THE MORNING RANT: Stacey Abrams Has a History of Illegal Slush Funds Predating the Recent $2 Billion Revelation from DOGE

Conservative media has extensively covered the recent DOGE revelation that in 2024 the Biden administration steered a $2 billion grant to a newly-created “non-profit” associated with perennial Georgia political candidate Stacey Abrams. In its first three months of operations, this organization had raised just $100 before the Biden administration decided to steer $2 billion to it.

But lost amidst all this coverage is the fact that just a few weeks earlier another slush fund incident was revealed involving Ms. Abrams, and although the dollar amount was less, it was criminally worse, because it involved an intentional and illegal diversion of $3 million from a “non-partisan” organization created by Stacey Abrams to help fund her 2018 gubernatorial campaign. The state of Georgia just imposed a massive $300,000 fine on this organization for its illegal efforts to interfere in an election.

“Nonprofit founded by Stacey Abrams secretly campaigned for her in 2018” [The Hill – 01/15/2025]

The commission found the nonprofits raised upward of $4 million and spent more than $3 million to help Abrams and other 2018 candidates. The groups did not file as a campaign committee before receiving donations and failed to file campaign finance reports before the election, the commission found.

I wrote about this story a few weeks ago, but I framed it in terms of Senator Raphael Warnock, who was at that time the head of Ms. Abrams’ corrupt campaign money laundering operation. But the story is ultimately about Stacey Abrams’ history of financial corruption.

“To Be Consistent with the George Santos Precedent, Raphael Warnock Must be Expelled from Congress” [Buck Throckmorton – 02/02/2025]

Senator Raphael Warnock (D – GA) was Chairman of a “non-partisan” group that engaged in a massive violation of campaign finance laws in 2018. The “non-partisan” group led by Warnock spent millions of dollars illegally attempting to influence the outcome of the 2018 Georgia gubernatorial election between Stacey Abrams and Brian Kemp. Despite the dishonest and illegal spending by Warnock’s “non-partisan” group on behalf of Ms. Abrams, she lost that race. Raphael Warnock, who was Chairman of the “New Georgia Project” at the time, is now professing total ignorance of the actions his organization was engaged in.
News broke a few weeks ago that the Georgia Ethics Commission unanimously voted to fine the New Georgia Project and its affiliated spinoff, The New Georgia Project Action Fund, $300,000 for violating state campaign laws and for failing to register as a political committee. As reported in a piece at The Hill titled “Nonprofit founded by Stacey Abrams secretly campaigned for her in 2018” these groups admitted that they violated the law by campaigning for Abrams.
Further, according to the mission statement at the New Georgia Project’s website, ”New Georgia Project is a nonpartisan effort to register, civically engage, and build power with the New Georgia Majority–the large and growing population of Black, brown, young, and other historically marginalized voters in the Peach State.”
Raphael Warnock led this organization in a massive financial and political fraud. Donors who thought they were giving to a non-partisan organization to help “marginalized” voters were actually giving to an organization actively, and illegally, assisting the Stacey Abrams campaign. The New Georgia Project, with Raphael Warnock serving as its as Chairman, was also actively violating federal tax laws.

Stacey Abrams was not only the creator of this entity, she was also the beneficiary of its illegal diversion of tax-free charitable giving to her political campaign back in 2018.

Ms. Abrams has a history of illegally diverting funds to benefit her political ambitions. $2 billion would go a long way toward further interfering with the integrity of Georgia elections.

[buck.throckmorton at protonmail dot com]

Posted by: Buck Throckmorton at 11:00 AM

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1 Hey-yo!

Posted by: Half Dozen at February 24, 2025 11:00 AM (uVHlT)

2 1st

Posted by: tankdemon at February 24, 2025 11:00 AM (P3/76)

3 1st?

Posted by: Bulg at February 24, 2025 11:00 AM (77rzZ)

4 Damn.

Posted by: tankdemon at February 24, 2025 11:00 AM (P3/76)

5 Turd?

Posted by: OneEyedJack at February 24, 2025 11:01 AM (FCbAQ)

6 Nood duties complete.

Posted by: tankdemon at February 24, 2025 11:01 AM (P3/76)

7
Good Morning

Posted by: four seasons at February 24, 2025 11:01 AM (3ek7K)

8 Yech. We go from the lovely art to a Tank Abrams pic. Yech.

Posted by: Bulg at February 24, 2025 11:01 AM (77rzZ)

9 YO

Posted by: Lizzy at February 24, 2025 11:01 AM (Cki93)

10 Maybe the FBI agents being relocated to Georgia can work on fixing some of this?

Or... more likely, aid and abet?

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 24, 2025 11:02 AM (Q4IgG)

11 Seems like a legal reason now exists to.seize.the $2 billion?

Posted by: Diogenes at February 24, 2025 11:03 AM (W/lyH)

12 I need to lose an election in GA as a Democrat...

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 24, 2025 11:04 AM (GBKbO)

13 501c3 status has been a joke for many years.
It would be easier to name the ones that are not politically partisan.

Posted by: Lizzy at February 24, 2025 11:04 AM (Cki93)

14 This morning I had a memory of that goofy looking nerd dude with the question mark suit who wrote that book on how to get government money. Name escapes me. But seems like there's been easy picking for grafters for an awfully long time.

Posted by: Minnfidel at February 24, 2025 11:04 AM (4p0Xq)

15 It'd be nice to put her out of commission.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy at February 24, 2025 11:04 AM (eYoxG)

16 It's not her fault.

she thought it was a fund for Slushies.

Posted by: andycanuck (/tzYP) at February 24, 2025 11:04 AM (/tzYP)

17
Five that poor gal a break -- after all, she needs a new steam shovel every year to ladle mounds of comestibles into her slavering maw many, many times each day.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at February 24, 2025 11:05 AM (xG4kz)

18 Ok, read the content now.
Will the new and improved DOJ do jumping, or nah?

Posted by: OneEyedJack at February 24, 2025 11:05 AM (FCbAQ)

19 My mistake... the FBI agents are being relocated to Alabama. Huntsville, specifically. Which might be worse than anyplace in Georgia. Maybe.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 24, 2025 11:05 AM (Q4IgG)

20 The two bobs: What would you say ... you do around here?

Skeleton: ..................................

Posted by: BourbonChicken at February 24, 2025 11:05 AM (lEahz)

21 This morning I had a memory of that goofy looking nerd dude with the question mark suit who wrote that book on how to get government money. Name escapes me. But seems like there's been easy picking for grafters for an awfully long time.
Posted by: Minnfidel

Matthew Lesko

Posted by: Bulg at February 24, 2025 11:05 AM (77rzZ)

22 Hey-yo!
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Ha-ha-ha!!!

Posted by: zombie ed mcmahon at February 24, 2025 11:05 AM (/tzYP)

23 Biggest customer for government mandated EVs was....government. Funny how that works.

Posted by: BignJames at February 24, 2025 11:06 AM (Yj6Os)

24 >>Donors who thought they were giving to a non-partisan organization to help “marginalized” voters were actually giving to an organization actively, and illegally, assisting the Stacey Abrams campaign. The New Georgia Project, with Raphael Warnock serving as its as Chairman, was also actively violating federal tax laws

Let's be cynical and assume most donors knew where the money would go, because the whole "marginalized voters" shtick is always about enabling more, better voter fraud.

Posted by: Lizzy at February 24, 2025 11:06 AM (Cki93)

25 That's probably the 'most glamorous' photo you'll ever find of Stacey Abrams.

It still makes me wretch.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 24, 2025 11:06 AM (Q4IgG)

26 How DARE you besmirch the reputation of such a prominent member of Starfleet Command??!!

Posted by: Wesley Crusher at February 24, 2025 11:06 AM (LxER7)

27 Do they make orange jumpsuits in XXXL?

Asking for a friend.

Posted by: Big Stacy at February 24, 2025 11:06 AM (+tWwE)

28 Jumping should be something.
Autocucumber strikes again

Posted by: OneEyedJack at February 24, 2025 11:07 AM (FCbAQ)

29 23 Biggest customer for government mandated EVs was....government. Funny how that works.
Posted by: BignJames at February 24, 2025 11:06 AM (Yj6Os)

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And they managed roughly...4% of new sales at the best point?

Government coercion for luxury goods, man.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 24, 2025 11:07 AM (GBKbO)

30
It'd be nice to put her out of commission.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy

Get her on board the SS United States somehow, trussed up, and she can become part of the artificial reef for which that vessel is to be sunk any day now.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at February 24, 2025 11:07 AM (xG4kz)

31 Now I understand why she got such a big name without ever holding office. She controlled the money.

The impact of Trump cutting off the funds to all the NGO’ s is going to be greater than we can imagine, I believe. Dem laundering operations around the country and around the world will start to collapse - big story today out of the UK about the biggest trans-rights outfit announcing massive layoffs because of USAID money being cut.

Posted by: Tom Servo at February 24, 2025 11:07 AM (73vBl)

32 Do they make orange jumpsuits in XXXL?

Asking for a friend.
Posted by: Big Stacy at February 24, 2025 11:06 AM (+tWwE)

Inshallah.

Posted by: Omar the tent maker at February 24, 2025 11:08 AM (euQjW)

33 On reddit there were some IRS employees who were shocked to the core that their agency was unpopular. EI that people would toast people getting fired.

These people don't have ordinary taxpayer friends and neighbors and it shows. I hope every three-letter agency gets relocated into cities full of citizens.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at February 24, 2025 11:08 AM (lEahz)

34 I was offered a promotion in 2001 to move to Atlanta to manage their office as they were closing the smaller office I was managing at the time.

I chose temporary unemployment rather than moving to Atlanta. I spent 6 weeks there in 1987 and hated it. Don't regret my decision one bit.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at February 24, 2025 11:08 AM (VofaG)

35 Man, how awesome would it be if the DOJ make an example out of her and then we'd never have to see her gap-tooth mug ever again.

Posted by: Grapefruit LaCroix at February 24, 2025 11:08 AM (+tWwE)

36 $2 billion would go a long way toward further interfering with the integrity of Georgia elections.

I made this same argument to a fence-straddling RINO over the weekend.

That $40 billion USAID handed out last year may not mean jack shit against deficit and debt numbers, but it makes a huge impact on our electoral politics when channeled into democrat party coffers and media propaganda operations.

Posted by: biteme at February 24, 2025 11:08 AM (xWS9V)

37 Get her on board the SS United States somehow, trussed up, and she can become part of the artificial reef for which that vessel is to be sunk any day now.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at February 24, 2025 11:07 AM (xG4kz)

She’ll grow tentacles and change her name to Ursula.

Posted by: Tom Servo at February 24, 2025 11:08 AM (73vBl)

38 One word: Forensic Audit.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at February 24, 2025 11:08 AM (jc0TO)

39 CAN the Senate expel members, as the House can? I don't think so. Remember, they were set up to be chosen differently. There's nothing in the 17th that changes that.

Posted by: Eeyore at February 24, 2025 11:09 AM (1bNHn)

40 >>the FBI agents are being relocated to Alabama. Huntsville, specifically. Which might be worse than anyplace in Georgia. Maybe.

How many will quit, given that they are DC creatures who don't want to move away from the source of their inside-the-beltway power? You just know a bunch of them are also members of those various "democracy" organizations, etc.

Posted by: Lizzy at February 24, 2025 11:09 AM (Cki93)

41 Biggest customer for government mandated EVs was....government. Funny how that works.
Posted by: BignJames at February 24, 2025 11:06 AM (Yj6Os)

How else are we supposed to film our "having sex in a self-driving car during our commute" episodes for OF? -- government "hotties"

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 24, 2025 11:09 AM (ExV1e)

42 36 I made this same argument to a fence-straddling RINO over the weekend.

That $40 billion USAID handed out last year may not mean jack shit against deficit and debt numbers, but it makes a huge impact on our electoral politics when channeled into democrat party coffers and media propaganda operations.
Posted by: biteme at February 24, 2025 11:08 AM (xWS9V)

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We know that 100% isn't being used to buy rice for poor people. A very small minority of the money is.

$40 billion is 5 times bigger than Hollywood's entire box office returns in 2023.

$40 billion is worthy 5 Hollywoods.

And USAID has gone unchecked with that kind of funding to influence...whatever they want for decades.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 24, 2025 11:10 AM (GBKbO)

43 The President of the Federation in the 29th century is above reproach.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at February 24, 2025 11:10 AM (Vh9CX)

44 $2 is almost enough to cover Abrams' Twinkie budget for a weekend.

Posted by: tankdemon at February 24, 2025 11:10 AM (P3/76)

45 My mistake... the FBI agents are being relocated to Alabama. Huntsville, specifically. Which might be worse than anyplace in Georgia. Maybe.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 24, 2025 11:05 AM (Q4IgG)

Birmingham may be worse.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at February 24, 2025 11:10 AM (VofaG)

46 She was fighting the gender pay gap and taking it in a lump sum.

Posted by: NR Pax at February 24, 2025 11:11 AM (BpO1e)

47 How DARE you besmirch the reputation of such a prominent member of Starfleet Command??!!
Posted by: Wesley Crusher at February 24, 2025 11:06 AM

The election for the Federation President was rigged with voting by subspace comms.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at February 24, 2025 11:11 AM (jc0TO)

48 19 My mistake... the FBI agents are being relocated to Alabama. Huntsville, specifically. Which might be worse than anyplace in Georgia. Maybe.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 24, 2025 11:05 AM (Q4IgG)

As long as they are greeted with the sound of banjos and told they have a pretty mouth.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at February 24, 2025 11:11 AM (N39Ws)

49 The government is one big money laundering grift operation. I sometimes think I’m an idiot for not getting in on the action myself

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at February 24, 2025 11:11 AM (WnEm5)

50 Stacey "Big Bopper" Abrams is a supermodel, don't you know? Supermodels are very expensive to maintain. She needs mucho grande dinero.

Posted by: Elric Blade at February 24, 2025 11:11 AM (iFTx/)

51
'Member dis?

https://tinyurl.com/tzv382x6

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at February 24, 2025 11:12 AM (xG4kz)

52 With Tank Abrams, Fani Willis, and Nathan Wade all being from Georgia, how does Popeye's feed them all?

Posted by: Supply Chain Woes at February 24, 2025 11:12 AM (G5+As)

53 The President of the Federation in the 29th century is above reproach.
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at February 24, 2025 11:10 AM (Vh9CX)

You mean Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho?

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at February 24, 2025 11:12 AM (VofaG)

54 Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth

What's the matter with Huntsville? The few times I've been there I thought it was a nice place.

