Mid-Morning Art Thread

Fantasia on a Theme by Dr. S.
Paul Cadmus

Posted by: CBD at 09:30 AM

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1 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 09, 2025 09:30 AM (Zz0t1)

2 wtfo

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

3 Gay

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 09, 2025 09:30 AM (dDmld)

4 What the.....

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 09, 2025 09:30 AM (Zz0t1)

5 Dude's seen me in a speedo, obviously.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 09, 2025 09:30 AM (GBKbO)

6 "Don't take the brown acid...."

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 09, 2025 09:31 AM (Zz0t1)

7 Yikes.. I got nothin' to say

Posted by: It's me donna at June 09, 2025 09:31 AM (VE6XX)

8 Literal shArt.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 09, 2025 09:31 AM (Zz0t1)

9 I think I recognize the guy on the right from the ottoman.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 09, 2025 09:31 AM (dDmld)

10 Whitney Museum of American Art

Date
1946

Classification
Paintings

Medium
Tempera on composition board

Dimensions
Overall: 13 1/4 × 13 5/16in. (33.7 × 33.8 cm)

Posted by: rhennigantx at June 09, 2025 09:31 AM (gbOdA)

11 no. just...no.

Posted by: Gref at June 09, 2025 09:31 AM (aBgBM)

12 Its a Pride Month special

Posted by: Huck Follywood at June 09, 2025 09:32 AM (8uHMn)

13 I think the 'ladies' are in shock

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 09, 2025 09:32 AM (CxXWJ)

14 Wow. That's totally not gay.

Posted by: Bulg at June 09, 2025 09:32 AM (77rzZ)

15 Is that the british dude from the dog attack video that attempted to help by ramming his finger up the dog's ass?

Seems that's about to happen to the underwear dude.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 09, 2025 09:32 AM (Zz0t1)

16 Sneaking in a penguin?

Posted by: Nazdar at June 09, 2025 09:32 AM (NcvvS)

17 Homage to de gay. Would not hang unless to use as a dartboard. Thx for the Monday morning vurp CBD

Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 09, 2025 09:32 AM (2UZZJ)

18 Which one is David French?

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at June 09, 2025 09:32 AM (ULPxl)

19 Looks like the painter learned perspective from MC Escher.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 09, 2025 09:32 AM (dDmld)

20 Happy Pride Month... I guess?
That boy in the purple shirt looks a mite peakéd. Should probably get tested for the bug.

Posted by: gKWVE at June 09, 2025 09:32 AM (08DAr)

21 Why is there a penguin on the post?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 09, 2025 09:32 AM (Zz0t1)

22 In fact, you could call it fiercely heterosexual.

Posted by: Bulg at June 09, 2025 09:33 AM (77rzZ)

23 Rehoboth Beach?

Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 09, 2025 09:33 AM (Q4IgG)

24 IF this is 1946 this might be the first appearance in the painted medium of the "bikini."

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 09, 2025 09:33 AM (CxXWJ)

25 GAY!
No, I mean that literally. A gay painter painting gays.

Posted by: Pete in Texas at June 09, 2025 09:33 AM (BHrzb)

26 Pride month celebration?

Posted by: nurse ratched at June 09, 2025 09:33 AM (mT+6a)

27 If there ever was a painting in need of a can of tomato soup poured on it......

Where's a climate protest when you need one?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 09, 2025 09:33 AM (Zz0t1)

28 A ginger meth twink and his sugar daddy check out a muscle Twunk while two transvestite prostitutes look on.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at June 09, 2025 09:34 AM (W7FaP)

29 David French is the fat guy in the vanishing blue speedo.

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 09, 2025 09:34 AM (CxXWJ)

30 Proud Penguin Art triggers Duncanthrax into sustained seizure.

Posted by: Just Desserts at June 09, 2025 09:34 AM (G5+As)

31 I think the 'ladies' are in shock
Posted by: Anna Puma
_______

Hello sailor!

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at June 09, 2025 09:34 AM (ITkJX)

32 What's Kathy Griffin doing in there?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 09, 2025 09:34 AM (dDmld)

33 Hoo boy. Happy bushes can't save this one.

Posted by: zombie Bob Ross at June 09, 2025 09:34 AM (+TG6J)

34 Oh shit!
There’s a penguin. DONT TELL DUNCANTHRAX!

Posted by: nurse ratched at June 09, 2025 09:34 AM (mT+6a)

35 What in the wide wide world of sports am I looking at here?

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at June 09, 2025 09:35 AM (XOc1v)

36 What's Kathy Griffin doing in there?

I thought the skinny one was Taylor Lorenz

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 09, 2025 09:35 AM (CxXWJ)

37 Cartoon perversion. Not art.

Posted by: huerfano at June 09, 2025 09:36 AM (n2swS)

38 Don't want to know where that dude is going with the left hand finger.

Posted by: From about That Time at June 09, 2025 09:36 AM (n4GiU)

39 Penguin on Fencepost>>>Turtle on Fencepost.

Posted by: Penguin Promotion Board at June 09, 2025 09:36 AM (G5+As)

40 Whoa! Put the bong down Paul.

Posted by: Tonypete at June 09, 2025 09:36 AM (cYBz/)

41 Which one is David French?
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at June 09, 2025 09:32 AM (ULPxl)

I'd guess the manboob lounging on the porch drinking lemonade.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 09, 2025 09:36 AM (Zz0t1)

42 Looks like Provincetown.

Posted by: nurse ratched at June 09, 2025 09:36 AM (mT+6a)

43 This...is a lot for me to take in. And that's saying something.

Posted by: Pete Buttigieg at June 09, 2025 09:36 AM (JCZqz)

44 >>> 39 Penguin on Fencepost>>>Turtle on Fencepost.
Posted by: Penguin Promotion Board at June 09, 2025 09:36 AM (G5+As)

Posted by: Mitch McConnell at June 09, 2025 09:36 AM (ULPxl)

45 I thought the skinny one was Taylor Lorenz
Posted by: Anna Puma

Taylor Lorenz is so old, she's in cave paintings in France.

Posted by: Bulg at June 09, 2025 09:37 AM (77rzZ)

46 The Democrat Convention afterparty.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 09, 2025 09:37 AM (Zz0t1)

47 35 What in the wide wide world of sports am I looking at here?
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at June 09, 2025 09:35 AM (XOc1v)

De Campton Races sing dis song . . .

Posted by: Kansas City f at June 09, 2025 09:37 AM (08DAr)

48 Paul Cadmus other works. I am not making this up.

From 1931 until 1992, Cadmus produced 120 paintings, two a year on average. Some highlights include:

YMCA Locker Room, 1933[35]
Shore Leave, 1933
The Fleet's In!

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at June 09, 2025 09:38 AM (W7FaP)

49 >>> 22 In fact, you could call it fiercely heterosexual.
Posted by: Bulg at June 09, 2025 09:33 AM (77rzZ)

Would hang!!!

Posted by: Cory Booker at June 09, 2025 09:38 AM (ULPxl)

50 Notice the guy with the ribs looking like he's about to take a dive off the high board, he's wearing a sailor's hat. So the penguin is his pet?

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 09, 2025 09:38 AM (CxXWJ)

51 Big Penguin has finally gotten to CBD. Sad!

Posted by: Duncanthrax at June 09, 2025 09:38 AM (+TG6J)

52 🏳️‍🌈🌈

Posted by: redridinghood at June 09, 2025 09:38 AM (NpAcC)

53 Well, if cartoons are art, this is art.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 09, 2025 09:38 AM (0zCeC)

54 Person on the far right? I know a tranny when I see one. 1946, eh? See, the activists were right- transsexuals have always been among us!

Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at June 09, 2025 09:38 AM (JCZqz)

55 The detail on the crotch of Glenn Close walking on the right there, my advice would be to NOT embiggen this painting.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 09, 2025 09:38 AM (Zz0t1)

56 The garbage is flicking it's tongue at the trannies walking by.

Posted by: Reforger at June 09, 2025 09:39 AM (vN+z3)

57 Kid, kid, c’mon gimme a break. Don’t put your fingers there, just don’t.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 09, 2025 09:39 AM (3tIsI)

58 Ick.

Posted by: Lizzy at June 09, 2025 09:39 AM (F/B4x)

59 YMCA locker room is.... Quite something

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at June 09, 2025 09:39 AM (W7FaP)

60 The penguin has a hat. Repeat, the penguin has a hat

Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 09, 2025 09:39 AM (2UZZJ)

61 Rehoboth Beach?
Posted by: Martini Farmer

Either there or Provincetown, Key West, Fire Island, South Beach.

Just saying.

Posted by: Tonypete at June 09, 2025 09:39 AM (cYBz/)

62
Taylor Lorenz is so old, she's in cave paintings in France.
Posted by: Bulg at June 09, 2025 09:37 AM (77rzZ)

She was the 3rd wheel in the Adam and Eve story.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 09, 2025 09:39 AM (Zz0t1)

63 Good lord. CBD must be in a mood today.

Posted by: Tuna at June 09, 2025 09:39 AM (lJ0H4)

64 Morning in Provincetown?

Posted by: red speck at June 09, 2025 09:40 AM (0Id0S)

65 Greg Louganis

Posted by: Doof at June 09, 2025 09:40 AM (nc9Vg)

66 Fat dude is having a lemonade and a smoke after a busy morning carving penguin souvenirs for the tourists.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 09, 2025 09:40 AM (dDmld)

67 The fat guy is Raymond Burr

Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 09, 2025 09:40 AM (2UZZJ)

68 The penguin represents the degenerate nature of humanity. Everything else is crap.

Posted by: fd at June 09, 2025 09:40 AM (PWJZr)

69 Throughout his life, Cadmus rejected the label of “gay artist,” asking that we focus on the quality of his work as art. Nevertheless, his art was inextricably linked to his life and thus includes references to his male lovers, his love triangles, and the gay places that he frequented, such as Fire Island beaches, the New York City docks, and the YMCA.. . .

Ah, OK.

Posted by: Lizzy at June 09, 2025 09:41 AM (F/B4x)

70 >>> 63 Good lord. CBD must be in a mood today.
Posted by: Tuna at June 09, 2025 09:39 AM (lJ0H4)

Baguette Withdrawal Symptom.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at June 09, 2025 09:41 AM (ULPxl)

71 Not Raymond Burr, Sydney Greenstreet

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 09, 2025 09:41 AM (CxXWJ)

72 From Wikipedia:
"Paul Cadmus (December 17, 1904 – December 12, 1999) was an American artist widely known for his egg tempera paintings of gritty[1] social interactions in urban settings. He also produced many highly finished drawings of single nude male figures. His paintings combine elements of eroticism and social critique in a style often called magic realism."

Posted by: Tuna at June 09, 2025 09:41 AM (lJ0H4)

73 Whitney Museum of American Art

Date
1946

Classification
Paintings

That's about it for the good points.

Posted by: t-bird at June 09, 2025 09:42 AM (MyGJ0)

74 Not impressed with today's art entry. Heavy Metal magazine back in the 70's did it better.

Posted by: troyriser at June 09, 2025 09:42 AM (DPeYO)

75 >>The detail on the crotch of Glenn Close walking on the right there, my advice would be to NOT embiggen this painting.

There's a lobster hiding in the garbage can ready to attack that camel toe.

Posted by: one hour sober at June 09, 2025 09:42 AM (Y1sOo)

76 or Syndrome? That sounds way more official.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at June 09, 2025 09:42 AM (ULPxl)

77 Kathy Griffin's book is called Varieties of Physique and Temperament. Maybe she's working on her Master's thesis.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 09, 2025 09:42 AM (dDmld)

78 The fat guy is Raymond Burr
Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 09, 2025 09:40 AM (2UZZJ)

He killed Alexander Hamilton, right?

Posted by: Doof at June 09, 2025 09:43 AM (nc9Vg)

79 That trash can is a relative of The Barrel, isn't it?

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 09, 2025 09:43 AM (CSMpc)

80 New hash? I'll blame it on last night's storm.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at June 09, 2025 09:43 AM (ULPxl)

81 But no one wants to talk about the pale anorexic redhead with the long cigarette holder.

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 09, 2025 09:43 AM (CxXWJ)

82 Now this is my idea of a vacation!

Posted by: The Great Poof. at June 09, 2025 09:43 AM (G5+As)

83 NFW.

You owe us boobs tomorrow.

