The Morning Report

The Morning Report — 2/5/25

Good morning kids. Now that the light has been turned on in the kitchen so to speak, President Donald Trump is not only dousing everything with Plutonium-infused RAID, and the cockroaches who were once doing the multi-trillion dollar mambo to "hey baba-rebop" as per the old Robert Klein routine, but they are shrieking in anger and terror. Hopefully they'll go legs up any second now and can be swept up and disposed a la the garbage trucks in Soylent Green, to be turned into Soylent Marxist insect meat and force-fed to the Greta Thunbergs of this world, until they choke on it.

Considering our budget over the past couple decades has soared into the trillions, the fact that USAID was allocated merely billions each year still is significant in that all the money, minus whatever was skimmed off the top to wet the beaks of the Democrats, went to a veritable rogues gallery of anti-American, anti-Western crackpot, terroristic thugocracies, kleptocrats and tyrants that have shed rivers o blood of their own people and us in the process. Those who are shrieking loudest are both in on the grift and hate this country as much if not more than the scum getting the dough-rey-mi. And this is just USAID, wait until the DOge axe really starts being wielded at the rest of the bureaucracy.

And speaking of cockroaches shrieking out their death rattle, this will warm the cockles of your heart:

The reaction of some U.S. Agency of International Development (USAID) employees when the Dept. of Government Efficiency (DOGE) came to their Washington D.C. office last week is raising more questions about the shadowy agency.
Contractor Kristina Drye, who is employed at USAID described to ABC News a scene reminiscent of the kind of mad scramble historically witnessed when a corrupt government has fallen and officials are desperately trying to get rid of evidence of wrongdoing.
Drye described USAID employees taking down pride flags and removing books that she felt might be “incriminating” as well as how “no one was talking” as DOGE team members began their review of the operations of the agency that sends billions of taxpayer dollars abroad for a variety of reasons ranging from disaster relief to funding regime change.
She described her concerns over DOGE setting up automatic transcription of USAID employee Google meets and how, over the weekend, she lost access to work computer.
USAID’s Director of Security John Voorhees and his deputy Brian McGill were both placed on administrative leave after denying system access to DOGE employees who were eventually able to gain access to the secure systems in order to conduct their analysis.
Such actions seem out of place considering that USAID employees and managers have had since early November to anticipate the incoming Trump administration and the anticipated arrival of DOGE.
Hiding flags and books and attempting to prevent access to the systems that track secretive government payments lend more strength to the concerns about fraud expressed by Elon Musk than they do to claims that USAID is operating with full transparency and accountability.
President Trump ordered a 90 day pause in foreign development assistance via USAID while the DOGE team reviews that agency’s efficiencies and consistency with the new administration’s foreign policy objectives.

I hope Pam Bondi and Discipline will follow the money and prosecute with extreme prejudice wherever it leads, now that she has been confirmed as the new AG!!

The other Yuuuge story this morning is what President Trump said during his meting with Bibi Netanyahu regarding Gaza. Ho Lee Fook!

Trump said he would deploy US troops to the territory “if it’s necessary” and that he imagined “the world’s people” occupying an “international unbelievable place” that would be regarded as “the Riviera of the Middle East,” with some Palestinians permitted to resettle there.
Netanyahu all but endorsed the idea, saying: “I think it’s something that could change history and it’s worthwhile really pursuing this avenue.”
The Israeli leader said “[Trump] sees a different future for that piece of land that has been the focus of so much terrorism, so many attacks against us, so many trials and so many tribulations.
“He has a different idea, and I think it’s worth paying attention to this.” Trump, who frequently denounces prior US military interventions in the Middle East, did not lay out a timeline for either the proposed US occupation or the relocation of Gaza’s residents, but he presented the overall plan as a well-considered “strong recommendation” to bring peace to the region.
“I’ve studied this very closely over a lot of months, and I’ve seen it from every different angle,” Trump said.
. . . Egyptian and Jordanian leaders have already rejected Trump’s request that they take in Gazans. But Trump claimed Tuesday that he believes Amman and Cairo will agree to do it, and that Gazans would be thrilled to relocate.
“Gaza is a hellhole right now,” he said. “It was before the bombing started, frankly, and we’re going to give people a chance to live in a beautiful community that’s safe and secure, and I think you’re going to see tremendous outpouring of support.”
The president made a series of escalating remarks about Gaza throughout the day Tuesday, and said in the Oval Office before the press conference that he thought residents “wouldn’t want to go back” after being relocated.“I do see a long-term ownership position,” Trump said at the press conference when asked about the potential US takeover. “Everybody I’ve spoken to loves the idea of the United States owning that piece of land, developing and creating thousands of jobs with something that will be magnificent, in a really magnificent area that nobody would know.”

First of all. the notion of deploying US Troops here is insane. No, just flat out no. Even if this idea of remaking Gaza into a new Riviera had a snowball's chance in hell of sucess (which it doesn't) US boots on the ground is a line in the sand of a region already soaked in American blood, particularly in Beirut which at one point was a Middle Eastern Riviera until the same ideology turned it into Gaza 25 years ago.

While I appreciate Trump's support for Israel, and that it's good to both think out of the box if for no other reason than to force people to see things they may not want to, and to force the hand of your opponents. That said, this is all well and good on President Trump. But the real problem is, as we all should know by now is ISLAM itself.

Unless and until the majority of Muslims openly reject the main tenets of their so-called religion, that is the submission and or death of unbelievers, particularly Jews, then while we may have gained some time and some measure of security, I'm afraid the past 1,500 years or so of history means we will have more innocent blood spilled in the name of Mohammedanism.

With the exception of pre-Jimmy Carter Iran, the Arab and broader Muslim world despite being awash in petrodollars, have spent the past 77 years primarily focused on one thing, eradicating the State of Israel and then going on to finish the work of Adolf Hitler by killing every Jew on the planet as is their prime directive stated in pretty calligraphy.

The best perhaps we can hope for, if/when the dust settles in Gaza and its residents return is the permanent removal of their terrorist/Islamist/Anti-Semitic government. Elections have consequences and remember it's Gazans that keep voting for the terrorists and Jew-haters. Purple thumbs and/or Dominion voting machines notwithstanding. And that's because they do not want to live side by side with Israel. Kudos to Trump for calling out the complete delusional failure of Peace Process Incorporated.

To mangle the lyrics of Rogers and Hammerstein, "Call Me a cockeyed Pessimist,' or perhaps realist. Again, I give credit to Trump for at least putting this out there and taking a blowtorch to the abject failures of Foggy Bottom in its support of the irredentism of the fake "Palestinians" and their enablers around the world and here.

This is who you have to deal with . . .

Hamas tortured and executed terrorists within its ranks who allegedly had gay sex, shocking documents show — as sources added some male Israeli victims of the Oct. 7 massacre were raped in captivity.
The Iranian proxy terror group had a running list of recruits who were found to have failed Hamas’ “morality checks” by having same-sex relations — and they heavily paid the price, according to documents recovered by the Israel Defense Forces and shared with The Post.
The documents reveal the “crimes” that were allegedly committed by 94 Hamas recruits — lumping together “homosexual conversations,” “flirting with girls without a legal relationship” and “sodomy” in with serious allegations of child rape and torture.

This has kind of a Colonel Kurtzian hypocritical splendor to it, all things considered, no? Continuing...

It is unclear what happened to the recruits identified as “unacceptable” to Hamas, but homosexuality is illegal in Gaza and can result in years of prison — and even death.
Such was the case with former Hamas commander Mahmoud Ishtiwi, who was executed in 2016 after he was accused of having gay sex.
Ishtiwi’s confession and apparent testimony of the brutal treatment he received was included in the documents shared with The Post.

Butt, Butt Queers for "Palestine?!" Long distance def dedication to them!

"Qom fly with me, off the Tehran Hilton roof."

To mangle the lyrics of Rogers and Hammerstein, "Call Me a cockeyed Pessimist,' or perhaps realist.

Nation building begins at home: How about forcing all the Democrats to leave California. Or to prevent them from infecting normal America, abolish their party, remove them from government and turn to restoring its former lustre. And talk of California seceding is once again making news. Meh, cut the shithole coastal cities loose and we get to keep the farmlands, forests, watershed and at least one port. The rest can go Gaza itself.

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ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY

Contractor Kristina Drye, who is employed at USAID described to ABC News a scene reminiscent of the kind of mad scramble historically witnessed when a corrupt government has fallen and officials are desperately trying to get rid of evidence of wrongdoing. Drye described USAID employees taking down pride flags and removing books that she felt might be “incriminating” as well as how “no one was talking” as DOGE team members began their review of the operations of the agency that sends billions of taxpayer dollars abroad for a variety of reasons ranging from disaster relief to funding regime change. She described her concerns over DOGE setting up automatic transcription of USAID employee Google meets and how, over the weekend, she lost access to work computer.
USAID Employee Describes Scramble When DOGE Team Showed Up Last Week
Glenn Reynolds: Philosopher Eric Hoffer once wrote, “Nothing is so unsettling to a social order as the presence of a mass of scribes without suitable employment and an acknowledged status.” As President Trump, Elon Musk and the Department of Government Efficiency get on with their business of trimming waste, fraud, abuse and graft from the federal budget — a business that is vitally important, given the government’s parlous financial outlook — they need to keep this in mind.
Smashing the ‘rice bowls’ — how elites are lashing out at Trump and Musk’s reforms
Another progressive court policy decision at war with separation of powers.
Montana Supreme Court Declares State Constitutional Right to ‘Stable Climate System’

"BIDEN/HARRIS BORDER BLOODBATH," AMNESTY, IMMIGRATION, BORDER SECURITY

Contrary to what they’re hearing in their Tallahassee echo chamber, the Florida GOP establishment’s immigration bill isn’t fooling anyone.
Nobody Is Buying The Garbage Immigration Bill Florida Republicans Are Selling
“I started crying with happiness,” said Carlos Suezo—a 54-year-old illegal immigrant from Honduras—after being released from a U.S. prison into ICE custody and promptly deported to Ciudad Juárez, Mexico. Suezo had one month remaining on a six-month prison term for unlawfully entering the country after being deported in 2017 following his arrest for a gun crime. President Trump has prioritized the removal of illegal immigrants who are currently being held in the U.S. prison system.
Win-Win: Criminal Migrants Thank Trump for Deportation.
Church groups grew massively with government funding for the controversial immigrant and refugee programs that Trump is now cutting.
How the Catholic Church Became a Champion of Biden’s Open Borders
To be un-Christian, deportation would have to be unjust, unmerciful, or both — and none of those are the case.
Why It’s Absolutely Christian To Swiftly Deport All Illegal Migrants
This is how tariffs work.
‘El Ricky’ arrested and spy planes fly over the border
President Trump has made clear he believes the border crisis poses a grave threat to U.S. national security and is acting accordingly.
The case for militarizing the border
ISRAEL vs IRAN & GAZA/HAMAS . . . AND BIDEN
Robert Spencer: And refuses to repeat failed policies.
Trump Says U.S. Will ‘Own’ Gaza
The announcement came as a surprise alongside Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, evidently also catching some people off guard and causing them to become enraged. A crowd outside the White House said they would resist Trump’s announcement, while members of the media and far-left content creators posted snide remarks on X. “We will continue to resist for every inch of Palestine. Let Donald Trump know that the ceasefire is only the beginning,” the crowd shouted. Leftist users on X were quick to spread conspiracy theories and suggest Trump would be starting a war in Gaza
Far-Left, Media Freak Out over Trump’s Announcement of U.S. Taking over Gaza
The Iranian proxy terror group had a running list of recruits who were found to have failed Hamas’ “morality checks” by having same-sex relations — and they heavily paid the price, according to documents recovered by the Israel Defense Forces and shared with The Post. (Butt, Butt Queers for "Palestine?!" - "Qom fly with me, off the Tehran Hilton roof - jjs)
Secret Hamas docs reveal torture, execution of gay terrorists — while some male Oct. 7 Israeli victims were raped in captivity
President Trump’s commitment to Israel and the Jewish people was evident right from the start.
Ignoring the Real Threat of Islamofascism
Daniel Greenfield: Politicians and the media don't oppose forcible resettlement. They just support terrorism.
Gaza’s Jewish Population was ‘Resettled’ Twice
'They'll be resettled in areas where they can live a beautiful life and not be worried about dying every day'
Trump Says He Wants To Permanently Relocate All Gazans In Meeting With Netanyahu

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The Department of Justice (DOJ) first announced the effort Monday as part of a new “Task Force to Combat Anti-Semitism” that will “root out anti-Semitic harassment in schools and on college campuses,” a press release says. The Department of Education (DOE) and Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) then announced it would probe five universities and four unnamed medical schools on behalf of the task force.
Trump Admin Investigates Alleged ‘Jew Hatred,’ ‘Support For Terrorist Organizations’ At 9 Universities
For the second time, a federal court has rejected an anti-Zionist faculty group’s lawsuit against the University of Pennsylvania, alleging “a new form of McCarthyism” violated their academic freedom at the school.
Court Tosses Faculty for Justice in Palestine “McCarthyism” Lawsuit Against UPenn
Proof that last year’s pro-Hamas conference was no fluke.
Yahya Sinwar and PFLP Terrorists Promoted at Florida Muslim Conference
DC AIRLINER/COPTER COLLISION, and Philly Air Crash AFTERMATH
Only a complete overhaul of the entire air traffic control system will suffice.
Memo To Trump: FAA’s Failings Are Much Deeper Than DEI
LOS ANGELES WILDFIRES
Democrats rejected Republican-proposed amendments to prevent any of the money from being used to defend criminal illegal aliens.
California Democrats Pass $50 Million to Fight Trump, Defend Illegal Alien Criminals; Seek Billions in Fire Aid
"Three fires that broke out in San Diego last week started in homeless encampments, the San Diego Metro Arson Strike Team (MAST) confirmed to NBC 7 on Thursday. “Those fires were the Friars Fire in Mission Valley, the Center Fire in Rancho Bernardo and the Gilman Fire in La Jolla, according to MAST Capt. Pat Buckley.”
California Fires Caused by Homeless Skyrocket, 3 More Confirmed in San Diego
CIVIL WAR 2.0: J-6 FBI+Pelosi-engineered FALSE FLAG "RIOT" & AFTERMATH, LEFTIST PERSECUTIONS, DEMOCRAT PUTSCH, AMERICAN DISSOLUTION
The Trump administration’s second term should be called the “Shock And Awe Tour.” The first time around, it was undisputable how unprepared they were for the deep state machine, but this time is different. In less than 20 days, the team Trump has assembled has overwhelmed the entrenched bureaucrats by shutting down the cash cow that helped them fund wildly anti-American policies at home and abroad.
Trump Struck A Killing Blow To Heart Of Democrat Deep State Machine
President Donald Trump signed an executive order Jan. 20 imposing a freeze on new regulations. House Republicans, meanwhile, say they plan to support legislation that would place additional controls on government regulations. Axon Enterprise CEO Rick Smith, entrepreneur Magatte Wade and Hoover Institution Research Fellow Dr. Patrick McLaughlin are scheduled to testify at the Feb. 11 hearing. (RELATED: EXCLUSIVE: Joni Ernst Takes Another Crack At Evicting Bureaucrats From Washington)
EXCLUSIVE: Jim Jordan Readies His Committee For Another Showdown Against Administrative State
The PwC program openly lists race-based eligibility criteria for would-be applicants, excluding whites and Asians
Consulting Giant Bans Whites And Asians From Career Advancement Seminar
[Fekete kurva, seggfej, kutya-szar] Democrat Rep. Jasmine Crockett of Texas told CNN host Laura Coates she was “tired” of “white tears” Monday night during a rant targeting President Donald Trump, Department of Government Efficiency chair Elon Musk and “mediocre white boys.”
Dem Rep’s Minutes-Long Tirade About ‘Mediocre White Boys’ Somehow Veers Into ICE, Black Colleges

DANIEL PENNY ACQUITTED
Daniel Penny landed a cushy job at a powerhouse Silicon Valley venture capital firm less than two months after he was acquitted in the subway chokehold death of Jordan Neely. The Marine veteran was hired by Andreesen Horowitz to work in Manhattan as a deal partner on the firm’s American Dynamism team, which invests in government and defense tech, according to the company’s website. Penny was lauded for his “courage” in an internal memo sent to all employees Tuesday afternoon.
Daniel Penny lands job at powerhouse venture capital firm Andreesen Horowitz less than 2 months after acquittal in Jordan Neely’s death: ‘Acted with courage’
SHAMPEACHMENTS, 2016 CLINTON/OBAMA COUP, CONGRESSIONAL PERSECUTION, SPYGATE, DEEP STATE, MUELLER DECEPTION
FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUES, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER TECH
Taxpayer-funded radio stations are barred from ‘airing commercials or other promotional announcements on behalf of for-profit entities’
Has Brendan Carr Finally Figured Out How To Stop NPR?
The World Economic Forum has big plans to stifle the world’s freedom. But America stands in the way.
Will the Global Elites’ War on Free Speech Succeed? (Hit Switzerland with Tariffs and treat the WEF like Teen de Aragua and MS-13 - jjs)
Opinionists at major news outlets have begun whining about their newsrooms’ inability to keep up with the increased flow of Trump’s executive orders, newsworthy comments, and changes within federal agencies.
Establishment Media Whine Donald Trump Is Flooding the Zone: ‘Nightmare over and over Again’
President Trump was elected to oversee the executive branch. The FBI falls under his purview, and nobody who works there should feel exempt from whatever scrutiny he chooses to apply. But CNN’s Jake Tapper on Monday spoke as if this were a violent assault on innocent children.
Here’s How The Media Are Lying Right Now: FBI Questionnaire Edition
The Verge reports that U.S. District Court Judge Amit Mehta has denied Apple’s emergency request to halt the Google Search monopoly trial. The trial, which could potentially dismantle the search exclusivity deal between Google and Apple reportedly worth up to $18 billion a year, is set to move forward without Apple’s involvement.
Apple Hits a Brick Wall with Desperate Attempt to Intervene in Google Search Monopoly Trial
Christian Toto: Spotify superstar strikes back against book alleging he misled VP Harris
Joe Rogan Exposes Team Kamala, Legacy Media
THE ECONOMY, STUPID
Trump will likely speak to Chinese President Xi Jinping later on Tuesday.
China Hits U.S. With Retaliatory Tariffs After Canada, Mexico Cave To Trump
“Core inflation did not increase as a result of the 2018 tariffs on Chinese goods.”
Trump’s Three-Pronged Tariff Strategy

