The Morning Report — 6/ 19 /25

Good morning kids. from friend and friend of he blog Bob Zimmerman whose daily links from his own excellent Behind the Black dot-com website make him our sort of unofficial science reporter, comes the late breaking news that during a static test firing of a new Starship rocket at Boca Chica, a massive explosion took place.

Given everything going on here and abroad, my initial thought was okay, Iranians? Chi-Coms? Antifa? or the Deep State? Bob replied "I think it is simply a flaw in the revised engineering of this version 2 of Starship, which failed on the last two test flights as well."

And as for what's going on here and abroad, let's kick it off with an emetic from America's "sweetheart," Ilhan the Bro-Fo Omar with this thoroughly unsurprising if not disgusting emanation of oral flatus:

I'll just give you headline because in a certain sense I actually agree with the statement, just not in the way this joy/buzzer-less savage does. For those keen on regurgitation or in need of a morning emetic, you can click on the link and read the transcript.

America Is Becoming ‘One of the Worst Countries’ in the World

Indeed it is, if we're not there already, by allowing evil, retrograde, dark age cultures into this country, which was intended to be the last great hope for humanity to rise above the tyranny and oppression of the old world, and instead has been poisoned by letting in the flotsam and jetsam of the world such as Omar and her ilk, without even the most rudimentary vetting process and demanding assimilation. Of course to do so would be racist, Islamophobic and contrary to the tenets of our so-called precious democracy (vomit) or so we are perpetually lectured and hectored by our supposed betters.

This cancer started long before this immigration fraudster and purveyor of Taqqiya sunrises set foot on our blessed soil to befoul it. It's funny how those who supposedly escaped tyranny and bemoan what has happened to America are the ones that are promoting and imposing tyranny the hardest, loudest and longest. The shining example of the infection though likely not the start of it would be Herbert Marcuse, Theodore Adorno and the refugees from Nazism Known as the Frankfurt School who came here and hijacked the education system to turn it into the breeding ground of Marxist-Leninism for nearly 80 years. And that's why you see several generations of American-born citizens hurling molotov cocktails at ICE and police, beating up Jews on campuses and calling for the dismantling of western civilization, all in the name of "democracy!" of course!

And speaking of native-born cancer, I bookend Bro-Fo Omar with another reeking degenerate coprolite from straight out of Olduvai Gorge, ready to give you bonk-bonk on the head with the giant Tapir bone last seen flying through the air in 2001 A Space Odyssey. . .

Whoopi Goldberg says black people living in America have it just as bad as people living in Iran.

You mean like Oprah Winfrey who has been so badly oppressed that she is worth in excess of a couple billion dollars? Or you who for God only knows what reason has a daily TV show and rakes in millions from that and royalties from your alleged acting career. Plus every black pituitary case ever who makes millions throwing or running with some ball through some net in between hawking junk food and deodorant?

Forgetting that, it's funny that the foot traffic over the Rio Grande is only from south to north while if Whoopi were correct, Compton and Watts, Chicago, New York, Newark, Boston and every other place that burned to the ground in 2020 and all through the 1960s would be denuded of blacks heading the other way to demand citizenship in Mexico if not as far south as the Ross Ice Shelf.

So oppressed she insists on being rogered by white guys and playing Steppin Fetchit and taking on/defiling a Jewish name while those evil Israelis attack wonderful Iran! Yeah, America sucks.

I cordially invite you to get the hell out and leave all your assets to the USPF - the United Sefton Pastrami Fund. My waistline is a terrible thing to waste.

And of course today being June 19th, which given all of the above is a completely meaningless day devoid of any real significance to anyone with an iota of intelligence, self-respect and decency.

Attention Black America, I am not an oppressor and you are not a victim of anyone other than yourselves, your lack of ambition and sloth if you choose to accept this toxic Democrat narrative that only serves to keep them in power. Yeah, observe a holiday that memorializes victims of the people you vote for election after election.

Meanwhile in the real world, as CBD and I discussed on the latest episode of the podcast it certainly appears as if President Trump is going to commit American forces, likely the USAF to help Israel take out the last and most significant Iranian nuclear weapons facility at Fordow.

If Fordow is flattened, that certainly would be a good thing. Should America be the one to do the flattening is quite another thing entirely, and I'm not very sanguine about that for a host of reasons. Beyond that, if the regime collapses, we cannot be sure of what will replace it. A worst case scenario is the same as what happened in Syria, with the projectile colitis of the Assad regime replaced by the metastatic colon/liver/pancreatic cancer of ISIS AL Qaeda.

Given the breadth and depth of the IRGC in the military and government in general, it is rather unlikely we will see any form of western-oriented government let alone Jeffersonian Democracy. The Chi-Coms and Putin are too heavily invested in the current regime to let it collapse and potentially if not very slowly move back towards the American sphere of influence. Of course, we cannot know the future, but certainly the past and the tea leaves point the way to a tense period of uncertainty as our enemies make moves to protect their interests, which include doing their best to destroy and degrade us, same as it ever was.

Whatever happens, I hope the Iranian regime can be brought down and that the long-suffering Iranian people can be liberated and once again breathe freely. Yes, the Shah's regime was no picnic either so I'm not rooting for a return of the Pahlavi dynasty, though nearly 50 years on and being totally out of power, perhaps the heir is of a different mindset than his father, who being dead for decades likely has not been much if not any influence on his son. It's up to the people and the ex-pat community to weigh in on this.

And the world at large would be safer without Iranian nukes and Iranian terrorism that has slaughtered many thousands of people around the world in the last 45 years including many many Americans.

Of course, Even if Iran is liberated from the Mullahs, Islam itself goes on, same as it has since the dark ages. Sunni or Shiite, its goal is unchanging — the submission of the entire world and the formation of a global Islamic caliphate for all time.

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ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY

As engineers tonight were preparing for a standard static fire engine test at Boca Chica of the next Starship prototype, expected to fly on the tenth Starship/Superheavy test flight, the spacecraft suddenly exploded. (Iran? The Chi-Coms? Antifa? or the Deep State? - jjs)
Major explosion during preparations for static fire test of Starship prototype
Victor Davis Hanson: The more the left rages, the more Trump rises—while Democrats trade policy for tantrums and canonize chaos in place of compromise. (they will never compromise their goal of absolute power, only the speed at which they push for it, and their ability to deceive the public-jjs)
Can the Left Ever Stop Its Craziness?

ISRAEL vs IRAN & GAZA/HAMAS . . . AND BIDEN

Update: A source told Breitbart News that the building that was hit at the hospital had been emptied because Soroka had reduced the number of patients to 40% capacity on Wednesday to ensure that there would be adequate space in “safe rooms” or bomb shelters. The missile hit an area that connected different wings of the facility. “If the missile had hit a few meters in any other direction [it] would have been horrific.”
War Crime: Iranian Ballistic Missile Hits Soroka Hospital in Be’er Sheva; UPDATE: Building Hit Was Emptied the Day Before; Tel Aviv Hit
The IDF destroyed 'over 40 missile infrastructure components directed toward the State of Israel, including missile storage sites and military operatives of the Iranian Regime' among other targets
Israel Hits Iranian Weapons Depots, Internal Security HQ As Trump Weighs US Involvement
Israeli Air Force struck Iran’s nuclear centrifuge production site, missiles manufacturing facilities.
Trump Tells Netanyahu to “Keep Going” as Israel Hits More Iranian Nuke-Related Sites
The E-4B Nightwatch – which was designed to protect the Secretary of Defense and other national security officials and keep the government operating in the time of nuclear war – was spotted by flight trackers, and made a long, winding route to the capital.
US E-4B ‘doomsday plane’ makes unexpected flight to DC as Trump weighs Iran strike
Trump addressed concerns among members of the Make America Great Again base that the United States would be pulled into a long-term war, while fielding a question from Brian Glenn of Real America’s Voice.
Donald Trump: We Don’t Want a Long-Term War with Iran (We? We who?! - jjs)
The deployment of the USS Gerald R. Ford was reportedly scheduled last year, but its arrival in the Mediterranean will still be viewed as a significant response to the rising tensions in the region. The carrier is equipped with state-of-the-art technology and serves as the flagship of America’s naval fleet.In addition to the carrier group, other U.S. warships have departed from a naval base in Bahrain, and aerial refueling tankers have been sent to the region, the latter likely towing a number of Air Force warplanes. These movements come amid reports of increased military activity following Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, rejecting calls for unconditional surrender.
The U.S. Is Sending More Warships Towards Israel.
“I’ve had it, I give up,” Trump added, referring to Iran. “You know, the three for 40 years they’ve been saying death to America, death to Israel, that to anybody else that they didn’t like. They were bullies. They were schoolyard bullies.”
‘Two Very Simple Words’: Trump Makes His Stance On Iran Unequivocally Clear
"America can't do a damn thing against us."
Daniel Greenfield: Iran Has Been at War With Us for 46 Years
The Middle East, especially Israel, has become a frontline in a larger geopolitical confrontation. One that bears all the signs of a new Cold War.
China arms Israel's enemies, including Iran—Why won't the West say so?
At least three transport planes from China reportedly flew to Iran in the three days after Israel began attacking Iran’s nuclear program and military command structure, their cargoes and missions unknown.
Flight Tracker Allegedly Spies Mysterious Chinese Transport Planes Heading for Iran
Gonjeshke Darande (i.e., “Predatory Sparrow” ) claims to have destroyed data at Iran’s Bank Sepah as well.
Pro-Israel Hackers Claim They Took $90 million From Iran Crypto Exchange Used To Evade Sanctions (Dear hackers, please hit my tip jar! - jjs)
Recalling a meeting many years ago with a mysterious Iranian dissident.
Will We Finally See a Persian Renaissance
. . . here’s the reality: Russia isn’t issuing this warning from a position of military strength. Its forces are still deeply bogged down in Ukraine, sanctions batter its economy, and its air force is depleted. Any serious intervention on Iran’s behalf is likely off the table. So, what does Russia have left? Diplomacy. Nuclear partnerships. Arms exports. And most importantly, a seat at the peace table. That’s what this noise is about.
Russia’s Warning Over U.S. Aid to Israel Isn’t Just Noise

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The press refuses to give Prime Minister Netanyahu any credit for the incredible feats he has done. (but but, but I thought the Jooz controlled the media?! - jjs)
Operation Rising Lion and the Judgment of the Elites
The Democrat Party is anti-American (and now openly anti-Semitic, by extension anti-Christian) so it sees Iran as an ally in a common cause, our destruction and Israel's - JJS
Fmr Democrat Strategist Dan Turrentine Shares Real Reason Why People In His Party Are ‘Very Quiet’ About Iran

"NEWSOM/DEMOCRAT VIOLENT INSURRECTION RIOTS"
If China is involved in the recent No Kings protests across the U.S., it’s potentially an act of war.
Who is behind the No Kings protests?
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth got into a testy spat with Democrat Hawaii Sen. Mazie Hirono on Wednesday as she accused him of unleashing “lethal force” in Los Angeles, California. (It wasn't lethal enough; I wanted the bodies of the rioters stacked like cordwood - jjs)
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L.A. riots costs reach nearly $20 million for police and city repairs.
Transportation Sec. Duffy Tells Sanctuary Cities Feds Are Not Paying for Anti-ICE Riot Damage
The California senator’s crash act proves performative provocation is the new party platform.
No Kings, No Pins, No Clue: Alex Padilla’s Oversight Circus
Beset by self-made problems, California has little hope of a turnaround any time soon.
L.A. Riots: Just One More Symptom Of Far-Left California’s Sad Decline

"BIDEN/HARRIS BORDER BLOODBATH," AMNESTY, IMMIGRATION, BORDER SECURITY
Additionally, immigration continues to stand out as one of the top to issues for Americans — 32 percent said it is the most important issue, up five points from the last survey.
Poll: Out of All Categories, Trump Sees Highest Approval on Immigration
Controlling illegal immigration was one of President Trump's key promises during his campaign, and he has been largely successful in this matter.
Will Trump Curtail the Immigration Crackdown on Behalf of Business?
The ICE agent had pulled Munoz over in a traffic stop, but the illegal alien refused to exit his vehicle, instead putting his car in drive while the agent’s arm was still in his vehicle. After the incident, the ICE agent had to be hospitalized.
Feds Arrest Illegal Alien Sex Offender Who Dragged ICE Agent with His Car
In May of 2024, the Biden junta deliberately allowed 62,000 illegal aliens into the country.
Trump Just Proved The Border Crisis Has A Simple Solution
“Disturbingly, Joan Sebastian Castaneda-Lozada tried to turn himself into local authorities and was turned away because of the state’s sanctuary policies that prohibit law enforcement from working with ICE,” a senior DHS official says in the release.
Escaped Criminal Illegal Alien Tries to Turn Himself In – But NJ Police Won’t Let Him Because of ‘Sanctuary’ Policies
CIVIL WAR 2.0: J-6 FBI FALSE FLAG "RIOT" & AFTERMATH, LEFTIST PERSECUTIONS, DEMOCRAT PUTSCH, AMERICAN DISSOLUTION
She's actually right! Because when we decided to let you and your kind in it went to shit - jjs)
BRO-FO Ilhan Omar: America Is Becoming ‘One of the Worst Countries’ in the World text
A letter published on the Antifa-linked left-extremist platform Indymedia claimed responsibility for the incidents. The anonymous author alleged both Amazon and Deutsche Telekom are “legitimate targets” due to their connections with Israel and Germany‘s security services. The statement claimed, “Amazon’s servers and cloud services are used by the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) to store the vast amounts of data obtained from mass surveillance of the Palestinian population.”
Antifa Arson Campaign Targets Amazon.
The fact that the home had been searched by an unknown person or persons has renewed speculation among the public that Boelter, 57, may not have acted alone. A former state board appointee of Gov. Walz, Boelter visited the homes of at least four Minnesota lawmakers in the early hours of June 14, disguised as a law enforcement officer. Hortman and her husband were shot and killed, while State Senator John Hoffman (D) and his wife, Yvette, were both critically wounded in another shooting. The other two lawmakers, whose identities have not been made public, were not at home when Boelter arrived.
Someone Broke Into Assassinated Minnesota Lawmaker Melissa Hortman’s Home.
Robert Zimmerman: "Is this a victory? Yes, but only partly."
A blacklisted American wins in court
A secret FBI document cache—“Prohibited Access”—may hold explosive evidence of political cover-ups, misconduct, and a decade of justice corrupted from within.
Prohibited Access: A Cache of FBI Corruption?
Carville said, “Bobby Kennedy is going to kill more people than any cabinet secretary, maybe in history, with his idiotic vaccine policy, which is the greatest public health intervention in the history of the world, vaccines.” (The Democrat Party has destroyed hundreds of thousands of lives here and abroad by its mere existence - jjs)
Clinton crime family consigliere Carville: Bobby Kennedy Is ‘Going to Kill More People’ than Any Cabinet Secretary
DOMESTIC AFFAIRS, THE COURTS, WASTE/FRAUD/ABUSE
“Communist China is our greatest geopolitical threat,” Ricketts said, emphasizing the need for increased disclosure and action to prevent China’s purchase of American agricultural land. The bill’s introduction coincides with the arrest of two Chinese nationals accused of smuggling biological materials, including a dangerous crop-destroying fungus, into the U.S., which authorities described as a potential agroterrorism weapon.
Fetterman Joins With GOP Senator to Fight CCP Takeover of America’s Farms.
THE ECONOMY, STUPID
"We have a stupid person, frankly, at the Fed." (DO not conflate stupidity with corruption - jjs)
Federal Reserve Refuses To Cut Interest Rates
OFFICIAL DEMOCRAT PARTY/LEFTIST-ENDORSED ANTI-SEMITISM, ANTI-CHRISTIANITY
Revelation comes as Mamdani faces scrutiny for defending the phrase 'Globalize the Intifada'
CAIR Quietly Puts $100K Behind Zohran Mamdani’s Bid for NYC Mayor
FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUES, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER TECH
"[T]here are particularly good reasons to question the expert class here," Thomas wrote, referencing experts' approval for transgender surgeries.
Lib Social App Suspends Vance’s Account After His Opening Salvo Triggers Trans ~~Activists~~ Lunatics
The policies, which include a plan to remove a loophole allowing pharmaceutical companies to write off advertising as a tax deduction, could “leave broadcasters in financial straits,” CNN reported in a Wednesday article.
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“Yarvin modeled Urbit’s design sketches on the early online social spaces he adored. . . Belief dissipated, as did the financing.”
The Rise and Fall of Urbit
RED-GREENS, CLIMATE CHANGE HOAX, DEMOCRAT-LEFT WAR ON FOSSIL FUELS,
Carbon Dioxide has been maligned for political, not practical purposes.
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Some students think the world is ending. The mental health industry told them so.
Climate Catastrophism Has Entered the Classroom
In December 2009, the Endangerment Finding was born when the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under then-president Obama ruled carbon dioxide (CO2) endangered human health and thus could be regulated as a pollutant.
End the EPA’s Endangerment Finding
EDUCATION, AND WHAT PASSES FOR IT
Colleges reported giving more than $10 million in federal dollars to fake students
By 2028, a Majority of California Community College Applications Will Be Fake
Journal nixed piece by Asian scholar after editors complained there were ‘not enough Black and Latino/Latina authors’
Exclusive: Harvard Law Review Axes 85 Percent of Submissions Using Race-Conscious Rubric, Documents Show
SHAMPEACHMENTS, 2016 CLINTON/OBAMA COUP, CONGRESSIONAL PERSECUTION, SPYGATE, DEEP STATE, MUELLER DECEPTION
The 2023 emails obtained by Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley and revealed exclusively to The Post, are an example of the nitpicking malice of anti-Trump lawfare that tainted special counsel Jack Smith’s investigation, during Joe Biden’s [so-called quote-unquote] presidency.
Miranda Devine: FBI emails revealed to The Post expose Biden DOJ’s obsession with piling on Trump charges
DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST AND RINO SCANDALS, MESHUGAS, CHUTZPOCRISY
From 2012: “What’s clear is that the liberals speaking out don’t want a president, they want a king. Albeit a liberal king … who would be unrestrained by Congress as well as the checks and balances enshrined in our Constitution.”
When the Left Dreamed of a King: Democrats’ Embrace of Executive Power in the Obama-Era
FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL
Region is at highest alert status. Meanwhile, Ash clouds at 7 miles can block and scatter sunlight, causing temporary cooling at the Earth’s surface. (WOrld's most populous Muslim country - jjs)
Indonesia’s Mount Lewotobi Laki-laki Erupts, Releasing Massive Ash Plume
DEFENSE, MILITARY, SECURITY AFFAIRS
“the consideration of race and ethnicity in admissions at the Naval Academy does not promote military cohesiveness, lethality, recruitment, retention, or legitimacy; national security; or any other governmental interest”
Naval Academy Certifies It Is Permanently Ceasing Using Race in Admissions
HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE
The left’s push to legalize marijuana isn’t about improving American life.
Marijuana is proven again to be more dangerous than the left says
ACTUAL SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY
One major uncertainty of this result is its dependence on fast radio bursts. The scientists claim the sixty bursts they used came from distances ranging from 12 million to 9 billion light years, but it is unclear how they determined those distances.
Astronomer claim radio data detects much of the universe’s “missing mass”
NASA and Axiom today announced that they have rescheduled the launch of Axiom’s fourth manned mission to ISS, dubbed Ax-4, to June 22, 2025 in order to give Russian and American engineers more time to assess the leak repairs in the station’s Russian Zvezda module.
NASA/Axiom announce another four-day launch delay for Axiom’s fourth manned mission
FEMINAZISM, TRANSGENDER PSYCHOSIS, HOMOSEXUALIZATION, WAR ON MASCULINITY/NORMALCY
The high court ruled 6-3, with liberal-leaning justices dissenting, that Tennessee’s Senate Bill 1 does not violate the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment in the U.S. Constitution, contrary to the claims of transgender activists who sued the state.
Supreme Court Upholds Tennessee Law Banning Sex Changes for Minors
Truly one of the greatest jurists ever - jjs
In Landmark Skrmetti Case, Justice Thomas Demolishes The ‘Expert Class’
Rainbow paraphernalia used to be everywhere in June. But something’s different this year.
The Pride Rainbow Is Fading
The Democrats’ immigration frenzy has changed American society by emasculating men.
Work Americans (Especially American Men) Won’t Do

CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE
Communism makes inroads in America because powerful forces are pushing falsehoods and emotionalism on credulous people.
Selling Communism At The Fast Food Outlet
Christian Toto: 'View' host's inane Iran/US commentary shocks even liberal co-hosts (bone-in-the-nose sub-literate coprolite - jjs)
Is This Whoopi Goldberg’s Dumbest Rant Ever?

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1 Thirsty Thursday

Posted by: rhennigantx at June 19, 2025 07:27 AM (gbOdA)

2 Good morning horde!

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 19, 2025 07:27 AM (ExV1e)

3 BOING!

I warned yesterday that this might be the Iranian "surprise":

https://tinyurl.com/upt9c3jp

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at June 19, 2025 07:29 AM (Kjgs1)

4
g'mornin' again, 'rons

Happy Juneteenth!!!

it's a great day of celebration here at Casa de AltonJackson!!!

it's The Rabbit's birthday...Lila von TardHammer is five years old today

Posted by: AltonJackson at June 19, 2025 07:30 AM (tljrc)

5 Good morning, J.J.
Good morning, Horde.

Posted by: Inogame at June 19, 2025 07:32 AM (53oGX)

6 Yonder Horde

Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 19, 2025 07:32 AM (Q4IgG)

7 Wait, America is 'becoming' 'one of' the worst countries in the world?

You mean it isn't?

Who is worse?

Somaliland? Those scumbag rebels. I bet it's them.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 19, 2025 07:33 AM (BcT2b)

8 I warned yesterday that this might be the Iranian "surprise":

https://tinyurl.com/upt9c3jp
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at June 19, 2025 07:29 AM (Kjgs1
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What is the issue here? Are you talking about an anti-personnel cluster bomb? War crime type stuff?

Posted by: Huck Follywood at June 19, 2025 07:34 AM (R/KdX)

9 Mornin' JJ and horde.

Posted by: Polka will never die at June 19, 2025 07:35 AM (xN6T5)

10 Whoopi Goldberg says black people living in America have it just as bad as people living in Iran.
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Whoopi Goldberg doesn't speak for black people. She's a dumb-shit garden variety racist.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at June 19, 2025 07:36 AM (R/KdX)

11 Lovin' it, JJ! Thank you!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at June 19, 2025 07:37 AM (/Ghsb)

12 good morning JJ, Horde

So, what are we supposed to panic about today?

Posted by: callsign claymore at June 19, 2025 07:37 AM (vdLS7)

13 I warned yesterday that this might be the Iranian "surprise":

https://tinyurl.com/upt9c3jp
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at June 19, 2025 07:29 AM (Kjgs1)

No, no, the Bee already reported on the big surprise.

https://shorturl.at/zW9DW

Posted by: DoublySymmetric at June 19, 2025 07:38 AM (TJLr1)

14 Does the bestial Whoopi Goldberg's contract to perform on The View require her to viciously stupid?

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at June 19, 2025 07:38 AM (kTd/k)

15 Donald Trump is a brutal racist fascist pussy-grabbing doody-head who is a threat to all life on earth!

And if we don't get out there with our little pre-printed signs and fuck up traffic for an afternoon, he might start getting *really* bad!

They always mesh the superlative and the subjunctive with such elegant effortlessness it puts state GOP fundraising texts to shame.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 19, 2025 07:38 AM (BcT2b)

16 Sunny Hostin is another POS on that show. I am amazed ABC makes so much money on that show.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at June 19, 2025 07:39 AM (Q9azA)

17 16 Sunny Hostin is another POS on that show. I am amazed ABC makes so much money on that show.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at June 19, 2025 07:39 AM (Q9azA)

99% of their viewership is empty waiting rooms.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 19, 2025 07:40 AM (BcT2b)

18 "Why are opposition Democrats not offering alternative agendas and compromises?"

Because, in this case and any other similar example of traditional conduct, it would normalize and legitimize Trump as president. And after 10 years of unrelenting vilification, of caricaturing Trump as the worst and most aberrant infliction on America in its history, this would be fatal to them (as they see it).

Posted by: Ordinary American at June 19, 2025 07:40 AM (x2CMu)

19 The fed is bound and determined to not do their job while Trump is president.

Everything single thing they claimed would have to happen to be able to lower rates has happened. Now they are using the tariff boogeyman as an excuse not to lower rates because something bad might happen 18 months from now.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at June 19, 2025 07:40 AM (e5NfL)

20 *reads the rest of content*

Bravo!

*fistbump*
*high five!*

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at June 19, 2025 07:40 AM (/Ghsb)

21 Juneteenth National Independence Day Act

What a stupid name and complete lie as Maryland, Delaware, Kentucky, and Missouri were slave state until 6 Dec 1865 when the 13th was ratified.

Second this is misleading as Independence Day is 4 Jul.

Posted by: rhennigantx at June 19, 2025 07:41 AM (gbOdA)

22 She probably parses it out in her head as "blackinna merica"

It's just a series of sounds to squirt out your pie hole that makes the paid audience go "orp orp orp" and slap their forelimbs together. Works every time.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 19, 2025 07:42 AM (BcT2b)

23 What is the issue here? Are you talking about an anti-personnel cluster bomb? War crime type stuff?

Posted by: Huck Follywood at June 19, 2025 07:34 AM (R/KdX)
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That's possible.

Main goal is to spread the damage and death.

This looks like a MIRV prototype.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at June 19, 2025 07:42 AM (Kjgs1)

24 It’s probably a good thing for SpaceX that Elon has ended his D.C. odyssey.

Seems like they need to rework a few more things on Starship and could use his help.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at June 19, 2025 07:43 AM (6ydKt)

25 Just a carryover from the last thread WRT the dust up between Cruz and Qatalrson... Cruz may be a great debater and make points everyone agrees with but never forget that he voted to award medals to the Capitol Hill police after J6. I think he says what everyone wants to hear but that may or may not be aligned with his convictions. He's not trustworthy.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at June 19, 2025 07:43 AM (3Ope8)

26 This looks like a MIRV prototype.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at June 19, 2025 07:42 AM (Kjgs1)
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This looks like the cutaway warhead pic publicized a few weeks ago, I think by the Houtis.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at June 19, 2025 07:43 AM (Kjgs1)

27 Happy Juneteenth, everyone! Today we celebrate the day that Julius and Ethel Rosenberg became good communists. I have the day off because there's some other holiday getting observed so I'm spending time with the wife and helping her with some errands.

Posted by: NR Pax at June 19, 2025 07:44 AM (7xrfc)

28 "Major explosion during preparations for static fire test of Starship prototype"

JJ, I saw Starship and I thought of your quip about Jefferson Airplane yesterday.

Major explosion? Starship? I doubt that, they hit their high water mark in the late 1980s

Posted by: callsign claymore at June 19, 2025 07:44 AM (vdLS7)

29 I don't mind a national holiday to celebrate the official ending of slavery. I don't even mind so much if it's not on the exact same day as the amendment was ratified or enacted or whatever.

What I mind is the people pretending to "celebrate" ithe end of the enslavement of blacks in America when they're the very same ones doing their damnedest to undo it.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 19, 2025 07:44 AM (BcT2b)

30 Juneteenth was a stick to hit Trump with. Now, it's just federal kwanzaa

Posted by: Accomack at June 19, 2025 07:45 AM (YVT+g)

31 Happy Juneteenth! And Pride Month!

Posted by: Eeyore at June 19, 2025 07:45 AM (od0dV)

32 Whoopie gets paid very well to spew the party line.

Posted by: davidt at June 19, 2025 07:46 AM (i0F8b)

33 30 Juneteenth was a stick to hit Trump with. Now, it's just federal kwanzaa
Posted by: Accomack at June 19, 2025 07:45 AM (YVT+g)

I'm stealing Federal Kwanzaa, just so you know.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 19, 2025 07:46 AM (BcT2b)

34 "Whoopi Goldberg says black people living in America have it just as bad as people living in Iran."

It must really suck for black people in Iran.

Posted by: fd at June 19, 2025 07:47 AM (vFG9F)

35 I can't drive . . . 55!

Posted by: Shedeur Sanders at June 19, 2025 07:47 AM (wVcYX)

36 Willowed re: Tucker and Ted

He wasn’t like this in 2003 over Iraq.
Posted by: SpeakingOf

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That's a good point. Neither were a lot of the rest of us. We watched forever wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, then effective assassinations in Libya (who were cooperating with us) along with color revolutions all over the globe before being told that Ukraine is our 51st state.

I'm a tad skeptical of things these days, too. Partly because of 2003 and Iraq.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - The 19th Amendment is a civilization level sh*t test at June 19, 2025 07:49 AM (yJYKF)

37 Rainbow paraphernalia used to be everywhere in June. But something’s different this year.
The Pride Rainbow Is Fading

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Mr. Black and Jr. Black were in Cincinnati last weekend and walked into the official Reds store in downtown Cincy. The Reds decided a ball cap with a rainbow "C" was a good addition to their wares. It made me sick.

Maybe they're all just laying low. As soon as the next (G*d forbid) Democrat is elected president, the explosion of rainbow garbage will reemerge.

Posted by: Lady in Black at June 19, 2025 07:49 AM (qBdHI)

38 18 "Why are opposition Democrats not offering alternative agendas and compromises?"

Because, in this case and any other similar example of traditional conduct, it would normalize and legitimize Trump as president. And after 10 years of unrelenting vilification, of caricaturing Trump as the worst and most aberrant infliction on America in its history, this would be fatal to them (as they see it).

Posted by: Ordinary American at June 19, 2025 07:40 AM (x2CMu)

—

Not to mention they tried all of their alternative agendas and policies for four years and were rejected by the American electorate last year.

Their only plans are: spend a lot of money, give a lot of money away, let in a lot of illegals, LGBTQ2S+ Rules!,…

and you can STFU if you don’t like it.

That didn’t turn out to be a winning agenda and they don’t seem to be able to come up with a new one.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at June 19, 2025 07:50 AM (6ydKt)

39 "The press refuses to give Prime Minister Netanyahu any credit for the incredible feats he has done."

He's not the only one.

Posted by: Ordinary American at June 19, 2025 07:51 AM (x2CMu)

40 I'm stealing Federal Kwanzaa, just so you know.

I grabbed a copy as well.

Posted by: NR Pax at June 19, 2025 07:51 AM (7xrfc)

41 ‘I Won’t Fall For It’: Piece-of-shit Spawn of Child Pimp Mazie Hirono Repeatedly Talks Over Pete Hegseth About LA Riots In Fiery Exchange
_________
It's not an easy choice, but I think she's the dumbest Democrat. (Sorry Sheldon.)

Posted by: Eeyore at June 19, 2025 07:51 AM (od0dV)

42 Major explosion? Starship? I doubt that, they hit their high water mark in the late 1980s
Posted by: callsign claymore at June 19, 2025 07:44 AM (vdLS7)

It was 1985, when they crashed and burned with “We built this city”.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 19, 2025 07:52 AM (EVFZ5)

43 Does the Governor of Canada invite the NHL Champions to the HoserHouse?

Posted by: Boss Moss at June 19, 2025 07:52 AM (0FEUr)

44 I am now more than ever convinced that the Houston (pop 5 M) No Kings event was around 1000 people and the image of the overhead shot is digitally altered.

Winston at the Ministry of Truth was very busy that day.

Posted by: rhennigantx at June 19, 2025 07:52 AM (gbOdA)

45
At least I can stop and give thanks that the people who eat and breath terror, dictatorship, and satanic worship are getting bombed this week.

Who know, if they got bombed once and a while before it happened they wouldn't have been engaged in terror, dictatorship, and satanic worship.