Posted by: Eeyore at June 09, 2025 09:43 AM (od0dV)

84 The guy in the purple shirt has creepy, spindly fingers.

Posted by: redridinghood at June 09, 2025 09:43 AM (NpAcC)

85 His paintings combine elements of eroticism and social critique in a style often called ~~magic realism~~ unadulterated shit."
Posted by: Tuna

Fixed it for you Wiki.

Posted by: Tonypete at June 09, 2025 09:43 AM (cYBz/)

86 69 Throughout his life, Cadmus rejected the label of “gay artist,” asking that we focus on the quality of his work as art. Nevertheless, his art was inextricably linked to his life and thus includes references to his male lovers, his love triangles, and the gay places that he frequented, such as Fire Island beaches, the New York City docks, and the YMCA.. . .

--------

Called it at 3

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 09, 2025 09:44 AM (dDmld)

87 I've been informed that the YMCA totally isn't gay.

Posted by: Reforger at June 09, 2025 09:44 AM (vN+z3)

88 @72 read the bio as I had heard the name but didn't know his works. This guy was so gay Truman Capote, Liberace and Harvey Fierstein would all say "dude ease up"

Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 09, 2025 09:44 AM (2UZZJ)

89 The fat guy is Raymond Burr
Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 09, 2025 09:40 AM (2UZZJ)

He killed Alexander Hamilton, right?
Posted by: Doof

She was in 'The Wizard of Oz' amirite?

Posted by: Tonypete at June 09, 2025 09:44 AM (cYBz/)

90 This painting does illustrate a fundamental natural truth, uncomfortable as it may be.

Where there are pervs, there are penguins.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at June 09, 2025 09:44 AM (+TG6J)

91 Gay
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 09, 2025 09:30 AM (dDmld)

Seconded.

Posted by: Pray The Gay Away! at June 09, 2025 09:45 AM (87CKS)

92 Wakes up
Scratches
Looks around
WTF??? Perfect Monday art. I will instead gaze longingly at the viagra hotties.
Goes looking for coffee.

Posted by: Diogenes at June 09, 2025 09:45 AM (W/lyH)

93 90 This painting does illustrate a fundamental natural truth, uncomfortable as it may be.

Where there are pervs, there are penguins.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at June 09, 2025 09:44 AM (+TG6J)

======

Ah, so it's use is cautionary in nature.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 09, 2025 09:45 AM (GBKbO)

94 Dr. Seuss?

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at June 09, 2025 09:45 AM (6YdsJ)

95 CBD might've spent too much time in France.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 09, 2025 09:45 AM (Zz0t1)

96 This guy is gayer than Liberace's valet.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 09, 2025 09:45 AM (dDmld)

97 But no one wants to talk about the pale anorexic redhead with the long cigarette holder.
Posted by: Anna Puma at June 09, 2025 09:43 AM

Is she truly a redhead?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at June 09, 2025 09:45 AM (+TG6J)

98 Dr. Seuss?
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea

I would not, could not
with a goat.

Posted by: Tonypete at June 09, 2025 09:45 AM (cYBz/)

99 Is the gay Adonis wearing a sailor hat and is that his special "friend" giving him a good look? Not weird guy, the artists model for fat man on an ottoman.

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at June 09, 2025 09:46 AM (2NHgQ)

100 >>> 98 Dr. Seuss?
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea

I would not, could not
with a goat.
Posted by: Tonypete at June 09, 2025 09:45 AM (cYBz/)

Those sheeps are asking for it.

Posted by: goats at June 09, 2025 09:46 AM (ULPxl)

101 Biden as a life guard. The early years.

Posted by: Not a joke at June 09, 2025 09:46 AM (lIgBp)

102 This is about California, right?

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at June 09, 2025 09:46 AM (copfg)

103 A work like this makes me pine for Socialist Realism.

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

104 Paul Cadmus sucks cock by choice.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at June 09, 2025 09:47 AM (XCUp7)

105 I pass by here each morning and very rarely comment.

CBD, what the living heck is going on here?

Back to lurking.

Posted by: LRob in OK, Moron and Lunatic at June 09, 2025 09:47 AM (ha1wR)

106 The male model is posing like a Christ figure. He is being adored.

It’s very well done. I hate it. But it draws out a kind of revulsion that is too strong to discount its effectiveness.

Yuck.

Posted by: nurse ratched at June 09, 2025 09:47 AM (n4BTz)

107 Is CBD trying to give us AIDS?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 09, 2025 09:47 AM (Zz0t1)

108 Missed the penguin and now I see that gay Adonis is mimicking the penguin pose.

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at June 09, 2025 09:48 AM (2NHgQ)

109 >>But no one wants to talk about the pale anorexic redhead with the long cigarette holder.

Women? Ewwww

Posted by: Lizzy at June 09, 2025 09:48 AM (F/B4x)

110 Good, we're past 100. Time to talk about boobs.

Posted by: Bulg at June 09, 2025 09:48 AM (77rzZ)

111 Art Alert! There are still three weeks left in Pride Month!

Posted by: Ramrod Lounge at June 09, 2025 09:48 AM (G5+As)

112 Ew, ew, ew.

Posted by: She Hobbit (out and about in Middle Earth) at June 09, 2025 09:48 AM (kJzhz)

113 Today...

The last day of my 30s.

And CBD sends me out like this.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 09, 2025 09:49 AM (GBKbO)

114 So is the YWCA full of lesbos?

Posted by: Bulg at June 09, 2025 09:49 AM (77rzZ)

115 He's not kidding. Cadmus painted YMCA Locker Room from Ibiza when touring Europe in the company of Jared... French.
French would go on to marry a woman so there is that.
Cadmus would go on to involve himself in a number of tiresome Left causes.

Posted by: gKWVE at June 09, 2025 09:49 AM (08DAr)

116 The artist had more Wangs in him than the Beijing phonebook

Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 09, 2025 09:49 AM (2UZZJ)

117 Do not take the brown acid.

Posted by: toby928 at June 09, 2025 09:49 AM (jc0TO)

118

Posted by: Mitch McConnell

I had a funny back-and-forth on Reddit with some Lefty convinced Mitch McConnell and Joni Ernst were far right senators beloved by Republicans. He eventually asked for evidence of Right-Wing sites not liking them, so I linked here with a few quotes over the years. His response?

that’s one in the sea of the right wing media ecosystem. This is very obviously a blog built on provocation and radicalization...Well I feel gross for “defending” Mitch McConnell. Also Ace of Spades HQ is trash. It intentionally blurs the line between vulgarity and political commentary in order to dodge criticism. Its sole purpose is to provoke and get coverage from big daddy Fox News.

Ace is a Fox News attention whore lol. And we love Fox just as much as McConnell and Ernst!

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at June 09, 2025 09:49 AM (JCZqz)

119 The artist being a shirt lifter explains why the women look rather hideous, I guess.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 09, 2025 09:49 AM (0zCeC)

120 110 Good, we're past 100. Time to talk about boobs.
Posted by: Bulg at June 09, 2025 09:48 AM (77rzZ)

----------

I was just noticing Kathy Griffin's lack of them.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 09, 2025 09:49 AM (dDmld)

121 118 that’s one in the sea of the right wing media ecosystem. This is very obviously a blog built on provocation and radicalization...Well I feel gross for “defending” Mitch McConnell. Also Ace of Spades HQ is trash. It intentionally blurs the line between vulgarity and political commentary in order to dodge criticism. Its sole purpose is to provoke and get coverage from big daddy Fox News.

Ace is a Fox News attention whore lol. And we love Fox just as much as McConnell and Ernst!
Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at June 09, 2025 09:49 AM (JCZqz)

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I thought vulgarity was the new sign of authenticity?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 09, 2025 09:50 AM (GBKbO)

122 Today...

The last day of my 30s.

And CBD sends me out like this.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 09, 2025 09:49 AM (GBKbO)

He's just reminding you that it's all downhill from here.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 09, 2025 09:50 AM (Zz0t1)

123 It is obvious that Mr. Cadmus adores the ladies.

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

124 >>> 111 Art Alert! There are still three weeks left in Pride Month!
Posted by: Ramrod Lounge at June 09, 2025 09:48 AM (G5+As)

Oh right, it's that time of year.

The commies must be really upset about deportations to let the L.A. "peaceful protesters" do their thing during Pride Month!!!

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at June 09, 2025 09:50 AM (ULPxl)

125 Is this in a museum? If so, where? I need to know so I can place a Tsar Bomba at ground zero on Nukemap.

Posted by: PabloD at June 09, 2025 09:50 AM (Dsfkc)

126 dafuq

Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at June 09, 2025 09:51 AM (OUMaO)

127 The artist had more Wangs in him than the Beijing phonebook
Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 09, 2025 09:49 AM (2UZZJ)

My vote for thread winner.

Posted by: Diogenes at June 09, 2025 09:51 AM (W/lyH)

128 Both dudes sitting down seem to be eyeing the other dudes package. And what's with the skinny dudes fingers? Seem to be extra long,weird. The blonde woman seems to have a package just as big as the dude. And the area they are in looks like a dump. Don't like this at all.

Posted by: Case at June 09, 2025 09:51 AM (k7qYZ)

129 122 He's just reminding you that it's all downhill from here.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 09, 2025 09:50 AM (Zz0t1)

=======

My dad just had a cow heart valve put in last week. He's 70. His dad lived to 86 (suffering from gangrene that required the amputation of his legs while suffering mightily from Alzheimer's related dementia).

I should have a few more decades left. Maybe I'm not even at the halfway point.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 09, 2025 09:51 AM (GBKbO)

130 The male figure is beautiful and fit. Hardly an arguement there. The other four people are hideous in their own ways.

Why is there garbage strewn about? What does that mean?

Posted by: nurse ratched at June 09, 2025 09:52 AM (7Lfjw)

131 128 Both dudes sitting down seem to be eyeing the other dudes package. And what's with the skinny dudes fingers? Seem to be extra long,weird. The blonde woman seems to have a package just as big as the dude. And the area they are in looks like a dump. Don't like this at all.
Posted by: Case at June 09, 2025 09:51 AM (k7qYZ)

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I got the sense that the redhead is supposed to be Cadmus himself.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 09, 2025 09:52 AM (GBKbO)

132 Kathy Griffin's dead name was "Billy"

Thats the rumor anyway.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at June 09, 2025 09:52 AM (eAYRY)

133 A work like this makes me pine for Socialist Realism.

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

Tomorrow!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (with a beret and a Gauloises) at June 09, 2025 09:53 AM (mWSu4)

134 Daily Mail lead headline:

"Looters ransack stores in LA as FBI hunts rioters who hurled rocks at ICE agents on freeway: Dems say 'under control'"

Posted by: Duncanthrax at June 09, 2025 09:53 AM (+TG6J)

135 My dad just had a cow heart valve put in last week. He's 70. His dad lived to 86 (suffering from gangrene that required the amputation of his legs while suffering mightily from Alzheimer's related dementia).

I should have a few more decades left. Maybe I'm not even at the halfway point.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 09, 2025 09:51 AM (GBKbO)

As much as I dislike the medical community, they're getting good with the heart valve thing. Have a friend in his 70's that's had a pig valve, which was replaced with a cow valve years ago and he's still kicking. Still plowing and planting his field and selling vegetables every spring.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 09, 2025 09:54 AM (Zz0t1)

136 134 Daily Mail lead headline:

"Looters ransack stores in LA as FBI hunts rioters who hurled rocks at ICE agents on freeway: Dems say 'under control'"
Posted by: Duncanthrax at June 09, 2025 09:53 AM (+TG6J)

======

"And if a leftist government official says it, that means that it is true."
-story about Biden or LA riots?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 09, 2025 09:54 AM (GBKbO)

137 Is CBD trying to give us AIDS?
Posted by: Sponge

Hmmmmm. . . . maybe.

We know, sure as hell, it doesn't came from gay secks.

