Wednesday Morning Rant

Vacuum

Last week, Ace posted a column about a Congressional sideshow wherein Governor Hochul (D[emon], NY) claimed not to remember any of the particulars about an incident in New York City where an illegal alien decided to turn a citizen into a human torch on a subway train. (reminder: don't comment on old threads). While I don't believe for a minute that Hochul wasn't well aware of the details and used the typical "I don't recall" dodge, the wider point is important.

Mark Halperin has been talking about this for a while. Democrats don't know what the public knows, or what the public is thinking, because the left-wing media "wraps them in blue bubble-wrap" to protect Democrats from being confronted with the horrors caused by their policies. Democrat politicians never realize the public is getting sick of being set on fire by lunatic illegal aliens, or having their daughters kidnapped and raped by illegal aliens fleeing their home countries because of outstanding rape charges, because the Blue Bubble-Wrap Media refuses to report on these stories.
All lefties wrap themselves snugly in this Blue Bubble-Wrap and go for years without ever realizing that their policies are causing rapes and murders.

This observation about "blue bubble wrap" is certainly true, and it underscores a serious risk. The apparent ignorance about the current state of affairs that many officials and Party loyalists exhibit (and for many of them, it is true ignorance) is evidence of the real underlying problem of censorship: an intelligence vacuum.

When there is no outlet for information because it is either crushed by the state (as it was throughout the West until Musk bought Twitter, and as it remains in many places and on most other platforms) or self-imposed by the loyalists and officials, it creates the appearance of total control. When you censor any negative information and suppress your opponents through official acts or informal policy, it makes it much harder for your opponents to learn anything. It makes it much harder for them to communicate. It makes it hard for them to figure out if their experiences are unique or widespread. It makes it hard for them to coordinate opposition. It helps to alienate them and atomize them because they think they are alone. These are all reasons for large-scale censorship, and the Party loves it for those reasons.

But the flip side of it is that it also denies the censors themselves of any information of what's actually going on. It's all smooth sailing with clear horizons all the time. They have total control and there are no major threats or opposition. That vacuum grows and gets harder and more untenable the longer it goes on. The final result is a sudden implosion that always seems to come out of nowhere. There is a reason small events appear to precipitate major, disruptive changes including the fall of governments. There is no feedback loop and no ability for the system to adapt. It denies itself vital information in the name of maintaining control, and then some small event is finally the "straw that broke the camel's back." They end up in shocked disbelief when some tiny thing causes the whole thing to collapse. Just whip out your ouija board and ask Ceausescu about that.

Setting aside the moral depravity of it, a major danger of censorship is the information vacuum it creates. At small scale in a personal echo chamber, it leads to shock and horror when the person is exposed to a contrary opinion he never knew existed in reality. At the largest scale in the center of a totalitarian regime, it leads to the utter inability to know when something is wrong and eventually a small incident easily leads to collapse.

This "blue bubble wrap" Ace talked about is the intelligence vacuum that leads to an inability to fathom the possibility that something is wrong. It isn't new, but our flavor of it is a bit different. The ability to pierce the vacuum without an implosion - to deflate that "bubble wrap" - is a valuable thing. Our system has various means of doing that, including communication and elections. It's why those are always battlegrounds - not the contests or messages themselves, but the venues as such.

Posted by: Joe Mannix at 11:00 AM

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1 Sponge!

Posted by: rickb223 at June 18, 2025 11:00 AM (jxGzv)

2 An extra wrinkle:

Hochul announced yesterday $50 million for legal aid for illegal immigrants.

$50 million is a pittance, meant to be a virtue signal more than anything else, but it's further evidence of the bubble.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 18, 2025 11:00 AM (GBKbO)

3 FIRST WITH THE MOST

Posted by: Elric Blade at June 18, 2025 11:01 AM (iFTx/)

4 See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil

Posted by: Skip at June 18, 2025 11:02 AM (+qU29)

5 An extra wrinkle:

Hochul announced yesterday $50 million for legal aid for illegal immigrants.

$50 million is a pittance, meant to be a virtue signal more than anything else, but it's further evidence of the bubble.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

In a fair & just society, a taxpayer could get a TRO against that. Taxpayer money should never go to pay for illegals lawyers.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 18, 2025 11:02 AM (jxGzv)

6 Don't forget their stock answer "Even if it's happening, it's a small number and it's a beautiful thing."

Posted by: NR Pax at June 18, 2025 11:02 AM (99eI0)

7 "While I don't believe for a minute that Hochul wasn't well aware of the details and used the typical "I don't recall" dodge, the wider point is important."

I'm not so sure. Hochul is a notorious idiot and lazy slag. I don't think she remembered or even ever knew the names of the people involved. And it's almost always some Spanish name anyway. Even a reasonably astute person could get them confused.

Posted by: Elric Blade at June 18, 2025 11:03 AM (iFTx/)

8 Democrats do nothing but lie, so I see how they'd believe their own propaganda arm over the public.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 18, 2025 11:03 AM (Q4IgG)

9 Why this specific class?

Why pay for just their lawyers?

What about everyone else with legal troubles? Don't they get a free lawyer?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 18, 2025 11:04 AM (BcT2b)

10 God invented bubble wrap so that normal people could get out their frustrations by popping it.

Let the popping begin.

Posted by: Bulg at June 18, 2025 11:04 AM (77rzZ)

11 An extra wrinkle:

Hochul announced yesterday $50 million for legal aid for illegal immigrants.

$50 million is a pittance, meant to be a virtue signal more than anything else, but it's further evidence of the bubble.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 18, 2025 11:00 AM (GBKbO)
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It's a USAID-like grift and payoff to pro-illegal organizations. Very little of that money will go to actual legal aid for immigrants.

Posted by: Elric Blade at June 18, 2025 11:05 AM (iFTx/)

12 In a fair & just society, a taxpayer could get a TRO against that. Taxpayer money should never go to pay for illegals lawyers.
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Snort. Then there is the obvious question about stealing elections - otherwise known as self electing ice cream cone, or coup.

Posted by: pudinhead at June 18, 2025 11:05 AM (FmapG)

13 Excellent read Joe!
Thanks!

Posted by: Stateless.. 33% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back now at June 18, 2025 11:05 AM (jvJvP)

14 It still amazes me that, even to this day, there are a significant number of adults that earnestly believe "the news would have reported that if it were true/happened."

And, thus, if they didn't see it there, you must be wrong.

Like, I bet the regular viewers of CNN would self-rate themselves as "very well informed on news and current events."

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at June 18, 2025 11:06 AM (GBH10)

15 in addition, their war on education is certainly givi g them a completely illiterate and dependent populace

Posted by: Wingnutt at June 18, 2025 11:06 AM (qpN1j)

16 Hochul announced yesterday $50 million for legal aid for illegal immigrants.

$50 million is a pittance, meant to be a virtue signal more than anything else, but it's further evidence of the bubble.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

In a fair & just society, a taxpayer could get a TRO against that. Taxpayer money should never go to pay for illegals lawyers.
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The "mechanics" of such stunts are a mystery to me. Does the state of New York have $50,000,000 just sitting around in a sock drawer? The Governor just strolls downstairs and says "Here, use this for those illegals?".

IF the $50 million weren't in an approved budget, how does it magically materialize at the whim of a governor?

Posted by: Crusader at June 18, 2025 11:06 AM (TN0g+)

17 When there is no outlet for information because it is either crushed by the state (as it was throughout the West until Musk bought Twitter, and as it remains in many places and on most other platforms) or self-imposed by the loyalists and officials, it creates the appearance of total control...but the flip side of it is that it also denies the censors themselves of any information of what's actually going on. It's all smooth sailing with clear horizons all the time. They have total control and there are no major threats or opposition. That vacuum grows and gets harder and more untenable the longer it goes on. The final result is a sudden implosion that always seems to come out of nowhere...At the largest scale in the center of a totalitarian regime, it leads to the utter inability to know when something is wrong and eventually a small incident easily leads to collapse.

Paging Messrs. Putin and Xi. Messrs. Putin and Xi to the white courtesy phone please.

Posted by: M.C. Hammer at June 18, 2025 11:07 AM (s8j++)

18 The only chance that a Leftist might change their illogical, nonsensical, mentally I’ll based positions is if the suffer direct consequences of those positions. Even then there is a good chance they would publicly dismiss it as they would rather still present that they couldn’t possibly have been wrong. It’s the narcissism that’s present in all Leftists.

Posted by: polynikes at June 18, 2025 11:07 AM (VofaG)

19 At small scale in a personal echo chamber, it leads to shock and horror when the person is exposed to a contrary opinion he never knew existed in reality. At the largest scale in the center of a totalitarian regime, it leads to the utter inability to know when something is wrong and eventually a small incident easily leads to collapse."

This is the greatest argument in favor of representative democracy; not that it is a "better" form of government (it frequently is not) but because it allows feedback loops to operate, avoiding ends like the French and Russian Revolutions, both of which caught their ruling classes by complete surprise.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 18, 2025 11:07 AM (uWKK8)

20 Arrrghhhh.

Posted by: Archimedes = M.C. Hammer at June 18, 2025 11:08 AM (s8j++)

21 Like, I bet the regular viewers of CNN would self-rate themselves as "very well informed on news and current events."
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at June 18, 2025 11:06 AM (GBH10)

all 200,000 of them?

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 18, 2025 11:08 AM (uWKK8)

22 An extra wrinkle:

Hochul announced yesterday $50 million for legal aid for illegal immigrants.

$50 million is a pittance, meant to be a virtue signal more than anything else, but it's further evidence of the bubble.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

In a fair & just society, a taxpayer could get a TRO against that. Taxpayer money should never go to pay for illegals lawyers.
Posted by: rickb223 at June 18, 2025 11:02 AM (jxGzv)
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NO STANDING. No, seriously. There were lots of legal challenges to government spending brought by taxpayers. The courts ruled that taxpayers have no standing to challenge how taxpayer money is spent. So as a taxpayer, I can't say "hey, I don't want my money going to those filthy fuckers, give me a TRO."

Posted by: Elric Blade at June 18, 2025 11:09 AM (iFTx/)

23 Like, I bet the regular viewers of CNN would self-rate themselves as "very well informed on news and current events."
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at June 18, 2025 11:06 AM (GBH10)

all 200,000 of them?

At the rate they're going, there will soon be more ex-CNN "journalists" with podcasts than viewers.

Posted by: Archimedes at June 18, 2025 11:09 AM (s8j++)

24 "blue bubble wrap"
I also use the term self-licking ice cream cone.
They are clueless and no more a place than here in Washington State. Horrible taxes, horrible for business and among the worst for new businesses where the first year failure rate is over 40%.
I once met a former governor at a street fair in Tacoma. He was walking around with a totally clueless smile on his face (probably stoned) and we got to chatting. He says, (no shit...he really said this) "So...tell me about this profit thing. Just how does that work exactly?"
A complete idiot.

Posted by: Diogenes at June 18, 2025 11:10 AM (W/lyH)

25 It's a USAID-like grift and payoff to pro-illegal organizations. Very little of that money will go to actual legal aid for immigrants.
Posted by: Elric Blade at June 18, 2025 11:05 AM (iFTx/)

Government is a bunch of lawyers passing laws which are, largely, enforced by lawyers. When you run afoul of them two lawyers argue in front of a third lawyer about whether and how much to punish the non-lawyer.

This is just another mechanism which transfers money from non-lawyers to lawyers. The "for muh illegals" part is cosplay so that their NPC street muppets will argue that you're rayciss for opposing it.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 18, 2025 11:10 AM (ExV1e)

26 All lefties wrap themselves snugly in this Blue Bubble-Wrap and go for years without ever realizing that their policies are causing rapes and murders.

Agree, but also disagree. It isn't so much that they don't realize - they do realize and they don't care. Remember the asshole commenter* who dismissed the left tearing down and vandalizing statues because it wasn't happening near him? The same on the left.

*not me, oddly enough

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at June 18, 2025 11:10 AM (Dg2sF)

27 We now live in a "narrowcast" society instead of a "broadcast" society.

All our information is being filtered through so many layers that we only get the information that fits within our pre-conceived notions of how the world works instead of how the world actually works.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 18, 2025 11:10 AM (7fElN)

28 Crossing my fingers but, I think we have reached the point where Iran will have to send a terminator back in time to kill Tzila Segal to have any success.

