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Wednesday Overnight Open Thread - June 25, 2025 [TRex]

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

This is the Wednesday night ONT. Pull up a chair and sit a spell. Be nice to your fellow commenters.

[Top photo: The Natchez-Vidalia Bridge spans across the Mississippi River and links Mississippi and Louisiana]

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The passing of Fred Smith, founder of FedEx, seems like it got lost amid all the news of the weekend. The Wednesday night ONT will pause for a moment in honor or Mr. Smith.

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The Dassault Cargo Falcon 20 is a French jet aircraft that, on April 17, 1973, became the first to carry a Federal Express air package. This was a new milestone in the history of air transport in the United States and created a new category of airline, the exclusive air express carrier. Within a decade, no less than thirty-three were flying on the spokes of the Federal Express network. The service was so successful that, by the early 1980s, its front-line aircraft were expanded to the McDonnell Douglas DC-10Cs, whose cargo holds were big enough to carry several Falcons each. NASM site

Did the FedEx concept come from a college paper that earned a "C" grade? Not really.

In 1965, while he was earning a Bachelor's degree in economics at Yale University, Frederick Smith penned a term paper for Professor Challis A. Hall's Economics 43A class which contained an outline for a delivery service that would use a "hub and spokes" concept to handle the routing of parcels. (This plan entails first directing packages through a central sorting facility before dispatching them onwards to their intended destinations.)

A number of sources assert the term paper earned a C from the instructor who marked it. However, while that aspect of the tale has been widely touted as fact, it does not appear to be verifiable. Smith himself fed the acceptance of this element of the story by once stating in an offhand comment about the term paper "I guess I got my usual gentlemanly C," but in a 2002 interview Smith acknowledged "I don't really remember what grade I got. I probably didn't get a very good one, though, because it wasn't a well-thought-out paper." (Questioning Professor Hall, the man who bestowed the grade, is out of the question because he died in 1968.) Snopes

At age 29, Smith launched Federal Express with his own money. He first tested the initial 25-city network, flying empty boxes across the country, and then went live on April 17, 1973. To keep the network of cities growing, he raised $90 million in venture capital from investors like Allstate and Newport Securities. The company endured twenty-six months running at a loss before it broke even. Over the next couple of decades, Smith committed to ensuring detailed transport information such as estimated arrival times and prompt deliveries. PBS website

Click here to watch a 3 minute FedEx "behind the scenes" video at the Memphis hub.

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The cookie jar is the logical first destination once invisibility has been activated.

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Motorsports madness - make sure your volume is on!

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Hat tip: Grateful

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You know things are getting serious when the military brings out the big dog.

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Oldie but still a goodie.

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Random TV Trivia: in its original run, The Jetsons only aired 24 episodes across a span of six months from 1962-1963. It was cancelled due to low ratings. Reruns got such high viewership over the years that in 1985, 51 more episodes were produced.

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Best wishes to anyone in Los Angeles driving on the 405. Lane closures started last night for a road refresh.

The project will overhaul the Sepulveda Pass. It will cover a 10 mile stretch between the 101 Freeway and Sunset Blvd.

It is being led by Caltrans, and includes ramp expansions, bridge retrofitting, drainage and safety upgrades. It is projected to cost $144 million and last 4 years. In California terms, double both and you're probably closer to how it will play out.

There will be overnight lane closures from about 9am to 6am. Some weekends will see full closures. All construction activities will be suspended for 3 months in summer 2028 for the Olympics.

Good luck!

If the words "construction on the 405" do not mean anything to you, count your blessings.

PS. With $6 gas, maybe nobody can afford to drive anyway.

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This is interesting in a "how did they do that" sort of way:

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You are sitting with Ace of Spades open on your computer paying rapt attention to ONT content and comments, but your mind is really wondering "What would happen if a watermelon got zapped by a bolt of lightning?"

Exit quote: "The melon has achieved a high state of division."

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Today I learned that Boeing once converted a B-17 for TWA. TWA then sold it to the Shah of Iran.

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TWA's B-17G was delivered too late to see combat. In 1946 and 1947, Boeing converted the military model B-17G to become the civilian Model 299AB. With basic TWA markings and the tail number NL1B, the airline's B-17 was used to scout prospective routes.

It was later sold to the Shah of Iran. The Shah used it a personal plane to make frequent airborne inspection surveys of his country. It was fitted with ten seats, a three-quarter bed and a galley complete with stove. The Shah was checked out as pilot of the B-17 after 14 hours flying at the controls.

Serial number 44-85728 was scrapped in 1970.

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There is something very, very wrong in Belgium. Caution advised if you choose to watch this video. Do not recommend.

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World's largest cheese tasting held in Colombia

Guinness World Records confirmed Alpina Productos Alimenticios S.A.S BIC earned the record for the world's largest cheese tasting event when 1,185 people sampled dairy delicacies in Sopo, Cundinamarca, Colombia.

The company took the record from Australia's Kangaroo Valley Agricultural and Horticultural Association, which gathered 1,000 people for a cheese tasting in 2019.

Guinness World Records rules required all participants to sample three varieties of cheese. The cheeses chosen for the event were Gruyere, Sopo and Argovia.

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The Pittsburgh police scanner is like a slow motion car crash. It is frightening to know this is not fiction but I can't look away.

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In honor of Mick Ralphs, Bad Company provides the big ONT finish.

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BDA pending. Thank you for your attention to this matter. Written correspondence can be sent to moronhobbies at protonmail dot com. Are you lurking ?? Was the ONT really two minutes early? Yep, we're rebellious like that.

Posted by: Open Blogger at 09:58 PM




Comments

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1 There is no rational explanation for the ONT. It just is.

Posted by: mindful webworker - thinking at June 25, 2025 09:59 PM (0NO3o)

2
Good Evening

Posted by: four seasons at June 25, 2025 09:59 PM (3ek7K)

3 The passing of Fred Smith, founder of FedEx, seems like it got lost amid all the news of the weekend.

Lost? He founded FedEx, not the USPS.

Posted by: mikeski at June 25, 2025 09:59 PM (DgGvY)

4 Yay, Color TV Day ONT!

https://youtu.be/4Lg7edyGJYc
https://youtu.be/a6otjCKg594

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at June 25, 2025 10:00 PM (lUFok)

5 Sorry I'm late, I was trying to get some fresh chocolate milk, but that farmer's field only had white cows.

Posted by: tankdemon at June 25, 2025 10:01 PM (R256O)

6 Aye...Sorry I'm late the Honeymooners was on.

Posted by: Admiral Spinebender at June 25, 2025 10:01 PM (hftn9)

7 After Andy Griffith....

Posted by: Admiral Spinebender at June 25, 2025 10:02 PM (hftn9)

8 Zone 3. Caller says that his ex-girlfriend goes to his apartment building and rails the other residents to get back at him. He wants to make a report.

I didn't know Pennsylvania had a law about that. Second-degree Aggravated Sluttery!

Posted by: mikeski at June 25, 2025 10:02 PM (DgGvY)

9 The inherent problem with soccer is, at the end of the day, it’s just a bunch of guys kicking a ball around a field at giant nets for 90 minutes.

It’s largely impervious to analysis and the big moment that will be recorded in the anals of history like you would have in other sports.

Show me the soccer equivalent of the ball gets by Buckner or do you believe in miracles.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 25, 2025 10:02 PM (XV/Pl)

10 Aye...Sorry I'm late the Honeymooners was on.

Don't feel bad, I was in the shower chomping at the water like a dog will do with the hose.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at June 25, 2025 10:03 PM (lUFok)

11 Yay! Dino night!
Hiya T😷...

Back to content...👆...

Posted by: COMountainMarie at June 25, 2025 10:03 PM (ZwGHJ)

12 This time he'll do communism right!

Bill Melugin@BillMelugin_8
Some of the things socialist NYC mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani has previously called for:
- Abolish NYPD
- Abolish prisons
- Abolish medical bills
- Abolish private health insurance
- Ban all guns
- Legalize sex work
- Safe injection sites
- End cash bail
- Decriminalize drug possession
- End sentencing enhancements
- End all cooperation with ICE

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Well, This Is Another Fine Mess You've Gotten Me Into at June 25, 2025 10:03 PM (L/fGl)

13 Just Made a chocolate milk Black Russian for my honey....Prolly racist. I know.

Posted by: Admiral Spinebender at June 25, 2025 10:03 PM (hftn9)

14 Good evening good people. I grew up with 5 sisters, been married a few times, and most of my good buddies are women but, would someone please explain this to me:

Dear wife waited until after sunset to have me help her plant some new plants into the flower garden.

I don't get it.

Posted by: Tonypete at June 25, 2025 10:03 PM (cYBz/)

15 The Calvin and Hobbes strip is hilarious.

Posted by: Piper at June 25, 2025 10:03 PM (pRpzT)

16 @6

>>Aye...Sorry I'm late the Honeymooners was on.

Can it core a Apple?

Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 25, 2025 10:04 PM (XV/Pl)

17 11 Yay! Dino night!

Posted by: COMountainMarie at June 25, 2025 10:03 PM
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Hello COMM!!

Posted by: TRex at June 25, 2025 10:04 PM (cCn4/)

18 Who's driving the wiener into the rear of that cargo plane?

Posted by: davidt at June 25, 2025 10:04 PM (i0F8b)

19 If Caltrans is doing all this work on the 405, does it now get called the 810?

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at June 25, 2025 10:05 PM (S/Y4j)

20
TonyPete,

When we lived in the South I planted alot of things after dark. It would be so hot and humid when the sun was out.

Posted by: four seasons at June 25, 2025 10:06 PM (3ek7K)

21 Evenin'

I was trying to remember the singer of that song posted above. I remembered the song, the pretty brunette gal singing it, the sultry blue eyes (or were they green?), a sexy voice.

Alannah Myles.

Thanks, TRex.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at June 25, 2025 10:06 PM (wBh67)

22 Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at June 25, 2025 10:00 PM (lUFok)

Huh? I thought you were going to say it was Global Beatles Day.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 25, 2025 10:06 PM (0eaVi)

23 Using Flightaware or similar apps, it is astounding to see all the air traffic arriving at Memphis during the late evening and early morning.

Posted by: Tonypete at June 25, 2025 10:06 PM (cYBz/)

24 It was later sold to the Shah of Iran. The Shah used it a personal plane to make frequent airborne inspection surveys of his country. It was fitted with ten seats, a three-quarter bed and a galley complete with stove.

A three-quarter bed?

Was the Shah that short?

Or is that what the Magic Fingers cost?

Posted by: mikeski at June 25, 2025 10:07 PM (DgGvY)

25 Good evening good people. I grew up with 5 sisters, been married a few times, and most of my good buddies are women but, would someone please explain this to me:

Dear wife waited until after sunset to have me help her plant some new plants into the flower garden.

I don't get it.


Perhaps she misunderstood why her Italian friend's "gardening at night" made all her problems with her missing husband go away.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at June 25, 2025 10:07 PM (lUFok)

26 21 Evenin'

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at June 25, 2025 10:06 PM
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Good evening, Sir! Glad you're on duty.

Posted by: TRex at June 25, 2025 10:08 PM (cCn4/)

27 I always find it fascinating that The Jetsons had only one season. Their penetration into the cultural zeitgeist was incredible. Almost romantic, when you think about it.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at June 25, 2025 10:08 PM (CHHv1)

28 Alright, friends. Time to take my personal doge out for the last time tonight. He is already a sleepy puppy anyway.

Posted by: Piper at June 25, 2025 10:09 PM (QzINz)

29 Also, I should probably mention this, though it has been pointed out previously many times: cats are evil.

Totally evil.

If you think they're just "adjusting" you've been consumed.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at June 25, 2025 10:09 PM (CHHv1)

30 I just dropped into say that TXMOME X is looking forward to seeing all of you.

Posted by: Ben Had at June 25, 2025 10:09 PM (ZIggv)

31
You won't see all of me.

Michelle Fields

Posted by: four seasons at June 25, 2025 10:10 PM (3ek7K)

32 6 Aye...Sorry I'm late the Honeymooners was on.
Posted by: Admiral Spinebender at June 25, 2025 10:01 PM (hftn9)

Late for the ONT? TO THE MOON, ALICE!

Posted by: tankdemon at June 25, 2025 10:10 PM (R256O)

33 I'll be there, Ben Had!

Posted by: LRob in OK, Moron and Lunatic at June 25, 2025 10:11 PM (ha1wR)

34 Wasn't Black Velvet here a few days ago?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 25, 2025 10:11 PM (63Dwl)

35 NYC mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani likely accomplishments:

Generate calls for a giant wall around the city, with very few access points

So much trash and drug paraphernalia will rest against the UN building that they'll leave for someplace cleaner and safer - like Mogadishu

His first corruption trial will start less than six months after beginning his term.

Others?

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at June 25, 2025 10:11 PM (S/Y4j)

36 Okay, so I ordered a bacon cheeseburger and when it came it looked like a skull on my plate. I showed my friend and he saw it too. So I snapped a picture.

I'm looking at the picture now, and the cheeseburger doesn't look like a skull, no matter how hard I try to see it.

There's a French word for that, right?

Posted by: Bombadil at June 25, 2025 10:11 PM (MX0bI)

37 30 I just dropped into say that TXMOME X is looking forward to seeing all of you.

Posted by: Ben Had at June 25, 2025 10:09 PM
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Yeah. What Ben Had said. Do not disappoint Ben Had by missing it.

Posted by: TRex at June 25, 2025 10:11 PM (cCn4/)

38 Hey all you ONT respectables....

Just dropping in to "surf" the vibe.(Brian Wilson of the BEACH BOYS...RIP)

Posted by: Nightwatch at June 25, 2025 10:12 PM (25kuG)

39 Hellooooooooooo, ball!

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 25, 2025 10:12 PM (63Dwl)

40 Who's driving the wiener into the rear of that cargo plane?
Posted by: davidt


Driving a hotdog into a cargo plane > throwing a hotdog down a hallway

Posted by: mikeski at June 25, 2025 10:13 PM (DgGvY)

41 LRob, it is always a pleasure to see you.

Posted by: Ben Had at June 25, 2025 10:13 PM (ZIggv)

42 haven't heard that in quite some time

Posted by: Don Black at June 25, 2025 10:13 PM (AOsQT)

43 I just dropped into say that TXMOME X is looking forward to seeing all of you.
Posted by: Ben Had
************
You tell them Ben Had, and remind them it'll be the very best weekend with a zillion memories to take home with them!

Posted by: Grateful - the range bag lady at June 25, 2025 10:13 PM (cCn4/)

44 Hey all you ONT respectables....


Who?

Posted by: LRob in OK, Moron and Lunatic at June 25, 2025 10:13 PM (ha1wR)

45 Ever wonder what we're gonna do with 40 million illegals?


CalMatters
@CalMatters

[California Democrats] lawmakers are weighing a provision that would allow developers to pay a lower wage for some construction projects, theoretically stimulating housing production in California.


$6 a day wages for greedy kulaks.

Posted by: 13times at June 25, 2025 10:13 PM (P7CL5)

46 The bowling meme was a good laugh for me.

Posted by: Don Black at June 25, 2025 10:14 PM (AOsQT)

47 Those Pittsburgh cops were probably on the roof partying.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at June 25, 2025 10:14 PM (wBh67)

48 36 Okay, so I ordered a bacon cheeseburger and when it came it looked like a skull on my plate. I showed my friend and he saw it too. So I snapped a picture.

I'm looking at the picture now, and the cheeseburger doesn't look like a skull, no matter how hard I try to see it.

There's a French word for that, right?
Posted by: Bombadil at June 25, 2025 10:11 PM (MX0bI)
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Well, the Latin word for seeing shit that looks like other shit is "pareidolia." I imagine the French derivative would be "faux-skullez du burgre." However, I only had two semesters of French in high school, so I admit that I am a bit rusty.

Posted by: Pennsyltucky at June 25, 2025 10:15 PM (QdGJh)

49 Others?
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf

NYC renamed Sodom and Gomorrah.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Well, This Is Another Fine Mess You've Gotten Me Into at June 25, 2025 10:16 PM (L/fGl)

50 Will 405 construction affect the 5 to San Diego?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 25, 2025 10:16 PM (0eaVi)

51 Thanks for the grithy ONT, TRex! Great photo up top.

The Pittsburgh scanner makes me glad I live... elsewhere.

Calvin and Hobbes is always good!

Posted by: Legally Sufficient at June 25, 2025 10:16 PM (kB9dk)

52 Old advice about planting--the idea was to avoid the sun if the temps were really high by planting after sundown. However, watering the new plants in after sundown contradicted the also old advice to not water plants at night.

Posted by: Lirio100 at June 25, 2025 10:16 PM (zS4/f)

53 12
New York,...frankly deserves every kind of punishment that they will stupidly vote for.

Because, they ARE STUPID!!!

(voted for AOC....right?)

Posted by: Nightwatch at June 25, 2025 10:17 PM (25kuG)

54 51 Thanks for the grithy ONT, TRex!

Posted by: Legally Sufficient at June 25, 2025 10:16 PM
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{{Respectful bow in the direction of Legally Sufficient}}

Posted by: TRex at June 25, 2025 10:17 PM (cCn4/)

55 Royale with cheese.

Posted by: Vincent Vega at June 25, 2025 10:17 PM (i0F8b)

56 Who's driving the wiener into the rear of that cargo plane?
Posted by: davidt
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"When correctly viewed, everything is lewd" - T. Lehrer

Posted by: buddhaha at June 25, 2025 10:17 PM (8s11j)

57 Pretty sure I have an Alannah Myles cd in my collection.

Posted by: Turn 2 at June 25, 2025 10:19 PM (6TlG5)

58 Posted by: Tonypete at June 25, 2025 10:03 PM (cYBz/)

Because it's too damn hot during the day?

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at June 25, 2025 10:19 PM (Vvh2V)

59 Heya T -Rex!

Whoot! Thank you for the ONT!
🦦

Posted by: nurse ratched at June 25, 2025 10:19 PM (mT+6a)

60 Pittsburgh, Point Breeze-Brushton St:

Dang, Bill Kristol must be hard up for funds!

Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 25, 2025 10:19 PM (0eaVi)

61 Pittsburgh Scanner confirms something everyone has realized:

The typical crime victim is not a typical citizen. More likely to be doing something involving drugs &/or hookers. And carrying a concealed weapon, too.

A sheriff I knew once famously said, "Nothing good happens after midnight."

Posted by: mnw at June 25, 2025 10:20 PM (kd60y)

62 I love the Pittsburg Police Scanner. I want that job.

LOVE Bad Company.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at June 25, 2025 10:20 PM (6PCLE)

63 The passing of Fred Smith, founder of FedEx
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Roleplaying games' quests just wouldn't be the same without him.

Posted by: Methos at June 25, 2025 10:20 PM (Dnobf)

64 59 Heya T -Rex!

Posted by: nurse ratched at June 25, 2025 10:19 PM
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Good evening! Woot back atcha!

Posted by: TRex at June 25, 2025 10:21 PM (cCn4/)

65 🎼"Freedom's just another word.. when nothin's left to lose
Nothin' ain't worth nothin' honey but it's free
And eatin' good's a mys'try, Lo-ord.. Mommy sold her shoes
You know eatin' food was good enough for me
Good enough for me until Mayor Mamdani ... " 🎶

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Well, This Is Another Fine Mess You've Gotten Me Into at June 25, 2025 10:22 PM (L/fGl)

66 @sentdefender11h

Speaking earlier at the NATO Summit in The Hague, U.S. President Trump revealed that the 7 B-2A Spirit Long-Range Stealth Bombers that participated in Operation “MIDNIGHT HAMMER” this past weekend, were escorted by F-22 Raptors and F-35A Lightning IIs, with support from 52 aerial-refueling tankers both before and after bombing the nuclear sites in Iran.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 25, 2025 10:22 PM (yXf+h)

67 Putting on the Ritz - sneaky. Awesome content, TRex.

Posted by: scampydog at June 25, 2025 10:23 PM (41CYW)

68
Our dog groomer's business is a mobile operation. She normally gets here at 8 a.m. on our grooming day. She called today to ask if she could be here at 7 a.m.

Hubby laughed and said okay we'll have to wake up the dogs, lol.

Posted by: four seasons at June 25, 2025 10:23 PM (3ek7K)

69 18 Who's driving the wiener into the rear of that cargo plane?
Posted by: davidt at June 25, 2025 10:04 PM (i0F8b)


Urgent cargo for the Uranus colony.

Posted by: gKWVE at June 25, 2025 10:23 PM (gKWVE)

70 So some dude is going door to door in Pittsburgh offering hand jobs for donations so he can buy crack.


WE FOUND HUNTER!!! He's in Pittsburgh.

Posted by: Orson at June 25, 2025 10:24 PM (dIske)

71 >>A number of sources assert the term paper earned a C from the instructor who marked it. However, while that aspect of the tale has been widely touted as fact, it does not appear to be verifiable.

I was taught this in business school. I don't even care if it's true. It's a great lesson for anyone who dreams big. There will always be people telling you that your idea is stupid and it won't work. The world is changed by people who don't listen to what can't be done.

Carry on.

Posted by: JackStraw at June 25, 2025 10:24 PM (viF8m)

72 {{{BenHad}}}
Working hard to make it❣

I'm still trying to figure out details so my chickens will be ok while I'm gone, but I'm tryin'....

Posted by: COMountainMarie at June 25, 2025 10:24 PM (ZwGHJ)

73 you don't have to grow up addicted to smack
going round the street selling handjobs for crack

Posted by: gKWVE at June 25, 2025 10:25 PM (gKWVE)

74
Ray Croc vs Fred Smith vs Steve Jobs vs George Washington Carver?

Posted by: Soothsayer at June 25, 2025 10:25 PM (aX9W2)

75 Paul Rodgers has one of the best, if not the best, voices in Rock. Just gorgeous.

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at June 25, 2025 10:25 PM (Vvh2V)

76 A sheriff I knew once famously said, "Nothing good happens after midnight."
Posted by: mnw
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That Sheriff must have had a shitty sex life.

Posted by: buddhaha at June 25, 2025 10:26 PM (8s11j)

77 Because it's too damn hot during the day?
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor

It was only 94F today.

Nah, that couldn't be it. . . . .

Posted by: Tonypete at June 25, 2025 10:26 PM (cYBz/)

78 67 Putting on the Ritz - sneaky. Awesome content, TRex.

Posted by: scampydog at June 25, 2025 10:23 PM
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Doggo claims a gold star for spotting the sneaky link.

Posted by: TRex at June 25, 2025 10:26 PM (cCn4/)

79 Fred Smith, a handsome name for good delivery.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 25, 2025 10:27 PM (yXf+h)

80

So it appears it's a Widely Held Belief, a.k.a. a myth, that George Washington Carver invented peanut butter.

That's sad cuz that fake "fact" was 50% of fake black fake history month.

Posted by: Soothsayer at June 25, 2025 10:27 PM (aX9W2)

81 I never liked the Shah or his secret police (the SAVAK).

I enjoy imagining his skinny adz bouncing around in that drafty, war surplus bomber.

Posted by: mnw at June 25, 2025 10:27 PM (kd60y)

82 Using Flightaware or similar apps, it is astounding to see all the air traffic arriving at Memphis during the late evening and early morning.
Posted by: Tonypete at June 25, 2025 10:06 PM (cYBz/)
* * * *
That's one of my favorite apps on the laptop and phone. I use it to track the firefighting aircraft and student helo flights.

Posted by: Legally Sufficient at June 25, 2025 10:28 PM (kB9dk)

83 If the words "construction on the 405" do not mean anything to you, count your blessings.
PS. With $6 gas, maybe nobody can afford to drive anyway.


Yikes. Ours is just over $3.

Posted by: nerdygirl at June 25, 2025 10:29 PM (0Htd1)

84 COMM, I can not even begin to express how much joy there would be having you with us.

Posted by: Ben Had at June 25, 2025 10:29 PM (ZIggv)

85 You tell them Ben Had, and remind them it'll be the very best weekend with a zillion memories to take home with them!
Posted by: Grateful - the range bag lady

Heard there may be Commemorative Plates!!!

Posted by: Some Rat at June 25, 2025 10:30 PM (TfUTr)

86 Or is he pulling the wiener out?

Posted by: davidt at June 25, 2025 10:30 PM (i0F8b)

87 I was taught this in business school. I don't even care if it's true. It's a great lesson for anyone who dreams big. There will always be people telling you that your idea is stupid and it won't work. The world is changed by people who don't listen to what can't be done.

Carry on.
Posted by: JackStraw at June 25, 2025 10:24 PM (viF8m)
_____________________________

Only pikers go to high school.

Posted by: Dave Thomas at June 25, 2025 10:31 PM (dIske)

88 SAVAK couldn't win at Kobayashi Maru.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 25, 2025 10:31 PM (63Dwl)

89 👋 hi nurse!

Posted by: COMountainMarie at June 25, 2025 10:31 PM (ZwGHJ)

90 Some Rat, I heard there are things in the planning that no expects.

Posted by: Ben Had at June 25, 2025 10:32 PM (ZIggv)

91
Or is he pulling the wiener out?
Posted by: davidt


Just the radiator.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 25, 2025 10:32 PM (63Dwl)

92
I wonder if Ace is upset about his Gainzz mentor, the Liver King, getting sent up.

Posted by: Soothsayer at June 25, 2025 10:32 PM (aX9W2)

93 Wait, is that the nose of the cargo plane?

Posted by: davidt at June 25, 2025 10:32 PM (i0F8b)

94 Ray Croc vs Fred Smith vs Steve Jobs vs George Washington Carver?
Posted by: Soothsayer

I see Jeff Bezos is getting married.

https://is.gd/JUUbXh

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Well, This Is Another Fine Mess You've Gotten Me Into at June 25, 2025 10:33 PM (L/fGl)

95
Yikes. Ours is just over $3.
Posted by: nerdygirl at June 25, 2025 10:29 PM (0Htd1)

_________

$2.59 today.

*blows smoke ring*

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 25, 2025 10:34 PM (/HVsR)

96 Bill Melugin@BillMelugin_8
Some of the things socialist NYC mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani has previously called for:

- End all cooperation with ICE


Oh, good. That last item would be a good basis for arrest, so, who's next in line for Hizzonership after Madmanny?

Posted by: mindful webworker - Deport Deport Despot at June 25, 2025 10:35 PM (0NO3o)

97 Watermelon. The most abused fruit?

Posted by: Gref at June 25, 2025 10:35 PM (aBgBM)

98 I heard there are things in the planning that no expects.
Posted by: Ben Had

My goodness, based on what the Horde is capable of expecting....that could be downright scary!
(smiley face icon here)

Posted by: Some Rat at June 25, 2025 10:35 PM (TfUTr)

99 21 Evenin'

I was trying to remember the singer of that song posted above. I remembered the song, the pretty brunette gal singing it, the sultry blue eyes (or were they green?), a sexy voice.

Alannah Myles.

Thanks, TRex.
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at June 25, 2025 10:06 PM (wBh67)

I cannot find what you were talking about, but here's my favorite youtube of her:

https://tinyurl.com/3mn2ecn3

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at June 25, 2025 10:36 PM (6PCLE)

100
Went out to put the kennel dogs up for the night. Big Dan is doing much better after the scare he gave us yesterday. Gave him a Carprofen anyway.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 25, 2025 10:36 PM (/HVsR)

101 >>Ray Croc vs Fred Smith vs Steve Jobs vs George Washington Carver?

Elon Musk.

We're living in a time with one of the most transformative people in history.

Posted by: JackStraw at June 25, 2025 10:36 PM (viF8m)

102 Did anyone note the passing of Bobby Sherman, teen idol of the late 1960s, at the age of 81 the other day?

He gave up the Hollywood life in 1974, became an EMT in Los Angeles, and seems to have been a pretty decent guy.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at June 25, 2025 10:36 PM (6Z9Vm)

103 I hear that Mamdani is searching for descendants of Mrs. O'Leary's cow, so he can set up some urban renewal projects.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at June 25, 2025 10:37 PM (S/Y4j)

104 Belgium is a cautionary tale.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 25, 2025 10:37 PM (yXf+h)

105 Enjoying the ONT! THanks for the content TRex!

Hi Horde!

Posted by: Iris at June 25, 2025 10:37 PM (bOJ2I)

106
I'm still very angry about that DIA Assessment leak.

That fake report was created for one reason: to be leaked to embarrass PDT. It had no other reason to exist.

Posted by: Soothsayer at June 25, 2025 10:38 PM (aX9W2)

107 A sheriff I knew once famously said, "Nothing good happens after midnight."
Posted by: mnw
**********
Ah, so you knew my father....

Posted by: Grateful - the range bag lady at June 25, 2025 10:38 PM (A1V3V)

108 I suggest that the U.S. give Israel a couple of B-2s and all the MOPs needed to keep them combat ready.

Happy to have been of service, but next time? You do it.

Posted by: mnw at June 25, 2025 10:38 PM (kd60y)

109 A pleasant evening to you all.

Four Seasons, 276 from last night's ONT: Your grands ages 6, 4, and 2 are similar ages to my oldest three grandchildren (5, 3, and 1, with the oldest two yet to have birthdays this year).

Are your grands siblings, cousins, both?

My first, second, and fifth grands are the children of my oldest daughter, and the third and fourth are of my second daughter.

"Ain't nothing better than those babies."

Amen. I couldn't imagine before becoming a grandmother how fiercely I could love them.

Posted by: Official Delurker loves her grands at June 25, 2025 10:38 PM (liGnN)

110 Zone 3. Caller says that his ex-girlfriend goes to his apartment building and rails the other residents to get back at him. He wants to make a report.

That gal's going to get a reputation if she isn't careful.

Posted by: nerdygirl at June 25, 2025 10:38 PM (0Htd1)

111 98 I heard there are things in the planning that no expects.
Posted by: Ben Had

My goodness, based on what the Horde is capable of expecting....that could be downright scary!
(smiley face icon here)
Posted by: Some Rat at June 25, 2025 10:35 PM (TfUTr)

No one expects ... the Spanish Inquisition

Posted by: browndog knows his Monty Python at June 25, 2025 10:38 PM (TTAGa)

112 Yikes. Ours is just over $3.
Posted by: nerdygirl at June 25, 2025 10:29 PM (0Htd1)

_________

$2.59 today.

*blows smoke ring*
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

While visiting my friend in Az. I filled up his car. He asked why.
"Cause filling up a car for less than 75 bucks makes me giddy."


Posted by: Some Rat at June 25, 2025 10:39 PM (TfUTr)

113 I am not proud of my Belgian heritage, in light of the atrocities committed in the name of colonialism in Africa, and especially because of that disturbing video. But I am eternally grateful to great-granddad Emil for getting out of there and landing here.

Posted by: Baron Munchausen at June 25, 2025 10:39 PM (C1NyB)

114 DUH

I did not realize you could click on the MS River photo for the very same song. Sorry!

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at June 25, 2025 10:39 PM (6PCLE)

115 Boy, Rat, I sure hope I get to see you in TX! 🤪👀

Posted by: COMountainMarie at June 25, 2025 10:39 PM (ZwGHJ)

116 A sheriff I knew once famously said, "Nothing good happens after midnight."
Posted by: mnw


Something I told the daughters of Diogenes when they started dating.
I'm pleased to see they have passed it along to their kids.

Posted by: Diogenes at June 25, 2025 10:39 PM (W/lyH)

117 Sooo, if I'm ICE and I'm planning a big raid, would it be illegal to flood the websites/apps that are warning illegals and notifying protestors/antifa about the raids, to flood those websites with false reports and misdirection?

Frankly, if I'm ICE, that's one guys' entire job right now. Just spend the all day running the commies around like it's the first week of football practice.

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at June 25, 2025 10:40 PM (pIfcn)

118 Nothing good ever happens at 2AM.

And no good story ever starts with, "There we were, sitting around eating salads..."

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at June 25, 2025 10:40 PM (6Z9Vm)

119 CBD does an awesome food thread, now know he is also cooking for you at MoMe X. Pete Bog, Rancherbob and AZ deplorable are also there too.

Posted by: Ben Had at June 25, 2025 10:41 PM (ZIggv)

120 I wonder if Ace is upset about his Gainzz mentor, the Liver King, getting sent up.
Posted by: Soothsayer at June 25, 2025 10:32 PM (aX9W2)

The steroids made him crazy.

Posted by: polynikes at June 25, 2025 10:41 PM (VofaG)

121
Washington Post says Gabbard won't be included in any Iran updates.

Who knows, it's probably fake news.

Posted by: four seasons at June 25, 2025 10:42 PM (3ek7K)

122 102 Did anyone note the passing of Bobby Sherman, teen idol of the late 1960s, at the age of 81 the other day?

He gave up the Hollywood life in 1974, became an EMT in Los Angeles, and seems to have been a pretty decent guy.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at June 25, 2025 10:36 PM (6Z9Vm)


I read somewhere that Bobby and his manager made bank in the 70s outfitting a 707 as the ultimate rock band tour plane. Led Zeppelin and the other mega rock bands competed to schedule it for tours. $2500 per flight hour. Not sure what the profit was, especially after cleanup and refurb expenses after flights and tours, but apparently it was not chicken feed.

Posted by: Gref at June 25, 2025 10:42 PM (aBgBM)

123 Wait, is that the nose of the cargo plane?
Posted by: davidt


And the tip of the wiener right there on the tongue.

I mean ramp. The ramp.

Posted by: a random robosexual at June 25, 2025 10:43 PM (DgGvY)

124 Boy, Rat, I sure hope I get to see you in TX! 🤪👀
Posted by: COMountainMarie

{{{}}}!! Ditto, hope you find a chicken sitter!

Posted by: Some Rat at June 25, 2025 10:43 PM (TfUTr)

125 105 Enjoying the ONT! THanks for the content TRex!

Hi Horde!
Posted by: Iris at June 25, 2025 10:37 PM
***
Now it's a party. Good evening Iris! Thanks for checking in.

Posted by: TRex at June 25, 2025 10:44 PM (aSMxl)

126 Dear wife waited until after sunset to have me help her plant some new plants into the flower garden.

I don't get it.
Posted by: Tonypete


Did she drink a few cups of coffee at dinner?
I've mopped my kitchen floor late at night if I've had coffee late in the evening.

Posted by: nerdygirl at June 25, 2025 10:44 PM (0Htd1)

127 Ray Croc vs Fred Smith vs Steve Jobs vs George Washington Carver?

Elon Musk.

We're living in a time with one of the most transformative people in history.
Posted by: JackStraw at June 25, 2025 10:36 PM (viF8m)

Speaking of TWA , Howard Hughs is still changing history with the medical research center he left behind.

Posted by: polynikes at June 25, 2025 10:45 PM (VofaG)

128 Some great shenanigans!

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at June 25, 2025 10:46 PM (lIgBp)

129 >>106
I'm still very angry about that DIA Assessment leak.

That fake report was created for one reason: to be leaked to embarrass PDT. It had no other reason to exist.

Posted by: Soothsayer
---

Good part is unlike before, they will be arrested and prosecuted. Setting an object lesson for all the wannabes.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 25, 2025 10:46 PM (yXf+h)

130 100
Went out to put the kennel dogs up for the night. Big Dan is doing much better after the scare he gave us yesterday. Gave him a Carprofen anyway.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 25

Good night, Dan! I just got the dog settled here so I could go to bed and the cats are now losing their minds.

Posted by: Piper at June 25, 2025 10:46 PM (QzINz)

131
Hiya Official Delurker,

All our grandbabies are all siblings.

Our son was married and his wife died in childbirth with the 11 year old.

He remarried 3 years later and that is why there is a gap in age between the 6 y/o and 11 y/o.

It's such a blessing we live 4 blocks from them. Well, maybe not for son and daughter-in-law, lol.










Posted by: four seasons at June 25, 2025 10:46 PM (3ek7K)

132
Amen. I couldn't imagine before becoming a grandmother how fiercely I could love them.

Posted by: Official Delurker loves her grands at June 25, 2025 10:38 PM (liGnN)

YES! We are having a wonderful time with ours, ages 6&4...and a new one on the way!

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at June 25, 2025 10:46 PM (6PCLE)

133 >>A sheriff I knew once famously said, "Nothing good happens after midnight."

People say all kinds of crazy stuff.

https://tinyurl.com/3jj4bvka

Posted by: JackStraw at June 25, 2025 10:47 PM (viF8m)

134
He gave up the Hollywood life in 1974, became an EMT in Los Angeles, and seems to have been a pretty decent guy.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy


Due to his work on this episode, Bobby Sherman later quit entertainment and became an Emergency Medical Technician (EMT).

https://t.ly/ZDV3O

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 25, 2025 10:47 PM (63Dwl)

135 CBD does an awesome food thread, now know he is also cooking for you at MoMe X. Pete Bog, Rancherbob and AZ deplorable are also there too.
Posted by: Ben Had

{{{Ben Had}}} Oh Lord the food! The glorious, glorious food.

Posted by: Some Rat at June 25, 2025 10:47 PM (TfUTr)

136 Bobby Sherman guested on Emergency! in 1975, which is where he caught Paramedic Fever. He had a 30 year career with the LAFD and became a spokesman and instructor at the Fire Academy. A good fellow, RIP.

Posted by: Squad 51 Fan. at June 25, 2025 10:48 PM (G5+As)

137 Washington Post says Gabbard won't be included in any Iran updates.

Who knows, it's probably fake news.
Posted by: four seasons at June 25, 2025 10:42 PM (3ek7K)

If true she’s not going to be around for long. Being included is the job description.

Posted by: polynikes at June 25, 2025 10:48 PM (VofaG)

138 >A sheriff I knew once famously said, "Nothing good happens after midnight."
---

but, that's when you let it all hang out

Posted by: Don Black at June 25, 2025 10:49 PM (AOsQT)

139 Good evening morons y gracias Doggo

Caltrans is not doing Sepulveda other than to secure the graft, provide employment, and punish cars and drivers.

Posted by: Kittehs Riding Roombas at June 25, 2025 10:49 PM (RIvkX)

140 >>>Speaking of TWA , Howard Hughs is still changing history with the medical research center he left behind.
Posted by: polynikes
-----

He also left behind the modern hospital bed.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 25, 2025 10:50 PM (yXf+h)

141 2am is when the bars close. That’s the witching hour.

Posted by: polynikes at June 25, 2025 10:50 PM (VofaG)

142 Mmmmmmm
Alannah Myles in chaps.

Posted by: Diogenes at June 25, 2025 10:51 PM (W/lyH)

143 He also left behind the modern hospital bed.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 25, 2025 10:50 PM (yXf+h)

Drilling bits too.

Posted by: polynikes at June 25, 2025 10:51 PM (VofaG)

144 /kitteh sock off

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 25, 2025 10:51 PM (RIvkX)

145 Most of you will probably not get what is going on in Philidelphia today or that in fact the CCP has flooded Philly with cheap meth and Fentanyl because they want to insult and degrade the very place of the creation of the Declaration of Independence which the CHICOMS revile on every level.

Slap a CHICOM whenever you see one...and then slap them again.

Posted by: Nightwatch at June 25, 2025 10:51 PM (25kuG)

146 So it appears it's a Widely Held Belief, a.k.a. a myth, that George Washington Carver invented peanut butter.
That's sad cuz that fake "fact" was 50% of fake black fake history month.
Posted by: Soothsayer


Meh. A lot of people think Henry Ford invented the automobile.

Posted by: nerdygirl at June 25, 2025 10:52 PM (0Htd1)

147 Meh. A lot of people think Henry Ford invented the automobile.
Posted by: nerdygirl at June 25, 2025 10:52 PM (0Htd1)

He invented the assembly line.

Posted by: polynikes at June 25, 2025 10:53 PM (VofaG)

148 Hola my grey box amigos. Thanks Mr. Rex. The ONT excellence continues uninterrupted.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * sporting my Andrew Breitbart attitude at June 25, 2025 10:53 PM (DX/Mv)

149 So some dude is going door to door in Pittsburgh offering hand jobs for donations so he can buy crack.


WE FOUND HUNTER!!! He's in Pittsburgh.
Posted by: Orson at June 25, 2025 10:24 PM (dIske)

Yeah, looks like he made it as far as 620 Liberty St.

Posted by: Average Guy at June 25, 2025 10:55 PM (lPHZZ)

150 George Washington Carver ‘invented’ over a hundred uses for the peanut.

Like Bubba and shrimp.

Posted by: polynikes at June 25, 2025 10:55 PM (VofaG)

151 Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine at UNLV, endowed by the MGM honcho.

Nice way to be remembered. Might even cause St. Peter to give you a second look. Kerkorian probably needed all the help he could get, too.

Posted by: mnw at June 25, 2025 10:55 PM (kd60y)

152 Hello, Horde! 😊💕

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Plucky Comic Relief, AoS Ladies Brigade - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at June 25, 2025 10:55 PM (SRRAx)

153 Howard Hughs… also left behind the modern hospital bed.
Posted by: Braenyard


Having spent too many nights in the hospital in the past couple of years, I have thought of some improvements that would help. Maybe Elon Musk could set his mind to it.

Posted by: mindful webworker - robot beds at June 25, 2025 10:56 PM (0NO3o)

154 Good part is unlike before, they will be arrested and prosecuted. Setting an object lesson for all the wannabes.


Who is going to do the arresting and prosecution?

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at June 25, 2025 10:56 PM (a4flb)

155 @TheBabylonBee
·
11h
Hamas Claims Responsibility For NYC Mayoral Primary
https://buff.ly/1QePVby

Posted by: Don Black at June 25, 2025 10:56 PM (AOsQT)

156
I wonder how the illegals from spanish speaking countries are going to get along with the new Muslim immigrants.

Posted by: four seasons at June 25, 2025 10:58 PM (3ek7K)

157 >>Having spent too many nights in the hospital in the past couple of years, I have thought of some improvements that would help. Maybe Elon Musk could set his mind to it.

Boy howdy. Those things are good for doctors and nurses, not so much for those of us who have lie in them.

Posted by: JackStraw at June 25, 2025 10:58 PM (viF8m)

158 Don't look now, but the S&P 500 is at a near-record high.

How could that possibly be happening in "Trump's disastrous economy"?

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at June 25, 2025 10:59 PM (qpyNK)

159 Now the Iranians REALLY want s bomb..only way to keep the Israelis from bombing them whenever they feel like it, never mind us doing it. Probably should have waited more than a couple days after the ceasefire though. Like getting right up off the floor and being sassy right after a short bar fight with younger Mike Tyson

Posted by: Azjaeger at June 25, 2025 10:59 PM (3/XaG)

160 Hi, TiFW

Posted by: mnw at June 25, 2025 10:59 PM (kd60y)

161 Hi Teresa💞!

Posted by: COMountainMarie at June 25, 2025 11:00 PM (ZwGHJ)

162 155 @TheBabylonBee
·
11h
Hamas Claims Responsibility For NYC Mayoral Primary
https://buff.ly/1QePVby
Posted by: Don Black at June 25, 2025 10:56 PM (AOsQT)

The Palestinians have found their new homeland?

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at June 25, 2025 11:00 PM (S/Y4j)

163 48 36 Okay, so I ordered a bacon cheeseburger and when it came it looked like a skull on my plate. I showed my friend and he saw it too. So I snapped a picture.

I'm looking at the picture now, and the cheeseburger doesn't look like a skull, no matter how hard I try to see it.

There's a French word for that, right?
Posted by: Bombadil at June 25, 2025 10:11 PM (MX0bI)
-----------------------------

Well, the Latin word for seeing shit that looks like other shit is "pareidolia." I imagine the French derivative would be "faux-skullez du burgre." However, I only had two semesters of French in high school, so I admit that I am a bit rusty.
Posted by: Pennsyltucky at June 25, 2025 10:15 PM (QdGJh)

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

In Spanish, el ess dee

Posted by: haffhowershower at June 25, 2025 11:01 PM (144I4)

164 We weren’t part of the cease fire. We should load up again and drop one on the Iranian parliament.

Posted by: polynikes at June 25, 2025 11:01 PM (VofaG)

165 Hello, Horde! 😊💕
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth

🙂

Posted by: Sock Monkey * sporting my Andrew Breitbart attitude at June 25, 2025 11:01 PM (DX/Mv)

166 So it appears it's a Widely Held Belief, a.k.a. a myth, that George Washington Carver invented peanut butter.
That's sad cuz that fake "fact" was 50% of fake black fake history month.
Posted by: Soothsayer

Meh. A lot of people think Henry Ford invented the automobile.
Posted by: nerdygirl at June 25, 2025 10:52 PM (0Htd1)

What idiots!

Posted by: Al Gore, Inventor of the Internet at June 25, 2025 11:02 PM (wVcYX)

167 He invented the assembly line.
Posted by: polynikes at June 25, 2025 10:53 PM (VofaG)


He was in Europe and saw a crude assembly line, returned home, and improved the system.

Posted by: 13times at June 25, 2025 11:03 PM (Ne1ck)

168
I got interested in the history of Iran and the Shah and all that. Sordid business of CIA and MI6 meddling after WWII.

Reza Shah, the last Shah's father took over after the coup of 1921. Before that, a lot of British and Soviet wrangling over Iranian territory after the Communists took over Russia.

He was made Shah and it was a kinda sort of constitutional monarchy. Then came WWII, and Reza got sort of friendly with the Germans, hoping to play them against Brits and Russians to his benefit. Result was an invasion of Iran by Britain and Soviets in 1941, and he was taken out of power.

After WWII, his son, the "Shah of Iran" we're familiar with, was made Shah. But he had limited power. They elected a prime minister who got all sort of uppity and nationalized the oil industry and got sort of communisty.

CIA and MI6 engineered a coup against him, and put the Shah in absolute monarchy control. And thus it was until '79. The Shah got really tyrannical starting in the late '60s to early '70s, with the infamous SAVAK secret police.

His role was to keep the communists at bay and police the Persian Gulf oil control. To do that, we let him be a brutal dictator.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at June 25, 2025 11:04 PM (w6EFb)

169 155 @TheBabylonBee
·
11h
Hamas Claims Responsibility For NYC Mayoral Primary
https://buff.ly/1QePVby
Posted by: Don Black



The Babylon Bee, America's Paper of Record! Tomorrows headlines, Today!

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at June 25, 2025 11:04 PM (wBh67)

170 Isaac Newton didn't discover his laws because an apple fell on his head, either.

George W. Bush didn't serve a "plastic turkey" to US troops.

Sarah Palin never said she could see Russia from her house.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at June 25, 2025 11:04 PM (qpyNK)

171 What is worse than hearing your barber say "Oops!"?

Hearing your dentist say "Wow!" Repeatedly. Had two teeth pulled today. Dentist told me they were the toughest extractions he had done so far this year.

I didn't know that dentists had air chisels. Now I do.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at June 25, 2025 11:05 PM (6Z9Vm)

172 My vanguard real estate ETF got nailed today, down well over 2%.
My understanding is it's because of the shit for brains who won the mayoral primary in NY.
Vanguard should be more diversified.

Posted by: From about That Time at June 25, 2025 11:06 PM (n4GiU)

173 Who has two thumbs and invented the National System of Interstate and Defense Highways?

Posted by: Ike at June 25, 2025 11:06 PM (wVcYX)

174 He was in Europe and saw a crude assembly line, returned home, and improved the system.
Posted by: 13times at June 25, 2025 11:03 PM (Ne1ck)

Moving assembly line.

Posted by: polynikes at June 25, 2025 11:06 PM (VofaG)

175 I invented the internet.

Posted by: All Gore at June 25, 2025 11:07 PM (Ne1ck)

176 >Who is going to do the arresting and prosecution?

Hopefully the same people I was told wouldn't do this.

>>NEWARK, N.J. -- U.S. Rep. LaMonica McIver pleaded not guilty Wednesday to federal charges accusing her of assaulting and interfering with immigration officers outside a New Jersey detention center during a congressional oversight visit at the facility.

https://tinyurl.com/mupck85p

Trump just blew up the Iranian nuclear program that the 3 previous presidents did shit to stop. Does this administration really look like those in any possible way?

Posted by: JackStraw at June 25, 2025 11:08 PM (viF8m)

177 Trompe l'oeil (fool the eye):

iIf you look at a painting one way, it's a woman seated at her dressing table mirror. Another way, it's a skull.

Posted by: mnw at June 25, 2025 11:08 PM (kd60y)

178 Gore said he helped create the internet.

Close enough .

He also said he was the inspiration for Love Story so he deserved to be mocked.

Posted by: polynikes at June 25, 2025 11:09 PM (VofaG)

179 Meh. A lot of people think Henry Ford invented the automobile.
Posted by: nerdygirl

He invented the assembly line.
Posted by: polynikes


Also models.

And tea.

And Henry Winkler.

Posted by: mikeski at June 25, 2025 11:11 PM (DgGvY)

180 His role was to keep the communists at bay and police the Persian Gulf oil control. To do that, we let him be a brutal dictator.
Posted by: publius

It's almost as if everything 'our' federal government touches, it ****s up.

The Manhattan Project worked out okay though. In spite of the commies within.

Posted by: Tonypete at June 25, 2025 11:11 PM (cYBz/)

181 > iIf you look at a painting one way, it's a woman seated at her dressing table mirror. Another way, it's a skull.
Posted by: mnw at June 25, 2025 11:08 PM (kd60y)

So it's a picture of Maxine Waters getting ready for work?

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at June 25, 2025 11:12 PM (qpyNK)

182 I didn't know that dentists had air chisels. Now I do.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy


My brother was a construction laborer for a long time, and he was talking to his doctor about similar tools that both of them used. The doctor said: the only difference between us is that I just went to school longer.

My brother laughed and said yeah, sure. He likes his doctor, a down to earth kind of guy.

Posted by: haffhowershower at June 25, 2025 11:12 PM (144I4)

183 Hi again four seasons,

I am so sorry about your late daughter-in-law. How heartbreaking. But yes, what a blessing that you get to live nearby your grands! We're a half-hour from second daughter and her husband and family, and I will be semi-retiring in September and babysitting for their little ones (currently almost 15 months and almost 2 months) when daughter returns to work.

Oldest daughter and family are about 2 hours away -- not super far away, but busy schedules all around make regular visits difficult to accomplish.

Posted by: Official Delurker loves her grands at June 25, 2025 11:12 PM (liGnN)

184 Random TV Trivia: in its original run, The Jetsons only aired 24 episodes across a span of six months from 1962-1963.

George Jetson was born around 2022, given he was 40 in 2062...
I actually met a guy a couple of years ago whose last name is Jetson; I never asked if he had a son named George...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 25, 2025 11:13 PM (ynpvh)

185 Had two teeth pulled today. Dentist told me they were the toughest extractions he had done so far this year.

I didn't know that dentists had air chisels. Now I do.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy


If you're having them replaced with implants, you'll find out they have tiny little torque wrenches, too.

Measuring in Newton-centimeters.

I'm not sure I was supposed to wake up for that part.

Posted by: mikeski at June 25, 2025 11:13 PM (DgGvY)

186 Tesla is credited for inventing lots of things but it's very hard to 100% certify those claims.

I do like his time machine.

Posted by: 13times at June 25, 2025 11:13 PM (Ne1ck)

187 > The Manhattan Project worked out okay though. In spite of the commies within.
Posted by: Tonypete at June 25, 2025 11:11 PM (cYBz/)

Pretty much the only thing governments don't suck at is killing people.

Even communist governments can manage that one.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at June 25, 2025 11:14 PM (qpyNK)

188 Tesla is credited for inventing lots of things but it's very hard to 100% certify those claims.

I do like his time machine.
Posted by: 13times at June 25, 2025 11:13 PM (Ne1ck)

No doubt he invented the electric motor we use today. He is also credited for inventing the Radio by the US Patent office. Sorry Marconi.

Posted by: polynikes at June 25, 2025 11:15 PM (VofaG)

189 We invented sex!

Posted by: Every Generation at June 25, 2025 11:15 PM (wVcYX)

190 Publius, the Brits got very interested in Iran because prior to WWI they had gotten entranced with the idea of running their navy on bunker oil instead of coal, and there were British companies prospecting and promising big strikes like in America. The Brits kept hold in that area because of the need for oil, and were not above kicking things down if it suited them.

Posted by: Kindltot at June 25, 2025 11:15 PM (D7oie)

191 Regarding FedEx: I was a hospice nurse for 9 years. The specialty pharmacy we used for most of our patients' medications moved its headquarters to Memphis to be at same location as major FedEx hub. There were only 2 times in 9 years that I can recall having to scramble last minute to get a patient's meds due to FedEx not coming thru as promised. (We also had contract with local retail pharmacy for urgent needs.)

Posted by: Frankie at June 25, 2025 11:15 PM (G1hiI)

192 > The doctor said: the only difference between us is that I just went to school longer.

In one of the Aubrey/Maturin books, Dr. Maturin asks for leave.

"Of course. We'll be fine. We've got the sailmaker to sew things up and the carpenter to cut things off."

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at June 25, 2025 11:16 PM (qpyNK)

193 The Calvin and Hobbes strip is hilarious.
Posted by: Piper at June 25, 2025 10:03 PM

ISWYDT.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 25, 2025 11:16 PM (Wnv9h)

194 Disappointing that Putin isn't working with Trump to end the war in Ukraine.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 25, 2025 11:17 PM (yXf+h)

195 178 Gore said he helped create the internet.

Close enough .

He also said he was the inspiration for Love Story so he deserved to be mocked.
Posted by: polynikes



There is a recent video of him I saw on the interwebs. Probably saw it here. Anyway, he looks awful. He was screeching about ENVIROMENTAL CATASTROPHE!! at some conference. It was all performance art. He played his part like usual. He just looks older than he is (77) and of course, he comes across as insane.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at June 25, 2025 11:17 PM (wBh67)

196 If you're having them replaced with implants, you'll find out they have tiny little torque wrenches, too. >>>

Be afraid when he attaches the breaker-bar.

Posted by: 13times at June 25, 2025 11:17 PM (Ne1ck)

197 189 We invented sex!

Posted by: Every Generation at June 25, 2025 11:15 PM (wVcYX)

Arabs: We invented the condom!
British: We invented removing it from the sheep first.

Posted by: ... at June 25, 2025 11:19 PM (ynpvh)

198 Show me the soccer equivalent of the ball gets by Buckner

Posted by: Thomas Bender

Champion's League Final, the top club competition in Europe, 2018.

https://tinyurl.com/3kaz4auz

Posted by: Pikov Andropov at June 25, 2025 11:19 PM (y7zkd)

199 ChristyBlinkyTheGreat, 132:

Congratulations on the new grandbaby on the way! Do you know whether the little one is a boy or girl?

My oldest daughter and her husband always wanted to know before their babies were born; my second daughter and her husband are the opposite (and like my husband and me -- we liked being surprised). :-)

Posted by: Official Delurker loves her grands at June 25, 2025 11:19 PM (liGnN)

200 Speaking of Henry Ford , I like the story of Kingsford charcoal.

Posted by: polynikes at June 25, 2025 11:19 PM (VofaG)

201 I’m pretty sure Johnny Quest only had a single season as well. (We shall not speak of the execrable revival some decades later)

Theme song was written by Hoyt Curtin, and includes a basically impossible to play sequence as written. You can hear this once you know what to listen for, it adds to the tension. Very sophisticated storylines for a cartoon at the time.

Posted by: Common Tater at June 25, 2025 11:19 PM (X3SL3)

202 "Close enough."

Apparently not.

Posted by: 13times at June 25, 2025 11:19 PM (Ne1ck)

203 We don't make a lot of the products you buy. We make a lot of the products you buy better.

Posted by: BASF at June 25, 2025 11:20 PM (wVcYX)

204
Good evening, all!

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 25, 2025 11:20 PM (lCaJd)

205 Trump just blew up the Iranian nuclear program that the 3 previous presidents did shit to stop. Does this administration really look like those in any possible way?
Posted by: JackStraw at June 25, 2025 11:08 PM (viF8m)

This administration does bear a striking resemblance to one of those previous 3.

Posted by: 4547 at June 25, 2025 11:21 PM (ZHYU8)

206
Official Delurker,

Our grandbabies have been so busy with sports we don't see them much now even being this close. This month is the last of the sports for the summer, yay!

I love what kids say. The 6 y/o and his mom were at the school orientation, you know, meet and greet. The teacher was telling grandson about the reading progam and you can get Pizza Hut coupons if you read the required number of books. Grandson said "ewww, we don't get food from Pizza Hut, those people are nasty and the food is awful." lmao. Little ears hear lots of things. He was right though, we all stopped getting food from there and surprise surprise the place closed up a year later.

Posted by: four seasons at June 25, 2025 11:21 PM (3ek7K)

207 I do like his time machine.
Posted by: 13times

Can I borrow it?

Posted by: Sock Monkey * sporting my Andrew Breitbart attitude at June 25, 2025 11:21 PM (DX/Mv)

208 We don't make a lot of the products you buy. We make a lot of the products you buy better.
Posted by: BASF


Your 5 1/4 inch floppy disks were pretty much shit, though.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at June 25, 2025 11:21 PM (lUFok)

209 186 Tesla is credited for inventing lots of things but it's very hard to 100% certify those claims.

I do like his time machine.
Posted by: 13times



There first 4 albums were solid rock albums!

youtu.be/-2zwBRa0YhA

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at June 25, 2025 11:23 PM (wBh67)

210 Can I borrow it?
Posted by: Sock Monkey * sporting my Andrew Breitbart attitude at June 25, 2025 11:21 PM (DX/Mv)

I thought Ace had the keys?

Posted by: a dude in MI at June 25, 2025 11:23 PM (+I6Y/)

211 We invented sex!
Posted by: Every Generation

Arabs: We invented the condom!
British: We invented removing it from the sheep first.
Posted by: ...


Greek: we invented sex for pleasure!
Irishman: but we included women.

Posted by: just the other punchline at June 25, 2025 11:24 PM (DgGvY)

212 I do like his time machine.
Posted by: 13times

Can I borrow it?
Posted by: Sock Monkey


Sure, you can have it last Thursday.

Posted by: mikeski at June 25, 2025 11:24 PM (DgGvY)

213 180 His role was to keep the communists at bay and police the Persian Gulf oil control. To do that, we let him be a brutal dictator.
Posted by: publius

He fell because he wasn’t nearly brutal enough.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 25, 2025 11:25 PM (HEGiN)

214 The Shah was also a secularist, pluralist, and modernized the country.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 25, 2025 11:25 PM (RIvkX)

215 >>This administration does bear a striking resemblance to one of those previous 3.

Not in any way.

Posted by: JackStraw at June 25, 2025 11:26 PM (viF8m)

216 > Your 5 1/4 inch floppy disks were pretty much shit, though.
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at June 25, 2025 11:21 PM (lUFok)

Not as bad as Polaroid, though.

Bought a couple of boxes of those on sale.

Every one failed within days of first use. Every one.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at June 25, 2025 11:27 PM (qpyNK)

217 Random TV Trivia: in its original run, The Jetsons only aired 24 episodes across a span of six months from 1962-1963. It was cancelled due to low ratings. Reruns got such high viewership over the years that in 1985, 51 more episodes were produced.

The Honeymooners only ran for one season. 39 episodes. That's it.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at June 25, 2025 11:28 PM (0CU3H)

218 Not as bad as Polaroid, though.

Bought a couple of boxes of those on sale.

Every one failed within days of first use. Every one.


Didn't even know Polaroid tried to get into that business. At least they had consistency down.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at June 25, 2025 11:28 PM (lUFok)

219 Ford famously doubled the prevailing industry wide wage to $5 a day. That doesn’t sound like much, but it was good money for 1914. Factory work was brutal in those days, but he had no trouble attracting thousands of applicants at the River Rouge factory. So many people showed up, he had to have his goons disperse the mob with fire hoses. In January.

Posted by: Common Tater at June 25, 2025 11:28 PM (X3SL3)

220
Incidentally, it was Reza Shah that started calling it "Iran" rather than "Persia". The etymology and history of all that is involved, but "Iran" was what they called it internally for a long time, and Reza forced that to become international.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at June 25, 2025 11:28 PM (w6EFb)

221 >>>Trompe l'oeil (fool the eye):

Posted by: mnw


Trump l'ol (fool the libs)

Posted by: haffhowershower at June 25, 2025 11:28 PM (144I4)

222 90 Some Rat, I heard there are things in the planning that no expects.
Posted by: Ben Had

Hush yo mouth

Posted by: The Spanish Inquistion at June 25, 2025 11:28 PM (y7zkd)

223 My dog just walked in to tell me it's my bedtime.

Good doggie. Must know I've got early morning things to do.

G'nite, y'all.

Posted by: mindful webworker - the cat doesn't care at June 25, 2025 11:28 PM (0NO3o)

224 Best Johnny Quest Episode by far as actually part of Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law. Harvey represented Race Bannon in his lawyer against Dr Quest for Palimoney.
(Evidence at trial - did you ever see either one of them with a woman?)

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 25, 2025 11:29 PM (HEGiN)

225 There was a Pizza Hut where I went to graduate school and every so often they ran an all-you-can eat special and we would all descend on them like locusts devouring every single thing.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 25, 2025 11:29 PM (RIvkX)

226 I’m pretty sure Johnny Quest only had a single season as well. (We shall not speak of the execrable revival some decades later)
Posted by: Common Tater

The custody battle between Race and Dr. Quest on Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law was epic!

Posted by: Tonypete at June 25, 2025 11:29 PM (cYBz/)

227 four seasons, 206

LOL! The brutal honesty out of the mouths of our babes! :-D

The 5- and 3-year-olds -- sisters -- were reportedly arguing recently about which one was rude first. lol. Neither denied being rude, you see, but apparently it's more virtuous to be rude second, haha.

Posted by: Official Delurker loves her grands at June 25, 2025 11:29 PM (liGnN)

228 I think the supposed evil Right dictators usually fall or eventually turns the country over to 'democracy' because they allowed free movement of the populace. The didn't put up walls to keep people in or ban travel out of the country .

Individual exceptions of course.

Posted by: polynikes at June 25, 2025 11:30 PM (VofaG)

229
Official Delurker,

Hilarious! You never know what they are going to say. Never a dull moment.

Posted by: four seasons at June 25, 2025 11:31 PM (3ek7K)

230 Heh Tom Servo - You gotta be fast around here!

Posted by: Tonypete at June 25, 2025 11:31 PM (cYBz/)

231 Going to. eat part of this new tub of French Onion Dip but they put something in the ingredients that cause one to want just one more chip. Again.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 25, 2025 11:31 PM (yXf+h)

232 Show me the soccer equivalent of the ball gets by Buckner

Posted by: Thomas Bender

I feel for that guy. He was one of my favorites growing up. A member of the 1970 Spokane Indians (AAA). Greatest minor league team ever.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * sporting my Andrew Breitbart attitude at June 25, 2025 11:31 PM (DX/Mv)

233 “Iran” comes from the same source word as our “Aryan”. Although the actual Aryans, a historical people, were nothing at all like der fuhrer’s fantasy version of them.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 25, 2025 11:32 PM (HEGiN)

234 >This administration does bear a striking resemblance to one of those previous 3.

Not in any way.
Posted by: JackStraw at June 25, 2025 11:26 PM (viF8

Did you not get that or am I not getting your snark?

Posted by: polynikes at June 25, 2025 11:33 PM (VofaG)

235
San Franpsycho,

We got food from Pizza Hut for years. We live in a very small town now and the one that was here was takeout only. It was not good at all. Luckily a family opened a pizza and ice cream place and their pizzas are good. Good for being in the middle of nowhere Wyoming.

Posted by: four seasons at June 25, 2025 11:33 PM (3ek7K)

236 Ach! Past 10:30 already here. Will try to catch up with you ONT-ers tomorrow night. If I'm not too tired. Thursdays are my busiest piano days -- nine students.

Have a great night, horde.

Posted by: Official Delurker loves her grands at June 25, 2025 11:33 PM (liGnN)

237 Iran” comes from the same source word as our “Aryan”. Although the actual Aryans, a historical people, were nothing at all like der fuhrer’s fantasy version of them.
Posted by: Tom Servo at June 25, 2025 11:32 PM (HEGi

He did steal their swastika.

Posted by: polynikes at June 25, 2025 11:34 PM (VofaG)

238
Goodnight Delurker!

Posted by: four seasons at June 25, 2025 11:34 PM (3ek7K)

239 I loved the sandwiches Pizza Hut made in the 70's.

Posted by: polynikes at June 25, 2025 11:35 PM (VofaG)

240 Good night, four seasons! Thanks for the conversation tonight!

Posted by: Official Delurker loves her grands at June 25, 2025 11:37 PM (liGnN)

241 He did steal their swastika.

Typical socialist, stealing other people's stuff and calling it yours.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at June 25, 2025 11:37 PM (lUFok)

242 Ford famously doubled the prevailing industry wide wage to $5 a day. That doesn’t sound like much, but it was good money for 1914. Factory work was brutal in those days, but he had no trouble attracting thousands of applicants at the River Rouge factory. So many people showed up, he had to have his goons disperse the mob with fire hoses. In January.
Posted by: Common Tater
====

Early the entire workforce had to report daily.
Then they would tell you if you working that day.

But first, roll call. You miss roll call you were fired.
I you didn't leave when dismissed, it gets the hose.

There were solid reasons for unions. At one time.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at June 25, 2025 11:37 PM (/lPRQ)

243 We mostly make pizza at home now. Very thin crust and Mrs. F. uses a lot of wheat flour added in the dough.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 25, 2025 11:38 PM (RIvkX)

244
I've been making Pizza Monkey Bread. It's made from cut up biscuits and whatever you want to mix in with the biscuits. It's just something kinda different.

You can find all kinds of Monkey Bread recipes on line.

Posted by: four seasons at June 25, 2025 11:38 PM (3ek7K)

245 >>This administration does bear a striking resemblance to one of those previous 3.

Not in any way.
Posted by: JackStraw at June 25, 2025 11:26 PM (viF8m)

IT'S FUNNY BECAUSE THE LAST 3 ADMINISTRATIONS WERE BIDEN, TRUMP, OBAMA

Posted by: BEN ROETHLISBERGER at June 25, 2025 11:38 PM (Dnobf)

246 >>>214 The Shah was also a secularist, pluralist, and modernized the country.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 25, 2025 11:25 PM (RIvkX)
--

A lot of the dissent was communist inspired and paid for.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 25, 2025 11:39 PM (yXf+h)

247 Years ago I had my Iranian neighbor try root beer. His reaction was to spit it in the kitchen sink. He then had me try an imported carbonated yoghurt drink. Thank goodness the kitchen sink was at hand.

Posted by: 13times at June 25, 2025 11:39 PM (Ne1ck)

248 No street on this one, you perverts
lol.

The sentence; “People are so crazy, ya’ll” must be heard at the Pittsburgh 911 dispatch center at least a dozen times a day.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at June 25, 2025 11:39 PM (6ydKt)

249 He should have rounded up the commies and put them in dungoens

.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 25, 2025 11:40 PM (yXf+h)

250 Franpsycho, saw a comment last night by you that said you did your USSR time in '84-'85? Language program I assume? Where?

I was in Leningrad in '78. Several months. Fantastic really, and an interesting time. Shcharansky trial, Jimmy's human raaaahts campaign, and of course all the health rumors about Brezhnev (whom we affectionately called Leonoid, or, when our handler was around, "Eyebrows" - she never figured it out).

Posted by: rhomboid at June 25, 2025 11:40 PM (1m82a)

251 There was a dude from Brooklyn who made good pizza in my neighborhood but the covids closed his place. For good.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 25, 2025 11:41 PM (RIvkX)

252 Franpsycho, do you use a pizza stone or something? Wouldn't mind exploring making pizza at home.

Posted by: rhomboid at June 25, 2025 11:42 PM (1m82a)

253
In 1963, the Shah launched the "White Revolution", which was intended to modernize and industrialize Iran, and take power away from what was essentially feudal landlords in the country. That pissed off the landlords and the Islamic nutjobs. Allowing women to vote and secularizing the local authority really pissed them off.

Khomeini was the most vocal of the nutjobs, and that got him exiled (Shah should've take a more permanent "exile" to him....)

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at June 25, 2025 11:44 PM (w6EFb)

254 Pizza Hut 90-94sh was peak for me..friend and I would get a supreme hand tossed. Not sure why they ruined it

Posted by: a dude in MI at June 25, 2025 11:44 PM (+I6Y/)

255 You sick fuckers. Dr. Quest and Race Bannon were not homosexual. Bannon had a side piece on the show, an Oriental hottie. Sheesh

Posted by: Common Tater at June 25, 2025 11:44 PM (X3SL3)

256
I'm not sure either. The Supreme was what we always ordered.

Posted by: four seasons at June 25, 2025 11:45 PM (3ek7K)

257 Evening, TRex and ONT Horde! Just got back from Wing Nite in Elnora. Still daylight when I got home, so I climbed on the riding mower, and mowed a few patches that I uncovered by moving vehicles this afternoon. Yard looking a little less shaggy now.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 25, 2025 11:46 PM (6eAks)

258 >>Did you not get that or am I not getting your snark?

Yea, missed that. My bad.

Trump 1 was basically fighting off hoaxes. This is really what he wanted to do and it doesn't bear any resemblance to the previous administrations that were allowed to actually impement their policies.

This is what Trump wanted to do when he wasn't being impeached.

Posted by: JackStraw at June 25, 2025 11:47 PM (viF8m)

259 It was a Russian Lang. course at my undergraduate school organized by the Soviet publishers of our textbooks. Mostly at LGU but also at MGU. This period was the interregnum between Chernenko and Gorbachev. My thesis was on Convergence Theory and I should have won a Pulitzer because my forecast was mostly accurate.

Being in Leningrad was like being on that planet in Star Trek where the whole planet is gangland Chicago. Everyone was a petty criminal.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 25, 2025 11:47 PM (RIvkX)

260 Franpsycho, do you use a pizza stone or something? Wouldn't mind exploring making pizza at home.
Posted by: rhomboid

I use a stone when making pizza. Honestly, there isn't much difference between my Focaccia dough and pizza dough though. As a result, the crust is a medium thickness.

Posted by: Tonypete at June 25, 2025 11:47 PM (cYBz/)

261 My younger sister's teen idol crush was Bobby Sherman.

And we had our own Pittsburgh Scanner moment today:

Rebecca's Massage Therapist's daughter won a pretty major regional art award at her junior high, but her school didn't even acknowledge it.

We have known her since before she was born. Her father died unexpectedly when she was three years old (leaving her mother a widow). We have watched her blossom into a remarkably mature young lady, and we try to do nice things for her and her mom whenever we can. So to reward her for her art accomplishment, we took her and her mom to the Cheesecake Factory in downtown Fort Worth for lunch today. (Cont)

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Plucky Comic Relief, AoS Ladies Brigade - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at June 25, 2025 11:48 PM (SRRAx)

262 ""Be nice to your fellow commenters.""

What???? I'm always nice.....LOL

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at June 25, 2025 11:48 PM (QGaXH)

263 Franpsycho, do you use a pizza stone or something? Wouldn't mind exploring making pizza at home.
Posted by: rhomboid at June 25, 2025 11:42 PM (1m82a)


I use a cast iron griddle

Posted by: Kindltot at June 25, 2025 11:49 PM (D7oie)

264 We tried making our own pizzas for a while. The cost was greater than just buying, so we quit. We weren't even piling on the toppings. Just plain pepperoni or salami.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 25, 2025 11:49 PM (0eaVi)

265 27 I always find it fascinating that The Jetsons had only one season. Their penetration into the cultural zeitgeist was incredible. Almost romantic, when you think about it.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at June 25, 2025 10:08 PM (CHHv1)

Whereas The Flinstones ran for six seasons over five and a half years.

Fred and Barney must’ve been more endearing
.
The show was based on The Honeymooners, so maybe that helped.

The Jetsons was more like an opposite Flintstones with robots & gadgets instead of dinosaurs & bones/rocks.

I liked them both watching them on TBS in the afternoons as a kid.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at June 25, 2025 11:49 PM (6ydKt)

266 *You can find all kinds of Monkey Bread recipes on line.*

The challenge is finding fresh monkey.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at June 25, 2025 11:50 PM (lIgBp)

267 We have use a stone because its best for thin crust but also cast iron pans for thicker crust, sometimes sheet pans.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 25, 2025 11:50 PM (RIvkX)

268 Remember Shakey's Pizza?

Posted by: Boss Moss at June 25, 2025 11:50 PM (VAINm)

269 It can be lunch time
I always use a pizza stone, and had it since maybe 1990. I use it for pizza and Stromboli.
I put corn meal on the peal so it slides off

Posted by: Skip at June 25, 2025 11:50 PM (S0mG3)

270 Use high protein bread flour, and let the yeast work the dough at least overnight or 24 hours. A “poolish” is another method to achieve the same thing.. Anyway aged dough is a lot more flavorful. Gives a really nice whang to bread or pizza.

Posted by: Common Tater at June 25, 2025 11:50 PM (X3SL3)

271 Since parking is at a premium, we all drove together in our van. On the way to the restaurant, all of a sudden there was a very loud gasp from the back seat. Turns out that Willow had turned to see some nice-looking young men who were walking down the street, and was treated to the sight of a crack whore pulling down her tube top to flash those young men from across the street.

Poor sweet girl is going to have nightmares for years....

(We told her to look on the bright side - she's gonna have one heck of a story to tell the class when they are asked what they did on summer vacation! 😂😂😂

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Plucky Comic Relief, AoS Ladies Brigade - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at June 25, 2025 11:51 PM (SRRAx)

272 255 You sick fuckers. Dr. Quest and Race Bannon were not homosexual. Bannon had a side piece on the show, an Oriental hottie. Sheesh
Posted by: Common Tater at June 25, 2025 11:44 PM (X3SL3)

Yeah he was one of those Thai Boys.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 25, 2025 11:51 PM (HEGiN)

273
Quarter Twenty,

Lol

Posted by: fourseasons at June 25, 2025 11:52 PM (3ek7K)

274 Gives a really nice whang to bread or pizza.
Posted by: Common Tater

I must say, I don't know this by experience but I don't think I like the taste of whang.

Just saying.

Posted by: Tonypete at June 25, 2025 11:52 PM (cYBz/)

275 Remember Shakey's Pizza?
Posted by: Boss Moss at June 25, 2025 11:50 PM (VAINm)

There's one in Anaheim a couple of miles past DL. They used to have one in Bakersfield, but it's gone. I prefer Straw Hat, but there aren't any near me at all.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 25, 2025 11:52 PM (0eaVi)

276 The dough is all Mrs. F. I only show up when it is ready to be pizzafied.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 25, 2025 11:53 PM (RIvkX)

277 Remember Shakey's Pizza?

I remember when the guy went in and shot the one on Camden Ave up, before the remodel.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at June 25, 2025 11:53 PM (lUFok)

278

Shakey's was good.

Posted by: fourseasons at June 25, 2025 11:53 PM (3ek7K)

279 Franpsycho, thanks. Leningrad wasn't quite mobbed up yet in '78, but we had little trouble finding lizards (yashceritzi), black market guys, to do the basics (sell jeans, get the Soviet uniforms or hats we were looking for). What amazed us was how little interest the goons had in us. Program started with detente in '73, and we'd heard stories about the early years (like being at the embassy in Sofia or Baghdad back under the previous managements). But they properly assessed us as useless young idiots, and ignored us.

Some people took it a bit far, traveling internally outside their visa limits. They were scorched by the group leaders and the rest of us for endangering the whole show.

We had a great train trip at the end, what we called the "anti-Soviet tour", since it went through the Baltics, then western Ukraine (Lvov, where the vibe was very distinctly tense).

Posted by: rhomboid at June 25, 2025 11:53 PM (1m82a)

280 My cell phone is jumping around like crazy, websites are not coming up and I don't feel like going on the laptop in the other room. Could anyone please tell me what the gist (sp?) is of what President Trump said at the NATO Summit?
Thanks.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 25, 2025 11:54 PM (2GCMq)

281 "Best wishes to anyone in Los Angeles driving on the 405. Lane closures started last night for a road refresh."

For 5 years (2015 - 2020) the 405 in Orange County was being reconstructed. They dropped and rebuilt 16 bridges so they could widen the freeway to add two 'Fast Trak' lanes and one regular lane.

The only real problem was the frequent lane re-striping made life a little sporty if you weren't paying attention when traffic was moving......

About 15 years ago they dropped the Mulholland bridge at the top of Sepulveda pass onto the 405 over a weekend.

All the OC bridges were done at night on weekends with some closures during the weekend.

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at June 25, 2025 11:55 PM (QGaXH)

282 I’ve got a pizza stone for pizzas but I also use the air fryer which works great and only takes two minutes.

I use pre-made crust so it’s a lot easier, though.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at June 25, 2025 11:55 PM (6ydKt)

283 You sick fuckers. Dr. Quest and Race Bannon were not homosexual. Bannon had a side piece on the show, an Oriental hottie. Sheesh
Posted by: Common Tater at June 25, 2025 11:44 PM (X3SL3)


Beard.

Posted by: Kindltot at June 25, 2025 11:55 PM (D7oie)

284 Corn meal is a pro move.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 25, 2025 11:55 PM (RIvkX)

285
They did produce two more seasons of the Jetsons in the late '80s. The original was just the one, indeed.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at June 25, 2025 11:55 PM (w6EFb)

286 Also 15 minutes at 450 degrees

Posted by: Skip at June 25, 2025 11:56 PM (S0mG3)

287 I always liked Godfathers Pizza.

Can’t find those around now.

The last time I got one they were located in Hess gas stations next to the Blimpies.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at June 25, 2025 11:57 PM (6ydKt)

288 Funny, my brother met his wife when she was a waitress at a Godfather’s pizza joint.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 26, 2025 12:00 AM (HEGiN)

289 283 You sick fuckers. Dr. Quest and Race Bannon were not homosexual. Bannon had a side piece on the show, an Oriental hottie. Sheesh
Posted by: Common Tater at June 25, 2025 11:44 PM (X3SL3)

Beard.
Posted by: Kindltot at June 25, 2025 11:55 PM (D7oie)

Yeah, but Dr. Quest somehow had little Hadji following them everywhere... pretty suspicious!

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 26, 2025 12:00 AM (mP0Kj)

290 The muppet video was very interesting and cool. I had never wondered about all of those details, but I'm glad I know now.

I think out of all the engineering disciplines, a 'muppet engineer' is the coolest title of them all.

Posted by: haffhowershower at June 26, 2025 12:00 AM (144I4)

291
A key incident that led to the '79 Revolution was something called the Cinema Rex fire in August of '78. Some idiots locked the doors to a theater in Abadan, doused with gasoline and lit it off, killing over 400 people.

It was Islamic nutjobs who started it (and they had done similar things before, protesting against Western decadence and women doing things), but the nutjobs claimed it was the Shah's SAVAK doing a false flag to justify a crackdown.

Most of the people believed the false flag claim, and that tipped the balance in favor of the revolutionaries. Stupid, just stupid.

And Jimmuh just fucked everything up.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at June 26, 2025 12:01 AM (w6EFb)

292
Dang, hearing police sirens here. Town is so small we only have 2 policemen, lol.

The gossip queens will be in the know.

Posted by: fourseasons at June 26, 2025 12:01 AM (3ek7K)

293 I did have some trouble because I was loaded with cash, jeans, and prayer books, mostly additional searches, wait heres, and raised eyebrows but by then most people had already ceased meaningful compliance. It was technically illegal to have me in private apartments, but many people did. I often blew off the official itinerary and my stuff was searched but I don't think I was ever followed.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 26, 2025 12:02 AM (RIvkX)

294 There used to be a Blumpie next to the Kum 'N Go.

Posted by: haffhowershower at June 26, 2025 12:03 AM (144I4)

295 292
Dang, hearing police sirens here. Town is so small we only have 2 policemen, lol.

The gossip queens will be in the know.
Posted by: fourseasons at June 26, 2025 12:01 AM (3ek7K)

Fire up Nextdoor

Posted by: a dude in MI at June 26, 2025 12:03 AM (+I6Y/)

296 I never liked the Shah or his secret police (the SAVAK).

I enjoy imagining his skinny adz bouncing around in that drafty, war surplus bomber.
Posted by: mnw at June 25, 2025 10:27 PM (kd60y)

It's very much an Old Left thing to hate the Shah and SAVAK. Their biggest failing was not whacking enough weird-beard muzzies.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 26, 2025 12:04 AM (D91Jg)

297 I just prefer to think of the Dr. Quest and Race Bannon and Haji as what they appeared to be when I was a kid and not everything being about gay sexual orientation.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 26, 2025 12:04 AM (2GCMq)

298 Yeah, but Dr. Quest somehow had little Hadji following them everywhere... pretty suspicious!
Posted by: Romeo13 at June 26, 2025 12:00 AM (mP0Kj)

---------

What do you think, Dr. Jones?

Posted by: Short Round at June 26, 2025 12:05 AM (JkO4W)

299
This guy was likely to be the one who gave the order:
https://tinyurl.com/27ndjc6v

He's still alive at 100. Grand Ayatollah, indeed.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at June 26, 2025 12:05 AM (w6EFb)

300 294 There used to be a Blumpie next to the Kum 'N Go.
Posted by: haffhowershower at June 26, 2025 12:03 AM (144I4)

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I miss Laddies Day at the Stop N Squirt.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 26, 2025 12:06 AM (JkO4W)

301 Franpsycho I'm surprised there was even that much hassle by that year. One guy on the program who probably spoke 30 words of Russian brought almost literally nothing but trade goods - jeans, nylons, cosmetics, Beatles records. He sold it all to the first black market guy he came across (very risky, really), netted a fortune in rubles, and we rarely saw him at the cafeteria again. He always ate in Intourist hotel restaurants.

Funny guy. As we walked from our plane to the terminal at Sheremetyevo on arrival, some young uniformed (ill-fitting) KGB guys lined the painted lane for us to walk in. They didn't look happy. Terminal looked shabby even from the outside.

This guy turns to me and in a classic line I'll never forget, says "we're afraid of THESE guys???".

Posted by: rhomboid at June 26, 2025 12:07 AM (1m82a)

302 Pizza Inn was good, too.

They had the pizza buffet and desert pizzas which were pretty tasty.

The last one of those around here closed 15 years ago.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at June 26, 2025 12:07 AM (6ydKt)

303 So many pizza chains started strong and then went to crap. Pizza Hut, Dominoes, Godfathers - all at one time were family favorites. Then some jackwagon in accounting says "we can save 3 cents per pizza if we use garbage ingredients" and bam, it's no longer as good as it was.

Posted by: PabloD at June 26, 2025 12:07 AM (Dsfkc)

304 *dessert pizzas

Posted by: SpeakingOf at June 26, 2025 12:07 AM (6ydKt)

305 We had a Shakey's Pizza in Virginia Beach back in the 1970's. They seem to be mostly West coast now. You could watch pizzas being made. They made balloon animals. It was good for parties for kids. We didn't eat pizza at the big chains back then. Good times.

Posted by: Boss Moss at June 26, 2025 12:08 AM (VAINm)

306
Lassie's mom, Maureen Robinson of the Jupiter II, is 100 years old today.

Posted by: Soothsayer at June 26, 2025 12:08 AM (+oLnI)

307 NYC Socialist Grocery Stores are going to be lit. Can you imagine the future? Means testing, applications, shopping permits, voucher payments only, equity pricing, banned colonial foods, staples out of stock, and struggle session specials.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at June 26, 2025 12:09 AM (NXz8h)

308 Drilling bits too.
Posted by: polynikes at June 25, 2025 10:51 PM (VofaG)

That was his old man.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 26, 2025 12:09 AM (D91Jg)

309 27 I always find it fascinating that The Jetsons had only one season. Their penetration into the cultural zeitgeist was incredible. Almost romantic, when you think about it.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at June 25, 2025 10:08 PM (CHHv1)

Probably already mentioned up thread but 'The Honeymooners' was also only one season of 39 episodes but lives on forever in our hearts..didn't Trixie die recently - within the last 10 years?

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at June 26, 2025 12:09 AM (QGaXH)

310 "Dessert pizza" is an unholy abomination in words.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 26, 2025 12:09 AM (JkO4W)

311 We definitely were never followed, at least at night. We'd stay at Russian friends' places drinking until late - always making sure to get back before the bridges came up. Empty streets (except for the guys passed out on the sidewalk - not unusual), easy to tell if anyone's following you.

Only time I tested the limits, decided to try to get into the naval shipyard near our dorm using my student ID. Workers in line of course knew I was a furriner, guy at the booth shakes his head, smiled thinly, and gave me the thumb waving sign for "get outta here". I had to try.

Posted by: rhomboid at June 26, 2025 12:10 AM (1m82a)

312 *You can find all kinds of Monkey Bread recipes on line.*

The challenge is finding fresh monkey.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty


There's no wrong way to eat a Rhesus.

Posted by: mikeski at June 26, 2025 12:10 AM (DgGvY)

313
What's funny is I was just watching Judge Dredd.

THIS is how you get Dredd, NYC!

Posted by: Soothsayer at June 26, 2025 12:10 AM (+oLnI)

314 The Pizza Inn around here was awesome years ago. Everything is about food costs now. No toppings for you.

Posted by: Boss Moss at June 26, 2025 12:11 AM (VAINm)

315 If you're ever in Columbia, Missouri, find a Shakespeare's Pizza. They have 3 locations now, I think. Their first location was near campus, and any pizza place that survives 40+ years in a college town must be doing something right.

Posted by: PabloD at June 26, 2025 12:11 AM (Dsfkc)

316 The challenge is finding fresh monkey.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty

There's no wrong way to eat a Rhesus.
Posted by: mikeski at June 26, 2025 12:10 AM (DgGvY)

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Innn-DEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!

Posted by: Kate Capshaw at June 26, 2025 12:12 AM (JkO4W)

317 Oh, it was summer, so "white nights". Never really got dark. Made finding our way home, while feeling no pain, as well as counter-surveillance, easier.

Posted by: rhomboid at June 26, 2025 12:12 AM (1m82a)

318 Dessert pizza" is an unholy abomination in words.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 26, 2025 12:09 AM (JkO4W)

They were basically like huge cookies.
Chocolate, whip cream, and different kinds of toppings.

I wouldn’t eat it every day, but they were delicious after some pizza the few times I tried it.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at June 26, 2025 12:12 AM (6ydKt)

319
Lol, I don't know if we have NextDoor here. Daughter-in-law will let me know what's going on.

This is so funny. Hubby went to the Maverick convience store a couple of mornings ago and when he got home he told me he saw two Mexicans in there. We don't see Mexicans here. Come to find out it was there was a Mexican roofing crew in town who were reroofing a commercial building. They were playing Mexican music so loud you could hear it all over town.

Almost all of our construction crews come up here from Utah.

Posted by: fourseasons at June 26, 2025 12:12 AM (3ek7K)

320 Rhesus peanut butter cups.

Posted by: Boss Moss at June 26, 2025 12:13 AM (VAINm)

321 Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 25, 2025 11:13 PM (ynpvh)

Arabs: We invented the condom!
British: We invented removing it from the sheep first.
Posted by: ... at June 25, 2025 11:19 PM (ynpvh)

Jim in kali doing an impression of me? Was it a good one?

How the heck have you been, anyway?

Posted by: ... at June 26, 2025 12:15 AM (E0p3T)

322 Bill Whittle visited Russia, and noticed how clean and nice the public spaces are. Then came home to Los Angeles and saw the opposite.

The lessons from the cold war still hold, but FFS the boot is on the other foot now.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at June 26, 2025 12:18 AM (lhenN)

323 Too bad FedEx is the worst shipper ive ever dealt with. They have about a 75% failure rate for me, and when you try and get a resolution it's a dozens of people giving you dozens of answers (the people at the store are unhelpful, but at least seem sympathetic to issues) Then when you try to use that insurance you purchased from them, you learn it's not possible.

Not that the USPS is much better, but ive rarely had things lost by them.

Posted by: Rbastid at June 26, 2025 12:18 AM (n9maH)

324 Thanks for the ONT.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at June 26, 2025 12:19 AM (bss/y)

325 Godfather's Pizza was owned by Aifam Inc. That's Mafia spelled backwards.

Posted by: DBCooper at June 26, 2025 12:19 AM (7Nm0T)

326 Please - the only thing Osama bin Lenin is going to do in NYC is hand over all of the graft to his Muslim buddies.

Gonna piss in a bunch of bowls of Cartel Wheaties.

I recommend stocking up on popcorn...

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Plucky Comic Relief, AoS Ladies Brigade - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at June 26, 2025 12:19 AM (SRRAx)

327 1,200 sorties, 600 refuelings - apparently the official word on Israeli air ops during the late, hopefully only paused, unpleasantness.

Plausible. Of course there are things left out, and one hopes even those numbers are "approximate". There had to be search/rescue capability staged somewhere. My guesses are eastern Syria, Iraqi Kurdistan, outside chance of Azerbaijan. Ditto for the mumble mumble operations that today the IDF chief confirmed had taken place.

In any case, an operation of this scope that resulted in zero casualties or aircraft losses is astonishing beyond all previous astonishing accomplishments.

Posted by: rhomboid at June 26, 2025 12:19 AM (1m82a)

328 Godfather's iirc was not good pizza.

When it comes down to it, most pizza is just ok. Great pizza is amazing. Ok for pizza is better than ok for other food stuffs.

It is like 'ok' ice cream.

Bad pizza and bad ice cream are memorable because they have to really work to screw the formula up.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at June 26, 2025 12:21 AM (bss/y)

329 Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Plucky Comic Relief, AoS Ladies Brigade - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at June 26, 2025 12:19 AM (SRRAx)

Teresa how the heck are you sweetheart?

Posted by: ... at June 26, 2025 12:21 AM (E0p3T)

330 In any case, an operation of this scope that resulted in zero casualties or aircraft losses is astonishing beyond all previous astonishing accomplishments.
Posted by: rhomboid at June 26, 2025 12:19 AM (1m82a)

All against the 'hegemon' that Obama was trying to set up. Good thing he did no better than we did with Afghanistan.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at June 26, 2025 12:23 AM (bss/y)

331

Look, if your anal coke whores don't do triple penetration bondage, hardcore bdsm, you're not paying them enough...

God forbid you have to get women involved too, that will double the price...

Posted by: Barky Ofuckstick at June 26, 2025 12:25 AM (2P8QE)

332
The challenge is finding fresh monkey.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty

There's no wrong way to eat a Rhesus.
Posted by: mikeski


Ha, that was a howler.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 26, 2025 12:27 AM (63Dwl)

333
This I did not know: the Shah himself claimed that JFK wanted him out, at least at first, and that it was JFK's CIA that engineered or encouraged the Khomeini protests in '63.

Khomeini denounced the Shah (and Israel) after the White Revolution reforms were enacted. They arrested him, and that sparked a big protest.

They were leaning toward just executing him (which they should've done), but there were fears that would make him a bigger martyr and do more harm than good. So off to exile.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at June 26, 2025 12:28 AM (w6EFb)

334 I'm not sure if many young people understand who truly ghastly and evil Lenin was ( probably not, since they have
been indoctrinated by the left wing school system ) but I think that Curtis Sliwa coined one of the most brilliant monikers in political history about Mamdani in calling him Osama Bin Lenin and I congratulate him on coming up with that and I- who have no ability to influence anything in NY politics except for sending in some little money to Sliwa and writing letters to the editor which the NY Post occasionally publishes- will use that moniker regularly.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 26, 2025 12:32 AM (2GCMq)

335
I love that a NY State Republican lawmaker called out AOC today. She says she's from the Bronx and she is really from Westchester NY which is a wealthy town.

He said "why is your picture in my high school yearbook from my high school in Westchester?

Posted by: four seasons at June 26, 2025 12:33 AM (3ek7K)

336 IDF CoS Zamir:

"According to the assessment of senior Intelligence Directorate officials, the damage to the nuclear program is not surgical but systemic - the cumulative achievement allows us to state that the Iranian nuclear project has suffered severe, wide-ranging, and deep damage, setting it back by years. We will not allow Iran to produce weapons of mass destruction.”

Of course he was referring to the results of Israel's attack on the entire nuclear sector, from personnel to related manufacturing to actual enrichment, design, and weaponization infrastructure. The idiotic kerfuffle over first-glance unfinished intel here in the US concerns one particular strike. And on that, tomorrow at 8AM EDT Hegseth will have a briefing at the Pentagon.

Posted by: rhomboid at June 26, 2025 12:33 AM (1m82a)

337 Teresa how the heck are you sweetheart?
Posted by: ... at June 26, 2025 12:21 AM (E0p3T)


Hangin' in there! Chemo drugs are working so far, but I am losing my hair one strand at a time, and my nails are starting to lift up/trying to fall off. Haven't been nauseous, though 🎉🎉🎉

Our 45th anniversary party is less than 2 months away. Sending out most of the invitations tomorrow (I had to order more, so some won't go out until next week). I just booked a DJ and finalized floral arrangements; the venue and catering were already taken care of, although I do have to finalize the menu; the "bride" and "groom" cakes have been decided on; and now I am working on the table settings/"stationery" and guest favors.

Things are starting to get hectic, but it's been fun planning everything! We didn't get to have a big wedding when we got married, but now we have more money than we did back then, so I am getting the reception of my girlhood dreams - no mints, nuts, and ice cream punch in the fellowship hall for this gal! 😂😂😂

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Plucky Comic Relief, AoS Ladies Brigade - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at June 26, 2025 12:36 AM (SRRAx)

338 Mamdani 25: Stay Calm and Everything Will Be Okay

Posted by: ... at June 26, 2025 12:37 AM (E0p3T)

339
Teresa,

I hope you enjoy every moment of your party. You all deserve it with all you've been through.

You are such an inspiration!!!

Posted by: four seasons at June 26, 2025 12:39 AM (3ek7K)

340
One thing I would really like to know the truth of, is how much footsie Jimmuh played with Khomeini. You know how much Jimmuh loved anti-American dictators and hated Israel and pro-American dictators.

It is alleged the military was going to stage a coup there at the last to keep the "civilian reform" govt from taking over. Whether that would've kept the Shah in power, or something else, don't know. But Jimmuh stopped that.

Supposedly Khomeini assured Jimmuh that American interests would be fine in Iran, don't you worry, I'm your friend. And Jimmuh believe him.

I can believe that.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at June 26, 2025 12:40 AM (w6EFb)

341 Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Plucky Comic Relief, AoS Ladies Brigade - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at June 26, 2025 12:36 AM (SRRAx)

Hey hey that's awesome news. 👊🏼

Especially on the nausea. Not to be sniffed at.

Happy you're getting to have some fun and getting the party you deserve. Woo wooooo

Posted by: ... at June 26, 2025 12:40 AM (E0p3T)

342 Look, if your anal coke whores



when was this flavor introduced?

Posted by: n at June 26, 2025 12:40 AM (CGXyk)

343 Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Plucky Comic Relief, AoS Ladies Brigade - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at June 26, 2025 12:36 AM (SRRAx

Isn't that wonderful you have been married for 45 years and are working on a party?. Sorry about your nails and hair. Prayers continue for your healing.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 26, 2025 12:40 AM (2GCMq)

344 338 is a somewhat obtuse reference but I'm enjoying it.

Posted by: ... at June 26, 2025 12:41 AM (E0p3T)

345
...Yep stay calm and everything will be okay. SURE, as long as you bow down to Islam.

Posted by: four seasons at June 26, 2025 12:42 AM (3ek7K)

346 ...Yep stay calm and everything will be okay. SURE, as long as you bow down to Islam.

Posted by: four seasons at June 26, 2025 12:42 AM (3ek7K)

The line reportedly came from the 9/11 hijackers!

Posted by: ... at June 26, 2025 12:43 AM (E0p3T)

347 That was a very good article by State Senator Slater on Sandy Cortez. Not only is she not from the Bronx, many of her constituents admit she never shows up to her district Another social media bigmouth.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 26, 2025 12:43 AM (2GCMq)

348 344 338 is a somewhat obtuse reference but I'm enjoying it.
Posted by: ... at June 26, 2025 12:41 AM (E0p3T)

I don't get it.....

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at June 26, 2025 12:44 AM (QGaXH)

349 westechester is it own special hell, nowhere more undesirabl to be

Posted by: n at June 26, 2025 12:44 AM (CGXyk)

350
n,

It probably was okay when AOC grew up there.

Posted by: four seasons at June 26, 2025 12:45 AM (3ek7K)

351 n,

It probably was okay when AOC grew up there.
Posted by: f


it is not so much the residents it is the fact that it is supposed to be a suburb but it is not a suburb in the sense of those everywhere else, Westchester is a suburb crammed into a bunch of tiny towns. Theres no decent road transit, you cannot get anywhere easily, it is hyper inefficient.

It is there mostly because residents from the city wanted suburbs for raiding children that were near enough to commute to the city daily.

Posted by: n at June 26, 2025 12:49 AM (CGXyk)

352 westchester has great country clubs though

Posted by: n at June 26, 2025 12:50 AM (CGXyk)

353
Now, for a prototypical example of the moderate, middle of the road squish type: Shapour Baktiar, who was the last prime minister of Iran before Khomeini took over.

He was against the Shah, and very pro-human rights and democracy and all that good stuff. He was agin' communists and Islamists, but they needed their rights and all that.

There at the last, the Shah appointed him Prime Minister. He was gonna set up a nice, democractic human rights government. He released all the political prisoners, abolished the SAVAK, brought Khomeini back to be nice and all that.

He was then going to hold elections for an assembly to decide the govt of the Iran, new constitution and all that good stuff...

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at June 26, 2025 12:50 AM (w6EFb)

354

n,

okay I get it now. You having lived in NYC and know what you're talking about.

Posted by: four seasons at June 26, 2025 12:51 AM (3ek7K)

355 n,

okay I get it now. You having lived in NYC and know what you're talking about.
Posted by:


not an effort to bloviate, more to hate westchester in writing.



nobody ever really wants to move our of the city to westchester, its to give the family what they had when they were young.

Posted by: n at June 26, 2025 12:53 AM (CGXyk)

356
One of the funniest things I've seen is Rubio bursting out laughing at NATO today when some NATO person called Trump "Daddy."

I just read the White House marked Trump's return from the NATO summit with provocative "daddy music" video Americans won't be able to unsee.

I haven't watched it, I"m old and am afraid I'll pee myself laughing.

Posted by: four seasons at June 26, 2025 12:55 AM (3ek7K)

357
Now, Khomeini then denounced Bakhtiar as a traitor and loyalist to the Shah (no mind the Shah had arrested him many times before). Bakhtiar then had to flee to Paris. That's what being a middle of the road squish gets you. In the end, he pissed off everybody, including his most loyal Nationalist Front supporters, his friend in the anti-Shah opposition for all the years before.

From Paris, he did try to lead some anti-Islamic opposition. For that, Khomeini ordered him killed. They succeeded, killing him in 1991 in Paris. With kitchen knives.

That's the fate of a squish like Bakhtiar indeed.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at June 26, 2025 12:55 AM (w6EFb)

358
I haven't watched it, I"m old and am afraid I'll pee myself laughing.
Posted by: four seasons

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

Well, the rest of us have our Depends on and we're dying for a laugh! Where's the vid?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 26, 2025 12:57 AM (lCaJd)

359
I read it at Daily Mail Blonde.

Posted by: four seasons at June 26, 2025 12:57 AM (3ek7K)

360 it is funny that theres not much thats funny anymore, even the hq, the ont was a hive of scum and villany that was among the funniest in the webs

Posted by: n at June 26, 2025 12:59 AM (CGXyk)

361
What people are overlooking is that it's not only the destruction of facilities Iran has to rebuild, but the FUNDS to do so.

Iran doesnt have obama and biden anymore to give them cash.

Posted by: Soothsayer at June 26, 2025 12:59 AM (GFfQs)

362 westechester is it own special hell, nowhere more undesirabl to be
Posted by: n at June 26, 2025 12:44 AM (CGXyk)

Depends where you live in Westchester County.

Posted by: polynikes at June 26, 2025 01:00 AM (VofaG)

363
n,

I found Ace through a link about ten years ago. The first thread I read was about some woman who was knitting with yarn she had stuck up in her vagina so it would have menstrual blood on it. The comments were HILARIOUS and I have been "hooked" ever since.

Posted by: four seasons at June 26, 2025 01:01 AM (3ek7K)

364
n, Do you remember that?

Posted by: four seasons at June 26, 2025 01:01 AM (3ek7K)

365 it is funny that theres not much thats funny anymore, even the hq, the ont was a hive of scum and villany that was among the funniest in the webs
Posted by: n at June 26, 2025 12:59 AM (CGXyk)

And yet you still found a way to argue with everyone......

Posted by: ... at June 26, 2025 01:02 AM (E0p3T)

366 I remember it.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 26, 2025 01:02 AM (63Dwl)

367 westechester is it own special hell, nowhere more undesirabl to be
Posted by: n at June 26, 2025 12:44 AM (CGXyk)

Depends where you live in Westchester County.
Posted by: polynikes



no, whether its uber nice or hell hol, its the geography and infrastructure, nobody really wants to be there, especially those with $

Posted by: n at June 26, 2025 01:03 AM (CGXyk)

368
It was such a wacky introduction to ACE, lmao. This place is amazing with all the stuff we discuss.

Posted by: four seasons at June 26, 2025 01:04 AM (3ek7K)

369 Things change. People come and people go. Some went in 2016.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 26, 2025 01:05 AM (63Dwl)

370
NYC Socialist Grocery Stores are going to be lit. Can you imagine the future? Means testing, applications, shopping permits, voucher payments only, equity pricing, banned colonial foods, staples out of stock, and struggle session specials.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram

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And where are they supposed to get the floor space for these stores? You can't just declare any old space a grocery store, especially if you're selling produce and meat and perishables. So they have to ID all the sites assuming they're available, do all the plumbing and pest control, install flooring that cleans up easily, and secure the places somehow. How long will it take in New York to even prep a space?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 26, 2025 01:06 AM (lCaJd)

371 And yet you still found a way to argue with everyone......
Posted by: ...


arguing, debating, teasing are good for you , they require thought and challenge your beliefs.

I am always willing to change my positions about anything when somebody presents a good argument to do so.

I have changed my thoughts about many things because of arguments with the horde.

besides arguing is way more fun than complaining

Posted by: n at June 26, 2025 01:06 AM (CGXyk)

372 all at one time were family favorites. Then some jackwagon in accounting says "we can save 3 cents per pizza if we use garbage ingredients" and bam, it's no longer as good as it was.
Posted by: PabloD at June 26, 2025 12:07 AM (Dsfkc)

We'll make up for shitty sales in volume!

Posted by: a dude in MI at June 26, 2025 01:09 AM (+I6Y/)

373
Everyone has opinions. It's so great we have AOS where we can express ourselves.

Posted by: four seasons at June 26, 2025 01:09 AM (3ek7K)

374 n,

I found Ace through a link about ten years ago. The first thread I read was about some woman who was knitting with yarn she had stuck up in her vagina so it would have menstrual blood on it. The comments were HILARIOUS and I have been "hooked" ever since.
Posted by: f


yeah, I do not remember that thread, thankfully?

I started visiting the hq around the time the seals went missing in afghanistan.

in an early comment I wrote something imprecisely and offended misstammy and, in her defense, peaches said something about my comment, none of which was nice and concluded her comment with *spit*

I have been hookd ever since

Posted by: n at June 26, 2025 01:10 AM (CGXyk)

375 all at one time were family favorites. Then some jackwagon in accounting says "we can save 3 cents per pizza if we use garbage ingredients" and bam, it's no longer as good as it was.
Posted by: PabloD at June 26, 2025 12:07 AM (Dsfkc


I am in finance but private equity ruins everything

Posted by: n at June 26, 2025 01:12 AM (CGXyk)

376
Blonde,

Did you find the video?

Posted by: four seasons at June 26, 2025 01:17 AM (3ek7K)

377
four, I found the Daily Mail article but that site always makes me jump through hoops to play a video. However, I saw the still shots of "the usually stoic Rubio" cracking up!

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 26, 2025 01:25 AM (lIBhD)

378
I think Rubio is cute. Watching him trying not to laugh his ass off was so funny.

Posted by: four seasons at June 26, 2025 01:26 AM (3ek7K)

379 Drilling bits too.
Posted by: polynikes at June 25, 2025 10:51 PM (VofaG)

That was his old man.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 26, 2025 12:09 AM (D91Jg)

Sr did the rotating 2 bit. Jr came up with the 3 bit after his fathered died and he ran the company. I say he came up with it but mostly helped by his company engineers.

Posted by: polynikes at June 26, 2025 01:27 AM (kVeKF)

380 besides arguing is way more fun than complaining
Posted by: n at June 26, 2025 01:06 AM (CGXyk)

I kid because I care.

Posted by: ... at June 26, 2025 01:33 AM (E0p3T)

Wends-Yay Cafe

catsgrooming.jpg

Hedgehogs are so cute that people say Sure I'll live with a permanent risk of salmonella to own one.

Horse and dog are besties.

The love of a pimp is very different from the love of a square.

Giant dogs need cuddles too.

Can a border collie find a tiny zipper-pull thrown into the woods? The answer may surprise you. (But probably not.)

The instinct runs deep.

Cat introduces her kitten to the new baby.

I like cats, but this is disturbing. They look like spiders.

Out of control.

The instinct to bathe is irresistible.

Rescuing a seal that got stuck in a crevasse.

Thoughtless people rescue a dangerous ice-bat.

Daleks aren't actually robots, you know. They have mechanical bodies, but the Daleks themselves are weird evil mutants.

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1 Daleks aren't actually robots, you know. They have mechanical bodies, but the Daleks themselves are weird evil mutants.
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Breaking news from 1974?

Posted by: Evergreen Headlines at June 25, 2025 07:24 PM (VlT1R)

2 Kittehs! Puppehs! Babehs! All the good ehs.

Posted by: LizLem at June 25, 2025 07:24 PM (Eng1Z)

3 I wonder how far an animal's vision goes into infra-red. Can they see remote control lights and spacial-mapping laser light?

Posted by: banana Dream at June 25, 2025 07:26 PM (cduTK)

4 I like cats, but this is disturbing. They look like spiders.
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The video game Satisfactory has an "arachophobe" mode that puts a kitten face overlay onto the "stingers," bizarre, spiderlike creatures that have freaky movement.

The kitten overlay does NOT make it any less creepy.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 25, 2025 07:26 PM (IBQGV)

5 Yeah, that's what the cats want most from me: kissyface. They can't have it. Yuck.

Posted by: gp Got Dopest Bars at June 25, 2025 07:26 PM (5zjm+)

6 #Hodgetwins

AOC EXPOSED: “BRONX GIRL” IMAGE SHATTERED BY YEARBOOK PHOTO

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez keeps talking tough — recently tweeting at President Trump, “I’m a Bronx girl… we eat Queens boys for breakfast.”

But now a New York Republican just DESTROYED that fake street cred with one yearbook photo.

Assemblyman Matt Slater (R–Yorktown) clapped back with a high school yearbook photo of AOC from Yorktown High School — in Westchester County, one of the wealthiest suburbs in New York.

His response?

"If you’re a BX girl then why are you in my Yorktown yearbook? Give it up already.”

Translation: AOC grew up in the suburbs, not the Bronx she claims to represent.

Let’s be real — this is just another example of the Left crafting fake identities to score political points.

AOC isn’t some tough Bronx chick — she’s a carefully packaged progressive product.

Americans are waking up. The act is getting old.

#FakeBronxGirl

Posted by: rickb223 at June 25, 2025 07:27 PM (N28XY)

7 Video

Posted by: Accomack at June 25, 2025 07:27 PM (6cOjz)

8 It's been so long since we've had a bat I've forgot what they even look like... some kind of weasel right?

Posted by: banana Dream at June 25, 2025 07:28 PM (cduTK)

9 woohoo!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at June 25, 2025 07:28 PM (Z5NUn)

10 Elephants taking advantage of a broken down orange truck in South Africa.. 😅
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Oh, please!

Everyone knows those crafty, long-nosed bandits set a trap to disable the vehicle so they could loot the goods.

Like robbing an armored truck full of money.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 25, 2025 07:29 PM (IBQGV)

11 winged weasel

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at June 25, 2025 07:29 PM (Z5NUn)

12 AOC was born and raised in the Bronx until she was 5, then her parents moved her to Yorktown for better schools and a better future.

Isn't that considered white flight?

It also means she didn't grow up in the culture that justifies Bronx attitude. So yes, a total poser.

Posted by: LizLem at June 25, 2025 07:30 PM (Eng1Z)

13 exactly, rickb; as phony as any other demonrat.

what can you expect from "people" who are patrons of the father of lies?

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at June 25, 2025 07:32 PM (Z5NUn)

14 The baby seal rescue looks fake to me for some reason.

Posted by: H at June 25, 2025 07:32 PM (2gjbv)

15 Interesting takes on YT (even Cenk, a broken clock is right sometimes):

Mamdani's social media engagement is what got him the election. He was engaged on it and twisted it for his needs. Mamdani's rant against Cuomo in their debate got turned into a song that went viral.

(Trump had this kind of social media momentum and it won him the election. Mamdani used it also. Republicans, take note: have a team, or organic young fans, savvy enough to do this for future elections?)

Also, Cuomo's top donor admits he gave him $250K halfheartedly, only because he wanted an in if Cuomo won it. The old school pay-to-pay. He'll probably be backing Mamdami in the general.

Posted by: LizLem at June 25, 2025 07:33 PM (Eng1Z)

16 Rescuing a seal that got stuck in a crevasse.

Pretty sure that's AI.

Posted by: Archimedes at June 25, 2025 07:35 PM (Riz8t)

17 >>> "stingers," bizarre, spiderlike creatures that have freaky movement.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 25, 2025 07:26 PM (IBQGV)

I've had nightmares about those things.

"Ha, I'll just jump up on something and parachute-glide away" ... they can jump eleventy billion miles straight up from the ground to attack your dumb face. Especially the big ones. And they agro from a good distance.

Posted by: banana Dream at June 25, 2025 07:35 PM (cduTK)

18 Horsey and dog sure are sweet!

Posted by: gp Got Dopest Bars at June 25, 2025 07:36 PM (5zjm+)

19 Just watched the first 15 minutes of Starship Troopers for the first time.

Worse than all the negative comments indicated I’ve read at aos.

Posted by: polynikes at June 25, 2025 07:36 PM (VofaG)

20 3 I wonder how far an animal's vision goes into infra-red. Can they see remote control lights and spacial-mapping laser light?
Posted by: banana Dream at June 25, 2025 07:26 PM

I wonder what they see, I have no glow trail cams set up and I get pictures of bobcats and coyoteslooking right at the camera and I'm not sure if they see the infra red or hear it. Still not sure.
I even had a badger walk right up to one looking at it.
You get a bunch of fur photos and it's can be a mystery which animal it is.

Posted by: CaliGirl at June 25, 2025 07:38 PM (Cg3Gl)

21 Hitchhiking penguins should be avoided as they can be unpleasantly sexually aggressive and may also damage the finish on your boat.

Posted by: Penguin Facts at June 25, 2025 07:38 PM (vFG9F)

22 I've had nightmares about those things.

"Ha, I'll just jump up on something and parachute-glide away" ... they can jump eleventy billion miles straight up from the ground to attack your dumb face. Especially the big ones. And they agro from a good distance.
Posted by: banana Dream at June 25, 2025 07:35 PM (cduTK)
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The little ones aren't too bad. Quick and vicious, but manageable. The alpha stingers are the stuff of nightmares made flesh.

Scaled up versions, quick as greased lightning and an instakill if you aren't paying attention.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 25, 2025 07:39 PM (IBQGV)

23 >>>Rescuing a seal that got stuck in a crevasse.

That was thoughtful. It would have been hard for the polar bear to reach it all the way down in that crevasse.

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at June 25, 2025 07:39 PM (p4nXC)

24 I wonder how far an animal's vision goes into infra-red. Can they see remote control lights and spacial-mapping laser light?

I think so. It's the reason they're never taken out with a laser-guided JDAM.

Posted by: Archimedes at June 25, 2025 07:39 PM (Riz8t)

25 I should keep a border collie handy for next time I lose my car keys.

Nah, I'd probably lose the dog, and therefore have no way to find it.

Posted by: gp Got Dopest Bars at June 25, 2025 07:40 PM (5zjm+)

26 I got a lot of laughs today showing people a picture of Snowflake, telling them she's my friend's visiting cat and my week started with her sitting on my face Monday morning.

But the week is getting better.

A lot of laughs. Leave them laughing...

Posted by: Stateless.. 45% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back now at June 25, 2025 07:40 PM (jvJvP)

27 Insure hope the baby that the cat is introducing it's kitten to is just sleeping. Sure looks like it is sleeping. It's sleeping, right???

Posted by: Diogenes at June 25, 2025 07:41 PM (W/lyH)

28 I have wondered to his face why a man who is 75 years old who can't get around would ever consider a Border Collie for a pet. A dog that needs constant work to keep it from destroying shit in your house.

My Uncle is a retard.

Posted by: jsg at June 25, 2025 07:43 PM (ra4xZ)

29 21 Hitchhiking penguins should be avoided as they can be unpleasantly sexually aggressive and may also damage the finish on your boat.
Posted by: Penguin Facts at June 25, 2025 07:38 PM (vFG9F)

What if you like those things ?

Posted by: jsg at June 25, 2025 07:44 PM (ra4xZ)

30 A guy used to bring a huge Great Dane to the park I take Elvis for a walk. It's off leash in the off season and this big goof would see from across the park and come galloping, he galloped not ran, and then lean on me while I pet him. I had to brace myself or be knocked over. Absolute gentle giant. Wouldn't hurt a fly but was as big as a pony.

Posted by: JackStraw at June 25, 2025 07:44 PM (viF8m)

31 8 It's been so long since we've had a bat I've forgot what they even look like... some kind of weasel right?
Posted by: banana Dream at June 25, 2025 07:28 PM (cduTK)

Rodents.

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at June 25, 2025 07:45 PM (p4nXC)

32 Yay! All well-adjusted Morons applaud uplifting Penguin content. The miserable few, I'm sure, will recoil like a vampire to a cross.

Posted by: Penguin Pete at June 25, 2025 07:45 PM (G5+As)

33 "may also damage the finish on your boat."

'Penguin patina,' the old salts call it.

Posted by: gp Got Dopest Bars at June 25, 2025 07:46 PM (5zjm+)

34 affirm ... "always leave 'em laughing !"

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at June 25, 2025 07:46 PM (Z5NUn)

35 I have decided that the Cafe has for too long totally ignored the blazing-hot magma-pot of sexiness that is the Slow Loris.

Now that I have learned that the blazing hot sexiness is just a facade covering a toxic (more accurately, venomous) secret, I can understand the Cafe's reluctance to feature the creature.

http://tiny.cc/Loris

Posted by: tankdemon at June 25, 2025 07:47 PM (R256O)

36 Bats eat tons and tons of pesky flying insects like mosquitoes and gnats. How many pests do penguins eat? Hmmm?

Posted by: fd at June 25, 2025 07:49 PM (vFG9F)

37 Yea!!!! For the elephants.
Probably un uploaded is the chasing away of the humans and the arrival of the rest of the herd. Then the arrival of people with guns to recover the truck....

Posted by: Reforger at June 25, 2025 07:49 PM (LgDgc)

38 I got a lot of laughs today showing people a picture of Snowflake, telling them she's my friend's visiting cat and my week started with her sitting on my face Monday morning.

But the week is getting better.

A lot of laughs. Leave them laughing...
Posted by: Stateless.. 45% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back now at June 25, 2025 07:40 PM (jvJvP)
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Sharing cute pics of pets is a great way to interact with strangers. Everyone loves pics of pets (sometimes more than pics of kids).

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 25, 2025 07:50 PM (IBQGV)

39 They better hurry up and fix that truck or all the oranges will be gone.

Posted by: wth at June 25, 2025 07:50 PM (v0R5T)

40 30 A guy used to bring a huge Great Dane to the park I take Elvis for a walk. It's off leash in the off season and this big goof would see from across the park and come galloping, he galloped not ran, and then lean on me while I pet him. I had to brace myself or be knocked over. Absolute gentle giant. Wouldn't hurt a fly but was as big as a pony.
Posted by: JackStraw at June 25, 2025 07:44 PM

The lady that I got my bengal cats from had Great Danes and they were the sweetest dogs. She said they were gentle with the kittens and yes they leaned on you so you'd pet them. Just huge animals and I'd hate to clean up the yard after them.

Posted by: CaliGirl at June 25, 2025 07:50 PM (Cg3Gl)

41 Maybe Emperor penguins eat small Democrats?

Posted by: Thanatopsis at June 25, 2025 07:51 PM (GYt5+)

42 8 It's been so long since we've had a bat I've forgot what they even look like... some kind of weasel right?
Posted by: banana Dream at June 25, 2025 07:28 PM (cduTK)

I've never seen a weasel thst looked like this, even in a Bosch painting:
8 It's been so long since we've had a bat I've forgot what they even look like... some kind of weasel right?
Posted by: banana Dream at June 25, 2025 07:28 PM (cduTK)
http://tiny.cc/Hhbat

Posted by: tankdemon at June 25, 2025 07:51 PM (R256O)

43 I've never heard of a blood-sucking penguin. Bats on the other hand...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vampire_bat

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at June 25, 2025 07:51 PM (p4nXC)

44 On Tuesday, District Judge Tana Lin granted a partial injunction to the states which sued the Department of Transportation over blocking the funds, and said that the states would likely succeed in their suit alleging that these were withheld illegally.

In her ruling, Lin quoted from the TV show, writing: "In a 1995 episode of The Simpsons, Homer must cut short a tearful goodbye with his long-lost mother after her traveling companions protest that their 'electric van only has minutes of juice left!'"
"Some 26 years later, Congress sought to address the phenomenon that has come to be known as 'range anxiety': the unease experienced by electric vehicle ("EV") drivers when they are unsure where the next charging station might be, and whether their car's battery has sufficient charge to get them there," she continued.

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If Homer said it, that's just as strong as the constitution.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Well, This Is Another Fine Mess You've Gotten Me Into at June 25, 2025 07:52 PM (L/fGl)

45 They better hurry up and fix that truck or all the oranges will be gone.
Posted by: wth at June 25, 2025 07:50 PM (v0R5T)
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*** HEE HEE HEE ***

Posted by: The Long-tusk Snout Gang at June 25, 2025 07:52 PM (IBQGV)

46 30, lol,my b. i. l. raised them : I still remember the one (about my weight) who could stand up, paws on my shoulders, and look down at me (& lick the sweat off my forehead, lol). "walking" him was not for the lightweight, or easily intimidated.
rip Buddy! what a goodboy you were!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at June 25, 2025 07:52 PM (Z5NUn)

47 37
'Yea!!!! For the elephants.
Probably un uploaded is the chasing away of the humans and the arrival of the rest of the herd. Then the arrival of people with guns to recover the truck....'

The driving away of the truck should recover it. Assuming the elephants don't tip the trailer over first.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at June 25, 2025 07:53 PM (3wi/L)

48 I hope that if I ever fall in a volcano that I go quick and it doesn't take days.

Posted by: fd at June 25, 2025 07:53 PM (vFG9F)

49
If you want to see what the weather is in Sugar Tit, here you go:

https://tinyurl.com/2bqgmohr

Sugar Tits there is taking liberty with the name. She's actually a little too southwest of Sugar Tit proper. Also, I worry about Sugar Tit's rain sensor there, should've have registered some the past hour.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at June 25, 2025 07:53 PM (w6EFb)

50 Ana just attacked Lara Loomer as a "bigoted piece of trash" because Lara wishes muslim centric groups were registered as terrorist groups ages ago, and these problems would be reduced.

Ana realizes Lara was gang raped by Muslims, right?

It's hypocritical to call Lara bigoted, when after Ana was assaulted by homeless people in NYC, SHE was called racist for sharing that news.

Ok, I've hit my Young Turks tolerance level for the day, I'm out.

Posted by: LizLem at June 25, 2025 07:53 PM (Eng1Z)

51
Sharing cute pics of pets is a great way to interact with strangers. Everyone loves pics of pets (sometimes more than pics of kids).
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 25, 2025 07:50 PM

I'm such a witch but there's a lady I barely know that volunteers everywhere and when I see her she shows me pictures of her grandkids, a lot of pictures so I started making her look at my animal pictures. I started showing her pictures of my chickens last time.
In my defense this lady is bossy and annoying.

Posted by: CaliGirl at June 25, 2025 07:53 PM (Cg3Gl)

52 " big goof" is spot-on!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at June 25, 2025 07:54 PM (Z5NUn)

53
Since leftists never see the connection between cause and effect, the disaster of a Madmani administration will always be the fault of wreckers, kulaks and foreign spies.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 25, 2025 07:54 PM (/HVsR)

54 "They better hurry up and fix that truck or all the oranges will be gone."

When they run out of oranges, it's time for the main course, and that's when you don't want to be there.

Posted by: gp Got Dopest Bars at June 25, 2025 07:54 PM (5zjm+)

55 If Homer said it, that's just as strong as the constitution.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Well, This Is Another Fine Mess You've Gotten Me Into at June 25, 2025 07:52 PM (L/fGl)

Is there anything Judges don’t know?

Posted by: polynikes at June 25, 2025 07:54 PM (VofaG)

56 yay, murderfloofs

Posted by: gKWVE at June 25, 2025 07:54 PM (gKWVE)

57 35 I have decided that the Cafe has for too long totally ignored the blazing-hot magma-pot of sexiness that is the Slow Loris.

Now that I have learned that the blazing hot sexiness is just a facade covering a toxic (more accurately, venomous) secret, I can understand the Cafe's reluctance to feature the creature.

http://tiny.cc/Loris
Posted by: tankdemon at June 25, 2025 07:47 PM (R256O)


Link goes to a sublime intepretation of Vivaldi's Le Quatro Stagione, performed by Itzak Perlman and the Israel Philiharmonic, but I don't see no Lorises.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at June 25, 2025 07:55 PM (PiwSw)

58 36 Bats eat tons and tons of pesky flying insects like mosquitoes and gnats. How many pests do penguins eat? Hmmm?
Posted by: fd

Bats carry and spread rabies and try to nest in ladies hairstyles. And have you forgotten the worldwide plague bats brought to our planet just 5 years ago? Trillions!!
Get back to me when our Clients affect your life and livelihood in a similar manner. Good day, Sir!

Posted by: Penguin Promotion Board at June 25, 2025 07:55 PM (G5+As)

59 "I've never heard of a blood-sucking penguin."

The story of Nazi vampire penguins on the moon is better left untold.

Posted by: Penguin Facts at June 25, 2025 07:56 PM (vFG9F)

60 Go CaliGirl! This!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at June 25, 2025 07:56 PM (Z5NUn)

61 >>>yay, murderfloofs

Spoiler alert: they are all murderfloofs. But we love them so.

My sweet dog LOVES shaking his lamb chop toy, which he long ago got the squeaker out of. It's so cute to see him shake it, but I'm well aware it's an evolutionary move meant to snap the neck of his prey. But he's so adorable doing it!

Posted by: LizLem at June 25, 2025 07:57 PM (Eng1Z)

62 Evenin’, All.

Posted by: Bulg at June 25, 2025 07:58 PM (77rzZ)

63 You can't blame COVID on bats and you can't blame bats for being friendly with the ladies.

Posted by: fd at June 25, 2025 07:58 PM (vFG9F)

64 19 Just watched the first 15 minutes of Starship Troopers for the first time.

Worse than all the negative comments indicated I’ve read at aos.
Posted by: polynikes at June 25, 2025 07:36 PM (VofaG)

I saw part of "Starship Troopers" in the theatre!

I took my God-daughter, her older sister and their two friends to the movies. I forgot what we saw, but I lost my car keys. I was taking care of that situation, the girls were going to see another movie.

What four girls aged 7 to 9 wouldn't want to watch "Starship Troopers?" We didn't last long. I took them to see "Baby Geniuses." I watch a lot of kids crap that doesn't piss me off.

Trust me. That very weekend, "Starship Troopers" was not THE movie that made adults want to blow their brains out.

The kids had fun. I apologized. One of them. "What for? We're kids. You took us to 2 movies. Popcorn and stuff and supper."

Yeah, but I sat through some of "Baby Geniuses" which had a sequel.

Posted by: Stateless.. 45% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back now at June 25, 2025 07:58 PM (jvJvP)

65 53, there it is

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at June 25, 2025 07:59 PM (Z5NUn)

66 55
'Is there anything Judges don’t know?
Posted by: polynikes '


Their real purpose in a constitutional republic?

Posted by: Dr. Claw at June 25, 2025 08:00 PM (3wi/L)

67
My sweet dog LOVES shaking his lamb chop toy, which he long ago got the squeaker out of.

________

It's sad but sweet to see one of our house girls having a false pregnancy and collecting toys to "nurse".

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 25, 2025 08:00 PM (/HVsR)

68 Government run shops in NYC.

The Soviets had a chain of shops in the same vein: Valuta, Beryozka or Beriozka. It was a class and caste trade system open to foreigners and high soviet officials; barring peasants.

The CCP bar ordinary people via the "fifteen minute cities" system of peasant containment - confinement.

Posted by: 13times at June 25, 2025 08:00 PM (IlHsm)

69 There will always be a 1% to go after.

Posted by: Socialists at June 25, 2025 08:00 PM (ra4xZ)

70 New York doesn't have nukes.
So we got that going for us.

Posted by: Reforger at June 25, 2025 08:01 PM (LgDgc)

71 If Homer said it, that's just as strong as the constitution.

With our District Judges? Dredd is as strong as the Constitution. Maybe even the Stallone version

Posted by: gKWVE at June 25, 2025 08:01 PM (gKWVE)

72 Iran's parliament votes to suspend its commitments under the Non-Proliferation Treaty and cease co-operation with the global atomic watchdog...
_financialtimes 13 hrs

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 25, 2025 08:01 PM (yXf+h)

73 Next Bond will be directed by Denis Villeneuve.

Posted by: TJM's phone at June 25, 2025 08:03 PM (GBKbO)

74
Iran's parliament votes to suspend its commitments under the Non-Proliferation Treaty and cease co-operation with the global atomic watchdog...

___________

*throws hands in the air dramatically*

Thanks, Trump! Now we're in the soup!

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 25, 2025 08:03 PM (/HVsR)

75 72 Iran's parliament votes to suspend its commitments under the Non-Proliferation Treaty and cease co-operation with the global atomic watchdog...
_financialtimes 13 hrs


What's Farsi for "The 2025 Spank Me Harder Daddy Act"?

Posted by: gKWVE at June 25, 2025 08:04 PM (gKWVE)

76 LizLem, lol, you should have seen our Rat Terriers carefully extract squeakers, then surgically open the belly and patiently remove all of the fluff ...

a few times when I watched this process I gave the boys treats of raw beef liver after, just because.

loved those little guys they were so real ...

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at June 25, 2025 08:04 PM (Z5NUn)

77 I just saw Galaxy Quest for the first time the other day. Meh.

Star Trek is on. It's the one with the Space Iguana.

Posted by: fd at June 25, 2025 08:05 PM (vFG9F)

78 7 year old girls are not the target demo of a Paul Verhoeven movie...

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at June 25, 2025 08:05 PM (PiwSw)

79 >>> It's sad but sweet to see one of our house girls having a false pregnancy and collecting toys to "nurse".
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 25, 2025 08:00 PM (/HVsR)

Awww, wish I could give her all the pets and loves. Poor sweetie.

Posted by: LizLem at June 25, 2025 08:05 PM (Eng1Z)

80 The bill also suspends installation of surveillance cameras , inspections, and reporting to the IAEA, as per the Iranian Parliament's national security committee.

Who's the happiest, Netanyahu or Trump?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 25, 2025 08:05 PM (yXf+h)

81 68, yes, "hard currency" stores ...

lol?

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at June 25, 2025 08:06 PM (Z5NUn)

82 Sharing cute pics of pets is a great way to interact with strangers. Everyone loves pics of pets (sometimes more than pics of kids).

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 25, 2025 07:50 PM (IBQGV)

Almost always more than always pictures of their kids.

But I had a client from Pakistani origins who sent me a pictur of her 19 year old daughter. That was a GREAT picture. She was a sweet woman and should have been proud...

Posted by: Stateless.. 45% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back now at June 25, 2025 08:06 PM (jvJvP)

83
It's sad but sweet to see one of our house girls having a false pregnancy and collecting toys to "nurse".
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 25, 2025 08:00 PM (/HVsR)

That's sad. I didn't know this could happen to dogs or I never thought about it.
My chickens go broody sometimes when we don't have a rooster and I have put chicks under her at night and she thinks they're hers. I worry the hens will die incubating the eggs that can never hatch.

Posted by: CaliGirl at June 25, 2025 08:06 PM (Cg3Gl)

84 Exterminate! Exterminate!

Posted by: Kittehs Riding Roombas at June 25, 2025 08:07 PM (RIvkX)

85 H7, awwww ...

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at June 25, 2025 08:07 PM (Z5NUn)

86 57 Link goes to a sublime intepretation of Vivaldi's Le Quatro Stagione, performed by Itzak Perlman and the Israel Philiharmonic, but I don't see no Lorises.
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at June 25, 2025 07:55 PM (PiwSw)

Oops. That was my summer solstice share. Here is the actual Loris link:

http://tiny.cc/p2zn001

Posted by: tankdemon at June 25, 2025 08:07 PM (R256O)

87 77 I just saw Galaxy Quest for the first time the other day. Meh.

Star Trek is on. It's the one with the Space Iguana.
Posted by: fd at June 25, 2025 08:05 PM (vFG9F)

Wow that’s definitely a minority opinion. But that’s okay. I have a few movies where I’m in the very small minority also.

Posted by: polynikes at June 25, 2025 08:08 PM (VofaG)

88 & gosh, g'night everyone!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at June 25, 2025 08:09 PM (Z5NUn)

89 Bats eat tons and tons of pesky flying insects like mosquitoes and gnats. How many pests do penguins eat? Hmmm?
Posted by: fd at June 25, 2025 07:49 PM (vFG9F)

Has your house ever been overrun by anchovies and herrings?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 25, 2025 08:09 PM (brD1F)

90 I actually thought the satire and worldbuilding in the first half of Starship Troopers was the most interesting thing about it. The story petered out for me at the end.

Someone having the audacity to think Galaxy Quest is meh...by Grapthar's hammer, I shall get my revenge!!

(Just kidding, fp! You are more than entitled to have the wrong opinion. )

Posted by: LizLem at June 25, 2025 08:10 PM (Eng1Z)

91 73 Next Bond will be directed by Denis Villeneuve.
Posted by: TJM's phone at June 25, 2025 08:03 PM (GBKbO)


Timothee as 007? Zendaya as Bond Girl?

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at June 25, 2025 08:10 PM (PiwSw)

92 Wow that’s definitely a minority opinion. But that’s okay. I have a few movies where I’m in the very small minority also.
Posted by: polynikes


If we all had the same taste in movies, Disney wouldn't be stepping on its own dick twice a week.

Posted by: mikeski at June 25, 2025 08:10 PM (DgGvY)

93 If I could bone the chick in the "7 times stronger than Viagra" ad, pharmaceutical assistance would be wholly unnecessary.

Posted by: That's a cure for ED right there at June 25, 2025 08:11 PM (TbWk/)

94 Starship Troopers > Galaxy Quest

Posted by: gp Got Dopest Bars at June 25, 2025 08:11 PM (5zjm+)

95 to feature the creature.

http://tiny.cc/Loris
Posted by: tankdemon at June 25, 2025 07:47 PM (R256O)
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Thanks Tanks


Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 25, 2025 08:12 PM (yXf+h)

96 Starship Troopers > Galaxy Quest
Posted by: gp Got Dopest Bars at June 25, 2025 08:11 PM (5zjm+)

Now you’re just trying to start something.

Posted by: polynikes at June 25, 2025 08:12 PM (VofaG)

97 78 7 year old girls are not the target demo of a Paul Verhoeven movie...
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at June 25, 2025 08:05 PM (PiwSw)

Well, I learned that quickly.

It was the next movie starting.

Posted by: Stateless.. 45% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back now at June 25, 2025 08:12 PM (jvJvP)

98 Bats are immediately recognizable at sunset.

Crazy flying patterns.

Posted by: jsg at June 25, 2025 08:13 PM (ra4xZ)

99 was it Perlman? or Horowitz? who had a string break in mid performance and went on without a hitch to finish up on only 3 strings?

always wished I could find that recorded ...

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at June 25, 2025 08:13 PM (Z5NUn)

100 >>> 73 Next Bond will be directed by Denis Villeneuve.
Posted by: TJM's phone at June 25, 2025 08:03 PM (GBKbO)
Timothee as 007? Zendaya as Bond Girl?
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at June 25, 2025 08:10 PM (PiwSw)

It sounds like the next Bond will be Aaron Pierre, aka this guy...

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/1rdthQwUpfE

Posted by: LizLem at June 25, 2025 08:13 PM (Eng1Z)

101 Thoughtless people rescue a dangerous ice-bat.

This is correct on two levels. The first is obvious; it takes truly thought-less people to rescue such a polymorphically-perverse, not to mention morbidly mephitic, creature from a deserving leopard seal, who probably had babies to feed.

Second is the dangerously disinformatic mis-labeling of ice-bat, a disservice to the many chiroptophiles who enthusiastically comment on this blog, a disservice undoubtedly driven by Big Penguin.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at June 25, 2025 08:14 PM (0sNs1)

102 Filthy penguin looks like Lloyd Christmas with the dry heaves.

Posted by: eleven at June 25, 2025 08:14 PM (fV+MH)

103 "Has your house ever been overrun by anchovies and herrings?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon"

No. We have an exterminator come every month.

Posted by: fd at June 25, 2025 08:14 PM (vFG9F)

104 98 Bats are immediately recognizable at sunset.

Crazy flying patterns.
Posted by: jsg at June 25, 2025 08:13 PM (ra4xZ)

They do the same in the morning too, they fly into my head.

Posted by: CaliGirl at June 25, 2025 08:14 PM (Cg3Gl)

105 It sounds like the next Bond will be Aaron Pierre, aka this guy...

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/1rdthQwUpfE
Posted by: LizLem at June 25, 2025 08:13 PM (Eng1Z)

I'm sure it'll do fine at the Box Office....

Posted by: jsg at June 25, 2025 08:14 PM (ra4xZ)

106 They do the same in the morning too, they fly into my head.
Posted by: CaliGirl at June 25, 2025 08:14 PM (Cg3Gl)

NOT a morning person. So I'll take your word on that.

Posted by: jsg at June 25, 2025 08:16 PM (ra4xZ)

107 >>> 98 Bats are immediately recognizable at sunset.

Drunk birds, yes they are!

Posted by: LizLem at June 25, 2025 08:16 PM (Eng1Z)

108 50 Ana just attacked Lara Loomer as a "bigoted piece of trash" because Lara wishes muslim centric groups were registered as terrorist groups ages ago, and these problems would be reduced.

Ana realizes Lara was gang raped by Muslims, right?

It's hypocritical to call Lara bigoted, when after Ana was assaulted by homeless people in NYC, SHE was called racist for sharing that news.

Ok, I've hit my Young Turks tolerance level for the day, I'm out.
Posted by: LizLem at June 25, 2025 07:53 PM (Eng1Z)

Lara Logan got raped by pack of smelly weirdbeards, not Loomer.

Posted by: Different Lara at June 25, 2025 08:17 PM (TbWk/)

109 Pakistan stands with Ummah, sits with America, and sleeps with China.

https://tinyurl.com/4435u9re

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 25, 2025 08:17 PM (yXf+h)

110 106 They do the same in the morning too, they fly into my head.
Posted by: CaliGirl at June 25, 2025 08:14 PM (Cg3Gl)

NOT a morning person. So I'll take your word on that.
Posted by: jsg at June 25, 2025 08:16 PM (ra4xZ)

I have shutters on my house and there are bats behind every one. They are in the umbrellas every time I open one and I put bat boxes up for them and they live in the boxes too. They eat a lot of bugs I just don't want them in the house.

Posted by: CaliGirl at June 25, 2025 08:18 PM (Cg3Gl)

111 Dogs search by smell. That zipper after being fondled by a human would stand out in a forest.

Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at June 25, 2025 08:18 PM (XJcq1)

112 "Now you’re just trying to start something."

The Bugs started it. We have to finish it.

Posted by: gp Got Dopest Bars at June 25, 2025 08:18 PM (5zjm+)

113 99 was it Perlman? or Horowitz? who had a string break in mid performance and went on without a hitch to finish up on only 3 strings?

always wished I could find that recorded ...
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at June 25, 2025 08:13 PM (Z5NUn)

Looks like it was Perlman. I couldn't quickly find a video of the actual event, but did see one describing the incident.

Posted by: tankdemon at June 25, 2025 08:19 PM (R256O)

114 103 "Has your house ever been overrun by anchovies and herrings?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

I was a young kid. My grandfather brought over a LOT of smelt and stayed while they cleaned him. It took HOURS! She was happy for them later on.

I was maybe 7, but I knew she was pissed at the time.

Posted by: Stateless.. 45% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back now at June 25, 2025 08:19 PM (jvJvP)

115 Starship Troopers > Galaxy Quest
Posted by: gp Got Dopest Bars at June 25, 2025 08:11 PM (5zjm+)

Ok now you're just trolling.

Posted by: Taking the piss as it were at June 25, 2025 08:19 PM (TbWk/)

116
The Texas legislature has voted to fix the entire state on Daylight Savings Time year round. While I approve of year round time, they should have kept Standard. DST is for slugabeds who can't get up early like decent people.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 25, 2025 08:19 PM (/HVsR)

117 They do the same in the morning too, they fly into my head.
Posted by: CaliGirl at June 25, 2025 08:14 PM (Cg3Gl)

NOT a morning person. So I'll take your word on that.
Posted by: jsg at June 25, 2025 08:16 PM (ra4xZ)

I have shutters on my house and there are bats behind every one. They are in the umbrellas every time I open one and I put bat boxes up for them and they live in the boxes too. They eat a lot of bugs I just don't want them in the house.
Posted by: CaliGirl at June 25, 2025 08:18 PM (Cg3Gl)
——-

I was bitten by a bat as a kid. That rabies shot was no joke. Needle looked like a Captain Ahab harpoon.

Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at June 25, 2025 08:20 PM (XJcq1)

118 >>> Posted by: Different Lara at June 25, 2025 08:17 PM (TbWk/)

Ah thanks, I got my Laras crossed. Time for dinner I think...

Posted by: LizLem at June 25, 2025 08:20 PM (Eng1Z)

119 Zendaya as Bond Girl?

-
Or whatever.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Well, This Is Another Fine Mess You've Gotten Me Into at June 25, 2025 08:20 PM (L/fGl)

120
I was bitten by a bat as a kid. That rabies shot was no joke. Needle looked like a Captain Ahab harpoon.
Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at June 25, 2025 08:20 PM (XJcq1)

Did it fly up and bite you? I'm not afraid of the bats but I would be if it was in my house.

Posted by: CaliGirl at June 25, 2025 08:23 PM (Cg3Gl)

121 Next Bond will be directed by Denis Villeneuve.
Posted by: TJM's phone at June 25, 2025 08:03 PM (GBKbO)
Timothee as 007? Zendaya as Bond Girl?
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at June 25, 2025 08:10 PM (PiwSw)

It sounds like the next Bond will be Aaron Pierre, aka this guy...

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/1rdthQwUpfE
Posted by: LizLem at June 25, 2025 08:13 PM (Eng1Z)
——-

A gay Bond won’t sell

Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at June 25, 2025 08:24 PM (XJcq1)

122 Maybe my expectations were too high for GQ. I wasn't sorry I watched it. Tim Allen. That's my review.

Posted by: fd at June 25, 2025 08:24 PM (vFG9F)

123 116, jeez, what is it about the word "Standard" that is so f'ing hard for them to understand?

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at June 25, 2025 08:25 PM (Z5NUn)

124 Justice delayed is justice denied.

JACKSON, Miss. — Mississippi's longest-serving death row inmate is set to be executed Wednesday, nearly five decades after he kidnapped and killed a bank loan officer's wife in a violent ransom scheme.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Well, This Is Another Fine Mess You've Gotten Me Into at June 25, 2025 08:25 PM (L/fGl)

125 Sigourney Weaver's suit puppies. That's my review.

Posted by: gKWVE at June 25, 2025 08:25 PM (gKWVE)

126 Just saw a clip of Joy Reid on Jesse Watters on Fox. What was she wearing? A denim bustier over a black suit jacket. Her sense of fashion is now the same as her political acumen, bizarre.

Posted by: Decaf at June 25, 2025 08:25 PM (unUNN)

127 I was bitten by a bat as a kid. That rabies shot was no joke. Needle looked like a Captain Ahab harpoon.
Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at June 25, 2025 08:20 PM (XJcq1)

Did it fly up and bite you? I'm not afraid of the bats but I would be if it was in my house.
Posted by: CaliGirl at June 25, 2025 08:23 PM (Cg3Gl)
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Yea. I was caught in a swarm. I thought it was cool until I got bit. Batman is a hoax.

Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at June 25, 2025 08:26 PM (XJcq1)

128 "I'm not afraid of the bats but I would be if it was in my house."

I've had at least a dozen in the house over the four decades I've lived here; less since I fixed some masonry. I keep a sweep net handy. Catch and release.

Posted by: gp Got Dopest Bars at June 25, 2025 08:26 PM (5zjm+)

129
Zenyatta >>>> Zendaya

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 25, 2025 08:26 PM (/HVsR)

130 I have shutters on my house and there are bats behind every one. They are in the umbrellas every time I open one and I put bat boxes up for them and they live in the boxes too. They eat a lot of bugs I just don't want them in the house.
Posted by: CaliGirl at June 25, 2025 08:18 PM


You are a good woman.

May your house always be free of the mephitic ejections of penguins!

Posted by: Duncanthrax at June 25, 2025 08:26 PM (0sNs1)

131 When I win the Governor of CA race I will end the unfair taxes on BJs.

Posted by: Kamil Harris at June 25, 2025 08:27 PM (aKoaI)

132 thx, tankdemon, if you actually find that performance, wow!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at June 25, 2025 08:27 PM (Z5NUn)

133 The granny killer might be stepping out of the NYC Mayor race

Posted by: gKWVE at June 25, 2025 08:27 PM (gKWVE)

134 Zenyatta Mondatta >>>> Zenyatta >>>> Zendaya

Posted by: Crusader at June 25, 2025 08:28 PM (TN0g+)

135 A penguin once bit my sister.

Posted by: We apologise for the fault in the subtitles. Those responsible have been sacked. at June 25, 2025 08:28 PM (vFG9F)

136
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 25, 2025 08:05 PM (yXf+h)

???????????

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 25, 2025 08:28 PM (lCaJd)

137 The small, demented, but vocal anti-Penguin minority might be happier if they got together commune-style. Might we suggest Pripyat as the perfect location.

Posted by: Penguin Protection League at June 25, 2025 08:28 PM (G5+As)

138 back in the pre-digital ages it was so much easier to just "lose" things ...

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at June 25, 2025 08:28 PM (Z5NUn)

139
Yea. I was caught in a swarm. I thought it was cool until I got bit. Batman is a hoax.
Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at June 25, 2025 08:26 PM (

I wouldn't like a swarm of them either. That sounds terrible.
I know someone that had a bat fly in his mouth when he tried to scream when the bats were swarming him. He was a kid in a cave somewhere and startled a bunch of bats. No shots though.

Posted by: CaliGirl at June 25, 2025 08:28 PM (Cg3Gl)

140 I don't get the Zendaya appeal. She's cute but in a very generic way.

Posted by: Who can understand Hollyweird at June 25, 2025 08:29 PM (TbWk/)

141 Zeta-Jones >>>> Zenyatta >>>> Zendaya

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at June 25, 2025 08:29 PM (p4nXC)

142 >> The Texas legislature has voted to fix the entire state on Daylight Savings Time year round. While I approve of year round time, they should have kept Standard. DST is for slugabeds who can't get up early like decent people.
---------------

Just looked it up on TimeandDate. Latest sunrise at Dallas latitude will be about 8:30AM with this change. I expect there will be some complaints.

It won't be as bad as in the high latitude, western edges of the too far west anyway zones, like Michigan panhandle, but 8:30AM sunrise will still be a little jarring to some, I imagine.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at June 25, 2025 08:29 PM (w6EFb)

143 >>>DST is for slugabeds who can't get up early like decent people.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh
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Hey ya, I don't like DST as much as the next person, and TX always does it backasswards, but you don't have to make it personal.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 25, 2025 08:30 PM (yXf+h)

144 >>>A penguin once bit my sister.

Was she asking for it?

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at June 25, 2025 08:31 PM (p4nXC)

145 I guess he couldn't get it up.

Anthony Weiner's Attempted Political Comeback Isn't Going Well

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Well, This Is Another Fine Mess You've Gotten Me Into at June 25, 2025 08:31 PM (L/fGl)

146 142, they voted for it, effem. learn from experience? lol

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at June 25, 2025 08:31 PM (Z5NUn)

147 Vibe coding with Grok today. On this project, the human intelligence saved the day! After four hours and 14 iterations of debugging, I, the human, said, 'Let's throw all this out and start fresh from scratch.'

Grok readily agreed. With a fresh start, we were done in 15 minutes, with about one-fifth as much code as the prior hairball had.

I like this. I could get used to this.

Posted by: gp Got Dopest Bars at June 25, 2025 08:32 PM (5zjm+)

148 Iran's parliament votes to suspend its commitments under the Non-Proliferation Treaty and cease co-operation with the global atomic watchdog...


You mean the commitments you had no intentions to meet and a co-operation with an organization you ignored?

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at June 25, 2025 08:33 PM (wBh67)

149 Evening.

Posted by: Robert at June 25, 2025 08:33 PM (FinzM)

150 A gay Bond won’t sell
Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at June 25, 2025 08:24 PM (XJcq1)

That'll stop them!

Let's go the other way, express enthusiasm for a gay Bond and pressure them to double the budget.

And if a black Superman costing $500 million doesn't get made, those assholes are just racist.

Posted by: Stateless.. 45% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back now at June 25, 2025 08:33 PM (jvJvP)

151 The Texas legislature has voted to fix the entire state on Daylight Savings Time year round. While I approve of year round time, they should have kept Standard. DST is for slugabeds who can't get up early like decent people.


We will not stand for these libelous comments. Expect to hear from our lawyers.

Posted by: American Society for Gastropod Justice at June 25, 2025 08:33 PM (TbWk/)

152
Trump to New York: Drop Dead

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 25, 2025 08:33 PM (/HVsR)

153 King of the Hill had an episode of being afraid of bats.

Posted by: polynikes at June 25, 2025 08:34 PM (VofaG)

154 149 Evening.
Posted by: Robert at June 25, 2025 08:33 PM (FinzM)

Any updates Robert?
How are all of you?

Posted by: Stateless.. 45% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back now at June 25, 2025 08:34 PM (jvJvP)

155
Now, looking up in North in the panhandle, and more west that Dallas, Amarillo latest sunrise is now 7:56AM. The change will push that to nearly 9AM.

There will be some complaints there for sure.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at June 25, 2025 08:34 PM (w6EFb)

156 Well, the new cooler units at store have gone down which means produce and meat are getting chucked.

Sounds like bargain time right? The registers also went down.

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 25, 2025 08:34 PM (kjZbS)

157 USA 2-1 over Haiti.

Posted by: Piper at June 25, 2025 08:35 PM (pRpzT)

158 Trump to New York: Drop Dead
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New York and California are proof that the Dems can't every hold Federal power again. Neither state has any intention at all of upholding the law or the Constitution.

Posted by: Crusader at June 25, 2025 08:35 PM (TN0g+)

159 134

'Zenyatta Mondatta >>>> Zenyatta >>>> Zendaya'

Zenyatta Mondatta >>>> Zenyatta >>>> Jomo Kenyatta>>>> Zendaya

Posted by: Dr. Claw at June 25, 2025 08:35 PM (3wi/L)

160 "That zipper after being fondled by a human would stand out in a forest."


*snicker*

Posted by: Monica Lewinski at June 25, 2025 08:36 PM (i0F8b)

161 >>> ???????????
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 25, 2025 08:28 PM (lCaJd)
------------

Netanyahu called Trump and said, I told you.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 25, 2025 08:36 PM (yXf+h)

162 USA 2-1 over Haiti.
Posted by: Piper at June 25, 2025 08:35 PM (pRpzT)


Hardest hit: The Clinton Foundation and Library.

Posted by: Diogenes at June 25, 2025 08:36 PM (W/lyH)

163 Sounds like bargain time right? The registers also went down.
Posted by: Anna Puma at June 25, 2025 08:34 PM (kjZbS)

Donate it all to the Food Bank. Maybe some of the AWFL's who drive their Mercedes to the Food Bank to hoover up the good stuff will get salmonella.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 25, 2025 08:37 PM (brD1F)

164 but Haiti 1-0 over the Dominican Republic, so there's that

Posted by: gKWVE at June 25, 2025 08:37 PM (gKWVE)

165
that's why I always carry lots of that old-school green paper, Anna!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at June 25, 2025 08:37 PM (Z5NUn)

166 USA 2-1 over Haiti.
Posted by: Piper at June 25, 2025 08:35 PM (pRpzT)

in eaten dogs?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 25, 2025 08:38 PM (brD1F)

167
Donate it all to the Food Bank. Maybe some of the AWFL's who drive their Mercedes to the Food Bank to hoover up the good stuff will get salmonella.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 25, 2025 08:37 PM (brD1F)

__________

I see cars lined up at the local food bank and they're much nicer than mine.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 25, 2025 08:38 PM (/HVsR)

168 It also means she didn't grow up in the culture that justifies Bronx attitude. So yes, a total poser.
Posted by: LizLem at June 25, 2025 07:30 PM (Eng1Z)


I suspect she is pretty stroppy for Westchester

Posted by: Kindltot at June 25, 2025 08:40 PM (D7oie)

169 The Great Dane: "What? I was just trying to protect the girl. I mean, it's not like I was scared or anything."

Posted by: Paco at June 25, 2025 08:40 PM (mADJX)

170 'I see cars lined up at the local food bank and they're much nicer than mine.'

Escalades outside the free health clinic.

Posted by: gp Got Dopest Bars at June 25, 2025 08:40 PM (5zjm+)

171 California Lawmakers are weighing a provision that would allow developers to pay a lower wage for some construction projects, theoretically stimulating housing production in California.

Posted by: 13times at June 25, 2025 08:40 PM (KIRom)

172 Mamdani Vows To Knock Down World Trade Center To Build More Affordable Housing

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Thinking outside the box.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Well, This Is Another Fine Mess You've Gotten Me Into at June 25, 2025 08:41 PM (L/fGl)

173 So we’re following soccer now?

That is so gay. Nothing is gayer than soccer.

Posted by: Bulg at June 25, 2025 08:41 PM (77rzZ)

174 California Lawmakers are weighing a provision that would allow developers to pay a lower wage for some construction projects, theoretically stimulating housing production in California.

California hatches scheme to destroy the housing industry to protect illegal invaders.

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 25, 2025 08:41 PM (kjZbS)

175 California Lawmakers are weighing a provision that would allow developers to pay a lower wage for some construction projects, theoretically stimulating housing production in California.
Posted by: 13times at June 25, 2025 08:40 PM (KIRom)

You can pay lower wages to illegals, since they don't pay income tax.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 25, 2025 08:42 PM (brD1F)

176
I like this. I could get used to this.
Posted by: gp Got Dopest Bars

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

I can't believe what I'm getting done with Grok and ChatGPT. There was one piece of a project I'm working on that took about 2.5 laborious weeks and suddenly... I wondered if I could have done this in ChatGPT. I gave it a try, and everything I'd done was redone in 2.5 hours. I wanted to stab myself, but anyway, I learned.

I'm getting control over a lot of this project now and leaving just the techiest tech stuff for someone else to implement. Someone just responded to one of my requests with an obvious AI-crafted response and I consider it a plus.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 25, 2025 08:43 PM (lCaJd)

177 171 California Lawmakers are weighing a provision that would allow developers to pay a lower wage for some construction projects, theoretically stimulating housing production in California.
Posted by: 13times at June 25, 2025 08:40 PM (KIRom)
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Dictating how much to pay a person rhymes with rent control.


Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 25, 2025 08:43 PM (yXf+h)

178 That is so gay. Nothing is gayer than soccer.
Posted by: Bulg at June 25, 2025 08:41 PM (77rzZ)

Lindsey Graham in a tube top.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 25, 2025 08:43 PM (YUL+W)

179 Insure hope the baby that the cat is introducing it's kitten to is just sleeping. Sure looks like it is sleeping. It's sleeping, right???
Posted by: Diogenes at June 25, 2025 07:41 PM (W/lyH)


Momma cats creche their kittens, that is one of the momma in a bunch of cats will take the kittens while another or a couple of other ones go hunting.

I am sure this one was just introducing the babies together, but I bet also that she wanted some time free and was expecting the lady of the house to watch her kitten along with the baby

Posted by: Kindltot at June 25, 2025 08:44 PM (D7oie)

180 Lindsey Graham in a tube top.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 25, 2025 08:43 PM (YUL+W)

Cheerleading at a soccer game.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 25, 2025 08:44 PM (brD1F)

181 I want to thank everyone again for their prayers for my mom. It really means a lot that y'all could spare a moment for her. Thank you.

Mom passed away early this morning around 3AM. Decades of rheumatoid arthritis left her body a complete wreck. She was completely bedridden at the end and in the last couple of months she started showing signs of dementia.

But she's not hurting anymore. She's finally free of it all. I wish her end could have been better. Whatever comes after this, I don't know. I hope it's a far better place and that she's happy and at peace.

Posted by: Robert at June 25, 2025 08:44 PM (FinzM)

182 Lindsey Graham in a tube top.

MidJourney and Tensor just crashed.

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 25, 2025 08:45 PM (kjZbS)

183
California Lawmakers are weighing a provision that would allow developers to pay a lower wage for some construction projects, theoretically stimulating housing production in California.

California hatches scheme to destroy the housing industry to protect illegal invaders.
Posted by: Anna Puma

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California legislators construct a tiny steam vent so they can stop just short of destroying the state and thereby ensure their re-election.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 25, 2025 08:45 PM (lCaJd)

184 178 That is so gay. Nothing is gayer than soccer.
Posted by: Bulg at June 25, 2025 08:41 PM (77rzZ)

Yeah, but women look hot in the uniforms....
Well, some...

Posted by: Stateless.. 45% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back now at June 25, 2025 08:45 PM (jvJvP)

185 Cheerleading at a soccer game.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 25, 2025 08:44 PM (brD1F)

Cheerleading at a WNBA game.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 25, 2025 08:45 PM (YUL+W)

186 But she's not hurting anymore. She's finally free of it all. I wish her end could have been better. Whatever comes after this, I don't know. I hope it's a far better place and that she's happy and at peace.
Posted by: Robert at June 25, 2025 08:44 PM (FinzM)

Please accept my condolences, Robert.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 25, 2025 08:46 PM (brD1F)

187 Liberace French-kissing Richard Chamberlain is less gay than soccer.

Posted by: Bulg at June 25, 2025 08:46 PM (77rzZ)

188
Robert, condolences to you and my best wishes for the coming days.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 25, 2025 08:46 PM (lCaJd)

189 USA 2-1 over Haiti.
Posted by: Piper at June 25, 2025 08:35 PM (pRpzT)


Is it World Cup now? I thought it was on even years. I saw the Mexico - Costa Rica match today when I was at the Vietnamese restaurant for lunch. I watched the fans wildly waving Mexican flags in the stands and thought, "Wow, they protest ICE everywhere"

Posted by: Kindltot at June 25, 2025 08:46 PM (D7oie)

190 184 Yeah, but women look hot in the uniforms....
Well, some...
Posted by: Stateless.. 45% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back now at June 25, 2025 08:45 PM (jvJvP)

Should we tell him about beach volleyball?

Posted by: tankdemon at June 25, 2025 08:47 PM (R256O)

191 But she's not hurting anymore. She's finally free of it all. I wish her end could have been better. Whatever comes after this, I don't know. I hope it's a far better place and that she's happy and at peace.
Posted by: Robert at June 25, 2025 08:44 PM (FinzM)

I know she is.

I want everything after this to be peaceful for your family.

Posted by: Stateless.. 45% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back now at June 25, 2025 08:47 PM (jvJvP)

192 My condolences to you about your mom, Robert. And may God shelter you both in the palm of His hand.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 25, 2025 08:47 PM (YUL+W)

193 We may still be at war.

CNN: Hiroshima 'Barely Set Back' By Atomic Bomb

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Well, This Is Another Fine Mess You've Gotten Me Into at June 25, 2025 08:47 PM (L/fGl)

194 Mamdani: a Marxist Shi'a Twelver rap aficionado who thinks the city ought to own grocery stores and let criminals out of jail. If someone had written this character into a novel, it would have been rejected out of hand by every publisher in town as being too utterly preposterous.

Posted by: Paco at June 25, 2025 08:47 PM (mADJX)

195 176 "AI First"

Gotta resist the natural impulse to solve a problem oneself, and always ask the AI First. Don't even begin to think of ways to break the problem down. Just ask it to do the whole thing from the top. A new, more productive way of working that takes getting used to.

Posted by: gp Got Dopest Bars at June 25, 2025 08:48 PM (5zjm+)

196 So we’re following soccer now?

That is so gay. Nothing is gayer than soccer.
Posted by: Bulg at June 25, 2025 08:41 PM (77rzZ)
——-

I played soccer and loved it. But I played it very physically, like football. My dad told me to do that. I was big and strong but didn’t have great soccer skills because I was new to the sport. I tried to outplay much more experienced but smaller players. My dad saw that and said: ‘what the fuck are you doing? Youre dancing around like a faggot. You can’t out-play these kids. They’ve been playing since they could walk. You’ve been playing for 6 months. But youre much bigger and stronger. Use what you have. Youre not a soccer player. Youre a football player on the soccer field. Run these motherfuckers over!’ So I did.

Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at June 25, 2025 08:48 PM (XJcq1)

197
Netanyahu called Trump and said, I told you.

Posted by: Braenyard

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What bill is this that suspends surveillance etc? I may have missed something.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 25, 2025 08:48 PM (lCaJd)

198
Condolences, Robert. May your every memory of your mother be a happy one.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 25, 2025 08:48 PM (/HVsR)

199 Richard Simmons on the View.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 25, 2025 08:48 PM (YUL+W)

200 http://tiny.cc/Loris
Posted by: tankdemon at June 25, 2025 07:47 PM (R256O)


This is an odd Rick Roll.


It is in fact an Itzhak-roll.

Posted by: Kindltot at June 25, 2025 08:49 PM (D7oie)

201 Robert, much condolences. May peace be with you and your mom.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 25, 2025 08:50 PM (yXf+h)

202 Prayer up, Robert. May the memory of your mother be a comfort and a blessing to you and your family.

Posted by: Bulg at June 25, 2025 08:50 PM (77rzZ)

203 173 So we’re following soccer now?

That is so gay. Nothing is gayer than soccer.
Posted by: Bulg at June 25, 2025

2 words, Bulg. David Beckham.

Posted by: Piper at June 25, 2025 08:50 PM (pRpzT)

204 The Texas legislature has voted to fix the entire state on Daylight Savings Time year round. While I approve of year round time, they should have kept Standard. DST is for slugabeds who can't get up early like decent people.


I'm up at 3:30 am for work. I get home after 6:00 pm. Time change won't benefit me much.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 25, 2025 08:50 PM (N28XY)

205 Jim J Bullock in an off Broadway production of Cats.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 25, 2025 08:50 PM (YUL+W)

206 195 Along the way, besides doing the work, it also teaches me a LOT about unfamiliar problem domains. In this case, geospatial mapping stuff I never did before.

Posted by: gp Got Dopest Bars at June 25, 2025 08:51 PM (5zjm+)

207 Posted by: Robert at June 25, 2025 08:44 PM

Condolences to you and your family. May her memory be eternal.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 25, 2025 08:51 PM (Wnv9h)

208 sincere condolences, Robert
youtu.be/VWuy5vEWNhQ

Posted by: gKWVE at June 25, 2025 08:51 PM (gKWVE)

209 196

'what the fuck are you doing? Youre dancing around like a faggot.'

Was your dad Slim Pickens?

Posted by: Dr. Claw at June 25, 2025 08:52 PM (3wi/L)

210 I am so sorry, Robert. I know your mama is in a great place now. I really do. But that comfort doesn’t erase you hurting and missing her. Hugs.

Posted by: Piper at June 25, 2025 08:52 PM (pRpzT)

211 Anderson Cooper talking about wainscotting.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 25, 2025 08:52 PM (YUL+W)

212 So we’re following soccer now?

That is so gay. Nothing is gayer than soccer.
Posted by: Bulg at June 25, 2025

2 words, Bulg. David Beckham.
Posted by: Piper at June 25, 2025 08:50 PM (pRpzT)

——

Ronaldo?

Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at June 25, 2025 08:52 PM (XJcq1)

213 >>>
What bill is this that suspends surveillance etc? I may have missed something.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 25, 2025 08:48 PM (lCaJd)
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#72

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 25, 2025 08:53 PM (yXf+h)

214 Condolences, Robert.

Posted by: runner at June 25, 2025 08:53 PM (g47mK)

215 Robert, sending hugs your way.

Posted by: screaming in digital at June 25, 2025 08:53 PM (DnMuk)

216 So we’re following soccer now?

That is so gay. Nothing is gayer than soccer.
Posted by: Bulg at June 25, 2025

2 words, Bulg. David Beckham.
Posted by: Piper at June 25, 2025 08:50 PM

Ha! Gaaaaaay!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 25, 2025 08:53 PM (Wnv9h)

217 Daddy is Home!

Posted by: runner at June 25, 2025 08:54 PM (g47mK)

218 203 Sorry, Piper. Still gay.

Posted by: Bulg at June 25, 2025 08:54 PM (77rzZ)

219 Bulg. David Beckham.
Posted by: Piper at June 25, 2025 08:50 PM (pRpzT)

That's three words.

Posted by: Reforger at June 25, 2025 08:54 PM (LgDgc)

220 I want to thank everyone again for their prayers for my mom. It really means a lot that y'all could spare a moment for her. Thank you.

Mom passed away early this morning around 3AM. Decades of rheumatoid arthritis left her body a complete wreck. She was completely bedridden at the end and in the last couple of months she started showing signs of dementia.

But she's not hurting anymore. She's finally free of it all. I wish her end could have been better. Whatever comes after this, I don't know. I hope it's a far better place and that she's happy and at peace.
Posted by: Robert


I know it doesn't help any, but you have my deepest condolences and prayers for your mother.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 25, 2025 08:54 PM (N28XY)

221 205 Jim J Bullock in an off Broadway production of Cats.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 25, 2025 08:50 PM (YUL+W)

I was 12 and "Too Close for Comfort" had the hot blonde with amazing breasts....

Ted Knight was great.

Posted by: Stateless.. 45% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back now at June 25, 2025 08:54 PM (jvJvP)

222 "Anderson Cooper talking about wainscotting."

He's the go-to guy for general moldings, millwork and finishes. He has a flair.

Posted by: gp Got Dopest Bars at June 25, 2025 08:55 PM (5zjm+)

223 So we’re following soccer now?

That is so gay. Nothing is gayer than soccer.
Posted by: Bulg at June 25, 2025

2 words, Bulg. David Beckham.
Posted by: Piper at June 25, 2025 08:50 PM

Ha! Gaaaaaay!
Posted by: RedMindBlueState


Cum on Pedro Pascal's mustache > gayer than soccer.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 25, 2025 08:55 PM (N28XY)

224 yer. Youre a football player on the soccer field. Run these motherfuckers over!’ So I did.
Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade

Male soccer players are the most handsome group of the team sports. That is my hill.

Posted by: Piper at June 25, 2025 08:55 PM (pRpzT)

225 200
It is in fact an Itzhak-roll.
Posted by: Kindltot at June 25, 2025 08:49 PM (D7oie)

Sorry, that was unintentional. I put the wrong url in at tiny.cc. I posted the correct link in comment 86.

Posted by: tankdemon at June 25, 2025 08:55 PM (R256O)

226 Robert, I'm so sorry to hear that. God bless you.

Posted by: gp Got Dopest Bars at June 25, 2025 08:56 PM (5zjm+)

227
Of course, soccer is the sport of racism, nationalism and violence. Plus guys flopping like electrocuted squirrels when barely brushed.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 25, 2025 08:57 PM (/HVsR)

228 224

'Male soccer players are the most handsome group of the team sports. That is my hill.'

They're very tidy and well groomed.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at June 25, 2025 08:57 PM (3wi/L)

229 Male soccer players are the most handsome group of the team sports. That is my hill.
Posted by: Piper
----

Good grooming practices make them pretty.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 25, 2025 08:57 PM (yXf+h)

230 224 So, Piper, you disregard Scrabble champions? Your loss.

Posted by: Bulg at June 25, 2025 08:58 PM (77rzZ)

231 Good grooming practices make them pretty.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends

Yes.

Posted by: Piper at June 25, 2025 08:58 PM (pRpzT)

232 Horde mind is a terrible thing to behold.

garret, with ace riding bitch, on a moped.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 25, 2025 08:59 PM (YUL+W)

233 229 Good grooming practices make them pretty.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 25, 2025 08:57 PM (yXf+h)

What was that Bob Ueker line in Major League- "He leads the league in all offensive categories, including nose hair."

Posted by: tankdemon at June 25, 2025 08:59 PM (R256O)

234 'what the fuck are you doing? Youre dancing around like a faggot.'

Was your dad Slim Pickens?
Posted by: Dr. Claw at June 25, 2025 08:52 PM (3wi/L)
——

Good reference! My dad hated soccer. Wanted me to play football. He didn’t have natural skills but he made himself a good football player. I was naturally athletic, but I never liked playing football. He accepted that. If I wasn’t gonna play football, he wanted me to kick ass on the soccer field. He also told me ‘fuck the yellow flags. Just keep brutalizing players until they tell you to stop.’ I did.

Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at June 25, 2025 08:59 PM (XJcq1)

235 Robert, Condolences from JTB and me. Prayers for you and your family are sent.

Posted by: Mrs JTB at June 25, 2025 09:00 PM (yTvNw)

236 I prefer the lesbian soccer league. To watch their grooming practices would be...

I'll shut up now.

Posted by: Reforger at June 25, 2025 09:03 PM (LgDgc)

237 yer. Youre a football player on the soccer field. Run these motherfuckers over!’ So I did.
Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade

Male soccer players are the most handsome group of the team sports. That is my hill.
Posted by: Piper at June 25, 2025 08:55 PM (pRpzT)
——

Oh you woulda loved teenage Blade. Tall, ripped up, gave no ducks, long hair flowing in the breeze …

P.S. Water polo has entered the chat ….

Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at June 25, 2025 09:03 PM (XJcq1)

238 181 I want to thank everyone again for their prayers for my mom. It really means a lot that y'all could spare a moment for her. Thank you.

Mom passed away early this morning around 3AM. Decades of rheumatoid arthritis left her body a complete wreck. She was completely bedridden at the end and in the last couple of months she started showing signs of dementia.

But she's not hurting anymore. She's finally free of it all. I wish her end could have been better. Whatever comes after this, I don't know. I hope it's a far better place and that she's happy and at peace.
Posted by: Robert at June 25, 2025 08:44 PM (FinzM

Sincere condolences to you and your family, Robert.

Posted by: May she rest in peace at June 25, 2025 09:03 PM (TbWk/)

239 Comments have died off.

Everyone must be tuning into 'Hannity. '

Mom loved him. I have been watching him lately.

Posted by: Stateless.. 45% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back now at June 25, 2025 09:03 PM (jvJvP)

240 Male soccer players are the most handsome group of the team sports. That is my hill.
Posted by: Piper

*adjusts tie*
You know, I played in college.

Posted by: Diogenes at June 25, 2025 09:04 PM (W/lyH)

241 234
'I was naturally athletic, but I never liked playing football. He accepted that.'

Good for your dad to back you like that. Sometimes all it takes is a little adjustment to your expectations to make life better.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at June 25, 2025 09:04 PM (3wi/L)

242 Lol.

Trump called 'Daddy.'

Rubio was breaking up in the background.

Posted by: Stateless.. 45% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back now at June 25, 2025 09:04 PM (jvJvP)

243 239
'Everyone must be tuning into 'Hannity. '

Mom loved him. I have been watching him lately.'

You're a great American.

Posted by: Sean Hannity at June 25, 2025 09:06 PM (3wi/L)

244 239 Comments have died off.

Everyone must be tuning into 'Hannity. '

Mom loved him. I have been watching him lately.
Posted by: Stateless.. 45% - mental

I was watching my dog walk around his food bowl sniffing it from all angles before he decided which spot was the correct one to eat. I would love to know what goes through his doggy brain. I am going to get him those word buttons.

Posted by: Piper at June 25, 2025 09:06 PM (pRpzT)

245 Condolences Robert.

Posted by: CaliGirl at June 25, 2025 09:07 PM (Cg3Gl)

246
*adjusts tie*
You know, I played in college.
Posted by: Diogenes at June 25

This does not surprise me at all! 😃

Posted by: Piper at June 25, 2025 09:08 PM (pRpzT)

247 He also told me ‘fuck the yellow flags. Just keep brutalizing players until they tell you to stop.’ I did.
Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at June 25, 2025 08:59 PM (XJcq1)


This is what soccer used to be like, especially South American soccer. Now only Asian league plays like that.

Posted by: Kindltot at June 25, 2025 09:08 PM (D7oie)

248 Robert.

May she rest in peace.


And thank you for being such a wonderful, loving son.

Posted by: nurse ratched at June 25, 2025 09:09 PM (jBzY/)

249 You're a great American.

Posted by: Sean Hannity at June 25, 2025 09:06 PM (3wi/L)

Lol.

But Hannity has been an amazing Trump supporter. Probably his best.

Posted by: Stateless.. 45% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back now at June 25, 2025 09:10 PM (jvJvP)

250
I would love to know what goes through his doggy brain. I am going to get him those word buttons.
Posted by: Piper at June 25, 2025 09:06 PM (pRpzT)

________

Titan (the Love Dog) when traveling would tell us he needed to go, always when it was cold and rainy. I could see exactly the word balloons: "Here? No... Here? No... Ooooh, this is interesting!..."

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 25, 2025 09:11 PM (/HVsR)

251 He also told me ‘fuck the yellow flags. Just keep brutalizing players until they tell you to stop.’ I did.
Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at June 25, 2025 08:59 PM (XJcq1)

This is what soccer used to be like, especially South American soccer. Now only Asian league plays like that.
Posted by: Kindltot at June 25, 2025 09:08 PM (D7oie)
—-

Correct. I was beating the shit outta people, but the refs didn’t care. No way you could get away with that now. Oh and we played some South American and Caribbean teams. They were little dudes, but great skills and could run like the wind. Fast little fuckers.

Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at June 25, 2025 09:13 PM (XJcq1)

252 Hey, Diogenes. On my family trip back to Michigan, I found out that nephew is the coach of the golf team off the HS that I graduated from. That HS did not have a golf team when I went there.

Posted by: Bulg at June 25, 2025 09:14 PM (77rzZ)

253 Gingrich is on Hannity now.

I always liked Newt.

Posted by: Stateless.. 45% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back now at June 25, 2025 09:15 PM (jvJvP)

254 249

'But Hannity has been an amazing Trump supporter. Probably his best.'

Trump used to come on to the Hannity show in the early 2000s. I remember he was basically conservative but didn't like the Iraq war.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at June 25, 2025 09:17 PM (3wi/L)

255 228 224

'Male soccer players are the most handsome group of the team sports. That is my hill.'

They're very tidy and well groomed.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at June 25, 2025 08:57 PM (3wi/L)

As well-groomed as the lion cub in the top photo?

Posted by: tankdemon at June 25, 2025 09:17 PM (R256O)

256 . I could see exactly the word balloons: "Here? No... Here? No... Ooooh, this is interesting!..."
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

Saijo is settling really well and letting his little Shiba freak flag fly. They have springs in their feet.

Posted by: Piper at June 25, 2025 09:17 PM (pRpzT)

257 Newt is a great amphibian.

Posted by: Bulg at June 25, 2025 09:17 PM (77rzZ)

258 Newt was pretty cool until the couch move.

Posted by: ... at June 25, 2025 09:18 PM (E0p3T)

259 257 Newt is a great amphibian.

Posted by: Bulg at June 25, 2025 09:17 PM (77rzZ)

And an amazing companion when you are fighting scary kick ass Aliens.

Posted by: Stateless.. 45% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back now at June 25, 2025 09:19 PM (jvJvP)

260 Denis Villeneuve to direct next Bond film. To be produced by Mr. Sánchez' company.

Posted by: runner at June 25, 2025 09:19 PM (g47mK)

261 I played soccer and loved it. But I played it very physically, like football. My dad told me to do that. I was big and strong but didn’t have great soccer skills because I was new to the sport. I tried to outplay much more experienced but smaller players. My dad saw that and said: ‘what the fuck are you doing? Youre dancing around like a faggot. You can’t out-play these kids. They’ve been playing since they could walk. You’ve been playing for 6 months. But youre much bigger and stronger. Use what you have. Youre not a soccer player. Youre a football player on the soccer field. Run these motherfuckers over!’ So I did.
Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at June 25, 2025 08:48 PM (XJcq1)

Your dad reminds me of my father. Heh.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at June 25, 2025 09:19 PM (0CU3H)

262 Hey, Stateless. Hope all is well with you.

Posted by: Bulg at June 25, 2025 09:21 PM (77rzZ)

263 JFC

Soccer players are fags. Jeepers. WTF has come over you people.

Flopping fags. Boring sport. Fans are assholes.

Posted by: nurse ratched at June 25, 2025 09:21 PM (H5Jj8)

264 Robert, words cannot assuage your loss but your Mother's memory will always be a blessing.

Posted by: Ben Had at June 25, 2025 09:21 PM (ZIggv)

265 Mom passed away early this morning around 3AM.
Posted by: Robert at June 25, 2025 08:44 PM


I am very sorry for your loss, brother.

Posted by: toby928 at June 25, 2025 09:22 PM (jc0TO)

266 258 Newt was pretty cool until the couch move.

Posted by: ... at June 25, 2025 09:18 PM (E0p3T)

I forgot about that. Forgiven. I regret things too.
Yeah, not sure if he regrets that.
But he is fighting for Trump now. So forgiven

Posted by: Stateless.. 45% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back now at June 25, 2025 09:22 PM (jvJvP)

267 so I'm reading MJ Michaels' "The Trouble With Perfect Women". Recommended from r/romance_for_men because shut up.
This has the hero Jacen Ryker and his female sidekick-without-benefits Faye find a noneuclidean horror from beyond the stars... and then get caught up in a space battle over it, which the faction of Androsynths win.
Except that these genetic clones - the Themmies, for Themyscira - are all female, and hot.
Will our hero resist temptation? Will he break down and explain to Faye the secret of who ordered the mission? And what's in the box?

Posted by: gKWVE at June 25, 2025 09:22 PM (gKWVE)

268
My sympathies, Robert.

Posted by: Soothsayer at June 25, 2025 09:23 PM (+nZqe)

269 1 I played soccer and loved it. But I played it very physically, like football. My dad told me to do that. I was big and strong but didn’t have great soccer skills because I was new to the sport. I tried to outplay much more experienced but smaller players. My dad saw that and said: ‘what the fuck are you doing? Youre dancing around like a faggot. You can’t out-play these kids. They’ve been playing since they could walk. You’ve been playing for 6 months. But youre much bigger and stronger. Use what you have. Youre not a soccer player. Youre a football player on the soccer field. Run these motherfuckers over!’ So I did.
Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at June 25, 2025 08:48 PM (XJcq1)

Your dad reminds me of my father. Heh.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at June 25, 2025 09:19 PM (0CU3H)
——-

Undercover Brother from a different mother. LOL.

Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at June 25, 2025 09:23 PM (XJcq1)

270 In our grade school, we played "soccer" more like what "rugby" is now... only more violently.
Nuns never said boo.

Posted by: MkY at June 25, 2025 09:23 PM (cPGH3)

271 263 Nurse, agreed.

I hope you are well.

Posted by: Bulg at June 25, 2025 09:24 PM (77rzZ)

272 I'm sorry for your loss, Robert

Posted by: Notsothoreau at June 25, 2025 09:24 PM (AcTAo)

273 Does anyone here have contact info for Jay Guevara?

Posted by: Ben Had at June 25, 2025 09:25 PM (ZIggv)

274 >>He also told me ‘fuck the yellow flags. Just keep brutalizing players until they tell you to stop.’ I did.

Brutalizing soccer players includes a light breeze out of the west.

Posted by: JackStraw at June 25, 2025 09:26 PM (viF8m)

275 Heya Bulg,
I’m doing alright. 65 and cloudy on the beach. May get some much needed rain.

Listening to the Mariners and the Twinkies on the radio.

I love the beach.

Posted by: nurse ratched at June 25, 2025 09:27 PM (H5Jj8)

276 Soccer is the most popular sport in Iran.

Posted by: runner at June 25, 2025 09:28 PM (g47mK)

277 JackStraw, I wanted to tell you to check out the elderof ziyon blog.

Posted by: Ben Had at June 25, 2025 09:28 PM (ZIggv)

278 262 Hey, Stateless. Hope all is well with you.

Posted by: Bulg at June 25, 2025 09:21 PM (77rzZ)

Thanks so much Bulg.

Getting closer. I signed a lot of papers today. We'll see how this goes. Twice this year I thought my living situation was settled only to have things killed by my brother on the last day.

I'm giving this to God and trusting him. New for me.

But when I pull through, I can help other morons.

Hannity is talking about MadMani now.

Posted by: Stateless.. 45% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back now at June 25, 2025 09:28 PM (jvJvP)

279
What bill is this that suspends surveillance etc? I may have missed something.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 25, 2025 08:48 PM (lCaJd)
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#72

Posted by: Braenyard

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Oh. Shocker. But is it up to Iran? I mean, I suppose England could vote that all its soccer players don't have to submit to doping tests.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 25, 2025 09:29 PM (lCaJd)

280 I approve of DST year-round. Let's me do stuff after work in the autumn and spring that would otherwise be too dark to do (e.g., golf).

Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at June 25, 2025 09:29 PM (XMwZJ)

281 I approve of DST year-round.

==

Overruled. Get rid of this abomination entirely.

Posted by: runner at June 25, 2025 09:30 PM (g47mK)

282 Time change. The hubris of man.

Posted by: Ben Had at June 25, 2025 09:30 PM (ZIggv)

283 263 JFC

Soccer players are fags. Jeepers. WTF has come over you people.

Flopping fags. Boring sport. Fans are assholes.
Posted by: nurse ratched at June

When you live with someone who spent half their time in Italy, and half their time in the south, you get soccer and SEC football in what feels like a continuous loop. I have grown to like soccer, I have always loved football, as long as it’s College.

Posted by: Piper at June 25, 2025 09:30 PM (QzINz)

284 Thanks Ben Had. I will.

Posted by: JackStraw at June 25, 2025 09:31 PM (viF8m)

285 Sometimes you just want them to be at peace. Finally. Harder for you, but not for them. Prayers up.

Posted by: Wenda at June 25, 2025 09:32 PM (GUmFs)

286 276 Soccer is the most popular sport in Iran.
Posted by: runner at June 25, 2025 09:28 PM (g47mK)

Even more popular than stoning rape victims?

Posted by: tankdemon at June 25, 2025 09:32 PM (R256O)

287 276

'Soccer is the most popular sport in Iran.'

I thought it was Dodgebomb.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at June 25, 2025 09:33 PM (3wi/L)

288 Piper,

Football is best. I grew up in Dallas. So I learned early on that football is THE sport. Grade school, high school, college.

My gymnastics team performed at halftime shows at Cowboys games in the very early
80s.

Super fun.

Posted by: nurse ratched at June 25, 2025 09:33 PM (H5Jj8)

289 Sorry, I should have made it clear that #285 was for Robert.

Posted by: Wenda at June 25, 2025 09:33 PM (GUmFs)

290 257 Ha!

Posted by: gp Got Dopest Bars at June 25, 2025 09:34 PM (5zjm+)

291 282 Time change. The hubris of man.

Posted by: Ben Had at June 25, 2025 09:30 PM (ZIggv)


This is truth!

Posted by: Gref at June 25, 2025 09:35 PM (aBgBM)

292 ==============

Oh. Shocker. But is it up to Iran? I mean, I suppose England could vote that all its soccer players don't have to submit to doping tests.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia
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Iran's an independent country and they voted and made that decision. The ceasefire was called too soon. Except now t the onus is on them not Trump. He made them stop. Called out Netanyahu and they stopped. Now, Iran can't contain its foolish desires.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 25, 2025 09:35 PM (yXf+h)

293 Newt soared in polling during the Presidential Primary(2012?) when he went after the media during a debate. Then he blew it by reverting to GOPe stances.

Posted by: davidt at June 25, 2025 09:37 PM (i0F8b)

294
But I don't want any more time changes. I feel dead for days, the dogs complain about it, switching from Standard air to Daylight Savings air in the tires is a pain, stuff like that.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 25, 2025 09:39 PM (/HVsR)

295 Stateless, prayer up.

Posted by: Bulg at June 25, 2025 09:40 PM (77rzZ)

296
Football is best. I grew up in Dallas. So I learned early on that football is THE sport.

________

I thought it was Band

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 25, 2025 09:40 PM (/HVsR)

297 I played soccer and loved it. But I played it very physically, like football. My dad told me to do that. I was big and strong but didn’t have great soccer skills because I was new to the sport. I tried to outplay much more experienced but smaller players. My dad saw that and said: ‘what the fuck are you doing? Youre dancing around like a faggot. You can’t out-play these kids. They’ve been playing since they could walk. You’ve been playing for 6 months. But youre much bigger and stronger. Use what you have. Youre not a soccer player. Youre a football player on the soccer field. Run these motherfuckers over!’ So I did.
Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at June 25, 2025 08:48 PM (XJcq1)

I suppose you never learned to act like every tiny contact an opponent made with you was an agonizing fatal injury. I wonder how much the players laugh at the biggest death blow actors these days.

Posted by: Gref at June 25, 2025 09:40 PM (aBgBM)

298 Hey!

PRIDE PARADE in downtown Seattle is this weekend!

And they are having a local “Reclaim the Flag” match in my area. I don’t know what flag they are talking about. I’m so confused.

Posted by: nurse ratched at June 25, 2025 09:42 PM (mT+6a)

299 Posted by: Robert at June 25, 2025 08:44 PM (FinzM)

I'm so sorry. I didn't see earlier posts that dhe wasn't well. But today she is healed, and pain-free, full of joy that is beyond our comprehension.

I hope you can find some comfort in the days ahead, dear one.

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at June 25, 2025 09:42 PM (Vvh2V)

300
Soccer: get touched, flop around in theatrical agony.

Hockey: get leg broken blocking shot, finish shift.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 25, 2025 09:43 PM (/HVsR)

301 275 Nurse, prayer up for you and yours.

Posted by: Bulg at June 25, 2025 09:43 PM (77rzZ)

302 Water is a constant but I never feed my animals at a set time.

Posted by: Ben Had at June 25, 2025 09:43 PM (ZIggv)

303 I don't hate soccer. It takes a lot of skills that I don't have. I just don't find the pace and style to my liking. It is a lot better seeing it live than on TV.

But it's kind of low on the physicality scale compared to sport like football, rugby and hockey which are designed around physicality.

Posted by: JackStraw at June 25, 2025 09:44 PM (viF8m)

304 DST and standard time do not bother me much, but I do agree: one or the other. Pick one and stay with it.

Right now the sun sets at 2130, and rises officially at 0600, but the hills block out the actual sunlight until 0700.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, and stuff at June 25, 2025 09:44 PM (0aYVJ)

305 DST runs from March to November. Tell me you have the same sunlight all those months. Mother Nature laughs at you.

Posted by: Ben Had at June 25, 2025 09:47 PM (ZIggv)

306
Time used to be an entirely local thing. You couldn't even communicate, much level travel, fast enough for it to make any difference at all. Local time was set by the sun. It was noon when the sun crossed the meridian. And that was that.

Then came the telegraph and the railroads. There were accidents due to time synchronization errors. One particular one killed 14 people when one train just slammed into the back of another, each with their clocks set to different local times. The railroads realized it was imperative to synchronize their clocks.

And thus "Railroad Time" was born, which became the standard time zone system. The power of the railroads back in the late 19th century was enough they were able to impose that on the country without federal legislation. The states pretty much did it themselves. It was only in the early 20th century that the feds just rubber stamped that into federal law.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at June 25, 2025 09:49 PM (w6EFb)

307 Jim J Bullock in an off Broadway production of Cats.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 25, 2025 08:50 PM (YUL+W)


Spelling his name Jm doesn't make it less gay either, and his character's name on Too Close for Comfort was Monroe Ficus. Ficus! LOL

Oh poor guy.

Posted by: haffhowershower at June 25, 2025 09:50 PM (144I4)

308 I hate DST. I lived through this before; everyone belkyacges in winter. Perhaps Texas won't be as affected.

Soccer players, blech. Well groomed like a bunch of Kansas City faggots.

Rugby players, or baseball players for me. The occasional LAX, if they aren't stuck up WASPy assholes.

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at June 25, 2025 09:51 PM (Vvh2V)

309 Tammy, Rugby!!!

Posted by: Ben Had at June 25, 2025 09:52 PM (ZIggv)

310 My gymnastics team performed at halftime shows at Cowboys games in the very early
80s.

Super fun.

Posted by: nurse ratched at June 25, 2025 09:33 PM (H5Jj

Hi nurse.

Gymnastics and cheerleading are surprisingly dangerous.

I watched a lot of Disney shows since they used to not piss me off. Young Caitlin Raegan joined Bizzardvark in season three. Young kid. Hilarious. She had the best lines.

"No Amelia, you are getting the best care science can buy. Now here, hold these healing crystals and think of rainbows."

I followed my favorites on Instagram. Nothing weird. They didn't piss me off and made me laugh. I need that.

But Caitlin was about 11. Working out for gymnastics. On the bars or something. Poor girl fell. Broke both arms at the same time! I felt so bad for her. Both arms in a cast. Horrible.

Posted by: Stateless.. 45% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back now at June 25, 2025 09:53 PM (jvJvP)

311 We need more cafe videos of worms. Doncha think?

Posted by: mindful webworker - thinking at June 25, 2025 09:54 PM (0NO3o)

312 PRIDE PARADE in downtown Seattle is this weekend!

And they are having a local “Reclaim the Flag” match in my area. I don’t know what flag they are talking about. I’m so confused.
Posted by: nurse ratched


I think they want people to bring rainbow flags with Genesis 9:13 written on them.

Posted by: mikeski at June 25, 2025 09:54 PM (DgGvY)

313 >> I hate DST. I lived through this before; everyone belkyacges in winter. Perhaps Texas won't be as affected.

The higher the latitude, the worse the late sunrise effect is compounded by the too-far west time zones, like Michigan's panhandle being the worst, although Indiana is just as bad, just not as far north.

It's not as bad in in the lower latitudes, but I was just looking. In Amarillo, latest sunrise will be 8:56AM on year round DST. I expect they will complain. In Dallas, it will be about 8:30AM or so.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at June 25, 2025 09:54 PM (w6EFb)

314 Ya Know....

I'm feeling pretty Damn Good tonight.

What say you?

Posted by: Nightwatch at June 25, 2025 09:54 PM (25kuG)

315 I'm very sorry Robert.

Posted by: ... at June 25, 2025 09:55 PM (E0p3T)

316 We need more cafe videos of worms. Doncha think?
Posted by: mindful webworker


We have videos of worms all day in the political/media threads.

Posted by: mikeski at June 25, 2025 09:55 PM (DgGvY)

317 This time he'll do communism right!

Bill Melugin@BillMelugin_8
Some of the things socialist NYC mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani has previously called for:
- Abolish NYPD
- Abolish prisons
- Abolish medical bills
- Abolish private health insurance
- Ban all guns
- Legalize sex work
- Safe injection sites
- End cash bail
- Decriminalize drug possession
- End sentencing enhancements
- End all cooperation with ICE

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Well, This Is Another Fine Mess You've Gotten Me Into at June 25, 2025 09:55 PM (L/fGl)

318 Texas where I don't have to get my truck inspected or change my clock anymore. I'm good.

Posted by: Ben Had at June 25, 2025 09:55 PM (ZIggv)

319 Oh now...let me go upthread.

Posted by: Nightwatch at June 25, 2025 09:56 PM (25kuG)

320 It has come to my attention that Eric Adams' greatest contribution to NYC was the introduction of rolling trash bins a couple of years ago. Now, I know that the denizens of NYC are congenitally stupid...but they've just recently discovered rolling trash bins? Really? The mind boggles. Even the lowliest impoverished burg in the south has had rolling trash bins for decades.

Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at June 25, 2025 09:57 PM (XMwZJ)

321 >>Texas where I don't have to get my truck inspected or change my clock anymore. I'm good.

No ocean. That's a problem for me.

Posted by: JackStraw at June 25, 2025 09:57 PM (viF8m)

322 314 Ya Know....

I'm feeling pretty Damn Good tonight.

What say you?

Posted by: Nightwatch at June 25, 2025 09:54 PM (25kuG

I am always happy for any happy Horde member.
Always.

Posted by: Stateless.. 45% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back now at June 25, 2025 09:57 PM (jvJvP)

323 Axiom Mission 4 (Ax‑4) is a private spaceflight to the International Space Station (ISS) operated by Axiom Space in partnership with SpaceX and NASA.[1] It used SpaceX Falcon 9 Block 5 rocket to place Crew Dragon Grace into low Earth orbit. This is the maiden flight of the C213 spacecraft Grace, the fifth and final Crew Dragon to be built
-wiki

The four-member crew..is set to arrive at the Space_Station on Thursday, June 26
_Elon Musk

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 25, 2025 09:58 PM (yXf+h)

324 JackStraw, you and I are Surf and Turf.

Posted by: Ben Had at June 25, 2025 09:58 PM (ZIggv)

325 The inherent problem with soccer is, at the end of the day, it’s just a bunch of guys kicking a ball around a field at giant nets for 90 minutes.

It’s largely impervious to analysis and the big moment that will be recorded in the anals of history like you would have in other sports.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 25, 2025 09:59 PM (XV/Pl)

326 >> Tell me you have the same sunlight all those months. Mother Nature laughs at you.

I just noticed something. The tilt of the earth's axis is on a decreasing leg of the Milankovich cycle now, and is slowly decreasing. The result is there is about 3 seconds less daylight on the summer solstice for me here at ~35N now than when I was born in '67. It's about 11 seconds since 1776.

So, I've been cheated out of 3 seconds. But, I get it back in winter. :-)

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at June 25, 2025 09:59 PM (w6EFb)

327
ONT

Posted by: four seasons at June 25, 2025 09:59 PM (3ek7K)

328 Why would anyone complain about sunrise being a bit late? Who cares? Whether it's DST or CST, I'm driving to work in the dark. At least with DST I have few minutes/hours after work to have some fun.

Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at June 25, 2025 10:00 PM (XMwZJ)

329 Show me the soccer equivalent of the ball gets by Buckner or do you believe in miracles.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 25, 2025 10:00 PM (XV/Pl)

330 >>JackStraw, you and I are Surf and Turf.

My guest room is always open for you, Ben Had. If you come in the Fall I'll take you to the Polo matches so you can get a bit of horse love.

Posted by: JackStraw at June 25, 2025 10:01 PM (viF8m)

331 No ocean. That's a problem for me.
Posted by: JackStraw
----

Gulf of America, how much water does your boat draw?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 25, 2025 10:01 PM (yXf+h)

332
My sweet dog LOVES shaking his lamb chop toy, which he long ago got the squeaker out of. It's so cute to see him shake it, but I'm well aware it's an evolutionary move meant to snap the neck of his prey. But he's so adorable doing it!

Posted by: LizLem at June 25, 2025 07:57 PM (Eng1Z)

I got one of the really big lamb chop stuffies for my dog, who didnt quite know what to make of it. He put it on his bed for the night, slept as far away from it as possible, and in the morning, we found it sitting by the front door. He gave it one night, it was time to leave.

He has 8 Go dog octopuses, and treasures each one. But no freaking lamb chops!

Posted by: moki at June 25, 2025 10:02 PM (wLjpr)

333 The Lomis video was gonna tell me three things I didn't know about Lomises, and only told me two.

Posted by: From about That Time at June 25, 2025 10:02 PM (n4GiU)

334 181

Robert.

You and I have been hanging around this site for decades now.

Your mom is in that place you believe in and in that belief, I hope you find comfort that her pain of living with pain is no more.

I will say a prayer for her tonight that she is in that peace, and a prayer for you that you will not suffer grief for too long.

Still, as always, nice to see you Robert.

Posted by: Nightwatch at June 25, 2025 10:07 PM (25kuG)

335 Robert,

My condolences.

My Mom passing away was just about the most singular event of my life besides my son being born.

It's sadly a very different world I live in now.

I hope you can adjust with grace.

I do get to visit with her in my dreams every once in a while which is something I didn't expect.

Posted by: pawn at June 25, 2025 10:20 PM (QB+5g)

Quick Hits

Nick Sortor
@nicksortor

#BREAKING: The White House is AGGRESSIVELY tracking down the person who leaked classified documents to CNN, per Karoline Leavitt

"They should go to JAIL," Leavitt said

Libs of TikTok
@libsoftiktok


JUST IN: Statement from CIA Director John Ratcliffe about Intelligence on Iran's Nuclear Program:

"CIA can confirm that a body of credible intelligence indicates Iran's Nuclear Program has been severely damaged by the recent, targeted strikes."


Shares of firms tied to the NYC real estate market fall over fears of Socialist Jihadi Zorhan Mamdani's socialist plan to freeze rents.

Shares of firms with exposure to New York City's real-estate market were hammered Wednesday as investors panicked over the growing prospect of rent-freeze advocate Zohran Mamdani winning City Hall.

Vornado Realty Trust and SL Green, two of the Big Apple's largest developers, each plunged more than 5%.

Other real estate investment trusts (REITs) with heavy ties to the city also suffered. Equity Residential and Empire State Realty Trust fell 3% and 4%, respectively. LXP Industrial Trust was down 2.5%.

Investors also sold off shares in New York banks with major real estate portfolios.

Flagstar Financial and Dime Community Bank fell 5% and 4%, respectively, while Flushing Financial slipped 3%.

mamdaniqueerliberation.jpg

Obama's senior economic advisor warns about electing a jihadist to be the mayor the terrorists' favorite target city... but then says that Mamdani just has to offer some meaningless distancing from his jihadist platform and then he's all good to go.

Lawrence H. Summers
@LHSummers

I am profoundly alarmed about the future of the @DNC and the country by yesterday's NYC anointment of a candidate who failed to disavow a "globalize the intifada" slogan and advocated Trotskyite economic policies.

I fear it is evidence that our party is following the most problematic aspects of Britain's Labor Party. It didn't work there, and it won't work here.

@Harvard and other universities' moral weakness after Oct 7 in condoning hateful, anti-Israeli, and even antisemitic, rhetoric and activity opened the Overton window in ways that contributed to yesterday's outcome.

I hope candidate @ZohranKMamdani, who showed great ability to learn and adapt during his campaign, will continue to evolve in ways that provide much needed reassurance to people committed to a free from prejudice, market economy as an American ideal.

An important task for Mamdani now is to provide reassurance that his moral energy and formidable political skills can be productively directed for the City of New York at this difficult moment.

So you acknowledge he's a terrorist, but you're only asking that he offer some obviously-insincere pablum about not wanting to bring the intifada to NYC and then you're okay with him?

Palestinian-American Chuck Schumer is endorsing Mamdani:

Chuck Schumer
@chuckschumer

I have known @ZohranKMamdani since we worked together to provide debt relief for thousands of beleaguered taxi drivers & fought to stop a fracked gas plant in Astoria. He ran an impressive campaign that connected with New Yorkers about affordability, fairness, & opportunity.


Lou Perez
@TheLouPerez

I'm upset that my parents never got rich enough for me to become a socialist.

Riley Gaines
@Riley_Gaines_

The U.S. Dept. of Education has found California in violation of Title IX for letting males compete in girls' sports.

CDE & CIF must restore records, titles & awards to female athletes AND send apology letters to every girl robbed by this discrimination.

This is fantastic.

Dustin Grage
@GrageDustin

BREAKING: The Department of Justice is now suing Tim Walz and Keith Ellison for providing free and discounted college tuition for illegal aliens.

It's great to have a President who cares about fighting for American citizens in blue states like Minnesota!

Jasmine Ratchet believes she's the one the Constitution empowered to make decisions about war and peace. I have never heard so eloquent an argument for unlimited executive power.

Meemaw's mixing medications again.

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Posted by: Ace at 06:20 PM




Comments

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1 Does Zontar have the authority to freeze rents?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 25, 2025 06:22 PM (63Dwl)

2 >>>1 Does Zontar have the authority to freeze rents?

We've decided he does now have that power.

Posted by: Your Local Lowly District Court Judge at June 25, 2025 06:22 PM (KRtlO)

3 Billy Baldwin is the dumbest Baldwin brother.

Posted by: steevy at June 25, 2025 06:23 PM (YwEeS)

4 Oooo, burn !

Posted by: Adriane the Monday Critic on Wednesday . . . with a Camel. . . at June 25, 2025 06:23 PM (cfyxU)

5 Billy Baldwin is the dumbest Baldwin brother.
Posted by: steevy


Adam is the tallest ...
: -P

Posted by: Adriane the Monday Critic on Wednesday . . . with a Camel. . . at June 25, 2025 06:24 PM (cfyxU)

6 Interesting to see what arguments will be used that the national emblem and can be burned but not teh ghey one.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 25, 2025 06:25 PM (ZOv7s)

7 Video

Posted by: Accomack at June 25, 2025 06:26 PM (Bbhox)

8 An important task for Mamdani now is to provide reassurance that his moral energy.....
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If you believe Mamdani has "moral energy" you might as well just go ahead and stamp "stupid" on your forehead.

Posted by: Crusader at June 25, 2025 06:26 PM (TN0g+)

9 Dear stupid girl chopping your hair, big deal. No one cares. Now you have an ugly haircut to match your personality. But good for a hair salon who will have to fix what you did.

Ask yourself, did all your fellow women, in November after the election, prove or change anything after President Trump was elected? I think they were doing it to prevent rape, of all things retarded.

I thought Billy Baldwin was the sort of normal Baldwin, but this proves all were dropped on their heads and fed sour milk as infants. Maybe they also have kuru.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at June 25, 2025 06:27 PM (6PCLE)

10
“I hope this is the only chop that our community has to witness.”

How about a pork chop?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 25, 2025 06:27 PM (63Dwl)

11 Please let there be a perp walk for the traitor in the WH.

I long for the days of tars/feathers and rotten vegetables thrown at them. Bring this back!

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at June 25, 2025 06:28 PM (6PCLE)

12 If America wasn't such a loony bin, Ace would be out of a job.

Posted by: wth at June 25, 2025 06:28 PM (v0R5T)

13 This thread indirectly raises an important question: Who is the dumber, rake-stepping putz, Larry Summers or Billy Baldwin?

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at June 25, 2025 06:28 PM (y+qgR)

14 Lion chops are better.

Posted by: Boss Moss at June 25, 2025 06:28 PM (VAINm)

15 Okay, ladies, if you are going to chop your hair off in protest, do yourself this favor, at least: Pull it into a tight ponytail that hits the center of your forehead like a unicorn horn. Use scissors made for cutting hair and cut straight across the pony tail, taking off as much as your protest level dictates.

Posted by: Piper at June 25, 2025 06:29 PM (QzINz)

16 What the heck is moral energy?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 25, 2025 06:29 PM (63Dwl)

17
Forget the leaker, we need to find the AUTHOR of that bullshit assessment.

Not only did they quickly assess the damage, but also gave an estimate of the timeline for Iran to resume operations?? That's the part that makes no sense. That's the part that tells me this "report" was a Total Hoax perpetrated from within the DIA.

FIND. THAT. AUTHOR.

Posted by: Sherlock Soothsayer at June 25, 2025 06:29 PM (OanQI)

18 Shorter Schumer " Zohran if you're elected please don't have a pogrom at my house"

Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 25, 2025 06:29 PM (pwtJC)

19 You're soaking in it

Posted by: Boss Moss at June 25, 2025 06:29 PM (VAINm)

20 Please let there be a perp walk for the traitor in the WH.

I long for the days of tars/feathers and rotten vegetables thrown at them. Bring this back!
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at June 25, 2025 06:28 PM (6PCLE)
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Reality Winner 2.0. Enjoy your new prison pals.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 25, 2025 06:29 PM (ZOv7s)

21 Judo Chop

Posted by: wth at June 25, 2025 06:30 PM (v0R5T)

22 What the heck is moral energy?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.


Sounds better in the original German.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at June 25, 2025 06:30 PM (mlg/3)

23 that oldhead is CHOPPED!

Posted by: Black Orchid at June 25, 2025 06:30 PM (Pv3Rg)

24 The woman shouldn't be cutting her hair she should be cutting out pasta

Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 25, 2025 06:30 PM (pwtJC)

25 Biwwy Bawwin's list didn't include the guy who was mean to him at the gym, nor his wife's boyfriend.

Just people he has no chance of actually meeting in real life.

Stunning AND brave.

Posted by: BurtTC at June 25, 2025 06:31 PM (dGCAG)

26 I just saw the video of that Cornell West appearance on CNN yesterday. That guy seems calm and rational...

Posted by: Crusader at June 25, 2025 06:31 PM (TN0g+)

27 Shorter Schumer " Zohran if you're elected please don't have a pogrom at my house"
Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 25, 2025 06:29 PM (pwtJC)
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He's trying to cover his left flank against AOC, who terrifies him.

He's so out of touch that he doesn't know how a grill works (nor does anyone on his staff), so the big idea is to LARP as a radical, but this will only piss off his base.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 25, 2025 06:32 PM (ZOv7s)

28 Nbc news dump is on now.

Posted by: Stateless.. 45% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back now at June 25, 2025 06:32 PM (jvJvP)

29 16 What the heck is moral energy?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot

Maybe it’s like chakras.

Posted by: Piper at June 25, 2025 06:32 PM (QzINz)

30 ooo, wowza, sick burn! LOL!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at June 25, 2025 06:32 PM (Z5NUn)

31 My bet is that the money men in NY aren't going to let Jihadi mamdani become mayor.

Posted by: Ben Had at June 25, 2025 06:33 PM (ZIggv)

32 >>Shares of firms tied to the NYC real estate market fall over fears of Socialist Jihadi Zorhan Mamdani's socialist plan to freeze rents.

For good reason. Rent control has never worked. Anywhere.

Everything lefists propose has been tried and failed over and over. Idiots.

Posted by: JackStraw at June 25, 2025 06:33 PM (viF8m)

33 What the heck is moral energy?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 25, 2025 06:29 PM (63Dwl)

Just like a moral victory.

It ain't.

Posted by: BurtTC at June 25, 2025 06:33 PM (dGCAG)

34 Okay, ladies, if you are going to chop your hair off in protest, do yourself this favor, at least: Pull it into a tight ponytail that hits the center of your forehead like a unicorn horn. Use scissors made for cutting hair and cut straight across the pony tail, taking off as much as your protest level dictates.
Posted by: Piper at June 25, 2025 06:29 PM (QzINz)
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An entire generation thinks that the world will stop them from harming themselves.

"Oh no! Let's change national policy to preserve your 'do!"

Not happening.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 25, 2025 06:33 PM (ZOv7s)

35
Shares of firms tied to the NYC real estate market fall over fears of Socialist Jihadi Zorhan Mamdani's socialist plan to freeze rents.

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

I've heard that all the NYC financial firms have offices in Florida -- which apparently is referred to as Wall Street South?

I imagine that DeSantis is already trying to welcome them to permanently relocate their HQs down there ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Make Unconditional Surrender Great Again! at June 25, 2025 06:34 PM (1jZXH)

36
I just saw the video of that Cornell West appearance on CNN yesterday. That guy seems calm and rational...
Posted by: Crusader


After all the money he's made he still can't get his teeth fixed.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 25, 2025 06:34 PM (63Dwl)

37 >"They should go to JAIL," Leavitt said
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they won't

Posted by: Don Black, Senior VP for Product Development, Acme Snorkel Inc. at June 25, 2025 06:34 PM (AOsQT)

38 MadMani is going to be a gift that keeps on giving.

Things may be good for me by Tuesday. Fingers crossed. I trust God.

Posted by: Stateless.. 45% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back now at June 25, 2025 06:34 PM (jvJvP)

39 What the heck is moral energy?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.

I'm gonna go with 'black girl magic'.

Posted by: Stu Podaso at June 25, 2025 06:34 PM (BXZxS)

40 Boca Raton.

Posted by: Boss Moss at June 25, 2025 06:34 PM (VAINm)

41 Hopefully, the weird muzzie dude wins in New York City and the savages who live in that hot mess of a city burn the place down while dancing and raping in the streets.

Calling out around the world
Are you ready for a brand new beat
Summer's here and the time is right
For dancing in the street...

Posted by: Burn Baby Burn! at June 25, 2025 06:35 PM (R/m4+)

42 An ad just popped up from Amazon trying to sell me Lavender Vanilla lip balm. Do they know something I don't?

Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 25, 2025 06:35 PM (pwtJC)

43 Shares of firms tied to the NYC real estate market fall over fears of Socialist Jihadi Zorhan Mamdani's socialist plan to freeze rents.

For good reason. Rent control has never worked. Anywhere.
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That proposal is especially stupid. Like ANYONE who sits thru 15 minutes of an ECON 101 class is half-way paying attention when supply and demand curves are explained would have known no later than the 15th minute that price controls can't work (on anything).

Posted by: Crusader at June 25, 2025 06:35 PM (TN0g+)

44 34 An entire generation thinks that the world will stop them from harming themselves.

"Oh no! Let's change national policy to preserve your 'do!"

Not happening.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June

Right? It’s hair. It grows back. What a stunning sacrifice to the cause.

Posted by: Piper at June 25, 2025 06:35 PM (QzINz)

45 >>> What the heck is moral energy?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 25, 2025 06:29 PM (63Dwl)


A great name for a mushroom based protein bar?

marketing hook:


--- MOREL ENERGY ---
Shroom with a Boom! (T)

Posted by: banana Dream at June 25, 2025 06:35 PM (cduTK)

46 Nicole, since you're obviously upset, and, you're worth probably in the neighborhood of 20 or 30 million, maybe more...maybe hire some lawyers to defend those poor benighted deportees? Maybe build them some nice homes on property you own? Preferably next door to where you live?

No?

Then shut up.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at June 25, 2025 06:36 PM (tT6L1)

47 An ad just popped up from Amazon trying to sell me Lavender Vanilla lip balm. Do they know something I don't?
Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 25, 2025 06:35 PM (pwtJC)
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Well, it knows your browser history, so...

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 25, 2025 06:36 PM (ZOv7s)

48 Karate Chop!

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at June 25, 2025 06:36 PM (rvwwT)

49 42 An ad just popped up from Amazon trying to sell me Lavender Vanilla lip balm. Do they know something I don't?
Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 25, 2025 06:35 PM (pwtJC)

Lol

Thank you,

What the hell are you watching on Prime?

Posted by: Stateless.. 45% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back now at June 25, 2025 06:36 PM (jvJvP)

50
"I fear it is evidence that our party is following the most problematic aspects of Britain's Labor Party. It didn't work there, and it won't work here."

"Didn't work" in what sense? Labour won its current majority in a landslide, the unvanquishable AOC's endorsement of Bad Zorro rocketed him over Cuomo, and Dems will probably retake the House in 2026. Politics is about winning elections, not promoting prosperity and freedom ffs.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 25, 2025 06:36 PM (lCaJd)

51 >>I imagine that DeSantis is already trying to welcome them to permanently relocate their HQs down there ...

Might not workout to be a win. They might not be as loony as Momdani but Wall Street went overwhelmingly for Biden and Harris.

Posted by: JackStraw at June 25, 2025 06:36 PM (viF8m)

52

All Muslim men should be permitted to remain in the US as long as they undergo a circumcision and their foreskins are made into halal sausages.

Which I will then eat. Lovely grilled to rare, flash heat to blood temperature only - or I will drown you under your paddleboard - and then I will need a young corpse or two to sodomize....

Posted by: Barky Ofuckstick at June 25, 2025 06:37 PM (lPida)

53 @47 I looked up phone chargers yesterday. Weird response

Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 25, 2025 06:37 PM (pwtJC)

54 My bet is that the money men in NY aren't going to let Jihadi mamdani become mayor.
Posted by: Ben Had at June 25, 2025 06:33 PM (ZIggv)

This would have been the election to do that. It was made for fraud and you had a Cuomo lined up.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 25, 2025 06:37 PM (8avO+)

55 Okay, ladies, if you are going to chop your hair off in protest, do yourself this favor, at least: Pull it into a tight ponytail that hits the center of your forehead like a unicorn horn. Use scissors made for cutting hair and cut straight across the pony tail, taking off as much as your protest level dictates.
Posted by: Piper at June 25, 2025 06:29 PM (QzINz)
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Piper, you're a lady. The gal chopping her hair isn't fit to carry the purses of a real lady.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at June 25, 2025 06:37 PM (tT6L1)

56 So you acknowledge he's a terrorist, but you're only asking that he offer some obviously-insincere pablum about not wanting to bring the intifada to NYC and then you're okay with him?

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It's almost as if The Left hates America & Americans while passionately thinking, speaking, & behaving like a Death Cult.

Almost.

Posted by: ShainS -- Make Unconditional Surrender Great Again! at June 25, 2025 06:37 PM (1jZXH)

57 "An ad just popped up from Amazon trying to sell me Lavender Vanilla lip balm. Do they know something I don't?"

Don't fight their algorithms, they KNOW.

Posted by: illiniwek at June 25, 2025 06:38 PM (vbXSk)

58 That proposal is especially stupid. Like ANYONE who sits thru 15 minutes of an ECON 101 class is half-way paying attention when supply and demand curves are explained would have known no later than the 15th minute that price controls can't work (on anything).
Posted by: Crusader at June 25, 2025 06:35 PM (TN0g+)
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Marxism is a religion that pretends to be political/economic system.

It is built around the mortal sins of envy, wrath and pride, which are turned into virtues.

That it is why it never matters if it works, and if you ask its adherents, they don't really care, they just want to take things and hurt people while feeling good about themselves.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 25, 2025 06:38 PM (ZOv7s)

59 Nicolle (what a weird spelling) Wallace looks like a Dim woman. Poster Child. Probably has 40 cats inside with her and you can smell her house from the sidewalk. Nothing against cats, unless you have 40 inside in the heat.

Her thin lips are from frowning and grinding her teeth at night (ok, I made that up). I guess we should celebrate they are not plumped with filler and trout lips making kissy faces.

Anyone who has a tiny brain cell, woman, knows not to wear eyeliner on the lower lid. As this makes your eyes smaller. I guess the better to glare and snarl with as you miss your gang illegals. Or pretend to be Oriental or alien as I don't know why you do this.

I stopped listening to her after 2 seconds.

Apparently I have not recovered from my mood yesterday.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at June 25, 2025 06:38 PM (6PCLE)

60 -- MOREL ENERGY ---
Shroom with a Boom! (T)
Posted by: banana Dream at June 25, 2025 06:35 PM (cduTK)

Your energy stays high with Fungi.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at June 25, 2025 06:38 PM (dR6yv)

61 lol, Piper; sometime in the 90s I excised my janky 70s ponytail after tying it off in the usual base-of-the-skull spot; still have it around somewhere in a baggie ... interesting to see how much mercury (& other miscellany ...) I have accumulated over the years, which was main reason for preserving it.

*muted lol*

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at June 25, 2025 06:39 PM (Z5NUn)

62 My bet is that the money men in NY aren't going to let Jihadi mamdani become mayor.
Posted by: Ben Had at June 25, 2025 06:33 PM (ZIggv)

This would have been the election to do that. It was made for fraud and you had a Cuomo lined up.
Posted by: Oldcat at June 25, 2025 06:37 PM (8avO+)

Is the smooth talking brown guy any worse than Warren Wilhelm?

Posted by: BurtTC at June 25, 2025 06:39 PM (dGCAG)

63 I think somewhere in my house I might have ancient ChapStick. I've never thought of buying lip balm

Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 25, 2025 06:39 PM (pwtJC)

64 "Didn't work" in what sense? Labour won its current majority in a landslide, the unvanquishable AOC's endorsement of Bad Zorro rocketed him over Cuomo, and Dems will probably retake the House in 2026. Politics is about winning elections, not promoting prosperity and freedom ffs.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 25, 2025 06:36 PM (lCaJd)

That was just because everyone wanted to punish the tories first for treason. Once that was done, Labor has been bleeding elections every time one comes up. Starmer even failed to get a war as a distraction!

Posted by: Oldcat at June 25, 2025 06:39 PM (8avO+)

65
Liberal woman who cut her hair as a way to demonstrate a budget "chop" -- does she realize that's a stunt she can do only once?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 25, 2025 06:39 PM (lCaJd)

66 At least Mamdani only advocated for Trotskyite economic policies and not Stalinist economic policies.

He'll hold off on those until his second term.

Posted by: Curly Shuffle at June 25, 2025 06:39 PM (5yDGQ)

67 Socialists are basically power-hungry retards.

Posted by: jsg at June 25, 2025 06:40 PM (ra4xZ)

68 Yes! Go Christy!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at June 25, 2025 06:40 PM (Z5NUn)

69 I stopped listening to her after 2 seconds.

Apparently I have not recovered from my mood yesterday.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at June 25, 2025 06:38 PM (6PCLE)
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If this is the quality of the snark we can expect, may your mood never recover.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at June 25, 2025 06:40 PM (tT6L1)

70 I looked up phone chargers yesterday. Weird response
Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 25, 2025 06:37 PM (pwtJC)
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What color were they? Any unique designs? Are you sure you didn't browse erotic phone cases?

They know. Everything.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 25, 2025 06:40 PM (ZOv7s)

71 44 34 An entire generation thinks that the world will stop them from harming themselves.

"Oh no! Let's change national policy to preserve your 'do!"

Not happening.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June

Right? It’s hair. It grows back. What a stunning sacrifice to the cause.

Posted by: Piper at June 25, 2025 06:35 PM (QzINz)

++++

The only one who cares about the hair cut scene is the poor person who has the task of cleaning it all up.

Posted by: washrivergal at June 25, 2025 06:40 PM (goP2m)

72 . Nothing against cats, unless you have 40 inside in the heat

My record was about 13 cats and kittens in one room. It was like stepping through a mine field.

Posted by: Stateless.. 45% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back now at June 25, 2025 06:41 PM (jvJvP)

73 Is the smooth talking brown guy any worse than Warren Wilhelm?
Posted by: BurtTC at June 25, 2025 06:39 PM (dGCAG)

Oh, he's terrible enough. And now the radicals know that the old leadership is impotent in NY and NYC

Posted by: Oldcat at June 25, 2025 06:41 PM (8avO+)

74 Maybe it’s like chakras.
Posted by: Piper at June 25, 2025 06:32 PM (QzINz)

I don't think I will ever not associate that word without thinking of Al Gore, the Sex Poodle.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at June 25, 2025 06:41 PM (6PCLE)

75 Nicole Wallace is one of the people who stabbed Sarah Palin in the back. If she didn't like Palin she should have quit. She's a nasty piece of work

Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 25, 2025 06:42 PM (pwtJC)

76 Global warming blamed for Schumer's dehydration.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 25, 2025 06:42 PM (63Dwl)

77 "Kneel Before Zohan, Infidels!"

I made aliyah from NYC back to the South in late 2020 -- feeling a bit like I'd escaped Berlin circa 1934.

I hate it that America's greatest metropolis has been taken over by the worst people. It used to be such a great city (even with its faults).

Posted by: Beverly at June 25, 2025 06:43 PM (Epeb0)

78 Liberal woman who cut her hair as a way to demonstrate a budget "chop" -- does she realize that's a stunt she can do only once?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 25, 2025 06:39 PM (lCaJd)

If you don't use an axe or cleaver, its not a chop.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 25, 2025 06:43 PM (8avO+)

79
Apparently I have not recovered from my mood yesterday.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat

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Haha, between that comment and your analysis of the Mayor of Cudahy I'd say you ARE in a mood!

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 25, 2025 06:43 PM (lCaJd)

80
If you don't use an axe or cleaver, its not a chop.
Posted by: Oldcat at June 25, 2025 06:43 PM (8avO+)

Guillotine

Posted by: It's me donna at June 25, 2025 06:44 PM (VE6XX)

81 That report was written to catch leakers

Posted by: admiral akbar at June 25, 2025 06:45 PM (k353/)

82 The new "Escape From New York .. the Muslim Mamdani Version".

Posted by: illiniwek at June 25, 2025 06:45 PM (vbXSk)

83
"They should go to JAIL," Leavitt said
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they won't
Posted by: Don Black

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Leavitt should stop saying what should happen when it's not gonna happen.

She won't.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 25, 2025 06:45 PM (lCaJd)

84 Can't that woman cut the fat instead of her hair?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 25, 2025 06:45 PM (0eaVi)

85 Global warming blamed for Schumer's dehydration.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr

He may want to get used to the heat. Stan knows how to work a grill.

Posted by: Stu Podaso at June 25, 2025 06:45 PM (BXZxS)

86 That report was written to catch leakers
Posted by: admiral akbar at June 25, 2025 06:45 PM (k353/)

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The expert on baiting traps has spoken.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at June 25, 2025 06:45 PM (tT6L1)

87 don't think I will ever not associate that word without thinking of Al Gore, the Sex Poodle.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at June 25, 2025 06:41 PM (6PCLE)
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That was the most retarded come-on in human history. Guy had zero game. I'm assuming Tipper regarded him as a safe provider who was loaded, and was traditional enough to stick it out with him, but he obviously lost his mind after losing, thought he might be someone, and wrecked his marriage. His kids were out of control as well.

Funny how the House of Gore completely vanished. He could have been a contender!

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 25, 2025 06:46 PM (ZOv7s)

88 So she wants no chops of anything? Really?, I bet she wants police funding to be chopped.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at June 25, 2025 06:46 PM (rvwwT)

89 Haha, between that comment and your analysis of the Mayor of Cudahy I'd say you ARE in a mood!
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 25, 2025 06:43 PM (lCaJd)

I would blame the heat but we have central AC.

I hate the heat, which does seem to be from 1000 suns. So I stay inside and mock liberal women instead as an odd side hobby. When I should be doing something useful.

That mayor's lipstick really sent me off!

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at June 25, 2025 06:46 PM (6PCLE)

90 Don't worry about momammy being a socialist. Worry about him being a mohamadan. He will be just fine with pogroms and stabbings and driving vehicles over crowds.

Posted by: Eromero at June 25, 2025 06:47 PM (LHPAg)

91 Don't you need a license to cut hair there?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 25, 2025 06:47 PM (BjH5D)

92 Nicolle Wallace is dumber than stupid. Allegedly.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at June 25, 2025 06:47 PM (NXz8h)

93 Leavitt should stop saying what should happen when it's not gonna happen.

She won't.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 25, 2025 06:45 PM (lCaJd)
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Reality Winner did. This one will, too.

People have to realize that we are so early in the administration and yes, people are going to jail thanks to DOGE and stuff.

Be patient. So many shoes yet to drop. Funny how Walz's assassin pal dropped out of the headlines.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 25, 2025 06:48 PM (ZOv7s)

94 "Guillotine

Posted by: It's me donna at June 25, 2025 06:44 PM (VE6XX)"


an interesting point, from Carlyle; in French, this implies that the implement is his daughter ... fwiw

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at June 25, 2025 06:48 PM (Z5NUn)

95 Temporary reprieve

@bennyjohnson 19m
🚨BREAKING: The Wisconsin Supreme Court has shut down Democrat attempts to redraw the state’s congressional map before the 2026 midterms.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at June 25, 2025 06:48 PM (mlg/3)

96 Moving Wall Street to Florida will turn Florida into a hellhole.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at June 25, 2025 06:48 PM (96jnc)

97
I hate the heat, which does seem to be from 1000 suns. So I stay inside and mock liberal women instead as an odd side hobby. When I should be doing something useful.

That mayor's lipstick really sent me off!
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at June 25, 2025 06:46 PM (6PCLE)
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You provide laughter to the rest of us with your observations. Seems useful to me.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at June 25, 2025 06:48 PM (tT6L1)

98 Random observation served up as a fact:

If you get in the habit of breaking out the chapstick/lip balm several times a day, it only gets worse over time and your own lips stop generating moisture. My dad and sister are now both to the point of reaching for it a couple of times every hour. When you point it out to them they are to the point of not even realizing that its not really a normal human body requirement (to have lip balm) but that its *become* one because their own lips gave up.

Posted by: Crusader at June 25, 2025 06:48 PM (TN0g+)

99 >>Leavitt should stop saying what should happen when it's not gonna happen.

It gets said here about 500 times a day.

Posted by: JackStraw at June 25, 2025 06:49 PM (viF8m)

100 Hey Billy Baldwin, let's get you and your retarded brothers on that plane to Iran as well. Better yet, let's give you boys your own plane and make sure you're all issued the appropriate weapons and "blanks" before you leave. I expect you'll all look like Swiss cheese before you're out of US airspace.

*spits froth, breathes deeply*

SERENITY NOW, DAMMIT!!

Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher at June 25, 2025 06:49 PM (Ukj29)

101 61 I have accumulated over the years, which was main reason for preserving it.

*muted lol*
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at June 25

That should be a fun science experiment! I have a hair cut appointment tomorrow, I can’t wait. I will not do a great big theatrical chop, though.

Posted by: Piper at June 25, 2025 06:49 PM (pRpzT)

102 81 - we can only hope ... amirite?

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at June 25, 2025 06:49 PM (Z5NUn)

103 Okay, ladies, if you are going to chop your hair off in protest, do yourself this favor, at least: Pull it into a tight ponytail that hits the center of your forehead like a unicorn horn. Use scissors made for cutting hair and cut straight across the pony tail, taking off as much as your protest level dictates.
Posted by: Piper at June 25, 2025 06:29 PM (QzINz)
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Piper, you're a lady. The gal chopping her hair isn't fit to carry the purses of a real lady.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at June 25, 2025 06:37 PM (tT6L1)

This nutbag knows this is the climax of her life, her greatest drama, rehearsed it in her head a dozen times an hour....then realizes a few seconds in that there is no drama sawing at your head for three minutes.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 25, 2025 06:50 PM (8avO+)

104 Sounds like Hunter must soon start ramping up his art production. Given his commissions for art have apparently dried up, these will perforce be sold on the open market.

Question: How will this affect the current resale market for his works?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at June 25, 2025 06:50 PM (0sNs1)

105
But really, the hair "sacrifice." Women are embracing buzz cuts as an actual style.

I'd like to see an SNL skit where someone wheels up to the podium in a beautician's chair, gets a pixie and a few blonde streaks, and jumps up and says something angry like "I hope that's the last CUT we have to see!"

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 25, 2025 06:51 PM (lCaJd)

106 I could tank Zohran Mamdani's campaign in a heartbeat.

"Hey, Zohran is a Red Sox fan!"

Posted by: Orson at June 25, 2025 06:51 PM (dIske)

107 I hate it that America's greatest metropolis has been taken over by the worst people. It used to be such a great city (even with its faults).
Posted by: Beverly at June 25, 2025 06:43 PM (Epeb0)p


A moment of silence for Detroit where my Mom lived in the 1930's.

Posted by: Stateless.. 45% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back now at June 25, 2025 06:52 PM (jvJvP)

108 37 Trillion in debt and people are electing socialists.

Fold this shit up and put it away.

Posted by: jsg at June 25, 2025 06:52 PM (ra4xZ)

109 "I thought Billy Baldwin was the sort of normal Baldwin, but this proves all were dropped on their heads and fed sour milk as infants."

You may be thinking of Stephen.

Posted by: Bea Arthur's Dick at June 25, 2025 06:52 PM (eYAt4)

110
This nutbag knows this is the climax of her life, her greatest drama, rehearsed it in her head a dozen times an hour....then realizes a few seconds in that there is no drama sawing at your head for three minutes.

Posted by: Oldcat

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She should have done something that won't take so long to grow back, like wearing pink running shoes.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 25, 2025 06:53 PM (lCaJd)

111 Be patient. So many shoes yet to drop. Funny how Walz's assassin pal dropped out of the headlines.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 25, 2025 06:48 PM (ZOv7s)

maybe... but the right got fooled a few years ago when I was told Bill Barr was a straight shooter and would clean stuff up... and I just needed to trust the plan.

We are now FIVE YEARS later... oh, and what is the Federal Statute of Limitations on most Fed crimes?..

Five Years... how coincidental!

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 25, 2025 06:53 PM (mP0Kj)

112
I thought Billy Baldwin was the sort of normal Baldwin, but this proves all were dropped on their heads and fed sour milk as infants. Maybe they also have kuru.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at June 25, 2025 06:27 PM (6PCLE)



Stephen is the normal Baldwin. Still kinda insane, but normal-adjacent.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at June 25, 2025 06:53 PM (y9nCu)

113 I had not so much about a senate parliamentarian wielding so much power until the past week, who appoints them and why?

Posted by: DanMan at June 25, 2025 06:53 PM (8uzBS)

114 If you don't use an axe or cleaver, its not a chop.
Posted by: Oldcat at June 25, 2025 06:43 PM


Well, at least not a chop-chop.

Posted by: Whoopi Goldberg, Doyen of The View at June 25, 2025 06:53 PM (0sNs1)

115 A moment of silence for Detroit where my Mom lived in the 1930's.

Posted by: Stateless.. 45% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back now at June 25, 2025 06:52 PM (jvJvP)
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More like a temporary cease fire.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 25, 2025 06:54 PM (ZOv7s)

116 You know, a targeted munitions strike against CNN headquarters is probably warranted.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at June 25, 2025 06:54 PM (96jnc)

117 That should be a fun science experiment! I have a hair cut appointment tomorrow, I can’t wait. I will not do a great big theatrical chop, though.
Posted by: Piper at June 25, 2025 06:49 PM (pRpzT)

Have the stylist recite a long dramatic speach as she cuts the hair. Its all the rage now.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 25, 2025 06:54 PM (8avO+)

118 105
But really, the hair "sacrifice." Women are embracing buzz cuts as an actual style.

I'd like to see an SNL skit where someone wheels up to the podium in a beautician's chair, gets a pixie and a few blonde streaks, and jumps up and says something angry like "I hope that's the last CUT we have to see!"
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 25, 2025 06:51 PM (lCaJd

Deadline had a great story today about Susan Powter...that 1990's exercise woman with the spiky hair.

She was everywhere, went broke and works for DoorDash.

Posted by: Stateless.. 45% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back now at June 25, 2025 06:54 PM (jvJvP)

119 You provide laughter to the rest of us with your observations. Seems useful to me.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at June 25, 2025 06:48 PM (tT6L1)

Why, thank you *in Southern*. I do make my husband laugh most days. He's my main audience now that I retired from a real job. He's snarky and we are a good match.

One son thinks I am hilarious. The other one used to, but is now climbing the corporate ladder and apparently has lost his spark of joy. We hope it is temporary before he becomes a Dimocrat or something hideous.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at June 25, 2025 06:55 PM (6PCLE)

120 How many Baldwins are there?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 25, 2025 06:55 PM (63Dwl)

121 A Few Joys NYC Owned Groceries

Socialist Shopping Days.
No Bagels.
Rationing.
Equity Pricing.
Shopping Permits.
Voucher Only Payments
Ethnic Aisles (No Jews, No Maga).
Struggle Session Sundays (rocks and bats supplies)
No Racist Rice

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at June 25, 2025 06:56 PM (NXz8h)

122 maybe... but the right got fooled a few years ago when I was told Bill Barr was a straight shooter and would clean stuff up... and I just needed to trust the plan.

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 25, 2025 06:53 PM (mP0Kj)
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That was a lifetime ago. Trump was surrounded by traitors. His ordeal over the last four years has provided him with much more competent, loyal people, and we are seeing the results.

Look at Rubio. Guy is a shark. Never saw that side to him. His DoJ team is making the judges tie themselves in knots.

So yeah, they are going after leakers and while no one talks about it, flag officers are being convicted for Biden-era crimes. The media just doesn't want to cover it.

People are going to jail, and more will follow.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 25, 2025 06:56 PM (ZOv7s)

123 37 Trillion in debt and people are electing socialists.

Fold this shit up and put it away.
Posted by: jsg at June 25, 2025 06:52 PM (ra4xZ)

Well if money doesn't exist, debt means nothing!

Posted by: Oldcat at June 25, 2025 06:56 PM (8avO+)

124 People have to realize that we are so early in the administration

We're seven months in. Average time from indictment to trial in a federal criminal case probably varies between a year to a year and a half. Unless we're planning on being in power forever, time really is of the essence in federal prosecutions that have any political sensitivity.

And the administration does seem to have a weird degree of lethargy when it comes to the courts. Not a lot of nomination activity despite many openings. We have 8 district court openings in Texas alone right now. It's an area where we could see some improvement, I think.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at June 25, 2025 06:57 PM (y+qgR)

125 Shares of firms with exposure to New York City's real-estate market were hammered Wednesday as investors panicked over the growing prospect of rent-freeze advocate Zohran Mamdani winning City Hall.
Vornado Realty Trust and SL Green, two of the Big Apple's largest developers, each plunged more than 5%.

Other real estate investment trusts (REITs) with heavy ties to the city also suffered. Equity Residential and Empire State Realty Trust fell 3% and 4%, respectively. LXP Industrial Trust was down 2.5%.

You know what? Good. Fuck 'em. They distort markets and fuck over regular joe housing seekers, so let them take it in the shorts for a change. I want to see these oligopolies destroyed. Not glad it has to be because they elected a Grand Mufti, but fuck it they support his kind too.

Posted by: Reap, motherfuckers. Reap good and hard. at June 25, 2025 06:57 PM (TbWk/)

126 >>I had not so much about a senate parliamentarian wielding so much power until the past week, who appoints them and why?

It's another anachronism of the Senate that needs to end. The parliamentarian is appointed by the Senate Majority Leader but the term is not fixed. This one was appointed by Harry Reid.

They are supposed to be non-partisan but obviously they are not.