-- NIH, CDC, any agency the Feds have

Posted by: Tonypete at June 09, 2025 09:54 AM (cYBz/)

138
Why is there garbage strewn about? What does that mean?
Posted by: nurse ratched at June 09, 2025 09:52 AM (7Lfjw)

Jersey Shore.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 09, 2025 09:55 AM (Zz0t1)

139 Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 09, 2025 09:51 AM (GBKbO)
----------------
Best wishes to your father for a quick and full recovery.

Set him up with a good movie tonight. My bride wants to watch "Sullivans Travels", so maybe try that one.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at June 09, 2025 09:55 AM (eAYRY)

140 Boobs, boobs, boobs, boobs...

Posted by: Bulg at June 09, 2025 09:55 AM (77rzZ)

141 I should have a few more decades left. Maybe I'm not even at the halfway point.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu

Ample evidence points to 2033 as being the year for the end of the world.

Posted by: Nostrildamus at June 09, 2025 09:56 AM (G5+As)

142 >>Notice the guy with the ribs looking like he's about to take a dive off the high board, he's wearing a sailor's hat. So the penguin is his pet?

Maybe a reference to this?

Instead of creating a typical American scene [for his Public Works of Art Project], Cadmus submitted The Fleet’s In! (1934), a wild scene of drunken sailors interacting with civilians and sketchy women inspired by his memories of the uninhibited sailors who flooded New York’s Riverside Park. . .

Indeed the most striking thing about the Fleets In! scandal is that no one mentioned the homosexual subtext of the painting. They denounced the loose women and drunken sailors, but once you delve into this scene of general debauchery, you notice at its center an unmistakable gay pickup in progress. We see a well-groomed man wearing a red tie offering a cigarette to a Marine, who eagerly accepts it. As George Chauncey wrote in Gay New York: “The blond civilian with plucked eyebrows, rouged lips and powdered face is the 30s archetype of the gay ‘fairy.’ His red tie was a well-known queer code that conveyed his availability.” The painting’s queerness extends beyond this encounter. . . .

Posted by: Lizzy at June 09, 2025 09:56 AM (F/B4x)

143 The limerick center in my brain (located just medial to the amygdala) took one look at this picture and self-involuted, retreating to its 'safe space' underneath the hypothalamus and is now curled up in the fetal position sucking its metaphorical thumb. It may take extended regressive hypnotic therapy to recover its full limerick capabilities. I'll keep y'all posted.

Posted by: muldoon at June 09, 2025 09:56 AM (/iMjX)

144 My bride wants to watch "Sullivans Travels", so maybe try that one.
Posted by: Huck Follywood

That's a good one. And Veronica Lake was hawt.

Posted by: Bulg at June 09, 2025 09:56 AM (77rzZ)

145 I got hairy legs!

Posted by: Joey B at June 09, 2025 09:56 AM (Vu7A1)

146 The coffee shop I like posted one of those fabulous flags. I'm going to the one that closes on Sunday instead.

Posted by: gKWVE at June 09, 2025 09:57 AM (08DAr)

147 Set him up with a good movie tonight. My bride wants to watch "Sullivans Travels", so maybe try that one.
Posted by: Huck Follywood

That's a good one. Joel McCrea is under appreciated, or just written off as a cowboy actor. He's very good.

Posted by: Two Thumbs Up! at June 09, 2025 09:59 AM (G5+As)

148 Nice penguin.

Posted by: JackStraw at June 09, 2025 09:59 AM (viF8m)

149
"Looters ransack stores in LA as FBI hunts rioters who hurled rocks at ICE agents on freeway: Dems say 'under control'"
Posted by: Duncanthrax at June 09, 2025 09:53 AM (+TG6J)

And CNN has found an alternate for their "mostly peaceful" dipshittery.

And fiercely heterosexual Corey Booker has thoughts......

Senator @CoryBooker thinks the anti-ICE riots in Los Angeles — in which criminal illegals and violent mobs are hurling concrete projectiles at vehicles, lighting fires, and attacking federal law enforcement — are “peaceful.” pic.twitter.com/zdshuTeJdP

— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) June 8, 2025

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 09, 2025 10:00 AM (Zz0t1)

150 My bride wants to watch "Sullivans Travels", so maybe try that one.
Posted by: Huck Follywood

That's a good one. And Veronica Lake was hawt.
Posted by: Bulg

Gulliver's Travels > Sullivans Travels

Posted by: Moron Math at June 09, 2025 10:00 AM (JCZqz)

151 The limerick center in my brain (located just medial to the amygdala) took one look at this picture and self-involuted, retreating to its 'safe space' underneath the hypothalamus and is now curled up in the fetal position sucking its metaphorical thumb. It may take extended regressive hypnotic therapy to recover its full limerick capabilities. I'll keep y'all posted.
Posted by: muldoon

I think Pfizer's got a pill for that. Maybe you could start taking it and then be in an ad for it. Start practicing your dance routines!

Posted by: Bulg at June 09, 2025 10:00 AM (77rzZ)

152 More like "Fantasia on a Theme by Dr. Acid."

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 09, 2025 10:00 AM (GlyvH)

153 Boobs, boobs, boobs, boobs...
Posted by: Bulg at June 09, 2025 09:55 AM (77rzZ)

Spam, Spam, Spam, eggs, bacon and Spam.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 09, 2025 10:01 AM (Zz0t1)

154 The Pride... it oozes from the canvas.

(Might want to get a mop.)

Posted by: red speck at June 09, 2025 10:01 AM (0Id0S)

155 Poor Muldoon's great talents limerickal
Laid low by a painting chimerical.
A blow to the eye
Like a big pizza pie
Were't not sad it would be quite hysterical.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 09, 2025 10:02 AM (0zCeC)

156 Here’s a tip. If you didn’t want to be known as a gay artist quit being so F’ing gay.

Posted by: polynikes at June 09, 2025 10:02 AM (VofaG)

157 Doesn't appeal to me

Posted by: Skip at June 09, 2025 10:03 AM (+qU29)

158 143 The limerick center in my brain (located just medial to the amygdala) took one look at this picture and self-involuted, retreating to its 'safe space' underneath the hypothalamus and is now curled up in the fetal position sucking its metaphorical thumb. It may take extended regressive hypnotic therapy to recover its full limerick capabilities. I'll keep y'all posted.
Posted by: muldoon at June 09, 2025 09:56 AM (/iMjX)

We have lost a treasure.
Prayers sent.

Posted by: Reforger at June 09, 2025 10:05 AM (vN+z3)

159 Doesn't appeal to me
Posted by: Skip at June 09, 2025 10:03 AM (+qU29)

I would seriously question your mental status if it did.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 09, 2025 10:05 AM (Zz0t1)

160 Wow! CBD has neutered Muldoon. I told you this French madness would have wide repercussions!

Posted by: Don't Play With Fire at June 09, 2025 10:05 AM (G5+As)

161 This is . . . disturbing, but offers a lot to examine. The fitness of the sailor model and the slim blonde woman on the right, contrasted with the the blubbery kid and the sneering stick-thin one, is startling. Lots of color too.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 09, 2025 10:05 AM (omVj0)

162 Take home messages from the Joondeph COVID article linked in JJ's Morning Report:

1. mRNA vaccines do not have a an "off switch", meaning that the production of spike protein by the cells can persist for days, weeks, or even longer

2. Whether from the actual virus or from the vaccine, the spike protein is the key villain, triggering the adverse effects such as myocarditis, clotting abnormalities, "turbo" cancers, etc.

3. COVID antibodies are detectable whether you had the disease or the vaccine or both. Thus it is a challenge to distinguish 'long COVID' from vaccine injury.

Posted by: muldoon at June 09, 2025 10:05 AM (/iMjX)

163 Model didn't skip leg day.

Posted by: ShainS -- Has the Big Beautiful Breakup passed yet? at June 09, 2025 10:06 AM (BqomM)

164 Alternative Caption: Gay Pride Comes to Amity Island.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 09, 2025 10:06 AM (XV/Pl)

165 this painting would be documentary capture of some parts of North Wildwood back in the day, or the Villas.

Posted by: kallisto at June 09, 2025 10:07 AM (dCxaZ)

166 This is . . . disturbing, but offers a lot to examine. The fitness of the sailor model and the slim blonde woman on the right, contrasted with the the blubbery kid and the sneering stick-thin one, is startling. Lots of color too.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 09, 2025 10:05 AM (omVj0)

I noticed the very collectible radio at the bottom.

( side note. I did a quick painting of that alternative ending of Wizard of Oz I had mentioned) 😃

Posted by: polynikes at June 09, 2025 10:08 AM (VofaG)

167 1. mRNA vaccines do not have a an "off switch", meaning that the production of spike protein by the cells can persist for days, weeks, or even longer

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

Unexpectedly.

Posted by: ShainS -- Has the Big Beautiful Breakup passed yet? at June 09, 2025 10:08 AM (BqomM)

168 Alternative Caption: Gay Pride Comes to Amity Island.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 09, 2025 10:06 AM (XV/Pl)

And one shark asks the other, "Does this taste a little queer to you, too"

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 09, 2025 10:08 AM (0zCeC)

169 Poor Muldoon's great talents limerickal
Laid low by a painting chimerical.
A blow to the eye
Like a big pizza pie
Were't not sad it would be quite hysterical.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

**********

Superb!

Posted by: muldoon at June 09, 2025 10:08 AM (/iMjX)

170 I honestly didn't see anything gay about this painting.

The feature subject is French Canadian

Posted by: kallisto at June 09, 2025 10:09 AM (dCxaZ)

171 1. mRNA vaccines do not have a an "off switch", meaning that the production of spike protein by the cells can persist for days, weeks, or even longer

it's the gift that keeps on giving!!

Posted by: kallisto at June 09, 2025 10:10 AM (dCxaZ)

172 The fitness of the sailor model and the slim blonde woman on the right, contrasted with the the blubbery kid and the sneering stick-thin one, is startling

***********

An endomorph, and ectomorph and a mesomorph walk into a bar...

Posted by: muldoon at June 09, 2025 10:10 AM (/iMjX)

173 Seriously?

Posted by: creeper at June 09, 2025 10:10 AM (zFwIe)

174 it's the gift that keeps on giving!!
Posted by: kallisto

What product was this the tagline for, originally?

Posted by: Bulg at June 09, 2025 10:11 AM (77rzZ)

175 Just a hunch...

person who painted this was homosexual?

Posted by: Otto Pen at June 09, 2025 10:11 AM (sJHOI)

176 The art: Gay

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at June 09, 2025 10:12 AM (g8Ew8)

177 Wow! CBD has neutered Muldoon.

**********

I WAS IN THE POOL!!!

Posted by: muldoon at June 09, 2025 10:12 AM (/iMjX)

178 " Is that the british dude from the dog attack video that attempted to help by ramming his finger up the dog's ass?
"

Hah. What????

What was the outcome of that exchange?

Posted by: eleven at June 09, 2025 10:12 AM (0HaGk)

179 everybody's focusing on the alleged homosexuality.

Instead, I see the shabbiness of the buildings, the falling shingles, the frowzy ladies, the weird little dildo-type appurtenances adorning the little beach cupola...

Posted by: kallisto at June 09, 2025 10:12 AM (dCxaZ)

180 Let's all give a roaring round of applause to Dr Fauci.
He saved us.

Posted by: Reforger at June 09, 2025 10:12 AM (vN+z3)

181 It’s so bad it’s… No. I was going to say “it’s so bad, It’s good,” but that would be wrong. It’s so bad that Bad has to descend to Hell and then drill a hole to see it.

Posted by: Zumkopf at June 09, 2025 10:13 AM (6eIgS)

182 Paul looks to be a fan of the male figure, juding by his works.

Posted by: javems at June 09, 2025 10:13 AM (8I4hW)

183 Thus it is a challenge to distinguish 'long COVID' from vaccine injury.

You're welcome

Evil Dr. Fauci and his cabal of genocidal maniacs posing as "scientists"

Posted by: kallisto at June 09, 2025 10:13 AM (dCxaZ)

184 Big entertainment news:

WB/Discovery is splitting into separate publicly traded companies.

One will be "streaming and content" focused. The other will be TV focused.

The TV one gets most of the debt.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 09, 2025 10:13 AM (GBKbO)

185 Instead, I see the shabbiness of the buildings, the falling shingles
Posted by: kallisto

Seaside buildings take quite a beating. They go to shit quickly.

