The Morning Rant: Minimalist Edition

There are jabbering fools on the left who make statements that, while seemingly in English, make absolutely no sense. For instance, transsexual and race jargon lends itself to nonsense, and many on the left are happy to use it. Perhaps it makes it easy to speak without engaging their brains, or maybe they enjoy carefully hiding the truth with an argot that most people can only scratch their heads at and cringe. Or maybe (and this is my choice) they really are stupid and ignorant and think they are making sense. Or all three -- that's always a good choice.

However I don't expect arrant nonsense from The Trump administration, but we got it in spades from Steven Witkoff, the United States Special Envoy to the Middle East.

And it's not just nonsense... it is ahistorical, devoid of facts, and ignores a massive amount of evidence that supports the contrary position.

Hamas 'not as ideologically extreme as portrayed,' says Trump envoy

“We need to understand what Hamas wants and then think about what we can offer them to make them leave. That is what needs to happen here. At the start of the conflict, we heard that ‘Hamas is an ideology, and they are ready to die,’” the official told controversial media figure Tucker Carlson.
“I don’t think they are as ideologically extreme as they're often portrayed," Witkoff went on to say of Hamas. "They send young children who understand nothing to commit suicide with explosive belts. Once we understand that they want to live, we can talk to them more effectively.”
He said it was imperative that Hamas disarms. “They need to demilitarize, and then they might also be politically involved in Gaza.”

Where to start...

First of all, the Hamas ideology was on full display on October 7th, 2023, when they sent thousands of their terrorists into Israel to murder Jewish Israelis and anyone else they could get their hands on. The barbarity on display that day was a testament to their ideological fanaticism, and to suggest otherwise is simply ignorant, or willfully blind for political purposes.

Second; it wasn't just Hamas that demonstrated savagery and inhumanity. It was the supposedly innocents of Gaza that poured through the fences and raped and murdered and tortured and kidnapped... all in service to that evil ideology.

There is ample evidence that the entire culture of Gaza has been subsumed into a rabidly anti-Jew, anti-Israel mania. School books, children's cartoons, entire curricula are dedicated to the single-minded goal of the destruction of Israel and the Jewish people. The focus of Gazan culture (such as it is) is death in service to this mania. The people of Gaza seem to support it enthusiastically, as evidenced by their active participation in it.

Whether it is a reflection of larger Islam (it clearly is), or a malign mutation simply doesn't matter. The facts on the ground should govern, and Witkoff is either blind and a willing dupe, or has ulterior motives that are antithetical to the Trump administration's realpolitik in the Middle East.

Witkoff is an awful choice for Special Envoy, and why he was chosen is an interesting glimpse into Donald Trump's mindset. They are birds of a feather (NY city real estate), and Witkoff is known to be a good negotiator. But he also has a significant financial involvement in the Middle East, included with Qatar, which is the primary supporter of...Hamas!

He needs to disavow his connections to Qatar, repudiate his idiotic statements about Hamas, or resign.

I hope he resigns. People that conniving, or that stupid have no place in the Trump administration.

[Crossposted at CutJibNewsletter and X]

Posted by: CBD at 11:00 AM

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1 now?

Posted by: The asshole who stole your pen! at March 25, 2025 11:01 AM (89Sog)

2 Give my pen back, asshole!

Posted by: Duke Lowell at March 25, 2025 11:03 AM (u73oe)

3 And you can't spell Hamas without "Ham."

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 25, 2025 11:03 AM (WyV1V)

4 9 refreshes and still no other comments. How about now?

Posted by: The asshole who stole your pen! at March 25, 2025 11:03 AM (89Sog)

5 The Hamas charter doesn't promote "genocide" genocide.

Posted by: Steven Witkoff or Whoopie Goldberg at March 25, 2025 11:03 AM (PiwSw)

6 How to make them leave?

Raise a fist?

Shoot to kill.

Stop raising arms in anger and the killing stops.

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 25, 2025 11:04 AM (WyV1V)

7 He needs to disavow his connections to Qatar, repudiate his idiotic statements about Hamas, or resign.

All three.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at March 25, 2025 11:04 AM (Gmk9q)

8 There's a long list of nations willing to take Gazan "refugees". Lemme go find it......

Posted by: Drawing a Blank at March 25, 2025 11:04 AM (G5+As)

9 Link to a 300 page report from UK on Oct 7.

https://www.7octparliamentarycommission.co.uk/

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 25, 2025 11:04 AM (gbOdA)

10
They don't want peace, they want to rule the world and it will be violent, just like them. What else do they know?

Posted by: four seasons at March 25, 2025 11:05 AM (3ek7K)

11 "The people of Gaza seem to support it enthusiastically, as evidenced by their active participation in it."

Not only in Gaza, but, aided and abetted by the UN, in Judea and Samaria as well.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at March 25, 2025 11:05 AM (PiwSw)

12 Gazan refugees needing a place to crash?

I hear Ausin, TX has some space.

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 25, 2025 11:05 AM (WyV1V)

13
All this is as the prophet Carville has predicted.

Down to a week until the collapse?

Posted by: Auspex at March 25, 2025 11:06 AM (j4U/Z)

14 "Doctor, why do you have a thermometer tucked above your ear?"

Posted by: one hour sober at March 25, 2025 11:06 AM (Y1sOo)

15 Witkoff is an awful choice for Special Envoy, and why he was chosen is an interesting glimpse into Donald Trump's mindset. They are birds of a feather (NY city real estate), and Witkoff is known to be a good negotiator. But he also has a significant financial involvement in the Middle East, included with Qatar, which is the primary supporter of...Hamas!

The Dems are yammering about a developing conflict between Witkoff and Rubio as a way of trying to develop dysfunction in the Trump admin. The accusation is that Witkoff is functioning as a SoS, and Rubio is being cut out. Rubio denies it, of course, but I'm not so sure.

Posted by: Archimedes at March 25, 2025 11:06 AM (xCA6C)

16 Witkoff is an awful choice for Special Envoy, and why he was chosen is an interesting glimpse into Donald Trump's mindset. They are birds of a feather (NY city real estate), and Witkoff is known to be a good negotiator.

The problem is right there in the last sentence. The underlying assumption is that a deal can be cut.

This is the same as the 2-state solution nonsense.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at March 25, 2025 11:06 AM (laHVL)

17
There's a long list of nations willing to take Gazan "refugees". Lemme go find it......
Posted by: Drawing a Blank

The moons of the four outer gas planets all said, "No, nope, nyet!"

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at March 25, 2025 11:06 AM (xG4kz)

18 Like the Thugee, Hamas must be eliminated.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at March 25, 2025 11:07 AM (jc0TO)

19 We have far too many people in the West who apparently WANT to be lied to.

And are happy to believe the lies because it makes them think that everyone is just misunderstood. There's no REAL evil. (Except conservatives. They are evil.)

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at March 25, 2025 11:07 AM (N1tpc)

20 I want Pam Blondi to wear her leather, brandish her riding crop, and demand that this Witikoff fellow resign immediately.

Posted by: anchorbabe fashion cop at March 25, 2025 11:07 AM (ufFY8)

21 Some things I gleaned.

Besides 5000 Hamas over 2000 other terror groups jumped in.
Also maybe 4000 so called civilians entered to scavenge.

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 25, 2025 11:07 AM (gbOdA)

22 Steven Witkoff must go.

Posted by: Crusader at March 25, 2025 11:08 AM (TN0g+)

23 "They send young children who understand nothing to commit suicide with explosive belts. Once we understand that they want to live, we can talk to them more effectively."

I am an admittedly asshole commenter on a Smart Military Blog, but even I know that if you are sending children out with suicide bombs, there is nothing to talk about.

Churchill once said, Give us the tools and we will finish the job." A POTUS Poppins would give Israel everything it needs to exterminate the Palis. And any - I mean any Democrat asshole who evinces sympathy for those animals in any way would be snatched up, stuffed into a transport and kicked out 10,000 feet over Gaza to join the fight themselves.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at March 25, 2025 11:08 AM (Q0kLU)

24 *blinks at the Tensor list of tags*

I really do not want to know what Arm Pit Sex is.

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 25, 2025 11:09 AM (WyV1V)

25 There are too many people in this world that will ignore the obvious because it will do irreparable harm to their worldview.

Posted by: NR Pax at March 25, 2025 11:09 AM (NR6c1)

26 Hamas isn't just a military organization in the "Pali" region. Hamas IS the Pali region.

Posted by: Dr Pork Chops & Bacons at March 25, 2025 11:09 AM (g8Ew8)

27 Trump just needs to give Israel a blank check to do whatever it needs to do.

Posted by: Bulg at March 25, 2025 11:09 AM (77rzZ)

28 Send the Jew-hating faggots, lesbos, tranny’s and genitalia confused to Gaza and see what Hamas does to them.

Eliminate Hamas and permanently take back Gaza. Send those Gazans who do not want peace to Afghanistan and Iran.

Posted by: The Man from Athens at March 25, 2025 11:09 AM (DuPJZ)

29 25 There are too many people in this world that will ignore the obvious because it will do irreparable harm to their worldview.
Posted by: NR Pax at March 25, 2025 11:09 AM (NR6c1)

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I don't get it.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman at March 25, 2025 11:09 AM (GBKbO)

30 *lights Gauloise*

*adjusts beret*

*peevishly orders tiny cup of coffee from a sidewalk bistro*

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at March 25, 2025 11:10 AM (6K6Eu)

31 Songs like this mook is going down the GW Bush “islam is a peaceful religion”, which is neither, road to hell.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable at March 25, 2025 11:10 AM (17s+e)

32 I disagree, Wikoff is a perfect man for the job! He is the delivery man, and Trump is safe in knowing that he will not be running his own agenda. Trump and his tam know exactly what the attestations of love and respect from the parties he is dealing with really mean (nothing) , but they are letting Witkoff play his part. He is playing the fool perfectly !

Posted by: runner at March 25, 2025 11:11 AM (g47mK)

33 “We need to understand what Hamas wants and then think about what we can offer them to make them leave.

#1. Who gives a fuck what they want?
#2. Leave or die. Your call.

Morning all. Late start.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 25, 2025 11:12 AM (U14qJ)

34 *lights Gauloise*

*adjusts beret*

*peevishly orders tiny cup of coffee from a sidewalk bistro*
Posted by: Captain Obvious

DO NOT try to out-French CBD. It will not end well.

Posted by: Bulg at March 25, 2025 11:12 AM (77rzZ)

35 I have to agree. That "statement" is just stupid. He needs to get a job frying fries and wiping down tables.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at March 25, 2025 11:12 AM (pohLc)

36 25 There are too many people in this world that will ignore the obvious because it will do irreparable harm to their worldview.
Posted by: NR Pax at March 25, 2025 11:09 AM (NR6c1)

It is cult like.
The rich dont pay their fair share.
I paid for my social security.
The world hates America because of PDT or Bush or Reagan or...

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 25, 2025 11:12 AM (gbOdA)

37 The moons of the four outer gas planets all said, "No, nope, nyet!"
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at March 25, 2025 11:06 AM (xG4kz)
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"Attempt no landing here."

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at March 25, 2025 11:12 AM (6K6Eu)

38 I think that Wikoff is crazy like a fox, based on what I know about the world of NY real estate that involves the mob, unions, crooked politicians, and crooked lawyers and the Byzantine NY City Hall. Just my opinion.

Posted by: runner at March 25, 2025 11:13 AM (g47mK)

39 Leftists after watching 2010: The Year We Make Contact holding up sign "Europe is racist!!!"

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 25, 2025 11:13 AM (WyV1V)

40 20 I want Pam Blondi to wear her leather, brandish her riding crop, and demand that this Witikoff fellow resign immediately.

I she taking on new clients? Asking for a friend.

Posted by: The Man from Athens at March 25, 2025 11:14 AM (DuPJZ)

41 It seems as though the second Trump administration is settling in to endless roadblocks and the loyal opposition is taking up their standard positioning of pallers of bricks for another summer of love.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at March 25, 2025 11:14 AM (zay7X)

42 Trump knows what Hamas is, he does not need his envoy say it to them, just like he does not need someone to say that "Putin is tyrant" to Putin's face. Having Israel bomb the crap out of them is enough. Without words.

Posted by: runner at March 25, 2025 11:15 AM (g47mK)

43 I saw the other day that Pali send 3 or 4 year old children over that marked red lines.
My guess is to make the IDF targets.

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 25, 2025 11:15 AM (gbOdA)

44 33 “We need to understand what Hamas wants and then think about what we can offer them to make them leave.

Hamas, do you want to live? Take the exit.
Hamas, do you want to die? Stay.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 25, 2025 11:15 AM (wE4lY)

45 It. Is. Islam.

What is the problem in the Middle East Alex.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable at March 25, 2025 11:15 AM (17s+e)

46 Witkoff sounds like that idiot from the movie Die Hard who went to negotiate with Hans Gruber.

He, too, thought he could cut a deal with a murderer and a thief.

