BBC Presenter Corrects the Woke Script Written For Her, Clarifying That "Pregnant <i>People</i>" Means, Obviously, Pregnant <i>Women</i>

BBC Presenter Corrects the Woke Script Written For Her, Clarifying That "Pregnant People" Means, Obviously, Pregnant Women

This is actually a major breakthrough, insanely enough.

One employee of the BBC actually Believes In the Science (TM) and is willing to share it with the public. Huzzah.

Note that a presenter had previously been disciplined for accurately stating that a "transgender woman" who won a chess tournament was, in fact, a male.

But now the BBC is sensing the public's growing hostility to woke lies, and is said to be supporting the presenter's brave use of simple honesty.

BBC bosses have backed a television presenter who corrected the phrase "pregnant people" to "women" while broadcasting live, in what has been welcomed as a rejection of gender-neutral language.
Martine Croxall, 56, was citing a study about protecting vulnerable people in hot weather and, after reading out the report's phrasing, immediately rolled her eyes and changed the wording to "women".
"Malcolm Mistry, who was involved in the research, says that the aged, pregnant people ... women ... and those with pre-existing health conditions need to take precautions," she said.
JK Rowling was among those to support the presenter, calling Croxall "her new favourite BBC presenter" on X, and the former Wimbledon champion Martina Navratilova also backed her.
Croxall added: "A huge thank you to everyone who has chosen to follow me today for whatever reason. It's been quite a ride."
She has gained almost 50,000 followers on the social media platform since the incident on Sunday afternoon.
BBC bosses are also understood to have been "intensely relaxed" about the wording amid concerns from some staff that Croxall may have faced disciplinary action.
Last year Justin Webb, a presenter of Today on Radio 4, was found to have partially breached BBC guidelines over the way in which he described a transgender woman in a debate about chess.
Webb was told that he was at fault for describing the transgender woman as "in other words, male" during a debate in August 2023 about guidelines issued by the international chess federation about whether men have an advantage in the game.
But the BBC's position appears to have shifted since Webb was sanctioned.
Following Sunday's broadcast, bosses are understood to have checked in with Croxall in a supportive way.
"It's a real cultural moment," said one fellow BBC presenter, who said that there is a groundswell of support internally for using "honest language".

BBC reporter Martine Croxall, CORRECTS her teleprompter to "women" after trying to make her refer to women as "pregnant people"

Incredible pic.twitter.com/CvqmMfiu43
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) June 23, 2025

Related: Self-obsessed idiot Bill Maher noted that the NYT had come over the "sensible liberal" side on the trans issue. Well, not really. See my article on Friday. Nicholas Confessore did not dispute any of the insane claims of the transgender cult, but did try to gently recommend that they shut up for a while else they doom the Democrat Party.

He also says the Democrat Party "has to do something about The View."

Bill Maher CALLS OUT Whoopi for her stupid "Black people in USA have it just as bad as Iranians" comment.

"We've got to do something about the View." 😂 @RubinReport pic.twitter.com/0QmHHr1GqB
— The Rubin Report (@RubinReportShow) June 23, 2025

Posted by: Ace at 03:46 PM

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1 But now the BBC is sensing the public's growing hostility to woke lies, and is said to be supporting the presenter's brave use of simple honesty.

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They gonna fire the writer of the prompt?

Or nah?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 23, 2025 03:47 PM (GBKbO)

2 Wait, men can't have babies? Tell the rest of the media.

Posted by: illiniwek at June 23, 2025 03:48 PM (vbXSk)

3 She must be a biologist.

Posted by: fd at June 23, 2025 03:49 PM (vFG9F)

4 Good looking 56 year old presenter...errr, woman!...there

Posted by: Huck Follywood at June 23, 2025 03:49 PM (K+Cdu)

5 Wait, men can't have babies? Tell the rest of the media.
Posted by: illiniwek at June 23, 2025 03:48 PM (vbXSk)

Because we don't have the equipment, or we can't take the pain.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at June 23, 2025 03:49 PM (S/Y4j)

6 Really? During Pride Month?!?

Posted by: joe, living dangerously at June 23, 2025 03:49 PM (B9Prs)

7 Preggers.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at June 23, 2025 03:49 PM (xSwrI)

8 3 She must be a biologist.
Posted by: fd at June 23, 2025 03:49 PM (vFG9F)

Put her on SCOTUS!