RED-GREENS, CLIMATE CHANGE HOAX, DEMOCRAT-LEFT WAR ON FOSSIL FUELS, JUNK SCIENCE, LYSENKOISM
Zeldin is affectionately known in America First activist circles as “the Legend of Zeldin,” a play on the name of the classic video game the Legend of Zelda. He earned the nickname when he was a rank-and-file GOP U.S. House member from New York, when he was serving on the House Intelligence Committee and tearing up its then-chairman Democrat Adam Schiff’s plot to impeach President Donald Trump in his first term.
Exclusive — ‘Powering the Great American Comeback’: The Legend of Zeldin Comes to the EPA
The new EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin is also upsetting Democratic Senators and climate justice warriors.
Over 1,000 EPA Employees Upset Over Warning They Face Possible Dismissal
Interior Secretary Burgum orders review of Biden's oil lease cancellations
Trump Admin Reopens Millions of Acres for Oil Drilling in Rollback of Biden Climate Agenda
A massive Obama-era solar power plant is on the path to shutting down as President Donald Trump works to unwind federal green energy initiatives.
'Financial Boondoggle and Environmental Disaster': Billion-Dollar Solar Project, Once a Green Energy Symbol, Moves Toward Closure
Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch slammed the Kier Starmer Labour government's approach, accusing them of “adding even more burdens on farmers" who are already going through hardship.
UK seeks to slash domestic farms, risk food production by converting land to woodland, wild habitats
The examples are being brought to light as Democrats are fiercely fighting to protect USAID from the Trump Administration’s efforts to stop the federal government enormous waste of taxpayers’ money.
Eight USAID Grants Spent More Than a Half-Billion Taxpayer Dollars on ESG/DEI
The sad fact, though, is that the weather propaganda has worked, and a majority of Americans still accept the manifest illogic of “climate change.”
Cold Winters Mean Global Warming? In What World?
We no longer can afford our Disneyfied ideals about nature.
The Green Paradigm is Shifting Fast
EDUCATION, AND WHAT PASSES FOR IT
American children scored poorly, yet again, on the latest nationwide test; school choice is a way to right our sinking ship.
The National Assessment of Educational Regress
ABORTION
Gov. Mike Braun directed state agencies to continue releasing records that document abortionist malfeasance, ending a pro-lifer lawsuit.
Pro-Lifers Settle Lawsuit Against Indiana After New GOP Governor Releases Abortion Records

THE 2020 AND 2022ELECTION HEISTS & AFTERMATH AND 2024 SHENANIGANS
Democrats’ promise that winning a Wisconsin Supreme Court seat will guarantee a House win in 2026 is shameless and corrupt. Conservatives need to recognize it for what it is and stop it before it’s too late.
How Democrats Plan To Use Wisconsin’s Supreme Court Election To Rig The 2026 Midterms
DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST AND RINO SCANDALS, MESHUGAS, CHUTZPOCRISY
USAID had a budget of about $50 billion in 2023, the last year for which full figures are available. While $50 billion is a drop in the bucket — it's less than 1% of federal spending — it has an outsized effect. That's billions of dollars going every year to left-wing causes (some of them dressed up as RINOs) that are too unpopular to gain private support.It's largely NGOs, armed with your tax dollars, funding the migrant invasion, pushing gender confusion on a global scale, etc.If Bill Kristol or whoever is behind organizations like Hopewell can raise funds privately, that's their business. But the parade of public tax dollars to private causes has to stop.
The Dirty Truth Behind Bill Kristol's 'Private' Funding
Even more troubling, at least one former IRI employee was actively involved in the Democratic Party’s Russia hoax and cooperated with the Mueller investigation, which was largely reliant on the discredited Steele Dossier. Sam Patten, a former IRI staffer, pled guilty in 2018 to federal charges that he failed to register as a foreign agent and subsequently provided materials to federal investigators that allegedly tied the Trump campaign to Ukrainian oligarch Konstantin Kilimnik. The latter was accused of being involved in Russian efforts to influence the 2016 U.S. presidential election.While the Mueller investigation paints Kilimnik as Russian intelligence asset, the truth appears murkier. Kilimnik also worked for IRI for nearly a decade, received a visa to travel to the U.S. from the State Department in 2016, and was revealed to be a source for the U.S. Embassy in Kiev, suggesting the Ukrainian oligarch may have been a U.S. intelligence asset.
Deep State-Aligned International ‘Republican’ Group Has Received Millions From USAID and Open Borders NGOs.
Schumer had attended the rally alongside various members of Congress to oppose Trump giving billionaire ally Elon Musk access to the federal government, namely, the U.S. Treasury.
Chuck Schumer [the Cuck Schemer] Goes Full Cringe in Anti-Trump ‘We Will Win’ Chant

MORE CONFIRMATION HEARING MADNESS
The era of Bondi and Discipline is here! - jjs
Senate Confirms Pam Bondi as Attorney General with Bipartisan Support, 54-46
Republican Louisiana Senator Bill Cassidy, a medical doctor, had questioned Kennedy strongly about his views on vaccines in both the Senate Finance and the Senate Health, Education, Labor & Pensions (HELP) committee hearings. Despite saying he “struggled” with the nomination, Cassidy ultimately voted to advance Kennedy to the Senate floor.
RFK Jr. Nomination For HHS Secretary Advances Out Of Senate Committee
“I will support Tulsi’s nomination and look forward to working with her to protect our national security.”
Gabbard Wins Over Key Votes, Within One Vote Of Advancing Toward Senate Confirmation
Kennedy, Kash, and Gabbard are the needed change agents that the Senate GOP must make sure to get through the confirmation process.
Gabbard, RFK, and Patel's confirmations are essential for Trump's mandate
POLITICS
Chuck Schemer just gave President Trump a huge endorsement.
When Democrats say you’re ‘screwing up,’ time to double down
Political control of the vital swing state is almost entirely up for grabs in 2026.
Michigan’s Next Elections Could Determine The Direction Of National Politics
The people who pride themselves and falsely portray themselves as ‘liberals’ while they have no interest in true liberty are simply going to double down on defeat.
Good news: The far Left still hasn’t realized why they are losing
Here are three snapshots of a party wallowing in denial: When the eight candidates running to head the Democrat National Committee were asked if they believed “racism and misogyny” were factors in Kamala Harris’ defeat, all eight raised their hands. When congressional Dems gathered outside the headquarters of the rogue USAID agency that Trump plans to shrink or close, one of their lead speakers was the antisemitic terror defender and America-hating Rep. Ilhan [Bro-Fo] Omar. Then there’s New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy, who said Saturday he was hiding an illegal immigrant in his house and challenged ICE, saying “good luck to the feds coming in to try to get her.” I’ve long believed Trump has a gift for driving his opponents over the edge.
Michael Goodwin: Dems wallow in denial and do the dumbest things – proving they haven’t learned a thing from Trump’s win
California’s latest secession push is a delusional stunt driven by contradictions, but Trump’s growing support proves that voters may be waking up to reality. (So long as we retain the farmland, forests and watershed, the cities can become Haiti on the Pacific - jjs
California’s Secessionist Delusions Are Back
THE UKRAINIAN "FRONT"
America must end its involvement in Ukraine’s war, focus on its own security, and abandon Biden’s moral crusade before it drains U.S. strength in a fight that isn’t ours to win.
Blessed are the Peacemakers!
This Trump Doctrine is the realpolitik of the 21st century—a world where economic leverage is as vital as military power.
Ukraine’s Rare Earth and Realpolitik
FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL
Trump … signed executive orders withdrawing the U.S. from the United Nations Human Rights Council, defunding the terror-linked United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), ordering a review of U.S. involvement in the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization, and a review of U.S. ties to the United Nations generally. Trump also signed an executive order restoring his “maximum pressure” policy on Iran, which he said he did reluctantly, citing Iran’s efforts to develop a nuclear weapon.
Trump Signs Sweeping Executive Orders Pulling Out of Several UN Bodies
The Hill sets out Vance will travel to the Artificial Intelligence (AI) Action Summit in France and the Munich Security Conference in Germany, citing the Washington Post as a source. The announcement came after U.S. President Donald Trump hinted the European Union (EU) could be next to face tariffs, after he slapped 25 percent levies on goods from Mexico and Canada along with an additional 10 percent tax on imports from China.
JD Vance Bound for Europe in First Foreign Venture
The Israeli Prime Minister is the first world leader to visit the White House during Trump’s second term
What To Know About Trump’s Meeting With Netanyahu
Inside the chess game between Trump and the Mullahs.
The Islamic Republic’s Next Move
Executive order is reportedly aimed at 'driving Iran's oil exports to zero'
Trump To Restore 'Maximum Pressure' Campaign on Iran, Which Raked in $140 Billion During Period of Lax Sanctions Enforcement Under Biden
According to Le Figaro, this brings the total number of people with valid residence permits in the country to over 4.3 million, a new high for France. Migrants from Algeria, a former French colony, were the highest-represented group, with nearly 650,000 residence permits.
Legal Immigration Hits Record High in France as Populists Call for National Referendum
The U.S. is the WHO’s largest contributor, providing funding through both assessed contributions and voluntary donations.
'We must find ways to help ourselves if the US leaves': Kenya prepares for end to WHO funds after US leaves program
“No matter how large you are, you cannot control external events. However, you can position yourself to respond to them in the best possible way. That is what we can now achieve after leaving the EU.”
EU Negotiator Says Brexit Britain Better Placed to do Trump Deals Than ‘Slow EU.’
Trump’s Greenland concept was never absurd — it was strategic. On the grand chessboard of global power, geography is destiny. The Arctic, once a frozen afterthought, is now the front line of strategic competition and cooperation. At its heart lies Greenland — the world’s largest island, with immense untapped potential and irreplaceable geopolitical significance.
Ronald Lauder Op-ed: I’m a Greenland investor — these 3 paths can make it America’s next frontier
DEFENSE, MILITARY, SECURITY AFFAIRS
The U.S. carried out another strike on ISIS over the weekend in Africa.
Joint U.S.-Iraqi Operation Kills Multiple ISIS Terrorists In New Strike
DOMESTIC AFFAIRS, THE COURTS, WASTE/FRAUD/ABUSE
Thanks to Donald Trump and Elon Musk, the entire federal leviathan is undergoing a full MRI scan.
DOGE Walks Among Us
The improper payments underscore President Donald Trump’s vow to clean up the administrative state and his support of DOGE (Department of Government Efficiency) and of Elon Musk’s audit of the federal government to cut waste, fraud, and abuse.
Report: Biden Junta Made Improper Payments Totaling $236 Billion in 2023
This is Enron-level accounting, and we've been tolerating it for decades
Democrats Panic After Their Horrifying Money Laundering Scheme Was Revealed
The buyout window remains open until Thursday, so the final tally of acceptances is likely to increase. “We expect more to come. If you see what’s happening at USAID, it’s just one piece of the puzzle,” the unnamed official told Axios, referring to the radical overhaul of the United States Agency for International Development. USAID is being effectively dismantled and having its functions absorbed into the U.S. State Department. The Elon Musk-led Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) determined it was unsalvageable.
Trump ‘Buyout’ Offer Has Already Cut Federal Bureaucracy by 20,000.

HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE
The same group of politicians that have done nothing about the exploding obesity rate, our declining health, and chronic childhood diseases are defending Big Pharma while screaming at the guy who’s actually trying to reverse those trends.
Our Broken Healthcare System
ACTUAL SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY
SpaceX placed the entire Worldview constellation in orbit over three launches. The first stage on today’s launch completed its fourth flight, landing back at Cape Canaveral, while the rocket’s two fairing halves completed their 21st and 23rd flights respectively. This was also SpaceX’s second launch today.
SpaceX launches two high resolution Earth imaging reconnaissance satellites
Astronomers using Hubble identified eight visible rings, more than previously detected by any telescope in any galaxy, and confirmed a ninth using data from the W. M. Keck Observatory in Hawaii. Previous observations of other galaxies show a maximum of two or three rings.
Astronomers find galaxy with nine rings (Ballantine times3 - jjs)
FEMINAZISM, TRANSGENDER PSYCHOSIS, HOMOSEXUALIZATION, WAR ON MASCULINITY/NORMALCY
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“I probably will be primaried,” he admitted to CNN. “And that’s great. That just proves my point: you can’t speak a sentence that’s out of line and not get backlash from the left. But that’s OK. This is a democracy.” Well, I guess he changed his mind. Last month, when he had a chance to put his money where his mouth is, he chose his political career over the well-being of his own daughters. That's right: Moulton voted against the Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act, which bans biological males from competing in girls' school sports by amending the Education Amendments of 1972 to uphold that, under Title IX, sex is determined strictly by one's biology.
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1 thx JJ

Posted by: rhennigantx at February 05, 2025 07:30 AM (gbOdA)

2 Good morning horde!

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 05, 2025 07:30 AM (ExV1e)

3 first.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at February 05, 2025 07:31 AM (Rcnd3)

4 BOING!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 05, 2025 07:31 AM (CrtM/)

5 Wow- linkapalooza!

Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 05, 2025 07:32 AM (HmfFL)

6 I must've posted about 20 links today on Pixy's.

One last one.

Trump pull Pulitzer:

https://tinyurl.com/rm5er8m9

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 05, 2025 07:32 AM (CrtM/)

7 I guess it turns out that the Deep State's only superpower was having unfettered access to the public fisc to buy whatever thugs or fraudsters or bankers or senators it ever needed.

Girdle that tree and all they are is a loose confederation of j school dropouts and theater kids.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 05, 2025 07:33 AM (+iIV1)

8 Top 10! Go me!

Posted by: NR Pax at February 05, 2025 07:34 AM (OPGS/)

9 First of all. the notion of deploying US Troops here is insane.
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That's why I don't think it's gonna happen:

https://tinyurl.com/37nkk3ac

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 05, 2025 07:35 AM (CrtM/)

10 I must've posted about 20 links today on Pixy's.

One last one.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 05, 2025 07:32 AM (CrtM/)
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OK. I lied.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 05, 2025 07:36 AM (CrtM/)

11 The big problem with "taking" Gaza is the same thing that broke the British empire.

You make them us, and now you can't stop them from coming to live in us's home turf.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 05, 2025 07:36 AM (+iIV1)

12 Montana Supreme Court Declares State Constitutional Right to ‘Stable Climate System’

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Do you have to be a paid subscriber to read Front Page Mag? I don't recall having to do so before.

Posted by: Lady in Black at February 05, 2025 07:36 AM (qBdHI)

13 Another progressive court policy decision at war with separation of powers.

Forget "separation of powers", this is another progressive court policy decision at war with objective reality.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 05, 2025 07:37 AM (ExV1e)

14 U.S. troops in Gaza = QUAGMIRE!

Even if it is managed effectively and the rules of engagement are sane, I do not think it is necessary.

What needs to change is Israel's attitude toward Gaza. No more assumptions that the Gazan Arabs are redeemable...

They aren't.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 05, 2025 07:38 AM (g0MSz)

15 Willowed:

I would be open to having a Yiddish word-a-week AoSHq column.
Posted by: m at February 05, 2025 07:21 AM (v0TzN)

In my novels, Theda Bara speaks Yiddish,* so I have a couple of books with words and phrases. If this comes about, I'd be happy to contribute.

*Bara was a Jewess (born Theodosia Goodman), but I have never seen any evidence that she was a particularly observant one, let alone able to speak Yiddish.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at February 05, 2025 07:38 AM (Q0kLU)

16 I hope that Trump isn't serious about Gaza being a Riviera. IMHO, don't bulldoze it. Don't rebuild it.

Mark it as a monument to stupidity and hatred.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at February 05, 2025 07:39 AM (ZmEVT)

17 First of all. the notion of deploying US Troops here is insane.

Wisconsin?

Posted by: Thats's Weird at February 05, 2025 07:39 AM (WM79p)

18 The only relocation of Gazans that is acceptable would be a landfill for those 4 and older. Younger than that and there is a chance you can break the brainwashing.

I hope that he's joking about sending our people there and this is just a distraction from something else going on.

Posted by: NR Pax at February 05, 2025 07:39 AM (OPGS/)

19 10 I must've posted about 20 links today on Pixy's.

I have to save almost every link I see here for home since I can't follow url shortening sites.

Posted by: NR Pax at February 05, 2025 07:40 AM (OPGS/)

20 I like the idea of turning Gaza into a theme park. Dhimmiland. The flying camels and the Mad Mullah's Spinning Coffee Cups are bound to be popular rides.

Posted by: fd at February 05, 2025 07:40 AM (vFG9F)

21 Our beautiful and elegant First Lady:

https://tinyurl.com/3nk7ujvf

Posted by: bicentennialguy at February 05, 2025 07:40 AM (+K1xO)

22 What Elon (and Trump) are doing with USAID is absolutely perfect BECAUSE it's such a small portion of the budget.

They started with something so small BECAUSE they knew the Democrats would go all-in to defend it.

And because they have correctly exposed all budget line items that are so utterly insane that normies hear about it and their instant response is, 'WHAT the fuck did you say they're spending money on!?!?!'

These are things that any sane person knows should be instantly cut. They're indefensible.

AND YET THE DEMOCRATS ARE DEFENDING IT.

That's why its so perfect. Now, when they get on to the REAL meat of the cuts, on things that some normies might be against cutting, the response will be, 'The Democrats didn't want to stop sending condoms to Afghanistan, they won't support ANY cut at all, no matter how small'.

Because they've gone so insane all-in defending crap that CANNOT be defended to the normies, the normies will not trust them on ANY cut that's coming.

It's brilliant, and exactly what needs to be done.

Posted by: DudeAbiding at February 05, 2025 07:42 AM (setIA)

23 I think it is a ploy to engage the Gulf states. They don't want any more U.S. troops in the region, unless it is for the invasion of Iran. The ploy is to get them to act with respect to Gaza.

I hope.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 05, 2025 07:42 AM (g0MSz)

24 Trump mentioned relocation to show Gaza they are better off dealing with Israel than him. Trump mentioned it in that "well, off the top of my head, I'm thinking" way that always scares enemies b/c they don't know if he's serious or just brainstorming...

Trump has no intention of relocating anyone...his only intention is to get Israel the best peace and position for the future, and now Israel can be the "reasonable" one b/c Trump moved the Overton Window again...no one would have ever said "relocate" in the world...but now someone has, so it's a possible solution, worse than anything Israel would bring...

Posted by: Nova Local at February 05, 2025 07:42 AM (exHjb)

25 "Queers for Palestine", and any other "Western Lefties for Shari'ah Law" movement is based almost entirely out of a shared hate for Christianity, with shared Anti-semitism thrown in for flavor.

Posted by: XTC at February 05, 2025 07:44 AM (sm6Pk)

26 another progressive court policy decision at war with separation of powers:
Montana Supreme Court Declares State Constitutional Right to ‘Stable Climate System’

these people really are idiots. when was there ever a stable climate?

Posted by: gnats local 678 at February 05, 2025 07:45 AM (CWTWj)

27 I'm laughing at the idiots screaming over Elon opening the books to USAID.

USAID is supposed to be available for inspection by American citizens, which Elon is. Just because Elon is extraordinarily wealthy shouldn't matter.

But, obviously, USAID has something to hide. As does the US Treasury.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at February 05, 2025 07:45 AM (tT6L1)

28 Thanks again, J.J. Appreciate all your efforts.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at February 05, 2025 07:46 AM (tT6L1)

29 when was there ever a stable climate?

Posted by: gnats local 678 at February 05, 2025 07:45 AM (CWTWj)
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Surely there are lotsa horses in Montana!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 05, 2025 07:46 AM (CrtM/)

30 I can't stop smiling at the notion of these 20-something Musk protege DOGE wiz-kids walking into the warrens of the deep state and taking over their computers.

Posted by: Ordinary American at February 05, 2025 07:47 AM (UseAb)

31 Crockett of Texas told CNN host Laura Coates she was “tired” of “white tears” Monday night during a rant targeting President Donald Trump, Department of Government Efficiency chair Elon Musk and “mediocre white boys.”

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I'm already sick of seeing or hearing about the rantings of this crazy bitch.

Can we all just imagine, yet again, the mushroom cloud of an atomic bomb that would be sweeping the "news" cycle if some white House Rep had said, they're sick of "black tears" and "mediocre black boys." I think the cacophony of outrage would be so great, they would be asked to resign by the Speaker and have no other choice but to do so.