Posted by: JackStraw at June 25, 2025 06:57 PM (viF8m)

127 Zontar says he will arrest Netanyahu.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 25, 2025 06:57 PM (63Dwl)

128 You know, a targeted munitions strike against CNN headquarters is probably warranted.
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at June 25, 2025 06:54 PM (96jnc)
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Waste of ammo. No one watches it. It's days are numbered. I don't think it or MSNBC will last till the midterms, especially if RFK stomps on Big Pharma advertising.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 25, 2025 06:57 PM (ZOv7s)

129 37 Trillion in debt and people are electing socialists.
Fold this shit up and put it away.
Posted by: jsg at June 25, 2025 06:52 PM (ra4xZ)

Blah Blah says it's your money and we want it now! COLAs for everyone, free rent and medicare too! Why not, not like your going to save any money anyways tee hee! Concert in Central Park starts at 8...The Jerry Garcia Imitation Band! Can't wait! Just like we were 16 again, Groovy!

Posted by: Harriet And Blah Blah Nyborg, Democrat Boomer Teenagers For Life at June 25, 2025 06:58 PM (R/m4+)

130 We're seven months in. Average time from indictment to trial in a federal criminal case probably varies between a year to a year and a half. Unless we're planning on being in power forever, time really is of the essence in federal prosecutions that have any political sensitivity.

And the administration does seem to have a weird degree of lethargy when it comes to the courts. Not a lot of nomination activity despite many openings. We have 8 district court openings in Texas alone right now. It's an area where we could see some improvement, I think.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at June 25, 2025 06:57 PM (y+qgR)

Yes we are planning to be in power forever.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 25, 2025 06:59 PM (8avO+)

131 Have the stylist recite a long dramatic speach as she cuts the hair. Its all the rage now.
Posted by: Oldcat at June 25, 2025 06:54 PM


* snips three hairs *

We few,

*snips three more hairs *

we happy few, we scrunch of pony tail

* snips the rest of the hair *

Posted by: Piper's Stylist at June 25, 2025 06:59 PM (0sNs1)

132 115 A moment of silence for Detroit where my Mom lived in the 1930's.

Posted by: Stateless.. 45% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back now at June 25, 2025 06:52 PM (jvJvP)
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More like a temporary cease fire.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 25, 2025 06:54 PM (ZOv7s

The last time Mom and I crossed over was about 5 years ago. Hell, Detroit looks like a war zone. Her childhood home turned into a drughouse then was torn down.

I believe Canadian cable companies in the 80's carried Detroit news. Not good.

Posted by: Stateless.. 45% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back now at June 25, 2025 07:00 PM (jvJvP)

133 We're seven months in.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at June 25, 2025 06:57 PM (y+qgR)
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I know we don't usually do math, but Trump was sworn in almost exactly FIVE months ago. It takes time for appointees to get in, and Trump is well ahead of the normal schedule.

Everyone wants everything NOW and then goes black pill when it doesn't happen.

Here at the Horde we don't chop hair - we set it on fire. Daily.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 25, 2025 07:00 PM (ZOv7s)

134 120 How many Baldwins are there?

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Enough to provide the needed research subjects to settle the trebuchet vs catapult debate.

Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher at June 25, 2025 07:00 PM (Ukj29)

135 She snips her hair? Piker.

Posted by: Vincent van Gogh at June 25, 2025 07:01 PM (VAINm)

136 In his victory speech, Zohran made it clear that he doesn't intend to allow ICE to operate in New York.

Just wait until he orders the NYPD to block ICE operations.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at June 25, 2025 07:01 PM (xTIDn)

137 Look at Rubio. Guy is a shark. Never saw that side to him. His DoJ team is making the judges tie themselves in knots.


Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 25, 2025 06:56 PM (ZOv7s)

It is best if you strategically insert the appropriate number of 'you stupid asshole' into the TRO responses and proceedings.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 25, 2025 07:01 PM (8avO+)

138 I thought Billy Baldwin was the sort of normal Baldwin, but this proves all were dropped on their heads and fed sour milk as infants. Maybe they also have kuru.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at June 25, 2025 06:27 PM


IIRC, Stephen is the Christian one.

Posted by: toby928 at June 25, 2025 07:02 PM (vKhD2)

139 You may be thinking of Stephen.
Posted by: Bea Arthur's Dick at June 25, 2025 06:52 PM (eYAt4)

Ah, yes. I knew one of the litter seemed normalish.

I hope Alec has another rage fit soon. He and his fake Spanish wife entertain me at times. I no longer watch a movie if he is in it.

My Amazon movie selections based on how much I hate the actors and not watching is long. Kidman seems to be in everything and I really despise her bony self. It does not take much to put them in the Nope column.

Blake Lively and her rodent husband have been my UK DM downvote targets for a month or so. No reason, really, other than she is a crap actress mean girl, and I also don't like her nitwit spouse.

One has to get her anger out somehow vs chopping off my hair.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at June 25, 2025 07:02 PM (6PCLE)

140 Calling out around the world
Are you ready for a brand new beat
Summer's here and the time is right
For dancing in the street...
Posted by: Burn Baby Burn! at June 25, 2025 06:35 PM (R/m4+)

Dude, the video to the Bowie/Jagger cover might be the gheyist thing I've ever seen.

Posted by: Billy Squier at June 25, 2025 07:02 PM (8hxDK)

141 The last time Mom and I crossed over was about 5 years ago. Hell, Detroit looks like a war zone. Her childhood home turned into a drughouse then was torn down.
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I like those sites that will post what an address looked like as it changes over 20+ years, complete with photos from the various eras. I've seen those for both private residences and commercial buildings.

Posted by: Crusader at June 25, 2025 07:02 PM (TN0g+)

142 It's another anachronism of the Senate that needs to end. The parliamentarian is appointed by the Senate Majority Leader but the term is not fixed. This one was appointed by Harry Reid.

They are supposed to be non-partisan but obviously they are not.
Posted by: JackStraw at June 25, 2025 06:57 PM (viF8m)
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No, it's an important office that has been betrayed because the Dems are all WILL TO POWER now.

The Michigan House of Representatives had the same clerk for decades. Guy was a total cipher. Rumored to never vote. Straight down the line.

Such people do exist.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 25, 2025 07:02 PM (ZOv7s)

143 What I got out of this is that one of the largest developers in NYC is named Vornado? Like tornado with a V. And a bank with the largest real estate holdings is named Dime? I had expected a little more creativity and style.

Posted by: haffhowershower at June 25, 2025 07:02 PM (144I4)

144 Dude, the video to the Bowie/Jagger cover might be the gheyist thing I've ever seen.
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Didn't Bianca Jagger allege that Bowie/Jagger did...stuff?

Posted by: Crusader at June 25, 2025 07:03 PM (TN0g+)

145 Mamdani is pretty close to Madmani. And if you say things just right Zohrsn Mamdani rhymes perfectly with Vladimir Lenin.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at June 25, 2025 07:03 PM (NXz8h)

146 Everyone wants everything NOW and then goes black pill when it doesn't happen.

Noting that things are in fact time sensitive, and that the administration could be a more proactive in terms of judicial nominations is being black pilled?

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at June 25, 2025 07:04 PM (y+qgR)

147 It is best if you strategically insert the appropriate number of 'you stupid asshole' into the TRO responses and proceedings.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 25, 2025 07:01 PM (8avO+)
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I saw one filing where it was almost that way, pointing out the complete lack of any legal basis or precedent and wondering how long this nonsense can be tolerated.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 25, 2025 07:04 PM (ZOv7s)

148 I like those sites that will post what an address looked like as it changes over 20+ years, complete with photos from the various eras. I've seen those for both private residences and commercial buildings.
Posted by: Crusader at June 25, 2025 07:02 PM (TN0g+)

I'm going to look that up. Thanks.

Look up Crack shack or million dollar home. They show houses that sold for a million in Vancouver.

Posted by: Stateless.. 45% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back now at June 25, 2025 07:04 PM (jvJvP)

149 We can't even figure out who left cocaine in the WH with Dan Bongino as Deputy Director of the FiB.

We're so boned it hurts.

Posted by: jsg at June 25, 2025 07:04 PM (ra4xZ)

150 Piper, you're a lady. The gal chopping her hair isn't fit to carry the purses of a real lady.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at June 25, 2025 06:37 PM (tT6L1

Thank you, this is sweet.

Posted by: Piper at June 25, 2025 07:04 PM (pRpzT)

151 I wish I were big!

Posted by: Kid standing in front of Zoltan at June 25, 2025 07:05 PM (3OoOR)

152
Trump was sworn in almost exactly FIVE months ago.

Carville predicted he would be gone in six weeks.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 25, 2025 07:05 PM (63Dwl)

153 What I got out of this is that one of the largest developers in NYC is named Vornado? Like tornado with a V. And a bank with the largest real estate holdings is named Dime? I had expected a little more creativity and style.
Posted by: haffhowershower at June 25, 2025 07:02 PM (144I4)

I have a couple fans in the house by Vornado. They supposedly add a twist to make it blow farther.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 25, 2025 07:05 PM (8avO+)

154 109 "I thought Billy Baldwin was the sort of normal Baldwin, but this proves all were dropped on their heads and fed sour milk as infants."

You may be thinking of Stephen.
Posted by: Bea Arthur's Dick at June 25, 2025 06:52 PM (eYAt4)

I think both Stephen and Daniel are normies. Billy and Alec are complete progtard nutters.

Posted by: Adam is not related at June 25, 2025 07:06 PM (TbWk/)

155 Trump was sworn in almost exactly FIVE months ago.

Carville predicted he would be gone in six weeks.
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Why? Did Carville order the code red?

Posted by: Crusader at June 25, 2025 07:06 PM (TN0g+)

156 So…. All the Baldwin brothers are dickheads then? I thought one of them was sane. Not Billy obviously…. I like college wrestling. One of the Baldwin brothers is really into it and will occasionally appear on broadcasts…. I forgot but hope it’s not Billy. Wrestling (college and Olympic freestyle) is very much a conservative ecosystem

Something about the Mano a Mano element on a mat that makes it so

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at June 25, 2025 07:06 PM (ANuwa)

157
Just wait until he orders the NYPD to block ICE operations.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at June 25, 2025 07:01 PM (xTIDn)


The NYPD vs ICE firefight should be interesting. 1800 rounds fired, 3 bystanders hit and 18 dogs perforated.

6 NYPD officers collapse with heart palpitations, no ICE casualties.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at June 25, 2025 07:06 PM (y9nCu)

158 We can't even figure out who left cocaine in the WH with Dan Bongino as Deputy Director of the FiB.

We're so boned it hurts.
Posted by: jsg at June 25, 2025 07:04 PM (ra4xZ)

They all did.
-- Murder on the Potomac Express

Posted by: Oldcat at June 25, 2025 07:06 PM (8avO+)

159
Mamdani is pretty close to Madmani.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram

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omg why did no one notice this sooner? I was on "Bad Zorro," but Mad-manny is perfect.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 25, 2025 07:07 PM (lCaJd)

160 Praise Allah !!!!!!!!!

I am so excited that I have won the nomination and intend on inviting the Ayatollah to my inauguration next year.

Posted by: Zohran Mamdani at June 25, 2025 07:07 PM (BltCC)

161 Just wait until he orders the NYPD to block ICE operations.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at June 25, 2025 07:01 PM (xTIDn)


The NYPD vs ICE firefight should be interesting. 1800 rounds fired, 3 bystanders hit and 18 dogs perforated.

6 NYPD officers collapse with heart palpitations, no ICE casualties.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at June 25, 2025 07:06 PM (y9nCu)

Trump can call up the NY national guard and send in Marines. We have the court wins to prove it now.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 25, 2025 07:08 PM (8avO+)

162 Noting that things are in fact time sensitive, and that the administration could be a more proactive in terms of judicial nominations is being black pilled?
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at June 25, 2025 07:04 PM (y+qgR)
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I mean, given all that's happened, I have no complaints.

Trump racks up wins, and one can enjoy them and savor them, or wring one's hands about things that haven't happened according to your imaginary timeline.

Maybe they don't happen. Oh well, Can't win them all.

But Trump has got a million illegals to leave on their own, is tying Dem judges in knots, has the Deep State in meltdown mode, just neutered the Mad Mullahs, has purged our military of weirdos, restored the base names, completely shut down Big Pharma which trembles in fear.

The victories are becoming to many to easily count. RFK is tearing stuff UP. His work alone is worth the administration.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 25, 2025 07:08 PM (ZOv7s)

163 154 - Okay maybe Stephen or Daniel is the wrestling Baldwin…

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at June 25, 2025 07:08 PM (ANuwa)

164 "How many Baldwins are there?"

And why do we constantly hear about their ("I'm Nobody") leftist delusional dreams of destruction (of good ol' USA)?

Posted by: illiniwek at June 25, 2025 07:09 PM (vbXSk)

165 3 Billy Baldwin is the dumbest Baldwin brother.

I'm not sure we possess the technology to measure such small quantities.

Posted by: Archimedes at June 25, 2025 07:09 PM (Riz8t)

166 ha, yes, Piper, that was me, on Monday ...
Mrs Eez was cutting my hair out on the deck*, we were driven inside by a sudden shower!

*(in hopes that local birds will find it useful for nest building)

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at June 25, 2025 07:09 PM (Z5NUn)

167 The NYPD vs ICE firefight should be interesting. 1800 rounds fired, 3 bystanders hit and 18 dogs perforated.

6 NYPD officers collapse with heart palpitations, no ICE casualties.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at June 25, 2025 07:06 PM (y9nCu)

Given their general physical condition, more NYPD officers will drop dead from heart attack upon the slightest exertion.

Posted by: Many cruellers died to bring us this obesity at June 25, 2025 07:09 PM (TbWk/)

168 -----------
Didn't Bianca Jagger allege that Bowie/Jagger did...stuff?
Posted by: Crusader at June 25, 2025 07:03 PM (TN0g+)

Supposedly "Angie" is based in Bowie's wife Angie walking in on him and Jagger. I don't think it's true though (the song origin anyway).

Posted by: Billy Squier at June 25, 2025 07:09 PM (8hxDK)

169 What the heck is moral energy?

They got to use two positive words in a sentence.

Trigger Language has nothing to do with communicating with syntax, words and grammar that have definition and coherence in communicating ideas.

Its about saying magic words like "Empowered", "Constitutional", "Sustainable", "Moral", "Energy" and "Courage"

They have zero idea what those words mean or how to apply them properly in a sentence, they just know that it triggers certain emotions, and that is all that matters.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at June 25, 2025 07:10 PM (a4flb)

170 I'm super interested in Ana Kasparian's take on the NYC mayoral race with the rabid socialist/antifada/LGBT muslim winning. Second hour of Young Turks is almost on and they are going to discuss the race.

Ana's dad threw his retirement savings into buying rental property in NYC, thinking it would be a solid investment. He got hammered during covid by NYC. I have a feeling she'll be against him freezing rents, that will also screw her dad over.

Posted by: LizLem at June 25, 2025 07:10 PM (Eng1Z)

171 omg why did no one notice this sooner? I was on "Bad Zorro," but Mad-manny is perfect.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 25, 2025 07:07 PM (lCaJd

I did.

Last thread I think.

Sorry, I'll take any wins lately.

Posted by: Stateless.. 45% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back now at June 25, 2025 07:10 PM (jvJvP)

172 I mean, given all that's happened, I have no complaints.

So the issue isn't that I'm black-pilled, it's just that I'm insufficiently celebratory?

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at June 25, 2025 07:10 PM (y+qgR)

173 omg why did no one notice this sooner? I was on "Bad Zorro," but Mad-manny is perfect.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 25, 2025 07:07 PM (lCaJd

I did.

Last thread I think.

Sorry, I'll take any wins lately.
Posted by: Stateless.. 45% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back now at June 25, 2025 07:10 PM (jvJvP)

thats gotta be worth some percents Stateless.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 25, 2025 07:11 PM (8avO+)

174 Ford to City: Drop Dead

Posted by: Evergreen Headlines at June 25, 2025 07:11 PM (VlT1R)

175
Okay maybe Stephen or Daniel is the wrestling Baldwin…
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at June 25, 2025 07:08 PM (ANuwa)



Pretty sure it's Stephen. Daniel is the coke fiend who makes Zombie Rick James go "slow down, brother".

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at June 25, 2025 07:11 PM (y9nCu)

176 Trump can call up the NY national guard and send in Marines. We have the court wins to prove it now.
Posted by: Oldcat at June 25, 2025 07:08 PM


Marines, by and large appreciate salsa. Any TDY there will require additional Supply Corps effort to supply decent salsa, since they won't be able to forage or live off of the land.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at June 25, 2025 07:11 PM (0sNs1)

177
Carville predicted he would be gone in six weeks.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.

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That's hilarious. Aren't any of that fresh, young set led by AOC snickering at the Old Man Who Yells at Cloud?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 25, 2025 07:11 PM (lCaJd)

178 'MSNBC’s Nicolle Wallace says she’s “gutted” by the deportation of Tren de Aragua gang members'

If only.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at June 25, 2025 07:12 PM (3wi/L)

179 A lot of life can be rounded down to 2 words.

Buying Time.

Posted by: jsg at June 25, 2025 07:12 PM (ra4xZ)

180 118 - had one of her workout boox back in the day ...

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at June 25, 2025 07:12 PM (Z5NUn)

181 Old & busted: enjoying the shitty DMV experience while renewing one’s driver’s license at the DMV.

New& hot: enjoying the shitty DMV experience while buying milk & eggs at the grocery store

Posted by: Rando del Ashalle at June 25, 2025 07:12 PM (tLqEs)

182 Is Chuck saying that NYers elected a jihad taxi driver?

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at June 25, 2025 07:12 PM (wBaIH)

183 Ana's dad threw his retirement savings into buying rental property in NYC, thinking it would be a solid investment. He got hammered during covid by NYC. I have a feeling she'll be against him freezing rents, that will also screw her dad over.
Posted by: LizLem at June 25, 2025 07:10 PM (Eng1Z)

Ana has already had a nearly sane take this decade. Not sure I'd look for another so soon.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 25, 2025 07:12 PM (8avO+)

184 omg why did no one notice this sooner? I was on "Bad Zorro," but Mad-manny is perfect.

Has anyone done Zardoz Madmani yet?

Posted by: Archimedes at June 25, 2025 07:12 PM (Riz8t)

185 thats gotta be worth some percents Stateless.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 25, 2025 07:11 PM 

Already had a couple today.

My living situation may be resolved soon. Thank you God. In advance.

Posted by: Stateless.. 45% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back now at June 25, 2025 07:13 PM (jvJvP)

186 Palestinian-American Chuck Schumer is endorsing Mamdani:



===

🤣🤣😂🤣

Posted by: runner at June 25, 2025 07:13 PM (g47mK)

187 Carville predicted he would be gone in six weeks.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.

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That's hilarious. Aren't any of that fresh, young set led by AOC snickering at the Old Man Who Yells at Cloud?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 25, 2025 07:11 PM (lCaJd)

Be nice. Losing the one ring and a finger was tough on the guy.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 25, 2025 07:13 PM (8avO+)

188
I did.

Last thread I think.

Sorry, I'll take any wins lately.
Posted by: Stateless.

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*presents Stateless with Styrofoam membership certificate*

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 25, 2025 07:14 PM (lCaJd)

189 98, true

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at June 25, 2025 07:14 PM (Z5NUn)

190
Marines, by and large appreciate salsa. Any TDY there will require additional Supply Corps effort to supply decent salsa, since they won't be able to forage or live off of the land.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at June 25, 2025 07:11 PM (0sNs1)



New Yawk art supply stores don't have crayons???

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at June 25, 2025 07:14 PM (y9nCu)

191 omg why did no one notice this sooner? I was on "Bad Zorro," but Mad-manny is perfect.

Has anyone done Zardoz Madmani yet?
Posted by: Archimedes at June 25, 2025 07:12 PM (Riz8t)
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Is that the love child of Sean "Zed" Connery and Mel "Mad Max" Gibson?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 25, 2025 07:14 PM (IBQGV)

192 Old & busted: enjoying the shitty DMV experience while renewing one’s driver’s license at the DMV.

New& hot: enjoying the shitty DMV experience while buying milk & eggs at the grocery store
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Spoiler alert: The milk will be past its expiration, the eggs will be cracked, a homeless couple will be sleeping in the frozen food section, and the credit card machine won't be working.

Posted by: Crusader at June 25, 2025 07:14 PM (TN0g+)

193 Deadline had a great story today about Susan Powter...that 1990's exercise woman with the spiky hair.

She was everywhere, went broke and works for DoorDash.
Posted by: Stateless.. 45% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back now at June 25, 2025 06:54 PM (jvJvP)

That's really sad. She was massively popular, had books, videos, was all over talk shows...amazing how things can all fall apart.

Posted by: If SHE failed, then we're fucked at June 25, 2025 07:14 PM (TbWk/)

194 So the issue isn't that I'm black-pilled, it's just that I'm insufficiently celebratory?
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at June 25, 2025 07:10 PM (y+qgR)
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I'm going to go with "unrealistic." You demand that the confirmations happen faster. Trump doesn't not control that. And he's also trying to get appointees through, so the judges can wait, because with out his appointees (I'm thinking federal prosecutors), no one will even bring the cases, or they will try to tank them, which has already happened.

Sorry, I just think it's odd that we have the most amazing administration in my lifetime and people still want to nitpick.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 25, 2025 07:14 PM (ZOv7s)

195 *presents Stateless with Styrofoam membership certificate*
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 25, 2025 07:14 PM (lCaJd)


@@@@@@@@@@@

And ampersands!

Sweet!

Posted by: Stateless.. 45% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back now at June 25, 2025 07:15 PM (jvJvP)

196 New& hot: enjoying the shitty DMV experience while buying milk & eggs at the grocery store

They can ask some elderly people in Brighton Beach how to set up Soviet-style "three-line" stores.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at June 25, 2025 07:15 PM (xTIDn)

197 Jasmine Ratchet believes she's the one the Constitution empowered to make decisions about war and peace. I have never heard so eloquent an argument for unlimited executive power.


She's really leaning into the whole ghetto trash thing. Bless her heart. YOU GO GURRLLL!!!!

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at June 25, 2025 07:15 PM (wBh67)

198 I think degrees of difference of Baldwin bros stupidity can be measured in milliKohns

Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 25, 2025 07:15 PM (pwtJC)

199 The most they should be charged with is theft .

Posted by: polynikes at June 25, 2025 07:16 PM (VofaG)

200 32
'For good reason. Rent control has never worked. Anywhere.'

I thought rent control was still ongoing in NYC. That changed?

Posted by: Dr. Claw at June 25, 2025 07:16 PM (3wi/L)

201 Soviet-style "three-line" stores

One line to select your items.

A second line to pay for your items.

A third line to pay for your items.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at June 25, 2025 07:16 PM (xTIDn)

202 So the issue isn't that I'm black-pilled, it's just that I'm insufficiently celebratory?

I saw Insufficiently Celebratory open for Deep Purple at Blues Alley.

Posted by: Archimedes at June 25, 2025 07:16 PM (Riz8t)

203 @@@@@

Posted by: Boss Moss at June 25, 2025 07:17 PM (VAINm)

204 Ana is saying on YT that Mamdani got less than 50%, so that triggers the ranked choice votes, which will take place next week. But he'll probably still squeak it out.

Cenk's initial take was "down goes Cuomo!" It's so rare that we agree on anything.

Cuomo won the Bronx, AOC hardest hit. Ana thinks Mamdani's policies on no policing, where the very middle class Bronx is currently plagued by crime and lawlessness, fell flat.

Posted by: LizLem at June 25, 2025 07:17 PM (Eng1Z)

205 'For good reason. Rent control has never worked. Anywhere.'

I thought rent control was still ongoing in NYC. That changed?
Posted by: Dr. Claw at June 25, 2025 07:16 PM (3wi/L)

This is a different kind of rent control on top of the old rent control.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 25, 2025 07:17 PM (8avO+)

206 Already had a couple today.

My living situation may be resolved soon. Thank you God. In advance.
Posted by: Stateless.. 45% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back now at June 25, 2025 07:13 PM (jvJvP)
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Good for you! Hang in there!

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 25, 2025 07:18 PM (ZOv7s)

207 I'm going to go with "unrealistic." You demand that the confirmations happen faster. Trump doesn't not control that.

Well, no. I haven't actually said anything about confirmation in the senate. I said the nomination part could ideally happen quicker (in no small part because that's the very beginning of a lengthy process that he cannot entirely control).

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at June 25, 2025 07:18 PM (y+qgR)

208 Secretary of State and vehicle titles is a recent source of hulk smash rage

Posted by: A dude in MI at June 25, 2025 07:18 PM (/6GbT)

209 12 If America wasn't such a loony bin, Ace would be out of a job.
Posted by: wth



So would The Babylon Bee and Not The Bee.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at June 25, 2025 07:18 PM (wBh67)

210 "Waste of ammo. No one watches it. It's days are numbered. I don't think it or MSNBC will last till the midterms, especially if RFK stomps on Big Pharma advertising.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 25, 2025 06:57 PM (ZOv7s)

eh, still, the smoldering ruins would be an amusing background for all kinds of funny memes ...
amirite?

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at June 25, 2025 07:18 PM (Z5NUn)

211 That's really sad. She was massively popular, had books, videos, was all over talk shows...amazing how things can all fall apart.

Posted by: If SHE failed, then we're fucked at June 25, 2025 07:14 PM (TbWk/

Yeah. Check Dateline.There's a documentary on her now.

I'd like to see that. She was everywhere....

There's also a great sports documentary 30 for 30? Called 'Busted' or something like that that examines how athletes lost everything.

Posted by: Stateless.. 45% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back now at June 25, 2025 07:18 PM (jvJvP)

212 I thought rent control was still ongoing in NYC. That changed?

Zohran is going to freeze rents.

Your expenses went up, Mr. Landlord?

Tough - you have to charge the same rent until you give up, and turn your apartment building over to the city.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at June 25, 2025 07:18 PM (xTIDn)

213 I think Ana K is pretty hawt

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at June 25, 2025 07:19 PM (ANuwa)

214 @@@@@@@@@@@

And ampersands!



Mein Fuhrer ... das ampersands ...

Posted by: toby928 tugs collar at June 25, 2025 07:19 PM (vKhD2)

215 Wonder how many Jews voted for Mayor Hamas. 30%, 40%?

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at June 25, 2025 07:19 PM (ORJZB)

216 Stephen Baldwin is the long ago born again Christian. His brothers think he’s the insane one.

Posted by: polynikes at June 25, 2025 07:19 PM (VofaG)

217 So the issue isn't that I'm black-pilled, it's just that I'm insufficiently celebratory?

I saw Insufficiently Celebratory open for Deep Purple at Blues Alley.
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That was the Tommy Bolin tour, right?

Posted by: Crusader at June 25, 2025 07:19 PM (TN0g+)

218 Tough - you have to charge the same rent until you give up, and turn your apartment building over to the city.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at June 25, 2025 07:18 PM


or burn it down.

Posted by: toby928 at June 25, 2025 07:19 PM (vKhD2)

219 Larry Summers is a blowfish of the first prder.

Posted by: Elrond Hubbard at June 25, 2025 07:20 PM (P0m9n)

220 "CDE & CIF must restore records, titles & awards to female athletes AND send apology letters to every girl robbed by this discrimination."

This is huge.

Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at June 25, 2025 07:20 PM (D1vbu)

221 Jasmine knows as much about the Constitution as her constituents.

Which explains a lot.

I like how the large guy made sure to clap after Jasmine spoke so as to let everyone else know what time it was.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at June 25, 2025 07:20 PM (tT6L1)

222
Well, this is nice. That high pressure ridge and the little heat dome has broken up. We got some T-storms and rain.

The temp dropped over 20F from 95F to 69F in about an hour from 6PM to 7. And, amazingly, the pressure rose from 30.04" to 30.20" in the same time. And 0.86" rain so far.

This is quite nice.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at June 25, 2025 07:21 PM (w6EFb)

223 IDF and CIA confirm Iranian nuclear program destroyed. Zero Hedge hardest hit.

Posted by: Going deep. Out. at June 25, 2025 07:21 PM (FIXtj)

224 I think Ana K is pretty hawt
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at June 25, 2025 07:19 PM (ANuwa)

You have to be pretty bent to host a show named after the group that Genocided your people 100 years ago.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 25, 2025 07:21 PM (8avO+)

225 Nicolle Wallace is dumber than stupid. Allegedly.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram


Looks like she keeps her upper lip down to hide her snaggletooth. Never noticed that before.

Posted by: haffhowershower at June 25, 2025 07:21 PM (144I4)

226 Maybe heard today the leak came from capital hill.
If so, shirt will hit the fan.
I know the intelligence committee was briefed on the hit:
This is a big deal.

Posted by: Redenzo at June 25, 2025 07:22 PM (jZ3ZM)

227 17
Forget the leaker, we need to find the AUTHOR of that bullshit assessment.

Not only did they quickly assess the damage, but also gave an estimate of the timeline for Iran to resume operations?? That's the part that makes no sense. That's the part that tells me this "report" was a Total Hoax perpetrated from within the DIA.

FIND. THAT. AUTHOR.
Posted by: Sherlock Soothsayer at June 25, 2025 06:29 PM (OanQI)

This. The author is either the one who leaked it, or knows who did. There is no reason for an intelligence agency to put out a report that has a low probability of being true. Waste of time, unless the purpose of writing it was for it to be leaked.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at June 25, 2025 07:22 PM (0CU3H)

228 "CDE & CIF must restore records, titles & awards to female athletes AND send apology letters to every girl robbed by this discrimination."

This is huge.
Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at June 25, 2025 07:20 PM (D1vbu)

Having all those forfeits due to the trannys was not a good look

Posted by: Oldcat at June 25, 2025 07:23 PM (8avO+)

229 Cenk has a somewhat sane take: Mamdani's social media engagement is what got him the election. He was engaged on it and twisted it for his needs. Mamdani's rant against Cuomo in their debate got turned into a song that went viral.

Trump had this kind of social media momentum and it won him the election. Mamdani used it also.

Republicans, take note. What republicans have a team savvy enough to do this for future elections?

Posted by: LizLem at June 25, 2025 07:23 PM (Eng1Z)

230 I think Ana K is pretty hawt
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at June 25, 2025 07:19 PM (ANuwa)

You have to be pretty bent to host a show named after the group that Genocided your people 100 years ago.
Posted by: Oldcat at June 25, 2025 07:21 PM (8avO+)

Rule #1 right?

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at June 25, 2025 07:23 PM (ANuwa)

231 203 @@@@@
Posted by: Boss Moss at June 25, 2025 07:17 PM (VAINm

I know. Lol. But there have been a lot of changes over 20+ years.

Look at what we take for granted.

Posted by: Stateless.. 45% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back now at June 25, 2025 07:23 PM (jvJvP)

232 Can't that woman cut the fat instead of her hair?
Posted by: OrangeEnt


You know there's someone that has to clean that council room up. Why you do hate the janitor so much?

Posted by: FeatherBlade at June 25, 2025 07:24 PM (hB7mE)

233 Republicans, take note. What republicans have a team savvy enough to do this for future elections?
Posted by: LizLem at June 25, 2025 07:23 PM (Eng1Z)
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JD Vance comes to mind.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at June 25, 2025 07:24 PM (tT6L1)

234 Pets.

Pets can save us from this nightmare of socialism....






Posted by: jsg at June 25, 2025 07:24 PM (ra4xZ)

235 Fat hair cutter: You saying I'm not wearing pink running shoes?

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at June 25, 2025 07:25 PM (wBaIH)

236 Larry Summers is a blowfish of the first prder.
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Yeah, his pathetic take was essentially "Those were terrible things to say, you must apologize to the rubes, and as soon as you do that we'll forget you ever said it and let you line up for the grift!"

Posted by: Crusader at June 25, 2025 07:25 PM (TN0g+)

237 Boss Moss — You’re still so VAIN

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at June 25, 2025 07:25 PM (ANuwa)

238 Good for you! Hang in there!
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 25, 2025 07:18 PM (ZOv7s

Thanks so much!

Posted by: Stateless.. 45% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back now at June 25, 2025 07:25 PM (jvJvP)

239 225 Nicolle Wallace is dumber than stupid. Allegedly.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram


Looks like she keeps her upper lip down to hide her snaggletooth. Never noticed that before.
Posted by: haffhowershower at June 25, 2025

I don't understand how she has a job considering she stabbed her previous employer in the back. I guess that's a plus in leftist circles, stabbing the GOP in the back.
I'd never trust her and would expect the same treatment.

Posted by: CaliGirl at June 25, 2025 07:25 PM (Cg3Gl)

240 Pets.

Pets can save us from this nightmare of socialism....






Posted by: jsg at June 25, 2025 07:24 PM (ra4xZ)

Only one of my cats ever had a job.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 25, 2025 07:25 PM (8avO+)

241 "I thought rent control was still ongoing in NYC. That changed?
Posted by: Dr. Claw at June 25, 2025 07:16 PM (3wi/L)

This is a different kind of rent control on top of the old rent control.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 25, 2025 07:17 PM (8avO+)"

which means it's gonna work twice as well !

innit?

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at June 25, 2025 07:26 PM (Z5NUn)

242 Only one of my cats ever had a job.
Posted by: Oldcat at June 25, 2025 07:25 PM (8avO+)

One more than any socialist I ever met.

Posted by: jsg at June 25, 2025 07:26 PM (ra4xZ)

243 I don't even understand the point the press is making over the Iran strikes.

Trump managed to bomb the shit out of Iran, with zero consequences. He also stopped the on-going war and scared the bejesus out of the Iranians. He also got China and Russia to tell the Iranians to get stuffed. Oh, and put everyone on notice - don't fuck with us. He fucking got the NATO chef to call him "Daddy."

Whether the nuclear program is down for six month or six years, it's all winning baby.

Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at June 25, 2025 07:27 PM (D1vbu)

244 Nood
Cafe

Posted by: Stateless.. 45% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back now at June 25, 2025 07:27 PM (jvJvP)

245 Republicans, take note. What republicans have a team savvy enough to do this for future elections?
Posted by: LizLem at June 25, 2025 07:23 PM (Eng1Z)
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JD Vance comes to mind.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at June 25, 2025 07:24 PM (tT6L1)

Rubio is a lot less squishy than I remember. Steven Miller can parlay that music career into power.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 25, 2025 07:28 PM (8avO+)

246
I loved Trump at that NATO conference. He was strutting around like the boss. One clip I like was he was standing around in the group of 'em for some photo ops, and he was turning his head back and forth, looking all around as though to say, "Anybody here got a problem with me? You want a piece of me? Anybody? No.... Good."

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at June 25, 2025 07:28 PM (w6EFb)

247 Jasmine is an act. She doesn’t talk ghetto in real
Life and she’s smarter than she portrays herself to be. It’s all an act. She figured she could grift as ghetto congresswoman much better than respectable congresswoman.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at June 25, 2025 07:28 PM (ORJZB)

248 Solution to the housing crises in New York - let builders build all the housing they want, and charge whatever the market will bear. In 5 years rents will fall like a stone.

Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at June 25, 2025 07:30 PM (D1vbu)

249 Jasmine is an act. She doesn’t talk ghetto in real
Life and she’s smarter than she portrays herself to be. It’s all an act. She figured she could grift as ghetto congresswoman much better than respectable congresswoman.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at June 25, 2025 07:28 PM (ORJZB)

She may think its an act, but it is catching. She's on the Maxene Waters train.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 25, 2025 07:30 PM (8avO+)

250 I don't remember us voting that the Rainbow flag was somehow protected forever.

Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at June 25, 2025 07:30 PM (D1vbu)

251 Republicans, take note. What republicans have a team savvy enough to do this for future elections?
Posted by: LizLem at June 25, 2025 07:23 PM (Eng1Z)
----------------

JD Vance comes to mind.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at June 25, 2025 07:24 PM (tT6L1)

I think our team is looking pretty strong.

Social Media is just part of the equation imho. We have ‘Twitter’ now so that’s not an issue. And truth social will be around even after Trump.

Posted by: polynikes at June 25, 2025 07:30 PM (VofaG)

252 Not sure how true this is but I saw on a podcast that Uganda kicked out Indians because they were the “1%”. And Mayor Hamas and his family had to leave because of that.

His family was part of the oppressors, lol.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at June 25, 2025 07:32 PM (ORJZB)

253 I think our team is looking pretty strong.

Social Media is just part of the equation imho. We have ‘Twitter’ now so that’s not an issue. And truth social will be around even after Trump.
Posted by: polynikes at June 25, 2025 07:30 PM (VofaG)

Its been a while since the Dems elected a President who wasn't a total mystery cipher. These days its a lot harder on the webs to hide the truth from the electorate.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 25, 2025 07:33 PM (8avO+)

254 Find the leaker. Name and shame. Fire him and take his fucking pension.

Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at June 25, 2025 07:34 PM (D1vbu)

255 Susan Powter was pushing "fat makes you fat", which meant low fat, high carb diets. As we know, high carb diets make you fat. Could have something to do with why she went broke.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at June 25, 2025 07:35 PM (AcTAo)

256 Noticed a claim that the White House won’t share intelligence so freely with Congress going forward

Posted by: SMOD at June 25, 2025 07:39 PM (GITLP)

257 #BREAKING: The White House is AGGRESSIVELY tracking down the person who leaked classified documents to CNN, per Karoline Leavitt

"They should go to JAIL," Leavitt said
- - - - - - - -
I have it on good authority (#according to CNN) that a district judge can classify and declassify information, among their many other powers. Not even the President can do that. One of the 5,312i reasons for Trump being a convicted felon (/sarcasm tag).

Posted by: Another Anon at June 25, 2025 07:40 PM (4h45B)

258 255 - maybeso; I just remember the workouts.

never put any faith in the Received Scientific Wisdom about food,
just kept on eating the way my 90 -100 y. o. relatives did ...
& here I am, lol

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at June 25, 2025 07:42 PM (Z5NUn)

259 These days its a lot harder on the webs to hide the truth from the electorate.
Posted by: Oldcat at June 25, 2025 07:33 PM (8avO+)

The msm did a pretty good job hiding Biden’s dementia for years.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at June 25, 2025 07:42 PM (ORJZB)

260 Liberal woman thinks her hair is a worthy sacrifice.

Ah Vaniy. Its my fav- whoa damn Tim! Shots fired

Posted by: Fenrisulven at June 25, 2025 07:49 PM (ciYHQ)

261 Dumb Darwin Wannabe thinks that's how its done - we put the least desirable people in the first wave? So he must think Rangers and Marines are - oh nevermind, we can be...difficult.

Still, I think I'll run by his place and ask him what he meant. I know, I know, cant kick his teeth in even though he needs it.

Posted by: Fenrisulven at June 25, 2025 07:55 PM (ciYHQ)

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Posted by: infiniwell coupon at June 25, 2025 08:17 PM (b5SmT)

263 Has anyone done Zardoz Madmani yet?
Posted by: Archimedes at June 25, 2025 07:12 PM (Riz8t)


Zardoz Madnanny

Posted by: Kindltot at June 25, 2025 08:19 PM (D7oie)

264 15 Okay, ladies, if you are going to chop your hair off in protest, do yourself this favor, at least: Pull it into a tight ponytail that hits the center of your forehead like a unicorn horn. Use scissors made for cutting hair and cut straight across the pony tail, taking off as much as your protest level dictates.
Posted by: Piper at June 25, 2025 06:29 PM (QzINz)

Ah, yes.
The DIY shag haircut, Glamour magazine 1970.
But we thought it looked cute.

Posted by: sal at June 25, 2025 08:31 PM (f+FmA)

265 "Dude, the video to the Bowie/Jagger cover might be the gheyist thing I've ever seen."

What?

Posted by: The Volleyball from Top Gun at June 25, 2025 08:38 PM (eYAt4)

266 Does Zontar have the authority to freeze rents?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 25, 2025 06:22 PM (63Dwl)
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The city administration has a rent board that sets rent increases.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at June 25, 2025 08:50 PM (A9kSL)

Jonathan Turley Predicts That the Supreme Court Will Rebuke Lowly District Courts After a Boston Judge Ignores Their Ruling

As you may know, a Boston judge forbid Trump from deporting illegal aliens to South Sudan. The Supreme Court overruled his order, and said that deportations may resume.

That lowly district hack then gave the finger to the Supreme Court and announced that their ruling doesn't apply to him.

Law prof Jonathan Turley predicts this might be the case that forces Roberts to act to rein in the district court insurrection.

The Trump administration on Tuesday accused US District Judge Brian Murphy of defying the Supreme Court's ruling allowing the White House to deport illegal immigrants to third countries without appropriate due process. The judge had previously ruled that the White House must provide a period of time in which a deportee can challenge the proceedings. The Supreme Court overruled this injunction, but Murphy has kept it in place, arguing that the Court's ruling did not apply specifically to his earlier decision.

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) in a motion characterized Murphy's refusal to comply with the Supreme Court ruling as a "lawless act of defiance." The agency requested that the high court confirm its order extends to Murphy's injunction.

Jones then asked what progressive opponents of the administration might do in response to the Supreme Court ruling.

"Well, as you know, Lawrence, this is a full-court press among advocates for these individuals and their attorneys. They're trying to find every angle to help their clients," Turley replied. "They're going to many of these favorable jurisdictions and favorable judges, like the one in Boston, and they're issuing these injunctions."

The professor continued, explaining that the Supreme Court might be instrumental in solving what has been a heated debate over the past six months: Whether federal judges should possess the authority to issue nationwide injunctions on the White House's policies. "The court could very well say, 'Enough. We're not going to have individual judges now freezing the entire United States government on critical programs like this.'"

Video at the link.

Bizarrely, the Bulwark's brain trust has decided that Trump must respect the lowest courts, and the Supreme Court must defer to their partisan leftwing inferiors, too. They're actually arguing that lowly district court judges are the ultimate arbiters of legal cases, and the president and even the Supreme Court must defer to them.

thebulwarkignorethecourts.jpg

Meanwhile, the Vice Mayor of the gang-infested suburb of LA, Cudahy, is calling for gang members to rise up and violently oppose ICE.

Cudahy Vice Mayor Cynthia Gonzalez is facing backlash after she allegedly posted a video on her social media accounts, calling on local gang members to reclaim city streets as immigration operations continue across Los Angeles.

"You guys tag everything up, claiming hood, and now that your hood is being invaded by the biggest gang there is, there ain't a peep out of you. It's everyone else that's not about the gang life and out there protesting and speaking up," Gonzalez says in a portion of the since-deleted video.

Though she didn't explicitly refer to the United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement by name, the Department of Homeland Security shared a statement in response.

"The comments made by the Vice Mayor of Cudahy, CA, Cynthia Gonzalez, are despicable," their statement said. "She calls for criminal gangs -- including the vicious 18th Street Gang --to commit violence against our brave ICE law enforcement. This kind of garbage has led to a more than 500 percent increase in assaults against our ICE law enforcement officers."

The city of Cudahy also shared a response to the video, saying that they are aware of Gonzalez's comments and that they do not represent the city's official position.

When the gang-bangers do follow her suggestion and assault or even kill ICE agents -- what charges should be brought against this gangster whore? Remember, they prosecuted Trump for inciting a riot by telling people to "protest peacefully."

Bonus: Biden flooded the country with Iranian illegal aliens. Half of those caught were immediately released into the nation's interior.

Over 1,500 Iranian nationals who illegally entered the U.S. at the southern border were arrested during the Biden administration, and nearly 50% of them were released back into the country, according to a senior U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) source.

More specifically, Border Patrol agents arrested 1,504 Iranian nationals from fiscal year 2021 through fiscal year 2024. Of the 1,504 individuals who were arrested, 729 were released into the U.S.

The number of Iranian nationals arrested at the southern border increased year-to-year, with 48 being arrested in FY21; 197 in FY22; 462 in FY23 and 797 in FY24.

Likewise, the number of Iranian nationals released also increased, with 12 in FY21; 40 in FY22; 229 in FY23; and 448 in FY24.

It is unclear how many of the Iranians released into the U.S. were on the terrorism watchlist, as the Biden administration repeatedly denied Fox News' Freedom of Information Act requests and appeals for the data. The Biden administration cited "privacy concerns" of the people on the list, as well as "minimal public interest" for denying the requests.

Still, there were over 2 million known gotaways at the border during the Biden administration, and because they were never caught, there is no way of knowing where the individuals were from.

Bonus: Think of the poor Iranian illegal aliens who have ignored multiple deportation orders, you Racists!

Posted by: Ace at 05:20 PM




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1 First!!

Posted by: Polka will never die at June 25, 2025 05:21 PM (5xvZ1)

2 Second?

Posted by: Polka will never die at June 25, 2025 05:21 PM (5xvZ1)

3 Third

Posted by: Polka will never die at June 25, 2025 05:21 PM (5xvZ1)

4 Ok fine, I'll call the Corgis

Posted by: Polka will never die at June 25, 2025 05:22 PM (5xvZ1)

5 No one ever got rich betting on Cuck Roberts to do the right thing.

Posted by: ... at June 25, 2025 05:23 PM (E0p3T)

6 Is incitement still a crime? Hold on while I check with J6 buffalo hat guy...

Posted by: Joe Mama at June 25, 2025 05:25 PM (2sMLA)

7 LOL

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at June 25, 2025 05:26 PM (Z5NUn)

8 "The court could very well say, 'Enough. We're not going to have individual judges now freezing the entire United States government on critical programs like this.'"

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You misspelled "ANY," Jonathan.

All those treasonous asshats need to stay in their own lane
-- although I have little faith in The V
Chief Asshat Benedict Roberts ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Make Unconditional Surrender Great Again! at June 25, 2025 05:26 PM (diNR9)

9 No one ever got rich betting on Cuck Roberts to do the right thing.
Posted by: ...

He's a Flight (log) risk!

Posted by: Zombie Jeff Epstein at June 25, 2025 05:26 PM (2sMLA)

10 What does rebuke mean? Does it come in the form of a strongly worded memo?

Posted by: steven at June 25, 2025 05:26 PM (AY3ny)

11 We need to get Judge Jeannie to issue pro Trump TROs

Posted by: Oldcat at June 25, 2025 05:27 PM (8avO+)

12 Respect our AUTHORITIE!

Posted by: SCROTUS at June 25, 2025 05:28 PM (2sMLA)

13 Whoa, big buffet there, boss.

Actually, the "low hanging fruit" for ICE priority - after serious criminals and "special interest" (spies/saboteurs/terrorists/soccer fans - just kidding) are "W-2 illegals".

Mr. Homan, please pick up the phone. Actually, have Todd Bensman give me a call. Whole industries systematically abuse illegal labor, it is well known, easy to document and easy to deal with.

Rocket science for kindergartners. Convene the industries/sectors one by one. Give them a glide path, and help, to compliance (i.e. no more illegal labor). Offer the illegals help in leaving the US. Minimize disruption to the economy. AND GIVE THEM A DEADLINE, after which raids/deportations/PROSECUTION OF MANAGEMENT. This truly is not difficult.

Posted by: rhomboid at June 25, 2025 05:28 PM (1m82a)

14 "May..."

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at June 25, 2025 05:28 PM (xcxpd)

15 What does rebuke mean? Does it come in the form of a strongly worded memo?
Posted by: steven


it means to "buke somebody again"

"if the first was not enough, buking him again is might gain his cooperation"

Posted by: n at June 25, 2025 05:29 PM (ujiPi)

16 or rather "might be..."
My bad.
But my point remains...I don't think the Supreme's will do jack shit if it helps Trump.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at June 25, 2025 05:29 PM (xcxpd)

17 Are the danglers that we occasionally dip into pudding cups also low hanging fruit?

Just wondering.

Posted by: Tonypete at June 25, 2025 05:30 PM (cYBz/)

18 cut that fruit down, it's rotten

Posted by: Ciampino - rocket sciences at June 25, 2025 05:30 PM (sPQoU)

19 I predict Turley, a rare Dem that advocates honestly for the integrity of the law and the courts, will be ignored by the clowns in charge again.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at June 25, 2025 05:30 PM (DYe8R)

20 Reverend Aaron Miller, who Project Gravitas outted as attempting to trans a 12 year without knowledge of the parents took his facebook page offline today.

But his congregation's website is still up, including phone and email address.

Posted by: Crusader at June 25, 2025 05:30 PM (TN0g+)

21 Meanwhile, the Vice Mayor of the gang-infested suburb of LA, Cudahy, is calling for gang members to rise up and violently oppose ICE.

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

Deport her domestic terrorist ass to the CECOT prison in El Salvador -- after some waterboarding and military tribunal therapy at Club Gitmo.

Posted by: ShainS -- Make Unconditional Surrender Great Again! at June 25, 2025 05:30 PM (diNR9)

22 The Bulwark is comprised entirely of retarded cuckfags, but we already knew that.

Posted by: Couldn't make this shit up if you tried at June 25, 2025 05:30 PM (TbWk/)

23 I'm just going to point out that Trump has continued to play this perfectly. Instead of openly defying them, he's letting them fight among themselves and undercut each other.

It's now a total clown show, and everyone sees it. DoJ is now going after the entire Maryland circuit, demanding that cases be moved out of their crazed jurisdiction, and they've got plenty of examples to show these judges are utterly insane.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 25, 2025 05:31 PM (ZOv7s)

24 it does seem the dems set a very low bar for getting charges filed, then jailed and ultimately bankrupted for...whatever they say is bad. That's a heck of a boom-a-rang ain't it?

Posted by: DanMan at June 25, 2025 05:31 PM (8uzBS)

25 Bonus: Biden flooded the country with Iranian illegal aliens.

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

Unexpectedly.

Posted by: ShainS -- Make Unconditional Surrender Great Again! at June 25, 2025 05:31 PM (diNR9)

26 I tried some of that “7 times stronger than Viagra” stuff and my dick exploded. I do not recommend.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at June 25, 2025 05:31 PM (Vh9CX)

27 I look forward to these judges getting a proverbial whack upside the noggin, but I am not going to hold my breath for it.

Posted by: Piper at June 25, 2025 05:31 PM (pRpzT)

28 or rather "might be..."
My bad.
But my point remains...I don't think the Supreme's will do jack shit if it helps Trump.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at June 25, 2025 05:29 PM (xcxpd)

They've already done plenty, kicking and screaming all the way.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 25, 2025 05:31 PM (8avO+)

29 Would a reprimand to this one district really serve as medicine for the dozens of lawless district orders since January? I doubt it. Anything short of ending, entirely, this abuse of the system, amounts to bupkis.

Turley is the platonic ideal of a certain phenomenon. As an actually smart and honest member of the legal cult, it's a particularly poignant example of someone who can't achieve escape velocity from his guild, in terms of analysis.

Posted by: rhomboid at June 25, 2025 05:32 PM (1m82a)

30 it does seem the dems set a very low bar for getting charges filed, then jailed and ultimately bankrupted for...whatever they say is bad. That's a heck of a boom-a-rang ain't it?
Posted by: D



it is easier to deport most of these guys

Posted by: n at June 25, 2025 05:32 PM (ujiPi)

31 invoking the "5 o'clock somewhere clause at
*looks at watch*
1632

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at June 25, 2025 05:32 PM (Z5NUn)

32 She seems fun.

They are talking about her now on FoxNews.

Posted by: Stateless.. 44% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back now at June 25, 2025 05:32 PM (jvJvP)

33 Can we just stand Biden against a wall, in front of a firing squad? It's really what he deserves. Benedict Arnold was less of a traitor.

Posted by: Eeyore at June 25, 2025 05:32 PM (od0dV)

34 Deport her domestic terrorist ass to the CECOT prison in El Salvador -- after some waterboarding and military tribunal therapy at Club Gitmo.
Posted by: ShainS -- Make Unconditional Surrender Great Again! at June 25, 2025 05:30 PM (diNR9)
---
Isn't Florida building a Alligator Alcatraz so that deportees can enjoy due process in a domestic hellhole?

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 25, 2025 05:32 PM (ZOv7s)

35 I see we've a guy doing the "anecdotal brutal removal" schtick.

Here's a hint, Aaron, had the borders not been thrown wide open the last 4 years, we probably wouldn't be here.

But, since you and your kind advocated all immigration laws are to be avoided and not enforced, during the previous administration, then, when things change, things got a lot more harsh.

You and your kind created this mess and now you're crying about the consequences?

Eff off, junior.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at June 25, 2025 05:33 PM (tT6L1)

36 What is described here in this post is an insurrection plain and simple seems to me... what I want the Horde to put me some knowledge on is when it becomes a revolution.. and what's the difference between the two terms??

Posted by: tubal at June 25, 2025 05:33 PM (PCK5/)

37 It's past time to dropkick Murphy.

Posted by: Still lurking up north, read some, don't comment much at June 25, 2025 05:33 PM (kTd/k)

38 >Jonathan Turley Predicts That the Supreme Court Will Rebuke Lowly District Courts After a Boston Judge Ignores Their Ruling
---

I don't know
Roberts' judicial philosophy is "If anyone asks... I was never here!"

Posted by: Don Black, Senior VP for Product Development, Acme Snorkel Inc. at June 25, 2025 05:33 PM (AOsQT)

39 we just stand Biden against a wall, in front of a firing squad? It's really what he deserves. Benedict Arnold was less of a traitor.
Posted by: Eeyore



its easier to stand him in a corner, hes never going to find his way out again

Posted by: n at June 25, 2025 05:33 PM (ujiPi)

40 How about The Legislature simply eliminate the 'bad behavior' District Court judges' position then reconstitute them now vacant positions for Trump to fill?
Easy Peasy Lemon Squeezy... If they wanted to do it.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at June 25, 2025 05:34 PM (/lPRQ)

41
Impeach Roberts for failing to supervise the FISA courts.

Posted by: biteme at June 25, 2025 05:34 PM (xWS9V)

42 invoking the "5 o'clock somewhere clause at
*looks at watch*
1632
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at June 25, 2025 05:32 PM (Z5NUn)

Time Travel! Go change the result at Breitenfeld!!!

Posted by: Oldcat at June 25, 2025 05:34 PM (8avO+)

43 Cynthia Gonzalez ought to go to jail for that makeup.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 25, 2025 05:34 PM (63Dwl)

44 The Bulwark is comprised entirely of retarded cuckfags, but we already knew that.
Posted by: Couldn't make this shit up if you tried at June 25, 2025 05:30 PM (TbWk/)
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The way they have fastened into self-shame, offering jobs to liberals and writing the "conservative case for being buggered by my wife's bull" convinces me there is something deeply creepy going on.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 25, 2025 05:34 PM (ZOv7s)

45 How much stronger than viagra is invisible underwear?

Posted by: Eeyore at June 25, 2025 05:34 PM (od0dV)

46 Isn't Florida building a Alligator Alcatraz so that deportees can enjoy due process in a domestic hellhole?
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd

No AC in the cells, either.

Posted by: Florid Duh at June 25, 2025 05:35 PM (2sMLA)

47 13, I like it, rhomboid

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at June 25, 2025 05:35 PM (Z5NUn)

48 And again, the histrionic lawlessness of the districts since the Re-Entrumpenation is a separate catastrophe from the districts and circuits simply ignoring SCOTUS when it suits them.

Heller, etc.

Posted by: rhomboid at June 25, 2025 05:35 PM (1m82a)

49 Simple way to deal with the vice mayor. Leak to the gangs that she's a confidential government informant. Let nature take its course

Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 25, 2025 05:35 PM (pwtJC)

50 They better send Gorsuch down with 28" of 1/2" rebar to underline the rebuke

Posted by: Kindltot at June 25, 2025 05:35 PM (D7oie)

51 Defiance can be contagious, especially in the absence of respect. I believe it's very possible that any SCOTUS "rebuke" won't matter.

Posted by: Ordinary Amerian at June 25, 2025 05:35 PM (w6syA)

52 How about The Legislature simply eliminate the 'bad behavior' District Court judges' position then reconstitute them now vacant positions for Trump to fill?
Easy Peasy Lemon Squeezy... If they wanted to do it.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at June 25, 2025 05:34 PM (/lPRQ)

Or just keep the old ones, assign them no case, add new ones and cut off the power to their chambers.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 25, 2025 05:35 PM (8avO+)

53 About that Iranian woman. If I recall there was a whole 1986 amnesty. All she had to do was go into any immigration office, declare she was here illegally, provide some proof of identity, declare allegiance to the USA and that was about it.

So apparently she did want to be an American citizen.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at June 25, 2025 05:36 PM (Vh9CX)

54 How much stronger than viagra is invisible underwear?
Posted by: Eeyore


it its not ceramic plate underwear youre screwed

Posted by: n at June 25, 2025 05:36 PM (ujiPi)

55 26 I tried some of that “7 times stronger than Viagra” stuff and my dick exploded. I do not recommend.
Posted by: MAGA_Ken

You might have been a bad batch. Did you hear about the 30 day money back guarantee? As for me, I'm completely satisfied. I can use mine as an anvil.

Posted by: Paid Endorsement at June 25, 2025 05:36 PM (DYe8R)

56 Meanwhile, the Vice Mayor of the gang-infested suburb of LA, Cudahy, is calling for gang members to rise up and violently oppose ICE.


Can we haz 3am raidz with flashbangz? kthxbai

Posted by: Stu Podaso at June 25, 2025 05:36 PM (W3mVa)

57 Ms Gonzalez is obviously being paid off by the cartels . She needs to be arrested.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 25, 2025 05:36 PM (2GCMq)

58 What does what she was doing while getting arrested matter? (It doesn't.) Calling it now: "Maryland Dad" will be arrested getting baby formula!

Posted by: pookysgirl, trying to rest at June 25, 2025 05:36 PM (Wt5PA)

59 A woman has lived here for 45 years, been to every immigration appointment, and never broke a law?

Hell, she's a better rule-follower than I am. I got a speeding ticket just a month ago.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at June 25, 2025 05:36 PM (J8edR)

60 Roberts would be absolutely delighted if SCOTUS only heard slip-and-fall cases.

Posted by: Don Black, Senior VP for Product Development, Acme Snorkel Inc. at June 25, 2025 05:36 PM (AOsQT)

61
I don't know
Roberts' judicial philosophy is "If anyone asks... I was never here!"
Posted by: Don Black, Senior VP for Product Development, Acme Snorkel Inc.

Exactly our agreement.

Posted by: Zombie Jeff Epstein at June 25, 2025 05:36 PM (2sMLA)

62 The way they have fastened into self-shame, offering jobs to liberals and writing the "conservative case for being buggered by my wife's bull" convinces me there is something deeply creepy going on.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 25, 2025 05:34 PM (ZOv7s)

selling your birthright for a mess of pottage isn't what it is cracked up to be.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 25, 2025 05:37 PM (8avO+)

63 Isn't Florida building a Alligator Alcatraz so that deportees can enjoy due process in a domestic hellhole?
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed

The Feds should house them in the Cocke County (Tennessee) jail until the new place is ready.

A true shithole.

Posted by: Tonypete at June 25, 2025 05:37 PM (cYBz/)

64 Unless you find some way to punish the Judge, then all this is meaningless.

There must be a penalty for defying the Constitution when JUDGES do it, but short of Impeachment, Congress had never created one.

Congress 'could'... if it can do anything... create a process whereby Judges can be penalized, or fired, for misconduct SHORT of impeachable offenses... as they do have Constitutional Power over court's LOWER than the Supremes.

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 25, 2025 05:37 PM (mP0Kj)

65 Thanks sock_rat_eez. As I said, it's pretty obvious common sense, tactically.

A detailed version of the idea has been sent to someone who has access to the right people at DHS. So far, no reaction.

Posted by: rhomboid at June 25, 2025 05:37 PM (1m82a)

66 >>> Cudahy Vice Mayor Cynthia Gonzalez is facing backlash after she allegedly posted a video on her social media accounts, calling on local gang members to reclaim city streets as immigration operations continue across Los Angeles.

"allegedly" ?

Either she did or did not.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at June 25, 2025 05:37 PM (/lPRQ)

67 A woman has lived here for 45 years, been to every immigration appointment, and never broke a law?

Hell, she's a better rule-follower than I am. I got a speeding ticket just a month ago.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at June 25, 2025 05:36 PM (J8edR)

Aside from overstaying her visa, you know.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 25, 2025 05:38 PM (8avO+)

68 60 Roberts would be absolutely delighted if SCOTUS only heard slip-and-fall cases.
Posted by: Don Black, Senior VP for Product Development, Acme Snorkel Inc. at June 25, 2025 05:36 PM (AOsQT)

Robert's won't allow any ruling that limits Judges power...

He LITERALLY wrote the rules under which all this power grab is happening... they were rewritten just last year.

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 25, 2025 05:38 PM (mP0Kj)

69 The way they have fastened into self-shame, offering jobs to liberals and writing the "conservative case for being buggered by my wife's bull" convinces me there is something deeply creepy going on.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 25, 2025 05:34 PM (ZOv7s)

It does seem to surpass what could be explained away as mere amoral cynical opportunism.

Posted by: The shame is part of the kink at June 25, 2025 05:39 PM (TbWk/)

70 It sucks that it had to come to this but I'm glad these leftist pieces of shit are just coming out and declaring their support for illegals and criminals over citizens and the law. The lines have never been more clear and they have lost the ability to even pretend they care about this country.

The time for choosing has come. You are either an American or you're not. No half measures any longer.

Posted by: JackStraw at June 25, 2025 05:39 PM (viF8m)

71 y right, Oldcat, I shoulda dome that in UTC

2132 Z

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at June 25, 2025 05:39 PM (Z5NUn)

72 Vice Mayor

Does she embrace all of them?

Posted by: toby928 at June 25, 2025 05:39 PM (jc0TO)

73 I don't think the current judicial coup is so much about defying Trump as it is to create a different, authoritative entity that dictates policy. To the executive.

Seeing as how Congress can't seem the time to actually do their job. Instead they're focused on grifting. So, the coup continues in its place. By design.

A vacuum will eventually be filled.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 25, 2025 05:39 PM (Q4IgG)

74 Robert's won't allow any ruling that limits Judges power...

He LITERALLY wrote the rules under which all this power grab is happening... they were rewritten just last year.

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 25, 2025 05:38 PM (mP0Kj)

I hear 5 others could overrule his rules...

Posted by: Nova Local at June 25, 2025 05:40 PM (tOcjL)

75 While the SC is at it they should address partisan state jurisdictions prosecuting a President for alleged crimes outside of their jurisdiction. Looking at you Atlanta and NYC.

Posted by: polynikes at June 25, 2025 05:40 PM (VofaG)

76 Cudahy Vice Mayor Cynthia Gonzalez is facing backlash after she allegedly posted a video on her social media accounts, calling on local gang members to reclaim city streets as immigration operations continue across Los Angeles.





somebody is going to get the ring cam taped over

Posted by: n at June 25, 2025 05:40 PM (ujiPi)

77 She's better off then having to go to the coming Sharia courts in NYC.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at June 25, 2025 05:40 PM (rvwwT)

78 > Cudahy Vice Mayor Cynthia Gonzalez is facing backlash after she allegedly posted a video on her social media accounts, calling on local gang members to reclaim city streets as immigration operations continue across Los Angeles.

"allegedly" ?

Either she did or did not.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at June 25, 2025 05:37 PM (/lPRQ)

Yeah. Allegedly.

Posted by: Goomba relating that Vito's a fag at June 25, 2025 05:40 PM (TbWk/)

79 I want to point out that nothing good ever comes from assuming that “the left has gone too far this time“. Ever. Lifetime of experience here. 29 whole years.

Posted by: banana Dream at June 25, 2025 05:41 PM (cduTK)

80 Was that you say.
“Chubby Vice Mayor Gonzalez calls for gangs to hit the streets:

Posted by: Redenzo at June 25, 2025 05:41 PM (jZ3ZM)

81 Rocket science for kindergartners. Convene the industries/sectors one by one. Give them a glide path, and help, to compliance (i.e. no more illegal labor). Offer the illegals help in leaving the US. Minimize disruption to the economy. AND GIVE THEM A DEADLINE, after which raids/deportations/PROSECUTION OF MANAGEMENT. This truly is not difficult.
Posted by: rhomboid at June 25, 2025 05:28 PM (1m82a)


The IRS and Social Security have national records of employment, since employers enter their employees' wages. Look for bad matches between DOB SSN and Name, and look for duplicate uses of SSN. Also employees using ITIN to work under.

I quick run through those two databases would suck the employer and employee up, and probably give the address of a good 3/4 of the illegals working under a false SSN

Then you ding the employer for the last 3 years of write-offs for the wages of illegally employed workers. Call it an "adjustment" Be nice, let them pay it off over the next three years.

Posted by: Kindltot at June 25, 2025 05:41 PM (D7oie)

82 74 Robert's won't allow any ruling that limits Judges power...

He LITERALLY wrote the rules under which all this power grab is happening... they were rewritten just last year.

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 25, 2025 05:38 PM (mP0Kj)

I hear 5 others could overrule his rules...
Posted by: Nova Local at June 25, 2025 05:40 PM (tOcjL)

You really only have 3 Conservative Supremes... 3 others are Lefties... 2 are really wishy washy... then Roberts.

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 25, 2025 05:41 PM (mP0Kj)

83 My favorite part about the vice mayor is that the closest she has ever been to a gang was watching News hour on PBS.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at June 25, 2025 05:42 PM (NwfFc)

84 US District Judge Brian Murphy *




*Biden appointee

Posted by: Mike Hammer, eyc., etc. at June 25, 2025 05:42 PM (XeU6L)

85 Cudahy Vice Mayor Cynthia Gonzalez is facing backlash after she allegedly posted a video on her social media accounts, calling on local gang members to reclaim city streets as immigration operations continue across Los Angeles.

"allegedly" ?

Either she did or did not.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at June 25, 2025 05:37 PM (/lPRQ)

I'm sick of this limp one allegedly covers all crap.

The alleged Cudahy Vice Mayor, so called Cynthia Gonzalez might be facing alleged backlash after "she" allegedly posted an alleged video on "her" social media so-called accounts, calling on alleged local alleged gang alleged members to so-called reclaim alleged city streets as immigration operations continue across Los Angeles.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 25, 2025 05:42 PM (8avO+)

86 A woman has lived here for 45 years, been to every immigration appointment, and never broke a law?

Posted by: Huck Follywood


Unpossible. I have it on good authority that there are so many laws on the books that most people in the U.S. commit 7 felonies before breakfast.

Posted by: Stu Podaso at June 25, 2025 05:42 PM (W3mVa)

87
"applied for asylum, but her claim was denied. Federal officials granted her a reprieve to stay in the country."

A reprieve? How does this work?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 25, 2025 05:42 PM (lCaJd)

88 You really only have 3 Conservative Supremes... 3 others are Lefties... 2 are really wishy washy... then Roberts.

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 25, 2025 05:41 PM (mP0Kj)

2 Conservative...3 wishy washy...Gorsuch has also had some horrible 5-4s with Roberts...

Posted by: Nova Local at June 25, 2025 05:43 PM (tOcjL)

89 My favorite part about the vice mayor is that the closest she has ever been to a gang was watching News hour on PBS.



meh she has the appearance of somebody thats run more trains than bidens amtrak conductor

Posted by: n at June 25, 2025 05:43 PM (ujiPi)

90 I've been warning CLIVs (Comparative LIVs) who are stoked about Trump's immigration law enforcement (that's what it is, not really a "policy", except in the new orwellian sense that enforcing the law is a discretional policy) that the sob stories will be coming.

But this seems like an incredibly stupid case to choose now. There are literally millions of far less superficially sympathetic cases just sitting there, staring DHS in the face (including the W-2 Illegals noted above). Not a matter of principle, but tactics and PR.

With such an enormous and diverse problem, in the early phases, outside the urgent/criminal cases, pick your battles. You're dealing with an unserious country that largely defaults to 9-yr old girl at the pet store mentality ("daddy, why can't we take all the cute puppies home?!!).

Posted by: rhomboid at June 25, 2025 05:43 PM (1m82a)

91 I assume Brian Murphy is a dweeby ginger, with an appreciation for buggery.

Posted by: Still lurking up north, read some, don't comment much at June 25, 2025 05:43 PM (kTd/k)

92 "applied for asylum, but her claim was denied. Federal officials granted her a reprieve to stay in the country."

A reprieve? How does this work?
Posted by: Blonde




she got signed to shas of sunset blvd

Posted by: n at June 25, 2025 05:44 PM (ujiPi)

93 We're going to have our "boots on the ground" war except it won't be in Iran. The left will see to it whether we like it or not. Just a matter of when.

Posted by: JROD at June 25, 2025 05:44 PM (IlL6s)

94 OT a bit Dr Oz needs to be deported to Turkey imo. He only agreed to give up his Turkish citizenship if he won his election.

Posted by: polynikes at June 25, 2025 05:44 PM (VofaG)

95 L.A. and N.Y. are in a duel for the Title ofBiggest American Shithole. L.A.deployed Cholo Queen Vie-Mayor to lay the "The government sides with international cartel-affiliated criminal street gangs over the police" card, but N.Y. countered with the "Anti-Semitic Communist Muslim Mayor" gambit, re-taking the lead.

It's all downhill from here.

Posted by: zombie at June 25, 2025 05:44 PM (pMi6S)

96 Cynthia Gonzalez looks like a female Mr Potato head using cakes of makeup to try to hide bad skin and the stench of desperation.

Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at June 25, 2025 05:44 PM (XJcq1)

97 I don't think the current judicial coup is so much about defying Trump as it is to create a different, authoritative entity that dictates policy. To the executive.

Seeing as how Congress can't seem the time to actually do their job. Instead they're focused on grifting. So, the coup continues in its place. By design.

A vacuum will eventually be filled.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 25, 2025 05:39 PM (Q4IgG)

If you want an organization you have to be organized. The fact that nobody listens to Roberts puts that shit to bed.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 25, 2025 05:44 PM (8avO+)

98 Political theater, disguised as law.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 25, 2025 05:45 PM (XeU6L)

99 Blonde Morticia, since we're going back to 1978, not sure, but there's a smorgasbord of options. Parole, TPS (begun in that era, partly specifically for Iranians here), etc.

Posted by: rhomboid at June 25, 2025 05:45 PM (1m82a)

100 But this seems like an incredibly stupid case to choose now. There are literally millions of far less superficially sympathetic cases just sitting there, staring DHS in the face (including the W-2 Illegals noted above). Not a matter of principle, but tactics and PR.

With such an enormous and diverse problem, in the early phases, outside the urgent/criminal cases, pick your battles. You're dealing with an unserious country that largely defaults to 9-yr old girl at the pet store mentality ("daddy, why can't we take all the cute puppies home?!!).

Posted by: rhomboid




its Trumps illegal immigrant deportation blowout!



everybody has go to go!


no offer refused!

Posted by: n at June 25, 2025 05:45 PM (ujiPi)

101 Cynthia Gonzalez looks like a female Mr Potato head using cakes of makeup to try to hide bad skin and the stench of desperation.
Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at June 25, 2025 05:44 PM (XJcq1)

But you can change her?

Posted by: Oldcat at June 25, 2025 05:45 PM (8avO+)

102 "I tried some of that “7 times stronger than Viagra” stuff and my dick exploded. I do not recommend.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at June 25, 2025 05:31 PM (Vh9CX) "

I know Ace has rent to pay, but that Ad Banner drives me crazy.

it makes my screen jump around worse than Elaine Benes at a dance party...

Posted by: Gunslinger at June 25, 2025 05:45 PM (R2gO3)

103 One of these cocksucker judges needs to be frog-marched in shackles to a school bus destined for a county lockup.

Alert all of the media, get the cameras set, and turn on the microphones! Bitches.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at June 25, 2025 05:46 PM (ioEI6)

104 It's all downhill from here.
Posted by: zombie at June 25, 2025 05:44 PM (pMi6S)

Hate to see SFO's entry on the card to top all of them. Mounds of shit and used needles isn't topping the charts anymore.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 25, 2025 05:47 PM (8avO+)

105 How is it that I've never heard of Cudahy? The greater LA area has dozens of towns/cities/etc that one hears about over time for various reasons, but not that one.

Posted by: rhomboid at June 25, 2025 05:47 PM (1m82a)

106
Re: the DIA fake "assessment" leak

Isn't the Real Problem not with the leaker but with the people who Authored that "assessment?"

Posted by: Sherlock Soothsayer at June 25, 2025 05:47 PM (WKPsy)

107 Re: the DIA fake "assessment" leak

Isn't the Real Problem not with the leaker but with the people who Authored that "assessment?"

Posted by: Sherlock Soothsayer at June 25, 2025 05:47 PM (WKPsy)

(Jump to to




chat gpt

Posted by: n at June 25, 2025 05:48 PM (ujiPi)

108 What ads?

Posted by: Boss Moss at June 25, 2025 05:48 PM (VAINm)

109 "What appalling here is that she was ordered removed but wasn't. There are currently between 1 and 2 million aliens with orders of removal who have not left and who have not been removed. That is the low hanging fruit.
Quote
Aaron Reichlin-Melnick
@ReichlinMelnick
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1h
NEW: ICE is moving to re-arrest Iranians who had previously been allowed to remain in the US despite orders of removal."
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Why are millions here despite having long-standing deportation orders? Why are so many criminal illegals on our streets? This is because MayorkasBiden did practically ZERO internal immigration enforcement.* All their ICE and CBP personnel were at the southern border processing daily hordes of illegals in ASAP, as asylum claimants. Accused felons released in blue shithole jurisdictions and anywhere they could make bail were not tracked-down by any Federal LEO for deportation during the Biden National Catastrophe.

*Previous Presidents, including PDT45, did not put high priority on internal immigration enforcement. More than Mayorkas, but there was never a push to run all the immediately deportable illegals out. And here we are. At least PDT47 is now trying hard to get as many as possible out.

Posted by: Gref at June 25, 2025 05:48 PM (aBgBM)

110 OT a bit Dr Oz needs to be deported to Turkey imo. He only agreed to give up his Turkish citizenship if he won his election.
Posted by: polynikes at June 25, 2025 05:44 PM (VofaG)

we are trying but nobody can spell the new name for the country now.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 25, 2025 05:48 PM (8avO+)

111 39
its easier to stand him in a corner, hes never going to find his way out again

Posted by: n at June 25, 2025 05:33 PM (ujiPi)
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Do it in a rotunda.

Posted by: Ciampino -brain science at June 25, 2025 05:48 PM (sPQoU)

112 >>>I'm sick of this limp one allegedly covers all crap.

The alleged Cudahy Vice Mayor, so called Cynthia Gonzalez might be facing alleged backlash after "she" allegedly posted an alleged video on "her" social media so-called accounts, calling on alleged local alleged gang alleged members to so-called reclaim alleged city streets as immigration operations continue across Los Angeles.
Posted by: Oldcat at June 25
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Only Trump's illegal deeds are a certainty.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 25, 2025 05:48 PM (yXf+h)

113 rhomboid At 13 is sagacious.

Posted by: Mitch Mitchell at June 25, 2025 05:49 PM (ySfZn)

114 How's that cease fire going?

Posted by: Boss Moss at June 25, 2025 05:49 PM (VAINm)

115 How is it that I've never heard of Cudahy? The greater LA area has dozens of towns/cities/etc that one hears about over time for various reasons, but not that one.
Posted by: rhomboid at June 25, 2025 05:47 PM (1m82a)

Drawing random lines on the map and giving them dumb names do not a city make.

I'm looking at you, "City of Industry"

Posted by: Oldcat at June 25, 2025 05:49 PM (8avO+)

116 39
its easier to stand him in a corner, hes never going to find his way out again

Posted by: n at June 25, 2025 05:33 PM (ujiPi)
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Do it in a rotunda.
Posted by: Ciampin




Posted by: n at June 25, 2025 05:50 PM (ujiPi)

117
During PDT first term, every single one of his so-called daily intelligence briefings including fake "threat assessments" of fake domestic "right wing extremism."

Which, then, were "leaked" to the Fake News.

WHO IS WRITING THIS BULLSHIT?

Fire these rotten shits and the Problem is solved.

Posted by: Sherlock Soothsayer at June 25, 2025 05:50 PM (WKPsy)

118 Gref, good summary. The inattention to this "low hanging fruit" in the first term was the topic of much heated argument inside the machine back then. A major oversight.

Posted by: rhomboid at June 25, 2025 05:50 PM (1m82a)

119 *types*
*deletes*

Posted by: nurse ratched at June 25, 2025 05:50 PM (W2Pud)

120 I'd also note the FL AG is currently under contempt for refusing to parties not before the court to comply with the court's injunction.

The plaintiffs didn't sue the law enforcement officials.

It's a brazen abuse of the court's powers-- but the clown judge thinks she can order the AG to do indirectly what would be plainly illegal for her to order directly.

And it's clear she knows that: Or she would issue an order against the officers directly herself.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at June 25, 2025 05:50 PM (NwfFc)

121 Laughably predictable.

Roberts has bent over backwards to let his precious 'process' play out to safeguard the 'legitimacy' of the court, and the leftist judges don't think he's being 'measured', or 'non-partisan' or 'showing judicial restraint'

They (accurately) think he's just weak and they can do whatever they want.

Roberts weakness and cowardice has led to the point that leftist judges just openly issue blatantly illegal and unconstitutional rulings and now simply ignore what he says.

Why? Because the leftist hack in a robe knows that the worst that can possibly happen is Roberts makes another ruling telling him to stop. No actual consequences.

Posted by: DudeAbiding at June 25, 2025 05:50 PM (lCHt6)

122 All I can say about Trump45 is that Trump47 learned a bunch of lessons from him. Which is why he deserves a third term

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at June 25, 2025 05:50 PM (rvwwT)

123 Judge Roberts is a compromised sack of shit. Everyone seems to forget that he assigned Judge Boasberg (who everyone is familiar with) as well as Judge Tallman (same caliber as Boasberg but from the Ninth Circuit), to the FISA Court. The same FISA court that rubber stamped confidential warrants against a presidential candidate based on false information and, ultimately, altered emails (the attorney who falsified the emails is still practicing law, btw)

Boasberg nominated to the Court by Obama, Tallman nominated to the Court by Clinton....and promoted by Judge Roberts.

Posted by: Orson at June 25, 2025 05:50 PM (dIske)

124 Ah, but the City of Industry is the location of several good food companies. One of my favorite salsas from back in the day (La Victoria?) I think was made there.

Posted by: rhomboid at June 25, 2025 05:51 PM (1m82a)

125 94 OT a bit Dr Oz needs to be deported to Turkey imo. He only agreed to give up his Turkish citizenship if he won his election.
Posted by: polynikes at June 25, 2025 05:44 PM (VofaG)

Why does Harry get to stay?

Posted by: Piper at June 25, 2025 05:51 PM (pRpzT)

126 OT a bit Dr Oz needs to be deported to Turkey imo. He only agreed to give up his Turkish citizenship if he won his election.
Posted by: polynikes



yeah, youre not going to get much support for that now

Posted by: n at June 25, 2025 05:51 PM (ujiPi)

127 I guess we're about to find out how bad the dirt is on Roberts.

Posted by: Jack Squat Bupkis at June 25, 2025 05:51 PM (jYRYu)

128
Blonde Morticia, since we're going back to 1978, not sure, but there's a smorgasbord of options. Parole, TPS (begun in that era, partly specifically for Iranians here), etc.
Posted by: rhomboid

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Thanks. I'm sensing that an "official" can overrule an immigration judge, the usual plate-of-spaghetti structure of authority.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 25, 2025 05:51 PM (lCaJd)

129 Wait until we find out that the LA city and county has been paying off gang members under the ruse of 'community outreach' and 'peace keepers.'

Oh, right, that's been happening for decades.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at June 25, 2025 05:51 PM (mlg/3)

130 All I can say about Trump45 is that Trump47 learned a bunch of lessons from him. Which is why he deserves a third term
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at June 25, 2025 05:50 PM (rvwwT)

CRYO-Trump! Every Four Years! All the Swing States!!

Posted by: Oldcat at June 25, 2025 05:51 PM (8avO+)

131 "DO PROCESS!!!!!"

Posted by: pawn at June 25, 2025 05:52 PM (QB+5g)

132 I am in El Salvador presently. Enjoying the crime-free y illegal-free moments. And wearing my El Salvador hat.

Been here a week. Very nice, normal people. Humble and good families.

Posted by: Mitch Mitchell at June 25, 2025 05:52 PM (ySfZn)

133 Back to occupied Asia Minor.

Posted by: Boss Moss at June 25, 2025 05:52 PM (VAINm)

134 how is it that everybody does not get that harry is not chucks boy?

Posted by: n at June 25, 2025 05:52 PM (Datbx)

135 105 How is it that I've never heard of Cudahy? The greater LA area has dozens of towns/cities/etc that one hears about over time for various reasons, but not that one.
Posted by: rhomboid


Similar to Foster City in the Bay Area It's a stone's thrown from San Francisco, but hasn't been in the news in 50 years at least -- nothing ever happens there, and 80% of Bay Area residents don't even know Foster City exists.

Posted by: zombie at June 25, 2025 05:52 PM (pMi6S)

136
That bullshit fake DIA "assessment" should never have existed in the first place.

The Leaker problem is just a byproduct of the main problem -- fire all these FAKE "intelligence" assessors.

Posted by: Sherlock Soothsayer at June 25, 2025 05:52 PM (WKPsy)

137 Seriously, is there some “married to an obnoxious d list actress who refuses to just go away” visa?

Posted by: Piper at June 25, 2025 05:52 PM (pRpzT)

138 It's a brazen abuse of the court's powers-- but the clown judge thinks she can order the AG to do indirectly what would be plainly illegal for her to order directly.

And it's clear she knows that: Or she would issue an order against the officers directly herself.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at June 25, 2025 05:50 PM (NwfFc)
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This is what I found so brazen with earlier ruling against President Trump: Courts ordering President Trump to continue funding obvious fraud.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at June 25, 2025 05:53 PM (tT6L1)

139 Among other things, chubby vice mayor (so important!), she needs a new shade of lipstick vs "Violent Rape Me Orange/Red" by Revlon. It simply screams, "I wear lipstick from Walmart." Not that there is anything wrong with this, but, please. Spare me.

Thankfully I am spared for whatever exists under her black wife beater tee shirt from Tijuana. Those leetle markets across the border with the strange fly-ridden liquid to put on shaved and polluted ice. I only saw this once on a quick trip with my very blonde toddler son and nervous husband. Maybe this no longer exists. I bought a shirt and we left.

Her eyebrows need a good something. Tweezing? Filling in? Shaving off and starting over?

Earrings are pure gutter plastic, wth, but almost match the hideous matte lipstick that does her no favors.

Then the claw fingernails with "art" screams, "I am one degree above a street ho."

Her face needs a good dermabrasion. I recommend not only microneedling, but her lying on hot riot pavement and a steam roller smoothing it. This is after liposuction in a garage with a Brazillian butt lift and silicone implants from a tire store.

Otherwise, wth? Is she supposed to be cute like AOL?

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at June 25, 2025 05:53 PM (6PCLE)

140 Why does Harry get to stay?
Posted by: Piper at June 25, 2025 05:51 PM (pRpzT)

Sending Megan anywhere is tantamount to a declaration of war.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 25, 2025 05:53 PM (8avO+)

141 134 how is it that everybody does not get that harry is not chucks boy?
Posted by: n at June 25,

Oh he is and as he ages he looks more and more like him. The eyes and nose are the same.

Posted by: Piper at June 25, 2025 05:54 PM (pRpzT)

142 whatever exists under her black wife beater tee shirt from Tijuana. Those leetle markets across the border with the strange fly-ridden liquid to put on shaved and polluted ice. I only saw this once on a quick trip with my very blonde toddler son and nervous husband. Maybe this no longer exists. I bought a shirt and we left.

Her eyebrows need a good something. Tweezing? Filling in? Shaving off and starting over?

Earrings are pure gutter plastic, wth, but almost match the hideous matte lipstick that does her no favors.

Then the claw fingernails with "art" screams, "I am one degree above a street ho."

Her face needs a good dermabrasion. I recommend not only microneedling, but her lying on hot riot pavement and a steam roller smoothing it. This is after liposuction in a garage with a Brazillian butt lift and silicone implants from a tire store.

Otherwise, wth? Is she supposed to be cute like AOL?
Posted by: Christy



this is very interstingly specific, detailed

Posted by: n at June 25, 2025 05:54 PM (Datbx)

143 Great news Morons!

The Five is on and speedos are in style for men now!

Posted by: Stateless.. 45% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back now at June 25, 2025 05:54 PM (jvJvP)

144 Sending Megan anywhere is tantamount to a declaration of war.
Posted by: Oldcat

Almost. That would be 'declaration of whore'.

Posted by: Tonypete at June 25, 2025 05:54 PM (cYBz/)

145 Then the claw fingernails with "art" screams, "I am one degree above a street ho."

Her face needs a good dermabrasion. I recommend not only microneedling, but her lying on hot riot pavement and a steam roller smoothing it. This is after liposuction in a garage with a Brazillian butt lift and silicone implants from a tire store.

Otherwise, wth? Is she supposed to be cute like AOL?
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at June 25, 2025 05:53 PM (6PCLE)

gotta love our gentle, sweet ettes.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 25, 2025 05:54 PM (8avO+)

146 140 Sending Megan anywhere is tantamount to a declaration of war.
Posted by: Oldcat at June 25, 2025

Megan is a citizen. But I agree. Hal

Posted by: Piper at June 25, 2025 05:54 PM (pRpzT)

147 Oh he is and as he ages he looks more and more like him. The eyes and nose are the same.
Posted by: Piper


have you seen major hewitt ?

Posted by: n at June 25, 2025 05:55 PM (Datbx)

148 I am partial to the French Royalty solution.

Posted by: Boss Moss at June 25, 2025 05:55 PM (VAINm)

149 146 Hal was ha, except AI is taking over.

Posted by: Piper at June 25, 2025 05:55 PM (pRpzT)

150 I am partial to the French Royalty solution.
Posted by: Boss


snooty french > filthy french

Posted by: n at June 25, 2025 05:55 PM (Datbx)

151 134 how is it that everybody does not get that harry is not chucks boy?
Posted by: n at June 25,

Oh he is and as he ages he looks more and more like him. The eyes and nose are the same.
Posted by: Piper at June 25, 2025 05:54 PM (pRpzT)

And daddy disinherited him anyway.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 25, 2025 05:56 PM (8avO+)

152 Name three people, not employed by The Bulwark, who are influenced by The Bulwark.

Posted by: Still lurking up north, read some, don't comment much at June 25, 2025 05:56 PM (kTd/k)

153 Oh he is and as he ages he looks more and more like him. The eyes and nose are the same.
Posted by: Piper at June 25, 2025 05:54 PM (pRpz

I think he looks like Diana's military lover whose name I never cared to remember . Now his brother is starting to look a lot like Charles.

Posted by: polynikes at June 25, 2025 05:56 PM (VofaG)

154 This whole moment is comical.

After the president was elected on a platform of deporting the invaders his predecessor had illegally brought in we have courts arguing the president has no authority to deal with invaders in the country.

This is about the clearest example of a presidential power there is.

And if instead of deporting them he just had them all summarily executed he'd still be clearly within his power. Hell if he wanted he has a prima facie argument for a military tribunal and execution for the judges enabling the invaders as well.

Posted by: 18-1 at June 25, 2025 05:56 PM (t0Rmr)

155 I think there's a suburb of Milwaukee called Cudahy, too ...

also the name of a dairy back when I was a wee small sock_rat ...

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at June 25, 2025 05:56 PM (Z5NUn)

156 I think that Professor Turley is being too optimistic about the outcome.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 25, 2025 05:57 PM (2GCMq)

157 As I mentioned, I thought the 6-3 tranny decision by Roberts was a hell of a brush back pitch.

But, I guess it's going to take a 99 mph heater to the head to send the message:

When we said "we decide the law, not policy and said that the people alone decide policy, we didn't mean get cute and dress your personal policy preferences up in legal fig leafs while telling us to fuck off"

Citing the dissent as precedent is such a breach, I'll bet the ruling will be 9-0.
The only reason a clarifying opinion hasn't came out yet is because of haggling of how big a reprimand is needed.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at June 25, 2025 05:57 PM (NwfFc)

158 Name three people, not employed by The Bulwark, who are influenced by The Bulwark.

Pretty sure Capn Bill's cabin boys aren't paid...

Posted by: 18-1 at June 25, 2025 05:57 PM (t0Rmr)

159 gotta love our gentle, sweet ettes.
Posted by: Oldcat at June 25, 2025 05:54 PM (8avO+)

We ARE pretty amazing.

Posted by: tcn in AK at June 25, 2025 05:57 PM (1Gsou)

160 Name three people, not employed by The Bulwark, who are influenced by The Bulwark.
Posted by: Still lurking up north, read some, don't comment much at June 25, 2025 05:56 PM (kTd/k)
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I'm guessing this is a trick question and there are only one or two.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 25, 2025 05:58 PM (IBQGV)

161 Seriously, is there some “married to an obnoxious d list actress who refuses to just go away” visa?
Posted by: Piper at June 25, 2025 05:52 PM (pRpzT)

The UK is paying us to keep him. We get one Canadian Province a year.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 25, 2025 05:58 PM (8avO+)

162 What's the Bulwark?

Posted by: Boss Moss at June 25, 2025 05:58 PM (VAINm)

163 152 Name three people, not employed by The Bulwark, who are influenced by The Bulwark.
Posted by: Still lurking up north, read some, don't comment much at June 25, 2025 05:56 PM (kTd/k)


We can't. Names of minors can't be released.

Posted by: gKWVE at June 25, 2025 05:58 PM (gKWVE)

164 @ 122:
MOAR.
OF.
THIS !

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at June 25, 2025 05:58 PM (Z5NUn)

165 Looking at that vice-mayor, I can't get past the clown red lipstick smeared across her maw. Jeezopete, lady! A face like that would make Pennywise dive headlong into a sewer...

Posted by: Joe Kidd at June 25, 2025 05:59 PM (IY+he)

166 how is it that everybody does not get that harry is not chucks boy?
Posted by: n at June 25,

Oh he is and as he ages he looks more and more like him. The eyes and nose are the same.
Posted by: Piper at June 25, 2025 05:54 PM (pRpzT)

And daddy disinherited him anyway.
Posted by: Old



marrying who he did is some sort of medieval dungeon punishment more evil than anything his dad could do

Posted by: n at June 25, 2025 05:59 PM (4gawu)

167 Does anyone read The Bulwark other than Ace?

Posted by: Still lurking up north, read some, don't comment much at June 25, 2025 05:59 PM (kTd/k)

168 All I can say about Trump45 is that Trump47 learned a bunch of lessons from him. Which is why he deserves a third term
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Let's just make him King...

Posted by: Crusader at June 25, 2025 05:59 PM (TN0g+)

169 And if instead of deporting them he just had them all summarily executed he'd still be clearly within his power. Hell if he wanted he has a prima facie argument for a military tribunal and execution for the judges enabling the invaders as well.
Posted by: 18-1 at June 25, 2025 05:56 PM (t0Rmr)

If the illegals have all the rights and duties of citizens and more we can just draft them all and 'invade' some islands and have them garrison it forever.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 25, 2025 06:00 PM (8avO+)

170 Time for an ArticleV convention of states to impose term limits on these robed tyrants. Also, give a majority of states the power to nullify the Federal courts if need be. The Founders did NOT intend for this nation to be totally at the mercy of unelected judges with unlimited & uncheck power over literally everything

Posted by: Rando del Ashalle at June 25, 2025 06:00 PM (tLqEs)

171 What's the Bulwark?
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Its a gay club in a sketchy part of town.

Posted by: Crusader at June 25, 2025 06:00 PM (TN0g+)

172 The Bulwark restores old buildings?

Posted by: Boss Moss at June 25, 2025 06:00 PM (VAINm)

173 All I can say about Trump45 is that Trump47 learned a bunch of lessons from him. Which is why he deserves a third term
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Let's just make him King...
Posted by: Crusader at June 25, 2025 05:59 PM (TN0g+)

Surely God-Emperor.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 25, 2025 06:00 PM (8avO+)

174

have you seen major hewitt ?
Posted by: n at June 25, 2025 05:55 PM (Datbx)

Yep! If we could post pictures, I would show you. The only thing there is the red hair.

There are better pictures, but this article has one that shows the facial structure pretty well. https://tinyurl.com/8w4vk4sc

Posted by: Piper at June 25, 2025 06:01 PM (pRpzT)

175 >>>Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat

>Give this commenter a guest cob thread for trending fashion in the Beltway.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at June 25, 2025 06:01 PM (ioEI6)

176 105 "How is it that I've never heard of Cudahy?"

It's a tiny city of 21,000, population like 94% Hispanic. Somewhat notorious for crime, corruption, and bad government -- see the 2007 LA Weekly article "The Town the Law Forgot." Located very near Bell, another tiny city in LA County that's famous for a 2010 public corruption scandal.

Posted by: Alex at June 25, 2025 06:01 PM (EcUen)

177 Odd timing

@DiamondandSilk 18s
JUST IN: Chuck Schumer Hospitalized.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at June 25, 2025 06:01 PM (mlg/3)

178 119 *types*
*deletes*
Posted by: nurse ratched at June 25, 2025 05:50 PM (W2Pud)

I hear you loud and clear.

Posted by: tcn in AK at June 25, 2025 06:02 PM (1Gsou)

179 139, LOL!

Go, Christy Blinky!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at June 25, 2025 06:02 PM (Z5NUn)

180 >>>Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat

>Give this commenter a guest cob thread for trending fashion in the Beltway.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at June 25, 2025 06:01 PM (ioEI6)

I think she was also in the 'crap women put on their face ' thread too.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 25, 2025 06:02 PM (8avO+)

181 There's a Mrs. Potato Head, too. Did you think Mr. Potato Head was a fag?

Posted by: Spud Webb at June 25, 2025 06:03 PM (G5+As)

182 171 What's the Bulwark?
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Its a gay club in a sketchy part of town.
Posted by: Crusader at June 25, 2025 06:00 PM (TN0g+)

Pretty sure "bulwark" is a misspelling of "bullshit."

Posted by: tcn in AK at June 25, 2025 06:03 PM (1Gsou)

183 zombie, unless my memory fails, Foster City is where I often go with my SF friends for great Asian restaurants. So I've heard of it from that, at least.

Posted by: rhomboid at June 25, 2025 06:03 PM (1m82a)

184 AOL vs AOC?

Posted by: Boss Moss at June 25, 2025 06:03 PM (VAINm)

185 Now his brother is starting to look a lot like Charles.
Posted by: polynikes

This is so funny! I think William looks like Diana!

Posted by: Piper at June 25, 2025 06:04 PM (pRpzT)

186 Who funds the judiciary, and can we cut that funding just now, please?

Posted by: tcn in AK at June 25, 2025 06:04 PM (1Gsou)

187 >>> 182 171 What's the Bulwark?
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Its a gay club in a sketchy part of town.
Posted by: Crusader at June 25, 2025 06:00 PM (TN0g+)

Pretty sure "bulwark" is a misspelling of "bullshit."
Posted by: tcn in AK at June 25, 2025 06:03 PM (1Gsou)

I liked "bull seeker".

Posted by: AoS Style Guide at June 25, 2025 06:04 PM (ULPxl)

188 JUST IN: Chuck Schumer Hospitalized.
.......

Mental or physical?

Posted by: wth at June 25, 2025 06:04 PM (v0R5T)

189 Bell, Bell Gardens, Maywood, Cudahy, Huntington Park are all crappy 95% Hispanic cities grouped together in that area of LA County.

Posted by: Mark1971 at June 25, 2025 06:05 PM (CNl8/)

190 Food poisoning is no laughing matter.

Posted by: Boss Moss at June 25, 2025 06:05 PM (VAINm)

191 Harry is definitely Chuck's boy. He looks like his grandpa Prince Philip.
I think an ICE raid on Harry would a great way to stick it to the Dems. "You want No Kings well we want No Princes either"

Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 25, 2025 06:06 PM (pwtJC)

192 Apparently Orlando Bloom is back on the market, ladies! Katy Perry's silly astronaut stunt caused the fight that broke the camel's back.

So he'll be single and ready to mingle at the Bezos wedding monstrosity in Venice (which it sounds like is being protested by socialists, to the point celebs and royalty are fleeing the guest list, so they aren't caught on camera attending.)

Posted by: LizLem at June 25, 2025 06:06 PM (Eng1Z)

193 Jonathan Turley has been wrong about everything so far that I expect he will be wrong again.

Posted by: Decaf at June 25, 2025 06:06 PM (unUNN)

194 Is Allahpundit with The Dispatch or Bulwark?

Posted by: Mark1971 at June 25, 2025 06:06 PM (CNl8/)

195 I'll have mine extra rare, Chuck.

Posted by: wth at June 25, 2025 06:06 PM (v0R5T)

196 The way Schumer roasts burgers, I assume it's e. coli.

Posted by: gKWVE at June 25, 2025 06:07 PM (gKWVE)

197
Commenter ChristyBlinky is great. Glad to see her commenting more.

Posted by: fourseasons at June 25, 2025 06:07 PM (3ek7K)

198 "You guys tag everything up, claiming hood, and now that your hood is being invaded by the biggest gang there is, there ain't a peep out of you."

Well, they're probably doing pretty good here with the gang life, don't want to get deported and are smart enough to sit this one out.

Posted by: Dr. Fausti - I WAS The Science at June 25, 2025 06:07 PM (8hxDK)

199 189 Bell, Bell Gardens, Maywood, Cudahy, Huntington Park are all crappy 95% Hispanic cities grouped together in that area of LA County.
Posted by: Mark1971 at June 25, 2025 06:05 PM (CNl8/)

Until the Bell scandal broke I had never heard of any of those towns, I think I probably would confuse Huntington Park as being in the OC next to Huntington Beach.

Posted by: CaliGirl at June 25, 2025 06:08 PM (Cg3Gl)

200 One of these cocksucker judges needs to be frog-marched in shackles to a school bus destined for a county lockup.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at June 25, 2025 05:46 PM (ioEI6)

You misspelled Bukele's Wonderland.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at June 25, 2025 06:08 PM (snZF9)

201 Who funds the judiciary, and can we cut that funding just now, please?
Posted by: tcn in AK at June 25, 2025 06:04 PM (1Gsou)

The answer to 99 percent of these questions world wide is 'the American Taxpayer'

Posted by: Oldcat at June 25, 2025 06:08 PM (8avO+)

202 How is it that I've never heard of Cudahy? The greater LA area has dozens of towns/cities/etc that one hears about over time for various reasons, but not that one.

Posted by: rhomboid

Cudahy is like the industrial ghetto of South Gate. It was incorporated in 1960, but is almost regarded as an unincorporated sub-city.

Posted by: Grudge Harbor at June 25, 2025 06:08 PM (53oPJ)

203 That was a staged photo op BBQ. Schumer only eats at the finest restaurants in DC. The chefs must hate his guts, too.

Posted by: wth at June 25, 2025 06:09 PM (v0R5T)

204 177 Odd timing

@DiamondandSilk 18s
JUST IN: Chuck Schumer Hospitalized.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at June 25, 2025 06:01 PM (mlg/3)

Totally!

Posted by: AOC at June 25, 2025 06:09 PM (8hxDK)

205 192 Apparently Orlando Bloom is back on the market, ladies! Katy Perry's silly astronaut stunt caused the fight that broke the camel's back.

So he'll be single and ready to mingle at the Bezos wedding monstrosity in Venice (which it sounds like is being protested by socialists, to the point celebs and royalty are fleeing the guest list, so they aren't caught on camera attending.)
Posted by: LizLem

They had a pre wedding foam party. Did you see that? All that money and..a foam party.

Posted by: Piper at June 25, 2025 06:09 PM (QzINz)

206
So he'll be single and ready to mingle at the Bezos wedding monstrosity in Venice (which it sounds like is being protested by socialists, to the point celebs and royalty are fleeing the guest list, so they aren't caught on camera attending.)
Posted by: LizLem at June 25, 2025 06:06 PM

I'm sure his astronaut wife makes him feel like he's a total loser in comparison so I'm not surprised.

Posted by: CaliGirl at June 25, 2025 06:09 PM (Cg3Gl)

207 Have we talked about Mar a Lago face being the top plastic surgery trend? If it's to look like Ivanka or Melania, I get it. But I think they mean huge oversized lips and cheekbones.

Posted by: LizLem at June 25, 2025 06:09 PM (Eng1Z)

208 JUST IN: Chuck Schumer Hospitalized.

Hopefully a Dirt Nap is not too far off.

Posted by: 86 Chuck U Schumer at June 25, 2025 06:10 PM (R/m4+)

209 I've been away from all things internet all day. Please explain why hubby nec keeps saying that the US didn't set back the iranian nuclear program? Who the hell is reporting this? I thought the iranians admitted to it being badly damaged.

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at June 25, 2025 06:10 PM (2NHgQ)

210 Apparently Orlando Bloom is back on the market, ladies! Katy Perry's silly astronaut stunt caused the fight that broke the camel's back.

So he'll be single and ready to mingle at the Bezos wedding monstrosity in Venice (which it sounds like is being protested by socialists, to the point celebs and royalty are fleeing the guest list, so they aren't caught on camera attending.)
Posted by: LizLem at June 25, 2025 06:06 PM (Eng1Z)
——

Who the fuck has a wedding in Venice in JULY? It’s hot, humid, and stinks like shit. Not to mention being mobbed by tourists. Bezos can afford to have his wedding anywhere at any time. And he chooses Venice in July? That’s the second biggest mistake after the TMU he chose to marry.

Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at June 25, 2025 06:10 PM (XJcq1)

211 Considering how broke we are, how do we have limitless money?

Posted by: Boss Moss at June 25, 2025 06:10 PM (VAINm)

212 Getting better.

Posted by: Stateless.. 45% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back now at June 25, 2025 06:10 PM (jvJvP)

213 They had a pre wedding foam party. Did you see that? All that money and..a foam party.
Posted by: Piper at June 25, 2025 06:09 PM (QzINz)

Is it a fake foam or the kind that comes from fish vomit on a real ocean?

Posted by: Oldcat at June 25, 2025 06:10 PM (8avO+)

214 Waiter: "It's Schumer again. Table 4."

Chef: "Ha ha. I've got just the thing for him."

Posted by: wth at June 25, 2025 06:10 PM (v0R5T)

215 188 JUST IN: Chuck Schumer Hospitalized.
.......

Mental or physical?
Posted by: wth at June 25, 2025 06:04 PM (v0R5T)

I think it was heat related.

Posted by: Piper at June 25, 2025 06:10 PM (QzINz)

216 189 "Bell, Bell Gardens, Maywood, Cudahy, Huntington Park"

Wow, Maywood and Huntington Park have both had big corruption scandals in the past couple years. The one in Huntington Park is going on right now; its city hall was raided in February.

Posted by: Alex at June 25, 2025 06:10 PM (EcUen)

217 143 Great news Morons!

The Five is on and speedos are in style for men now!
Posted by: Stateless

Whoa, that is great news! I'm about to turn 70 and now is the time I order my first Speedo. I figure one size too small is probably better than one size too large, right?

Posted by: Canadian On The Outer Banks at June 25, 2025 06:10 PM (G5+As)

218 Bizarrely, the Bulwark's brain trust has decided that Trump must respect the lowest courts, and the Supreme Court must defer to their partisan leftwing inferiors, too.

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

Is Bulwark really AI and nobody noticed? Who needs Bulwark when AI is the new Always Lies app for every occasion?

Posted by: Decaf at June 25, 2025 06:10 PM (unUNN)

219
They had a pre wedding foam party. Did you see that? All that money and..a foam party.
Posted by: Piper at June 25, 2025 06:09 PM (QzINz)

I saw those pics and all I can think about is the people that have to clean that mess up and rinse and scrub the decks.

Posted by: CaliGirl at June 25, 2025 06:11 PM (Cg3Gl)

220 Had heard of Bell and Bell Gardens (reminds me of one of my favorite LA area names, Hawaiian Gardens), not Maywood or Cudahy.

CaliGirl's referring to a scandal years back in which the mayor and city guvamint of Bell was caught basically involved in Haitian levels of corruption. If you're familiar with the late (despicable) Cong. Murtha from PA, it was like his district, but worse.

Posted by: rhomboid at June 25, 2025 06:12 PM (1m82a)

221 > I'm sure his astronaut wife makes him feel like he's a total loser in comparison so I'm not surprised.
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"Astronaut wife"

LOL

But what did she expect from a bald, hollow shell of a man who lives vicariously through his penis shaped dick rockets that don't even achieve orbit.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 25, 2025 06:12 PM (Q4IgG)

222 I think it was heat related.
Posted by: Piper
......

Whatever they tell us will be a lie.

Posted by: wth at June 25, 2025 06:12 PM (v0R5T)

223 208 JUST IN: Chuck Schumer Hospitalized.

Hopefully a Dirt Nap is not too far off.

Posted by: 86 Chuck U Schumer

*shifty eyes*

Posted by: Big Boobed former Bartender at June 25, 2025 06:12 PM (DYe8R)

224 I've been away from all things internet all day. Please explain why hubby nec keeps saying that the US didn't set back the iranian nuclear program? Who the hell is reporting this? I thought the iranians admitted to it being badly damaged.
Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at June 25, 2025 06:10 PM (2NHgQ)

internal leak of some 'worst case' assessment to the press treated as gospel by the MSM.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 25, 2025 06:12 PM (8avO+)

225
*rolls eyes*

Bless Turley's little heart.

This guy constantly predicts some kind of unprecedented decency and honor from the Courts and law enforcement, and it never comes to pass. He's the Andy McCarthy of the Left.

These guys are like a millennial cult preacher promising the Rapture will come every three months.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 25, 2025 06:13 PM (MMOVg)

226 This is not a system, this is rule by perceived audaciousness. Each judge is trying to outdo the others in their brazen fiat.

Until someone goes to jail for violating the system, then there is no system- just a bunch of wannabe warlords trying to enforce their will. With no force of arms, just the trappings of authority.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 25, 2025 06:13 PM (YUL+W)

227 internal leak of some 'worst case' assessment to the press treated as gospel by the MSM.
Posted by: Oldcat at June 25, 2025 06:12 PM (8avO+)

And are still running with it...

Posted by: It's me donna at June 25, 2025 06:13 PM (VE6XX)

228 Piper, I didn't see it! *runs to check out photos*

If they were 20-something, it would be fine, but it's weird for a bald older billionaire.

Posted by: LizLem at June 25, 2025 06:14 PM (Eng1Z)

229 I think it was heat related.
Posted by: Piper
......

Whatever they tell us will be a lie.
Posted by: wth at June 25, 2025 06:12 PM (v0R5T)

My guess it is losing-the-mayorality-to-a-lunatic afterparty issue.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 25, 2025 06:14 PM (8avO+)

230 Schumer and Nadler are in a race to shuck off the mortal coil.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 25, 2025 06:14 PM (pwtJC)

231 The autopen scandal is hearing up again. James Freeman quotes House Oversight Chair Comey saying today that Biden did not oversee the Auropen use, it was done by other individuals:

Neera Tanden, the former Staff Secretary who controlled the Biden autopen. Ms. Tanden testified that she had minimal interaction with President Biden, despite wielding tremendous authority. She explained that to obtain approval for autopen signatures, she would send decision memos to members of the President’s inner circle and had no visibility of what occurred between sending the memo and receiving it back with approval. Her testimony raises serious questions about who was really calling the shots in the Biden White House amid the President’s obvious decline.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at June 25, 2025 06:14 PM (e1GAl)

232 The article says Schumer was "at the gym" when he felt lightheaded so he went to the hospital to get hydrated.

AT THE GYM?!?

That slimy worm hasn't darkened the door of a gym in 40 years. But I guess, liars gotta lie.

Posted by: tcn in AK at June 25, 2025 06:14 PM (1Gsou)

233 Don't operate your gas grill in these extreme global warming temperatures.

Posted by: The Red Cross at June 25, 2025 06:14 PM (PQB+n)

234 And are still running with it...
Posted by: It's me donna at June 25, 2025 06:13 PM (VE6XX)

they are running with stuff said in 2016

Posted by: Oldcat at June 25, 2025 06:14 PM (8avO+)

235 Looking at you, Chuckie.

Posted by: The Red Cross at June 25, 2025 06:15 PM (PQB+n)

236 Whoa, that is great news! I'm about to turn 70 and now is the time I order my first Speedo. I figure one size too small is probably better than one size too large, right?
Posted by: Canadian On The Outer Banks

One of my neighbors is in his mid-70s and walks around on his deck and back yard in nothing but a speedo.

Weird yes, but ya know, if you can't walk around half nekkid in your own back yard, what point is there to life?

Posted by: Tonypete at June 25, 2025 06:15 PM (cYBz/)

237 I still believe Autopen went rogue.

Posted by: Still lurking up north, read some, don't comment much at June 25, 2025 06:15 PM (kTd/k)

238 The article says Schumer was "at the gym" when he felt lightheaded so he went to the hospital to get hydrated.

AT THE GYM?!?

That slimy worm hasn't darkened the door of a gym in 40 years. But I guess, liars gotta lie.
Posted by: tcn in AK at June 25, 2025 06:14 PM (1Gsou)

Gym must be a code worm for getting roughed up among Dem farts.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 25, 2025 06:15 PM (8avO+)

239 selling your birthright for a mess of pottage isn't what it is cracked up to be.
Posted by: Oldcat

You can get an ounce of shake for $20 these days. That's a lot of pot mess.

Posted by: Dark Litigator at June 25, 2025 06:15 PM (KAi1n)

240 Definitely do not drink icy cold alcoholic beverages.

-probably also the red cross

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 25, 2025 06:15 PM (YUL+W)

241 178 119 *types*
*deletes*
Posted by: nurse ratched at June 25, 2025 05:50 PM (W2Pud)

I hear you loud and clear.
Posted by: tcn in AK


You are in the top three morons I want to meet. Please say you’re going to be in Corsicana.

Posted by: nurse ratched at June 25, 2025 06:16 PM (W2Pud)

242 This is not a system, this is rule by perceived audaciousness. Each judge is trying to outdo the others in their brazen fiat.

Until someone goes to jail for violating the system, then there is no system- just a bunch of wannabe warlords trying to enforce their will.
------------

If you squint just the right way, it almost resembles a Mad Max version of competing fiefdoms...minus (so far) the raging motorcycles and scenes of bizarre road violence.

Posted by: Crusader at June 25, 2025 06:16 PM (TN0g+)

243 Alex, I hadn't even heard of the new scandals in that area.

But it all reminds me of questions that any sane person has been asking, for years:

It's highly improbable that the *billions* of illicit $$ generated by the cartels have not found their way into corruption of public officials, at various levels. So what are the dimensions of this phenomenon? What is the FBI doing about it?

There have been claims, AFAIK without compelling specifics, in AZ, about various Dems and cartel $, at high levels. Since the designation of the cartels as foreign terrorist organizations, the entire toolbox of federal surveillance including FISA is now available for this issue. Sure hope Kash and Co. are as active on this as they are silent (often the right combo).

Posted by: rhomboid at June 25, 2025 06:17 PM (1m82a)

244 237 I still believe Autopen went rogue.
___

I remember when Obama's teleprompter had a blog

Posted by: Chuck Martel at June 25, 2025 06:17 PM (DYe8R)

245 Schumer and Nadler are in a race to shuck off the mortal coil.
Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 25, 2025 06:14 PM (pwtJC)

Nadler is doing his cosplay of that big goldfish floating upside down on the surface of the fishbowl.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 25, 2025 06:17 PM (8avO+)

246 Last elderly senator who got injured working out was Harry Reid. He was gone not too long after that

Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 25, 2025 06:18 PM (pwtJC)

247 232 The article says Schumer was "at the gym" when he felt lightheaded so he went to the hospital to get hydrated.

AT THE GYM?!?

That slimy worm hasn't darkened the door of a gym in 40 years. But I guess, liars gotta lie.
Posted by: tcn in AK at June 25, 2025 06:14 PM

He's going to exit the hospital with a big black eye a la Harry Reid and his exercise band mishap.

Posted by: CaliGirl at June 25, 2025 06:18 PM (Cg3Gl)

248 >>> 241 178 119 *types*
*deletes*
Posted by: nurse ratched at June 25, 2025 05:50 PM (W2Pud)

I hear you loud and clear.
Posted by: tcn in AK


You are in the top three morons I want to meet. Please say you’re going to be in Corsicana.
Posted by: nurse ratched at June 25, 2025 06:16 PM (W2Pud)

I would also love to meet you, tcn!

.... say, have I mentioned this will be the *tenth* TX MoMee???

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at June 25, 2025 06:18 PM (ULPxl)

249 The article says Schumer was "at the gym" when he felt lightheaded so he went to the hospital to get hydrated.

AT THE GYM?!?

That slimy worm hasn't darkened the door of a gym in 40 years. But I guess, liars gotta lie.
Posted by: tcn in AK a
......

It was Jowl Day.

Posted by: wth at June 25, 2025 06:18 PM (v0R5T)

250 Turley is always so hopeful SCOTUS will do the right thing bless his heart....

Posted by: It's me donna at June 25, 2025 06:18 PM (VE6XX)

251 Roberts said he doesn't want to be on the wrong side of history and Trump gives him the "ick" so those lower court rulings are a tax or something.

Posted by: brak at June 25, 2025 06:18 PM (jGJov)

252 The article says Schumer was "at the gym" when he felt lightheaded so he went to the hospital to get hydrated.

AT THE GYM?!?

That slimy worm hasn't darkened the door of a gym in 40 years. But I guess, liars gotta lie.
Posted by: tcn in AK at June 25, 2025 06:14 PM (1Gsou)
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Democrat Senate Leaders don't do well at the gym. Senator Reid could tell you, if he weren't already turned into an airport.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at June 25, 2025 06:19 PM (e1GAl)

253 You are in the top three morons I want to meet. Please say you’re going to be in Corsicana.
Posted by: nurse ratched at June 25, 2025 06:16 PM (W2Pud)

I had planned it, but we have to go to WI in September so I'm not sure we can pull it off. In-law stuff.

I'm still working it, though. We shall see.

Posted by: tcn in AK at June 25, 2025 06:19 PM (1Gsou)

254 I haven't paid attention to loser Orlando Bloom since he was on a paddle board butt nekkid. I felt sorry for the paddle board. No one wants to see that, Orlando!

His clumsy wife's pitiful "show" seconds of video from UK DM was pathetic. Maybe her space jaunt made her uncoordinated. She thundered around in her leotard outfit after swinging in from a rope.

I think she was involved like Gaga with the weird and evil cannibal people Hilary hung out with. The Epstein island crowd. So she may have that brain disease, Kuru. Prions all out of whack.

I doubt many will want Orlando at this point. Maybe Gweneth or MeAgain. I don't recall if he still is in movies. No care!

I laughed at the entire space gig. Especially at Okra's girlfriend screaming she was an astronaut. Good times.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at June 25, 2025 06:19 PM (6PCLE)

255 >>> 246 Last elderly senator who got injured working out was Harry Reid. He was gone not too long after that
Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 25, 2025 06:18 PM (pwtJC)

Oh no!!!

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at June 25, 2025 06:19 PM (ULPxl)

256 When I need to get hydrated, I go to the frig, not the hospital.

Posted by: wth at June 25, 2025 06:19 PM (v0R5T)

257 Nadler looks like an aged penguin about to be taken out by a leopard seal

Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 25, 2025 06:19 PM (pwtJC)

258 It's a tax!

Posted by: Darth Randall at June 25, 2025 06:19 PM (Lltdc)

259 217, ab-so-lute-ly!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at June 25, 2025 06:19 PM (Z5NUn)

260 There have been claims, AFAIK without compelling specifics, in AZ, about various Dems and cartel $, at high levels. Since the designation of the cartels as foreign terrorist organizations, the entire toolbox of federal surveillance including FISA is now available for this issue. Sure hope Kash and Co. are as active on this as they are silent (often the right combo).
Posted by: rhomboid at June 25, 2025 06:17 PM (1m82a)

well there was that one judge they caught housing illegals in his house and giving them guns thru his daughter.

Or the state official doing border runs with illegals.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 25, 2025 06:19 PM (8avO+)

261 The gunt lift is Nadler's favorite exercise.

Posted by: Still lurking up north, read some, don't comment much at June 25, 2025 06:19 PM (kTd/k)

262 Thanks on the iran thing.
By the way perry and bloom never married, to me that means he's been on the market all along. Neither one of them appears to have the ability to find a long term relationship that leads to a lifetime commitment, they're hollyweird trash and act like it.

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at June 25, 2025 06:20 PM (2NHgQ)

263 Nadler is doing his cosplay of that big goldfish floating upside down on the surface of the fishbowl.
Posted by: Oldcat at June 25, 2025 06:17 PM (8avO+)

From what I've heard, he smells worse than the rotting goldfish, too.

Posted by: tcn in AK at June 25, 2025 06:20 PM (1Gsou)

264 Nadler is doing his cosplay of that big goldfish floating upside down on the surface of the fishbowl.
Posted by: Oldcat at June 25, 2025 06:17 PM (8avO+)
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That's a beautiful image.

*raises a glass in your direction*

Posted by: Huck Follywood at June 25, 2025 06:20 PM (e1GAl)

265 > The autopen scandal is hearing up again. James Freeman quotes House Oversight Chair Comey saying today that Biden did not oversee the Auropen use, it was done by other individuals
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This is potentially a huge scandal. I'd like to know who on a potential list for testimony had been given a *biden pardon... if any.

Focusing on this could, maybe, override a lot of the shit going down now.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 25, 2025 06:20 PM (Q4IgG)

266 The Democrats can't let the moslem candidate win. He's bad for business, by which I mean party business. They have to keep the truly crazy away from office, like they 86'ed Bernie. Crazy is for behind the scenes. The front man has to appear releatively normal.

This goatherd wins, the Repubs can hang him around the Dems' necks in 2 years.

Posted by: Don Black, Senior VP for Product Development, Acme Snorkel Inc. at June 25, 2025 06:21 PM (AOsQT)

267 Roberts said he doesn't want to be on the wrong side of history and Trump gives him the "ick" so those lower court rulings are a tax or something.
Posted by: brak at June 25, 2025 06:18 PM (

"In a shocking rebuke to the lower Courts, the Supreme Court rules 7-2 that the Supreme Court is in fact Supreme except for very narrow circumstances where lower Courts rule against Trump."

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 25, 2025 06:21 PM (MMOVg)

268 Who names their kid Orlando?

Posted by: Ok, I'll ask at June 25, 2025 06:21 PM (PQB+n)

269 I've been away from all things internet all day. Please explain why hubby nec keeps saying that the US didn't set back the iranian nuclear program? Who the hell is reporting this? I thought the iranians admitted to it being badly damaged.
Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at June 25, 2025 06:10 PM (2NHgQ)

internal leak of some 'worst case' assessment to the press treated as gospel by the MSM.
Posted by: Oldcat at June 25, 2025 06:12 PM (8avO+)

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Libs of TikTok
@libsoftiktok

OMG

Sec. of Def Pete Hegseth just OBLITERATED the fake news on the Iran bomb report

"Why is there 'low confidence'? Because all of the evidence of what was just bombed by twelve 30lb bombs, is BURIED UNDER A MOUNTAIN!..So if you want to make an 'assessment of what happened at Fordow, you BETTER GET A BIG SHOVEL" - @SecDef

https://is.gd/t0eboa

Posted by: ShainS -- Make Unconditional Surrender Great Again! at June 25, 2025 06:21 PM (0tK+l)

270 143 Great news Morons!

The Five is on and speedos are in style for men now!
Posted by: Stateless

This is a lie and a trap. Trust me.

Posted by: Piper at June 25, 2025 06:22 PM (QzINz)

271 I laughed at the entire space gig. Especially at Okra's girlfriend screaming she was an astronaut. Good times.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at June 25, 2025 06:19 PM (6PCLE)

It was like a black hole of twats. I'm amazed the rocket didn't disintegrate under that kind of pressure.

Posted by: tcn in AK at June 25, 2025 06:22 PM (1Gsou)

272 Today Baghdad Bob would be redundant and unnecessary.

Posted by: Still lurking up north, read some, don't comment much at June 25, 2025 06:23 PM (kTd/k)

273 Schumer must be diabetic.

Posted by: Boss Moss at June 25, 2025 06:23 PM (VAINm)

274 Nood QH

Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 25, 2025 06:24 PM (pwtJC)

275 Who names their kid Orlando?
Posted by: Ok, I'll ask at June 25, 2025 06:21 PM (PQB+n)

the kind who name their girls Madison. Or Dakota.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 25, 2025 06:24 PM (8avO+)

276 Has Blue Origin ever achieved orbit? With anything?

Posted by: Don Black, Senior VP for Product Development, Acme Snorkel Inc. at June 25, 2025 06:24 PM (AOsQT)

277 220 "one of my favorite LA area names, Hawaiian Gardens"

Haha, that's one of the most deceptively named places in California.

Supposedly it's improved in the last 10 years somewhat, but it used to be the home of one of the meanest Hispanic gangs in the area, who were encouraging blacks to move out of town via very persuasive methods. It was the target of a big RICO case about 15 years ago, with 25-30 year sentences for some of the leaders.

Posted by: Alex at June 25, 2025 06:24 PM (EcUen)

278 93 We're going to have our "boots on the ground" war except it won't be in Iran. The left will see to it whether we like it or not. Just a matter of when.
Posted by: JROD at June 25, 2025 05:44 PM (IlL6s)
Many know this, but don't want to admit it.

Posted by: Eromero at June 25, 2025 06:24 PM (LHPAg)

279 So nobody knows who gave approval for Biden Autopen.

It's just too hard to investigate and he's old.

So there.

Posted by: jsg at June 25, 2025 06:24 PM (ra4xZ)

280 Well, gotta go harvest some herbs. I think thyme, oregano and mint are ready. Then to weed the beds, and whack back the raspberry bushes. Farm-ette-ing is a lot of fussy work.

Oh, and whoever of you is running the weather machine today, thanks from this gentile for the lovely sunshine today.

Posted by: tcn in AK at June 25, 2025 06:25 PM (1Gsou)

281 Who names their kid Orlando?

Posted by: Ok, I'll ask at June 25, 2025 06:21 PM (PQB+n)

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It's better than Dogtown?

Posted by: ShainS -- Make Unconditional Surrender Great Again! at June 25, 2025 06:25 PM (1jZXH)

282 Mossad chief sez "we" will stay inside Iran and keep a very close eye on their nuke shenanigans. Obvious, but still a nice reminder of the dimensions of Israel's achievements.

As Iran (and Lebanese Hezbollah) "celebrate" Iran's "victory".

Hilarious.


Posted by: rhomboid at June 25, 2025 06:25 PM (1m82a)

283 Sec. of Def Pete Hegseth just OBLITERATED the fake news on the Iran bomb report

"Why is there 'low confidence'? Because all of the evidence of what was just bombed by twelve 30lb bombs, is BURIED UNDER A MOUNTAIN!..So if you want to make an 'assessment of what happened at Fordow, you BETTER GET A BIG SHOVEL" - @SecDef

https://is.gd/t0eboa
Posted by: ShainS -- Make Unconditional Surrender Great Again! at June 25, 2025 06:21 PM (0tK+l)

Didn't know Sam Kinneson is a new Pentagon Spokesman but I like it.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 25, 2025 06:25 PM (8avO+)

284 Weird yes, but ya know, if you can't walk around half nekkid in your own back yard, what point is there to life?
Posted by: Tonypete


I might be old fashioned, but I kind of think running around in a speedo (or a string bikini or things of that sort) counts as all-nekkid

Posted by: FeatherBlade at June 25, 2025 06:27 PM (hB7mE)

285 Who names their kid Orlando?

Posted by: Ok, I'll ask


Either they really like Shakespeare or they really like Florida

Posted by: FeatherBlade at June 25, 2025 06:28 PM (hB7mE)

286 "one of my favorite LA area names, Hawaiian Gardens"

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I played poker there once a couple decades ago at the Gardens Casino.

Posted by: ShainS -- Make Unconditional Surrender Great Again! at June 25, 2025 06:28 PM (1jZXH)

287 Weird yes, but ya know, if you can't walk around half nekkid in your own back yard, what point is there to life?
Posted by: Tonypete

I might be old fashioned, but I kind of think running around in a speedo (or a string bikini or things of that sort) counts as all-nekkid
Posted by: FeatherBlade at June 25, 2025 06:27 PM (hB7mE)

Men striking back for those tik-tok gals filming their Butt in gigapixel resolution while squatting near machines

Posted by: Oldcat at June 25, 2025 06:29 PM (8avO+)

288 Dr Oz is the current admin of Medicare and Medicaid

Posted by: Notsothoreau at June 25, 2025 06:30 PM (AcTAo)

289 >So nobody knows who gave approval for Biden Autopen.

It's just too hard to investigate and he's old.
---

Remember, they're gonna find out who brought blow into the White House
AND- They're gonna audit Ft Knox
AND AND they're gonna investigate the J6 Kangaroo court

this is gonna be GREAT!

Posted by: Don Black, Senior VP for Product Development, Acme Snorkel Inc. at June 25, 2025 06:31 PM (AOsQT)

290 The Supreme Court needs to start issuing public statements along these lines:

"Judge X's ruling in case [x] is so blatantly unconstitutional, so utterly lawless and absurd, so downright stupid, as to demonstrate that s/he cannot continue to sit as a judge. If s/he does not take early retirement immediately, we strongly urge the legislature to impeach and remove Judge X, without a pension, at their earliest convenience." Being able to keep the pension might convince some of them to take the early retirement. It would help if all nine SCOTUS justices signed the statement.

Hmmmm. I wonder if Congress could pass a law allowing the Supreme Court to remove lower-court judges, as long as they vote at least 6-3 (7-2? 8-1? 9-0?) in favor.

Posted by: Dr. Weevil at June 25, 2025 06:37 PM (8zS93)

291 Either they really like Shakespeare or they really like Florida
Posted by: FeatherBlade at June 25, 2025 06:28 PM (hB7mE)

Their other kids are Back Seat, Tallahassee, Wing Stop Men's Room, and Don't Know.

Little DK is their favorite.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 25, 2025 06:42 PM (BjH5D)

Shock: Crack Addict and Prostitute Addict With No Obvious Source of Income Doesn't Pay His Lawyers for Defending Him in Court

I think that this law firm knew all along it was working for free, in the interests of the Democrat-Media-Communist Party.


The law firm that represented Hunter Biden in federal investigations filed a lawsuit against him on Monday, saying that former president Joe Biden's son owes its attorneys "substantially in excess of $50,000 in fees and interest."

I would guess that $50,000 is the minimum amount of the claim needed to get into superior court or whatever. $50,000 should not be taken as anywhere near what Hunter the Crackhead owes. It's just that they have to note in their lawsuit that the money sought exceeds this threshold.

"This is breach of contract action against Mr. Biden for unpaid legal fees," Winston & Strawn LLP wrote in its complaint, the New York Post reported. "Despite repeated requests for payment, Mr. Biden has failed to pay the amounts he owes."

"Although a portion of those fees have been paid," the complaint reads, "Mr. Biden presently owes [Winston & Strawn] substantially in excess of $50,000 in fees and interest that are due and payable."

Winston & Strawn represented Hunter Biden in both the Delaware gun case and the California tax evasion case.

...

This isn't the first time that Hunter Biden, who has a long history of alcohol and drug addictions, has struggled to finance his legal defense.

In January 2024, Hollywood entertainment lawyer Kevin Morris testified to Congress that he had been paying "various attorneys" on behalf of the then-first son. By last May--just weeks before Biden's gun trial--Morris reportedly told associates he was "completely tapped out" from footing the bill for millions in legal expenses for years.

Weird that Kevin Morris won't pay Hunter Biden's bills now that Joe Biden (and his ability to raise money through Biden, Inc.) isn't in office.

Did their friendship just end?

Or was it always a criminal scam to illegally donate money to Hunter Biden?

Posted by: Ace at 04:20 PM




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Posted by: Shaftoe at June 25, 2025 04:21 PM (Rvxb7)

2 Who knew a deadbeat crackhead would end up acting like a deadbeat crackhead?

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at June 25, 2025 04:22 PM (i24o9)

3 Hunter is the heart of our family.

Posted by: Dr. Jill at June 25, 2025 04:22 PM (EFf0s)

4 50 grand?

That's a couple more paintings of him blowing shit bubbles on canvas.

He can make that up in no time

Posted by: Blanco at June 25, 2025 04:23 PM (q83gU)

5 Maybe he can pay them in paintings?

I hear they are worth $200,000 each.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at June 25, 2025 04:23 PM (UImIR)

6 Howdy! Stopped to read the content!

Posted by: Moonbeam at June 25, 2025 04:24 PM (rbKZ6)

7 Hunter owes money? Can't "Pop" help him out?

Posted by: Case at June 25, 2025 04:24 PM (ilX37)

8 "$50,000 should not be taken as anywhere near what Hunter the Crackhead owes."

Winston & Strawn? You can rack up $50K for one of their partners to mark up revisions on an associate's draft while he takes a dump. (I worked for an AmLaw 100 firm my first few years out of law school, and there was really a partner in my office who was notorious for doing that.)

OK, not really, but firms in their tier bill in the $1200-2000 range hourly for partners.

Posted by: Alex at June 25, 2025 04:24 PM (EcUen)

9 Have jockstrap, feather boa, and sunglasses willing to model for art students.

Posted by: Hunter Biden at June 25, 2025 04:24 PM (tGgAI)

10 Zohran Mamdani wants to spend $65M on trans
medical treatment - including for minors - if
elected NYC mayor


But only for infidels.

Posted by: Zohran! at June 25, 2025 04:25 PM (xTIDn)

11 time to start selling off those dental implants.

Posted by: Shaftoe at June 25, 2025 04:25 PM (Rvxb7)

12 I'm shocked, SHOCKED to find that Hunter Biden is unreliable.

Posted by: Archimedes at June 25, 2025 04:25 PM (Riz8t)

13 This makes no sense. To get to this point he would have had to stiff his lawyers for months possibly as long as a year. Something fishy is going on and I suspect that he told them to FVCK OFF after his dad gave him that blanket pardon.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at June 25, 2025 04:25 PM (e5NfL)

14 They wouldn't be suing if Beau hadn't died in the line of duty in Iraq. After he was hit by a drunk driver. And the name of that drunk driver? Corn Pop.

Posted by: Schroedinger's Cat Wears the Emperor's New Clothes at June 25, 2025 04:26 PM (bWR5k)

15 I'm shocked, SHOCKED to find that Hunter Biden is unreliable.
Posted by: Archimedes at June 25, 2025 04:25 PM (Riz8t)
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That "Beware of the Leopard" sign is the for a reason.

Posted by: Bypass Planning Board at June 25, 2025 04:26 PM (XZ5S6)

16 I wonder how Biden spends his days now. My guess is it's looking at a wall, trying to figure it out.

Posted by: Archimedes at June 25, 2025 04:27 PM (Riz8t)

17 How come daddy doesn't send me birthday money any more, mommy?

Posted by: Navy Joan at June 25, 2025 04:27 PM (PQB+n)

18 To get to this point he would have had to stiff his lawyers for months possibly as long as a year.


Winston and Strawn?


They can run up a bill like that during lunch.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at June 25, 2025 04:27 PM (xTIDn)

19 to mark up revisions on an associate's draft while he takes a dump.
=4
Should I not have done that? Was that wrong? Because at the last place I worked people did that all the time.

Posted by: Shyster Mcshyster at June 25, 2025 04:27 PM (tGgAI)

20 Those Lefty retards LOVE that Leopards Eating Faces Party crap. DU is full of it.

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at June 25, 2025 04:27 PM (JCZqz)

21 Hunter is the heart of our family.

Posted by: Dr. Jill at June 25, 2025 04:22 PM (EFf0s)

You mean your family looks like it's going to explode?

Posted by: pookysgirl, wrestling Lil Pooky for the keyboard at June 25, 2025 04:28 PM (Wt5PA)

22 Weird that Kevin Morris won't pay Hunter Biden's bills now that Joe Biden (and his ability to raise money through Biden, Inc.) isn't in office.

Did their friendship just end?

Or was it always a criminal scam to illegally donate money to Hunter Biden?


I'm sure he was just as shocked as Chuck Todd and Jake Tapper were to find out things weren't on the up and up.

Posted by: Archimedes at June 25, 2025 04:28 PM (Riz8t)

23 If the Dems were smart, they'd sneak a Hunter Biden defense fund rider in the Big Beautiful Bill.

And a Leopard Control Administration.

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at June 25, 2025 04:28 PM (qwx/I)

24 Well that's weird. Sex-addicted crackhead nepot babies are usually so reliable.

Posted by: Polka will never die at June 25, 2025 04:28 PM (G+Jfs)

25 4 50 grand?

That's a couple more paintings of him blowing shit bubbles on canvas.

He can make that up in no time
Posted by: Blanco

Lol. Who's going to buy his shit now?

Posted by: International Leaders that need US Assistance at June 25, 2025 04:29 PM (JCZqz)

26
The law firm that represented Hunter Biden in federal investigations filed a lawsuit against him on Monday, saying that former president Joe Biden's son owes its attorneys "substantially in excess of $50,000 in fees and interest."

Maybe Hunter can find some firm to take his case on contingency.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 25, 2025 04:31 PM (/HVsR)

27 It's an axiom:

Never stiff a lawyer.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at June 25, 2025 04:31 PM (oLdT5)

28 Last time I heard anything about Hunter he was in Europe.

Posted by: Case at June 25, 2025 04:31 PM (ilX37)

29 Would they be willing to accept a shitty painting in barter?

Posted by: ShainS -- Make Unconditional Surrender Great Again! at June 25, 2025 04:31 PM (4gRuz)

30 The key point here is that big law firms no longer view the Bidens as a profitable political investment.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at June 25, 2025 04:31 PM (xTIDn)

31 "I would guess that $50,000 is the minimum amount of the claim needed to get into superior court or whatever."

Ace, that is correct. The Superior Court of the District of Columbia "has jurisdiction of any civil action ... in which the amount in controversy does not exceed $50,000."

The amount sought is easily 10x that, probably even more. Winston & Strawn represented him. That's a major firm. Those are the $1,200-an-hour guys.

Posted by: (There Can Be Only One) Elric Blade at June 25, 2025 04:32 PM (iFTx/)

32 Weird that Kevin Morris won't pay Hunter Biden's bills now that Joe Biden (and his ability to raise money through Biden, Inc.) isn't in office.

Lawyers can be a fickle lot.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 25, 2025 04:32 PM (vYDwg)

33 Look, it's been really hard dealing with the way the party treated my father, ok. I'm like working through a lot of stuff...and I really need you to bring me that stuff. I know it's late, and I promised to stop, but now is just not the right time. I need it. I need you to help me. Help me, help me. Now bring the stuff.

Posted by: Hunty at June 25, 2025 04:32 PM (tGgAI)

34 You just know he's going to file a pro se answer and claim that he's been pardoned for all crimes up to January 20, 2025--including not paying his lawyers.

You know how hilarious that would be?

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at June 25, 2025 04:32 PM (UImIR)

35 I've never understood why someone who's made as much in graft as Biden would even balk at paying these guys off.

OTOH, if you think that Goggle's AI is neutral, there's this on his net worth:

Estimates of Joe Biden's net worth vary, with Forbes estimating it at around $10 million as of June 2024
. This includes assets like his two homes in Delaware, which are valued at an estimated $7 million combined. He also owns a 1967 Corvette Stingray, estimated to be worth $100,000.
Biden's wealth has increased since taking office, primarily due to the rise in real estate values. He also earns a $400,000 annual salary as president. Financial disclosures from May 2023 indicated that his assets ranged between $1 million and $2.65 million as of 2022.
It's important to note that a claim suggesting his net worth had increased to $41 million by 2022 was rated as false by PolitiFact


Yeah, a rise in real estate values. That's it. I mean, who would ever doubt the work of Politifact?

Posted by: Archimedes at June 25, 2025 04:33 PM (Riz8t)

36 The key point here is that big law firms no longer view the Bidens as a profitable political investment.
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There was so much crime, there's no telling where the money went...

Posted by: Zombie Robert Palmer at June 25, 2025 04:33 PM (TN0g+)

37 OK, not really, but firms in their tier bill in the $1200-2000 range hourly for partners.

Posted by: Alex at June 25, 2025 04:24 PM (EcUen)

And in Biden's case, it had to be partners, not associates, because the partners were the ones who know people that could make the problem go away.

Posted by: pookysgirl, wrestling Lil Pooky for the keyboard at June 25, 2025 04:33 PM (Wt5PA)

38 Hunter is still the smartest man I know.

Posted by: President Potatohead at June 25, 2025 04:33 PM (vYDwg)

39 I'm actually surprised that Hunter hasn't overdosed yet or been knocked off by someone . And no, deep state, I have no desire to bump off Hunter. I'm hoping he repents and has a spiritual, personal and political conversion and turns states evidence on his corrupt family.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 25, 2025 04:33 PM (2GCMq)

40 The key point here is that big law firms no longer view the Bidens as a profitable political investment.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at June 25, 2025 04:31 PM (xTIDn)
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Good point

Posted by: (There Can Be Only One) Elric Blade at June 25, 2025 04:33 PM (iFTx/)

41
Oh yeah? In 100 years, rich douches will proudly say to their guests, "It's an original Hunter!"

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 25, 2025 04:33 PM (/HVsR)

42 Ace, that is correct. The Superior Court of the District of Columbia "has jurisdiction of any civil action ... in which the amount in controversy does not exceed $50,000."

The amount sought is easily 10x that, probably even more. Winston & Strawn represented him. That's a major firm. Those are the $1,200-an-hour guys.
Posted by: (There Can Be Only One) Elric Blade

A broke deadbeat owes you $500, he has a problem. A broke deadbeat owes you $500,000, YOU have a problem.

Posted by: Old Adage at June 25, 2025 04:33 PM (JCZqz)

43 Grifters owe other grifters some money. That's weird.

Posted by: dantesed at June 25, 2025 04:34 PM (Oy/m2)

44 Last time I heard anything about Hunter he was in Europe.
==
Unpossible he doesn't have any income.

Posted by: Chinese industrialists at June 25, 2025 04:34 PM (tGgAI)

45 What are the chances that Hunter can shit out a few more paintings for the law firm and call it even?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 25, 2025 04:34 PM (vYDwg)

46 The finniest part - on paper, Hunter and Joe Biden should have no problem playing this debt.

Then again, they are likely used to someone else paying all their debts. They may simply not understand that they, personally, have to write the goddamn check.

Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at June 25, 2025 04:34 PM (D1vbu)

47 Your words are hurtful and mean spirited.

(Takes another hit from the glass dick)

Want to buy one of my paintings?

Posted by: Hunter Biden, Pardoned Sex Pest Hiding Out In South Africa at June 25, 2025 04:34 PM (zw9S9)

48 Sad. Navy Joan might not go to college after all.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 25, 2025 04:35 PM (vYDwg)

49 43 Grifters owe other grifters some money. That's weird.
Posted by: dantesed at June 25, 2025 04:34 PM (Oy/m2)

Grifters always owe everybody money.

Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at June 25, 2025 04:35 PM (D1vbu)

50
Hunter thought that, as an influencer, he should just be comped.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 25, 2025 04:35 PM (/HVsR)

51 I thought Hunter was hiding out in South Africa because he didn't want to deal with the legal issues hounding him all this time.

He's back?

Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 25, 2025 04:36 PM (Q4IgG)

52 A crackhead drug addict who participated liberally with Asian hookers.

Hell, if that was my recent past, I wouldn't pay the bill either. I'd be dead before too long from any number of medical marvels.

Posted by: Orson at June 25, 2025 04:36 PM (dIske)

53 We thought we'd be paid in political influence and contracts.

Posted by: Hunter Biden's Ex-Lawyers at June 25, 2025 04:36 PM (lIio7)

54 Weird that Kevin Morris won't pay Hunter Biden's bills now that Joe Biden (and his ability to raise money through Biden, Inc.) isn't in office.

Did their friendship just end?

Or was it always a criminal scam to illegally donate money to Hunter Biden?


IIRC, Hunter signed over his interest in that Chinese company to Morris. Morris was just giving him his own money back in the form of "loans". All to avoid income tax and investigation, one would assume.

When the money ran out, Morris just wrote off the loans, I think. It was the style at the time.

Posted by: toby928 at June 25, 2025 04:37 PM (jc0TO)

55
We thought we'd be paid in political influence and contracts.
Posted by: Hunter Biden's Ex-Lawyers at June 25, 2025 04:36 PM (lIio7)


You mean that as a joke, but...

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 25, 2025 04:37 PM (/HVsR)

56 Last time I heard anything about Hunter he was in Europe.

Posted by: Case at June 25, 2025 04:31 PM (ilX37)

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

I believe he was representing Ukraine in the Pope Sweepstakes.

/He now has to settle for marketing a Find-the-Pope-in-the-Syphilitic-Pustule Contest in order to pay Rent at the Motel 666 ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Make Unconditional Surrender Great Again! at June 25, 2025 04:37 PM (yB0MT)

57 Does this mean a call from FJB no longer makes any Democrat do anything but say, "Sorry, wrong number?"

Posted by: Gref at June 25, 2025 04:37 PM (aBgBM)

58 May be the first time in history that a white shoe law firm got its ass kicked by hookers and blow.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 25, 2025 04:38 PM (vYDwg)

59 Clearly as there was no actual case there as Hunter was granted Immunity, the bill are moot.

Yeah, that's the ticket!

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 25, 2025 04:38 PM (mP0Kj)

60 I mixed coffee concentrate with diet cola. The resulting delicious beverage is called:
A) coffola
B) colaffee
C) colonblow
D) none of the above

Posted by: gp Got Dopest Bars at June 25, 2025 04:38 PM (5zjm+)

61 You know how hilarious that would be?
==
Super hilarious because he's being sued on contract for services rendered.

He does not have the initiative to do even that delusional act. He's surfing porn and doing drugs all day wherever he is.

Posted by: I don't want to work i just wanna at June 25, 2025 04:38 PM (tGgAI)

62
Isn't stiffing creditors the pastime of all politicians and campaigns?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 25, 2025 04:39 PM (/HVsR)

63 I thought Hunter was hiding out in South Africa because he didn't want to deal with the legal issues hounding him all this time.

He's back?

Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 25, 2025 04:36 PM (Q4IgG)

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

Deport his ass to the CECOT prison in El Salvador.

Posted by: ShainS -- Make Unconditional Surrender Great Again! at June 25, 2025 04:39 PM (yB0MT)

64 41
Oh yeah? In 100 years, rich douches will proudly say to their guests, "It's an original Hunter!"
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 25, 2025 04:33 PM (/HVsR)

Just like there are those who collected Hitler paintings.

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 25, 2025 04:39 PM (mP0Kj)

65 Chuck "E. Cheese" Schumer hospitalized.

Long-time Democratic senator and Democratic Minority Leader Chuck Schumer was hospitalized for dehydration early on Wednesday morning.

-
Not drinking enough will not get Pelosi.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Well, This Is Another Fine Mess You've Gotten Me Into at June 25, 2025 04:40 PM (L/fGl)

66 can he sell a serialized laptop?

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at June 25, 2025 04:40 PM (QSrLX)

67
Does this mean a call from FJB no longer makes any Democrat do anything but say, "Sorry, wrong number?"
Posted by: Gref at June 25, 2025 04:37 PM (aBgBM)


"I'm not interested in a car warranty."

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 25, 2025 04:40 PM (/HVsR)

68 May be the first time in history that a white shoe law firm got its ass kicked by hookers and blow.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 25, 2025 04:38 PM (vYDwg)
______

Definitely not the first time. Don't ask me how I know.

Posted by: (There Can Be Only One) Elric Blade at June 25, 2025 04:41 PM (iFTx/)

69 Yep, a couple dollars worth of paint and 10 minutes of time should easily get him a couple hundred thousand in walking around money.

Paint, baby, Paint!

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at June 25, 2025 04:41 PM (rvwwT)

70 "a call from FJB"

I.e., a call from his autophone.

Posted by: gp Got Dopest Bars at June 25, 2025 04:42 PM (5zjm+)

71 Excessive legal bills killed Beau.

Posted by: Beartooth at June 25, 2025 04:42 PM (8wKVG)

72
Hunter should go with the "I'm just a misunderstood genius" or "We artists exist on a different moral plane" arguments.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 25, 2025 04:42 PM (/HVsR)

73 What is the problem with this numbnuts? The whole family has more money than they can count.

Posted by: Halfhand at June 25, 2025 04:42 PM (VHiwh)

74 Does this mean a call from FJB no longer makes any Democrat do anything but say, "Sorry, wrong number?"
Posted by: Gref at June 25, 2025 04:37 PM (aBgBM)


Si desea escuchar este mensaje de nuevo, por favor oprima "dos".

Posted by: The Democrat Party National Committee at June 25, 2025 04:42 PM (vYDwg)

75 I still can't believe the lawyers tried to dismiss all felony charges against Hunter for the gun possession. Also, tried to sneak in a dismissal on the tax evasion as well.

It almost worked.

Posted by: dantesed at June 25, 2025 04:42 PM (Oy/m2)

76 have some burisma guy write a check

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at June 25, 2025 04:43 PM (QSrLX)

77
Does this mean a call from FJB no longer makes any Democrat do anything but say, "Sorry, wrong number?"
Posted by: Gref at June 25, 2025 04:37 PM (aBgBM)


It's like sports stars that have immense contracts and are bankrupt five years after retiring.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 25, 2025 04:43 PM (/HVsR)

78 Kevin Morris, unfrozen caveman lawyer.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at June 25, 2025 04:43 PM (ITkJX)

79 May be the first time in history that a white shoe law firm got its ass kicked by hookers and blow.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 25, 2025 04:38 PM (vYDwg)

It's a write off. They just write it off.

Posted by: Rose Law Firm at June 25, 2025 04:43 PM (zw9S9)

80 What is the problem with this numbnuts? The whole family has more money than they can count.
==
When the lawyers get a judgement and do discovery on his off shore bank accounts should be fun.

Posted by: 2027ish at June 25, 2025 04:44 PM (tGgAI)

81 Tulsi said the real intelligence is that the bombs destroyed Fordow. Made it through the rock and then ignited the powdered uranium.

Trump is calling for CNN to fire Natasha Bertrand, who also has lied about Hunter’s laptop.

Posted by: Ian S. at June 25, 2025 04:44 PM (3cXfB)

82 16 I wonder how Biden spends his days now. My guess is it's looking at a wall, trying to figure it out.

Posted by: Archimedes at June 25, 2025 04:27 PM (Riz8t)

Every week or I see a news item reporting Joe was in city X for purpose Y. These excursions seem to be done under the radar and not widely know until afterward. For example, several days ago I read he had been in Galveston for a Juneteenth celebration. Thirty-five miles from me and I didn't know.

Is he avoiding the press? Avoiding paparazzi? Avoiding bill collectors? Avoiding process servers? All of the above!

Posted by: Gref at June 25, 2025 04:44 PM (aBgBM)

83
W&S will just fire some associates and paralegals. They'll come out all right.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 25, 2025 04:45 PM (/HVsR)

84 81 Tulsi said the real intelligence is that the bombs destroyed Fordow. Made it through the rock and then ignited the powdered uranium.

Trump is calling for CNN to fire Natasha Bertrand, who also has lied about Hunter’s laptop.
Posted by: Ian S. at June 25, 2025 04:44 PM (3cXfB)

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I don't know how they'd know this.

But, I hope so!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 25, 2025 04:45 PM (GBKbO)

85 82 Every week or I see a news item reporting Joe was in city X for purpose Y. These excursions seem to be done under the radar and not widely know until afterward. For example, several days ago I read he had been in Galveston for a Juneteenth celebration. Thirty-five miles from me and I didn't know.

Is he avoiding the press? Avoiding paparazzi? Avoiding bill collectors? Avoiding process servers? All of the above!
Posted by: Gref at June 25, 2025 04:44 PM (aBgBM)

=======

The answer is simple:

He's moving so fast that the press can't keep up with him.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 25, 2025 04:45 PM (GBKbO)

86 He's in hiding somewhere. Going by the name Fast Eddie.

Posted by: Case at June 25, 2025 04:46 PM (ilX37)

87 > I still can't believe the lawyers tried to dismiss all felony charges against Hunter for the gun possession. Also, tried to sneak in a dismissal on the tax evasion as well.

It almost worked.
---------
Thus, the pardon for him. And all the others involved in the criminal side of the family business.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 25, 2025 04:46 PM (Q4IgG)

88 The check is in the mail.

Posted by: Hunter Biden, Pardoned Sex Pest Hiding Out In South Africa at June 25, 2025 04:46 PM (zw9S9)

89 What is the problem with this numbnuts? The whole family has more money than they can count.
Posted by: Halfhand at June 25, 2025 04:42 PM (VHiwh)
________

The family is scum. I know more than a few very rich people who don't pay bills until they absolutely have to. For bills like this, where the work was already done, they wouldn't pay. They would make the vendor chase them forever, and only pay when they had to -- usually at a big discount.

They especially wouldn't pay if they were at all unhappy with the work. Their attitude would be like "fuck these guys, they can sue me." This might be the case with Hunter.

Posted by: (There Can Be Only One) Elric Blade at June 25, 2025 04:46 PM (iFTx/)

90 Hunter should pay for it with his paintings.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 25, 2025 04:46 PM (8avO+)

91 The answer is simple:

He's moving so fast that the press can't keep up with him.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 25, 2025 04:45 PM (GBKbO)


He's got the stamina and focus of a man half his age!

Posted by: Joe Scarborough at June 25, 2025 04:46 PM (vYDwg)

92 89 The family is scum. I know more than a few very rich people who don't pay bills until they absolutely have to. For bills like this, where the work was already done, they wouldn't pay. They would make the vendor chase them forever, and only pay when they had to -- usually at a big discount.

They especially wouldn't pay if they were at all unhappy with the work. Their attitude would be like "fuck these guys, they can sue me." This might be the case with Hunter.
Posted by: (There Can Be Only One) Elric Blade at June 25, 2025 04:46 PM (iFTx/)

=======

It's also possible that Hunter lives wildly beyond his own means and actually doesn't have much in cash.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 25, 2025 04:47 PM (GBKbO)

93 62
Isn't stiffing creditors the pastime of all politicians and campaigns?
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 25, 2025 04:39 PM (/HVsR)

"Yes!" - Evan McMuffin, Truest of all Tru Conservatives.

Posted by: Thrawn at June 25, 2025 04:47 PM (9Ovst)

94 it depends on how you define owe, time, work, and shit

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at June 25, 2025 04:47 PM (QSrLX)

95 Martini Farmer at June 25, 2025 04:46 PM (Q4IgG)

Exactly.

Posted by: dantesed at June 25, 2025 04:47 PM (Oy/m2)

96 From your lips to Allah's God's ear.

This Iranian's testimony is going viral: "God is changing Iran from within. Islam has fallen."

https://is.gd/m7B5yd

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Well, This Is Another Fine Mess You've Gotten Me Into at June 25, 2025 04:47 PM (L/fGl)

97 90 Hunter should pay for it with his paintings.
Posted by: Oldcat at June 25, 2025 04:46 PM (8avO+)

The ones made with his own feces are especially pungent.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 25, 2025 04:47 PM (uWKK8)

98
"substantially in excess of $50,000 in fees and interest."

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It could be millions. That's substantially in excess.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at June 25, 2025 04:47 PM (ES1Rb)

99
Last time I heard anything about Hunter he was in Europe.
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Unpossible he doesn't have any income.


He worked his way across on a tramp steamer.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 25, 2025 04:48 PM (63Dwl)

100 96 From your lips to Allah's God's ear.

This Iranian's testimony is going viral: "God is changing Iran from within. Islam has fallen."

https://is.gd/m7B5yd
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Well, This Is Another Fine Mess You've Gotten Me Into at June 25, 2025 04:47 PM (L/fGl)

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The Ayatollah, in his bunker, has no idea, though!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 25, 2025 04:48 PM (GBKbO)

101 If they don't give the Bidens more money, there will be some embarrassing revelations. I'm sure they'll find more money.

Posted by: PG at June 25, 2025 04:48 PM (afPT4)

102 "I know more than a few very rich people who don't pay bills until they absolutely have to."

Accounts Payable standard practice. You don't get rich by writing a bunch of checks.

Posted by: gp Got Dopest Bars at June 25, 2025 04:48 PM (5zjm+)

103 It's one thing to get services and not pay for them, it takes it up a notch when you contract for high end services/properties and then stiff them. Hunter rented very expensive properties in CA with two landlords claiming that he stiffed them on back rent and left both properties a mess. One for $300K and one for $80K in Venice Beach.

A 55 year old man with no job or visible means of support with a history of drug/alcohol/prostitute addiction, and entitlement. Does he live on a credit card that his dad pays off every month?

Posted by: Cheri at June 25, 2025 04:48 PM (oiNtH)

104 A shyster gets screwed over by a democrat. Must be a day that ends in a y.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at June 25, 2025 04:48 PM (/U5Yz)

105 Zohran Mamdani wants to spend $65M on trans
medical treatment - including for minors - if
elected NYC mayor

But only for infidels.
Posted by: Zohran! at June 25, 2025 04:25 PM (xTIDn)

Its not gonna cost 65 million to throw them offa roofs Zoltan.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 25, 2025 04:48 PM (8avO+)

106 What is the problem with this numbnuts? The whole family has more money than they can count.
Posted by: Halfhand at June 25, 2025 04:42 PM (VHiwh)
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Hmmm. Maybe. But it's also possible they've been playing shell games with their money for so long that they don't know WHAT they have or WHERE it's at. Maybe it's tucked away in deep dark corners of various shell corporations and off-shore accounts to make it untouchable, even by the Bidens themselves.

Or it's been siphoned off through embezzlement by all the people "helping" them hide their money.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 25, 2025 04:48 PM (7fElN)

107 In his defense, Hunter never expected he'd have to pay anything. He probably thought it was pro-boner.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at June 25, 2025 04:49 PM (rvwwT)

108
I know more than a few very rich people who don't pay bills until they absolutely have to. For bills like this, where the work was already done, they wouldn't pay. They would make the vendor chase them forever, and only pay when they had to -- usually at a big discount.

I love videos where workmen tear out stuff they put in because they got stiffed by some complaining Karen.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 25, 2025 04:49 PM (/HVsR)

109 102 "I know more than a few very rich people who don't pay bills until they absolutely have to."

Accounts Payable standard practice. You don't get rich by writing a bunch of checks.
Posted by: gp Got Dopest Bars at June 25, 2025 04:48 PM (5zjm+)

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Receive money as fast as possible. Pay out as late as possible.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 25, 2025 04:49 PM (GBKbO)

110 substantially in excess of $50,000 in fees and interest."

Pfft. $50K lets you read the magazines in the lobby at a top-drawer law firm.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 25, 2025 04:49 PM (vYDwg)

111 maybe they quoted the "fuck you" rate anticipating collection of far less after a dispute. like right now

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at June 25, 2025 04:49 PM (QSrLX)

112 FORGIVE STUDENT HUNTER'S LOANS!

Posted by: Deranged Rabid Leftist at June 25, 2025 04:50 PM (EUhxH)

113 A 55 year old man with no job or visible means of support with a history of drug/alcohol/prostitute addiction, and entitlement. Does he live on a credit card that his dad pays off every month?
Posted by: Cheri at June 25, 2025 04:48 PM (oiNtH)


they got their pay in kickbacks or they are idiots.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 25, 2025 04:50 PM (8avO+)

114 I lent $1000 to my druggie friend from the frat house and the motherfucker just got high and didn't pay me back? Dude!

Posted by: gKWVE at June 25, 2025 04:50 PM (gKWVE)

115 Hunter has had everything given to him so feels he is entitled to everything free of charge.

Posted by: fd at June 25, 2025 04:50 PM (vFG9F)

116 horde puns rule: "the pro-boner" rate

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at June 25, 2025 04:51 PM (QSrLX)

117 The family is scum. I know more than a few very rich people who don't pay bills until they absolutely have to. For bills like this, where the work was already done, they wouldn't pay. They would make the vendor chase them forever, and only pay when they had to -- usually at a big discount.

They especially wouldn't pay if they were at all unhappy with the work. Their attitude would be like "fuck these guys, they can sue me." This might be the case with Hunter.
Posted by: (There Can Be Only One) Elric Blade at June 25, 2025 04:46 PM (iFTx/)

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It's also possible that Hunter lives wildly beyond his own means and actually doesn't have much in cash.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 25, 2025 04:47 PM (GBKbO)
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True. But then you cut a deal to pay the fees over time. Law firms hate suing clients, as it sends a bad signal other clients and potential clients. I suspect Hunter told these guys to fuck off. The firm then realized they had no choice but to sue.

Posted by: (There Can Be Only One) Elric Blade at June 25, 2025 04:51 PM (iFTx/)

118 ‘ Or was it always a criminal scam to illegally donate money to Hunter Biden?’

Haha. No.

It was a criminal scheme to bribe the President.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at June 25, 2025 04:51 PM (jbnUc)

119 It's also possible that Hunter lives wildly beyond his own means and actually doesn't have much in cash.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu

If you don't get it straight from Columbia, it's just street fairy dust.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Well, This Is Another Fine Mess You've Gotten Me Into at June 25, 2025 04:52 PM (L/fGl)

120 113 A 55 year old man with no job or visible means of support with a history of drug/alcohol/prostitute addiction, and entitlement. Does he live on a credit card that his dad pays off every month?
Posted by: Cheri at June 25, 2025 04:48 PM (oiNtH)


they got their pay in kickbacks or they are idiots.
Posted by: Oldcat at June 25, 2025 04:50 PM (8avO+)

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Hardworking members of Boards of Directors actually only show up for work about 4 times a year. They should spend days and weeks preparing for those 4 times, but they're only "at the office" 4 times a year. Sometimes less.

That's why someone can be CEO of one company and member of several Boards of Directors of a few others.

Maybe he's on Chase's board of directors?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 25, 2025 04:52 PM (GBKbO)

121
W&S was probably depending on the Democrats winning in '24. Bad guess.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 25, 2025 04:52 PM (/HVsR)

122 Afternoon all.
Remember that Morris was basically handed the assets of a company that had been funded by the Chinese because Hunter was forced to divest it. All along, Morris was paying for this stuff with Hunter's own money. Once that money ran out, so did Morris's generosity. And the money was a loan, so no taxes due.

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at June 25, 2025 04:52 PM (t/2Uw)

123 "Receive money as fast as possible. Pay out as late as possible.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu"

I have a couple of clients that take 60 days to pay. I hate that. When they want something I'm supposed to jump. F 'em.

Posted by: fd at June 25, 2025 04:52 PM (vFG9F)

124 Dude, they are lawyers, and worse yet, Democrat lawyers. They should be comfortable with Hunter probing their rectums. Anyway, perhaps Hunter will be persuaded to part with one of his masterpieces.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at June 25, 2025 04:52 PM (pohLc)

125 > they got their pay in kickbacks or they are idiots.

We didn't get our kickbacks, that's why we are suing for money.

Posted by: Hunter Biden's Ex-Lawyers at June 25, 2025 04:52 PM (lIio7)

126 They'll write it off on their taxes as charitable work and your insurance will go up because of it.

Posted by: Elrond Hubbard at June 25, 2025 04:52 PM (P0m9n)

127 114 I had a guy die of an OD before he paid me back in full. That's some low down welching right there. (True story.)

Posted by: gp Got Dopest Bars at June 25, 2025 04:53 PM (5zjm+)

128
41
Oh yeah? In 100 years, rich douches will proudly say to their guests, "It's an original Hunter!"
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 25, 2025 04:33 PM (/HVsR)

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If the authenticity is contested, they could do a DNA test on the shit paint.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at June 25, 2025 04:53 PM (ES1Rb)

129 Tulsi said the real intelligence is that the bombs destroyed Fordow. Made it through the rock and then ignited the powdered uranium.

I'd like to know how they determined that. One way I can think of is flying a plane equipped with a mass spec over the bomb site.

Posted by: Archimedes at June 25, 2025 04:53 PM (Riz8t)

130 It's called a retainer. Money up front so I work. If the money runs out, you need to give me more and it'll go into the client trust account. No money = no worky. The fact that they didn't operate on this principle is telling, because pretty much no attorney who has been in business more than a week will ever accept a client - ANY client - on credit.

Posted by: PabloD at June 25, 2025 04:53 PM (Dsfkc)

131 117 True. But then you cut a deal to pay the fees over time. Law firms hate suing clients, as it sends a bad signal other clients and potential clients. I suspect Hunter told these guys to fuck off. The firm then realized they had no choice but to sue.
Posted by: (There Can Be Only One) Elric Blade at June 25, 2025 04:51 PM (iFTx/)

=======

It can be both, of course.

He never paid anyway. When the one who was paying cut him off, he was all, "I don't have any cash. My dealer even takes my no limit credit card my dad got me from his Delaware based connections."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 25, 2025 04:53 PM (GBKbO)

132 Nooded.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at June 25, 2025 04:53 PM (NWqJf)

133 3 Hunter is the heart of our family.
Posted by: Dr. Jill at June 25, 2025 04:22 PM (EFf0s)


I believe he's rearranged your organs enough that might even be true by now.

Posted by: gKWVE at June 25, 2025 04:53 PM (gKWVE)

134 Pssh! Next you’ll be telling me there’s gambling at Rick’s.

Posted by: Farmer Bob at June 25, 2025 04:54 PM (hlNLQ)

135 Who knew a deadbeat crackhead would end up acting like a deadbeat crackhead?
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at June 25, 2025 04:22 PM (i24o9)

(searches in vain for shocked face)

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 25, 2025 04:54 PM (msTix)

136 He can pay them with some of his “artwork”.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at June 25, 2025 04:54 PM (NWqJf)

137 W&S was probably depending on the Democrats winning in '24. Bad guess.

I'm sure that's what happened.

Posted by: Archimedes at June 25, 2025 04:54 PM (Riz8t)

138
I worked for a small company many years ago. I ran the office so I was the one who answered the calls about overdue bills.

I never figured out why the asshole owner would wait many months to pay the vendors.

He fired me, lol, because I kept asking why don't you pay the bills.

Posted by: four seasons at June 25, 2025 04:55 PM (3ek7K)

139 Where's Jay Guevara been? I hope just on holiday.

Posted by: CaliGirl at June 25, 2025 04:55 PM (AZf41)

140 So Arthur 2: On the Rocks, is really the Hunter Biden story?

Hey Brother, Can You Spare $750,000,000?

Posted by: Movie Moron at June 25, 2025 04:55 PM (JCZqz)

141 140 So Arthur 2: On the Rocks, is really the Hunter Biden story?

Hey Brother, Can You Spare $750,000,000?
Posted by: Movie Moron at June 25, 2025 04:55 PM (JCZqz)

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Bruh.

Not everything is movies.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 25, 2025 04:55 PM (GBKbO)

142 The law firm that represented Hunter Biden in federal investigations filed a lawsuit against him on Monday, saying that former president Joe Biden*s son owes its attorneys substantially in excess of $50,000 in fees and interest.

This is like some kind of legal performance art right? Who thinks a crackhead is gonna pay their legal bills?

Posted by: Clay at June 25, 2025 04:56 PM (0SLMg)

143 Pop Quiz:

Who is more trustworthy?

A) The mullahs of Iran?
B) Hunter Biden?

Show your work.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 25, 2025 04:56 PM (7fElN)

144 Leopards Ate My Face is the follow up book to, Jaguars Ripped My Flesh, A Wolverine Is Eating My Leg and Peckered To Death By Ducks.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 25, 2025 04:56 PM (XV/Pl)

145 Theory: The reason why the Bidens were so desperate for huge amounts of cash was that it was needed to pay off all the blackmailers.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 25, 2025 04:56 PM (ZOv7s)

146 True. But then you cut a deal to pay the fees over time. Law firms hate suing clients, as it sends a bad signal other clients and potential clients. I suspect Hunter told these guys to fuck off. The firm then realized they had no choice but to sue.
Posted by: (There Can Be Only One) Elric Blade at June 25, 2025 04:51 PM (iFTx/)

Or they are sending a signal out that the Bidens are out of power and going to stay there.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 25, 2025 04:56 PM (8avO+)

147 I guess his art work profession also dried up.

Posted by: polynikes at June 25, 2025 04:56 PM (VofaG)

148 See you later! Off to my church’s Wednesday Night Supper and Prayer Meeting!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at June 25, 2025 04:56 PM (NWqJf)

149 146 Or they are sending a signal out that the Bidens are out of power and going to stay there.
Posted by: Oldcat at June 25, 2025 04:56 PM (8avO+)

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I really, really want Hunter to run for office.

Governor of Delaware, a House seat somewhere, something.

It'll be hilarious.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 25, 2025 04:57 PM (GBKbO)

150 Hunter should invite his ex lawyers to South Africa for a sit down and then tell the government that his ex lawyers are Boer terrorists. Problem solved. Until the government kills hunter of course. Which solves a different problem

Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 25, 2025 04:57 PM (pwtJC)

151 Still wondering what the 3.5 million that the Russian oligarch's wife gave Hunter was for.

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at June 25, 2025 04:57 PM (t/2Uw)

152 It's like sports stars that have immense contracts and are bankrupt five years after retiring.
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The story of Antoine Walker (Celtics via Kentucky).

Posted by: Crusader at June 25, 2025 04:57 PM (TN0g+)

153 If solid UF6 caught on fire, where ever it happened would be hotter than the ground zero at Hiroshima.

Posted by: pawn at June 25, 2025 04:57 PM (QB+5g)

154 The years long thievery is infuriating, but it's at least a little amusing to see the entire left spit out the Biden's like a worn out piece of chewing gum.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 25, 2025 04:58 PM (uWKK8)

155 Or they are sending a signal out that the Bidens are out of power and going to stay there.
Posted by: Oldcat at June 25, 2025 04:56 PM (8avO+)
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There's no influence left to peddle, so they are coming for their debts.

Remember: all Democrat relationships are transactional.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 25, 2025 04:58 PM (ZOv7s)

156 Have we started a pool on how much the real amount is?

My guess is hunter molested the female lawyers, so I will put it a t a cool million. Hazard pay.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 25, 2025 04:58 PM (zZu0s)

157 Or they are sending a signal out that the Bidens are out of power and going to stay there.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 25, 2025 04:56 PM (8avO+)

Trying to get juice out an old shriveled lemon before he offs himself rather than live a life of poverty. Bidens have no more paths to political power.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at June 25, 2025 04:58 PM (i24o9)

158 I really, really want Hunter to run for office.

Governor of Delaware, a House seat somewhere, something.

It'll be hilarious.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 25, 2025 04:57 PM (GBKbO)
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Well, hilarious right up until the point where he actually WINS an office. You don't think the election will be anywhere close to fair, do you?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 25, 2025 04:58 PM (7fElN)

159 Bruh.

Not everything is movies.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

😔 tough crowd. But I know my audience.

Hunter needs to transition, get BOOBIES (not movies) and start an OF account. If AoS HQ has taughg me anything, boobies ARE everything!

Posted by: Movie Moron at June 25, 2025 04:58 PM (JCZqz)

160 >>>owes its attorneys "substantially in excess of $50,000 in fees and interest."
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We are serfs. Whoa to a man called before the judge. Poverty awaits.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 25, 2025 04:59 PM (yXf+h)

161 Is he still in South Africa?

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at June 25, 2025 04:59 PM (t/2Uw)

162 I really, really want Hunter to run for office.

Governor of Delaware, a House seat somewhere, something.

It'll be hilarious.
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*looks at New York*

Well, I guess that's not an impossibility.

Posted by: Methos at June 25, 2025 04:59 PM (Dnobf)

163 Hunter sure goes through an amazing amount of money for someone who is supposedly clean. If he is using, based on what he has earned, he should not be fogging a mirror right now. Where is his money?

Posted by: Piper at June 25, 2025 04:59 PM (pRpzT)

164 159 Bruh.

Not everything is movies.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

😔 tough crowd. But I know my audience.

Hunter needs to transition, get BOOBIES (not movies) and start an OF account. If AoS HQ has taughg me anything, boobies ARE everything!
Posted by: Movie Moron at June 25, 2025 04:58 PM (JCZqz)

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It's even funnier because I should have your nic!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 25, 2025 04:59 PM (GBKbO)

165 And no, deep state, I have no desire to bump off Hunter. I'm hoping he repents and has a spiritual, personal and political conversion and turns states evidence on his corrupt family.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 25, 2025 04:33 PM (2GCMq)

Fenelon, if there were the slightest hint that Hunter were undergoing such a conversion, the Deep State would bump him off.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 25, 2025 04:59 PM (msTix)

166 Joe Biden is a worse human than Hunter Biden.

Posted by: polynikes at June 25, 2025 04:59 PM (VofaG)

167 @144 and Tom Friedman's The Taxi Driver is Cutting off my Foot

Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 25, 2025 05:00 PM (pwtJC)

168
I read something last week saying he is still in South Africa.

Could be media lies though.

Posted by: four seasons at June 25, 2025 05:00 PM (3ek7K)

169 I withdraw my earlier comment.

Posted by: pawn at June 25, 2025 05:00 PM (QB+5g)

170 I really, really want Hunter to run for office.

Governor of Delaware, a House seat somewhere, something.

It'll be hilarious.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 25, 2025 04:57 PM (GBKbO)
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Watching the media trying to avoid covering him bussing in whores and doing lines of cocaine in restaurant bathrooms would be a hoot.

"How do we *know* he was doing cocaine? Maybe it as a a powdered decongestant?"

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 25, 2025 05:00 PM (ZOv7s)

171
Hunter says he will work off the debt by screwing all the law firms interns.

Posted by: Frank Barone at June 25, 2025 05:00 PM (IifOV)

172 Boobies are not everything.

Posted by: Assman at June 25, 2025 05:00 PM (fV+MH)

173 156 Have we started a pool on how much the real amount is?

My guess is hunter molested the female lawyers, so I will put it a t a cool million. Hazard pay.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 25, 2025 04:58 PM (zZu0s)

imagine the FaceTime calls those people had to suffer through.

Posted by: CaliGirl at June 25, 2025 05:00 PM (AZf41)

174 I'm hoping he repents and has a spiritual, personal and political conversion and turns states evidence on his corrupt family.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke
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That would be a great outcome both for Hunter’s soul, and for much needed justice for all the evil that FJB dragged us through.

Posted by: Dirac_Delta at June 25, 2025 05:01 PM (tepKG)

175 it is funny that the bidens got so much in bribes and grift but seem not to have saved enough to retire withhomes they own.

Posted by: n at June 25, 2025 05:01 PM (l9LTk)

176 Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 25, 2025 04:59 PM (msTix)

Probably, but I'm sure if he wanted to Hunter could keep his conversion a secret , since he's t so many other secrets for years before this.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 25, 2025 05:01 PM (2GCMq)

177 Pop Quiz:

Who is more trustworthy?

A) The mullahs of Iran?
B) Hunter Biden?

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C) Joe Isuzu?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Well, This Is Another Fine Mess You've Gotten Me Into at June 25, 2025 05:01 PM (L/fGl)

178 Which solves a different problem
Posted by: Smell the Glove at June

Look at you, the problem solver! 🤣

Posted by: Piper at June 25, 2025 05:01 PM (pRpzT)

179 @144 and Tom Friedman's The Taxi Driver is Cutting off my Foot
Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 25, 2025 05:00 PM (pwtJC)
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That'll teach him to tip his cabbie!

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 25, 2025 05:01 PM (7fElN)

180 Hunter sure goes through an amazing amount of money for someone who is supposedly clean. If he is using, based on what he has earned, he should not be fogging a mirror right now. Where is his money?
Posted by: Piper at June 25, 2025 04:59 PM (pRpzT)
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Whether his pardon is valid or not, he's too far down into criminal behavior. Probably commits ten felonies a day when he's sober, 20 when he isn't.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 25, 2025 05:01 PM (ZOv7s)

181 Has any publisher offered Hunter good money for his biography?

Posted by: mr tmz at June 25, 2025 05:01 PM (rJ48h)

182 Well, hilarious right up until the point where he actually WINS an office. You don't think the election will be anywhere close to fair, do you?
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 25, 2025 04:58 PM (7fElN)

He might be like Fetterman, the most sensible one there.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 25, 2025 05:02 PM (8avO+)

183 171
Hunter says he will work off the debt by screwing all the law firms interns.
Posted by: Frank Barone at June 25, 2025 05:00 PM (IifOV)

Pro Boner-O?

Posted by: a Dude in MI at June 25, 2025 05:02 PM (/6GbT)

184 OT: I went hiking this morning (SOTA) and stopped by Chick-fil-A on the way home. I ordered waaaay tooooo much and ate it all because I'm an idiot.

On the plus side, I had my first DX contact with a guy in Slovenia.

Think I'll go read and try to not barf up half a pound of chicken tenders.

Posted by: PabloD at June 25, 2025 05:02 PM (Dsfkc)

185 I think the only reason they occasionally trot out old Joe is so he can collect the $300,000 speaking fee or more like mumbling fee. He is too gone for a book deal. Also, no talk about a Biden library.😉

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at June 25, 2025 05:02 PM (t/2Uw)

186
This is like some kind of legal performance art right? Who thinks a crackhead is gonna pay their legal bills?
Posted by: Clay

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Not only that, but a crackhead whose source of income has dried up. Or maybe the firm has reasonably assessed that they can get a good-sized chunk of cash if they can force him to liquidate a bunch of assets.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 25, 2025 05:03 PM (lCaJd)

187 It'll be hilarious.
-
*looks at New York*

Well, I guess that's not an impossibility.
Posted by: Methos

Alright, I'll say it. Hunter Biden would be a better NYC mayor than Mamdani. At least he wouldn't actively destroying the city with the self-righteous belief he was doing something good. How much damage could a lazy, layabout grifter actually do?

Posted by: Moron Analyst at June 25, 2025 05:03 PM (JCZqz)

188 Posted by: PabloD at June 25, 2025 05:02 PM (Dsfkc)

I hope you got a shake.

Posted by: polynikes at June 25, 2025 05:03 PM (VofaG)

189 it is funny that the bidens got so much in bribes and grift but seem not to have saved enough to retire withhomes they own.
Posted by: n at June 25, 2025 05:01 PM (l9LTk)
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That's why I think it's being used to cover blackmail.

The Clintons just bump off their enemies, but the Bidens are to daft for that.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 25, 2025 05:03 PM (ZOv7s)

190 184 Congrats on FB DX!

Posted by: gp Got Dopest Bars at June 25, 2025 05:03 PM (5zjm+)

191 Mike Flynn's ordeal cost him around 5 million, but that was intense and he didn't have top notch lawyers working for him.

So, the real wold cost for Hunter's legal representation would be around 250k at the low-end and half a mill at the high end.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 25, 2025 05:03 PM (XV/Pl)

192 How much damage could a lazy, layabout grifter actually do?
Posted by: Moron Analyst at June 25, 2025 05:03 PM (JCZqz)
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Have you forgotten BHO already?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 25, 2025 05:04 PM (7fElN)

193 Who is more trustworthy?

A) The mullahs of Iran?
B) Hunter Biden?
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C) Joe Isuzu?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks

D) Baghdad Bob?

Posted by: Moron Analyst at June 25, 2025 05:04 PM (JCZqz)

194 187 Alright, I'll say it. Hunter Biden would be a better NYC mayor than Mamdani. At least he wouldn't actively destroying the city with the self-righteous belief he was doing something good. How much damage could a lazy, layabout grifter actually do?
Posted by: Moron Analyst at June 25, 2025 05:03 PM (JCZqz)

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If Mamdani wins, it'll just be DeBalsio's corruption and ineffectiveness again with a government run popup grocery store that fails miserably in the middle of it.

I'm not sold that he wins, though.

The vote splitting is going to be fascinating.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 25, 2025 05:04 PM (GBKbO)

195 That's why I think it's being used to cover blackmail.

The Clintons just bump off their enemies, but the Bidens are to daft for that.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author


had not thought of that, and youre right, it has to be stupidity, because they do not have any moral objection to anything

Posted by: n at June 25, 2025 05:04 PM (XYcas)

196 Biden's library will be a Corvette stuffed with papers in the backseat.

Posted by: dantesed at June 25, 2025 05:04 PM (Oy/m2)

197 I suspect that if any of the *biden clan gets whacked, it's going to be Hunter. They're not the only crime family on the east coast. They're not untouchable. People think his security detail will keep him safe. That assumption was put to rest in Butler, PA last year.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 25, 2025 05:05 PM (Q4IgG)

198 Alright, I'll say it. Hunter Biden would be a better NYC mayor than Mamdani. At least he wouldn't actively destroying the city with the self-righteous belief he was doing something good. How much damage could a lazy, layabout grifter actually do?
Posted by: Moron Analyst at June 25, 2025 05:03 PM (JCZqz)
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I'm so done with the NYC primary. It's just a primary. The general is in November. Wacko Boy won 43% of the Dem vote with 9% turnout.

He is far from inevitable.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 25, 2025 05:05 PM (ZOv7s)

199 Biden Sr has several houses he owns. The beach house is quite nice.

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at June 25, 2025 05:05 PM (t/2Uw)

200
132 Nooded.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit

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

I think we've found the Sponge of proclaiming nooded.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 25, 2025 05:05 PM (lCaJd)

201 Winston and Strawn can hold their next big customer meeting in Wilmington with the keynote given by Autopen, as interpreted to the group by President Jill Biden.

There guys, does that cover it?

Posted by: Huck Follywood at June 25, 2025 05:05 PM (zapWf)

202 198 I'm so done with the NYC primary. It's just a primary. The general is in November. Wacko Boy won 43% of the Dem vote with 9% turnout.

He is far from inevitable.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 25, 2025 05:05 PM (ZOv7s)

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Roughly 30% turnout of the Democrat electorate.

3.1 million Democrats in NYC. 1 million voted.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 25, 2025 05:06 PM (GBKbO)

203 I thought Hunter's burgeoning art gig was the best way to launder monies for the family nest egg?

Sadly, those artistic mental blocks can be devastating and challenging to overcome.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at June 25, 2025 05:06 PM (ioEI6)

204 From your lips to Allah's God's ear.

This Iranian's testimony is going viral: "God is changing Iran from within. Islam has fallen."

https://is.gd/m7B5yd
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Well, This Is Another Fine Mess You've Gotten Me Into at June 25, 2025 04:47 PM (L/fGl)


Good, they are in the perfect place to re-translate the oldest copies of the Koran, free of the commentaries and interpretations, to determine what was revealed instead of invented.

That should keep the house of war busy within itself as long as the Christian reformation ever was.

Posted by: Kindltot at June 25, 2025 05:06 PM (D7oie)

205 Roughly 30% turnout of the Democrat electorate.

3.1 million Democrats in NYC. 1 million voted.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

And almost half of them are US citizens!

Posted by: Moron Analyst at June 25, 2025 05:07 PM (JCZqz)

206 had not thought of that, and youre right, it has to be stupidity, because they do not have any moral objection to anything
Posted by: n at June 25, 2025 05:04 PM (XYcas)
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Biden's entire career has been one of being a harmless, corrupt buffoon. No one ever took him seriously, and he was pushed into office to serve as a meat puppet because Bernie was too unpredictable.

No way anyone that dumb can have enforcers. He has to pay full retail price. Indeed, if he had any juice, the Clintons would have done him in already.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 25, 2025 05:07 PM (ZOv7s)

207 How much damage could a lazy, layabout grifter actually do?
Posted by: Moron Analyst


Seriously.

Posted by: Æþelræd at June 25, 2025 05:07 PM (gKWVE)

208 "I think we've found the Sponge of proclaiming nooded."

I wrote a script that autonooded all threads going back to 2003. Just to be sure.

Posted by: gp Got Dopest Bars at June 25, 2025 05:07 PM (5zjm+)

209 But AHL, the mayor's race has RCV so all bets are off. There will be 5 candidates to split the vote.

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at June 25, 2025 05:07 PM (t/2Uw)

210 206 Biden's entire career has been one of being a harmless, corrupt buffoon. No one ever took him seriously, and he was pushed into office to serve as a meat puppet because Bernie was too unpredictable.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 25, 2025 05:07 PM (ZOv7s)

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Which was a silly concern.

Bernie will say anything his paymasters tell him to say. He's all, "trust the establishment," now.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 25, 2025 05:08 PM (GBKbO)

211 I'm sure the Chinese will buy some more of his paintings..l

Posted by: steevy at June 25, 2025 05:08 PM (YwEeS)

212 174 I'm hoping he repents and has a spiritual, personal and political conversion and turns states evidence on his corrupt family.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke

Sunshine on a cloudy day.

Posted by: Auspex at June 25, 2025 05:08 PM (j4U/Z)

213 Pixy doesn't like the special characters in "Aethelraed" I see

Posted by: gKWVE at June 25, 2025 05:08 PM (gKWVE)

214 OT:
Will Trump’s library be in NY or Florida?

Posted by: Jmel at June 25, 2025 05:08 PM (bVhJi)

215 The Clintons just bump off their enemies, but the Bidens are to daft for that.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 25, 2025 05:03 PM (ZOv7s)


They are probably being blackmailed by the Clintons.

Posted by: Kindltot at June 25, 2025 05:08 PM (D7oie)

216 And no, deep state, I have no desire to bump off Hunter. I'm hoping he repents and has a spiritual, personal and political conversion and turns states evidence on his corrupt family.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke

I'm more a lake of fire guy myself.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Well, This Is Another Fine Mess You've Gotten Me Into at June 25, 2025 05:09 PM (L/fGl)

217 Roughly 30% turnout of the Democrat electorate.

3.1 million Democrats in NYC. 1 million voted.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 25, 2025 05:06 PM (GBKbO)
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Maybe 9% was for all parties. Anyway, he got less than 50% in a multi-way election, and now has to face an incumbent.

Yes, he could win, but it's a tough hill to climb.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 25, 2025 05:09 PM (ZOv7s)

218 Posted by: Kindltot at June 25, 2025 05:06 PM (D7oie)

Translations? Mohammed was a bloodthirsty gay pedophile.

Oh, are we talking 'translations'?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 25, 2025 05:09 PM (zZu0s)

219 209 But AHL, the mayor's race has RCV so all bets are off. There will be 5 candidates to split the vote.
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice)

I thought I read the General Election wasn't RCV, just the primary? It will be interesting to see if the Dem Establishment goes full Murkowski and tries to sink Mamdani. The far Left activists will lose their shit if so...

Posted by: Moron Analyst at June 25, 2025 05:09 PM (JCZqz)

220 Imagining some moron sitting in a thread since 2005, waiting for the nood. Heh.

Posted by: gp Got Dopest Bars at June 25, 2025 05:09 PM (5zjm+)

221 I'm so done with the NYC primary. It's just a primary. The general is in November. Wacko Boy won 43% of the Dem vote with 9% turnout.

He is far from inevitable.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author



it is not that hes far from inevitable its that he even got votes.

love the city, hate the voters

Posted by: n at June 25, 2025 05:10 PM (57bKy)

222 If Mamdani wins, it'll just be DeBalsio's corruption and ineffectiveness again with a government run popup grocery store that fails miserably in the middle of it.
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I don't think most people have any idea of the complexity of running a chain of grocery stores to cover NYC. Legalizing crime, the sex trade, and defunding the police pail in comparison to just how prima facie stupid that proposal is.

Posted by: Crusader at June 25, 2025 05:10 PM (TN0g+)

223 Winston & Strawn: ??

Hunter: you fucked up, you trusted me

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at June 25, 2025 05:10 PM (NtVYv)

224 217 Maybe 9% was for all parties. Anyway, he got less than 50% in a multi-way election, and now has to face an incumbent.

Yes, he could win, but it's a tough hill to climb.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 25, 2025 05:09 PM (ZOv7s)

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Plus, the primary was RCV while the general will be single vote.

Hard to see where things play out where the incumbent is still in the race, but has left his party, the former governor could run as an independent, and the Republican guy is still in it to win it.

Mamdani is probably going to be making lots of promises to lots of people over the next few months to try and ensure his victory.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 25, 2025 05:10 PM (GBKbO)

225 an accidental nood ? pftt

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 25, 2025 05:11 PM (yXf+h)

226 219 209 But AHL, the mayor's race has RCV so all bets are off. There will be 5 candidates to split the vote.
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice)

I thought I read the General Election wasn't RCV, just the primary? It will be interesting to see if the Dem Establishment goes full Murkowski and tries to sink Mamdani. The far Left activists will lose their shit if so...
Posted by: Moron Analyst at June 25, 2025 05:09 PM (JCZqz)

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Correct.

RCV is limited to primaries and special elections (why?).

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 25, 2025 05:11 PM (GBKbO)

227 214 OT:
Will Trump’s library be in NY or Florida?
Posted by: Jmel

Greenland or recently obtained former Canadian land lol.

Posted by: Moron Analyst at June 25, 2025 05:11 PM (JCZqz)

228 Start checking on GoFundMe.

Oh, wait. He hasn't stabbed anyone in the heart yet. At least literally. I'm sure he has stabbed plenty of people in the heart, figuratively.

Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at June 25, 2025 05:11 PM (MZ+PY)

229 Crazier things have happened, this wacko for mayor guy is promising FS to the FSA and that carries a bunch of votes.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at June 25, 2025 05:11 PM (rvwwT)

230 Did Mamdani win because the chicks think he's good looking?

Posted by: gp Got Dopest Bars at June 25, 2025 05:11 PM (5zjm+)

231 214 Trumps Library should be in FL. Who will be going to the ancient ruins New York?

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at June 25, 2025 05:11 PM (wBaIH)

232 Dare I say Hunter Biden finds himself painted into a corner.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at June 25, 2025 05:12 PM (NXz8h)

233 Those Lefty retards LOVE that Leopards Eating Faces Party crap. DU is full of it.
Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at June 25, 2025 04:27 PM (JCZqz)

What? Is this a new meme?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 25, 2025 05:12 PM (zZu0s)

234 @217

>>Yes, he could win, but it's a tough hill to climb.

I think Sliwa drops out and everyone gets behind Adams.

Either way, I limit my exposure to NYC as much as humanly possible, so if the crazy can simply be contained to the five boroughs, NYC can serve as a cautionary tale.

It is disconcerting that every major city is on course to be run by marxist lunatics.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 25, 2025 05:12 PM (XV/Pl)

235 BTW, See-through underwear is apparently trending in Europe...

Posted by: Crusader at June 25, 2025 05:13 PM (TN0g+)

236 Translations? Mohammed was a bloodthirsty gay pedophile.
Oh, are we talking 'translations'?
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 25, 2025 05:09 PM (zZu0s)


The more radical Imams claim that Christianity is a corrupt outgrowth of Persian Mitrhaism. Do you have a more realistic view of Islam Oh Scholar?

Posted by: Kindltot at June 25, 2025 05:13 PM (D7oie)

237 it is interesting how cuomos brand is so hated he could not beat a muslim in the city where the towers were destroyed by al qaedas goons

Posted by: n at June 25, 2025 05:13 PM (fszda)

238 Good, they are in the perfect place to re-translate the oldest copies of the Koran, free of the commentaries and interpretations, to determine what was revealed instead of invented.

Posted by: Kindltot at June 25, 2025 05:06 PM (D7oie)
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They don't need new translations, they need unedited copies, which were purposefully destroyed. Iran is old enough that there may be some squirreled away, but by now they should have been smuggled to the West.

The curious thing about the Koran is that there are "problem words" but it's supposed to be written in Arabic, dictated by an angel. Why would there be errors if that was the case? How could Mo write down the wrong word?

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 25, 2025 05:13 PM (ZOv7s)

239 The answer is simple:

He's moving so fast that the press can't keep up with him.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 25, 2025 04:45 PM (GBKbO)


D'oh! I should have known.

LOL

Posted by: Gref at June 25, 2025 05:13 PM (aBgBM)

240 230 Did Mamdani win because the chicks think he's good looking?
Posted by: gp Got Dopest Bars at June 25, 2025 05:11 PM (5zjm+)


Chicks?

Posted by: Zesty New Yorkers at June 25, 2025 05:13 PM (gKWVE)

241 Greenland or recently obtained former Canadian land lol.
Posted by: Moron Analyst at June 25, 2025 05:11 PM (JCZqz)

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Hey, now, that little gem isn't supposed to drop until Friday. You know, Friday, when the events the talking heads are still blathering about become old news.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at June 25, 2025 05:13 PM (tT6L1)

242 The colors are much more vibrant when you spit paint thru a coke straw.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at June 25, 2025 05:14 PM (ioEI6)

243 So, if hunter reneged on payments, does that make the atty client privilege negotiable?

Posted by: nurse ratched at June 25, 2025 05:15 PM (W2Pud)

244 I was unaware that it was only primary and spec elections for RCV. Howecr thre are still multiple candidates, Cuomo, Adam's, Sliwa who could split the sane vote.

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at June 25, 2025 05:15 PM (t/2Uw)

245
The more radical Imams claim that Christianity is a corrupt outgrowth of Persian Mitrhaism. Do you have a more realistic view of Islam Oh Scholar?
Posted by: Kindltot at June 25, 2025 05:13 PM (D7oie)
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Islam is a Christian heresy that was turned into a rival religion to legitimize Arab conquests. There are no contemporaneous accounts of Mohammed.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 25, 2025 05:15 PM (ZOv7s)

246 How could Mo write down the wrong word?
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 25, 2025 05:13 PM (ZOv7s)

Mohammed couldn't write his own name. He had scribes take down his ravings.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 25, 2025 05:16 PM (msTix)

247
Just wondering what Coumo does now.

Don't think they'll let him near nursing homes or speed dating events.

Posted by: Auspex at June 25, 2025 05:16 PM (j4U/Z)

248 amazing one of the largest cities in the US being a No Go zone.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 25, 2025 05:16 PM (yXf+h)

249 116 horde puns rule: "the pro-boner" rate
Posted by: Hokey Pokey at June 25, 2025 04:51 PM (QSrLX)


I do my part.

Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at June 25, 2025 05:16 PM (PiwSw)

250 Will Trump’s library be in NY or Florida?
Posted by: Jmel at June 25, 2025 05:08 PM (bVhJi)

Florida. Gotta be big enough to house Trump Force One.

Posted by: Josephistan at June 25, 2025 05:16 PM (GM3CZ)

251
Trump is calling for CNN to fire Natasha Bertrand, who also has lied about Hunter’s laptop.
Posted by: Ian S.

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

Natasha Bertrand is the poster child for 27-year-old reporters who literally know nothing per Ben Rhodes (she was literally 27 or 28 at the time).

Byron York once did a takedown of one of her reports that debunked it down to "and" and "the." He had done 5 minutes of googling. MSNBC did not respond to a request for comment. She has since been hired by CNN.

Pathetic pathetic pathetic.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 25, 2025 05:17 PM (lCaJd)

252 To think that Navy Joan's mother wanted her daughter to have the Biden name. I hope that time and events have educated her on how bad that would have been to an innocent child.

Posted by: Cheri at June 25, 2025 05:17 PM (oiNtH)

253 Cuomo will be on the ballot as an Independent. He is being urged to withdraw and back Adams. So is Sliwa. This is the only way Mamdami loses.

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at June 25, 2025 05:18 PM (t/2Uw)

254 My father announced that Mamdani is just a child playacting at adulthood. Now I can't hear him giving his socialist wishlist without adding "and a pretty, pretty pony".

Posted by: NaughtyPine at June 25, 2025 05:18 PM (5pAEw)

255 I'll gladly pay you Tuesday for a line today.

Posted by: Hunter at June 25, 2025 05:18 PM (XeU6L)

256 Mohammed couldn't write his own name. He had scribes take down his ravings.
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Mo didn't exist. The version of Mo that they created was a pedophile. To think you could create a character from a blank sheet of paper and you deliberately chose to include that he was a pedophile is remarkable.

Posted by: Crusader at June 25, 2025 05:19 PM (TN0g+)

257 My father announced that Mamdani is just a child playacting at adulthood. Now I can't hear him giving his socialist wishlist without adding "and a pretty, pretty pony".
Posted by: NaughtyPine at June 25, 2025 05:18 PM (5pAEw)
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The Z Man does NY!

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at June 25, 2025 05:19 PM (tT6L1)

258 amazing one of the largest cities in the US being a No Go zone.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 25, 2025 05:16 PM (yXf+h)
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Pining for the "Taxi Driver" days.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 25, 2025 05:19 PM (ZOv7s)

259 amazing one of the largest cities in the US being a No Go zone.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 25, 2025 05:16 PM (yXf+h)

You spelled 'all' incorrectly in word 2.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 25, 2025 05:19 PM (8avO+)

260 What? Is this a new meme?

Posted by: Aetius451AD

I don't care enough to Google the history, but it's kind of the equivalent of "Jews for Hitler" or something. A party of leopards promising to eat people's faces, and then dumb (MAGA) bumpkin voters support it with all sorts of dumb rationalization. "They don't mean it", "They'll eat my face last", etc. Then, anytime they think Trump supporters get hurt by Trump’s actions, they bring this stupid thing up again.

You'll see all sorts of buttons and shit with it on Etsy, and at No Kings type protests.
https://tinyurl.com/3z7myhrf
https://tinyurl.com/yc6j9rjc

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at June 25, 2025 05:20 PM (JCZqz)

261 How the hell can Hunter blow through so much money so quickly?

Oh, wait...'blow'.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 25, 2025 05:20 PM (XeU6L)

262 The illegal love on FB is nauseating. ICE are all KKK or the poor illegals, assaulting children, raping, stealing IDs and peddling drugs are just poor little dears trying to just get by. Democrats are lower than dirt and utterly vile. I hope they start arresting the shit that tries to incire violence and mete out agony upon them.

Posted by: night lifted at June 25, 2025 05:20 PM (FZn/N)

263 its biden fatigue

Posted by: n at June 25, 2025 05:20 PM (Letgy)

264 Mo didn't exist. The version of Mo that they created was a pedophile. To think you could create a character from a blank sheet of paper and you deliberately chose to include that he was a pedophile is remarkable.
Posted by: Crusader at June 25, 2025 05:19 PM (TN0g+)
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That was included to legitimize the perverts in power. "Oh, I'm not a sicko, the Great Prophet showed us this was okay."

See also: Joseph Smith.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 25, 2025 05:20 PM (ZOv7s)

265 Good, they are in the perfect place to re-translate the oldest copies of the Koran, free of the commentaries and interpretations, to determine what was revealed instead of invented.
Posted by: Kindltot


The oldest copies aren't in Persian, not sure why'd try or expect to be heard. And it contradicts itself throughout. They can't escape the Islamic Dilemma.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at June 25, 2025 05:20 PM (mlg/3)

266 Pining for the "Taxi Driver" days.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd

No! There is another!

Posted by: Paul Kersey at June 25, 2025 05:21 PM (JCZqz)

267 How the hell can Hunter blow through so much money so quickly?

Oh, wait...'blow'.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 25, 2025 05:20 PM (XeU6L)
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Didn't Robin Williams say that cocaine was God's way of telling you that you have too much money?

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 25, 2025 05:21 PM (ZOv7s)

268 Mo didn't exist. The version of Mo that they created was a pedophile. To think you could create a character from a blank sheet of paper and you deliberately chose to include that he was a pedophile is remarkable.
Posted by: Crusader at June 25, 2025 05:19 PM (TN0g+)
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That was included to legitimize the perverts in power. "Oh, I'm not a sicko, the Great Prophet showed us this was okay."

See also: Joseph Smith.
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Yep.

Posted by: Crusader at June 25, 2025 05:22 PM (TN0g+)

269 The curious thing about the Koran is that there are "problem words" but it's supposed to be written in Arabic, dictated by an angel. Why would there be errors if that was the case? How could Mo write down the wrong word?
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 25, 2025 05:13 PM (ZOv7s)


archaic Arabic, and remember that the whole problem ending in the Reformation came about because of new translations of the Bible from the original Greek and Aramaic texts that were recovered from the East. These showed that the common Bible used at that time (prior to 12th Century) in Europe was full of errors, mistranslations, misinterpretations and outright forgeries.
This is the genesis of the Geneva Bible, Wycliff's martyrdom, the split in the Church that ended in Luther's theses, and pretty much the 13 -16th centuries.

To say "but they don't understand Arabic" is a facile argument that comes more from misunderstanding languages and dialects than any real academic stance.
The Spanish spoken in Leon in 1490 is different from that spoken in Cadiz in 1930, for example, and Arabic has kicked around further and longer than that

Posted by: Kindltot at June 25, 2025 05:22 PM (D7oie)

270 84 81 Tulsi said the real intelligence is that the bombs destroyed Fordow. Made it through the rock and then ignited the powdered uranium.

Trump is calling for CNN to fire Natasha Bertrand, who also has lied about Hunter’s laptop.
Posted by: Ian S. at June 25, 2025 04:44 PM (3cXfB)

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I don't know how they'd know this.

But, I hope so!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 25, 2025 04:45 PM (GBKbO)

It's easy to figure out the source of the DIA leak to CNN. The authors of the DIA report wrote it for the express purpose of it being leaked. The 'low confidence' was merely a CYA measure for their benefit, but it was always meant to be leaked, simply to undermine Trump.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at June 25, 2025 05:22 PM (0CU3H)

271 Just wondering what Coumo does now.

Don't think they'll let him near nursing homes or speed dating events.
Posted by: Auspex at June 25, 2025 05:16 PM (j4U/Z)

I remember when Papa Cuomo was the face of the Dems back in 84 It was gonna be a dynasty to Rival the Kennedy's

Posted by: Oldcat at June 25, 2025 05:22 PM (8avO+)

272 The NYC Mayoral elections always have multiple candidates. The last election had nine candidates running on ten official ballot lines (Curtis Sliwa was endorsed by two parties).

In that election, Eric Adams, the endorsed Democrat, won 67% of the vote.

In the prior election, the endorsed Democrat won 66% of the vote. Before that, Michael Bloomberg bought a couple of elections.

There is, I suppose, a small chance Curtis Sliwa could win. It's more likely that Cuomo is put up as an independent financed again by Bloomberg, and he has a better shot than Sliwa, I would imagine. But rapper terror-lover already beat Cuomo once, so ...

Posted by: Huck Follywood at June 25, 2025 05:22 PM (a10cA)

273 213 Pixy doesn*t like the special characters in *Aethelraed* I see
Posted by: gKWVE

Count your blessings. I can*t even use apostrophes or quotation marks.

Posted by: Clay at June 25, 2025 05:23 PM (0SLMg)

274 253 Cuomo will be on the ballot as an Independent. He is being urged to withdraw and back Adams. So is Sliwa. This is the only way Mamdami loses.


agree this is the way

lets see how it goes

Posted by: Black Orchid at June 25, 2025 05:23 PM (Pv3Rg)

275 Judge NOOD

Posted by: Polka will never die at June 25, 2025 05:23 PM (5xvZ1)

276 The joke about the second line of novels would apply to Mamdani
Zoran Mamdani elected Mayor of New York
And then the murders started

Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 25, 2025 05:23 PM (pwtJC)

277 Just lie back and wait for a little prick. You'll barely feel it.

Posted by: Andy Cuomo's Gently Used Piercing Emporium at June 25, 2025 05:24 PM (7Q0e+)

278 The oldest copies aren't in Persian, not sure why'd try or expect to be heard. And it contradicts itself throughout. They can't escape the Islamic Dilemma.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at June 25, 2025 05:20 PM (mlg/3)
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It is possible that early copies might be buried and subsequently uncovered if Iran ever was allowed to do archeology again.

Note how Christians can't get enough of digging stuff up, testing it, analyzing it, but Muslims bulldozed every historical building in Mecca because "idolatry" or something.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 25, 2025 05:24 PM (ZOv7s)

279 Posted by: Zesty New Yorkers at June 25, 2025 05:13 PM (gKWVE)

Tell me that you know a Zoomer without telling me that you know a Zoomer!

Posted by: Darrell Harris at June 25, 2025 05:24 PM (0CU3H)

280 amazing one of the largest cities in the US being a No Go zone.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 25, 2025 05:16 PM (yXf+h)


First order of business for Mayor Mamdani will be to shoot new tourism commercials, with Mamdani on a subway, in Times Square, at the Met, telling the world NYC is the safest tourist destination in the world!

If elected he will have to try for a quick flood of tourists, before the word gets out that his NYC is like Gaza.

Posted by: Gref at June 25, 2025 05:24 PM (aBgBM)

281 What? Is this a new meme?

Posted by: Aetius451AD

I'm sorry to heat that it's a lefty meme. I showed it to my father and he thought it was apropos for Americans voting in socialists.

Posted by: NaughtyPine at June 25, 2025 05:24 PM (5pAEw)

282 Pining for the "Taxi Driver" days.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd
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Bronson vs. Muggers, in 'Death Wish', https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=of-57Ivfwz8

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 25, 2025 05:25 PM (XeU6L)

283 Islam is a Christian heresy that was turned into a rival religion to legitimize Arab conquests. There are no contemporaneous accounts of Mohammed.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 25, 2025 05:15 PM (ZOv7s)


and your point is what, that this is a religion that you can dismiss because they are not mainstream Christian?
Or that we can ignore it because it is all lies?
That it doesn't exist?

What is your point behind that shallow often repeated claim?

Posted by: Kindltot at June 25, 2025 05:26 PM (D7oie)

284 Mamdani says he will tax the rich to give away free stuff

Tax the rich is such an old line. Everyone knows what it means. The"rich" is anyone that has a job

He didn't say anything about the super rich.

Posted by: Case at June 25, 2025 05:26 PM (ilX37)

285 Oops. Margin problem
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=of-57Ivfwz8

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 25, 2025 05:26 PM (XeU6L)

286 "The curious thing about the Koran is that there are "problem words" but it's supposed to be written in Arabic, dictated by an angel. Why would there be errors if that was the case? How could Mo write down the wrong word?"

That's referred to as "abrogation." What the Archangel Gabriel first told Mo didn't include conquest and forced conversions, so naturally Gabriel had to revise the memo.

Posted by: CTHillary, dead but dreaming at June 25, 2025 05:26 PM (2myyY)

287 Pixy doesn't like the special characters in "Æthelred" I see
Posted by: gKWVE at June 25, 2025 05:08 PM


You just need to upgrade from the carboard membership.

Posted by: toby928 at June 25, 2025 05:27 PM (jc0TO)

288 I thought Hunter was hiding out in South Africa because he didn't want to deal with the legal issues hounding him all this time.

Posted by: Martini Farmer

Maybe he should take up farming.

Posted by: Stu Podaso at June 25, 2025 05:27 PM (W3mVa)

289 Mamdani says he will tax the rich to give away free stuff

Tax the rich is such an old line. Everyone knows what it means. The"rich" is anyone that has a job
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Everywhere is
Freaks and hairies
Dykes and fairies
Tell me, where is sanity?

[Verse 2]
Tax the rich
Feed the poor
Till there are no
Rich no more

Posted by: Top 40 Ten Years After tune, not aired anymore at June 25, 2025 05:29 PM (XeU6L)

290 The oldest copies aren't in Persian, not sure why'd try or expect to be heard. And it contradicts itself throughout. They can't escape the Islamic Dilemma.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at June 25, 2025 05:20 PM (mlg/3)


This is not the argument ending stance you think it is.

The Dilemma is caused by the interpretations of archaic Arabic, and the Suras attempting to square the text with understanding and later political development.

Retranslations would both cut through that and leave Islamic world in a turmoil for centruries

Posted by: Kindltot at June 25, 2025 05:32 PM (D7oie)

291 I remember when Papa Cuomo was the face of the Dems back in 84 It was gonna be a dynasty to Rival the Kennedy's
Posted by: Oldcat at June 25, 2025 05:22 PM (8avO+)


And it HAS been!

Posted by: Kindltot at June 25, 2025 05:32 PM (D7oie)

292 Ukraine and Moldova don't extradite to the US.

With the $ we've spent, the Biden's could have another mansion or two there.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day. at June 25, 2025 05:45 PM (NFX2v)

293 I was going to leave an insightful comment, but there are already 292 in front of mine. Mine won't be seen by anyone.
Burma Shave.

Posted by: DragonCayenne at June 25, 2025 06:42 PM (Aa5is)

294 What ? I’m not covered by my pardon ?

Posted by: Mordecai at June 25, 2025 09:44 PM (zRkGO)

INSURRECTION: RIOTERS BREAK INTO CAPITOL HILL TO STOP OFFICIAL GOVERNMENT BUSINESS

Which I'm told makes you an insurrectionist and subject to jail without bail until trial.

And also subject to the government slamming you with multiple duplicative charges and fabricated charges like "conspiracy to defraud the United States."

That's the rule now, right?


U.S. Capitol Police detained a group of peaceful protestors on Wednesday, including several people in wheelchairs, during a protest over proposed cuts to Medicaid spending on Capitol Hill.

Scripps News footage shows a crowd of people, some of them in wheelchairs, being zip-tied and escorted out of the Russell Senate Rotunda. The room is part of a Senate office building on Capitol Hill.

The protests are over proposed Medicaid cuts included in the "Big Beautiful Bill," which would remove coverage for some 10 million of the poorest Americans over the next decade as well as implement additional work requirements for those using Medicaid.

The media continues to push the idea that some people -- women, minorities, gays, transgenders, the disabled -- have special rights and privileges and are allowed to break the law, and that it's Racist to apply the law to them. Hence the special mention that some of the rioters are "in wheelchairs" -- so what if they are? What is being argued here? That if someone is in a wheelchair (and might just be posing in a wheelchair, btw) then they have a special right to riot?

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Posted by: GF at June 25, 2025 03:22 PM (iVUs+)

2 The protests are over proposed Medicaid cuts included in the "Big Beautiful Bill," which would remove coverage for some 10 million of the poorest Americans over the next decade as well as implement additional work requirements for those using Medicaid.

this is very difficult to believe

Posted by: kallisto at June 25, 2025 03:22 PM (dCxaZ)

3 Years in solitary, coming up!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 25, 2025 03:23 PM (GBKbO)

4 I nooded.

Posted by: CaliGirl at June 25, 2025 03:23 PM (Y5PQs)

5 The media continues to push the idea that some people -- women, minorities, gays, transgenders, the disabled -- have special rights and privileges and are allowed to break the law, and that it's Racist to apply the law to them. Hence the special mention that some of the rioters are "in wheelchairs" -- so what if they are? What is being argued here? That if someone is in a wheelchair (and might just be posing in a wheelchair, btw) then they have a special right to riot?

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Yes.

Intersectionality demands that the oppressed destroy the oppressors until the roles have been switched and the oppressed are rulers in perpetuity.

For equity.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 25, 2025 03:24 PM (GBKbO)

6 Hey man, motorized wheelchairs can be deadly.

Posted by: pookysgirl used to work in a home for the disabled at June 25, 2025 03:24 PM (Wt5PA)

7 Thrown the book at them! As I assume they won't face actual legal sanctions or convictions in DC, I mean literally throw some large tomes at them.

Posted by: Moron Analyst at June 25, 2025 03:24 PM (JCZqz)

8 "remove coverage for some 10 million of the poorest Americans "

Illegal aliens is what they mean. Not Americans.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at June 25, 2025 03:24 PM (WPL6O)

9 We'll be sleeping in the parking garages tonight!

Posted by: The National Guard at June 25, 2025 03:25 PM (PQB+n)

10 That's the rule now, right?

They said so for four straight years nearly non-stop, so I'm 100% that's the rule now.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at June 25, 2025 03:25 PM (6ydKt)

11 including several people in wheelchairs,

Unpossible. Republicans would have pushed the people in wheelchairs down the stairs on sight. My TV told me so.

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at June 25, 2025 03:25 PM (pIfcn)

12 Paging Tommy Udo, Tommy Udo to the hall outside the hearing room

Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 25, 2025 03:26 PM (pwtJC)

13 5 The media continues to push the idea that some people -- women, minorities, gays, transgenders, the disabled -- have special rights and privileges and are allowed to break the law, and that it's Racist to apply the law to them. Hence the special mention that some of the rioters are "in wheelchairs" -- so what if they are? What is being argued here? That if someone is in a wheelchair (and might just be posing in a wheelchair, btw) then they have a special right to riot?

======

Yes.

Intersectionality demands that the oppressed destroy the oppressors until the roles have been switched and the oppressed are rulers in perpetuity.

For equity.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 25, 2025 03:24 PM (GBKbO)

Only some women...you can murder multiple other women, like the ones of J6, if they are protesting the wrong thing...

Posted by: Nova Local at June 25, 2025 03:26 PM (tOcjL)

14 If people in wheelchairs are forcibly breaking into your building, it might be time to do a critical review of who's doing your security work.

Posted by: Crusader at June 25, 2025 03:26 PM (TN0g+)

15 Of course they bring some people in sitting in wheelchairs.

Who wants to arrest somebody in a wheelchair?
Nobody, that's who.

Well, James Bond would, but other than him?

Posted by: SpeakingOf at June 25, 2025 03:27 PM (6ydKt)

16 The protests are over proposed Medicaid cuts included in the "Big Beautiful Bill," which would remove coverage for some 10 million of the poorest Americans over the next decade as well as implement additional work requirements for those using Medicaid.

this is very difficult to believe

Posted by: kallisto at June 25, 2025 03:22 PM (dCxaZ)

Yeah, it probably doesn't affect legal Americans.

Posted by: pookysgirl, born in this state at June 25, 2025 03:27 PM (Wt5PA)

17 The Larpest Day in American History

Posted by: ... at June 25, 2025 03:27 PM (sfdl6)

18 Intersectionality demands that the oppressed destroy the oppressors until the roles have been switched and the oppressed are rulers in perpetuity.

For equity.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 25, 2025 03:24 PM (GBKbO)


But don't you dare describe them as "rulers in perpetuity." You don't want to commit any microaggressions, do you bigot?

Posted by: Dr. T at June 25, 2025 03:27 PM (jGGMD)

19 toss 'em the clink and forget about them for a couple of years...no change of clothes...pimento cheese sandwiches on stale white bread at sporadic times during the night

Posted by: DanMan at June 25, 2025 03:27 PM (8uzBS)

20 No time to talk right now. We've got miles of fences to put up!

Posted by: DC Public Works at June 25, 2025 03:27 PM (PQB+n)

21 Another example of corporations acting as Puritans:

Credit card companies which had the vapors over anime and manga to such an extent they started to deny such purchases has now gone after another group - furries.

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 25, 2025 03:27 PM (9nkAn)

22 "remove coverage for some 10 million of the poorest Americans "

Illegal aliens is what they mean. Not Americans.
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Yes, and since they're here illegally, they're not even Americans which means that phrase is Kamala-level word salad.

Posted by: Crusader at June 25, 2025 03:28 PM (TN0g+)

23

They should've been shot on sight like Ashli Babbitt and the nones in wheelchairs should've been given the Tommy Udo Battleship Potemkin treatment down the Capitol Steps.


Posted by: J.J. Sefton at June 25, 2025 03:28 PM (x0n13)

24 An old lady in a scooter killed my Uncle Johnny.

Posted by: toby928 at June 25, 2025 03:28 PM (jc0TO)

25 Have the Capitol Police shot any of these insurrectionists in the head yet?

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at June 25, 2025 03:28 PM (ufFY8)

26 MY life is in danger!

Posted by: Alexandria Occasional Cortex at June 25, 2025 03:28 PM (sMkVI)

27 Personally, I would like to see them take these people in a room by themselves and make a deal with them.

"Tell us which politician set this entire thing up. Who, specifically, coordinated it, and you're free to wheel your ass out of here."


Then, file charges against the individuals who set up the event and encouraged "handicapped" (both mentally and physically) to break the law. Such an effort would flip the optics 180 degrees. And, it would send a message to the next politician (because, let's face it, someone like AOC or Warren set this up) that there are actual repercussions once again after a long hiatus.

Posted by: Orson at June 25, 2025 03:28 PM (dIske)

28 Ashlii Babbitt unavailable for comment.

Posted by: Someone has to say it at June 25, 2025 03:28 PM (PQB+n)

29 Fruit salad > Colditz salad > Kamala salad

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 25, 2025 03:29 PM (9nkAn)

30 If you ain't a black lesbian in a wheelchair, then you ain't in a wheelchair.

Posted by: Joe Biden at June 25, 2025 03:29 PM (sfdl6)

31 This is worse than Pearl Harbor!

Posted by: runner at June 25, 2025 03:29 PM (g47mK)

32 >>>wheelchairs

given the average age at most of these protests this is not a surprise

Posted by: brak at June 25, 2025 03:29 PM (jGJov)

33 I'm working on a wheelchair design that had bunker busters and nuclear launch capability.

We'll bomb them back to Persia.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at June 25, 2025 03:29 PM (ioEI6)

34
Imprison! Imprison! Imprison!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh! at June 25, 2025 03:29 PM (Dmb5D)

35 Hammer time!

Posted by: Michael Byrd's gun at June 25, 2025 03:30 PM (PQB+n)

36 Is there ever even a fine for this shit?

Posted by: toby928 at June 25, 2025 03:30 PM (jc0TO)

37

Everything the right does is wrong, everything the left does is right.

Seems like this is the prevailing thought these days.

Posted by: four seasons at June 25, 2025 03:30 PM (3ek7K)

38 2 The protests are over proposed Medicaid cuts included in the "Big Beautiful Bill," which would remove coverage for some 10 million of the poorest Americans over the next decade as well as implement additional work requirements for those using Medicaid.

this is very difficult to believe
Posted by: kallisto at June 25, 2025 03:22 PM (dCxaZ)

The bill has language to fight Medicare FRAUD... those 10 Million should not be on Medicare in the first place.

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 25, 2025 03:30 PM (mP0Kj)

39 These fuckin' queers.

I used to work in the Russell building and we dealt with Code Pink and all of the various and sundry smelly hippie commie asshole protest groups regularly.

Always wanted to see someone get their skull cracked but never did.

Posted by: ballistic at June 25, 2025 03:30 PM (3BwY8)

40 Midnight Hammer time.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at June 25, 2025 03:31 PM (ufFY8)

41 By the way, the 2 latest '80s mystery clicks were easy for me. There's not a lot of intersectionality in *that* Venn Diagram!

Posted by: Crusader at June 25, 2025 03:31 PM (TN0g+)

42 An old lady in a scooter killed my Uncle Johnny.
Posted by: toby928 at June 25, 2025 03:28 PM (jc0TO)

Time for some prudent scooter control.

In the old days mockery was enough. No more.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 25, 2025 03:31 PM (8avO+)

43 Beau Biden died in an insurrection.

Posted by: Not a joke at June 25, 2025 03:31 PM (PQB+n)

44 An old lady in a wheelchair, you say??

Posted by: Paul Ryan, tanned, rested and ready at June 25, 2025 03:31 PM (sMkVI)

45 People in wheelchairs can be deadly.

Posted by: Gus Fring at June 25, 2025 03:31 PM (2UnvF)

46 I've been under the impression that the people getting their coverage removed were never honestly eligible, as in they were here illegally or didn't exist or had to lie to qualify. If the fraud is removed, it saves money and potentially leaves more for needy Americans.

Posted by: Emmie at June 25, 2025 03:31 PM (rF2iL)

47 The media cheers on the idea of “group rights” instead of individual rights.

Posted by: Cow Demon at June 25, 2025 03:31 PM (LlXyc)

48 @23 Horde mind JJ, see @12

Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 25, 2025 03:31 PM (pwtJC)

49 26 MY life is in danger!
Posted by: Alexandria Occasional Cortex at June 25, 2025 03:28 PM (sMkVI)

I just pointed it out, I didn't invent it.

Posted by: Charles Darwin at June 25, 2025 03:31 PM (pIfcn)

50 Credit card companies which had the vapors over anime and manga to such an extent they started to deny such purchases has now gone after another group - furries.

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 25, 2025 03:27 PM (9nkAn)

Whaaaaat? I never heard about this. How would Crunchyroll survive without credit cards? Stupid Operation Choke Point....

Posted by: pookysgirl, married to an otaku at June 25, 2025 03:31 PM (Wt5PA)

51 Hammer time!
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We can't do that tonight--Nancy's still here.

Posted by: Paul Pelosi at June 25, 2025 03:31 PM (TN0g+)

52 One scooter a month ought to be enough for anybody.

Posted by: Karen McAwfl at June 25, 2025 03:32 PM (PQB+n)

53 But don't you dare describe them as "rulers in perpetuity." You don't want to commit any microaggressions, do you bigot?
Posted by: Dr. T at June 25, 2025 03:27 PM (jGGMD)


All my aggressions are major ones, I assure you.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 25, 2025 03:32 PM (8avO+)

54 Wheelchairs? Push 'em off a cliff.

Posted by: wth at June 25, 2025 03:33 PM (v0R5T)

55 I doubt these people are that dangerous but, the father of my brother's roommate in college was serving time for beating a guy to death in a barroom brawl, from his wheelchair.

Posted by: toby928 at June 25, 2025 03:33 PM (jc0TO)

56 So if one of these guys gets capped while unarmed or beaten to death, I expect crickets and 'they deserved it' as well. And the officers will get a promotion and a medal, right?

That is how it works, from what I have seen.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 25, 2025 03:33 PM (zZu0s)

57 There appear to be maybe two dozen rioters in that video.

I think part of the problem is that, with some exceptions, few people show up for leftwing riots. A few dozen retarded lefty NPC mamalukes drooling on themselves at the Capitol isn't scary or threatening. It's a big meh.

But with J6, not only was their ideology wrong, but there were also thousands of people there. That made it a much bigger deal and fed into leftwing lies that it was a massive coup. If only 25 people showed up on J6, that's a much harder narrative to support.

Posted by: (There Can Be Only One) Elric Blade at June 25, 2025 03:33 PM (iFTx/)

58 The bill has language to fight Medicare FRAUD... those 10 Million should not be on Medicare in the first place.
Posted by: Romeo13 at June 25, 2025 03:30 PM (mP0Kj)


Yes, that's what I thought. The only reason to fight to protect fraud is for the sake of the fraudsters.

Posted by: Emmie at June 25, 2025 03:33 PM (rF2iL)

59 One scooter a month ought to be enough for anybody.
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Knowing the right, it'll only be a few hours until they're screaching for common sense scooter control!

Posted by: Paul Pelosi at June 25, 2025 03:33 PM (TN0g+)

60 the current journ-o-listic term for illegals is "citizens". In reading the Houston Comical today the front page has a story about 300k Texas citizens will lose medicare coverage. Of course they are citizens. From somewhere.

Posted by: DanMan at June 25, 2025 03:34 PM (8uzBS)

61 That was unfair, the actual squealer got away and his mom got pushed down the stairs by Tommy Udo. Not nice pallll

Posted by: steevy at June 25, 2025 03:34 PM (YwEeS)

62 Pookys Girrl they have been trying to put the squeeze on Japanese companies.

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 25, 2025 03:34 PM (9nkAn)

63 Wheelchair... Hill... some assembly required.

Posted by: ... at June 25, 2025 03:34 PM (sfdl6)

64 The media cheers on the idea of “group rights” instead of individual rights.
Posted by: Cow Demon at June 25, 2025 03:31 PM (LlXyc)

They might change their mind when the only treatment available for their group is 'drowned in the crick out back'

Posted by: Oldcat at June 25, 2025 03:34 PM (8avO+)

65 How are these oldsters still alive after Trump stopped their social security payments and they starved because they couldn't pay Big Grocery's inflation prices on flour?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 25, 2025 03:34 PM (GBKbO)

66 55 I doubt these people are that dangerous but, the father of my brother's roommate in college was serving time for beating a guy to death in a barroom brawl, from his wheelchair.
Posted by: toby928 at June 25, 2025 03:33 PM (jc0TO)
_________________________________

Dead guy must have been short and slow (and perhaps standing next to the dart board)

Posted by: Orson at June 25, 2025 03:35 PM (dIske)

67 How much were they being paid?

Posted by: Grandma living in the basement at June 25, 2025 03:35 PM (PQB+n)

68 Credit card companies which had the vapors over anime and manga to such an extent

Look, I don't know how many times I have to explain this, but that 15 year old girl with the cat ears and cat tail in a thong and pasties is actually a 300 year old vampire so it's totally not illegal, ok??

Posted by: Anime fan at June 25, 2025 03:35 PM (jGJov)

69 Boot the wheelchairs.

See who legitimately needs them. Arrest the frauds.

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 25, 2025 03:35 PM (9nkAn)

70 Stick them in the DC Gulag. FETE.

Posted by: Supreme Gentleman at June 25, 2025 03:36 PM (CDRP5)

71 Good.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at June 25, 2025 03:36 PM (6PCLE)

72 How are these oldsters still alive after Trump stopped their social security payments and they starved because they couldn't pay Big Grocery's inflation prices on flour?
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They're suviving off of the benefits that go with their AARP card.

Posted by: Crusader at June 25, 2025 03:36 PM (TN0g+)

73 The media cheers on the idea of “group rights” instead of individual rights.
Posted by: Cow Demon


Unless you are a group of J6'ers.
Who weren't even protesting.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 25, 2025 03:36 PM (zSKXS)

74 Dead guy must have been short and slow (and perhaps standing next to the dart board)
Posted by: Orson at June 25, 2025 03:35 PM


Yeah, I have no recollection of the mechanics of it. Maybe the victim got within reach and it was a ground and pound.

Posted by: toby928 at June 25, 2025 03:36 PM (jc0TO)

75 I doubt these people are that dangerous but, the father of my brother's roommate in college was serving time for beating a guy to death in a barroom brawl, from his wheelchair.
Posted by: toby928 at June 25, 2025 03:33 PM (jc0TO)

Guess you could say that guy got

Handi capped

😎

YAAAAAAAAAGHHH

Posted by: ... at June 25, 2025 03:36 PM (sfdl6)

76 Make The Garland Archipelago Great Again!

Posted by: ShainS -- Make Unconditional Surrender Great Again! at June 25, 2025 03:36 PM (T1Nd+)

77 Rory Mercury would like to have a word with you 'anime fan.'

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 25, 2025 03:36 PM (9nkAn)

78 Pookys Girrl they have been trying to put the squeeze on Japanese companies.

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 25, 2025 03:34 PM (9nkAn)

Why? Are they not woke enough? And/or they're getting rid of human artists and actors to be replaced with AI?

Posted by: pookysgirl, married to an otaku at June 25, 2025 03:36 PM (Wt5PA)

79 Shoot them all!!!!

Posted by: Miss Lindsay Going All Topless and Waving the Flag like that French Gal at June 25, 2025 03:37 PM (iJfKG)

80 They need to be home for dinner by 4pm.

Posted by: Not paying full price at June 25, 2025 03:37 PM (PQB+n)

81 They're suviving off of the benefits that go with their AARP card.
Posted by: Crusader at June 25, 2025 03:36 PM


Seniors are eligible for up to $900 on their food card.

Posted by: That Commercial on YouTube at June 25, 2025 03:37 PM (jc0TO)

82 Imprison! Imprison! Imprison!
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Point&Laugh!
......

Are our prisons handicap accessible?

Posted by: wth at June 25, 2025 03:37 PM (v0R5T)

83 I doubt these people are that dangerous but, the father of my brother's roommate in college was serving time for beating a guy to death in a barroom brawl, from his wheelchair.
Posted by: toby928 at June 25, 2025 03:33 PM (jc0TO)

Guess you could say that guy got

Handi capped

😎

YAAAAAAAAAGHHH
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AoS, come for the stories, stay for the Gong Show in the comments section.

Posted by: Crusader at June 25, 2025 03:38 PM (TN0g+)

84 81 Seniors are eligible for up to $900 on their food card.
Posted by: That Commercial on YouTube at June 25, 2025 03:37 PM (jc0TO)

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I have never seen this commercial.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 25, 2025 03:38 PM (GBKbO)

85 Rory Mercury would like to have a word with you 'anime fan.'

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 25, 2025 03:36 PM (9nkAn)

I can't believe I got that reference.

Posted by: pookysgirl, apparently otaku enough at June 25, 2025 03:38 PM (Wt5PA)

86 55 I doubt these people are that dangerous but, the father of my brother's roommate in college was serving time for beating a guy to death in a barroom brawl, from his wheelchair.
Posted by: toby928 at June 25, 2025 03:33 PM (jc0TO)

So what does that make us?

Nothing!

Posted by: DoublySymmetric at June 25, 2025 03:38 PM (Mxf84)

87 Tar and feathers.

Posted by: nurse ratched at June 25, 2025 03:38 PM (W2Pud)

88 50 Credit card companies which had the vapors over anime and manga to such an extent they started to deny such purchases has now gone after another group - furries.

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 25, 2025 03:27 PM (9nkAn)

Whaaaaat? I never heard about this. How would Crunchyroll survive without credit cards? Stupid Operation Choke Point....
Posted by: pookysgirl, married to an otaku at June 25, 2025 03:31 PM (Wt5PA)

Interesting, as there IS a law about 'restraint of trade'... Clayton Act and Sherman Act... so a Bank not allowing a Legal company to do business 'should' have a legal basis to sue... especially as Credit Card companies now have a virtual monopoly on trade.

80% of purchases are now done via Credit or debit cards... Hell... I only write 2 checks a month, 1 to the gardener, one to water bill... NEVER use cash... so I'm over 95%...

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 25, 2025 03:38 PM (mP0Kj)

89 Old manual wheelchair dudes had jacked upper bodies...

Posted by: steevy at June 25, 2025 03:38 PM (YwEeS)

90 >>>Rory Mercury would like to have a word with you 'anime fan.'

I'm just joking around but after looking that up, yeah there it is

Posted by: brak at June 25, 2025 03:39 PM (jGJov)

91 This is not an Insurrection because these people are protecting the children from the Evil Ogre Trump .....

Posted by: Jack Meehoff at June 25, 2025 03:39 PM (G+ldl)

92 Another example of corporations acting as Puritans:

Credit card companies which had the vapors over anime and manga to such an extent they started to deny such purchases has now gone after another group - furries.
Posted by: Anna Puma at June 25, 2025 03:27 PM (9nkAn)
__________

Well, furies are weird. But I suspect this has less to do with the content of the purchases so much as where they are from. Probably lots of credit card fraud coming from foreign (Japanese) sources.

Posted by: (There Can Be Only One) Elric Blade at June 25, 2025 03:39 PM (iFTx/)

93 I've seen a lot of spinals Dude and this guy's a fake, a fuckin goldbricker, this guy fuckin walks...

Posted by: Walter Sobchak, Capitol Police Officer at June 25, 2025 03:39 PM (zw9S9)

94 I have never seen this commercial.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 25, 2025 03:38 PM


Seriously? I get it a half a dozen time a day on the Youtube app on Roku.

Posted by: toby928 at June 25, 2025 03:39 PM (jc0TO)

95 Throw sticks in the spokes of the wheelchair bound, and crack the skulls of the rest.

Posted by: Weasel at June 25, 2025 03:39 PM (kxQW1)

96 84 81 Seniors are eligible for up to $900 on their food card.
Posted by: That Commercial on YouTube at June 25, 2025 03:37 PM (jc0TO)

=====

I have never seen this commercial.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 25, 2025 03:38 PM (GBKbO)

Even though grocery stores hate this, there is nothing they can do about it.
g they can do a

Posted by: Common Clickbait Scam Ad phrases at June 25, 2025 03:39 PM (LlXyc)

97 You've got a gun... use it!!

Posted by: Lindsey Graham at June 25, 2025 03:39 PM (Q4IgG)

98 Guess you could say that guy got

Handi capped

😎

YAAAAAAAAAGHHH

Posted by: ... at June 25, 2025 03:36 PM (sfdl6)

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

Heh.

He wasn't just dishing out spinal taps.

Posted by: ShainS -- Make Unconditional Surrender Great Again! at June 25, 2025 03:40 PM (FXa/G)

99 80% of purchases are now done via Credit or debit cards... Hell... I only write 2 checks a month, 1 to the gardener, one to water bill... NEVER use cash... so I'm over 95%...
Posted by: Romeo13 at June 25, 2025 03:38 PM (mP0Kj)

Dangerous to use the Paolo as your gardener.

Posted by: DoublySymmetric at June 25, 2025 03:40 PM (Mxf84)

100 Credit card companies got on the 'moral' high horse of thinking all Loli is kiddie pr0n. And they are now yiffing the furries for the same reasons.

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 25, 2025 03:40 PM (9nkAn)

101 94 I have never seen this commercial.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 25, 2025 03:38 PM

Seriously? I get it a half a dozen time a day on the Youtube app on Roku.
Posted by: toby928 at June 25, 2025 03:39 PM (jc0TO)

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I get young people commercials.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 25, 2025 03:40 PM (GBKbO)

102 I get young people commercials.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 25, 2025 03:40 PM


Touche.

Posted by: toby928 at June 25, 2025 03:41 PM (jc0TO)

103 I get young people commercials.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 25, 2025 03:40 PM (GBKbO)

I’ve been getting AARP mailers since 2012, and I’m still more than 20 years away from retirement.

Posted by: DoublySymmetric at June 25, 2025 03:41 PM (Mxf84)

104 I get young people commercials.
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Tell me more!

Posted by: Tim Walz at June 25, 2025 03:41 PM (TN0g+)

105
The DNC is completely overtaken with the theater kids. Thespians.

Posted by: Frank Barone at June 25, 2025 03:42 PM (IifOV)

106 Paid in Mark o' Beast bitcoin.

Posted by: Eromero at June 25, 2025 03:42 PM (LHPAg)

107 102 I get young people commercials.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 25, 2025 03:40 PM

Touche.
Posted by: toby928 at June 25, 2025 03:41 PM (jc0TO)

======

I was really expecting a "Not for much longer!"

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 25, 2025 03:42 PM (GBKbO)

108 It's great to see all these people standing up for their rights!!!

Posted by: Joe Biden at June 25, 2025 03:42 PM (sfdl6)

109 99 80% of purchases are now done via Credit or debit cards... Hell... I only write 2 checks a month, 1 to the gardener, one to water bill... NEVER use cash... so I'm over 95%...
Posted by: Romeo13 at June 25, 2025 03:38 PM (mP0Kj)

Dangerous to use the Paolo as your gardener.
Posted by: DoublySymmetric at June 25, 2025 03:40 PM (Mxf84)

Sorry.... Hetero... but if the Paulo had a... Paulette? I might be interested.

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 25, 2025 03:42 PM (mP0Kj)

110 Of course they bring some people in sitting in wheelchairs.

Who wants to arrest somebody in a wheelchair?
Nobody, that's who.

Well, James Bond would, but other than him?
Posted by: SpeakingOf

I do. We have a woman at work who goes around on a motorized wheelchair and she is a menace to everyone that happens to be in her vicinity as she races through the hospital. She has hit people by wheeling around very fast without looking first, she gets behind people in a hallway and honks her horn at them until they move, etc. She has been disciplined, written up, etc. but alas, her disability - morbid obesity - protects her as well as supposedly she is good at her job. Yeah, she needs to be zip-tied.