Posted by: toby928 at June 18, 2025 11:10 AM (jc0TO)

29 IF the $50 million weren't in an approved budget, how does it magically materialize at the whim of a governor?
Posted by: Crusader at June 18, 2025 11:06 AM (TN0g+)

I suspect that it's either pulled from some discretionary fund or more likely, just diverted from the existing legal aid budget.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at June 18, 2025 11:11 AM (FoIOl)

30 Arrrghhhh.
Posted by: Archimedes = M.C. Hammer at June 18, 2025 11:08 AM (s8j++)
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The Castle of...?

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at June 18, 2025 11:11 AM (6YdsJ)

31 Hochul announced yesterday $50 million for legal aid for illegal immigrants.

Sounds like aiding and abetting to me.

Posted by: Diogenes at June 18, 2025 11:11 AM (W/lyH)

32 The only chance that a Leftist might change their illogical, nonsensical, mentally I’ll based positions is if the suffer direct consequences of those positions. Even then there is a good chance they would publicly dismiss it as they would rather still present that they couldn’t possibly have been wrong. It’s the narcissism that’s present in all Leftists.

**The parents of Kate Steinle have entered the chat**

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at June 18, 2025 11:12 AM (Dg2sF)

33 NO STANDING. No, seriously. There were lots of legal challenges to government spending brought by taxpayers. The courts ruled that taxpayers have no standing to challenge how taxpayer money is spent. So as a taxpayer, I can't say "hey, I don't want my money going to those filthy fuckers, give me a TRO."
Posted by: Elric Blade at June 18, 2025 11:09 AM (iFTx/)
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If we had standing, the public schools would be closed tomorrow.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 18, 2025 11:12 AM (7fElN)

34 31 Hochul announced yesterday $50 million for legal aid for illegal immigrants.

Sounds like aiding and abetting to me.
Posted by: Diogenes at June 18, 2025 11:11 AM (W/lyH)

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Yeah, but the intersectionality stack.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 18, 2025 11:12 AM (GBKbO)

35 Our system has various means of doing that, including communication and elections.

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"Which is why elections must be rigged, comrade!"

Posted by: ShainS -- Busy Organizing 'Make Trump King' Protests at June 18, 2025 11:12 AM (rsEC7)

36 Arrrghhhh.
Posted by: Archimedes

Talk Like a Pirate Day isn't until September. Gotta get through Pride Month and Juneteenth first.

Posted by: Bulg at June 18, 2025 11:12 AM (77rzZ)

37 Can we get Mossad to 'arrange a meeting' between Hochul, Newsome, Schiff, Schumer, Pelosi, Nadler, AOC, Omar, Hillary, Obama, Tank Abrams, the cast of The View, and the marketing department from Liberty Mutual?

Asking for a friend.

Posted by: Grapefruit LaCroix at June 18, 2025 11:13 AM (AE0cR)

38 The only chance that a Leftist might change their illogical, nonsensical, mentally I’ll based positions is if the suffer direct consequences of those positions. Even then there is a good chance they would publicly dismiss it as they would rather still present that they couldn’t possibly have been wrong. It’s the narcissism that’s present in all Leftists.

**The parents of Kate Steinle have entered the chat**
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at June 18, 2025 11:12 AM (Dg2sF)
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"Don't forget about us!"

-- Parents of Molly Tibbets

Posted by: Elric Blade at June 18, 2025 11:13 AM (iFTx/)

39 How come the chimp has 6 cards in his hand?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at June 18, 2025 11:13 AM (0sNs1)

40 39 How come the chimp has 6 cards in his hand?
Posted by: Duncanthrax at June 18, 2025 11:13 AM (0sNs1)

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Chimp baccarat.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 18, 2025 11:14 AM (GBKbO)

41 Can we get Mossad to 'arrange a meeting' between Hochul, Newsome, Schiff, Schumer, Pelosi, Nadler, AOC, Omar, Hillary, Obama, Tank Abrams, the cast of The View, and the marketing department from Liberty Mutual?

Asking for a friend.
Posted by: Grapefruit LaCroix

You forgot Fauci, Birx, Daszak, Judge Boasberg...

Posted by: Bulg at June 18, 2025 11:14 AM (77rzZ)

42 Did anything that will be remembered for centuries happen over the last 24 hours?

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at June 18, 2025 11:14 AM (kTd/k)

43 How come the chimp has 6 cards in his hand?
Posted by: Duncanthrax at June 18, 2025 11:13 AM (0sNs1)
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He's a sneaky bastard.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at June 18, 2025 11:14 AM (6YdsJ)

44 33 NO STANDING. No, seriously. There were lots of legal challenges to government spending brought by taxpayers. The courts ruled that taxpayers have no standing to challenge how taxpayer money is spent. So as a taxpayer, I can't say "hey, I don't want my money going to those filthy fuckers, give me a TRO."
Posted by: Elric Blade at June 18, 2025 11:09 AM (iFTx/)

The Left is trying that approach now, and this illustrates why that does not work, and cannot be allowed to stand. A government cannot be run by Judges; judicial tyranny is just as bad as any bureaucratic tyranny. Judges must be subservient to the elected government.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 18, 2025 11:14 AM (uWKK8)

45 The only chance that a Leftist might change their illogical, nonsensical, mentally ill based positions is if they suffer direct consequences of those positions.
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They weren't reasoned into those positions and even pain isn't enough of a teacher to reason them out of it.

Their entire existence is consumed with accruing power.

And they're doubling-down on the 20% side of 80/20 issues, even after suffering a devastating loss 8 months ago on those issues ....

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at June 18, 2025 11:15 AM (GBH10)

46 42 Did anything that will be remembered for centuries happen over the last 24 hours?
Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at June 18, 2025 11:14 AM (kTd/k)

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My shit this morning, man.

Memorable. Historic.

Epic.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 18, 2025 11:15 AM (GBKbO)

47
Like, I bet the regular viewers of CNN would self-rate themselves as "very well informed on news and current events."
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice
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And the large number of people that don't watch the news at all.
The news is other things - other people - I have supper to cook, the baby/grand baby to tend to, wash the car - on and on. Too many people were never taught the importance of that level of civic participation.

Hey, I go to work, I take care of my family, I pay my taxes - Go away.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 18, 2025 11:15 AM (Quxeu)

48 I imagine the amount of Dark Money that has been funneled into Blue state budgets ( budgets monitored by Blue oversight) is staggering.. 50 million does not surprise me, at all.

Posted by: tubal at June 18, 2025 11:15 AM (PCK5/)

49 42 Did anything that will be remembered for centuries happen over the last 24 hours?
Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at June 18, 2025 11:14 AM (kTd/k)

I liked an answer earlier this morning - the Iranian Leadership dressed up like showgirls and sang Judy Garland songs.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 18, 2025 11:16 AM (uWKK8)

50 I think they know but they just don't care.

It's all about the power, the money, the grift for them.

and the sadism

Posted by: kallisto at June 18, 2025 11:16 AM (dCxaZ)

51 Hey, I go to work, I take care of my family, I pay my taxes - Go away.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 18, 2025 11:15 AM

The American Dream.

Posted by: toby928 at June 18, 2025 11:16 AM (jc0TO)

52 Talk Like a Pirate Day isn't until September. Gotta get through Pride Month and Juneteenth first.
Posted by: Bulg at June 18, 2025 11:12 AM (77rzZ)

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Speaking of, since I'm off Fridays for the summer, I get a four-day weekend starting tomorrow. So that's nice.

Posted by: Jordan61 at June 18, 2025 11:16 AM (DRSnL)

53 That creepy homo hand model fingering the artillery shell with the Temu nuclear sticker like it was his boyfriend's dick ... that was a fake troll, right?

Posted by: Elric Blade at June 18, 2025 11:17 AM (iFTx/)

54 And the large number of people that don't watch the news at all.
The news is other things - other people - I have supper to cook, the baby/grand baby to tend to, wash the car - on and on. Too many people were never taught the importance of that level of civic participation.

Your statement assumes that people who watch "the news" are better informed. I argue that they are far worse informed. Also, the information baud rate (real or imagined) is so low it induces catatonia.

Posted by: Archimedes at June 18, 2025 11:17 AM (s8j++)

55 I liked an answer earlier this morning - the Iranian Leadership dressed up like showgirls and sang Judy Garland songs.
Posted by: Tom Servo at June 18, 2025 11:16 AM (uWKK

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"Sing Hallelujah" might be appropriate.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at June 18, 2025 11:17 AM (6YdsJ)

56 54 Your statement assumes that people who watch "the news" are better informed. I argue that they are far worse informed. Also, the information baud rate (real or imagined) is so low it induces catatonia.
Posted by: Archimedes at June 18, 2025 11:17 AM (s8j++)

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“If you don't read the newspaper, you're uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you're mis-informed.”
-Mark Twain

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 18, 2025 11:17 AM (GBKbO)

57 In a fair & just society, a taxpayer could get a TRO against that. Taxpayer money should never go to pay for illegals lawyers.
Posted by: rickb223

Pfft. As if taxpayers have standing to even know how their tax money is spent.

Posted by: Judge Likmahtiki at June 18, 2025 11:18 AM (M0V4/)

58 You forgot Fauci, Birx, Daszak, Judge Boasberg...

Yaaaaasssss!

Posted by: Grapefruit LaCroix at June 18, 2025 11:19 AM (AE0cR)

59 Watching the news… a concept that does not mean what it used to mean… the Death of Cable Guy out front shoulda told you…

Posted by: tubal at June 18, 2025 11:19 AM (PCK5/)

60 To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labour tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution.

Posted by: Samuel Johnson at June 18, 2025 11:19 AM (jc0TO)

61 Something new reported from Tehran this morning, I think significant: all banks and other monetary facilities are closed, no word on when or even if they will open again. Meaning no cash for anyone, for anything.

As has been famously observed, Mankind is never more than 9 meals away from anarchy.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 18, 2025 11:19 AM (uWKK8)

62 The blue bubble wrap-now you tell me about it.

Posted by: Zombie Nicolae Ceausescu at June 18, 2025 11:19 AM (rJ48h)

63 > Pfft. As if taxpayers have standing to even know how their tax money is spent.
Posted by: Judge Likmahtiki
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I have a pretty good idea "how" my taxes are spent.

Irresponsibly.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 18, 2025 11:20 AM (Q4IgG)

64 Your statement assumes that people who watch "the news" are better informed. I argue that they are far worse informed. Also, the information baud rate (real or imagined) is so low it induces catatonia.
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Yes, much of it is probably generational but there are quite a few people who voted for Trump who still watch "the evening news" on their local ABC, CBS, or NBC affiliate. They just can't make the connection that even the local affiliates of those networks are propaganda outlets that color their thinking subtly and not so subtly.

Posted by: Crusader at June 18, 2025 11:20 AM (TN0g+)

65 **The parents of Kate Steinle have entered the chat**
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For some reason, the federal government had (has?) a team of people they would send out to "de-escalate" victims of crimes.

If, God forbid, something awful happened to any of mine that was caused even indirectly by some politician not doing their job, I'd be naming and shaming if not suing through any venue that would have me.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at June 18, 2025 11:20 AM (Dv3i1)

66 61 Something new reported from Tehran this morning, I think significant: all banks and other monetary facilities are closed, no word on when or even if they will open again. Meaning no cash for anyone, for anything.

As has been famously observed, Mankind is never more than 9 meals away from anarchy.
Posted by: Tom Servo at June 18, 2025 11:19 AM (uWKK

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Early Juneteenth observance?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 18, 2025 11:21 AM (GBKbO)

67 I wonder how many of us here stream only??

Posted by: tubal at June 18, 2025 11:21 AM (PCK5/)

68 Your statement assumes that people who watch "the news" are better informed. I argue that they are far worse informed. Also, the information baud rate (real or imagined) is so low it induces catatonia.
Posted by: Archimedes
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Wording could have been better formed. "Watch the news" was a metaphor for, in any way paying attention to current events whether it be TV, computer, or conversation.
In other words - non participatory.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 18, 2025 11:22 AM (Quxeu)

69 61 Something new reported from Tehran this morning, I think significant: all banks and other monetary facilities are closed, no word on when or even if they will open again. Meaning no cash for anyone, for anything.