Posted by: Bulg at June 09, 2025 10:13 AM (77rzZ)

186 What product was this the tagline for, originally?

Posted by: Bulg at June 09, 2025 10:11 AM (77rzZ)

I don't know. It could have originated in the 19th century

Posted by: kallisto at June 09, 2025 10:15 AM (dCxaZ)

187 Posted by: muldoon at June 09, 2025 10:05 AM (/iMjX)

I want to know why the mRNA is so persistent. Endogenous mRNA isn't.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (with a beret and a Gauloises) at June 09, 2025 10:15 AM (mWSu4)

188 That's a good one. Joel McCrea is under appreciated, or just written off as a cowboy actor. He's very good.
Posted by: Two Thumbs Up!

He's really good in "The More the Merrier" with Jean Arthur and Charles Coburn.

Posted by: Tuna at June 09, 2025 10:15 AM (lJ0H4)

189 Thanks muldoon, great nephew had myocarditis from the jab and I really worry about lasting repercussions for him. He's 24 and has hopefully a long life ahead of him without an related issues.

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at June 09, 2025 10:15 AM (2NHgQ)

190 Uh, what?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at June 09, 2025 10:15 AM (bss/y)

191 The penguin is wearing a festive little hat.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at June 09, 2025 10:15 AM (5TUbN)

192 mRNA vaccines do not have a an "off switch", meaning that the production of spike protein by the cells can persist for days, weeks, or even longer

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

Unexpectedly.
Posted by: ShainS

I continually ponder what it was exactly that convinced my wife and I to not get the jab. Was it her team at Cleveland Clinic warning against it? Or the herd mentality of the newsreaders? Our federal medical establishment acting in lockstep to declare unreasonable edicts? The ineffective and clearly contrary societal rules imposed by any person in any type of authority? The lack of widespread deadly illness from 'the worse pandemic ever'?

Or the discussions here?

I wonder.

Posted by: Tonypete at June 09, 2025 10:16 AM (cYBz/)

193 hat's a good one. Joel McCrea is under appreciated, or just written off as a cowboy actor. He's very good.
Posted by: Two Thumbs Up!

Fun fact: His original surname was "Biden." "McRae" was the name of his adoptive father.

Posted by: Bulg at June 09, 2025 10:16 AM (77rzZ)

194 Would definitely hang in the guest room, to discourage guests from staying.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at June 09, 2025 10:17 AM (kpS4V)

195 The TV one gets most of the debt.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 09, 2025 10:13 AM (GBKbO)

So more of a divorce than an amicable seperation.

Posted by: Reforger at June 09, 2025 10:17 AM (vN+z3)

196 Instead, I see the shabbiness of the buildings, the falling shingles, the frowzy ladies, the weird little dildo-type appurtenances adorning the little beach cupola...
Posted by: kallisto at June 09, 2025 10:12 AM (dCxaZ)

That too but hard to avoid the guy seemingly looking at the butt, the tilted gay style sailor hat covering the gay haircut , the fruit sack the guy is wearing and the fat perve in his speedo.

Posted by: polynikes at June 09, 2025 10:17 AM (VofaG)

197 June 9, 1973 – Secretariat wins the Triple Crown at Belmont Stakes.

Secretariat (March 30, 1970 – October 4, 1989), also known as Big Red, was a champion American thoroughbred racehorse who was the ninth winner of the American Triple Crown, setting and still holding the fastest time record in all three of its constituent races. He became the first Triple Crown winner in 25 years and his record-breaking victory in the Belmont Stakes, which he won by 31 lengths, is often considered the greatest race ever run by a thoroughbred racehorse. During his racing career, he won five Eclipse Awards, including Horse of the Year honors at ages two and three. Widely regarded as one of the greatest racehorses of all time, he was nominated to the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame in 1974. In the Blood-Horse magazine List of the Top 100 U.S. Racehorses of the 20th Century, Secretariat was second to Man o' War.

Posted by: Cheri at June 09, 2025 10:17 AM (oiNtH)

198 195 The TV one gets most of the debt.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 09, 2025 10:13 AM (GBKbO)

So more of a divorce than an amicable seperation.
Posted by: Reforger at June 09, 2025 10:17 AM (vN+z3)

=======

The TV sector is being sent out to die.

So, more like what to do with a dog like Ole Yeller.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 09, 2025 10:17 AM (GBKbO)

199 Posted by: polynikes at June 09, 2025 10:17 AM (VofaG)

and I just noticed Banjo Boy in the purple shirt looks like he wants to peg the Main Speedo with his finger!

Posted by: kallisto at June 09, 2025 10:18 AM (dCxaZ)

200 everybody's focusing on the alleged homosexuality.

Instead, I see the shabbiness of the buildings, the falling shingles, the frowzy ladies, the weird little dildo-type appurtenances adorning the little beach cupola...
Posted by: kallisto at June 09, 2025 10:12 AM

Excellent! All is proceeding as we have foreseen.

* wing flaps in unison *

Posted by: Big Penguin at June 09, 2025 10:19 AM (+TG6J)

201 These Truvada ads are getting out of hand...

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at June 09, 2025 10:20 AM (PiwSw)

202 What's Kathy Griffin doing in there?
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 09, 2025

***
The blonde's face does look like KG.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 09, 2025 10:20 AM (omVj0)

203 Notice the guy with the ribs looking like he's about to take a dive off the high board, he's wearing a sailor's hat. So the penguin is his pet?
Posted by: Anna Puma at June 09, 2025

***
I didn't see the penguin at first. Or his sailor cap.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 09, 2025 10:21 AM (omVj0)

204 These Truvada ads are getting out of hand...

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at June 09, 2025 10:20 AM (PiwSw)

I thought RFK Jr. was going to get the pharma ads removed from TV?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 09, 2025 10:21 AM (Zz0t1)

205 199 Posted by: polynikes at June 09, 2025 10:17 AM (VofaG)

and I just noticed Banjo Boy in the purple shirt looks like he wants to peg the Main Speedo with his finger!

Posted by: kallisto at June 09, 2025 10:18 AM (dCxaZ)

Eddie Deezen, in a role that will surprise you....

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at June 09, 2025 10:22 AM (PiwSw)

206 Are any of these supplements effective at stopping the spike proteins?

Posted by: Boss Moss at June 09, 2025 10:22 AM (uu+Ao)

207 What's that thing by the fat guy's left foot? A radio?

Posted by: Bulg at June 09, 2025 10:22 AM (77rzZ)

208 Secretariat was second to Man o' War.
Posted by: Cheri at June 09, 2025 10:17 AM (oiNtH)
----------------------
Second to none!

Posted by: President John Kerry at June 09, 2025 10:22 AM (q6S/B)

209 The trash on the ground makes it look like where I live.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 09, 2025 10:22 AM (omVj0)

210 Our federal medical establishment acting in lockstep to declare unreasonable edicts?

I know people who refused it on the basis that the govt. apparatus at every level was trying to hard to make us get it.

I knew I would never get it due to vaccine injury I'd past experienced...but when I saw my state remove the exemption for the previously injured...I knew something sinister was afoot.

Posted by: kallisto at June 09, 2025 10:22 AM (dCxaZ)

211 Can we please stop using the language of the left as regards the LA war activities of invading alien combatants funded by treasonous NGOs by way of California tax misappropriation? This is about under the table funnelling of US resources by way of remittances, that are heavily taxed "back home", that keep Mexico and other countries south of the border afloat. What ever Trump does to cleans these acts of war, and shut off the illegal money flow, I support.

Posted by: Smellslikevictory at June 09, 2025 10:22 AM (jPdyB)

212 And Kathy Griffin’s face looks like a tranny. Unfortunate for her.

Posted by: polynikes at June 09, 2025 10:22 AM (VofaG)

213 Is that a cardinal sticking it's beak out of the trash can?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at June 09, 2025 10:23 AM (bss/y)

214 I want to know why the mRNA is so persistent. Endogenous mRNA isn't.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo

********

I wonder the same thing. Perhaps reverse transcriptase. Perhaps some protective/stabilizing aspect of other vaccine components such as the lipid nanoparticle envelope. Perhaps some dosing effect along the lines of "excess amount of mRNA in a single cell handcuffs the normal breakdown of mRNA".

Posted by: muldoon at June 09, 2025 10:23 AM (/iMjX)

215 What's that thing by the fat guy's left foot? A radio?
Posted by: Bulg at June 09, 2025

***
If it's in the same condition as its surroundings, it probably pulls in exactly one radio station. And that one signs off at sunset.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 09, 2025 10:23 AM (omVj0)

216 Looking at Cadmus's other works, it's a wild meld of classical technique with Tom of Finland. Heavy on drunken sailors with an emphasis on da butt.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at June 09, 2025 10:24 AM (kpS4V)

217 Fantasia on a Theme by Dr. S.
Paul Cadmus, 1946

Damn. It looks like something Biden had recently commissioned to commemorate himself and his family's home in Rehoboth Beach, DE.

Wouldn't hang it, but some other hangings? Yeah, 👍

Thanks. Happy Monday.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at June 09, 2025 10:24 AM (NFX2v)

218 I didn't see the penguin at first. Or his sailor cap.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 09, 2025 10:21 AM

Like our minions, G. Soros, and the WEF, we prefer to remain in the background, unnoticed by the so-called normies. Like rust, however, we never sleep.

Posted by: Big Penguin at June 09, 2025 10:24 AM (+TG6J)

219 The fat guy is Raymond Burr
Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 09, 2025 09:40 AM (2UZZJ)
*
He killed Alexander Hamilton, right?
Posted by: Doof at June 09, 2025

***
And then defended himself in court

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 09, 2025 10:24 AM (omVj0)

220 And the twin towers collapsing in the background...

Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at June 09, 2025 10:25 AM (BZ9sk)

221 Also notice the gay bracelet the gay sailor is wearing.

Posted by: polynikes at June 09, 2025 10:25 AM (VofaG)

222 This is totes gay. Imma starting to worry about CBD.

Posted by: pudinhead at June 09, 2025 10:26 AM (FmapG)

223 Morning.

I'm just going to assume after 220 comments several people have already made jokes about Dr. Seuss, huge bulges and/or Dr. Seuss and huge bulges.

Posted by: Robert at June 09, 2025 10:26 AM (7yskd)

224 This is totes gay. Imma starting to worry about CBD.
Posted by: pudinhead at June 09, 2025 10:26 AM (FmapG)

Seems his travels to France has him enjoying the bidet a little too much.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 09, 2025 10:27 AM (Zz0t1)

225 147 Set him up with a good movie tonight. My bride wants to watch "Sullivans Travels", so maybe try that one.
Posted by: Huck Follywood

Good One - Sullivan's Travels is one of the inspirations for "Oh Brother where art Thou?" by the Cohen Bros. Joel McCrea's character goes on a great journey to discover the "Real America", so he can produce the Great American Film, which he intends to call "Oh Brother Where Art Thou?"

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 09, 2025 10:27 AM (uWKK8)

226 Also this would go very well as the cover to a DC/Vertigo graphical comic novel written by Neil Gaiman.

Posted by: Robert at June 09, 2025 10:27 AM (7yskd)

227 Why would someone make Dr. Seuss jokes about this painting?

Posted by: Bulg at June 09, 2025 10:27 AM (77rzZ)

228 Huh.

According to WaPo, 1,000,000 foreign born workers have left the workforce since January.

Estimates of forced deportations are about 200,000.

Mitt Romney should be massively pleased at all the self-deportation totaling at, perhaps, 800,000, right? Right?!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 09, 2025 10:28 AM (GBKbO)

229 I think what's going on here is the blondes are the distractions, the dream that everyone pays attention to. Meanwhile everything around them is falling apart. Instead of focusing on beautiful distractions, fix up your surroundings, stop being fat and take care of yourself. And make everything a little better instead of fixating on the unobtainable.

Well it's a shot in the dark but I guess that's the point, yes?

