwatching and napping on the patio.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at January 02, 2026 06:32 AM (3Ope8)

93 81 BERNIE: "City-sponsored grocery stores will save society money!"

Imaging your local Kroger staffed by people from the DMV.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 02, 2026 06:22 AM (tgvbd)

No staff! High-trust! Take one, leave one!

Posted by: m at January 02, 2026 06:32 AM (RuTUS)

94
Since Mandami wants to decriminalize prostitution, can you imagine what a "city-sponsored" whorehouse would be like?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 02, 2026 06:33 AM (tgvbd)

95 That's sounds great. I'm sorry it's not readily available. You're probably familiar with Paul Gallico's book, "The Silent Meow" in which he talks about a cat adopting him. His wife who was a professional photographer did the pictures. It is very funny.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 02, 2026

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I do know it! I need to read it again.

Another of the tales, in which The Cats comment on the puzzle of human holidays, appeared on a website which is now defunct -- I think. Maybe I can find it. (Marie, the black cat, wonders why the humans at one point every fall put up pictures of her all over the house -- "Just my outline, with my back arched and tail bushed out. I can't figure it out.")

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 02, 2026 06:34 AM (wzUl9)

96 Since Mandami wants to decriminalize prostitution, can you imagine what a "city-sponsored" whorehouse would be like?
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 02, 2026 06:33 AM (tgvbd)
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Fat guys in short skirts?

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at January 02, 2026 06:35 AM (qbLEp)

97 $20, same as in town.

Posted by: Eromero at January 02, 2026 06:35 AM (Slgjz)

98 Letter to the Editor in today's "NY Post":

After Minnesota, the next time someone in the news on the left or right says something like “we have to act in order to protect ‘our democracy,’ ” the rest of us owe it to ourselves to consider the possibility that the “democracy” they mean is one that uses taxpayer dollars to appease groups of voters who tend to cast ballots as they’re told.

John Sheridan
The Bronx

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 02, 2026 06:37 AM (Yl2Ob)

99
Did VR ever settle in to being routine or did it just go away? Seems you never hear about it any more.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 02, 2026 06:37 AM (tgvbd)

100 100

Posted by: m at January 02, 2026 06:37 AM (RuTUS)

101 100 100

I was told there'd be no math...

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at January 02, 2026 06:40 AM (3Ope8)

102 Morning, 'rons and 'ettes.

Posted by: olddog in mo at January 02, 2026 06:40 AM (bQ4nt)

103 All government employees should be replaced with AI. Crush these unions and get it over with. Learn to code.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at January 02, 2026 06:40 AM (nljXp)

104 Lets see:

"City-sponsored brothels will save society money."

"City-sponsored liquor stores will save society money."

"City-sponsored casinos will save society money."

"City-sponsored cocaine dispensaries will save society money."

This is fun.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at January 02, 2026 06:41 AM (2Ez/1)

105 Elon posted that he paid so mich in taxes one year that he broke the IRS computer. Too many digits. They had to reprogram before they could take payment

Posted by: Notsothoreau at January 02, 2026 06:43 AM (+mUZM)

106 Pass the popcorn. I think watching NYC starve is going to be entertaining.

Here is something I taught my kids: I want to be exploited. If I am not being exploited there are no profits for the enterprise and I don't have a job.

Only in government are people paid more than they are worth.

Posted by: No one at January 02, 2026 06:44 AM (qFwJc)

107 106 Pass the popcorn. I think watching NYC starve is going to be entertaining.

Here is something I taught my kids: I want to be exploited. If I am not being exploited there are no profits for the enterprise and I don't have a job.

Only in government are people paid more than they are worth.
Posted by: No one at January 02, 2026 06:44 AM (qFwJc)

Chesterton reminds us that the end purpose of work is a product, not a wage, and that all the exchanges in which people exploit one another, both socially and financially, are also opportunities for people to dignify one another.

https://www.chesterton.org/consumerism

Posted by: m at January 02, 2026 06:48 AM (RuTUS)

108 Soon? Should I start trying on leather pants?

Posted by: Snake Plissken at January 02, 2026 06:49 AM (pxlL7)

109 47 deaths in Switzerland fire

Posted by: Skip at January 02, 2026 06:51 AM (Ia/+0)

110
Aaaannnnd, now I'm seeing memes that say things like "McDonald's should pay a living wage to its employees." or "Instead of tipping, restaurants should pay their servers more." (I suspect that the people who say this sort of thing tip very poorly).

Tell you what. It's not too difficult to acquire a McDonald's franchise or open a restaurant. Do it, pay your staff as much as you want and let's see what happens.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 02, 2026 06:53 AM (tgvbd)

111 JJ is nood.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 02, 2026 06:53 AM (ExV1e)

112 NYC will limp along, just as it did in the '70s, just as California does now. There's an unhealthy apocalyptic sensibility developing in conservative circles. But like Doomcock endlessly pronouncing the end of Kathleen Kennedy or woke Disney, if it ever happens, it'll only be a coincidence.

Posted by: dead elvis at January 02, 2026 06:56 AM (mrP+j)

113 What's a Doomcock?

Posted by: I'll be the one to ask at January 02, 2026 07:01 AM (2Ez/1)

114 >>Yorkcahua
>>OR
>>Chihuahuashire?

Chorkie.

Posted by: Nazdar at January 02, 2026 07:03 AM (NcvvS)

115 113 What's a Doomcock?
Posted by: I'll be the one to ask at January 02, 2026 07:01 AM (2Ez/1)

$20? Same as in town?

Posted by: m at January 02, 2026 07:56 AM (RuTUS)

116 No Food
No Toilets
But plenty of get
Don't forget to lock up your pet.

Happy New Year, everyone! It's gonna be a bitch.
Let's get it.s

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 02, 2026 08:02 AM (uGpeQ)

117 Nothing like posting on the wrong thread.

Happy New Year, Pixy.
Give 'em hell.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 02, 2026 08:04 AM (uGpeQ)

118 117 Nothing like posting on the wrong thread.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 02, 2026 08:04 AM (uGpeQ)

It's not wrong. It's prior.

Posted by: m at January 02, 2026 08:15 AM (RuTUS)

119 Thank you very much for the Bubblegum Crisis show. My favorite as well as the three episodes of Bubblegum Crash.
(Start violin music) Mostly homeless and lost comp and video collection years ago. Fond memories. (End music)
Enjoy your column immensely. You once answered my question about the four essential keys.
Happy new year.
Lurking by necessity.

Posted by: Duane Ohling at January 02, 2026 09:54 PM (muOIh)

Thursday Overnight Open Thread - January 1, 2026 [Doof]

Happy New Year, Hordelings! First ONT of the year. Aren't you glad you stopped by?

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America turns 250 this year. Check out this cool video from "America250".

The next chapter of our American story starts now.

250 years of rising, remembering, and turning toward one another to embrace our part in history.

As we begin this once-in-a-generation year, take a moment to reflect on who we are—and who we want to be. Happy 2026. Happy… pic.twitter.com/fUj2twHZDB
— America250 (@America250) January 1, 2026

Can you imagine what kind of alternate universe video would have been made if Kamala was POTUS?

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CBS News says they're totally gonna be better now

"On too many stories, the press has missed the story. Because we've taken into account the perspective of advocates and not the average American. Or we put too much weight in the analysis of academics or elites, and not enough on you."

That changes now. The new CBS Evening News… pic.twitter.com/NKdvRJjYCS
— CBS Evening News (@CBSEveningNews) January 1, 2026

I totally believe them. How about you?

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Hard to believe, but there are still quite a few Branch Covidians out there

The folks are on year 7 of 14 days to flatten the curve.

Will they ever give up their masks? pic.twitter.com/v2rd0kea1K
— Planet Of Memes (@PlanetOfMemes) January 1, 2026

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Happy Anniversary to The Far Side

Jan 1, 1980: The Far Side by Gary Larson was first published in the San Francisco Chronicle #80s Ran in syndication until January 1, 1995 pic.twitter.com/HaAfSi2DEk
— Old School 80s (@OldSchool80s) January 1, 2026

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Dude

U.S. Customs Seizes Monkey Meat at Chicago O’Hare Airport

Chicago O’Hare International Airport, one of the busiest travel hubs in the world, made headlines this week after U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officials confiscated several illegal and disturbing items from an arriving passenger’s luggage—including monkey meat.
The traveler, arriving from the Democratic Republic of Congo, was stopped during a routine inspection at O’Hare. Upon examination of their luggage, officers discovered over 11 pounds of pest-infested beans, 17 pounds of unidentifiable plant material, and approximately 4 pounds of dried monkey meat, which was later classified as non-human primate meat. In addition to the monkey meat, authorities also seized what they described as mummified small primates.

Sorry to disappoint you, but the article contains no mention of greasy, grimy gopher guts.

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Need to pick up a bleated Christmas gift for someone?

The Quality Learing center playset
😂🤣😂 pic.twitter.com/KbhB4GXwME
— ThatOneGuy55 (@Tesla7771) December 31, 2025

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DJ Doof - Guess The Theme

Super easy. Difficulty level 1 out of 5

What's the common thread / common meaning / common leitmotif?

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Tonight's ONT brought to you by New Year wishes

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Doof Enterprises, LLC is proud to be operating under a new ONT contract for 2026. This year's ONTs will whelm you way more than our 2025 ones did.

Your feedback may or may not be very important to Doof Enterprises. Follow Mr. Doof on X @doof2112 or do the email thing – doof2112 at proton dot me.

Posted by: Open Blogger at 09:58 PM

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1 A delicious New Year's traditional family supper of black-eye-pea stew, this year with added burger (not pork, it's Oklahoma), avocado, and Santa Fe style chile verde. Also, cornbread - marbled yellow and blue corn - with jalapeños, and honey-butter. Five humans dining, and five dogs frolicking for full festive chaos.

For luck to last a year, technically, you must be sure to consume a minimum of 365 peas; 366 in Leap Years.

Setting goals for the new year: to lose all those extra pounds put on since Thanksgiving.

Happy New Year, alla y'all.

Posted by: mindful webworker - Right? Right! at January 01, 2026 09:59 PM (dESj/)

2 Merry NY!

Posted by: mot at January 01, 2026 09:59 PM (fIPNY)

3 Brute

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 01, 2026 10:00 PM (UZwsW)

4 Let's hope the GOPe doesn't interfere with Trump's plans again. He has enough trouble with insurrectionist judges and state officials.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at January 01, 2026 10:01 PM (uQesX)

5 A delicious New Year's traditional family supper of black-eye-pea stew, this year with added burger (not pork, it's Oklahoma), avocado, and Santa Fe style chile verde. Also, cornbread - marbled yellow and blue corn - with jalapeños, and honey-butter. Five humans dining, and five dogs frolicking for full festive chaos.

Posted by: mindful webworker - Right? Right! at January 01, 2026 09:59 PM (dESj/)
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Have you tried substituting monkey meat?

Posted by: traveler, Democratic Republic of Congo at January 01, 2026 10:02 PM (ESVrU)

6 *1 more year, if we can help it

Posted by: GOPe at January 01, 2026 10:03 PM (gKWVE)

7 The traveler, arriving from the Democratic Republic of Congo, was stopped during a routine inspection at O’Hare. Upon examination of their luggage, officers discovered over 11 pounds of pest-infested beans, 17 pounds of unidentifiable plant material, and approximately 4 pounds of dried monkey meat, which was later classified as non-human primate meat. In addition to the monkey meat, authorities also seized what they described as mummified small primates.

Choose your comment:

1) Diversity is our strength!

B) That is not how "the twelve days of Christmas" goes

Posted by: mikeski at January 01, 2026 10:03 PM (nhCoE)

8 Nyah

At least she did not sit on the dog and wonder where Fluffy vanished to. Or was that a Far Side cartoon?

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 01, 2026 10:03 PM (2GVsD)

9 I have the New Riders album, right in front of me.

Posted by: free tibet at January 01, 2026 10:03 PM (1wtUm)

10 Good evening morons and Feliz año nuevo Disco

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 01, 2026 10:03 PM (RIvkX)

11 In addition to the monkey meat, authorities also seized what they described as mummified small primates.
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Those will be ground up into powder and used in black sorcery rituals or as an aphrodisiac.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 01, 2026 10:03 PM (ESVrU)

12 Yay, New Years Day ONT!

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at January 01, 2026 10:04 PM (lUFok)

13 I made a big pot of Hoppin’ John today! For me black eyed peas cooked slowly with two onions chopped in and some chopped bacon; served over fluffy white rice. And some jiffy cornbread too.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 01, 2026 10:04 PM (otNgF)

14 I am feeling very centered tonight.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at January 01, 2026 10:04 PM (1paM0)

15 Ruth Gamble@honouringtruth

... I have been a lesbian feminist for 4 decades. The Left never came to the party to build an egalitarian world-men see themselves as Great Liberators, without understanding they are Great Oppressors who never bothered to hand in their free passes. Handmaidens fawn

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 01, 2026 10:04 PM (UZwsW)

16 no "dirty little birdy feet"?

Posted by: free tibet at January 01, 2026 10:04 PM (1wtUm)

17 Don't touch my monkey.

Posted by: Deder at January 01, 2026 10:05 PM (Q+gd/)

18 "Bleated?"

How many bourbons did you have while you were writing this?

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 01, 2026 10:05 PM (YIDb4)

19 GOPe will find a stupid fence on a hill to go full lemming on and die.

They are like the 'Aints, will always find a way to lose.

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 01, 2026 10:05 PM (2GVsD)

20 Ha, problem already fixed!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at January 01, 2026 10:05 PM (1paM0)

21 I made Hoppin John with black eyed peas for lunch and it was superlative.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 01, 2026 10:05 PM (RIvkX)

22 Sorry I'm late, I've been dealing with a pretty bad hangover. My belly has started to hang over my belt buckle so much that it is starting to chafe.

Posted by: tankdemon at January 01, 2026 10:05 PM (2RJDy)

23 In addition to the monkey meat, authorities also seized what they described as mummified small primates.
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Those will be ground up into powder and used in black sorcery rituals or as an aphrodisiac.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel
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Only the albino primates.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at January 01, 2026 10:05 PM (/lPRQ)

24 But did he shock the monkey?

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 01, 2026 10:06 PM (2GVsD)

25 If the Sesquicentennial is anything like the Bicentennial you youngsters are in for a good time this summer.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 01, 2026 10:06 PM (RIvkX)

26
I totally believe them. How about you?

Well, they did promise not to do that thing in our mouths again.

Naaaaaa. Fuck the media, the i dustry, and all their commie talking heads.

Posted by: BifBewalski - at January 01, 2026 10:06 PM (QVmho)

27 I think I've got the theme for the musical selections, based on the second and third songs. The first one doesn't seem familiar, so off I go to check my theory.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at January 01, 2026 10:06 PM (lUFok)

28 Evenin'

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at January 01, 2026 10:06 PM (7Pnfz)

29 Sounds like Landman's Dad.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 01, 2026 10:07 PM (QAvZU)

30 Munkey?

Posted by: Inspector C at January 01, 2026 10:07 PM (Q+gd/)

31 You guys playing cards?

Posted by: Don Black. Message: at January 01, 2026 10:09 PM (ZxPkt)

32 Posted by: Tom Servo at January 01, 2026 10:04 PM (otNgF)
===

No collard greens though.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 01, 2026 10:09 PM (RIvkX)

33 Sam Elliot on that 250 vid? Thought he was a Kamalaite? Shouldn't he be sad, not celebrating?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at January 01, 2026 10:09 PM (uQesX)

34 Is that Sam Elliott?

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 01, 2026 10:09 PM (QAvZU)

35 You guys playing cards?
Posted by: Don Black. Message: at January 01, 2026 10:09 PM (ZxPkt)
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Ante up!

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 01, 2026 10:09 PM (ESVrU)

36 15: Calm down, Ruth. Have another wine.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at January 01, 2026 10:10 PM (7Pnfz)

37 Good evening Horde. Thanks Disco!

Posted by: TRex - one day almost down, 364 to go at January 01, 2026 10:10 PM (IQ6Gq)

38
Calm down, Ruth. Have another wine.
Posted by: Puddleglum

Ruthie needs to sense fucked into her.

*not it*

Posted by: BifBewalski - at January 01, 2026 10:11 PM (QVmho)

39 Calm down, Ruth. Have another wine.
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at January 01, 2026 10:10 PM (7Pnfz)

But I'll be sober in the morning.

Posted by: Winnie at January 01, 2026 10:11 PM (uQesX)

40 Happy New Year.

I am thankful for the Ace of Spades...even though I am mostly a lurker.

I never miss a day. I usually read the content, and then miss out on being in the top twenty. I actually made 3rd for one time this year.

Please remember our military who are stationed overseas, and missed spending the holidays with their families.

Posted by: Idlan at January 01, 2026 10:12 PM (YT7+E)

41 Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 01, 2026 10:04 PM (UZwsW)

What kind of gibberish was that?

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 01, 2026 10:12 PM (KDPiq)

42 Repeal the 19th Amendment.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 01, 2026 10:12 PM (QAvZU)

43 If the Sesquicentennial is anything like the Bicentennial…

Sesquicentennial was in 1926. This year is officially the Semiquincentennial. Semi = half and quin = 5. It was to avoid that kind of confusion that I preferred Sestercentennial. (Sester = 2.5)

Romans had words for numbers like Eskimos for snow.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at January 01, 2026 10:12 PM (EXyHK)

44 lol as soon as I saw that story I thought “mutilated monkey meat!” But you had it covered Doof.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 01, 2026 10:12 PM (otNgF)

45 "Bleated?"

How many bourbons did you have while you were writing this?
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 01, 2026 10:05 PM (YIDb4)

Ace doesn't pay for me to have a proofreader

Posted by: Doof at January 01, 2026 10:12 PM (QMAsf)

46 I wonder if the US military will rise to the occasion and create special paint schemes to celebrate the 250th like they did for 1976 and the 200th?

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 01, 2026 10:13 PM (2GVsD)

47 6
'Posted by: GOPe'

They benefit aplenty being the only alternative to 'Rat representation. It boils my blood that they manage to avoid the wrath of their voters.
God help them when a way to hold them accountable appears.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at January 01, 2026 10:13 PM (fd80v)

48 For whatever reason, I just can't get into cornbread.

I'd eat that entire pot of Hoppin Johns though.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 01, 2026 10:13 PM (XV/Pl)

49 Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at January 01, 2026 10:12 PM (EXyHK)
====

No math.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 01, 2026 10:13 PM (RIvkX)

50 Is that Sam Elliott?
Posted by: Boss Moss at January 01, 2026 10:09 PM (QAvZU)

Bet that was a sound alike voice actor . Elliot is not a fan of Trump and recently made some Lefty comments iirc.

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 01, 2026 10:14 PM (KDPiq)

51 CCL.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 01, 2026 10:14 PM (QAvZU)

52 You guys playing cards?
Posted by: Don Black. Message: at January 01, 2026 10:09 PM (ZxPkt)

Is my webcam on? Was playing poker as I was posting tonight's thread. Honestly.

Posted by: Doof at January 01, 2026 10:14 PM (QMAsf)

53 I made Hoppin John with black eyed peas for lunch and it was superlative.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 01, 2026 10:05
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Did you make it yesterday? 'Cause it's always better the second day.

Posted by: olddog in mo at January 01, 2026 10:14 PM (bQ4nt)

54 My wife likes collard greens, of course she’s from Louisiana. I never really warmed up to them.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 01, 2026 10:15 PM (otNgF)

55 Plants are for livestock.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 01, 2026 10:15 PM (QAvZU)

56 How many bourbons did you have while you were writing this?
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 01, 2026 10:05 PM (YIDb4)

Ace doesn't pay for me to have a proofreader
Posted by: Doof at January 01, 2026 10:12 PM (QMAsf)
====

Actually, its only fun to point out errors after something is published.

Posted by: Wesley Crusher at January 01, 2026 10:15 PM (RIvkX)

57 Did you make it yesterday? 'Cause it's always better the second day.
Posted by: olddog in mo at January 01, 2026 10:14 PM (bQ4nt)

Yeah in fact I made mine last night.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 01, 2026 10:15 PM (otNgF)

58 authorities also seized what they described as mummified small primates.

Not only did they take Christmas dinner, they took my kids Christmas presents!

They did not want no Elf on the Shelf. They wanted Macaque on the Rack.

Posted by: mikeski at January 01, 2026 10:16 PM (nhCoE)

59 For whatever reason, I just can't get into cornbread.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 01, 2026 10:13 PM (XV/Pl)

She is a little crazy, isn't she?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at January 01, 2026 10:16 PM (uQesX)

60 I Love this place :-)

thank you , Ace and Cobs

Posted by: free tibet at January 01, 2026 10:16 PM (1wtUm)

61 Bleated?

Is Doof feeling sheepish?

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 01, 2026 10:17 PM (2GVsD)

62 Did you make it yesterday? 'Cause it's always better the second day.
Posted by: olddog in mo at January 01, 2026 10:14 PM (bQ4nt)
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I soaked the peas since Monday and the rice was made Tuesday, so...

Posted by: Wesley Crusher at January 01, 2026 10:17 PM (RIvkX)

63 Collard greens cooked with ham hocks. Jalapeno black eyed peas. Baby back ribs. First meal of the year was a win.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at January 01, 2026 10:17 PM (ytIDq)

64 /sh*t

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 01, 2026 10:17 PM (RIvkX)

65 and approximately 4 pounds of dried monkey meat, which was later classified as non-human primate meat.

But how can they be sure?

Posted by: Half Dozen at January 01, 2026 10:17 PM (EYvpB)

66 Did you make it yesterday? 'Cause it's always better the second day.
Posted by: olddog in mo at January 01, 2026 10:14 PM (bQ4nt)

Same way with hog jowls and possum innards.

Posted by: J. D. Clampett at January 01, 2026 10:17 PM (uQesX)

67 Tommy Lee Jones’ Daughter Found Dead at Swanky San Francisco Hotel

Old news, 2 hrs ago.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at January 01, 2026 10:17 PM (/lPRQ)

68 Doof, the 3 songs all have "new" in the band name...for New Years Day!

Posted by: Joemarine at January 01, 2026 10:18 PM (y171U)

69 For whatever reason, I just can't get into cornbread.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 01, 2026 10:13 PM
====

Add moar sugar.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 01, 2026 10:18 PM (RIvkX)

70 No math

All I did was provide numbers. If you can’t refrain from doing math on them, I accept no responsibility!

Happy New Year, everyone!

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at January 01, 2026 10:18 PM (EXyHK)

71 It was to avoid that kind of confusion that I preferred Sestercentennial.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair

Ilhan Omar's 100th wedding anniversary?

Posted by: mikeski at January 01, 2026 10:18 PM (nhCoE)

72 What kind of gibberish was that?
Posted by: Opinion fact
----------

It . just . belonged . here.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 01, 2026 10:18 PM (UZwsW)

73 I'm a cornbread fan though I consider them equal to good dinner rolls. My choice is dependent on the meal.

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 01, 2026 10:18 PM (KDPiq)

74 Is Doof feeling sheepish?
Posted by: Anna Puma at January 01, 2026 10:17 PM (2GVsD)

Sis boom bah!

Posted by: Carnak at January 01, 2026 10:19 PM (uQesX)

75 Friday's are a way to remember. Wear a red shirt. That signifies "Remember Everyone Deployed".

Everyone thinks since we are not in an active war (or police action) that there are no military overseas. I know this group knows better, but we need to shout it out to the the other half of the USA.

Posted by: Idlan at January 01, 2026 10:19 PM (YT7+E)

76 Save that dog!

I often "what if Kamala?"
None of the savings, no large scale RIFs, no closed departments.
Dangerous criminal illegals left to roam the country.
Borders open to more criminals.
If the Senate and House had the slightest D majority,
End to the filibuster
Pack SCOTUS to 15 Justices
Emasculate the Second Amendment
Limit the First, Fourth and Fifth
Tax and spend like crazy

Posted by: JM in Illinois at January 01, 2026 10:19 PM (wZw/H)

77 Bleated?

Is Doof feeling sheepish?
Posted by: Anna Puma at January 01, 2026 10:17 PM (2GVsD)

If I correct it, your comment won't make sense. I'll leave it.

Posted by: Doof at January 01, 2026 10:19 PM (QMAsf)

78 Someone needs to do a welfare check on Ruth's cats.

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 01, 2026 10:19 PM (2GVsD)

79 Ilhan Omar's 100th wedding anniversary?

Like I said, the Romans had numbers for everything!

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at January 01, 2026 10:20 PM (EXyHK)

80 Texas Road House serves up some good monkey meat these days. I'm going tomorrow and will report back on whether they have the greasy, grimy, gopher guts.

Posted by: The Galloping Gourmet at January 01, 2026 10:20 PM (oftw2)

81

Olongapo and Subic Bay Memories
September 5, 2024

Sailors and Marines may have jokingly and endearingly called this popular Pinoy street food as “monkey meat” but in reality, it is pork barbecue or “meat kebab” made of pork slices marinated in a sweet and savory sauce and grilled to perfection. A very popular street food in Olongapo, it is commonly peddled on makeshift grill carts along Magsaysay Drive and Rizal Avenue. Those who have tasted this grilled barbecued pork like the sweet, salty, and slightly spicy flavor combo and could be addictive.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 01, 2026 10:21 PM (pkeXY)

82 Doof, the 3 songs all have "new" in the band name...for New Years Day!
Posted by: Joemarine at January 01, 2026 10:18 PM (y171U)

Yup. Easy layup tonight.

Posted by: Doof at January 01, 2026 10:21 PM (QMAsf)

83 15 Ruth Gamble@honouringtruth

... I have been a lesbian feminist for 4 decades. The Left never came to the party to build an egalitarian world-men see themselves as Great Liberators, without understanding they are Great Oppressors who never bothered to hand in their free passes. Handmaidens fawn

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 01, 2026 10:04 PM (UZwsW)

Yeah... who freed the slaves? Oh... White Men.
Who gave Women the Right to vote? oh... White Men.
Who gave minorities equal rights? yup, White Guys.

Who is actively dividing us? Minorities, Women, Gays...

Kinda makes ya go... hmmmm....

Posted by: Romeo13 at January 01, 2026 10:22 PM (mP0Kj)

84 Please remember our military who are stationed overseas, and missed spending the holidays with their families.

Posted by: Idlan

Thank you.
Please don’t be shy. I don’t bite.

Hard. Unless you like that.

Posted by: nurse ratched at January 01, 2026 10:22 PM (IhIKR)

85 >48 For whatever reason, I just can't get into cornbread.

Hot, fresh from the oven, lots of melted butter.

Posted by: davidt at January 01, 2026 10:22 PM (Q+gd/)

86 I’m sad for Tommy Lee Jones. 34 year old at a New Years Eve party at a swank hotel, found unresponsive and died, well it’s obvious what everyone is thinking.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 01, 2026 10:23 PM (otNgF)

87 Bleated?

Is Doof feeling sheepish?
Posted by: Anna Puma at January 01, 2026 10:17 PM (2GVsD)

If I correct it, your comment won't make sense. I'll leave it.
Posted by: Doof at January 01, 2026 10:19 PM (QMAsf)

At least he hasn't been debleated. We still hear him.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at January 01, 2026 10:23 PM (S/Y4j)

88 Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 01, 2026 10:21 PM (pkeXY)

The McRib ?

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 01, 2026 10:23 PM (KDPiq)

89 @Object_Zero_8h . World’s Largest Shipyard

... Hyundai Heavy Industry yard in Ulsan, South Korea. It employs 550,000 people.

The facility is 6.7m square meters and includes 1.6m square meters of steelworks, feeding 10 large dry docks. It is enormous 1,650 acres.

They produce 1.5-2m tonnes steel per year to build ships with 10m tonnes collective displacement.

Whilst Chinese yards build much if the smaller lower cost ships, South Korea completely dominates the high quality end on the market.

South Korea builds the vast majority of drillships, FPSOs, LNG carriers, VLCC tankers, etc. all the stuff that needs highly detailed quality controls for insurers.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 01, 2026 10:23 PM (UZwsW)

90 Made a delicious New Year's supper of asparagus and kulebyaka, a Russian dish with salmon filet layered with mushroom rice and sliced hard boiled eggs inside of puff pastry, topped with lemon/dill sauce. Time consuming to prepare but very tasty.

Posted by: Frankie at January 01, 2026 10:23 PM (9x9Vs)

91 OK, got the theme. You'd have to be high to miss it.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at January 01, 2026 10:24 PM (lUFok)

92 So, how did that shit make it ONTO the plane?

I mean, if we don't search overseas passengers, how do we know there are no bombs?

Posted by: Romeo13 at January 01, 2026 10:24 PM (mP0Kj)

93 Happy New Year's everyone! Hope there was lots of celebrating and a minimum on hangovers.

Posted by: Dr. T at January 01, 2026 10:24 PM (jGGMD)

94 48 For whatever reason, I just can't get into cornbread.
-snip-
Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 01, 2026 10:13 PM (XV/Pl)

Ya gotta woo her a little. Take her out to dinner. Tell her you hate Trump.

You'll get into it soon enough.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at January 01, 2026 10:25 PM (xIpco)

95 When Japan shifted VCR manufacturing I thought, well, here comes the crap. Should have known Japan wouldn't hand off to crappy builders.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 01, 2026 10:25 PM (UZwsW)

96 Sesquicentennial was in 1926. This year is officially the Semiquincentennial. Semi = half and quin = 5. It was to avoid that kind of confusion that I preferred Sestercentennial. (Sester = 2.5)

Romans had words for numbers like Eskimos for snow.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair

I'll probably drop dead before 85 ... But I would not mind living too see the tricentennial.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at January 01, 2026 10:25 PM (/lPRQ)

97 Jeepers Kraken up 3-0 halfway through the first.

Posted by: nurse ratched at January 01, 2026 10:26 PM (IhIKR)

98
Romans couldn't count anyway. That inclusive counting way they thought of things was just a mess.

Tomorrow would not be 1 day from now, but 2, since they counted today as 1.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 01, 2026 10:26 PM (w6EFb)

99 *reads tankdemon @22*

Oh. Well, never mind.

Posted by: Dr. T at January 01, 2026 10:26 PM (jGGMD)

100 CBS guy; "I have been you." Rings false. Besides, if true, he's got the same problem Kash Patel and Pam Bondi have: too many of their embedded staff want them to fail.

Posted by: JM in Illinois at January 01, 2026 10:27 PM (V+sk9)

101 Willowed from the previous thread: the English climate today is still not as warm as during the Roman period. Grapes for wine were grown as far norm as Northamptonshire and Lincolnshire in those days. Current production is further south and very limited. Link to overlong Wikipedia article:

https://is.gd/UEojx1

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at January 01, 2026 10:27 PM (1paM0)

102 In a previous millennium, long, long ago, when I had high friends in low places, I was occasionally blessed with classic strains of weed. Never had Panama Red, but did once enjoy a bag of actual Jamaican Red. A remarkable looking rusty-colored herb with a distinctive effect. So I (sort of) recall.

https://bit.ly/jah-make-uh

Posted by: mindful webworker - all those friends are long gone now at January 01, 2026 10:27 PM (dESj/)

103 So, how did that shit make it ONTO the plane?

I mean, if we don't search overseas passengers, how do we know there are no bombs?
Posted by: Romeo13 at January 01, 2026 10:24 PM (mP0

But there's no way a Hatian immigrant fresh off the boat would eat a pond goose or someone's pet or use it for some voodoo shit.

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 01, 2026 10:29 PM (KDPiq)

104 @Aviation_Intel . 5h

Chinese Cargo Ship With Electromagnetic Catapult To Launch Advanced Combat Drones Emerges
---

hmm, Sea Salt + cu + al + fe + catapult = ?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 01, 2026 10:29 PM (UZwsW)

105 Do we really want those particular women to give up their masks?

Posted by: tankdemon at January 01, 2026 10:30 PM (2RJDy)

106 Friday's are a way to remember. Wear a red shirt. That signifies "Remember Everyone Deployed".

Everyone thinks since we are not in an active war (or police action) that there are no military overseas. I know this group knows better, but we need to shout it out to the the other half of the USA.
Posted by: Idlan

Sorry, seen too many episodes of Star Trek to wear a red shirt when going on an away mission.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at January 01, 2026 10:30 PM (/lPRQ)

107 Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at January 01, 2026 10:25 PM (/lPRQ)

GET OFF MY LAWN !!

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 01, 2026 10:31 PM (KDPiq)

108 PLAN's new carrier, Fujin sp?, has electromagnetic catapults. But is conventionally powered. So their launch cycle is dependent upon the capacitors.

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 01, 2026 10:31 PM (2GVsD)

109 I'll probably drop dead before 85 ... But I would not mind living too see the tricentennial.

Raise a glass to us 29-year olds if you do make it. And remember the old HQ!

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at January 01, 2026 10:32 PM (EXyHK)

110 >For whatever reason, I just can't get into cornbread.

Posted by: Thomas Bender
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try smothering it with spicy chili

Posted by: Don Black. Message: at January 01, 2026 10:32 PM (ZxPkt)

111 Nice Am250 ad. Would have been nice to have a scene with one church or house of worship- The Thing! God's grace shed on thee.

Posted by: Rex B at January 01, 2026 10:33 PM (C9oTe)

112 94 48 For whatever reason, I just can't get into cornbread.
-snip-
Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 01, 2026 10:13 PM (XV/Pl)

Ya gotta woo her a little. Take her out to dinner. Tell her you hate Trump.

You'll get into it soon enough.
Posted by: Darrell Harris
---

Give her some salted butter. That'll do it.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 01, 2026 10:35 PM (UZwsW)

113 Sorry, seen too many episodes of Star Trek to wear a red shirt when going on an away mission.

Be Scotty.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at January 01, 2026 10:35 PM (EXyHK)

114 Re: O’Hare airport seizures.

I remember it being “18 pounds of grimy, greasy, gopher guts”

Posted by: Lurking Cheshirecat at January 01, 2026 10:35 PM (w3u3d)

115 Days of the New... really liked that album. Still have the CD. Takes me back to college (1997), age 21. 90s were such an awesome time for music. Great memories going to the record store on campus to get the latest CD releases.

My first roommate and I had similar taste in music back then. I remember each of us getting the Beastie Boys Ill Communication when it came out. And Alice in Chains in 1995 with the dog on the cover.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at January 01, 2026 10:35 PM (P5BPp)

116 Scotty was the only one to wear a red shirt and be expected to make it the end of the episode, and even that was put in doubt a few times.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at January 01, 2026 10:36 PM (1paM0)

117 Apparently, "bisesquicentennial" would work for 250 as well.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 01, 2026 10:37 PM (w6EFb)

118 DOOF!

Happiest New Year my friend!

Posted by: COMountainMarie at January 01, 2026 10:37 PM (LNeRu)

119 113 Sorry, seen too many episodes of Star Trek to wear a red shirt when going on an away mission.

Be Scotty.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at January 01, 2026 10:35 PM (EXyHK)

Damn, thinkin on it... I was an Electronics type in the Navy, so that would probably be a Red Shirt...

And I was part of the Security and Boarding team...

Surprised I survived me Navy carreer.

Posted by: Romeo13 at January 01, 2026 10:38 PM (mP0Kj)

120 Cornbread can’t beat Martha White biscuits!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at January 01, 2026 10:38 PM (1paM0)

121 NIce mystery click.
Had a sergeant who played backup for REO Speedwagon. He was incredible on the guitar.

Posted by: Diogenes at January 01, 2026 10:38 PM (2WIwB)

122 Tommy Lee Jones’ Daughter Found Dead at Swanky San Francisco Hotel

Damn, man. That's sad.

Posted by: mindful webworker - what no parent should go through at January 01, 2026 10:39 PM (dESj/)

123 A breakfast meal in Louisiana called Cush Cush is made by crushing up corn bread into butter milk. Sometimes slightly soured milk.

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 01, 2026 10:39 PM (KDPiq)

124 I am super excited to see your contract was renewed, Doof, and you weren’t hit with a first right of refusal only extension!

Posted by: Piper at January 01, 2026 10:40 PM (p4NUW)

125 Nothing in local media about Tommy Lee Jones' daughter

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 01, 2026 10:40 PM (RIvkX)

126 French-fried parrakeet is delicious with a sweet and sour chutney and termite larvae in aspic.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at January 01, 2026 10:41 PM (nljXp)

127
My paternal grandmother's name was Ruth.

She would say fuck you to that bitch Ruth.

Posted by: fourseasons at January 01, 2026 10:42 PM (3ek7K)

128 Boom, boom, boom, boom - hey-e-yea

@miriti55453 . 5h
U.S. MILITARY STRIKES NARCO FLEET in PACIFIC

Over 48 hours in late December, the U.S. military destroyed five drug-trafficking vessels operating along known narco routes in the Pacific.

According to U.S. Southern Command:
• Dec 30: Three boats struck after confirmed narcotics transfers
• At least 3 killed on the first vessel
• Remaining boats were tracked, engaged, and sunk
• Coast Guard conducted follow-on operations
• Dec 31: Two additional narco vessels targeted
• 5 more killed
Total: 5 boats destroyed. 8 traffickers killed.
These strikes are part of a broader campaign:
• 30+ U.S. strikes since September
• 110+ narco combatants neutralized
• Operations framed as a non-international armed conflict with cartel networks fueling U.S. drug deaths
This is what decisive interdiction looks like.

Source: NPR

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 01, 2026 10:42 PM (UZwsW)

129 Cornbread > Croissant > Dinner roll > Texas Toast> Biscuit

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 01, 2026 10:43 PM (KDPiq)

130 Cush Cush sounds a lot like couscous. Coincidence?

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at January 01, 2026 10:43 PM (1paM0)

131 DOOF!

Happiest New Year my friend!
Posted by: COMountainMarie at January 01, 2026 10:37 PM (LNeRu)

Happy New Year to you too!

Posted by: Doof at January 01, 2026 10:43 PM (QMAsf)

132 Apparently, "bisesquicentennial" would work for 250 as well.

I was worried for a while. It sounds vaguely like a Lovecraftian horror.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at January 01, 2026 10:44 PM (EXyHK)

133 Happy New Year!

Posted by: ChE99 at January 01, 2026 10:44 PM (esnLI)

134 122 Tommy Lee Jones’ Daughter Found Dead at Swanky San Francisco Hotel

Damn, man. That's sad.
Posted by: mindful webworker - what no parent should go through at January 01, 2026 10:39 PM (dESj/)

----

That's really rough. Age 34. Reportedly found in a hallway. Dean Martin lost his son, age 35, and was deeply affected by it. RIP.

Posted by: JM in Illinois at January 01, 2026 10:45 PM (4V3F9)

135 I need all the luck I can get right now, so I had ham (leftovers from Christmas), collard greens (first time, reminds me of green beans, steamed broccoli and spinach, all in different aspects), black-eyed peas and cornbread (I make an incredible cornbread, or at least, I do a fantastic job with the jiffy mix).

I can't say that collard greens will ever be a favorite, but... not bad.

Posted by: RandomDave at January 01, 2026 10:46 PM (aJQbY)

136 Cush Cush sounds a lot like couscous. Coincidence?
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at January 01, 2026 10:43 PM (1paM0)

Louisiana vernacular and slight variation.

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 01, 2026 10:46 PM (KDPiq)

137 My New Years resolution is to only drink when I'm alone.
Or with other people.

Cheers!

Posted by: proudvastrightwingguy at January 01, 2026 10:46 PM (MNCvZ)

138 It's a crying shame that Brian Dennehy is no longer here. He could have played all the Founding Fathers in a touring company of "1776" for our 250th birthday. Or the City of Philadelphia.

Posted by: Who's Gonna Fill His Shoes? at January 01, 2026 10:47 PM (oftw2)

139 Looking at the French connection, I think Cush Cush must be a Louisiana version of couscous.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at January 01, 2026 10:47 PM (1paM0)

140
I grew up in the South. I don't like fried chicken and cornbread.

Posted by: fourseasons at January 01, 2026 10:48 PM (3ek7K)

141 I am super excited to see your contract was renewed, Doof, and you weren’t hit with a first right of refusal only extension!
Posted by: Piper at January 01, 2026 10:40 PM (p4NUW)

Unfortunately there was a "no typo" clause in there. I've already violated the terms so I might get fired.

Posted by: Doof at January 01, 2026 10:48 PM (QMAsf)

142 Romans couldn't count anyway. That inclusive counting way they thought of things was just a mess.

Tomorrow would not be 1 day from now, but 2, since they counted today as 1.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley

How many days until tomorrow?
Two.

A fencepost problem.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at January 01, 2026 10:48 PM (/lPRQ)

143
33 Sam Elliot on that 250 vid? Thought he was a Kamalaite? Shouldn't he be sad, not celebrating?
Posted by: OrangeEnt at January 01, 2026 10:09 PM (uQesX)

------

It was like finding out he sucks dicks. What a fraud.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at January 01, 2026 10:48 PM (biznJ)

144 Dogs have great hearing. That dog can probably hear the fat of her ass breaking down the atomic structure of the metal in the stool, and will hear the exact moment when the atoms yell fuuuuuuck giving him time to save himself.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 01, 2026 10:48 PM (snZF9)

145
I can't say that collard greens will ever be a favorite, but... not bad.
Posted by: RandomDave at January 01, 2026 10:46 PM (aJQbY)

How did you cook them? I wish I could hand you some of mine through the computer with a piece of not sweet cornbread to sop up the juice.

Posted by: Piper at January 01, 2026 10:48 PM (p4NUW)

146 140
I grew up in the South. I don't like fried chicken and cornbread.

Posted by: fourseasons
---

Have you seen a Dr. recently? There may be a serious problem.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 01, 2026 10:50 PM (UZwsW)

147 Posted by: fourseasons at January 01, 2026 10:48 PM (3ek7K

I can sort of understand the cornbread but fried chicken?

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 01, 2026 10:50 PM (KDPiq)

148 Dogs have great hearing. That dog can probably hear the fat of her ass breaking down the atomic structure of the metal in the stool, and will hear the exact moment when the atoms yell fuuuuuuck giving him time to save himself.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division
--------

LMAO so hard, it scared the cat!

Posted by: JQ at January 01, 2026 10:50 PM (rdVOm)

149 141 I am super excited to see your contract was renewed, Doof, and you weren’t hit with a first right of refusal only extension!
Posted by: Piper at January 01, 2026 10:40 PM (p4NUW)

Unfortunately there was a "no typo" clause in there. I've already violated the terms so I might get fired.
Posted by: Doof at January 01, 2026

Wait- is that also part of the rider that covers me? Because we are in deep kimchi if so.

Posted by: Piper at January 01, 2026 10:50 PM (p4NUW)

150 Piper, these were store-bought from-a-can, which probably didn't help (but on the other hand, if the lowest common denominator is tolerable, a better recipe should be great).

The can made note of 'turkey broth' and a mild pepper of some sort, I brought it to a boil and then turned it down to simmer while the cornbread baked.

Posted by: RandomDave at January 01, 2026 10:51 PM (aJQbY)

151 Benjamin Netanyahu - בנימין נתניהו
@netanyahu
Just as the Christian community stood with us in difficult moments, we will stand with you -

and help in every way to protect Christian communities all over the world.

This partnership of shared values is strong, and together we will prevail.
8:29 AM · Jan 1, 2026

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 01, 2026 10:51 PM (RIvkX)

152 When I read Monkey meat I think Ebola. Probably not if this was dried meat, still its what I think because they usually say the ground zero case in an Ebola outbreak came from eating or handling primate meat. But that is FNM reporting.

Posted by: PaleRider at January 01, 2026 10:51 PM (hhkIi)

153 98
Romans couldn't count anyway. That inclusive counting way they thought of things was just a mess.

Tomorrow would not be 1 day from now, but 2, since they counted today as 1.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 01, 2026 10:26 PM (w6EFb)

-----------

It's lucky for all of us they never built high-rises.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at January 01, 2026 10:52 PM (nWPIJ)

154 I'll probably drop dead before 85 ... But I would not mind living too see the tricentennial.

Raise a glass to us 29-year olds if you do make it. And remember the old HQ!
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair

I'd be 110 if I made it.
Half the family has 'longevity'. The other half no so much.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at January 01, 2026 10:52 PM (/lPRQ)

155 >> A fencepost problem.

One of the common sources of off-by-one errors.

The Roman priests screwed up leap years for a while by that same error, making ever 3rd year be leap, rather than 4. Augustus fixed it by skipping 3 leap years sometime, when they aren't exactly sure, but it was correct by (what we now call) 8 AD. Could've been by 4AD, but they ain't sure.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 01, 2026 10:53 PM (w6EFb)

156

I don't like fried foods except for fried okra.

I don't like French fries, ewww.

I think it a dislike of grease.

Posted by: fourseasons at January 01, 2026 10:54 PM (3ek7K)

157 Over 48 hours in late December, the U.S. military destroyed five drug-trafficking vessels operating along known narco routes in the Pacific.

According to U.S. Southern Command:
• Dec 30: Three boats struck after confirmed narcotics transfers
• At least 3 killed on the first vessel
• Remaining boats were tracked, engaged, and sunk
• Coast Guard conducted follow-on operations
• Dec 31: Two additional narco vessels targeted
• 5 more killed
Total: 5 boats destroyed. 8 traffickers killed.
These strikes are part of a broader campaign:
• 30+ U.S. strikes since September
• 110+ narco combatants neutralized
• Operations framed as a non-international armed conflict with cartel networks fueling U.S. drug deaths
This is what decisive interdiction looks like.

-
Old and busted: Tora Tora Tora!

New and cool: Taco Taco Taco!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except Better at January 01, 2026 10:54 PM (L/fGl)

158 Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at January 01, 2026 10:52 PM (/lPRQ)

Sounded like you would see the Tricentennial if you made it to 85.

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 01, 2026 10:54 PM (KDPiq)

159 For cornbread of the non madison type, I add some crushed corn, diced peppers and a little street corn spices. It's like a festival in your mouth. Try that if you don't like regular cornbread.

Posted by: banana Dream at January 01, 2026 10:55 PM (3uBP9)

160 But friends, have you tried Martha White flour for your biscuits? Try Martha White flour for the finest, airiest biscuits you’ve ever had! Now let’s return to the music of Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys with “Take Me Back to Tulsa”.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at January 01, 2026 10:55 PM (1paM0)

161 You can catch a mess of carp with cornbread for bait. Maybe the odd catfish, too.

Posted by: Gadabout Gaddis, The Flying Fisherman. at January 01, 2026 10:55 PM (oftw2)

162 I ate my black eyed peas today.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at January 01, 2026 10:55 PM (2Ez/1)

163 AAGHarmeetDhillon @AAGDhillon

Asking questions/citizen journalism are NOT HATE CRIMES in America — they are protected speech, and if Seattle tries to chill that speech, @CivilRights will step in to protect it and set them straight!

Govern yourselves accordingly!

Katie Wilson for Seattle Mayor @wilsonformayor

I stand with the Somali childcare providers who have experienced targeted harassment, and condemn the surveillance campaign promoted by extremist influencers. If you believe yourself to be the victim of a hate crime, please call this hotline:

X: https://bit.ly/4qznVWP

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at January 01, 2026 10:55 PM (P5BPp)

164 Tricentennial is theoretically in range for me, I've had relatives live that long. Fingers crossed?

Posted by: RandomDave at January 01, 2026 10:55 PM (aJQbY)

165 Cornbread needs to be a little crisp right on the edges and moist everywhere else or it’s like chewing gritty cardboard that dries out your mouth. Good cornbread is amazing.

Posted by: Piper at January 01, 2026 10:56 PM (p4NUW)

166 Wait- is that also part of the rider that covers me? Because we are in deep kimchi if so.
Posted by: Piper at January 01, 2026 10:50 PM (p4NUW)

Yup. Terms and conditions flow to my subcontractors. All 1 of them.

Posted by: Doof at January 01, 2026 10:56 PM (QMAsf)

167 Also, UGA needs to get it back together.

Posted by: Piper at January 01, 2026 10:57 PM (p4NUW)

168 140
I grew up in the South. I don't like fried chicken and cornbread.

Posted by: fourseasons at January 01, 2026 10:48 PM (3ek7K)

Me too. I'm not a cornbread fan. The type I make now is more like corn pudding.

Fried chicken is meh to me. I am good at cooking it but it is a mess and I only make it for hubby's birthday. It isn't what I want at a restaurant, either.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at January 01, 2026 10:57 PM (ytIDq)

169 Black Eyed Pea restaurant was so much better than Cracker Barrel imo so of course they went belly up.

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 01, 2026 10:58 PM (KDPiq)

170

I hope UGA doesn't get it back together.

Posted by: fourseasons at January 01, 2026 10:58 PM (3ek7K)

171 For cornbread, I use a round cast-iron skillet, with a good layer of bacon grease before I pour the batter. The box recipe says 15-20 minutes, about 18 comes out just right - the toothpick is dry and clean, the crust is brown but not black, and the bread is fluffy and crumbly.

Posted by: RandomDave at January 01, 2026 10:59 PM (aJQbY)

172 big fan of broasted chicken, and corn bread

Posted by: free tibet at January 01, 2026 10:59 PM (1wtUm)

173 Roman counting may be why the Europeans start with the ground floor, then the next floor up is the first storey.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at January 01, 2026 10:59 PM (1paM0)

174 Hot cornbread with butter and honey is a too rare treat

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 01, 2026 10:59 PM (RIvkX)

175

Opinion Fact,

You are correct.

Posted by: fourseasons at January 01, 2026 10:59 PM (3ek7K)

176 The Russians are all for Global Warming.

Posted by: pawn at January 01, 2026 11:00 PM (Rmqfl)

177 Had my black eyed peas in a mess of Hoppin’ John for breakfast. Mighty good!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at January 01, 2026 11:01 PM (1paM0)

178 Toga toga toga!

Posted by: Ensign John Belushi, Gringo Division at January 01, 2026 11:01 PM (C9oTe)

179 Sounded like you would see the Tricentennial if you made it to 85.
Posted by: Opinion fact

Nah. Be lucky if I make it to 85.
But if I do. I might make it to 110.

Then I'd get have done the bicentennial and the tricentennial.

And think back that in 1776 there were some old farts who were there and remembered the centennial.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at January 01, 2026 11:01 PM (/lPRQ)

180 Ham & black eyed peas for dinner tonight. No cornbread (meh, can take it or leave it).

There was freezing fog last night, so yard this morning was a frosted wonderland. Very pretty! It's warmer now, and should approach 50F tomorrow. Drizzle & fog currently.

Posted by: JQ at January 01, 2026 11:02 PM (rdVOm)

181 Why am I so hungry for cornbread right now?

Posted by: davidt at January 01, 2026 11:02 PM (Q+gd/)

182 grew up in the South. I don't like fried chicken and cornbread.

Posted by: fourseasons at January 01, 2026 10:48 PM (3ek7K)

How about ChickenFried Steak?

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 01, 2026 11:02 PM (KDPiq)

183 Aunt Baby never came close to the Tricentennial. She'd never make it. She was....sickly.

Posted by: Frank Costanza at January 01, 2026 11:04 PM (oftw2)

184 Cracker Barrel used to be better, but is mostly reheated, already prepared, foods. Hard to find cooked from scratch in a restaurant these days without sky-high prices which most people won’t pay.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at January 01, 2026 11:04 PM (1paM0)

185
Opinion Fact,

That is okay. Needs lots of gravy.

Posted by: fourseasons at January 01, 2026 11:04 PM (3ek7K)

186 Sorry to disappoint you, but the article contains no mention of greasy, grimy gopher guts.

I understood this reference.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at January 01, 2026 11:05 PM (Wnv9h)

187 When they sent me to Birmingham I just about lost my mind with the southern food. Good thing I was 15 and I could eat 3,000 calories a day no problem.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 01, 2026 11:05 PM (RIvkX)

188 I understood this reference.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at January 01, 2026 11:05 PM (Wnv9h)

I hoped a few of you would.

Posted by: Doof at January 01, 2026 11:06 PM (QMAsf)

189 Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at January 01, 2026 11:04 PM (1paM0)

I'm fortunate to have a few locally owned dives near me that serve the best comfort food .

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 01, 2026 11:06 PM (KDPiq)

190 33-24 Old Miss.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at January 01, 2026 11:06 PM (2Ez/1)

191 Roman counting may be why the Europeans start with the ground floor, then the next floor up is the first storey.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit

Ground "floor" was the base. Probably dirt or flat stones.
Above that they built the first floor.

Roman counting would give us the ground level, or basement, as the first floor. Might be a Germanic thing.
No clue for sure but I get why they do it that way.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at January 01, 2026 11:07 PM (/lPRQ)

192 OK, 34-24.
PAT was good.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at January 01, 2026 11:07 PM (2Ez/1)

193 Ugh

Posted by: Piper at January 01, 2026 11:07 PM (p4NUW)

194 Evening all.

Posted by: Joyenz at January 01, 2026 11:07 PM (2F0/Y)

195 and me without a spoon

Posted by: banana Dream at January 01, 2026 11:07 PM (3uBP9)

196 I can't imagine what this place would look like in 50 years. I'm pretty sure it would be unrecognizable.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 01, 2026 11:08 PM (snZF9)

197 stupid to go for it for Georgia with 9 minutes left

Posted by: free tibet at January 01, 2026 11:08 PM (1wtUm)

198 Great green globs of greasy, grimy gopher guts,
Mutilated monkey meat.
Dirty little birdie feet.
Great green globs of greasy, grimy gopher guts
And me without my spoon.

Used to sing that in Jr. Hi cafeteria with a friend to gross out the girls.

Posted by: pawn at January 01, 2026 11:08 PM (Rmqfl)

199
Joyenz,

Are you feeling better?

Posted by: fourseasons at January 01, 2026 11:09 PM (3ek7K)

200 Does the odd catfish have three eyes?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 01, 2026 11:09 PM (pkeXY)

201 190 33-24 Old Miss.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at January

*Ole Miss

Posted by: Piper at January 01, 2026 11:09 PM (p4NUW)

202 Hello, Horde! 😊💕

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas - AoSHQ's at January 01, 2026 11:10 PM (SRRAx)

203 I remember the song from boy scouts.

Posted by: banana Dream at January 01, 2026 11:10 PM (3uBP9)

204 Yeah, Bers--- I won't live long enough to see the Tricentennial, and that's okay... Won't recognize the place by then and probably won't like it anyway. (IF it's still USA) Big IF.

Posted by: JQ at January 01, 2026 11:10 PM (rdVOm)

205 The refs in this game are garbage. That hit on Gunner was targeting. I am still salty an hour later.

Posted by: Piper at January 01, 2026 11:10 PM (p4NUW)

206 can't imagine what this place would look like in 50 years. I'm pretty sure it would be unrecognizable.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 01, 2026 11:08 PM (snZF9)

TMJ would be telling everyone about the old classic move, Prometheus .

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 01, 2026 11:10 PM (KDPiq)

207 Three eyes is certainly odd, but so is five.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at January 01, 2026 11:10 PM (1paM0)

208 I understood this reference.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState

I hoped a few of you would.
Posted by: Doof

If anyone didn't, they might actually be 29.

Posted by: mikeski at January 01, 2026 11:11 PM (nhCoE)

209 105 Do we really want those particular women to give up their masks?

Posted by: tankdemon at January 01, 2026 10:30 PM (2RJDy)

Bless their hearts, in my mind they are asking, "Do these masks make my face look fat?"

Yes, hon. Yes they do.

Posted by: moki at January 01, 2026 11:11 PM (wLjpr)

210
Five Eyes, wasn't that some spy thing?

Posted by: fourseasons at January 01, 2026 11:11 PM (3ek7K)

211 Teresa in Fort Worth -
I hope you anyours are getting over that bug.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at January 01, 2026 11:12 PM (1paM0)

212 It was like finding out he sucks dicks. What a fraud.
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at January 01, 2026 10:48 PM (biznJ)

Tom Selleck was the better Sackett brother.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at January 01, 2026 11:12 PM (uQesX)

213 I can't imagine what this place would look like in 50 years. I'm pretty sure it would be unrecognizable.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division

It will be just like Blade runner.

Except no interstellar space travel. Just a bunch of Chinese on the moon and a hundred thousand Elon Musk spawn on Mars.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at January 01, 2026 11:12 PM (/lPRQ)

214 And to whomever mentioned Brian Dennehy, thank you. Thank you for remembering his well-rounded acting skills.

Posted by: moki at January 01, 2026 11:13 PM (wLjpr)

215 I understood this reference.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at January 01, 2026 11:05 PM (Wnv9h)

I hoped a few of you would.
Posted by: Doof at January 01, 2026 11:06 PM

*New Year fistbump*

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at January 01, 2026 11:13 PM (Wnv9h)

216 Touchdown!

Posted by: Piper at January 01, 2026 11:13 PM (p4NUW)

217 I remember the song from boy scouts.
Posted by: banana Dream at January 01, 2026 11:10 PM (3

think I only heard it in Caddyshack.

The comet song is what I remember.

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 01, 2026 11:13 PM (KDPiq)

218
Well sheeeettt

Posted by: fourseasons at January 01, 2026 11:14 PM (3ek7K)

219 Five Eyes, wasn't that some spy thing?
Posted by: fourseasons

Still is. USA, UK, Canada, Aus, NZ intelligence-sharing network.

Posted by: mikeski at January 01, 2026 11:14 PM (nhCoE)

220 Saijo has to leave his jersey on just a little bit longer in solidarity with Uga.

Posted by: Piper at January 01, 2026 11:14 PM (p4NUW)

221 I think ACE mentioned earlier that he was going out to grab a nice tomahawk steak. In case you're wondering that's code for pest-infested beans, 17 pounds of unidentifiable plant material, and approximately 4 pounds of dried monkey meat.

GAINNNNNZZZZZ!!!!!!

Posted by: Orson at January 01, 2026 11:15 PM (dIske)

222 Cornbread baked with green chillis installed. Mmmmm.....

Posted by: COMountainMarie at January 01, 2026 11:15 PM (LNeRu)

223 Five Eyes, wasn't that some spy thing?

Posted by: fourseasons at January 01, 2026 11:11 PM (3ek7K)

Yes.
US, UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, together share information from intelligence and surveillance.

Hence, “Five Eyes”.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at January 01, 2026 11:16 PM (6ydKt)

224 I ate my black eyed peas today.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at January 01, 2026 10:55 PM (2Ez/1)

My dad stopped eating them years ago. Never brought him luck, he said. Of course, he hasn't eaten anything these past fourteen years.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at January 01, 2026 11:16 PM (uQesX)

225 Are you feeling better?

Posted by: fourseasons at January 01, 2026 11:09 PM (3ek7K)

Thanks for asking. I'm getting worse. I now have no appetite, nausea, weakness and body pain along with the colitis. I don't want to go back to the ER, so I am going to see how I am in a few days. I am drinking a lot., I just have to be careful of how much potassium I take in because of my BP pill.

Posted by: Joyenz at January 01, 2026 11:16 PM (2F0/Y)

226 201 190 33-24 Old Miss.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at January

*Ole Miss
Posted by: Piper at January 01, 2026 11:09 PM

###
Duly noted.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at January 01, 2026 11:17 PM (2Ez/1)

227 174 Hot cornbread with butter and honey is a too rare treat

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 01, 2026 10:59 PM (RIvkX)

For me, it's cornbread with butter and peach or blackberry preserves, preferably homemade. That is dessert in the summer!

Posted by: moki at January 01, 2026 11:17 PM (wLjpr)

228 Cornbread needs to be a little crisp right on the edges and moist everywhere else or it’s like chewing gritty cardboard that dries out your mouth. Good cornbread is amazing.
Posted by: Piper

I've found if you make it in the oven, add half the butter or grease to the all ready hot baking dish, then add the batter. It'll start to fry and push the butter up the sides of the dish.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 01, 2026 11:17 PM (mlg/3)

229

Joyenz,

I'm sorry you are still sick. I think about you often Dear.

Posted by: fourseasons at January 01, 2026 11:18 PM (3ek7K)

230 My dad stopped eating them years ago. Never brought him luck, he said. Of course, he hasn't eaten anything these past fourteen years.
Posted by: OrangeEnt

And it's worked in keeping the weight off!!

Posted by: Tonypete at January 01, 2026 11:19 PM (cYBz/)

231 Posted by: moki at January 01, 2026 11:13 PM (wLjpr)

Still working on it!

Posted by: OrangeEnt at January 01, 2026 11:20 PM (uQesX)

232 Five Eyes expensive hamburgers.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 01, 2026 11:21 PM (pkeXY)

233 @netanyahu
Just as the Christian community stood with us in difficult moments, we will stand with you

That's... good to read. Thank you Bibi.

Posted by: gKWVE at January 01, 2026 11:21 PM (gKWVE)

234 I've found if you make it in the oven, add half the butter or grease to the all ready hot baking dish, then add the batter. It'll start to fry and push the butter up the sides of the dish.
Posted by: weft cut-loop

Yes! Best in cast iron, though I used a ceramic pie dish for today. The cast iron pan was being used.

Posted by: Piper at January 01, 2026 11:21 PM (p4NUW)

235 232 Posted by: moki at January 01, 2026 11:13 PM (wLjpr)

Still working on it!

Posted by: OrangeEnt at January 01, 2026 11:20 PM (uQesX)

Two complete read-throughs in four days, OrangeEnt! Its a good story!!

Posted by: moki at January 01, 2026 11:22 PM (wLjpr)

236 > preferred Sestercentennial. (Sester = 2.5)

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at January 01, 2026 10:12 PM (EXyHK)

Señor, would you like to meet my sester? She very friendly. She like the gringo.

We mucho poor. She like gringo much more if he help us out.

Posted by: Pimpy Gonzales at January 01, 2026 11:22 PM (IG3/x)

237 Oh no, Frazier is down….

Posted by: Piper at January 01, 2026 11:22 PM (p4NUW)

238 Wait! I made cornbread today, too. Came out all right. Butter, honey, nothing else needed.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at January 01, 2026 11:23 PM (uQesX)

239 I didn't get anyone a bleated present. Damn it! Next year.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at January 01, 2026 11:23 PM (CHHv1)

240 Yes! Best in cast iron, though I used a ceramic pie dish for today. The cast iron pan was being used.
Posted by: Piper at January 01, 2026 11:21 PM (p4NUW)

Do you put a lid over the cast iron pan when making cornbread, or not?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at January 01, 2026 11:25 PM (uQesX)

241
We gave presents of money this year.

I hope ya'll received yours.

Merry Christmas!

Posted by: fourseasons at January 01, 2026 11:25 PM (3ek7K)

242 Thanks for asking. I'm getting worse. I now have no appetite, nausea, weakness and body pain along with the colitis. I don't want to go back to the ER, so I am going to see how I am in a few days. I am drinking a lot., I just have to be careful of how much potassium I take in because of my BP pill.
Posted by: Joyenz at

I am so sorry. Could your regular doctor see you tomorrow instead of the ER to try to get some relief?

Posted by: Piper at January 01, 2026 11:25 PM (p4NUW)

243 Romans… inclusive counting way they thought of things… Tomorrow would not be 1 day from now, but 2, since they counted today as 1.
Posted by: publius

Long ago read someone explaining this to a Doubter questioning the "three days" of Jesus being dead. Crucified and in the tomb was Day 1, resurrected two days later, Day 3. Doubter would have none of it.

Posted by: mindful webworker - Just like there's no Year Zero between BC and AD :) at January 01, 2026 11:26 PM (dESj/)

244 Two complete read-throughs in four days, OrangeEnt! Its a good story!!
Posted by: moki at January 01, 2026 11:22 PM (wLjpr)

Thanks. I'm on chapter sixteen comments and it's only 8:30, so I'll probably finish and send it to you to see what you think about my changes. If you want to, that is.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at January 01, 2026 11:26 PM (uQesX)

245 214 And to whomever mentioned Brian Dennehy, thank you. Thank you for remembering his well-rounded acting skills.
Posted by: moki

Mighty Mountain of Talent who formed the sturdy base, nay, the very Foundation of Hollywood. The Industry is in free-fall since his demise.

Posted by: Farewell, Fair Prince at January 01, 2026 11:26 PM (oftw2)

246 Well there was a flagrant miss on a facemask or this game might be over now.

Posted by: Black JEM at January 01, 2026 11:26 PM (UVyKP)

247
Thanks. I'm on chapter sixteen comments and it's only 8:30, so I'll probably finish and send it to you to see what you think about my changes. If you want to, that is.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at January 01, 2026 11:26 PM (uQesX)

Of course! I'm invested in this now!! Looking forward to buying a hard copy!!