We all know how that ended.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 25, 2025 11:15 AM (7fElN)

47 > They are birds of a feather (NY city real estate), and Witkoff is known to be a good negotiator. But he also has a significant financial involvement in the Middle East, included with Qatar, which is the primary supporter of...Hamas!
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I seem to recall talk about some sort of "reconstruction" or "renovation" of the land Gaza sits on. Whether Hamas is part of this renovation or whatever it is, is debatable, but at the core of this, in my opinion, is two guys who see an opportunity to make money.

It's what they do.

YMMV

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 25, 2025 11:16 AM (Q4IgG)

48 Witkoff sounds like that idiot from the movie Die Hard who went to negotiate with Hans Gruber.

"This is my partner Agent Johnson, no relation."

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 25, 2025 11:16 AM (WyV1V)

49 *lights Gauloise*

*adjusts beret*

*peevishly orders tiny cup of coffee from a sidewalk bistro*
Posted by: Captain Obvious

Did you include a side order of ennui with your coffee?

Posted by: Archimedes at March 25, 2025 11:16 AM (xCA6C)

50 It seems as though the second Trump administration is settling in to endless roadblocks and the loyal opposition is taking up their standard positioning of pallers of bricks for another summer of love.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher

Funny you should mention that.

Bondi just told the jodhe to go piss up a rope.

IOW, it's on a need to know basis and you have no need to know.

BREAKING: Trump DOJ Invokes State Secrets Privilege, Tells Judge Boasberg it will Provide Him No More Info on Deportation Flights

The DOJ straight up told Boasberg you will get no more information related to the deportation flights and that’s the end of the story.

https://tinyurl.com/ymwzup4n

Posted by: rickb223 at March 25, 2025 11:16 AM (k3Vs9)

51 Just my opinion:

It takes little intelligence to speak in complex jargon or use many words.

To refine complex ideas into simplicity is the real test of intelligence.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at March 25, 2025 11:17 AM (PzXaK)

52 ...Israel bomb the crap out of them is enough. Without words.
Posted by: runner
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They just can't take a hint.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 25, 2025 11:17 AM (wE4lY)

53 Did you include a side order of ennui with your coffee?
Posted by: Archimedes at March 25, 2025 11:16 AM (xCA6C)
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It's implicit.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at March 25, 2025 11:17 AM (6K6Eu)

54 I think that Wikoff is crazy like a fox, based on what I know about the world of NY real estate that involves the mob, unions, crooked politicians, and crooked lawyers and the Byzantine NY City Hall. Just my opinion.

You're working really hard to make this into something other than the way it seems. OTOH, that is Trump's MO, so WDIK.

Posted by: Archimedes at March 25, 2025 11:18 AM (xCA6C)

55 Bondi just told the jodhe to go piss up a rope.

IOW, it's on a need to know basis and you have no need to know.

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Yeah, well that's not enough, man ! She should have had him arrested, man! Need to keep the pressure up !

Posted by: runner at March 25, 2025 11:19 AM (g47mK)

56 To refine complex ideas into simplicity is the real test of intelligence.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at March 25, 2025 11:17 AM (PzXaK)
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If.

Posted by: Spartans at March 25, 2025 11:19 AM (6K6Eu)

57 So this guy thinks Hamas is lying?

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at March 25, 2025 11:19 AM (w7imp)

58 At the same time, Trump is selling Israel all the munitions they need and they’re putting them to good use.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at March 25, 2025 11:19 AM (u73oe)

59 Just my opinion:

It takes little intelligence to speak in complex jargon or use many words.

To refine complex ideas into simplicity is the real test of intelligence.

I eschew your calumny.

Posted by: Archimedes at March 25, 2025 11:20 AM (xCA6C)

60 Witkoff sounds like that idiot from the movie Die Hard who went to negotiate with Hans Gruber.

He, too, thought he could cut a deal with a murderer and a thief.

We all know how that ended.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 25, 2025 11:15 AM (7fElN)

Elliot. The actor who played him should have gotten an award. He had swarmy and arrogant down pat.

Posted by: Dr Pork Chops & Bacons at March 25, 2025 11:20 AM (g8Ew8)

61 To refine complex ideas into simplicity is the real test of intelligence.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at March 25, 2025 11:17 AM (PzXaK)

That depends. Kamala can take complex and redefine it in stupidity.

You see Russia is a big country, next to a little country that is Ukraine......

See?

Posted by: Xipe Totec at March 25, 2025 11:20 AM (pohLc)

62 59 I eschew your calumny.
Posted by: Archimedes at March 25, 2025 11:20 AM (xCA6C)

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Mr. Milchick used too many big words. It was in his review.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman at March 25, 2025 11:20 AM (GBKbO)

63 Yeah, well that's not enough, man ! She should have had him arrested, man! Need to keep the pressure up !
Posted by: runner

I agree. But that's just me.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 25, 2025 11:21 AM (k3Vs9)

64 Witkoff is an awful choice for Special Envoy, and why he was chosen is an interesting glimpse into Donald Trump's mindset. They are birds of a feather (NY city real estate), and Witkoff is known to be a good negotiator. But he also has a significant financial involvement in the Middle East, included with Qatar, which is the primary supporter of...Hamas!

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Send Stephen Miller (or Seb Gorka).

(BTW, cannot agree more with this sidebar post -- just finished watching the interview last night; most impressive insights into Trump and crew:

"Great interview of Howard Lutnick, Secretary of Commerce, and a close friend of Trump for 30 years. He explains the blueprint for Trump's financial transformation of the USA and how it really will succeed. I can't recommend this long video enough. [dri] )"

youtube.com/watch?v=182ckTL2KBA

Posted by: ShainS -- The Dissolution of The Autopen Empire at March 25, 2025 11:21 AM (V+K+8)

65 62 59 I eschew your calumny.
Posted by: Archimedes at March 25, 2025 11:20 AM (xCA6C)

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Mr. Milchick used too many big words. It was in his review.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman at March 25, 2025 11:20 AM (GBKbO)

His "Devour Feculence" line cracked me up.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at March 25, 2025 11:22 AM (laHVL)

66 65 His "Devour Feculence" line cracked me up.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at March 25, 2025 11:22 AM (laHVL)

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Was a good 'un.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman at March 25, 2025 11:22 AM (GBKbO)

67 I thought the Western Left was all about eschewing fecundity

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 25, 2025 11:23 AM (WyV1V)

68 Not Elliot, his name was Ellis.

Posted by: Dr Pork Chops & Bacons at March 25, 2025 11:23 AM (g8Ew8)

69 Elliot. The actor who played him should have gotten an award. He had swarmy and arrogant down pat.
Posted by: Dr Pork Chops & Bacons at March 25, 2025 11:20 AM (g8Ew

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Hart Bochner. Son of Lloyd Bochner, who played lots of heavies on 60s/70s TV.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at March 25, 2025 11:24 AM (6K6Eu)

70 zerohedge@zerohedge 11m

*US: RESTORING RUSSIAN ACCESS TO MARKET FOR AGRICULTURE EXPORTS

*US: RESTORING RUSSIAN ACCESS TO MARKET FOR FERTILIZER EXPORTS

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 25, 2025 11:24 AM (wE4lY)

71 You're working really hard to make this into something other than the way it seems. OTOH, that is Trump's MO, so WDIK.
Posted by: Archimedes at March 25, 2025 11:18 AM (xCA6C)

Ukraine is fucked. It will be agreeing to the same deal they refused to sign in Istanbul in 2022. But now with less territory, over 6 Million abroad, that everyone wants to go home, a million dead and crippled, key infrastructure out of order, or under Russian control, no NATO and no EU. Win-win! There is nothing to negotiate. Witkoff is just delivering the message in a less costly way (for the US) possible.

Posted by: runner at March 25, 2025 11:24 AM (g47mK)

72 >>> “I don’t think they are as ideologically extreme as they're often portrayed," Witkoff went on to say of Hamas.

He would have said the same thing after watching the Nuremberg Trials because he expected deranged lunatics iterally struggling against restraints to claw someone, anyone's, eyes out, but was surprised at calm demeanor, even sophisticated, explaining that must not die, but all must just "go away".

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at March 25, 2025 11:25 AM (zay7X)

73 Good morning!

Posted by: Knock gp A Kiss at March 25, 2025 11:25 AM (5ACBR)

74 The value add I offer AoS is to be the straight man.

Have at it.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at March 25, 2025 11:26 AM (nzAqh)

75 74 The value add I offer AoS is to be the straight man.

Have at it.
Posted by: WitchDoktor at March 25, 2025 11:26 AM (nzAqh)

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Better straight man than Billy Crystal, at least.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman at March 25, 2025 11:26 AM (GBKbO)

76 Bondi just told the jodhe to go piss up a rope.

IOW, it's on a need to know basis and you have no need to know.

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Yeah, well that's not enough, man ! She should have had him arrested, man! Need to keep the pressure up !

Posted by: runner at March 25, 2025 11:19 AM (g47mK)

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Am I the only one who read that in Dennis Hopper's voice from Apocalypse Now?

/[At the risk of crossing the memes:] "Yeah, well that's just, like, your opinion man!" -- obligatory Jeffrey "The Dude" Lebowski

Posted by: ShainS -- The Dissolution of The Autopen Empire at March 25, 2025 11:26 AM (V+K+8)

77 I'm no fan of this Witkoff guy and think he's in over his head. That being said, I think the basic point he was trying to make isn't that controversial.

He was trying to say that Hamas isn't all just insane suicide bombers, and that some of them want to live. That was his point about how the leaders send dumb brainwashed kids to blow themselves up, while they remain in safety and in many cases luxury. These people, mostly the leaders, do certainly want to live. They want someone else to blow themselves up.

On that point, he is correct. I'm not sure what his larger point was. I think he was trying to say that since not all of Hamas is willing to die, there's some daylight to try to broker some kind of deal. On that point, I think he's wrong. There will always be an endless stream of drones willing to die for the cause. It doesn't matter that there are also Hamas leaders who won't die for the cause.

I remain convinced that there is only one solution to this problem: complete annihilation.

Posted by: Elric Blade at March 25, 2025 11:27 AM (iFTx/)

78 Different take on Houthi Snapchat planning:

@seanmdavis 1h
Goldberg is still trying to blame Hegseth for everything, when Michael Waltz is the one responsible for the entire snafu.

Now why would that be? Why would Goldberg repeatedly attack a victim of the breach instead of HIS FRIEND WHO SECRETLY INVITED HIM IN?
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Whoever, there's more than one raw butt today.

It’s a real mystery.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 25, 2025 11:27 AM (wE4lY)

79 "They send young children who understand nothing to commit suicide with explosive belts. Once we understand that they want to live, we can talk to them more effectively.”

Did he actually say that? That’s unhinged.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at March 25, 2025 11:27 AM (l3YAf)

80 *blinks at the Tensor list of tags*

I really do not want to know what Arm Pit Sex is.
Posted by: Anna Puma at March 25, 2025 11:09 AM (WyV1V)

Don't let the Earfuckers Association hear that the Armpit guys git their own tag

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at March 25, 2025 11:28 AM (zZu0s)

81
Hamas 'not as ideologically extreme as portrayed,' says Trump envoy

Imagine someone making this statement in public about the Aryan Brotherhood. And they've killed far less people then Hamas.

Posted by: 18-1 at March 25, 2025 11:28 AM (t0Rmr)

82 Better straight man than Billy Crystal, at least.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman at March 25, 2025 11:26 AM (GBKbO)

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Is this a "Soap" reference?

I'd heard about that TV series but missed it's original run; watched it later in reruns, and it was hilarious.

Posted by: ShainS -- The Dissolution of The Autopen Empire at March 25, 2025 11:28 AM (V+K+8)

83 I remain convinced that there is only one solution to this problem: complete annihilation

Hamas delenda est

Wipe out one bunch of homicidal wanna-be Reavers and maybe the others will call it quits. If not, rinse and repeat.

It is called winning the war.

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 25, 2025 11:29 AM (WyV1V)

84 This guy needs to be fired immediately, publicly, with extreme prejudice. And possibly arrested.

Posted by: Cymbaline at March 25, 2025 11:29 AM (hmTkq)

85 Presidential envoys have one key fact over US history, they have the confidence of the president that sent them which State Dept or other formal envoys may not have. Also sidesteps past history of those formal envoys.

FWIW, I don't care so much about the blathering that envoys or politicians do; it is more about their actions. Did Witkoff betray Israel? Demonstrate partiality through his actions against Israel as to no longer be an adequate negotiator? And so on. As far as conflicts of interest, everyone has one that is probably useful to act as a negotiator between sides.

So the real question is a) whether both sides want peace (which it is apparent that Ham Ass does not), or b) if not, what is the US going to do that Israel cannot?

That has become apparent that US is now leaning on Egypt to actually do something for the billions that we have sent them to get the Palis out of Gaza.

I think the US is doing that to try to avoid the harmful dilemma that Israel faces otherwise. Either endless occupation as a police state which breeds even more hatred or OT style slaughter because Gazans base their society on killing Israelis and nothing else. Either will isolate Israel

Posted by: whig at March 25, 2025 11:29 AM (ctrM5)

86 Zombie Marcus Brody? He once got lost in his own mausoleum.

~Zombie Indiana Jones

Posted by: BourbonChicken at March 25, 2025 11:30 AM (lEahz)

87 They don't want peace, they want to rule the world and it will be violent, just like them. What else do they know?
Posted by: four seasons at March 25, 2025 11:05 AM (3ek7K)

I assume you're describing the American government.

