Mid-Morning Art Thread

Transfiguration of Christ
Giovanni Bellini

Posted by: CBD at 09:30 AM

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1 nice

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 05, 2025 09:30 AM (gbOdA)

2 Much better than yesterday's!

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 05, 2025 09:31 AM (7fElN)

3 Love this one. Would hang in most prominent place in the house.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at March 05, 2025 09:31 AM (VofaG)

4 It's a Bellini.

Posted by: dantesed at March 05, 2025 09:31 AM (hoppY)

5 Artist Giovanni Bellini
Year c. 1480
Medium Oil on panel
Dimensions 116 cm × 154 cm (46 in × 61 in)
Location Museo di Capodimonte, Naples

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 05, 2025 09:32 AM (gbOdA)

6 Love this. Thank you for posting this

Posted by: Jmel at March 05, 2025 09:32 AM (RWHIh)

7 Holy Moses

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 05, 2025 09:32 AM (gbOdA)

8 Nice way to start out Lent.

Posted by: redridinghood at March 05, 2025 09:32 AM (NpAcC)

9 Bellini is quite good. Well spaced and arranged.

Not sure what is in front, are they on the edge of a cliff?

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at March 05, 2025 09:33 AM (WPL6O)

10 The color palette, the composition, the outline style, everything I like in a painting .

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at March 05, 2025 09:33 AM (VofaG)

11 Knocked em down!

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle for festive little hats at March 05, 2025 09:33 AM (Nc7IH)

12 Peter, James, and John

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 05, 2025 09:33 AM (gbOdA)

13 1 First!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 04, 2025 10:25 PM (mWSu4)

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100 Comment Rule?

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Posted by: ShainS -- DataRepublican for Attorney General! at March 05, 2025 09:33 AM (QOEHB)

14 How does he keep his clothes so dazzling white?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at March 05, 2025 09:34 AM (JkO4W)

15 This is one hell of a golf course. Didn't know Jesus played golf.

Posted by: Pudinhead at March 05, 2025 09:34 AM (pLaQB)

16 For your safety, you must stay behind the ropes.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 05, 2025 09:34 AM (Q4IgG)

17 How does he keep his clothes so dazzling white?
Posted by: Cicero

It's a miracle!!

Posted by: Tonypete at March 05, 2025 09:35 AM (cYBz/)

18 After six days Jesus took with him Peter, James and John the brother of James, and led them up a high mountain by themselves. 2 There he was transfigured before them. His face shone like the sun, and his clothes became as white as the light. 3 Just then there appeared before them Moses and Elijah, talking with Jesus.

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 05, 2025 09:35 AM (gbOdA)

19 Not sure what is in front, are they on the edge of a cliff?
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Massive sand trap guarding the putting green.

Posted by: Pudinhead at March 05, 2025 09:35 AM (pLaQB)

20 Only you two returned the tools I lent!

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle for festive little hats at March 05, 2025 09:35 AM (Nc7IH)

21 The guy on the right is happy to see me.

Posted by: Lily vonSchtupp at March 05, 2025 09:35 AM (JkO4W)

22 It happened on a golf course?

Posted by: Don Black at March 05, 2025 09:35 AM (AOsQT)

23 Kneeling dude in the brown is about to pull a rabbit out of his robes.

Posted by: She Hobbit (out and about in Middle Earth) at March 05, 2025 09:35 AM (ha3M4)

24 Very pleasing to the eye.

Posted by: Tuna at March 05, 2025 09:35 AM (lJ0H4)

25 Dude with the cow couldn't care less....

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 05, 2025 09:36 AM (KtIIi)

26 Once again Jesus depicted with shoulder length hair. NOT ACCURATE.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at March 05, 2025 09:36 AM (pohLc)

27 >16 This is one hell of a golf course. Didn't know Jesus played golf.

Posted by: Pudinhead at March 05, 2025 09:34 AM (pLaQB)

He's no Dalai Lama.

Posted by: Carl Spackler at March 05, 2025 09:36 AM (NgqoH)

28 27 Once again Jesus depicted with shoulder length hair. NOT ACCURATE.
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You got photos?

Posted by: Pudinhead at March 05, 2025 09:36 AM (pLaQB)

29 The Transfiguration is the 4th Luminous Mystery of the Rosary which is said on Thursdays.

Posted by: redridinghood at March 05, 2025 09:36 AM (NpAcC)

30 I can feel the starch in the pink garment. But who are the scrabbling peasants down there in the muted clothes? Are they being repressed?

Posted by: H at March 05, 2025 09:37 AM (4N/0w)

31 Christ was trans???

No, wait... my bad. Wrong trans.

[Too soon?]

Posted by: MrExcitement at March 05, 2025 09:37 AM (hOOi9)

32 27 Once again Jesus depicted with shoulder length hair. NOT ACCURATE.
Posted by: Xipe Totec at March 05, 2025 09:36 AM (pohLc)

I have seen Jesus with a high and tight crew cut.

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 05, 2025 09:37 AM (gbOdA)

33 yes me too
the foreground in the art is a little confusing

anyway, Jesus was a super guy, so

Posted by: Don Black at March 05, 2025 09:37 AM (AOsQT)

34 Not sure what is in front, are they on the edge of a cliff?
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Massive sand trap guarding the putting green.
Posted by: Pudinhead

Big hitter The Christ.
-- Carl Spackler

Posted by: Tonypete at March 05, 2025 09:37 AM (cYBz/)

35 Damn it! Too slow - 27 beat me.

Posted by: Tonypete at March 05, 2025 09:38 AM (cYBz/)

36 Christ was trans???

Posted by: MrExcitement at March 05, 2025 09:37 AM (hOOi9)
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Cross dresser.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at March 05, 2025 09:38 AM (OT+cA)

37 15 How does he keep his clothes so dazzling white?
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at March 05, 2025 09:34 AM (JkO4W)

He bleached the hell out of it.

Posted by: tankdemon at March 05, 2025 09:38 AM (aIl4i)

38 That was the one time Samuel didn't complain about being awakened from The Big Sleep.

Posted by: CZ = FNG, Free Republic of Florida at March 05, 2025 09:39 AM (MkuC5)

39 100 comment rule. [CBD]

Posted by: Commies at March 05, 2025 09:39 AM (IILFf)

40 Love the clothing differences & colors among Jesus, the other New Testament figures (Peter, James, and John), and the Old Testament figures (Elijah and Moses).

Posted by: ShainS -- DataRepublican for Attorney General! at March 05, 2025 09:40 AM (QOEHB)

41 How does he keep his clothes so dazzling white?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at March 05, 2025 09:34 AM (JkO4W)
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Good Tideings?

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at March 05, 2025 09:40 AM (OT+cA)

42 In those days a man could wear a pink wrap and no one would question his masculinity.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at March 05, 2025 09:40 AM (JkO4W)

43 19 After six days Jesus took with him Peter, James and John the brother of James, and led them up a high mountain by themselves. 2 There he was transfigured before them. His face shone like the sun, and his clothes became as white as the light. 3 Just then there appeared before them Moses and Elijah, talking with Jesus.
Posted by: rhennigantx at March 05, 2025 09:35 AM (gbOdA)

It's a nice painting, but it really doesn't seem to follow this script, to me. They're not up a high mountain, and no Sci-Fi effects that are obvious to me. I guess we might at least have Moses and Elijah.

Posted by: MrExcitement at March 05, 2025 09:40 AM (hOOi9)

44 Beautiful, thx CBD. Would hang

Posted by: Smell the Glove at March 05, 2025 09:40 AM (EG7Bp)

45 42 In those days a man could wear a pink wrap and no one would question his masculinity.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at March 05, 2025 09:40 AM (JkO4W)

No one questions it now.

It's just the opposite answer.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 05, 2025 09:41 AM (KtIIi)

46 How does he keep his clothes so dazzling white?
Posted by: Cicero
*****
The angels do his laundry.

Posted by: redridinghood at March 05, 2025 09:41 AM (NpAcC)

47 42 In those days a man could wear a pink wrap and no one would question his masculinity.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at March 05, 2025 09:40 AM (JkO4W)

Hey, it takes a tough man to wear a pink wrap!

Posted by: MrExcitement at March 05, 2025 09:41 AM (hOOi9)

48 Oh they are saying Jesus is trans now?

This will not stand.

Posted by: blaster - Fortis Fortuna Adiuvat at March 05, 2025 09:42 AM (QfvaV)

49 26 Once again Jesus depicted with shoulder length hair. NOT ACCURATE.
Posted by: Xipe Totec at March 05, 2025 09:36 AM (pohLc)

A few years ago I looked at a copy of The Last Supper and, for the first time, wondered why this group of Jewish men weren't wearing yarmulkes. It turns out, the practice of keeping one's head covered did not become a Jewish custom until over a century after Christ's resurrection.

Posted by: tankdemon at March 05, 2025 09:42 AM (aIl4i)

50 > 15 How does he keep his clothes so dazzling white?
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at March 05, 2025 09:34 AM (JkO4W)

Back in those days they used urine as a bleach. Disgusting but true. I guess the stench of laundry facilities was devastating.

The Roman emperors Vespasian instituted a small charge for using the public toilets. When his son complained that this was an undignified business for the imperial family to be in, ol' Vespy whipped out one of the small coins in question, stuck it under the kid's nose, and said
"pecunia non olet" ("money never stinks").

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at March 05, 2025 09:42 AM (W5ArC)

51 Subject matter great, depiction poor.

Posted by: Ben Had at March 05, 2025 09:42 AM (mB6WH)

52 Pink tie or a pink shirt was a power color back in the 80’s.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at March 05, 2025 09:42 AM (VofaG)

53 Nice painting!

Posted by: Stateless...44% - mental state clawing up from 10% at March 05, 2025 09:43 AM (jvJvP)

54 26 Once again Jesus depicted with shoulder length hair. NOT ACCURATE.
Posted by: Xipe Totec at March 05, 2025 09:36 AM (pohLc)

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Historical experts agree the Jesus probably sported a Jew-fro much like the modern Weird Al Yankovic.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at March 05, 2025 09:43 AM (JkO4W)

55 So "transfiguration" means "trying to figure out whether someone else is trans"?

Not usually a difficult task.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at March 05, 2025 09:43 AM (W5ArC)

56 I didn't know rayon was a thing back then.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 05, 2025 09:44 AM (KtIIi)

57 I see Bellini as one of the bridges between the middle ages and the Renaissance.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 05, 2025 09:45 AM (mWSu4)

58 15 This is one hell of a golf course. Didn't know Jesus played golf.
Posted by: Pudinhead at March 05, 2025 09:34 AM (pLaQB)

It really DOES look like a golf course.