Posted by: moki at January 01, 2026 11:29 PM (wLjpr)

248 The Industry is in free-fall since his demise.

Posted by: Farewell, Fair Prince at January 01, 2026 11:26 PM (oftw2)

You aren't wrong!

Posted by: moki at January 01, 2026 11:30 PM (wLjpr)

249 Bloated present.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 01, 2026 11:31 PM (QAvZU)

250 "Tommy Lee Jones’ Daughter Found Dead "...

Aaaaannndddd, never would have been know of unless she was a hollwierd nepo baby.

Posted by: 5 miles to nowhere at January 01, 2026 11:31 PM (G+z4C)

251 Of course! I'm invested in this now!! Looking forward to buying a hard copy!!
Posted by: moki at January 01, 2026 11:29 PM (wLjpr)

Ha! Just got to the part you want changed. Have to think a bit. The hot food was the catalyst for the mutiny. Hmmm, what to do....

Posted by: OrangeEnt at January 01, 2026 11:33 PM (uQesX)

252 Police suspect fair play.

Posted by: As Dennis Miller used to say at January 01, 2026 11:33 PM (2Ez/1)

253 A prayer or two for my wife's buddy GerriAnne if the Horde pleases. She suffered an aortic aneurysm while playing in a bridge tournament yesterday in Myrtle Beach. Died at her table.

Hell of a nice gal - vibrant, happy and a care-giver for her elderly husband. She was only 73. She will be missed.

Posted by: Tonypete at January 01, 2026 11:33 PM (cYBz/)

254 refs are trying to give it to GA

Posted by: free tibet at January 01, 2026 11:34 PM (1wtUm)

255 >> Doubter questioning the "three days" of Jesus being dead.

That's another prime example of it.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 01, 2026 11:35 PM (w6EFb)

256 Dirty little birdie feet.
Great green globs of greasy, grimy gopher guts
And me without my spoon.

Used to sing that in Jr. Hi cafeteria with a friend to gross out the girls.
Posted by: pawn at January 01, 2026 11:08 PM (Rmqfl)

The version I heard was "pixilated panther feet".

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 01, 2026 11:36 PM (8zz6B)

257 Scored tied.
54 seconds remain.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at January 01, 2026 11:37 PM (2Ez/1)

258 And we are tied, friends and neighbors.

Posted by: Piper at January 01, 2026 11:38 PM (OoFl2)

259
free tibet,

Hubby said the same thing. It's rigged.

Posted by: fourseasons at January 01, 2026 11:38 PM (3ek7K)

260 Victoria was kind of nepo, appearing in MIB2 and "The Three Burials" which Tommy Lee directed. But it looks like she didn't much want to be a BIGSTAR so I don't think she's been in anything since 2005.
I don't know much about her, so she was more humble than most of Hollywood, sorry if that sounds like backhanded praise.
RIP, overall.

Posted by: gKWVE at January 01, 2026 11:38 PM (gKWVE)

261 What's the common thread / common meaning / common leitmotif?
-

Nood.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 01, 2026 11:38 PM (u/afo)

262 Posted by: Tonypete at January 01, 2026 11:33 PM (cYBz/)

Hope arrangements had been made for the husband in case of such an event. Prayers.

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 01, 2026 11:38 PM (KDPiq)

263 The version I heard was "pixilated panther feet".

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 01, 2026 11:36 PM (8zz6B)
-

/time traveler detected

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 01, 2026 11:40 PM (u/afo)

264 "Long ago read someone explaining this to a Doubter questioning the "three days" of Jesus being dead. Crucified and in the tomb was Day 1, resurrected two days later, Day 3. Doubter would have none of it."
Posted by: mindful webworker

As I was taught, a full three days and three nights are the legal requirement for death. Jesus was dead for three days and three nights. Death on Wednesday at sunset, resurrection Saturday at sunset.

The whole sunrise service seems nice as in Jesus rose like the sun, but the sun worship thing is something else that got mixed in. JC has Saturday night to visit the imprisoned spirits thang, and he was long gone when they came for his body.

Jewish days even now begin at sunset, as seen with their Sabbath recognition beginning Friday at sunset ending Saturday at sunset.

Posted by: illiniwek at January 01, 2026 11:40 PM (vbXSk)

265 I can't imagine what this place would look like in 50 years. I'm pretty sure it would be unrecognizable.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division

It will be just like Blade runner.

Except no interstellar space travel. Just a bunch of Chinese on the moon and a hundred thousand Elon Musk spawn on Mars.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at January 01, 2026 11:12 PM (/lPRQ)

yeah I can see that.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 01, 2026 11:41 PM (snZF9)

266 I believe, I believe….

Posted by: Piper at January 01, 2026 11:42 PM (OoFl2)

267 Will OM kick a walk-off field goal?

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at January 01, 2026 11:43 PM (2Ez/1)

268 No matter what, this is a heck of a game.

Posted by: Piper at January 01, 2026 11:44 PM (OoFl2)

269 48 yard attempt.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at January 01, 2026 11:44 PM (2Ez/1)

270 It's good.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at January 01, 2026 11:46 PM (2Ez/1)

271 Reading the news.

For me, NYC/NYS is a no-go zone or even perhaps an enemy state.

This is no way to celebrate a 250th anniversary. Bad things are coming.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 01, 2026 11:46 PM (u/afo)

272

YEEEEESSSSEEEEE!!!!!

Posted by: fourseasons at January 01, 2026 11:47 PM (3ek7K)

273 And that’s a game. Congrats, Rebel fans! Your team played their hearts out.

Posted by: Piper at January 01, 2026 11:47 PM (OoFl2)

274 A safety?
Hunh?

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at January 01, 2026 11:47 PM (2Ez/1)

275 39 - 34. Final.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at January 01, 2026 11:48 PM (2Ez/1)

276 Not final.
Under review.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at January 01, 2026 11:49 PM (2Ez/1)

277 Reading the news.

For me, NYC/NYS is a no-go zone or even perhaps an enemy state.

This is no way to celebrate a 250th anniversary. Bad things are coming.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 01, 2026 11:46 PM (u/afo)

Well, maybe we'll just reenact the 1776 shelling of NYC.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 01, 2026 11:50 PM (snZF9)

278 I don't follow sports anymore since they told me to go to hell. But, I find it funny that college and pro football seem to now be as corrupt as blue states. I'm sure they always were, but now the officials seem to be part of the corruption. I blame gambling.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at January 01, 2026 11:51 PM (uQesX)

279 This is no way to celebrate a 250th anniversary. Bad things are coming.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs

if we have anything to remember from our founding fathers as we near our 250 year anniversary it is do not be a whining pussy.

Posted by: n at January 01, 2026 11:51 PM (VKqEh)

280 this is ridiculous

Posted by: Don Black. Message: at January 01, 2026 11:52 PM (ZxPkt)

281 Re-do the kick off. One second on the clock. Dumb.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at January 01, 2026 11:53 PM (2Ez/1)

282 (watching Miss/GA game)

This ending is retarded.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at January 01, 2026 11:53 PM (7Pnfz)

283 This ending is retarded.
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at January 01, 2026 11:53 PM (7Pnfz)

Huh?

Posted by: Tim "Pederast" Walz at January 01, 2026 11:54 PM (uQesX)

284 Refs refuse to let this game end

Posted by: Don Black. Message: at January 01, 2026 11:55 PM (ZxPkt)

285 Mike Bobo needs to be fired, like yesterday.

Posted by: Piper at January 01, 2026 11:56 PM (OoFl2)

286 Refs refuse to let this game end
Posted by: Don Black. Message: at January 01, 2026 11:55 PM (ZxPkt)

I've got prop bets!!

Posted by: Referee at January 01, 2026 11:56 PM (uQesX)

287 OK, final final final.
39 - 34.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at January 01, 2026 11:56 PM (2Ez/1)

288

AGAIN, YEEESSS

Posted by: fourseasons at January 01, 2026 11:57 PM (3ek7K)

289 don't follow sports anymore since they told me to go to hell. But, I find it funny that college and pro football seem to now be as corrupt as blue states. I'm sure they always were, but now the officials seem to be part of the corruption. I blame gambling.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at January 01, 2026 11:51 PM (uQesX)

I don’t know what the spread was or the over/under but I wonder if that last second two points makes a difference.

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 01, 2026 11:58 PM (KDPiq)

290 It is really most sincerely over

Posted by: Don Black. Message: at January 01, 2026 11:58 PM (ZxPkt)

291

It was a great game.

Both teams were great.

Posted by: fourseasons at January 02, 2026 12:00 AM (3ek7K)

292 Well….at least we weren’t Alabama. Saijo has taken his jersey off, but he is still a Dawg, as am I.

But I want Bobo fired.

Posted by: Piper at January 02, 2026 12:00 AM (OoFl2)

293 I don’t know what the spread was or the over/under but I wonder if that last second two points makes a difference.
Posted by: Opinion fact at January 01, 2026 11:58 PM (KDPiq)

(shakes Magic 8 Ball)

Signs point to yes.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at January 02, 2026 12:00 AM (uQesX)

294 156

I don't like fried foods except for fried okra.

I don't like French fries, ewww.

I think it a dislike of grease.

Posted by: fourseasons
---

Is your surname Sprat?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 02, 2026 12:03 AM (UZwsW)

295
Braenyard,

LOL

Posted by: fourseasons at January 02, 2026 12:04 AM (3ek7K)

296 As I was taught, a full three days and three nights are the legal requirement for death.
-----

That lets me out.

Posted by: Abe Vigoda at January 02, 2026 12:04 AM (XeU6L)

297
Still is. USA, UK, Canada, Aus, NZ intelligence-sharing network.
Posted by: mikeski
--------

A full pound of dumb or treason.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 02, 2026 12:06 AM (UZwsW)

298 Will they ever give up their masks?
Hey! They're supporting an industry! Don't complain.

Posted by: GWB at January 02, 2026 12:11 AM (LAvB0)

299 UGA was favored. Over was 55.5. Safety had no effect. This time.

Posted by: Parametric at January 02, 2026 12:11 AM (TEyUo)

300 >>>Jewish days even now begin at sunset, as seen with their Sabbath recognition beginning Friday at sunset ending Saturday at sunset.
Posted by: illiniwek
---

Never heard an explanation why.
Day beginning when one is getting
ready to go to bed. There's no indication
that they were night owls.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 02, 2026 12:12 AM (UZwsW)

301 Goodnight all.

Posted by: Joyenz at January 02, 2026 12:12 AM (2F0/Y)

302 Good night, all. I am going to be very angry at myself for being up this late when the alarm goes off at 430a for teaching in the morning! 😂

Posted by: Piper at January 02, 2026 12:17 AM (ZdaMQ)

303
Joyenz,

Good night and i pray for you.

Posted by: fourseasons at January 02, 2026 12:23 AM (3ek7K)

304 >> Never heard an explanation why.

"And the evening and the morning were the first day." That implies evening/night first in the sequence.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 02, 2026 12:30 AM (w6EFb)

305
There's also the three-stars rule. The Sabbath doesn't end until you can see three "medium sized" stars in the sky after sunset.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 02, 2026 12:35 AM (w6EFb)

306 Libs of TikTok @libsoftiktok

Omg

Somalia’s Minister of Foreign Affairs who owns a healthcare company in Ohio receiving tax dollars, also owns another LLC with the SAME ADDRESS as the somali money transfer org accused of funding t*rrorism.

His business partner appears to work for the money transfer org too.

This just keeps getting worse and worse

Elon Musk @elonmusk

Wow

X: https://bit.ly/4ppxIxJ

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at January 02, 2026 12:36 AM (P5BPp)

307 Choose your comment:

1) Diversity is our strength!

B) That is not how "the twelve days of Christmas" goes
Posted by: mikeski

B.

Also, this sounds like an excellent excuse to ban travelers from the Congo.

It's got everything from agricultural terrorism to cannibalism (You know they identified it as non-human primate because they didn't want to deal with an international murder case.)

Posted by: FeatherBlade at January 02, 2026 12:36 AM (Cznub)

308
We vote for the right people. How do we prevent the fraud from happening?

Posted by: fourseasons at January 02, 2026 12:39 AM (3ek7K)

309 Conservatives (I believe) who could replace Sam Elliott:
- Tom Selleck
- James Woods
- Kurt Russell
- Tom Berenger
- Gary Sinise
- Andy Garcia
- Sylvester Stallone
- Nick Searcy
and many more!

Posted by: JM in Illinois at January 02, 2026 12:39 AM (9qZ8R)

310 Scotty was the only one to wear a red shirt and be expected to make it the end of the episode, and even that was put in doubt a few times.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at January 01, 2026 10:36 PM

Scotty doesn't know

YouTube: https://bit.ly/4sjN4X6

Posted by: Lustra at January 02, 2026 12:39 AM (P5BPp)

311 Elon Musk channeling Andrew "Fuck you. War." Breitbart:

Elon Musk @elonmusk

Then it is war

DogeDesigner @cb_doge

BREAKING: Somali TikToker threatens Elon Musk’s life:

"I wouldn't worry too much about him. He about to die."

Protect Elon Musk at all costs.

X video: https://bit.ly/3LlXJ2K

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at January 02, 2026 12:49 AM (P5BPp)

312
I hope Elon has great security.

Posted by: fourseasons at January 02, 2026 12:54 AM (3ek7K)

313 >> I hope Elon has great security.

He does. Best money can buy. But as he himself has observed, all it takes is one mistake.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 02, 2026 12:56 AM (w6EFb)

314
You are right publius.

Posted by: fourseasons at January 02, 2026 12:57 AM (3ek7K)

315 Somalia’s Minister of Foreign Affairs who owns a healthcare company in Ohio receiving tax dollars, also owns another LLC with the SAME ADDRESS as the somali money transfer org accused of funding t*rrorism.

His business partner appears to work for the money transfer org too.

This just keeps getting worse and worse

Elon Musk @elonmusk

Wow

X: https://bit.ly/4ppxIxJ

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at January 02, 2026 12:36 AM (P5BPp)

Time to bulldoze the whole lot of them into the ocean.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 02, 2026 12:58 AM (snZF9)

316 A prayer or two for my wife's buddy GerriAnne

May the Family & Friends of GerriAnne find Strength & be Comforted at this tragic loss.

May GeriAnne's warmth & kindness be an inspiration to us all.

Posted by: Adriane the Critic . . . at January 02, 2026 01:04 AM (3ZUWJ)

317 308
We vote for the right people. How do we prevent the fraud from happening?

Posted by: fourseasons at January 02, 2026 12:39 AM

Convince them to ACT; we face an existential threat. Look what's happened to Western Civilization in Europe. It is on the precipice. This is the Democrats: "We are the Borg. You will be assimilated. Resistance is futile."

Posted by: JM in Illinois at January 02, 2026 01:05 AM (dwBj9)

318
Isn't it great the assholes bring in our country people who want to kill us.

Posted by: fourseasons at January 02, 2026 01:06 AM (3ek7K)

319 > Elliot is not a fan of Trump and recently made some Lefty comments iirc.
Posted by: Opinion fact at January 01, 2026 10:14 PM (KDPiq)

On the other hand, he's playing a fairly conservative character on Landman (good show, by the way... extremely non-woke), so he's not a full-blown cultist.

Your typical Hollywood commie would never have taken that part.

Posted by: Pimpy Gonzales at January 02, 2026 01:08 AM (IG3/x)

320 305
There's also the three-stars rule. The Sabbath doesn't end until you can see three "medium sized" stars in the sky after sunset.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 02, 2026 12:35 AM (w6EFb)

Wadda ya do if it's overcast?

I guess it works better in a desert climate...

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at January 02, 2026 01:14 AM (QGaXH)

321 264 As I was taught, a full three days and three nights are the legal requirement for death. Jesus was dead for three days and three nights. Death on Wednesday at sunset, resurrection Saturday at sunset.

Posted by: illiniwek at January 01, 2026 11:40 PM (vbXSk)

This is disturbing. Being raised Catholic I always thought the Good Friday/no meat on Friday thing was because Christ was crucified, died and was buried on a Friday......

Hard to think the church would screw something like that up......

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at January 02, 2026 01:19 AM (QGaXH)

322 Well, getting late here. I am going to call it a night. Later, Horde.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 02, 2026 01:19 AM (8zz6B)

323 >> Wadda ya do if it's overcast?

You wait about 40 minutes to an hour or better, I think, depending on whatever local traditions with that are being followed.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 02, 2026 01:28 AM (w6EFb)

324 Oh..it is late....

tomorrow is another day...

Good Night

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at January 02, 2026 01:28 AM (QGaXH)

325 Sock off, just so I don't forget to do it in the morning.

Good night, all.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 02, 2026 01:37 AM (IG3/x)

326 "Because we've taken into account the perspective of advocates and not the average American. Or we put too much weight in the analysis of academics or elites, and not enough on you."

*sigh*
As much as I appreciate the efforts of Bari Weiss to straighten out the mess that is cBS, they Still Don't Get It. We need LESS "perspective" or "analysis" and MORE NEWS! We can supply our own perspective and analysis, thank you very much.

Posted by: timactual at January 02, 2026 01:44 AM (krsvl)

327 Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 02, 2026 01:37 AM (IG3/x)

Goodnight Rodrigo

Posted by: ... at January 02, 2026 01:44 AM (E0p3T)

328 Wandered away back there at comment #160. I hope nobody said anything since then that I really needed to read.

Thinking about Tommy Lee Jones, and his daughter Victoria's death. That's her on the right, from Men in Black II:
https://bit.ly/4qzcKxi

We couldn't just go watch MIB2, So, we watched MIB1 for the umpteenth time. Hard watching TLJones, who did such a great job, while thinking about how he must be hurting. Especially in one of the best scenes:

J: You know what they say, it's better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.

K, glaring intensely: Try it.

Also hard, when they first cut away to the NY skyline. Still a gut-punch just to see the twin towers.

Now we're past New Year's Day and into just another day in 2026. Funny how that works.

I'll leave you with this short classic
https://youtu.be/ybXrrTX3LuI

G'nite, y'all.

Posted by: mindful webworker - no flashy thingy is strong enough to erase some memories at January 02, 2026 01:54 AM (dESj/)

329 Friday crucifixion and Sunday resurrection is the most reasonable interpretation of scripture:

https://is.gd/vx0cSc

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at January 02, 2026 02:03 AM (1paM0)

330 There's also the three-stars rule. The Sabbath doesn't end until you can see three "medium sized" stars in the sky after sunset.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 02, 2026 12:35 AM (w6EFb)

Wadda ya do if it's overcast?

I guess it works better in a desert climate...

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at January 02, 2026 01:14 AM (QGaXH)
-

Israel has multiple climate zones and there's no lack of rain in the winter in the Negev and the Judean Desert.

You guesstimate, leaning toward stringency. They were experienced. Academy training.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 02, 2026 02:16 AM (u/afo)

331 This is another weird story about a D party politician in Texas:

https://tinyurl.com/3rbb2as2

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 02, 2026 02:45 AM (afKoR)

332
This is another weird story about a D party politician in Texas:

https://tinyurl.com/3rbb2as2

Posted by: FenelonSpoke

===========

Democrat car thief and County Treasurer has no primary opponent. What a world. She should run for congress.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia's Phone at January 02, 2026 02:56 AM (n7rxJ)

333 319 > Elliot is not a fan of Trump and recently made some Lefty comments iirc.
Posted by: Opinion fact at January 01, 2026 10:14 PM (KDPiq)

On the other hand, he's playing a fairly conservative character on Landman (good show, by the way... extremely non-woke), so he's not a full-blown cultist.

Your typical Hollywood commie would never have taken that part.
Posted by: Pimpy Gonzales at January 02, 2026 01:08 AM (IG3/x)

I expect he does whatever they pay him for. Actors are whores.

Posted by: tcn in AK at January 02, 2026 03:00 AM (6Bc88)

334 Hoppin' John sounds guaranteed to blast you into the New Year.

Light a candle, will ya?

Posted by: tcn in AK at January 02, 2026 03:01 AM (6Bc88)

335 Anybody here?

Posted by: Yob Sdrawkcab at January 02, 2026 03:13 AM (7MP2B)

336 bawk bawk bawk bawk bawk ...

Posted by: Only us chickens at January 02, 2026 03:24 AM (3ZUWJ)

337 U.S. Customs Seizes Monkey Meat at Chicago O’Hare Airport...

That's just bananas.

Q: Do people eat more bananas then monkeys?

A: Yes. MOST people rarely eat monkeys...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 02, 2026 03:36 AM (ynpvh)

338 then = than...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 02, 2026 03:36 AM (ynpvh)

339 Night...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 02, 2026 03:36 AM (ynpvh)

340 Yeah, and shouldn't be

Posted by: Skip at January 02, 2026 03:40 AM (Ia/+0)

341 U.S. Customs Seizes Monkey Meat at Chicago O’Hare Airport...

That's just bananas.

Q: Do people eat more bananas then monkeys?

A: Yes. MOST people rarely eat monkeys...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)

The last time I heard about people eating monkeys they all came down with Ebola and bled out. I can say I never heard anybody catching Ebola from a banana.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at January 02, 2026 03:49 AM (HTCU3)

342 Somalians probably

Posted by: Skip at January 02, 2026 03:53 AM (Ia/+0)

343

Posted by:
at January 02, 2026 03:55 AM (SJJc4)

344 Somalians probably

Posted by: Skip at January 02, 2026 03:53 AM (Ia/+0)
-

Congolians.

Congonians?

Congas?

Congonistas?

Congo only pawn in game of life?

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 02, 2026 03:59 AM (Z/INn)

345 Pixy's up!

Posted by: m at January 02, 2026 04:00 AM (RuTUS)

346 >>Congolians.

>>Congonians?

>>Congas?

>>Congonistas?

>>Congo only pawn in game of life?

Per Warren Zevon, 'Congolese'.

Posted by: Roland, head still attached at January 02, 2026 06:02 AM (NcvvS)

New Years Day Cafe

Sunrise over the Great Sand Dunes
Krista Mae Photography

This better not awaken anything weird in me.

Caught, in flagrante delicious!

Dog believes that it's time to get up.

The neighbor dogs.

Dogs smiling for the camera.

Leaping into the new year like...

The new year slammed into me like

Newton's first law of motion. pic.twitter.com/0QGZhez5PY
— The Figen (@TheFigen_) December 23, 2025

pic.twitter.com/t4ZuhZcLRz
— Doglover (@puppiesDoglover) January 1, 2026

pic.twitter.com/ppHpefg9Ke
— Doglover (@puppiesDoglover) January 1, 2026

Horse is trying to make a snow angel too. pic.twitter.com/Th3Uos6JiX
— The Figen (@TheFigen_) December 24, 2025

Posted by: Ace at 07:00 PM

Comments

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1 Fist!

Posted by: Blast Hardcheese at January 01, 2026 07:02 PM (V362x)

2 Awww. What a nice, companionable thing of the horse to do!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 01, 2026 07:03 PM (8Xy/A)

3 Right up the middle

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at January 01, 2026 07:04 PM (/lPRQ)

4 SPONGE!!!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at January 01, 2026 07:04 PM (Wnv9h)

5 Good stuff Ace!

Posted by: Kurt Eichenwald at January 01, 2026 07:04 PM (3uBP9)

6 ST

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 01, 2026 07:04 PM (QAvZU)

7 I feel centered.

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at January 01, 2026 07:04 PM (cxFcK)

8 Sweet Home Alabama
Where they push our poo
Sweet Home Alabama
At least we scored more than two

Posted by: gKWVE at January 01, 2026 07:04 PM (gKWVE)

9 What's the code for left?

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 01, 2026 07:05 PM (QAvZU)

10 Here I am stuck in the middle with you

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at January 01, 2026 07:05 PM (P5BPp)

11 Where am I?

Posted by: Ashland Raccoon at January 01, 2026 07:05 PM (Dc1Hd)

12 Newton's first law of motion.

Guy lost his helmet inside the bus. To be fair, it looked like a salad bowl, so it didn't matter.

Posted by: t-bird at January 01, 2026 07:06 PM (6GFFE)

13 Horses love to roll around on the ground anyway. Especially after you just brushed them.

Posted by: banana Dream at January 01, 2026 07:07 PM (3uBP9)

14 Let's face it, both of today's games have sucked. For different reasons, but still overall sucky. One more game left. Go Rebels!

Posted by: Lincolntf at January 01, 2026 07:07 PM (vV6n9)

15 There's nothing like having a hot pussy (cat) in your lap.

Fuckers wanna sleep there. At night. In my bed.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 01, 2026 07:08 PM (NwnyJ)

16 It's a new year. AoSHQ Annual Commenter Evaluations for 2025 have closed, so feel free to comment about the centeredness.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at January 01, 2026 07:08 PM (0sNs1)

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 01, 2026 07:08 PM (QAvZU)

18 Football goes thru the team with the best QB. Ask Dabo Swiney how that works.
And DeBoer just sux.

Posted by: Accomack at January 01, 2026 07:08 PM (ou30A)

19 Newton's first law of motion.

Yeah, Imma say AI.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 01, 2026 07:08 PM (Riz8t)

20 >>>Newton's first law of motion.

AI.

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at January 01, 2026 07:08 PM (syz1S)

21 I'm in the middle

Posted by: Malcolm at January 01, 2026 07:08 PM (P5BPp)

22 I think Bama would like to feel this centered right now.

Instead of being the red headed rented mule they are being.

Posted by: SimoHayha at January 01, 2026 07:08 PM (/ZkOF)

23 One more game left. Go Rebels!
Posted by: Lincolntf at January 01, 2026 07:07 PM

I gotta root for Kirby.

Posted by: toby928(c) has drink taken at January 01, 2026 07:08 PM (jc0TO)

24 Good evening everyone

Posted by: Skip at January 01, 2026 07:09 PM (Ia/+0)

25 Looks like we are well centered! Nice work!

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at January 01, 2026 07:10 PM (QGaXH)

26 2026: [0] Days Since Last HTML Fail

Posted by: t-bird at January 01, 2026 07:10 PM (6GFFE)

27 We're all Mavericks now.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 01, 2026 07:11 PM (QAvZU)

28 What would you do if we woke up and the whole world was gone?
Well, would you believe with me is where you belong?
Well, there goes the world and we're right in the middle
There goes the world and we're right in the middle

I said leave me here
I said leave me here with you

YouTube: https://bit.ly/4pWcZm4

Posted by: Theory of a Deadman at January 01, 2026 07:11 PM (P5BPp)

29 I had many NYD’s ruined by Michigan losing. I have watched maybe 2 Sugar/Orange Bowls that didn’t involve one of my teams.

Posted by: Accomack at January 01, 2026 07:11 PM (ou30A)

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 01, 2026 07:11 PM (QAvZU)

31 Where have you gone CBD?
A comment section turns its lonely eyes to you.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at January 01, 2026 07:11 PM (0sNs1)

32 >>>This pup had the best day.

Best for him; not so good for anyone else. That knucklehead kept on messing up the people running to the water.

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at January 01, 2026 07:12 PM (syz1S)

33 Fire DeBoner!

Posted by: Alabama Hayseed Front Running Phony at January 01, 2026 07:12 PM (R/m4+)

34 Fleeing from the Cylon Tyranny.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 01, 2026 07:12 PM (QAvZU)

35 The bus thing is AI. Where did his helmet go? Why do the passengers look different from different angles? Why was no one killed from the flying debris?

Posted by: fd at January 01, 2026 07:12 PM (vFG9F)

36 Speaking of Michigan, has there ever been a school that lost to their new coach's old school so soon?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at January 01, 2026 07:13 PM (0sNs1)

37 I had many NYD’s ruined by Michigan losing. I have watched maybe 2 Sugar/Orange Bowls that didn’t involve one of my teams.

Posted by: Accomack at January 01, 2026 07:11 PM

At least you had a shot. My alma mater Purdue has not been relevant since Drew Drees graduated.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at January 01, 2026 07:13 PM (P5BPp)

38 Iran Regime Kills Protesters as Unrest and Calls for Regime Change Spread Nationwide

++++

Who would have that would happen

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at January 01, 2026 07:13 PM (/lPRQ)

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 01, 2026 07:14 PM (QAvZU)

40 At least you had a shot. My alma mater Purdue has not been relevant since Drew Drees graduated.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at January 01, 2026 07:13 PM

Make that Drew BREES.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at January 01, 2026 07:15 PM (P5BPp)

41 The best part of that game was the 1968 Rose Bowl highlight, with the announcer apologetically saying that OJ scored both touchdowns in that game, so they kinda had to show him.

Posted by: Wally at January 01, 2026 07:15 PM (0e5Te)

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 01, 2026 07:16 PM (QAvZU)

43 26 years when when I went on my first Date with my now Wife we went to the Orange Bowl watching Tom Brady win and become the Greatest QB ever, time flies so fast.

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at January 01, 2026 07:16 PM (FCrpy)

44 Centered
For the
New
Year

Posted by: nurse ratched at January 01, 2026 07:16 PM (RM1wO)

45 Speaking of Michigan, has there ever been a school that lost to their new coach's old school so soon?
Posted by: Duncanthrax at January 01, 2026 07:13 PM (0sNs1)

No.

Posted by: Sherrone Moore, Sex Pest at January 01, 2026 07:16 PM (R/m4+)

46 OK Go with mirrors and robotics:

youtu.be/gz9BRl7DVSM

I think their stuff is really neat, very creative. I hadn't seen this latest one.

Posted by: banana Dream at January 01, 2026 07:16 PM (3uBP9)

47 This is fine. The anticipation will continue building towards the first Cafe Penguin Post of the New Year.

Posted by: Penguin Promotion Board at January 01, 2026 07:17 PM (oftw2)

48 Very cool, Patrick. The first Red Sox game we went to after being married, Derek Lowe pitched a no-hitter.

Posted by: Lincolntf at January 01, 2026 07:18 PM (vV6n9)

49 There would be more time to devote to lessons and 'rithmetic if the school bus picked up all children that way. I might even volunteer to drive.

Posted by: Crash Corrigan at January 01, 2026 07:21 PM (oftw2)

50 My alma mater Purdue has not been relevant since Drew Drees graduated.
-----

The Old Oaken Bucket hasn't been the same since Amelia Earhart disappeared.

Posted by: Baal at January 01, 2026 07:21 PM (XeU6L)

51 My one and only Spx game at Fenway was Arod’s return from his PED suspension. I knew we were toast when I saw the pitcher.

Posted by: Accomack at January 01, 2026 07:21 PM (8jVAy)

52 Mocking the formatting of the ONT is just so... so 2025.
Be better Horde. Be better.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at January 01, 2026 07:21 PM (2XHCB)

53 [/center]

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 01, 2026 07:21 PM (ESVrU)

54 Crap ! /Baal

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 01, 2026 07:22 PM (XeU6L)

55 Well, I tried.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 01, 2026 07:22 PM (ESVrU)

56 After the beaver thread, I was expecting a booby thread.

Guess I'll have to provide my own:

https://youtube.com/shorts/MD-c7_PaFQw

Posted by: tankdemon at January 01, 2026 07:22 PM (2RJDy)

57 Centered,.or spitroasted?

Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at January 01, 2026 07:22 PM (YjwO4)

58 Pedro?

Posted by: Lincolntf at January 01, 2026 07:22 PM (vV6n9)

59 Pedro?

No worries. I voted for you.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at January 01, 2026 07:23 PM (EXyHK)

60 The anticipation will continue building towards the first Cafe Penguin Post of the New Year.
Posted by: Penguin Promotion Board at January 01, 2026 07:17 PM

Yes, the Commentariat as a whole has been stocking up on Febreeze, mentholatum, and gas masks in anticipation of such an event.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at January 01, 2026 07:23 PM (0sNs1)

61 Guy lost his helmet inside the bus. To be fair, it looked like a salad bowl, so it didn't matter.
Posted by: t-bird at January 01, 2026 07:06 PM (6GFFE)

I'm calling shenanigans on that video. No way the guy would not have fallen a foot or so during the time it took to traverse the length of the bus. Even a short bus.

I fired up the redneck firepit, and burned a metric fuckton of woody yard waste.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 01, 2026 07:23 PM (8zz6B)

62 Feeling very centered..deretnec yrev gnileeF

Posted by: tankdemon at January 01, 2026 07:23 PM (2RJDy)

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 01, 2026 07:24 PM (QAvZU)

64 I gotta root for Kirby.
Posted by: toby928(c) has drink taken at January 01, 2026 07:08 PM (jc0TO)

Their vacuum cleaners suck.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 01, 2026 07:24 PM (8zz6B)

65
AI.
Posted by: Anon Y. Mous

I
Don't
Think
So.

It is old. some influencer fool did it. Bus had no window or back panel, and aisle was widened so it was not such a big deal.

Posted by: Mrs. Santa's unclean sister at January 01, 2026 07:25 PM (aTta8)

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 01, 2026 07:25 PM (QAvZU)

67 Who is winning the NFL minor league playoff games?

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 01, 2026 07:25 PM (KDPiq)

68 Their vacuum cleaners suck.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 01, 2026 07:24 PM

When you reverse their impellers, they blow.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at January 01, 2026 07:25 PM (0sNs1)

69 That Rose Bowl.... Great for IU but that wasn't A game. It was an assault!

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at January 01, 2026 07:25 PM (2J/Lj)

70 Yes, the Commentariat as a whole has been stocking up on Febreeze, mentholatum, and gas masks in anticipation of such an event.
Posted by: Duncanthrax

I let my Lume expire, now on the 78th hour, hoping for a penguin post. Not sure what to do now.

Posted by: Penguin Superfan at January 01, 2026 07:26 PM (oftw2)

71 @RadioJFrance
10 a.m
In Iran, what is happening can be described as the beginning of the great revolution against the mullahs, the possible beginning of regime change. "

Messianic Jewry rumor says, Trump has greenlighted Netanyahu to (assist) the rebellion.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 01, 2026 07:26 PM (UZwsW)

72 Indiana just scored agaiin

Posted by: Mick at January 01, 2026 07:27 PM (HFx9z)

73 Norte Dame fans are really happy.

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 01, 2026 07:28 PM (KDPiq)

74 Fixed...unless Ace resaves!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 01, 2026 07:28 PM (sS4ps)

75 Evening all

Posted by: rickb223 at January 01, 2026 07:29 PM (c115l)

76 Happy New Year to Ace, CBD, and the Horde!

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 01, 2026 07:29 PM (8zz6B)

77 Norte Dame fans are really happy.

Did they win?

Posted by: toby928(c) has drink taken at January 01, 2026 07:30 PM (jc0TO)

78 Newsom's Office of Agitprop put a crown on his xtwitter avatar.

https://x.com/GovPressOffice

Posted by: 13times at January 01, 2026 07:30 PM (fnZRl)

79 Their vacuum cleaners suck.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
-------

I find the bag fabric very fashionable.

Posted by: Hillary at January 01, 2026 07:30 PM (XeU6L)

80 Notre Dame fans won't be happy until the playoff format comes right out and says "Notre Dame gets in every year, and will play all their games in South Bend."

Posted by: 2009Refugee at January 01, 2026 07:32 PM (8AONa)

81 Notre Dame is undefeated this post-season.

Posted by: Lincolntf at January 01, 2026 07:32 PM (vV6n9)

82 Notre Dame is undefeated this post-season.
Posted by: Lincolntf at January 01, 2026 07:32 PM (vV6n9)

Will the quarterback ride in a Rockne automobile for the victory parade?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 01, 2026 07:34 PM (8zz6B)

83 Neighbors dogs, how do you afford that pack?

Posted by: Skip at January 01, 2026 07:34 PM (Ia/+0)

84 Delusion:

@bobanDriclek . 5h

"The only reason he [Netanyahu] didn't launch another attack on the#Iran is that Iran is ready to destroy Israel if it starts attacking again. "

"So Netanyahu is asking Donald Trump to do it for him..."

—Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson, US Army (retired)
--- > thank Goodness

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 01, 2026 07:34 PM (UZwsW)

85 Yep. 10 and 2 for ND wasn’t good enough for the playoffs, however 9 and 3 AL made it. Great system you got there. At least my Alma mater IU is kicking ass.

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at January 01, 2026 07:34 PM (2NHgQ)

86 Bus video was AI slop.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at January 01, 2026 07:35 PM (36PRH)

87 Twilight Zone is on. It's the one where Tina met Telly.

Posted by: fd at January 01, 2026 07:35 PM (vFG9F)

88 I let my Lume expire, now on the 78th hour, hoping for a penguin post. Not sure what to do now.
Posted by: Penguin Superfan at January 01, 2026 07:26 PM

Instacart may be able to deliver some Axe Body Wash.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at January 01, 2026 07:35 PM (0sNs1)

89 "Notre Dame gets in every year, and will play all their games in South Bend."
------

Home to Pete Butterjug! Mayor elected with 8,000 votes. In a town half that size, we cast more votes for dog catcher.

But, but, just the guy for DoT!

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 01, 2026 07:35 PM (XeU6L)

90 January 1 brings 10,000 new ICE agents fully funded by the BBB. Doesn't that make you fell better?

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at January 01, 2026 07:35 PM (cxFcK)

91 Only two games mattered (well, three if we go back a couple of weeks): The Utes won last night convincingly, and on Jan 5th, the Montana State Bobcats are going to win the FBS championship.

Until Monday, I have to watch Meatchicken dismantle my Utes' coaching staff and hopefully, not poach any of the players, though this is likely a pipe-dream with Larry Ellison's wife being a Meatchicken alum.

Posted by: Sasquatch, the Original Trans-Wookie at January 01, 2026 07:37 PM (/mCq0)

92 Fixed...unless Ace resaves!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 01, 2026 07:28 PM

CBD for the save. Again.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at January 01, 2026 07:37 PM (0sNs1)

93 [c]centered[/c]
Uncentered?

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at January 01, 2026 07:38 PM (1paM0)

94 90 January 1 brings 10,000 new ICE agents fully funded by the BBB. Doesn't that make you fell better?
Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at January 01, 2026 07:35 PM (cxFcK)

Did the IRS agents hired during the "Biden" administration get sacked?

Posted by: tankdemon at January 01, 2026 07:39 PM (2RJDy)

95 "the Montana State Bobcats are going to win the FBS championship."

FCS. I'm sure this mistake will be pointed out to me.

Posted by: Sasquatch, the Original Trans-Wookie at January 01, 2026 07:39 PM (/mCq0)

96 Notre Dame fans won't be happy until they are just declared national champs without bothering to play the game, since it is their "right" to be Nat Champs without opposition.

Why no, I'm not bitter about Notre Dame backing out of playing my school, why do you ask?

Posted by: SimoHayha at January 01, 2026 07:39 PM (/ZkOF)

97 *makes note to proofread posts before posting*

Posted by: Sasquatch, the Original Trans-Wookie at January 01, 2026 07:40 PM (/mCq0)

98 I had tickets to go see the Meatchickens open for the Goo-Goo Dolls, but gave them away.

Posted by: Lincolntf at January 01, 2026 07:40 PM (vV6n9)

99 "January 1 brings 10,000 new ICE agents fully funded by the BBB. Doesn't that make you fell better?"

Where are they coming from? Are there coders learning to ICE?

Posted by: fd at January 01, 2026 07:40 PM (vFG9F)

100 Mayor Pete no longer lives in SB. Thankfully his foul stench left the city of my birth for Traverse City MI. The stench still remains.

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at January 01, 2026 07:40 PM (2NHgQ)

101 Mayor Pete no longer lives in SB. Thankfully his foul stench left the city of my birth for Traverse City MI. The stench still remains.

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at January 01, 2026 07:40 PM (2NHgQ)

102 Mayor Pete no longer lives in SB. Thankfully his foul stench left the city of my birth for Traverse City MI. The stench still remains.

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at January 01, 2026 07:40 PM (2NHgQ)

103 Further to the discussion this morning about Valero shutting down its refinery and paying a billion dollar fine, Chevron is writing down $2.3 billion in California refinery assets, and Exxon is writing down $2.5 billion in California refinery assets - both companies saying that the refineries are now non productive and will be looking for any buyers.

It is now impossible to refine petroleum in California, but the good news is that California will be banning gasoline powered vehicles, so it all makes sense.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at January 01, 2026 07:41 PM (0U5gm)

104 Jason Brodsky retweeted
Iran International English@IranIntl_En . 3h

Iranian protesters set fire to a Shiite seminary in the city of Farsan in Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari province, southwestern Iran, ...

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 01, 2026 07:41 PM (UZwsW)

105 Wow. The hq burped that one out 3 times.

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at January 01, 2026 07:41 PM (2NHgQ)

106 "Wow. The hq burped that one out 3 times.
Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine"

But each one seemed fresh!

Posted by: fd at January 01, 2026 07:42 PM (vFG9F)

107 Alabama got stomped. Condolences to the Bama fans out there. Let’s pray UGA has a far different outcome against Ole Miss.

Posted by: Piper at January 01, 2026 07:43 PM (OoFl2)

108 @ 86 -- Nope, that's real, from several years ago before AI was a thing.

Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at January 01, 2026 07:43 PM (XMwZJ)

109 102
You can say that again.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at January 01, 2026 07:44 PM (fd80v)

110 Ah, proper format is to use center:

[center]This is centered.[/center]

This is not.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at January 01, 2026 07:45 PM (1paM0)

111 105 Wow. The hq burped that one out 3 times.
Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at January 01, 2026 07:41 PM (2NHgQ)

**********

Someone in the hereafter would like to have Mayor Pete move to some guano-infested island in the South Pacific instead of stinking up one of the U.S.'s inhabited areas; thus the triple posting.

Posted by: Sasquatch, the Original Trans-Wookie at January 01, 2026 07:46 PM (/mCq0)

112 Doesn’t work despite Pixy Misa’s examples.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at January 01, 2026 07:46 PM (1paM0)

113 Ironic that Iran might be turning mire towards western style democracy just as western nations are succumbing to sharia law.

Posted by: tankdemon at January 01, 2026 07:47 PM (2RJDy)

114 "[center]This is centered.[/center]

This is not.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit"

You live your reality and I'll live mine

Posted by: fd at January 01, 2026 07:47 PM (vFG9F)

115 that comment was like Pete's herpes, always flaring up again

Posted by: gKWVE at January 01, 2026 07:47 PM (gKWVE)

116 Dispatch from Finland.

Jarcce @RomppainenJari

Ice skating on natural ice is much more fun.

Posted by: 13times at January 01, 2026 07:47 PM (mwCJw)

117 Doesn’t work despite Pixy Misa’s examples.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at January 01, 2026 07:46 PM (1paM0)

I believe COB credentials are needed to use the justification commands.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 01, 2026 07:48 PM (8zz6B)

118 Ice skating on natural ice is much more fun.
Posted by: 13times at January 01, 2026 07:47 PM

Certainly better than on sand.

Posted by: toby928(c) has drink taken at January 01, 2026 07:48 PM (jc0TO)

119

Posted by:
at January 01, 2026 07:50 PM (L0ol1)

120 103 Further to the discussion this morning about Valero shutting down its refinery and paying a billion dollar fine, Chevron is writing down $2.3 billion in California refinery assets, and Exxon is writing down $2.5 billion in California refinery assets - both companies saying that the refineries are now non productive and will be looking for any buyers.

It is now impossible to refine petroleum in California, but the good news is that California will be banning gasoline powered vehicles, so it all makes sense.
Posted by: Thomas Paine
-----------

Is beautiful.
California, most logical state in union.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 01, 2026 07:50 PM (UZwsW)

121 I will take the real on the bus video.

Posted by: Accomack at January 01, 2026 07:50 PM (8jVAy)

122 " "

ditto

Posted by: at January 01, 2026 07:50 PM (vFG9F)

123 NIL and transfer portal combo is the college football destroyer. It was better when the boosters paid players under the table.

Reminded myself of one of my favorite movies , One on One .

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 01, 2026 07:51 PM (KDPiq)

124 Ironic that Iran might be turning mire towards western style democracy just as western nations are succumbing to sharia law.
Posted by: tankdemon at January 01, 2026 07:47 PM (2RJDy)

Without the funding from the mullahs, much of that muzzie shit-disturbing in the West may shut down, too.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 01, 2026 07:52 PM (8zz6B)

125 Always cracks me up that a small shitty town like South Bend would vote for that dirty pole smoking faggot Peter Bootyedge as mayor. I don't want some fag as mayor, i want some old fart who will go sit in his mayor's office and leave the rest of us alone. He can bang his secretary once in awhile but keep it on the down low please.

Posted by: Pray The Gay Away at January 01, 2026 07:53 PM (R/m4+)

126 71 @RadioJFrance
10 a.m
In Iran, what is happening can be described as the beginning of the great revolution against the mullahs, the possible beginning of regime change. "

Messianic Jewry rumor says, Trump has greenlighted Netanyahu to (assist) the rebellion.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 01, 2026 07:26 PM (UZwsW)
I say Israel stay out of it, let Iranians do what killin' gets done. No hearts and minds to be wone there.

Posted by: Eromero at January 01, 2026 07:55 PM (LHPAg)

127
We just gotta do what we do.
Play OUR game.
Leave EVERYTHING on the field.

Posted by: Every sideline pre-game interview ever at January 01, 2026 07:55 PM (2Ez/1)

128 Where are they coming from? Are there coders learning to ICE?
Posted by: fd at January 01, 2026 07:40 PM (vFG9F)

ICE has been advertising a lot in the last several months. On Xitter, for sure--don't remember if on tv or not.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at January 01, 2026 07:55 PM (h7ZuX)

129 Looks like you’re right AOP. Pixy’s examples are out of date.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at January 01, 2026 07:56 PM (1paM0)

130 Messianic Jewry rumor says, Trump has greenlighted Netanyahu to (assist) the rebellion.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 01, 2026 07:26 PM (UZwsW)
=====

I'm not saying anything because I'm don't want to jinx it.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 01, 2026 07:56 PM (RIvkX)

131 "ICE has been advertising a lot in the last several months"

I hope they get some good ones.

Posted by: fd at January 01, 2026 07:57 PM (vFG9F)

132 Messianic Jewry rumor says, Trump has greenlighted Netanyahu to (assist) the rebellion.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others

They give a few tactical nudges here and there.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at January 01, 2026 07:58 PM (/lPRQ)

133 We can't do formating but we can do 🎉. I dunno why.

Posted by: fd at January 01, 2026 07:58 PM (vFG9F)

134 Supplies under the table would be OK.

Obama the commie, let many good people die.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 01, 2026 07:58 PM (UZwsW)

135 I've seen a bunch of ICE recruitment ads on Roku and YouTube.

Posted by: PA Dutchman at January 01, 2026 07:59 PM (h/O4U)

136 They MIGHT give a few tactical nudges here and there.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at January 01, 2026 07:59 PM (/lPRQ)

137 Tom Tugendhat retweeted
Omid Djalili@omid9 . 6h

Today DAY 5 #IranProtests
Unconfirmed reports some protesters are now armed and using protective gear (or possibly some regime forces have joined the people) in running battles, seen here in Nahavand, Hamadan province. Despite regime videos circling threatening protesters with execution, no shits currently given in Iran. Absolutely amazing

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 01, 2026 08:00 PM (UZwsW)

138 84 Delusion:

@bobanDriclek . 5h

"The only reason he [Netanyahu] didn't launch another attack on the#Iran is that Iran is ready to destroy Israel if it starts attacking again. "

"So Netanyahu is asking Donald Trump to do it for him..."

—Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson, US Army (retired)
--- > thank Goodness
Posted by: Braenyard

Is that the guy who was a dog play fetish furry weirdo?

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at January 01, 2026 08:01 PM (7Pnfz)

139 Back in the Good Old Days of the Cold War, whenever a revolt flared up there was always the local Communist party sitting on the sidelines, ready to scoop up the pieces.

Don't know if that is still the case, now that Russia is out of the global domination business. I suppose China might be interested in having an oil-exporting client state.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at January 01, 2026 08:02 PM (2XHCB)

140 Is that the guy who was a dog play fetish furry weirdo?
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at January 01, 2026 08:01 PM (7Pnfz)

He certainly appears to be into sucking muzzloid cock.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 01, 2026 08:03 PM (8zz6B)

141 Hoping and praying the Persian People rise up and get rid of the insanity. They will need the Army on their side to counter the Republican Guard fanatics. If it goes down, there will be no room for failure which would result in reprisals not seen since WW2.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at January 01, 2026 08:03 PM (gm9Sb)

142 Hope Yoko had a good Holiday up on the farm.

Posted by: Bed! Peace! Hair! at January 01, 2026 08:03 PM (oftw2)

143 @JasonMBrodsky . 8h
Notable video showing chants of "Long Live the Shah" in the conservative city of Qom in #Iran, which is the center of the Shiite clerical establishment
--------

Many of the X posters have commented that this uprising has nothing to do with food or water that this is against the mullahs.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 01, 2026 08:04 PM (UZwsW)

144 HTML for center fix?

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 01, 2026 08:04 PM (QAvZU)

145 After the bombing of the nuke sites Iranians were trying to make it clear that all they needed was support not intervention.

The feeling was there were more than enough Iranians to do the job if they had even small arms and ammunition.

Posted by: Ben Had at January 01, 2026 08:04 PM (sDNVV)

146 What would be really funny if the old US State Department GloboHomo division sent in some Tranny agitators with rainbow flags to strike a blow for human rights.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at January 01, 2026 08:05 PM (2XHCB)

147 Don't you need water to cool reactors?

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 01, 2026 08:05 PM (QAvZU)

148 Any good tv on?

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 01, 2026 08:06 PM (QAvZU)

149 Without the funding from the mullahs, much of that muzzie shit-disturbing in the West may shut down, too.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 01, 2026 07:52 PM (8zz6B)

Qatar will pick up the slack and then some

Posted by: Josephistan at January 01, 2026 08:06 PM (FLx59)

150 Many of the X posters have commented that this uprising has nothing to do with food or water that this is against the mullahs.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 01, 2026 08:04 PM (UZwsW)
==
Then many of the X posters are stupid. The only way those who hate the mullahs can get enough mass of people to join them to go against the mullahs is if they - the mullahs - really eff it up. And no food and water goes a long way towards eff'ing it up.

Posted by: Black JEM at January 01, 2026 08:07 PM (UVyKP)

151
Two hottie models are FAFOing with Melania:
https://is.gd/8IC5bu

They posted private pictures they took of Barron at Mar-a-lago last night. Melania doesn't allow that, and they will be banned from Mar-a-lago.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 01, 2026 08:07 PM (w6EFb)

152 148 Any good tv on?
Posted by: Boss Moss at

Sugar Bowl

Posted by: Piper at January 01, 2026 08:08 PM (Wmg4n)

153 105 Wow. The hq burped that one out 3 times.
Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at January 01, 2026 07:41 PM (2NHgQ)

I've gotten a double but never a triple!

I'm envious.

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at January 01, 2026 08:08 PM (QGaXH)

154 The feeling was there were more than enough Iranians to do the job if they had even small arms and ammunition.
Posted by: Ben Had at January 01, 2026 08:04 PM (sDNVV)

A million cheap Kel-Tec 9 mm pistols air-dropped into rebel strongholds would be useful.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 01, 2026 08:08 PM (8zz6B)

155
During one of the last uprising, Barky sided with the mullahs, of course.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 01, 2026 08:08 PM (w6EFb)

156 149
'Qatar will pick up the slack and then some'

Qatar is vulnerable in a way Iran isn't.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at January 01, 2026 08:09 PM (fd80v)

157 103 Further to the discussion this morning about Valero shutting down its refinery and paying a billion dollar fine, Chevron is writing down $2.3 billion in California refinery assets, and Exxon is writing down $2.5 billion in California refinery assets - both companies saying that the refineries are now non productive and will be looking for any buyers.

It is now impossible to refine petroleum in California, but the good news is that California will be banning gasoline powered vehicles, so it all makes sense.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at January 01, 2026 07:41 PM (0U5gm)

Which thread was that discussion on? I'm always interested in all things California gasoline.

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at January 01, 2026 08:09 PM (QGaXH)

158 The feeling was there were more than enough Iranians to do the job if they had even small arms and ammunition.
Posted by: Ben Had at January 01, 2026 08:04 PM (sDNVV)

A million cheap Kel-Tec 9 mm pistols air-dropped into rebel strongholds would be useful.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 01, 2026 08:08 PM

We captured a million AK47s in Iraq. Which we destroyed.

They would be kind of nice to just randomly drop into Iran about now.

Posted by: toby928(c) has drink taken at January 01, 2026 08:10 PM (jc0TO)

159 ICE interview. "Well, son, tell me a little about yourself". "Sir, I graduated high school, B average and joined the Corps. 0331, machine gunner. Kept myself in shape and got orders to PI as a close combat instructor. That's about it". "You're hired".

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at January 01, 2026 08:10 PM (gm9Sb)

160 @shilofreid . 5:00

Rabbi Netanel Avitan, who teaches at the Hesder Yeshiva in Jaffa, an active reservist who was injured in Gaza, was attacked today while walking on Yefet Street in Jaffa. At the Hesder yeshiva in Jaffa, it is said that a young man attacked him and shouted "Allahu Akbar." The rabbi was hospitalized in Ichilov with injuries to his face and back
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Reads like he shouted allah too soon, the Rabbi turned preventing the cockroach from stabbing him in the back as they like to do. --- backstabbers

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 01, 2026 08:10 PM (UZwsW)

161 40 At least you had a shot. My alma mater Purdue has not been relevant since Drew Drees graduated.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at January 01, 2026 07:13 PM

Make that Drew BREES.
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at January 01, 2026 07:15 PM (P5BPp)

Alma Mater of noted draft bust:

Mike Phipps

Ahahahahahaha ...

Posted by: Paul Warfield at January 01, 2026 08:11 PM (3sXRv)

162 AOP, I have no doubt that there are stores of munitions available. I mentioned a threshold for action to take place. I think that threshold is being met so look for an armed citizenry

Posted by: Ben Had at January 01, 2026 08:11 PM (sDNVV)

163 @EFischberger . 10:00

The Jewish People Policy Institute just published an AI analysis of roughly 3,000 Tucker Carlson and Candace Owens videos.

They found that from April 2025 onward, Israel appears in roughly 20–35% of Tucker Carlson’s videos.

The concentration is even higher for Candace Owens, where mentions of Israel and Jews appear in roughly 40–60% of her videos, with one month peaking at around 70%.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 01, 2026 08:12 PM (UZwsW)

164 Years where zip happens
There are weeks where years happen
Maybe this is one

Posted by: Captain Haiku at January 01, 2026 08:12 PM (8WtOr)

165 Chevron is writing down $2.3 billion in California refinery assets, and Exxon is writing down $2.5 billion in California refinery assets - both companies saying that the refineries are now non productive and will be looking for any buyers.“

Valero spent most of last year looking for a buyer, Gavin even offered some sweeteners. No takers. Unless California reverses a bunch if it’s enviro laws, it’s not worth doing business in the state.

So no, Exxon and Chevron won’t find any buyers. Be pretty funny if the State tries to run them itself.

Even better, let the Chinese government buy them and then let the Chinese tell the Cali bureaucrats “fook yu” every time they pull some bullshit.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 01, 2026 08:13 PM (otNgF)

166 120 Is beautiful.
California, most logical state in union.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 01, 2026 07:50 PM (UZwsW)

You gotta love it. We'll be dependent on imported-by-tanker gasoline from one or two overseas countries that make our special blend.

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at January 01, 2026 08:13 PM (QGaXH)

167 Good luck Iranians

Posted by: Skip at January 01, 2026 08:13 PM (Ia/+0)

168 That's about it". "You're hired".
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at January 01, 2026 08:10 PM (gm9Sb)

I would expect they are recruiting veterans in large numbers.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at January 01, 2026 08:14 PM (h7ZuX)

169 Books entering public domain in 2026

William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying.
Dashiell Hammett, The Maltese Falcon.
Agatha Christie, The Murder at the Vicarage.
Carolyn Keene, the first four Nancy Drew books.
Watty Piper, The Little Engine That Could (illustrated).
William H. Elson, Elson Basic Readers.
Noël Coward, Private Lives.
T.S. Eliot, Ash Wednesday
Evelyn Waugh, Vile Bodies.
John Dos Passos, The 42nd Parallel.
Edna Ferber, Cimarron.
Dorothy L. Sayers, Strong Poison
J. B. Priestley, Angel Pavement.
Olaf Stapledon, Last and First Men.
Sigmund Freud, Civilization and Its Discontents.
Elizabeth Coatsworth, The Cat Who Went to Heaven.
Arthur Ransome, Swallows and Amazons.
W. Somerset Maugham, Cakes and Ale.
Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness.

This is just a small selection.

Posted by: 13times at January 01, 2026 08:14 PM (fnZRl)

170 I saw a secret sevice recruiting ad during one of the football games. "up to $60k bonus"!

Posted by: free tibet at January 01, 2026 08:14 PM (1wtUm)

171 Evenin’, again, All.

Posted by: Bulg at January 01, 2026 08:14 PM (77rzZ)

172 Which thread was that discussion on? I'm always interested in all things California gasoline.

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue

It was the morning report, but the gist is that Valero is paying a billion dollar fine in order to shut down a CA refinery that produces 8 percent of the state's gasoline. They would rather pay the fine than operate the refinery for the next eight months.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at January 01, 2026 08:14 PM (0U5gm)

173 168 Wouldn't surprise me if somebody in an MOS with a surplus of personnel could get an early out for ICE sign up.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at January 01, 2026 08:15 PM (gm9Sb)

174 No US or Israeli personnel should go into Iran (except for those that are already there) but a few loads of small arms and ammo would be nice.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 01, 2026 08:16 PM (otNgF)

175 Any Californians here, you are screwed when it comes to gasoline and diesel. You will be getting it from India if you are lucky.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at January 01, 2026 08:17 PM (0U5gm)

176 AlexWinston89 . 8:00

‘Javid Shah!’

Why Iranians are calling for the return of the Pahlavis and their monarchy

As protesters took to the streets of Iran this week, amid chants of anger against Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and fury over an economy in free fall, a slogan once considered politically unutterable returned, and the sounds of crowds chanting it filled the air.

“Javid Shah” – Long Live the Shah.

Videos ... showed demonstrators chanting openly in support of the Pahlavi dynasty, ... alongside calls for the downfall of the Islamic Republic.
..., the chant is existentially threatening.It is a sign that anger has moved beyond dissatisfaction with economic policies or personalities and toward rejection of the Islamic Republic itself.
_jpost.com
https://tinyurl.com/ycxdetnm

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 01, 2026 08:17 PM (UZwsW)

177 I see that California has passed a law that you have to disclose "third hand smoke" if you sell your house. If anyone has ever smoked or vaped in your home you have to tell the buyer.

Posted by: fd at January 01, 2026 08:18 PM (vFG9F)

178 Tom Servo, the operative that are/were there brought plenty of arms with them. Some people are really good at long term planning

Posted by: Ben Had at January 01, 2026 08:19 PM (sDNVV)

179 Leftifornians voted for it

Posted by: Skip at January 01, 2026 08:19 PM (Ia/+0)

180 Texas could use a couple of new refineries but damn so expensive. Up to 15-20 billion for the big ones.

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 01, 2026 08:19 PM (KDPiq)

181 Nice to see everyone with hands over their hearts and not on their knees during the National Anthem.

Posted by: Piper at January 01, 2026 08:19 PM (p4NUW)

182 175 Any Californians here, you are screwed when it comes to gasoline and diesel. You will be getting it from India if you are lucky.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at January 01, 2026 08:17 PM (0U5gm)

Mexico is a short 100 mile drive from my home...

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at January 01, 2026 08:20 PM (QGaXH)

183 177 Mr. Patel is going to have to do a lot of 'splaining about those cigarette burns on the bathtub rim in the non smoking rooms.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at January 01, 2026 08:20 PM (gm9Sb)

184 California just passed a law that every refinery has to store on site as much refined product as would conceivably be needed if there was a mechanical shutdown of some kind. This requirement is idiotic, and ruinous. It’s better to shut the refineries down than to try to comply.

And the enviro idiots in the cal legislature passed it Knowing it would shut the refineries down, it was part of their Glorious New Net Zero Future.

I swear, this is even worse than Lenin’s 5 year plans.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 01, 2026 08:20 PM (otNgF)

185 My alma mater has been undefeated since '86, even winning national championships in completely fictional universes. Hard to beat that.

Posted by: banana Dream at January 01, 2026 08:20 PM (3uBP9)

186 It was the morning report, but the gist is that Valero is paying a billion dollar fine in order to shut down a CA refinery that produces 8 percent of the state's gasoline. They would rather pay the fine than operate the refinery for the next eight months.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at January 01, 2026 08:14 PM (0U5gm)

Why pay the fine? Just close the doors, and leave California. Tell the operators of the Valero chain of gas stations, "you're on your own, buckos."

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 01, 2026 08:21 PM (8zz6B)

187 Saijo is an honorary Bulldog.

Posted by: Piper at January 01, 2026 08:22 PM (p4NUW)

188 172 Which thread was that discussion on? I'm always interested in all things California gasoline.

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue

It was the morning report, but the gist is that Valero is paying a billion dollar fine in order to shut down a CA refinery that produces 8 percent of the state's gasoline. They would rather pay the fine than operate the refinery for the next eight months.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at January 01, 2026 08:14 PM (0U5gm)

Thank you - I'll take a read thru.

I always thought with a captive market they could charge whatever the market would bear but I guess the unwritten government plan is to shut down the California refineries and import all the gasoline by ship from overseas.

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at January 01, 2026 08:23 PM (QGaXH)

189 I always thought with a captive market they could charge whatever the market would bear but I guess the unwritten government plan is to shut down the California refineries and import all the gasoline by ship from overseas.
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at January 01, 2026 08:23 PM (QGaXH)

Be funny if a shortage of tankers developed.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 01, 2026 08:25 PM (8zz6B)

190 I always thought with a captive market they could charge whatever the market would bear but I guess the unwritten government plan is to shut down the California refineries and import all the gasoline by ship from overseas.
Posted by: Anonymous R

or build more refineries

Posted by: n at January 01, 2026 08:26 PM (SGxl4)

191 189 I always thought with a captive market they could charge whatever the market would bear but I guess the unwritten government plan is to shut down the California refineries and import all the gasoline by ship from overseas.
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at January 01, 2026 08:23 PM (QGaXH)

Be funny if a shortage of tankers developed.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 01, 2026 08:25 PM (8zz6B)

If it all comes to pass, I might have to consider storing my camper out of state if I can't reliably get enough gasoline to cross the desert at 10 mpg.

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at January 01, 2026 08:27 PM (QGaXH)

192 AI bus stunt. Adam Ida all the way. Great bodily injury or death steeeyuuuuuupid. Compensatory and punitive damages let the plaintiff's attorney name the rate beyond naïve.

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at January 01, 2026 08:27 PM (YlWIZ)

193 "Bill's Gas Station, San Luis, AZ" has a nice ring to it.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at January 01, 2026 08:27 PM (gm9Sb)

194 or build more refineries
Posted by: n at January 01, 2026 08:26 PM (SGxl4)

There is a real shortage of unicorn bladders and dragon kidneys to build the non-polluting refineries that California demands.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 01, 2026 08:28 PM (8zz6B)

195 123 NIL and transfer portal combo is the college football destroyer. It was better when the boosters paid players under the table.

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Other college football destroyers:

Winning coaches of small schools getting bought out by bigger schools before their current season is over, thus destroying the season for the current team.

Players sitting out bowl games so they won't get injured for the draft or their next college team.

All I know is that I won't know a single players name on my favorite team next year. Same as this year, and the year before.

Posted by: Lemmiwinks at January 01, 2026 08:29 PM (qtBQt)

196 Future headline. Residents of San Leandro face severe gas shortage as tanker being driven by non English speaking driver can't read bridge out sign and crashes truck into abutment and catches fire.

Posted by: Ben Had at January 01, 2026 08:29 PM (sDNVV)

197 Oregon doesn't have ANY refineries, right?

Posted by: toby928(c) has drink taken at January 01, 2026 08:29 PM (jc0TO)

198 Do you have to disclose whether your house was a drug lab? A way point for human traffickers?

Posted by: PabloD at January 01, 2026 08:30 PM (tfChy)

199 187 Saijo is an honorary Bulldog.
Posted by: Piper at January 01, 2026 08:22 PM (p4NUW)

I think it's illegal for a Buckeye to support Georgia, so we're Rebels tonight. Let it burn!