Posted by: BurtTC at March 25, 2025 11:31 AM (dGCAG)

88 Well time to go do other stuff like get more work done on the two F-14 kits.

https://tensor.art/u/727481333235843246

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 25, 2025 11:31 AM (WyV1V)

89 I saw Pearl Jam open for Armpit Sex at the Earfuckers Association Convention in '89.

Posted by: ShainS -- The Dissolution of The Autopen Empire at March 25, 2025 11:31 AM (V+K+8)

90 Zombie Marcus Brody? He once got lost in his own mausoleum.

~Zombie Indiana Jones
Posted by: BourbonChicken at March 25, 2025 11:30 AM (lEahz)

The ONLY thing I did not like about Last Crusade was them turning Brody and Sullah into comic relief. In the first movie, both were serious, thoughtful people.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at March 25, 2025 11:32 AM (zZu0s)

91 Well time to go do other stuff like get more work done on the two F-14 kits.

https://tensor.art/u/727481333235843246

Wait, wait!!! Don't you want to hear about us?

Posted by: Backfat afficionadoes at March 25, 2025 11:32 AM (xCA6C)

92 "statements that, while seemingly in English, make absolutely no sense"

200-proof, bottled-in-bond, word salad gibberish:
youtube.com/watch?v=yMopZRYpzuc

Posted by: Knock gp A Kiss at March 25, 2025 11:32 AM (5ACBR)

93 Anna Puma agreed.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable at March 25, 2025 11:32 AM (17s+e)

94 "[...] jargon lends itself to nonsense, and many on the left are happy to use it."
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Cargo cult comes to mind. Huge wads of cash were spewed all over universities and other groups who spoke the magic phrases. So they continued to do so.

Over the years, repeating the above was a ceremonial mask. They wore it, did the magic phrases, made the appropriate dances and motions and (virtue) signals.

The new generation was brought up on it, and it is their new religion.

Posted by: Another Anon at March 25, 2025 11:32 AM (wK3f3)

95 Witkoff" I may have been duped" statement says it all.

Posted by: Ben Had at March 25, 2025 11:32 AM (Fqh59)

96 The old ways are the best.

Pennsylvania school board member charged with noose hate-crime hoax

https://shorturl.at/SMtxA

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at March 25, 2025 11:33 AM (L/fGl)

97 > Now why would that be? Why would Goldberg repeatedly attack a victim of the breach instead of HIS FRIEND WHO SECRETLY INVITED HIM IN?
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If it was secret someone in that circle who tapped Goldberg needs to be waterboarded.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 25, 2025 11:33 AM (Q4IgG)

98 These bears are out of control!

Daily Viral@dailyviralUS
A man in North Carolina came up with a creative solution to his ongoing bear problem by dressing up in a cartoonish bear costume—amazingly, his unusual tactic worked, and the unwelcome visitor was successfully frightened off.

https://shorturl.at/3ZawF

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at March 25, 2025 11:34 AM (L/fGl)

99 “What the hell do you know about surfing, Major? You’re from goddamned New Jersey!”

Posted by: Pudinhead at March 25, 2025 11:34 AM (Hpgos)

100 Anna, the new bladerunneresqe art looks quite good. Like the one with the gal sitting on top of a... old Lamborghini?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at March 25, 2025 11:34 AM (zZu0s)

101
Should we Question The Timing?

Right now, the perverts & cucks in the Senate are holding a hearing on "security" with the CIA Director, FBI Director, and NSA Director.

Kinda odd, yes?

Posted by: Soothsayer at March 25, 2025 11:35 AM (hlywl)

102 >>>That has become apparent that US is now leaning on Egypt to actually do something for the billions that we have sent them to get the Palis out of Gaza.
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My take for years. Open the gate, they go to Egypt. Egypt is muslim Gazans are muslim, let them sort it out. They do not belong in Israel.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 25, 2025 11:35 AM (wE4lY)

103 Witkoff’s statement was idiotic no doubt. I have nothing else

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at March 25, 2025 11:36 AM (5MZNC)

104 I want Pam Blondi to wear her leather, brandish her riding crop, and demand that this Witikoff fellow resign immediately.
Posted by: anchorbabe fashion cop at March 25, 2025 11:07 AM (ufFY

The AOS style guide clearly states that you can't just "want". You must demand. And complain that she hasn't done so yet, as early as last week.
If she won't comply with your demands, she's gotta go.
Last week.

Posted by: OneEyedJack at March 25, 2025 11:36 AM (FCbAQ)

105 "[...] jargon lends itself to nonsense, and many on the left are happy to use it."
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Cargo cult comes to mind. Huge wads of cash were spewed all over universities and other groups who spoke the magic phrases. So they continued to do so.

Over the years, repeating the above was a ceremonial mask. They wore it, did the magic phrases, made the appropriate dances and motions and (virtue) signals.

The new generation was brought up on it, and it is their new religion.

Posted by: Another Anon

If the voting trends among the yoots, especially males, continue as they did in 2024, then your statement is incorrect. In fact, it appears that they actively reject the nonsense that has been used to deny them a fair shake in society.

Posted by: Archimedes at March 25, 2025 11:36 AM (xCA6C)

106 On that point, he is correct. I'm not sure what his larger point was. I think he was trying to say that since not all of Hamas is willing to die, there's some daylight to try to broker some kind of deal. On that point, I think he's wrong. There will always be an endless stream of drones willing to die for the cause. It doesn't matter that there are also Hamas leaders who won't die for the cause.

I remain convinced that there is only one solution to this problem: complete annihilation.
Posted by: Elric Blade at March 25, 2025 11:27 AM (iFTx/)

The other point about them not being ideologically driven is an important point too, in that this isn't about religion. It's political. Now, whether that means negotiation is possible or not, I don't know.

I do know talking about annihilating people sounds an awful lot like others who have come to that conclusion in the past.

Posted by: BurtTC at March 25, 2025 11:36 AM (dGCAG)

107
Isn't it an unlikely "coincidence" that The Atlantic's "scoop" breaks yesterday, the day before the scheduled Senate hearing on "global threats?"

Posted by: Soothsayer at March 25, 2025 11:36 AM (hlywl)

108 @seanmdavis 1h
Goldberg is still trying to blame Hegseth for everything, when Michael Waltz is the one responsible for the entire snafu.

Now why would that be? Why would Goldberg repeatedly attack a victim of the breach instead of HIS FRIEND WHO SECRETLY INVITED HIM IN?
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Now Waltz is claiming he doesn't know Goldberg and never talked to Goldberg.

There's obviously more to this story.

Posted by: WisRich at March 25, 2025 11:36 AM (G0vdT)

109 Remember when James Carville said the Trump administration would "suffer massive collapse in less than 30 days?"

That was 31 days ago.

https://tinyurl.com/2m4zzx47

Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at March 25, 2025 11:37 AM (paSBy)

110 Ukraine is fucked. It will be agreeing to the same deal they refused to sign in Istanbul in 2022. But now with less territory, over 6 Million abroad, that everyone wants to go home, a million dead and crippled, key infrastructure out of order, or under Russian control, no NATO and no EU.

Posted by: runner at March 25, 2025 11:24 AM (g47mK)

Hopefully Trump is trading Ukraine for Iran... freeing Israel and the U.S. to do the only sane thing...destroy their nuclear facilities and depose the Mullahs.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 25, 2025 11:37 AM (L5An7)

111 I remain convinced that there is only one solution to this problem: complete annihilation.
Posted by: Elric Blade
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The problem with doing that is a) harm to the Israelis' own psyche as doing that is contrary to much of the values that Israel promotes, b) it will utterly isolate Israel internationally in a way that the internal slaughter of Cambodians by the Khmer Rouge did to that state.

Today's Israel is so solicitous of not offending Muslims that it allows them to control access to the Temple Mount and other religious places to the detriment of Jews (and Christians somewhat). The reason is the risk of offending 1.8 billion Muslims is not worth the gains in the view of the Israeli government. Slaughtering all the Gazans, Old Testament style, would certainly make Israel a pariah state, likely even in the US.

So the best option is what Trump proposed--haul Gazan bodies outta there to other Muslim nations. Separation is about the only thing left to prevent Israel from becoming a police warden over Gaza again or becoming a pariah state. Gazans have defined themselves as killers of Israelis--that leaves Israeli with few options--run an outdoor prison or slaughter.

Posted by: whig at March 25, 2025 11:37 AM (ctrM5)

112 Come see the man arrested for threatening to mass-murder a bunch of Catholics in Memphis

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Yeah, that's right. See photos here.

https://shorturl.at/jgw4r

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at March 25, 2025 11:37 AM (L/fGl)

113 Should we Question The Timing?

Right now, the perverts & cucks in the Senate are holding a hearing on "security" with the CIA Director, FBI Director, and NSA Director.

Kinda odd, yes?

Posted by: Soothsayer at March 25, 2025 11:35 AM (hlywl)
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So yeah, he's had the story for over a week and the day before the hearing. BAM! Drive by hit job.

Posted by: WisRich at March 25, 2025 11:39 AM (G0vdT)

114 A man in North Carolina came up with a creative solution to his ongoing bear problem by dressing up in a cartoonish bear costume—amazingly, his unusual tactic worked, and the unwelcome visitor was successfully frightened off.

https://shorturl.at/3ZawF

He's lucky the bear didn't view him as prime date material.

Posted by: Archimedes at March 25, 2025 11:39 AM (xCA6C)

115 I remain convinced that there is only one solution to this problem: complete annihilation

Hamas delenda est

Wipe out one bunch of homicidal wanna-be Reavers and maybe the others will call it quits. If not, rinse and repeat.

It is called winning the war.

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 25, 2025 11:29 AM (WyV1V)

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As I've been saying for decades: there will only be peace in The Middle East when one side annihilates the other.

Let's get this thing done, Israel!

Posted by: ShainS -- The Dissolution of The Autopen Empire at March 25, 2025 11:39 AM (V+K+8)

116 @seanmdavis 1h
Goldberg is still trying to blame Hegseth for everything, when Michael Waltz is the one responsible for the entire snafu.

Now why would that be? Why would Goldberg repeatedly attack a victim of the breach instead of HIS FRIEND WHO SECRETLY INVITED HIM IN?
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Now Waltz is claiming he doesn't know Goldberg and never talked to Goldberg.

There's obviously more to this story.
Posted by: WisRich at March 25, 2025 11:36 AM (G0vdT)

This is already the biggest non-story story ever. All of sound and fury signifying nothing (or signal-ifying nothing)

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at March 25, 2025 11:39 AM (5MZNC)

117 110 Ukraine is fucked. It will be agreeing to the same deal they refused to sign in Istanbul in 2022. But now with less territory, over 6 Million abroad, that everyone wants to go home, a million dead and crippled, key infrastructure out of order, or under Russian control, no NATO and no EU.

Posted by: runner

Yeah well they listened to Boris Johnson who is a bell end devoid of common sense. Ukraine heard what they wanted to hear and ignored common sense. Don't engage in land wars with the Russians as they have more bodies to throw onto the war pyre than you do.

Posted by: whig at March 25, 2025 11:39 AM (ctrM5)

118 116 This is already the biggest non-story story ever. All of sound and fury signifying nothing (or signal-ifying nothing)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at March 25, 2025 11:39 AM (5MZNC)

=======

The media remembers when it could hobble the W administration when W did legal things like firing USAs.

They yearn for those days once more.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman at March 25, 2025 11:40 AM (GBKbO)

119 He's lucky the bear didn't view him as prime date material.
Posted by: Archimedes at March 25, 2025 11:39 AM (xCA6C)
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He wasn' there for the hunting...

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at March 25, 2025 11:40 AM (6K6Eu)

120 Whoever, there's more than one raw butt today.

It’s a real mystery.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 25, 2025 11:27 AM (wE4lY)

I read the Atlantic post last night. I think its Wuhan Flu-Wet Market implausible.

Donald Trump wouldn't put up with a security breach infraction for a moment. As of now, I haven't seen one mention of Michael Waltz being fired.

I know next to nothing about PDC encryption, but how does one read encrypted messages with White House-level security encryption on a private phone or PC without the necessary modules or even a software encryption key? One doesn't get access to decrypted messages by being inadvertently added to an IM or email list.

Remember the brouhaha that erupted when Barry was castigated for texting on his Blackberry? IC boffins had to re-engineer a Blackberry with the necessary hardware/software to enable the device for POTUS-level encryption.

Sketchy, to say the least. The texts read rather polished, too.

Posted by: mrp at March 25, 2025 11:40 AM (rj6Yv)

121 whig, Witkoff's statement bolstered Hama's position. Boehler was removed for saying the same thing. Hamas is now claiming that there was never a disarmament clause in the negotiations.

Posted by: Ben Had at March 25, 2025 11:40 AM (Fqh59)

122 It's in the shake your booty clause.

Texas A&M's board canceled a drag show on campus, but a federal judge is forcing them to host it

https://shorturl.at/iUuk6

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at March 25, 2025 11:40 AM (L/fGl)

123 > Now Waltz is claiming he doesn't know Goldberg and never talked to Goldberg.