Posted by: Lady in Black at February 05, 2025 07:47 AM (qBdHI)

32 USAID’s funding initiatives, including $1.5M to advance DEI in Serbia’s workplaces, $70k for a production of a DEI musical in Ireland, $47k for a transgender opera in Colombia, and $32k to publish a transgender comic book in Peru.

Come se dice Nick Dick?

Posted by: rhennigantx at February 05, 2025 07:48 AM (gbOdA)

33 That's right: Moulton voted against the Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act, which bans biological males from competing in girls' school sports by amending the Education Amendments of 1972 to uphold that, under Title IX, sex is determined strictly by one's biology.

Of course he did. Moulton is the blowhard who ran for president for about five minutes, and his entire campaign was, "I hate Donald Trump! And also, I'm a combat vet and you can't criticize me!"

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at February 05, 2025 07:48 AM (Q0kLU)

34 Montana Supreme Court Declares State Constitutional Right to ‘Stable Climate System’

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What about the Constitutional Right to a Zero-Gravity Environment here on Earth?

Posted by: ShainS -- GONGOs (Government-Organized NGOs) were Coyotes for Criminal Cartels at February 05, 2025 07:49 AM (vAHT7)

35 20 I like the idea of turning Gaza into a theme park. Dhimmiland. The flying camels and the Mad Mullah's Spinning Coffee Cups are bound to be popular rides.
Posted by: fd at February 05, 2025 07:40 AM (vFG9F)

Gay Building Bungee(less) Jump

Posted by: rhennigantx at February 05, 2025 07:49 AM (gbOdA)

36 I keep thinking of the scene from MASH (the movie) when Hawkeye and Trapper John bust into the hospital in their golfing attire to take charge.

Posted by: Ordinary American at February 05, 2025 07:50 AM (UseAb)

37 Anyway, got about another hour of work to do. BBL.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at February 05, 2025 07:50 AM (Q0kLU)

38 Astronomers find galaxy with nine rings
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Ah, the Nazgul galaxy....

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 05, 2025 07:51 AM (7fElN)

39 At this year’s Davos summit, the WEF announced initiatives to fight “misinformation” via A.I.-driven moderation tools. Designed in collaboration with Big Tech juggernauts, these tools purport to encourage accuracy but have come under fire for lending voice and prominence to establishment narratives while silencing dissent.
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They aren't stopping.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 05, 2025 07:51 AM (Y3fp6)

40 Mornin', Horde.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 05, 2025 07:51 AM (+9U5w)

41 Jason Voorhees >John Voorhees

Posted by: PA Dutchman at February 05, 2025 07:51 AM (31p00)

42 Crockett of Texas told CNN host Laura Coates she was “tired” of “white tears” Monday night during a rant targeting President Donald Trump, Department of Government Efficiency chair Elon Musk and “mediocre white boys.”

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I mean, you can sort of understand it if you think about it for a bit. Pretty much every single good thing ever was created by white culture, and the cargo cult has been promoted to the top of the system and is looting the gold, waving chicken bones to ward off danger, and literally plagiarizing other works as their own in pursuit of opportunities to loot the gold.

That's our culture. Not hot sauce. Not silly music. Western Civilization. We invited you to participate, and you refused.

So yeah, the white guys have decided it was a bad idea and it's time to try to fix things after giving you a chance.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - You can only be a feminist in a 1st world patriarchy where men allow it at February 05, 2025 07:51 AM (i3fPW)

43 ... in that all the money, minus whatever was skimmed off the top to wet the beaks of the Democrats, went to a veritable rogues gallery of anti-American, anti-Western crackpot, terroristic thugocracies, kleptocrats and tyrants that have shed rivers o blood of their own people and us in the process.

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Not only skimmed off the top, but big chunks of it likely came back as foreign donations to the DNC and all manner of Commie Scum Political Campaigns (including a lot of State Propositions that are ruining the nation; my new State CongressCritter has drafted a bill banning Foreign Contributions to State Proposition Campaigns -- I wish it went further and banned Out-Of-State Money as well).

Posted by: ShainS -- GONGOs (Government-Organized NGOs) were Coyotes for Criminal Cartels at February 05, 2025 07:53 AM (vAHT7)

44 Democrats don't care about USAID, Treasury, etc. What they care about is their donors are screaming in their ears, telling them if this keeps on, they won't be able to donate to their campaigns.

I'm pretty sure it's happening on the GOPe side, too, but not nearly to the scale Democrats depend on.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at February 05, 2025 07:54 AM (tT6L1)

45 Trump has no intention of relocating anyone...his only intention is to get Israel the best peace and position for the future, and now Israel can be the "reasonable" one b/c Trump moved the Overton Window again...no one would have ever said "relocate" in the world...but now someone has, so it's a possible solution, worse than anything Israel would bring...
Posted by: Nova Local at February 05, 2025 07:42 AM (exHjb)
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We are also one of the few nations on the planet that has the resources to forcibly locate that many people. That's another reason why it's so believable.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 05, 2025 07:54 AM (7fElN)

46 I saw White Supremacists perform with Stevie Wonder in Englewood, Illinois in 1975. Hell of a show!

Posted by: Case at February 05, 2025 07:55 AM (NMZGW)

47 We invited you to participate, and you refused.
Posted by: Boron Cobbie - You can only be a feminist in a 1st world patriarchy where men allow it at February 05, 2025 07:51 AM (i3fPW)

More than that. We debased ourselves trying to make you feel loved and accepted.

Posted by: Ordinary American at February 05, 2025 07:56 AM (UseAb)

48 I saw White Supremacists perform with Stevie Wonder in Englewood, Illinois in 1975. Hell of a show!
Posted by: Case

Was it sponsored by Wonderbread? Because if not, what a waste.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at February 05, 2025 07:56 AM (mlg/3)

49 Not only skimmed off the top, but big chunks of it likely came back as foreign donations to the DNC and all manner of Commie Scum Political Campaigns (including a lot of State Propositions that are ruining the nation; my new State CongressCritter has drafted a bill banning Foreign Contributions to State Proposition Campaigns -- I wish it went further and banned Out-Of-State Money as well).
Posted by: ShainS
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In all that's happened, I haven't seen ActBlue mentioned yet. Assume that's coming with Bondi's confirmation.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at February 05, 2025 07:57 AM (Dm8we)

50
Major League Baseball Fires Umpire for Violating Gambling Rules

Hmmm. Sorta makes you wonder about those NFL call controversies, doesn't it.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at February 05, 2025 07:57 AM (0eaVi)

51 . . . Egyptian and Jordanian leaders have already rejected Trump’s request that they take in Gazans.

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Antarctica is nice this time of year.

Posted by: ShainS -- GONGOs (Government-Organized NGOs) were Coyotes for Criminal Cartels at February 05, 2025 07:57 AM (vAHT7)

52 I saw El Ricky open for DeBarge at The Southern Star Amphitheatre in Houston in 1985.

Posted by: The Rhythm Of The Night at February 05, 2025 07:57 AM (y7KuV)

53 Re: Gaza

Just realized it could be diaspora via buyout. Scatter the scum as it were.

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 05, 2025 07:58 AM (azCAX)

54 Am broken. Send flowers.

@RepMikeCollins 10h
I got laid off at USAID today. I was in charge of making the Taliban trans. Was really starting to make headway too.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at February 05, 2025 07:58 AM (mlg/3)

55 The only relocation of Gazans that is acceptable would be a landfill for those 4 and older. Younger than that and there is a chance you can break the brainwashing.

Mass execution of 5 year olds?

I guess I'm in the minority that finds this a little unnerving.

Posted by: Interesting at February 05, 2025 07:58 AM (WM79p)

56 We are also one of the few nations on the planet that has the resources to forcibly locate that many people. That's another reason why it's so believable.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 05, 2025 07:54 AM (7fElN)

I don't know, look at Ukrania , within months of war with Russia millions left on their own as soon as they were given legal residency status in places like Poland, Germany...Ireland. There are 1.7-1.8 arabs in Gaza. They can relocate to Jordan, Egypt and Indonesia within 6 months.

Posted by: runner at February 05, 2025 07:59 AM (g47mK)

57 Good morning JJ and horde

No Muslim country wants their relatives from Gaza

Posted by: Skip at February 05, 2025 07:59 AM (fwDg9)

58 47 I saw White Supremacists perform with Stevie Wonder in Englewood, Illinois in 1975.

It's a shame that Stevie didn't see it.

Posted by: NR Pax at February 05, 2025 08:00 AM (OPGS/)

59 46 Trump has no intention of relocating anyone...his only intention is to get Israel the best peace and position for the future, and now Israel can be the "reasonable" one b/c Trump moved the Overton Window again...no one would have ever said "relocate" in the world...but now someone has, so it's a possible solution, worse than anything Israel would bring...
Posted by: Nova Local at February 05, 2025 07:42 AM (exHjb)
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We are also one of the few nations on the planet that has the resources to forcibly locate that many people. That's another reason why it's so believable.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 05, 2025 07:54 AM (7fElN)

Well, it helps we are also showing the world that ability right now...

Posted by: Nova Local at February 05, 2025 08:00 AM (exHjb)

60 More than that. We debased ourselves trying to make you feel loved and accepted.
Posted by: Ordinary American

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+1

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - You can only be a feminist in a 1st world patriarchy where men allow it at February 05, 2025 08:01 AM (i3fPW)

61 Our beautiful and elegant First Lady:

https://tinyurl.com/3nk7ujvf

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Thank you for that! My G*d, she is so beautiful and stylish. That was a great little fashion montage.

Posted by: Lady in Black at February 05, 2025 08:01 AM (qBdHI)

62 58 Good morning JJ and horde

No Muslim country wants their relatives from Gaza
Posted by: Skip at February 05, 2025 07:59 AM (fwDg9)

That has been a continuing problem...

Posted by: Nova Local at February 05, 2025 08:02 AM (exHjb)

63 Instead of uncontrollable weather cycles, the Montana Supreme Court should focus on the important rights for Montanans, like those who will Fight For Their Constitutional Right to Party.

Posted by: Some Kind of Jerk at February 05, 2025 08:02 AM (AR19I)

64 58 Good morning JJ and horde

No Muslim country wants their relatives from Gaza
Posted by: Skip at February 05, 2025 07:59 AM (fwDg9

That seems to be true Skip… nobody but nobody wants them anywhere near them… dirt bag muslim trash people… they are not even Arabsm really..

Posted by: tubal at February 05, 2025 08:02 AM (PCK5/)

65 I guess I'm in the minority that finds this a little unnerving.

Posted by: Interesting at February 05, 2025 07:58 AM (WM79p)

It's disturbing. The problem is that Gazans need three generations possibly to return to some semblance of a sane culture.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 05, 2025 08:02 AM (g0MSz)

66 Yonder Horde

Trump had made comments before about renovating parts of the capitol city. Those were made during debates about a new FBI HQ and where it'd be located. He also made similar comments about NYC. So, redeveloping Gaza with some sort of "Miami on the Med" vision isn't out of character for him.

The opportunity is there for redevelopment. Trump's a developer. This checks out.

Whether it's a good idea is debatable.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 05, 2025 08:03 AM (Q4IgG)

67 What Elon (and Trump) are doing with USAID is absolutely perfect BECAUSE it's such a small portion of the budget.

It's all a mechanism that the left uses to fund the left. Killing it deprives them of a funding source.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 05, 2025 08:03 AM (ExV1e)

68 I expected President Trump was going to "flood the zone" so to speak when he started out.

I underestimated just how badly he was going to pummel DC.

Between the border, tariffs, DOGE, the FBI and DOJ, the swamp is really feeling the heat.

It is unreal what PDT has unleashed on DC. And it's glorious.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at February 05, 2025 08:03 AM (tT6L1)

69 The Moon has a stable climate system.

Posted by: SFGoth at February 05, 2025 08:03 AM (KAi1n)

70 We need DOGEball - the movie…

Posted by: tubal at February 05, 2025 08:04 AM (PCK5/)

71 In 2019, 35% of 4th graders scored at or above the test’s reading proficiency standard, but that figure dropped to 33% in 2022 and, further, to 31% in 2024. The percentage of fourth graders at “below basic” was the largest in 20 years, at 40%.

It will not happen but K-5 needs to end Science, Social Studies, and Art.

Just reading, writing, and math.

Posted by: rhennigantx at February 05, 2025 08:04 AM (gbOdA)

72 Good morning, J.J.
Good morning, Horde.

Posted by: Inogame at February 05, 2025 08:05 AM (53oGX)

73 It's disturbing. The problem is that Gazans need three generations possibly to return to some semblance of a sane culture.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 05, 2025 08:02 AM (g0MSz)
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Sadly, yes. The best option seems to remove them, isolate them, and reprogram them for at least 50-100 years.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 05, 2025 08:05 AM (7fElN)

74 Yesterday when Trump announced he was considering building a Riviera in Gaza, I was like holy smokes. Essentially I didn't know what to think of it.

Hours later I'm like. Is he crazy? Getting into that mess at that level of detail dilutes the reason he was elected and that was to reform the United States from top to bottom. Going balls to the walls on something as nutty as Gaza is going to distract him terribly. If he wants to fix something, let him go fix East Palestine first. That's his mandate. Not fixing Palestine Middle East.

If he wants to supply the leadership to get the Arab Nations actively fixing that shit hole, well, that's a different story. But committing the US to fixing that, he just bought us endless trouble. The muzzy's in that region have act like savages and I can't imagine they will suddenly become big fans of Felonious D and the Scalp Weasels no matter how many casinos he builds for them. For now, I think he's walking in into a disaster of his own making. I hope this proposal was big fat trial balloon to get people thinking about how to solve this and not an actual us policy commitment. Time will tell.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at February 05, 2025 08:05 AM (Q8Bj8)

75 That's our culture. Not hot sauce. Not silly music. Western Civilization. We invited you to participate, and you refused.

And the sad thing - well, not really - is that there was a thriving African culture centuries ago (just look up Mansa Musa, for example), but with that civilization's collapse and the pernicious hold of Islam, Africa has nothing to contribute and is reduced to the sorry spectacle of shuck and jivers like Al Sharpton screaming that Cleopatra was black and that "those Greek homos" stole their society and culture from Africa.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at February 05, 2025 08:06 AM (Q0kLU)

76 That's our culture. Not hot sauce. Not silly music. Western Civilization. We invited you to participate, and you refused.
So yeah, the white guys have decided it was a bad idea and it's time to try to fix things after giving you a chance.
Posted by: Boron Cobbie - You can only be a feminist in a 1st world patriarchy where men allow it at February 05, 2025 07:51 AM (i3fPW)

Many years ago a liberal talk jock, who was pissed at all the rioting in whatever city it was at the time, asked his listeners to name one place or city made better by black folks moving there. Just One Place Or City.
Crickets.

Posted by: Neil Rogers WIOD Talk Radio at February 05, 2025 08:06 AM (y7KuV)

77 The Moon has a stable climate system.
Posted by: SFGoth at February 05, 2025 08:03 AM (KAi1n)

So does Mars, but it ain't the kind of place to raise your kids.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at February 05, 2025 08:06 AM (0eaVi)

78 I'm laughing at the idiots screaming over Elon opening the books to USAID.

From one of Biden's dog's link in the tech thread...

BREAKING: Amazon Prime cancels Rings of Power Season 3 after USAID grant funding for “Increased Racial Diversity and LGBT Representation among the Peoples of Middle Earth” gets axed by @DOGE

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 05, 2025 08:06 AM (ExV1e)

79 In 2019, 35% of 4th graders scored at or above the test’s reading proficiency standard, but that figure dropped to 33% in 2022 and, further, to 31% in 2024. The percentage of fourth graders at “below basic” was the largest in 20 years, at 40%.

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The clear answer is to increase funding to those responsible. Duh.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - You can only be a feminist in a 1st world patriarchy where men allow it at February 05, 2025 08:07 AM (i3fPW)

80 It is unreal what PDT has unleashed on DC. And it's glorious.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at February 05, 2025 08:03 AM (tT6L1)

But we cannot let up. Boot on neck, twist.

Posted by: Ordinary American at February 05, 2025 08:07 AM (UseAb)

81 No to any US personal to Gaza other than to help bomb them back to primordial earth

And think a few Jan6 Ralliers are still being held hostage, and 1 in Canada.

Posted by: Skip at February 05, 2025 08:07 AM (fwDg9)

82 . Just One Place Or City. Crickets.

Bet he got fired for that as well.

Posted by: NR Pax at February 05, 2025 08:07 AM (OPGS/)

83 Trump hasn't seen it from the angle of having a barrel shoved into his face or having his arms pinned as they slit his throat after watching Meliana getting raped.

Posted by: Tulsi at February 05, 2025 08:08 AM (QB+5g)

84 79 I'm laughing at the idiots screaming over Elon opening the books to USAID.

From one of Biden's dog's link in the tech thread...

BREAKING: Amazon Prime cancels Rings of Power Season 3 after USAID grant funding for “Increased Racial Diversity and LGBT Representation among the Peoples of Middle Earth” gets axed by @DOGE
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 05, 2025 08:06 AM (ExV1e)

I think this one was a joke...but isn't it funny we can't tell?

Posted by: Nova Local at February 05, 2025 08:09 AM (exHjb)

85 No to any US personal to Gaza other than to help bomb them back to primordial earth

So just to do the dirty work, if I understand correctly?

Posted by: Interesting at February 05, 2025 08:09 AM (WM79p)

86 Hmmm. Sorta makes you wonder about those NFL call controversies, doesn't it.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at February 05, 2025 07:57 AM (0eaVi)

I have been assured by numerous KC fans that all referee calls in the NFL are legit.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 05, 2025 08:10 AM (ExV1e)

87 Living in the metro Detroit area,my perception of "relocating" people of Gaza might be a little different. Many ( if not most) Arabs adapt, some even assimilate, but not all. Rashid Talieb has not-and may never. She calls herself a Palestinian, and is 100% angry 100% of the time. It turns the population of Dearborn off. The people of Dearborn WANT safe streets, good schools, etc. and so are looking to republicans when they vote. The realize that the dnc has failed them. And they do not want social unrest-which is what Rasid aadvocates .

Posted by: Chillin the most at February 05, 2025 08:10 AM (5r2Iw)

88 It is unreal what PDT has unleashed on DC. And it's glorious.

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I don't want the dream to end either. I want The Unleashening to be so thorough, and so embedded through legislation that the next Dem president (ugh, the thought already makes me sick) can't EO it all away.

Right now, they are like swarming hornets and Trump is beating their hives with a stick. Their anger needle is ratcheted up so far, the glass is broken on the dial. When they get back in, unholy hell is going to be descending on us.

Posted by: Lady in Black at February 05, 2025 08:11 AM (qBdHI)

89 Today is National Pork Rind Day.

Posted by: redridinghood at February 05, 2025 08:12 AM (NpAcC)

90 We need DOGEball - the movie…
Posted by: tubal

The sad thing is that when that movie is allowed to be made we will no longer be speaking english. ... ok, i'm just being pessimistic, but still~!

Posted by: weft cut-loop at February 05, 2025 08:12 AM (mlg/3)

91 72 In 2019, 35% of 4th graders scored at or above the test’s reading proficiency standard, but that figure dropped to 33% in 2022 and, further, to 31% in 2024. The percentage of fourth graders at “below basic” was the largest in 20 years, at 40%.
It will not happen but K-5 needs to end Science, Social Studies, and Art.
Just reading, writing, and math.
Posted by: rhennigantx at February 05, 2025 08:04 AM (gbOdA)

I actually disagree...a better change is to get kids always learning something every day. As their brain continues to learn, those slow to reading tend to pick it up without ever going through the "I can't do this, I hate this" phase...