Posted by: Bulg at February 24, 2025 11:12 AM (77rzZ)

55 CAN the Senate expel members, as the House can? I don't think so. Remember, they were set up to be chosen differently. There's nothing in the 17th that changes that.

Posted by: Eeyore at February 24, 2025 11:09 AM (1bNHn)

Didn't they kick out Bob Menendez?

Posted by: BignJames at February 24, 2025 11:13 AM (Yj6Os)

56 I never got over mucho grande dinero.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at February 24, 2025 11:13 AM (jc0TO)

57 Man, with those teefs, ol' Stacey could get herself a good job stripping insulation off scrap wire at a recycle center.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 24, 2025 11:13 AM (8zz6B)

58 Off, sock.

Not a single "Shut up, Wesley!"?

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at February 24, 2025 11:13 AM (LxER7)

59 Ms. Abrams has a history of illegally diverting funds to benefit her political ambitions.
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I wonder if this is a little backwards, and the right formulation is...

"Ms. Abrams has a history of using political organizations for illegal personal enrichment."

Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 24, 2025 11:13 AM (zxAjZ)

60 54 What's the matter with Huntsville? The few times I've been there I thought it was a nice place.
Posted by: Bulg at February 24, 2025 11:12 AM (77rzZ)

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It's not DC. It's not a power center.

Huntsville is fine (my mother in law lives an hour away).

But it's unimportant.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 24, 2025 11:13 AM (GBKbO)

61 Why are white liberals so obsessed with that cow?

Posted by: Supreme Gentleman at February 24, 2025 11:14 AM (ScFGB)

62 Kash is going to need to put a team of agents on the investigation into pigface. Divvy it up by the pound.

Posted by: Roy at February 24, 2025 11:14 AM (z+ik4)

63 (my mother in law lives an hour away)

In A-rab?

Posted by: Grump928(C) at February 24, 2025 11:14 AM (jc0TO)

64
Man, with those teefs, ol' Stacey could get herself a good job stripping insulation off scrap wire at a recycle center.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

What gauges, do you think, she'd work best with?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at February 24, 2025 11:14 AM (xG4kz)

65 What's the matter with Huntsville? The few times I've been there I thought it was a nice place.

Posted by: Bulg at February 24, 2025 11:12 AM (77rzZ)

Biggest city in "Bama, now?

Posted by: BignJames at February 24, 2025 11:14 AM (Yj6Os)

66 63 (my mother in law lives an hour away)

In A-rab?
Posted by: Grump928(C) at February 24, 2025 11:14 AM (jc0TO)

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Further south.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 24, 2025 11:14 AM (GBKbO)

67 Man, with those teefs, ol' Stacey could get herself a good job stripping insulation off scrap wire at a recycle center.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

*AOC adds to her list of post-Congressional careers*

Posted by: Bulg at February 24, 2025 11:15 AM (77rzZ)

68 Huntsville is an alright place to live. They have a Grimaldi's pizza. We can't even get on in Nashville.

That is some straight-up bullsh*t.

Posted by: Grapefruit LaCroix at February 24, 2025 11:15 AM (+tWwE)

69 I'm not usually into colored women, but I'd bang Stacey Abrams.

Posted by: SFGoth at February 24, 2025 11:15 AM (MPR4k)

70 Rules for thee and not for me.

Santos was always just a conveinent target to fix, make a huge amount of hay over and then pressure to get them (the GOPe) to self harm. They will never apply the same standard to one of their own because they know the propaganda value of doing it.

One could argue Bob Menendez, but I still think pretty much any dem 'accountability' we see is a result of dem in fighting (as with the mayor of NYC.)

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 24, 2025 11:15 AM (bss/y)

71 Oh, it would also make sense to say my father-in-law actually lives in Huntsville.

Except we only rarely go and see him.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 24, 2025 11:15 AM (GBKbO)

72 Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth

What's the matter with Huntsville? The few times I've been there I thought it was a nice place.
Posted by: Bulg at February 24, 2025 11:12 AM (77rzZ)

That was Martini. I said Birmingham is bad.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at February 24, 2025 11:15 AM (VofaG)

73 BignJames, Menendez was convicted on bribery charges and sent to jail. Automatic expulsion.

Posted by: Ben Had at February 24, 2025 11:15 AM (mB6WH)

74
There's a Golden Corral somewhere that's now rich.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 24, 2025 11:15 AM (dxSpM)

75 69 I'm not usually into colored women, but I'd bang Stacey Abrams.
Posted by: SFGoth at February 24, 2025 11:15 AM (MPR4k)

Ride the wave in.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 24, 2025 11:15 AM (bss/y)

76 Further south.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 24, 2025 11:14 AM

I lived for years in Morgan Country growing up.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at February 24, 2025 11:15 AM (jc0TO)

77 This morning I had a memory of that goofy looking nerd dude with the question mark suit who wrote that book on how to get government money. Name escapes me. But seems like there's been easy picking for grafters for an awfully long time.
Posted by: Minnfidel

Matthew Lesko
Posted by: Bulg at February 24, 2025 11:05 AM

That's it! Thanks! Name escaped me. I guess his books will have less sales now. LOL.

Posted by: Minnfidel at February 24, 2025 11:16 AM (4p0Xq)

78 Come on down.
We're the city of OPPortunity.

Posted by: Opp, Alabama at February 24, 2025 11:16 AM (DobEs)

79 72 That was Martini. I said Birmingham is bad.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at February 24, 2025 11:15 AM (VofaG)

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I lived there for about 18 months.

Shitty inner city. The only saving grace is the university, and that's not great (the school is fine, but the influence on the shittiness is limited).

Halfway decent areas around it.

I never liked it.

Still, I met Dolley there.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 24, 2025 11:16 AM (GBKbO)

80 Think about this. That is like the BEST picture of her out there. Meaning it's been airbrushed to beat the band.

Posted by: Minnfidel at February 24, 2025 11:16 AM (4p0Xq)

81 That was Martini. I said Birmingham is bad.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth

Yes, I saw that after I had posted. Sorry.

Posted by: Bulg at February 24, 2025 11:16 AM (77rzZ)

82
Imagine a love child from her and Terry Thomas.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 24, 2025 11:16 AM (dxSpM)

83

69 I'm not usually into colored women, but I'd bang Stacey Abrams.
Posted by: SFGoth at February 24, 2025 11:15 AM (MPR4k)

9 mm or .45?

Posted by: Tom Servo at February 24, 2025 11:16 AM (73vBl)

84 Why are white liberals so obsessed with that cow?

My guess is because she's not "normal" - and they hate anything normal.

Posted by: Short Answer at February 24, 2025 11:16 AM (Nc+h0)

85 Hmm. Looks like this business may be worth sacks of gold. I wonder if I set up a non-profit - say, Political Action Committee Online - anybody will be able to trace it back to me.

Posted by: Paco at February 24, 2025 11:17 AM (mADJX)

86 39 CAN the Senate expel members, as the House can? I don't think so. Remember, they were set up to be chosen differently. There's nothing in the 17th that changes that.
Posted by: Eeyore at February 24, 2025 11:09 AM (1bNHn)

Yes. It comes from the same clause of the Constitution as the House authorization. Article I, Section 5.

Posted by: tankdemon at February 24, 2025 11:17 AM (P3/76)

87 Thx Buck. The Republican party in Georgia has got to be a bucket full of nitwits to let Warnock and Osoff win, and not nail Abrams to the wall. Can't fathom what Kemp's political calculus is here

Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 24, 2025 11:17 AM (cMcMn)

88 84 Why are white liberals so obsessed with that cow?

My guess is because she's not "normal" - and they hate anything normal.
Posted by: Short Answer at February 24, 2025 11:16 AM (Nc+h0)

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1. She's a victim.
2. It sounds like most of her appeal has been...artificially created through government grants in the amounts of billions of dollars.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 24, 2025 11:17 AM (GBKbO)

89 Birmingham has a high murder rate, but not a huge number of murders as the population of the actual city is small, by major city standards.

It has always been more of a "Bham Metro Area" kind of place.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at February 24, 2025 11:17 AM (jc0TO)

90 I'm not usually into colored women, but I'd bang Stacey Abrams.
Posted by: SFGoth at February 24, 2025 11:15 AM

Mind the gap.

Posted by: Minnfidel at February 24, 2025 11:17 AM (4p0Xq)

91 Huntsville , TX much worse than Huntsville ,AL

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at February 24, 2025 11:18 AM (VofaG)

92 Why send 5,000 agents to Alabama? Must be a big concentration of jihadi camps.

Posted by: Ben Had at February 24, 2025 11:18 AM (mB6WH)

93 She’s enormous….

Posted by: tubal at February 24, 2025 11:18 AM (PCK5/)

94 It was obvious to me, something I knew, if not be able to prove.

We’ve been being gaslit for decades, using our own money. There is no general support for leftist causes outside a tiny percentage of cranks and nutbars. It’s all an elaborate spook operation, run through a thoroughly corrupted “news” organizations, pseudo-intellectuals in captured academe, and a finely tuned ever expanding electoral fraud machine. The Fibbies running cleanup ops for the progressives since the 1980s, other organizations running huge destabilization efforts. Drugs in particular.

Basically, everything that made America a tough nut to crack - a broad growing middle class, rule of law, property rights, low crime, a reasonably decent peaceable religious people - is under attack, and has been for generations.

With a phony baloney printing press currency there is unlimited capacity for mischief, no society can withstand this.

Posted by: Common Tater at February 24, 2025 11:19 AM (HKCc2)

95 say, Political Action Committee Online
Posted by: Paco at February 24, 2025 11:17 AM

ISWYDT

Posted by: Grump928(C) at February 24, 2025 11:19 AM (jc0TO)

96 92 Why send 5,000 agents to Alabama? Must be a big concentration of jihadi camps.
Posted by: Ben Had at February 24, 2025 11:18 AM (mB6WH)

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There's some FBI training center there.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 24, 2025 11:19 AM (GBKbO)

97 She's a victim.

Beats my theory. I guess anybody not a straight white male gets to be a victim.

Posted by: Short Answer at February 24, 2025 11:19 AM (Nc+h0)

98 Willowed: Honestly, the best author to teach an English class would be John D. MacDonald. You could burn through the entire Travis McGee books in one semester and no one would get bored.
Posted by: Pudinhead at February 24, 2025

***
The McGees would be good choices, along with his SF novels, The Girl, the Gold Watch, and Everything and Ballroom of the Skies.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 24, 2025 11:19 AM (J2vNu)

99 Sometime during the lunacy of the years 2020-22 we were told Stacey Abrams was the perfect picture of health and feminine beauty. Didn’t she appear in some magazine photo spread in a workout leotard? The message being apparently: land whales in tights are beautiful get used to it body shaming hater!

She must’ve used a lot of that cash on Big Macs and donuts

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at February 24, 2025 11:19 AM (WnEm5)

100 Still, I met Dolley there.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 24, 2025 11:16 AM (GBKbO)

*nods*

Oui. C’est l’amour.

*takes drag off Galois*

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 24, 2025 11:20 AM (bss/y)

101 78 Come on down.
We're the city of OPPortunity.
Posted by: Opp, Alabama

If you lived here, you'd be home now.

Posted by: Bridgeville, Delaware at February 24, 2025 11:20 AM (G5+As)

102 The devil went down to Georgia looking for some dough to steal. She had a great big behind and in a bind and looking to make a deal.

Posted by: Minnfidel at February 24, 2025 11:20 AM (4p0Xq)

103 Has she screamed that all of her critics are racists yet?

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at February 24, 2025 11:20 AM (WPL6O)

104 Get her on board the SS United States somehow, trussed up, and she can become part of the artificial reef for which that vessel is to be sunk any day now.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at February 24, 2025 11:07 AM (xG4kz)

So sad that such a wonderful vessel is being scrapped. Amazing tech for the day.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 24, 2025 11:20 AM (8zz6B)

105 Friends have a cottage in Huntsville, [mid-north] Ontario and it's a very nice place.

Posted by: andycanuck (/tzYP) at February 24, 2025 11:20 AM (/tzYP)

106 Imagine a love child from her and Terry Thomas.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 24, 2025 11:16 AM (dxSpM)

So many references gone... like tears in the rain...

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 24, 2025 11:21 AM (bss/y)

107
Didn't they kick out Bob Menendez?
Posted by: BignJames

"Severely admonished", by the United States Senate Select Committee on Ethics, but neither censured nor expelled.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at February 24, 2025 11:21 AM (xG4kz)

108 Someone on X said "D.O.G.E should be renamed to Federal Agency for FINANCIAL Oversight… or simply, F.A.F.O"

Reposted by Elon Musk ...

Posted by: ShainS -- DOGE should be renamed Federal Agency for Financial Oversight (FAFO) at February 24, 2025 11:21 AM (su/Mj)

109 BignJames, Menendez was convicted on bribery charges and sent to jail. Automatic expulsion.

Posted by: Ben Had at February 24, 2025 11:15 AM (mB6WH)

Convicting a sitting senator?...Bob must've been really careless.

Posted by: BignJames at February 24, 2025 11:21 AM (Yj6Os)

110 The problem with Huntsville is that it is strictly a city of suburbs. The downtown is a sprawling mess, hardly worth the effort to go downtown and walk around.

The main drag on University Dr is a rundown corporate nightmare and Memorial isn’t any better.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at February 24, 2025 11:21 AM (Vh9CX)

111 During the Art Thread, Madame Mayhem complained that we so often discuss fantasy and science fiction on the Sunday morning Book Thread. Yes we do, but there's a sizeable contingent of us (or maybe it's mostly me) who comments on the classic mystery as well. Don't give up on us yet, Madame!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 24, 2025 11:21 AM (J2vNu)

112 Sometime during the lunacy of the years 2020-22 we were told Stacey Abrams was the perfect picture of health and feminine beauty.

In fairness, she could have been the model for the Venus of Willendorf.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at February 24, 2025 11:21 AM (jc0TO)

113 Has she screamed that all of her critics are racists yet?
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at February 24, 2025 11:20 AM

Shes a lib. So.

Posted by: Minnfidel at February 24, 2025 11:22 AM (4p0Xq)

114 Friends have a cottage in Huntsville, [mid-north] Ontario and it's a very nice place.

Too many Canadians.

Posted by: Short Answer at February 24, 2025 11:22 AM (Nc+h0)

115 It was 500 to Huntington. FBI has a large facility there and I’ve read it handles most immigration/drug smuggling issues.

DC is focused on political crimes.