There's obviously more to this story.
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If it was deliberate someone in this little circle needs to hang. Have every one of them fork over their smartphone and cull the address books of them all.

Find out who has this dipshit's contact info. If it's more than one, fire them all.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 25, 2025 11:41 AM (Q4IgG)

124
Anybody watching the hearing?

That cocksucker pervert Democrat named bennett just made a overly-dramatic fool of himself trying to embarrass CIA Director Radcliffe. The Theatrics were off the charts.

Posted by: Soothsayer at March 25, 2025 11:41 AM (hlywl)

125 He's lucky the bear didn't view him as prime date material.
Posted by: Archimedes

Well, he was no Leo DiCaprio.

Posted by: Bulg at March 25, 2025 11:41 AM (77rzZ)

126 “I don’t think they are as ideologically extreme as they're often portrayed," Witkoff went on to say of Hamas. "They send young children who understand nothing to commit suicide with explosive belts."

What can one say in response to such lunacy?

Posted by: Oglebay at March 25, 2025 11:41 AM (2ap+5)

127 125 He's lucky the bear didn't view him as prime date material.
Posted by: Archimedes

Well, he was no Leo DiCaprio.
Posted by: Bulg at March 25, 2025 11:41 AM (77rzZ)

=======

Women like Leo for his body:

https://x.com/prettierdaily/status/
1903872948185792532

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman at March 25, 2025 11:42 AM (GBKbO)

128 ----------
If it was secret someone in that circle who tapped Goldberg needs to be waterboarded.
Posted by: Martini Farmer
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It's interesting that he was listed (initials) in the Snapchat group and no one questioned who he was or who those initials belonged to.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 25, 2025 11:42 AM (wE4lY)

129 Witkoff?

I sent this to JJ months ago:

https://t.co/Dlr11Vk1TC

And:

https://tinyurl.com/4khj92f4

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at March 25, 2025 11:42 AM (NIRg9)

130
A man in North Carolina came up with a creative solution to his ongoing bear problem by dressing up in a cartoonish bear costume—amazingly, his unusual tactic worked, and the unwelcome visitor was successfully frightened off.

https://shorturl.at/3ZawF

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This GIF from that link brings back memories of Captain Kangaroo and Dancing Bear:

https://is.gd/1UIiJs

Posted by: ShainS -- The Dissolution of The Autopen Empire at March 25, 2025 11:42 AM (V+K+8)

131 Don't engage in land wars with the Russians as they have more bodies to throw onto the war pyre than you do.
Posted by: whig

Hold my beer.
-- US Grant

Posted by: Bulg at March 25, 2025 11:42 AM (77rzZ)

132
Now fake "astronaut" mork kelly is putting on a theatrical performance about The Atlantic's "leak" story.

Posted by: Soothsayer at March 25, 2025 11:43 AM (hlywl)

133
Right now, Democrats are trying to set the table for a "special counsel" investigation, I believe.

Posted by: Soothsayer at March 25, 2025 11:44 AM (hlywl)

134 Texas A&M's board canceled a drag show on campus, but a federal judge is forcing them to host it

https://shorturl.at/iUuk6
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at March 25, 2025 11:40 AM (L/fGl)

Good. We're one step away from federal judges ordering little girls to get nekkid in front of males. And then after that, have sex with them. By force.

Let's let this all go toward its logical conclusion.

Posted by: BurtTC at March 25, 2025 11:44 AM (dGCAG)

135 Texas A&M's board canceled a drag show on campus, but a federal judge is forcing them to host it
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at March 25, 2025 11:40 AM (L/fGl)

Why would these freaks want to do a show at A&M? Go to UT Austin. You'll be welcomed with open arms.

Unless it's just to bother the normies. But no, that can't be the reason.

Posted by: hobbitopoly at March 25, 2025 11:45 AM (k9OZB)

136 He's lucky the bear didn't view him as prime date material.
Posted by: Archimedes

Well, he was no Leo DiCaprio.
Posted by: Bulg at March 25, 2025 11:41 AM (77rzZ)

This reminds me of the character Clarence Beaks in the movie trading places. Ended up in a gorilla costume in a cage with a real and amorous gorilla. Funny…. Never steal the frozen orange juice crop report….

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at March 25, 2025 11:45 AM (5MZNC)

137 Witkoff?

I sent this to JJ months ago:

https://t.co/Dlr11Vk1TC

And:

https://tinyurl.com/4khj92f4

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at March 25, 2025 11:42 AM (NIRg9)

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Thanks for those links.

* Adds Qatar to GloboHomo list *

Posted by: ShainS -- The Dissolution of The Autopen Empire at March 25, 2025 11:45 AM (V+K+8)

138 Hegseth probably deserves the ridicule coming his way. He just has to take it and it will stop for the most part in a few days. The democrats have nothing and everyone hates them, so just hang in there and learn from this.

Posted by: Oglebay at March 25, 2025 11:45 AM (2ap+5)

139 Now fake "astronaut" mork kelly is putting on a theatrical performance about The Atlantic's "leak" story.
Posted by: Soothsayer at March 25, 2025 11:43 AM (hlywl)
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All the Dem's are. It's all they got.

Posted by: WisRich at March 25, 2025 11:46 AM (G0vdT)

140
Now Waltz is claiming he doesn't know Goldberg and never talked to Goldberg.

There's obviously more to this story.
Posted by: WisRich

Tiresome inside the Beltway crap meaning nothing. But, the story as I can best decipher is that Waltz had a staffer that set it up. Whether Waltz did this leak intentionally or via poor judgment of double checking his device, the end result has been nothing other than a tempest in a teacup.

Often, too many of these people in high places have the personal understanding of Maxwell Smart of technology and that means overreliance on aides to wipe their butt and do that 'complicated' stuff.

Then the last possibility is that the leak was done intentionally which we cannot rule out. No ops plans, etc. were discussed as it appears as mostly political. Why this could have been done is a warning to other bad players in the world, like Iran as it shows a very different and competent administration working together.

Observationally, we cannot tell the difference from the outside; all we can know is that the Houthis got pounded and a leak occurred at Waltz's doorstep--whether intentional or not.

Posted by: whig at March 25, 2025 11:46 AM (ctrM5)

141 Texas A&M's board canceled a drag show on campus, but a federal judge is forcing them to host it
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at March 25, 2025 11:40 AM (L/fGl)

Why would these freaks want to do a show at A&M? Go to UT Austin. You'll be welcomed with open arms.

Unless it's just to bother the normies. But no, that can't be the reason.
Posted by: hobbitopoly at March 25, 2025 11:45 AM (k9OZB

"Federal Judge" is becoming a rather potent phrase in this meme war we're in...

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 25, 2025 11:46 AM (KtIIi)

142 "What can one say in response to such lunacy?"

Where can I get some of what your smoking?

Posted by: Francis at March 25, 2025 11:46 AM (bbuBP)

143 Women like Leo for his body:
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman at March 25, 2025 11:42 AM (GBKbO)

Mmmm, scrawny arms and a gut. What a hottie!

Posted by: hobbitopoly at March 25, 2025 11:46 AM (k9OZB)

144 Witkoff sees it as one big game to make money off of.
He doesn't give a flying fuck other than that.

Posted by: Erebus- Ex Killer Whale at March 25, 2025 11:46 AM (elaR+)

145 He's lucky the bear didn't view him as prime date material.
Posted by: Archimedes

Well, he was no Leo DiCaprio.
Posted by: Bulg at March 25, 2025 11:41 AM (77rzZ)

=======

Women like Leo for his body:

https://x.com/prettierdaily/status/
1903872948185792532
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman at March 25, 2025 11:42 AM (GBKbO)
________

Compared to some of the fat sleazy bastards in Hollywood who nonetheless rake in the star-fucker chicks, Leo is a physical specimen.

Posted by: Elric Blade at March 25, 2025 11:46 AM (iFTx/)

146 Good. We're one step away from federal judges ordering little girls to get nekkid in front of males. And then after that, have sex with them. By force.

Let's let this all go toward its logical conclusion.

Posted by: BurtTC at March 25, 2025 11:44 AM (dGCAG)

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[To reprise my comment from yesterday:]

BREAKING: Judge Boasberg Orders Trump To Nuke Moscow. Developing ...

Posted by: ShainS -- The Dissolution of The Autopen Empire at March 25, 2025 11:46 AM (V+K+8)

147 Knowing how to make a good cup of tea leaves a positive impression.

I

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at March 25, 2025 11:47 AM (zay7X)

148 143 Women like Leo for his body:
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman at March 25, 2025 11:42 AM (GBKbO)

Mmmm, scrawny arms and a gut. What a hottie!
Posted by: hobbitopoly at March 25, 2025 11:46 AM (k9OZB)

How YOU doin'?

Posted by: David Hogg at March 25, 2025 11:47 AM (PiwSw)

149 From what I learned and observed over 24 years about Hamas and Muslims, their philosophy can be summed up as....

"Kill the Jews. Kill the Jews!!! KILL THE JEWS!!!!!"

From "A Muslim's Guide to Happiness!"

Chapters 1 through 69.

Posted by: Stateless...71% - mental state clawing up from 10% at March 25, 2025 11:48 AM (jvJvP)

150 145 Compared to some of the fat sleazy bastards in Hollywood who nonetheless rake in the star-fucker chicks, Leo is a physical specimen.
Posted by: Elric Blade at March 25, 2025 11:46 AM (iFTx/)

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"See? I'm not shallow. I like a man no matter what he looks like."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman at March 25, 2025 11:48 AM (GBKbO)

151 Women like Leo for his body:

https://x.com/prettierdaily/status/
1903872948185792532
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

Who's the hottie in the leopard-skin bikini?

Posted by: Bulg at March 25, 2025 11:48 AM (77rzZ)

152 this is good, Waltz has a staffer who has GOldberg on speed dial. Now he knows who to send packing.

Posted by: runner at March 25, 2025 11:48 AM (g47mK)

153 Women like Leo for his body:

https://x.com/prettierdaily/status/
1903872948185792532

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman at March 25, 2025 11:42 AM (GBKbO)

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Who's Eating Gilbert Grape?

Posted by: ShainS -- The Dissolution of The Autopen Empire at March 25, 2025 11:48 AM (V+K+8)

154 Observationally, we cannot tell the difference from the outside; all we can know is that the Houthis got pounded and a leak occurred at Waltz's doorstep--whether intentional or not.
Posted by: whig at March 25, 2025 11:46 AM (ctrM5)

Waltz was assumed by many from the start, to be one of the weak links in the Trump admin. That he's a DC insider, doing DC insider things comes naturally to him.

If he's the first to go from this admin, I won't cry any tears.

Posted by: BurtTC at March 25, 2025 11:49 AM (dGCAG)

155 The Hamassholes and the savages that support and vote for them are not interested in peace, as peace does not pay the bills. If peace were to break out, they all would have to get real jobs and actually take responsibility for their sorry lives. With the never ending war with Israel, they can play soldier forever and blame all their failings on "The Jews".

Posted by: Zombie Gene Hackman at March 25, 2025 11:49 AM (ce5If)

156 124 That cocksucker pervert Democrat named bennett just made a overly-dramatic fool of himself trying to embarrass CIA Director Radcliffe. The Theatrics were off the charts.

gotta make up for the abysmal theatric showing of snow white.

Posted by: anachronda at March 25, 2025 11:49 AM (oY6Yp)

157 Can anyone this of a great movie made in the last 10 years?

Posted by: Pudinhead at March 25, 2025 11:50 AM (Hpgos)

158 "See? I'm not shallow. I like a man no matter what he looks like."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman at March 25, 2025 11:48 AM (GBKbO)

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As long as he's got millions to burn ...

Posted by: ShainS -- The Dissolution of The Autopen Empire at March 25, 2025 11:50 AM (V+K+8)

159 this = think

Posted by: Pudinhead at March 25, 2025 11:50 AM (Hpgos)

160 157 Can anyone this of a great movie made in the last 10 years?
Posted by: Pudinhead at March 25, 2025 11:50 AM (Hpgos)

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The Paddington trilogy.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman at March 25, 2025 11:50 AM (GBKbO)

161 I do know talking about annihilating people sounds an awful lot like others who have come to that conclusion in the past.
Posted by: BurtTC at March 25, 2025 11:36 AM (dGCAG)---
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"Others" who've come to that conclusion weren't fighting an existential fight against an implacable enemy who swears their destruction, like it says in the Hamas charter.

Posted by: OneEyedJack at March 25, 2025 11:50 AM (FCbAQ)

162 121 whig, Witkoff's statement bolstered Hama's position. Boehler was removed for saying the same thing. Hamas is now claiming that there was never a disarmament clause in the negotiations.
Posted by: Ben Had

Given the blather in statements, it really doesn't matter as Ham Ass shot itself in the Ass again by failure to release American hostages and trying to attack Israel again. Simply put, I think Witkoff is there to try to get Gaza to self deport to another locale far away from the Israeli border. Trump is leaning on Egypt via its billions in aid (and probably the Saudis, etc. that can lend billions more to build somewhere for those pariahs to go.

So like the Waltz story, focusing on words rather than actions can often be a problem because far too often in humans, words and actions are two widely divergent realities.

