Five Ukraianian Officials Stole $40 Million In US Taxpayer Funds

Of course. The Afghanistan of the North.

Five Ukrainian officials were arrested this weekend on accusations of stealing nearly $40 million in funds meant to purchase military equipment for the war against Russia.
Ukraine's security service said members of the defense ministry conspired with members of a Ukrainian arms firm to embezzle the funds, which were meant to purchase 100,000 mortar shells. The allegations come amid division in the U.S. over whether to send more aid to Ukraine, with some critics pointing to Ukraine's longtime struggles with corruption.
The five individuals arrested face up to 12 years in prison if found guilty. Ukraine's prosecutor general says the $39.6 million has since been seized and returned to the defense budget.

Sure.

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Posted by: TheJamesMadison, walking with hope in America with Frank Capra at January 30, 2024 04:29 PM (GBKbO)

2 "And that is the full extent of the corruption. There is no more. No go away."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, walking with hope in America with Frank Capra at January 30, 2024 04:29 PM (GBKbO)

3 well they must have forgotten to pay off "The Big Guy", since this is chump change in the ongoing Ukrainian Sweepstakes.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 30, 2024 04:30 PM (i9ffA)

4 It's who they are.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at January 30, 2024 04:30 PM (N1DT3)

5 shocked faces, get your shocked faces HERE!!!

-_-

Posted by: SturmToddler at January 30, 2024 04:31 PM (bving)

6 The five individuals arrested face up to 12 years in prison if found guilty. Ukraine's prosecutor general says the $39.6 million has since been seized and returned to the defense budget.
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Seems .... unlikely.

If they were able to get it back, then so much more than that was stolen that there was still this much leftover to be reclaimed. $8 million burns a hell of a hole in the pocket. The idea that none was spent is ludicrous.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 30, 2024 04:31 PM (mwCIn)

7 Have not seen any Uke flags out and about lately.

I remember when all the virtual signaling dumb asses had those little flags out with their stupid "Hate Has No Home Here" signs.

Assholes.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at January 30, 2024 04:31 PM (Dc73h)

8 The five individuals arrested face up to 12 years in prison if found guilty. Ukraine's prosecutor general says the $39.6 million has since been seized and returned to the defense budget.

Sure

Posted by: It's me donna at January 30, 2024 04:31 PM (n2vyf)

9 "And that is the full extent of the corruption. There is no more. No go away."
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, walking with hope in America with Frank Capra at January 30, 2024 04:29 PM (GBKbO)
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Yup, probably.

An unfortunate incident but a mere rounding error on the total. And it's been dealt with. All is well. Send more cash.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 30, 2024 04:31 PM (mwCIn)

10 No big deal. Don't forget the IRS made rule changes to tax your Venmo and PayPal transactions. That'll pay for it, peasants.

By the way, the next time someone tells you there is no place to cut the federal budget, punch them in the throat.

Posted by: Marcus T at January 30, 2024 04:32 PM (VwNzI)

11 have to throw a couple of patsies to the wolves to make sure the the US continues to fund our graft, tovarisch...

Posted by: SturmToddler at January 30, 2024 04:32 PM (bving)

12 Is asshoe!

Posted by: look whats not at January 30, 2024 04:32 PM (nakGR)

13 Well we need to send another 40 mil to make up the difference! Freeedom!

Posted by: Minnfidel at January 30, 2024 04:32 PM (MGqzM)

14 Yes, it was returned to "the defense budget." Uh huh, suuuuuure it was.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at January 30, 2024 04:32 PM (CHHv1)

15 But Putin is the baddie, am I right?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at January 30, 2024 04:32 PM (9yWhg)

16 Only $40 mil?

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 30, 2024 04:32 PM (yHcnp)

17 Scapegoats

Posted by: It's me donna at January 30, 2024 04:33 PM (n2vyf)

18 Gaylord wanted to abandon Afghanistan because of corruption.

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 30, 2024 04:33 PM (yHcnp)

19 Ukraine's prosecutor general says the $39.6 million has since been seized and returned to the defense budget.

It isn't famous like the Spearmint Rhino, but The Defense Budget is a very popular gentleman's club in Kiev.

Posted by: blaster at January 30, 2024 04:33 PM (xhfG9)

20 Only $40 mil?
Posted by: Anna Puma at January 30, 2024 04:32 PM

That's just the ones they caught. Like illegals. But I am SURE the government wouldn't lie to us and give us straight numbers.

Posted by: Minnfidel at January 30, 2024 04:33 PM (MGqzM)

21 $40M? That's it?

Posted by: Weasel at January 30, 2024 04:34 PM (JwHpX)

22 The chick in the Edge ad blocker ad up top looks like AOC.

And not in a good way.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at January 30, 2024 04:34 PM (9yWhg)

23 Raise the Biden defense!

Fire the prosecutor!

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at January 30, 2024 04:34 PM (lf83v)

24 21 $40M? That's it?
Posted by: Weasel at January 30, 2024 04:34 PM (JwHpX)

Coupla pikers over there in Ukraine.

Posted by: Octochicken at January 30, 2024 04:34 PM (oCS0o)

25

Borscht vs Bacha Bazi . . .

(sensing a theme here)

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 30, 2024 04:34 PM (x0n13)

26 $39.6 million has been seized ... and returned to the prosecutor's Cayman Islands account.

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at January 30, 2024 04:35 PM (HlyYF)

27 Only $40 mil?
Posted by: Anna Puma at January 30, 2024 04:32 PM (yHcnp)
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That they've admitted to. This is probably part of an op to boost confidence. People - the wrong kinds of people, the sub-human people who question their benevolent rulers, but people nonetheless - know Ukraine is corrupt and have the poor taste to speculate out loud about how much American largess has been stolen.

The next round of handouts is tied up in domestic affairs and Ukraine is probably getting antsy. This is probably a straightforward op to acknowledge corruption, but only a small amount of it. It's a mere rounding error on the total, but it's still a problem and they're dealing with it. The speculation was unfounded. Ukraine is honest and a good steward of American money, so please get a move on with sending more.

Just a guess.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 30, 2024 04:35 PM (mwCIn)

28 We caught them and they're being punished and the monies been returned... You can now send us billions more.. It's safe swearsies...

Posted by: It's me donna at January 30, 2024 04:35 PM (n2vyf)

29 Adam Schiff would be mortified that you could even believe this.

There is no corruption in Ukraine, a country long known for its corruption. Because Zelensky RAN on an anti-corruption platform!!!

Be better, people.

Posted by: Axeman at January 30, 2024 04:35 PM (krQz2)

30 Unexpectedly!

Posted by: ShainS -- Civil War 2: 10th Amendment Revolution Boogaloo at January 30, 2024 04:35 PM (BX+/6)

31 This too from Breitbart:

Ukraine Says U.S. Money Not Going To Ukraine, ‘Benefiting American Interests‘
The $130 billion sent to Ukraine so far for its war against Russia is apparently not actually going to Ukraine, but is really “benefiting American interests,” a spokesperson for Ukraine told Breitbart News.

The shock claim was in response to a request for information by Breitbart News on whether or not any American tax dollars had gone specifically to Uman, a city in the war-torn Eastern European nation that is currently seeing a condo built on a Jewish mass grave, as previously reported, in violation of a bilateral agreement with the U.S., and in violation of international law.

http://tinyurl.com/4rsph2yy

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at January 30, 2024 04:35 PM (2yu8s)

32 they shouldn't have arrested them. Fighting corruption only proves that they're corrupt. It's better to ignore it and pretend it doesn't exist like the USA does.

Posted by: Jason at January 30, 2024 04:35 PM (yS8bt)

33 a lousy 40 mil? pikers! incompetent!

also, wait, wut,?
mortar shells are $400 each?

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - these lying bastardi e stronzi have been lying to us for decades at January 30, 2024 04:36 PM (WsTvr)

34 But, Democrats waved the Ukrainian flag in the House of Representatives after Zelensky's brave and courageous "Give Me More Money, dammit" speech!

How can this be?

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at January 30, 2024 04:36 PM (lf83v)

35 This is one of those 'pick a random corrupt jackass who didn't pay his protection fees and make a big public show of prosecuting them so the media can point at it and scream SEE, SEE!!!!! THERE'S NO CORRUPTION THEY PROSECUTE THEM'.

$40 million is chump change in how much graft and corruption is taking place.

Posted by: DudeAbiding at January 30, 2024 04:36 PM (AjL/0)

36 The only reason they were arrested is that they didn't give Z-dog his cut.

Posted by: wth at January 30, 2024 04:36 PM (v0R5T)

37 $40M? That's it?
Posted by: Weasel

I have no doubt that little Z and the Missus has secured for themselves a lot more than that. They can make their escape when the time is right and live in luxury.

Posted by: Cheri at January 30, 2024 04:37 PM (oiNtH)

38 37 The only reason they were arrested is that they didn't give Z-dog his cut.
Posted by: wth at January 30, 2024 04:36 PM (v0R5T)

Don't forget my 10%

Posted by: The Big guy at January 30, 2024 04:37 PM (n2vyf)

39 If the money has all been returned, then the whole prosecution is a put-up job intended to "prove" that Ukraine is not corrupt as hell. Real crooks would have spirited the money out of the country, and unassed the place themselves.

A Potemkin prosecution.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 30, 2024 04:37 PM (tkR6S)

40 The only reason they were arrested is that they didn't give Z-dog his cut.
Posted by: wth at January 30, 2024 04:36 PM

Or 10% to the big guy.

Posted by: Minnfidel at January 30, 2024 04:37 PM (MGqzM)

41 How much has congress "stolen" from the billions we taxpayers are sending over there?

Bet it's way, way...... waaaaay north of a paltry $40M.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 30, 2024 04:37 PM (Q4IgG)

42

Dear Friend Zelensky:

My name is Emir Shel of Oman and I need your help. Israel Jewboys are nearing my hideout in Gaza and I must evacuate $400 million. If you sen me $2 millionUS via Western Union to cover all modalities, I will reimburse you Big Guy 10% as finder fee.

Thank you and remain blessed!

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 30, 2024 04:37 PM (x0n13)

43 That’s about 4 minutes of Fed spending.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at January 30, 2024 04:38 PM (kK343)

44 Did the money end up in Joe Bidens bank account

Posted by: Lemmiwinks at January 30, 2024 04:38 PM (ssSph)

45 I wonder how much Romney has profited through Ukraine.

Posted by: Northernlurker at January 30, 2024 04:38 PM (Gf82x)

46 I think I'm slightly insulted they haven't stolen more of our money!

Posted by: Weasel at January 30, 2024 04:38 PM (JwHpX)

47 34 a lousy 40 mil? pikers! incompetent!

also, wait, wut,?
mortar shells are $400 each?