Posted by: Auspex at June 19, 2025 07:53 AM (j4U/Z)

46 ‘Juneteenth’ is the Rachel Zegler of Alex Padillas of holidays

Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at June 19, 2025 07:54 AM (5cl3b)

47 Morning again all

Posted by: rickb223 at June 19, 2025 07:55 AM (WZaJc)

48 "Whoopi Goldberg says black people living in America have it just as bad as people living in Iran."

--

Far too many blacks living in America choose to make very poor decisions in life, opting for thug culture, drugs, booze, endless kids and baby daddies, attached like Siamese twins to lifelong welfare...

...while the people in Iran are chained to their standard of living and the conditions by which they are forced to live by the brutal death-cult theocracy that runs the country.

Two very different scenarios, aside from the fact her assertion is as ludicrous as her ugly face.

Posted by: Lady in Black at June 19, 2025 07:55 AM (qBdHI)

49 Good morning JJ and horde
Have 1 more hour to sleep or just get up, not sure yet

Posted by: Skip at June 19, 2025 07:55 AM (+qU29)

50 Are there even black people in Iran?

Posted by: Don Black at June 19, 2025 07:55 AM (AOsQT)

51 Whopper Goldberg owes all her fame and fortune to white folks who enjoy watching the stereotypical Negress cracking wise and being all with the jive and sassiness on the big screen.

I would think a "Thank You!" is in order.

Posted by: Stepin Fetchit at June 19, 2025 07:56 AM (R/m4+)

52 Iraq and Afghanistan made perfect sense. Post up inbetween Syria, Iran, and Pakistan, three of the biggest thorns in our asses at the time, by levelling one struggling pisspot dictatatorship nobody liked anymore and swooping in on another country that already barely existed in the first place and setting up shop.

It was a lovely little overture into a greater plan to really put the screws to that whole belt of geopolitical ass pain.

Instead it got turned into two meat-grinder cash-grabs for as long as the bodies held out.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 19, 2025 07:56 AM (BcT2b)

53 _________
It's not an easy choice, but I think she's the dumbest Democrat. (Sorry Sheldon.)

Posted by: Eeyore

=====

It's a subjective ranking. Sheldon, Mazie, the twit from Washington - they couldn't stop yapping. But if you scoring on the basis of being noticeably idiotic every single time you open your cake hole, I'd offer Debbie Stabenow.

She doesn't say much, but when she does, it is ultra concentrated stupid.

Posted by: 2009Refugee at June 19, 2025 07:56 AM (s0Aq4)

54 Ilhan the Bro-Fo Omar
Had a very shiny ________

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at June 19, 2025 07:56 AM (6YdsJ)

55 "Are there even black people in Iran?
Posted by: Don Black"

There are now.

Posted by: fd at June 19, 2025 07:56 AM (vFG9F)

56 I’m now convinced that The View and Whoopi Goldberg is just performance theater for the clapping seals. There is no way she believes the absolutely idiotic drivel she belches out…. It’s not possible that a functioning adult could actually believe that nonsense….

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at June 19, 2025 07:57 AM (ANuwa)

57 JD Vance had to know he wouldn't last much more than 2 seconds on that vile BlueSky platform.

Posted by: Lady in Black at June 19, 2025 07:58 AM (qBdHI)

58 That's a good point. Neither were a lot of the rest of us. We watched forever wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, then effective assassinations in Libya (who were cooperating with us) along with color revolutions all over the globe before being told that Ukraine is our 51st state.

I'm a tad skeptical of things these days, too. Partly because of 2003 and Iraq.
Posted by: Boron Cobbie - The 19th Amendment is a civilization level sh*t test at June 19, 2025 07:49 AM (yJYKF)

I agree, we were all misled and learned a valuable lesson, one we learned before over Vietnam but promptly forgot around 2002.

But Iran is different.
Israel has provided a golden opportunity to take out the nuke facilities.

Perhaps an opportunity to get rid of the theocracy itself.

I don’t know what’s going to happen now but I can’t see letting this chance slip through our fingers if all it takes is some B-2s and big bombs to end the situation.

It may turn out later to have been a huge mistake but there’s no turning back now.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at June 19, 2025 07:58 AM (6ydKt)

59 Posted by: fd at June 19, 2025 07:56 AM (vFG9F)

*spits coffee on screen* ....LOL

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at June 19, 2025 07:58 AM (3Ope8)

60
18 "Why are opposition Democrats not offering alternative agendas and compromises?"

Democrats have literally not had a new idea in almost 80 years now. And their activist base despises compromise, so they are locked into pathological opposition with nothing to put in its place.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 19, 2025 07:58 AM (EVFZ5)

61 https://youtu.be/QTOhFu7RfaU?si=OfsbTrx9XkwhycjC

JJ, how come no one is paying attention to what the brilliant economist Thomas Sowell has to say about the attack on Iran. Under 30 minutes. The take-away--the middle-class and poor will pay the price, the elites are never affected by these machinations.

Listening to this made me think--Trump couldn't be stopped with all that was thrown his way, even survived assassination attempts, but in the same way fear drove the bus to the scamdemic disaster, maybe fear is driving this bus and hello problems. Take his eye off the ball of America first and protection of our economy. Tariffs will be blamed and he won"t be able to deal because the root problem will be oil driving up the cost of everything. Just a thought. Fear is a powerful motivator for good or ill. Definitely ill last time it was utilized.

Posted by: Sharon W at June 19, 2025 07:58 AM (yLEfY)

62 > "Whoopi Goldberg says black people living in America have it just as bad as people living in Iran."
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How come these rich leftists always claim so-and-so's got it bad and this country sucks and.... but they never offer to help with their millions of dollars?

Rhetorical

Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 19, 2025 07:58 AM (Q4IgG)

63 dust up between Cruz and Qatalrson"

Whilst entertaining, it means nothing, save to those w/IQ's under 50 or so...

Posted by: man at June 19, 2025 07:59 AM (tubbA)

64 "It’s not possible that a functioning adult could actually believe that nonsense….
Posted by: LinusVanPelt"

Take a look at the aforementioned Congress critters.

Posted by: fd at June 19, 2025 07:59 AM (vFG9F)

65 Its forces are still deeply bogged down in Ukraine...

Any time some "Russian expert" tries to tell me what they're thinking and includes the above, I know that I can dismiss what they have to say.

Russia already controls all of Ukraine that it wants to. The parts with the Russians in it who voted to join Russia. They're not interested in controlling the parts containing non-Russians who don't want to join Russia because it would just be problems.

The only people claiming that Russia wants to conquer all of Ukraine are western military "experts" who have an interest in the conflict continuing.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 19, 2025 07:59 AM (ExV1e)

66 55 "Are there even black people in Iran?
Posted by: Don Black"

There are now.
Posted by: fd at June 19, 2025 07:56 AM (vFG9F)

More blackened, or charred to be precise.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at June 19, 2025 08:00 AM (x0n13)

67 So I looked at the wiki article titled "Ethnicities In Iran" and the words 'black' and 'Africa' do not appear in the article.

Posted by: Don Black at June 19, 2025 08:00 AM (AOsQT)

68 But Iran is different.
Israel has provided a golden opportunity to take out the nuke facilities.

Perhaps an opportunity to get rid of the theocracy itself.
-

Just like Iraq and Afghanistan.

Don't misunderstand, I have no problem bombing them into the stone age. I just hate that we'll almost certainly once again end up trying to "bring democracy" to people who don't want it and it will turn out the same as it always does.

Blow them up and leave. No money to help, no people to help, no anything. Tough cookies, shouldn't have started it.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - The 19th Amendment is a civilization level sh*t test at June 19, 2025 08:01 AM (yJYKF)

69 It's weird how Omar the Muzzie and Goldberg, a Jewish woman, can hold the same opinion of America.

I guess it is possible for Jews and Muslims to get along after all.

Posted by: Odd Couple at June 19, 2025 08:01 AM (+H+LQ)

70 54 Ilhan the Bro-Fo Omar
Had a very shiny ________
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at June 19, 2025 07:56 AM (6YdsJ)

Joy buzzer?

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at June 19, 2025 08:02 AM (x0n13)

71 But Iran is different.
Israel has provided a golden opportunity to take out the nuke facilities.
***
Indeed. I hope Trump shakes off the shrieking from the extremists on the right, whose alleged phobias about "another endless war" only mask their hatred of Israel.

Posted by: Ordinary American at June 19, 2025 08:02 AM (x2CMu)

72 50 Are there even black people in Iran?
Posted by: Don Black at June 19, 2025 07:55 AM

And if so, are they referred to as "African Iranians?"

Posted by: Mildly curious at June 19, 2025 08:02 AM (lIgBp)

73 The Pride Rainbow Is Fading

The only thing civilization wanted from the Lavender Lobby was for them to keep their hands off of children. And they couldn't do that.

Posted by: NR Pax at June 19, 2025 08:03 AM (7xrfc)

74 64 "It’s not possible that a functioning adult could actually believe that nonsense….
Posted by: LinusVanPelt"

Take a look at the aforementioned Congress critters.
Posted by: fd at June 19, 2025 07:59 AM (vFG9F)

No man is immortal.
Socrates is dead.

I forget the rest, but Whoopie Goldberg is a fat whore.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 19, 2025 08:03 AM (BcT2b)

75 Blow them up and leave. No money to help, no people to help, no anything. Tough cookies, shouldn't have started it.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - The 19th Amendment is a civilization level sh*t test at June 19, 2025 08:01 AM (yJYKF)
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Correct.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at June 19, 2025 08:03 AM (Kjgs1)

76 whose alleged phobias about "another endless war" only mask their hatred of Israel.

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Flag on the play.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - The 19th Amendment is a civilization level sh*t test at June 19, 2025 08:03 AM (yJYKF)

77 69 It's weird how Omar the Muzzie and Goldberg, a Jewish woman, can hold the same opinion of America.

I guess it is possible for Jews and Muslims to get along after all.
Posted by: Odd Couple at June 19, 2025 08:01 AM (+H+LQ)

Whoopi is not Jewish. Goldberg is a stage name.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at June 19, 2025 08:03 AM (x0n13)

78 Marijuana is proven again to be more dangerous than the left says
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Haven't touched it since college. But I do have to give it one thing: it opened my eyes to the greatness of J S Bach.

Posted by: Eeyore at June 19, 2025 08:03 AM (od0dV)

79 CNN Acknowledges RFK’s Drug Ad Ban Could ‘Cripple’ Broadcasting Giants

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If I never saw another pharma ad on TV, it would be a glorious day. By my unscientific analysis, it seems that over 50% of commercials these days are for prescription drugs. Some over 1-1/2 minutes long. Uh, it's probably a good assumption that your doctor would know about these pharmaceuticals and prescribe them to you if needed. It's pathetic that there must be people who go to their appointments with their "grocery list" of drugs they saw on TV and think they need.

Posted by: Lady in Black at June 19, 2025 08:04 AM (qBdHI)

80 What If The Foundation Of The Climate Scare Was A Calculated Lie?

Is there doubt?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 19, 2025 08:04 AM (ExV1e)

81 What If The Foundation Of The Climate Scare Was A Calculated Lie?

-

This is absurd. All we have to do is refer back to the original documents.

Oh, wait. Nevermind.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - The 19th Amendment is a civilization level sh*t test at June 19, 2025 08:05 AM (yJYKF)

82 "56 I’m now convinced that The View and Whoopi Goldberg is just performance theater for the clapping seals."

They need the ratings.

Posted by: Advertisers at June 19, 2025 08:05 AM (lIgBp)

83 what was Ted Danson thinking...

Posted by: Don Black at June 19, 2025 08:06 AM (AOsQT)

84 42 That song ranks right up there with Billy Squier's Rock Me Tonight video in the annals of disappointing rock n roll.

The horror ... the horror

Posted by: callsign claymore at June 19, 2025 08:06 AM (vdLS7)

85 It's weird how Omar the Muzzie and Goldberg, a Jewish woman, can hold the same opinion of America.

I guess it is possible for Jews and Muslims to get along after all.
Posted by: Odd Couple at June 19, 2025 08:01 AM (+H+LQ)

Whoopi is not Jewish. Goldberg is a stage name.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton

Make her admit it and own it.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 19, 2025 08:06 AM (WZaJc)

86 81 What If The Foundation Of The Climate Scare Was A Calculated Lie?

"What if"?

Posted by: Ordinary American at June 19, 2025 08:06 AM (x2CMu)

87 Whoopie is basically just another cheap ‘shock’ comedian, and not even a good one at that. If anyone remembers the shock comedian vibe, it was someone on stage belching out outrageous and insulting garbage that wasn’t funny so much as … umm … shocking. The audience wouldn’t laugh so much as giggle while thinking ‘I can’t believe he said that.’

This kind of ‘comedy’ was often very racial. Thankfully, it didn’t last long before people realized it was mostly just white people screeching ‘nigger’ and black guys describing pornographic versions of ‘where da white wimmin at?’

Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at June 19, 2025 08:07 AM (5cl3b)

88 Yep. I'm a Karen.

Posted by: Caryn Elaine Johnson at June 19, 2025 08:07 AM (lIgBp)

89 I truly do not understand the anxiety from people like even Laura Ingraham about the US getting “involved” in the Iran-Israel clash. They set up a false dichotomy between doing nothing vs all-in American boots on the ground. That is not what’s on the table, sheesh… the only question is: Do we fly our heavy bomber(s) and drop a massive bunker buster (or two) on Fordow and destroy their nuke program for the foreseeable future. That’s it; what happens after that is up to fate and Israel and the rest of the region. There’s basically zero risk for us… Iran has no air defenses at this point. We fly the sortie, drop the big bomb, return and our part is over. Period.

Yeah Tucker I know you’re worried about WWIII and unintended consequences, but how could even a new Iranian regime (if that happened) possibly be any worse than the crazies who’ve been killing Americans for 46 years? And would drop a nuke on us with delight?

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at June 19, 2025 08:08 AM (6RwsA)

90 Oh, man, those super fiery hot chicharrones from last night are not lovin' me back.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at June 19, 2025 08:08 AM (6YdsJ)

91 78 Marijuana is proven again to be more dangerous than the left says
_______
Haven't touched it since college. But I do have to give it one thing: it opened my eyes to the greatness of J S Bach.
Posted by: Eeyore at June 19, 2025 08:03 AM (od0dV)

THC is not necessarily the issue although prolonged exposure over the course of years can cause brain damage.

What gets me crazy is we spent 50 years destroying the tobacco industry and yet they want to legalize another dried leaf that you ignite and inhale into the lungs, as if that smoke is totally safe and tobacco smoke is a killer.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at June 19, 2025 08:08 AM (x0n13)

92 A stray thought:

Being Blackinna Merica is a whole self-identity. One's worth is directly tied into one's lack of worth. The more degraded and ground into the muck you are, the more of a Person you are. Anything that even hints at success or acceptance or personal validity is akin to "deadnaming" a troon.

So if people in Iran are really, truly oppressed, being literally mutilated by the good squads of the State, then where does that leave a Blackinna Merica? I mean, dash it all, it's like their whole reason for existing is being undercut by these assholes, isn't it? Iranian is just a darker shade of white anyway. How dare they claim to be oppressed. It's insulting, really.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 19, 2025 08:09 AM (BcT2b)

93 Whoopi is not Jewish. Goldberg is a stage name.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton

She claims to be, I'm not really sure how to disprove ones religious ontology.

She says she observes the Jewish holidays and has been married to a couple of Jews.

Posted by: Odd Couple at June 19, 2025 08:09 AM (+H+LQ)

94 Whoopi is not Jewish. Goldberg is a stage name.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at June 19, 2025 08:03 AM (x0n13)

Maybe it is a play on Goldstein.

Posted by: rhennigantx at June 19, 2025 08:10 AM (gbOdA)

95 Marijuana is proven again to be more dangerous than the left says
-

Everyone just ignore the public knowledge that is the "pothead" stereotype. It was just a random insult that wasn't based on observations by tens of millions of people.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - The 19th Amendment is a civilization level sh*t test at June 19, 2025 08:10 AM (yJYKF)

96 I’m sure the “knowledge economy” crowd can rationalize why the “Stop the Oil” protest never stand on the front lines of war zones considering how much climate change is cased by conflict.