Posted by: DoublySymmetric at June 23, 2025 03:50 PM (TJLr1)

9 Why does that viagra lady wear socks on her boobs?

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at June 23, 2025 03:50 PM (OA79/)

10 "It's a real cultural moment," said one fellow BBC presenter, who said that there is a groundswell of support internally for using "honest language".

Translation: They're tired of our bulls*** and are starting to turn us off.

Posted by: Archimedes at June 23, 2025 03:50 PM (Riz8t)

11 550 comments later...

Posted by: DanMan at June 23, 2025 03:50 PM (8uzBS)

12 Olive Loaf Vigilante. Didn't he whack a mime?

Posted by: Boss Moss at June 23, 2025 03:50 PM (6iGXV)

13 Sniff, sniff. Ah, fresh. Like a summer breeze.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 23, 2025 03:50 PM (0eaVi)

14 Next you haters will be trying to claim that we don't need tampons in boys restrooms.

TIMMEH!!!!!

Posted by: Tampon TIMMEH! at June 23, 2025 03:50 PM (qpyNK)

15 Though this is a welcome change, I can't help but wonder if it's a sign of the BBC preparing itself for the future British caliphate.

Posted by: Dr. T at June 23, 2025 03:50 PM (jGGMD)

16 The BBC does get guaranteed income from license fees extorted from the British people (legal residents anyway), but that doesn't mean they can support their current levels of spending (doubtless giving sinecures to worthless friends and relatives as happens at all leftist run organizations). The BBC just burned through wads of Disney cash to produce Doctor Who episodes so hideous they got the worst ratings in the show's 60+ years of existence. Annoying people more is probably financially unpalatable.

Posted by: the lower depths at June 23, 2025 03:50 PM (+b4rY)

17 5 Wait, men can't have babies? Tell the rest of the media.
Posted by: illiniwek at June 23, 2025 03:48 PM (vbXSk)

Because we don't have the equipment, or we can't take the pain.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at June 23, 2025 03:49 PM (S/Y4j)

We would just end up doing it wrong.

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at June 23, 2025 03:50 PM (OA79/)

18 Live Not By Lies.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at June 23, 2025 03:51 PM (PiwSw)

19 Whenever you see the phrase, Transgender this or transgender that, transgender should be understood as NOT.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 23, 2025 03:51 PM (CPCml)

20 Favorite BBC Presenter...

Pretty low bar there...

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 23, 2025 03:51 PM (mP0Kj)

21 Great.
Now explain how the child rape gangs are Maripuri Muslim, and not "Asian".

Posted by: gKWVE at June 23, 2025 03:51 PM (gKWVE)

22 Hey, Pawn in the game of life.

Would you consider getting another nic?

Posted by: pawn, the original at June 23, 2025 03:52 PM (fkuu7)

23 What does that presenter think she, some kind of *Baptist*?

Posted by: Crusader at June 23, 2025 03:52 PM (TN0g+)

24 "In a time of deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act,"

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at June 23, 2025 03:52 PM (O9qN1)

25 Yeah it feels like the insanity of the left crested and is starting to recede a little. My fear is that they will figure out they went too far and back off, fooling people into giving them a chance again.

But not any time soon. The Democratic Party had a "drag" event fundraiser with lots of gross ugly drag queens. A local network news show hired a hideous freak drag queen to do the weather (badly). England just passed a law allowing abortion all the way up to birth.

They're still all in on the insane, but there are signs that its crubling at the edges.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 23, 2025 03:52 PM (dfIr7)

26 You got your hash back.

Posted by: Boss Moss at June 23, 2025 03:53 PM (6iGXV)

27 Willowed:

He's basically got two paths he can take: the usual third world thing of seizing power and ruling as some form of unitary dictatorship, which means he'll be largely forgotten to history in 20 years, probably even less. Known as just another third world shit-head in a world overpopulated with shit-heads.