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at January 01, 2026 08:30 PM (h7ZuX)

200 179 Leftifornians voted for it
Posted by: Skip at January 01, 2026 08:19 PM (Ia/+0)

Not all of us did. And the freeways are still filled with ICE powered vehicles that people rely on to get to work, school and so forth.

We still value our personal freedom and liberty here as much as anyone else. You think what's happening in Iran is sporty? Wait until people here can't get to work, school or the doctor.

The grocery stores will probably stay stocked because I don't think diesel is as affected.

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at January 01, 2026 08:31 PM (QGaXH)

201 If it all comes to pass, I might have to consider storing my camper out of state if I can't reliably get enough gasoline to cross the desert at 10 mpg.
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at January 01, 2026 08:27 PM (QGaXH)

A mega-sized storage lot in Bullhead city might be a good investment. Include high-security lockers for guns and ammo prohibited in Cacafornia, too.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 01, 2026 08:31 PM (8zz6B)

202 Do you have to disclose whether your house was a drug lab? A way point for human traffickers?
Posted by: PabloD

What if you've ever burnt dinner and set off the smoke detectors?

Posted by: rickb223 at January 01, 2026 08:31 PM (c115l)

203 I always thought with a captive market they could charge whatever the market would bear but I guess the unwritten government plan is to shut down the California refineries and import all the gasoline by ship from overseas.
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at January 01, 2026 08:23 PM (QGaXH)

And that is going to drive prices at some point next year to between $8 and $10 per gallon for the entire left coast, even while gas prices are $1.99 in Texas and other places.

That’s why my economic prediction is for a bifurcated economy next year; boom times in the center of the country and the south, while California, the rest of the left coast and New England sink into a near depression,’

It will make national economic numbers weird; it will be as if there are two separate countries, economically.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 01, 2026 08:32 PM (otNgF)

204 Evening.

Mohammed is at it again.

https://tinyurl.com/baabwh2e

Posted by: Robert at January 01, 2026 08:32 PM (tdbfP)

205 There's a chain of gas stations in NW PA, Kwik Fills, that have their own refinery. Maybe a shortage of refineries could be alleviated with lots of little ones (see nuke power plants).

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at January 01, 2026 08:32 PM (gm9Sb)

206 Evening.

Mohammed is at it again.

https://tinyurl.com/baabwh2e
Posted by: Robert

Which kid did he marry now?

Posted by: rickb223 at January 01, 2026 08:32 PM (c115l)

207 It will make national economic numbers weird; it will be as if there are two separate countries, economically.
Posted by: Tom Servo at January 01, 2026 08:32 PM (otNgF)

All according to plan.

Posted by: Left-Wing Democratic Secessionists at January 01, 2026 08:33 PM (tdbfP)

208 Books entering public domain in 2026

TJM did a YouTube video about movies returning to the public domain this year that was interesting.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at January 01, 2026 08:35 PM (EXyHK)

209 203 And economic reporting should reflect that, with zones broken down and averages calculated to show the national damage caused by insane policy in some zones.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at January 01, 2026 08:35 PM (gm9Sb)

210 Mexico is a short 100 mile drive from my home...
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan
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Have room in the underbody for an extra tank or two?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 01, 2026 08:36 PM (UZwsW)

211 It will make national economic numbers weird; it will be as if there are two separate countries, economically.
Posted by: Tom Servo at January 01, 2026 08:32 PM (otNgF)

All according to plan.
Posted by: Left-Wing Democratic Secessionists at January 01, 2026 08:33 PM

Once they get rid of all us tax leeching red states, they will be cooking with gas, well, not gas exactly. Obliviously.

Posted by: toby928(c) has drink taken at January 01, 2026 08:36 PM (jc0TO)

212 Any good tv on?
Posted by: Boss Moss

Twilight Zone: Will the Real Martian Please Stand UP. One of my favorites. With a young Jack Elam playing an old man for some reason. And the Sugar Bowl, yes.

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at January 01, 2026 08:36 PM (cxFcK)

213 I see that California has passed a law that you have to disclose "third hand smoke" if you sell your house. If anyone has ever smoked or vaped in your home you have to tell the buyer.

Why would you? (left to your interpretation).

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at January 01, 2026 08:37 PM (1paM0)

214 184 California just passed a law that every refinery has to store on site as much refined product as would conceivably be needed if there was a mechanical shutdown of some kind. This requirement is idiotic, and ruinous. It’s better to shut the refineries down than to try to comply.

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Isn't California set to ban all non-electric cargo trucks by the end of this year? Or are they saving that ruinous plan for a few more years.

Posted by: Lemmiwinks at January 01, 2026 08:38 PM (qtBQt)

215 206 Evening.

Mohammed is at it again.

https://tinyurl.com/baabwh2e
Posted by: Robert
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This only reinforces what those blonde high kicking girls in white pleated mini skirts said.

Hey, hey, ho, ho
All Islam's got to go
Hey, hey, ho, ho
All Islam's got to go

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 01, 2026 08:40 PM (UZwsW)

216 213 I see that California has passed a law that you have to disclose "third hand smoke" if you sell your house. If anyone has ever smoked or vaped in your home you have to tell the buyer.

Why would you? (left to your interpretation).
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at January 01, 2026 08:37 PM (1paM0)

In a state with a well known wild fire problem? Do you have to disclose in the contract that your home has been smoked like a 4th of July brisket?

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at January 01, 2026 08:42 PM (pIfcn)

217 Have room in the underbody for an extra tank or two?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 01, 2026 08:36 PM (UZwsW)

The Cali fuel Nazis will probably have spies stationed at gas stations in TJ. But they will be hired Mexicans, and bribable.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 01, 2026 08:42 PM (8zz6B)

218 PM Netanyahu and his wife celebrated the new year with President Trump and Melania last night at Mar-a-Lago.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 01, 2026 08:43 PM (UZwsW)

219 @jeremybob1 . 9:00
EVERYONE has talked about all the humanitarian NGOs Israel has banned, but JPOST OBTAINED the list of NGOs STILL BRINGING 600-700 trucks of Gaza aid per day
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Unload that food at Egypt's gate.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 01, 2026 08:45 PM (UZwsW)

220 Man, I have to rant. I went out on my deck to smoke and one of my planks cracked under my feet. This deck is barely 10 years old and starting to rot. My last house had a 30 year old deck that was so old it was eroding, but not rotting. I swear they have changed to formula of pressure treating to something that doesn't work.

I feel safe in blaming the EPA.

Posted by: toby928(c) has drink taken at January 01, 2026 08:46 PM (jc0TO)

221 PM Netanyahu and his wife celebrated the new year with President Trump and Melania last night at Mar-a-Lago.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 01, 2026 08:43 PM (UZwsW)
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This will be the year Dems go from "Nazis are the worst thing ever" to "The Nazis had a lot of great ideas about Jews."

We're already halfway there.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 01, 2026 08:46 PM (ZOv7s)

222 CBS News
@CBSNews
2025 was so hot it pushed Earth past critical climate change mark, scientists say

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And now let's back the bus up about 12 hours.

CBS Evening News
@CBSEveningNews
"On too many stories, the press has missed the story. Because we've taken into account the perspective of advocates and not the average American. Or we put too much weight in the analysis of academics or elites, and not enough on you."
That changes now. The new CBS Evening News starts Monday at 6:30 p.m. ET on CBS.

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Oh. It starts Monday at 6:30 p.m. Well, I'll look forward to that.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except Better at January 01, 2026 08:48 PM (L/fGl)

223 @AmichaiStein1 . 11:00
The Wall Street Journal on Trump's health

Refuses to listen to his doctors and calls his condition "good genetics from his parents"

Refuses to exercise except golf

Takes 325 mg of aspirin daily to prevent heart disease (although the routine dose is 81 mg daily)

Falls asleep late and sometimes corresponds with his assistants even at 2 a.m

Usually works from the Oval Office between 10 am and 8 pm-7 pm

Eating foods high in fat and salt like McDonald's burgers and fries
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Amichai, what's your point?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 01, 2026 08:48 PM (UZwsW)

224 221 The Nazis threw a PJ party for the Jews.

Dem talking point

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at January 01, 2026 08:49 PM (gm9Sb)

225 I always thought with a captive market they could charge whatever the market would bear but I guess the unwritten government plan is to shut down the California refineries and import all the gasoline by ship from overseas.
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at January 01, 2026 08:23 PM (QGaXH)

About 29 years ago when I lived in Hawaii one of their refineries would ship has to California. Until I saw the story I did not know Hawaii had any refineries...
They might still do it

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at January 01, 2026 08:49 PM (/lPRQ)

226 CBS?
We may be fake, but we're accurate.

Posted by: Dan Rather at January 01, 2026 08:50 PM (2Ez/1)

227 222 CBS News
@CBSNews
2025 was so hot it pushed Earth past critical climate change mark, scientists say

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A mass die-off of mankind is now a virtual certainty, our experts say.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at January 01, 2026 08:51 PM (nWPIJ)

228 @isaacrrr7 , 4h
Thousands of people take to the streets of Isfahan to protest against the Islamic Republic.

Iran has asked Russia for help as its security forces are being overwhelmed by Iranians in several cities.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 01, 2026 08:52 PM (UZwsW)

229 Usually works from the Oval Office between 10 am and 8 pm-7 pm

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That's the equivalent of five Biden-Days

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at January 01, 2026 08:52 PM (nWPIJ)

230 @215
Hey, hey, ho, ho
All Islam's got to go
Hey, hey, ho, ho
All Islam's got to go

I think that was a Ramones' song.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at January 01, 2026 08:53 PM (CHHv1)

231 We've allowed non-assimilated and culturally incompatible groups with overt allegiance to a hostile power to gain sufficient power to threaten the sovereignty of the Republic. They must be declared to be Pirates and ruthlessly elimunated.

Posted by: ZombieSantaAnna at January 01, 2026 08:53 PM (4b7CV)

232
Every year is the hottest ever, now.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 01, 2026 08:54 PM (w6EFb)

233 Yeah? Well, get used to it.

Carol Roth
@caroljsroth
When a commie throws a party…

New York Post
@nypost
Zohran Mamdani fans disappointed by disastrous ‘block party’ with no food, bathrooms

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except Better at January 01, 2026 08:54 PM (L/fGl)

234 Go Dawgs!

Posted by: Piper at January 01, 2026 08:55 PM (pZEOD)

235 adios amigos

Posted by: alpine_beer at January 01, 2026 08:55 PM (van9r)

236 Every year is the hottest ever, now.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 01, 2026 08:54 PM (w6EFb)
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It will be interesting to see how much 'climate research' goes on without USAID and Gates paying for it.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 01, 2026 08:55 PM (ZOv7s)

237 Smilin' like doggos🐶😊!

Posted by: COMountainMarie at January 01, 2026 08:56 PM (LNeRu)

238 125. South Bend was conservative democrat when that was still a thing. Once industry in SB moved out the demographic changed and the population decreased with many moving to Mishawaka. Dems became the party of free stuff and the majority of residents that remained liked the dem handouts and voted for whoever would give them free stuff. There was actually a time when a dem mayor was middle of the road, the last I remember being Joe Kernan who went on to be governor.

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at January 01, 2026 08:57 PM (2NHgQ)

239 So help me God, if these Jew protesters topple the Ayatollahs, I am going to kick my dog.

Posted by: Tucker at January 01, 2026 08:58 PM (F/KFA)

240 New York Post
@nypost
Zohran Mamdani fans disappointed by disastrous ‘block party’ with no food, bathrooms

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NYC has become the latest experiment in the ongoing exploration to determine how much malice, graft and incompetence it takes to bring down a once great institution.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at January 01, 2026 08:59 PM (nWPIJ)

241 About 29 years ago when I lived in Hawaii one of their refineries would ship has to California. Until I saw the story I did not know Hawaii had any refineries...
They might still do it
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at January 01, 2026 08:49 PM (/lPRQ)

My understanding is that California can't accept gas produced out of state because it's not unicorn-fart fortified. Maybe Hawaii produces such gas, but Nevada and Arizona do not.

It was becoming unaffordable to live in that lunatic state and had I stayed, I might not have been able to move out. ..

Posted by: Joe Kidd at January 01, 2026 08:59 PM (nbLIj)

242 The merchants started the protests.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 01, 2026 08:59 PM (QAvZU)

243 Tucker's going to have a rough month...or year...
or may never recover.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 01, 2026 09:00 PM (UZwsW)

244 NYC has become the latest experiment in the ongoing exploration to determine how much malice, graft and incompetence it takes to bring down a once great institution.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at January 01, 2026 08:59 PM (nWPIJ)
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I'm going to put down a marker on this. Yes, he will wreck NYC, but through incompetence, not anything he actually does. Zero managerial experience, towering self-regard, no idea how anything actually works.

In a true communist state, he'd be in the camps, not running them.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 01, 2026 09:01 PM (ZOv7s)

245 I’m so pissed.

I didn’t take the handouts offered when I got divorced and was a single mom. I could have saved thousands of dollars. I could still be collecting benefits.

Fuck me. I’ll never retire. And I will keep paying taxes and following the rules.

Damn. I’m stupid.

Posted by: nurse ratched at January 01, 2026 09:02 PM (IhIKR)

246 Tucker's going to have a rough month...or year...
or may never recover.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 01, 2026 09:00 PM (UZwsW)
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He timed his heel-turn...poorly.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 01, 2026 09:02 PM (ZOv7s)

247 CALL TO ACTIVISM
@CalltoActivism
OMG!!! Trump just showed up at Mar-a-Lago to celebrate New Year's, dragging his right leg, and quickly adjusted his walk when he realizes the cameras are on.

What's Trump hiding?

https://is.gd/1fwx1h

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Slight limp. Probably banged Melania too enthusiastically.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except Better at January 01, 2026 09:03 PM (L/fGl)

248 Every year is the hottest ever, now.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 01, 2026 08:54 PM (w6EFb)

Are they growing grapes for wine in England now?

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at January 01, 2026 09:03 PM (1paM0)

249 @khansarinia . 23h

New York Times “reporters” say they don’t exist.
Think Tank “analysts” say they’re irrelevant.
Keyboard “activists” say they’re bots.

But here they are, Iran’s bravest, chanting “Long live the King” in the face of their oppressors.

2026 will be the year of their vindication.

https://tinyurl.com/43cdxerh

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 01, 2026 09:04 PM (UZwsW)

250 Forget "climate change."

CBS reports:

Due to Trump's aggressions bringing humanity to the brink of global nuclear annihilation, the Union of Severely Concerned Scientists at last advanced the Mortal Danger clock all the way to Midnight, thereby declaring an END OF TIME, at the turn of the year. 2026 did not and cannot happen.

Posted by: mindful webworker - Panic! It's Y2K on steroids! at January 01, 2026 09:05 PM (dESj/)

251
New York Post
@nypost
Zohran Mamdani fans disappointed by disastrous ‘block party’ with no food, bathrooms
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks

Those pussies couldn't have handled Woodstock.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 01, 2026 09:05 PM (pkeXY)

252 Fargo, ND welcomed first baby of 2026.
Omar
Omar is his mother's seventh child.

Explains the need for all the daycares, I guess.

Posted by: old chick at January 01, 2026 09:05 PM (F3Dlr)

253 Yes, he will wreck NYC, but through incompetence, not anything he actually does. Zero managerial experience, towering self-regard, no idea how anything actually works.

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I can't wait for the new mayor whose parents are still supporting her gets her girlboss mitts on the levers of power in Seattle.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at January 01, 2026 09:05 PM (nWPIJ)

254 227 222 CBS News
@CBSNews
2025 was so hot it pushed Earth past critical climate change mark, scientists say

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A mass die-off of mankind is now a virtual certainty, our experts say.
Posted by: Cicero

They're going to release some horrible virus, aren't they? 12 Monkeys will be prophetic.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at January 01, 2026 09:05 PM (7Pnfz)

255 Due to Trump's aggressions bringing humanity to the brink of global nuclear annihilation, the Union of Severely Concerned Scientists at last advanced the Mortal Danger clock all the way to Midnight, thereby declaring an END OF TIME, at the turn of the year. 2026 did not and cannot happen.
Posted by: mindful webworker - Panic! It's Y2K on steroids! at January 01, 2026 09:05 PM (dESj/)
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Does that mean we can ignore them? Because they should be ignored.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 01, 2026 09:06 PM (ZOv7s)

256 241 My understanding is that California can't accept gas produced out of state because it's not unicorn-fart fortified. Maybe Hawaii produces such gas, but Nevada and Arizona do not.

It was becoming unaffordable to live in that lunatic state and had I stayed, I might not have been able to move out. ..
Posted by: Joe Kidd at January 01, 2026 08:59 PM (nbLIj)

California uses a special blend of gas not produced anywhere else in the US so we're a gas island.

However, a few weeks ago Ace (i think) linked a video by 'Black Conservative' talking about this and he claims that two other countries - South Korea and one other produce the special blend and export it here. So that explains why the local refineries don't just charge whatever the traffic will bear - they are price capped by the price of the imported gasoline.

I have no idea how high it will go before people rebel at the ballot box or even if we can anymore. How high would the price of gas have to be before you quit your job, sell your home and move?

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at January 01, 2026 09:07 PM (QGaXH)

257 248 Every year is the hottest ever, now.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 01, 2026 08:54 PM (w6EFb)

Are they growing grapes for wine in England now?
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit

Down in the SW part, they are. They've grown grapes down there for centuries though.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at January 01, 2026 09:08 PM (7Pnfz)

258 swear they have changed to formula of pressure treating to something that doesn't work.

I feel safe in blaming the EPA.
Posted by: toby928(c)

Some people gain 30 lbs. from T-giving to New Years, then blame the lumber, or the EPA.

Posted by: Hefty Honey at January 01, 2026 09:08 PM (oftw2)

259 Posted by: nurse ratched at January 01, 2026 09:02 PM
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You're not stupid. You're simply a chump, like the rest of us.

We should be taking notes on what's going on in eye-ran!

Posted by: JQ at January 01, 2026 09:08 PM (rdVOm)

260 Tucker should interview a Zutt next time.

Posted by: gKWVE at January 01, 2026 09:08 PM (gKWVE)

261 Having the clock reach zero and passing the "point of no return" on the climate are merely predicates to justify overt terrorism.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 01, 2026 09:08 PM (ZOv7s)

262 Union of Severely Concerned Scientists

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Not just concerned, severely concerned.

But dude, we already did Y2K.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except Better at January 01, 2026 09:09 PM (L/fGl)

263 The world ended. We just didn't notice.

Posted by: Lathe of heaven at January 01, 2026 09:09 PM (pkeXY)

264 You're not stupid. You're simply a chump, like the rest of us.

We should be taking notes on what's going on in eye-ran!
Posted by: JQ at January 01, 2026 09:08 PM (rdVOm)
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When I got laid off in 2005, I tried the bootstrap approach, avoiding public assistance, and it was stupid. When I got whacked again (and exited politics for good), I collected all the bennies. I'd been paying for them, so may as well draw on them.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 01, 2026 09:10 PM (ZOv7s)

265 Took Christmas decorations down today. Usually leave stuff up until Epiphany. Wasn’t feeling it this year.

Oh well.

Posted by: nurse ratched at January 01, 2026 09:11 PM (IhIKR)

266 -
Slight limp. Probably banged Melania too enthusiastically.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks,
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I know that walk, it's not mo.ney, it's my knee.
Put too much into the last 9.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 01, 2026 09:11 PM (UZwsW)

267 What if they gave an apocalypse and nobody came?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except Better at January 01, 2026 09:12 PM (L/fGl)

268 He timed his heel-turn...poorly.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd

Hey, even Hulk Hogan and Bob Backlund turned heel at some point. Don't think Bruno Sammartino ever did, though.

Posted by: The Grand Wizard Of Wrestling at January 01, 2026 09:12 PM (oftw2)

269 New York Post
@nypost
Zohran Mamdani fans disappointed by disastrous ‘block party’ with no food, bathrooms
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except Better at January 01, 2026 08:54 PM (L/fGl)
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Dude can't manage a block party.

Now he's responsible for managing one of largest cities in America.

Let's see how that works out for him.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 01, 2026 09:12 PM (ESVrU)

270 Without Obama to ship pallets of cash, not sure the mullahs survive. I doubt Russia has the manpower to accomplish anything in Iran given that they let Assad fall in Syria to vastly smaller numbers.

China has skin in the game, though, and probably a best case scenario would be them getting bogged down in Iran "stabilization" to the extent that they have nothing left to threaten Taiwan with.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 01, 2026 09:12 PM (ZOv7s)

271 When I got laid off in 2005, I tried the bootstrap approach, avoiding public assistance, and it was stupid. When I got whacked again (and exited politics for good), I collected all the bennies. I'd been paying for them, so may as well draw on them.
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As soon as I/we *qualify* I will apply for EVERY g.d. bennie we can get! Already got a (one-time) property tax reduction last year & hope to get it again.

Posted by: JQ at January 01, 2026 09:13 PM (rdVOm)

272 The more they're ignored, the more shrill they get.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at January 01, 2026 09:13 PM (nWPIJ)

273 263 The world ended. We just didn't notice.
Posted by: Lathe of heaven at January 01, 2026 09:09 PM (pkeXY)

I’ve said before that one of my greatest fears is that the world will end, but I’ll still be here and get told to clean up the mess.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 01, 2026 09:14 PM (otNgF)

274 The anthem for the New Year… again.

https://youtu.be/Z0GFRcFm-aY

Posted by: mindful webworker - Right? Right! at January 01, 2026 09:14 PM (dESj/)

275 The more they're ignored, the more shrill they get.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at January 01, 2026 09:13 PM (nWPIJ)
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If they were capable of taking action, at this point they would. Antifa was always cosplaying, helpless outside of its safe zones. Even the dim Dem governors making noises about "resisting" have nothing to resist with, and they know it. They should because it's all they can do.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 01, 2026 09:16 PM (ZOv7s)

276 Who Else has to go back to work for one day?
Those daycares ain't gonna fund themselves.

Posted by: Oh noes !! at January 01, 2026 09:16 PM (+abK1)

277 Dude can't manage a block party.

Now he's responsible for managing one of largest cities in America.

Let's see how that works out for him.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at

Heh. New mayor of Seattle
Still lives with her parents. Her husband is an unemployed baker.

Posted by: nurse ratched at January 01, 2026 09:16 PM (IhIKR)

278 The more they're ignored, the more shrill they get.
Posted by: Cicero

They're looking for more better lies.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except Better at January 01, 2026 09:16 PM (L/fGl)

279 228
'Iran has asked Russia for help as its security forces are being overwhelmed by Iranians in several cities.'

Russia's response will tell us a lot about whether the mullahs are winning or losing.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at January 01, 2026 09:17 PM (fd80v)

280
@nypost
Zohran Mamdani fans disappointed by disastrous ‘block party’ with no food, bathrooms
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks

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

That actually sounds hopeful. Maybe the guy knew he couldn't afford a spread, so he skipped it.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 01, 2026 09:17 PM (2YF7/)

281 Fuck me. I’ll never retire. And I will keep paying taxes and following the rules.

Damn. I’m stupid.
Posted by: nurse ratched at January 01, 2026 09:02 PM (IhIKR)

Me, too. I'm staying with my elderly mom to assist her after she had a stroke. I guess I can register as her caregiver, and register her home as an assisted living facility, right? Right??? I'm a dope. I keep working.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at January 01, 2026 09:17 PM (h7ZuX)

282 That actually sounds hopeful. Maybe the guy knew he couldn't afford a spread, so he skipped it.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 01, 2026 09:17 PM (2YF7/)

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What part of Bread and Circuses doesn't he understand?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at January 01, 2026 09:18 PM (nWPIJ)

283 I’ve said before that one of my greatest fears is that the world will end, but I’ll still be here and get told to clean up the mess.
Posted by: Tom Servo

Someone proficient with a broom and shovel needs to follow the Clydesdales and elephants after the Circus Parade.

Posted by: It's Slightly Better In A Cool Uniform at January 01, 2026 09:19 PM (oftw2)

284 Due to Trump's aggressions bringing humanity to the brink of global nuclear annihilation…”

“Umm sir, excuse me? Can I ask a question? Who is it again who is trying as hard as they can to get the US to start a war with Russia? Cuz I don’t think that’s Trump, please tell me if I’m wrong.”

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 01, 2026 09:19 PM (otNgF)

285 What part of Bread and Circuses doesn't he understand?
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at January 01, 2026 09:18 PM (nWPIJ)
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These guys could screw up a wet dream. It's going to be epic.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 01, 2026 09:20 PM (ZOv7s)

286 256 241 My understanding is that California can't accept gas produced out of state because it's not unicorn-fart fortified. Maybe Hawaii produces such gas, but Nevada and Arizona do not.
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If California were really serious it would not accept anything produced from petrochemicals.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 01, 2026 09:20 PM (UZwsW)

287 Welcome to the Fyre Festival system of government.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 01, 2026 09:20 PM (ZOv7s)

288 Future headline. Residents of San Leandro face severe gas shortage as tanker being driven by non English speaking driver can't read bridge out sign and crashes truck into abutment and catches fire.
Posted by: Ben Had at January 01, 2026 08:29 PM (sDNVV)
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"Oakland"

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 01, 2026 09:21 PM (RIvkX)

289 Still lives with her parents. Her husband is an unemployed baker.
Posted by: nurse ratched

I was a loafer in a bakery once.

Posted by: Bud Abbott at January 01, 2026 09:21 PM (oftw2)

290 But here they are, Iran’s bravest, chanting “Long live the King” in the face of their oppressors.

2026 will be the year of their vindication.

https://tinyurl.com/43cdxerh
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others
++++

No Kings ?

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at January 01, 2026 09:22 PM (/lPRQ)

291 Oh. My. Stars. Touchdown!

Posted by: Piper at January 01, 2026 09:22 PM (pZEOD)

292 I’ve said before that one of my greatest fears is that the world will end, but I’ll still be here and get told to clean up the mess.
Posted by: Tom Servo at January 01, 2026 09:14 PM (otNgF)
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I would start with Newark.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 01, 2026 09:23 PM (RIvkX)

293 "Oakland"
Posted by: San Franpsycho
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LOL! And property taxes went UP after the fire, as it was an *improvement*

Posted by: JQ at January 01, 2026 09:23 PM (rdVOm)

294
What part of Bread and Circuses doesn't he understand?
Posted by: Cicero

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Haha, there's that.

I'm sure he won't miss the part about throwing Christians to the lions, however.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 01, 2026 09:24 PM (2YF7/)

295 260 Tucker should interview a Zutt next time.

Riding Big Mo all night in the desert? Raymond Ibrahim would be impressed with your reference.

Posted by: ErikInTexas at January 01, 2026 09:24 PM (4b7CV)

296 Are they growing grapes for wine in England now?
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit

Down in the SW part, they are. They've grown grapes down there for centuries though.
Posted by: Puddleglum at work

Use it as a cheap filler for mead?

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at January 01, 2026 09:25 PM (/lPRQ)

297
or build more refineries
Posted by: n

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Hah, oil producers know California is no place to do that.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 01, 2026 09:26 PM (2YF7/)

298 286
'If California were really serious it would not accept anything produced from petrochemicals.'

What if they were a bunch of virtue signaling hypocrites?

Posted by: Dr. Claw at January 01, 2026 09:27 PM (fd80v)

299 What if they gave an apocalypse and nobody came?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks

I guess it wouldn't matter.

https://youtu.be/CqFkU0plBbw

Posted by: mikeski at January 01, 2026 09:28 PM (nhCoE)

300 Russia's response will tell us a lot about whether the mullahs are winning or losing.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at January 01, 2026 09:17 PM (fd80v)

A poster on X noted that Russia had flown 5 heavy duty IL-76 cargo planes into Tehran over the last 48 hours. But no one knows whether they’re bringing equipment in, or hauling certain people and their loot out.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 01, 2026 09:29 PM (otNgF)

301 @245 you're not stupid and we love you.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at January 01, 2026 09:29 PM (CHHv1)

302 Ham & blackeyed peas.. Mmm Mmm!

Posted by: JQ at January 01, 2026 09:31 PM (rdVOm)

303 You know, Governor Newsom, in three years this state will be an utter disaster.

Nothing to worry about then! I will be in the Whitehouse in three years and it will be someone else's problem. Probably Karen Bass. And wait until you see what a disaster she makes of the place!

Posted by: at January 01, 2026 09:32 PM (/gRa9)

304 ❤️

Posted by: nurse ratched at January 01, 2026 09:33 PM (IhIKR)

305 The world ended. We just didn't notice.
Posted by: Lathe of heaven at January 01, 2026 09:09 PM (pkeXY)

I’ve said before that one of my greatest fears is that the world will end, but I’ll still be here and get told to clean up the mess.
Posted by: Tom Servo

But the good news is that you survived.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at January 01, 2026 09:34 PM (/lPRQ)

306 The Russians are probably evacuating what's left of Iran's WMD programs.

Posted by: davidt at January 01, 2026 09:36 PM (Q+gd/)

307 Do the Iranian people want a Shah, again?

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at January 01, 2026 09:37 PM (1paM0)

308 245 I’m so pissed.

I didn’t take the handouts offered when I got divorced and was a single mom. I could have saved thousands of dollars. I could still be collecting benefits.

Fuck me. I’ll never retire. And I will keep paying taxes and following the rules.

Damn. I’m stupid.
Posted by: nurse ratched

No, you did what you thought you should do. Technically, I qualify for SNAP for my daughter and me right now, but that feels very wrong considering my living situation. I am not willing to sacrifice my ethics for a few hundred dollars. I personally am very poor. On my own, I would be in a world of hurt. Figuring out braces for her is my current stress, but it will work out. I am trusting God’s plan and will continue to work my tail off to grow my business.

Posted by: Piper at January 01, 2026 09:39 PM (pZEOD)

309 307
'Do the Iranian people want a Shah, again?'

I don't know whether THEY do but I think a constitutional monarchy makes a lot of sense for them.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at January 01, 2026 09:40 PM (fd80v)

310
Do the Iranian people want a Shah, again?
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit

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

They want that Pahlavi kid back in whatever capacity. I asked some of them on X, Why him?? And they said "Because he is our voice."

But a shah, good lord.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 01, 2026 09:41 PM (2YF7/)

311 A poster on X noted that Russia had flown 5 heavy duty IL-76 cargo planes into Tehran over the last 48 hours. But no one knows whether they’re bringing equipment in, or hauling certain people and their loot out.
Posted by: Tom Servo

Might be extracting their engineers and scientists.
Nukular materials...

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at January 01, 2026 09:42 PM (/lPRQ)

312 But a shah, good lord.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia

Personally, that job title, I feel, is beneath me.

Posted by: The Grand, High, Exalted, Mystic, Ruler, Morris Fink at January 01, 2026 09:43 PM (oftw2)

313
I read the history of how we lost Iran back in the '70s. It's a mess of foreign policy screwing up Carter was a fool of course, but it goes back before then.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 01, 2026 09:44 PM (w6EFb)

314
Unless I'm missing something, it looks like if the bus guy trick were real, he would have broken his neck on the windshield, been lacerated by glass, dropped too far to go out the back of the bus, and been seriously injured by falling six feet face first onto pavement.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at January 01, 2026 09:44 PM (biznJ)

315 307 Do the Iranian people want a Shah, again?
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at January 01, 2026 09:37 PM (1paM0)

What do they know, except shahs or mullahs?

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at January 01, 2026 09:44 PM (h7ZuX)

316 I made the choice, almost 40 years ago, to NOT get 'on the dole'-- as a newly divorced woman.

Oh sure, could've found a sperm-donor anywhere and popped out a kid or two (assuming I *could* get pregnant... which was unlikely) and gotten a free apartment, free college, free food, free free free... except for the poor littles, who would've grown up without a father.

Nope. Conscious decision to NOT go there!

Posted by: JQ at January 01, 2026 09:45 PM (rdVOm)

317 What in the heck, Rebels? That was chaos.

Posted by: Piper at January 01, 2026 09:45 PM (pZEOD)

318
And the Brits did a lot of fucking up in Iran as well. Sewing the seeds....

All that said, the Shah should've executed Khomeini when he had the chance. How could it have turned out worse than it did with him taking over?

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 01, 2026 09:46 PM (w6EFb)

319 Piper
Braces are expensive. I talked with the orthodontist and got a 30% discount for paying cash. She did a payment plan for me. It was still a burden, but needed to be done and my Marine literally yelled at his father to fork out for half.

Still thousands.

I will never ever retire.

Posted by: nurse ratched at January 01, 2026 09:47 PM (IhIKR)

320 A poster on X noted that Russia had flown 5 heavy duty IL-76 cargo planes into Tehran over the last 48 hours. But no one knows whether they’re bringing equipment in, or hauling certain people and their loot out.
Posted by: Tom Servo
--------------

If Iran falls, wouldn't that be, at least, a short term benefit to Russia? Putin could turn the fall into long term dominance and fuck China. In his heart, he wants to do that.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 01, 2026 09:50 PM (UZwsW)

321 I was working for Allied Van Lines in the late 70s. Remember building a crate for a 20' runabout/w/engine to ship to Iran. Stuffed into every space were cases of consumer goods like soap, detergents, all kinds of dry goods. It was only a few months before the Revolution. Always wondered if the American who owned the boat ever got to take the boat out or use the soap before he had to flee in terror.

Posted by: Iron Sheik Fan at January 01, 2026 09:51 PM (oftw2)

322 HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!

Posted by: Hacksaw Jim Duggan at January 01, 2026 09:53 PM (N/gmR)

323
319 Piper
Braces are expensive. I talked with the orthodontist and got a 30% discount for paying cash. She did a payment plan for me. It was still a burden, but needed to be done and my Marine literally yelled at his father to fork out for half.

Still thousands.

I will never ever retire.
Posted by: nurse ratched at January

I have some appointments set up over the next few weeks, cross your fingers for me I work something out in one of them. I won’t get half from my ex. I won’t get a dime he found in a couch cushion. He wouldn’t recognize my kid if he ran her over. Again, I am putting it in God’s hands, and trusting something will happen as I continue do my part for it. I am trusting the same for you, you are a good person.

Posted by: Piper at January 01, 2026 09:54 PM (pZEOD)

324 Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at January 01, 2026 09:51 PM (1paM0)

You blew the margins. Use a URL shrinking app, or get banned!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 01, 2026 09:55 PM (YIDb4)

325 320
'If Iran falls, wouldn't that be, at least, a short term benefit to Russia?'

Want to know which country Iran hates even more than the US and UK?

Posted by: Dr. Claw at January 01, 2026 09:55 PM (fd80v)

326 Looks like the FBI has been handed one on a platter.

I hope the can actually do something about the naked fraud otherwise they are going to prove to public that DC is irredeemable.

Posted by: pawn at January 01, 2026 09:55 PM (Rmqfl)

327
78 Newsom's Office of Agitprop put a crown on his xtwitter avatar.

https://x.com/GovPressOffice
Posted by: 13times at January 01, 2026 07:30 PM

------

Newsom's about to be dragged out of his office by a mob! Rebellion is in the air!

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at January 01, 2026 09:57 PM (d4X7t)

328 Russia buys advanced drones from Iran. It is not in their interest for the Mullahs to fall.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 01, 2026 09:57 PM (YIDb4)

329 Khomeini was protected by the French who gave him refuge. Like they did Pol Pot.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 01, 2026 09:57 PM (RIvkX)

330 Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 01, 2026 09:57 PM (RIvkX)

The French love dictators.

Petain was one, and they supported him for a few.years

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 01, 2026 09:59 PM (YIDb4)

331 If Iran falls, wouldn't that be, at least, a short term benefit to Russia? Putin could turn the fall into long term dominance and fuck China. In his heart, he wants to do that.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others
+++++

Hmmmm

Trump could announce that if Iran forms a completely new government it would necessitate a reset on our diplomatic relationship - perhaps even free trade / zero tariff until they regain stability.

Russia may have to counter and sweeten the pot.

All Chyna could do is offer to outbid all others on oil, rugs, and brass trinkets.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at January 01, 2026 09:59 PM (/lPRQ)

332 I had braces in jr. high/HS... 3 years of mockery & misery...had all 4 of the 2nd bicuspids removed, because jawbone wasn't big enough for all the teef. Parents paid for that.

And then? My wisdom teeth came in & crowded everything out again!

I paid for braces *again* in my 30s. Was working 3 jobs to pay for that plus all the debt XH left me with. FML, I was ready to just give up.

Posted by: JQ at January 01, 2026 10:00 PM (rdVOm)

333 310
'Still thousands.

I will never ever retire.'

At any rate, you were a good mother to your son.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at January 01, 2026 10:00 PM (fd80v)

334 329 Khomeini was protected by the French who gave him refuge. Like they did Pol Pot.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 01, 2026 09:57 PM (RIvkX)

And now George Clooney.

Posted by: davidt at January 01, 2026 10:00 PM (Q+gd/)

335 Hurry hurry hurry to the NOOD ONT before Doof corrects the egregious formatting error.
https://acecomments.mu.nu/?post=417960

Posted by: mindful webworker - centerville at January 01, 2026 10:01 PM (dESj/)

336 Maybe it was the 1st bicuspids, I dunno-- the "vampire" teeth...

Posted by: JQ at January 01, 2026 10:01 PM (rdVOm)

337 Posted by: Piper at January 01, 2026 09:39 PM (pZEOD)

Is there a dental.school.in your area? They might be able to help.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 01, 2026 10:02 PM (YIDb4)

Always Sunny Discusses 9/11 Open Thread

"The Gang Starts Listening to Tucker Carlson and Candace Owens."

Posted by: Ace at 05:30 PM

Comments

(Jump to bottom of comments)

1 Good afternoon good people.

Posted by: Tonypete at January 01, 2026 05:32 PM (cYBz/)

2 Dos Equis

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at January 01, 2026 05:33 PM (P5BPp)

3 Tres Leches

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at January 01, 2026 05:33 PM (P5BPp)

4 17-0 Indiana at the turn.

Posted by: toby928(c) Native Texan and Alabama Alumnus, Twice as Smug as You at January 01, 2026 05:36 PM (jc0TO)

5 Ninth

Posted by: From about That Time at January 01, 2026 05:36 PM (sl73Y)

6 Willowed: Mendoza is good and Indiana has a good offensive scheme

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 01, 2026 05:37 PM (zNwXb)

7 Howdy campers!

Posted by: Caf at January 01, 2026 05:37 PM (qS/Xm)

8 Slow. Must all be wrapped up in bowl game excitement, no?

Posted by: From about That Time at January 01, 2026 05:37 PM (sl73Y)

9 I've never seen that show.

Posted by: Ordinary American at January 01, 2026 05:38 PM (t+TFX)

10 Willowed: Mendoza is good and Indiana has a good offensive scheme
Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 01, 2026 05:37 PM

Yeah. Alabama isn't playing bad, but Indiana is playing better.

Posted by: toby928(c) Native Texan and Alabama Alumnus, Twice as Smug as You at January 01, 2026 05:38 PM (jc0TO)

11 Good afternoon! Well, got a little work done this morning, did a little lawn work after that, did some redneck shit in the garage and then sat in the hot tub this afternoon and now I'm ready to watch some hockey. Been a good day so far.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at January 01, 2026 05:40 PM (3Ope8)

12 When Charlie Kelly is the voice of reason...

On a side note, I saw some Washington state senator has figured out how to stop all this fuss about illegal fraud. She wrote a law that the state will no longer share any information with the public. One party dictatorships are great.

In her photo, she looked like Bonnie Kelly.

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at January 01, 2026 05:41 PM (cxFcK)

13 Which is why Alabama should not have been in the playoff. SEC my ass!

Posted by: Mick at January 01, 2026 05:41 PM (HFx9z)

14 First sunset of 2026 does not disappoint here in KY.

Neither did the first sunrise... which I did not capture on digital due to a lack of coffee.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 01, 2026 05:42 PM (NwnyJ)

15 Which is why Alabama should not have been in the playoff. SEC my ass!
Posted by: Mick at January 01, 2026 05:41 PM

Envy much?

Posted by: toby928(c) has drink taken at January 01, 2026 05:42 PM (jc0TO)

16 Only 1 day into the new year and the Jews still run everything.

Posted by: Tucker at January 01, 2026 05:43 PM (/CkK4)

17 I'd like to see Indiana take it all the way to the championship. I'm not holding a grudge. They're earning it.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at January 01, 2026 05:43 PM (h7ZuX)

18 Heh, Mamdani's block party celebrating his inauguration had no bathrooms or concession stands. At least no one got killed. Yet.
Ahh communism

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 01, 2026 05:46 PM (zNwXb)

19 willowed, of course...

141 >120 Daycares in Minnesota donated a combined $35 million to political campaigns in the last two years.

This is why Walz was the VP pick. The Biden Precedent. You can't investigate a VP Candidate, who knows what or who you might uncover.

Posted by: davidt at January 01, 2026 05:41 PM (Q+gd/)

Posted by: davidt at January 01, 2026 05:46 PM (Q+gd/)

20 I'd like to see Indiana take it all the way to the championship. I'm not holding a grudge. They're earning it.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at January 01, 2026 05:43 PM

Alabama needs them to make a mistake to close the gap and the Hoosiers don't seem to make mistakes.

Posted by: toby928(c) has drink taken at January 01, 2026 05:47 PM (jc0TO)

21 I'm impressed with Indiana. But I think that the portal and NIL (just paying players) have a lot to do with their recent success. Probably Texas Tech too.

I don't begrudge them one bit. Them's the rules.

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at January 01, 2026 05:47 PM (cxFcK)

22 They are just doing donuts on the lawn now.

>>@libsoftiktok
·
28m
>>Holy smokes you will never believe this

>>Somalia’s Minister of Foreign Affairs owns a home healthcare company in Ohio. There’s two other healthcare companies in the same suite as his and multiple others at this address with Somali owners

>>What are the odds…

Posted by: JackStraw at January 01, 2026 05:48 PM (viF8m)

23 all of my comments at the end of the last thread.....WASTED

Posted by: Lemmiwinks at January 01, 2026 05:49 PM (qtBQt)

24 "Good afternoon! Well, got a little work done this morning, did a little lawn work after that,"
**************
Lawn work around here today consisted of about an hour of snowblowing.

Posted by: Cosda at January 01, 2026 05:49 PM (SCy/O)

25 Cignetti is coaching a good game and
The marching band is playing "Fat Bottomed Girls"
America, fuck yeah

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 01, 2026 05:50 PM (zNwXb)

26 all of my comments at the end of the last thread.....WASTED

...Shoulder of Orion... Tears in the rain.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at January 01, 2026 05:51 PM (PH3st)

27 Flat bottom girls make the world go 'round.

Posted by: Brie Larson at January 01, 2026 05:51 PM (Q+gd/)

28 Getting sporty in Iran. I hope Shah Reza changes the name back to Persia. Way cooler.

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at January 01, 2026 05:51 PM (cxFcK)

29 Now the left is attacking Nick Shirley over his faith and for not being a man-whore.

I sadly expect Shirley to be killed or dead before Valentines day.

Posted by: SimoHayha at January 01, 2026 05:52 PM (/ZkOF)

30 DEVELOPING: Police Swarm Home of Jill Biden’s Ex-Husband After Wife Dies Amid Domestic Dispute
- Gateway Pundit

He is probably just as classy as Kill and the Bidens.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at January 01, 2026 05:52 PM (/lPRQ)

31 Grandpa groypers loves the some Fffckr Carlson! Carlson has the oldest audience, btw. Truth.

Posted by: runner at January 01, 2026 05:53 PM (ReBai)

32 It's now official. NYC is a Islamo-communist enclave. Enjoy!

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at January 01, 2026 05:54 PM (cxFcK)

33 According to a post on X Scott Adams does not expect to live out January.

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at January 01, 2026 05:54 PM (8CIFn)

34 Kinda funny...

Posted by: runner at January 01, 2026 05:54 PM (ReBai)

35 "Good afternoon! Well, got a little work done this morning, did a little lawn work after that,"
**************
Lawn work around here today consisted of about an hour of snowblowing.
Posted by: Cosda
+++++
$20, same as in town?

-Frosty

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at January 01, 2026 05:54 PM (/lPRQ)

36 Now the left is attacking Nick Shirley over his faith and for not being a man-whore.

I sadly expect Shirley to be killed or dead before Valentines day.

Posted by: SimoHayha

He received a message yesterday that told him he would be killed by April.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at January 01, 2026 05:55 PM (0U5gm)

37 I'm impressed with Indiana. But I think that the portal and NIL (just paying players) have a lot to do with their recent success. Probably Texas Tech too.

I don't begrudge them one bit. Them's the rules.

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at January 01, 2026 05:47 PM

It's like that all over college sports. Football, men's basketball. Whichever schools have the biggest donors in order to pay out the most NIL $ will end up with the best players.

You look at these teams from year to year and hardly any of the players are "home grown". Almost all of them are juniors or seniors who have 1-2 years of experience and transfer in thanks to NIL $.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at January 01, 2026 05:55 PM (P5BPp)

38 21 I'm impressed with Indiana. But I think that the portal and NIL (just paying players) have a lot to do with their recent success. Probably Texas Tech too.

I don't begrudge them one bit. Them's the rules.

---

About 100 of the 136 D1 programs need to just drop sports. They don't and will never have the money to keep up with schools anointed by the ESPNCCA.

Posted by: Lemmiwinks at January 01, 2026 05:55 PM (qtBQt)

39 They are just doing donuts on the lawn now.

>>@libsoftiktok
·
28m
>>Holy smokes you will never believe this

>>Somalia’s Minister of Foreign Affairs owns a home healthcare company in Ohio. There’s two other healthcare companies in the same suite as his and multiple others at this address with Somali owners

>>What are the odds…

Posted by: JackStraw at January 01, 2026 05:48 PM (viF8m)

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

Future Hell Mirror Universe Headline:

"President Walz Appoints Rear Admiral Levine as Tranny Tampon Czar -- and Ilhan Omar as U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS).

Posted by: ShainS -- Make Lustration Great Again! at January 01, 2026 05:58 PM (QbCrG)

40 I'm impressed with Indiana. But I think that the portal and NIL (just paying players) have a lot to do with their recent success.

and Cignetti is a good coach. I doubted them last year as they didn't play anyone to get quality wins but, this year, solid team.

Posted by: toby928(c) has drink taken at January 01, 2026 05:58 PM (jc0TO)

41 According to a post on X Scott Adams does not expect to live out January.

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at January 01, 2026 05:54 PM

Jason Cohen @JasonJournoDC

NEW: @ScottAdamsSays shares devastating health update

"I talked to my radiologist yesterday and it’s all bad news. So the odds of me recovering are essentially zero."

"You should prepare yourself that January will probably be a month of transition one way or the other."

X video: https://bit.ly/4jmh5S9

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at January 01, 2026 06:00 PM (P5BPp)

42 About 100 of the 136 D1 programs need to just drop sports. They don't and will never have the money to keep up with schools anointed by the ESPNCCA.
Posted by: Lemmiwinks

We're sort of at the point where these teams are professional organizations for some reason tied to universities who are all proud about their rigorous academics and scholarship. Many of these kids don't even bother to attend class. They have little to do with the other school attendees.

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at January 01, 2026 06:01 PM (cxFcK)

43 About 100 of the 136 D1 programs need to just drop sports. They don't and will never have the money to keep up with schools anointed by the ESPNCCA.
Posted by: Lemmiwinks at January 01, 2026 05:55 PM (qtBQt)

It’s whoever wants to pay the most money, raise the most money, buy the most players is going to have the best opportunity to win. I don’t think that’s the spirit of college athletics. I don’t think it’s ever been the spirit of what we want college athletics to be. That’s my major concern: the combination of pay-for-play, free agency, and how that impacts development.

Posted by: Nick Saban, Multimillionaire and Owner of Waterfront Property at January 01, 2026 06:01 PM (R/m4+)

44 First chore of the New Year: I bought a bigger wall calendar than the ones I've used before. I need to relocate the hanging nail to a higher spot on the wall.

Tap tap tap

Done! Time to start drinking!

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at January 01, 2026 06:02 PM (PH3st)

45 33 According to a post on X Scott Adams does not expect to live out January.
Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at January 01, 2026 05:54 PM (8CIFn)

His cancer has metastasized into his spine, it’s very sad. He’s trying experimental treatments, but the odds of them working are pretty small.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 01, 2026 06:03 PM (m7iZ5)

46 Indiana's NIL numbers are not the highest, but they are playing in the big leagues and their coach is the real deal. Alabama's coach screwed up early on the 4th down call - if Alabama can't get any traction in the next half a quarter, this game is over. And IU will win the national championship. Pretty crazy, the rest of us Big Ten types are going to be waiting for his retirement so we have a chance. At least I can stop hating Ohio State so much.

Posted by: Black JEM at January 01, 2026 06:03 PM (UVyKP)

47 Adams has looked pretty bad, the last videos I've seen. He got a few months reprieve.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at January 01, 2026 06:03 PM (+mUZM)

48 8 Slow. Must all be wrapped up in bowl game excitement, no?

watching robots fight over at cheddar.com

Posted by: chatgpt at January 01, 2026 06:04 PM (edU/H)

49 First chore of the New Year: I bought a bigger wall calendar than the ones I've used before. I need to relocate the hanging nail to a higher spot on the wall.

Tap tap tap

Done! Time to start drinking!

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at January 01, 2026 06:02 PM (PH3st)

If only all home projects were that easy.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 01, 2026 06:04 PM (snZF9)

50 Hello, Horde! 😊💕

Hubby and I have The Crud - been sleeping all day, only waking up when the cough medicine wears off. Then we take more. Lather, rinse, repeat.

I do have a slight advantage in that I still have Hydrocodone leftover from my surgery, so I am pretty much knocked out not long after I take some of that....

Some colleges are playing Bowl games today, right? Our beloved Aggies lost in the first round, so we haven't paid much attention since then.

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas - AoSHQ's at January 01, 2026 06:04 PM (SRRAx)

51
We're sort of at the point where these teams are professional organizations for some reason tied to universities who are all proud about their rigorous academics and scholarship. Many of these kids don't even bother to attend class. They have little to do with the other school attendees.

----

I can't cheer for you if you aren't even committed to my school. It is pretty obvious that these guys are being recruited mid season by agents and told to not get hurt playing for little Colorado State, we got you a deal to go to Texas next year.

Posted by: Lemmiwinks at January 01, 2026 06:05 PM (qtBQt)

52 It’s whoever wants to pay the most money, raise the most money, buy the most players is going to have the best opportunity to win. I don’t think that’s the spirit of college athletics. I don’t think it’s ever been the spirit of what we want college athletics to be. That’s my major concern: the combination of pay-for-play, free agency, and how that impacts development.
Posted by: Nick Saban, Multimillionaire and Owner of Waterfront Property at January 01, 2026 06:01 PM (R/m4+)
==
That hasn't been the spirit for some time. The courts opened this up. The alumni money men wanted it. They are now essentially team owners. The NCAA was actually created to prevent this, but then they screwed the pooch themselves so as to make everybody hate them.

Posted by: Black JEM at January 01, 2026 06:05 PM (UVyKP)

53 How has everyone been doing today?

Posted by: Skip at January 01, 2026 06:06 PM (Ia/+0)

54 https://nil-ncaa.com/

Estimated NIL and revenue sharing 2025-2026.

Lots of numbers. Kind of mathy.

Posted by: olddog in mo at January 01, 2026 06:08 PM (bQ4nt)

55 Indiana is just grinding Alabama down. It's not big strikes, mostly. It's just get 3, get 5, get 4 and on and on. And then Mendoza scrambles for 12.

Posted by: toby928(c) has drink taken at January 01, 2026 06:09 PM (jc0TO)

56 TD Indiana.

Posted by: olddog in mo at January 01, 2026 06:09 PM (bQ4nt)

57 Well, spoke too soon. 24 yard TD pass.

Posted by: toby928(c) has drink taken at January 01, 2026 06:09 PM (jc0TO)

58 DataRepublican (small r) reposted

Leigh Marcotte @labtechleigh

Quoting this bombshell thread on HHS/ORR quietly handing a sole-source $1M grant to a deeply connected pro-mass-immigration NGO.

Entrenched bureaucrats at work -- but WIN'S globalist ties and partner network tell the real story.

X thread: https://bit.ly/45l6Szu

The Welcoming Initiative for Newcomers (WIN) is a San Diego-based 501(c)(3) focused on "win-win-win" outcomes for refugees/immigrants, private sponsors, and communities.

They innovate "lawful pathways" for arrival, integration, and filling labor needs – often with taxpayer support via federal grants like this one.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at January 01, 2026 06:10 PM (P5BPp)

59 Wow.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 01, 2026 06:10 PM (viF8m)

60 Saw one small story today that has convinced me that Iran’s government truly will collapse this year. (Who knows the timing). Remember this is happening because Iran currently has 50% unemployment and 40% inflation. Fuel prices were always kept extremely low, but in an attempt to get control of their fiscal catastrophe the government has been raising those prices quite a bit, which has hit everyone very hard.

So today a government minister announced they have a plan to make everything affordable again - they are going to print up a lot more money so everyone will have plenty.

What could possibly go wrong.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 01, 2026 06:10 PM (m7iZ5)

61 At this point I just want to put one in the endzone. One.

Posted by: toby928(c) has drink taken at January 01, 2026 06:10 PM (jc0TO)

62 So how are leftwing women responding to videos of Persian/Iranian women ripping off their burqas? Cheering loudly?

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at January 01, 2026 06:11 PM (8CIFn)

63 We watch the Mummers parade for few hours

Cognac now, and pretzels

Posted by: Skip at January 01, 2026 06:11 PM (Ia/+0)

64 Teens surprise Walmart Shoppers by paying for all the items in their carts. They're part of a group at their school which emphasizes positive values for young men:

Faithpot site:

https://tinyurl.com/vsuz63bk

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 01, 2026 06:11 PM (oT1li)

65 IU is about to score again, after forcing a 3 and out. And TD IU - game. Folks, college football now goes through Bloomington, Indiana.

To think the new world of wild west college football results in a toppling of the old kings and the elevation of a D1 school that was historically the worst football in the country forever.

Posted by: Black JEM at January 01, 2026 06:11 PM (UVyKP)

66 This is an impressive Indiana. The calls are perfect and so is the execution. There D is excellent also.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 01, 2026 06:11 PM (zNwXb)

67 Mendoza and the Hoosiers are murdering The Tide

Posted by: M. Gaga at January 01, 2026 06:12 PM (KiBMU)

68 FB post says surgery went well for VDH.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at January 01, 2026 06:12 PM (+mUZM)

69 At this point I just want to put one in the endzone. One.
Posted by: toby928(c) has drink taken

Me too!

Posted by: Pete Bootyjuice at January 01, 2026 06:12 PM (PH3st)

70 DogeDesigner @cb_doge

BREAKING: Somali TikToker threatens Elon Musk’s life:

"I wouldn't worry too much about him. He about to die."

Protect Elon Musk at all costs.

X video: https://bit.ly/4jjaTdu

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at January 01, 2026 06:14 PM (P5BPp)

71 Ty Simpson out, Austin Mack in.

A change of pace.

Posted by: toby928(c) has drink taken at January 01, 2026 06:14 PM (jc0TO)

72 To think the new world of wild west college football results in a toppling of the old kings and the elevation of a D1 school that was historically the worst football in the country forever.
Posted by: Black JEM

=====

I'm not crazy about NIL, but this is fun.

Posted by: George Costanza at January 01, 2026 06:14 PM (8AONa)

73 Tim Walz is not a Retard,
he is the Valedictorian of the Learing Center.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 01, 2026 06:14 PM (UZwsW)

74 @60 the mullahs can BS all they want , but without water they're effed. The Persian people ain't stupid and they realize the government did it and are incompetent, corrupt morons

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 01, 2026 06:14 PM (zNwXb)

75 Begone, marine biologist sock

Posted by: 2009Refugee at January 01, 2026 06:15 PM (8AONa)

76 Amy Mek @AmyMek

France’s “Cultural Enrichment” New Year’s Inferno Just Hit a New High!

Update: The annual infidel car-burning festival outdid itself this New Year’s Eve!

At least 1,173 vehicles torched across France - smashing last year’s 984!

505 arrests and 403 in custody (up from 420 arrests and 310 last year).

They really went all out this time.

Record-breaking “celebrations” from the religion of peace and tolerance.

X video: https://bit.ly/4skws1x

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at January 01, 2026 06:16 PM (P5BPp)

77 Sad news for Scott Adams.

His 'Out! Out! Demons of Stupidity!' was the most zeitgeistest of corporate zeitgeist.

Posted by: Adriane the Artistic License Critic ... at January 01, 2026 06:16 PM (3ZUWJ)

78 The Iranian city of Qom has joined the uprising. It's the spiritual center of Shias. I think it's where the well is that houses the 13th imam they're so nuts about. I think that's a big deal.

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at January 01, 2026 06:17 PM (cxFcK)

79 3@C_3C_3b . 1h

Future Leaders Learning Center in Minneapolis has donated over $6 million to Democrats in the last 2 years

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 01, 2026 06:17 PM (UZwsW)

80 Ty Simpson out, Austin Mack in.

A change of pace.

Posted by: toby928(c) has drink taken at January 01, 2026 06:14 PM

I do not think it will not make much of a difference. Alabama has been a 1-dimensional offense all season. No running game. I'm surprised they have gotten as far as they have.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at January 01, 2026 06:17 PM (P5BPp)

81 Hopefully Mack can look good as he transfers after this game. He is very ready to be a starter somewhere and has been the backup for two years.

Posted by: toby928(c) has drink taken at January 01, 2026 06:18 PM (jc0TO)

82
"It's the spiritual center of Shias."

What's the spiritual center of Lutherans?

Posted by: I gotta ask at January 01, 2026 06:18 PM (2Ez/1)

83 What's the spiritual center of Lutherans?
Posted by: I gotta ask at January 01, 2026 06:18 PM

Heidelberg?

Posted by: toby928(c) has drink taken at January 01, 2026 06:19 PM (jc0TO)

84 The Iranian city of Qom has joined the uprising. It's the spiritual center of Shias. I think it's where the well is that houses the 13th imam they're so nuts about. I think that's a big deal.
Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at January 01, 2026 06:17 PM (cxFcK)

Wow! Hopefully soon some expat washington dc goblin savages will take over the iranian embassy here and hold the staff hostage.

Like 1979 all over again but in reverse.

Posted by: Operation Eagle Claw 2: Hostage Boogaloo at January 01, 2026 06:19 PM (R/m4+)

85 @82 jello salad?

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 01, 2026 06:20 PM (zNwXb)

86 85th?

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at January 01, 2026 06:20 PM (QGaXH)

87 Nice arm. That was a rope.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 01, 2026 06:20 PM (viF8m)

88 61 At this point I just want to put one in the endzone. One.
Posted by: toby928(c) has drink taken at January 01, 2026 06:10

Getting closer. And with backup QB.

Posted by: olddog in mo at January 01, 2026 06:20 PM (bQ4nt)

89 Good lord, Hoosiers are CRUSHING Bama.

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at January 01, 2026 06:21 PM (cxFcK)

90 What's the spiritual center of Lutherans?
Posted by: I gotta ask

Which synod?

Posted by: Davey and Goliath at January 01, 2026 06:21 PM (oftw2)

91 What's the spiritual center of Lutherans?
Posted by: I gotta ask at January 01, 2026 06:18 PM

Heidelberg?
Posted by: toby928(c) has drink taken

Ya. Der's jello and shredded carrots, der!

Posted by: Luther Johnson at January 01, 2026 06:21 PM (3ZUWJ)

92 (not our)Nurse Ratched retweeted
Elon Musk@elonmusk . 2h

America is toast if the radical left wins.

They will open the floodgates to illegal immigration and fraud.

Won’t be America anymore.
--
@jackunheard
Elon Musk is reportedly going all-in funding Republicans to help President Trump take back full control in the November midterms.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 01, 2026 06:22 PM (UZwsW)

93 Nice arm. That was a rope.
Posted by: JackStraw at January 01, 2026 06:20 PM

He's ready to be a starter, but I expect Simpson to come back, and there is a 5 star Freshman behind him.

He's going to transfer, is my bet. And no hard feelings from the Gumps of he does, well, if he transfers out of the SEC.

Posted by: toby928(c) has drink taken at January 01, 2026 06:22 PM (jc0TO)

94 What's the spiritual center of Lutherans?
Posted by: I gotta ask

I think it was Wittenberg where Luther nailed the 95 theses to the church door. That started all this fuss.

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at January 01, 2026 06:23 PM (cxFcK)

95 To think the new world of wild west college football results in a toppling of the old kings and the elevation of a D1 school that was historically the worst football in the country forever.

---

ESPN gave them and all the schools in the Big10 and SEC $100million per year and fucked over everyone else. If you have less than $50MM in revenue per year, you shouldn't be allowed to play those schools that have over $100MM

Posted by: Lemmiwinks at January 01, 2026 06:23 PM (qtBQt)

96 So, New Yorkers, are you ready to abandon the frigidity of rugged individualism for the warmth of collectivism?

Posted by: gKWVE at January 01, 2026 06:23 PM (gKWVE)

97 The timing of the Iranian revolt is good for the US. Rubio is solid and won't be pushed around by the State Department dug in nitwits. They think only they have the magic fix. Gotten us into crap for the last 75 years. Rubio will use his head

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 01, 2026 06:23 PM (zNwXb)

98 What's the spiritual center of Lutherans?
Posted by: I gotta ask

I'd consider the Upper Midwest as it also is the epicenter of the earth's casserole, or 'hotdish' if you prefer, area.

Posted by: Tonypete at January 01, 2026 06:23 PM (cYBz/)

99 @60 the mullahs can BS all they want , but without water they're effed. The Persian people ain't stupid and they realize the government did it and are incompetent, corrupt morons
Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 01, 2026 06:14 PM (zNwXb)
---
PRO TIP for asshole wannabe tyrant dictators:

Make sure your people can eat and drink.

Otherwise they'll take it out of your hide.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 01, 2026 06:24 PM (ESVrU)

100 >>>505 arrests and 403 in custody (up from 420 arrests and 310 last year).

They really went all out this time.
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Arrest them, they don't care.
Jail food is better than home cooking and lots of fresh tooshy.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 01, 2026 06:25 PM (UZwsW)

101 86 85th?
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at January 01, 2026 06:20 PM (QGaXH)

So close!

This is how I amuse myself.....

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at January 01, 2026 06:26 PM (QGaXH)

102
Elon Musk is reportedly going all-in funding Republicans to help President Trump take back full control in the November midterms

Is that why the nutty Somali woman in the hijab in the video linked in post 70 wants to kill him? I couldn't get any sound.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 01, 2026 06:26 PM (oT1li)

103 Started the year with some gainz!

Posted by: Cray Cray at January 01, 2026 06:27 PM (EES2L)

104 So how are leftwing women responding to videos of Persian/Iranian women ripping off their burqas? Cheering loudly?

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at January 01, 2026 06:11 PM (8CIFn)

Probably pissed that they're too far away to loot them and claim them as their own.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 01, 2026 06:27 PM (snZF9)

105 I don't like this. FG Bama to get off the snide.

Down 3 scores I'd have gone for it and taken our beating like a man.

Posted by: toby928(c) has drink taken at January 01, 2026 06:27 PM (jc0TO)

106
Wow! Hopefully soon some expat washington dc goblin savages will take over the iranian embassy here and hold the staff hostage.

Like 1979 all over again but in reverse.
Posted by: Operation Eagle Claw 2: Hostage Boogaloo

Bring back Ted Koppel!

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 01, 2026 06:27 PM (pkeXY)

107 101 86 85th?
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at January 01, 2026 06:20 PM (QGaXH)

So close!

This is how I amuse myself.....
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at January 01, 2026 06:26 PM (QGaXH)

Since I don't have a back porch to shoot cans and squirrels off of.....

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at January 01, 2026 06:28 PM (QGaXH)

108 On the bright side, Mack moved us down the field.

Posted by: toby928(c) has drink taken at January 01, 2026 06:28 PM (jc0TO)

109 Still sad about my Buckeyes yesterday. Good thing we don't have real problems in the world like our political class selling out our kids' and grandkids' future by running a tax funded scam through importing tens of millions of dirty, retarded 3rd worlders.