Posted by: Unkaren at June 19, 2025 08:11 AM (LPL2Y)

97 Don't misunderstand, I have no problem bombing them into the stone age. I just hate that we'll almost certainly once again end up trying to "bring democracy" to people who don't want it and it will turn out the same as it always does.

Blow them up and leave. No money to help, no people to help, no anything. Tough cookies, shouldn't have started it.
Posted by: Boron Cobbie - The 19th Amendment is a civilization level sh*t test at June 19, 2025 08:01 AM (yJYKF)

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I would hope we’ve learned the lessons of nation-building in the Muslim world; you can’t do it for them.

I don’t see Trump sending troops to Iran.
We might send aid money to a new Shah-led government or something but I think Trump’s going to stay in there only enough to keep the Chinese out.

We’ll see how it goes from here.
Trump isn’t even ready to drop bombs yet, much less worrying about what happens afterwards.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at June 19, 2025 08:11 AM (6ydKt)

98 70 54 Ilhan the Bro-Fo Omar
Had a very shiny ________
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at June 19, 2025 07:56 AM (6YdsJ)

Joy buzzer?
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at June 19, 2025 08:02 AM (x0n13)
_______
Wouldn't they have cut that out?

Posted by: Eeyore at June 19, 2025 08:11 AM (od0dV)

99 good? "goon". Yeesh.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 19, 2025 08:11 AM (BcT2b)

100 If the Naval Academy ceases to use race in admissions, its gonna get crushed in football.

Posted by: mr tmz at June 19, 2025 08:12 AM (rJ48h)

101 Some students think the world is ending. The mental health industry told them so.
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Yep. I had a student a couple of years ago who was a bit freaked out because he had heard "the earth was boiling."

I had to talk him down off the ledge and encouraged him to pursue a different project.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 19, 2025 08:12 AM (IBQGV)

102 Whoopi and BroFo need to give Trump a break. He's not even halfway through his first year. We can make things MUCH worse for them.

Posted by: Eeyore at June 19, 2025 08:12 AM (od0dV)

103 It's not an easy choice, but I think she's the dumbest Democrat. (Sorry Sheldon.)
Posted by: Eeyore

I'm still Champeen! In tennis shoes!

Posted by: Patty Murray! at June 19, 2025 08:13 AM (G5+As)

104 95 Marijuana is proven again to be more dangerous than the left says
-

Everyone just ignore the public knowledge that is the "pothead" stereotype. It was just a random insult that wasn't based on observations by tens of millions of people.
Posted by: Boron Cobbie - The 19th Amendment is a civilization level sh*t test at June 19, 2025 08:10 AM (yJYKF)
______
That's heavy, man.

Posted by: Eeyore at June 19, 2025 08:13 AM (od0dV)

105 93 She claims to be, I'm not really sure how to disprove ones religious ontology.

She says she observes the Jewish holidays and has been married to a couple of Jews.
Posted by: Odd Couple at June 19, 2025 08:09 AM (+H+LQ)

Unless her mother was Jewish or she went through a legitimate conversion with a rabbi, she's full of shit.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at June 19, 2025 08:14 AM (x0n13)

106 78 Marijuana is proven again to be more dangerous than the left says
_______
Haven't touched it since college. But I do have to give it one thing: it opened my eyes to the greatness of J S Bach.
Posted by: Eeyore at June 19, 2025 08:03 AM (od0dV)

THC is not necessarily the issue although prolonged exposure over the course of years can cause brain damage.

What gets me crazy is we spent 50 years destroying the tobacco industry and yet they want to legalize another dried leaf that you ignite and inhale into the lungs, as if that smoke is totally safe and tobacco smoke is a killer.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at June 19, 2025 08:08 AM (x0n13)
——-

All things in moderation. The dangerous thing about weed is that you can be high on it all day long and still function. I know people who literally smoke it all day long, every day. That cannot possibly be healthy and surely has long-term consequences. Duh.

I like my wine, beer, and whisky. But if I got up every morning and poured a thick glass of Islay, people would be like ‘dude, you have a problem.’ And they’d be right.

Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at June 19, 2025 08:14 AM (5cl3b)

107 Cruz may be a great debater and make points everyone agrees with but never forget that he voted to award medals to the Capitol Hill police after J6.

I'll just point out that so did every other Senator and 420 members of the House. On this, specific, issue he is no worse than pretty much any other person holding office in Congress.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 19, 2025 08:14 AM (ExV1e)

108 Good morning!

Posted by: Knock gp A Kiss at June 19, 2025 08:15 AM (XqSVb)

109 > Marijuana is proven again to be more dangerous than the left says
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But the state taxes on it are awesome.

Going either the medical/dispensary route or the legal to buy route are opportunities to grift off the public.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 19, 2025 08:15 AM (Q4IgG)

110 103 It's not an easy choice, but I think she's the dumbest Democrat. (Sorry Sheldon.)
Posted by: Eeyore

I'm still Champeen! In tennis shoes!
Posted by: Patty Murray! at June 19, 2025 08:13 AM (G5+As)

Wheldon Shitehouse is the kind of dumb can't find The Earth on a map.

Patty Murray is the kind of dumb that has to learn afresh every time that maps are not food.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 19, 2025 08:15 AM (BcT2b)

111 My uncle's funeral is this morning, have to work this evening. Prospect for a nap before leaving to work is slim. Bit kind of hungry, so coffee and a omelet is in order

Posted by: Skip at June 19, 2025 08:15 AM (+qU29)

112 "By 2028, a Majority of California Community College Applications Will Be Fake"
"Colleges reported giving more than $10 million in federal dollars to fake students"

So now colleges are being catfished, just like what those Nigerian romance scammers do to lonely, gullible Americans.

Posted by: redridinghood at June 19, 2025 08:15 AM (NpAcC)

113 What about us, you cracka?

Posted by: Feral Kwanza at June 19, 2025 08:16 AM (g7pxZ)

114 Is this about us?

Posted by: CBD Stores everywhere at June 19, 2025 08:16 AM (lIgBp)

115
While I'm not thrilled with the US armed forces administering the coup de gras to Fordow, I understand Trump's thinking.

And it's this: he's learned, from his first term, that to get anything done, to accomplish anything, he needs to get it done fast, get it done now.

Otherwise, his/our putative allies or the enemies of the USA, whether the Democrat Party or the UN or the new Transtastic Girl Scouts are going to step in and do their best to cut his hamstrings. It's one reason he issues so many EOs.

So, if Fordow must be destroyed to finish this part of the job for Middle East peace, then Fordow must fall now. Now, not next week or next month or never.

Secondly, faster is simply more scary. Trump gave the Iranians a choice. Like the Palestinians, they chose wrongly, and now they must reap the consequences....Now. Not tomorrow, not after they've arrayed their allies (including the Democrat Party) against us. Right now, while the lesson's still hot(!).

President Trump's word, America's word must be their bond. I suspect this gives Trump more leverage with China, Russia, NK, etc.

Anyway, TL/DR: not hot on the use of US forces, but I understand the utility of it.

Posted by: naturalfake at June 19, 2025 08:17 AM (iJfKG)

116 Come on now, the dumbest idiot in congress is obviously that guy that thought Guam might tip over.

Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at June 19, 2025 08:17 AM (5cl3b)

117 Today is Juneteenth.

Posted by: redridinghood at June 19, 2025 08:17 AM (NpAcC)

118 Nobodys going to work today.

Posted by: Boss Moss at June 19, 2025 08:17 AM (0FEUr)

119 I saw a lot of people in NYC smoking a blunt and drinking coffee on their way to work.

Posted by: Accomack at June 19, 2025 08:18 AM (3U9lo)

120 83 what was Ted Danson thinking...
Posted by: Don Black

She said "yes." No thinking involved.

Posted by: NR Pax at June 19, 2025 08:18 AM (7xrfc)

121 There is one part of the Sentinel system that is devoted to classified and confidential information, termed “Restricted Access.”

It turns out there is a higher, more secretive level called “Prohibited Access.”

Double Secret Probation is real.

Posted by: rhennigantx at June 19, 2025 08:19 AM (gbOdA)

122 She says she observes the Jewish holidays and has been married to a couple of Jews.
Posted by: Odd Couple at June 19, 2025 08:09 AM (+H+LQ)

Walter Sobchak in The Big Lebowski. He says he’s Jewish since his ex-wife was Jewish and he claims to observe Shabbat. Most of the time.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 19, 2025 08:19 AM (EVFZ5)

123 Juneteenth celebrates delivering the message that the slaves are free. Can someone please let the shrews on The View know that?

Posted by: Roy at June 19, 2025 08:19 AM (fO4QD)

124 So now colleges are being catfished, just like what those Nigerian romance scammers do to lonely, gullible Americans.
Posted by: redridinghood at June 19, 2025 08:15 AM (NpAcC)

It’s probably the Nigerians doing it since, from what I understand, the entire Federal student aid application is done online and didn’t require identification confirmation, until they changed that recently because of the fallout.

It’s like they wanted to be scammed.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at June 19, 2025 08:20 AM (6ydKt)

125 what is it called when you classify the hell out of something, but leave an easy backdoor for the people you're "hiding" it from to find it, because it's actually planted misinformation you want them to find and act on?

There's a word for that, isn't there?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 19, 2025 08:20 AM (BcT2b)

126 I just hate that we'll almost certainly once again end up trying to "bring democracy" to people who don't want it and it will turn out the same as it always does.

Even if the Iranian people want democracy, they almost certainly don't want "American democracy". Remove the problem and let them try again... on their own.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 19, 2025 08:22 AM (ExV1e)

127 CAIR Quietly Puts $100K Behind Zohran Mamdani’s Bid for NYC Mayor

They put 100x that into Hamas.

Posted by: rhennigantx at June 19, 2025 08:23 AM (gbOdA)

128 Nobodys going to work today.
Posted by: Boss Moss

My ass got up at 3:30 and drove 82 miles to show up atwerk.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 19, 2025 08:23 AM (WZaJc)

129 125 what is it called when you classify the hell out of something, but leave an easy backdoor for the people you're "hiding" it from to find it, because it's actually planted misinformation you want them to find and act on?

There's a word for that, isn't there?
Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 19, 2025 08:20 AM (BcT2b)

wag the dog

Posted by: rhennigantx at June 19, 2025 08:23 AM (gbOdA)

130 Democracy is not compatible with Muslim countries. We need to quit pretending that it is.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 19, 2025 08:23 AM (EVFZ5)

131 127 CAIR Quietly Puts $100K Behind Zohran Mamdani’s Bid for NYC Mayor

They put 100x that into Hamas.
Posted by: rhennigantx at June 19, 2025 08:23 AM (gbOdA)

To be fair, that's like saying Vinnie's "Pizzeria" and "Laundromat" put $100k into the mob.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 19, 2025 08:24 AM (BcT2b)

132 Cruz may be a great debater and make points everyone agrees with but never forget that he voted to award medals to the Capitol Hill police after J6.

I'll just point out that so did every other Senator and 420 members of the House. On this, specific, issue he is no worse than pretty much any other person holding office in Congress.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic

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Yep. He's a Republican through and through, and it's important to never forget that because it's probably the most important part.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - The 19th Amendment is a civilization level sh*t test at June 19, 2025 08:25 AM (yJYKF)

133 The View is Leftist agit-prop broadcast nationwide over-the-air and on cable and many streaming services, full of disinformation and intentionally divisive comments, aimed at women viewers, and paid for by corporate advertising. It is a donation in-kind to the Democrat Party.

types/deletes

Posted by: Gref at June 19, 2025 08:25 AM (aBgBM)

134 On this, specific, issue he is no worse than pretty much any other person holding office in Congress.

A valid observation. What's the point? Not being snarky, just want to understand the argument.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at June 19, 2025 08:25 AM (3Ope8)

135 Juneteenth is just pushing Cultural Marxism warfare, isn't anything else.

Posted by: Skip at June 19, 2025 08:25 AM (+qU29)

136 We were a better country when Lucky Strike could advertise, and lawyers could not.

Posted by: Common Tater at June 19, 2025 08:25 AM (IUcAj)

137 Yesterday I posted a link to 𝕏 that had an illustrated, theoretical B-2 mission to take out Iran's Fordow nuclear site with a GBU-57A/B MOP. One plane. Lots of tankers. 30 hours mission from Whiteman AFB and back. The route stays clear of other countries until near the Middle East.

https://tinyurl.com/4babcuzc

I'd assume that if the administration decided to do this it would not be publicly announced. And probably difficult to detect with OPSEC in place.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 19, 2025 08:25 AM (Q4IgG)

138 The only people claiming that Russia wants to conquer all of Ukraine are western military "experts" who have an interest in the conflict continuing.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 19, 2025 07:59 AM (ExV1e)
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Pretty much.

You can even wargame this out at home. Russia's order of battle is widely known, and you can count the divisions and then pair them up against the Baltics, Poland, Finland, etc.

Russia's actual goals are pretty obvious and have been repeated ad nauseum but """experts""" always claim it's a lie. Russia wants what we want - strategic control over our near-neighbors, which should be neutral, not a forward base for NATO aggression.

The United States does not now, nor has it ever had a strategic interesting where the squiggly lines in Eastern Europe run.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 19, 2025 08:26 AM (ZOv7s)

139 The fact that CAIR still even exists in this country is a mark of shame for us.

Posted by: Ordinary American at June 19, 2025 08:26 AM (x2CMu)

140
...just like what those Nigerian romance scammers do to lonely, gullible Americans.

Posted by: redridinghood at June 19, 2025 08:15 AM (NpAcC)

What the...?!?!

Come, my sweet baobab! Come live with me and we will eat roast tapir beneath Nigerian skies while drinking sweet palm wine filled with the larvae of various and diverse malaria carrying mosquitos!

Oh, such fevers of love we will shall run!

The friendly machetes of Islamic radicals will add adventure and spice to our lives as we run barefoot and free through the jungles and desert plains.

Please send me $5000! A pittance! And I will fly to you nd take you away to my magical land of love, romance, and adventure!!!

Posted by: naturalfake- Cultural Appropriating Nigerian Romance Scammer at June 19, 2025 08:27 AM (iJfKG)

141 Juneteenth is just pushing Cultural Marxism warfare, isn't anything else.
Posted by: Skip at June 19, 2025 08:25 AM (+qU29)
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It's the dying gasp of radical black nationalism, which was always predicated on a bi-racial country. That's gone, and there's a growing realization that a white-asian-hispanic majority nation won't feel much guilt for Jim Crow.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 19, 2025 08:27 AM (ZOv7s)

142 Juneteenth celebrates delivering the message that the slaves are free. Can someone please let the shrews on The View know that?

When Union troops came to Galveston and said, "by the way, you've been free for two and a half years, but your Democrat and media slavemasters kept that from you, didn't they?"

Posted by: t-bird at June 19, 2025 08:28 AM (/FwzA)

143 130 Democracy is not compatible with Muslim countries. We need to quit pretending that it is.
Posted by: Tom Servo at June 19, 2025 08:23 AM (EVFZ5)

Quite similar to Asia and Africa where the nation can’t function if there isn’t a strong man to keep the corruption and criminals in check.

The Muslims have the added risk of voting in a theocracy when they can’t tolerate the toleration needed in a democratic system.

They like kings and dictators for good reasons.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at June 19, 2025 08:29 AM (6ydKt)

144 The climate change tale is based on such a wobbly foundation, and its adherents screech so loudly and shade the truth so often that we can’t help but believe they know they’ve been intentionally misleading the public.

Maybe we’ve reached a Solzhenitsyn moment in which we know they’re lying, they know they’re lying, and they even know that we know they’re lying.