Or the Juan Carlos route you mention, where he takes over as head of state, a cultural and moral national leader, but with virtually no day to day power. If he does that and succeeds at inspiring the Persian people to build a peaceful and free regime in Iran, his name will ring out in history for centuries as one of the greatest Persians ever to walk the earth. He may not be inclined this way, but that's the way to sell him on the idea, and it might just save his homeland.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur

Agree completely. I kind of get the sense he's the latter. He doesn't have the lunatic affect of the truly bloodthirsty guy who's willing to kill lots of people for power.

Posted by: Archimedes at June 23, 2025 03:54 PM (Riz8t)

28 Truth . . .

It’s what’s for dinner.

Posted by: Czech Chick at June 23, 2025 03:54 PM (vK/Ja)

29 Was there a pregnant pause before changing from pregnant people to pregnant women?

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at June 23, 2025 03:54 PM (tT6L1)

30 Related: Self-obsessed idiot Bill Maher noted that the NYT had come over the "sensible liberal" side on the trans issue. Well, not really. See my article on Friday. Nicholas Confessore did not dispute any of the insane claims of the transgender cult, but did try to gently recommend that they shut up for a while else they doom the Democrat Party.

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"Let's keep the insanity but lower the volume on it to keep tricking the rubes."
-it's like John Fetterman said it

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 23, 2025 03:54 PM (GBKbO)

31 I was not optimistic that the public opinion on this topic was going to turn this quickly.

Posted by: joe, living dangerously at June 23, 2025 03:54 PM (B9Prs)

32 Hawaiin Judge orders Trump to Bomb NYC based on a request from the Ayatollah to make the US strike on Iran equal on BDA.

Posted by: CNN Breaking News at June 23, 2025 03:54 PM (BltCC)

33 So the IDF is now attacking political targets-- Basiji (militia) facilities; the notorious Evin prison.

This has nothing to do with nukes. This has to do with prepping the ground for regime change.

Posted by: mnw at June 23, 2025 03:54 PM (kd60y)

34 Yeah it feels like the insanity of the left crested and is starting to recede a little. My fear is that they will figure out they went too far and back off, fooling people into giving them a chance again.

But not any time soon. The Democratic Party had a "drag" event fundraiser with lots of gross ugly drag queens. A local network news show hired a hideous freak drag queen to do the weather (badly). England just passed a law allowing abortion all the way up to birth.

They're still all in on the insane, but there are signs that its crubling at the edges.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 23, 2025 03:52 PM

The pendulum always swings back. Sometimes very quickly and violently or sometimes slowly with a whimper, but it always swings back.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at June 23, 2025 03:54 PM (e5NfL)

35 Men can’t have babies

https://tinyurl.com/n5y952fz

Posted by: nurse ratched at June 23, 2025 03:55 PM (W2Pud)

36 31 I was not optimistic that the public opinion on this topic was going to turn this quickly.
Posted by: joe, living dangerously at June 23, 2025 03:54 PM (B9Prs)

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Polling turns more quickly when elections less easily stolen.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 23, 2025 03:55 PM (GBKbO)

37 Why does that viagra lady wear socks on her boobs?

so her Red Wings don't chafe of course

Posted by: DanMan at June 23, 2025 03:55 PM (8uzBS)

38 33 So the IDF is now attacking political targets-- Basiji (militia) facilities; the notorious Evin prison.

This has nothing to do with nukes. This has to do with prepping the ground for regime change.
Posted by: mnw at June 23, 2025 03:54 PM (kd60y)

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This has everything to do with punishing the nation that has funded Hezbollah and Hamas for decades and trained the gliders for 10/7.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 23, 2025 03:55 PM (GBKbO)

39 Hawaiin Judge orders Trump to Bomb NYC based on a request from the Ayatollah to make the US strike on Iran equal on BDA.

Posted by: CNN Breaking News at June 23, 2025 03:54 PM (BltCC)

You know, maybe we don't give Hawaiian judges enough credit.