Posted by: Drunken Yoda at June 09, 2025 10:28 AM (ilHZO)

230 I want to know why the mRNA is so persistent. Endogenous mRNA isn't.

+++

Because they engineered it to be that way. Even got a Nobel prize for it. https www nobelprize org prizes medicine 2023 advanced-information "Discoveries concerning nucleoside base modifications that enabled the development of effective mRNA vaccines against COVID-19"

Posted by: Smellslikevictory at June 09, 2025 10:28 AM (jPdyB)

231 > mRNA vaccines do not have a an "off switch", meaning that the production of spike protein by the cells can persist for days, weeks, or even longer
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I think the researchers, doctors, pharmacists, whatever had/have no clue what they were concocting during the covid op. They were given money and a directive to develop "a vaccine." It was, and is, part of the experiment perpetrated on the public as part of a compliance test.

It's why, to this day, I refuse all stabs. I'll take my chances.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 09, 2025 10:29 AM (Q4IgG)

232 Dr. Seuss and huge bulges.
Posted by: Robert at June 09, 2025 10:26 AM (7yskd)

I just spent too much time trying to find the damn penguin. I'm not looking for the bugle.

Posted by: Reforger at June 09, 2025 10:30 AM (vN+z3)

233 And I just looked it up. Wearing a pinky ring in the 40’s was a code for gay.

Posted by: polynikes at June 09, 2025 10:30 AM (VofaG)

234 Cadmus' works are like a cross between Thomas Hart Benton and Tom of Finland.

Posted by: J. Frank Parnell at June 09, 2025 10:30 AM (eb5mD)

235
It's why, to this day, I refuse all stabs. I'll take my chances.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 09, 2025 10:29 AM (Q4IgG)

This is where I am. I'm never getting a vaccine again. Ever. Don't care. I'll take my chances as well.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 09, 2025 10:30 AM (Zz0t1)

236 Trying to read the weathervanes, one says Baronial but I can't make out the big one.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 09, 2025 10:30 AM (uWKK8)

237 Why would someone make Dr. Seuss jokes about this painting?
Posted by: Bulg at June 09, 2025 10:27 AM (77rzZ)

Cuz...ya know...

Posted by: Robert at June 09, 2025 10:30 AM (7yskd)

238 Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at June 09, 2025 10:15 AM (2NHgQ)

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

Speaking in general terms myocarditis exists with a range of severity, with most cases resolving over time leaving little or no detectable residual functional impairment. Hopefully that will be the case for your great nephew..

Posted by: muldoon at June 09, 2025 10:30 AM (/iMjX)

239 233 And I just looked it up. Wearing a pinky ring in the 40’s was a code for gay.
Posted by: polynikes at June 09, 2025 10:30 AM (VofaG)

=======

Isn't the signet ring worn on the pinky finger?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 09, 2025 10:30 AM (GBKbO)

240 That's a good one. Joel McCrea is under appreciated, or just written off as a cowboy actor. He's very good.
Posted by: Two Thumbs Up!
*
He's really good in "The More the Merrier" with Jean Arthur and Charles Coburn.
Posted by: Tuna at June 09, 2025

***
He was perfectly cast as the sergeant in Trooper Hook w/ Barbara Stanwyck.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 09, 2025 10:30 AM (omVj0)

241 Ask an AI to create an image of Senate Democrats and Harry Sisson in the style of Paul Cadmus.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at June 09, 2025 10:31 AM (W7FaP)

242 ALL IS FORGIVEN? Elon Musk Posts in Support of President Trump Over Response to L.A. Riots

Posted by: SMOD at June 09, 2025 10:31 AM (RHGPo)

243 Mitt Romney should be massively pleased at all the self-deportation totaling at, perhaps, 800,000, right? Right?!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 09, 2025 10:28 AM (GBKbO)

At least it wasn’t cruel right?

Posted by: polynikes at June 09, 2025 10:31 AM (VofaG)

244 'widely known for his egg tempura paintings.'

Died in 1999, so at least it is not a 9/11 allegory.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at June 09, 2025 10:31 AM (bss/y)

245 242 ALL IS FORGIVEN? Elon Musk Posts in Support of President Trump Over Response to L.A. Riots
Posted by: SMOD at June 09, 2025 10:31 AM (RHGPo)

======

A few times, actually.

More evidence that Musk was hopped up on ketamine that day?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 09, 2025 10:31 AM (GBKbO)

246 At least it wasn’t cruel right?
Posted by: polynikes at June 09, 2025 10:31 AM (VofaG)

But, it's almost summer!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 09, 2025 10:32 AM (Zz0t1)

247 More evidence that Musk was hopped up on ketamine that day?

late night tweet fests - rarely good

Posted by: Black Orchid at June 09, 2025 10:32 AM (Pv3Rg)

248 Nah. Ass sniffing art ain't my bag. Nor are nekkid lardasses on ottomans.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at June 09, 2025 10:32 AM (pohLc)

249 244 'widely known for his egg tempura paintings.'

just got here - that's a joke/pun?

tempera, of course

Posted by: Black Orchid at June 09, 2025 10:32 AM (Pv3Rg)

250 233 And I just looked it up. Wearing a pinky ring in the 40’s was a code for gay.
Posted by: polynikes at June 09, 2025 10:30 AM (VofaG)

I think posing nearly nude on your front porch wearing only tighty whitey's and a sailor hat was also Code for Gay.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 09, 2025 10:32 AM (uWKK8)

251 Paul Cadmus - What I Believe 🤮

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at June 09, 2025 10:32 AM (W7FaP)

252 A few times, actually.

More evidence that Musk was hopped up on ketamine that day?

that whole thing was weird, had elements of a lovers' spat

Posted by: kallisto at June 09, 2025 10:32 AM (dCxaZ)

253 I told you people aliens walk among us...even at the beach

Posted by: Agent Mulder at June 09, 2025 10:32 AM (t0Rmr)

254
A few times, actually.

More evidence that Musk was hopped up on ketamine that day?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 09, 2025 10:31 AM (GBKbO)

The more 'behind the scenes' leaks that come out about Musk shows that he is kinda imbalanced........

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 09, 2025 10:33 AM (Zz0t1)

255
I think posing nearly nude on your front porch wearing only tighty whitey's and a sailor hat was also Code for Gay.

Bah, me and my boys do that all the time and hey...I'm married, I mean just look at my beautiful wife!

Posted by: Barack Obama at June 09, 2025 10:33 AM (t0Rmr)

256 254 The more 'behind the scenes' leaks that come out about Musk shows that he is kinda imbalanced........
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 09, 2025 10:33 AM (Zz0t1)

======

He needs a wife.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 09, 2025 10:33 AM (GBKbO)

257 So are the communists still rioting?

I noticed there was a dearth of gay flags. I thought the gays would want to get in on the action.

Posted by: Robert at June 09, 2025 10:34 AM (7yskd)

258 More evidence that Musk was hopped up on ketamine that day?

maybe he saw Trump and Rubio bro-ing it up at MSG and he wants back in to the kewl kidz klub

Posted by: kallisto at June 09, 2025 10:34 AM (dCxaZ)

259 Musk needs a based, busty, Latina wife who hates all illegal immigrants.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 09, 2025 10:34 AM (GBKbO)

260
Elon Musk wants the world to know
He is a bro
but No Ho-mo

Posted by: kallisto at June 09, 2025 10:35 AM (dCxaZ)

261 that whole thing was weird, had elements of a lovers' spat
Posted by: kallisto at June 09, 2025 10:32 AM (dCxaZ)

Or theater.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 09, 2025 10:35 AM (0zCeC)

262 OK, help me out. Do I key the Tesla or not?

Posted by: NPC 48397 at June 09, 2025 10:35 AM (PiwSw)

263
AI is dumb and full of shit.
I just asked google's AI if Hyaluronic Acid (a supplement for skin) is best taken with a meal. Answer: "Taking hyaluronic acid with a meal is generally recommended for optimal absorption and utilization."

Then I asked Google AI if Hyaluronic Acid is best taken on empty stomach. Answer: "The most effective time to take a hyaluronic acid supplement is typically on an empty stomach. This is because hyaluronic acid, especially when combined with collagen, is absorbed more efficiently when there's minimal other food in the digestive tract. Taking the supplement on an empty stomach can also help reduce the potential for stomach acid to break down the supplement before it's absorbed. "

Posted by: Soothsayer at June 09, 2025 10:35 AM (aN85b)

264 The more 'behind the scenes' leaks that come out about Musk shows that he is kinda imbalanced........
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 09, 2025 10:33 AM (Zz0t1)

======

He needs a wife.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 09, 2025 10:33 AM (GBKbO)

Doesn't he already have one? And like six mistresses? And 50 kids?

Posted by: Robert at June 09, 2025 10:36 AM (7yskd)

265 Elon Musk is today’s Howard Hughes in a lot of ways.

Posted by: polynikes at June 09, 2025 10:36 AM (VofaG)

266 With Muldoon down, I went looking for one of those black mourning arm bands to wear today. All I could find was a black garter thingy that Mrs D had buried away. That'll have to do.

Posted by: Diogenes at June 09, 2025 10:37 AM (W/lyH)

267 Musk needs a based, busty, Latina wife who hates all illegal immigrants.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 09, 2025

***
Elon Musk Marries Sofia Vergara Atop a Tesla! Pictures Inside

Posted by: The Daily Mail at June 09, 2025 10:37 AM (omVj0)

268
"GROK," another joke AI engine, recently told Idiots online that the Sun, setting in Florida and very red at the time, was the planet Mars.

Posted by: Soothsayer at June 09, 2025 10:37 AM (aN85b)

269 “Britain’s lost control of its borders", UK Defense Secretary claims.

-
In other breaking news, Lucky Lindy made it!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, And You're Not at June 09, 2025 10:37 AM (L/fGl)

270 Elon Musk is today’s Howard Hughes in a lot of ways.
Posted by: polynikes

That's a good analogy. I hadn't thought of that, but it works.

Posted by: Bulg at June 09, 2025 10:37 AM (77rzZ)

271 261 that whole thing was weird, had elements of a lovers' spat
Posted by: kallisto at June 09, 2025 10:32 AM (dCxaZ)

Or theater.
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Theater, as in, tag team wrestling.

Posted by: pudinhead at June 09, 2025 10:37 AM (FmapG)

272 A few times, actually.

More evidence that Musk was hopped up on ketamine that day?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 09, 2025 10:31 AM (GBKbO)

Or it was theater.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at June 09, 2025 10:37 AM (bss/y)

273 It's so funny, seeing the two women rolling up on that group, expecting a little action...

little did they know

Posted by: kallisto at June 09, 2025 10:38 AM (dCxaZ)

274 Musk needs a based, busty, Latina wife who hates all illegal immigrants.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 09, 2025 10:34 AM (GBKbO)

Dude...who doesn't?

Posted by: Robert, call me papi chulo at June 09, 2025 10:38 AM (7yskd)

275 AI is dumb and full of shit.
I just asked google's AI if Hyaluronic Acid (a supplement for skin) is best taken with a meal. Answer: "Taking hyaluronic acid with a meal is generally recommended for optimal absorption and utilization."

Then I asked Google AI if Hyaluronic Acid is best taken on empty stomach. Answer: "The most effective time to take a hyaluronic acid supplement is typically on an empty stomach. This is because hyaluronic acid, especially when combined with collagen, is absorbed more efficiently when there's minimal other food in the digestive tract. Taking the supplement on an empty stomach can also help reduce the potential for stomach acid to break down the supplement before it's absorbed. "
Posted by: Soothsayer at June 09, 2025

***
The stuff is supposed to be external. (Right?)

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 09, 2025 10:38 AM (omVj0)

276 270 Elon Musk is today’s Howard Hughes in a lot of ways.
Posted by: polynikes

That's a good analogy. I hadn't thought of that, but it works.
------------
Yet Elon would never bang Katherine Hepburn.

Posted by: pudinhead at June 09, 2025 10:38 AM (FmapG)

277 If everything is code for gay, then what's the code for Not Gay?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 09, 2025 10:39 AM (VoAdT)

278 276 That's a good analogy. I hadn't thought of that, but it works.
------------
Yet Elon would never bang Katherine Hepburn.
Posted by: pudinhead at June 09, 2025 10:38 AM (FmapG)

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Cate Blanchett as Katherine Hepburn > Katherine Hepburn

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 09, 2025 10:39 AM (GBKbO)

279 Or theater.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 09, 2025 10:35 AM (0zCeC)

That's my vote.