*whistles innocently*

Posted by: military-industrial complex at January 30, 2024 04:38 PM (v3pYe)

48 The shock claim was in response to a request for information by Breitbart News on whether or not any American tax dollars had gone specifically to Uman, a city in the war-torn Eastern European nation that is currently seeing a condo built on a Jewish mass grave, as previously reported, in violation of a bilateral agreement with the U.S., and in violation of international law.

http://tinyurl.com/4rsph2yy
Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at January 30, 2024 04:35 PM (2yu8s)
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Quelle surprise!

Posted by: Axeman at January 30, 2024 04:38 PM (krQz2)

49 $40 millions would perhaps pay for many traveling teams to visit Cooperstown. Maybe full breakfast and a hot dog at ballpark, too.

Posted by: No Coke, Pepsi! at January 30, 2024 04:38 PM (V5BDR)

50 Yep. Did not spend a penny.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 30, 2024 04:39 PM (di6C2)

51 they shouldn't have arrested them. Fighting corruption only proves that they're corrupt. It's better to ignore it and pretend it doesn't exist like the USA does.
Posted by: Jason at January 30, 2024 04:35 PM (yS8bt)
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This is ignoring and pretending it doesn't exist, just like the USA does.

The Party sometimes throws a bone to the people by pursuing an anti-corruption action. They sacrifice a low-level or mid-level player, pretend that the system works, and continue robbing the bitch blind while hiding behind the anti-corruption prosecution as a fig leaf. They don't ignore corruption, you see. They pursue it. All is well. The government is clean - if it weren't, there'd be more anti-corruption action.

It's a classic, old-school tactic that tyrannies have done for ages. Most recently, they took out Santos and Menendez. See? The system works. Even one of their own went down.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 30, 2024 04:39 PM (mwCIn)

52 Yes, but we need to get Ukraine another $100 billion so we can give illegal aliens permanent U.S. residency.

Posted by: Bitch McConnell at January 30, 2024 04:39 PM (VwNzI)

53 Dear Friend Zelensky:

My name is Emir Shel of Oman and I need your help. Israel Jewboys are nearing my hideout in Gaza and I must evacuate $400 million. If you sen me $2 millionUS via Western Union to cover all modalities, I will reimburse you Big Guy 10% as finder fee.

Thank you and remain blessed!
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 30, 2024 04:37 PM

Covefe. Monitor. LOL.

Posted by: Minnfidel at January 30, 2024 04:39 PM (MGqzM)

54 Maybe they could send some of that money to Alyssa Milano so her kid can go to Cooperstown?

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at January 30, 2024 04:39 PM (lf83v)

55 There has never been any corruption in the Ukraine.

Every democrat and RYNO wanting their fair share of the corruption in the Ukraine.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at January 30, 2024 04:39 PM (17s+e)

56 52 It's a classic, old-school tactic that tyrannies have done for ages. Most recently, they took out Santos and Menendez. See? The system works. Even one of their own went down.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 30, 2024 04:39 PM (mwCIn)

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Well...except that Menendez is still in office.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, walking with hope in America with Frank Capra at January 30, 2024 04:39 PM (GBKbO)

57 I think I'm slightly insulted they haven't stolen more of our money!
Posted by: Weasel at January 30, 2024 04:38 PM (JwHpX)
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Don't worry, others have.

Also, enough of that money has to be turned around and sent to American Congressman's bank accounts, or there is no point.

Posted by: Axeman at January 30, 2024 04:40 PM (krQz2)

58 How many hot Ukrainian models did they buy with that money?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at January 30, 2024 04:40 PM (9yWhg)

59 Has Bearclaw Vindman been reached for comment?

Posted by: 496 at January 30, 2024 04:40 PM (z8KsW)

60 The allegations come amid division in the U.S. over whether to send more aid to Ukraine, with some critics pointing to Ukraine's longtime struggles with corruption

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They don't struggle with corruption. They are extremely good at it.

Posted by: Lemmiwinks at January 30, 2024 04:40 PM (ssSph)

61 Dear Friend Zelensky,

I am a Nigerian Prince. From Nigeria.

Dear greeting to you,

Please response to my urgent assistance request.
Please permit me explain my major problem.so that you can understand me condition well.

Posted by: runner at January 30, 2024 04:40 PM (V13WU)

62 46 I wonder how much Romney has profited through Ukraine.
Posted by: Northernlurker at January 30, 2024 04:38 PM (Gf82x)

Ronna McDaniel > Ronald McDonald.

New Ukraine themed fast food franchise!

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 30, 2024 04:40 PM (x0n13)

63 62 Posted by: runner at January 30, 2024 04:40 PM (V13WU)

See me at #43.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 30, 2024 04:40 PM (x0n13)

64 Well...except that Menendez is still in office.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, walking with hope in America with Frank Capra at January 30, 2024 04:39 PM (GBKbO)
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For now. But he's on ice. They'll give him a slap on the wrist and gracefully move him through the door into a sinecure.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 30, 2024 04:40 PM (mwCIn)

65 The five individuals arrested face up to 12 years in prison if found guilty.

I'll allow it. Case Dismissed!

Posted by: Hawaiian Judge at January 30, 2024 04:41 PM (/OWHH)

66 A Potemkin prosecution.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 30, 2024 04:37 PM (tkR6S)

It's a travesty of a mockery of a sham of a mockery of two mockeries of a sham.

Posted by: blaster at January 30, 2024 04:41 PM (xhfG9)

67 60 Has Bearclaw Vindman been reached for comment?
Posted by: 496 at January 30, 2024 04:40 PM (z8KsW)

Too busy reaching for another bearclaw.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 30, 2024 04:41 PM (x0n13)

68 So how does this get listed in the yard sign Calvinism?

Posted by: I've kind of lost my place at January 30, 2024 04:41 PM (d21/4)

69 If the money has all been returned, then the whole prosecution is a put-up job intended to "prove" that Ukraine is not corrupt as hell. Real crooks would have spirited the money out of the country, and unassed the place themselves.

A Potemkin prosecution.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 30, 2024 04:37 PM (tkR6S)
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Limited hang-out.

Posted by: Axeman at January 30, 2024 04:41 PM (krQz2)

70 Has Bearclaw Vindman been reached for comment?
_________

He's getting a colon cleanse for a trip to his favorite gay Carribean Resort next week.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at January 30, 2024 04:41 PM (lf83v)

71 Maybe they could send some of that money to Alyssa Milano so her kid can go to Cooperstown?
Posted by: Adirondack Patriot

"Miss Milano? Hi, Z-Dog here. Yes, I will fund the entire trip. How soon can you be in Kiev? The wife is leaving for Paris on Thursday..."

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at January 30, 2024 04:41 PM (9yWhg)

72 Has Bearclaw Vindman been reached for comment?
Posted by: 496 at January 30, 2024 04:40 PM (

He just walked in to Buddy's Bakery and slapped down 5K And said, keep em coming. Dah.

Posted by: Minnfidel at January 30, 2024 04:41 PM (MGqzM)

73 The $130 billion sent to Ukraine so far for its war against Russia is apparently not actually going to Ukraine

That's because you guys are all thieves and can't be trusted to launder it back to our thieves.

Posted by: t-bird at January 30, 2024 04:42 PM (oe+gT)

74 65 Well...except that Menendez is still in office.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, walking with hope in America with Frank Capra at January 30, 2024 04:39 PM (GBKbO)
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For now. But he's on ice. They'll give him a slap on the wrist and gracefully move him through the door into a sinecure.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 30, 2024 04:40 PM (mwCIn)

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"We really punished him by convincing him to not run for office in exchange for three board seats on Fortune 100 companies."

A real message.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, walking with hope in America with Frank Capra at January 30, 2024 04:42 PM (GBKbO)

75 See me at #43.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 30, 2024 04:40 PM (x0n13)

good job !

Posted by: runner at January 30, 2024 04:42 PM (V13WU)

76 I'm sitting here with my father and we want to know why our 10 % has not been deposited. We carry grudges and you don't want to find out what happens if you do not pay, as agreed!

For starters we will have you arrested for corrupt theft of $40 million. Then, it will get ugly.

Just send us our $4 million. You'll be safer and happier!

Posted by: Hunter Biden, Diplomat and Artiste at January 30, 2024 04:42 PM (+HBZi)

77 I think I'm slightly insulted they haven't stolen more of our money!
Posted by: Weasel

Why? It's not like it's worth anything.

Posted by: Stu Podaso at January 30, 2024 04:42 PM (/OWHH)

78 They don't struggle with corruption. They are extremely good at it.
Posted by: Lemmiwinks at January 30, 2024 04:40 PM (ssSph)
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Except theses guys.

Posted by: Axeman at January 30, 2024 04:42 PM (krQz2)

79 Who knew? I mean if you can't trust a country known for corruption, run by a cock playing comedian, who can you trust?

Posted by: Minnfidel at January 30, 2024 04:44 PM (MGqzM)

80 "The five individuals arrested face up to 12 years in prison if found guilty. Ukraine's prosecutor general says the $39.6 million has since been seized and returned to the defense budget."
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-10% for "The Big Guy" (this was left unsaid, but implied by the tone of the article)

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 30, 2024 04:44 PM (7fElN)

81 That’s about 4 minutes of Fed spending.
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at January 30, 2024 04:38 PM (kK343)
.......

*flushing noise*

4 minutes later:

*flushing noise*

Posted by: wth at January 30, 2024 04:44 PM (v0R5T)

82 Maybe they could send some of that money to Alyssa Milano so her kid can go to Cooperstown?

Does he have nothing left from his Hall of Fame career? That's what we're talking about, right?

Posted by: t-bird at January 30, 2024 04:44 PM (oe+gT)

83 lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor, huh.

Was this,
A/ just normal law enforcement. (there has to be a lot more than 40M)

B/ A desperate signal to USA that they are working to fix the problem. (You know anyone who profited is connected to the regime, so they are throwing their own under the bus now.)

C/ something forced by the USA, to use as an excuse for why they failed in spite of Biden's promises. "We tried,..."

D/ We will later learn of some tenuous connection that allows them to blame it on Trump. Maybe a photo of the perps in a MAGA red hat, or something.

Posted by: Gentlemen, this is junta manifest at January 30, 2024 04:44 PM (9YVoX)

84
Santos only crime? To the Dems it was being Republican. To Republicans, it was being as close to conservative as you can get.