Posted by: whig at March 25, 2025 11:51 AM (ctrM5)

163
Today we're in the phase of the "the seriousness of the charges" bullshit.

It's not about the Facts.
It's not about the Evidence.
It's not about How This Happened.

It's the "seriousness of the charges."

Posted by: Soothsayer at March 25, 2025 11:51 AM (hlywl)

164 Can anyone this of a great movie made in the last 10 years?
Posted by: Pudinhead

The Top Gun sequel?

Posted by: Bulg at March 25, 2025 11:51 AM (77rzZ)

165 Federal Judge.

No one but political junkies can name a non-SCOTUS federal judge if asked. There's no faces or names to go with the title in the public imagination, and never have been.

But Federal Judge is rapidly becoming the Florida Man of the bullshit gossip mills of professional newsfacing.

"I don't know who this Federal Judge Man is... but he sounds like an idiot."

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 25, 2025 11:51 AM (KtIIi)

166 I think there’s an aspect of real politic being ignored here.Of course he doesn’t believe the words he says, but if he says, instead “you’re barbaric scum worthy only of extermination” what’s that get him/us/Israel?

Posted by: Farmer Bob at March 25, 2025 11:51 AM (hlNLQ)

167 Leo does not lookthat out of shape. He's in his 40s.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at March 25, 2025 11:52 AM (zZu0s)

168 164 Can anyone this of a great movie made in the last 10 years?
Posted by: Pudinhead

The Top Gun sequel?
Posted by: Bulg at March 25, 2025 11:51 AM (77rzZ)

John Wick.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at March 25, 2025 11:52 AM (zZu0s)

169 152 this is good, Waltz has a staffer who has GOldberg on speed dial. Now he knows who to send packing.
Posted by: runner at March 25, 2025 11:48 AM (g47mK)
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So was Waltz using his own phone or staffer phone. If he used own phone, then why did staffer put Goldberg into chat.

Agreed, send staffer packing but not before doing some type of security screening: Phone, maybe lie detector test.

Posted by: WisRich at March 25, 2025 11:53 AM (G0vdT)

170 Can anyone think of a great movie made in the last 10 years?

Posted by: Pudinhead at March 25, 2025 11:50 AM (Hpgos)

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[Maybe not great, but only two that popped into consideration in my mind:]

. Once Upon A Time In Hollywood; and
. Top Gun: Maverick.

Posted by: ShainS -- The Dissolution of The Autopen Empire at March 25, 2025 11:53 AM (V+K+8)

171 Would be a real shame if there was a power outage at Texas AM the night of the drag show. A real shame.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at March 25, 2025 11:53 AM (wVuah)

172 Western Lensman@WesternLensman
Demented conspiracy-theorist Jamie Raskin says Trump wants to annex Canada so he can install Elon Musk as president.
Another “let them talk” strategy success:

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It's quite simple.

1. Invade, conquer, and annex Canada.
2. ???
3. Musk becomes president.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at March 25, 2025 11:53 AM (L/fGl)

173 I really do not want to know what Arm Pit Sex is.
Posted by: Anna Puma

There are no exceptions to Rule 34.

Posted by: mikeski at March 25, 2025 11:53 AM (sf41Z)

174 160 157 Can anyone this of a great movie made in the last 10 years?
Posted by: Pudinhead at March 25, 2025 11:50 AM (Hpgos)

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The Paddington trilogy.
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TJM, Imma not falling for this after you recommended Babe: Pig in the City. Just tell me what hideous things Paddington bears do.

Posted by: Pudinhead at March 25, 2025 11:54 AM (Hpgos)

175 172 Western Lensman@WesternLensman
Demented conspiracy-theorist Jamie Raskin says Trump wants to annex Canada so he can install Elon Musk as president.
Another “let them talk” strategy success:

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It's quite simple.

1. Invade, conquer, and annex Canada.
2. ???
3. Musk becomes president.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at March 25, 2025 11:53 AM (L/fGl)

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So...who thinks that Trump is readying to invade Canada?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman at March 25, 2025 11:54 AM (GBKbO)

176 It's the "seriousness of the charges."
Posted by: Soothsayer at March 25, 2025 11:51 AM (hlywl)

So do ridiculous charges require automatic acquittal?

"Two men entered a Chuck E Cheeze dressed as Gold Lamé Elvis and proceeded to fill all the claw machines with food service chili con carne, after which they fled on a single Vespa."

"Lawl... not guilty!"

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 25, 2025 11:54 AM (KtIIi)

177 Waltz was assumed by many from the start, to be one of the weak links in the Trump admin. That he's a DC insider, doing DC insider things comes naturally to him.

If he's the first to go from this admin, I won't cry any tears.
Posted by: BurtTC
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Underlings are there to be fired if something goes wrong and let the boss get the praise if something goes right. Sometimes, even if the underling does something right; they get screwed anyway because of politics.

That is the lesson that all underlings in DC administrations must understand.

I don't waste emotions on whether this or that person in an administration gets fired or promoted. They are simply agents to the principal (aka the President). For individuals outside the matter, it should be no more emotion spent than firing your insurance agent/company.

Posted by: whig at March 25, 2025 11:54 AM (ctrM5)

178 Observationally, we cannot tell the difference from the outside; all we can know is that the Houthis got pounded and a leak occurred at Waltz's doorstep--whether intentional or not.
Posted by: whig at March 25, 2025 11:46 AM (ctrM5)

Well said.

Posted by: OneEyedJack at March 25, 2025 11:54 AM (FCbAQ)

179 174 TJM, Imma not falling for this after you recommended Babe: Pig in the City. Just tell me what hideous things Paddington bears do.
Posted by: Pudinhead at March 25, 2025 11:54 AM (Hpgos)

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The Paddington movies are some of the most heart-warming, delightful family films ever made. They are treasures of cinema.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman at March 25, 2025 11:55 AM (GBKbO)

180 Observationally, we cannot tell the difference from the outside; all we can know is that the Houthis got pounded and a leak occurred at Waltz's doorstep--whether intentional or not.
Posted by: whig at March 25, 2025 11:46 AM (ctrM5)

Pretty much.

Posted by: mrp at March 25, 2025 11:55 AM (rj6Yv)

181 164 Can anyone this of a great movie made in the last 10 years?
Posted by: Pudinhead

The Top Gun sequel?
Posted by: Bulg at March 25, 2025 11:51 AM (77rzZ)

Honestly, except for a quibble with the ending, I thought the Menu was an amazing look at the souless elite aspects of our society...it was like watching the WEF get their due...

Posted by: Nova Local at March 25, 2025 11:55 AM (tOcjL)

182 John Wick.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at March 25, 2025 11:52 AM (zZu0s)

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John Wick 4 (despite the "twist" ending being predictable) was extremely entertaining and one of only three movies I've watched on the Big Screen in the past couple of decades (along with Top Gun: Maverick and Oppenheimer -- the latter not nearly as good as the fantastic book it was based on).

Posted by: ShainS -- The Dissolution of The Autopen Empire at March 25, 2025 11:55 AM (V+K+8)

183 I think there’s an aspect of real politic being ignored here.Of course he doesn’t believe the words he says, but if he says, instead “you’re barbaric scum worthy only of extermination” what’s that get him/us/Israel?
Posted by: Farmer Bob at March 25, 2025 11:51 AM (hlNLQ)

Shush! Stop being reasonable.

That being said, the guy sure does seem to love him some Qataris to the point of being silly about it.

Posted by: BurtTC at March 25, 2025 11:55 AM (dGCAG)

184 174 160 157 Can anyone this of a great movie made in the last 10 years?
Posted by: Pudinhead at March 25, 2025 11:50 AM (Hpgos)
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On the sentimental side: Brooklyn

Posted by: WisRich at March 25, 2025 11:56 AM (G0vdT)

185 Can anyone this of a great movie made in the last 10 years?
Posted by: Pudinhead at March 25, 2025 11:50 AM (Hpgos)

The Chosen.

Posted by: Dr Pork Chops & Bacons at March 25, 2025 11:56 AM (g8Ew8)

186
In Suzie I Trust

If Suzie thinks Waltz is a dunce, she will fire him.

I really do believe Suzie will handle this.

Posted by: Soothsayer at March 25, 2025 11:57 AM (hlywl)

187 Can anyone think of a great movie made in the last 10 years?

Posted by: Pudinhead at March 25, 2025 11:50 AM (Hpgos)

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[Maybe not great, but only two that popped into consideration in my mind:]

. Once Upon A Time In Hollywood
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"Yesterday" was pretty awesome. Ford vs Ferrari too.

Posted by: Crusader at March 25, 2025 11:57 AM (TN0g+)

188 The Paddington movies are some of the most heart-warming, delightful family films ever made. They are treasures of cinema.
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So was Babe until it turned EVIL.

Posted by: Pudinhead at March 25, 2025 11:57 AM (Hpgos)

189 Funny cartoon I remember from my days as an engineering major in college. Professor has chalkboard completely filled with complicated equations. Lower right a little cloud labeled “a miracle” then the final answer. Student raising hand and asking the question: Can you go over the next to last step again please?🙏

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at March 25, 2025 11:57 AM (WnEm5)

190 Leo does not lookthat out of shape. He's in his 40s.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at March 25, 2025 11:52 AM (zZu0s)

I always think of him in Titanic. Super scrawny.

Posted by: hobbitopoly at March 25, 2025 11:57 AM (k9OZB)

191 Anybody got a 10mm screwdriver I can borrow?

Posted by: Tim Walz at March 25, 2025 11:58 AM (PiwSw)

192 Give it a rest. Waltz is and SF O-6 and a tabbed Ranger with four Bronze Stars, two with V devices. He’s hardly a Washington insider. This was nothing more than a simple mistake by a staffer and it’s not directly on his head. So get off the biased character attacks.

Posted by: Marcus T at March 25, 2025 11:58 AM (pmB3q)

193 I don't waste emotions on whether this or that person in an administration gets fired or promoted. They are simply agents to the principal (aka the President). For individuals outside the matter, it should be no more emotion spent than firing your insurance agent/company.
Posted by: whig at March 25, 2025 11:54 AM (ctrM5)

I have no idea what this story is, about a leak, and I couldn't possibly care less.

I just think Waltz is a snake, and will do harm if he stays in the Trump admin. It was a bad nomination in the first place, and if something happens that gives Trump cause to fire him, I would welcome it.

Posted by: BurtTC at March 25, 2025 11:58 AM (dGCAG)

194 165 Federal Judge.

No one but political junkies can name a non-SCOTUS federal judge if asked. There's no faces or names to go with the title in the public imagination, and never have been.

But Federal Judge is rapidly becoming the Florida Man of the bullshit gossip mills of professional newsfacing.

"I don't know who this Federal Judge Man is... but he sounds like an idiot."
Posted by: Warai-otoko
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Yep. Personally, I think we should return to the less imperial court system before the 1890's 'reforms'. District court judges used to be something like magistrate judges are today. For any important decision, you had two judges involved--often a circuit judge (which would now only be appellate) plus a district judge (or two).

Moving back to three judge district court panels for declaring laws/actions of fedgov or state laws unconstitutional would be another improvement (this was the law from the 1900's to 1976 (again reforms).

Posted by: whig at March 25, 2025 11:58 AM (ctrM5)

195 Give it a rest. Waltz is and SF O-6 and a tabbed Ranger with four Bronze Stars, two with V devices. He’s hardly a Washington insider. This was nothing more than a simple mistake by a staffer and it’s not directly on his head. So get off the biased character attacks.
Posted by: Marcus T at March 25, 2025 11:58 AM (pmB3q)

Nonsense.

Posted by: BurtTC at March 25, 2025 11:58 AM (dGCAG)

196 So...who thinks that Trump is readying to invade Canada?
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I hope he's planning on bringing a dozen or so friends--I'm not sure he can take Canada all by himself.

Posted by: Crusader at March 25, 2025 11:59 AM (TN0g+)

197 I just want to note that Ukes around Zelenskyy hate Witkoff. They hate him for not being a Boris Johnson, or that momser (?) Starmer, or that insane broad from the dwarf "country" of Estonia. So he must be doing something right there. I would also like to point out, that a few dozen Israeli hostages were returned, and Israel is proceeding unimpeded with destroying what is left of gaza and hassholes when hamas rejected the (Witkoff) plan to have all hostages returned.

Posted by: runner at March 25, 2025 11:59 AM (g47mK)

198 The Paddington movies are some of the most heart-warming, delightful family films ever made. They are treasures of cinema.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman at March 25, 2025 11:55 AM (GBKbO)

Are they the bears that only use soft toilet paper?

Posted by: Dr Pork Chops & Bacons at March 25, 2025 12:00 PM (g8Ew8)

199 This Waltz thing ... is a big MEH from me. Who cares? Nothing of any import was revealed, and I'm not sure I believe the story about how this happened. I smell gaslighting. Tell the Democraps screeching over this to go fuck a pig and then die from trichinella. Since when do these dicksuckers care about national security or leaks?

Posted by: Elric Blade at March 25, 2025 12:00 PM (iFTx/)

200 Has anyone ever went to jail for hoaxing a “hate crime”? Ever?

I’ve seen this shit for 40 years. Iowa City, Swastikas spray painted on a Mercedes owned by a black guy. Much gnashing of teeth and candlelight vigils.

