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The Morning Report — 5/ 9 /25
Christians in Nigeria are murdered almost daily through indiscriminate attacks led by Muslims. Nigerian Christian women are abducted, raped, gang-raped and sexually abused on a widespread scale. Violence is only one of the many forms of persecution that Christians in Nigeria face. They are also subjected to systematic, Sharia-based discrimination, a situation which is particularly routine in the majority-Muslim northern states. One of the methods used to silence Christian voices utilizes the deadly blasphemy laws. In many cases, Muslim mobs take the law into their own hands and execute Christians who they accuse of blasphemy. In 2022, for instance, Deborah Samuel Yakubu, a second-year Christian college student, was stoned and burnt to death by a mob of Muslim students in Sokoto, Nigeria, after being accused of blasphemy against Islam. . . . . . Nigerian social media has been awash with many hate speech posts against the Church, and many Muslim clerics have made it a point of duty to constantly preach hate against Christians. The immediate past governor of Kaduna was seen on video preaching hate against Christians. Almost all the time the perpetrators of these kinds of smear campaigns are not brought to justice. Smear campaigns are a very common thing against Christians… Also, Christians in the North experience daily abuse and are called all kinds of derogatory names such as “infidels.” Christian families and children appear to be a specific target of Muslims in Nigeria: Christian spouses and/or children of Christians have been subject to separation for prolonged periods of time by circumstances relating to persecution. Children of Christians have been harassed or discriminated against because of their parents’ faith. Most of this happens in the North, although increasingly also in the South. Babies and children of Christians have automatically been registered under the state or majority religion.
With that, we have as I stated the first American Pope, who at first glance will seemingly follow in the footsteps of his predecessor, although there are some mixed signals as you can see from the many links in the Pope section that I will pull: First on the down side . . .
Many Catholics (and non-Catholics, for that matter) were praying for a more traditional, conservative choice after twelve years of the globalist progressive, Pope Francis. During his pontificate, Francis made landmark declarations that encouraged the Left, including allowing the blessing of people in same-sex unions and calling for more mass migration into already overwhelmed Western nations. One conservative Catholic author even persuasively argued several reasons “Why We Need a Pope From Africa” such as Guinean Cardinal Robert Sarah, a defender of the embattled, traditional Latin mass (but who, at 80, was a long-shot pick). Just prior to today’s revelation that a pope had been chosen, Sheryl Collmer at Crisis Magazine online, a publication on Catholic issues, wrote that Francis’ tenure was “tragic” and nearly “destroyed” the church. She asked, “Will we have the heart and courage to rebuild the Church after the devastation of the recent past? Perhaps not, because Prevost’s career was apparently closely observed, if not steered, by Francis himself. According to GB News, “Francis clearly had an eye on him for years.” To summarize from The College of Cardinals Report profile of Cardinal Prevost: in 2014, Pope Francis appointed him apostolic administrator of the Diocese of Chiclayo in Peru, then Bishop of Chiclayo in 2015. Francis appointed him to one of the most influential Vatican posts in January 2023, running the office that selects and manages bishops globally. He held that post until Pope Francis died late last month. On September 30, 2023, Francis elevated Prevost to the rank of Cardinal.And as Daniel Greenfield observes . . .
Why pick the first American Pope now? Robert Prevost was made Pope Leo XIV as a counterweight to President Trump. There’s been little ambiguity about the new pope’s politics and less about the overall agenda. Pope Francis had all but rigged the process to assure another radical successor. President Trump’s return represents an ongoing institutional crisis. The ideological battleground is going to be the border and Prevost has been chosen to lead the response in the largest sense possible. Choosing an American Pope is supposed to raise the stakes and elevate a leader with the stature to rally opposition to Trump and more specifically to his immigration policies by invoking the familiar tropes about the need for welcoming in every single migrant. That’s what this is about. This is less about the long-term future and more about the next four years.And yet, some are putting a more positive spin on Pope Leo. . .
there are reasons to be hopeful. The former cardinal, who is from Chicago, is of Spanish, French and Italian descent, which explains his Mediterranean look. He came out in red papal robes, all ornate and embroidered, same as previous popes before Pope Francis, meaning, he's more traditional than Pope Francis, whose desire to appear humble verged on ostentatious, although it wasn't malevolent. That was him, this is Leo. It suggests he won't be the same as his predecessor. And the name he picked was reason to be hopeful, too: Leo. The last pope named Leo, Leo XIII (1878-1903) was famous for denouncing socialism. That tells me all I need to hear, but for many, it will be well worth looking at for the nuances -- Leo XIII was also a champion of labor and unions, which, given the realities of the times, seemed like a good idea. As for the socialism, his condemnation of its failures is eternal, and he's the only pope who ever singled out socialism for its evils very specifically by name. . . . . . His background might give some pause -- I don't know the full story about his citizenship and whether he chose to dump his U.S. citizenship or kept it, or really needed Peruvian citizenship to get around, or simply wanted to be like the Peruvians he ministered to. It isn't that important to a cleric, who is Heaven-focused, so I don't judge. I don't feel optimistic that he was from Chicago, home of Cardinal Cupich who hid his pectoral cross as he gave his blessing to the DNC with its abortion truck outside, and to FARC's sympathizers in the states, but his Mediterranean background suggests he didn't come from the elites. . . . . .It's early, of course, and everything I am surmising about him could be wrong. We will know more as he makes his address next week. But for now, we can be hopeful that there may be many good and great things about him and he will be an able and confident leader, like Leo XIII.The ascendancy of populism not only here but abroad is certainly reflected in the reaction of leftists and in what the late Pope Francis had promoted during his tenure vis a vis open borders, the global warming scam, attacks on the free market etc. etc. etc. So is the election of Leo as Daniel Greenfield posits the undergirding of the assault on traditional Catholicism or as Monica Showalter posits/hopes will he abandon some of Francis' more radical positions to be more in line with the mainstream (or what was and hopefully still is the mainstream) of the faith. Considering that far too many of my fellow Jews have completely rejected traditional Judaism, the teachings of the Torah and the 10 commandments, I'm not going to speculate about Catholics. Of course with the likes of Pelosi and Biden and others of their bent, there are parallels. We'll have to wait and see. Regardless, it is of course up to all of us as individuals to live an upright, moral and righteous life regardless of who our religious and secular leaders may be. I certainly hope and pray that Leo will lead the Catholic faithful in paths of righteousness and in keeping with Biblical teaching and tradition. And lastly, a quick shout-out and thank you for your continued support in hitting our tip jar. It truly is appreciated more than you can know. Have a great weekend.
- ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY
- The world would be a better place without the corrupt and malignant institution.
Defund The United Nations
- What’s become increasingly clear is that absent Trump and a few Republicans, the GOP lacks the willingness and ability to govern.
What Is The Point Of Having A GOP Congress?
- Victor Davis Hanson: No country can long endure without sovereignty and security.
The Trump Counterrevolution and the Moral Ledger
- DOMESTIC AFFAIRS, THE COURTS, WASTE/FRAUD/ABUSE
- Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts says he has no immediate plans to step down from the bench, citing good health as the primary reason. The 70-year-old Justice shared this during a public event in Buffalo, New York, marking the 125th anniversary of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of New York.
Chief Justice Roberts, 70, Dismisses Retirement Speculation.
- Roberts fails to understand that SCOTUS’s continued allowance of leftists’ judicial coup is undermining Americans’ faith in the judiciary.
John Roberts’ Tacit Endorsement Of Judicial Supremacy Is Undermining SCOTUS
- “This is bold, this is gonna be challenging, but we absolutely can do it,” Duffy declared of his plan, which calls for at least six new air traffic control centers replacing 1960s-era facilities; swapping out old-fashioned copper wiring for fiber-optic, wireless and satellite technology at 4,600 locations; and replacing 25,000 radios and more than 600 radar installations.
Transportation boss Sean Duffy plots multi-billion-dollar overhaul of US air traffic control by 2028
THE ECONOMY, STUPID - The United Kingdom and the United States of America are to sign a “tremendous trade deal” and enter into a “economic security alignment”, President Trump said at the Oval Office during a conference with Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer.
Trump Hails ‘Breakthrough Trade Deal’ And ‘Economic Security Alignment’ With United Kingdom
- Other nations use non-tariff trade barriers as weapons to choke off American exports.
Trump Takes on a Globalist Trading System Rigged Against the U.S. - "Other than that, I like him very much!"
Fed Says It Won’t Lower Interest Rates. Trump Calls Powell A ‘Fool Who Doesn’t Have A Clue.’
- The economic good news comes despite globalist criticism of President Donald J. Trump’s America First tariffs, particularly the significant increase on Chinese imports to 145 percent. Anti-tariff economists have been persistently warning that negative sentiments observed in surveys—likely driven by the media clamoring over a hypothetical tariff-driven downturn—could be set to translate into negative employment data. Still, the above-expectations fall in new unemployment claims suggest market jitters are yet to translate into meaningful job losses.
Trump Economy Gains Strength as Unemployment Claims Fall Even More Than Expected.
- Unions are resisting tech advances that would make East Coast ports more efficient—and dramatizing a tension within the Trump coalition.
On the Twenty-First-Century Waterfront
- A pollution tariff would hold China accountable for environmental abuses, block tariff evasion, protect U.S. interests, and position America as a global trade leader.
A Pollution Tariff Would Close China’s Trade Loopholes CIVIL WAR 2.0: J-6 FBI FALSE FLAG "RIOT" & AFTERMATH, LEFTIST PERSECUTIONS, DEMOCRAT PUTSCH, AMERICAN DISSOLUTION - President Trump has shown an almost superhuman knack for being unthwarted by the CIA and other tendrils of the federal Cthulhu.
Trump is neutering the Deep State by gutting the CIA
- And playing the “racist/fascist/Nazi" card.
The First 100 Days For The Trump-Hating Left "BIDEN/HARRIS BORDER BLOODBATH," AMNESTY, IMMIGRATION, BORDER SECURITY - Illegal immigrants enjoy many privileges while unlawfully in the United States — but being counted for apportionment should not be one of them.
This Bad Legal Interpretation Allows Democrats To Skew Congress With Illegal Immigration - Andrii Dmyterko, 45, has been charged with two counts of vehicular manslaughter following the horrific crash, which was caught clearly on a nearby dash cam. In the video, the truck doesn't appear to slow down or swerve in the least as it mowed down a line of stopped vehicles, decimating them all within seconds.
Migrant on a Work Visa Plows Into Multiple Cars at a Stoplight in Texas, Killing Two
- No one made a peep when Obama and Biden deported millions of illegal aliens who also merely worked hard, paid taxes, and stayed out of prison.
Where Was Democrats’ Outrage When Obama And Biden Deported Illegal Alien Housekeepers And Gardeners? ISRAEL vs IRAN & GAZA/HAMAS . . . AND BIDEN - On Wednesday, nearly 80 protesters were arrested after storming Columbia University’s Butler Library in New York City. The demonstrators, many of whom were masked and wearing kaffiyehs, disrupted students preparing for exams, defaced property, and declared the library a “liberated zone” in support of 'Palestinian' activism.
Marco Rubio Vows Visa Crackdown After Columbia Library Takeover: ‘Pro-Hamas Thugs No Longer Welcome’ in U.S.
- Douglas Murray: . . . the US government should order a swift and deep inquiry into the way in which foreign funding is being used to subvert American institutions, especially institutions of higher learning.
Probe the foreign influence behind these terror-loving, anti-Jew college agitators WE-ALL-SLAM-FOR-I-SLAM - Qatar has been a threat to our national security since at least 1986, and though their inroads into the U.S. have been subtle, it doesn’t make them any less dangerous.
Qatar: Our Enemy Hiding in Plain Sight
- Importing Sharia.
The Collision of Islamic Culture With Western Civilization
- Including blasphemy laws and extrajudicial mob violence.
Nigeria: Sharia-Based Discrimination Against Christians
- Will there be consequences?
Fahad Ansari, London Defender of Hamas and Other Terrorists
OFFICIAL DEMOCRAT PARTY/LEFTIST-ENDORSED ANTI-SEMITISM, ANTI-CHRISTIANITY - The same leftwing voices objecting to using government funds to teach American children how to read and write in Catholic schools howl in complaint that DOGE cut USAID funding to Catholic charities that supported illegal immigrants.
Catholic Funding by Government in the Political Crosshairs FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUES, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER TECH - It seems that media persecution comes with the presidential territory, unless you die in your first month in office.
The Presidency and the Media RED-GREENS, CLIMATE CHANGE HOAX, DEMOCRAT-LEFT WAR ON FOSSIL FUELS, - Slashes will be made to renewable energy support, solar and wind farm financing, and “climate crisis” activities throughout the federal government.
Trump’s 2026 Budget Pulls Plug on Biden’s Green Energy Scams
AMERICA AND THE WORLD IMPRISONED: CHINESE+Fauci-created CORONAVIRUS FICTIONS AND FACTS - Meanwhile, HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. appeared on The Ingraham Angle, and alleged that Dr. Anthony Fauci played a central role in moving dangerous “gain-of-function” virus research offshore to places like Wuhan.
Trump Signs EO Restricting ‘Gain of Function’ Research That Enhances Pathogens
EDUCATION, AND WHAT PASSES FOR IT
- Daniel Greenfield: Ending indoctrination is apparently the real indoctrination.
“Your Education is Indoctrination, Their Indoctrination is Education.”
- The Lone Star State’s new billion-dollar, universal-eligibility voucher program shows that educational freedom has gone mainstream nationwide.
Texas Marks a Milestone in the Battle Over School Choice
- University presidents can undo fear-based decisions they made during the years of Peak Woke.
The Genius of Trump’s Attacks on the Ivy League - “After interviewing multiple anonymous Stanford faculty, students, and China experts, the Review can confirm that the CCP is orchestrating a widespread intelligence-gathering campaign at Stanford,” the student newspaper revealed in a Wednesday X post.
Investigation Alleges ‘Widespread’ Chinese Spying at Stanford U. DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST AND RINO SCANDALS, MESHUGAS, CHUTZPOCRISY
- House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-KY), House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH), and Committee on House Administration Chairman Bryan Steil (R-WI), in a letter to the DOJ, said that ActBlue’s “concerning activities” could have a “direct effect on U.S. political campaigns and elections.”
House Committee Chairs Brief Trump DOJ on Fundraiser ActBlue’s ‘Concerning Activities’ - Epstein, who pled guilty to sex charges in 2008, committed suicide while awaiting trial after he was arrested in 2019 on new charges. Kennedy asked Patel if he would see the release about what happened to Epstein in his lifetime during a hearing held by the Senate Appropriations Committee’s Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies.
John Kennedy Asks Kash Patel Point-Blank If Jeffrey Epstein Killed Himself - Gallego narrowly defeated Republican Kari Lake during the 2024 Senate election to replace the outgoing Sen. Kyrsten Sinema.
Senate Democrat Ruben Gallego ‘About to Knife the Crypto Community’ After Taking $10 Million from Pro-Crypto PAC CONFIRMATION HEARING News and Views - Sen. Tom Tillis (R-NC) said he opposed Martin’s nomination, whining about him defending a few Capitol Hill rioters.
Trump Pulls Ed Martin Nomination for U.S. Attorney for D.C. POLITICS - Famed Democrat strategist James Carville unleashed a blistering attack on Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) after her controversial comments about white men resurfaced on social media. The outspoken former Clinton advisor didn't mince words at Wednesday's Truth Tellers Summit, where he systematically demolished Omar's inflammatory rhetoric.
James Carville Tells abro-FO Omar to Get Out of the Democrat Party
- Joe Biden’s fine, y’all. Totally with it. Not a puddle of mental goo at all. Just don’t watch this clip from The View if you still want to hold on to that fantasy.
Asked About His Mental Decline, Biden Rambles Incoherently Before Jill Jumps In
- The former New York governor has said that anti-Semitism is his campaign’s most important issue.
Andrew Cuomo Is Betting on Jewish Voters. But Do They Want Him as the Next Mayor?
- GOP gains in the wake of Trump’s victory shake up the Garden State governor’s race.
Will Democrats’ Leftward Lurch Put New Jersey in Play This Year?
AFTER POPE FRANCIS - Same as the old Pope?
Meet the New Pope
- The 267th pope is considered a moderate with views close to Pope Francis on several key issues.
Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost of Chicago, Considered a Moderate, Elected First American Pope
- His choice of names is a good sign.
The new Pope Leo XIV gives us reasons to hope
- Daniel Greenfield: That's what this is about.
The Only Reason for Picking an American Pope was to Fight Trump
- The College of Cardinals elected Cardinal Robert Prevost from Chicago, IL as the new pope.
The First American Pontiff: Pope Leo XIV
- Prevost’s election as a dual U.S.-Peruvian citizen shatters a long-standing bias against an American pope, potentially reshaping the Catholic Church’s global influence amid its 1.4 billion followers.