As has been famously observed, Mankind is never more than 9 meals away from anarchy.
Posted by: Tom Servo at June 18, 2025 11:19 AM (uWKK

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Interesting. Probably a run on the banks as everyone was leaving Tehran.

Posted by: WisRich at June 18, 2025 11:23 AM (G0vdT)

70 Something new reported from Tehran this morning, I think significant: all banks and other monetary facilities are closed, no word on when or even if they will open again. Meaning no cash for anyone, for anything.

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I'm filing this under good news.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, And You're Not at June 18, 2025 11:23 AM (L/fGl)

71 Interesting. Probably a run on the banks as everyone was leaving Tehran.
Posted by: WisRich

The capital city should be renamed "Theyran."

Posted by: Bulg at June 18, 2025 11:24 AM (77rzZ)

72 I wonder how many of us here stream only??
Posted by: tubal

I get my news from AoSHQ.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 18, 2025 11:24 AM (jxGzv)

73 Interesting. Probably a run on the banks as everyone was leaving Tehran.
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And Israel was zapping everything it could in regard to cyber attacks.

Posted by: Crusader at June 18, 2025 11:24 AM (TN0g+)

74 There is an amusing dilemma developing for the left in light of the earlier SCOTUS tranny decision.

If the state can ban tranny transitions, it can't be forced to provide them either.
So, there goes all those illegal injunctions the judge-kings issued.

And the left has to decide if they give Trump the win now at the appeal level or a bigger win at SCOTUS.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at June 18, 2025 11:24 AM (GBH10)

75 So if the mad mullahs in Iran go down the shitter of history, where will hamas, hezbollah, yomammas and all the other BS mooselim terror groups get their funding, weapons and sex slaves from now that USAID is no more?

Posted by: Ray Kroc, American Hero at June 18, 2025 11:25 AM (k98/w)

76 The capital city should be renamed "Theyran."
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In the district of "Sofaraway".

Posted by: Crusader at June 18, 2025 11:25 AM (TN0g+)

77 74 And the left has to decide if they give Trump the win now at the appeal level or a bigger win at SCOTUS.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at June 18, 2025 11:24 AM (GBH10)

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Apply this to, like, every issue the left is pushing right now.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 18, 2025 11:25 AM (GBKbO)

78 Just a "handfull" of burning subway passengers.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 18, 2025 11:26 AM (63Dwl)

79 75 So if the mad mullahs in Iran go down the shitter of history, where will hamas, hezbollah, yomammas and all the other BS mooselim terror groups get their funding, weapons and sex slaves from now that USAID is no more?
Posted by: Ray Kroc, American Hero

We have plenty of taxpayer funds to distribute.
- Blue State Governers

Posted by: Chuck Martel at June 18, 2025 11:26 AM (Dv3i1)

80 The capital city should be renamed "Theyran."
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In the district of "Sofaraway".
Posted by: Crusader at June 18, 2025 11:25 AM (TN0g+)
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The whole country is named 'I Ran,' for God's sake.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at June 18, 2025 11:26 AM (6YdsJ)

81 72 I wonder how many of us here stream only??
Posted by: tubal

I get my news from AoSHQ.
Posted by: rickb223 at June 18, 2025 11:24 AM (jxGzv)

Truly, for me, here, and a small handful of other sites I will not name because of rock throwing which might ensue if I did… I have not had “ TV”, as in cable network shit, for 9 years now… do not miss it, at all.

Posted by: tubal at June 18, 2025 11:27 AM (PCK5/)

82 The capital city should be renamed "Theyran."
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In the district of "Sofaraway".
Posted by: Crusader at June 18, 2025 11:25 AM (TN0g+)
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The whole country is named 'I Ran,' for God's sake.
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Yes, that's the coda.

Posted by: Crusader at June 18, 2025 11:28 AM (TN0g+)

83 Something new reported from Tehran this morning, I think significant: all banks and other monetary facilities are closed

It's Juneteenth Eve over there.

Posted by: t-bird at June 18, 2025 11:28 AM (98iWb)

84 Mostly peacefull human torches.

Posted by: Boss Moss at June 18, 2025 11:28 AM (2b8jU)

85 >> wonder how many of us here stream only??
Posted by: tubal
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I get my news from AoSHQ.
Posted by: rickb223
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It's funny, but I get a lot of perspective here on current events. I mean, I'm aware of stuff happening and have my own opinions... but the same events result in different takes on them here.

Obviously I don't agree with every one of them, but it's still interesting.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 18, 2025 11:28 AM (Q4IgG)

86 82 The capital city should be renamed "Theyran."
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In the district of "Sofaraway".
Posted by: Crusader at June 18, 2025 11:25 AM (TN0g+)
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The whole country is named 'I Ran,' for God's sake.
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Yes, that's the coda.
Posted by: Crusader at June 18, 2025 11:28 AM (TN0g+)

Heh, indeed.

Posted by: tubal at June 18, 2025 11:29 AM (PCK5/)

87 Truly, for me, here, and a small handful of other sites I will not name because of rock throwing which might ensue if I did… I have not had “ TV”, as in cable network shit, for 9 years now… do not miss it, at all.
Posted by: tubal at June 18, 2025 11:27 AM (PCK5/)
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I just realized it's been about that long for me as well. I "cut the cord" back in 2015/2016.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 18, 2025 11:29 AM (7fElN)

88 I wonder how many of us here stream only??
Posted by: tubal

I get my news from AoSHQ.
Posted by: rickb223 at June 18, 2025 11:24 AM (jxGzv)

Truly, for me, here, and a small handful of other sites I will not name because of rock throwing which might ensue if I did… I have not had “ TV”, as in cable network shit, for 9 years now… do not miss it, at all.
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Sling provides my sports, antenna tv provides tornado updates, and AoS, Instapundit, & Rantburg provide 95% of my news.

Posted by: Crusader at June 18, 2025 11:29 AM (TN0g+)

89 Something new reported from Tehran this morning, I think significant: all banks and other monetary facilities are closed
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Is that their "big surprise" that people will be talking about for the next century?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 18, 2025 11:29 AM (7fElN)

90 Escape to Oman:

https://tinyurl.com/3xj983u7

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at June 18, 2025 11:29 AM (n+rGF)

91 Did anything happen last night that you will remember for hundreds of years?

Posted by: Boss Moss at June 18, 2025 11:30 AM (2b8jU)

92 For some reason, the federal government had (has?) a team of people they would send out to "de-escalate" victims of crimes.

If I was one of those victims and they dared to show up at my home, they would be lucky if they were only forced to eat meals with a straw for the rest of their lives.

Posted by: NR Pax at June 18, 2025 11:30 AM (99eI0)

93 What is broadcast TV?
What is cable TV?

Posted by: Most people at June 18, 2025 11:30 AM (lIgBp)

94 ...in the province of Gottagetaway.

Posted by: t-bird at June 18, 2025 11:30 AM (QHX6R)

95 85 It's funny, but I get a lot of perspective here on current events. I mean, I'm aware of stuff happening and have my own opinions... but the same events result in different takes on them here.

Obviously I don't agree with every one of them, but it's still interesting.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 18, 2025 11:28 AM (Q4IgG)

=======

I am fully aware that I have assembled a bubble around myself. I actually tightened it after 2020 because I wanted to at least partially disengage with politics (didn't work).

I try to keep in mind that there's news floating around outside of my bubble. It's why the whole, "I haven't heard of it," defense never works with me.

I know there's a bunch out there I haven't heard about.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 18, 2025 11:30 AM (GBKbO)

96
There's a bubble not just of news but also experience. How many made their name in the private, for-profit sector before going into politics? Apart from a short spell in a DC law firm, Hochul has been in government her entire adult life.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 18, 2025 11:30 AM (QnmlO)

97 93 What is broadcast TV?
What is cable TV?
Posted by: Most people at June 18, 2025 11:30 AM (lIgBp)

Indeed.

Posted by: tubal at June 18, 2025 11:30 AM (PCK5/)

98
There was a report this morning that the Mossad hacked into Iranian Revolutionary Guard bank accounts and removed all the money.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at June 18, 2025 11:30 AM (HLgI3)

99 Rep. Luna posts a music video:

https://tinyurl.com/32z7r6vz

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at June 18, 2025 11:31 AM (n+rGF)

100 All lefties wrap themselves snugly in this Blue Bubble-Wrap and go for years without ever realizing that their policies are causing rapes and murders.
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I think there's a typo. Shouldn't that read "SMUGLY"?

Posted by: CSinKS at June 18, 2025 11:31 AM (VBzjB)

101 98
There was a report this morning that the Mossad hacked into Iranian Revolutionary Guard bank accounts and removed all the money.
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at June 18, 2025 11:30 AM (HLgI3)

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And bought bacon with it.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 18, 2025 11:31 AM (GBKbO)

102 Oman makes some great air cooled engines.

Posted by: Just got here at June 18, 2025 11:31 AM (lIgBp)

103 99% of subway passengers are not on fire.

Posted by: toby928 at June 18, 2025 11:31 AM (jc0TO)

104 Something new reported from Tehran this morning, I think significant: all banks and other monetary facilities are closed
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Is that their "big surprise" that people will be talking about for the next century?

Surprise! We took all the gold.

Posted by: Mad Mullahs Don't Go Away Mad, They Just Go Away at June 18, 2025 11:32 AM (p0167)

105 Something new reported from Tehran this morning, I think significant: all banks and other monetary facilities are closed, no word on when or even if they will open again. Meaning no cash for anyone, for anything.

As has been famously observed, Mankind is never more than 9 meals away from anarchy.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 18, 2025 11:19 AM (uWKK

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Heard yesterday that their Central Bank got hacked or crippled by a cyber attack.

Posted by: ShainS -- Busy Organizing 'Make Trump King' Protests at June 18, 2025 11:32 AM (1bwgq)

106 And the large number of people that don't watch the news at all.
The news is other things - other people - I have supper to cook, the baby/grand baby to tend to, wash the car - on and on. Too many people were never taught the importance of that level of civic participation.

Hey, I go to work, I take care of my family, I pay my taxes - Go away.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 18, 2025 11:15 AM (Quxeu)

I don't watch the news because it's non-stop Commie propaganda. Don't listen to the radio, either.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 18, 2025 11:32 AM (CVhPQ)

107 >News Bloomberg Government, NY Socialist Lawmakers Aim to Push Centrist Hochul to the Left, Jan. 10, 2024

- New York legislature has biggest socialist bloc in US

>Yahoo News, Dallas Express, ‘No Kings Day’ Exposed: Activist Powerhouses Mobilize Across America, Fri, June 13, 2025

"Other groups like Indivisible – an influential left-wing network – are also organizing the demonstrations. Indivisible is known for working with groups like the Democratic Socialists of America, whose “paramilitary wing” is Antifa. According to The Federalist, Indivisible boosted previous protests like “Hands Off” with things like “infrastructure to get the campaign off the ground.”

>CPUSA: Labor must stand up against MAGA, June 4th

>New York City Central Labor Council, AFL-CIO, NO KINGS NYC March | New York

Hochul's just another puppet. Her polls numbers went up a bit in April but it's obvious she has problems when it comes to the next New York gubernatorial election, 2026.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at June 18, 2025 11:33 AM (NFX2v)

108 95

I am fully aware that I have assembled a bubble around myself. I actually tightened it after 2020 because I wanted to at least partially disengage with politics (didn't work).

I try to keep in mind that there's news floating around outside of my bubble. It's why the whole, "I haven't heard of it," defense never works with me.

I know there's a bunch out there I haven't heard about.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 18, 2025 11:30 AM (GBKbO)

A bubble seems inevitable.. there are no neutral information sites, is my premise… none. All information has a bias, and I have chosen one.. picking a side, if you will. Beware the Leavening of the Networks..

Posted by: tubal at June 18, 2025 11:33 AM (PCK5/)

109 98
There was a report this morning that the Mossad hacked into Iranian Revolutionary Guard bank accounts and removed all the money.
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at June 18, 2025 11:30 AM (HLgI3)
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You've got to wonder if the Ayatollah has any of that $400M pallets of cash left that Obama gave him.