Posted by: Diogenes at June 09, 2025 10:39 AM (W/lyH)

280 Who can unite the Left in 2028?
Lucifer

Posted by: kingsman at June 09, 2025 10:40 AM (ehY6c)

281 Yet Elon would never bang Katherine Hepburn.
Posted by: pudinhead

He did Amber Heard.

Posted by: Bulg at June 09, 2025 10:40 AM (77rzZ)

282 I think posing nearly nude on your front porch wearing only tighty whitey's and a sailor hat was also Code for Gay.
____

*looks at dude in painting*
*looks at just about(1) any random woman*

I honestly don't get the gay thing.

(1) woman qualifying for the Admiral's pics excepted

Posted by: Chuck Martel at June 09, 2025 10:40 AM (Dv3i1)

283 Elon Musk is today’s Howard Hughes in a lot of ways.
Posted by: polynikes
*
That's a good analogy. I hadn't thought of that, but it works.
------------
Yet Elon would never bang Katherine Hepburn.
Posted by: pudinhead at June 09, 2025

***
The young KH was a strikingly handsome woman. I've never found her hot, but Spencer Tracy did, and so did Hughes (who had quite an eye for the ladies when he was younger).

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 09, 2025 10:40 AM (omVj0)

284 277 If everything is code for gay, then what's the code for Not Gay?
Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 09, 2025 10:39 AM (VoAdT)

Shelving.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at June 09, 2025 10:40 AM (bss/y)

285 Yet Elon would never bang Katherine Hepburn.
Posted by: pudinhead at June 09, 2025 10:38 AM (FmapG)

Young Katherine was a 1. And he banged the mother of X. She is a borderline 1.

Posted by: polynikes at June 09, 2025 10:40 AM (VofaG)

286
The stuff is supposed to be external. (Right?)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

It comes in both forms -- topical and systemic (oral).

Posted by: Soothsayer at June 09, 2025 10:40 AM (aN85b)

287 "artwork" Date: 1946

I'm sure that the guys who fell on Normandy beach are honored that this is what they died for.

Posted by: hate_the_deepstate at June 09, 2025 10:40 AM (+Un88)

288 If everything is code for gay, then what's the code for Not Gay?
Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 09, 2025 10:39 AM (VoAdT)

MANGA

Make America Not Gay Again.

Posted by: Robert at June 09, 2025 10:41 AM (7yskd)

289 Yet Elon would never bang Katherine Hepburn.
Posted by: pudinhead

He did Amber Heard.
Posted by: Bulg at June 09, 2025 10:40 AM (77rzZ)

No shit???

Posted by: Diogenes at June 09, 2025 10:41 AM (W/lyH)

290 Cate Blanchett as Katherine Hepburn > Katherine Hepburn
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 09, 2025

***
True

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 09, 2025 10:41 AM (omVj0)

291 Jane Russell was a butterface.

Posted by: polynikes at June 09, 2025 10:41 AM (VofaG)

292
You know what AI is?

It is the Ultimate Form of Internet Bullshit.

Posted by: Soothsayer at June 09, 2025 10:41 AM (aN85b)

293 Trying to read the weathervanes, one says Baronial but I can't make out the big one.
Posted by: Tom Servo at June 09, 2025 10:30 AM (uWKK

same, it's backwards so I can't decipher. Also, the Ichabod Crane-looking fag is reading a book, but I can't make out the title.

Posted by: Otto Pen at June 09, 2025 10:41 AM (sJHOI)

294 “Britain’s lost control of its borders", UK Defense Secretary claims.

-
In other breaking news, Lucky Lindy made it!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, And You're Not at June 09, 2025 10:37 AM (L/fGl)

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

What about Amelia Earhart?

/And why are airplanes so misogynist?

Posted by: ShainS -- Has the Big Beautiful Breakup passed yet? at June 09, 2025 10:42 AM (sdxtl)

295 291 Jane Russell was a butterface.
Posted by: polynikes at June 09, 2025 10:41 AM (VofaG)

=======

SHE HAD A FACE?!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 09, 2025 10:42 AM (GBKbO)

296 All I could find was a black garter thingy that Mrs D had buried away. That'll have to do.
Posted by: Diogenes at June 09, 2025 10:37 AM

Wear it around your head on your next golf outings.

Should be worth an extra $15 or $20.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at June 09, 2025 10:43 AM (+TG6J)

297 Kate Hepburn had nice features, and, of course, that beautiful red hair. She was too bony, and her voice was irritating.

I like her best in The Lion in Winter, where she made those features work.

Posted by: Bulg at June 09, 2025 10:43 AM (77rzZ)

298
Martin Short as Katherine Hepburn >
Cate Blanchett as Katherine Hepburn >
Katherine Hepburn

Posted by: ShainS -- Has the Big Beautiful Breakup passed yet? at June 09, 2025 10:43 AM (sdxtl)

299 Cate Blanchett as Katherine Hepburn > Katherine Hepburn
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This is true. TJM, for my early Father's day the family went to the theater to watch Wes Anderson's The Phoenician Scheme. I enjoyed it as did the family. Benicio del Toro always delivers.

Posted by: pudinhead at June 09, 2025 10:44 AM (FmapG)

300 Thanks again muldoon. Learned a couple new words between you and cbd posting this morning, being 29++ and a few I hope I remember them.

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at June 09, 2025 10:44 AM (2NHgQ)

301 same, it's backwards so I can't decipher. Also, the Ichabod Crane-looking fag is reading a book, but I can't make out the title.
Posted by: Otto Pen at June 09, 2025

***
The top part says something like "SOSTAMERF."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 09, 2025 10:44 AM (omVj0)

302 In light of the massive insurrection underway Time to put aside the Trump/Elon dustup, yes?… and focus on the war underway..

Posted by: tubal at June 09, 2025 10:44 AM (PCK5/)

303 Or it was theater.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at June 09, 2025 10:37 AM (bss/y)

I'm leaning towards believing that is the case. Musk has been taking an enormous amount of heat from the Left. No better way to allay that hostility than to create a rift between the two men.

Posted by: troyriser at June 09, 2025 10:44 AM (DPeYO)

304 299 Cate Blanchett as Katherine Hepburn > Katherine Hepburn
------------------
This is true. TJM, for my early Father's day the family went to the theater to watch Wes Anderson's The Phoenician Scheme. I enjoyed it as did the family. Benicio del Toro always delivers.
Posted by: pudinhead at June 09, 2025 10:44 AM (FmapG)

======

My younger brother, the Wes Anderson head of the family, really liked it as well.

I'll see it eventually.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 09, 2025 10:45 AM (GBKbO)

305 AI relays on human input. I assume the diametric opposite opinions on the internet confuse AI like Kirk asking it a question so it gives both answers so it doesn’t destroy itself.

Posted by: polynikes at June 09, 2025 10:45 AM (VofaG)

306 Jane Russell was a butterface.
Posted by: polynikes

Eh, her face was OK.

But she was an absolutely TERRIBLE actress.

Posted by: Bulg at June 09, 2025 10:45 AM (77rzZ)

307 What about Amelia Earhart?

/And why are airplanes so misogynist?
Posted by: ShainS -- Has the Big Beautiful Breakup passed yet? at June 09, 2025

***
It's gravity to blame!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 09, 2025 10:45 AM (omVj0)

308 Maybe it's just that having that much money can make you a little weird.

Posted by: Reforger at June 09, 2025 10:45 AM (vN+z3)

309 Then I asked Google AI if Hyaluronic Acid is best taken on empty stomach. Answer: "The most effective time to take a hyaluronic acid supplement is typically on an empty stomach. This is because hyaluronic acid, especially when combined with collagen, is absorbed more efficiently when there's minimal other food in the digestive tract. Taking the supplement on an empty stomach can also help reduce the potential for stomach acid to break down the supplement before it's absorbed. "
Posted by: Soothsayer at June 09, 2025

***
The stuff is supposed to be external. (Right?)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 09, 2025 10:38 AM (omVj0

Everything can be taken as a suppository.

Posted by: goatse at June 09, 2025 10:46 AM (9FEtL)

310 "GROK," another joke AI engine, recently told Idiots online that the Sun, setting in Florida and very red at the time, was the planet Mars.
Posted by: Soothsayer at June 09, 2025 10:37 AM (aN85b)

AI is created by man. Man is flawed.

There's been an adage in computer programming since it's inception.

"Garbage in, garbage out."

AI brings that to the forefront.

AI is full of garbage.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 09, 2025 10:46 AM (Zz0t1)

311 The young KH was a strikingly handsome woman. I've never found her hot, but Spencer Tracy did, and so did Hughes (who had quite an eye for the ladies when he was younger).
---------------
Spencer Tracy was gay.

Posted by: pudinhead at June 09, 2025 10:46 AM (FmapG)

312 If I were President Trump, I'd put out the following brief statement:

"Back in '20, I was far too permissive with the rioters. Partly because of my well known sympathy for the cause of criminal justice and policing reform. Mostly because I didn't want the heat I'd catch from the Left for putting down the riots they incited.

But, now that one of them shot me, I don't feel that heat nearly so much. Their endless stream of crocodile tears packs less of a punch than their bullets do, and I've seen more than enough of their intimidation and violence.

Going forward, I can promise that any riots will be met with force. Know this: if you want to riot in 2025, then you better pray for G-d's mercy, because you'll find none from me. That is all."

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 09, 2025 10:46 AM (BI5O2)

313 Everything can be taken as a suppository.

Posted by: goatse at June 09, 2025 10:46 AM (9FEtL)

I believe there's a South Park episode about that.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 09, 2025 10:46 AM (Zz0t1)

314 Kate Hepburn had nice features, and, of course, that beautiful red hair. She was too bony, and her voice was irritating.

I like her best in The Lion in Winter, where she made those features work.
Posted by: Bulg at June 09, 2025

***
The Kate of The Philadelphia Story is awfully attractive.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 09, 2025 10:46 AM (omVj0)

315 > More evidence that Musk was hopped up on ketamine that day?
--------
Musk's had his share of disagreements with the Trump administration on various policies. He's not shy about being vocal about it either. Most are just piss ant sorts of shit that only a policy wonk would get agitated over, but in a world of either yes men or "the resistance" Musk has a unique perspective on things.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 09, 2025 10:47 AM (Q4IgG)

316
Can AI reason?

Posted by: Soothsayer at June 09, 2025 10:47 AM (e82mC)

317 Maybe it's just that having that much money can make you a little weird.
Posted by: Reforger

Nah.
-- Zombie Howard Hughes

Posted by: Bulg at June 09, 2025 10:47 AM (77rzZ)

318 SHE HAD A FACE?!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 09, 2025 10:42 AM (GBKbO)

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Arrived late, but enjoyed your Movie Thread analysis (per usual) this past weekend -- thanks!

Posted by: ShainS -- Has the Big Beautiful Breakup passed yet? at June 09, 2025 10:47 AM (sdxtl)

319 You know what AI is?

It is the Ultimate Form of Internet Bullshit.

Posted by: Soothsayer at June 09, 2025 10:41 AM (aN85b)

Overclocked graphics cards.

Posted by: Reforger at June 09, 2025 10:48 AM (vN+z3)

320 The young KH was a strikingly handsome woman. I've never found her hot, but Spencer Tracy did, and so did Hughes (who had quite an eye for the ladies when he was younger).
---------------
Spencer Tracy was gay.
Posted by: pudinhead at June 09, 2025

***
Then why did he have a long-running affair with her? Surely he could have found less "I Am Woman -- Hear Me Roar" beards than Kate.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 09, 2025 10:48 AM (omVj0)

321 Everything can be taken as a suppository.

Posted by: goatse at June 09, 2025 10:46 AM (9FEtL)

I believe there's a South Park episode about that.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 09, 2025 10:46 AM (Zz0t1)

Futurama. Professor Farnsworth made everything in the form of a suppository.

Posted by: Robert at June 09, 2025 10:49 AM (7yskd)

322 Also, the Ichabod Crane-looking fag is reading a book, but I can't make out the title.
Posted by: Otto Pen at June 09, 2025 10:41 AM

"Varieties of Physique and Temperament."