The Pope Is American.
- Cardinal Robert F. Prevost was elected the 267th supreme pontiff of the Roman Catholic Church on Thursday by the College of Cardinals during a two-day conclave in the Vatican’s Sistine Chapel. He will go by Pope Leo XIV.. . . The new pope inherits a spiritual flock of 1.39 billion Catholics and will likely need to address an increasingly secularized world, clerical sex abuses of minors and the fallout, as well as global conflicts, both armed and rhetorical.
Cardinal Robert F. Prevost Elected 267th Supreme Pontiff Of Roman Catholic Church FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL - The fighting comes two weeks after New Delhi blamed Islamabad for backing an attack on the Indian-run side of disputed Kashmir, which Pakistan denied.
Pakistan and India accuse each other of waves of drone attacks
- Daniel Greenfield: And Yemen’s Houthis used our money to go to war against us.
U.S. Sent Billions in Famine Relief to Yemen. The Population Rose 30%
- As Preston Manning, one of Canada’s most influential public figures and a force for good, wrote, “Voters, particularly in central and Atlantic Canada, need to recognize that a vote for the Carney Liberals is a vote for Western secession—a vote for the breakup of Canada as we know it.” Unfortunately, it’s rather too late now. The people have misspoken.
Western Canada Puts the Rest of Canada on Notice - “Simion represents a new and increasingly common type of political actor. . .The success of this strategy reveals the right’s conceptual limitations.”
How the Establishment Is Domesticating Populism
- The United States has protected and bailed out Europe for far too long.
80 Years After The Allies Won World War II, U.S. Taxpayers Are Funding European Authoritarianism
- Mock Trump all you like—but in the coming contest for the Arctic, it’s his map everyone will be using.
President Trump’s Bold Statement: Greenland as America’s Strategic Imperative
- An anti-mullah Persian-American is furious about President Trump's move to rename the 'Persian Gulf' the 'Arabian Gulf' to please the region's sheiks and spite the Iranian mullahs.
About that renaming of the 'Persian Gulf' ... DEFENSE, MILITARY, SECURITY AFFAIRS - Fred Fleitz: Trump has ousted NSA Michael Waltz and tapped Marco Rubio as interim, signaling a businesslike, high-stakes push for loyalty, competence, and bold execution in national security.
What President Trump Needs in His Next National Security Adviser ACTUAL SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY - SpaceIL had built Beresheet-1, which in 2019 successfully reached lunar orbit, only to crash when it attempted to soft land.
Israeli non-profit suspends its effort to build a second Beresheet lunar lander
- The margin of error is still large, almost 9 hours before or after, which essentially means there is as yet no way to predict where it will fall.
Updated prediction for uncontrolled re-entry of 1972 Soviet Venera lander now targets May 10th FEMINAZISM, TRANSGENDER PSYCHOSIS, HOMOSEXUALIZATION, WAR ON MASCULINITY/NORMALCY - Speaking in defense of HB 25-1312, which in part threatens to strip the custody rights of parents who refuse to “affirm” their child’s “gender identity,” bill sponsor Sen. Chris Kolker compared concerned parents to the Ku Klux Klan before saying he will be “accountable to almighty God” for “standing up for equality” - especially if he has to defend himself to “trans Jesus” one day.
Colorado Democrat Says He'll Be Accountable to 'Trans Jesus' On Judgement Day
- Women have to walk around with "kid gloves on, and California won't protect women's sports, bathrooms, locker rooms, saunas, spas and other female spaces. It makes me angry inside."
California's incarcerated women say 'keep men out of our prison' CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE - “So, we’re having a baby? I mean, we, and also, I guess, Jesse,” Bella Ramsey’s character, Ellie, asks Isabela Merced’s character, Dina, in Episode 4 of the post-apocalyptic series’ Season 2, before adding, “So we’re all having a baby. Holy shit. I’m gonna be a dad.”
HBO’s ‘The Last of Us’ Shows Lesbian Character Declaring, ‘I’m Gonna Be A Dad’
- The cabaret star imagines he’s actually in Cabaret.
Michael Feinstein’s Auschwitz Envy
- This kind of ‘artwork’ is designed to denigrate and tear down western civilization for the purpose of seizing cultural and political power.
The Statue Of The Random Black Woman In Times Square Is Leftist Cultural Warfare HITHER & YON - After decades of drift and decline, a humbled America turns to Trump—renewed, resolute, and ready to reclaim its purpose under God.
America Humbled
- Christian Toto: Vince Vaughn leads lovable cast in sweet and sappy fact-based tale
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(Jump to bottom of comments)1 It's Flapjack Friday!Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at May 09, 2025 07:11 AM (e5NfL)
2 Oh and I am feeling blue.Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at May 09, 2025 07:11 AM (e5NfL)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 09, 2025 07:12 AM (QnmlO)
4 Happy Fricking FridayPosted by: rhennigantx at May 09, 2025 07:15 AM (gbOdA)
5 Blue Friday?Posted by: fd at May 09, 2025 07:16 AM (vFG9F)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 09, 2025 07:16 AM (Q4IgG)
7 Chief Justice Roberts, 70, Dismisses Retirement Speculation.
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Did anyone with a beating heart and squiggly matter in their noggin ever think for one second he'd retire under Trump?
Even if he did, we have a whole detestable coterie of Republican senators who would not allow anyone other than a justice of equal squish to be appointed.Posted by: Lady in Black at May 09, 2025 07:16 AM (qBdHI)
8 Can you add another attribute to the font, like flashing on and off?Posted by: fd at May 09, 2025 07:17 AM (vFG9F)
9 Gli Azzurri?Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 09, 2025 07:17 AM (yvnLa)
Posted by: Elrond Hubbard at May 09, 2025 07:18 AM (VJc7E)
11 Is there a big enough barrel to atone for this?Posted by: Lady in Black at May 09, 2025 07:18 AM (qBdHI)
12 11 Is there a big enough barrel to atone for this?
Posted by: Lady in Black at May 09, 2025 07:18 AM (qBdHI)
If there is it would qualify as a vat.Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 09, 2025 07:18 AM (yvnLa)
Posted by: Sturmtoddler at May 09, 2025 07:19 AM (v6XNT)
14 Good morning horde! Happy Friday!Posted by: I used to have a different nic at May 09, 2025 07:19 AM (ExV1e)
15 Blue is the color of Our Lady
Friday is the day of Our Lady.
JJ's Jewish. She's Jewish....
It's a miraculous trifecta!Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 09, 2025 07:21 AM (yvnLa)
16 Title am I going to write now on from. And wardsback speak I shall.Posted by: weft cut-loop at May 09, 2025 07:22 AM (mlg/3)
17 The lapis lazuli was a nice touch.Posted by: Elrond Hubbard at May 09, 2025 07:23 AM (VJc7E)
18 Good morning JJ and horde
TGIFPosted by: Skip at May 09, 2025 07:23 AM (g0YnD)
19 Top 20 even after getting coffee.Posted by: NR Pax at May 09, 2025 07:23 AM (RjOoY)
20 There is not a snowballs chance in hell Roberts retires under Trump.
And 70 is spring chicken in SCOTUS terms.Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 09, 2025 07:25 AM (XV/Pl)
21 I heard yesterday that, in conclave, one of Robert Prevose's jobs was "Secretary to the College of Cardinals". He counted the votes during the voting rounds. They put a guy from Chicago in charge of counting the votes and he got elected?
Its the Chicago way!Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 09, 2025 07:25 AM (eGo5o)
22 Can you add another attribute to the font, like flashing on and off?
Posted by: fd at May 09, 2025 07:17 AM (vFG9F)
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The blink tag never goes out of style!Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 09, 2025 07:25 AM (7fElN)
23 And 70 is spring chicken in SCOTUS terms.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 09, 2025 07:25 AM (XV/Pl)
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And Pope terms...Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 09, 2025 07:26 AM (7fElN)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 09, 2025 07:26 AM (x0n13)
25 Maybe Roberts will be Scalia'd in his sleep.Posted by: Elrond Hubbard at May 09, 2025 07:26 AM (VJc7E)
26 The blink tag never goes out of style!
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 09, 2025 07:25 AM (7fElN)
"Says you. "
-HTML5Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 09, 2025 07:27 AM (yvnLa)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 09, 2025 07:28 AM (x0n13)
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Posted by: Lady in Black at May 09, 2025 07:16 AM (qBdHI)
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I believe you should escape the barrel because you were shocked that someone actually thinks Roberts would willingly give PDJT the choice of his successor!Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 09, 2025 07:30 AM (ZAWJi)
29 An American to be Pope? LOL. Strap in, Catholics.
You might as well hire a cattle rancher to head PETA.Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 09, 2025 07:30 AM (BI5O2)
30 @27
>>Chicago style Pope? Way too Thick crust. Not genuine.
Much like Chicago Pizza is not pizza, Chicago Pope is no Pope.
Where have you gone Pope Benedict, a lonely world turns their eyes to you.Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 09, 2025 07:30 AM (XV/Pl)
31 “ Jesus replied: “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.”
Matthew 22:37-40Posted by: Marcus T at May 09, 2025 07:30 AM (hUAHw)
32 Where Was Democrats’ Outrage When Obama And Biden Deported Illegal Alien Housekeepers And Gardeners?
"But they did it out of love! Trump does it because he's RAYSIS!!"Posted by: NR Pax at May 09, 2025 07:30 AM (RjOoY)
33 The whole dang front page is leaning right.Posted by: fd at May 09, 2025 07:31 AM (vFG9F)
34 Defund the UN, defund Planned Parenthood, defund NPR... been hearing these plaints for decades. No one defunds anything. It wasn't until Elon Musk and DOGE came along that we even examined funding at all.Posted by: Ordinary American at May 09, 2025 07:32 AM (vsTPo)
35 What Is The Point Of Having A GOP Congress?
Clarity. Were the Democrats in the majority, no doubt these weasels (no offense) would vote as we would have them, biding their time while enjoying the fruits of their deceit.
The question becomes whether their unmasking will matter. As someone who is, at least, boomer adjacent, I suspect that it won't until the older generations are a smaller portion of the primary electorate... assuming we make it that long.Posted by: I used to have a different nic at May 09, 2025 07:33 AM (ExV1e)
36 >> Regardless, it is of course up to all of us as individuals to live an upright, moral and righteous life regardless of who our religious and secular leaders may be. — JJ Sefton
That is among the best of the things you’ve ever written JJ, and you’ve written many good things!Posted by: LinusVanPelt at May 09, 2025 07:34 AM (i5Vkf)
37 Ed Martin explained:
"Washington DC, opposition to President Trump is economically and financially based. This is not about ideology; this is about money. There are trillions at stake. K-Street exists for a reason, to bribe and influence the politicians. President Trump does not benefit K-Street, he is focused on Main Street and that is the core of the opposition.
Democrats want power, Republicans want money. Democrats use money to get power; Republicans use power to get money. The policy of democrats determines the donor funding. The donor funding for Republicans determines the policy. This is how the two wings of the UniParty operate."Posted by: Danimal28 at May 09, 2025 07:34 AM (1E4GV)
38 “This is bold, this is gonna be challenging, but we absolutely can do it,” Duffy declared of his plan, which calls for at least six new air traffic control centers replacing 1960s-era facilities; swapping out old-fashioned copper wiring for fiber-optic, wireless and satellite technology at 4,600 locations; and replacing 25,000 radios and more than 600 radar installations.
So, a call for infrastructure spending which might actually be spent on infrastructure?Posted by: I used to have a different nic at May 09, 2025 07:35 AM (ExV1e)
39 "The policy of democrats determines the donor funding. The donor funding for Republicans determines the policy. This is how the two wings of the UniParty operate."
Posted by: Danimal28 "
Damn. That's a good one.Posted by: fd at May 09, 2025 07:35 AM (vFG9F)
40 Sen. Chris Kolker compared concerned parents to the Ku Klux Klan before saying he will be “accountable to almighty God” for “standing up for equality” - especially if he has to defend himself to “trans
Where do they come up with this "trans Jesus " nonsense except their crazy brains?. Jesus was a first century Jewish man. Yes; Christians believe he was God in the flesh, second person of the Trinity, but do these leftists really think that if they were to ask the Jesus of history what his gender was he'd say, "I'm non binary"?. It is egregiously wrong to try to rationalize mutilating kids in such a way. In addition, Nazis experimented on people" and what is transgender surgery but experiments and yet, parents who object to this are Nazis?!!
I'd say this politician has a few personal /mental health issues.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 09, 2025 07:36 AM (KFYce)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 09, 2025 07:37 AM (Q4IgG)
42 This is not about ideology; this is about money... The policy of democrats determines the donor funding.
Posted by: Danimal28 at May 09, 2025 07:34 AM (1E4GV)
Contradiction. It is certainly about ideology. We forget that at our peril.Posted by: Ordinary American at May 09, 2025 07:37 AM (vsTPo)
43 “Nonnas” knows the formula in play and never shies from it. The feisty Nonnas (Lorraine Bracco, Brenda Vaccaro and Talia Shire) know they’re playing stereotypes, but they deliver performances that rise above expectations.[/]
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Sounds line a winner of a movie. It goes on the list.Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 09, 2025 07:37 AM (u/18o)
44 OopsPosted by: Huck Follywood at May 09, 2025 07:37 AM (u/18o)
45 From my new home in the barrel some of my complaints about Thumb Tillis may sound a bit muffled.Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 09, 2025 07:38 AM (u/18o)
46 In before the Italics come back.Posted by: Boss Moss at May 09, 2025 07:39 AM (Vnr18)
47 Chicago Pope?
Could've been worse. Michael Pfleger, Jeremiah Wright or Obama.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 09, 2025 07:26 AM (x0n13)
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MCPA
Make Carmelita Pope Again!Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at May 09, 2025 07:40 AM (UzL96)
48 We just work here.Posted by: The GOP at May 09, 2025 07:40 AM (dg+HA)
49 liberal being a conservative not yet mugged.
Posted by: Fast Eddie Felson at May 09, 2025 07:39 AM (lzynS)
That line is quite true.
It's the Socialist who does the mugging.Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 09, 2025 07:40 AM (yvnLa)
50 Senate Democrat Ruben Gallego ‘About to Knife the Crypto Community’ After Taking $10 Million from Pro-Crypto PAC
This is an awful article which never explains why he changed his stance on the issue. I would assume that it's entirely about opposing Trump, no matter what, but no motive is ever put forward.Posted by: I used to have a different nic at May 09, 2025 07:40 AM (ExV1e)
51 In before the Italics come back.
Posted by: Boss Moss at May 09, 2025 07:39 AM (Vnr1
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"I'll a be a back a!" - Ahnold CorleonePosted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at May 09, 2025 07:41 AM (UzL96)
52 It was revealed last week that President Trump intends to significantly downsize the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), with 1,200 deep-staters reportedly losing their jobs.
Additionally, the National Security Agency (NSA) will lose thousands of jobs as more career bureaucrats hit the unemployment line
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Another great Trump move.Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 09, 2025 07:42 AM (u/18o)
53 They took out the air defense radars in several Paki cities.Posted by: Boss Moss at May 09, 2025 07:42 AM (Vnr18)
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at May 09, 2025 07:42 AM (UzL96)
55 Good morning, J.J.
Good morning, Horde.Posted by: Inogame at May 09, 2025 07:43 AM (53oGX)
56 But Saint Ronnie chose his battles.
Posted by: Fast Eddie Felson at May 09, 2025 07:33 AM (lzynS)
TBF, it was the 80s - we weren't yet in these "pen and phone" times, where each President is just a Temperor, and events whipsaw around the nib of his mighty auto pen.
Back in those days, Reagan had to work against a theretofore permanent Democrat Congressional majority. He did better at that than Nixon or Ford or Eisenhower or Bush Sr.
Or, for that matter, better than Bush Jr. or First Trump did with GOP majorities.Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 09, 2025 07:43 AM (BI5O2)
57 They took out the air defense radars in several Paki cities.
Posted by: Boss Moss at May 09, 2025 07:42 AM (Vnr1
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No problem. They just need to call up tech support in Bangalore.Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at May 09, 2025 07:44 AM (UzL96)
58 So, a call for infrastructure spending which might actually be spent on infrastructure?
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at May 09, 2025 07:35 AM (ExV1e)
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Well saidPosted by: Huck Follywood at May 09, 2025 07:44 AM (u/18o)
59 >> Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 09, 2025 07:36 AM (KFYce)
It’s easy to understand. They bear false witness and corrupt testimony to the teachings of Jesus Christ. What they speak is heresy and antithetical to the Gospels, in fact to the entirety of the Bible. It’s devious and actually meant to lead people away from Jesus by promoting a position that upon even the most pedestrian examination is an abomination and the bleating of apostates. They’ve taken pieces of the Gospel such as Matthew 22 that I’ve posted above and corrupted it to say that love should transcend those living in sin and therefore be acceptable (that living in sin) to all Christians. It’s a deliberate corruption whose purpose can only be to keep people living in sin by seeming to make that sin acceptable to the masses. In end it is both heretical and evil.Posted by: Marcus T at May 09, 2025 07:44 AM (hUAHw)
60 They think they're right too.
Posted by: Fast Eddie Felson at May 09, 2025 07:42 AM (lzynS)
And they are wrong.