Posted by: rhennigantx at June 19, 2025 08:29 AM (gbOdA)

145 I say no to nation-building in Iran or anywhere else in that part of the world. Let them build their own nations. If they wanted free open and functioning democracies, they could have had them by now. But they seem to gravitate to tribalism and autocracy.

As far as ending Iran's nuclear ambitions, I do thing the US can and should play a supporting role. That effort is certainly in our national interest, because we would likely be a target of any Iranian bomb.

I'm not saying American pilots planes and bombs necessarily, but if we left a few loaded bombers on a runway with the doors unlocked and the keys in the ignition, and some IAF pranksters decided to take them for a joyride, I'd be cool with a mission like that.

Posted by: Don Black at June 19, 2025 08:29 AM (AOsQT)

146 Juneteenth celebrates delivering the message that the slaves are free. Can someone please let the shrews on The View know that?

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It's literally a federal holiday celebrating the ignorance of black people until white saviors came and tried to help them.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - The 19th Amendment is a civilization level sh*t test at June 19, 2025 08:29 AM (yJYKF)

147 Posted by: Don Black at June 19, 2025 08:29 AM (AOsQT)

If only it were that easy.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at June 19, 2025 08:32 AM (3Ope8)

148 It's Summer Kwanzaa.

Posted by: And we all know it at June 19, 2025 08:32 AM (lIgBp)

149 A valid observation. What's the point? Not being snarky, just want to understand the argument.
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at June 19, 2025 08:25 AM (3Ope

People like to give Cruz shit about the medals but he's indistinct on the issue. I prefer to concentrate on areas of difference in order to determine utility. Had the Republicans in the Senate voted no but Cruz voted yes... that would have been a big deal. As it is, pointing it out is like saying the Kavanaugh drinks beer.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 19, 2025 08:32 AM (ExV1e)

150 They like kings and dictators for good reasons.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at June 19, 2025 08:29 AM (6ydKt)
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Monarchies have proven themselves to have much greater staying power than democracies.

France is on its fifth republic. Germany is awash in foreigners, it's political system is collapsing along with its birth rate. Maybe keeping the Kaiser would have been better.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 19, 2025 08:33 AM (ZOv7s)

151 Summer Glau >>>>>>>>> summer Kwanzaa

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at June 19, 2025 08:33 AM (6YdsJ)

152 By 2028, a Majority of California Community College Applications Will Be Fake

I have a friend that was 2ns in Admission at a community college.
He said there was a cohort of about 100 kids (young adults) that knew exactly what class, when to show, when to drop to get the free money.
He left when he realized that his boss thought this was ok.

Posted by: rhennigantx at June 19, 2025 08:33 AM (gbOdA)

153 There was a tv show about repo guys who specialize in airplanes. Bit of that silly Scippsy overwrought schlockiness, but still kind of fun.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 19, 2025 08:34 AM (BcT2b)

154 It's literally a federal holiday celebrating the ignorance of black people until white saviors came and tried to help them.
Posted by: Boron Cobbie - The 19th Amendment is a civilization level sh*t test at June 19, 2025 08:29 AM (yJYKF)
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Biden's autopen and the people who controlled it did all they could to stoke racial division.

The plan was to replace the 4th of July with "National Independence Day," which would be about discrediting the Founding Fathers, reviling the Constitution and creating a new government based on racial categories.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 19, 2025 08:35 AM (ZOv7s)

155 Ted Cruz drinks beer.

That said, he also didn't have the balls to speak up about the 1st Amendment at Charlottesville or refuse to celebrate the murderer at the J6 rally that helped re-elect him.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - The 19th Amendment is a civilization level sh*t test at June 19, 2025 08:35 AM (yJYKF)

156 I'm not saying American pilots planes and bombs necessarily, but if we left a few loaded bombers on a runway with the doors unlocked and the keys in the ignition, and some IAF pranksters decided to take them for a joyride, I'd be cool with a mission like that.
Posted by: Don Black at June 19, 2025 08:29 AM (AOsQT)

I was thinking similarly... Hell, sell them a BUF

Posted by: Inogame at June 19, 2025 08:37 AM (53oGX)

157 Since it's a federal holiday; does this mean federal workers get extra pay for an event in 1865 where Union soldiers told blacks in Texas they were free???

Posted by: dantesed at June 19, 2025 08:37 AM (Oy/m2)

158 I'm not saying American pilots planes and bombs necessarily, but if we left a few loaded bombers on a runway with the doors unlocked and the keys in the ignition, and some IAF pranksters decided to take them for a joyride, I'd be cool with a mission like that.
Posted by: Don Black

Make sure it's filled up when you bring it back!

Posted by: rickb223 at June 19, 2025 08:37 AM (WZaJc)

159 Good morning dear horde and happy birthday JJ

"Whatever happens, I hope the Iranian regime can be brought down and that the long-suffering Iranian people can be liberated and once again breathe freely."

Tucker carlson called, wants to know why you hate America.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 19, 2025 08:37 AM (RIvkX)

160 I have a friend that was 2ns in Admission at a community college.
He said there was a cohort of about 100 kids (young adults) that knew exactly what class, when to show, when to drop to get the free money.
He left when he realized that his boss thought this was ok.
Posted by: rhennigantx at June 19, 2025 08:33 AM (gbOdA)
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Higher Ed is doomed. The loss of foreign students will accelerate this, but demographically, it is massively overbuilt. Add in the fact that it doesn't really produce much of a benefit in terms of income performance, and you'll be seeing a lot of schools closing in the next few years. Small ones already are.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 19, 2025 08:37 AM (ZOv7s)

161
Whoopi Goldberg says black people living in America have it just as bad as people living in Iran.

What sayeth the Reverend Al Sharpton of the Church of Those Greek Homos Stole It From Us?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh! at June 19, 2025 08:37 AM (Tv15w)

162 That said, he also didn't have the balls to speak up about the 1st Amendment at Charlottesville or refuse to celebrate the murderer at the J6 rally that helped re-elect him.
Posted by: Boron Cobbie - The 19th Amendment is a civilization level sh*t test at June 19, 2025 08:35 AM (yJYKF)

He's a politician. They have their balls removed before they run for office.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 19, 2025 08:38 AM (ExV1e)

163 154 It's literally a federal holiday celebrating the ignorance of black people until white saviors came and tried to help them.
Posted by: Boron Cobbie - The 19th Amendment is a civilization level sh*t test at June 19, 2025 08:29 AM (yJYKF)
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Biden's autopen and the people who controlled it did all they could to stoke racial division.

The plan was to replace the 4th of July with "National Independence Day," which would be about discrediting the Founding Fathers, reviling the Constitution and creating a new government based on racial categories.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 19, 2025 08:35 AM (ZOv7s)

The plan is well-along. Few of the last couple generations of Leftist-indoctrinated students know what Independence Day celebrates. Would have been easy for the Marxists to eventually change the meaning without difficulty. Still could be. Thank The Lord for President Donald Trump.

Posted by: Gref at June 19, 2025 08:40 AM (aBgBM)

164 Since it's a federal holiday; does this mean federal workers get extra pay for an event in 1865 where Union soldiers told blacks in Texas they were free???
Posted by: dantesed at June 19, 2025 08:37 AM (Oy/m2)
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I'm old enough to remember the debate about MLK Day and whether we had enough federal holidays, and how much it cost to close things down, suspend public service, etc.

None of that happened with Juneteenth because no one in DC cares about that shit. When it came up for a vote, the GOP had to go along with it or be raaaacist.

This coming primary season should be lit. Lots of GOPe need to be purged.

Oh, and when they do lose, expect them to create a "Republicans for (fill in Dem name)" because they hate Trump more than anything else.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 19, 2025 08:40 AM (ZOv7s)

165 > Tucker carlson called, wants to know why you hate America.
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That dude has gone bonkers.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 19, 2025 08:40 AM (Q4IgG)

166 “First, so-called experts have no license to countermand the ‘wisdom, fairness, or logic of legislative choices.’ … Second, contrary to the representations of the United States and the private plaintiffs, there is no medical consensus on how best to treat gender dysphoria in children,” Thomas wrote. “Third, notwithstanding the alleged experts’ view that young children can provide informed consent to irreversible sex-transition treatments, whether such consent is possible is a question of medical ethics that States must decide for themselves. Fourth, there are particularly good reasons to question the expert class here, as recent revelations suggest that leading voices in this area have relied on questionable evidence, and have allowed ideology to influence their medical guidance.”

Posted by: rhennigantx at June 19, 2025 08:40 AM (gbOdA)

167 Woopie is so fat,
On a full moon she turns into a warehouse.

Posted by: Inogame at June 19, 2025 08:40 AM (53oGX)

168 People like to give Cruz shit about the medals but he's indistinct on the issue. I prefer to concentrate on areas of difference in order to determine utility.

So if he had voted no medals and thus distinguished himself wouldn't that be an indicator his 'utility'? Seems like it just reinforces the point that he's not to be trusted, he's just a typical GOP. There's no distinction between the GOP and the Democrats WRT trustworthiness.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at June 19, 2025 08:40 AM (3Ope8)

169 That said, he also didn't have the balls to speak up about the 1st Amendment at Charlottesville or refuse to celebrate the murderer at the J6 rally that helped re-elect him.

Tucker really raked him over the coals.

It was nice to see a reporter actually ask tough questions.

Posted by: Odd Couple at June 19, 2025 08:41 AM (+H+LQ)

170 The funny part?

I recognize Cruz as probably the tip-top (R) we've got in D.C.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - The 19th Amendment is a civilization level sh*t test at June 19, 2025 08:41 AM (yJYKF)

171 Juneteenth is just pushing Cultural Marxism warfare, isn't anything else.

Posted by: Skip at June 19, 2025 08:25 AM (+qU29)

Yes, let's celebrate how slow vital news was in getting to Houston, TX in 1865! Not the day of the Emancipation Proclamation, or the day the Confederacy surrendered, no, let's celebrate how disbelieving a certain segment of the population of Houston was that the war was over!

Posted by: pookysgirl, bringing allllllz the sarcasm at June 19, 2025 08:41 AM (Wt5PA)

172 Report: Lowest murder rate since 2014. Are the NYC subway trains any cleaner or safer?

Posted by: JM in Illinois at June 19, 2025 08:43 AM (+O1VQ)

173 Whatever differences Tucker has with Cruz, he didn't have to be so obnoxious in his questioning.

Posted by: DJ at June 19, 2025 08:43 AM (uosPt)

174 Whoopi is so fat,
Her words carry weight...

Posted by: Inogame at June 19, 2025 08:43 AM (53oGX)

175 130 Democracy is not compatible with Muslim countries. We need to quit pretending that it is.
Posted by: Tom Servo at June 19, 2025 08:23 AM (EVFZ5)

Islam is incompatible with civilization. Western civilization is a redundancy. Also, Socialism/Leftism is incompatible with civilization.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at June 19, 2025 08:43 AM (x0n13)

176 Whoopi is so fat,
The sorting hat put her in the Waffle house.

Posted by: Inogame at June 19, 2025 08:44 AM (53oGX)

177
No More Blood for Bibi: Bannon Demands an
America-First Foreign Policy Under Trump

https://tinyurl.com/2y4drjne

Posted by: redridinghood at June 19, 2025 08:44 AM (NpAcC)

178 Good morning Horde, thx JJ
On the course . It's already 78°, going up to 100+ with heat index. Finish round go to air conditioning

Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 19, 2025 08:45 AM (wgKAR)

179 Report: Lowest murder rate since 2014. Are the NYC subway trains any cleaner or safer?
Posted by: JM in Illinois at June 19, 2025 08:43 AM (+O1VQ)
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Much of the drop in the murder rate is improved emergency medicine. People get shot and don't die as often as they used to.

A better metric would be assaults or shootings.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 19, 2025 08:45 AM (ZOv7s)

180 Monarchies have proven themselves to have much greater staying power than democracies.

France is on its fifth republic. Germany is awash in foreigners, it's political system is collapsing along with its birth rate. Maybe keeping the Kaiser would have been better.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 19, 2025 08:33 AM (ZOv7s)

It’s a miracle our republic has lasted this long.

The vast majority of governments over the history of human civilization have been oligarchies fronted by a chief, dictator, king or emperor.

The past 250 years of democracies have been an historical oddity from that perspective.

And now we’ve reached the point where even the democracies don’t seem too democratic.

It does seem humanity, on the whole, prefers hierarchy, safety & stability over freedom and the ability to choose their leaders.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at June 19, 2025 08:46 AM (6ydKt)

181 Steve Bannon might be the most tiresome twat in political orbit right now.

Your daddy isn't looking at you. No one is looking at you. Take your finger out of your nose.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 19, 2025 08:46 AM (BcT2b)

182 , no, let's celebrate how disbelieving a certain segment of the population of Houston was that the war was over!

Posted by: pookysgirl

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In our defense, the first guy that brought the news was also trying to sell us Doc Meriweather's Miracle Elixir, so we were a bit suspicious.

Posted by: 1865 Houston at June 19, 2025 08:47 AM (k/U8Z)

183 Morning JJ and the Horde. Know this is minor in scheme of things, but is June 19th, and not even one Judge has been confirmed or had a committee vote. WTF is up with Grassley?

Member when Thune said he would keep the Senate open on the weekends?

Posted by: Jonah at June 19, 2025 08:47 AM (YCxFk)

184 That dude has gone bonkers.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 19, 2025 08:40 AM (Q4IgG)

Tucker Carlson and ditto for Candace Owens. You see that vile crap she wrote yesterday? Did they lose their minds or are the masks simply dropping

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at June 19, 2025 08:47 AM (6RwsA)

185 Whatever differences Tucker has with Cruz, he didn't have to be so obnoxious in his questioning.
Posted by: DJ at June 19, 2025 08:43 AM (uosPt)
******
I've really grown tired of Tucker and Owens.
They are getting on my nerves.
Bannon too.

Posted by: redridinghood at June 19, 2025 08:47 AM (NpAcC)

186 Islam is incompatible with civilization. Western civilization is a redundancy. Also, Socialism/Leftism is incompatible with civilization.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at June 19, 2025 08:43 AM (x0n13)
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ISIS style nihilism is incompatible with civilization, but there is very much Islamic civilization. Morocco, for example. The Taj Mahal was build by a Muslim ruler.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 19, 2025 08:47 AM (ZOv7s)

187
Add in the fact that it doesn't really produce much of a benefit in terms of income performance, and you'll be seeing a lot of schools closing in the next few years. Small ones already are.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd

Between our daughter and one niece, I know of four such, and all since 2021. They were Corcoran College of the Arts and Design (Washington, DC -- converted into a School of the same name in George Washington University), Delaware College of Art and Design (Wilmington, DE), University of the Arts (Philadelphia, PA), and Wesley College (Dover, DE).

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh! at June 19, 2025 08:47 AM (Tv15w)

188 Your IDF Babe of the day
an occasional series

https://tinyurl.com/wuyf6y82

Posted by: Don Black at June 19, 2025 08:48 AM (AOsQT)

189
I'm still pissed about what they did to Juneteenth.

Which when I was at UT was a nice multiracial drink beer and eat BBQ sort of dealio party.

A fun and joyful occasion. Basically, only celebrated in Texas.

Buuuut, now the Progtards/Democrats/Communisits have turned a joyful local occasion into a hateful national day of grievance and racial division.

Thanks, a-holes!

The Left ruins everything.

Posted by: naturalfake at June 19, 2025 08:48 AM (iJfKG)

190 179 Report: Lowest murder rate since 2014. Are the NYC subway trains any cleaner or safer?
Posted by: JM in Illinois at June 19, 2025 08:43 AM (+O1VQ)
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Much of the drop in the murder rate is improved emergency medicine. People get shot and don't die as often as they used to.

A better metric would be assaults or shootings.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 19, 2025 08:45 AM (ZOv7s)

There is a hypothesis stating that illegals in large metro areas are keeping down due to ICE activity, this includes the gang affiliated which is significantly dropping criminal activity.

Posted by: Inogame at June 19, 2025 08:49 AM (53oGX)

191 Posted by: naturalfake at June 19, 2025 08:48 AM (iJfKG)

UT 1982

You?