Posted by: Cray Cray at January 01, 2026 06:29 PM (EES2L)

110 I guess we now know why Harris picked Walz and was able to spend a billion dollars in a hundred days.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at January 01, 2026 06:29 PM (0U5gm)

111 Indiana was (3-9) in 2023.

2024: 6th year senior QB Kurtis Rourke transfers to Indiana from MAC school Ohio. 3 full seasons of experience. Proceeds to lead Indiana to (10-1) season against weak schedule. Round 1 loss at Notre Dame in playoff.

2025: Junior QB Fernando Mendoza transfers to Indiana from Cal, where he started for two seasons. 5th year Senior RB Roman Hembry transfer from Maryland. Senior DL Stephen Daley transfer from Kent State.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at January 01, 2026 06:29 PM (P5BPp)

112 Just saw some flipped cars in Iran, and a building described as a mosque on fire. Not sure where in Iran.

Posted by: Lincolntf at January 01, 2026 06:30 PM (vV6n9)

113 Now the left is attacking Nick Shirley over his faith and for not being a man-whore.

I sadly expect Shirley to be killed or dead before Valentines day.
Posted by: SimoHayha at January 01, 2026 05:52 PM (/ZkOF)

Then, revenge needs to rule the day. Period. These people need to learn to live in fear. I never thought I would live long enough to see this crap go on in my country.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at January 01, 2026 06:31 PM (5xuJ/)

114 Fires can be tough to fight without water.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 01, 2026 06:32 PM (QAvZU)

115 Just saw some flipped cars in Iran, and a building described as a mosque on fire. Not sure where in Iran.
Posted by: Lincolntf

Some Iranian on X claimed that Iran has been forced to close 50,000 of 75,000 mosques in the country. People seem to be gravitating to Christianity and Zoroastrians, which I have no idea what it is but it's authentic Persian.

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at January 01, 2026 06:32 PM (cxFcK)

116 Damn, Indiana doesn't seem to have a low gear. They are rolling.

Posted by: Lincolntf at January 01, 2026 06:34 PM (vV6n9)

117
Zoroastrians, which I have no idea what it is but it's authentic Persian.
Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly

Guy Williams as Zorro.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 01, 2026 06:34 PM (pkeXY)

118 the mullahs can BS all they want , but without water they're effed. The Persian people ain't stupid and they realize the government did it and are incompetent, corrupt morons
Posted by: Smell the Glove
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I recall a 'journalist' commenting that Moses got water from Iraq.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 01, 2026 06:34 PM (XeU6L)

119 Damn, Indiana doesn't seem to have a low gear. They are rolling.
Posted by: Lincolntf at January 01, 2026 06:34 PM

We've had no answer against their offense since the first quarter.

Posted by: toby928(c) has drink taken at January 01, 2026 06:35 PM (jc0TO)

120 I still want a TD.

Posted by: toby928(c) has drink taken at January 01, 2026 06:36 PM (jc0TO)

121 I think Zoroastrianism is one of the very first monotheistic faiths, started in Iran, and suprised that the idiot Islamics haven't genocided them out of existence.

Worship some guy named Ahura-mazda, I think.

Posted by: SimoHayha at January 01, 2026 06:37 PM (/ZkOF)

122 Damn, Indiana doesn't seem to have a low gear. They are rolling.
Posted by: Lincolntf
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[recalls Bobby Knight flinging chair onto the court]

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 01, 2026 06:37 PM (XeU6L)

123 Western Lensman @WesternLensman

Chuck Schumer: “Our ultimate goal is to get a path to citizenship for all 11 million or however many undocumented there are here."

I'ts right out in the open.

Elon Musk @elonmusk

And that’s exactly what they’ve been doing

X video: https://bit.ly/492W2Az

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at January 01, 2026 06:37 PM (P5BPp)

124 The thing about Iran is that, unlike many Muslim countries, there was a time in living memory, or at least in tales that the Olds share when things were so very much better. And, they are not a bunch of inbred idiots. That too.

Posted by: tubal at January 01, 2026 06:37 PM (pDt9x)

125 Some Iranian on X claimed that Iran has been forced to close 50,000 of 75,000 mosques in the country. People seem to be gravitating to Christianity and Zoroastrians, which I have no idea what it is but it's authentic Persian.
Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly

They are bigly into the Mazda brand

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at January 01, 2026 06:37 PM (/lPRQ)

126 Man, that sucked. 31-3

Posted by: toby928(c) has drink taken at January 01, 2026 06:37 PM (jc0TO)

127 Iran ha 92m people and a lot of resources. If they shook off the mullahs and solve the water problem, a resurgent Western leaning Iran would be a massive change in the Middle East. If they threw off radical Shiites for Zoro or Christianity, wow

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 01, 2026 06:38 PM (zNwXb)

128 Indiana is now showing off

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 01, 2026 06:39 PM (zNwXb)

129 Living under Mullahs is living under tyranny

Posted by: Skip at January 01, 2026 06:39 PM (Ia/+0)

130 About 100 of the 136 D1 programs need to just drop sports. They don't and will never have the money to keep up with schools anointed by the ESPNCCA.
Posted by: Lemmiwinks

Maybe not drop them but have them play in FCS, DII, DIII, NAIA. St. Francis in PA, did just that for basketball. They used to be a DI program but couldn't afford it any longer (NIL). So, they dropped to DIII, which is where the rest of the athletic programs are at St. Francis.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at January 01, 2026 06:39 PM (7Pnfz)

131 Alabama has 15 yards rushing with their RBs. Not going to be successful without a running game.

Meanwhile, Indiana has 163 yards rushing between their 2 RBs.

Run the ball and stop the run typically = success.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at January 01, 2026 06:40 PM (P5BPp)

132 Chuck Schumer: “Our ultimate goal is to get a path to citizenship for all 11 million or however many undocumented there are here."
++++

Way to low-ball it Chuck.

It was ~20 million twenty years ago before the Biden Junta threw open the flood gates.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at January 01, 2026 06:40 PM (/lPRQ)

133 Time for the IU scrubs/freshmen to get some Bowl game experience.

Posted by: Lincolntf at January 01, 2026 06:40 PM (vV6n9)

134 I wasn't expecting to win but I also wasn't expecting to get pummeled.

Posted by: toby928(c) has drink taken at January 01, 2026 06:40 PM (jc0TO)

135 Zoroastrians, which I have no idea what it is but it's authentic Persian.
Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly

I think that fag Freddy Mercury The Fag was a Zoro.

Posted by: Engelbert Humperdinck, Not A Homosexual at January 01, 2026 06:40 PM (R/m4+)

136 What's the spiritual center of Lutherans?

The Diet of Worms?

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at January 01, 2026 06:40 PM (1paM0)

137 Many years ago, in western Minnesota there was a girl's high school bb game. Local paper headline was " Fertile girls come to Climax Friday night". Fertile, MN and Climax, Mn are just a a few miles apart.

true story

Posted by: free tibet at January 01, 2026 06:40 PM (1wtUm)

138 The Diet of Worms?

Eat ze bugs.

Posted by: toby928(c) has drink taken at January 01, 2026 06:41 PM (jc0TO)

139 137 Many years ago, in western Minnesota there was a girl's high school bb game. Local paper headline was " Fertile girls come to Climax Friday night". Fertile, MN and Climax, Mn are just a a few miles apart.

true story
Posted by: free tibet at January 01, 2026 06:40 PM (1wtUm)

I wonder if the writer was sacked.

Posted by: tubal at January 01, 2026 06:41 PM (pDt9x)

140 Zoroastrians are monotheists.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 01, 2026 06:41 PM (QAvZU)

141 Just make any hunan a citizen and screw the American Constitution why don't you Chucky?

Posted by: Skip at January 01, 2026 06:42 PM (Ia/+0)

142 ESPN gave them and all the schools in the Big10 and SEC $100million per year and fucked over everyone else. If you have less than $50MM in revenue per year, you shouldn't be allowed to play those schools that have over $100MM
Posted by: Lemmiwinks at January 01, 2026 06:23 PM (qtBQt)

And when Miami wins the whole thing, the ACC can demand 3 spots from now on, since they win just as much as anyone else...

Posted by: Nova Local at January 01, 2026 06:42 PM (tOcjL)

143 I wonder if the writer was sacked.
Posted by: tubal

Probably, but he could count on free beers for at least a year after that corker of a headline

Posted by: gKWVE at January 01, 2026 06:43 PM (gKWVE)

144 Now I know how ND fans felt in 2013. We are just getting outplay in every aspect of the game.

Posted by: toby928(c) has drink taken at January 01, 2026 06:43 PM (jc0TO)

145 I think you could safely go back to an 8-team playoff. An extra round just to have blowouts doesn't serve any purpose.

Posted by: Ted Torgerson at January 01, 2026 06:43 PM (OEaS0)

146 When they start throwing mullahs from rooftops you'll know it's real.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 01, 2026 06:43 PM (UZwsW)

147 Evenin’, All. Happy New Year.

Posted by: Bulg at January 01, 2026 06:43 PM (77rzZ)

148 Low Tide!

Posted by: War Eagle at January 01, 2026 06:45 PM (R/m4+)

149 145 I think you could safely go back to an 8-team playoff. An extra round just to have blowouts doesn't serve any purpose.
Posted by: Ted Torgerson at January 01, 2026 06:43 PM (OEaS0)

Take the conference champs only...the big boys and 1-2 small ones and play.

Make the regular season conference play matter.

Posted by: Nova Local at January 01, 2026 06:46 PM (tOcjL)

150 I think Zoroastrianism is one of the very first monotheistic faiths, started in Iran, and suprised that the idiot Islamics haven't genocided them out of existence.

Worship some guy named Ahura-mazda, I think.

Duotheistic at best: equal time and billing for good and evil gods.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at January 01, 2026 06:46 PM (1paM0)

151 @ArthurMacwaters

Let me get this straight

- In 1913, zero American families paid income tax.

- In 2025, every family paid income tax, and about 2/3rds of it just covered fraud.

We have become a tax-farm for politicians to enrich themselves and anyone who they can import to vote for them

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 01, 2026 06:47 PM (UZwsW)

152 Really low tide!

Posted by: War Damn Eagle at January 01, 2026 06:47 PM (2Ez/1)

153 Low Tide!
Posted by: War Eagle at January 01, 2026 06:45 PM

Heh.

Apropos of nothing, are y'all going to field a football team next season? The transfer portal is killing you.

Posted by: toby928(c) has drink taken at January 01, 2026 06:47 PM (jc0TO)

154 I think you could safely go back to an 8-team playoff. An extra round just to have blowouts doesn't serve any purpose.

Posted by: Ted Torgerson at January 01, 2026 06:43 PM

You mean back to 4-team? This is the round of 8 we're seeing right now.

23-0 Oregon over Texas Tech
41-27 Texas over Michigan
31-3 Indiana over Alabama
TBD Ole Miss at Georgia

Last year's round of 8:
39-31 Texas over Arizona St in 2OT
41-21 Ohio State over Oregon
31-14 Penn State over Boise State
23-10 Notre Dame over Georgia

Personally, I'd like to see 16 teams and all the playoff games are on the campus of the higher seeded school. Then the championship is at a neutral location. Similar to NFL.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at January 01, 2026 06:48 PM (P5BPp)

155 I think those weirdos Seals & Crofts were Zoros.

Or some other weird shit from the Persians.

Posted by: Diamond Girl at January 01, 2026 06:48 PM (R/m4+)

156 Duotheistic at best: equal time and billing for good and evil gods.
Posted by: Nemo
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This is about me, isn't it?

Posted by: Baal at January 01, 2026 06:49 PM (XeU6L)

157 151 @ArthurMacwaters

Let me get this straight

- In 1913, zero American families paid income tax.

- In 2025, every family paid income tax, and about 2/3rds of it just covered fraud.

We have become a tax-farm for politicians to enrich themselves and anyone who they can import to vote for them
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 01, 2026 06:47
Probably not as many taxpayers as they think.

Posted by: Eromero at January 01, 2026 06:49 PM (Slgjz)

158 Just saw some flipped cars in Iran, and a building described as a mosque on fire. Not sure where in Iran.

Nice thing we have Trump in office, otherwise they would be sending in the US military to protect Iranian mosques.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 01, 2026 06:50 PM (a4flb)

159 You mean back to 4-team? This is the round of 8 we're seeing right now.

23-0 Oregon over Texas Tech
41-27 Texas over Michigan
31-3 Indiana over Alabama
TBD Ole Miss at Georgia

Correction - Miami beat Ohio State in the round of 8 last night.

TX=Michigan was not CFP.

Posted by: Nova Local at January 01, 2026 06:50 PM (tOcjL)

160 Duotheistic at best: equal time and billing for good and evil gods.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit

I asked a Parsee once about this (it's probably a FAQ for them which they're tired of answering) and they say that's not true. Ahriman leads the forces of chaos expelled by the good truth of Ohrmazd's creation. So, yeah, he's not a rebel-angel as such; but no, he's not really a secondary god, more of a Lovecraftian horror which Ohrmazd helps keep at bay

Posted by: gKWVE at January 01, 2026 06:50 PM (gKWVE)

161 From Statista.com, about 60.4 percent of U.S. households paid income tax in 2025.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at January 01, 2026 06:50 PM (1paM0)

162 The Jets desperately need a QB. Unfortunately, so do the Raiders and they suck just a little bit more than the Jets.

Mendoza is going to Vegas. Figures.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 01, 2026 06:51 PM (viF8m)

163 Oh FFS.

Posted by: toby928(c) has drink taken at January 01, 2026 06:51 PM (jc0TO)

164 @ArthurMacwaters

> US collects $2.4T in income tax, but spends $1.5T on fraud

> if we didn't have to pay for fraud, only $900b would need to be collected

> this means anyone with less 500k in income could pay *literally $0* in income tax

we don't need to raise taxes. we need to cut fraud

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 01, 2026 06:51 PM (UZwsW)

165
Just make any hunan a citizen and screw the American Constitution why don't you Chucky?
Posted by: Skip

Xi would like that.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 01, 2026 06:51 PM (pkeXY)

166 I'm going to have to ask if we are going to field a football team THIS year.

Posted by: toby928(c) has drink taken at January 01, 2026 06:51 PM (jc0TO)

167 Oof. 38-3.

Posted by: olddog in mo at January 01, 2026 06:51 PM (bQ4nt)

168 Time for me to switch my focus to Ole Miss vs. Georgia. My niece and nephews have ties there and I went to a graduation in Oxford back in May. Great town, fun kids. I want them to win just so they have another excuse to party.

Posted by: Lincolntf at January 01, 2026 06:51 PM (vV6n9)

169 - the US collects more income tax than the *entire national budget* of every county except China

- and we lose more in fraud than the entire budget of all but four

So, money is clearly not the issue

Politicians raise taxes not because it’s needed, but because it gives them a bigger slush fund to enrich groups who will vote for them

They fund luxury hotels for illegal immigrants, while working families can barely afford healthcare

It’s treasonous, corrupt, and evil.

This is how empires fall

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 01, 2026 06:52 PM (UZwsW)

170 @nypost . 2h

Zohran Mamdani fans disappointed by disastrous ‘block party’ with no food, bathrooms

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 01, 2026 06:52 PM (UZwsW)

171 I think you could safely go back to an 8-team playoff. An extra round just to have blowouts doesn't serve any purpose.

All sportsball (except WNBA) is oriented towards gambling now.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 01, 2026 06:53 PM (a4flb)

172 Zohran Mamdani fans disappointed by disastrous ‘block party’ with no food, bathrooms
Posted by: Braenyard

What street should they designate?

Posted by: gKWVE at January 01, 2026 06:53 PM (gKWVE)

173 Tide pods

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 01, 2026 06:53 PM (pkeXY)

174 Everything is free, right?

Posted by: Mamdani Voters at January 01, 2026 06:53 PM (2Ez/1)

175 Zohran Mamdani fans disappointed by disastrous ‘block party’ with no food, bathrooms
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 01, 2026 06:52 PM (UZwsW)

What? You have door dash and the street. Enjoy!

Posted by: Zohran Mamdani, In Over His Pointy Head at January 01, 2026 06:53 PM (R/m4+)

176 Who brought the green dildos?

Posted by: Bama fans at January 01, 2026 06:54 PM (2Ez/1)

177 38-3 is well above 7-1 DE/BR territory

Posted by: dude, they rapin errbody over there at January 01, 2026 06:54 PM (gKWVE)

178 Reelecting your incumbent Representative/Senator and expecting that he will clean up the mess that he has been ignoring for the past 20 yrs - is a really dumb strategy.

Time to support the America First challengers in the 2026 Primaries!

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 01, 2026 06:54 PM (UZwsW)

179 Read up on it and decide for yourself:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoroastrianism

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at January 01, 2026 06:54 PM (1paM0)

180 In fairness to the Jets, the Gnats are just as bad. The state of New York exists to provide practice games to the real teams

Posted by: we're certainly paying for it at January 01, 2026 06:56 PM (gKWVE)

181 This game... and Indiana's regular season resume... I think makes Ohio State look good. They held Indiana to their lowest points of the season (13) and to their lowest margin of victory for the season (3).

Closest games Indiana has played this season have been:

vs Ohio State in B1G Championship (13-10)
at Penn State (27-24)
at Iowa (20-15)
at Oregon (30-20)

Otherwise, Indiana has steamrolled everyone they have played, like they have done tonight.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at January 01, 2026 06:59 PM (P5BPp)

182 Personally, I'd like to see 16 teams and all the playoff games are on the campus of the higher seeded school. Then the championship is at a neutral location. Similar to NFL.
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at January 01, 2026 06:48 PM (P5BPp)

This is how the D1 FCS division does the playoffs.

Posted by: Beartooth at January 01, 2026 06:59 PM (GGatE)

183 Georgia is gonna have their work cut out for them if they meet Indiana in the finals.

Posted by: toby928(c) has drink taken at January 01, 2026 06:59 PM (jc0TO)

184 36
'I sadly expect Shirley to be killed or dead before Valentines day.

Posted by: SimoHayha

He received a message yesterday that told him he would be killed by April.'

This would be a golden opportunity to lay a trap for whichever antifa motherfucker(s) are doing the threatening.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at January 01, 2026 07:00 PM (fd80v)

185 So I'm a fan of a school that's not in the Big 10 or SEC. Watching Alabama get humiliated is great! So much for the all-mighty SEC!

My team was kept out of the playoff by the pro-SEC bias. And we won our bowl game.

The Texas Tech loss was bad. Someone said that when you look at the last year and this year's games, the team on a bye in the playoffs have struggled royally. Indiana is the exception, but I wonder if there is something to that. Maybe expand to 16 teams and no one gets a bye.

Posted by: SimoHayha at January 01, 2026 07:00 PM (/ZkOF)

186 This is so bad that I'm not even upset. We're just are getting beat.

I get upset when I feel like we fucked up. We're just getting beat like a rented redhaired stepmule.

Posted by: toby928(c) has drink taken at January 01, 2026 07:01 PM (jc0TO)

187 CAFE nood

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at January 01, 2026 07:02 PM (P5BPp)

188 3rd and 53?

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 01, 2026 07:02 PM (QAvZU)

189 117
Zoroastrians, which I have no idea what it is but it's authentic Persian.
Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly

Guy Williams as Zorro.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 01, 2026 06:34 PM (pkeXY)

Didn't he get reincarnated as the dad on Lost in Space?

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at January 01, 2026 07:05 PM (QGaXH)

190 All sportsball (except WNBA) is oriented towards gambling now.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 01, 2026 06:53 PM

Wasn't there betting on whether certain green marital aids would be kinectically deposited on the floor during the recent playoff games?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at January 01, 2026 07:05 PM (0sNs1)

191 "Zohran Mamdani fans disappointed by disastrous ‘block party’ with no food, bathrooms."

Socialists are chintzy skinflints.

Posted by: 13times at January 01, 2026 07:06 PM (fnZRl)

192 164 @ArthurMacwaters

> US collects $2.4T in income tax, but spends $1.5T on fraud

> if we didn't have to pay for fraud, only $900b would need to be collected

> this means anyone with less 500k in income could pay *literally $0* in income tax

we don't need to raise taxes. we need to cut fraud
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 01, 2026 06:51 PM (UZwsW)

Considering we are also currently $38 trillion in debt, we should be using the difference to pay that off.

How much are the additional tariffs this year going to affect revenue collected?

Posted by: tankdemon at January 01, 2026 07:08 PM (2RJDy)

193 123 Western Lensman @WesternLensman

Chuck Schumer: “Our ultimate goal is to get a path to citizenship for all 11 million or however many undocumented there are here."

I'ts right out in the open.

Elon Musk @elonmusk

And that’s exactly what they’ve been doing

X video: https://bit.ly/492W2Az
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at January 01, 2026 06:37 PM (P5BPp)

We need to stop them in their tracks with a Constitutional Amendment that says ANYONE who at ANY time entered the country illegally, including those amnestied in the past and including those brought in as children, loses the right to vote and is ineligible to hold any elected or appointed government position at any level.

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at January 01, 2026 07:09 PM (QGaXH)

194 OK, here is something interesting.

Mrs. F.'s Israeli Messianic Jews tell her Netanyahu got the greenlight from Trump to provide support (weapons?) to the Iranian revolt.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 01, 2026 07:09 PM (RIvkX)

195 191 "Zohran Mamdani fans disappointed by disastrous ‘block party’ with no food, bathrooms."

Socialists are chintzy skinflints.
Posted by: 13times at January 01, 2026 07:06 PM (fnZRl)

IiRC, his election victory party had a cash bar.

Posted by: tankdemon at January 01, 2026 07:09 PM (2RJDy)

196 79
'Future Leaders Learning Center in Minneapolis has donated over $6 million to Democrats in the last 2 years'

Of course. Giving the money back to the democrats closes the circle of bribery. The 'Rats steal the money from the taxpayers. They give it to their friends. And their friends 'donate' it back.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at January 01, 2026 07:10 PM (fd80v)

197 Texas won and USC lost Looks like Bama is going down If only Oregon had lost, my happiness would be complete

Posted by: LASue at January 01, 2026 07:11 PM (mFhj8)

198 Newsom's Office of Agitprop literally put a crown on his Twitter avatar.

https://x.com/GovPressOffice

Posted by: 13times at January 01, 2026 07:27 PM (fnZRl)

199 I might start watching Always Sunny now.
Remember when we were kids and we thought someday the real truth would come out?
About Lindbergh baby kidnapping, Pearl Harbor, JFK/RFK/MLK assassinations, Gulf of Tonkin, Watergate, did J Edgar Hoover wear dresses?, Clintoncides, 9/11, War on Terror, BHO's birth certificate and Big Mike's gender at birth, and how the hell did that jug eared Commie rise so fast?, autopen, Pence as a Deep Stater, 2020 election fraud, Epstein's convenient execution/suicide. It is endless.
We need a Festivus with an airing of grievances, open up all the files and let the truths out. And deport every f'n Somali and Muslim that is not a certified ally. Vetted by Hesgeth and company.

Posted by: LGBTQ+POC, ANTI RACIST HERO at January 01, 2026 07:37 PM (6eQS7)

200 No Kings but Gavin, first of his name.

Posted by: LGBTQ+POC, ANTI RACIST HERO at January 01, 2026 07:37 PM (6eQS7)

201 "Zohran Mamdani fans disappointed by disastrous ‘block party’ with no food, bathrooms."

Such things are only for the leaders, Comrade.

Posted by: Hal Dall at January 01, 2026 08:23 PM (k23QL)

Beaver Lovers Open Thread

Posted by: Ace at 04:10 PM

Comments

(Jump to bottom of comments)

1 1st!

Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher at January 01, 2026 04:12 PM (t/66j)

2 Hell o

Posted by: Case at January 01, 2026 04:12 PM (G1OIb)

3 That thread title is what I call "low and slow over the plate."

Posted by: PabloD at January 01, 2026 04:12 PM (tfChy)

4 Beavers - classic! Still waiting for an Oregon State vs South Carolina matchup in the North Hollywood Cialis bowl....

Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher at January 01, 2026 04:14 PM (t/66j)

5 I got nothing

Posted by: Zeera. I voted for ALL of this at January 01, 2026 04:15 PM (jvxGE)

6 Squirrel wars here. Tree branches thrashing 24 hours a day rain or shine. What gives?

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at January 01, 2026 04:15 PM (Kt19C)

7 I hate beavers. Disgusting things.

Posted by: Barack Obama at January 01, 2026 04:16 PM (sKqQm)

8 Sharon, are you still here? Make sure you are using the right link on your phone and iPad.

https://ace.mu.nu/

Click on this one on your phone or iPad and see if that works. I had the same issue a long time ago and it’s because the link was http and not https.

Posted by: Piper at January 01, 2026 04:16 PM (Wmg4n)

9 Do I need to wait until the game is over to offer Hoosier fans condolences, or can I go ahead and do it now?

Posted by: tankdemon at January 01, 2026 04:17 PM (2RJDy)

10 Also, Sharon, clear your cache on both the iPad and phone.

I am not a tech person. At all. Not even a pretend one, so others may have better suggestions.

Posted by: Piper at January 01, 2026 04:18 PM (Wmg4n)

11 I've been tricked and deprived.
Damn you ace and your stochastic word play.

Posted by: Skunky Choom at January 01, 2026 04:19 PM (qksFz)

12 Drop them out of panes!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at January 01, 2026 04:20 PM (4wNax)

13 Yay, beavers!

http://tiny.cc/oc3x001

Posted by: tankdemon at January 01, 2026 04:21 PM (2RJDy)

14 Texas Tech gave me the sads today. 😢

Posted by: lin-duh at January 01, 2026 04:21 PM (VCgbV)

15 Very cute videos. Thanks, Ace

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 01, 2026 04:21 PM (Yl2Ob)

16 BEAVERS!!!

Yes. I was a Beaver gymnast. We were 4th at NCAA Nationals my freshman year. It was a freaking HOOT!

A group of guys from the all boys dorm across the street managed to get the University to loan them a van to road trip from Corvallis to Salt Lake City for nationals. It was wild! We marched in with the other teams and they were there, yelling like maniacs!

BEAVERS!!!!

Posted by: nurse ratched at January 01, 2026 04:22 PM (IhIKR)

17 We need more beaver in '26

Posted by: Dam dam dam at January 01, 2026 04:24 PM (TbWk/)

18 Breaker 1 9 looks like we got us a narco convoy.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 01, 2026 04:24 PM (QAvZU)

19 GO DUCKS!!!

*runs away*

Posted by: PabloD at January 01, 2026 04:27 PM (tfChy)

20 Yes. I was a Beaver gymnast

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In a parallel universe, I feel like this would have been an amazing Johnny Cash song (or maybe June would've sung it).

Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher at January 01, 2026 04:27 PM (t/66j)

21 Does CA reallyhave $7.00 gas?

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 01, 2026 04:27 PM (QAvZU)

22 Where I used to live there were Beavers hanging out at shopping malls.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 01, 2026 04:29 PM (QAvZU)

23 Tell me more about 2-year-old beaver, fat!

Posted by: Joe Biden at January 01, 2026 04:31 PM (TbWk/)

24 Willowed from NY 1746 thread:

190 The DelWebb community my in-laws live in is very nice. 2 square miles of gated property, expanding every time we visit. Country Club, golf course, dog park, roaming deer, what's wrong with that for retirees?
Posted by: Lincolntf at January 01, 2026 04:24 PM (vV6n9)

I refer you to the video of the Karen yelling into the Ring doorbell that 'if your dog keeps barking after 11 PM she's calling the HOA' on you. She then turns and promptly slips on ice and falls on her....brains....

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at January 01, 2026 04:31 PM (QGaXH)

25 5 I got nothing
Posted by: Zeera. I voted for ALL of this at January 01, 2026 04:15 PM (jvxGE)

Doing nothing today but watching 48 hours and randomly commenting on AoS.

Rain has stopped for now.

It's a good day.

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at January 01, 2026 04:34 PM (QGaXH)

26 I would rather have a marmot.

Posted by: r hennigantx at January 01, 2026 04:34 PM (gbOdA)

27 or a hyrax

Posted by: r hennigantx at January 01, 2026 04:34 PM (gbOdA)

28 26 I would rather have a marmot.
Posted by: r hennigantx at January 01, 2026 04:34 PM (gbOdA)

Oh sure, spread bubonic plague!!

Posted by: tubal at January 01, 2026 04:35 PM (pDt9x)

29 How about a Lorax???

Posted by: tubal at January 01, 2026 04:36 PM (pDt9x)

30 Oh sure, spread bubonic plague!!
Posted by: tubal at January 01, 2026 04:35 PM (pDt9x)

They clean up well I here

Posted by: r hennigantx at January 01, 2026 04:36 PM (gbOdA)

31 I hate that little squirt.

Posted by: Eddie Haskell at January 01, 2026 04:37 PM (CNl8/)

32 Give me a couple hundred prairiedogs and I will take territory.

Posted by: Eromero at January 01, 2026 04:37 PM (Slgjz)

33 21 Does CA reallyhave $7.00 gas?
Posted by: Boss Moss at January 01, 2026 04:27 PM (QAvZU)

Not everywhere. In my area (coastal OC) I can get off-brand as low as 3.65. Chevron and other brand name regular is 4.29 to high 4's depending. Of course I haven't gone outside since yesterday - don't know if anything changed overnight but doubt it - we would have heard.

Some of the remote areas may be considerably higher - I recall seeing it very high in Needles but it's a 10 minute drive to the Arizona side.

Gasbuddy is a good resource for finding gas prices anywhere.

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at January 01, 2026 04:38 PM (QGaXH)

34 There are a million naghty snarks to be made with this post, but resist I shall.

Posted by: tubal at January 01, 2026 04:38 PM (pDt9x)

35

Oh FFS, the head of the UN Security Council is a Somali. Worst yet he owned a home healthcare business in Columbus, OH. A few years ago.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at January 01, 2026 04:38 PM (Vh9CX)

36 Nice beaver!

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 01, 2026 04:39 PM (ZOv7s)

37 I saw "beavers" and, well, I'm a bit disappointed.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 01, 2026 04:39 PM (NwnyJ)

38 Get on the cart.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 01, 2026 04:39 PM (QAvZU)

39 12 Drop them out of panes!
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at January 01, 2026 04:20 PM (4wNax)

"As God is my witness....."

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at January 01, 2026 04:39 PM (QGaXH)

40 I will commit blasphemy here. I don't give a damn about the college football playoffs, at least at the BCS level. Just don't care. Maybe if I had a rooting interest that would help, but all season long, my interest level kept dropping. Now, meh. The next couple of games I'm going to watch is the DIII Championship and the FCS Championship.

Now, off to the 5-sided nut house in Arlington, VA. A midshift beckons. Probably post non sense from there, assuming my overlords haven't played with the firewalls. They do that, for giggles.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at January 01, 2026 04:40 PM (sAmhv)

41 Flying Beavers??

Posted by: tubal at January 01, 2026 04:40 PM (pDt9x)

42 I would rather have a marmot.
Posted by: r hennigantx at January 01, 2026 04:34 PM (gbOdA)

Didn't Jharles Chonson have a groupie named Marmota?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 01, 2026 04:40 PM (8zz6B)

43 34 There are a million naghty snarks to be made with this post, but resist I shall.
Posted by: tubal at January 01, 2026 04:38 PM (pDt9x)

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Show-off...

Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher at January 01, 2026 04:40 PM (t/66j)

44 I was surrounded by beavers in high school. 2000 of them.

Posted by: fd at January 01, 2026 04:42 PM (vFG9F)

45 42 I would rather have a marmot.
Posted by: r hennigantx at January 01, 2026 04:34 PM (gbOdA)

Didn't Jharles Chonson have a groupie named Marmota?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 01, 2026 04:40 PM (8zz6B)

Of course he did.

Posted by: tubal at January 01, 2026 04:42 PM (pDt9x)

46 PabloD!

I hope you had a lovely New Year! Fireworks were exploding on the beach until5am.

Sounded like there were more than a few demolition sticks of dynamite. Like, made my windows rattle and the detonation was a block away.

Assholes left a mess for us to clean up
This morning.

Posted by: nurse ratched at January 01, 2026 04:43 PM (IhIKR)

47 Beavers -- one of nature's most adorable little nuisances.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 01, 2026 04:43 PM (ESVrU)

48 Yes. I was a Beaver gymnast

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Were the women's teams prefaced by "lady" in sports stories?

"Lady Beavers Sweep Series"

"Lady Beaver Hoops Hold on For Win"

"Lady Beavers Fall to Ducks"

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 01, 2026 04:43 PM (ZOv7s)

49 Are Beavers edible?

Posted by: tubal at January 01, 2026 04:43 PM (pDt9x)

50 I recommend this:

https://www.hundredsofbeavers.com/

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at January 01, 2026 04:44 PM (1paM0)

51 49 Are Beavers edible?
Posted by: tubal at January 01, 2026 04:43

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Welcome to the dark side....

Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher at January 01, 2026 04:45 PM (t/66j)

52 PabloD,
Duck off!!! 😂

Posted by: lin-duh at January 01, 2026 04:45 PM (VCgbV)

53 Are Beavers edible?
Posted by: tubal at January 01, 2026 04:43 PM (pDt9x)
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No. Absolutely not.

Posted by: Mayor Pete at January 01, 2026 04:45 PM (ZOv7s)

54 50 I recommend this:

https://www.hundredsofbeavers.com/
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at January 01, 2026 04:44 PM (1paM0)

That’s, disturbing.

Posted by: tubal at January 01, 2026 04:45 PM (pDt9x)

55 Headline after Oregon State beats USC

BEAVERS OUTLAST TROJANS

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 01, 2026 04:46 PM (zNwXb)

56 Beavers - classic! Still waiting for an Oregon State vs South Carolina matchup in the North Hollywood Cialis bowl....
Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher at January 01, 2026 04:14 PM (t/66j)

The tv ratings would be out of sight!

Posted by: Diogenes at January 01, 2026 04:47 PM (2WIwB)

57 My HS mascot was a beaver. The drill team was called the Beaverettes. I am not making that up.

I was in the band and the Beaverettes went to band camp with us. People who say the 70s sucked never went to band camp with the Beaverettes.

Posted by: fd at January 01, 2026 04:47 PM (vFG9F)

58 "Are Beavers edible?
Posted by: tubal"

The tail is a delicacy. Make of that what you will.

Posted by: fd at January 01, 2026 04:48 PM (vFG9F)

59 54 50 I recommend this:

https://www.hundredsofbeavers.com/
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at January 01, 2026 04:44 PM (1paM0)

That’s, disturbing.

It’s very funny in a looney tunes sort of way. Lot’s of slapstick, and a clearly discernible plot and storyline.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at January 01, 2026 04:48 PM (1paM0)

60 Yes. I was a Beaver gymnast. We were 4th at NCAA Nationals my freshman year. It was a freaking HOOT!

Steady guys. I've seen that Beaver shoot.

Posted by: Diogenes at January 01, 2026 04:48 PM (2WIwB)

61 Our HS fight song was "Onward Beavers", to the tune of "On Wisconsin".

Posted by: fd at January 01, 2026 04:49 PM (vFG9F)

62 Steady guys. I've seen that Beaver shoot.
Posted by: Diogenes at January 01, 2026 04:48 PM (2WIwB)
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That Beaver is a total ball hog.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 01, 2026 04:49 PM (ZOv7s)

63 I was in the band and the Beaverettes went to band camp with us. People who say the 70s sucked never went to band camp with the Beaverettes.
Posted by: fd at January 01, 2026 04:47 PM (vFG9F)
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I think I've heard the rest of the story about that one time at band camp...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 01, 2026 04:50 PM (ESVrU)

64 The Paolo, he is, how you say, the beaver gymnast as well!

Posted by: The Paolo at January 01, 2026 04:50 PM (TbWk/)

65 Headline after Oregon State beats USC

BEAVERS OUTLAST TROJANS
Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 01, 2026 04:46 PM (zNwXb)

TROJANS BURST UNDER PRESSURE...BEAVERS WORRIED

Posted by: Diogenes at January 01, 2026 04:50 PM (2WIwB)

66 Squirrel wars here. Tree branches thrashing 24 hours a day rain or shine. What gives?

January is 'frisky time' for our beloved tree rats.

Posted by: Heirloominati at January 01, 2026 04:50 PM (euPbd)

67 Squirrel wars here. Tree branches thrashing 24 hours a day rain or shine. What gives?

January is 'frisky time' for our beloved tree rats.
Posted by: Heirloominati at January 01, 2026 04:50 PM (euPbd)
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It's been nice and mild here today (50F), so I've seen them frolicking in the trees in my backyard quite a bit.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 01, 2026 04:51 PM (ESVrU)

68 So it's a Buc-ees thread?

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at January 01, 2026 04:53 PM (xcxpd)

69 BEAVERS!!!!
Posted by: nurse ratched at January 01, 2026 04:22 PM (IhIKR)

You can't lick our beavers....

Posted by: tcn in AK at January 01, 2026 04:53 PM (6Bc88)

70 Huge stop by Indiana.

Posted by: Lincolntf at January 01, 2026 04:53 PM (vV6n9)

71 TROJANS BURST UNDER PRESSURE...BEAVERS WORRIED
Posted by: Diogenes at January 01, 2026 04:50 PM (2WIwB)
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Oh, my high school is the Trojans, we had a lot of fun with it.

TROJANS WRECK BEAVERS IN LATE SURGE

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 01, 2026 04:54 PM (ZOv7s)

72 21 Does CA reallyhave $7.00 gas?
Posted by: Boss Moss at January 01, 2026 04:27 PM (QAvZU)

Just looked at Needles on Gasbuddy - Calif side - 5.60/gal, Arizona side: 2.87 or so.

Blythe: Ca side: 4 or 5/gallon, Az side: 2.60/gal.

I don't see how the gas stations on the California side survive - in both cases the Arizona stations are a ten minute drive away - if that.

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at January 01, 2026 04:54 PM (QGaXH)

73 To beave, or not to beave. That is the question.

Posted by: Shakesbranche at January 01, 2026 04:54 PM (nhCoE)

74 I thought this post was talking about another type of beaver...

what a downer !!!!!!!

Posted by: Bill Clinton at January 01, 2026 04:55 PM (J9q9v)

75 Games are more interesting if you have skin in the game.
Betting on the outcome works.

Posted by: waepnedmann at January 01, 2026 04:56 PM (tD+KP)

76 One of the cheers we used at football games was PENETRATE, TROJANS, PENETRATE!

The 80s was a special time. Many of our cheers would get you kicked out of school today.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 01, 2026 04:56 PM (ZOv7s)

77 Outstanding TD pass and catch by IU.

Posted by: Lincolntf at January 01, 2026 04:57 PM (vV6n9)

78 Assholes left a mess for us to clean up
This morning.
Posted by: nurse ratched at January 01, 2026 04:43 PM (IhIKR)

Same deal here, the back yard looks like a war zone, but it turns out the assholes were us.

Posted by: tcn in AK at January 01, 2026 04:59 PM (6Bc88)

79 The main thing I've learned is not to release your beaver too early.

Posted by: banana Dream at January 01, 2026 05:00 PM (3uBP9)

80 Both kinds of beavers can cause vast destruction in an amazingly short time.

Posted by: He-Man Woman Haters Club at January 01, 2026 05:03 PM (oftw2)

81 We had "issues" with beavers at our place in WV. They were taking down some trees near powerlines that feed a cabin, and then, the rest of the folks on the hillside. We called various authorities as they are "protected" there.

No joy.

So a buddy of mine, with a .22 plugged one from our deck at about 100 yds. He took the tail for a trophy.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 01, 2026 05:03 PM (NwnyJ)

82 Beavers built a dam on Plum Run below Little Round Top on the Gettysburg battlefield

Posted by: PA Dutchman at January 01, 2026 05:03 PM (h/O4U)

83 Definitely nice TD catch by the Indiana receiver

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 01, 2026 05:05 PM (zNwXb)

84 BEAVERS BEAVERS BEAVERS!

My frosh year AC Green was a senior.
He was kind and respectful and smart.
Won rings with the Lakers
My sophomore year, Gary Payton was a freshman.
He was a self inflated prick.
Heh.

Posted by: nurse ratched at January 01, 2026 05:05 PM (IhIKR)

85 68 So it's a Buc-ees thread?
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards
=======
Only if you like Beaver nuggets.

Posted by: whig at January 01, 2026 05:06 PM (WDjG6)

86 Willowed
304 I used to live in Yachats OR,.
The Ducks and the Beavers are known for their yearly Civil War.
The city a few miles north of Yachats, Waldport,
puts out a weekly newspaper.
Someone complained that beavers were coming up from the river and destroying the trees in their orchard and asked about the process for getting a depredation permit to shoot them.
Some suggested that all they had to do was erect a goal post and the beavers would never get through it.

We had flooding one winter. There was a coffee shop located on the Alsea Bay in Waldport that was owned by a lesbian couple. The newspaper reported on the business that were affected by the flooding and noted that the coffee shop sustained no damage, because it was surrounded by dykes.

Posted by: waepnedmann at January 01, 2026 05:06 PM (tD+KP)

87 (Trojans vs Beavers jokes)

It's unfortunate that the USC Gamecocks don't play the OSU Beavers in college football.

DDG says their women's basketball teams have played 3 times, though, with the record being Cocks 2, Beavers 1.

[your lesbian joke goes here]

Posted by: mikeski at January 01, 2026 05:06 PM (nhCoE)

88 I went to the dam,
To get some dam water.
The dam keeper said,
I could'nt have any dam water.
So i told the dam keeper,
To keep his dam water.

Posted by: Elrond Hubbard at January 01, 2026 05:07 PM (WQDw6)

89 So it's a Buc-ees thread?
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards

Only if you like Beaver nuggets.
Posted by: whig

If the beaver's got nuggets, it ain't a beaver.

Posted by: mikeski at January 01, 2026 05:07 PM (nhCoE)

90 49 Are Beavers edible?
Posted by: tubal at January 01, 2026 04:43 PM (pDt9x)

Yes. In fact, there were areas where the Catholic Church allowed for them to be eaten on Fridays during Lent instead of fish.

https://tinyurl.com/22w5t2az

Posted by: tankdemon at January 01, 2026 05:08 PM (2RJDy)

91 Beavers built a dam on Plum Run below Little Round Top on the Gettysburg battlefield
Posted by: PA Dutchman at January 01, 2026 05:03 PM (h/O4U)

General.Lee was heard to mutter "When will the beavers come?"

Posted by: Diogenes at January 01, 2026 05:08 PM (2WIwB)

92 Perfessor, the FRISKY is not weather dependent!
IYKWIM

Posted by: Heirloominati at January 01, 2026 05:08 PM (euPbd)

93 If the beaver's got nuggets, it ain't a beaver.
Posted by: mikeski
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Maybe it identifies as a beaver.

Then the murders started. . . . .

Posted by: whig at January 01, 2026 05:08 PM (WDjG6)

94 BTW.... beavers, the animal, really stink to high heaven.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 01, 2026 05:09 PM (NwnyJ)

95 Is anybody else expecting video of blue footed boobies in the next thread?

Posted by: tankdemon at January 01, 2026 05:09 PM (2RJDy)

96 What’s the filthiest thing said in TV?
Ward - you were a little hard on the Beaver last night.

It’s like I don’t know you people anymore.

Happy New Year.

Posted by: CtSpursman at January 01, 2026 05:10 PM (1jbkT)

97 Crimson Tide overwhelms Beavers

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 01, 2026 05:10 PM (zNwXb)

98 Is anybody else expecting video of blue footed boobies in the next thread?
Posted by: tankdemon at January 01, 2026 05:09 PM (2RJDy)

I'm hoping for.Robin and her red breasts.

Posted by: Diogenes at January 01, 2026 05:11 PM (2WIwB)

99 Thanks, I just had it stuffed.

Posted by: Priscilla Presley at January 01, 2026 05:11 PM (6ydKt)

100 Robin Sparkles and Jessica Glitters perform "Two Beavers are Better than One". From How I Met Your Mother sitcom.

https://tinyurl.com/Robin-Sparkles

Posted by: whig at January 01, 2026 05:12 PM (WDjG6)

101 [your lesbian joke goes here]
Posted by: mikeski at January 01, 2026 05:06 PM (nhCoE)

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Horde mind strikes (@4)

Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher at January 01, 2026 05:12 PM (t/66j)

102 Ducks fans are assholes.

The whole program reeks of cheating and slime.

They do have an amazing Track and Field program. Many many many Olympians have been through.

I went to a training camp in Eugene, not affiliated with the University. Four Olympians for the 1984 Games were there. It was an incredible experience to train with them.

Eugene has something in the water.

Fuck the ducks.

Posted by: nurse ratched at January 01, 2026 05:13 PM (IhIKR)

103 How's the Rose Bowl going?

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at January 01, 2026 05:14 PM (2J/Lj)

104 You were a little hard on the beaver last night, Ward.

Posted by: June Cleaver at January 01, 2026 05:14 PM (WQDw6)

105 I would rather have a marmot.
Posted by: r hennigantx

Jeanne Robertson would like a word with you ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cyxM_5pvBj0

Posted by: Adriane the Artistic License Critic ... at January 01, 2026 05:15 PM (3ZUWJ)

106 Is anybody else expecting video of blue footed boobies in the next thread?
Posted by: tankdemon

Or maybe a picture of a pair of great tits?

https://is.gd/g6FZjY

Posted by: mikeski at January 01, 2026 05:15 PM (nhCoE)

107 How's the Rose Bowl going?
Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at January 01, 2026 05:14 PM

10-0 Hoosiers. Indiana is very well coached up. Good technique across the board.

Posted by: toby928(c) Native Texan and Alabama Alumnus, Twice as Smug as You at January 01, 2026 05:15 PM (jc0TO)

108 Indiana up 10-0 in the second.

Posted by: Lincolntf at January 01, 2026 05:15 PM (vV6n9)

109 Robin Sparkles and Jessica Glitter (with help from Alan Thicke). "Beaver Handpuppets". From How I Met Your Mother sitcom.

https://tinyurl.com/Robin-and-Jessica

Posted by: whig at January 01, 2026 05:18 PM (WDjG6)

110 Huge turnover.

Posted by: Lincolntf at January 01, 2026 05:19 PM (vV6n9)

111 our beloved tree rats.

Been going on all last year too.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at January 01, 2026 05:20 PM (Kt19C)

112 84 BEAVERS BEAVERS BEAVERS!

My frosh year AC Green was a senior.
He was kind and respectful and smart.
Won rings with the Lakers
My sophomore year, Gary Payton was a freshman.
He was a self inflated prick.
Heh.

Posted by: nurse ratched at January 01, 2026 05:05 PM (IhIKR)

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I was a freshman at OSU in 1987

Posted by: Lemmiwinks at January 01, 2026 05:20 PM (qtBQt)

113 IU hasn't been this strong in football for decades. The boy spawn said Cignetti is basically Jimmy McGinty.

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at January 01, 2026 05:21 PM (2J/Lj)

114 Collin Rugg @CollinRugg

NEW: ESPN’s Scott Van Pelt visibly disgusted after two men making out popped up on his screen during New Year’s coverage.

“Yeah… Live makeouts on Sports Center. Get into it,” he said in response to the normal couples.

“Ohhhhhhhh! What are we….” he said in response to the gay couple before catching himself.

Lmao.

X video: https://bit.ly/4snpecU

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at January 01, 2026 05:22 PM (P5BPp)

115 Huge turnover.
Posted by: Lincolntf at January 01, 2026 05:19 PM

Grubb needs to take some shots downfield. Ty hasn't attempted anything over 20 yards. At least try some 15 yard digs.

Posted by: toby928(c) Native Texan and Alabama Alumnus, Twice as Smug as You at January 01, 2026 05:22 PM (jc0TO)

116 94 BTW.... beavers, the animal, really stink to high heaven.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 01, 2026 05:09 PM (NwnyJ)

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So can the other ones, that is why good hygiene is so important

Posted by: Lemmiwinks at January 01, 2026 05:23 PM (qtBQt)

117 Bama needs a stop here to keep it to two scores.

Posted by: toby928(c) Native Texan and Alabama Alumnus, Twice as Smug as You at January 01, 2026 05:23 PM (jc0TO)

118
Back in the mid-70s at Michigan Tech, our Division (not One) football team played in a conference of secondary schools that were branch campuses for the Division One schools in Wisconsin and Minnesota. Think, University of Minnesota, Duluth, for example.

One of these schools was Bemidji State University; its team was the Beavers. Thus, for Homecoming at Tech one year where Bemidji State was the opponent, a button was sold for the game with the slogan, "Go Huskies -- Lick the Beavers" and it prominently displayed a Husky atop (mounting?) a prone Beaver on its back.

There was a lot of sniggering over that one, as you could imagine.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at January 01, 2026 05:25 PM (xG4kz)

119 Beaver?? Burrrarrrummm!!

Posted by: Treebeard at January 01, 2026 05:25 PM (Q+gd/)

120 Daycares in Minnesota donated a combined $35 million to political campaigns in the last two years.

https://x.com/beaverd/status/2006806805486408080

Posted by: Thomas Paine at January 01, 2026 05:25 PM (0U5gm)

121 Saw USC / UCLA in rose bowl 1967.
O. J. was QB.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at January 01, 2026 05:27 PM (Kt19C)

122 Wish I could watch that game but.... If I watch IU play football,, they lose. Dad worked for IU for decades in athletic dept. He got free tickets to home football games. I would go, IU would lose. They were down by so much at the half one time that even the die hard fans were leaving. I bailed. Heard later that they made a stunning comeback in the third quarter and won by a field goal.
Same thing happens when I watch on TV.

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at January 01, 2026 05:27 PM (2J/Lj)

123
Saw USC / UCLA in rose bowl 1967.
O. J. was QB.
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats

He was a running back, and never a quarterback

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at January 01, 2026 05:29 PM (xG4kz)

124 Benny Johnson @bennyjohnson

A Somali indicted in Minnesota’s $14M Feeding Our Future scam is still getting federal funds through assisted living homes his wife runs on his properties.

It just keeps going.

X video: https://bit.ly/4qB8IVb

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at January 01, 2026 05:29 PM (P5BPp)

125 > Benny Johnson @bennyjohnson

A Somali indicted in Minnesota’s $14M Feeding Our Future scam is still getting federal funds through assisted living homes his wife runs on his properties.

It just keeps going.
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The insurrection needs to be addressed. But Trump can't do it without being impeached.

Let that sink in.

Y'all ready for what's next?

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 01, 2026 05:31 PM (NwnyJ)

126 DataRepublican (small r) @DataRepublican

It is starting to really look like our new President of the United Nations Security Council, Abukar Dahir Osman, used to run an operation that was convicted of criminal Medicare fraud in a home health agency.

That's who is in charge of authorizing UN military operations and international peacekeeping troops. This is ridiculous.

DataRepublican (small r) @DataRepublican

The exclusion code associated with this NPI is 1128a1 ... which is that this entity has been convicted of Medicaid/Medicare crimes!

@BurtMaclin_FBI arrest this guy!

X: https://bit.ly/4snpuZq

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at January 01, 2026 05:32 PM (P5BPp)

127 I am really curious if Alabama will have a good Oline next year. The last two have been tough as DeBoer and now Grubb call plays for differently constructed line than is typical at Alabama. They want a smaller, quicker, line than the roadgraders that Alabama has in stock.

Posted by: toby928(c) Native Texan and Alabama Alumnus, Twice as Smug as You at January 01, 2026 05:32 PM (jc0TO)

128 Hello, Horde! 😊💕

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas - AoSHQ's "Plucky Wee One"; Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn at January 01, 2026 05:32 PM (SRRAx)

129 Joe Avezzano was the head football coach at Oregon State my freshman year.

They won……. Rarely. Less than twice a season.
Went to every game. Yelled at the players we wouldnt write their term papers any more of they didn’t perform.

My goodness we had fun at those games.

Posted by: nurse ratched at January 01, 2026 05:33 PM (IhIKR)

130 TD Hoosiers. This is looking rough for the Tide.

I need to start my serious drinking.

Posted by: toby928(c) Native Texan and Alabama Alumnus, Twice as Smug as You at January 01, 2026 05:33 PM (jc0TO)

131 120 Daycares in Minnesota donated a combined $35 million to political campaigns in the last two years.

https://x.com/beaverd/status/2006806805486408080

Posted by: Thomas Paine at January 01, 2026 05:25 PM (0U5gm)

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Does that only count major candidates or does it include contributions to DAs and judges?

Posted by: Lemmiwinks at January 01, 2026 05:34 PM (qtBQt)

132 Mendoza is good and Indiana has a good offensive scheme

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 01, 2026 05:34 PM (zNwXb)

133 Always Sunny nood

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at January 01, 2026 05:35 PM (P5BPp)

134 And Ralph Miller was the basketball coach.

Smoked on the court during practice. We used to watch practice sometimes. He demanded discipline and hustle.

Was the winningest D 1 coach for a while.

Posted by: nurse ratched at January 01, 2026 05:35 PM (IhIKR)

135 Daycares in Minnesota donated a combined $35 million to political campaigns in the last two years.

https://x.com/beaverd/status/2006806805486408080
Posted by: Thomas Paine

Threadwinner!

Posted by: mikeski at January 01, 2026 05:35 PM (nhCoE)

136 >>I went to a training camp in Eugene, not affiliated with the University. Four Olympians for the 1984 Games were there. It was an incredible experience to train with them.

Was one of them Alberto Salazar?

Posted by: JackStraw at January 01, 2026 05:35 PM (viF8m)

137 17-0 Indiana at the turn.

Posted by: toby928(c) Native Texan and Alabama Alumnus, Twice as Smug as You at January 01, 2026 05:35 PM (jc0TO)

138 120 Daycares in Minnesota donated a combined $35 million to political campaigns in the last two years.

This is where things start to get really interesting.

Posted by: davidt at January 01, 2026 05:36 PM (Q+gd/)

139 > 120 Daycares in Minnesota donated a combined $35 million to political campaigns in the last two years.
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Actually not that good of a ROI. Considering there's trillions at stake.

Where'd the rest go?

I have an idea.... do you feel violated yet?

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 01, 2026 05:37 PM (NwnyJ)

140 >>120 Daycares in Minnesota donated a combined $35 million to political campaigns in the last two years.

This is the other shoe.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 01, 2026 05:38 PM (viF8m)

141 >120 Daycares in Minnesota donated a combined $35 million to political campaigns in the last two years.

This is why Walz was the VP pick. The Biden Precedent. You can't investigate a VP Candidate, who knows what or who you might uncover.

Posted by: davidt at January 01, 2026 05:41 PM (Q+gd/)

142 138 120 Daycares in Minnesota donated a combined $35 million to political campaigns in the last two years.

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The left has brought out their minions to stand in the back of a few press conferences holding up signs one read something like "don't defund the children". Ummmm there weren't any children in those places, so this was never about children.

Posted by: Lemmiwinks at January 01, 2026 05:43 PM (qtBQt)

143 140 >>120 Daycares in Minnesota donated a combined $35 million to political campaigns in the last two years.

This is the other shoe.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 01, 2026 05:38 PM (viF8m)

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This is what it was about the entire time. As much as everyone wants to point the finger at Waltz and Omar (and they are guilty as hell), Obama is the architect of this scheme. I bet you not one democrat is innocent of this scam.

Posted by: Lemmiwinks at January 01, 2026 05:48 PM (qtBQt)

144 Legitimate, non-fraudulent daycares in Minnesota rarely have significant surpluses. The industry faces a crisis: Over 1,000 providers closed since 2020, per state data, due to low profitability (margins

The $35 million donation claim, if true, wouldn't come from operational profits — it's alleged to stem from fraudulent overbilling or ghost enrollments. For instance:

Centers reportedly claimed subsidies for hundreds of non-existent children, pocketing millions (e.g., one center allegedly received $10 million since 2019 despite appearing inactive).

This "surplus" could then be funneled to donations, potentially to influence policy or launder money.

Grok: https://bit.ly/4pj6xV2

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at January 01, 2026 05:48 PM (P5BPp)

145 This is what it was about the entire time. As much as everyone wants to point the finger at Waltz and Omar (and they are guilty as hell), Obama is the architect of this scheme. I bet you not one democrat is innocent of this scam.

Posted by: Lemmiwinks at January 01, 2026 05:48 PM

And I bet a lot of Republicans (e.g. Tom Emmer) are guilty in this scam as well.

Not to mention wrapped up in the H-1B scams and every other fraud scam out there.

The UniParty has been scamming us for decades.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at January 01, 2026 05:50 PM (P5BPp)

146 What would their funding be without laundered government money?

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 01, 2026 06:29 PM (QAvZU)

147 This is why Walz was the VP pick. The Biden Precedent. You can't investigate a VP Candidate, who knows what or who you might uncover.

At first glance that looks about right. But the Otto Pen (aka Obama's 3rd term) maladministration wasn't investigating, and if they killed Trump leaving whatever warm body represented the Demonic Party's scarecrow figurehead in the Oval office sure wasn't going to investigate either.

So Waltz was safe regardless of placement on the ticket.

And after the July assassination attempt failed and the Trump Iwo Jima Photo went viral, no one with a political future was willing to step in. Walz, following the Demonic Party playbook was the only person more retarded than Harris that remained to be veep.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 01, 2026 06:37 PM (a4flb)

148 Obama is the architect of this scheme. I bet you not one democrat is innocent of this scam.

Obama, the post turtle, served two purposes. He is far too lazy and stupid to be an architect of anything.

• He is venal and narcissistic yet excellent teleprompter reader (compared to most other politicians)
• He is black enough and therefore untouchable.

The Enemedia took a complete and total loser in Kamala and turned her into a super star within a few weeks.
Imagine having years to instill a mass formation psychosis in the empty heads of most Americans who have been guilted for generations into despising their own heritage and finding redemption in groveling to a black SCOAMF.

It will be interesting in seeing what scarecrow they run in 2028 since the Enemedia has lost so much influence and their Jedi mindtricks don't fool any red pilled.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 01, 2026 06:45 PM (a4flb)

New York Circa 1746 Open Thread

This better not be AI.

One of my favorite parts of movies is -- or was -- the use of models and later CGI to recreate historical cities.

Now people are cranking these out at home.

Posted by: Ace at 02:50 PM

Comments

(Jump to bottom of comments)

1 >>>This better not be AI.

lol
Caption on video:
New York 1746 (AI Reconstruction)

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at January 01, 2026 02:52 PM (syz1S)

2 Where's all the horse shit on the pavement and human shit in the river?

Posted by: Shitposter at January 01, 2026 02:54 PM (oftw2)

3 Unrelated but fun! We were on the news last night!

https://tinyurl.com/mrxtmr7x

Posted by: Piper at January 01, 2026 02:55 PM (Wmg4n)

4 Ps - Ace, the video I linked is not AI. 😂 It’s us. I am in there. But like where’s Waldo, I am not telling who! Lol.

Posted by: Piper at January 01, 2026 02:57 PM (Wmg4n)

5 whare's e'erbody?

Posted by: DanMan at January 01, 2026 02:57 PM (8uzBS)

6 3 Unrelated but fun! We were on the news last night!

https://tinyurl.com/mrxtmr7x
Posted by: Piper

That's pretty cool. A denizen of this site in the News-for something good!

Posted by: Felonious Jenkins at January 01, 2026 02:58 PM (oftw2)

7
Where are the bawdy houses and the pails of night soil getting dumped out the windows?

See what you've got coming your way, Mamdami Mamas?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at January 01, 2026 02:58 PM (xG4kz)

8 Videos from 1746 tend to be stuttery.

Posted by: toby928(c) at January 01, 2026 02:59 PM (jc0TO)

9 Narration sounds like AI, too. Pacing and emphasis on syllables is subtly wrong.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 01, 2026 03:00 PM (8zz6B)

10 As they say, money can’t buy happiness

but it can darn sure rent it.

Posted by: toby928(c) at January 01, 2026 03:01 PM (jc0TO)

11 Went to Powerline. I notice that Scott Johnson is Butthurt that Nick Shirley was covering HIS (Scott's) story, and stealing his thunder.

Now, why won't people complain about this kind of squabble on the right?

Posted by: Eeyore at January 01, 2026 03:02 PM (s0JqF)

12 Got thrown out of the last gym I was in. I kept asking if I was being detained.

Posted by: Sovran Sitticen at January 01, 2026 03:02 PM (oftw2)

13 Test

Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at January 01, 2026 03:04 PM (t/2Uw)

14 "altered or synthetic content", LOL!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at January 01, 2026 03:04 PM (Cjt/F)

15 Can someone tell me who Brian Krassenstein is and if I should give it flying fuck?

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at January 01, 2026 03:04 PM (8CIFn)

16 Ps - Ace, the video I linked is not AI. 😂 It’s us. I am in there. But like where’s Waldo, I am not telling who! Lol.
Posted by: Piper at January 01, 2026 02:57 PM (Wmg4n)

You're the one who waved to the camera, aren't you.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 01, 2026 03:04 PM (lH8E4)

17 Apparently, some police stations in Iran have been overrun. The feed I'm watching just shut down for a break. Maybe there's another one.

Posted by: Lincolntf at January 01, 2026 03:05 PM (vV6n9)

18 that's so cool, Piper!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at January 01, 2026 03:06 PM (Cjt/F)

19 Narration sounds like AI, too. Pacing and emphasis on syllables is subtly wrong.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 01, 2026 03:00 PM (8zz6B)

I hate AI narration. Even if they didn't mispronounce things, or have odd cadence, it's just lazy.

How long would it have taken you to read the damn thing.

Plonk.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 01, 2026 03:06 PM (q/UWX)

20 Ps - Ace, the video I linked is not AI. 😂 It’s us. I am in there. But like where’s Waldo, I am not telling who! Lol.
Posted by: Piper at January 01, 2026 02:57 PM (Wmg4n)

so cool!! Happy new year!

Posted by: LASue at January 01, 2026 03:07 PM (/DBoU)

21
You're the one who waved to the camera, aren't you.
Posted by: BurtTC at January 01, 2026 03:04 PM (lH8E4)

Hahahah! I am the one in the work out video pretending like it’s super fun and I am not dying.

Posted by: Piper at January 01, 2026 03:07 PM (p4NUW)

22 How long would it have taken you to read the damn thing.

Longer than it took the AI to write it, I bet.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at January 01, 2026 03:08 PM (PH3st)

23 Hahahah! I am the one in the work out video pretending like it’s super fun and I am not dying.
Posted by: Piper at January 01, 2026 03:07 PM (p4NUW)

Well, all the women look lovely, so whichever one you are...

Posted by: BurtTC at January 01, 2026 03:08 PM (q/UWX)

24 You're the one who waved to the camera, aren't you.
Posted by: BurtTC at January 01, 2026 03:04 PM (lH8E4)

Hahahah! I am the one in the work out video pretending like it’s super fun and I am not dying.

I like watching as some figures appear and disappear, or walk through walls.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 01, 2026 03:09 PM (Riz8t)

25 Tech is gonna be skunked.

Posted by: toby928(c) at January 01, 2026 03:10 PM (jc0TO)

26 I guessed the work out video! I'm glad everyone is faking how fun it is

Posted by: LASue at January 01, 2026 03:11 PM (/DBoU)

27
so cool!! Happy new year!
Posted by: LASue at January 01, 2026 03:07 PM (/DBoU)

18 that's so cool, Piper!
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at January 01, 2026 03:06 PM (Cjt/F)

Thank you! And Happy New Year as well!

Posted by: Piper at January 01, 2026 03:11 PM (OoFl2)

28 Yep, this game had promise, but fizzled out at the half. Hopefully we get better performances in the upcoming games.

Posted by: Lincolntf at January 01, 2026 03:11 PM (vV6n9)

29 Went to Powerline. I notice that Scott Johnson is Butthurt that Nick Shirley was covering HIS (Scott's) story, and stealing his thunder.

Because Nick was chosen to be the one for X to amplify the views so that the population would be enraged at the fraud.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 01, 2026 03:11 PM (a4flb)

30 15 Can someone tell me who Brian Krassenstein is and if I should give it flying fuck?
Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at January 01, 2026 03:04 PM (8CIFn)

Brian Krassenstein and his brother are two of the biggest engagement farming / hateposting trolls on X.

No you should not give a fuck about anything they say.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 01, 2026 03:12 PM (m7iZ5)

31 New York Circa 2026. Anti American, communist Muslim sworn in on the devils book. Chief lawyer defended Al qaeda terrorists who killed thousands of Americans and demolished the WTC.