It's everyone's duty to not be wrong about that.
What's the disconnect?Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 09, 2025 07:44 AM (yvnLa)
61 California's incarcerated women say 'keep men out of our prison'
I assume they're dead-gendering California's precious criminal transwomen and have all had their sentences extended as a result.Posted by: I used to have a different nic at May 09, 2025 07:44 AM (ExV1e)
62 Chief Justice Roberts, 70, Dismisses Retirement Speculation.
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Did anyone with a beating heart and squiggly matter in their noggin ever think for one second he'd retire under Trump?
Even if he did, we have a whole detestable coterie of Republican senators who would not allow anyone other than a justice of equal squish to be appointed.
Posted by: Lady in Black at May 09, 2025 07:16 AM (qBdHI)
but could you imagine Chief Justice Thomas?
the wailing and rending of garments would be glorious...Posted by: Sturmtoddler at May 09, 2025 07:45 AM (v6XNT)
63 Stories coming out of a fascinating “dogfight” in the India - Pakistan war, reportedly over 125 aircraft involved; with the twist that they fought while being about 100 miles apart, with both sides firing large numbers of long range missiles at each other. India apparently took some significant losses, and the French are upset that a new Rafale has been lost, for the first time.Posted by: Tom Servo at May 09, 2025 07:45 AM (S+5p3)
64 JJ, if you're still around, you missed a close tag in the 1st Amendment section.Posted by: I used to have a different nic at May 09, 2025 07:46 AM (ExV1e)
65 This concept I keep trying to explain gets really old."
Then stop explaining it, "Eddie" and maybe you won't be so tired.Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 09, 2025 07:46 AM (KFYce)
66 The GOP is all about identity politics. That's it. They have no platform, no ideology that conservatives would recognize. They're a name brand that resonates. Like Bud Light, Ford or Boeing.
Which color do you prefer? Red or blue?
There's zero substance behind the moniker; "Republican"
We think it's a choice but it's the same shit as the Democrats... packaged differently.Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 09, 2025 07:47 AM (Q4IgG)
Posted by: Automobile Club of America at May 09, 2025 07:47 AM (G5+As)
68 The ideological battleground is going to be the border and Prevost has been chosen to lead the response in the largest sense possible.
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Perhaps I'm being incredibly obtuse, but why does no one, here being the new Pope, ever advocate for pouring $$, resources, and other assorted kinds of assistance into helping all these countries flourish so everyone there doesn't feel the need to stuff themselves into a handful of places on this planet? The only answer always seems to be to crush every western country with mass immigration until those countries start becoming just as unstable. It's obvious it's become, and is being used, as a political cudgel. Bringing everyone here isn't the answer. But it's the only one we ever get.
Posted by: Lady in Black at May 09, 2025 07:48 AM (qBdHI)
69 I heard yesterday that, in conclave, one of Robert Prevose's jobs was "Secretary to the College of Cardinals". He counted the votes during the voting rounds. They put a guy from Chicago in charge of counting the votes and he got elected?
The Cardinals who appeared when he was announced were all smiles and laughter so I suspect his election was legit.Posted by: I used to have a different nic at May 09, 2025 07:48 AM (ExV1e)
70 Willowed:
...Scroll down the list and see how many modern names are there. And this is simple information that could easily be scraped from IMDB or the like just from movie dates.
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I wonder if "from the 1950s" is being interpreted as "from the 1950s to the present time"? Try rewording? Say, "whose floruit was in the decade of the 1950s"?
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Which makes the point. Its big parlor trick is "natural language", but the algorithm is unable to make the computers understand language.Posted by: Boron Cobbie - You're pretty when you dress feminine. Men like to see ladies dressed up. at May 09, 2025 07:49 AM (/wLGm)
71 designated “judges and the judiciary [as] a co-equal branch of government, separate from the others, with the authority to interpret the Constitution … and strike down, obviously, acts of Congress or acts of the president.” "it's job is to..... check the excesses of Congress or the executive.
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This is the man that tor YEARS we were told wants his hands off telling Congress or the President what to do, not because they were leftist, but because of his precious legacy and respect of the Court that wants to just leave the rest of the government alone to do its thing even if it's overreaching. This is the bullshit we were sold for his allowing of ObamaCare.
Now he says he has the power to "strike down" the other two branches and therefore has to use it "independently". Jiminy the everloving fuck if I have to ever hear one more word about his stupid fake bs worrying about "legacy" to justify his constant stream of leftardism, I'm gonna shit.Posted by: ... at May 09, 2025 07:49 AM (gt60b)
72 Bullshit. Reagan created EMTALA with his pen and phone. Nobody made him.
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Well, I suppose if you consider EMTALA to be the critical issue of the Reagan Presidency, then sure - he was a terrible President.
I get that you hate boomers and that Reagan is somewhat over hyped by them.
But he was a man of his time, and he did pretty well for it.Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 09, 2025 07:50 AM (BI5O2)
73 They want to make sure, as a generation, that things stay the way they wish even after they're dead. Why ? You fucking tell me.
I would assume it's because they believe they're correct. Why do you want to change the way things are even while they're still alive?Posted by: I used to have a different nic at May 09, 2025 07:50 AM (ExV1e)
74 I heard yesterday that, in conclave, one of Robert Prevose's jobs was "Secretary to the College of Cardinals". He counted the votes during the voting rounds. They put a guy from Chicago in charge of counting the votes and he got elected?
Its the Chicago way!
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Perhaps simply his Daley prayers were answered.Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at May 09, 2025 07:50 AM (UzL96)
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at May 09, 2025 07:50 AM (/Ghsb)
76 On 10 May, an uncontrolled reentry will take place of the so-called Cosmos-482 descent craft, a Soviet Venera landing capsule that launched 53 years ago.
The landing module could reach the surface of Earth in one piece instead of breaking and burning up.
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Wait... what?! Tomorrow, the Russians are bombing from space?Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 09, 2025 07:51 AM (tZeM/)
77 If they wanted a Deep State Pope from Chitown I was available! This ain't the way I wanted it! I can handle things! I'm smart! Not like everybody says... like gay and dumb... I'm smart and I want respect!
I'm kissed democrat asses for years and I was stepped over!Posted by: Father Mike Pfleger, Sexual Predator at May 09, 2025 07:51 AM (imQ+3)
Posted by: no one of any consequence at May 09, 2025 07:52 AM (ZmEVT)
79 and strike down, obviously,
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"Obviously"
What a sanctimonious clown.
Fine. You OBVIOUSLY have the super-power of being extra-equal.
Where do citizens go to appeal your decisions?
Go ahead. Tell us.Posted by: Boron Cobbie - You're pretty when you dress feminine. Men like to see ladies dressed up. at May 09, 2025 07:52 AM (/wLGm)
80 People here really seem to try not to get it. They think what they are doing is "right". For all the same motivations you people here believe you are "right".
Their morals are just counter to yours.
Posted by: Fast Eddie Felson at May 09, 2025 07:49 AM (lzynS)
Oh. Well, People Here is just a jerk. We all know that. No one even likes that guy.Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 09, 2025 07:52 AM (yvnLa)
81 Try rewording? Say, "whose floruit was in the decade of the 1950s"?
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Let me try!
"Whose fluoride was in the decay of the 1950s?"Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at May 09, 2025 07:53 AM (UzL96)
Posted by: no one of any consequence at May 09, 2025 07:53 AM (ZmEVT)
Posted by: one hour sober at May 09, 2025 07:53 AM (Y1sOo)
84 DibsPosted by: People Here at May 09, 2025 07:53 AM (/wLGm)
85 Chicago Style Pizza = Manhole Cover with too much saucePosted by: Life of Wryly at May 09, 2025 07:54 AM (1FWWQ)
86 "Perhaps simply his Daley prayers were answered."
Threadwinner!
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Thank you! Thank you! I accept the award from no one of any consequence.Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at May 09, 2025 07:54 AM (UzL96)
87 So, "Republican" Pope Bob is an open borders guy and Never Trumper, eh?
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That's not the Bob Pope we've all come to know:
https://youtu.be/4a6YdNmK77kPosted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at May 09, 2025 07:56 AM (UzL96)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 09, 2025 07:57 AM (KFYce)
89 Perhaps I'm being incredibly obtuse, but why does no one, here being the new Pope, ever advocate for pouring $$, resources, and other assorted kinds of assistance into helping all these countries flourish so everyone there doesn't feel the need to stuff themselves into a handful of places on this planet? The only answer always seems to be to crush every western country with mass immigration until those countries start becoming just as unstable. It's obvious it's become, and is being used, as a political cudgel. Bringing everyone here isn't the answer. But it's the only one we ever get.
Posted by: Lady in Black at May 09, 2025 07:48 AM (qBdHI)
Western countries shovel money out the door to the "needy" with no expectation that they'll ever do anything to improve their situation. No matter how much you improve CountryX, it'll never be better than "Money For Nothing".Posted by: I used to have a different nic at May 09, 2025 07:57 AM (ExV1e)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 09, 2025 07:58 AM (KFYce)
91 People here think that all lEOs*, laws, regulations, and bills should have a five year sunset by default. If they're important enough to renew they can be renewed.
* Technically people here think that EOs shouldn't have any power over free citizens and should only apply to government employees, but you get the point.Posted by: People Here at May 09, 2025 07:58 AM (/wLGm)
92 But we DO have a national religion.
Recycling.
Go into any neighborhood of single family homes for seven consecutive days. On one of those days you'll see the sacrifices set out on the altar of the curb.
There is religious adherence.
There are established rules of righteousness.
And there is no recompense for the service rendered.
We freely sacrifice our time and energy in the name of some greater good that will somehow benefit all of mankind.
The holiest of our tribe even serve penance by washing our garbage.Posted by: Quarter Twenty at May 09, 2025 07:59 AM (dg+HA)
93 Perhaps that new Pope will reinstitute the punishment proscribed in the Bible
A fine of 2 shekels, less than an ounce of silver.Posted by: Aliassmithsmith at May 09, 2025 08:00 AM (RcGgb)
94 Are we doing the generation wars again? Instead of that, lets refight the civil war. That one is always fun!Posted by: Kwak! at May 09, 2025 08:00 AM (89Sog)
95 We were in Rome.
Everybody had matching cassocks.
Somebody went under the drapes.
And there they saw a Pope.
It wasn't a Pope.
Was a Pope Lobster!Posted by: The B52's at May 09, 2025 08:00 AM (PAPHZ)
Posted by: no one of any consequence at May 09, 2025 08:01 AM (ZmEVT)
97
TX-288 Entrance Ramp Status: Not open.
At least Her Majesty talked to a worker about it as she drove by. Turns out that TXDOT won't let them open the ramp because it lacks a main lane sign. Estimated date of opening: not known.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 09, 2025 08:01 AM (QnmlO)
98 >>Another great Trump move.
Also pretty much the exact reason they took out Gen. Flynn at the start of Trump's first term.
All of this talk about generations at war with each other is dumb and misses the point entirely. People in power will hold on to it as long as possible, right into the grave. This has been going on since the dawn of time, long before boomers came along. Yes, there was a time before boomers when shit went wrong.
There is the DC we see and the one we don't. The one we don't has largely been running the country for decades. Some of the people we elect are part of that shadow government of intel, NGOs and non-profits that they've been funding with billions of our tax dollars for years. It's not about boomers v gen whatever or even D v R. It's rich, powerful people wanting more money and power.Posted by: JackStraw at May 09, 2025 08:01 AM (viF8m)
99 Hopefully the prognosticators will be proven wrong on the new Pope. I don’t see a lot consistent with his background and actual works that leads me to believe he will be unfaithful to the Gospels. He seems to be very adept at listening and ecclesiastically reaching good decisions to guide the flock. People thirst for the conservative values of the faith that directly reflect the text of the gospels. Francis did a lot of damage with his attempts to “modernize” the church and doctrine. His departures were actually stunning. Pretty sure we’re not going to see that again. The cardinals are well aware of what the parishioners are saying.Posted by: Marcus T at May 09, 2025 08:01 AM (hUAHw)
100 But we DO have a national religion.
Recycling.
Go into any neighborhood of single family homes for seven consecutive days. On one of those days you'll see the sacrifices set out on the altar of the curb.
There is religious adherence.
There are established rules of righteousness.
And there is no recompense for the service rendered.
We freely sacrifice our time and energy in the name of some greater good that will somehow benefit all of mankind.
The holiest of our tribe even serve penance by washing our garbage.
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And our blessed reward?
Microplastics in our water supplies and children's brains and reproductive organs from pointlessly shredding bottles to "save" precisely nothing.
(part of me is beginning to lean towards that being the point all along)Posted by: People Here at May 09, 2025 08:01 AM (/wLGm)
101 Morning allPosted by: rickb223 at May 09, 2025 08:02 AM (y6oPX)
102 Even the Pope is now Made in AmericaPosted by: Ignoramus at May 09, 2025 08:02 AM (Gqoy+)
103 Because I'm tired of them tilting everything toward the obvious goal of sucking everything dry until they die ... then being arrogant enough to insist that write rules that last after their death.
So... you are the same as those you criticize but with a different perspective. Interesting that you accuse others of blindness on this with regard to the morality issue.Posted by: I used to have a different nic at May 09, 2025 08:02 AM (ExV1e)
104 "There is no right and wrong" is very prepubsecent thinking. There is a right and a wrong. It's not just about telling people what to do or not.Posted by: ... at May 09, 2025 08:04 AM (gt60b)
105 JJ, the link for "What Trump Needs In His Next NatSec" is broken, it leads in circular fashion right back here.
Thank you in advance for fixing!
Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 09, 2025 08:05 AM (l2PRJ)
106 Western countries shovel money out the door to the "needy" with no expectation that they'll ever do anything to improve their situation.
I remember about a year or two ago, there were a lot of people bleating about Elon buying Twitter about how "He could solve world hunger with that kind of money!"
So he took them up on their offer. A lot of NGOs were salivating over the sweet, sweet Elon bucks they were going to get.
And then he said "But I control where the money is going to be spent." Just like magic, world hunger wasn't a problem any more.Posted by: NR Pax at May 09, 2025 08:06 AM (RjOoY)
107 Go into any neighborhood of single family homes for seven consecutive days. On one of those days you'll see the sacrifices set out on the altar of the curb.
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No neighborhood in my vicinity in upstate SC does this. No sacrifice bins set out by the curb. We're heathens.Posted by: Lady in Black at May 09, 2025 08:06 AM (qBdHI)
108 We freely sacrifice our time and energy in the name of some greater good that will somehow benefit all of mankind.
The holiest of our tribe even serve penance by washing our garbage.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at May 09, 2025 07:59 AM (dg+HA)
Correct! I was at a relative house and I placed my empty beer can in the garbage can. Holy shit! Much admonishment and horror as the idiot relative removed the can and placed it in the "recycling" bin. Having worked in garbage, I tried to explain to the idiot relative that there is no need to separate anything as it all goes to the same dump/incinerator to be picked over by illegal invaders for any goodies. Nope, the cult was having none of it. So before I left I shit in his guest bathroom and didn't flush. Figured I was saving the idiot relative water to be used a few more times to save the earth.Posted by: Waste Mangement Guy at May 09, 2025 08:06 AM (imQ+3)
109
I heard yesterday that, in conclave, one of Robert Prevose's jobs was "Secretary to the College of Cardinals". He counted the votes during the voting rounds. They put a guy from Chicago in charge of counting the votes and he got elected?
The votes are counted by three cardinals, called scrutators, chosen by lot. The votes are then checked by three other cardinals, called revisors, also chosen by lot.
Before the ballots are examined, they're counted to make sure that the number matches how many cardinals are present. If there's a discrepancy, they have to vote all over again. As the scrutators examine each ballot, one after another, the last scrutator announces who it's for. So it's about as honest as you can get.Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 09, 2025 08:07 AM (QnmlO)
110
On Wednesday, nearly 80 protesters were arrested after storming Columbia University’s Butler Library in New York City. The demonstrators, many of whom were masked and wearing kaffiyehs, disrupted students preparing for exams, defaced property, and declared the library a “liberated zone” in support of 'Palestinian' activism.