Maybe this painting inspired the invention of golf?

Posted by: MrExcitement at March 05, 2025 09:46 AM (hOOi9)

59 48 Oh they are saying Jesus is trans now?

This will not stand.
Posted by: blaster - Fortis Fortuna Adiuvat at March 05, 2025 09:42 AM (QfvaV)

I have seen videos of people claiming that, because it was a virgin birth, Jesus could not have gotten DNA from anyone other than Mary, so he had to be born a female and presented as male, therefore, trans. I guess they missed the part about all-powerful God able to override the laws of nature, and the fact that Jesus was given a circumcision a week after His birth.

Posted by: tankdemon at March 05, 2025 09:46 AM (aIl4i)

60 57 I see Bellini as one of the bridges between the middle ages and the Renaissance.

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I once pad $36 US for a Bellini at Harry's Bar.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at March 05, 2025 09:47 AM (dDmld)

61 I love the fact that the people in the background are clueless about what is happening. Just getting on with their daily lives not realizing something world changing is happening right over there.

Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at March 05, 2025 09:47 AM (4XwPj)

62 Bellini ! My favorite breakfast !

----Kamala

Posted by: runner at March 05, 2025 09:47 AM (g47mK)

63

Naked wet twinks was more my style...

Posted by: Peter Bootygig at March 05, 2025 09:47 AM (1djkv)

64 Gah! Jesus just got all shiny! And.... Norwegian?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 05, 2025 09:47 AM (KtIIi)

65 Maybe this painting inspired the invention of golf?
Posted by: MrExcitement at March 05, 2025 09:46 AM (hOOi9)

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Hmm. Let me think about this.

Posted by: St. Andrew at March 05, 2025 09:48 AM (dDmld)

66 55 So "transfiguration" means "trying to figure out whether someone else is trans"?

Not usually a difficult task.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at March 05, 2025 09:43 AM (W5ArC)

Makes sense.

Not difficult, but apparently made easier on a golf course.

Posted by: MrExcitement at March 05, 2025 09:48 AM (hOOi9)

67 I have seen videos of people claiming that, because it was a virgin birth, Jesus could not have gotten DNA from anyone other than Mary, so he had to be born a female and presented as male, therefore, trans.

Posted by: tankdemon at March 05, 2025 09:46 AM (aIl4i)

And this is where I wouldn't be able to resist saying, "You can't possibly be that f*cking stupid!"

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 05, 2025 09:49 AM (mWSu4)

68 For some reason I don't care for this painting.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at March 05, 2025 09:49 AM (jc0TO)

69 Beautiful painting, CBD. Thank you for this.

Posted by: bluebell at March 05, 2025 09:49 AM (79pEw)

70 A few years ago I looked at a copy of The Last Supper and, for the first time, wondered why this group of Jewish men weren't wearing yarmulkes. It turns out, the practice of keeping one's head covered did not become a Jewish custom until over a century after Christ's resurrection.

Posted by: tankdemon at March 05, 2025 09:42 AM (aIl4i)
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It is not clear when the custom began. It is mentioned in the Talmud, so that places it at the time you mentioned. However, that does not mean that the customer wasn't in practice beforehand.

The main documented example of male head coverings is from the Torah. Turban-like hats were an obligatory garment for all priests serving in the Tabernacle and in the Temple.

Does that mean that there was a custom for other men to cover their hair when they visited the Temple? Or when they went to the earliest synagogues? Or at home for certain occasions, such as festive meals? We really don't know. There is a gap in historical documentation.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at March 05, 2025 09:49 AM (OT+cA)

71 and the fact that Jesus was given a circumcision a week after His birth.
Posted by: tankdemon

Worst birthday present ever.

Posted by: She Hobbit (out and about in Middle Earth) at March 05, 2025 09:50 AM (ha3M4)

72 15 This is one hell of a golf course. Didn't know Jesus played golf.
Posted by: Pudinhead at March 05, 2025 09:34 AM (pLaQB)

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The invention of the ball washer would still have to wait for a couple millennia.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at March 05, 2025 09:50 AM (dDmld)

73 I've been on both claimed high mountains several times.
There is No pastoral scene or setting. The closest is a bunch of Catholic Shrines on Tabor. And no one in their right mind is herding sheep or cattle all the Steep way up there.

Posted by: Kafiroon at March 05, 2025 09:50 AM (wMYth)

74 And this is where I wouldn't be able to resist saying, "You can't possibly be that f*cking stupid!"
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 05, 2025 09:49 AM

*shifty eyes*

Posted by: Grump928(C) at March 05, 2025 09:50 AM (jc0TO)

75 Once again Jesus depicted with shoulder length hair. NOT ACCURATE.
Posted by: Xipe Totec at March 05, 2025 09:36 AM (pohLc)

I have seen Jesus with a high and tight crew cut.
Posted by: rhennigantx at March 05, 2025 09:37 AM (gbOdA)

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Thank God it wasn't depicted as a man bun.

Posted by: ShainS -- DataRepublican for Attorney General! at March 05, 2025 09:50 AM (wg6Ly)

76 61 I love the fact that the people in the background are clueless about what is happening. Just getting on with their daily lives not realizing something world changing is happening right over there.
Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at March 05, 2025 09:47 AM (4XwPj)

I guess there have been drunks loitering about golf courses for all antiquity!

Posted by: MrExcitement at March 05, 2025 09:51 AM (hOOi9)

77 I have seen videos of people claiming that, because it was a virgin birth, Jesus could not have gotten DNA from anyone other than Mary, so he had to be born a female and presented as male, therefore, trans.

Posted by: tankdemon at March 05, 2025 09:46 AM (aIl4i)

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Don't we all share God's DNA?

Posted by: ShainS -- DataRepublican for Attorney General! at March 05, 2025 09:52 AM (Hk0bN)

78 and the fact that Jesus was given a circumcision a week after His birth.
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Was this the Holy Grail?

Posted by: Pudinhead at March 05, 2025 09:53 AM (pLaQB)

79
A threesome in front of the green trying to decide what club to use while the caddies are laying around bullshitting.

I always get a tee time behind these guys on Saturdays.

Posted by: Auspex at March 05, 2025 09:53 AM (j4U/Z)

80 Don't we all share God's DNA?
Posted by: ShainS -- DataRepublican for Attorney General! at March 05, 2025 09:52 AM (Hk0bN)

Does God have DNA?

Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at March 05, 2025 09:53 AM (4XwPj)

81 I love Renaissance-era religious art even more than pre-Renaissance iconography. Would most definitely hang.

Posted by: Pennsyltucky at March 05, 2025 09:53 AM (QdGJh)

82 Don't we all share God's DNA?

Posted by: ShainS -- DataRepublican for Attorney General! at March 05, 2025 09:52 AM (Hk0bN)
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Maybe but not my Orange Crush!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at March 05, 2025 09:54 AM (OT+cA)

83 Bellini was a contemporary of Leonardo DaVinci who was 28 years old when this was painted.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at March 05, 2025 09:54 AM (VofaG)

84 Bellini sounds like an Italian motorcycle.

Posted by: Pudinhead at March 05, 2025 09:55 AM (pLaQB)

85 FUN FACT: Aeneas shared Aphrodite's DNA.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at March 05, 2025 09:55 AM (dDmld)

86 How does he keep his clothes so dazzling white?
Posted by: Cicero

Ancient Chinee Secret!

Posted by: Dink-E-Dow Dry Clean & Happy Ending Laundromat at March 05, 2025 09:56 AM (EEZHI)

87 Beautiful painting, CBD. Thank you for this.

Posted by: bluebell at March 05, 2025 09:49 AM (79pEw)

My pleasure!

I'm glad you like it.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 05, 2025 09:56 AM (mWSu4)

88 Bellini sounds like an Italian motorcycle.
Posted by: Pudinhead at March 05, 2025 09:55 AM (pLaQB)

Or a pink fizzy drink.

Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at March 05, 2025 09:56 AM (4XwPj)

89 I assume most people think the Last Supper is a painting on canvas when it’s a fresco on the side of a large wall.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at March 05, 2025 09:56 AM (VofaG)

90 Willowed, but I feel the point needs making:

Maybe you can explain how "eye for an eye" "flows" into "turn the other cheek". They're just straight-up opposites.
Posted by: MrExcitement

Folks misread "eye for an eye" so readily, it's a shame...in point of fact, if you read the entirety of where it's found, you'll discover that it isn't an imperative for retribution as it's most frequently mistaken; it is, in fact, a limiter, take no more than an eye for an eye, etc. It's mean to keep the penalty for all offenses from being death.

Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at March 05, 2025 09:57 AM (OUMaO)

91
I guess there have been drunks loitering about golf courses for all antiquity!

Posted by: MrExcitement at March 05, 2025 09:51 AM (hOOi9)

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Mount of Transfiguration > Mount Carmel > Pebble Beach

Posted by: ShainS -- DataRepublican for Attorney General! at March 05, 2025 09:58 AM (gGI3i)

92 89 I assume most people think the Last Supper is a painting on canvas when it’s a fresco on the side of a large wall.

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Which people?

Posted by: Pierre Poilevre at March 05, 2025 09:58 AM (dDmld)

93 A Bellini recipe: https://is.gd/N4YcKE

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 05, 2025 09:58 AM (mWSu4)

94 68 For some reason I don't care for this painting.
Posted by: Grump928(C) at March 05, 2025 09:49 AM (jc0TO)

Probably because it's supposed to be a painting depicting a Big Deal event, way up high, with shiny lights and stuff, and instead it just looks like a bunch of gay guys standing around on a golf course.

Posted by: MrExcitement at March 05, 2025 09:59 AM (hOOi9)

95 Does God have DNA?
Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench)

What if God was one of us?