Posted by: Tom Servo at February 24, 2025 11:22 AM (73vBl)

116
takes drag off Galois*
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 24, 2025 11:20 AM (bss/y)

_______

*sits at greasy cafe table, scowling*

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 24, 2025 11:23 AM (dxSpM)

117 96 92 Why send 5,000 agents to Alabama? Must be a big concentration of jihadi camps.
Posted by: Ben Had at February 24, 2025 11:18 AM (mB6WH)

=======

There's some FBI training center there.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 24, 2025 11:19 AM (GBKbO)

This. And it is 500, not 5,000.

Posted by: tankdemon at February 24, 2025 11:23 AM (P3/76)

118 takes drag off Galois*
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 24, 2025 11:20 AM (bss/y)

_______

*sits at greasy cafe table, scowling*
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 24, 2025 11:23 AM

*shakes fist at Jewish children*

Posted by: Grump928(C) at February 24, 2025 11:23 AM (jc0TO)

119 As hard as DeepState tried to fabricate "crimes" for Trump, there should be an equal/greater effort at real justice against the real criminals.

AND an equal effort to reveal who in government (illegally) protected the corruption of the USAID boondoggle.

Posted by: illiniwek at February 24, 2025 11:23 AM (Cus5s)

120 During the Art Thread, Madame Mayhem complained that we so often discuss fantasy and science fiction on the Sunday morning Book Thread. Yes we do, but there's a sizeable contingent of us (or maybe it's mostly me) who comments on the classic mystery as well. Don't give up on us yet, Madame!
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

I don't go there because I seldom read fiction.

Posted by: Bulg at February 24, 2025 11:24 AM (77rzZ)

121 112 Sometime during the lunacy of the years 2020-22 we were told Stacey Abrams was the perfect picture of health and feminine beauty.

In fairness, she could have been the model for the Venus of Willendorf.
Posted by: Grump928(C) at February 24, 2025 11:21 AM (jc0TO)

I did like in the 13th Warrior when that statue was used to show that they were up against the Eaters of the Dead.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 24, 2025 11:24 AM (bss/y)

122 I remember back in 2020, Tank thought for sure that she was gonna be Joey Shit-Pants' running mate.

And then they said, not today, Tubby!

Of course, we got the cackler instead.

Ugh.

Posted by: Grapefruit LaCroix at February 24, 2025 11:24 AM (+tWwE)

123

Roberta Flack, Soulful “Killing Me Softly With His Song” Performer, Dies at 88

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 24, 2025 11:24 AM (63Dwl)

124 It can be lunch time
And any chance Stacy will see inside a court room?
I doubt it

Posted by: Skip at February 24, 2025 11:24 AM (l/est)

125 39 CAN the Senate expel members, as the House can? I don't think so. Remember, they were set up to be chosen differently. There's nothing in the 17th that changes that.
Posted by: Eeyore
--
Read the Constitution. It is in Article I, Section 5, clause 2. "Each House may determine the rules of its proceedings, punish its members for disorderly behavior, and, with the concurrence of two thirds, expel a member."

After the Articles of Confederation government ended, state legislatures could no longer recall a member to Congress even though they kept the right to choose senators until the 17th was ratified. 1787 ended that practice.

To wit, there is a lot of bullshit floated around about the Constitution and its amendments and not all of it is from liberals.

Posted by: whig at February 24, 2025 11:24 AM (ctrM5)

126 Thx Buck. The Republican party in Georgia has got to be a bucket full of nitwits to let Warnock and Osoff win, and not nail Abrams to the wall. Can't fathom what Kemp's political calculus is here
Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 24, 2025 11:17 AM (cMcMn)

Don’t forget the 2020 steal. Almost as if the state GOP was in on it..

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at February 24, 2025 11:24 AM (l3YAf)

127 Never mind expulsions. The House for example used to have rules, it wasn’t enough to simply win election in the district.

The House could have still refused to seat an electoral atrocity e.g. Omar. The much vaunted “checks and balances” have been removed by the judiciary for a hundred years running.

Posted by: Common Tater at February 24, 2025 11:24 AM (HKCc2)

128 I was thinking that moving FBI agents to Alabama where they can't really dick around with the administration as easily as they could in the capitol city would be reason #1 to do it.

Reason #2 might be to focus on the horseshit going on with the elections in Georgia, next door to them.

And elsewhere in the south. Assuming those agents would, you know, actually do their job.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 24, 2025 11:24 AM (Q4IgG)

129 I'm in the mood for a good bodice-ripper and I think Stacy can supply that need.

Posted by: Weakly Reader. at February 24, 2025 11:25 AM (G5+As)

130 RICO her ass!

"We're gonna need a bigger Sikorsky S-64 Skycrane ..."

Posted by: ShainS -- DOGE should be renamed Federal Agency for Financial Oversight (FAFO) at February 24, 2025 11:25 AM (su/Mj)

131 Now let's unmask who's playing the Stacey Abrams role in the other 49 states...

Posted by: UnderCoverinLA at February 24, 2025 11:25 AM (MKePZ)

132
shakes fist at Jewish children*
Posted by: Grump928(C) at February 24, 2025 11:23 AM (jc0TO)

__________

*tiny underpowered cars rattle by*

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 24, 2025 11:26 AM (dxSpM)

133 122 I remember back in 2020, Tank thought for sure that she was gonna be Joey Shit-Pants' running mate.

And then they said, not today, Tubby!

Of course, we got the cackler instead.

Ugh.
Posted by: Grapefruit LaCroix at February 24, 2025 11:24 AM (+tWwE)

The damnable misery of it is I think she would have been a better candidate than Kamala.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 24, 2025 11:26 AM (bss/y)

134 Convicting a sitting senator?...Bob must've been really careless.
Posted by: BignJames at February 24, 2025 11:21 AM (Yj6Os)

Hard to believe but true: MSNBC just hired his daughter to replace Joy Reid.

Posted by: Tom Servo at February 24, 2025 11:26 AM (73vBl)

135 Stacy's mom does *not* got it goin' on.

Posted by: Grapefruit LaCroix at February 24, 2025 11:27 AM (+tWwE)

136 Are the Popehats handed down, or does the next guy get new custom made ones?

Posted by: What About The Mitre Saw? at February 24, 2025 11:27 AM (G5+As)

137 96 92 Why send 5,000 agents to Alabama? Must be a big concentration of jihadi camps.
Posted by: Ben Had at February 24, 2025 11:18 AM (mB6WH)

=======

There's some FBI training center there.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

--
One of the Trump proposals in the first administration was to move the FBI hq to Alabama instead of building a new hq in DC.

Posted by: whig at February 24, 2025 11:27 AM (ctrM5)

138 Cuban revolutionary, now Mayor Bass of Los Angeles infamy, was on the short list for Joey Shitpants running mate. True story. That’s storybook, man.

Posted by: Common Tater at February 24, 2025 11:27 AM (HKCc2)

139 To wit, there is a lot of bullshit floated around about the Constitution and its amendments and not all of it is from liberals.
Posted by: whig at February 24, 2025 11:24 AM (ctrM5)

I don’t know what you’re talking about.

Posted by: The 69th Amendment, the Right to Keep and Bare Sydney Sweeney at February 24, 2025 11:27 AM (l3YAf)

140 Are the Popehats handed down, or does the next guy get new custom made ones?
Posted by: What About The Mitre Saw? at February 24, 2025 11:27 AM

I would bet money that they are bespoke hats.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at February 24, 2025 11:27 AM (jc0TO)

141 Roberta Flack, Soulful “Killing Me Softly With His Song” Performer, Dies at 88
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.

Was she over the target? (Too soon?)

Posted by: Bulg at February 24, 2025 11:27 AM (77rzZ)

142 OT, but Buck's our money guy.
Does the Dow Jones Average have any meaningful purpose any more?
It does not seem to correlate to any economic trends.

Posted by: From about That Time at February 24, 2025 11:28 AM (n4GiU)

143 I'm in the mood for a good bodice-ripper and I think Stacy can supply that need.
Posted by: Weakly Reader.
---------
Written by Ben Dover.

Posted by: andycanuck (/tzYP) at February 24, 2025 11:28 AM (/tzYP)

144 Don’t forget the 2020 steal. Almost as if the state GOP was in on it..

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at February 24, 2025 11:24 AM (l3YAf)

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

* Arizona and the McCain Machine have, once again, entered the chat *

Posted by: ShainS -- DOGE should be renamed Federal Agency for Financial Oversight (FAFO) at February 24, 2025 11:28 AM (su/Mj)

145 I'm in the mood for a good bodice-ripper and I think Stacy can supply that need.

Posted by: Weakly Reader. at February 24, 2025 11:25 AM (G5+As)

Like she could fit in a bodice.

Posted by: BignJames at February 24, 2025 11:28 AM (Yj6Os)

146 140 Are the Popehats handed down, or does the next guy get new custom made ones?
Posted by: What About The Mitre Saw? at February 24, 2025 11:27 AM

I would bet money that they are bespoke hats.

I'm pretty sure they bury the popes in their funny hats.

Posted by: Grapefruit LaCroix at February 24, 2025 11:29 AM (+tWwE)

147 135 Stacy's mom does *not* got it goin' on.
Posted by: Grapefruit LaCroix at February 24, 2025 11:27 AM (+tWwE)

Yes. Yes she does.

https://tinyurl.com/4xpk5p5c

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 24, 2025 11:29 AM (bss/y)

148
I would bet money that they are bespoke hats.
Posted by: Grump928(C) at February 24, 2025 11:27 AM (jc0TO)

________

I want the next guy to have a full-blown coronation with the sedia gestoria and flabillifers.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 24, 2025 11:29 AM (dxSpM)

149 The 69th Amendment, the Right to Keep and Bare Sydney Sweeney
-----
Zombie Ben Franklin smiles.

Posted by: andycanuck (/tzYP) at February 24, 2025 11:30 AM (/tzYP)

150 tsk, tsk. I expect so much better from Starfleet Presidents.

Posted by: Kevin in ABQ at February 24, 2025 11:30 AM (KdMAI)

151 Let's do the governmental unions that both back & march with almost every outrageous protest, and also 90+% back Stacy Abrams and others of her ilk.
---

For many years, northern Alabama has been a huge Federal hub. (Lots of excellent employment in the region.)

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at February 24, 2025 11:30 AM (NFX2v)

152 Like she could fit in a bodice.
Posted by: BignJames at February 24, 2025 11:28 AM (Yj6Os)

"Call me!"

- Christo

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at February 24, 2025 11:30 AM (LxER7)

153 Roberta Flack, Soulful “Killing Me Softly With His Song” Performer, Dies at 88
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.

That song has special place in memories. First song that I slowed danced up close and personal. Juliette Dyer.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at February 24, 2025 11:30 AM (VofaG)

154 The damnable misery of it is I think she would have been a better candidate than Kamala.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 24, 2025 11:26 AM (bss/y)

Of course she would have been! For starters she was actually black, unlike Kamala.
But Kamala was backed by the West Coast billionaires and she was easily controllable.

Posted by: Tom Servo at February 24, 2025 11:30 AM (wyMQY)

155 Like she could fit in a bodice.
Posted by: BignJames at February 24, 2025 11:28 AM (Yj6Os)

Corset would need a Manhattan level project to design.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 24, 2025 11:31 AM (bss/y)

156 Legalinsurrection.com Leftists found a judge to stop Doge at Education department

Posted by: Skip at February 24, 2025 11:31 AM (l/est)

157
BignJames, Menendez was convicted on bribery charges and sent to jail. Automatic expulsion.

Posted by: Ben Had

He was convicted on all his multiple charges in July 2024, resigned his seat in August 2024, and was sentenced in January 2025.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at February 24, 2025 11:31 AM (xG4kz)

158 151 Let's do the governmental unions that both back & march with almost every outrageous protest, and also 90+% back Stacy Abrams and others of her ilk.
---

For many years, northern Alabama has been a huge Federal hub. (Lots of excellent employment in the region.)
Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at February 24, 2025 11:30 AM (NFX2v)

======

Aerospace stuff is big.

The museum is really good, at least.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 24, 2025 11:31 AM (GBKbO)

159 156 Legalinsurrection.com Leftists found a judge to stop Doge at Education department
Posted by: Skip at February 24, 2025 11:31 AM (l/est)

=======

If DOGE can see Treasury data, it'll be able to see Education data.

Also, DOGE has been in education data for, like, 2 weeks already.

At worst, Trump's team is going to maliciously comply by saying, "Fine, we'll just keep the info we already have."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 24, 2025 11:32 AM (GBKbO)

160 >Roberta Flack, Soulful “Killing Me Softly With His Song” Performer, Dies at 88
----

she warned us he would do it

Posted by: Don Black. Message: I care at February 24, 2025 11:32 AM (AOsQT)

161 Does the Dow Jones Average have any meaningful purpose any more?

It does not seem to correlate to any economic trends.
Posted by: From about That Time at February 24, 2025 11:28 AM (n4GiU)

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

I suspect that it correlates to some degree with the annual feral government deficit and exponentially increasing national debt.

Those trillions of dollars "printed" (conjured as digital bits?) out of thin air gotta go somewhere ...

Posted by: ShainS -- DOGE should be renamed Federal Agency for Financial Oversight (FAFO) at February 24, 2025 11:32 AM (su/Mj)

162 157 He was convicted on all his multiple charges in July 2024, resigned his seat in August 2024, and was sentenced in January 2025.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at February 24, 2025 11:31 AM (xG4kz)

========

"Great guy, though."
-Lindsay Graham

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 24, 2025 11:32 AM (GBKbO)

163 Roberta Flack, Soulful “Killing Me Softly With His Song” Performer, Dies at 88
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.

——————

Hate that song.

Posted by: Juliette Dyer at February 24, 2025 11:32 AM (u73oe)

164 Thanks guys, you are really keeping my facts straight . Appreciated

Posted by: Ben Had at February 24, 2025 11:33 AM (mB6WH)

165 Roberta Flack, Soulful “Killing Me Softly With His Song” Performer, Dies at 88
----

she warned us he would do it

Threadwinner!

Posted by: Grapefruit LaCroix at February 24, 2025 11:33 AM (+tWwE)

166 Stacey is a disgusting fatbody who has monetized being a candidate for office

not a winner- just a perennial candidate

Posted by: Don Black. Message: I care at February 24, 2025 11:33 AM (AOsQT)

167 Roberta Flack, Soulful “Killing Me Softly With His Song” Performer, Dies at 88
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.

Go with God, lady.

Always loved that song.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 24, 2025 11:33 AM (bss/y)

168 For the article's header picture, why did you distort it horizontally to make Abrams look that wide and toad-like?

*assistant rushes over and whispers in my ear*

Ah. I stand corrected, the image is not distorted.