Posted by: WisRich at June 18, 2025 11:33 AM (G0vdT)

110 Morning.

Posted by: Robert at June 18, 2025 11:34 AM (qByXh)

111 I posted this earlier. Iran's crypto is most gone:

https://tinyurl.com/jrpr6862

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at June 18, 2025 11:34 AM (n+rGF)

112 37
‘ the marketing department from Liberty Mutual?

Asking for a friend.’

Liberty Liberty Lib-er-ty!

Posted by: Dr. Claw at June 18, 2025 11:34 AM (jbnUc)

113 108 A bubble seems inevitable.. there are no neutral information sites, is my premise… none. All information has a bias, and I have chosen one.. picking a side, if you will. Beware the Leavening of the Networks..
Posted by: tubal at June 18, 2025 11:33 AM (PCK5/)

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Beyond the question of bias there's also the question of how much information there is to process.

Assume we had a completely Platonic ideal of objective news. No biases. No editorial limits. Just all the news, straight. Would we be able to process everything it put out?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 18, 2025 11:35 AM (GBKbO)

114 Morning.

Posted by: Robert at June 18, 2025 11:34 AM (qByXh)
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Time to break for supper. l8r.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at June 18, 2025 11:35 AM (n+rGF)

115
I don't watch the news because it's non-stop Commie propaganda. Don't listen to the radio, either.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 18, 2025 11:32 AM (CVhPQ)

_________

During COVID, the lockdown party was represented by doctors in journal-filled offices or emotionally-labile single moms. The skeptical party was represented by guys in buffalo hats.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 18, 2025 11:35 AM (QnmlO)

116 Supreme Court upholds Tennessee ban on "gender affirming care" for minors.

https://tinyurl.com/bde8yy97

Via Instapundit.

Posted by: Robert at June 18, 2025 11:35 AM (qByXh)

117 Say, I don't know if anyone noticed but there were boobs in the art thread.

If Iran were going to do "irreparable damage" to America the obvious thing would be crashing the electrical grid. If that happens, the deer that wanders around my neighborhood would probably not wander very much longer.

In regard to "blue bubble" discussion, I recall that several years ago we used to talk about that issue often here. There was even a term coined for the problem, which I cannot recall now, but it sounded like "echostatic conviction", which meant a dogmatic, self-reinforcing perspective founded mainly upon an echo chamber of views.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at June 18, 2025 11:35 AM (ObHFi)

118 For some reason, the federal government had (has?) a team of people they would send out to "de-escalate" victims of crimes.

But, seemingly, only when the victim was paler than the perpetrator. For some reason.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 18, 2025 11:36 AM (ExV1e)

119 Liberty Liberty Lib-er-ty!
Posted by: Dr. Claw at June 18, 2025 11:34 AM (jbnUc)

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That was just mean.

Posted by: Jordan61 at June 18, 2025 11:36 AM (DRSnL)

120 111 I posted this earlier. Iran's crypto is most gone:

https://tinyurl.com/jrpr6862
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at June 18, 2025 11:34 AM (n+rGF)
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I can't imagine the crypto markets like the fact that their exchanges can be hacked.

Posted by: WisRich at June 18, 2025 11:37 AM (G0vdT)

121 The capital city should be renamed "Theyran."
Posted by: Bulg at June 18, 2025 11:24 AM

I forget which comedian suggested combining Iran and Iraq into one large country called Irate.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 18, 2025 11:37 AM (dPfyF)

122 "What do you mean the surprise got cancelled?!"
"But you're excellency, the surprise was hit by a missile yesterday and-"
"I told the whole world we were going to do something memorable. You had one job, al-Carl!"

Posted by: NR Pax at June 18, 2025 11:37 AM (99eI0)

123 There was a report this morning that the Mossad hacked into Iranian Revolutionary Guard bank accounts and removed all the money.
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug

Well, Jews.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, And You're Not at June 18, 2025 11:37 AM (L/fGl)

124 Speaking of being out of touch with reality, fun with flags.

https://shorturl.at/rN7zI

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, And You're Not at June 18, 2025 11:37 AM (L/fGl)

125 I think the Iranians who are on those planes fleeing Tehran are never going back to Iran. Ever.

They know what they've done.

Yet, there's still a terror network thriving in the Middle East they can cozy up to and, probably, fund for the foreseeable future. Just won't have an entire country to hide behind anymore.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 18, 2025 11:38 AM (Q4IgG)

126 99% of subway passengers are not on fire.
Posted by: toby928 at June 18, 2025 11:31 AM (jc0TO)
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"mostly safe"

the CNN reporter view

Posted by: Huck Follywood at June 18, 2025 11:38 AM (ObHFi)

127 I get my news from AoSHQ.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 18, 2025 11:24 AM (jxGzv)

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AoSHQ is the primary source of my news, boobs, limericks, and puns ... but mostly puns.

Posted by: ShainS -- Busy Organizing 'Make Trump King' Protests at June 18, 2025 11:38 AM (1bwgq)

128 There has been chatter about Israel inserting a commando unit into the Fordow nuke facility and they wouldn't stand a chance. We went through our records and found out a few things about Eben Emael.

General Staff, Army of the Kingdom of Belgium

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at June 18, 2025 11:38 AM (gm9Sb)

129 You had one job, al-Carl!"
Posted by: NR Pax at June 18, 2025 11:37 AM

Fuckin' al-Tahd.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 18, 2025 11:38 AM (dPfyF)

130
Say, I don't know if anyone noticed but there were boobs in the art thread.

__________

Hours before the Art Thread is posted, Morons are asking themselves, "Are there going to be boobs today?"

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 18, 2025 11:38 AM (QnmlO)

131 119 Liberty Liberty Lib-er-ty!
Posted by: Dr. Claw at June 18, 2025 11:34 AM (jbnUc)

=====

That was just mean.
Posted by: Jordan61 at June 18, 2025 11:36 AM (DRSnL)

I laugh because I eat emu on a regular basis… tasty flightless dinosaur is what I see…

Posted by: tubal at June 18, 2025 11:38 AM (PCK5/)

132 If Iran were going to do "irreparable damage" to America...

I think it would come in the form of incriminating evidence.

Posted by: t-bird at June 18, 2025 11:39 AM (Vngri)

133 The opposite seems to have happened in the predator community. They thought they were alone and then the internet came along. And they found a large welcoming club

Posted by: BChasm Phone at June 18, 2025 11:39 AM (ZInBy)

134 I wonder how many of us here stream only??
Posted by: tubal

I get my news from here and Insty. I only listen to AM radio for weather and traffic. As far as a newspaper, I only subscribe to my local village rag, although there are 2 conservative monthlies (The Valley Patriot and The Boston Broadside) which I also read.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at June 18, 2025 11:39 AM (Dg2sF)

135 I seem to be geographically bubbled. If I avoided all news, everything would appear to be as it always was. Watching the news is like watching a dystopian movie to me.

Posted by: toby928 at June 18, 2025 11:39 AM (jc0TO)

136 Fuckin' al-Tahd.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState

I believe that Carl is one of the few universal constants across cultures.

Posted by: NR Pax at June 18, 2025 11:39 AM (99eI0)

137 I try to keep in mind that there's news floating around outside of my bubble. It's why the whole, "I haven't heard of it," defense never works with me.

I know there's a bunch out there I haven't heard about.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

When one of those pop up, THEN I go looking for the news.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 18, 2025 11:39 AM (jxGzv)

138 Dang Emu commercials on YouTube.

Posted by: Boss Moss at June 18, 2025 11:40 AM (2b8jU)

139 There was a report this morning that the Mossad hacked into Iranian Revolutionary Guard bank accounts and removed all the money.
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug

Well, Jews.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, And You're Not at June 18, 2025 11:37 AM (L/fGl)

They can spend it all on lottery scratch-off tickets.

Posted by: Robert at June 18, 2025 11:40 AM (qByXh)

140 87 Truly, for me, here, and a small handful of other sites I will not name because of rock throwing which might ensue if I did… I have not had “ TV”, as in cable network shit, for 9 years now… do not miss it, at all.
Posted by: tubal at June 18, 2025 11:27 AM (PCK5/)
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I just realized it's been about that long for me as well. I "cut the cord" back in 2015/2016.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel
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Ditto

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 18, 2025 11:40 AM (Quxeu)

141 I think it would come in the form of incriminating evidence.
Posted by: t-bird

"I have evidence that will convict Hillary Cl-"

Tehran vanishes in a nuclear cloud.

Posted by: NR Pax at June 18, 2025 11:40 AM (99eI0)

142 "What do you mean the surprise got cancelled?!"

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Owing to reign out?

Posted by: ShainS -- Busy Organizing 'Make Trump King' Protests at June 18, 2025 11:40 AM (/YuCi)

143 > 42 Did anything that will be remembered for centuries happen over the last 24 hours?
Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at June 18, 2025 11:14 AM (kTd/k)

Israel is continuing to kick the living shit out of Iran, but that's more of a "Wednesday" than an event that will be remembered for centuries.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at June 18, 2025 11:40 AM (qpyNK)

144 I laugh because I eat emu on a regular basis… tasty flightless dinosaur is what I see…
Posted by: tubal at June 18, 2025 11:38 AM

I haven't had emu. How would you compare it to ostrich?

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 18, 2025 11:41 AM (dPfyF)

145 You can hang out with capybaras at this Florida cafe

https://shorturl.at/RWHHu

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I'll take a capy latte with whipped cream and a hint of cinnamon.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, And You're Not at June 18, 2025 11:41 AM (L/fGl)

146 @29

>>IF the $50 million weren't in an approved budget, how does it magically materialize at the whim of a governor?

NYS Annual Budget is around 230B dollars, they have around 15B dollars in slush funds stuffed into the budget.

So, it's more than likely coming from that bucket, or not, who the f**k knows where the money is going to come from, it's not like any of this sh*t is going to be audited.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 18, 2025 11:42 AM (bk3lk)

147 Hello fine people! And everyone else too.

Today the dentist, tomorrow my birthday and a doctor appointment, Saturday a wedding I don't want to attend but must.
If it would stop raining I would mow my lawn.

Checking JJ news links and seeing all the awful but the only one I clicked was about Chef Anne Burrell.

What does it say about me that I don't look at the political news or news of national and world importance, but instead read an obituary for a TV chef that I used to watch? Maybe that I just can't even with the ugly anymore.

RIP Chef Anne. You were always fun to watch, calling the trash bin the "thank you for coming" cracked me up.

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at June 18, 2025 11:42 AM (2J/Lj)

148 There was even a term coined for the problem, which I cannot recall now, but it sounded like "echostatic conviction", which meant a dogmatic, self-reinforcing perspective founded mainly upon an echo chamber of views.

epistemic closure

Posted by: Archimedes at June 18, 2025 11:42 AM (s8j++)

149 Hours before the Art Thread is posted, Morons are asking themselves, "Are there going to be boobs today?"
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 18, 2025 11:38 AM (QnmlO)

And on days like today, during the art thread, we ask, "were there boobs today?"

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 18, 2025 11:42 AM (ExV1e)

150 I believe that Carl is one of the few universal constants across cultures.
Posted by: NR Pax at June 18, 2025 11:39 AM

*nods sagely*

This is known.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 18, 2025 11:42 AM (dPfyF)

151 > 116 Supreme Court upholds Tennessee ban on "gender affirming care" for minors.

https://tinyurl.com/bde8yy97

Via Instapundit.
Posted by: Robert at June 18, 2025 11:35 AM (qByXh)

A good start.

I want to see those ghoulish Mengele-wannabees prosecuted and sentenced.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at June 18, 2025 11:42 AM (qpyNK)

152 I look forward to reading about Israel's battle plan after this is all over. The planning must have been incredible.

Posted by: toby928 at June 18, 2025 11:42 AM (jc0TO)

153 146 So, it's more than likely coming from that bucket, or not, who the f**k knows where the money is going to come from, it's not like any of this sh*t is going to be audited.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 18, 2025 11:42 AM (bk3lk)

=====

I bet there's an 80 year old statute with a line that could be interpreted as, "The IRS has every right to audit state government funds."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 18, 2025 11:43 AM (GBKbO)

154 You can hang out with capybaras at this Florida cafe

Capybaristas: The service is slow but they're so darn cute you just don't care.