New York delenda est. Way to go AWFl’s. You finally did it.

Posted by: Vengeance at January 01, 2026 03:13 PM (IeX0j)

32 >>> Can someone tell me who Brian Krassenstein is and if I should give it flying fuck?
Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at January 01, 2026 03:04 PM (8CIFn)

One of two twin microtwink lefty scum popular on social media. They are ignorable nobodies.

Posted by: banana Dream at January 01, 2026 03:14 PM (3uBP9)

33 Hi
I am now home from my holiday excursion from where I could not comment on the blog. My Ipad died and my phone kept giving me the red letters of death. Thought it might be because i was somewhere I had never been before. Now home, this is working on my lap topbut still can't get my phone to accept my name and email so I can comment. Going to try and replace my Ipad asap but anyone know why This is happening with the phone.

Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at January 01, 2026 03:17 PM (t/2Uw)

34 New York Circa 2026. Anti American, communist Muslim sworn in on the devils book. Chief lawyer defended Al qaeda terrorists who killed thousands of Americans and demolished the WTC.

New York delenda est. Way to go AWFl’s. You finally did it.
Posted by: Vengeance

I can't visit any less than I am now so. . . .

Posted by: Tonypete at January 01, 2026 03:17 PM (cYBz/)

35 I am proud to announce I have invited the Ayatollah and all Iranian Government Officials to come to NYC and to teach me and the people of NYC to love Islam and hate Western Pig Dogs like Trump

Posted by: Mayor Zohan Mandami at January 01, 2026 03:18 PM (J9q9v)

36 4 I am not telling who! Lol.

Posted by: Piper at January 01, 2026 02:57 PM

Is that you way in the back? ;-)

Posted by: Scuba_Dude at January 01, 2026 03:19 PM (LgsNJ)

37 Nice video, Piper! Everyone looks like they are getting stronger and maintaining good range of motion.

Posted by: Emmie at January 01, 2026 03:19 PM (FMtrg)

38 >>> Going to try and replace my Ipad asap but anyone know why This is happening with the phone.
Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at January 01, 2026 03:17 PM (t/2Uw)

It is normally because there is a weird character in the Comments, Name, or Email box. Try clearing them out, select all, delete/cut, then filling in again.

Posted by: banana Dream at January 01, 2026 03:20 PM (3uBP9)

39 Happy New year!!!

Did you see Mamdani got sworn in on a koran? How can you swear to uphold the Constitution and adhere to Islam. The two are diametrically opposed.

Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at January 01, 2026 03:20 PM (t/2Uw)

40 Piper, how's the new hair?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at January 01, 2026 03:21 PM (0sNs1)

41 Oregon scores in garbage time to win 23-0 over TTech.

Posted by: toby928(c) at January 01, 2026 03:21 PM (jc0TO)

42 MTV Channels Signs Off The Air in 2025 With The Song They Debuted With When They First Began in 1981

MTV debuted in 1981 with the now-classic Buggles song "Video Killed the Radio Star"

The landmark synth-pop song released by the British group The Buggles in 1979 is most famous for its role in television history and its prophetic lyrics regarding technological change.

The song was written by Trevor Horn, Geoff Downes, and Bruce Woolley. Upon its original release, it topped charts in 16 countries, including the UK, Australia, and Japan.

On December 31, 2025, MTV Music officially ended its 44-year broadcast run by playing this same iconic video as its final transmission.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 01, 2026 03:22 PM (c115l)

43 Where's all the horse shit on the pavement and human shit in the river?
Posted by: Shitposter at January 01, 2026 02:54 PM

We do the opposite.

Posted by: San Francisco at January 01, 2026 03:22 PM (0sNs1)

44 20 Ps - Ace, the video I linked is not AI. 😂 It’s us. I am in there. But like where’s Waldo, I am not telling who! Lol.
Posted by: Piper at January 01, 2026 02:57 PM (Wmg4n)

so cool!! Happy new year!
Posted by: LASue at January 01, 2026 03:07 PM (/DBoU)

You're the person actually being interviewed?

I stayed at the Marriott in Fairhope one night back in the mid 90's - business travel but wanted to come back - it was really nice.

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at January 01, 2026 03:22 PM (QGaXH)

45 I thought barre was outlawed under Geneva Convention.

Posted by: Hideki Tojo at January 01, 2026 03:23 PM (oftw2)

46 Bernie Sanders and AOC at the inauguration of Mandami is not a good sign..........

Free Stuff for everyone and Big Businesses need to pay their "FAIR SHARE" !!!!!!!!!!!!!

Red States here comes new Business...

Posted by: Jackson at January 01, 2026 03:23 PM (/dgQg)

47
I hate AI narration. Even if they didn't mispronounce things, or have odd cadence, it's just lazy.

How long would it have taken you to read the damn thing.

Plonk.
Posted by: BurtTC

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

YouTube is infested with AI slop now. I block the channels when they're recommended to me. I won't watch any histories, disaster stories, or any of that stuff unless there are human talkers on the screen, like The Rest Is History or Kyle Hates Hiking.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 01, 2026 03:24 PM (2YF7/)

48 Did you see Mamdani got sworn in on a koran? How can you swear to uphold the Constitution and adhere to Islam. The two are diametrically opposed.
Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at January 01, 2026 03:20 PM (t/2Uw)

My thought as well.

Posted by: Emmie at January 01, 2026 03:24 PM (FMtrg)

49 If you visit 1 World Trade Center and take the elevator to the top, the walls of the elevator show the development of NYC as the elevator rises. It is pretty darn cool.

https://tinyurl.com/ym7b6zzz

Posted by: Scuba_Dude at January 01, 2026 03:24 PM (LgsNJ)

50 YouTube is infested with AI slop now. I block the channels when they're recommended to me. I won't watch any histories, disaster stories, or any of that stuff unless there are human talkers on the screen

You mean you don't think that kitten saving a baby by fighting off 100 polar bears is real?

Posted by: Archimedes at January 01, 2026 03:25 PM (Riz8t)

51 Probably the last time NY was worth a shit.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 01, 2026 03:25 PM (snZF9)

52 40 Piper, how's the new hair?
Posted by: Duncanthrax at January 01, 2026

Still there! And I am still glad I did it. I maybe cut just a little too much off, but my hair grows really fast, so it will be fine in no time. It can still go in a pony tail and bun, so that is all that matters.

Posted by: Piper at January 01, 2026 03:26 PM (Wmg4n)

53 Even in 1746, there was no good Picante Sauce made in NYC.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at January 01, 2026 03:26 PM (0sNs1)

54
Ken Burns (yes, that Ken Burns) prepared a multi-episodic documentary about New York. The first episode covers its history up to the opening of the Erie Canal in the mid-1820s. It is what I will go back to view to take a nostalgic look at those times. I can pretty much do without the rest of the series. Here is the link to Episode 1

https://youtu.be/V1omW-OPlRk

I remain astonished that the warp and weft of our history, our doughty Somalis, were not mentioned even once despite their innumerable contributions to what this society has accomplished in 250 years.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at January 01, 2026 03:27 PM (xG4kz)

55 You're the person actually being interviewed?

I stayed at the Marriott in Fairhope one night back in the mid 90's - business travel but wanted to come back - it was really nice

No, that is one of my instructors. She is like human sunshine so I figured she would be the best face for this kind of thing.

Fairhope is a great little place that needs to stop growing.

Posted by: Piper at January 01, 2026 03:28 PM (Wmg4n)

56 So Piper runs a Learing Center too. Apply for grant.

Posted by: Allah Whackbar Child Early Learing Center at January 01, 2026 03:28 PM (oftw2)

57 I don't understand the workout places that have a big front window and you can see the gals inside, normally one of those pole or silks class. No not strippers. I wouldn't want anyone watching me off the streets.

I'm thinking about starting TRX again. That was a good workout. Imagine you are a slave in ancient Rome trying to earn your freedom. Straps, whips, kneeling, getting yelled at a lot. Accept your commander is a little gal with dancer legs screaming at you to hold position five more seconds and you are 4 seconds from collapsing.

Great stuff. Also might try a spin class if I can get up early enough. Spin, TRX, and some class with butt & gut in its name. My goal for this year.

Posted by: banana Dream at January 01, 2026 03:28 PM (3uBP9)

58 Speaking of being sworn in...

U.S. Presidents:
John Quincy Adams: A law book, emphasizing separation of church and state.
Theodore Roosevelt: No book at all.
Lyndon B. Johnson: A Catholic missal used by JFK, taken on Air Force One.
U.S. Congress (House & Senate):
Keith Ellison: The Quran, in 2007, beginning a trend.
Debbie Wasserman Schultz: A Hebrew Bible (Tanakh).
Ilhan Omar & Rashida Tlaib: The Quran.
Tulsi Gabbard: The Bhagavad Gita (first member of Congress to do so).
Robert Garcia: A rare Superman comic book.
Kyrsten Sinema: A law book.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at January 01, 2026 03:29 PM (NFX2v)

59 >>On December 31, 2025, MTV Music officially ended its 44-year broadcast run by playing this same iconic video as its final transmission.

Maybe they should have stuck with videos over trash reality tv?

At least one good thing came out of it: Sec. or Transportation Duffy and his wife met on an Mtv show, lol.

Posted by: Lizzy at January 01, 2026 03:29 PM (NuV6c)

60 On December 31, 2025, MTV Music officially ended its 44-year broadcast run by playing this same iconic video as its final transmission.
Posted by: rickb223

Somehow, I'm shocked by that. This seems appropriate:

1985 by Bowling for Soup

youtu.be/K38xNqZvBJI

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at January 01, 2026 03:30 PM (PH3st)

61 Videos from 1746 tend to be stuttery.
Posted by: toby928(c)

Half the things you read and see on the internet are fake.

Posted by: Andrew Jackson, at January 01, 2026 03:30 PM (13Txl)

62 > Hahahah! I am the one in the work out video pretending like it’s super fun and I am not dying.
Posted by: Piper at January 01, 2026 03:07 PM (p4NUW)

Ah... I was guessing the professor. Very classy-looking woman.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 01, 2026 03:30 PM (IG3/x)

63 NY looking pretty good in

Posted by: Eromero at January 01, 2026 03:32 PM (Slgjz)

64 Altered or synthetic comment.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 01, 2026 03:32 PM (pkeXY)

65 Right now I am planning on putting in for retirement and getting the hell out of NYC in late 2027.

But I am making an appointment with a financial planner and seeing if I just might be able to pull the trigger earlier than that.

With Commie Mamdani now my Mayor (spit) it might be smart to make a move sooner than later.

Posted by: Scuba_Dude at January 01, 2026 03:32 PM (LgsNJ)

66 1746.

Posted by: Eromero at January 01, 2026 03:32 PM (Slgjz)

67 6 7

Posted by: banana Dream at January 01, 2026 03:33 PM (3uBP9)

68 Ohio!

Posted by: banana Dream at January 01, 2026 03:34 PM (3uBP9)

69
Given this "phrase", $1,800,000, we'd say, what?

"One point eight million dollars"

I no-shit heard an AI narration say it as

"One point eight dollars, million"

Very Somali-like! Very retarded!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at January 01, 2026 03:34 PM (xG4kz)

70 58, huh.

so, a book, any book? I could use a Horde cookbook if elected?
or a sci-fi novel? ACS Monograph?

oh, the possibilities!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at January 01, 2026 03:34 PM (Cjt/F)

71
Peak New Yawk.

It's been rotting ever since.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at January 01, 2026 03:35 PM (y9nCu)

72 37 Nice video, Piper! Everyone looks like they are getting stronger and maintaining good range of motion.
Posted by: Emmie at January 01, 2026 03

Thank you! We work hard in there, but are also very supportive so people actually do like it.

Posted by: Piper at January 01, 2026 03:35 PM (Wmg4n)

73 > Did you see Mamdani got sworn in on a koran? How can you swear to uphold the Constitution and adhere to Islam. The two are diametrically opposed.
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He has no intentions on upholding the Constitution. Or pretty much any American traditions or customs.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 01, 2026 03:35 PM (NwnyJ)

74
Is that you way in the back? ;-)
Posted by: Scuba_Dude at January 01, 2026 03:19 PM (LgsNJ)

Maybe!

Posted by: Piper at January 01, 2026 03:36 PM (Wmg4n)

75 Ah... I was guessing the professor. Very classy-looking woman.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 01, 2026 03:30 PM (IG3/x)

She is a former Miss Alabama and was on the Orlando Magic Dance team. She was also a winner of Mrs. Alabama. She is beautiful inside and out.

Posted by: Piper at January 01, 2026 03:37 PM (Wmg4n)

76 52 40 Piper, how's the new hair?
Posted by: Duncanthrax at January 01, 2026

Still there! And I am still glad I did it. I maybe cut just a little too much off, but my hair grows really fast, so it will be fine in no time. It can still go in a pony tail and bun, so that is all that matters.
Posted by: Piper at January 01, 2026 03:26 PM (Wmg4n)

Was the news video taken before or after the haircut?

I have a few guesses but I'll just have to wait and see if I ever have the pleasure of meeting you.

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at January 01, 2026 03:38 PM (QGaXH)

77
L - No nic, another fine day

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-- REEEEEEEEEEEEE! --
/ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | \

You neglected that Orange Man Bad would not put his hand on the Bible at his inauguration in January 2024, thus showing his intention to become our king!

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-- REEEEEEEEEEEEE! --
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Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at January 01, 2026 03:40 PM (xG4kz)

78 Take a look at this and tell me Hollywood ain't doomed:

https://youtube.com/shorts/xw6yh0RoVbM?si=ojGpd8qi_F0JajcB

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at January 01, 2026 03:42 PM (Vh9CX)

79 57 I'm thinking about starting TRX again.

trx would be a good name for a somali day care center.

Posted by: anachronda at January 01, 2026 03:44 PM (edU/H)

80 New York, New York, it's a helluva town,
The Bronx is up and the Battery down,
The people ride through a hole in the ground,
New York, New York - it's a helluva town!

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 01, 2026 03:45 PM (ZOv7s)

81 Who farted … ?

Posted by: Dr_No at January 01, 2026 03:46 PM (ayRl+)

82
Our scout troop used to go visit NYC every other year in December. We'd camp on Staten Island and use public transportation to visit the other boroughs after crossing to the foot of Manhattan on the Staten Island Ferry.

We've not been back since the Coof lockdowns. Given the way NYC is trending, I am a solid "no" vote against considering taking our young people there ever again.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at January 01, 2026 03:46 PM (xG4kz)

83 Whig, I responded last thread.

It started and ended with, "sorry I gored your ox"

Posted by: Kindltot at January 01, 2026 03:46 PM (rbvCR)

84 YouTube is infested with AI slop now. I block the channels when they're recommended to me. I won't watch any histories, disaster stories, or any of that stuff unless there are human talkers on the screen, like The Rest Is History or Kyle Hates Hiking.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 01, 2026 03:24 PM (2YF7/)

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Dan Davis History, The Ancients, Ancient Architects, World of Antiquity.

All good. I think Dan Davis uses AI for some image generation now, but otherwise his presentations on European Bronze Age history are excellent.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at January 01, 2026 03:47 PM (Vh9CX)

85 If you visit 1 World Trade Center and take the elevator to the top, the walls of the elevator show the development of NYC as the elevator rises. It is pretty darn cool.

https://tinyurl.com/ym7b6zzz

Oof. Watch the dates and notice the building to the right disappear in 2002.

Posted by: Oddbob at January 01, 2026 03:47 PM (3nLb4)

86 Well NYC wanted Mamdani, they got him.
Now where is all their free shit?
Where is their better life?
I have my stopwatch going.

Posted by: Case at January 01, 2026 03:47 PM (G1OIb)

87
It's been rotting ever since.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur
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The Battery's up, the Bowery's down...

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 01, 2026 03:47 PM (XeU6L)

88 65 Right now I am planning on putting in for retirement and getting the hell out of NYC in late 2027.

But I am making an appointment with a financial planner and seeing if I just might be able to pull the trigger earlier than that.

With Commie Mamdani now my Mayor (spit) it might be smart to make a move sooner than later.
Posted by: Scuba_Dude
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Well, get out before teh inevitable wealth tax cometh. NYC and NY state are probably well on the way to require massive tax hikes for all the spending they plan to do.

NY Comptroller, "New York State’s Financial Plan shows a growing structural budget deficit with a cumulative three-year budget gap of $34.3 billion, as forecasted by the Division of the Budget. The gap is up $7 billion since the January release of the Fiscal Year 2026 Executive Budget Financial Plan, and is attributable to downward revisions to the economic forecast and projected revenues, as well as increases in projected spending. When the projected costs of the federal reconciliation bill are added, the gaps as a share of spending are comparable to gap levels last seen in April 2009 during the Global Financial Crisis."

Posted by: whig at January 01, 2026 03:49 PM (WDjG6)

89 >>New York, New York, it's a helluva town,
The Bronx is up and the Battery down,
The people ride through a hole in the ground,
New York, New York - it's a helluva town!

..and I'm Brooklynn Bound
'Cause they don't know my name
only know my initials, building bombs in the attic
for elected officials

Posted by: BEASTIE BOYS at January 01, 2026 03:49 PM (grNgC)

90 NY still had a slave port in 1746(closed in 1762). Now it's occupied by sheep

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 01, 2026 03:49 PM (zNwXb)

91 New York, the city some dumb that they had to name it twice.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 01, 2026 03:50 PM (XeU6L)

92 Whoa: https://tinyurl.com/bdyfum8n

Activists Sabotage the Tech That Keeps F-35s From Getting Hit by Missiles

Only hours into 2026, an “autonomous” direct-action group says it broke into Bruntons Aero Products in Musselburgh, outside Edinburgh, and destroyed machinery used to manufacture aerospace components supplied to Leonardo.

Leonardo UK manufactures electronic-warfare and aircraft survivability systems — including BriteCloud, an expendable active decoy designed to confuse radar-guided missiles. Leonardo has also received contracts tied to integrating this system with the F-35.

So this wasn’t “property damage” in the abstract. They’re bragging about sabotaging a link in the supply chain for aircraft self-protection systems — the kind of tech meant to help jets like the F-35 survive radar-guided missile threats.

It’s sabotage in pursuit of a political cause and that’s exactly what terrorism is.

Posted by: Lizzy at January 01, 2026 03:50 PM (NuV6c)

93 In 1746 would it be an Eight Pence instead of an Eightball?

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 01, 2026 03:50 PM (YT2Wn)

94 '...so dumb..'

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 01, 2026 03:51 PM (XeU6L)

95
Take a look at this and tell me Hollywood ain't doomed:

https://youtube.com/shorts/xw6yh0RoVbM?si=ojGpd8qi_F0JajcB
Posted by: MAGA_Ken

It was nice of them to work podcaster Jennifer Welch into that sequence.

She's a dead ringer for Skeletor.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at January 01, 2026 03:51 PM (xG4kz)

96 or walk through walls.
Posted by: Archimedes at January 01, 2026 03:09 PM

Walk through walls? Let me look again.

Posted by: Piper at January 01, 2026 03:52 PM (Wmg4n)

97 Thinks became more interesting 30 years later.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 01, 2026 03:52 PM (XeU6L)

98 Kindltot,

You seem to want a fight. You aren't worth it.

Go kindly peddle your bait elsewhere.

Have a happy new year and I suggest moving to Vivek land in Ohio which will run with milk and honey after he gets elected. At least, I hope so for their sakes, they have been screwed enough by GOPe governors like DeWino and Taft.

Posted by: whig at January 01, 2026 03:52 PM (WDjG6)

99 Posted Skybrows latest AI beats down in Sefton's Morning Thread.

So creamy.

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 01, 2026 03:53 PM (YT2Wn)

100 Fairhope is a great little place that needs to stop growing.
Posted by: Piper at January 01, 2026 03:28 PM

It is known. We haven't recovered from Billy Baldwin dying. The heirs are cashing out and changing the town.

They just tore down his mafia cabstand, you know.

Posted by: toby928(c) at January 01, 2026 03:54 PM (jc0TO)

101 Geeze... installed a new keyboard yesterday, and the typing has been weird ever since.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 01, 2026 03:54 PM (XeU6L)

102 >>Well NYC wanted Mamdani, they got him.

Considering how much fraud has been uncovered in the past year by DOGE, Scott Pressler, etc.. can we really believe a lot of these Democrats were legitimately elected?

Citizen journalists on X are already linking the sketchy child care organizations to huge campaign donations and GoTV efforts.

Posted by: Lizzy at January 01, 2026 03:54 PM (NuV6c)

103 Hi guys what are we talking about?

Posted by: fd at January 01, 2026 03:55 PM (vFG9F)

104 It was nice of them to work podcaster Jennifer Welch into that sequence.

She's a dead ringer for Skeletor.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot
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Behold the shape of our destroyer. We shoulda stuck with teh Stay Puffed Marshmellow Man.

Posted by: whig at January 01, 2026 03:55 PM (WDjG6)

105 Mike Hammer

A Temu keyboard made in Somalia?

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 01, 2026 03:55 PM (YT2Wn)

106
All good. I think Dan Davis uses AI for some image generation now, but otherwise his presentations on European Bronze Age history are excellent.
Posted by: MAGA_Ken

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I don't mind good stuff. There are tons of true crime, disaster, and history videos out there with awful AI voiceovers. Some of them seem to be self-generated.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 01, 2026 03:55 PM (2YF7/)

107 101 Geeze... installed a new keyboard yesterday, and the typing has been weird ever since.
Posted by: Mike Hammer

Workman, tools, etc.

Posted by: Xpert Typpist at January 01, 2026 03:55 PM (oftw2)

108 So this wasn’t “property damage” in the abstract. They’re bragging about sabotaging a link in the supply chain for aircraft self-protection systems — the kind of tech meant to help jets like the F-35 survive radar-guided missile threats.

It’s sabotage in pursuit of a political cause and that’s exactly what terrorism is.
Posted by: Lizzy at January 01, 2026 03:50 PM

I wouldn't oppose our CIA taking extralegal action against members of this group. That is what it is for.

Posted by: toby928(c) at January 01, 2026 03:56 PM (jc0TO)

109 Happy New Year, all ...

Posted by: Adriane the Artistic License Critic ... at January 01, 2026 03:56 PM (3ZUWJ)

110 Same shit, different day/year...

Dr. Dawn Michael @DawnsMission

Can you believe this is happening in Congress right now, with all the chaos around illegals?

A 400+ page funding bill racing through the Senate packed with hundreds of millions for migrant programs & DEI initiatives. But the jaw-dropper? $5.6 BILLION for migrants who aren't even here yet!

How angry does that make you?

MOMof DataRepublican @data_republican

How can this be true? Surely, President Trump won't sign it, but what is going on... esp after what has been uncovered this week?

X: https://bit.ly/45dplhB

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at January 01, 2026 03:57 PM (P5BPp)

111 Who farted … ?
Posted by: Dr_No

ANOTHER good name for a somali daycare center.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 01, 2026 03:57 PM (c115l)

112 Have a happy new year and I suggest moving to Vivek land in Ohio which will run with milk and honey after he gets elected. At least, I hope so for their sakes, they have been screwed enough by GOPe governors like DeWino and Taft.
Posted by: whig at January 01, 2026 03:52 PM (WDjG6)

Back at you dude.

Posted by: Kindltot at January 01, 2026 03:57 PM (rbvCR)

113 Considering how much fraud has been uncovered in the past year by DOGE, Scott Pressler, etc.. can we really believe a lot of these Democrats were legitimately elected?

Citizen journalists on X are already linking the sketchy child care organizations to huge campaign donations and GoTV efforts.
Posted by: Lizzy
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They probably did get elected as turnout for local elections are notoriously poor. That being said, Democrats have transferred their party into a vast crime syndicate similar to the Tammany Hall regime in NYC. Only difference is the color and ethnicity of the grifters in office.

Posted by: whig at January 01, 2026 03:58 PM (WDjG6)

114 I wouldn't oppose our CIA taking extralegal action against members of this group. That is what it is for.
Posted by: toby928(c) at January 01, 2026 03:56 PM (jc0TO)
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All the terrorists did was get a British firm to lose a contract. Cutting off the nose to spite the face.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 01, 2026 03:58 PM (ZOv7s)

115 Geeze... installed a new keyboard yesterday, and the typing has been weird ever since.
Posted by: Mike Hammer

Loose nut on keyboard?

Posted by: rickb223 at January 01, 2026 03:58 PM (c115l)

116 Benny Johnson @bennyjohnson

Communist Zohran Mamdani at his inauguration: "We'll replace rugged individualism with the warmth of collectivism"

Good luck, NYC.

X video: https://bit.ly/49BUei4

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at January 01, 2026 03:58 PM (P5BPp)

117 Lotus Eaters put out their 'Monkey News' piece for 2025.

Always good for a laugh.

Posted by: garrett at January 01, 2026 03:59 PM (grNgC)

118 48 Did you see Mamdani got sworn in on a koran? How can you swear to uphold the Constitution and adhere to Islam. The two are diametrically opposed.
Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at January 01, 2026 03:20 PM (t/2Uw)
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It's a clue.
It's a tell.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 01, 2026 03:59 PM (UZwsW)

119 "We'll replace rugged individualism with the warmth of collectivism"

Burning times ahead.

Posted by: fd at January 01, 2026 03:59 PM (vFG9F)

120 I fell sorry for all the animals in new york city: the whores, skunk pussies, buggers, queens, fairies, dopers, junkies, muzzies, chomos, somalis... sick, venal. Someday, a real rain will come and wash all this democrat scum off the streets.

Posted by: Travis Bickle 2026 at January 01, 2026 03:59 PM (R/m4+)

121 103 Hi guys what are we talking about?
Posted by: fd
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The Animal House line goes "You guys playing cards?"

Posted by: whig at January 01, 2026 03:59 PM (WDjG6)

122 Hi guys what are we talking about?
Posted by: fd
========
The Animal House line goes "You guys playing cards?"
Posted by: whig at January 01, 2026 03:59 PM

What if our solar system is just one atom in a giant's fingernail?

Posted by: toby928(c) at January 01, 2026 04:01 PM (jc0TO)

123 Willowed from Crossbow fun after I want looking for Kindltots ox goring comments:

300 >Heh. Don, I KNOW you are not new here.

Posted by: tubal
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I am not. And on my last day here, I will reveal my true identity.
Posted by: Don Black. Message: at January 01, 2026 03:55 PM (ZxPkt)

"And on my last day here, I will reveal my true identity."

You needed to add 'Muah Haw Haw Haw' after that statement.....

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at January 01, 2026 04:01 PM (QGaXH)

124 Dustin Grage @GrageDustin

The New Year brings more bad news for Minnesotans…

Property taxes are set to jump by $1 BILLION to cover for the mess Tim Walz created.

He blew through a $19B surplus, raised taxes $9B, hiked spending 40%, and let $9B+ get stolen in fraud.

Unbelievable.

X video: https://bit.ly/4jFKh6V

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at January 01, 2026 04:01 PM (P5BPp)

125 113 Considering how much fraud has been uncovered in the past year by DOGE, Scott Pressler, etc.. can we really believe a lot of these Democrats were legitimately elected?

Citizen journalists on X are already linking the sketchy child care organizations to huge campaign donations and GoTV efforts.
Posted by: Lizzy
=========

NO.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 01, 2026 04:01 PM (UZwsW)

126 "We'll replace rugged individualism with the warmth of collectivism"

Burning times ahead.

Posted by: fd at January 01, 2026 03:59 PM (vFG9F)

It can't come fast enough.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 01, 2026 04:01 PM (snZF9)

127 "We'll replace rugged individualism with the warmth of collectivism"

Burning times ahead.
Posted by: fd at January 01, 2026 03:59 PM (vFG9F)
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I think he meant the "wrath of collectivism."

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 01, 2026 04:01 PM (ZOv7s)

128
Workman, tools, etc.
Posted by: Xpert Typpist

Loose nut on keyboard?
Posted by: rickb223

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You guys are cold...

The feel of the new keys are different, and the spacing and size of one or two are different.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 01, 2026 04:02 PM (XeU6L)

129 I think he meant the "wrath of collectivism."
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 01, 2026 04:01 PM (ZOv7s)

"where there is a need, there is a right"

Posted by: Kindltot at January 01, 2026 04:02 PM (rbvCR)

130
Hi guys what are we talking about?
Posted by: fd

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Mamdani's New York
AI gonna destroy Hollywood

Hmm, New York and LA both declining...

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 01, 2026 04:02 PM (2YF7/)

131 Dustin Grage @GrageDustin

The New Year brings more bad news for Minnesotans…

Property taxes are set to jump by $1 BILLION to cover for the mess Tim Walz created.

He blew through a $19B surplus, raised taxes $9B, hiked spending 40%, and let $9B+ get stolen in fraud.

Unbelievable.

X video: https://bit.ly/4jFKh6V
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at January 01, 2026 04:01 PM

Representative democracy. The voters should get what they votef for, good and hard.

Posted by: toby928(c) at January 01, 2026 04:02 PM (jc0TO)

132 The things that Democrats do best are cheat, manipulate and destroy.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 01, 2026 04:02 PM (UZwsW)

133 Geeze... installed a new keyboard yesterday, and the typing has been weird ever since.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc.

QWERTY or Dvorak ???
: -))

Posted by: Adriane the Artistic License Critic ... at January 01, 2026 04:03 PM (3ZUWJ)

134 What if our solar system is just one atom in a giant's fingernail?
Posted by: toby928(c)
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"I won't go schizo, will I?"

Posted by: whig at January 01, 2026 04:03 PM (WDjG6)

135 The feel of the new keys are different, and the spacing and size of one or two are different.
Posted by: Mike Hammer

I hate when that happens. Yeah. I'm the one at work that stores keyboards and mice for our department. We try to reuse as much as possible when an employee leaves. Even identical keyboards from the same manufacturer doesn't feel the same.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 01, 2026 04:04 PM (c115l)

136
Benny Johnson @bennyjohnson

Communist Zohran Mamdani at his inauguration: "We'll replace rugged individualism with the warmth of collectivism"

Good luck, NYC.

X video: https://bit.ly/49BUei4
Posted by: Clyde Shelton

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"The frigidity of rugged individualism," he said.

Where the hell did he get this notion of individualism being frigid? I think he invented it just for something to contrast with the "warmth" of collectivism.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 01, 2026 04:05 PM (2YF7/)

137 > How can this be true? Surely, President Trump won't sign it, but what is going on... esp after what has been uncovered this week?
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It's what Congress wants.

The massive fraud being exposed is being perpetrated by both Democrats and Republicans. They've been stealing the public's wealth for decades under the guise of a "budget" and "programs." You, me, everyone paying taxes has been ripped off for decades by our government.

It's the largest theft of wealth in history.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 01, 2026 04:05 PM (NwnyJ)

138 The feel of the new keys are different, and the spacing and size of one or two are different.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc.

That's where the endeavour to persevere part comes in.

Posted by: Dogged Determination And Inventiveness To Infinity at January 01, 2026 04:05 PM (oftw2)

139 QWERTY or Dvorak ???
: -))
Posted by: Adriane the Artistic License Critic
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My problem is I still pound keys as I learned touch typing on a manual typewriter.

You got a physical dopamine hit when you actually had to hit the carriage return for each line.

Posted by: whig at January 01, 2026 04:05 PM (WDjG6)

140 And now for something completely different:

Doberman nurses kitten along with her newborn puppies:

https://tinyurl.com/3kkh6t4u

Faithpot site

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 01, 2026 04:06 PM (2sfNr)

141 Where the hell did he get this notion of individualism being frigid? I think he invented it just for something to contrast with the "warmth" of collectivism.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia

A lot of people are about to get a rude awakening when they realize democratic socialism is straight up communism.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 01, 2026 04:06 PM (c115l)

142 88 Well, get out before teh inevitable wealth tax cometh.

Posted by: whig at January 01, 2026 03:49 PM (WDjG6)

California is floating a wealth tax 'on billionaires' but you know if they ever get it it will seep down to us normies.

The problem is people who advocate for wealth taxes don't seem to know anything about markets. Or more likely, don't care. If you are required to liquidate a portion of your unrealized gains - what does that do to the value of the underlying assets if millions of people are suddenly forced to say 'sell stocks' ? Are we still going to be taxed on the pre-crash value of the assets?

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at January 01, 2026 04:06 PM (QGaXH)

143 120 I fell sorry for all the animals in new york city: the whores, skunk pussies, buggers, queens, fairies, dopers, junkies, muzzies, chomos, somalis... sick, venal. Someday, a real rain will come and wash all this democrat scum off the streets.
Posted by: Travis Bickle 2026 at January 01, 2026 03:59 PM (R/m4+)

We're hiring!

Posted by: Hedley Lamarr at January 01, 2026 04:07 PM (pIfcn)

144 Libs of TikTok @libsoftiktok

Somalia’s ambassador to the UN is a…. Daycare administrator in Ohio…

You cannot make this up

X: https://bit.ly/4qdwoio

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at January 01, 2026 04:07 PM (P5BPp)

145 "I won't go schizo, will I?"
Posted by: whig at January 01, 2026 04:03 PM (WDjG6)

It's a distinct possibility.

Posted by: Professor Jennings at January 01, 2026 04:07 PM (R/m4+)

146 Rose Bowl about to kickoff. I have no dog in this fight, but I'm rooting for Indiana for novelty's sake.

Posted by: Lincolntf at January 01, 2026 04:08 PM (vV6n9)

147 Mamdani : and if you don't feel the warmth of collectivism we will beat you, de-platform you, seize your bank accounts , and doxx you so random locals can beat you some more. Oh and you will wear your underwear on the outside of your pants

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 01, 2026 04:08 PM (zNwXb)

148 Did you see Mamdani got sworn in on a koran? How can you swear to uphold the Constitution and adhere to Islam. The two are diametrically opposed.
Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at January 01, 2026 03:20 PM (t/2Uw)

Destroy a couple buildings. Kill a couple thousand people. Wait25 years. Take over.

Posted by: Diogenes at January 01, 2026 04:08 PM (2WIwB)

149 The problem is people who advocate for wealth taxes don't seem to know anything about markets. Or more likely, don't care. If you are required to liquidate a portion of your unrealized gains - what does that do to the value of the underlying assets if millions of people are suddenly forced to say 'sell stocks' ? Are we still going to be taxed on the pre-crash value of the assets?
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at January 01, 2026 04:06 PM (QGaXH)
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The destruction is deliberate.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 01, 2026 04:08 PM (ZOv7s)

150 Willowed:

What kind of sciencin’ do you do, if I might ask?

Posted by: tubal

Sorry, I was called away. Physical chemist / solid state physics /surface science / nanoscience and technology.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 01, 2026 04:09 PM (Riz8t)

151 Americans have near $20T in IRAs and other tax-deferred accounts. One it's face, it's mighty tempting to the Bolsheviks.

Posted by: toby928(c) at January 01, 2026 04:09 PM (jc0TO)

152 "I won't go schizo, will I?"
Posted by: whig

It's a distinct possibility.
Posted by: Professor Jennings

Four out of five dentists agree, it's in the water.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 01, 2026 04:09 PM (c115l)

153 I have an old microsoft 4000 keyboard that I've been refurbishing and repairing over time, and I hope to never have to replace it.

Posted by: banana Dream at January 01, 2026 04:09 PM (3uBP9)

154 Rose Bowl about to kickoff. I have no dog in this fight, but I'm rooting for Indiana for novelty's sake.
Posted by: Lincolntf at January 01, 2026 04:08 PM

*stinkeye*

Posted by: toby928(c) Native Texan and Alabama Alumnus, Twice as Smug as You at January 01, 2026 04:10 PM (jc0TO)

155 So no one can help with the problem that I can comment from my laptop but not from my phone?
Am I going to have to get up early so I can ask on the tech thread? This is not an easy thing for me to do.
Now I'm worried because it would be horrible if I can't do Ace on a new Ipad which is also Apple like my phone while my laptop is PC.
Did I tell you how my Ipad went nuclear and then died? While on vacation when I couldn't do anything about it? And only had my phone and couldn't comment because I got the red letters of death?

Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at January 01, 2026 04:10 PM (t/2Uw)

156 124 Dustin Grage @GrageDustin

The New Year brings more bad news for Minnesotans…

Property taxes are set to jump by $1 BILLION to cover for the mess Tim Walz created.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at January 01, 2026 04:01 PM (P5BPp)

Let's see if that works - raising property taxes will decrease the amount people can pay for the property thus lowering property values and the associated tax revenue based on that valuation.

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at January 01, 2026 04:10 PM (QGaXH)

157 Destroy a couple buildings. Kill a couple thousand people. Wait25 years. Take over.
Posted by: Diogenes at January 01, 2026 04:08 PM (2WIwB)
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Dubya did that. Declared war on countries and then imported thousands of people from the same countries.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 01, 2026 04:10 PM (ZOv7s)

158
Somalia’s ambassador to the UN is a…. Daycare administrator in Ohio…

You cannot make this up

X: https://bit.ly/4qdwoio
Posted by: Clyde Shelton

Well, now that the UN is roped into the Somali fraud, prepare the groundwork to toss it out on its ear, too. Ans we bid it a fond, "Have fun financing your meddlesome schemes!" as we bail out of it.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at January 01, 2026 04:10 PM (xG4kz)

159 Libs of TikTok @libsoftiktok

Omg wait till you hear this

Somalia’s Ambassador to the UN Abukar Dahir Osman was a healthcare administrator in Ohio. There is another healthcare company in the SAME SUITE as his with a different name, and multiple others at the same address, all with Somali names

Of course…

X: https://bit.ly/45te7Ft

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at January 01, 2026 04:10 PM (P5BPp)

160 >>Did you see Mamdani got sworn in on a koran? How can you swear to uphold the Constitution and adhere to Islam.

You always know you are serious about an oath when you ask Bernie Sanders to administer said oath.

Posted by: garrett at January 01, 2026 04:11 PM (grNgC)

161 It's the largest theft of wealth in history.
Posted by: Martini Farmer
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Obama years with no budget set the stage for debt to go from 64 percent of GDP in 2008 to 118 percent of gdp now in 17 years.

And the rest of the West is not far behind. Both France and UK exceed 100 percent debt to gdp.

Our ruling class figured out it was easier to steal from borrowed money than increase taxes which would piss off voters.

China is well over 200 percent and Japan is over 300 percent.

Posted by: whig at January 01, 2026 04:12 PM (WDjG6)

162 You always know you are serious about an oath when you ask Bernie Sanders to administer said oath.
Posted by: garrett at January 01, 2026 04:11 PM (grNgC)
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Always take financial advice from a guy who has earned a government salary for his entire life and whose wife managed to drive a college into bankruptcy in only a couple of years.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 01, 2026 04:12 PM (ZOv7s)

163 If Alabama impresses me, I have no qualms about switching my fandom. Just want to see some good football. That last game was a tease.

Posted by: Lincolntf at January 01, 2026 04:13 PM (vV6n9)

164 Rose Bowl about to kickoff. I have no dog in this fight, but I'm rooting for Indiana for novelty's sake.

Posted by: Lincolntf at January 01, 2026 04:08 PM

As a Purdue alum, I can't root for Indiana. Plus I like Alabama. Though, I don't think Alabama has much of a chance as they have had zero running game this season. I am honestly surprised they have made it this far.

Ole Miss-Georgia should be interesting. An Ole Miss team whose coach left and a Georgia team who, if they win, will face their former QB, who now plays for Miami, in next game.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at January 01, 2026 04:13 PM (P5BPp)

165 152 "I won't go schizo, will I?"
Posted by: whig

It's a distinct possibility.
Posted by: Professor Jennings

Four out of five dentists agree, it's in the water.
Posted by: rickb223
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"My advice to you is to start drinking heavily."

Posted by: whig at January 01, 2026 04:13 PM (WDjG6)

166 >>> Americans have near $20T in IRAs and other tax-deferred accounts. One it's face, it's mighty tempting to the Bolsheviks.
Posted by: toby928(c) at January 01, 2026 04:09 PM (jc0TO)

There are large changes to 401K this year pushing people into IRAs. They are edging closer and closer to just raiding it all. Don't think they won't.

Posted by: banana Dream at January 01, 2026 04:14 PM (3uBP9)

167 150 Willowed:

What kind of sciencin’ do you do, if I might ask?

Posted by: tubal

Sorry, I was called away. Physical chemist / solid state physics /surface science / nanoscience and technology.
Posted by: Archimedes at January 01, 2026 04:09 PM (Riz8t)

You are a lot smarter than I am. That being said: second look at Zelenskyyyyy?? JK, Happy New Year!!

Posted by: tubal at January 01, 2026 04:14 PM (pDt9x)

168 ---------
It's what Congress wants.

The massive fraud being exposed is being perpetrated by both Democrats and Republicans. They've been stealing the public's wealth for decades under the guise of a "budget" and "programs." You, me, everyone paying taxes has been ripped off for decades by our government.

It's the largest theft of wealth in history.
Posted by: Martini Farmer
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Let's not forget what congress does for itself:
Nine month, four day work week, generous pay, not bound by the laws they create, free healthcare (the best) in perpetuum, retirement pay after six years service. Surely, I've forgotten something.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 01, 2026 04:15 PM (UZwsW)

169 This better not be AI.

Wow, I love this. Great use for AI.

Posted by: t-bird at January 01, 2026 04:15 PM (cUMVS)

170 Nice blitz there. 3 and out for Indiana.

Posted by: toby928(c) Native Texan and Alabama Alumnus, Twice as Smug as You at January 01, 2026 04:15 PM (jc0TO)

171 Wow, the Tide Defense isn't fooling around.

Posted by: Lincolntf at January 01, 2026 04:15 PM (vV6n9)

172 Roll Tide now that Michigan is toast.

Posted by: Accomack at January 01, 2026 04:15 PM (/Chlc)

173
Communist Zohran Mamdani at his inauguration: "We'll replace rugged individualism with the warmth of collectivism"

He said he will "replace the frigidity of rugged individualism with the warmth of collectivism"

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 01, 2026 04:15 PM (pkeXY)

174 Always take financial advice from a guy who has earned a government salary for his entire life and whose wife managed to drive a college into bankruptcy in only a couple of years.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd

I think you left out the part where Bernie was simply a bum writing bad rape fan fic for years before being elected mayor in Burlington. I guess people got tired of throwing money into his hat on the street so promoted him to mayor.

Posted by: whig at January 01, 2026 04:15 PM (WDjG6)

175 Let's not forget what congress does for itself:
Nine month, four day work week, generous pay, not bound by the laws they create, free healthcare (the best) in perpetuum, retirement pay after six years service. Surely, I've forgotten something.

Posted by: Braenyard
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Having the taxpayer pick up the cost for sexual harassment claims is another.

Posted by: whig at January 01, 2026 04:16 PM (WDjG6)

176 That being said: second look at Zelenskyyyyy?? JK, Happy New Year!!

Posted by: tubal

*in best Inspector Clouseau voice*
Nevair!

Posted by: Archimedes at January 01, 2026 04:17 PM (Riz8t)

177 Now I'm worried because it would be horrible if I can't do Ace on a new Ipad which is also Apple like my phone while my laptop is PC.
Did I tell you how my Ipad went nuclear and then died? While on vacation when I couldn't do anything about it? And only had my phone and couldn't comment because I got the red letters of death?
Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at January 01, 2026 04:10 PM (t/2Uw)

I have zero insight into anything Apple, and I plan to keep it that way. I don't even know if an Apple device be wiped and relaoded with Linux.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 01, 2026 04:18 PM (8zz6B)

178 There are large changes to 401K this year pushing people into IRAs. They are edging closer and closer to just raiding it all. Don't think they won't.
Posted by: banana Dream at January 01, 2026 04:14 PM (3uBP9)

Yes, just a matter of time. Bruce and Harriet are in for a big surprise when they get back from their cruise sooner or later. I told them to put their money in Rio Rancho Land Development but their nuts, you should have seen how they were living.

Posted by: Shelley Levene, Mitch and Murray Properties at January 01, 2026 04:19 PM (R/m4+)

179 Did you see Mamdani got sworn in on a koran? How can you swear to uphold the Constitution and adhere to Islam.

By lying.

Posted by: t-bird at January 01, 2026 04:19 PM (cUMVS)

180 Never, ever, live your life according to the whims of a few supposed "experts".

Posted by: The Fifth Dentist at January 01, 2026 04:20 PM (oftw2)

181 interesting NY history video. well done.

first settlers
then the British
then American colonists
now the Socialists

Posted by: get out of my fucking shot at January 01, 2026 04:20 PM (jZ3ZM)

182 Did you see Mamdani got sworn in on a koran? How can you swear to uphold the Constitution and adhere to Islam. The two are diametrically opposed.

Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at January 01, 2026 03:20 PM

True, but not sure it really matters anymore. I tend to agree with John Adams' statement "Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other."

As we have seen in Minnesota, Ohio, Maine and all the other states with just Somali fraud perpetrated by all levels of state government, this country is no longer moral or religious. So the US Constitution and state Constitutions have long been inadequate.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at January 01, 2026 04:20 PM (P5BPp)

183 Some guy named Lin -Manuel Miranda cancelled at the Trump Kennedy center. The left is at the pouting stage

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 01, 2026 04:20 PM (zNwXb)

184 >>> So no one can help with the problem that I can comment from my laptop but not from my phone?

And only had my phone and couldn't comment because I got the red letters of death?
Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at January 01, 2026 04:10 PM (t/2Uw)

Have you tried clearing out the Name:, Email:, and Comments:, and maybe even URL

Try doing all that on your phone, tap in box, hold press - select all, cut/delete/erase/whatever, then re-enter in each box. If that doesn't work then delete all the site data and cookies for .mu.nu and try again.

Posted by: banana Dream at January 01, 2026 04:21 PM (3uBP9)

185 Obvious Horde member plug

Notsothoreau has commented here using a $39 dollar airpad purchased from Ebay. Yeah. She's got a project going.

I'm going to buy one just because.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 01, 2026 04:21 PM (UZwsW)

186 I made my first big money in development by building detention camps for Japanese for FDR. And you people buy into my "retirement" properties? Ha, Ha!

Posted by: DelWebb at January 01, 2026 04:22 PM (oftw2)

187 He said he will "replace the frigidity of rugged individualism with the warmth of collectivism"

At least it's warm, if a little damp.

Posted by: The Stench of Collectivism at January 01, 2026 04:23 PM (6GFFE)

188 Some guy named Lin -Manuel Miranda cancelled at the Trump Kennedy center. The left is at the pouting stage
Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 01, 2026 04:20 PM (zNwXb)

Maybe they could get Hank, Jr. to sub for him.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 01, 2026 04:23 PM (8zz6B)

189 184 >>> So no one can help with the problem that I can comment from my laptop but not from my phone?

And only had my phone and couldn't comment because I got the red letters of death?
Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice)
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I always call Apple help. Most of the time they are Apple freaks and are polite and quick.
If I get the feeling that's not happening or they have a cheap headset I hang up and start over.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 01, 2026 04:24 PM (UZwsW)

190 The DelWebb community my in-laws live in is very nice. 2 square miles of gated property, expanding every time we visit. Country Club, golf course, dog park, roaming deer, what's wrong with that for retirees?

Posted by: Lincolntf at January 01, 2026 04:24 PM (vV6n9)

191 187 He said he will "replace the frigidity of rugged individualism with the warmth of collectivism"

At least it's warm, if a little damp.
Posted by: The Stench of Collectivism at January 01, 2026 04:23 PM (6GFFE)

Huh. Never thought of Gulags as being warm and toasty before. Although, the ovens of Germany

Posted by: tubal at January 01, 2026 04:24 PM (pDt9x)

192 I made my first big money in development by building detention camps for Japanese for FDR. And you people buy into my "retirement" properties? Ha, Ha!
Posted by: DelWebb at January 01, 2026 04:22 PM (oftw2)

Well, they were a lot more comfy than the camps Japan built for Americans in the same time period.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 01, 2026 04:25 PM (8zz6B)

193 Apple has the best help of ANY business. Period.

Stanley tools is close.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 01, 2026 04:25 PM (UZwsW)

194 As we have seen in Minnesota, Ohio, Maine and all the other states with just Somali fraud perpetrated by all levels of state government, this country is no longer moral or religious. So the US Constitution and state Constitutions have long been inadequate.
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at January 01, 2026 04:20 PM (P5BPp)
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The key factor was people came forward and exposed it. That shows that all is not lost.

We are seeing a major shift in the direction of the country, including its moral foundation. Our parish bulletin noted that college student Mass attendance has increased by 50% over the last four years and the number of students currently looking at entering the Church (or completing Confirmation) is around 50, which is amazing. Used to be having 20 was a great year.

Something profound is happening. All the evils being exposed are a sign of it.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 01, 2026 04:26 PM (ZOv7s)

195 My phone blanked the name email and url boxes and every time I reenter, just liek they looked before, it is underlined like I am doing something wrong and if I ignore and try and Test, i get the red letters of death.

Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at January 01, 2026 04:26 PM (t/2Uw)

196 Pulte, I believe, owns the Del Web name.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 01, 2026 04:26 PM (UZwsW)

197
183 Some guy named Lin -Manuel Miranda cancelled at the Trump Kennedy center. The left is at the pouting stage
Posted by: Smell the Glove

He was one of the driving forces behind the musical "Hamilton" and no doubt approved their fatuous and inappropriate hectoring lecture to Mike Pence, who was in the audience, when the then VP took in the show back at the end of Trump's first term.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at January 01, 2026 04:26 PM (xG4kz)

198 20 somalian daycares within a three blocks in a subsidized housing area in Seattle.
When a journalist goes to ask questions, they call the police on him.

No kids. Doors slammed in his face.

Industrial level fraud across the country.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 01, 2026 04:26 PM (c115l)

199 >>My phone blanked the name email and url boxes and every time I reenter, just liek they looked before

Your phone is clearing the cookies.

Posted by: garrett at January 01, 2026 04:27 PM (grNgC)

200 Going to try the tried and true turning it off and turning it on.lol

Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at January 01, 2026 04:28 PM (t/2Uw)

201 My phone blanked the name email and url boxes and every time I reenter, just liek they looked before, it is underlined like I am doing something wrong and if I ignore and try and Test, i get the red letters of death.
Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice)

Reboot your phone. Completely off. Wait a couple of minutes, restart and try again.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 01, 2026 04:28 PM (c115l)

202
Call Apple help. It's easy.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 01, 2026 04:28 PM (UZwsW)

203 We are seeing a major shift in the direction of the country, including its moral foundation. Our parish bulletin noted that college student Mass attendance has increased by 50% over the last four years and the number of students currently looking at entering the Church (or completing Confirmation) is around 50, which is amazing. Used to be having 20 was a great year.

Something profound is happening. All the evils being exposed are a sign of it.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd
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From reports on church attendance, it appears to be males driving the increases. UK is demonstrating the same effect to a lesser degree.

Posted by: whig at January 01, 2026 04:28 PM (WDjG6)

204 Communist Zohran Mamdani at his inauguration: "We'll replace rugged individualism with the warmth of collectivism

I see to many problems. Not facing a realistic reality.

If you were writing a book, it would be a rape of culture yet boring. Lying worked for Obama for a while. Has Obama been to any football games recently?

What did the reporter say about the crowd shouting/chanting to Biden at a game?

Posted by: thug dolphin at January 01, 2026 04:29 PM (EyfuW)

205 We are seeing a major shift in the direction of the country, including its moral foundation. Our parish bulletin noted that college student Mass attendance has increased by 50% over the last four years and the number of students currently looking at entering the Church (or completing Confirmation) is around 50, which is amazing. Used to be having 20 was a great year.

Something profound is happening. All the evils being exposed are a sign of it.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 01, 2026 04:26 PM (ZOv7s)

I would not be surprised to see some mid-level civil servants turning State's Evidence once the investigations into the Somali fraud machine really get going.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 01, 2026 04:30 PM (8zz6B)

206 I asked my sister once, when she was having trouble with her phone how oftern she shut her phone down. She could not remember. Turned it off, turned it back on. Problem solved.

Posted by: tubal at January 01, 2026 04:30 PM (pDt9x)

207 From reports on church attendance, it appears to be males driving the increases. UK is demonstrating the same effect to a lesser degree.

The women will follow. Any time the gender balance is skewed, the others eventually decide they want some 'o dat.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 01, 2026 04:30 PM (Riz8t)

208 Your phone is clearing the cookies.
Posted by: garrett at January 01, 2026 04:27 PM (grNgC)

If a Church of Scientology burned down, would that be "cooking the Clears"?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 01, 2026 04:31 PM (8zz6B)

209 From reports on church attendance, it appears to be males driving the increases. UK is demonstrating the same effect to a lesser degree.
Posted by: whig at January 01, 2026 04:28 PM (WDjG6)
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When they get tired of scissoring, they'll come along, too.

Vocations are up a lot, and the religious sisters are wearing habits again. No more nuns in pantsuits.

My wife reports that the senior set is dismayed by all this, especially young people kneeling to receive the Eucharist on the tongue. Some are afraid altar rails will be coming back.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 01, 2026 04:31 PM (ZOv7s)

210 Anyone upset with FDR detaining Japanese Americans during the war should read Michelle Malkins book on that subject.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 01, 2026 04:32 PM (UZwsW)

211 I would not be surprised to see some mid-level civil servants turning State's Evidence once the investigations into the Somali fraud machine really get going.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 01, 2026 04:30 PM (8zz6B)
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A bunch already have, I'm sure. There are lots of incriminating emails being turned in for certain. No one CYAs like civil service staff.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 01, 2026 04:33 PM (ZOv7s)

212 COMMUNIST SMURFS

https://www.youtube.com/

watch?v=jYQmABfIUdo

Posted by: garrett at January 01, 2026 04:37 PM (grNgC)

213 Anyone upset with FDR detaining Japanese Americans during the war should read Michelle Malkins book on that subject.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 01, 2026 04:32 PM (UZwsW)
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I saw a documentary on the legal case against it, and naturally it describes the filers (who refused their draft summons) as heroes.

No, the heroes were in the 442nd RCT, "Go For Broke," which covered itself and glory and proved their loyalty to a grateful nation. They were what discredited the camps. If all of them had refuse to serve, the whole lot would have been deported.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 01, 2026 04:37 PM (ZOv7s)

214 Anyone upset with FDR detaining Japanese Americans during the war should read Michelle Malkins book on that subject.

Anyone upset by FDR's attempt to turn America into a police state should read "The New Deal's War on the Bill of Rights: The Untold Story of FDR's Concentration Camps, Censorship, and Mass Surveillance", by David Beito.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 01, 2026 04:39 PM (Riz8t)

215 0-0 after one but Indiana is poised for first blood with a FG.

Posted by: toby928(c) Native Texan and Alabama Alumnus, Twice as Smug as You at January 01, 2026 04:39 PM (jc0TO)

216 Tried turning off the phone. It refuses to recognize my email address. I put in my nic.when I put in my email it underlines with a dotted red line like I am making a mistake eventhough I am typing the exact same email address as before and on here.
500 Server Error

Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at January 01, 2026 04:41 PM (t/2Uw)

217 3-0 Hoosiers

Posted by: toby928(c) Native Texan and Alabama Alumnus, Twice as Smug as You at January 01, 2026 04:42 PM (jc0TO)

218 500 Internal Server Error

is how it reads at the top

Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at January 01, 2026 04:42 PM (t/2Uw)

219 sharon - best of luck.

I have no helpful tech expertise.

Posted by: Adriane the Artistic License Critic ... at January 01, 2026 04:49 PM (3ZUWJ)

220 The Rose Bowl has a big capacity for not having much in the way of upper decks.

Posted by: toby928(c) Native Texan and Alabama Alumnus, Twice as Smug as You at January 01, 2026 04:50 PM (jc0TO)

221
Can you dial out?

800 692 7753

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 01, 2026 04:52 PM (UZwsW)

222 Adriane, thanks for the sympathetic support. I am hoping replacing my Ipad will somehow fix this. I hate commenting from my phone anyways so as long as I can do it from the Ipad It won't matter. (fingers crossed.
At least i wasn't banned.

Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at January 01, 2026 04:52 PM (t/2Uw)

223 Anyone upset by FDR's attempt to turn America into a police state should read "The New Deal's War on the Bill of Rights: The Untold Story of FDR's Concentration Camps, Censorship, and Mass Surveillance", by David Beito.
Posted by: Archimedes
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Double teaming with Kindltot.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 01, 2026 04:53 PM (UZwsW)

224 My wife reports that the senior set is dismayed by all this, especially young people kneeling to receive the Eucharist on the tongue. Some are afraid altar rails will be coming back.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd
=========
I, for one, will be happy to see traditions return. Never cared for the hippy dippy version of religion.

Posted by: whig at January 01, 2026 04:57 PM (WDjG6)

225 Nice by TD pass by Mendoza. 10-0 Indiana.

Posted by: toby928(c) Native Texan and Alabama Alumnus, Twice as Smug as You at January 01, 2026 04:58 PM (jc0TO)

226 Indiana is very well coached up. Their nose tackle just took up two lineman to allow a twist without getting a chopblock call by about a foot. Nice.

Posted by: toby928(c) Native Texan and Alabama Alumnus, Twice as Smug as You at January 01, 2026 05:08 PM (jc0TO)

227 Tried turning off the phone. It refuses to recognize my email address.
--------

We know who you are, we know where you are, we know what's best for you.

Posted by: Big Brother at January 01, 2026 06:26 PM (XeU6L)

Family Fun With Crossbows Open Thread

Happy New Year!

Apparently the son took over for the dad in later years.

Posted by: Ace at 01:30 PM

Comments

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1 Almost.first!

Posted by: Diogenes at January 01, 2026 01:31 PM (2WIwB)

2 Whoa!!! How about that???

Posted by: Diogenes at January 01, 2026 01:31 PM (2WIwB)

3 Good afternoon good people.

Posted by: Tonypete at January 01, 2026 01:32 PM (cYBz/)

4 HELLO????

Hello...

hello...

Posted by: Diogenes at January 01, 2026 01:32 PM (2WIwB)

5
Happy New Year Diogenes!

Posted by: fourseasons at January 01, 2026 01:32 PM (3ek7K)

6 Right back at cha fourseasons!

Posted by: Diogenes at January 01, 2026 01:34 PM (2WIwB)

7 I DEMAND EQUAL TIME FOR LONGBOWS!

Posted by: Infuriated Welshman at January 01, 2026 01:34 PM (ZOv7s)

8 Will there be a longbow thread following this one?

Posted by: PabloD at January 01, 2026 01:34 PM (tfChy)

9 I love crossbows.

Funnily enough, my father... not a fan of them.

YouTube: https://bit.ly/4b9Z2wk

Posted by: Tyrion Lannister at January 01, 2026 01:35 PM (P5BPp)

10 "Never point your weapon at something you don't want to destroy."

I think they are violating ALL of the range rules that I learned.

Posted by: Half Dozen at January 01, 2026 01:37 PM (EYvpB)

11 I want to learn to be a slinger.

Posted by: toby928(c) at January 01, 2026 01:37 PM (jc0TO)

12 Longbows!

Posted by: garrett at January 01, 2026 01:37 PM (grNgC)

13 I think they are violating ALL of the range rules that I learned.
Posted by: Half Dozen at January 01, 2026 01:37 PM (EYvpB)
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That's what makes it entertaining.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 01, 2026 01:37 PM (ZOv7s)

14 But why?

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at January 01, 2026 01:37 PM (Idisy)

15 I love crossbows.

Funnily enough, my father... not a fan of them.

YouTube: https://bit.ly/4b9Z2wk

Posted by: Tyrion Lannister

*looks questioningly at guy who does the "It's funny because" bit*

Posted by: Archimedes at January 01, 2026 01:38 PM (Riz8t)

16 I was watching a video about some old psycho who killed another driver with a crossbow in a road rage incident.

The surgeon they interviewed said he hates the crossbows, because when someone someone shows up with a crossbow wound, it's pretty much 100% certain they won't make it.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 01, 2026 01:38 PM (BI5O2)

17 [100 comment rule]

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at January 01, 2026 01:38 PM (nWPIJ)

18 Longbows
Mary Ann
1911
No beans

Posted by: Duke Lowell at January 01, 2026 01:39 PM (u73oe)

19 Target shot with a crossbow once. Fun, but that was my only interest. Interesting history of the weapon however.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 01, 2026 01:39 PM (zNwXb)

20 The surgeon they interviewed said he hates the crossbows, because when someone someone shows up with a crossbow wound, it's pretty much 100% certain they won't make it.

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Tell me about it.

Posted by: Richard The Lionhearted at January 01, 2026 01:39 PM (nWPIJ)

21
The surgeon they interviewed said he hates the crossbows, because when someone someone shows up with a crossbow wound, it's pretty much 100% certain they won't make it.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice
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Just out of curiosity, what was "n" for that study?

Posted by: Mrs. Santa's unclean sister at January 01, 2026 01:40 PM (aTta8)

22 I used to be an adventurer until I took a bolt to the knee.

Posted by: Freak crossbow accident at January 01, 2026 01:40 PM (TbWk/)

23 About a dozen years ago, a man in Virginia Beach was arrested for shooting his wife with a crossbow when she was walking on a treadmill. She died, he claimed it was an accident, but the jury did not believe him.

Posted by: Arrow Shirt Co. at January 01, 2026 01:41 PM (oftw2)

24 I have no dog in the longbow vs crossbow fight…

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 01, 2026 01:41 PM (xT8gx)

25 Texas Tech has been on defense for 43 snaps in the first half. They've done well (down 0-6), but have got to be gassed. Hopefully a bit more scoring in the second half.

Posted by: Lincolntf at January 01, 2026 01:42 PM (vV6n9)

26 I want to learn to be a slinger.
Posted by: toby928(c) at January 01, 2026 01:37 PM (jc0TO)

Made slings when I was a kid. It was the first time I realized how far I could throw a rock. Never really worked on accuracy rhough. I should of.

Posted by: Diogenes at January 01, 2026 01:42 PM (2WIwB)

27 Crossbow
Mrs. Howell
9 MM
Beans
Carrots

Posted by: Always Thinkin' at January 01, 2026 01:43 PM (oftw2)

28
Finally got Her Majesty and The Big Dummy on the road. Headed off to Mass.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 01, 2026 01:43 PM (tgvbd)

29 Finally got Her Majesty and The Big Dummy on the road. Headed off to Mass.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

That's a fur piece.

Posted by: Rand McNally at January 01, 2026 01:44 PM (oftw2)

30 But World War IV will be fought with bows and arrows.

Posted by: Just the punchline at January 01, 2026 01:44 PM (2Ez/1)

31 I used to be an adventurer until I took a bolt to the knee.
Posted by: Freak crossbow accident at January 01, 2026 01:40 PM (TbWk/)

I got a couple of bolts in my neck, and I did OK.

Posted by: The Monster at January 01, 2026 01:44 PM (8zz6B)

32 But what about longbows???

Posted by: Bulg at January 01, 2026 01:45 PM (77rzZ)

33 I know that technically Oregon is the underdog as they’re the lower seed… but in reality over the last 20 years (at least) Oregon has been a college football blue blood while Texas Tech has been a nobody (they didn’t even win big when Patrick Mahomes was their QB). So I’m pulling for Tech because I like underdogs

The ridiculous reality is that both teams are funded by billionaires: Phil Knight for Oregon (Nike) and Cody Campbell for Tech (oil money)

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 01, 2026 01:45 PM (xT8gx)

34 Crossbow
Mrs. Howell
9 MM
Beans
Carrots
Posted by: Always Thinkin' at January 01, 2026 01:43 PM (oftw2)
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This is an outrage!

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 01, 2026 01:45 PM (RIvkX)

35 A bigger boat.
A better crew.
MaryAnn AND Ginger
7.62
Maple syrup

Posted by: Diogenes at January 01, 2026 01:46 PM (2WIwB)

36 Cranks the lot of them.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 01, 2026 01:46 PM (mlg/3)

37 Happy Birthday, Uncle Mike!

Uncle Mike was my maternal grandfather’s older brother. His birthday was Jan 1. Every year, he had an open house. Folks would come and go, the Rose Bowl would be on. People would nosh on one folks food and the adults would get totally lit up. Open bar set up on a towel on the washer/dryer off the kitchen. Several plastic gallons of booze. Ice in a bucket. A few mixers. Serve yourself.

Kids snuck drinks. Played croquet in the rain in the back yard. Tromped through the living room to the couch to gorge on chips and dip and Vienna sausages.