Posted by: Cheri at June 25, 2025 03:43 PM (oiNtH)

111 I wanted to see Yiffing The Furries last summer off Broadway, but the timing just didn't work out.

Posted by: Missed it by that much at June 25, 2025 03:43 PM (PQB+n)

112 Timmah!

Posted by: Timmy at June 25, 2025 03:43 PM (Y1sOo)

113 Wow.



Some y’all have a teenage boy in a dog suit chained up in the basement.

Weirdos.

Posted by: nurse ratched at June 25, 2025 03:43 PM (vxNlL)

114 26 MY life is in danger!
Posted by: Alexandria Occasional Cortex

The white dude in the wheelchair DEFINITELY wanted to rape me!!!

Posted by: AOC Continued at June 25, 2025 03:43 PM (JCZqz)

115 87 Tar and feathers.

Posted by: nurse ratched at June 25, 2025 03:38 PM

That has racial connotations!

Posted by: Whoopie Goldberg at June 25, 2025 03:44 PM (IifOV)

116 Democrats exercising their constitutional rights to peacefully disassemble.

Put the in the old J6ers cells and throw away the key.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 25, 2025 03:44 PM (yXf+h)

117 GP has 2 Schumer updates--he endorsed the Islamic Communist (not Barky, the other one) for NYC mayor, and that Schumer has been hospitalized. Busy day for him, probably no grilling tonight.

Posted by: Crusader at June 25, 2025 03:44 PM (TN0g+)

118 ....two sets of laws continues...

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at June 25, 2025 03:45 PM (xcxpd)

119 One time in a bar, I pulled an intoxicated viet nam vet off of a dude because the vet launched himself out of his wheelchair and proceeded to ground and pound his adversary with hammer fists of fury.

Dude was getting his ass beat! Watch out!

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at June 25, 2025 03:45 PM (ioEI6)

120 The gop will cave. Tom Tillis already has. Left wing violence works. See also in 2017 when Obamacare was left alone by the gop after campaigning for 5 years to get rid of it. A few rowdy town halls by leftist rent a mobs and they caved.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at June 25, 2025 03:45 PM (ORJZB)

121 I was really expecting a "Not for much longer!"
-----------
The husband in that commercial is completely henpecked.

Posted by: Crusader at June 25, 2025 03:45 PM (TN0g+)

122 Then: No undocumented immigrants are on Medicaid. PERIOD

Now: If you remove undocumented immigrants from medicaid it will be the biggest cut the program has ever had!

Posted by: The FNM at June 25, 2025 03:45 PM (t0Rmr)

123 80% of purchases are now done via Credit or debit cards... Hell... I only write 2 checks a month, 1 to the gardener, one to water bill... NEVER use cash... so I'm over 95%...
Posted by: Romeo13


I write one check a year. To the county tax assessor because they charge for using a debit/credit card.

Yeah. I'm a cheapskate. I'm not giving them $105 for a debit/credit fee.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 25, 2025 03:45 PM (zSKXS)

124 Chuck Schumer hospitalized for dehydration per NY Post. He needs a spritz

Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 25, 2025 03:46 PM (pwtJC)

125 113 Wow.

Some y’all have a teenage boy in a dog suit chained up in the basement.

Weirdos.
Posted by: nurse ratched at June 25, 2025 03:43 PM (vxNlL)

Don’t worry. He’s getting free healthcare.

Posted by: Gavin Newsom at June 25, 2025 03:46 PM (GffXF)

126 The biggest difference about these insurrections and the Jan. 6 ones is that AOC doesn't fantasize about getting raped by insurrectionists in wheelchairs. So they are ok.

Did the Jan. 6 granny get released? If they locked up a granny, they can lock up people in wheelchairs.

Posted by: LizLem at June 25, 2025 03:46 PM (gWBY1)

127 This is a proper riot:

https://youtu.be/hFOxffZSdfc

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 25, 2025 03:46 PM (ynpvh)

128 OT, but I was looking through a cooking and wine magazine. Three observations:

1. Most of the famous "chefs" -- and especially the younger ones -- are the same weirdo tattooed dykes and homos that seem to infest every industry today. Is nowhere safe from them?

2. These recipes ... come on now. Simple dinners seem to have 25 fucking ingredients. How many different spices do you need to put in a recipe for meatballs?

3. I'll stick to my tried-and-true cooking technique of just saying "what the fuck" and winging it.

Posted by: (There Can Be Only One) Elric Blade at June 25, 2025 03:46 PM (iFTx/)

129 They could be Admiral Pike Senators.

Posted by: Boss Moss at June 25, 2025 03:46 PM (VAINm)

130 BREAKING: Chuck Schumer hospitalized for dehydration after feeling lightheaded at the gym...

Strangest reason recently...

Posted by: Nova Local at June 25, 2025 03:46 PM (tOcjL)

131 I get young people commercials.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 25, 2025 03:40 PM

Touche.
Posted by: toby928 at June 25, 2025 03:41 PM (jc0TO)

======

I was really expecting a "Not for much longer!"
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 25, 2025 03:42 PM


Fine, if it makes you feel better, you can get off our collective lawn.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 25, 2025 03:46 PM (dPfyF)

132 Just had a thought/question. Would it be possible for a state to require term limits as a condition to be an elected office holder for a federal level office (from that state)? You know, like a rep or senator?

Posted by: Swamp Rabbit at June 25, 2025 03:46 PM (5hfjS)

133 Bet not a single one of them spends 5 minutes at the DC Metro police station. For any reason.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 25, 2025 03:46 PM (Q4IgG)

134 Nothing will happen.

Posted by: The person who always says that at June 25, 2025 03:47 PM (PQB+n)

135 113 Wow.

Some y’all have a teenage boy in a dog suit chained up in the basement.

Weirdos.
Posted by: nurse ratched

The only WEIRDOS around here are you Republicans for NOT having teenage boys in dog suits chained up in the basement. It's beautiful, natural, and has always been part of soyciety. You'll never erase our existence!!!!

Posted by: Tim Walz at June 25, 2025 03:47 PM (JCZqz)

136 124 Chuck Schumer hospitalized for dehydration per NY Post. He needs a spritz

Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 25, 2025 03:46 PM (pwtJC)

From the diarrhea from those hamburgers he made.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 25, 2025 03:47 PM (ynpvh)

137 I was really expecting a "Not for much longer!"
-----------
The husband in that commercial is completely henpecked.
-----------

A real man would have told her "I'll call Globe Life when I'm damn well ready to...now go fix my dinner."

Posted by: Crusader at June 25, 2025 03:47 PM (TN0g+)

138 The DNC is completely overtaken with the theater kids. Thespians.

I hear the internet if full of videos of busty young thespians...

Posted by: The more you know... at June 25, 2025 03:47 PM (t0Rmr)

139 Yeah, I have no recollection of the mechanics of it. Maybe the victim got within reach and it was a ground and pound.
Posted by: toby928 at June 25, 2025 03:36 PM (jc0TO)

Wheelchair bound can have great upper body strength because they move themselves with the arms instead of legs. Especially if they are active

Posted by: Oldcat at June 25, 2025 03:47 PM (8avO+)

140 The DNC is completely overtaken with the theater kids. Thespians.

I hear the internet if full of videos of busty young thespians...
Posted by: The more you know... at June 25, 2025 03:47 PM (t0Rmr)

Yet another group to drive the lesbians out of the political scene...trans aren't enough

Posted by: Oldcat at June 25, 2025 03:48 PM (8avO+)

141 but alas, her disability - morbid obesity
......

must be perfectly 'able' to scarf down fried chicken by the bucket.

Posted by: wth at June 25, 2025 03:48 PM (v0R5T)

142 Wow.

Some y’all have a teenage boy in a dog suit chained up in the basement.

Weirdos.
Posted by: nurse ratched at June 25, 2025 03:43 PM (vxNlL)

*looks at chain*

*looks at sump pump*

*looks at shelf full of paint cans from brands that don't exist anymore*

Dog? They told me it was a bear suit!

....

Well now i just feel weird.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 25, 2025 03:49 PM (KRjLL)

143 138 The DNC is completely overtaken with the theater kids. Thespians.

I hear the internet if full of videos of busty young thespians...

Posted by: The more you know... at June 25, 2025 03:47 PM (t0Rmr)

There are even professional ones.

https://youtu.be/5WSTOwWMx-s

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 25, 2025 03:49 PM (ynpvh)

144 Chuck Schumer hospitalized for dehydration per NY Post.
Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 25, 2025 03:46 PM (pwtJC)

That confirms it. Sperm is not an effective hydrator.

Posted by: ... at June 25, 2025 03:49 PM (sfdl6)

145 Chicken doesn't have enough fat.

Posted by: Boss Moss at June 25, 2025 03:49 PM (VAINm)

146 must be perfectly 'able' to scarf down fried chicken by the bucket.
Posted by: wth at June 25, 2025 03:48 PM (v0R5T)

“Lay off! I’m starving!”

~ Chris Farley

Posted by: DoublySymmetric at June 25, 2025 03:49 PM (Mxf84)

147 Just had a thought/question. Would it be possible for a state to require term limits as a condition to be an elected office holder for a federal level office (from that state)? You know, like a rep or senator?
Posted by: Swamp Rabbit at June 25, 2025 03:46 PM (5hfjS)

no.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 25, 2025 03:49 PM (8avO+)

148 I admit my sister was a practicing thespian - Claude Pepper

Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 25, 2025 03:50 PM (pwtJC)

149 Hey the always on point King Harv is in a wheelchair in the ad below the post!

Well maybe it's a rickshaw... Same diff only more colonizing.

That settles it! Next demonstration I'm arriving on a sedan chair.

That'll learn 'em!

Posted by: scottst at June 25, 2025 03:50 PM (WcRV2)

150 2. These recipes ... come on now. Simple dinners seem to have 25 fucking ingredients. How many different spices do you need to put in a recipe for meatballs?

The recent joke I saw...chef droning on about how he's just going to use some ingredients that everyone has around the house...like mongolian yak butter, jack fruit, and Andean Organic Quinoa

Posted by: 18-1 at June 25, 2025 03:50 PM (t0Rmr)

151 117 GP has 2 Schumer updates--he endorsed the Islamic Communist (not Barky, the other one) for NYC mayor, and that Schumer has been hospitalized. Busy day for him, probably no grilling tonight.
Posted by: Crusader at June 25, 2025 03:44 PM (TN0g+)

Maybe the reason for his hospitalization is improper grilling of those awful burgers, leading to E. coli poisoning.

Posted by: Thrawn at June 25, 2025 03:50 PM (9Ovst)

152 Chuck Schumer hospitalized for dehydration per NY Post. He needs a spritz


"Help me I am Melting"..............

Posted by: Jack Meehoff at June 25, 2025 03:50 PM (G+ldl)

153 I admit my sister was a practicing thespian - Claude Pepper
Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 25, 2025 03:50 PM


And my grandfather was a Lesbian.

No, really...he was from Lesvos.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 25, 2025 03:51 PM (dPfyF)

154 149 Hey the always on point King Harv is in a wheelchair in the ad below the post!

Well maybe it's a rickshaw... Same diff only more colonizing.

That settles it! Next demonstration I'm arriving on a sedan chair.

That'll learn 'em!

Posted by: scottst at June 25, 2025 03:50 PM (WcRV2)

Just don't use an ugly naked ottoman...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 25, 2025 03:51 PM (ynpvh)

155 >INSURRECTION: RIOTERS BREAK INTO CAPITOL HILL TO STOP OFFICIAL GOVERNMENT BUSINESS
---

we know from history that it's okay to kill at least one of the rioters

Posted by: Don Black, Senior VP for Product Development, Acme Snorkel Inc. at June 25, 2025 03:51 PM (AOsQT)

156 Schumer drinks his water with the cap on the bottle which goes with his penchant for putting cheese on a raw burger.

Posted by: ... at June 25, 2025 03:51 PM (sfdl6)

157 Chuck Schumer hospitalized for dehydration per NY Post. He needs...
.....

INTUBATE HIM

Posted by: wth at June 25, 2025 03:51 PM (v0R5T)

158 Chuck Schumer hospitalized for dehydration per NY Post.

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

I don't see how that's possible -- doesn't semen contain a lot of electrolytes?

Posted by: ShainS -- Make Unconditional Surrender Great Again! at June 25, 2025 03:51 PM (BH136)

159 Just had a thought/question. Would it be possible for a state to require term limits as a condition to be an elected office holder for a federal level office (from that state)? You know, like a rep or senator?
Posted by: Swamp Rabbit at June 25, 2025 03:46 PM (5hfjS)

no.
--------------
Even if it were legal, the Californias and New Yorks wouldn't pass it and the Oklahomas would....the left isn't going to willingly cede their hold on power.

Posted by: Crusader at June 25, 2025 03:51 PM (TN0g+)

160
I've seen recipe sites that claim "only ten minutes to make these dishes." Hell, it takes me ten minutes to find the right pan to cook in.

Posted by: four seasons at June 25, 2025 03:51 PM (3ek7K)

161 Have you seen the price of Andean Organic Quinoa lately?

Posted by: Brock O. at June 25, 2025 03:52 PM (PQB+n)

162 no.
Posted by: Oldcat
---------------

Might be interesting to try it and see how the SCOTUS falls out

Posted by: Swamp Rabbit at June 25, 2025 03:52 PM (5hfjS)

163 I don't see how that's possible -- doesn't semen contain a lot of electrolytes?
Posted by: ShainS -- Make Unconditional Surrender Great Again! at June 25, 2025 03:51 PM (BH136)

You are so late, bitch

Posted by: ... at June 25, 2025 03:52 PM (sfdl6)

164 Chuck Schumer hospitalized for dehydration per NY Post. He needs...
.....

INTUBATE HIM
Posted by: wth at June 25, 2025 03:51 PM



BOOST HIM!! COVID-25 IS OUT THERE.

Posted by: toby928 at June 25, 2025 03:52 PM (jc0TO)

165 I've seen recipe sites that claim "only ten minutes to make these dishes." Hell, it takes me ten minutes to find the right pan to cook in.

Posted by: four seasons at June 25, 2025 03:51 PM (3ek7K)

Takes five just to scroll down to the recipe.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 25, 2025 03:52 PM (KRjLL)

166 157 Chuck Schumer hospitalized for dehydration per NY Post. He needs...
.....

INTUBATE HIM

Posted by: wth at June 25, 2025 03:51 PM (v0R5T)

Rectal Insufflation? He might enjoy that...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 25, 2025 03:52 PM (ynpvh)

167 Chuck Schumer hospitalized for dehydration per NY Post. He needs...
.....

INTUBATE HIM
Posted by: wth


CHARGE TO 600! CLEAR!

Posted by: rickb223 at June 25, 2025 03:53 PM (zSKXS)

168 162 no.
Posted by: Oldcat
---------------

Might be interesting to try it and see how the SCOTUS falls out
Posted by: Swamp Rabbit at June 25, 2025 03:52 PM (5hfjS)

=======

States cannot impose limitations on federally elected office not set down in the constitution. Supremacy clause would knock that down real fast.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 25, 2025 03:53 PM (GBKbO)

169 12
‘ Paging Tommy Udo, Tommy Udo’

Nice. Help the wheelchair bound down the stairs, Tommy.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at June 25, 2025 03:53 PM (jbnUc)

170 hese recipes ... come on now. Simple dinners seem to have 25 fucking ingredients. How many different spices do you need to put in a recipe for meatballs?

The recent joke I saw...chef droning on about how he's just going to use some ingredients that everyone has around the house...like mongolian yak butter, jack fruit, and Andean Organic Quinoa
Posted by: 18-1 at June 25, 2025 03:50 PM (t0Rmr)
_____

There are cookbooks for semen and birth placentas. Not joking.

Posted by: (There Can Be Only One) Elric Blade at June 25, 2025 03:53 PM (iFTx/)

171 160
I've seen recipe sites that claim "only ten minutes to make these dishes." Hell, it takes me ten minutes to find the right pan to cook in.

Posted by: four seasons at June 25, 2025 03:51 PM (3ek7K)

Either you have way to many pans, or just don't know where you put them.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 25, 2025 03:53 PM (ynpvh)

172
Warai,

Yep and I don't care about reading the life stories of the "chefs".

Posted by: four seasons at June 25, 2025 03:53 PM (3ek7K)

173 Random thought of the thread: recumbent bikes are stupid.

Posted by: Crusader at June 25, 2025 03:53 PM (TN0g+)

174 A real man would have told her "I'll call Globe Life when I'm damn well ready to...now go fix my dinner."
Posted by: Crusader

First, he would have given her a sharp smack on the ass and then said...

I really hate that commercial.

Posted by: Cheri at June 25, 2025 03:53 PM (oiNtH)

175 153 I admit my sister was a practicing thespian - Claude Pepper
Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 25, 2025 03:50 PM

And my grandfather was a Lesbian.

No, really...he was from Lesvos.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 25, 2025 03:51 PM (dPfyF)

I wish I was a Lesbian sometimes....

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at June 25, 2025 03:53 PM (xcxpd)

176 165 Takes five just to scroll down to the recipe.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 25, 2025 03:52 PM (KRjLL)

=======

Are you not interested in the writer's life story about how they came to the mental spot where they could copy the recipe from another source into their weblog software?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 25, 2025 03:54 PM (GBKbO)

177 *doesn't semen contain a lot of electrolytes?*

Plants love it.

Posted by: Jeffrey Toobin at June 25, 2025 03:54 PM (PQB+n)

178 This "Bad Drama" isn't fooling anyone. Just idle people wanting free shit. We have so much of this crap going on all the time. I'm tired of hearing it, tired of seeing it. Write your congressperson if you have a real problem. That's what they get paid for.

Posted by: Case at June 25, 2025 03:54 PM (ilX37)

179
jim,

It depends on who unloads the dishwasher around here.

Posted by: four seasons at June 25, 2025 03:54 PM (3ek7K)

180 133 Bet not a single one of them spends 5 minutes at the DC Metro police station. For any reason.
Posted by: Martini Farmer
----

It's a federal offense they should be in federal jail.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 25, 2025 03:54 PM (yXf+h)

181 *doesn't semen contain a lot of electrolytes?*

Plants love it.
Posted by: Jeffrey Toobin at June 25, 2025 03:54 PM



*nods*

Posted by: Harvey Weinstein at June 25, 2025 03:55 PM (jc0TO)

182 Just jam a garden hose up his ass and open the tap

Posted by: Don Black, Senior VP for Product Development, Acme Snorkel Inc. at June 25, 2025 03:55 PM (AOsQT)

183 Are you not interested in the writer's life story about how they came to the mental spot where they could copy the recipe from another source into their weblog software?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 25, 2025 03:54 PM (GBKbO)

"This is just the screenplay of Eat Pray Love with a falafel recipe at the end!"

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 25, 2025 03:55 PM (KRjLL)

184 Posted by: Anna Puma at June 25, 2025 03:27 PM (9nkAn)

yet their websites are all rainbowed up this time of year, amirite?

with the flag that includes the p3do stripe even

Posted by: kallisto at June 25, 2025 03:55 PM (dCxaZ)

185 173 Random thought of the thread: recumbent bikes are stupid

Impossible to ride without looking like a huge douche.

Posted by: Bird dog at June 25, 2025 03:56 PM (HcoTw)

186 CHARGE TO 600! CLEAR!
Posted by: rickb223


You can do it, Doc, BE A HERO

Posted by: The Nurse at June 25, 2025 03:56 PM (v0R5T)

187 180 133 Bet not a single one of them spends 5 minutes at the DC Metro police station. For any reason.
Posted by: Martini Farmer
----

It's a federal offense they should be in federal jail.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 25, 2025 03:54 PM (yXf+h)

=======

DOJ has shown willingness to throw Tesla firebombers in jail on terrorism charges.

I feel like they'll be willing to do something similar here.

The dedicated protesting class is being thinned out.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 25, 2025 03:56 PM (GBKbO)

188 176 165 Takes five just to scroll down to the recipe.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 25, 2025 03:52 PM (KRjLL)

=======

Are you not interested in the writer's life story about how they came to the mental spot where they could copy the recipe from another source into their weblog software?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 25, 2025 03:54 PM (GBKbO)

I hate these for recipes, but I have to admit the occasional director's series has inspired me to read more about who they are and what informed their creative choices.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at June 25, 2025 03:56 PM (xcxpd)

189 182 Just jam a garden hose up his ass and open the tap
Posted by: Don Black, Senior VP for Product Development, Acme Snorkel Inc. at June 25, 2025 03:55 PM (AOsQT)

So the more extreme version of the Bear Grylls option?

Posted by: Thrawn at June 25, 2025 03:56 PM (9Ovst)

190 183 Are you not interested in the writer's life story about how they came to the mental spot where they could copy the recipe from another source into their weblog software?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 25, 2025 03:54 PM (GBKbO)

"This is just the screenplay of Eat Pray Love with a falafel recipe at the end!"
Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 25, 2025 03:55 PM (KRjLL)

========

The Lord of the Rings is actually a food weblog entry.

Discuss.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 25, 2025 03:56 PM (GBKbO)

191 Just jam a garden hose up his ass and open the tap
-----------
I see you've been to a VA Hospital...

Posted by: Crusader at June 25, 2025 03:56 PM (TN0g+)

192 I expect to see nationwide billboards asking anyone with information about these insurrectionists to immediately contact the FBI. You know, like they during Pelosi's J6 frame-up.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 25, 2025 03:56 PM (vYDwg)

193 The rule is only the rule for one side of the political spectrum.

That is why we need to come down harsh, more harsh than they did. Make sure that shit never happens again.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at June 25, 2025 03:57 PM (17s+e)

194 Look, I don't know how many times I have to explain this, but that 15 year old girl with the cat ears and cat tail in a thong and pasties is actually a 300 year old vampire so it's totally not illegal, ok??
Posted by: Anime fan at June 25, 2025 03:35 PM (jGJov)

I prefer the ones that have accessories to make them avatars of WWII battleships or Tanks.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 25, 2025 03:57 PM (8avO+)

195 *doesn't semen contain a lot of electrolytes?*

Plants love it.
Posted by: Jeffrey Toobin at June 25, 2025 03:54 PM


Actually, we don't.

Posted by: The ficus at June 25, 2025 03:57 PM (PQB+n)

196 this is very difficult to believe
Posted by: kallisto



I just assume I'm being lied to in regard to the msm. Saves time.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at June 25, 2025 03:57 PM (sAmhv)

197 I'm sure they will be left to rot in solitary confinement with no bail until their trial.

Posted by: Darth Randall at June 25, 2025 03:57 PM (Lltdc)

198 Think of the poor nurse who has to change that assholes bed pan.

Posted by: wth at June 25, 2025 03:58 PM (v0R5T)

199 Copy Me That

Click a button it grabs the recipe for you

Posted by: ... at June 25, 2025 03:58 PM (sfdl6)

200 Senator " Hammer Hand" Schumer was hospitalized today from dehydration and dizziness.

It appears that Senator Schumer was masturbating to a picture of Whoopie Goldberg in a Bikini and passed out. Medical examination discovered he overdosed on Cialis and Viagra along with dehydration from abnormally sweating in the sauna.

More details to follow when available....

Posted by: CNN Breaking News at June 25, 2025 03:58 PM (Yh9dY)

201 Finally, some rain and thunder here in bone dry NoVa.

Posted by: Archimedes at June 25, 2025 03:58 PM (Riz8t)

202 Bet not a single one of them spends 5 minutes at the DC Metro police station. For any reason.
Posted by: Martini Farmer
----

It's a federal offense they should be in federal jail.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 25, 2025 03:54 PM (yXf+h)

=======

DOJ has shown willingness to throw Tesla firebombers in jail on terrorism charges.

I feel like they'll be willing to do something similar here.

The dedicated protesting class is being thinned out.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 25, 2025 03:56 PM (GBKbO)
_________

1. Defund

2. Arrest and prosecute the remainder

3. Hopefully the rest will commit suicide

Posted by: (There Can Be Only One) Elric Blade at June 25, 2025 03:58 PM (iFTx/)

203 The Lord of the Rings is actually a food weblog entry.

Discuss.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 25, 2025 03:56 PM


I read the whole thing and still never got the recipe for Lembas bread.

Posted by: toby928 gnawing on stale cram at June 25, 2025 03:58 PM (jc0TO)

204 The Lord of the Rings is actually a food weblog entry.

Discuss.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 25, 2025 03:56 PM (GBKbO)

Mmmmmmm homemade doughnuts

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 25, 2025 03:58 PM (H7QjI)

205 188 I hate these for recipes, but I have to admit the occasional director's series has inspired me to read more about who they are and what informed their creative choices.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at June 25, 2025 03:56 PM (xcxpd)

=======

The Russ Meyer entry is evocative.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 25, 2025 03:58 PM (GBKbO)

206 True story - a friend is in the hospital in Houston's Medical Center and I went to visit her. Walking down from parking I spot an empty wheelchair and figure it needs to go back to the hospital so I sit down and start making my way in it.

Get to a ramp up to the door...struggling to lean forward and get up the ramp...guy gets out of his car to help..."thanks man, I'm new to this but I'm okay"...wheel in and ask what floor she's on, what room, etc. and go about my way wondering at what point I can get up and walk without making a scene.

Patti howls with laughter when I tell her about it, how nobody looks a guy in a wheel chair and how it would make the perfect costume to be anonymous.

Upon leaving the girls at the front desk start laughing and want to know what the doctors did to fix me so quickly.

Posted by: DanMan at June 25, 2025 03:59 PM (8uzBS)

207 The whole thing is an allegory for baking a doughnut.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 25, 2025 03:59 PM (H7QjI)

208 Senator " Hammer Hand" Schumer was hospitalized today from dehydration and dizziness.
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I didn't know they called him that!

Posted by: Paul Pelosi at June 25, 2025 03:59 PM (TN0g+)

209 Just jam a garden hose up his ass - I volunteer, Pete Buttgiggle

Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 25, 2025 03:59 PM (pwtJC)

210 Frying.

Whatever shut up

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 25, 2025 03:59 PM (H7QjI)

211 Random thought of the thread: recumbent bikes are stupid

Impossible to ride without looking like a huge douche.
Posted by: Bird dog at June 25, 2025 03:56 PM (HcoTw)

At least it gets the man parts away from the hard seat. Or the metal pole in front of that. Or the backward facing end of the handle bars.

Whoever designed 10 speed bikes hated dudes.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 25, 2025 04:00 PM (8avO+)

212 Victory party for Zohran Mamdami looks just as you'd expect.

The whitest party in NYC is the Zohran election night party. This is incredible. I’ve never seen so little diversity in NY.

https://is.gd/qvbtTy

Posted by: Archimedes at June 25, 2025 04:00 PM (Riz8t)

213 Protests against Medicaid cuts to the 'poorest" Americans ? Srsly ? Slackers and illegals ?

Posted by: It's me donna at June 25, 2025 04:00 PM (VE6XX)

214 I am using cash more and more. I always try to keep the amount in my pocket below a certain amount so the local stasi can’t seize it as contraband, but more and more businesses are giving you the 3% fee back if you just pay them in cash. So far my local bookstore and my pharmacy do this. I also pay with cash at the grocery. The cashier at the grocery (national chain) has to run a counterfeit checking pen across the bill if it’s over a dollar, so I always make a point of holding up the bills in my change to check the watermark!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at June 25, 2025 04:00 PM (NWqJf)

215 I've been predicting that schumer will commit sideways for over a month

Posted by: Lord Percy at June 25, 2025 04:01 PM (0pr6s)

216 Hmm

Posted by: SOMEASSHOLESTOLEMYPEN at June 25, 2025 04:01 PM (lURRw)

217 The Lord of the Rings is actually a food weblog entry.

Discuss.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu


Ahem, I'm right here

Posted by: Every book in the Redwall series at June 25, 2025 04:01 PM (hB7mE)

218 Whoever designed 10 speed bikes hated dudes.
Posted by: Oldcat at June 25, 2025 04:00 PM (8avO+)

Belgians.

They're basically Ken dolls.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 25, 2025 04:01 PM (H7QjI)

219 @200 even with Viagra and Cialis ain't nobody busting a nut to Whoopi

Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 25, 2025 04:01 PM (pwtJC)

220 205 188 I hate these for recipes, but I have to admit the occasional director's series has inspired me to read more about who they are and what informed their creative choices.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at June 25, 2025 03:56 PM (xcxpd)

=======

The Russ Meyer entry is evocative.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 25, 2025 03:58 PM (GBKbO)

Nice.

Tell me we'll get to Andy Sedaris. Lie to me if you have to.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at June 25, 2025 04:02 PM (xcxpd)

221 >I've seen recipe sites that claim "only ten minutes to make these dishes." Hell, it takes me ten minutes to find the right pan to cook in.


My favorite are the "One Pan Dinner" recipes. One pan to cook the pasta, another to cook the sauce and a baking dish to put everything into.

Posted by: J. Frank Parnell at June 25, 2025 04:02 PM (eb5mD)

222 I won't be happy until Chuck Schumer bows out like Harry Reid, with bruises all over his face.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at June 25, 2025 04:02 PM (ioEI6)

223 This is J6 times a thousand.

Posted by: Spotsworth at June 25, 2025 04:02 PM (Ktl2W)

224
Random thought of the thread: recumbent bikes are stupid

Impossible to ride without looking like a huge douche.
Posted by: Bird dog at June 25, 2025 03:56 PM (HcoTw)


I can see, coldly, certain advantages for those with back issues. But the idea behind the recumbent bicycle and the purpose of riding one is to look like a huge douche.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 25, 2025 04:02 PM (/HVsR)

225 in ny theres always the cash price and the credit card price, especially at owner operated stores.

Posted by: n at June 25, 2025 04:03 PM (bvTYT)

226 3 Years in solitary, coming up!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 25, 2025 03:23 PM (GBKbO)

nuh-uh

Posted by: m at June 25, 2025 04:03 PM (CQE5S)

227 We were talking about advertising earlier and they just ran a Krispy Kreme commercial here and now I really want one. Alas, there is not one within driving distance and I only want a Hot Now.

Posted by: toby928 at June 25, 2025 04:03 PM (jc0TO)

228 but more and more businesses are giving you the 3% fee back if you just pay them in cash.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at June 25, 2025 04:00 PM (NWqJf)

I see you've met my dentist...although for him, it's 3% more for credit charges...

Posted by: Nova Local at June 25, 2025 04:03 PM (tOcjL)

229 Dehydration? They're lying to us again.
Or maybe that's what they're calling tertiary stage syphilis induced aneurysms now.

Posted by: wth at June 25, 2025 04:03 PM (v0R5T)

230 You are so late, bitch

Posted by: ... at June 25, 2025 03:52 PM (sfdl6)

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

Damn, foiled again by my sibling from another dribbling!

Posted by: ShainS -- Make Unconditional Surrender Great Again! at June 25, 2025 04:03 PM (BH136)

231 220 Tell me we'll get to Andy Sedaris. Lie to me if you have to.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at June 25, 2025 04:02 PM (xcxpd)

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The director of Seven?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 25, 2025 04:03 PM (GBKbO)

232 Victory party for Zohran Mamdami looks just as you'd expect.

The whitest party in NYC is the Zohran election night party. This is incredible. I’ve never seen so little diversity in NY.

https://is.gd/qvbtTy
Posted by: Archimedes at June 25, 2025 04:00 PM (Riz8t)
______

Those are not white people. Those are mentally ill hopping idiots who happen to have white skin.

But more seriously, how many of those idiots were Jews? I saw more than a few that looked Jewish to me. I'll never understand how a singe Jewish person supports radical leftwing Muslim nutcases.

Posted by: (There Can Be Only One) Elric Blade at June 25, 2025 04:03 PM (iFTx/)

233 206 DanMan -

Great story!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at June 25, 2025 04:03 PM (NWqJf)

234 Random thought of the thread: recumbent bikes are stupid

Impossible to ride without looking like a huge douche.
Posted by: Bird dog


bicyclists, as an organized group have to be the most hateable bunch anywhere.

Posted by: n at June 25, 2025 04:04 PM (bvTYT)

235
My favorite are the "One Pan Dinner" recipes. One pan to cook the pasta, another to cook the sauce and a baking dish to put everything into.

Posted by: J. Frank Parnell at June 25, 2025 04:02 PM (eb5mD)

Some of them are now one pan, cooking the pasta IN the sauce...not sure I'd ever trust dried pasta for that, but I guess it would work with fresh pasta...

Posted by: Nova Local at June 25, 2025 04:04 PM (tOcjL)

236 Another joke I saw recently...

Bigfoot is sitting across the table from a blind date. The woman tells him she used to be Christian, and Bigfoot says its ok he's not very religious either.

The screen flips to black then you see Bigfoot running from the woman saying, "How did I not realize she meant her name used to be Christian?!"" As the 'woman' chases him announcing 'she' is going to have her way with him.

Posted by: 18-1 at June 25, 2025 04:04 PM (t0Rmr)

237 The biggest food ,non-food subject movie is The Godfather .

Posted by: Off sock at June 25, 2025 04:05 PM (VofaG)

238 Have you ever thought about the first guy who made risotto?

This rice could use more time. Now more butter. Now more time. Now more butter. Now...

more time.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 25, 2025 04:05 PM (GBKbO)

239
160
I've seen recipe sites that claim "only ten minutes to make these dishes." Hell, it takes me ten minutes to find the right pan to cook in.

Posted by: four seasons at June 25, 2025 03:51 PM (3ek7K)
We have one frying pan, turquoise (like a 61 Impala). Non-stick, we use it for everything except boiling spaghetti or cooking grits.

Posted by: Eromero at June 25, 2025 04:05 PM (LHPAg)

240 234 Random thought of the thread: recumbent bikes are stupid

Impossible to ride without looking like a huge douche.
Posted by: Bird dog


bicyclists, as an organized group have to be the most hateable bunch anywhere.


I'd like to add Dodge pick up drivers to the list.

Posted by: Bird dog at June 25, 2025 04:05 PM (HcoTw)

241 NYPost headline:

LeAnn Rimes runs off stage after her teeth fall out mid-concert

Posted by: Don Black, Senior VP for Product Development, Acme Snorkel Inc. at June 25, 2025 04:06 PM (AOsQT)

242 My favorite are the "One Pan Dinner" recipes. One pan to cook the pasta, another to cook the sauce and a baking dish to put everything into.

Posted by


there bunches of such recipes for lasagnaish dishes,

ingredients
pot
stir
oven
eat

no wasted effort with layering and nonsense

Posted by: n at June 25, 2025 04:06 PM (bvTYT)

243 241 NYPost headline:

LeAnn Rimes runs off stage after her teeth fall out mid-concert
Posted by: Don Black, Senior VP for Product Development, Acme Snorkel Inc. at June 25, 2025 04:06 PM (AOsQT)

======

I'm sorry, I don't speak jive. I don't understand this.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 25, 2025 04:06 PM (GBKbO)

244 Lord help us when they get back into power.

Posted by: J R EWING at June 25, 2025 04:07 PM (R6Hhu)

245 I hear the internet if full of videos of busty young thespians...

A quick Bing search (I find it much better than Google for images) confirms your speculation!
https://tinyurl.com/4nsn2664

Although I recommend having your safesearch filter on HIGH alert if you want to search on your own.

Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at June 25, 2025 04:07 PM (JCZqz)

246 Vaccinate him.

Posted by: Boss Moss at June 25, 2025 04:07 PM (VAINm)

247 Some cuts to Medicaid were cooked in the Medicaid expansion program, money from the feds. It was voluntary, states could refuse it as 10 did. As a result they will suffer no cuts to their programs. That's how I read it anyway.

https://tinyurl.com/b6apwkh5

Posted by: javems at June 25, 2025 04:07 PM (8I4hW)

248 241 NYPost headline:

LeAnn Rimes runs off stage after her teeth fall out mid-concert
Posted by: Don Black, Senior VP for Product Development, Acme Snorkel Inc. at June 25, 2025 04:06 PM (AOsQT)

======

I'm sorry, I don't speak jive. I don't understand this.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 25, 2025 04:06 PM (GBKbO)

Should have used PolyGrip.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 25, 2025 04:08 PM (8avO+)

249 Easy recipe - store bought marinade, throw it and raw chicken breast/strips in a pan over night in the fridge, cook at 375 for 30m.

Takes about 5m to make ignoring the cooking time.

Posted by: 18-1 at June 25, 2025 04:08 PM (t0Rmr)

250 >>>LeAnn Rimes runs off stage after her teeth fall out mid-concert

didn't know she was still performing but don't think she's that old....

Posted by: brak at June 25, 2025 04:08 PM (jGJov)

251 Throw a stick into one of those wheelchair spokes and watch what happens.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at June 25, 2025 04:08 PM (/U5Yz)

252 Have you ever thought about the first guy who made risotto?

This rice could use more time. Now more butter. Now more time. Now more butter. Now...

more time.


it is similar with artichokes, these artichokes are delicious with enough bacon, cream and cheese

Posted by: n at June 25, 2025 04:08 PM (i4scS)

253 Who names their kid Zohran?

Posted by: I'll ask at June 25, 2025 04:08 PM (PQB+n)

254 Like
... she lost a bridge?

Or just straight up gingival failure?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 25, 2025 04:09 PM (r6CG0)

255 There is no Conflict among those who do not demand the Unearned. Period. But in any collaboration with Evil, only evil will benefit -- viz. who caused this

LIB Politico's believe gov't can do anything it pleases, while you only act with their permission, where the "Will of the People" is in Evidence Everywhere, yet existent in no one.

LIBs Politicos put themselves in the role of choosing "Who" must be sacrificed, so that THEY may continue their reign over the ruins, rather than rebuild from the Rubble.

LIBs are not JUST Mistaken, they are evil.

Their world is a world with cities ablaze with bodies littering the streets, where the dead, the Dying, the DISSENTING are carted away, assets seized, and lives destroyed to heat their own bathwater.

LIB Strategic Insanity MUST be Defeated.

DESERVE PEACE, DEMAND FREEDOM, a free and productive people have absolutely nothing to gain from war, and in fact a great deal to lose. WAR, in fact, is only possible when the wealth of the nation is held by its leaders rather than rightly held and utilized by its citizens.

LIBs hate the man who has a dollar more than them, because they believe that dollar belongs to them. And now you know why.

Posted by: MANFRED the Heat Seeking OBOE at June 25, 2025 04:09 PM (s0hNt)

256 Who names their kid Zohran?
Posted by: I'll ask at June 25, 2025 04:08 PM (PQB+n)

Mr. And Mr. Mamdani.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 25, 2025 04:09 PM (r6CG0)

257 Isn't this the worst attack on our government since the Brits burned DC?

Posted by: Eeyore at June 25, 2025 04:09 PM (od0dV)

258 Random thought of the thread: recumbent bikes are stupid

Impossible to ride without looking like a huge douche.
Posted by: Bird dog
__________

More douchey than the plump middle-aged guys on $10,000 Bianchis dressed in racing spandex like they are competing in the Tour de France?

Posted by: (There Can Be Only One) Elric Blade at June 25, 2025 04:09 PM (iFTx/)

259 Wingfeather.

Posted by: Boss Moss at June 25, 2025 04:09 PM (VAINm)

260 Have you ever thought about the first guy who made risotto?

This rice could use more time. Now more butter. Now more time. Now more butter. Now...

more time.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 25, 2025 04:05 PM (GBKbO)

The Rice guy and the butter guy stalling for people with actual food to get to the party.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 25, 2025 04:09 PM (8avO+)

261
Brussel Sprouts recipes crack me up. If you have to put tons of other stuff on them to make them edible, just eat the toppings.

Posted by: four seasons at June 25, 2025 04:09 PM (3ek7K)

262 Who names their kid Zohran?
Posted by: I'll ask at June 25, 2025 04:08 PM (PQB+n)

Don't mess with the Zohran

Posted by: polynikes at June 25, 2025 04:09 PM (VofaG)

263 Who names their kid Zohran? /i]

A bunch of Iranians?

Posted by: 18-1 at June 25, 2025 04:10 PM (t0Rmr)

264 I'd like to add Dodge pick up drivers to the list.
Posted by: Bird dog at June 25, 2025 04:05 PM (HcoTw

Seems around here..MOST pick up drivers are hyper agressive douches that need to drive 6 feet off you bumper no matter your speed..they need to go faster.

Posted by: a dude in MI at June 25, 2025 04:10 PM (/6GbT)

265 It was a dental bridge. And she still looks great btw

http://tiny.cc/zoyn001

Posted by: brak at June 25, 2025 04:10 PM (jGJov)

266 More douchey than the plump middle-aged guys on $10,000 Bianchis dressed in racing spandex like they are competing in the Tour de France?
Posted by: (There Can Be Only One) Elric Blade at June 25, 2025 04:09 PM (iFTx/)

well you can't easily wear sensible pants since they get caught in the frickin chain.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 25, 2025 04:10 PM (8avO+)

267 Liberty Daily has a good link to a tik tok about the muslim invasion in Britianistan.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at June 25, 2025 04:10 PM (rvwwT)

268 Like
... she lost a bridge?

Or just straight up gingival failure?
Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 25, 2025 04:09 PM (r6CG0)

Meth

Posted by: polynikes at June 25, 2025 04:10 PM (VofaG)

269 NYPost headline:

LeAnn Rimes runs off stage after her teeth fall out mid-concert
Posted by: Don Black


Damn you Polygrip!

Posted by: rickb223 at June 25, 2025 04:11 PM (zSKXS)

270 LeAnn Rimes runs off stage after her teeth fall out mid-concert
.....

amid fans yelling for BJ's

Posted by: wth at June 25, 2025 04:11 PM (v0R5T)

271 @243

>>I'm sorry, I don't speak jive. I don't understand this.

She's probably one of those unfortunate people who have bad teeth and either had dentures or implants.

Poor thing.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 25, 2025 04:11 PM (XV/Pl)

272 LeAnn Rimes runs off stage after her teeth fall out mid-concert.

Surely they mean dentures?!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at June 25, 2025 04:11 PM (NWqJf)

273
bicyclists, as an organized group have to be the most hateable bunch anywhere.

The area around Schloss Hadrian has long, flat rural roads that are popular with weekend bicyclists. Even in large groups, they've never been a problem to me.

It's when you get to cities that the hatefulness grows. Know what you never see in a bike lane? Bikes. They take away from main lanes to put them in, you're banging door panels with the guy in the next lane and bikes ride on the sidewalk anyway.


Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 25, 2025 04:12 PM (/HVsR)

274 Brussel Sprouts recipes crack me up. If you have to put tons of other stuff on them to make them edible, just eat the toppings.
Posted by: four seasons at June 25, 2025 04:09 PM (3ek7K)

At least they are well shaped for flinging into the shrubbery when nobody is looking.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 25, 2025 04:12 PM (8avO+)

275 Given that we're approaching the Fourth of July, and wheelchairs are mentioned, did anyone bring up "Back up, Terry!"

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at June 25, 2025 04:12 PM (UImIR)

276 Random thought of the thread: recumbent bikes are stupid

Impossible to ride without looking like a huge douche.
Posted by: Bird dog


There's not a more arrogant prick in the world than a recumbent bike douchebag wearing a salad bowl on his/her head. They even top BMW drivers.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at June 25, 2025 04:12 PM (/U5Yz)

277 272 LeAnn Rimes runs off stage after her teeth fall out mid-concert.

Surely they mean dentures?!
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at June 25, 2025 04:11 PM (NWqJf)

=====

One of the rituals to stardom is the murder of a random person, stealing their teeth, and putting them into your own mouth.

This way, you gain their fluoride.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 25, 2025 04:12 PM (GBKbO)

278 >>> 128
==
3. I'll stick to my tried-and-true cooking technique of just saying "what the fuck" and winging it.
Posted by: (There Can Be Only One) Elric Blade at June 25, 2025 03:46 PM (iFTx/)

*fistbump*

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at June 25, 2025 04:12 PM (ULPxl)

279
Oldcat,

True, lol.

Posted by: four seasons at June 25, 2025 04:12 PM (3ek7K)

280 Rimes runs off stage after her teeth fall out mid-concert




was it jackie mason that got a beating for saying "every night when frank sinatra and his mia farrow(?) wife go to bed she brushes her teeth and he puts his in a glass"

Posted by: n at June 25, 2025 04:13 PM (TO1zd)

281 Shoot 'em.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 25, 2025 04:14 PM (6RYcT)

282
Baby take your teeth out
Try it one time

Posted by: Guy who relates everything to a Zappa song at June 25, 2025 04:14 PM (PLXMa)

283
To you, me and other sensible people, a cut means the absolute amount of funding goes down. To "activists" a cut (always prefaced by "extreme" or "draconian") means a slightly smaller than desired increase in funding.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 25, 2025 04:15 PM (/HVsR)

284 Ah! A dental bridge! One of my grandmothers had one of those. She didn’t like people to know she had one. I didn’t know about until she had grown so old she didn’t care anymore.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at June 25, 2025 04:15 PM (NWqJf)

285 3. I'll stick to my tried-and-true cooking technique of just saying "what the fuck" and winging it.
Posted by: (There Can Be Only One) Elric Blade at June 25, 2025 03:46 PM (iFTx/)

*fistbump*
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at June 25, 2025 04:12 PM (ULPxl)

That's how I do my soups and stews. Too spicy? Add soup. Not so spicy? Add spicy

Posted by: Oldcat at June 25, 2025 04:16 PM (8avO+)

286
These recipes ... come on now. Simple dinners seem to have 25 fucking ingredients.



Unless you're Bobby Flay.

Mayonnaise
"Add a tablespoon of chipotle"

Chicken
"Add a tablespoon of chipotle"

Alfredo Sauce
"Add a tablespoon of chipotle"

Macaroni Salad
"Add a tablespoon of chipotle"

Toll House cookies
"Add a tablespoon of chipotle"

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at June 25, 2025 04:16 PM (y9nCu)

287 Just got back from riding my bike on designated bike paths . Never had any desire to ride a bike on the road shared with 2 ton steel containers moving at least twice my speed.

Posted by: polynikes at June 25, 2025 04:16 PM (VofaG)

288 >>>LeAnn Rimes runs off stage after her teeth fall out mid-concert
.....

amid fans yelling for BJ's

Posted by: wth

>This is the kind of first response they don't teach in training.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at June 25, 2025 04:16 PM (ioEI6)

289 Cyclist schadenfreude

https://tinyurl.com/pjyvc9cj

Posted by: Maj. Healey at June 25, 2025 04:17 PM (/U5Yz)

290 Still waiting for mass arrests from these assaults and riots. It's ridiculous.

Posted by: Kareem of Wheat at June 25, 2025 04:18 PM (AaY6N)

291 281 Shoot 'em.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon


That's why we gave them guns.

Posted by: Lindsey Graham Reflecting On Jan 6 at June 25, 2025 04:19 PM (/U5Yz)

292 @261

>>Brussel Sprouts recipes crack me up. If you have to put tons of other stuff on them to make them edible, just eat the toppings.

There are very few foods that are eaten raw, unadorned or undoctored.

Brussel sprouts are absolutely fantastic tasting with or without ancillaries.

One of the best dishes is an shredded brussel sprouts, carrots, stir fried with beef and UDON noodles.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 25, 2025 04:19 PM (XV/Pl)

293
Be careful when you hire landscapers. In Union County, NC the landscaper knew his clients would be out of town and he held a party of several hundred people at the house.

Posted by: four seasons at June 25, 2025 04:19 PM (3ek7K)

294 I bought a wheelchair at Goodwill for $50. Whenever I need to commit a felony or off somebody, I get in it and roll! Gotten away with it so far!

Benny Hill had a funny spoof of Ironside where he was rolling down hills at about 40 MPH. RIP Benny.

Posted by: Rollin' and Tumblin' at June 25, 2025 04:20 PM (G5+As)

295 One of the best dishes is an shredded brussel sprouts, carrots, stir fried with beef and UDON noodles.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 25, 2025 04:19 PM (XV/Pl)

I get that from takeout without the Brussles Sprouts.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 25, 2025 04:20 PM (8avO+)

296 With my back the way it is now, a recumbent bicycle might be the only kind I could handle. And I used to love bicycling! But a recumbent bike does make you look like a douche! And have you seen the prices on those things?!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at June 25, 2025 04:20 PM (NWqJf)

297 What's more rare, seeing a Northern White Rino or a Kash Bongino?

Posted by: Maj. Healey at June 25, 2025 04:21 PM (/U5Yz)

298 I don't know what the temperature is in DC but here it's 96. Unless he's drinking enough water he's going to get dehydrated . It's even worst for older people.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 25, 2025 04:21 PM (2GCMq)

299 who is moderating the thread?



I have had my ip blocked some times for comments am I banned from the HQ for something?

I noticed my comments are not deleted so I am assuming it is not banning.

If I said something bannable give me the reason and I will quit doing whatever. I have always tried to follow Ace's HQ rules.

Posted by: n at June 25, 2025 04:21 PM (II640)

300 Benny Hill had a funny spoof of Ironside where he was rolling down hills at about 40 MPH. RIP Benny.
Posted by: Rollin' and Tumblin' at June 25, 2025 04:20 PM (G5+As)

That was a funny time when the crippled detective was all the rage.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 25, 2025 04:21 PM (8avO+)

301 Just had a thought/question. Would it be possible for a state to require term limits as a condition to be an elected office holder for a federal level office (from that state)? You know, like a rep or senator?
---
No.
But nothing stops them from re-defining residency to require a minimum number of days per year spent at their listed address, not merely in-state, at that address.

Say, 140 days. So all the "good, solid conservatives" that go native and never are in state except to campaign, would howl.

I think, there also might not be anything restricting a state from just declaring a Senator no longer a resident. Haven't worked out yet if it would still be a bill of attainder

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at June 25, 2025 04:22 PM (UImIR)

302 You guys could write food-horror stories.

Posted by: Dreamingrobot at June 25, 2025 04:23 PM (EyfuW)

303 Eat brussel sprouts or starve ?

Tough choice.

Posted by: polynikes at June 25, 2025 04:23 PM (VofaG)

304 With my back the way it is now, a recumbent bicycle might be the only kind I could handle. And I used to love bicycling! But a recumbent bike does make you look like a douche! And have you seen the prices on those things?!
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at June 25, 2025 04:20 PM (NWqJf)

eternal shame doesn't come cheaply.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 25, 2025 04:23 PM (8avO+)

305
With my back the way it is now, a recumbent bicycle might be the only kind I could handle. And I used to love bicycling! But a recumbent bike does make you look like a douche! And have you seen the prices on those things?!
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at June 25, 2025 04:20 PM (NWqJf)



Riding a bike after high school graduation makes you look like a douche.

Riding a single-speed or fixie means you ARE a douche.

I know, because my latest project is rebuilding my Surley 1x1 singlespeed.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at June 25, 2025 04:23 PM (y9nCu)

306 And have you seen the prices on those things?!
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit


I'm thinking about dropping a grand on an off-roady e-bike. 35mph and can go 50 miles.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at June 25, 2025 04:23 PM (/U5Yz)

307 Brussel Sprouts recipes crack me up. If you have to put tons of other stuff on them to make them edible, just eat the toppings.

There are very few foods that are eaten raw, unadorned or undoctored.

Brussel sprouts are absolutely fantastic tasting with or without ancillaries.

One of the best dishes is an shredded brussel sprouts, carrots, stir fried with beef and UDON noodles.



do you have a recipe for brussel sprouts without anything else?

Posted by: n at June 25, 2025 04:23 PM (HNNfR)

308 >>> 299 who is moderating the thread?



I have had my ip blocked some times for comments am I banned from the HQ for something?

I noticed my comments are not deleted so I am assuming it is not banning.

If I said something bannable give me the reason and I will quit doing whatever. I have always tried to follow Ace's HQ rules.
Posted by: n at June 25, 2025 04:21 PM (II640)

You know why.

Posted by: carrots in chili at June 25, 2025 04:24 PM (ULPxl)

309 > Cyclist schadenfreude
--------
I witnessed a Lance Armstrong wannabe get curb stomped after bitching out a truckload of Mexican laborers for taking up "his space."

After he got off the bike and started to fight with them, they all jumped him, beat the shit out of him, and stole his bike.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 25, 2025 04:24 PM (Q4IgG)

310 I don't know what the temperature is in DC but here it's 96. Unless he's drinking enough water he's going to get dehydrated . It's even worst for older people.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 25, 2025 04:21 PM (2GCMq)

its the bourbon not the water.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 25, 2025 04:24 PM (8avO+)

311 I can see, coldly, certain advantages for those with back issues. But the idea behind the recumbent bicycle and the purpose of riding one is to look like a huge douche.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 25, 2025 04:02 PM (/HVsR)

My mom is incapable of looking like a huge douche when she rides one.... because she's so dang tiny.

Posted by: pookysgirl passed up her mom in fifth grade at June 25, 2025 04:24 PM (Wt5PA)

312 I have had my ip blocked some times for comments am I banned from the HQ for something?

I noticed my comments are not deleted so I am assuming it is not banning.

If I said something bannable give me the reason and I will quit doing whatever. I have always tried to follow Ace's HQ rules.
Posted by: n at June 25, 2025 04:21 PM (II640)

You know why.
Posted by: carrots



why

Posted by: n at June 25, 2025 04:25 PM (y7RP5)

313 265 It was a dental bridge. And she still looks great btw

http://tiny.cc/zoyn001
Posted by: brak



She's 42? Damn, time flies. She always had an incredible voice. Great singer.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at June 25, 2025 04:25 PM (sAmhv)

314 Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 25, 2025 04:24 PM (Q4IgG)

Another tough decision.

Posted by: polynikes at June 25, 2025 04:25 PM (VofaG)

315
I have had my ip blocked some times for comments am I banned from the HQ for something?


If you're using a VPN, you'll usually get blocked. If so, try shutting it down and refresh.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at June 25, 2025 04:25 PM (y9nCu)

316 If I said something bannable give me the reason and I will quit doing whatever. I have always tried to follow Ace's HQ rules.
Posted by: n at June 25, 2025 04:21 PM (II640)

You know why.
Posted by: carrots in chili at June 25, 2025 04:24 PM (ULPxl)

minimum nick length of 2. Otherwise ace could only have 26 commenters.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 25, 2025 04:26 PM (8avO+)

317 > Cyclist schadenfreude
--------
I witnessed a Lance Armstrong wannabe get curb stomped after bitching out a truckload of Mexican laborers for taking up "his space."

After he got off the bike and started to fight with them, they all jumped him, beat the shit out of him, and stole his bike.
Posted by: Martini Farmer


Perfect.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at June 25, 2025 04:26 PM (/U5Yz)

318 minimum nick length of 2. Otherwise ace could only have 26 commenters.
Posted by: Oldcat


Posted by: n at June 25, 2025 04:27 PM (d75Yo)

319 @307

>>do you have a recipe for brussel sprouts without anything else?

Brussel Sprouts are a side dish, just like potatoes, or corn, they are not a main item.

Very few people just eat a baked potato with nothing on it.

Or mashed potatoes.

There are whole books devoted to gussying up potatoes so that they are basically unrecognizable as potatoes.

And yes, you can simply roast brussel sprouts with a little salt and butter and they are good to go.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 25, 2025 04:27 PM (XV/Pl)

320 >I have had my ip blocked some times for comments am I banned from the HQ for something?
---

You know what you did.

Posted by: Don Black, Senior VP for Product Development, Acme Snorkel Inc. at June 25, 2025 04:27 PM (AOsQT)

321 I'm sorry but LeAnn Rimes has always been so attractive to me and her eyes especially. I'm gaga for LeAnn Rimes...
Sultry and has Lauren Bacall eyes..

Posted by: Captain Fantastic at June 25, 2025 04:28 PM (6Irx1)

322 Brussel sprouts, if picked at the right time, can be tasty! I know this by experience! But if picked too late, which is more often the case than not, they are too bitter to be palatable, which is probably why most people hate them, as did I until I learned better!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at June 25, 2025 04:28 PM (NWqJf)

323 One of the best dishes is an shredded brussel sprouts, carrots, stir fried with beef and UDON noodles.



do you have a recipe for brussel sprouts without anything else?
Posted by: n at June 25, 2025 04:23 PM (HNNfR)

Stir frying the little golf balls would at least be fun. Shredding seems to be cheating.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 25, 2025 04:28 PM (8avO+)

324 I do. We have a woman at work who goes around on a motorized wheelchair and she is a menace to everyone that happens to be in her vicinity as she races through the hospital. She has hit people by wheeling around very fast without looking first, she gets behind people in a hallway and honks her horn at them until they move, etc. She has been disciplined, written up, etc. but alas, her disability - morbid obesity - protects her as well as supposedly she is good at her job. Yeah, she needs to be zip-tied.
Posted by: Cheri at June 25, 2025 03:43 PM (oiNtH)

I'd be researching stealthy, sneaky ways to sabotage her. Find a way to run down the batteries on her chair, for one.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 25, 2025 04:28 PM (GuRu/)

325 >I have had my ip blocked some times for comments am I banned from the HQ for something?

Suggesting a .45 ACP is better than a 9mm?

Posted by: Maj. Healey at June 25, 2025 04:28 PM (/U5Yz)

326 The temps in Babylon DC are in the high 90s now. Some storms are blowing through, it might drop. Or not.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at June 25, 2025 04:28 PM (sAmhv)

327 Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 25, 2025 04:27 PM (XV/Pl)

Nothing better than a peeled raw russet potato with a little seasoning on it.

Posted by: polynikes at June 25, 2025 04:28 PM (VofaG)

328
As for motorcyclists, the less said the better. Lane splitters and traffic weavers. Assholes.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 25, 2025 04:29 PM (/HVsR)

329 The only time I've had palatable brussel sprouts was when my brother put them in a croc pot for 6 hours.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at June 25, 2025 04:29 PM (ioEI6)

330 Chopped brussel sprouts lightly sauteed in bacon grease are great

Posted by: brak at June 25, 2025 04:30 PM (jGJov)

331 I have had my ip blocked some times for comments am I banned from the HQ for something?
---

You know what you did.
Posted by:



yeah, never banned without even a warning so I assuming I am not banned its my vpn

Posted by: n at June 25, 2025 04:30 PM (70v2O)

332 Love raw carrots. Hate cooked carrots.

Posted by: polynikes at June 25, 2025 04:31 PM (VofaG)

333 Is dem yo real teefs?

Posted by: Eromero at June 25, 2025 04:31 PM (LHPAg)

334 Nothing better than a peeled raw russet potato with a little seasoning on it.
Posted by: polynikes at June 25, 2025 04:28 PM (VofaG)

leave skin on, salt n peppa. I've et those.

you can also try those mystery sauce bottles in the fridge you bought 20 years ago and never tried.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 25, 2025 04:31 PM (8avO+)

335 321 I'm sorry but LeAnn Rimes has always been so attractive to me and her eyes especially. I'm gaga for LeAnn Rimes...
Sultry and has Lauren Bacall eyes..
Posted by: Captain Fantastic



Nothing wrong with that. She's attractive. It's less creepy now that she's a grown woman, and not a teenager. She was just a teen when that 'Blue' song came out.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at June 25, 2025 04:31 PM (sAmhv)

336 Love raw carrots. Hate cooked carrots.
Posted by: polynikes at June 25, 2025 04:31 PM (VofaG)

Yep.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 25, 2025 04:32 PM (8avO+)

337 @327

>>Nothing better than a peeled raw russet potato with a little seasoning on it.

Eating raw potatoes is some hardcore sh*t right there.

I like some boiled russets mixed with farmers cheese and caramelized onions myself, it's essentially pirogi filling.

If you throw in some crumbled bacon, it'll put it over the moon.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 25, 2025 04:32 PM (XV/Pl)

338 in defense of brussel sprouts there was never a great brussel sprout famine

Posted by: n at June 25, 2025 04:32 PM (r801Z)

339 If I said something bannable give me the reason and I will quit doing whatever. I have always tried to follow Ace's HQ rules.
Posted by: n at June 25, 2025 04:21 PM (II640)

I shouldn't have to explain to you what you did...

Posted by: Karen McAwfl at June 25, 2025 04:32 PM (wiltx)

340 LeAnn Rimes is to me kinda like the blue viagra ad lady here on AoSpHQ. Country to the max and an inviting face that screams Welcome to my comfort zone..

Posted by: Captain Fantastic at June 25, 2025 04:32 PM (6Irx1)

341
SoCal bicyclists are shit-heads. They ride in packs, purposefully taking up at least one or two lanes, just to be dicks. 3/4 of them wearing yellow jerseys to play Tour de France Leader.

Here in the San Joaquin Valley, it's too hot to ride in rush hour traffic to fuck with the automobiles. Plus, the dairy farmers and cowboys in dieselzilla trucks don't play around.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at June 25, 2025 04:32 PM (y9nCu)

342 332 Love raw carrots. Hate cooked carrots.
Posted by: polynikes


Healey wife slices them up into strips and broils them in the oven. They get slightly caramelized. Very good.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at June 25, 2025 04:32 PM (/U5Yz)

343 I have a very bad spine and can only walk or stand for a couple minutes before having to sit. I ride a one-speed beach cruiser 20 miles without difficulty, sitting almost upright. Any speeded bike that makes me lean forward on the handlebars is no bueno for me, though.

Posted by: Hampton Cruiser at June 25, 2025 04:33 PM (G5+As)

344 Chopped brussel sprouts lightly sauteed in bacon grease are great
Posted by: brak at June 25, 2025 04:30 PM (jGJov)

Your old d&d multisided dice are also good prepared like that.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 25, 2025 04:33 PM (8avO+)

345 LeAnn Rimes is what, in her early forties, still a good looking woman, and has had some success in her singing career. I am sorry she has had this embarrassing accident on-stage.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at June 25, 2025 04:33 PM (NWqJf)

346 Iranians ought to blow up the brussel sprouts.

Posted by: Dreamingrobot at June 25, 2025 04:34 PM (EyfuW)

347 in defense of brussel sprouts there was never a great brussel sprout famine
Posted by: n at June 25, 2025 04:32 PM (r801Z)

also never a rock famine.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 25, 2025 04:34 PM (8avO+)

348 Posted by: Hampton Cruiser at June 25, 2025 04:33 PM (G5+As)

Good for you doing some type of exercise.

Posted by: polynikes at June 25, 2025 04:34 PM (VofaG)

349 If I said something bannable give me the reason and I will quit doing whatever. I have always tried to follow Ace's HQ rules.
Posted by: n at June 25, 2025 04:21 PM (II640)

I shouldn't have to explain to you what you did...
Posted by: Karen



Its hard to believe the hq would ban me for nothing

If I am banned tell me so and why

Posted by: n at June 25, 2025 04:34 PM (OzNTw)

350
n,

I see your comments. Don't know if any have been deleted though.

Posted by: four seasons at June 25, 2025 04:35 PM (3ek7K)

351 Motorcyclists should always remember: the strawberry slide is always waiting for you!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at June 25, 2025 04:35 PM (NWqJf)

352 >>> 324 I do. We have a woman at work who goes around on a motorized wheelchair and she is a menace to everyone that happens to be in her vicinity as she races through the hospital. She has hit people by wheeling around very fast without looking first, she gets behind people in a hallway and honks her horn at them until they move, etc. She has been disciplined, written up, etc. but alas, her disability - morbid obesity - protects her as well as supposedly she is good at her job. Yeah, she needs to be zip-tied.
Posted by: Cheri at June 25, 2025 03:43 PM (oiNtH)

I'd be researching stealthy, sneaky ways to sabotage her. Find a way to run down the batteries on her chair, for one.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 25, 2025 04:28 PM (GuRu/)

Are there devices to restrict speed on motorized chairs (same idea as cars and such)?

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at June 25, 2025 04:35 PM (ULPxl)

353 IIRC LeAnne Rimes was the other woman when she was at her peak. Kind of hurt her rep.

Posted by: polynikes at June 25, 2025 04:36 PM (VofaG)

354 I've seen spinals, they are faking it.

Posted by: Mongo at June 25, 2025 04:37 PM (Ef4Ak)

355 Another delicious dish are sweet potato's cut lengthwise placed cut side down on a baking tray covered in tinfoil.
45 mins at 375.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at June 25, 2025 04:37 PM (/U5Yz)

356
Helena,

There should be limits on speed. Some of them will drive over you in Walmart trying to beat you to the junk food aisles.

Posted by: four seasons at June 25, 2025 04:37 PM (3ek7K)

357 n -

I see your comments 4 by 4. Why do you think something’s wrong?

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at June 25, 2025 04:37 PM (NWqJf)

358
Shit, son. Teh Ewok once banned himself from his own blog. And take it with a grain of salt, but I think Pixy was on vacation so he was locked out for a couple of weeks.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at June 25, 2025 04:37 PM (y9nCu)

359 Okra in chilli.

Posted by: Boss Moss at June 25, 2025 04:37 PM (VAINm)

360 Its hard to believe the hq would ban me for nothing

If I am banned tell me so and why
Posted by: n at June 25, 2025 04:34 PM (OzNTw)

most of them are joking, like the carrots in chili, which some here consider a crime. I assume the mind reading Karen is similar.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 25, 2025 04:38 PM (8avO+)

361 Hated Brussel sprouts growing up. I then had some at a restaurant in Charleston. Wow, they were great! Then I learned I'm not supposed to eat due to a medical condition.

Frack.

Posted by: Beartooth at June 25, 2025 04:38 PM (8wKVG)

362 n,

I see your comments. Don't know if any have been deleted though.
Posted by: f


thanks

I have not seen any erased

Posted by: n at June 25, 2025 04:38 PM (r96Ht)

363 Are there devices to restrict speed on motorized chairs (same idea as cars and such)?
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at June 25, 2025 04:35 PM (ULPxl)

speed bumps in the aisles

Posted by: Oldcat at June 25, 2025 04:39 PM (8avO+)

364 Use a spike strip on wheelchairs.

Posted by: Dreamingrobot at June 25, 2025 04:39 PM (EyfuW)

365 359 Okra in chilli.
Posted by: Boss Moss at June 25, 2025 04:37 PM (VAINm)
Not in chili, gumbo yeah, but not chili.

Posted by: Eromero at June 25, 2025 04:39 PM (LHPAg)

366 This goes one of two ways:
1) They have the book thrown at them, like the J6 protestors.
2) They are not prosecuted, and Dems once and for all shut the fuck up about J6.

Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at June 25, 2025 04:40 PM (D1vbu)

367 n -

I see your comments 4 by 4. Why do you think something’s wrong?



everytime when I hit post I get the blocked ip thingy

Posted by: n at June 25, 2025 04:40 PM (iN0h2)

368 Shit, son. Teh Ewok once banned himself from his own blog. And take it with a grain of salt, but I think Pixy was on vacation so he was locked out for a couple of weeks.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at June 25, 2025 04:37 PM (y9nCu)

The time might be growing in the telling...

Posted by: Oldcat at June 25, 2025 04:40 PM (8avO+)

369 To be fair to brussel sprouts I hate just about every cooked vegetable. I'm truly a meat and potatoes guy. Well mostly a meat and rice guy. ( I am from Louisiana)

Posted by: polynikes at June 25, 2025 04:41 PM (VofaG)

370 To get in the building they had to be on a list. That list was submitted on behalf of a sitting congress person. That congressperson is 100% responsible for this disruption.

Name and shame and punish that congress person.

Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at June 25, 2025 04:41 PM (D1vbu)

371 Are there devices to restrict speed on motorized chairs (same idea as cars and such)?
Posted by: Helena Handbasket


Grease her tires.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at June 25, 2025 04:41 PM (/U5Yz)

372
Dems will never shut up about J6. To them it was worse than 9/11. Seriously, they are screwed up.

Posted by: four seasons at June 25, 2025 04:41 PM (3ek7K)

373 Plants are what food eats.

Posted by: Boss Moss at June 25, 2025 04:42 PM (VAINm)

374 Not in chili, gumbo yeah, but not chili.
Posted by: Eromero at June 25, 2025 04:39 PM (LHPAg)

What a way to ruin gumbo imo. You see that style east of Lafayette .

Posted by: polynikes at June 25, 2025 04:42 PM (VofaG)

375 Mac n cheese with cut up hot dogs

hoo doggies

Posted by: Don Black, Senior VP for Product Development, Acme Snorkel Inc. at June 25, 2025 04:42 PM (AOsQT)

376 I have to say the same thing twice:

SOMEONE at the capital gave these protestors a pass. SOMEONE waved them through security.
That SOMEONE knew ahead of time they would pull this stunt.

Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at June 25, 2025 04:43 PM (D1vbu)

377 Dems will never shut up about J6. To them it was worse than 9/11. Seriously, they are screwed up.

Posted by: four seasons at June 25, 2025 04:41 PM (3ek7K)

do they ever shut out about anything? They are still yapping about the Russian Revolution.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 25, 2025 04:43 PM (8avO+)

378 Yeah, n, when I have trouble on Ace of Spades, or even on the net generally, the first thing I try is shutting of my VPN. That’s often the villain, so try going there first. Also a total reboot is sometimes in order, so worse comes to worst, try that!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at June 25, 2025 04:43 PM (NWqJf)

379 ]i]370 To get in the building they had to be on a list. That list was submitted on behalf of a sitting congress person. That congressperson is 100% responsible for this disruption.

Name and shame and punish that congress person.
Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law
The four-eyed pig f*cker aka Mike Johnson, will have nothing to do with that.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at June 25, 2025 04:43 PM (/U5Yz)

380
Oldcat,

They are the party of whiners.

Posted by: four seasons at June 25, 2025 04:44 PM (3ek7K)

381 27 Personally, I would like to see them take these people in a room by themselves and make a deal with them.

"Tell us which politician set this entire thing up. Who, specifically, coordinated it, and you're free to wheel your ass out of here."
Posted by: Orson at June 25, 2025 03:28 PM (dIske)

Orson, my man, the person who set this up signed these people tint through security. Got them their security pass. Made sure they would get searched for their stupid banners. It's not a secret to anyone, other than us, who set this up. Everyone at the capitol knows or can easily find out.

Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at June 25, 2025 04:46 PM (D1vbu)

382 What a way to ruin gumbo imo. You see that style east of Lafayette .
Posted by: polynikes at June 25, 2025 04:42 PM (VofaG)
I'm somewhat west of Lafayette, Texas in fact. And I've been told I know how to make good gumbo. Maybe they were just being nice, or drunk?

Posted by: Eromero at June 25, 2025 04:46 PM (LHPAg)

383 I guarantee you the useful idiots on the Left have no clue about their cognitive dissonance. These protests and trespassing is nothing like J6 to them.

Posted by: polynikes at June 25, 2025 04:46 PM (VofaG)

384 SOMEONE knew ahead of time…

Sure, SOMEONE planned it. SOMEONE (or someones) planned Jan 6 too, only that was a little different

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at June 25, 2025 04:48 PM (NWqJf)

385 I like filé gumbo and I like okra gumbo!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at June 25, 2025 04:49 PM (NWqJf)

386 The IT crowd episode where Roy and Moss sneak into a show and Roy ends up in a wheelchair is hilarious.

"I'm disabled."

The end is the best part.

Posted by: pawn at June 25, 2025 04:50 PM (QB+5g)

387 The Stephan Hawking coupe de ville luxury chair has AI voice activation and can sustain a wheelie at 0-60 kph.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at June 25, 2025 04:50 PM (ioEI6)

388 Posted by: Eromero at June 25, 2025 04:46 PM (LHPAg)

Okra and dark roux and a lot of other stuff is creole style . Lot of people prefer that. I'm sure you do make a good gumbo. I would just be picking out the okra .

Brown roux with just the protein selection and a few diced celery and onion is Cajun style.

Posted by: polynikes at June 25, 2025 04:51 PM (VofaG)

389 Nood: Hunter Biden is a low-life…

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at June 25, 2025 04:52 PM (NWqJf)

390 Brown roux with just the protein selection and a few diced celery and onion is Cajun style.
Posted by: polynikes at June 25, 2025 04:51 PM (VofaG)

But you will roux the day you made chili with carrots!

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 25, 2025 04:52 PM (msTix)

391 it is funny that the most important thing feminism did by refusing to teach girls to cook was to have the average guy gain cooking skills

Posted by: n at June 25, 2025 04:53 PM (BbtNu)

392 Mac n cheese with cut up hot dogs

hoo doggies
Posted by: Don Black, Senior VP for Product Development, Acme Snorkel Inc. at June 25, 2025 04:42 PM (AOsQT)

Spaghetti with little cutup hot dogs, just like my mom used to make for me!

Posted by: Dr. Sheldon Cooper PHD at June 25, 2025 05:52 PM (5xuJ/)

393 The U.S. Capitol Police are requesting the installation of a statute commemorating the events of January 6, 2021. This request is part of a civil lawsuit filed by officers seeking a court order to have the plaque installed. The lawsuit argues that the failure to install the plaque violates the Equal Protection clause of the Constitution and that the Architect of the Capitol has failed to fulfill a duty mandated by a 2022 law.

Oh, well. See how the AOC & Congress operates? You've been setup, too.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day. at June 25, 2025 05:57 PM (NFX2v)

394 Antifa, BLM, Bolsheviks Not Welcome that goes for all the Violent mobs of leftists Brownshirts

Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at June 25, 2025 06:21 PM (wGqjj)

The Federal Trade Commission Extracts a Heavy Price for Approval of the Merger of Two Ad Titans: Stop Blacklisting and Boycotting Conservative Outlets

Two major ad companies wanted to merge, but the FTC commissioner forced them to sign a consent decree. They're promising that they will no longer subject conservative outlets to an advertising boycott.


As part of a landmark merger deal, the FTC secured a commitment from two global advertising giants not to discriminate against conservative media based on political views. The move follows revelations of past collusion aimed at defunding right-leaning outlets.

Key Details:

The FTC approved the merger between Omnicom and IPG with strict conditions against political viewpoint discrimination.

Both firms were previously involved in GARM, a now-defunct group that coordinated ad boycotts of center-right media.

The agreement prohibits coordinated blacklisting of media based on ideology and imposes regular compliance checks.


Diving Deeper:

Two of the world's largest advertising companies, Omnicom and Interpublic Group (IPG), will be barred from colluding or discriminating against media outlets based on political or ideological viewpoints as a condition of their newly approved merger, the Federal Trade Commission announced Monday.

FTC Chairman Andrew Ferguson revealed that the agency had secured what he called a "major victory" for viewpoint neutrality in media. In a rare move, the FTC imposed behavioral conditions on the merger, citing past coordination between the two firms and others to defund conservative media.

The firms, which together represent a third of the global advertising market, had been founding members of the Global Alliance for Responsible Media (GARM), a group accused of blacklisting conservative outlets including Breitbart News, Fox News, and The Daily Wire. Ferguson emphasized that such coordination is "tantamount to an agreement not to compete on quality" and said the merger conditions will eliminate the need for costly litigation while preventing future abuses.

"Specifically, the proposed decision and order prohibits Omnicom and IPG from entering into or maintaining any agreement or practice that would steer advertising dollars away from publishers based on their political or ideological viewpoints," Ferguson explained.

The FTC is also continuing its broader investigation into whether more than a dozen advertising advocacy groups may have violated antitrust laws by engaging in similar viewpoint-based collusion. As part of the merger agreement, Omnicom and IPG agreed to cease any coordination that could blacklist publishers for political reasons and pledged to cooperate with federal investigators.

According to Ferguson, GARM once dismissed free speech as "an extreme global interpretation of the US Constitution," citing "principles of governance" crafted exclusively by "white men." A Congressional report found that GARM led efforts to starve conservative publishers of advertising revenue, effectively attempting to "destroy publishers of content which they disapproved."

A 2024 House Judiciary Committee report exposed internal GARM communications, including a message from an Omnicom executive referencing Breitbart, stating: "As much as we hated their ideology and bullshit, we couldn't really justify blocking them for misguided opinion..."

Ferguson clarified that while advertisers still have the right to choose where their ads appear, they are prohibited from engaging in collective boycotts or forming "exclusion lists" to pressure others to follow suit--what he called "the supreme evil of antitrust."

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1 ST

Posted by: Boss Moss at June 25, 2025 02:20 PM (VAINm)

2 Think this could affect the HQ's ad space?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 25, 2025 02:20 PM (GBKbO)

3 Iohwee.

Posted by: Boss Moss at June 25, 2025 02:21 PM (VAINm)

4 Cool.

I think?

Posted by: Lizzy at June 25, 2025 02:21 PM (Hkcdp)

5 Stop Blacklisting and Boycotting Conservative Outlets

You know, until the next Dem President.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 25, 2025 02:21 PM (ExV1e)

6 >>>The Federal Trade Commission Extracts a Heavy Price for Approval of the Merger of Two Ad Titans: Stop Blacklisting and Boycotting Conservative Outlets

Now Ace will finally be able to get that second Lamborghini.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at June 25, 2025 02:22 PM (i24o9)

7 Willowed, but I'm tone deaf.
Research reveals that what i am rembering as GUM stores were G.E.M. stores, a private gov't employee mutual more or less scam, precursor to costco and the like. RIP 1973, when the drugs started taking hold of my memory, apparently.
I'm sure you are all glad to know this.

Posted by: From about That Time at June 25, 2025 02:22 PM (n4GiU)

8 AI will put them out of business in 2 years.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at June 25, 2025 02:22 PM (hfg0k)

9 SPONGE!!!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 25, 2025 02:22 PM (dPfyF)

10 I mean, if it just means more lgbt hamburger ads* then ugh.




*a meme from stone toss comic

Posted by: Lizzy at June 25, 2025 02:22 PM (Hkcdp)

11 6 >>>The Federal Trade Commission Extracts a Heavy Price for Approval of the Merger of Two Ad Titans: Stop Blacklisting and Boycotting Conservative Outlets

Now Ace will finally be able to get that second Lamborghini.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at June 25, 2025 02:22 PM (i24o9)

======

Good. The 3rd and 4th were getting lonely.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 25, 2025 02:22 PM (GBKbO)

12 No more King Harv.

Posted by: Boss Moss at June 25, 2025 02:23 PM (VAINm)

13 Does this mean we can get classier ads around here at the HQ?

Posted by: Emmie celebrates the Audacity of Trump! at June 25, 2025 02:23 PM (rF2iL)

14 Yeah but commies are still gonna commie.

Posted by: haffhowershower at June 25, 2025 02:23 PM (1U8ba)

15 PUCKER UP, MUTHAFUCKS!!!!!!

Posted by: Sonobi at June 25, 2025 02:24 PM (BjH5D)

16 Muh sciatica!!!!!!!

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at June 25, 2025 02:24 PM (hfg0k)

17 SYNOVA ADS

Posted by: Lizzy at June 25, 2025 02:24 PM (Hkcdp)

18 Yeah but commies are still gonna commie.

Posted by: haffhowershower at June 25, 2025 02:23 PM (1U8ba)


Make Commies Good Again.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at June 25, 2025 02:24 PM (i24o9)

19 Two major ad companies wanted to merge, but the FTC commissioner forced them to sign a consent decree. They're promising that they will no longer subject conservative outlets to an advertising boycott.

So, they're admitting they did this? That seems like something actionable.

Posted by: Archimedes at June 25, 2025 02:25 PM (Riz8t)

20 Real capitalism has never been tried.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at June 25, 2025 02:25 PM (hfg0k)

21 I just want to say....

If dipping special dark chocolate Hershey kisses in left over butter cream frosting is wrong, then I don't want to be right.

That is all.

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at June 25, 2025 02:25 PM (2J/Lj)

22 Make Commies Good Again.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at June 25, 2025 02:24 PM (i24o9)

Oh they're plenty good as is.

Good counterweights. Good fuel source. Good target practice....

Posted by: Sonobi at June 25, 2025 02:25 PM (BjH5D)

23 (sockoff)

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 25, 2025 02:26 PM (BjH5D)

24 Have you been throttled down in trying to advertise your product or company because your not a leftist anti-gun weirdo into all kinds of disordered sexual freaky stuff, chomoism and a kiddie diddler? Being discriminated against in your advertising goals because your not a blue haired, pro abortion, anti-family and anti-God freak of nature?

Well, call me! I want to get you money!

Posted by: Alexander Shunnarah, Billboard King at June 25, 2025 02:26 PM (zw9S9)

25 But muhFreeMarketPrinciples.
- “conservative” media

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at June 25, 2025 02:26 PM (ORJZB)

26 Soon...

Posted by: Sonobi at June 25, 2025 02:26 PM (dPfyF)

27 I'm sure the libertarian wing will bleat that it's totally awesome when private industry plays politics and Trump's FTC is out of line.

Posted by: Eldo at June 25, 2025 02:26 PM (kRhM/)

28 I'm wondering how freedom of speech exclusively benefits white men. But a thing doesn't have to make sense in order for a leftist to believe it.

Posted by: Emmie celebrates the Audacity of Trump! at June 25, 2025 02:26 PM (rF2iL)

29 This might help out some, but on the internet they need to go after Google for discrimination against "far-right" content.

That is the biggest fish to fry when it comes to this problem.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at June 25, 2025 02:26 PM (6ydKt)

30 AI will put them out of business in 2 years.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at June 25, 2025 02:22 PM (hfg0k)

The ads with eight fingers on the model will nearly double nail polish sales.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 25, 2025 02:27 PM (8avO+)

31
TJM, thanks for your answer about MOPs in the last thread. Willowed:

Why can't CNN just ask Blonde questions instead of demanding to know why Trump is lying?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 25, 2025 02:28 PM (lCaJd)

32 Maybe we can get some site ads that aren’t just
“Billionaires want this video destroyed!”
And
“Seven times better than viagra!”

Posted by: DoublySymmetric at June 25, 2025 02:28 PM (Mxf84)

33 So, they're admitting they did this? That seems like something actionable.
Posted by: Archimedes at June 25, 2025 02:25 PM (Riz8t)

Aren't "confessions" notoriously worthless to the actual criminal justice system? Pretty much any lawyer with a pulse can get around one?

Or do I just watch too much TV? (or not enough TV?)

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 25, 2025 02:28 PM (BjH5D)

34 I just want to say....

If dipping special dark chocolate Hershey kisses in left over butter cream frosting is wrong, then I don't want to be right.

That is all.
Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at June 25, 2025 02:25 PM (2J/Lj)

Try the kisses with caramel inside

Posted by: Oldcat at June 25, 2025 02:28 PM (8avO+)

35 This might help out some, but on the internet they need to go after Google for discrimination against "far-right" content.

That is the biggest fish to fry when it comes to this problem.
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And Youtube as well. With a flick of the switch they can demonetize your channel, and with the flick of a second switch they can erase it. Good luck finding any type of human to discuss or appeal either action with.

Posted by: Crusader at June 25, 2025 02:29 PM (TN0g+)

36 Freedom of speech is very costly.

Posted by: Elrond Hubbard at June 25, 2025 02:29 PM (kmhyd)

37 Make Commies Good Again.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder

TOGCIADC

Posted by: haffhowershower at June 25, 2025 02:29 PM (1U8ba)

38 Think this could affect the HQ's ad space?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 25, 2025 02:20 PM (GBKbO)


We're gonna get full page pop-ups for Lume.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 25, 2025 02:29 PM (ExV1e)

39 I'm wondering how freedom of speech exclusively benefits white men. But a thing doesn't have to make sense in order for a leftist to believe it.
Posted by: Emmie celebrates the Audacity of Trump! at June 25, 2025 02:26 PM (rF2iL)

without freedom of speech, no mansplaining.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 25, 2025 02:30 PM (8avO+)

40 Will we still have King Harv coffee ads? It's kinda become an AoS icon.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at June 25, 2025 02:30 PM (g8Ew8)

41 Does this mean Ace might get some ads besides Uncle Harve and Boobsy McBooberson?

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 25, 2025 02:30 PM (uWKK8)

42 The ads with eight fingers on the model will nearly double nail polish sales.
Posted by: Oldcat at June 25, 2025 02:27 PM (8avO+)

They’ve gotten a lot better. You’ve probably have already seen an ad that was AI and didn’t even know it. By next year it will be all AI.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at June 25, 2025 02:30 PM (hfg0k)

43 And Youtube as well. With a flick of the switch they can demonetize your channel, and with the flick of a second switch they can erase it. Good luck finding any type of human to discuss or appeal either action with.
Posted by: Crusader at June 25, 2025 02:29 PM (TN0g+)

Youtube is owned by Alphabet, i think. Same scum, same pond.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 25, 2025 02:30 PM (BjH5D)

44 And what happens WHEN they do it?

That's the only thing that matters, is enforcement.

Posted by: DudeAbiding at June 25, 2025 02:30 PM (setIA)

45 How is this agreement to be enforced?

If only by agency action, it means fuck-all.

If private individuals are allowed to enforce it, in addition, then it has teeth.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at June 25, 2025 02:30 PM (UImIR)

46 *scoots over to Madamemahem *

Whatcha got there?!😁

Posted by: Lizzy at June 25, 2025 02:30 PM (Hkcdp)

47 Sure - pinky promise.

Posted by: NALNAMSAM at June 25, 2025 02:31 PM (VkY89)

48 If dipping special dark chocolate Hershey kisses in left over butter cream frosting is wrong, then I don't want to be right.

Posted by: From about That Time at June 25, 2025 02:31 PM (n4GiU)

49 Maybe we can get some site ads that aren’t just
...
“Seven times better than viagra!”

Posted by: DoublySymmetric at June 25, 2025 02:28 PM (Mxf84)


We're gonna be getting those high-class 14 times better than Viagra!!! ads.

Posted by: naturalfake at June 25, 2025 02:31 PM (iJfKG)

50 > The agreement prohibits coordinated blacklisting of media based on ideology and imposes regular compliance checks.

Part of me wants to say this isn't going to really restrain them, but I'm choosing to be cautiously optimistic.

Posted by: bonhomme at June 25, 2025 02:32 PM (lIio7)

51 Think this could affect the HQ's ad space?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 25, 2025 02:20 PM (GBKbO)

We're gonna get full page pop-ups for Lume.
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Listen, we played along with the Covid nonsense, but a lot of us woke up and swore "Never again!".

Posted by: Crusader at June 25, 2025 02:32 PM (TN0g+)

52 Posted before I could get my amen! in, MM.

Posted by: From about That Time at June 25, 2025 02:32 PM (n4GiU)

53 Tiger venom.

Posted by: Boss Moss at June 25, 2025 02:32 PM (VAINm)

54 If dipping special dark chocolate Hershey kisses in left over butter cream frosting is wrong, then I don't want to be right.
Posted by: From about That Time


That’s what she said!

Posted by: haffhowershower at June 25, 2025 02:32 PM (1U8ba)

55 7 Willowed, but I'm tone deaf.
Research reveals that what i am rembering as GUM stores were G.E.M. stores, a private gov't employee mutual more or less scam, precursor to costco and the like. RIP 1973, when the drugs started taking hold of my memory, apparently.
I'm sure you are all glad to know this.
Posted by: From about That Time at June 25, 2025 02:22 PM (n4GiU)

When I was a kid in L.A., we used to shop at "Gemco", which I think was one of those. It was a department / grocery store combo. Huge, and I loved going there.

There was also a "Fedco", further away but also great. Iirc it was connected to a fire fighters union.

Posted by: Dr. Fausti - I WAS The Science at June 25, 2025 02:32 PM (8hxDK)

56 The agreement prohibits coordinated blacklisting of media based on ideology and imposes regular compliance checks.

Part of me wants to say this isn't going to really restrain them, but I'm choosing to be cautiously optimistic.
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That's a good choice--doing the opposite might lead to a lecture.

/sarc

Posted by: Crusader at June 25, 2025 02:32 PM (TN0g+)

57 We at Insomniac Brand Tire Irons, look forward to being able to advertise on this smart military blog.

Remember for all your tire irons needs, choose Insomniac Brand Tire Irons for the best in quality and performance.

Posted by: Insomniac brand Tire Irons, LLC at June 25, 2025 02:33 PM (8wKVG)

58 Try the kisses with caramel inside
Posted by: Oldcat at June

Love those! Right now I am addicted to the special dark chocolate version. It may or may not be due to the shiny purple wrappers.

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at June 25, 2025 02:33 PM (2J/Lj)

59 Are there seriously people out there popping a pill, cramming their pharma-stiffie into an Instron with a four point bending rig, looking at the graph and saying "You bastards, that was only like 4.7 times better!"

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 25, 2025 02:33 PM (BjH5D)

60 There's a new 7 times viagra lady. She looks bemused, probably wondering when this super strength pill is going to finally take effect on me.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at June 25, 2025 02:33 PM (DYe8R)

61 57 We at Insomniac Brand Tire Irons, look forward to being able to advertise on this smart military blog.

Remember for all your tire irons needs, choose Insomniac Brand Tire Irons for the best in quality and performance.
Posted by: Insomniac brand Tire Irons, LLC at June 25, 2025 02:33 PM (8wKVG)

=====

Is this...real Insom?

Can it be?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 25, 2025 02:33 PM (GBKbO)

62 By next year it will be all AI.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at June 25, 2025 02:30 PM (hfg0k)


I hate AI! Please give me a world without AI!

Posted by: Emmie celebrates the Audacity of Trump! at June 25, 2025 02:33 PM (rF2iL)

63 And Youtube as well. With a flick of the switch they can demonetize your channel, and with the flick of a second switch they can erase it. Good luck finding any type of human to discuss or appeal either action with.

Posted by: Crusader at June 25, 2025 02:29 PM (TN0g+)

I was thinking more about Google Ads.
They pretty much canceled conservative sites when it comes to decent ad revenue.

They're notorious for cancelling AdSense on sites for things users say in the comments section.

That's why so many conservative sites have hide the comments on other pages or behind paywalls.

Google is the biggest player in online ads, and if they could get Google to stop their discrimination it would force the other big players to follow along.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at June 25, 2025 02:34 PM (6ydKt)

64 According to Ferguson, GARM once dismissed free speech as "an extreme global interpretation of the US Constitution," citing "principles of governance" crafted exclusively by "white men."

wtf is your freaking point already?

you people are unhealthily obsessed about white men. What are you going to do now that Black men and Muslim men are abandoning your religious cult?

Posted by: kallisto at June 25, 2025 02:34 PM (dCxaZ)

65 6.0221408 X 10(23) times stronger than Viagra!

Posted by: Avogadro at June 25, 2025 02:35 PM (q2NNn)

66 45 How is this agreement to be enforced?

If only by agency action, it means fuck-all.

If private individuals are allowed to enforce it, in addition, then it has teeth.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at June 25, 2025

It would be nice if it were like California's PAGA law, let individuals sue on behalf of the state.

Posted by: CaliGirl at June 25, 2025 02:35 PM (Y5PQs)

67 54 If dipping special dark chocolate Hershey kisses in left over butter cream frosting is wrong, then I don't want to be right.
Posted by: From about That Time


That’s what she said!
Posted by: haffhowershower at June 25, 2025 02:32 PM (1U8ba)

Not me, I never have any leftovers! Leave no potential man behind! *cackle* *hic*

Posted by: Kalama! at June 25, 2025 02:35 PM (8hxDK)

68 i am rembering as GUM stores were G.E.M. stores, a private gov't employee mutual more or less scam, precursor to costco and the like.
Posted by: From about That Time

I remember the GEM store near my house as a kid, very much ahead of its time. Dad would buy all our Boy Scout necessities there.

Posted by: That Gnarly Guy Guarding the Footbridge at June 25, 2025 02:35 PM (w9Wax)

69 The problem is enforcement. It always is.

Posted by: Francis W. Porretto at June 25, 2025 02:35 PM (Nmmyc)

70 65 6.0221408 X 10(23) times stronger than Viagra!
Posted by: Avogadro at June 25, 2025 02:35 PM (q2NNn)

Holy moley.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 25, 2025 02:35 PM (BjH5D)

71 We sell spatulas.
And that's all!!

Posted by: Spatula City at June 25, 2025 02:35 PM (PQB+n)

72 GOOD!

I mean damn! it's a no-brainer!

also Jerome Powell is a douchebag

Posted by: Black Orchid at June 25, 2025 02:35 PM (Pv3Rg)

73 6.0221408 X 10(23) times stronger than Viagra!
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I was promised there would be no math?

Posted by: Crusader at June 25, 2025 02:35 PM (TN0g+)

74 The problem is that the rum is always gone.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 25, 2025 02:36 PM (GBKbO)

75 Ask your mom how deep my MOP can penetrate.

Posted by: The Paleo at June 25, 2025 02:36 PM (UImIR)

76 Research reveals that what i am rembering as GUM stores were G.E.M. stores, a private gov't employee mutual more or less scam, precursor to costco and the like. RIP 1973, when the drugs started taking hold of my memory, apparently.
I'm sure you are all glad to know this.
Posted by: From about That Time at June 25, 2025 02:22 PM (n4GiU)

GUM was the acronym for Soviet/Russian big department stores/malls.

GUM (Russian: ГУМ[a] is a shopping center in Moscow, Russia. It was also the main department store in many cities of the former Soviet Union; similarly named stores operated in some Soviet republics and in post-Soviet states.

The most famous GUM is the large store facing Red Square in the Kitai-gorod area – itself traditionally a mall of Moscow. Originally, and today again, the building functions as a shopping mall. During most of the Soviet period it was essentially a department store as there was one vendor: the Soviet State. Before the 1920s the location was known as the Upper Trading Rows (Russian: Верхние торговые ряды, romanized: Verhnije torgovyje rjady).

As of 2021, GUM carries over 100 different brands,[1] and has cafes and restaurants[2] inside the mall.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 25, 2025 02:36 PM (8avO+)

77 Omnicom and IPG agreed to cease any coordination that could blacklist publishers for political reasons and pledged to cooperate with federal investigators.

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Now do media ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Make Unconditional Surrender Great Again! at June 25, 2025 02:36 PM (fWdU+)

78 Research reveals that what i am rembering as GUM stores

GUM was the big store in the old USSR that had stuff for the Inner Party members. Pronounced "Goom".

Posted by: Zombie Joe Stalin, In Hell And Loving It! at June 25, 2025 02:36 PM (zw9S9)

79 Yeah, someone check in with now closed down VDARE.

Posted by: Lizzy at June 25, 2025 02:36 PM (Hkcdp)

80 6.0221408 X 10(23) times stronger than Viagra!
Posted by: Avogadro


Is that an avogadro in your pocket or are you just happy to see me?

Posted by: haffhowershower at June 25, 2025 02:37 PM (1U8ba)

81
GARM once dismissed free speech as "an extreme global interpretation of the US Constitution," citing "principles of governance" crafted exclusively by "white men."

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Did a bunch of "white men" write this? It looks kinda like something that would be written by beautifully dressed, exquisitely made up, near-bald Black women with big scary statement eyeglasses.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 25, 2025 02:37 PM (lCaJd)

82 enforcement ideas - just have test cases at random times where conservative firms attempt to ad buy

check that the placement happens even if the bastards take your money

if not, they owe you 2x your money back by law

Posted by: Black Orchid at June 25, 2025 02:37 PM (Pv3Rg)

83 75 Ask your mom how deep my MOP can penetrate.

Posted by: The Paleo at June 25, 2025 02:36 PM (UImIR)


Sounds kinky.
Watch out for splinters.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at June 25, 2025 02:38 PM (6ydKt)

84 53 Tiger venom.

Posted by: Boss Moss at June 25, 2025 02:32 PM (VAINm)


speaking of venom...

Dr. Mary Bowden (she was one of the good docs during the plandemic) has informed us that Ozempic's main ingredient is lizard venom. I guess that's why ppl's intestines get paralyzed

Posted by: kallisto at June 25, 2025 02:38 PM (dCxaZ)

85 wtf is your freaking point already?

you people are unhealthily obsessed about white men. What are you going to do now that Black men and Muslim men are abandoning your religious cult?
Posted by: kallisto at June 25, 2025 02:34 PM (dCxaZ)

They will be considered white. Duh.

Same thing as how the movers and shakers in these leftist groups are all white men,

Posted by: Oldcat at June 25, 2025 02:38 PM (8avO+)

86 Who sees ads anymore?

Posted by: Stream it at June 25, 2025 02:38 PM (PQB+n)

87 Dr. Mary Bowden (she was one of the good docs during the plandemic) has informed us that Ozempic's main ingredient is lizard venom. I guess that's why ppl's intestines get paralyzed


seriously?!?!

I just saw the needle and I was like, I'll stick with not eating, thanks. it's big!

but lizard venom?!?!

Posted by: Black Orchid at June 25, 2025 02:39 PM (Pv3Rg)

88 Now Ace will finally be able to get that second Lamborghini.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon

Only Planned Parenthood pays that well.

Posted by: Stu Podaso at June 25, 2025 02:39 PM (iqLen)

89 also Jerome Powell is a douchebag

Posted by: Black Orchid at June 25, 2025 02:35 PM (Pv3Rg)

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

Get rid of him and that asshat Harry Reid-appointed Senate Parliamentarian -- Two Terminations of Treasonous Political Scum for the Price of One Press Release or Conference!

Posted by: ShainS -- Make Unconditional Surrender Great Again! at June 25, 2025 02:39 PM (fWdU+)

90
Omnicom and IPG agreed to cease any coordination that could blacklist publishers for political reasons and pledged to cooperate with federal investigators.

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Which makes me wonder, how DO you enforce this? It alllllllmost makes me want to see federal agents embedded in C-level meetings.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 25, 2025 02:39 PM (lCaJd)

91 “Crafted exclusively by white men.”

I’m sorry you have a problem with the demographics of the people who wrote the Constitution and Bill of Rights which secure all people from your idiotic censorship.
No wait — who cares????

Posted by: Lizzy at June 25, 2025 02:40 PM (Hkcdp)

92 Oldcat, the fog is lifting, I knew of GUM also, they had gotten mixed.

Posted by: From about That Time at June 25, 2025 02:40 PM (n4GiU)

93 Youtube recently got more blunt with their ad blocking.

Used to be you had to say "why" you were blocking the ad. Irrelevant, Inappropriate, Repetitive i think were the three options. And it would only sort of kind of work.

Now they're just like "Alright, fine, just watch it this once to the end and we'll never show you this one again".

Can't wait for election season again.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 25, 2025 02:40 PM (BjH5D)

94 Posted by: Black Orchid at June 25, 2025 02:39 PM (Pv3Rg)

it also destroys muscle tissue, that's why women get Ozempic face and body

everything sags with no tone in sight

Posted by: kallisto at June 25, 2025 02:41 PM (dCxaZ)

95 crafted exclusively by "white men"

Men? Are you a doctor?

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at June 25, 2025 02:41 PM (TedUv)

96 Dr. Mary Bowden (she was one of the good docs during the plandemic) has informed us that Ozempic's main ingredient is lizard venom. I guess that's why ppl's intestines get paralyzed
Posted by: kallisto


Put a little lizard in yer gizzard!

Posted by: haffhowershower at June 25, 2025 02:41 PM (1U8ba)

97 Which makes me wonder, how DO you enforce this? It alllllllmost makes me want to see federal agents embedded in C-level meetings.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 25, 2025 02:39 PM (lCaJd)

We don't do commissars. That's their thing.

But hey, if they're going to have their own, why not shove some of ours in too if we can.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 25, 2025 02:42 PM (BjH5D)

98 Which makes me wonder, how DO you enforce this? It alllllllmost makes me want to see federal agents embedded in C-level meetings.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 25, 2025 02:39 PM (lCaJd)

Possibly just have peeps whose ads get turned down complain and require them to record those rejected or stuck in bad time slots.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 25, 2025 02:42 PM (8avO+)

99 I wish advertising agencies would realize that the point of their advertising is to get people to want to buy their product! All this DEI posturing and leftist agenda shilling is just getting people to boycott their products, nay, to turn their heads in revulsion when their advertised products are offered for sale to them. Why can’t they just make a sales pitch that makes people happy to buy their brand?

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at June 25, 2025 02:42 PM (NWqJf)

100 Russian: Верхние торговые ряды, romanized: Verhnije torgovyje rjady


I have enough trouble with just 26 letter all facing the same way.

W. T. F.?

Posted by: rickb223 at June 25, 2025 02:42 PM (zSKXS)

101 I missed this in the previous thread, but I have to comment:

>>>You know that old Japanese soldier that was alone on an island all those years and he didn't know the war was over.Trump's fault.
Posted by: Dreamingrobot at June 25, 2025 01:51 PM (EyfuW)

Mazie Hirono will declare it a holiday for Hawaii, like Texas' Juneteenth. And in 20 years, it'll be a national holiday, and we'll teach in schools that's when the REAL ending of WW2 happened.

Which is basically what Juneteenth is.

Posted by: LizLem at June 25, 2025 02:42 PM (gWBY1)

102 I have never purchased anything based on the content of an advertisement.

From what I see, only the trendy cool kids are hoodwinked by promises of grandeur.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at June 25, 2025 02:42 PM (ioEI6)

103 article about origin of Ozempic and Wegovy

goes to ScienceAlert.com

https://tinyurl.com/595yckvx

Posted by: kallisto at June 25, 2025 02:43 PM (dCxaZ)

104 Get rid of him and that asshat Harry Reid-

Festive little hat!

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at June 25, 2025 02:43 PM (TedUv)

105 Lizard Venom was the garage band name for the group that ultimately went on to be known as The Animals.

Posted by: Music nerd at June 25, 2025 02:43 PM (PQB+n)

106 Dr. Mary Bowden (she was one of the good docs during the plandemic) has informed us that Ozempic's main ingredient is lizard venom. I guess that's why ppl's intestines get paralyzed


seriously?!?!

I just saw the needle and I was like, I'll stick with not eating, thanks. it's big!

but lizard venom?!?!


It's a slow, self-administered takeover by the subterranean lizard people. Don't fall for it!

Posted by: Archimedes at June 25, 2025 02:44 PM (Riz8t)

107 From what I see, only the trendy cool kids are hoodwinked by promises of grandeur.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at June 25, 2025 02:42 PM (ioEI6)

Grandeur, or crappy cold tacos materializing on your doorstep at 2 AM.

Not all advertising is glamorous.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 25, 2025 02:45 PM (BjH5D)

108 Dr. Mary Bowden (she was one of the good docs during the plandemic) has informed us that Ozempic's main ingredient is lizard venom. I guess that's why ppl's intestines get paralyzed

She wasn't the doc who said that the "vaccine's" proteins were spontaneously assembling into alien life-forms was she?

Cuz that was something that rhymes with boobookananas.

Though for a couple of weeks she was popular around the HQ.

Posted by: naturalfake at June 25, 2025 02:45 PM (iJfKG)

109 seriously?!?!

I just saw the needle and I was like, I'll stick with not eating, thanks. it's big!

but lizard venom?!?!
Posted by: Black Orchid at June 25, 2025 02:39 PM (Pv3Rg)

Well the ladies started with botulism toxin.

No, they started with lead based makeup for white skin.

My lack of reading of makeup chemistry is holding me back.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 25, 2025 02:46 PM (8avO+)

110 No, they started with lead based makeup for white skin.

My lack of reading of makeup chemistry is holding me back.
Posted by: Oldcat at June 25, 2025 02:46 PM (8avO+)

Alligator shit spermicide.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 25, 2025 02:46 PM (BjH5D)

111 It's true, the Fat Shot is made with venom.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at June 25, 2025 02:47 PM (6ydKt)

112 Cuz that was something that rhymes with boobookananas.

Though for a couple of weeks she was popular around the HQ.
Posted by: naturalfake at June 25, 2025 02:45 PM (iJfKG)

horsepaste.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 25, 2025 02:47 PM (BjH5D)

113 NO MORE TOENAIL FUNGUS!

Posted by: toby928 at June 25, 2025 02:47 PM (jc0TO)

114 >>> Dr. Mary Bowden (she was one of the good docs during the plandemic) has informed us that Ozempic's main ingredient is lizard venom. I guess that's why ppl's intestines get paralyzed

I heard this, that it's Komodo Dragon and people's organs are dissolving? Terrifying. But I know people on it though, either for diabetes or for weight loss, and they are fine. The drugs in Botox are also appalling and yet they work, so who knows.

Research should be made on the number of women on Botox that become rabid View watching leftists. If it's high, there's definitely a correlation between willingly injecting your face with poison and political leanings.

Posted by: LizLem at June 25, 2025 02:47 PM (gWBY1)

115 It's a slow, self-administered takeover by the subterranean lizard people. Don't fall for it!
Posted by: Archimedes


Speaking of takeovers, next thing you know we’ll be taking Ozempguin or Pengovy. Duncanthrax has probably seen this coming.

Posted by: haffhowershower at June 25, 2025 02:48 PM (1U8ba)

116 TOGCIADC

Posted by: haffhowershower at June 25, 2025 02:29 PM (1U8ba)

*finger to nose*

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at June 25, 2025 02:48 PM (i24o9)

117 Which makes me wonder, how DO you enforce this? It alllllllmost makes me want to see federal agents embedded in C-level meetings.
Posted by: Blonde



it is not happening, "work around"

is is nice that they noticed the censorship, not everybody is anti-censorship, free speech now

Posted by: n at June 25, 2025 02:48 PM (lfLiC)

118 *sigh* It's no harder, dear. You sure you took it correctly?

Posted by: Mrs. Max Planck at June 25, 2025 02:48 PM (q2NNn)

119 I expect to hear "Trump is getting paid off" for approving this merger. Dems demand impeachment

Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 25, 2025 02:48 PM (pwtJC)

120 wish advertising agencies would realize that white race traitor whores and their buck bulls don't sell products or services.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at June 25, 2025 02:49 PM (OQLKT)

121 I wish advertising agencies would realize that the point of their advertising is to get people to want to buy their product! All this DEI posturing and leftist agenda shilling is just getting people to boycott their products, nay, to turn their heads in revulsion when their advertised products are offered for sale to them. Why can’t they just make a sales pitch that makes people happy to buy their brand?
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at June 25, 2025 02:42 PM (NWqJf)

Ad campaigns that work can be run forever. No need to hire the agency to make a new one. Thus no money for the agency.

A complete failure means you go back to the agency for another campaign more often.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 25, 2025 02:49 PM (8avO+)

122 Cuz that was something that rhymes with boobookananas.

Though for a couple of weeks she was popular around the HQ.
Posted by: naturalfake at June 25, 2025 02:45 PM (iJfKG)

horsepaste.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 25, 2025 02:47 PM (BjH5D)


She was a "horse paste" advocate or the alien protein self-assembling lifeforms doc?

Posted by: naturalfake at June 25, 2025 02:49 PM (iJfKG)

123 A synthetic version was created in the years after, but it took until 2005 for this GLP-1 agonist to become an FDA-approved treatment for type 2 diabetes. It's now also become a popular treatment for obesity, with further potential applications on the horizon.

OK, it's a synthetic version of a protein found in Gila monster venom.

It's not any more strange than using rat poison as a blood thinner, I suppose?

Posted by: SpeakingOf at June 25, 2025 02:49 PM (6ydKt)

124 Cuz that was something that rhymes with boobookananas.
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I can't think of anything that rhymes with boobookananas.

Perhaps we could solve it as a group via hangman?

Posted by: Crusader at June 25, 2025 02:49 PM (TN0g+)

125 OK, they SAY they won't boycott conservative ads. Will they actually stop? Who trusts them?

Posted by: Eeyore at June 25, 2025 02:50 PM (od0dV)

126 The ads with eight fingers on the model will nearly double nail polish sales.

What if you’re right?!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at June 25, 2025 02:50 PM (NWqJf)

127 Apparently one of Jim Comey's daughters was a prosecutor in the Diddy case. It's infectious, incestuous, pus ridden nepotism all the way down.

Posted by: LizLem at June 25, 2025 02:50 PM (gWBY1)

128 Get ready for much classier strains of foot fungus.

Posted by: ... at June 25, 2025 02:50 PM (sfdl6)

129 Dr. Mary Bowden (she was one of the good docs during the plandemic) has informed us that Ozempic's main ingredient is lizard venom.
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Hsst hraaak, ghaaghghgh!

Posted by: Lord Mazdamundi at June 25, 2025 02:50 PM (XZ5S6)

130 No, they started with lead based makeup for white skin.

Lol.

Posted by: Cleopatra, applying belladonna to her eyes at June 25, 2025 02:51 PM (JCZqz)

131 Terrifying. But I know people on it though, either for diabetes or for weight loss, and they are fine. The drugs in Botox are also appalling and yet they work, so who knows.

when Ozempic is administered for diabetes, the dosage amt is under strict control by the doctor specializing in internal medicine.
From what I understand, Ozempic is available at medispas and other similar places where the only restraint on how much a customer can get depends on the size of their wallet. They can just go to town and get jabbed as much as they want.

re: Botox...filler migration. It's a thing.

Posted by: kallisto at June 25, 2025 02:51 PM (dCxaZ)

132 Speaking of takeovers, next thing you know we’ll be taking Ozempguin or Pengovy. Duncanthrax has probably seen this coming.
Posted by: haffhowershower at June 25, 2025 02:48 PM (1U8ba)

I'm sure Penguin Dung does something applied to a gal's body. I get the feeling that everyone who makes products for women hates women.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 25, 2025 02:51 PM (8avO+)

133 TOGCIADC

Posted by: haffhowershower at June 25, 2025 02:29 PM (1U8ba)

*finger to nose*
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at June 25, 2025 02:48 PM


This is wisdom.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 25, 2025 02:51 PM (dPfyF)

134 If Ace doesn’t cover the NATO guy calling Trump “Daddy”, I will be very disappointed!

Posted by: Jmel at June 25, 2025 02:52 PM (bVhJi)

135 Read this in the link.
But the maker of its natural form, the Brazilian viper (Bothrops jararaca), evolved to produce enzyme inhibitors that help venom spread smoothly through the doomed body of its prey.

Really pointing me toward intelligent design. How could a fucking snake analyse the biological underpinnings of its many types of prey.
I've swapped out agnostic for simply ignorant.

Posted by: From about That Time at June 25, 2025 02:52 PM (n4GiU)

136 if internets are right, the best way to advertise something is to show a black single mother using the device.

Posted by: n at June 25, 2025 02:52 PM (lfLiC)

137 everything sags with no tone in sight

Used to date her!

Posted by: haffhowershower at June 25, 2025 02:52 PM (1U8ba)

138 118 *sigh* It's no harder, dear. You sure you took it correctly?
Posted by: Mrs. Max Planck at June 25, 2025 02:48 PM (q2NNn)

The physicists wife played a prank
and swapped out the pills for his crank.
"What the hell --- it's untoward!
I should be stiff as a board!
But instead i'm just stiff as a Planck!"

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 25, 2025 02:52 PM (BjH5D)

139 Kookoobananas is a side dish served with the fish taco at Mar-a-lago.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at June 25, 2025 02:53 PM (ioEI6)

140 Joy Reid says she was fired by MSNBC for, in part, being too humanizing of Palestinians on her show.

"You just can't get away from the fact that talking about Gaza in a way that humanizes Palestinians is not the usual way that cable news operates."

lol

Posted by: one hour sober at June 25, 2025 02:53 PM (Y1sOo)

141 I should be stiff as a board!
But instead i'm just stiff as a Planck!"
Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 25, 2025 02:52 PM (BjH5D)

OMG the puns are just constant around here.

Posted by: ... at June 25, 2025 02:54 PM (sfdl6)

142 It's not any more strange than using rat poison as a blood thinner, I suppose?


you know, or the horse urine one

is the nun urine one weirder than that, or no?


Posted by: Black Orchid at June 25, 2025 02:54 PM (Pv3Rg)

143 Really pointing me toward intelligent design. How could a fucking snake analyse the biological underpinnings of its many types of prey.
I've swapped out agnostic for simply ignorant.
Posted by: From about That Time at June 25, 2025 02:52 PM (n4GiU)

Swapping out science for God spending his life designing better poisons isn't a huge improvement.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 25, 2025 02:54 PM (8avO+)

144 Dr. Mary Bowden (she was one of the good docs during the plandemic) has informed us that Ozempic's main ingredient is lizard venom. I guess that's why ppl's intestines get paralyzed

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I've heard (but not confirmed) that they've found snake and other venoms both in Covid and other man-made viruses -- as well as the mRNA jabs.

BTW -- The original Latin word for "venom" is "virus."

Posted by: ShainS -- Make Unconditional Surrender Great Again! at June 25, 2025 02:54 PM (fWdU+)

145 102 I have never purchased anything based on the content of an advertisement.

From what I see, only the trendy cool kids are hoodwinked by promises of grandeur.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at June 25, 2025 02:42 PM (ioEI6)

I actually did. Once. I had never drank Dr. Pepper but I really liked that catchy jingle "hold out. For the out of the ordinary! Hold out! For doc- tor pep- per!".
So I bought a Dr. Pepper. I still drink it if Coca cola is not available. Some restaurants just love their Pepsi products.

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at June 25, 2025 02:54 PM (2J/Lj)

146 Ad campaigns that work can be run forever. No need to hire the agency to make a new one. Thus no money for the agency.

A complete failure means you go back to the agency for another campaign more often.


But even successful ad campaigns eventually tire, or we would all still be saying “Where’s the beef?”

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at June 25, 2025 02:55 PM (NWqJf)

147 horsepaste.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 25, 2025 02:47 PM (BjH5D)

She was a "horse paste" advocate or the alien protein self-assembling lifeforms doc?
Posted by: naturalfake at June 25, 2025 02:49 PM (iJfKG)

I mean that she may have been making a perfectly valid point that got spun out as kookoobannanas by the media to discredit what she was saying.

Protein self assembly is absolutely a thing. I don't know what she said or didn't say, but I do know that anyone saying anything against The Science was smeared as a psychopath.

hence, "horsepaste".

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 25, 2025 02:56 PM (BjH5D)

148 I can't believe I ate the whole thing.

Posted by: toby928 at June 25, 2025 02:56 PM (jc0TO)

149 having an advertisement notify you that there's a new product is nice, but its never going to persuade you to buy, if you're not some functional retard

Posted by: n at June 25, 2025 02:56 PM (lfLiC)

150 Axios Scoop: The Trump White House has decided that nine former senior Biden aides won't be protected by executive privilege during their interviews for a congressional probe into Joe Biden's mental fitness for office.

Why it matters: The White House's move means the former Biden aides will have to answer questions about their private conversations with Biden, unless they or Biden try to challenge the decision in court.

"Why didn't you tell anyone about Joe Biden's mental state?" "Nobody asked me". Done, go home.

"Because there was nothing wrong with his mental state."

Who the f*#k decided that only TSF can define what is or is not in the 'national interest' or 'national security'?

He certainly is full of himself since congress and the Supreme Court has decided that he is the king and the second coming.

Take a cue from Republicans. You don't need executive privilege if you just "can't recall" anything. they never apologize for pushing the guardrails aside. Time for us to turn that back on them.

from what I can tell, the legality of this privilege remains undecided. Both Bannon and Navarro went to prison for it

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at June 25, 2025 02:57 PM (JCZqz)

151 I actually did. Once. I had never drank Dr. Pepper but I really liked that catchy jingle "hold out. For the out of the ordinary! Hold out! For doc- tor pep- per!".
So I bought a Dr. Pepper. I still drink it if Coca cola is not available. Some restaurants just love their Pepsi products.
Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at June 25, 2025 02:54 PM (2J/Lj)

Well its a contract. You are either a coke chain or a pepsi chain...or maybe you sell cans.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 25, 2025 02:57 PM (8avO+)

152 150 "Because there was nothing wrong with his mental state."

Who the f*#k decided that only TSF can define what is or is not in the 'national interest' or 'national security'?

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at June 25, 2025 02:57 PM (JCZqz)

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1. Hilarious.

2. Hilarious.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 25, 2025 02:57 PM (GBKbO)

153 It's not any more strange than using rat poison as a blood thinner, I suppose?


you know, or the horse urine one

is the nun urine one weirder than that, or no?


Posted by: Black Orchid at June 25, 2025 02:54 PM (Pv3Rg)

No more odd than catshit coffee.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at June 25, 2025 02:57 PM (g8Ew8)

154 I am having some difficulty with detergents since they have been new, improved, more concentrated so many times I am not sure we need more than a tsp per wash.

Posted by: n at June 25, 2025 02:57 PM (lfLiC)

155 She wasn't the doc who said that the "vaccine's" proteins were spontaneously assembling into alien life-forms was she?

Cuz that was something that rhymes with boobookananas.

Though for a couple of weeks she was popular around the HQ.
Posted by: naturalfake at June 25, 2025 02:45 PM (iJfKG)


I don't think she's that person. Bowden was the doctor who was treating Covid patients with drugs that actually worked and her license was threatened (maybe revoked?) and I think she lost her association with the hospital. Never mind that all her patients survived Covid really well, unlike the hospital's.

Posted by: Emmie celebrates the Audacity of Trump! at June 25, 2025 02:58 PM (rF2iL)

156 TSF?

Posted by: toby928 at June 25, 2025 02:58 PM (jc0TO)

157 service is in and out re: Iran

Trump saying Iran's not interested in nuclear anymore is akin to a father talking to wife in front of the children. Don't worry ,dear, they won't do it again.

The threat is implicit.

Besides, the Israelis may have stopped fighting but they haven't stopped hunting.

Posted by: braenyard- Some friends are more equal than others at June 25, 2025 02:58 PM (yXf+h)

158 150 Take a cue from Republicans. You don't need executive privilege if you just "can't recall" anything. they never apologize for pushing the guardrails aside. Time for us to turn that back on them.

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at June 25, 2025 02:57 PM (JCZqz)

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Is this...satire?

Hillary's "I don't recall" at the Benghazi hearings is the stuff of legend.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 25, 2025 02:58 PM (GBKbO)

159 In your fat face, Kirk!

Posted by: The Gorn at June 25, 2025 02:59 PM (w9Wax)

160 This agreement only lasts as long as there is a conservative president. Once a democrat or gop(e) wins, it's all over.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at June 25, 2025 02:59 PM (e5NfL)

161 OMG the puns are just constant around here.
Posted by: ... at June 25, 2025 02:54 PM (sfdl6)

Nice! But don’t be a Bohr or we’re going to Boltzmann.

Posted by: haffhowershower at June 25, 2025 02:59 PM (1U8ba)

162 159 In your fat face, Kirk!
Posted by: The Gorn at June 25, 2025 02:59 PM (w9Wax)

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"Yum yum!"
-modern Trek

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 25, 2025 03:00 PM (GBKbO)

163 >>>The Federal Trade Commission Extracts a Heavy Price for Approval of the Merger of Two Ad Titans

Fools didn't even get a shrubbery.

Posted by: Knights Who Say Ni at June 25, 2025 03:00 PM (i24o9)

164 Hope this helps bring more ad revenue to military savvy blogspots

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at June 25, 2025 03:00 PM (wBaIH)

165 "I'm Fed Up With Scrubbing!"

Excuse me, you need Ty-D-bol!

Posted by: Dude In Your Shitter In A Captain's Hat at June 25, 2025 03:00 PM (zw9S9)

166 161 OMG the puns are just constant around here.
Posted by: ... at June 25, 2025 02:54 PM (sfdl6)

Nice! But don’t be a Bohr or we’re going to Boltzmann.
Posted by: haffhowershower at June 25, 2025 02:59 PM (1U8ba)

Fine, man.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 25, 2025 03:00 PM (BjH5D)

167 Think this could affect the HQ's ad space?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 25, 2025 02:20 PM (GBKbO)


There are ads here???

Posted by: Doof at June 25, 2025 03:00 PM (B5+rm)

168 Premarin! that was it

pregnant mare urine

that's how they named it! for what it actually WAS

Posted by: Black Orchid at June 25, 2025 03:00 PM (Pv3Rg)

169 1. Hilarious.

2. Hilarious.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 25, 2025 02:57 PM (GBKbO)

The one about Reps denying knowledge and Dems never do. Who was it that claimed he lied in his own diary?

Posted by: Oldcat at June 25, 2025 03:00 PM (8avO+)

170 OMG the puns are just constant around here.
Posted by: ... at June 25, 2025 02:54 PM (sfdl6)

It's all relative, man.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at June 25, 2025 03:01 PM (i24o9)

171 Fine, man.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 25, 2025 03:00 PM


Haha! Yessssss!

Posted by: Ed McMahon at June 25, 2025 03:01 PM (jc0TO)

172 Premarin! that was it

pregnant mare urine

that's how they named it! for what it actually WAS
Posted by: Black Orchid at June 25, 2025 03:00 PM (Pv3Rg)

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Women still use it.

Posted by: Jordan61 at June 25, 2025 03:01 PM (DRSnL)

173 Think this could affect the HQ's ad space?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 25, 2025 02:20 PM (GBKbO)

There are ads here???
Posted by: Doof at June 25, 2025 03:00 PM (B5+rm)

all of your own posts are crammed with subliminal ads.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 25, 2025 03:01 PM (8avO+)

174 I have never purchased anything based on the content of an advertisement.

Maybe not directly, but there is a reason business pays big for advertising. You are indirectly influenced by major brand names over the generic brand when shopping.

Posted by: Halfhand at June 25, 2025 03:02 PM (VHiwh)

175 173 Think this could affect the HQ's ad space?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 25, 2025 02:20 PM (GBKbO)

There are ads here???
Posted by: Doof at June 25, 2025 03:00 PM (B5+rm)

all of your own posts are crammed with subliminal ads.
Posted by: Oldcat at June 25, 2025 03:01 PM (8avO+)

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I have no idea what you mean.

*purchases 37th copy of the complete Phineas and Ferb*

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 25, 2025 03:02 PM (GBKbO)

176 Women still use it.


right of course. and there's another similar meno drug from the nun urine (because virgin?)

just saying it's all crazy wacky stuff, our pharma

Posted by: Black Orchid at June 25, 2025 03:02 PM (Pv3Rg)

177 There are ads here???
Posted by: Doof at June 25, 2025 03:00 PM (B5+rm)

all of your own posts are crammed with subliminal ads.
Posted by: Oldcat at June 25, 2025 03:01 PM (8avO+)


I wouldn't know - I don't read my posts

Posted by: Doof at June 25, 2025 03:03 PM (B5+rm)

178 Premarin! that was it

pregnant mare urine

that's how they named it! for what it actually WAS
Posted by: Black Orchid at June 25, 2025 03:00 PM (Pv3Rg)

Oldcat starting to regret asking for strange ingredients in women's makeup.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 25, 2025 03:03 PM (8avO+)

179 They’ll agree. Then they will still do it. Someone will sue. It will take years to go through courts and appeals. And by the time it’s resolved there will probably be a Democrat in the White House who will delete the whole agreement.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at June 25, 2025 03:03 PM (ORJZB)

180 These are the products you are looking for.

*jediwave*

Posted by: toby wan kenobi at June 25, 2025 03:03 PM (jc0TO)

181 TSF?
Posted by: toby928 at June 25, 2025 02:58 PM (jc0TO)

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I just googled it. Apparently DU made it up, it stands for The Sick Fuck.

Posted by: Jordan61 at June 25, 2025 03:03 PM (DRSnL)

182 But what the right says is hateful and fascistic!

Posted by: Omnicom and IPG at June 25, 2025 03:03 PM (ynpvh)

183 Premarin! that was it

pregnant mare urine

Posted by: Black Orchid at June 25, 2025 03:00 PM (Pv3Rg)

Oh no please don't tell me what warfarin is

Posted by: ... at June 25, 2025 03:03 PM (sfdl6)

184 182 But what the right says is hateful and fascistic!
Posted by: Omnicom and IPG at June 25, 2025 03:03 PM (ynpvh)

========

I'm more of a fan of Omni Consumer Products.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 25, 2025 03:04 PM (GBKbO)

185 I have never purchased anything based on the content of an advertisement.

Maybe not directly, but there is a reason business pays big for advertising. You are indirectly influenced by major brand names over the generic brand when shopping.
Posted by: Halfhand at June 25, 2025 03:02 PM (VHiwh)

It gives executives something to do is the major reason.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 25, 2025 03:04 PM (8avO+)

186 180 These are the products you are looking for.

*jediwave*

Posted by: toby wan kenobi at June 25, 2025 03:03 PM (jc0TO)

Jedi's use a lightsaber for giving the middle finger...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 25, 2025 03:04 PM (ynpvh)

187 Ooey gooey rich and chewy outside. Golden flaky tender caky outside.

Darn tooten!

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at June 25, 2025 03:04 PM (ioEI6)

188 I just googled it. Apparently DU made it up, it stands for The Sick Fuck.
Posted by: Jordan61 at June 25, 2025 03:03 PM


They try so hard but it's no SCOAMF.

Posted by: toby928 at June 25, 2025 03:05 PM (jc0TO)

189 I have no idea what you mean.

*purchases 37th copy of the complete Phineas and Ferb*
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 25, 2025 03:02 PM (GBKbO)


Nice! I know what we're gonna do today!

Posted by: Doof at June 25, 2025 03:05 PM (B5+rm)

190 >>>Oldcat starting to regret asking for strange ingredients in women's makeup.


Catherine the Great’s youth serum anyone?

Posted by: haffhowershower at June 25, 2025 03:06 PM (1U8ba)

191 185 It gives executives something to do is the major reason.
Posted by: Oldcat at June 25, 2025 03:04 PM (8avO+)

=======

I suspect there's some level where advertising levels off in terms of effectiveness, where it becomes decreasingly worth every extra dollar.

But only marketing firms and departments will do that research, and they have no vested interest in making it known that the next $10 million you spend on bus ads is less effective than the $2 million you already spent.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 25, 2025 03:06 PM (GBKbO)

192 Oh no please don't tell me what warfarin is
Posted by: ... at June 25, 2025 03:03 PM (sfdl6)

It's wombat farts.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at June 25, 2025 03:06 PM (g8Ew8)

193 right of course. and there's another similar meno drug from the nun urine (because virgin?)

just saying it's all crazy wacky stuff, our pharma
Posted by: Black Orchid at June 25, 2025 03:02 PM (Pv3Rg)

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I work with a nun. I'm not asking her for her urine, I don't care how many hot flashes I get.

Posted by: Jordan61 at June 25, 2025 03:06 PM (DRSnL)

194 I'm suddenly craving fig newtons.

Posted by: toby928 at June 25, 2025 03:06 PM (jc0TO)

195 >>>The Federal Trade Commission Extracts a Heavy Price for Approval of the Merger of Two Ad Titans

Uh, I think the word you're looking for here is 'exacts' -- FTC exacts a heavy price.

Just sayin'.

Posted by: lurk at June 25, 2025 03:06 PM (7IOVT)

196 Nobody uses the 10, 2, and 4 jingle for Dr. Pepper anymore, although I remember seeing it on the bottles in the 1960s. The Dr. Pepper Company came up with that in the 1930s when a study found that factory workers could do their jobs better if they drank a refreshing caffeinated and sugar-loaded beverage on breaks at 10, 2, and 4 during the work day. Yes, I do believe the Dr. Pepper Company commissioned that study. But they used that jingle for decades, but not anymore. So you’re always seeing new jingles for Dr. Pepper and new advertising campaigns which have a good measure of success (by the way, my 94 year old mother can recite the original 1930s 10, 2, and 4 radio jingle for Dr. Pepper by heart, and will do so upon request!).

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at June 25, 2025 03:06 PM (NWqJf)

197 There are ads here???
Posted by: Doof at June 25, 2025 03:00 PM


Content, too!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 25, 2025 03:07 PM (dPfyF)

198 188 I just googled it. Apparently DU made it up, it stands for The Sick Fuck.
Posted by: Jordan61 at June 25, 2025 03:03 PM

They try so hard but it's no SCOAMF.
Posted by: toby928

He's a weird TACO chicken! Oh, BOOM! You got SERVED! Ain't got nothing to say after THAT sick burn! Y'all are COOKED!

Posted by: Tim Walz at June 25, 2025 03:07 PM (JCZqz)

199 189 I have no idea what you mean.

*purchases 37th copy of the complete Phineas and Ferb*
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 25, 2025 03:02 PM (GBKbO)

Nice! I know what we're gonna do today!

Posted by: Doof at June 25, 2025 03:05 PM (B5+rm)

the rest of your name isn't enshmirtz, is it?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 25, 2025 03:07 PM (ynpvh)

200 198 188 I just googled it. Apparently DU made it up, it stands for The Sick Fuck.
Posted by: Jordan61 at June 25, 2025 03:03 PM

They try so hard but it's no SCOAMF.
Posted by: toby928

He's a weird TACO chicken! Oh, BOOM! You got SERVED! Ain't got nothing to say after THAT sick burn! Y'all are COOKED!

Posted by: Tim Walz at June 25, 2025 03:07 PM (JCZqz)

Tampons don't go into the turkey where the stuffing does, Timmy.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 25, 2025 03:07 PM (ynpvh)

201 Seven Israeli soldiers killed in Gaza by Hamas attaching a bomb to their vehicle. Hamas ain't dead yet

Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 25, 2025 03:08 PM (pwtJC)

202 Premarin! that was it

pregnant mare urine

Posted by: Black Orchid at June 25, 2025 03:00 PM (Pv3Rg)

Oh no please don't tell me what warfarin is

Posted by: ... at June 25, 2025 03:03 PM (sfdl6)

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Pregnant Klingon Urine.

Posted by: ShainS -- Make Unconditional Surrender Great Again! at June 25, 2025 03:08 PM (fWdU+)

203 197 There are ads here???
Posted by: Doof at June 25, 2025 03:00 PM

Content, too!
Posted by: RedMindBlueState

Allegedly. But no one has time to read all the shit in the OP.

Posted by: Moron Analyst at June 25, 2025 03:08 PM (JCZqz)

204 I work with a nun. I'm not asking her for her urine, I don't care how many hot flashes I get.
Posted by: Jordan61 at June 25, 2025 03:06 PM (DRSnL)

You might be surprised how gladly she'd give it to you.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at June 25, 2025 03:09 PM (g8Ew8)

205 I'm a Pepper. You're a Pepper. Wouldn't you like to bet a Pepper too?

Posted by: Mr. Pibb at June 25, 2025 03:09 PM (IlL6s)

206 Nice! I know what we're gonna do today!
Posted by: Doof at June 25, 2025 03:05 PM


The same thing we do every day, Doof...try to take over the world.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 25, 2025 03:10 PM (dPfyF)

207 If Dr. Pepper was a drug I'd be a junky.

Posted by: JROD at June 25, 2025 03:10 PM (IlL6s)

208 Nice! I know what we're gonna do today!

Posted by: Doof at June 25, 2025 03:05 PM (B5+rm)

the rest of your name isn't enshmirtz, is it?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 25, 2025 03:07 PM (ynpvh)


Can neither confirm nor deny
*notices 2 other states within very close proximity*

Posted by: Doof at June 25, 2025 03:11 PM (B5+rm)

209 What's black and white and yellow all over?

Posted by: ... at June 25, 2025 03:11 PM (sfdl6)

210 Posted by: Tim Walz at June 25, 2025 03:07 PM (JCZqz)

Tampons don't go into the turkey where the stuffing does, Timmy.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 25, 2025 03:07 PM (ynpvh)

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Imagine how many jive turkeys Timmy has stuffed.

Posted by: ShainS -- Make Unconditional Surrender Great Again! at June 25, 2025 03:11 PM (3Vw/R)

211 Posted by: Tim Walz at June 25, 2025 03:07 PM (JCZqz)

Tampons don't go into the turkey where the stuffing does, Timmy.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 25, 2025 03:07 PM (ynpvh)

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Imagine how many jive turkeys old Timmy has stuffed ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Make Unconditional Surrender Great Again! at June 25, 2025 03:11 PM (3Vw/R)

212 But they used that jingle for decades, but not anymore. So you’re always seeing new jingles for Dr. Pepper

What's The Word?...Thunderbird!
What's The Price...Thirty Twice!
How's It Sold?...Good And Cold!
Who Drinks The Most?...Amish Folks!

Posted by: New Thunderbird Jingle 2025 E & J Gallo Winery at June 25, 2025 03:12 PM (zw9S9)

213 Women get vampire facials, salmon sperm facials, snail slime for the face, baby foreskin cream. Gila monster poison and botulism seem almost quaint at this point.

Posted by: CaliGirl at June 25, 2025 03:12 PM (Y5PQs)

214 155 Though for a couple of weeks she was popular around the HQ.
Posted by: naturalfake at June 25, 2025 02:45 PM (iJfKG)


I do recall seeing some presentation from a woman, can't recall who, who showed the vaccine components "assembling" but there was something about her that made me think it was...off. She was very pretty and her demeanor gave me the impression that her looks were part of a scheme to mislead. I don't know how to explain it; it was one of those intuition things.

Posted by: Emmie at June 25, 2025 03:12 PM (rF2iL)

215 What's black and white and yellow all over?
Posted by: ... at June 25, 2025 03:11 PM (sfdl6)

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An incontinent nun?

Posted by: Duke Lowell at June 25, 2025 03:12 PM (2UnvF)

216 We at Insomniac Brand Tire Irons, look forward to being able to advertise on this smart military blog.

Remember for all your tire irons needs, choose Insomniac Brand Tire Irons for the best in quality and performance.

Posted by: Insomniac brand Tire Irons, LLC at June 25, 2025 02:33 PM (8wKVG)

Pooky would totally gift me one of these, then say, "See? It's not self-harm if *you're* the one hitting me with it so I can sleep!"

Posted by: pookysgirl live with Technicality Boy at June 25, 2025 03:12 PM (Wt5PA)

217 And here’s my point about advertising: if your ad campaign actively drives sales down, if it induces people to boycott your whole product line (Bud Light, Gillette, Burger King, etc.) then the company will find another ad agency. Eventually your ad agency will be driven out of the business!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at June 25, 2025 03:12 PM (NWqJf)

218 The dating app Bumble fired 30% of its workforce.
Stock up 25%

They didn’t specifically say it but they kinda did, AI is going to replace most of those employees in some capacity.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at June 25, 2025 03:13 PM (ORJZB)

219 I'm a Pepper. You're a Pepper. Wouldn't you like to bet a Pepper too?
Posted by: Mr. Pibb at June 25, 2025 03:09 PM (IlL6s)

Sadly for them, my answer was always 'no, not really'

Posted by: Oldcat at June 25, 2025 03:14 PM (8avO+)

220 Just sayin'.
Posted by: lurk
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Almost 200 comments before being caught. Sad.

Posted by: From about That Time at June 25, 2025 03:14 PM (n4GiU)

221 Gila monster poison and botulism seem almost quaint at this point.
Posted by: CaliGirl at June 25, 2025 03:12 PM (Y5PQs)

This sentiment would also work for New York mayoral candidates.

Posted by: ... at June 25, 2025 03:14 PM (sfdl6)

222
Swapping out science for God spending his life designing better poisons isn't a huge improvement.
Posted by: Oldcat at June 25, 2025 02:54 PM (8avO+)


*God puts a gazillion poisons on the Earth as a Dumbass Test*

*Humans make billions administering said poisons in the name of Vanity*

*God looks at Earthquake button on his Disaster Console*

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at June 25, 2025 03:14 PM (y9nCu)

223 Dr. Pepper is horrible.

Posted by: Boss Moss at June 25, 2025 03:15 PM (VAINm)

224 @213 CaliGirl-I just use aloe vera on my face.

....aloe vera isn't plant sperm is it?

Posted by: JROD at June 25, 2025 03:15 PM (IlL6s)

225 Pooky would totally gift me one of these, then say, "See? It's not self-harm if *you're* the one hitting me with it so I can sleep!"
Posted by: pookysgirl

Yes, I gifted one of my high school football players what LOOKS like a ball gag, but it was really just a sleep aid to help him with his snoring. It made it hard for me to sleep.

Posted by: Tim Walz Leaked Amazon Shopping History at June 25, 2025 03:15 PM (JCZqz)

226 And here’s my point about advertising: if your ad campaign actively drives sales down, if it induces people to boycott your whole product line (Bud Light, Gillette, Burger King, etc.) then the company will find another ad agency. Eventually your ad agency will be driven out of the business!
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at June 25, 2025 03:12 PM (NWqJf)

no, you can get picked up by another woke company since they don't care about profits or losses.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 25, 2025 03:15 PM (8avO+)

227 Fun with commercial jingles!!

Barry Manilow wrote the Stuck on Bandaid jingle and the Like a Good Neighbor State Farm jingle.
The State farm jingle is still being used after like 40 years or so! Manilow calls it his biggest hit.

Manilow did a song called I Write The Songs.
One line in the chorus is " I write the songs that make the whole world sing"
Barry did not write this song. It was written by Bruce Johnston of the Beach Boys.
However, Barry Manilow did indeed write a song the whole world has been singing even if they do not listen to his music.

Like a good neighbor, State Farm is there!

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at June 25, 2025 03:16 PM (2J/Lj)

228 Dr. Pepper is horrible.
Posted by: Boss Moss at June 25, 2025 03:15 PM (VAINm)

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You shut your whore mouth!

Posted by: Duke Lowell at June 25, 2025 03:16 PM (2UnvF)

229 @213 CaliGirl-I just use aloe vera on my face.

....aloe vera isn't plant sperm is it?
Posted by: JROD at June 25, 2025 03:15 PM (IlL6s)

Plant guts, more precisely. My sister used to use an actual plant crushed and rubbed on her for sunburn.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 25, 2025 03:16 PM (8avO+)

230 224 @213 CaliGirl-I just use aloe vera on my face.

....aloe vera isn't plant sperm is it?
Posted by: JROD at June 25, 2025 03:15 PM (IlL6s)

I hope not because I use that too. I have huge plants of it.

Posted by: CaliGirl at June 25, 2025 03:17 PM (Y5PQs)

231 My sister used to use an actual plant crushed and rubbed on her for sunburn.
Posted by: Oldcat at June 25, 2025 03:16 PM (8avO+)

You know the rule

Posted by: ... at June 25, 2025 03:17 PM (sfdl6)

232 @223 Boss Moss-blasphemy!

Posted by: JROD at June 25, 2025 03:17 PM (IlL6s)

233 223 Dr. Pepper is horrible.
Posted by: Boss Moss

It's always funny to see foreign react videos when they try Dr. Pepper or root beer. They get all excited, expecting a regular American sweet carbonated beverage, and then have a look of disgusted horror on their face the instant they taste it. Followed by almost universal comments like "it tastes like medicine".

Posted by: Moron Analyst at June 25, 2025 03:17 PM (JCZqz)

234 This sounds a lot like two things:

1. Depending on obvious partisan entities to apply the "honor system", which is an act in futility.

2. Government over reach applied to private companies. Any company can have a mission statement affording their goals. Refusal to cater to a disagreeable political view is perfectly within their rights.

I don't like that they were avoiding conservative potential customers. And, I don't like that they are "barred" from doing so if they so desire.

I suppose my position is not the popular one.

Posted by: Orson at June 25, 2025 03:17 PM (dIske)

235 >>>Women get vampire facials, salmon sperm facials, snail slime for the face, baby foreskin cream. Gila monster poison and botulism seem almost quaint at this point.

Posted by: CaliGirl

>How many brazillions does it take to lift a butt?

I want in on that racket.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at June 25, 2025 03:17 PM (ioEI6)

236 Women get vampire facials, salmon sperm facials, snail slime for the face, baby foreskin cream. Gila monster poison and botulism seem almost quaint at this point.
Posted by: CaliGirl at June 25, 2025 03:12 PM (Y5PQs)

And that's just for their face

Posted by: Hawaiin Judge Somewhere on Ventura Highway at June 25, 2025 03:17 PM (NtVYv)

237 ....aloe vera isn't plant sperm is it?
Posted by: JROD at June 25, 2025 03:15 PM (IlL6s)


No, don’t worry, it’s not plant sperm. It is however plant semen.

Posted by: haffhowershower at June 25, 2025 03:18 PM (1U8ba)

238 223 Dr. Pepper is horrible.
Posted by: Boss Moss at June 25, 2025 03:15 PM (VAINm)

I like Dr Pepper although I haven't had one since forever ago.

Posted by: CaliGirl at June 25, 2025 03:18 PM (Y5PQs)

239 Gila monster poison and botulism seem almost quaint at this point.
Posted by: CaliGirl at June 25, 2025 03:12 PM (Y5PQs)

This sentiment would also work for New York mayoral candidates.
Posted by: ... at June 25, 2025 03:14 PM (sfdl6)

They are having more trouble finding the worst person in NYC.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 25, 2025 03:18 PM (8avO+)

240
Falcon 9 Launch
keeps getting pushed back (weather)

here's the link - keep looking if interested

https://www.youtube.com/live/vNZlEP_hQO0

Posted by: Ciampino - rocket science at June 25, 2025 03:19 PM (sPQoU)

241 Imagine how many jive turkeys old Timmy has stuffed ...
Posted by: ShainS -- Make Unconditional Surrender Great Again! at June 25, 2025 03:11 PM


I think he's more into stuffing twinkies than turkeys, IYKWIM.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 25, 2025 03:19 PM (dPfyF)

242
Like a good neighbor, State Farm is there!
Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at June 25, 2025 03:16 PM (2J/Lj)

The Oscar Mayer bologna song taught me how to spell bologna.

Posted by: CaliGirl at June 25, 2025 03:20 PM (Y5PQs)

243 What's black and white and yellow all over?

NYC Checker Cab from 1998

Posted by: DanMan at June 25, 2025 03:20 PM (8uzBS)

244
Dr. Pepper is horrible.
Posted by: Boss Moss at June 25, 2025 03:15 PM (VAINm)


*reaches for 1911*

Posted by: Texas at June 25, 2025 03:20 PM (y9nCu)

245 @229 Oldcat- lol, thanks for clearing that up.

@230 CaliGirl-looks like we're all good : )

Posted by: JROD at June 25, 2025 03:20 PM (IlL6s)

246 2. Government over reach applied to private companies. Any company can have a mission statement affording their goals. Refusal to cater to a disagreeable political view is perfectly within their rights.

I don't like that they were avoiding conservative potential customers. And, I don't like that they are "barred" from doing so if they so desire.

I suppose my position is not the popular one.
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I agree with you *in theory*. Its kind of like the "free trade" thing--wonderful theory.

But in practice, there seems to be a few "choke points" on the internet, and somehow these choke points seem to be in the hands of liberals and liberal maniacs. So the "free market" version of the internet seems to discriminate in only one direction. Post the wrong thing? Demonetized. Post a 2nd wrong thing? Site erase. Want to find a new place to post the erased things? Good luck--it might work for you, but 6 months later "they" might find you again.

Posted by: Crusader at June 25, 2025 03:20 PM (TN0g+)

247 no, you can get picked up by another woke company since they don't care about profits or losses.

How do these woke companies stay in business since they don’t care about profits or losses? What is their source of revenue?

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at June 25, 2025 03:21 PM (NWqJf)

248 Fuck them, I would deny the merger

Posted by: (There Can Be Only One) Elric Blade at June 25, 2025 03:22 PM (iFTx/)

249 Does this mean white people will be allowed to be in TV commercials again??

Posted by: PJ at June 25, 2025 03:22 PM (RRCAT)

250 Nood

Posted by: CaliGirl at June 25, 2025 03:22 PM (Y5PQs)

251 Can't stand Root Beer, but Dr Pepper tastes alot more like caramel than medicine.

I've known some foreigners pissed off because they tried it here and can't get it where they live.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at June 25, 2025 03:23 PM (6ydKt)

252 Followed by almost universal comments like "it tastes like medicine".
Posted by: Moron Analyst at June 25, 2025 03:17 PM (JCZqz)

That's because they have a medicine that does taste like that.

There is/was some medicine here that was fake banana flavored I think.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 25, 2025 03:23 PM (8avO+)

253 We know a thing or two because we've seen a thing or two.

Posted by: That bald guy at June 25, 2025 03:23 PM (PQB+n)

254 I liked Mr Pibb, too, so there.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at June 25, 2025 03:23 PM (6ydKt)

255 Does this mean white people will be allowed to be in TV commercials again??
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To do what? The blacks are the ones doing all of the deep sea fishing, wilderness camping, wearing 3-piece suits to board meetings, attending musicals, wearing polos to outdoors barbecues, etc.

White people are boring.

Posted by: Crusader at June 25, 2025 03:24 PM (TN0g+)

256 Can't say I know much of advertising, but do think I know what Purgatory feels like.
Have a great afternoon everyone

Posted by: Skip at June 25, 2025 03:24 PM (+qU29)

257
....aloe vera isn't plant sperm is it?
Posted by: JROD at June 25, 2025 03:15 PM (IlL6s)


Pollen is plant spooge. After a severe allergy attack over the last several months, with the local plant life turning me into their cum slut, I've taken to renaming spring as "Plant Bukkake" season.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at June 25, 2025 03:25 PM (y9nCu)

258 Dr. Pepper is Great! Dr. Pepper is Horroble! De gustibus non disputandem! YMMV, We were talking about advertising not some soft drink!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at June 25, 2025 03:26 PM (NWqJf)

259 no, you can get picked up by another woke company since they don't care about profits or losses.

How do these woke companies stay in business since they don’t care about profits or losses? What is their source of revenue?
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at June 25, 2025 03:21 PM (NWqJf)

Well for woke ad companies, its fleecing woke admins in big companies out of money and ruining their business. This is a change of pace for the admins ruining their own businesses..

Posted by: Oldcat at June 25, 2025 03:27 PM (8avO+)

260 Women get vampire facials, salmon sperm facials, snail slime for the face, baby foreskin cream. Gila monster poison and botulism seem almost quaint at this point.
Posted by: CaliGirl at June 25, 2025 03:12 PM (Y5PQs)
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A family friend is into all this shit. She's very rich and idle and bored. Spends insane amount of money on all this shit. I'm convinced there's no treatment or remedy too stupid that can't be made popular. If some famous influencer claims that eating human feces would make you look younger, it would be a big hit.

Posted by: (There Can Be Only One) Elric Blade at June 25, 2025 03:27 PM (iFTx/)

261 254 I liked Mr Pibb, too, so there.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at June 25, 2025 03:23 PM (6ydKt)

Bullshit knockoff. Dude didn't even get his degree.

RIP, Mitch.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at June 25, 2025 03:28 PM (KbCG3)

262 By the way Coca-Cola is a very deceptive drink if you’ve never tasted it before: it’s basically a lemon-lime type drink disguised by all that caramel coloring. Drink one and taste it! Tell me I’m wrong!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at June 25, 2025 03:29 PM (NWqJf)

263 The Federal Trade Commission?
Sure, trust the government.

Posted by: wth at June 25, 2025 03:30 PM (v0R5T)

264 OK, it's a synthetic version of a protein found in Gila monster venom.

It's not any more strange than using rat poison as a blood thinner, I suppose?
Posted by: SpeakingOf


Which came first? The blood thinner or the smart ass that said, "if rats eat it, they'll bleed out!"

Posted by: rickb223 at June 25, 2025 03:32 PM (zSKXS)

265 Hold on there Chester - isn't the left that routinely accuses the right of closing down free speech?

Yeah, I thought so. . .

Posted by: Tonypete at June 25, 2025 03:35 PM (cYBz/)

266 My Uncle Olin, who passed in the early 1970s well past the age of 80, had never tasted neither Dr. Pepper nor Coca-Cola when he was a young boy. He tried Dr. Pepper and liked it, then he tried Coca-Cola and was put off by it because it didn’t taste the way it looked! It took him some time before he could stand the taste of Coca-Cola! There is no accounting for tastes, so there’s no use arguing about them either, although knowing this bunch, that won’t stop you!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at June 25, 2025 03:35 PM (NWqJf)

267 OK, it's a synthetic version of a protein found in Gila monster venom.

It's not any more strange than using rat poison as a blood thinner, I suppose?
Posted by: SpeakingOf

Which came first? The blood thinner or the smart ass that said, "if rats eat it, they'll bleed out!"
Posted by: rickb223

Here's the way my Cardiologist presented it:

"Left untreated, you may stroke out. If you take your meds, you may bleed out during an accident or another injury."

We all gotta die of something.

Posted by: Tonypete at June 25, 2025 03:39 PM (cYBz/)

268 The Coca-Cola Company started to market Mr. Pibb as Dr. Pibb, but were successfully sued by the Dr. Pepper Company, so they stripped Mr. Pibb of his degree.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at June 25, 2025 03:41 PM (NWqJf)

269 224 @213 CaliGirl-I just use aloe vera on my face.

....aloe vera isn't plant sperm is it?

Posted by: JROD at June 25, 2025 03:15 PM (IlL6s)

Don't think so...

https://tinyurl.com/bddnnrpb

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 25, 2025 03:42 PM (ynpvh)

270 The newest thing in skin care is "Growth Factors". You can get plant based growth factors, but the best 9n is made from salm8n sperms.

This has over taken snail slime as the newest trend.

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at June 25, 2025 03:43 PM (Vvh2V)

271 Nood: insurrection at the capitol!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at June 25, 2025 03:45 PM (NWqJf)

272 Crusader lol.

Posted by: PJ at June 25, 2025 04:05 PM (RRCAT)

273 Lol. Sure, they'll keep their word.

Posted by: PricklyPete at June 25, 2025 05:24 PM (xX+B1)

274 You know these F'ers aren't going to change a thing. They're already okay with 'leaving money on the table' because they're not facilitating ads for non lefty outfits. So they're fine with 86ing half the eyeballs in the country. FTC should have made BOTH companies run 'clean' for a year, then they get the merger. Rightie needs to play like Lefty. Goon it up, F Marquis and his Queensberry rules.

Posted by: JAMES at June 25, 2025 06:08 PM (DePyg)

275 This seems largely irrelevant, until you realize that right wing media was completely shut out from any Covid Vaccine advertising spending. The one venue where the Biden Administration had a hard time making people take the vaccine was the one venue they did not spend money. Instead, they spent Billions upon Billions on Left Wing advertising.

Posted by: wferrin at June 25, 2025 11:42 PM (jIN2G)

Leftists Leak a Classified DIA Assessment of the Damage to the Iran Nuke Sites to Embarass Trump

Endless treason. Endless.


Trump administration officials on Tuesday slammed a leaked preliminary intelligence assessment of the damage done to Iran's nuclear facilities by weekend US airstrikes that the president has touted as a massive success.

The classified Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) bomb damage assessment -- deemed a "low confidence" estimation of the effectiveness of Saturday's strikes on the Fordow, Isfahan and Natanz sites -- reportedly determined that Iran could bring its nuclear program back online as quickly as one to two months, according to Fox News.

On the high end, estimates indicate that Iran could restart uranium enrichment within a year, according to those who viewed the DIA report.

CNN, which first reported on the leaked classified document, noted that assessments are ongoing and could change, but the DIA believes Iran's stockpile of enriched uranium was not destroyed by the "bunker buster" bombs dropped on the nuclear facilities.

"This alleged 'assessment' is flat-out wrong and was classified as 'top secret' but was still leaked to CNN by an anonymous, low-level loser in the intelligence community," White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt wrote on X.

"The leaking of this alleged assessment is a clear attempt to demean President Trump, and discredit the brave fighter pilots who conducted a perfectly executed mission to obliterate Iran's nuclear program," she added.

"Everyone knows what happens when you drop fourteen 30,000 pound bombs perfectly on their targets: total obliteration," Leavitt argued.

The assessment was reportedly based on satellite images and electronic communications that have been intercepted since the strikes.

The report focuses on the damage done to Fordow, a facility buried under mountains south of Tehran, which was hit by 14 Massive Ordnance Penetrators.

The DIA reportedly assessed that the entrances to the facility caved in as a result of the strike, and that some infrastructure was destroyed, but that the Iranians could still dig out, repair or rebuild the site.


..

"Fordow is the last enrichment reactor that was operating there, and we put 12 bunker-buster bombs on Fordow. There's no doubt that it breached the canopy. There's no doubt that it was well within reach of the depth that these bunker-buster bombs go to, and there's no doubt that it was obliterated."

So according to the Deep State, Iran was simultaneously not building a nuclear bomb and able to quickly build a nuclear bomb in a few months.

"Intelligence" is whatever a communist traitor needs it to be at any given moment.

Trump says that leak was -- besides being an act of treason -- misleading, as the leaked report is preliminary and incomplete.

He cited Israel's own assessment of the effectiveness of the strike.

Israel confirmed Wednesday that the U.S. airstrike on Iran's Fordow nuclear site over the weekend caused severe damage, rendering the facility "inoperable." Israeli officials say the operation has significantly delayed Iran's nuclear ambitions.

Key Details:

The Israeli Prime Minister's Office said the U.S. strike destroyed key infrastructure at Fordow and crippled Iran's uranium enrichment capability at the site.

The statement, delivered on behalf of the Israel Atomic Energy Commission, concluded that combined U.S. and Israeli strikes have set Iran's nuclear weapons program back "by many years."

President Trump praised the success of the operation during remarks at the NATO summit in Brussels, calling it a "joint Israeli-American victory" and likening it to Israel's decisive 1967 Six Day War.

Diving Deeper:

On Wednesday, the Israeli government released an official statement confirming that a U.S. airstrike on Iran's Fordow nuclear facility had effectively shut down operations at the controversial site. The announcement came shortly after President Donald Trump previewed the findings during a press conference at the NATO summit in Brussels, noting that Israeli intelligence would provide details on the mission's results.

"The devastating U.S. strike on Fordow destroyed the site's critical infrastructure and rendered the enrichment facility inoperable," read the statement issued by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office on behalf of the Israel Atomic Energy Commission. The report concluded that the joint American and Israeli military campaign had "set back Iran's ability to develop nuclear weapons by many years."

Officials added that this delay in Iran's nuclear capabilities could continue "indefinitely," provided Tehran is prevented from obtaining new sources of nuclear material.

"All of the evidence of what was just bombed, by twelve 30,000-pound bombs, is buried under a mountain, devastated and obliterated. So if you want to make an assessment of what happened at Fordow, you better get a big shovel and go really deep."

That from Twitchy.

Posted by: Ace at 01:14 PM




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1 SPONGE!

Posted by: Inogame at June 25, 2025 01:13 PM (53oGX)

2 I nooded

Posted by: Inogame at June 25, 2025 01:14 PM (53oGX)

3 CNN has so much credibility though.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 25, 2025 01:14 PM (ExV1e)

4 Hola

Posted by: Thanatopsis at June 25, 2025 01:14 PM (GYt5+)

5 https://x.com/EricLDaugh/status/1937850112274780606

That's video of Hegseth saying that DOD and DOJ are working together to ID and criminally prosecute the leaker, by the way.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 25, 2025 01:15 PM (GBKbO)

6
By the way, I am curious how a 36-hour mission in a single-seat plane happens.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 25, 2025 01:16 PM (lCaJd)

7 https://x.com/EricLDaugh/status/1937850112274780606

That's video of Hegseth saying that DOD and DOJ are working together to ID and criminally prosecute the leaker, by the way.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 25, 2025 01:15 PM (GBKbO)

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Excellent news. Make a bet this was set up so the administration could identify and remove such people?

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at June 25, 2025 01:17 PM (tT6L1)

8 bring its nuclear program back online as quickly as one to two months"

So, which is it? Light damage or not nuke enrichment program?

Frankly, this smells like someone is smoking out low level DC idiots (of which there are many)

Posted by: man at June 25, 2025 01:17 PM (tubbA)

9 And will they find the leaker?
I have to think they expect leaks and have put in place tools/methods to track what’s leaked back to the source.

Posted by: Lizzy at June 25, 2025 01:17 PM (Hkcdp)

10
Arrest
Charge
Try
Convict
Execute

All publicly and all broadcast.

Above all, all expeditiously.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh! at June 25, 2025 01:17 PM (Tv15w)

11 7 Excellent news. Make a bet this was set up so the administration could identify and remove such people?
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at June 25, 2025 01:17 PM (tT6L1)

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I doubt it. But that's just my way of thinking. They might've.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 25, 2025 01:18 PM (GBKbO)

12 1) Find who leaked and shoot them. No, that's not hyperbole.
2) Trump should be more circumspect in what he says, if he's not willing to show people the evidence.

The DIA reportedly assessed that the entrances to the facility caved in as a result of the strike, and that some infrastructure was destroyed, but that the Iranians could still dig out, repair or rebuild the site.

3) I don't understand this. Assuming the access tunnels have been collapsed, and the Iranians start trying to dig them out, hit the diggers with cruise missiles; lots of them. There's no more need to hit the center of the facility.

Posted by: Archimedes at June 25, 2025 01:18 PM (Riz8t)

13 "Operation Midnight Hammer"

[Makes "call me" gesture]

-- Paul Pelosi

Seriously, this name is an in-joke, right? There's no way whoever came up with that name didn't know about Paul Pelosi's midnight hammering.

Posted by: (There Can Be Only One) Elric Blade at June 25, 2025 01:18 PM (iFTx/)

14 What got leaked was the worst case assessment. Since we can't actually get into Fordow to see what happened, there are going to be best, worst, and most likely 'best guess' assessments created.

Of course the embedded leftists in the IC are going to leak the worst case (and the least likely) scenario to the enemy agents, aka the MSM, and they would run with it as THE assessment.

Posted by: AZ Hi Desert (Gringo fuertemente armado-Tempus belli) at June 25, 2025 01:18 PM (JjOLF)

15 #7 beat me to it...

Posted by: man at June 25, 2025 01:18 PM (tubbA)

16 12 3) I don't understand this. Assuming the access tunnels have been collapsed, and the Iranians start trying to dig them out, hit the diggers with cruise missiles; lots of them. There's no more need to hit the center of the facility.
Posted by: Archimedes at June 25, 2025 01:18 PM (Riz8t)
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Ceasefire.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 25, 2025 01:18 PM (GBKbO)

17 So according to the Deep State, Iran was simultaneously not building a nuclear bomb and able to quickly build a nuclear bomb in a few months.

I was gonna say, their problem here is that this contradicts their previous position. Good thing their NPC army takes new firmware updates quickly.

Posted by: Ian S. at June 25, 2025 01:18 PM (2ocoG)

18 Thanks for the leak, TJM!

They have to expect this, it’s such a common thing with Republican presidents to have the IC burn them often.

Posted by: Lizzy at June 25, 2025 01:19 PM (Hkcdp)

19 Hopefully this is a mole hunt to flush out the leakers.

Posted by: Open Channel D at June 25, 2025 01:19 PM (gYnrv)

20 This just stinks to high heaven and I hope they find the leaker.

I do think Fordow was badly damaged.

Also ..willowed but:

444 If this guy actually gets elected, and I lived within a full tank of gas from NYC, I'd start looking for another place to call home.


yes Tammy. yep. one more year, just one more ...

Posted by: Black Orchid at June 25, 2025 01:19 PM (Pv3Rg)

21 I smell (Lt. Col.) Bearclaws!

Posted by: ShainS -- Make Unconditional Surrender Great Again! at June 25, 2025 01:19 PM (sbanZ)

22 "Ha! You missed our nuclear weapons...which, by the way, we totally don't have."

Posted by: Wally at June 25, 2025 01:19 PM (RIha9)

23 GatewayPundit had a video of Trump going after a CNN reporter.

John McCain and Mitt Romney are spinn___ in their graves. Well, McCain is....

Posted by: Stateless.. 44% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back now at June 25, 2025 01:20 PM (jvJvP)

24 Find them. Hang them.

Easy peasy.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at June 25, 2025 01:20 PM (i24o9)

25 Ceasefire.


yeah yeah right

again .. it's a "ceasefire"

Posted by: Black Orchid at June 25, 2025 01:20 PM (Pv3Rg)

26 3) I don't understand this. Assuming the access tunnels have been collapsed, and the Iranians start trying to dig them out, hit the diggers with cruise missiles; lots of them. There's no more need to hit the center of the facility.
Posted by: Archimedes at June 25, 2025 01:18 PM (Riz8t)
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Ceasefire.


Then make it a condition of the ceasefire that nobody tries to access the facility.

Posted by: Archimedes at June 25, 2025 01:20 PM (Riz8t)

27 Again, there are a number of groups within the IC/MIC blob that do all kinds of assessments. The most damaging assessment was leaked.

Having said that, if this facility was truly buried that deep under a mountain, then it more than likely survived and destroying access to the site may be sufficient to degrade the facility to a useless state.

Either way, hunt the leaker down, and prosecute them to the fullest extent of the law.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 25, 2025 01:20 PM (XV/Pl)

28 You know who else had low confidence?

Posted by: fd at June 25, 2025 01:20 PM (vFG9F)

29 It's Schroedinger's Iran.

Simultaneously conducting only TOTALLY PEACEFUL uranium enrichment with no cause for Evil Orange Man to attack them, and still able to build a nuke within months because Evil Orange Man's strike was ineffective.

Even apart from that nonsense, this intelligence report was from 'satellite images and electronic communications that have been intercepted'.

Satellite tells you nothing but they were on target, and of course they're lying internally about how much damage was done because nobody wants to take the blame or tell Supreme Leader the truth.

Posted by: DudeAbiding at June 25, 2025 01:21 PM (setIA)

30 25 Ceasefire.


yeah yeah right

again .. it's a "ceasefire"
Posted by: Black Orchid at June 25, 2025 01:20 PM (Pv3Rg)

In Iran's case they have no fire

Posted by: It's me donna at June 25, 2025 01:21 PM (VE6XX)

31 Ceasefire.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 25, 2025 01:18 PM (GBKbO)

America never agreed to any ceasefire.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 25, 2025 01:21 PM (BjH5D)

32 Probably just one of a dozen “intelligence” assessments produced by people sitting in offices in DC. They don’t know shit, never have.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at June 25, 2025 01:21 PM (hfg0k)

33 So according to the Deep State, Iran was simultaneously not building a nuclear bomb and able to quickly build a nuclear bomb in a few months.

Ah, yes, the old switcheroo.

Posted by: dantesed at June 25, 2025 01:21 PM (Oy/m2)

34 Eh, send another round over, just to be safe. We paid billions of dollars for this shit, no point in letting it languish in storage.

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at June 25, 2025 01:21 PM (Vvh2V)

35 DNI. This is Tulsi's shop...no???

Posted by: Rufus T. Firefly at June 25, 2025 01:22 PM (DmiaQ)

36 Prosecute CNN for receiving stolen property.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at June 25, 2025 01:22 PM (Vh9CX)

37 of course they're lying internally about how much damage was done because nobody wants to take the blame or tell Supreme Leader the truth.

Excellent point.

Posted by: Archimedes at June 25, 2025 01:22 PM (Riz8t)

38 The more I sit back and think about it, the madder I get. Nothing like leaking a report which not only paints the administration in a bad way, it also makes the pilots look like they engaged in a mission which was useless.

The pilots, most likely, trained hard for the mission then, when it was time for our B-2 pilots to do the job, they did so with precision and didn't lose a single bomber or crew during the operation.

Our men and women in the military deserve better than this.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at June 25, 2025 01:22 PM (tT6L1)

39 27 Again, there are a number of groups within the IC/MIC blob that do all kinds of assessments. The most damaging assessment was leaked.

Having said that, if this facility was truly buried that deep under a mountain, then it more than likely survived and destroying access to the site may be sufficient to degrade the facility to a useless state.

Either way, hunt the leaker down, and prosecute them to the fullest extent of the law.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 25, 2025 01:20 PM (XV/Pl)

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Collapsing parts of it might kill power necessary to keep the UF6 at the appropriate temperature to keep it in its gaseous form.

I think it's possible real damage was done to the UF6 storage antechamber (which was specifically targeted) but also that no one actually knows anything.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 25, 2025 01:22 PM (GBKbO)

40 How much Fiill in the blanks did the Democrats Propaganda Ministry do?

Posted by: Skip at June 25, 2025 01:22 PM (+qU29)

41 I am curious how a 36-hour mission in a single-seat plane happens.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia

The B-2 has a crew of two.

Posted by: Josephistan at June 25, 2025 01:22 PM (GM3CZ)

42
Of course the stockpile of uranium wasn't there, it's NOT A STORAGE FACILITY. Moving the stockpile is the easiest thing for the mullahs to do, moving the centrifuges not so much.

The centrifuges are toast at this point. They're precision instruments that don't mix well with high explosives. The shock alone is enough to bend driveshafts, dent bearing races, pop bearing lubrication seals etc. I wouldn't want to be anywhere within 1000 yards of one of those things when they restart it and spin it up to about 90,000 rpm.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at June 25, 2025 01:22 PM (y9nCu)

43
CNN: Trump Administration Lacks Confidence!

Posted by: ... at June 25, 2025 01:22 PM (sfdl6)

44 Is there a law against leaking top secret documents?

Posted by: Boss Moss at June 25, 2025 01:22 PM (VAINm)

45 Whoops, I'm wrong again. Mea culpa

Posted by: Rufus T. Firefly at June 25, 2025 01:22 PM (DmiaQ)

46

I dont seem to recall these leaks when Old Joe fucked up Afghanistan.

Funny that.

The UK govt goes after it's citizens, France and other places run by Commies, and so does the US.

Who are they to criticize Putin.

Posted by: Dr.Rev. Senator Your Highness E Buzz Miller, Esq PhD MA MS at June 25, 2025 01:23 PM (et1vG)

47 I think the next thing we should drop on Fordow is the person that leaked that assessment. I'm sure many of our learned scholars about Israel here in the comments section will spray their prune juice all over the monitor when i say this:

I would sooner believe the assessment of the Israelis on the success of the strike than left leaning schmucks we now have in our intelligence community. Iran is a real threat to them; playing grab*ss with intel is something they really can't afford.

Posted by: Nelly at June 25, 2025 01:23 PM (cHLus)

48 Willowed.
109. I remember GUM, my aunt was a state social worker so had a card. When did they end, '65?
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Curious about GUM, was it actually government run, or was that just a hook, like USAA insurance.

Posted by: From about That Time at June 25, 2025 01:23 PM (n4GiU)

49 So what they are saying is we should bomb those sites some more.

That's how I read that.

Posted by: Darth Randall at June 25, 2025 01:23 PM (Lltdc)

50 Hey what part of the assessment shows Trump chickening out, or was that three lies ago?

Posted by: ... at June 25, 2025 01:23 PM (sfdl6)

51 So is the traitor going to be discovered, tried, and hanged? Because that would be nice.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 25, 2025 01:23 PM (Hyyh7)

52 Seal off the tunnel for a week or two.

Habib's goat-rectum and spoiled yogurt sandwich in the break room fridge will funk the place up so hard no one will ever be able to use it again.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 25, 2025 01:23 PM (BjH5D)

53 42
Of course the stockpile of uranium wasn't there, it's NOT A STORAGE FACILITY. Moving the stockpile is the easiest thing for the mullahs to do, moving the centrifuges not so much.

The centrifuges are toast at this point. They're precision instruments that don't mix well with high explosives. The shock alone is enough to bend driveshafts, dent bearing races, pop bearing lubrication seals etc. I wouldn't want to be anywhere within 1000 yards of one of those things when they restart it and spin it up to about 90,000 rpm.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at June 25, 2025 01:22 PM (y9nCu)

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Moving thousands of pounds of gaseous UF6 from the storage antechamber at Fordow is not like piling a bunch of bricks into the back of a truck.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 25, 2025 01:23 PM (GBKbO)

54 By the way, I am curious how a 36-hour mission in a single-seat plane happens.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia
_______

trucker bombs

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at June 25, 2025 01:23 PM (ITkJX)

55 I am curious how a 36-hour mission in a single-seat plane happens.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia

The B-2 has a crew of two.


And a "bed" so one pilot can rest or sleep.

Posted by: Archimedes at June 25, 2025 01:23 PM (Riz8t)

56 He cited Israel's own assessment of the effectiveness of the strike.

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Tough call over whom to believe: Israeli intelligence or CNN?

Posted by: ShainS -- Make Unconditional Surrender Great Again! at June 25, 2025 01:23 PM (sbanZ)

57 I can almost guarantee that the "low confidence" assessment was the "worst-case scenario" section of a larger report that addressed all possible outcomes. All reports that attempt to determine what happened in a chaotic, almost unknowable situation will include all possible results.

There's probably a section in the whole report that says Fordow was bombed straight down to Satan's gay sex dungeon, that Iran won't have a nuke for at least 50 years, and that the Blade is gonna get lucky with a Mannix girl tonight.

Posted by: (There Can Be Only One) Elric Blade at June 25, 2025 01:24 PM (iFTx/)

58 Trump says that leak was -- besides being an act of treason -- misleading, as the leaked report is preliminary and incomplete.

It may also have been worded so as to identify the leaker.

Posted by: t-bird at June 25, 2025 01:24 PM (MkLs2)

59 28 You know who else had low confidence?
Posted by: fd at June 25, 2025 01:20 PM (vFG9F)



This is about me right?

Posted by: Stuart Smally at June 25, 2025 01:24 PM (HFsIG)

60 I know Gen Mark Milley isn't involved in this particular act of treason, but I'd have him hung just on general principle.

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at June 25, 2025 01:24 PM (z4+bR)

61 "Ooops, I lied again. Smirk. Sorry, not sorry. Suckers. Ha ha." - Krasnov (R-Felon/Rapist)

Trump mistook the bomb damage in Iran for the "obliteration" of his polling numbers. Hey, he's an old man, give him a break.

massive layoffs at dia on the way. isn't their job to tell dear leader what he wants to hear?

Trump has SUCCEEDED...in increasing Iran's desire to obtain atomic weapons for the purpose of self-defense. Nice work, Don-ho

What will Bibi do now? Aren't the nuke facilities the targets he has wanted to eliminate and the main reason he launched attacks 11 days ago? Will he keep the ceasefire now or launch new attacks?

Trump’s premature victory lap will go down as a historic embarrassment. He was so eager to claim a victory for his braying MAGA base that he totally jumped the gun.

“Trump just cancelled a classified House briefing on the Iran strikes with zero explanation. The real reason? He claims he destroyed ‘all nuclear facilities and capability;’ his team knows they can’t back up his bluster and BS,” Congressman Pat Ryan wrote on X.

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at June 25, 2025 01:25 PM (7ZBK+)

62 The centrifuges are toast at this point. They're precision instruments that don't mix well with high explosives. The shock alone is enough to bend driveshafts, dent bearing races, pop bearing lubrication seals etc. I wouldn't want to be anywhere within 1000 yards of one of those things when they restart it and spin it up to about 90,000 rpm.

This is the likeliest scenario, IMHO. Of course, the damage would be that much worse if the centrifuges were spinning when the bombs hit, but I doubt even the Iranians are that stupid.

Posted by: Archimedes at June 25, 2025 01:25 PM (Riz8t)

63 Netflix has a new documentary on the 2013 "Poop Cruise" ship.

The most interesting thing about the whole mess is that CNN almost single-handedly created this whole international story out of basically nothing. It was a stranded cruise ship that was never in any actual danger. Yea .. so?

Yes, it sucked to be on a ship without power for 4 days. But I'm sure the story was embellished and hyped and made to seem much worse than it was. This was hardly a massive international story. But CNN made it one. They were always assholes.

Posted by: (There Can Be Only One) Elric Blade at June 25, 2025 01:25 PM (iFTx/)

64 Looks like a canary trap that may revealed the traitorous canary.

Posted by: Buck Throckmorton at June 25, 2025 01:25 PM (cnBdQ)

65 @39

>>I think it's possible real damage was done to the UF6 storage antechamber (which was specifically targeted) but also that no one actually knows anything.

If the roads and access to the facility have been degraded or destroyed, it's going to be hard to re-establish those without it being noticed.

If a satellite spots earth moving equipment moving toward the site, then that's a Tomahwak strike, and keep tomahwak striking them until they are dust.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 25, 2025 01:25 PM (XV/Pl)

66 Ceasefire.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 25, 2025 01:18 PM (GBKbO)

Easy. Just declare any attempt to reopen Fordow as a breach of the ceasefire.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 25, 2025 01:25 PM (Hyyh7)

67 Trump mistook the bomb damage in Iran for the "obliteration" of his polling numbers. Hey, he's an old man, give him a break.


Nice try...

Posted by: It's me donna at June 25, 2025 01:26 PM (VE6XX)

68 Easy. Just declare any attempt to reopen Fordow as a breach of the ceasefire.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 25, 2025 01:25 PM


I'm sure it will be a humanitarian mission to rescue trapped janitors. No way are we bombing that.

Posted by: toby928 at June 25, 2025 01:27 PM (jc0TO)

69 I bet the report was only written in order to be leaked.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at June 25, 2025 01:27 PM (3OoOR)

70 This is the likeliest scenario, IMHO. Of course, the damage would be that much worse if the centrifuges were spinning when the bombs hit, but I doubt even the Iranians are that stupid.
Posted by: Archimedes at June 25, 2025 01:25 PM (Riz8t)
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Frightened cattle aren't all that willing to do anything without a direct order. If orders were not sent to shut down, then it may not have happened.

I see your point, truly but, with the Iranian regime, stupidity through fear can't be discounted.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at June 25, 2025 01:27 PM (tT6L1)

71 The left just can't admit that Trump is right, it's always something with them. At this point it's on purpose and that fits the definition of a mental condition.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at June 25, 2025 01:28 PM (e5NfL)

72 I am curious how a 36-hour mission in a single-seat plane happens.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia

The B-2 has a crew of two.

And a "bed" so one pilot can rest or sleep.
Posted by: Archimedes at June 25, 2025 01:23 PM (Riz8t)

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I understand is that these B-2s are outfitted with a toilet a microwave oven, and a refrigerator and/or cooler for food, drinks, and snacks.

Posted by: ShainS -- Make Unconditional Surrender Great Again! at June 25, 2025 01:28 PM (sbanZ)

73 And a "bed" so one pilot can rest or sleep.

Bunker buster mattress topper.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at June 25, 2025 01:28 PM (ZSy9t)

74 I am curious how a 36-hour mission in a single-seat plane happens."

No Sh**

Posted by: Charles Lindbergh at June 25, 2025 01:28 PM (tubbA)

75 I hope this was one of those ops to flush out the leakers but I doubt it.

Posted by: Oddbob at June 25, 2025 01:28 PM (/y8xj)

76 Can we put the person who leaked this somewhere in the Atlantic Ocean likely infested with sharks?

Posted by: dantesed at June 25, 2025 01:29 PM (Oy/m2)

77 18 hour each way - 36 hours

Posted by: runner at June 25, 2025 01:29 PM (g47mK)

78 69 I bet the report was only written in order to be leaked.
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at June 25, 2025 01:27 PM (3OoOR)

========

All I know about CIA analysts and their writings is that they get Admiral Halsey's decisions all wrong because Halsey's acted stupidly.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 25, 2025 01:29 PM (GBKbO)

79 >>> BREAKING NOW: 🚨 In a stunning turn of events, the charges of attempted k-dnapping, attempted arson, and abetting s-x traffi-king levied against Sean "P. Diddy" Comb’s HAVE BEEN DROPPED by prosecutors.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at June 25, 2025 01:02 PM (mlg/3)

Apparently one of the Diddy defense attorneys quit before the trial, saying he couldn't handle this case anymore. Anthony Ricci. And this man was one of the defense attorneys for Osama Bin Laden. How bad do you have to be that defending a terrorist is easier?

Posted by: LizLem at June 25, 2025 01:29 PM (gWBY1)

80 As I said last night at least it helps us uncover Vindmanns that are still working in our intelligence services.

Posted by: steevy at June 25, 2025 01:29 PM (YwEeS)

81 "All of the evidence of what was just bombed, by twelve 30,000-pound bombs, is buried under a mountain, devastated and obliterated. So if you want to make an assessment of what happened at Fordow, you better get a big shovel and go really deep."

I saw that earlier watching the press conference and laughed.

Good on Pete for lighting up the media.

And he's totally correct.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at June 25, 2025 01:29 PM (6ydKt)

82 No time and a half.

Posted by: Boss Moss at June 25, 2025 01:29 PM (VAINm)

83 Your firepower not effective. Your people no good. The bomb not do anything. You lose.

Posted by: CNN Tonite with Tokyo Rose at June 25, 2025 01:30 PM (sfdl6)

84
Upcoming LinkedIn story: "This teenage girl built a uranium enrichment centrifuge using ordinary household utensils."

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 25, 2025 01:30 PM (/HVsR)

85 Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at June 25, 2025 01:25 PM (7ZBK+)

And people think that a peaceful separation is possible with these folks.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at June 25, 2025 01:30 PM (i24o9)

86 First they were outraged he bombed them, now he didn’t bomb them enough. Next it will be that the bombs weren’t organically fair trade sourced from indigenous, trans, disabled, union workers.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at June 25, 2025 01:30 PM (hfg0k)

87 I see your point, truly but, with the Iranian regime, stupidity through fear can't be discounted.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at June 25, 2025 01:27 PM (tT6L1)

Not even stupidity necessarily.

You want to tell your boss you shut down the ayatollah's centrifuges because you were scared of infidel boom booms?

Such lack of faith in Allah's will is disturbing. Better get the Purity Police to visit you. And your family. And your sister's family. And your neighbors.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 25, 2025 01:30 PM (BjH5D)

88 Frightened cattle aren't all that willing to do anything without a direct order. If orders were not sent to shut down, then it may not have happened.

I see your point, truly but, with the Iranian regime, stupidity through fear can't be discounted.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at June 25, 2025 01:27 PM (tT6L1)

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"You shut down the centrifuges of your own accord?"

* Forced to kneel and bang to the back of the head *

Posted by: ShainS -- Make Unconditional Surrender Great Again! at June 25, 2025 01:30 PM (sbanZ)

89
I understand is that these B-2s are outfitted with a toilet a microwave oven, and a refrigerator and/or cooler for food, drinks, and snacks.
Posted by: ShainS -- Make Unconditional Surrender Great Again! at June 25, 2025 01:28 PM (sbanZ)


And an Airman First Class E-3 stewardess?

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at June 25, 2025 01:31 PM (y9nCu)

90 All I know about CIA analysts and their writings is that they get Admiral Halsey's decisions all wrong because Halsey's acted stupidly.


The world wonders?

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at June 25, 2025 01:31 PM (z4+bR)

91
The B-2 has a crew of two.
Posted by: Josephistan

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

Ah, thanks.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 25, 2025 01:31 PM (lCaJd)

92 72 The B-2 has a crew of two.

And a "bed" so one pilot can rest or sleep.
Posted by: Archimedes at June 25, 2025 01:23 PM (Riz8t)
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I understand is that these B-2s are outfitted with a toilet a microwave oven, and a refrigerator and/or cooler for food, drinks, and snacks.
Posted by: ShainS

SO YOU'RE SAYING WE CAN HOUSE MIGRANT FAMILIES IN THEM!?!?!

Posted by: Zohran Mamdani at June 25, 2025 01:31 PM (JCZqz)

93 it's not just the leaker who is a treasonous POS

it's the slimebag who wrote the incorrect report

Posted by: kallisto at June 25, 2025 01:31 PM (dCxaZ)

94 84 Sounds like the latest Disney Marvel project...

Posted by: steevy at June 25, 2025 01:31 PM (YwEeS)

95 I guess there must've been a time or two when the U.S. identified & prosecuted a leaker. But I don't recall any. How's that search at SCOTUS for the Dobbs decision leaker coming along?

I DO remember leakers who bragged about what they'd done & got prosecuted. Snowden and his Army private buddy come to mind. But that's hardly the same as identifying them during the course of a criminal investigation.

Posted by: mnw at June 25, 2025 01:31 PM (kd60y)

96 @79

>>Apparently one of the Diddy defense attorneys quit before the trial.

I'm at a loss to understand how a defense attorney quitting would cause the prosecution to fold it's case and drop all charges.

Perhaps the prosecutors got a call from the same group that ordered Alex Acosta to drop charges on Epstein.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 25, 2025 01:32 PM (XV/Pl)

97 "Intelligence" is whatever a communist traitor needs it to be at any given moment.

right on point

Posted by: kallisto at June 25, 2025 01:32 PM (dCxaZ)

98 Also hilarious that they went from " Iran is not building any bombs" to " Ha ha you barely inconvenienced them from getting bombs"

Posted by: steevy at June 25, 2025 01:33 PM (YwEeS)

99 I am curious how a 36-hour mission in a single-seat plane happens.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia

The B-2 has a crew of two.
Posted by: Josephistan


It also has sleeping quarters and a kitchen.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at June 25, 2025 01:33 PM (L8rQu)

100 Some clarifications commenters above may not know.

- It is suspected that it was used as storage because it was considered "impenetrable" (based on assumption that the USA would not bomb.

- UF6 is a solid at normal temps. It is heated to make gas to centrifuge

- There are satellite photos of dump trucks which indicate that they blocked entrances to help "secure" the facility, and that supports the thought that the enriched stockpile was down there.

- All it takes is a leak in the main halls and the whole place is a write off. There are lots of pipes and tanks and I think a leak quite likely.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at June 25, 2025 01:33 PM (3OoOR)

101 First they were outraged he bombed them, now he didn’t bomb them enough. Next it will be that the bombs weren’t organically fair trade sourced from indigenous, trans, disabled, union workers.

and that he declared peace without a Congressional Authorization.

Posted by: t-bird at June 25, 2025 01:33 PM (4/l8P)

102 I think poster "Nelly" needs to write a newsletter?

I like the cut o' her jib!

Posted by: Black Orchid at June 25, 2025 01:33 PM (Pv3Rg)

103 SO YOU'RE SAYING WE CAN HOUSE MIGRANT FAMILIES IN THEM!?!?!
Posted by: Zohran Mamdani at June 25, 2025 01:31 PM (JCZqz

"Hey, you want a free house in Bombay?"

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 25, 2025 01:34 PM (BjH5D)

104 Auto pilot?

Posted by: Boss Moss at June 25, 2025 01:34 PM (VAINm)

105 First they were outraged he bombed them, now he didn’t bomb them enough. Next it will be that the bombs weren’t organically fair trade sourced from indigenous, trans, disabled, union workers.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at June 25, 2025 01:30 PM (hfg0k)

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"They were not properly labeled with "BOMBS ARE KNOWN TO THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA TO CAUSE CANCER, H8R! REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!"

Posted by: ShainS -- Make Unconditional Surrender Great Again! at June 25, 2025 01:34 PM (sbanZ)

106 it's not just the leaker who is a treasonous POS

it's the slimebag who wrote the incorrect report


No, I'm not going to shoot the messenger. For all we know, that person gave his best analysis of what happened. He might weight things differently than others, or just be incompetent, but you benefit from a diversity of opinions. Arguing them out is the best way to get at the truth.

Posted by: Archimedes at June 25, 2025 01:34 PM (Riz8t)

107 Apparently one of the CNN reporters that "broke" the story about these leaks also covered up the Hunter Biden laptop case and said it was fake news.

I'm sorry, but none of them are trustworthy. If CNN says the sky is blue, I'm going to second guess it and go check for myself first. That's how bad they are.

Posted by: LizLem at June 25, 2025 01:34 PM (gWBY1)

108
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at June 25, 2025 01:30 PM (i24o9)

A guillotine results in a very peaceful separation.

Posted by: ... at June 25, 2025 01:34 PM (sfdl6)

109 They'll find the leaker.

Posted by: runner at June 25, 2025 01:34 PM (g47mK)

110 106 No, I'm not going to shoot the messenger. For all we know, that person gave his best analysis of what happened. He might weight things differently than others, or just be incompetent, but you benefit from a diversity of opinions. Arguing them out is the best way to get at the truth.
Posted by: Archimedes at June 25, 2025 01:34 PM (Riz8t)

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From what I understand, it's a small part of the overall report.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 25, 2025 01:34 PM (GBKbO)

111 I'm at a loss to understand how a defense attorney quitting would cause the prosecution to fold it's case and drop all charges.

Perhaps the prosecutors got a call from the same group that ordered Alex Acosta to drop charges on Epstein.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 25, 2025 01:32 PM


They didn't drop all of the charges, just the most serious three of them. I suspect that the prosecutors are thinking that the jury isn't likely to convict him and they want the possibility for another bite of the apple.


The whole trial is a $hit show and the judge should have declared a mistrial when he found out the one guy lied big time so he could stay on the jury.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at June 25, 2025 01:34 PM (e5NfL)

112 It is truly amazing the delusional bubble of alternate reality the DUmmies live in. They just make up what they want to be the truth and cling to it as absolute truth, regardless of objective facts. And when their make-believe turns on a dime, even if it's to something opposite of their prior make-believe, or that can't logically coexist with some other aspect of their make-believe, they still cling to it as absolute truth. It goes beyond religious dogma to cult-like unquestioning fanaticism.

Posted by: Scientology has nothing on DU leftists at June 25, 2025 01:34 PM (TbWk/)

113 I would be for hunting the Leaker down then drawn and quartered that person.

Posted by: Skip at June 25, 2025 01:35 PM (+qU29)

114 The Liver King saga just got another entry. Liver King publicly demanded a fight with Joe Rogan, then travelled to Austin. Austin PD arrested him.

http://tiny.cc/8cyn001

Posted by: bonhomme at June 25, 2025 01:35 PM (lIio7)

115 Let's start a pool on what the leaker will look like.

Posted by: steevy at June 25, 2025 01:35 PM (YwEeS)

116 Take a shit, nuke a hot pocket, and get a little nap in on your way to blow a great big radioactive asshole in the middle of History.

I love America.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 25, 2025 01:36 PM (BjH5D)

117 Is Rubio leaning over to the podium as if to say, "Wrap it up"?

Posted by: m at June 25, 2025 01:36 PM (CQE5S)

118 it's not just the leaker who is a treasonous POS

it's the slimebag who wrote the incorrect report
Posted by: kallisto


How else would you find a leaker? They're not going to risk their lives for a 'Trump was right about everything" assessment.

Posted by: t-bird at June 25, 2025 01:36 PM (4/l8P)

119 The Japanese government initially claimed Little Boy didn't do much damage either. They still refused to surrender. So we dropped Fat Man.

I think the truth was more like the Japanese didn't initially believe the reports of the complete destruction of Nagasaki from one bomb. They couldn't conceive of a weapon that powerful. It was like alien tech. So the Japanese gov't figured it must be a hoax or psy op.

Posted by: (There Can Be Only One) Elric Blade at June 25, 2025 01:36 PM (iFTx/)

120 While certainly in agreement with removing the low level loser leaker from her position as a human who exists, the war department exaggerating its capabilities beforehand and its achievements immediately afterward is believable, even likely.

Posted by: Oglebay at June 25, 2025 01:36 PM (MMp6W)

121 - There are satellite photos of dump trucks which indicate that they blocked entrances to help "secure" the facility, and that supports the thought that the enriched stockpile was down there.

I was thinking about that when I saw some pictures of the dirt piled at the entrances. I think that would contain the explosion, but presumably concentrate it inside the facility, worsening the damage.

Posted by: Archimedes at June 25, 2025 01:36 PM (Riz8t)

122 >>> I'm at a loss to understand how a defense attorney quitting would cause the prosecution to fold it's case and drop all charges.

Oh sorry Thomas, I wasn't trying to imply the two were related. Just that this trial has been a massive FUBAR from the get go.

Posted by: LizLem at June 25, 2025 01:36 PM (gWBY1)

123 I think another goal of the leak is to try and bring down public approval of the operation. Polling numbers moving from 90% approval to 80% would result in a week of headlines from the worthless media.

Posted by: toddg at June 25, 2025 01:37 PM (HsIYU)

124 All I know about CIA analysts and their writings is that they get Admiral Halsey's decisions all wrong because Halsey's acted stupidly.

I really liked how Captain Ramius dealt with the 'political' Captain of the boat when they started their defection; absolutely brutal and then blamed it on the guy slipping on a cup of tea.

Posted by: Nelly at June 25, 2025 01:37 PM (cHLus)

125 the Townhall.com video clip is just a masterful display of intelligence, integrity and plain speaking on the part of SecDef Hegseth.

And then the follow-up by Trump, who in a lowkey way, just reamed out those disgusting pondscum presstitutes...was...

chef's kiss

Posted by: kallisto at June 25, 2025 01:37 PM (dCxaZ)

126 A lot of vermin need to swing as object lessons.

Has CNN registered with FARA yet?

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 25, 2025 01:38 PM (9nkAn)

127 99 I am curious how a 36-hour mission in a single-seat plane happens.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia

The B-2 has a crew of two.
Posted by: Josephistan


It also has sleeping quarters and a kitchen.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at June 25, 2025 01:33 PM (L8rQu)

And still cheaper per square foot than a cracker box studio apartment in Manhattan.

Posted by: Economical! at June 25, 2025 01:38 PM (TbWk/)

128 I'd love to find out that the B2 crews also dumped their in-flight toilet contents on Fordrow. Heh.

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at June 25, 2025 01:38 PM (z4+bR)

129 I think the next thing we should drop on Fordow is the person that leaked that assessment.

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Strapped to a saddle atop a tactical nuke a la Major T. J. "King" Kong ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Make Unconditional Surrender Great Again! at June 25, 2025 01:39 PM (sbanZ)

130 Not even stupidity necessarily.

You want to tell your boss you shut down the ayatollah's centrifuges because you were scared of infidel boom booms?

Such lack of faith in Allah's will is disturbing. Better get the Purity Police to visit you. And your family. And your sister's family. And your neighbors.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 25, 2025 01:30 PM (BjH5D)
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There's no way to win. Shut down the centrifuges, bullet to the head, don't shut them down because afraid of bullet to the back of the head, get a bullet for not shutting things down.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at June 25, 2025 01:39 PM (tT6L1)

131 of course they're lying internally about how much damage was done because nobody wants to take the blame or tell Supreme Leader the truth.

Excellent point.
Posted by: Archimedes


Goes to X
tinyurl.com/2r6d77t6

Posted by: Stu Podaso at June 25, 2025 01:39 PM (iqLen)

132 I think I have a crush on Pete Hegseth.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 25, 2025 01:39 PM (tgnQN)

133
This report changes everything I thought I knew about Trump. It's now obvious his administration has failed catastrophically. I am bitterly sorry I voted for him.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 25, 2025 01:39 PM (/HVsR)

134 CNN'S report was written by Natasha Bertrand a deep state stenographer. She was big in the Russian collusion and wrote the story about Hunter's laptop being likely Russian disinformation per Intel sources. The deep state is still effing beith Trump

Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 25, 2025 01:39 PM (pwtJC)

135 133
This report changes everything I thought I knew about Trump. It's now obvious his administration has failed catastrophically. I am bitterly sorry I voted for him.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 25, 2025 01:39 PM (/HVsR)

========

I gave up on him when everyone died of the USAID cuts.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 25, 2025 01:40 PM (GBKbO)

136 If they try and dig out the site isn't it likely to be highly irradiated?

Posted by: 18-1 at June 25, 2025 01:40 PM (t0Rmr)

137 I bet the Israeli's have way better intel on this than we do. Actual human intel.

Posted by: steevy at June 25, 2025 01:40 PM (YwEeS)

138 Moving thousands of pounds of gaseous UF6 from the storage antechamber at Fordow is not like piling a bunch of bricks into the back of a truck.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 25, 2025 01:23 PM (GBKbO)

--

From what I understand about the enriched uranium; Israel had intelligence that the Iranians had moved the supply to the Natanz Nuclear Facility, and/or the Isfahan Nuclear Technology Center.

Originally, Trump only wanted to bomb Fordow, but when the Israelis came up with that intelligence he was convinced to bomb the other two sites for that reason.

I'd share the article link but I've forgotten where I read it.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at June 25, 2025 01:40 PM (6ydKt)

139 Posted by: (There Can Be Only One) Elric Blade at June 25, 2025 01:36 PM (iFTx/)

They were still pretty defiant after the second bomb. It wasn’t till they heard the Russians were moving towards them that they finally gave in.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at June 25, 2025 01:40 PM (hfg0k)

140 SecState Rubio's demeanor during the Hegseth lecture was that of a guy thinking," c'mon, man this is all so obvious. Do we really need to explain these basic facts of military life to these lowlife cretins?"

Posted by: kallisto at June 25, 2025 01:40 PM (dCxaZ)

141 Director of the MOSSAD , who rarely makes public statements, is very satisfied with the operation to neutralized Iran's nukkelar threat. Before you say anything about 10/7, MOSSAD deals with international threats, not internal threats, that is another set of agencies. Another thing I understand is they do not repeat their operations. That is part of training. So the drone base they established inside Iran, or the pagers, that will not be repeated.

Posted by: runner at June 25, 2025 01:40 PM (g47mK)

142 69 I bet the report was only written in order to be leaked.
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at June 25, 2025 01:27 PM (3OoOR)

Reminiscent of Rathergate.

Posted by: m at June 25, 2025 01:41 PM (CQE5S)

143
There's no way to win. Shut down the centrifuges, bullet to the head, don't shut them down because afraid of bullet to the back of the head, get a bullet for not shutting things down.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing

__________

This is the story of big business.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 25, 2025 01:41 PM (/HVsR)

144 I gave up on him when he refused to help mow my lawn last week. Selfish bastard.

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at June 25, 2025 01:41 PM (z4+bR)

145 Is Trump still sending troops or is that meme over too

Posted by: ... at June 25, 2025 01:41 PM (sfdl6)

146 More.

The centrifuges are probably pretty easy to rebuild and repair, if it weren't for contamination.

They have thousands of them and I assume a big part of their operations are maintenance and repair. Probably dozens each week. So if they are not spinning, and not contaminated, start up is not trivial, but not impossible -- a few months for factilitization (power, etc.) maybe a new cascade up and running every couple weeks so in a year or two they are back in operation.

But that is best case with no contamination. With contamination they are toast. Put a plug in it and move on.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at June 25, 2025 01:41 PM (3OoOR)

147 better get a big shovel and go really deep."

The Paolo, tanned rested and ready.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at June 25, 2025 01:41 PM (UpDO3)

148 Of course, the damage would be that much worse if the centrifuges were spinning when the bombs hit, but I doubt even the Iranians are that stupid.

Posted by: Archimedes at June 25, 2025 01:25 PM


Perhaps that was the main reason for the tight operational security?

Do you think Iran knew the planes were there and they should shut down the centrifuges before the first bomb actually hit?

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at June 25, 2025 01:42 PM (HlyYF)

149 134 CNN'S report was written by Natasha Bertrand a deep state stenographer. She was big in the Russian collusion and wrote the story about Hunter's laptop being likely Russian disinformation per Intel sources. The deep state is still effing beith Trump
Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 25, 2025 01:39 PM (pwtJC)

========

Let's put this in perspective:

One of the key mouthpieces for approved leaks in the last two administrations got...this.

A low level partial report that was easily debunked the moment she posted it. She got nothing about the mission itself before, during, or after.

At the same time, part of the reason the reporting was so quickly dismissed was because it had her name on it.

Yeah, it's obvious that there are still leakers in the intelligence community, but, they seem to be pretty far down the chain of command, far from key decisions, and flagging complete shit in her face.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 25, 2025 01:42 PM (GBKbO)

150 These elites don't fear us enough. How can we as individuals ramp fear but don't go to jail.

Posted by: Dreamingrobot at June 25, 2025 01:42 PM (EyfuW)

151 Gaseous diffusion means corroded equipment that is radioactive if the power fails.

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 25, 2025 01:42 PM (9nkAn)

152 Is Trump still sending troops or is that meme over too
Posted by: ... at June 25, 2025 01:41 PM


That won't happen until after he reinstates the draft.

Posted by: toby928 at June 25, 2025 01:42 PM (jc0TO)

153
But that is best case with no contamination. With contamination they are toast. Put a plug in it and move on.
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at June 25, 2025 01:41 PM (3OoOR)

_________

Can you get them from Amazon?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 25, 2025 01:42 PM (/HVsR)

154 I'm at a loss to understand how a defense attorney quitting would cause the prosecution to fold it's case and drop all charges.

Oh sorry Thomas, I wasn't trying to imply the two were related. Just that this trial has been a massive FUBAR from the get go.
Posted by: LizLem at June 25, 2025 01:36 PM (gWBY1)
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It didn't help that some of the key prosecution witnesses -- much like in the Fat Harvey trials -- were exposed as opportunistic gold-diggers, star-fuckers, and hangers-on. P Diddy is scum and was always a known abuser. But everyone now claiming they were abused were literally begging for an invite to his parties.

Posted by: (There Can Be Only One) Elric Blade at June 25, 2025 01:43 PM (iFTx/)

155 From what I understand about the enriched uranium; Israel had intelligence that the Iranians had moved the supply to the Natanz Nuclear Facility, and/or the Isfahan Nuclear Technology Center.

No biggie. Just send in Achmed with a broom.

Posted by: Archimedes at June 25, 2025 01:43 PM (Riz8t)

156 UF6 is a solid at normal temps"
Uranium Hexaflouride is also quite toxic and rather unstable. No one is easily moving it about... and especially if it gets wet.

Posted by: man at June 25, 2025 01:43 PM (tubbA)

157 114 The Liver King saga just got another entry. Liver King publicly demanded a fight with Joe Rogan, then travelled to Austin. Austin PD arrested him.

http://tiny.cc/8cyn001
Posted by: bonhomme at June 25, 2025 01:35 PM (lIio7)

It was bloody obvious to everyone who knows even a tiny bit about bodybuilding that the guy was on gear. And it possible had abdominal surgery for the rather impossible-looking six-pack he's got, but that's a lesser matter. He's a nut and a fraud though that much is certain.

Posted by: Liver, balls and Tren, just like our ancestors at June 25, 2025 01:43 PM (TbWk/)

158 Deploy the Zoomer Waffen.

Posted by: Boss Moss at June 25, 2025 01:43 PM (VAINm)

159 Based on my assessment, fire from half a dozen 30k lb bombs can melt centrifuges. Even if they are not spinning.

Posted by: runner at June 25, 2025 01:44 PM (g47mK)

160 Remember when Don Lemon told you he had to read wikileaks to you because it was illegal for you to do it yourself?

Posted by: ... at June 25, 2025 01:44 PM (sfdl6)

161 bob @100 with very useful info.

But I am sure I will end my run on the planet without almost anyone talking sensibly about intel assessments, better described as "estimates" in cases like this.

Cases vary wildly, but often you are trying to make educated guesses based on all your info. Info that in many cases is of uncertain validity. And in some cases you're battling active deception by the target entity.

But the bad fiction (all fiction) version of these things continues to shape the framework in which they are discussed. Head-shaking.

Posted by: rhomboid at June 25, 2025 01:44 PM (1m82a)

162 159 Based on my assessment, fire from half a dozen 30k lb bombs can melt centrifuges. Even if they are not spinning.
Posted by: runner at June 25, 2025 01:44 PM (g47mK)

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If they can get to the centrifuges.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 25, 2025 01:44 PM (GBKbO)

163 This report changes everything I thought I knew about Trump. It's now obvious his administration has failed catastrophically. I am bitterly sorry I voted for him.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 25, 2025 01:39 PM (/HVsR)

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I gave up on him when everyone died of the USAID cuts.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 25, 2025 01:40 PM (GBKbO)
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Fake news. It was the tariffs -- remember them? -- that killed everyone.

Posted by: (There Can Be Only One) Elric Blade at June 25, 2025 01:44 PM (iFTx/)

164 And still cheaper per square foot than a cracker box studio apartment in Manhattan.

Posted by: Economical! at June 25, 2025 01:38 PM (TbWk/)

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Zohran Mamdami is Promising to Mandate Common-Sense B-2 Cockpit Rent Control!

Posted by: ShainS -- Make Unconditional Surrender Great Again! at June 25, 2025 01:44 PM (dTh6J)

165 We still hang traitors right?
(Pretty sure that line came from A Few Good Men)

Posted by: Defenestratus at June 25, 2025 01:44 PM (WYStd)

166 Trump never misses an opportunity to call the DS "news" outlets, 'sick people, very sick'

lolol

Posted by: kallisto at June 25, 2025 01:44 PM (dCxaZ)

167 163 Fake news. It was the tariffs -- remember them? -- that killed everyone.
Posted by: (There Can Be Only One) Elric Blade at June 25, 2025 01:44 PM (iFTx/)

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That's how my granny died! When people refused to wear a mask and started spreading tariffs around!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 25, 2025 01:45 PM (GBKbO)

168 That won't happen until after he reinstates the draft.
Posted by: toby928


And ends Social Security and Medicare to pay for it.

Posted by: t-bird at June 25, 2025 01:45 PM (FdyuK)

169 Do you think Iran knew the planes were there and they should shut down the centrifuges before the first bomb actually hit?

I don't know, but I think the tunnels have blast doors, so I would have had those closed, and (with permission) spun down the centrifuges.

Posted by: Archimedes at June 25, 2025 01:45 PM (Riz8t)

170 Fake news. It was the tariffs -- remember them? -- that killed everyone.
Posted by: (There Can Be Only One) Elric Blade at June 25, 2025 01:44 PM (iFTx/)

I'm still dead and still stacking the bodies like cord wood from the repeal of Net Neutrality!!!!

Posted by: Defenestratus at June 25, 2025 01:45 PM (WYStd)

171 My favorite part was that the centrifuges were "largely intact."

Oh?

By what method was this confirmed?

But, the word "largely" is doing a lot of heavy lifting there.

"Largely" in the way that your car is largely intact after the engine throws a rod or blows the transmission.

Largely intact, completely non-functional.
99% of your car works just fine!

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at June 25, 2025 01:45 PM (UImIR)

172 If they can get to the centrifuges.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 25, 2025 01:44 PM (GBKbO)



why wouldn't they ? had enough data to send them precisely into the facility

Posted by: runner at June 25, 2025 01:46 PM (g47mK)

173
18 hour each way - 36 hours
Posted by: runner


How many refuelings?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 25, 2025 01:46 PM (63Dwl)

174 If they try and dig out the site isn't it likely to be highly irradiated?

Posted by: 18-1 at June 25, 2025 01:40 PM (t0Rmr)

U235 has a natural radioactive decay mechanism (can't recall, didn't look it up), which poses far less of a radioactivity threat than all the radioactive decay products (which contain a spectrum of radioactive elements, not just U235) from a nuclear fission blast of U235.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at June 25, 2025 01:46 PM (i24o9)

175 My favorite part was that the centrifuges were "largely intact."
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Like LA during the riots....

Posted by: ... at June 25, 2025 01:46 PM (sfdl6)

176 I have been a conservative all my life.

Now... I still like big tits and watching shit blow up.

Thank you.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 25, 2025 01:47 PM (YUL+W)

177 Uranium Hexaflouride is also quite toxic and rather unstable. No one is easily moving it about... and especially if it gets wet.

Posted by: man at June 25, 2025 01:43 PM


It is also extremely corrosive and once the containment vessel is breached or destroyed it's all over. The site will be heavily contaminated and will require an enormous amount of time and money to get it back up and running.


Granted iran like russia will just use convicted criminals to do the literal dirty work but it will still take years to get that facility back up and running.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at June 25, 2025 01:47 PM (e5NfL)

178 Anyone getting near the bombed out nuclear sites takes a bullet from space in the head.

Posted by: Oglebay at June 25, 2025 01:47 PM (MMp6W)

179 Anyone fingered as the person(s) who released the DIA assessment? Seems that would be prudent.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 25, 2025 01:47 PM (Q4IgG)

180 How many refuelings?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 25, 2025 01:46 PM (63Dwl)

every 6 hours

Posted by: runner at June 25, 2025 01:47 PM (g47mK)

181 Anyone fingered as the person(s) who released the DIA assessment?
Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 25, 2025 01:47 PM (Q4IgG)

I'd guess not in the last 20 years or so.

Posted by: ... at June 25, 2025 01:47 PM (sfdl6)

182 so at least 6 times for a 38 h rt

Posted by: runner at June 25, 2025 01:47 PM (g47mK)

183 The centrifuges are toast at this point. They're precision instruments that don't mix well with high explosives. The shock alone is enough to bend driveshafts, dent bearing races, pop bearing lubrication seals etc. I wouldn't want to be anywhere within 1000 yards of one of those things when they restart it and spin it up to about 90,000 rpm.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at June 25, 2025 01:22 PM (y9nCu)

This. Even if the bombs didn't penetrate the actual space those centrifuges were in, six tons of explosive shock is going to fuck them up permanently.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at June 25, 2025 01:48 PM (g8Ew8)

184 How many refuelings?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 25, 2025 01:46 PM (63Dwl)

*gets out pencil and paper*

What kinda miles to the gallon do those thing get?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 25, 2025 01:48 PM (YUL+W)

185 36 that is

Posted by: runner at June 25, 2025 01:48 PM (g47mK)

186 179 Anyone fingered as the person(s) who released the DIA assessment? Seems that would be prudent.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 25, 2025 01:47 PM (Q4IgG)

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I don't believe they have fingered her yet.

Posted by: Oglebay at June 25, 2025 01:48 PM (MMp6W)

187 Raw Uranium is not that radioactive. That’s why there is some left in the Earth. The short lived fission products are the nasty ones. Uranium is highly toxic though.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at June 25, 2025 01:48 PM (hfg0k)

188 18 hour each way - 36 hours
Posted by: runner


Using our best aircraft carrier, The Continent of North America.

Posted by: t-bird at June 25, 2025 01:49 PM (Y+sVZ)

189 you can build a pretty good profile of the leaker; I can help them, look for blue hair and a nose ring

Posted by: runner at June 25, 2025 01:49 PM (g47mK)

190 156 UF6 is a solid at normal temps"
Uranium Hexaflouride is also quite toxic and rather unstable. No one is easily moving it about... and especially if it gets wet.

Posted by: man at June 25, 2025 01:43 PM (tubbA)


Sounds like we should've sent in those big water drop planes from California about a half hour after the B-2s went by.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at June 25, 2025 01:49 PM (6ydKt)

191 Radioactive decay mode of U235 is alpha decay, which is short range and not as energetic (potentially biologically damaging) as other forms of radioactive decay.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpha_decay

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at June 25, 2025 01:49 PM (i24o9)

192 172 If they can get to the centrifuges.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 25, 2025 01:44 PM (GBKbO)



why wouldn't they ? had enough data to send them precisely into the facility
Posted by: runner at June 25, 2025 01:46 PM (g47mK)

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MOPs aren't magic and can't pass through rock without resistance.

If the chambers are far enough underground, no number of MOPs are going to get to it.

And look at the pictures of the impact sites. They're not huge craters. They're well-defined holes where the ordnance hit the earth, the explosion happening exclusively underground. If you send a MOP after another, can the second MOP go further through the material than the first one did, especially if the first one didn't actually move any earth out of the way?

It no longer being solid rock but debris underground could the conditions allow greater passage, and how far down?

The US/Israeli intel is talking very confidently, so that's something. The anonymous sources from Iran are talking very pessimistically, so that's also something.

But the physics still make me wonder if it's really only making the place immediately inaccessible instead.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 25, 2025 01:50 PM (GBKbO)

193 . Uranium is highly toxic though.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at June 25, 2025 01:48 PM (hfg0k)

You're telling me

Posted by: Marie Curie at June 25, 2025 01:50 PM (VE6XX)

194 Another front pushing against Trump.
Struggling to not look like a Dem shill.
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Fed Powell told Congress that Fed and Co. are struggling to determine how much tariffs will impact inflation.
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Posted by: braenyard- Some friends are more equal than others at June 25, 2025 01:50 PM (c35xG)

195
Those centrifuges are a sturdy and robust as my printer!

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 25, 2025 01:50 PM (/HVsR)

196 As noted by bob and others above, the bonus factor here is contamination. Can greatly complicate recovery/rehab in various of the sites that were hit.

There's a tunnel complex at Isfahan that was not hit with penetrating ordnance. That's another factor here that's not much discussed.

In any case Israel hit the entire nuke enrichment chain, not just Fordow - and they also hit some weaponization sites (Parchin, the only non-air defense site hit in Israel's initial raid last year, is/was a key weaponization facility, involving explosives testing related to creating a workable weapon).

Israel has made it clear they will "mow the lawn" as much as they deem necessary. Which, barring regime collapse, will likely be happening.

Posted by: rhomboid at June 25, 2025 01:50 PM (1m82a)

197 184 How many refuelings?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 25, 2025 01:46 PM (63Dwl)

*gets out pencil and paper*

What kinda miles to the gallon do those thing get?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 25, 2025 01:48 PM


I bet they got MUCH better mileage on the way home ... after they jettisoned 60,000 pounds of ballast in Iran.

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at June 25, 2025 01:51 PM (HlyYF)

198 You know that old Japanese soldier that was alone on an island all those years and he didn't know the war was over.

Trump's fault.

Posted by: Dreamingrobot at June 25, 2025 01:51 PM (EyfuW)

199 I saw linked here somewhere (yesterday or today’s morning report) about China being the biggest threat due to a weakening of Russia (maybe another country too). And I thought, huh? What’s going on in Russia? (Besides the obvious usual stuff). Their economy finally deflating a bit after the boost in defense spending?

Posted by: H at June 25, 2025 01:51 PM (2gjbv)

200 How many refuelings?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 25, 2025 01:46 PM (63Dwl)

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"We wouldn't have to worry about that if they were all-electric."

/Gen. Milley Vanilli

Posted by: ShainS -- Make Unconditional Surrender Great Again! at June 25, 2025 01:51 PM (dTh6J)

201
The B-2 has, unfortunately, very restricted overhead storage capacity.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 25, 2025 01:52 PM (/HVsR)

202 But the physics still make me wonder if it's really only making the place immediately inaccessible instead.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 25, 2025 01:50 PM (GBKbO)

you have doubts , I can tell

Posted by: runner at June 25, 2025 01:52 PM (g47mK)

203 Using our best aircraft carrier, The Continent of North America.

Posted by: t-bird at June 25, 2025 01:49 PM


I heard that one is pretty difficult to sink!

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at June 25, 2025 01:52 PM (HlyYF)

204 The B-2's were refueled immediately after takeoff as they had to limit the fuel onboard whilst carrying two MOPs just to get airborne.

Standard procedure. But the 6-7 refuelings seems right.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 25, 2025 01:52 PM (Q4IgG)

205 I'm so old I remember when mentioning the name of a CIA analyst, let alone a classified intelligence briefing, launched a multi-year investigation with prison time for the person (falsely) identified as originally leaking it.

Posted by: 18-1 at June 25, 2025 01:52 PM (t0Rmr)

206 Aaaannnd it's a physics thread.

Posted by: Which is kinda like math... at June 25, 2025 01:52 PM (PQB+n)

207 Would it have been wrong to drop conventional chlorine gas in the craters after the MOPs?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 25, 2025 01:52 PM (YUL+W)

208 Fed Powell told Congress that Fed and Co. are struggling to determine how much tariffs will impact inflation.
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Posted by: braenyard- Some friends are more equal than others at June 25, 2025 01:50 PM (c35xG)

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What's this determining BS? Did they have the climate model team put together an assumption model for the Fed?

Posted by: Oglebay at June 25, 2025 01:52 PM (MMp6W)

209 202 But the physics still make me wonder if it's really only making the place immediately inaccessible instead.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 25, 2025 01:50 PM (GBKbO)

you have doubts , I can tell
Posted by: runner at June 25, 2025 01:52 PM (g47mK)

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Everyone has reasons to lie about this.

I take everything said about it with a grain of salt.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 25, 2025 01:53 PM (GBKbO)

210 TMJ yes, one approach to deep penetration is to "mine" the impact point with repeated hits, so that each bit of ordnance digs a path for the following bomb. Given the hole count at Fordow, doesn't look like that tactic was used.

Posted by: rhomboid at June 25, 2025 01:53 PM (1m82a)

211 Aaaannnd it's a physics thread.

Posted by: Which is kinda like math... at June 25, 2025 01:52 PM (PQB+n)

Bobs.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at June 25, 2025 01:53 PM (i24o9)

212 Pre-drilled air shafts for your convenience.

Posted by: DaveA at June 25, 2025 01:53 PM (FhXTo)

213 199 I saw linked here somewhere (yesterday or today’s morning report) about China being the biggest threat due to a weakening of Russia (maybe another country too). And I thought, huh? What’s going on in Russia? (Besides the obvious usual stuff). Their economy finally deflating a bit after the boost in defense spending?

Russia is a power only because of nukes. Ukraine has not been kind to their attempts to project an image of invincibility.

Posted by: Archimedes at June 25, 2025 01:53 PM (Riz8t)

214 We talkin' deep penetration in this thread now?

Posted by: Sandra Fluke at June 25, 2025 01:53 PM (t0Rmr)

215 203 Using our best aircraft carrier, The Continent of North America.

Posted by: t-bird at June 25, 2025 01:49 PM

I heard that one is pretty difficult to sink!
Posted by: Pillage Idiot at June 25, 2025 01:52 PM (HlyYF)

Not according to my information ...

Posted by: Rep. Hank Johnson at June 25, 2025 01:54 PM (TTAGa)

216 Those centrifuges are a sturdy and robust as my printer!

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 25, 2025 01:50 PM (/HVsR)

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Brings back good memories of the Stuxnet Virus.

Posted by: ShainS -- Make Unconditional Surrender Great Again! at June 25, 2025 01:54 PM (dTh6J)

217 210 TMJ yes, one approach to deep penetration is to "mine" the impact point with repeated hits, so that each bit of ordnance digs a path for the following bomb. Given the hole count at Fordow, doesn't look like that tactic was used.
Posted by: rhomboid at June 25, 2025 01:53 PM (1m82a)

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It'd be cool if the site was actually destroyed.

I'm just going to want to see more than educated guesses from nerds in the CIA basement before I get on board with cheerleading.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 25, 2025 01:54 PM (GBKbO)

218 Aetius chlorine gas is non-persistent and sort of a wimpy chemical weapon. Wouldn't change anything. Producing contamination at the sites for the reasons discussed by others above is the true bonus factor here.

Posted by: rhomboid at June 25, 2025 01:54 PM (1m82a)

219 I take everything said about it with a grain of salt.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 25, 2025 01:53 PM (GBKbO)

Probably wise.

Are you feeling well?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 25, 2025 01:54 PM (YUL+W)

220 The stuff you really have to worry about are the byproducts like cesium and radioactive strontium. Those are produced by nuclear reactions and are deadly at low quantities

Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 25, 2025 01:54 PM (pwtJC)

221 Those centrifuges are a sturdy and robust as my printer!

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 25, 2025 01:50 PM (/HVsR)

HP would install new software on them requiring them to only use HP branded Uranium Hexaflouride or the centrifuges stop working.


Wait, somebody already did that with Stuxnet about 15 years ago.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at June 25, 2025 01:55 PM (6ydKt)

222 201
The B-2 has, unfortunately, very restricted overhead storage capacity.


Don't get me started on their selection of in-flight movies.

Posted by: Archimedes at June 25, 2025 01:55 PM (Riz8t)

223 Alpha particles are very biologically damaging. They are very low penetrating. They can be stopped by a sheet of paper. If that was your skin, it would damage it quite a bit. It just wouldn’t go past it.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at June 25, 2025 01:55 PM (hfg0k)

224 Even more.

The fact that they blocked the entrances with dirt indicates that (a) they had vulnerabilities that needed to be protected. and (b) the dirt was not sufficient for the USA bombs.

This is really all you need to know.
It also means the centrifuges were probably shut down, but that makes no difference. (Oh, BTW, I imagine even after just a full shutdown they need many months to get back up to speed. The leaked BDA seems really stupid.)

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at June 25, 2025 01:55 PM (3OoOR)

225 219 I take everything said about it with a grain of salt.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 25, 2025 01:53 PM (GBKbO)

Probably wise.

Are you feeling well?
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 25, 2025 01:54 PM (YUL+W)

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Actually no.

Came back from Epic Universe with some kind of bug.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 25, 2025 01:55 PM (GBKbO)

226 How many refuelings?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 25, 2025 01:46 PM (63Dwl)

*gets out pencil and paper*

What kinda miles to the gallon do those thing get?
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 25, 2025 01:48 PM (YUL+W)

If another fully fueled B2 leaves Rammstein at 0400 headed in the opposite direction at the same speed, at what time will the planes' remaining fuel loads be the same?

Posted by: Word problems. I hate them. at June 25, 2025 01:55 PM (TbWk/)

227 Aaaannnd it's a physics thread.

Posted by: Which is kinda like math... at June 25, 2025 01:52 PM (PQB+n)

Bobs.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at June 25, 2025 01:53 PM (i24o9)

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Slide-Boobs.

Posted by: ShainS -- Make Unconditional Surrender Great Again! at June 25, 2025 01:56 PM (dTh6J)

228 But the physics still make me wonder if it's really only making the place immediately inaccessible instead.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison,
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Interesting that before the bombing you were proposing the opposite.

Posted by: braenyard- Some friends are more equal than others at June 25, 2025 01:56 PM (c35xG)

229 203 Using our best aircraft carrier, The Continent of North America.

Posted by: t-bird at June 25, 2025 01:49 PM

I heard that one is pretty difficult to sink!

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at June 25, 2025 01:52 PM

She seems pretty stable but we should check with Hank Johnson first and see if he thinks it'll tip over enough weight is added.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at June 25, 2025 01:56 PM (6ydKt)

230 Alpha particles are very biologically damaging. They are very low penetrating. They can be stopped by a sheet of paper. If that was your skin, it would damage it quite a bit. It just wouldn’t go past it.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at June 25, 2025 01:55 PM (hfg0k)

Yeah, point is that it is not going to be like trying to clean up Chernobyl or Fukushima.

Just put on your anti-contamination get up and grab the Swiffer.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at June 25, 2025 01:57 PM (i24o9)

231
"Collapsed the entrances."
The Fordow bomb impact images shown are not at the entrances.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at June 25, 2025 01:57 PM (+sEI/)

232 Aaaannnd it's a physics thread.

Big Badda Bang

Posted by: Lelu Dallas at June 25, 2025 01:57 PM (VE6XX)

233 How many refuelings?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 25, 2025 01:46 PM (63Dwl)

*gets out pencil and paper*

What kinda miles to the gallon do those thing get?
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 25, 2025 01:48 PM (YUL+W)

If another fully fueled B2 leaves Rammstein at 0400 headed in the opposite direction at the same speed, at what time will the planes' remaining fuel loads be the same?

But B-2s are non-migratory

Posted by: Josephistan at June 25, 2025 01:57 PM (GM3CZ)

234
The centrifuges are probably pretty easy to rebuild and repair, if it weren't for contamination.

They have thousands of them and I assume a big part of their operations are maintenance and repair. Probably dozens each week. So if they are not spinning, and not contaminated, start up is not trivial, but not impossible -- a few months for factilitization (power, etc.) maybe a new cascade up and running every couple weeks so in a year or two they are back in operation.

But that is best case with no contamination. With contamination they are toast. Put a plug in it and move on.
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at June 25, 2025 01:41 PM (3OoOR)



Those things run at about 90,000 rpm. The tiniest fault with the bearings, driveshaft, motors etc, and it turns into a pedo van-sized grenade. Think of what happens with a car engine if the camshaft or driveshaft gets bent or damaged. Less than 10k rpm, and sometimes it'll grenade bad enough to blast a piston through the engine block and hood.

It'd probably be easier to scrap the ones that got hammered by the shock wave and replace them with new units. The contamination issue is just the cherry on top of the banana split.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at June 25, 2025 01:57 PM (y9nCu)

235 My take as an engineer -
Warhead explosions in the excavated spaces at Fordow and Natanz (?) may not be necessary to collapse them or destroy their contents. Progressive fracturing of the overhead rock and the shockwaves and vibrations transmitted through rock above the caverns, by bomb after bomb, each going deeper than the one before, could cause the cavern roofs, sides, and floors to collapse.

Assuming Mossad has reasonably up-to-date as-built blueprints of the excavated and reinforced caverns and tunnels. And they are shared with our DoD. Structural math models can be made of the entire underground complex. Stolen Iranian geologic surveys (and perhaps Mossad-placed surface seismic sensors) provide more information. Tests of MOPs on similar rock formations in Nevada or Arizona provide still more data to refine the models. With the help of Israeli and US geologists, mining engineers, and ordnance experts, a high-confidence plan to collapse the caverns using X number of MOPs can be formulated.

Posted by: Gref at June 25, 2025 01:57 PM (aBgBM)

236 I believe solid rock is much more difficult to penetrate with a MOP weapon compared to unconsolidated material.

However, I know with certainty that solid rock will transmit seismic energy MUCH more efficiently than unconsolidated material.

If the weapons did not penetrate as much as we hoped, then the explosive shock was hopefully still delivered sufficiently to the underlying facilities.

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at June 25, 2025 01:57 PM (HlyYF)

237 228 But the physics still make me wonder if it's really only making the place immediately inaccessible instead.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison,
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Interesting that before the bombing you were proposing the opposite.
Posted by: braenyard- Some friends are more equal than others at June 25, 2025 01:56 PM (c35xG)

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No, I wasn't. I'm talking in line with what I was saying before.

That bombing a site like Fordow probably won't actually take out what's 400m under the surface when MOPs can only go 100m under ground.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 25, 2025 01:57 PM (GBKbO)

238 I'm so old I remember when mentioning the name of a CIA analyst, let alone a classified intelligence briefing, launched a multi-year investigation with prison time for the person (falsely) identified as originally leaking it.
Posted by: 18-1 at June 25, 2025 01:52 PM (t0Rmr)

Back when the Left was still pretending to be super duper patriotic and stuff. When did that end anyway? I peg it as right around Benghazi.

Posted by: ... at June 25, 2025 01:58 PM (sfdl6)

239 I wonder if this document was 'bait' to help weed out moles.

Posted by: MacRadDoc at June 25, 2025 01:58 PM (IiVPQ)

240 U235 has a natural radioactive decay mechanism (can't recall, didn't look it up), which poses far less of a radioactivity threat than all the radioactive decay products (which contain a spectrum of radioactive elements, not just U235) from a nuclear fission blast of U235.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder


Like Seinfeld's soup nazi, "You come back. One year!"

Posted by: rickb223 at June 25, 2025 01:58 PM (zSKXS)

241 132 I think I have a crush on Pete Hegseth.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke

Me too, girlfriend. Don't tell Chasten or the media!

Posted by: Pete Buttigieg at June 25, 2025 01:58 PM (JCZqz)

242 TMJ most intel estimates are educated guesses. Something the public can't/won't understand - of course it's never explained that way so they only have bad fiction to go on.

Cheerleading is always dumb anyway.

Posted by: rhomboid at June 25, 2025 01:59 PM (1m82a)

243 no point in letting it languish in storage.

How bad does a rotten bunker-buster smell... It'll bring the roof down.

Posted by: DaveA at June 25, 2025 01:59 PM (FhXTo)

244 PI, we are on a mind-meld! Yow!

Posted by: Gref at June 25, 2025 01:59 PM (aBgBM)

245 Brings back good memories of the Stuxnet Virus.

Posted by: ShainS -- Make Unconditional Surrender Great Again! at June 25, 2025 01:54 PM (dTh6J)

It's like a mind meld in here some days.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at June 25, 2025 01:59 PM (6ydKt)

246 Kinda wish Pooky wasn't napping right now so he could share knowledge. The one thing he did share after seeing a video of one of the explosions was that there's fallout, the question is how bad, and that's determined by how close the uranium was to the surface.

Once again, pray for his old unit, who probably has been working round the clock for at least two weeks now.

Posted by: pookysgirl, glad Pooky got out at June 25, 2025 01:59 PM (Wt5PA)

247 "We wouldn't have to worry about that if they were all-electric."

/Gen. Milley Vanilli


12 * 30,000 lbs of EV batteries would have burned a hole to the center of the Earth.

Posted by: t-bird at June 25, 2025 02:00 PM (tPOKY)

248 Jambalaya!!

Posted by: Newman at June 25, 2025 02:00 PM (PQB+n)

249 242 TMJ most intel estimates are educated guesses. Something the public can't/won't understand - of course it's never explained that way so they only have bad fiction to go on.

Cheerleading is always dumb anyway.
Posted by: rhomboid at June 25, 2025 01:59 PM (1m82a)

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I want Jack Ryan parachuted in, to meet up with John Clark, and to get into the facility themselves to get the intel.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 25, 2025 02:00 PM (GBKbO)

250 "All of the evidence of what was just bombed, by twelve 30,000-pound bombs, is buried under a mountain, devastated and obliterated. So if you want to make an assessment of what happened at Fordow, you better get a big shovel and go really deep."

So we can't know?

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at June 25, 2025 02:00 PM (4/BuS)

251 If they try and dig out the site isn't it likely to be highly irradiated?

Posted by: 18-1 at June 25, 2025 01:40 PM (t0Rmr)

U235 has a natural radioactive decay mechanism (can't recall, didn't look it up), which poses far less of a radioactivity threat than all the radioactive decay products (which contain a spectrum of radioactive elements, not just U235) from a nuclear fission blast of U235.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at June 25, 2025 01:46 PM (i24o9)

U-235 alpha decays to Thorium. From then on its either alpha or beta decays to reduce the neutron excess from the nucleus. (the heavier a nucleus the more bonus neutrons are needed to keep it remotely stable).

Posted by: Oldcat at June 25, 2025 02:00 PM (8avO+)

252 Madison's taking a ton of abuse in here lately. You love to see it. That will teach you to like crappy movies.

Posted by: ... at June 25, 2025 02:00 PM (sfdl6)

253 I was so glad to see Hegseth - been trying to tell people that online since it first came out.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 25, 2025 02:01 PM (uWKK8)

254
the first one didn't actually move any earth out of the way?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison

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How does a MOP not move any earth out of the way? What does the first MOP do?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 25, 2025 02:01 PM (lCaJd)

255 >>> 250 "All of the evidence of what was just bombed, by twelve 30,000-pound bombs, is buried under a mountain, devastated and obliterated. So if you want to make an assessment of what happened at Fordow, you better get a big shovel and go really deep."
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So we can't know?
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at June 25, 2025 02:00 PM (4/BuS)

Sure, *we* can.

*You* can't.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at June 25, 2025 02:01 PM (ULPxl)

256 That bombing a site like Fordow probably won't actually take out what's 400m under the surface when MOPs can only go 100m under ground.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 25, 2025 01:57 PM (GBKbO)

It'll probably get really warm below 100m, though.
Probably felt like a 9.0 earthqauke, too.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at June 25, 2025 02:01 PM (6ydKt)

257 I don't have a good track record for predictions. That fact notwithstanding:

I don't think Khamenei's regime will waste time trying to build nuclear bombs again for the foreseeable future.

That's because the danger time for civil unrest always comes AFTER a nation loses a war. I believe that K's Nazi death cult is hip to that. I doubt the regime can ignore all the civilian misery now.

Posted by: mnw at June 25, 2025 02:01 PM (kd60y)

258 252 Madison's taking a ton of abuse in here lately. You love to see it. That will teach you to like crappy movies.
Posted by: ... at June 25, 2025 02:00 PM (sfdl6)

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It's not my fault if you people can't appreciate the genius that is the remake of The Omen!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 25, 2025 02:01 PM (GBKbO)

259 244 PI, we are on a mind-meld! Yow!
Posted by: Gref at June 25, 2025 01:59 PM (aBgBM)

245 It's like a mind meld in here some days.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at June 25, 2025 01:59 PM (6ydKt)

Seriously what the hell is going on

Posted by: ... at June 25, 2025 02:02 PM (sfdl6)

260 It no longer being solid rock but debris underground could the conditions allow greater passage, and how far down?

The US/Israeli intel is talking very confidently, so that's something. The anonymous sources from Iran are talking very pessimistically, so that's also something.

But the physics still make me wonder if it's really only making the place immediately inaccessible instead.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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In battleships, one armor scheme was to employ a thinner exterior sheet to decap the projectile, causing it to detonate before it hit the main armor belt. If I was the mullahs, I might have done something similar over the main part of the bunkers.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at June 25, 2025 02:02 PM (ITkJX)

261 Gref, excellent comment.

One thing - Israel stole Iran's nuclear archive a few years ago (itself yet another better-than-fiction actual operation). Don't know if plans for any of the hardened facilities were included, probably not because of the time-frame, but not unreasonable to assume Mossad had pretty well developed intel on the facilities.

Posted by: rhomboid at June 25, 2025 02:02 PM (1m82a)

262
oh yeah

and the mossad probably has access to internal iranian comms stating that fordow is toast

Posted by: sound awake at June 25, 2025 02:02 PM (y7zJs)

263 the genius that is the remake of The Omen!

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wait, what ?! when did this happen??

Posted by: runner at June 25, 2025 02:02 PM (g47mK)

264 *I want Jack Ryan parachuted in, to meet up with John Clark, and to get into the facility themselves to get the intel.*

I'll meet you there. I've got a paper clip, a pocket knife and some Elmer's glue.

Posted by: McGyver at June 25, 2025 02:02 PM (PQB+n)

265 I want Jack Ryan parachuted in, to meet up with John Clark, and to get into the facility themselves to get the intel.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 25, 2025 02:00 PM (GBKbO)

This is a great idea.

Posted by: DoublySymmetric at June 25, 2025 02:02 PM (Mxf84)

266 244 PI, we are on a mind-meld! Yow!

Posted by: Gref at June 25, 2025 01:59 PM


GMTA!

And from two different scientific backgrounds.

Do you suppose drinking bourbon together at a MoMe helps that process?

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at June 25, 2025 02:02 PM (HlyYF)

267 How does a MOP not move any earth out of the way? What does the first MOP do?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 25, 2025 02:01 PM (lCaJd)

Go ahead TJM, tell the lady what a MOP does.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at June 25, 2025 02:02 PM (6ydKt)

268 Madison's taking a ton of abuse in here lately. You love to see it. That will teach you to like crappy movies.
Posted by: ... at June 25, 2025 02:00 PM (sfdl6)

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It's not my fault if you people can't appreciate the genius that is the remake of The Omen!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 25, 2025 02:01 PM (GBKbO)

Prometheus wasn't a bridge too far already?

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at June 25, 2025 02:02 PM (i24o9)

269 With the help of Israeli and US geologists, mining engineers, and ordnance experts, a high-confidence plan to collapse the caverns using X number of MOPs can be formulated.
Posted by: Gref


it is ,maybe more accurate to say a high-confidence plan to collapse the caverns using X number of *** can be formulated.

mops are mops if they are not the right bomb for the target thn they are not the right bomb

Posted by: n at June 25, 2025 02:03 PM (yYy/+)

270 254 How does a MOP not move any earth out of the way? What does the first MOP do?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 25, 2025 02:01 PM (lCaJd)

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Because that's not what MOPs are designed to do.

They're designed to burrow upwards of 100m underground and explode. As we can see from the satellite photos at Fordow after the attack, that kind of ordnance does not create the kind of outward expanding explosions above ground.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 25, 2025 02:03 PM (GBKbO)

271 The leakers need to be found and punished to the fullest extent of the law. Play bny their rules and make up extra stuff to charge them with , if necessary.

Pain (for them) is the only way to stop this garbage.

Posted by: can of spam at June 25, 2025 02:03 PM (7oNMO)

272 Pete took the lying media to the woodshed !

Posted by: It's me donna at June 25, 2025 02:03 PM (VE6XX)

273 256 That bombing a site like Fordow probably won't actually take out what's 400m under the surface when MOPs can only go 100m under ground.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 25, 2025 01:57 PM (GBKbO)

It'll probably get really warm below 100m, though.
Probably felt like a 9.0 earthqauke, too.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at June 25, 2025 02:01 PM (6ydKt)

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I believe there are underground reinforcing techniques that can at least partially mitigate that.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 25, 2025 02:04 PM (GBKbO)

274 266 244 PI, we are on a mind-meld! Yow!