Posted by: NR Pax at June 18, 2025 11:43 AM (99eI0)

155 If Iran were going to do "irreparable damage" to America...

I think it would come in the form of incriminating evidence.
Posted by: t-bird at June 18, 2025 11:39 AM (Vngri)

Shhhh... Iran has information which could lead to the arrest of Hillary Clinton.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 18, 2025 11:44 AM (ExV1e)

156 144 I laugh because I eat emu on a regular basis… tasty flightless dinosaur is what I see…
Posted by: tubal at June 18, 2025 11:38 AM

I haven't had emu. How would you compare it to ostrich?
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 18, 2025 11:41 AM (dPfyF)

It is slightly different.. even more of a red meat than ostrich… cook it like beef… do not overcook, IOW, the burger is great, recommend a supplier that adds duck fat.. the steaks, just cook medium rare, like ostrich… emu pastrami is excellent!

Posted by: tubal at June 18, 2025 11:44 AM (PCK5/)

157 I haven’t watched a newscast in 20 years. I read all my news. Thanks JJ.

I read Lucianne.com for 5 or 6 years but just drifted away.

Now I do here and the Fox News site ( 100x better than broadcast Fox News) and my local news sites.

Posted by: polynikes at June 18, 2025 11:44 AM (VofaG)

158 Someone needs to throw holy water on that b*tch mayor and see what happens.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at June 18, 2025 11:44 AM (/U5Yz)

159 Governor

Posted by: Maj. Healey at June 18, 2025 11:45 AM (/U5Yz)

160 Ignore the blogs and you're uninformed.
Read the blogs and you're misinformed.

Posted by: Today's version at June 18, 2025 11:45 AM (lIgBp)

161 99% of subway passengers are not on fire.
Posted by: toby928

99% of the time, Ted Bundy never killed anybody!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, And You're Not at June 18, 2025 11:45 AM (L/fGl)

162 I wonder how many of us here stream only??

Since 2010. I actually only ever learn of local news from BlackOrchid's comments.

Posted by: t-bird at June 18, 2025 11:45 AM (p0167)

163 Posted by: tubal at June 18, 2025 11:44 AM (PCK5/)

Great King of the Hill episode on Emus.

Posted by: polynikes at June 18, 2025 11:45 AM (VofaG)

164 144
‘ I haven't had emu. How would you compare it to ostrich?’

Do either or both taste like chicken?

Posted by: Dr. Claw at June 18, 2025 11:46 AM (jbnUc)

165 @153

>>I bet there's an 80 year old statute with a line that could be interpreted as, "The IRS has every right to audit state government funds."

Hey, the IRS investigation into the Tea Party was allegedly started by a couple of Congressmen and Senators saying to the IRS, we want you to look into these Tea Party Groups, so there is a precedent.

The question is, who will ask for such an investigation?

Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 18, 2025 11:46 AM (bk3lk)

166 Israelis hack the IRGC bank accounts.

In a remote fort, the IRGC captain calls a formation. "Well, boys, the payroll wagon got robbed again. Looks like another month with no pay. I talked to the sutler, and he's going to give you credit until next month. Good ol' Moshe is only going to charge you 15.9% interest".

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at June 18, 2025 11:46 AM (gm9Sb)

167 Hours before the Art Thread is posted, Morons are asking themselves, "Are there going to be boobs today?"
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 18, 2025 11:38 AM (QnmlO)

Too late for the Art thread, but that was a pretty shabby set of boobs. I've seen better drawn by 12 year-old boys.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 18, 2025 11:46 AM (CVhPQ)

168 Things inside the blue bubble wrap

Women make 70 cents on the dollar
Palin said she can see Alaska
Trump said good people on both sides
Everything about J6
The erf is burning up

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at June 18, 2025 11:46 AM (/CkK4)

169 163 Posted by: tubal at June 18, 2025 11:44 AM (PCK5/)

Great King of the Hill episode on Emus.
Posted by: polynikes at June 18, 2025 11:45 AM (VofaG)

Love King of the Hill… will look for it, thanks, Poly..

Posted by: tubal at June 18, 2025 11:46 AM (PCK5/)

170 It is slightly different.. even more of a red meat than ostrich… cook it like beef… do not overcook, IOW, the burger is great, recommend a supplier that adds duck fat.. the steaks, just cook medium rare, like ostrich… emu pastrami is excellent!
Posted by: tubal at June 18, 2025 11:44 AM

Good to know. The shop across the street sells ostrich and kangaroo. They might have emu on occasion. I'll have to look out for it.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 18, 2025 11:46 AM (dPfyF)

171 > 168 Things inside the blue bubble wrap

Women make 70 cents on the dollar
Palin said she can see Alaska
Trump said good people on both sides
Everything about J6
The erf is burning up

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at June 18, 2025 11:46 AM (/CkK4)

Bush served a plastic turkey.

I think you meant "Palin said she could see Russia".

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at June 18, 2025 11:47 AM (qpyNK)

172 I look forward to reading about Israel's battle plan after this is all over. The planning must have been incredible.
Posted by: toby928 at June 18, 2025 11:42 AM (jc0TO)

Looked like a Jackson Pollock painting.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 18, 2025 11:47 AM (ExV1e)

173 epistemic closure
Posted by: Archimedes at June 18, 2025 11:42 AM (s8j++)
================
thank you!

a throw-back to the Zoobama years

Posted by: Huck Follywood at June 18, 2025 11:47 AM (TKIC9)

174 164 144
‘ I haven't had emu. How would you compare it to ostrich?’

Do either or both taste like chicken?
Posted by: Dr. Claw at June 18, 2025 11:46 AM (jbnUc)

Heh, no.. more like buffalo..

Posted by: tubal at June 18, 2025 11:47 AM (PCK5/)

175 wonder how many of us here stream only??

-

I cut the cord long time ago. So long I don’t remember when. I want to say 2015ish.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at June 18, 2025 11:48 AM (/CkK4)

176 "What do you mean the surprise got cancelled?!"

No, no- that WAS the surprise.

Posted by: We-Ran at June 18, 2025 11:48 AM (hvkfA)

177 128 There has been chatter about Israel inserting a commando unit into the Fordow nuke facility and they wouldn't stand a chance. We went through our records and found out a few things about Eben Emael.

General Staff, Army of the Kingdom of Belgium
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at June 18, 2025 11:38 AM (gm9Sb)

Tanned rested and ready with my gunny sack full of grenades. Git up offa that thing! Heh!

Posted by: James Brown at June 18, 2025 11:48 AM (opQIZ)

178 Minor quibble: Lefties, even if the bubble wrap is pierced, will wrap themselves even tighter, because lefties refuse to process anything which might challenge their world view.

Lefties have a wish fulfillment view of the world, which means all they need to do is speak whatever it is they want into existence. And, when that doesn't work, they shriek it did work, you're just not smart enough to see the wonderful edifice their imagination has erected.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at June 18, 2025 11:48 AM (tT6L1)

179 170 It is slightly different.. even more of a red meat than ostrich… cook it like beef… do not overcook, IOW, the burger is great, recommend a supplier that adds duck fat.. the steaks, just cook medium rare, like ostrich… emu pastrami is excellent!
Posted by: tubal at June 18, 2025 11:44 AM

Good to know. The shop across the street sells ostrich and kangaroo. They might have emu on occasion. I'll have to look out for it.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 18, 2025 11:46 AM (dPfyF)

In for a treat, if you like red meat…

Posted by: tubal at June 18, 2025 11:48 AM (PCK5/)

180 I think you meant "Palin said she could see Russia".
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at June 18, 2025 11:47 AM (qpyNK)

Oops. Yep.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at June 18, 2025 11:48 AM (/CkK4)

181 It is slightly different.. even more of a red meat than ostrich… cook it like beef… do not overcook, IOW, the burger is great, recommend a supplier that adds duck fat.. the steaks, just cook medium rare, like ostrich… emu pastrami is excellent!
Posted by: tubal at June 18, 2025 11:44 AM

Good to know. The shop across the street sells ostrich and kangaroo. They might have emu on occasion. I'll have to look out for it.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 18, 2025 11:46 AM (dPfyF)
______

We're doing an alpaca roast for July 4. Plus some bobcat sausage. And coyote sausage. And python-and-rabbit sausage.

Posted by: Elric Blade at June 18, 2025 11:48 AM (iFTx/)

182 I read Lucianne.com for 5 or 6 years but just drifted away.

Now I do here and the Fox News site ( 100x better than broadcast Fox News) and my local news sites.
Posted by: polynikes at June 18, 2025 11:44 AM (VofaG)

I used to read Lucianne - then they banned me from commenting (I never could figure out what I did wrong) and I just drifted away and never looked back.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 18, 2025 11:48 AM (uWKK8)

183 Ignore the blogs and you're uninformed.
Read the blogs and you're misinformed.
Posted by: Today's version at June 18, 2025 11:45 AM (lIgBp)

We used to have competing newspapers but now 99% are leftist and AP and Reuters are the same.

Fortunately the intertubes has access to both sides. The best thing I like about aos is you will be corrected in a heartbeat if you intentionally or unintentionally post misinformation.

Posted by: polynikes at June 18, 2025 11:49 AM (VofaG)

184 Only eat the parts you need.

Posted by: The Liberty Emu at June 18, 2025 11:49 AM (lIgBp)

185 Heard yesterday that their Central Bank got hacked or crippled by a cyber attack.
Posted by: ShainS

Somebody robbed the Glendale train and made off with the gold....

Posted by: NRPS at June 18, 2025 11:49 AM (G5+As)

186 "What do you mean the surprise got cancelled?!"

No, no- that WAS the surprise.
Posted by: We-Ran at June 18, 2025 11:48 AM

Surprise, bitchez!

Posted by: Surprise Anal Otters at June 18, 2025 11:49 AM (dPfyF)

187 Women make 70 cents on the dollar
Palin said she can see Alaska
Trump said good people on both sides
Everything about J6
The erf is burning up

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at June 18, 2025 11:46 AM (/CkK4)

Bush served a plastic turkey.

I think you meant "Palin said she could see Russia".
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at June 18, 2025 11:47 AM (qpyNK)

Pretty sure it was Liz lemon said she could see Staten island.

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at June 18, 2025 11:49 AM (opQIZ)

188 Lefties have a wish fulfillment view of the world, which means all they need to do is speak whatever it is they want into existence. And, when that doesn't work, they shriek it did work, you're just not smart enough to see the wonderful edifice their imagination has erected.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at June 18, 2025 11:48 AM

You didn't clap hard enough for Tinkerbell.

Posted by: toby928 at June 18, 2025 11:49 AM (jc0TO)

189 I just stream. I haven't turned on a flat screen in years.

Posted by: Boss Moss at June 18, 2025 11:49 AM (2b8jU)

190 They all know, they just don't care. It's feigned ignorance.

You can tell because they never are shocked at the results of their policies.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at June 18, 2025 11:50 AM (ik5e5)

191 Rep. Luna posts a music video:

https://tinyurl.com/32z7r6vz
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That is truly *epic*.

Posted by: Crusader at June 18, 2025 11:50 AM (TN0g+)

192 Only eat the parts you need.
Posted by: The Liberty Emu at June 18, 2025 11:49 AM

The rest goes in the stock pot.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 18, 2025 11:50 AM (dPfyF)

193 You know. With everyone here saying that they don’t watch cable anymore. (Me too. I can’t even take Fox News), how would we know it if we were in a news vacuum too?

Posted by: Dr. Claw at June 18, 2025 11:50 AM (jbnUc)

194 Good to know. The shop across the street sells ostrich and kangaroo. They might have emu on occasion. I'll have to look out for it.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 18, 2025 11:46 AM (dPfyF)

You can make beer from kangaroo meat. It has hops in it.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 18, 2025 11:51 AM (CVhPQ)

195 When you browse YT, those "shorts" seem to be gaining a lot of TDS lately. I just look at them to see some clown blow up a gun.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at June 18, 2025 11:51 AM (gm9Sb)

196 Rep. Luna posts a music video:

https://tinyurl.com/32z7r6vz
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That is truly *epic*.
Posted by: Crusader at June 18, 2025 11:50 AM

That's awesome.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 18, 2025 11:51 AM (dPfyF)

197 The best thing I like about aos is you will be corrected in a heartbeat if you intentionally or unintentionally post misinformation.

Actually, the human heartbeat and internet lag makes that impossible for the average typist.