Rote book learning, especially to a boy, at 5-6 who can't read, is toxic. My last couldn't read til 7 (when his sis's read at 3) - instead, he learned tons of nature, tons of sports, math facts, fine motor skills his sis's didn't have, etc...while getting mom to read harder things and videos/audios to learn. It kept his frustration down and now he's another highly skilled kid...

It's hard in a classroom to accommodate the kid who picks up reading skills slower...but getting rid of the variety won't make it go faster...

Posted by: Nova Local at February 05, 2025 08:14 AM (exHjb)

92 Bring back Cursive…

Posted by: tubal at February 05, 2025 08:15 AM (PCK5/)

93 I noticed Trump was wearing a blue tie and Netanyahu was wearing a red tie yesterday. Was that intentional?

Posted by: dantesed at February 05, 2025 08:15 AM (Oy/m2)

94 And the sad thing - well, not really - is that there was a thriving African culture centuries ago (just look up Mansa Musa, for example)

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Ha. Yep. Wealth gained by enslaving his fellow Wakandans.

I believe it was William Durant who pointed out (paraphrased) "Slavery creates war, and war creates slaves."

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - You can only be a feminist in a 1st world patriarchy where men allow it at February 05, 2025 08:15 AM (i3fPW)

95 > Today is National Pork Rind Day.
Posted by: redridinghood
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It's also National Weatherperson's Day. But I'm more inclined to celebrate pork rinds.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 05, 2025 08:16 AM (Q4IgG)

96 Saudi has a very good de-radicalization program. They've been doing it for 20 years. By very good , I meant about 10% go back to their bad ways.

https://tinyurl.com/vrmt2avw

Posted by: runner at February 05, 2025 08:16 AM (g47mK)

97 96 > Today is National Pork Rind Day.
Posted by: redridinghood
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It's also National Weatherperson's Day. But I'm more inclined to celebrate pork rinds.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 05, 2025 08:16 AM (Q4IgG)

Not even Albanian ad Mexican weather girls ?..

Posted by: tubal at February 05, 2025 08:17 AM (PCK5/)

98 that article is 10 years old, but if you look at where Saudi is today compared to 25 years ago...they probably did achieve something

Posted by: runner at February 05, 2025 08:18 AM (g47mK)

99 DOGE is cutting and saving money with a chainsaw.
So when it comes to the Republicans in the House supporting Trump's Big Beautiful Bill they all better vote in favor of it or they all need to be primaried.
Looking at you, Chip Roy.

Posted by: redridinghood at February 05, 2025 08:18 AM (NpAcC)

100 Hmmm. Sorta makes you wonder about those NFL call controversies, doesn't it.
Posted by: OrangeEnt

No. If you want to hide gambling calls by refs, people would ficus on the beginning/ middle of the game. Make calla then so the spotlight on calls at the end is avoided.

Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at February 05, 2025 08:19 AM (FxH7T)

101 Any religion that requires bloodshed as a major tenet of its’ adherents make shitty neighbors…

Posted by: tubal at February 05, 2025 08:19 AM (PCK5/)

102 Right now, they are like swarming hornets and Trump is beating their hives with a stick. Their anger needle is ratcheted up so far, the glass is broken on the dial. When they get back in, unholy hell is going to be descending on us.
Posted by: Lady in Black at February 05, 2025 08:11 AM (qBdHI)

Emotionally and practically, they have nowhere to turn other than to chaos and violence. But they haven't the wits, organization or moral force to not further expose themselves and disintegrate in the process. They are stuck in a self-destruction loop. Sooner or later the usual idiots and cowards in the GOP will throw them a lifeline.

Posted by: Ordinary American at February 05, 2025 08:20 AM (UseAb)

103 90 Today is National Pork Rind Day.
Posted by: redridinghood at February 05, 2025 08:12 AM (NpAcC)

Mas cicerones por favor

Posted by: rhennigantx at February 05, 2025 08:20 AM (gbOdA)

104 Morning JJ. Always love the Soylent green quotes. Also agree that US boots on the ground in Middle East goes against Trump's doctrine that he ran on.

Posted by: Jonah at February 05, 2025 08:21 AM (YCxFk)

105 It's also National Weatherperson's Day. But I'm more inclined to celebrate pork rinds.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 05, 2025 08:16 AM (Q4IgG)

Video of one of the finest weatherpersons we've heard of.

https://youtu.be/yJGC6Oar-uc

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 05, 2025 08:22 AM (ExV1e)

106 It's also National Weatherperson's Day. But I'm more inclined to celebrate pork rinds.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 05, 2025 08:16 AM (Q4IgG)
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It's also, World Nutella Day.

Posted by: redridinghood at February 05, 2025 08:22 AM (NpAcC)

107 106 Morning JJ. Always love the Soylent green quotes. Also agree that US boots on the ground in Middle East goes against Trump's doctrine that he ran on.
Posted by: Jonah at February 05, 2025 08:21 AM (YCxFk)

I do not think that anyone here at the HQ thinks he is seriously considering putting troops in Gaza… that’s a ploy..

Posted by: tubal at February 05, 2025 08:23 AM (PCK5/)

108 106 Morning JJ. Always love the Soylent green quotes. Also agree that US boots on the ground in Middle East goes against Trump's doctrine that he ran on.
Posted by: Jonah at February 05, 2025 08:21 AM (YCxFk)

"You blew it up! Ah, damn you! God damn you all to hell!"

Posted by: rhennigantx at February 05, 2025 08:23 AM (gbOdA)

109 Good morning JJS. You mentioned Ballantine and it's 3 rings. The Ballantine Mansion in Newark, NJ is well worth seeing. It is attached to the Newark Art Museum and both are worth a look.

Posted by: Not The Art Thread at February 05, 2025 08:24 AM (G5+As)

110 98 96 > Today is National Pork Rind Day.
Posted by: redridinghood
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It's also National Weatherperson's Day. But I'm more inclined to celebrate pork rinds.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 05, 2025 08:16 AM (Q4IgG)

Not even Albanian ad Mexican weather girls ?..
Posted by: tubal at February 05, 2025 08:17 AM (PCK5/)
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Those too... but reality says I can get pork rinds.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 05, 2025 08:24 AM (Q4IgG)

111 106 Morning JJ. Always love the Soylent green quotes. Also agree that US boots on the ground in Middle East goes against Trump's doctrine that he ran on.
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Much like Greenland, Palestine is but a negotiating strategy. This is Trump. Its what he does.

Posted by: Pudinhead at February 05, 2025 08:24 AM (Wg6v7)

112 Reagan did the same thing. He came in and whacked the Soviet hornets nests, when IKE, JFK, LBJ, Nixon, Ford, and Carter were too timid. Results in the wall going down

Posted by: Jonah at February 05, 2025 08:24 AM (YCxFk)

113 That top story is just beautiful.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at February 05, 2025 08:25 AM (lTGtQ)

114 105 90 Today is National Pork Rind Day.
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Pork Rinds is good food.

Posted by: Pudinhead at February 05, 2025 08:25 AM (Wg6v7)

115 Good morning dear morons and happy birthday JJ

Dear President Trump,

Re: Gaza. Please remove your head from your ass.

Love, Franpsycho

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 05, 2025 08:25 AM (RIvkX)

116 'Planet of the Apes' is a Twilight Zone episode.

Posted by: dantesed at February 05, 2025 08:25 AM (Oy/m2)

117 113. Agree. We cannot allow Gaza to repeat itself every 10 years, especially if Israel ever gets a leftist gubmint again

Posted by: Jonah at February 05, 2025 08:25 AM (YCxFk)

118 I do not think that anyone here at the HQ thinks he is seriously considering putting troops in Gaza… that’s a ploy..
Posted by: tubal at February 05, 2025 08:23 AM (PCK5/)

Right. Just like invading Panama or occupying Greenland. But his words really get people moving and thinking. And they're never quite sure. It's his great skill, one of them.

Posted by: Ordinary American at February 05, 2025 08:25 AM (UseAb)

119 Agree with your analysis about troops in Israel, etc. No!

However, Trump is up to something behind the scenes. Stay tuned.

Posted by: Danimal28 at February 05, 2025 08:26 AM (1E4GV)

120 Morning.

Since the topic of education has been brought up, a couple of thoughts from here in Fairfax County, VA.

The public school system (FCPS) sucks mightily. How much? The superintendent, one Michelle Reid, came from a background of being more interested in kids masking up for covid than the schools actual mission. The FCPS interviewed her as a replacement t along with several others, but it was clear it was just a formality.

She's a disaster.

This is a pretty large and, I hate say wealthy community. Reid has addressed subpar student performance by lowering academic standards so more kids pass. She fought Gov Youngkin's orders to stop grooming kids in school. She's taken every opportunity to use county comms to preach messages such as anti-gun comments.

Frankly, while I agree that a well rounded elementary education is ideal, first strip in the affluent county continuing to turn out subpar students who are laughed at by college admissions boards is to, indeed, limit and improve the reading, writing, math and stop teaching everything else.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at February 05, 2025 08:26 AM (ld07g)

121 Anonymous Conservative: “I do not think this next one is negotiation. I think Netanyahu tried to pressure Trump into relocating the Gazans, cleaning up the explosives, and redeveloping the land so Israel could take it over, get the gas reserves under it and make a shipping channel to compete with the Suez Canal, and pissed Trump off. So Trump waited until this news conference and just announced there the US would take possession of Gaza, probably figuring we can establish a port there for the Navy, some listening posts, maybe even to monitor the Israelis, and a base to allow us to operate in the region. Netanyahu does not look pleased:”

https://is.gd/25K4LU

Posted by: Taq, Rickrolled by Jesus at February 05, 2025 08:26 AM (8XYYe)

122 When they get back in, unholy hell is going to be descending on us.

Which will make the difference more apparent and get them pushed out again faster. Eventually the American people will either decide that they're tired of being ripped off and make a permanent fix or say yolo and ride the crash into the ground.

Either way, the system that was shall burn. As it must.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 05, 2025 08:27 AM (ExV1e)

123 120 I do not think that anyone here at the HQ thinks he is seriously considering putting troops in Gaza… that’s a ploy..

Hi everyone! anyway yeah I don't think we're to take this literally.

there were shots of Mr Netanyahu's face during this and he did not look happy.

anyway I reserver judgment on this. let's see how it plays out. at least it's definitely a different tack!

Posted by: Black Orchid at February 05, 2025 08:27 AM (Pv3Rg)

124 Trump Part Deux… YOLO!!!

Posted by: tubal at February 05, 2025 08:27 AM (PCK5/)

125 111 Good morning JJS. You mentioned Ballantine and it's 3 rings. The Ballantine Mansion in Newark, NJ is well worth seeing. It is attached to the Newark Art Museum and both are worth a look.
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The Art museum has one of the largest collections of Hudson Valley paintings. The problem is that it is in Newark.

Posted by: Pudinhead at February 05, 2025 08:27 AM (Wg6v7)

126 and then there were 11. Bondi and Collins confirmed.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at February 05, 2025 08:28 AM (aD39U)

127 Under the radar but extremely important. Vance going to Paris for high profile AI conference. Signal that JD will not be a worthless schlep like Kamel and Pence

Posted by: Jonah at February 05, 2025 08:28 AM (YCxFk)

128 I believe it was William Durant who pointed out (paraphrased) "Slavery creates war, and war creates slaves."
Posted by: Boron Cobbie - You can only be a feminist in a 1st world patriarchy where men allow it at February 05, 2025 08:15 AM (i3fPW)

You've reminded me that I have the full Durant series, which I have never read all the way through. Perhaps that will be a project when I have finished my book.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at February 05, 2025 08:28 AM (Q0kLU)

129 "White tears"
I heard her say
In a molten rage
She's insane
With the
"White tears"
Go home

Posted by: It's A Beautiful Day at February 05, 2025 08:28 AM (vFG9F)

130 ugh my typing, sorry!

anyway all I want is Patel and RFK confirmed - Tulsi would be a wonderful bonus! - I called Fetterman even re: RFK! I am trying

we (the vaccine injured) need help. SOON.

Posted by: Black Orchid at February 05, 2025 08:28 AM (Pv3Rg)

131 Frankly, while I agree that a well rounded elementary education is ideal, first strip in the affluent county continuing to turn out subpar students who are laughed at by college admissions boards is to, indeed, limit and improve the reading, writing, math and stop teaching everything else.
Posted by: WitchDoktor

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Imagine $8000 or so per student (that's probably a low amount), and the schools and teachers compete for the students/$$$, and kids who know they aren't going to college can go to trade school for HVAC or car repair instead of wasting time in what is now little more than a job creation program for teachers and administrators.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - You can only be a feminist in a 1st world patriarchy where men allow it at February 05, 2025 08:29 AM (i3fPW)

132 128. Turner at HUD today, Patel next week along with RFK and Tulsi

Posted by: Jonah at February 05, 2025 08:29 AM (YCxFk)

133 More like U.S. Agency of International Development Scam. We need to get rid of USAIDS!

Posted by: Cray Cray at February 05, 2025 08:29 AM (KwfOF)

134 Montana Supreme Court Declares State Constitutional Right to ‘Stable Climate System’
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What does Stable Climate System even mean? More like right to Keep Lawyers in Mansions.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at February 05, 2025 08:29 AM (Dv3i1)

135 90 Today is National Pork Rind Day.
Posted by: redridinghood

Part of the Bibi-Trump Summit concerned the introduction of Kosher Pork Rinds. Using AI And GMO, this is now possible. Look for the White House announcement later today!

Posted by: Rabbi Seligman at February 05, 2025 08:30 AM (G5+As)

136 You've reminded me that I have the full Durant series, which I have never read all the way through. Perhaps that will be a project when I have finished my book.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at February 05, 2025 08:28 AM (Q0kLU)

I only have the first nine volumes. Read a couple of them so far.

Posted by: dantesed at February 05, 2025 08:30 AM (Oy/m2)

137 50 Judicial Vacancies for Trump to appoint also. Including a Appeals court slot on the First Circuit (Boston). Only A Court with no GOP Judges

Posted by: Jonah at February 05, 2025 08:31 AM (YCxFk)

138 Frankly, while I agree that a well rounded elementary education is ideal, first strip in the affluent county continuing to turn out subpar students who are laughed at by college admissions boards is to, indeed, limit and improve the reading, writing, math and stop teaching everything else.
Posted by: WitchDoktor at February 05, 2025 08:26 AM (ld07g)

Oh, I'm aware of the county...the problem is what is taught is not worth teaching. No one cares about pronouns and sex and diversity r us. That's the time wasting when in school. Not to mention dealing with all the non-English speakers and discipline problems. Regular kids are ignored.

There's a reason no one goes to public school if they can help it, even here. Even hard left parents. It's the most diverse politically homeschooling community you'll see b/c no one with regular kids is happy.

Posted by: Nova Local at February 05, 2025 08:31 AM (exHjb)

139 136 Montana Supreme Court Declares State Constitutional Right to ‘Stable Climate System’
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What does Stable Climate System even mean? More like right to Keep Lawyers in Mansions.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at February 05, 2025 08:29 AM (Dv3i1)

That’s Greenie bullshit gibberish… the words are simply empty totems to flaunt before the cultists…

Posted by: tubal at February 05, 2025 08:31 AM (PCK5/)

140 One of the head, Qatari negotiators is on with Kilmeade right now and he’s very gracious . he’s welcoming all of the ideas including the United States on what to do with Gaza and that it’s just too early right now to have any specific plans for post war Gaza. also said that what happens with Gaza is going to take an international coalition, one country cannot do it alone. Did not shoot down Trump‘s idea at all, rather says they’re in phase one of negotiations and everything needs to be taken one step at a time.

Posted by: Jen the original at February 05, 2025 08:31 AM (wmyyC)

141 I think next challenging one will be Linda McMahon. Not that she will not be confirmed, but that the committee Ds will be acting stupidly. Again.

Posted by: runner at February 05, 2025 08:31 AM (g47mK)

142 What does Stable Climate System even mean? More like right to Keep Lawyers in Mansions.
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So how does the State Government stabilize the climate? Are we talking tropical beaches with hot chicks here?

Posted by: Pudinhead at February 05, 2025 08:31 AM (Wg6v7)

143 135 More like U.S. Agency of International Development Scam. We need to get rid of USAIDS!
Posted by: Cray Cray at February 05, 2025 08:29 AM (KwfOF)

No Fauci please!

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 05, 2025 08:31 AM (x0n13)

144 You've reminded me that I have the full Durant series, which I have never read all the way through. Perhaps that will be a project when I have finished my book.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing

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It took me a few years but I eventually made it through mine. I'm shocked at how well presented and accessible he makes everything while still having such a solid grasp of the topic and an ability to keep you engaged.

I have always thought the first book was the best, maybe because it introduces you to his ability as a writer, philosopher, comedian, etc., all while teaching you the subject.

It's worth the time.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - You can only be a feminist in a 1st world patriarchy where men allow it at February 05, 2025 08:32 AM (i3fPW)

145 It’s actually not that hard to get people to move out of Gaza - just stop sending food in, and tell them their food is over here if they want to go get it. Eliminating UNWRA is key to this.

Posted by: Tom Servo at February 05, 2025 08:32 AM (Md44Z)

146 Morning everyone, thx JJ.
Watching the Dems mewl , whine , scream and gnash their teeth, I'm reminded of Flounder

Oh boy , is this great

Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 05, 2025 08:32 AM (U/Wlk)

147 Imagine $8000 or so per student (that's probably a low amount), and the schools and teachers compete for the students/$$$, and kids who know they aren't going to college can go to trade school for HVAC or car repair instead of wasting time in what is now little more than a job creation program for teachers and administrators.
Posted by: Boron Cobbie - You can only be a feminist in a 1st world patriarchy where men allow it at February 05, 2025 08:29 AM (i3fPW)

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Running the numbers about a year ago, school vouchers in the amount of the avg cost/student puts private school within the reach of a lot of people....

Posted by: WitchDoktor at February 05, 2025 08:32 AM (cBhy9)

148 128 and then there were 11. Bondi and Collins confirmed.
Posted by: Grump928(C) at February 05, 2025 08:28 AM (aD39U)

Who/what positions are left?

Posted by: A dude in MI at February 05, 2025 08:33 AM (/6GbT)

149 Part of the Bibi-Trump Summit concerned the introduction of Kosher Pork Rinds. Using AI And GMO, this is now possible. Look for the White House announcement later today!
Posted by: Rabbi Seligman at February 05, 2025 08:30 AM (G5+As)
******
LOL

Posted by: redridinghood at February 05, 2025 08:33 AM (NpAcC)

150 G-d bless DeSantis. I hope he has been sufficiently hardened due to the globalist GOP assholes who incorrectly led him to run against Trump. I always suspected his half-heartedness in the campaign was his instincts telling him he was being used.

The GOP in Texas and Florida are an abomination.