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I like that the little bastards were locked inside the library, and only let out to be arrested. "Now youse can't leave."Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at May 09, 2025 08:07 AM (uz6ub)
111 115 JJ, the link for "What Trump Needs In His Next NatSec" is broken, it leads in circular fashion right back here.
Thank you in advance for fixing!
Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 09, 2025 08:05 AM (l2PRJ)
LINK IS FIXED!Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 09, 2025 08:08 AM (x0n13)
112 This just in:
India says it now intends to target Pakistan's 3 largest cities.
London, Manchester, and Liverpool are currently being evacuated.Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at May 09, 2025 08:08 AM (UzL96)
113 Posted by: Marcus T at May 09, 2025 08:01 AM (hUAHw)
My worry is that we're looking at a guy who came up through the ranks in America - it's not a place where you can advance that far in a major institution without being corrupt down to the marrow of your bones.
I think the demon will emerge from the skinsuit soon enough. I know my country too well to figure otherwise.
But, time will tell, of course. I just wouldn't be too sanguine about the future of the Church with one of ours in charge.Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 09, 2025 08:08 AM (BI5O2)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 09, 2025 08:09 AM (x0n13)
115 Good morning everyone, thx JJ. Getting up to 2 inches of rain today. On top of a couple inches over the last week. Floods r us .
Supposed to be a decent weekend , though the course will be wet as a swampPosted by: Smell the Glove at May 09, 2025 08:09 AM (vmkyp)
116 Take a vacation, "Eddie " , and do something you enjoy without internet access. You work hard. You deserve it Fishing? Hiking? Lying a beach ?Visiting Historic sites ? this tilting against Boomers and Silents and repeatedly telling "people here" that they don't get it must be exhausting. Oh, yes, have a good day.
See some of you folks later maybePosted by: FenelonSpoke at May 09, 2025 08:09 AM (KFYce)
117 @76
>>Which makes the point. Its big parlor trick is "natural language", but the algorithm is unable to make the computers understand language.
I don't how you're phrasing the question but for me it produces a list broken out into Leading Men, Leading Women, Comedic Stars, Western and Action Stars, Character Actors, International Stars, Emerging Young Stars, Musical Stars, and not a single person on the list is modern and is appropriate for the time.
It also asks the following questions:
Would you like this list sorted by genre, popularity, or filmography highlights?
Provide a timeline of key 1950's films starring these actors?
Provide detailed analysis of acting styles?
Compare the evolution of leading men and leading women to stars of today.
As stated in the tech thread, the output something like ChatGPT can produce is very impressive, very tailored and very portable.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 09, 2025 08:10 AM (XV/Pl)
118 Muslims in Africa...
About a year or so ago there was a dust up in Niger between the US and the local government over an American anti-terror base there. We were flying MQ-9 "Reaper" drones out of it. Their mission was to monitor Islamic terrorists who were infiltrating governments in central Africa, and, monitor Russian and Chinese movements in the area too.
There's a connection between the US being shoved out of Central Africa and the rise of militant Islam there. I think the Chinese had a hand in it. The violence against Christians in Africa is a biproduct of letting the Chinese establish a foothold there.
Not that the Muslims already there weren't a problem decades ago.... but they'd been kept in check by the US presence. That's not the case anymore.Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 09, 2025 08:10 AM (Q4IgG)
119 I'm a Catholic, cradle to grave. Just like 2016 and the hand wringing and projections about PDT being unfit as President I'm getting the same vibe on Pope Leo. Like 2016 I'm taking a break from all sites that reference his ascension to the papacy since the constant speculation is useless. Unlike PDT he has zero control of what we do in the US vis a vis our border and anything else that's decided by the President, Congress or our judiciary. Any Pope can spout off to his heart's content on any subject, however it changes nothing politically. Even if the Catholic faithful listen to his political musings the reality of what's happening here at home will influence them more. By the way even my staunch conservative pastor views immigration differently then I do which isn't unusual with Catholic priests. I've learned to accept it and vote based on what's good for the country.Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at May 09, 2025 08:10 AM (2NHgQ)
120 Just got a new texting scam on my phone.
If I don't hurry up and claim my grant RIGHT NOW, it's going to go to another family who might benefit...
What to do, what to do....Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 09, 2025 08:11 AM (7fElN)
121 68 Stories coming out of a fascinating “dogfight” in the India - Pakistan war, reportedly over 125 aircraft involved; with the twist that they fought while being about 100 miles apart, with both sides firing large numbers of long range missiles at each other. India apparently took some significant losses, and the French are upset that a new Rafale has been lost, for the first time.
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Better not put any on the Truman, then.Posted by: Cray Cray at May 09, 2025 08:11 AM (EES2L)
122 I like that the little bastards were locked inside the library, and only let out to be arrested. "Now youse can't leave."
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They needed some Dog Day Afternoon treatment. Turn off electricity and the heating/air. Is James Broderick or Charles Durning available for negotiations?Posted by: Lady in Black at May 09, 2025 08:11 AM (qBdHI)
123 The last Pope seemed pretty adamant that America exists to save South American Catholics from Catholicism. Seems the new one thinks likewise.Posted by: Pudinhead at May 09, 2025 08:11 AM (pZ64F)
124 London to face Blitz 2.0.Posted by: Boss Moss at May 09, 2025 08:11 AM (Vnr18)
Posted by: ... at May 09, 2025 08:11 AM (gt60b)
126 The votes are counted by three cardinals, called scrutators,
"Scrutators"? We have needed that word!Posted by: t-bird at May 09, 2025 08:12 AM (KtPtl)
127 Recycling?
I am a heretic. Only aluminum cans have any value. Everything else is garbage.
Posted by: no one of any consequence
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I submit that they don't. Not at the individual level. At the corporate level with large groups of people and a controlled environment requiring one weekly or monthly trip by one truck? Yes, probably. Large pieces of scrap from companies is of course efficient
But an individual setting out out washed cans (resources/energy, from here on RE) in large bins (RE) for a truck (energy) to drive by (RE) every so often in order to operate equipment (RE) to collect and transport (RE) to unload (RE) on roads (RE) in order to be collected (RE) and moved elsewhere (RE)? No, almost certainly not. Not in the big scheme.
And that's not even counting individuals (RE) transporting (RE) metal to the local facility. I bet every family you know can tell about a flat tire (RE) after a visit (RE), and it likely, and wisely, ended the practice.
The better approach would likely be dumping them in a big unwashed pile for companies to bid on or for future technology to efficiently recycle them when they're needed.
(plastics/microplastics in coke can liners BTW)Posted by: Boron Cobbie -Women, you're pretty in feminine dresses and men like seeing you dressed up at May 09, 2025 08:12 AM (yZCmg)
128 Does the new Pope have a Peruvian Flute Band?Posted by: Boss Moss at May 09, 2025 08:12 AM (Vnr18)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 09, 2025 08:13 AM (x0n13)
130 "Hopefully the prognosticators will be proven wrong.
That word just sounds filthy. Like the "editors" of swank invented it.Posted by: Kwak! at May 09, 2025 08:13 AM (89Sog)
131 the French are upset that a new Rafale has been lost, for the first time.
Did the Indians void their warranty by using it in battle?Posted by: t-bird at May 09, 2025 08:13 AM (qLZZ/)
132 "Which makes the point. Its big parlor trick is "natural language", but the algorithm is unable to make the computers understand language.
Posted by: Boron Cobbie"
AI corrupts search results. I would prefer to have a straight up logic based search engine uninfluenced by opinion or advertising.Posted by: fd at May 09, 2025 08:13 AM (vFG9F)
133 If I were living in the PRC, I'd be pretty damned skeptical about a Pope from Shanghai, too.
Powerful men in regimes like ours have strings attached, by necessity.Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 09, 2025 08:13 AM (BI5O2)
134 Scrutator...now there's a word one could have fun with!Posted by: Lady in Black at May 09, 2025 08:13 AM (qBdHI)
135 Whoops, used "energy" instead of RE after noting the manufacture, upkeep, fuel, tires, brake pads, oil and other fluids, etc. of the truck. Hopefully it was still understood.Posted by: Boron Cobbie -Women, you're pretty in feminine dresses and men like seeing you dressed up at May 09, 2025 08:13 AM (yZCmg)
136 140 Does the new Pope have a Peruvian Flute Band?
Posted by: Boss Moss at May 09, 2025 08:12 AM (Vnr1
I'd rather be a hammer than a sickle . . . Call me fickle...Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 09, 2025 08:14 AM (x0n13)
137 Not that the Muslims already there weren't a problem decades ago.... but they'd been kept in check by the US presence. That's not the case anymore.
Posted by: Martini Farmer
Hmmmmm. Muslim vs. Chinese?Posted by: rickb223 at May 09, 2025 08:14 AM (y6oPX)
138 Did they try to reboot the Rafale or did it surrender?Posted by: Boss Moss at May 09, 2025 08:14 AM (Vnr18)
139 The holiest of our tribe even serve penance by washing our garbage.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty
I burned all my flammable trash the other day. I don't burn plastic bottles and such, those I bring to the transfer station myself, not segregated from garbage. Amazon boxes, packing materials, all paper-up in flames! I need to burn the pine cones and straw that falls from my neighbors trees, anyway.
One of Bud Anderson's chores on Father Knows Best was to burn the garbage.Posted by: Fire Pit Fred at May 09, 2025 08:15 AM (G5+As)
140 the French are upset that a new Rafale has been lost, for the first time.
Did the Indians void their warranty by using it in battle?
Posted by: t-bird
Hella mad because they didn't drop it first.Posted by: rickb223 at May 09, 2025 08:16 AM (y6oPX)
141 "the French are upset that a new Rafale has been lost, for the first time."
Hello! We have been trying to reach about your aircrafts extended warranty. Please to verify make and model!Posted by: Kwak! at May 09, 2025 08:16 AM (89Sog)
142 Stories coming out of a fascinating “dogfight” in the India - Pakistan war, reportedly over 125 aircraft involved; with the twist that they fought while being about 100 miles apart, with both sides firing large numbers of long range missiles at each other. India apparently took some significant losses
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India... That's where our smart H1Bs that can do big brain stuff Americans can't do come from, right?
Seems like fighter pilots as a group would have to be smarter and overall more capable than our H1Bs.
Wait a minute...Posted by: Boron Cobbie -Women, you're pretty in feminine dresses and men like seeing you dressed up at May 09, 2025 08:17 AM (yZCmg)
143 Prognosticators to the left of us, scrutators to the right...here we are, stuck in the middle with Muldoon!Posted by: Quarter Twenty at May 09, 2025 08:18 AM (dg+HA)
144 I burned all my flammable trash the other day. I don't burn plastic bottles and such, those I bring to the transfer station myself, not segregated from garbage
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I stayed for a little while next to a really weird family of retarded people. I had assumed consanguinity was to blame at first.
Then I noticed that these people would put lots of plastic in their burn pit along with literally anything else - aerosol cans, whatever - and then just hang out and drink beer in the oily cloud of toxic smoke, and it all came together.Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 09, 2025 08:18 AM (BI5O2)
145 Microplastics. That seems to be the new thing. One of the fitters I worked with talked Microplastics.
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Assuming it wasn't intentional in the push for population control:
It's the next push for environmental control and bans. Car tires specifically.Posted by: Boron Cobbie -Women, you're pretty in feminine dresses and men like seeing you dressed up at May 09, 2025 08:19 AM (yZCmg)
146 Tensions are now about to reach a boiling point. No demon that was ever foaled is or was as perilous for Canadian unity as Mark Carney, except perhaps for Pierre Elliott Trudeau, whose 1980 National Energy Program (NEP), as noted, critically depressed Alberta’s economy. Carney is demonstrably bad news for the prairie West, and the spirit of independence is now circulating in Alberta and Saskatchewan.
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What's left of Canada's natural wealth and economy without the powerful western engines, Alberta and Saskatchewan? Not much.Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 09, 2025 08:19 AM (bRHEL)
147 I'm happy for my Catholic friends that they have a new Pope. A time of hope and a time of prayer. I'm disappointed that contrary to the sign at Wrigley Field, Pope Bob is apparently not a Cubs fan, but a White Sox fan. Who in the world wants to be a Sox fan? I've never met one.Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at May 09, 2025 08:21 AM (SfhV1)
148 What Is The Point Of Having A GOP Congress?
The Deep State has the full treasury to bribe office holders with
The Deep State has the full nat sec establishment to find any skeletons in an office holder's closet
The Deep State has the full FNM to slander and libel an office holder
So in some senses it is a wonder we have any office holders that aren't just cut outs for the Deep StatePosted by: 18-1 at May 09, 2025 08:21 AM (t0Rmr)
149 I have a hunch that "microplastics" have always existed, and predate humanity.Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 09, 2025 08:21 AM (yvnLa)
150 Don't take Consanguinity if you're allergic to Consanguinity.Posted by: The Marketing Department at May 09, 2025 08:21 AM (dg+HA)
151 Bless you JJ. Such great commentary about the new Pope. Being in the Chicago area, the media of course is more into him being a White sox fan. I will give him a chance to break away from Francis, but he was selected because the Vatican is broke. Leo will fill the American collection platesPosted by: Jonah at May 09, 2025 08:22 AM (YCxFk)
152 Compare and contrast:
Pakistan - mixture of US and Chinese warplanes
India - mixture of European and Russian warplanesPosted by: Martini Farmer at May 09, 2025 08:23 AM (Q4IgG)
153 While there are certain things that are potentially good about Pope Bob, ie statement on LGBT being against gospel, his helping Frankie isn't good. Let's see him try and deal with the corruption in the Vaticans finances , as that will tell you if he's another FrankiePosted by: Smell the Glove at May 09, 2025 08:24 AM (vmkyp)
154 Obama was a White Sox fan. Made many visits to "Cominskey Field".Posted by: Man's Country More Like It at May 09, 2025 08:25 AM (G5+As)
155 I've yet to see a standardized definition of what constitutes a microplastic.
If you really want to be a dick about it, ethane gas would count.Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 09, 2025 08:25 AM (yvnLa)
156 What Is The Point Of Having A GOP Congress?
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Same as the point of having a Pope these days.Posted by: ... at May 09, 2025 08:25 AM (gt60b)
157 Trump took office on Jan 20. Less than 4 months. He has done amazing work so far. Trump does what no GOP Prez has done before, he brings the Deep State and its cronies in both parties out into the sunlight. A guy like McConnell or Tillis would have been protected in the past.Posted by: Jonah at May 09, 2025 08:25 AM (YCxFk)
158 India says it now intends to target Pakistan's 3 largest cities.
London, Manchester, and Liverpool are currently being evacuated.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at May 09, 2025 08:08 AM (UzL96)
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BD is working his stand up routine this morning, and I'm loving it.Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 09, 2025 08:25 AM (eGo5o)
159 I'm happy for my Catholic friends that they have a new Pope. A time of hope and a time of prayer. I'm disappointed that contrary to the sign at Wrigley Field, Pope Bob is apparently not a Cubs fan, but a White Sox fan. Who in the world wants to be a Sox fan? I've never met one.
Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at May 09, 2025 08:21 AM (SfhV1)
He might be a thin crust fan too...so many unknowns about this man !Posted by: runner at May 09, 2025 08:26 AM (g47mK)
160 Pope is Leonardo. India flies Raphels. Ninja Turtles.Posted by: Boss Moss at May 09, 2025 08:26 AM (Vnr18)
161 GOP Senate is only good for Judges, sadlyPosted by: Jonah at May 09, 2025 08:26 AM (YCxFk)
162 A friend of mine wondered at the long-term wisdom of bottling billions (with a B) of gallons of water from particular areas and shipping it to other areas where it shouldn't be. It's an interesting thing to ponder.Posted by: Boron Cobbie -Women, you're pretty in feminine dresses and men like seeing you dressed up at May 09, 2025 08:26 AM (yZCmg)
163 It's not a mystery. Its just Boomers / Silents insisting, while they are in power, that they exercise that power even after their death.
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It was ok to destroy the economy when Boomers/Silents thought they were going to die from a virus with 99% survivability that didn't affect the young.
And it's ok to destroy the rule of law, all norms and customs, when Boomers/Silents think they are losing power.
"But Trump said pussy!"
Is it any wonder why Gen X, their children, were the only demographic that voted for Trump?Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 09, 2025 08:27 AM (sMW+k)
164 I've yet to see a standardized definition of what constitutes a microplastic.
If you really want to be a dick about it, ethane gas would count.