Posted by: Wesley Crusher at June 18, 2025 11:52 AM (59EGh)

198
And masks work.

Posted by: 2021 at June 18, 2025 11:52 AM (lIgBp)

199 193 You know. With everyone here saying that they don’t watch cable anymore. (Me too. I can’t even take Fox News), how would we know it if we were in a news vacuum too?
Posted by: Dr. Claw at June 18, 2025 11:50 AM (jbnUc)Island.

Well we do get Intercepted updates from the dummocratic underground. So we are easily ready the most influential lefty thought leaders.

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at June 18, 2025 11:52 AM (opQIZ)

200 You can make beer from kangaroo meat. It has hops in it.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 18, 2025 11:51 AM

*slow clap*

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 18, 2025 11:52 AM (dPfyF)

201 Reddit is the worst for this. They know with 1000% certainty that they’re right about everything. Even when facts are presented to the contrary they say those facts are right wing lies. And the reason they’re right wing lies is because they’ve never heard the fact. So if they’ve never heard it, it must be a lie.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at June 18, 2025 11:52 AM (/CkK4)

202 wonder how many of us here stream only??

-

I cut the cord long time ago. So long I don’t remember when. I want to say 2015ish.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at June 18, 2025 11:48 AM (/CkK4)

When I moved I was forced to stream only. I love it though I do want to get a broadcast antenna to pick up the networks. I miss Bob’s Burgers.

I should note I don’t pay for any streaming services and don’t ever intend to

Posted by: polynikes at June 18, 2025 11:52 AM (VofaG)

203 My YouTube commercials switched to YouTube. I wonder if the paying customers bolted.

Posted by: Boss Moss at June 18, 2025 11:52 AM (2b8jU)

204 I used to read Lucianne - then they banned me from commenting (I never could figure out what I did wrong) and I just drifted away and never looked back.
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Yes, that can happen, even at well run sites. Legend has it that one poster at AoS can post comments here from anywhere in the world...except home...because somebody hit the block button after mis-interpreting a comment.

Posted by: Crusader at June 18, 2025 11:53 AM (TN0g+)

205 ‘ I haven't had emu. How would you compare it to ostrich?’

Do either or both taste like chicken?
Posted by: Dr. Claw at June 18, 2025 11:46 AM (jbnUc)

Heh, no.. more like buffalo..
Posted by: tubal at June 18, 2025 11:47 AM (PCK5/)

For a while raising Emu's was a thing around here, they were going to sell the meat. There was a longterm storage facility in Longview Texas, they got to where they had 50,000 lbs of frozen Emu meat that was waiting to sell. A few summers ago suddenly the electrical system blew in an unrepairable way, and all of it thawed out fast in the 100 degree Texas Summer heat. People over there said you could smell the stink of it for at least a mile in every direction, you could not have paid me enough to be in on THAT cleanup crew.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 18, 2025 11:53 AM (uWKK8)

206 Actually, the human heartbeat and internet lag makes that impossible for the average typist.
Posted by: Wesley Crusher at June 18, 2025 11:52 AM

Shut up, Wesley.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 18, 2025 11:53 AM (dPfyF)

207 Rep. Luna posts a music video:

https://tinyurl.com/32z7r6vz

The fact that his soliloquy doesn't end with "then they slammed my head against the wall and said shut it, Pedro" makes me weep for the future of the Democrat party.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 18, 2025 11:53 AM (ExV1e)

208 10 God invented bubble wrap so that normal people could get out their frustrations by popping it.

Let the popping begin.
Posted by: Bulg at June 18, 2025 11:04 AM (77rzZ)

With a baseball bat wrapped in barbed wire.

Posted by: Polka will never die at June 18, 2025 11:53 AM (I4CNo)

209 Posted by: Tom Servo at June 18, 2025 11:53 AM

Revenge for the Great Emu Wars.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 18, 2025 11:54 AM (dPfyF)

210 And the reason they’re right wing lies is because they’ve never heard the fact. So if they’ve never heard it, it must be a lie.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at June 18, 2025 11:52 AM

The argument from personal ignorance.

Posted by: toby928 at June 18, 2025 11:54 AM (jc0TO)

211 189 I just stream. I haven't turned on a flat screen in years.
Posted by: Boss Moss at June 18, 2025 11:49 AM (2b8jU)

You’re aware that TVs can stream as well right? 😀

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at June 18, 2025 11:54 AM (/CkK4)

212 The best thing I like about aos is you will be corrected in a heartbeat if you intentionally or unintentionally post misinformation.

Actually, the human heartbeat and internet lag makes that impossible for the average typist.
Posted by: Wesley Crusher at June 18, 2025 11:52 AM (59EGh)

You forgot about the horde mind. And

Shut up Wesley

Posted by: polynikes at June 18, 2025 11:54 AM (VofaG)

213 There will be a re-alignment in the M.E. It will be an alignment of sane states vs insane states. Israel, Russia and India will lead alignment of the sane followed by the 3 Seas alliance. Leaders of the insane states being Pakistan and China.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 18, 2025 11:54 AM (Quxeu)

214 Thx Joe. The propaganda ministries just don't think we're smart enough to understand the complexities of their wonderfulness

Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 18, 2025 11:54 AM (7a6IM)

215 Do you remember
The great crypto robbery?
How it all happened, back in '63

Posted by: Zombie Leslie West at June 18, 2025 11:55 AM (w9Wax)

216 I think its important to point out that when I say I get a lot of my news from AoS, its not just the "news" that gets posted at the top of the morning rant, or quick hits, or Ace's stuff. I get a LOT of information from the things that the rest of you all post in the comments.

Posted by: Crusader at June 18, 2025 11:55 AM (TN0g+)

217 I think its important to point out that when I say I get a lot of my news from AoS, its not just the "news" that gets posted at the top of the morning rant, or quick hits, or Ace's stuff. I get a LOT of information from the things that the rest of you all post in the comments.
Posted by: Crusader at June 18, 2025 11:55 AM (TN0g+)
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Same.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at June 18, 2025 11:56 AM (tT6L1)

218 I think its important to point out that when I say I get a lot of my news from AoS, its not just the "news" that gets posted at the top of the morning rant, or quick hits, or Ace's stuff. I get a LOT of information from the things that the rest of you all post in the comments.
Posted by: Crusader at June 18, 2025 11:55 AM

Horde knowledge is vast and deep.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 18, 2025 11:56 AM (dPfyF)

219 guys in buffalo hats.

Festive little hats!!

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at June 18, 2025 11:56 AM (U2x9m)

220 Rep. Luna posts a music video:

https://tinyurl.com/32z7r6vz
------------
That is truly *epic*.
Posted by: Crusader at June 18, 2025 11:50 AM

That's awesome.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 18, 2025 11:51 AM (dPfyF)
_______

I truly don't get this fat DEI side-gay's angle here. He storms in all He-Man on Noem. He gets stopped and detained exactly as he planned. It was a staged stunt. Then, rather than continue with the macho "I be da RESISTENCE, yo" meme, he starts whining and moaning -- again, all staged -- like a Kansas City faggot.

Posted by: Elric Blade at June 18, 2025 11:56 AM (iFTx/)

221 Horde knowledge is vast and deep.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 18, 2025 11:56 AM

and practical.

Posted by: Hot Iron at June 18, 2025 11:57 AM (jc0TO)

222 When I moved I was forced to stream only. I love it though I do want to get a broadcast antenna to pick up the networks. I miss Bob’s Burgers.

I should note I don’t pay for any streaming services and don’t ever intend to
Posted by: polynikes at June 18, 2025 11:52 AM (VofaG)

The last time I turned on my TV and watched news was 9/11. Yeah, that]/i] 9/11. I had completely gotten out of the habit of watching TV before then, but kept the TV and antenna out of inertia, mostly. Not long after, I felled the antenna pole like an old dead tree. Only place I see TV now is in a bar when sportsball is on.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 18, 2025 11:57 AM (CVhPQ)

223 Somebody robbed the Glendale train and made off with the gold....
Posted by: NRPS at June 18, 2025 11:49 AM (G5+As)

Butch ... Sundance ... is that you?

You know I can't open this door. Mr. E.H. Harriman wouldn't countenance that.

Posted by: Woodcock of the Union Pacific at June 18, 2025 11:57 AM (TTAGa)

224 get a LOT of information from the things that the rest of you all post in the comments.

Remember, in Canada, chicken is a vegetable.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at June 18, 2025 11:58 AM (U2x9m)

225 Palin said she can see Alaska
Trump said good people on both sides
Everything about J6
The erf is burning up

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at June 18, 2025 11:46 AM (/CkK4)

Bush served a plastic turkey.

I think you meant "Palin said she could see Russia".
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia

And it was Tina Fey doing a skit. Not Palin.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 18, 2025 11:58 AM (jxGzv)

226 220 I truly don't get this fat DEI side-gay's angle here. He storms in all He-Man on Noem. He gets stopped and detained exactly as he planned. It was a staged stunt. Then, rather than continue with the macho "I be da RESISTENCE, yo" meme, he starts whining and moaning -- again, all staged -- like a Kansas City faggot.
Posted by: Elric Blade at June 18, 2025 11:56 AM (iFTx/)

=====

1. He's a femmy bitch.

2. The left's activist base and donors demand action and public displays of stupidity to prove that Democrats are fighting. Impotence is all Democrat can really do now other than praying to the 3rd Circuit to save them.

3. This is all distracting from Congress, allowing the normal low-level pressure from the executive to push for the OBBB's passage without a lot of press.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 18, 2025 11:58 AM (GBKbO)

227 Noticed that Rantburg is associated with Borderland Beat.
Used to go there often when there was hope that Mexico would kill off the Cartels. Sadly, evil won.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 18, 2025 11:59 AM (Quxeu)

228 God invented bubble wrap so that normal people could get out their frustrations by popping it.

Let the popping begin.

Posted by: Bulg at June 18, 2025 11:04 AM (77rzZ)

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

I'm a contractor with the VA and one day in the phlebotomy lab a young 20-something tech through some bubble wrap on the floor and started dancing on and popping it.

The other employees immediately interrupted and made him stop -- scolding him that there were veterans sitting outside possibly with PTSD you could freak out thinking it was gunfire ...

Situational Awareness FTW!

Posted by: ShainS -- Busy Organizing 'Make Trump King' Protests at June 18, 2025 11:59 AM (YnDYI)

229 An extra wrinkle:

Hochul announced yesterday
........

MOAR BOTOX

Posted by: wth at June 18, 2025 11:59 AM (v0R5T)

230
Only place I see TV now is in a bar when sportsball is on.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 18, 2025 11:57 AM (CVhPQ)

___________

What incentive is the CBC to watching TV?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 18, 2025 12:00 PM (QnmlO)

231 201
‘ Reddit is the worst for this.’

Do you ever read the threads that go like:
‘Conservatives on Reddit, what do you think about (insert leftist horseshit lie)’?

Posted by: Dr. Claw at June 18, 2025 12:00 PM (jbnUc)

232 229 An extra wrinkle:

Hochul announced yesterday
........

MOAR BOTOX
Posted by: wth at June 18, 2025 11:59 AM (v0R5T)

=====

What can she say? She loves botulism.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 18, 2025 12:00 PM (GBKbO)

233 *THREW some bubble wrap ... damn voice translation!

Posted by: ShainS -- Busy Organizing 'Make Trump King' Protests at June 18, 2025 12:00 PM (YnDYI)

234 And it was Tina Fey doing a skit. Not Palin.
Posted by: rickb223

My dad actually thought it was Palin. I corrected him very quickly.

(Love the man but broadcast news has done damage to him.)

Posted by: NR Pax at June 18, 2025 12:00 PM (99eI0)

235 231 201
‘ Reddit is the worst for this.’

Do you ever read the threads that go like:
‘Conservatives on Reddit, what do you think about (insert leftist horseshit lie)’?
Posted by: Dr. Claw at June 18, 2025 12:00 PM (jbnUc)

=====

How can you read a thread full of banned comments?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 18, 2025 12:00 PM (GBKbO)

236 226 220 I truly don't get this fat DEI side-gay's angle here. He storms in all He-Man on Noem. He gets stopped and detained exactly as he planned. It was a staged stunt. Then, rather than continue with the macho "I be da RESISTENCE, yo" meme, he starts whining and moaning -- again, all staged -- like a Kansas City faggot.
Posted by: Elric Blade at June 18, 2025 11:56 AM (iFTx/)
----------------

Did you see him on the floor of the House?
Hang on, I'll come back with the link.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 18, 2025 12:01 PM (Quxeu)

237 The bubble rap is why Democrats and Republicans were shocked by Trump first winning the primary and then the Presidency in 2016.