Posted by: can of spam at February 24, 2025 11:33 AM (7oNMO)

169 Think about this. That is like the BEST picture of her out there. Meaning it's been airbrushed to beat the band.
Posted by: Minnfidel at February 24, 2025 11:16 AM (4p0Xq)

We had to charge $49.95. -- Earl Scheib

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 24, 2025 11:34 AM (ExV1e)

170 133 122 I remember back in 2020, Tank thought for sure that she was gonna be Joey Shit-Pants' running mate.

And then they said, not today, Tubby!

Of course, we got the cackler instead.

Ugh.
Posted by: Grapefruit LaCroix

The damnable misery of it is I think she would have been a better candidate than Kamala.
Posted by: Aetius451AD
======
She got paid.

Posted by: whig at February 24, 2025 11:34 AM (ctrM5)

171 Something tells me the Feds are going to be on the hook for renovations

@Breaking911 5m
NYC Mayor Adams shuts the Roosevelt Hotel migrant circus— staggering 173K illegals processed in 2 yrs. No more free rides.

Posted by: weft cut-w45t45tgw45t at February 24, 2025 11:34 AM (mlg/3)

172
not a winner- just a perennial candidate
Posted by: Don Black. Message: I care at February 24, 2025 11:33 AM (AOsQT)

_________

"Hey!" - Beto O'Rourke

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 24, 2025 11:34 AM (dxSpM)

173 >>> 38 One word: Forensic Audit.
Posted by: Grump928(C) at February 24, 2025 11:08 AM (jc0TO)

Audit ALL the things.

Burn it the fck down, Donny Two Scoops!

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at February 24, 2025 11:34 AM (Vqx30)

174
tsk, tsk. I expect so much better from Starfleet Presidents.
Posted by: Kevin in ABQ

She has her own custom built high power transporter.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 24, 2025 11:34 AM (63Dwl)

175 To wit, there is a lot of bullshit floated around about the Constitution and its amendments and not all of it is from liberals.
Posted by: whig at February 24, 2025 11:24 AM (ctrM5)

There is a difference in how each side presents their opinion and how they accept corrections.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at February 24, 2025 11:35 AM (VofaG)

176 Does the Dow Jones Average have any meaningful purpose any more?

No, and it never did. Stocks on the DJIA are removed if they don't perform, so as an index it's designed to always have an upward trend.

Posted by: Grapefruit LaCroix at February 24, 2025 11:35 AM (+tWwE)

177 171 Something tells me the Feds are going to be on the hook for renovations

@Breaking911 5m
NYC Mayor Adams shuts the Roosevelt Hotel migrant circus— staggering 173K illegals processed in 2 yrs. No more free rides.
Posted by: weft cut-w45t45tgw45t at February 24, 2025 11:34 AM (mlg/3)

======

I doubt it.

The hotel's going to have to foot any repair bills.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 24, 2025 11:35 AM (GBKbO)

178 >>So sad that such a wonderful vessel is being scrapped.

Not scrapped. We're looking forward to our new habitat.

Posted by: The fish of the Gulf of America at February 24, 2025 11:35 AM (Y1sOo)

179 Roberta Flack, Soulful “Killing Me Softly With His Song” Performer, Dies at 88

Such a beautiful voice. Her name came up in a breakfast conversation with my wife a few weeks back.

Were these pre-autotune singers really that much better?

Or has repeatedly hearing their performances over decades established their voices as canonical in my mind?

Posted by: biteme at February 24, 2025 11:35 AM (xWS9V)

180 The hotel's going to have to foot any repair bills.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 24, 2025 11:35 AM

Burn it down. It's the only way to be sure.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at February 24, 2025 11:36 AM (jc0TO)

181 Lester Maddox smiles from the great beyond at the state of Georgia politics.

Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at February 24, 2025 11:36 AM (MZ+PY)

182 “Killing me softly” got very popular after an appearance in 1975’s “The Drowning Pool” with Paul Newman, an excellent detective story.

Posted by: Tom Servo at February 24, 2025 11:36 AM (wyMQY)

183 180 The hotel's going to have to foot any repair bills.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 24, 2025 11:35 AM

Burn it down. It's the only way to be sure.
Posted by: Grump928(C) at February 24, 2025 11:36 AM (jc0TO)

=======

"Gonna need a permit for that."
-NYC government

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 24, 2025 11:36 AM (GBKbO)

184 I sometimes clunk my head on things when wearing my bike helmet because my brain doesn't automatically allow for the extra 2''. Must be downright dangerous with a Popehat.

Posted by: Climbing Into Mazda Miata at February 24, 2025 11:36 AM (G5+As)

185 Why send 5,000 agents to Alabama? Must be a big concentration of jihadi camps.
Posted by: Ben Had at February 24, 2025 11:18 AM (mB6WH)

You know where crime is reported to be rampant? Some place that's so bad people will do anything to escape?

Haiti.

We should send all the government people we want to fire but can't for some reason to Haiti and tell them to fix the place. Really give them the kind of project that can sink it's teeth into you.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 24, 2025 11:37 AM (ExV1e)

186 Hate that song.
Posted by: Juliette Dyer at February 24, 2025 11:32 AM (u73oe)

Hah. Fell right into that one.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at February 24, 2025 11:37 AM (VofaG)

187 Stacy Abram's photo looks like one of those mall glamour shots. She should be wearing an acid wash denim jacket and big earrings.

Posted by: CaliGirl at February 24, 2025 11:37 AM (58I7G)

188 Of course she would have been! For starters she was actually black, unlike Kamala.
But Kamala was backed by the West Coast billionaires and she was easily controllable.
Posted by: Tom Servo at February 24, 2025 11:30 AM (wyMQY)

Yup. All a guy needed was to grab a small tuft of her hair.

Posted by: Dr Pork Chops & Bacons at February 24, 2025 11:37 AM (g8Ew8)

189 My mistake... the FBI agents are being relocated to Alabama. Huntsville, specifically. Which might be worse than anyplace in Georgia. Maybe.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 24, 2025 11:05 AM (Q4IgG)

Huntsville seems like a nice place. Not really somewhere you wear a wool suit in the summer, but neither is DC

Posted by: Kindltot at February 24, 2025 11:37 AM (D7oie)

190 takes drag off Galois*
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 24, 2025 11:20 AM (bss/y)

_______

*sits at greasy cafe table, scowling*
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 24, 2025 11:23 AM

*shakes fist at Jewish children*
Posted by: Grump928(C) at February 24, 2025 11:23 AM (jc0TO)

*Starts crying at European plenum.

Posted by: runner at February 24, 2025 11:37 AM (g47mK)

191 She has her own custom built high power transporter.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 24, 2025 11:34 AM (63Dwl)

--
I'm sorry, cap'n. The transporter, she simply canna do it. She requires warp engines, maximum power!

Posted by: Kevin in ABQ at February 24, 2025 11:38 AM (KdMAI)

192

167 Roberta Flack, Soulful “Killing Me Softly With His Song” Performer, Dies at 88
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.

Go with God, lady.

Always loved that song.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 24, 2025 11:33 AM (bss/y)

Great song, but my favorite is The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face.

Posted by: Shy lurker aka Northernlurker at February 24, 2025 11:38 AM (kTd/k)

193 Gov. Kemp knew and knows all this.

It is almost certain he used her history of embezzling public funds as leverage to get her to not contest his re-election.

Every time I see Kemp or hear him speak, he just oozes slime.
Like, you can just see he is possessed by an obsession with money and power behind that doughy good ol' boy façade.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 24, 2025 11:38 AM (IIsq3)

194 Get her on board the SS United States somehow, trussed up, and she can become part of the artificial reef for which that vessel is to be sunk any day now.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at February 24, 2025 11:07 AM (xG4kz)

Such a sad ending. If things had turned out a little differently, I could have been involved with the restoration of her.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at February 24, 2025 11:38 AM (0eaVi)

195 Do they measure the Pope's head for the hat using a mitre gauge?

Posted by: Bulg at February 24, 2025 11:38 AM (77rzZ)

196 elocated to Alabama. Huntsville, specifically. Which might be worse than anyplace in Georgia. Maybe.
Posted by: Martini Farmer
-----
Birmingham may be worse.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth

There is a blue dog democrat belt east-to-west between Montgomery and Birmingham. Force them to live there as their fucked up crooked politics will fit right in and won't affect the rest of the state. Huntsville is nice and I don't want those rat bastards in my neighborhood.

Posted by: BifBewalski at February 24, 2025 11:38 AM (eYEIe)

197 Meanwhile James Carville confidently predicts the Trump admin will collapse in 30 days. And Stacey Abrams is fit and beautiful….

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at February 24, 2025 11:38 AM (WnEm5)

198 Also, another weekend of MSM lies. Here's the truth in writing:

>OPM, Reductions in Force (RIF):
Overview, Summary, Benefits, Transfer of Function

>OPM, Fact Sheet: Severance Pay:
Including - Description, Eligibility for Severance Pay; Ineligibility for Severance Pay; Qualifying Appointments; Nonqualifying Appointments; 12 Months of Continuous Employment; Resignations and Involuntary Separation; Commutation of Severance Pay Fund; Rate of Basic Pay; Lifetime Limitation; Creditable Service for computing Severance Pay; Accrual and Payment of Severance Pay; Reemployment and Termination or Suspension of Severance Pay, and References

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at February 24, 2025 11:38 AM (NFX2v)

199 193 Every time I see Kemp or hear him speak, he just oozes slime.
Like, you can just see he is possessed by an obsession with money and power behind that doughy good ol' boy façade.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 24, 2025 11:38 AM (IIsq3)

=======

And he's going to beat Ossoff to become GA's next senator.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 24, 2025 11:38 AM (GBKbO)

200 I doubt it.

The hotel's going to have to foot any repair bills.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 24, 2025 11:35 AM (GBKbO)

Want to know who owns it, just to shed light on the endless layers of corruption going on here?

The Government of Pakistan.

Posted by: Tom Servo at February 24, 2025 11:39 AM (wyMQY)

201 The hotel's going to have to foot any repair bills.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

Imagine you were the owner and the Feds and NYC came to you with their brilliant idea 2 years ago.

Do you:
A ) Require a clear contract that includes guaranteed renovation payment and insurance?

B ) Totally go with the flow and just hope nothing bad happens?

Posted by: weft cut-w45t45tgw45t at February 24, 2025 11:39 AM (mlg/3)

202
Clint Eastwood's "Play Misty for Me" used Roberta's "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face"

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at February 24, 2025 11:39 AM (xG4kz)

203 Roberta Flack, Soulful “Killing Me Softly With His Song” Performer, Dies at 88
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.

In second grade Mrs. Thompson had her class choir sing that song, it was played a lot on KEX at the time

Posted by: Kindltot at February 24, 2025 11:39 AM (D7oie)

204 Looking at that pic of Tank gives me the Heebies *and* the Jeebies, and I feel sad for whichever wingman in times past had to take one for the team and take that bucket of lard home.

*shivers*

Posted by: Grapefruit LaCroix at February 24, 2025 11:39 AM (+tWwE)

205 >Roberta Flack, Soulful “Killing Me Softly With His Song” Performer, Dies at 88

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

She covered that [per Wiki:]

"Killing Me Softly with His Song" is a song composed by Charles Fox with lyrics by Norman Gimbel. The lyrics were written in collaboration with Lori Lieberman after she was inspired by a Don McLean performance in late 1971. Denied writing credit by Fox and Gimbel, Lieberman released her version of the song in 1972, but it did not chart. The song has been covered by many other artists.

In November of 1971, 19-year-old singer Lori Lieberman was coaxed by a friend into seeing McLean perform at the Troubadour in Los Angeles and found herself utterly moved by the “American Pie” singer’s performance.

Touched specifically by McLean’s performance of his American Pie track, “Empty Chairs,” Lieberman said that listening to him was like hearing some of her own diary entries read aloud. Inspired by McLean, she began scribbling down some poetic verses on a napkin at the venue.

Posted by: ShainS -- DOGE should be renamed Federal Agency for Financial Oversight (FAFO) at February 24, 2025 11:40 AM (gdNI0)

206 I had a JW coworker who tried to convince me that the mitre was shaped like a fish head because it was the last remnant of the ancient Zoroastrian priestly fish SUIT.

I don't know if that is JW doctrinal thing or not. He did seemed pretty convinced of it.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at February 24, 2025 11:40 AM (jc0TO)

207 Roberta Flack had some nice duets with Donny Hathaway. She survived him by 46 years. He took a flyer off the balcony at a very nice suite in the Essex House Hotel.

Posted by: Central Park South at February 24, 2025 11:40 AM (G5+As)

208 Lester Holt Out!

Posted by: More Racism at February 24, 2025 11:40 AM (G5+As)

209 Painters been playing soul music all morning, heard Killing me Softly not long ago.

Posted by: Skip at February 24, 2025 11:40 AM (l/est)

210 201 Imagine you were the owner and the Feds and NYC came to you with their brilliant idea 2 years ago.

Do you:
A ) Require a clear contract that includes guaranteed renovation payment and insurance?

B ) Totally go with the flow and just hope nothing bad happens?
Posted by: weft cut-w45t45tgw45t at February 24, 2025 11:39 AM (mlg/3)

=======

"We will throw money at you forever to take illegal immigrants. Wait...what are you doing with your hand?"

"I'm trying to sign whatever you put in front of me."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 24, 2025 11:41 AM (GBKbO)

211 Stacey is a disgusting fatbody who has monetized being a candidate for office

not a winner- just a perennial candidate
Posted by: Don Black. Message: I care at February 24, 2025 11:33 AM (AOsQT)

You say that like it's a bad thing. -- Bobby O'Rourke

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 24, 2025 11:41 AM (ExV1e)

212 Well I’m relieved it wasn’t inspired by “Bye Bye Miss American Pie.”

Posted by: Tom Servo at February 24, 2025 11:41 AM (wyMQY)

213 190 takes drag off Galois*
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 24, 2025 11:20 AM (bss/y)

*sits at greasy cafe table, scowling*
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 24, 2025 11:23 AM

*shakes fist at Jewish children*
Posted by: Grump928(C) at February 24, 2025 11:23 AM (jc0TO)

*Starts crying at European plenum.
Posted by: runner at February 24, 2025 11:37 AM (g47mK)

*nearby a waif plays 'La vie en rose' on the accordion*

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 24, 2025 11:41 AM (bss/y)

214 I like the Fugees cover better than the original.

Posted by: Ben Had at February 24, 2025 11:41 AM (mB6WH)

215 I think I want to see Dan Bongino ranging the hallways of the Hoover building with a paintball gun looking for people to fire.