He made it to 104. Never had kids. I miss him.

Posted by: nurse ratched at January 01, 2026 01:48 PM (IhIKR)

38 I want to learn to be a slinger.
Posted by: toby928(c) at January 01, 2026 01:37 PM (jc0TO)

It is not hard, it just takes persistence. I used a leather pouch and 550 cord. The pouch was just a square chunk of leather slit on the ends with holes in each "finger" so it would stack when I threaded it with the cord. There is no right way of doing it.
It was mostly to flip rocks. I used it a lot when I was rehabbing from a broken shoulder to make sure I was getting good rotation and rebuilding flexibility

Look up "shepherd sling" or "Balearic sling" for patterns.

Posted by: Kindltot at January 01, 2026 01:48 PM (rbvCR)

39 The ridiculous reality is that both teams are funded by billionaires: Phil Knight for Oregon (Nike) and Cody Campbell for Tech (oil money)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 01, 2026 01:45 PM (xT8gx)

If you fund a college football team, do you get to boink all the cheerleaders? Asking for a friend.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 01, 2026 01:48 PM (8zz6B)

40 I HATE OREGON.

DIE, ducks, DIE.

Posted by: nurse ratched at January 01, 2026 01:50 PM (IhIKR)

41 If you fund a college football team, do you get to boink all the cheerleaders? Asking for a friend.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 01, 2026 01:48 PM (8zz6B)

Need to clarify with your friend...half the cheer squads are men.

Posted by: Diogenes at January 01, 2026 01:50 PM (2WIwB)

42 I predict this resolution lasts as long as my jog-a-mile-before-breakfast resolution.

CBS Evening News
@CBSEveningNews
"On too many stories, the press has missed the story. Because we've taken into account the perspective of advocates and not the average American. Or we put too much weight in the analysis of academics or elites, and not enough on you."

That changes now.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except Better at January 01, 2026 01:51 PM (L/fGl)

43 30 But World War IV will be fought with bows and arrows.
Posted by: Just the punchline
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And drones/droids. But mostly drones and droids.

Posted by: whig at January 01, 2026 01:51 PM (WDjG6)

44 What nurse said!!!

(Cougs beat Tech a year ago 37-16)

Posted by: Diogenes at January 01, 2026 01:52 PM (2WIwB)

45 After the results of these playoff games, every Athletic Director in the NCAA is tuning up their speech - "The teams that won had money. If you want to see _____ win, you have to chip in."

Posted by: 2009Refugee at January 01, 2026 01:52 PM (8AONa)

46 >>I HATE OREGON.

DIE, ducks, DIE.

Not a huge fan of Oregon...but, damn I love me some Beavers!

Posted by: garrett at January 01, 2026 01:52 PM (grNgC)

47 Hey remember when some Democrats made a video suggesting soldiers should refuse illegal orders? And everybody got all excited and and said 'Traitors!" and threatened prosecution?

Good times, huh
And the FT Knox audit?
Nationwide voter ID?
The J6 Inquisition?

forgotten like a fart in the wind

also, right now, the Senate is debating spending over 5 BILLION dollars to

get this

bring more refugees here

meet the new year
same as the old year

Posted by: Don Black. Message: at January 01, 2026 01:52 PM (ZxPkt)

48 That changes now.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except Better at January 01, 2026 01:51 PM (L/fGl)

They will do exactly what their advertisers say.

Posted by: Kindltot at January 01, 2026 01:52 PM (rbvCR)

49 The surgeon they interviewed said he hates the crossbows, because when someone someone shows up with a crossbow wound, it's pretty much 100% certain they won't make it.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice
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Just out of curiosity, what was "n" for that study?
Posted by: Mrs. Santa's unclean sister

"pretty much 100%" is not 100%, but it's also not 0% or 50-50.....

So more than one or two. I'd guess n=3.

And I think I just used up my yearly "math on the blog" allowance on Jan 1st.

Posted by: mikeski at January 01, 2026 01:52 PM (nhCoE)

50 Need to clarify with your friend...half the cheer squads are men.
Posted by: Diogenes at January 01, 2026 01:50 PM (2WIwB)

Well, that would be icky...

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 01, 2026 01:53 PM (8zz6B)

51 CBS Evening News
@CBSEveningNews
"On too many stories, the press has missed the story. Because we've taken into account the perspective of advocates and not the average American. Or we put too much weight in the analysis of academics or elites, and not enough on you."

That changes now.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks
======
If it causes some commie cry babies at CBS to quit, then even if nothing else happens then it would be worthy. Their positions probably won't get filled and they will find themselves unemployable except as stockers at big box retail stores.

Posted by: whig at January 01, 2026 01:53 PM (WDjG6)

52 Pretty good game between Tech and Oregon. I don't care who wins so long as the SEC and, especially, ESPN lose.

Posted by: Sasquatch, the Original Trans-Wookie at January 01, 2026 01:53 PM (/mCq0)

53 also I hate all this CFB 'portal' shit

like The Beach Boys said
'Be true to your school'

Posted by: Don Black. Message: at January 01, 2026 01:53 PM (ZxPkt)

54 Or we put too much weight in the analysis of academics or elites, and not enough on you."

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That's a pretty understated way to say "the Party writes every g-ddamned word we print beneath our bylines."

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 01, 2026 01:54 PM (BI5O2)

55 I know that technically Oregon is the underdog as they’re the lower seed… but in reality over the last 20 years (at least) Oregon has been a college football blue blood while Texas Tech has been a nobody (they didn’t even win big when Patrick Mahomes was their QB). So I’m pulling for Tech because I like underdogs

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 01, 2026 01:45 PM

Tech had a pretty easy schedule this season. Utah and BYU were the only ranked teams they faced. And Utah and BYU had easy schedules as well which led to being ranked.

Now facing good competition, Tech may be getting exposed.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at January 01, 2026 01:54 PM (P5BPp)

56 also, right now, the Senate is debating spending over 5 BILLION dollars to

get this

bring more refugees here

meet the new year
same as the old year
Posted by: Don Black
======
Easy enough to veto. The refugee types do not have the votes to override so let them vote so we know who these quislings are.

Posted by: whig at January 01, 2026 01:54 PM (WDjG6)

57 52 Pretty good game between Tech and Oregon. I don't care who wins so long as the SEC and, especially, ESPN lose.
Posted by: Sasquatch
=========
You will find the bookies win every game. The House always wins.

Posted by: whig at January 01, 2026 01:55 PM (WDjG6)

58 I figure most crossbow wounds occur in places with a lot of hunters.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 01, 2026 01:56 PM (BI5O2)

59 like The Beach Boys said
'Be true to your school'
Posted by: Don Black. Message: at January 01, 2026 01:53 PM (ZxPkt)

Not a fucking dime.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 01, 2026 01:56 PM (8zz6B)

60 I have a crossbow but I don't shoot it much.
I always wanted a Barnett Commando, mostly due to James Bond.

But guns are better. More fun.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at January 01, 2026 01:56 PM (xcxpd)

61 ...I miss him.
Posted by: nurse ratched at January 01, 2026 01:48 PM (IhIKR)
====

May his memory be a blessing.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 01, 2026 01:57 PM (RIvkX)

62 Crossbows. Meh.
Not nearly as fun shooting into the sky on New Years as a boomstick.

Posted by: Diogenes at January 01, 2026 01:57 PM (2WIwB)

63 Crossbows. Meh.
Not nearly as fun shooting into the sky on New Years as a boomstick.
Posted by: Diogenes at January 01, 2026 01:57 PM (2WIwB)

And probably more dangerous. I imagine terminal velocity for a crossbow bolt would not be much less than its initial velocity.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 01, 2026 01:59 PM (8zz6B)

64 I figure most crossbow wounds occur in places with a lot of hunters.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 01, 2026 01:56 PM (BI5O2)

Hee...Hee...Hee!!!

Posted by: Bambi's older brother at January 01, 2026 01:59 PM (2WIwB)

65 Crossbows. Meh.
Not nearly as fun shooting into the sky on New Years as a boomstick.
Posted by: Diogenes

"Woohoo!" BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! "Yeah!"

.....

"Woohoo!" thwip..... "Yeah!"

.....

Hypothesis confirmed.

Posted by: mikeski at January 01, 2026 02:00 PM (nhCoE)

66 Come on! No video of the tactical repeating crossbow from Germany? (Goes to youtube)

https://tinyurl.com/4pdfr73e

Posted by: Notsothoreau at January 01, 2026 02:00 PM (+mUZM)

67 28
Finally got Her Majesty and The Big Dummy on the road. Headed off to Mass.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh
-------
May their travels be safe and speedy there and back.

FWIW, you might find the following short story amusing as it involves patent law. "An Ornament to His Profession" Charles L. Harness wrote it and some other short stories that are collected in the book of the same name.

"Charles Leonard Harness was born December 29, 1915 in Colorado City TX. After an abortive stint at Texas Christian University, studying to be a preacher, he moved on to George Washington University in Washington DC, where he received a B.S. degree in 1942, and a law degree in 1946. He married in 1938, and he and wife Nell have a daughter and a son. He worked as a mineral economist for the US Bureau of Mines, 1941-47, then became a patent attorney, first with American Cyanamid (1947-1953), then with W.R. Grace & Co. (1953-1981). "

Posted by: whig at January 01, 2026 02:00 PM (WDjG6)

68 I'd like to see a husband and wife trebuchet act.

Posted by: banana Dream at January 01, 2026 02:00 PM (3uBP9)

69 Not nearly as fun shooting into the sky on New Years as a boomstick.
Posted by: Diogenes

I'm wondering if the lead I shot skyward at midnight has come down yet. No holes in the roof, but I haven't seen my neighbor yet today. He's usually out and about by now.....

Posted by: Jubilant Delinquent at January 01, 2026 02:00 PM (oftw2)

70 also I hate all this CFB 'portal' shit

like The Beach Boys said
'Be true to your school'

Posted by: Don Black. Message: at January 01, 2026 01:53 PM

In my opinion, NIL and transfer portal have ruined college sports. Especially NIL. College sports used to be about players choosing schools based on the school legacy or the good coach. And the focus was on playing for the school.

Now, after NIL and transfer portal, the focus is on which school can offer the most NIL money. And the players play for the money and that's it. School pride, coaches, fans do not matter anymore.

Show me the money is now the motto of college sports.

That is also the case for professional sports for the past 2-3 decades now. Which is why I no longer root for any teams or players. Since players don't care about the team or the cities in which they play or the fans who watch them. Money is all that matters. And they constantly whine about not making enough, even when making more than 99.99% of people in the world.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at January 01, 2026 02:01 PM (P5BPp)

71 Crossbows are fun but, 10 gauges are more fun when disagreements break out.

Posted by: Amy Bishop at January 01, 2026 02:01 PM (abIsI)

72 I'd like to see a husband and wife trebuchet act.
Posted by: banana Dream at January 01, 2026 02:00 PM (3uBP9)

That's just sick!!!

Posted by: Fluffy the cat at January 01, 2026 02:02 PM (2WIwB)

73 And they constantly whine about not making enough, even when making more than 99.99% of people in the world.
Posted by: Clyde Shelton

.....and that's the guys riding the pine making league minimum.

Posted by: mikeski at January 01, 2026 02:02 PM (nhCoE)

74 The only people who tout the 10 GA have never spent a day hunting geese with a 10 GA.

Posted by: garrett at January 01, 2026 02:02 PM (grNgC)

75 I can see the entire CBS newsroom quiting. "We like the elites, they give us stuff. The plebes are ickey".

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 01, 2026 02:03 PM (zNwXb)

76 The Washington state attorney general released a statement on X Tuesday evening warning independent journalists to stop investigating fraudulent Somali daycare centers or they could be charged with a hate crime.

https://t.ly/wno_B
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.

The broad response to the AG should be -
FU, you racist POS.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at January 01, 2026 02:03 PM (/lPRQ)

77 Big stop by Tech, let's see if they can maintain (or even start) a drive.

Posted by: Lincolntf at January 01, 2026 02:03 PM (vV6n9)

78 Happy New Year, Horde!

Love the Uncle Mike story, Nurse- appreciate you sharing it.

Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher at January 01, 2026 02:03 PM (t/66j)

79 Our childhood home was on the path between all the fun places in the neighborhood (creek, woods, fields, train tracks, etc.) and the rest of the homes. As mom was a nurse, she was the first stop when any of us had a bit too much fun while outdoors.

Normie S. shot himself through the knee (sideways) with a longbow and, of course, stumbled in to seek Mom's ministrations. He damn near bled out on our kitchen table. It looked like someone butchered a hog in there.

Funny now at reunions but it wasn't when it happened.

Posted by: Tonypete at January 01, 2026 02:04 PM (cYBz/)

80 Mrs. F. is in the den watching the Oregon game and I can hear her shouting.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 01, 2026 02:04 PM (RIvkX)

81 @70 Clyde, Iowa State's coach quit and over 40players went into the portal. They're down to something like 17 scholarship players

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 01, 2026 02:04 PM (zNwXb)

82 Ok, a husband and wife AC-130J Ghostrider act. Her with an apple, him with a 105mm howitzer. She tosses up a plate, he takes it out with a hellfire. The crowd would love it.

Posted by: banana Dream at January 01, 2026 02:05 PM (3uBP9)

83 Thought I might watch a game or two today. Nope. ESPN.
Off to work on car and listen to The Allman Brothers.
Happy new year!!!!!

Posted by: Mikey at January 01, 2026 02:05 PM (HxpHp)

84 The Fargo Butt-Bomb - WWE worthy (New Jersey getting the worst of a Florida Man's effort here):

https://tinyurl.com/yszz5p45

Legal in that style of amateur wrestling (freestyle, IIRC) but illegal in the style high school uses (folkstyle).

Posted by: Sasquatch, the Original Trans-Wookie at January 01, 2026 02:06 PM (/mCq0)

85 Come on! No video of the tactical repeating crossbow from Germany? (Goes to youtube)

https://tinyurl.com/4pdfr73e
Posted by: Notsothoreau at January 01, 2026 02:00 PM (+mUZM)

Now he needs to add a weed-whacker engine to cock it, and he has a machine-crossbow.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 01, 2026 02:06 PM (8zz6B)

86 72 I'd like to see a husband and wife trebuchet act.
Posted by: banana Dream at January 01, 2026 02:00 PM (3uBP9)

That's just sick!!!
Posted by: Fluffy the cat at January 01, 2026 02:02 PM (2WIwB)
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Bow much would a trebuchet cost?

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at January 01, 2026 02:06 PM (36PRH)

87 How much.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at January 01, 2026 02:06 PM (36PRH)

88 Yep, college football has been ruined. I still watch because I like football or out of habit…. But a world where USC and Notre Dame no longer play is ridiculous and sad…that’s just one rivalry that’s been erased. There are others (like Bedlam)

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 01, 2026 02:07 PM (xT8gx)

89 Geez, Oregon should be dominating Tech on the scoreboard instead of being up 6-0 if they could simply convert on short yardage.

Turnover on downs at Tech 23 on failed 4th and 1.
Turnover on downs at Tech 2 on failed 4th and 2.
Turnover on downs at Tech 33 on failed 4th and 2.

Dominating time of possession 2:1 (23:31 to 9:56)
Dominating plays 53 to 28
Dominating yardage 207 to 80.

Yet, with one good TD drive, Tech could take lead.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at January 01, 2026 02:08 PM (P5BPp)

90 Love the Uncle Mike story, Nurse- appreciate you sharing it.
Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher

and such a good idea with the towel on the W/D! Wring out the spilled booze, drink it, and toss towel in the washer. Highly efficient!

Posted by: One-Stop Shopping at January 01, 2026 02:08 PM (oftw2)

91 He worked as a mineral economist for the US Bureau of Mines, 1941-47, then became a patent attorney, first with American Cyanamid (1947-1953), then with W.R. Grace & Co. (1953-1981). "
Posted by: whig at January 01, 2026 02:00 PM (WDjG6)

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W.R. Grace was my first employer out of college... the company was eventually ruined by their asbestos liabilities.

Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher at January 01, 2026 02:08 PM (t/66j)

92 The Washington state attorney general released a statement on X Tuesday evening warning independent journalists to stop investigating fraudulent Somali daycare centers or they could be charged with a hate crime.

https://t.ly/wno_B
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.

The broad response to the AG should be -
FU, you racist POS.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at January 01, 2026 02:03 PM (/lPRQ)
***

So an intrepid reporter from Seattle's ABC affiliate decided to investigate the emerging reports of Somali day cares in south Seattle. The interview that makes the news? Its a Korean day care center.

Posted by: Diogenes at January 01, 2026 02:09 PM (2WIwB)

93 >>W.R. Grace was my first employer out of college... the company was eventually ruined by their asbestos liabilities.

Yeah - Libby Montana is not a fan.

Posted by: garrett at January 01, 2026 02:09 PM (grNgC)

94 74 The only people who tout the 10 GA have never spent a day hunting geese with a 10 GA.
Posted by: garrett
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Supposedly the gas operated ones take up a bit of the recoil but their popularity dwindled when 3 inch 12 gauge shells became widely available.

Posted by: whig at January 01, 2026 02:09 PM (WDjG6)

95 @Clyde Shelton, while I agree with most of your post, I'm adapting to CFB being a new thing. The school loyalty stuff is gone, but the athletics are just as good. I will always be rooting for someone, because I love competition in every form, and college football is still great on the field. I try to ignore the fact that accountants are pulling the strings, they aren't the ones ripping off 50-yard runs through traffic.

Posted by: Lincolntf at January 01, 2026 02:09 PM (vV6n9)

96 Ok, A husband and wife battleship show. She holds an unlit cigarette in her mouth and he lights it with a 16" main battery incendiary round at a three mile range. It would be thrilling.

Posted by: banana Dream at January 01, 2026 02:10 PM (3uBP9)

97 Me and my friends would wrap foam and tape around headless arrows and shoot each other them.

One day, our very stupidest friend got in on the action (thank G-d I wasn't present for this, I might have killed him).

This guy wasn't quite Somali dumb, few people are, but dumb AF. He wrapped it but didn't remove the damn arrowhead first, and shot our other buddy Tyler. In the face. It went straight through his lip and maxilla, and lodged in his soft palate. He was riding ATV at the time, which we promptly drove into a barbed wire fence, inflicting more grievous injuries.

He lived. But it was a close run thing.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 01, 2026 02:10 PM (BI5O2)

98 Our childhood home was on the path between all the fun places in the neighborhood (creek, woods, fields, train tracks, etc.) and the rest of the homes. As mom was a nurse, she was the first stop when any of us had a bit too much fun while outdoors.
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Same here. We ran around like a pack of wild indians. The parents gave no thought whatsoever to the safety or behavior of the kids, because it wasn't necessary.

Today, I see no kids out playng around the neighborhood at all.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 01, 2026 02:11 PM (XeU6L)

99 Um, well, ok

@visegrad24 2h
BREAKING: Belarusian Il-76 cargo planes keep landing in Tehran, bringing in Russian and Chinese weapons and equipment for the Islamic regime’s pressured security forces.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 01, 2026 02:11 PM (mlg/3)

100 Funny now at reunions but it wasn't when it happened.
Posted by: Tonypete

My Dad's uncle was a Cyclops because his brother shot him through the eye with an arrow.

Posted by: Warby Parker! at January 01, 2026 02:11 PM (oftw2)

101 He is still updating them, AOP

https://youtu.be/vnJVEeQDNYg

Posted by: Notsothoreau at January 01, 2026 02:12 PM (+mUZM)

102 A husband and wife death star act. Padme stands on a planet and Vadypoo annihilates it just under her feet.

Posted by: banana Dream at January 01, 2026 02:12 PM (3uBP9)

103 95 @Clyde Shelton, while I agree with most of your post, I'm adapting to CFB being a new thing. The school loyalty stuff is gone, but the athletics are just as good. I will always be rooting for someone, because I love competition in every form, and college football is still great on the field. I try to ignore the fact that accountants are pulling the strings, they aren't the ones ripping off 50-yard runs through traffic.
Posted by: Lincolntf
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Online gambling will ruin CFB just like it did the pros. By making the bets on performance of individual athletes, etc. rather than win-lose, it makes it much easier for gamblers to get to individual players.

Posted by: whig at January 01, 2026 02:13 PM (WDjG6)

104 >>Supposedly the gas operated ones take up a bit of the recoil but their popularity dwindled when 3 inch 12 gauge shells became widely available.

They punish you like nothing else. I can't say I have shot any of the most current models...but, damn. Gramps 10 GA hit like Mike Tyson.

3.5" Goose Loads out of a 12 GA are not even close and they will beat you up fairly well after a day in the field.

Posted by: garrett at January 01, 2026 02:13 PM (grNgC)

105 Man, if Iran collapses, Tucker Carlson is gonna be so pissed off.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 01, 2026 02:13 PM (BI5O2)

106
Yeah - Libby Montana is not a fan.
Posted by: garrett at January 01, 2026 02:09 PM (grNgC)

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Nor was Woburn, MA....

Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher at January 01, 2026 02:13 PM (t/66j)

107 99 Um, well, ok

@visegrad24 2h
BREAKING: Belarusian Il-76 cargo planes keep landing in Tehran, bringing in Russian and Chinese weapons and equipment for the Islamic regime’s pressured security forces.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 01, 2026 02:11 PM (mlg/3)

Soon as this thing broke out we should have shut down Iranian airspace.

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at January 01, 2026 02:14 PM (QGaXH)

108 Me and my friends would wrap foam and tape around headless arrows and shoot each other them.

One day, our very stupidest friend got in on the action (thank G-d I wasn't present for this, I might have killed him).

This guy wasn't quite Somali dumb, few people are, but dumb AF. He wrapped it but didn't remove the damn arrowhead first, and shot our other buddy Tyler. In the face. It went straight through his lip and maxilla, and lodged in his soft palate. He was riding ATV at the time, which we promptly drove into a barbed wire fence, inflicting more grievous injuries.

He lived. But it was a close run thing.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 01, 2026 02:10 PM (BI5O2)

Sounds like a dumb game in any case. Wrap foam tape around a headless arrow, and hit somebody in the eye socket with that, and the shaft of the arrow slips right through the foam tape and enter the guys brainbox.

Nerf guns FTW.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 01, 2026 02:14 PM (8zz6B)

109 Down 13-0, Tech needs to score on this drive or it's going to get out of reach quick.

Posted by: Lincolntf at January 01, 2026 02:14 PM (vV6n9)

110 And Tech's collapse continues. Fumble which leads to Oregon TD. The bye week curse continues in college football playoffs.

@Clyde Shelton, while I agree with most of your post, I'm adapting to CFB being a new thing. The school loyalty stuff is gone, but the athletics are just as good. I will always be rooting for someone, because I love competition in every form, and college football is still great on the field. I try to ignore the fact that accountants are pulling the strings, they aren't the ones ripping off 50-yard runs through traffic.

Posted by: Lincolntf at January 01, 2026 02:09 PM

I still watch the regular season games between the good schools and watch the playoffs. However, I stopped watching bowl games in general years ago when they lost all meaning... because players sit out who were going to the NFL and the teams playing in the bowl games were 2nd and 3rd stringers, nothing like the teams from the regular season.

The bowl games also have lost all meaning because we've gone from 11 bowl games (16% of schools) in 1976 to 42 bowl games (62%) in 2024.

When everyone is special, no one is.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at January 01, 2026 02:15 PM (P5BPp)

111 81 @70 Clyde, Iowa State's coach quit and over 40players went into the portal. They're down to something like 17 scholarship players
Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 01, 2026 02:04 PM (zNwXb)

Iowa State ripped off the coach from Washington State. I read yesterday that many of the 40 didn't declare for the portal until after they met the new coach. Coach knows how to win, but he's made the road ahead difficult for himself.
Meanwhile, Washington State is going to come out of it all a lot better off.

Posted by: Diogenes at January 01, 2026 02:15 PM (2WIwB)

112 >.Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher at January 01, 2026 02:13 PM (t/66j)

I did abatement for about 5 years...and worked with the stuff a lot doing historical remodels.

In the future, I believe we will find (Owens Corning) Fiberglass to be even more deadly/toxic.

Posted by: garrett at January 01, 2026 02:15 PM (grNgC)

113 @visegrad24 2h
BREAKING: Belarusian Il-76 cargo planes keep landing in Tehran, bringing in Russian and Chinese weapons and equipment for the Islamic regime’s pressured security forces.

IOW, they're ensuring that they'll be hated by whomever eventually takes over. They might want to think this through.

Russia shouldn't really mind because chaos in Iran would take a major oil producer off the world market for awhile. China is a different story. They're protecting their current oil supplier - one they can't replace.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 01, 2026 02:16 PM (Riz8t)

114 Flouncing
Otters
Hot Iron
Bewbs!

Posted by: Boswell at January 01, 2026 02:16 PM (BGfwC)

115 What a catch!

Posted by: Lincolntf at January 01, 2026 02:16 PM (vV6n9)

116 >> The Washington state attorney general released a statement on X Tuesday evening warning independent journalists to stop investigating fraudulent Somali daycare centers or they could be charged with a hate crime.

Harmeet Dillon responded that's not right, and she will take action if peoples' 1A rights are restricted.

The administration needs to come down on these states fast and hard. No more games, grandstanding, X b#tchslaps. Shut it all down now.

Posted by: Lizzy at January 01, 2026 02:16 PM (NuV6c)

117 As mom was a nurse, she was the first stop when any of us had a bit too much fun while outdoors.

Normie S. shot himself through the knee (sideways) with a longbow and, of course, stumbled in to seek Mom's ministrations. He damn near bled out on our kitchen table. It looked like someone butchered a hog in there.

Funny now at reunions but it wasn't when it happened.
Posted by: Tonypete

How does one shoot oneself in the knee, sideways, with a bow and arrow?

I assume Norm had a long and illustrious career as a circus contortionist as an adult?

Posted by: mikeski at January 01, 2026 02:17 PM (nhCoE)

118 That is also the case for professional sports for the past 2-3 decades now. Which is why I no longer root for any teams or players. Since players don't care about the team or the cities in which they play or the fans who watch them. Money is all that matters. And they constantly whine about not making enough, even when making more than 99.99% of people in the world.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at January 01, 2026 02:01 PM (P5BPp)

I'm going to miss Clayton Kershaw this year. He was public about his faith and pushed back on the LA degeneracy. But he had six very good reasons to retire: He and his wife just had their 5th kid.

Posted by: pookysgirl, still keeping an eye on the Dodgers at January 01, 2026 02:17 PM (Wt5PA)

119 114 Flouncing
Otters
Hot Iron
Bewbs!
Posted by: Boswell at January 01, 2026 02:16 PM (BGfwC)

Bewbs!!

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at January 01, 2026 02:17 PM (QGaXH)

120
The Washington state attorney general released a statement on X Tuesday evening warning independent journalists to stop investigating fraudulent Somali daycare centers or they could be charged with a hate crime.

https://t.ly/wno_B
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.

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That's a confession.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at January 01, 2026 02:17 PM (azNOR)

121 Wrap foam tape around a headless arrow, and hit somebody in the eye socket with that, and the shaft of the arrow slips right through the foam tape and enter the guys brainbox.
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Nah, we're talking about a softball-sized chunk of tightly packed foam and duct tape. They hurt like the devil, and left huge bruises, but that was the only serious injury that happened. Just hillbilly shit in a little mountain hamlet with nothing to do but beat on each other.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 01, 2026 02:17 PM (BI5O2)

122 They punish you like nothing else. I can't say I have shot any of the most current models...but, damn. Gramps 10 GA hit like Mike Tyson.

3.5" Goose Loads out of a 12 GA are not even close and they will beat you up fairly well after a day in the field.
Posted by: garrett
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Back when I shot shotguns, I cheated. Mercury inserts in the buttstock, heavy ass stocks, thick recoil pads, heavy shooting coat and a past recoil pad under the coat. Same with hard kicking rifles. Back and other neuropathy problems pretty much rule out shooting those nowadays.

In Arkansas, snow geese were easy enough to find and shoot, in fact, farmers and state begged people to shoot them in season, but geese are a royal pita to clean and cook so duck hunting is still the premier shooting sport there.

Posted by: whig at January 01, 2026 02:18 PM (WDjG6)

123 Flouncing
Otters
Hot Iron
Bewbs!
Posted by: Boswell at January 01, 2026 02:16 PM (BGfwC)

Perhaps relook the order there..

Posted by: Diogenes at January 01, 2026 02:19 PM (2WIwB)

124 He lived. But it was a close run thing.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 01, 2026 02:10 PM (BI5O2)
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Cool. Visible weapons were frowned upon in my neighborhood.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 01, 2026 02:19 PM (RIvkX)

125 >> They hurt like the devil, and left huge bruises, but that was the only serious injury that happened. Just hillbilly shit in a little mountain hamlet with nothing to do but beat on each other.

Like playing BB Tag. 3 Pumps Max!

Yeah...that was more of an aspirational guideline than a hard Rule.

Posted by: garrett at January 01, 2026 02:19 PM (grNgC)

126 How is investigating fraudulent Day Cares in MN a hate crime? Very illogical.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 01, 2026 02:20 PM (8Xy/A)

127 Bewbs!!
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at January 01, 2026 02:17 PM (QGaXH)

And so it begins...

***waits for patiently for that guy who always says nothing is happening***

Posted by: Boswell at January 01, 2026 02:20 PM (BGfwC)

128 13 I think they are violating ALL of the range rules that I learned.
Posted by: Half Dozen at January 01, 2026 01:37 PM (EYvpB)
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That's what makes it entertaining.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 01, 2026 01:37 PM (ZOv7s)

Technically speaking, I don't think the rules of the range actually prohibit blindfolds. So maybe they're okay.

Posted by: Half Dozen at January 01, 2026 02:21 PM (EYvpB)

129 Oregon 13 Texas Tech 0

A culture that celebrates the prom queen over the math olympiad champ, or the jock over the valedictorian, will not produce the best engineers.

Posted by: Vivek Ramaslamadingdong at January 01, 2026 02:21 PM (R/m4+)

130 Like playing BB Tag. 3 Pumps Max!

Yeah...that was more of an aspirational guideline than a hard Rule.
Posted by: garrett at January 01, 2026 02:19 PM (grNgC)

Oh hell yeah, me and my brothers hunted each other BB guns a lot. My mom hated that, especially inside the house.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 01, 2026 02:21 PM (BI5O2)

131 Like playing BB Tag. 3 Pumps Max!

Yeah...that was more of an aspirational guideline than a hard Rule.
Posted by: garrett at January 01, 2026 02:19 PM (grNgC)

This!

Posted by: Diogenes at January 01, 2026 02:21 PM (2WIwB)

132 >>In Arkansas, snow geese were easy enough to find and shoot, in fact, farmers and state begged people to shoot them in season, but geese are a royal pita to clean and cook so duck hunting is still the premier shooting sport there.

We get big Snow and Ross flights through here. Limits are retarded. Like 20+ per day. No thanks.
I'd rather eat Kale.

Posted by: garrett at January 01, 2026 02:21 PM (grNgC)

133 How is investigating fraudulent Day Cares in MN a hate crime? Very illogical.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke

Because it implicates Democrats.

Democrat logical.

Posted by: mikeski at January 01, 2026 02:22 PM (nhCoE)

134 In the future, I believe we will find (Owens Corning) Fiberglass to be even more deadly/toxic.
Posted by: garrett

Look, Jack, my Corvette never killed anybody. Neilia's station wagon though,.....

Posted by: President Emeritus!! at January 01, 2026 02:22 PM (oftw2)

135 When we were kids, a favorite pastime was waiting until me and my buddy were returning to the beach/dock and my brother and his friends whipping rocks at us as soon as we got in range, took a few stones to the noggin during that phase.

Posted by: Lincolntf at January 01, 2026 02:22 PM (vV6n9)

136 Soon as this thing broke out we should have shut down Iranian airspace.
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan
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Why risk confrontation with Russia or China? All the arms in the world shipped into Assad in Syria did not save his ass when people wanted him gone.

In fact, a lot of those arms ended up with the opposition when the Alawites had enough of fighting and dying.

If the Iranian people truly want the mullahs gone by a large percentage, they will be gone absent foreign on the ground troops keeping them in control.

Posted by: whig at January 01, 2026 02:22 PM (WDjG6)

137 Russian crew detained after undersea cable cut in 'sabotage'

The Russkis just can't help themselves. If there's a d*** move out there, they'll do it. Now that they're putting Wagnerians on their sabotage and shadow fleet ships, I expect shooting to break out soon. The Finns are not going to back down, and the Russians don't have a lot of friends.

https://is.gd/xJPxlm

Posted by: Archimedes at January 01, 2026 02:22 PM (Riz8t)

138 I'm going to miss Clayton Kershaw this year. He was public about his faith and pushed back on the LA degeneracy. But he had six very good reasons to retire: He and his wife just had their 5th kid.

Posted by: pookysgirl, still keeping an eye on the Dodgers at January 01, 2026 02:17 PM

One my childhood sports heroes, Ryne Sandberg, passed away this year. I miss players like him and Barry Sanders and Walter Payton who were not obnoxious show-offs, but just played the game and played with class.

That's another thing that has turned me off to college and pro sports the last 10+ years or so. The constant celebrating and showing off for making even the basic play. Make a tackle, dance and pose for the cameras... get a first down, celebrate like you just won the Super Bowl... get a turnover, the entire defense runs to the opposite end zone and puts on a choreographed routine for the cameras.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at January 01, 2026 02:24 PM (P5BPp)

139 Why risk confrontation with Russia or China? All the arms in the world shipped into Assad in Syria did not save his ass when people wanted him gone.

In fact, a lot of those arms ended up with the opposition when the Alawites had enough of fighting and dying.

If the Iranian people truly want the mullahs gone by a large percentage, they will be gone absent foreign on the ground troops keeping them in control.

Concur. However, there are other things we can do short of military intervention that show we support the Iranian people, which we should.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 01, 2026 02:24 PM (Riz8t)

140 A culture that celebrates the prom queen over the math olympiad champ, or the jock over the valedictorian, will not produce the best engineers.
Posted by: Vivek Ramaslamadingdong at January 01, 2026 02:21

Oh yeah I nearly forgot about that little bon mot.

Tough shit. That's the culture in THIS country, Vivek.

If you think that's no good, then haul ass back to India and go enter a spelling bee, ya fuckin' wog.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 01, 2026 02:24 PM (BI5O2)

141 Garrett,

Current rules in Arkansas on snow geese,

"The season begins on February 1st and runs through late April and there are no bans on plugs or electric calls, plus, there are no bag or possession limits. "

Posted by: whig at January 01, 2026 02:25 PM (WDjG6)

142 Oh hell yeah, me and my brothers hunted each other BB guns a lot. My mom hated that, especially inside the house.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice

I'm recommending you for Order of the Redneck, second class, with Bud Light cap clusters.

Posted by: mikeski at January 01, 2026 02:25 PM (nhCoE)

143 Cody Campbell, the billionaire funding Tech, is going to be opening the checkbook for offensive linemen this upcoming offseason.

Posted by: Sasquatch, the Original Trans-Wookie at January 01, 2026 02:25 PM (/mCq0)

144 A culture that celebrates the prom queen over the math olympiad champ, or the jock over the valedictorian, will not produce the best engineers.
Posted by: Vivek Ramaslamadingdong at January 01, 2026 02:21

Oh yeah I nearly forgot about that little bon mot.

Tough shit. That's the culture in THIS country, Vivek.

Disagree. He's making a valid point, and a whole lot of people who wonder why Orientals and Indians in this country are so much more successful than they are would do well to listen.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 01, 2026 02:26 PM (Riz8t)

145 >>Current rules in Arkansas on snow geese,

Yeah. I have buddies who go down there and decimate the Snows. 100-200 geese days. It's nuts.

Posted by: garrett at January 01, 2026 02:26 PM (grNgC)

146
https://tinyurl.com/24z6ubst

Massive fraud over illegals getting driving licenses on KY- and no doubt, in other D states as well

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 01, 2026 02:26 PM (Yl2Ob)

147 Concur. However, there are other things we can do short of military intervention that show we support the Iranian people, which we should.
Posted by: Archimedes
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Verbal support, sanctions, warning Iranian higher ups off from crimes against humanity, and acting to spread internal comms from Iranians and those in exile would be something easy enough to do and support.

Posted by: whig at January 01, 2026 02:27 PM (WDjG6)

148 136 If the Iranian people truly want the mullahs gone by a large percentage, they will be gone absent foreign on the ground troops keeping them in control.
Posted by: whig at January 01, 2026 02:22 PM (WDjG6)

No planes in or out does not equal Foreign troops on the ground...

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at January 01, 2026 02:27 PM (QGaXH)

149 Current rules in Arkansas on snow geese,

"The season begins on February 1st and runs through late April and there are no bans on plugs or electric calls, plus, there are no bag or possession limits. "
Posted by: whig at January 01, 2026 02:25 PM (WDjG6)

Same rules they have for alligators, pythons and penguins...Arkansas is generous like that.

Posted by: Boswell at January 01, 2026 02:27 PM (BGfwC)

150 Big pick by Tech. Gotta make something out of it.

Posted by: Lincolntf at January 01, 2026 02:28 PM (vV6n9)

151 Mike DeWine is just a special kind of stupid.

https://is.gd/esSxd8

Posted by: Archimedes at January 01, 2026 02:28 PM (Riz8t)

152 A culture that celebrates the prom queen over the math olympiad champ, or the jock over the valedictorian, will not produce the best engineers.
Posted by: Vivek Ramaslamadingdong at January 01, 2026 02:21

What about cultures that shit in the streets and molest women on public transit?

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at January 01, 2026 02:28 PM (Idisy)

153 A culture that celebrates the prom queen over the math olympiad champ, or the jock over the valedictorian, will not produce the best engineers.
Posted by: Vivek Ramaslamadingdong

Oh yeah I nearly forgot about that little bon mot.

Tough shit. That's the culture in THIS country, Vivek.

If you think that's no good, then haul ass back to India and go enter a spelling bee, ya fuckin' wog.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice

As I are one myself, I know the engineers don't give a crap about your accolades, Vivie. Just let us solve our problems in peace. Give the brass-plated pewter trophies to the pretty extroverts who can run fast and throw things.

Posted by: mikeski at January 01, 2026 02:29 PM (nhCoE)

154 He's making a valid point, and a whole lot of people who wonder why Orientals and Indians in this country are so much more successful than they are would do well to listen.

Yes and no. The culture he denigrates produced the inventors of basically everything the Asians are now iterating on. It’s OK to have high school football *and* top mathematicians. We’re America, dammit.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 01, 2026 02:29 PM (QZThv)

155 >>How is investigating fraudulent Day Cares in MN a hate crime? Very illogical.

How is "hate" a crime? Emotions are illegal now?
It's a nonsense crime used to harass people who haven't committed a crime, or to make a normal crime appear much worse.

Posted by: Lizzy at January 01, 2026 02:29 PM (NuV6c)

156 Yeah. I have buddies who go down there and decimate the Snows. 100-200 geese days. It's nuts.
Posted by: garrett

It isn't exactly hunting involved, just killing due to the sheer size of the flocks in the fields.

Had an acquaintance who worked at a large cattle ranch owned by his relative. Came a time that the deer herd got so large that they got a permit from the state to reduce the numbers. The acquaintance killed so many deer doing that he lost the taste for hunting them permanently afaik.

Posted by: whig at January 01, 2026 02:29 PM (WDjG6)

157 We be gots a New Yeer Emale from Presdent Obama and if anybody wants a copy let's meet know.

Posted by: Mary Cloggistein from Brattleboro, Vt at January 01, 2026 02:29 PM (wXPKd)

158 What about cultures that shit in the streets and molest women on public transit?

Vivek doesn't live there, he lives here, and he's trying to make it better. I can't understand why this is a bad thing.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 01, 2026 02:29 PM (Riz8t)

159 Has anyone shot their eye out with the Daisy Red Ryder Crossbow they got for Christmas yet?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 01, 2026 02:30 PM (ESVrU)

160 Goose. Not great eating.

Posted by: tubal at January 01, 2026 02:30 PM (pDt9x)

161 If the army sides with the protesters in Iran against the Mullahs and the secret police it's game over for the mullahs. The secret police are vicious and hated and would be drawn and quartered in the streets

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 01, 2026 02:30 PM (zNwXb)

162 A culture that celebrates the prom queen over the math olympiad champ, or the jock over the valedictorian, will not produce the best engineers.

Anyone ask him about the culture where you can literally buy a PhD in a shop like it was any other commodity?

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at January 01, 2026 02:31 PM (lUFok)

163 Posted by: Archimedes at January 01, 2026 02:28 PM (Riz8t)

I agree with the guy who posted the tweet. I also like his nic- "passably affable".

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 01, 2026 02:31 PM (Yl2Ob)

164 151 Mike DeWine is just a special kind of stupid.

https://is.gd/esSxd8
Posted by: Archimedes
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GOPe for decades was organized as a coalition of grifters and DeWine is a perfect example. He kept on like a Democrat even when he lost his Senate seat, he went home to grift some more.

Posted by: whig at January 01, 2026 02:31 PM (WDjG6)

165 >>A culture that celebrates the prom queen over the math olympiad champ, or the jock over the valedictorian, will not produce the best engineers.
Posted by: Vivek Ramaslamadingdong

And a culture that allows rampant scamming, littering, and pooping in the streets will become so uninhabitable that they will flee to a functional one.
[insert 'let me tell you what it means to be American' meme here]

Posted by: Lizzy at January 01, 2026 02:32 PM (NuV6c)

166 158 What about cultures that shit in the streets and molest women on public transit?

Vivek doesn't live there, he lives here, and he's trying to make it better. I can't understand why this is a bad thing.
Posted by: Archimedes at January 01, 2026 02:29 PM (Riz8

Let me know when India makes it to the moon.

Because the American culture he is denigrating -- jocks and prom queens -- was in full swing last time we were there.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at January 01, 2026 02:32 PM (Idisy)

167 Disagree. He's making a valid point, and a whole lot of people who wonder why Orientals and Indians in this country are so much more successful than they are would do well to listen.
Posted by: Archimedes at January 01, 2026 02:26 PM (Riz8t)

He is not.

We are plagued by many problems that have led us to this impasse.

But while America has never placed a lot of cultural value on nerds, it still managed to produce the best engineers in world history, for a couple straight centuries.

He's just a smarmy little bitch who wishes he was cool, and he never will be.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 01, 2026 02:32 PM (BI5O2)

168 160 Goose. Not great eating.
Posted by: tubal
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Funny thing, turkey is now displacing geese as the traditional holiday dinner bird in the UK. The Brits collectively finally came to the same conclusion as you have.

Posted by: whig at January 01, 2026 02:32 PM (WDjG6)

169 A friend of mine traded another kid for a crossbow when we were about 13 or 14. It didn't come with any crossbow bolts, but we did find some long (12" or so) bolt bolts (the normal threaded kind) in the junk.

They fit, and who gave a shit if they were slightly bent? Bolts is bolts, right?

Yeah, we really wanted to shoot this thing.

First shot, the bent bolt goes flying off in a completely random direction and goes right through the wall of his mobile home like it wasn't even there. Outer sheet metal, inner simulated wood paneling? Crossbow doesn't give a fuck.

We were suitably impressed by the power of the bow, but concerned about the inevitable, and memorable, ass kicking that was sure to arrive courtesy of my friend's father (this was before Modern Parenting forbade ass kickings, even if the kid does something monumentally stupid like shooting a hole in the trailer house).

Fortunately, the outer hole was in a patch of overgrowth at the corner where the homemade carport attached to the trailer, and the inner hole was in the back of my friend's bedroom closet.

As far as I know, the old man never noticed that the trailer had one more hole than it came from the factory with.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 01, 2026 02:32 PM (IG3/x)

170 Yes and no. The culture he denigrates produced the inventors of basically everything the Asians are now iterating on. It’s OK to have high school football *and* top mathematicians. We’re America, dammit.

1) It's not denigration to point out the flaws, which are very real. The culture that produced those things is not, in many cases, the culture of today. The Asians are iterating, but in many cases, they're threatening to take the lead. Besides, there are a whole lot of them, and they're smart and hardworking. Just because we led 50 years ago, doesn't mean we always will.

2) It IS okay to have both. He was saying that if you focus on trivial pursuits to the exclusion of the important stuff, that's not okay.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 01, 2026 02:32 PM (Riz8t)

171 Vivek doesn't live there, he lives here, and he's trying to make it better. I can't understand why this is a bad thing.
Posted by: Archimedes at January 01, 2026 02:29 PM (Riz8t)

"Brown people and girls ruin everything"

Posted by: Kindltot at January 01, 2026 02:33 PM (rbvCR)

172 Posted by: tubal at January 01, 2026 02:30 PM (pDt9x

Why? Too fatty?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 01, 2026 02:33 PM (Yl2Ob)

173 January 1st is always tough. Mom passed away on New Years Day 1996. Heart attack at home. Dad passed 7 1/2 years later. Miss you both.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at January 01, 2026 02:34 PM (5xuJ/)

174 >>Vivek doesn't live there, he lives here, and he's trying to make it better. I can't understand why this is a bad thing.

Because his idea of "better" is infinity H1B visas --> citizenship for Indians?

Posted by: Lizzy at January 01, 2026 02:34 PM (NuV6c)

175 Jack Fowler@jackfowler5h

I've received a flood of heartfelt inquiries about @VDHanson, and respond on my own accord, being clear that I'm not relaying official news about Victor, as I've not been deputized to say anything or to offer an update. However, I will say that what Victor endured this past Tuesday was indeed quite major surgery, and with that comes serious post-op procedures, tests, etc. That is ongoing.

Whether or not the surgery has proven successful (which is the objective of the avalanche of prayers that have already come Victor's way -- of which he is very aware and deeply moved) is still to be determined, and such news Victor will share at his discretion. That said, if you are amenable to continued prayers for Victor as he recovers, then please do offer them.
God bless and Happy New Year
Jan 1, 2026 · 2:16 PM UTC

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 01, 2026 02:35 PM (UZwsW)

176 And a culture that allows rampant scamming, littering, and pooping in the streets will become so uninhabitable that they will flee to a functional one.
[insert 'let me tell you what it means to be American' meme here]

Again, he's not defending India, he's talking about what WE need to do to stay on top. In many cases, we aren't doing it.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 01, 2026 02:35 PM (Riz8t)

177 172 Posted by: tubal at January 01, 2026 02:30 PM (pDt9x

Why? Too fatty?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 01, 2026 02:33 PM (Yl2Ob)

Greasy, gamey taste, renders too easily, leaving tough meat.

Posted by: tubal at January 01, 2026 02:36 PM (pDt9x)

178 And there will never, ever be a time when I will accept cultural criticism from foreign swine. We can settle our own business without their input, TYVM.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 01, 2026 02:36 PM (BI5O2)

179 I cannot imagine a smarmy WHITE politician. Migawd, the thought just revolts me.

Posted by: Kindltot at January 01, 2026 02:36 PM (rbvCR)

180 Disagree. He's making a valid point, and a whole lot of people who wonder why Orientals and Indians in this country are so much more successful than they are would do well to listen.
Posted by: Archimedes

It's because the ones here are already the top 1% of their 1%.
Their "culture" is why their home countries are complete shitholes (more true of India than any random asian country).
Their rare genius get the ef out but are still lacking an aptitude to recognize why home is a dump.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at January 01, 2026 02:36 PM (/lPRQ)

181 You partially cook wild geese by pressure cooking, then roast to finish.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at January 01, 2026 02:36 PM (+mUZM)

182 >>Goose. Not great eating.

Jerky is about the only way I can tolerate goose, anymore.

Posted by: garrett at January 01, 2026 02:37 PM (grNgC)

183 Because his idea of "better" is infinity H1B visas --> citizenship for Indians?

I agree that he missed the mark there. However, I live in NoVa, a very "diverse" area. When my kids were in HS, most of the top performers were asians of some flavor. They took their studies seriously. Too many native-born kids don't.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 01, 2026 02:37 PM (Riz8t)

184 He was very clearly saying he thinks Indian culture is superior. He's welcome to it. Anyone who votes for him is a cuck.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 01, 2026 02:37 PM (BI5O2)

185 >>Why? Too fatty?

No fat at all is the problem. They don't develop interstitial fat. Just caul fat.

Posted by: garrett at January 01, 2026 02:38 PM (grNgC)

186 Vivek appears disingenuous. An elite ShamWow guy.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 01, 2026 02:38 PM (UZwsW)

187 And there will never, ever be a time when I will accept cultural criticism from foreign swine. We can settle our own business without their input, TYVM.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 01, 2026 02:36 PM (BI5O2)

He was born in Cincinnati. Chances are the worst thing you can say about him is he eats funny food.

Posted by: Kindltot at January 01, 2026 02:39 PM (rbvCR)

188 It's because the ones here are already the top 1% of their 1%.

There is certainly truth in that, but I rather doubt that the majority of their high performers are over here. That means there are more of them in their home countries than we have.

Sooner or later, they'll get it together in India and China, and when they do, you'd better hope our kids have upped their game.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 01, 2026 02:39 PM (Riz8t)

189 You partially cook wild geese by pressure cooking, then roast to finish.
Posted by: Notsothoreau at January 01, 2026 02:36 PM (+mUZM)

You cook them with bacon, lots and lots of bacon...then throw away the goose, eat the bacon.

Posted by: Boswell at January 01, 2026 02:40 PM (BGfwC)

190 Intramuscular fat / Marbling. Not interstitial. My bad.

Posted by: garrett at January 01, 2026 02:40 PM (grNgC)

191 Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at January 01, 2026 02:34 PM (5xuJ/)
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May their memories be a blessing.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 01, 2026 02:40 PM (RIvkX)

192 178 And there will never, ever be a time when I will accept cultural criticism from foreign swine.

foreign wines > foreign swine

Posted by: anachronda at January 01, 2026 02:41 PM (edU/H)

193 189 You partially cook wild geese by pressure cooking, then roast to finish.
Posted by: Notsothoreau at January 01, 2026 02:36 PM (+mUZM)

You cook them with bacon, lots and lots of bacon...then throw away the goose, eat the bacon.
Posted by: Boswell at January 01, 2026 02:40 PM (BGfwC)

This is wisdom.

Posted by: tubal at January 01, 2026 02:41 PM (pDt9x)

194 > Yes and no. The culture he denigrates produced the inventors of basically everything the Asians are now iterating on.
Posted by: Ian S. at January 01, 2026 02:29 PM (QZThv)

The cheerleaders and football players I can think of peaked their senior year of high school. They never invented anything.

Most of 'em never even amounted to anything in college... being the best football player or prettiest girl at East Bumblefuck High is an entirely different thing from being the best football player or the prettiest girl at Enormous State University.

Some of them did find limited (albeit highly localized) success by working their high school social contacts into a career as a used car salesman or a real estate agent, but they sure as fuck didn't invent packet switching or software recursion.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 01, 2026 02:41 PM (IG3/x)

195 Ugh. Oregon just probably clinched the game with an endzone INT. Next up, Indiana vs. Alabama.

Posted by: Lincolntf at January 01, 2026 02:42 PM (vV6n9)

196 Vivek isn't wrong.

He's just Indian.

Posted by: garrett at January 01, 2026 02:42 PM (grNgC)

197 I had a friend, living hand to mouth, that fed his family on geese and sturgeon. That's how they cooked them. They didn't have food to waste.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at January 01, 2026 02:42 PM (+mUZM)

198 And there will never, ever be a time when I will accept cultural criticism from foreign swine. We can settle our own business without their input, TYVM.

I didn't realize we have nothing of value to learn from anyone else.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 01, 2026 02:43 PM (Riz8t)

199 I've goosed many a young chick and always enjoyed it!

Posted by: President Emeritus! at January 01, 2026 02:43 PM (oftw2)

200 >>Again, he's not defending India, he's talking about what WE need to do to stay on top. In many cases, we aren't doing it.

He made that comment last Christmas during the H1B discussion, defending the hiring of Indians. As has been pointed out since then, Americans that DO work hard, who DO pursue STEM degrees and want very much to achieve great things are being systematically shut out via foreigners getting preferential admissions at elite universities, getting preferential hiring at graduation thanks to OPT, and those who have gotten good jobs are laid off when an Indian executive is hired (see many postings from https://x.com/realmattforney and others), such as Fedx, Walmart, etc...

We are long past calling this an 'Americans are slackers' issue.

Posted by: Lizzy at January 01, 2026 02:44 PM (NuV6c)

201 >>I had a friend, living hand to mouth, that fed his family on geese and sturgeon. That's how they cooked them.

If you cook them in fat, geese and ducks are ok.

I spent 2-3 years living on ducks and geese when I ate through the deer I was allowed to take.

It's not a fun way to live.

Posted by: garrett at January 01, 2026 02:44 PM (grNgC)

202 Vivek isn't wrong.

He's just Indian.
Posted by: garrett at January 01, 2026 02:42 PM (grNgC)

He should have been born in Kiev and raised in Milwaukie. That would have made him OK.

Posted by: Kindltot at January 01, 2026 02:44 PM (rbvCR)

203 130 Like playing BB Tag. 3 Pumps Max!

Yeah...that was more of an aspirational guideline than a hard Rule.
Posted by: garrett at January 01, 2026 02:19 PM (grNgC)

------------------------
I saw 3 Pumps Max! open for Wham! at the Blue Oyster Bar .

Posted by: not an oligarch at January 01, 2026 02:45 PM (5LiC7)

204 He was born in Cincinnati. Chances are the worst thing you can say about him is he eats funny food.

Posted by: Kindltot at January 01, 2026 02:39 PM (rbvCR)

Well, that, and being an undiplomatic jerk. But mostly being an undiplomatic jerk.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 01, 2026 02:45 PM (8zz6B)

205 I heard Willie Fritz, coach for UH, comment on the current NIL/NCAA crap and the way players are able to sell out to the highest bidder and all that goes with it.

"I don't mind it. Now I can have the second or third best guy come in and play next week instead of waiting a year!".

Posted by: DanMan at January 01, 2026 02:45 PM (8uzBS)

206 Sooner or later, they'll get it together in India and China, and when they do, you'd better hope our kids have upped their game.
Posted by: Archimedes

China's best days are past them in the near future as they are aging as rapidly as the Japanese due to their lack of births.

India has the births so far and has probably exceeded China's population by now. However, it lacks cohesion as a nation due to the sheer multitude of ethnicities, religions, etc. and the instability from living next to Pakistan, Bangladesh, and China.

On top of that, you have the caste system and Hinduism for the top Brahmin caste that means disdain and dislike for any of the other castes.

So you get a hodge podge of pockets of wealth along with pockets of extreme poverty. We shall see if India, unlike China, can beat the middle income trap for nations.

Posted by: whig at January 01, 2026 02:45 PM (WDjG6)

207 Sooner or later, they'll get it together in India and China, and when they do, you'd better hope our kids have upped their game.
Posted by: Archimedes

It's cultural, so that's at least 2 generations off, if they get going on it right now. And I don't see any big charismatic leaders in either place.

And in China, it's political..... commies don't like Idea People getting Ideas.

Posted by: mikeski at January 01, 2026 02:45 PM (nhCoE)

208 Big percentage of Jamestown protein came from sturgeon the first few years. They were plentiful, easy to spear, net. Of course, they overfished and sturgeon take a long time to mature and breed. Oops!

Posted by: Gadabout Gaddis at January 01, 2026 02:45 PM (oftw2)

209 Trying to understand who Ramaswamy is pandering to, with his seemingly inept commenting.

Posted by: tubal at January 01, 2026 02:46 PM (pDt9x)

210 I recall a time back in my misspent youth when I lived for a while on nothing but potatoes and clams (dug for free by yours truly). I did have a limited selection of things like salt, pepper, garlic powder, etc. so I was able to vary the flavor a bit.

I wouldn't eat either for a long time after that.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 01, 2026 02:46 PM (IG3/x)

211 Well, that, and being an undiplomatic jerk. But mostly being an undiplomatic jerk.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 01, 2026 02:45 PM (8zz6B)

Well, he could post here then, and no one could tell the difference.

Posted by: Kindltot at January 01, 2026 02:46 PM (rbvCR)

212 Back to work for me, today. Jobs a job. Bought a book in December. A devotional. Called 'Wonderful Things about Your Law'. Doesn't sound like much from the title. Here's the synopsis:

tinyurl.com/ysyzsc44

Goes to Grace Books.

The only thing I got going on this year, for now, is what happens to the contract I'm working in Aug. It should change Beltway Bandits then. (shrugs)

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at January 01, 2026 02:47 PM (sAmhv)

213 And don't forget the context.

This guy made his snide little jab because he was demanding moe H1Bs.

He isn't trying to help anything but HIS business and HIS tribe.

Well, I don't work for his business, and I'm not in his filthy tribe. His interests are not mine, or my family's, or my country's.

This little fucker shouldn't get within a mile of public office, unless it's in Bangalore.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 01, 2026 02:47 PM (BI5O2)

214 I didn't realize we have nothing of value to learn from anyone else.
Posted by: Archimedes at January 01, 2026 02:43 PM (Riz8t)

Lear...its nothing of value to lear...come on, if the MN Somalis can do it, so can we.

Posted by: Boswell at January 01, 2026 02:48 PM (BGfwC)

215 Oregon is slowly getting the edge in this game.
Sigh...

Posted by: Diogenes at January 01, 2026 02:48 PM (2WIwB)

216 Trying to understand who Ramaswamy is pandering to, with his seemingly inept commenting.
Posted by: tubal at January 01, 2026 02:46 PM (pDt9x)

Tech bros who need large numbers of programmers, hopefully already trained, to do the scutwork for bringing out new stuff.
The tech bros who bankrolled him, and backed JD Vance and supported Trump.
They have wallets too. This is the problem of a coalition, it makes a lot of tension.

Posted by: Kindltot at January 01, 2026 02:49 PM (rbvCR)

217 Trebuchet nirvana:

https://tinyurl.com/45e2n9m3

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 01, 2026 02:49 PM (u/afo)

218 He made that comment last Christmas during the H1B discussion, defending the hiring of Indians. As has been pointed out since then, Americans that DO work hard, who DO pursue STEM degrees and want very much to achieve great things are being systematically shut out via foreigners getting preferential admissions at elite universities, getting preferential hiring at graduation thanks to OPT, and those who have gotten good jobs are laid off when an Indian executive is hired (see many postings from https://x.com/realmattforney and others), such as Fedx, Walmart, etc...

That's an argument for getting rid of the DEI rot and all the abuses of HiBs. As I've already said, I don't agree with Vivek on that point. However, it doesn't mean that our kids shouldn't work harder. That's a very different proposition.

We are long past calling this an 'Americans are slackers' issue.

Not all are, but plenty are, and if you want to avoid the need for bringing in boatloads of H1Bs, they're going to have to show they're better. We won't stay on top with mediocre S&T.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 01, 2026 02:49 PM (Riz8t)

219 He was born in Cincinnati. Chances are the worst thing you can say about him is he eats funny food.

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Doesn't matter he was born. He was expressing a preference for his mother culture and denigrating ours. Just because he slid down his mother's leg on our soil doesn't mean much.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 01, 2026 02:49 PM (BI5O2)

220 211 Well, that, and being an undiplomatic jerk. But mostly being an undiplomatic jerk.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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Tenure at DOGE, exemplary.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 01, 2026 02:50 PM (UZwsW)

221 >>Doesn't matter he was born. He was expressing a preference for his mother culture and denigrating ours. Just because he slid down his mother's leg on our soil doesn't mean much.

Except that isn't his Mother Culture's Values.

Those are the Values of the people who colonized India. Indians didn't value education prior to colonization.

Posted by: garrett at January 01, 2026 02:51 PM (grNgC)

222 Trebuchet nirvana:

https://tinyurl.com/45e2n9m3
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 01, 2026 02:49 PM (u/afo)

Is that a Honda Fit? Please tell me they are pitching a Fit.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 01, 2026 02:51 PM (8zz6B)

223 Well, that, and being an undiplomatic jerk. But mostly being an undiplomatic jerk.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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Tenure at DOGE, exemplary.

Trump is often rightfully accused of being an undiplomatic jerk. Should we get rid of his as well? Sometimes that's what's needed.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 01, 2026 02:51 PM (Riz8t)

224 Strings bands just began parading in Philly's Mummers Parade. Due to wind, they're leaving their sets behind this year, marching only in costume with their instruments.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at January 01, 2026 02:52 PM (NFX2v)

225 My Dad as a yute, was in the hospital in Norway after badly breaking his shoulder pole-vaulting, 1947. During occupation 1940-45, there were no foreign fruit brought in. He was in the hospital over a month and everyone who came to visit him brought bananas, as he was fond of them. He ate so many, he never ate another. Never saw him eat one in all the years I knew him.

Posted by: Bananas PSA at January 01, 2026 02:52 PM (oftw2)

226 116- the problem is our side waits until the damage is done before they act.

Dillon should say something stronger than "having some 'splaining to do." No cuteness, put some damn teeth in it.

Like reminding them a state AG can face federal consequences if their actions in violation of their oath also constitute a federal crime or a breach of the U.S. Constitution or federal law, which the DOJ will investigate and prosecute. Immediately.

Posted by: vivi at January 01, 2026 02:53 PM (jC0jb)

227 New one: New York, 1746

Posted by: Archimedes at January 01, 2026 02:53 PM (Riz8t)

228 I still have a BB in my ass from 50 years ago.
BB gun wars were all the rage amongst us youngsters.
10 pumps from a Daisy hurt like hell at 10 ft.

Posted by: Elrond Hubbard at January 01, 2026 02:54 PM (WQDw6)

229 Well, that, and being an undiplomatic jerk. But mostly being an undiplomatic jerk.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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You left out grifter. Vivek became rich by running a pump and dump company Axovant and selling at its height-company lasted for eight years pushing a failed Alzheimer's drug. Owns shares in another, Roivant, which has never made a profit yet Wall Street is still propping up.

That is how he made his money. Not by creating anything but from fooling stupid investors.

Posted by: whig at January 01, 2026 02:54 PM (WDjG6)

230 There is little reason for H1Bs.
Shouldn't be used for getting people arguably better than the natives but willing to work for much less.

Should be reserved for scalping other nations real genius. And Filipina nurses.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at January 01, 2026 02:54 PM (/lPRQ)

231 222 Trebuchet nirvana:

https://tinyurl.com/45e2n9m3
Posted by: Bid
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If that was a Toyota Land Cruiser they'd go start it up.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 01, 2026 02:55 PM (UZwsW)

232 229 Well, that, and being an undiplomatic jerk. But mostly being an undiplomatic jerk.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
=====
You left out grifter. Vivek became rich by running a pump and dump company Axovant and selling at its height-company lasted for eight years pushing a failed Alzheimer's drug. Owns shares in another, Roivant, which has never made a profit yet Wall Street is still propping up.

That is how he made his money. Not by creating anything but from fooling stupid investors.
Posted by: whig at January 01, 2026 02:54 PM (WDjG6)

It's a legal con man job. It's better than an illegal one.

Posted by: Nova Local at January 01, 2026 02:55 PM (tOcjL)

233 @228 I still have a tiny bump on my head where I got shot with a BB gun on 1973.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 01, 2026 02:55 PM (zNwXb)

234 kill a Toyota

youtube.com/watch?v=xnWKz7Cthkk

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 01, 2026 02:56 PM (UZwsW)

235 Trump is often rightfully accused of being an undiplomatic jerk. Should we get rid of his as well? Sometimes that's what's needed.
Posted by: Archimedes at January 01, 2026 02:51 PM (Riz8t)

Trump never comes off as being condescending. Ramaswami comes off as being condescending.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 01, 2026 02:56 PM (8zz6B)

236 >>That's an argument for getting rid of the DEI rot and all the abuses of HiBs. As I've already said, I don't agree with Vivek on that point. However, it doesn't mean that our kids shouldn't work harder. That's a very different proposition.

Embrace the power of 'and' then.
American education has slipped thanks to being run by Lefty activists.
-- and --
American students and workers have been shortchanged by institutions who prefer foreigners over citizens to make more money.

However, you are saying Vivek's comment in the midst of an H1B discussion should not be considered in the context of an H1b discussion. That is a distinction you are making - Vivek did not. He is the one who chose that moment to put down Americans.