Posted by: hadsil at June 18, 2025 12:01 PM (Xht4H)

238 Ashli Babbit got shot for doing what Padilla did.

Posted by: polynikes at June 18, 2025 12:01 PM (VofaG)

239
LEAVE ALEX ALONE!!!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at June 18, 2025 12:01 PM (Tv15w)

240 >>> 220
_______

I truly don't get this fat DEI side-gay's angle here. He storms in all He-Man on Noem. He gets stopped and detained exactly as he planned. It was a staged stunt. Then, rather than continue with the macho "I be da RESISTENCE, yo" meme, he starts whining and moaning -- again, all staged -- like a Kansas City faggot.
Posted by: Elric Blade at June 18, 2025 11:56 AM (iFTx/)

>>> 373 [MR] One has to wonder if Noem was essentially poisoned. In other words, they became aware of her medical conditions by stealing her purse, and then managed to get something she couldn't tolerate into her food.

Seems a stretch, but there's been a lot of odd things surrounding her of late.
Posted by: MrExcitement at June 18, 2025 09:39 AM (hOOi9)

It does seem quite the heh, Coincidence that she's hospitalized only days after fat ass threw his attention whoring / possible security probe (as suggested by other Morons) hissy fit.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at June 18, 2025 12:01 PM (ULPxl)

241 11 I posted this earlier. Iran's crypto is most gone:

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Finders keepers!

Posted by: runner at June 18, 2025 12:01 PM (nQcpu)

242 I think its important to point out that when I say I get a lot of my news from AoS, its not just the "news" that gets posted at the top of the morning rant, or quick hits, or Ace's stuff. I get a LOT of information from the things that the rest of you all post in the comments.
Posted by: Crusader at June 18, 2025 11:55 AM (TN0g+)
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Same.
Posted by: blake

Horde knowledge is scary. The depth and breadth is unbelievable.

The Library at Alexandria comes close.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 18, 2025 12:02 PM (jxGzv)

243
118 For some reason, the federal government had (has?) a team of people they would send out to "de-escalate" victims of crimes.

But, seemingly, only when the victim was paler than the perpetrator. For some reason.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 18, 2025 11:36

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If the victim were darker, they'r send the escalation team. For real -- federal 'community organizing' and incitement, that we paid for.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at June 18, 2025 12:02 PM (iTNuP)

244 What incentive is the CBC to watching TV?
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 18, 2025 12:00 PM (QnmlO)

Somewhere around negative infinity. All commies and turd-world transplants.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 18, 2025 12:02 PM (CVhPQ)

245 Here Padilla is all cleaned up speaking in the House.

https://tinyurl.com/25kjuh3z

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 18, 2025 12:03 PM (Quxeu)

246
For Alex!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Point & Laugh! Point & Laugh! Point & Laugh at June 18, 2025 12:03 PM (Tv15w)

247 Things inside the blue bubble wrap

Women make 70 cents on the dollar
Palin said she can see Alaska
Trump said good people on both sides
Everything about J6
The erf is burning up

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald

Worst. Limerick. Ever.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, And You're Not at June 18, 2025 12:03 PM (L/fGl)

248 Do not know what happened to Noem… I do know that polonium scares the hell out of me..

Posted by: tubal at June 18, 2025 12:03 PM (PCK5/)

249 Very important topic and post, Joe!! Thank you.

You are very correct and this is the chief reason my three GenZers have found ways around the censorship.

Posted by: Danimal28 at June 18, 2025 12:03 PM (1E4GV)

250 I truly don't get this fat DEI side-gay's angle here. He storms in all He-Man on Noem. He gets stopped and detained exactly as he planned. It was a staged stunt. Then, rather than continue with the macho "I be da RESISTENCE, yo" meme, he starts whining and moaning -- again, all staged -- like a Kansas City faggot.
Posted by: Elric Blade at June 18, 2025 11:56 AM (iFTx/)

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1. He's a femmy bitch.

2. The left's activist base and donors demand action and public displays of stupidity to prove that Democrats are fighting. Impotence is all Democrat can really do now other than praying to the 3rd Circuit to save them.

3. This is all distracting from Congress, allowing the normal low-level pressure from the executive to push for the OBBB's passage without a lot of press.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 18, 2025 11:58 AM (GBKbO)
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Oh, I get that. What I don't understand is why stage a macho stunt only to cry and whine when the totally expected happens. The macho I kinda understand, it's the whole "RESIST WE MUCH" bravado. Standing up to powah and all that. But crying like a baby with shit in its diapers ain't a good look.

Posted by: Elric Blade at June 18, 2025 12:03 PM (iFTx/)

251 250 Oh, I get that. What I don't understand is why stage a macho stunt only to cry and whine when the totally expected happens. The macho I kinda understand, it's the whole "RESIST WE MUCH" bravado. Standing up to powah and all that. But crying like a baby with shit in its diapers ain't a good look.
Posted by: Elric Blade at June 18, 2025 12:03 PM (iFTx/)

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Because that's toxic masculinity and the Pritzker family will cut off Democrats if anyone does anything masculine?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 18, 2025 12:04 PM (GBKbO)

252 An extra wrinkle:
Hochul announced yesterday
MOAR BOTOX
Posted by: wth at June 18, 2025 11:59 AM (v0R5T)

Who is hotter, Kathy Hochul or Ranae Holland from "Finding Bigfoot"?

Posted by: James BoBo Fay at June 18, 2025 12:04 PM (k98/w)

253 226 220 I truly don't get this fat DEI side-gay's angle here. He storms in all He-Man on Noem. He gets stopped and detained exactly as he planned. It was a staged stunt. Then, rather than continue with the macho "I be da RESISTENCE, yo" meme, he starts whining and moaning -- again, all staged -- like a Kansas City faggot.
Posted by: Elric Blade at June 18, 2025 11:56 AM (iFTx/)
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The Dem's can only have one Spartacus at a time in the Senate.

Posted by: WisRich at June 18, 2025 12:04 PM (G0vdT)

254
Adjusted ...

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh! at June 18, 2025 12:04 PM (Tv15w)

255 Rep. Luna posts a music video:

https://tinyurl.com/32z7r6vz
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Is Padilla reciting the lyrics to "Lola"? It might explain a lot.

Posted by: Crusader at June 18, 2025 12:04 PM (TN0g+)

256 >>> 242 I think its important to point out that when I say I get a lot of my news from AoS, its not just the "news" that gets posted at the top of the morning rant, or quick hits, or Ace's stuff. I get a LOT of information from the things that the rest of you all post in the comments.
Posted by: Crusader at June 18, 2025 11:55 AM (TN0g+)
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Same.
Posted by: blake

Horde knowledge is scary. The depth and breadth is unbelievable.

The Library at Alexandria comes close.
Posted by: rickb223 at June 18, 2025 12:02 PM (jxGzv)

History, science (real, not SCILENCE!), tools / maintenance etc...

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at June 18, 2025 12:04 PM (ULPxl)

257 Oh, I get that. What I don't understand is why stage a macho stunt only to cry and whine when the totally expected happens. The macho I kinda understand, it's the whole "RESIST WE MUCH" bravado. Standing up to powah and all that. But crying like a baby with shit in its diapers ain't a good look.

hispanic macho and not slavic macho

they are pretty femmy in a lot of ways

Posted by: Black Orchid at June 18, 2025 12:04 PM (Pv3Rg)

258 373 [MR] One has to wonder if Noem was essentially poisoned. In other words, they became aware of her medical conditions by stealing her purse, and then managed to get something she couldn't tolerate into her food.

Seems a stretch, but there's been a lot of odd things surrounding her of late.
Posted by: MrExcitement at June 18, 2025 09:39 AM (hOOi9)
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My thought was a reaction to all of the cosmetic amendments to her body.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 18, 2025 12:05 PM (Quxeu)

259 btw hispanic macho is the same as spanish/italian macho

which both are only a hair from French macho and do you notice we don't even discuss that? because it's a joke lol

Posted by: Black Orchid at June 18, 2025 12:05 PM (Pv3Rg)

260 Horde knowledge is scary. The depth and breadth is unbelievable.

The Library at Alexandria comes close.
Posted by: rickb223 at June 18, 2025 12:02 PM (jxGzv)

History, science (real, not SCILENCE!), tools / maintenance etc...
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at June 18, 2025 12:04 PM

Relationship advice.

Posted by: toby928 at June 18, 2025 12:05 PM (jc0TO)

261 Horde knowledge is vast and deep.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 18, 2025 11:56 AM (dPfyF)
________

"The Paolo has, how you say, not just knowledge vast and deep"

-- The Paolo

Posted by: Elric Blade at June 18, 2025 12:05 PM (iFTx/)

262 Ashli Babbit got shot for doing what Padilla did.

Because we have more restraint. Our settings are "Peace" and "Genocide."

Posted by: NR Pax at June 18, 2025 12:06 PM (99eI0)

263 Who is hotter, Kathy Hochul or Ranae Holland from "Finding Bigfoot"?
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There's that saying "You always find it in the last place you're looking...".

Posted by: Crusader at June 18, 2025 12:06 PM (TN0g+)

264 >>> 251 250 Oh, I get that. What I don't understand is why stage a macho stunt only to cry and whine when the totally expected happens. The macho I kinda understand, it's the whole "RESIST WE MUCH" bravado. Standing up to powah and all that. But crying like a baby with shit in its diapers ain't a good look.
Posted by: Elric Blade at June 18, 2025 12:03 PM (iFTx/)

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Because that's toxic masculinity and the Pritzker family will cut off Democrats if anyone does anything masculine?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 18, 2025 12:04 PM (GBKbO)

TheJamesMadison Johnson is right!

Posted by: David Hogg at June 18, 2025 12:06 PM (ULPxl)

265 Rep. Luna posts a music video:

https://tinyurl.com/32z7r6vz

It's pretty funny. Our TikTok Congress is very productive.

Congress.gov note: 6126 bills introduced, 4 have become law. Combined salary this year: about $93 million. In addition, each Rep gets about a $2 million allowance for staff, while each Sen gets about $4.5 million for staff.

Posted by: t-bird at June 18, 2025 12:06 PM (QHX6R)

266 Whenever I hear the word macho, my mind immediately goes to the video of the cockatoo dancing to “ Macho Macho Man”…

Posted by: tubal at June 18, 2025 12:07 PM (PCK5/)

267
What can she say? She loves botulism.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 18, 2025 12:00 PM (GBKbO)

She looks like a mid transition Toxic Avenger

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at June 18, 2025 12:07 PM (pIfcn)

268 Relationship advice.
Posted by: toby928 at June 18, 2025 12:05 PM (jc0TO)
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"Calm down and make me a sammich."

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at June 18, 2025 12:07 PM (6YdsJ)

269 I think its important to point out that when I say I get a lot of my news from AoS, its not just the "news" that gets posted at the top of the morning rant, or quick hits, or Ace's stuff. I get a LOT of information from the things that the rest of you all post in the comments.
Posted by: Crusader at June 18, 2025 11:55 AM (TN0g+)
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Same.
Posted by: blake

Horde knowledge is scary. The depth and breadth is unbelievable.

The Library at Alexandria comes close.
Posted by: rickb223 at June 18, 2025 12:02 PM (jxGzv)
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Candlekeep

Posted by: Elric Blade at June 18, 2025 12:07 PM (iFTx/)

270 Relationship advice.

And medical advice!

Posted by: The Sound of Hot Irons Slapping at June 18, 2025 12:07 PM (IxaHo)

271 Supreme Court makes trannies big sad. In pride month . Cue Nelson Muntz

Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 18, 2025 12:08 PM (7a6IM)

272 Part of it is bubble wrap, but more is they do not care.

I keep mentioning this, but I think it is an important insight into how leftwing elites think.

MA had a 14 year old girl raped by a "refugee". A reporter actually did his job in an interview on other things with the governor and asked her to to comment on it. The governor rolled her eyes, sighed, and said "These things happen" and changed the topic.

These people have made their peace with YOU and YOURS being robbed, raped and murdered. They made that peace long ago.