Posted by: rhennigantx at June 19, 2025 08:49 AM (gbOdA)

192 Well Said. Are any of those 18 year old white kids from the North ever honored for spilling their blood to help win the War for the Union and the slaves?

Evil Honkey's per Whoopi

Posted by: Jonah at June 19, 2025 08:49 AM (YCxFk)

193
Oh, add to the list Finlandia University, formerly Suomi College, in Hancock, MI, which closed in 2014.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh! at June 19, 2025 08:49 AM (Tv15w)

194 Member when Thune said he would keep the Senate open on the weekends?
Posted by: Jonah at June 19, 2025 08:47 AM (YCxFk)
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The GOP's greatest weakness is that we allow deep red states to elect squishes. The Dems use their deep blue areas to produce fanatics, solid votes. Why did Oklahoma waste a senate seat on that Lankford clown? South Carolina keeps returning Miss Lindsay.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 19, 2025 08:50 AM (ZOv7s)

195 Morn' all.... Happy Juneteenth ! One of the rags was explaining the "holiday" and said it was referred to as the "Second Independence Day . " By whom ?

Posted by: It's me donna at June 19, 2025 08:50 AM (VE6XX)

196 Abrego Garcia’s wife received $266,000 via GFM. Why are we taxpayers paying for his criminal public defender?

Posted by: EveR at June 19, 2025 08:50 AM (Z/h4+)

197 Bannon opens by questioning the urgency and timing of the recent Israeli military escalation. “Why did it have to happen last Thursday?” he asks, noting that even Israeli intelligence claims Iran is a year away from weaponizing a nuclear device. If that’s the case, he demands, why provoke a kinetic military response now—and why should America be expected to clean up a mess that Israel started?
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Trump’s 60-day deadline was up. You can argue the wisdom of imposing a hard deadline like that, but once you impose it, you either enforce it or look like a weak coward if you don’t (like Obama’s fake ‘red lines’

Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at June 19, 2025 08:51 AM (5cl3b)

198 >>> I've really grown tired of Tucker and Owens.
They are getting on my nerves.
Bannon too.

Posted by: redridinghood at June 19, 2025 08:47 AM (NpAcC)

Yep. I have been watching pro-America pundits from the UK and Australia. Way better.

Posted by: DJ at June 19, 2025 08:51 AM (uosPt)

199
Tucker and Bannon are great guys. Were instrumental in helping Trump win twice. Are they gasbags sometimes? Yes.
They need to say clickbait to keep the revenue going

Posted by: Jonah at June 19, 2025 08:52 AM (YCxFk)

200 Bannon and Carlson are right.

Time to decouple ourselves from Israeli conflict. Every dollar spent there is one more dollar of debt burden placed on our children, grand-children and great grand children, with interest.

It's a shame so many Boomers are willing to indenture their lineage with such unsustainable debt. None of them would be willing to donate their 401k and cushy retirement to the defense of Israel, but they are all too happy to place the debt load on their progeny.

Only a god-less man sacrifices his children's well-being for his own comfort, it's the exact opposite of the Gospel message.

Posted by: Odd Couple at June 19, 2025 08:52 AM (+H+LQ)

201 Colin Powell's maxim, "You break it, you bought it" now you have to spend ten years and ten trillion dollars to fix it...

We have all seen how that worked out.

Posted by: JM in Illinois at June 19, 2025 08:52 AM (cnokD)

202 Fun fact: Morocco was the first nation to recognize US independence. Kind of a low profile country run by a sane dynasty.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 19, 2025 08:52 AM (ZOv7s)

203 Whoopi is so fat,
she falls out of bed on both sides

Posted by: Inogame at June 19, 2025 08:53 AM (53oGX)

204 yeah philly lost a bunch of art schools

it's sad - they used to be more affordable, and really prepped for working in the field (obviously not painting, but the other majors) and had co-ops and such. they were somewhere between a normal college and a trade school.

Moore is still doing well here, and they keep adding actually useful and interesting majors (like experience design, which is literally ride design!). When I was in college, I had friends at PCA (U of Arts later, and now gone). those guys ended up at Pixar!

Posted by: Black Orchid at June 19, 2025 08:53 AM (Pv3Rg)

205 194. Agree on Lankford. You are right. Idaho, Wyoming, Nebraska all have squishes in Safe Seats

Posted by: Jonah at June 19, 2025 08:53 AM (YCxFk)

206 Considering the level detail in the israeli planning of this operation, including deeply embedded spies at all levels of the Iranian government, forward drone bases, complete lists of targets, material and personnel, I would not be surprised to find out that the Israelis have been building a replacement political apparatus with some of its spies not dedicated to the splodey stuff.

Somewhere in Iran there is a group of people waiting for their "the chair is against the wall" call to go public with an organized call for a replacement government.

Posted by: Cu at June 19, 2025 08:53 AM (OA79/)

207 The GOP's greatest weakness is that we allow deep red states to elect squishes. The Dems use their deep blue areas to produce fanatics, solid votes. Why did Oklahoma waste a senate seat on that Lankford clown? South Carolina keeps returning Miss Lindsay.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 19, 2025 08:50 AM (ZOv7s)

We need to be electable!

Posted by: GOPe suckup at June 19, 2025 08:53 AM (53oGX)

208
193

2024, not 2014

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh! at June 19, 2025 08:54 AM (Tv15w)

209 Your IDF Babe of the day
an occasional series

https://tinyurl.com/wuyf6y82
Posted by: Don Black at June 19, 2025 08:48 AM (AOsQT)

I often wonder if the IAF actually sends these hawt gals into combat or if-

like they're used as a great advertisement for joining up like those US armed forces commercials that show "you" driving a neat tank or helicopter,

when what you really wind up doing is peeling potatoes for five years in Cow's Ass, Kansas.

Posted by: naturalfake at June 19, 2025 08:54 AM (iJfKG)

210 201 Colin Powell's maxim, "You break it, you bought it" now you have to spend ten years and ten trillion dollars to fix it...

We have all seen how that worked out.

Posted by: JM in Illinois at June 19, 2025 08:52 AM (cnokD)

Certainly true: But given Islam's desire to eradicate the West and conquer the world VIA ARMAGEDDON, what would be the cost if Iran had nuclear weapons.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at June 19, 2025 08:54 AM (x0n13)

211 Morocco would also slice off your American or Jewish head, if you wandered out of the tourist areas

Posted by: Jonah at June 19, 2025 08:55 AM (YCxFk)

212 UT 1982

You?
Posted by: rhennigantx at June 19, 2025 08:49 AM (gbOdA)

1977.

Posted by: naturalfake at June 19, 2025 08:55 AM (iJfKG)

213 There is a hypothesis stating that illegals in large metro areas are keeping down due to ICE activity, this includes the gang affiliated which is significantly dropping criminal activity.
Posted by: Inogame at June 19, 2025 08:49 AM (53oGX)
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Even when murder rates were spiking in the early 1990s, it was known that it was highly localized. If you pulled LA, Chicago, Detroit, NYC etc. out of the mix, the rest of the country was more peaceful than Canada.

It is kind of crazy how localized crime can be. Where I live, you can leave a bicycle on the lawn for days in perfect safety. My old place, two miles away, would have seen it stolen in minutes.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 19, 2025 08:56 AM (ZOv7s)

214 Whoopi is so fat,
when she walks out her front door
the tide comes in.

Posted by: dantesed at June 19, 2025 08:56 AM (Oy/m2)

215 I wish to F1 the movie

looks like fun

Posted by: rhennigantx at June 19, 2025 08:56 AM (gbOdA)

216 cool

Second year of Earl I believe

Posted by: rhennigantx at June 19, 2025 08:57 AM (gbOdA)

217 Your IDF Babe of the day
an occasional series

https://tinyurl.com/wuyf6y82
Posted by: Don Black at June 19, 2025 08:48 AM (AOsQT)

I often wonder if the IAF actually sends these hawt gals into combat or if-

like they're used as a great advertisement for joining up like those US armed forces commercials that show "you" driving a neat tank or helicopter,

when what you really wind up doing is peeling potatoes for five years in Cow's Ass, Kansas.
Posted by: naturalfake at June 19, 2025 08:54 AM (iJfKG)
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Odds are they’re just random THOTS and the IDF link is a gimmick to generate interest. A good gimmick, btw.

Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at June 19, 2025 08:57 AM (5cl3b)

218 So if he had voted no medals and thus distinguished himself wouldn't that be an indicator his 'utility'? Seems like it just reinforces the point that he's not to be trusted, he's just a typical GOP. There's no distinction between the GOP and the Democrats WRT trustworthiness.
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at June 19, 2025 08:40 AM (3Ope

I agree that he's typical GOP but the manner of the complaint, "Cruz voted for these medals", implies that others didn't. That he is, somehow, a measure of vile over and above his fellows. My point is that this is not the case.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 19, 2025 08:57 AM (ExV1e)

219 our biggest fighters in the Senate seem to be from swing states etc.. Cruz, Moreno, Vance, Johnson etc...

Posted by: Jonah at June 19, 2025 08:58 AM (YCxFk)

220 Morocco would also slice off your American or Jewish head, if you wandered out of the tourist areas
Posted by: Jonah at June 19, 2025 08:55 AM (YCxFk)
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What's your point? There are areas in the US where if you're of the wrong ethnic group, your life expectancy can be measured in seconds.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 19, 2025 08:58 AM (ZOv7s)

221 200 Bannon and Carlson are right.

Time to decouple ourselves from Israeli conflict. Every dollar spent there is one more dollar of debt burden placed on our children, grand-children and great grand children, with interest.

It's a shame so many Boomers are willing to indenture their lineage with such unsustainable debt. None of them would be willing to donate their 401k and cushy retirement to the defense of Israel, but they are all too happy to place the debt load on their progeny.

Only a god-less man sacrifices his children's well-being for his own comfort, it's the exact opposite of the Gospel message.
Posted by: Odd Couple at June 19, 2025 08:52 AM (+H+LQ)

By decouple you mean take our muzzle and leash and go home? Kinda looks like we just did. But make no mistake about it, you decouple from Israel, you still live in the world impacted by their actions.

If by decouple you mean stop selling them arms and hamstringing them, the we have a different understanding of decouple.

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at June 19, 2025 08:58 AM (OA79/)

222 Posted by: Odd Couple at June 19, 2025 08:52 AM (+H+LQ)
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That is such a weak argument.

You could say the same thing about almost any government expenditure.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 19, 2025 08:58 AM (RIvkX)

223
More blackened, or charred to be precise.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton

Extra crispy, but boneless

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh! at June 19, 2025 08:59 AM (Tv15w)

224 You could say the same thing about almost any government expenditure.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 19, 2025 08:58 AM (RIvkX)

And you'd be correct.

Posted by: Odd Couple at June 19, 2025 08:59 AM (+H+LQ)

225 >The GOP's greatest weakness is that we allow deep red states to elect squishes.
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I keep telling you guys! Republicans in Congress, with a few exceptions, don't want to really accomplish anything. They just want to be in Congress. THAT is the accomplishment. Power, perks, graft, preferred parking, getting next to The Money- that's why people spend millions of dollars to get elected.

The best job in the WORLD is 'US Senator'.

Posted by: Don Black at June 19, 2025 09:00 AM (AOsQT)

226 Even when murder rates were spiking in the early 1990s, it was known that it was highly localized. If you pulled LA, Chicago, Detroit, NYC etc. out of the mix, the rest of the country was more peaceful than Canada.

It is kind of crazy how localized crime can be. Where I live, you can leave a bicycle on the lawn for days in perfect safety. My old place, two miles away, would have seen it stolen in minutes.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd

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There was an NRA article years ago that I can no longer find that was discussing how the same seven (7) people were somehow involved in the majority of the murders in NYC.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - The 19th Amendment is a civilization level sh*t test at June 19, 2025 09:01 AM (yJYKF)

227 No More Blood for Bibi: Bannon Demands an
America-First Foreign Policy Under Trump

We have been at war with Iran since 1979. That was Iran's choice. Despite the fact that pretty much every President since Carter has done fuck all about the Iranians, they continue to fund terrorist activities aimed at harming the US (as well as Israel).

An America-First foreign policy would demand ending the state of hostilities with Iran. They have said, and I believe them, that this requires our surrender or their annihilation.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 19, 2025 09:01 AM (ExV1e)

228 It's entirely possible that the insane anti-social pathology of current year Islam is the same as current year blackinna merica.

Both born of and nursed by 20th c. "leftism".

Black America wasn't always a dysfunctional social and cultural mess. Islamic caliphates were once just the same old unremarkable blood-and-conquest players on the world stage as anyone else, with different hats on. Some good, some bad. Some enemies, some allies. Sometimes brutal, sometimes gracious.

It's the upside down insanity of dandyish pseudo-academic revolutionaries that's made them both the feral, empty, easily led rabble they are today. Supplanting their organic, natural identity with a fake Historical Materialist "Identity".

Of course the obvious "not all yadda yadda" caveats apply. I'm taking about identifiable political factions, not personal identities.

Maybe. It's a thought at least.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 19, 2025 09:01 AM (BcT2b)

229 If by decouple you mean stop selling them arms and hamstringing them, the we have a different understanding of decouple.

I'm all for selling them arms.

Just as long as we don't send them billions of dollars in foreign aid to buy them from us.

Posted by: Odd Couple at June 19, 2025 09:01 AM (+H+LQ)

230 Whoopi be so fat, when she runs her mouth and acts a fool, people be axing "whose bitches these is?"

Posted by: Joe Ghetto at June 19, 2025 09:01 AM (R/m4+)

231 If I want to listen to Candace Owens neo-Nazi bullshit, I’ll go look up Die Sturmer.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 19, 2025 09:02 AM (EVFZ5)

232 Some talking head on Fox last night sait it will take us 2 weeks to get the stuff together for an attack on the nuke facility in Iran ...

Posted by: It's me donna at June 19, 2025 09:02 AM (VE6XX)

233 There was an NRA article years ago that I can no longer find that was discussing how the same seven (7) people were somehow involved in the majority of the murders in NYC.
Posted by: Boron Cobbie - The 19th Amendment is a civilization level sh*t test at June 19, 2025 09:01 AM (yJYKF)
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Well, we see people who get put back out on the street due to "cashless bail" and then murder all the witnesses, so it's plausible.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 19, 2025 09:02 AM (ZOv7s)

234 I agree that he's typical GOP but the manner of the complaint, "Cruz voted for these medals", implies that others didn't. That he is, somehow, a measure of vile over and above his fellows. My point is that this is not the case.

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I'm fine with this so long as we can quit pretending Cruz is somehow different or unusual.

He can't benefit from both sides when it suits him. He's either a Maverick (TM) or he's just another Republican, same as all the rest.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - The 19th Amendment is a civilization level sh*t test at June 19, 2025 09:02 AM (yJYKF)

235 Only a god-less man sacrifices his children's well-being for his own comfort, it's the exact opposite of the Gospel message.
Posted by: Odd Couple at June 19, 2025 08:52 AM (+H+LQ)

So does God want the mullah to have nukes?
You seem to be in with God pretty good, so I’m wondering if Tel Aviv getting nuked is all part of the plan.

What I’m mainly coming away with from your comment is that we should abandon Israel because the usury fee is too high - as if God is worried about our FICO score.

As if the small amount, relatively, of money we’re sending to Israel every year is what’s breaking the bank?

I hate to break it to you, but Grandma & Grandpa’s Social Security & Medicare payments are what’s hitting the Grandkids’ future debt like a timebomb, more so than the aid Israel gets every year.

Besides, that $38 trillion, and counting, will never be paid off.

The Grandkids are going to feel it when the default hits of course, but that has very little to do with Israel taking out the mullah’s nuke program or the Palestinian issue.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at June 19, 2025 09:03 AM (6ydKt)

236 America Is Becoming ‘One of the Worst Countries’ in the World

Lefties say things like this all the time...but we are way, way to the left of where we were in the past.