His fabulism in the context of the abject corruption of everyone else around him was the equivalent of stealing a piece of Bazooka from the candy store.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 30, 2024 04:44 PM (x0n13)

85 The travesty sham quote comes from Bananas. Another piece of that dialog:

Q: Tell the court why you think he is a traitor to this country.

A: I think Mr. Mellish is a traitor to this country because his views are different from the views of the president and others of his kind. Differences of opinion should be tolerated but not when they are too different. Then he becomes a subversive mother.

Funny this was satire back then.

Posted by: blaster at January 30, 2024 04:44 PM (xhfG9)

86 Who knew? I mean if you can't trust a country known for corruption, run by a cock playing comedian, who can you trust?

Posted by: Minnfidel at January 30, 2024 04:44 PM (MGqzM)
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A penist.

Posted by: Axeman at January 30, 2024 04:44 PM (krQz2)

87 We go to war with Ukraine over this.

Posted by: Sen. Lindsay Graham at January 30, 2024 04:44 PM (lf83v)

88 63 46 I wonder how much Romney has profited through Ukraine.
Posted by: Northernlurker at January 30, 2024 04:38 PM (Gf82x)

Ronna McDaniel > Ronald McDonald.

New Ukraine themed fast food franchise!
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 30, 2024 04:40 PM (x0n13)

She is not fit to polish his gigantic floppy shoes.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 30, 2024 04:44 PM (di6C2)

89 82 *flushing noise*
Posted by: wth at January 30, 2024 04:44 PM (v0R5T)

The La Guardia landing pattern over Shea Stadium.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 30, 2024 04:45 PM (x0n13)

90 15 But Putin is the baddie, am I right?
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at January 30, 2024 04:32 PM (9yWhg)

Got that right, buddy!

Posted by: Stevie Greenie at Instie at January 30, 2024 04:45 PM (Rbu5d)

91 nurse lifted her shirt for us today.

What have YOU done for your fellow Commentators today?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at January 30, 2024 04:45 PM (a3Q+t)

92 DU had one, tiny thread on this subject started on Sunday. It only has 10 responses. They REALLY don't want to talk about it lol.

I'm happy to see Ukraine rooting out corruption and being transparent. This will help them in the long run to become a NATO and EU member.

As if Zelensky doesn't have enough to do. I can't imagine. He must be exhausted.

It's good that Ukraine isn't attempting to sweep it under the rug. Ukraine has had their share of crooks (and pro-Russian traitors), long before Zelensky was elected. Of course it takes time to catch and prosecute them all.

Corruptions is especially prevalent not just in Eastern Europe, but also the Balkans. officials in Ukraine still have the Soviet mindset. When it is something that has ingrained for a long time, it's really hard to get rid of. Like much of Europe, oligarchs in Ukraine have a lot of power.

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at January 30, 2024 04:45 PM (JCZqz)

93 79 I suspect they were deliberately caught to sway American opinion. I strongly suspect that these theives were well known to be theives operating in a sea of theives.

Posted by: Erik In Texas at January 30, 2024 04:45 PM (QN7a1)

94 Santos only crime? To the Dems it was being Republican. To Republicans, it was being as close to conservative as you can get.

His fabulism in the context of the abject corruption of everyone else around him was the equivalent of stealing a piece of Bazooka from the candy store.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 30, 2024 04:44 PM (x0n13)
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But that's not the narrative. The narrative was, "he is a corrupt politician and we don't tolerate that, so we took care of it because we're honest and running a clean government."

Facts need not enter into it. "Anti-corruption" actions are usually about reinforcing Party power and taking out opponents. Mendendez is the former, Santos was the latter.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 30, 2024 04:45 PM (mwCIn)

95 Did they get caught because they refused to give 10% to the Big Guy?

Posted by: rd at January 30, 2024 04:45 PM (u1peM)

96 86 Posted by: blaster at January 30, 2024 04:44 PM (xhfG9)

Spot fucking on!

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 30, 2024 04:45 PM (x0n13)

97 Joe Biden has created more millionaires in his term than any other President.

Unfortunately they're all in Ukraine, made rich by money Joe sent them from US taxpayers.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice - Personality Commentator at January 30, 2024 04:46 PM (C2U4G)

98 Does he have nothing left from his Hall of Fame career? That's what we're talking about, right?
___________

It's the Low-Statistics Post-steroid Era, so. . .

Posted by: Todd Helton at January 30, 2024 04:46 PM (lf83v)

99 Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at January 30, 2024 04:45 PM

Don't you ever feel, you know. Dirty?

Posted by: Minnfidel at January 30, 2024 04:46 PM (MGqzM)

100 $39.6 is kind of a funny number.

But $44 million minus 10% for the Big Guy is exactly $39.6 million.

Posted by: t-bird at January 30, 2024 04:46 PM (oe+gT)

101 ... I'm happy to see Ukraine rooting out corruption and being transparent. This will help them in the long run to become a NATO and EU member. ...
Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at January 30, 2024 04:45 PM (JCZqz)
++++
See?

This right here is why "anti-corruption" actions are so useful to the Party. This is how it works when they work well.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 30, 2024 04:46 PM (mwCIn)

102 93 It's good that Ukraine isn't attempting to sweep it under the rug. Ukraine has had their share of crooks (and pro-Russian traitors), long before Zelensky was elected. Of course it takes time to catch and prosecute them all.

Corruptions is especially prevalent not just in Eastern Europe, but also the Balkans. officials in Ukraine still have the Soviet mindset. When it is something that has ingrained for a long time, it's really hard to get rid of. Like much of Europe, oligarchs in Ukraine have a lot of power.
Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at January 30, 2024 04:45 PM (JCZqz)

=========

But a political neophyte like the Z-Man could not possibly be brought in on the corruption train. That's just not what happens.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, walking with hope in America with Frank Capra at January 30, 2024 04:47 PM (GBKbO)

103 I just got a Sports Illustrated in the mail. I thought they were kaput.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at January 30, 2024 04:47 PM (aD39U)

104 Who knew? I mean if you can't trust a country known for corruption, run by a cock playing comedian, who can you trust?

Posted by: Minnfidel

Z: Vlad, let's settle this war with a cock-playing contest between the two of us.
Vlad: Fine with me. You bring your piano. I'll bring my hot gymnast mistress. May the best cock-playing win.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at January 30, 2024 04:47 PM (9yWhg)

105 "Five Ukrainian officials were arrested this weekend on accusations of stealing nearly $40 million in funds meant to purchase military equipment for the war against Russia."

The true amount stolen was about $44 million. Zelensky's boys are not including the 10% for The Big Guy in DC in their accounting.

Posted by: Gref at January 30, 2024 04:47 PM (5fDan)

106 $20. Same as in town.

Posted by: Some Suburban Hooker at January 30, 2024 04:47 PM (tU125)

107 Bananas is still funny, IMO. So is Sleeper.

Posted by: Axeman at January 30, 2024 04:47 PM (krQz2)

108 I just got a Sports Illustrated in the mail. I thought they were kaput.
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at January 30, 2024 04:47 PM (aD39U)

Lost copy from 1995 finally arrived !

Posted by: runner at January 30, 2024 04:48 PM (V13WU)

109 I just got a Sports Illustrated in the mail. I thought they were kaput.
_________

A souvenir. Like a bottle of Aunt Jemimah Syrup.

Posted by: Todd Helton at January 30, 2024 04:48 PM (lf83v)

110 They made them return the money, eh?

If Biden actually had any wits left I'd bet he would be surprised to find out the check for his 10% bounced for insufficient funds.

Posted by: Just Lily at January 30, 2024 04:48 PM (/RHSk)

111 > I wonder how much Romney has profited through Ukraine.

Probably nothing. The oft-repeated story that Romney has a son involved in business in Ukraine is false.

Posted by: bonhomme at January 30, 2024 04:48 PM (Odg76)

112 93 and voila, DU intercepts concur. Known theives cuffed and shaken so people in the US can oooohhhh and ahhhhh about what honest shits the Zelensky-ites are. Bullshit.

Posted by: Erik In Texas at January 30, 2024 04:48 PM (QN7a1)

113 83 Maybe they could send some of that money to Alyssa Milano so her kid can go to Cooperstown?

Does he have nothing left from his Hall of Fame career? That's what we're talking about, right?
Posted by: t-bird at January 30, 2024 04:44 PM (oe+gT)

Dear Friend.

I am Alyssa Milano and in desperate need of your help. Family must have $4 millionUS to purchase little league uniforms or else will be executed by ultra MAGA fundamentalists. Please forward this via WesternUnion to William Morris Agency to cover all modalities and will remit 10% plus catcher mitt as fee.

And remain blessed!

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 30, 2024 04:48 PM (x0n13)

114 I just got a Sports Illustrated in the mail. I thought they were kaput.
Posted by: G'rump928(c)

How does Lizzo look in a one-piece?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at January 30, 2024 04:48 PM (9yWhg)

115 nurse lifted her shirt for us today.

What have YOU done for your fellow Commentators today?
Posted by: Duncanthrax at January 30, 2024 04:45 PM (a3Q+t)
====
*lifts shirt to show off moobs*

Happy now?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 30, 2024 04:48 PM (1K1A+)

116 I just got a Sports Illustrated in the mail. I thought they were kaput.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at January 30, 2024 04:47 PM (aD39U)
---
Just AI-generated.

Posted by: Axeman at January 30, 2024 04:48 PM (krQz2)

117 How does Lizzo look in a one-piece?
_________

Lotsa Bush and Fani.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at January 30, 2024 04:49 PM (lf83v)

118 "Five Ukraianian Officials Stole $40 Million In US Taxpayer Funds"

Now, how much has the US Government stolen (diverted/skimmed/appropriated) from US Taxpayer Funds? Makes Ukraine seem quaint.

As much as I'd like to be outraged, how much again was it that Biden left to Middle Eastern terrorists in Iraq?

Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel Remembers Babbitt and Perna at January 30, 2024 04:49 PM (aXxgO)

119 💩 Tin is about the dumbest most clueless dictator ever because he could have bought Ukraine for a tiny fraction of what his Special Military Action would have cost.
The sooner he's dead the better.

Posted by: torabora at January 30, 2024 04:50 PM (tU125)

120 Cash Rules Everything Around Me

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, anti-Marxist, buy ammo and keep your rifle by your side at January 30, 2024 04:50 PM (xcxpd)

121 A souvenir. Like a bottle of Aunt Jemimah Syrup.
Posted by: Todd Helton at January 30, 2024 04:48 PM

I am glad they got rid of that bottle. It was a small price to pay for the racial harmony we have today. That guy on the rice too. What a dark period before the great healing.