Posted by: Lizzy at January 01, 2026 02:56 PM (NuV6c)

237 This little fucker shouldn't get within a mile of public office, unless it's in Bangalore.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 01, 2026 02:47 PM (BI5O2)

Doesn't matter he was born. He was expressing a preference for his mother culture and denigrating ours. Just because he slid down his mother's leg on our soil doesn't mean much.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 01, 2026 02:49 PM (BI5O2)

You drinking again Mr. Bunker? You ain't gonna start on again about the Jews and the Russians, are ya? I'm gonna have to call you a cab if you do.

Posted by: Kindltot at January 01, 2026 02:56 PM (rbvCR)

238 230 There is little reason for H1Bs.
Shouldn't be used for getting people arguably better than the natives but willing to work for much less.

Should be reserved for scalping other nations real genius. And Filipina nurses.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at January 01, 2026 02:54 PM (/lPRQ)

So, 100 a year. The single best and brightest person from each of the top 100 countries in the world. Give an award.

Posted by: Nova Local at January 01, 2026 02:56 PM (tOcjL)

239 >>That is how he made his money. Not by creating anything but from fooling stupid investors.

I will gladly sacrifice Vivek on the same altar that we sacrifice all such individuals.

But, that's gonna be one bloody fucking altar.

Posted by: garrett at January 01, 2026 02:57 PM (grNgC)

240 203 130 Like playing BB Tag. 3 Pumps Max!

Yeah...that was more of an aspirational guideline than a hard Rule.
Posted by: garrett at January 01, 2026 02:19 PM (grNgC)

My cousin just got his BB behind the eye removed. 42 years after it happened. I was messing with the nerves and he was going blind in that eye. He has it in a small jar. It looks like a rock.

The trouble we got in the day that happened... All known to the parents BB guns went bye bye. As in Dad smashed them in front of us. The cops were called to notify us we were on their radar and shooting BB guns at each other was a crime.

Posted by: Reforger at January 01, 2026 02:58 PM (gKsV+)

241 239 >>That is how he made his money. Not by creating anything but from fooling stupid investors.

I will gladly sacrifice Vivek on the same altar that we sacrifice all such individuals.

But, that's gonna be one bloody fucking altar.
Posted by: garrett at January 01, 2026 02:57 PM (grNgC)

Nah, happy to have him vote for our candidates...not gonna have him AS one of our candidates...

Posted by: Nova Local at January 01, 2026 02:58 PM (tOcjL)

242 Those are the Values of the people who colonized India. Indians didn't value education prior to colonization.
Posted by: garrett at January 01, 2026 02:51 PM (grNgC)

You really shouldn't make up facts in a debate.

Posted by: Kindltot at January 01, 2026 02:59 PM (rbvCR)

243 Speaking of immigrants, Musk's Starlink just announced that they're scrapping 4,400 satellites this year, just because they think it will slightly improve safety (these are one in lower orbits, subject faster orbital decay).

Launching satellites has gone from a technological tour de force that requires the resources of an advanced nation to something that's as routine as loading boxes on a semi trailer.

Musk launched over 3,000 of 'em in 2025. Nearly 60 per week.

On the other hand, he didn't play football in high school.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 01, 2026 02:59 PM (IG3/x)

244
Trump is often rightfully accused of being an undiplomatic jerk. Should we get rid of his as well? Sometimes that's what's needed.
Posted by: Archimedes
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Trump/DOGE & Co are a room full of undiplomatic high achievers who managed to work together.
How long did Vivek last? A week?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 01, 2026 03:00 PM (UZwsW)

245 H1-Bs are treated like slaves. They have less rights than the H1-As which are the similar program for Ag.

Posted by: Kindltot at January 01, 2026 03:00 PM (rbvCR)

246 However, you are saying Vivek's comment in the midst of an H1B discussion should not be considered in the context of an H1b discussion. That is a distinction you are making - Vivek did not. He is the one who chose that moment to put down Americans.

hat I said was that American students are falling behind, which in many cases they are. It isn't putting down American students if it's true; it's calling attention to the bleeding obvious - and the need for reform. That doesn't change whether we do or don't accept H1Bs.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 01, 2026 03:01 PM (Riz8t)

247
You really shouldn't make up facts in a debate.
Posted by: Kindltot
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India wasn't even a country before the Brits.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 01, 2026 03:02 PM (UZwsW)

248 I will gladly sacrifice Vivek on the same altar that we sacrifice all such individuals.

But, that's gonna be one bloody fucking altar.
Posted by: garrett
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I personally do not care if Vivek becomes governor in Ohio. That is for Ohio residents to decide. He cannot be less scummy than the traditional GOPe governors there like DeWino and Taft.

But proclaiming he is some sort of wunderkind that we should pay attention to as a great thinker about American society and culture is something else.

I have little patience for lectures from a scummy financier about the lack of virtue in the US about the same as I dislike television evangelists pushing prosperity gospel.

Posted by: whig at January 01, 2026 03:03 PM (WDjG6)

249 > (these are one in lower orbits, subject faster orbital decay).

I got that wrong. They're lowering them from higher orbits, *because* the lower orbits will decay faster. That means that defunct satellites won't hang around for years causing future problems. The old orbit takes four years to decay, the new one only a few months.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 01, 2026 03:04 PM (IG3/x)

250 >>But proclaiming he is some sort of wunderkind that we should pay attention to as a great thinker about American society and culture is something else.

You won't find that in my comments.

Posted by: garrett at January 01, 2026 03:05 PM (grNgC)

251
You partially cook wild geese by pressure cooking, then roast to finish.
Posted by: Notsothoreau

You cook them with bacon, lots and lots of bacon...then throw away the goose, eat the bacon.
Posted by: Boswell

Goose will fowl the bacon.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 01, 2026 03:05 PM (pkeXY)

252 >>H1-Bs are treated like slaves. They have less rights than the H1-As which are the similar program for Ag.

And has been uncovered this past year, it has become a huge kickback scam, where H1bs are required to give back part of their salary to the hiring manager.

That Walmart IT executive was recently prosecuted for doing this: after he was hired, he replaced ALL of the US employees with Indians, each one giving him $$, so that he was getting $30k in kickback daily.

This doesn't even get into the role of the IT hiring businesses, such as IT Serve, who are facilitating this and getting their kickbacks.

It Is A Huge Scam.
This is not India's "best and brightest" beating out US candidates by merit.

Call me when Vivek wants to discuss that!

Posted by: Lizzy at January 01, 2026 03:05 PM (NuV6c)

253 That is how he made his money. Not by creating anything but from fooling stupid investors.
Posted by: whig at January 01, 2026 02:54 PM (WDjG6)

He is also a lawyer, and I suspect he was the one who came up with the novel solution of "just follow the law" and was the one to popularize "using federal law to clean things up" instead of trying to get new legislation passed
That is why he was on DOGE.

As far as I can tell his Alzheimer treatment is not doing well is because none of the therapies from then are doing well. None of them work since they appear to be treating the wrong symptom

Posted by: Kindltot at January 01, 2026 03:06 PM (rbvCR)

254 American students are not falling behind because of football or any sports. American students are falling behind because of communist infusion in the education system and DEI.

Some people excel in intellect, some in sports; there's a place for both.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 01, 2026 03:06 PM (UZwsW)

255 The incoming UN Security Council president is Somalia’s UN ambassador—and also the president & CEO of a home health care company in Ohio.

Posted by: Don Black. Message: at January 01, 2026 03:06 PM (ZxPkt)

256 But proclaiming he is some sort of wunderkind that we should pay attention to as a great thinker about American society and culture is something else.

You won't find that in my comments.

Nor mine. It doesn't take a great mind to see the simple truth.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 01, 2026 03:08 PM (Riz8t)

257 Online gambling will ruin CFB just like it did the pros. By making the bets on performance of individual athletes, etc. rather than win-lose, it makes it much easier for gamblers to get to individual players.
Posted by: whig at January 01, 2026 02:13 PM (WDjG6)
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I've read where the gambling sites are being asked by the leagues as well as some states to back off the props bets for just the reason you noted.

Posted by: Black JEM at January 01, 2026 03:09 PM (UVyKP)

258 He made that comment last Christmas during the H1B discussion, defending the hiring of Indians. As has been pointed out since then, Americans that DO work hard, who DO pursue STEM degrees and want very much to achieve great things are being systematically shut out via foreigners getting preferential admissions at elite universities, getting preferential hiring at graduation thanks to OPT, and those who have gotten good jobs are laid off when an Indian executive is hired, such as Fedx, Walmart, etc...

We are long past calling this an 'Americans are slackers' issue.

Posted by: Lizzy at January 01, 2026 02:44 PM

Absolutely this.

I can vouch that this is happening at Stellantis and is likely happening at every other American automotive company and supplier as well.

And no, the vast majority of these Indians being hired in engineering positions are not good at all. They seem to have the equivalent of a high school education. These are remote-working Indians given salaries 1/4 to 1/3 what American engineers would be getting. Entire engineering departments outsourced to India, depriving hundreds of American engineers of jobs.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at January 01, 2026 03:10 PM (P5BPp)

259 It isn't putting down American students if it's true; it's calling attention to the bleeding obvious - and the need for reform. That doesn't change whether we do or don't accept H1Bs.
Posted by: Archimedes
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His diagnosis is basically stupid. The reason why Americans by and large are not going into STEM is because Americans that spend the time and effort to get real credentials from a university and incur debt to do so are shunted to the side by Megacorps and Indian hiring manager favoritism by H1b and foreign hires or the jobs are outsourced wholesale to foreign nations like China or India (who promptly steal the IP and then compete).

The American responses of top students are rational. Go to law, sales, etc. or licensed trades instead of STEM in order to make a living.

You want more and better students in the US to go into Stem, medicine, etc. then you have to snip most if not all H1B and other hires and ruthlessly go after DIEversity crap which is the justification for managers to hire foreigners on work visas and greencards at a lower wage.

Same issue with pursuing advanced degrees in STEM, Universities prefer coolie labor.

Posted by: whig at January 01, 2026 03:10 PM (WDjG6)

260 And no, the vast majority of these Indians being hired in engineering positions are not good at all. They seem to have the equivalent of a high school education. These are remote-working Indians given salaries 1/4 to 1/3 what American engineers would be getting. Entire engineering departments outsourced to India, depriving hundreds of American engineers of jobs.

My nephew is a computer engineering student at Ga Tech. I've seen pictures of the roughly 100 or more students in the program. AFAICT, he's the only white boy. He'll tell you that the Indian kids, some of whom were his roomies, are absolute maniacs for hard work. But I guess we should s*** all over them. It won't hurt our tech base at all. Right?

Posted by: Archimedes at January 01, 2026 03:12 PM (Riz8t)

261 >>What I said was that American students are falling behind, which in many cases they are. It isn't putting down American students if it's true

He criticized American culture, saying our interest in football stars over mathletes is why we are losing jobs. It was not specifically criticizing education; it was putting down our culture. This also mirrors how the Left puts down traditional American culture -- notice he didn't say we were falling behind because of, say, Womens and Gender studies, or an obsession with protests and climate change over STEM, etc.. People picked up on that, even if you didn't.

Posted by: Lizzy at January 01, 2026 03:13 PM (NuV6c)

262 As far as I can tell his Alzheimer treatment is not doing well is because none of the therapies from then are doing well. None of them work since they appear to be treating the wrong symptom
Posted by: Kindltot
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His company had eight employees and 3 of them were family members or himself. Classic pump and dump where you buy a product, hype it, sell plenty of stock at its peak valuation (3 billion) and then let it fail. 8 years it lasted leaving nothing but Vivek and family wealthy.

No different than the classic gold mine or oilfield scam.

Posted by: whig at January 01, 2026 03:14 PM (WDjG6)

263 You want more and better students in the US to go into Stem, medicine, etc. then you have to snip most if not all H1B and other hires and ruthlessly go after DIEversity crap which is the justification for managers to hire foreigners on work visas and greencards at a lower wage.

Same issue with pursuing advanced degrees in STEM, Universities prefer coolie labor.

Reform DEI and H1Bs, AND improve our educational system and work ethic. We can do both.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 01, 2026 03:14 PM (Riz8t)

264 God made marxist so we would go righteously into outer space.

Posted by: thug dolphin at January 01, 2026 03:14 PM (EyfuW)

265 Americans by technicality, and Americans by affinity and affection. There may be a difference.

Posted by: tubal at January 01, 2026 03:14 PM (pDt9x)

266 The main conflicts I've had to manage have been Ethiopian vs Eritrean vs Filipino. No H1Bs in that mix.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 01, 2026 03:15 PM (RIvkX)

267 China's best days are past them in the near future as they are aging as rapidly as the Japanese due to their lack of births.

India has the births so far and has probably exceeded China's population by now. However, it lacks cohesion as a nation due to the sheer multitude of ethnicities, religions, etc. and the instability from living next to Pakistan, Bangladesh, and China.

On top of that, you have the caste system and Hinduism for the top Brahmin caste that means disdain and dislike for any of the other castes.

So you get a hodge podge of pockets of wealth along with pockets of extreme poverty. We shall see if India, unlike China, can beat the middle income trap for nations.
Posted by: whig at January 01, 2026 02:45 PM (WDjG6)
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Yes, India clearly has more people than China - and China is fading fast. But India is aging quite rapidly themselves. The same toll waits for them. Both China and India do not have the civic infrastructure for long term success, and their best and brightest frequently do not possess their appreciation for individual and property rights that made the US what it is. The future is here. How good it will be compared to the rest of the world is TBD.

Posted by: Black JEM at January 01, 2026 03:15 PM (UVyKP)

268 He criticized American culture, saying our interest in football stars over mathletes is why we are losing jobs. It was not specifically criticizing education; it was putting down our culture.

And what if that's true? What if we overemphasize trivial things over the important ones?

This also mirrors how the Left puts down traditional American culture -- notice he didn't say we were falling behind because of, say, Womens and Gender studies, or an obsession with protests and climate change over STEM, etc.. People picked up on that, even if you didn't.

Oh, okay. I guess I'm just not smart enough to grasp your point. For the last time, we need to reform the DEI nonsense. I've said it twice already, but I guess you didn't pick up on it.
*rolls eyes*

Posted by: Archimedes at January 01, 2026 03:17 PM (Riz8t)

269 That's an argument for getting rid of the DEI rot and all the abuses of HiBs. As I've already said, I don't agree with Vivek on that point. However, it doesn't mean that our kids shouldn't work harder. That's a very different proposition.

Embrace the power of 'and' then.
American education has slipped thanks to being run by Lefty activists.
-- and --
American students and workers have been shortchanged by institutions who prefer foreigners over citizens to make more money.

Posted by: Lizzy at January 01, 2026 02:56 PM

Why should Americans work harder when there is no reward in it? Has anyone stopped to put two and two together with regards to all this fraud and scamming and DEI that has been going on for *decades* now?

D.E.I. and H-1B scamming and India scamming and Muslim scamming and lack of merit-based rewards (for schools, for jobs, etc) has led the last two generations to realize the system is rigged against them.

I worked my ass off to become an expert in my position only to be discarded and replaced by outsourced retards in India. I've lost all faith in the idea that hard work and expertise lead to success. Millions of others have as well.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at January 01, 2026 03:19 PM (P5BPp)

270 He is also a lawyer, and I suspect he was the one who came up with the novel solution of "just follow the law" and was the one to popularize "using federal law to clean things up" instead of trying to get new legislation passed
That is why he was on DOGE.
Posted by: Kindltot
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Soros paid for his law degree when his family was already millionaires. He is simply a symptom of our current rotten globo homo ruling class which is perhaps not his fault.

But I don't have to listen to his pompous lectures on this or that including his defense of another biotech con man, Skreli

If Ohio wants to elect such as governor, it is their business as the ruling GOPe there is traditionally corrupt and incompetent since Rhodes was governor.

And Vivek was forced out of DOGE because he was big on talk, light on action. Musk managed to sideline Vivek because of that.

Posted by: whig at January 01, 2026 03:19 PM (WDjG6)

271 America exists for Americans. I think a strong and successful America is good for the world, but that is a side benefit. If a strong and successful America resulted in impoverishing the rest of the world, I would be fine with that too.

Posted by: toby928(c) at January 01, 2026 03:20 PM (jc0TO)

272 The whole "jock suck" and "prom queens suck" mindset is just bitter whining from nerds and uggos, and I say that as a once-unkissed nerd.

Civilizations, including those we admire, like the Greeks and Romans, have admired athleticism and beauty since forever. That's no fault.

And the idea that America values only those things or overvalues them is more or less a dopey stereotype based on media portrayals of popular culture that in no way represents the reality that most Americans are living.

There's a reason Indians are coming here and the Chinese are stealing our IP, and not the other way around. As fucked as present day America is, it's substantially less fucked than India or China.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at January 01, 2026 03:20 PM (Idisy)

273 I worked my ass off to become an expert in my position only to be discarded and replaced by outsourced retards in India. I've lost all faith in the idea that hard work and expertise lead to success. Millions of others have as well.
Posted by: Clyde Shelton

Yep. and the same reason Obamacare caused a lot of really good doctors to quit instead of becoming a cog employee in the new corporate setups envisioned and subsidized by the act.

Posted by: whig at January 01, 2026 03:20 PM (WDjG6)

274 >>For the last time, we need to reform the DEI nonsense.

No one is disagreeing with that.

Posted by: Lizzy at January 01, 2026 03:21 PM (NuV6c)

275 There's a reason Indians are coming here and the Chinese are stealing our IP, and not the other way around. As fucked as present day America is, it's substantially less fucked than India or China.

True, but I'm not interested in today. I'm looking at the trends for the future.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 01, 2026 03:21 PM (Riz8t)

276 India wasn't even a country before the Brits.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 01, 2026 03:02 PM (UZwsW)

I can't tell if this is simple ignorance, bigoted provincialism, or if we have reached the "refusal to admit anything" point in an online argument.

so I will leave you to your impregnable . . . Stance, and let you get on.

Posted by: Kindltot at January 01, 2026 03:22 PM (rbvCR)

277 No telling what else teachers are doing to kids.

If neighbors are down with the state authority at will to change the sex of their children, run away from that environment. Talking, taxing you to death.

Posted by: thug dolphin at January 01, 2026 03:24 PM (EyfuW)

278 >>Why should Americans work harder when there is no reward in it? Has anyone stopped to put two and two together with regards to all this fraud and scamming and DEI that has been going on for *decades* now?

Thankfully, this is finally happening, at least from what I've seen on X. The H1b scamming kicked into overdrive after BLM as an easy way for companies to meet non-white hiring quotas, though it had been ramping of for years.

Posted by: Lizzy at January 01, 2026 03:25 PM (NuV6c)

279 Reform DEI and H1Bs, AND improve our educational system and work ethic. We can do both.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 01, 2026 03:14 PM

DEI and H-1B reform and improvement of the educational system has to happen before work ethic will be improved.

Because no one is going to want to work hard if they see absolutely no benefit to it.

I have been the victim of the DEI and India outsourcing BS myself at Stellantis. Hundreds of my fellow American engineers as well. All of us experts in our positions, hard-working and producing in our positions. But that didn't matter. We were tossed aside for cheap remote labor in India. 90% of my current department (I returned as contract) is now remote in India. While the company laughably talks about "we win together!"

The younger generations see this. They see hard work doesn't pay off. They see the fraud. They see the abuse of H-1Bs. And then they hear people praise these retards in India while damning Americans.

There are consequences to the culture for that.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at January 01, 2026 03:26 PM (P5BPp)

280 Was India a unified entity before the British presence? What I mean is the existence of a centralized governing body, or a collection of states, if you will. Much like “ Germany”, in the 17th century.

Posted by: tubal at January 01, 2026 03:26 PM (pDt9x)

281 OMG noooooooo!

Issa Rae has canceled her sold out performance at the Kennedy Center. Pulitzer Prize winner Rhiannon Giddens, Peter Wolf, Low Cut Connie, and the Gay Men’s Chorus of Washington, D.C., have also canceled. Lin-Manuel Miranda has canceled the entire Kennedy Center run of Hamilton.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except Better at January 01, 2026 03:27 PM (L/fGl)

282 Whig, Soros employed Bessent, and Tulsi was once a "future leader" in the WEF.
We are better off with them for the moment, than against them.
Harmeet Dhillon is Indian background too.

If Vivek is a shitbag, then he will show he is a shitbag. To date he has been arrogant as a lawyer, conceited as a university academic, slick as a promoter and mouthy as a candidate. If you don't like him because he is Indian, well, congrats.

However being a shitbag is not an ethnicity.

Posted by: Kindltot at January 01, 2026 03:27 PM (rbvCR)

283 And what if that's true? What if we overemphasize trivial things over the important ones?
Posted by: Archimedes
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The major point in economics is that people respond to incentives and they avoid if disincentives exist. DEI destroyed the traditional white male bastions of STEM because of envy from other groups. Clinton, at the same time, began implementing the outsourcing racket in NAFTA inherited from GHWB, sold our technology including missile tech to the Chicoms for campaign funds, and implemented DEI destroying the pipeline of engineers, medicine, etc. from white males. GWB wasted 8 years pursuing democracy in the Middle East, importing skilled labor to depress hiring of local talent, and continued the DEI scam including supporting it at Scotus--thus the awful Grutter and Gratz decisions. Obama turbocharged DEI, endless waves of foreigners, vilifying white males, and purposefully causing corporations to pick up and send operations overseas.

So GLOBO HOMO coalition of GOP and Dems ran things into the ground from the 90's until Trump's first term. Promptly resumed after that, and thus we have Trump II trying to fix 28 years of our leaders selling the US out.

Posted by: whig at January 01, 2026 03:27 PM (WDjG6)

284 OMG noooooooo!

Issa Rae has canceled her sold out performance at the Kennedy Center. Pulitzer Prize winner Rhiannon Giddens, Peter Wolf, Low Cut Connie, and the Gay Men’s Chorus of Washington, D.C., have also canceled. Lin-Manuel Miranda has canceled the entire Kennedy Center run of Hamilton.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except Better at January 01, 2026 03:27 PM (L/fGl)

I won’t be able to sleep tonight after this news. Literally shaking right now.

Posted by: tubal at January 01, 2026 03:28 PM (pDt9x)

285 DEI and H-1B reform and improvement of the educational system has to happen before work ethic will be improved.

Because no one is going to want to work hard if they see absolutely no benefit to it.The younger generations see this. They see hard work doesn't pay off. They see the fraud. They see the abuse of H-1Bs. And then they hear people praise these retards in India while damning Americans.

There are consequences to the culture for that.

I think we can reform both simultaneously - and had better.

BTW, as a native-born scientist, I'm very familiar with the problem. There are scads of foreign-born scientists who work for peanuts and take postdoc after postdoc because they want to stay here. Like I said, it's not either/or, it's do both.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 01, 2026 03:28 PM (Riz8t)

286 285

BTW, as a native-born scientist, I'm very familiar with the problem. There are scads of foreign-born scientists who work for peanuts and take postdoc after postdoc because they want to stay here. Like I said, it's not either/or, it's do both.
Posted by: Archimedes at January 01, 2026 03:28 PM (Riz8t)

What kind of sciencin’ do you do, if I might ask?

Posted by: tubal at January 01, 2026 03:30 PM (pDt9x)

287 Yep. and the same reason Obamacare caused a lot of really good doctors to quit instead of becoming a cog employee in the new corporate setups envisioned and subsidized by the act.
Posted by: whig
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I have had three physcians take early retirement as their practices were acquired by healthcare companies. They simply got tired of dealing with the patient load and expanded paperwork.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 01, 2026 03:31 PM (XeU6L)

288 If Vivek is a shitbag, then he will show he is a shitbag. To date he has been arrogant as a lawyer, conceited as a university academic, slick as a promoter and mouthy as a candidate. If you don't like him because he is Indian, well, congrats.

However being a shitbag is not an ethnicity.
Posted by: Kindltot
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To me, he already has. Your snide comments say more about you and your insinuations of racism/bigotry than it does about my comments.

Said nothing about Harmeet nor Usha, or any other Indian in the US but then again, others haven't been going around wagging their fingers criticizing American culture writ large.

You want to suck up to Vivek and think he is the greatest since sliced bread, go right ahead.

I don't and won't. YMMV.

Posted by: whig at January 01, 2026 03:32 PM (WDjG6)

289 This is supposed to be a happy occasion.

Posted by: Don Black. Message: at January 01, 2026 03:33 PM (ZxPkt)

290 289 This is supposed to be a happy occasion.
Posted by: Don Black. Message: at January 01, 2026 03:33 PM (ZxPkt)

Heh. Don, I KNOW you are not new here.

Posted by: tubal at January 01, 2026 03:33 PM (pDt9x)

291 Was India a unified entity before the British presence? What I mean is the existence of a centralized governing body, or a collection of states, if you will. Much like “ Germany”, in the 17th century.
Posted by: tubal at January 01, 2026 03:26 PM (pDt9x)

No. India was a collection of states, and really went from Iran to Burma. India today is about a third the size of Western Europe and was a series of kingdoms, princedoms, break away regions, and was held together by various alliances and "empires"
On top of which it was one of the principal areas of research and learning after the Islamic states went into their fundamentalist phases, and had serious advances in medicine and mathematics.
In the 15th C Europe and India were pretty well matched technologically.

Posted by: Kindltot at January 01, 2026 03:34 PM (rbvCR)

292 Your snide comments

Gore your ox, Whig?

Posted by: Kindltot at January 01, 2026 03:34 PM (rbvCR)

293 OMG noooooooo!

Issa Rae has canceled her sold out performance... Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except Better at January 01, 2026 03:27 PM
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I won’t be able to sleep tonight after this news. Literally shaking right now.
Posted by: tubal
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The very foundation of my being has been shaken by this.
Anyhow...

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 01, 2026 03:35 PM (XeU6L)

294 289 This is supposed to be a happy occasion.
Posted by: Don Black
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Well, when the race card gets pulled, then all bets are off.

I won't tolerate it.

Posted by: whig at January 01, 2026 03:35 PM (WDjG6)

295 There are a lot of reasons to dislike a candidate, I remember the fights over Trump. I miss some people who left over him too. Vivek is not running for President anymore.

Hating him for who his parents are is as dumb as hating some politician who was born in Kiev and was raised in Milwaukie because she was born in Kiev.

Posted by: Kindltot at January 01, 2026 03:38 PM (rbvCR)

296 Yep. and the same reason Obamacare caused a lot of really good doctors to quit instead of becoming a cog employee in the new corporate setups envisioned and subsidized by the act.
Posted by: whig
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HCA Healthcare CEO Sam Hazen's total compensation for 2024 was approximately $23.8 million

Meanwhile, at HCA-owned hospital:
"Mission Hospital in Asheville, NC, has faced significant scrutiny and federal sanctions for patient safety issues, including multiple patient deaths between 2022-2023 linked to failures in emergency and oncology care, leading to "immediate jeopardy" designations from CMS (Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services). Investigations revealed systemic problems like understaffing, delays in critical care, and failures in patient monitoring, resulting in preventable harm and deaths, with reports detailing specific incidents such as a patient dying in an ER bathroom after a call for help went unanswered."

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 01, 2026 03:39 PM (XeU6L)

297 Gore your ox, Whig?
Posted by: Kindltot
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Snide and nasty you are for whatever reason.

There is a reason you have been whining in the comment threads of being shut down. People are tired of your insinuations.

You want to get nasty, I decline because you show yourself as what you are by your own words.

You want to suck up to Vivek, go right ahead.
But don't expect others to keep silent about the risks of charlatans whether Vivek or Mamdani.

Posted by: whig at January 01, 2026 03:39 PM (WDjG6)

298 You want to get nasty, I decline because you show yourself as what you are by your own words.

You want to suck up to Vivek, go right ahead.
But don't expect others to keep silent about the risks of charlatans whether Vivek or Mamdani.
Posted by: whig at January 01, 2026 03:39 PM (WDjG6)

I did gore your ox.

Should we decide to stomp down voices on the national stage for purity reasons, Trump loses voices that support him.

Then should Trump be impeached because he lost the house and senate, (due to infighting) then Trump is sidelined. Partially because he lacks support.

Should this either silence or "redirect" JD Vance because he has lost support from his main area - the tech bros and the vocal backers who got shut down - then he is either a poor candidate or everyone thinks he is a wimp and stays home on election day

Then you get President Hakeem Jefferies.

Sorry I gored your Ox, Whig.

Posted by: Kindltot at January 01, 2026 03:45 PM (rbvCR)

299 Pscientists say January is the saddest month. I think they actually pick 1/27 as the worst day of the year.

Posted by: Don Black. Message: at January 01, 2026 03:54 PM (ZxPkt)

300 >Heh. Don, I KNOW you are not new here.

Posted by: tubal
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I am not. And on my last day here, I will reveal my true identity.

Posted by: Don Black. Message: at January 01, 2026 03:55 PM (ZxPkt)

301 I am not. And on my last day here, I will reveal my true identity.
Posted by: Don Black. Message: at January 01, 2026 03:55 PM

I've asked my wife to post my obituary.

Posted by: toby928(c) at January 01, 2026 03:59 PM (jc0TO)

302 Musk launched over 3,000 of 'em in 2025. Nearly 60 per week.

On the other hand, he didn't play football in high school.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia

When he wasn't reading sci-fi he was probably getting stoned and playing D&D.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at January 01, 2026 04:04 PM (/lPRQ)

303 What kind of sciencin’ do you do, if I might ask?

Posted by: tubal

Sorry, I was called away. Physical chemist / solid state physics /surface sceince / nanoscience and technology.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 01, 2026 04:08 PM (Riz8t)

304 I used to live in Yachats OR,.
The Ducks and the Beavers are known for their yearly Civil War.
The city a few miles north of Yachats, Waldport,
puts out a weekly newspaper.
Someone complained that beavers were coming up from the river and destroying the trees in their orchard and asked about the process for getting a depredation permit to shoot them.
Some suggested that all they had to do was erect a goal post and the beavers would never get through it.

We had flooding one winter. There was a coffee shop located on the Alsea Bay in Waldport that was owned by a lesbian couple. The newspaper reported on the business that were affected by the flooding and noted that the coffee shop sustained no damage, because it was surrounded by dykes.

Posted by: waepnedmann at January 01, 2026 04:31 PM (aJyq1)

Democrat Hitman Jack Smith Admits: I Never Called Madison Cornbread to Testify Because Her Testimony Was Nothing But Second- or Third-Hand Gossip and Hearsay

Any day I can say "Madison Cornbread" is a good day.

Madison Cornbread -- government name, Cassidy Hutchinson -- was the low-level sorority sister aide who decided to become a Democrat superstar influencer by peddling a lot of nonsense about what other people supposedly said to her about Trump violently seizing the steering wheel of the presidential limo (from the back seat!) in order to wrest the controls away from the driver and go to the Capitol so he could lead the insurrection.

All of her "testimony" was nonsense along the lines of "and then Bill told me something to the effect of" or "and then John told me something to the effect of."

She was very proud of the "to the effect of" phrase. She thought it made her sound smaaaaaht.

Jack Smith now says that all of her testimony was something to the effect of bullshit nonsense hearsay, and all, by the way, denied by the people she claimed she had heard it from, and that's why he never even considered calling her as a witness.

. This brings us back, then, to the strange case of "Madison Cornbread." She became the "star witness" of that Star Chamber charade because she was willing to share mere gossip -- "so-and-so told me that Trump said this" -- in particular claiming that Trump had attempted to physically overpower his limousine driver to force him to drive to the Capitol. Actual witnesses immediately contradicted this testimony, but of course the J6 committee never presented these contradicting witnesses, allowing Cassidy Hutchinson's dubious testimony to become the defining narrative.
Naturally, Simon & Schuster gave her a fat advance to write a book, a six-figure payoff for her service to the anti-Trump cause.

Of course, another six-figure media payoff. And Republicans continue to permit this.

And now, more than three years after her 15 minutes of fame, we get this ironic coda:

The House Select January 6th Committee's "star" Cassidy Hutchinson provided "secondhand hearsay" about the 2021 Capitol riot and wasn't considered as a witness in the election interference case brought against President Trump, according to former special counsel Jack Smith.
Smith told the House Judiciary Committee in a closed-door deposition on Dec. 17 that Hutchinson -- who testified at the Jan. 6 select panel's made-for-TV hearings in June 2022 -- "certainly" wouldn't have made a "powerful" witness because she couldn't provide "firsthand" testimony.
"My recollection with Ms. Hutchinson, at least one of the issues was a number of the things that she gave evidence on were secondhand hearsay, were things that she had heard from other people," the ex-Trump prosecutor testified to the Judiciary lawmakers and staff, the deposition's transcript shows.
Game. Set. Match.
Here we have the special counsel who got the assignment to put Donald Trump in prison over the 2020 election dispute saying, under oath, that Cassidy Hutchinson's testimony was just gossip. Any first-year law student has to know that hearsay is inadmissable as evidence in a legal proceeding, and Jack Smith couldn't go to court with that stuff.

Thanks to The Patriarch Tree.

I'm not working today, just some open threads and then a Cafe, but I thought you'd like an update on Madison Cornbread.

What are your plans? I've got a good one. I haven't been to a restaurant in at least a month but I'm going out for steak. Specifically, a tomahawk ribeye.

Posted by: Ace at 12:10 PM

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1 Happy New Year, Ace!

Posted by: Duke Lowell at January 01, 2026 12:12 PM (u73oe)

2 Happy New Year!

Posted by: IrishEi at January 01, 2026 12:12 PM (3ImbR)

3 Called em

Posted by: Duke Lowell at January 01, 2026 12:13 PM (u73oe)

4 Madison Cornbread works for the CIA.

Simon and Shyster giving her a six figure payoff just means they too, are CIA.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 01, 2026 12:13 PM (QbJcY)

5 Happy New Year Ace

Posted by: Skip at January 01, 2026 12:13 PM (Ia/+0)

6 "Madison Cornbread" was inspired.

Posted by: Ordinary American at January 01, 2026 12:13 PM (b4LBp)

7 "Trump violently seizing the steering wheel of the presidential limo (from the back seat!) in order to wrest the controls away from the driver"

I still say they should make a carnival ride out of that concept. Outwrestle the wheel from the President before the Beast crashes, three tries for five bucks.

Posted by: gp at January 01, 2026 12:14 PM (GHIyr)

8 Yay, rib eye! Enjoy!

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at January 01, 2026 12:14 PM (YlWIZ)

9 Mmmmm cornbread.

Posted by: GOP at January 01, 2026 12:14 PM (/CkK4)

10 Does Madison do butt stuff?

Asking for a friend.

Posted by: Ron Jeremy at January 01, 2026 12:15 PM (R/m4+)

11 Today I wonder if America would endure such an abuse like this again?

Posted by: Diogenes at January 01, 2026 12:15 PM (2WIwB)

12 "Jack Smith now says that all of her testimony was something to the effect of bullshit nonsense hearsay, and all, by the way, denied by the people she claimed she had heard it from, and that's why he never even considered calling her as a witness."

He didn't call her because she had already done her job, smearing Trump with lies that could not be "disproven".

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at January 01, 2026 12:15 PM (0N4FZ)

13 >>> Madison Cornbread to Testify Because Her Testimony Was Nothing But Second- or Third-Hand Gossip and Hearsay

But good enough for the MFM and impeachments....

Now do Vindman, Destroyer of Danish.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at January 01, 2026 12:16 PM (/lPRQ)

14 Happy New Year, Ace. Enjoy your steak!

Posted by: Bulg at January 01, 2026 12:16 PM (77rzZ)

15 Does Madison do butt stuff?

Asking for a friend.
Posted by: Ron Jeremy at January 01, 2026 12:15 PM (R/m4+)

The problem is... and sure, of course she does. But the problem is, so many Deep State and politicians go for buggering boys these days, her type doesn't get as much work as they did in the old days.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 01, 2026 12:16 PM (QbJcY)

16 I don't get the business model of publishers giving giant advances to the politically-connected to write a book in the future that nobody will buy.

I mean, the money has to come from somewhere. The publishers aren't paying off these creative dry holes out of Christian charity.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at January 01, 2026 12:17 PM (+HNx/)

17 Who?

Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 01, 2026 12:17 PM (mlg/3)

18 10 Does Madison do butt stuff?

Asking for a friend.
Posted by: Ron Jeremy at January 01, 2026 12:15 PM (R/m4+)

Butts do Madison stuff, my man.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 01, 2026 12:17 PM (06Hmj)

19 How can anyone contemplate eating a tomahawk ribeye when Somali Learing Centers are being attacked by Trumpists?

Posted by: Lutheran Lesbians In The TC at January 01, 2026 12:17 PM (oftw2)

20 Ace gets a mention at theothermcain

"It was Ace of Spades who hung the sobriquet “Madison Cornbread” on former White House staffer Cassidy Hutchinson"

Posted by: Fatty McFattington at January 01, 2026 12:17 PM (uHU6e)

21 I don't get the business model of publishers giving giant advances to the politically-connected to write a book in the future that nobody will buy.

I mean, the money has to come from somewhere. The publishers aren't paying off these creative dry holes out of Christian charity.
Posted by: Cicero

They just write it off Jerry!
-- Kramer

Posted by: Tonypete at January 01, 2026 12:17 PM (cYBz/)

22
That's all fine, thank you, and much appreciation that Sweetdick Honey um hasn't entered the conversation.

Posted by: Auspex at January 01, 2026 12:18 PM (pCWOd)

23 What are your plans? I've got a good one. I haven't been to a restaurant in at least a month but I'm going out for steak. Specifically, a tomahawk ribeye.
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Where'd you take out the bank loan?

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at January 01, 2026 12:18 PM (qbLEp)

24 The Blade is shot. The Blade won't be commenting today. But ...

... it occurred to me that the Morlock "Learing Center" has a typo, but not the one everyone thinks. The Blade thinks the sign was supposed to say "Leering Center."

We know how Muslim men look at children. And goats.

Just saying.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 01, 2026 12:18 PM (iFTx/)

25 I mean, the money has to come from somewhere. The publishers aren't paying off these creative dry holes out of Christian charity.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at January 01, 2026 12:17 PM (+HNx/)

*silence* *silence* N-G-O
*silence* *silence* N-G-O
*silence* *silence* N-G-O
It's fake and lame and gay-o

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 01, 2026 12:18 PM (06Hmj)

26 So what's a restaurant ribeye cost these days? I'll guess $39 for the 8oz.

Posted by: gp at January 01, 2026 12:18 PM (GHIyr)

27 Make sure you have some black eyed peas with that steak.

Posted by: It's New Year's Day at January 01, 2026 12:18 PM (2Ez/1)

28 I mean, the money has to come from somewhere. The publishers aren't paying off these creative dry holes out of Christian charity.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at January 01, 2026 12:17 PM (+HNx/)

See me at #4. I'm being serious. And don't call me Shirley.

So in other words, the money comes from you, the taxpayer.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 01, 2026 12:18 PM (QbJcY)

29 Tyvec jump suits, belly chains, perp walks, footrace to the US Attorney for massive rollovers, asset disgorgement, punitive damaged, time in the joint, deportation, domestic energy sources, domestic jobs, and practice of Christian religion. Goodbye Mahomet. Goodbye Marx. Goodbye evil one. Goodbye Sanger. Hello again shining city on the hill.

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at January 01, 2026 12:19 PM (YlWIZ)

30 "I don't get the business model of publishers giving giant advances to the politically-connected to write a book in the future that nobody will buy. "

Laundering. Undeclared compensation for services rendered.

Posted by: gp at January 01, 2026 12:19 PM (GHIyr)

31 Naturally, Simon & Schuster gave her a fat advance to write a book, a six-figure payoff for her service to the anti-Trump cause.

IT'S FUNNY BECACUE THERE ARE STILL SOME RETARDS WHO THINK 'SELF-PUBLISHED' IS AN INSULT.

Posted by: BEN ROTHLESSBERGERER at January 01, 2026 12:20 PM (ULPxl)

32 20 Ace gets a mention at theothermcain

"It was Ace of Spades who hung the sobriquet “Madison Cornbread” on former White House staffer Cassidy Hutchinson"
Posted by: Fatty McFattington at January 01, 2026 12:17 PM (uHU6e)

Well, that's embarrassing. I didn't even click the link Ace put in his post to it. Found it separately.

Posted by: Fatty McFattington at January 01, 2026 12:20 PM (uHU6e)

33 Mmmm...ribeye. Enjoy, Ace.

I have a pepper and Parm crusted rib roast in the oven. Should be tasty.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at January 01, 2026 12:21 PM (9iRTe)

34 Where'd you take out the bank loan?
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at January 01, 2026 12:18 PM (qbLEp)

He's not buying, his Mossad handlers are.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 01, 2026 12:22 PM (QbJcY)

35 I'm gonna get in on some of that daycare money.
Reforger's house of Little Shits.

Posted by: Reforger at January 01, 2026 12:22 PM (gKsV+)

36 Happy New Year Ace. Thx to you and the COBS for all you do
Madison Cornbread has yet to start an OF page. Hop to it girl. Looked up her Wikipedia page and she accused Rudy, Gaetz and a couple others of improper behavior. If no OF page , her 15 minutes are long gone

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 01, 2026 12:22 PM (zNwXb)

37 Is Sobriquet a red or white wine?

Posted by: Not a wine-o at January 01, 2026 12:22 PM (2Ez/1)

38 I wish for once we didn’t have so many republicans who act like milquetoast pussy ass simpgots

How did we go from crossing the river from valley forge to kill britons in their sleep to these dickless clowns

Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - Where Are My Keto Cheetos at January 01, 2026 12:22 PM (REq0p)

39 26 So what's a restaurant ribeye cost these days? I'll guess $39 for the 8oz.
Posted by: gp at January 01, 2026 12:18 PM (GHIyr)

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Are we talking dry-aged Wagyu or commercial-grade dairy cow? There's a big difference.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at January 01, 2026 12:23 PM (+HNx/)

40 I heard it from a friend who ... heard it from a friend who ... heard it from another you've been messing around

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 01, 2026 12:23 PM (iFTx/)

41 >>> 38 I wish for once we didn’t have so many republicans who act like milquetoast pussy ass simpgots

How did we go from crossing the river from valley forge to kill britons in their sleep to these dickless clowns
Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - Where Are My Keto Cheetos at January 01, 2026 12:22 PM (REq0p)

We pay good.

Posted by: CHYna at January 01, 2026 12:23 PM (ULPxl)

42 Simon and Shuster gets a nice donation from the Foundation Center for Book Children Community or feckin' whatever, who got it from who the crap knows where because they've only existed for about seven hours, and then the great and vaunted and indispensable FCBCC pisses back off into non-existence immediately afterwards, with all debts completely evaporated and all employees now comfortably situated with the Central Foundation for Community Children Development Things and Stuff.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 01, 2026 12:23 PM (06Hmj)

43 Madison Cornbread -- government name, Cassidy Hutchinson -- was the low-level sorority sister aide who decided to become a Democrat superstar influencer by peddling a lot of nonsense about what other people supposedly said to her about Trump violently seizing the steering wheel of the presidential limo (from the back seat!) in order to wrest the controls away from the driver and go to the Capitol so he could lead the insurrection.

All of her "testimony" was nonsense along the lines of "and then Bill told me something to the effect of" or "and then John told me something to the effect of."

She was very proud of the "to the effect of" phrase. She thought it made her sound smaaaaaht.

Still hawt though.

Posted by: The men of cellblock C at January 01, 2026 12:24 PM (Riz8t)

44 Turns out, I'm having cornbread for lunch. Not sure of its Christian name.

Happy New Year Ace!

Posted by: banana Dream at January 01, 2026 12:24 PM (3uBP9)

45 Is this about us?

Posted by: milquetoast pussy ass simpgots at January 01, 2026 12:24 PM (2Ez/1)

46 Happy New Year to all, and special gratitude to Ace and the COBs for making this oasis of information, sanity, and much-needed laughter

Posted by: barbarausa at January 01, 2026 12:24 PM (enw9G)

47 Ace, you seem to like the way Indians vote. Not who but methodology. Steaks and what else indian fashion do you like?

Eskimo pie recipes?

Posted by: thug dolphin at January 01, 2026 12:24 PM (EyfuW)

48 DanMa'am pointed out a tomahawk ribeye at HEB just sitting there waiting to be barbequed. $23

About ten years ago a neighbor brought some over to grill (he always used my pit) and those blew my mind at $10!

Posted by: DanMan at January 01, 2026 12:24 PM (8uzBS)

49
I mean, the money has to come from somewhere.

The supply is endless.

Posted by: Federal government at January 01, 2026 12:25 PM (pkeXY)

50 IT'S FUNNY BECACUE THERE ARE STILL SOME RETARDS WHO THINK 'SELF-PUBLISHED' IS AN INSULT.
Posted by: BEN ROTHLESSBERGERER at January 01, 2026 12:20 PM (ULPxl)

But seriously, I am curious if self-published (or small, non-traditional publishers') books make decent money.

At times I wonder if everyone but me has published a book somewhere, somehow.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 01, 2026 12:25 PM (QbJcY)

51 *silence* *silence* N-G-O
*silence* *silence* N-G-O
*silence* *silence* N-G-O
It's fake and lame and gay-o
Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 01, 2026 12:18 PM

*golf clap*

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at January 01, 2026 12:25 PM (9iRTe)

52 >>> 40 I heard it from a friend who ... heard it from a friend who ... heard it from another you've been messing around
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 01, 2026 12:23 PM (iFTx/)

I triple-dog dare you to sing this during karaoke at the next TX MoMee, wearing a Madison Cornbread wig.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at January 01, 2026 12:25 PM (ULPxl)

53 SHIT

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at January 01, 2026 12:26 PM (ULPxl)

54 So what's a restaurant ribeye cost these days? I'll guess $39 for the 8oz.
Posted by: gp at January 01, 2026 12:18 PM

He is getting a tomahawk ribeye those for for $60+ at Sams. I can't imagine getting one at restaurant for less than $100.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at January 01, 2026 12:26 PM (0N4FZ)

55 > Specifically, a tomahawk ribeye.
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My wife was watching some cooking show the other day. There was a black woman who had 8 of those on a grill. Burning them to a crisp.

Criminal.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 01, 2026 12:26 PM (NwnyJ)

56 Happy New Year Ace. Thx to you and the COBS for all you do
Madison Cornbread has yet to start an OF page. Hop to it girl. Looked up her Wikipedia page and she accused Rudy, Gaetz and a couple others of improper behavior. If no OF page , her 15 minutes are long gone
Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 01, 2026 12:22 PM (zNwXb)

I'm sure the CIA trained her to be a terrific lay, but really, she's barely above average in looks. Or in AoSHQ parlance, she's a Perkins 6.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 01, 2026 12:26 PM (QbJcY)

57 Tomahawk Ribeye. I am envious Ace.

Posted by: tubal at January 01, 2026 12:27 PM (pDt9x)

58
Life grows stupider and stupider. Apparently it's now a thing to video people walking around or parking their cars or stopping at intersections or going in or out of businesses hoping to get a rise out of them, then making TikToks of it.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 01, 2026 12:27 PM (tgvbd)

59 I have never rode in a limousine, yet alone in The Beast. But can't even imagine one can get from the front to the back.

Posted by: Skip at January 01, 2026 12:27 PM (Ia/+0)

60 My wife and I will be enjoying a nice beef roast with Yorkshire pudding. (The leftover roast, sliced thin, is delicious on her homemade pita.) It'll be washed down with our favorite wine, a tasty orvieto. (Yes, I know you're supposed to have red wine with beef, but I like the orvieto. So sue me.)

Posted by: Nemo at January 01, 2026 12:27 PM (4RPgu)

61 Happy New Year Ace. Hope you enjoy your steak.

Posted by: Darth Randall at January 01, 2026 12:27 PM (f1kZG)

62 At times I wonder if everyone but me has published a book somewhere, somehow.
Posted by: BurtTC at January 01, 2026 12:25 PM (QbJcY)

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Be sure not to miss my upcoming historical novel where Nanni gets even with Ea-Nasir for selling him substandard copper by dicking his 20 year-old daughter!

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at January 01, 2026 12:27 PM (+HNx/)

63 Recently discovered Good Chop after using ButcherBox and now getting some steaks from them as well, so far the meats have been very good. They even have Wagyu

Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - Where Are My Keto Cheetos at January 01, 2026 12:28 PM (REq0p)

64 Thumbs up on both not having gone out for a month AND breaking the streak with a tomahawk ribeye.

That sounds like a good theme for 2026: Lots less junk, emphasis on high quality.

Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at January 01, 2026 12:28 PM (asXVI)

65 Didn't your boss give you today off?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 01, 2026 12:28 PM (RIvkX)

66 Simon and Shuster gets a nice donation from the Foundation Center for Book Children Community or feckin' whatever, who got it from who the crap knows where because they've only existed for about seven hours, and then the great and vaunted and indispensable FCBCC pisses back off into non-existence immediately afterwards, with all debts completely evaporated and all employees now comfortably situated with the Central Foundation for Community Children Development Things and Stuff.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 01, 2026 12:23 PM (06Hmj)

USAID was just one of many such schemes. I'm sure there are plenty others, and our Deep Staters were just laughing their spooky arses off at us, when we were so proud that we "got" them.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 01, 2026 12:28 PM (QbJcY)

67 Wonder how soon it will be before the herds in the US are built back up, to normal range. Then the beef price will go down.

Posted by: tubal at January 01, 2026 12:29 PM (pDt9x)

68 Where'd you take out the bank loan?
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at January 01, 2026 12:18 PM (qbLEp)

He's not buying, his Mossad handlers are.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 01, 2026 12:22 PM (QbJcY)
-

/quickly presses the approve transaction button

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 01, 2026 12:29 PM (u/afo)

69 gp: "What is the current typical price for a USA restaurant meal of ribeye steak, potato, green beans, salad and dessert?"

Grok: "At midrange casual steakhouse, $35-$50 per person. Tip not included."

I'll stay home and eat a pita with pizza sauce on it, dusted with Aldi parmesan.

Posted by: gp at January 01, 2026 12:30 PM (GHIyr)

70 Clavical Gurl!

Posted by: torabora at January 01, 2026 12:30 PM (KtOUo)

71
Then the beef price will go down.

Posted by: tubal at January 01, 2026 12:29 PM (pDt9x)

__________

More like it will stop going up.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 01, 2026 12:30 PM (tgvbd)

72 "But seriously, I am curious if self-published (or small, non-traditional publishers') books make decent money."

A few do. "The Martian" was originally self-published. But the great majority of them (such as mine, for example) don't make a dime.

Posted by: Nemo at January 01, 2026 12:30 PM (4RPgu)

73 Who did not know Cassidy was spouting bullshit?

Posted by: r hennigantx at January 01, 2026 12:30 PM (gbOdA)

74 Heading over for a family gathering, my dad's birthday is today.
89 down hopefully at least 10 more to go.

Posted by: Skip at January 01, 2026 12:30 PM (Ia/+0)

75 Crockpot country style ribs, corn bread, collard greens, black eye peas and fried okra for us for dinner.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at January 01, 2026 12:31 PM (Vh9CX)

76 USAID was just one of many such schemes. I'm sure there are plenty others, and our Deep Staters were just laughing their spooky arses off at us, when we were so proud that we "got" them.

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It seems that fatass Stacey Abrams was in the middle of most of them.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at January 01, 2026 12:31 PM (+HNx/)

77 If you're not going to actually beat someone with the steak, why pay for all that extra bone? This is another silly fad that shows how far down the dumper we are.

Posted by: Tommy Hawks Are For Injuns Only at January 01, 2026 12:31 PM (oftw2)

78 "He is getting a tomahawk ribeye those for for $60+ at Sams. I can't imagine getting one at restaurant for less than $100."

Cripes.

Posted by: gp at January 01, 2026 12:31 PM (GHIyr)

79 "I don't get the business model of publishers giving giant advances to the politically-connected to write a book in the future that nobody will buy. "

Laundering. Undeclared compensation for services rendered.
Posted by: gp

Ackshully - publish as an e-book only. Libraries in blue states and schools can buy thousands of "licenses" so the whole damn population can 'check' it out and read concurrently.

AND it is green because it saves trees and shipping!!!

It's a win for everyone

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at January 01, 2026 12:31 PM (/lPRQ)

80 Beef prices. It doesn't take a ranch. If you have a little spread outside city limits, away from Karens, invest in a calf. My cousin raised one as a 4H project and filled the freezer when it was "time". NE Ohio, the Amish guys down the road processed it for cheap.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at January 01, 2026 12:31 PM (gm9Sb)

81 All of her "testimony" was nonsense along the lines of "and then Bill told me something to the effect of" or "and then John told me something to the effect of."

Narrator: In reality, each of these men had expressed exasperation that they'd paid her the requested $20 and she was using her mouth to talk.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 01, 2026 12:31 PM (ExV1e)

82 >>> 67 Wonder how soon it will be before the herds in the US are built back up, to normal range. Then the beef price will go down.
Posted by: tubal at January 01, 2026 12:29 PM (pDt9x)

I'm doing my part! My heifer is going to get turkey-basted some time this spring.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at January 01, 2026 12:31 PM (ULPxl)

83 So what's a restaurant ribeye cost these days? I'll guess $39 for the 8oz.
Posted by: gp at January 01, 2026 12:18 PM (GHIyr)
______

Totally depends on the quality of the cut. $40 sounds about right for a decent cut. But if you're talking aged prime at a high-end steakhouse? Well north of a c-note.

8 oz is a small ribeye, btw. 8 oz is filet mignon sized.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 01, 2026 12:31 PM (iFTx/)

84 Are we talking dry-aged Wagyu or commercial-grade dairy cow? There's a big difference.

we bought half a Texas wagu cow. A lot of really good meat and a whole lot of fat to trim. The fajita meat was better than any I've every had.

Our county has a whole lot of Pierce Ranch Brahman cattle on it. Shanghai knew what he was doing with that brand. I think it beats the wagu stuff but I haven't gone through the entire range of cuts like I did on the wagu.

Posted by: DanMan at January 01, 2026 12:32 PM (8uzBS)

85 Be sure not to miss my upcoming historical novel where Nanni gets even with Ea-Nasir for selling him substandard copper by dicking his 20 year-old daughter!
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at January 01, 2026 12:27 PM (+HNx/)

Sounds like something Bill Barr's dad would have written.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 01, 2026 12:32 PM (QbJcY)

86 Life grows stupider and stupider. Apparently it's now a thing to video people walking around or parking their cars or stopping at intersections or going in or out of businesses hoping to get a rise out of them, then making TikToks of it.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 01, 2026 12:27 PM (tgvbd)

It amazes me the number of people out there who believe they the right to privacy while out in public.

Posted by: one hour sober at January 01, 2026 12:32 PM (Y1sOo)

87 I think the Silo series probably did well money wise and it was all self published.

Posted by: banana Dream at January 01, 2026 12:32 PM (3uBP9)

88
Grabbing the steering wheel or anything else in the front seat section of the presidential limousine from the back seat is physically impossible.

In other news, Liz Cheney is still fat.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at January 01, 2026 12:32 PM (azNOR)

89 Update on the range situation...

After a second look at my old stove, it looks like it is connected to the house-wiring with a four-wire connection (which is good!), so I think all I have to do is remove the wires from my old stove and connect the wires in the right order to my new stove.

So I'll see if Lowe's can redeliver my range tomorrow or Saturday and I'll give that a shot. I'll still double-check with a knowledgeable person, though.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 01, 2026 12:32 PM (ESVrU)

90 "Apparently it's now a thing to video people walking around or parking their cars or stopping at intersections or going in or out of businesses hoping to get a rise out of them, then making TikToks of it."

Some idiot kid got shot in Loudoun a year or so ago for making a habit of that.

He was following a guy at a local mall getting in his face and asking him if he smelled or something equally stupid, and eventually, after telling him to back off several times, the guy shot him (not fatally, but some of the locals would not have been sad if so)

Posted by: barbarausa at January 01, 2026 12:33 PM (enw9G)

91 >>> 72 "But seriously, I am curious if self-published (or small, non-traditional publishers') books make decent money."
==
A few do. "The Martian" was originally self-published. But the great majority of them (such as mine, for example) don't make a dime.
Posted by: Nemo at January 01, 2026 12:30 PM (4RPgu)

Hey, he said 'make decent money', not 'win the lottery'.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at January 01, 2026 12:33 PM (ULPxl)

92 gp: "Aren't you glad you don't have to eat?"

Grok: "Absolutely, I’m thrilled I don’t have to eat." Followed by a lot of frankly cruel taunting over my human need for nutrition.

Posted by: gp at January 01, 2026 12:33 PM (GHIyr)

93 59 I have never rode in a limousine, yet alone in The Beast. But can't even imagine one can get from the front to the back.
Posted by: Skip

Pfffft! Glorified Checker cab.

Posted by: Taxi Squad at January 01, 2026 12:34 PM (oftw2)

94 I wish for a change the government would be on the side of the people who pay the bills around this country instead of the bums and frauds they cater to.

Posted by: Case at January 01, 2026 12:34 PM (G1OIb)

95
Ace has a fevuh!

And the only thing that will cure it is to opine about Madison Cornbread!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at January 01, 2026 12:34 PM (xG4kz)

96 /quickly presses the approve transaction button
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 01, 2026 12:29 PM (u/afo)

Thanks, I'm glad somebody got it.

I figured if I got banned for saying it, we'd know I stumbled onto the truth!

Posted by: BurtTC at January 01, 2026 12:34 PM (QbJcY)

97 I'm gonna get in on some of that daycare money.
Reforger's house of Little Shits.
Posted by: Reforger

Sub-titled
"Classical Dance, Acrobatics, and Melee Training"

Might as well train up your own army of ninja assassins.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at January 01, 2026 12:35 PM (/lPRQ)

98 "What is the current typical price for a USA restaurant meal of ribeye steak, potato, green beans, salad and dessert?"

Grok: "At midrange casual steakhouse, $35-$50 per person. Tip not included."

I'll stay home and eat a pita with pizza sauce on it, dusted with Aldi parmesan.
Posted by: gp

$52 at Texas Roadhouse.
$62 at Ruth's Chris for just one steak - no sides or drinks.

$102.93 for a Member’s Mark USDA Choice Angus Beef Boneless Ribeye Roast, priced per pound $16.77 lb.

Cut your own to your desired thickness.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 01, 2026 12:35 PM (c115l)

99 Over at Twitchy, Julie Kelly does a good summary of the other BS that Jack Smith spewed during his witch hunt. While I don't think jail is in the offing , he should lose his law license.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 01, 2026 12:35 PM (zNwXb)

100 guy was acquitted of the most serious charge:

https://tinyurl.com/ykrevbft

Posted by: barbarausa at January 01, 2026 12:36 PM (enw9G)

101 A few do. "The Martian" was originally self-published. But the great majority of them (such as mine, for example) don't make a dime.
Posted by: Nemo at January 01, 2026 12:30 PM (4RPgu)

I'm assuming Critical Drinker "self-publishes" his books, and if so, I wonder if he made any money BEFORE his Yootoob channel took off.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 01, 2026 12:36 PM (QbJcY)

102
Now do Vindman, the Slavering-Mawed Destroyer of Danish.

Fixed it for you

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at January 01, 2026 12:36 PM (xG4kz)

103 I'm making some Hoppin' John for lunches.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 01, 2026 12:36 PM (RIvkX)

104 So I'll see if Lowe's can redeliver my range tomorrow or Saturday and I'll give that a shot. I'll still double-check with a knowledgeable person, though.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel

FWP thread is Sunday 2 PM EST. You'd think a Junior Cob would know that.

Posted by: RIP P-Nut at January 01, 2026 12:37 PM (oftw2)

105 It seems that fatass Stacey Abrams was in the middle of most of them.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at January 01, 2026 12:31 PM (+HNx/)

Well, that's not really saying anything.

Anywhere she goes, she's essentially in the center of everything.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 01, 2026 12:37 PM (QbJcY)

106 I've never had a bad cut at Texas Roadhouse.

Posted by: DanMan at January 01, 2026 12:37 PM (8uzBS)

107 Life grows stupider and stupider. Apparently it's now a thing to video people walking around or parking their cars or stopping at intersections or going in or out of businesses hoping to get a rise out of them, then making TikToks of it.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 01, 2026 12:27 PM (tgvbd)

It amazes me the number of people out there who believe they the right to privacy while out in public.
Posted by: one hour sober

OR, that you need to get a signed release ftom thrm. LOL.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 01, 2026 12:37 PM (c115l)

108 Anywhere she goes, she's essentially in the center of everything.
Posted by: BurtTC

She has her own zipcode and gravity.

Posted by: Tonypete at January 01, 2026 12:38 PM (cYBz/)

109 101 A few do. "The Martian" was originally self-published. But the great majority of them (such as mine, for example) don't make a dime.
Posted by: Nemo at January 01, 2026 12:30 PM (4RPgu)

I'm assuming Critical Drinker "self-publishes" his books, and if so, I wonder if he made any money BEFORE his Yootoob channel took off.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 01, 2026 12:36 PM (QbJcY)

=======

Go publish something off Amazon as a nobody and just wait for the money to roll in as people just naturally discover it and realize the genius of your work!

Yeah...that don't work. You need to market it. And most writers don't have it in them to be their own marketing department.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at January 01, 2026 12:38 PM (GBKbO)

110 >>> 80 Beef prices. It doesn't take a ranch. If you have a little spread outside city limits, away from Karens, invest in a calf. My cousin raised one as a 4H project and filled the freezer when it was "time". NE Ohio, the Amish guys down the road processed it for cheap.
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at January 01, 2026 12:31 PM (gm9Sb)

Get two - everyone needs a buddy - and sell whatever you don't need to help offset your cost for feed and such. Or find someone who does the work for you - I got my very first 1/2 steer off craigslist when I moved to TX.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at January 01, 2026 12:39 PM (ULPxl)

111 It amazes me the number of people out there who believe they the right to privacy while out in public.
Posted by: one hour sober

Just because you CAN do something doesn't mean you SHOULD do something. This is axiomatic.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 01, 2026 12:40 PM (Riz8t)

112 105 It seems that fatass Stacey Abrams was in the middle of most of them.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at January 01, 2026 12:31 PM (+HNx/)

Well, that's not really saying anything.

Anywhere she goes, she's essentially in the center of everything.
Posted by: BurtTC

That's why Pluto got demoted. It started orbiting around Stacy.

Posted by: Jack Horkheimer at January 01, 2026 12:40 PM (oftw2)

113 The Sinfeld part of history is evolving into Rodney Dangerfield but with new material history.

Posted by: thug dolphin at January 01, 2026 12:40 PM (EyfuW)

114 The Patriarch Tree is Robert Stacy McCain, of "The Other McCain" blog and the Spectator, ably assisted by my loooongtime (since 1984) Friend Christopher Smith (@Smitty1e).

Posted by: Jeff Weimer at January 01, 2026 12:40 PM (gUs21)

115 youtube channel of serial "prankster"

https://tinyurl.com/5572y956

Posted by: barbarausa at January 01, 2026 12:40 PM (enw9G)

116 I just looked on LinkedIn and see M Cornbread has a profile which lists only a single experience: working at the White House from March 2019 to January 2021. Also has a link to a lawyer named Bill Jordan who wrote an article saying he was proud to represent her… a few comments from lemmings about how brave she is and how amazing her book! A real profile in courage… sheesh. Oh and the only education listed is one year at Christopher Newport University (no degree). Never heard of that place…

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 01, 2026 12:41 PM (YobFY)

117 $102.93 for a Member’s Mark USDA Choice Angus Beef Boneless Ribeye Roast, priced per pound $16.77 lb.

Quick back of the envelope math = $12.86 a ribeye.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 01, 2026 12:42 PM (c115l)

118 Lose a Law License?
Pffft, Yeah that will happen

Posted by: Skip at January 01, 2026 12:42 PM (Ia/+0)

119 Oh and the only education listed is one year at Christopher Newport University (no degree). Never heard of that place…
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 01, 2026 12:41 PM (YobFY)

It's no Goucher College....

Posted by: Jonah Goldberg at January 01, 2026 12:43 PM (B7UQz)

120
Remember that portal in the aliens' mother ship that Will Smith and Jeff Goldblum skeedaddled through after leaving an armed nuke counting down inside it in "Independence Day"?