When it all fell apart - “well, it could have happened. That’s the important thing to keep in mind”

Posted by: Common Tater at March 25, 2025 12:00 PM (3GifZ)

201 So...who thinks that Trump is readying to invade Canada?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman at March 25, 2025 11:54 AM (GBKbO)

Looks like Albertans will be answering that question at the polls ... soon.

Posted by: mrp at March 25, 2025 12:00 PM (rj6Yv)

202 Underlings are there to be fired if something goes wrong and let the boss get the praise if something goes right. Sometimes, even if the underling does something right; they get screwed anyway because of politics.

That is the lesson that all underlings in DC administrations must understand.

I don't waste emotions on whether this or that person in an administration gets fired or promoted. They are simply agents to the principal (aka the President). For individuals outside the matter, it should be no more emotion spent than firing your insurance agent/company.

Posted by: whig at March 25, 2025 11:54 AM (ctrM5)

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Dan Bongino repeatedly stressed this observation regarding politicos and pols. Never fall in love with anybody; no emotion.

What he has in common with -- and most loves about -- Trump is he's nothing but "transactional" (about results, like a spreadsheet, sans emotions).

Posted by: ShainS -- The Dissolution of The Autopen Empire at March 25, 2025 12:00 PM (V+K+8)

203 >> Nonsense.
Posted by: BurtTC at March 25, 2025 11:58 AM (dGCAG)

Ponder this. Go fuck yourself. You’re always on here peddling bullshit and trying to stir the pot. You have zero idea what you’re talking about and it shows.

Posted by: Marcus T at March 25, 2025 12:00 PM (pmB3q)

204 I have no idea what this story is, about a leak, and I couldn't possibly care less.

I just think Waltz is a snake, and will do harm if he stays in the Trump admin. It was a bad nomination in the first place, and if something happens that gives Trump cause to fire him, I would welcome it.
Posted by: BurtTC
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Eh, DC is pretty much a pit of vipers anyway and Trump and Vance are playing the part of Indiana Jones (Vance can be Marian) in the Well of the Souls.

Posted by: whig at March 25, 2025 12:00 PM (ctrM5)

205 Are they the bears that only use soft toilet paper?
Posted by: Dr Pork Chops & Bacons

Can't stand those ads.

Posted by: Bulg at March 25, 2025 12:00 PM (77rzZ)

206 People who swat need to be jailed.

Posted by: runner at March 25, 2025 12:01 PM (g47mK)

207 >>>Tiresome inside the Beltway crap meaning nothing. But, the story as I can best decipher is that Waltz had a staffer that set it up.

WH and Pentagram has not cleaned up the staff. I was suggested yesterday that it was staff that did it. They should be vetted hard.
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>>>, the end result has been nothing other than a tempest in a teacup.

_Lucky for them that Goldberg exercised restraint and waited for us to finish the task instead of blowing the whistle early, as many Dems would have done.
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>>>Often, too many of these people in high places have the personal understanding of Maxwell Smart of technology and that means overreliance on aides to wipe their butt and do that 'complicated' stuff.

>>>Then the last possibility is that the leak was done intentionally which we cannot rule out.

>>>No ops plans, etc. were discussed as it appears as mostly political.
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No. Plans were discussed in detail. Who, what, when how. The whole operation was detailed. This is bad security. They should never have used Snapchat. Discussions of events like that should be secure. They were lucky.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 25, 2025 12:02 PM (wE4lY)

208 People don't understand that by definition, Islam doesn't work until everyone is under it.

Their concept of sin is that they are helpless to resist, and the only remedy is to have zero temptation. So when they leave their own country and travel of course they sleep with prostitutes, and it's the fault of the evil west that we put that temptation before them.

It's a huge driver for the absolutism of their cause. They cannot possibly co-exist or compromise, and at the same time be serving allah, because he's told them they can't stop sinning until everyone is under islam, by choice or by force.

Negotiating with that position is impossible.

Posted by: TexasDan at March 25, 2025 12:02 PM (z/ifB)

209 Daily Viral@dailyviralUS
A man in North Carolina came up with a creative solution to his ongoing bear problem by dressing up in a cartoonish bear costume—amazingly, his unusual tactic worked, and the unwelcome visitor was successfully frightened off.

https://shorturl.at/3ZawF
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at March 25, 2025 11:34 AM (L/fGl)

you don't come here for the hunting... do you...

Posted by: Sturmtoddler at March 25, 2025 12:02 PM (nXhwP)

210 Waltz is and SF O-6 and a tabbed Ranger with four Bronze Stars, two with V devices. He’s hardly a Washington insider. This was nothing more than a simple mistake by a staffer and it’s not directly on his head. So get off the biased character attacks.
Posted by: Marcus T at March 25, 2025 11:58 AM (pmB3q)

Lots of people got shit pinned on their coat and are still scumbags i wouldn't trust within three thousand miles of the government.

Not gonna say he's a bad guy himself, and you're probably right, but the appeal to hardware doesn't buy as much as it once did.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 25, 2025 12:02 PM (KtIIi)

211 196 So...who thinks that Trump is readying to invade Canada?
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I hope he's planning on bringing a dozen or so friends--I'm not sure he can take Canada all by himself.
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Pretty sure the Ohio ARNG could sweep it up in a couple of weeks.

Posted by: Pudinhead at March 25, 2025 12:02 PM (Hpgos)

212 Can't stand those ads.
Posted by: Bulg at March 25, 2025 12:00 PM (77rzZ)

Ick. Nothing I like more than seeing toilet paper stuck to some animated bear's hinder.

Posted by: hobbitopoly at March 25, 2025 12:02 PM (k9OZB)

213 Leo does not lookthat out of shape. He's in his 40s.

He's 50, and apparently still dating young 20s. While it's fun to joke about doing that, I think it's a real character flaw. It suggests that there's not enough depth to you to be able to interest a woman your own age and/or that you're unable to look past the purely physical.

Posted by: Archimedes at March 25, 2025 12:02 PM (xCA6C)

214 Ethnic cleansing is only a bad thing if you run the water too high or use the wrong soap.

Posted by: DaveA at March 25, 2025 12:02 PM (FhXTo)

215 I hope he's planning on bringing a dozen or so friends--I'm not sure he can take Canada all by himself.
Posted by: Crusader at March 25, 2025 11:59 AM (TN0g+)

I'm not there right now, but I'll tell you where the key is hidden so you can make a cup of coffee. Be nice if you'd clean out the cat's litter box, too.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 25, 2025 12:02 PM (8zz6B)

216
How has a +15% tariff on lumber been interpreted as an "invasion?"

Posted by: Soothsayer at March 25, 2025 12:03 PM (hlywl)

217 Dan Bongino repeatedly stressed this observation regarding politicos and pols. Never fall in love with anybody; no emotion.

What he has in common with -- and most loves about -- Trump is he's nothing but "transactional" (about results, like a spreadsheet, sans emotions).
Posted by: ShainS
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That is best in an administrator--the job to be done is the thing and people are simply resources to help get it done. As an example, Gene Krantz as portrayed in Apollo 13 (which appears to be pretty much true to life), was that sort.

Posted by: whig at March 25, 2025 12:03 PM (ctrM5)

218 The Paddington movies are some of the most heart-warming, delightful family films ever made. They are treasures of cinema.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman at March 25, 2025 11:55 AM (GBKbO)

Are they the bears that only use soft toilet paper?
Posted by: Dr Pork Chops & Bacons

No. Those are the Crappington bears.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 25, 2025 12:03 PM (U14qJ)

219 216
How has a +15% tariff on lumber been interpreted as an "invasion?"
Posted by: Soothsayer at March 25, 2025 12:03 PM (hlywl)

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Not that. Trump's joking about turning Canada into the 51st state.

If Canada wants to react to that by entrenching Labour into power for another half-decade, then that's on them.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman at March 25, 2025 12:03 PM (GBKbO)

220 People who swat need to be jailed.
Posted by: runner

Here, Here!
-- Houseflies everywhere

Posted by: Bulg at March 25, 2025 12:03 PM (77rzZ)

221 I'm not there right now, but I'll tell you where the key is hidden so you can make a cup of coffee. Be nice if you'd clean out the cat's litter box, too.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 25, 2025 12:02 PM

If you hide the key IN the litterbox, you can kill two birds with one stone.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at March 25, 2025 12:04 PM (jc0TO)

222 Peace based upon lies will not be peaceful.

As deep as I get. (shudder)

Posted by: Francis at March 25, 2025 12:04 PM (bbuBP)

223 Why is everybody in a sour mood today? When I sang my duet with Nancy Wilson years ago, I had a great time! Or it may have been Ann. I always got those two confused until Ann got fat like me. Loverboy Rocks!

Oh almost paradise
We're knockin' on heaven's door
Almost paradise
How could we ask for more?
I swear that I can see forever in your eyes
Paradise...

Posted by: Mike Reno, Fat Now Too at March 25, 2025 12:04 PM (ce5If)

224 196 So...who thinks that Trump is readying to invade Canada?

Trumps no fool. He's a student of history. He won't make the same mistake Napoleon made at the gates of Moose Jaw.

Posted by: MR. PEABODY at March 25, 2025 12:04 PM (W2EWw)

225 3 days ago the DoD released a statement saying they were going to institute lie detector tests to emoyees to address leaking.

Posted by: Ben Had at March 25, 2025 12:04 PM (Fqh59)

226 "Dan Bongino repeatedly stressed this observation regarding politicos and pols. Never fall in love with anybody; no emotion."

Versus:

"What he has in common with -- and most loves about -- Trump ..."

Posted by: Knock gp A Kiss at March 25, 2025 12:05 PM (5ACBR)

227
Now I am 100% convinced: This was Intentional.

This is ukraine phone call eric ciaramella all over again. Total Setup.

Posted by: Soothsayer at March 25, 2025 12:05 PM (hlywl)

228 Trumps no fool. He's a student of history. He won't make the same mistake Napoleon made at the gates of Moose Jaw.
Posted by: MR. PEABODY at March 25, 2025 12:04 PM

The long slow frozen march back from Ontario.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at March 25, 2025 12:05 PM (jc0TO)

229 3 days ago the DoD released a statement saying they were going to institute lie detector tests to emoyees to address leaking.

That's racist! No, I don't know why, but I'm sure it is.

Posted by: Archimedes at March 25, 2025 12:05 PM (xCA6C)

230 People who swat need to be jailed.
Posted by: runner at March 25, 2025 12:01 PM (g47mK)

Shoot them dead, without trial. That's what they want to happen to their victims.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 25, 2025 12:06 PM (8zz6B)

231 228 Trumps no fool. He's a student of history. He won't make the same mistake Napoleon made at the gates of Moose Jaw.
Posted by: MR. PEABODY at March 25, 2025 12:04 PM

The long slow frozen march back from Ontario.
Posted by: Grump928(C) at March 25, 2025 12:05 PM (jc0TO)

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The Sherman method of marching can keep an army warm.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman at March 25, 2025 12:06 PM (GBKbO)

232
Ponder this. Go fuck yourself. You’re always on here peddling bullshit and trying to stir the pot. You have zero idea what you’re talking about and it shows.
Posted by: Marcus T at March 25, 2025 12:00 PM (pmB3q)
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You should read the article before making statements about it.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 25, 2025 12:06 PM (wE4lY)

233 "The Sherman method of marching can keep an army warm."

Harsh but fair.

Posted by: Francis at March 25, 2025 12:07 PM (bbuBP)

234 No one ponders on me anymore. Sad.

Posted by: The Tree of Woe at March 25, 2025 12:07 PM (jc0TO)

235 Bongino would climb up inside DJT's butt and pitch camp if he could.

Posted by: Knock gp A Kiss at March 25, 2025 12:07 PM (5ACBR)

236 I don't agree with what Witkoff said, but he's a negotiator. Do negotiators usually spin the truth in order to appear in the middle between the 2 sides? I think that might have happened before.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at March 25, 2025 12:07 PM (02BpX)

237 The long slow frozen march back from Ontario.
Posted by: Grump928(C) at March 25, 2025 12:05 PM (jc0TO)

Somebody did that bringing cannons once.

Posted by: TexasDan at March 25, 2025 12:07 PM (z/ifB)

238 223 Why is everybody in a sour mood today? When I sang my duet with Nancy Wilson years ago, I had a great time! Or it may have been Ann. I always got those two confused until Ann got fat like me. Loverboy Rocks!
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Hey, I grew up with Ann and Nancy. Ann is my age, Nancy is my sisters age. We were all stationed in Taiwan together.

Posted by: Pudinhead at March 25, 2025 12:07 PM (Hpgos)

239 No. Plans were discussed in detail. Who, what, when how. The whole operation was detailed. This is bad security. They should never have used Snapchat. Discussions of events like that should be secure. They were lucky.
Posted by: Braenyard
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To begin with, they used Signal (encrypted) and for the next, I read the excerpts and no, they did not discuss plans at the operational level.

Goldberg claims he has stuff in reserve that he did not put out but he is a bullshit artist that constantly lies.