Posted by: Danimal28 at February 05, 2025 08:33 AM (1E4GV)

151 Let me recommend sitting down with a notebook when you do read them and taking notes. Nothing exhaustive, just penciling down interesting points. It makes finding information easier in the future if you're looking for it.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - You can only be a feminist in a 1st world patriarchy where men allow it at February 05, 2025 08:33 AM (i3fPW)

152 I wonder if Axios has gotten any of that sweet USAID money?

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at February 05, 2025 08:33 AM (Vh9CX)

153 It's disturbing. The problem is that Gazans need three generations possibly to return to some semblance of a sane culture.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 05, 2025 08:02 AM (g0MSz)
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Sadly, yes. The best option seems to remove them, isolate them, and reprogram them for at least 50-100 years.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 05, 2025 08:05 AM (7fElN)
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Dervishes but dancing in the opposite direction.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 05, 2025 08:34 AM (CrtM/)

154 Judicial Watch announced today that a federal court ordered the Department of Justice to provide information on communications between Special Counsel Jack Smith and District Attorney Fani Willis regarding the prosecution of then-former President Donald Trump.

popcorn needed

Posted by: rhennigantx at February 05, 2025 08:34 AM (gbOdA)

155 Last Summer, TCM had Soylent Green, and Pacino's first big role from 1971, called Panic at Needle Park. Back to Back. As a Film buff, always liked the early 70's urban decay flicks

Posted by: Jonah at February 05, 2025 08:34 AM (YCxFk)

156 The GOP in Texas and Florida are an abomination.
Posted by: Danimal28 at February 05, 2025 08:33 AM (1E4GV)

Texas has a Bush problem.

Posted by: rhennigantx at February 05, 2025 08:35 AM (gbOdA)

157 Waste Management Corp. announces deployment of roll-off dumpsters to every DC government building. This is to facilitate the removal of Pride flags, rainbow banners, and transgender comic books.

Posted by: In The Dumps at February 05, 2025 08:35 AM (G5+As)

158 Mornin’, All. Happy Wednesday.

Posted by: Bulg at February 05, 2025 08:35 AM (77rzZ)

159 The GOP ~~in Texas and Florida~~ are an abomination.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 05, 2025 08:35 AM (ExV1e)

160 157 Last Summer, TCM had Soylent Green, and Pacino's first big role from 1971, called Panic at Needle Park. Back to Back. As a Film buff, always liked the early 70's urban decay flicks
Posted by: Jonah at February 05, 2025 08:34 AM (YCxFk)

Do you like Midnight Cowboy?? That’s a great movie, IMO..

Posted by: tubal at February 05, 2025 08:36 AM (PCK5/)

161 The Dem’s meltdown is astounding - especially in that they can’t see how popular the things Musk and Trump are doing!

Posted by: Tom Servo at February 05, 2025 08:36 AM (Md44Z)

162 It will take 3 or 4 generations to get hamasholes to love their children more than they hate Jews.

Posted by: rhennigantx at February 05, 2025 08:36 AM (gbOdA)

163 157 Last Summer, TCM had Soylent Green, and Pacino's first big role from 1971, called Panic at Needle Park. Back to Back. As a Film buff, always liked the early 70's urban decay flicks
Posted by: Jonah

Don't need to watch it, I lived it!

Posted by: Fort Apache, Da Bronx at February 05, 2025 08:37 AM (G5+As)

164 Bring back Cursive…

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Big Print won't let it happen. Cursive must've taken a back seat to Intro to Racist America classes somewhere along the way.

I taught my own kid how to cursive write way back when because I couldn't believe schools no longer taught it.

Posted by: Lady in Black at February 05, 2025 08:37 AM (qBdHI)

165 There's a reason no one goes to public school if they can help it, even here. Even hard left parents. It's the most diverse politically homeschooling community you'll see b/c no one with regular kids is happy.
Posted by: Nova Local at February 05, 2025 08:31 AM (exHjb)

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What's one of the core factors for parents to consider when moving to a new area?

Shit, even FCPS high school graduation ceremonies are a disaster.

It's an indictment when the people in southern VA who are so looked down upon by Fairfax, Arlington, etc are turning out exponentially better graduates...

Posted by: WitchDoktor at February 05, 2025 08:37 AM (cBhy9)

166 Today is National Pork Rind Day.
Posted by: redridinghood

Part of the Bibi-Trump Summit concerned the introduction of Kosher Pork Rinds. Using AI And GMO, this is now possible. Look for the White House announcement later today!
Posted by: Rabbi Seligman at February 05, 2025 08:30 AM (G5+As)
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Help me, Bobby Kennedy. You're my only hope!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 05, 2025 08:37 AM (CrtM/)

167 Trump likes to think in a grand scope and sees no problem as unsolvable. Solving the eternally confounding Gaza issue appeals to him. He isn't thinking about it in military invasion terms, but in epic real estate development and humanitarian terms.

Posted by: Ordinary American at February 05, 2025 08:37 AM (UseAb)

168 It's also National Weatherperson's Day. But I'm more inclined to celebrate pork rinds.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 05, 2025 08:16 AM

I would celebrate both if Yanet Garcia were to offer me a pork rind.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 05, 2025 08:38 AM (+QlJh)

169 On the 15th day of Trumpmas
Donald gave to me
MAGAzalago country

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at February 05, 2025 08:39 AM (J5RCE)

170 Hello! I know this is kinda off topic but I'd figured I'd ask.
Would you be interested in exchanging links
or maybe guest authoring a blog article or vice-versa?
My website discusses a lot of the same subjects as yours and I believe we could greatly benefit from each other.
If you might be interested feel free to send me an email.
I look forward to hearing from you! Great blog by the way!

Posted by: Source at February 05, 2025 08:39 AM (PFhAg)

171 167 Bring back Cursive…

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Big Print won't let it happen. Cursive must've taken a back seat to Intro to Racist America classes somewhere along the way.

I taught my own kid how to cursive write way back when because I couldn't believe schools no longer taught it.
Posted by: Lady in Black at February 05, 2025 08:37 AM (qBdHI)

Cursive is likely the only reason I have any fine motor movement control… its’ benefits are really many..

Posted by: tubal at February 05, 2025 08:39 AM (PCK5/)

172 Mass execution of 5 year olds?

I guess I'm in the minority that finds this a little unnerving.

Posted by: Interesting at February 05, 2025 07:58 AM (WM79p)
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Have you ever seen the schoolbooks used to poison the minds of Gazan 5, 6, or 7 year olds?

You should. You paid for them.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 05, 2025 08:39 AM (RIvkX)

173 When they get back in, unholy hell is going to be descending on us.

Which will make the difference more apparent and get them pushed out again faster. Eventually the American people will either decide that they're tired of being ripped off and make a permanent fix or say yolo and ride the crash into the ground.

Either way, the system that was shall burn. As it must.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 05, 2025 08:27 AM (ExV1e)
*****
When they get back in we'll have a 51st and 52nd state... and it won't be Canada.

Posted by: redridinghood at February 05, 2025 08:40 AM (NpAcC)

174 Last Summer, TCM had Soylent Green, and Pacino's first big role from 1971, called Panic at Needle Park. Back to Back. As a Film buff, always liked the early 70's urban decay flicks

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Looking for Mr. Goodbar is pretty urban decay. I'd throw Midnight Cowboy in there as well.

Posted by: Lady in Black at February 05, 2025 08:40 AM (qBdHI)

175 We just need to take the steps needed to make sure they never get the Resolute Desk ever again…

Posted by: tubal at February 05, 2025 08:41 AM (PCK5/)

176 Do you like Midnight Cowboy?? That’s a great movie, IMO..
Posted by: tubal

So very depressing though.

Posted by: Tuna at February 05, 2025 08:41 AM (oaGWv)

177 “ I have not spoken in secret, from somewhere in a land of darkness; I have not said to Jacob’s descendants, ‘Seek me in vain.’ I, the Lord, speak the truth; I declare what is right.”

Isaiah 45:19

Posted by: Marcus T at February 05, 2025 08:42 AM (hMp8v)

178 The moon figures heavily in islamic iconography, why not send the pallies there? They'll feel right at home.

Posted by: Josephistan at February 05, 2025 08:42 AM (3+WKi)

179 179 Do you like Midnight Cowboy?? That’s a great movie, IMO..
Posted by: tubal

So very depressing though.
Posted by: Tuna at February 05, 2025 08:41 AM (oaGWv)

Yes. But I think it is truly a window into a world that people could benefit from seeing, if only once.

Posted by: tubal at February 05, 2025 08:43 AM (PCK5/)

180 I Meme Therefore I Am
@ImMeme0
This alone is reason enough to abolish the Department of Education.

https://tinyurl.com/bdf8eb6u

Posted by: redridinghood at February 05, 2025 08:43 AM (NpAcC)

181 If Satan ran an agency, it would be USAID.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at February 05, 2025 08:43 AM (BpOSm)

182
CBS News, Crime
Workplace shooting in Ohio warehouse leaves 1 dead, 5 more wounded, suspect on loose, police say

"...the shooting may have been "targeted" and noted there was no apparent ongoing threat to anyone in the vicinity."

I'd never be too sure of that until the person is captured; however, yes, there's a name this time.

Posted by: L - No nic, another day at February 05, 2025 08:43 AM (NFX2v)

183 I agree, Tuna. Midnight Cowboy is really depressing. Dustin Hoffman getting sicker and sicker just makes me feel like I need a shower to wash the scenes off.

Urban Cowboy, otoh, is one of my favorite movies!

Posted by: Lady in Black at February 05, 2025 08:44 AM (qBdHI)

184 Dog Day Afternoon had chaos, crime , urban decay and trannie stuff. Very current

Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 05, 2025 08:44 AM (U/Wlk)

185 The 70s were a good decade for "honest," that is to say, depressing, movies.

Posted by: Ordinary American at February 05, 2025 08:45 AM (UseAb)

186 I loathe cursive. What a freakin' waste of time. Everything you write has to be an art project. Bah. Just spit it out in good ol' printing.

Posted by: Bulg at February 05, 2025 08:46 AM (77rzZ)

187 The liberals have had the microphone exclusively up until Musk rebelled. Now they get to hear from the people the illegals hurt in terms of violent crime, housing prices, wage deflation, stealing benefits and aid from our people in need and destruction of our high trust, western judeo christian culture. This is the harm that makes the unlawful crossing a crime. Lucky for them we are not demanding to be made whole.

Posted by: Smellslikevictory at February 05, 2025 08:46 AM (jPdyB)

188 Judicial Watch announced today that a federal court ordered the Department of Justice to provide information on communications between Special Counsel Jack Smith and District Attorney Fani Willis regarding the prosecution of then-former President Donald Trump.
*****

Shame on that judge for ruling against Fani Willis, a Strong, Black Woman, during Black History Month.

Posted by: one hour sober at February 05, 2025 08:46 AM (Y1sOo)

189 Weatherperson????

Posted by: ... at February 05, 2025 08:47 AM (uuxpB)

190 Happy Wednesday!!

Trump is Conan - can we hear more lamentations of their women?

Posted by: Lizzy at February 05, 2025 08:47 AM (WbBbu)

191 The 70s were a good decade for "honest," that is to say, depressing, movies.

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Plus all the Irwin Allen disaster movies. A great decade for movies, imo, for a variety of reasons.

Posted by: Lady in Black at February 05, 2025 08:47 AM (qBdHI)

192 Judicial Watch: Court Orders Justice Department to Provide Information on Special Counsel Jack Smith’s Communication with DA Fani Willis

Posted by: SMOD at February 05, 2025 08:47 AM (RHGPo)

193 >>>This alone is reason enough to abolish the Department of Education.

Another Strong, Black Woman doing her thang.

Posted by: one hour sober at February 05, 2025 08:48 AM (Y1sOo)

194 Gaza announcement is part of Trump's blitzkrieg plan.
It's time to remind the globalists how crazy and unpredictable he can be
Better not piss him off

He did the same in his first term with the Norks, this is just biggerized

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at February 05, 2025 08:48 AM (J5RCE)

195 Democrats are claiming that Trump can't end USAID because Congress passed legislation making it an agency in 1988, codifying Kennedy's EO.

I doubt that is true because Democrats lie about everything.

My guess is the 1998 legislation was related to USAID, like specifically allocated funds for it for the 1st time, but did not say something like "we hereby create the agency."

Kinda like their 14th birthright lie.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 05, 2025 08:48 AM (G7Fd7)

196 156. Excellent

Posted by: Jonah at February 05, 2025 08:49 AM (YCxFk)

197 >>Hamas tortured and executed terrorists within its ranks who allegedly had gay sex,

So. . . terrorists used their brutal skills to kill fellow terrorists?

That's a terrible thing. Just terrible.

Posted by: Lizzy at February 05, 2025 08:49 AM (WbBbu)

198 Happy Wednesday!!

Trump is Conan - can we hear more lamentations of their women?
Posted by: Lizzy at February 05, 2025 08:47

And their people that identify as women

Posted by: Josephistan at February 05, 2025 08:49 AM (3+WKi)

199 Gavin Newsom Goes to White House to Beg for Federal Money After Legislature Passes Anti-Trump Spending

Posted by: SMOD at February 05, 2025 08:49 AM (RHGPo)

200 50 billion would cover the missing money for the wall they claimed we couldn't afford, and have plenty left over to pay for Kamala's campaign.

Posted by: ... at February 05, 2025 08:49 AM (uuxpB)

201 "Cruising" was a great movie! Al looked so good in leather, makes me want to take a bite.

Posted by: Lindsey Graham, Closeted Homosexual at February 05, 2025 08:49 AM (y7KuV)

202 Saw "Who'll Stop the Rain" (197

the other night. Flawed film, fell short of the book (Dog Soldiers by Robert Stone) but the protagonist, Ray Hicks (Nick Nolte) -- great character.
"All my life I've been taking shit from inferior people. No more."

Posted by: Ordinary American at February 05, 2025 08:49 AM (UseAb)

203 Putin thought bubble:
"Good. Trump is open to redrawing maps"
Immediately followed by
"Oh shit. Trump is open to redrawing maps."

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at February 05, 2025 08:50 AM (J5RCE)

204 I taught my own kid how to cursive write way back when because I couldn't believe schools no longer taught it.
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Third Grade was cool. We had to write using a fountain pen. It was all about cursive. Made us feel special.

Posted by: Pudinhead at February 05, 2025 08:50 AM (Wg6v7)

205 King Canute >>>>>> Montana Supreme Court

Posted by: Chuck Martel at February 05, 2025 08:50 AM (Dv3i1)

206 Over at WaPo

No president in history has caused more damage to the nation more quickly. As we enter Week 3 of President Donald Trump’s second term, the chaos and disruption of his first look quaint by comparison. The country survived Trump 1.0. Now, it faces a real threat that the harm he inflicts during his second term will be irreparable.

hahahahaha

Posted by: rhennigantx at February 05, 2025 08:50 AM (gbOdA)

207 Gavin Newsom Goes to White House to Beg for Federal Money After Legislature Passes Anti-Trump Spending
Posted by: SMOD at February 05, 2025 08:49 AM

Trump: Kneel.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 05, 2025 08:50 AM (+QlJh)

208 >The 70s were a good decade for "honest," that is to say, depressing, movies.

Chinatown
The Conversation
Taxi Driver

yes

Posted by: mr tmz at February 05, 2025 08:50 AM (rJ48h)

209 197. Blackrock had a orgasm when Trump talked of Gaza. Larry Fink is a evil lefty, hopefully Trump's people have him on watch

Posted by: Jonah at February 05, 2025 08:50 AM (YCxFk)

210 Anonymous Conservative: “I do not think this next one is negotiation. I think Netanyahu tried to pressure Trump into relocating the Gazans, cleaning up the explosives, and redeveloping the land so Israel could take it over, get the gas reserves under it and make a shipping channel to compete with the Suez Canal, and pissed Trump off. So Trump waited until this news conference and just announced there the US would take possession of Gaza, probably figuring we can establish a port there for the Navy, some listening posts, maybe even to monitor the Israelis, and a base to allow us to operate in the region. Netanyahu does not look pleased:”
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Dumbest take I've heard. Remarkably uninformed.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 05, 2025 08:50 AM (RIvkX)

211 Daily Kos: "It struck me that what we are seeing happen to the U.S. Government is something that would not be considered strange or unprecedented in another context. Consider a few things: (long list, including freezing spending, replacing leaders with loyalists, etc)

This is what it looks like when vulture capitalists descend on a company and loot it. This is a hostile takeover — applied to government.

Musk admits he is an enemy of the United States. On a livestream last night, Musk said of his destruction of the federal government: “If it’s not possible now, it will never be possible. This is our shot, This is the best hand of cards we’re ever going to have. If we don’t take advantage of this best hand of cards, it’s never going to happen.”

With that statement, Musk had openly admitted his goal is the annihilation of the United States government and the Constitutional order.

Musk has taken the NOAA CO2 monitoring data from Mauna Lao offline. His brownshirts raided the NOAA data center yesterday and now the entire Mauna Lao site is offline. It's the main NOAA source for GHG data, in the case of Mauna Loa going all the way back to 1958.

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at February 05, 2025 08:50 AM (JCZqz)

212
Meh on Midnight Cowboy.

I find it to be a boring movie. As in very boring.

On the plus side, it is a very important prestige movie for Our Times with Dustin Hoffman Dustin-Hoffmanning it up all over the place.

So, we got that working for us.

Posted by: naturalfake at February 05, 2025 08:51 AM (iJfKG)

213 For about the last five days YouTube has decided there's just not enough leftist hatred in my feed. I'm having to block about 8 or 9 vids every day.

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at February 05, 2025 08:51 AM (b294k)

214 Trump isn’t seriously considering dropping American troops in that toilet. Nor is he actually thinking Gaza could be turned into Vegas. It’s just something nice and positive to say about the oozing smegma-hole of the world as he meets with the evil Zionist weather-controller Bibi.

Incredibly, there were parts of the Middle East that were like the Rivera back in the day. Beirut for one. In the 1950s and 60s, it was popular with very affluent Americans — including many Jews — who vacationed there. There a scene in the classic American Chuckster masterpiece Delta Force to that effect. Hard to believe it now.

Posted by: Elric Blade at February 05, 2025 08:51 AM (+NAon)

215 I loathe cursive. What a freakin' waste of time. Everything you write has to be an art project. Bah. Just spit it out in good ol' printing.

But then how do you put the signature on your personal checks in the Jerk Store?

Posted by: Some Kind of Jerk at February 05, 2025 08:52 AM (AR19I)

216 I keep looking at leftist friends or people who I look at on Facebook. They are hysterical. Haters, fascist , racist , homophobic, anti immigrant etc. Its like they are only talking to a few like minded people and everybody else is ignoring them. Glorious

Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 05, 2025 08:52 AM (U/Wlk)

217 U.S. Army Recruiting
@usarec

@USAREC
had their most productive December in 15 years by enlisting 346 Soldiers daily into the World's greatest #USArmy!

Our Recruiters have one of the toughest jobs - inspiring the next generation of #Soldiers to serve.

Congratulations and keep up the great work! #BAYCB

Posted by: redridinghood at February 05, 2025 08:52 AM (NpAcC)

218 Dog Day Afternoon, Deer Hunter etc.. JJ would know, but NYC must have been brutal to live in during the 70's

Posted by: Jonah at February 05, 2025 08:52 AM (YCxFk)

219 198 Democrats are claiming that Trump can't end USAID because Congress passed legislation making it an agency in 1988, codifying Kennedy's EO.

I doubt that is true because Democrats lie about everything.

My guess is the 1998 legislation was related to USAID, like specifically allocated funds for it for the 1st time, but did not say something like "we hereby create the agency."

Kinda like their 14th birthright lie.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 05, 2025 08:48 AM (G7Fd7)

I believe they did make it an agency, but it was not independent and it has no required size...