Posted by: Minnfidel at January 30, 2024 04:50 PM (MGqzM)

122 107 Bananas is still funny, IMO. So is Sleeper.
Posted by: Axeman at January 30, 2024 04:47 PM (krQz2)

Seriously, if you can blot out the creepy references to pedophilia in his films, he gave it with both barrels to the left as hard as he did to the right in his early films.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 30, 2024 04:50 PM (x0n13)

123 Pikers. Hell, our own governmental employee made off with 100 million.

Posted by: Ben Had at January 30, 2024 04:50 PM (AmQpt)

124 Please America to go to our new GoFundMe site:
Ukraine4ever
Please donate to fund democracy against Putin.
Our goal is $100 billion this month and we value American support
Fuck y.... I mean, thank you very much!

Posted by: Z-dog at January 30, 2024 04:50 PM (v0R5T)

125 The unconstitutional FACE act needs to be struck down, shredded, then shat upon.

http://tiny.cc/n4blwz

Posted by: bonhomme at January 30, 2024 04:50 PM (Odg76)

126 I am glad they got rid of that bottle. It was a small price to pay for the racial harmony we have today. That guy on the rice too. What a dark period before the great healing.
Posted by: Minnfidel at January 30, 2024 04:50 PM (MGqzM)
++++
Don't forget the Lady in the Land O' Lakes!

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 30, 2024 04:50 PM (mwCIn)

127 nurse lifted her shirt for us today.

Wut?

I bet the sea otters were the intended audience.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at January 30, 2024 04:51 PM (9yWhg)

128 How does Lizzo look in a one-piece?
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at January 30, 2024 04:48 PM

Picture Earth wearing a COVID mask.

Posted by: Minnfidel at January 30, 2024 04:51 PM (MGqzM)

129 White flight is over~!

@Breaking911 3m
BREAKING: NYPD officers will have to record race of people they question after council overrides mayor’s veto - AP

Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 30, 2024 04:51 PM (IG4Id)

130 117 How does Lizzo look in a one-piece?
_________

Lotsa Bush and Fani.
Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at January 30, 2024 04:49 PM (lf83v)

Ha! But seriously, the giant bulging orange peel lipid masses would obscure them.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 30, 2024 04:51 PM (x0n13)

131 NYPost: Biden says ‘I’ve done all I can’ to secure border — Speaker Johnson says ‘simply untrue

Posted by: SMOD at January 30, 2024 04:51 PM (RHGPo)

132 Five Ukraianian Officials Stole $40 Million In US Taxpayer Funds

You got to pump those numbers up. Those are rookie numbers!

Posted by: Top Democrats at January 30, 2024 04:51 PM (xhfG9)

133 > The Afghanistan of the North.

They wouldn't have been arrested in Afghanistan.

Posted by: comradearthur at January 30, 2024 04:51 PM (bUnPj)

134 Can we start Means Testing for Federal Benefits and Pensions, please?

Posted by: garrett at January 30, 2024 04:51 PM (yfepr)

135 on't forget the Lady in the Land O' Lakes!
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 30, 2024 04:50 PM

That too. The healing!

Posted by: Minnfidel at January 30, 2024 04:51 PM (MGqzM)

136 Axeman: "Bananas is still funny, IMO. So is Sleeper."

Take the Money and Run -- A plus plus.

Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel Remembers Babbitt and Perna at January 30, 2024 04:52 PM (aXxgO)

137 So that 8s $5 million each. How many Ukrainian officials are there in total, so we can summarize the full extent of the theft of US tax dollars?

Posted by: Thomas Paine at January 30, 2024 04:52 PM (rfDMn)

138 >>They wouldn't have been arrested in Afghanistan.

If it was Afghanistan, we'd have soldiers on the ground delivering underaged boys to these oligarchs.

Posted by: garrett at January 30, 2024 04:52 PM (yfepr)

139 >>Five Ukraianian Officials Stole $40 Million In US Taxpayer Funds

Corruption? In Ukraine?

I can't believe it, I shan't believe it.

What does Mitch McConnell have to say about this?

Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 30, 2024 04:52 PM (XV/Pl)

140 Remember the $2trillion the Pentagon was looking for when Osama bin Laden struck the very wing of the Pentagon doing the investigation with his ad hoc attack?
What are the odds?

Posted by: torabora at January 30, 2024 04:52 PM (tU125)

141 93 and voila, DU intercepts concur. Known theives cuffed and shaken so people in the US can oooohhhh and ahhhhh about what honest shits the Zelensky-ites are. Bullshit.
Posted by: Erik In Texas at January 30, 2024 04:48 PM (QN7a1)

Could even be innocent at least of this embezzlement. Zel is in a turf war with his Military chief and someone already sent a grenade to some aide and blew him up. Might be these are supporters of this rival faction.

Posted by: Oldcat at January 30, 2024 04:52 PM (eoQWY)

142 People think I'm being unreasonable and maybe a little crazy for not immediately going along with the party line lock, stock and barrel. There is no redemption in their eyes for being right from the start. If there is any acknowlegement at all, it comes with an undertone of contempt. Could Ukraine have been handled better, sure, but I'm wrong for being correct on day 1. A negotiated cease-fire really only could come after tens of thousands of lives lost and billions of dollars wasted. All of the really smart people on the television say so. And I'm not one of them, I have no credentials.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at January 30, 2024 04:53 PM (fs1hN)

143 I am glad they got rid of that bottle. It was a small price to pay for the racial harmony we have today. That guy on the rice too. What a dark period before the great healing.
Posted by: Minnfidel

Did they get rid of the black chef on the Cream of Wheat box?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at January 30, 2024 04:53 PM (9yWhg)

144 Second Circuit Refers Lawyer for Disciplinary Proceedings Based on AI-Hallucinated Case in Brief

Posted by: SMOD at January 30, 2024 04:53 PM (RHGPo)

145 BREAKING: NYPD officers will have to record race of people they question after council overrides mayor’s veto - AP
___________

What if they are mixed race?

What if the police officer mistakes their race?

What if we just cut NYC off from the United States and tell them to go to Woke Hell?

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at January 30, 2024 04:53 PM (lf83v)

146 131 NYPost: Biden says ‘I’ve done all I can’ to secure border — Speaker Johnson says ‘simply untrue
Posted by: SMOD at January 30, 2024 04:51 PM (RHGPo)

========

What law that allowed Trump to implement Remain in Mexico did Congress repeal?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, walking with hope in America with Frank Capra at January 30, 2024 04:53 PM (GBKbO)

147 $39.6 million has since been seized and returned to the defense budget.

Recycling FTW.

Posted by: DaveA at January 30, 2024 04:53 PM (FhXTo)

148 What does Mitch McConnell have to say about this?
Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 30, 2024 04:52 PM

Posted by: Mitch Turtle's Tumor. at January 30, 2024 04:53 PM (MGqzM)

149 We've come a long way from the days of "If you don't support sending money to Ukraine for this pointless war you are a Putin lover!".

Posted by: JackStraw at January 30, 2024 04:53 PM (ZLI7S)

150 I checked what was on the cover of Sports Illustrated in 1995. January 30 - Derrick Coleman takedown, for being a prima donna, and how it is bad for the NBA (how times have changed). And Feb 06 is Steve Young.

Posted by: runner at January 30, 2024 04:53 PM (V13WU)

151 Axeman: "Bananas is still funny, IMO. So is Sleeper."

Take the Money and Run -- A plus plus.

Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel Remembers Babbitt and Perna at January 30, 2024 04:52 PM (aXxgO)
---
Yes, very approachable Allen. Love that movie.

Posted by: Axeman at January 30, 2024 04:54 PM (krQz2)

152 > How does Lizzo look in a one-piece?

We tried to find out, but none of our swimsuits maintained structural integrity.

Posted by: The Sweenie Manufacturing Company at January 30, 2024 04:54 PM (Odg76)

153 Did they get rid of the black chef on the Cream of Wheat box?
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at January 30, 2024 04:53 PM

No, which is clearly why CVS in D.C is empty.

Posted by: Mitch Turtle's Tumor. at January 30, 2024 04:54 PM (MGqzM)

154 100000 mortar shells, well evidently a bargain at 400 bucks per shell....

bullshit by the way....they cost ~ 27 bucks each back during nam.

Posted by: sven at January 30, 2024 04:54 PM (X0I7i)

155 Google Tumbles After Ad Revenue, Operating Income Miss
teaser image

For the second consecutive quarter, GOOGL dump on disappointing earnings.

GASP !!!!!

Posted by: SMOD at January 30, 2024 04:54 PM (RHGPo)

156 "BREAKING: NYPD officers will have to record race of people they question after council overrides mayor’s veto - AP"

I bet they still won't have to tell anyone after they record it.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at January 30, 2024 04:55 PM (ou9hh)

157 so the NHL charges just came out

sorry put me down as, I guess I seriously doubt her story

shoot me if you must and I'm prepared to be wrong

oh and on topic - remember my friend from Ukraine is why I say away from these. well apparently I haven't been openly super supportive lately so

I'm on the outs anyway

Posted by: BlackOrchid, I meant to say at January 30, 2024 04:55 PM (AcWfM)

158 What law that allowed Trump to implement Remain in Mexico did Congress repeal?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, walking with hope in America with Frank Capra at January 30, 2024 04:53 PM (GBKbO)
---
Joe is just asking to be enabled/i], that's all.

Like an act that enables--like an Enabling act.

Posted by: Axeman at January 30, 2024 04:55 PM (krQz2)

159 @140

>>What are the odds?

We said we lacked the imagination, we were only somewhat kidding, IYKWIMAITYD.

--
US LE/IC Imagining all Sorts of Things Since 1908.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 30, 2024 04:56 PM (XV/Pl)

160 > BREAKING: NYPD officers will have to record race of people they question after council overrides mayor’s veto - AP

So, uh, what are you?

Posted by: NYPD Officer Taking a Witness Statement at January 30, 2024 04:56 PM (Odg76)

161 Scapegoats
Posted by: It's me donna at January 30, 2024 04:33 PM (n2vyf)

Yup!
Future funding in trouble with Congress?
Hey!!! Looky here! We found some bad guys!
See!!?? We're on top of it.
---Zman

Posted by: Diogenes at January 30, 2024 04:56 PM (W/lyH)

162 White flight is over~!

@Breaking911 3m
BREAKING: NYPD officers will have to record race of people they question after council overrides mayor’s veto - AP
Posted by: weft
****
So are the cops going to use some new fangled skin color comparator to put a number on the form?