Houthis simply do not have the ability to take down US aircraft, let alone ships and our intel is good enough if they start to flee from prepared sites, they are actually more vulnerable in many cases.

If this was a surprise attack on Iran, then I would be worried but it was not.

As far as DC is concerned, go back and read the story of the leak of Rainbow 5 war plan just prior to Pearl Harbor. Massive story that got overshadowed immediately by Pearl Harbor--who leaked it and why is still a puzzle.

Posted by: whig at March 25, 2025 12:07 PM (ctrM5)

240 You should read the article before making statements about it.
Posted by: Braenyard

Is that even allowed here?

Posted by: Bulg at March 25, 2025 12:08 PM (77rzZ)

241 Leo does not lookthat out of shape. He's in his 40s.

He's 50, and apparently still dating young 20s. While it's fun to joke about doing that, I think it's a real character flaw. It suggests that there's not enough depth to you to be able to interest a woman your own age and/or that you're unable to look past the purely physical.
Posted by: Archimedes at March 25, 2025 12:02 PM (xCA6C)
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I date very young too. And not for the obvious reason, although that's def a factor. Its also because 99% of women over 40 who are still single are bitter and disillusioned and no fun at all. They've had endless bad breakups, maybe a failed engagement or even marriage, and tend to view all men as their hated exes. Between that and a 20-something fun hottie, for me that's an easy choice.

Posted by: Elric Blade at March 25, 2025 12:08 PM (iFTx/)

242 >> Not gonna say he's a bad guy himself, and you're probably right, but the appeal to hardware doesn't buy as much as it once did.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 25, 2025 12:02 PM (KtIIi)

True, but he is a solid guy by almost all accounts and a guy you would want to have your back.

Posted by: Marcus T at March 25, 2025 12:08 PM (pmB3q)

243 234 No one ponders on me anymore. Sad.
Posted by: The Tree of Woe at March 25, 2025 12:07 PM (jc0TO)

Joey Lawrence weeps.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 25, 2025 12:08 PM (KtIIi)

244 240 You should read the article before making statements about it.
Posted by: Braenyard

Is that even allowed here?
Posted by: Bulg at March 25, 2025 12:08 PM (77rzZ)

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Those of us who are illiterate are allowed to not read, I know that.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman at March 25, 2025 12:08 PM (GBKbO)

245 157 Can anyone this of a great movie made in the last 10 years?
Posted by: Pudinhead at March 25, 2025 11:50 AM (Hpgos)

I think Once Upon A Time In Hollywood is the best of the last 10 years. But there was ZERO competition. And that's the first piece of work by Tarantino I've even been able to watch Since Jackie Brown.

Posted by: front toward enemy at March 25, 2025 12:09 PM (TIizU)

246 236 I don't agree with what Witkoff said, but he's a negotiator. Do negotiators usually spin the truth in order to appear in the middle between the 2 sides? I think that might have happened before.
Posted by: Chuck Martel
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What matters is actions. Witkoff either succeeds or not in getting hostages back and Gazans deported.

If not, Israel is in no worse of a place if Witkoff blows a few kisses toward Ham Ass. Null effect.

Posted by: whig at March 25, 2025 12:09 PM (ctrM5)

247
Just now:

cocksucker osoff: "Director Radcliffe, this was a HUUUGE mistake, correct?"

CIA Director Radcliffe: [pauses for a moment] "NO."

osoff then went crazy with histrionics.

Posted by: Soothsayer at March 25, 2025 12:09 PM (hlywl)

248 201 So...who thinks that Trump is readying to invade Canada?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman at March 25, 2025 11:54 AM (GBKbO)

I believe this is The Administration's official list of potential new states:

https://tinyurl.com/mpeewjd9

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at March 25, 2025 12:10 PM (pIfcn)

249 247 osoff then went crazy with histrionics.
Posted by: Soothsayer at March 25, 2025 12:09 PM (hlywl)

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Osoff is trying out for his post-Senate career as a talking head.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman at March 25, 2025 12:10 PM (GBKbO)

250 I date very young too. And not for the obvious reason, although that's def a factor. Its also because 99% of women over 40 who are still single are bitter and disillusioned and no fun at all. They've had endless bad breakups, maybe a failed engagement or even marriage, and tend to view all men as their hated exes. Between that and a 20-something fun hottie, for me that's an easy choice.

Heh. I reckoned I might hear from you.

Posted by: Archimedes at March 25, 2025 12:10 PM (xCA6C)

251 The Sherman method of marching can keep an army warm.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman at March 25, 2025 12:06 PM (GBKbO)

Has anyone read Peter Tsouras' alternate history Civil War novels? Sherman takes Halifax! Bomb-dropping hot air balloons!

Posted by: mrp at March 25, 2025 12:11 PM (rj6Yv)

252
Good morning, all.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at March 25, 2025 12:11 PM (6IAhu)

253 I think Once Upon A Time In Hollywood is the best of the last 10 years. But there was ZERO competition.
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So far, given the ID crop, I think you're right.

Posted by: Pudinhead at March 25, 2025 12:11 PM (Hpgos)

254 199 This Waltz thing ... is a big MEH from me. Who cares? Nothing of any import was revealed, and I'm not sure I believe the story about how this happened. I smell gaslighting. Tell the Democraps screeching over this to go fuck a pig and then die from trichinella. Since when do these dicksuckers care about national security or leaks?
Posted by: Elric Blade
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"Optics" they screeched.

Posted by: whig at March 25, 2025 12:11 PM (ctrM5)

255 Mike Reno is a fat land whale at this point. He still performs with his trademark headband. Nothing more pathetic than an aging rocker acting like he’s still 25

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at March 25, 2025 12:11 PM (ZtAny)

256 Good morning, all.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia

Um, you're a few minutes late for that.

Posted by: Bulg at March 25, 2025 12:12 PM (77rzZ)

257 179 174 TJM, Imma not falling for this after you recommended Babe: Pig in the City. Just tell me what hideous things Paddington bears do.
Posted by: Pudinhead at March 25, 2025 11:54 AM (Hpgos)

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The Paddington movies are some of the most heart-warming, delightful family films ever made. They are treasures of cinema.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman at March 25, 2025 11:55 AM (GBKbO)

TJM is right. In fact, Paddington 2 is one of my top ten favorite movies, period. It's a gem, and it's pretty much a perfect movie. For years, in fact, it was the only movie that had a 100% rating from Rotten Tomatoes, until some putz decided to downgrade it out of spite. Whenever I'm in the mood for an optimistic movie, I put it on. Paddington's superpower is that he's nice. It's a real superpower.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at March 25, 2025 12:12 PM (vR9Eg)

258 256 Good morning, all.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia

Um, you're a few minutes late for that.

Wow, we're strict here.

Posted by: Archimedes at March 25, 2025 12:12 PM (xCA6C)

259 >>>To begin with, they used Signal (encrypted) and for the next, I read the excerpts and no, they did not discuss plans at the operational level.
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I read the article and Goldberg said every detail was discussed.
Said he did not print them because of security but info has been shared first with Atlantic lawyers and also those involved in the conversation.
I'll find you a link.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 25, 2025 12:13 PM (wE4lY)

260 Mike Reno is a fat land whale at this point. He still performs with his trademark headband. Nothing more pathetic than an aging rocker acting like he’s still 25
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at March 25, 2025 12:11 PM (ZtAny)

Your words are hurtful. I will now go eat 2 pizzas before lunch to calm my nerves. Loverboy Rocks!

Posted by: Mike Reno, Fat Now Too at March 25, 2025 12:13 PM (ce5If)

261 257 TJM is right. In fact, Paddington 2 is one of my top ten favorite movies, period. It's a gem, and it's pretty much a perfect movie. For years, in fact, it was the only movie that had a 100% rating from Rotten Tomatoes, until some putz decided to downgrade it out of spite. Whenever I'm in the mood for an optimistic movie, I put it on. Paddington's superpower is that he's nice. It's a real superpower.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at March 25, 2025 12:12 PM (vR9Eg)

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He's nice. He's upbeat. He's got a great hard stare. He loves Britain and wants nothing more than to be British.

And the movies are all built like heist films which makes no sense but works perfectly.

I mean, seriously, read some of the original Michael Bond picture books. Heist film does not come into it, but Paul King made it work perfectly.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman at March 25, 2025 12:13 PM (GBKbO)

262 Um, you're a few minutes late for that.

Wow, we're strict here.
Posted by: Archimedes at March 25, 2025 12:12 PM

THE HOUR HAS STRUCK.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at March 25, 2025 12:14 PM (jc0TO)

263 243 234 No one ponders on me anymore. Sad.
Posted by: The Tree of Woe at March 25, 2025 12:07 PM (jc0TO)

Joey Lawrence weeps.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 25, 2025 12:08 PM (KtIIi)

Ayyyyyeeeeee.

Posted by: The fonz at March 25, 2025 12:14 PM (OA79/)

264 Wow, we're strict here.
Posted by: Archimedes at March 25, 2025 12:12 PM (xCA6C)

Everyone gets their own inertial time zone reference frame because Einstein was a nazi who drove a Tesla.

Posted by: Warai-otoko is physicsing! at March 25, 2025 12:14 PM (KtIIi)

265
OT and late, but something nice for today: NIH cancels three grants at U Penn. Two of them -- TWO -- examined nicotine addiction and vaping among sexual and gender minorities.

NIH:

“Research programs based on gender identity are often unscientific, have little identifiable return on investment, and do nothing to enhance the health of many Americans. Many such studies ignore, rather than seriously examine, biological realities. It is the policy of NIH not to prioritize these research programs.”

Grant money withdrawn, study canceled even though it was a few years in (this was a 5-year grant ffs).

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at March 25, 2025 12:14 PM (6IAhu)

266 That's... a remarkably naive idea Mr. Witkoff has. My HOPE is that Trump is having him do the carrot and stick act, but I suspect that he may actually be naive enough to believe it.

Posted by: American Hawkman at March 25, 2025 12:15 PM (9VDxG)

267 Nothing more pathetic than an aging rocker acting like he’s still 25
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Perhaps. But the Eagles performing "Hotel California" with flamenco guitars was pretty weak sauce as well. That song was *made* for electric guitar. "Hotel California" is just another Days Inn if we're playing it unplugged.

Posted by: Crusader at March 25, 2025 12:15 PM (TN0g+)

268 I'm gonna join the "I don't give a flying F about the Signal chat" chorus. The op worked, the problem has now been identified and fixed, and I've moved on.

I will not take down the admin b/c a fed employee looked to start an Op against them with journalists again...I'm not that stupid...

Posted by: Nova Local at March 25, 2025 12:15 PM (tOcjL)

269 He's nice. He's upbeat. He's got a great hard stare. He loves Britain and wants nothing more than to be British.
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Release c. 2029 -

Paddington goes Halal

Posted by: Chuck Martel at March 25, 2025 12:15 PM (02BpX)

270
The whole World now knows bob woodward to be a Total Fraud. His big scoop about Watergate was, literally, handed to him because it was a frame-job on Nixon.

Posted by: Soothsayer at March 25, 2025 12:16 PM (hlywl)

271 As far as DC is concerned, go back and read the story of the leak of Rainbow 5 war plan just prior to Pearl Harbor. Massive story that got overshadowed immediately by Pearl Harbor--who leaked it and why is still a puzzle.
Posted by: whig at March 25, 2025 12:07 PM (ctrM5)

Wasn't it Burton Wheeler, democrat from Montana? Last theory I'd heard was that Hap Arnold may have been the one with the ability and will to hand it to him.

Posted by: Rex B at March 25, 2025 12:16 PM (bhV/D)

272 229 3 days ago the DoD released a statement saying they were going to institute lie detector tests to emoyees to address leaking.

That's racist! No, I don't know why, but I'm sure it is.
Posted by: Archimedes at March 25, 2025 12:05 PM (xCA6C)

Have I got a product for you!

Posted by: Tony saragussa at March 25, 2025 12:16 PM (OA79/)

273 I asked Brave AI what's the best movie of the past decade. It says:

The Power of the Dog (2021)
The Harder They Fall (2021)
and
News of the World (2020).

Which proves conclusively there were no best movie made in the past decade.

Posted by: Knock gp A Kiss at March 25, 2025 12:16 PM (5ACBR)

274
btw, are we in the "Leakgate" or "Signalgate" phase of this Farce?

Posted by: Soothsayer at March 25, 2025 12:16 PM (hlywl)

275
Good morning, all.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia

Um, you're a few minutes late for that.
Posted by: Bulg

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I don't honor Flyover Standard Time.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at March 25, 2025 12:17 PM (6IAhu)

276
Because now it's the "add -gate" to this bullshit Hoax Frame-up.

Posted by: Soothsayer at March 25, 2025 12:17 PM (hlywl)

277 Can anyone think of a great movie made in the last 10 years?

"A Ghost Story" but I can see where others wouldn't like it.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at March 25, 2025 12:17 PM (WPL6O)

278 277 Can anyone think of a great movie made in the last 10 years?

"A Ghost Story" but I can see where others wouldn't like it.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at March 25, 2025 12:17 PM (WPL6O)

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It's like Tarkovsky but American and with Casey Affleck in a sheet.