Posted by: Joan Osborne at March 05, 2025 09:59 AM (ha3M4)

96 Ancient church tradition holds that this took place on the slopes of Mt. Horeb.

Posted by: Tom Servo at March 05, 2025 09:59 AM (uWKK8)

97 Although I miss most of the finer points, i do recognize the obvious talent and love of the artist.

Posted by: Eromero at March 05, 2025 10:00 AM (LHPAg)

98 Pink tie or a pink shirt was a power color back in the 80’s.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at March 05, 2025

***
Especially a pink shirt with white collar and cuffs.

The art is good stuff. There's a lot of clouds, possibly rain, forming over those hills in the background; Jesus and his group need to think about finding some cover before too long.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 05, 2025 10:00 AM (J2vNu)

99 93 A Bellini recipe: https://is.gd/N4YcKE
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 05, 2025 09:58 AM (mWSu4)

Holy shit it really is a fizzy drink!?!? Dayum!

Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at March 05, 2025 10:00 AM (4XwPj)

100 Jesus is describing the two-foot putt that he whiffed because his caddy handed him a driver.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at March 05, 2025 10:00 AM (dDmld)

101 Very colorful...

Posted by: It's me donna at March 05, 2025 10:01 AM (VE6XX)

102 Do we not, do we not have ghosts within us Mike?

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at March 05, 2025 10:01 AM (WPL6O)

103 Bellini... It's also a dessert topping.

But never put it on your Semprini.

Posted by: Lemming of The BDA at March 05, 2025 10:01 AM (44D8d)

104 93 A Bellini recipe: https://is.gd/N4YcKE
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 05, 2025 09:58 AM (mWSu4)

So about that 100 comment rule....

Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at March 05, 2025 10:02 AM (4XwPj)

105 100 Jesus is describing the two-foot putt that he whiffed because his caddy handed him a driver.
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Thank God it wasn't a One Iron. Only God knows what to do with a One Iron.

Posted by: Pudinhead at March 05, 2025 10:02 AM (pLaQB)

106 96 Ancient church tradition holds that this took place on the slopes of Mt. Horeb.
Posted by: Tom Servo at March 05, 2025 09:59 AM (uWKK

Yes. The Mount of Transfiguration.. Jesus spoke to Moses and Elijah… he was bathed in light… evocative of Moses encountering God the Father on Sinai…

Posted by: tubal at March 05, 2025 10:02 AM (PCK5/)

107 Kneeling dude in the brown is about to pull a rabbit out of his robes.
Posted by: She Hobbit (out and about in Middle Earth) at March 05, 2025 09:35 AM

Again?!

Posted by: Rocket J. Squirrel at March 05, 2025 10:02 AM (hOk1M)

108 My buddy broke his collarbone riding a Bellini on the trail. I think it was a 2-stroke, iirc. Smoked a lot anyhow.
———

The great clowns in robes have declared the money laundering USAID must continue unabated.

The Spice Must Flow

Posted by: Common Tater at March 05, 2025 10:02 AM (OZ5rj)

109 So about that 100 comment rule....

Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at March 05, 2025 10:02 AM (4XwPj)

Sigh...

Nobody pays any attention when I explain a simple rule.

No topical news. We have a dozen threads each day for that.

Harrumph!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 05, 2025 10:04 AM (mWSu4)

110 90 Willowed, but I feel the point needs making:

Maybe you can explain how "eye for an eye" "flows" into "turn the other cheek". They're just straight-up opposites.
Posted by: MrExcitement

Folks misread "eye for an eye" so readily, it's a shame...in point of fact, if you read the entirety of where it's found, you'll discover that it isn't an imperative for retribution as it's most frequently mistaken; it is, in fact, a limiter, take no more than an eye for an eye, etc. It's mean to keep the penalty for all offenses from being death.
Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at March 05, 2025 09:57 AM (OUMaO)

Interesting, if true, but I don't see how that reconciles with "turn the other cheek", which was a new innovation introduced by Jesus, if I'm not mistaken. I mean, he's kind of famous for that, right?

Posted by: MrExcitement at March 05, 2025 10:04 AM (hOOi9)

111 The great clowns in robes have declared the money laundering USAID must continue unabated.

The Spice Must Flow
Posted by: Common Tater at March 05, 2025 10:02 AM (OZ5rj)

I saw that.. I'm wondering why we have a President at all ? Seems the Courts are running the Country

Posted by: It's me donna at March 05, 2025 10:04 AM (VE6XX)

112 Reading up on SCOTUS ruling this morning:

It's procedural in nature. It returns the ball to the lower court. It's about how a TRO expired while the court deliberated.

It's essentially telling the lower court to issue a preliminary injunction after the TRO expired.

It also probably should have been a completely different ruling that killed the whole thing, but this is far less of a loss than people are making it out to be. It's not a win at all, but it's only a minor loss.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, leading the proletariat with Eisenstein at March 05, 2025 10:05 AM (GBKbO)

113 108
Wonder if Robert's gets 10%?

Posted by: Hrothgar at March 05, 2025 10:05 AM (hOUT3)

114 When the spirit moves you.

https://youtube.com/shorts/pgV_B5w9m7Y?si=lsZIHDrI0XwR8tKn

Posted by: DJ Jazzy Mel at March 05, 2025 10:05 AM (ZTJjv)

115 Only God knows what to do with a One Iron.
Posted by: Pudinhead at March 05, 2025 10:02 AM (pLaQB)

My dad worked on a golf course for many years. He also played golf. He said the one iron is only used for self defense. But Pappymayhem was not God.

Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at March 05, 2025 10:05 AM (4XwPj)

116
It also probably should have been a completely different ruling that killed the whole thing, but this is far less of a loss than people are making it out to be. It's not a win at all, but it's only a minor loss.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, leading the proletariat with Eisenstein at March 05, 2025 10:05 AM (GBKbO)

I feel a little better

Posted by: It's me donna at March 05, 2025 10:05 AM (VE6XX)

117 111 The great clowns in robes have declared the money laundering USAID must continue unabated.

The Spice Must Flow
Posted by: Common Tater at March 05, 2025 10:02 AM (OZ5rj)

I saw that.. I'm wondering why we have a President at all ? Seems the Courts are running the Country
Posted by: It's me donna at March 05, 2025 10:04 AM (VE6XX)

What I find somewhat encouraging is that maybe, just maybe Trump will not take their obstruction lying down, unlike Republicans… we shall see, I suppose..

Posted by: tubal at March 05, 2025 10:06 AM (PCK5/)

118 "I have seen videos of people claiming that, because it was a virgin birth, Jesus could not have gotten DNA from anyone other than Mary, so he had to be born a female and presented as male, therefore, trans."

Unless God was the Father, and he created the seed (sperm) in Mary. A Divine Conception, one might call it.

Posted by: illiniwek at March 05, 2025 10:06 AM (Cus5s)

119 I'm giving up fucks for Lent

Posted by: Elric Blade at March 05, 2025 10:07 AM (iFTx/)

120 I have seen videos of people claiming that, because it was a virgin birth, Jesus could not have gotten DNA from anyone other than Mary, so he had to be born a female and presented as male, therefore, trans.

Posted by: tankdemon at March 05, 2025 09:46 AM (aIl4i)

And this is where I wouldn't be able to resist saying, "You can't possibly be that f*cking stupid!"
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 05, 2025 09:49 AM

Yes. They can be that f*cking stupid.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 05, 2025 10:07 AM (hOk1M)

121 118 "I have seen videos of people claiming that, because it was a virgin birth, Jesus could not have gotten DNA from anyone other than Mary, so he had to be born a female and presented as male, therefore, trans."

Unless God was the Father, and he created the seed (sperm) in Mary. A Divine Conception, one might call it.
Posted by: illiniwek at March 05, 2025 10:06 AM (Cus5s)

Bargain basement sophistry…

Posted by: tubal at March 05, 2025 10:07 AM (PCK5/)

122 119 I'm giving up fucks for Lent
Posted by: Elric Blade at March 05, 2025 10:07 AM (iFTx/)

======

Easy when your fields are barren.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, leading the proletariat with Eisenstein at March 05, 2025 10:07 AM (GBKbO)

123 111
Well after all, these judges are edumacated people, not like the riffraff that gets voted into a temporary office by the peasants!

Posted by: Hrothgar at March 05, 2025 10:08 AM (hOUT3)

124 Egyptian-Judahite war of Josiah, evidence at Megiddo:
tinyurl.com/3dh44n5a

Posted by: gKWVE at March 05, 2025 10:08 AM (qSHqn)

125 Roberts and Barrett joined the lefty justices.

I thought this might happen because the funds were not just appropriated funds in a general account but that they had already been allocated allegedly through contracts.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at March 05, 2025 10:09 AM (VofaG)

126
Transfiguration is the point in countless chick flicks where the dorky girl gets the makeover from the gay beauty specialists and becomes a screaming hot-tay.

Posted by: Auspex at March 05, 2025 10:09 AM (j4U/Z)

127 Does God have DNA?
Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at March 05, 2025 09:53 AM (4XwPj)

God gets to just create things like DNA for Mary's child. It's a rule.

It does raise the interesting question of what DNA God would have willed into existence for this purpose. It would be, essentially, "God DNA", wouldn't it, not having come from a man?

Posted by: MrExcitement at March 05, 2025 10:09 AM (hOOi9)

128 Sniper in the background with a Tavor.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 05, 2025 10:09 AM (hOk1M)

129 125 Roberts and Barrett joined the lefty justices.

I thought this might happen because the funds were not just appropriated funds in a general account but that they had already been allocated allegedly through contracts.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at March 05, 2025 10:09 AM (VofaG)

=======

There's no ruling on the merits at all.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, leading the proletariat with Eisenstein at March 05, 2025 10:09 AM (GBKbO)

130 I have seen videos of people claiming that, because it was a virgin birth, Jesus could not have gotten DNA from anyone other than Mary, so he had to be born a female and presented as male, therefore, trans.

Posted by: tankdemon at March 05, 2025 09:46 AM (aIl4i)

And this is where I wouldn't be able to resist saying, "You can't possibly be that f*cking stupid!"
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 05, 2025 09:49 AM

Yes. They can be that f*cking stupid.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState

Yeah. Stop saying it. They are taking it as a challenge.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 05, 2025 10:10 AM (3oPA9)

131 Jesus as trans?

Might as well say that Christ was a futanari.

Some are truly despicable.

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 05, 2025 10:10 AM (kQg6a)

132 125 Roberts and Barrett joined the lefty justices.