Posted by: Gref at June 25, 2025 01:59 PM

GMTA!

And from two different scientific backgrounds.

Do you suppose drinking bourbon together at a MoMe helps that process?

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at June 25, 2025 02:02 PM (HlyYF)

It can never hurt!

Posted by: Gref at June 25, 2025 02:04 PM (aBgBM)

275 255 >>> 250 "All of the evidence of what was just bombed, by twelve 30,000-pound bombs, is buried under a mountain, devastated and obliterated. So if you want to make an assessment of what happened at Fordow, you better get a big shovel and go really deep."
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So we can't know?
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at June 25, 2025 02:00 PM (4/BuS)

Sure, *we* can.

*You* can't.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at June 25, 2025 02:01 PM (ULPxl)

Well, it's a good thing the IC and DoD have an untrammeled record of accuracy, reliability, and honesty then.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at June 25, 2025 02:04 PM (4/BuS)

276 All joking aside, here's a good video on how Bunker Busters work:

https://youtu.be/bDh1x3hd6xQ

Posted by: SpeakingOf at June 25, 2025 02:04 PM (6ydKt)

277 Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at June 25, 2025 02:02 PM (ITkJX

Striker Vehicle cage.

Posted by: Off sock at June 25, 2025 02:04 PM (VofaG)

278 Posted by: sniffybigtoe at June 25, 2025 01:30 PM (hfg0k

That is really funny. Thanks. You should consider doing conservative stand up comedy.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 25, 2025 02:04 PM (2GCMq)

279 Gaseous diffusion means corroded equipment that is radioactive if the power fails.
Posted by: Anna Puma at June 25, 2025 01:42 PM (9nkAn)

Fluorine is no joke. If it decides it wants to combine with something more than U, you have a serious problem. HF etches glass.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 25, 2025 02:04 PM (8avO+)

280
They're designed to burrow upwards of 100m underground and explode. As we can see from the satellite photos at Fordow after the attack, that kind of ordnance does not create the kind of outward expanding explosions above ground.


which begs the question why were sdbs not used for the gaza undrground sites?

Posted by: n at June 25, 2025 02:05 PM (yYy/+)

281 Those centrifuges are a sturdy and robust as my printer!
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 25, 2025 01:50 PM (/HVsR)

LOL

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at June 25, 2025 02:05 PM (g8Ew8)

282 265 I want Jack Ryan parachuted in, to meet up with John Clark, and to get into the facility themselves to get the intel.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 25, 2025 02:00 PM (GBKbO)

This is a great idea.
Posted by: DoublySymmetric at June 25, 2025 02:02 PM (Mxf84)
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Nah, replace Ryan and Clark with black female lesbians, and make it lame.

Posted by: Orson at June 25, 2025 02:05 PM (dIske)

283 That bombing a site like Fordow probably won't actually take out what's 400m under the surface when MOPs can only go 100m under ground.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 25, 2025 01:57 PM (GBKbO)

The bomb may not penetrate 400 meters of solid rock, and explode in the goatrapers' workspsace. But it doesn't have to. If it penetrates 100 meters, and then explodes, it will create a massive shock wave that will cause sheets of rock to spall off the ceiling of the workspace, and crush the machines and their operators.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 25, 2025 02:05 PM (Hyyh7)

284
Who came to this assessment so quickly and how do they explain their reasoning? Because this report looks like it was written SPECIFICALLY to leak.

Posted by: Frank Barone at June 25, 2025 02:05 PM (IifOV)

285
I believe there are underground reinforcing techniques that can at least partially mitigate that.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 25, 2025 02:04 PM (GBKbO)

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The Iranians were using specialized concrete that is supposed to be more bomb-proof.

I read that somewhere recently, too.

I don't know if it can withstand what we dropped but they used something to try to contain the damage.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at June 25, 2025 02:06 PM (6ydKt)

286 In battleships, one armor scheme was to employ a thinner exterior sheet to decap the projectile, causing it to detonate before it hit the main armor belt. If I was the mullahs, I might have done something similar over the main part of the bunkers.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at June 25, 2025 02:02 PM


I believe Saddam's engineers actually tested those concepts.

I think their best countermeasure was some void space, partially filled with heavy rubble, and then back to solid rock. Rinse and repeat as needed in layers.

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at June 25, 2025 02:06 PM (HlyYF)

287 it was a bit funny that Trump decided to have such an over the top statement about effectiveness so soon after the bombing, though sharing any classified data from dia is treasonous

Posted by: n at June 25, 2025 02:07 PM (yYy/+)

288 Because that's not what MOPs are designed to do.

They're designed to burrow upwards of 100m underground and explode. As we can see from the satellite photos at Fordow after the attack, that kind of ordnance does not create the kind of outward expanding explosions above ground.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 25, 2025 02:03 PM (GBKbO)

They want to collapse the bunker by making it the weak point when the bomb goes off. Splashing explosives on the surface does little underground damage, hence the use of slit trenches in field works.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 25, 2025 02:07 PM (8avO+)

289 If a B-2 can drop two 30,000 lb MOP, are we developing a 60,000 lb MOAP?

Seems funny to be pounding nuclear facilities back to the Stone Age by dropping anvils on them.

Posted by: t-bird at June 25, 2025 02:07 PM (Y+sVZ)

290 285 The Iranians were using specialized concrete that is supposed to be more bomb-proof.

I read that somewhere recently, too.

I don't know if it can withstand what we dropped but they used something to try to contain the damage.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at June 25, 2025 02:06 PM (6ydKt)

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We dropped A LOT.

It's possible it was enough.

But I'm just waiting for more than some educated guesses.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 25, 2025 02:07 PM (GBKbO)

291 Iran had purchased vast amounts of bubble wrap and packing peanuts in the last few months. This has to be taken into account.

Posted by: DIA Assessment Team at June 25, 2025 02:07 PM (dIske)

292 which begs the question why were sdbs not used for the gaza undrground sites?
Posted by: n at June 25, 2025 02:05 PM (yYy/+)

Because we aren't allowing ourselves to blow the hospitals and orphanages on top.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 25, 2025 02:09 PM (8avO+)

293 which begs the question why were sdbs not used for the gaza undrground sites?

Posted by: n at June 25, 2025 02:05 PM (yYy/+)

I'd suspect that it's because the Gaza sites didn't have the kind of surroundings the Fordow site had, and because the pressure wave travelling through the tunnels would liquefy the occupants, including any hostages.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead...Wearing Pants and Working at June 25, 2025 02:09 PM (luW68)

294 Those things run at about 90,000 rpm. The tiniest fault with the bearings, driveshaft, motors etc, and it turns into a pedo van-sized grenade.
....
Posted by: IllTemperedCur


Unlikely because if that were true, running thousands 24/7, the place would be like working inside a popcorn machine with grenades going off every couple minutes.


More likely they have a fairly benign failure mode (I am engineer and have worked with some high speed and high energy equipment) and just need to be purged and rebuilt. Doable, but tedious. But it is only doable if you have the repair equipment. If the whole facility is contaminated with no power then you have to build a workspace first and set up bake ovens to purge for repair and then one by one purge, bake, repair and move to new facility to run. Not going to happen (I don't think.)

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at June 25, 2025 02:09 PM (3OoOR)

295 Whig and I were discussing on the morning thread that Israel has quietly said that yes, they were tracking the 100 kg (or however much it is) of 60% concentrated U-235 that Iran had admitted to having, and that yes, it was taken out of Fordow shortly before the bombing, and that it is now buried underneath the rubble of a different storage facility that the Israelis prefer not to name. (most likely at Natanz or Isfahar, both sites heavily hit)

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 25, 2025 02:10 PM (uWKK8)

296 Phase 2 should be a conga line of B-2s dropping MOPs on the place every five minutes until you can see magma.

Really make a statement with it.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 25, 2025 02:10 PM (BjH5D)

297
Madison's taking a ton of abuse in here lately. You love to see it. That will teach you to like crappy movies.
Posted by: ... at June 25, 2025 02:00 PM (sfdl6)



*snort*

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at June 25, 2025 02:10 PM (y9nCu)

298 Kinetic Penetration !

Posted by: runner at June 25, 2025 02:10 PM (g47mK)

299 As wrong as our intel estimates have been historically, if they say it was NOT totally destroyed?

It was totally destroyed.

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 25, 2025 02:10 PM (mP0Kj)

300 It's not my fault if you people can't appreciate the genius that is the remake of The Omen!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 25, 2025 02:01 PM (GBKbO)


Pffft.

Posted by: The Remake of "Psycho" at June 25, 2025 02:10 PM (iJfKG)

301 it is a trade off between penetration and explosives, more penetration means more steel for the casing and not as much explosive

Posted by: n at June 25, 2025 02:10 PM (yYy/+)

302 I'm so old I remember when mentioning the name of a CIA analyst, let alone a classified intelligence briefing, launched a multi-year investigation with prison time for the person (falsely) identified as originally leaking it.

Posted by: 18-1 at June 25, 2025 01:52 PM


I am so old I remember that naming a former intelligence asset who no longer worked for any intelligence agency in any capacity got you a trial and a stiff jail sentence.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at June 25, 2025 02:11 PM (e5NfL)

303 Pre-detonation* is an obvious and old design, where some kind of void or intermediate space separates a hard shell (which detonates the incoming) from the actual target.

Battleships had torpedo blisters to do this. A mortar roof (just sandbags piled on wooden platforms), ditto.

Have no idea, but imagine anything like this underground would be an engineering/construction challenge more suited to Japan than Iran.

* not to be confused with a key challenge in nuke design, avoiding pre-detonation of the physics package.

Posted by: rhomboid at June 25, 2025 02:11 PM (1m82a)

304 Follow-up: Mossad probably placed surface seismic sensors on and around the underground facilities. Data is radioed in real-time. Common geology tech. The readings might have shown (or not) collapses deeper than the MOPs penetrated. This may be the primary means for initial bomb damage assessment.

Posted by: Gref at June 25, 2025 02:11 PM (aBgBM)

305 I believe Saddam's engineers actually tested those concepts.

I think their best countermeasure was some void space, partially filled with heavy rubble, and then back to solid rock. Rinse and repeat as needed in layers.
Posted by: Pillage Idiot
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The battleship scheme sometimes did the same thing, filling the void with coal bunkers or oil storage.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at June 25, 2025 02:11 PM (ITkJX)

306 Seems funny to be pounding nuclear facilities back to the Stone Age by dropping anvils on them.

Posted by: t-bird at June 25, 2025 02:07 PM


These weren't exactly the anvils from ACME that Wile E. Coyote was trying to use on the roadrunner!

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at June 25, 2025 02:11 PM (HlyYF)

307 298 Kinetic Penetration !
Posted by: runner at June 25, 2025 02:10 PM (g47mK)

This is the Paolo's, how you say, specialty!

Posted by: The Paolo at June 25, 2025 02:11 PM (TbWk/)

308 Midnight hammer delivered kinetic penetration.

Posted by: runner at June 25, 2025 02:11 PM (g47mK)

309 I'd suspect that it's because the Gaza sites didn't have the kind of surroundings the Fordow site had, and because the pressure wave travelling through the tunnels would liquefy the occupants, including any hostages.
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead...W



so the 2000 lb non penetrating bombs were the smart way to do things?

Posted by: n at June 25, 2025 02:12 PM (yYy/+)

310 308 Midnight hammer delivered kinetic penetration.
Posted by: runner at June 25, 2025 02:11 PM (g47mK)

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Opening line to your newest romance novel?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 25, 2025 02:12 PM (GBKbO)

311 283 That bombing a site like Fordow probably won't actually take out what's 400m under the surface when MOPs can only go 100m under ground.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 25, 2025 01:57 PM (GBKbO)

The bomb may not penetrate 400 meters of solid rock, and explode in the goatrapers' workspsace. But it doesn't have to. If it penetrates 100 meters, and then explodes, it will create a massive shock wave that will cause sheets of rock to spall off the ceiling of the workspace, and crush the machines and their operators.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 25, 2025 02:05 PM (Hyyh7)


AOP knows this stuff, folks.

Posted by: Gref at June 25, 2025 02:12 PM (aBgBM)

312 5 https://x.com/EricLDaugh/status/1937850112274780606

That's video of Hegseth saying that DOD and DOJ are working together to ID and criminally prosecute the leaker, by the way.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 25, 2025 01:15 PM (GBKbO)

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Odd, I care about this more than the bombing.

I denounce myself.

Posted by: Seems Legit at June 25, 2025 02:12 PM (PMtkd)

313 it was a bit funny that Trump decided to have such an over the top statement about effectiveness so soon after the bombing, though sharing any classified data from dia is treasonous
Posted by: n at June 25, 2025 02:07 PM (yYy/+)

You don't see the difference between a statement from a guy who is known principally for blustering about whatever the fuck he wants whenever he wants to obtain various outcomes, and the leaking of classified info?

You are scraping the sides of the obtuse barrel my friend.

Posted by: ... at June 25, 2025 02:13 PM (sfdl6)

314 If the facilities are contaminated with fluoridated water, any nuclear scientist entering the sight would become as retarded as a theatre major.

Posted by: Oglebay at June 25, 2025 02:13 PM (MMp6W)

315 We dropped A LOT.

It's possible it was enough.

But I'm just waiting for more than some educated guesses.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 25, 2025 02:07 PM (GBKbO)

You won't get it, probably. But because to either keep working on bombs there they will have to clear, or build new entrances and excavate the volume and recover the labs. To get the pessimistic "days or weeks" you have to assume they pick a new site and even purchasing new equipment will take more than days, and will be starting from scratch. And that site will not be hardened.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 25, 2025 02:13 PM (8avO+)

316 Note I said sides, not bottom.

Posted by: ... at June 25, 2025 02:13 PM (sfdl6)

317 That's because the danger time for civil unrest always comes AFTER a nation loses a war. I believe that K's Nazi death cult is hip to that. I doubt the regime can ignore all the civilian misery now.
Posted by: mnw at June 25, 2025 02:01 PM (kd60y)
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I think they bombed the prison in a manner that allowed the political prisoners to escape.

Posted by: braenyard- Some friends are more equal than others at June 25, 2025 02:13 PM (c35xG)

318 310 308 Midnight hammer delivered kinetic penetration.
Posted by: runner at June 25, 2025 02:11 PM (g47mK)

This one time, at Physics Camp...

Posted by: My 14yo self at June 25, 2025 02:14 PM (PQB+n)

319 Midnight hammer delivered kinetic penetration.

Posted by: runner at June 25, 2025 02:11 PM (g47mK)

How is this not one of The Paolo's many nicknames?

Posted by: pookysgirl at June 25, 2025 02:14 PM (Wt5PA)

320 Opening line to your newest romance novel?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 25, 2025 02:12 PM (GBKbO)

It was a dark and stormy night, the rain fell in torrents—except at occasional intervals...

Posted by: runner at June 25, 2025 02:14 PM (g47mK)

321 289 If a B-2 can drop two 30,000 lb MOP, are we developing a 60,000 lb MOAP?

Seems funny to be pounding nuclear facilities back to the Stone Age by dropping anvils on them.
Posted by: t-bird at June 25, 2025 02:07 PM (Y+sVZ)

Works for me ...

Posted by: Wyle E Coyote Esq, PhD. LSMFT at June 25, 2025 02:14 PM (TTAGa)

322 Something I have not seen mentioned - I wonder if there is a tactical nuclear MOP. Burrows down 100m and then gives a headache to anything withing a 1km radius underground.

Well, if I can imagine it I assume the US has built it.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at June 25, 2025 02:14 PM (3OoOR)

323 314 If the facilities are contaminated with fluoridated water, any nuclear scientist entering the sight would become as retarded as a theatre major.

Posted by: Oglebay at June 25, 2025 02:13 PM


Yes, but their teeth will be FABULOUS!

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at June 25, 2025 02:14 PM (HlyYF)

324 320 Opening line to your newest romance novel?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 25, 2025 02:12 PM (GBKbO)

It was a dark and stormy night, the rain fell in torrents—except at occasional intervals...
Posted by: runner at June 25, 2025 02:14 PM (g47mK)

========

Poetry.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 25, 2025 02:15 PM (GBKbO)

325 316 Note I said sides, not bottom.
Posted by: ... at June 25, 2025 02:13 PM (sfdl6)

Trust your punchlines.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 25, 2025 02:15 PM (BjH5D)

326 so the 2000 lb non penetrating bombs were the smart way to do things?
Posted by: n at June 25, 2025 02:12 PM (yYy/+)


for killing Gazan fighters in hastily improved positions? Sure is.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 25, 2025 02:15 PM (8avO+)

327 I don't know what the assessments use as factors but I can tell you that how long it takes to start refining the stuff they have left is very much going to depend on how much help they get from other "counties".

I am pretty sure the Israeli's knew to keep tabs on where the enriched fuel was going.

Iran has to keep it safe until the refinement infrastructure can be either replaced or repaired.

Posted by: pawn at June 25, 2025 02:15 PM (QB+5g)

328 The President is the final authority on classification. If he says it publicly, it’s unclassified.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at June 25, 2025 02:15 PM (hfg0k)

329 bob, Israel also heavily struck the whole ID'd centrifuge production chain, soft targets (just factories) that of course are essential to replacing or repairing units damaged in other strikes.

This is the key element of the Israeli public statements. They hit the entire nuke weapon sector - from scientists to supply chain to design/testing facilities to crown jewel enrichment assets. One scientist taken out as the ceasefire approached.

Posted by: rhomboid at June 25, 2025 02:15 PM (1m82a)

330 Trust your punchlines.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 25, 2025 02:15 PM (BjH5D)

That WAS the punchline!

Posted by: ... at June 25, 2025 02:15 PM (sfdl6)

331 In battleships, one armor scheme was to employ a thinner exterior sheet to decap the projectile, causing it to detonate before it hit the main armor belt. If I was the mullahs, I might have done something similar over the main part of the bunkers.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at June 25, 2025 02:02 PM (ITkJX)

Penetration doesn't matter so much that close in especially in the case of these Iranian fortifications. The shock waves alone from six tons of high grade explosives detonated a hundred feet from the tunnels is going to do an incredible amount of damage.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at June 25, 2025 02:16 PM (g8Ew8)

332 323 314 If the facilities are contaminated with fluoridated water, any nuclear scientist entering the sight would become as retarded as a theatre major.

Posted by: Oglebay at June 25, 2025 02:13 PM

Yes, but their teeth will be FABULOUS!
Posted by: Pillage Idiot at June 25, 2025 02:14 PM (HlyYF)

"Hot DAMN, Habib, I don't know what it is but i'm feeling SUPER muslim today!"

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 25, 2025 02:16 PM (BjH5D)

333 @290

>>But I'm just waiting for more than some educated guesses.

Fordow is built under a mountain, mountains can absorb a shit ton of energy.

You can actually do the calculations and there is a good chance that very little damage was done to the actual facility.

But as noted, degrading their ability to access the site may be sufficient to essentially make the facility useless.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 25, 2025 02:16 PM (XV/Pl)

334 293 which begs the question why were sdbs not used for the gaza undrground sites?

Posted by: n at June 25, 2025 02:05 PM (yYy/+)

I'd suspect that it's because the Gaza sites didn't have the kind of surroundings the Fordow site had, and because the pressure wave travelling through the tunnels would liquefy the occupants, including any hostages.
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead...Wearing Pants and Working at June 25, 2025 02:09 PM (luW6

Also because the Israeli's have plenty of weapons that can easily reach anything under Gaza, if they know where to aim. The Gaza geology is close to non-existent; it's all sand on a wide coastal plain, not much real rock at all anywhere. That's why it was so easy for Hamas to build hundreds of miles of tunnels underneath it.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 25, 2025 02:16 PM (uWKK8)

335 IIRC the centrifuges used at Fordow (and elsewhere) are pretty delicate. While the lab they're in may be intact, or nearly so, I'd bet the spinning pieces are not. Or if they were not shut down properly prior to the attack they may still suffer damage.

They were in a long hall buried under that mountain. Just making it unsafe to operate in there might be enough to stall Iran's nuclear ambitions for a while.

But it probably isn't the end of it.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 25, 2025 02:17 PM (Q4IgG)

336 Something I have not seen mentioned - I wonder if there is a tactical nuclear MOP. Burrows down 100m and then gives a headache to anything withing a 1km radius underground.

Well, if I can imagine it I assume the US has built it.
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at June 25, 2025 02:14 PM (3OoOR)

You'd think the firing mechanism for the bomb would fail on the first contact. Both the bombs we used were air bursts.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 25, 2025 02:17 PM (8avO+)

337 Entering the "sight" - guess we know who the retard is.

Posted by: Oglebay at June 25, 2025 02:17 PM (MMp6W)

338 It's just my own perspective, but it seems to me that the bell of craziness, cognitive dissonance, is ringing louder and louder as every day passes. I'm actually ok with that. I've felt that it was inevitable. It needs to happen. Peel back the curtains, remove the facade and draw the line.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * sporting my Andrew Breitbart attitude at June 25, 2025 02:17 PM (DX/Mv)

339 Regardless of our bombing damage, I have full confidence that Israel certainly knew what they were doing when they bombed a few weeks ago.

Posted by: Seems Legit at June 25, 2025 02:18 PM (PMtkd)

340 Penetration doesn't matter so much that close in especially in the case of these Iranian fortifications. The shock waves alone from six tons of high grade explosives detonated a hundred feet from the tunnels is going to do an incredible amount of damage.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons
________

I take your point. Much bigger, but a 16 inch shell did weigh upwards of 3,000 lbs impacting smaller target.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at June 25, 2025 02:18 PM (ITkJX)

341 for killing Gazan fighters in hastily improved positions? Sure is.
Posted by: Oldcat


two words

monte casino

Posted by: n at June 25, 2025 02:18 PM (MrpFA)

342 328 The President is the final authority on classification. If he says it publicly, it’s unclassified.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at June 25, 2025 02:15 PM (hfg0k)

Hawaiian judge rules that everyone has to forget what they just heard, go LA LA LA eight times with their fingers in their ears, and say ten Si Se Puedes.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 25, 2025 02:19 PM (BjH5D)

343 >>>The bomb may not penetrate 400 meters of solid rock, and explode in the goatrapers' workspsace. But it doesn't have to. If it penetrates 100 meters, and then explodes, it will create a massive shock wave that will cause sheets of rock to spall off the ceiling of the workspace, and crush the machines and their operators.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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Thank you.

Posted by: braenyard- Some friends are more equal than others at June 25, 2025 02:19 PM (yXf+h)

344 Moab on cnn hq. Finish the game.

Posted by: Elrond Hubbard at June 25, 2025 02:19 PM (kmhyd)

345 They hit the entire nuke weapon sector - from scientists to supply chain to design/testing facilities to crown jewel enrichment assets. One scientist taken out as the ceasefire approached.
Posted by: rhomboid

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Very good point. So the supply chain and human capital will take decades to rebuild.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at June 25, 2025 02:19 PM (3OoOR)

346 Shit, the "leak" could be an op. Note how the conversation has shifted from Trump is stupidly getting us into a neverending war without authorization to "Well if the mega moab 679 penetrated at a roughly 30 degree angle then the damage to the facility could be merely facia, on the other hand if it was a mega moab 880 or later then all bets are off especially if the entry vector was 2 degrees higher than the hypoteneuse of the scalene triangle, if the date of manufacture was post June of 2023..."

Posted by: ... at June 25, 2025 02:20 PM (sfdl6)

347 Research reveals that what i am rembering as GUM stores were G.E.M. stores, a private gov't employee mutual more or less scam, precursor to costco and the like. RIP 1973, when the drugs started taking hold of my memory, apparently.
I'm sure you are all glad to know this.

Posted by: From about That Time at June 25, 2025 02:20 PM (n4GiU)

348 Posted by: n at June 25, 2025 02:12 PM (yYy/+)

Targets above ground, and even in revetments or bunkers (shallow tunnels), very definitely the right selection. Fragmentation radius would be around 350m and the blast radius would be even larger, maybe twice that.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead...Wearing Pants and Working at June 25, 2025 02:20 PM (luW68)

349 The US has designed penetrating nuclear ordnance in the past.

Posted by: rhomboid at June 25, 2025 02:20 PM (1m82a)

350 As a soldier and later a civilian contractor I held various flavors of TS clearances - never was tasked with writing up or directly reading the sort of reports that summarize known intel about X and grade the received intel and analysis of same on a reliability scale.

But as I understand it, Best Practice is to turn your analysts loose to look at all possible conclusions, decide which ones are at least possible, and write them all up graded by probability of being correct. Like Schrodinger's Cat you won't know the correct conclusion until later - but with multiple choice options instead of just the two.

The MSM and the Dems (but I repeat myself) have recently repeatedly taken to assuming whatever the conclusion LEAST friendly to Trump - that MUST be the only valid conclusion - probabilities be damned.

Which leads to some rather silly "I'm sure this is the case" takes on Intel - a certain laptop must be DisInfo even if that probability is < 1% - Trump is a Manchurian Candidate even when it's his opponent getting rich off of foreign moneys - and all the Bunker Buster Bombs are no better than the non-working torpedoes the US Navy had at the start of WWII.

Posted by: BobM at June 25, 2025 02:21 PM (QMqQW)

351 > You can actually do the calculations

You overestimate me. I really don't think I could do an accurate calculation of a specific warhead type, weight, penetration capability, impact velocity, angle of impact, etc. against all of the materials, energy distribution characteristics, warping, shaping, energy diffusion, etc etc etc. of the facility involved.

Posted by: bonhomme at June 25, 2025 02:21 PM (lIio7)

352 I believe there are underground reinforcing techniques that can at least partially mitigate that.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison,

In theory. If you start at the base of the mountain and go horizontally, farther in is "deeper" in.

Hitting the "entrance" and of course blast proof doors, but it's going to be a long time to dig back in.

Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at June 25, 2025 02:21 PM (FxH7T)

353 Newd.

Posted by: Boss Moss at June 25, 2025 02:21 PM (VAINm)

354 These are Schrodinger's Nuke Bunkers: they exist in a state of being both simultaneously obliterated and virtually unscathed at the same time depending on one's TDS level. It's an amazing time to be alive.

Posted by: Blast Hardcheese at June 25, 2025 02:21 PM (V362x)

355 Nood.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 25, 2025 02:22 PM (ExV1e)

356 I'm having flashbacks of the "Scorched Earth" game's Funky Bombs.

Posted by: fd at June 25, 2025 02:22 PM (vFG9F)

357 335 IIRC the centrifuges used at Fordow (and elsewhere) are pretty delicate. While the lab they're in may be intact, or nearly so, I'd bet the spinning pieces are not. Or if they were not shut down properly prior to the attack they may still suffer damage.

They were in a long hall buried under that mountain. Just making it unsafe to operate in there might be enough to stall Iran's nuclear ambitions for a while.

But it probably isn't the end of it.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 25, 2025 02:17 PM (Q4IgG)

If their underground nuke facilities were destroyed or at least severely damaged, I believe the Iranians will dig and equip new facilities rather than try to rehabilitate the old ones. But who knows what crazy Mullahs and their remaining experts may decide to do. If that is, they politically remain in position to keep trying to make nukes.

Posted by: Gref at June 25, 2025 02:23 PM (aBgBM)

358 Also because the Israeli's have plenty of weapons that can easily reach anything under Gaza, if they know where to aim. The Gaza geology is close to non-existent; it's all sand on a wide coastal plain, not much real rock at all anywhere. That's why it was so easy for Hamas to build hundreds of miles of tunnels underneath it.
Posted by: Tom Servo



which is what the Small Diameter Bombs were designed for. Which were in IDF inventory, it is the hottest new bomb in the Air Forces's inventory, better penetration, more aerodynamic, easier to carry more per sortie.

Building tunnels in sand is not easy because it needs more reinforcement , easy to move, not easy to stop from moving.

Posted by: n at June 25, 2025 02:23 PM (8B5zF)

359 Was it a fully-laden B-2?

Posted by: That Gnarly Guy Guarding the Footbridge at June 25, 2025 02:24 PM (w9Wax)

360 Propaganda. These loser propagandists in the media are sick in the head.

So the suggestion is that the Iranians can build a bunker impervious to massive bombs, but they can't build a nuclear weapon for over 40 years?

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at June 25, 2025 02:24 PM (ioEI6)

361 > I think I have a crush on Pete Hegseth

join the club

Posted by: cherries in season at June 25, 2025 02:24 PM (Z4eZ1)

362 336 Something I have not seen mentioned - I wonder if there is a tactical nuclear MOP. Burrows down 100m and then gives a headache to anything withing a 1km radius underground.

Well, if I can imagine it I assume the US has built it.
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at June 25, 2025 02:14 PM (3OoOR)

You'd think the firing mechanism for the bomb would fail on the first contact. Both the bombs we used were air bursts.
Posted by: Oldcat at June 25, 2025 02:17 PM (8avO+)

I read a proposed form of that once, don't know if it ever got built. The idea was to take a cannon barrel from an M-1, install a rifle-tyep atomic weapon inside of it, then put stabilizing fins and a heavy pointed nose cone on it. Drop it from 20,000 feet and let the impact drive the uranium half spheres together. Should be moving at enough speed to get a good ways into the ground before it detonates.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 25, 2025 02:25 PM (uWKK8)

363 I'm at a loss to understand how a defense attorney quitting would cause the prosecution to fold it's case and drop all charges.
Posted by: Thomas Bender


The Feds dropped *some* charges.

"Federal prosecutors have dropped several charges against Sean "Diddy" Combs in the final days of his sex trafficking trial, streamlining the case for the jury. The charges removed include attempted kidnapping, attempted arson, and aiding and abetting sex trafficking, though the core charges of sex trafficking, racketeering, and transportation to engage in prostitution remain in place"

Posted by: Chuck C at June 25, 2025 02:25 PM (D0HYP)

364 These are Schrodinger's Nuke Bunkers: they exist in a state of being both simultaneously obliterated and virtually unscathed at the same time depending on one's TDS level. It's an amazing time to be alive.
Posted by: Blast Hardcheese at June 25, 2025 02:21 PM (V362x)

Don't forget 'never existed because the Mullahs are peace loving pacifists'

Posted by: Oldcat at June 25, 2025 02:25 PM (8avO+)

365 Match these improvements:
1. Needs to go to jail.
2. Needs to dial it back a bit initially to not become the focus of the story, instead to the real story.
3. Needs to learn what kinds of planes "fighter pilots" fly.

With these actors:
A. Treasonous IC bastard.
B. POTUS
C. White House Press Secretary

Posted by: Ray Van Dune at June 25, 2025 02:26 PM (PQOq3)

366 f you send a MOP after another, can the second MOP go further through the material than the first one did, especially if the first one didn't actually move any earth out of the way?
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The MOP is traveling Mach 1 at impact.
The fuse is 100 milliseconds after impact.
X ms later, the second MOP reaches ground level.
Assume the second isn't triggered until it passes through the "liquified" rock that is currently at that instant floating inside the explosion.

How deep is that?

That's a lot of maths that the coneheads have worked out to say:
Shit's all fucked up, yo.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at June 25, 2025 02:26 PM (UImIR)

367
Because that's not what MOPs are designed to do.

They're designed to burrow upwards of 100m underground and explode. As we can see from the satellite photos at Fordow after the attack, that kind of ordnance does not create the kind of outward expanding explosions above ground.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

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

Okay, TJM, thanks! See, why doesn't CNN ask Blonde questions instead of demanding to know why Trump is lying?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 25, 2025 02:27 PM (lCaJd)

368
Building tunnels in sand is not easy because it needs more reinforcement , easy to move, not easy to stop from moving.
Posted by: n at June 25, 2025 02:23 PM (8B5zF)

I suspect that's why the idea of flooding the tunnels never worked. Any water pumped in just drains out through the sandy floors.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 25, 2025 02:27 PM (uWKK8)

369 Our intelligence agencies are never wrong (except on days ending in y).

Posted by: Bob at June 25, 2025 02:31 PM (5E9ut)

370 340 Penetration doesn't matter so much that close in especially in the case of these Iranian fortifications. The shock waves alone from six tons of high grade explosives detonated a hundred feet from the tunnels is going to do an incredible amount of damage.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons
________

I take your point. Much bigger, but a 16 inch shell did weigh upwards of 3,000 lbs impacting smaller target.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at June 25, 2025 02:18 PM (ITkJX)


Heavy naval guns and projectiles were/are designed to fully penetrate armor plate thickness equivalent to the projectile diameter. This is why when a potential enemy put thicker armor and/or larger guns than yours on their newest class of ships, you had to do at least the equal in your next class of ships. This was the 'battleship race' that the naval ship limit treaties of the 20s and 30s were designed to stop.

Posted by: Gref at June 25, 2025 02:32 PM (aBgBM)

371 Whig and I were discussing on the morning thread that Israel has quietly said that yes, they were tracking the 100 kg (or however much it is) of 60% concentrated U-235 that Iran had admitted to having, and that yes, it was taken out of Fordow shortly before the bombing, and that it is now buried underneath the rubble of a different storage facility that the Israelis prefer not to name. (most likely at Natanz or Isfahar, both sites heavily hit)
Posted by: Tom Servo



Iran: We moved it!

Israel: We know. We flattened it too!

Posted by: rickb223 at June 25, 2025 02:33 PM (zSKXS)

372 Look at the preponderance of concrete dust around the holes the bombs made. Concrete became atomized when it was blown up and was ejected thru the entry points. If the concrete is destroyed everything inside the rooms are gone too. My two cents.

Posted by: Alfred at June 25, 2025 02:51 PM (b6c/x)

373 Find the leaker, fire the leaker, charge them with treason. Put their name out there. Tarred, feathered and mocked.

One of the pilots was from Mississippi, a state I hail from, that many still (all of my life) look down on. One of the planes was called "The Spirit of Mississippi." Even without knowing this I could not be prouder of these brave pilots. I am thankful for them and all military past, present and future as the daughter of a Marine.

https://tinyurl.com/yhd2pfbr

As it is leaving Amazon Prime this week, last night I watched Top Gun again. Altho I am not super fond of Tom Cruise due to his weird religion, he was great in this part. And it demonstrates the courage and skill of fighter pilots.

I love President Trump. I also am coming to love Sec Hegseth, who was right in his hammer speech to the weakling, mewling press. Damn them to the pit of hell.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at June 25, 2025 03:06 PM (6PCLE)

374
First of all, I want to forthrightly say that I have never been more happy that my assertion that Trump should not bomb the deeply buried nuclear facilities was incorrect and that President Trump was right to make the call!

Many of us thought it would drag us into another endless war! But how could I have ever doubted this great man who has survived a very near-miss assassin's bullet; who fought back and BEAT the Deep State monsters who sought to imprison him for the rest of his natural born life. And on and on.
I - like many others (Tucker Carlson, I'm referring to you!) - should have trusted that this awesome President would never betray the loyal base that pol vaulted him into the Presidency.

I stand happily corrected.

Moreover, now - according to no less than the Israelis themselves - Iran's Fordow facilities have been destroyed.

So, (for at least the next 3.5 years), there can be no sound rationale for taking military action to stop Iran's nuclear program.
Because (again, according to the Israelis themselves) with the destruction of Iran's nuclear weapons infrastructure, Iran's ambitions of acquiring a nuclear weapon has been set back for a great many years.

Posted by: Bach In Black at June 25, 2025 03:44 PM (+oqUV)

375 [Now, just to be clear, I am in no way CERTAIN that the bombing of Iran's Fordow (et al) nuclear facilities was a big hero-theater-show brilliantly designed (by Trump) to turn off the utterly misbegotten and preemptively-foundationless attacks by Israel on Iran.
SOME have claimed that Israel's out-of-the-blue attack was conducted because Witcoff (Trump's chief diplomat and negotiator) was showing excellent and promising progress at reaching a peaceful deal with Iran. - What?! Israel did this all in the hopes of getting the US to fight a war for Israel? Why, NO! That's just CYNICAL!

Anyway, there are no more ridiculous excuses to launch a war on Iran. Moreover, I (along with MILLIONS of other non-neocon Trump supporters) absolutely LOVE that fact.
Extremely well played, Mr. President. We should have never doubted you. Keep it up.]

Posted by: Bach In Black at June 25, 2025 04:07 PM (+oqUV)

376 Anyone else get the feeling the mad mullahs are going to make it through this crisis intact and in power?

Posted by: Pooklord at June 25, 2025 05:57 PM (asU3w)

377 Traitors should be tried, Convicted and Hanged

Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at June 25, 2025 06:22 PM (wGqjj)

New York City Chooses the Form of Its Destructor and It's (Check Notes) a Socialist Ex-Rapper (!) Who Supports Global Jihad
Update: One of His "Raps" Praised Five Convicted Terrorist Funders of Hamas

In the city that was struck by Al Qaeda on 9/11, notes David Strom.

Yesterday I wrongly wrote that this was the election. It was a mental typo. This isn't the election, just the Democrat primary, but the winner of the Democrat primary almost always wins the election, unless the Democrat candidate is so terrible that a Republican like Guiliani or an "independent" billionaire like Bloomberg can win.

Are we at that stage? Or does New York City want to go the way of Chicago?

zohransagenda.jpg

His political director is a supporter of... Luigi Mangione. Of course.

Guys -- he's going to solve the Food Desert Crisis (TM) by building state-owned, state-operated nonprofit grocery stores.

So that should make up for the open support of terrorism and political assassinations.

Update: Mamdani the Rapper released a track praising five convicted funders of Hamas.

Posted by: Ace at 12:11 PM




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1 st!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 25, 2025 12:12 PM (dPfyF)

2 The Others have been summoned.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 25, 2025 12:13 PM (dPfyF)

3 Our secret song click is...

BOC - Dominance and Submission

Posted by: New Name at June 25, 2025 12:13 PM (/lPRQ)

4 NYC is a meme. I don't think it's real anymore.

Posted by: brak at June 25, 2025 12:13 PM (jGJov)

5 Sadiq Khan wannabe.

Posted by: huerfano at June 25, 2025 12:13 PM (n2swS)

6 I'm just rooting for injuries.

The old school Democrats outright panicking and unloading on Mamdani, the SJW leftists trying to destroy Adams.

It should entertain me.

Let it be.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 25, 2025 12:14 PM (GBKbO)

7 Soon.

Posted by: Snake Plissken at June 25, 2025 12:14 PM (PiwSw)

8 This calls for Snake Plissken....

Posted by: It's me donna at June 25, 2025 12:14 PM (VE6XX)

9 New York-run food stores will be full of organic food with the only payments accepted will be state-issued food stamps with a rainbow coloring scheme.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at June 25, 2025 12:15 PM (vt7xw)

10 Yes. They should end cash bail. They should even give the criminals a $100 bill and a bottle of water when they walk out.

Posted by: fd at June 25, 2025 12:15 PM (vFG9F)

11 7 Soon.
Posted by: Snake Plissken at June 25, 2025 12:14 PM (PiwSw)

Beat me to it ..LOL

Posted by: It's me donna at June 25, 2025 12:15 PM (VE6XX)

12 Maybe he can propose to build a wall around NYC to keep MAGA Trumpists out.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at June 25, 2025 12:15 PM (Vh9CX)

13 I'm going back to Old York.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at June 25, 2025 12:15 PM (vt7xw)

14 Yesterday I wrongly wrote that this was the election. It was a mental typo. This isn't the election, just the Democrat primary, but the winner of the Democrat primary almost always wins the election, unless the Democrat candidate is so terrible that a Republican like Guiliani or an "independent" billionaire like Bloomberg can win.

Are we at that stage? Or does New York City want to go the way of Chicago?

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Adams, incumbent, is still running as an independent. The Republicans have a body in place.

Cuomo has apparently threatened to run as an independent (I guess NY has no sore loser law. I could look it up, but nah).

2-3 way Democrat split?

Gonna be hilarious.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 25, 2025 12:15 PM (GBKbO)

15 This calls for Snake Plissken....
Posted by: It's me donna at June 25, 2025 12:14 PM


This calls for a nuking from orbit.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 25, 2025 12:16 PM (dPfyF)

16 The fact that the Cuomo machine lost here really shows how much NYC has changed in the last 10 years.

Also, none of these people will be able to enact any of their agenda since the city is perpetually broke, and even more perpetually broke now with the "migrant crisis", as Eric Adams was kicked out of the D party for mentioning in public.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at June 25, 2025 12:16 PM (uCjyK)

17 Crap I hate getting willowed on a movie thread😀

Posted by: polynikes at June 25, 2025 12:16 PM (VofaG)

18 Will no one rid me of these troublesome AWFLs?

Posted by: the working class at June 25, 2025 12:16 PM (2IyVl)

19 New York Yanquis

Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at June 25, 2025 12:16 PM (w9Wax)

20 NYC is a meme. I don't think it's real anymore.
Posted by: brak

It joined Rhode Island?

Posted by: Bulg at June 25, 2025 12:16 PM (77rzZ)

21 He also wants to cut funding to the Police

Posted by: It's me donna at June 25, 2025 12:16 PM (VE6XX)

22 I gots some jihad for you right here, pal.

Posted by: Curtis Sliwa at June 25, 2025 12:16 PM (Y1sOo)

23 good thing 99% of us don't live in NYC. i couldn't care less. I hope they get it good and hard, like SF and Chicago, and Portland and Seattle.

you know, i used to live in Portland. I went there last week for a dinner at the fanciest restaurant in town. The building its in is one of the tallest in the city, and considered prime real estate. That building was worth $100 Million, 5 years ago. Its today for sale at $32 Million and I bet you could get it for $20-25 cash offer. This is what happens when you let socialists ruin your city. End storytime.

Posted by: YOHAN THE LIBRARIAN at June 25, 2025 12:16 PM (3TalN)

24 New York City Chooses the Form of Its Destructor


Nice.

Posted by: toby928 at June 25, 2025 12:16 PM (jc0TO)

25 If New Yorkers think food is too expensive now, wait until they find out how much it costs when it's free.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at June 25, 2025 12:16 PM (vt7xw)

26 Sometimes you just have to let the person threatening to jump....jump.

Good luck New York.

Posted by: Stateless.. 44% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back now at June 25, 2025 12:17 PM (jvJvP)

27 I know how we can reduce the cost of groceries! We raise taxes and subsidize groceries.

No problem, right? I mean, first, we just tax the heck out of the billionaires.

Oh, they left? No problem, weren't that many of them anyway. We'll raise taxes on the millionaires. Oh, they millionaires have now left? No problem, we can just raise taxes on the middle class.

....what do you mean there's no middle class left?

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at June 25, 2025 12:17 PM (tT6L1)

28 "He also wants to cut funding to the Police
Posted by: It's me donna "

Do it. Cut all the funding for the police.

Posted by: fd at June 25, 2025 12:17 PM (vFG9F)

29 24 New York City Chooses the Form of Its Destructor


Nice.
Posted by: toby928 at June 25, 2025 12:16 PM (jc0TO)

======

*nods sagaciously*

My Dinner with Andre.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 25, 2025 12:17 PM (GBKbO)

30 Escape from NY must be his favorite movie.

Posted by: polynikes at June 25, 2025 12:17 PM (VofaG)

31 How bad could a radical Leftist Muslim mayor be for a major city?

Posted by: London at June 25, 2025 12:17 PM (JCZqz)

32 "How much sweet cleansing fire are we going to need?"
"Yes."

Posted by: NR Pax at June 25, 2025 12:17 PM (BpO1e)

33 I tried to blank my mind but I just kept thinking of a Communist Moslem.

That used to scare me as a kid.

Posted by: toby928 at June 25, 2025 12:17 PM (jc0TO)

34 At this point, the pot is dry, the frogs are on fire and the smoke detector is blaring.

Posted by: Stu Podaso at June 25, 2025 12:17 PM (NUCav)

35 I'm going back to Old York.
Posted by: WitchDoktor at June 25, 2025 12:15 PM (vt7xw)
----------
Old York was pretty cool, back in the day. Can't say what it's like, these days.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at June 25, 2025 12:17 PM (XZ5S6)

36
And in case nobody has mentioned it, I would like to congratulate Curtis Sliwa, the Republican candidate for NYC Mayor for coming up with the moniker "Osama bin Lenin" to describe nepo baby failed rapper and socialist Mamdani."

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 25, 2025 08:27 AM (2GCMq)

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

And I thought Charlie Kirk's moniker "Mohammad Mao" was good ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Make Unconditional Surrender Great Again! at June 25, 2025 12:17 PM (VKJnD)

37 Who makes the free food?

Posted by: Boss Moss at June 25, 2025 12:17 PM (VAINm)

38 Sometimes you just have to let the person threatening to jump....jump.

Good luck New York.
---------
I've said that for decades now!

Posted by: David Lee Roth at June 25, 2025 12:18 PM (TN0g+)

39 Chicago? This is how Portland does things. You think they would be an example of what not to do.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at June 25, 2025 12:18 PM (AcTAo)

40 >>>
My Dinner with Andre.

Part 2

Dessert

Posted by: Hollywood! at June 25, 2025 12:18 PM (jGJov)

41 IS there another party left in NYC?

Posted by: eleven at June 25, 2025 12:18 PM (fV+MH)

42 They should just elect The Kingpin at these point.

Posted by: BruceWayne at June 25, 2025 12:18 PM (MGB5H)

43 40 >>>
My Dinner with Andre.

Part 2

Dessert
Posted by: Hollywood! at June 25, 2025 12:18 PM (jGJov)

=====

False.

My Dinner with Andre 2: In a restaurant in another city.

Dessert would be too different.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 25, 2025 12:19 PM (GBKbO)

44 I tried to blank my mind but I just kept thinking of a Communist Moslem.
---------
Add in "Kenyan" and you have Obama.

Posted by: Crusader at June 25, 2025 12:19 PM (TN0g+)

45 "state-owned, state-operated nonprofit grocery stores."

Far out, man!

Posted by: Nikolai Krushchev at June 25, 2025 12:19 PM (5zjm+)

46 He looks like a scammer.

Posted by: PG at June 25, 2025 12:19 PM (afPT4)

47 Welcome to planet shithead. No need to tip the waiter, he is a city property.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at June 25, 2025 12:19 PM (pohLc)

48 Republicans are always forced to own fringe candidates but democrats never are.

Posted by: Maroon at June 25, 2025 12:19 PM (kRhM/)

49 How much power does a mayor have?

Posted by: eleven at June 25, 2025 12:19 PM (fV+MH)

50 Sahara Dessert or Desert?

Posted by: Boss Moss at June 25, 2025 12:19 PM (VAINm)

51 Defund the fire department too.

Posted by: fd at June 25, 2025 12:19 PM (vFG9F)

52 i chased my shit pebbles with some diahrea, and it wasnt quite as good as i thought

Posted by: Aliassmithsmith at June 25, 2025 12:19 PM (SOEoh)

53 They should just elect The Kingpin at these point.
----------
Or The Penguin!

Posted by: Crusader at June 25, 2025 12:20 PM (TN0g+)

54 "What planet do these people live on?"

A planet where they are never criticized or scrutinized, and where they are praised for anything they say or do.

The Media shields them from everything.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at June 25, 2025 12:20 PM (WPL6O)

55 Does the mayor actually set tax policy, or the council/assembly?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 25, 2025 12:20 PM (BjH5D)

56
Imma gonna start calling it The Pig Apple.

Posted by: ShainS -- Make Unconditional Surrender Great Again! at June 25, 2025 12:20 PM (VKJnD)

57 Well, this will guarantee the continuation of my 30 year streak of not going to NYC.

Posted by: Muad'dib at June 25, 2025 12:20 PM (Ma1d1)

58 Add in "Kenyan" and you have Obama.
Posted by: Crusader

This joker was born in Uganda.

Posted by: Bulg at June 25, 2025 12:20 PM (77rzZ)

59 This is Federalism manifest.

Let a thousand cautionary examples bloom.

Posted by: toby928 at June 25, 2025 12:20 PM (jc0TO)

60 48 Republicans are always forced to own fringe candidates but democrats never are.
Posted by: Maroon at June 25, 2025 12:19 PM (kRhM/)

======

That's not really it.

The media and the DNC treat fringe Democrats as regular Democrats.

The media treats all Republicans as fringe Republicans. The RNC treats Republicans outside of the old boys' club as lunatics who must be destroyed.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 25, 2025 12:20 PM (GBKbO)

61 Maybe he can propose to build a wall around NYC to keep MAGA Trumpists out.
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at June 25, 2025 12:15 PM (Vh9CX)


That's assuming the rest of the country doesn't build a wall around NYC first.

Posted by: Dr. T at June 25, 2025 12:21 PM (jGGMD)

62 They should just elect The Kingpin at this point.
----------
Or The Penguin!
Posted by: Crusader at June 25, 2025 12:20 PM (TN0g+)

Unity Ticket!

Posted by: BruceWayne at June 25, 2025 12:21 PM (MGB5H)

63 Electing a Muslim in NYC 24 years after 9/11 seems a little late. I thought they would do it within 15 years.

Posted by: polynikes at June 25, 2025 12:21 PM (VofaG)

64 Old York was pretty cool, back in the day.


At least he wasn't gay, like that other Darren.

Posted by: Zombie Elizabeth Montgpmery at June 25, 2025 12:21 PM (w9Wax)

65 I mean, wouldn't it be city owned, city operated non-profit grocery stores?

Posted by: eleven at June 25, 2025 12:21 PM (fV+MH)

66 They should just elect The Kingpin at these point.
----------
Or The Penguin!
Posted by: Crusader at June 25, 2025 12:20 PM



Bane or bust.

Posted by: toby928 at June 25, 2025 12:21 PM (jc0TO)

67 Is that an open primary? What was the turnout? Was there cheating?

Posted by: gp Got Killa Bars at June 25, 2025 12:21 PM (5zjm+)

68 Afternoon Ace.
People didn't think Chicago could do worse than Mayor Groot, I give you Conehead Johnson
People didn't think NYC could do worse than Mayor DiBlasio, I give you possible Mayor Osama bin Lenin
There's a trend

Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 25, 2025 12:21 PM (pwtJC)

69 41 IS there another party left in NYC?
Posted by: eleven at June 25, 2025 12:18 PM (fV+MH)

Adams is running as an independent, and Cuomo may as well.

Then there is, of course, Curtis Silwa running as the R with his 27 cats and weird beret.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at June 25, 2025 12:21 PM (uCjyK)

70 >>>My Dinner with Andre 2: In a restaurant in another city.

Make it a gritty reboot. Here's $200 million.

Posted by: Hollywood! at June 25, 2025 12:21 PM (jGJov)

71 I never understood why Curtis Sliwa never got any traction as a candidate. I guess there aren't enough people like him in NYC anymore.

Posted by: Lady in Black at June 25, 2025 12:22 PM (qBdHI)

72 Sadiq Khan wannabe.
Posted by: huerfano at June 25, 2025 12:13 PM (n2swS)


I read that as Sukah Diq

Posted by: Doof at June 25, 2025 12:22 PM (B5+rm)

73 53 They should just elect The Kingpin at these point.
----------
Or The Penguin!

Posted by: Crusader at June 25, 2025 12:20 PM (TN0g+)

This was effectively the plot of this season's Daredevil...Kingpin wins the mayoral election because the city had become so bad and every other candidate was a joke...then he finds out what running NYC is like (while he has an easier time running his criminal scheme)...

Posted by: Nova Local at June 25, 2025 12:22 PM (tOcjL)

74 Bane or bust.
Posted by: toby928 at June 25, 2025 12:21 PM (jc0TO)
-----------
Do you feel like you're in control?

Posted by: Bane at June 25, 2025 12:22 PM (XZ5S6)

75 70 >>>My Dinner with Andre 2: In a restaurant in another city.

Make it a gritty reboot. Here's $200 million.
Posted by: Hollywood! at June 25, 2025 12:21 PM (jGJov)

=======

Wallace Shawn has to murder 37 people to get to the dinner with his bare hands?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 25, 2025 12:22 PM (GBKbO)

76 What will be the name of these stores?

EmptyMart?

The Puny Pantry?

Posted by: WitchDoktor at June 25, 2025 12:22 PM (vt7xw)

77 53 They should just elect The Kingpin at these point.
----------
Or The Penguin!
Posted by: Crusader at June 25, 2025 12:20 PM (TN0g+)

You'll get the un-named scrunt on the other side of the Daily News office looking over at Lois Lane disapprovingly because she has a new top on and she's banging the new guy.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 25, 2025 12:22 PM (BjH5D)

78 Gov't-run grocery stores? Holodo-mart.

Posted by: t-bird at June 25, 2025 12:22 PM (MkLs2)

79 Imma gonna start calling it The Pig Apple.
Posted by: ShainS -- Make Unconditional Surrender Great Again! at June 25, 2025 12:20 PM


You don't think we actually like apples, do you, comrade?

Posted by: Osama bin Lenin at June 25, 2025 12:22 PM (dPfyF)

80 Who?

The vibe in NYC is that nobody knows or cares who the mayor is. Rudy Giuliani is the last mayor anyone cared about -- or actually voted for -- and to a lesser extent Bloomberg. Since then, it's pure machine politics with radical leftwing shitburgers.

Mamdani is a radical nutjob, but he's no further left than Bill Soviet or, to a lesser extent, Adams. And some members of the cursed city council are worse.

I hope this opens the door for a Republican to sneak in a win, but I doubt it. The rich NYers don't care because it doesn't affect them. The poor sell their votes. Nothing changes.

Posted by: (There Can Be Only One) Elric Blade at June 25, 2025 12:22 PM (iFTx/)

81 What would be the incentive to do a good job in a non profit?

Posted by: Boss Moss at June 25, 2025 12:22 PM (VAINm)

82 28 "He also wants to cut funding to the Police
Posted by: It's me donna "

Do it. Cut all the funding for the police.
Posted by: fd

No, I heard his speech. He wants to help police, criminals, the mentally ill...everyone! Police can focus on the few serious violent crimes that occur, and some new force of mediators will help the poor and mentally ill that are driven to victimless crime. What could possibly go wrong?

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at June 25, 2025 12:22 PM (JCZqz)

83 Maybe we could get some rooftop Koreans on top of the Metropolitan Museum of Art ... just in case, you know...

Posted by: Adriane the Monday Critic on Wednesday . . . with a Camel. . . at June 25, 2025 12:22 PM (cfyxU)

84 Would you want a Political Director that approves of political assassinations?

I mean...
you are pretty much giving your opposition an invitation to kill you, aren't you?

Posted by: garrett at June 25, 2025 12:23 PM (ASFuz)

85 Come on Ace. We need a world class rant with a catchy moniker for this guy.

Posted by: pawn at June 25, 2025 12:23 PM (fNvKA)

86 I bet Cuomo is wondering where his alleged mojo went.

Humiliating.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 25, 2025 12:23 PM (Q4IgG)

87 I wonder if this will cause Staten Island to restart its decades-long campaign to secede from the city.

Posted by: Dr. T at June 25, 2025 12:23 PM (jGGMD)

88 Holodo-mart.
Posted by: t-bird at June 25, 2025 12:22 PM


Threadwinner!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 25, 2025 12:23 PM (dPfyF)

89 Whoever runs against him, should drive a wedge between his Jihadi supporters and his LGBTQXYZ Wokie radical supporters. His Islamic views are incompatible with his LGTBQXYZ support. Make him own it.

Posted by: Iblis at June 25, 2025 12:23 PM (9221z)

90 71 I never understood why Curtis Sliwa never got any traction as a candidate. I guess there aren't enough people like him in NYC anymore.

Posted by: Lady in Black at June 25, 2025 12:22 PM (qBdHI)

He has an R by his name...

Posted by: Nova Local at June 25, 2025 12:23 PM (tOcjL)

91
Man: But this is only the primary!
Bane: Now is not the time for fear, that comes later.

Posted by: toby928 at June 25, 2025 12:23 PM (jc0TO)

92 Did turnout get above single digits? Hard for me to have any sympathy for people who can't be bothered to show up to vote.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at June 25, 2025 12:23 PM (2UnvF)

93 His grocery store ad reeks of used car salesman.

He even used the meme line:

“So we can pass on those savings… to you.” (Points at camera)

How low must your IQ be to fall for this shit?
Sub 70?

He’ll probably win in a landslide.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at June 25, 2025 12:23 PM (6ydKt)

94 76 What will be the name of these stores?

EmptyMart?

The Puny Pantry?

Posted by: WitchDoktor at June 25, 2025 12:22 PM (vt7xw)

Desert Aisles

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 25, 2025 12:23 PM (BjH5D)

95 And this crap is going to spread. LA, NY, Chicago. Other major cities are lefty, but not necessarily commie.
And like all shithole cities, they will fail and the rest of the county/state will be required to fund the failure.

Posted by: Diogenes at June 25, 2025 12:23 PM (W/lyH)

96 A collapsed tower in every pot.

Posted by: ... at June 25, 2025 12:23 PM (sfdl6)

97 So he wants Soviet style grocery stores.

Narod

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 25, 2025 12:24 PM (9nkAn)

98 49 How much power does a mayor have?
Posted by: eleven at June 25, 2025 12:19 PM (fV+MH)

Theoretically a decent amount. In practice -- hard to say. NYC may not be as corrupt as Chicago (debatable), but there are certainly deeply entrenched systems of power going back to the Tammany Hall days.

If he tries to cut the NYPD budget, for example, he'll have a big showdown with the police union. Who will prevail? I don't know. But DeBlasio certainly learned the hard way that he didn't have the power he thought he did during his term. Wasted a lot of money and said a lot of dumb shit, but ultimately wasn't able to enact most of the agenda he said he wanted to enact.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at June 25, 2025 12:24 PM (uCjyK)

99 My Dinner with Andre 2: In a restaurant in another city.

Waiting for Guffman.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at June 25, 2025 12:24 PM (WPL6O)

100 I believe he also said he will make the city bus service fast and free, so y'all have that to look forward to.

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at June 25, 2025 12:24 PM (JCZqz)

101 80 I hope this opens the door for a Republican to sneak in a win, but I doubt it. The rich NYers don't care because it doesn't affect them. The poor sell their votes. Nothing changes.
Posted by: (There Can Be Only One) Elric Blade at June 25, 2025 12:22 PM (iFTx/)
=======

Apparently the poor voted for Cuomo and the rich voted for Mamdami.

I finally looked it up, and NY does not have a sore loser law, so if the rumor that Cuomo is going to run as an independent is true, that could split the Democrat vote three ways between Mamdani, Cuomo, and Adams.

Could be interesting.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 25, 2025 12:24 PM (GBKbO)

102 New York will be destroyed oh no!!!

Anyway....

Posted by: ... at June 25, 2025 12:24 PM (sfdl6)

103 Hilarious if it weren't so sick. I give NY six months after November.

Posted by: Ordinary Amerian at June 25, 2025 12:24 PM (w6syA)

104 When rent prices and real estate values go down, only then will we know that people do not want to live in NYC
Posted by: Aliassmithsmith at June 25, 2025 12:19 PM (SOEoh)

Are you fucking retarded . Rent Control makes rents high everyone except millionaires and the projects commute to Manhattan.

Posted by: polynikes at June 25, 2025 12:24 PM (VofaG)

105 VOTE VANCE!

Posted by: Sid at June 25, 2025 12:24 PM (2zGcv)

106 The Walking Dead, Dead City.

Posted by: Boss Moss at June 25, 2025 12:24 PM (VAINm)

107 What will be the name of these stores?
EmptyMart?
The Puny Pantry?
Posted by: WitchDoktor

Griftedes

Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at June 25, 2025 12:25 PM (w9Wax)

108

Vote Papoon! Not Insane!

Posted by: Papoon Not Insane at June 25, 2025 12:25 PM (D7oie)

109 What will be the name of these stores?

EmptyMart?

The Puny Pantry?

Posted by: WitchDoktor at June 25, 2025 12:22 PM (vt7xw)
-------
GUM.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at June 25, 2025 12:25 PM (XZ5S6)

110 94 76 What will be the name of these stores?

EmptyMart?

The Puny Pantry?

Posted by: WitchDoktor at June 25, 2025 12:22 PM (vt7xw)

Desert Aisles

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 25, 2025 12:23 PM (BjH5D)

OUT. FUCKING. STANDING.

Posted by: Tex Lovera at June 25, 2025 12:25 PM (wtvvX)

111 I kept expecting that ad to end with the World's Smallest Juicer, if you act now.

Posted by: Eeyore at June 25, 2025 12:25 PM (od0dV)

112 He talks about sending mental health specialists to many crimes instead of cops. The first time a mental health specialist is stabbed their union will rebel against the Mayor

Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 25, 2025 12:25 PM (pwtJC)

113 And in case nobody has mentioned it, I would like to congratulate Curtis Sliwa, the Republican candidate for NYC Mayor for coming up with the moniker "Osama bin Lenin" to describe nepo baby failed rapper and socialist Mamdani."

Posted by: FenelonSpoke

Local radio guy in big heap trouble with a slip of the tongue and
"Obama bin Biden" came out.
This was when they were running against McCain.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at June 25, 2025 12:25 PM (/lPRQ)

114 104 Are you fucking retarded . Rent Control makes rents high everyone except millionaires and the projects commute to Manhattan.
Posted by: polynikes at June 25, 2025 12:24 PM (VofaG)

======

1. Don't quote the trolls. You can quote his amended comments, though.

2. Socialism will finally be done right.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 25, 2025 12:25 PM (GBKbO)

115 >>“So we can pass on those savings… to you.”


The 1-2% profits?

How much you gonna pay your employees at this fictional grocery store?

Posted by: garrett at June 25, 2025 12:25 PM (ASFuz)

116 Sid, you ignorant slut.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at June 25, 2025 12:25 PM (2UnvF)

117 Hope they get their decision good and hard

Posted by: Skip at June 25, 2025 12:25 PM (+qU29)

118 I can't wait to see organized crime groups tied to Osama bin Lenin loot his grocery stores then sell the products down the street for X2.

Posted by: 18-1 at June 25, 2025 12:25 PM (t0Rmr)

119 So he wants Soviet style grocery stores.

Narod
Posted by: Anna Puma at June 25, 2025 12:24 PM


Blyat!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 25, 2025 12:25 PM (dPfyF)

120
If Mamdani wins the actual mayoral race, all bridges going in and out of NYC should be blown up, air space closed and let the "socialism" bloom but not spread. Let them live in their Utopian socialism and ignore the screams and stories leaking out of the city.

Posted by: Frank Barone at June 25, 2025 12:26 PM (IifOV)

121 The People's Pantry

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 25, 2025 12:26 PM (9nkAn)

122 GUM.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at June 25, 2025 12:25 PM


ISWYDT

Posted by: toby928 at June 25, 2025 12:26 PM (jc0TO)

123 Apparently the poor voted for Cuomo and the rich voted for Mamdami.

I finally looked it up, and NY does not have a sore loser law, so if the rumor that Cuomo is going to run as an independent is true, that could split the Democrat vote three ways between Mamdani, Cuomo, and Adams.

Could be interesting.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 25, 2025 12:24 PM (GBKbO)

It is also ranked choice voting...Silwa should try to get the other 3 candidates voters to rank him 2nd...he might have enough R votes to finish 3rd at 1st...and he could climb the mountain using 2nd place voting...

Posted by: Nova Local at June 25, 2025 12:26 PM (tOcjL)

124 Come on Ace. We need a world class rant with a catchy moniker for this guy.
Posted by: pawn


Someone here called him Osama bin Stalin.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 25, 2025 12:27 PM (zSKXS)

125 Serfway.

Posted by: Bulg at June 25, 2025 12:27 PM (77rzZ)

126 "He talks about sending mental health specialists to many crimes instead of cops."

Has this guy *never* watched bodycam vids before?

Posted by: gp Got Killa Bars at June 25, 2025 12:27 PM (5zjm+)

127 No, I heard his speech. He wants to help police, criminals, the mentally ill...everyone! Police can focus on the few serious violent crimes that occur, and some new force of mediators will help the poor and mentally ill that are driven to victimless crime. What could possibly go wrong?
Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at June 25, 2025 12:22 PM (JCZqz)

Yeah, DeBlasio tried that as well. Or at least, claimed to try it while burning billions of dollars on corruption.

Turns out, 23 year old girls with social worker degrees making $20 an hour for "homeless outreach" don't really want to get involved when schizophrenic homeless people covered in their own shit are throwing garbage around on the subway platform.

Neither do the cops, for that matter.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at June 25, 2025 12:27 PM (uCjyK)

128
What's the difference between this guy and Obama?

About 17 years.

Posted by: ... at June 25, 2025 12:27 PM (sfdl6)

129 As goes Europe voting in Muslim mayor, they will follow that path here

Posted by: Skip at June 25, 2025 12:27 PM (+qU29)

130 New York City Chooses the Form of Its Destructor

The Stay-Poor Muzz Mayor Man?

Posted by: mikeski at June 25, 2025 12:27 PM (nQXv1)

131 If Mamdani wins the actual mayoral race, all bridges going in and out of NYC should be blown up, air space closed and let the "socialism" bloom but not spread. Let them live in their Utopian socialism and ignore the screams and stories leaking out of the city.
Posted by: Frank Barone at June 25, 2025 12:26 PM (IifOVM

We call this Project Bane.

Posted by: BruceWayne at June 25, 2025 12:27 PM (MGB5H)

132 If new yorkers can get groceries at government grocery stores, they will be willing to pay any price.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at June 25, 2025 12:27 PM (17s+e)

133 We are about to go full circle here people:

2021-2024: There is no increase in food prices, it is all a lie. There is no inflation and the president and his policies have nothing to do with food prices.

2025: Trump is raising the cost of your food by, uh, doing Trump things so we need government run stores!

2026: Obviously Trump-flation is raising the costs at the government run food stores and that's why they are so expensive.

Posted by: 18-1 at June 25, 2025 12:27 PM (t0Rmr)

134 @86 Cuomo's mojo went into the grave with tens of thousands of dead elderly people

Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 25, 2025 12:28 PM (pwtJC)

135 "88 Holodo-mart.
Posted by: t-bird at June 25, 2025 12:22 PM

Threadwinner!"

Concur. It's gold!

Posted by: gp Got Killa Bars at June 25, 2025 12:28 PM (5zjm+)

136 Cuomo and Silwa need to back Adams like we did in the Houston Mayors race to stop Sheila Jackson Lee.

Posted by: polynikes at June 25, 2025 12:28 PM (VofaG)

137 I used to work for a smallish grocery store chain. We made $120M/yr, on $1.4B in sales.

Posted by: toby928 at June 25, 2025 12:28 PM (jc0TO)

138 123
It is also ranked choice voting...Silwa should try to get the other 3 candidates voters to rank him 2nd...he might have enough R votes to finish 3rd at 1st...and he could climb the mountain using 2nd place voting...
Posted by: Nova Local at June 25, 2025 12:26 PM (tOcjL)

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Only the primary and special elections are RCV. The general will be regular voting.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 25, 2025 12:28 PM (GBKbO)

139 Guess the people of New York City do not realize:

He who controls the food controls the people.

Only the Quezachatract can save them then.

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 25, 2025 12:28 PM (9nkAn)

140 Mao Tse Mamdani

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at June 25, 2025 12:29 PM (17s+e)

141 134 @86 Cuomo's mojo went into the grave with tens of thousands of dead elderly people
Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 25, 2025 12:28 PM (pwtJC)

You never bounce back from nipple-rings.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 25, 2025 12:29 PM (BjH5D)

142 Local radio guy in big heap trouble with a slip of the tongue and
"Obama bin Biden" came out.
This was when they were running against McCain.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher

Didn't Teddy Kennedy once refer to Dogeater as "Barack Osama?" I seem to remember Rush playing audio of that.

Posted by: Bulg at June 25, 2025 12:29 PM (77rzZ)

143 The only reason that grocery chains can survive is merchandise turnover. You literally sell the item before you have to Net60 pay for it.

Posted by: toby928 at June 25, 2025 12:29 PM (jc0TO)

144 Socialism will finally be done right.

Got into a discussion on FB with a woman who truly believed that socialism was a perfect system.

I told her this: "The difference between me and you is that you look at something like this and ask 'How does it make me feel?' I look at it and say 'What is the end result?' "

Posted by: NR Pax at June 25, 2025 12:29 PM (BpO1e)

145 There is a museum in NYC just on the history of NYC. It's a great museum, but it's super lefty. They have a video on the history of NYC, narrated by Stanley Tucci, and when they get to the Giuliani era, pretty much nothing about Giuliani. They can't even have the stones to honor him as the mayor that cleaned up New York. They say that the people "took their city back," or something, to hand wave away how NYC went from gritty lawlessness to one of the safest large metropolitans in the world.

If New Yorkers refuse to learn their own history, so they don't repeat the mistakes of the past, I can't help them. They are going to learn these lessons again, hard. God help them all.

Posted by: LizLem at June 25, 2025 12:30 PM (gWBY1)

146 "I used to work for a smallish grocery store chain. We made $120M/yr, on $1.4B in sales."

IDNKT! I always heard it was a low margin business, like 1%-2%.

Posted by: gp Got Killa Bars at June 25, 2025 12:30 PM (5zjm+)

147 What will be the name of these stores?
EmptyMart?
The Puny Pantry?
Posted by: WitchDoktor



Konsum Markt, or maybe Tiendas Caribe

Posted by: Papoon Not Insane at June 25, 2025 12:30 PM (D7oie)

148 Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 25, 2025 12:25 PM (GBKbO)

Thanks for your permission and instructions.

FO

Posted by: polynikes at June 25, 2025 12:30 PM (VofaG)

149 It's a pity.

I went to NYC back in '05 and really enjoyed it then. Could even see myself living there, under the right circumstances. Now it's just a garbage heap.

As with most large cities, I don't see any real solution, short of deporting two-thirds of the residents and leaving the remaining third under probation.

Posted by: Dr. T at June 25, 2025 12:30 PM (jGGMD)

150 144 Socialism will finally be done right.

Got into a discussion on FB with a woman who truly believed that socialism was a perfect system.

I told her this: "The difference between me and you is that you look at something like this and ask 'How does it make me feel?' I look at it and say 'What is the end result?' "
Posted by: NR Pax at June 25, 2025 12:29 PM (BpO1e)

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"I cannot believe that you think that great thinkers like Pol Pot, educated at the Sorbonne, got socialism wrong. Are you a fucking racist?"

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 25, 2025 12:30 PM (GBKbO)

151 I hope this opens the door for a Republican to sneak in a win, but I doubt it. The rich NYers don't care because it doesn't affect them. The poor sell their votes. Nothing changes.
Posted by: (There Can Be Only One) Elric Blade at June 25, 2025 12:22 PM (iFTx/)
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Apparently the poor voted for Cuomo and the rich voted for Mamdami.

I finally looked it up, and NY does not have a sore loser law, so if the rumor that Cuomo is going to run as an independent is true, that could split the Democrat vote three ways between Mamdani, Cuomo, and Adams.

Could be interesting.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 25, 2025 12:24 PM (GBKbO)
______

Meh. I doubt many people voluntarily voted in this primary. The primary election was stolen by the machine. No surprises there. There's also some evidence that yuge Chinese money flowed in to prop up this goatfucker. Also, not surprised.

A three-way could be interesting, but if the machine for whatever reason wants this sand maggot to win, he will. It doesn't help that the best competition he has is the loathed Cuomo and the hated Adams.

Posted by: (There Can Be Only One) Elric Blade at June 25, 2025 12:30 PM (iFTx/)

152 In retrospect, I guess I shouldn't have killed all those people.

Posted by: Andrew Cuomo at June 25, 2025 12:31 PM (2UnvF)

153 Tucci got in some hot water recently because he went to Italy and bitched about them not being trans-friendly. I guess Stan had to pay extra for his ladyboy that night

Posted by: 18-1 at June 25, 2025 12:31 PM (t0Rmr)

154 40% of NYC residents were born outside the USA.
That's why none of this idiocy is surprising.

Posted by: J R EWING at June 25, 2025 12:31 PM (R6Hhu)

155 Serfway.
Posted by: Bulg at June 25, 2025 12:27 PM



I'm choking to death here.

Posted by: toby928 at June 25, 2025 12:31 PM (jc0TO)

156 Would you want a Political Director that approves of political assassinations?

I mean...
you are pretty much giving your opposition an invitation to kill you, aren't you?
Posted by: garrett at June 25, 2025 12:23 PM (ASFuz)

Cromulent point. They are not deep thinkers.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 25, 2025 12:31 PM (Hyyh7)

157 Gooderer and harderer NY

Posted by: steevy at June 25, 2025 12:31 PM (YwEeS)

158 update: this "rapper" released a track praising five convicted funders of Hamas.

Posted by: ace at June 25, 2025 12:31 PM (KRtlO)

159 I told her this: "The difference between me and you is that you look at something like this and ask 'How does it make me feel?' I look at it and say 'What is the end result?' "
Posted by: NR Pax at June 25, 2025 12:29 PM (BpO1e)
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What did she say to that?

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at June 25, 2025 12:31 PM (XZ5S6)

160 Osama Bin Mamdani

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at June 25, 2025 12:31 PM (17s+e)

161 148 Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 25, 2025 12:25 PM (GBKbO)

Thanks for your permission and instructions.

FO
Posted by: polynikes at June 25, 2025 12:30 PM (VofaG)

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CBD calls it out when he sees it. I'm just parroting him.

Lack of attention is best when dealing with trolls. They show up to stir shit up. Deny them that.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 25, 2025 12:31 PM (GBKbO)

162 There are a couple nuances attached to this election. First, Cuomo was convinced he could use the NYC Mayor position to catapult himself into a serious Dem. candidate for president in 2028. This is why he won't slink away and will, most definitely, try the Independent route.

Mamdani has already stated that one of his ultimate goals is to increase the NYC corporate tax from about 7% up to about 12%. This will initiate an escalation to an already present Exodus.

Cuomo, Eric Adams (also likely to run as an independent) and Curtis Sliwa will split the vote to some extent. Additionally, while he should stay quiet, Trump is going to pontificate on Mamdani and solidify the "Orange Man Bad" Democrats. The result is not only a win for Mandami, but a major win.

Then the fun begins. I place a socialist Muslim NYC mayor up in the same category as "trans" muscular males beating the ever living hell out of female athletes as a form of distractive entertainment. How bad can it get? How stupid and self-serving will it be? Who's going to ironically take the punch(s) in the gut after assuring the election win? Oh, so much to enjoy. And, it effects me not a lick.

Posted by: Orson at June 25, 2025 12:31 PM (dIske)

163 Dallas is calling on line one to accept all the financial capital fleeing NYC.

Posted by: Black JEM at June 25, 2025 12:31 PM (GZYu7)

164 When rent prices and real estate values go down, only then will we know that people do not want to live in NYC
Posted by: Aliassmithsmith at June 25, 2025 12:19 PM (SOEoh)

Are you fucking retarded . Rent Control makes rents high everyone except millionaires and the projects commute to Manhattan.
Posted by: polynikes at June 25, 2025 12:24 PM (VofaG)

a) I don't think that's what he's saying -- I think he's saying the only proof we'll have of people fleeing NYC are when rents stop going up (or begin to go down, like in early COVID.) That hasn't happened, although I'd argue that's largely driven by the ungodly number of immigrants who showed up here in the last 4-5 years.

b) I'm not a millionaire, and I live in Manhattan, as do many of my friends. And I don't live in the projects. Lots of normal people live in Manhattan. But yes, it is not exactly cheap, although the suburbs aren't much cheaper. You get more space for slightly less money in the burbs, but then you have to pay for LIRR or Metro North, and your commute can be significantly longer, especially if your office isnt near grand central or penn.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at June 25, 2025 12:31 PM (uCjyK)

165 Reasons to live in NYC

1) You have too much money
2) You enjoy being mugged
3) You find the smell of hobo-piss tanatalizing

Posted by: 18-1 at June 25, 2025 12:31 PM (t0Rmr)

166 Maybe we can give it back to the Indians.

They won't even need to return the $24 worth of beads.

Posted by: Bulg at June 25, 2025 12:31 PM (77rzZ)

167 Electing a Muslim in NYC 24 years after 9/11 seems a little late. I thought they would do it within 15 years.
Posted by: polynikes at June 25, 2025 12:21 PM (VofaG)

The country elected a Muslim as president 5 years after 9/11.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at June 25, 2025 12:32 PM (5xuJ/)

168
Mamdani 2025: Stay Calm and Everything Will Be Okay

Posted by: ... at June 25, 2025 12:32 PM (sfdl6)

169 Gov't-run grocery stores? Holodo-mart.
Posted by: t-bird

Halal food only.

To ensure fairness everyone has to order on-line... Oddly it's always sold out and the only people seen picking up are wearing burkhas.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at June 25, 2025 12:32 PM (/lPRQ)

170 Shoes for Industry!

Posted by: Papoon at June 25, 2025 12:32 PM (z6nhH)

171 The country elected a Muslim as president 5 years after 9/11.
Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at June 25, 2025 12:32 PM (5xuJ/)

Forget it he's rolling

Posted by: ... at June 25, 2025 12:33 PM (sfdl6)

172 Here at NYC Government Food Distribution Center (GFCD) #43, we proudly use DEI practices to equitably distribute fair trade responsibly sourced sustenance based on collective need. Please complete these 7 forms, sign and return them to the local GFCD Adjudication Board, who will them determine your equitable place in the sustenance ticketing based on race, income, LBGTQ++ and disability status within the next 4-6 weeks.

Thank you for your cooperation.

Posted by: NYC Bureaucrat #36548464 at June 25, 2025 12:33 PM (jGJov)

173 isn't the typical vote turnout in NYC in single digits?

Posted by: DanMan at June 25, 2025 12:33 PM (8uzBS)

174 It occurs to me all these policies in favor of criminals are popular in NYC because the average citizen in NYC knows the work they do bears no relation to the income they make. They all know deep down they are scammers and it all flows from the corrupt financial system on down

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at June 25, 2025 12:33 PM (Vh9CX)

175 "Serfway.
Posted by: Bulg at June 25, 2025 12:27 PM"

Perfect!

Posted by: gp Got Killa Bars at June 25, 2025 12:33 PM (5zjm+)

176 After what NY has done to him, yes Trump will be pleased to help this crazy fuck win

Posted by: steevy at June 25, 2025 12:33 PM (YwEeS)

177 Posted by: Sid at June 25, 2025 12:24 PM (2zGcv)

https://tinyurl.com/mt5wpp9c

Posted by: far cry at June 25, 2025 12:34 PM (icg0u)

178 What did she say to that?
Posted by: Captain Obvious


The thread was deleted and the relative whose page it was told me that he didn't appreciate me saying what I did.

Posted by: NR Pax at June 25, 2025 12:34 PM (BpO1e)

179 Cuomo's mojo went into the grave with tens of thousands of dead elderly people
Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 25, 2025 12:28 PM (pwtJC)


Tom Luongo calls it the "Manila Envelope Quotient (MEQ)"
it is how thick of a manila envelope that gets slapped down on the desk with the comment, "I own you now"

I expect Cuomo took the sexual harassment exit because someone had a lot of dirt on him that was worse than sexual harassment.

Posted by: Papoon Not Insane at June 25, 2025 12:34 PM (D7oie)

180 "Nepotism and hard work goes a long way." -- the future socialist mayor of NYC

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=d4wENuZqEzo

He also blatantly admits he's an empty suit just spouting what the people want to hear. That as an actor he learned to give people what they want. Ugh, educated liberals are the worst fools. They refuse to see what an actual tool this idiot is.

Posted by: LizLem at June 25, 2025 12:34 PM (gWBY1)

181 I hope Governor DeSantis has a plan to dissuade all the fleeing New Yorkers from coming down here

Posted by: weew at June 25, 2025 12:34 PM (EaEMG)

182 Fun fact: the gay Muslim Communist has massive support from the ultra-rich (especially Brooklyn Jewish hipsters, because the crocodile will *totally* eat them last) and almost zero from the working class.

Posted by: Ian S. at June 25, 2025 12:35 PM (2ocoG)

183 Government store name, Rats R Us

Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 25, 2025 12:35 PM (pwtJC)

184 Cuomo, Eric Adams (also likely to run as an independent) and Curtis Sliwa will split the vote to some extent. Additionally, while he should stay quiet, Trump is going to pontificate on Mamdani and solidify the "Orange Man Bad" Democrats. The result is not only a win for Mandami, but a major win.

Then the fun begins. I place a socialist Muslim NYC mayor up in the same category as "trans" muscular males beating the ever living hell out of female athletes as a form of distractive entertainment. How bad can it get? How stupid and self-serving will it be? Who's going to ironically take the punch(s) in the gut after assuring the election win? Oh, so much to enjoy. And, it effects me not a lick.

Posted by: Orson at June 25, 2025 12:31 PM (dIske)
==
This actually helps MAGA. The crazier and more dangerous the left looks, the more people run away from them.

Posted by: Black JEM at June 25, 2025 12:35 PM (GZYu7)

185 154 40% of NYC residents were born outside the USA.
That's why none of this idiocy is surprising.
Posted by: J R EWING at June 25, 2025 12:31 PM (R6Hhu)

Correct. Plays a huge role in it.

And politics in NYC is very corrupt. I guarantee that many people were paid for the votes either in actual cash or in promises for grants to their "communities" or any other number of ways. And most of these people come from countries with no history of honest voting, if voting exists at all.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at June 25, 2025 12:35 PM (uCjyK)

186 OK, spoiler: Papoon was actually insane

Posted by: Kindltot at June 25, 2025 12:35 PM (D7oie)

187 Mamdani 2025: Stay Calm and Everything Will Be Okay
Posted by: ... at June 25, 2025 12:32 PM (sfdl6)


Mamdani 2026: Allahu Akbar!

Posted by: Dr. T at June 25, 2025 12:35 PM (jGGMD)

188 So NY city wants a Jew hating, illegal loving Mayor ? What could go wrong ?Time for States to load up their busses with "migrants" and ship em' to NY City

Posted by: It's me donna at June 25, 2025 12:35 PM (VE6XX)

189
1) You have too much money
2) You enjoy being mugged
3) You find the smell of hobo-piss tanatalizing


Mardi Gras is 8 months out

Posted by: DanMan at June 25, 2025 12:36 PM (8uzBS)

190 If he becomes Mayor, it could be great for Texas. More and more talk about how "Y'all Street", the trading exchanges based in Dallas, could become the new center of Finance for the country, as New York firms bail out of NYC and move.
Texas has already put in place some very corporation and trading friendly laws, and the move will be quite profitable for them.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 25, 2025 12:36 PM (uWKK8)

191 New Yorkers should come down to the mouth of the rat.

Posted by: Boss Moss at June 25, 2025 12:36 PM (VAINm)

192 Funniest NYC story I have was a former co-worker who was contacted by their court system for back child support. A little investigation revealed that the only way he could have been the father was if he'd impregnated the mother when he was seven.

Helped him write out a professional response to Child Services that boiled down to "See you in court if you try to pursue this."

Posted by: NR Pax at June 25, 2025 12:36 PM (BpO1e)

193 In a town near me they are going to vote on allowing non-citizens to vote. In the thread discussing it on farcebook everyone is in favor...and every one of them is a non-citizen too

Posted by: 18-1 at June 25, 2025 12:37 PM (t0Rmr)

194 Holodo-mart.
Posted by: t-bird at June 25, 2025 12:22 PM

Threadwinner!
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 25, 2025 12:23 PM

Mother Hubbard's

Posted by: Taq, Rickrolled by Jesus at June 25, 2025 12:37 PM (Dxdzg)

195 Too bad. NYC was an interesting place to visit decades ago.

Posted by: Cosda at June 25, 2025 12:37 PM (lQ23K)

196
This is one of those times when reality really should follow the cheap irony of a Hollywood movie script, like-

Mamdani lets Luigi Mangione out of jail.

Then the next day, Mangione shoots Mamdani in the back and kills him.

Then NYC voters write in Mangione's name on the ballot and wind up electing him mayor.

Posted by: naturalfake at June 25, 2025 12:37 PM (iJfKG)

197 173 isn't the typical vote turnout in NYC in single digits?
Posted by: DanMan at June 25, 2025 12:33 PM (8uzBS)

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Total registered voters in NYC: 5 million. 3.3 million are Democrats.

Total votes in yesterday's Democrat primary: just over 1 million.

So, roughly 1/3 turnout.

The 2021 primary had about 800,000 votes, as a point of comparison.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 25, 2025 12:37 PM (GBKbO)

198 So NY city wants a Jew hating, illegal loving Mayor ? What could go wrong ?Time for States to load up their busses with "migrants" and ship em' to NY City
Posted by: It's me donna at June 25, 2025 12:35 PM (VE6XX)

Time for states to start banning "refugees" from nyc. Or at least limiting their ability own property or vote in their new locale.

Posted by: BruceWayne at June 25, 2025 12:37 PM (MGB5H)

199 Shop Left

Posted by: ... at June 25, 2025 12:37 PM (sfdl6)

200 188 So NY city wants a Jew hating, illegal loving Mayor ? What could go wrong ?Time for States to load up their busses with "migrants" and ship em' to NY City
Posted by: It's me donna at June 25, 2025 12:35 PM (VE6XX)

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Donna, you've been making a lot of sense. That's what I would do if I were, let's say, DeSantis.

Posted by: Seems Legit at June 25, 2025 12:37 PM (PMtkd)

201
Jimmy "The Rent is too damn high" McMillan should step up and run and dilute some of Mamdani's voters.

Posted by: Frank Barone at June 25, 2025 12:38 PM (IifOV)

202 NYC Mayor - "You will like your fried grasshoppers or else."

Seinfeld, "I miss the soup Nazi."

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 25, 2025 12:38 PM (9nkAn)

203 It's a write off, Jerry.

Posted by: Boss Moss at June 25, 2025 12:39 PM (VAINm)

204 Kwame Mart or K-Mart!

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 25, 2025 12:39 PM (9nkAn)

205 If Mamdani is gay a campaign should start to tell Muslims "you're flag is being carried by a fagala. You're all a bunch of fruits" . Let the Muzzies handle it.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 25, 2025 12:39 PM (pwtJC)

206 Zombie David Dinkins says "whew...not the worst"

Posted by: man at June 25, 2025 12:39 PM (tubbA)

207 It's a bit late but there is still time to wall NYC in like in Escape from New York

Posted by: steevy at June 25, 2025 12:39 PM (YwEeS)

208 174 It occurs to me all these policies in favor of criminals are popular in NYC because the average citizen in NYC knows the work they do bears no relation to the income they make. They all know deep down they are scammers and it all flows from the corrupt financial system on down
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at June 25, 2025 12:33 PM (Vh9CX)

I don't think most people care or pay attention. The rich mostly don't live here full time anyways and they obviously have drivers to take them around, they don't use public transportation.

The poor (American citizens) think it's all fake and gay anyways and they just want to get whatever scraps they can get.

The immigrants are just trying to get some money in their own pocket from the government.

And the middle class / upper middle class are mostly liberal-leaning on paper, but they just roll their eyes at the corruption.

No one runs a real campaign on real ideas. Every ad is "I'm going to make your rent cheaper!" or "I'm going to stop e-bike delivery drivers from driving like maniacs!" or other completely empty promises.

Turnout rates in city elections are typically very low for those reasons.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at June 25, 2025 12:39 PM (uCjyK)

209 New York!

New York!

It's a hell.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at June 25, 2025 12:39 PM (NC42u)

210 Detoilet: "Hold my Colt 45."
Chicongo: "No hold my cerveza."
Nuevo Yorky Cuidad: "Hold my Turkish Coffee."

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at June 25, 2025 12:39 PM (17s+e)

211 Out: Food Lion

In: food lines

Posted by: mikeski at June 25, 2025 12:39 PM (nQXv1)

212 162 There are a couple nuances attached to this election. First, Cuomo was convinced he could use the NYC Mayor position to catapult himself into a serious Dem. candidate for president in 2028. This is why he won't slink away and will, most definitely, try the Independent route."

I'm thrilled that he lost for that reason alone. Of course if he goes the independent route, he'll split the opposition with Adams and Sliwa, and guarantee that Osama bin Lenin gets elected.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 25, 2025 12:39 PM (uWKK8)

213 Have they got a big enough burka to cover the Statue of Liberty?

Posted by: Bulg at June 25, 2025 12:40 PM (77rzZ)

214 HuffPo: That this race is close at all is a blaring alarm for establishment Democrats, especially the party’s most comfortable and sclerotic. If it’s happening to Cuomo, it can happen to them

Could Mamdani's resounding victory auger the Democratic Party becoming a true socialist party?

"Democratic socialism" misuses the term "socialism". It's "New Deal-ism." The New Deal is not and never was socialism. That's a RW characterization.

Cuomo is not the "litmus" test of anything. There are too many candidates in the race, and rank choice voting obscures everything. Rank choice voting is almost as bad as open primaries.

Cuomo was a dumbass candidate for the establishment to back. I begrudgingly ranked Cuomo rather than Mamdani mostly bc I think Mamdani has too many "pie in the sky" campaign promises that he can't possibly keep.

Mamdani is a great communicator. He did the grass roots thing really well. People are sick of the status quo. They like populist candidates with big personalities and promises to shake things up. (It's what's powering MAGA on the right.)

I actually think we're in a moment where AOC could beat Schumer in a primary and win.

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at June 25, 2025 12:40 PM (7ZBK+)

215 206 I think DeBlasio relieved him of that position already...

Posted by: steevy at June 25, 2025 12:40 PM (YwEeS)

216 Shop Left"

Shop smart. Shop S Mart.

Posted by: man at June 25, 2025 12:40 PM (tubbA)

217 Good.
Let it burn.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at June 25, 2025 12:40 PM (ORJZB)

218 He is the next mayor with the same odds the Sun has of coming up tomorrow

Posted by: Skip at June 25, 2025 12:40 PM (+qU29)

219 214 "Democratic socialism" misuses the term "socialism". It's "New Deal-ism." The New Deal is not and never was socialism. That's a RW characterization.

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at June 25, 2025 12:40 PM (7ZBK+)

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This is hilarious.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 25, 2025 12:40 PM (GBKbO)

220 Out: Food Lion

Posted by: mikeski at June 25, 2025 12:39 PM (nQXv1)

During Pride Month??

(actually Food Line is a thread winner)

Posted by: ... at June 25, 2025 12:40 PM (sfdl6)

221 Too bad. NYC was an interesting place to visit decades ago.

Posted by: Cosda at June 25, 2025 12:37 PM (lQ23K)
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Oh it is going to get a whole hell of a lot more interesting.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at June 25, 2025 12:40 PM (17s+e)

222 Coming soon to NYC:

A bunch of empty shelves. Any cans of food, if they show up, will be marked 'Meat' or 'Potatoes' with white labels and black typeface.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at June 25, 2025 12:40 PM (bss/y)

223 Or does New York City want to go the way of Chicago?

This is going to be far, far, worse than Chicago.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at June 25, 2025 12:41 PM (xTIDn)

224 2025: Mom, I'm voting for Mamdani! Squeee!!!

2027: Mom, can I move home? It sucks here now!

Posted by: Ghoulposts at June 25, 2025 12:41 PM (qUkBO)

225 Sliwa gives backing and full support to Adams after a super secret backroom deal. And the deal is Police Commissioner Curtis Sliwa.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at June 25, 2025 12:41 PM (gm9Sb)

226 ....what do you mean there's no middle class left?
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing


Only the Initiates of the Left would be surprised. The Acolytes above them are aware that the Adepts, above the Acolytes, want to eliminate the middle class because the middle class is the only thing standing in the way of completing the Long March.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at June 25, 2025 12:41 PM (mlg/3)

227 Food King.

Make Animal House Prophetic

Posted by: Stu Podaso at June 25, 2025 12:41 PM (NUCav)

228 We can now say with certainty: NYC is filled with savage barbarians, incapable of choosing leadership. A Duke must be selected!

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 25, 2025 12:41 PM (uWKK8)

229
Everything Mamdani proposes is intended to destroy NYC, while looting it. I'm not clear if it's physically possible to 'accidentally' burn NYC like Karen Bass burned LA. If it's possible, it will happen.

Maybe his friends in the CCP will release some diseases.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at June 25, 2025 12:41 PM (uz6ub)

230
This could be "Escape from New York", "Demolitian Man", and "The Postman" all rolled into one movie.

Posted by: Frank Barone at June 25, 2025 12:41 PM (IifOV)

231 Mamdani has already stated that one of his ultimate goals is to increase the NYC corporate tax from about 7% up to about 12%.


That's a 70% increase

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at June 25, 2025 12:41 PM (/lPRQ)

232 Fat Albertson's

Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at June 25, 2025 12:41 PM (w9Wax)

233 Supposedly Mamdani wants city run grocery stores because private ones don't accept EBT. I call foul in that. Every corner bodega and local grocery store I've ever seen in NYC accepts EBT, they all have big signs saying so.

Also, if he expands free bus service, most likely that will be paid for by government grants. So congrats, America, you are paying for NYC's free bus program! Lucky you.

Posted by: LizLem at June 25, 2025 12:41 PM (gWBY1)

234 231 Mamdani has already stated that one of his ultimate goals is to increase the NYC corporate tax from about 7% up to about 12%.


That's a 70% increase
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at June 25, 2025 12:41 PM (/lPRQ)

======

"And we voted for it!"
-like...so many people who work on Wall Street

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 25, 2025 12:42 PM (GBKbO)

235 Shop Left
Posted by: ... at June 25, 2025 12:37 PM


Empty Market Basket

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 25, 2025 12:42 PM (dPfyF)

236 Rank choice voting is almost as bad as open primaries.
-

Holy shit. Someone at DU said something accurate and intelligent. I’m buying a lottery ticket today.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at June 25, 2025 12:42 PM (ORJZB)

237 Government Cheese > government cheese

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at June 25, 2025 12:42 PM (ITkJX)

238 VOTE VANCE!

Posted by: Sid at June 25, 2025 12:24 PM (2zGcv)
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Why so Cyrus?

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at June 25, 2025 12:42 PM (NC42u)

239 No Kings. They didn't say anything about Ayatollahs.

Posted by: ... at June 25, 2025 12:42 PM (sfdl6)

240 Given NY's electoral choices post 9/11, I can't think of a more singularly perfect, or deserved outcome than letting these boorish dolts elect a marxist jihadist as mayor.

I H8 NY

Posted by: SMFH at June 25, 2025 12:42 PM (NVjNp)

241 The good news is that this result will probably end ranked choice voting in NY. If they don't get rid of it they may end up with Mayor Murkowski next time.

Posted by: J. Frank Parnell at June 25, 2025 12:43 PM (eb5mD)

242 Not The Postman.

No Pacific Northwest scenery.

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 25, 2025 12:43 PM (9nkAn)

243 Fat Albertson's
Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at June 25, 2025 12:41 PM (w9Wax)

HEY HEY HEY

Posted by: BruceWayne at June 25, 2025 12:43 PM (MGB5H)

244 230
This could be "Escape from New York", "Demolitian Man", and "The Postman" all rolled into one movie.
Posted by: Frank Barone at June 25, 2025 12:41 PM (IifOV)

Objection!

There were hot naked women in Demolition man.

Plus, the weather was nice.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at June 25, 2025 12:43 PM (bss/y)

245 112 He talks about sending mental health specialists to many crimes instead of cops. The first time a mental health specialist is stabbed their union will rebel against the Mayor

Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 25, 2025 12:25 PM (pwtJC)

++++

Who in the hell would want that job? "Not I." "Not I." "Not I,"
say the mental health specialists. When push comes to shove they'll try to send one of the lower level associates.

Posted by: washrivergal at June 25, 2025 12:43 PM (pswca)

246 So the Luigi solution is an option?
Hmm, well if they insist...

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at June 25, 2025 12:43 PM (xcxpd)

247 isn't the typical vote turnout in NYC in single digits?
Posted by: DanMan at June 25, 2025 12:33 PM (8uzBS)

Probably. But if we enforce voter ID, that will suppress turnout! *rolls eyes*

Posted by: LizLem at June 25, 2025 12:43 PM (gWBY1)

248 I actually think we're in a moment where AOC could beat Schumer in a primary and win.
Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at June 25, 2025 12:40 PM



Be still my heart.

Posted by: toby928 at June 25, 2025 12:43 PM (jc0TO)

249 So he wants Soviet style grocery stores.
......

Beet Mart.

Posted by: wth at June 25, 2025 12:43 PM (v0R5T)

250 As a lad, one of my favorite shows was Saved by the Bell. They did a Christmas episode where the gang meets a homeless father and daughter. The father was a great guy with a lot of skills. The daughter was the perfect girl-next-door.

This episode had me believing that all homeless people were just super talents waiting to be discovered.

This is the reality in which the left exists. I'm glad I grew out of it.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at June 25, 2025 12:43 PM (KbCG3)

251 Too bad Dick Jones isn't around with OCP to swoop in and save this giant toilet of a city. Actually, never mind Dick Jones. We need Vilos Cohagen.

Kinda makes me want to start a new game of Robocop but I'm having so much fun playing Stellar Blade, I don't want to stop. Oh well.

Posted by: Nelly at June 25, 2025 12:43 PM (cHLus)

252 246 So the Luigi solution is an option?
Hmm, well if they insist...
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at June 25, 2025 12:43 PM (xcxpd)

======

Luigi jumps higher than Mario.

He's always the better option.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 25, 2025 12:43 PM (GBKbO)

253 Only the Initiates of the Left would be surprised. The Acolytes above them are aware that the Adepts, above the Acolytes, want to eliminate the middle class because the middle class is the only thing standing in the way of completing the Long March.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at June 25, 2025 12:41 PM (mlg/3)

Worst Star Wars plot ever.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 25, 2025 12:44 PM (uWKK8)

254 well anyway....local news story.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at June 25, 2025 12:44 PM (xcxpd)

255 241 The good news is that this result will probably end ranked choice voting in NY. If they don't get rid of it they may end up with Mayor Murkowski next time.
Posted by: J. Frank Parnell at June 25, 2025 12:43 PM (eb5mD)

Actually, if he wins, they will never get rid of it.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at June 25, 2025 12:44 PM (bss/y)

256 This is hurting my brain because I don't get it. This is horrible, stupid, and irrational.

Posted by: Seems Legit at June 25, 2025 12:44 PM (PMtkd)

257 Well, Manhattan was certainly "interesting" in the 70's...especially Times Square and areas west...

Posted by: man at June 25, 2025 12:44 PM (tubbA)

258 Working-class people voted for Cuomo.

White "educated" people voted overwhelmingly for Mamdani.

If this country gets destroyed, it's going to be an alliance of Islamicists and "educated" white women on SSRIs.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at June 25, 2025 12:44 PM (xTIDn)

259 I actually think we're in a moment where AOC could beat Schumer in a primary and win.
Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at June 25, 2025 12:40 PM


I guess someone didn't pick this week to stop sniffing glue.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 25, 2025 12:44 PM (dPfyF)

260 252 246 So the Luigi solution is an option?
Hmm, well if they insist...
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at June 25, 2025 12:43 PM (xcxpd)

======

Luigi jumps higher than Mario.

He's always the better option.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 25, 2025 12:43 PM (GBKbO)

That's two votes for Luigi...

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at June 25, 2025 12:44 PM (xcxpd)

261 Out: Food Lion

In: food lines
Posted by: mikeski
......

Food lines are a great place to meet desperate women.

Posted by: wth at June 25, 2025 12:45 PM (v0R5T)

262 Also, if he expands free bus service, most likely that will be paid for by government grants. So congrats, America, you are paying for NYC's free bus program! Lucky you.
Posted by: LizLem at June 25, 2025 12:41 PM (gWBY1)

We already basically have free bus service. Very few people actually pay.

Although I was on a select bus from the upper west side to the upper east side recently, and the transit cops came on and verified that people had paid, so at least they're doing some enforcement in wealthy white neighborhoods (although I dont think they do any in other neighborhoods).

But even in that bus full of people who could definitely afford $2.90 for a bus ride, about 1/3 hadn't paid.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at June 25, 2025 12:45 PM (uCjyK)

263 Why so Cyrus?
Posted by: Biden's Dog


Xerx-ees had the best food and the cleanest restrooms before the mullahs took over.

Posted by: Bulg at June 25, 2025 12:45 PM (77rzZ)

264 So he wants Soviet style grocery stores.
......

Beet Mart.
Posted by: wth at June 25, 2025 12:43 PM (v0R5T)
-

Upside will be the revival of the Borscht Belt.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at June 25, 2025 12:45 PM (NC42u)

265 NYC of 2025 is nothing like NYC of 2001. The city of 2001 would Have been horrified by this. But 24 years of unlimited immigration, both legal and illegal from 3rd world shitholes has transformed the city bigly. It is nothing close to resembling city of 9/11.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at June 25, 2025 12:45 PM (ORJZB)

266 >>>Re-enfranchise incarcerated NYers

Notice the word that is not there: formerly. He's not just talking about giving back the vote to convicted, but since released felons. He's talking about holding elections in jails.

Posted by: No Name Today at June 25, 2025 12:45 PM (vlXMQ)

267 123 Apparently the poor voted for Cuomo and the rich voted for Mamdami.

I finally looked it up, and NY does not have a sore loser law, so if the rumor that Cuomo is going to run as an independent is true, that could split the Democrat vote three ways between Mamdani, Cuomo, and Adams.

Could be interesting.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 25, 2025 12:24 PM (GBKbO)

It is also ranked choice voting...Silwa should try to get the other 3 candidates voters to rank him 2nd...he might have enough R votes to finish 3rd at 1st...and he could climb the mountain using 2nd place voting...
Posted by: Nova Local at June 25, 2025 12:26 PM (tOcjL)

THIS. I hate hate hate RCV, but in the case of a minority party trying to punch above its weight in a deep blue city, this is the way for Sliwa to win.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at June 25, 2025 12:45 PM (7Yn2Z)

268 Shithole Foods

Posted by: one hour sober at June 25, 2025 12:45 PM (Y1sOo)

269 Walking while trans?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 25, 2025 12:46 PM (63Dwl)

270 267 THIS. I hate hate hate RCV, but in the case of a minority party trying to punch above its weight in a deep blue city, this is the way for Sliwa to win.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at June 25, 2025 12:45 PM (7Yn2Z)

=======

RCV is limited to primaries and special elections. The general will be regular one choice voting.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 25, 2025 12:46 PM (GBKbO)

271 221 Too bad. NYC was an interesting place to visit decades ago.

Posted by: Cosda at June 25, 2025 12:37 PM (lQ23K)
===

Oh it is going to get a whole hell of a lot more interesting.
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable

The opportunities for premium guided hobo hunting expeditions will skyrocket!

Posted by: Moron Analyst at June 25, 2025 12:46 PM (7ZBK+)

272 Breadlines?

Make America Wait Again

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 25, 2025 12:46 PM (BjH5D)

273 WTF is "walking while trans"?

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at June 25, 2025 12:46 PM (e5NfL)

274 So NY city wants a Jew hating, illegal loving Mayor ? What could go wrong ?Time for States to load up their busses with "migrants" and ship em' to NY City
Posted by: It's me donna at June 25, 2025 12:35 PM (VE6XX)
______

NYC has had Jew-hating, illegal-loving mayors for the last 12 years. Nothing has changed. Nothing will change. As I pointed out above, this sand maggot is no more radical than either DeBlasio or Adams (although Adams realigned himself more to the right in the wake of the corruption scandal).

The country also elected a Jew-hating, illegal-loving president for 8 years, and his retarded Jew-hating, illegal-loving dunce VP for 4 more.

Posted by: (There Can Be Only One) Elric Blade at June 25, 2025 12:46 PM (iFTx/)

275 Posted by: SMFH at June 25, 2025 12:42 PM

An SMFH sighting!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 25, 2025 12:46 PM (dPfyF)

276 Food lines are a great place to meet desperate women.
Posted by: wth

Robert Armstrong and Fay Wray in the original King Kong have entered the chat.

Posted by: Bulg at June 25, 2025 12:47 PM (77rzZ)

277 This is the reality in which the left exists. I'm glad I grew out of it.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer


A friend of mine grew up in San Francisco. Stepping over homeless people and their waste was normal. When he and his classmates were working the soup kitchens, they were told to never go to the cops when the girls got attacked by the bums.

Thus the reason when he was asked "How would YOU solve the homeless problem?" his response was "Is Zyklon B still on the table?"

Posted by: NR Pax at June 25, 2025 12:47 PM (BpO1e)

278 Complaint #26 heard after Mamdani's election:

"Last time I went out for Thai Food at 3 in the morning.

I got shot in the leg and set on fire!"

Posted by: naturalfake at June 25, 2025 12:47 PM (iJfKG)

279 I actually think we're in a moment where AOC could beat Schumer in a primary and win.
Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at June 25, 2025 12:40 PM

It certainly isn’t as far fetched an idea as it was 3 months ago.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at June 25, 2025 12:47 PM (ORJZB)

280 265 NYC of 2025 is nothing like NYC of 2001. The city of 2001 would Have been horrified by this. But 24 years of unlimited immigration, both legal and illegal from 3rd world shitholes has transformed the city bigly. It is nothing close to resembling city of 9/11.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at June 25, 2025 12:45 PM (ORJZB)

Agreed.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at June 25, 2025 12:47 PM (uCjyK)

281 274 NYC has had Jew-hating, illegal-loving mayors for the last 12 years. Nothing has changed. Nothing will change. As I pointed out above, this sand maggot is no more radical than either DeBlasio or Adams (although Adams realigned himself more to the right in the wake of the corruption scandal).

The country also elected a Jew-hating, illegal-loving president for 8 years, and his retarded Jew-hating, illegal-loving dunce VP for 4 more.
Posted by: (There Can Be Only One) Elric Blade at June 25, 2025 12:46 PM (iFTx/)

=======

I love how Adams, just by virtue of being a former cop, is viewed as somewhat moderate.

He was a cop who attacked other cops for racism.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 25, 2025 12:47 PM (GBKbO)

282
Hole Foods

Posted by: Frank Barone at June 25, 2025 12:47 PM (IifOV)

283 Hmmm, New York City...

I guess there's another obvious choice for a grocery chain: The Soylent Corporation.

Posted by: t-bird at June 25, 2025 12:47 PM (Vngri)

284 258 Working-class people voted for Cuomo.

White "educated" people voted overwhelmingly for Mamdani.

If this country gets destroyed, it's going to be an alliance of Islamicists and "educated" white women on SSRIs.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at June 25, 2025 12:44 PM (xTIDn)

I saw something last night where they talked about the commie's polls in each group (aside from white, wealthy, educated) was negative, yet he still crushed everyone else.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at June 25, 2025 12:47 PM (bss/y)

285
RCV is limited to primaries and special elections. The general will be regular one choice voting.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 25, 2025 12:46 PM (GBKbO)

Never mind.
- Emily Litella

Posted by: Darrell Harris at June 25, 2025 12:47 PM (7Yn2Z)

286 New York, New York
A helluva town
The sodomy's up
And the economy's down
New York, New York

Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 25, 2025 12:48 PM (pwtJC)

287 Too bad. NYC was an interesting place to visit decades ago.

Posted by: Cosda at June 25, 2025 12:37 PM (lQ23K)
===

Oh it is going to get a whole hell of a lot more interesting.
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable

The opportunities for premium guided hobo hunting expeditions will skyrocket!
Posted by: Moron Analyst at June 25, 2025 12:46 PM (7ZBK+)
________

[Makes "call me" gesture]

-- Emil Fouchon

Posted by: (There Can Be Only One) Elric Blade at June 25, 2025 12:48 PM (iFTx/)

288 Make America Wait Again
Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 25, 2025 12:46 PM


I thought MAWA was in NJ.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 25, 2025 12:48 PM (dPfyF)

289 268 Shithole Foods

Posted by: one hour sober at June 25, 2025 12:45 PM (Y1sOo)

Food Lyin'

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at June 25, 2025 12:48 PM (KbCG3)

290
If i was a landlord in New York I'd sell everything and cut your loses now.

Posted by: Frank Barone at June 25, 2025 12:48 PM (IifOV)

291 Who will ace vote for? Will he decide to hit the big red button of Doom?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at June 25, 2025 12:48 PM (bss/y)

292 Shady guy in overcoat beside a food line targeting one woman, "hey baby what'll you do for some beef stroganoff?"

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 25, 2025 12:48 PM (9nkAn)

293 285
RCV is limited to primaries and special elections. The general will be regular one choice voting.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 25, 2025 12:46 PM (GBKbO)

Never mind.
- Emily Litella
Posted by: Darrell Harris at June 25, 2025 12:47 PM (7Yn2Z)

======

It makes sense, right? That RCV in the primary means RCV in the general?

But I just looked it up. I had to reread the stupid government webpage twice just to make sure I wasn't missing something.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 25, 2025 12:48 PM (GBKbO)

294 273 WTF is "walking while trans"?
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at June 25, 2025 12:46 PM (e5NfL)

I'm assuming it has something to do with the fact that trans sex workers in the Bronx claim the cops harass them and accuse them of being sex workers and tell them to move along.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at June 25, 2025 12:49 PM (uCjyK)

295 290
If i was a landlord in New York I'd sell everything and cut your loses now.
Posted by: Frank Barone at June 25, 2025 12:48 PM (IifOV)

Yeah, he also favors rent control.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at June 25, 2025 12:49 PM (bss/y)

296 Soylent Green Grocery.

Posted by: Boss Moss at June 25, 2025 12:49 PM (VAINm)

297 In the immortal words of Rock Master Scott:

The roof! The roof! The roof is on fire!

We don't need no water, let the motherfucker burn!

Burn, Motherfucker, Burn.

Posted by: toby928 at June 25, 2025 12:49 PM (jc0TO)

298 Shades of Hillary:

WATCH: The Muslim socialist Zohran Mamdani is such a shameless dirtbag he changes his accent depending on who he's talking to. He also used to be a "rapper" whose mom directed his music videos.

If New York City voters are dumb enough to elect this conman, they deserve every single bad thing coming to them.


https://is.gd/DL3hdh

Posted by: Archimedes at June 25, 2025 12:49 PM (Riz8t)

299 WTF is "walking while trans"?
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at June 25, 2025 12:46 PM


I would imagine some kind of exaggerated sashay.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 25, 2025 12:49 PM (dPfyF)

300 [O/T:]
Insurrection Barbie
@DefiyantlyFree

🧵🧵The Unelected President: Neera Tanden, the NGO Cartel, and the Greatest Conflict of Interest in Modern American Politics

On June 24, 2025, the mask finally slipped.

Testifying before Congress behind closed doors, Neera Tanden, a longtime Democratic operative and former president of the far-left think tank Center for American Progress (CAP) she admitted to running the autopen for President Joe Biden. She didn’t just witness the signature process. She oversaw it. In some cases, she was the one signing the President’s name to executive orders and laws.

This wasn’t a technicality. This was a transfer of power. Joe Biden was not acting as President. Neera Tanden was.

And that’s only half the scandal.

https://is.gd/6wN9Fw

Posted by: ShainS -- Make Unconditional Surrender Great Again! at June 25, 2025 12:50 PM (I89WZ)

301
"I'd like to apply for a loaf of bread."

Posted by: Frank Barone at June 25, 2025 12:50 PM (IifOV)

302 I'm assuming it has something to do with the fact that trans sex workers in the Bronx claim the cops harass them and accuse them of being sex workers and tell them to move along.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at June 25, 2025 12:49 PM (uCjyK)

*watches pitch sail lazily across the plate*

*checks watch*

*looks back, still flying*

Posted by: Aetius451AD at June 25, 2025 12:50 PM (bss/y)

303 86 7/11!

Posted by: NYC at June 25, 2025 12:51 PM (vFG9F)

304 290
If i was a landlord in New York I'd sell everything and cut your loses now.
Posted by: Frank Barone at June 25, 2025 12:48 PM (IifOV)

and yet, NYC residential real estate has never been better.

Of course, a lot of that is foreign nationals parking their ill gotten gains in the NYC real estate market. And there is, of course, immense pressure on the rental market from the millions of New New Yorkers who showed up here in the last few years.

But prices of real estate and the cost of rent keeps going up.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at June 25, 2025 12:51 PM (uCjyK)

305 Just wait until Los Angeles elects a Commie mayor!

Posted by: mrp at June 25, 2025 12:51 PM (rj6Yv)

306 Shamazon Grocery

Posted by: ... at June 25, 2025 12:51 PM (sfdl6)

307 I'm assuming it has something to do with the fact that trans sex workers in the Bronx claim the cops harass them and accuse them of being sex workers and tell them to move along.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at June 25, 2025 12:49 PM (uCjyK)

*watches pitch sail lazily across the plate*

*checks watch*

*looks back, still flying*
Posted by: Aetius451AD at June 25, 2025 12:50 PM (bss/y)
-------------
Are you saying there's low-hanging fruit here?

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at June 25, 2025 12:52 PM (XZ5S6)

308 It's as if New Yorkers are looking for the most ridiculous candidate available.

Posted by: Seems Legit at June 25, 2025 12:52 PM (PMtkd)

309 But prices of real estate and the cost of rent keeps going up.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at June 25, 2025 12:51 PM


Residential and Commercial?

Posted by: toby928 at June 25, 2025 12:52 PM (jc0TO)

310 Chicago, NYC or LA. Which has the worst mayor?

Posted by: mr tmz at June 25, 2025 12:52 PM (rJ48h)

311
Pull up John Carpenter's film and start building the wall around New York right now.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh! at June 25, 2025 12:52 PM (Tv15w)

312 NYC now plunging into depths. City run groceries are cheaper because the taxpayers make up the difference (starts small, moves to total)

Posted by: gov'theretohelp at June 25, 2025 12:52 PM (PfnFb)

313 86 I bet Cuomo is wondering where his alleged mojo went.

Humiliating.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 25, 2025 12:23 PM (Q4IgG)

It died with his mobbed-up father. Andy's was based solely on name recognition, which was no match against Tish James's color and gender superpowers when she decided to move against him...

Posted by: Joe Kidd at June 25, 2025 12:52 PM (IY+he)

314 Is everyone in NYC insane? I'm sure that's not the case but still.

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at June 25, 2025 12:52 PM (jM63s)

315 We are headed to NYC for a Broadway play in a couple weeks. Plan is to land at 7:30 AM, hit the museums, then a beer garden, then the show. One night at a hotel and then a couple more museums, dinner and back on the plane home around 7 PM. Hopefully very limited time on the subway, we'll probably Uber pretty much everywhere. Hoping to skip the more "colorful" aspects of the Big Apple.

Posted by: Lincolntf at June 25, 2025 12:53 PM (2cS/G)

316 Most ridiculous?

Anthony Weiner lost.

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 25, 2025 12:53 PM (9nkAn)

317 I got yelled at a few weeks back when I said AOC could beat Schumer. The hard left and utterly stupid are in the ascendency. Add in antisemitism and the fact that Schumer seems to be losing his step and AOC could win. The leftist morons who run my city would vote for her in droves

Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 25, 2025 12:53 PM (pwtJC)

318 There are eight million stories in the naked city. This has been one of them.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 25, 2025 12:53 PM (63Dwl)

319 7/7

Posted by: ... at June 25, 2025 12:53 PM (sfdl6)

320 what was the turnout for this primary ?

Posted by: runner at June 25, 2025 12:53 PM (g47mK)

321 Most ridiculous AVAILABLE.

Posted by: Seems Legit at June 25, 2025 12:53 PM (PMtkd)

322 Are you saying there's low-hanging fruit here?
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at June 25, 2025 12:52 PM


Well...it has been awfully warm lately.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 25, 2025 12:53 PM (dPfyF)

323 The office buildings are largely empty.

Posted by: Boss Moss at June 25, 2025 12:53 PM (VAINm)

324 Personally, I love this new generation of insane whacko leftists.

They're just as insane and whacko as the previous generation but they are too self-righteous to lie about it, which makes it easier to run against their agendas.

Posted by: Shenanigans at June 25, 2025 12:54 PM (qKI0i)

325 Guys -- he's going to solve the Food Desert Crisis (TM) by building state-owned, state-operated nonprofit grocery stores.

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We might be able to how this will end if only it had happened in the past ... alas, we're gonna need MOAR mass graves!

Posted by: ShainS -- Make Unconditional Surrender Great Again! at June 25, 2025 12:54 PM (WjSgq)

326 Residential and Commercial?
Posted by: toby928 at June 25, 2025 12:52 PM (jc0TO)

Residential for sure. Last I checked, commercial was doing better, but during and immediately after COVID, commercial rents were way down.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at June 25, 2025 12:54 PM (uCjyK)

327 This is going to be far, far, worse than Chicago.

Correct. Chicago leadership is merely stupid and incompetent. This is premeditated active destruction.

Posted by: Ian S. at June 25, 2025 12:54 PM (2ocoG)

328 I'm assuming it has something to do with the fact that trans sex workers in the Bronx claim the cops harass them and accuse them of being sex workers and tell them to move along.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at June 25, 2025 12:49 PM (uCjyK)

*watches pitch sail lazily across the plate*

*checks watch*

*looks back, still flying*
Posted by: Aetius451AD at June 25, 2025 12:50 PM (bss/y)
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Are you saying there's low-hanging fruit here?
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at June 25, 2025 12:52 PM (XZ5S6)
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Certainly aren't any nuts.....

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at June 25, 2025 12:54 PM (tT6L1)

329
The last 2 Oregon governors have been lesbian socialists state control freaks and it's going very poorly here.

Posted by: Frank Barone at June 25, 2025 12:54 PM (IifOV)

330
and yet, NYC residential real estate has never been better.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes

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I'm late to the thread and I really wish I could find out: really, truly, how bad does a mayor have to be before he shrinks his tax base enough to make a dent? I bet New York will carry on complaining and getting more expensive and unmanageable but nothing is going to collapse. Wall Street and bankers will stay in droves.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 25, 2025 12:54 PM (lCaJd)

331 317 I got yelled at a few weeks back when I said AOC could beat Schumer. The hard left and utterly stupid are in the ascendency. Add in antisemitism and the fact that Schumer seems to be losing his step and AOC could win. The leftist morons who run my city would vote for her in droves
Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 25, 2025 12:53 PM (pwtJC)

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I still don't think she could.

She'd have to win statewide, and Schumer, as incumbent and leader of the caucus in the Senate, wouldn't just hide away like Cuomo did.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 25, 2025 12:54 PM (GBKbO)

332 What's the "walking while trans" ban?

Posted by: Max Power at June 25, 2025 12:55 PM (q177U)

333 >> Cuomo was a dumbass candidate for the establishment to back

Crap, someone from DU said something intelligent.

The dems only have themselves to blame for not running a better dem candidate. All Mamdami had to do was run ads telling the truth about Cuomo that the dems had been covering up -- that he has raided the treasury of the MTA, that he was a sex pest, etc. the ads wrote themselves.

Apparently Sliwa is not pure either -- he faked some of his group's wins to get city backing and support? Adams, Cuomo, ans Sliwa all have dirt and baggage, whereas Mamdami is a clean slate.

Posted by: LizLem at June 25, 2025 12:55 PM (gWBY1)

334 If i was a landlord in New York I'd sell everything and cut your loses now.
Posted by: Frank Barone at June 25, 2025 12:48 PM (IifOV)

Yeah, he also favors rent control.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at June 25, 2025 12:49 PM


From what little I have read he wants "universal" rent control for every rental unit in the five boroughs with rent amounts to be set by him and his team.


If you have a property that is currently exempt from rent controls that will change if he is elected.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at June 25, 2025 12:55 PM (e5NfL)

335 Are you saying there's low-hanging fruit here?
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at June 25, 2025 12:52 PM (XZ5S6)

https://tinyurl.com/4nm8eded

Posted by: Aetius451AD at June 25, 2025 12:55 PM (bss/y)

336 > 310 Chicago, NYC or LA. Which has the worst mayor?

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Hey, don't forget about us!

Posted by: City of Boston at June 25, 2025 12:55 PM (kCN82)

337

I love this, I cannot wait to see this guy running NYC. It will be so good for them to get this shoved up all their asses.

He and that cadaverous Hochul won't like each other, which will be an added bonus.

Posted by: Dr.Rev. Senator Your Highness E Buzz Miller, Esq PhD MA MS at June 25, 2025 12:55 PM (et1vG)

338 Well Hell,
I guess I better get down to the Piggly Wiggly before it's too late.

Posted by: J R EWING at June 25, 2025 12:56 PM (R6Hhu)

339 The last 2 Oregon governors have been lesbian socialists state control freaks and it's going very poorly here.
Posted by: Frank Barone at June 25, 2025 12:54 PM


MA is halfway there.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 25, 2025 12:56 PM (dPfyF)

340 > Chicago, NYC or LA. Which has the worst mayor?
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It's apparently a.... contest now.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 25, 2025 12:56 PM (Q4IgG)

341 Pull up John Carpenter's film and start building the wall around New York right now.


for the love of God - PLEASE!

THIS!

they do not learn! they mouth conservative things but live like liberals! they are ruining SE PA!

no mas!!!

Posted by: Black Orchid at June 25, 2025 12:56 PM (Pv3Rg)

342 But you can get Thai food at 3:00 AM.

Posted by: Josephistan at June 25, 2025 12:56 PM (GM3CZ)

343 https://tinyurl.com/4nm8eded
Posted by: Aetius451AD at June 25, 2025 12:55 PM (bss/y)
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Someone's written on her. In ink.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at June 25, 2025 12:56 PM (XZ5S6)

344 Chicago, NYC or LA. Which has the worst mayor?
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It's apparently a.... contest now.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 25, 2025 12:56 PM (Q4IgG)
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I'm going with Bass, mainly because the woman is dumber than a box of rocks.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at June 25, 2025 12:57 PM (tT6L1)

345 21 He also wants to cut funding to the Police

Posted by: It's me donna at June 25, 2025 12:16 PM (VE6XX)
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That's fine as long as he starts with his own security details

Posted by: 496 at June 25, 2025 12:57 PM (YKC8S)

346 327 This is going to be far, far, worse than Chicago.

Correct. Chicago leadership is merely stupid and incompetent. This is premeditated active destruction.
Posted by: Ian S. at June 25, 2025 12:54 PM (2ocoG)

Don't forget crooked.
I swear Chicago is worse than New Orleans.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at June 25, 2025 12:57 PM (xcxpd)

347 I'm late to the thread and I really wish I could find out: really, truly, how bad does a mayor have to be before he shrinks his tax base enough to make a dent? I bet New York will carry on complaining and getting more expensive and unmanageable but nothing is going to collapse. Wall Street and bankers will stay in droves.


probably

but they will get second homes in Radnor and Malvern, like they've been doing. Just more of them.

boltholes, as it were.

Posted by: Black Orchid at June 25, 2025 12:57 PM (Pv3Rg)

348 231 Mamdani has already stated that one of his ultimate goals is to increase the NYC corporate tax from about 7% up to about 12%.


That's a 70% increase
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at June 25, 2025 12:41 PM (/lPRQ)
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Fortunately that requires state approval. Though given how thoroughly the DNC controls the NYS legislature, it could happen.

Posted by: Penfold at June 25, 2025 12:57 PM (Fbt5B)

349 199 Shop Left
Posted by: ... at June 25, 2025 12:37 PM (sfdl6)

Shop Blight...

Posted by: Joe Kidd at June 25, 2025 12:58 PM (IY+he)

350
And that’s only half the scandal.

https://is.gd/6wN9Fw
Posted by: ShainS

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Why the hell was it behind closed doors?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 25, 2025 12:58 PM (lCaJd)

351 I predict . . . pain.

Posted by: Clubber Lang at June 25, 2025 12:58 PM (i24o9)

352 Socialist Promises — Courtesy of Zohran Mamdani.

- Rent Freeze
- City-Run Grocery Stores
- $70B of Debt To Fund Affordable Housing
- Free Buses
- No Cost Childcare
- Baby Baskets to Newborns
- $30 Minimum Wage
- Rid of Private Insurance

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- Free Cocaine in Every Pot!
- Free Tesla in Every Garage!

Posted by: ShainS -- Make Unconditional Surrender Great Again! at June 25, 2025 12:58 PM (e/Yiq)

353 NYC is a ginormous tumor on the ass of the USA

this dude will lance it and the yellow ichor is gonna poison the whole midatlantic and northeast

probably forever

Posted by: Black Orchid at June 25, 2025 12:58 PM (Pv3Rg)

354 I'm sure this communist fucker's candidacy is approved and supported by all of our Federal judges.

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at June 25, 2025 12:59 PM (z4+bR)

355 oh and palm beach

which also was already getting insufferable with all the New Yorkers

Posted by: Black Orchid at June 25, 2025 12:59 PM (Pv3Rg)

356 trans sex workers in the Bronx claim the cops harass them"

Funny, but no. "Sex workers" are freaked out by black and brown dudes who, as they're getting their pickle tickled, discover said ticker is also a dude, and begin applying fists.
It's white women who believe trans types are "prosecuted"

Posted by: man at June 25, 2025 12:59 PM (tubbA)

357 >>> Hopefully very limited time on the subway, we'll probably Uber pretty much everywhere. Hoping to skip the more "colorful" aspects of the Big Apple. Posted by: Lincolntf at June 25, 2025 12:53 PM (2cS/G)

My sibling has lived in NYC for about a decade, commuting on the subway, and refuses to take the subway anymore, especially at night. It's too dangerous. So yes, if you want to stay safe, lots of Ubers or Lyfts. (Get both apps and see who is cheapest for the same trip, each time. It varies wildly sometimes.)

Posted by: LizLem at June 25, 2025 01:00 PM (gWBY1)

358 What's the "walking while trans" ban?
Posted by: Max Power

You try prancing about in 4 inch stiletto heels!

Posted by: He-Shes of the Bowery at June 25, 2025 01:00 PM (w9Wax)

359 I'm late to the thread and I really wish I could find out: really, truly, how bad does a mayor have to be before he shrinks his tax base enough to make a dent? I bet New York will carry on complaining and getting more expensive and unmanageable but nothing is going to collapse. Wall Street and bankers will stay in droves.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 25, 2025 12:54 PM (lCaJd)

This city is run on 20 somethings with high paying jobs trying to keep their college partying lives doing, poor people doing service jobs, immigrants, and then people in their 30's and 40's who get kind of stuck in the city (or close by suburbs) with their careers.

I don't know that anything with get the poor people or immigrants to move, other than them becoming wealthier.

People in their 20's? Maybe out of control crime, but other than that, I don't think they care about much other than partying until 4 am then getting Ethiopian food delivered to their apartments or whatever.

People in their 30's and 40's? Most companies are pushing return to the office, so it's hard to move too far from the city.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at June 25, 2025 01:00 PM (uCjyK)

360 How many varieties of underarm deodorant will the NY City-run grocery stores carry?

/asking for a friend from Vermont

Posted by: muldoon at June 25, 2025 01:00 PM (poXs5)

361 Remember, if Democrats had their way, NY and LA would run the US.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at June 25, 2025 01:00 PM (tT6L1)

362 What's the "walking while trans" ban?
Posted by: Max Power

I think that's in reference to trannies being able to walk into elementary schools flashing their fake titties and having the kiddos taking dollar bills out of their G-strings.

Posted by: Cheri at June 25, 2025 01:00 PM (oiNtH)

363 Why the hell was it behind closed doors?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 25, 2025 12:58 PM (lCaJd)

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Excellent question -- my first thought as well.

Posted by: ShainS -- Make Unconditional Surrender Great Again! at June 25, 2025 01:00 PM (e/Yiq)

364 307 Are you saying there's low-hanging fruit here?
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at June 25, 2025 12:52 PM (XZ5S6)

It's right there under their latex maid dress.

Posted by: XTC at June 25, 2025 01:01 PM (UnA8+)

365 Probably already mentioned: son of Indian filmmaker Mira Nair. Spoiled, rich, foreigner who she says sees himself as African first, then Indian.


Not “Uhmerican.” He’s totally “desi.”

Posted by: Lizzy at June 25, 2025 01:01 PM (Hkcdp)

366 NYC and Chicago have almost the exact same growth patterns over the past 4 years.

In fact, they seem to marry each other pretty closely from the the late 80s onward (Chicago saw real number decreases through the 70s that led to oversized increases in the early 80s).

Just an observation.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 25, 2025 01:01 PM (GBKbO)

367 LOL.

I knew NYC was always a bit fucked in the head, but THIS!

I say, let it burn!

Posted by: Jack Kirkpatrick at June 25, 2025 01:02 PM (ufFY8)

368 9/11/01 was a turning point in all of our lives. We were raising teen sons at the time, one a freshman in college. It was a turning point for everyone in this country. I suddenly paid attention to the Middle East barbarians. Granted, I did now and then our entire marriage of different attacks and horror from Iran. But this was on our soil, a declaration of war. Etched in our retinas in real time.

Then GWB referred to them as the "religion of peace," which I have never forgiven him for. Allowed open borders and here we are. He once announced he wanted no borders.

How on earth NYC could elect this taqiyya is mind blowing.

I hope? there is a strong, a very strong, GOP alternative for November.

No plans to visit NYC again since our last trip in 2010 or so. But what a great city she was in the early 2000's and many trips there with sons or my husband. I loved it and we always stayed in the Upper West Side, a boutique hotel that was one of the horrors during covid of housing illegals: The Lucerne. Near Zabar's and the Met Museum. Great restaurants, one Italian across the street. At the time Ouest was a quick walk away and served a fantastic martini. Great memories.

Unreal and sad.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at June 25, 2025 01:02 PM (6PCLE)

369 365 Probably already mentioned: son of Indian filmmaker Mira Nair. Spoiled, rich, foreigner who she says sees himself as African first, then Indian.


Not “Uhmerican.” He’s totally “desi.”
Posted by: Lizzy at June 25, 2025 01:01 PM (Hkcdp)

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At least her Vanity Fair is really good.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 25, 2025 01:02 PM (GBKbO)

370 Alvin Bragg also won his primary last night.

Posted by: redridinghood at June 25, 2025 01:02 PM (85jOI)

371 Speaking of insanity

@ExxAlerts 27m
BREAKING NOW: 🚨 In a stunning turn of events, the charges of attempted k-dnapping, attempted arson, and abetting s-x traffi-king levied against Sean "P. Diddy" Comb’s HAVE BEEN DROPPED by prosecutors.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at June 25, 2025 01:02 PM (mlg/3)

372 Sounds like we need to turn NY into a federal territory.

Posted by: Cow Demon at June 25, 2025 01:02 PM (LlXyc)

373 NYC has had Jew-hating, illegal-loving mayors for the last 12 years. Nothing has changed. Nothing will change. As I pointed out above, this sand maggot is no more radical than either DeBlasio or Adams (although Adams realigned himself more to the right in the wake of the corruption scandal).

The country also elected a Jew-hating, illegal-loving president for 8 years, and his retarded Jew-hating, illegal-loving dunce VP for 4 more.
Posted by: (There Can Be Only One) Elric Blade at June 25, 2025 12:46 PM (iFTx/)

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I love how Adams, just by virtue of being a former cop, is viewed as somewhat moderate.

He was a cop who attacked other cops for racism.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 25, 2025 12:47 PM (GBKbO)
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Yea, he was hard left from the jump. He only moderated his positions when the gestapo came for him, and he realized he wouldn't be last against the wall.

Posted by: (There Can Be Only One) Elric Blade at June 25, 2025 01:02 PM (iFTx/)

374 NYC is at least 40% foreign born now.
They changed the demographics to change the political culture.

Posted by: Lizzy at June 25, 2025 01:02 PM (Hkcdp)

375
Why the hell was it behind closed doors?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia


That's when she lets her hair hang down.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 25, 2025 01:03 PM (63Dwl)

376 >>> Pull up John Carpenter's film and start building the wall around New York right now.

Who knew the Dark Knight Rises... with Bane blowing up all the bridges and cutting off Gotham from the mainland... was an instruction manual for NYC and not a cautionary tale?

Posted by: LizLem at June 25, 2025 01:03 PM (gWBY1)

377 They must come up with a plan to keep their tax payers from escaping.

Posted by: Boss Moss at June 25, 2025 01:03 PM (VAINm)

378 All I can say is “You get the Government you deserve"

Posted by: Pete Seria at June 25, 2025 01:03 PM (7ZQe3)

379 What's the "walking while trans" ban?


*********

Actually it is not a ban. It requires them to walk. it's to eliminate snail trails on the city sidewalks.

Posted by: S. Cargo at June 25, 2025 01:03 PM (poXs5)

380 My sibling has lived in NYC for about a decade, commuting on the subway, and refuses to take the subway anymore, especially at night. It's too dangerous. So yes, if you want to stay safe, lots of Ubers or Lyfts. (Get both apps and see who is cheapest for the same trip, each time. It varies wildly sometimes.)
Posted by: LizLem at June 25, 2025 01:00 PM (gWBY1)

Yeah, I don't take the subway late night alone unless I have to. Most women I know won't do it at night under any circumstance.

I get it. It's a fucking circus underground at night. Crazy drugged out schizophrenics, loitering yutes, drunk immigrants, etc.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at June 25, 2025 01:04 PM (uCjyK)

381 If this disgrace makes it into the Mayor's office I guess now anything goes in NYC. Those city-run grocery stores? Go in, take what you want, and just walk out. There won't be any police to arrest you for shop lifting. Want to live large? Become a squatter in the Governor's mansion. Whoops - better not do that - he alone will have armed security.

It will be Mad Max City and the next 9/11 style attack, I don't think that they will see the outpouring of support that they did the last time.

Posted by: Cheri at June 25, 2025 01:04 PM (oiNtH)

382 Socialist Promises — Courtesy of Zohran Mamdani.
Posted by: ShainS

From his website's "platform" page under "The Department of Community Safety":

Zohran will create the Department of Community Safety to prevent violence before it happens by prioritizing solutions which have been consistently shown to improve safety. Police have a critical role to play. But right now, we’re relying on them to deal with the failures of our social safety net—which prevents them from doing their actual jobs...

...including deploying dedicated outreach workers in 100 subway stations, providing medical services in vacant commercial units, and increasing Transit Ambassadors to assist New Yorkers on their journeys—expand evidence-based gun violence prevention programs, and increase funding to hate violence prevention programs by 800%.

Posted by: Moron Analyst at June 25, 2025 01:04 PM (7ZBK+)

383 ...Apparently Sliwa is not pure either -- he faked some of his group's wins to get city backing and support? Adams, Cuomo, ans Sliwa all have dirt and baggage, whereas Mamdami is a clean slate.

Posted by: LizLem at June 25, 2025 12:55 PM (gWBY1)



Other than the fact that he's a communist motherfucker. But otherwise, yeah...he's great!


BTW - I'm not slamming you Liz. Just fed up with the commie BS. When I was a soldier back during the Cold War we had a running jodie that included the words "kill a commie for Christ".

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at June 25, 2025 01:04 PM (z4+bR)

384 9 New York-run food stores will be full of organic food with the only payments accepted will be state-issued food stamps with a rainbow coloring scheme.
Posted by: WitchDoktor at June 25, 2025 12:15 PM (vt7xw)

Shut down all grocery stores, have the NYPD forcibly confiscate all kitchen utensils and appliances from homes, and force all New Yorkers to eat at communal canteens.

This worked for me in the Great Leap Forward.

Posted by: Cow Demon at June 25, 2025 01:04 PM (LlXyc)

385 I hope? there is a strong, a very strong, GOP alternative for November.


welp

sorry but its Sliwa

and I feel you - it used to be great. heart wrenching

my personal "end" with NYC was the stupid riots. I really thought the NYPD would NOT stand down and let those monster babies tear Manhattan apart. I think they held out the longest, but eventually even they stood down.

sigh.

Posted by: Black Orchid at June 25, 2025 01:04 PM (Pv3Rg)

386 All of a sudden, David Dinkins looks competent.

Posted by: Augusto Perez at June 25, 2025 01:05 PM (XFCV2)

387 Escape from NY, or…District B13 style walls and checkpoints?

Posted by: Lizzy at June 25, 2025 01:05 PM (Hkcdp)

388 When I was a soldier back during the Cold War we had a running jodie that included the words "kill a commie for Christ".
Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at June 25, 2025 01:04 PM (z4+bR)

I saw t-shirts that read “Kill A Commie For Your Mommy”.

Posted by: Cow Demon at June 25, 2025 01:05 PM (LlXyc)

389 How do some of the things Madani wants as Progressive square with his beliefs as a Muslim, because decriminalizing" walking while Trans" does not seem to square with Muslin beliefs> the only thing that doesn't sems to be support of Hamas.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 25, 2025 01:05 PM (2GCMq)

390 Zohran will create the Department of Community Safety to prevent violence before it happens by prioritizing solutions which have been consistently shown to improve safety.

with what, a crystal ball?

Posted by: Black Orchid at June 25, 2025 01:05 PM (Pv3Rg)

391 Go long on razorwire.

Posted by: Boss Moss at June 25, 2025 01:06 PM (VAINm)

392
Go for it, NYC! I want to see an example of a full-fledged, no-holds-barred socialist government so that we can point to it when it collapses of its own contradictions and absurdity and say, "See?"

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 25, 2025 01:06 PM (/HVsR)

393 384 was written by Mao himself, who also reminds us that we have ten fingers. If you lose one you still have nine.

Posted by: Cow Demon at June 25, 2025 01:06 PM (LlXyc)

394 The opportunities for graft involving city-run grocery stores are endless.

Posted by: mr tmz at June 25, 2025 01:06 PM (rJ48h)

395 Zohran will create the Department of Community Safety to prevent violence before it happens by prioritizing solutions which have been consistently shown to improve safety.

with what, a crystal ball?
Posted by: Black Orchid at June 25, 2025 01:05 PM (Pv3Rg)
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Department of Pre-Crime.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at June 25, 2025 01:07 PM (XZ5S6)

396 394 The opportunities for graft involving city-run grocery stores are endless.
Posted by: mr tmz at June 25, 2025 01:06 PM (rJ48h)

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"And I thought I had it made with the concrete game!"
-Willie Stark

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 25, 2025 01:07 PM (GBKbO)

397
Remember, if Democrats had their way, NY and LA would run the US.

You mean they dont?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 25, 2025 01:07 PM (63Dwl)

398 392
Go for it, NYC! I want to see an example of a full-fledged, no-holds-barred socialist government so that we can point to it when it collapses of its own contradictions and absurdity and say, "See?"
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 25, 2025 01:06 PM (/HVsR)

Then Austin government will make excuses as to why it failed in NYC and say “when WE do it IT WILL WORK!!!”

Posted by: Cow Demon at June 25, 2025 01:07 PM (LlXyc)

399 397
Remember, if Democrats had their way, NY and LA would run the US.

You mean they dont?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 25, 2025 01:07 PM (63Dwl)

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They still need Philly, Detroit, and Chicago to come through.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 25, 2025 01:07 PM (GBKbO)

400 Are you saying there's low-hanging fruit here?
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at June 25, 2025 12:52 PM (XZ5S6)

It's right there under their latex maid dress.
Posted by: XTC at June 25, 2025 01:01 PM (UnA8+)

In Iran, the fruits hang high, from cranes.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 25, 2025 01:07 PM (Hyyh7)

401 was written by Mao himself, who also reminds us that we have ten fingers. If you lose one you still have nine.
Posted by: Cow Demon at June 25, 2025 01:06 PM (LlXyc)
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Try playing the concertina with nine fingers...

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at June 25, 2025 01:08 PM (XZ5S6)

402 I've never been to NYC so I don't care what happens.

Posted by: dantesed at June 25, 2025 01:08 PM (Oy/m2)

403 To me goes to show years of indoctrination from Cultural Marxists Seminaries is working splendid, if your a Marxist

Posted by: Skip at June 25, 2025 01:08 PM (+qU29)

404 If being a whore is so honorable,how come it has to be called the more Marxist term “sex work”?

Posted by: Cow Demon at June 25, 2025 01:08 PM (LlXyc)

405 these big cities

are a huge

fucking problem

they need to be NOT a part of the republic, or be a lesser legislative tier federally and statewide, SOMEHOW

this is not working. and the Commies know they can take them and still control A LOT

Posted by: Black Orchid at June 25, 2025 01:08 PM (Pv3Rg)

406 ...including deploying dedicated outreach workers in 100 subway stations, providing medical services in vacant commercial units, and increasing Transit Ambassadors to assist New Yorkers on their journeys—expand evidence-based gun violence prevention programs, and increase funding to hate violence prevention programs by 800%.
Posted by: Moron Analyst at June 25, 2025 01:04 PM (7ZBK+)

DeBlasio spent literally over a billion dollars trying to do exactly that, and well, the money disappeared.

I do see the scared girls with the "homeless outreach" vests loitering on the promenades near the cops / MTA people sometimes though. So I guess some of the money went to pay those girls $20 an hour to stand around and hope the scary homeless guys ignore them.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at June 25, 2025 01:08 PM (uCjyK)

407 He's ahl al-bayt. Shi'ite, and his mother is Hindu. He's not Muslim except culturally and he has no real interest in the global jihad.
His problem is his Third Worldism. He doesn't consider himself part of the West; he considers himself send here to dismantle the American Empire. He's a leftwing Vox Day.

Posted by: gKWVE at June 25, 2025 01:09 PM (gKWVE)

408 Try playing the concertina with nine fingers...
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at June 25, 2025 01:08 PM (XZ5S6)

Go to Xinjiang Province and fix tractors,

Posted by: Mao at June 25, 2025 01:09 PM (LlXyc)

409 Speaking of hometowns:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YtFus1h4vb8

Trailer for Roofman, starring Channing Tatum and Kirsten Dunst.

Filmed around Charlotte, including my little outward burb where they turned an abandoned Pizza Hut into a retro McDonald's for a week. You can see it near the beginning.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 25, 2025 01:09 PM (GBKbO)

410 325 Guys -- he's going to solve the Food Desert Crisis (TM) by building state-owned, state-operated nonprofit grocery stores.

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We might be able to how this will end if only it had happened in the past ... alas, we're gonna need MOAR mass graves!
Posted by: ShainS -- Make Unconditional Surrender Great Again! at June 25, 2025 12:54 PM (WjSgq)


What's the over under on the time it takes for one of these city run grocery gets looted?

4 days?

Of course looting won't be crime.

If NYC elects this guy they are effed. And there will be collateral damage as surrounding populations are in the blast radius.

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at June 25, 2025 01:09 PM (HFsIG)

411 389 How do some of the things Madani wants as Progressive square with his beliefs as a Muslim, because decriminalizing" walking while Trans" does not seem to square with Muslin beliefs> the only thing that doesn't sems to be support of Hamas.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 25, 2025 01:05 PM (2GCMq)

While 99% of people will call it "Taqiyya", it's actually something else, called "Muruna".

Muruna is the idea that when a Muslim is living in a non-Muslim country, he is allowed to violate Shari'ah and Islamic Beliefs to stay under the radar so long as it's done with the goal of eventually conquering and forcing Islam upon the population.

Posted by: XTC at June 25, 2025 01:09 PM (UnA8+)

412 “Prioritize solutions that have been consistently shown to improve safety.”


D@mn, that was written by a McKinsey consultant, right? A lot of words to say “trust us, don’t expect details.”

Posted by: Lizzy at June 25, 2025 01:09 PM (Hkcdp)

413 402 I've never been to NYC so I don't care what happens.
Posted by: dantesed at June 25, 2025 01:08 PM (Oy/m2)

It's nice in the fall and winter.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at June 25, 2025 01:09 PM (uCjyK)

414 And on the pedestal, these words appear:
My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings;
Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.

Posted by: Supreme Gentleman at June 25, 2025 01:10 PM (UJJTo)

415 While I could take pleasure in the coming calamities this guy is bringing to a city that so richly deserves every one of them, the ultimate end result is that Florida gets another massive influx of ultra-leftist New York buttmunchers who will bring toxic politics with them. Bah.

Posted by: Blast Hardcheese at June 25, 2025 01:10 PM (V362x)

416 Well done New York. Now, you must pay.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at June 25, 2025 01:10 PM (X78Je)

417 I do see the scared girls with the "homeless outreach" vests loitering on the promenades near the cops / MTA people sometimes though. So I guess some of the money went to pay those girls $20 an hour to stand around and hope the scary homeless guys ignore them.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes

They'll get $30/hr under Mamdani, so they'll be much more effective!

Posted by: Moron Analyst at June 25, 2025 01:10 PM (7ZBK+)

418 #109. I remember GUM, my aunt was a state social worker so had a card. When did they end, '65?

Posted by: From about That Time at June 25, 2025 01:10 PM (n4GiU)

419 Zohran sounds like a name from a 50s science fiction novel. Was he John Carter's father-in-law?

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at June 25, 2025 01:11 PM (jM63s)

420 A goat in every bed and a dog in every pot!

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at June 25, 2025 01:11 PM (17s+e)

421 No worries, Chairborn, I know you're not slamming me. I'm as frustrated as you are.

The only reason the commie mother effer is a clean slate is he hasn't had any power yet. Give him one term as mayor, he'll be as filthy rich as the rest of them through corruption, while destroying NYC.

The only reason Adams got his corruption exposed is because he didn't play the dems game. Mamdami will play it perfectly, as his masters wish, so his sins will go unnoticed in the press.

Posted by: LizLem at June 25, 2025 01:11 PM (gWBY1)

422 394 The opportunities for graft involving city-run grocery stores are endless.
Posted by: mr tmz at June 25, 2025 01:06 PM (rJ48h)

As they are for government run medical care.

Posted by: Cow Demon at June 25, 2025 01:12 PM (LlXyc)

423 with what, a crystal ball?
Posted by: Black Orchid at June 25, 2025 01:05 PM (Pv3Rg)

Might need one. At least you can bash the criminal's head in with it if you get attacked.

Posted by: ... at June 25, 2025 01:12 PM (sfdl6)

424 There’s a “Reclaim the Flag” march in my neighborhood this weekend.

Yay.

Posted by: nurse ratched at June 25, 2025 01:12 PM (W2Pud)

425 Fen, understand that the goal is to destroy us from within. He is pushing for our kids to be trans, for our unborn children to be aborted, etc - culturally destructive and decisive policies to hurt us. He does not advocate for Muslims to accept this stuff.

Posted by: Lizzy at June 25, 2025 01:12 PM (Hkcdp)

426 I blame everyone who supported Andrew Cuomo for this mess, especially Bloomberg. They actually thought that disaster of a politician was a better choice? The voters proved them wrong.

Find new politicians Demofascists. Your old ones can't even win a primary.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at June 25, 2025 01:12 PM (X78Je)

427 I'm hoping more rational voters will prevail at the actual election, but this should be a wakeup call, for anyone who hasn't already seen which way the wind is blowing.

If it wasn't so heartbreaking, it would be fun to watch. Fun isn't the right word; there's nothing funny about it, but it will be fascinating to see how, even after being given everything they want, they will still blame everyone else for their failure to thrive.

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at June 25, 2025 01:12 PM (Vvh2V)

428 Zohran will create the Department of Community Safety to prevent violence before it happens by prioritizing solutions which have been consistently shown to improve safety.

with what, a crystal ball?
Posted by: Black Orchid at June 25, 2025 01:05 PM (Pv3Rg)
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Department of Pre-Crime.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at June 25, 2025 01:07 PM (XZ5S6)

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Department of Pre-Thought Crime.

Any remaining Jews (and conservatives) will likely be experiencing 1939 Germany.

Posted by: ShainS -- Make Unconditional Surrender Great Again! at June 25, 2025 01:12 PM (sbanZ)

429 Why oh why do people vote for people who hate them?

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at June 25, 2025 01:12 PM (jM63s)

430 I’d rather not have another beachhead of more invaders into our country.

Posted by: Cray Cray at June 25, 2025 01:12 PM (Ktl2W)

431 And they thought DeBlasio was bad...

Posted by: It's me donna at June 25, 2025 01:13 PM (VE6XX)

432 >>> BREAKING NOW: 🚨 In a stunning turn of events, the charges of attempted k-dnapping, attempted arson, and abetting s-x traffi-king levied against Sean "P. Diddy" Comb’s HAVE BEEN DROPPED by prosecutors.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at June 25, 2025 01:02 PM (mlg/3)

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Does that mean prosecutors were not confident they would win, so they drop charges. Then they can charge again if they develop a better case? Or does it not work like that?

Posted by: W. Wolf at June 25, 2025 01:13 PM (6TlG5)

433 - Free Tesla in Every Garage!
Posted by: ShainS -- Make Unconditional Surrender Great Again! at June 25, 2025 12:58 PM


Now that's just crazy talk.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 25, 2025 01:13 PM (dPfyF)

434 429 Why oh why do people vote for people who hate them?
Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at June 25, 2025 01:12 PM (jM63s)

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*sighs heavily, thinking of that time I voted for Lindsey Graham*

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 25, 2025 01:13 PM (GBKbO)

435 At least Dunk loved NYC. But first DeBlasio and now Mamdani are lunatic leftist ideologues who don't care who gets hurt as long as the "revolution" is advanced

Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 25, 2025 01:13 PM (pwtJC)

436 But you can get Thai food at 3:00 AM.
Posted by: Josephistan
.......

I know a guy who knows a guy... let me give him a call.

Posted by: wth at June 25, 2025 01:14 PM (UjdFS)

437 417 I do see the scared girls with the "homeless outreach" vests loitering on the promenades near the cops / MTA people sometimes though. So I guess some of the money went to pay those girls $20 an hour to stand around and hope the scary homeless guys ignore them.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes

They'll get $30/hr under Mamdani, so they'll be much more effective!
Posted by: Moron Analyst at June 25, 2025 01:10 PM (7ZBK+)

I wish someone would ask these minimum wage dopes, why 30 an hour. Why not 50 or 60? Wouldn't that be moar better?

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at June 25, 2025 01:14 PM (HFsIG)

438 Nood Leaks

Posted by: Inogame at June 25, 2025 01:14 PM (53oGX)

439
Guys -- he's going to solve the Food Desert Crisis (TM) by building state-owned, state-operated nonprofit grocery stores.



Standing in line at GUM to find out what they are selling today is making a comeback. 2 hours in line to find out that the line was for non-ration card chargeable turnips.

On the other hand, you can have fun by walking up to a random door on the street and standing in line in the morning. People will jump to get behind you on the off chance that they'll be able to buy something worth keeping. Then after you get about 20 people standing behind you, look at your watch and walk away. Come back later in the afternoon and the line will have grown to about 75 people.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at June 25, 2025 01:14 PM (y9nCu)

440 Does that mean prosecutors were not confident they would win, so they drop charges. Then they can charge again if they develop a better case? Or does it not work like that?
Posted by: W. Wolf at June 25, 2025 01:13 PM (6TlG5)

And are there other charges that they will go ahead and try?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 25, 2025 01:15 PM (Hyyh7)

441 The NYC common council is as nuts or nuttier than this guy so his insane ideas have a solid chance of being implemented

Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 25, 2025 01:15 PM (pwtJC)

442 76 What will be the name of these stores?

EmptyMart?

The Puny Pantry?

Posted by: WitchDoktor at June 25, 2025 12:22 PM (vt7xw)

Friendship Store

Posted by: Mao at June 25, 2025 01:15 PM (LlXyc)

443 There’s a “Reclaim the Flag” march in my neighborhood this weekend.

Yay.

Posted by: nurse ratched at June 25, 2025 01:12 PM (W2Pud)

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Continuing to burn and wipe their asses with it?

Nothing new ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Make Unconditional Surrender Great Again! at June 25, 2025 01:15 PM (sbanZ)

444 If this guy actually gets elected, and I lived within a full tank of gas from NYC, I'd start looking for another place to call home.

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at June 25, 2025 01:15 PM (Vvh2V)

445 >>> the ultimate end result is that Florida gets another massive influx of ultra-leftist New York buttmunchers who will bring toxic politics with them. Bah.

Quarantine them at the Everglades Alcatraz?

Posted by: LizLem at June 25, 2025 01:15 PM (gWBY1)

446 NYC has had Jew-hating, illegal-loving mayors for the last 12 years. Nothing has changed. Nothing will change. As I pointed out above, this sand maggot is no more radical than either DeBlasio or Adams (although Adams realigned himself more to the right in the wake of the corruption scandal).

The country also elected a Jew-hating, illegal-loving president for 8 years, and his retarded Jew-hating, illegal-loving dunce VP for 4 more.


The people you mentioned all knew how to play the political game. This guy's a true believer, like Ilhan Omar. He's likely to be *far* more destructive.

Posted by: Ian S. at June 25, 2025 01:16 PM (2ocoG)

447 428 Zohran will create the Department of Community Safety to prevent violence before it happens by prioritizing solutions which have been consistently shown to improve safety.

with what, a crystal ball?
Posted by: Black Orchid at June 25, 2025 01:05 PM (Pv3Rg)
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Prolly have officers go door to door to have little talks with people who post things on the internet that he thinks are hateful.

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at June 25, 2025 01:16 PM (HFsIG)

448 445 >>> the ultimate end result is that Florida gets another massive influx of ultra-leftist New York buttmunchers who will bring toxic politics with them. Bah.

Quarantine them at the Everglades Alcatraz?
Posted by: LizLem at June 25, 2025 01:15 PM (gWBY1)

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Are people forgetting how much redder FL has gotten since 2020?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 25, 2025 01:16 PM (GBKbO)

449 They'll get $30/hr under Mamdani, so they'll be much more effective!
Posted by: Moron Analyst at June 25, 2025 01:10 PM (7ZBK+)

There's a great two panel cartoon to be made there....

Panel 1: gruff burly cop in tough guy gear, small girl in pink t-shirt that says "Homeless Outreach"

Panel 2: gruff burly hobo, small girl in pink t-shirt that says "Police"

Before And After.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 25, 2025 01:16 PM (BjH5D)

450 I think some of the people voting for the Muslim are doing it out of spite. Seriously. People today are insane and do all sorts of shit to themselves in attempts to "stick it to the man."

NYC, at least on the surface, and coming from some of the officials there, has stood behind "the wrong side" on many, many issues. They see their elected officials siding with Gaza, Iran, MS-13, TdA, etc. and think, "yea I'm with them."

Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 25, 2025 01:18 PM (Q4IgG)

451 “Evidence-based gun violence prevention…”

So concealed carry will be made legal then?

Posted by: Cow Demon at June 25, 2025 01:19 PM (LlXyc)

452 Off socm

Posted by: Turn 2 at June 25, 2025 01:20 PM (6TlG5)

453 While stationed in DC, one of the guys got orders to recruiting duty. After school, he was assigned to a NYC station and a few of us drove up there to visit after he and the wife got settled in.Visited at their not bad, lucky to find it apartment, and went on tour. Early 70s. Times Square. One of the guys says "man, this sidewalk is sticky". Our bud, the new recruiter "don't ask".He did say, even in those days, Marines were treated with respect.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at June 25, 2025 01:20 PM (gm9Sb)

454 my little outward burb
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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Ah. You've piqued my curiosity. Outside of Mecklengburg county, or inside?

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 25, 2025 01:21 PM (XeU6L)

455 *sighs heavily, thinking of that time I voted for Lindsey Graham*
Posted by: TheJamesMadison


I don't hate you. I just think you're a sucker. And not the good kind.

Posted by: Miz Lindsey at June 25, 2025 01:23 PM (/y8xj)

456 The entire thread my brain is going dyslexic and I'm reading Madmani over and over again.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at June 25, 2025 01:23 PM (6ydKt)

457 454 my little outward burb
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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Ah. You've piqued my curiosity. Outside of Mecklengburg county, or inside?
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 25, 2025 01:21 PM (XeU6L)

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Outside. Union County.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 25, 2025 01:24 PM (GBKbO)

458 @ExxAlerts 27m
BREAKING NOW: 🚨 In a stunning turn of events, the charges of attempted k-dnapping, attempted arson, and abetting s-x traffi-king levied against Sean "P. Diddy" Comb’s HAVE BEEN DROPPED by prosecutors.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at June 25, 2025 01:02 PM


They figured that he was going to be found not guilty by the jury and that would have prevented them from bringing any of these charges against him in the future.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at June 25, 2025 01:26 PM (e5NfL)

459 "Escape from New York"

"The Asphalt Jungle Primary"

Posted by: mrp at June 25, 2025 01:26 PM (rj6Yv)

460 /sock

Posted by: Oddbob at June 25, 2025 01:26 PM (/y8xj)

461 BREAKING NOW: 🚨 In a stunning turn of events, the charges of attempted k-dnapping, attempted arson, and abetting s-x traffi-king levied against Sean "P. Diddy" Comb’s HAVE BEEN DROPPED by prosecutors.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at June 25, 2025 01:02 PM (mlg/3)

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Does that mean prosecutors were not confident they would win, so they drop charges. Then they can charge again if they develop a better case? Or does it not work like that?
Posted by: W. Wolf

Having been listening to lawyers discuss this on Court TV and the consensus seems to be that the Prosecution overcharged him with RICO. All of the evidence so far doesn't point to RICO and so, unbelievably, he may walk depending on whether the jury has lesser charges to convict him on.

Posted by: Cheri at June 25, 2025 01:33 PM (oiNtH)

462 Kurt Russell is getting to old to play the role again, so you won’t have Snake Plissken’s help to Escape New York; leave New York City while the getting is good!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at June 25, 2025 01:34 PM (NWqJf)

463 Some personal experience:

Rent, Stores, Loans
I live in Co-Op City in the Bronx. It was built under a specific state law providing loans for middle income housing. From the start, it was overtly socialist. Refusing to raise the rent/carrying charges was a major element of directors staying in power. It is the only project under that program that has not paid off its loans.
When it opened, it had corporate owned grocery stores, and even our own generic brand. They did not last 10 years.

Free Buses
Buses are already effectively free in NYC. No driver will stop someone from boarding and sitting for failure to pay a fare. Perversely, making buses officially free might save money on maintenance for the fare boxes.

Minimum Wage
Fast food places are already automating.

General Stuff

Childcare and Newborns
For what children?

Insurance
He expects the NYC unions to trade in for Medicaid. This is the one I would place my hopes on breaking him over.

Posted by: Sam at June 25, 2025 01:35 PM (7jMef)

464 BREAKING:
"Our investigative reporter found all New York City Government Food Store shelves mostly empty, for the 10th day in a row. We will have her full report at 11pm.

"In other news, yesterday another of our intrepid reporters leaned that all CCTV cameras inside and outside all New York City Government Grocery Warehouses have been out-of order for the past 11 days. The City Food Store Department has not yet responded to our questions."

Posted by: Gref at June 25, 2025 01:39 PM (aBgBM)

465 One thing i keep seeing people say is "there should be a law that when NYers flee they can't vote in their new state, because they'll just ruin that state too"

And while i agree, it should be implemented the other way around too.

This guy's votes came mostly from kids from outsider NY who moved there for school or to pursue a Broadway career, and then vote their shitty ideals. The rest of his votes were from rich white kids who are angry at mommy and daddy for only buying them a 1,500 sqft condo instead of a 2,500 sqft, and the few old white ladies who came to nyc in the 60s.

Any local voted for Cuomo.

This guy benefits from low turnout in mayoral elections because these radical brats do vote in nyc. If they actually get people to vote, like they do for president, then Adams will probably win again, though they will probably need Sliwa to drop out so Adams gets those 350k votes.

Posted by: Rbastid at June 25, 2025 01:42 PM (QKCbS)

466 We need a man like Bob Hauk.

Posted by: Butch at June 25, 2025 01:42 PM (yFLWn)

467 His opponent needs to also spend money to point out how radical he is. I didn't see 1 ad about this election, though for the last year i was bombarded by ads for the NJ Democrat governor primary.

Instead the dumb kids were all mobilized by his tiktoks, and other dumb kids promoting him non stop (again, every one i know pushing for him were from out of state, and will probably leave after he ruins the city, as their all the type who are afraid to take the subway after 6PM)

Posted by: Rbastid at June 25, 2025 01:47 PM (QKCbS)

468 Anyone have a line on the over/under on the percentage of restaurants that go out of business on a $30 dollar minimum wage? I am guessing 45%.

Posted by: JB1000 at June 25, 2025 01:48 PM (9sRlX)

469 NYC deserves their Hell they voted for

Posted by: Blanco at June 25, 2025 01:53 PM (q83gU)

470 NYC changed the name to Ft. Sumter.
Cool and Groovy I like it. Has a nice ring to it...

Posted by: Captain Fantastic at June 25, 2025 02:09 PM (6Irx1)

471 Defund NYC.

Posted by: red speck at June 25, 2025 02:11 PM (0Id0S)

472 Look at the bright side: Mamdani is going to be limited to only two consecutive four year terms! Although he could come back in four years and run for a third term.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at June 25, 2025 02:22 PM (NWqJf)

473 Mamdani could easily be easily defeated if New York City voters were, by and large, politically engaged and thoughtful about consequences before voting. I think you see the problem here.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at June 25, 2025 02:25 PM (NWqJf)

474 It absolutely blows my mind that there are still people who believe ridiculous and impossible promises of Free Stuff. Where do they think it all comes from?

Oh wait, they're illiterate, innumerate, and arrogant. Of course they believe it 🙄.

Posted by: Adorably Deplorable Delayna at June 25, 2025 02:41 PM (BMzzn)

475 "84 Would you want a Political Director that approves of political assassinations?

I mean...
you are pretty much giving your opposition an invitation to kill you, aren't you?"

Don't TELL them.

Posted by: Adorably Deplorable Delayna at June 25, 2025 03:22 PM (BMzzn)

476 If you wanted to cripple a city from within, intentionally, how would anyone do it differently?

This man cannot be allowed to "win" anything

Posted by: melodicmetal1 at June 25, 2025 03:53 PM (XLfSN)

477 First the state of Minnesota and SE Michigan, now they are going for New York City.

And let's not forget the those already in positions in the federal government. Some as far back as the Obama Administration and still infecting it.

Same blueprint Muslims used to take over England.

Almost every major city in the UK has a Muslim in control.

Instagram: https://bit.ly/3ROxCBc

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at June 25, 2025 05:29 PM (P5BPp)

478 This Bottom Feeders and Sewer Dweller should be returned to his Home Nation Out of America Period

Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at June 25, 2025 06:24 PM (wGqjj)

Wednesday Morning Rant

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"Grassroots"

As I was trawling the news this week, I saw a couple of articles about a "grassroots" boycott movement that has been targeting various businesses this year, focused on opposition to the sudden lurching reversal of various DEI-type activities. This was news to me, but it turns out that they've had eleven completed or planned boycott actions this year. The targets are varied, from Wal-Mart (past) and McDonald's (current) to overall "economic blackout" activities. I decided to look into it further, and didn't realize I was about to enter the theater of the absurd.

It's all backed by an outfit calling itself "The People's Union USA," (I begrudgingly link to the actual site here, because the archived versions are outdated) which is itself backed by a man called John Schwartz. Schwartz himself is a former meditation instructor turned activist, and the organization describes itself as:

The People’s Union USA is a grassroots movement focused on economic resistance, corporate accountability, and real justice for the working class. We’re not a political party, we’re a movement for the people. All people. No matter your background, beliefs, or affiliation.
Our mission is simple, unite everyday Americans against the greed and corruption that’s kept us divided, distracted, and struggling for decades.

So typical leftist crap, and it keeps going:

We’re building a people-powered force that’s not just pushing back, but preparing to take power back from the corporations, the billionaire class, and the political parasites that have been feeding off our work, our wages, and our rights for far too long.
The idea that DEI initiatives should be abandoned is backward, regressive, and dangerous.
Every American deserves a fair shot at success, and that includes every race, every background, every belief system. Period.
Would you like some DEI with your class struggle?
We're organizing by town, city, and state, one chapter at a time. And every chapter will work to:
~ Protect the people in their community
~ Expose corruption and exploitation
~ Certify ethical businesses
~ Create outreach and mutual aid
~ Hold corporations accountable
~ Lead local and national economic resistance
~ Offer our members real protection, real support, and real leadership
How delightfully vague. None of it means anything other than potentially implying that it wants to be a protection racket. Per the website, their primary actions are these "boycotts." "Don't shop at Amazon today." "Don't shop at McDonald's this week." "Don't shop at all next Tuesday." There is apparently almost no participation. But okay. We've all seen this story before. Another prog nonprofit burning cash and accomplishing nothing. Same old grift, right?

Wrong. There is something missing from "the People's Union USA's" website. It looks for all the world like a bog standard astroturfing organization pretending to be "grassroots." You can buy merchandise with their logo on it. There's a blog and a forum. If you want to start a local chapter - beyond the one they have now in the Pacific Northwest - there's a link you can follow to do it. If you want to just throw money at them, there are of course numerous prominent buttons you click to donate and help "fuel the resistance." But there's some interesting word choice peppered throughout the website:

The People's Union USA is a fully structured, legally recognized organization.
Odd. And
Legal Disclaimer
The People's Union USA is a legally registered LLC and an officially trademarked organization.
We are fully established and operating within all legal guidelines to ensure the protection and longevity of this movement.
So it is not a non-profit. It is a straight-up corporation aping a non-profit. I suspect this is one of the reasons it calls itself a "union" instead:
This is not a temporary movement.
This is a living system being built for the long haul, something no political party will ever give you.

We've started the union. , (sic) now we build it out.

This is an outfit that calls itself a "movement" and an "organization" and has all the trappings of a phony non-profit, except that it very carefully does not call itself a non-profit. Given just how much graft sluices through the "non-profit" complex, this one must be really bad if it can't even meet the absurd minimum requirements to start or operate one. "Send your money to John Schwartz Incorporated" is a pretty ballsy move and it invites a question: how does it work?

Well, part of how it works is a credulous press. The Today Show. Newsweek. CNN. CNET. The Independent (UK). NPR. Yahoo!. Time. CBS. Even HotAir covered it, primarily to highlight some of the founder's past bad behavior - but even they didn't bother to mention that the dude is running an outfit so suspect that it can't even be bothered to jump through the hoops to get on the "non-profit" gravy train. All of these outlets and more have covered "The People's Union USA's" "boycotts" this year, some multiple times and none have bothered to even raise an eyebrow at the structure of this thing and question whether it might be almost hilariously transparent grifting.

It looks completely fake. It's an LLC masquerading as a non-profit (which is refreshingly honest, though I doubt that's intentional) getting enormous - and totally unjustifiable - press coverage, attempting to ride on the generalized resentment of leftists and the specific resentment of those who are pissed off that DEI is, for the moment, fighting a rear-guard action. It doesn't appear to actually organize anything. It doesn't have to print up signs or hire rent-a-mobs. It just posts on its website, "hey, don't shop today so you can stick it to the man. Also, send money or buy some merch." The "organization" sure looks lean, though, Not actually doing anything doesn't seem incur all that many expenses.

There is one other thing, though, which is awards. You can't have an "organization" or a "movement" without awards. Schwartz so far has handed out one "ethical business" award - to a coffee shop in East Hampton, CT. That is in the same county where per the HotAir article, Schwartz - coincidentally I'm sure - used to own ... a coffee shop. This whole thing is perhaps one of the most transparent and uproariously cynical cash grabs I have ever seen, and the press has lined up to send business his way. And it's worked - he raised $125k on GoFundMe before launching the website and switching to "donate" buttons. And as a private LLC, it's not like they have to publish financials. There's no way to even estimate how much has come in or how much of what came in actually went to organizational expenses or whatever causes it pretends to support. Fools and their money...

It's astounding, but hey - at least it's "grassroots!" After all, nothing says "grassroots" like "a former meditation instructor's private LLC with no disclosure, a single 'chapter' and a suspicious amount of credulous media coverage."

Posted by: Joe Mannix at 11:02 AM




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1 Early!!!

Posted by: Diogenes at June 25, 2025 11:03 AM (W/lyH)

2 Woohoo!!!

Posted by: Diogenes at June 25, 2025 11:03 AM (W/lyH)

3 Yep.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at June 25, 2025 11:03 AM (hqSyT)

4 backed by a man called John Schwartz.

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Oh no, the Schwartz is with them!

Posted by: Duke Lowell at June 25, 2025 11:05 AM (2UnvF)

5 Nood duties performed

Posted by: Doof at June 25, 2025 11:05 AM (B5+rm)

6 Grassroots Movement! Piffle! I've got a Grassroots Movement in my pants, twice a day!

Posted by: Scranton Joe at June 25, 2025 11:05 AM (G5+As)

7 The Schwartz Awakens.

Posted by: Boss Moss at June 25, 2025 11:06 AM (VAINm)

8 I was about to enter the theater of the absurd.

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Mannix is the DataRepublican of Rainmen.

Posted by: ShainS -- Make Unconditional Surrender Great Again! at June 25, 2025 11:06 AM (LBpnK)

9 Sometimes I time my Amazon purchases to coincide with the boycotts.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at June 25, 2025 11:06 AM (PiwSw)

10 Government funding in 3...2...1...

Posted by: Lizzy at June 25, 2025 11:06 AM (6o/o0)

11 -- The People�s Union USA is a grassroots movement focused on economic resistance, corporate accountability, and real justice for the working class. --

Right from the jump, it's clear what this "Union" is about. Vagueness and platitudes until we get to the list of priorities... and looky here! Every last one is hard-left!

"Be skeptical. Skepticism is a superpower." -- Christopher Roach.

Posted by: Francis W. Porretto at June 25, 2025 11:06 AM (Nmmyc)

12 This grift reminds me of the one that's gonna tell you the secret to making millions if you'll just send them $10. The secret, of course, is to snooker lots of people into sending in $10.

Posted by: Archimedes at June 25, 2025 11:06 AM (Riz8t)

13 "Hiya!"
-- Coffee Party

Posted by: Lizzy at June 25, 2025 11:07 AM (6o/o0)

14 "Grass roots"

Far out, man!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at June 25, 2025 11:07 AM (NC42u)

15 It's all backed by an outfit calling itself "The People's Union USA,"



That doesn't sound commie at all. No siree!

Posted by: rickb223 at June 25, 2025 11:08 AM (zSKXS)

16 Astro Turf.

Posted by: Boss Moss at June 25, 2025 11:08 AM (VAINm)

17 12 This grift reminds me of the one that's gonna tell you the secret to making millions if you'll just send them $10. The secret, of course, is to snooker lots of people into sending in $10.
Posted by: Archimedes at June 25, 2025 11:06 AM (Riz8t)

======

Bruh.

I need more info.

What's your Venmo? I'm gonna send you $10.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 25, 2025 11:08 AM (GBKbO)

18 I'd say nobody could be stupid enough to send this clown money, but come on. Also, notice that he targets those on the left. Gee, why would that be?

Posted by: Archimedes at June 25, 2025 11:08 AM (Riz8t)

19 All of that manifesto-ing is very impressive. They'll probably picket some WalMarts, maybe throw drinks on the floor at McDonald's.

Posted by: Don Black- Senior VP, Tri-state Snorkel Inc. at June 25, 2025 11:08 AM (AOsQT)

20 This grift reminds me of the one that's gonna tell you the secret to making millions if you'll just send them $10. The secret, of course, is to snooker lots of people into sending in $10.
Posted by: Archimedes


Foes it work?

(Folds over new, crisp $10 bill) Just did!

Posted by: rickb223 at June 25, 2025 11:09 AM (zSKXS)

21 The only local chapter of this organization is in Portland, of course.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at June 25, 2025 11:09 AM (xTIDn)

22 Announcing you are grassroots is like announcing you have integrity.

Posted by: ... at June 25, 2025 11:09 AM (sfdl6)

23 We're organizing by town, city, and state, one chapter at a time. And every chapter will work to:
~ Protect the people in their community
~ Expose corruption and exploitation
~ Certify ethical businesses
~ Create outreach and mutual aid
~ Hold corporations accountable
~ Lead local and national economic resistance
~ Offer our members real protection, real support, and real leadership

- Live for today

Posted by: Bulg at June 25, 2025 11:09 AM (77rzZ)

24 Heh. Deep Cover MAGA op maybe?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 25, 2025 11:09 AM (BjH5D)

25 Good . Let a con man take the Left’s money.

Posted by: polynikes at June 25, 2025 11:09 AM (VofaG)

26 It's all backed by an outfit calling itself "The People's Union USA

When I read "People's" "Union" "USA", I see "Commies Commies USA"

Posted by: t-bird at June 25, 2025 11:09 AM (Vngri)

27 Announcing you are grassroots is like announcing you have integrity.

*Dear, have we counted the spoons lately?*

Posted by: Archimedes at June 25, 2025 11:10 AM (Riz8t)

28 18 I'd say nobody could be stupid enough to send this clown money, but come on. Also, notice that he targets those on the left. Gee, why would that be?
Posted by: Archimedes at June 25, 2025 11:08 AM (Riz8t)

Really.... People are stupid.. Look at NY City Mayor's race

Posted by: It's me donna at June 25, 2025 11:10 AM (VE6XX)

29 25 Good . Let a con man take the Left’s money.
Posted by: polynikes at June 25, 2025 11:09 AM (VofaG)

=======

If the fed grant spigot is actually off, these orgs will need to go to others willing to give them money for nonsense leftist promises.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 25, 2025 11:10 AM (GBKbO)

30 Bet he used AI to write it, so that all the overused, meaningless buzzwords are included:

x people-powered
x resistance
x deserves a fair shot
x corporate greed
x grassroots
x justice

Posted by: Lizzy at June 25, 2025 11:10 AM (6o/o0)

31 When I read "People's" "Union" "USA", I see "Commies Commies USA"
Posted by: t-bird at June 25, 2025 11:09 AM (Vngri)

Yes... Anything with "Peoples" is suspect

Posted by: It's me donna at June 25, 2025 11:10 AM (VE6XX)

32 Is it illegal or just cynical and despicable?

Posted by: Dr. Claw at June 25, 2025 11:10 AM (jbnUc)

33 Eh, let the guy have his small time grift. It's not like everyone else doesn't have their grifts.

Speaking of that, what's going on in Biden-land these days?

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at June 25, 2025 11:11 AM (uCjyK)

34 I, for one, think this is fabulous. A small entrepreneur find a market niche and exploits it. That he is taking money from the Left makes it all the better.

I am kicking myself for not thinking of this.

Posted by: toby928 at June 25, 2025 11:11 AM (jc0TO)

35 So the Rainbow Coalition is up and running again under a different name?

Posted by: polynikes at June 25, 2025 11:11 AM (VofaG)

36 Really.... People are stupid.. Look at NY City Mayor's race

My daughter is leaving NYC in a month and a half. That makes me very happy.

Posted by: Archimedes at June 25, 2025 11:11 AM (Riz8t)

37 This was stated in the last thread:

"As a fellow carnivore, it's professional courtesy not to."

To be accurate, as hominids, we are omnivores, not carnivores.

Posted by: Wesley Crusher at June 25, 2025 11:11 AM (0sNs1)

38 AoS Today
- News
- Art
- Business Opportunities

Posted by: Chuck Martel at June 25, 2025 11:11 AM (DYe8R)

39 It looks completely fake. It's an LLC masquerading as a non-profit...
-

Look for the Union libel.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at June 25, 2025 11:11 AM (NC42u)

40 33 Speaking of that, what's going on in Biden-land these days?
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at June 25, 2025 11:11 AM (uCjyK)

=======

"I've begun to suspect that the Biden family may not be the most honest family in American politics."
-Chuck Todd

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 25, 2025 11:12 AM (GBKbO)

41 The professionally printed signs that appear almost instantly are the giveaway that the "resistance" is formal and corporate, not "grassroots". The United States could bomb Trinidad & Tobago this morning and by the early evening there would be protests in Los Angeles that feature hundreds of professionally printed signs.

Posted by: Crusader at June 25, 2025 11:12 AM (TN0g+)

42 Yes... Anything with "Peoples" is suspect
Posted by: It's me donna


Hey!
-- Judge Wapner of the People's Court

Posted by: Bulg at June 25, 2025 11:12 AM (77rzZ)

43 Yes... Anything with "Peoples" is suspect
Posted by: It's me donna at June 25, 2025 11:10 AM (VE6XX)


Now hold on just a minute there!

Posted by: Zombie Judge Wapner at June 25, 2025 11:12 AM (PiwSw)

44 It's all backed by an outfit calling itself "The People's Union USA," (I begrudgingly link to the actual site here, because the archived versions are outdated) which is itself backed by a man called John Schwartz.

May the Schwartz be with you! I see you too are on the search for more money.

Posted by: Yogurt, the wise and powerful keeper of the "up-side" of the Schwartz. at June 25, 2025 11:12 AM (t0Rmr)

45 You know the Left is really losing it when they start talking up America and the USA.

Posted by: ... at June 25, 2025 11:12 AM (sfdl6)

46 If the fed grant spigot is actually off, these orgs will need to go to others willing to give them money for nonsense leftist promises.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 25, 2025 11:10 AM (GBKbO)

Narrator: It isn't.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at June 25, 2025 11:12 AM (uCjyK)

47 I rather hope Mr Schwartz is making big bank off of idiot rich liberals. Also I bet if the FNM got a tip that Mr Schwartz is a staunch defender of Israel the FNM would suddenly get very interested in an LLC that is probably snookering gullible liberals.

Posted by: PaleRider at June 25, 2025 11:12 AM (bP/i4)

48 Humans are big brained apex predators who hunger for animal fat.

Posted by: Boss Moss at June 25, 2025 11:13 AM (VAINm)

49 Heh. Deep Cover MAGA op maybe?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 25, 2025 11:09 AM (BjH5D)
==
I immediately thought the same - just taking some dumb leftists money for fun.

Posted by: Black JEM at June 25, 2025 11:13 AM (GZYu7)

50 The professionally printed signs that appear almost instantly are the giveaway that the "resistance" is formal and corporate, not "grassroots". The United States could bomb Trinidad & Tobago this morning and by the early evening there would be protests in Los Angeles that feature hundreds of professionally printed signs.

I remember seeing a teacher union's strike a while back with hand drawn signs. You'd think teachers can spell...and you'd be wrong.

Posted by: 18-1 at June 25, 2025 11:13 AM (t0Rmr)

51 These people have a real Jones for some 60s-style street action. But those were real movements about real national issues- war in Vietnam, desegregation, etc.

The new generation of radicals are just dumb, yet violent, poseurs. Their grievances are focus-grouped in committees. Wannabes. And I bet they were ALL in Drama Club in high school.

Posted by: Don Black- Senior VP, Tri-State Snorkel Inc. at June 25, 2025 11:13 AM (AOsQT)

52 46 If the fed grant spigot is actually off, these orgs will need to go to others willing to give them money for nonsense leftist promises.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 25, 2025 11:10 AM (GBKbO)

Narrator: It isn't.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at June 25, 2025 11:12 AM (uCjyK)

=======

Narrator: Some of it definitely is.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 25, 2025 11:13 AM (GBKbO)

53 "I've begun to suspect that the Biden family may not be the most honest family in American politics."
-Chuck Todd


Remember when we were told we needed the news media because only they were smart enough to understand and interpret what was happening?

Pepperidge Farm remembers.

Posted by: Archimedes at June 25, 2025 11:14 AM (Riz8t)

54 If a organization has "People's" in the name, there's your sign.

Posted by: Dingbat at June 25, 2025 11:14 AM (hIZiR)

55 cougars purr

Posted by: Kindltot at June 25, 2025 11:14 AM (D7oie)

56 So the Rainbow Coalition is up and running again under a different name?
Posted by: polynikes at June 25, 2025 11:11 AM (VofaG)

During Pride Month???

Posted by: ... at June 25, 2025 11:14 AM (sfdl6)

57 - Live for today
Posted by: Bulg at June 25, 2025 11:09 AM


The future begins tomorrow.

Posted by: Yoyodyne Propulsion Systems at June 25, 2025 11:14 AM (0sNs1)

58 What did McDonald's do?

Posted by: one hour sober at June 25, 2025 11:14 AM (Y1sOo)

59 I remember seeing a teacher union's strike a while back with hand drawn signs. You'd think teachers can spell...and you'd be wrong.
Posted by: 18-1

When one of my siblings came home a note from a teacher or principal, she would send it back with spelling and grammatical errors corrected.

Posted by: Bulg at June 25, 2025 11:14 AM (77rzZ)

60 >Humans are big brained apex predators who hunger for animal fat.

Posted by: Boss Moss
---
I know right
i had 3 strips of seared swine flesh at breakfast.

Posted by: Don Black- Senior VP, Tri-State Snorkel Inc. at June 25, 2025 11:14 AM (AOsQT)

61 You'd think teachers can spell...and you'd be wrong.
Posted by: 18-1 at June 25, 2025 11:13 AM (t0Rmr)

They had their students make all the signs during fourth period Hydroflask Full of Gin class.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 25, 2025 11:15 AM (BjH5D)

62 Narrator: It isn't.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at June 25, 2025 11:12 AM (uCjyK)

=======

Narrator: Some of it definitely is.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 25, 2025 11:13 AM (GBKbO)

Narrator: Are we really gonna do this narrator fight thing?

Posted by: ... at June 25, 2025 11:15 AM (sfdl6)

63 59 "my mother," I meant.

Posted by: Bulg at June 25, 2025 11:15 AM (77rzZ)

64 "I've begun to suspect that the Biden family may not be the most honest family in American politics."
-Chuck Todd
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 25, 2025 11:12 AM (GBKbO)

Heh.

I'm just waiting for the true tell all book inside Biden land. Hopefully it gets released in my lifetime. I am excited to read about Hunters crack fueled orgies funded by bribes of both national and international flavors, for one.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at June 25, 2025 11:15 AM (uCjyK)

65 Then: Any accusation that Joe Biden and his family are not selfless public servants is a lie. I've know him and them for decades and you will never meet more salt of the earth people

Now: "I've begun to suspect that the Biden family may not be the most honest family in American politics."

Posted by: 18-1 at June 25, 2025 11:15 AM (t0Rmr)

66 How many Walmart's have closed so far?

Posted by: Boss Moss at June 25, 2025 11:15 AM (VAINm)

67 62 Narrator: It isn't.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at June 25, 2025 11:12 AM (uCjyK)

=======

Narrator: Some of it definitely is.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 25, 2025 11:13 AM (GBKbO)

Narrator: Are we really gonna do this narrator fight thing?
Posted by: ... at June 25, 2025 11:15 AM (sfdl6)

======

Narrator: The white zone is for loading and unloading only.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 25, 2025 11:15 AM (GBKbO)

68 What did McDonald's do?

Posted by: one hour sober at June 25, 2025 11:14 AM (Y1sOo)

I think most reversed their DEI policies/programs.

Posted by: polynikes at June 25, 2025 11:15 AM (VofaG)

69 62 Narrator: It isn't.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at June 25, 2025 11:12 AM (uCjyK)

=======

Narrator: Some of it definitely is.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 25, 2025 11:13 AM (GBKbO)

Narrator: Are we really gonna do this narrator fight thing?


this is about the abortion, isn't it?

Posted by: there is no parking in the white zone at June 25, 2025 11:15 AM (sGtp+)

70 I have a photo of my wife standing in front of the sign for The People's Bank of Cuba in ... Cuba, Missouri.

Posted by: toby928 at June 25, 2025 11:16 AM (jc0TO)

71 Then: Any accusation that Joe Biden and his family are not selfless public servants is a lie. I've know him and them for decades and you will never meet more salt of the earth people

Now: "I've begun to suspect that the Biden family may not be the most honest family in American politics."
Posted by: 18-1 at June 25, 2025 11:15 AM (t0Rmr)

Tomorrow: Yeah he was an asshole but we needed an asshole.

Posted by: ... at June 25, 2025 11:16 AM (sfdl6)

72 i had 3 strips of seared swine flesh at breakfast.
Posted by: Don Black- Senior VP, Tri-State Snorkel Inc. at June 25, 2025 11:14 AM


Haram!

Posted by: Abdully McAbdulface at June 25, 2025 11:16 AM (0sNs1)

73 Two things can be true.

Dude is making money and he’s into the cause.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at June 25, 2025 11:16 AM (ORJZB)

74 >"I've begun to suspect that the Biden family may not be the most honest family in American politics."
-Chuck Todd
---

"I'm starting to think this Hitler character might be bad."
-Norm McDonald

Posted by: Don Black- Senior VP, Tri-State Snorkel Inc. at June 25, 2025 11:16 AM (AOsQT)

75 Good morning horde

Posted by: Skip at June 25, 2025 11:17 AM (+qU29)

76 58 What did McDonald's do?

Posted by: one hour sober at June 25, 2025 11:14 AM (Y1sOo)

"They" claimed McDonalds was eliminating DEI but McDonalds said no they're not.. So I'm gonna boycott because of that... Oh.. And I don't got to McDonalds so that will be easy

Posted by: It's me donna at June 25, 2025 11:17 AM (VE6XX)

77 So the Rainbow Coalition is up and running again under a different name?
Posted by: polynikes at June 25, 2025 11:11 AM (VofaG)

During Pride Month???
Posted by: ...


We were talking about lion meat on the last thread...

Posted by: Bulg at June 25, 2025 11:17 AM (77rzZ)

78 PT Barnum looks down on today's America and smiles, thinking "nothing ever really changes."

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 25, 2025 11:17 AM (uWKK8)

79 48 Humans are big brained apex predators who hunger for animal fat.

indeed

Posted by: leonard nimoy's photo collection at June 25, 2025 11:17 AM (sGtp+)

80 65 Then: Any accusation that Joe Biden and his family are not selfless public servants is a lie. I've know him and them for decades and you will never meet more salt of the earth people

Now: "I've begun to suspect that the Biden family may not be the most honest family in American politics."
Posted by: 18-1 at June 25, 2025 11:15 AM (t0Rmr)

======

But he's right about all the other political families.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 25, 2025 11:17 AM (GBKbO)

81 McDonald's let Trump work for them and helped his campaign.

Posted by: ... at June 25, 2025 11:17 AM (sfdl6)

82 Traditionally your status in society determined how much animal protein you were able to eat.

But I'm sure the people over millennia across almost every single culture were all wrong and really it was the lowest class of slaves/serfs that really had the best diet.

Posted by: 18-1 at June 25, 2025 11:17 AM (t0Rmr)

83 Kinda funny that Target was targeted by the right when it went DEI then by the left when it backed off a little.

Yo corporations: stay out of politics and none of this shit will happen. It’s so easy.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at June 25, 2025 11:17 AM (ORJZB)

84 Live for today
Posted by: Bulg at June 25, 2025 11:09 AM

The future begins tomorrow.
Posted by: Yoyodyne Propulsion Systems at June 25, 2025 11:14 AM



The Future is now ... wait

The Future is now!

Err, Now!

NOW!





Dammit.

Posted by: toby928 at June 25, 2025 11:18 AM (jc0TO)

85 Narrator: Some of it definitely is.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 25, 2025 11:13 AM (GBKbO)

You're more optimistic than I am.

I would imagine there are hundreds of billions of dollars floating around in Defense and State, not to mention the billions upon billions of dollars (collectively) hidden in all kinds of places in the budget.

And I imagine the Big Beautiful Bill shuffled USAID money to different areas of the budget. I also highly doubt that USAID was the primary source of funds for the Deep State. The Deep State is not going down easily.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at June 25, 2025 11:18 AM (uCjyK)

86 I have my own "People's Union USA".

I avoid any business or concern that is owned or run by fags, queerbaits, sodomites, lesbos, bull dykes, pederasts, Chomos and any race warlord types that hate whitey.

Gives me peace and satisfaction.

Posted by: Happiness Is A Warm Gun at June 25, 2025 11:19 AM (PzyNU)

87
Narrator:

And crawling on the planet's face
Some insects, called the human race...
Lost in time, and lost in space,
And meaning.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at June 25, 2025 11:19 AM (0sNs1)

88 Speaking of boycotts what happened to the Walmart boycott since a Walton organized No Kings? That fizzled out fast.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at June 25, 2025 11:19 AM (ORJZB)

89 "They" claimed McDonalds was eliminating DEI but McDonalds said no they're not.. So I'm gonna boycott because of that... Oh.. And I don't got to McDonalds so that will be easy/i]

Pretty much every town in America has a pizza/sub/sandwich shop that will make you a better burger then McDs and nowadays they are the same price too

Posted by: 18-1 at June 25, 2025 11:19 AM (t0Rmr)

90 the People's Union is boycotting McDonald's locally

I think the only possible counter to this is that they start deep frying with tallow again.

Posted by: Kindltot at June 25, 2025 11:19 AM (D7oie)

91 72 i had 3 strips of seared swine flesh at breakfast.
Posted by: Don Black- Senior VP, Tri-State Snorkel Inc. at June 25, 2025 11:14 AM

Haram!
Posted by: Abdully McAbdulface

That won't be allowed in MY city!

Posted by: Zohran Mamdani at June 25, 2025 11:19 AM (JCZqz)

92 >>>Kinda funny that Target was targeted by the right when it went DEI then by the left when it backed off a little.

They tried to balance it this year. the 4th of July stuff is up front, the pride month stuff is in the back of the store

Posted by: brak at June 25, 2025 11:20 AM (jGJov)

93 Seems like half the websites I try to visit now want me to register, or give them money, for access.

Posted by: javems at June 25, 2025 11:20 AM (8I4hW)

94 Pretty much every town in America has a pizza/sub/sandwich shop that will make you a better burger then McDs and nowadays they are the same price too
Posted by: 18-1 at June 25, 2025 11:19 AM (t0Rmr)

Yeah but they won't hand it to me out the window ten seconds after i order it.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 25, 2025 11:20 AM (BjH5D)

95 I'd bet that there's a strong overlap between this guy's marks and the people in the article below.

Would you pay $95 for a bottle of water?

https://archive.is/CWcRk

Posted by: Archimedes at June 25, 2025 11:20 AM (Riz8t)

96 88 Speaking of boycotts what happened to the Walmart boycott since a Walton organized No Kings? That fizzled out fast.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at June 25, 2025 11:19 AM (ORJZB)

Ain't nobody got time for that.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at June 25, 2025 11:20 AM (uCjyK)

97 85 You're more optimistic than I am.

I would imagine there are hundreds of billions of dollars floating around in Defense and State, not to mention the billions upon billions of dollars (collectively) hidden in all kinds of places in the budget.

And I imagine the Big Beautiful Bill shuffled USAID money to different areas of the budget. I also highly doubt that USAID was the primary source of funds for the Deep State. The Deep State is not going down easily.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at June 25, 2025 11:18 AM (uCjyK)

=======

The USAID money has not come back, despite judicial orders and the OBBB (which hasn't passed). Even with the OBBB not getting rid of USAID, Trump can still use his discretion to terminate all the grants since none of them were actually explicit in statute.

That's $40 billion.

That's the equivalent of 5 times what Hollywood made at the box office in 2023.

Poo-pooing that loss because unmeasured other losses haven't been cut is silly. That's $40 billion used to prop up the leftist ecosystem that is suddenly gone and isn't coming back anytime soon.

If that doesn't make a difference, nothing will and you might as well just stop paying attention to politic

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 25, 2025 11:21 AM (GBKbO)

98 They tried to balance it this year. the 4th of July stuff is up front, the pride month stuff is in the back of the store
Posted by: brak at June 25, 2025 11:20 AM (jGJov)

So gay stuff in the rear eh?

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at June 25, 2025 11:21 AM (ORJZB)

99 It is a straight-up corporation aping a non-profit. I suspect this is one of the reasons it calls itself a "union" instead:

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Old & Busted: USAID.
New Hotness: UnionAID.

Posted by: ShainS -- Make Unconditional Surrender Great Again! at June 25, 2025 11:21 AM (iDAZI)

100 Pretty much every town in America has a pizza/sub/sandwich shop that will make you a better burger then McDs and nowadays they are the same price too
Posted by: 18-1

Had a Dave's Single at Wendy's yesterday. Outstanding!

Posted by: Bulg at June 25, 2025 11:21 AM (77rzZ)

101 >>>Speaking of boycotts what happened to the Walmart boycott since a Walton organized No Kings? That fizzled out fast.

lol that was only going to work in the dreams of the terminally online

Posted by: brak at June 25, 2025 11:21 AM (jGJov)

102
Yeah but they won't hand it to me out the window ten seconds after i order it.


True, but if you call ahead it will likely be done in the 5-10m it takes you to get there.

Posted by: 18-1 at June 25, 2025 11:22 AM (t0Rmr)

103 The media says this "British man" was arrested for trying to marry a nine year old at Disneyland Paris

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Well, Disneyland is the happiest place on Earth.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Well, This Is Another Fine Mess You've Gotten Me Into at June 25, 2025 11:22 AM (L/fGl)

104 I have a photo of my wife standing in front of the sign for The People's Bank of Cuba in ... Cuba, Missouri.
Posted by: toby928 at June 25, 2025 11:16 AM (jc0TO)


The CEO is no longer Ernesto "Che" Guevara I guess.

Posted by: Kindltot at June 25, 2025 11:22 AM (D7oie)

105 the sudden lurching reversal of various DEI-type activities.

I think Obama and Biden deserve more credit for reversing Obama and Biden policies.

Posted by: Former Obama Aide at June 25, 2025 11:22 AM (IxaHo)

106 Who's in the mood for some anonymous sources?

@BarakRavid
🚨An Israeli official with direct knowledge of intelligence on Iran told me that intercepted communications suggest Iranian military officials have been giving false situation reports to the country's political leadership — downplaying the extent of the damage

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 25, 2025 11:22 AM (GBKbO)

107 It seems essentially the same as George Costanza’s human fund

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at June 25, 2025 11:22 AM (FNvF+)

108 You almost never hear about vacuum cleaner salesmen or drycleaners sticking their noses into politics and race.

Posted by: One Hour Martinizing at June 25, 2025 11:22 AM (G5+As)

109 Had a Dave's Single at Wendy's yesterday. Outstanding!/i]

Wendy's has better quality ingredients then McDs/BK but it really all comes down to the quality of the cook.

Posted by: 18-1 at June 25, 2025 11:23 AM (t0Rmr)

110 Starbucks has been having a lot of difficulty. There is a boycott going on from the pro-Pali terrorists, a continuing boycott (I imagine) from the anti trans yer kids crowd, and just a general dissatisfaction with the customer experience from the loyal SBUX fans.

they complain that the company is more interested in the drive-thru concept (true) and the friendlilness and I guess the bohemian veneer is LONG gone...

Posted by: kallisto at June 25, 2025 11:23 AM (dCxaZ)

111 Boycotts from the right never succeed, because the Media refuses to cover them no matter how vast they are and how much damage they inflict.

Boycotts from the left are always successful, because the Media blows them up into huge, massive affairs that are killing businesses even when it's less than ten people participating.

You can't hate the Media enough.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at June 25, 2025 11:23 AM (WPL6O)

112 Yo corporations: stay out of politics and none of this shit will happen. It’s so easy.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at June 25, 2025 11:17 AM (ORJZB)

If the right is smart this time they will not go back to defending corporations. Let the Left eat them alive.

Posted by: ... at June 25, 2025 11:23 AM (sfdl6)

113 The Future is now ... wait
The Future is now!
Err, Now!
NOW!
Dammit.
Posted by: toby928
___________

Time keeps on slippin', slippin', slippin'

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at June 25, 2025 11:24 AM (ITkJX)

114 ... DEI is, for the moment, fighting a rear-guard action.

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ISWYDT

Posted by: ShainS -- Make Unconditional Surrender Great Again! at June 25, 2025 11:24 AM (iDAZI)

115 The Future is now ... wait

The Future is now!

Err, Now!

NOW!





Dammit.

Posted by: toby928 at June 25, 2025 11:18 AM (jc0TO)

We are all travelers in time.

Posted by: DEEP THOUGHTS at June 25, 2025 11:24 AM (8I4hW)

116 115 We are all travelers in time.
Posted by: DEEP THOUGHTS at June 25, 2025 11:24 AM (8I4hW)

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My body is my time machine.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 25, 2025 11:24 AM (GBKbO)

117 Republicans buy shoes, too.

Posted by: M. Jordan, whom some say is the GOAT at June 25, 2025 11:25 AM (0sNs1)

118 Socialism is good! The US simply serfs aren't getting the word!

On another blog a European socialist says US Media and politicians are actively suppressing how good the serfs have it in Socialist European Nations! To keep the US serfs from demanding European-style socialism!

Good grief.

Posted by: Gref at June 25, 2025 11:25 AM (aBgBM)

119 From GP:
Project Veritas today releases explosive undercover footage exposing a network of transgender activists in Connecticut led by Reverend Aaron Miller, senior pastor of Miller Metropolitan Community Church. The investigation...uncovers secret support groups, covert distribution of breast binders, and discussions about puberty blockers and top surgery for a 12-year-old female child, “Justin,” who seeks to transition to a boy against parental wishes.

Exclusive video footage shows Miller and Ferraiolo inviting “Justin,” a 12-year-old female, to secret youth groups led by Ferraiolo in Middletown and New Haven, Connecticut, despite knowing her parents oppose the transition. Miller assures secrecy, stating, “…they’ll never know.”
^^^The "Reverand" Aaron Miller has a facebook page, and several of his "religious" organizations appear in a Google search as well.

Posted by: Crusader at June 25, 2025 11:25 AM (TN0g+)

120 My body is a temple.

One of those old school pagan prostitute temples but...a temple none the less

Posted by: Sandra Fluke at June 25, 2025 11:25 AM (t0Rmr)

121 >>"I've begun to suspect that the Biden family may not be the most honest family in American politics."
-Chuck Todd


Stunning and brave to pretend to discover that a life-long corrupt jerk of a politician is, in fact, a corrupt politician only after a 50+ year career, and now retirement.

Peter Schweizer says "Hi!"

Throw Them All Out (2011), Extortion (2014), Secret Empires (2019), Profiles in Corruption (2020), Red-Handed (2022), and Blood Money (2024). Biden is on the covers of most of these books.

Posted by: Lizzy at June 25, 2025 11:25 AM (6o/o0)

122 118 Socialism is good! The US simply serfs aren't getting the word!

On another blog a European socialist says US Media and politicians are actively suppressing how good the serfs have it in Socialist European Nations! To keep the US serfs from demanding European-style socialism!

Good grief.
Posted by: Gref at June 25, 2025 11:25 AM (aBgBM)

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"Really?"
-median incomes in Mississippi

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 25, 2025 11:25 AM (GBKbO)

123 Leftists grifting leftists. Somehow, I am unable any muster any fucks to give. Good, informative research and article though as always.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at June 25, 2025 11:25 AM (i24o9)

124 The USAID money has not come back, despite judicial orders and the OBBB (which hasn't passed). Even with the OBBB not getting rid of USAID, Trump can still use his discretion to terminate all the grants since none of them were actually explicit in statute.

That's $40 billion.

That's the equivalent of 5 times what Hollywood made at the box office in 2023.

Poo-pooing that loss because unmeasured other losses haven't been cut is silly. That's $40 billion used to prop up the leftist ecosystem that is suddenly gone and isn't coming back anytime soon.

If that doesn't make a difference, nothing will and you might as well just stop paying attention to politic
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 25, 2025 11:21 AM (GBKbO)

How could we possibly know that? Instead of "$100 million for transgendered giraffe studies in sub saharan africa" in USAID's budget the line item changes to "$100 million to study the effects of gasoline on fire" in the Dept of Agriculture budget, but it still goes through the same sluices and winds up in the same place.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at June 25, 2025 11:26 AM (uCjyK)

125 109 Had a Dave's Single at Wendy's yesterday. Outstanding!/i]

Wendy's has better quality ingredients then McDs/BK but it really all comes down to the quality of the cook.

Posted by: 18-1 at June 25, 2025 11:23 AM (t0Rmr)

All their meat is fresh, at one time.

Posted by: javems at June 25, 2025 11:26 AM (8I4hW)

126 The Right doesn't boycott. We just quit buying their stuff.

Posted by: Yogi at June 25, 2025 11:26 AM (jc0TO)

127 Not paying attention to politics is one of the healthiest things you can do for yourself.

I blame Trump for yanking me back in after I completely stopped caring from 2012 to 2015. But the Orange Bastard has been worth it.

Posted by: ... at June 25, 2025 11:26 AM (sfdl6)

128 @BarakRavid
🚨An Israeli official with direct knowledge of intelligence on Iran told me that intercepted communications suggest Iranian military officials have been giving false situation reports to the country's political leadership — downplaying the extent of the damage
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 25, 2025 11:22 AM (GBKbO)


Lock him in his bunker for safety, take away his cell phone, have his staff provide statements in his name, give him rosy, optimistic status reports, and promote him to the public as having things well in hand . . .

Worked for Biden, didn't it?

Posted by: Kindltot at June 25, 2025 11:27 AM (D7oie)

129 I have seen the future and it sucks.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Well, This Is Another Fine Mess You've Gotten Me Into at June 25, 2025 11:27 AM (L/fGl)

130 Actually Wendy's is my go to burger place.

Posted by: javems at June 25, 2025 11:27 AM (8I4hW)

131 >>The media says this "British man" was arrested for trying to marry a nine year old at Disneyland Paris


Why Disneyland?

Posted by: Lizzy at June 25, 2025 11:27 AM (6o/o0)

132 Since I encompass all Morons, let everyone be pro-me, the us.

Posted by: J. Random Moron at June 25, 2025 11:27 AM (0sNs1)

133 124 How could we possibly know that? Instead of "$100 million for transgendered giraffe studies in sub saharan africa" in USAID's budget the line item changes to "$100 million to study the effects of gasoline on fire" in the Dept of Agriculture budget, but it still goes through the same sluices and winds up in the same place.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at June 25, 2025 11:26 AM (uCjyK)

======

The money wasn't moved around. It was simply stopped being paid out.

Again, if nothing is ever going to ever get better, despite good news (which is just cover for bad news)...why do you pay attention to politics?

Maybe you should go outside and fish instead. Better use of your time.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 25, 2025 11:28 AM (GBKbO)

134 88 Speaking of boycotts what happened to the Walmart boycott since a Walton organized No Kings? That fizzled out fast.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald

Sadly, I can't find the video clip, but there's one floating around of a Walmart, I think in Southern California, after an ICE raid a day or two before. It's EMPTY. A handful of staff and no customers in a giant store as the cameraman slowly walks around.

Yup, that's what I voted for!

Posted by: Moron Analyst at June 25, 2025 11:28 AM (JCZqz)

135 The media says this "British man" was arrested for trying to marry a nine year old at Disneyland Paris

Was his name Mohammed? Like just Mohammed not Mohammed Mohammed.

Posted by: Let's do the time warp again at June 25, 2025 11:28 AM (t0Rmr)

136 The Dow is falling.

Posted by: Boss Moss at June 25, 2025 11:28 AM (VAINm)

137 The Right doesn't boycott. We just quit buying their stuff.
Posted by: Yogi at June 25, 2025 11:26 AM (jc0TO)

Yup.

"I don't give a crap what you do, I'm not shopping there anymore".

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 25, 2025 11:28 AM (BjH5D)

138 It seems essentially the same as George Costanza’s human fund
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at June 25, 2025 11:22 AM (FNvF+)

Now is the time to give to The Iran Humanitarian Fund...call 1-888-RUBBLEPILE and give till it hurts, call today!

Do it for the children!

Posted by: George Costanza, Director and CFO at June 25, 2025 11:28 AM (PzyNU)

139 Good, informative research and article though as always.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at June 25, 2025 11:25 AM (i24o9)

OMG I thought this was one of those end of thread spammers.

Posted by: ... at June 25, 2025 11:29 AM (sfdl6)

140 Libs can't get their stories straight when it comes to billionaires.

They're fat-cat, greedy bastards who will stop at nothing to make an extra dollar.

Except, they will gladly pay white guys more than minorities, even though minorities are superior in every way.

So in that sense, these corporate pigs are male chauvinists first, who will stop at nothing to keep minorities down.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at June 25, 2025 11:29 AM (KbCG3)

141 >>>Why Disneyland?

he wanted her to feel like a princess

Posted by: brak at June 25, 2025 11:29 AM (jGJov)

142 Humans are big brained apex predators who hunger for animal fat.

...cooked with flame. Raw bacon was not a big seller before the invention of fire.

Posted by: t-bird at June 25, 2025 11:29 AM (emDE2)

143 Baconator.

Posted by: Boss Moss at June 25, 2025 11:29 AM (VAINm)

144 136 The Dow is falling.
Posted by: Boss Moss at June 25, 2025 11:28 AM (VAINm)

======

Greatest market collapse since a couple of weeks ago!

Sell! Sell! Sell!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 25, 2025 11:29 AM (GBKbO)

145 Their mission statement sounds like it was written by a chatbot.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at June 25, 2025 11:30 AM (kxQW1)

146 Speaking of that, what's going on in Biden-land these days?

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at June 25, 2025 11:11 AM (uCjyK)


*inside the Biden estate's basement*

"Hey! I got hot ice cream in my pants again!
Help me! I got hot ice cream in my pants!"

*upstairs
"It's your turn to change him."

"I'm not changing him."

"Well, you're his wife!"

"So, what? You're his son...maybe."

"Shut-up!"

"You shut-up!"

*voice from the basement*
"Hot ice cream is running down my leg from my hiney!!!"
...and so on.

Posted by: naturalfake at June 25, 2025 11:30 AM (iJfKG)

147 Maybe you should go outside and fish instead. Better use of your time.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 25, 2025 11:28 AM (GBKbO)

The son and I have recently gotten into fishing. Watching your young kid catch his first fish is truly the best use of your time.

Tying new lures for him after every six-seven empty casts is not...

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at June 25, 2025 11:30 AM (KbCG3)

148 Wendy's has better quality ingredients then McDs/BK but it really all comes down to the quality of the cook.
Posted by: 18-1
__________

Waffle House is the one place I have not found that to be true. Except on bacon. Everything else is pretty much the same regardless of the location.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at June 25, 2025 11:30 AM (ITkJX)

149 Pack it up: Big Balls has resigned from his position in the US government

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Probably doing a gap year.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Well, This Is Another Fine Mess You've Gotten Me Into at June 25, 2025 11:30 AM (L/fGl)

150 Greatest market collapse since a couple of weeks ago!

Sell! Sell! Sell!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 25, 2025 11:29 AM


Dude. I don't review movies. Stay in your lane.

Posted by: Jim Cramer at June 25, 2025 11:31 AM (0sNs1)

151 The future begins tomorrow.
Posted by: Yoyodyne Propulsion Systems at June 25, 2025 11:14 AM


The Future is now ... wait

The Future is now!

Err, Now!

NOW!

Dammit.
Posted by: toby928


Today is yesterday tomorrow.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 25, 2025 11:31 AM (ad9PD)

152 >>Sadly, I can't find the video clip, but there's one floating around of a Walmart, I think in Southern California, after an ICE raid a day or two before. It's EMPTY. A handful of staff and no customers in a giant store as the cameraman slowly walks around.


I saw that, too.
What's the opposite of growing pains - shrinking pains? If we have 40-50 million illegals, then yes, we will have scenes like this as they are deported, flee, or go into hiding.

The upside? Empty ER waiting rooms, no harassment at Home Depot parking lots. . .

Posted by: Lizzy at June 25, 2025 11:31 AM (6o/o0)

153 >>The media says this "British man" was arrested for trying to marry a nine year old at Disneyland Paris

If it's good enough for The Prophet, it's good enough for me!

Posted by: Hakmed Abdul Muhammed at June 25, 2025 11:31 AM (JCZqz)

154 The media says this "British man" was arrested for trying to marry a nine year old at Disneyland Paris

Why Disneyland?
Posted by: Lizzy at June 25, 2025 11:27 AM (6o/o0)

Because pedophilia is goofy.

Posted by: ... at June 25, 2025 11:31 AM (sfdl6)

155 150 Greatest market collapse since a couple of weeks ago!

Sell! Sell! Sell!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 25, 2025 11:29 AM

Dude. I don't review movies. Stay in your lane.
Posted by: Jim Cramer at June 25, 2025 11:31 AM (0sNs1)

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lol

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 25, 2025 11:31 AM (GBKbO)

156 Greatest market collapse since a couple of weeks ago!

Sell! Sell! Sell!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 25, 2025 11:29 AM (GBKbO)

You stole that line from Randolph and Mortimer Duke

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at June 25, 2025 11:31 AM (FNvF+)

157 Today is yesterday tomorrow.
Posted by: rickb223 at June 25, 2025 11:31 AM


Whoa.

Posted by: Yogi at June 25, 2025 11:31 AM (jc0TO)

158 156 Greatest market collapse since a couple of weeks ago!

Sell! Sell! Sell!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 25, 2025 11:29 AM (GBKbO)

You stole that line from Randolph and Mortimer Duke
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at June 25, 2025 11:31 AM (FNvF+)


=======

I never once mentioned orange juice futures!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 25, 2025 11:32 AM (GBKbO)

159 The money wasn't moved around. It was simply stopped being paid out.

Again, if nothing is ever going to ever get better, despite good news (which is just cover for bad news)...why do you pay attention to politics?

Maybe you should go outside and fish instead. Better use of your time.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 25, 2025 11:28 AM (GBKbO)

I'm just being realistic here. I don't think the people who spent 70+ years building up a deep state / Blob / shadow government / whatever you want to call it just gave up and walked away because the USAID budget got dinged.

And looking at the list of donors to some of the passthrough organizations, we see grants coming from other places in the government to the same groups. Which is a bit sloppy, I'd imagine they usually spin up new pass through organizations for new federal government funding sources.

That's not even getting in to what happens at the state and local level.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at June 25, 2025 11:32 AM (uCjyK)

160 ...cooked with flame. Raw bacon was not a big seller before the invention of fire.
Posted by: t-bird at June 25, 2025 11:29 AM (emDE2)

"What Thag doing?"

"Thag put boar belly in pile of salt."

".... why?"

"Eat later. All fingers and toes worth of suns maybe. Thag not know. Thag play by ear. "

".... Thag weird."

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 25, 2025 11:32 AM (BjH5D)

161 Hey Bo Bo.

Posted by: Boss Moss at June 25, 2025 11:32 AM (VAINm)

162 Tying new lures for him after every six-seven empty casts is not...

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at June 25, 2025 11:30 AM (KbCG3)

lol, no it is not.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at June 25, 2025 11:33 AM (i24o9)

163 Where's Beeks?

Posted by: toby928 at June 25, 2025 11:33 AM (jc0TO)

164 >> Libs can't get their stories straight when it comes to billionaires.

They're fat-cat, greedy bastards who will stop at nothing to make an extra dollar.



Generally it seems to be: we hate billionaires, but we love their ex-wives/widows and kids/grandkids who now have a big cut of their millions and the need to find purpose in dumping it into progressive activism!

Posted by: Lizzy at June 25, 2025 11:33 AM (6o/o0)

165 I see the rabidly anti-Jewish/Israel socialist democrat has won the primary for NYC mayor cuomo conceded last night. .


Things are about to get sporty if you are a Jew in NYC.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at June 25, 2025 11:33 AM (e5NfL)

166 Boycotts from the left are always successful, because the Media blows them up into huge, massive affairs that are killing businesses even when it's less than ten people participating.

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

Also, as El Rushbo uncovered, a dozen Cheeto-eating basement-dwellers with thousands of online bots manufacturing faux outrage and promoting Cancel Culture -- pressuring advertisers & partners under false pretenses to cowardly withdraw their support from conservative enterprises.

Posted by: ShainS -- Make Unconditional Surrender Great Again! at June 25, 2025 11:34 AM (iDAZI)

167 Where's Beeks?
Posted by: toby928 at June 25, 2025 11:33 AM (jc0TO)

Stuck in the gorilla cage… with an amorous gorilla

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at June 25, 2025 11:35 AM (OW907)

168 >>Sadly, I can't find the video clip, but there's one floating around of a Walmart, I think in Southern California, after an ICE raid a day or two before. It's EMPTY. A handful of staff and no customers in a giant store as the cameraman slowly walks around.

during the Biden years Walmart is where the unmarked busses would drop the "newcomers" off with their brand new clothes and phones in hand

Posted by: brak at June 25, 2025 11:35 AM (jGJov)

169 Hey, did anyone notice the burning cargo ship carrying EV's finally sank in the north Pacific? It carried all the dreams of the left with it as the "Morning Midas" slipped beneath the waves.

https://tinyurl.com/yppndvs7

The 2026 midterms will be lit, as Democrats defend Green Money scams and forced EV adoption, MS13 gang members, Iranian and Palestinian terror, Antifa riots, inflation, tax increases, and open borders. Helluva platform guys.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at June 25, 2025 11:35 AM (bYtp3)

170 163 Where's Beeks?
Posted by: toby928

Twin Beeks is my favorite David Lynch creation.

Posted by: Confused Moron at June 25, 2025 11:35 AM (JCZqz)

171 Posted by: Boss Moss at June 25, 2025 11:29 AM (VAINm)

You probably think this comment is about you.

Posted by: Carly Simon at June 25, 2025 11:35 AM (icg0u)

172 Don't make a big deal of how this all works!!!

Posted by: Ace of Spades, LLC at June 25, 2025 11:35 AM (8uzBS)

173 >>Because pedophilia is goofy.

Heh.
Apparently, the guests were paid to be there.
Think he was making a statement, openly defying Western culture by marrying a kid out in the open at such a Western place for kids and fun.

Posted by: Lizzy at June 25, 2025 11:35 AM (6o/o0)

174 AoSHQ: come for the boobs, stay for the unique investigative reporting ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Make Unconditional Surrender Great Again! at June 25, 2025 11:35 AM (iDAZI)

175 The 2026 midterms will be lit, as Democrats defend Green Money scams and forced EV adoption, MS13 gang members, Iranian and Palestinian terror, Antifa riots, inflation, tax increases, and open borders. Helluva platform guys.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at June 25, 2025 11:35 AM


The Tranny vote will save them.

Posted by: toby928 at June 25, 2025 11:36 AM (jc0TO)

176 Posted by: Harry Paratestes at June 25, 2025 11:32 AM (uCjyK)

FWIW I would agree that skepticism is warranted, given past history etc.

A good reason to keep pressure on leadership to fulfill their promises.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at June 25, 2025 11:36 AM (kxQW1)

177 I'm afraid Chuck Todd is right.

Hunter Biden’s Lawyers Are Suing Him for Unpaid Legal Fees

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Well, This Is Another Fine Mess You've Gotten Me Into at June 25, 2025 11:36 AM (L/fGl)

178 Today is yesterday tomorrow.
Posted by: rickb223 at June 25, 2025 11:31 AM

Whoa.
Posted by: Yogi


I know, right. Heavy Spaceballs vibe.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 25, 2025 11:36 AM (zSKXS)

179 Did it turn to gold before it sank?

Posted by: Boss Moss at June 25, 2025 11:36 AM (VAINm)

180 159 I'm just being realistic here. I don't think the people who spent 70+ years building up a deep state / Blob / shadow government / whatever you want to call it just gave up and walked away because the USAID budget got dinged.

And looking at the list of donors to some of the passthrough organizations, we see grants coming from other places in the government to the same groups. Which is a bit sloppy, I'd imagine they usually spin up new pass through organizations for new federal government funding sources.

That's not even getting in to what happens at the state and local level.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at June 25, 2025 11:32 AM (uCjyK)

=======

I never said all of it was gone. I'm sure that there is a lot more out there.

But $40 billion that went pretty much straight into the connected leftists pockets is not small.

Compared the scale of the federal budget, it's small. Compared to the actual size of huge entire industries in media like Hollywood, TV networks, and even gaming, it's ginormous.

But it's not everything, so all is lost.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 25, 2025 11:37 AM (GBKbO)

181
They're fat-cat, greedy bastards who will stop at nothing to make an extra dollar.

Except, they will gladly pay white guys more than minorities, even though minorities are superior in every way.


I've seen people ask feminists: "If capitalism is founded on unmitigated greed and women work at least as hard as men for 70 cents on the dollar...why are corporations hiring any men?"

And they can never answer the question...

Posted by: 18-1 at June 25, 2025 11:37 AM (t0Rmr)

182 Look to the future to see the past that is now.

Posted by: Boss Moss at June 25, 2025 11:37 AM (VAINm)

183 Every American deserves a fair shot at success, and that includes every race, every background, every belief system. Period.

They already have that. You want special treatment instead of equality.

Posted by: NR Pax at June 25, 2025 11:37 AM (BpO1e)

184 Hunter Biden’s Lawyers Are Suing Him for Unpaid Legal Fees
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Well, This Is Another Fine Mess You've Gotten Me Into at June 25, 2025 11:36 AM (L/fGl)

Never a good look to sue your clients. That's why you bill against a retainer. But I guess they figured "hey, its Hunter Biden. Someone will write a check to us on his behalf!"

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at June 25, 2025 11:37 AM (uCjyK)

185 ".... Thag weird."
Posted by: Warai-otoko

"Wait til he find out about thagomizer."

Posted by: Bulg at June 25, 2025 11:37 AM (77rzZ)

186 They tried to balance it this year. the 4th of July stuff is up front, the pride month stuff is in the back of the store
Posted by: brak


Party up front, we'll give you the business in the back.

Posted by: Target at June 25, 2025 11:37 AM (nQXv1)

187 I started switching to a pessimistic market stance last night and you cockeyed optimists have been costing me money all morning. Not a ton, yet, but a steady bleed.

Posted by: toby928 at June 25, 2025 11:38 AM (jc0TO)

188 >>Hunter Biden’s Lawyers Are Suing Him for Unpaid Legal Fees


Hey, is he still vacationing in South Africa with his South African wife? IIRC, he was going to spend 3 months there.. . .

Posted by: Lizzy at June 25, 2025 11:38 AM (6o/o0)

189 Never a good look to sue your clients.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes

Invites a malpractice suit.

Posted by: Bulg at June 25, 2025 11:38 AM (77rzZ)

190 I'm not saying my phone, Kindle, and computer are listening to me and talking among themselves, and I ain't saying they ain't. But my morning picture that pops up each day on the 'puter was...a lion.
(See previous thread)

Posted by: Diogenes at June 25, 2025 11:38 AM (W/lyH)

191 Tying new lures for him after every six-seven empty casts is not...

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at June 25, 2025 11:30 AM (KbCG3)

lol, no it is not.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder


That's why you use terminal tackle and clip it on/off. You don't have to tie it on like they are entering a Bass Masters Tournament.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 25, 2025 11:39 AM (sowi2)

192 Will they settle for a painting?

Posted by: Boss Moss at June 25, 2025 11:39 AM (VAINm)

193 169
‘ 2026 midterms will be lit, as Democrats defend Green Money scams….’

It’s easier to stuff ballot boxes than have a good platform.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at June 25, 2025 11:39 AM (jbnUc)

194 190 I'm not saying my phone, Kindle, and computer are listening to me and talking among themselves, and I ain't saying they ain't. But my morning picture that pops up each day on the 'puter was...a lion.
(See previous thread)
Posted by: Diogenes at June 25, 2025 11:38 AM (W/lyH)

======

It's only creepy if you get Amazon ads for knock-off, Chinese sourced lion meat.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 25, 2025 11:39 AM (GBKbO)

195 181
They're fat-cat, greedy bastards who will stop at nothing to make an extra dollar.

Except, they will gladly pay white guys more than minorities, even though minorities are superior in every way.

I've seen people ask feminists: "If capitalism is founded on unmitigated greed and women work at least as hard as men for 70 cents on the dollar...why are corporations hiring any men?"

And they can never answer the question...

Posted by: 18-1 at June 25, 2025 11:37 AM (t0Rmr)

Misogyny. Apparently that 30 cents difference is worth it. Maybe they make it up on volume?

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at June 25, 2025 11:39 AM (KbCG3)

196 I've seen people ask feminists: "If capitalism is founded on unmitigated greed and women work at least as hard as men for 70 cents on the dollar...why are corporations hiring any men?"

And they can never answer the question...
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I've bemoaned the fact that "Greedy Capitalists" no longer act like they were portrayed to act when I was a kid growing up--they're all spineless mooshes these days that routinely cave to any leftist protest.

Posted by: Crusader at June 25, 2025 11:39 AM (TN0g+)

197
United Concerned People's Movement in the Public Interest USA LLC

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 25, 2025 11:40 AM (/HVsR)

198 My investment manager told me he can't have me as a client any longer because my portfolio now makes me a small investor.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at June 25, 2025 11:40 AM (kxQW1)

199 Hey, did anyone notice the burning cargo ship carrying EV's finally sank in the north Pacific? It carried all the dreams of the left with it as the "Morning Midas" slipped beneath the waves.

I just saw my new Tesla on TV: Deadliest Catch

Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at June 25, 2025 11:40 AM (w9Wax)

200 But $40 billion that went pretty much straight into the connected leftists pockets is not small.

Compared the scale of the federal budget, it's small. Compared to the actual size of huge entire industries in media like Hollywood, TV networks, and even gaming, it's ginormous.

But it's not everything, so all is lost.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 25, 2025 11:37 AM (GBKbO)

I'm not saying all is lost, I was responding to you saying that "If the fed grant spigot is actually off, these orgs will need to go to others willing to give them money for nonsense leftist promises.".

I don't think the fed grant spigot is actually off. In fact, I think that $40 billion or whatever just migrated to other places in the budget, and is probably just a drop in the bucket compared to how much corruption and graft there really is coming out of DC.

I can't prove any of that, of course. But that's my gut instinct. I could be wrong.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at June 25, 2025 11:40 AM (uCjyK)

201 191 Tying new lures for him after every six-seven empty casts is not...

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at June 25, 2025 11:30 AM (KbCG3)

lol, no it is not.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder


That's why you use terminal tackle and clip it on/off. You don't have to tie it on like they are entering a Bass Masters Tournament.
Posted by: rickb223 at June 25, 2025 11:39 AM (sowi2)

I smartened up and now use a clip.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at June 25, 2025 11:41 AM (KbCG3)

202 200 I don't think the fed grant spigot is actually off. In fact, I think that $40 billion or whatever just migrated to other places in the budget, and is probably just a drop in the bucket compared to how much corruption and graft there really is coming out of DC.

I can't prove any of that, of course. But that's my gut instinct. I could be wrong.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at June 25, 2025 11:40 AM (uCjyK)

=======

According to Rubio, head of what used to be USAID, it's cut off, not redirected.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 25, 2025 11:41 AM (GBKbO)

203 I've seen people ask feminists: "If capitalism is founded on unmitigated greed and women work at least as hard as men for 70 cents on the dollar...why are corporations hiring any men?"

And they can never answer the question...
Posted by: 18-1



Simple solution. Trans as a guy and get a 30% pay raise.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 25, 2025 11:41 AM (zSKXS)

204 I don't think the fed grant spigot is actually off. In fact, I think that $40 billion or whatever just migrated to other places in the budget, and is probably just a drop in the bucket compared to how much corruption and graft there really is coming out of DC.

I can't prove any of that, of course. But that's my gut instinct. I could be wrong.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at June 25, 2025 11:40 AM


No trust in Besset?

Posted by: toby928 at June 25, 2025 11:42 AM (jc0TO)

205 they complain that the company is more interested in the drive-thru concept (true) and the friendlilness and I guess the bohemian veneer is LONG gone...
Posted by: kallisto at June 25, 2025 11:23 AM (dCxaZ)

Friendliness at Starbucks? Like when they wanted to "have a discussion" with their customers on race a few years back?

Posted by: hobbitopoly at June 25, 2025 11:42 AM (k9OZB)

206 196 I've seen people ask feminists: "If capitalism is founded on unmitigated greed and women work at least as hard as men for 70 cents on the dollar...why are corporations hiring any men?"

And they can never answer the question...
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I've bemoaned the fact that "Greedy Capitalists" no longer act like they were portrayed to act when I was a kid growing up--they're all spineless mooshes these days that routinely cave to any leftist protest.

Posted by: Crusader at June 25, 2025 11:39 AM (TN0g+)

It's worth considering that these CEOs are not exactly self-made, but down with the cause and implanted in their positions for specific reasons.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at June 25, 2025 11:42 AM (KbCG3)

207 Tying new lures for him after every six-seven empty casts is not...
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at June 25, 2025 11:30 AM (KbCG3)


Have you tried putting on a swivel for fast changes?

Posted by: Kindltot at June 25, 2025 11:43 AM (D7oie)

208 Hey, did anyone notice the burning cargo ship carrying EV's finally sank in the north Pacific? It carried all the dreams of the left with it as the "Morning Midas" slipped beneath the waves.

I just saw my new Tesla on TV: Deadliest Catch
Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks


Musk came out with personal submarines?

Musk, you genius bastard! Take my money!

Posted by: rickb223 at June 25, 2025 11:43 AM (zSKXS)

209 From Deadline....


"June Lockhart, the star of classic TV shows like Lost in Space and Lassie, turned 100 on Wednesday, but a lesser-known aspect of her career is her time spent at White House press conferences"

Posted by: Stateless.. 44% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back now at June 25, 2025 11:43 AM (jvJvP)

210 200
‘ I can't prove any of that, of course. But that's my gut instinct. I could be wrong.’

Have you considered the possibility that if you concentrate ONLY on the news that undergirds a negative outlook that you might be missing half the data?

Posted by: Dr. Claw at June 25, 2025 11:43 AM (jbnUc)

211
"If the fed grant spigot is actually off, these orgs will need to go to others willing to give them money for nonsense leftist promises."

__________

Good luck with that. Nobody is stingier with his own money than a leftist.


Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 25, 2025 11:43 AM (/HVsR)

212 The proposed Walmart boycott didn’t happen because people on the Right can separate out real targets.

A heiress widow of a Walton doesn’t speak for Walmart.

Posted by: polynikes at June 25, 2025 11:44 AM (VofaG)

213 The Dow is falling.
Posted by: Boss Moss at June 25, 2025 11:28 AM (VAINm)

OMG! It's down 91 points.

*pours lighter fluid on hair*

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at June 25, 2025 11:44 AM (g8Ew8)

214 .91

Posted by: Boss Moss at June 25, 2025 11:45 AM (VAINm)

215 Im so VAIN.

Posted by: Boss Moss at June 25, 2025 11:45 AM (VAINm)

216 No trust in Besset?
Posted by: toby928 at June 25, 2025 11:42 AM (jc0TO)


Bessent, Vought, Rubio and Powell seem to be working together, which means tremendous things may be done.

Posted by: Kindltot at June 25, 2025 11:46 AM (D7oie)

217 Every American deserves a fair shot at success, and that includes every race, every background, every belief system. Period.
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They really will never ever tell you exactly what they are for. That's the biggest clue it's leftarded.

Posted by: ... at June 25, 2025 11:46 AM (sfdl6)

218 It's worth considering that these CEOs are not exactly self-made, but down with the cause and implanted in their positions for specific reasons.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at June 25, 2025 11:42 AM (KbCG3)

They are all MBA’s now and that means credentialed incompetents.

Posted by: polynikes at June 25, 2025 11:46 AM (VofaG)

219 Hunter Biden’s Lawyers Are Suing Him for Unpaid Legal Fees

"Hi, I'm being sued for stiffing my defense lawyers. Will you by my defense lawyer?"

Posted by: t-bird at June 25, 2025 11:46 AM (FdyuK)

220 213 The Dow is falling.
Posted by: Boss Moss at June 25, 2025 11:28 AM (VAINm)


The Fed saying he's in no hurry to lower interest rates didn't help

Posted by: It's me donna at June 25, 2025 11:46 AM (VE6XX)

221 Im so VAIN.
Posted by: Boss Moss at June 25, 2025 11:45 AM (VAINm)
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I have to admit I'm a little jealous.

Posted by: Crusader at June 25, 2025 11:46 AM (TN0g+)

222
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 25, 2025 11:41 AM (GBKbO)

Even if we trust Lil Marco 100% on that, how would he know?

If I run Organization X, which is a nonprofit engaged in, for example, giving signs to street protestors, I used to get money from USAID through about 10 cut outs. There is little to no visibility of how that money went from USAID to Org X, and money is fungible so it's not exactly accurate to say "USAID funded Org X" since the USAID money was intermingled with so much other money from other grants (both private and public, although in all likelihood the origin of the private money was also fed funds).

Now that one pipeline is shut down. Somewhere else in DC, in our multi trillion dollar annual budgets, someone sends a grant to another bunch of cut outs that end up funding Org X, or maybe it funds Org X1, a brand new org that carries out the same function as Org X.

It's like saying "hey we raided the pizza place the mafia was laundering money through, they're unable to launder money anymore". In all likelihood, they just shift their laundering elsewhere.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at June 25, 2025 11:46 AM (uCjyK)

223 Their business plan: Leftards are stupid.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at June 25, 2025 11:47 AM (pohLc)

224 Rachel Zegler Implies She’s Not Getting Any Work in Hollywood After “Snow White”

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And I'm not getting any work as a male model.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Well, This Is Another Fine Mess You've Gotten Me Into at June 25, 2025 11:47 AM (L/fGl)

225 I would outlaw almost all nonprofits. Or at least very strictly regulate them to ensure that only true "non-profits" are granted special legal and tax status. Probably 99% of "non-profits" are obviously profit-making machines. The profits are just pocketed in the form of salaries, bonuses, expense accounts, and self-dealing vendor costs. Fuck them all.

Posted by: (There Can Be Only One) Elric Blade at June 25, 2025 11:47 AM (iFTx/)

226 207 Tying new lures for him after every six-seven empty casts is not...
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at June 25, 2025 11:30 AM (KbCG3)

Have you tried putting on a swivel for fast changes?
Posted by: Kindltot at June 25, 2025 11:43 AM (D7oie)

Yeah, finally smartened up.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at June 25, 2025 11:47 AM (KbCG3)

227 Thx Joe. Just took a two mile walk in 90° heat with high humidity. I ain't moving for the rest of the day

Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 25, 2025 11:47 AM (pwtJC)

228 during the Biden years Walmart is where the unmarked busses would drop the "newcomers" off with their brand new clothes and phones in hand
Posted by: brak at June 25, 2025 11:35 AM (jGJov)

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I saw that myself. Blue painted school buses with Florida tags parked at a WalMart in Asheville, NC. The buses loaded with Hispanics, women and children in one bus and men in another bus. The "newcomers" were walking out of WalMart with shopping loaded shopping carts.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at June 25, 2025 11:47 AM (Vh9CX)

229 211
"If the fed grant spigot is actually off, these orgs will need to go to others willing to give them money for nonsense leftist promises."

__________

Good luck with that. Nobody is stingier with his own money than a leftist.


That's why leftists go into government. So they can spend wildly with other people's money.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at June 25, 2025 11:48 AM (WPL6O)

230 224 Rachel Zegler Implies She’s Not Getting Any Work in Hollywood After “Snow White”

And opening my big mouth dissing most of the folks ...

Posted by: Rachel,no work, Zegler at June 25, 2025 11:48 AM (VE6XX)

231 Rachel Zegler Implies She’s Not Getting Any Work in Hollywood After “Snow White”

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And I'm not getting any work as a male model.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Well, This Is Another Fine Mess You've Gotten Me Into at June 25, 2025 11:47 AM (L/fGl)

She means to say after she tanked Snow White.

Posted by: ... at June 25, 2025 11:48 AM (sfdl6)

232 The Dow is falling.
Posted by: Boss Moss at June 25, 2025 11:28 AM (VAINm)

OMG! It's down 91 points.