Posted by: Nova Local at February 05, 2025 08:52 AM (exHjb)

220 186 I agree, Tuna. Midnight Cowboy is really depressing. Dustin Hoffman getting sicker and sicker just makes me feel like I need a shower to wash the scenes off.
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Watching Dustin die is an okay script.

Posted by: Pudinhead at February 05, 2025 08:52 AM (Wg6v7)

221 Much like Greenland, Palestine is but a negotiating strategy. This is Trump. It’s what he does.

Yeah, this is the outrageous strong form opener so that the plan he actually wants that would’ve been considered too extreme before now looks reasonable. Nobody’s read The Art of the Deal I guess.

Posted by: Ian S. at February 05, 2025 08:53 AM (QZThv)

222 Witkoff has already been involved in major investment deals in the Middle East.

Posted by: Ben Had at February 05, 2025 08:53 AM (mB6WH)

223 218 I loathe cursive. What a freakin' waste of time. Everything you write has to be an art project. Bah. Just spit it out in good ol' printing.

But then how do you put the signature on your personal checks in the Jerk Store?
Posted by: Some Kind of Jerk at February 05, 2025 08:52 AM (AR19I)

Or, tell me you love cuneiform without telling me you love cuneiform.

Posted by: tubal at February 05, 2025 08:53 AM (PCK5/)

224 210. Bend the knee Ser Davos

Posted by: Jonah at February 05, 2025 08:54 AM (YCxFk)

225 >>@EricLDaugh
·
>>1m
BREAKING: National Security Advisor Mike Waltz confirms that Trump's proposal to "take over Gaza" *is* meant to pressure neighboring Arab nations to come up with their own solution.

>>"It's going to bring the entire region to come with their own solutions."

Posted by: JackStraw at February 05, 2025 08:54 AM (LkLld)

226 Democrats are claiming that Trump can't end USAID because Congress passed legislation making it an agency in 1988, codifying Kennedy's EO.

I doubt that is true because Democrats lie about everything.

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Even if it is true, it still would answer to President Trump, and he can fire who he wants and tell them what they can or can't spend money on.

Posted by: Josephistan at February 05, 2025 08:54 AM (3+WKi)

227 Amazingly, DOGE only went to USAID so early in their work because USAID was still spending money after Trump issued an EO to freeze spending.

Posted by: SMOD at February 05, 2025 08:54 AM (RHGPo)

228 Have you ever seen the schoolbooks used to poison the minds of Gazan 5, 6, or 7 year olds?

You should. You paid for them.
Posted by: San Franpsycho

Pat Robertson was bringing this to light 35-40 years ago. Showing the hate and filth little kids were indoctrinated with. Like a perverse Romper Room with genocide and murder. It's hard to denazify that.

Posted by: 700 Club at February 05, 2025 08:55 AM (G5+As)

229 Midnight Cowboy was a very excellent movie … to fall asleep to. Terribly boring and repetitive. I can’t believe it won the awards and fawning that it did. I had to strain to finish it. Very sucky sucky.

Posted by: Elric Blade at February 05, 2025 08:55 AM (+NAon)

230 Russian Roulette scene in Deer Hunter, had to be most depressing scene of a movie ,outside a Horror Flick

Posted by: Jonah at February 05, 2025 08:56 AM (YCxFk)

231 Amazingly, DOGE only went to USAID so early in their work because USAID was still spending money after Trump issued an EO to freeze spending.

They called attention to themselves. Amateurs.

Posted by: Ian S. at February 05, 2025 08:56 AM (QZThv)

232 230 Amazingly, DOGE only went to USAID so early in their work because USAID was still spending money after Trump issued an EO to freeze spending.
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Imma looking forward to the audit results of the Treasury Dept.

Posted by: Pudinhead at February 05, 2025 08:56 AM (Wg6v7)

233 PDT is getting there. Here's a link to follow the confirmation process. Goes to BallotPedia
https://tinyurl.com/4n2c353j

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at February 05, 2025 08:56 AM (2NHgQ)

234 But then how do you put the signature on your personal checks in the Jerk Store?
Posted by: Some Kind of Jerk at February 05, 2025 08:52 AM (AR19I)

My signature is the only thing I use cursive for.

Posted by: Bulg at February 05, 2025 08:56 AM (77rzZ)

235 >>“Gaza is a hellhole right now,” he said. “It was before the bombing started, frankly, and we’re going to give people a chance to live in a beautiful community that’s safe and secure, and I think you’re going to see tremendous outpouring of support.”

Bananas!
Only wish that we could have seen Hamas leaders' reactions to this unexpected turn of event.

Step 1: Massacre thousands of Israelis, take hundreds hostage.

Step 2: Unleash protests across the Western world to scare away Western support for Israel.

Step 3: Jerk around Israel and US negotiations for the hostage releases for months and months while they offer a two state solution

Step 4: Orange man sweeps in and tells you not only is he not going to consider a two state solution, he's going to kick you out of Gaza, place your people across several other countries, and turn it into a resort.

Posted by: Lizzy at February 05, 2025 08:56 AM (WbBbu)

236 Yeah, this is the outrageous strong form opener so that the plan he actually wants that would’ve been considered too extreme before now looks reasonable. Nobody’s read The Art of the Deal I guess.
Posted by: Ian S.

Haggling shows respect in the Middle Eastern cultures

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at February 05, 2025 08:56 AM (OTdqV)

237 >>Hamas tortured and executed terrorists within its ranks who allegedly had gay sex,

So. . . terrorists used their brutal skills to kill fellow terrorists?

That's a terrible thing. Just terrible.
Posted by: Lizzy at February 05, 2025 08:

Will this trouble the queers for a free Palestine folks? Hahaha HAHAHAHAHA.

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at February 05, 2025 08:57 AM (kTd/k)

238 233 Russian Roulette scene in Deer Hunter, had to be most depressing scene of a movie ,outside a Horror Flick
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This is This.

Posted by: Pudinhead at February 05, 2025 08:57 AM (Wg6v7)

239 230 Amazingly, DOGE only went to USAID so early in their work because USAID was still spending money after Trump issued an EO to freeze spending.

Hubris, meet nemesis.

Or Augean Stables, meet Hercules.

Posted by: Ordinary American at February 05, 2025 08:57 AM (UseAb)

240 232. Gay Academy voters of the time loved Midnight Cowboy. Theathre scene was first of its kind. Rated X when it first came out

Posted by: Jonah at February 05, 2025 08:57 AM (YCxFk)

241 Butt, Butt Queers for "Palestine?!" Long distance def dedication to them!

I read that as "Long distance defecation to them!"

Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at February 05, 2025 08:58 AM (w9Wax)

242 BTW, thus far the strongest international condemnation of the MAGA Strip proposal has been from Macron. If France hates something it’s probably good.

Posted by: Ian S. at February 05, 2025 08:58 AM (QZThv)

243 If I learned anything from my previous pro-intervention stances regarding Iraq and Afghanistan its that ... leave barbarians alone. You can't "fix" them. You can't "make things wonderful" for them. You can't give them a better life.

You could built them a gold plated city with nothing but free 5-star restaurants, beautiful parks, the most immaculate transportation system and they'll still shit on the sidewalk.

Because they're savages. I'm done wasting blood and treasure on trying to give better lives to savages who won't accept it.

Posted by: Defenestratus at February 05, 2025 08:58 AM (IQ7Kz)

244 The FBI and the Treasury Department’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network allegedly flagged any purchases of firearms, Bibles, and anything associated with the terms “MAGA” or “Trump” as indicators of extremism, according to an investigation by the House Judiciary Committee.

The Biden administration effectively forced bankers to spy on their customers and destroy any account the government didn’t like.

Posted by: rhennigantx at February 05, 2025 08:58 AM (gbOdA)

245 As far as I know there are 3 Jan6 Ralliers still being held, another in Canada but searching for information there is nothing I can find.

Posted by: Skip at February 05, 2025 08:58 AM (fwDg9)

246 Democrats are claiming that Trump can't end USAID because Congress passed legislation making it an agency in 1988, codifying Kennedy's EO.

They're going to love their new offices- closer to their customers and a short walk from the Mediterranean.

Posted by: t-bird at February 05, 2025 08:59 AM (710OU)

247 US Postal Service Suspends Shipments Of Parcels From China, Hong Kong

The USPS has suspending inbound international packages from China and Hong Kong Posts, delaying or blocking shipments from giant online retailers, and Amazon competitors, like Shein and PDD’s Temu

Posted by: SMOD at February 05, 2025 08:59 AM (RHGPo)

248 The guy left of Damien is my fat fuk Gov Pritzker. Talking a lot of shite this week, until he needs new Infastructure $$$ for a Chicago boondogel project

Posted by: Jonah at February 05, 2025 08:59 AM (YCxFk)

249 There was some Vietnam movie that that little shit Michael Fox was in , with Sean Penn…

Posted by: tubal at February 05, 2025 08:59 AM (PCK5/)

250 Dog Day Afternoon had chaos, crime , urban decay and trannie stuff. Very current
Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 05, 2025 08:44 AM (U/Wlk)
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When I wanted to show Girl F. where and how I grew up, we watched this movie.

"You call this a robbery?!"

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 05, 2025 09:00 AM (RIvkX)

251 I can’t believe it won the awards and fawning that it did. I had to strain to finish it. Very sucky sucky.
Posted by: Elric Blade at February 05, 2025 08:55 AM (+NAon)

That's what the movie was about, wasn't it? The sucky-sucky.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at February 05, 2025 09:00 AM (0eaVi)

252 Because they're savages. I'm done wasting blood and treasure on trying to give better lives to savages who won't accept it.

Posted by: Defenestratus at February 05, 2025 08:58 AM (IQ7Kz)

There is an argument to be made for gentrification....

Make the place somewhere all the rich bastards in the middle east might actually want to go, and they'll displace the barbarians themselves.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 05, 2025 09:00 AM (+iIV1)

253 My heart cockles are warm and toasty!

Posted by: Guy who's not tired of winning. at February 05, 2025 09:00 AM (DobEs)

254 TEMU is offering me a $200 spending spree on shitty TEMU stuff. Imma somebody.

Posted by: Pudinhead at February 05, 2025 09:00 AM (Wg6v7)

255 Because they're savages. I'm done wasting blood and treasure on trying to give better lives to savages who won't accept it.

Posted by: Defenestratus at February 05, 2025 08:58 AM (IQ7Kz)

Sadly, you are 100% correct.

We, and Israel need to internalize that message.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 05, 2025 09:01 AM (SXEGt)

256 249 There was some Vietnam movie that that little shit Michael Fox was in , with Sean Penn…
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Platoon?

Posted by: Pudinhead at February 05, 2025 09:01 AM (Wg6v7)

257 I highly recommend Joel Bowmans Substack "Notes from The End of the World" He lives in Argentina and usually writes about what is going on there, but today he writes about DOGE vs Deep State . It is very good and he even gives Bill Kristol a mention.

Posted by: Big Alfredo at February 05, 2025 09:02 AM (Vdukr)

258 99.997% of what's on Amazon comes from China anyway.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 05, 2025 09:02 AM (+iIV1)

259 Why is Trump even meeting with Newsome? Why give the commie any credibility for 2028

Posted by: Jonah at February 05, 2025 09:02 AM (YCxFk)

260 Pennsylvania State Police are searching for suspects after 100,000 eggs were allegedly stolen from an egg distributor in Franklin County. According to police, officers responded to Pete & Jerry’s Organics in Antrim Township for a reported theft of 100,000 eggs. The eggs were stolen from the back of a distribution trailer on Feb. 1 at 8:40 p.m. Police said the stolen eggs hold a retail value of $40,000. Police have yet to announce any possible suspects.

Posted by: SMOD at February 05, 2025 09:02 AM (RHGPo)

261 256 249 There was some Vietnam movie that that little shit Michael Fox was in , with Sean Penn…
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Platoon?
Posted by: Pudinhead at February 05, 2025 09:01 AM (Wg6v7)

Nah, something else…

Posted by: tubal at February 05, 2025 09:02 AM (PCK5/)

262 "You could built them a gold plated city with nothing but free 5-star restaurants, beautiful parks, the most immaculate transportation system and they'll still shit on the sidewalk."

As long as the Arabs fight tribe against tribe, so long will they be a little people, a silly people, greedy, barbarous and cruel.

Posted by: Aurence at February 05, 2025 09:02 AM (uH1zk)

263 they'll displace the barbarians themselves.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 05, 2025 09:00 AM (+iIV1)

As long as they aren't displaced to someplace I like.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 05, 2025 09:02 AM (SXEGt)

264 BTW, thus far the strongest international condemnation of the MAGA Strip proposal has been from Macron. If France hates something it’s probably good.
Posted by: Ian S. at February 05, 2025 08:58 AM (QZThv)

He could turn it around and say "What does this have to do with you, Maccie?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at February 05, 2025 09:03 AM (0eaVi)

265 For as long as anyone can remember Arab countries have used the Palestinians as a club to hit Israel with and to demand that any deal had to take care of the Palestinians. But they did absolutely nothing to help come up with a deal.

Trump is trying to force the regional leaders to help solve the problem once and for all and not just sit on the sidelines and throw verbal bombs or worse throw actual bombs.

The Abraham Accords on steroids.

Posted by: JackStraw at February 05, 2025 09:03 AM (LkLld)

266 But there's a hidden brilliance in the Gaza City Beachside Resort and Casino:

By taking it:
1) It's a huge F.U. to the countries that recognized Palestine as a "state;" esp. as it technically belongs to Israel
2) It's a goad at the Saudi's "line city" because it'd be built faster, nicer and more sought after--and secular.
3) and this is the shear, absolute brilliance--the US will, of course, also build a nice, big beautiful military and naval base right in the middle of the ME, that no one can bitch or complain we are "invaders"
A perfect little "I can have F-22s over your house before we finish this phone call and a destroyer by the end of the week parked on your shore."

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 05, 2025 09:03 AM (G7Fd7)

267 2/7 is going to be interesting. Last day at USAID , last day to take a buyout or risk being fired, and the date the fed CT has set for FBI to release Seth Rich file . Interesting times

Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 05, 2025 09:03 AM (U/Wlk)

268 > mazingly, DOGE only went to USAID so early in their work because USAID was still spending money after Trump issued an EO to freeze spending.

They called attention to themselves. Amateurs.
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There are likely other entities spending freely but either not yet on the radar, or on the radar and permitted.

The "follow the money" trail is one of the most convoluted things I've ever seen. It's cut-outs within cut-outs... fronts for fictitious organizations, etc.

It's the deep state's financial backbone.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 05, 2025 09:03 AM (Q4IgG)

269 Trump will meet with anybody. It's a strength.

Posted by: Ordinary American at February 05, 2025 09:03 AM (UseAb)

270 256. Casulties of War. Not bad, but Platoon was more realistic

Posted by: Jonah at February 05, 2025 09:03 AM (YCxFk)

271 @249 Casualties of War

Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 05, 2025 09:04 AM (U/Wlk)

272 There was some Vietnam movie that that little shit Michael Fox was in , with Sean Penn…
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Platoon?
Posted by: Pudinhead at February 05, 2025 09:01 AM (Wg6v7)

Nah, something else…
Posted by: tubal at February 05, 2025 09:02 AM (PCK5/)

I'm pretty sure the title was-

"All American Soldiers in Vietnam Were Rapist Scumbags...Except For This One Guy"

Posted by: naturalfake at February 05, 2025 09:04 AM (iJfKG)

273 You could built them a gold plated city with nothing but free 5-star restaurants, beautiful parks, the most immaculate transportation system and they'll still shit on the sidewalk.

Is this about me?

Posted by: Detroit at February 05, 2025 09:04 AM (y7KuV)

274 >>...You could built them a gold plated city with nothing but free 5-star restaurants, beautiful parks, the most immaculate transportation system and they'll still shit on the sidewalk.

Wasn't Gaza a bountiful, productive area before it was handed over to the Palestinians?

I agree, I don't want American forces there - we just got out of Afghanistan and Iraq.

However, I will enjoy this turn of events as the Palis suddenly have to defend even living in Gaza after they turned it into a violent sh#thole -- especially that they thought they would get more land out of this 10/7 Op. Let's see where this leads, as this is Trump's opening offer. . .

Posted by: Lizzy at February 05, 2025 09:04 AM (WbBbu)

275 Australia bans DeepSeek on government devices citing security concerns

Posted by: SMOD at February 05, 2025 09:04 AM (RHGPo)

276 I subscribe to PJ O'Rourke's comment that the Middle East is garbage and we should turn the entire region into glass then go in with Windex.

Not literally, but you know what I mean...

Posted by: WitchDoktor at February 05, 2025 09:05 AM (/lEKk)

277 My signature is the only thing I use cursive for.
Posted by: Bulg

I've long suspected something a little "off" about this Glub fellow, but could never put my finger on it. Never suspected he was an anti-cursiveite, but I guess everything comes to light eventually. His increments should be frozen, at the very least.

Posted by: Hate Crime Task Force at February 05, 2025 09:05 AM (G5+As)

278 270 256. Casulties of War. Not bad, but Platoon was more realistic
Posted by: Jonah at February 05, 2025 09:03 AM (YCxFk)

Ah… remember seeing it, and kept thinking Alex Keaton was kind of a whiny ass..

Posted by: tubal at February 05, 2025 09:05 AM (PCK5/)

279 Police have yet to announce any possible suspects.
Posted by: SMOD at February 05, 2025 09:02 AM (RHGPo)

Egghead strikes

*turns on Bat signal*

Posted by: rhennigantx at February 05, 2025 09:05 AM (gbOdA)

280 Saw Platoon opening night in a crowded House. Blew me away

Posted by: Jonah at February 05, 2025 09:05 AM (YCxFk)

281 CNN didn’t say this outright, but it’s time for Democrats to face reality: they’ve lost the war against President Donald J. Trump’s nominees.

Posted by: SMOD at February 05, 2025 09:05 AM (RHGPo)

282 Australia bans DeepSeek on government devices citing security concerns
Posted by: SMOD at February 05, 2025 09:04 AM (RHGPo)

A general question:

Unless this nonsense is directly part of your job... why in the hell is it even on your work pc in the first place?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 05, 2025 09:05 AM (+iIV1)

283 Because they're savages. I'm done wasting blood and treasure on trying to give better lives to savages who won't accept it.

Exactly. Being nice is not and never was an option.

Posted by: NR Pax at February 05, 2025 09:05 AM (OPGS/)

284 I don't think Trump has any interest in taking over Gaza or sending in troops. I think it's a negotiating tactic.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 05, 2025 09:06 AM (8XLoI)

285 Nah, something else…
Posted by: tubal at February 05, 2025 09:02 AM (PCK5/)

Casualties of War

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 05, 2025 09:06 AM (RIvkX)

286 280 Saw Platoon opening night in a crowded House. Blew me away
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The NVA night attack was done very well.

Posted by: Pudinhead at February 05, 2025 09:06 AM (Wg6v7)

287 Have a good Day all

Posted by: Jonah at February 05, 2025 09:06 AM (YCxFk)

288 And my mind is still boggling over what a Gazan Riviera would look like.

"I'll make your dinner reservation now. Will you be sitting in armed or unarmed?"

Posted by: WitchDoktor at February 05, 2025 09:06 AM (/lEKk)

289 Pennsylvania State Police are searching for suspects after 100,000 eggs were allegedly stolen from an egg distributor in Franklin County.

8000 cartons of eggs? Be on the lookout for very fat raccoons.