He should have a team of door-breachers for those troublesome sort who try to barricade themselves in their offices or conference rooms.

Posted by: Kindltot at February 24, 2025 11:42 AM (D7oie)

216 195 Do they measure the Pope's head for the hat using a mitre gauge?
Posted by: Bulg at February 24, 2025 11:38 AM (77rzZ)

--

Just remember, when a pope is believed to have expired, they hit him on the head with a silver hammer three times to make sure he's not alive.

Posted by: Kevin in ABQ at February 24, 2025 11:42 AM (KdMAI)

217 takes drag off Galois*
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 24, 2025 11:20 AM (bss/y)

*sits at greasy cafe table, scowling*
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 24, 2025 11:23 AM

*shakes fist at Jewish children*
Posted by: Grump928(C) at February 24, 2025 11:23 AM (jc0TO)

*Starts crying at European plenum.
Posted by: runner at February 24, 2025 11:37 AM (g47mK)

*nearby a waif plays 'La vie en rose' on the accordion*
Posted by: Aetius451AD

I do not understand these posts at all.

Posted by: Bulg at February 24, 2025 11:42 AM (77rzZ)

218 Get her on board the SS United States somehow, trussed up, and she can become part of the artificial reef for which that vessel is to be sunk any day now.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at February 24, 2025 11:07 AM (xG4kz)

So sad that such a wonderful vessel is being scrapped. Amazing tech for the day.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

That ship still holds the transatlantic speed record, and is unlikely to lose the title - it would be prohibitively expensive to make a ship that fast now.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at February 24, 2025 11:43 AM (lTGtQ)

219 What really creeps me out is the "Magical Black Woman" cult of upper middle-class women that are obsessed with worshiping "mammies" like Abrams.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 24, 2025 11:43 AM (IIsq3)

220 But… Lester Holt will continue with his most important work on Dateline, cataloging all the twists and turns of local true crime dramas…

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at February 24, 2025 11:43 AM (WnEm5)

221 Looking at that pic of Tank gives me the Heebies *and* the Jeebies, and I feel sad for whichever wingman in times past had to take one for the team and take that bucket of lard home.

*shivers*

Posted by: Grapefruit LaCroix at February 24, 2025 11:39 AM (+tWwE)

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

Never feel sorry for Whoopi Goldberg ...

Posted by: ShainS -- DOGE should be renamed Federal Agency for Financial Oversight (FAFO) at February 24, 2025 11:43 AM (gdNI0)

222
Meanwhile James Carville confidently predicts the Trump admin will collapse in 30 days[-i]

Snakehead Jim is caught up in the clutches of backwater 'shine. His bouts of the DTs are progressing rapidly, now.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at February 24, 2025 11:44 AM (xG4kz)

223 Just remember, when a pope is believed to have expired, they hit him on the head with a silver hammer three times to make sure he's not alive.
Posted by: Kevin

"Knock three times on the Pope's head if you want me.
Twice on his knee means the answer is no."

Posted by: Bulg at February 24, 2025 11:44 AM (77rzZ)

224 213 190 takes drag off Galois*
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 24, 2025 11:20 AM (bss/y)

*sits at greasy cafe table, scowling*
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 24, 2025 11:23 AM

*shakes fist at Jewish children*
Posted by: Grump928(C) at February 24, 2025 11:23 AM (jc0TO)

*Starts crying at European plenum.
Posted by: runner at February 24, 2025 11:37 AM (g47mK)

*nearby a waif plays 'La vie en rose' on the accordion*
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 24, 2025 11:41 AM (bss/y)

*across the street at the railyard, the SS are making up a train of looted art to ship to Berlin*

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at February 24, 2025 11:44 AM (LxER7)

225 212 Well I’m relieved it wasn’t inspired by “Bye Bye Miss American Pie.”
Posted by: Tom Servo at February 24, 2025 11:41 AM (wyMQY)

DON'T GET ON PLANES!

Posted by: Buddy Holly at February 24, 2025 11:44 AM (bss/y)

226 I do not understand these posts at all.
Posted by: Bulg at February 24, 2025 11:42 AM

IYKYK.

*touches nose

Posted by: Grump928(C) at February 24, 2025 11:44 AM (jc0TO)

227 Just remember, when a pope is believed to have expired, they hit him on the head with a silver hammer three times to make sure he's not alive.

Posted by: Kevin in ABQ

Depending upon the size of the hammer, it might be an insurance policy on burying someone alive.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at February 24, 2025 11:44 AM (lTGtQ)

228 Wasn't Stacy Strahan a defensive lineman for the New York Football Giants in the late 90's?

Posted by: Life of Wryly at February 24, 2025 11:44 AM (1FWWQ)

229 Lester Holt Out!

Posted by: More Racism at February 24, 2025 11:40 AM (G5+As)

Really? Lester Dolt was one of the least objectionable news-readers.

Posted by: BignJames at February 24, 2025 11:44 AM (Yj6Os)

230 Roberta Flack had some nice duets with Donny Hathaway. She survived him by 46 years. He took a flyer off the balcony at a very nice suite in the Essex House Hotel.
Posted by: Central Park South at February 24, 2025 11:40 AM (G5+As)

The Sex House? I thought they closed that place down!

Posted by: Krusty the Klown at February 24, 2025 11:44 AM (y9ksN)

231 takes drag off Galois*
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 24, 2025 11:20 AM (bss/y)

*sits at greasy cafe table, scowling*
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 24, 2025 11:23 AM

*shakes fist at Jewish children*
Posted by: Grump928(C) at February 24, 2025 11:23 AM (jc0TO)

*Starts crying at European plenum.
Posted by: runner at February 24, 2025 11:37 AM (g47mK)

*nearby a waif plays 'La vie en rose' on the accordion*
Posted by: Aetius451AD

I do not understand these posts at all.
Posted by: Bulg at February 24, 2025 11:42 AM (77rzZ)

Posted by: Marcel Marceau at February 24, 2025 11:45 AM (g47mK)

232 Has Anna Puma posted recently? I haven't seen anything and their AI art channel hasn't been updated in a while.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 24, 2025 11:45 AM (ExV1e)

233 >>>Ms. Abrams has a history of illegally diverting funds to benefit her political ambitions. $2 billion would go a long way toward further interfering with the integrity of Georgia elections.

Too big to jail.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder,Disinformation Demon at February 24, 2025 11:45 AM (i24o9)

234 Warlock and Tank: worst TV cop show ever.

I hope Warlock has DOGE investigators up his ass, too, especially for the millions his "church" has received for housing the homeless, which he then evicts if they get even a few dollars behind on their rent.

Somehow I must've missed the part of the Gospels where "Bitch best have my money" was discussed.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at February 24, 2025 11:46 AM (W5ArC)

235 Farming the FBI out to the various states that seem to have continuous issues with their national and local elections would seem, on the surface to be a logical plan.

Have them root out the shit heads responsible. Which is probably a good job for the FBI... if the FBI was trustworthy. So, we'll see if this plays out or not.

If this was "a plan" being implemented I would think we'd see some relocations to the Great Lakes region, the South West and of course, California.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 24, 2025 11:46 AM (Q4IgG)

236 Stacey Abrams looks like a gate agent at the Atlanta Kampala International Airport I had to listen to once hollering about wearing "da masks" as it was a "feral law" and if you did not you would be subject to "being arreststed".
The woman repeated the same nonsense over and over again every 5 minutes for a hour straight.

Posted by: Suffering Delta Passenger at February 24, 2025 11:46 AM (NAF5O)

237 Does the Dow Jones Average have any meaningful purpose any more?
It does not seem to correlate to any economic trends.
Posted by: From about That Time at February 24, 2025 11:28 AM (n4GiU)

the stock market is terribly distorted by easy (cheap loans) money, that has no where else to go. It is made worse by easy money making it more profitable to strip a company and invest in the stock market than to actually build stuff.
The chances are we will see a collapse in prices across the board, but with luck this will also have an uptick in real money. With getting real value on Gold held by the Treasury and opening up regulations on energy production and manufacturing we may survive this.

Buy long storage beans, rice and protein just to be safe.

Posted by: Kindltot at February 24, 2025 11:46 AM (D7oie)

238 Holt's exit might mean a shift to the far Left, too.

Posted by: runner at February 24, 2025 11:46 AM (g47mK)

239 >
Too big to jail.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder,Disinformation Demon at February 24, 2025 11:45 AM (i24o9)

Not to worry. We can handle jobs that size.

Posted by: US Army Corps of Engineers at February 24, 2025 11:47 AM (W5ArC)

240 Excellent once again, Buckster!

"$2 billion would go a long way toward further interfering with the integrity of Georgia elections."

Now, move on to Arizona and even Tejas... No doubt you will find Cartel money all over those places. Prolly New Mexico as well.

Posted by: Danimal28 at February 24, 2025 11:47 AM (1E4GV)

241 202
Clint Eastwood's "Play Misty for Me" used Roberta's "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face"

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at February 24, 2025 11:39 AM (xG4kz)

Good movie. Being born in 1982, my first exposures to Jessica Walter were through Archer and Arrested Development.

When I saw Play Misty for Me for the first time, it was odd seeing her in her younger days. Something about only knowing a person as old and then suddenly finding them hot that's...weird.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at February 24, 2025 11:47 AM (KbCG3)

242 They just had the biggest Airport brawl at Atlanta's Hartsfield.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at February 24, 2025 11:47 AM (VofaG)

243 I'm with Madam May about the book thread, but it's gonna lean toward the guy who runs it, and should.
But you got to participate to get voices going on the subject you want.

Posted by: From about That Time at February 24, 2025 11:47 AM (n4GiU)

244 Snakehead Jim is caught up in the clutches of backwater 'shine. His bouts of the DTs are progressing rapidly, now.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison!

See, this is why I stick to my Georgi Vodka in the plastic bottle. I'm in excellent shape, if you don't notice the fumes coming through my epidermis.

Posted by: Rum Dum at February 24, 2025 11:47 AM (G5+As)

245 I had a JW coworker who tried to convince me that the mitre was shaped like a fish head because it was the last remnant of the ancient Zoroastrian priestly fish SUIT.

I don't know if that is JW doctrinal thing or not. He did seemed pretty convinced of it.
Posted by: Grump928(C) at February 24, 2025 11:40 AM (jc0TO)

Fish heads fish heads. Rolly polley fish heads.......

Posted by: Dr Pork Chops & Bacons at February 24, 2025 11:47 AM (g8Ew8)

246
I do not understand these posts at all.
Posted by: Bulg

The AoSHQ Style Guide insists that "I don't get it" is the proper rejoinder here.

Go back the the Galois post to acquire their context with l'amour and stinky Europeans.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at February 24, 2025 11:47 AM (xG4kz)

247 What's that joke where the guy is hunting with his neighbor and the neighbor has a heart attack and dies so he calls 911 to ask what to do. The operator asks him to make sure that the neighbor is dead and then hears a Bang-Bang and the fellow comes back on the phone and says 'Okay. What now?'

Posted by: Grump928(C) at February 24, 2025 11:47 AM (jc0TO)

248 Just remember, when a pope is believed to have expired, they hit him on the head with a silver hammer three times to make sure he's not alive.
Posted by: Kevin in ABQ at February 24, 2025 11:42 AM (KdMAI)

The holder of that Vatican Office is called Maxwell.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 24, 2025 11:47 AM (ExV1e)

249 Is that bang bang on the pope’s head performed with Maxwell’s silver hammer?

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at February 24, 2025 11:48 AM (P/Wjn)

250 > Buy long storage beans, rice and protein just to be safe.
Posted by: Kindltot at February 24, 2025 11:46 AM (D7oie)

As far as meat goes, canned sardines last for a very, very long time.

Posted by: US Army Corps of Engineers at February 24, 2025 11:48 AM (W5ArC)

251 232 Has Anna Puma posted recently? I haven't seen anything and their AI art channel hasn't been updated in a while.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 24, 2025 11:45 AM (ExV1e)

I think I saw her on one of the threads yesterday.

Posted by: Buddy Holly at February 24, 2025 11:48 AM (bss/y)

252 Oh yeah, Whoopi and Oprah were the original Mammies of the Magical Black Women Cult worshipped by AWFLs.

Abrams and Kamala were to be the NextGen (even though Kammie was about a hundred pounds light).

I'm surprised there isn't votive alters outside every DMV office so the AWFLs can worship mammies in their natural habitat behind the license renewal counter.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 24, 2025 11:49 AM (IIsq3)

253 I hope, when somebody with a lick of sense wrests control of the Star Trek franchise from the ones who are currently desecrating it, does an episode about serious problems with Star Fleet, maybe even long-term for a whole season or more. Have it traced to the character Stacey Abrams played - corruption and self-aggrandizement.

Real Life Writes the Plot, as the trope goes.

Posted by: Another Anon at February 24, 2025 11:49 AM (QNMaY)

254 My opinion here.

Fines are meaningless. All else equal, the state is getting an infusion of funds that trace back to the ill gotten gains. Sounds like the state got a bonus.

Jail. Like a lot of jail. Funds get returned to the original disburser.

Fines exist to keep the marginal person from committing a crime. They must walk the line between being trivial and being ruinous. Has to be large enough where it's painful, in other words.

Think she's going to miss $300k?

Posted by: WitchDoktor at February 24, 2025 11:49 AM (+OnsA)

255 The AoSHQ Style Guide insists that "I don't get it" is the proper rejoinder here.

Go back the the Galois post to acquire their context with l'amour and stinky Europeans.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at February 24, 2025 11:47 AM (xG4kz)

You'd have thought he'd have gotten it with the La vie en rose and anti-Semitism.

Posted by: Buddy Holly at February 24, 2025 11:49 AM (bss/y)

256 248, 249 — Ha!

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at February 24, 2025 11:49 AM (P/Wjn)

257 246 The AoSHQ Style Guide insists that "I don't get it" is the proper rejoinder here.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at February 24, 2025 11:47 AM (xG4kz)

======

I don't get it.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 24, 2025 11:49 AM (GBKbO)

258 This bitch is mine...

Posted by: Diabeeeeeeetes at February 24, 2025 11:49 AM (1FWWQ)

259
They just had the biggest Airport brawl at Atlanta's Hartsfield.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth

A spirited display of diversity comity and loving brotherhood, I am sure.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at February 24, 2025 11:50 AM (xG4kz)

260 What's that joke where the guy is hunting with his neighbor and the neighbor has a heart attack and dies so he calls 911 to ask what to do. The operator asks him to make sure that the neighbor is dead and then hears a Bang-Bang and the fellow comes back on the phone and says 'Okay. What now?'