Posted by: Warai-otoko
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I suspect that's the point. It can be made much more immediately dangerous than Global Warming, but remain similarly invisible.Posted by: Boron Cobbie -Women, you're pretty in feminine dresses and men like seeing you dressed up at May 09, 2025 08:27 AM (yZCmg)
165 The new pope coming out wearing the customary red mozzetta (cape) is not a sign that he is a traditionalist; it is a costume to placate potential critics, nothing more. He is Francis 2.0Posted by: Frankie at May 09, 2025 08:28 AM (O3qZY)
166 Morning Grammie. Been a Cubs fan all my life. White sox park is such a dump. Dangerous at night etc... Why?Posted by: Jonah at May 09, 2025 08:28 AM (YCxFk)
167 Mornin’, All. Happy Friday.Posted by: Bulg at May 09, 2025 08:29 AM (77rzZ)
168 Mozzarella?Posted by: Boss Moss at May 09, 2025 08:29 AM (Vnr18)
169 > Is it any wonder why Gen X, their children, were the only demographic that voted for Trump?
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice
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Wut?Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 09, 2025 08:29 AM (Q4IgG)
170 The new Pope didn't tweet once in 2024. In 2025, he's posted 5 times, in which he:
Criticized JD Vance's views on Catholicism and Jesus; Posted an article opposing Trump's immigration policies; Retweeted twice about the Pope's health;R etweeted a criticism of Trump & Bukele's laughter at KAG.
I wonder how soon he’ll be attacked by the MAGA mind-hive.
He's reputed to be more of a moderate. Time will tell. We definitely could have done much worse. Of course, even a “real” moderate is too far left for MAGA
Anyone who isn't to the right of a Death Eater is a "liberal" to MAGA.
At least we didn't get the Hungarian. That would have been a REAL step back
The best part? Trump has now been demoted to being the second-highest ranking American in the world and that will bug him a lot.
Perhaps he will be able to rein in the reich-wing US church. He sure has to be better than the last pope from an English speaking country, that's for sure.
Even if he's a leftish for a pope, he'll still be:
*anti women's equality
*anti reproductive health
*anti queer
*anti trans
*anti divorce
The Church is backwards.Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at May 09, 2025 08:29 AM (GNjcL)
171 I don’t get the pic up top.Posted by: Bulg at May 09, 2025 08:30 AM (77rzZ)
172 Vatican is broke. Francis RIP, lost many perishoners when he allowed audience with scum like Bernie Sanders and Pelosi.
Americans and Gays have money. See the patternPosted by: Jonah at May 09, 2025 08:30 AM (YCxFk)
173 Coming out wearing a mozzetta is cheesy.Posted by: Boss Moss at May 09, 2025 08:30 AM (Vnr18)
174 I see Pope Bob went all in on the "kids in cages" thing during Trump's first term.
If I had photoshopping skillz, I'd take the AOC meme of her crying by a fence and swap in Pope Bob.Posted by: one hour sober at May 09, 2025 08:30 AM (Y1sOo)
175 Thom Tillis is getting ratioed for this tweet. I pray he gets primaried with a winning candidate.
Senator Thom Tillis
@SenThomTillis
Jeanine Pirro has had a long and storied career as a prosecutor and she is a great choice by
@POTUS
to serve as U.S. Attorney for DC!
MrDirt
@MrDirt66
Shit backfired on you dude. Now we got Ed investigating jan6 and judge Jeannie in DC arresting swamp critters. FAFOPosted by: redridinghood at May 09, 2025 08:32 AM (NpAcC)
176 White sox park is such a dump. Dangerous at night etc... Why?
Posted by: Jonah at May 09, 2025 08:28 AM (YCxFk)
I went there once. I was scared the whole time.Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at May 09, 2025 08:32 AM (SfhV1)
177 Perhaps he will be able to rein in the reich-wing US church. He sure has to be better than the last pope from an English speaking country, that's for sure.
Ummm... what the hell??Posted by: dantesed at May 09, 2025 08:33 AM (Oy/m2)
178
The new american Pontiff, Cletus I, faces immediate allegations of protecting priestly kiddie diddlers in the usual fashion, i e. stealth reassignment of the perpetrator and a sincere belief that handling the matter internally within the church hierarchy obviates any need or obligation to report the incidents to law enforcement.
Looks like we got ourselves -- a convoy.Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at May 09, 2025 08:34 AM (uz6ub)
179 40 “This is bold, this is gonna be challenging, but we absolutely can do it,” Duffy declared of his plan, which calls for at least six new air traffic control centers replacing 1960s-era facilities; swapping out old-fashioned copper wiring for fiber-optic, wireless and satellite technology at 4,600 locations; and replacing 25,000 radios and more than 600 radar installations.
So, a call for infrastructure spending which might actually be spent on infrastructure?
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at May 09, 2025 07:35 AM (ExV1e)
One of the challenges, perhaps the largest, will be to install and test all the new radars, ATC consoles and supporting systems, and cabling at each location, without closing the airport for days and days. The upgrades must be done, though, whatever the short-term operational disruptions. Choice of the contractors is critical to success. No stodgy DoD-wedded corporations, thank you.Posted by: Gref at May 09, 2025 08:35 AM (aBgBM)
180 "Which makes the point. Its big parlor trick is "natural language", but the algorithm is unable to make the computers understand language.
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AI corrupts search results. I would prefer to have a straight up logic based search engine uninfluenced by opinion or advertising.
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Well sure, but then you might learn things or find information you're looking for.Posted by: Boron Cobbie -Women, you're pretty in feminine dresses and men like seeing you dressed up at May 09, 2025 08:37 AM (yZCmg)
181 “This is bold, this is gonna be challenging, but we absolutely can do it,” Duffy declared of his plan
I like him. He seems so earnest.Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at May 09, 2025 08:37 AM (SfhV1)
182 Red velvet cake >> red mozzarella cheese.Posted by: Food nerd at May 09, 2025 08:37 AM (dg+HA)
183 Chicago "Deep Dish" should be outlawed. Pizzas are round and thin. Some things are not up for debate. Pope Bob can go squeeze a breeze.Posted by: City Of Scum And Villainy at May 09, 2025 08:38 AM (G5+As)
184 >>Is it any wonder why Gen X, their children, were the only demographic that voted for Trump?
Alexander Soros, heir to the Soros fortune and deep state funding and direction, is 39.
Why is he funding all of these boomers?
Soon enough the boomers will be dead and there will be a whole new generation of corrupt people hanging onto power and money. It will be Gen X.
Boomers didn't invent the deep state, they inherited it. So will Gen X. And there will be just as much corruption then.Posted by: JackStraw at May 09, 2025 08:38 AM (viF8m)
185 In addition, Nazis experimented on people" and what is transgender surgery but experiments and yet, parents who object to this are Nazis?!!
I'd say this politician has a few personal /mental health issues.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 09, 2025 07:36 AM (KFYce)
In fairness, the Nazis did burn up the Institute for Sexual Research, where gay Jewish doctor Magnus Hirschfeld performed the first gender affirming surgeries, along with troves of books by Jewish authors like Heinrich Heine and Max Brod that were researching sexuality.
The reference is not without precedence.Posted by: Unsavory Truth at May 09, 2025 08:38 AM (IqKUv)
186 Anyone who isn't to the right of a Death Eater
I thought JK Rowling was a heretic. Why are they using her creations?
Even if he's a leftish for a pope, he'll still be:
*anti left sacred cows
He's already the Pope. You don't have to keep selling him to me. And since you aren't Catholic, why would this bother you?Posted by: NR Pax at May 09, 2025 08:39 AM (RjOoY)
187 Today is National Butterscotch Brownie Day.Posted by: redridinghood at May 09, 2025 08:39 AM (NpAcC)
188 Today is National Butterscotch Brownie Day.
Posted by: redridinghood at May 09, 2025 08:39 AM (NpAcC)
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So where do I go to get one, courtesy of the US taxpayer?Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 09, 2025 08:42 AM (7fElN)
189 The new american Pontiff, Cletus I, faces immediate allegations of protecting priestly kiddie diddlers in the usual fashion, i e. stealth reassignment of the perpetrator and a sincere belief that handling the matter internally within the church hierarchy obviates any need or obligation to report the incidents to law enforcement.
Looks like we got ourselves -- a convoy.
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at May 09, 2025 08:34 AM (uz6ub)
Agreed. Chicago Diocese was a kiddie diddler's heaven. What is so hard about calling 911? Coverups, moving diddlers around from parish to parish, bishops in on the whole deal and victims left in their wake.
Shame on them all.Posted by: Pray The Gay Away! at May 09, 2025 08:43 AM (imQ+3)
190 And since you aren't Catholic, why would this bother you?
The Pope is one of those figures who, for good or ill, affects more of the world than their job would nominally account for.Posted by: I used to have a different nic at May 09, 2025 08:45 AM (ExV1e)
191 The last pope from an English-speaking country was Adrian IV in the mid-12th century.Posted by: Bulg at May 09, 2025 08:45 AM (77rzZ)
192 So Trump fired the Head of the Library of Congress last night. A DEI Obama appointee. She is shockedPosted by: Jonah at May 09, 2025 08:45 AM (YCxFk)
193 I do not think so. Because Gen X is not the Tyranny of the Well Intentioned. You can buy off Gen X. Gen X just wants to screw, stay in nice hotels and houses, and screw. Did I mention screw ?
Boomers and Silents want to tell you how to screw, when to screw, and when it's ok to screw.
Posted by: Fast Eddie Felson at May 09, 2025 08:43 AM (lzynS)
Those members of GenX who seek power will seek to use that power. It's the nature of man.Posted by: I used to have a different nic at May 09, 2025 08:46 AM (ExV1e)
194 What is so hard about calling 911?
An arrogant belief that they are above the laws of man. In an ideal world, lampposts would have been decorated over this issue. Heck, I would have accepted excommunication in return for helping out with that.Posted by: NR Pax at May 09, 2025 08:46 AM (RjOoY)
Posted by: Big Balls with a cattle prod at May 09, 2025 08:46 AM (yvnLa)
196 I guess the Pope used to teach for a while up in Oconomowac. I'm not sure if he was there long enough to be called a cheesehead.Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at May 09, 2025 08:47 AM (SfhV1)
197 190. Well Said Red. So Pirro has 120 days. Does she want the job permanent?Posted by: Jonah at May 09, 2025 08:47 AM (YCxFk)
198 IF this Pope is truly open borders, when will he order the Vatican wall be taken down?
My money is on the 12th. Of NEVER.Posted by: zooomzooom at May 09, 2025 08:48 AM (npZx2)
199 160 I'm happy for my Catholic friends that they have a new Pope. A time of hope and a time of prayer. I'm disappointed that contrary to the sign at Wrigley Field, Pope Bob is apparently not a Cubs fan, but a White Sox fan. Who in the world wants to be a Sox fan? I've never met one.
Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at May 09, 2025 08:21 AM (SfhV1)
Hi Grammie,
My parents grew up on the south side (in at that time heavily Polish area) so we are Sox fans. I grew up in northern suburbs surrounded by Cubs fans who in my case were all Notre Dame fans too. I connect the two together and dislike both.
Not sure about the Pope and feel he has bigger fish to fry than worry about climate and Trump. I have seen some more conservative parishs’ grow but we need more growth, younger people getting married and having kids and standing up to the real evils that are out there. We should also be in support of Israel. Interesting times for sure.Posted by: Paisley at May 09, 2025 08:48 AM (ny1NG)
200 Pray The Gay Away!
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It's always weird how this concept is so offensive and impossible.
It's simply "don't have gay sex." It really is that simple. You can't help that you find something attractive, but you don't act on it.
OH HOW HORRIBLE!!! YOU'RE A HOMOPHOBE!!!
Right up until it's pointed out that it's the most basic expectation of married men. There isn't a married man out there that doesn't see an attractive woman every day. And the most basic expectation is "you can't have sex with her." It's not even a religious argument, but a state-mandated one. The obvious religious one is remaining a virgin for your spouse, of course. Again, a very basic expectation.
But for some reason Gay is a special kind of uncontrollable.Posted by: Boron Cobbie -Women, you're pretty in feminine dresses and men like seeing you dressed up at May 09, 2025 08:48 AM (yZCmg)
201 I stayed for a little while next to a really weird family of retarded people. I had assumed consanguinity was to blame at first.
Then I noticed that these people would put lots of plastic in their burn pit along with literally anything else - aerosol cans, whatever - and then just hang out and drink beer in the oily cloud of toxic smoke, and it all came together.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice
I waved. Why you no wave back?Posted by: rickb223 at May 09, 2025 08:48 AM (y6oPX)
202 Those members of GenX who seek power will seek to use that power. It's the nature of man.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic
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(Jello Biafra and Rage Against the Machine have entered the chat)Posted by: Boron Cobbie -Women, you're pretty in feminine dresses and men like seeing you dressed up at May 09, 2025 08:49 AM (yZCmg)
203 Generational wars, begun they have.Posted by: Can Ginger vs Mary Ann be far behind? at May 09, 2025 08:49 AM (dg+HA)
204 The stereotyping of the generations (boomers vs X etc) isn’t helpful. We’re all human beings with the same flaws and inherent sinfulness. I’m in X and I don’t bash boomers or millennials… I will, however, criticize specific individuals for their individual idiocies (Biden Pelosi AOC can all get in line)….Posted by: LinusVanPelt at May 09, 2025 08:49 AM (i5Vkf)
205 Is there some kind of inauguration or installation ceremony for the new guy, or does he just put on the hat and sit on the throne?Posted by: Not Sure How All This Works at May 09, 2025 08:49 AM (G5+As)
206 The new Pope has already been poking at Vance directly attempting to steer him. I too believe he was installed as a counter to Trump. It would be interesting if God worked in mysterious ways and they really ended up with a conservative 1970's vintage midwestern American as billed. The tweet history is not promising. Vance is a lightning rod because he's seen as both the future and the weak point.Posted by: Smellslikevictory at May 09, 2025 08:49 AM (jPdyB)
207 >>I do not think so.
Of course you don't, Scogg. You are very clear on your belief that your generation is full of holy saints, like you.
One of the worst presidents in US history, Jimmy Carter, actually did one good thing. He made massive cuts in the CIA operational division, the ones doing things like regime change. He was part of the Greatest Generation.
The next president, Ronald Reagan, did at least one very bad thing. He created the National Endowment for Democracy. It sounds lovely but it is in fact an NGO that became the replacement. He also was part of the Greatest Generation.
This country has been dealing with this shit for decades, long before boomers were in charge. We even had one president who was one stroke away from Captain Pike territory and he was long before boomers.
The generation in charge will always have corrupt elements that refuse to give up power and money. Your generation didn't change human behavior.Posted by: JackStraw at May 09, 2025 08:49 AM (viF8m)
208 "Moderate," is one of those quintessential weasel-words. A lot of people are calling the new Pope a moderate. Time will tell.Posted by: davidt at May 09, 2025 08:50 AM (i0F8b)
209 Greenfield's idea that the cardinals set out to create some counterweight to Trump seems remarkably silly to me, honestly.
The church is "political" in that it has internal factions built on doctrinal differences, but its politics doesn't revolve around US secular politics. The pope and the church will be around long after Trump and Trumpism is gone.Posted by: AB at May 09, 2025 08:51 AM (/Ndpf)
210 Poop Bob, who trudged through the same South American latrine as Poop Francis.
Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.Posted by: XTC at May 09, 2025 08:51 AM (UnA8+)
211 We just walk away and ignore you.
Posted by: Fast Eddie Felson at May 09, 2025 08:52 AM (lzynS)
Same same.Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at May 09, 2025 08:53 AM (SfhV1)
212 Chicago Deep Dish Pizza is a form of lasagnaPosted by: Smell the Glove at May 09, 2025 08:54 AM (vmkyp)
Posted by: JackStraw at May 09, 2025 08:55 AM (viF8m)
214 "225 "Moderate," is one of those quintessential weasel-words. A lot of people are calling the new Pope a moderate. Time will tell."
Francis placed Prevost in charge of selection of bishops. That's a powerful spot. Pope Che would not have done that if he had doubts that Prevost wasn't with Che's program.Posted by: AB at May 09, 2025 08:55 AM (/Ndpf)
215 My God, that video of that "migrant" plowing into that stopped line of traffic with his truck is horrible. Those poor people. The bastard should not even make it to a police car.Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at May 09, 2025 08:55 AM (5xuJ/)
Posted by: Pudinhead at May 09, 2025 08:55 AM (pZ64F)
217 225 "Moderate," is one of those quintessential weasel-words. A lot of people are calling the new Pope a moderate. Time will tell.