How could everyone not love it?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman at March 25, 2025 12:18 PM (GBKbO)

279 His big scoop about Watergate was, literally, handed to him because it was a frame-job on Nixon.

Posted by: Soothsayer at March 25, 2025 12:16 PM (hlywl)

Everyone who ever said they wanted to be the next Bob Woodward was perfectly aware of this.

Posted by: Warai-otoko is a journalism! at March 25, 2025 12:18 PM (KtIIi)

280 btw, are we in the "Leakgate" or "Signalgate" phase of this Farce?
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With regard to Mike Reno, we're at the "Pizzagate" phase.

Posted by: Crusader at March 25, 2025 12:18 PM (TN0g+)

281
I really hope Ace doesn't have his panties in a wedgie about this Bullshit.

Posted by: Soothsayer at March 25, 2025 12:18 PM (hlywl)

282 Don't know, I don't know such stuff. I just do eyes, ju-, ju-, just eyes...

Posted by: Hannibal Chew at March 25, 2025 12:18 PM (jc0TO)

283 Dude, its a NEGOTIATION. You're never going to make any progress trying to negotiate with someone while you're busy calling them violent scumbags.

Obviously they are. But the one guy in the world that can't afford to say that outloud - WITKOFF

Posted by: deadrody at March 25, 2025 12:19 PM (vgB0v)

284 btw, are we in the "Leakgate" or "Signalgate" phase of this Farce?

Posted by: Soothsayer at March 25, 2025 12:16 PM (hlywl)

From National Review:

"Trump personally defended Waltz Tuesday morning amid calls for accountability for creating a Signal chat and inadvertently putting Goldberg in it.

“Michael Waltz has learned a lesson, and he’s a good man,” Trump told NBC News."

My read: Mission Accomplished.

Posted by: mrp at March 25, 2025 12:19 PM (rj6Yv)

285
Can anyone think of a great movie made in the last 10 years?

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Supposedly that Everything Everywhere All at Once with Michelle Yeoh was good. Even the Critical Drinker loved it. I haven't seen it, can't confirm.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at March 25, 2025 12:19 PM (6IAhu)

286 Hamas is not ideologically extreme. That is the problem in a nutshell. Islam must be repudiated and destroyed.

Posted by: From about That Time at March 25, 2025 12:20 PM (n4GiU)

287 Here is the link to the article
https://archive.is/u5txN
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"...the Hegseth post contained operational details of forthcoming strikes on Yemen, including information about targets, weapons the U.S. would be deploying, and attack sequencing."

"According to the lengthy Hegseth text, the first detonations in Yemen would be felt two hours hence, at 1:45 p.m. eastern time. So I waited in my car in a supermarket parking lot. If this Signal chat was real, I reasoned, Houthi targets would soon be bombed. At about 1:55, I checked X and searched Yemen. Explosions were then being heard across Sanaa, the capital city.

I went back to the Signal channel. At 1:48, “Michael Waltz” had provided the group an update. Again, I won’t quote from this text, except to note that he described the operation as an “amazing job.”"

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 25, 2025 12:20 PM (wE4lY)

288 285 Supposedly that Everything Everywhere All at Once with Michelle Yeoh was good. Even the Critical Drinker loved it. I haven't seen it, can't confirm.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at March 25, 2025 12:19 PM (6IAhu)

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I showed that to my mother. She didn't like it.

She did like Anora a lot, though.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman at March 25, 2025 12:20 PM (GBKbO)

289 Can anyone think of a great movie made in the last 10 years?

What makes a movie great? I can think of several movies that I enjoyed. Does that make them great?

Posted by: Grump928(C) at March 25, 2025 12:21 PM (jc0TO)

290 289 Can anyone think of a great movie made in the last 10 years?

What makes a movie great? I can think of several movies that I enjoyed. Does that make them great?
Posted by: Grump928(C) at March 25, 2025 12:21 PM (jc0TO)

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Like what you like and defend it.

It's just movies.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman at March 25, 2025 12:21 PM (GBKbO)

291 I have the most intelligent prescient cogent comment ever prepared but I won’t post it because this is willow time….

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at March 25, 2025 12:22 PM (5MZNC)

292 That interview with Lutnick linked on the sidebar is pretty awesome.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 25, 2025 12:22 PM (ExV1e)

293 deadrody, could you please explain to me why Witkoff came away from that meeting saying he had been duped?

Posted by: Ben Had at March 25, 2025 12:22 PM (Fqh59)

294 I know nothing about Waltz, or even what this story is even about. Nor do I care, and nobody else will in 48 hours, so I'll be in good company soon enough.

That said, I long ago dispensed with the illusion that military insignia and awards mean some DC crook is better than the next.

Sorry, but that particular appeal to authority was ruined by high ranking scumbags a long time ago, and it's only gotten worse and worse and then more worserer as the years pass.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at March 25, 2025 12:22 PM (BI5O2)

295 A man in North Carolina came up with a creative solution to his ongoing bear problem by dressing up in a cartoonish bear costume—amazingly, his unusual tactic worked, and the unwelcome visitor was successfully frightened off.

https://shorturl.at/3ZawF

He's lucky the bear didn't view him as prime date material.
Posted by: Archimedes at March 25, 2025 11:39 AM (xCA6C)

Two hours later, the bear returned., Dressed as a human.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at March 25, 2025 12:22 PM (dgRL6)

296 Gosh I wish every movie was great. That would be great!

Posted by: Knock gp A Kiss at March 25, 2025 12:22 PM (5ACBR)

297 Does a great movie 'hold up' for decades? Is that a criteria? Is it one you can watch multiple times and get something new each time?

Posted by: Grump928(C) at March 25, 2025 12:22 PM (jc0TO)

298 284 btw, are we in the "Leakgate" or "Signalgate" phase of this Farce?

Posted by: Soothsayer at March 25, 2025 12:16 PM (hlywl)

From National Review:

"Trump personally defended Waltz Tuesday morning amid calls for accountability for creating a Signal chat and inadvertently putting Goldberg in it.

“Michael Waltz has learned a lesson, and he’s a good man,” Trump told NBC News."

My read: Mission Accomplished.
Posted by: mrp at March 25, 2025 12:19 PM (rj6Yv)

Lesson learned. The MFM wanted a scalp, so they would have the confidence that there really was a pathway to breaking up the Team of Alphas that Trump put together. Don't give it to them. Trump knows best.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at March 25, 2025 12:23 PM (vR9Eg)

299
I have the most intelligent prescient cogent comment ever prepared but I won’t post it because this is willow time….
Posted by: LinusVanPelt

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Go ahead. Immanentize the eschaton.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at March 25, 2025 12:23 PM (6IAhu)

300 298 Lesson learned. The MFM wanted a scalp, so they would have the confidence that there really was a pathway to breaking up the Team of Alphas that Trump put together. Don't give it to them. Trump knows best.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at March 25, 2025 12:23 PM (vR9Eg)

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They tried to Flynn Waltz.

They failed to Flynn Waltz.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman at March 25, 2025 12:24 PM (GBKbO)

301 Two hours later, the bear returned., Dressed as a human.
Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at March 25, 2025 12:22 PM (dgRL6)

And carrying a knife and fork.

Posted by: mrp at March 25, 2025 12:24 PM (rj6Yv)

302 I have the most intelligent prescient cogent comment ever prepared but I won’t post it because this is willow time….
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It would be cool if there were the technology to automatically "wrap" the last 10 (or 15) comments from the previous topic to rest just above the *new* comment field so that those comments wouldn't die a lonely death.

Posted by: Crusader at March 25, 2025 12:24 PM (TN0g+)

303

NOOD

nood

Posted by: Soothsayer at March 25, 2025 12:25 PM (hlywl)

304 btw, are we in the "Leakgate" or "Signalgate" phase of this Farce?

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What would people call a scandal involving water, since "Watergate " is already taken?

Posted by: Josephistan at March 25, 2025 12:25 PM (oSxZ7)

305 What would people call a scandal involving water, since "Watergate " is already taken?
Posted by: Josephistan

H2Ogate

Posted by: Bulg at March 25, 2025 12:25 PM (77rzZ)

306 Stargate was a great movie. Kurt Russell, James Spader… but that was 1993?

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at March 25, 2025 12:25 PM (ZtAny)

307 It would be cool if there were the technology to automatically "wrap" the last 10 (or 15) comments from the previous topic to rest just above the *new* comment field so that those comments wouldn't die a lonely death.
Posted by: Crusader at March 25, 2025 12:2

But then the fights to be first would be adversely affected.

Posted by: Stateless...71% - mental state clawing up from 10% at March 25, 2025 12:25 PM (jvJvP)

308 Wasn't it Burton Wheeler, democrat from Montana? Last theory I'd heard was that Hap Arnold may have been the one with the ability and will to hand it to him.
Posted by: Rex B
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Most likely done by George Marshall under orders from FDR. The leak was to McCormick who was publisher of the anti FDR Chicago Tribune. There is an interesting story from the inside by a retired officer (General Wedemeyer) who was in the War Plans department at the time and questioned by the FBI over it. The whole FBI leak investigation was basically perfunctory exercise.

FDR wanted Mustache Man to declare war on the US and spent about a year trying to incite him to do it. Thomas Fleming wrote the story in 1987 in American Heritage.

https://ariwatch.com/Links/RainbowFive.htm

Posted by: whig at March 25, 2025 12:26 PM (ctrM5)

309 Bomb-dropping hot air balloons!
Posted by: mrp

A new book I saw, A NEW NOVEL OF ALTERNATE HISTORY FROM MASTER OF MILITARY SF TOM KRATMAN, JUSTIN WATSON, AND KACEY EZELL. As WWI comes to a close a German general, an escaped prisoner of war, and the crew of an airship converge to effect THE ROMANOV RESCUE. Can there be a world without communism?

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They rescue the Czar from the commie rat bastards using an airship.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at March 25, 2025 12:26 PM (L/fGl)

310 NIH:

“Research programs based on gender identity are often unscientific, have little identifiable return on investment, and do nothing to enhance the health of many Americans. Many such studies ignore, rather than seriously examine, biological realities. It is the policy of NIH not to prioritize these research programs.”

Grant money withdrawn, study canceled even though it was a few years in (this was a 5-year grant ffs).
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at March 25, 2025 12:14 PM (6IAhu)

How are we going to develop a vape juice that instantly causes terminal brain cramps in trannies unless we do the research?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 25, 2025 12:26 PM (8zz6B)

311 285 Can anyone think of a great movie made in the last 10 years?

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Supposedly that Everything Everywhere All at Once with Michelle Yeoh was good. Even the Critical Drinker loved it. I haven't seen it, can't confirm.

i thought it was good, except for the bit in the hot dog fingers universe. but i have no taste; people with taste probably like the hot dog fingers universe.

Posted by: anachronda at March 25, 2025 12:26 PM (oY6Yp)

312 Nood activist judge

Posted by: Rex B at March 25, 2025 12:26 PM (bhV/D)

313 A new book I saw, A NEW NOVEL OF ALTERNATE HISTORY FROM MASTER OF MILITARY SF TOM KRATMAN, JUSTIN WATSON, AND KACEY EZELL. As WWI comes to a close a German general, an escaped prisoner of war, and the crew of an airship converge to effect THE ROMANOV RESCUE. Can there be a world without communism?

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They rescue the Czar from the commie rat bastards using an airship.
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That'll go over like a lead balloon.

Posted by: Crusader at March 25, 2025 12:27 PM (TN0g+)

314 There is no such thing as a great movie because cinema is a fundamentally preposterous medium for artistic expression. It engages too many senses to be poignant and too few to be immersive.

"Enjoyable" is the highest height cinema can aspire to. "Not boring" is the normal victory condition. "Great" is for the theater or the museum, not the movies.

Harrumph.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 25, 2025 12:27 PM (KtIIi)

315 Thanks, Whig

Posted by: Rex B at March 25, 2025 12:28 PM (bhV/D)

316 Two hours later, the bear returned., Dressed as a human.
Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at March 25, 2025 12:22 PM (dgRL6)

And carrying a knife and fork.
Posted by: mrp at March 25, 2025 12:24 PM (rj6Yv)

And ValueRite.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at March 25, 2025 12:31 PM (dgRL6)

317 311 285 Can anyone think of a great movie made in the last 10 years?

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Supposedly that Everything Everywhere All at Once with Michelle Yeoh was good. Even the Critical Drinker loved it. I haven't seen it, can't confirm.

i thought it was good, except for the bit in the hot dog fingers universe. but i have no taste; people with taste probably like the hot dog fingers universe.
Posted by: anachronda at March 25, 2025 12:26 PM (oY6Yp)

Surprised that I liked it. Very inventive thinking.

I hate multiverse movies as a rule, but this one works.

My wife was wandering through the room while I was watching and she got drawn in and liked it.

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at March 25, 2025 12:41 PM (OA79/)

318 SISU should be counted as a Must See movie.

Posted by: Pudinhead at March 25, 2025 12:57 PM (Hpgos)

319 I think there are people in Hamas who aren't in this for the genocide but the money. Can't spend jizya if you're dead, though.

Posted by: hurricane567 at March 25, 2025 12:58 PM (jV7P/)

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