We certainly don't want subjective interpretations
do we.

Posted by: torabora at January 30, 2024 04:57 PM (tU125)

163 "BREAKING: NYPD officers will have to record race of people they question after council overrides mayor’s veto - AP"
---
"Really, Jenson! You couldn't have interviewed one lesbian paraplegic?! Just one?!?

How's this going to look to the Chief?!"

Posted by: Axeman at January 30, 2024 04:57 PM (krQz2)

164
So, uh, what are you?
Posted by: NYPD Officer Taking a Witness Statement at January 30, 2024 04:56 PM

I identify as the person you're not looking for.

Posted by: Minnfidel at January 30, 2024 04:57 PM (MGqzM)

165 So apparently it might be a real thing that the Fettermans are on the outs. That'll be quite the story when it blows.

Posted by: jhawk90 at January 30, 2024 04:57 PM (MKoxD)

166 162 So are the cops going to use some new fangled skin color comparator to put a number on the form?

We certainly don't want subjective interpretations
do we.
Posted by: torabora at January 30, 2024 04:57 PM (tU125)

========

From Halle Barry to Amistad.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, walking with hope in America with Frank Capra at January 30, 2024 04:57 PM (GBKbO)

167 BREAKING: NYPD officers will have to record race of people they question after council overrides mayor’s veto - AP

So. You were racing? And you let that Chevy beat you???

Posted by: Diogenes at January 30, 2024 04:57 PM (W/lyH)

168 Zel is in a turf war with his Military chief and someone already sent a grenade to some aide and blew him up.
.......

We need some shit like this in America.

Posted by: Z-dog at January 30, 2024 04:57 PM (v0R5T)

169 Zelig was my fav Woody Allen Film.

Posted by: garrett at January 30, 2024 04:58 PM (yfepr)

170 "Did they get rid of the black chef on the Cream of Wheat box?
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus"

'Fraid so.

The Left has been marvelously effective at removing all depictions of competent and entrepreneurial minorities from food packaging.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at January 30, 2024 04:58 PM (ou9hh)

171 You can see Biden saying "10%of $40m is , um , um you know" Jill "Joe , it's $4m" Joe " 4m what?"

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 30, 2024 04:58 PM (hB1mF)

172 I want to know if they're citizens or illegal aliens.

In California we're forbidden from knowing that fact. By law.

Posted by: torabora at January 30, 2024 04:59 PM (tU125)

173 RIP Kareem of Wheat.

Posted by: garrett at January 30, 2024 04:59 PM (yfepr)

174 So, uh, what are you?
Posted by: NYPD Officer Taking a Witness Statement

2024 CONTACT REPORT:
𐄂 White
𐄂 Sorta-kinda White
𐄂 White with pasta
𐄂 White Russian
𐄂 Gentlemanly White
𐄂 Blanco del blanco
𐄂 White at heart

Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 30, 2024 04:59 PM (IG4Id)

175 "The five individuals arrested face up to 12 years in prison if found guilty. Ukraine's prosecutor general says the $39.6 million has since been seized and returned to the defense budget."

So- minus $400k. Has anybody checked Nikki Haley's campaign contributions?

Posted by: Marcus T at January 30, 2024 04:59 PM (VwNzI)

176 165 So apparently it might be a real thing that the Fettermans are on the outs. That'll be quite the story when it blows.

oh yeah it's true but why bad? clearly it's been good for him!

a lot of these guys in office or in C suites - if they lost their braindead leftist girlies they'd (and we'd) be much better off

Posted by: BlackOrchid, I meant to say at January 30, 2024 05:00 PM (AcWfM)

177 We (as in the anti-give Ukraine billions crowd) have been saying this since day one. Obviously, this was going to happen.

Posted by: Seems Legit at January 30, 2024 05:00 PM (JeYYB)

178 Google Tumbles After Ad Revenue, Operating Income Miss
teaser image

For the second consecutive quarter, GOOGL dump on disappointing earnings.

Last I heard, GOOGL was still trying to figure out why their fork of Android is forking some of their Pixel phones by refusing to access device storage.

I'm enjoying their suffering.

Posted by: bonhomme at January 30, 2024 05:00 PM (Odg76)

179 Minnfidel: "I identify as the person you're not looking for."

Heh. I think I'll try, "I identify as innocent." Or "victim".

Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel Remembers Babbitt and Perna at January 30, 2024 05:00 PM (aXxgO)

180 I could not care less about football , but...this is a bad omen (for TayTay fans) . 1995 popped into my head for some reason. Now, 1995 SB was won by the 49s. And who is in 2024 SB ? Exactly !

Posted by: runner at January 30, 2024 05:01 PM (V13WU)

181 Hi, Officer. I know it's looks like I'm a white guy who's more Nordic-looking than Rutger Hauer who just killed this chick who looks like the Swiss Miss from those old ads, but I really identify has half Igbo and half-Somali, so it's all good, mmmkay?

Also, did I mention that I'm a trans furry? Yeah, that, too.

And don't get me started on those Trad Catholics!!!

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at January 30, 2024 05:01 PM (9yWhg)

182 I guess the 49s will win.

Posted by: runner at January 30, 2024 05:01 PM (V13WU)

183 So apparently it might be a real thing that the Fettermans are on the outs. That'll be quite the story when it blows.
Posted by: jhawk90 at January 30, 2024 04:57 PM

This is about me, isn't it?

Posted by: Fetterman's Lump at January 30, 2024 05:01 PM (a3Q+t)

184 Our Ace's Heart is...wait for it...
black as the Ace of Spades.

Posted by: torabora at January 30, 2024 05:01 PM (tU125)

185 Giselle "it's me or the lump"
TheLump "John's going nowhere"

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 30, 2024 05:02 PM (hB1mF)

186 2024 CONTACT REPORT:
𐄂 White
𐄂 Sorta-kinda White
𐄂 White with pasta
𐄂 White Russian
𐄂 Gentlemanly White
𐄂 Blanco del blanco
𐄂 White at heart
Posted by: weft cut-loop

How can you forget the classic "white hispanic"?

Posted by: George Zimmerman at January 30, 2024 05:02 PM (JCZqz)

187 > So apparently it might be a real thing that the Fettermans are on the outs. That'll be quite the story when it blows.

The goofy broad who left the country while FrankenFetter was deep in the caverns of some hospital?

You could knock me over with a feather.

Posted by: bonhomme at January 30, 2024 05:02 PM (Odg76)

188 There's a holdup in the Bronx,
Brooklyn's broken out in fights...

Posted by: Where are you? at January 30, 2024 05:02 PM (d21/4)

189 Maybe Alyssa can get some Ukranian defense funds to send her kid to baseball camp.

*steps off plane in Bakmut and is handed a rifle*
Wait... this isn't cooperstown!

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at January 30, 2024 05:03 PM (xVkS/)

190 Google Tumbles After Ad Revenue, Operating Income Miss
teaser image

For the second consecutive quarter, GOOGL dump on disappointing earnings.

Last I heard, GOOGL was still trying to figure out why their fork of Android is forking some of their Pixel phones by refusing to access device storage.

I'm enjoying their suffering.
Posted by: bonhomme at January 30, 2024 05:00 PM (Odg76)
---
They need to start advertising in peoples' dreams...THAT'S where the money is....

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 30, 2024 05:03 PM (7fElN)

191 I really think that Fetterman had like a brain reset, and as his capability started coming back to him, he can't imagine why he found some things persuasive.

That's just a theory of sorts.

Posted by: Axeman at January 30, 2024 05:03 PM (krQz2)

192 Only 5?
😲

Posted by: Skip at January 30, 2024 05:03 PM (1g7Mf)

193
What if we just cut NYC off from the United States and tell them to go to Woke Hell?
Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at January 30, 2024 04:53 PM (lf83v)

TJM prefers that we do that to LA.

Posted by: blaster at January 30, 2024 05:03 PM (xhfG9)

194 Five Ukrainian officials were arrested this weekend on accusations of stealing nearly $40 million in funds meant to purchase military equipment for the war against Russia.

Pikers.

Posted by: Raytheon! at January 30, 2024 05:03 PM (YAtuc)

195 BREAKING: NYPD officers will have to record race of people they question after council overrides mayor’s veto - AP

Gawd. Just how fu*ked up can these councils be? They are a joke. Complete laughing stock.
Fools.

Posted by: Diogenes at January 30, 2024 05:04 PM (W/lyH)

196 Corruption? In Ukraine?

Fetch my fainting couch!

Posted by: nurse ratched at January 30, 2024 05:04 PM (HjfbW)

197 could not care less about football , but...this is a bad omen (for TayTay fans)

it's all rigged

Chiefs win, her dumbass BF proposes in the end zone after the game, ditzy women break the internet squeeing with glee on social media

Posted by: brak at January 30, 2024 05:04 PM (AR07F)

198 They weren't stealing stealing.

Posted by: Whoop Pee at January 30, 2024 05:05 PM (d21/4)

199 They're just going to have to dye the milk. It's white. That doesn't cut it any more.

Posted by: torabora at January 30, 2024 05:05 PM (tU125)

200 *steps off plane in Bakmut and is handed a rifle*

BakHmut. You gotta expectorate when you pronounce it.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at January 30, 2024 05:05 PM (9yWhg)

201 So apparently it might be a real thing that the Fettermans are on the outs.

Might explain why all of a sudden he's down on illegal aliens.

Posted by: blaster at January 30, 2024 05:05 PM (xhfG9)

202 Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 30

I'm still cracking up about the cockroaches.

Posted by: nurse ratched at January 30, 2024 05:05 PM (HjfbW)

203 Mortar shells are only $400 a piece? I find that very hard to believe ….

Posted by: Elric Blade at January 30, 2024 05:05 PM (29f9B)

204 NYC council is a bunch of plug ignorant would be Marxists who would be dead in hours if society fell. Sounds like a plan

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 30, 2024 05:06 PM (hB1mF)

205 191 I really think that Fetterman had like a brain reset, and as his capability started coming back to him, he can't imagine why he found some things persuasive.

that and, he knows he had a vaccine injury! and they let him suffer from it!

being treated as he was by The Party has an effect. plus the little lady stepping out while he was ill!!!!

Posted by: BlackOrchid, I meant to say at January 30, 2024 05:06 PM (AcWfM)

206 > They need to start advertising in peoples' dreams...THAT'S where the money is....

Very cyberpunk.