*pours lighter fluid on hair*
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons

I know!! I must have 'lost' .00001% of my portfolio this morning!

Quick, call my broker and sell it all.

Posted by: Tonypete at June 25, 2025 11:48 AM (cYBz/)

233 Jeepers, another Yankee Grift. Who would have thought of that?

Posted by: pudinhead at June 25, 2025 11:49 AM (FmapG)

234 Willowed from yesterday but felt it's worth sharing again:

One of my guitar heroes and frontman from one of my favorite bands is actually very based..

Who knew this about the Rev. Horton Heat?

https://tinyurl.com/3sxpxu5k

Posted by: Blanco at June 25, 2025 11:49 AM (sW/8y)

235 208 Hey, did anyone notice the burning cargo ship carrying EV's finally sank in the north Pacific? It carried all the dreams of the left with it as the "Morning Midas" slipped beneath the waves.

I just saw my new Tesla on TV: Deadliest Catch
Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks

Had another one catch fire in the Atlantic a few years ago. Had a bunch of BMW, Bentleys and Italian super cars on board. EV started it the figure.

Posted by: javems at June 25, 2025 11:49 AM (8I4hW)

236 "June Lockhart, the star of classic TV shows like Lost in Space and Lassie, turned 100 on Wednesday, but a lesser-known aspect of her career is her time spent at White House press conferences"

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Bouncer?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Well, This Is Another Fine Mess You've Gotten Me Into at June 25, 2025 11:49 AM (L/fGl)

237 222 Even if we trust Lil Marco 100% on that, how would he know?

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at June 25, 2025 11:46 AM (uCjyK)

======

How do we know anything outside of our direct field of vision is true?

Seriously.

I think you need to unplug for a day. A week. A month.

Stop paying attention to politics for a little while. Refocus on something more important to you personally. Find something to actively enjoy and forget politics because it seems to bring you nothing but misery.

Go fishing. Go bowling. Learn macrame. Cross-stitch a recreation of the Mona Lisa.

Because if nothing ever gets better, then what's the point?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 25, 2025 11:49 AM (GBKbO)

238 Rachel Zegler Implies She’s Not Getting Any Work in Hollywood After “Snow White”


I've got some jobs for her....

Posted by: Stateless.. 44% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back now at June 25, 2025 11:49 AM (jvJvP)

239 Simple solution. Trans as a guy and get a 30% pay raise.
______

30/70 would be a 43.8% pay raise. My mom would also tell you that but she is doing calisthenics with the ship's counselor. She asked me to not watch that episode.

Posted by: Wesley Crusher at June 25, 2025 11:50 AM (DYe8R)

240 So you become a non profit so you don't have to pay taxes, but if you intentionally don't have profit there's nothing to pay taxes on so there's no point "being" a non profit.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 25, 2025 11:50 AM (BjH5D)

241
That's why leftists go into government. So they can spend wildly with other people's money.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at June 25, 2025 11:48 AM (WPL6O)

__________

Leftist philanthropy: Forcing you to give a dollar in taxes so they can give a poor person a dime and then keep the other 90 cents.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 25, 2025 11:50 AM (/HVsR)

242 Snow White talked herself out of work
That's funny

Posted by: Skip at June 25, 2025 11:50 AM (+qU29)

243 224 Rachel Zegler Implies She’s Not Getting Any Work in Hollywood After “Snow White”

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And I'm not getting any work as a male model.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Well, This Is Another Fine Mess You've Gotten Me Into at June 25, 2025 11:47 AM (L/fGl)

=======

She proved to be uncontrollable and toxic.

She could be toxic and still find work all she wanted if she learned to shut up when told.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 25, 2025 11:51 AM (GBKbO)

244 Rachel Zegler Implies She’s Not Getting Any Work in Hollywood After “Snow White”

--

It is possible to get work after being in a bomb. Gal Gadot likely won't be looking for work long if she wanted to get a gig.

Going out and making the topic about her and not the movie...doubtful any production wants to deal with her.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at June 25, 2025 11:51 AM (vt7xw)

245 >>Simple solution. Trans as a guy and get a 30% pay raise.


Heh, some years ago there was a woman who was head of Diversity at one of the sever sisters colleges (forget which one) who transitioned into being a man, and then was fired -- they couldn't have a white man in charge of diversity!

Posted by: Lizzy at June 25, 2025 11:51 AM (6o/o0)

246 Had another one catch fire in the Atlantic a few years ago. Had a bunch of BMW, Bentleys and Italian super cars on board. EV started it the figure.
Posted by: javems

If you were the insurer, wouldn't it make sense to post a 24/7 watch on the car decks to provide early warning of trouble?

Posted by: Tonypete at June 25, 2025 11:51 AM (cYBz/)

247 My question to further help form my opinion.

Were there any vehicle cargo ship fires before EVs?

Posted by: polynikes at June 25, 2025 11:51 AM (VofaG)

248 227 Thx Joe. Just took a two mile walk in 90° heat with high humidity. I ain't moving for the rest of the day
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Sweet Iced Tea will fix that.

Posted by: pudinhead at June 25, 2025 11:51 AM (FmapG)

249 The Dow is falling.

And the temperature is rising. At this rate, it's going to be 145° by tomorrow morning. Not looking forward to it.

Posted by: t-bird at June 25, 2025 11:51 AM (TJMjl)

250 Like when they wanted to "have a discussion" with their customers on race a few years back?

That was one of the times I felt actual sympathy for Starbucks employees.

Posted by: NR Pax at June 25, 2025 11:51 AM (BpO1e)

251 Rachel Zegler Implies She’s Not Getting Any Work in Hollywood After “Snow White”

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Well, This Is Another Fine Mess You've Gotten Me Into at June 25, 2025 11:47 AM (L/fGl)
________

Well, she's not getting any work in Hollywood anymore. And it wasn't just Blow White. She had one moderately successful movie (Hunger Games prequel) that was part of a multi-billion series. Her other roles were in money-losers (Shazam sequel) or outright catastrophic bombs (West Side Story and Blow White). She's probably lost her employers $400 million in her short career. As well as caused her employers endless political and PR nightmares. She's a one-woman Poop Cruise.

Posted by: (There Can Be Only One) Elric Blade at June 25, 2025 11:51 AM (iFTx/)

252 Bouncer?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Well, This Is Another Fine Mess You've Gotten Me Into at June 25, 2025 11:49 AM

Actually...

For decades, Lockhart made a point of attending the briefings whenever she was in Washington, D.C., and even holds a lifetime press pass to the complex, given to her by Dwight D. Eisenhower’s press secretary, James Hagerty.

Her publicist, Harlan Boll, told Deadline that she believes that the pass is still good, but hasn’t had to use it in some time, and doesn’t intend on using it now.

Posted by: Stateless.. 44% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back now at June 25, 2025 11:51 AM (jvJvP)

Posted by: (There Can Be Only One) Elric Blade at June 25, 2025 11:51 AM (iFTx/)

254 I don't recall seeing any Teslas on my recent trip once I got out of the DC area.

Saw one Cybertruck on the Ohio Turnpike just east of Toledo, but that was it for EVs.

Posted by: Bulg at June 25, 2025 11:52 AM (77rzZ)

255 Snow White talked herself out of work
That's funny

Posted by: Skip at June 25, 2025 11:50 AM (+qU29)

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She comes off as Grumpy.

Posted by: ShainS -- Make Unconditional Surrender Great Again! at June 25, 2025 11:52 AM (VKJnD)

256 That's why leftists go into government. So they can spend wildly with other people's money.
_____

I only go to TJ Maxx and Home Goods to decorate all my vacation homes.

Posted by: Bernie Sanders at June 25, 2025 11:52 AM (DYe8R)

257 Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 25, 2025 11:49 AM (GBKbO)

You're being very condescending to me. Why? I can't point out that this corruption goes much deeper than USAID without you telling me to go bowling?

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at June 25, 2025 11:53 AM (uCjyK)

258 244 It is possible to get work after being in a bomb. Gal Gadot likely won't be looking for work long if she wanted to get a gig.

Going out and making the topic about her and not the movie...doubtful any production wants to deal with her.
Posted by: WitchDoktor at June 25, 2025 11:51 AM (vt7xw)

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The guy who played Aladdin couldn't find work after that movie made $1 billion.

Disney doesn't feel like a company that is in the business of nurturing its stars' careers.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 25, 2025 11:53 AM (GBKbO)

259 ‘ Posted by: (There Can Be Only One) Elric Blade’

There can only be one barrel.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at June 25, 2025 11:53 AM (jbnUc)

260 It's like saying "hey we raided the pizza place the mafia was laundering money through, they're unable to launder money anymore". In all likelihood, they just shift their laundering elsewhere.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at June 25, 2025 11:46 AM (uCjyK)


Yes, there is National Endowment for Democracy which is similar, but ladles money to both parties in principle, and other smaller ones I suspect, but the big one to start with, was USAID and t that was financing color revolutions internationally.

Posted by: Kindltot at June 25, 2025 11:53 AM (D7oie)

261 Rachel Zegler OnlyFans page: Show tunes and sex acts

Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 25, 2025 11:54 AM (pwtJC)

262 Zegler’s pal , Pedro seems to be getting a lot of work. I guess it’s because she’s female.

Also shouldn’t she be mad at her Leftist friends at Disney and Hollywood who run her industry?

Posted by: polynikes at June 25, 2025 11:54 AM (VofaG)

263 Rachel Zegler Implies She’s Not Getting Any Work in Hollywood After “Snow White”

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And I'm not getting any work as a male model.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Well, This Is Another Fine Mess You've Gotten Me Into at June 25, 2025 11:47 AM (L/fGl)

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I'm pretty sure that she could get work as a male model ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Make Unconditional Surrender Great Again! at June 25, 2025 11:54 AM (VKJnD)

264 "June Lockhart, the star of classic TV shows like Lost in Space and Lassie, turned 100 on Wednesday, but a lesser-known aspect of her career is her time spent at White House press conferences"


What's that, Lassie? Joe Biden fell on the steps to Air Force One?

Posted by: Bulg at June 25, 2025 11:55 AM (77rzZ)

265 I mentioned it late yesterday, but check out the Nate Friedman Show.

He goes down the rabbit hole and finds the funding behind these professional protestors.

There's a lot more than you think and more funded than you think.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at June 25, 2025 11:55 AM (UImIR)

266 Lord Farquaad is doing a musical in Britain.

Posted by: Boss Moss at June 25, 2025 11:55 AM (VAINm)

267 Had another one catch fire in the Atlantic a few years ago. Had a bunch of BMW, Bentleys and Italian super cars on board. EV started it the figure.
Posted by: javems

If you were the insurer, wouldn't it make sense to post a 24/7 watch on the car decks to provide early warning of trouble?
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I'm not sure that would accomplish much? Its not as if you're going to have anywhere to move the rest of the cargo to--it seems to me it would still burn, we'd just have another eye-witness to it.

Posted by: Crusader at June 25, 2025 11:55 AM (TN0g+)

268 Today is yesterday tomorrow.
Posted by: rickb223 at June 25, 2025 11:31 AM

Whoa.
Posted by: Yogi

I know, right. Heavy Spaceballs vibe.
Posted by: rickb223 at June 25, 2025 11:36 AM (zSKXS)

That scene always cracks me up. "What the hell am I looking at?!?"

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at June 25, 2025 11:56 AM (5xuJ/)

269 Rachel Zegler OnlyFans page: Show tunes and sex acts
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But mostly show tunes...

Posted by: Crusader at June 25, 2025 11:56 AM (TN0g+)

270 Rachel Zegler Implies She’s Not Getting Any Work in Hollywood After “Snow White”

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And I'm not getting any work as a male model.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Well, This Is Another Fine Mess You've Gotten Me Into at June 25, 2025 11:47 AM (L/fGl)

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I'm pretty sure that she could get work as a male model ...
Posted by: ShainS -- Make Unconditional Surrender Great Again! at June 25, 2025 11:54 AM (VKJnD)

--

Or Lord Farquaad in Live Action Shrek.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at June 25, 2025 11:56 AM (vt7xw)

271 OMG I thought this was one of those end of thread spammers.

Posted by: ... at June 25, 2025 11:29 AM (sfdl6)

It's a matter of timing.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at June 25, 2025 11:56 AM (i24o9)

272 Thx Joe. Just took a two mile walk in 90° heat with high humidity. I ain't moving for the rest of the day
-----------------
Sweet Iced Tea will fix that.
Posted by: pudinhead

Just slap cold iron on it.

Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at June 25, 2025 11:56 AM (w9Wax)

273 257 You're being very condescending to me. Why? I can't point out that this corruption goes much deeper than USAID without you telling me to go bowling?
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at June 25, 2025 11:53 AM (uCjyK)

======

And I acknowledge that while also acknowledging that $40 billion cut from the leftist ecosystem is not small.

But it means nothing because your conspiratorial mindset says so.

I'm not being condescending. I'm saying your perception of politics is not going to be good for you. I like you, Harry, but this perpetual doomerism is unhealthy.

I would love to see you come back after a week or two, refreshed with an appreciation that life can be good.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 25, 2025 11:57 AM (GBKbO)

274 Hunter Biden’s Lawyers Are Suing Him for Unpaid Legal Fees
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks

Gentlemen, please! Would you accept a few priceless works of art? I can whip them up in just a day or two...

Posted by: Hunter Biden at June 25, 2025 11:57 AM (JCZqz)

275 That's why you use terminal tackle and clip it on/off. You don't have to tie it on like they are entering a Bass Masters Tournament.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 25, 2025 11:39 AM (sowi2)

Not working if you're using bait and hooks and/or you keep getting fouled. But it is a good kind of tedium.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at June 25, 2025 11:57 AM (i24o9)

276 Rachel Zegler Implies She’s Not Getting Any Work in Hollywood After “Snow White”


I've got some jobs for her....
Posted by: Stateless


Yacht girl! Oh, yacht girl!
Posted by: Count de Money

Posted by: rickb223 at June 25, 2025 11:57 AM (zSKXS)

277 Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 25, 2025 11:57 AM (GBKbO)

Scroll by is your friend.

Posted by: polynikes at June 25, 2025 11:57 AM (VofaG)

278 Zegler’s pal , Pedro seems to be getting a lot of work. I guess it’s because she’s female.

Also shouldn’t she be mad at her Leftist friends at Disney and Hollywood who run her industry?
Posted by: polynikes at June 25, 2025 11:54 AM (VofaG)
______

Disney has to keep this felcher relevant because he's set to play the main role in that idiotic upcoming Star Wars movie. But after Fucktastic Bore bombs, that might be it for him. Movies are cast sometimes years in advance. Hopefully the pipeline is running out for him.

Posted by: (There Can Be Only One) Elric Blade at June 25, 2025 11:57 AM (iFTx/)

279 You're more optimistic than I am.

I would imagine there are hundreds of billions of dollars floating around in Defense and State, not to mention the billions upon billions of dollars (collectively) hidden in all kinds of places in the budget.

And I imagine the Big Beautiful Bill shuffled USAID money to different areas of the budget. I also highly doubt that USAID was the primary source of funds for the Deep State. The Deep State is not going down easily.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at June 25, 2025 11:18 AM (uCjyK)
==
I have direct personal knowledge that grants are drying up. A friend lost her job working for a company that I think existed to just suck up education grant money. They closed down within 30 days of the election. Another family member who is in the hard science education start up space has seen significant walk backs on grants already awarded, and much tighter parameters going forward, with less money overall available.

Posted by: Black JEM at June 25, 2025 11:58 AM (GZYu7)

280 Posted by: Harry Paratestes at June 25, 2025 11:40 AM (uCjyK)

But there is word day after day of various orgs drying up. Something has made a difference.

Even the quietness of pride month is a stark clue. Don't think for a second it's only because Trump won. Harris still got however many million votes.

The corporations said - No reimbursement, no rainbow logo. Whores ain't free.

Posted by: ... at June 25, 2025 11:58 AM (sfdl6)

281 Something isn't true just because you believe it either is or should be.

I got that in a fortune cookie.

My kid's said "you will soon be finished with dinner."

Posted by: WitchDoktor at June 25, 2025 11:58 AM (vt7xw)

282 Rachel Zegler Implies She’s Not Getting Any Work in Hollywood After “Snow White”

Hm. Could it be her unpleasant personality? No; it must be the patriarchy's fault.

Posted by: NR Pax at June 25, 2025 11:59 AM (BpO1e)

283 281 Something isn't true just because you believe it either is or should be.

I got that in a fortune cookie.

My kid's said "you will soon be finished with dinner."
Posted by: WitchDoktor at June 25, 2025 11:58 AM (vt7xw)

======

Posit:

Fortune cookies don't even offer fortunes anymore.

Discuss.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 25, 2025 11:59 AM (GBKbO)

284 Rachel Zegler Implies She’s Not Getting Any Work in Hollywood After “Snow White”


I've got some jobs for her....
Posted by: Stateless


Yacht girl! Oh, yacht girl!
Posted by: Count de Money


I could give her some tips.
-- Sparkles Markle
Posted by: rickb223

Posted by: Bulg at June 25, 2025 11:59 AM (77rzZ)

285 Hunter Biden’s Lawyers Are Suing Him for Unpaid Legal Fees
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks

Gentlemen, please! Would you accept a few priceless works of art? I can whip them up in just a day or two...
Posted by: Hunter Biden at June 25, 2025 11:57 AM


They ain't worth shit!

Posted by: The Lawyers at June 25, 2025 11:59 AM (dPfyF)

286 That scene always cracks me up. "What the hell am I looking at?!?"
Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy


Praying they don't FU Spaceballs 2.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 25, 2025 12:00 PM (zSKXS)

287 286 That scene always cracks me up. "What the hell am I looking at?!?"
Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy


Praying they don't FU Spaceballs 2.
Posted by: rickb223 at June 25, 2025 12:00 PM (zSKXS)

======

They will. It will probably suck.

But the original will always be there.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 25, 2025 12:00 PM (GBKbO)

288 Praying they don't FU Spaceballs 2.
Posted by: rickb223 at June 25, 2025 12:00 PM (zSKXS)

Is it coming out of Hollywood?

Posted by: ... at June 25, 2025 12:00 PM (sfdl6)

289 In my little stash of stocks, I have some that are a buy. When the market drops, I buy a few more shares. If I get out of it, I wait till it's up. That part seems pretty easy

Posted by: Notsothoreau at June 25, 2025 12:01 PM (AcTAo)

290 You're being very condescending to me. Why? I can't point out that this corruption goes much deeper than USAID without you telling me to go bowling?
Posted by: Harry Paratestes

And what in the Wide World of Sports is wrong with bowling?

Posted by: Pete Weber at June 25, 2025 12:01 PM (G5+As)

291 The latest on Juneteenth.

According to WSPA, the Anderson County Coroner identified the deceased victim in Saturday’s shooting as 35-year-old Laporshia Janae Gray Cobb. The Anderson County Coroner determined that the 35-year-old victim was killed as a result of a gunshot wound she sustained in her abdomen. WSPA noted that Cobb’s death has been ruled a homicide.
Fox Carolina reported that 18-year-old Tiyelle Rakelle Demon Hollings was arrested and charged for murder and for the possession of a weapon during a violent crime.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Well, This Is Another Fine Mess You've Gotten Me Into at June 25, 2025 12:01 PM (L/fGl)

292 "June Lockhart, the star of classic TV shows like Lost in Space and Lassie, turned 100 on Wednesday, but a lesser-known aspect of her career is her time spent at White House press conferences"

Posted by: Stateless

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Cool. I'll have to send that to the wifey ... her ex is a cousin of June's.

Also, one of her ex-boyfriends also had a sister who married John Hiatt -- but tragically committed suicide relatively soon afterward.

This means I could be famous someday ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Make Unconditional Surrender Great Again! at June 25, 2025 12:02 PM (VKJnD)

293 Rachel Zegler Implies She’s Not Getting Any Work in Hollywood After “Snow White”


I've got some jobs for her....
Posted by: Stateless


Yacht girl! Oh, yacht girl!
Posted by: Count de Money
Posted by: rickb223 at June 25, 2025 11:57 AM (zSKXS)
______

You might give her one yacht invite. Not another. While she's reasonably attractive by herself, if you put her next to a truly attractive woman, you see how average she really is. That video of her on the red carpet with Gal Gadot is almost comical. Zelger is half Gadot's age, but Zelger is much less attractive, looks about the same age, and so fucking tiny she might as well be a hobbit.

Posted by: (There Can Be Only One) Elric Blade at June 25, 2025 12:02 PM (iFTx/)

294 ==
I have direct personal knowledge that grants are drying up. A friend lost her job working for a company that I think existed to just suck up education grant money. They closed down within 30 days of the election. Another family member who is in the hard science education start up space has seen significant walk backs on grants already awarded, and much tighter parameters going forward, with less money overall available.
Posted by: Black JEM at June 25, 2025 11:58 AM (GZYu7)


And I have an acquaintance who has worked for the IRS for 30 years be called back to work in office not at home and is being nudged to "retire".. She's a high paid mucky muck...

Posted by: Rachel,no work, Zegler at June 25, 2025 12:02 PM (VE6XX)

295 What's the Horde's opinion of Daphne Zuniga?

Posted by: Bulg at June 25, 2025 12:02 PM (77rzZ)

296 Rachel Zegler Implies She’s Not Getting Any Work in Hollywood After “Snow White”

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Is she too stupid to understand that being publicly odious makes her less marketable?

Posted by: Lady in Black at June 25, 2025 12:02 PM (qBdHI)

297 Is it coming out of Hollywood?
Posted by: ...


Yes. Praying Brooks has more creative control than History of the World Pt 2.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 25, 2025 12:02 PM (zSKXS)

298 ...She's probably lost her employers $400 million in her short career...

Sooo, what you're saying is she's-


"Rachel Zegler: The 400 Million Dollar Gal!!!"

You can't buy that kind of notoriety and fame.

Hollywood gimme a call! We gotta get this little lady into a picture while the iron is hot!!!

Posted by: naturalfake at June 25, 2025 12:02 PM (iJfKG)

299 Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Well, This Is Another Fine Mess You've Gotten Me Into at June 25, 2025 12:01 PM (L/fGl)

That is a Key and Peele sketch without the murder.

Posted by: polynikes at June 25, 2025 12:02 PM (VofaG)

300 And I'm not getting any work as a male model.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Well, This Is Another Fine Mess You've Gotten Me Into at June 25, 2025 11:47 AM


Have you considered becoming a French Internet date?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at June 25, 2025 12:02 PM (0sNs1)

301 Posted by: Rachel,no work, Zegler at June 25, 2025 12:02 PM (VE6XX)

Off/ Zegler sock...

Posted by: It's me donna at June 25, 2025 12:02 PM (VE6XX)

302 He's just saying that something is better than nothing. Before, we had no idea how the funding was done. Now we do, and we are stopping some. It is disruptive and those new money streams are harder to build when the Dems are out of power.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at June 25, 2025 12:03 PM (AcTAo)

303 What's the Horde's opinion of Daphne Zuniga?
Posted by: Bulg


$20. Same as in town.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 25, 2025 12:03 PM (zSKXS)

304 You're being very condescending to me. Why? I can't point out that this corruption goes much deeper than USAID without you telling me to go bowling?
Posted by: Harry Paratestes

And what in the Wide World of Sports is wrong with bowling?
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Well, if we're going to go there...I can't believe that its accepted practice to bowl without putting one's fingers in the ball? That was "cute" when a 6-year old child did it--they were 6, and the ball was ridiculously heavy. But nowadays professionals do this crap.

Posted by: Crusader at June 25, 2025 12:03 PM (TN0g+)

305 But it means nothing because your conspiratorial mindset says so.

I'm not being condescending. I'm saying your perception of politics is not going to be good for you. I like you, Harry, but this perpetual doomerism is unhealthy.

I would love to see you come back after a week or two, refreshed with an appreciation that life can be good.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 25, 2025 11:57 AM (GBKbO)

Er, okay. I think my life is pretty good, and I don't think I have a "perpetual doomerism". I guess I'm guilty of having a "conspiratorial mind" if we're calling it a conspiracy that there is a Deep State (or as Obama's team called it "the Blob") of interconnected interests that do not share the same interests of the American people and wield immense power and influence in DC.

Or if the argument is "hey, we need to be a monolith of opinions here at aoshq, and clearly you're not reading from the same hymnals as the hordemind, maybe find somewhere else to waste your time" then -- fine.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at June 25, 2025 12:03 PM (uCjyK)

306 Deport her back to Poland.

Posted by: Boss Moss at June 25, 2025 12:03 PM (VAINm)

307 293 You might give her one yacht invite. Not another. While she's reasonably attractive by herself, if you put her next to a truly attractive woman, you see how average she really is. That video of her on the red carpet with Gal Gadot is almost comical. Zelger is half Gadot's age, but Zelger is much less attractive, looks about the same age, and so fucking tiny she might as well be a hobbit.
Posted by: (There Can Be Only One) Elric Blade at June 25, 2025 12:02 PM (iFTx/)

=======

One of the most transparent efforts by Hollywood recently to try and create a movie star out of almost nothing (she had a decent Youtube following before her casting in West Side Story, making is almost nothing, not quite nothing).

It reminds me of Howard Hughes taking the high school girl to the clubs in The Aviator.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 25, 2025 12:03 PM (GBKbO)

308 What's the Horde's opinion of Daphne Zuniga?
Posted by: Bulg at June 25, 2025 12:02 PM (77rzZ)

Melrose Place pretty hot in an approachable way.

Couldn't name anything else she's been in, nor do I really care.

Courtney Thorne-Smith is divorcing, so I'm focused on her.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at June 25, 2025 12:03 PM (vt7xw)

309 Rachel Zegler grabbed her career by the throat, body slammed it, then pumped 6 rounds of 9mm hp in it's head. And now it's dead???

Posted by: Xipe Totec at June 25, 2025 12:04 PM (pohLc)

310 What's the Horde's opinion of Daphne Zuniga?
Posted by: Bulg at June 25, 2025 12:02 PM (77rzZ)

A Sure Thing used to be a favorite movie. I don’t know how well it’s held up because they rarely show it on TV.

Posted by: polynikes at June 25, 2025 12:04 PM (VofaG)

311 276 Rachel Zegler Implies She’s Not Getting Any Work in Hollywood After “Snow White”

Yacht girl! Oh, yacht girl!
Posted by: Count de Money
Posted by: rickb223

Lol...I can pull MUCH hotter women. I guess it might be cool to fly her out to sing "Hi ho" to her, or bang her while watching Snow White and say things like "I'm fucking you harder than you fucked Disney".

Posted by: Saudi Prince at June 25, 2025 12:04 PM (JCZqz)

312 ...Tiyelle Rakelle Demon Hollings was arrested and charged for murder and for the possession of a weapon during a violent crime.

--

Demon???

Posted by: Lady in Black at June 25, 2025 12:05 PM (qBdHI)

313 Neighbors say Tiyelle Rakelle Demon was just turning his life around and was planning to attending community college.
I

Posted by: Local media at June 25, 2025 12:05 PM (PQB+n)

314 311
Lol...I can pull MUCH hotter women. I guess it might be cool to fly her out to sing "Hi ho" to her, or bang her while watching Snow White and say things like "I'm fucking you harder than you fucked Disney".
Posted by: Saudi Prince at June 25, 2025 12:04 PM (JCZqz)

========

Rando Instagram hottie #423 is both hotter than Zegler and probably cheaper.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 25, 2025 12:05 PM (GBKbO)

315 she might as well be a hobbit.
Posted by: (There Can Be Only One) Elric Blade at June 25, 2025 12:02 PM


Are her feet ... hairy?

Asking for a friend.

Posted by: Quentin Proudfoot at June 25, 2025 12:05 PM (0sNs1)

316 What's the Horde's opinion of Daphne Zuniga?
Posted by: Bulg at June 25, 2025 12:02 PM


With her new nose or her old nose?

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 25, 2025 12:05 PM (dPfyF)

317 Posit:

Fortune cookies don't even offer fortunes anymore.

Discuss.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 25, 2025 11:59 AM (GBKbO)

Aphorism Cookie doesn't sound as appetizing.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 25, 2025 12:06 PM (BjH5D)

318 Posted by: Crusader at June 25, 2025 12:03 PM (TN0g+)

The extreme spin gives you so much more pin action.

(That’s what she said)

Posted by: polynikes at June 25, 2025 12:06 PM (VofaG)

319 Posit:

Fortune cookies don't even offer fortunes anymore.

Discuss.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 25, 2025 11:59 AM (GBKbO)

Aphorism Cookie doesn't sound as appetizing.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 25, 2025 12:06 PM


Misfortune cookies, otoh, could be fun.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 25, 2025 12:06 PM (dPfyF)

320 Daphne Zuniga was also in The Sure Thing with John Cusack.

Posted by: Bulg at June 25, 2025 12:06 PM (77rzZ)

321 What's the Horde's opinion of Daphne Zuniga?
Posted by: Bulg


I prefer Velma, because chicks with glasses, see?

Posted by: Kindltot at June 25, 2025 12:06 PM (D7oie)

322 What's the Horde's opinion of Daphne Zuniga?
Posted by: Bulg at June 25, 2025 12:02 PM

With her new nose or her old nose?
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I'll take "21st Century Conversations for $200" Alex...

Posted by: Crusader at June 25, 2025 12:07 PM (TN0g+)

323 Daphne Zuniga , no bad looking even now. Funny in Spaceballs

Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 25, 2025 12:08 PM (pwtJC)

324 Daphne Zuniga was also in The Sure Thing with John Cusack.
Posted by: Bulg at June 25, 2025 12:06 PM (77rzZ)

You can’t ask a question and then not read the comments. 😉

Posted by: polynikes at June 25, 2025 12:08 PM (VofaG)

325 What's the Horde's opinion of Daphne Zuniga?
Posted by: Bulg at June 25, 2025 12:02 PM

With her new nose or her old nose?
--------
I'll take "21st Century Conversations for $200" Alex...
Posted by: Crusader at June 25, 2025 12:07 PM


And the answer is "A Spaceballs reference".

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 25, 2025 12:08 PM (dPfyF)

326 That video of her on the red carpet with Gal Gadot is almost comical. Zelger is half Gadot's age, but Zelger is much less attractive, looks about the same age, and so fucking tiny she might as well be a hobbit.
Posted by: (There Can Be Only One) Elric Blade at June 25, 2025 12:02 PM (iFTx/)

=======

One of the most transparent efforts by Hollywood recently to try and create a movie star out of almost nothing (she had a decent Youtube following before her casting in West Side Story, making is almost nothing, not quite nothing).

It reminds me of Howard Hughes taking the high school girl to the clubs in The Aviator.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 25, 2025 12:03 PM (GBKbO)
_______

Agree. I think Hollywood was desperate to find a replacement for Jennifer Lawrence, who herself somehow became a billion-dollar star despite mediocre talents. JL had some help from -- cough, cough -- Fat Harvey, but still. As her star faded, a new one needed to be found. They even cast Zelger in the same series (Hunger Games) that made JL a star.

Posted by: (There Can Be Only One) Elric Blade at June 25, 2025 12:08 PM (iFTx/)

327 Zegler’s pal , Pedro seems to be getting a lot of work. I guess it’s because she’s female.

He's got better oral skills

Posted by: Some Woke Hollywood producer at June 25, 2025 12:08 PM (t0Rmr)

328 Misfortune cookies, otoh, could be fun.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState


"You will die poor and alone."

Posted by: Bulg at June 25, 2025 12:08 PM (77rzZ)

329 You eill eat za bugs lound eye.

Posted by: Boss Moss at June 25, 2025 12:09 PM (VAINm)

330 Misfortune cookies, otoh, could be fun.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState


"You will die poor and alone."
Posted by: Bulg at June 25, 2025 12:08 PM


Can we interest you in a writing gig?

Posted by: Sum Dum Goi's Misfortune Cookie Emporium at June 25, 2025 12:10 PM (dPfyF)

331 "The cool thing is real socialism has never been tried before and we can all be excited for the chance to finally see it in action."
----Mary Katherine Ham on X (regarding NYC Mayor Results)

Posted by: Crusader at June 25, 2025 12:10 PM (TN0g+)

332 "One of the most transparent efforts by Hollywood recently to try and create a movie star out of almost nothing"

But enough about Zendaya. Please.

Posted by: NR Pax at June 25, 2025 12:10 PM (BpO1e)

333 "June Lockhart, the star of classic TV shows like Lost in Space and Lassie, turned 100 on Wednesday. . .

There's an interview of Ms. Lockhart floating around where somehow, they got to be discussing whether or not Dr. Smith from 'Lost in Space' was a pole smoker.

June - looked at the interviewer like he had three heads and said something to the effect of 'Of course he's a fag - don't you have eyes!'

Well played June. Well played.

Posted by: Tonypete at June 25, 2025 12:10 PM (cYBz/)

334 This means I could be famous someday ...

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

To be logically consistent:

This means a family member of mine could be famous someday ...

BTW, I have a cousin who was drafted this year by the Oakland Raiders. Coincidence?

Posted by: ShainS -- Make Unconditional Surrender Great Again! at June 25, 2025 12:10 PM (VKJnD)

335 Posted by: (There Can Be Only One) Elric Blade at June 25, 2025 12:08 PM (iFTx

I don’t have to like her but I think she’s a damn good actress.

Red Sparrow is a guilty pleasure. Though actuality don’t feel guilty about really liking it a lot.

Posted by: polynikes at June 25, 2025 12:10 PM (VofaG)

336 CBC

Great news! Canada is going to up defense spending to 5%.

And like any political commitment, this will be done by 2035.

Posted by: Stateless.. 44% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back now at June 25, 2025 12:10 PM (jvJvP)

337 Bernie Bros?

Posted by: Boss Moss at June 25, 2025 12:11 PM (VAINm)

338 ‘Don’t shop at all on Tuesday’? Tuesday is Senior Citizen Discount Day at Brookshire.

Posted by: Eromero at June 25, 2025 12:11 PM (LHPAg)

339 The comments here thrive on doomerism. Always has been. It's the internet.

Posted by: brak at June 25, 2025 12:11 PM (jGJov)

340 Agree. I think Hollywood was desperate to find a replacement for Jennifer Lawrence, who herself somehow became a billion-dollar star despite mediocre talents. JL had some help from -- cough, cough -- Fat Harvey, but still. As her star faded, a new one needed to be found. They even cast Zelger in the same series (Hunger Games) that made JL a star.
Posted by: (There Can Be Only One) Elric Blade at June 25, 2025 12:08 PM (iFTx/)


This is about me, isn't it?

Posted by: Zendaya at June 25, 2025 12:11 PM (PiwSw)

341 I remember Daphne was in some horror flick with Clu Gulager in the early 80s. She was very pretty back then.

Posted by: Lady in Black at June 25, 2025 12:11 PM (qBdHI)

342 326 Agree. I think Hollywood was desperate to find a replacement for Jennifer Lawrence, who herself somehow became a billion-dollar star despite mediocre talents. JL had some help from -- cough, cough -- Fat Harvey, but still. As her star faded, a new one needed to be found. They even cast Zelger in the same series (Hunger Games) that made JL a star.
Posted by: (There Can Be Only One) Elric Blade at June 25, 2025 12:08 PM (iFTx/)

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Lawrence is only considered a star because she was the main actress in The Hunger Games. Her movies outside of that have not performed terribly well. Red Sparrow, made with the same director, made a grand $48 million at the US box office.

Every time another one pops up, I just add to my quiver of, "the movie star is fake" with some very rare exceptions. Will Smith in the early 2000s (I don't see how Hitch becomes a $100 million hit without him). Tom Cruise, to some limited extent.

If you're unwilling to see the small town family drama even though Robert Downey Jr. is in it at the height of his popularity (The Judge), Robert Downey Jr. isn't a movie star.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 25, 2025 12:12 PM (GBKbO)

343 This is about me, isn't it?
Posted by: Zendaya

Wasn't Zendaya a race horse?

Posted by: Bulg at June 25, 2025 12:12 PM (77rzZ)

344 I like Zegler more than Zendaya

Posted by: polynikes at June 25, 2025 12:12 PM (VofaG)

345 "One of the most transparent efforts by Hollywood recently to try and create a movie star out of almost nothing"
-----------

This is about me, isn't it?

Posted by: Renee Zellweger at June 25, 2025 12:12 PM (TN0g+)

346 Ace is up.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 25, 2025 12:12 PM (dPfyF)

347 When she was 18, Zendaya was in a cute Disney show playing a teenage spy. It was cute.

She was cute too.....in a weird way.

Posted by: Stateless.. 44% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back now at June 25, 2025 12:14 PM (jvJvP)

348 "One of the most transparent efforts by Hollywood recently to try and create a movie star out of almost nothing"

But enough about Zendaya. Please.
Posted by: NR Pax at June 25, 2025 12:10 PM (BpO1e)
_______

Kinda true, but Zendaya started much younger, and had a string of successful shows and movies to her resume before she got bigger roles. And her movies have made billions of dollars, albeit not because of her. She hasn't had the kind of unrelenting bombs that Zegler has.

Zendaya is also a leftwing BLM kook. But for some reason Disney must have told her to shut the fuck up.

Posted by: (There Can Be Only One) Elric Blade at June 25, 2025 12:14 PM (iFTx/)

349 Misfortune cookies, otoh, could be fun.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 25, 2025 12:06 PM (dPfyF)

"The chef probably didn't wash his hands. "

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 25, 2025 12:14 PM (BjH5D)

350
What's the Horde's opinion of Daphne Zuniga?

Posted by: Bulg at June 25, 2025 12:02 PM


Cute around the time of "The Fly 2".

Kind of a Dollar Tree Nancy Allen.

Posted by: naturalfake at June 25, 2025 12:14 PM (iJfKG)

351 330 Misfortune cookies, otoh, could be fun.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState


Doooomed. Your life will be spent picking lint out of Nancy Pelosi’s belly button.

Posted by: nurse ratched at June 25, 2025 12:14 PM (W2Pud)

352 Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 25, 2025 12:12 PM (GBKbO)

She made her mark in Winters Bone which gave her the Hunger Games.

Silver Linings Playbook was also excellent.

Posted by: polynikes at June 25, 2025 12:14 PM (VofaG)

353 The Dow is falling.

And the temperature is rising. At this rate, it's going to be 145° by tomorrow morning. Not looking forward to it.
Posted by: t-bird at June 25, 2025 11:51 AM



If present trends continue, my yard will be a lava field by next December.

Posted by: toby928 at June 25, 2025 12:15 PM (jc0TO)

354 Tom Cruise, to some limited extent.
------------
Tom Cruise is a nut, and promoter of a criminal cult masquerading as a "religion".

But he brings it all to his movies. I don't like the person. But he's a legitimate actor.

Posted by: Crusader at June 25, 2025 12:15 PM (TN0g+)

355 Once you've seen Jennifer Lawrence's bleached bunghole watching her try and act is difficult

Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 25, 2025 12:15 PM (pwtJC)

356 I did once get a sorta misfortune cookie at a dinner at some now forgotten fantasy-sf convention. The last night, a Sunday, and a few of us decided on Chinese before we took off. The fortune cookies were passed around, I opened mine, and it said "You will soon meet with ingratitude." Back to work the next morning, and sure enough.

Posted by: Just Some Guy at June 25, 2025 12:16 PM (q3u5l)

357 >>> This whole thing is perhaps one of the most transparent and uproariously cynical cash grabs I have ever seen, and the press has lined up to send business his way. And it's worked - he raised $125k on GoFundMe

David Hogg is soooo jealous he didn't think up this grift first! Too much time focusing on his pillow startup he was too lazy to do, and swiping the entire Rolodex at the DNC.

Posted by: LizLem at June 25, 2025 12:17 PM (gWBY1)

358 What's the Horde's opinion of Daphne Zuniga?
Posted by: Bulg at June 25, 2025 12:02 PM

With her new nose or her old nose?
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 25, 2025 12:05 PM (dPfyF)

Nose?

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at June 25, 2025 12:17 PM (5xuJ/)

359 Wait are you implying Harry that everyone always agrees with TJM? Because THAT is offensive....

Posted by: ... at June 25, 2025 12:18 PM (sfdl6)

360 I am late to the thread but The People's Union USA reminds me of how various TEA Party groups were co-opted by the GOPe (or if not co-opted, hounded to death by the IRS) only this is being done as a commercial venture. Also, it appears to be appealing more to leftists than the MAGA movement. But it’s sloganeering is so bland and anodyne it might suck in some people on the right as well. Caveat emptor!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at June 25, 2025 12:18 PM (NWqJf)

361 359 Wait are you implying Harry that everyone always agrees with TJM? Because THAT is offensive....
Posted by: ... at June 25, 2025 12:18 PM (sfdl6)

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Agree with Harry, or I ban you!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 25, 2025 12:19 PM (GBKbO)

362 If I stopped watching movies with people I don't like in them I wouldn't watch any movies. Hey maybe I'll stop watching movies.....

Posted by: ... at June 25, 2025 12:20 PM (sfdl6)

363 Agree with Harry, or I ban you!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 25, 2025 12:19 PM (GBKbO)

I DO get it

Posted by: ... at June 25, 2025 12:20 PM (sfdl6)

364 So you become a non profit so you don't have to pay taxes, but if you intentionally don't have profit there's nothing to pay taxes on so there's no point "being" a non profit.

hush up!

Posted by: Ace of Spades, LLC at June 25, 2025 12:29 PM (8uzBS)

365
Definitions:

"People's" means "Raging commie cocksuckers who think Vlad Lenin was a RINO (Revolutionary In Name Only)"

"Activist" means "Gaping, putrid, unwiped asshole troublemaker"

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at June 25, 2025 01:03 PM (y9nCu)

366 31 >>The media says this "British man" was arrested for trying to marry a nine year old at Disneyland Paris


Why Disneyland?


Because she was nine years old.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at June 25, 2025 01:06 PM (NWqJf)

367 By the way the so-called Prophet Mohammad, piss be upon him, is known to have married nine year old Aisha, so this “British Man” was just emulating his idol.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at June 25, 2025 01:10 PM (NWqJf)

Mid-Morning Art Thread

Symons Sunny Slopes1.jpg

Sunny Slopes
Gardner Symons

Posted by: CBD at 09:38 AM




Comments

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1 Sponge!

Posted by: rickb223 at June 25, 2025 09:39 AM (AaWBX)

2 Oops! It's the 25th...not the 24th!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (with a beret and a Gauloises) at June 25, 2025 09:39 AM (L5An7)

3 Corgis called

Posted by: rickb223 at June 25, 2025 09:39 AM (AaWBX)

4 brrrr

Posted by: rhennigantx at June 25, 2025 09:39 AM (gbOdA)

5 top 5!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 25, 2025 09:39 AM (omVj0)

6 2 Oops! It's the 25th...not the 24th!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (with a beret and a Gauloises) at June 25, 2025 09:39 AM (L5An7)

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Says who?

The government?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 25, 2025 09:39 AM (GBKbO)

7 Winter scene -- most welcome in a sour hot June!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 25, 2025 09:39 AM (omVj0)

8 Trees, so, art.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 25, 2025 09:39 AM (AaWBX)

9 Smithsonian American Art Museum

Title
Sunny Slopes
Artist
Gardner Symons
Date
n.d.
Location
Not on view
Dimensions
40 1⁄8 x 50 1⁄8 in. (101.8 x 127.3 cm.)
Credit Line
Gift of Mrs. Louis Betts
Mediums
oil
Mediums Description
oil on canvas

Posted by: rhennigantx at June 25, 2025 09:40 AM (gbOdA)

10 Love it.

Posted by: tubal at June 25, 2025 09:40 AM (PCK5/)

11 Looks more like a filtered photograph than a painting

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 25, 2025 09:40 AM (BjH5D)

12 Very nice. Thanks, CBD.

Posted by: Bulg at June 25, 2025 09:40 AM (77rzZ)

13 Looks like a scene from Jeremiah Johnson w/ Robt. Redford. Wonderful details of the water, the tree bark, and the branches across the stream.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 25, 2025 09:40 AM (omVj0)

14

Wolves won't find the body until spring...

Posted by: Elderly Git at June 25, 2025 09:41 AM (lPida)

15 You can tell it's not a Thomas Kinkade piece because there are no LEDs.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 25, 2025 09:41 AM (hY4dx)

16 That house without power over there with the Trump sign out front, we can skip.

Posted by: FEMA at June 25, 2025 09:41 AM (w9Wax)

17 would not hang

Posted by: Gref at June 25, 2025 09:41 AM (aBgBM)

18 I expected the artist’s name to be Russian.

Posted by: Bulg at June 25, 2025 09:41 AM (77rzZ)

19 Hard to tell from the perspective, but are the buildings on the flood plain?

Posted by: tubal at June 25, 2025 09:41 AM (PCK5/)

20 Harder to see the nekkid woman in today's art

Posted by: 18-1 at June 25, 2025 09:42 AM (t0Rmr)

21 Snow is nice but I miss the naked wimmenz.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 25, 2025 09:42 AM (hY4dx)

22 Would paint on the side of my Free Candy van.

Posted by: toby928 at June 25, 2025 09:42 AM (jc0TO)

23 Very nice landscape. Would hang, but, then again, I'm an ignorant sucker when it comes to art.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at June 25, 2025 09:42 AM (f7c5w)

24 Well done but doesn’t elicit any feeling from me.

Posted by: polynikes at June 25, 2025 09:42 AM (VofaG)

25 I prefer Bob Ross landscapes.

Posted by: Art Critic at June 25, 2025 09:42 AM (JCZqz)

26 Today is June 25th, not December 25th.

Posted by: redridinghood at June 25, 2025 09:42 AM (NpAcC)

27 I like it.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at June 25, 2025 09:43 AM (bss/y)

28 Aren't there some spotted horses hidden in the trees? Or maybe that's the sniper.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 25, 2025 09:43 AM (uWKK8)

29 Looks a bit like one of those "find the horses" paintings.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at June 25, 2025 09:43 AM (lFFaq)

30 Sunny Slopes

The thing about Sunny Slopes Ski Resorts is that there are no chairlifts- you have to hike. The good news is that it's only have to climb about ten yards.

Posted by: t-bird at June 25, 2025 09:43 AM (YiWOf)

31 We should loot the Smithsonian and put all the art they have squirreled away on display. I think almost every museum and gallery hogs art this way. Just a few poofters ever get to see some of the best stuff. Shameful!

Posted by: Art For the (M)asses at June 25, 2025 09:43 AM (G5+As)

32 20 Harder to see the nekkid woman in today's art
Posted by: 18-1

In the houses in the background? Or ice bathing just upstream?

Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at June 25, 2025 09:43 AM (JCZqz)

33 That's not snow, it's radioactive ash from Trump's nuclear war and net neutrality, but mostly net neutrality.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 25, 2025 09:43 AM (BjH5D)

34 Winter scene -- most welcome in a sour hot June!
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius


As today's kids would say, "it's AI. It's a fake. Everyone knows there's no snow in June!"

Posted by: rickb223 at June 25, 2025 09:44 AM (AaWBX)

35 Harder to see the nekkid woman in today's art
Posted by: 18-1

Albino women are hot!

Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at June 25, 2025 09:44 AM (w9Wax)

36 A peaceful , easy feeling is what I get… which is swimming against the overall currents here..

Posted by: tubal at June 25, 2025 09:44 AM (PCK5/)

37 23 Very nice landscape. Would hang, but, then again, I'm an ignorant sucker when it comes to art.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at June 25, 2025 09:42 AM (f7c5w)

Well, if you hang it between your Dogs playing poker and your Velvet Elvis and below your Star Trek commemorative plates...

Nah, even then- like what you like.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at June 25, 2025 09:44 AM (bss/y)

38 The buildings in the background are the compound of an obscure cult devoted to Zoroastrianism.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 25, 2025 09:44 AM (hY4dx)

39 Looks nippy.

Posted by: toby928 at June 25, 2025 09:44 AM (jc0TO)

40 Harder to see the nekkid woman in today's art
Posted by: 18-1


They are the ones cutting glass with their nipples.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 25, 2025 09:44 AM (AaWBX)

41 Was this on the cover of Field And Stream??

Posted by: dantesed at June 25, 2025 09:45 AM (Oy/m2)

42 A Nukular Glow coming from those buildings in the distance would be nice. And you have a running creek and no water wheel? Amateur!

Posted by: Kinkade Gallery, FTW at June 25, 2025 09:46 AM (G5+As)

43 Sunny Slopes
Needs some skiers.

Posted by: redridinghood at June 25, 2025 09:46 AM (NpAcC)

44 Let me get my waders.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 25, 2025 09:47 AM (hY4dx)

45 Well, isn't that pretty!

Posted by: Lizzy at June 25, 2025 09:47 AM (6o/o0)

46 Too warm here for nice white birches like that to survive. Have river birches, though.

Posted by: Birch Report at June 25, 2025 09:48 AM (G5+As)

47 I would absolutely retire to that spot.

Posted by: PabloD at June 25, 2025 09:48 AM (Dsfkc)

48 >>As today's kids would say, "it's AI. It's a fake. Everyone knows there's no snow in June!"


Unless Al Gore is scheduled to visit.

Posted by: Lizzy at June 25, 2025 09:48 AM (6o/o0)

49 I (fortunately) have not been in snowy realms often, but I have been in the mountains a few times, and I love what he's caught here - it's early morning, an hour at most after sunrise, and everything is fresh and clear and warming up for the day. Always a marvelous time of day.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 25, 2025 09:48 AM (uWKK8)

50 That is lovely . Nice to look at when it's going to 95 degrees out here today . I'd not heard of that artist . Thanks.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 25, 2025 09:49 AM (2GCMq)

51 This needs a John Denver soundtrack.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 25, 2025 09:49 AM (hY4dx)

52 Today is June 25th, not December 25th.
Posted by: redridinghood at June 25, 2025 09:42 AM (NpAcC)


6 months since last Christmas and 6 months until Christmas 2025. It's the half-birthday of Jesus!

Posted by: Doof at June 25, 2025 09:50 AM (B5+rm)

53 It even has yellow snow. Authentic!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at June 25, 2025 09:50 AM (NC42u)

54 I will brook no disparaging comments about today's pick!
The downstream effect of the colors and subject choice are calmness.

Posted by: Lizzy at June 25, 2025 09:50 AM (6o/o0)

55 Looks nippy.
Posted by: toby928 at June 25, 2025 09:44 AM (jc0TO)
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Harder to see the nekkid woman in today's art
Posted by: 18-1
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A metaphorical theme.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at June 25, 2025 09:50 AM (f7c5w)

56 The thing about Sunny Slopes Ski Resorts is that there are no chairlifts- you have to hike. The good news is that it's only have to climb about ten yards.
Posted by: t-bird


Here at Sunny Slopes we have short runs and free ski washes!

Posted by: haffhowershower at June 25, 2025 09:50 AM (1U8ba)

57 I like the water. I can smell that painting.

Posted by: H at June 25, 2025 09:51 AM (2gjbv)

58 Very nice , would hang. In the winter I can walk 1 1/2 miles and see this view in nature
Thx CBD

Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 25, 2025 09:51 AM (pwtJC)

59 Looks nippy.
Posted by: toby928 at June 25, 2025 09:44 AM (jc0TO)


That does happen to them when it's cold

Posted by: Doof at June 25, 2025 09:51 AM (B5+rm)

60 Very nice... But I would have called it Snowy Slopes...

Posted by: It's me donna at June 25, 2025 09:51 AM (VE6XX)

61 Lovely landscape. You can almost hear the water flowing over the rocks in the stream. Symons is listed as an American Impressionist but the only part of this painting that seems Impressionistic is the water. (Shades of Givenchy.) The rest is beautifully realistic without being a photograph. It is restful, soft, like the first thaw of winter awakening into early spring. Very nice. Definitely something I would hang.

Posted by: JTB at June 25, 2025 09:51 AM (yTvNw)

62 If this was hanging in an art museum, I'd walk right past and head for something with a historical theme.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 25, 2025 09:52 AM (hY4dx)

63 I do like that the painting exhibits the fact that snow isn’t seen as mostly white.

Posted by: polynikes at June 25, 2025 09:52 AM (VofaG)

64 CBD shouldn't post paintings of a river. He's not a painter. He'a not a river. What does he even know about river paintings?? Don't disrespect rivers by posting about what you can't understand!
-Eeyore

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 25, 2025 09:52 AM (RIvkX)

65 June Lockhart has seen one hundred winters like this. She was even in A Christmas Carol (193.

Posted by: Lost In Space at June 25, 2025 09:52 AM (G5+As)

66 65 June Lockhart has seen one hundred winters like this. She was even in A Christmas Carol (193.
Posted by: Lost In Space at June 25, 2025 09:52 AM (G5+As)

Yes... As one of the Cratchit kids...

Posted by: It's me donna at June 25, 2025 09:53 AM (VE6XX)

67 Posted by: tubal at June 25, 2025 09:44 AM (PCK5/)

Sometimes it good just to get out of the stream here for a while.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 25, 2025 09:53 AM (2GCMq)

68 Another part of this painting I enjoy is the way he captures shadow, as if the sun is just arisen and the area is waking from winter.

Posted by: JTB at June 25, 2025 09:54 AM (yTvNw)

69 I like the water. I can smell that painting.
Posted by: H


I can hear the water running.

Crap. I gotta pee.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 25, 2025 09:54 AM (AaWBX)

70 I learned from Waylon and Willie that cowboys love clear mountain mornings. And girls of the night.

Posted by: haffhowershower at June 25, 2025 09:54 AM (1U8ba)

71 I will brook no disparaging comments about today's pick!
The downstream effect of the colors and subject choice are calmness.
Posted by: Lizzy at June 25, 2025 09:50 AM (6o/o0)

What are you babbling about?

Posted by: dantesed at June 25, 2025 09:56 AM (Oy/m2)

72 Could have thrown in a gratuitous beaver, or at least a muskrat, or nutria.

Posted by: Tales of the Riverbank at June 25, 2025 09:57 AM (G5+As)

73 Posted by: JTB at June 25, 2025 09:51 AM (yTvNw)

It’s very much impressionist as the style was first started but far from post Impressionism which most people just call Impressionism, including me.

Posted by: polynikes at June 25, 2025 09:57 AM (VofaG)

74 The slopes were sunny that day, my friends...

Posted by: George Costanza at June 25, 2025 09:57 AM (lIgBp)

75 Picnic Supplies - a limerick

My neighbor could never have guessed
That my comment was simply a jest
His ire rapidly rose
And he punched me in the nose
When I observed "Your wife has an ice chest!"

Posted by: muldoon at June 25, 2025 09:57 AM (poXs5)

76 Lovely scene. Perfect for a hot, humid day. Would hang.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 25, 2025 09:59 AM (dPfyF)

77 Posted by: muldoon at June 25, 2025 09:57 AM

*golf clap*

And bewbs.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 25, 2025 09:59 AM (dPfyF)

78 June Lockhart has seen one hundred winters like this. She was even in A Christmas Carol 1938
Posted by: Lost In Space

Yes... As one of the Cratchit kids...
Posted by: It's me donna


As Belinda Cratchit. Along with her mom & dad.
Gene played Bob Cratchit & Kathleen played Mrs. Cratchit.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 25, 2025 10:00 AM (AaWBX)

79 >>This needs a John Denver soundtrack.

Brooks and Dunn

Posted by: Lizzy at June 25, 2025 10:01 AM (6o/o0)

80 72 Could have thrown in a gratuitous beaver, or at least a muskrat, or nutria.
Posted by: Tales of the Riverbank

I'm pretty sure I saw gratuitous beaver open backstage for Gwar after their performance at The Pageant last fall.

Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at June 25, 2025 10:01 AM (JCZqz)

81 >>What are you babbling about?

Rapid, random thoughts. . .

Posted by: Lizzy at June 25, 2025 10:01 AM (6o/o0)

82 I'm pretty sure I saw gratuitous beaver open backstage for Gwar after their performance at The Pageant last fall.
Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at June 25, 2025 10:01 AM


Please refrain from posting any pictures you might have of this.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 25, 2025 10:02 AM (dPfyF)

83 Beaver? I just met her!

Posted by: Rimshot at June 25, 2025 10:03 AM (lIgBp)

84 When I observed "Your wife has an ice chest!"

*********

"Really. I saw it on your patio when I looked over the fence."

Posted by: muldoon at June 25, 2025 10:03 AM (poXs5)

85 That looks like an ice fishing spot!

Posted by: muldoon at June 25, 2025 10:04 AM (poXs5)

86 So it was the reformed Scrooge who bought Lassie for Tiny Timmy?

Posted by: Bulg at June 25, 2025 10:05 AM (77rzZ)

87 Rapid, random thoughts. . .
Posted by: Lizzy at June 25, 2025 10:01 AM



Flooded with rivulets of thought cascading into a waterfall of creative alternatives?

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 25, 2025 10:05 AM (dPfyF)

88 "Stop killing bunnies to make bunny slopes!"

/obligatory Donkey-Chompers

Posted by: ShainS -- Trump Dropped 12 Bunker-Busters Followed By One F-Bomb at June 25, 2025 10:06 AM (DbVei)

89 CBD might have posted this as a thirst trap to MisHum, in hopes of motivating him to take the art thread for a couple of days.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at June 25, 2025 10:06 AM (Bbwdx)

90 The Reginald Owen Scrooge is definitely the weakest one. Far inferior to Alistair Sim’s rendition.

Posted by: Bulg at June 25, 2025 10:07 AM (77rzZ)

91

You think you're scared? I have to walk back alone!

Posted by: Ed Gein at June 25, 2025 10:07 AM (lPida)

92 Dripping, swirling, gurgling and lapping gently at the recesses of my watery consciousness...

Posted by: Thoroughly Thoreau at June 25, 2025 10:07 AM (lIgBp)

93 The title might have been "Almost Opening Day of Trout Season". The guys in the cabins are getting their gear ready and going through their fly boxes while sipping morning coffee.

Considering the surface of the sun temperatures we've had this week, this scene is very welcome.

Posted by: JTB at June 25, 2025 10:08 AM (yTvNw)

94 This was the gift of "Mrs. Louis Betts"? Cleaning out the attic, after Mr. Louis Betts failed to return alive from a fishing trip...

Posted by: Huck Follywood at June 25, 2025 10:09 AM (Bbwdx)

95 That's how I feel when I fall asleep with the air conditioner too high. I wake up shivvering.

Posted by: Boss Moss at June 25, 2025 10:11 AM (VAINm)

96 Looks like my neighborhood. In June.

Posted by: Pete Bog at June 25, 2025 10:11 AM (NMKkE)

97 Aren't there some spotted horses hidden in the trees?

********

They're not real.

Painted Phonies

Posted by: muldoon at June 25, 2025 10:11 AM (poXs5)

98 Raacist!

Posted by: Boss Moss at June 25, 2025 10:12 AM (VAINm)

99 They're not real.

Painted Phonies
Posted by: muldoon at June 25, 2025 10:11 AM (poXs5)

Like Night Mares?

Posted by: polynikes at June 25, 2025 10:13 AM (VofaG)

100 Is this the slippery slope I keep hearing about?

Posted by: muldoon at June 25, 2025 10:13 AM (poXs5)

101 As Belinda Cratchit. Along with her mom & dad.
Gene played Bob Cratchit & Kathleen played Mrs. Cratchit.
Posted by: rickb223 at June 25, 2025 10:00 AM (AaWBX)

Best version of the character was Mrs. Scratchit in Blackadder's Christmas Carol. "Mrs Scratchit, Tiny Tom is fifteen stone and he’s built like a brick privy! If he eats any more heartily, he will turn into a pie shop."

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 25, 2025 10:14 AM (uWKK8)

102 90 The Reginald Owen Scrooge is definitely the weakest one. Far inferior to Alistair Sim’s rendition.
Posted by: Bulg

Anyone who enjoys Alistair Sim would like a 1946 movie he made-Green For Danger. Plays a Scotland Yard investigator sleuthing mysterious deaths at a field hospital in the English countryside during the war. Good film, complete with V-1s hitting nearby. The sound of the pulse jet is haunting. Duck when the sound stops!

Posted by: Out Of Gas at June 25, 2025 10:14 AM (G5+As)

103 I feel like that character in the Night Gallery who would to to the gallery and intensely concentrate on putting himself into the painting.

I would really like to be in that chilly environment right now.
Outdoors, I mean.

Posted by: kallisto at June 25, 2025 10:16 AM (dCxaZ)

104 That house looks like a fine place to nestle in front of a roaring hearth with a steaming mug of hot cocoa on a snowy winter's eve and write a manifesto.

Posted by: muldoon at June 25, 2025 10:16 AM (poXs5)

105 Goid place for a canoe accident.

Posted by: Boss Moss at June 25, 2025 10:17 AM (VAINm)

106 It's not so easy to paint snow. A lot more going on in those vast expanses of white than one would think.

Posted by: kallisto at June 25, 2025 10:17 AM (dCxaZ)

107 It's a nice painting. Like the details. The artist done a good job of a winter landscape. The problem I have with it is I don't really like winter scenery. I don't like cold and snow. Like I wouldn't like a sweltering summer day scene. So I would pass on this.

Posted by: Case at June 25, 2025 10:18 AM (ilX37)

108 A string of poloponies

Posted by: ... at June 25, 2025 10:18 AM (sfdl6)

109 If you like watching time lapse painting google up Michael James Smith Dramatic Snow painting vid.

Posted by: polynikes at June 25, 2025 10:19 AM (VofaG)

110 That house looks like a fine place to nestle in front of a roaring hearth with a steaming mug of hot cocoa on a snowy winter's eve and write a manifesto.
Posted by: muldoon at June 25, 2025 10:16 AM (poXs5)

Hah ISWYDT

Posted by: polynikes at June 25, 2025 10:20 AM (VofaG)

111 G'day, y'all.

What a cool, refreshing picture to offset the end-of-June Oklahoma heat.

Posted by: mindful webworker - lo, 'tis another day at June 25, 2025 10:20 AM (0NO3o)

112 I’d like to know where this was painted.

Posted by: Bulg at June 25, 2025 10:21 AM (77rzZ)

113 A lot more going on in those vast expanses of white than one would think.
Posted by: kallisto at June 25, 2025 10:17 AM (dCxaZ)

I have the same trouble with my redheads. Their milky skin is deceptively complex.

Posted by: ... at June 25, 2025 10:21 AM (sfdl6)

114 108 A string of poloponies
Posted by: ...

My sister Violet and her husband Bruce own a Mercedes and have room for a pony.

Posted by: Bucket Residence at June 25, 2025 10:21 AM (G5+As)

115 Lovely serene painting. Right now I would love to have some snow. I’d love to have some humidity that isn’t 70%. Although today at least it’s cloudy and the temperature is 78 as opposed to the 103 we had yesterday.

Posted by: Jen the original at June 25, 2025 10:21 AM (+WLao)

116
Sunny Slopes

The hottest porn star of the 1960s.

Known for her 44DD chest and ice skater's rear, she's most famous for starring in:

"Snow Job"

"Snow Job 2"

"Bunny Slopes!"

"Asscapades"

She retired in 1972 after she married a Nigerian Prince.

Posted by: naturalfake at June 25, 2025 10:22 AM (iJfKG)

117 I see CBD gave us boobs yesterday. And snizz.

Posted by: Bulg at June 25, 2025 10:23 AM (77rzZ)

118 It's not so easy to paint snow. A lot more going on in those vast expanses of white than one would think.
Posted by: kallisto at June 25, 2025 10:17 AM (dCxaZ)


Painting snow with spray paint might work. But rollers and brushes would probably disturb the snow too much.

Posted by: Doof at June 25, 2025 10:23 AM (B5+rm)

119

White snow is raciss...

Posted by: Barky Ofuckstick at June 25, 2025 10:23 AM (lPida)

120 116 She retired in 1972 after she married a Nigerian Prince.
Posted by: naturalfake at June 25, 2025 10:22 AM (iJfKG)

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The Grace Kelly of her corner of cinema.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 25, 2025 10:23 AM (GBKbO)

121 118 Painting snow with spray paint might work. But rollers and brushes would probably disturb the snow too much.
Posted by: Doof at June 25, 2025 10:23 AM (B5+rm)

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I don't get it.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 25, 2025 10:23 AM (GBKbO)

122 So like a photograph.

How I wish I could roll in that snow for a few minutes!

Thanks for the relief!

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at June 25, 2025 10:24 AM (NFX2v)

123 I would absolutely hang this art, particularly in the hot days of summer.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at June 25, 2025 10:25 AM (O7YUW)

124 Painting snowscapes was this artist’s specialty.

Posted by: polynikes at June 25, 2025 10:25 AM (VofaG)

125 We are proud owners of ice skater's rears!

Posted by: Brian Boitano and Rudy Galindo! at June 25, 2025 10:25 AM (G5+As)

126 125 We are proud owners of ice skater's rears!
Posted by: Brian Boitano and Rudy Galindo! at June 25, 2025 10:25 AM (G5+As)

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What would you do?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 25, 2025 10:26 AM (GBKbO)

127 Known for her 44DD chest and ice skater's rear, she's most famous for starring in:

"Snow Job"

"Snow Job 2"

"Bunny Slopes!"

"Asscapades"

She retired in 1972 after she married a Nigerian Prince.
Posted by: naturalfake at June 25, 2025 10:22 AM (iJfKG)

He liked Big Butts and he could not lie.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 25, 2025 10:27 AM (uWKK8)

128 How I wish I could roll in that snow for a few minutes!
Posted by: L - No nic

I wonder if that's how Eskimos describe sex...

Posted by: Bulg at June 25, 2025 10:27 AM (77rzZ)

129 Painting snow with spray paint might work. But rollers and brushes would probably disturb the snow too much.
Posted by: Doof at June 25, 2025 10:23 AM (B5+rm)

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I don't get it.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 25, 2025 10:23 AM (GBKbO)


*pats Monroe on the head*

We know. It's OK.

Posted by: Doof at June 25, 2025 10:27 AM (B5+rm)

130 I think Muldoon would be proud of one of the minor league hockey team’s name we had in our Louisiana league.

Lafayette Ice Gators

Posted by: polynikes at June 25, 2025 10:27 AM (VofaG)

131 129 *pats Monroe on the head*

We know. It's OK.
Posted by: Doof at June 25, 2025 10:27 AM (B5+rm)

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I don't know how to respond to this.

Because I can't read it.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 25, 2025 10:28 AM (GBKbO)

132 "Iran’s foreign ministry confirmed that its nuclear facilities were 'badly damaged' in the strikes, contradicting a leaked U.S. intelligence assessment that suggested the destruction was less extensive."

CNN, NYT and MSDNC hardest hit.

Posted by: one hour sober at June 25, 2025 10:29 AM (Y1sOo)

133 Hey, TJM. I made my first visit to a War of 1812 battlefield when I was back in Michigan. River Raisin National Battlefield Park, in Monroe. Most American casualties of the war, between two battles and a massacre of US POWs afterward by the Indians.

Posted by: Bulg at June 25, 2025 10:29 AM (77rzZ)

134 132 "Iran’s foreign ministry confirmed that its nuclear facilities were 'badly damaged' in the strikes, contradicting a leaked U.S. intelligence assessment that suggested the destruction was less extensive."

CNN, NYT and MSDNC hardest hit.
Posted by: one hour sober at June 25, 2025 10:29 AM (Y1sOo)

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My bet:

No one knows because no one can get to Fordow and won't be able to for weeks, at a minimum.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 25, 2025 10:30 AM (GBKbO)

135 "Stop killing bunnies to make bunny slopes!"

/obligatory Donkey-Chompers
Posted by: ShainS



Loin Chops - $3.99/lb

They're killing lions up in here!
Posted by: AOC

Posted by: rickb223 at June 25, 2025 10:30 AM (AaWBX)

136 "Iran’s foreign ministry confirmed that its nuclear facilities were 'badly damaged' in the strikes

I hope they bought the extended warranty.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 25, 2025 10:30 AM (vYDwg)

137 Posted by: one hour sober at June 25, 2025 10:29 AM (Y1sOo)

Now I’m leaning toward not damaged as much as we had thought.

Posted by: polynikes at June 25, 2025 10:30 AM (VofaG)

138 What does lion taste like?

Posted by: Boss Moss at June 25, 2025 10:30 AM (VAINm)

139 133 Hey, TJM. I made my first visit to a War of 1812 battlefield when I was back in Michigan. River Raisin National Battlefield Park, in Monroe. Most American casualties of the war, between two battles and a massacre of US POWs afterward by the Indians.
Posted by: Bulg at June 25, 2025 10:29 AM (77rzZ)

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REMEMBER THE RAISIN!

Rallying cry during the War.

That's really neat. I need to someday make it to Lake Erie and go out on the water. Could probably make a family trip out of it. Our VA trip last year was generally quite a success, and it was centered on American history, something Dolley is largely uninterested in.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 25, 2025 10:31 AM (GBKbO)

140 "Iran’s foreign ministry confirmed that its nuclear facilities were 'badly damaged' in the strikes, contradicting a leaked U.S. intelligence assessment that suggested the destruction was less extensive."

CNN, NYT and MSDNC hardest hit.
Posted by: one hour sober


My bet:

No one knows because no one can get to Fordow and won't be able to for weeks 5,000 years, at a minimum.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison


Fixed for leaky uranium.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 25, 2025 10:31 AM (AaWBX)

141 132 "Iran’s foreign ministry confirmed that its nuclear facilities were 'badly damaged' in the strikes, contradicting a leaked U.S. intelligence assessment that suggested the destruction was less extensive."

CNN, NYT and MSDNC hardest hit.

Posted by: one hour sober at June 25, 2025 10:29 AM (Y1sOo)

And the dem playbook continues:

1. Iran is totally innocent and doesn't want nuclear weapons.
2. It's wrong for Trump to bomb a country and take away their non-nuclear weapons.
3. Trump's airstrike barely even put a dent into Iran's ability to make nuclear weapons!

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at June 25, 2025 10:31 AM (KbCG3)

142 It's a nice painting. Very well done. I dislike snow so there's that, but otherwise to quote Crispin Glover "It's good."

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at June 25, 2025 10:31 AM (WPL6O)

143 Lion Chops. They're Great!

Posted by: Boss Moss at June 25, 2025 10:31 AM (VAINm)

144 What does lion taste like?

Posted by: Boss Moss at June 25, 2025 10:30 AM (VAINm



I don't know but-

I've heard it's the cat's meow!

Posted by: naturalfake at June 25, 2025 10:32 AM (iJfKG)

145 Lafayette Ice Gators
Posted by: polynikes

*********

Nice.

Minor league teams, both baseball and hockey, have some great wordplay in their naming.

Posted by: muldoon at June 25, 2025 10:32 AM (poXs5)

146 Wakes up
Scratches
Looks around
Dang. Beautiful art. I have one similar hanging in the Cave of Diogenes.
Goes looking for coffee.

Posted by: The Paolo at June 25, 2025 10:32 AM (W/lyH)

147
No one knows because no one can get to Fordow and won't be able to for weeks, at a minimum.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 25, 2025 10:30 AM (GBKbO


Yet the "media" is still running with the hardly any damage story with "experts" saying no bomb could penetrate them...

Posted by: It's me donna at June 25, 2025 10:32 AM (VE6XX)

148 Yes, it's hot and humid in New England. It's temporary.

Down here, we call it "late spring/summer/early fall."

Anyway, as we often do, my wife and I went out on the boat yesterday, anchoring just offshore of the naval air station to watch the Blue Angels practice.

Afterward, upon our return to the marina, there was a speedboat with a flashy paint job tied off at the fuel pumps, the boat's name splashed across the bow:

"Titan Uranus"

We laughed.

Posted by: one hour sober at June 25, 2025 10:33 AM (Y1sOo)

149
Waiter, I'll have my Lion Chops medium roar.


Posted by: naturalfake at June 25, 2025 10:33 AM (iJfKG)

150 Sorry, mullahs, but his definitely comes under our Act of War Exclusion.

Posted by: Like A Bad Neighbor, State Farm Ain't There at June 25, 2025 10:33 AM (vYDwg)

151 What does lion taste like?

Posted by: Boss Moss at June 25, 2025 10:30 AM (VAINm

Don't know - but if you want to know what it sounds like, turn on CNN.

Ho ho hooooo

Posted by: ... at June 25, 2025 10:34 AM (sfdl6)

152 140 Fixed for leaky uranium.
Posted by: rickb223 at June 25, 2025 10:31 AM (AaWBX)

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Uranium storage should be the most secure and deepest built part of that kind of facility.

Especially since it needs to be held and maintained in liquid form at a constant 135 degrees.

Is it there? Probably (moving thousands of tons of liquid uranium is not...easy). Was the storage antechamber damaged? It's an assumption.

I dunno. I'm just doubtful. What would probably kill it harder is if the power failed and the temp maintenance stopped working.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 25, 2025 10:34 AM (GBKbO)

153 Hey, TJM. I made my first visit to a War of 1812 battlefield when I was back in Michigan. River Raisin National Battlefield Park, in Monroe. Most American casualties of the war, between two battles and a massacre of US POWs afterward by the Indians.
Posted by: Bulg
____________

The whole war on Michigan/Canada front was particularly nasty. Lots of burning and pillaging by both sides. And the canuks and brits pretty much kicked our asses.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at June 25, 2025 10:34 AM (ITkJX)

154 Our VA trip last year was generally quite a success, and it was centered on American history, something Dolley is largely uninterested in.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

You've got boys. They'll likely get into military history at some point, and make up for Dolley's lack of interest.

There's also a fine equestrian statue of George Custer in downtown Monroe, as the lived there when he was young.

Posted by: Bulg at June 25, 2025 10:34 AM (77rzZ)

155 Was that Travis Kelce's boat?

Posted by: Boss Moss at June 25, 2025 10:34 AM (VAINm)

156 Senator Tillis, one of my favorites, is out there saying if we make cuts to Medicaid we will lose the Midterms and the 28 Presidency....

Posted by: It's me donna at June 25, 2025 10:35 AM (VE6XX)

157 Seriously when is the last time the Left wasn't lying or wrong or both. The early 90's?

Posted by: ... at June 25, 2025 10:35 AM (sfdl6)

158 154 You've got boys. They'll likely get into military history at some point, and make up for Dolley's lack of interest.

There's also a fine equestrian statue of George Custer in downtown Monroe, as the lived there when he was young.
Posted by: Bulg at June 25, 2025 10:34 AM (77rzZ)

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Fingers crossed!

This summer is Italy. Summer of 2027 will probably be England (Dolley's 40th). Summer of 2026? Maybe.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 25, 2025 10:35 AM (GBKbO)

159 Turns out, there is crying in baseball.

Arizona Diamondbacks' Ketel Marte breaks down in tears midgame after fan's verbal assault

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Well, This Is Another Fine Mess You've Gotten Me Into at June 25, 2025 10:36 AM (L/fGl)

160 Loin Chops - $3.99/lb

They're killing lions up in here!
Posted by: AOC



Actual clip on Fb Reels. Some hoodrat misread the sign in the butcher's case and she legit thought they were selling lion chops.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 25, 2025 10:37 AM (AaWBX)

161 What does lion taste like?

*********

Faintly reminiscent of slow natives.

Posted by: muldoon at June 25, 2025 10:37 AM (poXs5)

162 What does lion taste like?
Posted by: Boss Moss

There used to be a restaurant here in Northern Virginia, The Serbian Crown, that actually served things like lion meat.

Posted by: Bulg at June 25, 2025 10:37 AM (77rzZ)

163 There is crying in baseball in Colorado.

Posted by: Boss Moss at June 25, 2025 10:37 AM (VAINm)

164 159 Turns out, there is crying in baseball.

Arizona Diamondbacks' Ketel Marte breaks down in tears midgame after fan's verbal assault

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Well, This Is Another Fine Mess You've Gotten Me Into at June 25, 2025 10:36 AM (L/fGl)

Apparently the dude made a comment about Marte's mother being killed in a car accident a few years ago.

I think in certain instances, fans should get super special access to the clubhouse. This is one of those instances.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at June 25, 2025 10:37 AM (KbCG3)

165 polynikes,

I hope you send in that lighthouse painting you mentioned last week for the next hobby thread. I've been playing around with some sketches. The results so far would make an engineer scream in horror but they do provide some humor.

Posted by: JTB at June 25, 2025 10:38 AM (yTvNw)

166 Arizona Diamondbacks' Ketel Marte breaks down in tears midgame after fan's verbal assault

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Well, This Is Another Fine Mess You've Gotten Me Into at June 25, 2025 10:36 AM (L/fGl)


What did they say to her?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 25, 2025 10:38 AM (ExV1e)

167 Turns out, there is crying in baseball.

Arizona Diamondbacks' Ketel Marte breaks down in tears midgame after fan's verbal assault

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Well, This Is Another Fine Mess You've Gotten Me Into at June 25, 2025 10:36 AM (L/fGl)

I just watched Mr Baseball with Tom Selleck again a few nights ago . It holds up really well.

Posted by: polynikes at June 25, 2025 10:38 AM (VofaG)

168 167 Turns out, there is crying in baseball.

Arizona Diamondbacks' Ketel Marte breaks down in tears midgame after fan's verbal assault

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Well, This Is Another Fine Mess You've Gotten Me Into at June 25, 2025 10:36 AM (L/fGl)

I just watched Mr Baseball with Tom Selleck again a few nights ago . It holds up really well.
Posted by: polynikes at June 25, 2025 10:38 AM (VofaG)

Did you tip your cap?

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at June 25, 2025 10:38 AM (KbCG3)

169 I just watched Mr Baseball with Tom Selleck again a few nights ago . It holds up really well.
Posted by: polynikes at June 25, 2025 10:38 AM (VofaG)


Aya Takanashi is purty.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 25, 2025 10:40 AM (ExV1e)

170 Seriously when is the last time the Left wasn't lying or wrong or both. The early 90's?
Posted by: ... at June 25, 2025 10:35 AM (sfdl6)

Not even the 1790s.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 25, 2025 10:40 AM (BjH5D)

171 Finally! A DU commenter reveals something we haven't considered:

"We are fighting the wrong enemy.

One enemy stands out above all the others.

Above ICE agents.
Above Iran.
Above Russia.
Even above Donald Trump.

That enemy is the Republican Party. I am not talking about the average Republican voter. I am talking about elected Republicans in Washington DC. None of the above would be able to do what they are doing without the approval of elected Republicans.

Why are they the enemy? Because they want this country to become fascist. They want to destroy our democracy. They vote and support the cruel policies of Donald Trump, Elon Musk, Ice agents, and to destroy our Constitution. They want to take away your vote.

In my opinion, they are domestic enemy #1."

Posted by: Duncanthrax at June 25, 2025 10:41 AM (0sNs1)

172 Turns out, there is crying in baseball.

Arizona Diamondbacks' Ketel Marte breaks down in tears midgame after fan's verbal assault

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Well, This Is Another Fine Mess You've Gotten Me Into at June 25, 2025 10:36 AM (L/fGl)

Apparently the dude made a comment about Marte's mother being killed in a car accident a few years ago.

I think in certain instances, fans should get super special access to the clubhouse. This is one of those instances.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer


As an MLB player, criticize my athletic skills and I'll laugh at you. I'm being paid yo play. You are paying to watch.

Say something like what that fan said? I'm coming up into the stands.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 25, 2025 10:41 AM (AaWBX)

173 Apparently the dude made a comment about Marte's mother being killed in a car accident a few years ago.


Yeesh. That's a little worse than the "Yer a stinkin' Bum, Marte!" that I had imagined.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 25, 2025 10:42 AM (vYDwg)

174 Reminds me of the weird feeling you get when it's cold but the sun is warming your face at the same time.

Then you close your eyes and see an empty field of warm blood red.

Kind of a feeling of renewal.

Posted by: pawn at June 25, 2025 10:42 AM (QB+5g)

175 It's so cute when Democrats act like they care about the Constitution...

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at June 25, 2025 10:42 AM (PiwSw)

176 Senator Tillis, one of my favorites, is out there saying if we make cuts to Medicaid we will lose the Midterms and the 28 Presidency....
Posted by: It's me donna at June 25, 2025 10:35 AM (VE6XX

He's right, for better or worse. Medicaid sounds like Medicare, and Medicare is not the third rail of American politics, it's the downed high tension main transmission power cable of American politics.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 25, 2025 10:42 AM (BjH5D)

177 Nice.

Minor league teams, both baseball and hockey, have some great wordplay in their naming.
Posted by: muldoon

Macon Bacon
maconbaconbaseball.com/

Posted by: Stu Podaso at June 25, 2025 10:43 AM (L89RI)

178 I think "destroying our democracy" has devolved into a verbal tic on the Left.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 25, 2025 10:43 AM (vYDwg)

179 What does lion taste like?
Posted by: Boss Moss


Knew a guy who tries it once. Said it was Simba-ly delicious!

Posted by: Doof at June 25, 2025 10:43 AM (B5+rm)

180 What does lion taste like?
Posted by: Boss Moss at June 25, 2025 10:30 AM


If they've consumed the sisters of children's mothers, aunts.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at June 25, 2025 10:43 AM (0sNs1)

181 Why are they the enemy? Because they want this country to become fascist. They want to destroy our democracy. They vote and support the cruel policies of Donald Trump, Elon Musk, Ice agents, and to destroy our Constitution. They want to take away your vote.

In my opinion, they are domestic enemy #1."
Posted by: Duncanthrax


Sounds like DU needs to pick up guns and start a revolution. But first, start a lawnmower.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 25, 2025 10:43 AM (AaWBX)

182 It's so cute when Democrats act like they care about the Constitution...
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at June 25, 2025 10:42 AM (PiwSw)


Not THE Constitution, THEIR Constitution.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 25, 2025 10:43 AM (ExV1e)

183 Then you close your eyes and see an empty field of warm blood red.

Kind of a feeling of renewal.
Posted by: pawn at June 25, 2025 10:42 AM (QB+5g)

That sounds prettier in the original Hunnic.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 25, 2025 10:43 AM (BjH5D)

184 What does lion taste like?

Posted by: Boss Moss at June 25, 2025 10:30 AM


Dunno. I've seen it for sale here from time to time, but I've been mindful of a quote from Hemmingway which was decidedly not complimentary about the taste.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 25, 2025 10:43 AM (dPfyF)

185 176 He's right, for better or worse. Medicaid sounds like Medicare, and Medicare is not the third rail of American politics, it's the downed high tension main transmission power cable of American politics.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 25, 2025 10:42 AM (BjH5D)

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He's wrong.

Cutting millions of illegals out of Medicaid won't affect Americans, encourage more illegals to leave, and generally just help the economy.

Feelings about the economy will outweigh almost anything else in the aggregate.

Tillis is a moron.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 25, 2025 10:44 AM (GBKbO)

186 Why isn't Little Z the big star of this NATO Summit? He's been the big star of every NATO, EU, and G7 and similar meetings for the past four years. His usefulness to the globalists and Leftists has pretty-much ended, I guess. Sic transit gloria.

Posted by: Gref at June 25, 2025 10:44 AM (aBgBM)

187 Posted by: JTB at June 25, 2025 10:38 AM (yTvNw

I did finish my painting of the vineyard so I did send to TRex.

I’m sure your sketches are getting better and better.

Posted by: polynikes at June 25, 2025 10:45 AM (VofaG)

188 Dunno. I've seen it for sale here from time to time, but I've been mindful of a quote from Hemmingway which was decidedly not complimentary about the taste.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState

Generally speaking, it's a bad idea to eat mammals of the order Carnivora.

Posted by: Bulg at June 25, 2025 10:46 AM (77rzZ)

189 Cutting millions of illegals out of Medicaid won't affect Americans, encourage more illegals to leave, and generally just help the economy.

Feelings about the economy will outweigh almost anything else in the aggregate.

Tillis is a moron.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 25, 2025 10:44 AM (GBKbO)


Requiring that people who can work, do work seems like a winner also. The Dems and the media (BIRM) will lie about it, of course, but that's built in and I'm tired of giving the left everything they want cuz otherwise they'll say bad things about us.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 25, 2025 10:47 AM (ExV1e)

190 Waiter, I'll have my Lion Chops medium roar.
Posted by: naturalfake

*********

Is that for an appetizer....

...or the mane course?

Posted by: muldoon at June 25, 2025 10:47 AM (poXs5)

191 Too bad he couldn't go over and slug the fan. That would have been funny.

Posted by: ... at June 25, 2025 10:47 AM (sfdl6)

192 Generally speaking, it's a bad idea to eat mammals of the order Carnivora.
Posted by: Bulg at June 25, 2025 10:46 AM (77rzZ)


WHO'S THE TOP OF THE FOOD CHAIN NOW, BITCHEZ?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 25, 2025 10:47 AM (vYDwg)

193 189 Requiring that people who can work, do work seems like a winner also. The Dems and the media (BIRM) will lie about it, of course, but that's built in and I'm tired of giving the left everything they want cuz otherwise they'll say bad things about us.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 25, 2025 10:47 AM (ExV1e)

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Choosing to not improve the economy and the lives of Americans out of fear that Democrats will message negatively is idiotic.

And it's how the GOP has operated since...the late 90s?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 25, 2025 10:47 AM (GBKbO)

194 Afterward, upon our return to the marina, there was a speedboat with a flashy paint job tied off at the fuel pumps, the boat's name splashed across the bow:

"Titan Uranus"

We laughed.
Posted by: one hour sober at June 25, 2025 10:33 AM


I recall seeing a boat out of the water in Salem called "Piece of Shit II".

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 25, 2025 10:47 AM (dPfyF)

195 Cutting millions of illegals out of Medicaid won't affect Americans, encourage more illegals to leave, and generally just help the economy.

Feelings about the economy will outweigh almost anything else in the aggregate.

Tillis is a moron.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 25, 2025 10:44 AM (GBKbO

Reality doesn't matter.

Say the words "Medicare" and "cut" in any contiguous seven hour period, and your career is over. Actually taking illegals off the roles and freeing up more money for Medicare? Don't matter. Found a swamp mutant literally embezzling Medicare funds into a personal offshore account and stopped it? Doesn't matter.

Muh Meddacurr.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 25, 2025 10:48 AM (BjH5D)

196 Dunno. I've seen it for sale here from time to time, but I've been mindful of a quote from Hemmingway which was decidedly not complimentary about the taste.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState

Generally speaking, it's a bad idea to eat mammals of the order Carnivora.
Posted by: Bulg


As a fellow carnivore, it's professional courtesy not to.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 25, 2025 10:48 AM (AaWBX)

197 Waiter, I'll have my Lion Chops medium roar.
Posted by: naturalfake

*********

Is that for an appetizer....

...or the mane course?
Posted by: muldoon at June 25, 2025 10:47 AM (poXs5)


Choos are the appetizer. The man course is pride rib.

Posted by: Doof at June 25, 2025 10:48 AM (B5+rm)

198 That enemy is the Republican Party. I am talking about elected Republicans in Washington DC.

Why are they the enemy? They vote and support the cruel policies of Donald Trump, Elon Musk, Ice agents, and to destroy our Constitution.
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Good Lord, I only WISH that were true!

Posted by: Crusader at June 25, 2025 10:48 AM (TN0g+)

199 Former Obama Aide: Obama and Biden Also Deserve Credit for Iran Strike

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Also, I was the fifth Beatle.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Well, This Is Another Fine Mess You've Gotten Me Into at June 25, 2025 10:48 AM (L/fGl)

200 Generally speaking, it's a bad idea to eat mammals of the order Carnivora.
Posted by: Bulg at June 25, 2025 10:46 AM


Can we get an opinion from Cannibal Bob?

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 25, 2025 10:49 AM (dPfyF)

201 Finally! A DU commenter reveals something we haven't considered:
"We are fighting the wrong enemy....
Posted by: Duncanthrax


The D's and R's have been play-fighting for years, to the delight of millions. That's the game.

Posted by: The Harlem Globetrotters at June 25, 2025 10:49 AM (QHX6R)

202 Not even the 1790s.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 25, 2025 10:40 AM (BjH5D)

I know, I thought I'd get the discussion going...

Posted by: ... at June 25, 2025 10:50 AM (sfdl6)

203 195 Reality doesn't matter.

Say the words "Medicare" and "cut" in any contiguous seven hour period, and your career is over. Actually taking illegals off the roles and freeing up more money for Medicare? Don't matter. Found a swamp mutant literally embezzling Medicare funds into a personal offshore account and stopped it? Doesn't matter.

Muh Meddacurr.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 25, 2025 10:48 AM (BjH5D)

=======

You're still living in the 90s, man.

The media has called Trump Hitler and Putin's cockholster for years now, and no one gives a shit.

And, the direct connection between perceived impression of the economy (it needs to be perceived because actual government numbers are shit) and performance in elections for the party in power is well-established and has been for a very long time.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 25, 2025 10:50 AM (GBKbO)

204 Yoko was the fifth Beatle. Everyone knows that.

Posted by: Boss Moss at June 25, 2025 10:50 AM (VAINm)

205 What does lion taste like?


Slow zoo keepers

Posted by: Diogenes at June 25, 2025 10:50 AM (W/lyH)

206 Generally speaking, it's a bad idea to eat mammals of the order Carnivora.
Posted by: Bulg

***********

A small bit is okay, but too much pride will be your downfall.

Posted by: muldoon at June 25, 2025 10:50 AM (poXs5)

207 Feline meat is nasty. It's the canine meat we've come to know and love!

Anyone looking for a job as chef?

Posted by: Barack Hussein Obama Soetero at June 25, 2025 10:50 AM (G5+As)

208 199 Former Obama Aide: Obama and Biden Also Deserve Credit for Iran Strike

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Also, I was the fifth Beatle.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Well, This Is Another Fine Mess You've Gotten Me Into at June 25, 2025 10:48 AM (L/fGl)

Remember, it was a disastrous, ineffective strike that unnecessarily brought the world closer to World War III. Please remember that Joe and Barack also deserve credit for this!

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at June 25, 2025 10:50 AM (KbCG3)

209 The man course is pride rib.
Posted by: Doof


Food! At some point in my weekend travels, I passed a strip mall with a pickleball facility in it.

Posted by: Bulg at June 25, 2025 10:51 AM (77rzZ)

210 Success has many authors, while failure is Obama.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 25, 2025 10:51 AM (vYDwg)

211 The Left’s lack of self-awareness is mind boggling.

It’s actually not lack but totally absent.

Posted by: polynikes at June 25, 2025 10:52 AM (VofaG)

212 Former Obama Aide: Obama and Biden Also Deserve Credit for Iran Strike



Without Obama's pallets o' cash, there wouldn't have been anything to bomb.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 25, 2025 10:52 AM (zSKXS)

213 Pickle balls wouldn't bounce for shit.

Posted by: Boss Moss at June 25, 2025 10:52 AM (VAINm)

214 Waiter, I'll have my Lion Chops medium roar.
Posted by: naturalfake

*********

Is that for an appetizer....

...or the mane course?
Posted by: muldoon at June 25, 2025 10:47 AM (poXs5)

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Pawsome!

Posted by: ShainS -- Make Unconditional Surrender Great Again! at June 25, 2025 10:52 AM (MikbX)

215 Obama gets all the credit for the good things..
Trump gets all the blame for the bad things...

Posted by: Base NPC Programming at June 25, 2025 10:52 AM (PiwSw)

216 Without Obama's pallets o' cash, there wouldn't have been anything to bomb.
Posted by: rickb223 at June 25, 2025 10:52 AM (zSKXS)

There it is.

Posted by: ... at June 25, 2025 10:52 AM (sfdl6)

217 Former Obama Aide: Obama and Biden Also Deserve Credit for Iran Strike

In fairness, the billions that Obama and Biden shoveled to Iran helped them enlarge and modernize their targets nuclear facilities.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 25, 2025 10:52 AM (ExV1e)

218 Remember, it was a disastrous, ineffective strike that unnecessarily brought the world closer to World War III. Please remember that Joe and Barack also deserve credit for this!
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at June 25, 2025 10:50 AM (KbCG3)

Not just craven.

Craven and incoherent.

What you'd expect from a rugfucker and a conman.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 25, 2025 10:53 AM (BjH5D)

219 The man course is pride rib.
Posted by: Doof

Cub steak.

Posted by: Bulg at June 25, 2025 10:53 AM (77rzZ)

220 Lion is purrfect.

Posted by: Boss Moss at June 25, 2025 10:53 AM (VAINm)

221 I hear the really high dollar 5 Star Chinese Restaurants serve Lion.

Posted by: polynikes at June 25, 2025 10:53 AM (VofaG)

222 Former Obama Aide: Obama and Biden Also Deserve Credit for Iran Strike

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10/7?

I agree ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Make Unconditional Surrender Great Again! at June 25, 2025 10:53 AM (MikbX)

223

Minor league teams, both baseball and hockey, have some great wordplay in their naming.
Posted by: muldoon

Macon Bacon
maconbaconbaseball.com/
Posted by: Stu Podaso


Lansing Lugnuts

Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at June 25, 2025 10:53 AM (JkCto)

224 NYPost: Trump reveals Israel sent agents to Iran’s bombed nuclear sites to confirm their ‘total obliteration’

Posted by: SMOD at June 25, 2025 10:53 AM (N30d6)

225 Feline meat is nasty. It's the canine meat we've come to know and love!

Anyone looking for a job as chef?
Posted by: Barack Hussein Obama Soetero


Bull. Shit. Kung Pao Kitten.
Posted by: 100 million Chinese cooks everywhere

Posted by: rickb223 at June 25, 2025 10:53 AM (zSKXS)

226 Food! At some point in my weekend travels, I passed a strip mall with a pickleball facility in it.
Posted by: Bulg at June 25, 2025 10:51 AM (77rzZ)


Yeah they are great uses for abandoned places like that.

Posted by: Doof at June 25, 2025 10:54 AM (B5+rm)

227 Minor league teams, both baseball and hockey, have some great wordplay in their naming.
Posted by: muldoon

Macon Bacon
maconbaconbaseball.com/
Posted by: Stu Podaso


Lansing Lugnuts
Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal


Toledo Mud Hens

Posted by: rickb223 at June 25, 2025 10:54 AM (zSKXS)

228 224 NYPost: Trump reveals Israel sent agents to Iran’s bombed nuclear sites to confirm their ‘total obliteration’
Posted by: SMOD at June 25, 2025 10:53 AM (N30d6)

I shan't believe it ! Stomps foot

Posted by: the media at June 25, 2025 10:55 AM (VE6XX)

229 Generally speaking, it's a bad idea to eat mammals of the order Carnivora.

This sounds suspiciously like the same ad agency that came up with the "EAT MOAR CHKN" campaign for cows...

Posted by: t-bird at June 25, 2025 10:55 AM (MkLs2)

230 We got the Lehigh Valley Iron Pigs.

The one mascot is named FeFe.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 25, 2025 10:55 AM (BjH5D)

231 Food! At some point in my weekend travels, I passed a strip mall with a pickleball facility in it.
Posted by: Bulg at June 25, 2025 10:51 AM (77rzZ)

Yeah they are great uses for abandoned places like that.
Posted by: Doof


Chesterfield Mall just outside St. Louis

Posted by: rickb223 at June 25, 2025 10:55 AM (zSKXS)

232 What does lion taste like?
Posted by: Boss Moss
*********
Mountain lion taste like pork.

Posted by: Cosda at June 25, 2025 10:55 AM (x38rU)

233 Dang, clearly I got in on the tail end of these lion puns.

Posted by: Diogenes at June 25, 2025 10:55 AM (W/lyH)

234 How would the media know the status of Fordow? I'll wait.

Posted by: Boss Moss at June 25, 2025 10:56 AM (VAINm)

235 I think the other is Ferris.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 25, 2025 10:56 AM (BjH5D)

236 Former Obama Aide: Obama and Biden Also Deserve Credit for Iran Strike

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Also, I was the fifth Beatle.
Posted by: Anonosaurus

100%

Had they done something, there would have been nothing to bomb.

Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at June 25, 2025 10:56 AM (JkCto)

237 Lion puns are a thorny issue.

Posted by: polynikes at June 25, 2025 10:56 AM (VofaG)

238 234 How would the media know the status of Fordow? I'll wait.
Posted by: Boss Moss at June 25, 2025 10:56 AM (VAINm)

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A leaked intelligence assessment.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 25, 2025 10:56 AM (GBKbO)

239 Lion is purrfect.
Posted by: Boss Moss

Felines fall into two groups: Those that can purr, and those that can roar. No feline can do both. It's one or the other.

Lions, of course, belong the roaring group, along with tigers, leopards, and jaguars. All others are in the purring group.

Posted by: Bulg at June 25, 2025 10:56 AM (77rzZ)

240 Iran saying there was a lot of damage, when there wasn’t, would be something they’d say. Why admit their shit is still operational? Better to let the world think it’s not.

I’m not saying that’s the case. Just saying whatever they say needs to be taken with a yuuuge grain of salt.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at June 25, 2025 10:57 AM (ORJZB)

241 234 How would the media know the status of Fordow? I'll wait.
Posted by: Boss Moss at June 25, 2025 10:56 AM (VAINm)

An alleged "leak" from the DOD

Posted by: It's me donna at June 25, 2025 10:57 AM (VE6XX)

242 Top secret leak? There's your story.

Posted by: Boss Moss at June 25, 2025 10:57 AM (VAINm)

243 They could have been the Ferrous Wheels

Posted by: polynikes at June 25, 2025 10:57 AM (VofaG)

244 How would the media know the status of Fordow? I'll wait.
Posted by: Boss Moss at June 25, 2025 10:56 AM (VAINm)

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A leaked intelligence assessment.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison


A manufactured intelligence assessment.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 25, 2025 10:57 AM (zSKXS)

245 242 Top secret leak? There's your story.
Posted by: Boss Moss at June 25, 2025 10:57 AM (VAINm)

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Hegseth said this morning that the DOD is working with the DOJ to ID the leaker and prosecute.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 25, 2025 10:58 AM (GBKbO)

246 That enemy is the Republican Party. I am not talking about the average Republican voter. I am talking about elected Republicans in Washington DC. None of the above would be able to do what they are doing without the approval of elected Republicans. - DU(nces)

Isn't it the "average Republican voter" who elects the Republicans in Washington D.C. that you hate so much? So you would have to hate the voters as well. Nice try though.

Posted by: Stu Podaso at June 25, 2025 10:58 AM (L89RI)

247 Former Obama Aide: Obama and Biden Also Deserve Credit for Iran Strike



Will Dems impeach them as wel then? 🤣

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at June 25, 2025 10:58 AM (ORJZB)

248 How would the media know the status of Fordow? I'll wait.
Posted by: Boss Moss at June 25, 2025 10:56 AM (VAINm)


They get an intern to stand in front of the Pentagon and say there wasn't much damage.
They the story is "A Pentagon source says..."

Posted by: Diogenes at June 25, 2025 10:58 AM (W/lyH)

249 Or they're not destroyed, but DOD "leaked" their assessment that they think they are, so they can more easily watch where all the trucks go when shit goes back online again.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 25, 2025 10:59 AM (BjH5D)

250 BTW, tigers are way cooler than lions.

And neither one is as cool as the snow leopard.

Posted by: Bulg at June 25, 2025 10:59 AM (77rzZ)

251 The problem with lion is you can only have it as a mane course.

Posted by: ... at June 25, 2025 10:59 AM (sfdl6)

252 I saw Rugfucker & Conman open for Goatwhore at The Inferno in '00.

Posted by: ShainS -- Make Unconditional Surrender Great Again! at June 25, 2025 10:59 AM (LBpnK)

253 Iran has denied IAEA's request to inspect the bombed sites.

If they weren't badly damaged, it would seem Iran would be welcoming IAEA inspections to prove Trump's BDA is a lie.

Posted by: one hour sober at June 25, 2025 11:00 AM (Y1sOo)

254 The problem with lion is you can only have it as a mane course.

Posted by: ... at June 25, 2025 10:59 AM (sfdl6)

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Hey ellipsis, get your own material.

Posted by: ShainS -- Make Unconditional Surrender Great Again! at June 25, 2025 11:00 AM (LBpnK)

255 How would the media know the status of Fordow? I'll wait.

Someone told them to say it. Heck, someone had to tell them to ask the question, too.

Posted by: t-bird at June 25, 2025 11:01 AM (Y+sVZ)

256 Felines fall into two groups: Those that can purr, and those that can roar. No feline can do both. It's one or the other.

Lions, of course, belong the roaring group, along with tigers, leopards, and jaguars. All others are in the purring group.
Posted by: Bulg at June 25, 2025 10:56 AM (77rzZ)


You're most assuredly wrong about jaguars. Darryl Hall told us...

"The woman is wild, a she-cat tamed by the purr of a Jaguar"

Posted by: Doof at June 25, 2025 11:01 AM (B5+rm)

257 Top secret leak? There's your story.
Posted by: Boss Moss at June 25, 2025 10:57 AM (VAINm)

======

Hegseth said this morning that the DOD is working with the DOJ to ID the leaker and prosecute.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 25, 2025 10:58 AM


Hopefully it was a canary trap.

Posted by: toby928 at June 25, 2025 11:01 AM (jc0TO)

258 If they weren't badly damaged, it would seem Iran would be welcoming IAEA inspections to prove Trump's BDA is a lie.
Posted by: one hour sober at June 25, 2025 11:00 AM (Y1sOo)

Why give Trump a reason to bomb them again?

Posted by: polynikes at June 25, 2025 11:01 AM (VofaG)

259 253 Iran has denied IAEA's request to inspect the bombed sites.

If they weren't badly damaged, it would seem Iran would be welcoming IAEA inspections to prove Trump's BDA is a lie.
Posted by: one hour sober at June 25, 2025 11:00 AM (Y1sOo)

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Too much Kremlinology to figure anything out.

I dunno.

I just think no one knows right now. It's all educated guesses, at best, and uninformed lies at worst.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 25, 2025 11:01 AM (GBKbO)

260 Iran saying there was a lot of damage, when there wasn’t, would be something they’d say. Why admit their shit is still operational? Better to let the world think it’s not.


Because that line of thinking is 180 degrees opposite of the way islam rolls. No matter what non islamics do, they didn't do anything.

Remember Baghdad Bob and "there are no enemy planes in our airspace" as jets are flying over his shoulder.

Islam demands The Black Knight. "Tis only a scratch!"

Posted by: rickb223 at June 25, 2025 11:01 AM (zSKXS)

261 Hey ellipsis, get your own material.

Posted by: ShainS -- Make Unconditional Surrender Great Again! at June 25, 2025 11:00 AM (LBpnK)

Are you calling me a copy cat

Posted by: ... at June 25, 2025 11:02 AM (sfdl6)

262 247 Former Obama Aide: Obama and Biden Also Deserve Credit for Iran Strike


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Does anyone know the reasoning behind this?

Posted by: Seems Legit at June 25, 2025 11:02 AM (PMtkd)

263 "How badly is everything damaged?"

"No idea, boss, we're still moving all the rubble out of the way. "

"Feck."

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 25, 2025 11:02 AM (BjH5D)

264 The Grand Junction Jackalopes

and their alternate uniforms branded as the Humpback Chubs

Posted by: muldoon at June 25, 2025 11:02 AM (poXs5)

265 Without Obama's pallets o' cash, there wouldn't have been anything to bomb.
Posted by: rickb223

tinyurl.com/bdeenrcw
Goes to the Bee

Posted by: Stu Podaso at June 25, 2025 11:02 AM (L89RI)

266 152 Especially since it needs to be held and maintained in liquid form at a constant 135 degrees.

Is it there? Probably (moving thousands of tons of liquid uranium is not...easy).


it just requires the right truck.

Posted by: winston rothschild iii at June 25, 2025 11:02 AM (sGtp+)

267 BTW, tigers are way cooler than lions.

And neither one is as cool as the snow leopard.
Posted by: Bulg at June 25, 2025 10:59 AM (77rzZ)


Shiiiiiiit! Lions and snow leopards are asshoe.

Tigers, on the other hand, are GRRRRRRREAT!!

Posted by: Tony at June 25, 2025 11:02 AM (B5+rm)

268 Senator Tillis, one of my favorites, is out there saying if we make cuts to Medicaid we will lose the Midterms and the 28 Presidency....
Posted by: It's me donna at June 25, 2025 10:35 AM (VE6XX


--

Shouldn't he be out there saying that the cuts are directed at eliminating fraud, as well as illegal aliens from the Medicaid rolls? Seems pretty effective if he'd only communicate that instead of whining. I get that people confuse Medicaid and Medicare, and that just uttering the word "cuts" freaks out those on either of those two. But here's where you can...clarify what would actually be cut and what wouldn't.

I caught a news story from a local Orlando station this morning and they were bleating about these Medicaid cuts, complete with some hysterical D congresswoman lighting her hair on fire about it. As for the counterpoint from any Republican on what these cuts actually are? I guess the news station didn't have time for that.

Posted by: Lady in Black at June 25, 2025 11:03 AM (qBdHI)

269 The heat is slowing down the electrons, making the threads slightly late.

Posted by: Ohm, My goodness! at June 25, 2025 11:03 AM (G5+As)

270 >>How would the media know the status of Fordow? I'll wait.

no one has tagged a post there on Instagram in a couple days

Posted by: brak at June 25, 2025 11:03 AM (jGJov)

271 You tiger now.

Posted by: Boss Moss at June 25, 2025 11:03 AM (VAINm)

272 Tillis is iffy.

Posted by: Seems Legit at June 25, 2025 11:03 AM (PMtkd)

273 I tiger of the lion puns.

Posted by: Boss Moss at June 25, 2025 11:04 AM (VAINm)

274 NOOD Poker Chimp

Posted by: Doof at June 25, 2025 11:05 AM (B5+rm)

275 250 BTW, tigers are way cooler than lions.

And neither one is as cool as the snow leopard.
Posted by: Bulg at June 25, 2025 10:59 AM (77rzZ)


For the win.

Posted by: Pink Panther at June 25, 2025 11:05 AM (HFsIG)

276 Monkey nood

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 25, 2025 11:05 AM (BjH5D)

277 Because that line of thinking is 180 degrees opposite of the way islam rolls. No matter what non islamics do, they didn't do anything.

Islam demands The Black Knight. "Tis only a scratch!"
Posted by: rickb223 at June 25, 2025 11:01 AM (zSKXS)
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Careful.

“War is deceit.” (Sahih al-Bukhaari, 3029; Muslim, 5

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at June 25, 2025 11:05 AM (NC42u)

278 Oh, so the Obama deserves credit, it's a Babylon Bee deal.

Posted by: Seems Legit at June 25, 2025 11:05 AM (PMtkd)

279 U nas yest' NOOD.

Posted by: Bulg at June 25, 2025 11:05 AM (77rzZ)

280 complete with some hysterical D congresswoman lighting her hair on fire about it.
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I'd pay good money to see Maxine Waters light her hair on fire. Would be visible from space, I'm guessing.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at June 25, 2025 11:05 AM (XZ5S6)

281 I spotted a leopard!!

Posted by: muldoon at June 25, 2025 11:06 AM (poXs5)

282 tinyurl.com/bdeenrcw
Goes to the Bee
Posted by: Stu Podaso



*snort

Posted by: rickb223 at June 25, 2025 11:06 AM (zSKXS)

283 256 Lions, of course, belong the roaring group, along with tigers, leopards, and jaguars. All others are in the purring group.
Posted by: Bulg at June 25, 2025 10:56 AM (77rzZ)

You're most assuredly wrong about jaguars. Darryl Hall told us...

"The woman is wild, a she-cat tamed by the purr of a Jaguar"


darryl may have been referring to the 12-cylinder variety.

Posted by: winston rothschild iii at June 25, 2025 11:06 AM (sGtp+)

284 BTW, tigers are way cooler than lions.

And neither one is as cool as the snow leopard.
Posted by: Bulg at June 25, 2025 10:59 AM (77rzZ)


For the win.
Posted by: Pink Panther


*Cheetara enters the chat*

Posted by: Stu Podaso at June 25, 2025 11:07 AM (L89RI)

285 If they weren't badly damaged, it would seem Iran would be welcoming IAEA inspections to prove Trump's BDA is a lie.
Posted by: one hour sober at June 25, 2025 11:00 AM (Y1sOo)

It’s the opposite. If they weren’t badly damaged they don’t want Trump (or anyone) to know. That just invites more strikes. If I’m Iran I want the world to assume everything has been blowd up real good like.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at June 25, 2025 11:08 AM (ORJZB)

286 How would the media know the status of Fordow? I'll wait.
Posted by: Boss Moss at June 25, 2025 10:56 AM (VAINm)


an "unnamed source" making sh1t up and leaking it to a pet reporter.
That is pretty much all anything is any more. It has the benefit of "being a confirmation" via media reporting for greater assessment when added to the story made up in the first place that was the source of the leak.



Posted by: Kindltot at June 25, 2025 11:12 AM (D7oie)

287 You're most assuredly wrong about jaguars. Darryl Hall told us...

"The woman is wild, a she-cat tamed by the purr of a Jaguar"

darryl may have been referring to the 12-cylinder variety.
Posted by: winston rothschild iii at June 25, 2025 11:06 AM (sGtp+)


Cougars purr. Paolo can confirm

Posted by: Kindltot at June 25, 2025 11:13 AM (D7oie)

288 The Waterway called Liberal Democrat always babbling

Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at June 25, 2025 06:26 PM (wGqjj)

The Morning Report — 6/ 25 /25

KhameneiGulag.jpg

Good morning kids. So, pun intended Trump went ballistic on Iran and Israel vis a vis this so-called ceasefire. Continuing on from yesterday's editorial/rant a few things to consider.


Supreme Leader Khamenei insisted publicly that “Iran will never surrender to the enemies of Islam.” But the regime’s behavior contradicts this. And after Donald Trumps announcement there has been no IRGC press conference, no new vow of revenge. Messaging platforms long used to broadcast defiance have gone silent.

Leaks suggest younger commanders within the Guard are urging a strategic pause—not out of diplomacy, but survival instinct. Even China and Russia, both traditional allies, have issued only neutral statements.

There is no formal capitulation. But Iran’s actions—warning enemies of a missile strike, initiating the ceasefire, ceasing retaliation—amount to a modern, informal surrender.

This was not peace. It was exhaustion. Iran has not been conquered. But it has been contained, weakened, and temporarily silenced.

Indeed the word "temporarily" is the key, and it's not Iran the nation state, it's Islam that has been on the march in the Middle East and across the world for 1500 years, whether at the Gates of Vienna, or with the collapse of the Ottoman Empire post the Treaty of Versailles or after getting its ass kicked by Israel in several major wars and other military operations after the October '73 humiliation. But the nightmares of 9/11/01 here, 2004 in Madrid 2005 in London and the butchery and slaughter of Al Qaeda, Boko Haram, Abu Sayyaf, Isis and every other Islamic terror group will no doubt continue regardless of what the polticial/governmental future of Iran as a nation state holds. Please God may it be non-Islamic for the sake of the Iranian people and indeed the region and the world, but if past is prologue, I'm not holding my breath.


So, Iran's nuclear weapons capability has been neutralized and perhaps at long last the Mullahs heads might be on the chopping block and the doors have been blown off of Evin Prison.

And despite that, or perhaps because of that, we have this tory:

Not the mass murder of Israelis that took place in the past, at the Nova Music Festival that was held in Israel on October 7, 2023, but a mass murder planned for the future, at the Boom Music Festival to be held in Portugal this July. Antisemites, encouraged by the hatred that has been heaped on Israel by so much of the world, with so many people both so ill-informed and so malevolent, have apparently been planning to do all kinds of terrible things to the 4,000 Israelis expected to attend this year’s festival. Perhaps the sudden revelation about the planning of that massacre will prevent it, if Portuguese authorities wake up from their stupor, from being attempted.

And did you catch this item the other day?

Fourteen arrested after nearly 150 people report being jabbed with needles at French music festival


As my good friend and friend of the blog Michael Walsh states:

So the ongoing conflict in Iran should  only end one way: with the destruction of the mullahs, the disestablishment of Islam, the eradication of Iran's nuclear capabilities, a stern warning backed up by force if necessary to other nuclear powers not to ship any nuclear bombs or other material to a fundamentalist Iran and the neutralization of the well at Jamkaran to end Shia Islam's belief in the resurrection of the hidden Twelfth Imam. The Jews have survived the destruction of the Second Temple and Christians the loss of Constantinople and the Church of Holy Wisdom (the Hagia Sophia, now a mosque), without any loss of belief; Islam ought to have the opportunity to do the same. The president's announcement late this afternoon that a cease-fire between Israel and Iran has been reached is, therefore, disappointing absent the collapse of the mullahs. . .

"Fuckin' A Bubba" to quote Gus Grissom from The Right Stuff, but what of the other 1.5 billion Muslims, both Shia and Sunni all over the world? Unless and until they have a, shall we say "Come to Jesus moment" about their beliefs vis a vis their imagined destiny of global conquest and supremacy, we shall surely see Notre Dame (underscored by CBD's eloquent essay) and Westminster Abbey if not the Vatican itself transformed into mosques just like Hagia Sophia in the next 20 to 50 years. Whether via the sword or the maternity ward.


On a completely different note, there goes New York City. Yes, I am well aware there are many here who could care less, and even I as a NYC native just shake my head in abject disgust and disappointment. And while this is only the Democrat Primary, the fact that as Daniel Greenfield suspects, and probably rightly so, the Tammany Hall machine still rigged it for one of the most outrageously maniac leftist candidates imaginable. And this in a city that suffered through two terms of Bill DeBolshevik, on top of a city council that is perpetually to the left of the Shining Path and Vietcong.

So given all of that, you can easily calculate the odds of Curtis Sliwa or whoever the GOP candidate may be in winning the general. Regardless of one's prejudices against the city and indeed any blue city in America, that we have lost them for generations and some unforeseen cultural sea change notwithstanding, likely forever, is still a tragedy and an infamnia. Leftist madness might not be confined to big blue cities. Over time, it spreads everywhere and one day, those who sleep comfortably in solid red states and districts might wake up to find their neighborhoods and towns fundamentally transformed, to coin a phrase.

Apropos of NYC, as Travis Bickle said in Taxi Driver "Someday a real rain will come and wash all this scum off the streets." And out of City Hall. everywhere else Leftists are in control, the media. and most especially the schools.


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1 BOING!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at June 25, 2025 07:12 AM (NC42u)

2 Thank you JJ! Good morning to all the horde.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at June 25, 2025 07:14 AM (UHTm2)

3 Its Hump Day

Posted by: rhennigantx at June 25, 2025 07:15 AM (gbOdA)

4 Miss Me Yet?

Posted by: Joe Biden, High On Dope at June 25, 2025 07:15 AM (HgFW6)

5 With AI generating so many articles, videos and images, lying no longer taboo, as society devolves into a low trust model, where exaggeration and hyperbole are required to turn the most mundane into click-bait, superlatives everywhere, propaganda as the lone remaining tool of communication, its easy to just black pill out and not trust anything anyone says ever. Including the accountant, the physician and the clergy.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at June 25, 2025 07:15 AM (a4flb)

6 Good morning!

Let's smile & be happy & strike fear in the hearts of killjoy leftists everywhere.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 25, 2025 07:16 AM (u82oZ)

7 Zohran Mamdani took the lead in the heated Democrat mayoral primary Tuesday night — a stunning upset over former Gov. Andrew Cuomo, unofficial tallies showed.

Basically a choice between Be'ezelbub and Lucifer.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at June 25, 2025 07:17 AM (a4flb)

8 Unknown Drip Under Pressure

Low trust societies are no fun. But we are there.

I want to be sure to thank the usual suspects.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 25, 2025 07:17 AM (u82oZ)

9
g'mornin' again, 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at June 25, 2025 07:17 AM (tljrc)

10
Fourteen arrested after nearly 150 people report being jabbed with needles at French music festival

Could be Islamic terrorists, could be the crazed Karenstaffel insisting everyone gets vaccines and boosters.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 25, 2025 07:18 AM (/HVsR)

11 In one year, 40,000 young adults turned to Planned Parenthood for gender transition hormones.

At what time can we call Planned Parenthood an Enemy of Civilization?

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at June 25, 2025 07:18 AM (a4flb)

12
So RCV didn't save the Grandma Killer? Or haven't they finished fixing things yet?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 25, 2025 07:19 AM (/HVsR)

13 “ 25 The Lord is good to those whose hope is in him, to the one who seeks him;
it is good to wait quietly for the salvation of the Lord.”

Lamentations 3:25-26

Posted by: Marcus T at June 25, 2025 07:19 AM (kLbP8)

14 Adams is a Reagan Democrat like Trump. Corrupt like any Dem, but, not crazy like Reagan.

Posted by: Accomack at June 25, 2025 07:20 AM (D/iiI)

15 Unknown Drip Under Pressure

30 years ago. Sad that these deluded individuals are out of the gene pool. I foresee anger issues ahead.

Amish society is looking pretty good by comparison.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 25, 2025 07:20 AM (u82oZ)

16 Top 20! Go me!

Now for the articles.

Posted by: NR Pax at June 25, 2025 07:21 AM (BpO1e)

17 Time to leave the a/c and go to work.

Posted by: Accomack at June 25, 2025 07:21 AM (tpyJL)

18 Thx, JJ!

Travis Bickle was just 50 years early; today he would fit right in ...

if all the Surrealists 100 years ago could see 2025 they would soil themselves, swear off dope & absinthe, and start going to church.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at June 25, 2025 07:22 AM (Z5NUn)

19 Boyle described the revelations as a massive scandal, raising questions about transparency and whether the Biden junta used its final weeks in office to lock in favored projects before the incoming administration could intervene.

"Raising questions" ?

How about arrests and charges filed?

Try cheating the Mob out of $90B and see if you get a different response than merely "raising questions".

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at June 25, 2025 07:23 AM (a4flb)

20 Fourteen arrested after nearly 150 people report being jabbed with needles at French music festival

The weird thing is, as far as I can tell from reading about it, that the authorities can’t determine if the people, mostly women and girls, were injected with anything.

Some of them went to the hospital but it’s never made clear if they were sickened or unconscious or what.

If we could see mugshots of the people arrested it might clear things up.

It certainly has all the hallmarks of a terrorist act.

Getting jabbed by random people at music festivals is surely a good way to terrorize young people enough to never want to go out on the town,

Posted by: SpeakingOf at June 25, 2025 07:24 AM (6ydKt)

21 5, boom, there it is.

or should I say, here we are ...

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at June 25, 2025 07:24 AM (Z5NUn)

22
Angry Communist scolds killed network news, movies, and American big cities.

"Woke" and "Progressive" are just aliases.

Posted by: Auspex at June 25, 2025 07:25 AM (j4U/Z)

23 Great array of info J.J.

Thank you.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 25, 2025 07:26 AM (u82oZ)

24 "The Left is deeply disturbed."

A recognition better late than never. Though I'm not sure it has yet been fully internalized.

Posted by: Ordinary Amerian at June 25, 2025 07:26 AM (+8LpN)

25 Have a great day, everyone.

Work those Plan Bs. We may need them. And remember -- OPSEC, OPSEC, OPSEC.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 25, 2025 07:26 AM (u82oZ)

26 I'm still processing the fact Jeb Bush put out a statement complimenting Trump for bombing Iran, and Trump thanked him.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at June 25, 2025 07:29 AM (l0k7j)

27 So now some democrats want some credit for the Iran strike that a week ago was sure to start WWIII?

And I see Tucker is now trying to sidle his way back into Trump's good graces.

Posted by: Ordinary Amerian at June 25, 2025 07:29 AM (+8LpN)

28 Good morning horde!

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 25, 2025 07:29 AM (ExV1e)

29 Angry Communist scolds killed network news, movies, and American big cities.

My eyes just glaze over on any news w/r/t Ukraine/Russia, Israel/Iran/US, China/World, any explanation of market behavior, government policies...

The complete spectrum of hot-takes and "informed opinion" is told as the truth on pretty much any issue.

Did the US really bomb Iranian nuclear development sites? The lies, narratives and counter-narratives span across from "Nothing happened" to "The LORD has returned and Peace is Upon Earth".

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at June 25, 2025 07:30 AM (a4flb)

30 Is Iran Ready for Regime Change, And Is The NCRI The Right Way To Change?
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The first half, maybe. The 2nd, almost certainly not.

I am eternally dismayed (I should have learnt better) at how easily Americans forget that democracy was NOT considered a good idea by most of the founders, and by most earlier thinkers.

I even suspect that Tocqueville used the word because, to a Frenchman, "republic" would have negative connotations not present to others.

Posted by: Eeyore at June 25, 2025 07:31 AM (od0dV)

31 When anti-nuclear activists go into the streets to protest for Iran’s nukes, they reveal that none of their hysteria about nukes was serious or sincere. It was only a trick to dismantle our defenses and aid our enemies. The same ‘anti-proliferation’ organizations that acted to advance the USSR’s agendas now plot to aid the nuclear arsenal of an Islamic terror state.

They’re not anti-proliferation; they’re anti-civilization.


It’s difficult to argue against Daniel Greenfield on this one.

They’ve been singing the same song since Reagan was in office and suddenly the entire left was “No Nukes!”.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at June 25, 2025 07:34 AM (6ydKt)

32 So whatever happened to Tim Walz's assassin buddy who voted for Trump?

Posted by: People of the Jello Mold at June 25, 2025 07:35 AM (vFG9F)

33 I am eternally dismayed (I should have learnt better) at how easily Americans forget that democracy was NOT considered a good idea by most of the founders, and by most earlier thinkers.

“The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.” - Winston Churchill

- yet -

“Democracy is the worst form of government—except for all the others that have been tried.”

Apparently Churchill wasn't keen on a Constitutional Republic, and that is why defenseless Brits are being thrown in prison for insulting their foreign born leadership.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at June 25, 2025 07:35 AM (a4flb)

34 >Iran Effectively Surrenders to the United States
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not buying this
feels like there may be a pause, even a long one, but not a decisive and definitive END

Surrender is when you sail your big battleship into the enemy's home port, and their leaders show up in formal attire and sign the documents of surrender in front of the eyes of the world

this doesn't feel like that at all

Posted by: Don Black. Message: get down, get funky at June 25, 2025 07:37 AM (AOsQT)

35 So whatever happened to Tim Walz's assassin buddy who voted for Trump?
Posted by: People of the Jello Mold at June 25, 2025 07:35 AM (vFG9F)

They locked him in the Memory Hole and covered the story with a pillow until it died of asphyxiation.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at June 25, 2025 07:38 AM (6ydKt)

36 Is this it? It's not peace nor is it a victory.

Posted by: M. Gaga at June 25, 2025 07:38 AM (zeLd4)

37 If Mahmoud wins the NYC mayoral race city council meetings will be lit. It'll look as organized as the grand Arab meeting at the end of Lawrence of Arabia. After a few of those, it's going to be the Miami Stock Exchange where after work you can stroll to Katz's for a pastrami on rye or go to the beach for a hot dog at Nathan's. Hank Johnson will worry about Florida tipping over.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at June 25, 2025 07:39 AM (gm9Sb)

38 They’re not anti-proliferation; they’re anti-civilization.

Anti- Western civilization, I would argue. They've grown up swaddled in the comforts and peace that living in the West brings and despise it for existing, just as they will take Mommy and Daddy's money, but despise the parents for having the money in the first place. They're the idiot version of the "back to the land" movement.

As WS Gilbert put it, "The idiot who praises, with enthusiastic tone / All centuries but this and every country but his own."

And now back to work. Busy day today.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at June 25, 2025 07:39 AM (Dg2sF)

39 lol, you did make me look!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at June 25, 2025 07:39 AM (Z5NUn)

40 A Post headline this morning concerns a Brit pedophile who went to Disney World and organized a mock-wedding to a fourth grade girl, and Disney apparently said "sure". Anything for a price, I guess.

I didn't read the story but the headline is disconcerting. Did someone think the pedo market was going to be good for Disney?

Posted by: Huck Follywood at June 25, 2025 07:39 AM (0dpQU)

41 Apparently Churchill wasn't keen on a Constitutional Republic, and that is why defenseless Brits are being thrown in prison for insulting their foreign born leadership.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at June 25, 2025 07:35 AM (a4flb

Why would you need a Constitution when you have a country of sturdy Englishmen, brave and true, who know what is right and proper?

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at June 25, 2025 07:39 AM (A62KL)

42 Eric Adams is running right ?

Posted by: runner at June 25, 2025 07:40 AM (g47mK)

43 Reported but not verified. Pahlavi has unfollowed both PDT and Bibi on social media.
Ceasefire is not peace, just a delay.

Posted by: Ben Had at June 25, 2025 07:40 AM (ZIggv)

44 @36

>> Is this it? It's not peace nor is it a victory.

It’s an interregnum between hostilities.

Muslims do not know how to live in peace.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 25, 2025 07:40 AM (XV/Pl)

45 Agoraphobia is not a mental illness.

It is a survival instinct.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at June 25, 2025 07:40 AM (ZmEVT)

46 A Post headline this morning concerns a Brit pedophile...

Posted by: Huck Follywood at June 25, 2025 07:39 AM (0dpQU)
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Look up his name and his pic and ask yourself how he wound up being a Brit.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at June 25, 2025 07:41 AM (NC42u)

47 It’s an interregnum between hostilities.

Muslims do not know how to live in peace.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 25, 2025 07:40 AM (XV/Pl)
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Just say "hudna" when you mean "hudna."

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at June 25, 2025 07:42 AM (NC42u)

48 @42

>> Eric Adams is running right ?

As an independent.

I think Sliwa will drop out and get behind Adams as will the remnants of the sane democrat coalition and push Adams over the line.

RCV is not used in the general election so I think Adams can win.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 25, 2025 07:43 AM (XV/Pl)

49 After a few of those, it's going to be the Miami Stock Exchange where after work you can stroll to Katz's for a pastrami on rye or go to the beach for a hot dog at Nathan's. Hank Johnson will worry about Florida tipping over.
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at June 25, 2025 07:39 AM (gm9Sb)
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There used to be a "Wolfie's Deli" on Miami Beach (years ago) but now its so cool and sophisticated they would never survive. Got to be a hugely overpriced "cafe" now, selling flavored soda water from Brazil or some such place.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at June 25, 2025 07:43 AM (0dpQU)

50 That’s because democracy always eventually turns into a totally indebted mobocracy followed by tyranny.

"A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship."

- Alexander Fraser Tyler (disputed)

There’s some truth to that.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at June 25, 2025 07:43 AM (6ydKt)

51 According to Insurance company Insurify, Buick, followed by Hyundai and Kia will be wacked hardest by tariffs, each experiencing a price increase of at least 22%

Buick surprised me in discovering that the American brand is mostly built in China.

Worst of both worlds: Tariffs against China plus a huge percentage of the car's cost is underwriting union benefits.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at June 25, 2025 07:44 AM (a4flb)

52 NYC’s Democrat Mayoral Race Exemplifies The Pitfalls Of Ranked-Choice Voting
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Once again, like all I've seen before it, this article utterly fails to give a reason why RCV should favor the left, inherently. It is at least as likely that that is the result, as usual, of the left being more adept at adjusting their tactics than is the right.

Posted by: Eeyore at June 25, 2025 07:45 AM (od0dV)

53 If Mahmoud wins the NYC mayoral race city council meetings will be lit. It'll look as organized as the grand Arab meeting at the end of Lawrence of Arabia.
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at June 25, 2025 07:39 AM (gm9Sb)

Blah Blah says he looks forward to Mahmoud as Mayor as it's time for this city to embrace the transexuals and homeless displaced immigrants and put them all in the subway so we do not have to see them as we sip our cocktails from the balcony of our penthouse in the Sutton Tower. Now if we could just get our COLA increase for our social security everything would be grand! Have to pay the hired help don't ya know tee hee!

Posted by: Harriet And Blah Blah Nyborg, Lifelong democrat boomers at June 25, 2025 07:47 AM (HgFW6)

54 Why would you need a Constitution when you have a country of sturdy Englishmen, brave and true, who know what is right and proper?

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at June 25, 2025 07:39 AM


The UK desperately needs another oliver cromwell to show up and deal with things.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at June 25, 2025 07:47 AM (e5NfL)

55 JJ, under the Culture Wars at the bottom, you should add June Lockhart turning 100 today. Quite a milestone for this lovely lady.

https://shorturl.at/4SKgv

Posted by: Lady in Black at June 25, 2025 07:47 AM (qBdHI)

56 I suspect that two movies show the solution to some of our problems: Escape From New York, and Superman. Seal off Manhattan, and drop CA into the Pacific. What a wonderful world that would be.

Posted by: Eeyore at June 25, 2025 07:48 AM (od0dV)

57 ‘Absolutely Infuriating’: Biden Junta Rushed Out $90 Billion in Green Loans After Trump’s 2024 Victory

Nothing should be permitted to occur between election day and the seating of the new Congress. No regulations promulgated, no grants issued, no employment changes, no laws signed, no nominees confirmed.

Further, if a new President will be taking office, these prohibitions continue until after inauguration day.

It is entirely bullshit that the government has 2-3 full months to fuck over the country after they've been replaced.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 25, 2025 07:49 AM (ExV1e)

58 June Lockhart turning 100 today. That's 700 in dog years.

Posted by: Lassie at June 25, 2025 07:49 AM (i0F8b)

59 42 Eric Adams is running right ?

Posted by: runner at June 25, 2025 07:40 AM (g47mK)

Yes, as an I.
As is Silwa as the R. I expect Silwa will now have to exit the race or tell all his folks to vote Adams b/c in a 3 way, the D will automatically win.

Posted by: Nova Local at June 25, 2025 07:49 AM (tOcjL)

60 The weird thing is, as far as I can tell from reading about it, that the authorities can’t determine if the people, mostly women and girls, were injected with anything.

Step 1: get people used to being randomly jabbed and thinking nothing of it.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 25, 2025 07:50 AM (ExV1e)

61 BTW, CBD's Notre Dame essay was far from eloquent, other than it's patronizing tone to Catholics, and Christians generally. "Good boys. You gave us something pretty. Now shut up about what you care about."

C S Lewis despised that approach.

Posted by: Eeyore at June 25, 2025 07:50 AM (od0dV)

62 To put that in context, over 15 years, it had put out about $43 billion. Then we had an election on November 5 last year, right? And President Trump won that election. After that election day and until President Trump’s inauguration, $90 billion — over twice what was done in 15 years — was done in 76 days. More than half of that, $49 billion, in the last two days, Thursday and Friday, before inauguration the next Monday.

Big Govt loaning money is a terrible bad wasteful useless idea.

Posted by: rhennigantx at June 25, 2025 07:51 AM (gbOdA)

63 im gonna eat some shit pebbles now

Posted by: Aliassmithsmith at June 25, 2025 07:53 AM (beL7L)

64 "The president's announcement late this afternoon that a cease-fire between Israel and Iran has been reached is, therefore, disappointing absent the collapse of the mullahs. . ."


Indeed. In fact, why put an end to a war that you've practically won? Especially if we don't really know how far back the nuclear program has been pushed.

WELL, MAYBE it's just that if the mullahs have to go, that it's bad optics to make that happen by Israel and/or America assassinating the regime. MAYBE there are ways to get the Iranian people to finish the job - which is the right way to go. MAYBE it's just good optics for Trump to explicitly say he's not interested in regime change. MAYBE.

Yesterday I was hearing about uprisings, so who knows? Maybe this thing isn't really over quite yet.

Posted by: MrExcitement at June 25, 2025 07:53 AM (hOOi9)

65 I didn't read the story but the headline is disconcerting. Did someone think the pedo market was going to be good for Disney?

Posted by: Huck Follywood at June 25, 2025 07:39 AM (0dpQU)

It seems they believe it was a social media stunt.

The groom hired extras as guests (who were clueless about what was going on), the best man and maid of honor were all hired.

The little girl, 9, was brought from Ukraine by her mother, 40.

Once Disneyland Paris figured out the bride was 9 years old they cancelled the thing, the actor ‘best man’ called the cops, and they arrested him, the groom the brides mother and the bride’s sister, who I believe was the maid of honor.

The ‘groom’ paid $150,000 to rent Disneyland for the wedding.

All Disney saw was the money until they saw the bride and realized this was going to cost them more than that if they didn’t cancel it post haste.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at June 25, 2025 07:53 AM (6ydKt)

66 55 JJ, under the Culture Wars at the bottom, you should add June Lockhart turning 100 today. Quite a milestone for this lovely lady.

https://shorturl.at/4SKgv
Posted by: Lady in Black at June 25, 2025 07:47 AM (qBdHI)


Did not see the story. Met her once many many years ago and she was a very charming classy woman.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at June 25, 2025 07:54 AM (x0n13)

67 It is entirely bullshit that the government has 2-3 full months to fuck over the country after they've been replaced.

Nothing like stealing all of the furniture and jewelry, selling off the children into slavery before torching the house and barn on the way out.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at June 25, 2025 07:54 AM (a4flb)

68 This Mamdani radical extremist character, who came here only 7 years ago, is going to be the next mayor of not only a big city, but one of America's most iconic in days past. What a country, eh!? Seems NYC will elect (by hook or crook) the worst of the worst. I guess Satan was busy or Mamdani would've had some stiff competition. Be sure to wear your fireproof clothing on the subways, all of you who are left.

Posted by: Lady in Black at June 25, 2025 07:55 AM (qBdHI)

69 Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at June 25, 2025 07:30 AM (a4flb)

Whatever the media is reporting - and they do it in lockstep - believe the opposite. That's your starting point.

Posted by: ... at June 25, 2025 07:55 AM (sfdl6)

70 Once again, the press proves it's filled with a bunch of people who believe "hard work" means watching Pedro take care of their yard.

The Iran nuclear program is only set back a few months? Early reports indicate Israel has pounded and taken out roads and bridges leading to Fordow.

Even without the MOP's, that alone is years worth of infrastructure gone. Building roads and bridges capable of carrying the equipment necessary to dig out Fordow isn't done overnight.

Morning, J.J.! Thanks again for all your work.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at June 25, 2025 07:55 AM (tT6L1)

71 Morning again all.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 25, 2025 07:55 AM (zSKXS)

72 MAYBE there are ways to get the Iranian people to finish the job - which is the right way to go.

Guns, lots of guns.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at June 25, 2025 07:56 AM (a4flb)

73 I can't see any downside to Mamdani winning (unless you're unfortunate enough to live in NYC). I see 3 possible outcomes-

1- he wins in November, implements his promises, and the city completely fails, becoming an easy example of the failures of far Leftism in future elections and social commentary

2- moderate dems, Republicans and independents panic, rally together around an Independent candidate in the General (maybe Adams?), push him over the finish line, and Leftists melt down and riot at being backstabbed by the Dem Establishment

3- Mamdani doesn't implement his extreme policies, knowing they'll fail, disappointing the Far Left, and he eventually gets marked as a sellout corrupted by money/power/the Establishment.

All are hilarious and may result in great campaign ad fodder for the 2026 midterms and 2028.

Posted by: Moron Analyst at June 25, 2025 07:56 AM (ycI94)

74 Met her once many many years ago and she was a very charming classy woman.

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That's good to hear. It's exactly how I'd imagine her to be.

Posted by: Lady in Black at June 25, 2025 07:56 AM (qBdHI)

75 JJ, under the Culture Wars at the bottom, you should add June Lockhart turning 100 today. Quite a milestone for this lovely lady.

Posted by: Lady in Black at June 25, 2025 07:47 AM (qBdHI)
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Aw c'mon, morons!

Don't degrade the Morning Report to talk again about boob itty boobs!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at June 25, 2025 07:57 AM (NC42u)

76 61 BTW, CBD's Notre Dame essay was far from eloquent, other than it's patronizing tone to Catholics, and Christians generally. "Good boys. You gave us something pretty. Now shut up about what you care about."

C S Lewis despised that approach.

Posted by: Eeyore at June 25, 2025 07:50 AM (od0dV)

"*From this Jew’s perspective, it seemed to be a joyful service, and the priest’s voice echoing in this magnificent building was both magisterial and strangely personal."

Nah, I see it as someone who saw for the 1st time, a single instance of the greatness of what the Catholic community can do here on Earth for everyone in it...and it surprised him. One of those "the 1st steps on the path" experiences...who knows where it eventually takes him.

I mean, every day, the Catholic Church and faithful, like Donald Trump, has been dumped on by the media for decades and decades...and we're still here, standing strong, despite it...just like he is. But many have the view from the media b/c it becomes so ingrained til you get that moment and you say "but that's not what the media told me...what else might they be wrong about"...

Posted by: Nova Local at June 25, 2025 07:57 AM (tOcjL)

77 That’s because democracy always eventually turns into a totally indebted mobocracy

"The simpleminded electorate were visited every few years by rival politicians, who, in the desire to secure election, were accustomed to make the wildest promises involving increased public expenditure in the constituency and the satisfaction of all the cherished desires of the inhabitants. The latter, as was not unnatural, chose the candidate who promised them the most... The country was thus exposed to the evils of paternalism in its most extreme form. The people, instead of being trained to independence and self
reliance, became increasingly dependent on those who were placed in authority; instead of being trained to think in terms of the national interest, they were encouraged to think only of the interests of their own district. Even within a district, or a church denomination, there was no public spirit; in the struggle to secure a decent living, the average man sought only his personal advantage. The Government was looked upon as the universal provider, and it was thought to be the duty of the Member for the constituency to see that there was an ever increasing flow of public money."

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 25, 2025 07:58 AM (/HVsR)

78 “The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.” - Winston Churchill

- yet -

“Democracy is the worst form of government—except for all the others that have been tried.”

Apparently Churchill wasn't keen on a Constitutional Republic, and that is why defenseless Brits are being thrown in prison for insulting their foreign born leadership.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at June 25, 2025 07:35 AM (a4flb)


"Democracy is based on the assumption that a million men are wiser than one man. How's that again? I missed something." -- Lazarus Long

"Autocracy is based on the assumption that one man is wiser than a million men. Let's play that over again, too. Who decides?" -- also Lazarus Long

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 25, 2025 07:58 AM (ExV1e)

79 This Mamdani radical extremist character, who came here only 7 years ago, is going to be the next mayor of not only a big city, but one of America's most iconic in days past. What a country, eh!? Seems NYC will elect (by hook or crook) the worst of the worst. I guess Satan was busy or Mamdani would've had some stiff competition. Be sure to wear your fireproof clothing on the subways, all of you who are left.
Posted by: Lady in Black


He's a huge defund the blue crank.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 25, 2025 07:58 AM (zSKXS)

80 The Iran nuclear program is only set back a few months?

This is the opinion from TS clearance staffers in Trump's White House who decided that smearing Trump is more important than maintaining their clearances.

But this being DC, and Trump has yet to field a DOJ that shows any level of competence, it was a safe move of the traitors and may boost their social cocktail status.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at June 25, 2025 07:58 AM (a4flb)

81 If Mahmoud wins the NYC mayoral race city council meetings will be lit. It'll look as organized as the grand Arab meeting at the end of Lawrence of Arabia. After a few of those, it's going to be the Miami Stock Exchange where after work you can stroll to Katz's for a pastrami on rye or go to the beach for a hot dog at Nathan's. Hank Johnson will worry about Florida tipping over.
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at June 25, 2025 07:39 AM (gm9Sb)


I assume that on day one he'll nationalize all business and properties in the city and order the round up and extermination of certain disfavored groups.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 25, 2025 08:00 AM (ExV1e)

82 Good morning dear morons and happy birthday.

Expect anything less from the Portugee?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 25, 2025 08:00 AM (RIvkX)

83 I can't see any downside to Mamdani winning (unless you're unfortunate enough to live in NYC). I see 3 possible outcomes-

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The only outcome that gives me any concern is that those who wreck that city and realize what an unlivable, toxic dump they've created will move to my state to get away from it. And obliviously start the process all over again.

Posted by: Lady in Black at June 25, 2025 08:01 AM (qBdHI)

84 Did someone think the pedo market was going to be good for Disney?

Posted by: Huck Follywood at June 25, 2025 07:39 AM (0dpQU)


If you cater to pedos you can always count on money from governments. -- Disney

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 25, 2025 08:01 AM (ExV1e)

85 The Iran nuclear program is only set back a few months?


If the Iranians can build back in just a few months, Newsome ought to stick them on his high speed rail project.

Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at June 25, 2025 08:01 AM (SfhV1)

86 The Government was looked upon as the universal provider, and it was thought to be the duty of the Member for the constituency to see that there was an ever increasing flow of public money."
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 25, 2025 07:58 AM (/HVsR)

I know it’s British but where’s that from?

Posted by: SpeakingOf at June 25, 2025 08:02 AM (6ydKt)

87 The Iran nuclear program is only set back a few months?


If the Iranians can build back in just a few months, Newsome ought to stick them on his high speed rail project.

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Ha!

Posted by: Lady in Black at June 25, 2025 08:04 AM (qBdHI)

88
I assume that on day one he'll nationalize all business and properties in the city and order the round up and extermination of certain disfavored groups.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 25, 2025 08:00 AM (ExV1e)


Those will be the public face. Behind the scenes, aides will go out to the business community and say, "Look, if you don't make a deal with us, he's going to go crazy on you."

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 25, 2025 08:04 AM (/HVsR)

89 My favorite quote on democracy is:

Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner.

- James Bovard

Posted by: SpeakingOf at June 25, 2025 08:04 AM (6ydKt)

90 Do we know who, specifically, said the Iran program was only set back a few months?

Sounds like another excuse for America to keep bombing.

Posted by: Seems Legit at June 25, 2025 08:05 AM (PMtkd)

91 The only outcome that gives me any concern is that those who wreck that city and realize what an unlivable, toxic dump they've created will move to my state to get away from it. And obliviously start the process all over again.

Clearly you are ignorant of the latest trends in Neo-Marxist governance: The Exit Tax where governments hold Producers and former Property Holders ransom with wicked high exit taxes and perpetual income taxes that continue years after one of their tax cows escapes.

Remember Rush Limbaugh in how he avoided staying overnight in NYC for the rest of his life because they would make claims against his income?

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at June 25, 2025 08:05 AM (a4flb)

92 The Anti-Trump coalition is simultaneously claiming that:
1. Iran never intended to build a nuke, so the raid was unjustified.
2. Iran moved all of its nuclear materials beforehand and can totally build a nuke in a few months, so the raid was a failure.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at June 25, 2025 08:05 AM (4F0B6)

93 Once Disneyland Paris figured out the bride was 9 years old they cancelled the thing, the actor ‘best man’ called the cops, and they arrested him, the groom the brides mother and the bride’s sister, who I believe was the maid of honor.

That seems Islamophobic.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 25, 2025 08:06 AM (ExV1e)

94 BTW, CBD's Notre Dame essay was far from eloquent, other than it's patronizing tone to Catholics, and Christians generally. "Good boys. You gave us something pretty. Now shut up about what you care about."

C S Lewis despised that approach.
Posted by: Eeyore at June 25, 2025 07:50 AM (od0dV)

Hogwash. I saw no such thing in that essay and I can read between the lines with anyone. He was quite explicit about what moved him.

Anyone who has read here long enough knows that me and CBD don't exactly see eye to eye on many things.

If you find him insufficiently reverent of a religion that is not his own it might be a you problem..

Posted by: ... at June 25, 2025 08:06 AM (sfdl6)

95 It seems they believe it was a social media stunt.

The groom hired extras as guests (who were clueless about what was going on), the best man and maid of honor were all hired.

The little girl, 9,
was brought from Ukraine by her mother, 40.

Once Disneyland Paris figured out the bride was 9 years old they cancelled the thing, the actor ‘best man’ called the cops, and they arrested him, the groom the brides mother and the bride’s sister, who I believe was the maid of honor.

The ‘groom’ paid $150,000 to rent Disneyland for the wedding.

All Disney saw was the money until they saw the bride and realized this was going to cost them more than that if they didn’t cancel it post haste.
Posted by: SpeakingOf


Should have labeled it a muzzie wedding.
Oh, wait. Too old.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 25, 2025 08:06 AM (zSKXS)

96 32 So whatever happened to Tim Walz's assassin buddy who voted for Trump?
Posted by: People of the Jello Mold

Or anything about Trump's would-be assassins, selected school shooters, Hodgkinson, or Lee Harvey Oswald's buried FBI CIA info.

You! Just move along now, nothing to see here.

Posted by: Auspex at June 25, 2025 08:06 AM (j4U/Z)

97 Where is that n f*cker?

https://tinyurl.com/mu6yspb3

He claimed that 90% of MAGA was *against* the strikes.

Posted by: Defenestratus at June 25, 2025 08:06 AM (WYStd)

98 Do we know who, specifically, said the Iran program was only set back a few months?

I've been told by the same sources that Iran didn't have a nuclear weapons program.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at June 25, 2025 08:07 AM (a4flb)

99 Do we know who, specifically, said the Iran program was only set back a few months?


An anonymous leaker from the Department of Anonymous Leaks.

Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at June 25, 2025 08:07 AM (SfhV1)

100 klink klink klink. Klank klank klank. Klink klink klink.


Iranian trapped three hundred feet below Fordow, beating rubble with tin cup.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at June 25, 2025 08:08 AM (gm9Sb)

101 I am not a nukkelar expert but once you cut power to those centrifuges they're done, man.

Posted by: runner at June 25, 2025 08:08 AM (g47mK)

102 Iranian Foreign Minister says the nuke sites are severely damaged.

Posted by: Ben Had at June 25, 2025 08:08 AM (ZIggv)

103 The Iran nuclear program is only set back a few months?


If the Iranians can build back in just a few months, Newsome ought to stick them on his high speed rail project.
Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at June 25, 2025 08:01 AM (SfhV1)
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Hah! Morning, grammie!

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at June 25, 2025 08:08 AM (tT6L1)

104 An anonymous leaker from the Department of Anonymous Leaks.
Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at June 25, 2025 08:07 AM (SfhV1)

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This is exactly what I was thinking.

That way we can keep the military-industrial grift going.

Posted by: Seems Legit at June 25, 2025 08:08 AM (PMtkd)

105
I know it’s British but where’s that from?
Posted by: SpeakingOf at June 25, 2025 08:02 AM (6ydKt)


The Amulree Report from the 1933 Royal Newfoundland Commission. Newfoundland, which had been an independent country, was in such dire straits that malnutrition, beriberi and tuberculosis were spreading among the population. The government was bankrupt. Britain ended up establishing a commission to govern Newfoundland and the government dissolved itself.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 25, 2025 08:08 AM (/HVsR)

106 I assume that on day one he'll nationalize all business and properties in the city and order the round up and extermination of certain disfavored groups.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic

Probably not ALL the businesses on day 1, but he did say he wanted to open government grocery stores throughout the city.

I bet after people shoplift from them for a few months, he suddenly feels security and law enforcement are appropriate, at least in that specific case.

Posted by: Moron Analyst at June 25, 2025 08:08 AM (ycI94)

107 Good morning blake!

Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at June 25, 2025 08:09 AM (SfhV1)

108 the report was leaked from Pentagon's unit - DIA; Hegseth will need to be doing some cleanup after his NATO trip

Posted by: runner at June 25, 2025 08:09 AM (g47mK)

109 The Anti-Trump coalition is simultaneously claiming that:
1. Iran never intended to build a nuke, so the raid was unjustified.
2. Iran moved all of its nuclear materials beforehand and can totally build a nuke in a few months, so the raid was a failure.
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at June 25, 2025 08:05 AM (4F0B6)
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If I have to pick from all the theories, the 2 points above are my choice.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at June 25, 2025 08:09 AM (NC42u)

110 Do we know who, specifically, said the Iran program was only set back a few months?
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Leftards. The same people who insisted covid came from a market, the laptop wasn't Hunter's, etc etc...

Posted by: ... at June 25, 2025 08:09 AM (sfdl6)

111 An anonymous source in a hostile press is worthless. Generally one can rely on the opposite of what it says to be closer to the truth.

It's on a par with the famous media question formulas "some say..." or "what do you say to people who think..."

Posted by: WitchDoktor at June 25, 2025 08:09 AM (jBB4+)

112 >Do we know who, specifically, said the Iran program was only set back a few months?
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yes
'sources familiar with...'

Posted by: Don Black. Message: get down, get funky at June 25, 2025 08:09 AM (AOsQT)

113 Kilmar Abrego Garcia Is Once Again Facing Deportation.

That pinhead is going to stay in the news until Trump leaves office. "He's back in El Salvador! He's back in the US!"

Posted by: NR Pax at June 25, 2025 08:10 AM (BpO1e)

114 Regarding Iran specifically, and the Muslim world at large.

First, regime change was ALWAYS going to have to come from the Iranians themselves, neither Israel nor the US have the ability, let alone the desire, to try to compel some 70 odd million people to create some form of government absent a massive land war and violent occupation for decades.

Bombing itself, even massively destructive bombings such as we did in Iraq including no fly zones, etc. against Saddam had little effect on his hold on internal power. And, inevitably the international consensus on containing him was breaking down. Iran is no different with its mullahs, IRGC, and internal secret police.

Regime change is simply not in the cards for Iran without the Persian people themselves rising up to get rid of the detestable regime.

All Israel and US can do is limit the spillage and reach of that regime until the people in Iran themselves choose sanity over endless war with the outside world.

The same is true of the Muslim world itself. We face the same problem that provoked George Kennan to write his Long Telegram to the State Dept. The West has to contain Islam until it collapses itself.

Posted by: whig at June 25, 2025 08:10 AM (ctrM5)

115 That pinhead is going to stay in the news until Trump leaves office. "He's back in El Salvador! He's back in the US!"
Posted by: NR Pax at June 25, 2025 08:10 AM (BpO1e)

He's his mother, he's his sister...

Posted by: ... at June 25, 2025 08:11 AM (sfdl6)

116 Even trade: California for Alberta.

Posted by: grjx at June 25, 2025 08:11 AM (3A2Vm)

117 Low trust societies are no fun. But we are there."

Ah, Diversity. The God to which we are all to bow, endlessly.

Posted by: man at June 25, 2025 08:11 AM (tubbA)

118 Morning again all. Thx JJ.
Living just 90m north of NYC I've got a front row seat to the lunacy. People think that Mamdani's proposals for free everything and refund police won't go anywhere. The NYC common council is crazier than he is. Full blown Marxism is not out of the question. People have fled up here since Deblasio was mayor and they bring their voting idiocy with them. The NYS. Court of Appeals just affirmed rent control in my city, the first upstate with such a law.
A lot of people here say good let NYC collapse and while I would care if leftists were slaughtered, the leftists will flee to your areas and do the same thing there. The Republicans and independents have to figure out a way to fight or Katie bar the door, the patients rule the asylum

Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 25, 2025 08:12 AM (pwtJC)

119 I am not a nukkelar expert but once you cut power to those centrifuges they're done, man.
Posted by: runner


Oh no. It's barely a piffle.
I've been repeatedly told it just like unplugging an alarm clock & plugging it back in.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 25, 2025 08:12 AM (zSKXS)

120 Today is National Catfish Day.

Posted by: redridinghood at June 25, 2025 08:12 AM (NpAcC)

121 Regime change is simply not in the cards for Iran without the Persian people themselves rising up to get rid of the detestable regime.

Solution: "0% Tariffs on Iranian Produced Items"

Fine print: provided that the Mullahs are no longer in charge.

You will see all sorts of high tariff countries trip over each other in a race to run their products through Iran and enormous pressure to remove the Mullahs from everybody except Israel and the US.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at June 25, 2025 08:13 AM (a4flb)

122 That seems Islamophobic.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 25, 2025 08:06 AM (ExV1e)

For all we know that may have been the groom’s point.

He specifically picked a 9 year old so maybe this was some kind of knock on Mohammed as a protest, for social media clicks.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at June 25, 2025 08:13 AM (6ydKt)

123 Defund not refund

Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 25, 2025 08:13 AM (pwtJC)

124
Full blown Marxism is not out of the question.

Really, I wouldn't be bothered but when the whole thing collapses from its own irresponsibility and essential absurdity, the rest of the country will be expected to bail them out.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 25, 2025 08:14 AM (/HVsR)

125 If the Iranians can build back in just a few months, Newsome ought to stick them on his high speed rail project.
Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at June 25, 2025 08:01 AM (SfhV1)
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Promote that woman!

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 25, 2025 08:14 AM (RIvkX)

126 Even trade: California for Alberta.
Posted by: grjx


Yukon for Oregon.
Northwest Territories for Washington state.
With a fifty mile wife corridor for a port.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 25, 2025 08:14 AM (zSKXS)

127 Israel only cares about the existential threat posed by Iran, the nuke program, the proxies it was feeding , training, and supplying the weapons that surround Israel, the ballistic missiles program (thanks to North Korea - another "beauty" as Trump says). What they do inside Iran matter as much to them as what they do in Djibouti. Only if Djibouti starts yelling death to Israel and sending missiles into Israeli cities will they start paying attention to Djibouti.

Posted by: runner at June 25, 2025 08:15 AM (g47mK)

128 Iran moved all of its nuclear materials beforehand and can totally build a nuke in a few months, so the raid was a failure.

I believe the argument is that they moved the uranium... away from the site that the "experts" claimed was impregnable, but it's still short of the concentration required for the Earth shattering kaboom and the equipment to concentrate is wasn't moved.

Hence, I assume, the argument that it's just a delay although it would seem like it would be a sizeable one.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 25, 2025 08:15 AM (ExV1e)

129 "73 I can't see any downside to Mamdani winning (unless you're unfortunate enough to live in NYC). I see 3 possible outcomes-"

What the poor voting idiots don't seem to understand is that failure is not only a foregone conclusion but THE PLAN. Failure is the objective. Do people even ask themselves what Leftism defines as "success", or what it invariably achieves and therefore must intend, not through a noble ideal gone wrong but through actual praxis? The goal is failure -- disempowerment, pauperism, despair, enslavement -- all to the benefit of State power and to those who serve it.

Posted by: Ordinary Amerian at June 25, 2025 08:15 AM (+8LpN)

130 The Amulree Report from the 1933 Royal Newfoundland Commission. Newfoundland, which had been an independent country, was in such dire straits that malnutrition, beriberi and tuberculosis were spreading among the population. The government was bankrupt. Britain ended up establishing a commission to govern Newfoundland and the government dissolved itself.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 25, 2025 08:08 AM (/HVsR)

I thought it was from an essay.

It really does apply everywhere in the West now.

It’s obvious what’s happening but nobody wants to stop the gravy train before it crashes.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at June 25, 2025 08:16 AM (6ydKt)

131 Regime change is simply not in the cards for Iran without the Persian people themselves rising up to get rid of the detestable regime.

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I can't remember, but what precipitated the uprising that started to happen when The Dog Eater was president? He did nothing to help them, obviously, and it went nowhere. Wonder where those people are today. Things were spicy there for a while, but without help, they were crushed and silenced.

Posted by: Lady in Black at June 25, 2025 08:17 AM (qBdHI)

132 The gas centrifuges are very delicate. The shock from the bombs probably broke them IF they were being operated at the time.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at June 25, 2025 08:17 AM (ZmEVT)

133 Have we seen the artist rendering of the Trump Tehran Tower yet?

Posted by: I gotta ask at June 25, 2025 08:17 AM (lIgBp)

134 Will NYC run grocery stores have S&H Green Stamps? Will there be city run redemption centers?

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at June 25, 2025 08:17 AM (gm9Sb)

135 JD Vance congratulates Zohran Mamdani as "the new leader of the Democratic Party" on Bluesky.
Lol.

Posted by: redridinghood at June 25, 2025 08:17 AM (NpAcC)

136 What the poor voting idiots don't seem to understand is that failure is not only a foregone conclusion but THE PLAN. Failure is the objective.

Do people even ask themselves what Leftism defines as "success"



No. They hear "free shit".

That's it.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 25, 2025 08:17 AM (zSKXS)

137 Exactly this is a reboot nothing more. It's been written and it will happen.

Posted by: SOMEASSHOLESTOLEMYPEN at June 25, 2025 08:17 AM (jRVrw)

138 At the aquarium, Miss Stachio read from another book, Nen and the Lonely Fisherman, which adapted The Little Mermaid into a gay romance with a happy ending.

Alt Title:
Butt Fucking Fishermen

Posted by: rhennigantx at June 25, 2025 08:18 AM (gbOdA)

139 anonymous leaker

Option 1: who doesn't exist.
Option 2: who is a liar.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 25, 2025 08:18 AM (ExV1e)

140 I can't remember, but what precipitated the uprising that started to happen when The Dog Eater was president? He did nothing to help them, obviously, and it went nowhere.

Wonder where those people are today.



Dead.
They're dead.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 25, 2025 08:19 AM (zSKXS)

141 134 Will NYC run grocery stores have S&H Green StampsSoylent Green? Will there be city run redemption centers?
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at June 25, 2025 08:17 AM (gm9Sb)

fixed it

Posted by: rhennigantx at June 25, 2025 08:19 AM (gbOdA)

142 110 Do we know who, specifically, said the Iran program was only set back a few months?
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It came reportedly from a low confidence BDA by a specific DIA (Defense Intelligence Agency) analyst. We know not what the actual data was employed to make that assertion and the low confidence label could mean that it came from open source aka news in Iran, confidential sources like diplomats or informants, technical means like satellites, etc, signal intercepts, and so on.

A lonely analyst report 'leaked' usually means that someone is simply playing games just like the alleged Pee Tapes involving DJT and Russian Hookers.

That being said, it could be true, it could be false, and undoubtedly the Iranian mullahs will try to resume these activities, even at a low level, if they can.

Germany, even under the Weimar government sought to evade Treaty of Versailles limits on their forces because they looked forward to a time to recreate their armies. France and the UK looked the other way because neither country wanted to resume hostilities over what they saw as minor breaches of the Treaty.

So, Iran trying to rebuild its program is simply another Iraq situation from 91-02.

Posted by: whig at June 25, 2025 08:19 AM (ctrM5)

143 Yes you can restart them. Grok what happens ? "Restarting centrifuges is complex, requiring precise recalibration and vacuum reestablishment, leading to significant downtime and cost." And that is just cutting power. If you drop a few 30,000lb bombs on them...downtime expands tremendously !

Posted by: runner at June 25, 2025 08:20 AM (g47mK)

144 133 Have we seen the artist rendering of the Trump Tehran Tower yet?
Posted by: I gotta ask at June 25, 2025 08:17 AM (lIgBp)

I hear that the first 3 holes of the gold course are already done.

Posted by: rhennigantx at June 25, 2025 08:20 AM (gbOdA)

145 I said last night that NYC getting rid of the Board of Estimate and removing that check against the mayor was all well and good when you had a Mayor Giuliani, but with Mayor Osama bin Lenin, that imperial mayoralty chicken is coming home to roost.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 25, 2025 08:20 AM (FQTl0)

146 Trying to put myself in the mind of the Iranian mullahs, I would have to see the ceasefire as welcome. It stops Israel's devastating whittling down of their munitions and leadership ranks and buys them time to begin a rebuild. I'm surprised Trump was surprised that Israel would react the way they did. I was hoping he'd let them finish the job and only then sue for peace.

Posted by: Ordinary Amerian at June 25, 2025 08:20 AM (+8LpN)

147 How about congress explore passing a bill that allows people to avoid AI content? This bill would need to have some type of certification that what is presented is "Certified, Genuinely Human Content"

I've had enough of reading something and stopping a few sentences in because my mind was doing the uncanny valley thing.

Posted by: pawn, the original at June 25, 2025 08:21 AM (QB+5g)

148 Saudi outlets let drop that Israelis know where they are hiding what remains of their enriched uranium.

Posted by: runner at June 25, 2025 08:21 AM (g47mK)

149 The same is true of the Muslim world itself. We face the same problem that provoked George Kennan to write his Long Telegram to the State Dept. The West has to contain Islam until it collapses itself.
Posted by: whig at June 25, 2025 08:10 AM (ctrM5)

Islam has had some schisms, but what it really needs is a Reformation, similar to Christianity in the 1500s.

If that’s truly possible, I have no idea.

At any rate, it won’t happen in our lifetimes if it ever does.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at June 25, 2025 08:21 AM (6ydKt)

150 Will NYC run grocery stores have S&H Green Stamps? Will there be city run redemption centers?

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They'll be required to serve "vulnerable" populations first. Whites to the back of the cheese line. And it won't be long before they'll paint a "No Juden" sign on their windows.

Posted by: Lady in Black at June 25, 2025 08:21 AM (qBdHI)

151 So now we're going from "riots are the language of the unheard" to "terrorism is needing desperately to be heard." Wonderful. Thanks, Khalil!

Posted by: pookysgirl gets sick of these phrases at June 25, 2025 08:21 AM (Wt5PA)

152 they being Iranians, not the Saudis.

Posted by: runner at June 25, 2025 08:21 AM (g47mK)

153 (Jimmy Carter deserves credit for putting the Mullahs in power in the first place! - jjs)

LOL jj! Biggest laugh I've had in a few days.

Posted by: Gref at June 25, 2025 08:21 AM (aBgBM)

154 I didn't read the story but the headline is disconcerting. Did someone think the pedo market was going to be good for Disney?

Posted by: Huck Follywood at June 25, 2025 07:39 AM (0dpQU)

It's a small world after all.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at June 25, 2025 08:22 AM (i24o9)

155 With a fifty mile wife corridor for a port.
Posted by: rickb223 at June 25, 2025 08:14 AM (zSKXS)


I don't know that I'd want to port in a wife who required a 50 mile corridor.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 25, 2025 08:22 AM (ExV1e)

156 I took a quick look at the process for enriching uranium.

The keyboard warriors who quickly trotted out the "only set back a few months" canard could just as easily have looked it up, as I did, and found out this isn't just a scratch that will quickly buff out. (I already knew that but wanted to look at some details)

But, then again, the people who wrote the "just a few months" tripe would have to have some working knowledge of machinery.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at June 25, 2025 08:22 AM (tT6L1)

157 Doctrinaire Marxist Leninism in a biome where there is precisely zero proletariat.

Awesome.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 25, 2025 08:22 AM (BjH5D)

158 The report from CNN was written by Natasha Bertrand who is a stenographer for the deep state. She was the one who put out the report the Hunter's laptop was thought to be likely Russian disinformation pursuant to national security "experts" . Believe nothing she writes

Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 25, 2025 08:22 AM (pwtJC)

159 JD Vance congratulates Zohran Mamdani as "the new leader of the Democratic Party" on Bluesky.
Lol.
Posted by: redridinghood at June 25, 2025 08:17 AM (NpAcC)

LOL

Posted by: ... at June 25, 2025 08:22 AM (sfdl6)

160
Probably not ALL the businesses on day 1, but he did say he wanted to open government grocery stores throughout the city.


Does this retard know that the typical grocery store has between 1-3% net profit margin, and that doesn't included elevated levels of shrink found in urban jungles?

Does this retard think that in short order he will be able to hire, compensate and retain top talent merchandisers, contract negotiators, supply-chain specialists, warehouse and distribution center strategists, get them all oriented to government work place rules, organized and out-do the established consolidated players in the industry who have decades of experience stream-lining things?

This is more naïve than Bloomberg's soil + seeds = bumper crop formulas.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at June 25, 2025 08:22 AM (a4flb)

161 BREAKING: Alvin Bragg, Manhattan prosecutor who took on Trump, wins Democratic primary in bid for second term - AP

Posted by: Don Black. Message: get down, get funky at June 25, 2025 08:22 AM (AOsQT)

162 Is Brooklyn a Green Stamp desert?

Posted by: Ask Sam Kinison at June 25, 2025 08:22 AM (lIgBp)

163 That pinhead is going to stay in the news until Trump leaves office. "He's back in El Salvador! He's back in the US!"
Posted by: NR Pax at June 25, 2025 08:10 AM (BpO1e)

Need to let someone on the inside make a little side hustle.

I kill a communist for fun, but for a green card... I'm gonna carve him up real nice.

Posted by: Tony Montana at June 25, 2025 08:23 AM (HgFW6)

164 MAGAt heads are exploding this morning, thanks to Mamdani’s victory. Good job NYC!

The owner of WABC Radio, John Catsimatidis, has threatened to close his Gristedes supermarket chain if Mamdani wins. His third-rate RW station will have plenty of copy to gripe about if Momdani is elected.

When anyone calls a Democrat a Socialist, that tells me he/she is fighting for the people.

What happened to the maxim that it takes a moderate to win? Maybe the DNC is out of touch with the American people? Democrats forced Al Franken out of the Senate because of a misguided prank, Cuomo? They made Jasmine Crockett its last choice out of 4 people to be ranking member of the Oversight committee, recommending Garcia, who originally was a Republican.

40 years ago, Mamdani’s policies would be considered moderate. That’s how far to the right the GOP and corporate media has pushed this country.

Mamdani needs to cool it about going after Wall Street. businesses and employment and capital investment will leave, and that will be very bad for Democrats. reading this board the last 12 hours is like reading a Far Left version of "own the libs" rationale.

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at June 25, 2025 08:23 AM (ycI94)

165 128 Iran moved all of its nuclear materials beforehand and can totally build a nuke in a few months, so the raid was a failure.

I believe the argument is that they moved the uranium... away from the site that the "experts" claimed was impregnable, but it's still short of the concentration required for the Earth shattering kaboom and the equipment to concentrate is wasn't moved.

Hence, I assume, the argument that it's just a delay although it would seem like it would be a sizeable one.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic

From what I've read, Israel intel warned the US that the enriched uranium (not the centrifuges, etc.) was moved to another site. Think it was Ishafan and not Natanz. The original US plan only included bombing Fordow but because of Israeli intel, the US also attacked both Natanz and Ishafan with Tomahawk missiles to take out the new enriched uranium locations.

It is clear that Israel has totally penetrated the Iranian nuclear program and its government itself with spies so the information probably was very credible. But as in all things, we shall see how accurate it was.

Posted by: whig at June 25, 2025 08:23 AM (ctrM5)

166
Some folks try to get away
Make a hasty break from the neighborhood
Takin' flight for Miami Beach
Or anywhere good
But I'm roastin' a stray hound
In a barrel by a subway line
I'm in a New York State of mind

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 25, 2025 08:23 AM (FQTl0)

167 But, then again, the people who wrote the "just a few months" tripe would have to have some working knowledge of machinery.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at June 25, 2025 08:22 AM (tT6L1)

Stuxnet changed things by 0.1% and destroyed around 2000 centrifuges.

Posted by: rhennigantx at June 25, 2025 08:23 AM (gbOdA)

168 As an illustration of how impossible Regime Change is unless the people in question want the change themselves; Israel has been engaged in a 2 year long attempt at Regime Change in a relatively tiny piece of land called Gaza. In spite of having destroyed most of his he structures there, Israel seems no closer to “regime change” in Gaza now than when they started.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 25, 2025 08:23 AM (HEGiN)

169 But, then again, the people who wrote the "just a few months" tripe would have to have some working knowledge of machinery.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at June 25, 2025 08:22 AM (tT6L1)

You don't need special scientific knowledge to be up a mullah's ass.

Posted by: ... at June 25, 2025 08:24 AM (sfdl6)

170 JJ was overly excited by the Trump obliteration of Iran's nuclear facility. Turns out it was a big "nothing burger" with a delay of only 2 months.

Posted by: Aliassmithsmith at June 25, 2025 07:53 AM (beL7L)

Look at you with your mad BDA skills....FFS

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead...Wearing Pants and Working at June 25, 2025 08:24 AM (luW68)

171 Another rejoinder to the "just a few months" argument:

So?

Either we strike up the tune again in Just A Few Months, or we kill more of them until it isn't Just A Few Months because the people who are the driving force are dead or fled.

Is that what they're arguing for?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 25, 2025 08:24 AM (BjH5D)

172 A lot of people here likely know this, but for the uninitiated...

Mere possession of a clearance does not mean one has access to everything marked with that level of clearance. Need To Know is required.

In other words, a TS or SCI will not have the full picture. He will only see a bit. Example I use is that a TS may only have visibility on a hospital being bombed, but higher clearances will also know that said hospital was in reality a weapons depot. The first sees an atrocity, the second sees a valid action.

Unless these leakers are in the inner circle with access to everything (which I doubt...) they don't have access to everything. They may only be tasked with assessing damage to a limited subset of Iranian food carts outside of the former locations of the targets.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at June 25, 2025 08:24 AM (jBB4+)

173 Two weeks!

Posted by: Iranian Atomic Minister at June 25, 2025 08:24 AM (wVcYX)

174 But I'm roastin' a stray hound
In a barrel by a subway line
I'm in a New York State of mind
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 25, 2025 08:23 AM (FQTl0)

that fuckin funny right there

Posted by: rhennigantx at June 25, 2025 08:25 AM (gbOdA)

175 Who names their kid Zohran?

Posted by: Someone has to ask it at June 25, 2025 08:25 AM (lIgBp)

176 >With a fifty mile wife corridor for a port.
Posted by: rickb223 at June 25, 2025 08:14 AM (zSKXS)

I don't know that I'd want to port in a wife who required a 50 mile corridor.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic
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no no
50 WIVES
lotsa choices

Posted by: Don Black. Message: get down, get funky at June 25, 2025 08:25 AM (AOsQT)

177 Off the topic, I noticed the Hollywood actress narcissism of need to feel "seen," is spreading into mainstream awful women. What a horrible phrase. "I need to feel seen." The narcissist confession that they need to be the center of attention, wrapped in new age woke emotionalism.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at June 25, 2025 08:25 AM (4F0B6)

178 40 years ago, Mamdani’s policies would be considered moderate
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Yes. A moderate muslim

Posted by: ... at June 25, 2025 08:25 AM (sfdl6)

179 You think you're tough for eating beans every day? There's half a million scarecrows in New York who'd give anything for one mouthful of what you got. They've been under siege for about three months. They live on rats and sawdust bread and sometimes... on each other. At night, the pyres for the dead light up the sky. It's medieval.

Posted by: rhennigantx at June 25, 2025 08:26 AM (gbOdA)

180 94 BTW, CBD's Notre Dame essay was far from eloquent, other than it's patronizing tone to Catholics, and Christians generally. "Good boys. You gave us something pretty. Now shut up about what you care about."

C S Lewis despised that approach.
Posted by: Eeyore at June 25, 2025 07:50 AM (od0dV)

Hogwash. I saw no such thing in that essay and I can read between the lines with anyone. He was quite explicit about what moved him.

Anyone who has read here long enough knows that me and CBD don't exactly see eye to eye on many things.

If you find him insufficiently reverent of a religion that is not his own it might be a you problem..
Posted by: ... at June 25, 2025 08:06 AM (sfdl6)
_______
Nonsense. He is a pure aesthete; there's no visible theology there. And he does have a heavy dose of praising "cultural Christianity." As if it were believed for the paintings, buildings, and the music. Rather than the reverse. (Again, this is where aestheticism is bound to lead.)

Posted by: Eeyore at June 25, 2025 08:26 AM (od0dV)

181 The media is nothing but a narrative factory, nothing more. Job number one is cooking up counter-narratives for every Trump move and accomplishment. This of course also means that they are single-mindedly opposed to the best interests of America and Americans.

Posted by: Ordinary Amerian at June 25, 2025 08:26 AM (+8LpN)

182 Israel's MOSSAD stole the entirearchive of Iran's nuke program. That was in 2018. 100k documents or more. So Israel knew exactly what, where, how. Paper records, computer files, had warhead design. Everything. Phenomenal feat.

Posted by: runner at June 25, 2025 08:26 AM (g47mK)

183 It really does apply everywhere in the West now.

It’s obvious what’s happening but nobody wants to stop the gravy train before it crashes.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at June 25, 2025 08:16 AM (6ydKt)

One guy does.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at June 25, 2025 08:26 AM (i24o9)

184 And in case nobody has mentioned it, I would like to congratulate Curtis Sliwa, the Republican candidate for NYC Mayor for coming up with the moniker "Osama bin Lenin" to describe nepo baby failed rapper and socialist Mamdani."

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 25, 2025 08:27 AM (2GCMq)

185 But, then again, the people who wrote the "just a few months" tripe would have to have some working knowledge of machinery.
Posted by: blake

Apparently from what I've read, Fordow was the location of the second stage centrifuges intended to take the enriched uranium from other centrifuge sites to the level needed for bomb making.

What we do not know is whether Iran has a stockpile of such machinery off site that can be installed quickly or whether the previously enriched uranium (a bit less than 100 lbs or so) was effectively destroyed and dispersed in the US attacks on alternative nuke sites--Ishafan and Natanz.

Posted by: whig at June 25, 2025 08:27 AM (ctrM5)

186 177 Off the topic, I noticed the Hollywood actress narcissism of need to feel "seen," is spreading into mainstream awful women. What a horrible phrase. "I need to feel seen." The narcissist confession that they need to be the center of attention, wrapped in new age woke emotionalism.
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at June 25, 2025 08:25 AM (4F0B6)

Well, I need to be felt.

So, go on. Get after it, honey.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 25, 2025 08:27 AM (BjH5D)

187 I like how all the news outlets rushed to push out polls laughably "showing" the majority of Americans opposed bombing Iran.

Which poll was;
1) completed before the cease-fire
2) pushed them with phony, ginned-up lies from the media. To wit, questioning that bombing would leave to greater conflict and prolonged involvement.

But, that last was the most embarrassing stupidity--zero factual basis if one knows Trump and a lie pushed by the same people STILL demanding endless "support" for Ukraine.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at June 25, 2025 08:28 AM (NwfFc)

188 A survey of 246 “cinema owners and film professionals affiliated with exhibitors” found that more than half believe the “traditional cinema experience” will be dead as a viable business model within 20 years.

Maybe we can get the Brave New World where you can feel the actors dry humping each other.

Posted by: rhennigantx at June 25, 2025 08:29 AM (gbOdA)

189 But, then again, the people who wrote the "just a few months" tripe would have to have some working knowledge of machinery.

I remember when Austin was upgrading their water pipeline that routed along the border with Williamson County (McNeil Rd). Somewhere near the intersection of Parmer Rd, the tunneling crews, operating in limestone country, hit a cave. The 14" pipe tunnel cutter had to be replaced with an 18" pipe tunnel cutter so that to complete the task the crews could encase the pipe and protect the freshly discovered cave.

The thing is, 18" pipe tunnel cutters don't abound and sit around waiting to be used, they are scheduled for months or years in advance. So the road sat all torn up for nearly a year waiting for the equipment to come in.

I'm supposed to believe out in the middle of no where specialized equipment is sitting on a warehouse shelf just waiting for this specific opportunity to arise and be used.

Hire these engineers and managers away from Iran Now! They can pull miracles in construction and would be worth their weight in gold anywhere else on planet Earth.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at June 25, 2025 08:29 AM (a4flb)

190 Well, time to wander.

Good to see you here again, whig, I always enjoy reading your take on the political scene in DC.

Later!

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at June 25, 2025 08:29 AM (tT6L1)

191
a muslim stabs you in the back
a moderate muslim provides the knife

Posted by: Don Black. Message: get down, get funky at June 25, 2025 08:29 AM (AOsQT)

192 Fourteen people were arrested in France after 145 people reported being stabbed with a mysterious syringe containing an unknown substance at a Saturday music festival.

The French Interior Ministry said the needle attacks involved 145 victims, including 13 in Paris. Thousands of people across the country were participating in the Fête de la Musique events.


14 people is quite an operation. And they'll get their hands slapped and let go.

But the French people will hear "go to an infidel music festival and someone might jab you with AIDS"

Posted by: 18-1 at June 25, 2025 08:30 AM (t0Rmr)

193 Benny Johnson
@bennyjohnson

NYC in 2001: We will never forget!

NYC in 2025: *elects Muslim jihadist*

https://tinyurl.com/wsaf3r5k

Posted by: redridinghood at June 25, 2025 08:30 AM (NpAcC)

194 Mornin’, All. Happy Wednesday.

Posted by: Bulg at June 25, 2025 08:31 AM (77rzZ)

195 Islam has had some schisms, but what it really needs is a Reformation, similar to Christianity in the 1500s.

If that’s truly possible, I have no idea.

At any rate, it won’t happen in our lifetimes if it ever does.
Posted by: SpeakingOf
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No argument here. Ironically, some of the Arab world was modernizing but unfortunately it picked socialism as their model which is why nations like Afghanistan, Egypt, Syria, Iraq, etc. ended up as poor despotic regimes.

Posted by: whig at June 25, 2025 08:31 AM (ctrM5)

196 Mornin’, All. Happy Wednesday.
Posted by: Bulg at June 25, 2025 08:31 AM (77rzZ)

Morning! How did your weekend go with the reconnection you mentioned?

Posted by: WitchDoktor at June 25, 2025 08:31 AM (jBB4+)

197 YOu need about 100 centrifuges operating for a year to enrich weapon's grade uranium. Enough uranium for one bimb. 1 centrifuge weighs about 4.5k lbs. You cannot exactly put a centrifuge in you briefcase and move , you know.

Posted by: runner at June 25, 2025 08:32 AM (g47mK)

198 Good to see you here again, whig, I always enjoy reading your take on the political scene in DC.

Later!
Posted by: blake
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I'll do what I can while I can. Thx for the compliment.

Posted by: whig at June 25, 2025 08:32 AM (ctrM5)

199 134 Will NYC run grocery stores have S&H Green Stamps? Will there be city run redemption centers?
Posted by: bill in arkansas

No. They will go with Plaid Stamps, like the A&P Stores.

Posted by: Redemption Is Nigh at June 25, 2025 08:32 AM (G5+As)

200 Another rejoinder to the "just a few months" argument:

So?
Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 25, 2025 08:24 AM (BjH5D)


It's so obvious. A short delay is pointless so Trump should have committed millions of troops to overthrowing Iran. This would have permitted us to screech about how MAGA doesn't want this and Trump is a warmonger, or start impeachment, depending on whether we're in social media or government. D'uh.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 25, 2025 08:32 AM (ExV1e)

201 And in case nobody has mentioned it, I would like to congratulate Curtis Sliwa, the Republican candidate for NYC Mayor for coming up with the moniker "Osama bin Lenin" to describe nepo baby failed rapper and socialist Mamdani."
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 25, 2025 08:27 AM (2GCMq)

I'm pretty sure I came up with that sobriquet, but whatevs.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 25, 2025 08:32 AM (FQTl0)

202 Off the topic, I noticed the Hollywood actress narcissism of need to feel "seen," is spreading into mainstream awful women. What a horrible phrase. "I need to feel seen." The narcissist confession that they need to be the center of attention, wrapped in new age woke emotionalism.

One of the odder things about our current modern moment is a significant portion of the population have become NPCs while at the same time believing they are the only player character in their social circle.

Its solipsism but dumber.

Posted by: 18-1 at June 25, 2025 08:32 AM (t0Rmr)

203 Nonsense. He is a pure aesthete; there's no visible theology there. And he does have a heavy dose of praising "cultural Christianity." As if it were believed for the paintings, buildings, and the music. Rather than the reverse. (Again, this is where aestheticism is bound to lead.)
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Translation: only Christians may write about the beauty of a great church, and the meaning of it's reconstruction.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 25, 2025 08:33 AM (RIvkX)

204 "And in case nobody has mentioned it, I would like to congratulate Curtis Sliwa, the Republican candidate for NYC Mayor for coming up with the moniker "Osama bin Lenin" to describe nepo baby failed rapper and socialist Mamdani.""

Ohhh...that right!! Were going to need to come up with a devastatingly pithy moniker for the future King of New York.

Ace, you need to lead the way!!

BTW, I always liked your "Breakfast Club Evita" nic for AOC. Too bad it didn't catch on.

Posted by: pawn at June 25, 2025 08:33 AM (QB+5g)

205 >more than half believe the “traditional cinema experience” will be dead as a viable business model within 20 years.
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IMO, the problem with going to the movies is the other people in the theater with you

the fine art of STFD and STFU has been lost

Posted by: Don Black. Message: get down, get funky at June 25, 2025 08:33 AM (AOsQT)

206 Well, I need to be felt.

So, go on. Get after it, honey.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 25, 2025 08:27 AM (BjH5D)

I'm sorry. Can't do. I'm happily married, not a Hollywood actress and I have a feeling you are the age to be my son😉I do think you're a smart, clever and amusing man, though

in the ONT there was a question about what one thing peopke would like to get rid of to make the world a better place: My vote was getting rid of Narcissistic Personality Disorder.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 25, 2025 08:33 AM (2GCMq)

207 Mere possession of a clearance does not mean one has access to everything marked with that level of clearance. Need To Know is required.

I once had a TS for 2 days. All so I could read one page of one book.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 25, 2025 08:33 AM (ExV1e)

208 they are trying to make it into Bush's "Mission accomplished" moment.

Posted by: runner at June 25, 2025 08:33 AM (g47mK)

209 In my town the incessant delays in everything the does are a constant topic on farcebook, and looking at the towns around me its everywhere...don't kill the job dude!

It will be fun to see that level of dedication brought to groceries in NYC...

Posted by: 18-1 at June 25, 2025 08:34 AM (t0Rmr)

210 The media is nothing but a narrative factory, nothing more.

Just like Alex Jones marginalized himself when even a paper cut was a Jewish Conspiracy to bleed America dry and turn Americans into vampires.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at June 25, 2025 08:34 AM (a4flb)

211 Islam already had its reformation.

It was reformed from a flabby, disjointed, self indulgent bauble for pashas and emirs, rousing just enough rabble to keep the social order chugging along, into a global revolutionary death cult. Right around the middle of the 20th century.

You want "reformed islam"?

You're standing in it.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 25, 2025 08:34 AM (BjH5D)

212 The person who wrote the article at CNN about the Iranian nuclear program only being setback a short time is Natasha Bertrand.

She is the same person who rode point on the Russia collusion leaks and started the campagin that Hunter's laptop was Russian disinformation. Both of those stories also came from supposed leaks in the intel community.

The left is deeply unAmerican and should be treated that way. They don't just want to win, they would rather support murderous terrorists than normal Americans.

Posted by: JackStraw at June 25, 2025 08:35 AM (viF8m)

213 Off the topic, I noticed the Hollywood actress narcissism of need to feel "seen," is spreading into mainstream awful women. What a horrible phrase. "I need to feel seen." The narcissist confession that they need to be the center of attention, wrapped in new age woke emotionalism.
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at June 25, 2025 08:25 AM (4F0B6)


On the one hand, I need to feel seen. OTOH, banish the male gaze. -- confused narcissists

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 25, 2025 08:35 AM (ExV1e)

214
sobriquet
solipsism

Wow

Posted by: This place at June 25, 2025 08:35 AM (lIgBp)

215 What we do not know is whether Iran has a stockpile of such machinery off site that can be installed quickly or whether the previously enriched uranium (a bit less than 100 lbs or so) was effectively destroyed and dispersed in the US attacks on alternative nuke sites--Ishafan and Natanz.
Posted by: whig at June 25, 2025 08:27 AM (ctrM5)

Israeli sources have quietly said that yes, they were able to track where the enriched uranium went, and that currently it is buried under the rubble of some other destroyed buildings that they prefer not to name.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 25, 2025 08:36 AM (HEGiN)

216 My vote was getting rid of Narcissistic Personality Disorder.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 25, 2025 08:33 AM (2GCMq)

That's a good one, but my mother still would have been Borderline. Maybe in that case she would have at least had a conscience and I would have turned out halfway normal.

Posted by: ... at June 25, 2025 08:36 AM (sfdl6)

217 Posted by: pawn at June 25, 2025 08:33 AM (QB+5g)

Actually I think clever humor can be important in addressing critiques of the left.

And I'm not convinced that Mamdani IS the future king of NY. I think that's giving up too easily

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 25, 2025 08:36 AM (2GCMq)

218
You want "reformed islam"?

You're standing in it.


Yep. Sayyid Qutb was their Martin Luther. Religions are not interchangeable and Islam at its heart is the religion for desert warlords.

Posted by: 18-1 at June 25, 2025 08:36 AM (t0Rmr)

219 I once had a TS for 2 days. All so I could read one page of one book.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 25, 2025 08:33 AM (ExV1e)

To Serve Man?

Posted by: rhennigantx at June 25, 2025 08:36 AM (gbOdA)

220 ugh PA will be overrun with these bastages

AND BY THE WAY they come in, all "red-pilled," for maybe a year and then start the nonsense that turned NYC into what it is, they have learned nothing

locusts

can we PLEASE wall it off?!?! block the bridges? something? anything?

Posted by: Black Orchid at June 25, 2025 08:36 AM (Pv3Rg)

221 Christopher Hitchens wraps up Islam is 30 seconds.

https://tinyurl.com/y42k389w

Posted by: Ordinary Amerian at June 25, 2025 08:36 AM (+8LpN)

222 I once had a TS for 2 days. All so I could read one page of one book.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 25, 2025 08:33 AM (ExV1e)

I've heard and seen some pretty good stories but I gotta say that's top of the list.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at June 25, 2025 08:37 AM (jBB4+)

223 Good morning!

Posted by: gp Got Bars at June 25, 2025 08:37 AM (5zjm+)

224 FBI is now investigating the DIA leak.

Posted by: runner at June 25, 2025 08:37 AM (g47mK)

225 Looking forward to all the limericks featuring "Mamdani."

Posted by: Hint, hint at June 25, 2025 08:37 AM (lIgBp)

226 They’re not against nuclear weapons; they’re for our enemies.
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This is true. One can insert so many different "They're not against ___________; they're for our enemies." things and positions for the left.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at June 25, 2025 08:38 AM (17s+e)

227 Its solipsism but dumber.
Posted by: 18-1 at June 25, 2025 08:32 AM (t0Rmr)

Huh. Maybe it's bizarro-solipsim?

Instead of "You only exist if I can see you", it's "I only exist if you can see me".

Like some kind of suicidal inside-out Kantean Idealism.... If I can't force another Human Concept to involuntarily form a Human Concept of me in their head, then I don't actually exist anymore!

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 25, 2025 08:38 AM (BjH5D)

228 I once had a TS for 2 days

The soft costs of obtaining a TS are around $15k-40k, plus the ten year reach back into your personal history all which takes months to do.

just to read a page of a book.

Sounds like government.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at June 25, 2025 08:38 AM (a4flb)

229 There used to be an old A&P store nearby where I was growing up as a kid.

I just remember it as being old.

Posted by: dantesed at June 25, 2025 08:38 AM (Oy/m2)

230 Posted by: Tom Servo at June 25, 2025 08:36 AM (HEGiN)

Eh, that's still not great... A few goatfuckers with excavators and Geiger counters should be able to retrieve that. Of course, I suppose the Israelis could just bomb the excavators.

Which is why this ceasefire doesn't make a ton of sense.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 25, 2025 08:38 AM (FQTl0)

231 Israel's MOSSAD stole the entirearchive of Iran's nuke program. That was in 2018. 100k documents or more. So Israel knew exactly what, where, how. Paper records, computer files, had warhead design. Everything. Phenomenal feat.
Posted by: runner at June 25, 2025 08:26 AM (g47mK)


The amazing thing is that Iran gave Sandy Berger access to their files so many times.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 25, 2025 08:38 AM (ExV1e)

232 Posted by: ... at June 25, 2025 08:36 AM (sfdl6)

Sorry about your mother. Parents can be such a devastatingly bad or good influence on kids. You seem like a normal, and smart person to me. People here seem to appreciate you. I do.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 25, 2025 08:38 AM (2GCMq)

233 It was the field office in Cincinnati.

Posted by: The Go-To answer at June 25, 2025 08:38 AM (lIgBp)

234 Israel has been engaged in a 2 year long attempt at Regime Change in a relatively tiny piece of land called Gaza. In spite of having destroyed most of his he structures there, Israel seems no closer to “regime change” in Gaza now than when they started.
Posted by: Tom Servo at June 25, 2025 08:23 AM (HEGiN)

There is still time to donate to The Gaza Humanitarian Fund however!

1-888-WasteOfMoney...Call Now!

Posted by: George Costanza, Director and CFO at June 25, 2025 08:39 AM (HgFW6)

235 also I used to be an accelerations, but not anymore

there's always "WORSE." (from a Cosby bit)

always

NYC will just keep getting worse. nothing will be learned.

Posted by: Black Orchid at June 25, 2025 08:39 AM (Pv3Rg)

236 I was hoping he'd let them finish the job and only then sue for peace.
Posted by: Ordinary Amerian
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Trump made it clear that he was not interested in regime change in Iran via bombing. Israel may be but if finishing the job means using bombing to bring it about, that has been tried by the US in the past in Iraq, a smaller country, and failed even with direct occupation.

The Persians themselves have to have the internal gumption to get rid of the mullahs and what comes after that, no one really knows with any sort of authority. Libya and Syria are perfect examples of that after the dictator falls.

Besides, testimony indicates that the US Navy was running out of anti missiles and my guess is that Israel itself worried about that as well which is the curse of advanced weaponry. Expending them is far quicker than building them.

Posted by: whig at June 25, 2025 08:39 AM (ctrM5)

237 I'll do what I can while I can.
Posted by: whig at June 25, 2025 08:32 AM (ctrM5)

I can't really reply to this with the ten things I want to say so I will just say prayers continue for you, friend.

Posted by: ... at June 25, 2025 08:39 AM (sfdl6)

238 autocorrect sucks - AccelerationIST

Posted by: Black Orchid at June 25, 2025 08:39 AM (Pv3Rg)

239 Islam's embrace of polygamy means that being an elite man in the Muslim world is a good deal but if you are below average status your life sucks.

You have two choices - go to war abroad to get women, or overthrow your own elites and replace them.

And this is why we see Islamic government constantly trying to ship their low status men abroad. Whether they win, die, or just end up on welfare in Europe at least they aren't going to cause YOU problems.

Posted by: 18-1 at June 25, 2025 08:39 AM (t0Rmr)

240 196 WD, pretty well, thanks for asking.

Posted by: Bulg at June 25, 2025 08:39 AM (77rzZ)

241 NYC Progtards make me laugh like a little girl getting extra sprinkles on her cupcake.

"Finally. Finally!!! We really showed Trump by electing a muslim communist as mayor!!!!.

Hahaha! Man, did we really show Trump! He's got tube sooooo mad that THE PEOPLE(TM) rose up against would-be King Trump. Hahaha.

Ah HA HA HA...ha...Wait, why am I living in hell?"*


How soon did Detroit come back? Oh, wait it never did.
How soon will LA come back? Or, Portland?

Democrat/Communist mismanagement of Blue Shitholes is an awesome force!!!! I salute them!





*An incredibly realistic simulation of NYC voters after November

Posted by: naturalfake at June 25, 2025 08:39 AM (iJfKG)

242 FBI is now investigating the DIA leak.

Using the FBI's own glossary, "investigating" is a synonym for "covering-up"

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at June 25, 2025 08:40 AM (a4flb)

243 Which is why this ceasefire doesn't make a ton of sense.


yeah I'm thinking it's fodder for the headlines really

Posted by: Black Orchid at June 25, 2025 08:40 AM (Pv3Rg)

244 225 Looking forward to all the limericks featuring "Mamdani."
Posted by: Hint, hint at June 25, 2025 08:37 AM (lIgBp)

Hmmmm.....

flag it.
snag it.
bag it.
baguette?

I guess there's plenty of rhymes to work with.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 25, 2025 08:40 AM (BjH5D)

245 @221 that clip is perfect. I keep hammering it to my friends . To a Muslim if you're not Islamic you're an infidel. Infidels must be killed, converted or enslaved. Act accordingly

Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 25, 2025 08:40 AM (pwtJC)

246 The amazing thing is that Iran gave Sandy Berger access to their files so many times.

==

they gave him something

Posted by: runner at June 25, 2025 08:41 AM (g47mK)

247 I listen to Hollywood actresses talking about needing to "feel seen" and diversity actresses talk about needing to "see someone who looks like me" on the screen or in a prominent role and I wonder how they can be so oblivious to how narcissistic this seems to normal people.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at June 25, 2025 08:41 AM (4F0B6)

248 Yes, I am well aware there are many here who could care less

With no good salsa, why would anyone care?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at June 25, 2025 08:42 AM (0sNs1)

249 That's a good one, but my mother still would have been Borderline. Maybe in that case she would have at least had a conscience and I would have turned out halfway normal.


I feel this but in the end I think I turned out normal-ish

At least I HAD to function to survive with both my parents essentially useless. maybe it was better as an oldest child I had to step up for my siblings

Posted by: Black Orchid at June 25, 2025 08:42 AM (Pv3Rg)

250 247 I listen to Hollywood actresses talking about needing to "feel seen" and diversity actresses talk about needing to "see someone who looks like me" on the screen or in a prominent role and I wonder how they can be so oblivious to how narcissistic this seems to normal people.
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at June 25, 2025 08:41 AM (4F0B6)

I like the people that apply this idea to firefighters and popo.

Posted by: rhennigantx at June 25, 2025 08:42 AM (gbOdA)

251 Eh, that's still not great... A few goatfuckers with excavators and Geiger counters should be able to retrieve that. Of course, I suppose the Israelis could just bomb the excavators.

Which is why this ceasefire doesn't make a ton of sense.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice
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Once the uranium 235 is mixed with soils, debris, etc., you have to centrifuge it all over again to remove the impurities that would stall a nuclear reaction by absorbing neutrons meant to continue the chain reaction. Plus, from all indications, this was just short of bomb grade and needed to access the more sophisticated stage 2 centrifuges that were allegedly destroyed at Fordow.

Israeli intel probably knows the score, the US should probably know assuming the Israelis passed on that intel and the US can corroborate it.

Posted by: whig at June 25, 2025 08:42 AM (ctrM5)

252 247 I listen to Hollywood actresses talking about needing to "feel seen" and diversity actresses talk about needing to "see someone who looks like me" on the screen or in a prominent role and I wonder how they can be so oblivious to how narcissistic this seems to normal people.
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at June 25, 2025 08:41 AM (4F0B6)

No, no, silly, they just mean they really really don't want to get pigeonholed into doing only voice-over work.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 25, 2025 08:43 AM (BjH5D)

253 With no good salsa, why would anyone care?
Posted by: Duncanthrax at June 25, 2025 08:42 AM (0sNs1)

I got that reference!!

Man I'm getting old.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at June 25, 2025 08:43 AM (jBB4+)

254 Posted by: ... at June 25, 2025 08:36 AM (sfdl6)

But then you wouldn't be you.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at June 25, 2025 08:43 AM (i24o9)

255 One of the odder things about our current modern moment is a significant portion of the population have become NPCs while at the same time believing they are the only player character in their social circle.

I suspect that throughout history most people have been NPC. Social media has just made their interaction range larger so you get them setting each other off.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 25, 2025 08:43 AM (ExV1e)

256 If we're going to have limericks on Mamdani I think at least one should include "Irani

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 25, 2025 08:43 AM (2GCMq)

257 11 In one year, 40,000 young adults turned to Planned Parenthood for gender transition hormones.

At what time can we call Planned Parenthood an Enemy of Civilization?
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at June 25, 2025 07:18 AM (a4flb)

Teenage boys (and men in their early 20s) think that it's the quickest path to easy money.

Take the "titty skittles" (as troons call them) and become an e-thot streamer with an OF.

Camwhoring is still one of the easiest paths to money.

Posted by: XTC at June 25, 2025 08:43 AM (UnA8+)

258 Also explains how so many Hollywood kids turn out trans. The only way to get attention from their narcissistic mothers is to become a trendy fashion accessory.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at June 25, 2025 08:43 AM (4F0B6)

259 There is still time to donate to The Gaza Humanitarian Fund however!

1-888-WasteOfMoney...Call Now!


Send your résumé to AIPAC, they can use someone with your vision.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at June 25, 2025 08:43 AM (a4flb)

260 Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 25, 2025 08:38 AM (2GCMq)

Thanks Fen. I appreciate you too.

I guess in the end after my father died young she really left me with nothing that hard drugs, grain alcohol, six therapists, a string of meaningless floozies and a whole lot of Jesus couldn't fix, so the joke is on her.

No I'm just kidding course, it wasn't six therapists.

Posted by: ... at June 25, 2025 08:44 AM (sfdl6)

261 Re: everybody's social media driven need to "be seen."

I can't relate to this. I know murder is wrong, but if I knew a guy had an invisibility cloak, I'd do just about anything to get it from him. Some temptations are just too great.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 25, 2025 08:44 AM (FQTl0)

262 I'm supposed to believe out in the middle of no where specialized equipment is sitting on a warehouse shelf just waiting for this specific opportunity to arise and be used.

Hire these engineers and managers away from Iran Now! They can pull miracles in construction and would be worth their weight in gold anywhere else on planet Earth.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure


California's high speed rail line.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 25, 2025 08:44 AM (zSKXS)

263 Eh, that's still not great... A few goatfuckers with excavators and Geiger counters should be able to retrieve that. Of course, I suppose the Israelis could just bomb the excavators.

Which is why this ceasefire doesn't make a ton of sense.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice

Pretty good strategy - if you don't know where the adversary has hidden something, and you have decent intel, just wait for the adversary to go get it.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at June 25, 2025 08:44 AM (jBB4+)

264 Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at June 25, 2025 08:43 AM (i24o9)

I also wouldn't be you apparently!!

Posted by: ... at June 25, 2025 08:45 AM (sfdl6)

265 Translation: only Christians may write about the beauty of a great church, and the meaning of it's reconstruction.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 25, 2025 08:33 AM (RIvkX)


It's possible that a Baptist who wrote what CBD wrote would have received the same whiney reception. I suspect that only Catholics (who think as the OP thinks) are permitted to opine on the matter.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 25, 2025 08:45 AM (ExV1e)

266 London is doing fine under Fariq Al-Aziz, so NYC has that to look forward to.

Posted by: ... at June 25, 2025 08:46 AM (sfdl6)

267 Two weeks to flatten the centrifuges!

Posted by: The Scarf Lady at June 25, 2025 08:46 AM (lIgBp)

268 One of the odder things about our current modern moment is a significant portion of the population have become NPCs while at the same time believing they are the only player character in their social circle.

I suspect that throughout history most people have been NPC. Social media has just made their interaction range larger so you get them setting each other off.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 25, 2025 08:43 AM (ExV1e)

80% of the population are NPCs.

https://shorturl.at/Dq9ky

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at June 25, 2025 08:46 AM (i24o9)

269 Israeli intel probably knows the score, the US should probably know assuming the Israelis passed on that intel and the US can corroborate it.

Given the fact that the US can't be trusted to keep any secret, why would Israel communicate anything actionable to the US?

Didn't we just see a very recent display of this treachery?

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at June 25, 2025 08:47 AM (a4flb)

270 I suspect that throughout history most people have been NPC. Social media has just made their interaction range larger so you get them setting each other off.

The modern incarnation of this though is the ability of the FNM to supply these people will constantly updating scripts.

If you were to talk with French peasants in 1025 perhaps you wouldn't have a deep conversation about philosophy BUT they wouldn't ALL sound the same either.

Posted by: 18-1 at June 25, 2025 08:47 AM (t0Rmr)

271 Reminder: if you are dealing with heat, you need salt to stay hydrated. Add a little to your drinking water or salt your food.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at June 25, 2025 08:47 AM (AcTAo)

272 “My Ma-an-dami does 185…”

Posted by: Bulg at June 25, 2025 08:48 AM (77rzZ)

273 "We will never forget!"

Well, forgetting is what people do.

It sort of reminds me of the bullshit boast after Breitbart died: "I am Breitbart!" No, you're not. Show some humility and respect.

Posted by: Ordinary Amerian at June 25, 2025 08:48 AM (+8LpN)

274 California's high speed rail line.
Posted by: rickb223 at June 25, 2025 08:44 AM (zSKXS)
====

grammie beat you to it.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 25, 2025 08:49 AM (RIvkX)

275 I also wouldn't be you apparently!!

Posted by: ... at June 25, 2025 08:45 AM (sfdl6)

There can be only one.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at June 25, 2025 08:49 AM (i24o9)

276 Mamdami doesn't eat salami.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at June 25, 2025 08:49 AM (jBB4+)

277 To Serve Man?
Posted by: rhennigantx at June 25, 2025 08:36 AM (gbOdA)


Nah. It was a procedural book to perform some specific tasks. Exactly none of what was written on the page I read had any reason to be classified at all but the rules say that the whole book had to be classified at the highest level that anything in the book required.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 25, 2025 08:50 AM (ExV1e)

278 Mamdami doesn't eat salami.

but he sure likes the bone

Posted by: New Age Jihadi by Dead Eye Dick at June 25, 2025 08:50 AM (t0Rmr)

279 >>London is doing fine under Fariq Al-Aziz, so NYC has that to look forward to.

London was only the first UK city to get a Muslim mayor. There are many now. There are Muslims at many levels of government throughout the UK, Ireland and beyond.

They've aleady taken over a good portion of Michigan and Minnesota and are even trying to build a whole city in Texas.

If NYC wants to turn itself into a socialist dump that's their problem. I don't want this infection spreading any further.

Posted by: JackStraw at June 25, 2025 08:51 AM (viF8m)

280 No I'm just kidding course, it wasn't six therapists.


lol three dots

see! it was all worth it for the lulz right?

think of it this way - you're so awesome she couldn't really and truly eff you up, not in the end.

Posted by: Black Orchid at June 25, 2025 08:52 AM (Pv3Rg)

281 The soft costs of obtaining a TS are around $15k-40k, plus the ten year reach back into your personal history all which takes months to do.

just to read a page of a book.

Sounds like government.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at June 25, 2025 08:38 AM (a4flb)


Not in this case. I already had a secret clearance and my submarine's command granted the TS for this purpose... probably because they knew that there wasn't anything important on the page I read. Literally - hey, this job you do every day... it's important that you do it during this exercise.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 25, 2025 08:52 AM (ExV1e)

282 If NYC wants to turn itself into a socialist dump that's their problem. I don't want this infection spreading any further.


unfortunately it is already spreading

dammit

Posted by: Black Orchid at June 25, 2025 08:53 AM (Pv3Rg)

283 Government grocery stores? Where the ridiculously high won't matter because there will be nothing to buy.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at June 25, 2025 08:54 AM (17s+e)

284 unfortunately it is already spreading

dammit/i]

The hope is others will learn.

The problem is leftists believe learning from other's examples is racist, sexist, and homophobic.

Posted by: New Age Jihadi by Dead Eye Dick at June 25, 2025 08:54 AM (t0Rmr)

285 @DeItaone
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Posted by: JackStraw at June 25, 2025 08:54 AM (viF8m)

286 Posted by: JackStraw at June 25, 2025 08:51 AM (viF8m)

I call what the civilized world is doing "self-burkization" - and now NYC is part of it.

The only solution will be letting it get to a certain point, the train has no reverse gear.

Posted by: ... at June 25, 2025 08:54 AM (sfdl6)

287 They tried this in the Warsaw Pact.

Posted by: Boss Moss at June 25, 2025 08:55 AM (P389G)

288 My company, years ago, had to put me in for a TS after I was accidentally given classified system specs to the B-2 bombers.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at June 25, 2025 08:56 AM (4F0B6)

289 Government run grocery stores are easy to spot. There are the ones with empty shelves.

Posted by: dantesed at June 25, 2025 08:56 AM (Oy/m2)

290 but he sure likes the bone
Posted by: New Age Jihadi by Dead Eye Dick at June 25, 2025 08:50 AM (t0Rmr)

Is this a joke about his supposedly being gay, because he's married to a woman.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 25, 2025 08:56 AM (2GCMq)

291 If islam can make it there, it can make it anywhere. It's up to you New York, New York.
But not in ETEX.

Posted by: Eromero at June 25, 2025 08:56 AM (LHPAg)

292 At least this Muslim Jew Hating Jihadi/Marxist in New York cannot run for POTUS. Born in Uganda, raised in Bel Air by rich parents

Posted by: Jonah at June 25, 2025 08:56 AM (YCxFk)

293 HAPPY 77TH BIRTHDAY TO CLARENCE THOMAS.

Posted by: rhennigantx at June 25, 2025 08:57 AM (gbOdA)

294 The real estate market in FL is already crazy.

This crap in NY is going to make things much worse in FL.

Trump already called this.

I hope these people find jobs and start paying taxes.

Posted by: pawn at June 25, 2025 08:57 AM (QB+5g)

295 grammie beat you to it.
Posted by: San Franpsycho



THAT'S where I saw it.

Sorry grammie.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 25, 2025 08:57 AM (zSKXS)

296 Posted by: Black Orchid at June 25, 2025 08:52 AM (Pv3Rg)

You're a doll Orchid, never believe anything else.

Posted by: ... at June 25, 2025 08:57 AM (sfdl6)

297 An 11 year old boy was shot to death yesterday in a Minneapolis park. Caught in crossfire between yutes.
How's that reimagining police going Minnie?

Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 25, 2025 08:57 AM (pwtJC)

298 Government would probably lose money running grocery stores. They have about a 1% prifit margin.

Posted by: Boss Moss at June 25, 2025 08:58 AM (P389G)

299 Is this a joke about his supposedly being gay, because he's married to a woman.

Me too and yet those men of al-Zutt woohoo.

Posted by: Muhammed in the Koran where is says they rode him all night long at June 25, 2025 08:58 AM (t0Rmr)

300 "SCOTUS Justice Takes Bold Stand Against The Constitution"

KBJ's dissent is a window into what will happen if five Democrat-nominated Justices are on the Supreme Court. Using cases initiated in Cali and other Blue states, the five would eventually rule that their un-liked parts of the Constitution are un-Constitutional. Using a twisted meaning the 14th Amendment and whatever else they can usefully twist. Stare decisis? Bam - gone in new cases, as needed. Yesterday KBJ decried textualism. In a future with five hard-left Justices, textualism will be used to gut the 2nd Amendment and other pieces of the Constitution, as they wish.

Posted by: Gref at June 25, 2025 08:58 AM (aBgBM)

301 Trump needs to step up and start getting rid of his properties in NYC. They tried to put him in Jail etc... Maybe Wall Street would follow

Posted by: Jonah at June 25, 2025 08:58 AM (YCxFk)

302 I once had a TS for 2 days. All so I could read one page of one book.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 25, 2025 08:33 AM (ExV1e)

Don’t leave us in suspense.
Tell us what this highly classified book page said!

We won’t tell anybody, promise.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at June 25, 2025 08:59 AM (6ydKt)

303
I once had a TS for 2 days. All so I could read one page of one book.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 25, 2025 08:33 AM (ExV1e)

And how was that part of "See Spot Run"?

Posted by: pookysgirl, listening to happy shrieking at June 25, 2025 08:59 AM (Wt5PA)

304 289 Government run grocery stores are easy to spot. There are the ones with empty shelves.
Posted by: dantesed at June 25, 2025 08:56 AM (Oy/m2

Who else had government run grocery stores? Lol.

So he's going to put them in the poorest neighborhoods and stock them all up and sell the food to people that all receive government vouchers for food?

Someone should ask this bright light how his plan is gonna work?

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at June 25, 2025 08:59 AM (HFsIG)

305 Government would probably lose money running grocery stores. They have about a 1% prifit margin.

When NYC organized crimes comes in and clears the shelves and then sells the products around the corner someone will be making money...

Posted by: 18-1 at June 25, 2025 09:00 AM (t0Rmr)

306 Bring back Monty because we need us some grade A DooM! about now.

Posted by: Somewhere South of I-80 at June 25, 2025 09:00 AM (89Sog)

307 Government run grocery stores are easy to spot. There are the ones with empty shelves.
Posted by: dantesed



Shirley you jest comrade.
Posted by: Boris Badenov

Posted by: rickb223 at June 25, 2025 09:00 AM (zSKXS)

308 Hate to bring this up, but how many Jewish voters in NY, voted for this guy last night?

Posted by: Jonah at June 25, 2025 09:00 AM (YCxFk)

309 285 @DeItaone
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Posted by: JackStraw at June 25, 2025 08:54 AM (viF8m)


Propaganda intended for use by Leftist politicians in Europe and the US.

Posted by: Gref at June 25, 2025 09:01 AM (aBgBM)

310 I can't really reply to this with the ten things I want to say so I will just say prayers continue for you, friend.
Posted by: ...
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Thanks. Direct the prayers for my salvation. Paul had his 'thorn' (not that I am anywhere near the holiness of him) and many others face daily challenges as to health and well being. This world is a vale of tears but also of surprising beauty and peace at times. So I try to take the best of it and fight the worst.

Posted by: whig at June 25, 2025 09:01 AM (ctrM5)

311 Government would probably lose money running grocery stores. They have about a 1% prifit margin.



Government lost money running a whorehouse.
No way they can run something with that thin a margin.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 25, 2025 09:01 AM (zSKXS)

312 Aren't elections in November?

Posted by: Boss Moss at June 25, 2025 09:01 AM (P389G)

313 Don’t leave us in suspense.
Tell us what this highly classified book page said!


1. Nothing that had any need to be classified.
2. Nothing that anyone who didn't work on a submarine engineering plant would understand.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 25, 2025 09:02 AM (ExV1e)

314 307 Government run grocery stores are easy to spot. There are the ones with empty shelves.
Posted by: dantesed

Reagan used to makes jokes about such things in the Soviet Union.

Posted by: Ordinary Amerian at June 25, 2025 09:02 AM (+8LpN)

315 NYC went muzzie when they demanded a moskue be at ground zero. That was when NYC stuck the fork in itself.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at June 25, 2025 09:02 AM (17s+e)

316 Why do all the modern socialists copy Chavez/Maduro in Venezuela?

What NYC needs is no police and government grocery stores.

We’ve already seen this movie and know how it ends, but:

“It’s never been done right before. We can make it work this time.”

Mayor Johnson in Chicago had the same bright idea last year, but I don’t know if anything real has come out of his brainstorm.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at June 25, 2025 09:03 AM (6ydKt)

317 It's insidious. Put government in charge of grocery distribution and within a generation people will be unable to imagine distributing groceries without the government.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at June 25, 2025 09:03 AM (4F0B6)

318 Hate to bring this up, but how many Jewish voters in NY, voted for this guy last night?

Observant Jews tend to vote R. Non-religious Jews vote 90%+ D and are generally far leftwing.

So I suspect many people that call themselves Jewish, but not that many people that actually believe in Judaism.

Posted by: 18-1 at June 25, 2025 09:03 AM (t0Rmr)

319 Tehran Times

By Faramarz Kouhpayeh
'Herald of Victory' : Iran hits biggest US base in West Asia

Posted by: rhennigantx at June 25, 2025 09:03 AM (gbOdA)

320 Posted by: Boss Moss at June 25, 2025 09:01 AM (P389G

Yes, that’s why I think it’s premature to say “It’s all over!!!”

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 25, 2025 09:03 AM (2GCMq)

321 NOW THEY’RE WORRIED ABOUT IRANIAN SLEEPER CELLS IN THE U.S.?

Let’s get this straight…

The same Democrats who said the border is secure…
The same ones who claimed white males are the biggest terror threat…
The same ones who want you disarmed…
The same ones who keep shouting that “diversity is our strength”…

Are now panicking about Iranian terror cells inside America.

YOU LET THEM IN. YOU CALLED THIS FEAR-MONGERING. YOU MOCKED BORDER SECURITY.

Now you want to act surprised?
America deserves better than this hypocrisy.

#hodgetwins

Posted by: rickb223 at June 25, 2025 09:03 AM (zSKXS)

322 Given the fact that the US can't be trusted to keep any secret, why would Israel communicate anything actionable to the US?

Didn't we just see a very recent display of this treachery?
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure
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Same reason we share secrets with our allies that they then release or leak. Necessity.

Posted by: whig at June 25, 2025 09:03 AM (ctrM5)

323 Good morning! JJ, so very glad you escaped from NYC!

Posted by: Lizzy at June 25, 2025 09:04 AM (6o/o0)

324 Having a clearance is a PITA. Every traffic ticket and speeding ticket has to get reported. Glad I haven’t had to deal with that BS anymore.

Posted by: Bulg at June 25, 2025 09:04 AM (77rzZ)

325 And in case nobody has mentioned it, I would like to congratulate Curtis Sliwa, the Republican candidate for NYC Mayor for coming up with the moniker "Osama bin Lenin" to describe nepo baby failed rapper and socialist Mamdani."
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 25, 2025 08:27 AM


Hah! Love it!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 25, 2025 09:04 AM (dPfyF)

326 good point. Considering the Dem US Senators are all leakers.

Posted by: Jonah at June 25, 2025 09:04 AM (YCxFk)

327 1. Nothing that had any need to be classified.
2. Nothing that anyone who didn't work on a submarine engineering plant would understand.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 25, 2025 09:02 AM (ExV1e)



I figured it was something from a technical manual.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at June 25, 2025 09:04 AM (6ydKt)

328 Posted by: whig at June 25, 2025 09:01 AM (ctrM5)

Sounds like a very positive and humble attitude

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 25, 2025 09:05 AM (2GCMq)

329 1. Nothing that had any need to be classified.
2. Nothing that anyone who didn't work on a submarine engineering plant would understand.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 25, 2025 09:02 AM


So, the donkey dick?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at June 25, 2025 09:05 AM (0sNs1)

330 318 Hate to bring this up, but how many Jewish voters in NY, voted for this guy last night?

Observant Jews tend to vote R. Non-religious Jews vote 90%+ D and are generally far leftwing.

So I suspect many people that call themselves Jewish, but not that many people that actually believe in Judaism.
Posted by: 18-1 at June 25, 2025 09:03 AM (t0Rmr)


Jewish voters are to Judaism as Pelosi and Biden are to Strict Catholicism

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at June 25, 2025 09:05 AM (x0n13)

331 Government would probably lose money running grocery stores. They have about a 1% prifit margin.

Posted by: Boss Moss
---

Hey remember when government took over the whore houses in Nevada and they went broke? Yeah that was great.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at June 25, 2025 09:05 AM (17s+e)

332 2025 09:00 AM (zSKXS)

308 Hate to bring this up, but how many Jewish voters in NY, voted for this guy last night?
Posted by: Jonah at June 25, 2025 09:00 AM (YCxFk)

A whole bunch. The Kapos are a huge problem for all of us; they feed the narratives of Candace and Tucker and other whack jobs on the woke right.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 25, 2025 09:05 AM (HEGiN)

333 It is entirely bullshit that the government has 2-3 full months to fuck over the country after they've been replaced.

Nothing like stealing all of the furniture and jewelry, selling off the children into slavery before torching the house and barn on the way out.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure
+++
This should also apply to pardons. There should be no pardons allowed between election day and inauguration day.
If a president wants to pardon someone, force him to do it before the election so the voters can factor that into their decision.
This might result in far fewer pardons.

Posted by: Florida Peasant at June 25, 2025 09:05 AM (Lo97M)

334 Having a clearance is a PITA. Every traffic ticket and speeding ticket has to get reported. Glad I haven’t had to deal with that BS anymore.
Posted by: Bulg at June 25, 2025 09:04 AM (77rzZ)


Every time some hot babe with a Russian accent who's waaaaay out of your league comes up to you at a bar and starts chatting.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 25, 2025 09:06 AM (ExV1e)

335 **Hate to bring this up, but how many Jewish voters in NY, voted for this guy last night?**

Based on what I read from the anti-Jews, the reason Jews used their immense power and control to install radical Islamist mayors in London and New York is because destroying civilization is their goal.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at June 25, 2025 09:06 AM (4F0B6)

336 Western Lensman
@WesternLensman

The Joy Reid wing of the Democrat party is ecstatic about the radical Mamdani’s primary win:

“This is a message about people's revulsion in the treatment of immigrants by this administration."

https://tinyurl.com/y47yru2k

Posted by: redridinghood at June 25, 2025 09:06 AM (NpAcC)

337 Off to PT. Be kind and don't run amuck with scissors while I am gone.

Posted by: whig at June 25, 2025 09:07 AM (ctrM5)

338 Johnson in Chicago had one cherry when elected, a Dem in The White House providing a financial safety net for him.

This Holocaust denier in NYC will not get squat for his projects

Posted by: Jonah at June 25, 2025 09:07 AM (YCxFk)

339 313 Don’t leave us in suspense.
Tell us what this highly classified book page said!

1. Nothing that had any need to be classified.
2. Nothing that anyone who didn't work on a submarine engineering plant would understand.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 25, 2025 09:02 AM (ExV1e)

- Chapter III subheading A pp. 3-4: Cork installation and removal procedures

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 25, 2025 09:07 AM (BjH5D)

340 And in case nobody has mentioned it, I would like to congratulate Curtis Sliwa, the Republican candidate for NYC Mayor for coming up with the moniker "Osama bin Lenin" to describe nepo baby failed rapper and socialist Mamdani."
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 25, 2025 08:27 AM
---

Nice find. Consider this stolen Comrade FenelonSpoke.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at June 25, 2025 09:07 AM (17s+e)

341 NYC is going to get the consequences of their votes (or not voting) good and hard:

Zohran Mamdani's mother, film director Mira Nair, on her son:

"He is not an American at all. He was born in Uganda, raised between India and America. He is at home in many places. He thinks of himself as a Ugandan and as an Indian"

Posted by: Lizzy at June 25, 2025 09:07 AM (6o/o0)

342 It's insidious. Put government in charge of grocery distribution and within a generation people will be unable to imagine distributing groceries without the government.
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at June 25, 2025 09:03 AM (4F0B6)

They’ll be lucky to have any grocery stores in a generation if the government starts running them.

Half the stock will end up on the black market and the other half will be reserved for the commissars.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at June 25, 2025 09:07 AM (6ydKt)

343 I’m late today… had to do my morning run in the wee hours.

All I can say is:
1. NYC is insane; will Wall Street and other big companies finally flee to Florida or Texas?
2. I didn’t like Trump scolding both Iran and Israel as if there were some kind of moral equivalence. Iran is the bad guy full stop. I love him but he is puzzling and exasperating sometimes

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at June 25, 2025 09:08 AM (i5Vkf)

344 Having a clearance is a PITA. Every traffic ticket and speeding ticket has to get reported. Glad I haven’t had to deal with that BS anymore.
Posted by: Bulg at June 25, 2025 09:04 AM (77rzZ)

Every time some hot babe with a Russian accent who's waaaaay out of your league comes up to you at a bar and starts chatting.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic



That would be any babe, honestly.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 25, 2025 09:08 AM (zSKXS)

345 Sounds like a very positive and humble attitude
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 25, 2025 09:05 AM (2GCMq)
=============
welcome and too-rare qualities for an internet board

Posted by: Huck Follywood at June 25, 2025 09:08 AM (Bbwdx)

346 A grocery store in Clear Lake area of Houston ended the Soviet Union.

Yeltsin stood over the popsicle freezer for about 5 minutes and could not understand how Americans could even make the choice of what style and flavor to choose.

Posted by: rhennigantx at June 25, 2025 09:08 AM (gbOdA)

347 Zohran Mamdani took the lead in the heated Democrat mayoral primary Tuesday night ...

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

What, the moniker "Muhammad Mao" wasn't available?

[h/t Charlie Kirk]

Posted by: ShainS -- Trump Dropped 12 Bunker-Busters Followed By One F-Bomb at June 25, 2025 09:08 AM (txgZm)

348 Tom, i disagree on Tucker. He is not a whack job. He also did a lot to help elect Trump

Posted by: Jonah at June 25, 2025 09:08 AM (YCxFk)

349 184 And in case nobody has mentioned it, I would like to congratulate Curtis Sliwa, the Republican candidate for NYC Mayor for coming up with the moniker "Osama bin Lenin" to describe nepo baby failed rapper and socialist Mamdani."
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 25, 2025 08:27 AM (2GCMq)

Did the Republicans have a primary yesterday too? And did they pick that guy... *again*?

Sorry Republican NYCer's but the guy just isn't serious.

Posted by: Defenestratus at June 25, 2025 09:08 AM (WYStd)

350 Zohran Mamdani's mother, film director Mira Nair, on her son:

"He is not an American at all. He was born in Uganda, raised between India and America. He is at home in many places. He thinks of himself as a Ugandan and as an Indian"
Posted by: Lizzy


Idi Amin with a sing song British accent.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 25, 2025 09:09 AM (zSKXS)

351 yummy shit pebbles

Posted by: Aliassmithsmith at June 25, 2025 09:09 AM (beL7L)

352 Make Unconditional Surrender Great Again!

Posted by: ShainS -- Make Unconditional Surrender Great Again! at June 25, 2025 09:10 AM (txgZm)

353 FL Attorney General"...If you victimize children, you’re going to prison, end of story.”

*********

Does this include Childrens' Hospital gender clinics?

Posted by: muldoon at June 25, 2025 09:10 AM (poXs5)

354 I guarantee you Uganda does not think of him as Ugandan.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 25, 2025 09:10 AM (BjH5D)

355 351 #332
Tom nationwide 80% of Jewish voters vote Dem
If you hate Dems, then you hate Jooos
Who here hates those Jews?
Posted by: Aliassmithsmith at June 25, 2025 09:09 AM (beL7L)

Dont hate the playa
Hate the game

Posted by: rhennigantx at June 25, 2025 09:10 AM (gbOdA)

356 That would be any babe, honestly.
Posted by: rickb223 at June 25, 2025 09:08 AM (zSKXS)


You didn't have to report the Filipina bar girls. They already knew more than we did.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 25, 2025 09:10 AM (ExV1e)

357 If Mamdani wins there is going to be a real shit show in NYC between him and Homan. An east coast version of LA.

Posted by: JackStraw at June 25, 2025 09:10 AM (viF8m)

358 Government lost money running a whorehouse.
No way they can run something with that thin a margin.


After we scheduled all the training sessions, mandatory practice sessions with me, the manager, and penciled in all the vacations, mandated lunch breaks, and self directed learning time it turns out the girls only have 2 hours a week to get anything or anyone done.

I guess we just need a bigger budget

Posted by: Some Government Whorehouse manager at June 25, 2025 09:11 AM (t0Rmr)

359 Go run for mayor of Kigali then, if you don't think of yourself as American.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 25, 2025 09:11 AM (BjH5D)

360 You didn't have to report the Filipina bar girls. They already knew more than we did.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 25, 2025 09:10 AM (ExV1e)

psstt
So of them are boys

Posted by: rhennigantx at June 25, 2025 09:11 AM (gbOdA)

361 Every time some hot babe with a Russian accent who's waaaaay out of your league comes up to you at a bar and starts chatting.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 25, 2025 09:06 AM


Dear G-2, I never thought this would happen to me, but I must report the following contact...

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 25, 2025 09:12 AM (dPfyF)

362 Kampala. Whatever.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 25, 2025 09:12 AM (BjH5D)

363 Posted by: whig at June 25, 2025 09:01 AM (ctrM5)

Done, and done. I know you won't want to hear this but you are a treasure and not just here at AoS.

Posted by: ... at June 25, 2025 09:12 AM (sfdl6)

364 Every time I see the name "Zoltan" I am reminded of the "Zoltar" carnival machine from the movie "Big" that grants wishes. Wishes granted turns out to have a downside, and NYC something-for-nothing voters will learn that too.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at June 25, 2025 09:12 AM (Bbwdx)

365 126 a fifty mile wife corridor for a port.
Posted by: rickb223 at June 25, 2025 08:14 AM (zSKXS)


"Heap Big Woman!!!!!"

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at June 25, 2025 09:12 AM (x0n13)

366 "Tom nationwide 80% of Jewish voters vote Dem
If you hate Dems, then you hate Jooos
Who here hates those Jews?"

Is this a trick question?

Posted by: pawn at June 25, 2025 09:12 AM (QB+5g)

367 >>@EricLDaugh

>>🚨 JUST IN: Bombshell new findings say that the Iranian Fordo nuclear site was rendered "INOPERABLE" by President Trump's strike, the Israel Atomic Energy Commission revealed this morning.

>>The program was set back YEARS.

Posted by: JackStraw at June 25, 2025 09:12 AM (viF8m)

368 Nobody votes in a primary, only very very very interested people. Don't vote - get a Muslim radical as mayor.

Posted by: runner at June 25, 2025 09:12 AM (g47mK)

369 So of them are boys
Posted by: rhennigantx at June 25, 2025 09:11 AM (gbOdA)


That's Thailand. The PI was pretty safe when I was there. The girls would have told you pretty quick if it was a guy.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 25, 2025 09:12 AM (ExV1e)

370 Every time some hot babe with a Russian accent who's waaaaay out of your league comes up to you at a bar and starts chatting.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic

That would be any babe, honestly.
Posted by: rickb223 at June 25, 2025 09:08 AM (zSKXS)

Hey, she’s gotta be somebody’s baby alright! — Jackson Browne

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at June 25, 2025 09:13 AM (i5Vkf)

371 Is this a trick question?
Posted by: pawn at June 25, 2025 09:12 AM (QB+5g)

Some syllogisms are busted.

Others are wedgied, pantsed, get a dick drawn on their face, and *then* busted.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 25, 2025 09:13 AM (BjH5D)

372 364 Every time I see the name "Zoltan" I am reminded of the "Zoltar" carnival machine from the movie "Big" that grants wishes. Wishes granted turns out to have a downside, and NYC something-for-nothing voters will learn that too.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at June 25, 2025 09:12 AM (Bbwdx)


Zoltan is a Hungarian name. I had two uncles with that name. Zoli for short.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at June 25, 2025 09:13 AM (x0n13)

373 omg his mom is Mira Nair?!!

wow how red diaper can you even get

Linus good for you running early! I will swim instead, but the bees are getting annoying by my pool

anyway yeah when this kid gets elected (does anyone think Sliwa has a chance in hell?!?) the bond market is gonna dive. actually maybe it will now, why wait. but after his election the big co's will start leaving

but NYC is too big. it won't die; it will stay heavily populated with insane zombies. it will remain a problem for the US. this is why I've retracted my former accelerationist outlook.

Posted by: Black Orchid at June 25, 2025 09:14 AM (Pv3Rg)

374 anyone want some of these shit pebbles?
delicious


Stringy half digested bites of Nadler's rotten Pastrami entangle the bits of barley

Posted by: Aliassmithsmith at June 25, 2025 09:14 AM (beL7L)

375 "Heap Big Woman!!!!!"
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at June 25, 2025 09:12 AM


That's cultural appropriation!

#BeumBetter

Posted by: Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) at June 25, 2025 09:14 AM (0sNs1)

376 >> It's insidious. Put government in charge of grocery distribution and within a generation people will be unable to imagine distributing groceries without the government.


Public school lunches went from optional to free food for everyone (weekly invitations to sign up - NOW!), then free breakfast, free dinner, free food in backpacks over the weekend, to - get this! - summer meals delivered to the kids' neighborhoods.

I wonder how much money is wasted on those programs. . .

Posted by: Lizzy at June 25, 2025 09:15 AM (6o/o0)

377 >>The program was set back YEARS.
Posted by: JackStraw at June 25, 2025 09:12 AM (viF8m)

The trolls will be here next bragging that it's dog years.

Posted by: ... at June 25, 2025 09:15 AM (sfdl6)

378 Every time some hot babe with a Russian accent who's waaaaay out of your league comes up to you at a bar and starts chatting.

Dear Ms Anna Chapman,
I am writing to tell you to stay away. I know many, many American technology secrets and I spill everything I know after a vigorous sex session. Please do not call me at my phone number [redacted] and definitely don't send me any spicey videos.

Thanks,
18-1

Posted by: 18-1 trying to stay away from temptation at June 25, 2025 09:15 AM (t0Rmr)

379 So of them are boys
Posted by: rhennigantx at June 25, 2025 09:11 AM (gbOdA)

That's Thailand. The PI was pretty safe when I was there. The girls would have told you pretty quick if it was a guy.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic


"You like guys? No? You need to be ova heah then!"

Posted by: rickb223 at June 25, 2025 09:15 AM (zSKXS)

380 Honestly, I hate people as individuals, not ethnicities. And I hate a lot of individuals.

I'm metaphorically an albino who hates all darker skinned people.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at June 25, 2025 09:15 AM (4F0B6)

381 Free rectangular pizza?

Posted by: Boss Moss at June 25, 2025 09:16 AM (P389G)

382 368 Nobody votes in a primary, only very very very interested people. Don't vote - get a Muslim radical as mayor.
Posted by: runner at June 25, 2025 09:12 AM (g47mK)

======

Highest turnout in the NYC Mayoral primary in a while. Much more than 2021.

This is the Democrat Party.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 25, 2025 09:16 AM (GBKbO)

383 The program was set back YEARS.
Posted by: JackStraw at June 25, 2025 09:12 AM (viF8m)

The trolls will be here next bragging that it's dog years.
Posted by: ...


That's not the flex they think it is.
2 years = 14 years

Posted by: rickb223 at June 25, 2025 09:16 AM (zSKXS)

384 That would be any babe, honestly.
Posted by: rickb223 at June 25, 2025 09:08 AM


It ain't me, babe.
No, no, no,
it ain't me, babe.
It ain't me
you're searching for.

Posted by: Flo and Eddie at June 25, 2025 09:16 AM (0sNs1)

385 299 Is this a joke about his supposedly being gay, because he's married to a woman.

Me too and yet those men of al-Zutt woohoo.
Posted by: Muhammed in the Koran

They keep their boyfriends warm at night? Sandy deserts and candy beaches...I feel we could get a Muhammed/Beach Boy "Islamic Girls" cover song going.

Posted by: Moron Analyst at June 25, 2025 09:16 AM (JCZqz)

386 Here in our Valley, our Metropolitan Triangle of Hooterville, Crabwell Corners, and Pixley, celebrate the 100th Birthday of our beloved Doc, Janet Craig, MD. She came to our Valley in 1968, setting up her practice at the Shady Rest Hotel. The Hooterville Volunteer Fire Department Band will give a free concert this evening down at Drucker's Store.

Posted by: Happy 100, June Lockhart! at June 25, 2025 09:17 AM (G5+As)

387 >>but NYC is too big. it won't die; it will stay heavily populated with insane zombies. it will remain a problem for the US. this is why I've retracted my former accelerationist outlook.


It will become London. He was campaigning in mosques saying he will make it an Islamic city, IIRC.

Posted by: Lizzy at June 25, 2025 09:17 AM (6o/o0)

388 Every time I see the name "Zoltan" I am reminded of the "Zoltar" carnival machine from the movie "Big" that grants wishes. Wishes granted turns out to have a downside, and NYC something-for-nothing voters will learn that too. /i]

Funny thing about that movie...in it Hanks plays a kid in an adult's body that has sexy time with another adult.

In real life of course he was the adult in some kid's body

Posted by: According to other Hollywood victims at least at June 25, 2025 09:17 AM (t0Rmr)

389 381 Free rectangular pizza?
Posted by: Boss Moss at June 25, 2025 09:16 AM (P389G)


AKA a Sicilian style pizza.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at June 25, 2025 09:18 AM (x0n13)

390 Sliwa should honestly drop out of the race and just back Adams if the goal is to stop Mamdani.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 25, 2025 09:18 AM (GBKbO)

391 **Zoltan is a Hungarian name. I had two uncles with that name.*"

Every time there's a pregnancy on friends or family I suggest Zoltan. But too many millennials grew up with 'Dude, where's my Car" and have no other frame of reference for it.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at June 25, 2025 09:18 AM (4F0B6)

392 Building apartments in NYC is already a nutso government-navigation process and will now be even worse. Grocery stores will now compete against government food distribution centers, driving them out of neighborhoods.