Yes Trump has improved things in the last few months, but imagine telling your average LIV in 1985 that in 40 years we would be debating whether states could ban child sexual mutilation and whether the president can deport illegal aliens.

If they are the wins the left tells us they should be pretty damn happy shouldn't they?

Posted by: 18-1 at June 19, 2025 09:04 AM (t0Rmr)

237 I often wonder if the IAF actually sends these hawt gals into combat or if-

like they're used as a great advertisement for joining up like those US armed forces commercials that show "you" driving a neat tank or helicopter,

when what you really wind up doing is peeling potatoes for five years in Cow's Ass, Kansas.
Posted by: naturalfake

I thought IDF service was mandatory? If so, a "hook" isn't necessary.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 19, 2025 09:04 AM (WZaJc)

238 Besides, that $38 trillion, and counting, will never be paid off.

Half of that debt was incurred during our last fiasco over in the sandbox.

And yet retarded people think it will work again,

Posted by: Odd Couple at June 19, 2025 09:05 AM (+H+LQ)

239 Why did Oklahoma waste a senate seat on that Lankford clown? South Carolina keeps returning Miss Lindsay.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 19, 2025 08:50 AM (ZOv7s)

Generally speaking, American voters have been trained to prefer elected officials who'll promise to give the most (to them) while taking the least (from them). The specifics of what the government is robbing the other guys to pay for is what differentiates right from left in this country.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 19, 2025 09:05 AM (ExV1e)

240 >I often wonder if the IAF actually sends these hawt gals into combat or if-

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I think a lot of the women might be reservists or just serving out a mandatory stint in the services. Regardless, they all seem to be quite busty for some reason. It seems statistically unlikely that they would all have such impressive bosoms. But it's wonderful.

Posted by: Don Black at June 19, 2025 09:06 AM (AOsQT)

241 Good morning good people.

Posted by: Tonypete at June 19, 2025 09:06 AM (cYBz/)

242 And they go to the beach a lot.

Posted by: Don Black at June 19, 2025 09:06 AM (AOsQT)

243 What I’m mainly coming away with from your comment is that we should abandon Israel because the usury fee is too high - as if God is worried about our FICO score.

As if the small amount, relatively, of money we’re sending to Israel every year is what’s breaking the bank?

I hate to break it to you, but Grandma & Grandpa’s Social Security & Medicare payments are what’s hitting the Grandkids’ future debt like a timebomb, more so than the aid Israel gets every year.

Besides, that $38 trillion, and counting, will never be paid off.

The Grandkids are going to feel it when the default hits of course, but that has very little to do with Israel taking out the mullah’s nuke program or the Palestinian issue.
Posted by: SpeakingOf

Don't forget USAID paying for gay poetry readings in Colombia. Funny how the left is ok with that, but ending threat to the US is bad.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 19, 2025 09:07 AM (WZaJc)

244 I think people get fixated on Iran being solely Israel's problem. Yet they forget that Iran has attacked the US via proxies several times and drawn blood. It's not a matter of "if" but "when" Iran has the wherewithal to strike at the US directly that they'll do it and do it big.

Better to de-fang the Iranian regime now when it appears likely that the mad mullahs would be out of the picture. Whether they'd reclaim power is debatable.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 19, 2025 09:07 AM (Q4IgG)

245 You get squishes in red states because Big Ag loves them and bankrolls them. I will say, despite the fact I can't stand him, Jerry Moran does a good job of letting constituents know what he's working on.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at June 19, 2025 09:07 AM (AcTAo)

246 It's entirely possible that the insane anti-social pathology of current year Islam is the same as current year blackinna merica.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 19, 2025 09:01 AM (BcT2b)
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Black family formation was higher and more enduring than whites in the years after emancipation. A father abandoning his children was subject to deep shame because of how hard it had been to keep families intact during slavery.

That only changed in the 1960s, with the new idea of the pimp daddy and "Shaft." Enabled by gov't benefits.

Islam always had a violent side, but there were stable governments that had superior religious toleration (pay the tax and we leave you alone). The rise of Arab Socialism first discredited Islam, which became more fanatical in response.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 19, 2025 09:07 AM (ZOv7s)

247 Regardless, they all seem to be quite busty for some reason. It seems statistically unlikely that they would all have such impressive bosoms. But it's wonderful.

TBH most young women can be quite fetching assuming they take care of themselves. The likes of TrigglyPuff are making a choice to be ugly.

Posted by: 18-1 at June 19, 2025 09:07 AM (t0Rmr)

248 Aside from two black ladies, all the women I've dated (except the wife!) were Jews or Italian-American and all had exceptional bosoms/figures.

I have been blessed.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at June 19, 2025 09:09 AM (x0n13)

249 our biggest fighters in the Senate seem to be from swing states etc.. Cruz, Moreno, Vance, Johnson etc...
Posted by: Jonah at June 19, 2025 08:58 AM (YCxFk)

Texas isn't a swing state. No matter how much the left likes to jerk to the idea, it isn't.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 19, 2025 09:09 AM (ExV1e)

250 Don Black at June 19, 2025 09:06 AM (AOsQT)

Maybe military training brings out their assets.

Posted by: dantesed at June 19, 2025 09:09 AM (Oy/m2)

251 Candace gave the game away when she said nothing after her buddy Kanye spoke up against the Jews. Just another loathsome and tiresome anti-Semite. Not complicated.

Posted by: Ordinary American at June 19, 2025 09:09 AM (x2CMu)

252 The left will generally not allow moderate to get to the level of a Senate seat.

The right has no equivalent power because we don't don't control the GOP the way the left controls the Dems.

Posted by: 18-1 at June 19, 2025 09:09 AM (t0Rmr)

253 I’m done asking people where to get a Juneteemth tee shirt.

Posted by: Eromero at June 19, 2025 09:10 AM (jgmnb)

254 It is kind of crazy how localized crime can be. Where I live, you can leave a bicycle on the lawn for days in perfect safety. My old place, two miles away, would have seen it stolen in minutes.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd a

Umpossible! All cultures are equal!!

Posted by: Tonypete at June 19, 2025 09:10 AM (cYBz/)

255 I find no one knows what Juneteenth is for and when you tell them they'll tell you that is a stupid idea for a holiday

Posted by: 18-1 at June 19, 2025 09:10 AM (t0Rmr)

256 "Being Blackinna Merica is a whole self-identity."

And, many become consumed with monomania for a past slavery injustice that they never experienced during their entire food stamp, Section 8, EBT, Medicaid, 70% illegitimacy, Affirmative Actioned existence.

Ilhan shows up from Somalia, Barry from Kenya, Kamala from Jamaica, they decide that the people and country that made them wealthy need their spit-flecked lectures and contempt, further incitement for blm/antifa storm troops to deliver physical beat-downs and burnthemf-er down arson and bricks to the heads of Typical-Bitter-Clinger-Garbage-Baskets-of-Deplorables.

Biden delivered 225 judges to ensure that Hope & Change goes Forward! to Fundamentally Change America, and our enslavement to Wokism.

Posted by: ju at June 19, 2025 09:11 AM (vgX6l)

257 Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 19, 2025 08:57 AM (ExV1e)

Nothing implied, just a statement of fact. Make of that what you will.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at June 19, 2025 09:11 AM (3Ope8)

258 Regardless, they all seem to be quite busty for some reason. It seems statistically unlikely that they would all have such impressive bosoms. But it's wonderful.
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TBH most young women can be quite fetching assuming they take care of themselves. The likes of TrigglyPuff are making a choice to be ugly.
Posted by: 18-1

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Yep. Women are born with their fortune. Feminism managed to convince them that it doesn't work the way every single person everywhere knows it does and has for thousands of years.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - The 19th Amendment is a civilization level sh*t test at June 19, 2025 09:12 AM (yJYKF)

259 I’m done asking people where to get a Juneteemth tee shirt.
Posted by: Eromero

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They're not available until September.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - The 19th Amendment is a civilization level sh*t test at June 19, 2025 09:13 AM (yJYKF)

260 I mean, can you think of a better job than being a member of Congress? You never get dirty, you never break a sweat. Your dick will be sucked. People who want things, throw money at you. You work maybe two days a week. Unlimited vacation time. The best healthcare other people's money can buy. You will be a millionaire when you leave office.

Posted by: Don Black at June 19, 2025 09:13 AM (AOsQT)

261 I’ve stopped having expectations for GOP members of congress. They inevitably disappoint. During the Gingrich revolution I had such a high opinion of Dick Armey. Yet now though I can’t point to any major Armey sin but suffice to say he hung around for a long time and there’s not much by way of accomplishment to point at either…

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at June 19, 2025 09:13 AM (i5Vkf)

262 Funny thing is, a bunch of "conservative" Boomers will pleasure themselves to pictures of Israeli Barbie-doll soldiers, but will also tell you that women in the military are a liability and part of the woke agenda in the American military.

Maybe ace can do another rant about bad-babes in the movies and how unrealistic and it's part of the feminist cult agenda and it will sink in.

Posted by: Odd Couple at June 19, 2025 09:13 AM (+H+LQ)

263 Candace gave the game away when she said nothing after her buddy Kanye spoke up against the Jews. Just another loathsome and tiresome anti-Semite. Not complicated.
Posted by: Ordinary American at June 19, 2025 09:09 AM (x2CMu)
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Wait, so a failure to make a ritual denunciation is now grounds for condemnation?

I hate how the right is becoming like the left on some of this stuff. "OMG! This one guy said something! Everyone: quick, denounce them to prove you don't have Bad Thoughts!"

We're supposed to be the more rational party, but it's all middle school lunch table politics, everywhere.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 19, 2025 09:13 AM (ZOv7s)

264 Time to decouple ourselves from Israeli conflict.

This statement fails to recognize reality.

- The United States is at war with Iran.
- The United States has been at war with Iran since 1979 when Iran declared war on the United States.
- Iran has been involved in planning / training / recruiting / funding terrorist activities against the United States since that declaration of war.

For us to "decouple ourselves from Israeli conflict" is us saying that we're okay with some Americans being killed by Iranian sponsored terrorists so long as I don't really have to hear "deep thinkers" opine about it.

Trump is not suggesting sending in the Marines. Trump is not suggesting sending in the Army. Trump is not suggesting remaking Iranian government in the globohomo style. He's considering dropping a couple bombs on a specific target within a country which declared war on us.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 19, 2025 09:15 AM (ExV1e)

265 Half of that debt was incurred during our last fiasco over in the sandbox.

And yet retarded people think it will work again,
Posted by: Odd Couple

US debt in Trillions
2008 $10,025 Bank bailout and QE
2009 $11,910 Bailout cost $250B ARRA added $242B
2010 $13,562 ARRA added $400B, payroll tax holiday ended, Obama Tax cuts, ACA, Simpson-Bowles
2011 $14,790 Debt crisis, recession and tax cuts reduced revenue
2012 $16,066 Fiscal cliff
2013 $16,738 Sequester, government shutdown
2014 $17,824 QE ended, debt ceiling crisis
2015 $18,151 Oil prices fell
2016 $19,573 Brexit
2017 $20,245 Congress raised the debt ceiling
2018 $21,516 Trump tax cuts
2019 $22,719 Trade wars
2020 $27,748 COVID-19 and 2020 recession
2021 $29,617 COVID-19 and American Rescue Plan Act
2022 $31,420 Inflation Reduction Act and student loan forgiveness
2023 $34,001 Fed raises rates

Posted by: rickb223 at June 19, 2025 09:15 AM (WZaJc)

266 Funny thing is, a bunch of "conservative" Boomers will pleasure themselves to pictures of Israeli Barbie-doll soldiers, but will also tell you that women in the military are a liability and part of the woke agenda in the American military.

Posted by: Odd Couple at June 19, 2025 09:13 AM (+H+LQ)
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Allow me to introduce you to the concept of lingerie and costume play.

LOOOONG before there were women in the military, there were fetching lasses barely keeping that sailor uniform on.

Very pupular as recruiting posters, btw.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 19, 2025 09:16 AM (ZOv7s)

267

I Meme Therefore I Am
@ImMeme0
For years, this mother has been exploiting and enabling her daughter’s bad behavior just to make money on social media.

SICKING!

Her Instagram account grew to over 300K followers—and it would’ve stopped long ago if people stopped rewarding this kind of degeneracy.

https://tinyurl.com/yrvp5rnz

Posted by: redridinghood at June 19, 2025 09:16 AM (NpAcC)

268 Half of that debt was incurred during our last fiasco over in the sandbox.

And yet retarded people think it will work again,
Posted by: Odd Couple at June 19, 2025 09:05 AM (+H+LQ)

Lots of people are bitching about us invading Iran... a situation which, literally, no one is suggesting.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 19, 2025 09:17 AM (ExV1e)

269 Funny thing is, a bunch of "conservative" Boomers will pleasure themselves to pictures of Israeli Barbie-doll soldiers, but will also tell you that women in the military are a liability and part of the woke agenda in the American military.

Maybe ace can do another rant about bad-babes in the movies and how unrealistic and it's part of the feminist cult agenda and it will sink in.
Posted by: Odd Couple at June 19, 2025 09:13 AM (+H+LQ)

And there it is!

I wasn't paying much attention (cuz boring) but I wondered when Odd Couple would start flashing its troll credentials and here we go.

A slow, lame but definite start.

Posted by: naturalfake at June 19, 2025 09:17 AM (iJfKG)

270 I’m now convinced that The View and Whoopi Goldberg is just performance theater for the clapping seals.
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It's a minstrel show for AWFLs.
Her, Crockett, Abrams, Omar, Presley, et al.--they're all playing racist caricatures of black women for rich, white women.
The black mammie, the negress, the sassy, the loud, in-your-face, tell-it-like-it-is.

It's an embarrassing, outlandish, racist performance act put on to show to the AWFLs "real" black women.

To confirm their racist stereotype that all black women are ... beneath the AWFL, that the AWFL is still the Mistress of the Plantation.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at June 19, 2025 09:18 AM (zwX/r)

271 Half of that debt was incurred during our last fiasco over in the sandbox.

And yet retarded people think it will work again,
Posted by: Odd Couple at June 19, 2025 09:05 AM (+H+LQ)

Yeah, but there isn’t a Bush in office and if Trump is going to spend big it won’t be on occupying Tehran.

And all of that doubling wasn’t because of Iraq & Afghanistan.

You’re leaving out the 2008-10 bailouts and Obamacare which ballooned the budgets.

Bush deserves some blame, but Obama turned it up a notch, and the debt has gotten blatantly out of control ever since, especially during and after COVID.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at June 19, 2025 09:19 AM (6ydKt)

272 I wasn't paying much attention (cuz boring) but I wondered when Odd Couple would start flashing its troll credentials and here we go.

A slow, lame but definite start.
Posted by: naturalfake at June 19, 2025 09:17 AM (iJfKG)
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Yes, I see our resident anti-Boomer, anti-Israel "expert" has made his usual appearance, bestowing "wisdom" on the rest of us Morons.

He never once provides a solution, nor does he provide a scintilla of evidence why HIS solution is the ONLY solution that will solve the problems he's identified (the existence of Boomers and Israel).

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 19, 2025 09:20 AM (IBQGV)

273
A slow, lame but definite start.

Posted by: naturalfake

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There are echoes of the old "it's a shame that you people aren't as smart as me. You're such a disappointment" tone that Obama would frequently imply.

Posted by: 2009Refugee at June 19, 2025 09:20 AM (k/U8Z)

274 Maybe the site needs a Dumbest Democrat Week. We can discuss it for 5 days, then Ace announces his pick.

Posted by: Eeyore at June 19, 2025 09:20 AM (od0dV)

275 “ Blessed are the poor in spirit,
for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
Blessed are those who mourn,
for they will be comforted.
Blessed are the meek,
for they will inherit the earth.
Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness,
for they will be filled.
Blessed are the merciful,
for they will be shown mercy.
Blessed are the pure in heart,
for they will see God.
Blessed are the peacemakers,
for they will be called children of God.
Blessed are those who are persecuted because of righteousness,
for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.”