Posted by: 18-1 at June 18, 2025 12:08 PM (t0Rmr)

273 235
‘ How can you read a thread full of banned comments?’

Ha. The jokes on you. I went on a couple of them to see if anyone was stupid enough to believe leftards wan an honest conversation.
The threads were full of comments from the tards’ guesses as to what we think. To my complete lack of surprise, they were self serving and grossly inaccurate.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at June 18, 2025 12:09 PM (jbnUc)

274 History, science (real, not SCILENCE!), tools / maintenance etc...
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at June 18, 2025 12:04 PM

Relationship advice.

And stock tips! Don't buy Enron!

Posted by: 18-1 at June 18, 2025 12:10 PM (t0Rmr)

275 When there is no outlet for information because it is either crushed by the state (as it was throughout the West until Musk bought Twitter...
________

Musk is Limbaugh 2.0

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at June 18, 2025 12:10 PM (ITkJX)

276 Who is hotter, Kathy Hochul or Ranae Holland from "Finding Bigfoot"?
Posted by: James BoBo

I tolerated the rest of you guys on "Finding Bigfoot" just so I could leer at Ranae. She's SO beautiful. And a snappy dresser.

Posted by: Lonely and Hirsute at June 18, 2025 12:10 PM (G5+As)

277 273 Ha. The jokes on you. I went on a couple of them to see if anyone was stupid enough to believe leftards wan an honest conversation.
The threads were full of comments from the tards’ guesses as to what we think. To my complete lack of surprise, they were self serving and grossly inaccurate.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at June 18, 2025 12:09 PM (jbnUc)

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"I think conservatives oppose illegal immigration because they want America to be poorer and for Guatemala to have hegemonic power over the Western Hemisphere by getting all the GDP and intelligence from the poor, huddled masses yearning to be free."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 18, 2025 12:10 PM (GBKbO)

278 My thought was a reaction to all of the cosmetic amendments to her body.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 18, 2025 12:05 PM (Quxeu)

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MOAR BOTOX

Posted by: wth at June 18, 2025 11:59 AM (v0R5T)

Posted by: ShainS -- Busy Organizing 'Make Trump King' Protests at June 18, 2025 12:10 PM (4ZQQa)

279 We're doing an alpaca roast for July 4. Plus some bobcat sausage. And coyote sausage. And python-and-rabbit sausage.
Posted by: Elric Blade at June 18, 2025 11:48 AM (iFTx/)

Duck sausage!

Posted by: Bugs Bunny at June 18, 2025 12:10 PM (TbWk/)

280 Oh, I get that. What I don't understand is why stage a macho stunt only to cry and whine when the totally expected happens. The macho I kinda understand, it's the whole "RESIST WE MUCH" bravado. Standing up to powah and all that. But crying like a baby with shit in its diapers ain't a good look.
Posted by: Elric Blade at June 18, 2025 12:03 PM (iFTx/)

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Because that's toxic masculinity and the Pritzker family will cut off Democrats if anyone does anything masculine?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 18, 2025 12:04 PM (GBKbO)
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Did you see J oBese Pritzker out there though? He's ranting and threatening and trying to be a macho version of his fat femmy slob self who hasn't seen his dick in decades.

Posted by: Elric Blade at June 18, 2025 12:11 PM (iFTx/)

281 You are very correct and this is the chief reason my three GenZers have found ways around the censorship.
Posted by: Danimal28 at June 18, 2025 12:03 PM (1E4GV)

It's always sadly amusing to me to watch some video where everyone is talking around what they're trying to say in order to avoid censorship.

"Corn addiction is a real thing. It creates unrealistic expectations in your mind which can lead to SA or unaliving yourself." So fucking stupid.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 18, 2025 12:11 PM (ExV1e)

282 Is Padilla reciting the lyrics to "Lola"? It might explain a lot.

It's his audition tape for "Quien Es Mas Macho?" They said, "we'll call you".

Posted by: t-bird at June 18, 2025 12:11 PM (wbowN)

283 280 Did you see J oBese Pritzker out there though? He's ranting and threatening and trying to be a macho version of his fat femmy slob self who hasn't seen his dick in decades.
Posted by: Elric Blade at June 18, 2025 12:11 PM (iFTx/)

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Only he is allowed to be the feministic ideal of an angry man with moobs.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 18, 2025 12:11 PM (GBKbO)

284 " Supreme Court upholds Tennessee ban on "gender affirming care" for minors."

A good nod toward States' Rights. I wonder if blue states can still demand the "gender affirming care" without parental consent.

"Sorry (not sorry), we groomed then transitioned your child (surgically irreversible) and kept it secret from you, because we were sure that the child could make his own decisions without your bigoted Christian input."

Posted by: illiniwek at June 18, 2025 12:11 PM (vbXSk)

285 The threads were full of comments from the tards’ guesses as to what we think. To my complete lack of surprise, they were self serving and grossly inaccurate.

Is takes significant effort to get conservative takes on the issues of the day. You aren't going to get them from the nightly news, Google/MSN headlines, infotainment or mainstream internet locations like reddit.

And leftists are NOT going to make that effort, because if you did make that kind of effort to fully understand the issues of the day you'd be a conservative to begin with...

Posted by: 18-1 at June 18, 2025 12:12 PM (t0Rmr)

286 Now they know how many holes it takes to fill the Albert Hall

Tucker Carlson by the numbers.

https://shorturl.at/f61Uh

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, And You're Not at June 18, 2025 12:12 PM (L/fGl)

287 MA had a 14 year old girl raped by a "refugee". A reporter actually did his job in an interview on other things with the governor and asked her to to comment on it. The governor rolled her eyes, sighed, and said "These things happen" and changed the topic.

These people have made their peace with YOU and YOURS being robbed, raped and murdered. They made that peace long ago.
Posted by: 18-1 at June 18, 2025 12:08 PM (t0Rmr)

Your children being raped and murdered so they can pay their domestic help $4/hour under the table is a sacrifice they're willing to make

Posted by: I'm really starting to hate these assholes at June 18, 2025 12:13 PM (TbWk/)

288 285 Is takes significant effort to get conservative takes on the issues of the day. You aren't going to get them from the nightly news, Google/MSN headlines, infotainment or mainstream internet locations like reddit.

And leftists are NOT going to make that effort, because if you did make that kind of effort to fully understand the issues of the day you'd be a conservative to begin with...
Posted by: 18-1 at June 18, 2025 12:12 PM (t0Rmr)

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"I think conservatives oppose common sense gun control because they want to have sex with the holes at the ends of their guns. It's the only hole small enough for their tiny penises."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 18, 2025 12:13 PM (GBKbO)

289 Horde knowledge is scary. The depth and breadth is unbelievable.

The Library at Alexandria comes close.
Posted by: rickb223 at June 18, 2025 12:02 PM (jxGzv)

History, science (real, not SCILENCE!), tools / maintenance etc...
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at June 18, 2025 12:04 PM

Relationship advice.
Posted by: toby928 at June 18, 2025 12:05 PM (jc0TO)

The medical advice is best. Knowing whether to walk it off, rub dirt on it, or slap hot iron in every given instance is invaluable.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 18, 2025 12:13 PM (ExV1e)

290 The Intelligence Vacuum

A janitor named Hoover Deluxe
Broke his vacuum and hollered, "Aw, Shucks!"
"Eureka", he declared,
"Until I get it repaired
You could say that it totally sucks!"

Posted by: muldoon at June 18, 2025 12:14 PM (poXs5)

291 175 wonder how many of us here stream only??

-

I live out in the sticks in the south near Possum Holler, BFE. In order to be able to work remote over the years I've paid ridiculous monthly bills for interwebz services to an uncaring cell provider that enjoyed raping and pillaging the rubes (no names but their initials are Verizon Wireless). Then our local electric cooperative decided to offer fiber services all the way to my door-- I've been streaming-only ever since.

Posted by: Polka will never die at June 18, 2025 12:14 PM (I4CNo)

292 'It's the only hole small enough for their tiny penises."

So what is more scary? Someone who can't tell a gun from a penis or someone who wants to take penises away?

-The Probability Broach

Posted by: NR Pax at June 18, 2025 12:15 PM (99eI0)

293 Did anyone here watch Yacht Rock: A Documentary? I watched it last weekend and enjoyed it. I would have never thought Steely Dan or Doobie Brothers were Yacht Rock. Christopher Cross, yeah.

Posted by: pudinhead at June 18, 2025 12:15 PM (FmapG)

294 "Corn addiction is a real thing. It creates unrealistic expectations in your mind which can lead to SA or unaliving yourself." So fucking stupid.

I tell the young'ins on the internet that we used to have a fully uncensored internet - you could go to any random usenet forum and run into real NAZIs, real white supremacists, and so on.

And...it harmed no one. You told them to f*ck off and got on with your day...Now we have to censor all sorts of crap because hearing something you don't like will apparently mentally damage people.

Posted by: 18-1 at June 18, 2025 12:15 PM (t0Rmr)

295 NOOD wages

Posted by: ShainS -- Busy Organizing 'Make Trump King' Protests at June 18, 2025 12:15 PM (4ZQQa)

296 "Corn addiction is a real thing. It creates unrealistic expectations in ~~your mind~~ Iowa farmers and agribusiness which can lead to ~~SA or unaliving yourself~~ government waste and market distortions from massive crop subsidies."

Posted by: Fuckin' corn. The Todd of the grain world. at June 18, 2025 12:15 PM (TbWk/)

297 Nood. Mo' money.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 18, 2025 12:15 PM (ExV1e)

298 252
‘ Who is hotter, Kathy Hochul or Ranae Holland from "Finding Bigfoot"?’

Bigfoot.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at June 18, 2025 12:16 PM (jbnUc)

299 Posted by: 18-1 at June 18, 2025 12:08 PM

Exactly. Just the cost of living in a vibrant and diverse city!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 18, 2025 12:16 PM (dPfyF)

300
"I think conservatives oppose common sense gun control because they want to have sex with the holes at the ends of their guns. It's the only hole small enough for their tiny penises."

Every now and then I'll run across some lefty video/essay that starts off with something like, "My fellow progressives I regret to tell you that you really don't understand how conservatives think, but don't worry I've spent the time researching them and I have the answer which you would never expect!!!!"

And then their answer is always something absurd like what you posted.

Posted by: 18-1 at June 18, 2025 12:17 PM (t0Rmr)

301 286 Now they know how many holes it takes to fill the Albert Hall

Tucker Carlson by the numbers.

https://shorturl.at/f61Uh
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, A
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He started out as a good interviewer and wound up a complete fool.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 18, 2025 12:17 PM (Quxeu)

302 Why all the shitting on Ranae Holland? She's not particularly ugly, and seems fairly normal for a lesbian. And I tracked bigfoot through the woods when I was a kid, so there's that.

Is there something I'm missing?

Posted by: Elric Blade at June 18, 2025 12:17 PM (iFTx/)

303 NOOD

wages are up

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at June 18, 2025 12:19 PM (ULPxl)

304 Trans Rep. Sarah McBride Suggests His Party Overplayed Their Hand on Trans Issues

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Ya think, butch?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, And You're Not at June 18, 2025 12:22 PM (L/fGl)

305 "All lefties wrap themselves snugly in this Blue Bubble-Wrap and go for years without ever realizing that their policies are causing rapes and murders."

Nah, the useful idiots don't know
Those driving policy know, the destruction is the end goal.

Hochul being a governor is still at the useful idiot level.

Posted by: heya at June 18, 2025 12:41 PM (fXfM0)

306 Former CNN host Jim Acosta claimed on Tuesday that farmers are being “led astray” and voting for “far-right” candidates in U.S. elections.

Acosta stated during a Center For American Progress discussion that the “far-right” has figured out how to “infiltrate the heartland” and get farmers to side with the political right. While name dropping the late conservative host Rush Limbaugh, Acosta argued that many Americans are not getting their information from reliable news.

… do these people actually travel without airplanes

Posted by: SMOD at June 18, 2025 12:47 PM (RHGPo)

307
Six screen flips when entering the site now, so I end up looking at a thread from yesterday.

So does any of this effect anyone else? Can Pixy fix this from his place or does he have to come to my house?

Posted by: Auspex at June 18, 2025 01:14 PM (j4U/Z)

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