Posted by: Grump928(C) at February 24, 2025 11:47 AM (jc0TO)

You don't know?

Posted by: BignJames at February 24, 2025 11:50 AM (Yj6Os)

261 Back in the 70s National Lampoon praised the cover of Killing Me Softly With His Song by Ike and Tina Turner. It was called Killing Me Softly With His Brick

Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 24, 2025 11:50 AM (cMcMn)

262 When I saw Play Misty for Me for the first time, it was odd seeing her in her younger days. Something about only knowing a person as old and then suddenly finding them hot that's...weird.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at February 24, 2025 11:47 AM (KbCG3)

I just watched Helen Mirren in the 1969 Age of Consent with James Mason.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at February 24, 2025 11:50 AM (VofaG)

263 JT made a brief appearance on the Saturday Morning Coffee thread.

Posted by: Bulg at February 24, 2025 11:50 AM (77rzZ)

264 I don't get it.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 24, 2025 11:49 AM

What a terrible thing to say.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at February 24, 2025 11:50 AM (jc0TO)

265 They just had the biggest Airport brawl at Atlanta's Hartsfield.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at February 24, 2025 11:47 AM (VofaG)

Airport meltdown videos are wild. Something about airports brings out the absolute worst in people.

Posted by: Josephistan at February 24, 2025 11:50 AM (y9ksN)

266
Well done, TJM!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at February 24, 2025 11:50 AM (xG4kz)

267 I'm with Madam May about the book thread, but it's gonna lean toward the guy who runs it, and should.
But you got to participate to get voices going on the subject you want.
Posted by: From about That Time at February 24, 2025 11:47 AM (n4GiU)
----
I try to find genre-independent content most of the time. But my own tastes are inclined to the fantasy/science fiction genres. The comments section tends to find its own flow, however. Last Sunday's comments had very little to do with the fantasy/sf genres. Lots of comment threads evolve into conversations about world history, particularly military history, thanks to the contributions of AH Lloyd and others.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 24, 2025 11:50 AM (7fElN)

268 @259 Krebs, nothing diverse about it

Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 24, 2025 11:50 AM (cMcMn)

269 Oh, and Star Trek needs to take a break away from all content for ten years. It's garbage right now and it's not salvageable.

Be like TOS and encourage third party books or something.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at February 24, 2025 11:50 AM (+OnsA)

270 266
Well done, TJM!
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at February 24, 2025 11:50 AM (xG4kz

=======

Wait...what'd I do?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 24, 2025 11:50 AM (GBKbO)

271 Ace needs to do another review of one of Tank's romance novels. 🍿🍿

Posted by: Jane D'oh at February 24, 2025 11:51 AM (4tmpE)

272 248, 249 — Ha!
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at February 24, 2025 11:49 AM (P/Wjn)

Horde mind.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 24, 2025 11:51 AM (ExV1e)

273 Wait...what'd I do?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 24, 2025 11:50 AM (GBKbO)
-----------

If you don't know, I'm not going to tell you!

/every upset girlfriend everywhere

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at February 24, 2025 11:52 AM (tT6L1)

274 >> The chances are we will see a collapse in prices across the board, but with luck this will also have an uptick in real money.

And we need it. It’s ridiculous that highly speculative investments in companies that will never turn a profit generate large returns but building actual things people need barely keeps the lights on. Too much financialization of our economy.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at February 24, 2025 11:52 AM (l3YAf)

275 /off Iowa corn fertilizer sock

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 24, 2025 11:52 AM (bss/y)

276
I don't know if that is JW doctrinal thing or not. He did seemed pretty convinced of it.
Posted by: Grump928(C) at February 24, 2025 11:40 AM (jc0TO)

Dagon I think. At least that is what Lovecraft claimed.

Posted by: Kindltot at February 24, 2025 11:52 AM (D7oie)

277 > I just watched Helen Mirren in the 1969 Age of Consent with James Mason.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at February 24, 2025 11:50 AM (VofaG)

There was rather a lot of her on display in "Caligula" as well.

Awful, awful movie.

Helen was nice, though.

Posted by: US Army Corps of Engineers at February 24, 2025 11:53 AM (W5ArC)

278 242 They just had the biggest Airport brawl at Atlanta's Hartsfield.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth
=====
At the Spirit Airlines counter which is the official sponsor of Fight Club in the Sky.

Apparently the Atlanta Spirit Airlines counter to check bags and such does not have the standard rope maze to keep queuing orderly and thus line jumpers are rampant.

Posted by: whig at February 24, 2025 11:53 AM (ctrM5)

279 Too much financialization of our economy.

We can't all make a living taking in each other's laundry.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at February 24, 2025 11:53 AM (jc0TO)

280 Spirit Airlines is like an airborne Waffle House.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at February 24, 2025 11:53 AM (+OnsA)

281 Get her on board the SS United States somehow, trussed up, and she can become part of the artificial reef for which that vessel is to be sunk any day now.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at February 24, 2025 11:07 AM (xG4kz)

So sad that such a wonderful vessel is being scrapped. Amazing tech for the day.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

That ship still holds the transatlantic speed record, and is unlikely to lose the title - it would be prohibitively expensive to make a ship that fast now.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at February 24, 2025 11:43 AM (lTGtQ)

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

I'm surprised to look up that It was powered by steam engines -- I would have guessed diesel-engine-powered.

BTW just finished an interesting book by Douglas Brunt (Megyn Kelly's hubby) on the life and disappearance of the diesel engine inventor:

"The Mysterious Case of Rudolf Diesel: Genius, Power, and Deception on the Eve of World War I"

Posted by: ShainS -- DOGE should be renamed Federal Agency for Financial Oversight (FAFO) at February 24, 2025 11:53 AM (LUWZO)

282
In the whispered revival of "Car 54, Where Are You?" , the Stace has agreed to sign on to play the car.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at February 24, 2025 11:53 AM (xG4kz)

283 > We can't all make a living taking in each other's laundry.
Posted by: Grump928(C) at February 24, 2025 11:53 AM (jc0TO)

I'm going to buy my own cannon and go in business for myself.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at February 24, 2025 11:54 AM (W5ArC)

284 Dagon was a Philistine god, not a Zoroastrian one.

Posted by: Bulg at February 24, 2025 11:54 AM (77rzZ)

285 takes drag off Galois*
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 24, 2025 11:20 AM (bss/y)

*sits at greasy cafe table, scowling*
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 24, 2025 11:23 AM

*shakes fist at Jewish children*
Posted by: Grump928(C) at February 24, 2025 11:23 AM (jc0TO)

Turns his gaze to his drinking companion taking a piss against the side of the building.

Posted by: Dr Pork Chops & Bacons at February 24, 2025 11:54 AM (g8Ew8)

286 277 > I just watched Helen Mirren in the 1969 Age of Consent with James Mason.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at February 24, 2025 11:50 AM (VofaG)

There was rather a lot of her on display in "Caligula" as well.

Awful, awful movie.

Helen was nice, though.
Posted by: US Army Corps of Engineers at February 24, 2025 11:53 AM (W5ArC)

"Excalibur" - I always thought it over the top but she was a wowzer.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at February 24, 2025 11:54 AM (LxER7)

287 We loose hundreds of $ every time The Tank comes in for a visit.

Posted by: Golden Corral at February 24, 2025 11:54 AM (A4itf)

288 THE MISSION OF NEW GEORGIA PROJECT IS TO BUILD POWER AND INCREASE THE CIVIC PARTICIPATION OF THE NEW GEORGIA MAJORITY AND OTHER HISTORICALLY MARGINALIZED COMMUNITIES THROUGH NONPARTISAN VOTER REGISTRATION, ORGANIZING, AND ADVOCACY ON THE ISSUES IMPORTANT TO OUR COMMUNITIES.
"Build power". One off the beneficiaries of this grift in 2022 was Marc Elias to the tune of 367k.

Posted by: brindle at February 24, 2025 11:54 AM (WEfxx)

289 I like the book thread a lot and try to discuss my favorite genres of Historical fiction and non-fiction biographies. I get lost when the discussion turns to fantasy series. But I learn about stuff . Always be learning.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at February 24, 2025 11:55 AM (VofaG)

290 Dagon was a Philistine god, not a Zoroastrian one.
Posted by: Bulg at February 24, 2025 11:54 AM

Yeah, I might be misremembering what priests he was taking about.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at February 24, 2025 11:55 AM (jc0TO)

291 Judged has just prohibited DOGE from entering the Department of Education.

It continues....

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at February 24, 2025 11:55 AM (t/2Uw)

292 keeping the stock price up has taken the place of producing value.

People now want to retire on sale of the stock they bought low and sold high...helping the current distortions.

CEO's getting enormous blocks of stock options rather than a large salary also produces incentives to keep the stock price up.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at February 24, 2025 11:55 AM (tT6L1)

293 "I'm trying to sign whatever you put in front of me."
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

Exxxxxcept it's already happened before. The Whitcomb in in SF received $12 million from SF to house homeless in 2020, among 25 other hotels. The program ended and RFR, the owner, sued the city. The city coughed up an additional $19.5million.

ANNND it's going to be sold off without being repaired.

Posted by: weft cut-w45t45tgw45t at February 24, 2025 11:55 AM (mlg/3)

294 The Salmon of Wisdom?
The Trout of Truth?

Posted by: Tom Servo at February 24, 2025 11:55 AM (73vBl)

295 I'm surprised to look up that It was powered by steam engines -- I would have guessed diesel-engine-powered.

BTW just finished an interesting book by Douglas Brunt (Megyn Kelly's hubby) on the life and disappearance of the diesel engine inventor:

"The Mysterious Case of Rudolf Diesel: Genius, Power, and Deception on the Eve of World War I"
Posted by: ShainS -- DOGE should be renamed Federal Agency for Financial Oversight (FAFO) at February 24, 2025 11:53 AM (LUWZO)

Steam turbines, I think. almost vibration-free.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 24, 2025 11:56 AM (8zz6B)

296 222
Meanwhile James Carville confidently predicts the Trump admin will collapse in 30 days[-i]

Snakehead Jim is caught up in the clutches of backwater 'shine. His bouts of the DTs are progressing rapidly, now.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot:

====
Far too much attention is paid to MSM paid shills of one party or the other. As someone said earlier, Carville's prognostications are on par with those of Karl Rove or Dick Morris. Worth about the same as a bj from a toothless disease ridden hoe on Main Street.

Posted by: whig at February 24, 2025 11:56 AM (ctrM5)

297 287 We loose hundreds of $ every time The Tank comes in for a visit.
Posted by: Golden Corral at February 24, 2025 11:54 AM (A4itf)

She opens the double doors like Mr T in the opening of A-Team.

https://tinyurl.com/ynjvn7ep

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 24, 2025 11:56 AM (bss/y)

298
Wait...what'd I do?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

You posted your signature response, that's what you did.

** sotto voce **
Ya big dummy.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at February 24, 2025 11:56 AM (xG4kz)

299 At the Spirit Airlines counter which is the official sponsor of Fight Club in the Sky.

Apparently the Atlanta Spirit Airlines counter to check bags and such does not have the standard rope maze to keep queuing orderly and thus line jumpers are rampant.
Posted by: whig at February 24

Spirit/Frontier Airlines counters are the modern Roman Colosseum.

Are you not entertained?!

Posted by: Josephistan at February 24, 2025 11:57 AM (y9ksN)

300 I wonder if Jonah Goldberg is on Ace's list of topics today. Ol' Jonah made a real shit sandwich for himself and is now haplessly trying to explain why he shouldn't have to eat it.

Posted by: Citizen Cake at February 24, 2025 11:57 AM (CwhoI)

301 I've never darkened the Book Thread myself. Putting up with onerous rules is not in my wheelhouse.

Posted by: Steambath Willie at February 24, 2025 11:57 AM (G5+As)

302 242 They just had the biggest Airport brawl at Atlanta's Hartsfield.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth
=====
At the Spirit Airlines counter which is the official sponsor of Fight Club in the Sky.

Apparently the Atlanta Spirit Airlines counter to check bags and such does not have the standard rope maze to keep queuing orderly and thus line jumpers are rampant.
Posted by: whig at February 24, 2025 11:53 AM (ctrM5)

And not ONE person was arrested. According to the Atlanta po-po, the crowd had "dispersed" when they arrived. Were those thugs allowed to board?

Posted by: Jane D'oh at February 24, 2025 11:57 AM (4tmpE)

303 269 Oh, and Star Trek needs to take a break away from all content for ten years. It's garbage right now and it's not salvageable.

Be like TOS and encourage third party books or something.
Posted by: WitchDoktor at February 24, 2025 11:50 AM (+OnsA)

———

I think a lot of franchises have run their courses. I have no desire to watch new Star Trek “content”, a new James Bond movie or anything Star Wars.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at February 24, 2025 11:57 AM (Vh9CX)

304 Judged has just prohibited DOGE from entering the Department of Education.

It continues....
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at February 24, 2025 11:55 AM (t/2Uw)

DOGE needs a swat team.

Posted by: BignJames at February 24, 2025 11:57 AM (Yj6Os)

305 CEO's getting enormous blocks of stock options rather than a large salary also produces incentives to keep the stock price up.

If memory serves, that's a Clinton change.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 24, 2025 11:57 AM (ExV1e)

306 A few months ago I watched a documentary about the SS United States. Near the end of her life she was carrying something like a tenth of her capacity (don't quote me on the number).

I'm sad to see passenger liners turn into giant ass vulgar resorts wandering around the Caribbean.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at February 24, 2025 11:57 AM (+OnsA)

307 You posted your signature response, that's what you did.

** sotto voce **
Ya big dummy.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at February 24, 2025 11:56 AM (xG4kz)

DYN-O-MITE!

Posted by: JJ at February 24, 2025 11:58 AM (bss/y)

308 Judged has just prohibited DOGE from entering the Department of Education.

I guess it would be good for Trump to ignore these district magistrates and point out that they are not superior to the Executive and not even a part of the three branches but rather creatures of Congress.

Then ask the USSC for an opinion.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at February 24, 2025 11:58 AM (jc0TO)

309 >>>They just had the biggest Airport brawl at Atlanta's Hartsfield.

Was it them again, Yogi?

Posted by: Boo Boo at February 24, 2025 11:58 AM (Y1sOo)

310 keeping the stock price up has taken the place of producing value.

People now want to retire on sale of the stock they bought low and sold high...helping the current distortions.

CEO's getting enormous blocks of stock options rather than a large salary also produces incentives to keep the stock price up.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at February 24, 2025 11:55 AM (tT6L1)

A lot of which goes back to capital gains being taxed at almost half the rate of income. Why pay dividends when you can generate more return and a lower tax burden for shareholders with buybacks?