Probably researching how to make a man in just seven days.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 09, 2025 10:49 AM (FAGAJ)

323 318 Arrived late, but enjoyed your Movie Thread analysis (per usual) this past weekend -- thanks!

Posted by: ShainS -- Has the Big Beautiful Breakup passed yet? at June 09, 2025 10:47 AM (sdxtl)

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Glad you enjoyed it!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 09, 2025 10:50 AM (GBKbO)

324 Elon is an odd character, look at his relationships with women. Don't expect him to act normal and you won't be disappointed in what he says or does. He's also a genius and I believe has asperger traits, not sure that the aspergers doesn't lend a bit to the genius side. If you're looking for normal when it comes to Musk give it up.

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at June 09, 2025 10:50 AM (2NHgQ)

325 Spencer Tracy was gay.
Posted by: pudinhead at June 09, 2025

He had this thing where he would check into a hotel on a Friday and spend the whole weekend in the bathtub, drinking.

Posted by: Bulg at June 09, 2025 10:50 AM (77rzZ)

326 Descibing Katherine Hepburn as handsome is very apt… rawboned would also work…

Posted by: tubal at June 09, 2025 10:50 AM (PCK5/)

327 Totally Mission Beach!

Posted by: pawn at June 09, 2025 10:50 AM (eE4Su)

328 Spencer Tracy was married for a long time, sired two kids, then separated from her, and had affairs with Ingrid Bergman, Myrna Loy (who publicly said much later she was in love with him), and Joan Crawford (???). As well as Kate. Doesn't sound gay to me.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 09, 2025 10:50 AM (omVj0)

329
Anyone watch the Startrek SG-1 series?

The Asgard aliens asked the Earthlings for help, even though Earthlings were stupid and less advanced. Why? Because the Azgard were like Computers and the Earthlings could "think outside the box," they put it.

Posted by: Soothsayer at June 09, 2025 10:50 AM (e82mC)

330 Idle hands are the devil’s workshop; idle lips are his mouthpiece.
An evil man sows strife; gossip separates the best of friends.
Wickedness loves company—and leads others into sin.

Proverbs 16:27-29

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at June 09, 2025 10:51 AM (NFX2v)

331 Tracy didn't need a beard. He was married to a woman, a Catholic, that wouldn'd give him a divorce.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at June 09, 2025 10:51 AM (AcTAo)

332 Elon is an odd character, look at his relationships with women. Don't expect him to act normal and you won't be disappointed in what he says or does. He's also a genius and I believe has asperger traits, not sure that the aspergers doesn't lend a bit to the genius side. If you're looking for normal when it comes to Musk give it up.
Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at June 09, 2025 10:50 AM (2NHgQ)

Didn't he say he was an aspie when he hosted SNL?

Posted by: Robert at June 09, 2025 10:51 AM (7yskd)

333 Daughter was in town for the week as she had nothing going on at school and wasn't working. She brought her cat with her.

Damn thing decided to use my face as a launching pad at 5 AM the other morning and put holes in my lower lip and cheek. It's lucky I didn't catch it at the time. It wouldn't be a thing anymore.

I hate cats.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 09, 2025 10:51 AM (Zz0t1)

334 Ha! GAAAAAAAAAAAYYYYY!

Posted by: That Korean guy from Community at June 09, 2025 10:51 AM (TbWk/)

335 Has a Hawaiian judge ordered ice dismantled yet?

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at June 09, 2025 10:51 AM (XOc1v)

336 333 Daughter was in town for the week as she had nothing going on at school and wasn't working. She brought her cat with her.

Damn thing decided to use my face as a launching pad at 5 AM the other morning and put holes in my lower lip and cheek. It's lucky I didn't catch it at the time. It wouldn't be a thing anymore.

I hate cats.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 09, 2025 10:51 AM (Zz0t1)

They do not sound fond of you either..

Posted by: tubal at June 09, 2025 10:52 AM (PCK5/)

337 Idle hands are the devil’s workshop; idle lips are his mouthpiece.
An evil man sows strife; gossip separates the best of friends.
Wickedness loves company—and leads others into sin.

Proverbs 16:27-29
Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at June 09, 2025 10:51 AM (NFX2v)

BREAKING: Senator Chris Murphy (D-CT) demands nationwide anti-ICE protests.

>>"We are going to rise to this moment by being out there on the streets."

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 09, 2025 10:52 AM (Zz0t1)

338 Spencer Tracy was gay.

Posted by: pudinhead at June 09, 2025 10:46 AM (FmapG)

Uh...Gene Tierney was a woman.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (with a beret and a Gauloises) at June 09, 2025 10:52 AM (mWSu4)

339 And Hepburn is also supposed to be gay.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at June 09, 2025 10:53 AM (AcTAo)

340
They do not sound fond of you either..
Posted by: tubal at June 09, 2025 10:52 AM (PCK5/)

So be it.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 09, 2025 10:53 AM (Zz0t1)

341 Saw. Clip of a local LA report saying people in LA do t want ice in their city. As if to justify the actions.

Uhm ok and so? I don’t want the IRS to exist. Should I go burn some cars to let my views be known?

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at June 09, 2025 10:53 AM (XOc1v)

342
Can AI reason?

Posted by: Soothsayer at June 09, 2025 10:47 AM (e82mC)

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

Restated as: Can limited algorithms & data reason?

"AI" Systems are limited by the data they are trained on and cannot adapt to completely new situations as humans can.

Posted by: ShainS -- Has the Big Beautiful Breakup passed yet? at June 09, 2025 10:53 AM (lWgwB)

343 Church is waaaaay in the back, apropos.

I do like the art deco radio, so there’s that.

Posted by: haffhowershower at June 09, 2025 10:53 AM (tdbOv)

344 I hate cats.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 09, 2025 10:51 AM (Zz0t1)

F*ckin' A!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (with a beret and a Gauloises) at June 09, 2025 10:53 AM (mWSu4)

345 337 BREAKING: Senator Chris Murphy (D-CT) demands nationwide anti-ICE protests.

>>"We are going to rise to this moment by being out there on the streets."

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 09, 2025 10:52 AM (Zz0t1)

=======

The point of organized protests like this is to inspire others to join in, to highlight the oppressive nature of the regime in favor of an unpopular policy that the protestors are fighting against.

And yet...deporting illegal immigrants is NEVER unpopular.

Should work out fine for them.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 09, 2025 10:53 AM (GBKbO)

346 BREAKING: Senator Chris Murphy (D-CT) demands nationwide anti-ICE protests.

>>"We are going to rise to this moment by being out there on the streets."

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 09, 2025 10:52 AM

Sounds kinda insurrectiony to me.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 09, 2025 10:53 AM (FAGAJ)

347 I had a cat that was pretty friendly, but for some reason hated a buddy of mine. One night, he was sleeping on my couch, and the cat pissed directly on his face. He was less than pleased, but I'm still laughing about it.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 09, 2025 10:53 AM (BI5O2)

348 And Tracy had an affair with Loretta Young in '33-'34.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 09, 2025 10:54 AM (omVj0)

349 340
They do not sound fond of you either..
Posted by: tubal at June 09, 2025 10:52 AM (PCK5/)

So be it.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 09, 2025 10:53 AM (Zz0t1)

=======

War has come.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 09, 2025 10:54 AM (GBKbO)

350 BREAKING: Senator Chris Murphy (D-CT) demands nationwide anti-ICE protests.

>>"We are going to rise to this moment by being out there on the streets."

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 09, 2025 10:52 AM (Zz0t1)

So much insurrecting. Be a shame if he were arrested and left to rot in jail without a trial.

Posted by: Robert at June 09, 2025 10:54 AM (7yskd)

351 And Hepburn is also supposed to be gay.
Posted by: Notsothoreau

She was a zero-population growth type. Probably supported Margaret Sanger.

Posted by: Bulg at June 09, 2025 10:54 AM (77rzZ)

352 338 BREAKING: Senator Chris Murphy (D-CT) demands nationwide anti-ICE protests.

They're convinced the Floyd riots won them 2020. They want to run it back.

Posted by: J. Frank Parnell at June 09, 2025 10:54 AM (eb5mD)

353
Sounds kinda insurrectiony to me.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 09, 2025 10:53 AM (FAGAJ)

I said the same thing earlier.

And you really need a new hash, despite it fitting the Art today.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 09, 2025 10:54 AM (Zz0t1)

354 Why are there red dildos attached to the shelter?

This is freaky deaky.

Posted by: The MewTwix at June 09, 2025 10:54 AM (MwJTA)

355 339 And Hepburn is also supposed to be gay.
Posted by: Notsothoreau at June 09, 2025 10:53 AM (AcTAo)

What else can I say? Everyone is gay.

Posted by: Zombie Kurt Cobain at June 09, 2025 10:55 AM (PiwSw)

356 352 They're convinced the Floyd riots won them 2020. They want to run it back.
Posted by: J. Frank Parnell at June 09, 2025 10:54 AM (eb5mD)

======

That's my read as well.

It's a terrible analysis of 2020, assuming that BLM inspired the populace to vote Democrat.

The proper reading of 2020 is that covid was used as an excuse to change election rules, fortify the vote, and manufacture literally millions of ballots, all necessary because BLM didn't inspire the people to vote Democrat.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 09, 2025 10:55 AM (GBKbO)

357 BREAKING: Senator Chris Murphy (D-CT) demands nationwide anti-ICE protests.

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

Four words, Donald::"Disperse or be shot!"

I'm old enough to remember being assured here that Trump could not send in the National Guard without that State Governor's invitation -- despite my protests to the contrary.

Posted by: ShainS -- Has the Big Beautiful Breakup passed yet? at June 09, 2025 10:56 AM (lWgwB)

358 And you really need a new hash, despite it fitting the Art today.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 09, 2025 10:54 AM

I do. It looks like it should be a line of luggage sold in P-Town.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 09, 2025 10:56 AM (FAGAJ)

359 I had a cat that was pretty friendly, but for some reason hated a buddy of mine. One night, he was sleeping on my couch, and the cat pissed directly on his face. He was less than pleased, but I'm still laughing about it.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 09, 2025 10:53 AM (BI5O2)

Wife had a cat that, while we were dating, would piss on my clothes in the laundry pile. After rubbing his face in it and putting him in the washing machine with the clothes and closing the lid, he didn't do that anymore.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 09, 2025 10:56 AM (Zz0t1)

360 I don’t want the IRS to exist. Should I go burn some cars to let my views be known?
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at June 09, 2025 10:53 AM (XOc1v)

Grab some gas cans and let's fucking GOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!

Posted by: Robert at June 09, 2025 10:56 AM (7yskd)

361
"Disperse or be shot!"

Posted by: ShainS

Robocop, right?

Great film.

Posted by: Soothsayer at June 09, 2025 10:56 AM (PN6iW)

362 After looking at that, I searched for Eyvand Earle landscapes. Similar color palette, but easier on the eyes.

Posted by: NaughtyPine at June 09, 2025 10:56 AM (fxCK2)

363 357 Four words, Donald::"Disperse or be shot!"

I'm old enough to remember being assured here that Trump could not send in the National Guard without that State Governor's invitation -- despite my protests to the contrary.
Posted by: ShainS -- Has the Big Beautiful Breakup passed yet? at June 09, 2025 10:56 AM (lWgwB)

=======

I don't think the skepticism came from the idea of the governor's invitation (George Wallace says hi) but the military brass following orders in the weirdest 6 months of American history.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 09, 2025 10:56 AM (GBKbO)

364 If I’ve learned anything from the left over the past 5-10 years is that every single famous person in history was gay. And every technological invention was a black woman’s idea that a white man stole.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at June 09, 2025 10:57 AM (XOc1v)

365 And yet...deporting illegal immigrants is NEVER unpopular.

Should work out fine for them.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 09, 2025 10:53 AM (GBKbO)

This is an entrenched minority trying to exert it's will on the whole. This is terror tactics- straight out of the commie handbook.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at June 09, 2025 10:57 AM (bss/y)

366 > BREAKING: Senator Chris Murphy (D-CT) demands nationwide anti-ICE protests.