Posted by: Dr. T at June 23, 2025 03:55 PM (jGGMD)

40 **But not any time soon. The Democratic Party had a "drag" event fundraiser with lots of gross ugly drag queens.*"

Drag degenerates also performed at the Oregon State Capitol.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at June 23, 2025 03:55 PM (O9qN1)

41 22 Hey, Pawn in the game of life.

Would you consider getting another nic?

prawn in the game of life > pawn in the game of life

Posted by: anachronda at June 23, 2025 03:56 PM (sGtp+)

42 Men can’t have babies
......

They could steal one.

Posted by: wth at June 23, 2025 03:56 PM (UjdFS)

43 But, after all, what IS a “ woman”???

Posted by: tubal at June 23, 2025 03:56 PM (PCK5/)

44 If they can make the media lie about whether men can get pregnant, and do it in public for everyone to see, they can make the media lie about anything. But they screwed up. They went too far and succeded now in making it obvious to even the dimmest wit that the media lies. The sole recent exception, here, being shockingly notable.

Posted by: I'll show myself out.... at June 23, 2025 03:56 PM (tM/2C)

45 “intensely relaxed”

Hmmmmm

Stiffly flexible
Slenderly fat
America-first GOP

Posted by: haffhowershower at June 23, 2025 03:57 PM (yC5D1)

46 I used to large and in charge at The BBC.

The wankers let me run loose for years!

Posted by: Zombie Jimmy Savile, Pederast at June 23, 2025 03:57 PM (HgFW6)

47 I was not optimistic that the public opinion on this topic was going to turn this quickly.

The public opinion on this stuff isn't swinging, its just the establishment realizing that their all in crazed push to ram it down peoples' throats failed.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 23, 2025 03:57 PM (dfIr7)

48 This has nothing to do with nukes. This has to do with prepping the ground for regime change.
Posted by: mnw at June 23, 2025 03:54 PM (kd60y)

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This has everything to do with punishing the nation that has funded Hezbollah and Hamas for decades and trained the gliders for 10/7.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 23, 2025 03:55 PM (GBKbO)

No reason both can't be true. Disrupting your enemy, punishing its leadership, and clearing the path for a less hostile regime are by no means mutually incompatible.

Posted by: Dr. T at June 23, 2025 03:57 PM (jGGMD)

49 Wait, men can't have babies? Tell the rest of the media.
Posted by: illiniwek

Because we don't have the equipment, or we can't take the pain.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf

When they shove the speculum up a guys ass and crank it open about 7 inches...

Posted by: rickb223 at June 23, 2025 03:57 PM (5WDkb)

50 Iran launched missiles at AOC's house................

NOBODY CARES !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Posted by: CNN Breaking News at June 23, 2025 03:58 PM (BltCC)

51 We successfully brought back the word retard, now we need to bring back degenerate.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at June 23, 2025 03:58 PM (O9qN1)

52 19 Whenever you see the phrase, Transgender this or transgender that, transgender should be understood as NOT.

protip: a transistor is not your sister

Posted by: anachronda at June 23, 2025 03:58 PM (sGtp+)

53 Do we? Do we have to do something about The View?

I think it's perfect the way it is.

Posted by: BurtTC at June 23, 2025 03:58 PM (dGCAG)

54 "It was a pivotal moment when Henry brought longbows to bear at Crecy to neutralize the threat of French heavy cavalry."

"It was a pivotal moment when England moved swiftly and fiercely against the Mahdi, crushing the Dervishes at Omdurman and freeing Sudan from their rapidly expanding death-cult."

"It was a pivotal moment when some perimenopausal lady who reads news stories for a living actually said that people who give birth can safely be assumed to be women, and not men, on live television."

Fucking hell, Britons. Get your shit together.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 23, 2025 03:58 PM (BjH5D)

55 This is no time for speculuming, people….

Posted by: tubal at June 23, 2025 03:58 PM (PCK5/)

56 They could steal one.
Posted by: wth at June 23, 2025 03:56 PM (UjdFS)

Apparently we do that at five AM on Saturday when I'm trying to sleep.
G-d I hate "amber alerts"

Posted by: gKWVE at June 23, 2025 03:59 PM (gKWVE)

57 When they shove the speculum up a guys ass and crank it open about 7 inches...
Posted by: rickb223

Go on...