Posted by: t-bird at February 05, 2025 09:07 AM (B46kE)

290 Musk has taken the NOAA CO2 monitoring data from Mauna Lao offline.
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My schaden has a schaden

Posted by: ... at February 05, 2025 09:07 AM (uuxpB)

291 Wasn't Gaza a bountiful, productive area before it was handed over to the Palestinians?

Posted by: Lizzy at February 05, 2025 09:04 AM (WbBbu)

Parts of it. Can ypu guess which parts were nice?

But it is, by and large, a shithole, and has always been a shithole.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 05, 2025 09:07 AM (SXEGt)

292 Re Gaza, it's a dumb idea to involve the US like that but vision guys don't implement and they throw dud ideas out every now and then. The idea can still be useful.

Posted by: Smellslikevictory at February 05, 2025 09:07 AM (jPdyB)

293 AmericanThinker:

It has become increasingly obvious that DOGE is Gorbachev’s glasnost (openness) reprised. Glasnost soon led to perestroika (reform) and the Soviet Union croaked. DOGE will play a key role in dismantling the Deep State. We’ve lost count of how many decades former congressman Ron Paul has called for auditing the bankers’ plaything, the Federal Reserve System and its 400+ PhD economists. Or more recently, when senators Sanders and Grassley teamed to demand a Pentagon audit. Not only will DOGE audit the Fed and get to the bottom of the Pentagon’s missing trillions, but the entire federal leviathan is undergoing a full MRI scan. We know the diagnosis: Stage 4 metastatic cancer throughout the system. Drs. Musk and Trump have already indicated some of the initial body parts needing surgical intervention, starting with USAID, the CIA’s cover vehicle for adventures such as Victoria Nuland’s regime change fiascos or propaganda initiatives, at home and abroad.

Posted by: SMOD at February 05, 2025 09:07 AM (RHGPo)

294 Tom Elliott
@tomselliott
Former USAID global health director
@Atul_Gawande
"People already are" dying as a result of USAID's suspension.

https://tinyurl.com/4xkse43d

Posted by: redridinghood at February 05, 2025 09:08 AM (NpAcC)

295 Despite its religious veneer, Islam can easily be defined and understood by one non-religious word: tribalism.

Posted by: SMOD at February 05, 2025 09:08 AM (RHGPo)

296 I've long suspected something a little "off" about this Glub fellow

Whatever happened to Luap Nor?

Posted by: Good Times, Good Times... at February 05, 2025 09:08 AM (y7KuV)

297 No way that a Gazan Riviera would be populated by the present Gazans . "Excuse me Mohammad, vodka martini shake not stirred" . Nope

Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 05, 2025 09:09 AM (U/Wlk)

298 A federal judge has blocked Donald Trump’s administration from forcing three incarcerated transgender women into men’s prisons and taking away their gender-affirming healthcare. The order on Tuesday from Washington, D.C. District Judge Royce Lambert – who was appointed by Ronald Reagan – temporarily strikes down part of Trump’s sweeping executive order on gender as a likely violation of the Eighth Amendment’s prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment, landing yet another court-ordered blow to his agenda.

Posted by: SMOD at February 05, 2025 09:09 AM (RHGPo)

299 >>I don't think Trump has any interest in taking over Gaza or sending in troops. I think it's a negotiating tactic.

Yes.
He's accomplished a paradigm shift.
Suddenly people are imagining what Gaza could be if they cleared out all the terrorists, UNRWA, etc..
And other ME countries are FINALLY being told to take the Palestinian refugees that they've been sending to the US and Europe.

Posted by: Lizzy at February 05, 2025 09:09 AM (WbBbu)

300 294 Tom Elliott
@tomselliott
Former USAID global health director
@Atul_Gawande
"People already are" dying as a result of USAID's suspension.

https://tinyurl.com/4xkse43d
Posted by: redridinghood at February 05, 2025 09:08 AM (NpAcC)

To: Atul Gawande- please shut up, you are embarassing yourself..

Posted by: tubal at February 05, 2025 09:09 AM (PCK5/)

301 Military Plane Carries Indian Migrants Back From US In Furthest Deportation Flight Yet

...number of deportees at north of 200.

Posted by: SMOD at February 05, 2025 09:10 AM (RHGPo)

302 "People already are" dying as a result of USAID's suspension.

-

I'm not sure that pointing out that spending trillions of dollars to ultimately accomplish nothing is the best play here, sir.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - You can only be a feminist in a 1st world patriarchy where men allow it at February 05, 2025 09:11 AM (i3fPW)

303 "People already are" dying as a result of USAID's suspension.
https://tinyurl.com/4xkse43d
Posted by: redridinghood at February 05, 2025 09:08 AM (NpAcC)

Good. Please Sir, I want some more.

Posted by: Oliver at February 05, 2025 09:11 AM (y7KuV)

304 I would guess the plan is to turn Gaza into a baby Bahrain by simply dumping a shitload of cash on them. But out in the open, this time, like one of those cash grab tubes where you frantically stuff your pockets while everyone laughs at you, and not all dark and hidden and crooked like usual.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 05, 2025 09:11 AM (+iIV1)

305 But yeah, on the other hand, the evil that has been done in Gaza does make it cursed ground.

So back to my original idea to make it Lake Gaza City; kind of a Biblical cleansing flood kinda thing.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 05, 2025 09:11 AM (G7Fd7)

306 Or an airline.

"Attention passengers, I just received news from the flight deck. We may be flying into an area of turbulence shortly as the plane will be entering a steep dive to crash into the center of Tel Aviv. Please fasten your seatbelts. We regret the inconvenience. Thank you for flying Gazan Airlines and we appreciate your business."

Posted by: WitchDoktor at February 05, 2025 09:12 AM (9p1tT)

307 "People are dying and nobody cares !" -- Christiane Amanpour

Posted by: SMOD at February 05, 2025 09:12 AM (RHGPo)

308 I agree with the point that you can't civilize those muzzie bastards, and we learned that with Dubya the hard way, but I do like Trump's going-in position on the whole Gaza thing. He's played an incredible opening move here. I'm looking forward to the rest of the game.

Posted by: Roy at February 05, 2025 09:12 AM (z+ik4)

309 You can always judge how much malfeasance is being contained or thwarted by the nature of the complaints.

On the one hand we have Jake Tapper's good friend who is in charge of stopping veteran suicides (!) for the entire country. She's worried she won't be able to do her job now. VETERANS WILL DIE.

And now we find out that even more unspecified people are "dying" in response to the several days old USAID cuts.

Posted by: ... at February 05, 2025 09:12 AM (uuxpB)

310 307 "People are dying and nobody cares !" -- Christiane Amanpour
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The War Slut speaks.

Posted by: Pudinhead at February 05, 2025 09:13 AM (Wg6v7)

311 >>@Atul_Gawande
"People already are" dying as a result of USAID's suspension.

Paul Theroux's "Dark Star Safari" shows how aid can be so harmful when you build dependence, train people to *not* take care of themselves. If people are dying within days, then maybe we're doing it wrong?

Posted by: Lizzy at February 05, 2025 09:13 AM (WbBbu)

312 307 "People are dying and nobody cares !" -- Christiane Amanpour
Posted by: SMOD at February 05, 2025 09:12 AM (RHGPo)

"We're waiting..." - Judge Smails

Posted by: Roy at February 05, 2025 09:13 AM (z+ik4)

313 Putting a violent man in a men's prison: Cruel and Unusual

Putting a woman in a prison with a violent man: New Hotness.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 05, 2025 09:13 AM (+iIV1)

314 Rep. LaMonica McIver (D-NJ) went full Trump Derangement Syndrome this week, calling on Democrats to “shut down the city” in what she described as a “war” against the current administration.

Speaking at a protest with several other members of Congress in Washington, DC, in opposition to Trump ally Elon Musk’s influence on the federal government, McIver screamed into the microphone with a full call to war.

... sounding awfully insurrectional

Posted by: SMOD at February 05, 2025 09:13 AM (RHGPo)

315 307 "People are dying and nobody cares !" -- Christiane Amanpour
Posted by: SMOD at February 05, 2025 09:12 AM (RHGPo)

I *said* Ha Ha.

Posted by: Warai-otoko Muntz at February 05, 2025 09:14 AM (+iIV1)

316 No way that a Gazan Riviera would be populated by the present Gazans . "Excuse me Mohammad, vodka martini shake not stirred" . Nope
Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 05, 2025 09:09 AM (U/Wlk)

Oh...I don't know.

""Excuse me Mohammad, I see you have the Surf and Air Special.

Will you throwing throwing your gay off the roof first and then eating your Brook Trout Almondine, or

would you like to eat your Trout Almondine first?"

Posted by: naturalfake at February 05, 2025 09:14 AM (iJfKG)

317 A federal judge has blocked Donald Trump’s administration from forcing three incarcerated transgender women into men’s prisons and taking away their gender-affirming healthcare. The order on Tuesday from Washington, D.C. District Judge Royce Lambert – who was appointed by Ronald Reagan – temporarily strikes down part of Trump’s sweeping executive order on gender as a likely violation of the Eighth Amendment’s prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment, landing yet another court-ordered blow to his agenda.
Posted by: SMOD

Hope Trump ignores it. The Libs ignore court rulings all the time.

Posted by: Bulg at February 05, 2025 09:14 AM (77rzZ)

318 I'm pretty sure the title was-

"All American Soldiers in Vietnam Were Rapist Scumbags...Except For This One Guy"
Posted by: naturalfake at February 05,

Is there any Vietnam movie that isn't like that?

Posted by: Josephistan at February 05, 2025 09:15 AM (3+WKi)

319 If people are already dying from USAID being halted I want names of the deceased. Smegfoo Agrapinga , Flapdi Hussein, Bob Smith, give me a specific dead person

Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 05, 2025 09:15 AM (U/Wlk)

320 >>>Rep. LaMonica McIver (D-NJ) went full Trump Derangement Syndrome this week, calling on Democrats to “shut down the city” in what she described as a “war” against the current administration.

DOGE and the autists are working 7 days a week to do that, dear. Chill out.

Posted by: Roy at February 05, 2025 09:15 AM (z+ik4)

321 Not many people understand what Trump said about Gaza. He said move EVERYONE out, depopulate it. Then scrape it clean. THEN move other people in to make it a decent place.

Posted by: Tom Servo at February 05, 2025 09:15 AM (Md44Z)

322 The radical left and members of the establishment media grew extremely angry after President Donald Trump announced the U.S. would take over Gaza.

... they have been yelling for years "Free Palestine" and finally, Trump took them up on the offer.

Posted by: SMOD at February 05, 2025 09:16 AM (RHGPo)

323 USAID deaths == COVID deaths

Posted by: Warai-otoko Muntz at February 05, 2025 09:16 AM (+iIV1)

324 >>Putting a woman in a prison with a violent man: New Hotness.

She has no standing!

Posted by: Lizzy at February 05, 2025 09:16 AM (WbBbu)

325 "The order on Tuesday from Washington, D.C. District Judge Royce Lambert..."

I'm surprised. Judge Lambert has a good record.

Posted by: Ordinary American at February 05, 2025 09:17 AM (UseAb)

326 OT, but does that Bavaria guy ever take the fucking leather jacket off. You're inside dude, jacket not needed.

Posted by: From about That Time at February 05, 2025 09:18 AM (4780s)

327 As a Film buff, always liked the early 70's urban decay flicks

Ugh, the 1970s are probably my least favorite decade for films. Muddy soundtracks, indifferent cinematography, ugly people and ugly plotlines.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at February 05, 2025 09:18 AM (Q0kLU)

328 Nvidia

Posted by: From about That Time at February 05, 2025 09:19 AM (4780s)

329

Buick Riviera > Gazan Riviera > or < Geraldo Riiera Moscowitz

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 05, 2025 09:19 AM (x0n13)

330 Paul A. Szypula
@Bubblebathgirl

NBA Star Steph Curry’s wife Ayesha is closing her shop in Okland, CA because of crime.

Oakland had by far the largest amount of violent crimes per capita in 2023.

The city needs saving.

https://tinyurl.com/5n8aka5m

Posted by: redridinghood at February 05, 2025 09:19 AM (NpAcC)

331 I'm surprised. Judge Lambert has a good record.
Posted by: Ordinary American

Might wear silky, frilly undergarments. Amazing what is coming to light!

Posted by: Roaches Scurry About at February 05, 2025 09:20 AM (G5+As)

332 > Hope Trump ignores it. The Libs ignore court rulings all the time.
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Judge nullification > jury nullification

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 05, 2025 09:20 AM (Q4IgG)

333 It's disturbing. The problem is that Gazans need three generations possibly to return to some semblance of a sane culture.
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40 years also works.
But they have to worship God.
Not some meteorite in a rock hut.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 05, 2025 09:20 AM (G7Fd7)

334 Memo to Trump: clean up Gaza-on-the-Potomac, and leave Gaza-on-the-Med to Arabs!

Ps. How to lose my support instantly: U.S. troops in Gaza!

Pps. NO FUCKING WAY, CAPICE!

Posted by: Ray Van Dune at February 05, 2025 09:20 AM (I5AGO)

335 330 The city needs saving.

With fire.

Posted by: NR Pax at February 05, 2025 09:20 AM (BpO1e)

336 >>McIver screamed into the microphone with a full call to war

Yas! Slay Queen!

Posted by: Coalition of Strong, Black Women in America at February 05, 2025 09:20 AM (Y1sOo)

337 Have you ever seen the schoolbooks used to poison the minds of Gazan 5, 6, or 7 year olds?

You should. You paid for them.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 05, 2025 08:39 AM (RIvkX)

No, I haven't.

I was just stating that I find the concept of the mass murder of children unsettling.

I don't think I count put a gun to the head of a small child and kill then, but I do recognize that is the proper conservative position, I guess.

Posted by: Interesting at February 05, 2025 09:20 AM (4ro04)

338 Trump to Sign Executive Order Banning (Dick) from Women’s (Locker Rooms)

The #winning, I don't know I can stand it.
But I'll find a way.

Posted by: gKWVE at February 05, 2025 09:21 AM (byeIv)

339 And, Good morning, all, and thanks, J.J.

142 One of the head, Qatari negotiators is on with Kilmeade right now and he’s very gracious . he’s welcoming all of the ideas including the United States on what to do with Gaza and that it’s just too early right now to have any specific plans for post war Gaza. also said that what happens with Gaza is going to take an international coalition, one country cannot do it alone. Did not shoot down Trump‘s idea at all, rather says they’re in phase one ...
Posted by: Jen the original

Yes, first it was reported that Saudi Arabia & France (neverending pita) are also not pleased with Trump's 'proposal' and then Dr. Majed Al-Ansari, Sr. Advisor to Qatar PM, talked with Kilmeade, 'suggesting' the more local negotiations for peace to play out before US rebuilding.
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66 I guess I'm in the minority that finds this a little unnerving.
Posted by: Interesting

No, I find it more than.

113. Much like Greenland, Palestine is but a negotiating strategy. This is Trump. Its what he does.
Posted by: Pudinhead

MAGA better be in charge for a very long time to be able to change generational outcomes.

I don't see it usually successful in the USA.

Posted by: L - No nic, another day at February 05, 2025 09:21 AM (NFX2v)

340 >>Putting a woman in a prison with a violent man: New Hotness.

She has no standing!
Posted by: Lizzy at February 05, 2025 09:16 AM (WbBbu)

This is dark even for you

Posted by: ... at February 05, 2025 09:22 AM (uuxpB)

341 I do like the underlying assumption:

"We'll take it."

That's how it works. That's how it's always worked.

You claim territory. If no one can stop you, or even wants to stop you, it's yours. Generally, it isn't worth it anymore to play that game without strong extenuating circumstances, but the ground rules are still in effect.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 05, 2025 09:22 AM (+iIV1)

342 "The conservative case for funding gay porn in Peru."

Posted by: WitchDoktor at February 05, 2025 09:22 AM (oYVkg)

343 Design for Maryland's new Key Bridge unveiled nearly a year after tragic collapse

.. I hope this design is better than the last one, else they could have saved the money for a new design

Posted by: SMOD at February 05, 2025 09:23 AM (RHGPo)

344 "All American Soldiers in Vietnam Were Rapist Scumbags...Except For This One Guy"

I'm surprised that hasn't turned into a musical yet.

Posted by: and this one 'guy' is now Loretta at February 05, 2025 09:23 AM (byeIv)

345 She described her concerns over DOGE setting up automatic transcription of USAID employee Google meets

—

Bitch please! My company uses Teams and every meeting is automatically recorded. Concerned? LOL. You’re working for me, I’m the one who is concerned my tax dollars are paying you.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at February 05, 2025 09:23 AM (uPqbA)

346 261 256 249 There was some Vietnam movie that that little shit Michael Fox was in , with Sean Penn…
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Platoon?
Posted by: Pudinhead at February 05, 2025 09:01 AM (Wg6v7)

Nah, something else…
Posted by: tubal

Tremors

Posted by: Answers guaranteed 100% wrong, but 100% funny at February 05, 2025 09:23 AM (JCZqz)

347
Gaza-Lago.
Get in on the ground floor.

Posted by: Such a deal at February 05, 2025 09:24 AM (DobEs)

348 "People already are" dying as a result of USAID's suspension.

Please provide a list of the deceased and the causes of death.

Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at February 05, 2025 09:24 AM (w9Wax)

349 scene reminiscent of the kind of mad scramble historically witnessed when a corrupt government has fallen and officials are desperately trying to get rid of evidence of wrongdoing.

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An early scene of Downfall is like that.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Rex, Now Is the Winter of Our Discontent Made Glorious Summer By This Son of [New] York at February 05, 2025 09:24 AM (L/fGl)

350 Please no American troops in Gaza. One of the reasons I supported Trump was I believed he wouldn't deploy troops overseas.

Posted by: Jack Squat Bupkis at February 05, 2025 09:24 AM (GD2xa)

351 New Jersey Unions Demand State Hire Teachers Who Struggle To Read Or Write

.. perhaps these "Teachers Who Struggle To Read Or Write" should be in the schools, but not on the public's dime and not teaching

Posted by: SMOD at February 05, 2025 09:24 AM (RHGPo)

352 Tremors

—

It’s early but I nominate this as comment of the day.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at February 05, 2025 09:25 AM (uPqbA)

353 319 If people are already dying from USAID being halted I want names of the deceased. Smegfoo Agrapinga , Flapdi Hussein, Bob Smith, give me a specific dead person
Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 05, 2025 09:15 AM (U/Wlk)

Same as I have never heard 1 story from someone I know that they got to be where they are in life because they got EBT when they were 20.

Posted by: rhennigantx at February 05, 2025 09:25 AM (gbOdA)

354 >>This is dark even for you

Sorry!

Posted by: Lizzy at February 05, 2025 09:25 AM (WbBbu)

355 I'm shocked! Shocked to find that gambling is going on in baseball.

Posted by: Umpire Renault at February 05, 2025 09:25 AM (q2NNn)

356 in regard to Gaza, all I can say, just as I do with illegal immigration, trying to do the same strategy for decades with no or worse results is the definition of insanity.

I very much dislike those who are 'wont work' people.
Maybe some out of the box proposals should be dismissed immediately but attempting the same thing over and over with no results is again insane.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at February 05, 2025 09:26 AM (IOGah)

357 347
Gaza-Lago.
Get in on the ground floor.
Posted by: Such a deal at February 05, 2025 09:24 AM (DobEs)

9th hole has landmines and RPG bunker.

Posted by: rhennigantx at February 05, 2025 09:26 AM (gbOdA)

358 I saw the Michael J Fox Viet movie, "Casualties of War". Imagine "Platoon" without the script or direction, but lots and lots o' rape.