Posted by: bonhomme at January 30, 2024 05:06 PM (Odg76)

207 What if we just cut NYC off from the United States and tell them to go to Woke Hell?
Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at January 30, 2024 04:53 PM (lf83v)

TJM prefers that we do that to LA.
Posted by: blaster

Eddie Muller has been hosting Noir Alley from some bar in Oakland for the past several weeks. Must have phenomenal security.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at January 30, 2024 05:06 PM (9yWhg)

208 I'm shocked!
Shocked to hear there's stealing going on in here!

Posted by: Your cut, sir at January 30, 2024 05:07 PM (d21/4)

209 Chiefs win, her dumbass BF proposes in the end zone after the game, ditzy women break the internet squeeing with glee on social media
Posted by: brak at January 30, 2024 05:04 PM (AR07F)
.......

Taylor falls face down in a puddle, dumbass BF wipes her face with a towel, hush falls over the crowd...
OMG OMG no no no makeup! no no no

Posted by: wth at January 30, 2024 05:07 PM (v0R5T)

210 nyc cop: ok, so what race are you?
black guy: i'm an israelite, man!
cop: ok (writes down "jew")

Posted by: gnats local 678 at January 30, 2024 05:08 PM (B1FKF)

211 *steps off plane in Bakmut and is handed a rifle*

BakHmut. You gotta expectorate when you pronounce it.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at January 30, 2024 05:05 PM (9yWhg)

Bakhmut's fallen, they are defending Avdiika now.

Posted by: Kihndltot at January 30, 2024 05:08 PM (D7oie)

212 >>>I really think that Fetterman had like a brain reset, and as his capability started coming back to him, he can't imagine why he found some things persuasive.

Repairman: "Here's your problem, (flips a switch on his back) someone set this thing to evil."

Posted by: Citizen Cake at January 30, 2024 05:08 PM (CwhoI)

213 Mortar shells are only $400 a piece? I find that very hard to believe ….
Posted by: Elric Blade at January 30, 2024 05:05 PM

Not at Honest Bob's Mortar Mart.

Posted by: Minnfidel at January 30, 2024 05:08 PM (MGqzM)

214 But first, 10% for the Ukrainian big guy

Posted by: JM in Ill -- Behold the Manchurian Candidate at January 30, 2024 05:09 PM (ABHKu)

215 39 Million will buy a lot of art.

Posted by: Minnfidel at January 30, 2024 05:10 PM (MGqzM)

216 A tiny move of Overton's Motorized Goalposts.

1) Not even a HINT of corruption
2) Ok, maybe a little corruption- but we caught it all!
3) ...

Posted by: t-bird at January 30, 2024 05:10 PM (bY0qD)

217 Sounds bad.

Via Insty:

WHO DO THEY THINK THEY ARE, BOEING? Toyota urges owners of old Corolla, Matrix and RAV4 models to park them until airbags are replaced: Don’t even drive these particular cars to the dealer — the dealer will come to you. “If the airbag deploys, a part inside is more likely to explode and shoot sharp metal fragments, which could cause serious injury or death to the driver or passengers.”

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at January 30, 2024 05:10 PM (xVkS/)

218
Eddie Muller has been hosting Noir Alley from some bar in Oakland for the past several weeks. Must have phenomenal security.

Blacklist! Blacklist! Blacklist! Blacklist! Blacklist!

Posted by: Edie Mullet at January 30, 2024 05:10 PM (63Dwl)

219 I'd give 'em away, but my wife won't let me!

Posted by: Honest Bob at January 30, 2024 05:10 PM (d21/4)

220 OMG OMG no no no makeup! no no no
Posted by: wth

I had a crush on a classmate in college. One day she came to class and she wasn't wearing makeup. I eventually got used to that look, but, boy, it was a shock at first.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at January 30, 2024 05:10 PM (9yWhg)

221 There's a holdup in the Bronx,
Brooklyn's broken out in fights...
Posted by: Where are you? at January 30, 2024

***
There's a traffic jam in Harlem
That's backed up to Jackson Heights . . .

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 30, 2024 05:10 PM (J2vNu)

222 She's plastic. You just hose her off.

Posted by: AI Commentator at January 30, 2024 05:11 PM (vFG9F)

223 In Japan, airbag deflate you.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at January 30, 2024 05:11 PM (xVkS/)

224 A tiny move of Overton's Motorized Goalposts.

1) Not even a HINT of corruption
2) Ok, maybe a little corruption- but we caught it all!
3) ...
Posted by: t-bird

3 ) Corruption's akshullay a good thing, serf.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 30, 2024 05:11 PM (IG4Id)

225 Fetterman still lives in Braddock, PA. It's not the best part of Pittsburgh by any stretch. Maybe a ladder climbing, foreigner, with delusions of being a Brazilian Evita (she's from Brazil, right?) has higher aspirations. Not the first time for a grifting broad dump a perceived anchor.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at January 30, 2024 05:11 PM (sAmhv)

226 or the nyc pols want evidence that the cops are going after too many black people. statistics for the win.

Posted by: gnats local 678 at January 30, 2024 05:11 PM (B1FKF)

227 Eddie Muller is a leftist asshole. I regret buying his Noir book

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, anti-Marxist, buy ammo and keep your rifle by your side at January 30, 2024 05:12 PM (xcxpd)

228 $40 mil is pocket change.
A rounding error.

And my commission on 400 million.

Posted by: Joe D. Mensha at January 30, 2024 05:12 PM (lZVy/)

229 “If the life saving device deploys, a part inside is more likely to explode and shoot sharp metal fragments, which could cause serious injury or death to the driver or passengers.”

I like this better.

Posted by: fd at January 30, 2024 05:12 PM (vFG9F)

230 A vast majority of the funds were not embezzled.

When compared to the $22T the pentagon can't account for, this is pocket change.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at January 30, 2024 05:12 PM (xVkS/)

231 don't use harsh cleaning products, she will begin to discolor and fray

Posted by: Kindltot at January 30, 2024 05:12 PM (D7oie)

232 There's a holdup in the Bronx,
Brooklyn's broken out in fights...
Posted by: Where are you? at January 30, 2024

***
There's a traffic jam in Harlem
That's backed up to Jackson Heights . . .

***
There's a scout troop short a child,
Krushchev's due at Idlewild --

CAR 54, WHERE ARE YOU???

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 30, 2024 05:13 PM (J2vNu)

233 Eddie Muller is a leftist asshole. I regret buying his Noir book
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edward

Really? I thought he was one of us.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at January 30, 2024 05:13 PM (9yWhg)

234 And on a nicer note, This quote belongs on the earlier thread which mentions "Miracle ", the 1980 Olympic Hockey team which had Kuert Russell as the coach Herb Brooks. It's why Brooks wasn't out wit the team after the win:

"It was not my spot," he said. "I always say sort of flippantly, 'I had to go to the bathroom.' Or, 'If I'd have went on the ice when this thing happened, someone would have speared me or something.' It's a great feeling of accomplishment and pride. They had to do it. It was their moment."

Sounds like he was a down to earth kind of man.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 30, 2024 05:14 PM (Ki//m)

235 OMG OMG no no no makeup! no no no
Posted by: wth

I had a crush on a classmate in college. One day she came to class and she wasn't wearing makeup. I eventually got used to that look, but, boy, it was a shock at first.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at January 30, 2024 05:10 PM (9yWhg)
---
I've always preferred women who require little or no makeup (tom-boy, if you will). Aside from tousled hair in the morning, there's no surprise. Hell, I married a girl like that.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Disgustipated at January 30, 2024 05:14 PM (T/Lqj)

236 3) Corruption is necessary in societies like this, it is the only way we can get things accomplished.

Posted by: Kindltot at January 30, 2024 05:14 PM (D7oie)

237 Not at Honest Bob's Mortar Mart.
Posted by: Minnfidel at January 30, 2024 05:08 PM (MGqzM)
.......

Everything must Go! Buy 4 get 1 free!
(cash only, no refunds)

Posted by: Honest Bob at January 30, 2024 05:14 PM (v0R5T)

238 190 Google Tumbles After Ad Revenue, Operating Income Miss
teaser image

For the second consecutive quarter, GOOGL dump on disappointing earnings.

Last I heard, GOOGL was still trying to figure out why their fork of Android is forking some of their Pixel phones by refusing to access device storage.

I'm enjoying their suffering.
Posted by: bonhomme at January 30, 2024 05:00 PM (Odg76)
---
They need to start advertising in peoples' dreams...THAT'S where the money is....
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 30, 2024 05:03 PM (7fElN)

My guess is that they'll make up for it in political ad spending in 2024. In spades (and not the Ace kind, either).

Posted by: Darrell Harris at January 30, 2024 05:14 PM (/C5Hg)

239 How does one not account for $22T?

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at January 30, 2024 05:15 PM (R4t5M)

240
Chiefs win, her dumbass BF proposes in the end zone after the game, ditzy women break the internet squeeing with glee on social media

Biden wins in a landslide.

At least that's what those ADHD dumb assess who tell that demented old prevert what to think are telling him.

Meanwhile the all important African American male voter is saying, 'That grl ain't got no booty. I ain't votin' for some grl ain't got no booty."

Trump 500 Electoral votes. Plus or minus 5. I don't believe in being overconfident.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at January 30, 2024 05:15 PM (nIvob)

241 I've always preferred women who require little or no makeup (tom-boy, if you will). Aside from tousled hair in the morning, there's no surprise. Hell, I married a girl like that.
Posted by: Pug Mahon

Tousled hair is beautiful hair. Especially in the morning.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at January 30, 2024 05:15 PM (9yWhg)

242 They gotta use the little guys as a distraction, while Zelensky and his pals steal billions.

Posted by: Rbastid at January 30, 2024 05:15 PM (+YvQf)

243 Assuming Trump wins re-election, I want him to staff the White House exclusively by means of recruiting from The Horde.

Berserker, for Secretary of War. (yeah, we're bringing back the War Department). Weasel, for head of ATF. Alex the Chick for Attorney General. Muldoon for Surgeon General.

I would enjoy serving as Secretary of Liquidating Needless Departments and Agencies. (and firing all of their staff.)

Do we have some other nominations, for the record?

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at January 30, 2024 05:15 PM (e6UQI)

244 233 Eddie Muller is a leftist asshole. I regret buying his Noir book
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edward

Really? I thought he was one of us.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at January 30, 2024 05:13 PM (9yWhg)

I don't think a reading of Dark City by him is Conservative-friendly. He's constantly putting in digs against the Right and against the Blacklist of course.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, anti-Marxist, buy ammo and keep your rifle by your side at January 30, 2024 05:16 PM (xcxpd)

245 Russian, Italian and Ukrainian government ministers are hanging out and discussing how they steal tax money. Italian says I was given $200m to build a 10 mile, 4 lane road. I spent $50M and built a 5 mile 2 lane road instead, pocketed $150M.