>>"We are going to rise to this moment by being out there on the streets."
----------
Just a short year ago, a Republican saying this would have a 3AM FBI visit.

Yo, Kash....? You awake yet?

Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 09, 2025 10:57 AM (Q4IgG)

367 338 Spencer Tracy was gay.

Posted by: pudinhead at June 09, 2025 10:46 AM (FmapG)

Uh...Gene Tierney was a woman.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (with a beret and a Gauloises) at June 09, 2025 10:52 AM (mWSu4)

Unmade objection SUSTAINED.

Subject calls for expert testimony.

Posted by: Justice Jumanji at June 09, 2025 10:57 AM (9FEtL)

368 I do. It looks like it should be a line of luggage sold in P-Town.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 09, 2025 10:56 AM (FAGAJ)

And would be sold by Biden's nuclear waste disposal freak.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 09, 2025 10:57 AM (Zz0t1)

369 365 This is an entrenched minority trying to exert it's will on the whole. This is terror tactics- straight out of the commie handbook.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at June 09, 2025 10:57 AM (bss/y)

=======

It is.

And it's going to harden resolve against them amongst a lot of opposition.

Jonah Goldberg is sounding almost like Stephen Miller at this point.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 09, 2025 10:57 AM (GBKbO)

370 BREAKING: Senator Chris Murphy (D-CT) demands nationwide anti-ICE protests.

>>"We are going to rise to this moment by being out there on the streets."

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 09, 2025 10:52 AM (Zz0t1)

Get all the Progressives on the streets. Machine-gun them all. Win all future elections. Balance the budget.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 09, 2025 10:58 AM (0zCeC)

371 I guess Martial Law is a Governor thing? Alien Enemies and Sedition Act. Is that a thing?

Posted by: Boss Moss at June 09, 2025 10:58 AM (uu+Ao)

372 It's a terrible analysis of 2020, assuming that BLM inspired the populace to vote Democrat.

The proper reading of 2020 is that covid was used as an excuse to change election rules, fortify the vote, and manufacture literally millions of ballots, all necessary because BLM didn't inspire the people to vote Democrat.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 09, 2025 10:55 AM (GBKbO)

My take as well, but the thing in the forefront is what they want to believe.

Expect when polls do not turn their way for them to try a covid redux.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at June 09, 2025 10:58 AM (bss/y)

373 And would be ~~sold~~ stolen by Biden's nuclear waste disposal freak.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 09, 2025 10:57 AM

FIFY.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 09, 2025 10:58 AM (FAGAJ)

374 Apparently LAPD is arresting rioters for show.
Surprise! They are all being released and the DA is either not charging or reducing and dismissing the charges.

They are also not turning over anyone arrested that is an illegal immigrant to ICE and are not releasing information or pictures on the arrests.

So the LAPD’s action are all for show.

Posted by: Vengeance at June 09, 2025 10:59 AM (hUAHw)

375 372 My take as well, but the thing in the forefront is what they want to believe.

Expect when polls do not turn their way for them to try a covid redux.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at June 09, 2025 10:58 AM (bss/y)

======

They've already tried covid redux.

News came over the last couple of weeks of a new strain of covid out of China that's super deadly.

No one cares.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 09, 2025 10:59 AM (GBKbO)

376 FIFY.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 09, 2025 10:58 AM (FAGAJ)

Valid.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 09, 2025 10:59 AM (Zz0t1)

377 Jonah Goldberg is sounding almost like Stephen Miller at this point.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 09, 2025 10:57 AM (GBKbO)

What did he say?
Cuz if you’ve lost ‘ole Jonah you’re losing bigly.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at June 09, 2025 10:59 AM (XOc1v)

378 Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 09, 2025 10:55 AM (GBKbO)

don't interrupt them... they rollin'

I hope they do start nationwide riots to win over the 6% of the population that doesn't already hate them with a cold fury

Posted by: kallisto at June 09, 2025 10:59 AM (dCxaZ)

379 I don’t want the IRS to exist. Should I go burn some cars to let my views be known?

In the middle of the BLM riots a small group of people protested peacefully outside of the MA's Governor's house.

They were all arrested while she was publicly praising the BLM rioters.

And that's just how all this shit works.

Posted by: 18-1 at June 09, 2025 10:59 AM (t0Rmr)

380 It seems to be staying in China.

Posted by: Boss Moss at June 09, 2025 11:00 AM (uu+Ao)

381 Elon is an odd character, look at his relationships with women.

Henry Fonda, Robert DeNiro, Clint Eastwood...

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at June 09, 2025 11:00 AM (NFX2v)

382 Jeez. I'm surprised the left hasn't seized on Robert Vaughn and Robert Wagner as closeted gays.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 09, 2025 11:00 AM (omVj0)

383
News came over the last couple of weeks of a new strain of covid out of China that's super deadly.

No one cares.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 09, 2025 10:59 AM (GBKbO)

Everyone knows China is full of shit and any news coming from it is also shit.

Covid didn't kill very many people. The treatments for it did, a lot. Everyone is learning that.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 09, 2025 11:00 AM (Zz0t1)

384 covid redux requires apparatchiks at the head of the health agencies

they have gone away

Posted by: kallisto at June 09, 2025 11:00 AM (dCxaZ)

385 Anybody come across this guy on X -- Sightbringer - the Prophet? Good piece on the riots.

https://tinyurl.com/2s3ebzvz

Posted by: Ordinary American at June 09, 2025 11:00 AM (x2CMu)

386 377 Jonah Goldberg is sounding almost like Stephen Miller at this point.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 09, 2025 10:57 AM (GBKbO)

What did he say?
Cuz if you’ve lost ‘ole Jonah you’re losing bigly.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at June 09, 2025 10:59 AM (XOc1v)

I wish Jonah would lose bigly, I'm sagging like you wouldn't believe...

Posted by: The Couch at June 09, 2025 11:00 AM (PiwSw)

387 Jonah Goldberg is sounding almost like Stephen Miller at this point.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 09, 2025 10:57 AM (GBKbO)

I never get that. I stopped caring what Jonah thought about 20 years ago now.

Are you next going to tell me Bill Kristol is starting to support trump on twitter? He can still go suck a horse dick.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at June 09, 2025 11:00 AM (bss/y)

388 Cats… never truly domesticated, unfit as an indoor animal..

Posted by: tubal at June 09, 2025 11:00 AM (PCK5/)

389 Elon has something like 11 kids with 4 or 5 baby mammas.

His real calling was NFL player.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at June 09, 2025 11:01 AM (XOc1v)

390 They are also not turning over anyone arrested that is an illegal immigrant to ICE and are not releasing information or pictures on the arrests.

So the LAPD’s action are all for show.
Posted by: Vengeance at June 09, 2025 10:59 AM (hUAHw)

Under these circumstances, that amounts to obstruction. Have the National Guard arrest the chief of LAPD.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 09, 2025 11:02 AM (0zCeC)

391 News came over the last couple of weeks of a new strain of covid out of China that's super deadly.

No one cares.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 09, 2025 10:59 AM (GBKbO)

I think the secret ingredient to 2020 was Trump's acquiescence to the experts on Covid. I do not think without everything moving in that direction, it would have built up the head of steam. I expect he will be a bit more circumspect in future. At least we can hope.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at June 09, 2025 11:02 AM (bss/y)

392 Can the national guard arrest people?

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at June 09, 2025 11:02 AM (XOc1v)

393

nooood

nnooooddd

Posted by: Soothsayer at June 09, 2025 11:03 AM (hC4pF)

394 Everything can be taken as a suppository.

*********

Watermelons?

Posted by: muldoon at June 09, 2025 11:03 AM (/iMjX)

395 Jeez. I'm surprised the left hasn't seized on Robert Vaughn and Robert Wagner as closeted gays.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

Didn't know that about Vaughn.

Wagner was married to one of the most beautiful women on the planet, who came home one day to find him rodgering the houseboy. Jeesh, how sick do you have to be to want some dude's hairy butt when you've got Natalie Wood?

Posted by: Bulg at June 09, 2025 11:03 AM (77rzZ)

396 NOODlum.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 09, 2025 11:03 AM (Zz0t1)

397 Anvils?

Posted by: Boss Moss at June 09, 2025 11:03 AM (uu+Ao)

398 I guess Martial Law is a Governor thing? Alien Enemies and Sedition Act. Is that a thing?
Posted by: Boss Moss at June 09, 2025 10:58 AM (uu+Ao)

Martial law can be done at the state or federal level. In the former, it’s usually by governors. In the latter, the President invokes the Insurrection Act, which is what Trump has done.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at June 09, 2025 11:04 AM (l3YAf)

399 I guess Martial Law is a Governor thing? Alien Enemies and Sedition Act. Is that a thing?

Posted by: Boss Moss at June 09, 2025 10:58 AM (uu+Ao)

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

Insurrection Act FTW!

Posted by: ShainS -- Has the Big Beautiful Breakup passed yet? at June 09, 2025 11:04 AM (lWgwB)

400 Jeez. I'm surprised the left hasn't seized on Robert Vaughn and Robert Wagner as closeted gays.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius
*
Didn't know that about Vaughn. . . .

Posted by: Bulg at June 09, 2025

***
No, I meant I'm surprised they haven't started spreading those stories, merely because RV and RW were good-looking men. RV dated Natalie himself, and was married to the same lady from 1974 until he died.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 09, 2025 11:07 AM (omVj0)

401 Jane Russell was a butterface.
-----------
Damn, *that* sounds insurrectiony.

Posted by: Crusader at June 09, 2025 11:12 AM (TN0g+)

402 337. BREAKING: Senator Chris Murphy (D-CT) demands nationwide anti-ICE protests.

>>"We are going to rise to this moment by being out there on the streets."
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer
--
The Bulward: The Senator Who Isn't Afraid To Punch Trump In The Face, June 6, 2025

"Senator Chris Murphy joins Lauren Egan to talk his new political action committee, the American Mobilization Project’s $400,000 effort not to fund campaigns, but to fuel grassroots protest and organize resistance to what he calls a looming threat to American democracy."

Chris Murphy joins Morning Joe today
I will be on @Morning_Joe in a few minutes to talk about Trump's dangerous affection for martial law, but also the main thing this week - the Republican bill to throw 15 million off their health care to fund a new $270,000 tax cut for the rich.
&
The Republican budget bill will ruin people's lives all across the country. 40% of Americans would lose money. 15 million will get thrown off their health insurance. The only people who will benefit will be corporate CEOs and millionaires, who all get a nice tax break. Disaster.
---
Chris Murphy needs to take his silly white ass out L.A., lead a charge or 2.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at June 09, 2025 11:14 AM (NFX2v)

403 The results of a drug-fueled fever dream?

Posted by: Tinfoil Dispenser at June 09, 2025 11:18 AM (ERYKL)

404 Can AI reason?

Posted by: Soothsayer at June 09, 2025 10:47 AM (e82mC)
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No indication that they can, yet.

Remember the definition of a sentence: "A complete thought."

Thus any properly constructed sentence is in the form that we take to be "thought".

AI are good at associating words together. They are called "Large Language Models". They imitate humans by putting associated words into an order that just so happens to sound like us.

Now, they are also really good replicating--but for the most part plagiarizing--parts of images and graphics. This is probably their most impressive use so far.

But you have to remember how many people you have talked to in your life that can't manufacture a slick painting like image of Trump fighting with a light saber like that, to see how, even if impressive, it's not quite an expectation of "intelligence".

But it's starting to show visual recognition and association to concepts.

Posted by: Axeman at June 09, 2025 11:18 AM (krQz2)

405 Tracy didn't need a beard. He was married to a woman, a Catholic, that wouldn'd give him a divorce.
Posted by: Notsothoreau at June 09, 2025 10:51 AM

That was Hepburn's take on it. Her autobiography revealed (at least to me) that she was the opposite of the strong-willed characters with moral convictions. Tracy sounded like a drunken jerk, to be honest.

Posted by: NaughtyPine at June 09, 2025 11:22 AM (fxCK2)

406 Sure it's probably gay, but for a grounder, just think how may people would look at a guy on some front porch in his skivvies who looks about to take a dive off of the porch.

Also, everybody has an ugly, distorted body except for the sailor.

Just suggests to me a low view of humanity.

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