Matthew 5:3-10

Posted by: Marcus T at June 19, 2025 09:20 AM (JmfGy)

276 Speaking of oppression, the wife of the Egyptian visa overstay and Boulder Molotov thrower and improvised flamethrower Mohamed Soliman, has issued a statement bemoaning the plight of herself and the couple's five children (all Egyptian citizens) in an immigration detention facility in Texas while they await deportation proceedings.

https://is.gd/R4ECQv

"We're treated like animals."

Sure. Nevertheless my rears remain stubbornly in their ducts, refusing to be jerked.

Posted by: muldoon at June 19, 2025 09:20 AM (poXs5)

277 For us to "decouple ourselves from Israeli conflict" is us saying that we're okay with some Americans being killed by Iranian sponsored terrorists so long as I don't really have to hear "deep thinkers" opine about it.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 19, 2025 09:15 AM (ExV1e)
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The US-Iran conflict is bilateral. I think the point is that a third party (any third party) should not be forcing our hand simply because we also have a beef with Iran.

It's also not clear how to resolve that beef short of a disastrous war.

Having spent almost my entire adult life "at war," I'm glad that I can sit this one out, but I'd like my kids to be spared yet another totally short, easy win like the last few.

Have we pulled out of Kosovo yet?

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 19, 2025 09:20 AM (ZOv7s)

278 "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 19, 2025 09:20 AM (IBQGV)

Average Joe?

Posted by: dantesed at June 19, 2025 09:21 AM (Oy/m2)

279 >Funny thing is, a bunch of "conservative" Boomers will pleasure themselves to pictures of Israeli Barbie-doll soldiers, but will also tell you that women in the military are a liability and part of the woke agenda in the American military.
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I do like looking at pictures of attractive young women in two-piece bathing costumes. Call me kooky- many people do.

But I don't think women should be in combat roles. Support roles, sure. Israel or other countries may see it differently- that's their business.

Posted by: Don Black at June 19, 2025 09:22 AM (AOsQT)

280 Germany had the upper hand in equipment and training when they went into Russia in War 2. Ukraine did as well in 2022. They both lost.

We always forget that Russia fights wars of attrition as we did in our own Civil War.

Iran has 92 million and Israel has 9. Our War Machine makes good money on war as they have demonstrated since 1960.

I pray that Trump actually has the power to limit this as he did in Syria during Trump 1.0. I fear the Blob has the power as to what they are doing to Tulsi.

Posted by: Danimal28 at June 19, 2025 09:22 AM (1E4GV)

281 On The Miniature Page a guy posts weekly Women in Uniform, pictures usually looking professional but lots of Israeli women pictures look more glamor selfies. There are lots of extremely good looking gals there for sure.

Posted by: Skip at June 19, 2025 09:24 AM (+qU29)

282 Maybe Mrs. Molotov cocktail should ask for an expedited deportation.

Posted by: Ben Had at June 19, 2025 09:24 AM (ZIggv)

283 But I don't think women should be in combat roles. Support roles, sure. Israel or other countries may see it differently- that's their business.
Posted by: Don Black at June 19, 2025 09:22 AM (AOsQT)
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This was years ago, but I believe Israel has sex-segregated units because when they were integrated, there were excessive casualties because the men would drop everything to save the women. Guys can better keep on mission when other guys are hit.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 19, 2025 09:25 AM (ZOv7s)

284 Maybe Mrs. Molotov cocktail should ask for an expedited deportation.
Posted by: Ben Had

Too bad we can't just "throw" her out.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 19, 2025 09:25 AM (WZaJc)

285 But I don't think women should be in combat roles. Support roles, sure. Israel or other countries may see it differently- that's their business.

Oh.....so now we have finally found some areas where Israel's business is Israel's business!

Finally making some progress.

Posted by: Odd Couple at June 19, 2025 09:26 AM (+H+LQ)

286 I pray that Trump actually has the power to limit this as he did in Syria during Trump 1.0. I fear the Blob has the power as to what they are doing to Tulsi.
Posted by: Danimal28 at June 19, 2025 09:22 AM (1E4GV)
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Yeah, I don't know what Bibi's desired end state looks like, and I really hope it isn't "And then the Americans come in and bail us out."

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 19, 2025 09:26 AM (ZOv7s)

287 ♫ ♪

Mister we could use a team like Mordecai and Esther again...

Posted by: Archie Bunker at June 19, 2025 09:26 AM (poXs5)

288 I'm starting to belive that a great deal of the sudden "America First" types are the spiritual descendants of the same types prior to June 22, 1941....

Posted by: Man at June 19, 2025 09:27 AM (tubbA)

289 JJ, how come no one is paying attention to what the brilliant economist Thomas Sowell has to say about the attack on Iran. Under 30 minutes. The take-away--the middle-class and poor will pay the price, the elites are never affected by these machinations.
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All wars are fought for profit.
All wars.
Even the war you think was a "good" or "just" war.
Profit.

Sure, there's the occasional dress-up in high morals and lofty ideals.
That's all lies, post-hoc justifications:
It's profit that motivates the decision men to move the troops.
Profits lost or profits to gain.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at June 19, 2025 09:27 AM (zwX/r)

290 rickb223, maybe light a fire under the proceedings?

Posted by: Ben Had at June 19, 2025 09:27 AM (ZIggv)

291 The Grandkids are going to feel it when the default hits of course, but that has very little to do with Israel taking out the mullah’s nuke program or the Palestinian issue.
Posted by: SpeakingOf

Correct. There is no free lunch, but people shrug and say:

"It's My Money And I Want It Now!"

Posted by: J.G. Wentworth at June 19, 2025 09:27 AM (R/m4+)

292 I will say this: Trump is a master of strategic ambiguity, and him playing coy about what we might do is a great way to keep the Iranians on edge, because if they know we are not going in, they can commit more forces against Israel.

Without that knowledge, they have to try to hold back a strategic reserve, which benefits Israel.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 19, 2025 09:27 AM (ZOv7s)

293 Funny thing is, a bunch of "conservative" Boomers will pleasure themselves to pictures of Israeli Barbie-doll soldiers, but will also tell you that women in the military are a liability and part of the woke agenda in the American military.

- American women are, generally, a liability in the military because of the attitude of American women.
- Women are, generally, a liability in most military areas due to needed strength and the tendency of men to take greater risks / sacrifice the mission to protect them.
- Women can do fine in areas such as pilot - which negates many of the problems.
- Israel has a small population so they don't have the luxury of keeping women out.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 19, 2025 09:28 AM (ExV1e)

294 There is something good to be said about a society that does not want to expose its women to the horrors of war.

It may be a chauvinistic attitude, but whaddya gonna do.

IMO, YMMV

Posted by: Don Black at June 19, 2025 09:28 AM (AOsQT)

295 - Women can do fine in areas such as pilot - which negates many of the problems.

Let's all hurry off and delete all our posts about DEI hires in the cockpit.

Posted by: Odd Couple at June 19, 2025 09:29 AM (+H+LQ)

296 I'm starting to belive that a great deal of the sudden "America First" types are the spiritual descendants of the same types prior to June 22, 1941....
Posted by: Man at June 19, 2025 09:27 AM (tubbA)
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Why is World War II the only military/historical analogy?

Did the 80 years since then not actually happen?

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 19, 2025 09:29 AM (ZOv7s)

297 Maybe Mrs. Molotov cocktail should ask for an expedited deportation.
Posted by: Ben Had

*********

Temporary restraining order has been issued saying that since the family has been present in the U.S. uninterrupted for at least two years they are not subject to expedited removal. So, a nice reward for overstaying your visa.

Posted by: muldoon at June 19, 2025 09:30 AM (poXs5)

298 >Posted by: Odd Couple at June 19, 2025 09:26 AM (+H+LQ)
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if you could go be a dick somewhere else, that would be great

Posted by: Don Black at June 19, 2025 09:30 AM (AOsQT)

299 Posted by: Odd Couple at June 19, 2025 09:29 AM (+H+LQ)

Who pissed in your oatmeal ?

Posted by: It's me donna at June 19, 2025 09:31 AM (VE6XX)

300 - Israel has a small population so they don't have the luxury of keeping women out.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic

There's the money quote.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 19, 2025 09:31 AM (WZaJc)

301 Tucker really raked him over the coals.

It was nice to see a reporter actually ask tough questions.

Cruz seemed so ill-prepared, and then he exposed AIPAC. Totally unexpected.

Posted by: t-bird at June 19, 2025 09:31 AM (fL/bX)

302 Are there even black people in Iran?
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Not since the African slave trade ended.

No telling how many hundreds of thousands there used to be.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at June 19, 2025 09:31 AM (zwX/r)

303 "The policies, which include a plan to remove a loophole allowing pharmaceutical companies to write off advertising as a tax deduction"

So now we're gonna call inclusion of advertising in cost of sales a "loophole" just to get at the drug manufacturers?

When are they coming for the rest of us?

Posted by: CZ = FNG, Free Republic of Florida at June 19, 2025 09:32 AM (MkuC5)

304 since the family has been present in the U.S. uninterrupted for at least two years they are not subject to expedited removal.

We cannot spare these people. They evade the laws that Americans won't, and they're good at it!

Posted by: t-bird at June 19, 2025 09:33 AM (fL/bX)

305 Women can do fine in areas such as pilot - which negates many of the problems.

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Yep, so long as everyone is willing to pretend they can do a better job than the better male candidates that are passed over then they do fine. For women.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - The 19th Amendment is a civilization level sh*t test at June 19, 2025 09:34 AM (yJYKF)

306 Yep, so long as everyone is willing to pretend they can do a better job than the better male candidates that are passed over then they do fine. For women.

Reporting for duty, sir! ...in the rear.

Posted by: Rear Admiral Rachel Levine at June 19, 2025 09:38 AM (BU22l)

307 It gets worse BTW.

You know those videos you've seen of the drones repeatedly circling beaten soldiers who can't do anything and are just waiting to be killed by the drone operator? Apparently when Ukraine opened up drone operation to women:

"The group describes itself as “an environment for women who seek revenge on the enemy, protecting their children, families, and the country using unmanned and robotic systems.”

https://tinyurl.com/sry25mey

We could learn things from this but we won't.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - The 19th Amendment is a civilization level sh*t test at June 19, 2025 09:41 AM (yJYKF)

308 We're supposed to be the more rational party, but it's all middle school lunch table politics, everywhere.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 19, 2025 09:13 AM (ZOv7s)

A tad hyperbolic. I merely said her silence was revelatory, which it was. When a prominent public figure allied with you makes such inflammatory statements on a major issue, others can fairly make judgments where you stand based on your response or non-response. I think time has confirmed where she stands. As I said, it's not complicated.

Posted by: Ordinary American at June 19, 2025 09:42 AM (x2CMu)

309 Speaking of female pilots...

The first female carrier pilot died crashing into her carrier.

Women should have no role in any combat units.

Posted by: 18-1 at June 19, 2025 09:42 AM (t0Rmr)

310 There is subsaharan ancestry in many Middle Eastern Arab populations near major ports and all through Egypt and North Africa. Southern Iran and Iraq further had sugarcane plantations, which the Muslims inherited from that last Persian Empire.
They don't identify as black however.

Posted by: gKWVE at June 19, 2025 09:42 AM (v+3To)

311
"The group describes itself as “an environment for women who seek revenge on the enemy, protecting their children, families, and the country using unmanned and robotic systems.” /i]

One of the fascinating things about the Uke war is all the things the FNM told me were war crimes if the US military did them are perfectly normal and understandable things for the Uke military to do.

Posted by: 18-1 at June 19, 2025 09:44 AM (t0Rmr)

312 We could learn things from this but we won't.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - The 19th Amendment is a civilization level sh*t test at June 19, 2025 09:41 AM (yJYKF)

Oh we’ll learn alright.
The hard way, as usual.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at June 19, 2025 09:46 AM (6ydKt)

313 Funny thing is, a bunch of "conservative" Boomers will pleasure themselves to pictures of Israeli Barbie-doll soldiers, but will also tell you that women in the military are a liability and part of the woke agenda in the American military.

I base my opinion on what the “knowledge economy experts” think of such import! Imma upload a selfie to Google AI and query my appeal to such women warriors on a scale from 1 to 10!

Posted by: Unkaren at June 19, 2025 09:46 AM (LPL2Y)

314 Texas isn't a swing state. No matter how much the left likes to jerk to the idea, it isn't.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 19, 2025 09:09 AM (ExV1e)

It's not for lack of TRYING!

Posted by: Phelan and Burrows at June 19, 2025 09:46 AM (v+3To)

315 One of the fascinating things about the Uke war is all the things the FNM told me were war crimes if the US military did them are perfectly normal and understandable things for the Uke military to do.
Posted by: 18-1 at June 19, 2025 09:44 AM (t0Rmr)

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As long as our betters in Brussels approve it’s all good.

The Russo- Ukrainian war would be close to over now if all of those globalist humanists in the EU wanted it over.

But it’s an opportunity to build an EU army and federalize the continent now, so it’s full speed ahead against their common enemy, Putin.

Never let a crisis go to waste.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at June 19, 2025 09:51 AM (6ydKt)

316 There is something good to be said about a society that does not want to expose its women to the horrors of war.

It may be a chauvinistic attitude, but whaddya gonna do.

IMO, YMMV

Posted by: Don Black

Yep. It's called "avoiding demographic suicide".

Class in session! I presume most of y'all recall how human reproduction works by now, given how many have participated beyond being a product of it. With that knowledge, where would the bottleneck be in the continuation of any population?

If you said "women of childbearing age", congratulations! Not only are you better able to distinguish what a woman is than at least one Supreme Court Justice, but you see what the problem is with putting females of that age cohort in positions where combat is, to any extent, likely!

Now of course in extremis you may not always have the option--Israel being the prime example in our current world--but clearly this is something a sane nation avoids. The World Wars show clearly how a nation can lose a horrific proportion of its male population and still recover. But a similar loss among the female population? Done for.

Class dismissed.

Though who needs to learn, won't.

Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at June 19, 2025 10:01 AM (OUMaO)

317 You’re leaving out the 2008-10 bailouts and Obamacare which ballooned the budgets.

Bush deserves some blame, but Obama turned it up a notch, and the debt has gotten blatantly out of control ever since, especially during and after COVID.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at June 19, 2025 09:19 AM (6ydKt)

Lest we forget there hasn't been a budget in nearly 20 years.

Posted by: Inogame at June 19, 2025 10:18 AM (53oGX)

318 Patel and Bongino had better be sending a whole squad of FBI agents to investigate the SpaceX explosion. The matter reeks of terrorism. Too many people want Elon Musk to fail because he is so good at what he does. Political extremism plus jealousy? A potent combination for evil.

Posted by: Diabeetus at June 19, 2025 10:19 AM (SawFp)

319 The problem with the marijuana legalization is they turned it into a business they could tax. The proper way would have been to legalize it but prohibit sales of anything other than seeds and a tax stamp for a small quantity personal grow.
As it is now, there are a variety of different THC's that pass the Delta 9 limits in non-legal states but are more potent than homegrown because of whatever adulteration they do to it.

Posted by: TC at June 19, 2025 10:34 AM (cHOHf)

320 Mista Sefton, you had me at "Taqqiya sunrises."

I am happily married, but sometimes a turn of phrase by you or Ace consider me to adding to my male harem. I used to be worth it!

I often wonder, but never read her spew, if Omar is as bald as an egg under her turban, and wish someone would yank it off. I still can't believe a Somolian is in Congress (except for her voting bloc who put her there). Plus someone who married her brother to land here. I can spot a Somolian due to their bubble head and face shape. In my expert diagnostic health opinion, I think most of them have hydrocephalus...but not the same kind that is reversible like Billy Joel's. Which explains their insanity. At any rate, they stand out with their fellow Moose Limb bruthahood.

I have decided to come here now for news, vs battling Kardashian butts and Blake Lively irritations from the UK DM. I quit Drudge a long, long time ago for my microdoses of news.

I blow kisses vs biohazard farhts in your direction. Bravo!

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