Russian guy says yeah that’s not bad but let me take you guys to Russia and show you how I do things. They go to a Moscow suburb and the minister says look at this valley. I was given $500M to build 1000 apartments and I only built 100 and pocketed $450M. Italian guy is impressed.

Ukrainian says that’s nice but still amateur hour.
Let me take you to Ukraine and show you how it’s done. So they go to Ukraine in the middle of nowhere. Ukrainian says I was given $5b to build this ultra modern highway. Russian and Italian look around and say, what are you talking about there’s nothing here, no sign of any highway.

Ukrainian says: exactly.

Posted by: Montec at January 30, 2024 05:16 PM (YofvK)

246 178 Google Tumbles After Ad Revenue, Operating Income Miss
teaser image

For the second consecutive quarter, GOOGL dump on disappointing earnings.

Last I heard, GOOGL was still trying to figure out why their fork of Android is forking some of their Pixel phones by refusing to access device storage.

I'm enjoying their suffering.
Posted by: bonhomme at January 30, 2024 05:00 PM (Odg76)

Out of curiosity, I was wondering which company had the largest market cap. I thought that it was Apple. It's not. It's now...Microsoft.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at January 30, 2024 05:17 PM (/C5Hg)

247 Sec. of the Woodchipper.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at January 30, 2024 05:17 PM (R4t5M)

248 We're going out with a bang!

Posted by: Honest Bob at January 30, 2024 05:17 PM (d21/4)

249 217 Sounds bad.

Via Insty:

WHO DO THEY THINK THEY ARE, BOEING? Toyota urges owners of old Corolla, Matrix and RAV4 models to park them until airbags are replaced: Don’t even drive these particular cars to the dealer — the dealer will come to you. “If the airbag deploys, a part inside is more likely to explode and shoot sharp metal fragments, which could cause serious injury or death to the driver or passengers.”
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy

https://youtu.be/vNoPJqm3DAY?si=TjwbDFig3m_F9TDA

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at January 30, 2024 05:18 PM (sAmhv)

250 36 million dollars were recovered from offshore accounts... the missing funds seem to have been spent on legal counsel for someone named Bunter Hiden and various watercolor paintings from Krak Head.

Posted by: Inogame at January 30, 2024 05:18 PM (53oGX)

251 I just had a memory and wonder if anyone else remembers it.

When I was a little tyke we had "Mr. Yuk." He was like the yellow smiley face sticker, but he was green and frowning and throwing up, and instead of saying "have a nice day," he had the phone number for your local poison control center.

They had free rolls of Mr. Yuk stickers at the grocery stores, for moms to tear off and put on their bottles of household poisons, and the schools taught you not to drink from bottles with his face on them.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 30, 2024 05:19 PM (0FoWg)

252 Eddie Muller is a leftist asshole. I regret buying his Noir book
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edward

Really? I thought he was one of us.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at January 30, 2024 05:13 PM (9yWhg)

I don't think a reading of Dark City by him is Conservative-friendly. He's constantly putting in digs against the Right and against the Blacklist of course.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards

Well, I've heard him say that "so-and-so was on the Blacklist," but just as a matter of historical record.

He did an interview with the aged Clu Gulagher after he showed "The Killers" (the 60s' Reagan version), and it seemed like they were mildly simpatico in their (favorable) views of Reagan.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at January 30, 2024 05:19 PM (9yWhg)

253 Google Tumbles After Ad Revenue, Operating Income Miss

It's a write off, Jerry.
They just write it off.

Posted by: Kramer at January 30, 2024 05:20 PM (d21/4)

254 Can I be the Electric Car Czar?

Posted by: fd at January 30, 2024 05:20 PM (vFG9F)

255 "Toyota urges owners of old Corolla, Matrix and RAV4 models to park them until airbags are replaced:"

How much do you have to bribe the dealer to remove the defective module and .... not replace it?

Posted by: FeatherBlade at January 30, 2024 05:20 PM (ou9hh)

256 Yes. I remember Mr. Yuk.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at January 30, 2024 05:20 PM (R4t5M)

257 I've always preferred women who require little or no makeup (tom-boy, if you will). Aside from tousled hair in the morning, there's no surprise. Hell, I married a girl like that.
Posted by: Pug Mahon

Tousled hair is beautiful hair. Especially in the morning.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus

Better at noon.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at January 30, 2024 05:20 PM (cOq4q)

258 When I was a little tyke we had "Mr. Yuk." He was like the yellow smiley face sticker, but he was green and frowning and throwing up, and instead of saying "have a nice day," he had the phone number for your local poison control center.

yes of course I remember them. I just remember seeing them ON things, they might have been on those jugs for ages, especially up at the cabin

Posted by: BlackOrchid, I meant to say at January 30, 2024 05:20 PM (AcWfM)

259 I want in on the Ukranian highway business.

Posted by: wth at January 30, 2024 05:20 PM (v0R5T)

260 252 I remember the Mr. Yuk stickers. I thought they were still around.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at January 30, 2024 05:21 PM (9yWhg)

261 They came up with Mr. Yuk because someone claimed children liked the skull and crossbones because they thought it had something to do with pirates. An kids like pirates. Anything with a pirate symbol can't be bad.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 30, 2024 05:21 PM (63Dwl)

262 A tiny move of Overton's Motorized Goalposts.

1) Not even a HINT of corruption
2) Ok, maybe a little corruption- but we caught it all!
3) ...
Posted by: t-bird

3 ) Corruption's akshullay a good thing, serf.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 30, 2024 05:11 PM (IG4Id)
---
What are you? From the 1900s?

There is almost no reason today to not have mobile goal posts. Just think of the convenience!

Posted by: Axeman at January 30, 2024 05:22 PM (krQz2)

263 Chita Rivera has passed at the age of 91. She originated the roll of Anita in the original Broadway production of West Side Story. She also originated the role of Rose in the Broadway production of Bye Bye Birdie. A long and illustrious career. RIP, Chita.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy now with twice the crazy at January 30, 2024 05:22 PM (iODuv)

264 They came up with Mr. Yuk because someone claimed children liked the skull and crossbones because they thought it had something to do with pirates. An kids like pirates. Anything with a pirate symbol can't be bad.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.

The masthead of this site has entered the chat.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at January 30, 2024 05:22 PM (9yWhg)

265 *Anything with a pirate symbol can't be bad.*

Are ya ready, kids?

Posted by: SpongeBob SquarePants at January 30, 2024 05:23 PM (d21/4)

266 The masthead of this site has entered the chat.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at January 30, 2024 05:22 PM (9yWhg)
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Has it ever really *left* the chat?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 30, 2024 05:23 PM (7fElN)

267 251 I just had a memory and wonder if anyone else remembers it.

When I was a little tyke we had "Mr. Yuk." He was like the yellow smiley face sticker, but he was green and frowning and throwing up, and instead of saying "have a nice day," he had the phone number for your local poison control center.

They had free rolls of Mr. Yuk stickers at the grocery stores, for moms to tear off and put on their bottles of household poisons, and the schools taught you not to drink from bottles with his face on them.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 30, 2024 05:19 PM (0FoWg)

Officer Ugg, similar thing. Cartoon cop with his hands crossed over his mouth. May have had the poison control number on it too.

Posted by: My parents were more toxic than the cleaning supplies anyway at January 30, 2024 05:23 PM (pKFK0)

268 I loved that theme song.

Posted by: pawn at January 30, 2024 05:24 PM (QB+5g)

269 The only thing Taylor likes about football is the defensive line.
After the game.

Posted by: wth at January 30, 2024 05:24 PM (v0R5T)

270
I can't say that I or any of my friends remember Mr. Yuk. But most of my friends died of childhood poisoning.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at January 30, 2024 05:25 PM (nIvob)

271 Well, I've heard him say that "so-and-so was on the Blacklist," but just as a matter of historical record.

He did an interview with the aged Clu Gulagher after he showed "The Killers" (the 60s' Reagan version), and it seemed like they were mildly simpatico in their (favorable) views of Reagan.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at January 30, 2024 05:19 PM (9yWhg)

I'd have to find page numbers in Dark City to cite but I ended up dropping the book half read because his digs pissed me off.

If he was fond of Regan as President, that is indeed news to me.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, anti-Marxist, buy ammo and keep your rifle by your side at January 30, 2024 05:25 PM (xcxpd)

272 217 “If the airbag deploys, a part inside is more likely to explode and shoot sharp metal fragments, which could cause serious injury or death to the driver or passengers.”
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at January 30, 2024 05:10 PM (xVkS/)

We've come a long way since the neckbelts and shrapnelizing explosive dashboards.

https://archive.is/rTqJc

Posted by: antisocial justice beatnik at January 30, 2024 05:25 PM (DTX3h)

273 What if they are mixed race?

What if the police officer mistakes their race?

What if we just cut NYC off from the United States and tell them to go to Woke Hell?

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at January 30, 2024 04:53 PM (lf83v)

One of the many problems I have with Huwite/any other race Supreeemicists is that just about everyone in America is mixed race/ethnicity. I look like I just got off the boat from Holland, right? Except I'm a tiny part Native American and the rest is from a bunch of European nations that hate each other (including Scotland and Ireland!). I just put "American" on census forms cuz I'm a mutt who was born here and loves this country.

Posted by: pookysgirl doesn't think the census should be asking that anyway at January 30, 2024 05:25 PM (dtlDP)

274 The only thing Taylor likes about football is the defensive line.
After the game.

Several of her exes have said she's a cold fish who has little interest in sex.

Posted by: bonhomme at January 30, 2024 05:25 PM (Odg76)

275 Do we have some other nominations, for the record?

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at January 30, 2024 05:15 PM (e6UQI)

Ace for Cruelness Czar

Posted by: Inogame at January 30, 2024 05:25 PM (53oGX)

276 ZOD as border czar.

Posted by: Bosk of Port Kar at January 30, 2024 05:26 PM (VMFAF)

277 They came up with Mr. Yuk because someone claimed children liked the skull and crossbones because they thought it had something to do with pirates. An kids like pirates. Anything with a pirate symbol can't be bad.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 30, 2024 05:21 PM (63Dwl)

Nowadays they would claim it was all "Totenkopf"

Imagine my confusion as a child when I thought all the SS Panzer troops were pirates also/

Posted by: Kindltot at January 30, 2024 05:27 PM (D7oie)

278 > We've come a long way since the neckbelts and shrapnelizing explosive dashboards.