I thought this might happen because the funds were not just appropriated funds in a general account but that they had already been allocated allegedly through contracts.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at March 05, 2025 10:09 AM (VofaG)

They are Center Left is my opinion…

Posted by: tubal at March 05, 2025 10:10 AM (PCK5/)

133 USA Today has an oped from a fired USAID worker urging America to stop Elon.

This is how he starts off…

“ Since leaving my home state of Indiana in 2003, my professional life had orbited USAID”

Uhm asshole, this is the problem. Literally!! Nobody should orbit a federal agency for decades. Now go fuck off and learn to make lattes.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at March 05, 2025 10:10 AM (ovsoE)

134 Bellini's paintings often seem a bit odd to my uneducated knowledge. His figures are typically rather stilted compared to the more expressive style of later periods. But his landscapes seem almost modern. The stylized, less than realistic, landscape makes me think of 20th century. Just an observation.

Posted by: JTB at March 05, 2025 10:10 AM (yTvNw)

135 Sniper in the background with a Tavor.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 05, 2025 10:09 AM (hOk1M)

Weird name for a plow cow...

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 05, 2025 10:10 AM (KtIIi)

136 > The great clowns in robes have declared the money laundering USAID must continue unabated.

The Spice Must Flow
Posted by: Common Tater at March 05, 2025 10:02 AM (OZ5rj)

By my reading, the ruling only says that Trump has to pay for services already rendered, with no deadline imposed on spending the balance. The case will proceed in lower courts.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at March 05, 2025 10:10 AM (W5ArC)

137 Roberts and Barrett joined the lefty justices.

Barrett is the worst

Posted by: It's me donna at March 05, 2025 10:10 AM (VE6XX)

138 Very nice painting . As usual, when commenting on paintings which I like I say, "Nice colors." In the liturgical churches "Transfiguration Sunday" is the last Sunday before Lent begins on Ash Wednesday so it would have been celebrated last Sunday and the colors of the paraments change from white to purple.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 05, 2025 10:11 AM (tgnQN)

139 125 Roberts and Barrett joined the lefty justices.

I thought this might happen because the funds were not just appropriated funds in a general account but that they had already been allocated allegedly through contracts.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at March 05, 2025 10:09 AM (VofaG)

Not just allocated, but "spent on work prior to the shutdown" - as with the Catholics suing, the likely outcome will be that all bills prior to X date will have to be paid. And then if it was fraudulent spending, DOJ will have to sue and prosecute to get the money back (hello civil forfeiture for help)...which should be how it is...

And all bills after the date will be SOL.

This is a contract law ruling, not an executive power one. You can't not pay for work already done.

Posted by: Nova Local at March 05, 2025 10:12 AM (exHjb)

140 Interesting, if true, but I don't see how that reconciles with "turn the other cheek", which was a new innovation introduced by Jesus, if I'm not mistaken. I mean, he's kind of famous for that, right?

Posted by: MrExcitement

Forebearance and forgiveness. It's building upon one position to create a new one.

Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at March 05, 2025 10:12 AM (OUMaO)

141 137 Roberts and Barrett joined the lefty justices.

Barrett is the worst
--------------------
Barrett has no tits.

Posted by: Pudinhead at March 05, 2025 10:12 AM (pLaQB)

142 Bellini's paintings often seem a bit odd to my uneducated knowledge. His figures are typically rather stilted compared to the more expressive style of later periods. But his landscapes seem almost modern. The stylized, less than realistic, landscape makes me think of 20th century. Just an observation.
Posted by: JTB at March 05, 2025 10:10 AM (yTvNw)

And that’s exactly why I like it. But I understand why someone might not like it for the same reasons.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at March 05, 2025 10:13 AM (VofaG)

143 Scotus won’t save us after all. It’s official. Hawaiian judges now run the executive.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at March 05, 2025 10:13 AM (ovsoE)

144 cover their hair when they visited the Temple? Or when they went to the earliest synagogues? Or at home for certain occasions, such as festive meals

With festive little hats!

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle for festive little hats at March 05, 2025 10:13 AM (Nc7IH)

145 Interesting, if true, but I don't see how that reconciles with "turn the other cheek", which was a new innovation introduced by Jesus, if I'm not mistaken. I mean, he's kind of famous for that, right?
Posted by: MrExcitement at March 05, 2025 10:04 AM (hOOi9)

The normal start for an altercation is a full fisted punch. Getting slapped by another man is more of an insult than an assault. Jesus is demonstrating a method of maintaining your own personal dignity in the face of denigration.

Jesus could be very passive-aggressive at times.

Posted by: tankdemon at March 05, 2025 10:14 AM (aIl4i)

146 Of course, Al Green, not the wonderful gospel/R&B Singer, but the sub-literate Olduvai Gorge mutant/escapee with the intellectual agility of an amoeba who poses as a congressman was emblematic of Democrat crudeness, boorishness, petulance and general coarseness.

-
Looked like Grandpa Simpson yelling at the clouds.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at March 05, 2025 10:15 AM (L/fGl)

147 The great clowns in robes have declared the money laundering USAID must continue unabated.
---
Sort of.
They said, 5-4, "explain which specific contracts must still be honored and why."
Because the lower order was 1st "you have bad motives so you must restore all funding to all programs unless you prove you individually identified each one to suspend."
Then Trump said, "yeah we looked, same result."
And the judge stamped his little feet and said, "I don't believe Orange Man Bad, him lie. Pay all until you really, really look at every single one."
Trump said, "nah bro, we already looked."
Supreme just said to the judge, "yeah, gonna need to see your work 'cause I think you just copied the answer from the back of the textbook."

If I wanted to read more, it's saying, "you know and I know that, once you identify the specific programs that must be paid and why*, you've also made moot the individual program evaluation. So how about you say the Prez can do this before we have to?"

*A dangerous dare. Because that gets way past the fig leaf of process violations they've been skating on and square into Executive discretion.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at March 05, 2025 10:15 AM (wDiNp)

148
Just reminded from yesterday's "mattress girl" stunt that it was a direct rip-off of a National Lampoon "If Straight Men Designed Women's Clothing" article.

Posted by: Auspex at March 05, 2025 10:16 AM (j4U/Z)

149 Trump staring down pimp cane Al Green. Johnson with the Ben Affleck meme.

Click to embiggin.

https://tinyurl.com/4ybjr8dx

Posted by: one hour sober at March 05, 2025 10:16 AM (Y1sOo)

150 The way Greene was waving that cane around, an argument for attempted assault could be made.

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 05, 2025 10:16 AM (kQg6a)

151 Of course God has DNA, all of it, and he's selling it to Big Pharma and Musk. - says every leftist

Posted by: Smell the Glove at March 05, 2025 10:16 AM (EG7Bp)

152 Did you find my ball yet? I hate hitting into these poorly maintained fairway bunkers.

Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at March 05, 2025 10:16 AM (w9Wax)

153 Surprised there's no "Now watch this drive" comments

Posted by: H at March 05, 2025 10:17 AM (4N/0w)

154 This is a contract law ruling, not an executive power one. You can't not pay for work already done.
Posted by: Nova Local at March 05, 2025 10:12 AM

I thought that we had an entire separate court system for contract disputes which should have jurisdiction.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at March 05, 2025 10:17 AM (jc0TO)

155 147 Supreme just said to the judge, "yeah, gonna need to see your work 'cause I think you just copied the answer from the back of the textbook."

If I wanted to read more, it's saying, "you know and I know that, once you identify the specific programs that must be paid and why*, you've also made moot the individual program evaluation. So how about you say the Prez can do this before we have to?"

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at March 05, 2025 10:15 AM (wDiNp)

=======

The ruling probably should have just been, "Court of Claims is where this goes, not here. Dismiss and refile in the correct jurisdiction."

But...whatever.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, leading the proletariat with Eisenstein at March 05, 2025 10:17 AM (GBKbO)

156 115 Only God knows what to do with a One Iron.
Posted by: Pudinhead at March 05, 2025 10:02 AM (pLaQB)

My dad worked on a golf course for many years. He also played golf. He said the one iron is only used for self defense. But Pappymayhem was not God.
Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at March 05, 2025 10:05 AM (4XwPj)

Reminds me of Lee Trevino saying that, if you are ever caught on the golf course during a lightning storm, get your one iron out of the bag and hold it up over your head, because even God can't hit a one iron.

Posted by: tankdemon at March 05, 2025 10:17 AM (aIl4i)

157 I have seen videos of people claiming that, because it was a virgin birth, Jesus could not have gotten DNA from anyone other than Mary, so he had to be born a female and presented as male, therefore, trans. I guess they missed the part about all-powerful God able to override the laws of nature, and the fact that Jesus was given a circumcision a week after His birth.
Posted by: tankdemon at March 05, 2025 09:46 AM (aIl4i)

Well if you want to try to follow the rules of biology, then you would say that you can't make a new human from two eggs, so only 23 out of 46 chromosomes could have come from Mary. You have to break the rules in some ways to make it happen, but they're choosing to break the rules in a way that makes Jesus something that aligns with some sexually deviant cause they're championing, and not with anything in the story.

Posted by: MrExcitement at March 05, 2025 10:17 AM (hOOi9)

158 Very hilly in those parts.

Posted by: Gary R at March 05, 2025 10:17 AM (36OLy)

159 There's no ruling on the merits at all.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, leading the proletariat with Eisenstein at March 05, 2025 10:09 AM (GBKbO)

See #147

They are sending it back to confirm the merits.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at March 05, 2025 10:18 AM (VofaG)

160 Mattress girl stunt?

Been done before, cf E. Sulky

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 05, 2025 10:18 AM (kQg6a)

161 159 There's no ruling on the merits at all.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, leading the proletariat with Eisenstein at March 05, 2025 10:09 AM (GBKbO)

See #147

They are sending it back to confirm the merits.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at March 05, 2025 10:18 AM (VofaG)

======

Which is not a ruling on the merits.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, leading the proletariat with Eisenstein at March 05, 2025 10:19 AM (GBKbO)

162 Does God have DNA?
Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at March 05, 2025 09:53 AM (4XwPj)

A question for Baigent and Leigh . . .