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at February 24, 2025 11:58 AM (l3YAf)

311 Libs of TikTok @libsoftiktok 1h
BREAKING: Judge Deborah Boardman has blocked the Education Dept. & OPM from sharing data with DOGE, citing privacy violations.

This is the same judge who:

- Blocked Trump’s birthright citizenship order
- Barred DOGE from reviewing government contracts

Posted by: andycanuck (/tzYP) at February 24, 2025 11:58 AM (/tzYP)

312 298 You posted your signature response, that's what you did.

** sotto voce **
Ya big dummy.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at February 24, 2025 11:56 AM (xG4kz)

=======

*considers mentioning Prometheus*

*thinks better of mentioning Prometheus and does not mention Prometheus*

*does own part to keep thread Prometheus free*

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 24, 2025 11:58 AM (GBKbO)

313 Depending upon the size of the hammer, it might be an insurance policy on burying someone alive.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at February 24, 2025 11:44 AM (lTGtQ)

--

Yeah, it's fairly small. Definitely geared to avoid an unintended burial. Accompanied by shouting the Pope's name very loudly three times (more or less, "Holy Father, are you in there?")

Posted by: Kevin in ABQ at February 24, 2025 11:59 AM (KdMAI)

314 The Salmon of Wisdom?
The Trout of Truth?
Posted by: Tom Servo at February 24, 2025 11:55 AM (73vBl)

Salbass…. The guy Kramer met in the steam room at the club. He just changed one fish for another….

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at February 24, 2025 11:59 AM (P/Wjn)

315 Get her on board the SS United States somehow, trussed up, and she can become part of the artificial reef for which that vessel is to be sunk any day now.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars
+++
Send her to Guam. She could tip it over all by herself.

Posted by: Florida Peasant at February 24, 2025 11:59 AM (Lo97M)

316 308 Judged has just prohibited DOGE from entering the Department of Education.

I guess it would be good for Trump to ignore these district magistrates and point out that they are not superior to the Executive and not even a part of the three branches but rather creatures of Congress.

Then ask the USSC for an opinion.
Posted by: Grump928(C) at February 24, 2025 11:58 AM (jc0TO)

========

DOGE has been in the Education department for about 2 weeks already.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 24, 2025 11:59 AM (GBKbO)

317 305 CEO's getting enormous blocks of stock options rather than a large salary also produces incentives to keep the stock price up.

If memory serves, that's a Clinton change.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 24, 2025 11:57 AM (ExV1e)

Not just CEOs, but the entire c-suite now.

Posted by: Piper at February 24, 2025 12:00 PM (QzINz)

318 Accompanied by shouting the Pope's name very loudly three times

To cover the sound of the hammer strikes.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at February 24, 2025 12:00 PM (jc0TO)

319 NYC, Chicago,Philadelphia, LA,San Francisco,Atlanta,Detroit,Denver,
Boston, Huntsville.

I would rather live in Huntsville any day.
Because the rest of those cities are not
fit to live in.

Posted by: Case at February 24, 2025 12:00 PM (xcRXq)

320 I'm sad to see passenger liners turn into giant ass vulgar resorts wandering around the Caribbean.
Posted by: WitchDoktor at February 24, 2025 11:57 AM (+OnsA)

Well, they aren't, of course. Those giant-ass vulgar resorts are purpose-built giant-ass vulgar resorts.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 24, 2025 12:00 PM (8zz6B)

321 What, they can't just get a doctor to confirm the pope is dead?

Posted by: Bulg at February 24, 2025 12:00 PM (77rzZ)

322 I remember reading some Greek mythology about the guy who gave fire to humanity.

I hate mental lapses. What was his name again...?

Posted by: WitchDoktor at February 24, 2025 12:00 PM (+OnsA)

323 “To Be Consistent with the George Santos Precedent, Raphael Warnock Must be Expelled from Congress” [Buck Throckmorton – 02/02/2025]

Sorry, but that was a GOPe operation to get rid of a conservative.

They don't care if Warlock is a crook, hell they don't care he stole his election.

Posted by: 18-1 at February 24, 2025 12:00 PM (t0Rmr)

324 Libs of TikTok @libsoftiktok 1h
BREAKING: Judge Deborah Boardman has blocked the Education Dept. & OPM from sharing data with DOGE, citing privacy violations.

This is the same judge who:

- Blocked Trump’s birthright citizenship order
- Barred DOGE from reviewing government contracts
Posted by: andycanuck (/tzYP) at February 24, 2025 11:58 AM (/tzYP)

Trump: I have just appointed DOGE guy 1 as deputy director of OPM, DOGE guy 2 as deputy director of Treasury, as deputy director of Education, and Elon Musk as deputy director of deputy directors.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 24, 2025 12:01 PM (ExV1e)

325 Libs of TikTok @libsoftiktok 1h
BREAKING: Judge Deborah Boardman has blocked the Education Dept. & OPM from sharing data with DOGE, citing privacy violations.

This is the same judge who:

- Blocked Trump’s birthright citizenship order
- Barred DOGE from reviewing government contracts
Posted by: andycanuck

Ok Supremes. We tried to play nice. Time to start slapping down judges for overstepping their authority.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 24, 2025 12:01 PM (8eY+W)

326 Yeah, it's fairly small. Definitely geared to avoid an unintended burial. Accompanied by shouting the Pope's name very loudly three times (more or less, "Holy Father, are you in there?")
Posted by: Kevin in ABQ at February 24, 2025 11:59 AM (KdMAI)

You'a did not hav'a to use'a the sledge hammer, Giovanni!

*thrusting arms at the room at large*

WE'LL BE CLEANING THIS UP FOR WEEKS!

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 24, 2025 12:01 PM (bss/y)

327 The Salmon of Wisdom?
The Trout of Truth?
Posted by: Tom Servo at February 24, 2025 11:55 AM

The sea bass of sagacity?

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 24, 2025 12:01 PM (kgE5c)

328 I bet Frankie's head will thump like a ripe melon.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at February 24, 2025 12:01 PM (jc0TO)

329 292 keeping the stock price up has taken the place of producing value.

People now want to retire on sale of the stock they bought low and sold high...helping the current distortions.

CEO's getting enormous blocks of stock options rather than a large salary also produces incentives to keep the stock price up.

Posted by: blake
=====
Part of the market distortion is a differential tax treatment of dividends versus capital gains from the increase in stock prices.

Same problem with using debt as leverage rather than preferred stock. Emphasizing capital gains and stock options makes CEOs emphasize 'growth' over stability/profitability over the long run.

Ditto for investors. Dividends are taxed at the corporate level and the individual income level. Debt as leverage used to 'grow' the company is a deduction from corporate taxes and capital gains from stock prices is preferred by investors as they would get taxed annually on dividends.

This makes the corporate world become overladen with debt including the ridiculous corporate borrowing to finance stock buybacks. Thus, overleveraged companies tend to overreact in downturns and gut their companies.

Posted by: whig at February 24, 2025 12:01 PM (ctrM5)

330 319 NYC, Chicago,Philadelphia, LA,San Francisco,Atlanta,Detroit,Denver,
Boston, Huntsville.

I would rather live in Huntsville any day.
Because the rest of those cities are not
fit to live in.
Posted by: Case at February 24, 2025 12:00 PM (xcRXq)

Atlanta and Denver have nice ‘burns. Detroit as well and pretty cheap relatively speaking.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at February 24, 2025 12:02 PM (T9TWJ)

331 I remember reading some Greek mythology about the guy who gave fire to humanity.

I hate mental lapses. What was his name again...?
Posted by: WitchDoktor

I almost fell for that.

Posted by: Bulg at February 24, 2025 12:02 PM (77rzZ)

332 Judged has just prohibited DOGE from entering the Department of Education.

Trump should say, fine. DOGE can't enter. Shut it down completely then.

Posted by: Minnfidel at February 24, 2025 12:02 PM (4p0Xq)

333 279 Too much financialization of our economy.

We can't all make a living taking in each other's laundry.
Posted by: Grump928(C) at February 24, 2025 11:53 AM (jc0TO)

———

Sometimes I think only 10% to 15% of the population does anything of productive value.

The vast majority of Wall Street just looks like a system to milk as much money as possible to from productive members of society. Any time someone mentions “liquidity” hold on to your wallets.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at February 24, 2025 12:02 PM (Vh9CX)

334 I'm surprised there isn't votive alters outside every DMV office so the AWFLs can worship mammies in their natural habitat behind the license renewal counter.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 24, 2025 11:49 AM (IIsq3)

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lol

Am I the only one who read that in the David Attenborough's voice?

Posted by: ShainS -- DOGE should be renamed Federal Agency for Financial Oversight (FAFO) at February 24, 2025 12:02 PM (KCBKF)

335 I remember reading some Greek mythology about the guy who gave fire to humanity.

I hate mental lapses. What was his name again...?
Posted by: WitchDoktor at February 24, 2025 12:00 PM

Macbeth?

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 24, 2025 12:03 PM (kgE5c)

336 327 The Salmon of Wisdom?
The Trout of Truth?
Posted by: Tom Servo at February 24, 2025 11:55 AM

The sea bass of sagacity?
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 24, 2025 12:01 PM (kgE5c)

Well there is The Salmon of Doubt by Douglas Adams.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at February 24, 2025 12:03 PM (LxER7)

337 Sometimes I think only 10% to 15% of the population does anything of productive value.

The vast majority of Wall Street just looks like a system to milk as much money as possible to from productive members of society. Any time someone mentions “liquidity” hold on to your wallets.
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at February 24, 2025 12:02 PM (Vh9CX)

I believe it's called a 'service' economy.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 24, 2025 12:03 PM (bss/y)

338 Dagon was a Philistine god, not a Zoroastrian one.
Posted by: Bulg at February 24, 2025 11:54 AM (77rzZ)

If you really want to argue with HP Lovecraft, feel free.

Zoroastrianism influenced Mithraism, which influenced the Roman adoption period of Christianity. None of them appear to have been a serious direct descent of theology, more of a transmission of popular memes that made the adoption more familiar.

Posted by: Kindltot at February 24, 2025 12:03 PM (D7oie)

339 335 I remember reading some Greek mythology about the guy who gave fire to humanity.

I hate mental lapses. What was his name again...?
Posted by: WitchDoktor at February 24, 2025 12:00 PM

Macbeth?
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 24, 2025 12:03 PM (kgE5c)

The devil himself could not pronounce a title
More hateful to mine ear.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 24, 2025 12:04 PM (bss/y)

340
I don't go there because I seldom read fiction.
Posted by: Bulg at February 24, 2025 1

***
Bulg, the Book Thread is not only about fiction. A good deal of non-fiction is discussed as well.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 24, 2025 12:04 PM (J2vNu)

341 Judged has just prohibited DOGE from entering the Department of Education.

Trump should say, fine. DOGE can't enter. Shut it down completely then.

Posted by: Minnfidel at February 24, 2025 12:02 PM (4p0Xq)

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

And send in US Marshals to drag their asses out ...

Posted by: ShainS -- DOGE should be renamed Federal Agency for Financial Oversight (FAFO) at February 24, 2025 12:04 PM (KCBKF)

342 I'm sad to see passenger liners turn into giant ass vulgar resorts wandering around the Caribbean.
Posted by: WitchDoktor

Some of those vessels carry 4,000 passengers. Not only does that outnumber the population on some of the islands they visit, but the last person down the gangway has a limited time before they have to get in the long line to re-board.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at February 24, 2025 12:04 PM (lTGtQ)

343 You know the biggest tell that the left knows the bureaucracy is their source of power?
That it has completely usurped our Republic?

None of them--not one--is issuing dire threats about "do you want a Democrat President to have this much power?"

Go on, make that argument, tell us how we're going to regret a Democrat President having the power over the Executive that Trump is re-asserting.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 24, 2025 12:05 PM (IIsq3)

344 If you really want to argue with HP Lovecraft, feel free.

He's been dead for almost 90 years. If he answers back, I'm out.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 24, 2025 12:05 PM (ExV1e)

345 The Salmon of Wisdom?
The Trout of Truth?
Posted by: Tom Servo at February 24, 2025 11:55 AM

The sea bass of sagacity?
Posted by: RedMindBlueState

The Flounder of Flailing About.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 24, 2025 12:05 PM (8eY+W)

346 Macbeth?
Posted by: RedMindBlueState
---------
Ahhhh!!!! Hot potato, orchestra stalls, Puck will make amends! *pulls nose*

Posted by: Mossop & Keanrick at February 24, 2025 12:05 PM (/tzYP)

347 Patel+Bangino = Operational Death Star

Posted by: CZ = FNG, Free Republic of Florida at February 24, 2025 12:05 PM (MkuC5)

348 Have my wife's old Roberta Flack albums just got worth more?
Vinyl is big these days.

Posted by: From about That Time at February 24, 2025 12:05 PM (n4GiU)

349 Sometimes I think only 10% to 15% of the population does anything of productive value.

People do what they get paid to do.

If you make paper pushing and spreading leftist/woke theology pay then you'll get a bunch of people doing it.

If you don't reward people for that and instead reward them for generating value they'll do that instead.

Posted by: 18-1 at February 24, 2025 12:06 PM (t0Rmr)

350 146
I'm pretty sure they bury the popes in their funny hats.
Posted by: Grapefruit LaCroix at February 24, 2025 11:29 AM (+tWwE)

Cardinals in the Catholic Church wear a red zucchutto hat as a symbol of their position. When they die, the hat is hung from the rafters of their cathedral. There is a story that the Cardinal must remain in Purgatory while his hat is still hanging.

Posted by: tankdemon at February 24, 2025 12:06 PM (P3/76)

351
They don't care if Warlock is a crook, hell they don't care he stole his election.
Posted by: 18-1
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He did. He bought his election in 2020 via widespread distribution of gift cards that were used to buy absentee ballots from a certain demographic in urban areas. Repeated this action in 2022 for the full term.

Churches are a big part of the steal in GA and other places as they provide the corrupt election 'workers', allow coordination between those workers and campaigns via cut outs/shady ngos, and hand out goodies in exchange for absentee ballots.

Used to be before absentee ballots, they would round up voters busses to the polls and distribute walking around money directly. Now it is giftcards mainly.

Posted by: whig at February 24, 2025 12:06 PM (ctrM5)

352 343 Go on, make that argument, tell us how we're going to regret a Democrat President having the power over the Executive that Trump is re-asserting.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 24, 2025 12:05 PM (IIsq3)

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Democrats always have this power.

They can fire anyone without even Republicans complaining. They can shuttle money around without Republicans raising a finger.