Don't forget the steering column pointing right at your chest, surrounded by a large, flimsy steering wheel. More than a few people had their steering column spear right through their chest in a traffic collision.

Posted by: bonhomme at January 30, 2024 05:27 PM (Odg76)

279 "They had free rolls of Mr. Yuk stickers at the grocery stores, for moms to tear off and put on their bottles of household poisons, and the schools taught you not to drink from bottles with his face on them."

Of course! We had Mr Yuk stickers all over the cleaning products in our house.

Apparently there were also some terribly trippy TV adverts, but we didn't have the stations that played them.

I wonder when they stopped distributing those.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at January 30, 2024 05:27 PM (ou9hh)

280 I'd have to find page numbers in Dark City to cite but I ended up dropping the book half read because his digs pissed me off.

If he was fond of Regan as President, that is indeed news to me.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards

I haven't read any of his books, so I can't address that. He does seem, outwardly, to be the most conservative presenter in the TCM stable.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at January 30, 2024 05:27 PM (9yWhg)

281 274 The only thing Taylor likes about football is the defensive line.
After the game.

Several of her exes have said she's a cold fish who has little interest in sex.
Posted by: bonhomme at January 30, 2024 05:25 PM (Odg76)

"Do the girls back home touch you like I do?" and "Long night, with your hands up in my hair" doesn't sound cold to me but I'd need to test things first hand to be fair.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, anti-Marxist, buy ammo and keep your rifle by your side at January 30, 2024 05:28 PM (xcxpd)

282 Chiefs win, her dumbass BF proposes in the end zone after the game, ditzy women break the internet squeeing with glee on social media

Biden wins in a landslide.

---
If that works, it shows you how far America has gone.

Posted by: Axeman at January 30, 2024 05:28 PM (krQz2)

283 So...they were arrested for not getting an ok from Lil Z and Biden to steal the money first?

Posted by: 18-1 at January 30, 2024 05:28 PM (ibTVg)

284 > I look like I just got off the boat from Holland, right? Except I'm a tiny part Native American and the rest is from a bunch of European nations that hate each other (including Scotland and Ireland!). I just put "American" on census forms cuz I'm a mutt who was born here and loves this country.

I'm a Euro-mutt too.

Posted by: bonhomme at January 30, 2024 05:28 PM (Odg76)

285 I remember the green face stickers. I also remember this little ditty from my youth:

http://tinyurl.com/3hdd6923

Posted by: InZona at January 30, 2024 05:28 PM (oz6dH)

286 Taylor Swift once dated a guy named Taylor. He was in the vampire movies. And that Taylor married a girl also named Taylor.

Mind fucking blown.

Posted by: Montec at January 30, 2024 05:29 PM (YofvK)

287 > "Do the girls back home touch you like I do?" and "Long night, with your hands up in my hair" doesn't sound cold to me but I'd need to test things first hand to be fair.

Girl doesn't write her songs, she just sings them.

Posted by: bonhomme at January 30, 2024 05:29 PM (Odg76)

288 Fight for Ukraine ... with your bare hands. All of the money for weapons got grafted away.

Posted by: Marooned at January 30, 2024 05:29 PM (kt8QE)

289 And, damn, Eddie can dress like nobody's business.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at January 30, 2024 05:29 PM (9yWhg)

290 274 The only thing Taylor likes about football is the defensive line.
After the game.

Several of her exes have said she's a cold fish who has little interest in sex.
Posted by: bonhomme at January 30, 2024 05:25 PM (Odg76)
———-

Well, they are all men, right? She has little interest in that ….

Posted by: Elric Blade at January 30, 2024 05:30 PM (29f9B)

291 Imagine my confusion as a child when I thought all the SS Panzer troops were pirates also/
Posted by: Kindltot at January 30, 2024 05:27 PM (D7oie)
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Pirates are fun!

Posted by: SS Officer at January 30, 2024 05:30 PM (0gvpA)

292 They should bring back Mr. Yuk. But use a slack-jawed photo of Brandon. Any kid will know that's a symbol of impending death. Or inappropriate olfactory activities. Either way, it'll scare off the rugrats.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 30, 2024 05:30 PM (0FoWg)

293 I remember the green face stickers. I also remember this little ditty from my youth:

http://tinyurl.com/3hdd6923
Posted by: InZona at January 30, 2024 05:28 PM (oz6dH)

Btw it's a link to one of those trippy tv adverts. With song!

Posted by: InZona at January 30, 2024 05:30 PM (oz6dH)

294 One of the many problems I have with Huwite/any other race Supreeemicists is that just about everyone in America is mixed race/ethnicity. I look like I just got off the boat from Holland, right? Except I'm a tiny part Native American and the rest is from a bunch of European nations that hate each other (including Scotland and Ireland!). I just put "American" on census forms cuz I'm a mutt who was born here and loves this country.
Posted by: pookysgirl doesn't think the census should be asking that anyway at January 30, 2024 05:25 PM (dtlDP)

Hungarian/Slovak here. 2nd Generation American. Mom, Hungarian, dad Slovak, Both were 1st generation Americans. Their parents, on both sides, arrived here around 1900 to 1907 from "the old country".

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy now with twice the crazy at January 30, 2024 05:31 PM (iODuv)

295 287 > "Do the girls back home touch you like I do?" and "Long night, with your hands up in my hair" doesn't sound cold to me but I'd need to test things first hand to be fair.

Girl doesn't write her songs, she just sings them.
Posted by: bonhomme at January 30, 2024 05:29 PM (Odg76)

I assume you know that's not true. TS is about the last singer/songwriter still running around.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, anti-Marxist, buy ammo and keep your rifle by your side at January 30, 2024 05:31 PM (xcxpd)

296 Biden wins in a landslide.

Isn't the SB in two weeks? Why would her football playing boyfriend proposing to her in February influence the November election?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 30, 2024 05:32 PM (Ki//m)

297 Several of her exes have said she's a cold fish who has little interest in sex.

==

bitchy !

Posted by: runner at January 30, 2024 05:32 PM (V13WU)

298 > I assume you know that's not true. TS is about the last singer/songwriter still running around.

She claims she's self taught on the guitar, too. Both claims are false.

Posted by: bonhomme at January 30, 2024 05:32 PM (Odg76)

299 Nood Taylor Swift

Posted by: fd at January 30, 2024 05:32 PM (vFG9F)

300 Which boyfriends have said that?

Posted by: Montec at January 30, 2024 05:32 PM (YofvK)

301 @263

>>Chita Rivera has passed at the age of 91. She originated the roll of Anita in the original Broadway production of West Side Story. She also originated the role of Rose in the Broadway production of Bye Bye Birdie. A long and illustrious career. RIP, Chita.

She was also the first Velma Kelly in Chicago.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 30, 2024 05:33 PM (XV/Pl)

302
Biden wins in a landslide.

Isn't the SB in two weeks? Why would her football playing boyfriend proposing to her in February influence the November election?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 30, 2024 05:32 PM

Don't ask me to 'splain the thought processes of people who hardly put any thought into those processes.

But it's actually what they think.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at January 30, 2024 05:34 PM (nIvob)

303

At least two peer-reviewed medical studies (Fergusson 1982, Vernberg 1984) have suggested that Mr. Yuk stickers do not effectively keep children away from potential poisons and may even attract children.

Specifically, Vernberg and colleagues note concerns for using the stickers to protect young children. Fergusson and colleagues state that "the method may be effective with older children or as an adjunct to an integrated poisoning prevention campaign".

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 30, 2024 05:34 PM (63Dwl)

304 http://tinyurl.com/3hdd6923

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Whoa. They look like 80mg OxyContins. Spooky.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 30, 2024 05:34 PM (0FoWg)

305 I decided to get some nice dress shirts for Sunday. I'm getting some Charles Tyrwhitt button downs. Has anyone else tried them? They seem top notch.

Posted by: bonhomme at January 30, 2024 05:35 PM (Odg76)

306 @240

>>Biden wins in a landslide.

I think the maximum upside of plausibility is around 328 EC votes for the Meet Puppet, without massive cheating and an honest election, Trumps maximum is around 330.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 30, 2024 05:37 PM (XV/Pl)

307 305 I decided to get some nice dress shirts for Sunday. I'm getting some Charles Tyrwhitt button downs. Has anyone else tried them? They seem top notch.
Posted by: bonhomme at January 30, 2024 05:35 PM (Odg76)
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CT is good stuff. Not cheap, but high quality. But I’d sooner drink battery acid than wear button downs as dress shirts. YMMV.

Posted by: Elric Blade at January 30, 2024 05:38 PM (29f9B)

308 >>> Hungarian/Slovak here. 2nd Generation American. Mom, Hungarian, dad Slovak, Both were 1st generation Americans. Their parents, on both sides, arrived here around 1900 to 1907 from "the old country".
Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy now with twice the crazy

In some ways they benfited the most from slavery.
Their descendants should pay double reparations.

- Some Rascist Person

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at January 30, 2024 05:43 PM (cOq4q)

309 Hello, Joe.
No, Joe, it's $4,000,000 million.
Joey, 10% of $40 million is not $10 million.
Ten percent of $40 million is $4 million
that's it, Joey, $4 million, no more.
(Click)

Posted by: Braenyard at January 30, 2024 05:48 PM (lxm3S)

310 In some ways they benfited the most from slavery.
Their descendants should pay double reparations.

- Some Rascist Person
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at January 30, 2024 05:43 PM (cOq4q)

They never even saw a black person until years after they came here. Both settled in little towns/villages here tat were composed of Hungarians, Slovaks and other Eastern Europeans. Dad's side first settled in PA and worked the coal mines. Came back to NJ to work in brick factories and copper refineries. US Civil War? Wasn't even on their radar. Both grandfathers died rather young. The work was tough and the bosses (sadly, many bosses were Irish) were pretty bad. So, what do I bring home as a future wife? An Irish lass. OY!! LOL!

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy now with twice the crazy at January 30, 2024 05:50 PM (iODuv)

311 Charles Tyrwhitt button downs.

The three for $99 mailer ad? They look nice.

Posted by: free tibet at January 30, 2024 06:08 PM (8ck2O)

312 Holy stupid.

We don't give them money for weapons. The monies we spend are the replacement cost of the old weapons that we send over there. We spend that money here, on American workers and American companies.

The $40M stolen here would've been their own.

Pro-tip: You know how to identify a truly corrupt country? You don't read about people getting arrested for corruption.

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