I predict homelessness and starvation are NYC growth businesses, now that Zoltan's new NYC administration is going to "solve" those problems.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at June 25, 2025 09:19 AM (Bbwdx)

393 Islam is a problem you say? Only a billion people, barely an inconvienence.

Posted by: Mongo at June 25, 2025 09:19 AM (Ef4Ak)

394

THe Zohan vs Zoltar vs Sefton's uncles.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at June 25, 2025 09:19 AM (x0n13)

395 Free rectangular pizza?
Posted by: Boss Moss


iFratelli's or Campisi's in Dallas.
Not free. But the best rectangular pizza evah!

Posted by: rickb223 at June 25, 2025 09:19 AM (zSKXS)

396 Zoltan? I thought it was Don’t Mess With the Zohan…. One of Adam Sandler’s forgettable movies….

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at June 25, 2025 09:21 AM (ANuwa)

397


Zoloft. For depressed Hungarians...

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at June 25, 2025 09:21 AM (x0n13)

398 Andrew Cuomo concedes as Zohran Mamdani wins NYC Democratic mayoral primary in stunning upset

The voters get what they want, gooder and harderer.

Posted by: toby928 at June 25, 2025 09:21 AM (jc0TO)

399 392 Building apartments in NYC is already a nutso government-navigation process and will now be even worse. Grocery stores will now compete against government food distribution centers, driving them out of neighborhoods.

I predict homelessness and starvation are NYC growth businesses, now that Zoltan's new NYC administration is going to "solve" those problems.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at June 25, 2025 09:19 AM (Bbwdx)

======

If Mamdani wins, I predict almost none of his proposals actually become reality.

There will be no government run groceries. A proposal will be presented to the city council which will bicker for 4 years about who gets the contract while the powers that be feed that fight. The NYPD won't be abolished, but it will be in open warfare with Mamdani like it had been with DeBlasio.

He will be a SJW, using his platform to gain notoriety and probably even prep for a run for president in 2028 (which will go nowhere instantly, of course) and then a run for governor, which he could win against Hochul.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 25, 2025 09:21 AM (GBKbO)

400 Well secluded, I see all.

Posted by: Magenta from NSA at June 25, 2025 09:22 AM (0sNs1)

401 Zoltan and the 40 thieves.

Posted by: runner at June 25, 2025 09:22 AM (g47mK)

402 This is the Democrat Party.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 25, 2025 09:16 AM (GBKbO)
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My kind of party!

Posted by: Lisa Murkowski, who sometimes visits Alaska at June 25, 2025 09:22 AM (Bbwdx)

403 **This is the Democrat Party.**

An election coming down to a choice between a degenerate sex pest and a radical Stalinist? Both of them Nepo-babies?

Yeah, that's the Democrat Party.

And Gavin Newsom is all those things.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at June 25, 2025 09:22 AM (4F0B6)

404 They keep their boyfriends warm at night? Sandy deserts and candy beaches...I feel we could get a Muhammed/Beach Boy "Islamic Girls" cover song going.

The story in the Koran says that Muhammed asked one of his friends to follow him into the desert one night. When they got a specific location he asked the friend to sit in one are and do not move or else bad things would happen to him.

Then Muhammed went a little further, but where his friend could see, and the men of al-Zutt came out to meet him. And it actually says they rode him all night long and "injured him" and wore him out.

Riding in this context is used in the same sense as in English, so either Muhammed carried random men on his shoulders all night long and was injured doing so or he had a Provincetown dogpile and they got a little too rough...the former just doesn't make any sense does it?

Posted by: 18-1 at June 25, 2025 09:22 AM (t0Rmr)

405 >>THe Zohan vs Zoltar vs Sefton's uncles.


Zohan, as in Adam Sandler's "Don't Mess with the Zohan," lol?

Posted by: Lizzy at June 25, 2025 09:22 AM (6o/o0)

406 Posted by: Aliassmithsmith at June 25, 2025 09:09 AM (beL7L)

Thanks for the laugh.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 25, 2025 09:22 AM (2GCMq)

407 I remember when a slice of pizza went from .20 to a quarter.

Posted by: Pizza Town, USA at June 25, 2025 09:22 AM (G5+As)

408 That's not the flex they think it is.
2 years = 14 years
Posted by: rickb223 at June 25, 2025 09:16 AM (zSKXS)

Well no one ever accused them of being brain surgeons

Posted by: ... at June 25, 2025 09:22 AM (sfdl6)

409 He will be a SJW, using his platform to gain notoriety and probably even prep for a run for president in 2028 (which will go nowhere instantly, of course) and then a run for governor, which he could win against Hochul.


he cannot run for US President thank GOD

also his proposals will in fact become reality. I set my marker down now! and for SURE he will be elected Mayor.

Posted by: Black Orchid at June 25, 2025 09:23 AM (Pv3Rg)

410 Iranians are afraid that they'll get bimbed again. So, "no, no, very damaged! sooo damaged ! nothing left".

Posted by: runner at June 25, 2025 09:23 AM (g47mK)

411 and then a run for governor, which he could win against Hochul.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 25, 2025 09:21 AM


Would he have to put his makeup on with a trowel to compete against her?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at June 25, 2025 09:23 AM (0sNs1)

412 Hizzonor Ed Koch said 'The people have spoken. Now they must be punished.'

Posted by: Don Black. Message: get down, get funky at June 25, 2025 09:23 AM (AOsQT)

413 Funny thing about that movie...in it Hanks plays a kid in an adult's body that has sexy time with another adult.

In real life of course he was the adult in some kid's body
Posted by: According to other Hollywood victims at least at June 25, 2025 09:17 AM (t0Rmr)

I still chuckle over the look on her face when he shows her the bunk bed and invites her to pick which one she wants.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at June 25, 2025 09:23 AM (6ydKt)

414 I’m late today… had to do my morning run in the wee hours.

All I can say is:
1. NYC is insane; will Wall Street and other big companies finally flee to Florida or Texas?
2. I didn’t like Trump scolding both Iran and Israel as if there were some kind of moral equivalence. Iran is the bad guy full stop. I love him but he is puzzling and exasperating sometimes

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at June 25, 2025 09:08 AM (i5Vkf)

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Agree on both parts.

EVERY interaction to Trump, for good or for ill, is a negotiation. I recommend reading The Art of The Deal for those who haven't already ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Make Unconditional Surrender Great Again! at June 25, 2025 09:23 AM (txgZm)

415 What, the moniker "Muhammad Mao" wasn't available?

**********

Surely someone has streamlined that to Maohammad" by now.

Posted by: muldoon at June 25, 2025 09:24 AM (poXs5)

416 409 he cannot run for US President thank GOD

also his proposals will in fact become reality. I set my marker down now! and for SURE he will be elected Mayor.
Posted by: Black Orchid at June 25, 2025 09:23 AM (Pv3Rg)

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Right. Forgot he's foreign born.

But...he'll definition be going for the governorship.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 25, 2025 09:24 AM (GBKbO)

417 If Mamdani wins, I predict almost none of his proposals actually become reality.

There will be no government run groceries. A proposal will be presented to the city council which will bicker for 4 years about who gets the contract while the powers that be feed that fight. The NYPD won't be abolished, but it will be in open warfare with Mamdani like it had been with DeBlasio.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 25, 2025 09:21 AM (GBKbO)
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I'll take that bet. The NYC City Council is way to the left and just itching to implement these ideas and more.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at June 25, 2025 09:24 AM (Bbwdx)

418 I'll take that bet. The NYC City Council is way to the left and just itching to implement these ideas and more.


me and you huck - totally agree

let's see how it goes!

Posted by: Black Orchid at June 25, 2025 09:25 AM (Pv3Rg)

419 The mood here today seems pretty bleak…

Posted by: tubal at June 25, 2025 09:25 AM (PCK5/)

420 Surely someone has streamlined that to Maohammad" by now.
Posted by: muldoon at June 25, 2025 09:24 AM (poXs5)

At least Muzzsollini kept the caravans running on time.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 25, 2025 09:25 AM (BjH5D)

421 411 and then a run for governor, which he could win against Hochul.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 25, 2025 09:21 AM

Would he have to put his makeup on with a trowel to compete against her?
Posted by: Duncanthrax at June 25, 2025 09:23 AM (0sNs1)

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It will be old school establishment NY vs. new school squad NY.

The prize is all the graft in Albany and NYC.

I suggest the GOP just stop putting up candidates (except House races) in NY for a couple of cycles.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 25, 2025 09:25 AM (GBKbO)

422 When I hear “Zoltan” I think of Zoltan Karpathy from My Fair Lady.

Posted by: Bulg at June 25, 2025 09:25 AM (77rzZ)

423 Right. Forgot he's foreign born.



*Obama has entered the chat.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 25, 2025 09:25 AM (zSKXS)

424 Does Zoltan winning in NYC, assuming he does in November, help Stephanic in her election against Hochul? Goodness, I hope so.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at June 25, 2025 09:26 AM (Bbwdx)

425 The mood here today seems pretty bleak…
Posted by: tubal at June 25, 2025 09:25 AM


The Markets remain irrationally exuberant.

Posted by: toby928 at June 25, 2025 09:26 AM (jc0TO)

426 Primaries are not indicative of success , especially the one like NY had. the granny killer and the Islamic socialist, after Khadaffi's heart. any turnout numbers ?

Posted by: runner at June 25, 2025 09:26 AM (g47mK)

427 417 I'll take that bet. The NYC City Council is way to the left and just itching to implement these ideas and more.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at June 25, 2025 09:24 AM (Bbwdx)

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The actual application of the ideas is where things will fall apart.

Throwing corrupt vs. true believers vs. true believer corrupts will just put everything on hold.

DeBlasio's wife just straight up stole $1 billion from the city. That's what the true believers do in NYC.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 25, 2025 09:26 AM (GBKbO)

428 Long way until the general election. The money men will weigh in shortly now that primary is done.

Posted by: Ben Had at June 25, 2025 09:27 AM (ZIggv)

429 It will be hysterical watching government run grocery stores trying to deal with shoplifters. They will tie themselves in nots trying to justify the shoplifter actions and not prosecute them

Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 25, 2025 09:27 AM (pwtJC)

430 180 degree course correction!!!
Trump has now dropped sanctions on oil to Iran's biggest customer!!!! Gyna


That can only mean that Trump is Netanyahu's, Khomeini's, and Xi's lapdog,.

Posted by: t-bird at June 25, 2025 09:27 AM (fL/bX)

431 Good morning, y'all. J,J., I was just about to launch into a lecture on "could care less" but then I found "infamnia".

You're forgiven. Have a fabulous birthday.

Posted by: creeper at June 25, 2025 09:27 AM (zFwIe)

432 Knots damn autocorrect

Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 25, 2025 09:27 AM (pwtJC)

433 419 The mood here today seems pretty bleak…
Posted by: tubal

Much evidence points to 2033 being the end of the world. Adjust your life accordingly.

Posted by: Nostrildamus at June 25, 2025 09:27 AM (G5+As)

434 >>If Mamdani wins, I predict almost none of his proposals actually become reality.


Think he'll be most like Boston's Mayor Wu.
She was the at-large City Council member prior to running for mayor, and she was always on tv pushing for many of the same things (apart from the government grocery stores). He will make sure that every city government institution expresses preference for immigrants and non-whites, he will defang the police, he will spend all the city's money on things like free transit, and be incapable of handling even the most basic tasks such as clearing the snow off the streets and having garbage picked up regularly.
And the MSM will absolutely adore him no matter what.

Posted by: Lizzy at June 25, 2025 09:27 AM (6o/o0)

435 It's okay Doc. It's only a scratch.

Posted by: Rocky Raccoon at June 25, 2025 09:27 AM (ZmEVT)

436 419 The mood here today seems pretty bleak…


yeah well SE PA is overrun with new New Yorkers after the covid mess - and it sucked here, but I guess was somehow worse there!

they started out saying all the right things but I'm still friends with many and guess what? they forget now. they are Leftist and frustrated with all the things that make this area what it is. and they are becoming very politically powerful - they were already rich (comparable assets here are much less expensive than up there).

so I'm looking at more and more of them coming here - to Chadds ford area and to up north by Eagles Mere - as they have been. and just those will be New York South and that is Not Good. so personally, I see the results firsthand.

they do not become red pilled, not really.

they are locusts.

they do not appreciate things like horses or farms or the quiet things that make Chester County really great. those things are getting crushed, apparently "fox rights" are important unless you are driving over the poor things in your Lexus SUV.

ARGHHHHHH

Posted by: Black Orchid at June 25, 2025 09:28 AM (Pv3Rg)

437 me and you huck - totally agree

let's see how it goes!
Posted by: Black Orchid at June 25, 2025 09:25 AM (Pv3Rg)
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Good to be on the right team today!

Posted by: Huck Follywood at June 25, 2025 09:29 AM (Bbwdx)

438 It will be hysterical watching government run grocery stores trying to deal with shoplifters.

I've seen gov't-run grocery stores before, behind the Iron Curtain. They will deal with shoplifters by being empty.

Posted by: t-bird at June 25, 2025 09:29 AM (fL/bX)

439 >>When I hear “Zoltan” I think of Zoltan Karpathy from My Fair Lady.

Spelled different, but I always think of Zolton Ferency, failed candidate for Michigan governor and far left professor of criminal justice at my alma mater.

Posted by: one hour sober at June 25, 2025 09:30 AM (Y1sOo)

440 438 It will be hysterical watching government run grocery stores trying to deal with shoplifters.

I've seen gov't-run grocery stores before, behind the Iron Curtain. They will deal with shoplifters by being empty.
Posted by: t-bird at June 25, 2025 09:29 AM (fL/bX)

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Maybe one goes up in NYC in the next four years.

It'll be a dismal failure, cost way too much, be heralded as a huge success, and never followed up with more locations.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 25, 2025 09:30 AM (GBKbO)

441 >> It will be hysterical watching government run grocery stores trying to deal with shoplifters.


IT'S FUNNY BECAUSE YOU ASSUME THAT THE SHOPLIFTERS WON'T BE GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES.

Posted by: BEN ROETHLISBERGER at June 25, 2025 09:31 AM (6o/o0)

442 439 One Hour, I grew up in Michigan. I remember that name from my younger days.

Posted by: Bulg at June 25, 2025 09:32 AM (77rzZ)

443 Prop bet:

If there is an actual physical Government Grocery Store that opens up in NYC, it will have metal detectors and armed guards.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 25, 2025 09:32 AM (BjH5D)

444 ah I see Eric Adams is still running as an Indy

ok

he might have a chance

I'm less depressed now

Posted by: Black Orchid at June 25, 2025 09:32 AM (Pv3Rg)

445 "I've seen gov't-run grocery stores before, behind the Iron Curtain. They will deal with shoplifters by being empty."

The employees will get a first crack at the goods. Stuff that can't be sold will make it to the shelves.

Posted by: pawn at June 25, 2025 09:33 AM (QB+5g)

446 You know what would be funny? If they only ever build one of these government run grocery stores in some tony neighborhood and specifically mandate people that live in that area can use it and actually police that and they make the store fabulous - every crazy trendy food item you could imagine...but now free for the NYC elites.

Posted by: 18-1 at June 25, 2025 09:33 AM (t0Rmr)

447 Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 25, 2025 09:26 AM (GBKbO)
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If your point was that these ideas will be sparsely implemented and total fricking failures, whose only benefit is intended to be the corrupt theft of public monies, then I agree wholeheartedly. But in the meantime, building new apartments and trying to buy groceries is going to make life harder

Posted by: Huck Follywood at June 25, 2025 09:33 AM (Bbwdx)

448 If your point was that these ideas will be sparsely implemented and total fricking failures, whose only benefit is intended to be the corrupt theft of public monies, then I agree wholeheartedly. But in the meantime, building new apartments and trying to buy groceries is going to make life harder
Posted by: Huck Follywood at June 25, 2025 09:33 AM (Bbwdx)

That sounds more like Pyongyang's style.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 25, 2025 09:34 AM (BjH5D)

449 In most big blue shitties they have organized crime groups to clean out the shelves of city stores. I suspect they'll work hand in glove with Osama Bin Lenin to get products easy to re-sell and he'll get his share back.

Posted by: 18-1 at June 25, 2025 09:34 AM (t0Rmr)

450 447 If your point was that these ideas will be sparsely implemented and total fricking failures, whose only benefit is intended to be the corrupt theft of public monies, then I agree wholeheartedly. But in the meantime, building new apartments and trying to buy groceries is going to make life harder
Posted by: Huck Follywood at June 25, 2025 09:33 AM (Bbwdx)

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The point of the failures will be graft.

Billions of dollars in graft for one shitty grocery store.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 25, 2025 09:34 AM (GBKbO)

451 ok wait this is a cheery factoid:

"Michael Bloomberg lavished $25 million on Cuomo’s primary campaign."

now THAT is funny!

Posted by: Black Orchid at June 25, 2025 09:34 AM (Pv3Rg)

452 Posted by: Huck Follywood at June 25, 2025 09:33 AM (Bbwdx)

That sounds more like Pyongyang's style.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 25, 2025 09:34 AM (BjH5D)

Feh, I meant to quote 18-1, not you, Huck.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 25, 2025 09:34 AM (BjH5D)

453 451 ok wait this is a cheery factoid:

"Michael Bloomberg lavished $25 million on Cuomo’s primary campaign."

now THAT is funny!
Posted by: Black Orchid at June 25, 2025 09:34 AM (Pv3Rg)

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Bloomberg's money must smell like shit.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 25, 2025 09:35 AM (GBKbO)

454 A Dildo is never early, or late, but always Right On Time….

Posted by: tubal at June 25, 2025 09:35 AM (PCK5/)

455 So NY City hates the Jews and loves illegals ?

Posted by: It's me donna at June 25, 2025 09:36 AM (VE6XX)

456 ok more hilarity - Cuomo is saying he is also going to run as an Independent!?!

can you have multiple indy candidates in the general?

Posted by: Black Orchid at June 25, 2025 09:36 AM (Pv3Rg)

457 456 ok more hilarity - Cuomo is saying he is also going to run as an Independent!?!

can you have multiple indy candidates in the general?
Posted by: Black Orchid at June 25, 2025 09:36 AM (Pv3Rg)

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Of course.

Also...I guess this means that NY doesn't have sore loser laws.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 25, 2025 09:37 AM (GBKbO)

458 >>I grew up in Michigan. I remember that name from my younger days.

I took criminal justice 101 with him supposedly as the instructor. Being an intro-level course, we never saw him, of course. It was his TA who conducted all the lectures and administered the mid-term and final.

Posted by: one hour sober at June 25, 2025 09:37 AM (Y1sOo)

459 ok more hilarity - Cuomo is saying he is also going to run as an Independent!?!

Sore loser?

Posted by: toby928 at June 25, 2025 09:37 AM (jc0TO)

460 The president's announcement late this afternoon that a cease-fire between Israel and Iran has been reached is, therefore, disappointing absent the collapse of the mullahs. . .
====================
I hope the CIA ignores this message, as the President has done. If the Persians rise up and end the mullahs, I'm going to sheer them on, but if we do it (or Israel does), it's pretty easy to see bad collateral effects.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at June 25, 2025 09:38 AM (f7c5w)

461 Looks like the Art Thread is running behind. Ace, if you need another COB to step in for emergencies like this, I'm your squid-man!

Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at June 25, 2025 09:39 AM (JCZqz)

462 Art is up

Posted by: rickb223 at June 25, 2025 09:39 AM (AaWBX)

463 Good morning, J.J.
Good morning, Horde.

Posted by: Inogame at June 25, 2025 09:41 AM (53oGX)

464 Zoltan is a Hungarian name. I had two uncles with that name. Zoli for short.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at June 25, 2025 09:13 AM (x0n13)

Yep. When I was a kid, in the 50's, three older guys in my Hungarian church had the name Zoltan. And, Zoli was what the other adults called them. Heard that name many times over the years.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at June 25, 2025 09:44 AM (5xuJ/)

465 You can’t hug illegal immigrants with bunker busting bombs that are preventing nuclear arms.

Posted by: Cray Cray at June 25, 2025 09:53 AM (Ktl2W)

466 'Morning, all & thanks, J.J.

Some US/Iranian Naval history: The USS Trout (SS-566), a Tang class submarine, received orders in Dec. 1976 changing her home port to Philadelphia, PA. In 1977 and 1978, she underwent an extensive overhaul at the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard (PNSY) in anticipation of a planned transfer to the Imperial Iranian Navy.

Upon completion of the overhaul in 1978, Trout's home port was shifted to New London, CT where a training period for her the Iranian crew ensued. The training program was completed in Dec. 1978 and, on that day, the U.S. Navy simultaneously decommissioned Trout, struck her from the Naval Vessel Register, and transferred her to Iran.

The Imperial Iranian Navy renamed her Imperial Iranian Ship (IIS) Kousseh (SS 101), meaning "Shark." Her Iranian crew took control of her at New London in December 1978, but abandoned her there in March 1979 following the Iranian Revolution.

The Kousseh returned to PNSY where she languished for many years. She finally was returned officially to U.S. custody in 1992 & then sold at scrap value.

Nov. 1, 1977, a second Tang class submarine, the USS Wahoo, SS-565, began training a crew from the Iranian

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at June 25, 2025 09:59 AM (NFX2v)

467 Navy scheduled to take possession of her sister-ship, USS Trout, sometime the following year. That duty continued until the summer of 1978 when she began an extended overhaul at the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard (July 6, 197 to prepare her to be handed over to Iran & renamed Nahang.

Those plans were cancelled on 31 Mar. 1979 following the Iranian revolution. Wahoo was instead decommissioned on 27 June 1980 and cannibalized for parts for the other Tangs that were still in service to foreign governments.

And so the political fracture began roughly half a century ago at a time when the United States was happily celebrating its Bicentennial, and after Jimmy Carter & Walter Mondale were voted in (Nov. 1976).

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at June 25, 2025 09:59 AM (NFX2v)

468 466 and 467. Wikipedia as one reference for most of the USS Trout and USS Wahoo information. Additionally, there were many other Naval sources available.

The Base Realignment and Closure Commission (BRAC) made the decision to cease naval operations at PNSY in 1991.

PNSY and the bulk of Naval Station Philadelphia closed in 1995. (I was employed by/at both prior to their closing.) The US Navy maintains a (small) presence at the Navy Yard, operating Naval Ship Systems Engineering Station and the Naval Inactive Ship Maintenance Facility.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at June 25, 2025 10:18 AM (NFX2v)

469 Thanks L.

That was very informative.

Posted by: pawn at June 25, 2025 10:31 AM (QB+5g)

470 The thing about Walsh's screed is that the history he cites is completely wrong.

Imperial Rome set borders at the Rhine, Danube, and Hadrian's Wall, and never eliminated the Parthians or Persians.
Constantine managed a single re-conquest of Dacia but otherwise did not expand the empire. While he established his rule throughout the empire, his dynasty lasted less than sixty years.
Bohemond established himself in the Levant, but the Crusades as a whole never came close to eliminating Islam.
Napoleon's defeat of the mamelukes in Egypt endured all of 3 years, 2 months, and 1 day before they returned to power. As for Napoleon's French empire, we also know how long that endured.

As for his citation of Clausewitz, he seems to have completely missed the parts about war, politics, and popular will, and that the "total war" Clausewitz wrote of was purely theoretical due to those factors.

And then of course there is the issue of how all of those leaders cited along with Clausewitz himself were all accomplished with the ever popular "boots on the ground" and imply significantly more than a mere "forever war" to accomplish, bringing us right back to Clausewitz and will.

Posted by: Sam at June 25, 2025 11:10 AM (7jMef)

Daily Tech News 25 June 2025

Top Story

  • You don't need an author's permission to read their books. (Tech Crunch)

    If they publish it, you can buy a copy and read it, according to a federal judge for the Northern District of California.

    Groundbreaking? Not for people, no, but it may signal a seismic shift for all the content creators throwing lawsuits at AI companies, because this was one of those cases.

    There is still an issue that Anthropic did not buy all the books it used to train its AI, at least, not at first. The damages for that will be the subject of a separate trial.

Tech News

Musical Interlude



Song is Stacey's Mom by Fountains of Wayne. Anime is Jungle wa Itsumo Hale nochi Guu.

Guu - the little pink-haired girl - is Cthulhu. Because of course she is.




Disclaimer: In the future we will all be Cthulhu for fifteen minutes.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 04:30 AM




Comments

(Jump to bottom of comments)

1 w00t

Posted by: m at June 25, 2025 04:32 AM (CQE5S)

2 Disclaimer: In the future we will all be Cthulhu for fifteen minutes.

And we'll have to learn how to pronounce it?

Posted by: m at June 25, 2025 04:35 AM (CQE5S)

3 Microsoft blinks: Windows 10 extended security updates made available for a year, starting 10/2025, without having to spend $30.00. Terms, conditions, and hoops are involved though.

https://is.gd/uNJjvV

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at June 25, 2025 04:39 AM (NXz8h)

4 BOING!

Willowed:

Good grief! Work towards the positives, enjoy the
Good things in your life and if you're a person of positive pray.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 25, 2025 04:09 AM (2GCMq)
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Never stop being a realist.

I know that doesn't help because optimists and pessimists often think they're realists.

It ain't easy.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at June 25, 2025 04:40 AM (NC42u)

5 Mornin'

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at June 25, 2025 04:41 AM (sAmhv)

6 Morning all.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 25, 2025 04:42 AM (IwLO4)

7 Never stop being a realist.

I know that doesn't help because optimists and pessimists often think they're realists.

It ain't easy.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at June 25, 2025 04:40 AM (NC42u)


There's an old Andy Capp cartoon where Andy's mate Chalkie says, "I believe we live in the best of all possible worlds. That's why I'm an optimist," to which Andy replies, "Well, I believe we live in the best of all possible worlds - that's why I'm a pessimist!"

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at June 25, 2025 04:43 AM (Dg2sF)

8 Disclaimer: In the future we will all be Cthulhu for fifteen minutes.
-

So, Davy Jones.

Not of the Monkees.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at June 25, 2025 04:44 AM (NC42u)

9 Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at June 25

There is nothing incompatible with being a realist and also appreciating the positives and as a person faith to thank God for blessings in life.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 25, 2025 04:44 AM (2GCMq)

10 The WD article is a prime example of how shoddy and superficial most "reporting" is and has been for decades. Several times the author mentions how SPEX's damages expert was disqualified and yet not a single summary sentence explaining the basis for that disqualification. The lack of having the expert clearly was the linchpin to SPEX's case and obviously the cause of the reversal on review. And not one mention? Why not?

Posted by: Bill Duck at June 25, 2025 04:44 AM (AN+ve)

11
Good morning, good citizens, from the Adirondacks.

May great benefit flow from all effort put forth by you and may egregious heartburn subsume the leftwit contingent in it's entirety.

Posted by: IRONGRAMPA at June 25, 2025 04:44 AM (hKoQL)

12 Saw a blurb on Fb that said multiple reports are claiming that the Ayatollah is dead. And they were trying to verify.

Sadly, that was the ONLY blurb I saw.

Definitely 48 to 72 hour rule.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 25, 2025 04:45 AM (IwLO4)

13 https://is.gd/uNJjvV

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at June 25, 2025 04:39 AM (NXz8h)
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Link not secure.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at June 25, 2025 04:45 AM (NC42u)

14 76 degrees here at Stately Poppins Manor, with highs once again in the 90s predicted. It is supposed to be much cooler for the rest of the week, but that doesn't help today, especially as I've got about four hours' work right now.

Just glanced through some posts from yesterday. Wish I were back in bed, dreaming of 1910.

Might be back, who knows?

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at June 25, 2025 04:46 AM (Dg2sF)

15 >> On X11 and the Fascists Maggots. (Gnome)

He seems nice.

Posted by: m at June 25, 2025 04:46 AM (CQE5S)

16 Link not secure.
Posted by: Biden's Dog

??? Link goes to a ARS https blah, blah, blah.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at June 25, 2025 04:48 AM (NXz8h)

17 Microsoft blinks: Windows 10 extended security updates made available for a year, starting 10/2025, without having to spend $30.00. Terms, conditions, and hoops are involved though.

Microsoft: Recently we've noted that people aren't embracing the pile of shit we refer to as Windows 11. We've also noted that people aren't scrambling to pay us $30 for just one more year. In a magnanimous gesture on our part, we're prepared to waive the $30 fee and still provide you that one extra year of service and all that's required is creating a Microsoft account and using that to log into your computer so that we can track all your activities. Don't worry, though, we'd never give that data to the government, or lose it to hackers, or use it for nefarious purposes on our own... no sirree.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 25, 2025 04:48 AM (ExV1e)

18 7 There's an old Andy Capp cartoon where Andy's mate Chalkie says, "I believe we live in the best of all possible worlds. That's why I'm an optimist," to which Andy replies, "Well, I believe we live in the best of all possible worlds - that's why I'm a pessimist!"
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at June 25, 2025 04:43 AM (Dg2sF)

heh

Posted by: m at June 25, 2025 04:49 AM (CQE5S)

19 Microsoft: Recently we've noted that people aren't embracing the pile of shit we refer to as Windows 11. We've also noted that people aren't scrambling to pay us $30 for just one more year. In a magnanimous gesture on our part, we're prepared to waive the $30 fee and still provide you that one extra year of service and all that's required is creating a Microsoft account and using that to log into your computer so that we can track all your activities. Don't worry, though, we'd never give that data to the government, or lose it to hackers, or use it for nefarious purposes on our own... no sirree.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic

Its an option. Not a command.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at June 25, 2025 04:50 AM (NXz8h)

20 Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at June 25, 2025 04:46 AM (Dg2sF)

I thought going on some sort of writing retreat to a place without internet access and were looking forward to that? Hadn't happened yet?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 25, 2025 04:50 AM (2GCMq)

21 Birdbath status?

Posted by: Just Wondering at June 25, 2025 04:50 AM (lIgBp)

22 NYC primaries:

Damin Toell
@damintoell
6h
First, to be clear, the next Mayor of New York City will still be Eric Adams. That said, we could survive a Mamdani administration way better than we could survive dealing with Cuomo’s ego from winning the primary.

Posted by: m at June 25, 2025 04:51 AM (CQE5S)

23 Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at June 25

There is nothing incompatible with being a realist and also appreciating the positives and as a person faith to thank God for blessings in life.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 25, 2025 04:44 AM (2GCMq)
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Then we agree.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at June 25, 2025 04:52 AM (NC42u)

24 Posted by: m at June 25, 2025 04:51 AM (CQE5S

The last bit is pretty funny.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 25, 2025 04:52 AM (2GCMq)

25 No space for fascists but plenty of space for communists.

The album was OK if you're into metal music, but the title was great (link goes to a YouTube playlist): https://tinyurl.com/c47zb3cd

Posted by: Richard Cranium at June 25, 2025 04:52 AM (zSV6p)

26 moar NYC primaries:

LB
@beyondreasdoubt
4h
lol cool your jets only 430,000 people in a city of 8.25 million voted for him

@KathyHochul
4h
Today, voters made their voices heard, demanding a more affordable, more livable New York City. I hear them loud and clear. @ZohranKMamdani built a formidable grassroots coalition, and I look forward to speaking with him in the days ahead about his ideas on how to ensure a safe, affordable, and livable New York City.

Posted by: m at June 25, 2025 04:54 AM (CQE5S)

27 ??? Link goes to a ARS https blah, blah, blah.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at June 25, 2025 04:48 AM (NXz8h)
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Certificate err at IS GD.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at June 25, 2025 04:55 AM (NC42u)

28 Posted by: m at June 25, 2025 04:54 AM (CQE5S

Thanks for bringing the dark humor about that entitled out of touch Governor.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 25, 2025 04:56 AM (2GCMq)

29 @KathyHochul
4h
Today, voters made their voices heard, demanding a more affordable, more livable New York City. I hear them loud and clear. @ZohranKMamdani built a formidable grassroots coalition, and I look forward to speaking with him in the days ahead about his ideas on how to ensure a safe, affordable, and livable New York City.

Posted by: m at June 25, 2025 04:54 AM (CQE5S)
-

https://youtu.be/7FPELc1wEvk

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at June 25, 2025 04:56 AM (NC42u)

30 19 Microsoft: Recently we've noted that people aren't embracing the pile of shit we refer to as Windows 11.

How far along are they on windows12? This might be a delaying tactic to save customers for the next version.

Posted by: clarence at June 25, 2025 04:57 AM (rjoMn)

31 Good morning!

Some bug going around here
Day one, a few sneezes
Day two, flat on your back.
Day three, rapid recovery

Posted by: JM in Illinois at June 25, 2025 04:58 AM (vvx7J)

32 Posted by: Just Wondering at June 25, 2025 04:50 AM (lIgBp)

That is so thoughtful of you to post this. I wonder how he's doing?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 25, 2025 04:59 AM (2GCMq)

33 Morning, 'rons and 'ettes.

Posted by: olddog in mo at June 25, 2025 05:04 AM (hoCmQ)

34 G'mornin all y'all.
On to my readings.
Take care, beware,

Posted by: OkJohn at June 25, 2025 05:06 AM (NC/it)

35 26 moar NYC primaries:

LB
@beyondreasdoubt
4h
lol cool your jets only 430,000 people in a city of 8.25 million voted for him

Posted by: m at June 25, 2025 04:54 AM (CQE5S

----

Estimated at least 750,000 Muslims in new york city. What was that event in September that we would never forget?

Posted by: JM in Illinois at June 25, 2025 05:06 AM (vvx7J)

36 73 degrees, 95% humidity. SNAFU.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 25, 2025 05:08 AM (zSKXS)

37 "Today, voters made their voices heard, demanding a more affordable, more livable New York City"

I laughed. So all the other candidates running wanted a less affordable and less livable NY?
She wrote that herself or some other clueless
dolt did?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 25, 2025 05:09 AM (2GCMq)

38 Damin Toell
@damintoell
6h
First, to be clear, the next Mayor of New York City will still be Eric Adams. That said, we could survive a Mamdani administration way better than we could survive dealing with Cuomo’s ego from winning the primary.
Posted by: m


Goatfucker is a Defund the Blue proponent.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 25, 2025 05:09 AM (zSKXS)

39 Morning, Tech Peeps

Posted by: fluffy at June 25, 2025 05:11 AM (AN2gy)

40
g'mornin', 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at June 25, 2025 05:13 AM (tljrc)

41 Credit where due A devotional on thanking God and based on Daniel 2:1-5, 13-19:

https://tinyurl.com/mpw2ep3s

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 25, 2025 05:13 AM (2GCMq)

42 Kindly people of Tampa, Florida help a hard working ice cream vendor:

https://tinyurl.com/mr48s7sz

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 25, 2025 05:16 AM (2GCMq)

43 One guy's experience with Trump Mobile. You might want to hold off signing up.

https://youtu.be/KUtSo7dASg0

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at June 25, 2025 05:19 AM (NXz8h)

44 still moar NYC primaries:

AG retweeted
Kamel Amin Thaabet
@K_AminThaabet
8h
Mamdani is basically what would happen if you pulled some random kid out of the Columbia Hamas encampment and made them Mayor

Posted by: m at June 25, 2025 05:19 AM (CQE5S)

45 London, Rotterdam, Dearborn, Hamtramck, and soon to include New York City.

Posted by: JM in Illinois at June 25, 2025 05:20 AM (vvx7J)

46 Socialism: even the Germans couldn't make it work.

Posted by: Take note, NYC at June 25, 2025 05:22 AM (lIgBp)

47 Posted by: JM in Illinois at June 25, 2025 05:20 AM (vvx7J

The General election is not until November. This may convince me to give money to a campaign in NYC against Mamdani

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 25, 2025 05:26 AM (2GCMq)

48 Its an option. Not a command.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at June 25, 2025 04:50 AM (NXz8h)


Signing up? Sure. I'm not going to use a microsoft account to log into MY pc though. They can go gently, and lovingly, fuck themselves.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 25, 2025 05:27 AM (ExV1e)

49 Reading is for fags.

When your shit's all fucked up

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at June 25, 2025 05:29 AM (ioEI6)

50 Zohran. I think that was the name of the fortune teller in the movie "Big."

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at June 25, 2025 05:29 AM (lIgBp)

51 The "On X11 and the Fascists Maggots." link:

Wow. Just wow. I already didn't like the Gnome desktop for a multitude of technical and esthetic reasons, but now I have a whole new category, and I'm not even sure what to label it other than "Danger: Box contains rabid crazy weasels. Do not open!"

Oh, and G'morning Horde.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at June 25, 2025 05:29 AM (O7YUW)

52 @49/Rev. Wishbone: But I can still have a pretty kick-ass life.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at June 25, 2025 05:30 AM (O7YUW)

53 How far along are they on windows12? This might be a delaying tactic to save customers for the next version.
Posted by: clarence at June 25, 2025 04:57 AM (rjoMn)


Are they still going to dictate how my desktop is configured? Are they still going to not allow me to disable copilot, or recall? Cuz all of that is a non-starter.

I'll run Win10 unsupported. If necessary, I'll switch to Linux.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 25, 2025 05:31 AM (ExV1e)

54 Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at June 25, 2025 05:30 AM (O7YUW)

Yes you can!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 25, 2025 05:31 AM (2GCMq)

55 I am thankful that FenSpouse's end of the school year was yesterday and that we can take a walk and go look at some lovely flowers together

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 25, 2025 05:33 AM (2GCMq)

56 G'morning Fen!

2 more days to go (including today.) Yesterday was hotter than Monday was. Still couldn't believe how much energy the kids had in spite of the heat in the big tin box. I guess I did too at that age, but it's getting harder to remember.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at June 25, 2025 05:34 AM (O7YUW)

57 Son working outside yesterday in 100 degree heat has given me a new appreciation for people who work outside in weather extremes I am also thankful he got home safely from a hour long ride after all that.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 25, 2025 05:35 AM (2GCMq)

58
New York City, F/A-18 Super Hornets:

- Buzz daily for the next 10 days.
- Announce that this will happen *twice* a day after the general election if less than 50% of eligible voters are found to have not voted.
- Duration formula: One day of double-buzzing for each percentage point of eligibles who failed to vote.

So, if 55% failed to vote, that's 55 days of being buzzed twice a day.

Ten days before the next election, commence daily buzzing again with a reminder about what happens when people fail to get off their asses and vote.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 25, 2025 05:36 AM (lCaJd)

59 Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at June 25, 2025 05:34 AM (O7YUW)

When I said yesterday "End of work today" it was intended to be a question not a statement. I apologize. Stay hydrated and thanks for your service.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 25, 2025 05:39 AM (2GCMq)

60 55 I am thankful that FenSpouse's end of the school year was yesterday and that we can take a walk and go look at some lovely flowers together
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 25, 2025 05:33 AM (2GCMq)

So peaceful.

Posted by: JM in Illinois at June 25, 2025 05:41 AM (vvx7J)

61 Evening and morning, all,

I woke up only a few minutes earlier than I planned, so, win. Still tired for some reason, so, loss. On the whole? Still moving air in and out of lungs, so, *big* win.

The surgeon rescheduled my appt. yesterday, so I'm free until Monday afternoon. Miss Linda and I are going to the local library's Classic Movie Night this evening (John Wayne & Jean Arthur in a Western!), then I have Pipe Club tomorrow night. Not a bad week despite the relentless heat. Howzabout you?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 25, 2025 05:41 AM (omVj0)

62
I'll run Win10 unsupported. If necessary, I'll switch to Linux.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 25, 2025 05:31 AM


I'm still running Win7 on this box

you can go a while "unsuppported" before things stop working

Posted by: AltonJackson at June 25, 2025 05:41 AM (tljrc)

63 Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 25, 2025 05:36 AM (lCaJd)

Please send your ideas to Curtis Sliwa or a more "normal" Democrat . You have good ideas.

And I have to say that "Osama Bin Lenin" was a clever name from Curtis Sliwa.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 25, 2025 05:41 AM (2GCMq)

64 Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 25, 2025 05:41 AM (omVj0

Sounds like a nice day. Enjoy yourself.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 25, 2025 05:43 AM (2GCMq)

65 Zoltar

Posted by: no one of any consequence at June 25, 2025 05:43 AM (ZmEVT)

66 Greetings and good morning one and all. Yesterday was my first PT session. After almost an hour of establishing my range of motion and doing some exercises, the doc came to the conclusion that the injury is more my hamstring than a ligament.

I know I'm going to actively dislike her with the follow up sessions. She said she would not take it personally.

Posted by: NR Pax at June 25, 2025 05:44 AM (BpO1e)

67 There's still a meme in there somewhere.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at June 25, 2025 05:45 AM (lIgBp)

68 Son working outside yesterday in 100 degree heat has given me a new appreciation for people who work outside in weather extremes I am also thankful he got home safely from a hour long ride after all that.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 25, 2025


***
Fen, I did that for a number of years. Not heavy labor, but driving an un-air-conditioned van and toting packages, some requiring a hand truck, into and out of offices. It wrung me out and cured me of any notion that summer is the good time of year. It will keep him in good shape, though, and allow him to snort at people in cooled offices who chortle about how much they "love summer."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 25, 2025 05:45 AM (omVj0)

69
You have good ideas.

And I have to say that "Osama Bin Lenin" was a clever name from Curtis Sliwa.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke

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

Oops, I meant to say if MORE than 50% are found to have not voted, but it looks like you got the idea. I live in California and my choices are beyond horrible because of our jungle primary system. For US Senator, I always write someone in. Sometimes a person who would make a good senator, sometimes Minnie Mouse.

Osama bin Lenin

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 25, 2025 05:48 AM (lCaJd)

70 Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 25, 2025 05:45 AM (omVj0

He is getting in good shape . He's also on some diet where he only eats yougurt, greens and protein and fasts for about fourteen hours a day, but I will mention about snorting about people in air conditioned offices saying they love summer. That's funny.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 25, 2025 05:49 AM (2GCMq)

71 @59/FenelonSpoke:

No worries, and no apology necessary. Hydrated? Oh yeah, and I was making sure other drivers had water too and was sharing if they didn't. Dehydration is not something any of us want to play with, not in that heat.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at June 25, 2025 05:53 AM (O7YUW)

72 Heat Stroke is no bueno.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at June 25, 2025 05:54 AM (ZmEVT)

73 The Titan phone looks pretty good, especially the price. A real keyboard!

Posted by: Huck Follywood at June 25, 2025 05:54 AM (m5yAv)

74 He is getting in good shape . He's also on some diet where he only eats yougurt, greens and protein and fasts for about fourteen hours a day, but I will mention about snorting about people in air conditioned offices saying they love summer. That's funny.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 25, 2025


***
Those people . . . If they worked (not played, as in gardening or tennis, but worked) outside for one day in hot weather, in the words of Stephen King, they "would sell their shriveled black raisin souls" to get back into the A/C.

Encourage him to eat some carbs or something for energy, too.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 25, 2025 05:55 AM (omVj0)

75 @Wolfus: To answer your question yesterday: No there is no air conditioning in these busses. Northern climate, so cold is what we mostly contend with, thus we have the rear, midship, driver, and stairwell heater package.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at June 25, 2025 05:55 AM (O7YUW)

76 Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 25, 2025 05:36 AM (lCaJd)

I'd gladly suffer a two-a-day buzz. I have an office space close to the one end of the primary runway at AFW. We routinely have F16s, 18s, 35s and even T38s leaving or landing. There's nothing like the sound of converting dinosaurs-to noise to keep you motivated.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at June 25, 2025 05:56 AM (3Ope8)

77 "This may convince me to give money to a campaign in NYC against Mamdani."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5NZsCYOM4j0

Meh. New York is an acquired taste. My memory of it during the late 1970s as a cadet passing through was gigantic piles of shit on the sidewalk and other general decay.

I was there again in November 2001 and I didn't see gigantic piles of shit on the sidewalk. The only decay was the stuff that wasn't cleaned up after 9/11. It was a hell of a lot better place than the one I had seen ~20 years earlier even with the aftermath of 9/11 visible downtown.

IMO, while there's stuff to like in NYC there's a lot more to hate. I'm not a city guy and that colors my reaction.

Posted by: Richard Cranium at June 25, 2025 05:57 AM (IhQVt)

78 @Wolfus: To answer your question yesterday: No there is no air conditioning in these busses. Northern climate, so cold is what we mostly contend with, thus we have the rear, midship, driver, and stairwell heater package.
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at June 25, 2025


***
G & R, then you are dealing with what I faced in the un-cooled Ford vans for 7-8 hours a day. For eight and a half long years. Needless to say, I hated my work. The biggest favor they did me was to fire me (long story) in early 1987, a year or two before they went out of business.

Are your buses diesel-powered and with manual transmissions? I've never driven one and I never rode them as a kid, so I don't know.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 25, 2025 06:00 AM (omVj0)

79 IMO, while there's stuff to like in NYC there's a lot more to hate. I'm not a city guy and that colors my reaction.
Posted by: Richard Cranium at June 25, 2025


***
I'd read about NYC for many years. When I finally got to visit in Oct. '98, I liked it a lot, but found it, as I'd expected, far too crowded and expensive. People were helpful if it didn't cost them any money or much time. Now, though, when I read about Fifth Avenue or the Empire State Building or Midtown or Washington Square/Greenwich Village, I have actual mental pictures, instead of having to adapt what I know from Da Swamp here.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 25, 2025 06:03 AM (omVj0)

80 @78/Wolfus: The full sized school busses are diesel and have an automatic transmission. The smaller ones (ie, the short busses) are gasoline with automatic transmission.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at June 25, 2025 06:05 AM (O7YUW)

81 "Son working outside yesterday in 100 degree heat has given me a new appreciation for people who work outside in weather extremes I am also thankful he got home safely from a hour long ride after all that."

As my dad used to say "When it's too hot, I just want to lay down. When it's too cold, I hurt." I was in both conditions as a soldier a long time ago and I'd rather be too hot WITH WATER than too cold. (Although if the humidity is such that you cannot cool off via sweat, too hot will kill you as easily as too cold.)

Posted by: Richard Cranium at June 25, 2025 06:05 AM (IhQVt)

82 Some anti-Trump Pentagon staffer leaked a classified DIA bomb damage assessment saying the bombing was ineffective, and Democrats are happily citing it. Iran seems to disagree, if their sudden willingness to negotiate is any indication.

What a twisted world Democrat politicians live in, hoping for American military failure to embarrass Trump.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at June 25, 2025 06:07 AM (0dpQU)

83 Oh, and Wolfus? I remember those years well, and work vans and trucks never had air conditioning because that was considered a passenger vehicle "luxury" and businesses weren't about to pay for any luxuries for the guys in the field.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at June 25, 2025 06:11 AM (O7YUW)

84 My motivation to go work out was just here. I saw it yesterday. Now where could it have gone?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 25, 2025 06:11 AM (omVj0)

85 I remember those years well, and work vans and trucks never had air conditioning because that was considered a passenger vehicle "luxury" and businesses weren't about to pay for any luxuries for the guys in the field.
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at June 25, 2025


***
Yes . . . and we at Purolator Courier would drag ourselves into an office and gasp, "Where's the package?" while looking like chain gang escapees in blue uniforms. When Federal Express started, they had A/C in the vans, and their couriers bounced into the customers' offices looking crisp and efficient. Guess who is still around?

UPS is and was another story. But they got paid a LOT better.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 25, 2025 06:14 AM (omVj0)

86 I discovered in my workout yesterday that new exercises I added to improve balance go better if I take my shoes off. All that cushioning on the bottom of my sneakers makes standing on one foot harder.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at June 25, 2025 06:14 AM (ErAKr)

87 82 Some anti-Trump Pentagon staffer leaked a classified DIA bomb damage assessment saying the bombing was ineffective, and Democrats are happily citing it. Iran seems to disagree, if their sudden willingness to negotiate is any indication.

What a twisted world Democrat politicians live in, hoping for American military failure to embarrass Trump.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at June 25, 2025 06:07 AM (0dpQU)

Thanks. A googling for pentagon dia turns up news reports on this.

Posted by: m at June 25, 2025 06:15 AM (CQE5S)

88 G'mornin' everyone!

Cthulhu? fascist maggots? I wanna go back to bed and sleep through whatever's about to happen

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at June 25, 2025 06:15 AM (Z5NUn)

89 If I skip walking today, I'll have to go both Thurs. and Friday -- and both mornings will be hotter than today. There's the motivation!!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 25, 2025 06:16 AM (omVj0)

90 ... a googling for pentagon dia report...

Posted by: m at June 25, 2025 06:16 AM (CQE5S)

91 "I'd read about NYC for many years. When I finally got to visit in Oct. '98, I liked it a lot, but found it, as I'd expected, far too crowded and expensive. People were helpful if it didn't cost them any money or much time."

Cool. There are a lot of folks living there; if what I thought about NYC was the absolute truth, there wouldn't be. Some people like cities and urban life; I'm not one of them.

I'm not surprised that people in a crowded environment are as helpful as they can reasonably be, especially to strangers who aren't local. Predators hang out where there's prey and cities (like water holes) concentrate prey. If everyone in NYC was a complete asshole, the place couldn't have grown as large as it has. If you're a tourist, you ain't been vetted and could be a predator.

Posted by: Richard Cranium at June 25, 2025 06:17 AM (IhQVt)

92 Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 25, 2025 05:55 AM (omVj0

Thanks. He also has a banana and peanut butter chia seeds for breakfast and brings a little slab of chocolate for a snack.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 25, 2025 06:18 AM (2GCMq)

93 85 - LOL

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at June 25, 2025 06:19 AM (Z5NUn)

94 Little slabs of MELTED chocolate.

Posted by: M&Ms at June 25, 2025 06:20 AM (lIgBp)

95 Little slabs of MELTED chocolate.
Posted by: M&Ms at June 25, 2025


***
"Melts in yore brain, man, not in yore hands!"

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 25, 2025 06:27 AM (omVj0)

96 @Wolfus: Purolator is still around. (I wonder if they're still doing the "no A/C" thing to their delivery drivers.)

Good observation on how the driver looks to the customer: I'm sure the "chain gang" look had a negative impact on customers' perceptions of Purolator, even if they didn't realize it consciously.

I always wondered about the name of that company, too. It's never a good idea to include the pronunciation of "later" in your name if you're a delivery service.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at June 25, 2025 06:27 AM (O7YUW)

97 Postmodern Jukebox did a faster version of "Stacy's Mom" that sounds very different than the Cars-like original

https://tinyurl.com/ysmmf9x4

Posted by: Huck Follywood at June 25, 2025 06:30 AM (IZK9b)

98
What did it mean to "purolate" in the first place?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh! at June 25, 2025 06:31 AM (Tv15w)

99 Additional tech article, because why not?
https://tinyurl.com/8t8h4ejj

From "The Register":

Microsoft is about to retire default outbound access for VMs in Azure
'Things will break,' Aviatrix CPO tells El Reg

In other words:
"Why can't our millions of already deployed and functioning virtual machines (servers) connect to the outside world when they could yesterday!?"

Will Microsoft screw this up that badly? Yes. Yes they will.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at June 25, 2025 06:32 AM (O7YUW)

100 Good morning Horde , thx Pixy.
Posted this last night but between now and November, NYC is going to be crazy. The hardcore left is going full bire left , the mod Dems and Republicans are going to try and figure out a plan. If Mamdani wins in Nov his plans actually could be implemented because the NYC common council is even crazier left as a group than he is.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 25, 2025 06:32 AM (pwtJC)

101 T2 'blackberry' looks ok, but I'd really like to see some much wider phone options. I'm an averaged size guy and 4" width would be my minimum preferred width. Instead phones have gotten longer and end up with essentially useless extra screen.

Posted by: InspiredHistoryMike at June 25, 2025 06:33 AM (BNkfJ)

102 @98/Krebs v Carnot: "What did it mean to "purolate" in the first place?"

Around these parts, we used to joke that given the condition some packages arrived in, the company name was initially:
"Purée later".

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at June 25, 2025 06:34 AM (O7YUW)

103 From the HodgeTwins:
The circus has lost the crowd.

BREAKING: DEMOCRATS JOIN REPUBLICANS TO KILL IMPEACHMENT RESOLUTION AGAINST TRUMP

Rep. Al Green tried — again — to impeach President Trump, this time over his airstrikes on Iran’s nuclear sites.
But the House just voted 344 to 79 to shut it down.

That includes 128 Democrats who joined Republicans to say:
“NO” to another sham impeachment.

Only the usual suspects — like AOC and the Squad — backed it.

So let’s be clear:
Even Democrats are tired of the witch hunts

This wasn’t about law. It was about political theater — and it just got torched.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 25, 2025 06:35 AM (zSKXS)

104 Aw, man!

Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 25, 2025 06:35 AM (0eaVi)

105
NYC:

"I want to be the one at the helm as this crate augers into the ground!"

* many elbows are thrown *

"No! I want to be the one at the helm as this crate augers into the ground!"

* more elbows are thrown *

"No, I ..."

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh! at June 25, 2025 06:36 AM (Tv15w)

106 Wikipedia:

Purolator Inc. is a Canadian courier majority owned by Canada Post. It was founded as Trans Canada Couriers, Ltd and acquired in 1967 by Purolator, a US manufacturer of oil and air filters.[3] In 1987, the company returned to Canadian ownership. Although it retained the Purolator name, it has had no connection with the oil filter business since that time.

Posted by: Great Plains Drifter at June 25, 2025 06:36 AM (oZ//P)

107
Al Green's true calling in life was to have been the guy who refilled the dispenser of aerosolized scent in public restrooms.

That he was elected to Congress says a great deal -- none of it good -- about the discernment powers of his electorate.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh! at June 25, 2025 06:39 AM (Tv15w)

108
Good morning, Hordians.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 25, 2025 06:42 AM (/HVsR)

109 Now it's mainstream.

Gnome did take the post down in the past few hours, at least, hence the archive link.


The final comment under the post with the final line:

“free palestine and happy pride!”

…says it all.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at June 25, 2025 06:42 AM (6ydKt)

110
Blackberry flavor Dr. Pepper is an abomination.

That is all ...

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh! at June 25, 2025 06:42 AM (Tv15w)

111
The final comment under the post with the final line:

“free palestine and happy pride!”

…says it all.


Go long on drool cups.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh! at June 25, 2025 06:43 AM (Tv15w)

112
Is it possible? Is? it? possible? that this impeachment vote signals the Democrats saying, "Hey, maybe we shouldn't cater to every insane grievance group?"

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 25, 2025 06:44 AM (/HVsR)

113 @110 I drink Diet Dr Pepper and accidentally got that Blackberry stuff once . Awful, couldn't get the taste out of my mouth for an hour

Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 25, 2025 06:45 AM (pwtJC)

114
I drink Diet Dr Pepper and accidentally got that Blackberry stuff once . Awful, couldn't get the taste out of my mouth for an hour
Posted by: Smell the Glove


My own encounter with it was deliberate: "How bad could it be?"

Pretty damn bad, I learned.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh! at June 25, 2025 06:47 AM (Tv15w)

115 Free Palestine with purchase of Palestine of greater or equal value...

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at June 25, 2025 06:47 AM (PiwSw)

116 Al Green's true calling in life was to have been the guy who refilled the dispenser of aerosolized scent in public restrooms.

Al Green could have made a good career of being a 'before' model.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 25, 2025 06:47 AM (ExV1e)

117 The Unihertz Titan 2 does look pretty snazzy.

I don’t know how in the world they’re selling it for $269 or $369, though, with all that’s packed in there.

I was never a Blackberry owner so there’s no nostalgia factor for me over having the physical keyboard like most Crackberry users from 2007.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at June 25, 2025 06:47 AM (6ydKt)

118 What I want to ask Christians who support a "two-state-solution is "what part of the land God gave the Jews do you want to take away from them?

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at June 25, 2025 06:48 AM (PiwSw)

119
Al Green makes Henry Waxman look handsome.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 25, 2025 06:48 AM (/HVsR)

120 I read the X11 article but other than the claim of fascists everywhere I don’t know exactly what the authors issue is other than being a lunatic.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 25, 2025 06:48 AM (XV/Pl)

121 Mix a little bit of Hammond organ with a good backing section, add the Rev. Al Green (as opposed to the idiotic Congressman Green) and you get ... "Love And Happiness"!

https://tinyurl.com/mwt5snsc

Posted by: Huck Follywood at June 25, 2025 06:48 AM (cPejy)

122
Is it possible? Is? it? possible? that this impeachment vote signals the Democrats saying, "Hey, maybe we shouldn't cater to every insane grievance group?"
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh


It is not possible at all. The Dims are going to run in 2026 on the promise, "Return the House to us and we'll do nothing but impeach Trump for two years!"

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh! at June 25, 2025 06:49 AM (Tv15w)

123 10 The lack of having the expert clearly was the linchpin to SPEX's case and obviously the cause of the reversal on review. And not one mention? Why not?
Posted by: Bill Duck at June 25, 2025 04:44 AM (AN+ve)

This used to be where an editor would come in and tell the reporter they missed that and go back and add that in.

But Editors are on the Near-Extinction List because nobody can afford them anymore.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at June 25, 2025 06:51 AM (6ydKt)

124 My own encounter with it was deliberate: "How bad could it be?"

Pretty damn bad, I learned.


I hear that!

Posted by: Sandra Fluke at June 25, 2025 06:52 AM (Dg2sF)

125
Went out to put everyone up last night and big Dan was up and walking around. So maybe he just had a problem with the crate and the drive yesterday. He was lying on his bed this morning and I didn't ask him to get up. Nobody out there gets up early in the morning.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 25, 2025 06:53 AM (/HVsR)

126
What I want to ask Christians who support a "two-state-solution is "what part of the land God gave the Jews do you want to take away from them?
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper


Is there anyone who is an out and proud advocate for a "two state solution" for the Israeli - "Palestinian" dispute at this point, other than some policy eunuchs at the State Department and the United Nations?

And do not say, "Why, the crowds protesting in our streets." -- that is to laugh.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh! at June 25, 2025 06:54 AM (Tv15w)

127 How far along are they on windows12? This might be a delaying tactic to save customers for the next version.
Posted by: clarence at June 25, 2025 04:57 AM (rjoMn)

Supposedly Windows 12 is due out from “late 2025 to early 2026.”

I wouldn’t count on it, though.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at June 25, 2025 06:56 AM (6ydKt)

128
Dismal experience teaches what a "Palestinian state" would look like: oppressive, violent, poverty-stricken and hopelessly corrupt.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 25, 2025 06:58 AM (/HVsR)

129
In other words, Haiti with sand.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 25, 2025 06:58 AM (/HVsR)

130
So former Governor Pierced Nipples got out-grifted in the NYC mayoral primary?

Mario the Pious' "family" pals cannot be at all pleased.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh! at June 25, 2025 06:59 AM (Tv15w)

131 I drink Diet Dr Pepper and accidentally got that Blackberry stuff once . Awful, couldn't get the taste out of my mouth for an hour

Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 25, 2025 06:45 AM (pwtJC)

Coke Zero "Starlight" flavor, which I am convinced was a plot to remind people that the regular flavor is good enough.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at June 25, 2025 07:00 AM (FExpA)

132 What a twisted world Democrat politicians live in, hoping for American military failure to embarrass Trump.

I don't think it's only Trump. It's a deep seated hatred for this country and any victory is seen as a bad thing. The fact Trump is the CIC makes it worse though.

As for that person at the Pentagon? They need to be named. And if we have to torture a few journalists at some black sites overseas to get that name, I'll chip in for the gas money.

Posted by: NR Pax at June 25, 2025 07:02 AM (BpO1e)

133
Coke Zero "Starlight" flavor, which I am convinced was a plot to remind people that the regular flavor is good enough.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy


"New Coke Tastes Better!"

-- spokes-pervert Bill Cosby, back in the day

Uh, sure, Bill. Whatever you say.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh! at June 25, 2025 07:03 AM (Tv15w)

134

*hic*

Posted by: Hillary Clinton at June 25, 2025 07:05 AM (5hfjS)

135
How 'bout sending the Gazans to Haiti for the "rabid dogs' cage match"?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh! at June 25, 2025 07:05 AM (Tv15w)

136
Shrills! How's the mu-mus hangin', darlin'?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh! at June 25, 2025 07:06 AM (Tv15w)

137 I tried a Dr Pepper last week from a fast food joint with added vanilla cream in it.

I know it’s not a new thing but it was the first time I tried one.

I really enjoyed the flavor.

I was a Dr Pepper addict as a kid but gave up drinking them on the regular many years ago.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at June 25, 2025 07:07 AM (6ydKt)

138 And now for something completely different, nyah

Punch Punch Forever! pilot
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ndBoc6R8_A

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 25, 2025 07:07 AM (kjZbS)

139 Good morning!

Let's smile & be happy & strike fear in the hearts of killjoy leftists everywhere.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 25, 2025 07:08 AM (u82oZ)

140
I tried a Dr Pepper last week from a fast food joint with added vanilla cream in it.

I know it’s not a new thing but it was the first time I tried one.


Whataburger has Dr. Pepper milkshakes seasonally. They're quite good.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 25, 2025 07:09 AM (/HVsR)

141
So it's between "Kill grandma in the nursing home" and "Death to America" for mayor for the Democrats in New York.

Eric Adams has turned out to be an odd candidate for the racist far right.

Posted by: Auspex at June 25, 2025 07:10 AM (j4U/Z)

142 Hillary Clinton

Run for mayor of NYC. You got a shot.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 25, 2025 07:11 AM (u82oZ)

143 141
So it's between "Kill grandma in the nursing home" and "Death to America" for mayor for the Democrats in New York.

Eric Adams has turned out to be an odd candidate for the racist far right.

Posted by: Auspex at June 25, 2025 07:10 AM (j4U/Z)

Death to America won that...
Now it's him vs Adams vs the actual best person who has zero chance of winning and will likely throw his votes to Adams b/c he is concerned about the state of NY...

Posted by: Nova Local at June 25, 2025 07:12 AM (tOcjL)

144 "New Coke Tastes Better!"

-- spokes-pervert Bill Cosby, back in the day

Uh, sure, Bill. Whatever you say.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh! at June 25, 2025 07:03 AM (Tv15w)

I remember Cosby more for Jello Pudding Pops ads.

He sold 10 year old me on them.

Ate them for years until I got bored with them.

The Cosby Show was really popular at the time so that helped with the sales.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at June 25, 2025 07:12 AM (6ydKt)

145 Whataburger has Dr. Pepper milkshakes seasonally. They're quite good.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 25, 2025 07:09 AM (/HVsR)

I’m probably 1000 miles away from the nearest Whataburger or I’d definitely try one of those.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at June 25, 2025 07:14 AM (6ydKt)

146 JJ has arrived.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at June 25, 2025 07:15 AM (6ydKt)

147
So RCV didn't save the Grandma Killer? Or haven't they finished fixing things yet?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 25, 2025 07:15 AM (/HVsR)

148 J.J. is here.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 25, 2025 07:17 AM (u82oZ)

149 Nic Update

Posted by: ShainS -- Make Unconditional Surrender Great Again! at June 25, 2025 10:09 AM (DbVei)

150 Unihertx isn't a Blackberry if it's running in Android.


Posted by: braenyard- Some friends are more equal than others at June 25, 2025 01:37 PM (c35xG)

Tuesday Overnight Open Thread - June 24, 2025 [scampydog]

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Good evening and thank you for checking in on the Tuesday, ONT. Summer is here - funny tan lines, green grass, grilling, lemonade, and warm nights. Open thread - abstract concepts, cautionary tales, and a verbal shiv or two are encouraged.

*****

Who can craft an impressively long run-on sentence in response to the question below? Ramble on.


*****


Long Lines Building. Known today simply by its address, 33 Thomas Street. I was today years old when I discovered this 45-story, windowless, brutalistic building.

Computers at Titanpointe have monitored international phone calls, faxes and voice calls routed over the internet, and more, hoovering up data from the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, and U.S. allies including France, Germany, and Japan. 6 33 Thomas Street, it turns out, is exactly what it looks like: an apocalypse-proof above-ground bunker intended not only to symbolize but to guarantee national security. For those overseeing fortress operations at the time of construction, objects of fear were nuclear-armed Communists abroad and a restive youth population at home, who couldn't be trusted to obey the diktats of a culture that had raised up some in previously inconceivable affluence; an affluence built on the exploitation and disenfranchisement of people near and far.

By the time the NSA took over, targets were likely to be insurgents rejecting liberal democracy and American hegemony, from Islamic fundamentalists to world-market competitors in China, alongside a smattering of Black Lives Matter activists. For those outside the fortress, in the Nixon era as in the present, the fearful issue was an entrenched and unaccountable fusion of corporate and governmental capability, a power that flipped the switches connecting the world. At the same time, popular culture had begun, in the 1970s, to register a paranoia that has only intensified - the fear that people no longer call the shots. In its monumental implacability, Titanpointe seems to herald a posthuman regime, run by algorithm for the sole purpose of perpetuating its own system.

It is, in other words, a building tailor made for spy movies.

*****


Got a quote you like - even if it came from someone you don't particularly care for?

"People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they can't find them, make them." George Bernard Shaw


*****


ONT Intermission

Historical happenings in June.

1984 6-21.jpg

Eurythmics Mystery Click

76 years since Orwell published 1984, (June 8, 1949) a warning about totalitarianism, manipulation, surveillance, propaganda, power, strength, weakness, fear, active distortion of truth through censorship, and word bending. Still relevant and at times reading less like a work of fiction.

It's fascinating to read the various views and interpretations of 1984. Linking Asimov - simply because of curiosity - liberal, a Russian, a commie (allegedly), and his view/review of the book. There is value in understanding the flawed ideology of the other side. Asimov's review was comfortably framed in his worldview/biases/assumptions vs. a political allegory or political horror warning.

*Tips a glass to Winston* - an average and breakable man, yet relatable.

***

June: Hetero Month at the Old State Saloon! Year two edition. Give 'em a visit if going through town.

Throughout June, Old State Saloon will offer a lineup of special drinks celebrating heterosexuality, including the Brojito, Baby Maker Mimosa, Tetten Russian, and Alpha Mule. The month will feature themed days to keep the party going:

Mondays: Beers for Breeders - Any heterosexual male dressed like a heterosexual male receives a free draft beer.

Tetten Tuesdays - Ladies buy one drink, get one free.

Duo Deal Wednesdays - Heterosexual couples enjoy 15% off their bill.

Special events include Hetero Merch Parties with exclusive discounts, a June 7th International Procreation Day Celebration, and a June 14th President Trump Huuuge Heterosexual Birthday Party. The saloon will host internet influencers, sports personalities, and media figures throughout the month, with more details to be announced.

*****

Heh. Holding quirky traditions and rituals together. Wouldn't change a thing - long arc.

US Open (golf) wrapped up a week ago. It was held at Oakmont CC, outside of Pittsburgh. They have quite the tradition there - a regular money game.

The SWAT is played every Wednesday, Friday, weekends and holidays. Oakmont Country Club has a detailed record of every SWAT game dating back to 1955. Those records are handwritten after each match and stored in the men's SWAT Room. Each year has its own SWAT book, which is stored in a case in the SWAT room. The members arrive and are given their teams, they go out and play and then return to the SWAT room to commiserate and record the day's game.

*****

Surrounded by these people every day? Darwin was just a starting point.

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True? I'm always a bit of a skeptic with "recently found" items, but this one kept me reading. Take a look at the link.

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Last minute updates to the drawings of the Statue of Liberty?

Ruderman's purchase was supposed to be blueprint copies related to the statue's construction. But little did he know that the folder would also contain never-before-seen original sketches of the statue's construction, revealing late changes that had been made to its structural design.


*****

A bit of old school rock this evening.


AC/DC. Because AC/DC.

Sammy and the boys having some fun at Red Rocks.

*****


This ONT is brought to you by: The A-10 Pilots Coloring Book. Best link I clicked on all week.

Just like many tanks of the era, the rear of the T-62 is one of its most vulnerable spots, from many, many angles and ranges. Despite including an anal sex reference, this Air Force instruction manual is really helpful in determining just where the best place to hit the main battle tank is. Even if the GAU-8 can't penetrate the crew through the back door, it can still hit the engine and drive gear, shutting down the tank's advance.


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What is your superpower? Surviving weekly HR meetings? Lurking? Email your secrets to: scampydog at proton dot me.

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Comments

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1 Yay, World UFO Day ONT!

One of my favorite examples:
https://youtu.be/hIBhwWbviFw

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at June 24, 2025 10:00 PM (lUFok)

2 yo

Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at June 24, 2025 10:00 PM (z66Im)

3 Perk up. The first hundred years are the hardest.

Posted by: mindful webworker - 25 to go at June 24, 2025 10:00 PM (XEisV)

4 wtvg4w5bt4w5t

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 24, 2025 10:00 PM (lCaJd)

5
Ooh, wow, I was WAY off.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 24, 2025 10:01 PM (lCaJd)

6 1st?

Posted by: Official Delurker, likes most types of music at June 24, 2025 10:01 PM (liGnN)

7 "an impressively long run-on sentence"

O'Henry was the master.

Posted by: Rachel Zegler's Fucking Psychiatrist at June 24, 2025 10:01 PM (5zjm+)

8 Woohoo!!!
ONT time and the bourbon is flowing.

Posted by: Diogenes at June 24, 2025 10:01 PM (W/lyH)

9 Good evening good people.

Posted by: Tonypete at June 24, 2025 10:02 PM (cYBz/)

10 Caw caw

Posted by: Biggest Alfredo at June 24, 2025 10:02 PM (8cPKb)

11 Delete one thing from Earth that would make it better?

Easy.

Delete Islam (or Marxism).

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 24, 2025 10:02 PM (IBQGV)

12 Liberals. That's what I would delete. Maybe not the people themselves, but that line of thought.

Not possible, I know.

Posted by: TecumsehTea at June 24, 2025 10:02 PM (Eo96p)

13 Delete evil.

Posted by: Rachel Zegler's Fucking Psychiatrist at June 24, 2025 10:03 PM (5zjm+)

14
I get queasy watching that cliff cartoon.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 24, 2025 10:03 PM (lCaJd)

15 Well, top 10 anyway.

A pleasant evening to all.

Off to read the content -- looks good and musical!

Posted by: Official Delurker, likes most types of music at June 24, 2025 10:03 PM (liGnN)

16 Doggo! Yay!

*wanders off to content...*

Posted by: COMountainMarie at June 24, 2025 10:04 PM (ZwGHJ)

17 Yes. The Statue of Liberty was conceived as a man. But, the prudes of the time wouldn't allow it.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 24, 2025 10:04 PM (0eaVi)

18 Content has been:

☑ Read
𐄂 Not Read

Posted by: weft cut-loop at June 24, 2025 10:06 PM (mlg/3)

19

Huxley vs. Orwell: The Webcomic

https://t.ly/Ofu2u

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 24, 2025 10:08 PM (63Dwl)

20 Delete one thing

The 2 iron.
They suck!

Posted by: Diogenes at June 24, 2025 10:08 PM (W/lyH)

21
I'd kind of like to delete sharks. It would eff up the food chain and the balance of nature and whatnot, but the ocean is big enough to sort it out.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 24, 2025 10:08 PM (lCaJd)

22 This is New York City's March 5, 1933 election.

Yeah, I know that it's only the primary, but with Mamdani winning the Democratic nomination, he is the odds-on favorite to win the general election.

And Mamdani is winning because "educated" New Yorkers are heavily voting for him.

If there was ever an argument to eliminate subsidies to higher education, this is it.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at June 24, 2025 10:09 PM (xTIDn)

23 Huxley vs. Orwell: The Webcomic

https://t.ly/Ofu2u
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.
-----------
Good link. And good evening, Horde.

Posted by: scampydog at June 24, 2025 10:09 PM (41CYW)

24 Possible apologies to all the NYC Morons...Mamdani will make life in The City and impossible nightmare, but at least the rest of us will get to point and laugh.

Or...some kind of unholy coalition form around Adams, who's running as an independent as I understand, and the Left loses its shit when they get Murkowskied.

Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at June 24, 2025 10:09 PM (ycI94)

25 Delete evil.
Posted by: Rachel Zegler's Fucking Psychiatrist at June 24, 2025 10:03 PM (5zjm+)
----
The climax of Robert Jordan's epic Wheel of Time series actually plays around with this idea.

Turns out to be horrific. Lack of free will, for one thing.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 24, 2025 10:10 PM (IBQGV)

26 Hmmm, delete one thing from the planet. Democrats or islam... I hate having one choice.

Gotta go with the dems, every evil on the planet would get a foothold here because of them. Islam is frigging evil, but the dems are an all encompassing evil, they embrace it in all it's forms, including the shit islam wouldn't even touch.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at June 24, 2025 10:10 PM (snZF9)

27 relete: verb, transitive. To delete again.

Posted by: Rachel Zegler's Fucking Psychiatrist at June 24, 2025 10:10 PM (5zjm+)

28 Evening everyone. Thx scampydog.
Looks like Mamdani is going to win the NYC Dem primary. The next few months to the election are going to be lit. Literally. The number of businesses leaving the city will be a tsunami. You can't fix stupid.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 24, 2025 10:11 PM (pwtJC)

29 Elite mountain bike racers running the Mountain of Hell course in the French Alps. This race is filmed by Kilian Bron as he battles three other champions for the win. The race starts above the tree line in the snow and eventually ends 25 minutes later in a lovely village. Top speeds hit over 40 mph on brutal terrain.

https://youtu.be/c9iXhPjwY1E

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at June 24, 2025 10:11 PM (NXz8h)

30 Just go ahead and say it.

Posted by: Cockroaches at June 24, 2025 10:11 PM (lIgBp)

31 The Earth is the way it is because of God’s providence. I don’t trust my understanding over God’s. To quote Max Ehrmann: “whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should.”

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at June 24, 2025 10:12 PM (qgNn3)

32 Delete tailgaters. Kill them painfully first.

Posted by: Rachel Zegler's Fucking Psychiatrist at June 24, 2025 10:13 PM (5zjm+)

33 "The Earth is the way it is because of God’s providence."

Delete nothing then.

Posted by: Rachel Zegler's Fucking Psychiatrist at June 24, 2025 10:14 PM (5zjm+)

34 Delete evil.
Posted by: Rachel Zegler's Fucking Psychiatrist


Without evil, we wouldn't know what good looked like.

Posted by: Tonypete at June 24, 2025 10:14 PM (cYBz/)

35 Thanks for the swell ONT, scampydog!

The idiots on escalators was funny - glad I was not there to see their live demonstration.

Great barn up top! I guess the big doors for livestock are on the other end of the barn.

Posted by: Legally Sufficient at June 24, 2025 10:14 PM (kB9dk)

36 Communism. Final answer. The thing is about human nature though is we would come up with something else retarded.

Thanks for the ONT.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 24, 2025 10:14 PM (zZu0s)

37 Delete one thing from Earth that you think would make it better.

Rattlesnakes

Posted by: Legally Sufficient at June 24, 2025 10:15 PM (kB9dk)

38 The Earth is the way it is because of God’s providence. I don’t trust my understanding over God’s. To quote Max Ehrmann: “whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should.”
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit

So I was wrong when I took it personally that it rained on my day off?

Posted by: Some Rat at June 24, 2025 10:15 PM (TfUTr)

39 Without evil, we wouldn't know what good looked like.
Posted by: Tonypete at June 24, 2025 10:14 PM (cYBz/)

This. In the absence of the wrong choice, would making the right one be meaningful?

I am sure TP and I are treading some sort of heretical ground from over 1000 years ago.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 24, 2025 10:16 PM (zZu0s)

40 So NYC has commited suicide.

Only 14 years after 9/11.

Incredible.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at June 24, 2025 10:16 PM (+47n7)

41 I remember doing work at the AT&T Long Lines Building on Thomas Street around 1980. Company I worked for got a lot of phone company renovation work. They were also having numerous problems with fires and for months I was drilling and screwing transite panels to cover their wire racks. Had a bit of asbestos in those panels, but so far my lungs are primo.

I think the phone company fires turned out to be arson from within, IIRC. The Bell System was a cash cow and big deal until Long Distance got opened up to competitors.

Posted by: Nordic Interiors at June 24, 2025 10:16 PM (G5+As)

42 24 years. Stupid fat finger.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at June 24, 2025 10:16 PM (+47n7)

43 The Earth is the way it is because of God’s providence. I don’t trust my understanding over God’s. To quote Max Ehrmann: “whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should.”
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit


* nods *

Posted by: zombie G. K. Chesterton at June 24, 2025 10:16 PM (DgGvY)

44 How about severe weather? Could we get rid of that? If not, then I’d get rid of praying mantises. Hate em.

Posted by: H at June 24, 2025 10:17 PM (2gjbv)

45 All the same, delete mosquitoes. Or maybe yellowjackets.

Posted by: mikeski, halfway out of Chesterton sockpuppet at June 24, 2025 10:17 PM (DgGvY)

46 Sometimes we feel like deleting the elite.

Posted by: Rachel Zegler's Fucking Psychiatrist at June 24, 2025 10:17 PM (5zjm+)

47 "an impressively long run-on sentence"

O'Henry was the master.
Posted by: Rachel Zegler's Fucking Psychiatrist at June 24, 2025 10:01 PM (5zjm+)


Robert Penn Warren's 'All The King's Men'. I swear one paperback page was a single sentence.

Posted by: RickZ at June 24, 2025 10:17 PM (gKDq2)

48 Delete nothing then.
Posted by: Rachel Zegler's Fucking Psychiatrist at June 24, 2025 10:14 PM (5zjm+)

Valid, but it also feels like fatalism*.

Yes, that is a fucking word, phone!

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 24, 2025 10:17 PM (zZu0s)

49 I will oppose evil when I find it as I am able. I would not use any “magic” power to delete anything. Too much like a djinn’s three wishes: the fulfillment of each one holds a curse.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at June 24, 2025 10:17 PM (qgNn3)

50 All the same, delete mosquitoes. Or maybe yellowjackets.

Deer flies.

The only thing deer flies are good for is biological area denial devices.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at June 24, 2025 10:18 PM (a4flb)

51 Only 14 years after 9/11.

Incredible.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at June 24, 2025 10:16 PM (+47n7)

*whispers* 24 years, sir.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 24, 2025 10:18 PM (zZu0s)

52 relete: verb, transitive. To delete again.
Posted by: Rachel Zegler's Fucking Psychiatrist

Makes one ponder what to renege is then.

Posted by: Tonypete at June 24, 2025 10:18 PM (cYBz/)

53 I think we could get rid of ticks without a resulting problem.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at June 24, 2025 10:19 PM (mlg/3)

54 Without evil, we wouldn't know what good looked like.
Posted by: Tonypete at June 24, 2025 10:14 PM (cYBz/)


Ya know, I think I'm willin' to give 'without evil' a shot.

But then that was the Garden of Eden.

Posted by: RickZ at June 24, 2025 10:19 PM (gKDq2)

55 Getting rid of any animal or insect would cause some problems somewhere in the food chain.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at June 24, 2025 10:19 PM (+47n7)

56 I think we could get rid of ticks without a resulting problem.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at June 24, 2025 10:19 PM (mlg/3)

Don't possum mostly eat ticks or something?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 24, 2025 10:20 PM (zZu0s)

57 I remember doing work at the AT&T Long Lines Building on Thomas Street around 1980. Company I worked for got a lot of phone company renovation work. They were also having numerous problems with fires and for months I was drilling and screwing transite panels to cover their wire racks. Had a bit of asbestos in those panels, but so far my lungs are primo.

I think the phone company fires turned out to be arson from within, IIRC. The Bell System was a cash cow and big deal until Long Distance got opened up to competitors.

Posted by: Nordic Interiors
------------
The Horede comes through! Thanks Nordic Interiors.

Posted by: scampydog at June 24, 2025 10:20 PM (41CYW)

58 Delete one thing from Earth that would make it better?

Demonic Spirits.

Even God kicked them out of His Holy Presence.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at June 24, 2025 10:20 PM (a4flb)

59 The idiots on the escalators were Keystone Kops funny!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at June 24, 2025 10:20 PM (qgNn3)

60 Trump is rubbing it in.

https://is.gd/FwYL66

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Well, This Is Another Fine Mess You've Gotten Me Into at June 24, 2025 10:21 PM (L/fGl)

61 Drat. Horede....Horde...sure.

Posted by: scampydog at June 24, 2025 10:22 PM (41CYW)

62 Just go ahead and say it.
Posted by: Cockroaches at June 24, 2025 10:11 PM (lIgBp)

Keith Richards?

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at June 24, 2025 10:22 PM (J+OHH)

63 Renege must be to nege again: does that mean it’s going to snow?

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at June 24, 2025 10:22 PM (qgNn3)

64 Mosquitos, but only the types that carry human diseases.

They kill more people than any other animal, by far.

I think they've even killed more people than have been killed by communists.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at June 24, 2025 10:22 PM (qpyNK)

65 "Robert Penn Warren's 'All The King's Men'."

I snagged a copy and will peruse it, thanks!

Posted by: Rachel Zegler's Fucking Psychiatrist at June 24, 2025 10:23 PM (5zjm+)

66 Given all the Chinese infiltrations all all levels of the government including military, I’m surprised they haven’t stolen the B2 yet. Or maybe they have and are keeping it ready for a “special occasion”.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at June 24, 2025 10:24 PM (+47n7)

67 63 Renege must be to nege again: does that mean it’s going to snow?
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at June 24, 2025 10:22 PM (qgNn3)

Nege? I think that means we’re hitting on chicks at a bar.

Posted by: DoublySymmetric at June 24, 2025 10:24 PM (TJLr1)

68 I remember doing work at the AT&T Long Lines Building on Thomas Street around 1980. Company I worked for got a lot of phone company renovation work. . . . .
Posted by: Nordic Interiors

Never was at the Thomas St address but I worked for a firm that removed obsolete telephony equipment in Midwest locations. The guy that owned the firm took all the electro-mechanical devices and boards (AT&T let him have them for $0) and he made a killing selling them to India and China.

Posted by: Tonypete at June 24, 2025 10:24 PM (cYBz/)

69 Don't possum mostly eat ticks or something?
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone


Like other marsupials, they're omnivores. And the caloric value of a tick is negative. IT's not like you can find a nest or anything.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at June 24, 2025 10:24 PM (mlg/3)

70 Delete one thing from Earth that you think would make it better.
-----

Rattlesnakes
Posted by: Legally Sufficient at June 24, 2025 10:15 PM (kB9dk)


So, not a herpetologist?

My deletion comes down to two choices: Commie rat bastards or muzzies. I'll go with muzzies.

Posted by: RickZ at June 24, 2025 10:24 PM (gKDq2)

71 When it comes to deleting stuff, maybe Sowell's caution applies: there are no solutions, only tradeoffs. Delete one thing, screw up something else. 'A Sound of Thunder' perils.

Posted by: Rachel Zegler's Fucking Psychiatrist at June 24, 2025 10:25 PM (5zjm+)

72 Getting rid of any animal or insect would cause some problems somewhere in the food chain.

Except deer flies. They contribute absolutely nothing that could easily be taken up by less irritating critters.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at June 24, 2025 10:25 PM (a4flb)

73 relete: verb, transitive. To delete again.
Posted by: Rachel Zegler's Fucking Psychiatrist

Makes one ponder what to renege is then.
Posted by: Tonypete


Doubling down on pickup artistry.

Posted by: mikeski at June 24, 2025 10:26 PM (DgGvY)

74 When it comes to deleting stuff, maybe Sowell's caution applies: there are no solutions, only tradeoffs. Delete one thing, screw up something else. 'A Sound of Thunder' perils.

Explain the myriad of extinct plants and critters that hasn't ended the world ecology.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at June 24, 2025 10:26 PM (a4flb)

75 When it comes to deleting stuff, maybe Sowell's caution applies: there are no solutions, only tradeoffs. Delete one thing, screw up something else. 'A Sound of Thunder' perils.
Posted by: Rachel Zegler's Fucking Psychiatrist
-------------------------
Browsing history? There's a Hillary joke somewhere in all this deleting talk.

Posted by: scampydog at June 24, 2025 10:27 PM (41CYW)

76 31) The Earth is the way it is because of God’s providence. I don’t trust my understanding over God’s. To quote Max Ehrmann: “whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should.”

His ways are higher than ours, His thoughts higher than ours. Faith is trusting that this is all part of His plan, not a random set of experiences.

Posted by: TecumsehTea at June 24, 2025 10:27 PM (Eo96p)

77 >So NYC has commited suicide.

Only 14 years after 9/11.
-----

check your math

Posted by: Don Black at June 24, 2025 10:27 PM (AOsQT)

78
@SallyGold 2m
NEW:
@andrewcuomo just conceded the Democratic primary for mayor of New York City to @ZohranKMamdani
. Cuomo had universal name ID, a $25M PAC backing him and tons of institutional endorsements. Mamdani is a 33-year-old socialist. The magnitude of this can't be overstated.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at June 24, 2025 10:28 PM (mlg/3)

79 relete: verb, transitive. To delete again.
Posted by: Rachel Zegler's Fucking Psychiatrist


I'm up for forty more days of self-abasement.

I'm relenting.

Posted by: mikeski at June 24, 2025 10:28 PM (DgGvY)

80 Deleting something, ..., hmmmm.

Delete Bruce Springsteen's singing voice unless he is falling down drunk - falling or tripping every few minutes. Perhaps the same for Yoko Ono and Cher.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at June 24, 2025 10:28 PM (S/Y4j)

81 Asimov's review was comfortably framed in his worldview/biases/assumptions vs. a political allegory or political horror warning.

Asimov talked about Orwell's fixation on Stalin and how he couldn't see anything but that, however Asimov himself at the end couldn't conceive of anything but communism winning. He was so smart, but he had no idea of Trumpism taking over. As blind as Orwell, he was.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 24, 2025 10:28 PM (0eaVi)

82 Explain the myriad of extinct plants and critters that hasn't ended the world ecology.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at June 24, 2025 10:26 PM (a4flb)

Every one of those plants and critters going extinct did have an impact elsewhere though. Not enough to make the whole thing go kaboom. But an impact nonetheless.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at June 24, 2025 10:29 PM (+47n7)

83 >Delete one thing from Earth that you think would make it better.
---

islam

Posted by: Don Black at June 24, 2025 10:29 PM (AOsQT)

84 Rattlesnakes

Posted by: Legally Sufficient at June 24, 2025 10:15 PM (kB9dk)

Hey now, let's not do anything hasty.

Posted by: Crotalus Atrox at June 24, 2025 10:29 PM (Brie2)

85 Deleting something, ..., hmmmm.

Bras.

Posted by: Diogenes at June 24, 2025 10:29 PM (W/lyH)

86 Put those tables the goddamn handrails. It's like they screwed it up on purpose.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at June 24, 2025 10:29 PM (3wi/L)

87 Don't possum mostly eat ticks or something?

they are omnivores, if you feel bad for them, throw table scraps and dead squirrels out in the yard and the possums will magically remove them for you.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at June 24, 2025 10:29 PM (a4flb)

88 WAIT
I change my answer

The Dallas Cowboys

Posted by: Don Black at June 24, 2025 10:30 PM (AOsQT)

89 >>Elite mountain bike racers running the Mountain of Hell.


Zero fear and incredible ability. I knew some very fast motocross and enduro riders and they were middling compared to the top riders.

Posted by: 13times at June 24, 2025 10:30 PM (51bfA)

90 >>> 85 Deleting something, ..., hmmmm.

Bras.
Posted by: Diogenes at June 24, 2025 10:29 PM (W/lyH)

Nobody wears them in space!

Posted by: George Lucas at June 24, 2025 10:30 PM (ULPxl)

91 Can I change my answer?
It's ticks I want to delete.

Final answer. Ticks.

Posted by: TecumsehTea at June 24, 2025 10:31 PM (Eo96p)

92 Huxley vs. Orwell: The Webcomic

https://t.ly/Ofu2u
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 24, 2025 10:08 PM (63Dwl)



I like it,
But Orwell and Huxley are both correct on certain aspects.

Orwell was right about changing language for political purposes, cancel culture, surveillance, distorting/rewriting history, pervasive propaganda and Two Minutes Hate.

Huxley was right about distracting entertainment, cultural debauchery, drugs (legal & illegal), technocracy, regimented classes/sexes, and becoming a slave to system based on rewarding pleasure and minimizing pain.

I’ve thought for a long time that we’re living through the formation of a combination of their visions of dystopia.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at June 24, 2025 10:31 PM (6ydKt)

93 Delete one thing from Earth that you think would make it better.

=======

Indiana

Posted by: 2009Refugee at June 24, 2025 10:31 PM (8AONa)

94 they are omnivores, if you feel bad for them, throw table scraps and dead squirrels out in the yard and the possums will magically remove them for you.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at June 24, 2025 10:29 PM (a4flb)


Though they take a little longer on those dead bodies you chuck into the back yard.

Posted by: RickZ at June 24, 2025 10:31 PM (gKDq2)

95 check your math
Posted by: Don Bla

See comment 42, which is 24 backwards Ironically enough. 😄

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at June 24, 2025 10:32 PM (+47n7)

96 Asimov is an insufferable ignorant know-it-all. I've read a lot of his stuff and it is pedestrian and fraught with opinion disguised as fact. He was Wikipedia in human form, which is not a good thing.

Posted by: Minuteman at June 24, 2025 10:32 PM (47/pr)

97 See comment 42, which is 24 backwards Ironically enough. 😄
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at June 24, 2025 10:32 PM (+47n7)


I like that number, 42. I'll work on it.

Posted by: Douglas Adams at June 24, 2025 10:34 PM (gKDq2)

98
Don't possum mostly eat ticks or something?

Yes, but they can't eat ALL of them.

Posted by: TecumsehTea at June 24, 2025 10:34 PM (Eo96p)

99 58 Delete one thing from Earth that would make it better?

Demonic Spirits.

Even God kicked them out of His Holy Presence.

God sure let the devil have his way with Job, up to a point. Do we really know better than God?

Also there is this little scene:

Now there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan came among them.
- Job 1:6 King James Version.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at June 24, 2025 10:34 PM (qgNn3)

100 I'm sick to death of people saying we've made 11 albums that sounds exactly the same, In fact, we've made 12 albums that sound exactly the same.

Angus Young

Posted by: MkY at June 24, 2025 10:35 PM (cPGH3)

101 32 Delete tailgaters. Kill them painfully first.
Posted by: Rachel Zegler's Fucking Psychiatrist


What do you have against people picnicking before football games?

Posted by: nerdygirl at June 24, 2025 10:35 PM (0Htd1)

102 Love the red barn on top. Takes me back. Thanks, scampydog.

Posted by: Official Delurker, former farm girl at June 24, 2025 10:36 PM (liGnN)

103
https://youtu.be/c9iXhPjwY1E
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram

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

in-SANE. My stomach is unhappy.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 24, 2025 10:37 PM (lCaJd)

104 That was “Satan came also among them”.
Sorry I was just typing it out of my Bible and missed a word, may God forgive me. Amen.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at June 24, 2025 10:37 PM (qgNn3)

105 102 Love the red barn on top. Takes me back. Thanks, scampydog.
Posted by: Official Delurker, former farm girl
----------------
Good to see you in the comments. Construction on the barn started in 1949. It was completed in the summer of '50. Allegedly, a number of barn dances were held in the loft over the years.

Posted by: scampydog at June 24, 2025 10:38 PM (41CYW)

106 60 Trump is rubbing it in.

https://is.gd/FwYL66
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Well, This Is Another Fine Mess You've Gotten Me Into


Nice version, they sound a lot like the Beach Boys.

Posted by: nerdygirl at June 24, 2025 10:38 PM (0Htd1)

107
The Yankees and Mets lose. Again!

My sadz face.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 24, 2025 10:38 PM (QnmlO)

108 I've changed my mind.

Let's delete fake food! No more chemical additives or preservatives- they don't seem to keep us alive longer.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at June 24, 2025 10:39 PM (S/Y4j)

109 Cuomo has already conceded....

Posted by: Grateful - the range bag lady at June 24, 2025 10:39 PM (IQ6Gq)

110 Communism. Final answer. The thing is about human nature though is we would come up with something else retarded.

Thanks for the ONT.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 24, 2025 10:14 PM (zZu0s)

The Russians deleted Communism and the Soviet Union. I don't know of any majority muslim country that has managed to delete islam.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 24, 2025 10:39 PM (6eAks)

111 101 Did I pick the wrong word? I actually looked it up before I posted it to be sure Rest assured, I am cool with picnicking, and with rattlesnakes too.

Posted by: Rachel Zegler's Fucking Psychiatrist at June 24, 2025 10:39 PM (5zjm+)

112 93)Delete one thing from Earth that you think would make it better.

=======

Indiana


HEY!!! We live here! Can we get out first?

And what do you have against Indiana??

Posted by: TecumsehTea at June 24, 2025 10:39 PM (Eo96p)

113 Something to delete?

Cavities.

Posted by: Methos at June 24, 2025 10:40 PM (Dnobf)

114 God sure let the devil have his way with Job, up to a point. Do we really know better than God?

I'm assuming that the "it" in the challenge referred to Earth.

As in, delete from Earth that which would make Earth better.

We already have the cheat code: The Devil, The Beast, the False Prophet, Death, Hades and anyone not found in the Book of Life are tossed into the Lake of Fire.

This is part of the New Heavens and New Earth, which is supposed to be absent elements of The Curse.

It would make Earth better. What it does for you spiritually is not addressed in the Challenge.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at June 24, 2025 10:40 PM (a4flb)

115 Statue of Liberty link gets extra points for use of 'eponymous'.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 24, 2025 10:41 PM (XeU6L)

116 Mamdani is a 33-year-old socialist. The magnitude of this can't be overstated.
Posted by: weft cut-loop


The lure of free shit.

Posted by: nerdygirl at June 24, 2025 10:41 PM (0Htd1)

117 HEY!!! We live here! Can we get out first?

And what do you have against Indiana??
Posted by: TecumsehTea


We named the dog Indiana.

Posted by: weft Connery at June 24, 2025 10:41 PM (mlg/3)

118 Delete cancer.

Posted by: 13times at June 24, 2025 10:41 PM (51bfA)

119 "Mamdani is a 33-year-old socialist. The magnitude of this can't be overstated."

Cheating, and/or stupidity? What can explain it?

Posted by: Rachel Zegler's Fucking Psychiatrist at June 24, 2025 10:41 PM (5zjm+)

120 The lure of "free shit"....

Posted by: Grateful - the range bag lady at June 24, 2025 10:42 PM (IQ6Gq)

121 Day 3 of yard work in the books, it’s been so rainy the last three weeks that everything has gotten completely out of control.

Tomorrow it’s hedge trimming time.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 24, 2025 10:42 PM (eJC4F)

122 115 Statue of Liberty link gets extra points for use of 'eponymous'.
Posted by: Mike Hammer
------------
Heh. I smiled when reading it too.

Posted by: scampydog at June 24, 2025 10:42 PM (41CYW)

123 88 WAIT
I change my answer

The Dallas Cowboys

Posted by: Don Black at June 24, 2025 10:30 PM


Even that would have some negative ramifications.

For instance, the other three teams in the NFC East would each be deprived of two walk over games a season!

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at June 24, 2025 10:43 PM (HlyYF)

124 So, the question is, which state will chase off more businesses, NY or CA? The race to crazy is beyond words....

Posted by: Grateful - the range bag lady at June 24, 2025 10:43 PM (IQ6Gq)

125 Zohan Mamdani leading in NY mayoral race. Pervert coumo's democrat party donors couldn't buy the election. Some here ask why I only post politics. I once posted here that I once owned most of the cars the beach boys sang about the 409 and 413 of shutdown not the corvette. Most posters here only want to post their homosexual or incestuous fantasys which I leave to the perverts here.

Posted by: raimondo at June 24, 2025 10:43 PM (1defx)

126 Trump is rubbing it in.

https://is.gd/FwYL66
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Well, This Is Another Fine Mess You've Gotten Me Into at June 24, 2025 10:21 PM (L/fGl)

That B2 bomber is one wicked-looking mfer. If I saw one hauling ass to drop bombs on me, I would need a change of drawers.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 24, 2025 10:43 PM (6eAks)

127 Delete trannies. I don't think this would upset anything.
It would most likely add balance to the world...

Posted by: COMountainMarie at June 24, 2025 10:43 PM (ZwGHJ)

128 "Mamdani is a 33-year-old socialist. The magnitude of this can't be overstated."

Cheating, and/or stupidity? What can explain it?
Posted by: Rachel Zegler's Fucking Psychiatrist at June 24, 2025 10:41 PM (5zjm+)


Well, they got AOC.
Live with it NY.

Posted by: Diogenes at June 24, 2025 10:44 PM (W/lyH)

129 Let's delete fake food! No more chemical additives or preservatives- they don't seem to keep us alive longer.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at June 24, 2025 10:39 PM (S/Y4j)


I read somewhere recently that our life span should be around 120 years. Considering those last 30 or 40 years, I guess the Viagra market gets tumescent, well, gets larger, uh, increases in size. Something like that.

Posted by: RickZ at June 24, 2025 10:44 PM (gKDq2)

130 Tecnically, cavities result from the deletion of tooth enamel, dentin, and cementum. Thus, an example of the hazards of careless deletion. The deleterious effects, one might say.

Posted by: Rachel Zegler's Fucking Psychiatrist at June 24, 2025 10:44 PM (5zjm+)

131 The lure of free shit.
Posted by: nerdygirl at June 24, 2025 10:41 PM (0Htd1)


Has a very strong appeal. Hmmmm.
Not quite. But we're onto something.

Posted by: Don Henley at June 24, 2025 10:44 PM (FCbAQ)

132 Delete one thing from Earth that would make it better?
------

Tough call. It is an existential truth that not just one thing can be changed, without there being other consequences.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 24, 2025 10:44 PM (XeU6L)

133 Sorry I was just typing it out of my Bible and missed a word, may God forgive me.

I dunno, according to Proverbs 30:6, subtracting is one thing, if you added a word then it would look like you are going to Hell.

You may be safe here.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at June 24, 2025 10:45 PM (a4flb)

134
Asimov himself at the end couldn't conceive of anything but communism winning. He was so smart, but he had no idea of Trumpism taking over. As blind as Orwell, he was.
Posted by: OrangeEnt


Trump as The Mule.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 24, 2025 10:46 PM (63Dwl)

135 118 Delete cancer.

Posted by: 13times at June 24, 2025 10:41 PM


I believe the AOS style guide states that the proper rendition is that we Fuck Cancer!

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at June 24, 2025 10:46 PM (HlyYF)

136 Cheating, and/or stupidity? What can explain it?
Posted by: Rachel Zegler's Fucking Psychiatrist


Low voter turnout apparently.

Posted by: weft Connery at June 24, 2025 10:46 PM (mlg/3)

137
Madmani won because he hasn't killed anyone. Yet.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 24, 2025 10:46 PM (QnmlO)

138 Tough call. It is an existential truth that not just one thing can be changed, without there being other consequences.

What a pessimist. There are also consequences of possessing an uncashed winning lottery ticket .

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at June 24, 2025 10:47 PM (a4flb)

139 Earf is fine as it is.

Posted by: 13times at June 24, 2025 10:47 PM (51bfA)

140 137
Madmani won because he hasn't killed anyone. Yet.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh
------------
It's only Tuesday.

Posted by: scampydog at June 24, 2025 10:47 PM (41CYW)

141 ah, I'm just taking a dig at the Cowboys

I was raised on Redskins, the glory days

Posted by: Don Black at June 24, 2025 10:47 PM (AOsQT)

142 Cheating, and/or stupidity? What can explain it?
Posted by: Rachel Zegler's Fucking Psychiatrist at June 24, 2025 10:41 PM (5zjm+)


Definitely NOT cheating.

Thank your local college prof.

{Kicks dirt}

Queens resident in AOC's district.

Posted by: RickZ at June 24, 2025 10:47 PM (gKDq2)

143 Oh hey! I just remembered. If we delete the wrong thing, we can always restore it from the backups. Have at it!

Posted by: Rachel Zegler's Fucking Psychiatrist at June 24, 2025 10:47 PM (5zjm+)

144 Mamdani is a 33-year-old socialist. The magnitude of this can't be overstated.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at June 24, 2025 10:28 PM (mlg/3)

A muznazi. Just like the Grand Mufti before him.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 24, 2025 10:48 PM (6eAks)

145 ***Delete one thing from earth that would make it better***

The person who asks dumb questions.

Posted by: braenyard- Some friends are more equal than others at June 24, 2025 10:48 PM (iXLWn)

146 New York and Sharia Law is going to be an interesting combo.

Posted by: Some Rat at June 24, 2025 10:48 PM (TfUTr)

147 So, the question is, which state will chase off more businesses, NY or CA? The race to crazy is beyond words....
Posted by: Grateful - the range bag lady


* winks *

Posted by: Br'er Texas at June 24, 2025 10:48 PM (DgGvY)

148 "consequences of possessing an uncashed winning lottery ticket."

Thank you! *Burp*

Posted by: Washing Machine at June 24, 2025 10:49 PM (5zjm+)

149 >>>Delete one thing from Earth that you think would make it better.

>Mosquitos. Do they serve some higher purpose of that I am unaware?

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at June 24, 2025 10:49 PM (ioEI6)

150 Every one of those plants and critters going extinct did have an impact elsewhere though. Not enough to make the whole thing go kaboom. But an impact nonetheless.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at June 24, 2025 10:29 PM (+47n7)

The rise of Greyhounds coincided with the extinction of the Passenger pigeons.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 24, 2025 10:49 PM (6eAks)

151 Delete Bruce Springsteen's singing voice unless he is falling down drunk - falling or tripping every few minutes. Perhaps the same for Yoko Ono and Cher.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf


Interesting. The members of AC/DC don't have the best singing voices in the world, but I love their music. Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap is my favorite, Thunderstruck a close second. Okay, maybe somewhat better voice than Springsteen.

Posted by: nerdygirl at June 24, 2025 10:49 PM (0Htd1)

152 Tuesday Night Humor: probably NSFW just to be safe:

https://tinyurl.com/yc4bucn5

Posted by: Ciampino - an old one from my youth at June 24, 2025 10:50 PM (sPQoU)

153 ah, I'm just taking a dig at the Cowboys

I was raised on Redskins, the glory days
Posted by: Don Black at June 24, 2025 10:47 PM (AOsQT)


A classic rivalry!

Posted by: Diogenes at June 24, 2025 10:50 PM (W/lyH)

154 I read somewhere recently that our life span should be around 120 years.

Before the Great Deluge, it was routine to live over seven hundred years.

Imagine all of the scars accumulated over that time. Then imagine all of the knowledge too.

Could you imagine someone like Musk, Einstein, Newton, Mozart if they could practice their craft for half a millenia?

Forget Mars, intergalactic star travel would be common place.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at June 24, 2025 10:50 PM (a4flb)

155 I was raised on Redskins, the glory days

Posted by: Don Black at June 24, 2025 10:47 PM


You must have suffered greatly during their previous ownership where they "Bud Lighted" their own brand.

I don't know how you go so quickly from a 25 year wait list for season tickets to empty seats ... in a city that is getting increasingly wealthy?

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at June 24, 2025 10:50 PM (HlyYF)

156 So, the question is, which state will chase off more businesses, NY or CA? The race to crazy is beyond words....
Posted by: Grateful - the range bag lady at June 24, 2025 10:43 PM (IQ6Gq)


Yeah, and I'm soakin' in it, East Coast version.

As said above, the allure of free shit. With the concept of 'free' being loosely understood.

Posted by: RickZ at June 24, 2025 10:50 PM (gKDq2)

157 "Mosquitos. Do they serve some higher purpose of that I am unaware?"

Bat food.

Posted by: For gp, The Action IS The Juice at June 24, 2025 10:50 PM (5zjm+)

158 >>>Delete one thing from Earth that you think would make it better.

>Mosquitos. Do they serve some higher purpose of that I am unaware?
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at June 24, 2025 10:49 PM (ioEI6)

Food for bats and birds.

Posted by: Count de Monet at June 24, 2025 10:51 PM (wVcYX)

159 Sooo... the Judge who did not like Trump using the National Guard in Calif, is now saying they must turn over to him all the 'records' pertaining to that deployment.

Judges are now Commander in Chief... wowzers.

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 24, 2025 10:52 PM (mP0Kj)

160 Most posters here only want to post their homosexual or incestuous fantasys which I leave to the perverts here.
Posted by: raimondo at June 24, 2025 10:43 PM (1defx)

Well, for you, they aren't fantasies, are they?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 24, 2025 10:52 PM (6eAks)

161 Just cooked up a batch of venison sausage for lunches the rest of the week. Unless a few get eaten this evening.

Posted by: scampydog at June 24, 2025 10:53 PM (41CYW)

162 47 "an impressively long run-on sentence"

O'Henry was the master.
Posted by: Rachel Zegler's Fucking Psychiatrist at June 24, 2025 10:01 PM (5zjm+)

Robert Penn Warren's 'All The King's Men'. I swear one paperback page was a single sentence.

Try Proust: I don’t know how the translators tried to put it in English but one sentence in Du coté de chez Swann (English title: Swann’s Way), the first volume in À la recherche du temps perdu, can go on for several pages!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at June 24, 2025 10:53 PM (qgNn3)

163
Bat food.
Posted by: For gp, The Action IS The Juice

_______

And without bats we wouldn't have a Café. So they're important.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 24, 2025 10:53 PM (QnmlO)

164 92
I like it,
But Orwell and Huxley are both correct on certain aspects...I’ve thought for a long time that we’re living through the formation of a combination of their visions of dystopia.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at June 24, 2025 10:31 PM (6ydKt)
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The best synopsis of Orwell v. Huxley I've ever seen was in a random internet comment years ago. It may have been here, I don't remember, but the comment stuck with me.

"Orwell was afraid of a world where books would be banned. Huxley was afraid of a world where books didn't need to be banned, because nobody would want to read them anyway."

Posted by: Pennsyltucky at June 24, 2025 10:53 PM (QdGJh)

165 Delete one thing...

The designated hitter.
(But Edgar Martinez stays in the HOF.)

Posted by: Diogenes at June 24, 2025 10:53 PM (W/lyH)

166 Evening.

Cuomo conceded to the terrorist.

Posted by: Robert at June 24, 2025 10:53 PM (twcuv)

167 Delete Mosquitoes! No, birds and bats eat them.

I'd get rid of earthquakes. Damnable things!

Posted by: JM in Illinois at June 24, 2025 10:53 PM (vvx7J)

168 105 SD

Cool history of the barn!

My 17-year-old daughter and I were talking today about how our interests can change over the years. I was never much interested in history when I was her age, but now find it quite enjoyable to read, for example, the back story of various things and people.

History certainly doesn't have to be dry! It just seemed so in my school days. I'm glad to have found more "living books" and articles in my adult years that have brought history alive.

Posted by: Official Delurker, former farm girl at June 24, 2025 10:53 PM (liGnN)

169
Her Majesty called in from Fairfield at quarter to 9. She's scheduled to make it to Oklahoma City by about 1 AM.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 24, 2025 10:55 PM (QnmlO)

170 Sooo... the Judge who did not like Trump using the National Guard in Calif, is now saying they must turn over to him all the 'records' pertaining to that deployment.

The "Judge" is an enemy of We The People and is collecting intelligence to be used to thwart future NG efforts.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at June 24, 2025 10:55 PM (a4flb)

171 The rise of Greyhounds coincided with the extinction of the Passenger pigeons.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 24, 2025 10:49 PM


I still don't grasp that extinction.

Hunting and loss of habitat don't seem like enough to me for a species that blackened the skies.

If you get out of the cities, there are vast areas barely touched by humans and tons of relict habitat of all types.

Tis a mystery to me!

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at June 24, 2025 10:56 PM (HlyYF)

172 Good evening Horde and thanks Doggo!

Posted by: TRex at June 24, 2025 10:56 PM (IQ6Gq)

173 >Cuomo conceded to the terrorist.

Posted by: Robert
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and since it's NYC, the Dem candidate is a lead pipe cinch

Posted by: Don Black at June 24, 2025 10:57 PM (AOsQT)

174 Good evening Horde and thanks Doggo!

Posted by: TRex
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Dino!

Posted by: scampydog at June 24, 2025 10:57 PM (41CYW)

175 Delete one thing from Earth that would make it better?
-----------------------------

The a. What purpose does it serve?

Posted by: ... at June 24, 2025 10:57 PM (E0p3T)

176 As said above, the allure of free shit. With the concept of 'free' being loosely understood.
Posted by: RickZ


Yeah, "free" actually means that someone else has to pay for it, namely us.

Posted by: nerdygirl at June 24, 2025 10:58 PM (0Htd1)

177 I still don't grasp that extinction.

Hunting and loss of habitat don't seem like enough to me for a species that blackened the skies.

If you get out of the cities, there are vast areas barely touched by humans and tons of relict habitat of all types.

Tis a mystery to me!
Posted by: Pillage Idiot at June 24, 2025 10:56 PM (HlyYF)

I wonder if there was a disease carried by the european rock dove (the common nasty street pigeon), that went through an already-diminished population of passenger pigeons?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 24, 2025 10:58 PM (6eAks)

178 Delete one thing from Earth that would make it better?

Stupid, arrogant people in charge of things.

Posted by: Count de Monet at June 24, 2025 10:58 PM (wVcYX)

179 An example of putative plagiarism, or great minds thinking alike, is the similarity between Yevgeny Zamyatin’s We and Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World. As Huxley’s biographer I often find myself giving talks that involve, as surely as autumn leaves begin to fall, someone popping up at question time to scold me for being unaware that Huxley stole his idea from Zamyatin. The last time this happened, at a colloquy in Bandol in April 2020, I was rather alarmed by the vehemence of the young man who was lecturing me outside the lecture hall on my scandalous refusal to admit the theft [...]

Posted by: 13times at June 24, 2025 10:58 PM (51bfA)

180 I'm in the reclining chair right now with Gutfeld on.

Mom's dog Ralphy is resting by the end of the bed. I'm trying to drag him happily to 2026.

And my friends' cat Snowflake is here sleeping with Ralphy, not cuddling, but in contact.

Worst threesome ever

Posted by: Stateless.. 43% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back now at June 24, 2025 10:58 PM (jvJvP)

181 Delete one thing from Earth that would make it better?

India.

Posted by: Naqamel at June 24, 2025 10:59 PM (72SPe)

182 Asimov's line here: One person cannot watch more than one person in full concentration, and can only do so for a comparatively short time before attention begins to wander. I should guess, in short, that there may have to be five watchers for every person watched. And then, of course, the watchers must themselves be watched since no one in the Orwellian world is suspicion-free.
Consequently, the system of oppression by two-way television simply will not work.


This is an astoundingly stupid comment for someone reviewing the book in 1980 when the German Democratic Republic was at its peak.

Posted by: gKWVE at June 24, 2025 10:59 PM (gKWVE)

183 Delete one thing from earth that would make it better

Aside from people? Societally destructive dogma.

Posted by: Go big or go home at June 24, 2025 10:59 PM (TbWk/)

184 SpaceX Dragon launch with crew for the space station in about 3 1/2 hours.

https://www.youtube.com/live/QTrXauSMm5c

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at June 24, 2025 10:59 PM (J+OHH)

185 Howdy Hordelings! Thanks to scampydog for the meandering ONT!

Posted by: Doof at June 24, 2025 11:00 PM (RFPHU)

186 and since it's NYC, the Dem candidate is a lead pipe cinch
Posted by: Don Black at June 24, 2025 10:57 PM (AOsQT)

Well, there is time for dissident Dems to have him whacked, because that's how they roll.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 24, 2025 11:00 PM (6eAks)

187 I wonder if there was a disease carried by the european rock dove (the common nasty street pigeon), that went through an already-diminished population of passenger pigeons?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 24, 2025 10:58 PM


Yep.

I think some type of avian flu virus is much more likely to wipe out a strongly communal bird species.

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at June 24, 2025 11:01 PM (HlyYF)

188 Howdy Hordelings! Thanks to scampydog for the meandering ONT!
Posted by: Doof
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Just looking for my tennis ball, Disco.

Posted by: scampydog at June 24, 2025 11:01 PM (41CYW)

189 Delete one thing from Earth that would make it better?

Stupid, arrogant people in charge of things.
Posted by: Count de Monet at June 24, 2025 10:58 PM (wVcYX)

Then we'd have nobody in charge. Whether that's a good thing or not is certainly debatable.

Posted by: Power attracts the stupid and arrogant at June 24, 2025 11:01 PM (TbWk/)

190 >>>The a. What purpose does it serve?

Posted by: ...

>I hear the silent screams of millions of Canadians. Are they supposed to embrace the e? eh?

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at June 24, 2025 11:01 PM (ioEI6)

191 Delete one thing...

The tilde on the keyboard.
WTF???
Fifty years of typing and I've never used.it.

Posted by: Diogenes at June 24, 2025 11:02 PM (W/lyH)

192 183 Delete one thing from earth that would make it better

How are there not 3 posts saying Islam?

Posted by: Stateless.. 43% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back now at June 24, 2025 11:03 PM (jvJvP)

193 Yay, sun is finally below the horizon.

It's as if a heat lamp has been switched off, LOL.

Posted by: JQ at June 24, 2025 11:03 PM (rdVOm)

194 That's a very nice barn in the top pic. My little old barn is also red with an aluminum roof, but not nearly so big. Only 23 by 30 feet. But it's 110 years old.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 24, 2025 11:03 PM (6eAks)

195 New York and Sharia Law is going to be an interesting combo.
Posted by: Some Rat at June 24, 2025 10:48 PM (TfUTr)


Yeah, now that I think about that Hispanic gay bar down the block (which used to be a white bar). That just tells you the changes in demographics in the neighborhood. Originally, way back in the late 60sw/early '70s, the neighborhood was the first 'garden apartment' neighborhood and was considered one of the first 'gay' neighborhoods. Back then it was German/Jewish/Irish and, being a short commute to the City, popular with the Manhattan working crowd, too. Now it's pick a Central/South American country. This was the first year I don't remember any official Hispanic country parades in my neighborhood as in past summers, like the Ecuadorian one or the Bolivian one; we didn't have just Mexicans.

From what I read, Mamdani does support shari'a, but that could be bullshit. But he is a muzzie/commie. Only been a citizen since 2018.

Damn those 'interesting times'.

Posted by: RickZ at June 24, 2025 11:03 PM (gKDq2)

196 The tilde on the keyboard.
WTF???
Fifty years of typing and I've never used.it.
Posted by: Diogenes
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Only thing I used it for was Lotus Notes. I don't recall why. I'm 29, really.

Posted by: scampydog at June 24, 2025 11:04 PM (41CYW)

197 How are there not 3 posts saying Islam?
Posted by: Stateless.. 43% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back now at June 24, 2025 11:03 PM (jvJvP)

I think there are, if you read closely.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 24, 2025 11:04 PM (6eAks)

198 Delete one thing...

The designated hitter.
(But Edgar Martinez stays in the HOF.)
Posted by: Diogenes at June 24, 2025 10:53 PM (W/lyH)


Please also delete analytics and return the strike zone to one that makes hitters actually hit amd not just uppercut swing for the fences. 60s/70s strike zone please and thank you.

Posted by: Doof at June 24, 2025 11:04 PM (RFPHU)

199 The Earth is the way it is because of God’s providence. I don’t trust my understanding over God’s. To quote Max Ehrmann: “whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should.”
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit
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So, Inshallah.

Alright.

Posted by: buddhaha at June 24, 2025 11:04 PM (4ETSN)

200 Speaking of things in June.

Just Own It.
@JustOwnItIsrael Jun 19
I have a weird feeling this entire thing will reach its crescendo on the 3rd of Tamuz.

The Yartzheit of the Lubavitcher Rebbe.

It will the 18th or 19th (or 20th instance) of @realDonaldTrump "coincidentally" helping Jews and/or Israel on a Chabad holiday.

https://tinyurl.com/37cz6u35

Posted by: braenyard- Some friends are more equal than others at June 24, 2025 11:05 PM (iXLWn)

201 I think there are, if you read closely.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 24, 2025 11:04 PM (6eAk

That's how I found this place.

Posted by: Stateless.. 43% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back now at June 24, 2025 11:06 PM (jvJvP)

202
*snap!*

Got it...toenail fungus.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 24, 2025 11:06 PM (XeU6L)

203 Judges are now Commander in Chief... wowzers.
Posted by: Romeo13 at June 24, 2025 10:52 PM (mP0Kj)


This reminds me so much of what recently happened in Brazil and Romania: Unelected judges/courts becoming or determining government. This will not end well.

Posted by: RickZ at June 24, 2025 11:07 PM (gKDq2)

204 To quote Max Ehrmann: “whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should.”

I thought that was Harold Lin from Harold and Kumar.

Posted by: gKWVE at June 24, 2025 11:07 PM (gKWVE)

205 The tilde on the keyboard.
WTF???
Fifty years of typing and I've never used.it.
Posted by: Diogenes
----

Only because maths is banned.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 24, 2025 11:08 PM (XeU6L)

206 @173

>> and since it's NYC, the Dem candidate is a lead pipe cinch

I think Sliwa is going to drop out and get behind Adams as will most of the saner factions.

I think NYC can hold off the muzzie this time but after Adams, all bets are off.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 24, 2025 11:08 PM (XV/Pl)

207 I have a weird feeling this entire thing will reach its crescendo on the 3rd of Tamuz.

The Yartzheit of the Lubavitcher Rebbe.

It will the 18th or 19th (or 20th instance) of @realDonaldTrump "coincidentally" helping Jews and/or Israel on a Chabad holiday.

https://tinyurl.com/37cz6u35
Posted by: braenyard- Some friends are more equal than others at June 24, 2025 11:05 PM (iXLWn)

That is this coming Sunday.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 24, 2025 11:08 PM (6eAks)

208 Asimov: "I remembered almost nothing's of the book [1984] and said so". If a brilliant man such as
Asimov can forget a book, then I don't feel so bad.

Posted by: JM in Illinois at June 24, 2025 11:08 PM (vvx7J)

209 "Got a quote you like...?"

On a wall, at the music store I worked at in college, hung a poster with a quote from a speech Teddy Roosevelt had given (paraphrased):

"Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered with failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the grey twilight that knows not victory nor defeat."

Posted by: Official Delurker, music teacher at June 24, 2025 11:09 PM (liGnN)

210
At this moment, it is hotter in Boston than Las Vegas. 92 vs 90.

Posted by: Soothsayer at June 24, 2025 11:09 PM (JlJns)

211 The English title of À la recherche du temps perdu is rendered as Remembrance of Things Past, but is literally In Search of Lost Time, and is mostly about involuntary memory. The most famous example is the “madeleine episode” which occurs early on in the first volume (of seven). In it the person telling the tale, presumably Marcel Proust himself, eats a madeleine dunked in his tea and remembers a whole episode from his childhood: it is delightfully told, but Proust can not seem to find a place to end his sentences and could apparently write the whole book without the need for a single period (he does end his sentences, but only after several pages)!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at June 24, 2025 11:09 PM (qgNn3)

212 The tilde on the keyboard.
WTF???
Fifty years of typing and I've never used.it.
Posted by: Diogenes


Everyone says they don't use it. Tilde do.

Posted by: Doof at June 24, 2025 11:09 PM (RFPHU)

213 That's a very nice barn in the top pic. My little old barn is also red with an aluminum roof, but not nearly so big. Only 23 by 30 feet. But it's 110 years old.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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The wood/framing in old barns is always cool too.

Posted by: scampydog at June 24, 2025 11:09 PM (41CYW)

214 Got it...toenail fungus.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 24, 2025 11:06 PM (XeU6L)

"Tony L. Fungus" would be a great name for a pro wrestling heel.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 24, 2025 11:09 PM (6eAks)

215 @196

>> Only thing I used it for was Lotus Notes. I don't recall why. I'm 29, really.

The tilde signifies the home directory on Unix/Linux systems.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 24, 2025 11:10 PM (XV/Pl)

216 Judges are now Commander in Chief... wowzers.
Posted by: Romeo13 at June 24, 2025 10:52 PM (mP0Kj)

This reminds me so much of what recently happened in Brazil and Romania: Unelected judges/courts becoming or determining government. This will not end well.
Posted by: RickZ at June 24, 2025 11:07 PM (gKDq2)


Spot on.
We do not live under judicial fiat.
Stay in your lane judges. Get the fu*k outta mine.

Posted by: Diogenes at June 24, 2025 11:10 PM (W/lyH)

217 Delete one thing from Earth that you think would make it better.
=======
Indiana
Posted by: 2009Refugee
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Then how would I get from Ohio to Illinois?
.....
Wait. Nevermind.

Posted by: buddhaha at June 24, 2025 11:11 PM (4ETSN)

218 212 The tilde on the keyboard.
WTF???
Fifty years of typing and I've never used.it.
Posted by: Diogenes

Everyone says they don't use it. Tilde do.
Posted by: Doof at June 24, 2025 11:09 PM (RFPHU)

It's used to open cheat menus in a lot of games....

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 24, 2025 11:11 PM (mP0Kj)

219 The Internet.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 24, 2025 11:11 PM (FQTl0)

220 At this moment, it is hotter in Boston than Las Vegas. 92 vs 90.
Posted by: Soothsayer at June 24, 2025 11:09 PM (JlJns)


Here in northeastern MD, it's mid 90s and about a million percent humidity.

Posted by: Doof at June 24, 2025 11:11 PM (RFPHU)

221 Everyone says they don't use it. Tilde do.
Posted by: Doof at June 24, 2025 11:09 PM (RFPHU)


Well played.

Posted by: Diogenes at June 24, 2025 11:12 PM (W/lyH)

222 The wood/framing in old barns is always cool too.
Posted by: scampydog at June 24, 2025 11:09 PM (41CYW)

My poor barn is becoming racked. "Parallelogram-ing" on its long axis. I have a rescue plan in mind, involving chains and come-a-longs.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 24, 2025 11:12 PM (6eAks)

223 We used to have large Magpie flocks (troops?) here in the North Sacramento Valley until West Nile Virus killed every last one of them Haven't seen one in twenty five years. Damn shame

You'd think the Sierra Club and Friends of the Earf would get involved. Nah.

Posted by: 13times at June 24, 2025 11:14 PM (51bfA)

224 The Internet.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice
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What would I be famous/infamous for?

Posted by: Al Bore at June 24, 2025 11:15 PM (41CYW)

225 Gas shot up 40 cents here seemingly overnight.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 24, 2025 11:16 PM (YUL+W)

226 To quote Max Ehrmann: “whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should.”

I thought that was Harold Lin from Harold and Kumar.

It’s from Max Ehrmann’s poem Desiderata, copyright 1927. No, it’s not anonymous, nor dating from the 1600s, that was just someone’s conceit!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at June 24, 2025 11:17 PM (qgNn3)

227 My poor barn is becoming racked. "Parallelogram-ing" on its long axis. I have a rescue plan in mind, involving chains and come-a-longs.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 24, 2025 11:12 PM (6eAks)


"come-a-longs"

That a pretty long winded way of saying 'slaves'.

Posted by: RickZ at June 24, 2025 11:17 PM (gKDq2)

228 Don't know how true it is, but I heard a story from someone who had supposedly been inside 33 Thomas Street that the fluorescent lights inside the building would dim or brighten depending upon the status of the sunshine outside the building.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at June 24, 2025 11:17 PM (CzRQ3)

229 The Earth is the way it is because of God’s providence.

Actually it's the way it is because of god's curse on creation, if you believe Genesis. Adam and Eve, the perfect original humans, were fuckups and everybody and everything since has been under punishment for it.

Posted by: Kind of a raw deal at June 24, 2025 11:18 PM (TbWk/)

230 There was a quote I read one time, by whom, I don't remember, that apparently resonated so much with me that I wrote it down.

"If what you did yesterday still looks big today, then you haven't done much today."

I'd look at that quote when I was feeling lazy, hoping it would motivate me. I'm not sure it ever did.

Now I think of that quote and think, "Ugh!" What a horrible mindset -- and dangerous for a perfectionist like me -- to adopt: that idea that you must be relentless in outdoing yourself every single day!

No thank you.

Posted by: Official Delurker, enjoys some quotes, then sometimes reconsiders at June 24, 2025 11:18 PM (liGnN)

231 Parallelogram-ing" on its long axis. I have a rescue plan in mind, involving chains and come-a-longs.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 24, 2025 11:12 PM (6eAks)


The Paolo he, as you say, come-a-long.

Posted by: The Paolo at June 24, 2025 11:19 PM (TbWk/)

232 I hope the new Communist goat fucker mayor of quiet city Gotham follows through with the old Leftist threat of crippling exit taxes once the capital flight starts. Rob those rats blind as they flee the ship.

100% confiscation. Do it, Ahab. Do it. You know you want it. The power of Allah and Marx compels you.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 24, 2025 11:19 PM (FQTl0)

233 223

I have waaay too many Magpies. I'll send you some😐

Posted by: COMountainMarie at June 24, 2025 11:19 PM (ZwGHJ)

234 The tilde on the keyboard.
WTF???
Fifty years of typing and I've never used.it.
Posted by: Diogenes


I used to use it a lot on a typewriter, but then again, I was a Spanish major.

Posted by: Kindltot at June 24, 2025 11:19 PM (D7oie)

235 A tilde is also used to connote approximate.

'~$20, same as in town.'

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 24, 2025 11:19 PM (YUL+W)

236 That a pretty long winded way of saying 'slaves'.
Posted by: RickZ at June 24, 2025 11:17 PM (gKDq2)

Heh! A come-a-long is just a jack that pulls instead of pushes.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 24, 2025 11:21 PM (6eAks)

237 I didn't know that building existed. Appears to be the inspiration for a lot of dystopian/post-apocalyptic settings like the megastructures in Judge Dredd.

Posted by: Brutalism is miserable at June 24, 2025 11:21 PM (TbWk/)

238 "Got a quote you like...?"

In Thompson Library at THE Ohio State University in the 70's, up in the stacks there was a quote scratched into the paint:

Why did Ulysses kill the Cyclops?

Because they didn't see eye to eye.


*HeyOhhhhhhhh!!*

(I have no idea who did that. Really*

Posted by: Tonypete at June 24, 2025 11:21 PM (cYBz/)

239 Renege must be to nege again: does that mean it’s going to snow?
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at June 24, 2025 10:22

OMG that brings back memories. Anyone ever play the card game pitch?

In our younger days we'd play pitch on the plane, across the aisle w/ another couple we vacationed with. Well for some reason we had a few drinks before this one flight.

Nance thought she really caught someone and loudly announced to all around us...you renegerrer! And we quickly made that our last game on that flight.

Posted by: Farmer, with his own historical take at June 24, 2025 11:22 PM (55Qr6)

240 Heh! A come-a-long is just a jack that pulls instead of pushes.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 24, 2025 11:21 PM (6eAks)

The Paolo, he think this is, a how you say, a-too easy.

Posted by: The Paolo at June 24, 2025 11:22 PM (TbWk/)

241 Electoral shenanigans in NYC?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 24, 2025 11:22 PM (YUL+W)

242 B-2 cockpit view, from the A-10 coloring book, appears that the pilot has extremely poor exterior visibility.

Posted by: braenyard- Some friends are more equal than others at June 24, 2025 11:23 PM (iXLWn)

243 I bet once Osama bin Lenin gets rolling, NYers will pine for the bad old days when the Board of Estimate could check a mayor.

Too late, sorry fags!!

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 24, 2025 11:23 PM (FQTl0)

244 Evenin'

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at June 24, 2025 11:23 PM (sAmhv)

245 >>"If what you did yesterday still looks big today, then you haven't done much today."
---------

But... what if I'm so stiff & sore after yesterday, that I can *barely move* today?

I mean, that's my reality now.

Posted by: JQ at June 24, 2025 11:23 PM (rdVOm)

246 History should be deleted. There's no future in it.

Posted by: Hands Of Time at June 24, 2025 11:24 PM (G5+As)

247 It can be Wawa Hoagiefest lunch time

Posted by: Skip at June 24, 2025 11:24 PM (K2nuz)

248 I bet once Osama bin Lenin gets rolling, NYers will pine for the bad old days when the Board of Estimate could check a mayor.

Too late, sorry fags!!
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 24, 2025 11:23 PM (FQTl0)

Man! That's a great epithet for the commuzzinist.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 24, 2025 11:24 PM (6eAks)

249 But... what if I'm so stiff & sore after yesterday, that I can *barely move* today?

I mean, that's my reality now.
Posted by: JQ
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See? All that shimmying in the Club!

Posted by: scampydog at June 24, 2025 11:25 PM (41CYW)

250 I have waaay too many Magpies.


They're big beautiful birds - then again I think brash, rude, boisterous, squawky scrub jays are awesome.

Posted by: 13times at June 24, 2025 11:26 PM (51bfA)

251 I read 1984 while I was in Junior High. No it was not a class assignment: I just read it. I was reading a lot back then: I remember I read War and Peace in two weeks because that was when it was due back at the library. Anyway, I read 1984 and wished I hadn’t: it is depressing! I intentionally try not to think of episodes from the book or watch any movies based on it because it is so depressing! YMMV.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at June 24, 2025 11:27 PM (qgNn3)

252 It can be Wawa Hoagiefest lunch time
Posted by: Skip at June 24, 2025 11:24 PM (K2nuz)

Wawa is a town, that, if you are going to be Tits Up On The Pavement, is the place to be:

https://youtu.be/HhZTs6ZpvJw

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 24, 2025 11:28 PM (6eAks)

253 See? All that shimmying in the Club!
Posted by: scampydog
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Nope. Wasn't the shimmying...

Was from counting my tips, later.

Posted by: JQ at June 24, 2025 11:28 PM (rdVOm)

254 Electoral shenanigans in NYC?
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 24, 2025 11:22 PM (YUL+W)


See my # 142.

Posted by: RickZ at June 24, 2025 11:28 PM (gKDq2)

255 Good evening morons и спасибо Doggo

That Eurythmics album was one of the few cassettes I had with me in the Soviet Union. It got a lot of play.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 24, 2025 11:28 PM (RIvkX)

256 I haven't looked into an ONT since 2015 for a lot of reasons. It warms my heart to see that there are still a few names I recognize in the comments here.

Posted by: StPatrick_TN at June 24, 2025 11:28 PM (kBsLu)

257 I haven't looked into an ONT since 2015 for a lot of reasons. It warms my heart to see that there are still a few names I recognize in the comments here.
Posted by: StPatrick_TN at June 24, 2025 11:28 PM (kBsLu)

I remember that nic! Welcome back!

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 24, 2025 11:29 PM (6eAks)

258 256 I haven't looked into an ONT since 2015 for a lot of reasons. It warms my heart to see that there are still a few names I recognize in the comments here.
Posted by: StPatrick_TN
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Welcome back. Glad you stopped in.

Posted by: scampydog at June 24, 2025 11:29 PM (41CYW)

259 My poor barn is becoming racked. "Parallelogram-ing" on its long axis. I have a rescue plan in mind, involving chains and come-a-longs.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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I'm thinking that this may be sort of an Archimedes Lever issue.

Enough dead men, maybe. I dunno. I'm a EE.

Posted by: buddhaha at June 24, 2025 11:31 PM (4ETSN)

260 Al Huxley had a brother, Julien. They definitely wanted to use drugs and hypnosis to change human behavior. When you drill down on a lot of these guys history - like HG Wells or Huxley you’ll find interesting connections with all sorts of strange cats. Aleister Crowley, members of spook intelligence agencies, etc.

You can see their influence on agencies and secret societies decades later, and events and trends in this country, if you know what you’re looking at.

Posted by: Common Tater at June 24, 2025 11:31 PM (Rimwk)

261 Alberta Oil Peon

You were one I recognized immediately.

Posted by: StPatrick_TN at June 24, 2025 11:31 PM (kBsLu)

262 SD & JQ, 249 & 253

:-)

Posted by: Official Delurker, enjoys some quotes, then sometimes reconsiders at June 24, 2025 11:32 PM (liGnN)

263 Alberta Oil Peon

You were one I recognized immediately.
Posted by: StPatrick_TN at June 24, 2025 11:31 PM (kBsLu)

Awwww... (turns pink)

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 24, 2025 11:33 PM (6eAks)

264 Good night, horde. Bedtime soon, before seeing Grandbabies #3 & 4 tomorrow -- the 14-month and 1-month babes.

On the weekend we will meet Grandbaby #5, who is a whole 24 hours old now.

Joyful times.

Posted by: Official Delurker loves her grands at June 24, 2025 11:33 PM (liGnN)

265 I'm thinking that this may be sort of an Archimedes Lever issue.

Enough dead men, maybe. I dunno. I'm a EE.
Posted by: buddhaha at June 24, 2025 11:31 PM (4ETSN)

We'd best not talk about Archimedes Screw.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 24, 2025 11:33 PM (6eAks)

266
Grandbabies are awesome.

Posted by: four seasons at June 24, 2025 11:35 PM (3ek7K)

267 Praise Allah for NYC and the next mayor of New Jack City !

Ayatollah Zohran Mamdani !!!!!!!!!


Start spreading the news... We are leaving tonight
I don't want to be a part of it.... New York New York...
An Islamic Temple on Park Ave.....
And a Murial of the Ayatollah on the UN building...
And Death to America Parkway leading to Wall Street...

Posted by: CNN Breaking News at June 24, 2025 11:35 PM (aKoaI)

268 NYC is about to get deleted.

Well, may the voters get everything they voted for, good and hard.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at June 24, 2025 11:36 PM (sAmhv)

269 The first time I read 1984 I thought that Big Brother was the protagonist and that it would be a great idea if everyone dressed in uniforms.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 24, 2025 11:36 PM (RIvkX)

270 However, I think Huxley in Brave New World had a better lead on how the world may go wrong: see the comic book comparison of Orwell and Huxley linked above at comment 19, and discussed quite well at comment 92, among others.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at June 24, 2025 11:36 PM (qgNn3)

271 ~ it’s OK, use it sometimes

Posted by: Common Tater at June 24, 2025 11:37 PM (Rimwk)

272 My poor barn is becoming racked. "Parallelogram-ing" on its long axis. I have a rescue plan in mind, involving chains and come-a-longs.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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I'm thinking that this may be sort of an Archimedes Lever issue.

Enough dead men, maybe. I dunno. I'm a EE.
Posted by: buddhaha

My adivice: Do the initial straightening from OUTSIDE the building.

Posted by: Some Rat at June 24, 2025 11:37 PM (TfUTr)

273 266 "Grandbabies are awesome."

Indeed they are, four seasons.

Posted by: Official Delurker loves her grands at June 24, 2025 11:37 PM (liGnN)

274 That Eurythmics album was one of the few cassettes I had with me in the Soviet Union. It got a lot of play.
Posted by: San Franpsycho
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What year(s) were you in the Soviet Union? How long were you there?

Posted by: scampydog at June 24, 2025 11:38 PM (41CYW)

275 Hunting and loss of habitat don't seem like enough to me for a species that blackened the skies.

If you get out of the cities, there are vast areas barely touched by humans and tons of relict habitat of all types.

Tis a mystery to me!
Posted by: Pillage Idiot at June 24, 2025 10:56 PM (HlyYF)
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Hunting. practices and improved weapons almost caused extinction of several species which resulted in the emergence of hunting clubs promoting habits that would ensure continuance of the species.

Posted by: braenyard- Some friends are more equal than others at June 24, 2025 11:38 PM (iXLWn)

276
I have four grandbabies, 11, 6, 4 and 2. Ain't nothing better than those babies.

Posted by: four seasons at June 24, 2025 11:39 PM (3ek7K)

277 Just here to say one thing after reading about half of that review of 1984 by Asimov...f*** Isaac Asimov. Damned commie apologist.

Posted by: Wtp at June 24, 2025 11:40 PM (4cfLi)

278 A tilde is also used to connote approximate.
'~$20, same as in town.'
Posted by: Aetius451AD
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"Connote" because to denote "approximate" requires a non-existent ASCII character: a dash with the tilde above it, or the equal sign with the top straight line replaced by the tilde.

Posted by: buddhaha at June 24, 2025 11:41 PM (4ETSN)

279 Al Huxley had a brother, Julien. They definitely wanted to use drugs and hypnosis to change human behavior. When you drill down on a lot of these guys history - like HG Wells or Huxley you’ll find interesting connections with all sorts of strange cats. Aleister Crowley, members of spook intelligence agencies, etc.

You can see their influence on agencies and secret societies decades later, and events and trends in this country, if you know what you’re looking at.
Posted by: Common Tater at June 24, 2025 11:31 PM (Rimwk)


I used to think of Crowely as a clownshow. Now I view him as a . . . facilitator for whomever wants to control the population of this planet, reducing said population first.

My first real eye-opener on connections was the 2004 election: Skull and Crossbones (R) vs. Skull and Crossbones (D).

Then I looked into the network talking heads/government officials marriage list. Hol-lee crap! That's the one that really got me. (Thank you Ray and Dave Davies for the assist.)

Posted by: RickZ at June 24, 2025 11:41 PM (gKDq2)

280 Hezbollah and Hamas have decided to move their HQ to NYC with the election of one of the brothers...

Posted by: CNN Breaking News at June 24, 2025 11:41 PM (aKoaI)

281 Doesn't sound like it's going well

@ElectionWiz 17m
NEW: Andrew Cuomo says he is considering an independent bid for NYC mayor Per NYT

Posted by: weft Connery at June 24, 2025 11:41 PM (mlg/3)

282 Think I'll say g'nite, y'all.

G'nite, y'all.

Posted by: mindful webworker - there, I said it at June 24, 2025 11:41 PM (XEisV)

283 Nobody gets my bilingual joke about: nege/neige?

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at June 24, 2025 11:42 PM (qgNn3)

284
Start spreading the news... We are leaving tonight
I don't want to be a part of it.... New York New York...


You are my wife
Good bye, city life
Green Acres we are there

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 24, 2025 11:43 PM (63Dwl)

285 I suspect Skull and Bones are in communication with the gentleman who asked God’s permission to try Job.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at June 24, 2025 11:44 PM (qgNn3)

286 The 20th hijacker just won the NYC primary

Posted by: Frank Barone at June 24, 2025 11:45 PM (/U7tb)

287
@ElectionWiz 17m
NEW: Andrew Cuomo says he is considering an independent bid for NYC mayor Per NYT
Posted by: weft Connery


Isn't Eric Adams already running as an independent?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 24, 2025 11:46 PM (63Dwl)

288
New York, New York
A pure Hell of a town
The air is brown and the mayor is brown
The voters ran it straight into the ground

Manhattan women are dressed in burqas of satin
Or so the imams say
There's just one thing that's important in Manhattan
When you have just one day
Gotta snatch up a wife!
Or seven!
Or eight!

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 24, 2025 11:46 PM (FQTl0)

289 "If what you did yesterday still looks big today, then you haven't done much today."


This probably applies to people who post.

Posted by: Diogenes at June 24, 2025 11:46 PM (W/lyH)

290 NewYorkihstan.

It will be just like the London mayor.

Posted by: Frank Barone at June 24, 2025 11:47 PM (/U7tb)

291 "When all is said and done, there's a lot more said than done." - Alfred E. Neumann -

"Some minds are like cement - All mixed up and permanently set." - Salada Tea Bags

Posted by: Persnickety at June 24, 2025 11:48 PM (jJdyX)

292 It will be just like the London mayor.
Posted by: Frank Barone

My thoughts exactly.

Posted by: Some Rat at June 24, 2025 11:49 PM (TfUTr)

293 Was 103 here today

Did as often advised "Go jump in a lake"

Daiquiris are on the House

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbc_LxfhSoY

Posted by: Miklos, preparing for the Limbo Competition at June 24, 2025 11:50 PM (UYy+W)

294 on a Chabad holiday.

https://tinyurl.com/37cz6u35
Posted by: braenyard- Some friends are more equal than others at June 24, 2025 11:05 PM (iXLWn)

That is this coming Sunday.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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There are other posts speaking of special things happening at that time.

Posted by: braenyard- Some friends are more equal than others at June 24, 2025 11:51 PM (iXLWn)

295 It will be just like the London mayor.
Posted by: Frank Barone

My thoughts exactly.
Posted by: Some Rat at June 24, 2025 11:49 PM (TfUTr)
***

NY is so fu*ked.
Now, how to isolate it???

Posted by: Diogenes at June 24, 2025 11:51 PM (W/lyH)

296 My adivice: Do the initial straightening from OUTSIDE the building.
Posted by: Some Rat at June 24, 2025 11:37 PM (TfUTr)

Exactly what I have planned.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 24, 2025 11:51 PM (6eAks)

297 1984-1985, six-week course

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 24, 2025 11:51 PM (RIvkX)

298 NYC is about to get deleted.

Well, may the voters get everything they voted for, good and hard.
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at June 24, 2025 11:36 PM (sAmhv)


As NY is a closed primary state and this was a Democrat primary, I couldn't vote, so I'm on the sidelines watching the train wreck in slow motion as it's crashing around me. It'll speed up soon. Oh the joys this city's about to experience. Just can't wait for him to follow through on his campaign promise to take cops out of high crime neighborhoods. Said it before, this Destructoid is going to kill this City. Crime, already high, is about to go through the roof. Add in his promise to turn the subways into homeless shelters and there's your recipe for disaster. {Shrugs}

Posted by: RickZ at June 24, 2025 11:53 PM (gKDq2)

299 People of New York! Hear me now and think about it later-

I'm DONE with you. I had empathy for you after 9/11, but in the end, you didn't learn a thing. Best of luck to you.

Posted by: Don Black at June 24, 2025 11:53 PM (AOsQT)

300 290 NewYorkihstan.

It will be just like the London mayor.
Posted by: Frank Barone at June 24, 2025 11:47 PM (/U7tb)

I've seen the lights go out on Broadway
I saw the mighty skyline fall
The boats were waiting at the battery
The union went on strike
They never sailed at all...

Posted by: Joe Kidd at June 24, 2025 11:55 PM (bA75n)

301

A vehicle carrier transporting hundreds of Chinese electric vehicles (EV) sank in the Pacific Ocean after catching fire, fueling renewed concerns about the hazard associated with EV batteries, The Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday.

The Morning Midas was carrying approximately 3,000 cars, including around 800 EVs, most of which were manufactured in China, according to the WSJ. While the exact cause of the fire is still under investigation, lithium-ion batteries used in many EVs are known to be highly flammable, and have been linked to similar maritime incidents in the past.

The ship had been drifting in the ocean after a fire broke out on June 3, prompting the crew to abandon the vessel. At the time of the incident, the vessel was en route to Mexico.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 24, 2025 11:56 PM (63Dwl)

302 Of course, although the narrator of À la recherche du temps perdu is obviously Proust, the memories are obviously from his childhood, and so forth, the novelist goes on to create a whole world where the protagonist can’t be Proust since he had no such relatives nor did he have those particular experiences, happy or sad, exultant or sordid. Or did he?

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at June 24, 2025 11:56 PM (qgNn3)

303 Remember what Bush said, dont' worry go shopping.

Posted by: braenyard- Some friends are more equal than others at June 24, 2025 11:56 PM (iXLWn)

304 284
Start spreading the news... We are leaving tonight
I don't want to be a part of it.... New York New York...

You are my wife
Good bye, city life
Green Acres we are there
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 24, 2025 11:43 PM (63Dwl)

New York New York
A Jihadi town
The Bronx burns up
And the Batteries knocked down
The people all fall in a hole in the ground...

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 24, 2025 11:57 PM (mP0Kj)

305 Good luck, RickZ. I know some hordelings live in deep blue shit holes. I live in the Soviet Fairfax County in VA. We are ruled by a coven of Karens. It's hasn't quite fallen into disrepair yet. It may not due to its basically part of Babylon DC.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at June 24, 2025 11:57 PM (sAmhv)

306 295 It will be just like the London mayor.
Posted by: Frank Barone

My thoughts exactly.
Posted by: Some Rat at June 24, 2025 11:49 PM (TfUTr)
***

NY is so fu*ked.
Now, how to isolate it???
Posted by: Diogenes

I hear walls are nice.

Posted by: clarence at June 24, 2025 11:58 PM (rjoMn)

307 Troll sounds like Mary Cloggenstein

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 24, 2025 11:58 PM (RIvkX)

308 Maybe the NYC Grocery chain will be so successful it will spread all over the country.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 24, 2025 11:59 PM (63Dwl)

309 NY is so fu*ked.
Now, how to isolate it???
Posted by: Diogenes

I hear walls are nice.
Posted by: clarence at June 24, 2025 11:58 PM (rjoMn)

Big safety tip... be careful flying over...

Posted by: Snake Plisken at June 24, 2025 11:59 PM (mP0Kj)

310 X post today, they are selling more EVs in China than all cars sold in America. [Buck Throckmorton] keels over from the vapors]

Posted by: braenyard- Some friends are more equal than others at June 25, 2025 12:00 AM (iXLWn)

311 Possible upside: All far flung U.S. muzzies head for new york...sorry ny based Horde members.

Posted by: Some Rat at June 25, 2025 12:00 AM (TfUTr)

312 Isn't Eric Adams already running as an independent?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 24, 2025 11:46 PM (63Dwl)


Yes.

Curtis Sliwa, of Guardian Angels fame, is the (R) candidate.
If Cuomo runs, that's a three-way split of the centrist (for this City) vote, ensuring Osama bin Lenin* will win.

* Thank you, above, for that one. It's stolen.

Posted by: RickZ at June 25, 2025 12:00 AM (gKDq2)

313 To all residents of NYC: get out while you still can! Eventually, they are going to wall NYC in and you’re going to be in the shoes of Kurt Russell in Escape fro New York, but unlike Kurt Russell, you won’t have the scriptwriters on your side! Get out now!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at June 25, 2025 12:01 AM (qgNn3)

314
Some folks try to get away
Make a hasty break from the neighborhood
Takin' flight for Miami Beach
Or anywhere good
But I'm cooking a stray hound
In a barrel by a subway line
I'm in a New York State of mind

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 25, 2025 12:02 AM (FQTl0)

315 O'Henry was the master.

Posted by: Rachel Zegler's Fucking Psychiatrist at June 24, 2025 10:01 PM (5zjm+)
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Henry Fielding was no slouch either, IIRC

Posted by: 496 at June 25, 2025 12:02 AM (t+VLa)

316 Add in his promise to turn the subways into homeless shelters and there's your recipe for disaster. {Shrugs}
Posted by: RickZ at June 24, 2025 11:53 PM (gKDq2)

Hey, you can't be Eloi without a few Morlocks, amirite?

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at June 25, 2025 12:02 AM (pIfcn)

317 310 NY is so fu*ked.
Now, how to isolate it???
Posted by: Diogenes

I hear walls are nice.
Posted by: clarence at June 24, 2025 11:58 PM (rjoMn)

Big safety tip... be careful flying over...
Posted by: Snake Plisken

You stepped on my next line.

Posted by: clarence at June 25, 2025 12:03 AM (rjoMn)

318 76 years since Orwell published 1984, (June 8, 1949) a warning about totalitarianism, manipulation, surveillance, propaganda, power, strength, weakness, fear, active distortion of truth through censorship, and word bending. Still relevant and at times reading less like a work of fiction.

It occurs to me that we don't really have the surveillance state to stop jihadis and communists. We have the surveillance state to stop us from doing what we need to do to end the threat of jihadis and communists.

Posted by: 18-1 at June 25, 2025 12:06 AM (t0Rmr)

319 (But Edgar Martinez stays in the HOF.)

Posted by: Diogenes at June 24, 2025 10:53 PM (W/lyH)

Damn straight.

Posted by: Farquad at June 25, 2025 12:06 AM (YkGND)

320 OK, NYC guys: right now, better or worse than the 70s?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at June 25, 2025 12:06 AM (bss/y)

321 Seems lime NYC dodged a bullet by not selecting Cuomo.

Then again, they selected someone worse. They're not out of the woods yet.

Posted by: 496 at June 25, 2025 12:07 AM (t+VLa)

322 Zohan Mamdani reminds me of Harry Ellis in the first "Die Hard" movie.

Posted by: Orson at June 25, 2025 12:09 AM (dIske)

323 317 Add in his promise to turn the subways into homeless shelters and there's your recipe for disaster. {Shrugs}
Posted by: RickZ at June 24, 2025 11:53 PM (gKDq2)

Hey, you can't be Eloi without a few Morlocks, amirite?
Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at June 25, 2025 12:02 AM (pIfcn)

And on Fridays? Soylent Green!

Posted by: Detective Thorn at June 25, 2025 12:09 AM (mP0Kj)

324 Posted by: raimondo at June 24, 2025 10:43 PM (1defx)

I must have missed that post! Did you get them because of the Beach Boy connection, or are they just really cool cars?

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at June 25, 2025 12:10 AM (Vvh2V)

325 The third place guy in the NYC election is a communist as well so its not like Cuomo lost because they split the "moderate" vote.

But hey the left recently noticed pretty much all of their standard bearers are corrupt corporatists so why not try a full fledged commie?

As long as Uncle Sugar doesn't bail them out let's see how well Osama bin Lenin can run a grocery store.

Posted by: 18-1 at June 25, 2025 12:10 AM (t0Rmr)

326 It occurs to me that we don't really have the surveillance state to stop jihadis and communists. We have the surveillance state to stop us from doing what we need to do to end the threat of jihadis and communists.

Posted by: 18-1 at June 25, 2025 12:06 AM (t0Rmr)

Funny how they can find every grandma in DC for the Jan 6 protest... but can't seem to track who is FUNDING Antifa and BLMs latest riots.

Posted by: Detective Thorn at June 25, 2025 12:11 AM (mP0Kj)

327 322 Seems lime NYC dodged a bullet by not selecting Cuomo.

Then again, they selected someone worse. They're not out of the woods yet.
Posted by: 496 at June 25, 2025 12:07 AM

It’s like dodging a .38 slug by eating a .45 - not much of a choice. Although at least this should mark the final of Cuomo’s career, which is richly deserved.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 25, 2025 12:11 AM (HEGiN)

328
Funny how they can find every grandma in DC for the Jan 6 protest... but can't seem to track who is FUNDING Antifa and BLMs latest riots.


Oh I guarantee Blondi and Trump know exactly who is funding BLMtifa. The question is if they have the guts to do something about it.

Posted by: 18-1 at June 25, 2025 12:12 AM (t0Rmr)

329 311 X post today, they are selling more EVs in China than all cars sold in America. [Buck Throckmorton] keels over from the vapors]

Posted by: braenyard- Some friends are more equal than others at June 25, 2025 12:00 AM (iXLWn)

And charge the batteries using Coal Fired Electricity plants... OK then.

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 25, 2025 12:12 AM (mP0Kj)

330 323 Zohan Mamdani reminds me of Harry Ellis in the first "Die Hard" movie.
Posted by: Orson



SAVE US HANS GRUBER!! YOU'RE OUR ONLY HOPE!!

Posted by: NYC at June 25, 2025 12:13 AM (sAmhv)

331 Subways into homeless shelters? Watch the middle rail!!

Posted by: a dude in MI at June 25, 2025 12:13 AM (+I6Y/)

332 Man, Escape from New York is so much from a different time: Snake Plissken (Kurt Russell) near the start of the movie uses a stealth glider to land atop the World Trade Center!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at June 25, 2025 12:13 AM (qgNn3)

333 OK, NYC guys: right now, better or worse than the 70s?

70s era crime was mostly small scale and independent. Osama Bin Lenin is about to open the city coffers to the elites of NYC's organized crime scene.

And this isn't because he's some naive fool that doesn't know what will happen...he knows exactly what he is doing.

So honestly this is going to be more like one of those Superfriends episodes where the criminal element takes over Gotham then anything from the 70s. Only it will be real. And spectacular.

Posted by: 18-1 at June 25, 2025 12:15 AM (t0Rmr)

334 And charge the batteries using Coal Fired Electricity plants... OK then.

In fairness to China we are the fools for moving away from cheap, reliable coal power.

Posted by: 18-1 at June 25, 2025 12:15 AM (t0Rmr)

335 A whole bunch of AWFULs in NYC are about to find out what 'dIvErSiTy aNd InClUsIoN' means in Islamo-communism.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at June 25, 2025 12:16 AM (mlg/3)

336 Actually, I do maybe remember your car post. Seems likecI had to go to my mom's a lot and couldn't get a conversation going.

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at June 25, 2025 12:16 AM (Vvh2V)

337 219 The Internet.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice


Yes.

Posted by: nurse ratched at June 25, 2025 12:17 AM (T+5zb)

338 A whole bunch of AWFULs in NYC are about to find out what 'dIvErSiTy aNd InClUsIoN' means in Islamo-communism.

My one hope is the Mayor's buddies don't spend their time looting the middle class neighborhoods but go straight to the penthouses.

Posted by: 18-1 at June 25, 2025 12:17 AM (t0Rmr)

339 Trump cut USAID. That emptied out BLM/Antifa’s pockets pretty quick except in places like California where they had state supported equivalents to dole out the cash to the NGOs to the rent-a-mobs, brick pallet delivery centers, travel agents for commie agitators, etc,

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at June 25, 2025 12:19 AM (qgNn3)

340 Oh I guarantee Blondi and Trump know exactly who is funding BLMtifa. The question is if they have the guts to do something about it.
Posted by: 18-1 at June 25, 2025 12:12 AM (t0Rmr)

It’s not much of a secret. All of the BLM riots in the northeast (at least) were funded by tech billionaire Neville Roy Singham, husband of the founder of Code Pink, and who used to live in New York but now has set up residence in Shanghai, under Xi’s protection.
All of his money has always been sourced from China, and no doubt that’s who was “encouraging” him to push the BLM chaos hard.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 25, 2025 12:20 AM (HEGiN)

341 "Snake Plissken? I thought you were dead!"-Every third character in Escape from New York.

I wonder when Hollywood will try a reboot of that movie?

With Rachel Zegler as Snake, of course.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at June 25, 2025 12:20 AM (J+OHH)

342 The Internet.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice


Yes.
Posted by: nurse ratched

Double that yes.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * sporting my Andrew Breitbart attitude at June 25, 2025 12:20 AM (DX/Mv)

343 OK, NYC guys: right now, better or worse than the 70s?
Posted by: Aetius451AD at June 25, 2025 12:06 AM (bss/y)


Didn't move here 'til the early '80s. Visited while in college during Thanksgiving week in '75. Not for the parade but a dormmate lived on 10 St. just off 5th Ave.; he helped pay for gas/tolls. Had a free room for the weekend and then off to Yonkers. That's another story. The second time in '79. Looking back, the thing I remember about that '75 visit is that is looked like every cop tv show/movie. 'The French Connection' was only a few years old. 'Death Wish' was a hit; I was here for the real version, Bernie Goetz shooting those 4 on the subway in '84. TBH, it only got better with Giuliani, although in restrospect Koch was a decent mayor, too. Only with Bloomberg did the mayoral decline begin. Then came Big Bird. Adams was a clown at first but switched up on the illegal issue because he knew the City is going broke. Then the DOJ started investigating him. He's a helluva lot better than ObL.

But between Adams, Cuomo and Sliwa, the sane vote is split three ways. That's a guaranteed loser for all three -- and the City -- in the General.

Posted by: RickZ at June 25, 2025 12:21 AM (gKDq2)

344 If Cuomo runs, that's a three-way split of the centrist (for this City) vote, ensuring Osama bin Lenin* will win.

Posted by: RickZ at June 25, 2025 12:00 AM (gKDq2)

Well I think it's nice that the three centrist NY voters get their very own candidate. Frankly, if they all met at the Duane Reade, they barely fill the antacid aisle.

The real reason why Blue cities elect the worst candidate is the abysmal voter turnout. IIRC, less than 10% of eligible voters showed up when Karen Bass became Los Angeles's latest nightmare mayor. The problem isn't ones participating in the process...

Posted by: Joe Kidd at June 25, 2025 12:21 AM (bA75n)

345 I was cracking wise, but really, eliminating the Board of Estimate was basically the city-level version of eliminating the Electoral College.

"But why does little Staten Island get the same vote as enormous Brooklyn," they cried, and they got an imperial mayor for their troubles. And they loved it when that mayor was a Giuliani.

Enjoy it now, New York. You beat the brakes off a rugged old system in favor of the will of the people. And now you'll get the will of the people good and hard.

Ciao!

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 25, 2025 12:23 AM (FQTl0)

346
Well, now zoohan can pretend to "pivot" to the center now that he's secured the D nom.

Posted by: Soothsayer at June 25, 2025 12:23 AM (B3ECk)

347 I hope New Yorkers get exactly what they voted for.

Without lube.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 25, 2025 12:24 AM (JkO4W)

348 The real reason why Blue cities elect the worst candidate is the abysmal voter turnout. IIRC, less than 10% of eligible voters showed up when Karen Bass became Los Angeles's latest nightmare mayor. The problem isn't ones participating in the process...
Posted by: Joe Kidd at June 25, 2025 12:21 AM (bA75n)

Why are Mayor elections in Big Cities NOT done during a Regular election?

Our little town council and Mayor are both elected during National Election cycles.

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 25, 2025 12:24 AM (mP0Kj)

349 Well, now zoohan can pretend to "pivot" to the center now that he's secured the D nom.

He'll promise that he won't cut the balls off of any of the female children in NYC but the male children are still going to have to embrace diversity.

Posted by: 18-1 at June 25, 2025 12:25 AM (t0Rmr)

350 Why are Mayor elections in Big Cities NOT done during a Regular election?

Our little town council and Mayor are both elected during National Election cycles.

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 25, 2025 12:24 AM (mP0Kj)


If you think about it, you answered your own question.

Helpful hint: In a corrupt system, voter turnout isn't the point.

Posted by: RickZ at June 25, 2025 12:28 AM (gKDq2)

351 Looks like there were 2.8M votes in the presidential election and about 1M in the Dem primary for mayor. Presumably some number of people vote in the R primary as well, but I'm going to guess less then half of the D numbers.

So...perhaps 1/2 to 1/3 of the general election voters voted in the mayor race? I guess the rest took Althouse's advice and didn't vote because it was too hot.

Or, maybe, no one was paying for fake votes this time around...

Posted by: 18-1 at June 25, 2025 12:31 AM (t0Rmr)

352 We have enough coal in proven reserves to last 500 years at current usage levels. We are finding more and more oil, and coming up with more ways to get it out at a profit, that we probably don’t really need nuclear power yet (but I won’t turn it down - Plant Vogtle just put a new reactor online). Really, on the energy home front, the USA is setting pretty and smelling like roses! So much so they have to put up hoaxes like global warming to try to scare us out of using all the bounty God has given us! Cheer up! In the long run, we win, and they lose! Smile and confuse them!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at June 25, 2025 12:31 AM (qgNn3)

353 As someone who always thought NYC got given way too much attention, I think I’m going to enjoy watching it crash and burn. From a safe distance of course.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 25, 2025 12:31 AM (HEGiN)

354 Setting pretty -> sitting pretty

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at June 25, 2025 12:32 AM (qgNn3)

355 The chaos in NYC is just beginning. Between now and November will be crazy as I said earlier. Now Cuomo is talking about an independent run. Back when power fell the Bolsheviks in the Russian revolution a nasty civil war began. The Bolsheviks gradually eliminated all of their leftist opponents all the while the Whites(non Reds) couldn't form a united front because none would say what they believed in. The Whites were picked off one by one. If Cuomo , Adams and Sliwa can't find common ground and get behind one of them, Bolshevik Mamdani will win and then truly all hell will break loose. Most will say eff NYC, but this will reverberate across every leftist city and state and the rest of the country as well.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 25, 2025 12:34 AM (pwtJC)

356 Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at June 25, 2025 12:31 AM (qgNn3)

We are the Saudi Arabia of Natural Gas...

Hundreds of years worth... yet...

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 25, 2025 12:34 AM (mP0Kj)

357 FUN FACT

I own a small interest in commercial office space investments in South Carolina. The value started jumping during Covid.

Leased many years in advance, these leases are likely to go up. The Chicago people are already here.

I hope we charge those companies New York Prices when they leave.

Posted by: Le Mikleuse, rentier at June 25, 2025 12:37 AM (UYy+W)

358 Yeah, I forgot about natural gas!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at June 25, 2025 12:38 AM (qgNn3)

359 Leased many years in advance, these leases are likely to go up. The Chicago people are already here.

I hope we charge those companies New York Prices when they leave.
Posted by: Le Mikleuse, rentier at June 25, 2025 12:37 AM (UYy+W)

Middle Class Californians have been pushed out by immigrants, because their quality of life was degrading...

So they moved other places, where people complain about all the Calif folks moving in (with good reason)...

What happens when all the New Yahkers move somewhere else?

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 25, 2025 12:40 AM (mP0Kj)

360 Is the Israel/Iran ceasefire still holding? The MSM news sites aren't awash with "Trump Ceasefire is a Failure" headlines, so I assume it is going rather well.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at June 25, 2025 12:40 AM (J+OHH)

361 Hmmm...military jet doing night maneuvers. Sounds like he went supersonic about a mile past PCH...

Posted by: Joe Kidd at June 25, 2025 12:41 AM (bA75n)

362 360 Is the Israel/Iran ceasefire still holding? The MSM news sites aren't awash with "Trump Ceasefire is a Failure" headlines, so I assume it is going rather well.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at June 25, 2025 12:40 AM (J+OHH)

both sides shot their wad, and are busy reloading for the next round.

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 25, 2025 12:41 AM (mP0Kj)

363 To add to my last comment:

AOC won the Democrat primary in '18, upsetting Pelosi's # 2 Joe Crowley. That was a BIG deal. She won with 57%-42% but with only 16,900 to 12,900 actual votes. That's peanuts for a Congressional district in a very blue city. Each CD representsa about 761,000 people (not necessarily all voters), But still. Nobody votes in the primaries. I don't know why. Same goes for any off-year election. Our mayoral is this year, '25. The gubernatorial election is next year, another off year election. And by off year, I mean a presidential election. Even the off year Congressional elections get less vote numbers. When only mayoral elections are on the ballot, they get even fewer voters. I believe by design. The Dems plan on apathy. And they'd be right.

Posted by: RickZ at June 25, 2025 12:42 AM (gKDq2)

364 What happens when all the New Yahkers move somewhere else?
Posted by: Romeo13 at June 25, 2025 12:40 AM (mP0Kj)

Local shortages of penis-flavored lipstick.

Posted by: NYC Sucks at June 25, 2025 12:44 AM (GHcaN)

365 What happens when all the New Yahkers move somewhere else?
Posted by: Romeo13 at June 25, 2025 12:40 AM (mP0Kj

They've already destroyed NC and Georgia. The ones who move to Florida seem like the only ones with any sense, probably cuz they old.

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at June 25, 2025 12:44 AM (Vvh2V)

366 It's like watching the French revolution

@StatisticUrban 1h
Genuinely extraordinary lol

NYC Vote by Median Income
under $50k = Coumo +19
$50k to $100k = Mam +6
over $100k = Mam +13

Posted by: weft cut-loop at June 25, 2025 12:46 AM (mlg/3)

367 Honestly, I'm surprised that opponents of the EC haven't sued the federal government, citing BoE v. Morris. The Supreme Court decided 9-0 that the BoE was a violation of the 14th Amendment and scrapped it, even though the FedGov has no jurisdiction in state and local electoral rules.

I would argue that the Supreme Court has *more* authority to claim that the Equal Protection clause overrides Article II than it does claiming it overrides NYC's BoE.

Both arguments are horseshit, of course. But the second one is slightly less horseshitty.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 25, 2025 12:46 AM (FQTl0)

368 1984-1985, six-week course
Posted by: San Franpsycho
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How was the tension? Olympic boycott was '84. I recall the 'bread line' comments and everyone thinking they would make money by selling Levi's 501s over there. Were you followed while there?

Posted by: scampydog at June 25, 2025 12:46 AM (41CYW)

369 Most will say eff NYC, but this will reverberate across every leftist city and state and the rest of the country as well.
Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 25, 2025 12:34 AM (pwtJC)

I’m counting on it reverberating. I want the entire country - the entire world! - to see that hard Socialism for your city or your country means only death and destruction.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 25, 2025 12:49 AM (HEGiN)

370 What happens when all the New Yahkers move somewhere else?
Posted by: Romeo13

Better question is what happens when Wall St packs up and moves?

Posted by: Sock Monkey * sporting my Andrew Breitbart attitude at June 25, 2025 12:50 AM (DX/Mv)

371 *pssst*

I heard from a reliable source, that Zohran Mamdani has information that will lead to the arrest & conviction of Hillary Clinton.

Pass it on...

Posted by: you never know at June 25, 2025 12:51 AM (rdVOm)

372 I’m counting on it reverberating. I want the entire country - the entire world! - to see that hard Socialism for your city or your country means only death and destruction.
Posted by: Tom Servo at June 25, 2025 12:49 AM (HEGiN)

Yeah, I'm not too upset about this. This kind of madness and its repercussions will only hasten the dissolution of the country, which is effectively my "single issue."

The crazier they get, the faster we can spin this thing out.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 25, 2025 12:52 AM (FQTl0)

373 I’m counting on it reverberating. I want the entire country - the entire world! - to see that hard Socialism for your city or your country means only death and destruction.
Posted by: Tom Servo
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"Capitalism isn't working!"

Posted by: your MFM at June 25, 2025 12:54 AM (rdVOm)

374 366 It's like watching the French revolution

@StatisticUrban 1h
Genuinely extraordinary lol

NYC Vote by Median Income
under $50k = Coumo +19
$50k to $100k = Mam +6
over $100k = Mam +13

Posted by: weft cut-loop



They're all Jacobin's now.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at June 25, 2025 12:54 AM (sAmhv)

375 AOC won the Democrat primary in '18, . And they'd be right.

Forget it RickZ

It's Newtorktown

Posted by: Hard Boiled Noir Miklos at June 25, 2025 12:54 AM (UYy+W)

376 both sides shot their wad, and are busy reloading for the next round.

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 25, 2025 12:41 AM (mP0Kj)
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This is correct.

Potentially Trump made things worse. Much worse.

https://tinyurl.com/bdz6zcbm

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at June 25, 2025 12:55 AM (NC42u)

377 370 What happens when all the New Yahkers move somewhere else?
Posted by: Romeo13

Better question is what happens when Wall St packs up and moves?
Posted by: Sock Monkey * sporting my Andrew Breitbart attitude at June 25, 2025 12:50 AM (DX/Mv)

Is the Stock Market really run from Wall Street anymore? Or is it server farms somewhere much cheaper.

OH, wait, New York Stock Exchange computers are in... New Jersey?

Nasdaq in Chicago.

And I'm sure there are offsite backups in other States.

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 25, 2025 12:57 AM (mP0Kj)

378 Government run grocery stores.
bwahahahahaha!!!!
Oh stop it. You're killing me.

And when they fail, some judge will require surrounding counties to supply the stores. And the shortages will spread.
Solution...government control of local farms. Then all the farms.

Fools.

Posted by: Diogenes at June 25, 2025 12:59 AM (W/lyH)

379 Government run grocery stores.
bwahahahahaha!!!!
Oh stop it. You're killing me.

And when they fail, some judge will require surrounding counties to supply the stores. And the shortages will spread.
Solution...government control of local farms. Then all the farms.
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And *just like that* America became a soviet socialist republic

Posted by: Forrest Gump meme at June 25, 2025 01:02 AM (rdVOm)

380 'Morning, Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey. What's the mood on the ground over there?

Posted by: scampydog at June 25, 2025 01:02 AM (41CYW)

381 And now the entire East Coast (except for Florida) is going to become a Jihadi Hellhole.

Posted by: XTC at June 25, 2025 01:03 AM (6Uni8)

382 Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at June 25, 2025 12:55 AM

The DC regime has an astounding track record when it comes to hounding its "allies" into early graves.

Some helluva chain of consequences, over and over. If I didn't know better, I might think a track record like that implies intent.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 25, 2025 01:03 AM (FQTl0)

383 And I'm sure there are offsite backups in other States.
Posted by: Romeo13

Granted we live in a fluid world nowdays. Ask where the largest hedge fund , venture capital, investment banking firms etc are located? NYC.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * sporting my Andrew Breitbart attitude at June 25, 2025 01:05 AM (DX/Mv)

384
I bet once Osama bin Lenin gets rolling, NYers will pine for the bad old days when the Board of Estimate could check a mayor.

Too late, sorry fags!!
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 24, 2025 11:23 PM (FQTl0)

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Someone like the mayor-elect probably has a few skeletons in the closet. Might be worth taking a look.

I don't favor giving up on sections of the country, and cheering the inhabitants' descent into hell. Even if many of them are annoyingly stupid. A victory is a victory, and a defeat is a defeat. Territory lost is territory lost. This enemy will take a win any way they can get it.

This is our hill, and these are our beans.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at June 25, 2025 01:06 AM (CzfKa)

385 It took Iran 20 - 30 years to build up what got destroyed last week. The idea that they’ll be back in a few months is nonsense.

And everyone keeps dancing around the topic of regime change, but here are two uncomfortable but unavoidable truths:
1) the threat from Iran will never be gone until a new government replaces this one, and
2) regime change can only come about internally, by the Iranian people. Either they choose to do it on their own, or it will not happen. No outsider can do what it would take to impose it.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 25, 2025 01:08 AM (HEGiN)

386 Ive said if I ever became a billionaire, my first order of business would be to buy the long lines building, and demolish it (even if it is probably bomb proof) it's such a blight on the skyline.

Just a little worse is the Western Union building 2 blocks to the west on Thomas St, which looks like another hideous brown blob on the skyline.

Posted by: Rbastid at June 25, 2025 01:09 AM (RjljM)

387 And everyone keeps dancing around the topic of regime change, but here are two uncomfortable but unavoidable truths:
1) the threat from Iran will never be gone until a new government replaces this one, and
2) regime change can only come about internally, by the Iranian people. Either they choose to do it on their own, or it will not happen. No outsider can do what it would take to impose it.
Posted by: Tom Servo at June 25, 2025 01:08 AM (HEGiN)

The Iranian people will not overthrow the Mullahs until the people are held accountable and punished for the Mullahs actions... which is something the West will no longer do.

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 25, 2025 01:11 AM (mP0Kj)

388 This is our hill, and these are our beans.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at June 25, 2025 01:06 AM (CzfKa)

I want to see some of those beans roasted over hellfire.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 25, 2025 01:12 AM (HEGiN)

389 'Morning, Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey. What's the mood on the ground over there?
Posted by: scampydog at June 25, 2025 01:02 AM (41CYW)
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The mood by people who aren't Trump and Bibi groupies is as in the article I linked to.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at June 25, 2025 01:13 AM (NC42u)

390
I want to see some of those beans roasted over hellfire.
Posted by: Tom Servo at June 25, 2025 01:12 AM

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So, spicy.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at June 25, 2025 01:14 AM (+sEI/)

391 The mood by people who aren't Trump and Bibi groupies is as in the article I linked to.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey
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Linky is showing two comments. Can you re-link?

Posted by: scampydog at June 25, 2025 01:16 AM (41CYW)

392 LOL... TWO DAYS after a Lefty Judge lets Mahmoud Khalil out of detention of ICE, he is back on a College Campus in an Anti Ice Protest.

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 25, 2025 01:17 AM (mP0Kj)

393 If I thought we'd get a League of Shadows style outcome, I'd wholeheartedly cheer NYC's decline. They're cunts and deserve everything that happens to them. But the ones who can move will move on and make their destination unlivable, and we'll end up bailing out the hollowed out remnant and its zombie inhabitants. Because if modern America stands for one principle it's that no one ever pays for their mistakes (unless they have the wrong politics, aren't connected, or aren't a member of some pet demographic). Only the collapse of the government and society could alter our course. Till then it's all the involuntary unlubricated ass sex a man could never want. This country is like a Diddy party. But less festive.

Posted by: Oh well at June 25, 2025 01:17 AM (A2Vbd)

394 It took Iran 20 - 30 years to build up what got destroyed last week. The idea that they’ll be back in a few months is nonsense.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 25, 2025 01:08 AM (HEGiN)
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"UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER" (not my words) would have meant the removal of missile and nuke development.

It's like Trump bombed Germany's Berlin and left Hitler to come out of the Bunker and start anew.

Unlike Germans, even Nazi ones, Shiite Muslims are happy to be martyred and take millions of infidels, of both the small and big Satan variety, with them. And if it takes more primitive devices that can be slapped together in less time and carried in backpacks, so be it.

You know whom you're dealing with. Trump hasn't thought this trough. Or he doesn't (yet) comprehend what Islam is.

Heaven save us. Heaven save you.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at June 25, 2025 01:19 AM (NC42u)

395 391 The mood by people who aren't Trump and Bibi groupies is as in the article I linked to.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey
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Linky is showing two comments. Can you re-link?
Posted by: scampydog



I believe that link is a reflection of the mood over there.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at June 25, 2025 01:19 AM (sAmhv)

396 . Cuomo had universal name ID, a $25M PAC backing him and tons of institutional endorsements. Mamdani is a 33-year-old socialist. The magnitude of this can't be overstated.

Easy. NYC voters are smart enough to know the system is corrupt and rigged against them, but not smart (truly educated) enough to know that anyone claiming to be a socialist is poison. Think Cuba welcoming Castro to get rid of corrupt Batista

Posted by: azjaeger at June 25, 2025 01:19 AM (3/XaG)

397 Doggo-- click "return to thread" on BD's link

Posted by: Forrest Gump meme at June 25, 2025 01:20 AM (rdVOm)

398 Icky old sock...

Posted by: JQ at June 25, 2025 01:20 AM (rdVOm)

399 Link fixed:

both sides shot their wad, and are busy reloading for the next round.

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 25, 2025 12:41 AM (mP0Kj)
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This is correct.

Potentially Trump made things worse. Much worse.

Atlas Collapsed

https://tinyurl.com/5n79j3h3

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at June 25, 2025 01:21 AM (NC42u)

400 >>TWO DAYS after a Lefty Judge lets Mahmoud Khalil out of detention of ICE, he is back on a College Campus in an Anti Ice Protest.
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And, you know, TWO DAYS after getting their asses kicked, eye-ran is digging around Fordow, to see what/if they can recover and/or rebuild.

Evil never sleeps. Evil never stops.

Posted by: JQ at June 25, 2025 01:23 AM (rdVOm)

401 New York was once a great city. But that was a long time ago. It's making itself a commie hell hole. And other large cities are following along. They can call it what they want, but when a few crazy people run the government then 'commie hell hole' will seem appropriate. A few will have the power and to hell with the rest of the people. You just do what you are told to do.

Posted by: Case at June 25, 2025 01:23 AM (kDs7V)

402 Asimov: So erudite, yet so obtuse.

Posted by: Zombie Davy Crockett at June 25, 2025 01:24 AM (cct0t)

403 Atlas Collapsed

https://tinyurl.com/5n79j3h3
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey
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Thank you.

Posted by: scampydog at June 25, 2025 01:26 AM (41CYW)

404 Evil never sleeps. Evil never stops.

Posted by: JQ at June 25, 2025 01:23 AM (rdVOm)
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Yes and no. But when you leave it alive and unchanged, certainly.

Out the door. Might be travelling today. Maybe l8r.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at June 25, 2025 01:29 AM (NC42u)

405 Hey Horde.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at June 25, 2025 01:36 AM (0nHVk)

406 Hi, Debby!

How ya doing tonight?

Posted by: JQ at June 25, 2025 01:39 AM (rdVOm)

407 Forgot to change my sock.

Posted by: Toad-0 at June 25, 2025 01:44 AM (cct0t)

408 Red State America to NYC: https://youtu.be/zrS4yJt3rho

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at June 25, 2025 01:49 AM (NXz8h)

409
Was there some good reason for letting all those trucks line up and then depart at the Fodorow enrichment site, before the air raid?

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at June 25, 2025 01:49 AM (ES1Rb)

410 Everybody goes to bed early on Tuesday?

Posted by: Toad-0 at June 25, 2025 01:49 AM (cct0t)

411 I work mids so even on nights off (like now), I stay up all night. Have to go back to work at 6PM today anyway.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at June 25, 2025 01:56 AM (sAmhv)

412 I fell down a rabbit hole watching Garage 54 videos. But now it is bedtime. Night, Horde.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 25, 2025 01:57 AM (6eAks)

413 I putter around a lot; hence my posting is sporadic.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at June 25, 2025 01:57 AM (sAmhv)

414 Was there some good reason for letting all those trucks line up and then depart at the Fodorow enrichment site, before the air raid?
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug
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So they can claim that the enriched uranium was removed beforehand?

*guessing*

Posted by: JQ at June 25, 2025 01:58 AM (rdVOm)

415 278
"Connote" because to denote "approximate" requires a non-existent ASCII character: a dash with the tilde above it, or the equal sign with the top straight line replaced by the tilde.

Posted by: buddhaha at June 24, 2025 11:41 PM (4ETSN)
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This is best I can do.

Posted by: Ciampino - just ASCII & you'll get at June 25, 2025 01:59 AM (sPQoU)

416 No one liked the clam digger?

Posted by: Ciampino - just ASCII & you'll get it at June 25, 2025 02:01 AM (sPQoU)

417 Hi, Debby!

How ya doing tonight?
Posted by: JQ

She brought a sleeve of red Solo cups and a bag of ice

OK in my book

Posted by: Genial Miklos at June 25, 2025 02:01 AM (UYy+W)

418 No one liked the clam digger?
Posted by: Ciampino

CLAMS

OYSTERS

Open them

Here, have some Boone's Farm

Posted by: 16 year old Miklos at June 25, 2025 02:08 AM (UYy+W)

419 Hey JQ, I am back, I tend to putter around too if the Horde seems sleepy.

Hi Miklos.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at June 25, 2025 02:08 AM (0nHVk)

420
MANNED MISSION!

SpaceX targets June 25, 2:31 a.m. EDT, 0631 UTC, 08:31 CEST, for to launch the Ax-4 (Axiom-4) manned mission to the ISS.

https://www.youtube.com/live/8xCx2HzmEjw

Posted by: Ciampino - pray for a safe launch at June 25, 2025 02:09 AM (sPQoU)

421 Hi Miklos.
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz

*sends gift certificate for Day Spa*

Posted by: Miklos is a person, and a People Person at June 25, 2025 02:11 AM (UYy+W)

422 https://tinyurl.com/5n79j3h3
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey

I agree with this, 100 percent, but I must also say that Gaza should have been a 500 foot deep, smoking crater by October 14th, 2023. Atlas's collapse became more inevitable the longer Gaza and every person in it remained standing.

Jews/Israelis are too kind, decent, compassionate. Their stance on hostages needs adjusting. As tragic as it would have been, 300 or so hostages in exchange for the complete annihilation of Gaza, the West Bank and the Hamas filth would have been worth it, in my opinion.

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at June 25, 2025 02:11 AM (Vvh2V)

423 Seafood sounds pretty good right now!

*looks at handful of Cheez-It crackers*

*sigh*

Posted by: JQ at June 25, 2025 02:18 AM (rdVOm)

424 Seafood sounds pretty good right now!

*looks at handful of Cheez-It crackers*

*sigh*
Posted by: JQ

Sea-pak frozen clam strips coming right up

Posted by: Miklosian Air Fryer at June 25, 2025 02:21 AM (UYy+W)

425 JQ, did I read upthread that you were tired and sore today? What did you do?

I actually had shrimp cocktail for supper tonight, no a/c on a very hot day. It was cool and refreshing and didn't heat up the kitchen.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at June 25, 2025 02:22 AM (0nHVk)

426 Yummy clam strips!

Thanks, Miklos!

Posted by: JQ at June 25, 2025 02:22 AM (rdVOm)

427 I agree with this, 100 percent, but I must also say that Gaza should have been a 500 foot deep, smoking crater by October 14th, 2023. Atlas's collapse became more inevitable the longer Gaza and every person in it remained standing.

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at June 25, 2025 02:11 AM (Vvh2V)
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I agree with this 100%. I said from 10/7/23 that Gaza needs to be flattened.

Aside from Israel's own foolishness, the Washington DC regime did everything it could to hold Israel back even from the insufficient actions it was taking.

>> Jews/Israelis are too kind, decent, compassionate.

Here I disagree. Jews can be stupid. They can also be demented. That's the combo we still have here.

And here's this morning's top headline in Israel:

https://tinyurl.com/55abe7sv

Surprise! Surprise!

Same ol', same ol'.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at June 25, 2025 02:24 AM (NC42u)

428
T - 7 minutes for liftoff

Posted by: Ciampino - pray for a safe launch at June 25, 2025 02:24 AM (sPQoU)

429
AX-4 mission, T - 5 minutes to launch.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at June 25, 2025 02:27 AM (w6EFb)

430 Debby, I was only musing.. whenever I *do* manage to do anything substantial, I'm nearly incapacitated the next day. LOL.

Heck no, I've been conserving energy lately. Too hot to really get going on any physically demanding projects.

Shrimp cocktail sounds good!

Posted by: JQ at June 25, 2025 02:27 AM (rdVOm)

431
Yummy clam strips!

Thanks, Miklos!
Posted by: JQ

A few of us remember Howard Johnsons

We keep the Tradition

Posted by: Miklosian Air Fryer at June 25, 2025 02:27 AM (UYy+W)

432 "Retard Finder" found a city:

https://x.com/IfindRetards/status/1937691976557809669

Posted by: LizLem at June 25, 2025 02:29 AM (gWBY1)

433 I shall now offer and consume remaining clam strips.

And yield to the Gods of Gravity

Posted by: SLAVA IRANKI at June 25, 2025 02:30 AM (UYy+W)

434 Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey,


Here I disagree. Jews can be stupid. They can also be demented. That's the combo we still have here.


Are these the ones JJ Sefton describes as 'self-gassing Jews'?

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at June 25, 2025 02:31 AM (sAmhv)

435 כל המרחם על אכזרים סופו שיתאכזר על רחמנים

One who is merciful to the cruel will eventually be cruel to the merciful (or will bring cruelty upon the merciful).

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at June 25, 2025 02:31 AM (NC42u)

436 Are these the ones JJ Sefton describes as 'self-gassing Jews'?

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at June 25, 2025 02:31 AM (sAmhv)
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I would say those are all of the demented ones and some of stupid ones. But there are stupid people who aren't THAT stupid.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at June 25, 2025 02:33 AM (NC42u)

437 "A preliminary investigation revealed that a terrorist was able to attach an explosive device to the APC."

Sticky bomb?

Would they be using RPG's if there were still tunnels connecting to arms smugglers in Egypt?


Posted by: 13times at June 25, 2025 02:34 AM (rMZoZ)

438 Yummy clam strips!

Thanks, Miklos!
Posted by: JQ
---------

A few of us remember Howard Johnsons

We keep the Tradition
Posted by: Miklosian Air Fryer at June 25, 2025 02:27 AM (UYy+W)


The short-lived Fass Brothers Fish House, an all-you-could-eat dine-in restaurant served by staff family style. All you can eat fried clam strips. Or fried shrimp. Or even {GASP} fried flounder. The hush puppies never lasted long and refills of those were constant.

If I'm going to go to an all-you-can-eat joint, make it seafood.

Posted by: RickZ at June 25, 2025 02:35 AM (gKDq2)

439 "A preliminary investigation revealed that a terrorist was able to attach an explosive device to the APC."

Sticky bomb?

Posted by: 13times at June 25, 2025 02:34 AM (rMZoZ)
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I assume magnets or a strong 2 sided peel-and-stick pad. I could ask my pup but I'm not going to.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at June 25, 2025 02:38 AM (NC42u)

440 HoJo's were an important part of my youth.

JQ, I know the feeling, sometimes just thinking of projects makes me sore!

Good night, Horde, early day tomorrow.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at June 25, 2025 02:39 AM (0nHVk)

441 Gotta admit, I was really hoping to see eye-ran flattened completely over the weekend. 100% rubble, if not glassed.

How many "civilians" there, even remember what it was like *before* the zealots took over?

Opportunity wasted, IMO. And now the whole world will be made to suffer, probably.

Posted by: JQ at June 25, 2025 02:39 AM (rdVOm)

442 Speaking of stupid, I was wondering why I feel extra lousy, above and beyond the circumstances.

I forgot to eat breakfast. 9:45AM. Listen to your stomach when it's talking to you.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at June 25, 2025 02:46 AM (NC42u)

443
Oh, Miklos, one of the AX-4 crew is Hungarian, Tibor Kapu.

Peggy Whitson, commander, now holds the record for most hours in space of any American astronaut, XY or XX.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at June 25, 2025 02:46 AM (w6EFb)

444 Interesting reading today: someone’s comment the other day about whether we had a third fission bomb ready to use after Hiroshima and Nagasaki (yes, we did: it was never used, but we had assembly lines set up to make more fission bombs which we proceeded to build) led me to wonder about the British nuclear weapons. The UK had been an equal partner in the Manhattan District Project (so named to fool the enemy), but by 1946 they had been cut off from technical collaboration on nuclear weapons. So they weren’t in on the work by Teller and Ulam to develop the “Super” bomb - what we now call an H-bomb, or fusion bomb. Britain went on to develop its own fission bomb, the Blue Danube design which they tested in 1952 at the Montebello Islands off Western Australia. The Red Beard fission bomb replaced the Blue Danube design by 1962. Although the UK developed fission bombs with large explosive yields, comparable to a smaller yield fusion bomb, they never actually cracked the Ulam/Teller design for the H-bomb. They pretended they had done so all through the Cold War! It was only after 1989 that the truth came out: Britain never did have the H-bomb!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at June 25, 2025 02:50 AM (NWqJf)

445 SpaceX Starlink launch in about 9 hours. Details later and at the website.

Posted by: Ciampino - pray for a safe ride at June 25, 2025 02:51 AM (sPQoU)

446 I just hope IDF found all of the tunnels.

Daily Manul @DailyManul - Pallas's cat (Otocolobus manul)

The account posts lots of photos, but all of the cats are in a purpose built zoo setting; a very humane and interesting looking zoo.



Posted by: 13times at June 25, 2025 02:52 AM (rMZoZ)

447
I choose to delete cancer, in all it's permutations.

Posted by: IRONGRAMPA at June 25, 2025 02:53 AM (hKoQL)

448 'Night, horde.

Posted by: JQ at June 25, 2025 02:55 AM (rdVOm)

449 Right in the heart of Manhattan, a Zohran Mamdani voter sets up a Dawah booth declaring NYC belongs to Allah, and lays out the blueprint for Islamic domination in plain sight.

https://tinyurl.com/mw26w56f

Posted by: Ciampino - run him over at June 25, 2025 02:57 AM (sPQoU)

450 Oh, Miklos, one of the AX-4 crew is Hungarian, Tibor Kapu.

Peggy Whitson, commander, now holds the record for most hours in space of any American astronaut, XY or XX.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley

"Kapu" is not a usual Hungarian name. It means door, or gate

Never heard of anybody by that name

Posted by: Miklos Bertalan-Farkas, first and only Hungarian cosmonaut at June 25, 2025 02:57 AM (UYy+W)

451 Hello, Horde! 😊💕

Well, I guess all of those educated AWFLs are about to find out just how wonderful life under Sharia Law is for women.

Oh, who am I kidding? They will just move away, leaving all of the poor schlubs who can't afford to move to suffer the consequences of the educated class's stupidity.

Then again, someone might decide to "take care" of the problem like they do in Mexico and other Central and South American countries.

Interesting times we live in....

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Plucky Comic Relief, AoS Ladies Brigade - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at June 25, 2025 02:58 AM (SRRAx)

452 I choose to delete cancer, in all it's permutations.
Posted by: IRONGRAMPA

SECONDED

Posted by: Miklos Agrees at June 25, 2025 02:59 AM (UYy+W)

453 Goodbye, NY.

Philistines upon you, America.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at June 25, 2025 03:00 AM (NC42u)

454 Regarding the Asimov comment earlier:

"Trump as the Mule"

You're not the first person to say this.

Interesting.

Posted by: pawn, the original at June 25, 2025 03:01 AM (QB+5g)

455 Los Angeles business owner: And now I can be dressed like a cop and just go kidnap people
Karen Bass: That’s right

https://tinyurl.com/bdfab5pr

Posted by: Ciampino - stupid people at June 25, 2025 03:01 AM (sPQoU)

456 Biden's Dog there are many who's first (perhaps not only) reaction to the ceasefire was "huh?". Do not know/may never know exactly what happened here, I mean conversations between Trump and Bibi. But that's how this was done, that much can be assumed.

Israeli leadership had already, more than once, said they were achieving most of their original objectives, and faster/more effectively than anticipated. And regime change of course was never on the menu - being beyond Israel's capacity. And if ever I would guess there was a need for an operational pause, this would be it. The nature and tempo of IAF operations was amazing - but thereby probably unsustainable.

Anyway those are all the practical possible considerations. The gist of that linked article is just common sense, but common sense that is resisted or missed by most. IDF chief Zamir's war summary stressed how unfinished the job was. Reality is possibly worse of course - the job could grow even bigger. Here's to hoping the Iranian regime dissolves.

Posted by: rhomboid at June 25, 2025 03:01 AM (1m82a)

457 The account posts lots of photos, but all of the cats are in a purpose built zoo setting; a very humane and interesting looking zoo.



Posted by: 13times



I LOVE PALLAS KITTUHS!!!!!

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at June 25, 2025 03:01 AM (sAmhv)

458 nap time. BBL.

Posted by: Ciampino - stupid people at June 25, 2025 03:02 AM (sPQoU)

459 Maybe it's time to tell about the Hungarian Space Palinka again

I had some

Posted by: Miklos had a sample of Space Booze designed for Weightlessness at June 25, 2025 03:03 AM (UYy+W)

460 435 כל המרחם על אכזרים סופו שיתאכזר על רחמנים

One who is merciful to the cruel will eventually be cruel to the merciful (or will bring cruelty upon the merciful).
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey


Is that from Proverbs 11:17?

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at June 25, 2025 03:06 AM (NWqJf)

461
Tibor has now logged about 30 minutes in space.

He's got a ways to go to catch Peggy, now at 675 days, 4 hours, and 40 minutes. She also has over 60 hours spacewalk time.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at June 25, 2025 03:07 AM (w6EFb)

462 youtube.com/shorts/gzYaasiXfus

youtu.be/Sg8FMNEt8KY

PALLAS KITTUHS!!

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at June 25, 2025 03:08 AM (sAmhv)

463 Here's to hoping the Iranian regime dissolves.

Posted by: rhomboid at June 25, 2025 03:01 AM (1m82a)
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Neither Trump nor Netanyahu should never say what they don't mean.

Ayatollah and Mullahs needed to be vaporized. Utilities and energy industries destroyed. Continued targeting of missiles, launchers and military targets.

All the while offering unconditional surrender terms dictated solely by the US and/or Israel.

And I'm worried about the contradictory reports of what Iran still has or doesn't. And I'm not paying attention to the NYT or CNN.

Mrs. BD calls. Shopping! My favorite weekly hobby whether I like it or not.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at June 25, 2025 03:09 AM (NC42u)

464 Tibor has now logged about 30 minutes in space.

He's got a ways to go to catch Peggy, now at 675 days, 4 hours, and 40 minutes. She also has over 60 hours spacewalk time.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley

I want Space Goulash

Posted by: Miklos the Space Chef at June 25, 2025 03:10 AM (UYy+W)

465 Is that from Proverbs 11:17?

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at June 25, 2025 03:06 AM (NWqJf)
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No. Midrash Tanhuma.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at June 25, 2025 03:14 AM (NC42u)

466 The merciful man doeth good to his own soul: but he that is cruel troubleth his own flesh.

Proverbs 11:17 KJV

Nah, seems to be an elaboration on it.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at June 25, 2025 03:15 AM (NWqJf)

467 So yes an elaboration on the original text, I think?

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at June 25, 2025 03:20 AM (NWqJf)

468 Good night and God bless you all!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at June 25, 2025 03:24 AM (NWqJf)

469 462 Pallas

That looks like the Manual zoo, lots of rock and rough hewn logs and scrub arranged in interesting fashion.

The gray furred cats blend perfectly to granite.

Posted by: 13times at June 25, 2025 03:28 AM (rMZoZ)

470 One more thing: now I know what a midrash is and have read a a little about the sage Rabbi Tanchuma. Good night, and the LORD bless you!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at June 25, 2025 03:31 AM (NWqJf)

471 "Snow White actress Rachel Zegler reportedly in talks to play the lead role in The Sound of Music.

According to Deadline, the actress is in talks to play Maria von Trapp in a stage production at the Lincoln Center."

She'll open to rave critical review and the production will shut down after a 12 fierce days.

Posted by: 13times at June 25, 2025 03:50 AM (rMZoZ)

472 Finally home

Posted by: Skip at June 25, 2025 03:57 AM (+qU29)

473 Glad you're home safely, Skip. You have some crazy shift work. I think that must be hard to do.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 25, 2025 03:58 AM (2GCMq)

474 Yes it's hard, and they want 7 days a week. Have to have 1 night off.

Posted by: Skip at June 25, 2025 04:03 AM (+qU29)

475 Worse for me I am only one from my company there, the rest are sub- contractors

Posted by: Skip at June 25, 2025 04:07 AM (+qU29)

476
Delete the near universal urge within folks to stick their noses into business that is not their own.

Or, conversely, follow the Third Great Commandment to mind your own business.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh! at June 25, 2025 04:09 AM (Tv15w)

477 Why do some people on here give the worst case scenario for almost everything along with the supposed ability to predict the future ? Example-

"Madani will be elected and NYC become a shariah hellhole" ( People don't think it's a possibility that someone else might win in the general election or that money won't be put up for whoever is running against him ,or that his negatives will be emphasized in the General Election

The entire East Coast will become a jihadi run
Place except for Florida?

Iran has the ability to rebuild its nuclear facilities in two months? Don't you think that might be propaganda from CNN?

Almost in life is a charlatan except for them

Why do people want to live with such extreme negative thinking?

Good grief! Work towards the positives, enjoy the
Good things in your life and if you're a person of positive pray.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 25, 2025 04:09 AM (2GCMq)

478 Meant "If you're a person of faith- "pray"

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 25, 2025 04:10 AM (2GCMq)

479 Wow; Skip. That is really unreasonable of them. Of course you need days off.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 25, 2025 04:12 AM (2GCMq)

480
"How Do You Solve A Problem Like That Zegler?"

She is destined to become an entertainment Jonah.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh! at June 25, 2025 04:13 AM (Tv15w)

481
Iran has the ability to rebuild its nuclear facilities in two months? Don't you think that might be propaganda from CNN?


Toothpicks, elbow macaroni and glitter glue futures are soon to soar!

Hamas' casualty counts are far more credible than this.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh! at June 25, 2025 04:16 AM (Tv15w)

482 I think the thing that I would get rid of the make the world a better place? Narcissistic Personality Disorder

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 25, 2025 04:17 AM (2GCMq)

483 It's time to bring those sleeper cells out on the east coast and expose them to the light of the day.

Bravo, NYC!

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at June 25, 2025 04:20 AM (ioEI6)

484 Except for July 4 next break will be July 17 as going to Lancaster come Hell or high water for miniature convention

Posted by: Skip at June 25, 2025 04:22 AM (+qU29)

485 Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh! at June 25, 2025 04:16 AM (Tv15w)

And it doesn't occur to some people that whatever is left of the Iranian religious leadership has to say this sort of thing to try to save face or that CNN is repeating it to make Trump look bad?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 25, 2025 04:27 AM (2GCMq)

486 483 It's time to bring those sleeper cells out on the east coast and expose them to the light of the day.

Bravo, NYC!
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at June 25, 2025 04:20 AM (ioEI6)

heh

Posted by: m at June 25, 2025 04:28 AM (CQE5S)

487 Posted by: Skip at June 25, 2025 04:22 AM (+qU29

Yes, you need to go to Lancaster Skip because you have a great talent in doing these miniatures and you enjoy it and so do the people who see them?

What is the worst thing that could happen if you asked for more time off? You obviously deserve it and it sounds like you're quite important at work.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 25, 2025 04:29 AM (2GCMq)

488 Pixy might show up in a minute or 10 but I can't wait up.
Have a great day horde

Posted by: Skip at June 25, 2025 04:32 AM (+qU29)

489 Pixy's up!

Posted by: m at June 25, 2025 04:32 AM (CQE5S)

490 Hi, I do believe this is an excellent website. I stumbledupon it

Posted by: camera at June 25, 2025 08:33 AM (2gEUp)

Elephants on Parade Cafe

elephantssleeping.jpg


Baby elephant having a bath with his bath toys.

Too cute.

I just linked this, but this friendly baby elephant is worth a repost. This baby elephant is even more rambunctious.

Cat fight #1. Cat fight #2. Who was the most impressive?

Puppy thinks she's a cowboy.

Tree pavilion.

This kitten is learning to pounce and this dog has agreed to help train her.

Cats being absolute ninjas. Note that about two thirds of the way through a cat attempts to climb the exterior wall of a tall building and falls. But he does just get off the ground and run away. Can't have been pleasant, though. Soon after, a cat jumps from a building into a bucket of water on the ground. Crazy.

All aboard the Dog Bus. Except for Kevin.

I don't know if these guys are workers or intruders, but no one informed the cane corso on guard duty.

I think I linked this before, but it's good: Two dogs got to know each other over FaceTime, and then finally had an IRL Moron Meet-Up.

Remember the creepy and trippy part of, what was it, Dumbo maybe, where someone gets drunk and hallucinates a bunch of dancing pink and purple elephants?

Here's the real thing:

When elephants decide you're part of the herd:

Posted by: Ace at 07:26 PM




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1 Evening.

Posted by: Robert at June 24, 2025 07:27 PM (VWxH7)

2 1

Posted by: runner at June 24, 2025 07:27 PM (g47mK)

3 Robert, how are you?

Posted by: runner at June 24, 2025 07:28 PM (g47mK)

4 Thank you to the Horde for your prayers last night. It means a lot to me and I think it would mean even more to my mom.

Posted by: Robert at June 24, 2025 07:30 PM (VWxH7)

5 Party elephants!

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at June 24, 2025 07:31 PM (h7ZuX)

6 A herd of elephants became drunk after eating lot of fermented fruit in MalaMala Game Reserve.

==

that's terrible. they can hurt themselves.

Posted by: runner at June 24, 2025 07:31 PM (g47mK)

7 Thank you for the bat yesterday, Ace!

Posted by: Duncanthrax at June 24, 2025 07:32 PM (0sNs1)

8 how are you?
Posted by: runner at June 24, 2025 07:28 PM (g47mK)

Working, thankfully. Trucking is 10% driving 90% having to deal with a whole lot of bullshit. But it's keeping my mind occupied, at least.

How are things at Casa del Runner?

Posted by: Robert at June 24, 2025 07:32 PM (VWxH7)

9 Do elephants breathe thru their mouths or thru their snorkels?

Posted by: Don Black at June 24, 2025 07:32 PM (AOsQT)

10 >>Dumbo maybe, where someone gets drunk and hallucinates a bunch of dancing pink and purple elephants?

Winnie the pooh -- ephalumps and oozles or something.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at June 24, 2025 07:33 PM (hxbDZ)

11 Thankfully the Cafe is Yak free again.. not

Posted by: Ben Had at June 24, 2025 07:33 PM (ZIggv)

12 Video

Posted by: Accomack at June 24, 2025 07:35 PM (6cOjz)

13 The wild thing to comprehend is that the earth rotates on it's axis at 1kMph and around the sun at 67kMph.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 24, 2025 07:35 PM (XV/Pl)

14 Israel and Iran time are 30 minutes apart.

Posted by: Boss Moss at June 24, 2025 07:35 PM (nCKL5)

15 Working, thankfully. Trucking is 10% driving 90% having to deal with a whole lot of bullshit. But it's keeping my mind occupied, at least.

How are things at Casa del Runner?
Posted by: Robert at June 24, 2025 07:32 PM (VWxH7)

same, same. I noticed lighter traffic on expressways. I wonder if having proper border has anything to do with it...

Posted by: runner at June 24, 2025 07:35 PM (g47mK)

16 In the cane corso video, what’s the other animal in the far left, a little bit above center?

Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at June 24, 2025 07:35 PM (aeiyZ)

17 Elephants are awesome. Smart beasts. Aren't good for hauling (they can't carry much more than a mule, and eat a lot more and are more fragile), but they make *incredible* work gangs. Elephants can build bridges for you. The British Army in SE Asia used them extensively during General Slim's campaign through Burma and Malaya during WWII, primarily as bridge-builders. The elephants assemble the bridge, the trucks roll through. Absolutely incredible.

I once saw a video of an elephant work gang in, I think, Indonesia. They were chained up on break and a worker was teasing one of them with a candy bar, holding it out then snatching it back. Elephant slowly backed up, luring him to within range of the chain, then whipped his ass across the lot with its trunk. Just deserts.

Elephants kick ass. They also have death rituals. Fascinating animals.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 24, 2025 07:37 PM (6bTRc)

18 6 A herd of elephants became drunk after eating lot of fermented fruit in MalaMala Game Reserve.

==

that's terrible. they can hurt themselves.
Posted by: runner at June 24, 2025 07:31 PM (g47mK)

_________________________________

Carlsberg Elephant Ale...... WooooHoooooo!!!!

Posted by: Orson at June 24, 2025 07:38 PM (dIske)

19 We don't see much about dinosaurs in the Cafe posts. Probably due to a privileged attitude of extinctivism.

Anyhow, some scientists seem to think the T-Rex sounded like an industrial-strength weed-wacker.

https://tinyurl.com/35zj2uej

Posted by: Paco at June 24, 2025 07:39 PM (mADJX)

20 A herd of elephants became drunk after eating lot of fermented fruit in MalaMala Game Reserve.
++++
Yup. Like all mammals, they love sugar and like some mammals, they love booze.

On a prior note, one of General Slim's elephants broke out of its pen, ran down to a pineapple grove, and gorged itself on so much pineapple that it collapsed. The vet with them had to cut it open to clear out its guts of something like 90+ pineapples.

A testament to how valuable elephants are. They'd have shot a horse and moved on. The elephant got elaborate surgery.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 24, 2025 07:39 PM (6bTRc)

21 This roundup is far too cute. What has become of this Smart Military Blog?

Posted by: ... at June 24, 2025 07:40 PM (E0p3T)

22 6 A herd of elephants became drunk after eating lot of fermented fruit in MalaMala Game Reserve.

Lucky. I was a baboon!

Better than an anteater, I suppose.

Posted by: Abram Fingle, Bobbling the Doppling at June 24, 2025 07:40 PM (0aYVJ)

23 6 A herd of elephants became drunk after eating lot of fermented fruit in MalaMala Game Reserve.

that's terrible. they can hurt themselves.
Posted by: runner at June 24, 2025 07:31 PM (g47mK)

Yup, the local Hephalumps at the local Bar... falling off their bar stools...

Down right dangerous!

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 24, 2025 07:40 PM (mP0Kj)

24 The drunk 'elephants' are actually loxodonts.

Posted by: Wesley Crusher at June 24, 2025 07:40 PM (0sNs1)

25 >>Dumbo maybe, where someone gets drunk and hallucinates a bunch of dancing pink and purple elephants?

Winnie the pooh -- ephalumps and oozles or something.
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at June 24, 2025 07:33 PM (hxbDZ)

I would guess Fantasia.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 24, 2025 07:41 PM (8avO+)

26 I doubt those elephants are drunk. Elephants can weigh 10,000 lbs. It would take gallons and gallons of the highest proof whisky to get them drunk.

Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at June 24, 2025 07:41 PM (aeiyZ)

27 Julie Andrews suffered from a lifelong affliction of "Morbus Gallicus" (the French Disease), contracted on the set of "Mary Poppins", from an unprotected peck from a penguin.

Posted by: Penguin Facts at June 24, 2025 07:42 PM (vFG9F)

28 What has become of this Smart Military Blog?
Posted by: ... at June 24, 2025 07:40 PM


Even the best troops need some R&R (or I&I) from time to time.

If Risa didn't exist, we'd have to invent it.

Posted by: Wesley Crusher at June 24, 2025 07:43 PM (0sNs1)

29 It is in fact Dumbo with the tripping elephant scene. I think ace learned it from Pitch Meeting. I certainly did.

Posted by: ... at June 24, 2025 07:43 PM (E0p3T)

30 T-Rex skulls found are non-bilaterally symmetrical, which is not explained except by saying "maybe taphonomy"
Other extant bird species that have non-bilaterally symmetrical skulls are like owls, who use their hearing to pin-point prey.
It would be an odd thing if the T-Rex also hunted at night by sound. It would have been a fearful night predator.

Posted by: Kindltot at June 24, 2025 07:44 PM (D7oie)

31 >>Elephants kick ass. They also have death rituals. Fascinating animals.

If you ever get a chance to go to a game preserve of on a game drive, do it. The animals act much different in the wild than the do in a zoo and the elephants are awesome.

Posted by: JackStraw at June 24, 2025 07:44 PM (viF8m)

32 Pawn shop had a DVD of "Happy Feet" . Bought it to use for target practice. One .357 round did it.

Posted by: Ben Had at June 24, 2025 07:45 PM (ZIggv)

33 ... It would be an odd thing if the T-Rex also hunted at night by sound. It would have been a fearful night predator.
Posted by: Kindltot at June 24, 2025 07:44 PM (D7oie)
++++
Impossible! In the documentary "Jurassic Park," they made it very clear that T-Rex prey detection was based primarily on movement!

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 24, 2025 07:45 PM (6bTRc)

34 A herd of elephants became drunk after eating lot of fermented fruit in MalaMala Game Reserve.

that's terrible. they can hurt themselves.
Posted by: runner at June 24, 2025 07:31 PM (g47mK)

Obviously, we need to re-fund USAID, so they can send money to my NGO, Mothers Against Drunk Elephants (MADE).

I think $50 million would be a good start. $49,999,995 for me; and $5 to pay an African mother to yell "Stop that!" at the elephants.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at June 24, 2025 07:46 PM (4mmkh)

35 The Dumbo hallucination scene isn’t just trippy. It’s gay af. No way straight animators came up with that salute to pride month.

Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at June 24, 2025 07:46 PM (aeiyZ)

36 It would be an odd thing if the T-Rex also hunted at night by sound. It would have been a fearful night predator.

Posted by: Kindltot at June 24, 2025 07:44 PM (D7oie)

Why night? It's not sneaking up on anyone.

Posted by: ... at June 24, 2025 07:46 PM (E0p3T)

37 Impossible! In the documentary "Jurassic Park," they made it very clear that T-Rex prey detection was based primarily on movement!
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 24, 2025 07:45 PM (6bTRc)


I remember all the scenes where it kept running into trees and buildings

Posted by: Kindltot at June 24, 2025 07:46 PM (D7oie)

38
Dew point is 77F, hit 79F for a high today. In "Mug-o-meter" terms, this is "oppressive". :-)

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at June 24, 2025 07:47 PM (w6EFb)

39 I think $50 million would be a good start. $49,999,995 for me; and $5 to pay an African mother to yell "Stop that!" at the elephants.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at June 24, 2025 07:46 PM (4mmkh)
++++
Out: den mother
In: herd mother

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 24, 2025 07:47 PM (6bTRc)

40 Dew point is 77F, hit 79F for a high today. In "Mug-o-meter" terms, this is "oppressive". :-)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at June 24, 2025 07:47 PM (w6EFb)
++++
Yeesh. The mug is real.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 24, 2025 07:47 PM (6bTRc)

41 The wild thing to comprehend is that the earth rotates on it's axis at 1kMph and around the sun at 67kMph.
Posted by: Thomas Bender
......

That's weird. I don't feel dizzy.

Posted by: wth at June 24, 2025 07:50 PM (v0R5T)

42 Pawn shop had a DVD of "Happy Feet" . Bought it to use for target practice. One .357 round did it.
Posted by: Ben Had at June 24, 2025 07:45 PM


That is ... beautiful.

Also pecan butter worthy!

Posted by: Duncanthrax at June 24, 2025 07:51 PM (0sNs1)

43 ... It would be an odd thing if the T-Rex also hunted at night by sound. It would have been a fearful night predator.
Posted by: Kindltot at June 24, 2025 07:44 PM (D7oie)
++++
Impossible! In the documentary "Jurassic Park," they made it very clear that T-Rex prey detection was based primarily on movement!
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 24, 2025 07:45 PM (6bTRc)

eyes don't appear proportionally large for a nocturnal animal.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 24, 2025 07:52 PM (8avO+)

44 Elephants kick ass. They also have death rituals. Fascinating animals.

If you ever get a chance to go to a game preserve of on a game drive, do it. The animals act much different in the wild than the do in a zoo and the elephants are awesome.
Posted by: JackStraw at June 24, 2025 07:44 PM (viF8m)
—-

We got caught in the middle of a herd of elephants in the Serengeti. Awesome to behold but also scary. The safari vehicle was open. So there’s nothing between you and the biggest, strongest land animals on earth. Just me, my mom, and the guide. If we spooked the herd, they would have crushed the vehicle like it was a grape, and we’d be sent home in buckets. I got some National Geographic-quality pics.

Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at June 24, 2025 07:53 PM (aeiyZ)

45 The wild thing to comprehend is that the earth rotates on it's axis at 1kMph and around the sun at 67kMph.
Posted by: Thomas Bender
......

That's weird. I don't feel dizzy.
Posted by: wth at June 24, 2025 07:50 PM (v0R5T)

the velocity of the bit of dirt you stand on depends on the latitude. 1000 at the equator, 0 at a pole

Posted by: Oldcat at June 24, 2025 07:53 PM (8avO+)

46 Hey Dumbo, do you want to spoon?

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at June 24, 2025 07:53 PM (rvwwT)

47 That's weird. I don't feel dizzy.
Posted by: wth at June 24, 2025 07:50 PM


https://tinyurl.com/muetzf3s

Posted by: Duncanthrax at June 24, 2025 07:54 PM (0sNs1)

48 Duncanthrax, you do so many things well but the pecan butter rates very high.

Posted by: Ben Had at June 24, 2025 07:54 PM (ZIggv)

49 It is so hot here on the island, the humidity isn't too bad. My TV out of Virginia Beach says it's tropical, DP is like 78, but I think it's only summer.

Posted by: Accomack at June 24, 2025 07:54 PM (+Bkka)

50 He is...the gayest man in the world.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YkzlPcsSGlA

Posted by: Archimedes at June 24, 2025 07:55 PM (Riz8t)

51 37 Impossible! In the documentary "Jurassic Park," they made it very clear that T-Rex prey detection was based primarily on movement!
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 24, 2025 07:45 PM (6bTRc)

I remember all the scenes where it kept running into trees and buildings
Posted by: Kindltot at June 24, 2025 07:46 PM (D7oie)
——

[Snickering mockingly]

— ‘Quiet Place’ monsters

Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at June 24, 2025 07:56 PM (aeiyZ)

52 >>We got caught in the middle of a herd of elephants in the Serengeti. Awesome to behold but also scary. The safari vehicle was open. So there’s nothing between you and the biggest, strongest land animals on earth. Just me, my mom, and the guide. If we spooked the herd, they would have crushed the vehicle like it was a grape, and we’d be sent home in buckets. I got some National Geographic-quality pics.

I've only been to a game park in South Africa a couple of times but those are some of my best memories. My former SA customer told me he went on a drive in Kenya with some friends and a bull came out of the brush and hit their vehicle broadside and flipped it. One woman ended up with a broken leg and others assorted bumps and bruises.

And yea, I have some great photos including one of a small herd of elephants guarding their baby as we passed by.

Posted by: JackStraw at June 24, 2025 07:57 PM (viF8m)

53 Ace - RE: the drunk elephants. There is a drink called Amarula, made from the Amarula fruit in South Africa. It's a cream drink - think like Bailey's. On the label is an elephant because after people saw drunk elephants they figured "Hey, what is that shit?" It used to only be available in South America but I think they export it everywhere now. Look for it in the cordials/liquer section of your local store. Serve it over ice.

Posted by: pilot141 at June 24, 2025 07:57 PM (JlOBj)

54 It’s hot, hot, hot, and the high humidity isn’t helping!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at June 24, 2025 07:58 PM (qgNn3)

55 Knew a dog who would gorge on fallen fermented fruit.
At a party she lapped up beer. Real chow hound.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at June 24, 2025 07:59 PM (5JIiH)

56 He is...the gayest man in the world.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YkzlPcsSGlA
Posted by: Archimedes at June 24, 2025 07:55 PM (Riz8t)
——-

Still not gayer than Pedro Pascal

Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at June 24, 2025 07:59 PM (aeiyZ)

57 Correction - it only used to only be available in South Africa.

Posted by: pilot141 at June 24, 2025 07:59 PM (JlOBj)

58 >> The wild thing to comprehend is that the earth rotates on it's axis at 1kMph and around the sun at 67kMph.

And the solar system is moving about 500k MPH around the Galactic Center.

The Milky Way itself has a "peculiar velocity" (deviation from the co-moving Hubble flow) of about 1.3M MPH toward a mass concentration dubbed the Great Attractor.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at June 24, 2025 07:59 PM (w6EFb)

59 He is...the gayest man in the world.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YkzlPcsSGlA
Posted by: Archimedes at June 24, 2025 07:55 PM


LOL. But not a single mention of Crocs?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at June 24, 2025 08:00 PM (0sNs1)

60 Now I’m envisioning a T-Rex tiptoeing through the forest to sneak up on its prey.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at June 24, 2025 08:01 PM (u73oe)

61
Last year in August, I put a bucket under the A/C condensate drain just to see how much water was condensing. Similar dew point pushing 80F. I think I came up with 13 gallons per day. I think.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at June 24, 2025 08:01 PM (w6EFb)

62 I've been told many times I have T-Rex arms!

Posted by: David Hogg, Harvard alumnus at June 24, 2025 08:02 PM (0sNs1)

63 the gayest man in the world.

Killer punchline.

Posted by: gKWVE at June 24, 2025 08:06 PM (gKWVE)

64 "Unclear"

@EpochTimes 52s

Daniel Park, 32, was found unresponsive in an L.A. detention center while awaiting trial. The cause of death was unclear.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at June 24, 2025 08:06 PM (mlg/3)

65 Bar Rescue dude thinks he's bar Jesus. On now, ruining a dive bar I went to more than once.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at June 24, 2025 08:06 PM (QqMaK)

66 Saw a video today that talked about researchers discovering that toxiplasmosis gondii, the cat parasite, kills sperm. Could be a source of male infertility.

Posted by: Farquad at June 24, 2025 08:08 PM (YkGND)

67 who's Daniel Park?

Posted by: gKWVE at June 24, 2025 08:09 PM (gKWVE)

68 The photo on top reminds me of an illustration in an old Kipling book.

Posted by: Eeyore at June 24, 2025 08:10 PM (od0dV)

69 New Yorkers: if you just can't bring yourself to vote for Stalin, Jr. or Other Brother Fredo, remember that this guy is on the ballot.

https://tinyurl.com/26zaj6m2

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at June 24, 2025 08:10 PM (qpyNK)

70 I have to believe the animal kingdom is a hell of a lot smarter than we realize.

Posted by: Diogenes at June 24, 2025 08:12 PM (W/lyH)

71 Although that fake ad is funny, the best thing AI channel "Abandoned Films" did is still the "Children of Hurin" trailer.

Posted by: gKWVE at June 24, 2025 08:12 PM (gKWVE)

72 Cuomo just took the lead over the Muslim socialist in the NYC mayor race.

Posted by: JackStraw at June 24, 2025 08:12 PM (viF8m)

73 Evening, Ace, and Cafe patrons!

Sipping on a Quilter's Irish Death, after a productive day mowing in the yard, and fixing equipment.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 24, 2025 08:12 PM (6RYcT)

74 Accomplice of the Palm Springs bomber.
* stupid fucking minx won't let me post the headline part for some fucking reason.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at June 24, 2025 08:13 PM (mlg/3)

75 Had to go and watch this first, the original Elephants on Parade.

https://youtu.be/jcZUPDMXzJ8

For a certain generation, Pink Elephants on Parade was the gateway to hallucinogens.

Never noticed before that Dumbo and the rat are having a shared hallucination. Trippy, maan.

Posted by: mindful webworker - Disney at its finest at June 24, 2025 08:15 PM (XEisV)

76 AZ Intel @AZ_Intel_ 1h
BREAKING: At least 18 people hospitalized, including 12 children, after being struck by lightning at Lake Murray Public Park in Lexington, South Carolina.

https://tinyurl.com/3x8zv4vd
news release

Posted by: andycanuck at June 24, 2025 08:15 PM (2yoRf)

77 67 who's Daniel Park?
Posted by: gKWVE at June 24, 2025 08:09 PM (gKWVE)

Guy who provided a couple hundred pounds of ammonium nitrate to the other guy that blew up the fertility clinic in Palm Springs..

Posted by: Joe Kidd at June 24, 2025 08:15 PM (bA75n)

78 The baby elephants have been comparing notes with the bear cubs.

Posted by: Out of control at June 24, 2025 08:16 PM (TbWk/)

79 66 Saw a video today that talked about researchers discovering that toxiplasmosis gondii, the cat parasite, kills sperm. Could be a source of male infertility.
Posted by: Farquad at June 24, 2025 08:08 PM (YkGND)
Dang. We have two cats.

Posted by: Eromero at June 24, 2025 08:16 PM (UYYJi)

80 17
'Elephants are awesome. Smart beasts. Aren't good for hauling (they can't carry much more than a mule, and eat a lot more and are more fragile)'

They don't sound very awesome to me.

Posted by: Mule at June 24, 2025 08:16 PM (3wi/L)

81 In answer to the cat fight question, a brown bear can take on a tiger. This happens from time to time in Siberia (where both are found). It's reportedly about 50:50 as to who kills who. Mostly they just leave each other alone.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at June 24, 2025 08:17 PM (qpyNK)

82 Drunk elephants? I can see that Tuesday nights at Applebee's.

Posted by: Dr. Varno at June 24, 2025 08:17 PM (bIHwY)

83 82 Drunk elephants? I can see that Tuesday nights at Applebee's.
Posted by: Dr. Varno at June 24, 2025 08:17 PM (bIHwY)

Resort pools and sorority houses too.

Posted by: They're everywhere at June 24, 2025 08:18 PM (TbWk/)

84 Elephant on parade >>>>Elephant in the room

Thanks Ace. This really helps today.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * sporting my Andrew Breitbart attitude at June 24, 2025 08:19 PM (DX/Mv)

85 76 AZ Intel @AZ_Intel_ 1h
BREAKING: At least 18 people hospitalized, including 12 children, after being struck by lightning at Lake Murray Public Park in Lexington, South Carolina.

https://tinyurl.com/3x8zv4vd
news release
Posted by: andycanuck at June 24, 2025 08:15 PM (2yoRf)
You ok, Miklos?

Posted by: Eromero at June 24, 2025 08:19 PM (UYYJi)

86 who's Daniel Park?
Posted by: gKWVE at June 24, 2025 08:09 PM (gKWVE)

He's now parallel. With the dirt.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 24, 2025 08:20 PM (6RYcT)

87 65 Bar Rescue dude thinks he's bar Jesus. On now, ruining a dive bar I went to more than once.
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at June 24, 2025 08:06 PM (QqMaK)

If the bar was doing well then why is Taffer there?

Posted by: We're almost bankrupt but we'll keep doing things the same at June 24, 2025 08:21 PM (TbWk/)

88 Craziest cafe in weeks

Goo goo ga jub

Posted by: I am the Walrus at June 24, 2025 08:22 PM (RIvkX)

89 Saw a video today that talked about researchers discovering that toxiplasmosis gondii, the cat parasite, kills sperm. Could be a source of male infertility.
Posted by: Farquad at June 24, 2025 08:08 PM (YkGND)
Dang. We have two cats.
Posted by: Eromero at June 24, 2025 08:16 PM (UYYJi)


*makes call me motion*

Posted by: The Paolo at June 24, 2025 08:23 PM (W/lyH)

90 There's a story on GP about a Reverand Aaron Miller out of Connecticut. Project Veritas taped him bragging about how he could help a 12 year old transition without parents knowing. This is a REVERAND at a mainstream denomination. Excerpt below:

Over several months, a Project Veritas journalist and an actor posing as a 12-year-old experiencing gender dysphoria engaged in virtual and in-person meetings with Miller and Ferraiolo to probe how far these transgender activists would go to guide minors toward gender transitions without parental knowledge or consent.

Exclusive video footage shows Miller and Ferraiolo inviting “Justin,” a 12-year-old female, to secret youth groups led by Ferraiolo in Middletown and New Haven, Connecticut, despite knowing her parents oppose the transition. Miller assures secrecy, stating, “…they’ll never know.”

Posted by: Crusader at June 24, 2025 08:23 PM (TN0g+)

91 Daniel Park, 32, was found unresponsive in an L.A. detention center while awaiting trial. The cause of death was unclear.
Posted by: weft cut-loop

His heart probably stopped. That will do it.

Posted by: Tonypete at June 24, 2025 08:24 PM (cYBz/)

92 who's Daniel Park?
Posted by: gKWVE at June 24, 2025 08:09 PM (gKWVE)

blew up fertility clinic in CA

Posted by: runner at June 24, 2025 08:24 PM (g47mK)

93 Jenna Ortega had a sweet movie named "Saving Flora" where she was a young teen girl trying to save an elephant. Not an amazing movir, but sweet.

Jenna's Instagram was great during that time. So many elephant pictures and videos.

There was a great picture with the elephant and Jenna curled up sleeping.

Elephants are the best.

Shit. Maybe I should have kept one of Mom's elephant statue things. Nah. I dusted them enough...

Posted by: Stateless.. 43% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back now at June 24, 2025 08:25 PM (jvJvP)

94 Reverend Aaron Miller out of Connecticut.

I read somewhere that an evil man goes to hell alone, but an evil bishop goes to hell with a throng of a thousand behind him.

Posted by: gKWVE at June 24, 2025 08:26 PM (gKWVE)

95 Any more word on that Paris music fest where a ton of people were stabbed with syringes?
I can't seem to find an update.

Posted by: Dr. Varno at June 24, 2025 08:27 PM (bIHwY)

96 I read somewhere that an evil man goes to hell alone, but an evil bishop goes to hell with a throng of a thousand behind him.

Posted by: gKWVE at June 24, 2025 08:26 PM (gKWVE

Sadly, our politicians lead so many more...

Posted by: Stateless.. 43% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back now at June 24, 2025 08:28 PM (jvJvP)

97 His Pachydermus is showing.

Posted by: Elrond Hubbard at June 24, 2025 08:29 PM (P0m9n)

98 54 It’s hot, hot, hot, and the high humidity isn’t helping! - NemoMeImpuneLacessit

I'll say. I lived in Miami for 12 years, and I don't remember ever encountering a heat index like the one I'm experiencing right now in southeastern coastal North Carolina (Brunswick County, to be exact). If Papillon spent a half hour in my back yard, he'd be clamoring to go back to Devil's Island to cool down.

Posted by: Paco at June 24, 2025 08:29 PM (mADJX)

99 Jenna Ortega had a sweet movie named "Saving Flora" where she was a young teen girl trying to save an elephant. Not an amazing movir, but sweet.

Jenna's Instagram was great during that time. So many elephant pictures and videos.

There was a great picture with the elephant and Jenna curled up sleeping.

Elephants are the best.

Shit. Maybe I should have kept one of Mom's elephant statue things. Nah. I dusted them enough...
Posted by: Stateless.. 43% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back now at June 24, 2025 08:25 PM (jvJvP)
——

Rancid leftwing drone NPC who deserves to get raped and murdered by the goatfucking savages she champions. Too harsh? Maybe. But fuck these people. Reap, sow.

Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at June 24, 2025 08:29 PM (aeiyZ)

100 That stabilized view of the Milky Way was pretty cool.

Posted by: tankdemon at June 24, 2025 08:31 PM (crMW1)

101 It's this hot.

https://tinyurl.com/mutwef22

Posted by: JackStraw at June 24, 2025 08:31 PM (viF8m)

102 My buddies were bitching all day about the heat back east. Foggy, high of 55 here.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 24, 2025 08:31 PM (RIvkX)

103 Amazing how generations survived in this country with out heat indexes.

Posted by: Ben Had at June 24, 2025 08:31 PM (ZIggv)

104 Operation Dumbo Drop was a great movie.

Posted by: Elrond Hubbard at June 24, 2025 08:31 PM (P0m9n)

105 SanFranpsycho, take a read at the elder of ziyon place when you get a chance.

Posted by: Ben Had at June 24, 2025 08:33 PM (ZIggv)

106 There's a story on GP about a Reverand Aaron Miller out of Connecticut. Project Veritas taped him bragging about how he could help a 12 year old transition without parents knowing.
Send

This is a REVERAND at a mainstream denomination. Excerpt below:


He's gay and a groomer.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 24, 2025 08:34 PM (5WDkb)

107 Was 101 today in nyc. Thank god for central AC.

Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at June 24, 2025 08:34 PM (aeiyZ)

108
Rough day. Woke up a little after 4:00 this morning and got Dot, Dan, Ruth and Puff loaded for the drive up to Texas A&M. Left at 6:00, got there at 8:30 and stayed until nearly 2:00. Drove back, got in between 4:30 and 5:00, got the RV unloaded and reloaded so that HM could leave for Oklahoma City with Rosalind and Varus.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 24, 2025 08:34 PM (QnmlO)

109 It's been warm, but not insanely so. We have just had an unusually cool, wet year so far, so this seems horrific by contrast.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 24, 2025 08:34 PM (YUL+W)

110 92F & 16% humidity.

"It's a (very!) dry heat"

Posted by: JQ at June 24, 2025 08:34 PM (rdVOm)

111 One good thing about having this heat now is that the rest of summer will be cool, brisk even.

Posted by: Accomack at June 24, 2025 08:35 PM (+Bkka)

112 69, some clouds, some smoke from wildfires in BC and Alaska.

Breeze out of the north 9-15.

54% humidity.

Air quality not great because of the smoke. Might make for an interesting sunset.

Posted by: nurse ratched at June 24, 2025 08:37 PM (mT+6a)

113 Lived through 100 consecutive days of 100 to 118 highs in Texas. This ain't shit.

Posted by: Ben Had at June 24, 2025 08:37 PM (ZIggv)

114 Which means it should cool right the heck down when the son goes down.

I always loved that about desert/arid.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 24, 2025 08:37 PM (YUL+W)

115 Rancid leftwing drone NPC who deserves to get raped and murdered by the goatfucking savages she champions. Too harsh? Maybe. But fuck these people. Reap, sow.
Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at June 24, 2025 08:29 PM (aeiyZ)

Yeah, I'm watching a lot more asian stuff too. Lol.

I am managing to not being represented. Or preached to.

Posted by: Stateless.. 43% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back now at June 24, 2025 08:38 PM (jvJvP)

116 Remember it getting up over a hundred at my granny's house when I was about ten years old, in New London, NC. No a/c. I made an important discovery, though. If you sit in front of a floor fan and speak in a very soft voice directly into the spinning blades, you sound just like the leader of the moon people in the 1964 movie First Men in the Moon.

Posted by: Paco at June 24, 2025 08:38 PM (mADJX)

117 Amazing how generations survived in this country with out heat indexes.
Posted by: Ben Had at June 24, 2025 08:31 PM (ZIggv)

Half of all weather reports are literally the last two things I need some "expert" to tell me:

1. What the weather is right now

2. What the temperature feels like

And the other half is wrong.

Posted by: ... at June 24, 2025 08:38 PM (E0p3T)

118 But the second week of the war could be even worse. Iran isn’t Iraq or Libya, or even North Korea. While it’s often described as a rogue state, Iran has powerful allies. It’s now part of a global bloc called BRICS, which represents the majority of the world’s landmass, population, economy and military power. Iran has extensive military ties with Russia. It sells the overwhelming majority of its oil exports to China. Iran isn’t alone. An attack on Iran could very easily become a world war. We’d lose.

None of these are far fetched predictions.


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"Tucker Carlson, to the white courtesy phone, please!"

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 24, 2025 08:39 PM (RIvkX)

119 It wasn't that hot today. Overcast. Only got to 98.

Posted by: fd at June 24, 2025 08:40 PM (vFG9F)

120
And the ride affected Dan badly. He sprained his back last week; the bumpy roads and cramped crate bothered him. I had real trouble getting him down to the kennel because his back end kept giving out. Put him in a pen by himself and when I went down to see him just now he got up slowly but without complaining. Poor boy.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 24, 2025 08:40 PM (QnmlO)

121 Elephants kick ass. They also have death rituals. Fascinating animals.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 24, 2025 07:37 PM (6bTRc)

I was at our local zoo once looking at the elephants there, including one large older male. There’s a good setup where the only physical barrier between the humans on the viewing platform and the elephants was a steep sided ditch/moat, about 9’ deep and 20’ across. So there were 3 people of an African persuasion, and they were being very loud and laughing loud and even I thought they were extremely annoying, and they kept pointing at this elephant and making noise while the elephant just stared at them while it kind of dug around in that ditch with the tip of its trunk. Suddenly he lifted it up and blasted all 3 of them with a big spray of mud and water! They started screaming and yelling even more, and I swear I could see that elephant laughing.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 24, 2025 08:40 PM (HEGiN)

122 ... Mrs. doing better?

Posted by: Ben Had at June 24, 2025 08:40 PM (ZIggv)

123 Thanks Ben Had I will.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 24, 2025 08:41 PM (RIvkX)

124 Oh, when is Iran going to unleash hell? Have they been playing dead the past two weeks and now are going to kill us all?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 24, 2025 08:41 PM (YUL+W)

125 Lived through 100 consecutive days of 100 to 118 highs in Texas. This ain't shit.
Posted by: Ben Had


Fist bump.

This isn't even a warm up to August.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 24, 2025 08:42 PM (5WDkb)

126 Doll Eyes Alex should run for Mayor of NYC.

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 24, 2025 08:42 PM (r+I/B)

127 ... Mrs. doing better?
Posted by: Ben Had at June 24, 2025 08:40 PM (ZIggv)

Hey sweetie, yeah a little. Got a follow up next week, maybe something to level out her BP from the fluctuations. She's an athlete, this is all due to her son's passing five years ago, very sad to see. But thank you.

Posted by: ... at June 24, 2025 08:43 PM (E0p3T)

128 Any more word on that Paris music fest where a ton of people were stabbed with syringes?
I can't seem to find an update.
Posted by: Dr. Varno
===

France Update: More Footage of African-Involved Fights at the 2025 Music Festival – 1,500 Injured, 371 Arrested, 145 Stabbed with Syringes
- Gateway Pundit

Good place for your news roll-up and SHOCKING headlines.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at June 24, 2025 08:43 PM (/lPRQ)

129 Have we heard Big Ben today?

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at June 24, 2025 08:43 PM (lIgBp)

130 rickb223, hugs to ya.