Posted by: gKWVE at March 05, 2025 10:19 AM (qSHqn)

163 162 Does God have DNA?
Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at March 05, 2025 09:53 AM (4XwPj)

God is DNA

Posted by: It's me donna at March 05, 2025 10:19 AM (VE6XX)

164 It’s not just pay for work that’s been done. That makes sense. But the TRO is on the entire freeze. The $2B in question was Hawaiian judge saying” you definitely have to pay the $2b while I decide whether you have to continue everything”. And scotus said yeah what the judge said.

What’s Doris should have said was pay the $2b and yo Haitian judge fuck off with the rat. But they didn’t say the second part. Which means there’s a good chance all USAID funding will be restored.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at March 05, 2025 10:20 AM (ovsoE)

165 76% of Americans approve of Trump's speech last night.

-- and this is a See BS "poll", which you know is spun as far to the left as they think they can get away with.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at March 05, 2025 10:20 AM (W5ArC)

166 153 Surprised there's no "Now watch this drive" comments
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Its more of an approach shot with mid irons. A lot of touch is required to transfigure.

Posted by: Pudinhead at March 05, 2025 10:20 AM (pLaQB)

167 I'm giving up fucks for Lent
Posted by: Elric Blade at March 05, 2025 10:07 AM (iFTx/)

======

Easy when your fields are barren.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, leading the proletariat with Eisenstein at March 05, 2025 10:07 AM (GBKbO)
________

Every once in a while a fuck creeps in ....

Posted by: Elric Blade at March 05, 2025 10:20 AM (iFTx/)

168 161 159 There's no ruling on the merits at all.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, leading the proletariat with Eisenstein at March 05, 2025 10:09 AM (GBKbO)

See #147

They are sending it back to confirm the merits.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at March 05, 2025 10:18 AM (VofaG)

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Which is not a ruling on the merits.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, leading the proletariat with Eisenstein at March 0

Alito is on First.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at March 05, 2025 10:21 AM (ovsoE)

169 Which is not a ruling on the merits.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, leading the proletariat with Eisenstein at March 05, 2025 10:19 AM (GBKbO)

I never said it was but you were implying that sending it back was not based on the argument that contracts were involved.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at March 05, 2025 10:21 AM (VofaG)

170 Barrett sure likes to vote with the Gals

Posted by: It's me donna at March 05, 2025 10:21 AM (VE6XX)

171 168 Alito is on First.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at March 05, 2025 10:21 AM (ovsoE)

======

Alito wanted a ruling on the merits. Alito should have gotten a ruling on the merits.

The majority went procedural instead.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, leading the proletariat with Eisenstein at March 05, 2025 10:21 AM (GBKbO)

172 You are a soul. You have a body

Posted by: Common Tater at March 05, 2025 10:22 AM (OZ5rj)

173 > 165 76% of Americans approve of Trump's speech last night. -- and this is a See BS "poll"

Communist News Network says 69%.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at March 05, 2025 10:22 AM (W5ArC)

174 You guys are all lying liars who lie. I watched msmbc and left wing YouTube channels. 98% of America hates Trump and hated the speech.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at March 05, 2025 10:22 AM (ovsoE)

175 It also probably should have been a completely different ruling that killed the whole thing, but this is far less of a loss than people are making it out to be. It's not a win at all, but it's only a minor loss.

*******************

This procedural legalese "well on page 347823345 of the court order this counters the 5th term of the penumbras of the TRO which expired before the expiration for renewal so it needs to be-" oh just fuck off already lawyers, i hate you all

Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger: Ready to Free Ukrainian Wagshambas From Zelensky Tyranny at March 05, 2025 10:22 AM (HYKHz)

176 Tom Nichols: It's good that Donks didn't support kid with cancer.

https://is.gd/XbAkNS

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at March 05, 2025 10:22 AM (L/fGl)

177 > 176 Tom Nichols: It's good that Donks didn't support kid with cancer.

The Dems probably think that kids with cancer should be retroactively aborted.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at March 05, 2025 10:23 AM (W5ArC)

178 THIRD BASE!!

Posted by: Grump928(C) at March 05, 2025 10:23 AM (jc0TO)

179 Congressman Sylvester Turner died. He got elected to that seat after Sheila Jackson Lee Bragg Longstreet Hood died.
That seat is cursed. And stupid

Posted by: Smell the Glove at March 05, 2025 10:23 AM (EG7Bp)

180 As I read it, all of these orders against Trump have all skated on the thin ice of "failed to follow the process under the law."

None of them have said, "the President can't do this."

And they have all whistled briskly past the "a law by Congress can't tell the President what to do."

And this last ruling is just a lame attempt by the SCOTUS to avoid both of those, avoid having to say, "the President can, in fact, do this," but worse (for the globalist), "and Congress cannot tell him how to act."

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at March 05, 2025 10:23 AM (wDiNp)

181 The office break room has donuts. If the chubby people saw me, a lean muscular person eat five of them, they would be demotivated.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at March 05, 2025 10:23 AM (lEahz)

182 The normal start for an altercation is a full fisted punch. Getting slapped by another man is more of an insult than an assault. Jesus is demonstrating a method of maintaining your own personal dignity in the face of denigration.

Jesus could be very passive-aggressive at times.
Posted by: tankdemon at March 05, 2025 10:14 AM (aIl4i)

It seems obvious that the reason Christianity survived, and eventually overtook the Roman faith, was this passive-aggressive strategy. Fighting back would have simply gotten the early Christians killed, and we wouldn't be talking about them today.

Posted by: MrExcitement at March 05, 2025 10:24 AM (hOOi9)

183 > Sheila Jackson Lee Bragg Longstreet Hood died.

She died? Oh, no.

Anyway...

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at March 05, 2025 10:24 AM (W5ArC)

184 Nice. Good detail. Nice colors.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at March 05, 2025 10:25 AM (4qMVt)

185 To the last Justice (some said it was Roberts, I couldn't tell) whose hand Trump shook on the way out, he said, "No, I won't forget."

I read the tone as, "oh yeah, thanks for reminding me, I haven't forgotten" friendly.

But, after today's ruling, was it?

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at March 05, 2025 10:25 AM (wDiNp)

186 Well after all, these judges are edumacated people, not like the riffraff that gets voted into a temporary office by the peasants!

Posted by: Hrothgar at March 05, 2025 10:08 AM (hOUT3)

An old friend is his firm's litigator. His opinion of judges is illuminating. "Stupid, lazy, and arrogant."

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 05, 2025 10:25 AM (mWSu4)

187 140 ... "Forebearance and forgiveness. It's building upon one position to create a new one."

I've thought of 'turn the other cheek' as classic Stoicism, at least in part. It's not a matter of being meek or pacific but reacting to what is important in the long run. Sort of a pick your battles approach. But quite possibly I don't have the right mindset.

Posted by: JTB at March 05, 2025 10:26 AM (yTvNw)

188 It's not a win at all, but it's only a minor loss.

—

It’s a loss and a big one in that scotus didn’t unilaterally tell the Hawaiian judge to fuck right off. Read Alito’s dissent. He specifically asked how can a district judge be allowed to dictate how the president spends money? That should have been a 9-0 majority opinion. That’s what we were all expecting right? The fact it wasn’t is troubling.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at March 05, 2025 10:26 AM (ovsoE)

189 Wakes up
Scratches
Looks around
Dang. Beautiful painting. Great speech last night. A good day ahead.
Goes looking for coffee.

Posted by: Diogenes at March 05, 2025 10:26 AM (W/lyH)

190
This Bellini is a peach!

*nudge nudge*

Geddit?

*nudge*

Do ya geddit?

Posted by: naturalfake at March 05, 2025 10:26 AM (iJfKG)

191 150 The way Greene was waving that cane around, an argument for attempted assault could be made.
Posted by: Anna Puma at March

Democrats with walking sticks are always bad news

Posted by: Zombie Preston Brooks at March 05, 2025 10:27 AM (y9ksN)

192 And this last ruling is just a lame attempt by the SCOTUS to avoid both of those, avoid having to say, "the President can, in fact, do this," but worse (for the globalist), "and Congress cannot tell him how to act."

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at March 05, 2025 10:23 AM (wDiNp)

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

Cowardice and infantilism are contagious.

SCOTUS in general, and Benedict Roberts in particular, are a national disgrace.

Posted by: ShainS -- DataRepublican for Attorney General! at March 05, 2025 10:27 AM (5ueg9)

193 have seen videos of people claiming that, because it was a virgin birth, Jesus could not have gotten DNA from anyone other than Mary, so he had to be born a female and presented as male, therefore, trans.

Posted by: tankdemon at March 05, 2025 09:46 AM (aIl4i)

Have these people by chance ever met God?

I think willfully stupid is the best case scenario for them.

Posted by: ... at March 05, 2025 10:28 AM (bvit7)

194
An old friend is his firm's litigator. His opinion of judges is illuminating. "Stupid, lazy, and arrogant."
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 05, 2025 10:25 AM (mWSu4)

So like congress.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at March 05, 2025 10:28 AM (ovsoE)

195 SCOTUS in general, and Benedict Roberts in particular, are a national disgrace.
Posted by: ShainS -- DataRepublican for Attorney General! at March 05, 2025 10:27 AM (5ueg9)

Hey!!

Posted by: A National Disgrace at March 05, 2025 10:28 AM (bvit7)

196 Of course, Al Green, not the wonderful gospel/R&B Singer, but the sub-literate Olduvai Gorge mutant/escapee with the intellectual agility of an amoeba who poses as a congressman was emblematic of Democrat crudeness, boorishness, petulance and general coarseness.

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Looked like Grandpa Simpson yelling at the clouds.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at March 05, 2025 10:15 AM (L/fGl)

He was channeling his inner biden.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 05, 2025 10:28 AM (VwHCD)

197 Might these judges opine whether the government is bound by the constitution to be a fucking ponzi scheme or not?

Posted by: BourbonChicken at March 05, 2025 10:28 AM (lEahz)

198 170 Barrett sure likes to vote with the Gals
Posted by: It's me donna at March 05, 2025 10:21 AM (VE6XX)

Lib… Sandra Day O’Connor-like??