Posted by: Mayo Pete at June 23, 2025 03:59 PM (UjdFS)

58 Imagine it being a real cultural moment just in stating that it's a woman who gets pregnant.

Posted by: Lady in Black at June 23, 2025 03:59 PM (qBdHI)

59 We live in a clown world created by the insane woke. In baseball an announcer (for the Cardinals I think) tripped over his own tongue recently when trying to say “Flag Day” and it came out “Fag Day”…. And there was actually a public question of whether he should be suspended (you know for using the forbidden f-word)…. In the end no suspension because obviously he was trying to say flag…. But the fact it was a question is just insane

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at June 23, 2025 03:59 PM (5MZNC)

60 45 “intensely relaxed”

Hmmmmm

Stiffly flexible
Slenderly fat
America-first GOP

jumboly shrimp...

Posted by: anachronda at June 23, 2025 03:59 PM (sGtp+)

61 >>> 50 Iran launched missiles at AOC's house................

NOBODY CARES !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Posted by: CNN Breaking News at June 23, 2025 03:58 PM (BltCC)

Nothing to do with the current unpleasantness, she served some really crappy margaritas to members of our diplomatic staff a while back and we figured we might as well act now.

Posted by: Iran at June 23, 2025 04:00 PM (ULPxl)

62 Isn't Speculum the Capital of Karameikos?

Posted by: Boss Moss at June 23, 2025 04:00 PM (6iGXV)

63 The Speculum swings both ways….

Posted by: tubal at June 23, 2025 04:01 PM (PCK5/)

64 6 posts between the tee up for a Buttigieg sock and the actual sock. *steeples fingers* Excellent.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at June 23, 2025 04:01 PM (PiwSw)

65 But, after all, what IS a “ woman”???
Posted by: tubal

A human being that at no time in their life EVER had to think or worry about contracting testicular cancer or prostate cancer.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 23, 2025 04:01 PM (5WDkb)

66 >>> 59 We live in a clown world created by the insane woke. In baseball an announcer (for the Cardinals I think) tripped over his own tongue recently when trying to say “Flag Day” and it came out “Fag Day”…. And there was actually a public question of whether he should be suspended (you know for using the forbidden f-word)…. In the end no suspension because obviously he was trying to say flag…. But the fact it was a question is just insane
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at June 23, 2025 03:59 PM (5MZNC)

Day? DAY?!

Posted by: Pride Month!!! at June 23, 2025 04:01 PM (ULPxl)

67 Men can’t have babies
......

They could steal one.
Posted by: wth at June 23, 2025 03:56 PM (UjdFS)

I had one last week. It was delicious.

Posted by: Hannibal L. at June 23, 2025 04:01 PM (dGCAG)

68 Iranian Officials Hiding Bunker:
Iran Launches 6 Missiles on US Base in Qatar; No Injuries Reported

Trump's response:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5mjsMEMmoQ

Posted by: CNN Breaking News at June 23, 2025 04:01 PM (BltCC)

69
I stumbled across this gal last night, Elica Le Bon:
https://tinyurl.com/2xwdvjwg

She's the daughter of Iranian parents who had to flee at the '79 revolution. Damned interesting to listen to.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at June 23, 2025 04:02 PM (w6EFb)

70 Rebecca Lobo announcing a WNBA game had to correct herself after she said "that's what makes America great" about difference's of opinions. Apparently the other announcer gave her the stink eye. Yet another reason not to watch the WNBA , though Lobo always seems like a nice person

Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 23, 2025 04:02 PM (pwtJC)

71 Let me count up all.tje pregnant men
Um, a
Came up with 0

Posted by: Skip at June 23, 2025 04:02 PM (+qU29)

72 BBC reporter Martine Croxall

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

Does Melania have a blonde sister?