Posted by: Ben Had at June 24, 2025 08:43 PM (ZIggv)

131 It was real pleasant here today. No rain, blue sky, sunshine, temp 60-something, brisk South breeze.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 24, 2025 08:43 PM (6RYcT)

132 Oh, when is Iran going to unleash hell? Have they been playing dead the past two weeks and now are going to kill us all?

Depends, when was the last time the Ayatollah had a bath?

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 24, 2025 08:43 PM (r+I/B)

133 rickb223, hugs to ya.
Posted by: Ben Had


Right back to you ma'am.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 24, 2025 08:44 PM (5WDkb)

134 Doll Eyes Alex should run for Mayor of NYC.
Posted by: Anna Puma at June 24, 2025 08:42 PM (r+I/B)

A beejer in every pot?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 24, 2025 08:44 PM (6RYcT)

135 African, synonym for Muslim I bet.

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 24, 2025 08:45 PM (r+I/B)

136
I was telling Hubby this morning about the syringe attacks at the music festival. He couldn't believe it. He said it won't be long and the aholes will be doing it here in our country.

Posted by: four seasons at June 24, 2025 08:45 PM (3ek7K)

137 Once the sun goes down-- so does the temperature. That's the part I like best, in summer!

Still, if I win the lottery, gonna move north. Because I'd be able to pay for snow removal instead of doing it myself.

Posted by: JQ at June 24, 2025 08:47 PM (rdVOm)

138 Yeah but nothing like 115 in WA state where most houses don't have AC.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at June 24, 2025 08:47 PM (AcTAo)

139
98 54 It’s hot, hot, hot, and the high humidity isn’t helping! - NemoMeImpuneLacessit

This reminds of some fool from England who was posting on X about how global warming was making summers unbearably hot; so someone looked up his location and found out the high for the month so far where he lived was 79 degrees.
Oh he got pounded in the replies!

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 24, 2025 08:47 PM (HEGiN)

140 Aetius

May want to skip the last part of Kirsche's broadcast today. Very enraging.

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 24, 2025 08:48 PM (r+I/B)

141 He said it won't be long and the aholes will be doing it here in our country.
Posted by: four seasons at June 24, 2025 08:45 PM (3ek7K)

It would be racist to stop them.

Posted by: ... at June 24, 2025 08:49 PM (E0p3T)

142 I need some help.

Snowflake, has been back 'home' for 2 weeks. We finaĺly got everything out of her hair after her kidnap, relocate, miraculously found adventure.

I don't want to fatten her up again. I'll start weighing her every morning and better monitoring what I give her. But every morning, early, she comes into my room, Monday sleeping on my face and I just feed her.

The goal. 10am and 6pm feedings. And about 9 pounds.

How do cat people just not end up with 30 pound Tribbles?

I hope she calms down. My life may be much better soon. Kind of. I'm not fattening her up. But the everything...

Posted by: Stateless.. 43% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back now at June 24, 2025 08:49 PM (jvJvP)

143 Four Seasons

The FBI has already indicted a Texas man, named Burger, who was trying to organize a terror cell on Roblox to attack a Christian concert. He called them "people of the Cross."

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 24, 2025 08:50 PM (r+I/B)

144 was telling Hubby this morning about the syringe attacks at the music festival. He couldn't believe it. He said it won't be long and the aholes will be doing it here in our country.
Posted by: four seasons at June 24, 2025 08:45 PM (3ek7K)


They'll get away with it once.
Daughters and granddaughters of Diogenes can shoot.
Shoot good.

Posted by: The Paolo at June 24, 2025 08:50 PM (W/lyH)

145 Posted by: Anna Puma at June 24, 2025 08:48 PM (r+I/B)

Still working through the Metokur one. Reef does not let me play games for as long a time, so my podcast listening has been affected.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 24, 2025 08:50 PM (YUL+W)

146 Just a note- the person mentioning the Project Veritas expose of the horrible pastor helping to transition children against their parents permission is not the pastor of a mainline denomination . I'm not saying that a reprehensible pastor a mainline denomination couldn't or wouldn't do that -but this man is the pastor of the Metropolitan Community Church which says this on its website:

ALL ARE ALWAYS WELCOME BUT MCC HARTFORD MINISTERS ESPECIALLY TO THE QUEER COMMUNITY - LGBTQ+.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 24, 2025 08:51 PM (2GCMq)

147 Daughters and granddaughters of Diogenes can shoot.
Shoot good.
Posted by: The Paolo at June 24, 2025 08:50 PM (W/lyH)

The Paolo tried to ply his wares eh? He, how you say, is not used to being the target.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 24, 2025 08:51 PM (YUL+W)

148 A simple request -

If you are going to the beach in a Lake Michigan town this summer, please don't start a fight.

Two closings due to fights already, and it's not even July.

Posted by: Indiana Toll Road at June 24, 2025 08:52 PM (8AONa)

149
People of the Cross. WTH??? They are demented.

We are well armed here. Two gun safes with many choices, lol.

Posted by: four seasons at June 24, 2025 08:52 PM (3ek7K)

150 Metropolitan Community Church?

Commies with a collar.

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 24, 2025 08:53 PM (r+I/B)

151 I'm more shocked by roblox, lol.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 24, 2025 08:53 PM (YUL+W)

152 Reef does not allow?

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 24, 2025 08:53 PM (r+I/B)

153 T-Rex skulls found are non-bilaterally symmetrical, which is not explained except by saying "maybe taphonomy"

Other extant bird species that have non-bilaterally symmetrical skulls are like owls, who use their hearing to pin-point prey.
Posted by: Kindltot


Whooooo.

Posted by: a Tyrannosaurus looming over you at June 24, 2025 08:53 PM (DgGvY)

154 Lib little sis had a cat that could not control his appetite and she had to very strictly measure and control his food. He yowled continuously for food.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 24, 2025 08:54 PM (RIvkX)

155 Poor boy.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

Poor guy! I hope he starts feeling better soon.

Posted by: Piper at June 24, 2025 08:54 PM (pZEOD)

156 Sock off

Posted by: 2009Refugee at June 24, 2025 08:54 PM (8AONa)

157 Reef does not allow?
Posted by: Anna Puma at June 24, 2025 08:53 PM (r+I/B)

He gets insistent for attention.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 24, 2025 08:54 PM (YUL+W)

158 Islamic scholars, '"People of the Cross" is a Muslim term?

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 24, 2025 08:55 PM (r+I/B)

159 "CNN is a gutless group losers." - US Trump

I voted for this. Twice. In different elections. Of course. Voting twice in the same election is what Democrats do.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at June 24, 2025 08:55 PM (NXz8h)

160 People of the Cross. WTH??? They are demented.
We are well armed here.
Posted by: four seasons


And how!

Posted by: Nicholas D. Wolfwood at June 24, 2025 08:55 PM (DgGvY)

161 In other news, surpassed 1,000 posts on Tensor.

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 24, 2025 08:56 PM (r+I/B)

162 I voted for this. Twice. In different elections. Of course. Voting twice in the same election is what Democrats do.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram

Not thrice?

Posted by: She Hobbit at June 24, 2025 08:57 PM (ftFVW)

163 "People of the Cross"

Children of the Son?

Posted by: People of the Jello Mold at June 24, 2025 08:58 PM (vFG9F)

164 In other news, surpassed 1,000 posts on Tensor.
Posted by: Anna Puma at June 24, 2025 08:56 PM (r+I/B)

Congrats.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 24, 2025 08:58 PM (YUL+W)

165 Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
@AOC
Also, I'm a Bronx girl. You should know that we can eat Queens boys for breakfast"
---
Tonight on "To Catch a Predator"

Why don't you have a seat right here?

Tell us more about how you like to eat little boys.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at June 24, 2025 08:58 PM (2uKh/)

166 "People of the Cross"

Children of the Son?
Posted by: People of the Jello Mold

Makes me think of the cult beneath the planet of the apes.

Posted by: She Hobbit at June 24, 2025 08:59 PM (3WpNj)

167 Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
@AOC
Also, I'm a Bronx girl. You should know that we can eat Queens boys for breakfast"


So she's a 'Vore?

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 24, 2025 08:59 PM (r+I/B)

168 Like the redhead with a spear.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 24, 2025 09:00 PM (YUL+W)

169
Poor guy! I hope he starts feeling better soon.
Posted by: Piper at June 24, 2025 08:54 PM (pZEOD)

_________

I expect so. He's 9 years old and was rolling in the grass when he let out a yelp and came up lame. Too much exertion or too cramped a space exacerbates it.

For a huge, hulking dog (113 pounds) he's very light on his feet. It's like seeing a hippo performing ballet.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 24, 2025 09:00 PM (QnmlO)

170 Makes me think of the cult beneath the planet of the apes.

Islam worshipping the Holy Fallout.

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 24, 2025 09:00 PM (r+I/B)

171 Is anyone else as fucking tired as I am of references to in jokes and familiarity with NYC culture and regionality?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 24, 2025 09:01 PM (YUL+W)

172 Stateless, what are you feeding her? Nutritional needs differ.

Posted by: Ben Had at June 24, 2025 09:02 PM (ZIggv)

173
If you were a parent of a child who is secretly transitioning wouldn't you notice changes in mood, attitude, whatever. Are some parents so wrapped up in themselves they don't realize something is not right?

Posted by: four seasons at June 24, 2025 09:02 PM (3ek7K)

174 Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
@AOC
Also, I'm a Bronx girl. You should know that we can eat Queens boys for breakfast"



The only waitress that brings nothing to the table.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 24, 2025 09:02 PM (5WDkb)

175 142 I hope she calms down. My life may be much better soon. Kind of. I'm not fattening her up. But the everything...
Posted by: Stateless.. 43% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back now at June 24, 2025 08:49 PM (jvJvP)

I wouldn’t over complicate it, Stateless. You can see if she is an okay weight by looking at her. She is still young and if she is active, she will burn calories. What are you feeding her? Kibble or canned? Both? Are you leaving kibble down all the time? You can feed her food made for indoor cats that is lower in calories or food for kitties that are a little rounder than they should be, if that is her problem.

Posted by: Piper at June 24, 2025 09:04 PM (pZEOD)

176 Is anyone else as fucking tired as I am of references to in jokes and familiarity with NYC culture and regionality?
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 24, 2025 09:01 PM (YUL+W)
====
Reminds me of a guy from Avenue U.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 24, 2025 09:04 PM (RIvkX)

177 four seasons, if a parent doesn't recognize this happens they just don't give a shit.

Posted by: Ben Had at June 24, 2025 09:04 PM (ZIggv)

178 154 Lib little sis had a cat that could not control his appetite and she had to very strictly measure and control his food. He yowled continuously for food.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 24, 2025 08:54 PM (RIvkX)

Hello!

I hope Snowflake won't be like that. She's not my cat, but she's sleeping here. We'll see how it goes.

Sorry, by the way. My last several months have been challenging. And my tiny town has 3 stores. I have been trying edibles to help me sleep. I'm a bit sorry for thinking anyone here from SF would somehow know my cannibus questions.

Or I was playing the odds...

Posted by: Stateless.. 43% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back now at June 24, 2025 09:05 PM (jvJvP)

179 Reminds me of a guy from Avenue U.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 24, 2025 09:04 PM (RIvkX)

Hah!

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 24, 2025 09:05 PM (YUL+W)

180 "People of the Cross" isn't in the Quran. We get subsumed with the People of the Book, which means Jews. Also there's supposed to be protection for us because, hey, we got God's Word before they did.
It does sound like "People of the Book" however, and Muslims never thought much of the cross. Jesus didn't die on it, they say. The cross is for criminals.

Posted by: gKWVE at June 24, 2025 09:05 PM (gKWVE)

181 For a huge, hulking dog (113 pounds) he's very light on his feet. It's like seeing a hippo performing ballet.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

That is a big dog! I bet he is taller than me when he stands up.

Posted by: Piper at June 24, 2025 09:05 PM (pZEOD)

182 Bonanza, in court, judge asks Hop Sing if he believes in guilt.
"Yes! Hop Sing good Baptist!"

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at June 24, 2025 09:06 PM (IvmRU)

183 Early voting results indicate NYC will now be part of Iran.

Posted by: Squadfather at June 24, 2025 09:06 PM (qUkBO)

184
Ben Had,

I think you hit the nail on the head.

Posted by: four seasons at June 24, 2025 09:06 PM (3ek7K)

185 AOC, speaking as a Queens boy, I don't know you.

And you boring.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 24, 2025 09:06 PM (RIvkX)

186 I was telling Hubby this morning about the syringe attacks at the music festival. He couldn't believe it. He said it won't be long and the aholes will be doing it here in our country.
Posted by: four seasons at June 24, 2025 08:45 PM (3ek7K)

Anyone know what was in the syringes? AIDS?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 24, 2025 09:07 PM (6RYcT)

187
AOP,

That is what is scary about the attacks. There is no telling what the victims have been infected with.

Posted by: four seasons at June 24, 2025 09:07 PM (3ek7K)

188
Is anyone else as fucking tired as I am of references to in jokes and familiarity with NYC culture and regionality?
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 24, 2025 09:01 PM (YUL+W)

_________

I'm tired of hearing about NYC, period. Anything the rest of the country shrugs off (heat, cold, snow, floods, rain) becomes OMG! ELEVENTY!!! when it happens to NYC.

Go ahead, elect a Democratic Socialist. See if I care. Just don't make demands when your money runs out.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 24, 2025 09:08 PM (QnmlO)

189 but this man is the pastor of the Metropolitan Community Church which says this on its website:

ALL ARE ALWAYS WELCOME BUT MCC HARTFORD MINISTERS ESPECIALLY TO THE QUEER COMMUNITY - LGBTQ+.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 24, 2025 08:51 PM (2GCMq)

Pro tip: if a church calls itself "metropolitan" it's a faggot operation.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 24, 2025 09:09 PM (6RYcT)

190 Aetius

The shield maiden images were outliers, there is no spear in the prompt.

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 24, 2025 09:09 PM (r+I/B)

191
Also, it could have been a "test drive" to see if they could get away with it. Next time could be really bad.

Posted by: four seasons at June 24, 2025 09:09 PM (3ek7K)

192 Stateless I don't know much about edibles but people I know say to maximize the CBD content and minimize the THC content. For some people it is a huge aid.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 24, 2025 09:10 PM (RIvkX)

193 Is Snowflake neutered? Neutered/spayed animals tend to put on the pounds no matter what you do. Might want to try more exercise, maybe a toy to play with. That could be as simple as a box and a plastic cap

Posted by: Notsothoreau at June 24, 2025 09:12 PM (AcTAo)

194 Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
@AOC
Also, I'm a Bronx girl. You should know that we can eat Queens boys for breakfast"


You can't even eat an IDF soldier girl for breakfast, toots.

(yeah I know, phrasing)

Posted by: Gref at June 24, 2025 09:12 PM (aBgBM)

195 Syringe attacks --- Criminal Minds ,season 12, episode 4 or there abouts.

Posted by: Ben Had at June 24, 2025 09:12 PM (ZIggv)

196 Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 24, 2025 09:08 PM (QnmlO)

I care. And not just because I live in NJ I'd care if they were electing a Democrat Socialist Muslim or Mayor in Texas or anywhere else , and since some Muslims in Texas were planning to have a large Muslim community built ( Was it in Plano?) before Governor Abbot starting investigating it perhaps this ought to be an issue no matter where people live.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 24, 2025 09:12 PM (2GCMq)

197 13 The wild thing to comprehend is that the earth rotates on it's axis at 1kMph and around the sun at 67kMph

The equator has a tangential speed that fast: at the poles you just turn in place once every 24 hours!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at June 24, 2025 09:15 PM (qgNn3)

198 Posted by: Gref at June 24, 2025 09:12 PM (aBgBM

It just sounds ridiculous anyway for a woman who's the age of one of President Trump's kids to call him a "Bronx Boy" . She's just putting on her tough girl routine to appeal to the squad and her colleagues in Congress and whoever reads her social media.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 24, 2025 09:15 PM (2GCMq)

199 Would I be a bad person if I threw an opened two-liter squeeze bottle filled with strawberry vodka into a zoo's elephant enclosure?

Posted by: Gref at June 24, 2025 09:17 PM (aBgBM)

200 Aetius

What did you think of the images set inside a church?

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 24, 2025 09:17 PM (r+I/B)

201
I care. And not just because I live in NJ I'd care if they were electing a Democrat Socialist Muslim or Mayor in Texas or anywhere else , and since some Muslims in Texas were planning to have a large Muslim community built ( Was it in Plano?) before Governor Abbot starting investigating it perhaps this ought to be an issue no matter where people live.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at

His mother is Mira Nair. It’s funny how someone who is very wealthy finds socialism enticing- he won’t be affected by it. His father is an anthropologist, he was raised incredibly privileged. Suffering? He never met her.

Posted by: Piper at June 24, 2025 09:17 PM (pZEOD)

202 Would I be a bad person if I threw an opened two-liter squeeze bottle filled with strawberry vodka into a zoo's elephant enclosure?

Luckily Ted Kennedy is no longer alive.

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 24, 2025 09:18 PM (r+I/B)

203 188
'Go ahead, elect a Democratic Socialist. See if I care. Just don't make demands when your money runs out.'

Leftists seem especially hellbent on voting for, protesting for, rioting for the most extreme shit anymore. I don't know what they get out of it. Self validation, I guess.
I won't like it if this socialist creep gets elected but I can't do anything about it. And as such, I won't let it bother me.

Posted by: Mule at June 24, 2025 09:18 PM (3wi/L)

204 192 Stateless I don't know much about edibles but people I know say to maximize the CBD content and minimize the THC content. For some people it is a huge aid.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 24, 2025 09:10 PM (RIv

Thank you so much! I am still experimenting but this helps.

I will move back to the 5000 hours of meditation soon.

But, one of the young woman at the store..
Nevermind....you've probably seen tv.
Good night

Posted by: Stateless.. 43% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back now at June 24, 2025 09:19 PM (jvJvP)

205 Was out all day missed all the news. Catching up.

The balls on that judge to defy scotus. JFC. Trump need to categorically say fuck off I'm not listening to you. Period.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at June 24, 2025 09:19 PM (+47n7)

206 AOC gets more attention than she merits.

Her big juicy booty though...

Posted by: davidt at June 24, 2025 09:20 PM (i0F8b)

207 Would I be a bad person if I threw an opened two-liter squeeze bottle filled with strawberry vodka into a zoo's elephant enclosure?
Posted by: Gref

Make it Jackfruit flavor and they will thank you and remember forever.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at June 24, 2025 09:20 PM (/lPRQ)

208 Might want to try more exercise, maybe a toy to play with. That could be as simple as a box and a plastic cap

A box I understand: my cats love them! What does a cat do with a cap? As far as I know cats do not like to wear hats!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at June 24, 2025 09:21 PM (qgNn3)

209 Stateless,

Snowflake was awol for several weeks and lost a bit of weight iirc.

She may be food Insecure, or needs to put on another pound or so. Please keep her inside, for the time being if you can. Brush out her coat. Tell her she is safe and loved. Kitties understand.

It’s sweet you fret about her so.

Posted by: nurse ratched at June 24, 2025 09:21 PM (qF+Bw)

210 I am food insecure myself. Might have to cook dinner to remedy that.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 24, 2025 09:23 PM (6RYcT)

211 What did you think of the images set inside a church?
Posted by: Anna Puma at June 24, 2025 09:17 PM (r+I/B)

I like them a lot.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 24, 2025 09:23 PM (zZu0s)

212 Off sock.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at June 24, 2025 09:23 PM (3wi/L)

213 Have two male cats who will play hockey with a soda cap. It gets even more fun when the cat and the cap are in the bathtub.

They are basically going through the motions of them tormenting a mouse before killing it.

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 24, 2025 09:24 PM (r+I/B)

214
Stateless, happy you're up to 43%. May you ever increase.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 24, 2025 09:24 PM (QnmlO)

215 Zohran Mamdani looks like a shoo-in - with half the vote counted (and more in Cuomo strongholds than not), he's up 8%. Lander seems to be the ultimate spoiler, pulling 12-13% of the vote...

Posted by: Nova Local at June 24, 2025 09:25 PM (tOcjL)

216 It just sounds ridiculous anyway for a woman who's the age of one of President Trump's kids to call him a "Bronx Boy" . She's just putting on her tough girl routine to appeal to the squad and her colleagues in Congress and whoever reads her social media.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke

Isn't the President from Queens in any case?

Posted by: Tonypete at June 24, 2025 09:25 PM (cYBz/)

217 Have two male cats who will play hockey with a soda cap. It gets even more fun when the cat and the cap are in the bathtub.

They are basically going through the motions of them tormenting a mouse before killing it.
Posted by: Anna Puma at June 24, 2025 09:24 PM (r+I/B)

Too bad air-hockey tables are so noisy. Cats would love them.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 24, 2025 09:25 PM (6RYcT)

218 Great videos tonight, Ace.

Posted by: Gref at June 24, 2025 09:25 PM (aBgBM)

219 Posted by: Piper at June 24, 2025 09:17 PM (pZEOD

Yes; Very privileged

He 's not a bad looking fellow. He's apparently quite articulate , he has a huge social media presence and he's got a lot of money behind.him not surprised that lots of dolts are looking at his big shiny promises and not the horrible things this Muslim supports .

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 24, 2025 09:25 PM (2GCMq)

220 wow. ranked choice voting is gonna kill NYC!

I'd laugh but they'll just spread out and infect the rest of us

Posted by: Black Orchid at June 24, 2025 09:26 PM (Pv3Rg)

221 Ramblin' around ol' Denver, killing some time before I head back to the hotel.

The city looks more less like the dump I left, but there a couple new things that stand out to me.

There are a lot more closed storefronts in LoDo than I remember from three years ago. And, it now has one of my least favorite features of northeastern cities: everything stinks like piss now.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 24, 2025 09:26 PM (Pqkqs)

222 Hiya, Mr Peon!
Thank you so much for the invite to see Little Feat last weekend! I had a great time! It’s good to get out of Seattle every now and again. I hope you didn’t have to shovel the driveway to get home!

Posted by: nurse ratched at June 24, 2025 09:27 PM (qF+Bw)

223
Zohran Mamdani looks like a shoo-in

________

Why do I read the name as "Zoltan Madmani"?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 24, 2025 09:27 PM (QnmlO)

224 He 's not a bad looking fellow. He's apparently quite articulate , he has a huge social media presence and he's got a lot of money behind.him not surprised that lots of dolts are looking at his big shiny promises and not the horrible things this Muslim supports .
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 24, 2025 09:25 PM (2GCMq)


I distrust all muslim politicians, even if they run as rock-ribbed Conservatives. Because muslims lie as a matter of religious imperative.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 24, 2025 09:27 PM (6RYcT)

225 Isn't the President from Queens in any case?

My mistake. I believe she referred to him as a Queens Boy and herself as a Bronx girl . It still sounds dumb.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 24, 2025 09:28 PM (2GCMq)

226 It's almost funny

@admcrlsn 22m
Looks like early + mail votes have dropped.

Mamdani leads by 9.1 points (37,451 raw votes).

Posted by: weft cut-loop at June 24, 2025 09:28 PM (mlg/3)

227 Wasn't Zoltan the automaton that caused Tom Hanks in Big?

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 24, 2025 09:28 PM (r+I/B)

228 LOL so the media went from " Iran wasn't close to a bomb" to " these attacks only inconvenienced Iran for 1-2 months"

Posted by: steevy at June 24, 2025 09:28 PM (YwEeS)

229 And, it now has one of my least favorite features of northeastern cities: everything stinks like piss now.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice

======

But everyone can get high. And that's what matters the most.

Posted by: 2009Refugee at June 24, 2025 09:28 PM (8AONa)

230 So, NYC is going to become a free city commune? I mean, more so?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 24, 2025 09:28 PM (zZu0s)

231 I watched our zoo feeders give the elephants watermelon - they love them! They’ll toss the entire thing in their mouths, whole, and then pop them with their jaws like they’re some giant chiclet candy. Then they chow down the entire thing, rind and all.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 24, 2025 09:29 PM (HEGiN)

232 If I was president, the media with rising memberships would get the first six rows at the WH press conferences. You would remember Trump as the guy who was soft on the media.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at June 24, 2025 09:29 PM (lhenN)

233 227 Wasn't Zoltan the automaton that caused Tom Hanks in Big?
Posted by: Anna Puma at June 24, 2025 09:28 PM (r+I/B)

Yes

Posted by: Woodcock of the Union Pacific at June 24, 2025 09:29 PM (TTAGa)

234 227 Wasn't Zoltan the automaton that caused Tom Hanks in Big?


lol was it Zoltar?

hey maybe Zoltan!

Posted by: Black Orchid at June 24, 2025 09:29 PM (Pv3Rg)

235 With Doll Eyes Alex, which is larger?

Her IQ or her bra size?

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 24, 2025 09:29 PM (r+I/B)

236
Speaking of heat index, I just looked. Today's max for the weather station here was 113F, occurring a little before 5PM. Max actual temp was 98F.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at June 24, 2025 09:30 PM (w6EFb)

237 Thank you so much for the invite to see Little Feat last weekend! I had a great time! It’s good to get out of Seattle every now and again. I hope you didn’t have to shovel the driveway to get home!
Posted by: nurse ratched at June 24, 2025 09:27 PM (qF+Bw)

It was a great concert! Wonderful to spend some time with you, and with Jordan 61 and her hubby. My trip home was very easy; a few scattered rain showers, but dry pavement nearly all the way, Got in the door here at 2200 Washington time.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 24, 2025 09:30 PM (6RYcT)

238 Anna. Bra size

Posted by: Ben Had at June 24, 2025 09:30 PM (ZIggv)

239 Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 24, 2025 09:27 PM (6RYcT)

I understand that . We just had a fake transgender young person running for a seat on our township committee along with a Muslim guy. They were both Socialists running as Dems. Talk about the odd couple. They both lost to the other Dems in the primary but it's still a disturbing thought.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 24, 2025 09:31 PM (2GCMq)

240 228
'so the media went from " Iran wasn't close to a bomb" to...'

The only thing you learn watching the media is whatever the Left wants you to think.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at June 24, 2025 09:31 PM (3wi/L)

241 Ten years ago, the DPD would break your fuckin' vagrant legs if you whipped your rotten pecker out and start pissing all over the city's multibillion dollar gentrification scheme. How fast times change.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 24, 2025 09:31 PM (Pqkqs)

242 I watched our zoo feeders give the elephants watermelon - they love them! They’ll toss the entire thing in their mouths, whole, and then pop them with their jaws like they’re some giant chiclet candy. Then they chow down the entire thing, rind and all.
Posted by: Tom Servo at June 24, 2025 09:29 PM (HEGiN)
---
Hippos do the same thing, I believe.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 24, 2025 09:32 PM (IBQGV)

243 Mamdani leads by 9.1 points (37,451 raw votes).
Posted by: weft cut-loop at June 24, 2025 09:28 PM (mlg/3)

Better "cook" them. Could be harboring salmonella.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 24, 2025 09:32 PM (6RYcT)

244 Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 24, 2025 09:30 PM (6RYcT)

How are you feeling, AOP? Less trouble with the PVC?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 24, 2025 09:32 PM (2GCMq)

245 And, it now has one of my least favorite features of northeastern cities: everything stinks like piss now.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice

======

But everyone can get high. And that's what matters the most.
Posted by: 2009Refugee




Need to develop a strain of pot that makes piss glow in the dark.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 24, 2025 09:32 PM (5WDkb)

246 Plasic cap, like on a milk jug or soft drink bottle. Unless you want to try a shower cap

Posted by: Notsothoreau at June 24, 2025 09:32 PM (AcTAo)

247 193 Is Snowflake neutered? Neutered/spayed animals tend to put on the pounds no matter what you do. Might want to try more exercise, maybe a toy to play with. That could be as simple as a box and a plastic cap
Posted by: Notsothoreau at June 24, 2025 09:12 PM (AcTAo)

Hello. Thank you.

She is neutered.

But I took care of her and Trumpy --- I know Dude took over a house somewhere ---- for 4 months during a very cold for my area Canadian winter. I'd always let them in and out and it was the coldest winter for a while.

They still gained a ton of weight.

I'll keep a record. I guess I have a new hobby

Posted by: Stateless.. 43% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back now at June 24, 2025 09:33 PM (jvJvP)

248 The balls on that judge to defy scotus. JFC. Trump need to categorically say fuck off I'm not listening to you. Period.

Trump just has to ignore him. What will the judge do then? How will he enforce his order? Do you think U.S. Marshals will go and arrest Trump? They work for him! All Trump has to do is work around him. Apparently, the judge is saying the SCOTUS ruling applies to everybody except the 6 guys in his case. If so, they can be ignored: what are 6 guys with a special, one time exception? Or Trump, or better the people working under hiim, could find some other law these 6 guys broke, and deport them under that law. Or just take them to Guantanamo for “security reasons”. It’s a nothing-burger! Trump has six ways from Sunday to mess this judge’s ruling up!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at June 24, 2025 09:33 PM (qgNn3)

249 LOL so the media went from " Iran wasn't close to a bomb" to " these attacks only inconvenienced Iran for 1-2 months"

Posted by: steevy at June 24, 2025 09:28 PM (YwEeS)

Iran isn't working on nukes and it's great that they are.

Posted by: ... at June 24, 2025 09:33 PM (E0p3T)

250 For a guy with no cats, I have so many cat toys....

Posted by: Stateless.. 43% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back now at June 24, 2025 09:34 PM (jvJvP)

251 How are you feeling, AOP? Less trouble with the PVC?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 24, 2025 09:32 PM (2GCMq)

Had a good day today. If it was occurring, it was a on a low level. I do find I get winded rather easily. But I just stop and take five.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 24, 2025 09:34 PM (6RYcT)

252
What's this?

Disney "News" assigns one of their fake reporters to the View panel to do Disinformation Damage Control?

Posted by: Soothsayer at June 24, 2025 09:34 PM (o7O+I)

253 228 LOL so the media went from " Iran wasn't close to a bomb" to " these attacks only inconvenienced Iran for 1-2 months"

Posted by: steevy at June 24, 2025 09:28 PM (YwEeS)


Preventing nuclear weapons proliferation was a Top Five Leftist Objective, until Trump and the Jooos did it.

Posted by: Gref at June 24, 2025 09:34 PM (aBgBM)

254 The media is good at moving goalposts to fit their agenda.

Has CNN registered with FARA yet?

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 24, 2025 09:35 PM (r+I/B)

255 Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 24, 2025 09:34 PM (6RYcT)

Well, take care of yourself and keep drinking the water.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 24, 2025 09:36 PM (2GCMq)

256 The media is good at moving goalposts to fit their agenda.

Has CNN registered with FARA yet?
Posted by: Anna Puma at June 24, 2025 09:35 PM (r+I/B)

Can you use Tensor to make a meme of a set of goalposts wearing track shoes?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 24, 2025 09:36 PM (6RYcT)

257 Well, take care of yourself and keep drinking the water.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 24, 2025 09:36 PM (2GCMq)

I am drinking more water. Thank you!

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 24, 2025 09:37 PM (6RYcT)

258 I love going back to how accurate Netanyahu was so accurate when addressing Congress in 2002.

https://tinyurl.com/32yjmc2r

Posted by: ryukyu at June 24, 2025 09:38 PM (xxjnZ)

259 Mr Trouble had to spend two full days inside due to heat and high winds. He slept and ate. He definitely does not want to be a skinny cat again!

Posted by: Notsothoreau at June 24, 2025 09:38 PM (AcTAo)

260 and since some Muslims in Texas were planning to have a large Muslim community built ( Was it in Plano?) before Governor Abbot starting investigating it perhaps this ought to be an issue no matter where people live.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke

IT was called East Plano Islamic Center (EPIC ) but I think the owners who planned to sell it off found out and stopped the sale. The islamic group found some other location and still use the EPIC name for 'planning'. It's still a scam plan thing so far.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at June 24, 2025 09:39 PM (mlg/3)

261
35 The Dumbo hallucination scene isn’t just trippy. It’s gay af. No way straight animators came up with that salute to pride month.
Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at June 24, 2025 07:46 PM

------

Yeah.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at June 24, 2025 09:39 PM (ES1Rb)

262 The tipping pandemic is out of control.

The checkout aisle where you ring up your own groceries now has an option to tip.

Tip who?? Me??

Posted by: AlaBAMA at June 24, 2025 09:39 PM (6dHiP)

263 234 227 Wasn't Zoltan the automaton that caused Tom Hanks in Big?


lol was it Zoltar?

hey maybe Zoltan!
Posted by: Black Orchid at June 24, 2025 09:29 PM (Pv3Rg)

Dude, where's my car?

Posted by: Where's your car, dude? at June 24, 2025 09:39 PM (TbWk/)

264 AOP, you need more than water. Check on electrolyte additives.

Posted by: Ben Had at June 24, 2025 09:40 PM (ZIggv)

265 Zohran Mamdani looks like a shoo-in - with half the vote counted (and more in Cuomo strongholds than not), he's up 8%. Lander seems to be the ultimate spoiler, pulling 12-13% of the vote...
Posted by: Nova Local at June 24, 2025 09:25 PM (tOcjL)


Here's a semi-funny detail.

Our old buddy Anthony Weiner, who campaigned for a city council seat, is currently in fourth place. Only 10% of the vote.

Posted by: Dr. T at June 24, 2025 09:41 PM (jGGMD)

266 Well the bright side of leaks like this is that they uncover secret Vindmann's in the intel community

Posted by: steevy at June 24, 2025 09:41 PM (YwEeS)

267 264 AOP, you need more than water. Check on electrolyte additives.
Posted by: Ben Had at June 24, 2025 09:40 PM (ZIggv)

BRAWNDO!

Posted by: The Thirst Mutilator™ at June 24, 2025 09:41 PM (TbWk/)

268 Oh no... first Musk leaves DOGE, now Big Balls just resigned as well...

Looks like when ya find bad shit and Congress and Courts won't allow you to fix it... it aint worth the effort.

Sad.

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 24, 2025 09:43 PM (mP0Kj)

269 NYC is going to get it gooder and harderer like a ME goat

Posted by: steevy at June 24, 2025 09:44 PM (YwEeS)

270 209 Stateless,

Snowflake was awol for several weeks and lost a bit of weight iirc.

She may be food Insecure, or needs to put on another pound or so. Please keep her inside, for the time being if you can. Brush out her coat. Tell her she is safe and loved. Kitties understand.

It’s sweet you fret about her so.
Posted by: nurse ratched at June 24, 2025 09:21 PM (qF+Bw)

Hi nurse!

I'm worried because Snowflake has put on over a pound, maybe close to 2 pounds, in less than 2 weeks.

She has only been out twice. Not long. I FINALLY SOLD INDOORS TO THESE...well one of these friends always welcomed here.

She has a lot of toys. But those early morning sessions...lol

Posted by: Stateless.. 43% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back now at June 24, 2025 09:44 PM (jvJvP)

271 76% reporting
Mam 43.9
Cuomomomomo 35.7

Posted by: weft cut-loop at June 24, 2025 09:44 PM (mlg/3)

272
Anyone remember that idiot from last year "bold lib?"
She's a twitter account who gained a little fame when she tweeted she was single, 42, childless, with cats, and loved her life.

A year later...

she tweeted how now she wants to be a mother but is worried she waited too long.

Posted by: Soothsayer at June 24, 2025 09:45 PM (o7O+I)

273 I think (or maybe just hope) that the attacks set Iran’s nuclear enrichment program back years. And I hope that the Persians rise up and overthrow the Mullahs. I will be praying on it.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at June 24, 2025 09:45 PM (qgNn3)

274 The tipping pandemic is out of control.

The checkout aisle where you ring up your own groceries now has an option to tip.

Tip who?? Me??

Posted by: AlaBAMA

And round up for the charity of the day or you're a big asshole.

Posted by: Jeffrey Toobin at June 24, 2025 09:45 PM (dR6yv)

275 Have loved elephants all of my life...had a stuffed one as an infant. If any of you have not yet read "The Elephant Whisperer" by Lawrence Anthony, I highly recommend it.

Baby elephants crack me up.

Also, cat fight #1 with the mother cat looking on is how I am as a grandmother. We almost laugh vs how we were as parents when our sons fought. They fight over the dumbest issues. Then are best friends in minutes like kittens or puppies. Siblings prepare us for combat and psychological warfare...ask my brothers.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at June 24, 2025 09:45 PM (6PCLE)

276 It's still a scam plan thing so far.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at June 24, 2025 09:39 PM (mlg/3)

Speaking of scams, I ran into nasty one today. I dialed the number for my bank's investment dealership, where I keep my retirement plan. But I misdialed the number (transposed 2 digits). Auto operator picks up, identifies itself as my bank, and immediately goes into a spiel: "if you are over 50, press "1" for a special promotion, if not, press "2"" That sort of shit annoys the fuck out of me, so I pressed "0" to try to get by it. Line goes dead. Tried again, same result. The next time I tried, I got an intercept that said "XYZ's toll-free number has changed. Press "1" to get the new number from Directory Assistance for a small charge of $3.89"

one of two posts!

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 24, 2025 09:46 PM (6RYcT)

277 Our old buddy Anthony Weiner, who campaigned for a city council seat, is currently in fourth place. Only 10% of the vote.

Posted by: Dr. T at June 24, 2025 09:41 PM (jGGMD)

The "Weiner" documentary was fantastic. Did not turn out how they expected.

Posted by: Stateless.. 43% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back now at June 24, 2025 09:46 PM (jvJvP)

278
Why do I read the name as "Zoltan Madmani"?
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

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

Idea for a meme: Find pictures of the ruins of New York as his term progresses. Put a Z on them with the caption, "The Mark of Zohran."

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 24, 2025 09:46 PM (lCaJd)

279
Our old buddy Anthony Weiner, who campaigned for a city council seat, is currently in fourth place. Only 10% of the vote.

Posted by: Dr. T

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

Weiner is 60 years old. Is he going to become a funny New York crank and run every two years until he drops dead?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 24, 2025 09:48 PM (lCaJd)

280 Weiner is 60 years old. Is he going to become a funny New York crank and run every two years until he drops dead?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 24, 2025 09:48 PM (lCaJd

Like a sad overcooked hot dog rolling uselessly over and over on a dirty gas station grill.

Posted by: Stateless.. 43% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back now at June 24, 2025 09:51 PM (jvJvP)

281 Stateless,
You worry too much. Most kitties, given free range kibble and then wet food once a day do just fine. She may be terrified of going back outside for long.

Give her lots of lovies. And brush her. Encourage her to play. Does she have a tall cat tree to climb?

You know. After I’ve been on a long trip, the only
Thing I want to do is hunker down and appreciate being in my home.

Posted by: nurse ratched at June 24, 2025 09:51 PM (mT+6a)

282 235 With Doll Eyes Alex, which is larger?

Her IQ or her bra size?

That’s easy! Any positive number is bigger than 0.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at June 24, 2025 09:52 PM (qgNn3)

283 So I dialed what I thought was the right number once more, and got the same spiel about Directory Assistance. Well, I knew that wasn't kosher, so I tried calling Customer Service at my cell provider, thinking some scammer had found a way to intercept calls. Interminable wait. Go online to cell provider. Get a big song and dance to prove my identity. They opened a ticket on it. Not happy.

Go online to my bank's website, get in chat with a security rep. Explain what happened. "What number did you dial?" I gave it to him. "There's your problem. You transposed two digits, and got a scammer site. We know about them, and try to shut them down, but when one gets closed, another pops up. Did you give them any ID or log-in passwords?" Me: "No, was just going to ask some questions." "OK, you are safe, and we have taken note of this breach. Would you like me to put you through to an investment agent directly?" "Sure, thank you!"

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 24, 2025 09:53 PM (6RYcT)

284 Snowflake may be pregnant.

Posted by: Eromero at June 24, 2025 09:53 PM (LHPAg)

285 Two hour podcast by Apologetics Roadshow on the islamic city plan, EPIC, if anyone wants the story.

youtube.com/watch?v=xWV1fN_JuGg

Posted by: weft cut-loop at June 24, 2025 09:54 PM (mlg/3)

286 AOP, you need more than water. Check on electrolyte additives.
Posted by: Ben Had at June 24, 2025 09:40 PM (ZIggv)

Should get Gatorade. I met Dr. Cade, the fellow who invented it. A wonderful old Southern Gentleman.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 24, 2025 09:55 PM (6RYcT)

287 Snowflake may be pregnant.
Posted by: Eromero at June 24, 2025 09:53 PM (LHPAg)


Don't blame me, I don't own a cat.

Posted by: Diogenes at June 24, 2025 09:56 PM (W/lyH)

288 262 The tipping pandemic is out of control.

The checkout aisle where you ring up your own groceries now has an option to tip.

Tip who?? Me??

Posted by: AlaBAMA at June 24, 2025 09:39 PM (6dHiP)


Just wait until No Income Tax On Tips becomes law. How Trump and House and Senate Republicans think they can write regulations to keep that from being bigly gamed and abused is beyond me.

Posted by: Gref at June 24, 2025 09:56 PM (aBgBM)

289 It's ovah~

@ByronYork 2m
85 percent reporting.

Mam: 43.6
Cuo: 36.2

Posted by: weft cut-loop at June 24, 2025 09:57 PM (mlg/3)

290 Don't blame me, I don't own a cat.
Posted by: Diogenes at June 24, 2025 09:56 PM (W/lyH)
Nobody owns a cat.

Posted by: Eromero at June 24, 2025 09:59 PM (LHPAg)

291 nood

Posted by: Rachel Zegler's Fucking Psychiatrist at June 24, 2025 10:00 PM (5zjm+)

292 ust wait until No Income Tax On Tips becomes law. How Trump and House and Senate Republicans think they can write regulations to keep that from being bigly gamed and abused is beyond me.
Posted by: Gref
-------

Seems like it'd be simple enough to just end the tip-reporting requirement.

But of course it won't be, will it?

Posted by: JQ at June 24, 2025 10:00 PM (rdVOm)

293 281 Stateless,
You worry too much. Most kitties, given free range kibble and then wet food once a day do just fine. She may be terrified of going back outside for long.

Give her lots of lovies. And brush her. Encourage her to play. Does she have a tall cat tree to climb?

You know. After I’ve been on a long trip, the only
Thing I want to do is hunker down and appreciate being in my home.


Posted by: nurse ratched at June 24, 2025 09:51 PM (mT+6a)

When they came here in winter, they were outdoor cats so food flowed freely but both cats were happy to be in around 11pm.

Even outside several hours a day, a very cold winter and their exercise, both cats put on about 50% of their weight.

I get the feeling cat food and behavior may soon be a hobby for a while.

Oh, btw, just send good thoughts my way. EVERYONE is confident.

Posted by: Stateless.. 43% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back now at June 24, 2025 10:00 PM (jvJvP)

294 No, he said Snowflake is neutered. The older a cat gets, the more time spent sleeping. I think Snowflake is just worn out and recovering. If the temperatures get hotter, she'll eat less.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at June 24, 2025 10:00 PM (AcTAo)

295
"There's your problem. You transposed two digits, and got a scammer site. We know about them, and try to shut them down, but when one gets closed, another pops up. Did you give them any ID or log-in passwords?" Me: "No, was just going to ask some questions."

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

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

omg. They really are worms.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 24, 2025 10:00 PM (lCaJd)

296 AOP -

Gatorade is too salty for me! I don’t want to drink it unless I’ve been sweating a lot (today it would have been easy!), but maybe it’s what you need: chacun à son gout, or in your case needs!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at June 24, 2025 10:01 PM (qgNn3)

297 ONT is operational. I repeat, ONT is operational.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at June 24, 2025 10:02 PM (mlg/3)

298 284 Snowflake may be pregnant.
Posted by: Eromero at June 24, 2025 09:53 PM (LHPAg)

No. She's fixed.

And I have taken care of so many litters.

Posted by: Stateless.. 43% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back now at June 24, 2025 10:03 PM (jvJvP)

299 Seems like it'd be simple enough to just end the tip-reporting requirement.

But of course it won't be, will it?
Posted by: JQ

Oy

Posted by: Mohel Miklos at June 24, 2025 10:10 PM (UYy+W)

300 "Remember the creepy and trippy part of, what was it, Dumbo maybe, where someone gets drunk and hallucinates a bunch of dancing pink and purple elephants?"

Elephants in pink tutus. Fantasia. I saw it while on mescaline. Awesome.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at June 24, 2025 10:22 PM (w6EFb)

301 He 's not a bad looking fellow. He's apparently quite articulate , he has a huge social media presence and he's got a lot of money behind.him not surprised that lots of dolts are looking at his big shiny promises and not the horrible things this Muslim supports .
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 24, 2025 09:25 PM (2GCMq)

Please allow me to introduce myself
I'm a man of wealth and taste...

Posted by: Joe Kidd at June 24, 2025 11:17 PM (bA75n)

Quick Hits

Trump gave the stinkeye to oil markets, telling them they better not rise.

President Trump on Monday warned oil producers not to raise prices in the wake of U.S. strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities, cautioning that a spike would benefit America's enemies. "EVERYONE, KEEP OIL PRICES DOWN. I'M WATCHING!"

Key Details:

Trump posted on Truth Social: "YOU'RE PLAYING RIGHT INTO THE HANDS OF THE ENEMY. DON'T DO IT!"

Oil prices fell after the post, with Brent Crude and West Texas Intermediate both slipping by about one percent following earlier gains driven by Middle East tensions.

In a follow-up message, Trump told the Department of Energy: "DRILL, BABY, DRILL!!! And I mean NOW!!!"

Prices did in fact fall:

oilpricefall.jpg

Apparently Vladimir Putin called Trump offering to "help" with Iran. I assume he meant "I'll help with Iran if you help with Ukraine." Trump rejected his offer, telling him what he really needed help with was dealing with Vladimir Putin.

Al Green, who is an ugly clown and only got elected because voters thought he was the singer Al Green, once again filed stupid impeachment charges against Trump. They were rejected almost as hard as Democrats rejected Jasmine Ratchet's demand for a leadership position.

A push to impeach President Donald Trump over his recent military actions in Iran was blocked Tuesday after a decisive bipartisan vote in the House. The effort, led by Rep. Al Green, D-Texas, failed as top Democrats joined Republicans in shelving the resolution.

Key Details:

The House voted 344-79 to table Green's impeachment resolution, effectively killing it without a formal debate.

A majority of House Democrats, including party leaders Hakeem Jeffries, Katherine Clark, and Pete Aguilar, voted to halt the effort.

Green argued Trump's strikes on Iran were unconstitutional, while Trump fired back on Truth Social, daring progressives to "make my day."

More than 100 Democrats voted against the measure, so you know it must have been so stupid even a Democrat can see it.

The Democrats' other ratchet dum-dum who's also hitting the wall at 170 mph engaged in juvenile male taunting of Trump:

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
@AOC

Also, I'm a Bronx girl. You should know that we can eat Queens boys for breakfast. Respectfully.

As you probably know, Donkey-Chompers grew up in the affluent suburb of Westchester, not the Bronx. She is, as most socialists are, a child of privilege.

New York City is voting to destroy the city today. I am pretty sure the Socialist Muslim who has only been in America for seven years and who has campaigned to defund the police and use NYC's medical budget to pay for transing children will win.

Why?

Because of... the "educated" classes.

Charlie Kirk
@charliekirk11

The Muslim socialist running for NYC mayor Zohran Mamdani is so obviously a conman the only people dumb enough to support him are college-educated.

This poll is the single most damning indictment of higher education in America that I've seen.

Zohran Mamdani is Muhammad Mao

mumdanicollegevote.jpg

I saw someone speculating, plausibly, that when this pro-terrorist socialist wins, corporations and Wall Street will move out of NYC, possibly to Florida.

And as you know, NYC is only able to keep its head barely above bankruptcy because of all those trillion-dollar-cap corporations paying taxes to have their offices in this unlivable shithole.

It can't happen soon enough. They need to own their choices.

How did I miss this? Disney's other wealth-killing anti-talent Rachel Zegler is attempting a career reinvention, explaining that she's just mentally ill.

Even Snow White needs a shrink.

Rachel Zegler has revealed that therapy and anxiety medication helped her overcome the monumental backlash she received while starring in Disney's live-action "Snow White" remake.

The 24-year-old actress opened up about the controversy and how she moved past it in an interview with i-D magazine published on Monday, June 23.
Rachel Zegler in a white floral dress. 7
Rachel Zegler has revealed that therapy and anxiety medication helped her overcome the backlash she received while starring in "Snow White." GC Images
Rachel Zegler as Snow White in "Snow White." 7
The 24-year-old actress opened up about the controversy and how she moved past it in an interview with i-D magazine published on Monday. Walt Disney Co.

"My f--king psychiatrist has seen me through all of it," Zegler explained, noting that her medical doctor constantly reminded her that "what you're going through isn't normal."
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"That sentence did such wonders for me in multiple situations in my life," she said.

The "Y2K" actress also revealed that she started taking anxiety medication.


Zegler said the decision was "truly a game changer" because "I just wasn't functioning" and "I wanted to function in a way that made me feel confident in the way I was moving through the world."

Besides her psychiatrist and anxiety meds, the "West Side Story" star also cited her "mindset" as one of the things that helped her overcome the backlash she received.

"I think a victim mindset is a choice, and I don't choose it," she explained. "I also don't choose nastiness in the face of it. I don't choose negativity in the face of it."

Don't worry, Screwhead, I'm going to choose to make you a victim for you.

Instapundit mentions rumors that Zegler is being eyed for the Julie Andrews role in a Sound of Music remake, but I have a feeling the source of those rumors is Rachel Zegler's PR team.

No one's going to take a hundred million dollar gamble on this bitchy brat again.

Atlanta is facing another crime wave but they're focusing resources on stopping the Real Crime -- pedestrians scuffing up their rainbow pride crosswalks beyond normal scuffing.

So close to Pride Month. So close to Pride Month.

Atlanta installed its rainbow crosswalk at the intersection of 10th Street and Piedmont Avenue in 2015, and it reportedly cost taxpayers close to $200,000. The city updated the crosswalk to include the transgender flag colors, as well as brown and black; Lord knows how much that cost. The crosswalk even has its own Instagram account.

The Gay Crosswalk is also starring as Reed Richards in Fantastic Four.

Four people, three of them minors, were hunted down for the crime of cutting down pride flags at a bar and then for using scooters to mark up the rainbow crosswalk with tire rubber. They're all being prosecuted for hate crimes.

Good work. Give yourselves each a $20 tip on the Underhills' account.

CNN had another Fiery But Mostly Peaceful Moment, AWFLsplaining that when Iran chants "Death to America" and "Death to Israel," they actually mean it in a friendly way.

Ditzy Dance Mom Erin Burnett made this declaration:

"I remember, Dana, one point being in Tehran years ago and they're chanting 'death to America' all around me, even as I say, 'oh, I'm an American, reporting for CNN,'" she said. "And they were happy to speak to me, so -- so those two sort of jarring realities of the chant and yet, the -- the friendliness have existed together."

"We will wipe you from the pages of history," they screamed with a jovial wink.



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1
Hello

Posted by: fourseasons at June 24, 2025 06:17 PM (3ek7K)

2 This is not possible, I have been informed by *experts* that Trump was going to cause WWIII and gas prices would spike to over $100 a gallon.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at June 24, 2025 06:18 PM (e5NfL)

3 LOL, also woohoo!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at June 24, 2025 06:18 PM (Z5NUn)

4 Al Green was down in Houston lately cause some old folks home hasn't fixed the elevator for months.
LOL, him and the news showing up being blocked by the black security guard.
Finally, Hispanic sheriff shows and says, yeah legally they can go in if they're invited by a resident.
I don't think the elevator is fixed yet, though.
Clout.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at June 24, 2025 06:20 PM (2uKh/)

5 I still miss Alvin Greene. Honorably discharged from the military because he was, uh, kinda stupid. SC senator candidate for the Dems in 2010. Came out for MAGA after being humiliated by the media who treated him like shit.

Posted by: gKWVE at June 24, 2025 06:21 PM (gKWVE)

6 "Prices did in fact fall"

One wonders whether he could also part the Red Sea...

WTH?!?

Posted by: MrExcitement at June 24, 2025 06:22 PM (hOOi9)

7 Maher is so stunning and brave. Next he'll throw the gauntlet down and claim he believes an iceberg must have done in the Titanic.

Posted by: ... at June 24, 2025 06:23 PM (E0p3T)

8 How did I miss this?
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That's what happens when you read the content instead of skipping right to the comments.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at June 24, 2025 06:23 PM (2uKh/)

9 expertise died in the 90s, dinnit?

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at June 24, 2025 06:23 PM (Z5NUn)

10 Four people, three of them minors, were hunted down for the crime of cutting down pride flags at a bar and then for using scooters to mark up the rainbow crosswalk with tire rubber. They're all being prosecuted for hate crimes.

We stand ready, willing, and able to enforce the whim of whomever controls our pensions. Citizen ... you are welcome. Back the Blue.

Posted by: Law Enforcement at June 24, 2025 06:23 PM (mlDMX)

11 The hills are alive with the sound of racists?

Posted by: fd at June 24, 2025 06:23 PM (vFG9F)

12 "I remember, Dana, one point being in Tehran years ago and they're chanting 'death to America' all around me, even as I say, 'oh, I'm an American, reporting for CNN,'" she said. "And they were happy to speak to me, so -- so those two sort of jarring realities of the chant and yet, the -- the friendliness have existed together."
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This really needs the Billy Madison response.

Posted by: ... at June 24, 2025 06:24 PM (E0p3T)

13 Besides her psychiatrist and anxiety meds
......

You still better not stick your dick in it.

Posted by: wth at June 24, 2025 06:24 PM (UjdFS)

14 Wait. They painted a road black?

Posted by: fd at June 24, 2025 06:24 PM (vFG9F)

15 So, I assume Zegler was not actually “ f’ing “
Her psychiatrist which would be a violation of his of her professional ethics , but she couldn’t think of anything more positive to say about this person, such as my “wonderful “ or “skilled” or ‘“caring” psychiatrist ? Lazy language.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 24, 2025 06:24 PM (2GCMq)

16 Everybody Loves AC/DC

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 24, 2025 06:25 PM (63Dwl)

17 Posted by: Law Enforcement at June 24, 2025 06:23 PM (mlDMX)

That's more a local prosecutor / district-attorney thing, though, isn't it?

Posted by: gKWVE at June 24, 2025 06:25 PM (gKWVE)

18 yikes

Posted by: gKWVE at June 24, 2025 06:25 PM (gKWVE)

19 Why would a big, gay crosswalk need an instagram account?

Wait — why do we need rainbow crosswalks?
I still don’t get the concept of deviant sex flags, like it’s some sort of team sport…..

Posted by: Lizzy at June 24, 2025 06:27 PM (Hkcdp)

20 The real criminals in the Atlanta “outrage” are the ones who friggin’ charged $200K to paint lines on asphalt and the idiotic government pogue who approved it!!!!

Posted by: RobertM at June 24, 2025 06:28 PM (btIS/)

21 Dollars to donuts Zegler is fucking her psychiatrist

Posted by: jsg at June 24, 2025 06:28 PM (iGK7y)

22 Instapundit mentions rumors that Zegler is being eyed for the Julie Andrews role in a Sound of Music remake, but I have a feeling the source of those rumors is Rachel Zegler's PR team.

I wouldn't be so sure. I think Disney forgot that they owned other successful, wholesome films via their 20th Century Fox purchase and now may be ready to start destroying them too.

Posted by: Chuck C at June 24, 2025 06:28 PM (D0HYP)

23 Yeah, nothing says jovial conviviality quite like being held hostage and threatened daily for almost a year and a half.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at June 24, 2025 06:28 PM (tT6L1)

24 Instapundit mentions rumors that Zegler is being eyed for the Julie Andrews role in a Sound of Music remake,

And the Nazis will look fabulous!

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 24, 2025 06:29 PM (ynpvh)

25 I see a proud road and I want to paint it black.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 24, 2025 06:29 PM (63Dwl)

26 "I remember, Dana, one point being in Tehran years ago and they're chanting 'death to America' all around me, even as I say, 'oh, I'm an American, reporting for CNN,'" she said. "And they were happy to speak to me, so -- so those two sort of jarring realities of the chant and yet, the -- the friendliness have existed together."

In fairness, CNN and Islamist are allies.

Posted by: toby928 at June 24, 2025 06:29 PM (OUwoh)

27
I wouldn't be so sure. I think Disney forgot that they owned other successful, wholesome films via their 20th Century Fox purchase and now may be ready to start destroying them too.
Posted by: Chuck C at June 24, 2025 06:28 PM (D0HYP)
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hah!

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at June 24, 2025 06:29 PM (tT6L1)

28 That's more a local prosecutor / district-attorney thing, though, isn't it?

You think a local prosecutor or DA hunted them down and arrested them ? Here's a hint. No. That's not how it worked.

Posted by: Law Enforcement at June 24, 2025 06:29 PM (mlDMX)

29 26, thank you, it needed to be said.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at June 24, 2025 06:30 PM (Z5NUn)

30 why do we need rainbow crosswalks?

Indicates use ramming speed.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at June 24, 2025 06:30 PM (8y2dM)

31 Atlanta installed its rainbow crosswalk at the intersection of 10th Street and Piedmont Avenue in 2015, and it reportedly cost taxpayers close to $200,000. The city updated the crosswalk to include the transgender flag colors, as well as brown and black; Lord knows how much that cost. The crosswalk even has its own Instagram account.

How will you be able to tell it from regular asphalt?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 24, 2025 06:30 PM (ynpvh)

32 I would like to ask Erin Burnett, "So if at Trump rallies, or just at social gatherings, we all began changing "Death to Erin!!! Death to Erin!!!" Would you feel good about that? Would you feel that we were all really just your friends having a little social networking time?"

(btw I would never post that on X the bots would zap my account fast if I did.)

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 24, 2025 06:30 PM (uWKK8)

33 Rachel Zegler is claiming to be in a protected class: mentally ill. This is some zoomer thing, where they all claim to have and, adhd, d
Ice, depression, etc.

Now she can claim to be stunning and Brave like Simone Biles and that young tennis player - all the cool celebrities are doing mental health self care, you guyz!!!

Posted by: Lizzy at June 24, 2025 06:30 PM (Hkcdp)

34 I prefer the gospel singer Al Green to the Congressman.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 24, 2025 06:31 PM (2GCMq)

35 As a run of the mill black Leftist, Zegler's Maria von Trapp would definitely help the Nazis.

Posted by: Wally at June 24, 2025 06:31 PM (lRd/m)

36 I still don’t get the concept of deviant sex flags, like it’s some sort of team sport…..
Posted by: Lizzy at June 24, 2025 06:27 PM (Hkcdp)

It's to recruit kids. Like driving a brightly colored ice cream van.

Posted by: ... at June 24, 2025 06:31 PM (E0p3T)

37 Check out Natefriedmanshow on the Toks.

The professional paid protestors are way more common and funded than you think; he exposes them.

Recent old gray hair woman at Iran protest is exposed as being funded by Samidoun.

Samidoun are sanctioned by Canada and the US as a terrorist entity. Banned by Germany for handing out candy after 10/7.

Samidoun is funded by the Tides Foundation.
And Soros.
Laundered though the Alliance for Global Justice.

Nasty, evil SOBs.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at June 24, 2025 06:31 PM (2uKh/)

38 Btw Oil prices fell mainly because Trump implied that the sanctions against Iran selling oil are going to be dropped.

Iran's oil was never really off the market (it still went to China) but we liked to pretend it was off the market.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 24, 2025 06:32 PM (uWKK8)

39 I've been wondering, for a couple threads now, when the International Sisterhood would show up and defend all things woman.

The time has arrived.

Posted by: Doug Roberts at June 24, 2025 06:32 PM (mlDMX)

40
Ace's Acerbic Level Today: 10/10

Well done.

Posted by: Sherlock Soothsayer at June 24, 2025 06:32 PM (PvEkU)

41 >>>"My f--king psychiatrist has seen me through all of it," Zegler explained, noting that her medical doctor constantly reminded her that "what you're going through isn't normal."

Callback to this morning. Everything is not your fault. Somebody else victimized you. GFY.

Choose a path that's clear. Choose freewill.

https://youtu.be/c6pn8O7nXKY?feature=shared

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at June 24, 2025 06:32 PM (i24o9)

42 "We will wipe you from the pages of history," they screamed with a jovial wink.

And rape you, but after they're finished with the goats, sheep, and little boys first.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 24, 2025 06:32 PM (ynpvh)

43
Sec Hegseth needs to call that fatass Thoroughly Modern General Milley back to active duty and make him take a PT test live on TV.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at June 24, 2025 06:33 PM (y9nCu)

44 I could see Hollywood being dumb enough to cast Zegler in The Sound of Music, if they can someone restrain themselves from casting the alien, ugly black chick from Wicked first.

I like The Sound of Music. It's one of the few musicals I enjoy. But I don't think there's a market of any size for a remake. The idea is sort of yawn-inducing.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at June 24, 2025 06:33 PM (SSEhk)

45 Rachel Zegler has revealed that therapy and anxiety medication helped her overcome the monumental backlash she received while starring in Disney's live-action "Snow White" remake.

She did it to herself. Yes the movie was total shit, but if she'd just shut the fuck up about her hatred for the source material and not been a total cünt every time she was on camera, people would have cut her some slack. But nope, she couldn't stick to promoting the movie or try even half-assedly to come across as likable. She generated mountains of ill will well before movie-goers watched the steaming pile of drek.

Posted by: Too bad, so sad at June 24, 2025 06:33 PM (TbWk/)

46 The biggest problem we still have to deal with is our public school system. It has created a couple of generations of brainwashed communists who are not only unable to think critically, they just ignore things they don't like as if they never happened.

Ask any leftists about the Summer of Love and the huge amount of violence and damage it left behind and they just pretend it really wasn't a big deal. It was a frigging year of riots that went on daily and almost nobody was held accountable and they will not talk about it. It didn't happen.

But a bunch of unarmed grannies and grandpas with fanny packs and cell phones walking through the Capitol was armageddon.

Posted by: JackStraw at June 24, 2025 06:33 PM (viF8m)

47 I thought Atlanta put the rainbow crosswalk at the corner of Peachtree and Peachtree.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at June 24, 2025 06:34 PM (u73oe)

48 Why are so many people so goddamned stupid? Looking at you, Bill Maher.

Posted by: AliasQuint&Jessel,SeaofAzof,Bly,UK at June 24, 2025 06:34 PM (43LQN)

49 Wesley Hunt…. I was not aware of him until recently… and I like the cut of his jib! I hope he’s not just another pol because I could see him going places

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at June 24, 2025 06:34 PM (nrfI8)

50 Why won't someone just tell Ms SnowZegler "It's all your fault, sugartits"

Posted by: jsg at June 24, 2025 06:34 PM (iGK7y)

51 Maher is such a douchebag.

"Let's take politics out of it, let's say they were all there at that specific time and place protesting the price of eggs."

He then lays out the contrasting theories the protesters were either there to steal the votes (I still have no idea how this take/change/ransom the votes theory actually works in the particulars) or they were there to protests the price of eggs.

No, dick. People were there to demand investigation into election fraud. They were there to attend Trump's rally. They were there to exercise their First Amendment right to protest obvious election shenanigans.

Posted by: bonhomme at June 24, 2025 06:34 PM (lIio7)

52 I thought Atlanta put the rainbow crosswalk at the corner of Peachtree and Peachtree.
Posted by: Duke Lowell at June 24, 2025 06:34 PM


No no, the other Peachtree and Peachtree.

Posted by: toby928 at June 24, 2025 06:35 PM (OUwoh)

53 Posted by: Too bad, so sad at June 24, 2025

Very true.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 24, 2025 06:35 PM (2GCMq)

54 Hey Erin Burnett, show the Iranians your hooters. See how well they treat you

Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 24, 2025 06:35 PM (pwtJC)

55 CNN’s Erin Burnett says there’s a “friendliness” to Iranians who chant ‘Death to America’:

“I remember, Dana, one point being in Tehran years ago and they’re chanting death to America all around me, even as I say, ‘oh, I'm an American, reporting for CNN.’ And they were happy to Show more


Apparently, these dopes never saw Hanoi Jane posing on NVA anti-aircraft guns. People who hate you are perfectly fine using you, dum dums.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at June 24, 2025 06:35 PM (SSEhk)

56 Thye need to stop using the idiot word "insurrection." OR start using it when their allies do what they do. It's one or the other.

Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at June 24, 2025 06:35 PM (D1vbu)

57 Zegler looks about 15.
Who could play Captain von Trapp without it looking like pedophilia? Pedro Pascale?


Besides, everyone k owns that Zendaya would be perfect! 😉

Posted by: Lizzy at June 24, 2025 06:36 PM (Hkcdp)

58 Lara Logan begs to disagree.

Posted by: Ben Had at June 24, 2025 06:36 PM (ZIggv)

59 Was it Lara Loomer who was raped almost to death back when? Does Erin think that was a jovial event when one of her co-workers was brutally assaulted? Or, was it a merely friendly group of men having a good old time while savaging a white woman?

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at June 24, 2025 06:36 PM (tT6L1)

60 Prices did in fact fall:

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"Trump and Musk both shorted oil futures before those Truth posts. INSIDER TRADING -- IMPEACH! REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!"

Posted by: ShainS -- Busy Organizing 'Make Trump King' Protests at June 24, 2025 06:36 PM (HI/Zw)

61 Zohran Mamdani, vile NYC mayoral candidate, says "Nepotism and hard work go a long way."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d4wENuZqEzo

Faked a South African accent, and faked an outrageous middle eastern accent as a wannabe rapper. (He reminds me of Zelensky without the piano penis sketch.)

Posted by: LizLem at June 24, 2025 06:36 PM (Eng1Z)

62 To be fair to Burnett, she no longer is looking like a pie eating machine

Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 24, 2025 06:36 PM (pwtJC)

63 Callback to this morning. Everything is not your fault. Somebody else victimized you. GFY.

Choose a path that's clear. Choose freewill.

https://youtu.be/c6pn8O7nXKY?feature=shared
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at June 24, 2025 06:32 PM (i24o9)

Except that trivializes people who actually have been through bad shit that affects them, especially as kids. Being poorly received for being a nasty bitch in the runup to a shitty movie while making millions of dollars though doesn't pass muster though.

Posted by: Free will with purchase of will at June 24, 2025 06:36 PM (TbWk/)

64 “How do you have an insurrection with no guns?”
“That’s like making coffee with no beans.”


Priceless.

But I think there's an error here. Wasn't there a second woman who died on J6, a protestor beaten to death by Capitol Police? Not just the one (as dubious as that was)?

Posted by: MrExcitement at June 24, 2025 06:37 PM (hOOi9)

65 Lara Logan begs to disagree.
Posted by: Ben Had at June 24, 2025 06:36 PM (ZIggv)
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That's right, it was Logan, not Loomer. Thanks, Ben.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at June 24, 2025 06:37 PM (tT6L1)

66 55 CNN’s Erin Burnett says there’s a “friendliness” to Iranians who chant ‘Death to America’:

“I remember, Dana, one point being in Tehran years ago and they’re chanting death to America all around me, even as I say, ‘oh, I'm an American, reporting for CNN.’ And they were happy to Show more


55 CNN’s Erin Burnett says there’s a “friendliness” to Iranians who chant ‘Death to America’:

“I remember, Dana, one point being in Tehran years ago and they’re chanting death to America all around me, even as I say, ‘oh, I'm an American, reporting for CNN.’ And they were happy to Show more

She sounds like she was dicked good.

Posted by: Stateless.. 43% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back now at June 24, 2025 06:37 PM (jvJvP)

67 @59 Lara Logan

Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 24, 2025 06:37 PM (pwtJC)

68 The biggest problem we still have to deal with is our public school system. It has created a couple of generations of brainwashed communists who are not only unable to think critically, they just ignore things they don't like as if they never happened.

Add several generations, and you might be onto something.

Economics never worked as taught. The "Two Party System" is a virtue because the Two Parties taught you so. Civil War has never been taught accurately in anyone's lifetime. Neither has the original founding of our nation or the intended size and scope of government.

Shall I go on ? Public School has been indoctrination since it was started. That's ALL of our lifetimes.

Posted by: Doug Roberts at June 24, 2025 06:37 PM (mlDMX)

69 59 Was it Lara Loomer who was raped almost to death back when? Does Erin think that was a jovial event when one of her co-workers was brutally assaulted? Or, was it a merely friendly group of men having a good old time while savaging a white woman?
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at June 24, 2025 06:36 PM (tT6L1)

Logan. Different Lara.

Posted by: No mercy for savages at June 24, 2025 06:37 PM (TbWk/)

70 I am so rooting for the Musselman in NYC.

Gooder and harder.

Posted by: toby928 at June 24, 2025 06:37 PM (OUwoh)

71 posted a photo of U.S. soldiers in coffins with the caption “Soon inshallah” (“God willing” in Arabic).

-
That could mean anything.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Well, This Is Another Fine Mess You've Gotten Me Into at June 24, 2025 06:38 PM (L/fGl)

72 Almost wanting to send the commie NY scumcicle some money so he wins. Almost.

Fuck NYC

Posted by: jsg at June 24, 2025 06:38 PM (iGK7y)

73 I think it will take 40 years for an entire generation of progressives to be consumed

then we may find peace here

Posted by: Don Black at June 24, 2025 06:38 PM (AOsQT)

74 Except that trivializes people who actually have been through bad shit that affects them, especially as kids. Being poorly received for being a nasty bitch in the runup to a shitty movie while making millions of dollars though doesn't pass muster though.

Posted by: Free will with purchase of will at June 24, 2025 06:36 PM (TbWk/)

I get it, but people have been through far worse and done far greater things with themselves. At some point, it ceases being a reason and becomes an excuse. Don't victimize yourself again.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at June 24, 2025 06:38 PM (i24o9)

75 >>Was it Lara Loomer who was raped almost to death back when?

Are you thinking of Lara Logan?

Posted by: JackStraw at June 24, 2025 06:38 PM (viF8m)

76 Posted by: Doug Roberts at June 24, 2025 06:32 PM (mlDMX)

I didn’t see anybody defending Zegler. “Dougie” although I didn’t read every post Try again.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 24, 2025 06:39 PM (2GCMq)

77 No one's going to take a hundred million dollar gamble on this bitchy brat again.

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WRONG.

I have it on good authority from Rachel Zegler that she is like the Winged Victory made flesh, and no matter what her flaws may be, people will ALWAYS line up around the block to see ANYTHING she does.

I can't think of any story involving a Hollywood screw head, up to and including the many peccadilloes of Charlie Sheen, that made me laugh as derisively as that one. Even if you're hopped up on tiger blood, you're not that fucking deranged.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice, #ProudKing #MoreKings at June 24, 2025 06:39 PM (FQTl0)

78 Al Green, who is an ugly clown and only got elected because voters thought he was the singer Al Green ...

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You misspelled "GEICO Cavemen."

Posted by: ShainS -- Busy Organizing 'Make Trump King' Protests at June 24, 2025 06:39 PM (HI/Zw)

79 I am so rooting for the Musselman in NYC.

Gooder and harder.
Posted by: toby928 at June 24, 2025 06:37 PM (OUwoh)
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Think Hochul is dumb enough to welcome the election of that vicious tool? If he's truly Muslim, he'll disdain Hochul due to Hochul being female.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at June 24, 2025 06:40 PM (tT6L1)

80
Ace needs to add the label "Rising Star" to all these foo's like Ratchet & Pedo Pascal.

Because they keep telling us these foos are "rising stars."
Just like "governor" janet mills is a "rising star"

EVERYONE hates these people.

Posted by: Sherlock Soothsayer at June 24, 2025 06:40 PM (PvEkU)

81 I get it, but people have been through far worse and done far greater things with themselves. At some point, it ceases being a reason and becomes an excuse. Don't victimize yourself again.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at June 24, 2025 06:38 PM (i24o9)

Thanks.

That helped me.

Posted by: Stateless.. 43% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back now at June 24, 2025 06:40 PM (jvJvP)

82 24 Instapundit mentions rumors that Zegler is being eyed for the Julie Andrews role in a Sound of Music remake,

And the Nazis will look fabulous!
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 24, 2025 06:29 PM (ynpvh)


They'll also be portrayed as the good guys.

Posted by: MrExcitement at June 24, 2025 06:40 PM (hOOi9)

83 Are you thinking of Lara Logan?
Posted by: JackStraw at June 24, 2025 06:38 PM (viF8m)
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Ben had managed to correct me even before I posted.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at June 24, 2025 06:41 PM (tT6L1)

84 A “friendliness “ to ‘death to American’ chants?

Tell me you don’t know anyone who’s served in the ME without saying it, Erin. How is it possible to be that oblivious or brainwashed?

Posted by: Lizzy at June 24, 2025 06:41 PM (Hkcdp)

85 >>Almost wanting to send the commie NY scumcicle some money so he wins. Almost.


Part of me does too. But then I look at the UK where city after city is now being run by a Muslim mayor, even London.

If there was someway to contain this to just blue cities I wouldn't care but I don't think it's possible.

Posted by: JackStraw at June 24, 2025 06:41 PM (viF8m)

86 Zeigler's issues aren't anxiety at all in any form, but a pettyness and nastyness about other actors and the fans. I'm sure the drugs are nice for her.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 24, 2025 06:41 PM (8avO+)

87 I am so rooting for the Musselman in NYC.

Couldn't happen to a nicer bunch. You hate to see it.

Oh well.

Posted by: Doug Roberts at June 24, 2025 06:41 PM (mlDMX)

88 >>> I like The Sound of Music. It's one of the few musicals I enjoy. But I don't think there's a market of any size for a remake. The idea is sort of yawn-inducing.

It's about battling Nazis. A modern revival will use it as a metaphor for battling Trump, I guarantee it. Also, Zegler was in the Hunger Games prequel as someone standing up to the fascist regime in power. It's the revival current Broadway totally deserves.

Posted by: LizLem at June 24, 2025 06:41 PM (Eng1Z)

89 A) Zegler is not worth watching

B) Any Sound of Music without the lovely Charmian Carr is definitely not worth watching

Posted by: 496 at June 24, 2025 06:42 PM (2ZcOM)

90 CNN is death to America. The enemy of my enemy.

Posted by: Smellslikevictory at June 24, 2025 06:42 PM (jPdyB)

91 84 A “friendliness “ to ‘death to American’ chants?

Posted by: Lizzy at June 24, 2025 06:41 PM (Hkcdp)


Canadians have entered the chat.

Posted by: Stateless.. 43% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back now at June 24, 2025 06:42 PM (jvJvP)

92 31 Atlanta installed its rainbow crosswalk at the intersection of 10th Street and Piedmont Avenue in 2015, and it reportedly cost taxpayers close to $200,000. The city updated the crosswalk to include the transgender flag colors, as well as brown and black; Lord knows how much that cost. The crosswalk even has its own Instagram account.

How will you be able to tell it from regular asphalt?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 24, 2025 06:30 PM (ynpvh)


So all blacks look alike to you? RACIST!

(LOL)

Posted by: MrExcitement at June 24, 2025 06:42 PM (hOOi9)

93 True, with that many kids Captain Von Trapp has to have been in his late 30s at least. Historically Maria was 21 when she left the convent and was hired to care for the seven Von Trapp kids, but Georg was 45-46 when they met. So a young Maria works, as awkward as it feels these days. Oh and Maria was not nearly as pretty as Julie Andrews.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 24, 2025 06:43 PM (dfIr7)

94 The Sound of Music is wayyyyy to patriarchal and defies women’s right to choose not to have a half dozen kids. Can hardly imagine any Hollywood starlet able to play the role as originally written…

Posted by: Lizzy at June 24, 2025 06:43 PM (Hkcdp)

95 Part of me does too. But then I look at the UK where city after city is now being run by a Muslim mayor, even London.

If there was someway to contain this to just blue cities I wouldn't care but I don't think it's possible.
Posted by: JackStraw at June 24, 2025 06:41 PM (viF8m)

I mean, at the moment, it doesn't affect anyone except NY'ers. So maybe my money is best used elsewhere.

Posted by: jsg at June 24, 2025 06:44 PM (iGK7y)

96 The real Maria was also incredibly strict, lol.

Posted by: Lizzy at June 24, 2025 06:44 PM (Hkcdp)

97 I could see Hollywood being dumb enough to cast Zegler in The Sound of Music, if they can someone restrain themselves from casting the alien, ugly black chick from Wicked first.

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She could play Austrian.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Well, This Is Another Fine Mess You've Gotten Me Into at June 24, 2025 06:44 PM (L/fGl)

98 But we don't need a hypothetical about "what if they were protesting the price of eggs" to smear "you're just excusing it because of Trump."

Because you're only calling it an insurrection because of Trump.
Take Trump out of the equation and what do you call a violent protest in the Capitol?

See, we did have a violent protest in the Capitol just a few months prior to J6.
Rioting.
Tear gas.
The National Cathedral being burned.
Terroristic acts with the specific aim to illegally coerce legal and policy changes.

But that was in support of Democrats so it doesn't count ....

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at June 24, 2025 06:44 PM (2uKh/)

99 When the fatcats flee Wall Street, what is Florida's plan to keep them from "making Florida a better place" and otherwise bringing their bullshit there?

Posted by: gKWVE at June 24, 2025 06:45 PM (gKWVE)

100 Oh and the Sound of Music production with Zegler is a play, not a movie. Although doubtless they hope to stage that into a movie remake. You probably can't see the bizarre faces she makes as clearly on stage as well as on a huge screen.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 24, 2025 06:45 PM (dfIr7)

101 Walk like an Egyptian.

Posted by: Boss Moss at June 24, 2025 06:45 PM (nCKL5)

102 True, with that many kids Captain Von Trapp has to have been in his late 30s at least. Historically Maria was 21 when she left the convent and was hired to care for the seven Von Trapp kids, but Georg was 45-46 when they met. So a young Maria works, as awkward as it feels these days. Oh and Maria was not nearly as pretty as Julie Andrews.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 24, 2025 06:43 PM (dfIr7)

That's, like, groomer stuff!

Posted by: Genius chick from a Whatever podcast at June 24, 2025 06:45 PM (TbWk/)

103 "Jasmine Ratchet" is good, but Anthony Cumia's "Slavey Crockett" is better.

Posted by: nobody at June 24, 2025 06:45 PM (NhiOW)

104 35 As a run of the mill black Leftist, Zegler's Maria von Trapp would definitely help the Nazis.
Posted by: Wally at June 24, 2025 06:31 PM (lRd/m)


There you go! We've got the plot worked out. Maria turns the family in to the Nazis, who are portrayed as the good guys. Plus, she's not as good a singer as Julie Andrews.

Posted by: MrExcitement at June 24, 2025 06:45 PM (hOOi9)

105 People will move out of NYC. They will then look around their new city and say “This isn’t how we did it back home.” And the cycle begins again.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at June 24, 2025 06:46 PM (u73oe)

106 >>Ben had managed to correct me even before I posted.

It was horrific. I was staying in the Helioplis section of Cairo a few years prior. Nice section of the city, presidential palace was within walking distance.

I walked out of my hotel to go for a walk around the neighborhood and an armed guard stopped and asked me where I was going. Told him for a walk and he politely but firmly told he that wasn't happening.

He told me "the beards" are always watching and if they see you out walking by yourself at night you aren't coming back in one piece.

The Arab street is not quite as friendly as the smooth brains at CNN would have us believe.

Posted by: JackStraw at June 24, 2025 06:46 PM (viF8m)

107 Jasmine Ratchet" is good, but Anthony Cumia's "Slavey Crockett" is better.

Posted by: nobody at June 24, 2025 06:45 PM (NhiOW)

How about Ghetto Crocker?

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at June 24, 2025 06:46 PM (i24o9)

108 This morning on Newsmax I heard of Mamdami's plan for city run grocery stores. Not for profit of course because supermarket chains just gouge everyone. The city will run these stores and the supplier's I guess will be paid out of "city funds" and the workers will be paid out of "city funds" and when the massive shop lifting occurs with no police responding because "defund the police" all of the loss will be replenished with "city funds", i.e. the taxpayers of NYC.

This is one of only 100 of his crazy plans. Go for it NYC.

Posted by: Cheri at June 24, 2025 06:46 PM (oiNtH)

109 I'm surprised a lot of those firms haven't already bailed NYC and LA.

If you're playing with billions, reading trends and future-proofing is like 90% of your job.

Any idiot can see the future isn't in love with the north or west anymore; the South is in fact rising again, and it will continue to win with or without these money men.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice, #ProudKing #MoreKings at June 24, 2025 06:46 PM (FQTl0)

110 I saw Muhammad Mao open for Goatwhore at Ground Zero in '00.

Posted by: ShainS -- Busy Organizing 'Make Trump King' Protests at June 24, 2025 06:47 PM (T/YRM)

111 Iranian nuke program set back 2-4 years.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 24, 2025 06:47 PM (63Dwl)

112 96 The real Maria was also incredibly strict, lol.
Posted by: Lizzy at June 24, 2025 06:44 PM (Hkcdp)

My late Mother would often talk to other ex-nuns on the phone. Women out of the convent for 50 years.

They were still traumatized.

Posted by: Stateless.. 43% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back now at June 24, 2025 06:47 PM (jvJvP)

113 BREAKING: Unity of Fields—a group helping lead the pro-Palestinian protests at Columbia—just posted a photo of U.S. soldiers in coffins with the caption “Soon inshallah” (“God willing” in Arabic).

@FBI how is this not being investigated?

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How are they not being arrested and non-citizens deported right now?

Posted by: Decaf at June 24, 2025 06:47 PM (unUNN)

114 Five Capitol cops died! Several years later... Of doughnut overdoses.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at June 24, 2025 06:48 PM (wBaIH)

115 Kill me now.

Posted by: Rachel Zegler's Fucking Psychiatrist at June 24, 2025 06:48 PM (5zjm+)

116 People will move out of NYC. They will then look around their new city and say “This isn’t how we did it back home.” And the cycle begins again.

Go to the window. Collect your winnings.

Posted by: Doug Roberts at June 24, 2025 06:48 PM (mlDMX)

117 Nashville's treacherous pos mayor doxxed ICE agents

Posted by: night lifted at June 24, 2025 06:49 PM (FZn/N)

118 I could see Hollywood being dumb enough to cast Zegler in The Sound of Music, if they can someone restrain themselves from casting the alien, ugly black chick from Wicked first.

-
She could play Austrian.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Well, This Is Another Fine Mess You've Gotten Me Into at June 24, 2025 06:44 PM (L/fGl)

Well she is part Polish.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 24, 2025 06:49 PM (8avO+)

119 Miss me yet?

Posted by: Anthony Weiner at June 24, 2025 06:50 PM (0sNs1)

120 116. Blow the bridges and prevent them from fomenting revolution elsewhere

Posted by: night lifted at June 24, 2025 06:50 PM (FZn/N)

121 So Dad is cancelling the 4th of July trip to Wally World unless the kids do the dishes and clean their rooms?

Trumps says no Independence Day break for Congress unless they pass the Big Beautiful Bill.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at June 24, 2025 06:50 PM (2uKh/)

122 When the fatcats flee Wall Street, what is Florida's plan to keep them from "making Florida a better place" and otherwise bringing their bullshit there?
Posted by: gKWVE at June 24, 2025 06:45 PM


Florida Man.

Posted by: toby928 at June 24, 2025 06:52 PM (OUwoh)

123 People will move out of NYC. They will then look around their new city and say “This isn’t how we did it back home.” And the cycle begins again.

Unfortunately, yes. This is why Broward, Palm Beach, and Miami-Dade counties are blue. Northern liberals leaving their fouled nests then shitting in their new ones.

Posted by: The song remains the same at June 24, 2025 06:52 PM (TbWk/)

124 119 Miss me yet?
Posted by: Anthony Weiner at June 24, 2025 06:50 PM (0sNs1)

LOL Nope

Posted by: Huma Abedin at June 24, 2025 06:52 PM (iGK7y)

125 "I remember, Dana, one point being in Tehran years ago and they're chanting 'death to America' all around me, even as I say, 'oh, I'm an American, reporting for CNN,'" she said. "And they were happy to speak to me, so

Even the Iranian public knows that 'American, reporting for CNN' is a contradiction in terms.

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 24, 2025 06:52 PM (mP0Kj)

126 I see a proud road and I want to paint it black.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 24, 2025 06:29 PM (63Dwl)

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Paint It Black by Rolling Stones was the only song I listened to for months after my husband died. I still cry when I hear it.

Posted by: Decaf at June 24, 2025 06:53 PM (unUNN)

127 I'll make a bet with you guys. Within 2 years, Rachel Zegler will weigh twice what she does now. First the anxiety medication, then the condolence ice cream.

She's going to be a porker thanks to her current path and obvious lack of personal discipline.

Posted by: Orson at June 24, 2025 06:53 PM (dIske)

128 123 if the blue locusts support illegals, arrest them, and they'll stop coming.

Posted by: night lifted at June 24, 2025 06:53 PM (FZn/N)

129
The Arab street is not quite as friendly as the smooth brains at CNN would have us believe.
Posted by: JackStraw at June 24, 2025 06:46 PM (viF8m)
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The smooth brains at CNN have forgotten crowds of Muslims have chased reporters off before.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at June 24, 2025 06:54 PM (tT6L1)

130 118 I could see Hollywood being dumb enough to cast Zegler in The Sound of Music, if they can someone restrain themselves from casting the alien, ugly black chick from Wicked first.

-
She could play Austrian.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Well, This Is Another Fine Mess You've Gotten Me Into at June 24, 2025 06:44 PM (L/fGl)

Well she is part Polish.
Posted by: Oldcat at June 24, 2025 06:49 PM (8avO+)

Isn't this a stage play? not a movie?

Off Broadway, where has beens go to Act like they can act...

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 24, 2025 06:54 PM (mP0Kj)

131 27 I'll make a bet with you guys. Within 2 years, Rachel Zegler will weigh twice what she does now. First the anxiety medication, then the condolence ice cream.

She's going to be a porker thanks to her current path and obvious lack of personal discipline.
Posted by: Orson at June 24, 2025 06:53 PM (dIske)

You are failing to take into account Ozempic.

Posted by: Otherwise I'd say it's a good bet at June 24, 2025 06:54 PM (TbWk/)

132 116. Blow the bridges and prevent them from fomenting revolution elsewhere.

That's the part rarely said out-loud. And definitely not here - because an outsized portion of the commenters are New Englanders.

But here's the truth. The rest of the country - the MidWest and Southeast and anywhere south of the DC / Philly / NYC line or east and north of SanFran ... simply does not want you here.

Stay in NYC. Or Boston. Or Jersey. Or LA. Just don't come here.

Posted by: Doug Roberts at June 24, 2025 06:54 PM (mlDMX)

133 Scooters you say we're used to deface gay pride crosswalks? Ha! Back in 2019 real motorcycles were used to give the newly installed gay pride cross walks in Albuquerque that certain antique look.

https://youtu.be/UaQql1-xwnA

I can't find how it all played but I seem to recall our Marxist governor did a mini J6 investigation to hunt down these cultural heroes.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at June 24, 2025 06:54 PM (u71As)

134 Math. Congress has almost 7,000 bills on the docket. Now, that is almost 12 bills per member. Bullshit. Send them all home.

Posted by: Ben Had at June 24, 2025 06:54 PM (ZIggv)

135 I know it's not legal, but laws are a big joke anyway, and ignoring them is a big step toward cracking up this joke of a country.

If I'm Florida, I pass a law saying only people from an approved list of locations is allowed to invest and own property in Florida, or have it as a primary residence. The Court will overturn it - ignore them and demand they enforce their ruling.

Make the wealthy assholes who ruined NYC sign over their cash to a bunch of good old boys if they want to put it to work, and make them rent mansions from Southerners who can evict them at will.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice, #ProudKing #MoreKings at June 24, 2025 06:55 PM (FQTl0)

136
So it's clear: pelosi is still running the House Democrats

Posted by: Sherlock Soothsayer at June 24, 2025 06:55 PM (3xAFf)

137 When the fatcats flee Wall Street, what is Florida's plan to keep them from "making Florida a better place" and otherwise bringing their bullshit there?
Posted by: gKWVE at June 24, 2025 06:45 PM

Alligator Alcatraz?

Posted by: Cheri at June 24, 2025 06:56 PM (oiNtH)

138 Speaking of Loomer... lol.
x.com/LauraLoomer/status/1937561597137895607

Posted by: gKWVE at June 24, 2025 06:56 PM (gKWVE)

139 132. The rest of the country hates NYC and was delighted when they got migrant scumbags bussed in. They deserve it.

Posted by: night lifted at June 24, 2025 06:56 PM (FZn/N)

140 102 True, with that many kids Captain Von Trapp has to have been in his late 30s at least. Historically Maria was 21 when she left the convent and was hired to care for the seven Von Trapp kids, but Georg was 45-46 when they met. So a young Maria works, as awkward as it feels these days. Oh and Maria was not nearly as pretty as Julie Andrews.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 24, 2025 06:43 PM (dfIr7)

That's, like, groomer stuff!
Posted by: Genius chick from a Whatever podcast at June 24, 2025 06:45 PM (TbWk/)

Von Trapp channel on Pron Hub? who knew?

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 24, 2025 06:57 PM (mP0Kj)

141 This morning on Newsmax I heard of Mamdami's plan for city run grocery stores. Not for profit of course because supermarket chains just gouge everyone.

Mamdami doesn't understand supply chains, regional warehouses, marketing, vendor management, competition or merchandising.

Totally trivializing the profession of running a profitable grocery store/chain.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at June 24, 2025 06:57 PM (a4flb)

142 I have to hand it to RFKjr, he is perhaps the most active of Trump’s picks. He’s basically sledgehammered the Deep State in the HHS department and in the most visible way possible. Compare that to certain others.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at June 24, 2025 06:57 PM (Vh9CX)

143 Erin Burnett was too stupid to realize those Iranians were friendly because they hoped to be seen on CNN. Bragging rights. How these idiots survive from one day to the next in modern society, even in their cocoons of secure neighborhoods and condos, is beyond my ken.

Posted by: Gref at June 24, 2025 06:57 PM (aBgBM)

144 135. Not all blue locusts are rich. But they're all commie scumbags.

Posted by: night lifted at June 24, 2025 06:58 PM (FZn/N)

145 119 Miss me yet?
Posted by: Anthony Weiner at June 24, 2025 06

There was a fantastic 2016 documentary called "Weiner." Showed the scandal. It was fantastic.

I tried to find it.

Posted by: Stateless.. 43% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back now at June 24, 2025 06:59 PM (jvJvP)

146 Gref, I have really been enjoying your comments.

Posted by: Ben Had at June 24, 2025 06:59 PM (ZIggv)

147 CNN’s Erin Burnett says there’s a “friendliness” to Iranians who chant ‘Death to America’:

They recognize an ally.

Posted by: t-bird at June 24, 2025 07:00 PM (9tkmY)

148 146 Gref, I have really been enjoying your comments.

Posted by: Ben Had at June 24, 2025 06:59 PM (ZIggv)

Thank you, my friend.

Posted by: Gref at June 24, 2025 07:00 PM (aBgBM)

149 If I'm Florida, I pass a law saying only people from an approved list of locations is allowed to invest and own property in Florida, or have it as a primary residence. The Court will overturn it - ignore them and demand they enforce their ruling.

Replace "Florida" with "Mexico" and that is happening Right Now.

You can buy property deep inland, but anything costal, you better have Mexicans on the property deed.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at June 24, 2025 07:00 PM (a4flb)

150 When the fatcats flee Wall Street, what is Florida's plan to keep them from "making Florida a better place" and otherwise bringing their bullshit there?
Posted by: gKWVE at June 24, 2025 06:45 PM

Alligator Alcatraz?
Posted by: Cheri

Darlene and Charlene. Then Alligator Alcatraz.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at June 24, 2025 07:00 PM (u71As)

151 111 Iranian nuke program set back 2-4 years.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 24, 2025 06:47 PM (63Dwl)


After all that has happened, we don't really even know if even that is true.

With that being said, does this cease-fire make any sense? What is the point, if we accept it at face value? Israel could attack at will, and maybe finally end this once and for all.

Israel has pulled so many tricks out of its metaphorical sleeve. Are they done doing that? I'm hearing that there are uprisings going on in Iran, and drone strikes of unknown origin.

The good guys are like "Gee, we really would like the regime to fall, but aren't getting our hopes up". Maybe there's something behind the scenes to make that happen. Israel has played too many cards at this point to stop short of total victory.

Posted by: MrExcitement at June 24, 2025 07:01 PM (hOOi9)

152 Von Trapp channel on Pron Hub? who knew?

When you're sixteen going on seventeen ...

... would have only been creepier if Conway Twitty sang it.

Posted by: Doug Roberts at June 24, 2025 07:01 PM (mlDMX)

153 I think I'll give myself a $30 tip, - inflation, don't you know.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at June 24, 2025 07:01 PM (ioEI6)

154 When the fatcats flee Wall Street, what is Florida's plan to keep them from "making Florida a better place" and otherwise bringing their bullshit there?
Posted by: gKWVE at June 24, 2025 06:45 PM

Alligator Alcatraz?
Posted by: Cheri

Darlene and Charlene. Then Alligator Alcatraz.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at June 24, 2025 07:00 PM


Marlene in reserve?

Posted by: toby928 at June 24, 2025 07:01 PM (OUwoh)

155 Not all blue locusts are rich. But they're all commie scumbags.
Posted by: night lifted at June 24, 2025 06:58 PM (

But if they can't own a house there, they can't vote there.

No need to even secede. The South should just start nullifying federal laws and the Constitution left and right, with a spitting sneer.

What are those fairies gonna do about it? Nothing but cry, that's what. This shell game is just waiting for someone to flip over the blanket.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice, #ProudKing #MoreKings at June 24, 2025 07:01 PM (FQTl0)

156 I have to hand it to RFKjr, he is perhaps the most active of Trump’s picks. He’s basically sledgehammered the Deep State in the HHS department and in the most visible way possible. Compare that to certain others.

I've already forgotten the other names, unless they are the butt of jokes.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at June 24, 2025 07:02 PM (a4flb)

157 CNN’s Erin Burnett says there’s a “friendliness” to Iranians who chant ‘Death to America’:
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And yet again I'm left wondering is there ANY point EVER where even the left's own will denounce one of their own with a simple "That's just stupid, and you're asking THE REST OF US to look stupid too if we don't call you out on it"?

Posted by: Crusader at June 24, 2025 07:03 PM (TN0g+)

158 This morning on Newsmax I heard of Mamdami's plan for city run grocery stores. Not for profit of course because supermarket chains just gouge everyone.

Mamdami doesn't understand supply chains, regional warehouses, marketing, vendor management, competition or merchandising.

Totally trivializing the profession of running a profitable grocery store/chain.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure

NYC will make up for the losses by no longer paying for Ozempic.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at June 24, 2025 07:03 PM (u71As)

159 152 Von Trapp channel on Pron Hub? who knew?

When you're sixteen going on seventeen ...

... would have only been creepier if Conway Twitty sang it.
Posted by: Doug Roberts at June 24, 2025 07:01 PM (mlDMX)

It's like the Beach Blanket movies with Frankie and Annette, where they are still supposed to be in High School...

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 24, 2025 07:03 PM (mP0Kj)

160 I can't find how it all played but I seem to recall our Marxist governor did a mini J6 investigation to hunt down these cultural heroes.

I often wonder how much paint/paint remover a $1000 1/5-scale radio control monster truck can carry.

Posted by: Chuck C at June 24, 2025 07:04 PM (D0HYP)

161 It's like the Beach Blanket movies with Frankie and Annette, where they are still supposed to be in High School...

We had this talk a couple weeks ago on a thread. Certain ... generations ... took exception to the obvious fact that certain generations were pretty fucking dismissive of child exploitation.

Posted by: Doug Roberts at June 24, 2025 07:04 PM (mlDMX)

162 When you're sixteen going on seventeen ...

... would have only been creepier if Conway Twitty sang it.
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Or Benny Mardones.

Posted by: Crusader at June 24, 2025 07:04 PM (TN0g+)

163 >>> I have to hand it to RFKjr, he is perhaps the most active of Trump’s picks.

Hogan #1. Then Karoline Leavitt. Then RFK, Hegseth, Marco fighting for third place.

Posted by: LizLem at June 24, 2025 07:05 PM (Eng1Z)

164 ace: "light blogging today"

*full day of blogging*

*quick hits is another full day's worth of blogging*

What a slacker, right?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 24, 2025 07:05 PM (BjH5D)

165 Replace "Florida" with "Mexico" and that is happening Right Now

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Who do you think gave me the idea?

I can tell you this: I came from a blue shit hole. If the State i moved to said "YD, you can only rent here and you can never vote, and nor can your kids," I'd eat that shit sandwich with a grin.

When you hold all the cards, you can do that. They are sitting on a functional society right at the moment the majority of America is descending into the abyss.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice, #ProudKing #MoreKings at June 24, 2025 07:05 PM (FQTl0)

166 Mandami understands Maxist Leninist thought and will implement it with the full power of the mayor's office

Posted by: Kindltot at June 24, 2025 07:05 PM (D7oie)

167 Speaking of Sound of Music, may I state of the original that it was prime Christopher Plummer. Oh yes...

Posted by: Lady in Black at June 24, 2025 07:05 PM (qBdHI)

168 "Mamdami doesn't understand supply chains, regional warehouses, marketing, vendor management, competition or merchandising."
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"Hey! What happens when I push THIS button?"

Posted by: 496 at June 24, 2025 07:06 PM (2ZcOM)

169 "New York City is voting to destroy the city today. I am pretty sure the Socialist Muslim who has only been in America for seven years and who has campaigned to defund the police and use NYC's medical budget to pay for transing children will win."

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Don't they always say nobody votes in the primaries?

I guess not voting is, in a way, a type of voting.

Can't say I give two shits what happens there.

Posted by: BurtTC at June 24, 2025 07:07 PM (dGCAG)

170 One of my guitar heroes and frontman from one of my favorite bands is actually very based..

Who knew this about the Rev. Horton Heat?

https://tinyurl.com/3sxpxu5k

Posted by: Blanco at June 24, 2025 07:07 PM (MHpW9)

171 When you're sixteen going on seventeen ...

... would have only been creepier if Conway Twitty sang it.
-----------
Or Benny Mardones.
Posted by: Crusader

William Shatner, any era.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at June 24, 2025 07:08 PM (u71As)

172 CNN’s Erin Burnett says there’s a “friendliness” to Iranians who chant ‘Death to America’
......

She just wants to date them.

Posted by: wth at June 24, 2025 07:08 PM (v0R5T)

173 Paint It Black by Rolling Stones was the only song I listened to for months after my husband died. I still cry when I hear it.

When dad died, my mom listened to Elijah by Mendelssohn over and over. It brought her peace and comfort, and I have grown to really love that lesser known cantata, its so beautiful.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 24, 2025 07:08 PM (dfIr7)

174 Speaking of Sound of Music, may I state of the original that it was prime Christopher Plummer. Oh yes...
Posted by: Lady in Black at June 24, 2025 07:05 PM (qBdHI)

And if that was prime Julie Andrews, then she's always been an asexual nothing of a frump.

Posted by: BurtTC at June 24, 2025 07:09 PM (dGCAG)

175 I live 90m north of NYC. We've had an influx of NYC refugees over the last twenty years. They bring their same stupid politics here. The NYS Court of Appeals just upheld my cities rent control laws, the first in upstate. If the Marxist Muslim wins the influx will be a flood not only here but into a lot of red states as well

Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 24, 2025 07:10 PM (pwtJC)

176 I guess not voting is, in a way, a type of voting.

Can't say I give two shits what happens there.
Posted by: BurtTC


I might give them a little squirt.

Posted by: Captain Splatter at June 24, 2025 07:11 PM (v0R5T)

177 CNN’s Erin Burnett says there’s a “friendliness” to Iranians who chant ‘Death to America’

She sounds like the kind of chick who writes serial killers in prison. I can fix him!

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 24, 2025 07:11 PM (dfIr7)

178
I'll say that Little Marco has grown up to be a very good wartime consigliere. How many official hats is he wearing, not. Sec of State, National Security advisor, and several others.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at June 24, 2025 07:11 PM (w6EFb)

179 CNN’s Erin Burnett says there’s a “friendliness” to Iranians who chant ‘Death to America’
......

She just wants to date them.
Posted by: wth

By date do you mean be a communal jihadi bride?

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at June 24, 2025 07:11 PM (u71As)

180 >>> This morning on Newsmax I heard of Mamdami's plan for city run grocery stores. Not for profit of course because supermarket chains just gouge everyone.

Supposedly he wants to make them public because not all private grocery stores in NYC accept EBT cards.

Don't know how that's possible. When I visited my sibling in NYC -- who does not live anywhere near the ritzy parts of town, in an outer borough -- every grocery store and bodega says they accept EBT in big signs on the doors or windows.

He also wants to make the bus free in more areas. It's like like a high school election, and the slacker running for class president says he'll put free candy machines in the lobby. A total joke. But younger, college educated voters are buying his malarkey.

Posted by: LizLem at June 24, 2025 07:11 PM (Eng1Z)

181 It's like the Beach Blanket movies with Frankie and Annette, where they are still supposed to be in High School...
Posted by: Romeo13 at June 24, 2025 07:03 PM (mP0Kj)
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I mean, for most of human history women got married in their teens. That's how you could have a 50-year marriage in an age of much shorter life expectancies.

In those bygone days, abortion was terrible because it allowed men to escape their obligations, and therefore ruin women by forcing them to kill unborn children - all to allow men to sate their lusts.

Weird how that all got inverted. Now it's "empowering" for women to give up their virginity and virtue and then slaughter their unborn children.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 24, 2025 07:12 PM (ZOv7s)

182 When you're sixteen going on seventeen

Apparently the oldest Von Trapp was a boy, they flipped his gender to a girl for the play and movie. GENDER SWAP!!

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 24, 2025 07:12 PM (dfIr7)

183
I cued it up:

Tell me if you wanted this Idiot to be your lawyer:

https://is.gd/Ju3HoE

Posted by: Sherlock Soothsayer at June 24, 2025 07:12 PM (3xAFf)

184 I'll say that Little Marco has grown up to be a very good wartime consigliere. How many official hats is he wearing, not. Sec of State, National Security advisor, and several others.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at June 24, 2025 07:11 PM (w6EFb)

For the first time in his career, he looks like he's having fun.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 24, 2025 07:12 PM (BjH5D)

185 When dad died, my mom listened to Elijah by Mendelssohn over and over. It brought her peace and comfort, and I have grown to really love that lesser known cantata, its so beautiful.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 24, 2025 07:08 PM (dfIr7)

When my son died, it wasn't the only song I listened to, but it was damned appropriate, cut to the bone:

"Exodus" by Jesu/Sun Kil Moon

Posted by: BurtTC at June 24, 2025 07:12 PM (dGCAG)

186 One of my guitar heroes and frontman from one of my favorite bands is actually very based..

Who knew this about the Rev. Horton Heat?

https://tinyurl.com/3sxpxu5k
Posted by: Blanco at June 24, 2025 07:07 PM (MHpW9)

I may have a psychobilly freakout

Posted by: In my Galaxie 500 at June 24, 2025 07:12 PM (TbWk/)

187 Kalijah Hank Jr >> Elijah Mendelssohn

Posted by: Doug Roberts at June 24, 2025 07:12 PM (mlDMX)

188 >>> I have to hand it to RFKjr, he is perhaps the most active of Trump’s picks.

Hogan #1. Then Karoline Leavitt. Then RFK, Hegseth, Marco fighting for third place.
Posted by: LizLem at June 24, 2025 07:05 PM


Marco is growing on me. The other day a Moron called him a Wartime Consigliore and it fit.

Still hold that Gang of Eight thing against him though.

Posted by: toby928 at June 24, 2025 07:13 PM (OUwoh)

189 I mean, for most of human history women got married in their teens. That's how you could have a 50-year marriage in an age of much shorter life expectancies.

Honestly that's better off in terms of not only helping shape a young woman's psychology and maturity, but child bearing. Start earlier and you can have more children. We need lots of babies.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 24, 2025 07:13 PM (dfIr7)

190 I might give them a little squirt.
Posted by: Captain Splatter at June 24, 2025 07:11 PM (v0R5T)

Travis Bickel may want to have a word with you.

Posted by: BurtTC at June 24, 2025 07:13 PM (dGCAG)

191 167 Speaking of Sound of Music, may I state of the original that it was prime Christopher Plummer. Oh yes...
Posted by: Lady in Black

I think that Fathom Entertainment is scheduling showings of the original in local movie theaters across the US soon. Mid September.

Fathom's Classic movies series usually on a weeknight at theaters. Crowds are usually far better behaved than most movie goers as to cell phones, etc.

Posted by: whig at June 24, 2025 07:14 PM (ctrM5)

192 And if that was prime Julie Andrews, then she's always been an asexual nothing of a frump.
Posted by: BurtTC at June 24, 2025 07:09 PM (dGCAG)
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"S.O.B." has the definitive answer to that question.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 24, 2025 07:14 PM (ZOv7s)

193 In SC many of my new friends are shithole refugees, as am I. Most, but not all, are rabid Trump supporters.

Whenever I hear someone bitch about missing the pizza or deli "back home," I ask how was the BBQ and fried chicken back home?

Yeah, I thought so. Now go get your shine box.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at June 24, 2025 07:14 PM (wBaIH)

194 By date do you mean be a communal jihadi bride?
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions.
......

They can keep her in the pen with the goats.

Posted by: wth at June 24, 2025 07:14 PM (v0R5T)

195 "Mamdami doesn't understand supply chains, regional warehouses, marketing, vendor management, competition or merchandising."
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"Hey! What happens when I push THIS button?"
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Challenger jokes never get old.

Posted by: Crusader at June 24, 2025 07:15 PM (TN0g+)

196 Honestly that's better off in terms of not only helping shape a young woman's psychology and maturity, but child bearing. Start earlier and you can have more children. We need lots of babies.

Could not agree more.

*shakes huge head of hair

Posted by: Conway Twitty at June 24, 2025 07:15 PM (mlDMX)

197 "Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
@AOC
Also, I'm a Bronx girl. You should know that we can eat Queens boys for breakfast"

She's really feeling her oats.

Posted by: fd at June 24, 2025 07:16 PM (vFG9F)

198 185 When dad died, my mom listened to Elijah by Mendelssohn over and over. It brought her peace and comfort, and I have grown to really love that lesser known cantata, its so beautiful.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 24, 2025 07:08 PM (dfIr7)

When my son died, it wasn't the only song I listened to, but it was damned appropriate, cut to the bone:

"Exodus" by Jesu/Sun Kil Moon
Posted by: BurtTC at June 24, 2025 07:12 PM (dGCAG

I'll check all these out. Thanks.
I wish you were all clueless on this topic.

Posted by: Stateless.. 43% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back now at June 24, 2025 07:16 PM (jvJvP)

199 all to allow men to sate their lusts.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 24, 2025 07:12 PM


We prefer to sauté our lusts.

Posted by: The Cannibals of New Guinea at June 24, 2025 07:16 PM (0sNs1)

200 AOC might be from the same place as the girl with brown lipstick in Bonfire of the Vanities.

Posted by: Oglebay at June 24, 2025 07:16 PM (MMp6W)

201 I have been trying to watch the Snow Wole on Disney. It is impossible, I doubt I will ever finish it. Without going into all of the woke ideology, it is first and foremost, a really shitty movie that is only partially obscured because of the hundreds of millions of dollars spent on the production values. That's her Rachel. I can say his, types deletes, types, deletes.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at June 24, 2025 07:17 PM (u71As)

202 Hopefully when the new mayor of that shithole New York City gets elected, he will make the toilets stop flushing and the lights to go out, but will the resident savages know the difference?

I will enjoy the after action reports.

Posted by: Zombie Jimmy Walker at June 24, 2025 07:17 PM (R/m4+)

203 I'm willing to give AOC a little taste of Hoosier. Any meal she chooses. I'm a giver like that.

Posted by: Conway Twitty at June 24, 2025 07:17 PM (mlDMX)

204 So goes NYC.

Posted by: London at June 24, 2025 07:18 PM (vFG9F)

205 The *only* thing I miss about Colorado is Mexican food. But I don't miss the Mexicans, and I can make perfectly good Mexican food in my kitchen.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice, #ProudKing #MoreKings at June 24, 2025 07:18 PM (FQTl0)

206 Who knew this about the Rev. Horton Heat?

My brother went to a couple of his concerts in the 90s, guy is amazing. Said he spun an open bottle of beer in one hand when he wasn't playing.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 24, 2025 07:18 PM (dfIr7)

207 Dipshit newsreader.

Of COURSE they're going to be nice to you, ya feckin dolt.

You're the Ambassador of Dhimmis standing right in front of them. They don't want YOU to die, you fool. They want you and the idiots who follow you to bend over without too much fuss. You saying "aren't they nice tho" on live TV is exactly the point of them not killing you right then and there.

This is why your job is to look pretty at a camera and make word sounds with your food hole.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 24, 2025 07:18 PM (BjH5D)

208 New York needs a border wall.

Posted by: Boss Moss at June 24, 2025 07:18 PM (nCKL5)

209 This morning on Newsmax I heard of Mamdami's plan for city run grocery stores. Not for profit of course because supermarket chains just gouge everyone. The city will run these stores and the supplier's I guess will be paid out of "city funds" and the workers will be paid out of "city funds" and when the massive shop lifting occurs with no police responding because "defund the police" all of the loss will be replenished with "city funds", i.e. the taxpayers of NYC.

This is one of only 100 of his crazy plans. Go for it NYC.
Posted by: Cheri at June 24, 2025 06:46 PM (oiNtH)
++++
"People's Noble Grocery Store." Complete with wilted cabbages and splinter-strewn TP?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 24, 2025 07:19 PM (6bTRc)

210 201 I have been trying to watch the Snow Wole on Disney. It is impossible, I doubt I will ever finish it. Without going into all of the woke ideology, it is first and foremost, a really shitty movie that is only partially obscured because of the hundreds of millions of dollars spent on the production values. That's her Rachel. I can say his, types deletes, types, deletes.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at June 24, 2025 07:17 PM (u71As)

That sounds like a movie I can fall asleep to. Thanks!

Posted by: Stateless.. 43% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back now at June 24, 2025 07:19 PM (jvJvP)

211 Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
@AOC
Also, I'm a Bronx girl. You should know that we can eat Queens boys for breakfast"

I'm sure she has, I'm sure she has, breakfast, lunch and dinner and a late night snack too.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at June 24, 2025 07:19 PM (u71As)

212 "My f--king psychiatrist has seen me through all of it," Zegler explained, noting that her medical doctor constantly reminded her that "what you're going through isn't normal."
++++
Isn't fucking your psychiatrist evidence of some form of malpractice?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 24, 2025 07:20 PM (6bTRc)

213 New York needs a border wall.

There were shirts going around in Kentucky for a while that said Make Kentucky Great Again with a wall enclosing Louisville.

Posted by: Doug Roberts at June 24, 2025 07:20 PM (mlDMX)

214 The Sound of Music thing is a stage production, of which there have been a zillion--amateur and pro. So, she's [Zegler] looking for work in dinner theater in the basement of the First Methodist Church of Benklemann, Nebraska.

And she'll still suck.

Posted by: RS at June 24, 2025 07:20 PM (rk5vz)

215 We prefer to sauté our lusts.
Posted by: The Cannibals of New Guinea at June 24, 2025 07:16 PM (0sNs1)
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Be honest - Joe Biden's uncle tasted like fish, didn't he?

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 24, 2025 07:20 PM (ZOv7s)

216 Instapundit mentions rumors that Zegler is being eyed for the Julie Andrews role in a Sound of Music remake,

Apparently, it's a Sound of Music update for modern audiences being written by Quentin Tarantino,

according to the rumors at the von Trapp Family cross over the mountains to gun down Anne Frank in her attic, then sail to America and kill FDR.


Posted by: naturalfake at June 24, 2025 07:20 PM (iJfKG)

217 he Sound of Music thing is a stage production, of which there have been a zillion--amateur and pro. So, she's [Zegler] looking for work in dinner theater in the basement of the First Methodist Church of Benklemann, Nebraska.

And she'll still suck.
Posted by: RS at June 24, 2025 07:20 PM (rk5vz)
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Well yeah, how do you think she finds work?

Posted by: Disney Executives at June 24, 2025 07:21 PM (ZOv7s)

218 @AOC
Also, I'm a Bronx girl. You should know that we can eat Queens boys for breakfast. Respectfully.

++++
Does it get more junior high "mean girl" than this?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 24, 2025 07:21 PM (6bTRc)

219 "S.O.B." has the definitive answer to that question.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 24, 2025 07:14 PM (ZOv7s)

Is that the one where she showed her bobs?

I think I saw a still, reminded me of seeing the underside of an ostrich in heat.

Posted by: BurtTC at June 24, 2025 07:21 PM (dGCAG)

220 Kalijah Hank Jr

Kaw-lija?

https://youtu.be/5LLtU0R9LPM

Very odd song

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 24, 2025 07:21 PM (dfIr7)

221 I was always supposed to go to Columbia, where my grandfather graduated in 1917. Until 1968, after which it was no effing way.

Posted by: Eeyore at June 24, 2025 07:21 PM (od0dV)

222 >>He also wants to make the bus free in more areas. It's like like a high school election, and the slacker running for class president says he'll put free candy machines in the lobby. A total joke. But younger, college educated voters are buying his malarkey.

He's also talked about using the subway stations as illegal alien shelters.

He's nucking futs.

Posted by: JackStraw at June 24, 2025 07:21 PM (viF8m)

223 "People's Noble Grocery Store." Complete with wilted cabbages and splinter-strewn TP?
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 24, 2025 07:19 PM (6bTRc)

"Food can't be had for love or money - but we have free monkeypox salve, you benighted fascist. Free. Monkeypox. Salve."

Posted by: 2030 New Yorker at June 24, 2025 07:21 PM (FQTl0)

224 Honestly that's better off in terms of not only helping shape a young woman's psychology and maturity, but child bearing. Start earlier and you can have more children. We need lots of babies.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 24, 2025 07:13 PM (dfIr7)

Better for the menfolk, too.

"I mean, like, what do I, like, DO with my life? You know? Like----"

"How about shut the fuck up and go to work so you can pay the bills and feed your wife and kid."

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 24, 2025 07:22 PM (BjH5D)

225 Sharks vs Jets?

Posted by: Boss Moss at June 24, 2025 07:22 PM (nCKL5)

226 Apparently, it's a Sound of Music update for modern audiences being written by Quentin Tarantino,

according to the rumors at the von Trapp Family cross over the mountains to gun down Anne Frank in her attic, then sail to America and kill FDR.

Posted by: naturalfake at June 24, 2025 07:20 PM (iJfKG)
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With an ironic Steve Miller Band soundtrack.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 24, 2025 07:22 PM (ZOv7s)

227 The bus is free already, just walk on and ignore the driver.
A lot of the local churches have food pantries that are not stocked with donations bought from grocery stores. There is quite a mix of people on line. I suspect Mamdani plans to have the city take over the racket.

Posted by: Accomack at June 24, 2025 07:22 PM (T1QkV)

228 He's also talked about using the subway stations as illegal alien shelters.

He's nucking futs.
Posted by: JackStraw at June 24, 2025 07:21 PM (viF8m)

It's funny because they already are.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 24, 2025 07:22 PM (BjH5D)

229 Leaked BDA stating that Iran’s nuclear program has only been setback “a few months” is said to be authentic by White House. But it was leaked by a “loser”. lol.

So the bombs didn’t eliminate the nuclear threat, and they don’t know where the fissile material is.

Got it.

Posted by: Vengeance at June 24, 2025 07:22 PM (FwedH)

230 Throughout history most of the world has engaged in actual wars. The US , spared that, has adopted these intercernine wars. They are still wars.

Posted by: Ben Had at June 24, 2025 07:22 PM (ZIggv)

231 Isn't fucking your psychiatrist evidence of some form of malpractice?
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 24, 2025 07:20 PM (6bTRc)

For the pee sigh chiatrist, yes, but for a narcissistic pinheaded girl, it is perfectly "normal."

Posted by: BurtTC at June 24, 2025 07:22 PM (dGCAG)

232 Soon.

Posted by: Snake Plissken at June 24, 2025 07:23 PM (PiwSw)

233 bronx girl, lol ... westchester is more like it

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at June 24, 2025 07:23 PM (Z5NUn)

234 >>according to the rumors at the von Trapp Family cross over the mountains to gun down Anne Frank in her attic, then sail to America and kill FDR.

Do you know what they call a Big Mac in Amsterdam?

Posted by: JackStraw at June 24, 2025 07:23 PM (viF8m)

235 Is that the one where she showed her bobs?

I think I saw a still, reminded me of seeing the underside of an ostrich in heat.
Posted by: BurtTC at June 24, 2025 07:21 PM (dGCAG)
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Still photos don't capture the drama of the moment, nor the depravity of the film. A must-watch.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 24, 2025 07:23 PM (ZOv7s)

236 I have to hand it to RFKjr, he is perhaps the most active of Trump’s picks. He’s basically sledgehammered the Deep State in the HHS department and in the most visible way possible. Compare that to certain others.
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at June 24, 2025 06:57 PM (Vh9CX)


I'm so old I remember when the general chatter on him was "He Is JUst gOINg after FrUItLOOPs aNd NotHINg IMPOrtaNt wILL HaPPeN"

Posted by: Kindltot at June 24, 2025 07:23 PM (D7oie)

237 Love the Donkey-Chopper name, Ace.

Otherwise I have been internally cantakerous today. I feel how Bernie Sanders must feel every single day of his snarly life when he looks in the mirror.


I don't know why. I will blame Iran and Dims.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at June 24, 2025 07:23 PM (6PCLE)

238 I think the musi wins the donk primary, Sliwa bows out and gets behind Adams and Adams wins as an independent.

I think NYC can muster one last bout of sanity but all bets are off After Adams.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 24, 2025 07:23 PM (XV/Pl)

239 209 This morning on Newsmax I heard of Mamdami's plan for city run grocery stores. Not for profit of course because supermarket chains just gouge everyone.
___

Supermarkets only make about 1.5% profit after taxes. Mamdami is an idiot. So, of course, he has been endorsed by America's Orifice, AOC.

Posted by: Squadfather at June 24, 2025 07:23 PM (qUkBO)

240 He's also talked about using the subway stations as illegal alien shelters.

I bet he'd be absolutely appalled at the idea of his spare bedroom being used as an illegal alien shelter. Unless she's under thirty and screwing him when she's not cooking or cleaning.

Posted by: Doug Roberts at June 24, 2025 07:23 PM (mlDMX)

241 Who knew this about the Rev. Horton Heat?

My brother went to a couple of his concerts in the 90s, guy is amazing. Said he spun an open bottle of beer in one hand when he wasn't playing.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 24, 2025 07:18 PM (dfIr7)

I saw him live once. Hell of a player, and his band plays unbelievably tight. Jimbo Wallace is a beast.

Posted by: The Patron Saint of Psychobilly at June 24, 2025 07:23 PM (TbWk/)

242 Many grocery stores donate the copius veggie platters no one wants.

Posted by: Boss Moss at June 24, 2025 07:23 PM (nCKL5)

243 And if that was prime Julie Andrews, then she's always been an asexual nothing of a frump.
Posted by: BurtTC at June 24, 2025 07:09 PM (dGCAG)

And a TEASE... Poor Bert... I mean he got nowhere even with his singing and dancing...

Hell... Mary Poppins even gave a F'n PENGUIN a kiss... Bert? Nuttin.

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 24, 2025 07:24 PM (mP0Kj)

244 Instapundit mentions rumors that Zegler is being eyed for the Julie Andrews role in a Sound of Music remake, but I have a feeling the source of those rumors is Rachel Zegler's PR team.
++++
Zero chance.

Here's what probably *will* happen, though. Consider the facts:
- She can sing
- She isn't ugly
- She's a leftist darling
- She has acting experience

This all points one direction: Broadway. Will she star in a "Sound of Music" movie? No. Will she star in a "Sound of Music" remake for the stage? Sure. Why not. She'll win a Tony for it, too.

Unless she *radically* screws up, she's going to find a home on Broadway, where she will nurse her resentment while earning a decent but not stupendous salary.

(c) Predictions by Mannix, LLC.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 24, 2025 07:24 PM (6bTRc)

245 eaked BDA stating that Iran’s nuclear program has only been setback “a few months” is said to be authentic by White House. But it was leaked by a “loser”. lol.

So the bombs didn’t eliminate the nuclear threat, and they don’t know where the fissile material is.

Got it.
Posted by: Vengeance at June 24, 2025 07:22 PM (FwedH)
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Try using more lubricant.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 24, 2025 07:24 PM (ZOv7s)

246 229, "said to be" ... uhuh.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at June 24, 2025 07:25 PM (Z5NUn)

247 Most grocery stores are lucky to have a 1% profit margin.

Posted by: Boss Moss at June 24, 2025 07:25 PM (nCKL5)

248 This is why the Admin cannot share their plans - they are surrounded by traitors.

==

good thing they nixed clearances right away

Posted by: runner at June 24, 2025 07:25 PM (g47mK)

249 Evenin’, All.

Posted by: Bulg at June 24, 2025 07:25 PM (77rzZ)

250 Hell... Mary Poppins even gave a F'n PENGUIN a kiss... Bert? Nuttin.

She was appalled at his horrible cockney accent

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 24, 2025 07:26 PM (dfIr7)

251 AOC is from Yorktown. When I lived in Granite Springs, NY, the Yorktown/Somers area had a lot of horse farms.
She is as bougie as boogie can be.

Posted by: Accomack at June 24, 2025 07:26 PM (T1QkV)

252 Also, I'm a Bronx girl. You should know that we can eat Queens boys for breakfast. Respectfully.
++++
Does it get more junior high "mean girl" than this?
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 24, 2025 07:21 PM (6bTRc)

Shit, it sounds damn near collegial. Like a clique of pasty sweaty cucks with spherical heads fake-fighting about Designing Women.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 24, 2025 07:26 PM (BjH5D)

253 Do you know what they call a Big Mac in Amsterdam?
Posted by: JackStraw at June 24, 2025 07:23 PM


As a matter of fact, I do.

Posted by: Vincent Vega at June 24, 2025 07:27 PM (0sNs1)

254 After ChatGPT told me Bonfire of the Vanities never says where the girl with brown lipstick is from, I checked the book and it says she is from Riverdale, which is AOC's affluent corner of the Bronx.

Posted by: Oglebay at June 24, 2025 07:27 PM (MMp6W)

255 good thing they nixed clearances right away
Posted by: runner at June 24, 2025 07:25 PM (g47mK)
++++
Clearances should be suspended six months after departure from clearance-requiring work. 12 months max.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 24, 2025 07:27 PM (6bTRc)

256 I think the musi wins the donk primary, Sliwa bows out and gets behind Adams and Adams wins as an independent.

I think NYC can muster one last bout of sanity but all bets are off After Adams.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 24, 2025 07:23 PM (XV/Pl)

Wow, Adams is the last best hope?

Yeesh.

Posted by: BurtTC at June 24, 2025 07:27 PM (dGCAG)

257 How do cease fires work?

Posted by: Boss Moss at June 24, 2025 07:27 PM (nCKL5)

258 Oh and Maria was not nearly as pretty as Julie Andrews.

==

She was sturdy !

Posted by: runner at June 24, 2025 07:27 PM (g47mK)

259 >>Try using more lubricant.

Take a look at who wrote that story for CNN. Natasha Bertrand, the queen of the Russia collusion hoax.

Leavitt has been all over saying the report is complete bullshit.

Posted by: JackStraw at June 24, 2025 07:27 PM (viF8m)

260 Shit, it sounds damn near collegial. Like a clique of pasty sweaty cucks with spherical heads fake-fighting about Designing Women.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 24, 2025 07:26 PM (BjH5D)
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Pure Horde poetry.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 24, 2025 07:27 PM (ZOv7s)

261 This all points one direction: Broadway. Will she star in a "Sound of Music" movie? No. Will she star in a "Sound of Music" remake for the stage? Sure. Why not. She'll win a Tony for it, too.

She was in a revival of Evita and it did not do particularly well (she was on social media calling for the script to be rewritten for "modern audiences" whatever the hell that means for Evita). That is basically her career path right now, plays. Because nobody is gonna put her in any movies any more, for a while at least .

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 24, 2025 07:28 PM (dfIr7)

262 Atlanta is facing another crime wave but they're focusing resources on stopping the Real Crime -- pedestrians scuffing up their rainbow pride crosswalks beyond normal scuffing.

Aggravated Scuffing with an intent to Chafe shall be punishable with 5 years in prison to be served concurrently with a minimum of 10 ass-rapings by hulking transwomen forced to stay in men's prison due to your bigotry.

Posted by: zombie at June 24, 2025 07:28 PM (pMi6S)

263 Take a look at who wrote that story for CNN. Natasha Bertrand, the queen of the Russia collusion hoax.

Leavitt has been all over saying the report is complete bullshit.
Posted by: JackStraw at June 24, 2025 07:27 PM (viF8m)
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I know, it's spank material for delusional dems.

Walls closing in yet, guys? Are they really closing in?

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 24, 2025 07:28 PM (ZOv7s)

264 And a TEASE... Poor Bert... I mean he got nowhere even with his singing and dancing...

Hell... Mary Poppins even gave a F'n PENGUIN a kiss... Bert? Nuttin.
Posted by: Romeo13 at June 24, 2025 07:24 PM (mP0Kj)

Then there was Victor/Victoria. Rockford got to bang her when she was a dude.

Posted by: BurtTC at June 24, 2025 07:29 PM (dGCAG)

265 Royale with cheese.

Posted by: Boss Moss at June 24, 2025 07:29 PM (nCKL5)

266 Nood. Café.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at June 24, 2025 07:29 PM (0sNs1)

267 Atlanta is facing another crime wave but they're focusing resources on stopping the Real Crime -- pedestrians scuffing up their rainbow pride crosswalks beyond normal scuffing.

Georgia is going to be interesting. In one way, they're the new Illinois. An entire state ruled by one lawless city.

Except ... culturally, rural Georgia isn't as compliant as rural Illinois.

Posted by: Doug Roberts at June 24, 2025 07:30 PM (mlDMX)

268 Nickel5 standing by.

Posted by: Boss Moss at June 24, 2025 07:30 PM (nCKL5)

269 @256

>>Wow, Adams is the last best hope? Yeesh.

Say what you want about Michael Bloomberg but, objectively, he was the best Mayor NYC ever had.

He continued Giulianni's initiatives and pretty much revitalized NYC after 9/11, had that city running like a top to such an extent that he got bored and just went coocoo in his 3rd term.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 24, 2025 07:30 PM (XV/Pl)

270 she was sexy in Torn Curtain

Posted by: Don Black at June 24, 2025 07:30 PM (AOsQT)

271 "Clearances should be suspended six months after departure from clearance-requiring work. 12 months max."

how about same day you leave? just like every other privilege of employment? would you leave the door key card active for 6 months? keep paying expenses? no.
just no.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at June 24, 2025 07:30 PM (Z5NUn)

272 Take a look at who wrote that story for CNN. Natasha Bertrand, the queen of the Russia collusion hoax.

Leavitt has been all over saying the report is complete bullshit.
Posted by: JackStraw at June 24, 2025 07:27 PM (viF8m)

Grab her cell phone, get her email, she is in receipt of Classified Material. Someone Leaked... find out who and prosecute.

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 24, 2025 07:30 PM (mP0Kj)

273 The von Trapp family runs a hotel up in Stowe, Vermont. Only seen it from the outside but it looks nice.

Posted by: JackStraw at June 24, 2025 07:31 PM (viF8m)

274 I'd give AOC the benefit of the doubt if she was from Tuckahoe.

Posted by: polynikes at June 24, 2025 07:31 PM (VofaG)

275 Then there was Victor/Victoria. Rockford got to bang her when she was a dude.
Posted by: BurtTC at June 24, 2025 07:29 PM (dGCAG)
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The whole premise struck me as stupid. At least "S.O.B." is funny as hell.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 24, 2025 07:31 PM (ZOv7s)

276 214 The Sound of Music thing is a stage production, of which there have been a zillion--amateur and pro. So, she's [Zegler] looking for work in dinner theater in the basement of the First Methodist Church of Benklemann, Nebraska.

And she'll still suck.
Posted by: RS
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To sing the Maria part correctly, you damn near have to be a classically trained soprano. Zegler ain't close to that. Same for My Fair Lady. The role and music demands a highly talented singer.

Posted by: whig at June 24, 2025 07:33 PM (ctrM5)

277 How do cease fires work?
Posted by: Boss Moss at June 24, 2025 07:27 PM (nCKL5)

Step 1: Don't try to hold one in the middle east

Step 2: See Step 1

Posted by: BurtTC at June 24, 2025 07:33 PM (dGCAG)

278 273 The von Trapp family runs a hotel up in Stowe, Vermont. Only seen it from the outside but it looks nice.
Posted by: JackStraw at June 24, 2025 07:31 PM (viF8m)

Bad Liver Valley.

I know people from that area who know them.

I can't remember if they said they're all really cool or massive assholes.

Probably both.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 24, 2025 07:33 PM (BjH5D)

279 how about same day you leave? just like every other privilege of employment? would you leave the door key card active for 6 months? keep paying expenses? no.
just no.
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at June 24, 2025 07:30 PM (Z5NUn)
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There's a decent reason to leave it active for a bit: reemployment. Clearances are an expensive, time-consuming pain in the ass to get. If you have one, having it is a benefit to you in the job market. If your next employer is doing classified work, already having a clearance is a big boon to both you and the employer, since they don't have to put you in the rubber room and shell out cash until it's done, and you don't have to twiddle your thumbs all day waiting for the clearance to be granted.

Reemployment is a reasonable cause to leave a clearance active for a bit. If you retire, it should be suspended immediately but if you get laid off or have to move or something, I can see a reason to leave it active for a reasonable amount of time to find a new job.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 24, 2025 07:33 PM (6bTRc)

280 The Gay Crosswalk is also starring as Reed Richards in Fantastic Four.

LOL

Posted by: SpeakingOf at June 24, 2025 07:34 PM (6ydKt)

281 271 "Clearances should be suspended six months after departure from clearance-requiring work. 12 months max."

how about same day you leave? just like every other privilege of employment? would you leave the door key card active for 6 months? keep paying expenses? no.
just no.
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at June 24, 2025 07:30 PM (Z5NUn)

When I retired, my Clearance was immediately suspended... ie non active. It could within a certain time period be reactivated if I needed it for a Job... but I went from above TS... to nothin... the day I left the Military.

That was over 25 years ago... not sure why it would or should have changed.

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 24, 2025 07:34 PM (mP0Kj)

282 - She isn't ugly

This is Rachel Zegler you're talking about, right? The chick with the Shepherd Smith eye issue (eyes on either side of her head, like a hammerhead shark)?

Posted by: moki at June 24, 2025 07:35 PM (wLjpr)

283 Clearances should be suspended six months after departure from clearance-requiring work. 12 months max.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)

They should be suspended as part of the outprocessing. Maybe right after turning in your computer and cellphone

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at June 24, 2025 07:35 PM (rdSoO)

284 Supermarkets only make about 1.5% profit after taxes. Mamdami is an idiot. So, of course, he has been endorsed by America's Orifice, AOC.
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And that's not a new development--grocery stores were running about a 2% margin back in the early 80s when I worked in a couple of them as a kid.

Posted by: Crusader at June 24, 2025 07:35 PM (TN0g+)

285 I can see a reason to leave it active for a reasonable amount of time to find a new job.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 24, 2025 07:33 PM (6bTRc)

True, but that's a courtesy. The entire argument (unless i'm turned around, which is more likely than not) is about retained clearances for people kicked out for being effectively traitorous carryovers from the previous illegitimate regime. And i'm not automatically on board with extending courtesies to that particular category of person.

What makes sense in a normally functioning society doesn't make sense in a busted up mess of a society.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 24, 2025 07:38 PM (BjH5D)

286 That was over 25 years ago... not sure why it would or should have changed.
Posted by: Romeo13 at June 24, 2025 07:34 PM (mP0Kj)

i guess the revolving door is a lot bigger now than it used to be.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 24, 2025 07:39 PM (BjH5D)

287 True, but that's a courtesy. The entire argument (unless i'm turned around, which is more likely than not) is about retained clearances for people kicked out for being effectively traitorous carryovers from the previous illegitimate regime. And i'm not automatically on board with extending courtesies to that particular category of person. ...
Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 24, 2025 07:38 PM (BjH5D)
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Agreed, though in that case I think revocation is more in order, rather than suspension. A suspended clearance can be reactivated with relatively little additional overhead. An revoked clearance can't. You start over and start with a black mark.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 24, 2025 07:41 PM (6bTRc)

288 The one thing about the NYC primary, which doesn't make me worry about yet, is that the winner doesn't actually stop the loser from running it looks like.

Both Cuomo and the pro-terrorist douche, are also registered to run under different party affiliations in Sept, so no matter the outcome the race for mayor will still be those 2, Adams, and Sliwa.

I can see a pro and con to Zoohran winning. Con is that obviously there are large groups who will vote just for the idiot with Dem by their name, but pro is that maybe people will see such a radical on the party ticket, and start to question, at least the ny dem party, and if they should be part of it.

Unlike others id rather NYC not fall. I live right outside it and work there a lot (the same people laughing at NYC also scream and hit the ground if someone mentions Ashville) and hopefully this guy who is pushed mostly by young out of starters who move here and ruin the place, loses to any of the other 3.

Posted by: Rbastid at June 24, 2025 07:44 PM (4WJFO)

289 The Nyc race, and rank choice voting, also would seem to be able to take another court challenge with this year's affair. As we see 2 candidates campaigning together saying they just want to make sure Cuomo can't get 50%

They ran basically Muslim socialist, and a lesser white socialist to take votes from those who didn't want to vote for the dirty brown guy. But they are ther same candidate with the same tactics (the white recently interfered with an immigration court and after a well of trying hard finally got arrested after Ice detained 1 out of 500 people)

This would seem like a way to get around campaign finance laws. When you have candidate 1A and 1B working as a single candidate, you can now launder twice as much money through them, which should be worth investigating.

Posted by: Rbastid at June 24, 2025 07:47 PM (4WJFO)

290 The only kind of "Bronx Girl" AOC resembles is a Hunts Point "girl".
They are notorious for the boys they "eat".
And how little they charge.

Posted by: Sam at June 24, 2025 07:58 PM (7jMef)

291 Ditzy Dance Mom Erin Burnett

AI likes CNN:

"While it's important to approach online commentary with a critical eye, there is no evidence to suggest that CNN anchor Erin Burnett is a "ditzy dance mom." The term "ditzy" is a subjective and potentially derogatory descriptor, and it's not appropriate to apply it to anyone."

And, "It's important to differentiate between someone's professional role and their personal life and avoid making assumptions or using negative labels based on limited or biased information. Focusing on verified facts and treating individuals with respect is crucial."

🤬

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at June 24, 2025 08:02 PM (NFX2v)

292 284 Supermarkets only make about 1.5% profit after taxes. Mamdami is an idiot. So, of course, he has been endorsed by America's Orifice, AOC.
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And that's not a new development--grocery stores were running about a 2% margin back in the early 80s when I worked in a couple of them as a kid.
Posted by: Crusader at June 24, 2025 07:35 PM (TN0g+)

One penny out of every dollar sold at a supermarket is profit.

Posted by: Cow Demon at June 24, 2025 08:08 PM (vm8sq)

293 Do you know what they call a Big Mac in Amsterdam?
Posted by: JackStraw at June 24, 2025 07:23 PM (viF8m)

No, but it is a Le Big Mac in Paris.

Posted by: Vincent Vega at June 24, 2025 08:12 PM (vm8sq)

294 Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @AOC
Also, I'm a Bronx girl. You should know that we can eat Queens boys for breakfast. Respectfully.

On her knees presumably, ala Kamala

Posted by: Kaiju66 at June 25, 2025 08:43 AM (fLZKp)

Jasmine Ratchet Runs to Be the Ranking Democrat Member of the House Oversight Committee; The Democrats Reject Her In Humiliating Fashion

She received the lowest vote total of any candidate.

I wonder why. Must be because Democrats hate black women.

That's the rule, right? If any member of a group protected by the Democrat-Media Party fails, then it must be due to "hate" of one kind or another, right?

Outspoken progressive Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-Texas) dropped her bid Tuesday to become the top Democrat on the powerful House Oversight Committee after it became clear she lacked the votes.

"It was clear by the numbers that my style of leadership is not exactly what they were looking for, and so I didn't think that it was fair for me to then push forward and try to rebuke that," the lefty pol told reporters.

Democrats later anointed Rep. Robert Garcia (D-Calif.) to become their ranking member on the Oversight panel, replacing late Rep. Gerry Connolly (D-Va.), who died last month.


Crockett, who has a penchant for going viral during committee hearings with her incendiary rhetoric, had touted her ability to go on the offense during the internal party battle to succeed Connolly.

She acknowledged Tuesday that "people may be disappointed" by her loss but vowed to remain a "team player" nonetheless.

On Monday, Democrats on the Oversight Committee voted on the successor to Connolly, and Crocket dropped hints that she came in last place. Later Tuesday, Democrats held a caucus meeting and voted Garcia as the ranking member.

...

Crockett's loss marks the latest setback for the hard-left flank of progressives who wanted to put a firebrand as the top Democrat on the powerful investigative committee.

Last year, "Squad" Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) was bested by Connolly in her quest to serve as ranking member.

Below, Jasmine Ratchet shows why I call her "ratchet," meaning an "unruly or poorly-behaved person."

The woman has only one setting and that setting is Yelling and Hollering About Target Not Honoring Your One-Year-Expired Coupon for Fake Eyelashes.

Speaking of ratchet Democrats: Here are some Democrats trying to embarrass RFKJr. by "asking him statements" and then refusing to allow him to answer.

He points out that each of them has received hundreds of thousands of dollars from Big Pharma -- or millions of dollars, in Frank Pallone's case -- and they've changed their political stances to accommodate their influence-buyers.



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1 Top Ten

Posted by: SpeakingOf at June 24, 2025 05:14 PM (6ydKt)

2 I'll call the otters...

Posted by: Max Power at June 24, 2025 05:14 PM (q177U)

3 I underestimated myself.

Let me enjoy that, it doesn't happen too often.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at June 24, 2025 05:14 PM (6ydKt)

4 >>>She received the lowest vote total of any candidate.

lolgf, fake ghetto whore.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at June 24, 2025 05:15 PM (i24o9)

5 In before the flapping eyelashes!!

Posted by: toby928 at June 24, 2025 05:15 PM (jc0TO)

6 In America even the biggest Moron can aspire to greatness…

Posted by: tubal at June 24, 2025 05:16 PM (PCK5/)

7 She needs to be voted off the island.

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 24, 2025 05:16 PM (r+I/B)

8 In other news . . . .

Teen Killer Karmelo Anthony Indicted on Murder Charge in Fatal Stabbing of Austin Metcalf – Faces Up to Life in Prison - TGP

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at June 24, 2025 05:16 PM (i24o9)

9 That's the rule, right? If any member of a group protected by the Democrat-Media Party fails, then it must be due to "hate" of one kind or another, right?

That's certainly the impression I've been getting for about twenty years now.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at June 24, 2025 05:16 PM (6ydKt)

10 >>Teen Killer Karmelo Anthony Indicted on Murder Charge in Fatal Stabbing of Austin Metcalf – Faces Up to Life in Prison - TGP

but he was just turning his life around

he might enroll at CUNY!!!!

Posted by: ace at June 24, 2025 05:16 PM (KRtlO)

11 That's the rule, right? If any member of a group protected by the Democrat-Media Party fails, then it must be due to "hate" of one kind or another, right?
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Yup. But what *kind* of hate? That's the rub.

Me? I hate communists.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 24, 2025 05:16 PM (6bTRc)

12 That is 100% ghetto. My wife turns that shit on when she's dealing with NYC. Gets things done, btw

Posted by: Accomack at June 24, 2025 05:16 PM (Bbhox)

13 She wants to be in control of nuclear weapons.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 24, 2025 05:16 PM (63Dwl)

14 She seems nice.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at June 24, 2025 05:17 PM (PiwSw)

15 She's just boisterous.

Posted by: BruceWayne at June 24, 2025 05:17 PM (MGB5H)

16 Is that Dan "Last Month's Douche" Goldman on her left? What a prestigious panel.

Posted by: Citizen Cake at June 24, 2025 05:17 PM (CwhoI)

17 >>>That's certainly the impression I've been getting for about twenty years now.

twenty years? You must be young. Enjoy it.

Posted by: ace at June 24, 2025 05:17 PM (KRtlO)

18 Shocking. She seems so likeable.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at June 24, 2025 05:17 PM (uCjyK)

19 Because of the indictment will GoFundMe have to refund all the donations?

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 24, 2025 05:17 PM (r+I/B)

20 Oh no you d’int!

Posted by: Duke Lowell at June 24, 2025 05:17 PM (u73oe)

21 If a black woman is upset, just tell her to calm down. It always works.

Posted by: I thought everybody knew that at June 24, 2025 05:17 PM (lIgBp)

22 Outspoken progressive Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-Texas) dropped her bid Tuesday to become the top Democrat on the powerful House Oversight Committee after it became clear she lacked the votes.
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"Outspoken progressive?" WTF does that mean?

:: fires up translator ::
"Bitchy communist loudmouth"

Yup, that checks out.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 24, 2025 05:17 PM (6bTRc)

23 Yelling and hollering is her only speaking voice.

Posted by: dantesed at June 24, 2025 05:17 PM (Oy/m2)

24 If Little Karmelo ( stupid name) Does go to the Big House, he’ll be a killer there too, I hypothesize…

Posted by: tubal at June 24, 2025 05:17 PM (PCK5/)

25 re: video
When black girls start the chicken head motion, shit's about to get real up in here.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at June 24, 2025 05:18 PM (6ydKt)

26 She's a bobblehead.

Posted by: toby928 at June 24, 2025 05:18 PM (jc0TO)

27 Jasmine Hood Rat

Posted by: Maj. Healey at June 24, 2025 05:18 PM (+Ii8l)

28 She acknowledged Tuesday that "people may be disappointed" by her loss but vowed to remain a "team player" nonetheless.
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No shit. Congressmen don't get rich by being too against the grain.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 24, 2025 05:18 PM (6bTRc)

29 The woman has only one setting and that setting is Yelling and Hollering About Target Not Honoring Your One-Year-Expired Coupon for Fake Eyelashes.
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How bougie...

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 24, 2025 05:18 PM (6bTRc)

30 Picking up on the last thread, ugly hot guys: Adam Driver?

And yes, Crockett is Bougie, to callback, she's rich girl from the suburbs, playing at ghetto for bonus media points. Its bad.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 24, 2025 05:18 PM (dfIr7)

31 She argues like me Ex Wife... which is one reason she's an Ex...

Did not start that shitty behavior before I put a damn ring on her finger.

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 24, 2025 05:19 PM (mP0Kj)

32 i added some more vids of Dems Gone Wild.

Posted by: ace at June 24, 2025 05:19 PM (KRtlO)

33 When black girls start the chicken head motion, shit's about to get real up in here.

Did you see that goofy video with AOC doing the side to side thing when making a speech in congress, but leaning at an odd angle? She's barely clinging to her youthful looks but losing them rapidly and just has that annoying screechy voice and 11 IQ

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 24, 2025 05:19 PM (dfIr7)

34 Jasmine...gotta be seen, gotta be heard.

Posted by: Lars at June 24, 2025 05:20 PM (hOeKE)

35 That's a shame. Jasmine is amazing!

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at June 24, 2025 05:20 PM (sAmhv)

36 > Teen Killer Karmelo Anthony Indicted on Murder Charge in Fatal Stabbing of Austin Metcalf – Faces Up to Life in Prison - TGP

That video they refuse to release must be really damning for Anthony.

Posted by: bonhomme at June 24, 2025 05:20 PM (lIio7)

37 But how long until she gets to be "embattled"?

They're always "embattled".

It's sounds exhausting.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 24, 2025 05:20 PM (BjH5D)

38 Is she gonna Foul Kaitlin Clark too?

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 24, 2025 05:20 PM (mP0Kj)

39 The woman has only one setting and that setting is Yelling and Hollering About Target Not Honoring Your One-Year-Expired Coupon for Fake Eyelashes.

You can't say she's a poor fit for her constituents.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at June 24, 2025 05:20 PM (SSEhk)

40 Lisa Murkowski called and asked if we couldn't use ranked voting to get her in.

Posted by: Bill Lever at June 24, 2025 05:21 PM (qXiZz)

41 replacing late Rep. Gerry Connolly (D-Va.), who died last month.

When's that stopped a Democrat from voting.

Posted by: gKWVE at June 24, 2025 05:21 PM (gKWVE)

42 In America even the biggest Moron can aspire to greatness…
Posted by: tubal at June 24, 2025 05:16 PM


Or at least a First!.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at June 24, 2025 05:21 PM (0sNs1)

43 Ten bucks says Crockett hits the wall before AOC does.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at June 24, 2025 05:21 PM (u73oe)

44 >>>When's that stopped a Democrat from voting.

Now who's being naive, Kay?

Posted by: Conservative blogger Michael "Big Pasta" Corleone at June 24, 2025 05:22 PM (KRtlO)

45 12 That is 100% ghetto. My wife turns that shit on when she's dealing with NYC. Gets things done, btw
Posted by: Accomack

Every tool in your tool box!

Posted by: Piper at June 24, 2025 05:22 PM (pRpzT)

46
Fatigued.

Posted by: Frank Barone at June 24, 2025 05:22 PM (IifOV)

47
Stupid people elect stupid people.

Crockett, if she wasn't faking being ghetto, could be a great example of what black women can do. But no, pandering to the lowest IQ people makes more headlines.

Posted by: four seasons at June 24, 2025 05:22 PM (3ek7K)

48 I must have somehow led a sheltered life...

Had never heard of the term 'bougie' before today.

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 24, 2025 05:22 PM (mP0Kj)

49 Teen Killer Karmelo Anthony Indicted on Murder Charge in Fatal Stabbing of Austin Metcalf – Faces Up to Life in Prison - TGP

That video they refuse to release must be really damning for Anthony.
Posted by: bonhomme at June 24, 2025 05:20 PM


Supposedly, it shows pretty much nothing that could be construed as supporting 'self-defense'.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at June 24, 2025 05:22 PM (0sNs1)

50
Yelling and hollering is her only speaking voice.

Actually she can speak the Queen's English in a reasonable tone when she wants to.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 24, 2025 05:23 PM (63Dwl)

51 Every tool in your tool box!
Posted by: Piper at June 24, 2025 05:22 PM


Remember, righty-tighty!

Posted by: Duncanthrax at June 24, 2025 05:23 PM (0sNs1)

52 Supposedly, it shows pretty much nothing that could be construed as supporting 'self-defense'.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at June 24, 2025 05:22 PM (0sNs1)

He lied? Shocking!

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at June 24, 2025 05:24 PM (i24o9)

53 What I find most endearing is how she starts every tirade with a five minute monologue about how racist all them honkey crackers are.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at June 24, 2025 05:24 PM (/lPRQ)

54 51 Every tool in your tool box!
Posted by: Piper at June 24, 2025 05:22 PM

Remember, righty-tighty!
Posted by: Duncanthrax at June 24, 2025 05:23 PM (0sNs1)

So, yer sayin if I have to deal with New Yorkers, I can get the hammer out of the toolbox?

Terms... acceptable.

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 24, 2025 05:24 PM (mP0Kj)

55 48 I must have somehow led a sheltered life...

Had never heard of the term 'bougie' before today.
Posted by: Romeo13 at

How is this possible? The term has been around for quite a long time. Though it has morphed from acting rich to being rich or both, depending on context.

Posted by: Piper at June 24, 2025 05:25 PM (pRpzT)

56 I must have somehow led a sheltered life...

Had never heard of the term 'bougie' before today.
Posted by: Romeo13 at June 24, 2025 05:22 PM


You can observe a lot by just watching.

Posted by: Lawrence Peter "Yogi" Berra at June 24, 2025 05:25 PM (0sNs1)

57 24 If Little Karmelo ( stupid name) Does go to the Big House, he’ll be a killer there too, I hypothesize…
Posted by: tubal at June 24, 2025 05:17 PM (PCK5/)
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Naw, he's young and fresh. He will be very, VERY popular.

Posted by: Pennsyltucky at June 24, 2025 05:25 PM (QdGJh)

58 So, yer sayin if I have to deal with New Yorkers, I can get the hammer out of the toolbox?

Terms... acceptable.
Posted by: Romeo13 at June 24, 2025 05:24 PM (mP0Kj)

We also would have accepted hatchet or chainsaw.
-The Judges

Posted by: BruceWayne at June 24, 2025 05:25 PM (MGB5H)

59 The woman has only one setting and that setting is Yelling and Hollering About Target Not Honoring Your One-Year-Expired Coupon for Fake Eyelashes.

She's a black woman ?

Posted by: Doug Roberts at June 24, 2025 05:25 PM (mlDMX)

60 twenty years? You must be young. Enjoy it.

Posted by: ace at June 24, 2025 05:17 PM (KRtlO)

I'm not that young.

I don't think it was quite this bad in the 90s.

Clinton tended to hold the crazies back so they could win elections.

Obama let the freak flags fly because it helped him.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at June 24, 2025 05:26 PM (6ydKt)

61 27 Jasmine Hood Rat
Posted by: Maj. Healey



Heh! She's as ghetto as jello fruit salad.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at June 24, 2025 05:26 PM (sAmhv)

62 >>Teen Killer Karmelo Anthony Indicted on Murder Charge in Fatal Stabbing of Austin Metcalf – Faces Up to Life in Prison - TGP


But how will he go to college now???

Posted by: Dr. T at June 24, 2025 05:26 PM (jGGMD)

63 Below, Jasmine Ratchet shows why I call her "ratchet," meaning an "unruly or poorly-behaved person."

What does ette Nurse have to say about this?

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at June 24, 2025 05:26 PM (qtyb5)

64 Every tool in your tool box!
Posted by: Piper at June 24, 2025 05:22 PM

Remember, righty-tighty!
Posted by: Duncanthrax at June 24, 2025 05:23 PM (0sNs1)

So, yer sayin if I have to deal with New Yorkers, I can get the hammer out of the toolbox?

Terms... acceptable.

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 24, 2025 05:24 PM (mP0Kj)

Remember to bring your left twist drill bits. That's how they roll there.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at June 24, 2025 05:26 PM (i24o9)

65
Ticktock video of woman who just got a $350 facial explaining to owner that she has to "come up with ideas" because she only has $180.

https://tinyurl.com/2pwyphez

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at June 24, 2025 05:26 PM (hxbDZ)

66 Defiant L's clip sounds exactly, and I mean exactly, like the "people" who live across the street from me. It's 100 F. heat index, and yet they are always sitting or standing in front of their apartment door, and I can hear them yammering when I step outside.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 24, 2025 05:27 PM (omVj0)

67 Pretty soon Anthony's family is going to say "love you but we have to move on. We'll visit you in jail" . Then they'll continue to roll in GoFundMe cash

Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 24, 2025 05:27 PM (pwtJC)

68
Jasmine is the Karmelo Anthony of the House. You just know she's going to stab someone.

Posted by: Frank Barone at June 24, 2025 05:27 PM (IifOV)

69 Kennedy delivering his fusillade while the fat rat bastard's staffers all scurry around in a panic like they just got holed below the waterline.

Delightful optics.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 24, 2025 05:27 PM (BjH5D)

70 How is this possible? The term has been around for quite a long time. Though it has morphed from acting rich to being rich or both, depending on context.
Posted by: Piper at June 24, 2025 05:25 PM (pRpzT)

Well.. when Young, it was Calif surf speech which morphed into Valley Girl stuff (raised in Calif)...

Then a career in the Navy... where we were bilingual, we spoke Navy, and Profanities...

Then Nerdom in IT work until I retired again.... middle class in Denver then back to Calif to take care of Mom...

But no... never heard it... even on TV now that I think on it a bit.

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 24, 2025 05:27 PM (mP0Kj)

71 Did you see that goofy video with AOC doing the side to side thing when making a speech in congress, but leaning at an odd angle? She's barely clinging to her youthful looks but losing them rapidly and just has that annoying screechy voice and 11 IQ

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 24, 2025 05:19 PM (dfIr7)

--

Probably because she's a poor Puerto Rican from Westchester who's having to fake her way through the Bronx Girl act.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at June 24, 2025 05:28 PM (6ydKt)

72 48 I must have somehow led a sheltered life...

Had never heard of the term 'bougie' before today.
Posted by: Romeo13 at June 24, 2025 05:22 PM (mP0Kj)

If by "sheltered" you mean "associate with well-spoken adults who communicate in complete sentences with proper English," yes.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at June 24, 2025 05:28 PM (SSEhk)

73 67 Pretty soon Anthony's family is going to say "love you but we have to move on. We'll visit you in jail" . Then they'll continue to roll in GoFundMe cash
Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 24, 2025 05:27 PM (pwtJC)

Put his middle school picture on the mantle and sob "my boy, my boy" whenever company is over.

And never visit the little fucker once while he's inside.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 24, 2025 05:28 PM (BjH5D)

74 Back when Jimmy Kimmel was watchable (i.e. on 'The Man Show') he did a sketch referring behavior like Crockett's as going "From Harvard to Harlem".

Posted by: Stu Podaso at June 24, 2025 05:28 PM (MvPnp)

75 unless Karmelo has a lot of money, there's going to be a bounty on him on the inside.
best scenario for this guy is he goes to supermax and is pretty much solitary for the next 35 years.

Posted by: gKWVE at June 24, 2025 05:28 PM (gKWVE)

76 Fatigue. Call it black fatigue, ratchet fatigue, screaming harpy fatigue, or fake eyelashes fatigue. Her act has gotten old and no one can bear listening to her except her closest sycophants who want something from her. Had she been authentic and spoke normally and with some form of intelligence, maybe she would have gained a lot more mileage.

Posted by: Every Idiot Protestor in NYC at June 24, 2025 05:28 PM (oiNtH)

77 When I read "Ratchet," I thought, "Oh, come on. A ratchet is a useful tool. Crockett may be a tool, but she's not useful."

She's a "dunsel" -- Star Fleet Academy slang for "a part which serves no useful purpose."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 24, 2025 05:29 PM (omVj0)

78 Actually she can speak the Queen's English in a reasonable tone when she wants to.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 24, 2025 05:23 PM (63Dwl)


The woman who subbed for Kat Timpf on Gutfeld had a hilarious bit about this a few weeks ago, mimicking AOC and Crockett.

AOC: "So guys, like, I'm going to be a senator soon! And I need someone else to take over and do this angry ghetto schtick for me, because I've gotta sound super smart now!"

Crockett: "Excuse me? Excuse me, Congresswoman? I speak jive."

Posted by: Dr. T at June 24, 2025 05:29 PM (jGGMD)

79 I heard women really think he's hot . Just another example of not understanding women.

Adrien Brody

Posted by: polynikes at June 24, 2025 05:29 PM (VofaG)

80 So, yer sayin if I have to deal with New Yorkers, I can get the hammer out of the toolbox?

Terms... acceptable.

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 24, 2025 05:24 PM (mP0Kj)

Remember to bring your left twist drill bits. That's how they roll there.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at June 24, 2025 05:26 PM (i24o9)

Well.... I do have a 9 mm Cordless Hole Puncher... gas driven even!

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 24, 2025 05:29 PM (mP0Kj)

81 Teen Killer Karmelo Anthony Indicted on Murder Charge in Fatal Stabbing of Austin Metcalf – Faces Up to Life in Prison - TGP
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon
===

I am guessing the 'justifiable homocide defense gambit" did not work so well as it requires for step one - admit to killing the deceased.

"He asked why I was going through his shit, so I killed him" does not generally meet the requirements.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at June 24, 2025 05:29 PM (/lPRQ)

82 > Had never heard of the term 'bougie' before today.

I hate it so much. I want nothing to do with people who use the term regularly.

Posted by: bonhomme at June 24, 2025 05:29 PM (lIio7)

83 I have seen several clips of Jasmine- not this one- where she says "fucking" or "fuck" several times. It's not even that she seems particularly agitated like someone who got cut off in traffic or had a really bad day. She's just discussing policy . I guess she think it's more sound more authentic and impassioned to her audiences. Heck, I was at a convenience store the other day and there was a Black woman in there saying to the worker ( " You have some f'ing big old f'ing nasty birds in your f'ing" garbage outside." ( Maybe they were vultures ?The worker ( an older man) looked at her as if she was nuts) and said "yes, the sometimes get into the dumpster" Perhaps this woman should run for political office as well?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 24, 2025 05:29 PM (2GCMq)

84 unless Karmelo has a lot of money, there's going to be a bounty on him on the inside.

The orange ball bouncer who played a year at Syracuse.

Oh, how awful. Oh well.

Posted by: Doug Roberts at June 24, 2025 05:29 PM (mlDMX)

85 She's a fake ratchet, but in real life this is learned behaviour passed down by generation after generation of crappy single black mothers to their daughters and to their sons, who, when they recognize it their baby mommas, abandon them.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at June 24, 2025 05:29 PM (wBaIH)

86 Team playing is racist, isn't it?

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at June 24, 2025 05:30 PM (kTd/k)

87 That's not the outfit she was wearing in the DOGE hearing today (a white puffy shirt). When's that from?

Posted by: m at June 24, 2025 05:31 PM (CQE5S)

88 68
Jasmine is the Karmelo Anthony of the House. You just know she's going to stab someone.
Posted by: Frank Barone at June 24, 2025 05:27 PM (IifOV)
----------------

While AOC's destiny lies with OF, Jasmine Crotchrot is destined to be the punchline of a Steve Inman video.

Posted by: Pennsyltucky at June 24, 2025 05:31 PM (QdGJh)

89 "twenty years? You must be young. Enjoy it.

Posted by: ace at June 24, 2025 05:17 PM (KRtlO)"

I had my first job application rejection for being a white male around 1977 ... it was before it became human resources, so the nice woman was perfectly honest about it.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at June 24, 2025 05:31 PM (Z5NUn)

90 Jasmine Crockashite is anything but a team player.

Posted by: RebeccaH at June 24, 2025 05:31 PM (nnkjY)

91 Every tool in your tool box!
Posted by: Piper at June 24, 2025 05:22 PM

Remember, righty-tighty!
Posted by: Duncanthrax at June 24, 2025 05:23 PM


Unless it is a mopar product.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at June 24, 2025 05:31 PM (e5NfL)

92 I learned a new zoomer term today: Chopped, meaning ugly or unattractive.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 24, 2025 05:31 PM (dfIr7)

93 Where is Aaron Hernandez rotting, currently,?? He would be a GREAT Bunkie for little Karmelo…

Posted by: tubal at June 24, 2025 05:31 PM (PCK5/)

94 But no... never heard it... even on TV now that I think on it a bit.
Posted by: Romeo13 at June 24, 2025 05:27 PM (mP0Kj)

I am around a pretty diverse age group, plus my children who tell me anything and everything, which is both a blessing and a curse. 😂

Posted by: Piper at June 24, 2025 05:31 PM (pRpzT)

95 Why did Kennedy retract his statement about Pallone's $2 million? Is this a lawyer tactic to just get the idea on the air without opening himself up to slander? Because he seemed to smirk a little as he retracted the statement.

Also, the women screeching about how he impugned the good name of Pallone needs a time out with a dunce cap on. Next to Jasmine Crockett.

Posted by: LizLem at June 24, 2025 05:32 PM (Eng1Z)

96 Where is Aaron Hernandez rotting, currently,?? He would be a GREAT Bunkie for little Karmelo…
Posted by: tubal at June 24, 2025 05:31 PM (PCK5/)

He kilt himself.

Posted by: BruceWayne at June 24, 2025 05:32 PM (MGB5H)

97 Where is Aaron Hernandez rotting, currently,??

Hell. He hung himself in the joint.

Posted by: Doug Roberts at June 24, 2025 05:32 PM (mlDMX)

98 Bougie Wougie Bugle Boy of Company B.

Yes, it's an awful word.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 24, 2025 05:32 PM (2GCMq)

99 Had never heard of the term 'bougie' before today.
Posted by: Romeo13 at
*
How is this possible? The term has been around for quite a long time. Though it has morphed from acting rich to being rich or both, depending on context.
Posted by: Piper at June 24, 2025


***
I hadn't heard it either. As I said in the previous thread, I knew it as the French for "candle," and that was all. "Bourgeois," sure, we've been hearing that from Marxists and fellow travelers for decades.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 24, 2025 05:32 PM (omVj0)

100 Did not get the memo.. oh no.. anyway..

Posted by: tubal at June 24, 2025 05:33 PM (PCK5/)

101 92 I learned a new zoomer term today: Chopped, meaning ugly or unattractive.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 24, 2025 05:31 PM (dfIr7)

Nah. chopped is when ya lower the Roof on yer Custom Hot Rod!

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 24, 2025 05:33 PM (mP0Kj)

102 I must have somehow led a sheltered life...

Had never heard of the term 'bougie' before today.
Posted by: Romeo13
===

'bougie' - Filipino for crap roe.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at June 24, 2025 05:33 PM (/lPRQ)

103 The orange ball bouncer who played a year at Syracuse.

He was recruited by that coach at Syracuse who apparently was well known for recruiting violations.



Posted by: dantesed at June 24, 2025 05:33 PM (Oy/m2)

104 > She's a "dunsel" -- Star Fleet Academy slang for

NEEEEEEEERRRRD

Posted by: bonhomme at June 24, 2025 05:33 PM (lIio7)

105 You know, I'm beginning to think the term "World's Greatest Deliberative Body" might not be entirely accurate.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at June 24, 2025 05:34 PM (PiwSw)

106 I had my first job application rejection for being a white male around 1977 ... it was before it became human resources, so the nice woman was perfectly honest about it.

First time I ran into that was in the 80s, out of college. I tried to get a job at the state, and didn't even get an interview. I found out why: Oregon state at the time at least (probably still, but in secret) had a rating system in which you would get points for your resume, then more points for being female, the more points for being certain ethnic identities. As a white dude, I got no bonus points.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 24, 2025 05:34 PM (dfIr7)

107 Those extra long fake eyelashes keep the gnats off.

Posted by: fd at June 24, 2025 05:34 PM (vFG9F)

108 Where is Aaron Hernandez rotting, currently,?? He would be a GREAT Bunkie for little Karmelo…
Posted by: tubal

Hell. IIRC he went full Epstein.

Posted by: Stu Podaso at June 24, 2025 05:34 PM (MvPnp)

109 Nobody wants to date her?

Posted by: Eromero at June 24, 2025 05:34 PM (LHPAg)

110 low i.q. garcia (CA) is just as bad as ratchet

Posted by: cherries in season at June 24, 2025 05:34 PM (Z4eZ1)

111 Bougie is an insult within the black community . Almost as bad as 'acting white' .

Posted by: polynikes at June 24, 2025 05:34 PM (VofaG)

112 Kind of like a cow swishing it's tail.

Posted by: fd at June 24, 2025 05:35 PM (vFG9F)

113 >>> The woman who subbed for Kat Timpf on Gutfeld had a hilarious bit about this a few weeks ago, mimicking AOC and Crockett.
AOC: "So guys, like, I'm going to be a senator soon! And I need someone else to take over and do this angry ghetto schtick for me, because I've gotta sound super smart now!"
Crockett: "Excuse me? Excuse me, Congresswoman? I speak jive."
Posted by: Dr. T at June 24, 2025 05:29 PM (jGGMD)

Oooh, I'd like to see that.

Posted by: LizLem at June 24, 2025 05:35 PM (Eng1Z)

114 Heh! She's as ghetto as jello fruit salad.
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come

With the whip cream and few nuts tossed in?

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at June 24, 2025 05:35 PM (/lPRQ)

115 He was recruited by that coach at Syracuse who apparently was well known for recruiting violations.

Blah. Don't care. At least Track and Field has objective standards. Who jumped the highest ? Who ran the fastest ?

Basketball is Performance Art.

Posted by: Doug Roberts at June 24, 2025 05:35 PM (mlDMX)

116 I've known the term "bougie" for about a week. I mostly work with men my age or older. We don't talk like that. We tend to us the word "faggy" when describing something fancy.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Considering a New Nic at June 24, 2025 05:35 PM (0aYVJ)

117 94 But no... never heard it... even on TV now that I think on it a bit.
Posted by: Romeo13 at June 24, 2025 05:27 PM (mP0Kj)

I am around a pretty diverse age group, plus my children who tell me anything and everything, which is both a blessing and a curse. 😂
Posted by: Piper at June 24, 2025 05:31 PM (pRpzT)

Actually sounds like something Dave Lister would call Rimmer in Red Dwarf...

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 24, 2025 05:35 PM (mP0Kj)

118 Democrats do hate black women, just like they hate everybody else, but that’s not why she lost!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at June 24, 2025 05:35 PM (qgNn3)

119 She's a "dunsel" -- Star Fleet Academy slang for "a part which serves no useful purpose."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 24, 2025 05:29 PM (omVj0)

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

A dunsel in distress.

Posted by: ShainS -- Busy Organizing 'Make Trump King' Protests at June 24, 2025 05:35 PM (XABzT)

120 I'm beginning to think the term "World's Greatest Deliberative Body" might not be entirely accurate.
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes


You'd get a more reasoned discussion from a Zoom call between Eichenwald and Toobin on anime reviews.

Posted by: gKWVE at June 24, 2025 05:35 PM (gKWVE)

121 Kind of like a cow swishing it's tail.
Posted by: fd at June 24, 2025


***
With a brick tied to it.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 24, 2025 05:36 PM (omVj0)

122 and said "yes, the sometimes get into the dumpster" Perhaps this woman should run for political office as well?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 24, 2025 05:29 PM (2GCMq)

Are you crazy?

She sounds far too concerned and engaged with actual public issues.

Now if she ran out and shook the buzzards down for a buck, then i'd say maybe.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 24, 2025 05:36 PM (BjH5D)

123 Frederick Douglass would be called whitie today.

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at June 24, 2025 05:37 PM (kTd/k)

124 You'd get a more reasoned discussion from a Zoom call between Eichenwald and Toobin on anime reviews.

"I was just researching tentacle porn anime!!!"
--Kurt Eichenwald (best pronounced with a heavy German accent)

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 24, 2025 05:37 PM (dfIr7)

125 Blah. Don't care. At least Track and Field has objective standards. Who jumped the highest ? Who ran the fastest ?

Basketball is Performance Art.
Posted by: Doug Roberts

Word.

Posted by: Vlade Divac at June 24, 2025 05:37 PM (MvPnp)

126 First time I ran into that was in the 80s, out of college. I tried to get a job at the state, and didn't even get an interview. I found out why: Oregon state at the time at least (probably still, but in secret) had a rating system in which you would get points for your resume, then more points for being female, the more points for being certain ethnic identities. As a white dude, I got no bonus points.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 24, 2025 05:34 PM


You were beat out by a black lesbian paraplegic veteran with a Hispanic surname?

I thought they all worked for the Post Office.

Posted by: toby928 at June 24, 2025 05:37 PM (jc0TO)

127 Dems: Secretary Kennedy, you cannot tell the truth here, this is a congressional hearing!

Posted by: WisRich at June 24, 2025 05:38 PM (G0vdT)

128 Don't kid yourself about Little Karmelo. Two words: jury nullification.

He's Red Lobster All You Can Eat Shrimp O.J.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at June 24, 2025 05:38 PM (wBaIH)

129 You were beat out by a black lesbian paraplegic veteran with a Hispanic surname?

I later got temporary work in the tax season and as near as I can figure, the more you weigh as a woman, the better chance you get to be hired. These women needed two or better yet three seats to sit on. 500 pounds, easy.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 24, 2025 05:39 PM (dfIr7)

130 First time I ran into that was in the 80s, out of college.

Imagine being in the Army, and seeing the black guy get an extra ten points in his promotion packet because he was ... black.

That shit went on back in the 90s.

Posted by: Doug Roberts at June 24, 2025 05:39 PM (mlDMX)

131 Don't kid yourself about Little Karmelo. Two words: jury nullification.

He's Red Lobster All You Can Eat Shrimp O.J.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at June 24, 2025 05:38 PM


What's the jury pool like?

Posted by: toby928 at June 24, 2025 05:39 PM (jc0TO)

132 The democrat party:
The party of slavery
The party of segregation
The party of Jim Crow
The party that opposed civil right for African Americans
The party that opposed Jasmine Whatshername for head of Whatsits.
Yup, they're rayciss.

Posted by: nerdygirl at June 24, 2025 05:40 PM (0Htd1)

133 sock_rat_eez

Was that your job application for mammogram tech? At 18? In Newark? So you were a rejected white male. A lot of us are, and just not in the dating pool.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 24, 2025 05:40 PM (u82oZ)

134
Money is the great motivator for people deciding who to vote for.

It's too late to stop the flow of our tax dollars to worthless shits, so they'll keep voting for people who keep giving them money.

Posted by: four seasons at June 24, 2025 05:40 PM (3ek7K)

135 Kamala is supposedly interested in running for governor of California.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 24, 2025 05:40 PM (63Dwl)

136 I'm trying to find the video of that Asian guy at Starbucks, with the black barista and the black customer lady screaming at each other. He turns to the camera and sighs and is like, "I just want my coffee."

That's how I see all these dumb politicians screeching. Me sighing at the camera and going "I just want my republic."

Posted by: LizLem at June 24, 2025 05:41 PM (Eng1Z)

137 These women needed two or better yet three seats to sit on. 500 pounds, easy.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 24, 2025 05:39 PM (dfIr7)


Sexy.

Posted by: Stateless.. 43% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back now at June 24, 2025 05:41 PM (jvJvP)

138 While searching for a country song that features the word bougie prominently I came across a Megan Thee Stallion, no small feat for a woman, song called Savage. In the lyrics she calls herself both bougie and ratchet.

Posted by: JackStraw at June 24, 2025 05:41 PM (viF8m)

139 When I was in France, my preference for reading Le Monde versus some more leftist paper was derided as “bourgeoise”! (une préférence bourgeoise!).

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at June 24, 2025 05:41 PM (qgNn3)

140 135 Kamala is supposedly interested in running for governor of California.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 24, 2025 05:40 PM (63Dwl)

Because clearly California does not have enough problems...

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 24, 2025 05:42 PM (mP0Kj)

141 I never really liked Caramellos. Too sticky. And now that they've killed a man ...

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at June 24, 2025 05:42 PM (SSEhk)

142 2010. Black Eyed Peas song.

I got freaky, freaky, baby
I was chilling with my ladies
I didn't come to get bougie
I came here to get crazy

Posted by: Euro at June 24, 2025 05:42 PM (6En8V)

143 So even many of the Democrats are embarrassed by Jasmine Crockett.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 24, 2025 05:42 PM (2GCMq)

144 >>> Don't kid yourself about Little Karmelo. Two words: jury nullification.
He's Red Lobster All You Can Eat Shrimp O.J.
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at June 24, 2025 05:38 PM (wBaIH)

So Temu OJ. Makes sense.

Posted by: LizLem at June 24, 2025 05:43 PM (Eng1Z)

145 That Defiant L's clip, she acts like she thinks she's on The View.

Posted by: nerdygirl at June 24, 2025 05:43 PM (0Htd1)

146 Dems: Secretary Kennedy, you cannot tell the truth here, this is a congressional hearing!
Posted by: WisRich at June 24, 2025 05:38 PM (G0vdT)
++++
Definitely didn't happen. Saying that would violate the rule...

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 24, 2025 05:43 PM (6bTRc)

147 I never really liked Caramellos. Too sticky. And now that they've killed a man

Welded his teeth together like a Jolly Rancher, starved

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 24, 2025 05:43 PM (dfIr7)

148 138 While searching for a country song that features the word bougie prominently I came across a Megan Thee Stallion, no small feat for a woman, song called Savage. In the lyrics she calls herself both bougie and ratchet.

Posted by: JackStraw

Sassy, moody, nasty.

Posted by: Piper at June 24, 2025 05:43 PM (pRpzT)

149 Imagine being in the Army, and seeing the black guy get an extra ten points in his promotion packet because he was ... black.

That shit went on back in the 90s.
Posted by: Doug Roberts at June 24, 2025 05:39 PM (mlDMX)

Had a female NCO, pudgy Latina from Puerto Rico, dumb as a bag of smashed assholes, but crafty. She hated me and my buddy. Funny thing is he was Korean. She was a fucking bitch and until she was replaced, we never made it to E-4. As soon as the new NCO arrived, he said, WTF, and we were quickly promoted. This was in 1989. This kind of booshit has been going on for a long fucking time.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Considering a New Nic at June 24, 2025 05:44 PM (0aYVJ)

150 Bobby Sherman has passed. In his honor I am watching "Emergency".

Posted by: fd at June 24, 2025 05:44 PM (vFG9F)

151 If you're on the Toks, go find the videos of "Altima drivers."

Some on the youtubes short as well.

Yup, yup.

Not AI, just some amazing camera work of real life Jasmine Ratchet out driving.

LOL.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at June 24, 2025 05:45 PM (2uKh/)

152 Don't kid yourself about Little Karmelo. Two words: jury nullification.
He's Red Lobster All You Can Eat Shrimp O.J.
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at June 24, 2025 05:38 PM (wBaIH)

—————

I’d agree if the trial was in Dallas County. It’s in Collin County. Different demographics.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at June 24, 2025 05:45 PM (u73oe)

153 What kind of man would sleep with her?

The dick glitter my friend is blowing in the wind.

Posted by: Dreamingrobot at June 24, 2025 05:45 PM (7N/Zu)

154 >>Sassy, moody, nasty.

Jasmine Thee Stallion

Posted by: JackStraw at June 24, 2025 05:45 PM (viF8m)

155 Today was encouraging.....o

All around.

Posted by: Stateless.. 43% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back now at June 24, 2025 05:45 PM (jvJvP)

156 138 While searching for a country song that features the word bougie prominently I came across a Megan Thee Stallion, no small feat for a woman, song called Savage. In the lyrics she calls herself both bougie and ratchet.

Posted by: JackStraw at June 24, 2025 05:41 PM (viF8m)

Annndddd... another supposedly famous person I've never heard of...

Yup... I'll be here in my Bomb Shelter, with my Tinfoil hat on... leading my sheltered life... LOL.

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 24, 2025 05:46 PM (mP0Kj)

157 Jasmine Crockashit

Posted by: ... at June 24, 2025 05:46 PM (E0p3T)

158 Pointed out last thread that Bougie comes from bourgeois. It's a smack at middle class people who want to be down with the leftist struggle but want to maintain their station in life and their mores.
Rappers etc have bastardized the meaning

Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 24, 2025 05:46 PM (pwtJC)

159 Stop the Asian hate.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 24, 2025 05:46 PM (zZu0s)

160 How much is Jasmine Ratchet paying her husband, boyfriend, or family member for 'campaign work'? If she isn't paying someone in those categories at least $100K per year out of campaign funds, she ain' no ways a real Democrat.

Posted by: Gref at June 24, 2025 05:47 PM (aBgBM)

161 So if you made a phone call to Jasmine at 2 a.m. would she sound educated and reasonably intelligent?

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at June 24, 2025 05:47 PM (kTd/k)

162 Also, your country song with bougie in it is “Fancy Like”

Posted by: Piper at June 24, 2025 05:47 PM (pRpzT)

163 Yup... I'll be here in my Bomb Shelter, with my Tinfoil hat on... leading my sheltered life... LOL.
Posted by: Romeo13 at June 24, 2025 05:46 PM (mP0Kj)

Listening to Pat Boone and Mr Paul Anka.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 24, 2025 05:47 PM (zZu0s)

164 If you're on the Toks, go find the videos of "Altima drivers."

Some on the youtubes short as well.

Yup, yup.

Not AI, just some amazing camera work of real life Jasmine Ratchet out driving.

LOL.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at June 24, 2025


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What IS it about black people and Nissan Altimas? Are there no other Japanese sedans at about the same price point? I rented one a number of years ago, and while it was better than no car, it was tinny and felt cheap. I was very glad to get back into my Buick.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 24, 2025 05:48 PM (omVj0)

165 Also, your country song with bougie in it is “Fancy Like”
Posted by: Piper at June 24, 2025 05:47 PM (pRpzT)

Hick Hop?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 24, 2025 05:48 PM (zZu0s)

166 So if you made a phone call to Jasmine at 2 a.m. would she sound educated and reasonably intelligent?

Yeah my guess is she talks like that only when a camera is on here. A lot of black people do this, but usually they do it in reverse: they grew up hood and learned to speak proper English. She grew up rich and learned to speak hood, or sort of a cartoonish version of it.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 24, 2025 05:48 PM (dfIr7)

167 >>Annndddd... another supposedly famous person I've never heard of...

I learned of her during the campaign. Harris paid her big bucks to do a couple "songs" and twerk in order to draw a crowd for her rally.

She Crockett level ratchet.

Posted by: JackStraw at June 24, 2025 05:48 PM (viF8m)

168 Annndddd... another supposedly famous person I've never heard of

Only thing I know about her is she was in a post-credits scene in the She Hulk TV show twerking with Jennifer.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 24, 2025 05:49 PM (dfIr7)

169 While searching for a country song that features the word bougie prominently I came across a Megan Thee Stallion

Curious. In my Spotify of Robert Earl Keen, Whitey Morgan, and Merle and Waylon and such ... I've never once heard of Megan The Stallion. A real mystery wrapped in an enigma.

Posted by: Doug Roberts at June 24, 2025 05:49 PM (mlDMX)

170 165 Also, your country song with bougie in it is “Fancy Like”
Posted by: Piper at June 24, 2025 05:47 PM (pRpzT)

Hick Hop?
Posted by: Aetius451AD

Ha! I don’t listen to country unless forced, and that particular song during football made me crazy.

Posted by: Piper at June 24, 2025 05:49 PM (pRpzT)

171 Yeah my guess is she talks like that only when a camera is on here. A lot of black people do this, but usually they do it in reverse: they grew up hood and learned to speak proper English. She grew up rich and learned to speak hood, or sort of a cartoonish version of it.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 24, 2025


***
My mother was Canadian, so I sound like Michael J. Fox and not Dr. John. I learned to "speak" Yat, the prevailing lower-class accent of my classmates, as protective coloration.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 24, 2025 05:50 PM (omVj0)

172 >>Ha! I don’t listen to country unless forced, and that particular song during football made me crazy.

They played it over and over and over.

Posted by: JackStraw at June 24, 2025 05:51 PM (viF8m)

173 So if you made a phone call to Jasmine at 2 a.m. would she sound educated and reasonably intelligent?
Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at June 24, 2025 05:47 PM (kTd/k)

Those two things are mutually exclusive.

Posted by: ... at June 24, 2025 05:51 PM (E0p3T)

174 I first heard bougie back in the Glee days, I think. So back in the late 2000s, early 2010s. Santana said "Bake sales are kind of bougie."

Madonna said in one of her songs, and I cannot get an answer on which is correct:
"Music mix the bourgeoisie and the rebel" or
"Music makes the bourgeoisie wabba rebel"

Posted by: LizLem at June 24, 2025 05:51 PM (Eng1Z)

175 Hick Hop?
Posted by: Aetius451AD
_________

Country rap is apparently a real thing.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at June 24, 2025 05:51 PM (ITkJX)

176 Imagine being in the Army, and seeing the black guy get an extra ten points in his promotion packet because he was ... black.

That shit went on back in the 90s.
Posted by: Doug Roberts at June 24, 2025 05:39 PM (mlDMX)

Yup... Navy too... was really bad in the Technical Rates because there were so few Women or those of Ethnic persuasion who were even in those jobs.

Was Married to a Navy Radioman... I came back from Desert Storm, with 6 Sea Service Ribbons, and rows of Medals, as an E-6... and went to her advancement ceremony to Chief Petty Officer (E-7)... she had never been deployed, let alone to Sea...

She introduced me to her CO (I was in White Crackerjacks at the time)... he looked at me... Looked at her 4 ribbons (one of which she got for boot camp)... looked me dead in the eye and sadly shook his head...

Nuff said.

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 24, 2025 05:51 PM (mP0Kj)

177 Hit 99° here and it still there. Played nine at 7:30 and the heat drained me. Cooling to 93° tomorrow, then down to the eighties for rest of week. Thankfully

Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 24, 2025 05:51 PM (pwtJC)

178 I've fed the furry thugs. Time to start thinking about my dinner.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 24, 2025 05:52 PM (omVj0)

179 If you want something really funny, search for "Bait Car" videos.

Cops would put a nice car in an inner city neighbourhood, people, mostly all black, would steal the car. The cops would follow them, cut off their engine and lock the doors. Hilarity ensued.

Honestly, I'm kind of surprised it aired.

Posted by: Stateless.. 43% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back now at June 24, 2025 05:52 PM (jvJvP)

180
68 degrees here in SW Wyoming. It's wonderful.

Posted by: four seasons at June 24, 2025 05:52 PM (3ek7K)

181 168 Annndddd... another supposedly famous person I've never heard of

Only thing I know about her is she was in a post-credits scene in the She Hulk TV show twerking with Jennifer.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 24, 2025 05:49 PM (dfIr7)

/peeks out from his shelter...

Andddd... anudder TV show I never bothered to watch...

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 24, 2025 05:54 PM (mP0Kj)

182 Hit 99° here and it still there. Played nine at 7:30 and the heat drained me. Cooling to 93° tomorrow, then down to the eighties for rest of week. Thankfully
Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 24, 2025


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We were supposed to hit something like 100 (heat index) today, but we were also supposed to have a 60% chance of rain this afternoon. Hasn't happened.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 24, 2025 05:54 PM (omVj0)

183 "Bougie" was their way of introducing marxism through ebonics to a culture that otherwise gave very few shits about communism.

Posted by: ... at June 24, 2025 05:54 PM (E0p3T)

184 Honestly, I'm kind of surprised it aired.

Cops was 90% black guys getting busted, The First 48 was the same thing. They got yelled at because it "made blacks look bad" and the truth that this is the bulk of who get busted for street crime was no defense.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 24, 2025 05:55 PM (dfIr7)

185 We were supposed to hit something like 100 (heat index) today, but we were also supposed to have a 60% chance of rain this afternoon. Hasn't happened.

I've got 100% chance of not cutting that grass in this shit. 100%.

Posted by: Doug Roberts at June 24, 2025 05:55 PM (mlDMX)

186 130 First time I ran into that was in the 80s, out of college.

Imagine being in the Army, and seeing the black guy get an extra ten points in his promotion packet because he was ... black.

That shit went on back in the 90s.
Posted by: Doug Roberts at June 24, 2025 05:39 PM (mlDMX)
Navy too.

Posted by: Eromero at June 24, 2025 05:55 PM (LHPAg)

187 92 degrees here right now... supposed to hit 100 on Saturday...

Swimming pool is not too warm yet, so all good.

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 24, 2025 05:55 PM (mP0Kj)

188 88 on the gulf coast of Alabama. Had another thunderstorm just roll through. I have a session with my dog trainer in a few minutes, it’s going to be a sauna now.

Posted by: Piper at June 24, 2025 05:55 PM (pRpzT)

189 Sarah Hoyt has a great meme for today’s post:

https://is.gd/0QXgIU

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at June 24, 2025 05:57 PM (qgNn3)

190 "Bougie" can also mean "spark plug" as well as "candle."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 24, 2025 05:57 PM (omVj0)

191
Swimming pool is not too warm yet, so all good.
Posted by: Romeo13 at June 24, 2025 05:55 PM (mP0Kj)

Sounds bougie. 🫣

Posted by: Piper at June 24, 2025 05:57 PM (pRpzT)

192

I bet she smells worse than Sheila Jackson Lee, even the dead version.

Probably shoplifts too.

Posted by: E Buzz at June 24, 2025 05:57 PM (KIch8)

193 Because “bougie” can be something good, it has lost its effectiveness in promoting Marxism.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at June 24, 2025 05:59 PM (qgNn3)

194 Do any strippers strip to country music or other genres like The Sex Pistols?

Posted by: Dreamingrobot at June 24, 2025 05:59 PM (7N/Zu)

195 Andddd... anudder TV show I never bothered to watch

I haven't watched anything from Marvel in the theaters since Dr Strange, but I watch a lot of review youtube shows about their stuff. We're both better off not having seen that disaster.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 24, 2025 05:59 PM (dfIr7)

196 How do they pronounce this slang-ification of "bougie"? As if it were fake French, "boo-zhee," which I doubt, or "boo-gee," or what?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 24, 2025 05:59 PM (omVj0)

197 Boogie board.

Posted by: m at June 24, 2025 06:00 PM (CQE5S)

198
ABWS on full display

Angry Black Woman Syndrome

Posted by: Don Black at June 24, 2025 06:00 PM (AOsQT)

199 Do any strippers strip to country music or other genres like The Sex Pistols?

Are strippers still using stuff from the 80s or are they using awful autotuned pop like WAP now?

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 24, 2025 06:00 PM (dfIr7)

200 Hah, RFK Jr not only knows he's got skeletons, he also knows where the skeletons are in the House and Senate.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at June 24, 2025 06:00 PM (tT6L1)

201 Are strippers still using stuff from the 80s or are they using awful autotuned pop like WAP now?
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 24, 2025


***
Hard to beat Herb Alpert's version of "Love Potion No. 9." That really has the bump-and-grind to it.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 24, 2025 06:01 PM (omVj0)

202 How do they pronounce this slang-ification of "bougie"? As if it were fake French, "boo-zhee," which I doubt, or "boo-gee," or what?


The first ... Boo Zhee.

Posted by: Doug Roberts at June 24, 2025 06:02 PM (mlDMX)

203 RFK Jr and Rubio have been outstanding

Posted by: Ben Had at June 24, 2025 06:02 PM (ZIggv)

204 How do they pronounce this slang-ification of "bougie"? As if it were fake French, "boo-zhee," which I doubt, or "boo-gee," or what?
*
The first ... Boo Zhee.
Posted by: Doug Roberts at June 24, 2025


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They do???? I am . . . astonished.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 24, 2025 06:03 PM (omVj0)

205 The black man just can't buy a break.

New York Post@nypost
Texas teen Karmelo Anthony indicted on first-degree murder charge in stabbing death of Austin Metcalf, 17

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Well, This Is Another Fine Mess You've Gotten Me Into at June 24, 2025 06:03 PM (L/fGl)

206 One things for sure ... the single mothers putting themselves through nursing school ain't doing their thing to anything from Gordon Lightfoot.

Posted by: Doug Roberts at June 24, 2025 06:03 PM (mlDMX)

207 "Black Velvet"

best pole dance song ever

https://youtu.be/ZHHEmd5mECY

Posted by: Don Black at June 24, 2025 06:03 PM (AOsQT)

208 195 Andddd... anudder TV show I never bothered to watch

I haven't watched anything from Marvel in the theaters since Dr Strange, but I watch a lot of review youtube shows about their stuff. We're both better off not having seen that disaster.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 24, 2025 05:59 PM (dfIr7)

I put crappy, woke crap on to help me sleep. 'She Hulk" was really talky. "Ms. Marvel" is great to sleep too. And "Tom Swift" is wonderfully bad.

Posted by: Stateless.. 43% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back now at June 24, 2025 06:03 PM (jvJvP)

209 >>> Yeah my guess is she talks like that only when a camera is on here. A lot of black people do this, but usually they do it in reverse: they grew up hood and learned to speak proper English. She grew up rich and learned to speak hood, or sort of a cartoonish version of it. Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 24, 2025 05:48 PM (dfIr7)

The issue I have is that Jasmine is doing it to fool people at taxpayer expense. It's a character, like she's in drag playing a badly stereotyped ghetto black woman. It's borderline insulting, TO women in the ghetto and to taxpayers.

Same with the socialist running for NYC mayor. He faked a middle east accent to be a cringe musician/comedian, now talks proper english to be a politician. He got called out on it and tried to downplay it.

They call it code switching, and blame whitey for it. As if white people have never done the same thing to fit into society as well.

As an introvert with ADHD, I have to do "masking," or force myself to be people-ey enough to get through my work day, parties, social situations. We all do some form of this. It's a part of living in a society and not a cabin in the woods somewhere. But I don't do it to grift.

Posted by: LizLem at June 24, 2025 06:04 PM (Eng1Z)

210 What IS it about black people and Nissan Altimas? Are there no other Japanese sedans at about the same price point? I rented one a number of years ago, and while it was better than no car, it was tinny and felt cheap. I was very glad to get back into my Buick.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 24, 2025 05:48 PM (omVj0)
Burick.

Posted by: Eromero at June 24, 2025 06:04 PM (LHPAg)

211 "Black Velvet"

best pole dance song ever

https://youtu.be/ZHHEmd5mECY
Posted by: Don Black at June 24, 2025


***
+ 100

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 24, 2025 06:04 PM (omVj0)

212 They do???? I am . . . astonished.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 24, 2025 06:03 PM (omVj0)


In all fairness, weren't you a cop in Philly ? Its not like anybody had time to actually talk before somebody was either getting stabbed or shot.

Posted by: Doug Roberts at June 24, 2025 06:04 PM (mlDMX)

213 I always heard it was stuff like "Pour Some Sugar On Me" and "Cherry Pie"

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 24, 2025 06:04 PM (dfIr7)

214 Hard to beat Herb Alpert's version of "Love Potion No. 9." That really has the bump-and-grind to it.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 24, 2025 06:01 PM (omVj0)

but for true artistry, it's a Fedora, and You Can Leave Your Hat on...

or... so I've heard...

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 24, 2025 06:04 PM (mP0Kj)

215 One things for sure ... the single mothers putting themselves through nursing school ain't doing their thing to anything from Gordon Lightfoot.
Posted by: Doug Roberts at June 24, 2025 06:03 PM


I'll bet they're sometimes singing to themselves "If you could read my mind ...", though.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at June 24, 2025 06:05 PM (0sNs1)

216 >Texas teen Karmelo Anthony indicted on first-degree murder charge in stabbing death of Austin Metcalf, 17
----

He was this close>< to a record deal, too

Posted by: Don Black at June 24, 2025 06:05 PM (AOsQT)

217 One things for sure ... the single mothers putting themselves through nursing school ain't doing their thing to anything from Gordon Lightfoot.
Posted by: Doug Roberts at June 24, 2025


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Hard to imagine "Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" as a strip song

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 24, 2025 06:05 PM (omVj0)

218 Had a female NCO, pudgy Latina from Puerto Rico, dumb as a bag of smashed assholes, but crafty. She hated me and my buddy. Funny thing is he was Korean. She was a fucking bitch and until she was replaced, we never made it to E-4. As soon as the new NCO arrived, he said, WTF, and we were quickly promoted. This was in 1989. This kind of booshit has been going on for a long fucking time.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Considering a New Nic at June 24, 2025 05:44 PM (0aYVJ)

Glad that crap didn't exist in 1967 to 69 when I was drafted. No female NCO's. Only in the WACS. The way God intended.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at June 24, 2025 06:06 PM (5xuJ/)

219 199 Do any strippers strip to country music or other genres like The Sex Pistols?

Are strippers still using stuff from the 80s or are they using awful autotuned pop like WAP now?
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 24, 2025 06:00 PM (dfIr7)

Only one way to find out.

Posted by: Reforger at June 24, 2025 06:06 PM (LgDgc)

220 Jasmine, take my blues away.

Posted by: Dirac_Delta at June 24, 2025 06:06 PM (9EO0O)

221 Killary was the groundbreaker with her "I ain't on no ways tired" bullshit.

Posted by: Ben Had at June 24, 2025 06:07 PM (ZIggv)

222 This is why you should never boff the servants.

Posted by: Zombie Davy Crockett at June 24, 2025 06:07 PM (cct0t)

223 As an introvert with ADHD, I have to do "masking," or force myself to be people-ey enough to get through my work day, parties, social situations.

Interesting. I get it. Seriously.

On the plus side, growing up with no personality allowed me to pick the one I picked - once I decided to choose.

Posted by: Doug Roberts at June 24, 2025 06:07 PM (mlDMX)

224 Hernandez killed himself while appealing his conviction. I think it means his life insurance paid out.
My wife can do American ghetto, Jamaican patois and very nice British English. Her phone voice is awesome.

Posted by: Accomack at June 24, 2025 06:07 PM (YVT+g)

225 Are strippers still using stuff from the 80s or are they using awful autotuned pop like WAP now?
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 24, 2025 06:00 PM (dfIr7)

Only one way to find out.
Posted by: Reforger at June 24, 2025 06:06 PM


Who's going to take one for the team?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at June 24, 2025 06:07 PM (0sNs1)

226 191
Swimming pool is not too warm yet, so all good.
Posted by: Romeo13 at June 24, 2025 05:55 PM (mP0Kj)

Sounds bougie. 🫣
Posted by: Piper at June 24, 2025 05:57 PM (pRpzT)

Well.... I am worth well north of $1 Millllllion dollars...

Of course now that is just a semi comfortable retirement.

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 24, 2025 06:08 PM (mP0Kj)

227 worst pop/country song to strip to?

Posted by: a Dude in MI at June 24, 2025 06:08 PM (/6GbT)

228 Hernandez is believed to have killed a couple of other people that he was never tried for . He was a psychopath and a sociopath

Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 24, 2025 06:09 PM (pwtJC)

229 If I ran a strip club ... I'd just play Bellamy Brothers on a loop. Most of their stuff is strip club worthy. Many seem written exactly for that.

I like 'em.

Posted by: Doug Roberts at June 24, 2025 06:09 PM (mlDMX)

230 227 worst pop/country song to strip to?
Posted by: a Dude in MI at June 24, 2025 06:08 PM (/6GbT)

Hank Williams 3rd? 'She put the Cunt in Country'?

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 24, 2025 06:09 PM (mP0Kj)

231 227 worst pop/country song to strip to?
Posted by: a Dude in MI at June 24, 2025 06:08 PM (/6GbT)

"A Boy Named Sue"

Posted by: Stateless.. 43% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back now at June 24, 2025 06:09 PM (jvJvP)

232 99 Had never heard of the term 'bougie' before today.
Posted by: Romeo13

_____________________

Only the serious nose pickers are on top of that term. The rest of us had to look it up.

Posted by: Orson at June 24, 2025 06:10 PM (dIske)

233 worst pop/country song to strip to?
Posted by: a Dude in MI at June 24, 2025


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"Wolf Creek Pass" by CW McCall?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 24, 2025 06:10 PM (omVj0)

234 GirlsGirlsGirls by Motley Crew was on replay the last time I went to a strip club. For research purposes of course

Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 24, 2025 06:10 PM (pwtJC)

235 227 worst pop/country song to strip to?
Posted by: a Dude in MI at June 24, 2025 06:08 PM (/6GbT)


The Grand Tour. I'll grab my winnings on the way out.

Posted by: Doug Roberts at June 24, 2025 06:11 PM (mlDMX)

236 Jasmine is a ratchet ass hood rat wanna be.

The democrats want the real deal, not some fake ass weave wearing beyotch.

Posted by: Joe Ghetto at June 24, 2025 06:11 PM (R/m4+)

237 Don't forget to have holla'd nood at the old thread when you be discovering a new thread.

Posted by: Jasmine from Dallas at June 24, 2025 06:11 PM (0sNs1)

238 Nissan Altima were cheap three year leases, and their transmissions typically are due to fail after the lease/warranty runs out.

A lot of foolish people buy them used, because unlike other Japanese cars, Nissan depreciate precipitously in value.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at June 24, 2025 06:11 PM (wBaIH)

239 Are strippers still using stuff from the 80s or are they using awful autotuned pop like WAP now?
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor

https://is.gd/1Am4v1

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Well, This Is Another Fine Mess You've Gotten Me Into at June 24, 2025 06:12 PM (L/fGl)

240 Worst country pop song to strip to?

Whiskey Lullaby

Posted by: Lizzy at June 24, 2025 06:12 PM (Hkcdp)

241 Nissan Altima were cheap three year leases, and their transmissions typically are due to fail after the lease/warranty runs out.

A lot of foolish people buy them used, because unlike other Japanese cars, Nissan depreciate precipitously in value.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at June 24, 2025


***
Maybe that's it.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 24, 2025 06:12 PM (omVj0)

242 Who's going to take one for the team?

Gonna pass on that. I'll wait for possible bat videos in the cafe.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 24, 2025 06:12 PM (dfIr7)

243 cw music

Turn me loose 90 proof let me live like the others do

always stuck with me

Posted by: yoeman at June 24, 2025 06:12 PM (Td03B)

244 266 Well.... I am worth well north of $1 Millllllion dollars...

Of course now that is just a semi comfortable retirement.
Posted by: Romeo13 at June

I just attached myself to someone who is- the way God intended.

Oh my gosh, y’all. I am on a roll this evening. And hope you know I am kidding about some of this. lol.

Posted by: Piper at June 24, 2025 06:13 PM (p4NUW)

245 Big Balls has resigned.

https://tinyurl.com/ypuctpef

Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at June 24, 2025 06:13 PM (paSBy)

246 Worst country pop song to strip to?

He Stopped Loving Her Today

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 24, 2025 06:13 PM (dfIr7)

247 " has anybody here seen sweet thang"

Posted by: Ben Had at June 24, 2025 06:14 PM (ZIggv)

248 cw music

Turn me loose 90 proof let me live like the others do

always stuck with me
Posted by: yoeman at June 24, 2025


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Willie Nelson's "I Gotta Get Drunk and I Sure Do Dread It"

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 24, 2025 06:14 PM (omVj0)

249 Worst country pop song to strip to?

I Sang Dixie enters the chat.

Posted by: Doug Roberts at June 24, 2025 06:14 PM (mlDMX)

250 to me, bougies are what i get in my nose during pollen season

Posted by: gKWVE at June 24, 2025 06:14 PM (gKWVE)

251 Do any strippers strip to country music or other genres like The Sex Pistols?
Posted by: Dreamingrobot
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Led a sheltered life, have we?

To answer your question: yes.
As far as "country" music - any SC in TX, NM, or AZ.

Posted by: buddhaha at June 24, 2025 06:14 PM (4ETSN)

252 I wore shorts to work today.

I feel like a slob.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 24, 2025 06:14 PM (YUL+W)

253 Speaking of bougie, off to work with the trainer and my doge.

Posted by: Piper at June 24, 2025 06:15 PM (p4NUW)

254 Hey Jasmine, there's always MTV videos.

Posted by: wth at June 24, 2025 06:15 PM (UjdFS)

255 The woman has only one setting and that setting is Yelling and Hollering About Target Not Honoring Your One-Year-Expired Coupon for Fake Eyelashes.

Style. Deduction: She is not a woman. She is strong black woman whose is constantly oppressed by systemic white male racism. Plus she doesn't find it funny when these awful men jam fingers in their ears when she is speaking, which is all the time.

I am looking forward to when she develops a drinking problem and runs for president. I know, I know, Hillary aready tried this and failed but maybe a strong black woman whose is constantly oppressed by systemic white male racism just might pull it off. That or when in a drunk rage she starts showing off her tits when shopping at Gucci and is asked to leave.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at June 24, 2025 06:15 PM (u71As)

256 Willie Nelson's "I Gotta Get Drunk and I Sure Do Dread It"

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 24, 2025 06:14 PM (omVj0)


One of my favorite verses ...

There's more old drunks than there are old doctors, so lets all just have another round.

Posted by: Doug Roberts at June 24, 2025 06:15 PM (mlDMX)

257 New York Post@nypost
Texas teen Karmelo Anthony indicted on first-degree murder charge in stabbing death of Austin Metcalf, 17
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LOL, he's fucked and there ain't no amount of White Guilt money going to save him.

They bumped it from the initial 2nd degree.

Because ... now the have proof of premeditation and malice aforethought:
They have evidence, social media and/or texts of him threatening or promising violence specifically toward the victim.

2nd just meant he got pissed and grabbed the knife to kill.
1st means he came to the event specifically to kill.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at June 24, 2025 06:16 PM (2uKh/)

258 Worst country pop song to strip to?

Whiskey Lullaby
Posted by: Lizzy at June 24, 2025 06:12 PM (Hkcdp)

ROTFLMFAO

Posted by: ... at June 24, 2025 06:16 PM (E0p3T)

259 Noodus QH

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 24, 2025 06:17 PM (omVj0)

260 I see that Sarah Hoyt has King Harv's coffee ads, too; uniquely crafted for her audience, lol

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at June 24, 2025 06:17 PM (Z5NUn)

261 I'm gonna' have to hold judgement on the whole Carmelo Thing until Stephen A. has a self-promoting, incredibly loud and annoying rant.

Posted by: Doug Roberts at June 24, 2025 06:18 PM (mlDMX)

262
New one

Posted by: fourseasons at June 24, 2025 06:18 PM (3ek7K)

263 Ooooopsi
Turns out that Trump's super fabulous total destruction obliteration of Irans nuke dreams? Has set gem back only "a few months"
But definitely pushed them into believing that they took needed nuclear weapons.

Posted by: Aliassmithsmith at June 24, 2025 06:18 PM (cuPuh)

264 As an introvert with ADHD, I have to do "masking," or force myself to be people-ey enough to get through my work day, parties, social situations. We all do some form of this. It's a part of living in a society and not a cabin in the woods somewhere. But I don't do it to grift.
Posted by: LizLem at June 24, 2025 06:04 PM (Eng1Z)

I mask in here. Everyone thinks I'm awkward, creepy and weird, but it's all a giant act, I'm really very cool.

Posted by: ... at June 24, 2025 06:18 PM (E0p3T)

265 As far as "country" music - any SC in TX, NM, or AZ.
Posted by: buddhaha

As usual NM is the exception. Stripping is done here to Mariachi bands while preggers and on peyote. Its a Mayan thing. Maybe Aztec. Who really knows?.

New Mexico, it's a 2.5 World Country.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at June 24, 2025 06:19 PM (u71As)

266 > Worst country pop song to strip to?

It's not country pop, but "I'm so lonesome I could cry" would be terrible.

Posted by: bonhomme at June 24, 2025 06:22 PM (lIio7)

267 As an introvert with ADHD, I have to do "masking," or force myself to be people-ey enough to get through my work day, parties, social situations.

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There's a BBC series, Patience, about an autistic young woman who faces similar problems. I would probably have them, if I were the kind of guy who went places and did things.






Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Well, This Is Another Fine Mess You've Gotten Me Into at June 24, 2025 06:23 PM (L/fGl)

268 224 Hernandez killed himself while appealing his conviction. I think it means his life insurance paid out.
My wife can do American ghetto, Jamaican patois and very nice British English. Her phone voice is awesome.
Posted by: Accomack at June 24, 2025 06:07 PM (YVT+g)
What's her number?

Posted by: Eromero at June 24, 2025 06:24 PM (LHPAg)

269 >>> Because ... now the have proof of premeditation and malice aforethought: They have evidence, social media and/or texts of him threatening or promising violence specifically toward the victim.

Where has that been posted online? I though everything was kept under wraps, but I also haven't been following this case in a while.

Posted by: LizLem at June 24, 2025 06:25 PM (Eng1Z)

270 How do they pronounce this slang-ification of "bougie"? As if it were fake French, "boo-zhee," which I doubt, or "boo-gee," or what?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius
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One of my grandfathers -the ex-Wobblie- called anything bad "boosh-wah", which I consider a fine melding of Marxist cant and American slang for worthless talk.

Posted by: buddhaha at June 24, 2025 06:26 PM (4ETSN)

271 Well.... I am worth well north of $1 Millllllion dollars...
Of course now that is just a semi comfortable retirement.
Posted by: Romeo13 at June
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I just attached myself to someone who is- the way God intended.
Oh my gosh, y’all. I am on a roll this evening. And hope you know I am kidding about some of this. lol.
Posted by: Piper
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I assume that you did that the same way my wife did. She "attached" herself to me when I was one step up from "not a pot to piss in".
Now, we are "semi-comfortable" in retirement.

Posted by: buddhaha at June 24, 2025 06:35 PM (4ETSN)

272 54-46

Posted by: Accomack at June 24, 2025 06:45 PM (Bbhox)

273 As usual NM is the exception. Stripping is done here to Mariachi bands while preggers and on peyote. Its a Mayan thing. Maybe Aztec. Who really knows?.
New Mexico, it's a 2.5 World Country.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram
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I defer to your contemporary wisdom. My info on NM strip clubs is 40+ years out of date.
All the "good places" were way out of ABQ city limits to the south, and they played a lot of country.

Posted by: buddhaha at June 24, 2025 06:52 PM (4ETSN)

274

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 24, 2025 11:49 PM (XeU6L)

Disney Has a New $200 Million Movie About to Come Out So It Must Be Time for One of Its Overpaid Woke Communist Non-Talents to Open His Mouth Again

Pedro Pascal, related to the family of the Chilean communist Allende and a self-described "50-year-old Bougie Bitch" because that's how straight men talk about themselves, saw Rachel Zegler tanking Snow Beige and said, Hold mi cerveza.

Now he's got yet another unneeded Fantastic Four movie coming out within the month, and he decides it's time again to attack J.K. Rowling for not wanting a tranny's dick-n-balls in her face when she's in a changing room.

Pedro Pascal defends calling JK Rowling a 'heinous loser' and says 'bullies make me f****** sick' in latest broadside at Harry Potter creator

The actor has doubled down on his Instagram criticism of the British author

By AIDAN RADNEDGE

Pedro Pascal has launched a new attack on JK Rowling - defending his description of her as a 'heinous loser' as he declared how 'bullies' made him feel 'f***ing sick'.

The Game Of Thrones and Gladiator II actor has doubled down on his criticisms of the Harry Potter author over her gender-critical opinions in a new interview.

Pascal, 50, whose sister Lux recently came out as a transgender woman, initially made the scathing 'heinous loser' remark in April on Instagram.

He was responding to activist Tariq Ra'ouf who was calling for a boycott of any future Harry Potter projects due to Rowling's outspoken stance on trans issues.

The British writer, 59, had celebrated a ruling by London's Supreme Court determining that, specifically within the terms of Britain's Equality act, 'woman' meant a biological female and not gender.

Rowling, who also writes under the pen name JK Galbraith, has also been involved in wars of words over the subject with Sir Stephen Fry, Boy George and the three young actors who played the main trio in the original Harry Potter movies.

Now Pascal has continued his opposition to Rowling in a new interview with Vanity Fair, in which he addressed the response to his Instagram comment earlier this year.

Campaigner Mr Ra'ouf had written on Instagram: 'It has become our mission as the general public to make sure that every single thing that's Harry Potter related fails...because that awful disgusting s**t, that has consequences.'


As well as liking the video, Pedro also shared a defiant comment, writing: 'Awful disgusting S**T is exactly right. Heinous LOSER behavior.'

His older sister Balmaceda, also talking to Vanity Fair for the new feature, defended him against allegations of being a man talking down to a woman - saying: But it is heinous loser behavior.

'And he said that as the older brother to someone saying that our little sister doesn't exist.'

Again with the hysterics. No one denies that this person doesn't exist. We deny his delusion that he's a woman. This is a matter of pure fact.


Pascal himself has now told the magazine the backlash that followed made him feel like 'that kid that got sent to the principal's office a lot for behavioural issues in public schools in Texas feeling scared and thinking, "What'd I do?"'

But the Hollywood star's main concern was whether he might have hindered the cause he was supporting.

Pascal went on to add: 'The one thing that I would say I agonized over a little bit was just, "Am I helping? Am I f***ing helping?"

'It's a situation that deserves the utmost elegance so that something can actually happen, and people will actually be protected.

'Listen, I want to protect the people I love. But it goes beyond that. Bullies make me f***ing sick.'

Pascal has previously shown his support for the transgender community, earlier this year sharing on Instagram the quote: 'A world without trans people has never existed and never will.'

He added in his caption: 'I can't think of anything more vile and small and pathetic than terrorising the smallest, most vulnerable community of people who want nothing from you, except the right to exist.'

You have the right to exist. You do not have the right to use government or corporate force to compel free people to accept your deranged, delusionary view of the word.

So if I understand this: People who do not play around with your brother's delusions are attempting to "erase" him from existence -- and you certainly don't want such bigots' money, do you? So you certainly are telling them not to see your movies, right?

Trannies are insulting Rowling by saying she looks like a tranny.

What an own-goal sort of insult.

jkrowlinguglytrans.jpg

Hey everyone be sure to rush out and see The Fabulous Four. It's a real family film.

IN: Superhero fatigue

EVEN MORE IN: Pedro Pascal fatigue

Posted by: Ace at 04:06 PM




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1 What kind of an idiot still watches anything put out by Disney?

Posted by: Estelle Costanza at June 24, 2025 04:08 PM (PzyNU)

2 I walk in to see this lazy 50-year-old bougie bitch using his body like an AMUSEMENT park!!!

Posted by: Estelle Costanza at June 24, 2025 04:09 PM (KRtlO)

3 I thought the Superman trailer was cringe. I don’t think my mental fortitude can withstand a Fucktastic Bore trailer.

Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at June 24, 2025 04:10 PM (aeiyZ)

4 Pascal, 50, whose sister Lux recently came out as a transgender woman, initially made the scathing 'heinous loser' remark in April on Instagram.


Pedro, make sure your sister gets her testicles checked for cancer.

Don't worry about ovarian cancer.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 24, 2025 04:10 PM (3xZyM)

5 Pedro truly is amazing. He managed to make me aware of who he is and realize I despise him in a matter of minutes.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at June 24, 2025 04:11 PM (tT6L1)

6 The parents of these Pascal freaks probably say they're proud of them. But deep inside, they know they fucked up.

Posted by: spongeworthy at June 24, 2025 04:12 PM (CDWlY)

7 Good thing that last video aired THIS month.

How PROUD he must be.

Posted by: Joe Mama at June 24, 2025 04:13 PM (2sMLA)

8 Gaydar Alarm just hit eleventy.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at June 24, 2025 04:13 PM (bYtp3)

9 The fact this ugly thing was promoted as the new Redford/Newman/Eastwood/Cruise/etc. is further proof that Hollywood is done and cannot recover. The whole point of a movie star is that they look better than the average person. No guy minded his wife liking Clark Gable because Clark Gable was a 1 in a million guy, and the husband probably wanted to emulate Gable himself. No one wants to be Pedro Pascal, and no normal person wants to see more of him in a leading role either. This guy would have been cast as a redshirt who got eaten by the killer plant in the first five minutes of a Star Trek episode 60 years ago.

Posted by: the lower depths at June 24, 2025 04:13 PM (+b4rY)

10 Forgive the pedantry but Allende was Chilean, not Argentine.

Posted by: mr tmz at June 24, 2025 04:13 PM (rJ48h)

11 Did this dickdrinking gay homo fag put a painting-nails emoji in his ‘bougie bitch’ post?

Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at June 24, 2025 04:14 PM (aeiyZ)

12 We must fight Bullying, by being a Bully!

Uhhhh....

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 24, 2025 04:15 PM (mP0Kj)

13 Vote for Pedro

Posted by: Polka will never die at June 24, 2025 04:15 PM (uxAXv)

14

Dude is virtue signaling super hard.

He must have some serious shit going on in his closet.

Posted by: Dr.Rev. Senator Your Highness E Buzz Miller, Esq PhD MA MS at June 24, 2025 04:15 PM (et1vG)

15 >>>10 Forgive the pedantry but Allende was Chilean, not Argentine.

Thank you.

Posted by: ace at June 24, 2025 04:16 PM (KRtlO)

16 Actors, once upon a time, knew how and when to keep their mouths shut. Perhaps the studios that employed them "helped" them with it. Ah, those halcyon days of yore!

Posted by: Francis W. Porretto at June 24, 2025 04:17 PM (Nmmyc)

17 Ask your doctor if Balmaceda™ is right for you.

Do not take Balmaceda™ if you are allergic to Balmaceda™ or any of its ingredients.

Do not take Balmaceda™ or if you are pregnant or pretending to be pregnant.

Balmaceda™ has not been tested in chest-feeding non-birthing persons.

Posted by: muldoon at June 24, 2025 04:17 PM (poXs5)

18 Ah... Pedro Pascal... actor in the Fantastic Foursome... will Ben Grimm finally get his rocks off?

and we all KNOW Johnny Storm is a Flamer!

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 24, 2025 04:17 PM (mP0Kj)

19 Pedro. Whodafuk cares what Pedro thinks?

Posted by: Xipe Totec at June 24, 2025 04:17 PM (pohLc)

20 Pedro Pascal defends calling JK Rowling a 'heinous loser' and says 'bullies make me f****** sick' in latest broadside at Harry Potter creator
The actor has doubled down on his Instagram criticism of the British author

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It's funny.

Because it's extremely obvious that the whole trans thing is sliding away culturally.

I doubt this greatly affects F4's box office chances. I think that has more to do with generalized feelings towards the MCU.

But, it's still a dumb thing to do.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 24, 2025 04:17 PM (GBKbO)

21 Again with the hysterics. No one denies that this person doesn't exist. We deny his delusion that he's a woman. This is a matter of pure fact.

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I deny he exists.

Because he is outside my field of vision, and I am a solipsist.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 24, 2025 04:18 PM (GBKbO)

22 Trannies are insulting Rowling by saying she looks like a tranny.

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* Simone Biles' own pathetic "transphobic" backfiring attempt to insult Riley Gaines has entered the post *

Posted by: ShainS -- Busy Organizing 'Make Trump King' Protests at June 24, 2025 04:18 PM (shv/h)

23 I don't really care about his politics but he's in every freaking film and TV show. Didn't someone on here make a "Being John Malkovich" remake joke? Maybe that was ace. Anyway, I'm contractually obligated in my Dad role to go see Fantastic Four.

Posted by: Max Power at June 24, 2025 04:18 PM (q177U)

24 Die Mouse die... That's all I have to say...

Posted by: It's me donna at June 24, 2025 04:18 PM (VE6XX)

25 14

Dude is virtue signaling super hard.

He must have some serious shit going on in his closet.

Posted by: Dr.Rev. Senator Your Highness E Buzz Miller, Esq PhD MA MS at June 24, 2025 04:15 PM (et1vG)
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He's a true believer.

His brother is pretending to be a woman.

And it helps him get work, I'm sure.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 24, 2025 04:18 PM (GBKbO)

26 oops

Posted by: braenyard- Some friends are more equal than others at June 24, 2025 04:19 PM (iXLWn)

27 Yeah.
I'll pass on this movie, just like all the rest.
Hollywood can suck it.

Posted by: Diogenes at June 24, 2025 04:19 PM (W/lyH)

28 I deny he exists.

Because he is outside my field of vision, and I am a solipsist.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 24, 2025 04:18 PM (GBKbO)

Schrodinger's Actor?

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 24, 2025 04:19 PM (mP0Kj)

29 You lost me when I saw it was another "Pablo" thread. He was cool in Game of Thrones. But two episodes of "Last of Us" fixed that.

I would punch that bitches punchable face again, then feed her to the plant people.

Posted by: Doug Roberts at June 24, 2025 04:19 PM (mlDMX)

30 I prefer movies the way Hotlips Hoolihan liked her old fashioneds - without the fruit salad.

Posted by: Oglebay at June 24, 2025 04:19 PM (MMp6W)

31 Again with the hysterics. No one denies that this person doesn't exist. We deny his delusion that he's a woman.

It exists. But no one gives a shit which is why it craves attention

Posted by: Kratwurst at June 24, 2025 04:20 PM (evrF/)

32 1 What kind of an idiot still watches anything put out by Disney?
Posted by: Estelle Costanza at June 24, 2025 04:08 PM (PzyNU)

2 I walk in to see this lazy 50-year-old bougie bitch using his body like an AMUSEMENT park!!!
Posted by: Estelle Costanza at June 24, 2025 04:09 PM (KRtlO)
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That's next-level horde mind right there. Just dang!

Posted by: Pug Mahon at June 24, 2025 04:20 PM (PSEDc)

33 >>>Didn't someone on here make a "Being John Malkovich" remake joke? Maybe that was ace

I saw that joke. Wasn't me who made it.

Posted by: ace at June 24, 2025 04:20 PM (KRtlO)

34 Dude is virtue signaling super hard.

He must have some serious shit going on in his closet.

Posted by: Dr.Rev. Senator Your Highness E Buzz Miller, Esq PhD MA MS at June 24, 2025 04:15 PM (et1vG)

Yes, it should shock none of us when it comes out that he's a horrible person and treats women (or men) like objects and the whole "male feminist" "trans ally" stuff was cover for him to rape children or whatever he's in to.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at June 24, 2025 04:21 PM (uCjyK)

35 I don't care much about contemporary films or film themes, but I'm glad Ace posts and highlights the garbage that is "pop culture" today. The narcissistic creatures lurking about on our monitors reminds me that it's time to clean the bathroom.

Posted by: mrp at June 24, 2025 04:21 PM (rj6Yv)

36 The worm has turned as far the Transgender Mania goes. Yes, you see the activists getting more shrill, but the Normies are done. The court decisions in the U.K. and the U.S. Supreme Court indicate that the non-insane judges sense which way the wind is blowing.

Ironically, even the late Pope Francis (and I was not a fan) called transgenderism "demonic" -- he wasn't wrong.

Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at June 24, 2025 04:21 PM (pJWtt)

37
Because he is outside my field of vision, and I am a solipsist.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 24, 2025 04:18 PM (GBKbO)
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Wait, you're now an illiterate solipsistic asshole?

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at June 24, 2025 04:21 PM (tT6L1)

38









BTW, Flabtastic 4 looks like seriously lame shit. Like some faggot asshole named Pedro might be in it.

BTW, I watched about 15 minutes of Gladiator 2 and saw it was lame ass predictable shit too. Turned it off, never wondered what I missed.








Posted by: Xipe Totec at June 24, 2025 04:21 PM (pohLc)

39 I prefer movies the way Hotlips Hoolihan liked her old fashioneds - without the fruit salad.
Posted by: Oglebay

Cute. Pithy.
I give it 4 stars

Posted by: MkY at June 24, 2025 04:21 PM (cPGH3)

40 29 You lost me when I saw it was another "Pablo" thread. He was cool in Game of Thrones. But two episodes of "Last of Us" fixed that.

I would punch that bitches punchable face again, then feed her to the plant people.
Posted by: Doug Roberts at June 24, 2025 04:19 PM (mlDMX)

Seymore?

Posted by: Audrey 2 at June 24, 2025 04:21 PM (mP0Kj)

41 Pedro Pascal???

The mathematician??

Posted by: dantesed at June 24, 2025 04:21 PM (Oy/m2)

42 37
Because he is outside my field of vision, and I am a solipsist.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 24, 2025 04:18 PM (GBKbO)
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Wait, you're now an illiterate solipsistic asshole?
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at June 24, 2025 04:21 PM (tT6L1)

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Who likes Escape from LA.

I really don't know why any of you acknowledge my existence at all.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 24, 2025 04:22 PM (GBKbO)

43 Back in the day, when actors were considered to be on the same level as gypsies and prostitutes, I think they were insulting gypsies and prostitutes.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at June 24, 2025 04:22 PM (lTGtQ)

44 37
Because he is outside my field of vision, and I am a solipsist.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 24, 2025 04:18 PM (GBKbO)
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Wait, you're now an illiterate solipsistic asshole?
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at June 24, 2025 04:21 PM (tT6L1)


I don't get it

Posted by: Polka will never die at June 24, 2025 04:22 PM (uxAXv)

45 Pedro Pascal's dad fled Chile and set up shop in CA as a fertility doctor. Apparently, he was using his own sperm with patients and went on the lam for awhile after it was revealed.

Pedro Pascal's mother is rumored to be a distant relative of Allende.

So what a wonderful family Pedro was raised in.

Then there is Pedro himself with his "Dolls" t-shirt, trying to cop a feel off Vanessa Kirby, and trying to deepthroat a rainbow dildo.

But Disney thinks he is totes okay.

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 24, 2025 04:22 PM (r+I/B)

46 I have no idea what happened @38.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at June 24, 2025 04:22 PM (pohLc)

47 Pascal, 50, whose sister Lux recently

Lux… is that short for luxury? Because Posh was taken? Or was he named after a Pomeranian?

Posted by: Piper at June 24, 2025 04:23 PM (pZEOD)

48 46 I have no idea what happened @38.
Posted by: Xipe Totec at June 24, 2025 04:22 PM (pohLc)

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I'm not saying it was aliens.

But it was aliens.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 24, 2025 04:23 PM (GBKbO)

49 Posted by: Xipe Totec at June 24, 2025 04:21 PM (pohLc)

Yup, even using a smokin HAWT Actress for the Silver Surfer won't make me watch the whole thing...

I'm sure someone will post the correct 'scenes' online... for free.

Posted by: Audrey 2 at June 24, 2025 04:23 PM (mP0Kj)

50 Afternoon.

My gaydar must be broken because I had no idea Pascal was a fairy.

Posted by: Robert at June 24, 2025 04:23 PM (afxSd)

51 Ah... Pedro Pascal... actor in the Fantastic Foursome... will Ben Grimm finally get his rocks off?

and we all KNOW Johnny Storm is a Flamer!
Posted by: Romeo13 at June 24, 2025 04:17 PM (mP0Kj)


LOL!!

Posted by: Max Power at June 24, 2025 04:23 PM (q177U)

52 Pascal, 50, whose sister brother Lux Lucas recently came out as a transgender pretend woman

FIFThem.

Posted by: mikeski at June 24, 2025 04:23 PM (DgGvY)

53 >>>Then there is Pedro himself with his "Dolls" t-shirt, trying to cop a feel off Vanessa Kirby, and trying to deepthroat a rainbow dildo.

oh yeah the touching stuff with Kirby is weird.

Posted by: ace at June 24, 2025 04:23 PM (KRtlO)

54 He he he. A Disney movie is "coming out."

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Well, This Is Another Fine Mess You've Gotten Me Into at June 24, 2025 04:24 PM (L/fGl)

55 47 Pascal, 50, whose sister Lux recently

Lux… is that short for luxury?


i heard she was conceived in a fiat

Posted by: anachronda at June 24, 2025 04:24 PM (sGtp+)

56 Not just a glow stick but a gay pride glow stick.

Posted by: polynikes at June 24, 2025 04:24 PM (VofaG)

57 Ha! GAAAAAAAAAAAY!!!

Posted by: The Korean dude on Community at June 24, 2025 04:24 PM (TbWk/)

58 I saw the trailer for The Fantastic Four when I took grandson to see How To Train Your Dragon. I was underwhelmed.


Posted by: Tuna at June 24, 2025 04:24 PM (lJ0H4)

59 53 >>>Then there is Pedro himself with his "Dolls" t-shirt, trying to cop a feel off Vanessa Kirby, and trying to deepthroat a rainbow dildo.

oh yeah the touching stuff with Kirby is weird.
Posted by: ace at June 24, 2025 04:23 PM (KRtlO)

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"He's like my gay bestie! It's totally fine!"
-Vanessa Kirby, lying to herself

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 24, 2025 04:24 PM (GBKbO)

60 Yesterday: "Seriously why the hell is Pedro Pascal in literally everything? He's even in commercials for crying out loud."

Tomorrow: "Hey what ever happened to that Pedro Pascal guy? He was everywhere all at once and then suddenly gone...."

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 24, 2025 04:24 PM (BjH5D)

61 Back in the day, when actors were considered to be on the same level as gypsies and prostitutes, I think they were insulting gypsies and prostitutes.
Posted by: Thomas Paine

"Don't tell my mother I'm a politician. She's thinks I play piano in a whorehouse."
Harry Truman

Posted by: MkY at June 24, 2025 04:24 PM (cPGH3)

62 Pascal, 50, whose sister Lux recently came out as a transgender woman.

'And he said that as the older brother to someone saying that our little sister doesn't exist.


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

Irony of ironies, all is irony.

Apparently his little sister DIDN'T exist until... (checks notes)..."recently"

Posted by: muldoon at June 24, 2025 04:24 PM (poXs5)

63 I have no idea what happened @38.
Posted by: Xipe Totec at June 24, 2025 04:22 PM (pohLc)

A comment with a tasteful matte.

Posted by: Robert at June 24, 2025 04:24 PM (afxSd)

64 I saw all I had to see of that asshat in Narcos, and he wasn't especially noteworthy or even distinctive in that. The I saw him in the Mandalorian and meh... But he's just another actor. Who really gives two shits what he has to say?

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at June 24, 2025 04:24 PM (3Ope8)

65 Just keep shoving effeminate men into action movie roles. What could possibly go wrong?

Posted by: Crusader at June 24, 2025 04:25 PM (TN0g+)

66 I hate bullies. Now, c'mon guys, let's all gang up on this heinous loser, shut her up, ruin her livelihood and get her banned off social media.

Posted by: Pedro Pascal at June 24, 2025 04:25 PM (E9zRH)

67 "Lux."

Another case of a tranny picking a "kewl" name or Drag Queen name instead of a normal, real woman's name like "Debbie."

I kinda don't think they really believe they're women. Women aren't called "Lux" unless they're with the Cramps.

Posted by: ace at June 24, 2025 04:25 PM (KRtlO)

68 >>> Pascal himself has now told the magazine the backlash that followed made him feel like 'that kid that got sent to the principal's office a lot for behavioural issues in public schools in Texas feeling scared and thinking, "What'd I do?"'

Gina Carano has entered the chat.

Did Pedro get canceled and fired after his stupid comments? No. Did he defend Gina when she did, even though he has power as the main character of the series to stand by her? No.

The worst bullies are the ones using the rainbow community as a shield, so they can bully with a clear conscience.

Posted by: LizLem at June 24, 2025 04:25 PM (Eng1Z)

69 Who likes Escape from LA.
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Didn't that one have that strange basketball scene in it?

Posted by: Crusader at June 24, 2025 04:26 PM (TN0g+)

70 Bougie Wougie Bugger Boy from company D.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 24, 2025 04:26 PM (63Dwl)

71 Willowed but pseudo on topic:

Thousands of parents in each state just yanked their kids the hell out of school. Tens of thousands in some states.

They get funded per student.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 24, 2025 04:02 PM (dfIr7)

Yep. Shared before:

We we're trying to work backwards from a normal school day to figure out how much time for instruction we should allot to begin home school. We came up conservatively at 4 hours, taking into account all the farm animal shuffling around and other overhead.

I talked to a teacher friend of mine who disabused me of such generous accounting by saying 2 hours max (elementary level).

That's a full six hours of nothing but "socialization" (a/k/a indoctrination and herd mentality building) and babysitting. And we pay for that shit.

Posted by: GEOTUS Trump at June 24, 2025 04:26 PM (i24o9)

72 69 Who likes Escape from LA.
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Didn't that one have that strange awesome basketball scene in it?
Posted by: Crusader at June 24, 2025 04:26 PM (TN0g+)

=======

FIFY.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 24, 2025 04:26 PM (GBKbO)

73 How is it that I have never heard of this clown?

Posted by: dantesed at June 24, 2025 04:26 PM (Oy/m2)

74 I liked the guy better when he wore his helmet 24/7

Posted by: Polka will never die at June 24, 2025 04:26 PM (uxAXv)

75 73 How is it that I have never heard of this clown?
Posted by: dantesed at June 24, 2025 04:26 PM (Oy/m2)

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Because you're new here?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 24, 2025 04:26 PM (GBKbO)

76 Pedro reminds me of Antifa. Somebody really likes him.

Posted by: Mongo at June 24, 2025 04:27 PM (Ef4Ak)

77 Yup, even using a smokin HAWT Actress for the Silver Surfer won't make me watch the whole thing...

I'm sure someone will post the correct 'scenes' online... for free.
Posted by: Audrey 2 at June 24, 2025 04:23 PM (mP0Kj)

That trench-mouthed goofball from Ozark? "Hawt"?

Hey, whatever flies your kite, i guess. De gustibus yadda yadda yeesh.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 24, 2025 04:27 PM (BjH5D)

78 63 I have no idea what happened @38.
Posted by: Xipe Totec at June 24, 2025 04:22 PM (pohLc)

A comment with a tasteful matte.
Posted by: Robert at June 24, 2025 04:24 PM (afxSd)


It contained 33% empty space by weight. Contents may have settled during shipping.

Posted by: That's why my potato chip bag is mostly empty at June 24, 2025 04:27 PM (PiwSw)

79 I liked the guy better when he wore his helmet 24/7

Double plus good if he worse a gimp mask underneath it.

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 24, 2025 04:28 PM (r+I/B)

80 What role did he play in Game of Thrones?

Posted by: polynikes at June 24, 2025 04:28 PM (VofaG)

81 Bitch, said a certain way, does sound like a chicken or gay man. Huh.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 24, 2025 04:28 PM (zZu0s)

82 I love the irony that many of the actors playing the "villains" of the Harry Potter movies -- Voldemort, Bellatrix, Lucius -- have defended JK Rowling, and the actors playing the main "heroes" have all thrown her under the bus. Poetic.

Posted by: LizLem at June 24, 2025 04:28 PM (Eng1Z)

83 Ought to be a swat team that turns off the gay switch.

Posted by: Dreamingrobot at June 24, 2025 04:28 PM (gK5Ie)

84 69 Who likes Escape from LA.
---------
Didn't that one have that strange basketball scene in it?
Posted by: Crusader at June 24, 2025 04:26 PM (TN0g+)

IIRC, Kurt Russell kept doing it until he could get 5 straight baskets with a 10 second shot clock. Alas, Carpenter decided to edit the scene in such a way where one couldn't appreciate Russell's effort.

Posted by: Thrawn at June 24, 2025 04:28 PM (9Ovst)

85 "This guy would have been cast as a redshirt who got eaten by the killer plant in the first five minutes of a Star Trek episode 60 years ago."

and rightly so! LOL!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at June 24, 2025 04:28 PM (Z5NUn)

86 How is it that I have never heard of this clown?
Posted by: dantesed at June 24, 2025 04:26 PM (Oy/m2)

Because you know the feel of grass 'neath your bare feet?

Posted by: Robert at June 24, 2025 04:29 PM (afxSd)

87 I kinda don't think they really believe they're women. Women aren't called "Lux" unless they're with the Cramps.
Posted by: ace at June 24, 2025 04:25 PM (KRtlO)

Of course not, they're just weirdos who are angry at the world and/or mentally unwell people seeking attention. And yes, weirdos and mentally unwell people have always existed. And that's fine, we live in a free society, adults are free to dress up as garishly offensive versions of women and even surgically amputate their hogs if they so choose.