Posted by: tubal at March 05, 2025 10:28 AM (PCK5/)

199 I've thought of 'turn the other cheek' as classic Stoicism, at least in part. It's not a matter of being meek or pacific but reacting to what is important in the long run. Sort of a pick your battles approach. But quite possibly I don't have the right mindset.
Posted by: JTB at March 05, 2025 10:26 AM (yTvNw)

I think you’re right based on Jesus’s actions with the money changers.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at March 05, 2025 10:29 AM (VofaG)

200
Lib… Sandra Day O’Connor-like??
Posted by: tubal at March 05, 2025 10:28 AM (PCK5/)

Seems so...

Posted by: It's me donna at March 05, 2025 10:29 AM (VE6XX)

201 Everybody forgets Paraquay. We just do.

Posted by: Pudinhead at March 05, 2025 10:30 AM (pLaQB)

202 Who is Josh Hazel? Any particular reason a mob set on him and his wife or we're they just convenient and in a cybertruck?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at March 05, 2025 10:30 AM (4qMVt)

203 Kneeling dude in the brown is about to pull a rabbit out of his robes.
Posted by: She Hobbit (out and about in Middle Earth) at March 05, 2025

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Looks like he's going for the 1911 in his shoulder holster!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 05, 2025 10:30 AM (J2vNu)

204 Even MSNSDAP didn't like the ping pong paddle protest.

Thomas Hern@ThomasMHern
"I don't know who thought of the bingo signs, but they should be fired."
"This is an indictment on Democrat leadership."
You know tonight was a complete and total disaster for the Democrat Party when MSNBC is calling for people to be fired.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at March 05, 2025 10:30 AM (L/fGl)

205 This Bellini is a peach!

*nudge nudge*

Geddit?

*nudge*

Do ya geddit?
Posted by: naturalfake at March 05, 2025 10:26 AM

Don't hold your breath...they didn't get the Tavor gag.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 05, 2025 10:30 AM (hOk1M)

206 Adam and Eve had perfectly (clean) DNA. Man polluted it over centuries, thus shortening our lifespans and making us subject to piddly things like colds.

Posted by: Eromero at March 05, 2025 10:31 AM (LHPAg)

207 I knew ACB was trouble from the get go. She has the “look” about her. She’d fit right in as an HOA president.

I pray to Allah Trump learned his lesson for the next scotus appointment he makes.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at March 05, 2025 10:31 AM (ovsoE)

208 > That should have been a 9-0 majority opinion. That’s what we were all expecting right?

With the Stupid Latina, Jumanji, and Kagan on the court?

Literally no one was expecting that.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at March 05, 2025 10:31 AM (W5ArC)

209 Literally no one was expecting that.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at March 05, 2025 10:31 AM

I know, right?

Posted by: The Spanish Inquisition at March 05, 2025 10:33 AM (hOk1M)

210 140 Interesting, if true, but I don't see how that reconciles with "turn the other cheek", which was a new innovation introduced by Jesus, if I'm not mistaken. I mean, he's kind of famous for that, right?

Posted by: MrExcitement

Forebearance and forgiveness. It's building upon one position to create a new one.
Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at March 05, 2025 10:12 AM (OUMaO)

The key point there is that the position is a new one, which means that it has CHANGED. The old position is inconsistent with the new. The infallible has changed its mind.

Posted by: MrExcitement at March 05, 2025 10:33 AM (hOOi9)

211 The way Greene was waving that cane around, an argument for attempted assault could be made.

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 05, 2025 10:16 AM (kQg6a)
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The Cane Mutiny.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at March 05, 2025 10:34 AM (OT+cA)

212 With the Stupid Latina, Jumanji, and Kagan on the court?

Literally no one was expecting that.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at March 05, 2025 10:31 AM (W5ArC)

Kagan and Latina voted part of 9-0 on the Muslim ban. When it’s 100% obvious even they will come around.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at March 05, 2025 10:34 AM (ovsoE)

213 Kavanaugh and Gorusch are okay-“ish”… Barrett, no… why he hired her, and on whose recommendation would be interesting to know..

Posted by: tubal at March 05, 2025 10:34 AM (PCK5/)

214 After Trump read some of the insane USAID "grants" last night the SCOTUS should be ashamed they didn't okay Trumps cancelling of them

Posted by: It's me donna at March 05, 2025 10:34 AM (VE6XX)

215 I've thought of 'turn the other cheek' as classic Stoicism, at least in part. It's not a matter of being meek or pacific but reacting to what is important in the long run. Sort of a pick your battles approach. But quite possibly I don't have the right mindset.

Posted by: JTB

If it was easy, the world wouldn't be so fucked up.

Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at March 05, 2025 10:34 AM (OUMaO)

216 If Jesus only got genetic material from Mary, then he would have had to be a genetic clone. *sigh*

Immaculate conception. So... I am not going to do that joke.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at March 05, 2025 10:34 AM (4qMVt)

217 The way Greene was waving that cane around, an argument for attempted assault could be made.
Posted by: Anna Puma at March

Democrats with walking sticks are always bad news
Posted by: Zombie Preston Brooks

Donk Lester Maddox campaigned against integration waving axe handles.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at March 05, 2025 10:34 AM (L/fGl)

218 This Bellini is a peach!

*nudge nudge*

Geddit?

*nudge*

Do ya geddit?

Posted by: naturalfake at March 05, 2025 10:26 AM (iJfKG)

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IT'S FUNNY BECAUSE I HEARD THAT IN VAL KILMER'S DOC HOLLIDAY VOICE!!!!!!!
191 150 The way

Posted by: ShainS -- DataRepublican for Attorney General! at March 05, 2025 10:35 AM (UCiQg)

219 Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at March 05, 2025 10:22 AM (L/fGl)

His conclusion is the hottest of hot takes. "Trump doesn't give a shit about them" is called PROJECTION.

The truly deranged thing is that Trump DOES give a shit about them and *they* absolutely don't.

Posted by: ... at March 05, 2025 10:35 AM (bvit7)

220 "so only 23 out of 46 chromosomes could have come from Mary."

and the DNA created by God was surely all dominant genes, since Jesus had a rather special mission that required the very best. I suppose He could have created the egg as well, but the lineage of Mary was also a consideration.

Posted by: illiniwek at March 05, 2025 10:35 AM (Cus5s)

221 Al Greene is afraid of cuts to Medicaid. The cuts he's afraid of are the cuts to the fraud, waste, and abuse which are enormous and which his constituents in Houston and the rest of the 9th District demands.

Posted by: Cheri at March 05, 2025 10:35 AM (oiNtH)

222 There are no Protestants on the SC, are there?

Posted by: tubal at March 05, 2025 10:35 AM (PCK5/)

223 and on whose recommendation would be interesting to know..
Posted by: tubal at March 05, 2025 10:34 AM (PCK5/)

Federalist Society

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at March 05, 2025 10:36 AM (ovsoE)

224 ".......now let them enforce it "

Posted by: Gary R at March 05, 2025 10:36 AM (36OLy)

225 > 211 The way Greene was waving that cane around, an argument for attempted assault could be made.

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 05, 2025 10:16 AM (kQg6a)

The Henry A. Edmundson decision says that Democrats are permitted to thrash Republicans with canes anywhere on Capitol grounds.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at March 05, 2025 10:36 AM (W5ArC)

226 221 Al Greene is afraid of cuts to Medicaid. The cuts he's afraid of are the cuts to the fraud, waste, and abuse which are enormous and which his constituents in Houston and the rest of the 9th District demands.
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So just another Bob Menendez.

Posted by: Pudinhead at March 05, 2025 10:37 AM (pLaQB)

227 and the DNA created by God was surely all dominant genes, since Jesus had a rather special mission that required the very best. I suppose He could have created the egg as well, but the lineage of Mary was also a consideration.
Posted by: illiniwek at March 05, 2025 10:35 AM (Cus5s)

See, here you start getting into the Arian Heresy...

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at March 05, 2025 10:38 AM (4qMVt)

228 222 There are no Protestants on the SC, are there?
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Nope. That might explain a lot.

Posted by: Pudinhead at March 05, 2025 10:38 AM (pLaQB)

229 The key point there is that the position is a new one, which means that it has CHANGED. The old position is inconsistent with the new. The infallible has changed its mind.

Posted by: MrExcitement

Or perhaps the old position served the purpose of building and preserving a specific community in difficult circumstances, but the new one served a very different purpose for a different audience in different circumstances...

Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at March 05, 2025 10:38 AM (OUMaO)

230 There are no Protestants on the SC, are there?
Posted by: tubal at March 05, 2025 10:35 AM (PCK5/)

Kagan? I thought she was Jewish.

Jumanji?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at March 05, 2025 10:40 AM (4qMVt)

231 Trump killed Congressman Sylvester Turner (D) with that speech last night.

Posted by: one hour sober at March 05, 2025 10:40 AM (Y1sOo)

232 Adam and Eve had perfectly (clean) DNA. Man polluted it over centuries, thus shortening our lifespans and making us subject to piddly things like colds.

Posted by: Eromero at March 05, 2025 10:31 AM (LHPAg)

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I wonder what portion of genetic mutations are random versus what percentage are environmental (perhaps a result of pollution of some kind, including parental behavior-based)?

Posted by: ShainS -- DataRepublican for Attorney General! at March 05, 2025 10:40 AM (UCiQg)

233 Ketanji Jackson is a Protestant. Who can't define a woman.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at March 05, 2025 10:41 AM (EG7Bp)

234 See, here you start getting into the Arian Heresy...
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at March 05, 2025 10:38 AM (4qMVt)
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homoousion =/= homoiousion

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at March 05, 2025 10:41 AM (6K6Eu)

235 The key point there is that the position is a new one, which means that it has CHANGED. The old position is inconsistent with the new. The infallible has changed its mind.

Posted by: MrExcitement

The position "changed" because God overcame the world.