Posted by: ShainS -- Busy Organizing 'Make Trump King' Protests at June 23, 2025 04:02 PM (IZjmS)

73 I'm not a pawn in the game of Life.

I'm a plastic hemisphere that goes PIK-POK and rolls the dice for you in the middle of the game of Trouble.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 23, 2025 04:02 PM (BjH5D)

74 So the IDF is now attacking political targets-- Basiji (militia) facilities; the notorious Evin prison.

This has nothing to do with nukes. This has to do with prepping the ground for regime change.
Posted by: mnw at June 23, 2025 03:54 PM (kd60y)

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This has everything to do with punishing the nation that has funded Hezbollah and Hamas for decades and trained the gliders for 10/7.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 23, 2025 03:55 PM (GBKbO)

Once you've made the decision that an enemy regime has to go, removing it's ability to hurt you is the sensible first step. But having done that, there's no good reason to stop before finishing, and an awful lot of reason not to let them ever recover.

Posted by: Methos at June 23, 2025 04:02 PM (Dnobf)

75 The #2 country for trans surgeries is Iran??? wtf?
We should send all our trans wannabes over there.

Can we trade them for something?

Posted by: redridinghood at June 23, 2025 04:03 PM (NpAcC)

76 protip: a transistor is not your sister
Posted by: anachronda at June 23, 2025 03:58 PM (sGtp+)

Also, it's best if you don't see your sister turn Japanese.

Trust me on this.

Posted by: BurtTC at June 23, 2025 04:03 PM (dGCAG)

77 57 When they shove the speculum up a guys ass and crank it open about 7 inches...
Posted by: rickb223
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Fisting is a thing among some gays as is inserting all sorts of objects in a place designed for egress rather than ingress.

Posted by: whig at June 23, 2025 04:03 PM (ctrM5)

78 75 The #2 country for trans surgeries is Iran??? wtf?
We should send all our trans wannabes over there.

Can we trade them for something?
Posted by: redridinghood at June 23, 2025 04:03 PM (NpAcC)

I am honestly surprised that a batshit crazy muslim theocracy would allow it…

Posted by: tubal at June 23, 2025 04:04 PM (PCK5/)

79 >>> 75 The #2 country for trans surgeries is Iran??? wtf?
We should send all our trans wannabes over there.

Can we trade them for something?
Posted by: redridinghood at June 23, 2025 04:03 PM (NpAcC)

Apparently they are "treating" being gay by applying transition surgery.

When not using tall buildings.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at June 23, 2025 04:04 PM (ULPxl)

80 They overfill the commodes at this airport. Every time I come here, my gender neutral nutsack gets soaked.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice, #ProudKing #MoreKings at June 23, 2025 04:04 PM (jNCqK)

81 But, after all, what IS a “ woman”???
Posted by: tubal

A human being that at no time in their life EVER had to think or worry about contracting testicular cancer or prostate cancer.

There's a woman on YT that does shorts about "embracing gender differences". Mostly, it's shots of women saying "anything men can do, wwe can do better", followed by either men doing things women manifestly can't do, or women trying to do them and completely screwing things up. The bits are pretty funny.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/V_ctjQrUIHA

Posted by: Archimedes at June 23, 2025 04:04 PM (Riz8t)

82 Martine Croxall, 56, was citing a study about protecting vulnerable people in hot weather and, after reading out the report's phrasing, immediately rolled her eyes and changed the wording to "women".

Do we need a study to tell us that summer is really hot???

Posted by: dantesed at June 23, 2025 04:04 PM (Oy/m2)

83 …. But the fact it was a question is just insane
Posted by: LinusVanPelt

WNBA announcer Rebecca Lobo said something like "I disagree with them, and that's fine. That's what makes America great" about a disputed foul call or something. What followed was a long pause and then "I should re-phrase that, sorry about that".

Too close to saying MAGA I guess.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at June 23, 2025 04:05 PM (Dv3i1)

84 25 Yeah it feels like the insanity of the left crested and is starting to recede a little. My fear is that they will figure out they went too far and back off, fooling people into giving them a chance again.

But not any time soon. The Democratic Party had a "drag" event fundraiser with lots of gross ugly drag queens. A local network news show hired a hideous freak drag queen to do the weather (badly). England just passed a law allowing abortion all the way up to birth.