Posted by: davidt at May 09, 2025 08:50 AM (i0F8b)
Merrick Garland was hailed as a "moderate" too. Prevost is that same sort of "moderate". Synodality is a method of having different rules for Catholics by area: no gay marriage in Africa, but OK in US?Posted by: night lifted at May 09, 2025 08:56 AM (FZn/N)
218 224. Jack, Dem Senator Frank Church really lead the charge against CIA in the 70's, after Vietnam. He lost his seat in 1980 because of itPosted by: Jonah at May 09, 2025 08:56 AM (YCxFk)
219 Is it just me on this iPad or have all the grey boxes moved off-center to the right?
I must’ve missed the colors but all the italicsns are still loitering.Posted by: SpeakingOf at May 09, 2025 08:57 AM (6ydKt)
220 Spot on. Garland was called a moderate, and how many RINO fools in the Senate voted to confirm his evil ass. Goober, Tillis etc..Posted by: Jonah at May 09, 2025 08:58 AM (YCxFk)
221 >>Jack, Dem Senator Frank Church really lead the charge against CIA in the 70's, after Vietnam. He lost his seat in 1980 because of it
Yes he did. And Ike warned about it before him. It's a cancer that keeps mutating and returning.Posted by: JackStraw at May 09, 2025 08:58 AM (viF8m)
222 Father God,
I humbly ask You to cast Your blessings upon Pope Leo and guide him to Your path. Help him to restore the church and give comfort to the afflicted. Shine the light of righteousness that he may see the Holy truth of the gospel and bring that truth back to the world.
AmenPosted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at May 09, 2025 08:58 AM (2J/Lj)
223 It's not about boomers v gen whatever or even D v R. It's rich, powerful people wanting more money and power.
Posted by: JackStraw at May 09, 2025 08:01 AM (viF8m)
100%Posted by: night lifted at May 09, 2025 08:58 AM (FZn/N)
224 Eddie,
Come back from your work assignment, find a nice hotel in scenic place and bring your guitar. It's fascinating to think of your playing a guitar and it's pleasant to think of you having a few drinks and strumming away .and not being a dictator in your home ( that's what you said, correct? ) and not playing the same tune here. Oh, yes find a way to perhaps look at movies which make you laugh,Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 09, 2025 08:59 AM (TW2CR)
225 Laure Loomer is kind of a nut, but she is a intelligent one. she led the charge on sacking some of these DEI heads in D.C, that tried to hide.Posted by: Jonah at May 09, 2025 08:59 AM (YCxFk)
226 Trotsky was a moderate. At least Stalin thought soPosted by: Smell the Glove at May 09, 2025 09:00 AM (vmkyp)
227 "...or does he just put on the hat and sit on the throne?
Posted by: Not Sure How All This Works at May 09, 2025 08:49 AM"
I think he first has has to pay a visit to The Holy Hat Shop to get fitted for the official Big Honkin' Holy Hat and before he leaves fill out the payroll deduction form in order to pay for it in six easy payments.Posted by: At least I think so at May 09, 2025 09:00 AM (dg+HA)
Posted by: WitchDoktor at May 09, 2025 09:01 AM (jtjbl)
229 David Souter was a moderate. John Paul Stevens also. Two GOP appointed Justices that retired under a Dem PrezPosted by: Jonah at May 09, 2025 09:01 AM (YCxFk)
230 I’m really tired of this war-of-the-generations silliness. Categorizing people according to the larger group that they belong to. How very leftist.Posted by: Bulg at May 09, 2025 09:01 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: BifBewalski at May 09, 2025 09:02 AM (MsrgL)
232 Laure Loomer is kind of a nut, but she is a intelligent one. she led the charge on sacking some of these DEI heads in D.C, that tried to hide.
It does amuse me at the different standards here. If Loomer was a lefty but otherwise exactly the same she'd be getting funding from a number of oligarchs and be a regular on the FNM channels.
There is a standard that right leaning figures need to have a perfect public demeanor or they are nuts. Meanwhile "maintream" lefty figures can talk about black holes swallowing airplanes and that Trump is controlled by Russia...Posted by: 18-1 at May 09, 2025 09:02 AM (t0Rmr)
233 160 I'm happy for my Catholic friends that they have a new Pope. A time of hope and a time of prayer. I'm disappointed that contrary to the sign at Wrigley Field, Pope Bob is apparently not a Cubs fan, but a White Sox fan. Who in the world wants to be a Sox fan? I've never met one.
Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at May 09, 2025 08:21 AM (SfhV1)
A guy who believes in lost causes and redemption...Posted by: Nova Local at May 09, 2025 09:02 AM (tOcjL)
234 I think a number of the COB's here are "boomers." So are quite a few of the commenters.
Demonizing "boomers" here might just get your ass handed to you in a bag if it persists.Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 09, 2025 09:02 AM (Q4IgG)
235 Trotsky was a moderate. At least Stalin thought so/i]
Stalin wanted ruled by Stalin. Trotsky wanted rule by Trotsky. That is the primary source of their differencePosted by: 18-1 at May 09, 2025 09:03 AM (t0Rmr)
236 Good morning good people.Posted by: Tonypete at May 09, 2025 09:03 AM (cYBz/)
237 Good morning again dear horde and happy birthday JJPosted by: San Franpsycho at May 09, 2025 09:03 AM (RIvkX)
238 214 IF this Pope is truly open borders, when will he order the Vatican wall be taken down?
My money is on the 12th. Of NEVER.
Posted by: zooomzooom at May 09, 2025 08:48 AM (npZx2)
Nor will they cash in their wealth to help the people they foist on us, they will demand our money for their policies. When I read the praise for George Floyd and the great concern for Maryland man, I knew this guy was wrongPosted by: night lifted at May 09, 2025 09:03 AM (FZn/N)
239 So Pirro has 120 days. Does she want the job permanent?
Posted by: Jonah at May 09, 2025 08:47 AM (YCxFk)
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I would be surprised if she takes it permanently.
The money is too good at FNC. I assume they would want her back.
Besides she's got a big home with her 4 large dogs in New York.
Meanwhile, all the Republicans that sank Ed Martin's nomination have felt the wrath of their voters.
Posted by: redridinghood at May 09, 2025 09:03 AM (NpAcC)
240 So,
Who cares about the Pope's opinion on Trump? Really? We spent a long time ignoring The Talking Mule, and I think it's doubtful the US is going to start.
The days of state leaders bending the knee to the Church are way way over.Posted by: WitchDoktor at May 09, 2025 09:03 AM (PFcGn)
241 I think he first has has to pay a visit to The Holy Hat Shop to get fitted for the official Big Honkin' Holy Hat and before he leaves fill out the payroll deduction form in order to pay for it in six easy payments.
Posted by: At least I think so
He's American. He should wear a Nudie Suit. And a Stetson.Posted by: Nashville Cats at May 09, 2025 09:04 AM (G5+As)
242 Right up until it's pointed out that it's the most basic expectation of married men. There isn't a married man out there that doesn't see an attractive woman every day. And the most basic expectation is "you can't have sex with her." It's not even a religious argument, but a state-mandated one. The obvious religious one is remaining a virgin for your spouse, of course. Again, a very basic expectation.
Indeed.
The argument that because one has urges, they should be obliged to follow them is very, very dark in fact. It is to reduce humanity to an animalistic nature.
It excuses away all sorts of madness, pedophilia, necrophilia, beastiality, etc.
And why should it be limited to sexuality? If I feel the urge to punch someone, who is the world to deny my violent nature? Are they oppressing me?Posted by: Unsavory Truth at May 09, 2025 09:04 AM (IqKUv)
243 Consider Ike, who I think is a very underrated president, appointed both Earl Warren and William Brennan. Republicans when they try to be "nice" end up shooting their base in the headPosted by: Smell the Glove at May 09, 2025 09:04 AM (vmkyp)
244 TGIF, all!!!!!Posted by: Lizzy at May 09, 2025 09:04 AM (ke82b)
245 252. TouchePosted by: Jonah at May 09, 2025 09:04 AM (YCxFk)
246 Have they already had him sit in the special chair and confirmed that he is a male?Posted by: Bulg at May 09, 2025 09:05 AM (77rzZ)
247 The US has announced, through Amb Huckabee, that it will begin distributing aid in Gaza. Contractors will provide security and insure that Hamas doesn't steal the food and water.
This is a big mistake. It has DISASTER written all over it.Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at May 09, 2025 09:06 AM (paSBy)
248 Like we all had a choice of which generation we were born into.Posted by: Did you? at May 09, 2025 09:06 AM (dg+HA)
249 Someone around here wants their ass kicked by an old man.
You'd think that would be pretty embarrassing.Posted by: Tonypete at May 09, 2025 09:07 AM (cYBz/)
250 248 Gen X = Leave me the hell alone.
Posted by: WitchDoktor
Gen X type here. Can confirm. One of the things I want in my retirement home is a clear field of fire.Posted by: NR Pax at May 09, 2025 09:07 AM (RjOoY)
251 263. Exactly. John Roberts is the worst one of all by Bush. Not only the Chief, but of a 6-3 Court.
If the court was still 5-4. Roe would not have been overturned, and Trump immunity never happensPosted by: Jonah at May 09, 2025 09:07 AM (YCxFk)
Posted by: rickb223 at May 09, 2025 09:08 AM (y6oPX)
253 Boomers didn't invent the deep state, they inherited it. So will Gen X. And there will be just as much corruption then.
Posted by: JackStraw at May 09, 2025 08:38 AM (viF8m)
Some Gen Xers? Certainly. But that age cohort is already underrepresented in government, it will continue to be, and power will largely devolve on millennials, who are going to largely replace the outgoing kleptocratic class of perambulatory corpses. I think the period of Gen X "supremacy" will be brief and pretty uneventful, if it happens at all.
What will happen is that Gen X is going to get shit on so bad it will make the current vituperation of boomers look tame.
By default, they'll become the new object of scorn because they're still around to shout at, and since they're the only age cohort that leans right (thus far), that will get turned up to eleventy. Dems and media won't have any restraint when the old folks aren't on their side anymore.Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 09, 2025 09:08 AM (BI5O2)
254 I was surprised to learn this new pope had been tweeting over the past year. So cardinals tweet? Does the papacy have an official X account? Did Francis tweet?Posted by: LinusVanPelt at May 09, 2025 09:08 AM (6RwsA)
255 The US has announced, through Amb Huckabee, that it will begin distributing aid in Gaza. Contractors will provide security and insure that Hamas doesn't steal the food and water.
The US should have joined Israel in bombing/shelling Gaza until every American hostage was returned AND those responsible for the event where handed over to the US.
The notion of giving cash and prizes to people for attacking Americans isn't just absurd but offensive.Posted by: 18-1 at May 09, 2025 09:08 AM (t0Rmr)
256 Prevost is a builder of high-end tour buses and shells for ritzy motorhomes. Canadian company. Will they supply a Popemobile to the new pontiff?Posted by: Good Publicity at May 09, 2025 09:09 AM (G5+As)
257 198 Chicago "Deep Dish" should be outlawed. Pizzas are round and thin. Some things are not up for debate. Pope Bob can go squeeze a breeze.
Posted by: City Of Scum And Villainy at May 09, 2025 08:38 AM (G5+As)
You may be over 29 if you remember a pizza being called a pizza pie.Posted by: Gref at May 09, 2025 09:09 AM (aBgBM)
258 But for some reason Gay is a special kind of uncontrollable.
Posted by: Boron Cobbie -Women, you're pretty in feminine dresses and men like seeing you dressed up at May 09, 2025 08:48 AM (yZCmg)
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I think it is a spiritual issue. Foe example, most of us don't have problems of not doing drugs, but those who have been users struggle with it for the rest of their lives. I think that is why it is important for society to enforce the negative stigma to homosexuality, because if left uncheck, like the out of control drug user's demise, it eventually leads to grooming children in schools.Posted by: Cray Cray at May 09, 2025 09:09 AM (EES2L)
259 There's a quote that has been attributed to JFK but no proof he actually ever said it. Still, it is very clear it was his goal.
"I will splinter the CIA into a thousand pieces and scatter it into the wind.". His close advisor and friend Arthur Schlesinger had created a plan to reorganize the CIA after the disastrous Bay of Pigs fiasco.
And then Kennedy had his head blown off and to this day there are many who don't believe the official story of his assassination.
Wouldn't it be ironic if Trump, a boomer, is the president who finally reforms the CIA and its many tentacles?Posted by: JackStraw at May 09, 2025 09:09 AM (viF8m)
Posted by: rickb223 at May 09, 2025 09:09 AM (y6oPX)
261 New pope will suck. How do I know? Because all the usual leftwing subjects are excited. These are Catholic-hating commie worms who screech and masterbate in front of churchs during mass perversion events like fag parades. Plus, there’s no way the American-hating Eurotrash scumbags would choose an American pope unless he hated America. Gird your loins.Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at May 09, 2025 09:10 AM (aeiyZ)
262 I think that is why it is important for society to enforce the negative stigma to homosexuality, because if left uncheck, like the out of control drug user's demise, it eventually leads to grooming children in schools.
Yes, society's previous strong stand against homosexuality was one of those Chesteron Fences.Posted by: 18-1 at May 09, 2025 09:10 AM (t0Rmr)
263 I don’t know if Daniel Greenfield is on to something with his theory on why the cardinals picked an American, but I did find it quite surprising and intriguing as to why they’d do such a thing after ardently avoiding it for decades.
It seems Francis was grooming this guy to be his successor and that he’s a multicultural, American-Peruvian, seems to be a substantial reason for his being picked.
I do suspect this new pope will feel the need to continue on with Francis’ fixation on Climate Change and constant need to pretend borders don’t exist and that the poor migrants of the Global South have every right to move north and stay there with or without the permission of the citizens of those nations.
So, yes, Trump is eventually going to have to get into tit for tat dueling statements with Pope Leo, the same way he had to do with Francis.
Are American Catholics going to follow Leo’s lead, or Trump’s?Posted by: SpeakingOf at May 09, 2025 09:10 AM (6ydKt)
264 If Roberts really cared about his country at 70 years old. He would retire under a GOP Trump, and allow a younger Chief to thwart the marxists in the future.
But he said the other day he will die in officePosted by: Jonah at May 09, 2025 09:10 AM (YCxFk)
265 LINK IS FIXED!
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at
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Then Pete must be the father of Julie's baby!Posted by: The Mod Squad at May 09, 2025 09:10 AM (HOX+I)
266 Chicago Deep Dish Pizza is a form of lasagna
Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 09, 2025 08:54 AM (vmkyp)
I had lasagna last night. I guess the cook forgot the bread?Posted by: Kwak! at May 09, 2025 09:11 AM (89Sog)
267 My opinion on the new Pope depends upon whether DU likes him or hates him.
So far, looks like they're trying to shoehorn a few thin tweets into opposition to Trump and are mildly in favor of him.
I figure, we're just gonna have to wait a year or so and see what he actually does.Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 09, 2025 09:11 AM (sMW+k)
Posted by: Lizzy at May 09, 2025 09:11 AM (ke82b)
269 The notion of giving cash and prizes to people for attacking Americans isn't just absurd but offensive.
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Netanyahu had already said they would begin aid distribution, but now the US has stepped in to do it without any agreement from Israel.
We have no business doing this. At all.Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at May 09, 2025 09:12 AM (paSBy)
Posted by: Jonah at May 09, 2025 09:12 AM (YCxFk)
271 283 New pope will suck. How do I know? Because all the usual leftwing subjects are excited. These are Catholic-hating commie worms who screech and masterbate in front of churchs during mass perversion events like fag parades. Plus, there’s no way the American-hating Eurotrash scumbags would choose an American pope unless he hated America. Gird your loins.
Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at May 09, 2025 09:10 AM (aeiyZ)
Leftwingers I saw are up in arms that he hates gay marriage, gender studies, gays raising kids (he is all about the traditional family unit), and women in deacon/priesthood roles. Plus, he's still pro-life and catholic.
Posted by: Nova Local at May 09, 2025 09:12 AM (tOcjL)
272 You may be over 29 if you remember a pizza being called a pizza pie.
Posted by: Gref
That's amore'Posted by: rickb223 at May 09, 2025 09:12 AM (y6oPX)
273 I like every kind of pizza… NY style, Chicago style, Detroit style, delivery from Pizza Hut, Dominos, Papa Johns…. Even frozen pizza. It’s all delicious. Dough, melted cheese, meat… yumPosted by: LinusVanPelt at May 09, 2025 09:12 AM (6RwsA)
274 293 New pope will suck. How do I know?
He's Jesuit and from Chicago. This ain't exactly a mystery wrapped in an enigma.
Posted by: Fast Eddie Felson at May 09, 2025 09:12 AM (lzynS)
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He's an Augustinian, not a Jesuit.Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at May 09, 2025 09:12 AM (GBKbO)
275 The entire msm pissed itself with joy over the new pope. Tells you all you need to know about him.Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at May 09, 2025 09:12 AM (ImXfC)
276 The argument that because one has urges, they should be obliged to follow them is very, very dark in fact. It is to reduce humanity to an animalistic nature.
It excuses away all sorts of madness, pedophilia, necrophilia, beastiality, etc.
And why should it be limited to sexuality? If I feel the urge to punch someone, who is the world to deny my violent nature? Are they oppressing me?