But the rest of us should not be celebrating that, nor should we pretend it's normal or something to aspire to.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at June 24, 2025 04:29 PM (uCjyK)

88 Pendejo Pascal, amiright?

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at June 24, 2025 04:29 PM (2uKh/)

89 Ha, we've done this before. Escape from LA is pretty good, especially the Sewage Surfing. But Escape from New York will always be my favorite.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 24, 2025 04:29 PM (uWKK8)

90 'Listen, I want to protect the people I love. But it goes beyond that. Bullies make me f***ing sick.'

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

It's curious how bullies accuse others of bullying. Typical bully behavior.

Posted by: Decaf at June 24, 2025 04:29 PM (unUNN)

91 Rachel Zegler is, apparently, in talks to star in a remake of "The Sound of Music." I'm not making that up.

Let's see if we can predict her take on the story:

"Well, a single helicopter father with that many kids. I'm thinking that if abortion was more acceptable and easier to acquire back then, his life would have been much easier."





Posted by: Orson at June 24, 2025 04:29 PM (dIske)

92 80 What role did he play in Game of Thrones?
Posted by: polynikes at June 24, 2025 04:28 PM (VofaG)

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Season 4 or 5.

He was in most of the season as guy from the desert part of Westeros come to King's Landing and offered to defend Tyrian in a challenge by combat against the Mountain in a proxy conflict with Cersei.

Had his eyeballs crushed.

There was much rejoicing.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 24, 2025 04:30 PM (GBKbO)

93 Pedro might have enjoyed getting all the pistols ejected at his face in The Apple

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 24, 2025 04:30 PM (r+I/B)

94 Prospect was a really good movie but anyone could have played Pascal's role,

Posted by: polynikes at June 24, 2025 04:30 PM (VofaG)

95 46 I have no idea what happened @38.
Posted by: Xipe Totec at June 24, 2025 04:22 PM (pohLc)


This place used to get some epic spacefilling comments. It never happened to me but the barrel fed well in those days.
I heard it was pixy's formatting when text got copied from MS Word. I don't know why it did that, and I also don't know why people were copying stuff from Word.

Posted by: gKWVE at June 24, 2025 04:30 PM (gKWVE)

96 Kurt Russell adds three stars to any movie, no matter how bad.

I need to rematch tango and cash. I am betting now it is fucking Shakespeare.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 24, 2025 04:30 PM (zZu0s)

97 Had no idea who he was until I saw a credit for "The Last of Us"

🤢 So bad.

And for only 50 yrs. old and wealthy, he's nothing special.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at June 24, 2025 04:30 PM (NFX2v)

98 *waves to Robert*

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 24, 2025 04:30 PM (r+I/B)

99 And so close to Pride Month.

Posted by: Dr Spank at June 24, 2025 04:30 PM (91GwH)

100 82 I love the irony that many of the actors playing the "villains" of the Harry Potter movies -- Voldemort, Bellatrix, Lucius -- have defended JK Rowling, and the actors playing the main "heroes" have all thrown her under the bus. Poetic.
Posted by: LizLem at June 24, 2025 04:28 PM (Eng1Z)

I haven't really thought about it, but could be an age thing. The actors playing the adults in Harry Potter movies are presumably at the end of their careers by now, while the actors playing the kids need to make sure they have the "right opinions" if they want to keep working and/or getting invited to the right social events.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at June 24, 2025 04:31 PM (uCjyK)

101 That trench-mouthed goofball from Ozark? "Hawt"?

Hey, whatever flies your kite, i guess. De gustibus yadda yadda yeesh.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 24, 2025 04:27 PM (BjH5D)

And the Grammer Police have arrived...

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 24, 2025 04:31 PM (mP0Kj)

102 ... leaving aside whether anyone should use Word in the first place when LibreOffice exists and has pretty-much all the features Word does, and it's free which Word isn't.

Posted by: gKWVE at June 24, 2025 04:31 PM (gKWVE)

103 Oooowww....and he does that sexy bump his fists up under hi bicep to make them 'pop' stance...#holdmeback

Posted by: Heh at June 24, 2025 04:31 PM (nrenH)

104 >>>Did Pedro get canceled and fired after his stupid comments? No. Did he defend Gina when she did, even though he has power as the main character of the series to stand by her? No.

yup.

She got fired because when the tranny bot armies demanded she post her pronouns, she posted "Beep/boop/bop," implying they were bots.

In other words, she tried to ERASE them

even though a lot of them were bots or just hundreds of fake duplicate accounts being controlled by a handful of freaks.

And pedro pascal actually stirred the hatred against Gina

Posted by: ace at June 24, 2025 04:31 PM (KRtlO)

105 Pascal seemed really nice in the first five minutes of that one episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Then he got bit.

Posted by: Pete in Texas at June 24, 2025 04:31 PM (BHrzb)

106 82 I love the irony that many of the actors playing the "villains" of the Harry Potter movies -- Voldemort, Bellatrix, Lucius -- have defended JK Rowling, and the actors playing the main "heroes" have all thrown her under the bus. Poetic.
Posted by: LizLem at June 24, 2025 04:28 PM (Eng1Z)

Might be because it takes a much better actor to skillfully portray a villain well, than it takes to play someone who's supposed to be the star of the script.
Helena Bonham Carter is someone I've liked watching no matter what she's in.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 24, 2025 04:32 PM (uWKK8)

107 Pascal's wager. If you homo you may get some kink pleasure and you may get some STDs so have at it!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Well, This Is Another Fine Mess You've Gotten Me Into at June 24, 2025 04:32 PM (L/fGl)

108 80 What role did he play in Game of Thrones?
Posted by: polynikes at June 24, 2025 04:28 PM (VofaG)

----

Bisexual guy who ran his mouth too much.

Posted by: Cave Johnson at June 24, 2025 04:32 PM (8RvIK)

109 @3

>>I thought the Superman trailer was cringe. I don’t think my mental fortitude can withstand a Fucktastic Bore trailer.

I'm actually looking forward to the new Superman film, it's looks like it's going to get Superman back to it's roots and essentially is a big screen version of Smallville where Clark actually becomes Superman.

The other film I'm looking forward to is Caught Stealing with Austin Butler, it's looks like a slight ripoff of Snatch, and looks pretty good.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 24, 2025 04:32 PM (XV/Pl)

110 This Pascal guy needs a helicopter ride.

Posted by: pudinhead at June 24, 2025 04:32 PM (FmapG)

111 Speak of Game of Throne has-been actors.

Peter Dinkles-Himself is now starring in the lead role in a reboot of The Toxic Avenger.

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 24, 2025 04:32 PM (r+I/B)

112 "61 Back in the day, when actors were considered to be on the same level as gypsies and prostitutes, I think they were insulting gypsies and prostitutes.
Posted by: Thomas Paine

"Don't tell my mother I'm a politician. She's thinks I play piano in a whorehouse."
Harry Truman

Posted by: MkY at June 24, 2025 04:24 PM (cPGH3) "

these!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at June 24, 2025 04:32 PM (Z5NUn)

113 What role did he play in Game of Thrones?
Posted by: polynikes



He played Javier Pena in Narcos.
I didn't know he was in GoT.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 24, 2025 04:32 PM (3xZyM)

114 And the Grammer Police have arrived...
Posted by: Romeo13 at June 24, 2025 04:31 PM (mP0Kj)

Grammar?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 24, 2025 04:33 PM (BjH5D)

115
And pedro pascal actually stirred the hatred against Gina
Posted by: ace at June 24, 2025 04:31 PM (KRtlO)

When they axed her we axed the Mandalorian and Disney

Posted by: It's me donna at June 24, 2025 04:33 PM (VE6XX)

116 And the Grammer Police have arrived...
Posted by: Romeo13 at June 24, 2025 04:31 PM (mP0Kj)


Sir, I'm going to need to see your license...

Posted by: The Spelling Police at June 24, 2025 04:33 PM (PiwSw)

117 Pascal went on to add: 'The one thing that I would say I agonized over a little bit was just, "Am I helping? Am I f***ing helping?"

Oooh, we know he's a serious person, not another Hollywood airhead. He said f***.

Posted by: Archimedes at June 24, 2025 04:33 PM (Riz8t)

118 *Waves at Anna*

Posted by: Robert at June 24, 2025 04:33 PM (afxSd)

119 107 Pascal's wager. If you homo you may get some kink pleasure and you may get some STDs so have at it!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks

Man that is not how I remember Pascal’s wager but it has been a while.

Posted by: Kratwurst at June 24, 2025 04:34 PM (evrF/)

120 @jk rowling
Attention all men telling me I look like a trans woman: I'm sensing that this isn't meant as a compliment. In fact, the implication seems to be that trans women look male, or odd, or ugly. This is appallingly transphobic and I'll thank you to take your bigotry off my timeline.

This lady is really quite the writer.

Posted by: m at June 24, 2025 04:34 PM (CQE5S)

121 Gina could literally whip his ass. He should be reminded of that on every one of his posts.

Posted by: polynikes at June 24, 2025 04:34 PM (VofaG)

122 111 Speak of Game of Throne has-been actors.

Peter Dinkles-Himself is now starring in the lead role in a reboot of The Toxic Avenger.
Posted by: Anna Puma at June 24, 2025 04:32 PM (r+I/B)

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That trailer, though...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKe0pep35gQ

Probably gonna be awful, but...an interesting awful.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 24, 2025 04:34 PM (GBKbO)

123 96 Kurt Russell adds three stars to any movie, no matter how bad.

I need to rematch tango and cash. I am betting now it is fucking Shakespeare.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 24, 2025 04:30 PM (zZu0s)

Stallone tried recruiting Russell for a Tango and Cash sequel. Russell declined, wisely noting that they're in their "unprime years". Russell's a better Santa Claus anyway.

https://tinyurl.com/5x48c5tx

Posted by: Thrawn at June 24, 2025 04:34 PM (9Ovst)

124 I don't watch a lot of movies, but I did watch most of the Mandalorian, which is the only reason I know who this guy is.

Also, on a related note: I dislike most movies and TV shows, but I would recommend the Mandalorian for anyone who grew up as a Star Wars nerd. I think they did a pretty solid job with it.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at June 24, 2025 04:34 PM (uCjyK)

125 I'm actually looking forward to the new Superman film, it's looks like it's going to get Superman back to it's roots and essentially is a big screen version of Smallville where Clark actually becomes Superman.

Don't they all do that?

Posted by: Archimedes at June 24, 2025 04:34 PM (Riz8t)

126 120 @jk rowling
Attention all men telling me I look like a trans woman: I'm sensing that this isn't meant as a compliment. In fact, the implication seems to be that trans women look male, or odd, or ugly. This is appallingly transphobic and I'll thank you to take your bigotry off my timeline.

This lady is really quite the writer.
Posted by: m at June 24, 2025 04:34 PM (CQE5S)

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Her scripts for the Fantastic Beasts movies are trash, though.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 24, 2025 04:35 PM (GBKbO)

127 Attention all men telling me I look like a trans woman: I'm sensing that this isn't meant as a compliment. In fact, the implication seems to be that trans women look male, or odd, or ugly. This is appallingly transphobic and I'll thank you to take your bigotry off my timeline.

This lady is really quite the writer.



She might even be able to make it as an author. She should look in to it.

Posted by: Archimedes at June 24, 2025 04:35 PM (Riz8t)

128 Rachel Zegler is, apparently, in talks to star in a remake of "The Sound of Music." I'm not making that up.

Let's see if we can predict her take on the story:

"Well, a single helicopter father with that many kids. I'm thinking that if abortion was more acceptable and easier to acquire back then, his life would have been much easier."

-
And she doesn't take any shit from Captain von Trapp or the mother superior.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Well, This Is Another Fine Mess You've Gotten Me Into at June 24, 2025 04:35 PM (L/fGl)

129 >> Again with the hysterics.

Hysterics is famously femmy.

mid 17th century (as an adjective): via Latin from Greek husterikos ‘of the womb’, from hustera ‘womb’ (hysteria being thought to be specific to women and associated with the womb).

Posted by: m at June 24, 2025 04:35 PM (CQE5S)

130 Remember when the whole bullshit controversy with Gina Carano kicked off? Pascal sent her a text telling her just to send out a tweet supporting the gay/trans/whatever community and they would be immediately placated- he basically said they were easily manipulated.

Also, some actors can wear those little super hero outfits and not look like idiots- he is not one of them.

Posted by: Ktgreat at June 24, 2025 04:35 PM (33LJY)

131 >>> She got fired because when the tranny bot armies demanded she post her pronouns, she posted "Beep/boop/bop," implying they were bots.

She was also implying they were bullies, making her post something she didn't care about. She was just standing up to the bullies, but of course the trans community spun it as she hates trans people and wants them all to die. As a group, they cannot handle being mocked. At all.

The coolest thing she did was refuse to participate in a Zoom struggle session. That would have been horrific, and she refused to play their game.

Posted by: LizLem at June 24, 2025 04:36 PM (Eng1Z)

132 Archimedes: the first Superman (the good one) ran through that backstory so they could get to the plot with Gene Hackman.

Posted by: gKWVE at June 24, 2025 04:36 PM (gKWVE)

133 Can we deport him?

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at June 24, 2025 04:36 PM (ymT3i)

134 Gina could literally whip his ass. He should be reminded of that on every one of his posts.

Nah. She's chunked up. She couldn't whip my ass now.

Probably not back then either.

Posted by: Doug Roberts at June 24, 2025 04:36 PM (mlDMX)

135
Her scripts for the Fantastic Beasts movies are trash, though.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 24, 2025 04:35 PM (GBKbO)



I liked the first one

Posted by: It's me donna at June 24, 2025 04:36 PM (VE6XX)

136 125 I'm actually looking forward to the new Superman film, it's looks like it's going to get Superman back to it's roots and essentially is a big screen version of Smallville where Clark actually becomes Superman.

Don't they all do that?
Posted by: Archimedes at June 24, 2025 04:34 PM (Riz8t)

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Pretty sure this is established Superman, not becoming Superman.

The original cut screened to WB insiders was apparently "a week in the life of Superman." I've read that this has changed after those early screenings due to re-edits and some reshoots.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 24, 2025 04:36 PM (GBKbO)

137 I think I am going to power watch both 28 Later movies tonight in preparation for borrowing the new one.

Zombie overload perhaps.

Posted by: toby928 at June 24, 2025 04:37 PM (jc0TO)

138 "Ottisville?"

Gene Hackman, we miss you.

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 24, 2025 04:37 PM (r+I/B)

139 So far behind that I didn't know there was a previous fantastic 4 movie. Maybe it was only identifying as a movie and I was a bigot.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at June 24, 2025 04:37 PM (rvwwT)

140 @125

>>Don't they all do that?

No, all of the Caville films were dark and morose and Dawn of Justice was essentially Millers, The Dark Knight Returns.

All of these iterations are chasing Superman The Movie and they all largely fail, the best iteration of Superman of the recent past was Smallville and going back a little further, Lois and Clark.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 24, 2025 04:37 PM (XV/Pl)

141 Jim from the office evidently had too much machismo and raw animal charisma to play Reed Richards in Marvel's vision.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 24, 2025 04:37 PM (zZu0s)

142 I heard it was pixy's formatting when text got copied from MS Word. I don't know why it did that, and I also don't know why people were copying stuff from Word.
Posted by: gKWVE at June 24, 2025 04:30 PM (gKWVE)


I tend to compose in Write because it helps me jump around from comments to various other tabs to check my facts.
The nice thing about Write is that it is pure text, and has no formatting, so it would strip out any formatting and most non-allowed characters like Smart Quotes

Posted by: Kindltot at June 24, 2025 04:37 PM (D7oie)

143 Posted by: Doug Roberts at June 24, 2025 04:36 PM (mlDMX)

mlDMX is nearly Latin.

Posted by: m at June 24, 2025 04:37 PM (CQE5S)

144 Hysterics is famously femmy.

mid 17th century (as an adjective): via Latin from Greek husterikos ‘of the womb’, from hustera ‘womb’ (hysteria being thought to be specific to women and associated with the womb).
Posted by: m at June 24, 2025 04:35 PM (CQE5S)

Fun fact: hysteria was an actual medical diagnosis for women for many many centuries.

The idea was that a woman's emotions were all whacked out due to her "wandering womb" and the prescription was some variation of either getting her pregnant, or getting her to orgasm. Which is how the modern vibrator was invented as a medical device doctors would use to treat hysteria.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at June 24, 2025 04:37 PM (uCjyK)

145 "Hollywood actor Pedro Pascal has left his fan confused after the Mandalorian actor uploaded this zesty video with a glow stick where he appears to imitate oral S*x amid the new Fantastic 4 movie release where Pascal has been casted as Mr. Fantastic."
Short version:
Pedro Pascal demonstrates how he got the gig.

Posted by: omm at June 24, 2025 04:37 PM (BDCbc)

146 135
Her scripts for the Fantastic Beasts movies are trash, though.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 24, 2025 04:35 PM (GBKbO)



I liked the first one
Posted by: It's me donna at June 24, 2025 04:36 PM (VE6XX)

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It's...not a good movie. It's dreary and obsessed with lore while completely losing sight of the only joys the film actually has: the beasts.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 24, 2025 04:37 PM (GBKbO)

147 The other film I'm looking forward to is Caught Stealing with Austin Butler, it's looks like a slight ripoff of Snatch, and looks pretty good.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 24, 2025 04:32 PM (XV/Pl)

I been caught stealing once. When I was five.

Posted by: It's just a simple fact at June 24, 2025 04:37 PM (TbWk/)

148 129 >> Again with the hysterics.

Hysterics is famously femmy.

mid 17th century (as an adjective): via Latin from Greek husterikos ‘of the womb’, from hustera ‘womb’ (hysteria being thought to be specific to women and associated with the womb).
Posted by: m at June 24, 2025 04:35 PM (CQE5S)


Well I never!

Posted by: Keith Olbermann at June 24, 2025 04:37 PM (PiwSw)

149 Sinatra sings:

♫ ♫ ♫

Lux, be a lady tonight.
Lux, be a lady tonight.
Lux, if you've ever been a lady to begin with.
Lux, be a lady tonight.

Posted by: muldoon at June 24, 2025 04:38 PM (poXs5)

150 137 I think I am going to power watch both 28 Later movies tonight in preparation for borrowing the new one.

Zombie overload perhaps.
Posted by: toby928 at June 24, 2025 04:37 PM (jc0TO)

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"They're not zombies!"
-zombie purists

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 24, 2025 04:38 PM (GBKbO)

151 How many different versions of Superman do you need?

The one with Christopher Reeves and Gene Hackman is the best one.

Posted by: dantesed at June 24, 2025 04:38 PM (Oy/m2)

152 Even if I was a kid I wouldn't have read any Harry Potter books, Fantasy not my genre but I actually dislike witch/wizard magic story lines. Worst part of the King Arthur story too IMO.

Posted by: polynikes at June 24, 2025 04:38 PM (VofaG)

153 The new dino movie will crush all competitors like a T-Rex stepping on a big game hunter.

Posted by: toby928 at June 24, 2025 04:38 PM (jc0TO)

154 I think I am going to power watch both 28 Later movies tonight in preparation for borrowing the new one.

Zombie overload perhaps.
Posted by: toby928 at June 24, 2025 04:37 PM (jc0TO)


Phonecia Gambit, or whatever it is, is in the theaters. I think I will give it a miss.

Posted by: Kindltot at June 24, 2025 04:38 PM (D7oie)

155 Superman returns has elements of a great movie. But they fucked it up.

The airplane scene where he catches it is epic. Good pacing. Great music. Tension. Just well done.

Too bad it was one of the few standouts in the movie.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 24, 2025 04:39 PM (zZu0s)

156 Also, on a related note: I dislike most movies and TV shows, but I would recommend the Mandalorian for anyone who grew up as a Star Wars nerd. I think they did a pretty solid job with it.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes


Andor looks and sounds a lot better. The fun part is the titular character, Andor, turns into wallpaper and other characters drive the plot.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at June 24, 2025 04:39 PM (mlg/3)

157 "They're not zombies!"
-zombie purists
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 24, 2025 04:38 PM


NO SPOILERS!!

Posted by: toby928 at June 24, 2025 04:39 PM (jc0TO)

158 "Well, a single helicopter father with that many kids. I'm thinking that if abortion was more acceptable and easier to acquire back then, his life would have been much easier."

Posted by: Orson

Brilliant! Let's get that set to the tune of 'Edelweiss'.

Posted by: Hollywood at June 24, 2025 04:39 PM (E9zRH)

159 156 Andor looks and sounds a lot better. The fun part is the titular character, Andor, turns into wallpaper and other characters drive the plot.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at June 24, 2025 04:39 PM (mlg/3)

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I need to watch Season 2.

Season 1 was really good.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 24, 2025 04:39 PM (GBKbO)

160 Fun fact: the treatment for hysteria used to be the woman afflicted would go to the Dr. and he had a machine that vibrated. You can fill in the blanks.

I imagine it was a very popular treatment.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at June 24, 2025 04:39 PM (ymT3i)

161 Tensor is being mean now, constantly getting 'generation failure' messages. Is it because I am now past 1,000 posts?

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 24, 2025 04:39 PM (r+I/B)

162 157 "They're not zombies!"
-zombie purists
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 24, 2025 04:38 PM

NO SPOILERS!!
Posted by: toby928 at June 24, 2025 04:39 PM (jc0TO)

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Such...Rage.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 24, 2025 04:39 PM (GBKbO)

163 mlDMX is nearly Latin.

Too much math for me. I have often thought ... the Romans poured concrete, engineered quite a bit of shit. Can't imagine some five foot six swarthy Italians looking at those numbers on a drawing and making heads or tails out of it.

An awful numeric system. Absolutely shitty.

Posted by: Doug Roberts at June 24, 2025 04:40 PM (mlDMX)

164 Lux, be a lady tonight.
Posted by: muldoon at June 24, 2025 04:38 PM (poXs5)

*muldoon adjusts his gold medallion and quickly smoothes down his eyebrows*

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 24, 2025 04:40 PM (zZu0s)

165 I had one liberal woman friend ask why I "hate transgenders"; to which i replied, I hate anyone who places their own craving for attention over everything else, including our social compact that we've had for hundreds of years. The grotesque narcissism at play in large parts of the alphabet left are off-putting at best to most people, and outright repulsive to those of us paying attention.

Posted by: UGAdawg at June 24, 2025 04:40 PM (oQx2g)

166 "They're not zombies!"
-zombie purists
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 24, 2025 04:38 PM (GBKbO)


My favorite comment was something along the lines of, "these are not zombies, these are undead cheetah people"

Posted by: Kindltot at June 24, 2025 04:40 PM (D7oie)

167 Disney/Marvel gave audiences a perfect jumping off point with Endgame, and Pudgy Mustache is not the one to turn that around.

Posted by: Open Channel D at June 24, 2025 04:40 PM (gYnrv)

168 When a studio releases a big action adventure special effects movie in August, you know they have a lot of faith in it.

Posted by: fozzy at June 24, 2025 04:41 PM (zH2yS)

169 166 "They're not zombies!"
-zombie purists
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 24, 2025 04:38 PM (GBKbO)

My favorite comment was something along the lines of, "these are not zombies, these are undead cheetah people"
Posted by: Kindltot at June 24, 2025 04:40 PM (D7oie)

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I don't mind that description. I also don't mind calling them zombies. Zombies are fake.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 24, 2025 04:41 PM (GBKbO)

170 The Fantastic Four might not suck, but they've surely done a lot to ensure that it will. Supposedly, the rumor is that they had a whole host of men they wanted to cast as Reed Richards, but they all turned Marvel down. So they went with Pascal who was already overexposed.

Why turn down Marvel? Well we can only speculate, but possibly the role was so weak and lame that the actors didn't care to play that role. And certainly Marvel isn't the guaranteed hit it used to be, and that can hurt an actor's career to be in a bomb.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 24, 2025 04:41 PM (dfIr7)

171 He is also in some romcom movie with Dakota Johnson.

Posted by: runner at June 24, 2025 04:41 PM (g47mK)

172 1 What kind of an idiot still watches anything put out by Disney?
Posted by: Estelle Costanza at June 24, 2025 04:08 PM


The hills are alive with the sound of the hills blowing their brains out....

Posted by: Stateless.. 42% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back now at June 24, 2025 04:41 PM (jvJvP)

173 The worst bullies are the ones using the rainbow community as a shield, so they can bully with a clear conscience.
Posted by: LizLem at June 24, 2025 04:25 PM (Eng1Z)
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C.S. Lewis basically said the same thing about petty tyrants.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 24, 2025 04:41 PM (7fElN)

174 Such...Rage.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 24, 2025 04:39 PM (GBKbO)

lol. Not going to spoil it, but I've heard some plot summaries about 28 Years Later and...it doesn't seem good.

Posted by: Thrawn at June 24, 2025 04:41 PM (9Ovst)

175 mlDMX

ML = 1,000 + 50 = 1,050
D = 500
MX = 1,000 + 10 = 1,010

Posted by: m at June 24, 2025 04:41 PM (CQE5S)

176 I've gotten used to the idea of fast zombies, but I prefer the shufflers. They have that mummy horror.

Posted by: toby928 at June 24, 2025 04:41 PM (jc0TO)

177 "Materialists".

Posted by: runner at June 24, 2025 04:42 PM (g47mK)

178 Some smarmy little twerp yapping at JK Rowling… pretty ridiculous, innit, considering Rowling’s accomplishments will have cultural impact for a long long time to come, while Pedro whats his name is much like toilet paper on the bottom of one’s shoe.l.

Posted by: tubal at June 24, 2025 04:42 PM (PCK5/)

179 AIDS > JK Rowling > Pedro Pascal

In a war of words between these two, I'm rooting for cardiac arrest or aneurysm. Fuck them both.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at June 24, 2025 04:42 PM (SSEhk)

180 My grandson got me to watch the Mandalorian with him, and the 1st season was incredibly good. Don't know what happened after that, because parts of season 2 and most of 3 turned into "2 guys you never met before go to the store to get some coffee and talk about stuff and oh yeah they knew the Mandalorian once."

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 24, 2025 04:42 PM (uWKK8)

181 I love the zombie genre but it seems like every movie or TV series have people do really stupid stupid things.

In I am legend I couldn't get over Will Smith sleeping in a bathtub when apparently he had the ability to build a zombie proof room. Also going out with just an AR .

Posted by: polynikes at June 24, 2025 04:42 PM (VofaG)

182 Superman returns has elements of a great movie. But they fucked it up.
Posted by: Aetius451AD


Superman being an absent father kind of harshed the mood.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at June 24, 2025 04:42 PM (mlg/3)

183 Andor looks and sounds a lot better. The fun part is the titular character, Andor, turns into wallpaper and other characters drive the plot.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at June 24, 2025 04:39 PM (mlg/3)

I've heard good things about, I'll probably check it out if I can get a login from somebody. (I don't watch a lot of TV or movies, I get ADD if the show requires too much of my attention, so I usually end up reading while my girlfriend watches some trashy Bravo show that requires 0% of my attention.)

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at June 24, 2025 04:42 PM (uCjyK)

184
Saw "28 Years Later".

I enjoyed it. Well made. Very well directed and acted.

They've pretty much decided to turn the franchise from concentrating on the Rage Virus Outbreaks to a sort of Gulliver's Travels where the Rage Folk are just a fact of life and the survivors are weirdos of various sorts to make political points.

F'rinstance, 28YL is at its root an argument for assisted suicide, which apparently just got passed in Old Blightey. Some knocks against Christianity, which seem will be expanded upon in Part Two the series.

The politics is mostly shoved in at the last quarter or so of the movie. I'm not an assisted suicide type at all but I wasn't particularly offended because it kinda fit into the story, but upon thinking about the movie later it was very obvious.

Soooo, not as good as 28DL. Much better than 28WL.

Not much hope for the sequel as the coda to 28YL makes it pretty obvious we're going to be getting yet another EEEEEEeeeevil White People movie.

Anyway, check it out if you're a fan of the series.

Posted by: naturalfake at June 24, 2025 04:42 PM (iJfKG)

185 174 Such...Rage.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 24, 2025 04:39 PM (GBKbO)

lol. Not going to spoil it, but I've heard some plot summaries about 28 Years Later and...it doesn't seem good.
Posted by: Thrawn at June 24, 2025 04:41 PM (9Ovst)

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I've read it's more of an art house film than a zombie picture.

I love Danny Boyle, and I think I'll enjoy it. When I get around to it. Probably when it hits a streaming service I have access to.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 24, 2025 04:42 PM (GBKbO)

186 I found some good content. Wing Feather.

Posted by: Boss Moss at June 24, 2025 04:43 PM (nCKL5)

187 It ain't even that far fetched. A distended or distending uterus could become more hormonally active, or less hormonally active, and send the whole endocrine system out of balance, leading to neurochemical imbalances and poorly regulated thoughts and behaviors.

"knock her up" probably ain't the most enlightened indication, but hey, they worked with what they had. Fuckers hadn't even invented pants yet, they just sewed legs onto their underwear every Monday and went off to work.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 24, 2025 04:43 PM (BjH5D)

188 Now he knows the real reason why Denzel Washington tossed Pedro off the top of the tower in Equalizer 2.

Posted by: MacKenzie at June 24, 2025 04:43 PM (77W69)

189 I also don't mind calling them zombies. Zombies are fake.

Sure, but so are dragons, but if you take their wings away, make them not breathe fire, and make their scales fur instead, are they still dragons? Fictional or not? Is it a Jedi if they have no psychic powers or light saber? Is it a starship if it cannot go into space?

Even fictional creations have basic limits on their definition and range of abilities, or they stop being that fictional being.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 24, 2025 04:43 PM (dfIr7)

190 It was better when he wore a mask. Then you could pretend he was Alpha male. He just looks Gay in those videos.

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at June 24, 2025 04:43 PM (t/2Uw)

191 @jk rowling
Attention all men telling me I look like a trans woman: I'm sensing that this isn't meant as a compliment. In fact, the implication seems to be that trans women look male, or odd, or ugly. This is appallingly transphobic and I'll thank you to take your bigotry off my timeline.

This lady is really quite the writer.
Posted by: m

Her CB Strike detective novels are quite good.

Posted by: Tuna at June 24, 2025 04:43 PM (lJ0H4)

192 Better news, Dr Malone, a red-in-tooth-and-claw COVID skeptic just got an appointment:

@RWMaloneMD 1h
Just learned i have been appointed co-chair of the ACIP. Boy, that was never on my bucket list. Did not wish for this, but will do my best to be objective, honest, transparent and rigorous, and to act with integrity.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at June 24, 2025 04:43 PM (mlg/3)

193 He is also in some romcom movie with Dakota Johnson.
Posted by: runner at June 24, 2025 04:41 PM (g47m

I just watched an older movie with her that I thought was really good as just a sweet feel good movie.

Peanut Butter Falcon.

Posted by: polynikes at June 24, 2025 04:44 PM (VofaG)

194 Why turn down Marvel? Well we can only speculate, but possibly the role was so weak and lame that the actors didn't care to play that role. And certainly Marvel isn't the guaranteed hit it used to be, and that can hurt an actor's career to be in a bomb.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 24, 2025 04:41 PM (dfIr7)

Having Pascal play Reed Richards is really a stretch.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 24, 2025 04:44 PM (uWKK8)

195
As well as liking the video, Pedro also shared a defiant comment, writing: 'Awful disgusting S**T is exactly right. Heinous LOSER behavior.'

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Cocaine is a hell of a drug.

Although, maybe his brain makes all the bad chemicals he needs.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at June 24, 2025 04:44 PM (ES1Rb)

196 Mr. Fantastic is going to play second fiddle to Invisible Woman, who will be the leader and heart of the team in the new movie. Pudgy Mustache will probably enjoy the degradation of the once-great Lee and Kirby character.

Posted by: Open Channel D at June 24, 2025 04:44 PM (gYnrv)

197 I love Danny Boyle, and I think I'll enjoy it. When I get around to it. Probably when it hits a streaming service I have access to.

I'm sure it's no Prometheus. Hate to see you waste your time.

Posted by: Doug Roberts at June 24, 2025 04:44 PM (mlDMX)

198 >>>Fun fact: the treatment for hysteria used to be the woman afflicted would go to the Dr. and he had a machine that vibrated. You can fill in the blanks.

If it broke down, you went to manual.

Posted by: Citizen Cake at June 24, 2025 04:44 PM (CwhoI)

199 Is this movie 28 something a sequel to an earlier 28 something?? Having never seen the first 28, what’s the plot, in summary?

Posted by: tubal at June 24, 2025 04:44 PM (PCK5/)

200 CC

Posted by: m at June 24, 2025 04:44 PM (CQE5S)

201 189 I also don't mind calling them zombies. Zombies are fake.

Sure, but so are dragons, but if you take their wings away, make them not breathe fire, and make their scales fur instead, are they still dragons? Fictional or not? Is it a Jedi if they have no psychic powers or light saber? Is it a starship if it cannot go into space?

Even fictional creations have basic limits on their definition and range of abilities, or they stop being that fictional being.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 24, 2025 04:43 PM (dfIr7)

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Yes.

Because werewolves gained all of their modern features when Hollywood invented them for The Wolf Man and no one's looked back since.

It's all fake and stupid, and no one should care about the proper label of fake things in fiction making sure they fit the labels of other fake things in other fiction.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 24, 2025 04:45 PM (GBKbO)

202 I'm glad I don't have any idea who these people are. Nor do I have any desire to see any of their movies.

They simply don't exist in my world.

Posted by: Bea Arthur's Dick at June 24, 2025 04:45 PM (eYAt4)

203 I saw a photo of Danny Boyle recently. His head was enormous. Like a water baby or an alien.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at June 24, 2025 04:45 PM (SSEhk)

204 Is this movie 28 something a sequel to an earlier 28 something?? Having never seen the first 28, what’s the plot, in summary?
Posted by: tubal at June 24, 2025 04:44 PM


Fast zombies, I think.

Posted by: toby928 at June 24, 2025 04:45 PM (jc0TO)

205 His parents came to the US as political refugees, dragging him and another kid with them.

After two decades in the U.S., his parents returned to South America with his two younger siblings (reportedly, both born in the US) in 1995.

He's got 'papers?'

Seems like family that's more than a bit squirrely: People Magazine, Jan 28, 2024, 'All About Pedro Pascal’s Parents, Verónica Pascal Ureta and José Balmaceda Riera' Pedro Pascal honored his late mom's memory by taking her maiden name

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at June 24, 2025 04:45 PM (NFX2v)

206 I been caught stealing once. When I was five.

Posted by: It's just a simple fact at June 24, 2025 04:37 PM (TbWk/)

Do you enjoy it?

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at June 24, 2025 04:46 PM (i24o9)

207 They simply don't exist in my world.
Posted by: Bea Arthur's Dick at June 24, 2025 04:45 PM (eYAt4)

Bea Arthur's Dick's world sounds like a great world.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at June 24, 2025 04:46 PM (uCjyK)

208 Who likes Escape from LA.

I really don't know why any of you acknowledge my existence at all.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 24, 2025 04:22 PM (GBKbO)
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Well, it's not like you like that travesty of cinema, Prometheus....

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at June 24, 2025 04:46 PM (tT6L1)

209 John Kerry: "You cannot bomb away the memory of his to make a bomb."

https://instapundit.com/728192/

Wasn't that the Iranian's line just a few days ago?

Kerry really is just a treasonous snake, isn't he?

Posted by: Robert at June 24, 2025 04:46 PM (afxSd)

210 I watched the first two 28's to get ready for the 3rd.

Posted by: Boss Moss at June 24, 2025 04:46 PM (nCKL5)

211 Oh, Danny Boyle, the pipes, the pipes are calling

Posted by: m at June 24, 2025 04:46 PM (CQE5S)

212 Sure, but so are dragons, but if you take their wings away, make them not breathe fire, and make their scales fur instead, are they still dragons?

Yes, they would be "the Dragons of Theseus"

What did I win?

Posted by: Kindltot at June 24, 2025 04:46 PM (D7oie)

213 Supposedly pedro was good as a flamboyant noble in the Game of Thrones TV show, and he's a decent actor. He's just in too much and is incredibly obnoxious personally. NOBODY seems to actually like the guy. At least even Zendaya seems to be cast less these days.

Michael Caine was in pretty much everything for decades and nobody cared, because freaking Michael Caine. It doesn't have to be overexposure, its just exposed beyond one's ability and personality.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 24, 2025 04:46 PM (dfIr7)

214
The one thing I remember about Allende is the 70's article about how he got his head blown off in one of my forest porn Penthouse mags.

The hairy 70's pooter pictures were almost as much fun.

Almost.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at June 24, 2025 04:46 PM (y9nCu)

215 It's all fake and stupid, and no one should care about the proper label of fake things in fiction making sure they fit the labels of other fake things in other fiction.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 24, 2025 04:45 PM (GBKbO)

Like women.
They can just be anything. Penis? Barely an inconvenience!

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at June 24, 2025 04:47 PM (SSEhk)

216 Is this movie 28 something a sequel to an earlier 28 something?? Having never seen the first 28, what’s the plot, in summary?
Posted by: tubal at June 24, 2025 04:44 PM (PCK5/)

Yes but they skipped 28 months because it didn't sound right.

28 days, 28 Weeks, 28 Years

Posted by: polynikes at June 24, 2025 04:47 PM (VofaG)

217 Oh, Danny Boyle, the pipes, the pipes are calling
Posted by: m at June 24, 2025 04:46 PM (CQE5S)

😂

Posted by: runner at June 24, 2025 04:47 PM (g47mK)

218 I like the werewolves in the Underworld universe. They transform great but become pretty stupid, like animals.

Posted by: toby928 at June 24, 2025 04:47 PM (jc0TO)

219 I'm gonna edge out on this limb right here and predict that Pedro Pascal will never be cast in a Harry Potter Universe film.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 24, 2025 04:47 PM (omVj0)

220 216 Yes but they skipped 28 months because it didn't sound right.

28 days, 28 Weeks, 28 Years
Posted by: polynikes at June 24, 2025 04:47 PM (VofaG)

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They skipped it because so much time had passed since the production of the last one, according to Alex Garland.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 24, 2025 04:47 PM (GBKbO)

221 Sure, but so are dragons, but if you take their wings away, make them not breathe fire, and make their scales fur instead, are they still dragons?

Well ... if you took away my dogs fur, loyalty, tail, and ability to be likeable 24/7 ? Then yeah, he'd be a cat.

Because he wouldn't be a dog at that point.

Posted by: Doug Roberts at June 24, 2025 04:47 PM (mlDMX)

222 I love the irony that many of the actors playing the "villains" of the Harry Potter movies -- Voldemort, Bellatrix, Lucius -- have defended JK Rowling, and the actors playing the main "heroes" have all thrown her under the bus. Poetic.
Posted by: LizLem at June 24, 2025 04:28 PM (Eng1Z)

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So much for typecasting.

Posted by: Decaf at June 24, 2025 04:48 PM (unUNN)

223 There are no trans people whatsoever, anywhere, despite whatever surgery you might have had. No one born male can become female; no one born female can become male! There are only mentally ill people who think they are something they are not!

I make exceptions for people with extra X or Y chromosomes, but they are not trans people: rather they suffer from a genetic aberration, and have significant health and developmental issues. They deserve our pity and our care. But they are a minuscule fraction of the so-called trans population!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at June 24, 2025 04:48 PM (qgNn3)

224 >>>Zombies are fake.

You shut your hoor mouth!

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at June 24, 2025 04:48 PM (i24o9)

225 He played Javier Pena in Narcos.
I didn't know he was in GoT.
Posted by: rickb223
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Narcos was good, and Wagner Moura was great as Escobar.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at June 24, 2025 04:48 PM (ITkJX)

226 And the Grammer Police have arrived...
Posted by: Romeo13

Grammar?
Posted by: Warai-otoko


********

Apparently part of a Joint Task Force with the Spelling Police.

Posted by: muldoon at June 24, 2025 04:48 PM (poXs5)

227 219 I'm gonna edge out on this limb right here and predict that Pedro Pascal will never be cast in a Harry Potter Universe film.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 24, 2025 04:47 PM (omVj0)

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WB will cast him as Professor Trelawny to fuck with Rowling.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 24, 2025 04:48 PM (GBKbO)

228 224 >>>Zombies are fake.

You shut your hoor mouth!
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at June 24, 2025 04:48 PM (i24o9)

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YOU'RE NOT MY SUPERVISOR!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 24, 2025 04:48 PM (GBKbO)

229 What's the first 28? 28 days?

I think I'm mixing it up with the guy that chewed his arm off because he got caught rock climbing.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at June 24, 2025 04:48 PM (rvwwT)

230 Dude's a putz. He doesn't have a little sister. He does have a potty mouth and has burned his man card.

Posted by: tcn in AK at June 24, 2025 04:48 PM (1Gsou)

231 Well ... if you took away my dogs fur, loyalty, tail, and ability to be likeable 24/7 ? Then yeah, he'd be a cat.

Because he wouldn't be a dog at that point.
Posted by: Doug Roberts at June 24, 2025 04:47 PM (mlDMX)

And if my grandmother had wheels she'd be a bicycle.

Wait, what are we talking about again?

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at June 24, 2025 04:49 PM (uCjyK)

232 Mr. Fantastic is going to play second fiddle to Invisible Woman, who will be the leader and heart of the team in the new movie.

That's the word. Mr Fantastic has a Mr Science show where he does his Bill Nye impression (expect at least one global warming crack), and isn't really in the movie all that much.

Now, Sue Storm, the Invisible Girl, is the most powerful member of the team, but she's not the leader nor the most powerful personality, not by a long shot. Their powers reflected their nature: sue was shy and retiring, Johnny was a hothead, Grim was a rock they all could rely on, and Reed had this incredibly elastic mind.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 24, 2025 04:49 PM (dfIr7)

233 There is zero doubt in my mind that Pascal has either banged a young boy or sexually assaulted a woman at some point.

He's that overcompensating ally type.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at June 24, 2025 04:49 PM (KbCG3)

234 229 What's the first 28? 28 days?

I think I'm mixing it up with the guy that chewed his arm off because he got caught rock climbing.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at June 24, 2025 04:48 PM (rvwwT)

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127 Hours is what you're thinking of. Which is also a Danny Boyle joint.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 24, 2025 04:49 PM (GBKbO)

235 Don't like him being called "Daddy" by fans either.

Cringe worthy.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at June 24, 2025 04:49 PM (NFX2v)

236 How can this person be 50 years old? A twelve-year-old girl would be a better fit for the dialog in this post.

Posted by: t-bird at June 24, 2025 04:49 PM (1q8GR)

237 The fact this ugly thing was promoted as the new Redford/Newman/Eastwood/Cruise/etc. is further proof that Hollywood is done and cannot recover. The whole point of a movie star is that they look better than the average person. No guy minded his wife liking Clark Gable because Clark Gable was a 1 in a million guy, and the husband probably wanted to emulate Gable himself. No one wants to be Pedro Pascal, and no normal person wants to see more of him in a leading role either. This guy would have been cast as a redshirt who got eaten by the killer plant in the first five minutes of a Star Trek episode 60 years ago.
Posted by: the lower depths at June 24, 2025


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TLD has nailed it.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 24, 2025 04:49 PM (omVj0)

238 The idea was that a woman's emotions were all whacked out due to her "wandering womb" and the prescription was some variation of either getting her pregnant, or getting her to orgasm. Which is how the modern vibrator was invented as a medical device doctors would use to treat hysteria.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes


Fun fact: there were no hypochondriacs until this invention.

Posted by: mikeski at June 24, 2025 04:49 PM (DgGvY)

239 @jk rowling
Attention all men telling me I look like a trans woman: I'm sensing that this isn't meant as a compliment. In fact, the implication seems to be that trans women look male, or odd, or ugly. This is appallingly transphobic and I'll thank you to take your bigotry off my timeline.

--

Didn't that ugly beast whose name I don't remember (and don't care) say the same thing recently about Riley Gaines? Are they trying to use "you look like a trans" whatever as some sort of pejorative now? Seems pretty bigoted to me.

Posted by: Lady in Black at June 24, 2025 04:49 PM (qBdHI)

240 187 It ain't even that far fetched. A distended or distending uterus could become more hormonally active, or less hormonally active, and send the whole endocrine system out of balance, leading to neurochemical imbalances and poorly regulated thoughts and behaviors.

"knock her up" probably ain't the most enlightened indication, but hey, they worked with what they had. Fuckers hadn't even invented pants yet, they just sewed legs onto their underwear every Monday and went off to work.
Posted by: Warai-otoko

I guess I need to read up thread. 🤣

Posted by: Piper at June 24, 2025 04:49 PM (pZEOD)

241 I read a review of 28YL from one of the UK rags, saying the movie brings attention to concerns like Brexit and nationalism. Blech.

Posted by: Citizen Cake at June 24, 2025 04:50 PM (CwhoI)

242 If I'm interpreting this post correctly, I'm going to have to take a wild-ass guess and say Ace is not going to be watching Ironheart on Disney+ which premieres today.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at June 24, 2025 04:50 PM (6ydKt)

243 I had super hero fatigue right about when I hit puberty.

Posted by: eleven at June 24, 2025 04:50 PM (fV+MH)

244 Is this movie 28 something a sequel to an earlier 28 something?? Having never seen the first 28, what’s the plot, in summary?
Posted by: tubal at June 24, 2025 04:44 PM

Fast zombies, I think.
Posted by: toby928 at June 24, 2025 04:45 PM (jc0TO)


There are both in this iteration.

They did a great job with the Slows.

Posted by: naturalfake at June 24, 2025 04:50 PM (iJfKG)

245 Big defender of Rowling, maybe biggest.. Tom Felton ( Draco Malfoy)… and yeah, he’s aware that it makes him persona non grata with the asshole power brokers..

Posted by: tubal at June 24, 2025 04:50 PM (PCK5/)

246 The whole point of a movie star is that they look better than the average person. No guy minded his wife liking Clark Gable because Clark Gable was a 1 in a million guy, and the husband probably wanted to emulate Gable himself.

and yet, Humphrey Bogart.

Posted by: toby928 at June 24, 2025 04:50 PM (jc0TO)

247 Hollywood stars were in fact much like real stars: bright, beautiful and distant.

Also like real stars, when you get closer, you find out that they are unbearable balls of burning gas.

What makes stars - literal and of the Hollywood variety - "work" is their distance. With distance, they're beautiful and bright. Up close, not so much.

Thanks to social media, we all got much closer than the minimum safe distance. Social media collapsed the distance, and thus collapsed the star.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 24, 2025 04:50 PM (6bTRc)

248 Yeah. I want to see this bastard taken down about 50 million pegs.
I can’t imagine having as much vitriol and emotional incontinence as he has for JK Rowling.
Nothing she has said remotely justifies his response. Either he really is that out of control in which he needs a straight jacket or he gets his jollies bullying people this way in which I hope he’s shot by a fan as equally deranged.
I also suspect he’s a fag based on the outburst.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at June 24, 2025 04:50 PM (jbnUc)

249 But the rest of us should not be celebrating that, nor should we pretend it's normal or something to aspire to.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at June 24, 2025 04:29 PM (uCjyK)

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People resent far more being forced to celebrate the perversities.

Posted by: Decaf at June 24, 2025 04:50 PM (unUNN)

250 Don't vote for Pedro

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at June 24, 2025 04:51 PM (xcxpd)

251
I like the werewolves in the Underworld universe. They transform great but become pretty stupid, like animals.
Posted by: toby928 at June 24, 2025 04:47 PM (jc0TO)



Two things made the Underworld franchise.

Kate Beckinsale's tight butt in leather.

That jaunty little kick in the opening scene of the first film.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sdc9-vKNYD8

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at June 24, 2025 04:51 PM (y9nCu)

252 I'm gonna edge out on this limb right here and predict that Pedro Pascal will never be cast in a Harry Potter Universe film.

JK Rowling seems to have little to no input whatsoever in this new version, so who the hell even knows. Most Potter fans have written it off already because of the imbecilic Snape casting.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 24, 2025 04:51 PM (dfIr7)

253 69 Who likes Escape from LA.
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Didn't that one have that strange basketball scene in it?


*perks up*

Posted by: the alien from dark star at June 24, 2025 04:51 PM (sGtp+)

254 Sure, but so are dragons, but if you take their wings away, make them not breathe fire, and make their scales fur instead, are they still dragons?
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*AHEM*

Posted by: The Dragon Reborn Rand Al'Thor at June 24, 2025 04:51 PM (7fElN)

255 To be clear, his younger brother now claims he's a woman?

Who molested him, Pedro or another family member?

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at June 24, 2025 04:51 PM (2uKh/)

256 Fantastic Four : Silver Surfer.

I'm not that picky when it comes to movies having seen so few. But what the hell was that movie? Teenage boys LOVE superhero movies half focused on wedding planning.

I'm not seeing this dumpster fire. Or even 'Superman' simply because I'm sure politics will be inserted in there.

Posted by: Stateless.. 43% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back now at June 24, 2025 04:51 PM (jvJvP)

257 246 The whole point of a movie star is that they look better than the average person. No guy minded his wife liking Clark Gable because Clark Gable was a 1 in a million guy, and the husband probably wanted to emulate Gable himself.

and yet, Humphrey Bogart.
Posted by: toby928 at June 24, 2025 04:50 PM (jc0TO)

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The point of the movie star is to sell tickets. That's why they're paid a lot. It's not because they look good.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 24, 2025 04:51 PM (GBKbO)

258 I don't know anything about this toad, but I'm pretty sure JK Rowling sleeps quite well at night, comfortable in the knowledge that she is more successful than this yipping chihuahua will ever be.

Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at June 24, 2025 04:51 PM (MZ+PY)

259 So it's a movie thread now?

Posted by: toby928 standing in for the guy who wonders if it's a movie thread at June 24, 2025 04:51 PM (jc0TO)

260 Urban Dictionary:

Bougie: People [pretending] to (or think they are) [high class] and but they're [really not] (or don't realize they aren't.)

Posted by: Duncanthrax at June 24, 2025 04:51 PM (0sNs1)

261 Michael Caine was in pretty much everything for decades and nobody cared, because freaking Michael Caine. It doesn't have to be overexposure, its just exposed beyond one's ability and personality.
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The camera and audience loves certain people. The fantastic four Brits were Sean Connery, Peter O'Toole, Michael Caine and Albert Finney. These guys were stars.

Posted by: pudinhead at June 24, 2025 04:51 PM (FmapG)

262 259 So it's a movie thread now?
Posted by: toby928 standing in for the guy who wonders if it's a movie thread at June 24, 2025 04:51 PM (jc0TO)


Yes... It's still a movie thread

Posted by: It's me donna at June 24, 2025 04:52 PM (VE6XX)

263 259 So it's a movie thread now?
Posted by: toby928 standing in for the guy who wonders if it's a movie thread at June 24, 2025 04:51 PM (jc0TO)

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Why does no one tell me about these things?!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 24, 2025 04:52 PM (GBKbO)

264 I been caught stealing once. When I was five.

Posted by: It's just a simple fact at June 24, 2025 04:37 PM (TbWk/)

Dude, don't EVER make the third out stealing third base.

Posted by: tcn in AK at June 24, 2025 04:52 PM (1Gsou)

265 28 Days is where Sandra Bullock fought zombies in a Rehab Clinic.

Posted by: polynikes at June 24, 2025 04:52 PM (VofaG)

266 If Warner Brothers does that, J.K Rowlings will have her solicitors cancel their contract with WB over the Hogwarts IP for cause.

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 24, 2025 04:52 PM (r+I/B)

267 53 >>>Then there is Pedro himself with his "Dolls" t-shirt, trying to cop a feel off Vanessa Kirby, and trying to deepthroat a rainbow dildo.

oh yeah the touching stuff with Kirby is weird.
Posted by: ace at June 24, 2025 04:23 PM (KRtlO)

I have not heard this touching story. What's the 25 cent version?

Posted by: Cu at June 24, 2025 04:52 PM (OA79/)

268 @jk rowling
Attention all men telling me I look like a trans woman: I'm sensing that this isn't meant as a compliment. In fact, the implication seems to be that trans women look male, or odd, or ugly. This is appallingly transphobic and I'll thank you to take your bigotry off my timeline.

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1. Go to a trans activist march.
2. Identify a somewhat normal-looking woman (there's always at least one)
3. Tell her, "I just want to congratulate you on your transition. You really look almost like a cis woman!"
4. Step back and watch. Or run away. Probably the latter.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 24, 2025 04:52 PM (6bTRc)

269 I got super hero fatigue while still in the single digits.

Posted by: Boss Moss at June 24, 2025 04:52 PM (nCKL5)

270 241 I read a review of 28YL from one of the UK rags, saying the movie brings attention to concerns like Brexit and nationalism. Blech.
Posted by: Citizen Cake at June 24, 2025 04:50 PM (CwhoI)

It's kind of a reversion to form. "Monster Movies", or heck, any kind of literature with Monsters in it, typically is a means of some kind of Current Day political criticism or satire or something like that, right? Even Current Days of long ago?

"People are the real monsters" blah blah blah barf.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 24, 2025 04:52 PM (BjH5D)

271 I'm kinda at the same place with zombies that I am with superheroes. Time to find a new dead horse to flog.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at June 24, 2025 04:52 PM (SSEhk)

272 What is "bougie" supposed to mean? Isn't that a French word for "candle"? Does this mean Pedro gets down with wax cylinders or something?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 24, 2025 04:52 PM (omVj0)

273 I've never seen anything this guy Pascal has been in. Usually actors have some standout feature or talent. This guy looks like a derelict

Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 24, 2025 04:52 PM (pwtJC)

274 Pedro Pascal is Wish.com Burt Reynolds, with all the acting talent.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 24, 2025 04:52 PM (dfIr7)

275 Even a man who is pure in heart and says his prayers by night, may become a wolf when the wolfbane blooms and the autumn moon is bright.

Posted by: JackStraw at June 24, 2025 04:53 PM (viF8m)

276 257 246 The whole point of a movie star is that they look better than the average person. No guy minded his wife liking Clark Gable because Clark Gable was a 1 in a million guy, and the husband probably wanted to emulate Gable himself.

and yet, Humphrey Bogart.
Posted by: toby928 at June 24, 2025 04:50 PM (jc0TO)

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The point of the movie star is to sell tickets. That's why they're paid a lot. It's not because they look good.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 24, 2025 04:51 PM (GBKbO)

There's this old wrestling curmudgeon that I sometimes listen to, and he worked with all of the major organizations I think. His point was that every segment should be geared toward selling tickets.

Why cast person A? Because the mf'er will sell tickets.

I don't think anyone cares anymore, though.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at June 24, 2025 04:53 PM (KbCG3)

277 Urban Dictionary:

Bougie: People [pretending] to (or think they are) [high class] and but they're [really not] (or don't realize they aren't.)
Posted by: Duncanthrax at June 24, 2025 04:51 PM (0sNs

Or as I call it

Fake It 'til you make it.

Posted by: polynikes at June 24, 2025 04:53 PM (VofaG)

278 Did he sound like Paul Lynde when he said heinous?

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at June 24, 2025 04:53 PM (kTd/k)

279 Romero zombies aren't "really" zombies either, if you go back to the original lore of voodoo necromancy.

Posted by: Shamble and ramble at June 24, 2025 04:53 PM (TbWk/)

280 255 To be clear, his younger brother now claims he's a woman?

Who molested him, Pedro or another family member?
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at June 24, 2025 04:51 PM (2uKh/)

I'm going to assume it was Pedro. He's the most vehement in this matter. Dad should have kept an eye on that, but....

Posted by: tcn in AK at June 24, 2025 04:53 PM (1Gsou)

281 "Pedro Pascal defends calling JK Rowling a 'heinous loser' and says 'bullies make me f****** sick' in latest broadside at Harry Potter creator"

Pedro, such a filthy mouth! Would suck your sister's dick with that mouth?

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at June 24, 2025 04:54 PM (pIfcn)

282 I’m hoping Superman will not be woke—Zazlav knows WB needs this to be successful, and he was willing to bin the Batgirl movie for a tax write off.

Posted by: Open Channel D at June 24, 2025 04:54 PM (gYnrv)

283 Urban Dictionary:

Bougie: People [pretending] to (or think they are) [high class] and but they're [really not] (or don't realize they aren't.)
Posted by: Duncanthrax at June 24, 2025


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Oh.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 24, 2025 04:54 PM (omVj0)

284 Fun fact: there were no hypochondriacs until this invention.
Posted by: mikeski at June 24, 2025 04:49 PM (DgGvY)

Yes, I imagine doctors became much more popular among the ladyfolks at that time.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at June 24, 2025 04:54 PM (uCjyK)

285 It seems clear that Latinos are great landscapers but really at showbiz.

Between this queen and the Snow White idiot, once they learn English they can't stop yapping their careers away.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at June 24, 2025 04:54 PM (wBaIH)

286 The point of the movie star is to sell tickets. That's why they're paid a lot. It's not because they look good.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 24, 2025 04:51 PM


And the point of the director is to make a movie that is artistic.

Posted by: Alan Smithee at June 24, 2025 04:54 PM (0sNs1)

287 Urban Dictionary:

Bougie: People [pretending] to (or think they are) [high class] and but they're [really not] (or don't realize they aren't.)
Posted by: Duncanthrax at June 24, 2025 04:51 PM (0sNs

Or as I call it

Fake It 'til you make it.

Posted by: polynikes at June 24, 2025 04:53 PM


I call them plastic people, they are most definitely not real.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at June 24, 2025 04:54 PM (e5NfL)

288 Have you guys seen the Ironheart trailer??


Holee fkballs.

It's a "re-imagined" Ironman. If you know what I mean.

They quintripled down on ghetto. I'm sure it'll be great!

So how does Hollywood launder money by making surefire bombs? Does anyone know the math on that?

Posted by: eleven at June 24, 2025 04:54 PM (fV+MH)

289 Isn’t a Komodo dragon close enough to the ancient conception of a dragon (the kind St. George killed) to say dragons are real, just very uncommon?

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at June 24, 2025 04:54 PM (qgNn3)

290 Not much hope for the sequel as the coda to 28YL makes it pretty obvious we're going to be getting yet another EEEEEEeeeevil White People movie.

Anyway, check it out if you're a fan of the series.

Posted by: naturalfake at June 24, 2025 04:42 PM (iJfKG)

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I read a little bit on it the other day.

There is supposed to be a trilogy.

The next one is titled 28 Weeks Later: Bone Temple.
They filmed these two together like Back to the Future 2 & 3.

Nothing out on the third yet.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at June 24, 2025 04:55 PM (6ydKt)

291 I suspect that Pedro is not unfamiliar with the taste of familial penis.

Posted by: toby928 at June 24, 2025 04:55 PM (jc0TO)

292 >>>28 Days is where Sandra Bullock fought zombies in a Rehab Clinic.

No, that was when she fought a zombie in a bus that couldn't go slower than 50 mph.

Posted by: Citizen Cake at June 24, 2025 04:55 PM (CwhoI)

293 I don't know anything about this toad, but I'm pretty sure JK Rowling sleeps quite well at night, comfortable in the knowledge that she is more successful than this yipping chihuahua will ever be.
Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at June 24, 2025 04:51 PM (MZ+PY)
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I vaguely recall someone asking her how she can sleep at night and she responded that she sleeps soundly on a mattress stuffed with royalty checks, or something to that effect.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 24, 2025 04:55 PM (7fElN)

294 I make exceptions for people with extra X or Y chromosomes, but they are not trans people: rather they suffer from a genetic aberration, and have significant health and developmental issues. They deserve our pity and our care. But they are a minuscule fraction of the so-called trans population!
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at June 24, 2025 04:48 PM (qgNn3)

They aren't trans. Their genes at birth were fixed as what they are. Same for any developmental abnormalities that aren't genetic.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 24, 2025 04:55 PM (8avO+)

295 Perfessor, I was alluding to CS Lewis' quote in my comment! I love how smart the Horde is. You get a box of cookies as a reward.

Posted by: LizLem at June 24, 2025 04:55 PM (Eng1Z)

296 272 What is "bougie" supposed to mean? Isn't that a French word for "candle"? Does this mean Pedro gets down with wax cylinders or something?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 24, 2025 04:52 PM (omVj0)

It's tiktok speak for "bourgeoise", in the sense of "spoiled and rich (but not super rich, just normal developed nation person "rich")".

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 24, 2025 04:55 PM (BjH5D)

297 275 Even a man who is pure in heart and says his prayers by night, may become a wolf when the wolfbane blooms and the autumn moon is bright.
Posted by: JackStraw at June 24, 2025 04:53 PM (viF8m)

Really beautiful.

Posted by: m at June 24, 2025 04:55 PM (CQE5S)

298 Urban Dictionary:

Bougie: People [pretending] to (or think they are) [high class] and but they're [really not] (or don't realize they aren't.)
Posted by: Duncanthrax at June 24, 2025 04:51 PM (0sNs1)
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Etymology: Ebonics for "bourgeoisie," since shifted into mainstream slang.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 24, 2025 04:55 PM (6bTRc)

299
I don't know anything about this toad, but I'm pretty sure JK Rowling sleeps quite well at night, comfortable in the knowledge that she is more successful than this yipping chihuahua will ever be.
Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at June 24, 2025 04:51 PM (MZ+PY)



I understand that a mattress covered in British Pound notes, Scrooge McDuck-style is quite comfy.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at June 24, 2025 04:55 PM (y9nCu)

300 CCC

Posted by: m at June 24, 2025 04:55 PM (CQE5S)

301 What do people mean when they say you look trans??

I suspect it means that they are aware you are AFAB, but that you have an extremely androgynous or male appearance.

Learn something everyday. Quite the insult to a real woman.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at June 24, 2025 04:55 PM (NFX2v)

302 So it's a movie thread now?

Well, that was unexpected.

Posted by: dantesed at June 24, 2025 04:56 PM (Oy/m2)

303 276 There's this old wrestling curmudgeon that I sometimes listen to, and he worked with all of the major organizations I think. His point was that every segment should be geared toward selling tickets.

Why cast person A? Because the mf'er will sell tickets.

I don't think anyone cares anymore, though.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at June 24, 2025 04:53 PM (KbCG3)

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It was designed by Irving Thalberg at MGM in the 20s to try and apply the Henry Ford mode of production to Hollywood.

Actors were cogs in the studio machine, just like artisans, writers, and directors.

So, you put actors into kinds of films, and then you prioritized production levels around actors who had proven histories of bringing in audiences.

It didn't take long for actors and their PR agents to make it into something else, something ethereal and magical about the mysterious power of particular movie stars that could be described as charisma, though. And the myth of the movie star morphed into an excuse to pay Cary Grant a lot of money to play himself.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 24, 2025 04:56 PM (GBKbO)

304 Pedro and Vanessa were at San Diego Comic Con this year to push Fantastic Four and in front of all those cameras and fans he made a move on Vanessa. She brushed him off. And later Pedro claimed he gets anxiety attacks in front of crowds.

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 24, 2025 04:56 PM (r+I/B)

305 272 What is "bougie" supposed to mean? Isn't that a French word for "candle"? Does this mean Pedro gets down with wax cylinders or something?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 24, 2025 04:52 PM (omVj0)

It's too hard for Zoomers to say bourgeoisie, so they go with 'bougie'

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at June 24, 2025 04:56 PM (xcxpd)

306 I been caught stealing once. When I was five.

I bet you just walked right through that door.

Posted by: Doug Roberts at June 24, 2025 04:56 PM (mlDMX)

307 The whole point of a movie star is that they look better than the average person. No guy minded his wife liking Clark Gable because Clark Gable was a 1 in a million guy, and the husband probably wanted to emulate Gable himself.
*
and yet, Humphrey Bogart.
Posted by: toby928 at June 24, 2025


***
Bogart had screen presence right from the beginning, and he was a solid actor as well. His Duke Mantee early in his career, his Roy Earle, and later his Capt. Queeg were textbook examples of how you make an audience watch you even when you don't look like Gable.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 24, 2025 04:56 PM (omVj0)

308 >>>28 Days is where Sandra Bullock fought zombies in a Rehab Clinic.

No, that was when she fought a zombie in a bus that couldn't go slower than 50 mph.

Posted by: Citizen Cake at June 24, 2025 04:55 PM (CwhoI)

Morons here can come up with better movie pitches just riffing on a joke.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at June 24, 2025 04:56 PM (i24o9)

309 Bougie must be a short form (or a garbled version of) bourgeois.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at June 24, 2025 04:56 PM (qgNn3)

310 272 What is "bougie" supposed to mean? Isn't that a French word for "candle"? Does this mean Pedro gets down with wax cylinders or something?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 24, 2025 04:52 PM (omVj0)

it's Gen X slang that the Zoomers are bringing back. Basically someone who is faux fancy / rich, usually said tongue in cheek. Like "I only drink coffee from Starbucks because I'm bougie like that."

Teenaged / early twenties girls seem to think it's a cute way to describe themselves these days. 50 year old men do not, even if they know what it means (from their childhood.)

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at June 24, 2025 04:56 PM (uCjyK)

311
He does have a potty mouth for a boy.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at June 24, 2025 04:56 PM (qtyb5)

312 291 I suspect that Pedro is not unfamiliar with the taste of familial penis.
Posted by: toby928 at June 24, 2025 04:55 PM (jc0TO)

Was that an Allende Innuendo?

Go on. Say that out loud. Do it. It's fun.

"Allende Innuendo".

hehehe.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 24, 2025 04:56 PM (BjH5D)

313 A Zombie killed Beau while he was, you know, the thing.

Posted by: Joe Biden at June 24, 2025 04:57 PM (PiwSw)

314 The lesson of this exchange is that an actor isn't intelligent enough to get into a verbal argument with an author like Rowling. Stick to playing let's pretend, Pascal.

Posted by: nerdygirl at June 24, 2025 04:57 PM (0Htd1)

315 290 The next one is titled 28 Weeks Later: Bone Temple.
They filmed these two together like Back to the Future 2 & 3.

Nothing out on the third yet.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at June 24, 2025 04:55 PM (6ydKt)

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Not together, but more back to back.

The Bone Temple has a different director (the lady who directed The Marvels for some reason).

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 24, 2025 04:57 PM (GBKbO)

316 286 The point of the movie star is to sell tickets. That's why they're paid a lot. It's not because they look good.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 24, 2025 04:51 PM

Ugly people don't sell movies, unless the point is that they are ugly (ie - comedy or horror or certain drama concepts).

Most superheroes are not ugly, at least not the pre-80s ones. And even if a film "does ugly", usually, it's never the whole cast...people need some people to look at for the eye. Eyes don't like focusing on ugly and paying for it...

Posted by: Nova Local at June 24, 2025 04:57 PM (tOcjL)

317 309 Bougie must be a short form (or a garbled version of) bourgeois.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at June 24, 2025 04:56 PM (qgNn3)

Yes, I think that's the origin of the word.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at June 24, 2025 04:57 PM (uCjyK)

318 What is "bougie" supposed to mean? Isn't that a French word for "candle"? Does this mean Pedro gets down with wax cylinders or something?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 24, 2025 04:52 PM (omVj0)

It's just shortened slang for bourgeois.

AOC said garbage disposals were "bougie" when she first discovered one in her apartment in DC.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at June 24, 2025 04:57 PM (6ydKt)

319 Urban Dictionary:

Bougie: People [pretending] to (or think they are) [high class] and but they're [really not] (or don't realize they aren't.)
Posted by: Duncanthrax at June 24, 2025 04:51 PM (0sNs1)
++++
The other form, also quite common, is "sheltered, grasping middle-class type putting on airs." That's the original form, from the literal "bourgeoisie."

The Marxist class struggle became actual common slang, to mean or more less the same thing (in its original form, anyway). And almost no one realizes it.

It's sad just how much Marx won...

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 24, 2025 04:57 PM (6bTRc)

320 ...the myth of the movie star morphed into an excuse to pay Cary Grant a lot of money to play himself.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 24, 2025 04:56 PM (GBKbO)

The real Cary Grant was not the Cary Grant you see on the screen. It's why he retired.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at June 24, 2025 04:57 PM (xcxpd)

321 Holee fkballs.

It's a "re-imagined" Ironman. If you know what I mean.

They quintripled down on ghetto. I'm sure it'll be great!

So how does Hollywood launder money by making surefire bombs? Does anyone know the math on that?
Posted by: eleven at June 24, 2025 04:54 PM (fV+MH)
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Hollywood Accounting makes bistromathics look like simple algebra.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 24, 2025 04:57 PM (7fElN)

322 Isn’t a Komodo dragon close enough to the ancient conception of a dragon (the kind St. George killed) to say dragons are real, just very uncommon?
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at June 24, 2025 04:54 PM (qgNn3)

no.

Pretty much all dragon ideas have an upright stance (legs more or less vertical like a dino) while lizards have splayed out legs.) And of course the wings and fire breathing don't exist in nature.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 24, 2025 04:57 PM (8avO+)

323 302 So it's a movie thread now?

Well, that was unexpected.
Posted by: dantesed at June 24, 2025 04:56 PM (Oy/m2)

We transitioned from one fake and gay topic to another fake and gay topic.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at June 24, 2025 04:57 PM (SSEhk)

324 Ironheart is ghetto? Ghetto is so hot right now.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at June 24, 2025 04:57 PM (wBaIH)

325 Pudgy Mustache was over compensating in groping Vanessa. I doubt he swings that way. It’s more likely that Disney arranged to try to butch him up.

Posted by: Open Channel D at June 24, 2025 04:58 PM (gYnrv)

326 Bougie as I understand it came from bourgeoisie. It's a smack at middle class people who want to be down with the struggle but still want to maintain there middle class status and mores. So I guess fake works

Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 24, 2025 04:58 PM (pwtJC)

327
and yet, Humphrey Bogart.
Posted by: toby928 at June 24, 2025 04:50 PM (jc0TO)


Here is an example of dressing well and swagger over coming a lot. There is a lesson in here for some of you!

But also, to be an actor, male or female, the camera has to love you. This doesn’t always translate to Adonis looks. In fact, sometimes large features photograph better- plus lightening, etc. conversely, there are people who are very attractive but don’t photograph well at all.

Posted by: Piper at June 24, 2025 04:58 PM (pZEOD)

328 316 Ugly people don't sell movies, unless the point is that they are ugly (ie - comedy or horror or certain drama concepts).

Most superheroes are not ugly, at least not the pre-80s ones. And even if a film "does ugly", usually, it's never the whole cast...people need some people to look at for the eye. Eyes don't like focusing on ugly and paying for it...
Posted by: Nova Local at June 24, 2025 04:57 PM (tOcjL)

======

Bogart was an ugly man.

Biggest movie star for years.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 24, 2025 04:58 PM (GBKbO)

329 So Rowling looks trans… not when I look at her… but then again I am not some petulant little bitch-man trying to be relevant.

Posted by: tubal at June 24, 2025 04:58 PM (PCK5/)

330 How about this: Sandra Bullock adopts a zombie who becomes a starting lineman for the Baltimore Ravens.

Posted by: Citizen Cake at June 24, 2025 04:58 PM (CwhoI)

331 Anyone know if they are doing the ceasefire ?

Posted by: It's me donna at June 24, 2025 04:58 PM (VE6XX)

332 It seems clear that Latinos are great landscapers but really at showbiz.

Between this queen and the Snow White idiot, once they learn English they can't stop yapping their careers away.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at June 24, 2025 04:54 PM (wBaIH)

I would like to point out the the Snow White idiot only has some vague connection to Colombia by way of her grandmother. Beyond that Zegler is merely another loudmouthed pollack but with a tan.

Posted by: Robert at June 24, 2025 04:58 PM (afxSd)

333 It's too hard for Zoomers to say bourgeoisie, so they go with 'bougie'

Its a new thing I've noticed. A "scold" kind of thing.

One of those things I would have never thought about in my 20s. Because Gen X was just self-centered and wanted to get good jobs and buy a house. That was the common bitch from our "betters" at the time.

Posted by: Doug Roberts at June 24, 2025 04:58 PM (mlDMX)

334 Nah, Pedro Pascal is the wayfair.com Burt Reynolds.

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 24, 2025 04:58 PM (r+I/B)

335 And from what I understand Bogart really was a tough guy. He didn't take any crap or tolerate any crap.

Posted by: polynikes at June 24, 2025 04:58 PM (VofaG)

336 323 302 So it's a movie thread now?

Well, that was unexpected.
Posted by: dantesed at June 24, 2025 04:56 PM (Oy/m2)

We transitioned from one fake and gay topic to another fake and gay topic.


so we embraced the healing power of "and"?

Posted by: anachronda at June 24, 2025 04:58 PM (sGtp+)

337 I've been re-watching Deep Space Nine.

And I just noticed they have all-but admitted most people are immortal.

There's the episode where the guy tries to frame Odo by killing a clone of himself.

And now the episode where the villain transfers his consciousness to the doctor via a microscopic injection.

Well, that's immortality.

Plus the whole transporters that destroy the physical and convert it to energy then back to physical.
Which is basically a clone of your old self.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at June 24, 2025 04:59 PM (2uKh/)

338 *So how does Hollywood launder money by making surefire bombs? Does anyone know the math on that?
Posted by: eleven at June 24, 2025 04:54 PM*


It's a write off, Jerry.
They just write it off.

Posted by: Kramer at June 24, 2025 04:59 PM (lIgBp)

339 Bogart had screen presence right from the beginning, and he was a solid actor as well.

Before WW1 when he got his face damaged and paralyzed his upper lip, he was cast a lot as the gormless buddy to the romantic lead, not quite handsome enough but charming and likable.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 24, 2025 04:59 PM (dfIr7)

340 Yes, they would be "the Dragons of Theseus"
Posted by: Kindltot


I saw The Dragons Of Theseus open for Styx at the Parthenon in Nashville in '74.

Posted by: mikeski at June 24, 2025 04:59 PM (DgGvY)

341 Not together, but more back to back.

The Bone Temple has a different director (the lady who directed The Marvels for some reason).

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 24, 2025 04:57 PM (GBKbO)

---

That'll probably go down in flames, then.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at June 24, 2025 04:59 PM (6ydKt)

342 28 Days is where Sandra Bullock took a love potion and fucked the whole football team.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at June 24, 2025 04:59 PM (qtyb5)

343 302 So it's a movie thread now?

Well, that was unexpected.
Posted by: dantesed at June 24, 2025 04:56 PM (Oy/m2)

IT'S FUNNY BECAUSE THE OP IS LITERALLY ABOUT A MOVIE

Posted by: BEN ROETHLISSBERGER at June 24, 2025 04:59 PM (BjH5D)

344 I always like when the homely girl that takes off her classes and changes her hairstyle and is suddenly beautiful. It's like watching a butterfly emerge from it's cocoon.

Posted by: toby928 at June 24, 2025 04:59 PM (jc0TO)

345 My memories of the 28 Days/Weeks Later movies are these - the first half of 28 Days Later is great. It loses steam after Frank dies, but still, serviceable. 28 Weeks Later is retarded garbage. It seems more of Danny Boyle's critique of the Iraq War than an logical progression of what the US/NATO would do about Britain being laid waste from the Rage virus.

Posted by: Thrawn at June 24, 2025 05:00 PM (9Ovst)

346 Bogart had screen presence right from the beginning, and he was a solid actor as well. His Duke Mantee early in his career, his Roy Earle, and later his Capt. Queeg were textbook examples of how you make an audience watch you even when you don't look like Gable.
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Bogart and Don Knotts have a lot in common. Noticed this as a kid.

Posted by: pudinhead at June 24, 2025 05:00 PM (FmapG)

347 28 Days is where Sandra Bullock took a love potion and fucked the whole football team.
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at June 24, 2025 04:59 PM


From ... the blind side!

Posted by: toby928 at June 24, 2025 05:00 PM (jc0TO)

348 The gutters get wider, the snipes louder, and the straight and narrow narrower.

Posted by: Ordinary Amerian at June 24, 2025 05:00 PM (x2CMu)

349 310 272 What is "bougie" supposed to mean? Isn't that a French word for "candle"? Does this mean Pedro gets down with wax cylinders or something?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 24, 2025 04:52 PM (omVj0)

it's Gen X slang that the Zoomers are bringing back. Basically someone who is faux fancy / rich, usually said tongue in cheek. Like "I only drink coffee from Starbucks because I'm bougie like that."

Teenaged / early twenties girls seem to think it's a cute way to describe themselves these days. 50 year old men do not, even if they know what it means (from their childhood.)
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at June 24, 2025 04:56 PM (uCjyK)

It's not Gen X slang. It's black slang, that white people have incorporated because the negroes have so much soul or some equally stupid shit.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at June 24, 2025 05:00 PM (SSEhk)

350 never heard of the guy, haven't seen anything about the fantastic four and I can't even recall the last Disney movie I watched...Imma go weed the flowerbed

Posted by: DanMan at June 24, 2025 05:00 PM (8uzBS)

351 Bogart was an ugly man.

Biggest movie star for years.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 24, 2025 04:58 PM (GBKbO)

And the rest of his casts were not...so his distinctiveness and charisma could sell, as did his very attractive castmates...

Posted by: Nova Local at June 24, 2025 05:00 PM (tOcjL)

352 And the myth of the movie star morphed into an excuse to pay Cary Grant a lot of money to play himself.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 24, 2025


***
He did that a lot, yes, but he was capable of a good deal more. Check him out in Penny Serenade and, much later, in Father Goose. The latter was a role he was quoted as saying was a lot closer to his real self than most of the roles he played.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 24, 2025 05:00 PM (omVj0)

353
Urban Dictionary:

Bougie: People [pretending] to (or think they are) [high class] and but they're [really not] (or don't realize they aren't.)
Posted by: Duncanthrax at June 24, 2025


Eh, I'm calling bullshit on that definition.

Bougie has been slang for Bourgeoisie for decades.

It's just gotten popular again, I guess.

But, hey maybe that what it means now.

Posted by: naturalfake at June 24, 2025 05:00 PM (iJfKG)

354 Pedro is frustrating because he is a decent actor. He did a good job of making you feel what the Mandelorian, a stoic masked character, was feeling, though the mask. He had a sexually charged alpha male energy mixed with hubris in Game of Thrones. And I liked him in that silly Nicholas Cage film, The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent, that became a meme. But he's so repellant in real life, it's actually ruining his films for me. I see his twerpy real self now, not the character.

Studios should make their contracts like sports contracts; you say something flagrantly foul while contracted for this movie, we can slap you with a fine. That would make some of this stuff stop, if the agents will go along with it and keep their actors on a tight leash.

Posted by: LizLem at June 24, 2025 05:00 PM (Eng1Z)

355 'And he said that as the older brother to someone saying that our little sister doesn't exist.'

Dude, its your brother. And either you, your parents, or another close parental figure molested him.

Posted by: 18-1 at June 24, 2025 05:01 PM (t0Rmr)

356 The point of the movie star is to sell tickets. That's why they're paid a lot. It's not because they look good.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 24, 2025 04:51 PM
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Looking good helps do that.

This is the "why do athletes get paid so much and schoolteachers so little" argument again. They don't, not in terms of persons served. Tom Brady probably made maybe a few cents per person served (viewer entertained) over the course of a season. A schoolteacher earns a couple of hundred bucks or more per person served.

What allows the movie star to earn so much is the same thing that allowed movie stars to happen (and music stars, and athlete stars, etc): mass media, and therefore massed customers.

With the media landscape fracturing and the audience so sub-sectioned, the masses aren't there anymore. The movie star really has no place anymore, and their general unpleasantness has compounded the problem dramatically.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 24, 2025 05:01 PM (6bTRc)

357 New York hits 100 degrees.

Posted by: Boss Moss at June 24, 2025 05:01 PM (nCKL5)

358 He did that a lot, yes, but he was capable of a good deal more. Check him out in Penny Serenade and, much later, in Father Goose. The latter was a role he was quoted as saying was a lot closer to his real self than most of the roles he played.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 24, 2025 05:00 PM (omVj0)

Penny Serenade, one of the greatest movies I've ever seen get obliterated in the last two minutes.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at June 24, 2025 05:01 PM (KbCG3)

359 It's not Gen X slang. It's black slang, that white people have incorporated because the negroes have so much soul or some equally stupid shit.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at June 24, 2025 05:00 PM (SSEhk)

Could be, I first heard it from white Gen X'ers when I was young, but it wouldn't surprise me if it originated with black people. A lot of slang does.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at June 24, 2025 05:01 PM (uCjyK)

360 357 New York hits 100 degrees.
Posted by: Boss Moss at June 24, 2025 05:01 PM (nCKL5)


Is that unusual ?

Posted by: It's me donna at June 24, 2025 05:02 PM (VE6XX)

361 I thought I remembered it right. "Bougie" is French for "candle."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 24, 2025 05:02 PM (omVj0)

362 357 New York hits 100 degrees.
Posted by: Boss Moss at June 24, 2025 05:01 PM (nCKL5)

It sure has fuck has. Today has been oppressively hot.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at June 24, 2025 05:02 PM (uCjyK)

363 Nah, Pedro Pascal is the wayfair.com Burt Reynolds.

Wasn't that the company that had ludicrously overpriced basic furniture with suspicious descriptions?

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 24, 2025 05:02 PM (dfIr7)

364
82 I love the irony that many of the actors playing the "villains" of the Harry Potter movies -- Voldemort, Bellatrix, Lucius -- have defended JK Rowling, and the actors playing the main "heroes" have all thrown her under the bus. Poetic.
Posted by: LizLem at June 24, 2025 04:28 PM (Eng1Z)

Might be because it takes a much better actor to skillfully portray a villain well, than it takes to play someone who's supposed to be the star of the script.
Helena Bonham Carter is someone I've liked watching no matter what she's in.
Posted by: Tom Servo at June 24, 2025 04:32 PM (uWKK

if you play the villain, you've gotten over the need to be liked that drives the cancel culture.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 24, 2025 05:02 PM (8avO+)

365 Some movie stars are people you'd aspire to be like. Some, you would like to sleep with. Bogie was the former.

Posted by: Citizen Cake at June 24, 2025 05:02 PM (CwhoI)

366 ... It Must Be Time for One of Its Overpaid Woke Communist Non-Talents to Open His Mouth Again
—Ace

Perfection. 👍

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at June 24, 2025 05:03 PM (NFX2v)

367 28 Days is where Sandra Bullock took a love potion and fucked the whole football team.
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at June 24, 2025 04:59 PM

In the end, she becomes a wide receiver.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at June 24, 2025 05:03 PM (i24o9)

368 Is that unusual ?
Posted by: It's me donna at June 24, 2025 05:02 PM (VE6XX)

Unusual yes, unheard of no.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at June 24, 2025 05:03 PM (uCjyK)

369 Pedro is frustrating because he is a decent actor. He did a good job of making you feel what the Mandelorian, a stoic masked character, was feeling, though the mask. He had a sexually charged alpha male energy mixed with hubris in Game of Thrones. And I liked him in that silly Nicholas Cage film, The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent, that became a meme. ...
Posted by: LizLem at June 24, 2025 05:00 PM (Eng1Z)
++++
That last is the only thing I've ever seen him in. He was fine. Played it well and was good opposite Cage.

He was no so good that I thought, "boy, I'd like to see him in more stuff and would go see another Pedro Pascal movie." Then he opened his mouth.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 24, 2025 05:03 PM (6bTRc)

370 357 New York hits 100 degrees.
Posted by: Boss Moss at June 24, 2025 05:01 PM (nCKL5)


Socialism can fix that!

Posted by: Zohran Mamdani, with fresh new ideas that have never really been tried before at June 24, 2025 05:03 PM (PiwSw)

371 New York hits 100 degrees.

Aw, that's awful.

Next story ?

Posted by: Doug Roberts at June 24, 2025 05:03 PM (mlDMX)

372 The Hollywood of yesteryear - Tom&Jerry

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0cwtd5ZDe0

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 24, 2025 05:03 PM (r+I/B)

373 Its a new thing I've noticed. A "scold" kind of thing.

One of those things I would have never thought about in my 20s. Because Gen X was just self-centered and wanted to get good jobs and buy a house. That was the common bitch from our "betters" at the time.
Posted by: Doug Roberts at June 24, 2025 04:58 PM (mlDMX)

There's nothing scold about it. It's almost endearing. It's silly children casting off the boring Marxist-Leninist brainwashing of their parents, making them feel guilty for wanting nice things and then going out to buy nice things.

"Fuck that. It's my money. I bought it. I like it. I'm not apologizing. It's a little silly, so i'll be a little self deprecating about it, but who cares."

I'll take that attitude in a zoomer over unpleated khakis and undyed linen shirts with a little red book in the pocket any day of the week.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 24, 2025 05:04 PM (BjH5D)

374 I saw on the socials folks recommending The Bone Tomahawk.

No.

Not watching that again; the "split them alive" scene was pretty gruesome.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at June 24, 2025 05:04 PM (2uKh/)

375 If only people paid more taxes we could end these 100 degree days in summer!

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 24, 2025 05:05 PM (dfIr7)

376 The other form, also quite common, is "sheltered, grasping middle-class type putting on airs." That's the original form, from the literal "bourgeoisie."

The Marxist class struggle became actual common slang, to mean or more less the same thing (in its original form, anyway). And almost no one realizes it.

It's sad just how much Marx won...
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)

I know what it means, but I pretend I'm dumb and ask the person using the word what it means. It entertains me for some reason.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at June 24, 2025 05:05 PM (Dv3i1)

377 288 Have you guys seen the Ironheart trailer??


Holee fkballs.

It's a "re-imagined" Ironman. If you know what I mean.

They quintripled down on ghetto. I'm sure it'll be great!

So how does Hollywood launder money by making surefire bombs? Does anyone know the math on that?

Posted by: eleven at June 24, 2025 04:54 PM (fV+MH)

--

Disney marketing department was bombarding me with the trailer on YouTube for a few weeks.

Thankfully that's all over.

I agree with you, it was purely marketed to teens - 20s urban black girls.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at June 24, 2025 05:05 PM (6ydKt)

378 Penny Serenade, one of the greatest movies I've ever seen get obliterated in the last two minutes.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at June 24, 2025


***
What I remember about it is the scene where Grant is emotionally appealing to the family court judge to let him and his wife (Irene Dunne) adopt the little girl.

I think I have a copy of it on DVD. Time to dig it out.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 24, 2025 05:05 PM (omVj0)

379 That last is the only thing I've ever seen him in. He was fine. Played it well and was good opposite Cage.

I would have expected that to become a naked singularity of scene chewing.

Posted by: toby928 at June 24, 2025 05:05 PM (jc0TO)

380 Robert

You might like this -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ndBoc6R8_A

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 24, 2025 05:05 PM (r+I/B)

381 28 Days is where Sandra Bullock took a love potion and fucked the whole football team.

Fun Fact ... the movie showed the happy feel good story so well that the big lineman sued the family over royalties.

True Shit. Ohr sued them over the movie profit. I love a happy ending to shit like that.

Posted by: Doug Roberts at June 24, 2025 05:05 PM (mlDMX)

382 >>> It's tiktok speak for "bourgeoise", in the sense of "spoiled and rich (but not super rich, just normal developed nation person "rich")".

It's secret contempt for the middle class dressed up as contempt for the elites. And Millennials and younger don't know what the actual bourgeoise are, because public schools suck, so they just keep repeating it.

Posted by: LizLem at June 24, 2025 05:06 PM (Eng1Z)

383 Pascal, 50, whose sister Lux recently came out as a transgender woman, initially made the scathing 'heinous loser' remark in April on Instagram.

Edited for accuracy: Pascal, an actor who makes his living pretending to be something he isn't, unsurprisingly has a brother who also pretends he's something he isn't; the brother dresses up in women's clothes and pretends he's a woman. See, e.g,. Mrs. Doubtfire, Dame Edna, and Milton Berle.

Posted by: LASue at June 24, 2025 05:06 PM (lCppi)

384 367 28 Days is where Sandra Bullock took a love potion and fucked the whole football team.
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at June 24, 2025 04:59 PM

In the end, she becomes a wide receiver.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at June 24, 2025 05:03 PM (i24o9)

Well, that would make one's receiver a little wide.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at June 24, 2025 05:06 PM (SSEhk)

385 Breaking: Karmelo Anthony has been indicted on a charge of first-degree murder of Austin Metcalf.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at June 24, 2025 05:06 PM (0sNs1)

386 Pascal wants to be Trans like his brother

Clearly

Posted by: Gonzotx at June 24, 2025 05:06 PM (nGraA)

387 Carmelo Anthony has been indicted for 1st Degree Murder in the stabbing death of Austin Metcalf.

https://tinyurl.com/3v4jceff

Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at June 24, 2025 05:06 PM (paSBy)

388 Urban Dictionary:

Bougie: People [pretending] to (or think they are) [high class] and but they're [really not] (or don't realize they aren't.)
Posted by: Duncanthrax at June 24, 2025

Eh, I'm calling bullshit on that definition.

Bougie has been slang for Bourgeoisie for decades.

It's just gotten popular again, I guess.

But, hey maybe that what it means now.
Posted by: naturalfake at June 24, 2025 05:00 PM (iJfKG)

Close enough. It was used by the marxists to damn people 'in the trades' as opposed to intellectuals (them). The new one attempts to do the same from the standpoint of an 'elite' in our pretty much classless society in the US.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 24, 2025 05:06 PM (8avO+)

389 370 357 New York hits 100 degrees.
Posted by: Boss Moss at June 24, 2025 05:01 PM (nCKL5)

Socialism can fix that!


so can i!

Posted by: celsius at June 24, 2025 05:06 PM (sGtp+)

390 28 Days is where Sandra Bullock took a love potion and fucked the whole football team.
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at June 24, 2025 04:59 PM

In the end, she becomes a wide receiver.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder


Lost her tight end position.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 24, 2025 05:06 PM (3xZyM)

391 I thought 28 Days was where an alcoholic Bullock dried out in a Rehab…

Posted by: tubal at June 24, 2025 05:07 PM (PCK5/)

392 Bogart wasn't ugly. He certainly didn't take the pretty boy Cary Grant road to stardom, but he did not have the ugly, pudgy, pock-mocked complexion Pedro Pascal has. And Bogart could act. Ian Fleming described James Bond as looking a bit like Hoagy Carmichael, who had a somewhat Bogart-esque physiognomy.

But I never said that a movie star has to look pretty. I said that they have to look better than the average person. I'm even willing to concede that "better" here could involve non-beautiful traits. How many Sydney Greenstreets or Peter Lorres have you met in person. Neither was even close to being attractive, but both are fun to watch in part because they look different from the average person.

Pedro is just an ugly schlub I can see hundreds of if I walk around in public for a couple of hours.

Posted by: the lower depths at June 24, 2025 05:07 PM (+b4rY)

393 I would have expected that to become a naked singularity of scene chewing.
Posted by: toby928 at June 24, 2025 05:05 PM (jc0TO)
++++
It was! And quite on purpose. It was Nick Cage playing Nick Cage playing himself. That kind of thing is a tough needle to thread, but I think the movie more less achieved it.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 24, 2025 05:07 PM (6bTRc)

394 Fun Fact ... the movie showed the happy feel good story so well that the big lineman sued the family over royalties.

True Shit. Ohr sued them over the movie profit. I love a happy ending to shit like that.
Posted by: Doug Roberts at June 24, 2025 05:05 PM (mlDMX)

That was Blind Side

Posted by: LASue at June 24, 2025 05:07 PM (lCppi)

395 Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 24, 2025 05:03 PM (6bTRc)

I liked the movie but didn't like Pascal because it really did seem like he was gay for Cage instead of the hot girl. That character would have been better written more of being in awe like a son to a father than the gay bromance he exhibited.

Posted by: polynikes at June 24, 2025 05:07 PM (VofaG)

396 re: NYC being hot as balls today. There was a big debate over whether or not to shut down the schools, because many don't have central air, some don't have any AC, and even the ones with AC have window units that may or may not work and usually only in the classrooms.

I don't know why that's so odd to me, but it is. NYC DOE gets god knows how much money, and in 2025, they still don't have AC in every classroom?

When I was kid, we didn't either, but the school was built in the 1940's and the plan was always to retrofit it (I assume it has been done by now).

Definitely hard to focus on learning when its over 100 degrees in your classroom.

Anyways, carry on.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at June 24, 2025 05:08 PM (uCjyK)

397 He's a dude, playing a dude, disguised as another dude.

Posted by: JackStraw at June 24, 2025 05:08 PM (viF8m)

398 New York hits 100 degrees.
Posted by: Boss Moss at June 24, 2025 05:01 PM


And yet, they still can't produce a salsa worth consuming.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at June 24, 2025 05:08 PM (0sNs1)

399 CD

Posted by: m at June 24, 2025 05:08 PM (CQE5S)

400 "374 I saw on the socials folks recommending The Bone Tomahawk."

Excellent Western. Raw, savage, heroic, full of subtle character bits for Matthew Fox and Richard Jenkins.

Posted by: Ordinary Amerian at June 24, 2025 05:08 PM (x2CMu)

401 I liked the movie but didn't like Pascal because it really did seem like he was gay for Cage instead of the hot girl. That character would have been better written more of being in awe like a son to a father than the gay bromance he exhibited.
Posted by: polynikes at June 24, 2025 05:07 PM (VofaG)
++++
He did. I thought that was intentional. As in "he's half a fag and would definitely drop that chick for Cage if Cage swung that way" as a deliberate part of the character. Maybe I give too much credit...

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 24, 2025 05:08 PM (6bTRc)

402 @rawsalerts BREAKING: The TSA is urging travelers not to present Waffle House cards at security checkpoints, as they do not qualify as valid Real ID alternatives for air travel.

Posted by: Citizen Cake at June 24, 2025 05:08 PM (CwhoI)

403 CCCC

Posted by: m at June 24, 2025 05:08 PM (CQE5S)

404 There's nothing scold about it. It's almost endearing.

Negative. On my last contract gig, went back to the hotel and pulled my Blackstone out of the truck bed and steak from the cooler.

One of the iron-workers ... not yet a journeyman ... commented "Bougie". It wasn't a compliment.

Posted by: Doug Roberts at June 24, 2025 05:08 PM (mlDMX)

405 Forgive the pedantry pederasty but Allende was Chilean, not Argentine.
Posted by: mr tmz

FIFY
-Pedro (Phile) Pascal

Posted by: haffhowershower at June 24, 2025 05:09 PM (144I4)

406 Actors who are not attractive-

Steve Buscemi

Shaia Lebouf

Chris Meloni

John Goodman

And the one I go back and forth on, Benedict Cumberbatch. He is ugly hot. Lol.

Posted by: Piper at June 24, 2025 05:09 PM (pZEOD)

407 I liked the movie with dragons more than 28 Days Later

The name is on the tip of my tongue, but can't remember it.

It had Christian Bale & Matthew McConagheeeehey.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at June 24, 2025 05:09 PM (6ydKt)

408 I saw on the socials folks recommending The Bone Tomahawk

Good flick. Good character study.

Posted by: Doug Roberts at June 24, 2025 05:10 PM (mlDMX)

409 Reign of Fire…

Posted by: tubal at June 24, 2025 05:10 PM (PCK5/)

410 @rawsalerts BREAKING: The TSA is urging travelers not to present Waffle House cards at security checkpoints, as they do not qualify as valid Real ID alternatives for air travel.

Posted by: Citizen Cake



What do you mean it's not real id? You can't get a smashed and grabbed without it!

Posted by: rickb223 at June 24, 2025 05:10 PM (3xZyM)

411 Oh! Joaquin Phoenix. Yikes.

Posted by: Piper at June 24, 2025 05:10 PM (pZEOD)

412 I thought 28 Days was where an alcoholic Bullock dried out in a Rehab…
Posted by: tubal at June 24, 2025


***
I liked that one. Sandra was, or is, very good at roles like that. See also Miss Congeniality, her greatest performance.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 24, 2025 05:10 PM (omVj0)

413 And yet, they still can't produce a salsa worth consuming.

After all - it is New York City.

Posted by: Doug Roberts at June 24, 2025 05:11 PM (mlDMX)

414 407 I liked the movie with dragons more than 28 Days Later

The name is on the tip of my tongue, but can't remember it.

It had Christian Bale & Matthew McConagheeeehey.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at June 24, 2025 05:09 PM (6ydKt)


Reign of Fire.

Posted by: Zohran Mamdani, with fresh new ideas that have never really been tried before at June 24, 2025 05:11 PM (PiwSw)

415 409 Reign of Fire…

Posted by: tubal at June 24, 2025 05:10 PM (PCK5/)

There you go.

Matt in a tank coming to save the day was the best part.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at June 24, 2025 05:11 PM (6ydKt)

416 Well, that would make one's receiver a little wide.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at June 24, 2025 05:06 PM (SSEhk)

You BEN ROTHLISBERGERed the joke.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at June 24, 2025 05:11 PM (i24o9)

417 >Carmelo Anthony has been indicted for 1st Degree Murder in the stabbing death of Austin Metcalf.


That's a shame.

Posted by: In my best Seinfeld voice at June 24, 2025 05:12 PM (lIgBp)

418 I saw on the socials folks recommending The Bone Tomahawk

Good flick. Good character study.
Posted by: Doug Roberts at June 24, 2025 05:10 PM (mlDMX)

The Missing >> Bone Tomahawk

Brawl in Cell Block 99 is a better Zahler movie

Posted by: polynikes at June 24, 2025 05:12 PM (VofaG)

419 It's secret contempt for the middle class dressed up as contempt for the elites. And Millennials and younger don't know what the actual bourgeoise are, because public schools suck, so they just keep repeating it.
Posted by: LizLem at June 24, 2025 05:06 PM (Eng1Z)

It's pretty much only ever used as a humble-brag sort of word, as I see it. "Look at my new thing I just paid full price for OMG i'm so bougie".

They're still embracing having money and buying the thing they want with it. There's a sarcastic nod to "Yes, this was totally unnecessary, aren't I just terrible", but it's also the joy of ownership, which is inherently capitalistic. It's taking pride in conspicuous consumption, the most "bourgeoise" thing imaginable.

In a way I feel like the popularity (or resurgence) of the word is a kind of spit in the face at Marx, and not some kind of cryptic victory for him and his bullshit.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 24, 2025 05:13 PM (BjH5D)

420 >>>>Carmelo Anthony has been indicted for 1st Degree Murder in the stabbing death of Austin Metcalf.

Did the news alert come with a Gofundme link to get the Anthony family a second mansion?

Posted by: Citizen Cake at June 24, 2025 05:13 PM (CwhoI)

421 And the one I go back and forth on, Benedict Cumberbatch. He is ugly hot. Lol.

Posted by: Piper at June 24, 2025


***
From my side of the fence, Ellen Barkin when she did Sea of Love w/ Al Pacino was "ugly hot." Well, maybe not ugly, but not glamor beautiful.

Pacino is another one. He was good-looking when he first rose to prominence in The Godfather, but he has not aged well.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 24, 2025 05:13 PM (omVj0)

422 Sandra Bullock in Love Potion number 5 is one of my big crushes, although she's way cuter as "mousy scientist" than "hot girl using wishes to date rich guys"

Have you guys seen the Ironheart trailer??

Yeah they have a few out. Marvel is doing their best to promote this turd, but everyone is expecting it to utterly suck. The story as near as I can work out from the videos is a girl who is called a genius by everyone but for some reason is unable to carry out her dreams despite having already built a suit of power armor while a freshman in college and gone to Wakanda.

So she hooks up with this guy who is actually working for the devil, and goes out robbing rich people to "give to the poor" redistributing wealth with a posse of losers and freaks. She demands to be "iconic" but does nothing heroic in any of the trailers and is clearly self focused and spoiled. She has no dad, he died a while back. Her stepdad is missing from the picture as well.

She has an AI like Tony Stark did with Jarvis, but this one is a sassy black hologram. She uses black magic (no joke actual evil spells) to power up her armor even more.

It looks utterly dreadful

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 24, 2025 05:13 PM (dfIr7)

423 JK Rowling seems to have little to no input whatsoever in this new version, so who the hell even knows. Most Potter fans have written it off already because of the imbecilic Snape casting.

I was one of those folks cautiously wanting to watch the new show; i enjoyed the movies (huge Alan Rickman fan) but I got a bit tired of hearing about JK's views from the old cast. Then they announced the Snape casting and I was out. They just couldn't help themselves. Utterly moronic choice.

Posted by: Nelly at June 24, 2025 05:13 PM (cHLus)

424
But I never said that a movie star has to look pretty. I said that they have to look better than the average person.

Nicholas Cage. Also ugly hot. But more ugly than hot, where Benedict is more hot than ugly.

I am sure I am being very helpful here.

Posted by: Piper at June 24, 2025 05:13 PM (pZEOD)

425 When dealing with dragons always keep your company close together. Literally bumper to bumper if you can.

Posted by: toby928 at June 24, 2025 05:13 PM (jc0TO)

426 I predict Karmelo could be quite popular in prison, if he'll only drop that whole "Touch me and see what happens" thing.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at June 24, 2025 05:13 PM (0sNs1)

427 406 Actors who are not attractive-

Steve Buscemi

Shaia Lebouf

Chris Meloni

John Goodman

And the one I go back and forth on, Benedict Cumberbatch. He is ugly hot. Lol.

Posted by: Piper at June 24, 2025 05:09 PM (pZEOD)

Nick Nolte and his pock marks don't make the list?

Posted by: SpeakingOf at June 24, 2025 05:13 PM (6ydKt)

428 Trump's Nobel Peace prize has been withdrawn..... He'll be pissed.. He really seems to want one

Posted by: It's me donna at June 24, 2025 05:14 PM (VE6XX)

429 Nood Jasmine

Posted by: SpeakingOf at June 24, 2025 05:14 PM (6ydKt)

430 428 Trump's Nobel Peace prize has been withdrawn..... He'll be pissed.. He really seems to want one
Posted by: It's me donna at June 24, 2025 05:14 PM (VE6XX)

Nomination not prize

Posted by: It's me donna at June 24, 2025 05:14 PM (VE6XX)

431 In a way I feel like the popularity (or resurgence) of the word is a kind of spit in the face at Marx, and not some kind of cryptic victory for him and his bullshit.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 24, 2025 05:13 PM (BjH5D)


I know this ... as I cooked my steak on the tailgate on my Blackstone ... I didn't offer the apprentice iron-worker a single bite. Or a beer.

Posted by: Doug Roberts at June 24, 2025 05:14 PM (mlDMX)

432 NOOD ALERT!!!!!!!!!!!!

Posted by: Max Power at June 24, 2025 05:14 PM (q177U)

433 She has an AI like Tony Stark did with Jarvis, but this one is a sassy black hologram. She uses black magic (no joke actual evil spells) to power up her armor even more.

It looks utterly dreadful
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 24, 2025 05:13 PM


She so brat.

Posted by: toby928 at June 24, 2025 05:14 PM (jc0TO)

434 @rawsalerts BREAKING: The TSA is urging travelers not to present Waffle House cards at security checkpoints, as they do not qualify as valid Real ID alternatives for air travel.

PRO TIP: Use a COSTCO membership card.

Posted by: Seasoned traveler at June 24, 2025 05:14 PM (lIgBp)

435 He's the bougie wougie bugle boy of Company B

Posted by: m at June 24, 2025 05:15 PM (CQE5S)

436 429 Nood Jasmine
Posted by: SpeakingOf at June 24, 2025 05:14 PM (6ydKt)

ewwwwww

Posted by: m at June 24, 2025 05:15 PM (CQE5S)

437 Trump's Nobel Peace prize has been withdrawn..... He'll be pissed.. He really seems to want one
Posted by: It's me donna at June 24, 2025 05:14 PM (VE6XX)
++++
I truly cannot fathom why.

Arafat got one. Obama got one. Gore got one.

Bringing home a Nobel Peace Prize just brings shame on your family.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 24, 2025 05:15 PM (6bTRc)

438 Oh, and Ironheart (Riri) in the short-lived, rejected comic was pretty cute, but they picked a Waffle House 5 to play her in the movies, for some reason.

My idea of ugly hot is that weird looking dude who played the villain in the Sequels, Adam Driver. But he actually is a really good actor when not playing a lame loser with a stupid light saber.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 24, 2025 05:16 PM (dfIr7)

439 When I was kid, we didn't either, but the school was built in the 1940's and the plan was always to retrofit it (I assume it has been done by now).

Definitely hard to focus on learning when its over 100 degrees in your classroom.

Anyways, carry on.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at June 24, 2025 05:08 PM (uCjyK)

Uh... it's June 24th, is this Summer School? because if so it would seem that this kind of shit would happen every year...

Or are you all like Denver with Year Round school?

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 24, 2025 05:16 PM (mP0Kj)

440 Bogie was a bad ass. Shore Patrol for Portsmouth (NH) Prison.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at June 24, 2025 05:16 PM (wBaIH)

441 I want to make movie recommendation and max no one told me about it before

Mr Right with Sam Rockwell

Posted by: polynikes at June 24, 2025 05:17 PM (VofaG)

442 >>> I was one of those folks cautiously wanting to watch the new show; i enjoyed the movies (huge Alan Rickman fan) but I got a bit tired of hearing about JK's views from the old cast. Then they announced the Snape casting and I was out. They just couldn't help themselves. Utterly moronic choice.

Hermione is black too, I think. So yay, let's make two of the most bullied characters in the series black, and add a racial twist to the pureblood angle. That will go over well.

I also heard they might make the next James Bond the lead from the new Mufasa "live action" movie. They could have had Edris Elba, but noooooo. Let's get a little ponce to do it.

Posted by: LizLem at June 24, 2025 05:20 PM (Eng1Z)

443 Pretty much all dragon ideas have an upright stance (legs more or less vertical like a dino) while lizards have splayed out legs.) And of course the wings and fire breathing don't exist in nature.

I think you have a point: I think the wings were added to make the monster more demon like, similarly the fire breathing. And yes, the dragon is often shown as a bipedal wavers, but, in the iconography the dragon is always shown as supine (because it’s being killed) and depicted beneath St. George, so very like a Komodo dragon, which goes about on all fours and is a reptile, after all! I think the iconography goes back to Horus killing Set: Set was a crocodile, so very much what I’m getting at: a supine, dying, lizard-like creature shown beneath the mounted hero, whether Horus or St. George!

https://is.gd/3k5OzY
https://is.gd/6bgkbh

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at June 24, 2025 05:24 PM (qgNn3)

444 They could have had Edris Elba, but noooooo.

Liked him as The Gunslinger. Shit movie ... good job by him though.

Posted by: Doug Roberts at June 24, 2025 05:24 PM (mlDMX)

445 wavers -> wyvern

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at June 24, 2025 05:25 PM (qgNn3)

446 There has never been a successful movie adaptation of the Fantastic Four franchise, so why now, from woke Hollyweird, would you expect anything better?

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at June 24, 2025 05:30 PM (qgNn3)

447 He ain't no Billy Campbell. 😉

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at June 24, 2025 05:30 PM (NFX2v)

448 Another Disney movie I won't see. Sure as hell won't pay for to see.

Good luck Rat House, DIE IN A FIRE OF FINANCIAL DOOM.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at June 24, 2025 06:11 PM (17s+e)

449
And from what I understand Bogart really was a tough guy. He didn't take any crap or tolerate any crap.
Posted by: polynikes at June 24, 2025 04:58 PM (VofaG)




Amazing, considering that he was born with a silver spoon up his ass and spent his childhood in VERY expensive and exclusive boarding schools.

Not only was he hound-dog ugly, he was a scrawny little dood, even by the standards of the day. Despite all that, women wanted him, men wanted to be him. I worship the guy.

https://tinyurl.com/yexzbnpe

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at June 24, 2025 06:19 PM (y9nCu)

450 I thought the first Fantastic Four movie was terrible enough to justify never making another one.

Posted by: Thesgm at June 24, 2025 06:37 PM (f+hZi)

451 Nic Update

Posted by: ShainS -- Trump Dropped 12 Bunker-Busters followed by One F-Bomb at June 24, 2025 06:58 PM (8ABes)

452 2

Posted by: ShainS -- Trump Dropped 12 Bunker-Busters Followed By One F-Bomb at June 24, 2025 07:06 PM (YMsBZ)

453 In more honest times, we called woman-haters "woman-haters."

Also, we called drag queens "drag queens."

Sigh.

Posted by: Beverly at June 24, 2025 07:38 PM (Epeb0)

454 Nic update 3

Posted by: ShainS -- Trump Dropped 12 Bunker-Busters Followed By One F-Bomb at June 24, 2025 08:03 PM (txgZm)

455 whose sister Lux recently came out as a transgender woman

I literally don't know what that means. And I'm not trying to be obtuse, but I don't know if this means Lux is actually male or female. That's what they're doing to the language.

Posted by: Simon Jester at June 24, 2025 10:00 PM (YqF8J)

456 who also writes under the pen name JK Galbraith

It's Robert Galbraith, not JK Galbraith

Posted by: Simon Jester at June 24, 2025 10:03 PM (YqF8J)

Chicago Teachers Union President Declares That They Own Your Children

Not a juiced headline. She says this.

What's amazing is that so, so many leftwing women in political positions have avoided having children -- but they want to control yours.

Much like many neocons have desperately avoided all contact with the United States Armed Forces, but think they're the most qualified to order better men into foreign wars.

Just a couple of quick posts because there's not a lot of news today and my internet has been up and down all day.

Posted by: Ace at 03:34 PM




Comments

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1 Hang all pedo groomers.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at June 24, 2025 03:34 PM (i24o9)

2 Otherwise, home school.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at June 24, 2025 03:35 PM (i24o9)

3 Well, the Twilight Zone controlled our TVs, why not the Chicago teachers owning our children?

What could go wrong?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at June 24, 2025 03:35 PM (0sNs1)

4 Government schooling is child abuse.

Posted by: toby928 at June 24, 2025 03:36 PM (jc0TO)

5 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 24, 2025 03:36 PM (Zz0t1)

6 Touch, indoctrinate, or push your liberal DEI bullsh*t on my grandkids and see what happens.

Posted by: Diogenes at June 24, 2025 03:36 PM (W/lyH)

7 Mandatory public education was a mistake. Americans were already the most literate nation in the world before it was instituted .

Posted by: steevy at June 24, 2025 03:37 PM (YwEeS)

8 I’m SHOCKED that a teacher said that!

(If you are a teacher, and take a paycheck courtesy of the taxpayer, you have no business belonging to a union.)

Posted by: Cow Demon at June 24, 2025 03:37 PM (LlXyc)

9 True believer right there.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 24, 2025 03:37 PM (Q4IgG)

10 Just a couple of quick posts because there's not a lot of news today and my internet has been up and down all day.

=======

That's what she said.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 24, 2025 03:37 PM (GBKbO)

11 Home. School.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at June 24, 2025 03:37 PM (/U5Yz)

12 I mean, at this point we’re gonna hit a full stop moment and I wouldn’t want to be in that profession.

Posted by: thathalfrican - The One at June 24, 2025 03:38 PM (lUhzf)

13 Well, the Twilight Zone controlled our TVs, why not the Chicago teachers owning our children?

What could go wrong?
Posted by: Duncanthrax at June 24, 2025 03:35 PM (0sNs1)

That was The Outer Limits.

Posted by: InZona at June 24, 2025 03:38 PM (Rfujk)

14 the masks continue to slip

Posted by: Zeera , Damn Right I voted for all of this! at June 24, 2025 03:38 PM (Eh9yK)

15 She'll obviously argue that what she meant was that teachers CARE about all children, hence they're theirs.

Um, no, b***h, they're ours. You work for us. Nothing more. Do as you're told.

Posted by: Archimedes at June 24, 2025 03:38 PM (Riz8t)

16 The children are always ours. Every single one of them. All over the globe.

Heck, if we want to call in "hot dogs" from Chicago for a party, we just pick up the phone.

Posted by: Barack Obama at June 24, 2025 03:38 PM (9Niia)

17 It's Chicago. She's not wrong. Her union got Photo Negative Lenin into the mayor's office, and he delivered.

Posted by: gKWVE at June 24, 2025 03:38 PM (gKWVE)

18 Children of the Corn. Pretty accurately describes the Midwest.

Posted by: pudinhead at June 24, 2025 03:38 PM (FmapG)

19 This is controversial to readers here but probably not in Chicago. If parents of public school kids there gave a shit about their kids, the schools in that city would not be Escape From Chicago style children's jails.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at June 24, 2025 03:38 PM (SSEhk)

20 "We even have them in our homes!"


I praise GOD as much as I can for my father getting transferred out of that shithole while I was still young enough to learn how bad it might've been.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 24, 2025 03:38 PM (Zz0t1)

21

Jasmine Crockett: I'm Supposed to Make the 'F***ing Decision' About Iran

https://t.ly/CgKr7

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 24, 2025 03:39 PM (63Dwl)

22 11 Home. School.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at June 24, 2025 03:37 PM (/U5Yz)

12 I mean, at this point we’re gonna hit a full stop moment and I wouldn’t want to be in that profession.

Posted by: thathalfrican - The One at June 24, 2025 03:38 PM (lUhzf)


Home school has made a significant dent in our local public school attendance. Teachers and administrators are getting the axe.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at June 24, 2025 03:40 PM (i24o9)

23 Well, the Twilight Zone controlled our TVs, why not the Chicago teachers owning our children?

Wrong!

That was "The Outer Limits".

Your entire point has been rendered moot, and you are hereby sentenced to watch 72 hours of "My Mother the Car".

Posted by: naturalfake at June 24, 2025 03:40 PM (iJfKG)

24 Jasmine Crockett: I'm Supposed to Make the 'F***ing Decision' About Iran

https://t.ly/CgKr7

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 24, 2025 03:39 PM (63Dwl)



Where's a sharknado when you need one?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 24, 2025 03:40 PM (Zz0t1)

25 I think what she meant was they own is your kid's junk.

Posted by: Dr Spank at June 24, 2025 03:40 PM (91GwH)

26 huh, apparently I missed it. the House voted to IMPEACH!!
... well, it voted on impeachment, which went down in 79-344 flames.
Nice that the Reps don't have any actual work to do, huh.

Posted by: gKWVE at June 24, 2025 03:40 PM (gKWVE)

27 7 Mandatory public education was a mistake. Americans were already the most literate nation in the world before it was instituted .
Posted by: steevy at June 24, 2025 03:37 PM (YwEeS)

“(The Mexican government) has failed to establish any public system of education, although possessed of almost boundless resources (the public domain), and although it is an axiom in political science, that unless a people are educated and enlightened, it is idle to expect the continuance of civil liberty, or the capacity for self government.”

- TX Declaration of Independence, 1836

Um, yeah, about that…

Posted by: Cow Demon at June 24, 2025 03:40 PM (LlXyc)

28 Jasmine Crockett: I'm Supposed to Make the 'F***ing Decision' About Iran

https://t.ly/CgKr7


Uh..no, no you're not, bitch.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at June 24, 2025 03:41 PM (snZF9)

29 Well, the Twilight Zone controlled our TVs

IT'S FUNNY BECAUSE "THE OUTER LIMITS" WAS THE TV SHOW WITH THE "THERE IS NOTHING WRONG WITH YOUR TELEVISION" INTRO

Posted by: BEN ROETHLISBERGER at June 24, 2025 03:41 PM (D0HYP)

30 Jasmine Crockett: I'm Supposed to Make the 'F***ing Decision' About Iran

https://t.ly/CgKr7


Charming. This is why I don't want Trump using that language. If you don't mind when he does it, you can't mind if she does.

Posted by: Archimedes at June 24, 2025 03:41 PM (Riz8t)

31 Funny how this is the exact same language used by trannies, mental patients and serial killers.

Posted by: ... at June 24, 2025 03:41 PM (wZXGx)

32
Charming. This is why I don't want Trump using that language. If you don't mind when he does it, you can't mind if she does.
Posted by: Archimedes at June 24, 2025 03:41 PM (Riz8t)



That's the least offensive thing about her statement, honestly.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 24, 2025 03:42 PM (Zz0t1)

33 Common core people. Common. Core.

Posted by: !Jeb at June 24, 2025 03:42 PM (/U5Yz)

34 Jasmine Crockett: I'm Supposed to Make the 'F***ing Decision' About Iran

https://t.ly/CgKr7

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 24, 2025 03:39 PM (63Dwl)

The military does not have 535 CinCs.

Posted by: Cow Demon at June 24, 2025 03:42 PM (LlXyc)

35 That was The Outer Limits.
Posted by: InZona at June 24, 2025 03:38 PM


You are correct. I shall watch Prometheus in penance.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at June 24, 2025 03:42 PM (0sNs1)

36 3 Well, the Twilight Zone controlled our TVs, why not the Chicago teachers owning our children?

What could go wrong?
Posted by: Duncanthrax

As a child, I'd much rather live in the Twilight Zone than a Chicago Public School.

Posted by: Moron Analyst at June 24, 2025 03:42 PM (JCZqz)

37 When will the Saxon begin to hate?

https://is.gd/eRCGPa

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at June 24, 2025 03:42 PM (qgNn3)

38
That was The Outer Limits.
Posted by: InZona at June 24, 2025 03:38 PM (Rfujk)


Sure. That's what they WANT you to think.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at June 24, 2025 03:43 PM (y9nCu)

39 Well, I mean... they're Chicago kids.

If she kept the receipts, maybe she can get a refund. Or at least store credit or something.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 24, 2025 03:43 PM (BjH5D)

40 Lincoln took away their slaves, but decades later an uneasy feeling grows among Democrats -- They yearn to own people.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at June 24, 2025 03:43 PM (hxbDZ)

41 >>>This is why I don't want Trump using that language. If you don't mind when he does it, you can't mind if she does.

Lighten up, Francis.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at June 24, 2025 03:43 PM (i24o9)

42
Um, no, b***h, they're ours. You work for us. Nothing more. Do as you're told.
Posted by: Archimedes at June 24, 2025 03:38 PM (Riz8t)

Actually, YOU work for US.

Posted by: Cops at June 24, 2025 03:43 PM (LlXyc)

43 Well ... this is nothing new. Seriously. Teachers have acted like this for several decades now.

As have cops. As have anyone working at the EPA. Or CDC. Or anyone else on the public payroll.

At some point, if we're to get past this stage, people will have to grasp that those taking money from the public till are doing it by force.

Even if your son, daughter, nephew, or niece are dipping in the public well. Nobody puts their 50% in that pool willingly.

Posted by: Doug Roberts at June 24, 2025 03:43 PM (mlDMX)

44 Bonk bonk on the head

Posted by: Dr. Varno at June 24, 2025 03:44 PM (V5OWq)

45 I am long past being shocked when a willing descendant of the slavery party claim ownership over other people's children. They are just being true to their roots.

No one gets to choose their ancestors, but everybody gets to choose their political lineage.

Posted by: jc at June 24, 2025 03:44 PM (P3EVa)

46 And who is behind the Teacher's Unions, hmmm?

Posted by: Big Penguin at June 24, 2025 03:44 PM (0sNs1)

47
Charming. This is why I don't want Trump using that language. If you don't mind when he does it, you can't mind if she does.
Posted by: Archimedes at June 24, 2025 03:41 PM (Riz8t)

To be fair, I don't mind.

She'd sound weird if she *didn't* curse like she does.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 24, 2025 03:44 PM (BjH5D)

48 Trump seems a little tired as he landed in The Hague today. They still don't stand a chance.

Posted by: t-bird at June 24, 2025 03:44 PM (kkfAA)

49 Jasmine Crockett: I'm Supposed to Make the 'F***ing Decision' About Iran
.......

You should make MTV videos instead.

Posted by: wth at June 24, 2025 03:44 PM (v0R5T)

50
Well, that silly bitch needs to be fired.

She doesn't apparently understand that she's there to teach reading, writing, and arithmetic to children, aaaaaand being in Chicago she's failing miserably at that one job.

Though I'm sure all of the children under her oversight are all up to date on the latest trannie propaganda.

Sad.

Posted by: naturalfake at June 24, 2025 03:44 PM (iJfKG)

51 I think that is fucked in the head.

Posted by: Clark Griswold at June 24, 2025 03:44 PM (ufFY8)

52 My church runs a K-12 church school, in part for this very reason.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at June 24, 2025 03:45 PM (qgNn3)

53
When will the Saxon begin to hate?

The sleeping giant rolled over and hit the snooze button.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 24, 2025 03:45 PM (63Dwl)

54 This is why I don't want Trump using that language. If you don't mind when he does it, you can't mind if she does.

Lighten up, Francis.


Good one. I mean, it doesn't apply here or anything, but good for you.
*pats head*

Posted by: Archimedes at June 24, 2025 03:45 PM (Riz8t)

55 There was the one creepy omnipotent kid on Twilight Zone that "made tv"

Posted by: steevy at June 24, 2025 03:45 PM (YwEeS)

56 When will the Saxon begin to hate?

https://is.gd/eRCGPa
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at June 24, 2025 03:42 PM (qgNn3)


Better ask why the Albanians and the Romanians took so long to act, instead. *mumble mumble* Secret police.

So, how's that FISA court running, still going tickety-boom?

Posted by: Kindltot at June 24, 2025 03:45 PM (D7oie)

57 Not mine, she is home schooled.

Posted by: Piper at June 24, 2025 03:45 PM (pZEOD)

58 Teams meetings are stupid.

Just send me the slides.

I hate everyone.

Posted by: nurse ratched at June 24, 2025 03:46 PM (W2Pud)

59 Again, putting your kids in public schools is a crime.

School Choice has got to be instituted as far and wide as possible.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 24, 2025 03:46 PM (XV/Pl)

60 > Charming. This is why I don't want Trump using that language. If you don't mind when he does it, you can't mind if she does.
---------
Cursing is part and parcel of my lingo. I don't care what that guttersnipe says, foul language or not.

Trump dropped the F-bomb to make a point. I believe it was taken.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 24, 2025 03:46 PM (Q4IgG)

61 Home school has made a significant dent in our local public school attendance. Teachers and administrators are getting the axe.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at June 24, 2025 03:40 PM (i24o9)

=====

Oh no! Anyway...

Posted by: Jordan61 at June 24, 2025 03:47 PM (DRSnL)

62 My church runs a K-12 church school, in part for this very reason.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at June 24, 2025 03:45 PM (qgNn3)

We do similarly, but it is more parent-run home school group, supplemented by home school teaching.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at June 24, 2025 03:47 PM (i24o9)

63 Someone posited the theory that democrats pushed women's lib and women working outside the home, so they can get double the taxes from that family, and control/groom that family's kids. Reduce the influence if the parents and increase the influence of the state.

It sounds insidious, but results prove the theory isn't wrong...

Posted by: LizLem at June 24, 2025 03:47 PM (gWBY1)

64 Not mine, she is home schooled.
Posted by: Piper


You got a permit for that?

Posted by: your betters at June 24, 2025 03:47 PM (v0R5T)

65 As a child, I'd much rather live in the Twilight Zone than a Chicago Public School

Some parts of the Twilight Zone were happy places: most were not!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at June 24, 2025 03:47 PM (qgNn3)

66 Teams meetings are stupid.

Just send me the slides.

I hate everyone.
Posted by: nurse ratched at June 24, 2025 03:46 PM (W2Pud)



"THIS SHOULD HAVE BEEN AN EMAIL!"

Posted by: Kindltot at June 24, 2025 03:47 PM (D7oie)

67 Teams meetings are stupid.

Just send me the slides.

I hate everyone.
Posted by: nurse ratched


Try having a co-worker call you at the beginning of the meeting. Gotta run, EMERGENCY!

Posted by: Maj. Healey at June 24, 2025 03:47 PM (/U5Yz)

68 58 Teams meetings are stupid.

Just send me the slides.

I hate everyone.
Posted by: nurse ratched at June 24, 2025 03:46 PM (W2Pud)

Haiku thread?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 24, 2025 03:48 PM (BjH5D)

69 Well, I mean... they're Chicago kids.

Kaboom Kids >> Chicago Kids >> Kars for Kids

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at June 24, 2025 03:48 PM (ufFY8)

70 I am long past being shocked when a willing descendant of the slavery party claim ownership over other people's children.

This gets old. This idea that one party ... the GOP ... is virtuous while the Democrats were awful.

Do you understand ... and I bet you don't ... that the MidWest and SouthEast subsidize the NorthEast ? We do. Do you understand that our poor, stupid asses fill the vast majority of the ranks of the military you love to cheer ?

There was a time ... measured in decades ... when the rest of the country not NorthEast voted Democrat ? And why ? Because Republicans were that awful.

If the South was that bad ? Why didn't you just let us go ?

Posted by: Doug Roberts at June 24, 2025 03:48 PM (mlDMX)

71 I hate everyone.

I've heard the food was good, just don't inquire too deeply about the ingredients.

Posted by: Archimedes at June 24, 2025 03:48 PM (Riz8t)

72 Trump wasn’t wearing a tie earlier today.

Very unlike him. I pray he’s ok. He looks like the weight of the world is upon his shoulders.

Posted by: nurse ratched at June 24, 2025 03:48 PM (W2Pud)

73 All children are children of god.

And the State is god!

Posted by: CTU at June 24, 2025 03:48 PM (/NHpO)

74 >>>Good one. I mean, it doesn't apply here or anything, but good for you.

You go ahead and fight the war you're in with one hand tied behind your back if it affects your delicate sensibilities. Let us know how that worked out for you the last several decades.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at June 24, 2025 03:49 PM (i24o9)

75 Teams meetings are stupid.

Just send me the slides.

I hate everyone.
Posted by: nurse ratched at June 24, 2025 03:46 PM (W2Pud)



I have a Zoom meeting in 10 minutes with a vendor.

How exciting.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 24, 2025 03:49 PM (tjClK)

76 Afternoon.

Posted by: Robert at June 24, 2025 03:49 PM (u+C/U)

77 Teams meetings are stupid.
.....

I have one at 9:00am tomorrow. I might just open one of Ackbar's links and share my screen

Posted by: wth at June 24, 2025 03:49 PM (v0R5T)

78 As a child, I'd much rather live in the Twilight Zone than a Chicago Public School.
Posted by: Moron Analyst at June 24, 2025 03:42 PM (JCZqz)
----
Considering the bizzarro world we live in, who says we aren't living in the Twilight Zone right now?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 24, 2025 03:50 PM (7fElN)

79 Not all of us can home school, the era in which that is the default is not the current era. But we do try to be aware of what they are teaching, and have conversations about these topics so they get the conservative POV besides the leftist indoctrination.

But I would not live within a million miles of the Chicago teacher's union.

Posted by: LizLem at June 24, 2025 03:50 PM (gWBY1)

80 Just don't pull a Toobin....

Posted by: steevy at June 24, 2025 03:50 PM (YwEeS)

81 Oh no! Anyway...

Posted by: Jordan61 at June 24, 2025 03:47 PM (DRSnL)

It is a feel good story if there ever was one.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at June 24, 2025 03:50 PM (i24o9)

82 Jordan61!

Awesome seeing you last weekend! You are the hostess with the mostest!

Posted by: nurse ratched at June 24, 2025 03:50 PM (W2Pud)

83 Molon Labe

Posted by: Joe Mama at June 24, 2025 03:50 PM (2sMLA)

84 Then I have a global Teams meeting at 7 AM tomorrow.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 24, 2025 03:50 PM (tjClK)

85 Teams meetings are stupid.
.....

I have one at 9:00am tomorrow. I might just open one of Ackbar's links and share my screen
Posted by: wth at June 24, 2025 03:49 PM (v0R5T)
---
Sometimes you need to send a message.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 24, 2025 03:51 PM (7fElN)

86 Twilight Zone controlled our TVs,

You misspelled The Outer Limits.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at June 24, 2025 03:51 PM (J+9Cs)

87 Jordan61!

Awesome seeing you last weekend! You are the hostess with the mostest!
Posted by: nurse ratched at June 24, 2025 03:50 PM (W2Pud)



You know, we have rules around here.......

Especially if there was a pillow fight at any point.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 24, 2025 03:51 PM (tjClK)

88 Molon Labe

Coming, take.

Posted by: Doug Roberts at June 24, 2025 03:51 PM (mlDMX)

89 Molon Labia.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at June 24, 2025 03:51 PM (J+9Cs)

90 My proposed solution to Teams meetings was to get a picture of me slumped in my chair in my workplace, set that as my background, and then leave the tape over the camera. That means I look bored, attentive and I could go do chores and other work while listening in on my headset.

Posted by: Kindltot at June 24, 2025 03:52 PM (D7oie)

91 What's amazing is that so, so many leftwing women in political positions have avoided having children -- but they want to control yours.

The drive to want to have children is pretty strong, but it is easy to hide it with drugs, alcohol and/or career.

And unfortunately for women they have a much smaller time window to have kids.

So there are a large number of women in America that wished they had kids and it is driving them literally crazy they did not...

Posted by: 18-1 at June 24, 2025 03:52 PM (t0Rmr)

92 There is the sex element in her statement… but underlying that is the absolute Communist element.. and underlying THAT is the evil demonic element… plain and simple, actually.

Posted by: tubal at June 24, 2025 03:52 PM (PCK5/)

93 80 Just don't pull a Toobin....
Posted by: steevy at June 24, 2025 03:50 PM (YwEeS)


There's no angry lesbian musing out loud how to arrest Donald Trump in a Russian accent, so we're probably safe

Posted by: everyone's got a fetish at June 24, 2025 03:52 PM (gKWVE)

94 Daniel Park, the Washington Man Charged with Conspiring to Assist SoCal Fertility Clinic Bomber Has (joined the Jeff Epstein Fed Club) Died in Federal Custody

Posted by: SMOD at June 24, 2025 03:52 PM (RHGPo)

95 Moron Labia

Posted by: anchorbabe fashion cop at June 24, 2025 03:52 PM (ufFY8)

96 Molon Labe
Posted by: Joe Mama at June 24, 2025 03:50 PM (2sMLA)

Molon labia?

Posted by: Robert at June 24, 2025 03:52 PM (/SE5s)

97 I wonder if this black woman understands the ramifications of claiming ownership of other children.

Nah, who am I kidding, she obviously doesn't think beyond a superficial level.

Posted by: McLurkerson at June 24, 2025 03:52 PM (oyQ/n)

98
Ah, I see we now have a new Dancing Monkey.

Schtick seems old though...can't they think of something new and not so boring?

Maybe writing their troll droppings to the poetic structure of the lyrics to "De Camptown Ladies".

That would be fun.

Posted by: naturalfake at June 24, 2025 03:53 PM (iJfKG)

99 The Chicago Tribune actually posted a editorial warning NYC against voting for a socialist for mayor. Conehead Johnson, a wholly owned subsidiary of the teachers union, has been such a disaster that even the leftist paper is saying "woe Nelly"

Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 24, 2025 03:53 PM (pwtJC)

100 Molon labia?

Posted by: Robert at June 24, 2025 03:52 PM (/SE5s)

Carpe Labia!

Posted by: GEOTUS Trump at June 24, 2025 03:53 PM (i24o9)

101 This is why I don't want Trump using that language. If you don't mind when he does it, you can't mind if she does.

Can you allow that one is going to be remembered as the greatest President in history, and the other as a dunce, regardless of your advice?

Posted by: t-bird at June 24, 2025 03:54 PM (yzPgp)

102 Daniel Park, the Washington Man Charged with Conspiring to Assist SoCal Fertility Clinic Bomber Has (joined the Jeff Epstein Fed Club) Died in Federal Custody
Posted by: SMOD at June 24, 2025 03:52 PM (RHGPo)


Wow, he's the one they picked up in Poland, right? I would have thought he would have been held with more care.

Posted by: Kindltot at June 24, 2025 03:54 PM (D7oie)

103 @58

>>Teams meetings are stupid.

* Looks at weekly calendar with 30 Teams Meetings and 8 Zoom meetings.

* Nods in agreement.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 24, 2025 03:54 PM (XV/Pl)

104 She tried to recover from her statement by saying they teach them, nurture them, care for them, protect them.......then said 'we even have them in our homes!'

yeah, you rapist bitch........GFY....DIAF.....

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 24, 2025 03:54 PM (tjClK)

105 My proposed solution to Teams meetings was to get a picture of me slumped in my chair in my workplace, set that as my background, and then leave the tape over the camera. That means I look bored, attentive and I could go do chores and other work while listening in on my headset.
Posted by: Kindltot at June 24, 2025 03:52 PM (D7oie)
---
I like it!

I did take a screenshot of my office chair/environment and set that up as my Zoom background so I could Zoom from home and look like I'm calling in from the office.

I also have a screenshot of my home library so I can sit at my desk at work and look like I'm Zooming from home.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 24, 2025 03:54 PM (7fElN)

106 What's amazing is that so, so many leftwing women in political positions have avoided having children -- but they want to control yours.

On this ... I'll take up for the womenz to a point.

ANYONE that seeks power that hard is not to be trusted. Except for Rand Paul. He seems somewhat trustworthy.

On the other hand. Never give power over a man to a woman. Never turns out well.

Posted by: Doug Roberts at June 24, 2025 03:54 PM (mlDMX)

107 Conehead Johnson, a wholly owned subsidiary

Howard Johnson is right!

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at June 24, 2025 03:55 PM (ufFY8)

108 Home. School.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at June 24, 2025 03:37 PM (/U5Yz)

12 I mean, at this point we’re gonna hit a full stop moment and I wouldn’t want to be in that profession.

Posted by: thathalfrican - The One at June 24, 2025 03:38 PM (lUhzf)

Home school has made a significant dent in our local public school attendance. Teachers and administrators are getting the axe.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at June 24, 2025 03:40 PM (i24o9)
***

I am forever indebted to Bluebell for getting me started on Home Schooling for the grands. Both are doing exceptionally well and my grandson has begun the process applying to the Service Academies.

Posted by: Diogenes at June 24, 2025 03:55 PM (W/lyH)

109 I have one at 9:00am tomorrow. I might just open one of Ackbar's links and share my screen
Posted by: wth

Abruptly end any online meeting with my one easy trick!

Posted by: Jeffrey Toobin at June 24, 2025 03:55 PM (JCZqz)

110 Willowed: Crockett has withdrawn her candidacy for ranking member of the House Oversight Committee. She got less votes than any other Dem. Heh

Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 24, 2025 03:55 PM (pwtJC)

111 https://soundeffects.
fandom.com/wiki/
Wilhelm_Scream/Audio_Samples

Playing these was a hit at the dentist today.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at June 24, 2025 03:56 PM (J+9Cs)

112 Fuck you Alaska

Posted by: Rando Calrissian at June 24, 2025 03:56 PM (+GAGS)

113 110 Willowed: Crockett has withdrawn her candidacy for ranking member of the House Oversight Committee. She got less votes than any other Dem. Heh
Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 24, 2025 03:55 PM (pwtJC)

=====

Token learns she's just a token.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 24, 2025 03:56 PM (GBKbO)

114 Conehead Johnson >> Howard Johnson >> Mike Johnson

Posted by: Maj. Healey at June 24, 2025 03:57 PM (/U5Yz)

115 Home school has made a significant dent in our local public school attendance. Teachers and administrators are getting the axe.

We pay about $12K per kid here, per year. That's too much. College only costs $10K.

Its a bullshit system.

Posted by: Doug Roberts at June 24, 2025 03:57 PM (mlDMX)

116 Well if you send your kids to public schools... is she wrong? People have noted this before, the left kills their own babies and doesn't like to breed but they sure love to cuckoo the nest by taking YOUR children.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 24, 2025 03:58 PM (dfIr7)

117 Token learns she's just a token."

Weedombombaway...
In the village...

Posted by: man at June 24, 2025 03:58 PM (DHEVw)

118 CNN has "sources" who claim they've read the initial DIA assessment of the US bombing of Iran, and want you to know that it only set Iran back a few months at most.

Sure. "Sources."

LOL

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at June 24, 2025 03:58 PM (2uKh/)

119 40 Lincoln took away their slaves, but decades later an uneasy feeling grows among Democrats -- They yearn to own people.
-----------------
Moar correctly is that Yankees need slaves to maintain their Lincoln Pimp Hand.

Posted by: pudinhead at June 24, 2025 03:58 PM (FmapG)

120 “15 years ago, you (Rep. Frank Pallone D-NJ) and I met. You were at that time a champion for people who had suffered injuries from vaccines,” HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. added. “You were very adamant about it. You were the leading member of Congress on that issue.”

“Since then, you’ve accepted $2 million from pharmaceutical companies in contributions—more than any other member of this committee, and your enthusiasm for supporting the old ACIP committee, which was completely rife and pervasive with pharmaceutical conflicts, seems to be an outcome of those contributions.”

Posted by: SMOD at June 24, 2025 03:59 PM (RHGPo)

121 Might want to post something about the Vera Rubin telescope that just came online. It’s a mind blowing achievement.

Just on a test run they found 2,100 new asteroids.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at June 24, 2025 03:59 PM (LRNu1)

122 Moar correctly is that Yankees need slaves to maintain their Lincoln Pimp Hand.

Posted by: pudinhead at June 24, 2025 03:58 PM (FmapG)


The rest of the country subsidizes the NorthEast. To understand that is to understand everything.

Posted by: Doug Roberts at June 24, 2025 03:59 PM (mlDMX)

123 Dept. of Ed delenda est.

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 24, 2025 03:59 PM (r+I/B)

124 She got less votes than any other Dem. Heh

Yeah there are some hardcore DU types who lurve them some Crockett but the rest of the party and especially the rest of America thinks she's a fake and a crank. I swear its the 90% of black women in politics that make the rest look bad.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 24, 2025 04:00 PM (dfIr7)

125 Saw Lincoln Pimp Hand open for Hootie and the Blowfish in '95 at the met.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at June 24, 2025 04:00 PM (/U5Yz)

126 steevy -

There was the one creepy omnipotent kid on Twilight Zone that "made tv"

That was the episode “It's a Good Life” starring Billy Mumy as Anthony Fremont. Screenplay by Rod Serling based on a short story of the same title by Jerome Bixby. The short story is even scarier than the Twilight Zone episode! You can read it in The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume One.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at June 24, 2025 04:00 PM (qgNn3)

127 Willowed: Crockett has withdrawn her candidacy for ranking member of the House Oversight Committee. She got less votes than any other Dem. Heh
Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 24, 2025 03:55 PM (pwtJC)

=====

Token learns she's just a token.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 24, 2025 03:56 PM (GBKbO)



Fierce Female Obama learns she's just Mop and Bucket Girl at McDonald's Obama.

Posted by: naturalfake at June 24, 2025 04:00 PM (iJfKG)

128 "The children are always ours. Every single one of them. All over the globe."

"Yes, we do [think your children are our children]."
________________________________

Somewhere a white teacher is getting some black kid into Barry Manilow and a better credit score. Somewhere a black teacher is getting some white kid into Skittles and Kool Aid.

(yes, yes...this is known as using stereotypes to elicit a humorous response. And before calling me a racist, know that I associated all white people with Barry Manilow, which is by far the more damaging stereotype)

Posted by: Orson at June 24, 2025 04:00 PM (dIske)

129 122 Moar correctly is that Yankees need slaves to maintain their Lincoln Pimp Hand.

Posted by: pudinhead at June 24, 2025 03:58 PM (FmapG)

The rest of the country subsidizes the NorthEast. To understand that is to understand everything.
------------------
Yep. You can add California to the list.

Posted by: pudinhead at June 24, 2025 04:00 PM (FmapG)

130 Just on a test run they found 2,100 new asteroids.

How many are NEOs?

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 24, 2025 04:01 PM (r+I/B)

131 I love that "spartan" as an adjective meaning terse speech with few words is directly related to how Lacedaemonians really spoke.

"Come (and) Take (it)"

"With (your shield or) on (it)"

"(I need to stop at the) market (for) eggs (so I can make you that souffle you said you've been craving since you saw Anaxagomenes' wife make one the other day.)"

Like, come on, guys. You get taxed by the word or something?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 24, 2025 04:01 PM (BjH5D)

132 Oh Mandy...

Posted by: man at June 24, 2025 04:01 PM (DHEVw)

133 Rumble of thunder in the distance, but it's still hazily sunny out there.

The surgeon's office called to reschedule, so I don't have to go until Monday. The rest of the week is open for fun stuff.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 24, 2025 04:01 PM (omVj0)

134 They're "your" children? What would you know about children? Your "community" doesn't even raise the bastards you deign convenient enough to survive the womb. 70% of your issue are born to fatherless homes, but you're an "expert" on childhood development.

Thank God we homeschooled, and thank God for Legion Priests as catechetical instructors.

Posted by: Grayman27 at June 24, 2025 04:01 PM (pgwxJ)

135 POS

>Illinois Policy dot org

Chicago Teachers Union President Stacy Davis Gates has been vehemently opposed to school choice, calling it ‘racist.’ But she reportedly put one of her own children in private school. Choice for me, but not for thee? Sep. 2023

>President of Chicago Teachers Union admits sending son to private school, WGN YouTube
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Wut? Because, disinvestment in her own community. Lack of high qualify neighborhood schools.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at June 24, 2025 04:01 PM (NFX2v)

136 Hang on. Someone just Teamsed me.
What a stupid name for anything work related.
And... I'm in trouble for something. Better get bank inside and find out what is what. Why isn't my whole "team" in trouble?

Posted by: Reforger at June 24, 2025 04:02 PM (LgDgc)

137 Arrest this bitch.
And while LEOS are at it examine social media especially FB for incitement of violence, which is rife. People need to go to prison for demonizing border control, and the people doing it are exactly who you'd expect. Time to take them to prison and impoverish them, so they will suffer.

Posted by: night lifted at June 24, 2025 04:02 PM (FZn/N)

138 Tim Young
@TimRunsHisMouth
I made Trump's epic takedown of AOC into the opening credits of Star Wars... because it fit perfectly.

https://x.com/TimRunsHisMouth/status/1937520742255694017

Posted by: LizLem at June 24, 2025 04:02 PM (gWBY1)

139 Home school has made a significant dent in our local public school attendance. Teachers and administrators are getting the axe.

The biggest hit these hacks took was the lockdowns. It hurt the left in so many lasting ways, but one of the biggest was parents seeing first hand what their kids are being taught and how the classrooms are run. Thousands of parents in each state just yanked their kids the hell out of school. Tens of thousands in some states.

They get funded per student.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 24, 2025 04:02 PM (dfIr7)

140 Teams meetings are stupid.

Just send me the slides.

I hate everyone.
Posted by: nurse ratched at June 24, 2025 03:46 PM (W2Pud)
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Have I mentioned that I never have to attend another meeting as long as the universe lives?

Posted by: Weasel at June 24, 2025 04:02 PM (QAQdw)

141 And they want to brainwash, mutilate, and fuck them. Most people treat their property better than that.

Posted by: They're ours and we'll break them if we want! at June 24, 2025 04:03 PM (TbWk/)

142 Just a couple of quick posts because there's not a lot of news today

Who would have predicted that a few days ago?

Posted by: The ARC of History! at June 24, 2025 04:03 PM (xTIDn)

143 I have one at 9:00am tomorrow. I might just open one of Ackbar's links and share my screen
Posted by: wth

I recommend this one. A classic favorite of mine: https://tinyurl.com/y49r6err

If you get any pushback, say you support Palestinian or Iranian Pride. I don't know the guy's ethnicity, but neither will they, and they'll be terrified to challenge you.

(Unless they're REALLY woke and follow the guy's Instagram or whatever...then you might be screwed)

Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at June 24, 2025 04:03 PM (JCZqz)

144 "Fundamentally non-serious" choice.

Posted by: Crusader at June 24, 2025 04:04 PM (TN0g+)

145 Token learns she's just a token.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 24, 2025 03:56 PM (GBKbO)

Yeah, but she's also, what, twelve?

No way in hell is she getting bumped up to ranking member of anything yet. At the very least not until her second or third term.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 24, 2025 04:04 PM (BjH5D)

146 Much like many neocons have desperately avoided all contact with the United States Armed Forces, but think they're the most qualified to order better men into foreign wars.********

Exactly Ace! And not only neocons, left wing commies who'd be thrilled to send our sons to die for that bastard Zelensky.

Posted by: night lifted at June 24, 2025 04:04 PM (FZn/N)

147 When will the Saxon begin to hate?

https://is.gd/eRCGPa
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at June 24, 2025 03:42 PM (qgNn3)


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Which is humorous, when you've spent the school year working with your son on his Saxon Math textbook.

Posted by: Kevin in ABQ at June 24, 2025 04:04 PM (KdMAI)

148 Stacy Davis Gates
President, Chicago Teachers Union

Posted by: m at June 24, 2025 04:04 PM (CQE5S)

149 Slow news day?? Are we in the eye of the storm?

Posted by: tubal at June 24, 2025 04:04 PM (PCK5/)

150 CNN has "sources" who claim they've read the initial DIA assessment of the US bombing of Iran, and want you to know that it only set Iran back a few months at most.

I think they mean that CNN narrative and drumbeat of war has been set back a few months. Iran will be on the verge of going nuclear again by, what, September, CNN?

Posted by: t-bird at June 24, 2025 04:05 PM (9Niia)

151 In honor of Dr Demento announcing his retirement I offer you The Frantics' classic bit Tai Kwan Leap:

https://youtu.be/ajEOZ4tBqjQ

BOOT TO THE HEAD

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 24, 2025 04:05 PM (dfIr7)

152 That was the episode “It's a Good Life” starring Billy Mumy as Anthony Fremont. Screenplay by Rod Serling based on a short story of the same title by Jerome Bixby. The short story is even scarier than the Twilight Zone episode! You can read it in The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume One.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at June 24, 2025 04:00 PM (qgNn3)
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Agreed. The book version of Anthony Fremont was a warped little goblin-looking thing. Unhuman and omnipotent.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 24, 2025 04:05 PM (7fElN)

153 How many are NEOs?
Posted by: Anna Puma at June 24, 2025 04:01 PM (r+I/B)


Seven: tinyurl.com/bdfzutmd
none earth-crossing.
h/t instapundit

Posted by: gKWVE at June 24, 2025 04:05 PM (gKWVE)

154 149 Slow news day?? Are we in the eye of the storm?
Posted by: tubal at June 24, 2025 04:04 PM (PCK5/)

Did someone say "eye"?

Posted by: Opthalmologists, optometrists and opticians at June 24, 2025 04:05 PM (TbWk/)

155 You know who else needed to lighten up?

Posted by: ... at June 24, 2025 04:05 PM (wZXGx)

156 I see CNN is gleefully reporting that our strikes on Iran's nuke sites did not totally destroy them...

Posted by: It's me donna at June 24, 2025 04:05 PM (VE6XX)

157 If they had their own children, they wouldn't sexually mutilate them.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at June 24, 2025 04:06 PM (lTGtQ)

158 Thomas Massie says he’ll withdraw war-powers measure if Iran-Israel cease-fire holds


This clown is a bigger Look At Me prick then Chip Roy.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at June 24, 2025 04:06 PM (/U5Yz)

159 Have I mentioned that I never have to attend another meeting as long as the universe lives?

we should meet and discuss this

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 24, 2025 04:06 PM (dfIr7)

160 118 CNN has "sources" who claim they've read the initial DIA assessment of the US bombing of Iran, and want you to know that it only set Iran back a few months at most.

Sure. "Sources."

LOL
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at June 24, 2025 03:58 PM (2uKh/)

Explicit admission that they are in receipt of classified information. Seize all their phones... seize all their emails... find the Leak... and prosecute the F out of em...

If it was good enough reason to persecute Julian Assange for decades? Seems good enough reason here.

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 24, 2025 04:06 PM (mP0Kj)

161 141 And they want to brainwash, mutilate, and fuck them. Most people treat their property better than that.
Posted by: They're ours and we'll break them if we want! at June 24, 2025 04:03 PM (TbWk/)

THat is exactly what they mean by "save the dollies" , turning kids into sex toys, with mutilated bodies. Time to destroy the trans movement and imprison the "medical professionals

Posted by: night lifted at June 24, 2025 04:06 PM (FZn/N)

162 There's a 57:37 youtube video from the venue where she's speaking, which includes her.

Posted by: m at June 24, 2025 04:06 PM (CQE5S)

163 When will the Saxon begin to hate?

That seems like a lot of work (and is problematic). Can't we just pay the Danegeld jizya?

Posted by: Moder Saxons at June 24, 2025 04:07 PM (JCZqz)

164 Has CNN registered under FARA yet?

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 24, 2025 04:07 PM (r+I/B)

165 21

Jasmine Crockett: I'm Supposed to Make the 'F***ing Decision' About Iran

https://t.ly/CgKr7

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr
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Sweet little Jasmine should push away from the buffet table more often unless she is in competition with Tank Abrams.

Posted by: braenyard- Some friends are more equal than others at June 24, 2025 04:07 PM (iXLWn)

166 157 If they had their own children, they wouldn't sexually mutilate them.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at June 24, 2025 04:06 PM (lTGtQ)

Actually... evidence shows the contrary. For some reason the Left WILL mutilate their own children.

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 24, 2025 04:07 PM (mP0Kj)

167 154 149 Slow news day?? Are we in the eye of the storm?
Posted by: tubal at June 24, 2025 04:04 PM (PCK5/)

Did someone say "eye"?
Posted by: Opthalmologists, optometrists and opticians at June 24, 2025 04:05 PM (TbWk/)

Hey!
--Union of Oculists

Posted by: m at June 24, 2025 04:07 PM (CQE5S)

168 I love how utterly out of touch the mayor of LA is. Wants people to clean up trash for free in downtown LA this weekend, when she won't let people clean up their own lots after the fire, and let downtown LA burn during the riots.

She's a piece of work! Keep it up, lady. I'm sure the angelenos all love you.

https://x.com/Susan_Shelley/status/1937336650813833485

Posted by: LizLem at June 24, 2025 04:07 PM (gWBY1)

169 7 Mandatory public education was a mistake. Americans were already the most literate nation in the world before it was instituted .
Posted by: steevy at June 24, 2025 03:37 PM (YwEeS)

I re-read democracy in america recently, and that was something de Tocqueville marveled at. How nearly everyone was literate, including the farm hands who were reading books while plowing the fields, etc.

That said, much of the country did have some version of public schools back then. More like neighborhood schools where the people would pay a housewife to teach all the kids in the area the basics of reading and math, then the kids were expected to go from there. Very different from what it has become.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at June 24, 2025 04:08 PM (uCjyK)

170 21 Jasmine Crockett: I'm Supposed to Make the 'F***ing Decision' About Iran

https://t.ly/CgKr7

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 24, 2025 03:39 PM (63Dwl)

She seems nice.

Posted by: m at June 24, 2025 04:08 PM (CQE5S)

171 If they had their own children, they wouldn't sexually mutilate them.

"I beg to differ"
--Half of Hollywood

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 24, 2025 04:09 PM (dfIr7)

172 160 Explicit admission that they are in receipt of classified information. Seize all their phones... seize all their emails... find the Leak... and prosecute the F out of em...

If it was good enough reason to persecute Julian Assange for decades? Seems good enough reason here.
Posted by: Romeo13 at June 24, 2025 04:06 PM (mP0Kj)

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From what I've read, the strikes targeted the UF6 storage antechamber, potentially collapsing it, and the ventilation system.

The UF6 Iran was using was in gaseous form. It's gaseous at 135 degrees and needs to stay there. So, it's not like just throwing it on the back of a truck to cart away.

And that doesn't even touch on any potential damage to centrifuges that have lost power, assumedly.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 24, 2025 04:09 PM (GBKbO)

173 Hey…where is Jen Rubin and her big, super podcast?

Why did this pop into my head? It’s a mystery.

Posted by: Piper at June 24, 2025 04:09 PM (pZEOD)

174 Teams meetings are stupid.

* Looks at weekly calendar with 30 Teams Meetings and 8 Zoom meetings.

* Nods in agreement.

Posted by: Thomas Bender


Where I am, generally teams meetings are used as punishment.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at June 24, 2025 04:09 PM (lTGtQ)

175 > Have I mentioned that I never have to attend another meeting as long as the universe lives?
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fist bump

5 years retired end of the month.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 24, 2025 04:09 PM (Q4IgG)

176 156 I see CNN is gleefully reporting that our strikes on Iran's nuke sites did not totally destroy them...
Posted by: It's me donna at June 24, 2025 04:05 PM (VE6XX)

Of course not, they have to keep the war drums banging.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at June 24, 2025 04:09 PM (uCjyK)

177 One of the most egregious things I've read on line is all the assholes agreeing with the idea of reconquista. IMO invasion is a definite act of war, and if the countries supplying illegals dont take them back and stop supporting migration, maybe its time to blow them to kingdom come.

Posted by: night lifted at June 24, 2025 04:09 PM (FZn/N)

178 Jasmine Crockett: I'm Supposed to Make the 'F***ing Decision' About Iran
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Is the decision about Iran in the room with us now

Posted by: ... at June 24, 2025 04:09 PM (wZXGx)

179 Thinking the NATO meeting today was more of a kiss US Trump's ring affair for the other members before they got handed an invoice for services provided by the USA. Except for Macron, he probably had to crawl around on the floor first.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at June 24, 2025 04:10 PM (NXz8h)

180 Teams meetings are stupid.

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Didja see this? Worst. Wedding. Ever.

https://is.gd/XsH916

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Well, This Is Another Fine Mess You've Gotten Me Into at June 24, 2025 04:10 PM (L/fGl)

181 179 Thinking the NATO meeting today was more of a kiss US Trump's ring affair for the other members before they got handed an invoice for services provided by the USA. Except for Macron, he probably had to crawl around on the floor first.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at June 24, 2025 04:10 PM (NXz8h)

========

While Spain sits off to the side, eating payaya, and knowing it won't have to increase shit.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 24, 2025 04:10 PM (GBKbO)

182 Slow news day?? Are we in the eye of the storm?
Posted by: tubal at June 24, 2025 04:04 PM (PCK5/)


Could be.

I think we're in the "Well....fuck!" Phase of things.

Fast, decisive, no apology, no doubts action scares all of these political types, and-

makes them wonder just exactly what they'll call down on themselves if they put up too much of a fuss.

But taking the live grenade out of the monkey's hands has got to please everyone secretly because the ME is too important to them energy wise and a nuclear conflict there is in nobody's interest except those waiting for the 12th Moleman to crawl out of a well.

Posted by: naturalfake at June 24, 2025 04:10 PM (iJfKG)

183 Caliphate Kneeling Network

Posted by: ... at June 24, 2025 04:11 PM (wZXGx)

184 >>

I saw video of what supposedly was one of our bombs. It went several stories down into the earth, and it was pretty impressive. If true.

Posted by: LizLem at June 24, 2025 04:11 PM (gWBY1)

185 That said, much of the country did have some version of public schools back then. More like neighborhood schools where the people would pay a housewife to teach all the kids in the area the basics of reading and math, then the kids were expected to go from there. Very different from what it has become.

I'm a republican ... not a Republican.

Let each state decide. And let New Jersey mind their own business about what Mississippi does.

Posted by: Doug Roberts at June 24, 2025 04:11 PM (mlDMX)

186 Mandatory public education was a mistake. Americans were already the most literate nation in the world before it was instituted .
Posted by: steevy at June 24, 2025 03:37 PM (YwEeS)

It's been serving its purpose rather well in terms of producing pliant obedient cogs who can't think independently or critically.

Posted by: It's about the system, not education at June 24, 2025 04:11 PM (TbWk/)

187 @Pimpernell13
We aren’t seeing or hearing everything but there are signs

It may not be everything you want hope or wish for, but it’s more than is apparent

Calm down
2:07 PM · Jun 24, 2025

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at June 24, 2025 04:12 PM (NFX2v)

188 If they had their own children, they wouldn't sexually mutilate them.
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Uh, there's plenty of hollywood examples to prove otherwise. They absolutely *crave* the attention that comes their way when they destroy their own kids.

Posted by: Crusader at June 24, 2025 04:12 PM (TN0g+)

189 Let each state decide. And let New Jersey mind their own business about what Mississippi does.

I agree, the more we were a nation of sovereign states united by a federal government, the better off we were.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 24, 2025 04:12 PM (dfIr7)

190 Iran' going to SDASTFU. Why should they you ask?

Because Trump doesn't want war and if it's necessary to sorti days of B2s bombing them into the stone age he will do it,

In other words; if they don't stop he will stop them.

Posted by: braenyard- Some friends are more equal than others at June 24, 2025 04:13 PM (iXLWn)

191 187 @Pimpernell13
We aren’t seeing or hearing everything but there are signs

It may not be everything you want hope or wish for, but it’s more than is apparent

Calm down
2:07 PM · Jun 24, 2025
Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at June 24, 2025 04:12 PM (NFX2v)

======

*nods sagaciously*

The lizard people are going to arrest Kathleen Kennedy, make Colin Firth the new James Bond, and reboot Indiana Jones with Tom Holland any day now.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 24, 2025 04:13 PM (GBKbO)

192 Let each state decide. And let New Jersey mind their own business about what Mississippi does.
Posted by: Doug Roberts at June 24, 2025 04:11 PM (mlDMX)

Abolish the Dept of Ed. Let every state be the ultimate decision maker about education in its state.

Honestly why in the hell is education even a topic of discussion at the federal level?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 24, 2025 04:13 PM (BjH5D)

193 100 Molon labia?

Posted by: Robert at June 24, 2025 03:52 PM (/SE5s)

Carpe Labia!


carp labia? yes, please!

Posted by: dylan mulvaney at June 24, 2025 04:13 PM (sGtp+)

194 Jasmine Crockett: I'm Supposed to Make the 'F***ing Decision' About Iran
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"Fundamentally non-serious" choice(s).

Posted by: Crusader at June 24, 2025 04:14 PM (TN0g+)

195 Psella but mostly right otherwise sanchez has gone full dhimmi

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at June 24, 2025 04:14 PM (bXbFr)

196 Have I mentioned that I never have to attend another meeting as long as the universe lives?
Posted by: Weasel

Oh, yeah?

Posted by: Texas MoMe Committee in Charge of Committee Things at June 24, 2025 04:14 PM (cPGH3)

197 I'm a republican ... not a Republican.

Let each state decide. And let New Jersey mind their own business about what Mississippi does.
Posted by: Doug Roberts at June 24, 2025 04:11 PM (mlDMX)

Yeah that's how it worked. In the original 14 colonies (yes, yes, I'll include Vermont), some states had some level of compulsory education requirements, others did not.

But interestingly, the US had what was likely the highest literacy rates in the world, even with New Hampshire, for example, not requiring kids learn how to read. Turns out people wanted their kids to learn how to read, even if the government didn't require it.

The idea being, of course, that you cant be a self governing republic if the people don't understand the issues. Illiterate people were often not allowed to vote (depending on the state) until SCOTUS said that was racist.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at June 24, 2025 04:15 PM (uCjyK)

198 Honestly why in the hell is education even a topic of discussion at the federal level?

Carter elevated it. And Saint Ronnie could have demoted it with a stroke of a pen. But he didn't.

Posted by: Doug Roberts at June 24, 2025 04:15 PM (mlDMX)

199 And i mispelled paella doh

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at June 24, 2025 04:15 PM (bXbFr)

200 > Haiku thread?

Team meetings are dumb.
Just send me the stupid slides.
I hate everyone.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at June 24, 2025 04:16 PM (olroh)

201 Did I mention that Zoom meeting at 6:00am Sunday?

Posted by: Texas MoMe Committee in Charge of Committee Things at June 24, 2025 04:16 PM (cPGH3)

202 oops, nood

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at June 24, 2025 04:16 PM (uCjyK)

203 191 The lizard people are going to arrest Kathleen Kennedy, make Colin Firth the new James Bond, and reboot Indiana Jones with Tom Holland any day now.

is rowan atkinson busy?

Posted by: anachronda at June 24, 2025 04:16 PM (sGtp+)

204 199 And i mispelled paella doh
Posted by: Miguel cervantes at June 24, 2025 04:15 PM (bXbFr)

======

I knew I had too, but I was having no shits to give on getting the Spanish national dish's spelling correct.

Not enough to just ask Google, even.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 24, 2025 04:16 PM (GBKbO)

205 Has anyone heard from Jose Padilla?

Posted by: Crusader at June 24, 2025 04:16 PM (TN0g+)

206 While Spain sits off to the side, eating payaya, and knowing it won't have to increase shit.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

Well, Spain did invent tapas after all.

Watched Bloody Mama and Big Bad Mama this week. Mr. Corman never met a boob he wouldn't put in a movie.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at June 24, 2025 04:17 PM (NXz8h)

207 Have I mentioned that I never have to attend another meeting as long as the universe lives?
Posted by: Weasel

Oh, yeah?
Posted by: Texas MoMe Committee in Charge of Committee Things at June 24, 2025 04:14 PM (cPGH3)
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Those I attend willingly!

Posted by: Weasel at June 24, 2025 04:17 PM (YnIVK)

208 8 Zoom meetings.

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Jeffrey Toobin knew how to keep them interesting.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Well, This Is Another Fine Mess You've Gotten Me Into at June 24, 2025 04:18 PM (L/fGl)

209 191. The lizard people are going to arrest Kathleen Kennedy, make Colin Firth the new James Bond, and reboot Indiana Jones with Tom Holland any day now.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

🤨😀

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at June 24, 2025 04:19 PM (NFX2v)

210 A few years after my wife died I dated a woman who lived her whole life in this tiny college town where I was a professor. We have since gone our separate ways, but both of her daughters, now in their mid twenties, came out as lesbians before the end of high school! She has no other children, so she despaired of ever having grandchildren. The local public school system turns out a lot of gays and lesbians. I suspect active recruitment from the teachers. It’s a college town: what can I say? The one other public high school in the county, in a small town at the edge of the county, does not do this. My church’s K-12 school teaches against sexual immorality. My church is holding a conference at the church in early August with the title Male & Female He Created Them: Biblical Answers to the LGBTQ Movement, with invited speakers.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at June 24, 2025 04:21 PM (qgNn3)

211 Thousands of parents in each state just yanked their kids the hell out of school. Tens of thousands in some states.

They get funded per student.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 24, 2025 04:02 PM (dfIr7)

Yep. Shared before:

We we're trying to work backwards from a normal school day to figure out how much time for instruction we should allot to begin home school. We came up conservatively at 4 hours, taking into account all the farm animal shuffling around and other overhead.

I talked to a teacher friend of mine who disabused me of such generous accounting by saying 2 hours max (elementary level).

That's a full six hours of nothing but "socilization" (a/k/a indoctrination and herd mentality building) and babysitting. And we pay for that shit.

Posted by: GEOTUS Trump at June 24, 2025 04:24 PM (i24o9)

212 @208

>>Jeffrey Toobin knew how to keep them interesting.

I typically make hand shadow puppets or sometimes recite vogon poetry.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 24, 2025 04:24 PM (XV/Pl)

213 The lizard people are going to arrest Kathleen Kennedy, make Colin Firth the new James Bond, and reboot Indiana Jones with Tom Holland any day now.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

Sounds like you're describing the 1982 Turkish film "The Man Who Saved The World." Not only is it a sci-fi puree it literally uses Star Wars footage and Indiana Jones music. Apparently it was a big hit in Turkey and somehow the producers never got sued. It is utterly incomprehensible. Rating: Double Plus Nuts.

https://youtu.be/0SASZaT7lI4

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at June 24, 2025 04:25 PM (NXz8h)

214 Karhleen kennedy is a lizard person change my mind

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at June 24, 2025 04:26 PM (bXbFr)

215 I love how utterly out of touch the mayor of LA is. Wants people to clean up trash for free in downtown LA this weekend, when she won't let people clean up their own lots after the fire, and let downtown LA burn during the riots.
She's a piece of work! Keep it up, lady. I'm sure the angelenos all love you.
https://x.com/Susan_Shelley/status/1937336650813833485
Posted by: LizLem at June 24, 2025 04:07 PM (gWBY1)



Comrade Karen of the CDR
En Cada Barrio un Basurero

Posted by: Kindltot at June 24, 2025 04:27 PM (D7oie)

216 Or maybe just a grey

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at June 24, 2025 04:28 PM (bXbFr)

217 I love how utterly out of touch the mayor of LA is.

Yeah well she can be. She vacationed while one of the most valuable parts of her city burned largely because of her incompetence, and everyone shrugged. She can do anything, say anything and it won't hurt her career. She'll probably be governor next.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 24, 2025 04:29 PM (dfIr7)

218 Colin firth is a little old to be bond

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at June 24, 2025 04:29 PM (bXbFr)

219 202 oops, nood
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at June 24, 2025 04:16 PM (uCjyK)

Posted by: m at June 24, 2025 04:31 PM (CQE5S)

220 *That's a full six hours of nothing but "socilization"*

_------ _--------_-------_------- ------_---------

Socialization is an educated way of saying "Let the kids bully each other into social conformity."

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at June 24, 2025 04:32 PM (4F0B6)

221 188
Klavan, in a fiction book, described the life cycle of a Hellywood baby. First used as a prop by his star mother, and then some bad things, and eventually suicides at twenty. Mother then uses that to start a foundation in his name.

It is true that some people shouldn't have children. But its more that sort from Hellywood.

Posted by: Eric2 at June 24, 2025 04:35 PM (HMtpY)

222 (If you are a teacher, and take a paycheck courtesy of the taxpayer, you have no business belonging to a union.)
Posted by: Cow Demon at June 24, 2025 03:37 PM (LlXyc)

Try to work without being forced to join.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at June 24, 2025 05:05 PM (5xuJ/)

223 The rest of the country subsidizes the NorthEast. To understand that is to understand everything.
Posted by: Doug Roberts at June 24, 2025 03:59 PM (mlDMX)

And we thank you. We love keeping you poor.

https://www.roadsnacks.net/poorest-states-in-america/

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at June 24, 2025 05:18 PM (5xuJ/)

224 Try to work without being forced to join.
Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at June 24, 2025 05:05 PM (5xuJ/)

Go to TX. I taught and did not have to join a teacher’s union. It’s been the case here since 1947.

Posted by: Cow Demon at June 24, 2025 05:35 PM (LlXyc)

225 No, they are NOT your children. Chicago teachers union members have to be among the worst people on earth.

Posted by: RebeccaH at June 24, 2025 05:35 PM (nnkjY)

226 Hitler Stalin Castro and Mao give their Approval in the Wind-Bag City run by the Demo-Rats

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She means, she might just defect to the Democrats officially.

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1 Hola

Posted by: Thanatopsis at June 24, 2025 03:03 PM (GYt5+)

2 2nd

Posted by: Thanatopsis at June 24, 2025 03:03 PM (GYt5+)

3 She overestimates her importance.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at June 24, 2025 03:03 PM (2uKh/)

4 3rd

Posted by: Thanatopsis at June 24, 2025 03:03 PM (GYt5+)

5 Top 5?!?

Posted by: Grayman27 at June 24, 2025 03:04 PM (pgwxJ)

6 Heh.

Posted by: Grayman27 at June 24, 2025 03:04 PM (pgwxJ)

7 Well I guess it's the best we can do in Alaska, a purple state...

Posted by: Squadfather at June 24, 2025 03:04 PM (qUkBO)

8 Oh, and what a useless nepot whore.

Posted by: Grayman27 at June 24, 2025 03:04 PM (pgwxJ)

9 Imagine waking up to that smugface every morning

Posted by: gKWVE at June 24, 2025 03:04 PM (gKWVE)

10 she is what she is

the problem is Alaska voters

Posted by: Bitcoin Fixes Everything at June 24, 2025 03:05 PM (V6W16)

11
Why do Alaskans like the Murkowskis so much?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 24, 2025 03:05 PM (lCaJd)

12 The old shrew always looks like she's jacked up on crank.
Do better Alaska.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at June 24, 2025 03:05 PM (/U5Yz)

13 This post needs more Coke Bear.

Posted by: far cry at June 24, 2025 03:05 PM (icg0u)

14 thanks a whole bunch, Alaska!

Posted by: Black Orchid at June 24, 2025 03:06 PM (Pv3Rg)

15 She's not going to get the chance. Worst case scenario in 26 is 53-47, status quo.

Her saying this has a greater chance of sinking her in her re-election than actually opening any kind of actual opportunities to jump up the ranks of Senate Democrats.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 24, 2025 03:06 PM (GBKbO)

16 Ah, just what the Senate needs: Another power mad shrew.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at June 24, 2025 03:06 PM (tT6L1)

17 Hola
Posted by: Thanatopsis at June 24, 2025 03:03 PM


Brother!

Posted by: the insensible rock at June 24, 2025 03:07 PM (jc0TO)

18 Isn't it more, we should thank the Alaska GOPe for going along with the Alaska commies to use ranked choice voting.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at June 24, 2025 03:07 PM (ULPxl)

19 11
Why do Alaskans like the Murkowskis so much?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia


Because half of Alaskan's are barely functioning alcoholics?
The other half are on welfare.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at June 24, 2025 03:07 PM (/U5Yz)

20 Now there's a face that could make a train take a dirt road.

Posted by: massideas at June 24, 2025 03:07 PM (31+wr)

21 I'm sure the pencil-necked duffus interviewing her followed up with, "But does the example of Jim Jeffords give you any pause? He switched and then retired rather than face certain defeat in the next election."

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at June 24, 2025 03:07 PM (2uKh/)

22 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 24, 2025 03:08 PM (Zz0t1)

23 Oh? Crockett graciously bowed out and ceded power to a fellow party apparatchik?

Not exactly, they held a vote and she came in last LOL

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 24, 2025 03:08 PM (dfIr7)

24 Lisa Murkowski: You Betcha if the Senate Is Tied 50-50 I Might Just Defect to the Democrats



She defected all right.

Posted by: runner at June 24, 2025 03:08 PM (g47mK)

25 You’ve established what you are—now you’re just haggling over the price.

Posted by: Open Channel D at June 24, 2025 03:08 PM (gYnrv)

26 Cocaine Bear 2. Starring Lisa Murkowski as the bear.

Posted by: She's a method actor at June 24, 2025 03:08 PM (Si7dW)

27 Primary that hag.

Posted by: Crusader at June 24, 2025 03:08 PM (TN0g+)

28 >>> 23 Oh? Crockett graciously bowed out and ceded power to a fellow party apparatchik?
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Not exactly, they held a vote and she came in last LOL
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 24, 2025 03:08 PM (dfIr7)

She should apply for David Hogg's old job.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at June 24, 2025 03:08 PM (ULPxl)

29 So, she admits she is a traitor, and only stays with the Repubs for power...

Kick her now.

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 24, 2025 03:08 PM (mP0Kj)

30 I saw Cokesnort Whorebag open for 400 Blows at The Curtain Club in '98.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 24, 2025 03:09 PM (Zz0t1)

31 Why do Alaskans like the Murkowskis so much?

She lost her election last time, but the crappy ranked choice voting system figured out a way to get her in anyway. Alaskans really don't seem to like her much at all.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 24, 2025 03:09 PM (dfIr7)

32 Scrunt

Posted by: steevy at June 24, 2025 03:09 PM (YwEeS)

33 Why do Alaskans like the Murkowskis so much?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia
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Native American tribes are closely tied to the Murkowskis and a big reason why the repeal of the ranked choice POS system was retained in the last election. New attempt to kill it for 2026 and Murcow announcement might give it a bit of a boost.

Posted by: whig at June 24, 2025 03:09 PM (ctrM5)

34 If Thune had a pair, he’d kick her off all committees. He doesn’t so he won’t.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at June 24, 2025 03:09 PM (u73oe)

35 I'd say sarcastically "thx Mitch" but he's filling up his drool cup about now

Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 24, 2025 03:10 PM (pwtJC)

36 Why do Alaskans like the Murkowskis so much?
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Remember when the Alaskan Supreme Court ruled that any marking with an "M" in it--and even just an "M"--was sufficient to be counted as a write-in vote for "Lisa Murkowski?"

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at June 24, 2025 03:10 PM (2uKh/)

37 34 If Thune had a pair, he’d kick her off all committees. He doesn’t so he won’t.
Posted by: Duke Lowell at June 24, 2025 03:09 PM (u73oe)

=======

It happens so rarely, probably for a reason.

It's burning bridges without coming back.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 24, 2025 03:10 PM (GBKbO)

38 worthless nepo baby

Posted by: brak at June 24, 2025 03:10 PM (jGJov)

39 All right Alaska!

Posted by: Mongo at June 24, 2025 03:10 PM (Ef4Ak)

40 She's 68. She's now overdue to spend more time with her family, and run naked with the caribou, in her native Alaska. You've spent enough time looting the taxpayer, enjoy your retirement, Lisa.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at June 24, 2025 03:10 PM (Dv3i1)

41 You'd think a Senate seat would fill the need to be an attention whore.

Posted by: DaveA at June 24, 2025 03:10 PM (FhXTo)

42 Remember, she would've been voted OUT had Alaska not implemented that Ranked Choice bullshit........

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 24, 2025 03:10 PM (Zz0t1)

43 40 She's 68. She's now overdue to spend more time with her family, and run naked with the caribou, in her native Alaska. You've spent enough time looting the taxpayer, enjoy your retirement, Lisa.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at June 24, 2025 03:10 PM (Dv3i1)

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That's like 23 in Senator years.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 24, 2025 03:10 PM (GBKbO)

44 34 If Thune had a pair, he’d kick her off all committees. He doesn’t so he won’t.
Posted by: Duke Lowell


Hey now! I have one. My wifes boyfriend has the other.

Posted by: Sen John Thune at June 24, 2025 03:10 PM (/U5Yz)

Posted by: Mitch McConnell explains at June 24, 2025 03:10 PM (jc0TO)

46 18 Isn't it more, we should thank the Alaska GOPe for going along with the Alaska commies to use ranked choice voting.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket
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Murcow helped finance it I think and that had help from Shithead McConnell via the Senate Election Fund because money is fungible.

Posted by: whig at June 24, 2025 03:11 PM (ctrM5)

47 18 Isn't it more, we should thank the Alaska GOPe for going along with the Alaska commies to use ranked choice voting.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at June 24, 2025 03:07 PM (ULPxl)


Yes, that there seems to be the actual problem.

Posted by: Emmie celebrates the Audacity of Trump! at June 24, 2025 03:11 PM (rF2iL)

48 Readers added context: Murkowski said there was a world in which *coalitions* across parties (like in the AK state legislature) would be worth exploring, speaking hypothetically. She never said she'd consider switching parties.

she can just become an independent and caucus with the Dems, like Bernie Sanders and Angus King. That being said, it would be nice to see the defection going the other way for a change.

Would rather she beome a Dem. As a proud member of the Democratic Party we welcome her. she's one of very, very few Republicans in the Senate who actually have, what are those things called? Oh yeah, principles! Come on in, Lisa!

I watched her interview on CBS this morning. She was mealy mouthing some weasel words. I don't trust her. She was talking in circles, being evasive. She's selling her book that's why she's in the news now.

This smells of an attempt to fake some opposition to the "Loot America" bill. If she actually does it I will fall over from shock.

Nowhere in this video does she say that it is possible she would switch parties and become a democrat. Whoever wrote this didn’t listen to the clip.

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at June 24, 2025 03:11 PM (JCZqz)

49 That's like 23 in Senator years.

Yeah, I was gonna say, 68 is probably the average age of Senators

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 24, 2025 03:12 PM (dfIr7)

50 Bitch McConnell has supported her after she has LOST two different primaries because she was his loyal minion. He wanted a RINO that did what she was told, not an actual conservative. He spent $25 MILLION helping her win against another Republican in 2022 while laughing about denying funding to actual contested and winnable seats.

She he knows she no longer has any protection or funding from the RINO 'leadership' and is going to lose in 2028 badly, so she's pulling an Arlen Specter and prepping the zone to switch parties on 'principle'.

She has always been and will always be one of the most disgusting self-serving RINOs in existence.

Posted by: DudeAbiding at June 24, 2025 03:12 PM (setIA)

51 Ole Murk looks like an angry chicken.

Posted by: Hawaiin Judge Somewhere on Ventura Highway at June 24, 2025 03:12 PM (NtVYv)

52 Like she ALWAYS has?

Posted by: uniparty, Raping and Mutilating the Children They do not Kill at June 24, 2025 03:13 PM (gxokI)

53 Fuck me, when did she stop looking like Willem Dafoe and start looking like Soros?

Yeesh.

She looks like a damn vampire or something.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 24, 2025 03:13 PM (BjH5D)

54 I'm sure the pencil-necked duffus interviewing her followed up with, "But does the example of Jim Jeffords give you any pause? He switched and then retired rather than face certain defeat in the next election."

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at June 24, 2025 03:07 PM (2uKh/)
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Does she need to worry about that in Alaska? They have that weird ranked-choice voting or something that prevents any viable alternative candidate from winning the nomination.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 24, 2025 03:13 PM (7fElN)

55
The square-jawed resolve of this woman. The granite-visaged composure.

Dickless Tracy.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at June 24, 2025 03:13 PM (HAafC)

56

EM JELLYBEAN FOADDY-SEBUN!1!11!

Posted by: Maxine Waters' Hair at June 24, 2025 03:13 PM (5hfjS)

57 42 Remember, she would've been voted OUT had Alaska not implemented that Ranked Choice bullshit........
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer

You know who else might benefit greatly from ranked choice voting?

Posted by: Zohran Mamdani at June 24, 2025 03:13 PM (JCZqz)

58 I watched her interview on CBS this morning. She was mealy mouthing some weasel words. I don't trust her. She was talking in circles, being evasive. She's selling her book that's why she's in the news now.

Ah hell, if this guy takes over the DU I might join them myself. About the most-sensible take on that thread and maybe even this one

Posted by: gKWVE at June 24, 2025 03:14 PM (gKWVE)

59 Whats next ? Susan Collins officially tells us that the rest of the country has to support her New England ass ?

Oh My Gosh ... with friends like the Weak Sisters, who needs enemies.

Posted by: Doug Roberts at June 24, 2025 03:14 PM (mlDMX)

60 48 Would rather she beome a Dem. As a proud member of the Democratic Party we welcome her. she's one of very, very few Republicans in the Senate who actually have, what are those things called? Oh yeah, principles! Come on in, Lisa!

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at June 24, 2025 03:11 PM (JCZqz)

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She voted for both Gorsuch and ACB, DU.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 24, 2025 03:14 PM (GBKbO)

61
She has always been and will always be one of the most disgusting self-serving RINOs in existence
===
Harsh words

Posted by: Pierre Delicto at June 24, 2025 03:14 PM (Si7dW)

62 Alaska gets a bigger percentage of earmarks and grants than any other state (BY A HUGE MARGIN). Murkowski has always been very good at tying her name to those "gifts" despite having little responsibility for them happening.

You'll recall how ballistic she went when DOGE started turning of the spigot.

Posted by: Orson at June 24, 2025 03:14 PM (dIske)

63 Alaska has the most serial killers per capita. Has to be a reason.

Posted by: polynikes at June 24, 2025 03:14 PM (O1q3e)

64 61
She has always been and will always be one of the most disgusting self-serving RINOs in existence
===
Harsh words
Posted by: Pierre Delicto at June 24, 2025 03:14 PM (Si7dW)'

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Romney always felt more self-aggrandizing than self-serving.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 24, 2025 03:15 PM (GBKbO)

65 We must not allow a serial killer gap.

Posted by: Washington State at June 24, 2025 03:15 PM (jc0TO)

66 Nowhere in this video does she say that it is possible she would switch parties and become a democrat.

... keep in mind that she has already lost the Republican primary and gone on to win the Senate seat, so using whether she would switch parties is already pretty much a moot subject.

Posted by: SMOD at June 24, 2025 03:15 PM (RHGPo)

67 Can't Trump offer he a bunch of cocaine or something to get her to shape up?

Posted by: 18-1 at June 24, 2025 03:15 PM (t0Rmr)

68 Do it and get it over with. Sick and tired of this two-faced imbecile.

Posted by: Halfhand at June 24, 2025 03:16 PM (pYYNp)

69 Must Read Alaska: Murkowski the moderate is portrayed as a political unicorn in long-form profile at Deseret News, Oct. 11, 2024

"Moore is also quoted as saying that Murkowski will not give up being a Republican while her father, former Senator and Governor Frank Murkowski is alive. “As long as Daddy’s still alive, she ain’t switching,” Moore is quoted as saying. “I think Daddy would be very disappointed.” Frank Murkowski is now 91 years old."
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smart-union org/plan-link-alaska-canada-railways-back-table/ Plan to link Alaska and Canada railways back on the table. Apr. 2, 2017

Anchorage Daily News, With Walker's blessing, former Gov. Murkowski will again explore Alaska-Canada rail link, Published: April 2, 2017

In part, "Former Gov. Frank Murkowski is exploring the creation of a rail connection between Alaska and Canada, an unrealized priority left over from his time in the state's highest office more than a decade ago.

A contract between Murkowski and Gov. Bill Walker's office says Murkowski will serve as Walker's "special envoy" and "perform services related to establishing a rail connection between Alaska and the Canadian rail system."

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at June 24, 2025 03:16 PM (NFX2v)

70 The Horse-Toothed Actress, no not AOC, the one in Snow White, now whines about having to go to therapy and take anxiety meds.

LOL, so stronk, so stunning, so brave.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at June 24, 2025 03:16 PM (2uKh/)

71 Yeah, I was gonna say, 68 is probably the average age of Senators
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor

Close!

"As of 2025, the average age of senators in the 119th Congress was 64. Of the total 100, 33 members of the U.S. Senate were between the ages of 60 and 69 - more than any other age group. The minimum age requirement to be a member of the Senate is 30, opposed to the House of Representatives which has a minimum age requirement of 25."

Posted by: Moron Analyst at June 24, 2025 03:16 PM (JCZqz)

72 53 Fuck me, when did she stop looking like Willem Dafoe and start looking like Soros?

Yeesh.

She looks like a damn vampire or something.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 24, 2025 03:13 PM (BjH5D)


She's no Beauty Queen, like our Representative, that's for sure!

Posted by: The Good People of Connecticut's 3rd Congressional District at June 24, 2025 03:16 PM (PiwSw)

73 Harsh words
Posted by: Pierre Delicto at June 24, 2025 03:14 PM (Si7dW)'

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Romney always felt more self-aggrandizing than self-serving.
==
You are just jealous of my hair. ... I mean his hair.

Posted by: Pierre Delicto at June 24, 2025 03:16 PM (Si7dW)

74 Yikes , and that's from living in a place that's sunless half of the year!?!?

Posted by: LASue at June 24, 2025 03:16 PM (lCppi)

75 Lisa Murkowski, 68 years old, has been employed in and around government since 1987.

38 years. More than half of her life sucking on that big old government teat.

Suck harder Lisa!

Posted by: Asshole She Is at June 24, 2025 03:17 PM (PzyNU)

76 Texas John Cornyn helped defeat Joe Miller on behalf of the murcow.

Posted by: Kingsman at June 24, 2025 03:17 PM (ehY6c)

77 She looks like a constipated grandmother.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 24, 2025 03:17 PM (Q4IgG)

78 She has a catcher's mitt face.

Posted by: dantesed at June 24, 2025 03:17 PM (Oy/m2)

79 76 Texas John Cornyn helped defeat Joe Miller on behalf of the murcow.
Posted by: Kingsman at June 24, 2025 03:17 PM (ehY6c)

=======

'Member when we were told to accept our primary losses and Go Team Red in the general?

I 'member.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 24, 2025 03:17 PM (GBKbO)

80 Imma just leave this here.

I wholeheartedly dedicate it to Lisa and her entire family.

https://youtu.be/PFrjZJmH3Ws

*NSFW*

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 24, 2025 03:17 PM (Zz0t1)

81 > Alaska has the most serial killers per capita. Has to be a reason.

I've heard people snark the only people who live in AK are people who were born there and people who are running from something. AK is a good place to hide if you have a past.

Posted by: bonhomme at June 24, 2025 03:18 PM (lIio7)

82 63 Alaska has the most serial killers per capita. Has to be a reason.
Posted by: polynikes


Spent a few months there. It's a gawd awful place. Insufferable mosquitos in the summer and ice everywhere in the winter. You do not want to be out on the road after the bars close unless you have a death wish. It's a drunken state.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at June 24, 2025 03:18 PM (/U5Yz)

83 Fuck me, when did she stop looking like Willem Dafoe and start looking like Soros?


After a while you kind of get a hankering for that look you know?

Posted by: Robert Pattinson junior light kepper at June 24, 2025 03:18 PM (t0Rmr)

84 Ah hell, if this guy takes over the DU I might join them myself. About the most-sensible take on that thread and maybe even this one
Posted by: gKWVE

We're not so different, you and I....

Posted by: Demented DU Blind Squirrel that found the proverbial nut at June 24, 2025 03:18 PM (JCZqz)

85 She has always been and will always be one of the most disgusting self-serving RINOs in existence.

Since you're not from the Ohio Valley - I can let this go. Because you've never seen Mitch McConnell in person.

Posted by: Doug Roberts at June 24, 2025 03:18 PM (mlDMX)

86 You are just jealous of my hair. ... I mean his hair.
Posted by: Pierre Delicto at June 24, 2025 03:16 PM (Si7dW)


Step back, Mitt.

Posted by: Senator John Edwards at June 24, 2025 03:18 PM (PiwSw)

87 She has a catcher's mitt face.
Posted by: dantesed at June 24, 2025 03:17 PM



Like a saddlebag with eyes.

Posted by: toby928 at June 24, 2025 03:18 PM (jc0TO)

88 I liked the original Cocaine Bear movie much better then this sequel

Posted by: 18-1 at June 24, 2025 03:19 PM (t0Rmr)

89 66 Nowhere in this video does she say that it is possible she would switch parties and become a democrat.

... keep in mind that she has already lost the Republican primary and gone on to win the Senate seat, so using whether she would switch parties is already pretty much a moot subject.
Posted by: SMOD at June 24, 2025 03:15 PM (RHGPo)

Yes, with ranked choice and Mitch throwing RNC (right?) money to save her tail. What would happen if the money was gone? Or AK does repeal ranked choice this time?

Posted by: Piper at June 24, 2025 03:19 PM (pZEOD)

90 >>18 Isn't it more, we should thank the Alaska GOPe for going along with the Alaska commies to use ranked choice voting.

Posted by: Helena Handbaske


They're morons like a lot of the Republican leadership around the country.

Posted by: Dr Spank at June 24, 2025 03:19 PM (91GwH)

91 Texas John Cornyn helped defeat Joe Miller on behalf of the murcow.
Posted by: Kingsman at June 24, 2025 03:17 PM (ehY6c)



We'll be rid of him next year.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 24, 2025 03:19 PM (Zz0t1)

92 she is what she is

the problem is Alaska voters
Posted by: Bitcoin Fixes Everything
......

Can't trust the Eskimos.

Posted by: wth at June 24, 2025 03:19 PM (v0R5T)

93 Alaska has the worst Workers Compensation system if measuring by how they screw the employers and WC insurance carriers. Even worse than California.

Posted by: polynikes at June 24, 2025 03:19 PM (O1q3e)

94 CC: the entire state of Alaska

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at June 24, 2025 03:19 PM (xcxpd)

95 I don't think Murcow has unclenched since Zombie Diane Feinstein buttonholed her in the hallway back in the Kavanaaugh hearings.

Posted by: LASue at June 24, 2025 03:19 PM (lCppi)

96 Someone commented that the Democrats have stripped judicial reform from the Big Beautiful Bill. Does anyone know what reforms they took out?

Posted by: LizLem at June 24, 2025 03:19 PM (Eng1Z)

97 77 She looks like a constipated grandmother.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 24, 2025 03:17 PM (Q4IgG)

She needs moar hammer.

Posted by: Paul Pelosi's Hammer at June 24, 2025 03:20 PM (ynpvh)

98 11
Why do Alaskans like the Murkowskis so much?
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They really like fish with a big mouths.

Posted by: pudinhead at June 24, 2025 03:20 PM (FmapG)

99 95 I don't think Murcow has unclenched since Zombie Diane Feinstein buttonholed her in the hallway back in the Kavanaaugh hearings.
Posted by: LASue at June 24, 2025 03:19 PM (lCppi)

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She just didn't vote on that one.

Voted present.

I had forgotten that craven move.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 24, 2025 03:20 PM (GBKbO)

100 After a while you kind of get a hankering for that look you know?
Posted by: Robert Pattinson junior light kepper at June 24, 2025 03:18 PM (t0Rmr)

Bro, Willem Dafoe didn't even watch that movie and he was in it.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 24, 2025 03:20 PM (BjH5D)

101 Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 24, 2025 03:17 PM (Zz0t1)

I was half expecting Lucacris youtu.be/JcJPx-6pzPY
"bye bye to all you groupies and gold diggas"

Posted by: gKWVE at June 24, 2025 03:21 PM (gKWVE)

102 She has a catcher's mitt face.
Posted by: dantesed at June 24, 2025 03:17 PM

Like a saddlebag with eyes.


Hey now! How about an attribution?

Posted by: Billy Crystal at June 24, 2025 03:21 PM (Riz8t)

103 I see Robert Eggers's next film will be Werwulf so he's been doing quite a serious of monster movies:

Witch
Willem Dafoe
Viking Berserker
Vampire
Werewolf

They should hire this guy to make the Monsterverse

Posted by: 18-1 at June 24, 2025 03:21 PM (t0Rmr)

104 87 She has a catcher's mitt face.
Posted by: dantesed at June 24, 2025 03:17 PM


Like a saddlebag with eyes.
Posted by: toby928


A grape left out in the sun for a couple of days.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at June 24, 2025 03:21 PM (/U5Yz)

105 @11

>>Why do Alaskans like the Murkowskis so much?

Regardless of locale, and the parties involved, most elections are "fortified" to one extent or another, the power structure in Alaska want's her in power, so, she will be in power until they don't want her in power.

But remember, to a lot of Alaskan's, she's preferable to Sarah Palin.

Let that sink in.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 24, 2025 03:21 PM (XV/Pl)

106 "Do better, Alaska."

-- Fuck me, from Arizona

Posted by: ShainS -- Busy Organizing 'Make Trump King' Protests at June 24, 2025 03:21 PM (GGEMA)

107 Fuck me, when did she stop looking like Willem Dafoe and start looking like Soros?

Believe it or not, she was kinda cute in her youth: https://tinyurl.com/mr33hmx7

Kinda like Pelosi. I guess 80 years or whatever past your salad days take a toll.

Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at June 24, 2025 03:22 PM (JCZqz)

108 As much as I despise Murkowski, it's almost impressive how she parlayed daddy's career into her own, and kept the grift rolling. The ranked choice vote changes just when she was set to be ousted was amazing timing.

Posted by: LizLem at June 24, 2025 03:22 PM (Eng1Z)

109 Murkowski looks more masculine than the man interviewing her.

Posted by: Surfperch at June 24, 2025 03:22 PM (NQi1o)

110 "Last time I saw a mouth like that it had a hook in it!"

Posted by: AshevilleRobert at June 24, 2025 03:22 PM (Hw6WF)

111 How delightful would it be if Trump ran for the Alaska Senate after his term is up, just to be Majority Leader?

Preorder your AK-47 hats now!

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 24, 2025 03:22 PM (BjH5D)

112 Believe it or not, she was kinda cute in her youth: https://tinyurl.com/mr33hmx7


Posted by: toby928 at June 24, 2025 03:22 PM (jc0TO)

113 Believe it or not, she was kinda cute in her youth: https://tinyurl.com/mr33hmx7



IT'S A TRAP!

Posted by: toby928 at June 24, 2025 03:23 PM (jc0TO)

114 103 I see Robert Eggers's next film will be Werwulf so he's been doing quite a serious of monster movies:

Witch
Willem Dafoe
Viking Berserker
Vampire
Werewolf

They should hire this guy to make the Monsterverse
Posted by: 18-1 at June 24, 2025 03:21 PM (t0Rmr)

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I'm leaning more and more towards him being all style and no substance. His Nosferatu was just kind of...empty.

I do like the style, but...

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 24, 2025 03:23 PM (GBKbO)

115 Someone commented that the Democrats have stripped judicial reform from the Big Beautiful Bill. Does anyone know what reforms they took out?
Posted by: LizLem at June 24, 2025 03:19 PM (Eng1Z)

No idea, but if it were up to me, there'd be a law that says any judge who wants to overrule the administration on a deportation has to let the deportee live with him/her.

Posted by: BurtTC at June 24, 2025 03:23 PM (dGCAG)

116 I've heard people snark the only people who live in AK are people who were born there and people who are running from something. AK is a good place to hide if you have a past.
Posted by: bonhomme at June 24, 2025 03:18 PM (lIio7)

When I hear "Alaska" and "murder" in the same sentence, I think of "Insomnia" (2002). Has Al Pacino and Robin Williams as the lead roles, with the former playing a cop under suspicion perusing a murderer played by the latter. It's decent.

Posted by: Thrawn at June 24, 2025 03:23 PM (9Ovst)

117 Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at June 24, 2025 03:22 PM (JCZqz)

Gahhhhhh you almost had me.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 24, 2025 03:23 PM (BjH5D)

118 Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at June 24, 2025 03:22 PM (JCZqz)

Also, "The Wall" is undefeated.

Posted by: Thrawn at June 24, 2025 03:24 PM (9Ovst)

119
"Moore is also quoted as saying that Murkowski will not give up being a Republican while her father, former Senator and Governor Frank Murkowski is alive. “As long as Daddy’s still alive, she ain’t switching,” Moore is quoted as saying. “I think Daddy would be very disappointed.” Frank Murkowski is now 91 years old."



Full-grown adults learn to live their own lives, without seeking Daddy's approval for every aspect of their existence.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at June 24, 2025 03:24 PM (y9nCu)

120 Trump should commit to primarying (Massieing?) her disgusting ass.

Posted by: ShainS -- Busy Organizing 'Make Trump King' Protests at June 24, 2025 03:24 PM (GGEMA)

121 The vampires of 40 nights are calling

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at June 24, 2025 03:24 PM (bXbFr)

122 Regardless of locale, and the parties involved, most elections are "fortified" to one extent or another, the power structure in Alaska want's her in power, so, she will be in power until they don't want her in power.

Voters in Kentucky haven't like The Turtle for about two decades. But all you can do, at the end of the day, is vote for the choices put in front of you.

Same as living in a Mafia Town. The DNC and GOP agree on one thing. They should be the only two games in town.

Posted by: Doug Roberts at June 24, 2025 03:24 PM (mlDMX)

123 Alaska is always damp. The ground is a gray sort of mud gravel stew that gets on everything. It's horrible.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at June 24, 2025 03:24 PM (/U5Yz)

124 Lisa Murk-cow-ski, well she's no loudmouth Bass. She's worse.

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 24, 2025 03:24 PM (r+I/B)

125 This is nobody's fault but Alaskans. You have to be smarter than your b.s. voting system, and they haven't been.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at June 24, 2025 03:24 PM (SSEhk)

126 "perusing"?

Posted by: AshevilleRobert at June 24, 2025 03:24 PM (Hw6WF)

127 If she joins the democrats her time as a senator from Alaska is pretty much over. This is all just red meat for the dems hoping they will retake the senate next year.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at June 24, 2025 03:25 PM (e5NfL)

128 Politico rivalries, not going away -

Politico: Palin: Murkowski stooped "low" Feb. 2010

In part, "Sarah Palin lashed into Sen. Lisa Murkowski several times Monday on behalf of her endorsed candidate in the Alaska Senate race, Republican Joe Miller.

Completing an electronic hat trick, Palin blasted Murkowski for the remarks she made during a debate last night via Twitter, on her Facebook page and in an e-mail sent to Miller’s supporters."

And, "The former Alaska governor has a contentious history with Murkowski and her father, former Gov. Frank Murkowski, that dates back almost a decade. In 2002, then-recently elected Gov. Frank Murkowski passed over Palin and appointed his daughter to his former Senate seat. Four years later, Palin defeated Frank Murkowski to win the governorship."

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at June 24, 2025 03:25 PM (NFX2v)

129 What comes around, goes around ...

Trump’s White House counsel sent a letter to Biden aide Neera Tanden this morning, as she appears before the House Oversight Committee amid a probe into Biden’s mental fitness as president — The letter argues that asserting executive privilege is “not justified” because of the nature of the allegations.

“The President authorizes you to provide unrestricted testimony to the House Oversight Committee, irrespective of potential privilege.”

Posted by: SMOD at June 24, 2025 03:25 PM (RHGPo)

130 Keep the checks coming, keep the beer flown in, and turn a blind eye when they molest their own grand daughters.

Posted by: Zeno the Stoic at June 24, 2025 03:25 PM (EtZ9h)

131 Lisa Murkowski gonna Lisa Murkowski.

Posted by: ... at June 24, 2025 03:25 PM (wZXGx)

132 Afternoon.

So what Skeletor there is saying is, "I'm looking for that sweet, sweet graft. Give it to me, Daddy!"

Am I understanding correctly?

Posted by: Robert at June 24, 2025 03:25 PM (u+C/U)

133
I'm leaning more and more towards him being all style and no substance. His Nosferatu was just kind of...empty.

I do like the style, but...


The Witch and The Northman were his two best, but I found Nosferatu entertaining. And he basically remade the original so it was mostly his style plus the original plot.

Out of his movies I'd recommend all except the Lighthouse because its one of those movies were almost nothing happens the whole time...though its no For the Plasma (see if any other moron saw that stinker...)

Posted by: 18-1 at June 24, 2025 03:26 PM (t0Rmr)

134
I was half expecting Lucacris youtu.be/JcJPx-6pzPY
"bye bye to all you groupies and gold diggas"
Posted by: gKWVE at June 24, 2025 03:21 PM (gKWVE)



I have the bluegrass version of that on my phone as a ringtone for SpongeBro.

But, can offer this in retaliation:

https://is.gd/QU0EmI

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 24, 2025 03:26 PM (Zz0t1)

135 This smells of an attempt to fake some opposition to the "Loot America" bill. If she actually does it I will fall over from shock.

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at June 24, 2025 03:11 PM (JCZqz)


Statements like this ... this is why I think leftists live in Opposite World. That bill is part of the mighty attempt to stop the looting.

Posted by: Emmie celebrates the Audacity of Trump! at June 24, 2025 03:26 PM (rF2iL)

136 And the average IQ of both parties will increase.

Posted by: ... at June 24, 2025 03:26 PM (wZXGx)

137 It has been said that by age 50, you get the looks you deserve.

Whose fugly bitch this be?

Posted by: Joe Mama at June 24, 2025 03:26 PM (2sMLA)

138 >>> They should hire this guy to make the Monsterverse
Posted by: 18-1 at June 24, 2025 03:21 PM (t0Rmr)

That would be brilliant, actually. Have him cut out the most extreme stuff he usually puts in, so they have to be PG-13 or less, but redoing all the monster movies, would be brilliant.

Posted by: LizLem at June 24, 2025 03:26 PM (Eng1Z)

139 Directed at Lisa, of course.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 24, 2025 03:26 PM (Zz0t1)

140 At least Alaska didn't screw up in 2024 and reverted to a Republican Congress critter

Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 24, 2025 03:26 PM (pwtJC)

141 112 Believe it or not, she was kinda cute in her youth: https://tinyurl.com/mr33hmx7


Posted by: toby928


You are a very very bad man.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at June 24, 2025 03:27 PM (/U5Yz)

142 @125

>>This is nobody's fault but Alaskans. You have to be smarter than your b.s. voting system, and they haven't been.

You cannot outvote RCV, it's opaque and obscure for a reason.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 24, 2025 03:27 PM (XV/Pl)

143 Dow up 550+ at the moment. Peace be good

Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 24, 2025 03:27 PM (pwtJC)

144 I nominate tcn to be Murky's replacement. "An 'Ette Goes To Washington" would be a fantastic comedy.

Posted by: pookysgirl, looking for a second at June 24, 2025 03:27 PM (Wt5PA)

145 133 The Witch and The Northman were his two best, but I found Nosferatu entertaining. And he basically remade the original so it was mostly his style plus the original plot.

Out of his movies I'd recommend all except the Lighthouse because its one of those movies were almost nothing happens the whole time...though its no For the Plasma (see if any other moron saw that stinker...)
Posted by: 18-1 at June 24, 2025 03:26 PM (t0Rmr)

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Nosferatu was empty because of how he told the story. The emotional investment in Lily-Rose Depp, her connection to Orlock, and her final choice just left me cold. It looked good while it did it, though.

And I have only seen the Northman once, but it underwhelmed me.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 24, 2025 03:27 PM (GBKbO)

146 Wow. That bitch got some lips, I'll say.

Posted by: Mick Jagger at June 24, 2025 03:27 PM (Zz0t1)

147 She's a perfect example of late nights, too many cigarettes and too much booze. Poster Girl

Posted by: braenyard- Some friends are more equal than others at June 24, 2025 03:28 PM (iXLWn)

148
You cannot outvote RCV, it's opaque and obscure for a reason.


RCV is how you get the 3rd place candidate "winning" because normies/LIVs barely pay attention to begin with and they aren't going to get why those 2nd and 3rd votes will come back to bite them

Posted by: 18-1 at June 24, 2025 03:28 PM (t0Rmr)

149 135 This smells of an attempt to fake some opposition to the "Loot America" bill. If she actually does it I will fall over from shock.

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at June 24, 2025 03:11 PM (JCZqz)

Statements like this ... this is why I think leftists live in Opposite World. That bill is part of the mighty attempt to stop the looting.
Posted by: Emmie celebrates the Audacity of Trump! at June 24, 2025 03:26 PM (rF2iL)

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Loot America by denying Medicaid to illegal aliens!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 24, 2025 03:28 PM (GBKbO)

150 How delightful would it be if Trump ran for the Alaska Senate after his term is up, just to be Majority Leader?

Preorder your AK-47 hats now!
Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 24, 2025 03:22 PM (BjH5D)

As funny as that sounds, the truth is, the Republican Senators would rather have Lisa Murkowski in that seat, over Don Trump.

The stalwart conservatives in that esteemed deliberative body love them some uniparty.

They don't just hate Trump, they hate you too.

Posted by: BurtTC at June 24, 2025 03:28 PM (dGCAG)

151 Believe it or not, she was kinda cute in her youth: https://tinyurl.com/mr33hmx7

Kinda like Pelosi. I guess 80 years or whatever past your salad days take a toll.
Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at June 24, 2025 03:22 PM (JCZqz)

I saw the name and opened the link anyway.

Posted by: Robert at June 24, 2025 03:28 PM (u+C/U)

152 You are a very very bad man.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at June 24, 2025 03:27 PM


I was trying to warn against it but I was partially blinded.

Posted by: toby928 at June 24, 2025 03:28 PM (jc0TO)

153 Well the norseman was good and brutal

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at June 24, 2025 03:29 PM (bXbFr)

154 131 Lisa Murkowski gonna Lisa Murkowski.
Posted by: ...

Moaning Lisa Murkowski > Mona Lisa

Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at June 24, 2025 03:29 PM (JCZqz)

155 153 Well the norseman was good and brutal
Posted by: Miguel cervantes at June 24, 2025 03:29 PM (bXbFr)

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It's middle hour was boring.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 24, 2025 03:29 PM (GBKbO)

156 And I have only seen the Northman once, but it underwhelmed me.
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Same here, and I'm disposed to Viking movies.

Posted by: pudinhead at June 24, 2025 03:29 PM (FmapG)

157 Has she ever represented conservatives

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at June 24, 2025 03:29 PM (kTd/k)

158 Believe it or not, she was kinda cute in her youth…

Some things, once seen, cannot be unseen…

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at June 24, 2025 03:29 PM (qgNn3)

159 You cannot outvote RCV, it's opaque and obscure for a reason.

RCV is how you get the 3rd place candidate "winning" because normies/LIVs barely pay attention to begin with and they aren't going to get why those 2nd and 3rd votes will come back to bite them

Posted by: 18-1 at June 24, 2025 03:28 PM


RCV only works because most conservatives will only vote for "their guy" in the first round and won't vote in rounds 2 or 3.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at June 24, 2025 03:29 PM (e5NfL)

160 By she I meant Merkinkowski.

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at June 24, 2025 03:30 PM (kTd/k)

161 What an old clapped out whore.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 24, 2025 03:30 PM (zZu0s)

162 Statements like this ... this is why I think leftists live in Opposite World. That bill is part of the mighty attempt to stop the looting.
Posted by: Emmie celebrates the Audacity of Trump! at June 24, 2025 03:26 PM (rF2iL)

There's a perverse logic to it, kind of. "America" to them is the swamp itself. Stealing money from the swamp is "looting America".

Consistent. But still perverse.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 24, 2025 03:30 PM (BjH5D)

163 What. A. C*nt.

Posted by: Beverly at June 24, 2025 03:31 PM (Epeb0)

164 “The President authorizes you to provide unrestricted testimony to the House Oversight Committee, irrespective of potential privilege.”
Posted by: SMOD at June 24, 2025 03:25 PM (RHGPo)

Nice, just as Biden stripped Presidential Staff Immunity from Trump's prior staff...

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 24, 2025 03:31 PM (mP0Kj)

165 Mostly brutal thats what hamlet was really like according to the timd period

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at June 24, 2025 03:31 PM (bXbFr)

166 I just realized that this dude in that video is wearing ladies' glasses.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 24, 2025 03:31 PM (BjH5D)

167
And I have only seen the Northman once, but it underwhelmed me.


I liked it because it told a story from the Viking view point. Ana Taylor-Joy's character tries to get him to view his decisions from a more modern/rational viewpoint - oddly as a pagan priestess but Alexander Skarsgard's Amleth is going to get the revenge his gods demand. And if he dies? He'll join Odin's side anyway right?

Posted by: 18-1 at June 24, 2025 03:31 PM (t0Rmr)

168 > Voters in Kentucky haven't like The Turtle for about two decades. But all you can do, at the end of the day, is vote for the choices put in front of you.
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McConnell had a challenger in Matt Bevin, former governor. He was something of an asshole, but he wasn't McConnell level asshole. McConnell made damn sure he was smeared to death so he'd lose in the primary, which ended up closer that usual with McConnell's election machine running the state-wide elections.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 24, 2025 03:31 PM (Q4IgG)

169 Well the norseman was good and brutal
Posted by: Miguel cervantes

And I brought the sexy!

Posted by: Bjork at June 24, 2025 03:31 PM (JCZqz)

170 167 I liked it because it told a story from the Viking view point. Ana Taylor-Joy's character tries to get him to view his decisions from a more modern/rational viewpoint - oddly as a pagan priestess but Alexander Skarsgard's Amleth is going to get the revenge his gods demand. And if he dies? He'll join Odin's side anyway right?
Posted by: 18-1 at June 24, 2025 03:31 PM (t0Rmr)

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It's definitely different and told from a unique perspective.

But the middle hour is just kind of...dull.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 24, 2025 03:31 PM (GBKbO)

171 Same here, and I'm disposed to Viking movies.
Posted by: pudinhead at June 24, 2025 03:29 PM (FmapG)

13th Warrior. Eric the Red.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 24, 2025 03:31 PM (zZu0s)

172 Ha! Apparently the House slapped down an attempt by Al Green to impeach Trump over Iran, 344-79.

He's the cane guy, right? I get my democrat politician justice league supervillains confused.

Posted by: LizLem at June 24, 2025 03:31 PM (gWBY1)

173 I imagine she smells like an ashtray.

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at June 24, 2025 03:32 PM (kTd/k)

174 Mick Ralphs, 81, Guitarist for Mott the Hoople and Bad Company, Passes Away

’60s teen idol Bobby Sherman dead at 81.

Posted by: SMOD at June 24, 2025 03:32 PM (RHGPo)

175 This is why “It’s not what you know it’s WHO you know!” is such a dangerous way to hire people. Not to mention having relatives hire each other. This bitch has a job thanks to daddy and now she can’t be sent packing back to AK for good.

Posted by: Cow Demon at June 24, 2025 03:32 PM (LlXyc)

176
He's the cane guy, right? I get my democrat politician justice league supervillains confused.
Posted by: LizLem at June 24, 2025 03:31 PM (gWBY1)



Isn't he the asshole that got himself removed from the SOTU?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 24, 2025 03:32 PM (Zz0t1)

177 Mick Ralphs, 81, Guitarist for Mott the Hoople and Bad Company, Passes Away

’60s teen idol Bobby Sherman dead at 81.
Posted by: SMOD at June 24, 2025 03:32 PM


Who's Next?

Posted by: toby928 at June 24, 2025 03:32 PM (jc0TO)

178 176
He's the cane guy, right? I get my democrat politician justice league supervillains confused.
Posted by: LizLem at June 24, 2025 03:31 PM (gWBY1)


Isn't he the asshole that got himself removed from the SOTU?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 24, 2025 03:32 PM (Zz0t1)

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Correct on both counts.

He's the result of prioritizing "he fights" over anything else.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 24, 2025 03:33 PM (GBKbO)

179 Karemello Anthony indicted for murder.

Posted by: Piper at June 24, 2025 03:33 PM (pZEOD)

180 I imagine she smells like an ashtray.

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at June 24, 2025 03:32 PM (kTd/k)



And piss.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 24, 2025 03:33 PM (Zz0t1)

181 They don't just hate Trump, they hate you too.
Posted by: BurtTC at June 24, 2025 03:28 PM (dGCAG)

I know, I know, i was just forcing the setup to my own punch line.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 24, 2025 03:33 PM (BjH5D)

182 He's the cane guy, right? I get my democrat politician justice league supervillains confused.
Posted by: LizLem

Bitch, please.

Posted by: Representative Preston Brooks at June 24, 2025 03:33 PM (JCZqz)

183 @159

>>RCV only works because most conservatives will only vote for "their guy" in the first round and won't vote in rounds 2 or 3.

RCV is a weighted system, if you don't vote other choices, it's essentially votes for the other candidates.

It's a bullshit system crafted to give the controlling authorities control on who wins elections.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 24, 2025 03:33 PM (XV/Pl)

184 You can't make this stuff up. (note that this is a stage production)

Rachel Zegler Reportedly In Talks To Portray Iconic Sound Of Music Role. The role originated by Julie Andrews, specifically:

As per Deadline, Zegler is now reportedly in talks to play the protagonist in The Sound of Music. According to the source, the Snow White actor is in conversation to play the role of Maria von Trapp, a part originated by Julie Andrews, in a stage production of the series at Lincoln Center in New York City. It was noted by the source, however, that Zegler’s Sound of Music role is not yet confirmed.


https://is.gd/FPWefe

Posted by: Archimedes at June 24, 2025 03:33 PM (Riz8t)

185 144 I nominate tcn to be Murky's replacement. "An 'Ette Goes To Washington" would be a fantastic comedy.
Posted by: pookysgirl


tinyurl.com/2f3trmj4

Posted by: gKWVE at June 24, 2025 03:33 PM (gKWVE)

186 Started watching. Nixon the Directors Cut, at an hour and a half Stone couldn't help himself. Yuck.

Posted by: braenyard- Some friends are more equal than others at June 24, 2025 03:33 PM (iXLWn)

187 There is a lot of ladies wearing flannel in Alaska. Sayin'

Posted by: Maj. Healey at June 24, 2025 03:34 PM (/U5Yz)

188 Temu garrett moris impersonator

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at June 24, 2025 03:34 PM (bXbFr)

189 Moaning Lisa Murkowski > Mona Lisa

Nah…

Mona Lisa >>> Moaning Lisa Murkowski

I’d far rather visit the Louvre’s tiny little da Vinci masterpiece than have anything to do with the Alaskan Mistake!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at June 24, 2025 03:34 PM (qgNn3)

190 CNN: Early US intel assessment suggests strikes on Iran did not destroy nuclear sites, sources say

NYPost: US strikes on Iran nuke facilities caused more damage than first thought — as watchdog reveals possible contamination

Posted by: SMOD at June 24, 2025 03:34 PM (RHGPo)

191 Karemello Anthony indicted for murder.
Posted by: Piper at June 24, 2025 03:33 PM (pZEOD)



Can't be put to death. Overwhelming evidence he committed murder. Will be paroled in 8 years.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 24, 2025 03:34 PM (Zz0t1)

192 McConnell had a challenger in Matt Bevin, former governor. He was something of an asshole, but he wasn't McConnell level asshole. McConnell made damn sure he was smeared to death so he'd lose in the primary, which ended up closer that usual with McConnell's election machine running the state-wide elections.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 24, 2025 03:31 PM (Q4IgG)

It's been said McConnell hasn't won an honest election in decades.

Posted by: BurtTC at June 24, 2025 03:34 PM (dGCAG)

193 Lisa is just reminding everyone that she's in this for herself and no one else. That's the power of Democracy.

Posted by: ErikInTexas at June 24, 2025 03:34 PM (idFFX)

194 Nood pedo groomers.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at June 24, 2025 03:35 PM (i24o9)

195 “Dear friend,

As a stern and severe conservative I need your help to fend off challenges from the liberal democrats…..”

Most likely a Murkowski email

Posted by: thathalfrican - The One at June 24, 2025 03:35 PM (lUhzf)

196
She lost her election last time, but the crappy ranked choice voting system figured out a way to get her in anyway. Alaskans really don't seem to like her much at all.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 24, 2025 03:09 PM (dfIr7)

Don’t forget the time before that, she lost the primary but got her seat back through a write in campaign.

When I was living there the Murkowskis had worn out their welcome. Frank Murkowski was an ineffective gov, paving the way for the rise of Sarah Palin. And nobody was all too happy with Lisa even back then.

Posted by: Cow Demon at June 24, 2025 03:35 PM (LlXyc)

197 Rachel Zegler Reportedly In Talks To Portray Iconic Sound Of Music Role. The role originated by Julie Andrews, specifically:



Another franchise pitched off a cliff and dashed to bits on the jagged rocks below.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 24, 2025 03:35 PM (Zz0t1)

198 Oh goodness! What an Alaskan snow bank worth of cocaine can do to your physiognomy!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at June 24, 2025 03:35 PM (qgNn3)

199 I’d far rather visit the Louvre’s tiny little da Vinci masterpiece than have anything to do with the Alaskan Mistake!
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit

How's that compare to Mel Brooks' French Mistake number?

Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at June 24, 2025 03:35 PM (JCZqz)

200 Karemello Anthony indicted for murder.
Posted by: Piper at June 24, 2025 03:33 PM (pZEOD)

His family can open up another GoFundMe so they can pay his legal bills and get a bigger house with a pool, but mostly to get a bigger house with a pool.

Posted by: Robert at June 24, 2025 03:35 PM (u+C/U)

201
Alaska is always damp. The ground is a gray sort of mud gravel stew that gets on everything. It's horrible.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at June 24, 2025 03:24 PM (/U5Yz)



A lot of the ground in AK is covered in muskeg, which is basically deep, deep moss. Especially in the wooded areas. It's like walking on 18 inches of wet kitchen sponges.

There was one lake in the training areas of Elmendorf/Richardson where the muskeg had grown out onto the surface. It was like a green iceberg, flat on top and about 10 feet of muskeg below the surface. Some airmen & soldiers had put plywood sheets on the muskeg so you could walk on the water about 50 yards offshore and fish at the edges. Freaky.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at June 24, 2025 03:35 PM (y9nCu)

202 Jasmine Crockett withdrew her candidacy to be ranking member of the House Oversight Committee. She got the least votes of any Dem running. Heh

Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 24, 2025 03:36 PM (pwtJC)

203 >>RCV only works because most conservatives will only vote for "their guy" in the first round and won't vote in rounds 2 or 3.

RCV is a weighted system, if you don't vote other choices, it's essentially votes for the other candidates.

It's a bullshit system crafted to give the controlling authorities control on who wins elections.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 24, 2025 03:33 PM (XV/Pl

RCV is for parliamentary systems. Not here.

Posted by: Cow Demon at June 24, 2025 03:36 PM (LlXyc)

204 @196

>>And nobody was all too happy with Lisa even back then.

Sarah Palin was run out of politics and Murkowski endures, like a festering boil on the body politic.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 24, 2025 03:36 PM (XV/Pl)

205 184 You can't make this stuff up. (note that this is a stage production)

Rachel Zegler Reportedly In Talks To Portray Iconic Sound Of Music Role. The role originated by Julie Andrews, specifically:

As per Deadline, Zegler is now reportedly in talks to play the protagonist in The Sound of Music. According to the source, the Snow White actor is in conversation to play the role of Maria von Trapp, a part originated by Julie Andrews, in a stage production of the series at Lincoln Center in New York City. It was noted by the source, however, that Zegler’s Sound of Music role is not yet confirmed.

https://is.gd/FPWefe

Posted by: Archimedes at June 24, 2025 03:33 PM (Riz8t)

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Going to Broadway from Hollywood isn't actually an upgrade.

Going from Hollywood to Broadway is something big stars can do to get adulation and paid (like Jake Gyllenhall and Denzel in their Othello), but it's more about convincing themselves that they're still actors instead of movie stars.

Zegler is not going to Bdwy because she needs to feel like an actress. She's going to Broadway because no one in Hollywood will hire her and her name is big enough to work on the marquee on Bdwy for opening weekend.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 24, 2025 03:36 PM (GBKbO)

206 She's now overdue to spend more time with her family, and run naked with the caribou...

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There are days like today that I'm thankful I was born the way I was.

Posted by: muldoon, the congenitally blind reindeer at June 24, 2025 03:36 PM (poXs5)

207 186 Started watching. Nixon the Directors Cut, at an hour and a half Stone couldn't help himself. Yuck.
Posted by: braenyard- Some friends are more equal than others at June 24, 2025 03:33 PM (iXLWn)

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"Look at this caring, rounded view of a president we all hate. It makes him out to be literally insane. Praise Oliver Stone for his compassion!"

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 24, 2025 03:37 PM (GBKbO)

208 worthless nepo baby
Posted by: brak at June 24, 2025 03:10 PM


I avoided seeing Worthless Nepo Baby open for New Kids on the Block at the Gahden in '89.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 24, 2025 03:37 PM (kgE5c)

209 198 Oh goodness! What an Alaskan snow bank worth of cocaine can do to your physiognomy!
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at June 24, 2025 03:35 PM (qgNn3)

Upnose Look < Innsmouth Look

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 24, 2025 03:37 PM (BjH5D)

210 She's a perfect example of late nights, too many cigarettes and too much booze. Poster Girl
Posted by: braenyard- Some friends are more equal than others at June 24, 2025 03:28 PM (iXLWn)

Caak too!

Posted by: The Penis at June 24, 2025 03:38 PM (PzyNU)

211 They don't just hate Trump, they hate you too.
Posted by: BurtTC at June 24, 2025 03:28 PM (dGCAG)

I know, I know, i was just forcing the setup to my own punch line.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 24, 2025 03:33 PM (BjH5D)

Understood. I'm just sour on the whole Senate, I'm in Mars Attacks level annoyance, where if the Martians would show up, I'd absolutely be rooting for them.

Posted by: BurtTC at June 24, 2025 03:38 PM (dGCAG)

212 Remember that pile of excrement Jim Jeffords of Vermont? The second the Republican Party had a majority in the Senate, he switched sides to give power to the Democrats.

The Republican Party is packed with this sort of duplicitous trash. They follow the Bitch McConnell model. Ultimately, Democrats must prevail on every issue, and they will do whatever it takes to make that happen.

Posted by: Sam Adams at June 24, 2025 03:38 PM (X+xvk)

213 McConnell had a challenger in Matt Bevin, former governor.

I'm just on the other side of the Ohio. I know.

The candidates for the other Senate seat are always pretty decent. Hence how you got Paul. But for McConnell ?

Nah. Its was always a rigged game.

Ever wondered why a dude with early polio type health problems and a law degree from Louisville sky-rocketed to a really hot rich Asian wife and a Senate seat ?

I don't.

Posted by: Doug Roberts at June 24, 2025 03:38 PM (mlDMX)

214 @203

>> RCV is for parliamentary systems. Not here.

There are two states that have implemented RCV, Alaska and Maine and 47 cities and 3 counties.

So RCV is here and our job is to make sure it does not spread any further.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 24, 2025 03:38 PM (XV/Pl)

215 Ziegler has the talent and looks of a third tier extra in a legitimate movie. A maid or part of the kitchen help, a char woman.

Posted by: braenyard- Some friends are more equal than others at June 24, 2025 03:38 PM (iXLWn)

216 Zegler is not going to Bdwy because she needs to feel like an actress. She's going to Broadway because no one in Hollywood will hire her and her name is big enough to work on the marquee on Bdwy for opening weekend.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 24, 2025 03:36 PM (GBKbO)

Does anyone enjoy Broadway? The only people who seem to enjoy it are smug rich gay guys.

Posted by: Robert at June 24, 2025 03:39 PM (u+C/U)

217 Nosferatu was one of the most beautiful films of the past five years, easy. He made the black and white sumptuous and brooding. Some striking images I haven't forgotten.

His stories have a colder visual tone and subject matter, like Nolan's do. And I love the style, but it's hit and miss for some people, which I get.

Posted by: LizLem at June 24, 2025 03:39 PM (gWBY1)

218 RCV obliterates one man one vote.

Posted by: ... at June 24, 2025 03:39 PM (wZXGx)

219 216 Does anyone enjoy Broadway? The only people who seem to enjoy it are smug rich gay guys.
Posted by: Robert at June 24, 2025 03:39 PM (u+C/U)

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It's a niche market that gets a lot of press because Manhattan media loves it and tells the world.

Biggest shows get tens of thousands of tickets sold.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 24, 2025 03:40 PM (GBKbO)

220 Lisa Murkowski has a face you could use to fight your way out of a fire, and I bet her breath smells like cat piss.

Posted by: Sam Adams at June 24, 2025 03:40 PM (X+xvk)

221
Meerkatski is only in office as a power conduit to her Daddy.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at June 24, 2025 03:40 PM (y9nCu)

222 McConnell had a challenger in Matt Bevin, former governor. He was something of an asshole, but he wasn't McConnell level asshole. McConnell made damn sure he was smeared to death so he'd lose in the primary, which ended up closer that usual with McConnell's election machine running the state-wide elections.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 24, 2025 03:31 PM


It didn't help bevin that he was a grifter that destroyed the family business in connecticut. He took over the bell making company that had been around for over 200 years in about 2009 and drove it into the ground. He cancelled the insurance on the factory and it subsequently burned to the ground after getting hit by lightning. The state (blumenthal) came in and bailed him out with grants and tax abatements. Once those were in place and he had the cash he promptly sold the company and moved away.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at June 24, 2025 03:41 PM (e5NfL)

223 game.

Ever wondered why a dude with early polio type health problems and a law degree from Louisville sky-rocketed to a really hot rich Asian wife and a Senate seat ?

I don't.
Posted by: Doug Roberts
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Mate is a nautical term used for crewmen on her daddy's ships.

Posted by: braenyard- Some friends are more equal than others at June 24, 2025 03:41 PM (iXLWn)

224 218 RCV obliterates one man one vote.

Posted by: ... at June 24, 2025 03:39 PM (wZXGx)

Time to get a Civil Rights Voting section to bring a case and get the Supreme Court to agree...

Posted by: Nova Local at June 24, 2025 03:42 PM (tOcjL)

225 Her breath smells like an ashtray.

Posted by: braenyard- Some friends are more equal than others at June 24, 2025 03:43 PM (iXLWn)

226 Theory Proposing Three-Dimensional Time as the “Primary Fabric of Everything” Could Unify Quantum Physics and Gravity

Posted by: SMOD at June 24, 2025 03:43 PM (RHGPo)

227 @216

>>Does anyone enjoy Broadway? The only people who seem to enjoy it are smug rich gay guys.

There are some shows that are magical, Chicago, The Lion King, The King and I.

One of the best and funniest things I have ever seen was Hitchcocks, The 39 Steps.

Then I've seen some horrible Broadway like a Perfect Crime.

I worked at a Post Production House on 45th and Broadway and got comped tickets all the time.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 24, 2025 03:44 PM (XV/Pl)

228 I will not comment on Murkowski's looks other than to say she looks rather more like Lord Farquard after a six day bender.

Posted by: muldoon at June 24, 2025 03:46 PM (poXs5)

229 Theory Proposing Three-Dimensional Time as the “Primary Fabric of Everything” Could Unify Quantum Physics and Gravity
Posted by: SMOD at June 24, 2025 03:43 PM (RHGPo)

I don't know about three dimensional time but I can tell you your curtains aren't the fabric tying anything together.

Posted by: The World's Gayest Interior Designer at June 24, 2025 03:46 PM (u+C/U)

230 Does anyone enjoy Broadway? The only people who seem to enjoy it are smug rich gay guys.

I stopped going years ago when the fags broke out the yellow buckets and extorted money for The Slims during intermission.

Posted by: Pray The Gay Away! at June 24, 2025 03:47 PM (PzyNU)

231 Karemello Anthony indicted for murder.
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I've been assured by the media that it was a mostly peaceful murder.

Posted by: Crusader at June 24, 2025 03:49 PM (TN0g+)

232 179 Karemello Anthony indicted for murder.
Posted by: Piper

Fox 4, KDFW, In part, "We expect that when the full story is heard, the prosecution will not be able to rule out the reasonable doubt that Karmelo Anthony may have acted in self-defense," he said.

"Today’s indictment of Karmelo Anthony is an expected and routine step in the legal process," Defense Attorney Mike Howard said. "An indictment simply means that a grand jury, after hearing only the prosecution's side of the story, determined that there was enough evidence to allow the case to move forward to court. That's all an indictment means. Karmelo and his family are confident in the justice system and the people of Collin County to be fair and impartial. Of course, Karmelo looks forward to his day in court."

Just awful.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at June 24, 2025 03:50 PM (NFX2v)

233
You can't make this stuff up. (note that this is a stage production)

Rachel Zegler Reportedly In Talks To Portray Iconic Sound Of Music Role. The role originated by Julie Andrews, specifically:

https://is.gd/FPWefe

Posted by: Archimedes

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Ho-lee. Well, she can sing like mad, but she seems awfully young for the part, but that rarely stops a casting decision I guess. Who will play Captain von Trapp? Kanye West? Or is he too male? Maybe Cynthia Nixon.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 24, 2025 03:51 PM (lCaJd)

234 McConnell had a challenger in Matt Bevin, former governor. He was something of an asshole, but he wasn't McConnell level asshole. McConnell made damn sure he was smeared to death so he'd lose in the primary, which ended up closer that usual with McConnell's election machine running the state-wide elections.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 24, 2025 03:31 PM (Q4IgG)

It's been said McConnell hasn't won an honest election in decades.
Posted by: BurtTC at June 24, 2025 03:34 PM (dGCAG)

Saw a blurb once that McConnell has Dominion voting machines just in case.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 24, 2025 03:52 PM (8avO+)

235 Sarah Palin was run out of politics and Murkowski endures, like a festering boil on the body politic.
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Everything wrong about the Republican party all rolled up into one sentence.

Posted by: Crusader at June 24, 2025 03:53 PM (TN0g+)

236 Can't wait to see who'll play the Von Trappe family members.

Mercy!

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at June 24, 2025 03:54 PM (NFX2v)

237

EM' MANGO FOADDY-SEBUN1!1!!

Posted by: Al Green's Eye Bags at June 24, 2025 03:54 PM (5hfjS)

238 Let her run in the Democratic primary next time.

Posted by: waelse1 at June 24, 2025 03:55 PM (QtGYR)

239 Rachel Zegler Reportedly In Talks To Portray Iconic Sound Of Music Role. The role originated by Julie Andrews

She sure can sing but she's a terrible person, awful to work with by ALL accounts, and cannot act. This is her niche though, musicals on stage.

I have only seen two plays in person, both Shakespeare and they were damned well worth it, but I cannot comment on anything more recent. Plays feel very artificial and pretentious in reading, but sometimes they come across well when acted out.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 24, 2025 03:55 PM (dfIr7)

240 Fox 4, KDFW, In part, "We expect that when the full story is heard, the prosecution will not be able to rule out the reasonable doubt that Karmelo Anthony may have acted in self-defense," he said.

"Today’s indictment of Karmelo Anthony is an expected and routine step in the legal process," Defense Attorney Mike Howard said. "An indictment simply means that a grand jury, after hearing only the prosecution's side of the story, determined that there was enough evidence to allow the case to move forward to court. That's all an indictment means. Karmelo and his family are confident in the justice system and the people of Collin County to be fair and impartial. Of course, Karmelo looks forward to his day in court."

Just awful.
Posted by: L


When the whole video comes out, everyone will see that Karmelo had NO legitimate claim to self defense.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 24, 2025 03:56 PM (3xZyM)

241 Lisa Lisa and the toe jam

Posted by: Hawaiin Judge Somewhere on Ventura Highway at June 24, 2025 03:59 PM (NtVYv)

242 EM' MANGO FOADDY-SEBUN1!1!!
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Its funny because that's *exactly* how they come across to anyone with a semi-functioning brain.

But those with semi-functioning brains aren't who voted for them.

Posted by: Crusader at June 24, 2025 03:59 PM (TN0g+)

243 When the whole video comes out, everyone will see that Karmelo had NO legitimate claim to self defense.
Posted by: rickb223 at June 24, 2025 03:56 PM (3xZyM)

Yup...he went to track meets and stuff to steal out the tents. Most likely had done it quite a few times. Got caught this time.

Posted by: Joe Ghetto at June 24, 2025 04:00 PM (PzyNU)

244 Rachel Zegler Reportedly In Talks To Portray Iconic Sound Of Music Role.

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Asked for comment a lonely goatherd, high on a hill said:

Who? That odd ol' lady? Little lady who?

Posted by: muldoon at June 24, 2025 04:03 PM (poXs5)

245 I saw Death becomes Her a few weeks ago and enjoyed it immensely. I saw Jesus Christ ,Superstar a million years ago when I was 21( spent my last $$ for it on a cross country camping trip) and it was unbelievbly great. So, tweo shows in 50 years. Probably never going back to NYC.

Posted by: free tibet with purchase of equal or greater value tibet at June 24, 2025 04:25 PM (iNp3L)

246 Also a couple of Shakespear plays at the Guthrie in MPLS.

Posted by: free tibet with purchase of equal or greater value tibet at June 24, 2025 04:26 PM (iNp3L)

247 If that's the way Ms. Murkowski feels, it's too bad she can't be sued by the people she bullshitted into voting for her. That's what should be allowed...suing these politicans that get you to vote for them because you think they are for your values and such, but really they are not. If she ever did for for the Dem's side when there's a tie I hope she gets her clucking ass beat in.

Posted by: Joyce at June 24, 2025 04:38 PM (Uy/WF)

248 Given these comments, why aren't they taking away her committee spots? Are they waiting until after the reconciliation bill?

Posted by: MikeN at June 24, 2025 05:17 PM (HVZOH)

249 Alaskan Senator Lisa Murkowski, who are you kidding? You have always been a pseudo Republican Democrat. I am not an Alaskan citizen so I cannot relate to those Alaskan Republican voters. But I am sure Alaskan Republicans are being punked by your Lisa Murkowski faux loyalty to conservative/independent causes.
You, madam Senator are owned by the Alaskan lobbyists!
You do not represent your constituents! As if you didn't know.

Posted by: john at June 25, 2025 06:09 PM (nEWxZ)

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