Posted by: gKWVE at February 05, 2025 09:26 AM (byeIv)

359 >>New Jersey Unions Demand State Hire Teachers Who Struggle To Read Or Write

Dayyyyyyuuuummm!
Isn't that a bit on-the-nose crazy?

Posted by: Harrison Bergeron and Ayn Rand at February 05, 2025 09:27 AM (WbBbu)

360 California’s Secessionist Delusions Are Back

Gavin Newsom Goes to White House to Beg for Federal Money After Legislature Passes Anti-Trump Spending

... one of these is not like the other

Posted by: SMOD at February 05, 2025 09:27 AM (RHGPo)

361 USAID is a very unfunny Idiocracy.

Posted by: rhennigantx at February 05, 2025 09:27 AM (gbOdA)

362 Thank you, JJ.
NOT tired of winning, sir!

Posted by: uniparty, Raping and Mutilating the Children They do not Kill at February 05, 2025 09:27 AM (gxokI)

363 Seriously, I claim the beach stand 'Aloha Snackbar'. I'll serve Taco-tacos. Plus left over convenience sandwiches. And booze.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at February 05, 2025 09:27 AM (mlg/3)

364 348 "People already are" dying as a result of USAID's suspension.
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During National Negro Month?

Posted by: It's worse than Net Neutrality at February 05, 2025 09:27 AM (DobEs)

365 This USAID raid is amazing. They must have had people on the inside for years and ... NO LEAKS! Took them completely by surprise and, boy, are they panicking.

Posted by: t-bird at February 05, 2025 09:28 AM (KtPtl)

366 Imagine "Platoon" without the script or direction, but lots and lots o' rape.
Posted by: gKWVE

Imagine?! I wish I could forget! My son Beau died in Vietnam. Had a gal over there that loved him long time.

Posted by: Joe Biden at February 05, 2025 09:28 AM (JCZqz)

367 Who in the hell is advising Trump on Gaza? Quite literally, removing all the residents from Gaza is ETHINIC CLEANSING and is generally considered a type of GENOCIDE and a WAR CRIME!

Inserting ourselves into Gaza would perhaps be one of the most ill-conceived mistakes of the century. It would be a magnet for even more terror activity. This is not some strip of land begging for a resort!

I am hoping someone reminds Trump of these details before this goes any further.

Posted by: WarEagle82 at February 05, 2025 09:28 AM (YcfMX)

368 OT, but does that Bavaria guy ever take the fucking leather jacket off. You're inside dude, jacket not needed.
Posted by: From about That Time
+++
Need to tell that to the Albanian weather girls.

Posted by: Florida Peasant at February 05, 2025 09:29 AM (Lo97M)

369 363 Seriously, I claim the beach stand 'Aloha Snackbar'. I'll serve Taco-tacos. Plus left over convenience sandwiches. And booze.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at February 05, 2025 09:27 AM (mlg/3)

Boss, Moh will be late today as he has to blow himself up at the Cup o Pizza stand.

Posted by: rhennigantx at February 05, 2025 09:29 AM (gbOdA)

370 364 During National Negro Month?

And so close to Pride Month!

So perhaps Gaza would be better suited as the UN Headquarters. Better use of the property and it rids us of some problems.

Posted by: NR Pax at February 05, 2025 09:29 AM (BpO1e)

371 That democrap pep rally was indicative of their larger problem. A bunch of foul, ugly, bitter slag hoors screaming obscenities into a mic will draw crowds but it won't attract support. What man would be drawn to such a message? They are all Americas ex-wives/ex Mil's.

Posted by: Life of Wryly at February 05, 2025 09:29 AM (1FWWQ)

372 Democracy Dies In Darkness is moaning that Doge exposing government secret spending is "illegal".

That particular Propaganda Press organ may be the single most confused entity on the planet.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 05, 2025 09:29 AM (PNnY7)

373 Tom Elliott
@tomselliott
Former USAID global health director
@Atul_Gawande
"People already are" dying as a result of USAID's suspension.

https://tinyurl.com/4xkse43d
Posted by: redridinghood at

If you're dying after a week from cut off of foreign funds, you weren't spending the money you received correctly and many were skimming before it got to you.

Do better.

Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at February 05, 2025 09:29 AM (JkCto)

374 Still waiting for Trump to do anything he promised on the Second Amendment. But we’ll turn Gaza into condos or something.

But thankfully, we have Pam “Red Flag” Bondi at the helm of the ATF now.

Posted by: Vengeance at February 05, 2025 09:29 AM (5FKHw)

375 New Jersey Unions Demand State Hire Teachers Who Struggle To Read Or Write

.. perhaps these "Teachers Who Struggle To Read Or Write" should be in the schools, but not on the public's dime and not teaching
Posted by: SMOD at February 05, 2025 09:24 AM (RHGPo)

Similar to Biden's FAA direction to hire air traffic controllers with psych and other disabilities.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at February 05, 2025 09:30 AM (IOGah)

376 > Design for Maryland's new Key Bridge unveiled nearly a year after tragic collapse
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Still a lot of unanswered questions about that little "incident."

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 05, 2025 09:30 AM (Q4IgG)

377 40 years also works.
But they have to worship God.
Not some meteorite in a rock hut.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 05, 2025 09:20 AM (G7Fd7)
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1.5 million down. 2 billion to go!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 05, 2025 09:30 AM (CrtM/)

378 Boss, Moh will be late today as he has to blow himself up at the Cup o Pizza stand.
Posted by: rhennigantx

Pepperoni on the house~!

Posted by: weft cut-loop at February 05, 2025 09:30 AM (mlg/3)

379 I wonder if USAID paid for McVain's two year long funeral.

They seem to have paid for everything else.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 05, 2025 09:30 AM (PNnY7)

380 Who in the hell is advising Trump on Gaza? Quite literally, removing all the residents from Gaza is ETHINIC CLEANSING and is generally considered a type of GENOCIDE and a WAR CRIME!

Fuck 'em. They've have 75+ years to be good neighbors, and refuse. It's now like a band-aid. It'll hurt for a second to remove, but then be much better.

Posted by: Military Moron at February 05, 2025 09:31 AM (JCZqz)

381 Posted by: Vengeance at February 05, 2025 09:29 AM (5FK

go cry somewhere else.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at February 05, 2025 09:31 AM (IOGah)

382 We had to rape the villagers in order to save them.

Posted by: Auspex at February 05, 2025 09:31 AM (QpuU7)

383 >>>>Rep. LaMonica McIver (D-NJ) went full Trump Derangement Syndrome this week, calling on Democrats to “shut down the city” in what she described as a “war” against the current administration.

You know how they got so many protesters out on DC for this? They're likely all from NGOs that are hq'd in DC, and Trump just shut off their money.

Spoiler alert: Trump shut down the city.

Posted by: Lizzy at February 05, 2025 09:32 AM (WbBbu)

384 348 "People already are" dying as a result of USAID's suspension.

—

We all died from tax cuts.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at February 05, 2025 09:32 AM (uPqbA)

385 TIL that something like a sixth of the BBC's funding comes from USAID.
More evidence that the Brits won 1812.

Posted by: gKWVE at February 05, 2025 09:32 AM (byeIv)

386 that would make you, the dumbass taxpayer, the second biggest investor in the new Doctor Who

Posted by: gKWVE at February 05, 2025 09:33 AM (byeIv)

387 Gayle Smith
17th Administrator of the United States Agency for International Development
In office December 2, 2015 – January 20, 2017

From 1994 to 1998, Smith served as Senior Advisor to the Administrator and Chief of Staff for U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID).

In 2001, Smith became a Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress. As part of this position, she worked on the Sustainable Security Project and co-founded the Enough Project, working as Co-Chair, as well as the Modernizing Foreign Assistance Network. The ENOUGH Project was created to end genocide and crimes against humanity.

From 2005 to 2007, Smith was the Chairman of the Working Group Chair on Global Poverty for the Clinton Global Initiative.

Posted by: SMOD at February 05, 2025 09:33 AM (RHGPo)

388 317 A federal judge has blocked Donald Trump’s administration from forcing three incarcerated transgender women into men’s prisons and taking away their gender-affirming healthcare. The order on Tuesday from Washington, D.C. District Judge Royce Lambert – who was appointed by Ronald Reagan – temporarily strikes down part of Trump’s sweeping executive order on gender as a likely violation of the Eighth Amendment’s prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment, landing yet another court-ordered blow to his agenda.
Posted by: SMOD

Hope Trump ignores it. The Libs ignore court rulings all the time.
Posted by: Bulg at February 05, 2025 09:14 AM (77rzZ)

"Cruel and Unusual".

The whole point of putting someone in Prison is to subject them to Cruelty as punishment for what they did.

Posted by: XTC at February 05, 2025 09:33 AM (sm6Pk)

389 NBC "News" is reporting that Federal DEI "workers" are AA and therefore it is racist to fire them.

Honest to God, that's the tack they are taking.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 05, 2025 09:34 AM (PNnY7)

390 All American Soldiers in Vietnam Were Rapist Scumbags...Except For This One Guy"

I'm surprised that hasn't turned into a musical yet.
Posted by: and this one 'guy' is now Loretta at February 05, 2025 09:23 AM (byeIv)

Well, Miss Saigon is close enough.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at February 05, 2025 09:34 AM (Q0kLU)

391 UK seeks to slash domestic farms, risk food production by converting land to woodland, wild habitats

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Well, as long as the Muslims have enough I guess we'll let the whites have what's leftover.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Rex, Now Is the Winter of Our Discontent Made Glorious Summer By This Son of [New] York at February 05, 2025 09:34 AM (L/fGl)

392 >> Who in the hell is advising Trump on Gaza? Quite literally, removing all the residents from Gaza is ETHINIC CLEANSING and is generally considered a type of GENOCIDE and a WAR CRIME!

IT'S FUNNY BECAUSE HAMAS DEMANDED A ONE STATE SOLUTION -- LITERALLY GENOCIDE OF ISRAELIS --, BUT IT NEVER OCCURRED TO THEM IT COULD BE A BEAUTIFUL, RESORT STATE RUN BY TRUMP.

Posted by: BEN ROETHLISBERGER at February 05, 2025 09:34 AM (WbBbu)

393 "Unless and until the majority of Muslims openly reject the main tenets of their so-called religion . . ."

"Unless and until ALL Muslims openly reject . . ."

FIFY

Posted by: This conversation may be recorded for quality assurance purposes at February 05, 2025 09:34 AM (OKIYh)

394 Zelensky: Russia Has Suffered Almost Eight Times More Combat Deaths Than Ukraine

Posted by: SMOD at February 05, 2025 09:35 AM (RHGPo)

395 393 "Unless and until the majority of Muslims openly reject the main tenets of their so-called religion . . ."

"Unless and until ALL Muslims openly reject . . ."

FIFY
Posted by: This conversation may be recorded for quality assurance purposes at February 05, 2025 09:34 AM (OKIYh)

Not just reject, but until the KSA tears down the Ka'aba and blows up the Moon Rock inside.

Posted by: XTC at February 05, 2025 09:35 AM (sm6Pk)

396 374 Still waiting for Trump to do anything he promised on the Second Amendment. But we’ll turn Gaza into condos or something.

But thankfully, we have Pam “Red Flag” Bondi at the helm of the ATF now.
Posted by: Vengeance at February 05, 2025 09:29 AM (5FKHw)

I’ll be first to call out Trump. I wasn’t all that thrilled with his cave on tariffs. But with respect to 2A ist not really urgent. As long as he doesn’t do anything stupid like a deal with Dems for “gun scary” it’s fine.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at February 05, 2025 09:35 AM (uPqbA)

397 the Clinton Global Initiative.

Posted by: SMOD at February 05, 2025 09:33 AM (RHGPo)
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Shshshshshsh!!!!!!!

You wanna get yourself suicided?!?!?!?!?!?!?!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 05, 2025 09:35 AM (CrtM/)

398 No art breasts?

Posted by: Stateless...31% - mental state clawing up from 10% at February 05, 2025 09:36 AM (jvJvP)

399 It's cruel and unusual punishment to the female prisoners to house them with biological male prisoners. Ask the female inmates who ere sexually assaulted. Suck another tranny cock Lambert.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at February 05, 2025 09:37 AM (IOGah)

400 As many as 400 million Hindu pilgrims are expected to visit Prayagraj, India, during this year’s 45-day Maha Kumbh Mela festival. Held every 12 years at one of four places in India, the Kumbh Mela is considered to be an especially auspicious time to bathe in the Triveni Sangam—the confluence of the Ganges, Yamuna, and mythical Saraswati rivers—for purification from sin.

Posted by: SMOD at February 05, 2025 09:37 AM (RHGPo)

401 Noodus gratia artis.

Posted by: Bulg at February 05, 2025 09:37 AM (77rzZ)

402 ART CRITICS NOOD

Posted by: Skip at February 05, 2025 09:37 AM (fwDg9)

403 Saw a great meme yesterday. Radical Muslims are the snakes in the grass. Moderate muslims are the grass hiding the snakes.

Posted by: MkY at February 05, 2025 09:38 AM (cPGH3)

404 I'm pretty sure the title was-

"All American Soldiers in Vietnam Were Rapist Scumbags...Except For This One Guy"
Posted by: naturalfake at February 05, 2025 09:04 AM

The premise was shaky.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at February 05, 2025 09:38 AM (aD39U)

405 I wonder how the Rainbow Warriors For Palestine (last year's Democrat street demonstrators) are reacting to the leak of HAMAS documents on torture and execution of anyone in Gaza suspected of being gay.

Shouldn't that be a story in gay HQ's, like NYC/SF/Houston?

Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 05, 2025 09:39 AM (PNnY7)

406 Sorry!
Posted by: Lizzy at February 05, 2025 09:25 AM (WbBbu)

I was being a little funny.....

Posted by: ... at February 05, 2025 09:39 AM (uuxpB)

407 I’m kinda confused. Is the USAID money still flowing or not? Cuz didn’t a Hawaiian judge and then another Hawaiian judge block the freeze?
Everything is happening so fast I can’t keep up.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at February 05, 2025 09:40 AM (uPqbA)

408 374 Still waiting for Trump to do anything he promised on the Second Amendment. But we’ll turn Gaza into condos or something.

But thankfully, we have Pam “Red Flag” Bondi at the helm of the ATF now.
Posted by: Vengeance at February 05, 2025 09:29 AM (5FKHw)

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Maybe if gun nuts propose a plan to stop school shootings.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at February 05, 2025 09:40 AM (Vh9CX)

409 405 I wonder how the Rainbow Warriors For Palestine (last year's Democrat street demonstrators) are reacting to the leak of HAMAS documents on torture and execution of anyone in Gaza suspected of being gay.
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It’s not like it’s unknown already. They don’t care. Their hatred of all things Western especially Jews, takes precedence over their own well being.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at February 05, 2025 09:42 AM (uPqbA)

410 Parts of it. Can ypu guess which parts were nice?

But it is, by and large, a shithole, and has always been a shithole.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 05, 2025 09:07 AM (SXEGt)

Samson rates this statement as "Mostly True."

Posted by: LASue at February 05, 2025 09:43 AM (lCppi)

411 409 It’s not like it’s unknown already. They don’t care. Their hatred of all things Western especially Jews, takes precedence over their own well being.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at February 05, 2025 09:42 AM (uPqbA)

The muslims would rather focus on Jews, but the Alphabet Brigade would rather focus on Christians.

Either way, they still want the Barbarians inside the gate.

Posted by: XTC at February 05, 2025 09:44 AM (sm6Pk)

412 .. they have been yelling for years "Free Palestine" and finally, Trump took them up on the offer.
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"Free Palestine!" they said.
"of the Palestinians!" Trump added.

LOL.

It's like people adding a penis to the raised fist Pali protest graffiti

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 05, 2025 09:49 AM (G7Fd7)

413 Trump shut down my cat!

Posted by: Keef Olbermann at February 05, 2025 09:54 AM (AR19I)

414 Islam need not be an obstacle, though it makes things harder. There are some nice (or so I have heard) resorts in that general area, in Turkey and Egypt, on the Mediterranean and the Red Sea. If there is a will, there is a way.
Trump's suggestion only seems absurd because Hamas is so evil.

Posted by: PG at February 05, 2025 09:56 AM (uZ2lt)

415 Who in the hell is advising Trump on Gaza? Quite literally, removing all the residents from Gaza is ETHINIC CLEANSING and is generally considered a type of GENOCIDE and a WAR CRIME!
Posted by: WarEagle82 at February 05, 2025 09:28 AM (YcfMX)
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Decolonization

Posted by: Zombie Breitbart at February 05, 2025 10:09 AM (ceo2d)

416 414 Islam need not be an obstacle, though it makes things harder. There are some nice (or so I have heard) resorts in that general area, in Turkey and Egypt, on the Mediterranean and the Red Sea. If there is a will, there is a way.
Trump's suggestion only seems absurd because Hamas is so evil.
Posted by: PG at February 05, 2025 09:56 AM (uZ2lt)

Ummm.... Hamas is the tip of the spear of the Evil. AND THAT IS ISLAM ITSELF.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 05, 2025 10:10 AM (x0n13)

417 I'm amused that Trump's idea about Gaza is essentially, "Nice real estate once you get rid of the riff-raff... we'll take it!" rather than "we need to nation build here". While I'm moderately terrified of any US territory in the Holy Land, one has to admit just kicking them out is a NEW idea.

Wonder if he's thinking of sending them to El Salvador, after their generous offer to take any problems we have...

Posted by: American Hawkman at February 05, 2025 10:11 AM (9VDxG)

418 412 .. they have been yelling for years "Free Palestine" and finally, Trump took them up on the offer.
---
"Free Palestine!" they said.
"of the Palestinians!" Trump added.

LOL.

It's like people adding a penis to the raised fist Pali protest graffiti
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 05, 2025 09:49 AM (G7Fd7)

He should've said "While Supplies Last, only one per coupon"

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 05, 2025 10:12 AM (x0n13)

419 The kabashing of USAID is a Trump/Musk teaching tool not only for US Executive Branch agencies - independent or otherwise - but for the world.

It's a very good thing.

Posted by: L - No nic, another day at February 05, 2025 10:13 AM (NFX2v)

420 I read the content, now I'm late for a meeting with the washer/dryer committee.

Posted by: Eromero at February 05, 2025 10:13 AM (LHPAg)

421 TEMU is offering me a $200 spending spree on shitty TEMU stuff. Imma somebody.
Posted by: Pudinhead
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We got one of those "offers " a while back.
Note that you just can't order from a website, you HAVE to install their app on your device.
IOW, it's primarily a Chinese spy program, not a merchandise distributor.
The Chinese are betting that some idiot will install this on a work or government computer, and they're willing to spend to get that.

Posted by: buddhaha at February 05, 2025 10:25 AM (U0Ex+)

422 .
"California Democrats Pass $50 Million to Fight Trump, Defend Illegal Alien Criminals; Seek Billions in Fire Aid"

dTrumpH should scoot scoot out to California and tell the losers that it would probably be better if Commiefornia declared independence so the United States could invade and set their asses straight.

Democrats, asses, ah, ha ha ha ha ha ! ! !

I crack me up.

Posted by: Marooned at February 05, 2025 10:41 AM (kt8QE)

423 That first paragraph is truly a masterpiece of mental imagery.

Posted by: Max Entropy at February 05, 2025 10:47 AM (oxDA9)

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