Posted by: ... at March 05, 2025 10:41 AM (bvit7)

236 Did the tranny wear pink last night?

Posted by: ... at March 05, 2025 10:41 AM (bvit7)

237 (perhaps a result of pollution of some kind, including parental behavior-based)?
Posted by: ShainS -- DataRepublican for Attorney General! at March 05, 2025 10:40 AM (UCiQg)

Lamarkism.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at March 05, 2025 10:42 AM (4qMVt)

238 Did a quick look, Jumanji declares herself non denominational Protestant, Gorusch is Episcopalian…

Posted by: tubal at March 05, 2025 10:43 AM (PCK5/)

239 It’s a loss and a big one in that scotus didn’t unilaterally tell the Hawaiian judge to fuck right off. Read Alito’s dissent. He specifically asked how can a district judge be allowed to dictate how the president spends money? That should have been a 9-0 majority opinion. That’s what we were all expecting right? The fact it wasn’t is troubling.
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Yeah, see mine above.
Never but never does the Supreme Court try to decide the bigger issue unless the absolutely, 100%, no-way-around-it, has to.
They have this obsession with ruling on the narrowest issue possible.
This ruling was the thinnest thread of gossamer stretched across the Grand Canyon.
Again, the Court said, "the plaintiff's haven't proven why their specific programs must be funded and the lower order obfuscates that by hiding behind all programs. Tell us specifically about these plaintiffs."
The burden here is on the plaintiffs to prove likelihood of harm.
And the judge skipped right past that to "bad motives 'cause he suspended all."
Again, the plaintiff's have to prove why they will prevail--and that means why their program, their specific program, isn't subject to the Executive Authority on contract performance, etc.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at March 05, 2025 10:43 AM (wDiNp)

240 Very nicely detailed

Posted by: Skip at March 05, 2025 10:43 AM (fwDg9)

241 Good morning horde

Posted by: Skip at March 05, 2025 10:44 AM (fwDg9)

242 Listening to the mayors' testimonies before Congress (because I get a perverse delight from listening to Brandon Johnson beclown himself) ... the libertardian Cato Institute is siding with the mayors in favor of open illegal immigration.

I preferred the libertarians when they just focused on legalizing weed.

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at March 05, 2025 10:44 AM (qwx/I)

243 homoousion =/= homoiousion
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at March 05, 2025 10:41 AM (6K6Eu)

Web does not want to track second one.

Cosubstantial. 'One in being with the Father.'

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at March 05, 2025 10:44 AM (4qMVt)

244 There are no Protestants on the SC, are there?
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Nope. That might explain a lot.
Posted by: Pudinhead at March 05, 2025 10:38 AM (pLaQB)

Ketanji Jackson is a Protestant. Who can't define a woman.
Posted by: Smell the Glove at March 05, 2025 10:41 AM (EG7Bp)

Soooo, you're telling us that Protestants aren't smart enough to be on the Supreme Court?*

*Unwad yer panties. It's just a silly joke.

Posted by: naturalfake at March 05, 2025 10:44 AM (iJfKG)

245 241 Good morning horde
Posted by: Skip at March 05, 2025 10:44 AM (fwDg9)

It’s not bad, actually…

Posted by: tubal at March 05, 2025 10:44 AM (PCK5/)

246 > I pray to Allah Trump learned his lesson for the next scotus appointment he makes.
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Like many, if not all, of Trump's appointments (cabinet, SCOTUS, etc.) the selections were likely made for him and not, specifically, by him.

He's said as much.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 05, 2025 10:44 AM (Q4IgG)

247 Can the President just send them $1 a year payments and put the rest in a high yield interest account? Or does the order say how it has to be paid?

Posted by: spypeach at March 05, 2025 10:45 AM (UuB/1)

248 homoousion =/= homoiousion
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at March 05, 2025 10:41 AM (6K6Eu)

Web does not want to track second one.

Cosubstantial. 'One in being with the Father.'
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at March 05, 2025 10:44 AM (4qMVt)
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same substance =/= similar substance

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at March 05, 2025 10:45 AM (6K6Eu)

249 Immaculate conception. So... I am not going to do that joke.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at March 05, 2025 10:34 AM (4qMVt)

"Immaculate conception" actually refers to Mary's conception, and the Catholic belief that she was without original sin. We celebrate the Annunciation as the time the angel appeared to her and she accepted the role of being mother to Christ.

Posted by: tankdemon at March 05, 2025 10:45 AM (aIl4i)

250 Trump didn't win over everybody.

Western Lensman@WesternLensman
Alexander Vindman, appearing on fmr. CNN anchor Jim Acosta’s new ‘podcast’ from a hotel room:
“I'm calling on Donald Trump to resign!"
The Resistance is looking pretty sad these days.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at March 05, 2025 10:45 AM (L/fGl)

251
Ron Wyatt claimed to have discovered the blood of Jesus, which was analyzed to only have DNA from the mother's side, for what it's worth. Many quietly assume Wyatt's entire study and discovery is absolute nonsense, but it's interesting in this debate, such as it is.

Posted by: American Hawkman at March 05, 2025 10:45 AM (9VDxG)

252 Trump killed Congressman Sylvester Turner (D) with that speech last night.

Posted by: one hour sober at March 05, 2025 10:40 AM (Y1sOo)

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I told the wifey that Trump should have locked all the Satanic Treasonous America- and American-hating D CongressCritters alone in the Capitol -- and then burn it down.

So sick of that hive of villainous scum ...

Posted by: ShainS -- DataRepublican for Attorney General! at March 05, 2025 10:45 AM (UCiQg)

253 same substance =/= similar substance
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at March 05, 2025 10:45 AM (6K6Eu)

That's what I said.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at March 05, 2025 10:46 AM (4qMVt)

254 222 There are no Protestants on the SC, are there?

Posted by: tubal at March 05, 2025 10:35 AM (PCK5/)

Gorsuch is(though raised Catholic).

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy at March 05, 2025 10:47 AM (eYoxG)

255 Vindman became Olbermann overnight.

Anyone remember those days??

"RESIGN!!!!"

Posted by: ... at March 05, 2025 10:47 AM (bvit7)

256 I'd like Trump to re-sign, too. He's earned it. Trump 2028!!

Posted by: ... at March 05, 2025 10:47 AM (bvit7)

257 but it's interesting in this debate, such as it is.
Posted by: American Hawkman at March 05, 2025 10:45 AM (9VDxG)

I am still trying to decide how to work in boobs and 1911s.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at March 05, 2025 10:47 AM (4qMVt)

258 If she's a non denominational Protestant all it means is that she's defining herself as "Not a Catholic" It doesn't really mean she has an active Christian faith life And NO, I'm not saying that you have to go to Church to be a Christian. I'm saying I can't tell what her thoughts are on faith from that statement other than that she's probably not part of a church and she wishes to define herself as not a RC.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 05, 2025 10:47 AM (tgnQN)

259 I preferred the libertarians when they just focused on legalizing weed.

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at March 05, 2025 10:44 AM (qwx/I)

Head over to Reason.com if you want to see some unbelievable inconsistency and massive amounts of bullsh*t.

The libertarian movement has lost its mind.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 05, 2025 10:48 AM (mWSu4)

260
Back to Religious Wars! Using DNA to explain Biblical Truth is right out of the Christian Scientist Reading Room.

It's like trying to shoehorn Carl Sagan cosmology into a creation story, when it's been long established that the stars are dots on the back of the giant turtle in the sky.

Posted by: Auspex at March 05, 2025 10:48 AM (j4U/Z)

261 Shain what do you have against a little bipartisanship?

Posted by: ... at March 05, 2025 10:48 AM (bvit7)

262 Nice to know Jesus and the 2 apostles got up the mountain with the help of a bonded and certified handicap railing.

Posted by: look whats not at March 05, 2025 10:48 AM (nakGR)

263 Whoops, make that 3.

Posted by: look whats not at March 05, 2025 10:49 AM (nakGR)

264
Mr. Bush HAVE YOU NO SHAME

Posted by: Olberdouche at March 05, 2025 10:49 AM (bvit7)

265 Head over to Reason.com if you want to see some unbelievable inconsistency and massive amounts of bullsh*t.
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I gave up on Reason back in the '90s.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at March 05, 2025 10:49 AM (6K6Eu)

266 259 Head over to Reason.com if you want to see some unbelievable inconsistency and massive amounts of bullsh*t.

The libertarian movement has lost its mind.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 05, 2025 10:48 AM (mWSu4)

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The Libertarian Movement needs a Benevolent Dictator to bring it all in line.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, leading the proletariat with Eisenstein at March 05, 2025 10:49 AM (GBKbO)

267 At least 200 laid of from ABC news division in NY. The propaganda ministries crash accelerates

Posted by: Smell the Glove at March 05, 2025 10:49 AM (EG7Bp)

268 258 If she's a non denominational Protestant all it means is that she's defining herself as "Not a Catholic" It doesn't really mean she has an active Christian faith life And NO, I'm not saying that you have to go to Church to be a Christian. I'm saying I can't tell what her thoughts are on faith from that statement other than that she's probably not part of a church and she wishes to define herself as not a RC.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 05, 2025 10:47 AM (tgnQN)

Yeah my quick look did not give ANY detail, at all, about where she stood spiritually on anything…

Posted by: tubal at March 05, 2025 10:49 AM (PCK5/)

269 Have to catch up on speech I missed

Posted by: Skip at March 05, 2025 10:49 AM (fwDg9)

270 The Libertarian Movement needs a Benevolent Dictator to bring it all in line.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, leading the proletariat with Eisenstein at March 05, 2025 10:49 AM (GBKbO)

I don't think Andrew Ryan is available.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at March 05, 2025 10:50 AM (4qMVt)

271 251
Ron Wyatt claimed to have discovered the blood of Jesus, which was analyzed to only have DNA from the mother's side, for what it's worth. Many quietly assume Wyatt's entire study and discovery is absolute nonsense, but it's interesting in this debate, such as it is.
Posted by: American Hawkman at March 05, 2025 10:45 AM (9VDxG)

I don't know about DNA but every Eucharistic miracle that has been tested all have the same blood type - AB+

Posted by: Josephistan at March 05, 2025 10:50 AM (y9ksN)

272 God is DNA
Posted by: It's me donna at March 05, 2025 10:19 AM (VE6XX)

Stole my thought

Posted by: ... at March 05, 2025 10:50 AM (bvit7)

273
The libertarian movement has lost its mind.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo

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We were gonna lose our minds but then we got high

Posted by: The Libertarians at March 05, 2025 10:50 AM (k/U8Z)

274 270 The Libertarian Movement needs a Benevolent Dictator to bring it all in line.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, leading the proletariat with Eisenstein at March 05, 2025 10:49 AM (GBKbO)

I don't think Andrew Ryan is available.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at March 05, 2025 10:50 AM (4qMVt)

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A man chooses. A slave obeys.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, leading the proletariat with Eisenstein at March 05, 2025 10:50 AM (GBKbO)

275 A man chooses. A slave obeys.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, leading the proletariat with Eisenstein at March 05, 2025 10:50 AM (GBKbO)

Are you not entitled to the sweat from your own brow?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at March 05, 2025 10:51 AM (4qMVt)

276 That should have been a 9-0 majority opinion..... The fact it wasn’t is troubling.

******

The SC majority is simply another tentacle of the deep state establishment swamp creature. Which brings us sadly back to the belief that for America there is one and only one way back to correctly functioning constitutional government and it involves not "voting" but bloody armed conflict. What else is there?