Trump is ruling the executive like a Democrat would.

The idea that "Oh, no! Democrats will do it right back!" is to act like they don't always govern like they have complete control of the executive branch when they're president. Hell, even when they don't have the presidency.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 24, 2025 12:06 PM (GBKbO)

353 In the whispered revival of "Car 54, Where Are You?" , the Stace has agreed to sign on to play the car.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at February 24, 2025

***
I thought she was going to embody the traffic jam that was backed up to Jackson Heights!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 24, 2025 12:07 PM (J2vNu)

354 I remember reading some Greek mythology about the guy who gave fire to humanity.

I hate mental lapses. What was his name again...?
Posted by: WitchDoktor at February 24, 2025 12:00 PM (+OnsA)

Kevin

Posted by: Kindltot at February 24, 2025 12:07 PM (D7oie)

355 Well, he’s not breathing and he has no heartbeat.

THWACK

Yep, he’s dead.

Posted by: The Doctor at February 24, 2025 12:07 PM (u73oe)

356 46 She was fighting the gender pay gap and taking it in a lump sum.
Posted by: NR Pax at February 24, 2025 11:11 AM (BpO1e)

Golf clap.

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at February 24, 2025 12:07 PM (OA79/)

357 * Tunes into the beginning of Bongino's radio show to see if he's behind the mic today (I would have preferred he be appointed Director of The Secret Service) *

YES! Should be an Epic "Weekend Update ..."

Posted by: ShainS -- DOGE should be renamed Federal Agency for Financial Oversight (FAFO) at February 24, 2025 12:08 PM (KCBKF)

358 The catfish of chaos.

Posted by: Just got here at February 24, 2025 12:08 PM (DobEs)

359 I remember reading some Greek mythology about the guy who gave fire to humanity.

I hate mental lapses. What was his name again...?

Homocrates?

Posted by: 18-1 at February 24, 2025 12:08 PM (t0Rmr)

360 Well, he’s not breathing and he has no heartbeat.

THWACK

Yep, he’s dead.
Posted by: The Doctor at February 24, 2025 12:07 PM (u73oe)

--

No, he's pining for the fjords!

Posted by: WitchDoktor at February 24, 2025 12:08 PM (cIOlQ)

361 The idea that "Oh, no! Democrats will do it right back!" is to act like they don't always govern like they have complete control of the executive branch when they're president. Hell, even when they don't have the presidency.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 24, 2025 12:06 PM (GBKbO)

This. They are trying to keep the GOPe on the plantation.

Remember, this show is not for us or any voter. It is not for Trump. It is trying to get the GOPes to turn completely on him.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 24, 2025 12:08 PM (bss/y)

362
Posted by: RedMindBlueState
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To avoid bad luck, it is always referred to as "The Scottish Play".

FWIW, MacBeth is supposedly one of my ancestors along with a few Plantagenets.

Posted by: whig at February 24, 2025 12:08 PM (ctrM5)

363 348 Have my wife's old Roberta Flack albums just got worth more?
Vinyl is big these days.
Posted by: From about That Time

You are krilling me softly.

Bonus points for combing topical puns?

Posted by: Piper at February 24, 2025 12:08 PM (QzINz)

364 Looking at Abrams’s photo, she might have eaten the two billion.

Posted by: electronic means at February 24, 2025 12:08 PM (uoSeY)

365 321 What, they can't just get a doctor to confirm the pope is dead?
Posted by: Bulg at February 24, 2025 12:00 PM (77rzZ)

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Tradition. This is the way things were done when "medicine" was slightly above the reading of entrails.

Posted by: Kevin in ABQ at February 24, 2025 12:08 PM (KdMAI)

366 Now we know how she got to be President of the Federation.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at February 24, 2025 12:09 PM (RP0h0)

367 353 In the whispered revival of "Car 54, Where Are You?" , the Stace has agreed to sign on to play the car.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at February 24, 2025

***
I thought she was going to embody the traffic jam that was backed up to Jackson Heights!
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 24, 2025 12:07 PM (J2vNu

Not so fast!

Posted by: Brian Dennehey at February 24, 2025 12:09 PM (OA79/)

368 I remember reading some Greek mythology about the guy who gave fire to humanity.

I hate mental lapses. What was his name again...?
Posted by: WitchDoktor at February 24, 2025 12:00 PM (+OnsA)

Gavin?

Posted by: Too soon? at February 24, 2025 12:09 PM (l3YAf)

369 Screens at Housing and Urban Development are all showing an AI video of Trump licking Elon's toes with the caption "THE REAL KING".

Democrats really are trying to make that particular fetch happen, and I guarantee the DOGE boys already know who did it.

Posted by: Ian S. at February 24, 2025 12:09 PM (2ocoG)

370 Insider Paper @TheInsiderPaper 4h
NEW - Indonesian men sentenced to public flogging for gay sex
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Gee. I'd have thought the Moslems would have punished them instead.

Posted by: andycanuck (/tzYP) at February 24, 2025 12:09 PM (/tzYP)

371 The idea that "Oh, no! Democrats will do it right back!" is to act like they don't always govern like they have complete control of the executive branch when they're president. Hell, even when they don't have the presidency.

so true

that's why the demorats need to be totally intimidated and debilitated NOW, while the winds of culture change are at our back.

Trump understands this, I think JD Vance also may get it.
Everone in his cabinet gets it. With few exceptions, I don't think many of the Republicans in congress get it.

Posted by: kallisto at February 24, 2025 12:10 PM (dCxaZ)

372 359 I remember reading some Greek mythology about the guy who gave fire to humanity.

I hate mental lapses. What was his name again...?

Homocrates?
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Pussyfus, as I recall.

Posted by: Pudinhead at February 24, 2025 12:10 PM (pLaQB)

373 She was fighting the gender pay gap and taking it in a lump sum.

The gender pay cap might be the most disproved theory in modern history and yet still it won't die.

Adjusted for experience and hours worked there is only a trivial difference between male and female earnings.

Posted by: 18-1 at February 24, 2025 12:10 PM (t0Rmr)

374 369 Screens at Housing and Urban Development are all showing an AI video of Trump licking Elon's toes with the caption "THE REAL KING".

Democrats really are trying to make that particular fetch happen, and I guarantee the DOGE boys already know who did it.
Posted by: Ian S. at February 24, 2025 12:09 PM (2ocoG)

So imaginative.

Amazing how butt hurt they seem to be.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 24, 2025 12:10 PM (bss/y)

375 FWIW, MacBeth is supposedly one of my ancestors along with a few Plantagenets.
Posted by: whig

IIRC, Macbeth didn't have any children. He had a stepson, but no children of his own.

Posted by: Bulg at February 24, 2025 12:10 PM (77rzZ)

376 Old methods of confirming that the pope was male were similarly...ugh.

"Ok Francis, and as long as we're here...turn your head and cough."

Posted by: WitchDoktor at February 24, 2025 12:10 PM (cIOlQ)

377 Now we know how she got to be President of the Federation.
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Harnessed the power of a black hole??

Posted by: andycanuck (/tzYP) at February 24, 2025 12:11 PM (/tzYP)

378 FBI needs to look into Warncock's election shenanigans, based on what is said and written, there is obviously enough to convict him
When he resigns, R Gov can appoint.

Posted by: runner at February 24, 2025 12:11 PM (g47mK)

379 I saw that Let's Go Brandon Johnson, the mayor of Chicago, has a 6% approval rating. Whatever cheating apparatus they have left there after the Machine imploded is going to be quite heavily stressed trying to overcome that.

Posted by: Ian S. at February 24, 2025 12:11 PM (2ocoG)

380 And not ONE person was arrested. According to the Atlanta po-po, the crowd had "dispersed" when they arrived. Were those thugs allowed to board?
Posted by: Jane D'oh
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I am sure. Spirit only has to ban people for causing in flight interruptions (due to federal regulations). Before, they probably prefer that passengers go ahead and fight it out before boarding.

Posted by: whig at February 24, 2025 12:11 PM (ctrM5)

381 Prometheus, I believe. Could be Kevin Prometheus.

Posted by: From about That Time at February 24, 2025 12:11 PM (n4GiU)

382 Everone in his cabinet gets it. With few exceptions, I don't think many of the Republicans in congress get it./i]

Most of them are paid to "not get it"

Just like the fedgov workers arguing the economy was awesome under Biden you've got a bunch of GOPe officeholders very very happy with Biden-omics because they are getting NGO payouts as well

Posted by: 18-1 at February 24, 2025 12:11 PM (t0Rmr)

383 " ...
Huntsville is fine (my mother in law lives an hour away).

But it's unimportant. ... "

It has maybe the second-largest hamfest in the country.
Makes it sorta important right?

right?

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at February 24, 2025 12:12 PM (RP0h0)

384 Ooo! Is she available? I likes them thiccc!

Posted by: Field Marshal Nathan Wade at February 24, 2025 12:12 PM (wBaIH)

385 The idea that "Oh, no! Democrats will do it right back!" is to act like they don't always govern like they have complete control of the executive branch when they're president. Hell, even when they don't have the presidency.

-

It's almost like now would be a great time for Congress to seize some of it's power back in anticipation of such things.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Feminism moved women back to unregulated polygamy, forming harems among themselves at February 24, 2025 12:12 PM (sG4Li)

386 Nood! Sad goodbyes. (Not really).

Posted by: Piper at February 24, 2025 12:12 PM (QzINz)

387 Insider Paper @TheInsiderPaper 4h
NEW - Indonesian men sentenced to public flogging for gay sex

Queers for Palestine hardest hit. And not the kind of hit they like.

Posted by: Ian S. at February 24, 2025 12:12 PM (2ocoG)

388 The idea that "Oh, no! Democrats will do it right back!" is to act like they don't always govern like they have complete control of the executive branch when they're president. Hell, even when they don't have the presidency.
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Much like USAID, where the public didn't even know it existed, let alone how much money it was wasting, the public is slowly realizing the absolute iron-fist control the Democrats have over the federal bureaucracy.

Like, sure before, they knew federal workers were overwhelmingly Dems.
But now going from " yeah, yeah--we all know the government wastes money" to "why the f'ing f are we sending millions for drag shows in South America?!"

These things resonate and the Democrats have no clue it is or even why.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 24, 2025 12:12 PM (IIsq3)

389 NOOD MSLSD Tranny Fired

Posted by: ShainS -- DOGE should be renamed Federal Agency for Financial Oversight (FAFO) at February 24, 2025 12:12 PM (KCBKF)

390 342 I'm sad to see passenger liners turn into giant ass vulgar resorts wandering around the Caribbean.
Posted by: WitchDoktor

Some of those vessels carry 4,000 passengers. Not only does that outnumber the population on some of the islands they visit, but the last person down the gangway has a limited time before they have to get in the long line to re-board.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at February 24, 2025 12:04 PM (lTGtQ)

I know right! Crusing to sunny warm places should be reserved for the rich and famous. Plebes can suck it up and watch travel log shows on PBS paid for with their money.

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at February 24, 2025 12:13 PM (OA79/)

391 IIRC, Macbeth didn't have any children. He had a stepson, but no children of his own.
Posted by: Bulg
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I should say collateral ancestor as his mother was in one of my family trees. MacDuff was in another branch because Highland Scotland did not have a large population.

Posted by: whig at February 24, 2025 12:13 PM (ctrM5)

392 They just had the biggest Airport brawl at Atlanta's Hartsfield.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth
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At the Spirit Airlines counter which is the official sponsor of Fight Club in the Sky.

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hahahaha, we were JUST laughing about Spirit airlines over the weekend. I couldn't remember which one it was that constantly had diverse brawls, and another moron helped me out.

That's hilarious.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Feminism moved women back to unregulated polygamy, forming harems among themselves at February 24, 2025 12:13 PM (sG4Li)

393 they hit him on the head with a silver hammer three times

Maxwell's silver hammer? Or the Pelosi version?

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle for festive little hats at February 24, 2025 12:13 PM (Dqgxg)

394 Nood, y'all

Posted by: Josephistan at February 24, 2025 12:13 PM (y9ksN)

395 nood

Posted by: andycanuck (/tzYP) at February 24, 2025 12:13 PM (/tzYP)

396 IIRC there's a cruise line that is Spirit-adjacent, too. Or at least specific cruises/monfs.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Feminism moved women back to unregulated polygamy, forming harems among themselves at February 24, 2025 12:14 PM (sG4Li)

397 Brandon Johnson won the mayor election with a bit more then 300k out of 600k cast.

There were supposedly over 2M votes then for the presidential election.

So honestly the Dem machine has plenty of fake votes to work with in mayor elections.

Posted by: 18-1 at February 24, 2025 12:15 PM (t0Rmr)

398 Was it them again, Yogi?
Posted by: Boo Boo

It's always them, Boo Boo.

Posted by: NR Pax at February 24, 2025 12:15 PM (BpO1e)

399 was in another branch because Highland Scotland did not have a large population.

Newfoundland is not inbred! There's at least three separate families, Lewis, Louis, and Luce!

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle for festive little hats at February 24, 2025 12:16 PM (Dqgxg)

400 391 IIRC, Macbeth didn't have any children. He had a stepson, but no children of his own.
Posted by: Bulg
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To be honest, have to login again to check the exact relationship as it has been awhile since I worked on that branch of the family.

Most of it ignores the stableboy, servants, etc. contributing to the genome records without recognition.

I think one of the widespread genetic testing of the Greatest Generation had something like 10-15 percent of their kids were products of marital infidelity/prior conceptions.

Posted by: whig at February 24, 2025 12:17 PM (ctrM5)

401 My family has descent from MacDuff, albeit via a bastard line.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at February 24, 2025 12:20 PM (jc0TO)

402 Clan Chattan ftw!

Posted by: Grump928(C) at February 24, 2025 12:21 PM (jc0TO)

403 19 My mistake... the FBI agents are being relocated to Alabama. Huntsville, specifically.

Hey, in Huntsville, they can look into SLS (Slushfund Launch System)!

Posted by: Ray Van Dune at February 24, 2025 12:31 PM (P0UMu)

404 A fine and no arrest for political criminal activity.

Least shocking thing I will read all day.

Posted by: Nazdrakke at February 24, 2025 01:22 PM (pyQs8)

405 People need to go to prison this is beyond anything anyone imagined

Posted by: Gonzotx at February 24, 2025 01:26 PM (nGraA)

406 And yet no one goes to jail. Now of these racist black grifters goes to jail. In Georgia, there appears to be a unique system of law regarding blacks.

Posted by: TJ Jackson at February 24, 2025 02:05 PM (bXvrr)

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