Posted by: Unsavory Truth at May 09, 2025 09:04 AM (IqKUv)
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. -- Aleister CrowleyPosted by: I used to have a different nic at May 09, 2025 09:12 AM (ExV1e)
277 I find it deliciously ironic that so many people are pontificating about the new Pontiff...Posted by: muldoon at May 09, 2025 09:12 AM (HOX+I)
278 293 New pope will suck. How do I know?
He's Jesuit and from Chicago. This ain't exactly a mystery wrapped in an enigma.
Posted by: Fast Eddie Felson at May 09, 2025 09:12 AM (lzynS)
He's not Jesuit. He's the opposite of Jesuit as an Augustinian. We've never had an Augustinian pope.Posted by: Nova Local at May 09, 2025 09:13 AM (tOcjL)
279 He's an Augustinian, not a Jesuit.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at May 09, 2025 09:12 AM (GBKbO)
220,221?
I have no idea how Catholicism works.Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at May 09, 2025 09:13 AM (ImXfC)
280 Kinda weird that Italian food includes pasta and bread. No wonder Tony's friend's were so fat.Posted by: Boss Moss at May 09, 2025 09:13 AM (Vnr18)
281 The best deep dish in Chicago is Giordano's. Gino's East is tourist food.Posted by: Jonah at May 09, 2025 09:13 AM (YCxFk)
282 He's American. He should wear a Nudie Suit. And a Stetson.
Posted by: Nashville Cats at May 09, 2025 09:04 AM (G5+As)
True story...Mel Tillis had a shit ton of Nudie Suits and was gonna throw them out when a young fella who kinda hung around his office asked if he could have them. That young fella's name...David Alan Coe. David loved them! The rest is history.Posted by: Rhinestone Cowboy at May 09, 2025 09:13 AM (imQ+3)
283 289 My opinion on the new Pope depends upon whether DU likes him or hates him.
So far, looks like they're trying to shoehorn a few thin tweets into opposition to Trump and are mildly in favor of him.
I figure, we're just gonna have to wait a year or so and see what he actually does.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 09, 2025 09:11 AM (sMW+k)
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I suspect we're going to get pro-migrant rhetoric, but with USAID cutting off Catholic Charities (and other orgs), it'll diminish with time, especially if the border remains closed.
Then, the focus moves to less...extreme issues, and he feels more traditionally Catholic.Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at May 09, 2025 09:14 AM (GBKbO)
284 302 He's an Augustinian, not a Jesuit.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at May 09, 2025 09:12 AM (GBKbO)
220,221?
I have no idea how Catholicism works.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at May 09, 2025 09:13 AM (ImXfC)
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Then stop commenting on it.Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at May 09, 2025 09:14 AM (GBKbO)
285 He's an Augustinian, not a Jesuit.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at May 09, 2025 09:12 AM (GBKbO)
A LeoPosted by: rhennigantx at May 09, 2025 09:14 AM (gbOdA)
286 Wait a minute. If the Pope was selected as a counterweight/point of attack to a guy who will only be in power for another roughly 3.75 years, then the College of Cardinals are fucking stupid. Leo XiV might well be on the throne for a good 20 years. That is short term, shortsighted thinking, if true.Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at May 09, 2025 09:14 AM (aTimx)
Posted by: dantesed at May 09, 2025 09:14 AM (Oy/m2)
288 I'm hearing a lot of analysis the new pope is a progressive and and will continue down the road of pope Francis. Which means the MSM will love him and we wont hear a single word about yet another white male being picked to lead the church. Not one word.Posted by: Ripley at May 09, 2025 09:14 AM (GUOwU)
289 Are American Catholics going to follow Leo’s lead, or Trump’s?
Posted by: SpeakingOf at May 09, 2025 09:10 AM (6ydKt)
He was chosen as an open borders tool against TRump. During the coverage, one person after another, both clergy and commentators, referred to this man as "the least American of American cardinals", and here we are. Leo will bloviate about global inequality, as Cardinal Prevost did.Posted by: night lifted at May 09, 2025 09:14 AM (FZn/N)
290 Powell won't lower interest rates.
Why?
How is the economic situation worse than it was in October 2024 when they were last reduced?Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 09, 2025 09:15 AM (RIvkX)
291 Did Francis tweet?
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at May 09, 2025 09:08 AM (6RwsA)
Mostly selfies and pictures of his food.Posted by: I used to have a different nic at May 09, 2025 09:15 AM (ExV1e)
292 So he's from Florida?Posted by: Boss Moss at May 09, 2025 09:15 AM (Vnr18)
293 309 Wait a minute. If the Pope was selected as a counterweight/point of attack to a guy who will only be in power for another roughly 3.75 years, then the College of Cardinals are fucking stupid. Leo XiV might well be on the throne for a good 20 years. That is short term, shortsighted thinking, if true.
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at May 09, 2025 09:14 AM (aTimx)
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1. People are short sighted and stupid, even well-credentialed people on top of major organizations.
2. His rise was probably because Tagle bombed in the early voting and Leo was an insider with allies in a very powerful position in the Vatican.Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at May 09, 2025 09:15 AM (GBKbO)
294 MSM sees ratings for years with Pope. Even though is staunchly Pro LifePosted by: Jonah at May 09, 2025 09:15 AM (YCxFk)
295 How about those " insert hockey team name" ?Posted by: Ben Had at May 09, 2025 09:15 AM (NVNRw)
296 Justice David Souter has diedPosted by: redridinghood at May 09, 2025 09:16 AM (NpAcC)
297 313. Right a rate cut this week would have put the Sp500 over 6000 again.Posted by: Jonah at May 09, 2025 09:16 AM (YCxFk)
298 Kinda weird that Italian food includes pasta and bread. No wonder Tony's friend's were so fat.
Posted by: Boss Moss at May 09, 2025 09:13 AM (Vnr1
Tony was fat! One of the more perplexing story lines in the Sopranos (for me) was Johnny Sack monster having a fat wife and going all mob war when he learns another mobster (Ralphie) makes fun of his wife’s fatness…. I can’t see a cheating mobster getting all worked up about a fat joke at his wife’s expensePosted by: LinusVanPelt at May 09, 2025 09:17 AM (6RwsA)
299 I like every kind of pizza… NY style, Chicago style, Detroit style, delivery from Pizza Hut, Dominos, Papa Johns…. Even frozen pizza. It’s all delicious. Dough, melted cheese, meat… yum
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No love for New Haven??Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 09, 2025 09:17 AM (RIvkX)
300 Wow. RIP, did not like his politics but served his countryPosted by: Jonah at May 09, 2025 09:17 AM (YCxFk)
301 320 313. Right a rate cut this week would have put the Sp500 over 6000 again.
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Government rates are massively out of alignment with market rates at this point.
Powell cut rates in a rush late into the election season to try and prop up the sitting regime.
Trump really should just fire Powell.Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at May 09, 2025 09:17 AM (GBKbO)
302 309. Hardly. The goal is to prevent the change Trump represents and to get back the migrant cash Rubio and Trump halted. Trump has less than 4 years, but Vance, Rubio, or DeSantis might follow for 8 and they need a globalist anyway to accomplish "global income equality".Posted by: night lifted at May 09, 2025 09:17 AM (FZn/N)
303 He's an Augustinian, not a Jesuit.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at May 09, 2025 09:12 AM (GBKbO)
**cough
TROLL
**coughPosted by: runner at May 09, 2025 09:17 AM (g47mK)
304 TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at May 09, 2025 09:14 AM (GBKbO)
I know you said you lived in Rome before and are now going back for a vacation. How long has it been since you were there last?Posted by: dantesed at May 09, 2025 09:17 AM (Oy/m2)
305 If Roberts really cared about his country at 70 years old. He would retire under a GOP Trump, and allow a younger Chief to thwart the marxists in the future.
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A big morning for horde comedyPosted by: Huck Follywood at May 09, 2025 09:18 AM (O5XD1)
306
Even if he's a leftish for a pope, he'll still be:
*anti women's equality
*anti reproductive health
*anti queer
*anti trans
*anti divorce
The Church is backwards.
Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at May 09, 2025 08:29 AM (GNjcL)
Who gets the good job of telling DU denizens the Religion of Peace™ enforces all of those (except divorce?), some by execution?
Also, do they not know that no-fun group of thugs prohibits drinking alcohol, along with more things and practices most Leftists love? Oh, make sure you tell the women about ----orectomies.Posted by: Gref at May 09, 2025 09:18 AM (aBgBM)
307 Oh, yeah, Powell is a biden leftover.Posted by: runner at May 09, 2025 09:18 AM (g47mK)
308 327 TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at May 09, 2025 09:14 AM (GBKbO)
I know you said you lived in Rome before and are now going back for a vacation. How long has it been since you were there last?
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We spent a few days there on our honeymoon about 13 years ago. Actually, it's almost exactly 13 years ago. It was May of 2012. Time flies.Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at May 09, 2025 09:18 AM (GBKbO)
309 Leo XiV might well be on the throne for a good 20 years.
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So I'm sure they looked for a good institutionalist who will keep pushing their current, nakedly political agenda down field for a long time.Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 09, 2025 09:19 AM (BI5O2)
310 I have no idea how Catholicism works.
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Then stop commenting on it.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at May 09, 2025 09:14 AM (GBKbO)
You must be new here.Posted by: I used to have a different nic at May 09, 2025 09:20 AM (ExV1e)
311 333 He's an Augustinian, not a Jesuit.
When he does something not Open Borders ... you can tell me the difference.
What you're telling me is a distinction without a difference.
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If your only criteria for someone of a religion you don't follow is your pet issue, you're bringing nothing interesting to the table.
You're being boring.Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at May 09, 2025 09:20 AM (GBKbO)
312 So cardinals tweet?
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at May 09, 2025 09:08 AM
Yes. It's very distinctive.Posted by: RedMindBlueState at May 09, 2025 09:20 AM (Wnv9h)
313
Who gets the good job of telling DU denizens the Religion of Peace™ enforces all of those (except divorce?), some by execution?
If you tell lefties this they just say you are lying and that Islam is progressive just like them.
Honestly we should raise money to send "Queers for Gaza" to Gaza. I guarantee something positive would come out of it.Posted by: 18-1 at May 09, 2025 09:20 AM (t0Rmr)
314 Then stop commenting on it.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at May 09, 2025 09:14 AM (GBKbO)
Yikes. It was a joke.Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at May 09, 2025 09:21 AM (ImXfC)
Posted by: Some Squirrel at May 09, 2025 09:21 AM (t0Rmr)
316 Of all the Justices over the last 30 years, Souter was the one I despised most. He liked to pretend that he was a law and order “conservative”; but in actual practice, his judicial philosophy was simply “the Government is Always Right.” If the police wanted to do something, they were right. If the Government wanted to take your house, it was right. If the Government wanted to regulate your speech, it was right.
As Clarence Darrow famously said, I’ve never killed a man, but I’ve read many an obituary with a great deal of satisfaction.Posted by: Tom Servo at May 09, 2025 09:21 AM (S+5p3)
317 Powell won't lower interest rates.
Why?
How is the economic situation worse than it was in October 2024 when they were last reduced?
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He’s a leftwing hack trying his best to tank the economy to help Democraps in the midterms. He pushed through a big cut to help Kamala win in November, and to prime the pump for the economy if she won. But she didn’t. Since then, Powell has actively sought to depress the economy. He’s barely even trying to hide it.Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at May 09, 2025 09:21 AM (aeiyZ)
Posted by: one hour sober at May 09, 2025 09:21 AM (Y1sOo)
319 So cardinals tweet?
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at May 09, 2025 09:08 AM
Yes. It's very distinctive.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at May 09, 2025 09:20 AM (Wnv9h)
ISWYDT!Posted by: LinusVanPelt at May 09, 2025 09:21 AM (v/5Y9)
320 There is a tailor on standby during the conclave. Ready to adjust and fit the newly elected. True story.Posted by: runner at May 09, 2025 09:22 AM (g47mK)
321 Rule of Augustinians sounds socialist and globalist: 3. Call nothing your own, but let everything be yours in common. Food and clothing shall be distributed to each of you by your superior, not equally to all, for all do not enjoy equal health, but rather according to each one's need. For so you read in the Acts of the Apostles that they had all things in common and distribution was made to each one according to each one's needPosted by: night lifted at May 09, 2025 09:22 AM (FZn/N)
322 346 Rule of Augustinians sounds socialist and globalist: 3. Call nothing your own, but let everything be yours in common. Food and clothing shall be distributed to each of you by your superior, not equally to all, for all do not enjoy equal health, but rather according to each one's need. For so you read in the Acts of the Apostles that they had all things in common and distribution was made to each one according to each one's need
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Welcome to a religious order.Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at May 09, 2025 09:22 AM (GBKbO)
323 Who gets the good job of telling DU denizens the Religion of Peace™ enforces all of those (except divorce?), some by execution?
"That's just islamaphobic propaganda spread by people like you H8R! Islamic nations were pioneers in women's rights and made advances in science that I can't quite remember. Anyways, Achmed saying things like 'Death to America' is just him joking around."Posted by: NR Pax at May 09, 2025 09:22 AM (RjOoY)
324 I can’t see a cheating mobster getting all worked up about a fat joke at his wife’s expense
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at May 09, 2025 09:17 AM (6RwsA)
I dunno, man, it's a pretty longstanding rule that you don't mouth off about another man's wife.Posted by: I used to have a different nic at May 09, 2025 09:22 AM (ExV1e)
325 How does the election of Pope Leo affect the cash flow within The Church?Posted by: davidt at May 09, 2025 09:23 AM (i0F8b)
326 Augustine sounds like Karl Marx.Posted by: Boss Moss at May 09, 2025 09:23 AM (Vnr18)
327 What do Papists, populists, pagans and Puritans all have in common?Posted by: muldoon at May 09, 2025 09:24 AM (HOX+I)
328 340 When the dude does the same shit ? I really don't care about the "nuance". Its the same shit.
You're being boring.
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He's done nothing yet.
I think you need to take a break.Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at May 09, 2025 09:24 AM (GBKbO)
329 h, yeah, Powell is a biden leftover.
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Appointed by Trump.Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 09, 2025 09:24 AM (RIvkX)
330 313 Powell won't lower interest rates.
Why?
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Same reason rates were at 0 between 2009/2016 then in early 2017 states rising rapidly.Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at May 09, 2025 09:24 AM (ImXfC)
331 >>If Roberts really cared about his country at 70 years old. He would retire under a GOP Trump, and allow a younger Chief to thwart the marxists in the future.
When Obama was president he appointed Norm Eisen, the man behind most of the lawfare against Trump, as the first ambassador to the Czech Republic. John Roberts spent a week at Eisen's ambassador's residence in the Czech Republic working on US/EU "rule of law" policy.
He cares. Just not the way we do.Posted by: JackStraw at May 09, 2025 09:24 AM (viF8m)
332 Socialism can work in circumstances like a religious order - most people don't want to live a life of labor and deprivation though.Posted by: 18-1 at May 09, 2025 09:24 AM (t0Rmr)
Posted by: Chuck Martel at May 09, 2025 09:24 AM (Dv3i1)
334 Boomers have had an outsized influence on the world for quite some time.
We have to remember that they were, and still remain, the largest generation by numbers in the past century.
This meant, in the West anyhow, that they have been the most pandered to, by their parents, schools, corporations, and the government since they started hitting their teenage years in the late 1950s.
There was no such thing as “Youth Culture” before the Boomers, as youth before them meant being taught as quickly as possible to be an adult.
Boomers, as a group, had their childhoods extended well into their 20s due to those factors.
Being raised culturally by TV and movies has also affected their perceptions of morality, where the worst thing you can possibly be is a square/not cool, followed closely by being racist, followed on by any -ist they made up along the way in the decades since.
I don’t blame Boomers for everything, as they are a product of their time, just as X, Millennials, and Z now represent our own peculiar generational pathologies.Posted by: SpeakingOf at May 09, 2025 09:24 AM (6ydKt)
335 254 I think a number of the COB's here are "boomers." So are quite a few of the commenters.
Demonizing "boomers" here might just get your ass handed to you in a bag if it persists.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 09, 2025 09:02 AM (Q4IgG)
It just isn't the Horde until the "I'm gonna kill some people" talk starts.Posted by: XTC at May 09, 2025 09:25 AM (UnA8+)
336 Augustine sounds like Karl Marx.
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Augustine died in 5th century, I doubt they knew each other !Posted by: runner at May 09, 2025 09:25 AM (g47mK)
337 Honestly...
I grew up Catholic. I lapsed for a few reasons and apostatized, then went Lutheran.
Even with all of this, I can't think of really anyone in my circle, including Catholics, who gives a damn about what the Pope says about secular matters.
So all of this "counterweight to Trump" crap is just that...crap. The Church lost its relevancy in these matters a long-ass time ago.Posted by: WitchDoktor at May 09, 2025 09:25 AM (Oq5OE)
338 When he does something not Open Borders ... you can tell me the difference.
I am not Catholic but...