They're still all in on the insane, but there are signs that its crubling at the edges.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 23, 2025 03:52 PM (dfIr7)

This is where the complete lack of any competent leadership is going to kill them. The few rational democrats left, and especially the donor class, realize they're dancing off a cliff here, but there's no one with the influence or reach to stop them. And thus the worst, most radical elements of the left will still drive them, because they've got all the energy and make all the noise.

Contrast to the Republican side - just watch how Trump, being in charge, is stamping his own image and views onto the party. If you don't like it, get out.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 23, 2025 04:05 PM (uWKK8)

85 74 Once you've made the decision that an enemy regime has to go, removing it's ability to hurt you is the sensible first step. But having done that, there's no good reason to stop before finishing, and an awful lot of reason not to let them ever recover.
Posted by: Methos at June 23, 2025 04:02 PM (Dnobf)

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I wouldn't be surprised if Israel had no further goal regarding this conflict with Iran than pain.

They get a lot more weapons from us (through their purchasing contracts) since 10/7. They seem to have boxed in Hamas. They only really need aircraft and missiles to do the damage they're doing.

"Fuck those guys. I'm going to keep punching until my arm is tired."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 23, 2025 04:05 PM (GBKbO)

86 74 So the IDF is now attacking political targets-- Basiji (militia) facilities; the notorious Evin prison.

This has nothing to do with nukes. This has to do with prepping the ground for regime change.
Posted by: mnw at June 23, 2025 03:54 PM (kd60y)

=======

This has everything to do with punishing the nation that has funded Hezbollah and Hamas for decades and trained the gliders for 10/7.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 23, 2025 03:55 PM (GBKbO)

Once you've made the decision that an enemy regime has to go, removing it's ability to hurt you is the sensible first step. But having done that, there's no good reason to stop before finishing, and an awful lot of reason not to let them ever recover.
Posted by: Methos
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The problem for Israel is that Iran has shown no sign of ending missiles attacks despite opportunities to do so. So, eventually, you come to the conclusion that any ceasefire will end up with the Iranians restocking and rebuilding their missile program and figuring out new terror weapons to put on them.

Posted by: whig at June 23, 2025 04:05 PM (ctrM5)

87 They/them had the rug pulled out from under themselves! They thought everyone except the Far Right Rethugligans was on their side! They saw men with boobs at the Biden White House! They was tricked! Now everyone hates them! Gaaaaaackkk!!!!!!!

Posted by: Smeagol (They/Them) at June 23, 2025 04:05 PM (qUkBO)

88 I wonder if JJ Rowling still votes Labor Party… she would vote for Firage would she?? He’s icky

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at June 23, 2025 04:05 PM (5MZNC)

89 The #2 country for trans surgeries is Iran??? wtf?
We should send all our trans wannabes over there.

Can we trade them for something?
Posted by: redridinghood at June 23, 2025 04:03 PM (NpAcC)

That's what they say.

Allegedly, there are no gay men in Iran. Allegedly.

Just trannies who either have or have not had their dingler's chopped off yet.

Posted by: BurtTC at June 23, 2025 04:05 PM (dGCAG)

90 Isn't Speculum the Capital of Karameikos?
Posted by: Boss Moss at June 23, 2025 04:00 PM (6iGXV)

***

No. It's where the Flyers play... in Philadelphia

Posted by: Life of Wryly at June 23, 2025 04:06 PM (ycs3a)

91 "We've got to do something about the View." 😂

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One-way all-hag trip to Mars?

Posted by: ShainS -- Busy Organizing 'Make Trump King' Protests at June 23, 2025 04:06 PM (IZjmS)

92 > 73 I'm not a pawn in the game of Life.

I'm a plastic hemisphere that goes PIK-POK and rolls the dice for you in the middle of the game of Trouble.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 23, 2025 04:02 PM (BjH5D)

I'm a pair of electrified forceps that causes a buzzer to go off when you touch the sides in a game of Operation.