Posted by: Gary R at March 05, 2025 10:51 AM (36OLy)

277 There he was transfigured before them. His face shone like the sun, and his clothes became as white as the light. 3 Just then there appeared before them Moses and Elijah, talking with Jesus.
Posted by: rhennigantx at March 05, 2025 09:35 AM (gbOdA)

They were heard to say: "Ya did good, kid. Let's go. Can't keep the 'ol Man waiting."

Posted by: Diogenes at March 05, 2025 10:52 AM (W/lyH)

278 I am still trying to decide how to work in boobs and 1911s.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at March 05, 2025

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See my 203 for the latter

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 05, 2025 10:52 AM (J2vNu)

279 275 A man chooses. A slave obeys.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, leading the proletariat with Eisenstein at March 05, 2025 10:50 AM (GBKbO)

Are you not entitled to the sweat from your own brow?
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at March 05, 2025 10:51 AM (4qMVt)

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Would you kindly...leave me alone with my plasmids?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, leading the proletariat with Eisenstein at March 05, 2025 10:52 AM (GBKbO)

280 Would you kindly...leave me alone with my plasmids?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, leading the proletariat with Eisenstein at March 05, 2025 10:52 AM (GBKbO)

Sure you want to go with that 3 wood?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at March 05, 2025 10:53 AM (4qMVt)

281 "Adam and Eve had perfectly (clean) DNA. Man polluted it over centuries, thus shortening our lifespans and making us subject to piddly things like colds."

I do at times wonder, how much of the Bible is "figurative storytelling". Man needs a good narrative for a framework to comprehend the more spiritual realities. Did they really live to be hundreds of years old?

27 So God created man (adam) in his own image, in the image of God created he him; (separate act) male and female created he them.

imo, only Adam had holy spirit (the image of God), and it was on a condition of obedience. Eve was deceived, because she did not have that spirit (to discern). By one man (Adam) sin entered into the world ... willful disobedience.

Posted by: illiniwek at March 05, 2025 10:53 AM (Cus5s)

282 This USAID nonsense is so bizarre. the funding is the form of grants, they are not contracts in any sense of the word and the idea that the unitary executive is bound to continue funding nebulous grants that are not explicitly authorized through legislation is bizarre.

All the funding for USAID is just a bucket of money that that executive agency doles out and the idea that a current administration is bound by the bad decisions of a previous administration are ludicorus.

Do we think for a second that a future donk administration is going to allow itself to bound to the spending priorities of a GOP President?

F**k no!

Posted by: Thomas Bender at March 05, 2025 10:53 AM (1sXeU)

283 Head over to Reason.com if you want to see some unbelievable inconsistency and massive amounts of bullsh*t.

The libertarian movement has lost its mind.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 05, 2025 10:48 AM (mWSu4)

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They're just anarchists with better suits

Posted by: Josephistan at March 05, 2025 10:54 AM (y9ksN)

284 MSNSDAP's Nicholle Wallace asserts best wishes for the kid with cancer. Now let's turn our hymn book to hymn 1/6.

Collin Rugg@CollinRugg
JUST IN: MSNBC’s Nicolle Wallace politicizes young DJ’s moment at Trump’s speech, says she hopes he doesn’t k*ll himself because of something like Jan 6.
Holy sh*t
“I hope he has a long life as a law enforcement officer, but I hope he never has to defend the United States capitol against Donald Trump's supporters.”
“And if he does, I hope he isn't one of the six who loses his life to su*cide.”

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at March 05, 2025 10:54 AM (L/fGl)

285 Oh, what is the speech?

No, says the man in Moscow- it belongs to the State.

No says the man in Washington- it belongs to the people.

No, says the man in Rome- it belongs to everyone.

That's not right.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at March 05, 2025 10:55 AM (4qMVt)

286 I preferred the libertarians when they just focused on legalizing weed.

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at March 05, 2025 10:44 AM (qwx/I)

Head over to Reason.com if you want to see some unbelievable inconsistency and massive amounts of bullsh*t.

The libertarian movement has lost its mind.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 05, 2025 10:48 AM (mWSu4)

Eh, libertardianism has always been silly.

If nothing else it provides no basis for its own continuance.

And is totally ignorant of human nature.

Libertarianism is Underpants Gnome Rules of Utopian Political philosophies.

Posted by: naturalfake at March 05, 2025 10:57 AM (iJfKG)

287 285 Oh, what is the speech?

No, says the man in Moscow- it belongs to the State.

No says the man in Washington- it belongs to the people.

No, says the man in Rome- it belongs to everyone.

That's not right.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at March 05, 2025 10:55 AM (4qMVt)

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Andrew Ryan being the bad guy in Bioshock never really made sense.

Because Ken Levine is far less intelligent than he thinks he is.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, leading the proletariat with Eisenstein at March 05, 2025 10:57 AM (GBKbO)

288 Ron Wyatt claimed to have discovered the blood of Jesus, which was analyzed to only have DNA from the mother's side, for what it's worth.

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Mosquito trapped in amber?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at March 05, 2025 10:57 AM (L/fGl)

289 I preferred the libertarians when they just focused on legalizing weed.

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at March 05, 2025 10:44 AM (qwx/I)

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I was a member of the Libertarian Party until sometime in the early '90s when they sold their membership list to the ACLU.

And I voted for Ross Perot (Trump version 0.8 minx alpha) ...

Posted by: ShainS -- DataRepublican for Attorney General! at March 05, 2025 10:57 AM (QYppa)

290 288 Ron Wyatt claimed to have discovered the blood of Jesus, which was analyzed to only have DNA from the mother's side, for what it's worth.

I'm gonna get willowed, so I'll wait for Monkey Thread...

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at March 05, 2025 10:58 AM (PiwSw)

291 I told the wifey that Trump should have locked all the Satanic Treasonous America- and American-hating D CongressCritters alone in the Capitol -- and then burn it down.

Go full Colonel Tavin savage-level and BURN THE CHURCH!

Posted by: Grapefruit LaCroix at March 05, 2025 10:59 AM (FtmDD)

292 Can the President just send them $1 a year payments and put the rest in a high yield interest account? Or does the order say how it has to be paid?

Posted by: spypeach at March 05, 2025 10:45 AM (UuB/1)

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[Text just received from the wifey:]

Interesting background on the dollar limits: "Breaking: When a Federal Judge blocked Trump's attempt to terminate government credit cards, @DOGE set a spending limit of ONE DOLLAR on the cards 🤣"

Posted by: ShainS -- DataRepublican for Attorney General! at March 05, 2025 10:59 AM (QYppa)

293 "Gorsuch is(though raised Catholic)."

and his legal thesis (?) was under the guidance of some big Catholic ? theologian. Then for some reason he became "Protestant", I forget what brand of Protestant.

Posted by: illiniwek at March 05, 2025 11:00 AM (Cus5s)

294 Amy Coney Barrett is a closet liberal. She’s been a disaster for our Constitution and The Bill of Rights. She’s has voted for every usurpation of our rights and freedoms. She’s now teaming up with Roberts to ensure every encroachment on our liberties is realized.

Posted by: Marcus T at March 05, 2025 11:00 AM (UUa/N)

295 Noodus mannicus

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 05, 2025 11:00 AM (J2vNu)

296 Minkey up

Posted by: rickb223 at March 05, 2025 11:01 AM (3oPA9)

297
It was two Capitol Police killed on Jan. 6, six wounded and 12 who committed suicide, MAGA just playin' down the carnage.

Posted by: Auspex at March 05, 2025 11:01 AM (j4U/Z)

298 NOOD!

Posted by: tankdemon at March 05, 2025 11:01 AM (aIl4i)

299 We have a monkey sighting, come on up and join us in the Noooooooood!

Posted by: tankdemon at March 05, 2025 11:02 AM (aIl4i)

300 “I hope he has a long life as a law enforcement officer, but I hope he never has to defend the United States capitol against Donald Trump's supporters.”
“And if he does, I hope he isn't one of the six who loses his life to su*cide.”

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at March 05, 2025 10:54 AM (L/fGl)

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The continuous gaslighting is beyond parody.

Posted by: ShainS -- DataRepublican for Attorney General! at March 05, 2025 11:03 AM (QYppa)

301 Don’t attack me, but the ACB ruling was for work already performed, not on going, and it kicked it back to the lower court to determine which payments are supposed to be made - there was no ruling on the merits. Now, we can argue the merits should be decided now and not later, but this ruling is on procedures. It will be back in front of SCOTUS on merits.

Posted by: Piper at March 05, 2025 11:07 AM (pRpzT)

302 Late, as usual, but today is Ash Wednesday and I thank you for the lovely painting.

Posted by: L - Another fine day at March 05, 2025 11:08 AM (NFX2v)

303 This USAID nonsense is so bizarre. the funding is the form of grants, they are not contracts in any sense of the word and the idea that the unitary executive is bound to continue funding nebulous grants that are not explicitly authorized through legislation is bizarre.
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"But we signed the grant acceptance and that's a contract!!"
Um, yeah. And there's a shitload of boilerplate language in every grant that says, the government can revoke this at any time. Which the lower court pretends isn't in there.
It's a "contract" that says, "I'll pay you this if I want to and only as long as I want to and I can change my mind at any time for any reason."
And that's before we get to the sovereign immunity part where you don't get to sue the government for breach of contract unless the government--via specific legislation--gives you the right.
All of which isn't being addressed by the lower court.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at March 05, 2025 11:12 AM (wDiNp)

304 I'm getting here late...love this painting!

the transfiguration and the nativity are my 2 favorite mysteries

Posted by: kallisto at March 05, 2025 11:44 AM (dCxaZ)

305 15 and 19 said what i came to so, what they said.

Posted by: cmeat at March 05, 2025 12:52 PM (6+aIJ)

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