The Pope doesn't do anything "open borders" besides opine about it. Maybe his opinion will have an effect on some Catholic voters but I'd guess the ones who'll be moved by his opinion on the subject were already open borders friendly.Posted by: I used to have a different nic at May 09, 2025 09:25 AM (ExV1e)
339 He's an Augustinian, not a Jesuit.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at May 09, 2025 09:12 AM (GBKbO)
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I had to look up what that means yesterday ("Augustinian") and the wiki write up (low grade for clarity) describes a very interesting history of the order: Ancient, privileged within the church, values learning and missionary work, and monastic life as well.Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 09, 2025 09:25 AM (wUQJO)
340 363 Rule of Augustinians sounds socialist and globalist: 3. Call nothing your own, but let everything be yours in common.
JM ... I think you need to take a break. The proof is in the pudding.
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It's the rules of a religious order.
Come back in a week.Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at May 09, 2025 09:25 AM (GBKbO)
341 The Sopranos had a scene where someone bad mouths his daughter and he does everything short of murdering the guy.
I would assume that is a real possible outcome to insulting a mob leader's family.Posted by: 18-1 at May 09, 2025 09:26 AM (t0Rmr)
342 Appointed by Trump.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 09, 2025 09:24 AM (RIvkX)
Renominated by Biden in 2022.Posted by: runner at May 09, 2025 09:26 AM (g47mK)
343 "What you're telling me is a distinction without a difference."
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Le Sigh. . . .
A man walks into the Confessional and begins the ritual: “Bless me Father for I have sinned. . . “ He is listing his sins when he confesses he killed a man. The priest absolves him of his sin and gives him his penance of 5 Hail Marys. The man is flabbergasted.
Father! Five Hail Mary’s? That’s it?? Haven’t you ever killed a man before!!??
No, my son. I am an Augustinian, not a Jesuit.Posted by: Tonypete at May 09, 2025 09:26 AM (cYBz/)
344 Maybe Karl Marx lifted St. Augustine's doctrine.Posted by: Boss Moss at May 09, 2025 09:26 AM (Vnr18)
345 360 Being raised culturally by TV and movies has also affected their perceptions of morality, where the worst thing you can possibly be is a square/not cool, followed closely by being racist, followed on by any -ist they made up along the way in the decades since.
I don’t blame Boomers for everything, as they are a product of their time, just as X, Millennials, and Z now represent our own peculiar generational pathologies.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at May 09, 2025 09:24 AM (6ydKt)
That said, if I _EVER_ hear that damned abominable Spencer Davis Group song that's supposed to represent the 60s again...Posted by: XTC at May 09, 2025 09:26 AM (UnA8+)
346 Socialism can work in circumstances like a religious order - most people don't want to live a life of labor and deprivation though.
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Why there are so few kibbutzes left.Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 09, 2025 09:27 AM (RIvkX)
347 352 Augustine sounds like Karl Marx.
Posted by: Boss Moss at May 09, 2025 09:23 AM (Vnr1
Maybe the rules were originally just for the monastery, but he did invoke Augustine from the balcony and has often expressed his disapproval of global inequality. If he changes Francis' course, I'll be the first to say I was wrong, as I did about Rubio, who I felt was a mistake.Posted by: night lifted at May 09, 2025 09:27 AM (FZn/N)
348 Adding to my comment above, it’s not just that Powell refuses to adjust government rates to more closely align with the market. It’s also what he says. He never misses a chance to talk down the economy or Trump’s economic policies.
“Why aren’t you lowering rates?” “Because Trump is a poopy-head who’s tariffs might destroy all life on Earth.” He basically sounds like a DU retard.
Powell is scum.Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at May 09, 2025 09:27 AM (aeiyZ)
349 360 Boomers have had an outsized influence on the world for quite some time.
We have to remember that they were, and still remain, the largest generation by numbers in the past century.
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Millenials are bigger.
Boomers used to be but they stared dying off about 5 years ago and millenails took over.Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at May 09, 2025 09:29 AM (ImXfC)
350 Posted by: Fast Eddie Felson at May 09, 2025 09:21 AM (lzynS)
Try not being so emotive.
You stated that the source of your knowledge that the Pope would be bad was that he was Jesuit. I, too, share your sentiments that the Jesuit order has been a source of doctrinal erosion for the Catholic Church
But as has been pointed out, he's not a Jesuit. You need to acknowledge that you are incorrect instead of saying "it doesn't matter", when the whole premise of your comment was that you could predict his failings because of his Order.
If you want to debate, you must be willing to acknowledge where you are in error. This emotional type of response, swinging wildly is amateurish and feminine.Posted by: Unsavory Truth at May 09, 2025 09:29 AM (IqKUv)
351 359 Anyone who isn't to the right of a Death Eater is a "liberal" to MAGA.
What this mean ?
Posted by: Chuck Martel
A Death Eater is a Dark Wizard from the Harry Potter universe. So anyone who is not even more evil than them is a liberal to folks like us.
This happens when people only read one series of books and never try others.Posted by: NR Pax at May 09, 2025 09:29 AM (RjOoY)
352 Leftists popes are like AWFLs on immigration. They love open borders. But they also live in guard gated communities and the closest interaction they have with a “migrant” is the gardner.Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at May 09, 2025 09:31 AM (ImXfC)
353 371 Maybe Karl Marx lifted St. Augustine's doctrine.
Posted by: Boss Moss at May 09, 2025 09:26 AM (Vnr18
Could bePosted by: night lifted at May 09, 2025 09:31 AM (FZn/N)
Posted by: rhennigantx at May 09, 2025 09:32 AM (gbOdA)
355 I vaguely recall that the conflict in the Harry Potter series was driven by the wizards that believed they were genetically superior to everyone else and should therefore rule (yay NAZI knock-offs)
Meanwhile in the real world the "racist MAGA types" were cheering for the African candidate while the "tolerant lefties" were cheering for a European candidate.
Funny how these lefty notions of racism work.Posted by: 18-1 at May 09, 2025 09:32 AM (t0Rmr)
356 I didn't know what a death eater was either. I have never made it past the opening credits of a Harry Potter film. I always fall asleep.Posted by: Boss Moss at May 09, 2025 09:32 AM (Vnr18)
357 The Sopranos had a scene where someone bad mouths his daughter and he does everything short of murdering the guy.
I would assume that is a real possible outcome to insulting a mob leader's family.
Posted by: 18-1 at May 09, 2025 09:26 AM (t0Rmr)
Tony Soprano himself beat the crap out of a guy who talked dirty to and insulted his daughter Meadow who was out on a date. Tony walked into the restaurant where the guy worked and just worked the guy culminating in intentionally smashing the guys teeth. BrutalPosted by: LinusVanPelt at May 09, 2025 09:32 AM (ANuwa)
358 I, too, share your sentiments that the Jesuit order has been a source of doctrinal erosion for the Catholic Church
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Once, young whippersnapper me asked my Catholic grandfather "Are Jesuits Catholic?"
He smiled, sipped his scotch, and answered "almost..."Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 09, 2025 09:33 AM (wUQJO)
359 Socialism can work in circumstances like a religious order - most people don't want to live a life of labor and deprivation though.
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Why there are so few kibbutzes left.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 09, 2025 09:27 AM (RIvkX)
Frankly, the reality did not live up to the utopian hype.Posted by: Socialist Bernie Sanders at May 09, 2025 09:33 AM (Aqu9a)
360 Anyone who isn't to the right of a Death Eater is a "liberal" to MAGA.
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What this mean ?
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Death Eaters were what Lord Voldemort’s followers were called in the Harry Potter books.
I suppose Trump is Voldemort and Death Eaters is just a new synonym for Nazis.Posted by: SpeakingOf at May 09, 2025 09:35 AM (6ydKt)
361 Boomers are kinda blamed for everything wrong in the world. And some of it is deserved. But in general, boomers no longer run things.
Yes obviously Trump is a boomer. And there are still boomers in positions of power. But pick a random fortune 100 company and chances are the ceo is GenX or even Millenial. Or your city council. Or your governor.
Overall the people who run things that affect your life on a day to day basis are not boomers.Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at May 09, 2025 09:35 AM (ImXfC)
362 Being raised culturally by TV and movies has also affected their perceptions of morality, where the worst thing you can possibly be is a square/not cool, followed closely by being racist, followed on by any -ist they made up along the way in the decades since.
I don’t blame Boomers for everything, as they are a product of their time, just as X, Millennials, and Z now represent our own peculiar generational pathologies.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at May 09, 2025 09:24 AM (6ydKt)
Yeah, and how many of us boomers were drafted and shipped off to a little place in Southeast Asia to fight and die in a war cheered on by "the greatest generation." Generations since then didn't have that sword hanging over their heads. If you weren't alive during those times, you have no idea.Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at May 09, 2025 09:36 AM (5xuJ/)
363 Overall the people who run things that affect your life on a day to day basis are not boomers.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at May 09, 2025 09:35 AM (ImXfC)
We boomers were the first to suffer the educational indoctrination at the hands of the previous generations.Posted by: night lifted at May 09, 2025 09:39 AM (FZn/N)
364 Yeah, and how many of us boomers were drafted and shipped off to a little place in Southeast Asia to fight and die in a war cheered on by "the greatest generation." Generations since then didn't have that sword hanging over their heads. If you weren't alive during those times, you have no idea.
Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at May 09, 2025 09:36 AM (5xuJ/)
True.Posted by: night lifted at May 09, 2025 09:40 AM (FZn/N)
365 Yeah, let's turn the reins of government over to a group whose moral touchstone is Harry Potter.
What could possibly go wrong?Posted by: muldoon at May 09, 2025 09:41 AM (HOX+I)
366 Millenials are bigger.
Boomers used to be but they stared dying off about 5 years ago and millenails took over.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at May 09, 2025 09:29 AM (ImXfC)
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I meant in terms of proportion to the rest of the population.
In the 50s and 60s Boomers were, by far, the largest contingent of the overall population.
Which is why so much energy has been directed towards their wants and needs for so long.
Advertising was mass directed at children during the Boomers childhoods for the first time because they wanted to develop long-term customers, and it worked.
The Boomer generation is dying off now, of course, but their influence has been paramount for 70 years, no other generation has had so much cultural power for so long of a time.Posted by: SpeakingOf at May 09, 2025 09:42 AM (6ydKt)
367 392 Yeah, let's turn the reins of government over to a group whose moral touchstone is Harry Potter.
What could possibly go wrong?
Posted by: muldoon at May 09, 2025 09:41 AM (HOX+I)
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Harry Potter read the right way is pro-2nd Amendment, small government, and anti-elitist.Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at May 09, 2025 09:43 AM (GBKbO)
368 If you weren't alive during those times, you have no idea.
Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at May 09, 2025 09:36 AM (5xuJ/)
Whenever someone asked Pappymayhem if he protested in the 60's he said, " no I was busy being an adult. Had to leave my wife and baby son for Vietnam, came back, got a job, took care of my family. Protesting was for children who didn't know what was the right end of a fork."Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at May 09, 2025 09:44 AM (2J/Lj)
369 All the talk about Pope Leo's "tweets" actually refers to his scattered retweets of other people's comments. Some of those retweets are, sadly, liberal on the immigration issue, but he's also retweeted at least one pro-family, anti-rainbow article by Archbishop Chaput. An apparent key difference between him and Francis is that he doesn't seem compelled to shoot his mouth off on every topic, at every opportunity; we will probably see little of the off-the-cuff pronouncement that Francis liked to lob at the faithful. The fact that he kept a lower public profile than Cardinals like McElroy, and rarely weighed in directly on the hot-button topics, would also indicate that he's not a raging heretic, since there was no downside to taking heterodox positions publicly during Francis' rein, and some upside. All the stuff about him being responsible for taking out Strickland is from people who don't understand how clerical structures work; that would have been Francis's call, not his, and he only carried out his official duties as the head of the dicastery for bishops. We'll see; his first homily was really good, criticizing both atheism and quasi-atheistic "Christian" humanism.Posted by: Wiese at May 09, 2025 09:48 AM (1pand)
370 My father was born at the absolute tail-end of being drafting age (for 'Nam), but never got drafted.
So I don't understand how he ended up such a belligerent asshole.Posted by: XTC at May 09, 2025 09:49 AM (UnA8+)
371 From what I read, the African Cardinal was too conservative to be elected, and the Filipino Cardinal was highly outspoken in support of Francis’ agenda. Politically, we’ll have to see where Leo goes, but he’s reportedly much in favor of Francis’ immigration stance.
For myself (not a Catholic but married to one), I’m wondering if Leo will continue to support everything but the faith he professes.Posted by: Advo at May 09, 2025 09:50 AM (jO4mz)
Posted by: Fast Eddie at May 09, 2025 09:52 AM (bjDre)
373 Yeah, and how many of us boomers were drafted and shipped off to a little place in Southeast Asia to fight and die in a war cheered on by "the greatest generation." Generations since then didn't have that sword hanging over their heads. If you weren't alive during those times, you have no idea.
Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at May 09, 2025 09:36 AM (5xuJ/)
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I’m not bagging on Boomers.
My parents are one Silent and one Boomer.
Was Vietnam a shitshow? Surely.
But I’m pretty sure a lot of the Greatest Gen didn’t appreciate being shipped off to the Pacific or Europe either.
There are no drafts now but a lot of X and Millennials died in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Vietnam defined your generation because not because it was a terrible war, there have always been terrible wars.
Vietnam defined the Boomers because it was the only existential threat your generation faced in large numbers, other than a general fear of nuclear war, while everything else was peak America prosperity & influence.
Did a hundred-thousand Boomers have it horribly bad in Vietnam? Yes.
Millions more Boomers parlayed the war into a movement to turn the USA communist, which we’re still dealing with to this day.Posted by: SpeakingOf at May 09, 2025 10:04 AM (6ydKt)
374 Good moring, all, and thanks, J.J. for another excellent thread.
>Wikipedia (& other sources) Religious violence in Nigeria refers to Christian-Muslim strife in modern Nigeria, which can be traced back to 1953. Today, religious violence in Nigeria is dominated by the Boko Haram insurgency, which aims to establish an Islamic state in Nigeria.
Nigeria, the 6th largest country in the world; more people without electricity than any other country (Economist, 1 day ago); about 10 million children not in school through primary education is free and compulsory (6 - 15). Language of instruction is English or local language and there were also 162 universities & colleges in 2024.
>A fascinating piece on Council of Foreign Relations dot org blog: 'The Nigerian Conundrum' When an irresistible society meets an immovable state. Post by Ebenezer Obadare, Author, June 14, 2023
A huge smoldering 'issue' no matter how its examined.Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at May 09, 2025 10:44 AM (NFX2v)
375 Nanny P. (twitter) yesterday, 1st saving Medicaid, Medicare and NIH and then:
@SpeakerPelosi
Joyfully, people around the world have learned of a new Pope elected by one of the largest and most diverse conclaves ever — and the first American pope in history.
For many of us, the name Leo XIV happily brings to mind Leo XIII’s Rerum novarum which was a blessing for working people. And it is heartening that His Holiness continued the blessing that Pope Francis gave on Easter Sunday: “God loves everyone. Evil will not prevail.”
In his own words, Pope Leo XIV said, “We can be a missionary church, a church that builds bridges, that is always open to receive everyone.”
Let us thank God for His Holiness Pope Leo XIV and for this vision of unity. All of us hope and pray for the success of His Holiness and his vision for the Church.
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How long did it take for the 1st impeachment of PDT vs his 1st term? 🤔
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>From above, 'On the Twenty-First-Century Waterfront'
Another setup for PDT to contend with. See FreightWaves dot com, Analysis: Biden, ILA score wins in port strike, but larger issues remain. Longshore walkout raises questions about port system.
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Nice weekend! 🙏Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at May 09, 2025 10:44 AM (NFX2v)
376 Chicago style Pope? Way too Thick crust. Not genuine.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 09, 2025 07:28 A
I have never understood why people outside of Chicago think that "Chicago-style pizza" = deep dish pizza.
If anything is "Chicago-style" pizza, it's the thin crust pizza cut into square pieces, instead of the typical triangle pieces like a pie. What some people for some reason now call "tavern style".
That is what I grew up with on the southside of Chicago and what you will find in pretty much every pizza place in the Chicago area and suburbs. The deep dish pizza has almost always been just a thing for turists.
For the record, my favorite pizza places on south side of Chicago are "Vito and Nick's" and "Palermo's of 63rd" (made with sweet sauce). Outstanding must-have Chicago staple thin crust pizza. I order from Palermo's of 63rd every time I go home to visit family.
Yelp (Palermo's): https://bit.ly/3ZdyFibPosted by: Clyde Shelton at May 09, 2025 11:42 AM (P5BPp)
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