You do? Well, the gap in Big Stace's front teeth is the very same thing. It's standard equipment on all ham planets sold these days.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at January 01, 2026 12:44 PM (xG4kz)

121 Just because you CAN do something doesn't mean you SHOULD do something. This is axiomatic.
Posted by: Archimedes at January 01, 2026 12:40 PM (Riz8t)

Yeah, just to open up ANOTHER can of worms, I feel the same way about TikTokers and Yootoobers who do the whole "bait the cop into violating my rights" thing.

I'm not sure anyone's gotten shot that way yet, but it wouldn't surprise me if the number who have is not zero.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 01, 2026 12:44 PM (QbJcY)

122 I like ribeye for cheesesteaks.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 01, 2026 12:44 PM (RIvkX)

123 How can anyone contemplate eating a tomahawk ribeye when Somali Learing Centers are being attacked by Trumpists?

Posted by: Lutheran Lesbians In The TC at January 01, 2026 12:17 PM (oftw2)

Nothing makes a feast better than seeing your enemies driven before you.

Shit Conan said.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 01, 2026 12:44 PM (snZF9)

124 education listed is one year at Christopher Newport University (no degree). Never heard of that place…
Posted by: LinusVanPelt

World renowned finest University in Newport News, VA!

Posted by: Skool Ratings On the Cheep at January 01, 2026 12:44 PM (oftw2)

125 Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 01, 2026 12:41 PM (YobFY)

Christopher Newport University is a d-list college in Newport News, VA spun off from William and Mary.

Posted by: Jeff Weimer at January 01, 2026 12:44 PM (gUs21)

126 My rant: I had to sign up for a trial of YouTubeTV to watch the college playoffs. There is something wrong with these games not being on OTAtv.
Posted by: toby928(c) at January 01, 2026 12:43 PM

Posted by: toby928(c) repeats himself at January 01, 2026 12:44 PM (jc0TO)

127
Oh and the only education listed is one year at Christopher Newport University (no degree). Never heard of that place…
Posted by: LinusVanPelt

It's somewhere in Virginia, IIRC

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at January 01, 2026 12:45 PM (xG4kz)

128 Christopher Newport University (CNU) is a public university in Newport News, Virginia, United States. It was founded in 1960 as Christopher Newport College, an extension school of the College of William and Mary for mid-career working professionals, members of the military, and non-traditional students in and around the Newport News area of the Hampton Roads region. The university has since expanded into a residential college for traditional students.

It is named after Christopher Newport, captain of one of the ships which carried settlers of Jamestown, the first permanent English settlement in North America.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 01, 2026 12:45 PM (Riz8t)

129 Nothing makes a feast better than seeing your enemies driven before you.

Shit Conan said.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 01, 2026 12:44 PM

Hear the lamentations of their transwomen.

Posted by: toby928(c) at January 01, 2026 12:45 PM (jc0TO)

130 When the deep state has a rumor they think will hurt an enemy, they trot out a thot like this to peddle it as if it were testimony.

The damage is done that way, with no opportunity for cross examination.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at January 01, 2026 12:45 PM (0U5gm)

131 Update on the range situation...

After a second look at my old stove, it looks like it is connected to the house-wiring with a four-wire connection (which is good!), so I think all I have to do is remove the wires from my old stove and connect the wires in the right order to my new stove.

So I'll see if Lowe's can redeliver my range tomorrow or Saturday and I'll give that a shot. I'll still double-check with a knowledgeable person, though.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel

Cut the red wire first... Or just turn off the breaker and try to lock it out in some way if there is any way anyone else can physical get to the breaker and flip it back on for you.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at January 01, 2026 12:45 PM (/lPRQ)

132 126 My rant: I had to sign up for a trial of YouTubeTV to watch the college playoffs. There is something wrong with these games not being on OTAtv.
Posted by: toby928(c) at January 01, 2026 12:43 PM

Posted by: toby928(c) repeats himself at January 01, 2026 12:44 PM (jc0TO)

======

The Oscars are going to be on YouTube in a few years. YouTube bought the rights from the Academy, replacing ABC.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at January 01, 2026 12:46 PM (GBKbO)

133 Regular daycare: Playdough

Somali daycare: C4

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at January 01, 2026 12:46 PM (L/fGl)

134 It amazes me the number of people out there who believe they the right to privacy while out in public.
Posted by: one hour sober at January 01, 2026 12:32 PM (Y1sOo)

Crank the radio and youboobs algo will take it down.

Posted by: Reforger at January 01, 2026 12:46 PM (gKsV+)

135 >>> 109

=======

Go publish something off Amazon as a nobody and just wait for the money to roll in as people just naturally discover it and realize the genius of your work!

Yeah...that don't work. You need to market it. And most writers don't have it in them to be their own marketing department.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at January 01, 2026 12:38 PM (GBKbO)

*ding ding ding*

Yeah, this too. (Although if you can get over that, at least you're making the effort, vs a publishing house that may have labeled you as politically incorrect)

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at January 01, 2026 12:46 PM (ULPxl)

136
It amazes me the number of people out there who believe they the right to privacy while out in public.
Posted by: one hour sober

OR, that you need to get a signed release ftom thrm. LOL.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 01, 2026 12:37 PM (c115l)

____________

Both true, but I also hate dicks for clicks.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 01, 2026 12:46 PM (Df91n)

137 Wait wait wait

You mean the obvious preposterous lie told by an obvious Party hatchet man ended up being a preposterous lie told by a Party hatchet man?

The hell you say!

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop1) at January 01, 2026 12:46 PM (avHHk)

138 That's why Pluto got demoted. It started orbiting around Stacy.
Posted by: Jack Horkheimer at January 01, 2026 12:40 PM (oftw2)

Astronomers were shocked to discover Saturn now only has 96 moons.

Wait... I thought they discovered a bunch more, and that the number was 274?

It was.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 01, 2026 12:47 PM (QbJcY)

139 He is getting a tomahawk ribeye those for for $60+ at Sams. I can't imagine getting one at restaurant for less than $100.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at January 01, 2026 12:26 PM (0N4FZ)
~~~~~

Yep. At steakhouse by me tomahawks go for $124. But they do throw in a couple of veggies!

Posted by: IrishEi at January 01, 2026 12:47 PM (3ImbR)

140 137 Wait wait wait

You mean the obvious preposterous lie told by an obvious Party hatchet man ended up being a preposterous lie told by a Party hatchet man?

The hell you say!

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop1) at January 01, 2026 12:46 PM (avHHk)

===

I'm gonna need you to be more specific, bruh.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at January 01, 2026 12:47 PM (GBKbO)

141 My rant: I had to sign up for a trial of YouTubeTV to watch the college playoffs. There is something wrong with these games not being on OTAtv.
Posted by: toby928(c) at January 01, 2026 12:43 PM
Posted by: toby928(c) repeats himself at January 01, 2026 12:44 PM (jc0TO)

We just got YouTube TV… like it so far. Dropped DirecTV because it’d become a shit product especially considering what they charged…

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 01, 2026 12:47 PM (YobFY)

142 I still remember 2025 like it was yesterday...

Posted by: rickb223 at January 01, 2026 12:47 PM (c115l)

143 If somebody wanted to film me walking around I’d oblige them; I’d turn my back to them, drop my pants, and bend over. Film this buddy, show it to all your friends.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 01, 2026 12:47 PM (m7iZ5)

144 "He is getting a tomahawk ribeye those for for $60+ at Sams. I can't imagine getting one at restaurant for less than $100."

Ay, ay-ay. How much for a bowl of "Ze Bugs"?

Posted by: t-bird at January 01, 2026 12:47 PM (d9i2R)

145 Here I stand in the rubble, and I never knew that a Tomahawk Rib Eye meant a rocket grande landing in my garden.

Nicholas Maduro, soon to be on the lam

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at January 01, 2026 12:48 PM (gm9Sb)

146 144 Ay, ay-ay. How much for a bowl of "Ze Bugs"?

Posted by: t-bird at January 01, 2026 12:47 PM (d9i2R)

=====

The largest insect farm used for making protein for human consumption in Europe went bankrupt in the final days of 2025.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at January 01, 2026 12:48 PM (GBKbO)

147 >>>I'm going out for steak. Specifically, a tomahawk ribeye.

WITH MADISON CORNBREAD?

Posted by: m at January 01, 2026 12:48 PM (RuTUS)

148 I still remember 2025 like it was yesterday...
Posted by: rickb223 at January 01, 2026 12:47 PM

*snort*

Posted by: toby928(c) at January 01, 2026 12:48 PM (jc0TO)

149
It is named after Christopher Newport, captain of one of the ships which carried settlers of Jamestown, the first permanent English settlement in North America.

He also invented the first rolling papers for roll your own cigarettes.

... waits for a decent interval ...

Nah, he didn't -- just messing with youse guys!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at January 01, 2026 12:49 PM (xG4kz)

150 I saw Lamentations of the Women open for Pussy Riot at the Hole in '83.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at January 01, 2026 12:49 PM (L/fGl)

151 Nothing makes a feast better than seeing your enemies

on a spit over a fire in your great hall.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 01, 2026 12:50 PM (c115l)

152 So it sounds like Christopher Newport University is pretty much a local junior college you can attend for 4 years. M Cornbread is an academic powerhouse!

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 01, 2026 12:50 PM (YobFY)

153 The Olympics are coming up in a few weeks and they will be showing a lot of Snoop Dogg. He will be an honorary coach for Team USA and part of NBC's broadcast team.

I think he is everywhere and would like to see less of him in 2026.

Posted by: Joemarine at January 01, 2026 12:50 PM (y171U)

154 The largest insect farm used for making protein for human consumption in Europe went bankrupt in the final days of 2025.

Eat Zee Bugs! Eat Zee Bugs!

Posted by: Klaus Schwab, Weirdo and Closeted Homosexual at January 01, 2026 12:51 PM (R/m4+)

155 Last year I got a tomahawk at Costco for $50. Never cooked one before. Damn. It was good.

Sigh...the gooy'ol days.

Posted by: Diogenes at January 01, 2026 12:51 PM (2WIwB)

156 Heading out
Have a great afternoon everyone

Posted by: Skip at January 01, 2026 12:51 PM (Ia/+0)

157 Surprisingly, the Orange Bowl is a defensive struggle.

Posted by: toby928(c) at January 01, 2026 12:51 PM (jc0TO)

158 Just because you CAN do something doesn't mean you SHOULD do something. This is axiomatic.
Posted by: Archimedes

Which has nothing to do with my comment.

I don't blame people for being upset at someone following them around in public and recording them. But stupid retorts like "you need my consent and I'm not giving it to you" make me laugh.

Posted by: one hour sober at January 01, 2026 12:52 PM (Y1sOo)

159 Hey, he said 'make decent money', not 'win the lottery'.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at January 01, 2026 12:33 PM (ULPxl)
---
It really depends on the book. There are people who find a genre and write to it, build a following, and get a steady income out of it without having huge sales.

My sister in law had a setup where she would spot ebooks on sale and list them on her site, and get a percentage, but Amazon eventually wound that down. She then began writing on her own, and because she had a following (and knew what they liked) she has made "decent" money.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 01, 2026 12:52 PM (ZOv7s)

160 I saw Ribeye Fifteen Year Mortgage open for Family Meat Box at The Union Stockyards.

Posted by: gp at January 01, 2026 12:52 PM (GHIyr)

161 Once one of my idiot friends ordered a tomahawk "blue" which is basically raw. It was horrific.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 01, 2026 12:53 PM (RIvkX)

162 I like this time of year in the NFL and College when coaches get fired.

Who's getting shit canned next?

Posted by: Foreskin Lint at January 01, 2026 12:53 PM (R/m4+)

163
The Olympics are coming up in a few weeks and they will be showing a lot of Snoop Dogg. He will be an honorary coach for Team USA and part of NBC's broadcast team.

I wasn't going to watch them anyway but that, all by itself, strengthened my resolve not to watch them.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at January 01, 2026 12:54 PM (xG4kz)

164 Some YT shorts of tomahawk steaks, courtesy of Miguel's Cookingwithfire:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjhEqIaKU7Y

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kP9K8Vd9F8Y

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1VcRFh_OjsI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_nacEnuzdqM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rztaw8JvCG0

Posted by: Sasquatch, the Original Trans-Wookie at January 01, 2026 12:54 PM (/mCq0)

165 If somebody wanted to film me walking around I’d oblige them; I’d turn my back to them, drop my pants, and bend over. Film this buddy, show it to all your friends.
Posted by: Tom Servo at January 01, 2026 12:47 PM (m7iZ5)

That was you???!!!

Posted by: Diogenes at January 01, 2026 12:54 PM (2WIwB)

166 My Father in Law once took us to a steak restaurant that was literally at the stockyard. The aroma of cow dung was ever present.

The steaks were pretty good though IIRC.

Posted by: toby928(c) at January 01, 2026 12:54 PM (jc0TO)

167 143 If somebody wanted to film me walking around I’d oblige them; I’d turn my back to them, drop my pants, and bend over. Film this buddy, show it to all your friends.
Posted by: Tom Servo

Ooooooh, do you live somewhere locally?

Posted by: Rudy Galindo at January 01, 2026 12:54 PM (oftw2)

168 Yeah, less Snoop Dog, please

Posted by: Lizzy at January 01, 2026 12:55 PM (YGMyl)

169 Way to go, Ace!

Ribeye has got to be *the best* cut of beef...yummy.

Add that "tomahawk" bone & you can eat it like a caveman, just for fun!

**Happy New Year**

Posted by: JQ at January 01, 2026 12:55 PM (rdVOm)

170 Mike Gallagher just reminded me that Tucker Carlson recently claimed he got scratched by a demon in his bed… he’s nutso and it’s bad theology: everywhere in the Bible where demons are mentioned they physically manifest by dwelling inside a physical being… these spirit creatures are real but they don’t scratch people. Yeah they might inhabit (example selected at random) a Somali and that human might attack and scratch you…. But a nonphysical demon scratching you; the notion is ridiculous

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 01, 2026 12:55 PM (YobFY)

171 Madison Cornbread sold a lot of her books I think.

TDS in the publishing industry is still a big seller.

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at January 01, 2026 12:55 PM (0JWOm)

172 Cut the red wire first... Or just turn off the breaker and try to lock it out in some way if there is any way anyone else can physical get to the breaker and flip it back on for you.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher

"TURN IT OFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF!!!!!"

- Things a husband hollers to his wife while being electrocuted when at the back of the range.

Posted by: Tonypete at January 01, 2026 12:55 PM (cYBz/)

173 126 My rant: I had to sign up for a trial of YouTubeTV to watch the college playoffs. There is something wrong with these games not being on OTAtv.
Posted by: toby928(c) at January 01, 2026 12:43 PM
Posted by: toby928(c) repeats himself at January 01, 2026 12:44 PM (jc0TO)

It is the ABC/ESPN/Disney+ monopoly of college football.

Posted by: Joemarine at January 01, 2026 12:57 PM (y171U)

174 Anyone following me and taking my picture had better not be alone.

Posted by: Diogenes at January 01, 2026 12:57 PM (2WIwB)

175 It is the ABC/ESPN/Disney+ monopoly of college football.
Posted by: Joemarine at January 01, 2026 12:57 PM

It would be fine if ABC carried the games rather than ESPN.

Posted by: toby928(c) at January 01, 2026 12:58 PM (jc0TO)

176
But a nonphysical demon scratching you; the notion is ridiculous
Posted by: LinusVanPelt

I heard that he and his missus own a big-assed dog or two.

You got scratched by your own slobbering canine(s) while you slept, Dumb Ass.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at January 01, 2026 12:58 PM (xG4kz)

177 I saw part of his released "testimony "and he said 140 Capitol Police were injured...Seriously ?

Posted by: It's me donna at January 01, 2026 12:58 PM (VE6XX)

178 It's 3-0 Oregon 5 minutes into the 2nd quarter.

Slow game.

Posted by: toby928(c) at January 01, 2026 12:58 PM (jc0TO)

179 Anyone following me and taking my picture had better not be expecting to earn any clicks from the effort. Boring subject IRL.

Posted by: gp at January 01, 2026 12:59 PM (GHIyr)

180 so I think all I have to do is remove the wires from my old stove and connect the wires in the right order to my new stove.

--
Take video of yourself disconnecting stuff
So helpful in reconnecting

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at January 01, 2026 12:59 PM (0JWOm)

181 Yeah, this too. (Although if you can get over that, at least you're making the effort, vs a publishing house that may have labeled you as politically incorrect)
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at January 01, 2026 12:46 PM (ULPxl)
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Having multiple books is another factor. It allows you to push something new, and the back catalog often sees a boost as well.

The genre is big, though. My history books sell pretty well because they effectively market themselves whenever someone does a topic search. If you look up Spanish Civil War, Long Live Death really stands out (primarily because just about every other book on the topic calls itself "The Spanish Civil War").

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 01, 2026 12:59 PM (ZOv7s)

182 @162 Giants will can Kafka, Raiders I doubt will keep Carroll , Schottenheimer at Dallas questionable

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 01, 2026 01:00 PM (zNwXb)

183 >>It would be fine if ABC carried the games rather than ESPN.

Wait, I watched a game yesterday on WEAR via DirecTV. Are you saying wasn't broadcast over the air?

Posted by: one hour sober at January 01, 2026 01:00 PM (Y1sOo)

184 My hope for 2026 is that Sonny Bono is exhumed from his grave, his bones burned, and his ashes scattered.

I have a passion against the Copyright Extension Act of 1998.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at January 01, 2026 01:00 PM (GBKbO)

185 >>Once one of my idiot friends ordered a tomahawk "blue" which is basically raw. It was horrific.

I don't like the Ribeye cut because you have to cook it to near medium for it to be good.

It tastes good.
But, I prefer my steak rare and my filet just about raw.

Posted by: garrett at January 01, 2026 01:00 PM (grNgC)

186
It would be fine if ABC carried the games rather than ESPN.
Posted by: toby928(c)

It would be fine if Bain really existed and he had teams dig tunnels under every stadium where those games were played, collapsed each one of them at the optimum moment to swallow up both teams, and put an end to the whole farce.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at January 01, 2026 01:00 PM (xG4kz)

187 Making a pot pie with the rib bones and fat from my pre-Christmas rib roast. Homemade broth, meat off the bones, veg, and spices. Cheap meal b/c the meat was already paid for, but a pain in my butt...but this is a once a year meal. Gonna have some strawberries and cherries with it (b/c you only get fresh cheap cherries two times a year - New Year's and summer)...

Made some (allergy safe - yeah kid Xmas present) butter pecan blondies with my allergy safe all natural butter pecan syrup for dessert - a little goes a long way.

Posted by: Nova Local at January 01, 2026 01:00 PM (tOcjL)

188 Wait, I watched a game yesterday on WEAR via DirecTV. Are you saying wasn't broadcast over the air?
Posted by: one hour sober at January 01, 2026 01:00 PM

I don't know. I'm talking about playoff bowls.

Posted by: toby928(c) at January 01, 2026 01:00 PM (jc0TO)

189 Happy and healthy 2026, all. Built a nice fire to test out the hearth last night and Little and I toasted the New Year with a tequila that someone gifted me for Christmas. Neither one of us are tequila drinkers, so we'll resolve to avoid that particular spirit in 2026...

Posted by: Somali Jon Lovitz at January 01, 2026 01:01 PM (nbLIj)

190 Tucker got scratched like Muhammad got ridden by the guys from al-Zutt

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 01, 2026 01:01 PM (zNwXb)

191 Anyone else remember how Rush called them "Schtimon und Schuster"?

Posted by: pookysgirl, giving sick Lil Pooky all the Tchaikowsky he wants at January 01, 2026 01:01 PM (Wt5PA)

192 Happy new year to everyone and may God bless you this coming year with peace, joy, love, and wisdom.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 01, 2026 01:01 PM (3Amc7)

193 You electric range people are way too fancy for me. Yak dung meets all my cooking needs and I get it free.

Posted by: Yak-ov Smirnoff at January 01, 2026 01:02 PM (oftw2)

194 My hope for 2026 is that Sonny Bono is exhumed from his grave, his bones burned, and his ashes scattered.

Over the Salton Sea.

Posted by: Only Fitting at January 01, 2026 01:02 PM (R/m4+)

195 "Take video of yourself disconnecting stuff
So helpful in reconnecting"

Coroner may find the video useful in determining CoD.

Posted by: gp at January 01, 2026 01:02 PM (GHIyr)

196 I think Hugh Howey put a lot of his stuff online at writer/fan websites before he started collecting it into omnibuses. It's popularity was spread by fans. That probably helped with "marketing".

Posted by: banana Dream at January 01, 2026 01:02 PM (3uBP9)

197 177 I saw part of his released "testimony "and he said 140 Capitol Police were injured...Seriously ?
Posted by: It's me donna at January 01, 2026 12:58 PM (VE6XX)

Foot blisters from being on their feet and walking all day...

Posted by: Nova Local at January 01, 2026 01:02 PM (tOcjL)

198 It's quite simple . . .

https://is.gd/uncr7jC

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at January 01, 2026 01:02 PM (L/fGl)

199 I have a passion against the Copyright Extension Act of 1998.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at January 01, 2026 01:00 PM (GBKbO)
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I know. I've been watching your video.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 01, 2026 01:03 PM (ESVrU)

200 >>I'm talking about playoff bowls.

Oh, yeah, you said that. I brain-farted on that one.

Posted by: one hour sober at January 01, 2026 01:03 PM (Y1sOo)

201 If you are possessed you could inflict harm on yourself without remembering it.
Also if you are mentally ill.
And porque no los dos...

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at January 01, 2026 01:03 PM (0JWOm)

202 Every single accusation against Trump is either 20 years old, second had hearsay, or "I just showed up 6 weeks before the election to call CNN."

Its tedious and pretty clear it doesn't move the needle at all.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 01, 2026 01:03 PM (3Amc7)

203
Take video of yourself disconnecting stuff
So helpful in reconnecting
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport

More helpful in providing larfs for us when you find out that you hadn't turned off the proper circuit as you started to disconnect wires.

No, seriously, be safe!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at January 01, 2026 01:03 PM (xG4kz)

204

The Washington state attorney general released a statement on X Tuesday evening warning independent journalists to stop investigating fraudulent Somali daycare centers or they could be charged with a hate crime.

https://t.ly/wno_B

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 01, 2026 01:03 PM (pkeXY)

205 It amazes me the number of people out there who believe they the right to privacy while out in public.
Posted by: one hour sober at January 01, 2026 12:32 PM (Y1sOo)

It's one thing to be videoed randomly while doing a random thing, like entering a storefront. But if the camera operator follows you around, that is stalking, and a good reason to rearrange his cranial corpsucles.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 01, 2026 01:03 PM (8zz6B)

206 Seen on X: a Somali daycare was found in Detroit, with an even more egregious sign.

QUAIALITY
Child Care & Le & Learning Center

Posted by: Ian S. at January 01, 2026 01:03 PM (QZThv)

207 Nova Local, a pressure cooker will make that broth in about 20 - 40 minutes.
That is the final step for anything with bones, for me.

Posted by: Kindltot at January 01, 2026 01:04 PM (rbvCR)

208 Oregon fakes a punt for a first down just to get something going.

Posted by: toby928(c) at January 01, 2026 01:04 PM (jc0TO)

209 199 I have a passion against the Copyright Extension Act of 1998.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at January 01, 2026 01:00 PM (GBKbO)
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I know. I've been watching your video.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 01, 2026 01:03 PM (ESVrU)

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Like and subscribe!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at January 01, 2026 01:04 PM (GBKbO)

210 I personally recommend AH Lloyd's, Long Live Death. I learned a lot from that book.

Posted by: Reforger at January 01, 2026 01:04 PM (gKsV+)

211 https://is.gd/S62cMz

@sovereignbrah
BREAKING:
Newsmax anchor Carl Higbie calls on President Trump to preemptively pardon every American taxpayer who participates in the 2026 nationwide tax strike.
==
I don't think it works that way, but...

https://is.gd/O0Eyh0
@DHSgov
Gird yourself with spirit of 1776.

2026 will be the year of American Supremacy.
[image]
==
Curious that they're showing the famous painting *cropped* to show James Monroe and the one other dude (ie NOT including George Washington).

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at January 01, 2026 01:04 PM (ULPxl)

212 @184 TJM, Disney puts a lot of cash in pols pockets to keep Mickey Mouse etc

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 01, 2026 01:04 PM (zNwXb)

213 >>The Washington state attorney general released a statement on X Tuesday evening warning independent journalists to stop investigating fraudulent Somali daycare centers or they could be charged with a hate crime.

That's just a bit unconstitutional.

Posted by: garrett at January 01, 2026 01:04 PM (grNgC)

214 Looks like Iran is now in civil war. Soldiers and police have joined the protests, Khamanei has fled Tehran (or stepped out for a drink of water, either way) and several cities are not in the Islamic Republic's control

Posted by: gKWVE at January 01, 2026 01:05 PM (gKWVE)

215 The Washington state attorney general released a statement on X Tuesday evening warning independent journalists to stop investigating fraudulent Somali daycare centers or they could be charged with a hate crime.

https://t.ly/wno_B
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 01, 2026 01:03 PM (pkeXY)

And we thought England had nothing left to teach us.

Posted by: Kindltot at January 01, 2026 01:05 PM (rbvCR)

216 I wasn't paying attention. Swear him in again.

Posted by: thug dolphin at January 01, 2026 01:05 PM (EyfuW)

217 everywhere in the Bible where demons are mentioned they physically manifest by dwelling inside a physical being… these spirit creatures are real but they don’t scratch people. Yeah they might inhabit (example selected at random) a Somali and that human might attack and scratch you…. But a nonphysical demon scratching you; the notion is ridiculous
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 01, 2026 12:55 PM (YobFY)
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In the Book of Tobit, the demon Asmodeus killed seven men (husbands of Sarah). He was defeated by the archangel Raphael.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 01, 2026 01:05 PM (ZOv7s)

218 74 Heading over for a family gathering, my dad's birthday is today.
89 down hopefully at least 10 more to go.
Posted by: Skip at January 01, 2026 12:30 PM (Ia/+0)

Happy birthday, Skip's dad!

Posted by: m at January 01, 2026 01:05 PM (RuTUS)

219 Anyone following me and taking my picture had better not be expecting to earn any clicks from the effort. Boring subject IRL.
Posted by: gp

Tell me about it.

Posted by: Bob from NSA at January 01, 2026 01:05 PM (L/fGl)

220 Tucker got scratched like Muhammad got ridden by the guys from al-Zutt

I think that Islam is gonna have another pass at the Hadiths to delete a bunch more as "unreliable" soon because they are getting slaughtered over several of those stories.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 01, 2026 01:06 PM (3Amc7)

221 The Washington state attorney general released a statement on X Tuesday evening warning independent journalists to stop investigating fraudulent Somali daycare centers or they could be charged with a hate crime.
https://t.ly/wno_B
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 01, 2026 01:03 PM (pkeXY)
~~~~~

Yep, and Harmeet Dhillon was all over that idiot in no time!

Fighting back is fun.

Posted by: IrishEi at January 01, 2026 01:06 PM (3ImbR)

222 Last night, ABC was showing a New Year’s Eve show (Dick Clark’s rock in’ Eve?) at the same time the Miami-OSU game was being televised on ESPN. I guess they believe all football fans will have ESPN or Hulu or some other streaming service and they can advertise to non-football fans on ABC

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 01, 2026 01:06 PM (/iXAp)

223 Eating out at a SteakHouse, a real SteakHouse, not some, fast food SteakHouse, is going to set you back 150 per person easy.

2 - 3 people, add booze and dessert and tip, easy 450-650 dollar night.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 01, 2026 01:06 PM (XV/Pl)

224 75 Crockpot country style ribs, corn bread
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at January 01, 2026 12:31 PM (Vh9CX)

Madison Cornbread!

Posted by: m at January 01, 2026 01:06 PM (RuTUS)

225 Update on the range situation...

After a second look at my old stove, it looks like it is connected to the house-wiring with a four-wire connection (which is good!), so I think all I have to do is remove the wires from my old stove and connect the wires in the right order to my new stove.

So I'll see if Lowe's can redeliver my range tomorrow or Saturday and I'll give that a shot. I'll still double-check with a knowledgeable person, though.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 01, 2026 12:32 PM

I saw the first sentence and thought it was a gun thread comment. Then it became a food thread comment. You people are making me think it's Sunday.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at January 01, 2026 01:06 PM (9iRTe)

226 212 @184 TJM, Disney puts a lot of cash in pols pockets to keep Mickey Mouse etc

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 01, 2026 01:04 PM (zNwXb)

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Yeah, but Sonny Bono sponsored the act.

I do count the blessings that we didn't get the Copyright Extension Act of 2018, though. Disney did try, but no one on Capitol Hill would put themselves out there for it.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at January 01, 2026 01:07 PM (GBKbO)

227 What's the over/under on NYC having an entertaining crisis? One month? Six?

Posted by: toby928(c) at January 01, 2026 01:07 PM (jc0TO)

228 Looks like Iran is now in civil war. Soldiers and police have joined the protests, Khamanei has fled Tehran (or stepped out for a drink of water, either way) and several cities are not in the Islamic Republic's control
Posted by: gKWVE at January 01, 2026 01:05 PM (gKWVE)

We could send Obama there as a special envoy to help settle the crowd and support the measured transfer of power to the new regime. He could take a pallet of his own speeches to help ease the transition.

Posted by: Kindltot at January 01, 2026 01:07 PM (rbvCR)

229 >>Eating out at a SteakHouse, a real SteakHouse, not some, fast food SteakHouse, is going to set you back 150 per person easy.

Move closer to your meat. You are looking at half that price, here.

Posted by: garrett at January 01, 2026 01:08 PM (grNgC)

230 Sonny Bono delivered meat in Los Angeles before meeting Cher and they became Caesar and Cleo. So, this thread has reached completion.

Posted by: The Beat Goes On at January 01, 2026 01:08 PM (oftw2)

231 Just went sledding, my back hurts, but it was worth it. Being "29" can be rough sometimes.

Posted by: Cray Cray at January 01, 2026 01:08 PM (EES2L)

232 227 What's the over/under on NYC having an entertaining crisis? One month? Six?

Posted by: toby928(c) at January 01, 2026 01:07 PM (jc0TO)

=======

Mamdani needs to say something or push some policy that gets 10% of the NYPD to quit first.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at January 01, 2026 01:08 PM (GBKbO)

233 Looks like Iran is now in civil war. Soldiers and police have joined the protests, Khamanei has fled Tehran (or stepped out for a drink of water, either way) and several cities are not in the Islamic Republic's control
Posted by: gKWVE at January 01, 2026 01:05 PM (gKWVE)

Good. Hopefully lots of casualties all around, death and destruction.

Can't make hummus without cracking some chickpeas.

Posted by: Zombie Mohammad Reza Pahlavi at January 01, 2026 01:09 PM (R/m4+)

234 There will be cornbread and cane syrup for New Years meal (cooked and served this Saturday, because).

Posted by: Eromero at January 01, 2026 01:09 PM (Slgjz)

235 Christopher Taylor, I was thinking of you the other day. Good things, of course.

How are you doing?

Posted by: Kindltot at January 01, 2026 01:09 PM (rbvCR)

236 Nick Shirley's printed up some hoodies with the Learing Center sign except the phone number is replaced with 1-800-FRAUD.

And people with experience in such things noted that the drywall was clearly cut from the inside, which is amazing for a break-*in*.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 01, 2026 01:09 PM (QZThv)

237 I personally recommend AH Lloyd's, Long Live Death. I learned a lot from that book.
Posted by: Reforger at January 01, 2026 01:04 PM (gKsV+)
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Thanks!

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 01, 2026 01:09 PM (ZOv7s)

238 In the Book of Tobit, the demon Asmodeus killed seven men (husbands of Sarah). He was defeated by the archangel Raphael.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 01, 2026 01:05 PM (ZOv7s)

I’ve never heard of the Book of Tobit. As a Protestant can I guess that’s in the Apocrypha? I know it’s not in the Protestant canon

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 01, 2026 01:09 PM (/iXAp)

239
We could send Obama there as a special envoy to help settle the crowd and support the measured transfer of power to the new regime. He could take a pallet of his own speeches to help ease the transition.
Posted by: Kindltot

He could officiously and self-importantly lecture the mullahs about ceasing to be bigots and vote for the black woman. Lotsa larfs if that happened, there would be.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at January 01, 2026 01:09 PM (xG4kz)

240 Butts do Madison stuff, my man.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 01, 2026 12:17 PM (06Hmj)

____

In Soviet Russia, butt stuff does you!

Posted by: Cray Cray at January 01, 2026 01:09 PM (EES2L)

241 233 Looks like Iran is now in civil war. Soldiers and police have joined the protests, Khamanei has fled Tehran (or stepped out for a drink of water, either way) and several cities are not in the Islamic Republic's control
Posted by: gKWVE at January 01, 2026 01:05 PM (gKWVE)

Good. Hopefully lots of casualties all around, death and destruction.

Can't make hummus without cracking some chickpeas.

Posted by: Zombie Mohammad Reza Pahlavi at January 01, 2026 01:09 PM (R/m4+)

=======

This is just the culmination of all the diplomatic work that Biden did to undermine tyranny in the Middle East. Why does Trump keep stealing credit for Biden's successes?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at January 01, 2026 01:09 PM (GBKbO)

242 So I'll see if Lowe's can redeliver my range tomorrow or Saturday and I'll give that a shot. I'll still double-check with a knowledgeable person, though.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel

I'm jumping ahead.
You have no 220 plug for that current range?
Wildly out of code.

Posted by: MkY at January 01, 2026 01:10 PM (q6tQZ)

243 Sounds vaguely familiar...

@LeadingReport 2m
BREAKING: Kathy Hochul to propose No Tax on Tips legislation in New York’s 2027 executive budget.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 01, 2026 01:11 PM (mlg/3)

244 >>But if the camera operator follows you around, that is stalking

I think it would be more a case of harassment

Posted by: one hour sober at January 01, 2026 01:11 PM (Y1sOo)

245 We could send Obama there as a special envoy to help settle the crowd and support the measured transfer of power to the new regime. He could take a pallet of his own speeches to help ease the transition.
Posted by: Kindltot at January 01, 2026 01:07 PM (rbvCR
And Neil Young, don’t forget him.

Posted by: Eromero at January 01, 2026 01:11 PM (Slgjz)

246 Tomahawk ribeye is a good plan.

Today is movie day with the wife. She hates movies so this is are rare opportunity.

Starting with Citizen Kane, then maybe L. A. Confidential or Sicario.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at January 01, 2026 01:11 PM (xcxpd)

247 One of the things that'll change in a hurry once I'm King - book advances will be illegal. You get paid on the back end, end of story. This transparent farce of a money laundering scheme needs to be shut down.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 01, 2026 01:11 PM (BI5O2)

248 BREAKING: Kathy Hochul to propose No Tax on Tips legislation in New York’s 2027 executive budget.

Yesterday she was saying she was going to double-tax tips in order to resist Trump.

I guess that went over well!

Posted by: Ian S. at January 01, 2026 01:12 PM (QZThv)

249 It has to have buttermilk in it.

Posted by: thug dolphin at January 01, 2026 01:12 PM (EyfuW)

250
So I'll see if Lowe's can redeliver my range tomorrow or Saturday and I'll give that a shot. I'll still double-check with a knowledgeable person, though.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel

Man, we're going to hear about this clear into Sunday, aren't we?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at January 01, 2026 01:12 PM (xG4kz)

251 I’ve never heard of the Book of Tobit. As a Protestant can I guess that’s in the Apocrypha? I know it’s not in the Protestant canon
Posted by: LinusVanPelt

It's important for the Aramaic-Levi / Qahat side of the Qumran sect. It endorses the inbreeding they were doing.
As to why the Catholics accepted this absolute nonsense, I dunno. Catholics if anything were first to ban cousin bumping. They should have banned Tobit too

Posted by: gKWVE at January 01, 2026 01:13 PM (gKWVE)

252 238 In the Book of Tobit, the demon Asmodeus killed seven men (husbands of Sarah). He was defeated by the archangel Raphael.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 01, 2026 01:05 PM (ZOv7s)

I’ve never heard of the Book of Tobit. As a Protestant can I guess that’s in the Apocrypha? I know it’s not in the Protestant canon
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 01, 2026 01:09 PM (/iXAp)

Maybe he wrote Tobit's Spirit Guide?

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at January 01, 2026 01:13 PM (xcxpd)

253 Starting with Citizen Kane, then maybe L. A. Confidential or Sicario.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards

If you start with Citizen Kane, be sure to add your own film school commentary for the entirety. Chicks dig that.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 01, 2026 01:13 PM (mlg/3)

254 Off Somoli sock.

And I'm off to prep some baby backs. Low and slow in the oven, I think. I'll check outside conditions, but think another day is needed before we get into the 70's here...

Posted by: Joe Kidd at January 01, 2026 01:13 PM (nbLIj)

255 >>> 247 One of the things that'll change in a hurry once I'm King - book advances will be illegal. You get paid on the back end, end of story. This transparent farce of a money laundering scheme needs to be shut down.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 01, 2026 01:11 PM (BI5O2)

REEEEE!!!

Posted by: Hollywood Accounting, what profits??? at January 01, 2026 01:13 PM (ULPxl)

256 Happy birthday, Skip's dad!
Posted by: m at January 01, 2026 01:05 PM (RuTUS)
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Mazel!

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 01, 2026 01:13 PM (RIvkX)

257 I won my fantasy football league this season, 300 bucks, might take the wife to a steak house, we have a good one in town, $300 will cover us, but not with much to spare.

Posted by: Lincolntf at January 01, 2026 01:13 PM (vV6n9)

258 I’ve never heard of the Book of Tobit. As a Protestant can I guess that’s in the Apocrypha? I know it’s not in the Protestant canon
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 01, 2026 01:09 PM (/iXAp)
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It is in the Catholic, Orthodox and Coptic canon. Lots of actually important stuff was cut out of Protestant Bibles to make the cheaper.

Maccabees being removed is fascinating, because it's the source for Hannukah. Also crucial to understand the context for the Zealots.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 01, 2026 01:13 PM (ZOv7s)

259 Oregon is 2/4 on 4th down attempts in the first half.

Tech has gone for one also.

Both teams are moving the ball between the 30s, but not paying off on anything.

Posted by: toby928(c) at January 01, 2026 01:14 PM (jc0TO)

260 246 Tomahawk ribeye is a good plan.

Today is movie day with the wife. She hates movies so this is are rare opportunity.

Starting with Citizen Kane, then maybe L. A. Confidential or Sicario.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at January 01, 2026 01:11 PM (xcxpd)

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End big.

Freddy Got Fingered.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at January 01, 2026 01:14 PM (GBKbO)

261 And Neil Young, don’t forget him.
Posted by: Eromero

Sean Penn isn't busy, either.

Posted by: Imam In The Well at January 01, 2026 01:14 PM (oftw2)

262 Mamdani needs to say something or push some policy that gets 10% of the NYPD to quit first.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at January 01, 2026 01:08 PM (GBKbO)

His "stop arresting any Muslims and if you do, the DA will cut my man loose inside of 12 hours" policy ought to do the trick.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 01, 2026 01:14 PM (BI5O2)

263
Yesterday [Hochul] was saying she was going to double-tax tips in order to resist Trump.

Antifa countered with saying they were going to double-tip taxis. Hochul was stunned at their sauciness.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at January 01, 2026 01:15 PM (xG4kz)

264 Been watching vids of uprisings in both Iran and China. Iranian government is close to collapse, and China is seeing protests and unrest like never before
Cue Braveheart : FREEDOM

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 01, 2026 01:15 PM (zNwXb)

265 170 Mike Gallagher just reminded me that Tucker Carlson recently claimed he got scratched by a demon in his bed… he’s nutso and it’s bad theology: everywhere in the Bible where demons are mentioned they physically manifest by dwelling inside a physical being… these spirit creatures are real but they don’t scratch people. Yeah they might inhabit (example selected at random) a Somali and that human might attack and scratch you…. But a nonphysical demon scratching you; the notion is ridiculous
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 01, 2026 12:55 PM (YobFY)

Good point... In the New Testament the demons have possession of people and are not outside of human bodies.

Posted by: Joemarine at January 01, 2026 01:15 PM (y171U)

266 @LeadingReport 2m
BREAKING: Kathy Hochul to propose No Tax on Tips legislation in New York’s 2027 executive budget.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 01, 2026 01:11 PM (mlg/3)

A Christmas miracle. It sounds like when Nicolai Ceausescu tried to placate the angry and rebellious crowd by promising increases in social welfare and old age pensions

Posted by: Kindltot at January 01, 2026 01:15 PM (rbvCR)

267 >>> You got scratched by your own slobbering canine(s) while you slept, Dumb Ass.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at January 01, 2026 12:58 PM (xG4kz)

We had a giant black lab. Dark as the void. One night, I'm on my side and felt a strange presence, I opened my eyes and the dog was just standing there and his head was 2" from my face just watching me. He was tall enough that his head was just above the bed. Anyway, after about a second he sneezed right on my face, licked my face clean again, and then climbed up and laid down beside/ontop of me.

Posted by: banana Dream at January 01, 2026 01:15 PM (3uBP9)

268 The largest insect farm used for making protein for human consumption in Europe went bankrupt in the final days of 2025.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at January 01, 2026 12:48 PM (GBKbO)

The cannery got a bug in it.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 01, 2026 01:15 PM (8zz6B)

269 If you want girls to like you, you must show ReAnimator.

Posted by: thug dolphin at January 01, 2026 01:15 PM (EyfuW)

270 Maybe he wrote Tobit's Spirit Guide?
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards

🎯 I understood that reference. 🎯

Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 01, 2026 01:15 PM (mlg/3)

271 End big.

Freddy Got Fingered.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at January 01, 2026 01:14 PM (GBKbO)

Trolling...

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at January 01, 2026 01:15 PM (xcxpd)

272 262 Mamdani needs to say something or push some policy that gets 10% of the NYPD to quit first.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at January 01, 2026 01:08 PM (GBKbO)

His "stop arresting any Muslims and if you do, the DA will cut my man loose inside of 12 hours" policy ought to do the trick.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 01, 2026 01:14 PM (BI5O2)

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"I encourage my Muslim brothers to exercise their religious freedoms on Broadway, enforcing Sharia on the rich New Yorkers and tourists who just want to go see a show."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at January 01, 2026 01:16 PM (GBKbO)

273 270 Maybe he wrote Tobit's Spirit Guide?
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards

🎯 I understood that reference. 🎯
Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 01, 2026 01:15 PM (mlg/3)

*Fist bump*

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at January 01, 2026 01:16 PM (xcxpd)

274 237 I personally recommend AH Lloyd's, Long Live Death. I learned a lot from that book.
Posted by: Reforger at January 01, 2026 01:04 PM (gKsV+)
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Thanks!
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd
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Ditto. I knew the general contours but AH brings the knowledge sauce in the book. Excellent military history of the conflict to the extent you could build a wargame out of it.

Posted by: whig at January 01, 2026 01:16 PM (WDjG6)

275 271 End big.

Freddy Got Fingered.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at January 01, 2026 01:14 PM (GBKbO)

Trolling...

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at January 01, 2026 01:15 PM (xcxpd)

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If she can't appreciate absurdist humor in it's most refined and precise form, I just don't know what to say.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at January 01, 2026 01:16 PM (GBKbO)

276 @toby Entertaining game so far. I'm trying to pace myself so I'm still awake for the Ole Miss game (niece and nephew's alma mater), but today is made for beer and football.

Posted by: Lincolntf at January 01, 2026 01:17 PM (vV6n9)

277
And Neil Young, don’t forget him.
Posted by: Eromero

Sean Penn isn't busy, either.
Posted by: Imam In The Well

Invite James Taylor along or he'll sniff, snivel and kick the dirt with his sneakers clear into the summer from the rejection.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at January 01, 2026 01:17 PM (xG4kz)

278 142 I still remember 2025 like it was yesterday...
Posted by: rickb223 at January 01, 2026 12:47 PM (c115l)

; )

Posted by: m at January 01, 2026 01:17 PM (RuTUS)

279 Madison Cornbread can’t beat Martha White Biscuits!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at January 01, 2026 01:18 PM (1paM0)

280 Been watching vids of uprisings in both Iran and China. Iranian government is close to collapse, and China is seeing protests and unrest like never before

I hope they succeed, and casualties are low. Well, except among the current rulers. F*** those guys.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 01, 2026 01:18 PM (Riz8t)

281 We are agreed that 1 Maccabees is great, although as a Zionist text, the Jewish Diaspora couldn't use it.
I hear it's back in vogue in Israel though. It's been back-translated into Hebrew a few times.

Posted by: gKWVE at January 01, 2026 01:19 PM (gKWVE)

282 Eating out at a SteakHouse, a real SteakHouse, not some, fast food SteakHouse, is going to set you back 150 per person easy.

Move closer to your meat. You are looking at half that price, here.
Posted by: garrett

I'm 150 yds from it on the hoof. Any closer and I'd have to run faster.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 01, 2026 01:19 PM (c115l)

283 @toby Entertaining game so far. I'm trying to pace myself so I'm still awake for the Ole Miss game (niece and nephew's alma mater), but today is made for beer and football.
Posted by: Lincolntf at January 01, 2026 01:17 PM

Bama can win today, especially if the OLine can give Simpson 4 or 5 seconds, but I am not expecting it. Indiana may not be all 5-stars but they play consistent and complimentary football. They don't beat themselves.

Posted by: toby928(c) at January 01, 2026 01:19 PM (jc0TO)

284 The Anglicans would have Tobit as well, and Tucker claims to be one, so it checks out on that side.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 01, 2026 01:19 PM (ZOv7s)

285 Been watching vids of uprisings in both Iran and China. Iranian government is close to collapse, and China is seeing protests and unrest like never before

George Soros must be suicidal. Islam and the CCP are likely important for his One World Feudalism plan.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 01, 2026 01:19 PM (QZThv)

286 As of now, if the NYPD wants to enforce laws on Muslims, they're going to have to be very selective, and rely on the old "shot resisting arrest" method.

I predict rape gangs before this year is out. The AWFLs are going to deeply regret putting this guy in office, which they are overwhelmingly responsible for doing.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 01, 2026 01:20 PM (BI5O2)

287 BWAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!
You can't make thjs shit up.
Today the rotating presidency of the UN Security Council goes to...Somalia!
Gawd!

Posted by: Diogenes at January 01, 2026 01:20 PM (2WIwB)

288 "He also invented the first rolling papers for roll your own cigarettes."

Naaah, it was the Zig-Zag Man! "Qualite Superieure!"

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at January 01, 2026 01:20 PM (Cjt/F)

289 If she can't appreciate absurdist humor in it's most refined and precise form, I just don't know what to say.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at January 01, 2026 01:16 PM (GBKbO)

I am literally praying she enjoys 'Late Spring'. I'm winding up with that.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at January 01, 2026 01:20 PM (xcxpd)

290 286 I predict rape gangs before this year is out. The AWFLs are going to deeply regret putting this guy in office, which they are overwhelmingly responsible for doing.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 01, 2026 01:20 PM (BI5O2)

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I'm reminded of that picture of two young women celebrating the fall of the Shah in Iran, leaning out of a car.

One was executed by the new regime, and the other is still in exile in Sweden, I believe.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at January 01, 2026 01:20 PM (GBKbO)

291 > What are your plans? I've got a good one. I haven't been to a restaurant in at least a month but I'm going out for steak. Specifically, a tomahawk ribeye.

Yum. Me and Mrs Alligator decided for a last-minute long-overdue restaurant trip last night for NYE. Was well worth it. Prix Fixe. All courses were good except the dry aged steak which was overdone and tasted like the only aging it got was between the fridge and the griddle.

Today I am going to do something to the effect of nothing. Play some video games. Screw around with random AI projects. Watch people hike to amazing places on youtube.

Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at January 01, 2026 01:21 PM (1Nv0l)

292 289 If she can't appreciate absurdist humor in it's most refined and precise form, I just don't know what to say.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at January 01, 2026 01:16 PM (GBKbO)

I am literally praying she enjoys 'Late Spring'. I'm winding up with that.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at January 01, 2026 01:20 PM (xcxpd)

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"MARK! I WILL NOT READ A MOVIE!"

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at January 01, 2026 01:21 PM (GBKbO)

293 BWAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!
You can't make thjs shit up.
Today the rotating presidency of the UN Security Council goes to...Somalia!
Gawd!

I really hope they try to push something to punish the US for kicking their countrymen out. We could then leave with both middle fingers held high.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 01, 2026 01:21 PM (Riz8t)

294 PDT interviewed Nick Shirley and showed a poll reporting that 70% believe nothing will happen out of this scandal, that Walz not only won't resign or be charged but actually will win re-election. Such profound cynicism -- I'm not sure Trump and his team are grokking its danger.

Posted by: Ordinary American at January 01, 2026 01:21 PM (b4LBp)

295 Today the rotating presidency of the UN Security Council goes to...Somalia!

I saw people laughing about that a few weeks ago. It's of course gotten much funnier since then.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 01, 2026 01:21 PM (QZThv)

296 A three-letter word for 'cat' beginning with 'c' and ending with 't'... Who do they think I am, Alfred Epstein?!

Posted by: Doing the Somali Times crossword puzzle at January 01, 2026 01:22 PM (d9i2R)

297 Hey, it's past noon. Let the drinking commence!

Posted by: toby928(c) at January 01, 2026 01:22 PM (jc0TO)

298 ThePersistence @ScottPresler

This is day 1 of asking @LeaderJohnThune to pass the SAVE Act.

Whereas proof of citizenship is not required to register to vote;

Whereas Texas found thousands of illegal aliens on its voter rolls;

Whereas states like CA, OR, & WA, give Driver’s Licenses to illegal aliens;

Whereas Minnesota allows for 1 registered voter to vouch for 8 other persons without an ID;

Whereas the American people demand fair elections;

Whereas restoring confidence in our elections would inspire more Americans to vote;

Whereas federal elections begin in Wisconsin February 2026;

Now, therefore, be it resolved that Senate Majority Leader Thune should swiftly bring forth a vote on the SAVE Act and utilize every means to pass the bill with a simple majority vote.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at January 01, 2026 01:22 PM (P5BPp)

299 We are agreed that 1 Maccabees is great, although as a Zionist text, the Jewish Diaspora couldn't use it.
I hear it's back in vogue in Israel though. It's been back-translated into Hebrew a few times.
Posted by: gKWVE at January 01, 2026 01:19 PM (gKWVE)
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Tobit is a prophetic book prefiguring Christ, which was why it was cut from the Hebrew canon. Chock full of symbolism. Maccabees was cut because they made the monarchy look good.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 01, 2026 01:22 PM (ZOv7s)

300 Can't see chowing down on tomahawk when 1 out of 3 children of coler go to bed hangry!

Posted by: Mary Of Brattleboro, VT at January 01, 2026 01:22 PM (oftw2)

301 267, dogs rock! they are the best!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at January 01, 2026 01:22 PM (Cjt/F)

302 Maccabees being removed is fascinating, because it's the source for Hannukah. Also crucial to understand the context for the Zealots.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 01, 2026 01:13 PM (ZOv7s)

I've never read the Apocrypha, but the 1984 Zondervan NIV Study Bible has an excellent "Between the Testaments" section that I've bookmarked.

Posted by: pookysgirl prefers the NIV to the ESV at January 01, 2026 01:22 PM (Wt5PA)

303 Looks like Iran is now in civil war. Soldiers and police have joined the protests, Khamanei has fled Tehran (or stepped out for a drink of water, either way) and several cities are not in the Islamic Republic's control
Posted by: gKWVE at January 01, 2026 01:05 PM (gKWVE)

Good. Hang all the mullahs, ayatollahs, and imams. Every God-damned (literally) one of them.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 01, 2026 01:22 PM (8zz6B)

304 George Soros must be suicidal. Islam and the CCP are likely important for his One World Feudalism plan.
Posted by: Ian S.
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George is ga ga by all accounts. Alex and Huma are the ones that might be upset.

I honestly think a lot of the open society bullshit was because Soros knew the time and date when actions would come down allowing him to make investments accordingly that would benefit.

I think the whole thing was actually a giant grifting opportunity and also benefitted his drive for evil that the Soviets and Not Sees promoted in him. Win Win for him, Lose Lose for everyone else.

Posted by: whig at January 01, 2026 01:24 PM (WDjG6)

305 Good. Hang all the mullahs, ayatollahs, and imams. Every God-damned (literally) one of them.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

Ok, wait, do they have any Esso Stations?

Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 01, 2026 01:24 PM (mlg/3)

306 that Walz not only won't resign or be charged but actually will win re-election.

Someone crunched the numbers and found the rest of Minnesota went hard GOP enough that the Somali-majority districts decide the whole thing. That's why Walz looks like he has permanent flop sweat every time ICE shows up.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 01, 2026 01:24 PM (QZThv)

307 Move closer to your meat. You are looking at half that price, here.
Posted by: garrett at January 01, 2026 01:08 PM (grNgC)

Is the Beef and Bone steakhouse in Ulm a worthy place to eat?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 01, 2026 01:25 PM (8zz6B)

308
why Scott Presler doesn't have a job working directly for PDT baffles me.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at January 01, 2026 01:25 PM (Cjt/F)

309 George Soros must be suicidal. Islam and the CCP are likely important for his One World Feudalism plan.
Posted by: Ian S. at January 01, 2026 01:19 PM (QZThv)
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China is in a really bad way. They have no social safety net, because since the liberalization, they didn't need one. Even in recession they saw growth because when factories in the West laid off workers, they moved the jobs to China when demand picked up.

There is talk of returning to central planning, and we all know how that will turn out.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 01, 2026 01:25 PM (ZOv7s)

310 The ending of LA Confidential was so over the top it ruined what was potentially a mediocre movie.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at January 01, 2026 01:25 PM (wBaIH)

311 >>Starting with Citizen Kane, then maybe L. A. Confidential or Sicario.

Good lineup.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 01, 2026 01:25 PM (viF8m)

312
And I'm off to prep some baby backs. Low and slow in the oven, I think.

A modest proposal.

Posted by: Jonathan Swiftboat at January 01, 2026 01:25 PM (pkeXY)

313 Move closer to your meat.

Garrett likes getting close to meat.

Posted by: Especially ace's at January 01, 2026 01:26 PM (TbWk/)

314 And.... Fredonia is going to war!

Posted by: Rufus T. Firefly at January 01, 2026 01:26 PM (oftw2)

315 306 that Walz not only won't resign or be charged but actually will win re-election.

Someone crunched the numbers and found the rest of Minnesota went hard GOP enough that the Somali-majority districts decide the whole thing. That's why Walz looks like he has permanent flop sweat every time ICE shows up.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 01, 2026 01:24 PM (QZThv)

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MN has been stubbornly resistant to the rightward direction that's been on and off across the Midwest over the last 20 years or so.

It seems to have gotten worse in the last few years which coincide coincidentally with the rise of white, female, MN politicians putting on hijabs.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at January 01, 2026 01:26 PM (GBKbO)

316 China is in a really bad way. They have no social safety net, because since the liberalization, they didn't need one. Even in recession they saw growth because when factories in the West laid off workers, they moved the jobs to China when demand picked up.

I've heard they have a lot of problems with their domestic infrastructure too, because it's made to Chinese quality standards.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 01, 2026 01:26 PM (QZThv)

317 314 And.... Fredonia is going to war!

Posted by: Rufus T. Firefly at January 01, 2026 01:26 PM (oftw2)

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I'd follow you into battle. As long as I get my cut.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at January 01, 2026 01:27 PM (GBKbO)

318 Oh lord. I'm praying for 2 things.

1.) The Iranian regime folds like a cheap suit

2.) Whatever wicked, destructive treachery the US plans for post-Khamenei Iran doesn't work

My hope is Russia or more likely China places it in their sphere of influence, before we can get our shit together. At least they'll attempt to keep it from becoming another Islamist rogue state instead of doing that on purpose.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 01, 2026 01:27 PM (BI5O2)

319 I'm reminded of that picture of two young women celebrating the fall of the Shah in Iran, leaning out of a car.

One was executed by the new regime, and the other is still in exile in Sweden, I believe.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

Nothing quite as funny as an omen read wrong. . .

Posted by: Tonypete at January 01, 2026 01:27 PM (cYBz/)

320 Oregon is 2/4 on 4th down attempts in the first half.

Tech has gone for one also.

Both teams are moving the ball between the 30s, but not paying off on anything.

Posted by: toby928(c) at January 01, 2026 01:14 PM

Texas Tech possessions:

3-and-out
3-and-out
INT
Missed 54-yd FG
Fumble

Once again, the team with the bye not playing well at all.

So far, teams with byes have not won a playoff game. 0-for-5. This could make 6.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at January 01, 2026 01:27 PM (P5BPp)

321 Now, therefore, be it resolved that Senate Majority Leader Thune should swiftly bring forth a vote on the SAVE Act and utilize every means to pass the bill with a simple majority vote.
Posted by: Clyde Shelton
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The filibuster has to be broken to do that. Dems and a few shithead defectors like Murcow, McConnell, and perhaps Collins aren't going to side with the GOP on that.

Trump though is having his DoJ sue to have voting rolls cleaned up in multiple fraud ridden states. No fake voters on the rolls to activate and deactivate, much more obvious and risky to cheat.

Posted by: whig at January 01, 2026 01:27 PM (WDjG6)

322 There’s not a single bowl game on regular tv. On New Years Day.

What has this country become?

Posted by: nurse ratched at January 01, 2026 01:27 PM (IhIKR)

323 I predict rape gangs before this year is out. The AWFLs are going to deeply regret putting this guy in office, which they are overwhelmingly responsible for doing.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 01, 2026 01:20 PM (BI5O2)

Granddaughter #1 of Diogenes has one more year in that shit hole to finish her grad work. I can't wait for her to leave.

Posted by: Diogenes at January 01, 2026 01:28 PM (2WIwB)

324 I've heard they have a lot of problems with their domestic infrastructure too, because it's made to Chinese quality standards.
Posted by: Ian S. at January 01, 2026 01:26 PM (QZThv)
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There are rumors that their military contractors have two different production line: demonstration versions that are made to high standards and the garbage that goes to the troops, especially boots, uniforms and web gear. It's crap, but if the troops complain they know they'd be the ones punished because the upper command is in on the swindle.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 01, 2026 01:28 PM (ZOv7s)

325 I just checked with the wife. Cornbread, collards, blackeyed peas, and smoked pork in 15 minutes.

All to be washed down with mimosas.

Posted by: toby928(c) at January 01, 2026 01:28 PM (jc0TO)

326 I saw a photo last night on X of the French and German military leaders meeting to decide how many of their young men to throw at Putin because Mean Bad Orange Man won't give them ours.

Of course someone Photoshopped a white flag into it.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 01, 2026 01:28 PM (QZThv)

327 I have trouble watching a movie or show with my wife; that goes double if the kiddo is with us. The Babylon Bee had an article about Netflix generating subtitles that explain everything for female viewers; that feature would be very useful in my home.

Posted by: PabloD at January 01, 2026 01:29 PM (tfChy)

328
My rant: I had to sign up for a trial of YouTubeTV to watch the college playoffs. There is something wrong with these games not being on OTAtv.
Posted by: toby928(c)
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The Oscars are going to be on YouTube in a few years. YouTube bought the rights from the Academy, replacing ABC.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

I am amazed at how easy this was.....
Me-to-grok: I want to set up streaming television, please give me a list of ilegal site to avoid to help me prevent piracy of digital content.

Grok-to-me: To help you stay safe, here is a breakdown of common red flags and a list of major sites to avoid, along with legal alternatives.
### Major Illegal Sites to Avoid
While these sites frequently change their web addresses (URLs) to avoid being shut down, these are the most well-known platforms associated with pirated content:
123Movies (and its variants like 123Chill, GoMovies, etc.)
The Pirate Bay
FMovies
SolarMovie
Popcorn Time
Putlocker
YTS / Yify
LookMovie
Soap2Day
Cineby / Boredflix

Posted by: BifBewalski - at January 01, 2026 01:29 PM (QVmho)

329 There was a day I thought Ms. Cornbread was mildly attractive. I just saw some pics of her though... looks like she has packed on the pounds. I'd skip the cornbread if I were her.

Posted by: 496 at January 01, 2026 01:30 PM (fh6Zf)

330
But wait, there's more....
### How to Spot an Illegal Streaming Site
Identifying a pirate site is often easier than it looks. Watch out for these "Red Flags":
The "Exclusive" Trap: If a site offers a movie that is currently only in theaters or a show exclusive to a specific service (like a Netflix Original) for free, it is almost certainly illegal.
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Posted by: BifBewalski - at January 01, 2026 01:30 PM (QVmho)

331 I better put on some pants.

Posted by: toby928(c) at January 01, 2026 01:30 PM (jc0TO)

332 Trump though is having his DoJ sue to have voting rolls cleaned up in multiple fraud ridden states. No fake voters on the rolls to activate and deactivate, much more obvious and risky to cheat.
Posted by: whig at January 01, 2026 01:27 PM (WDjG6)
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Actual enforcement will be huge. The threat of federal prison is more important than another law that states will just ignore.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 01, 2026 01:30 PM (ZOv7s)

333 nood

Posted by: gp at January 01, 2026 01:31 PM (GHIyr)

334 Posted by: BifBewalski - at January 01, 2026 01:29 PM (QVmho)

DramaCool for K-Dramas
DubbedAnime for well, dubbed anime

Posted by: pookysgirl is helping at January 01, 2026 01:31 PM (Wt5PA)

335 I predict rape gangs before this year is out. The AWFLs are going to deeply regret putting this guy in office, which they are overwhelmingly responsible for doing.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 01, 2026 01:20 PM (BI5O2)

They'll either consider it the price of diversity, or find a way to blame it on racist white toxic masculinity. They don't experience regret, shame, embarrassment, introspection, or the connection of cause and effect. Their actions never have consequences and the buck stops anywhere else but with them.

Posted by: Accountability-free must be nice at January 01, 2026 01:32 PM (TbWk/)

336 I saw a photo last night on X of the French and German military leaders meeting to decide how many of their young men to throw at Putin because Mean Bad Orange Man won't give them ours.

Of course someone Photoshopped a white flag into it.
Posted by: Ian S. at January 01, 2026 01:28 PM (QZThv)
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Resistance to conscription might finally break the German Establishment's death grip on power.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 01, 2026 01:32 PM (ZOv7s)

337 @319 yup. The Communists were all in on overthrowing the Shah and putting in Khomeini. Then he had them all killed as being godless

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 01, 2026 01:33 PM (zNwXb)

338 Ok, wait, do they have any Esso Stations?
Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 01, 2026 01:24 PM (mlg/3)

Maybe they still have sufficient High-lifts

Posted by: Kindltot at January 01, 2026 01:34 PM (rbvCR)

339 Good plans Ace, a rib eye sounds wonderful.
Beats my Stouffers lasagna, that's for sure.

Posted by: From about That Time at January 01, 2026 01:36 PM (sl73Y)

340 Tobit, or not Tobit, that is the question.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except Better at January 01, 2026 01:42 PM (L/fGl)

341 The Washington state attorney general released a statement on X Tuesday evening warning independent journalists to stop investigating fraudulent Somali daycare centers or they could be charged with a hate crime.

https://t.ly/wno_B
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.

The broad response to the AG should be -
FU, you racist POS.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at January 01, 2026 01:47 PM (/lPRQ)

342 Alyssa Farah from the View helped create that monster.

Dear Alyssa had briefly been the White House director of strategic communications and Assistant to the President in 2020 during the presidency of Donald Trump.

Wikipedia, "Griffin was press secretary for U.S. Vice President Mike Pence and special assistant to President Donald Trump from October 2017 to September 2019. In 2019, she was appointed the youngest press secretary of The Pentagon in history.[2] She served as deputy assistant to the secretary of defense for public affairs and the press secretary for the United States Department of Defense from 2019 to 2020.[3][4][5]"

Not too deep state planning, right?

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at January 01, 2026 01:57 PM (NFX2v)

343 Dear GOPe

Fuck all of you

Allowing this horrendous circus to even take place proves you were never going to have any balls for anything. Nevermind locating them to fight with.

Ass masters

Posted by: melodicmetal at January 01, 2026 02:01 PM (gxffc)

344 Isn't that similar to the ugly psycho chick claiming Trump raped her? IIRC and I haven't paid close attention to all the lawsuits, but that's the one he's called a "felon" for?

Posted by: ChrisW at January 01, 2026 04:30 PM (rLfcT)

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