Posted by: Tampon TIMMEH! at June 23, 2025 04:06 PM (qpyNK)

93 I am honestly surprised that a batshit crazy muslim theocracy would allow it…
Posted by: tubal at June 23, 2025 04:04 PM (PCK5/

Enforce it, you mean? It's a way out for gay men there. No kidding. Chop it off, and the law won't apply because you're a broad, now.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice, #ProudKing #MoreKings at June 23, 2025 04:06 PM (rjlYr)

94 As a millennial kid, I grew up respecting Barbara Walters, because I'd watch 20/20 after the TGIF sitcom lineup on ABC was over for news. I liked her and Hugh Downs. (They had John Stossel on sometimes, and he was awesome.) When I heard she was starting The View, I was like oh cool, more interesting news stuff, just with a panel of ladies. Sounds good.

First episode ever that I watched, I kid you not, they were MARRYING DOGS ON THE SHOW. It absolutely horrified me. And when I saw she turned the show into a woke coffee tawk gabfest, I lost all respect for her.

Posted by: LizLem at June 23, 2025 04:06 PM (Eng1Z)

95 The US may have said that we're not going to do Regime Change in Iran, but that's no reason we can't give a big wink and a high five to Israel for trying it.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 23, 2025 04:06 PM (uWKK8)

96 > One-way all-hag trip to Mars?
Posted by: ShainS -- Busy Organizing 'Make Trump King' Protests at June 23, 2025 04:06 PM (IZjmS)

Not on your life. I'm going to Mars to get away from bullshit like that.

Posted by: Elon Musk at June 23, 2025 04:06 PM (qpyNK)

97 >>> 91 "We've got to do something about the View." 😂

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One-way all-hag trip to Mars?
Posted by: ShainS -- Busy Organizing 'Make Trump King' Protests at June 23, 2025 04:06 PM (IZjmS)

Wouldn't Venus be more appropriate?

Posted by: totes not Elon Musk at June 23, 2025 04:06 PM (ULPxl)

98 Hacking off a woman's breasts as punishment for not putting out for the Austere Religious Scholars hardly qualifies as "Trans Surgery". Sawing off a dude's genitalia for being gay is not "Trans Surgery".

Not sayin' that's what's up over there, just... sayin'.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 23, 2025 04:07 PM (BjH5D)

99 Supposedly Roseanne was going to host an actual counter to the View in their timeslot, but conservative. Did anything ever happen with that?

Fox News is meh, but I do appreciate they took the idea of the View — news of the day but with a token liberal and in the evenings — and it's a ratings powerhouse for them.

Posted by: LizLem at June 23, 2025 04:07 PM (Eng1Z)

100 Bill Maher, the liberal Trump hater, watched his side get spanked in November. He watched Tom Hanks and Clooney slink off to Europe like beaten dogs. Now he's trying to figure out how to fix the mess that the liberals and democrats created for themselves. He wants us to forget that democrats are the USA hating, pervert loving that they are. We're not buying it.

Posted by: nerdygirl at June 23, 2025 04:07 PM (0Htd1)

101 88 I wonder if JJ Rowling still votes Labor Party… she would vote for Firage would she?? He’s icky
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at June 23, 2025 04:05 PM (5MZNC)

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She will vote Labour forever because her greatest issue is replacing white rural Britons with Syrian migrants.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 23, 2025 04:07 PM (GBKbO)

102 93 I am honestly surprised that a batshit crazy muslim theocracy would allow it…
Posted by: tubal at June 23, 2025 04:04 PM (PCK5/

Enforce it, you mean? It's a way out for gay men there. No kidding. Chop it off, and the law won't apply because you're a broad, now.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice, #ProudKing #MoreKings at June 23, 2025 04:06 PM (rjlYr)

What a hellhole… they need some Old Testament Smiting.

Posted by: tubal at June 23, 2025 04:07 PM (PCK5/)

103 I am honestly surprised that a batshit crazy muslim theocracy would allow it…
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It's forced on gays. No doubt to punish them considering the horror that is post surgical trans, but sold as humane given their condition of being gay. Plus they can say there are no gays in Iran.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at June 23, 2025 04:07 PM (Dv3i1)

104 The problem for Israel is that Iran has shown no sign of ending missiles attacks despite opportunities to do so. So, eventually, you come to the conclusion that any ceasefire will end up with the Iranians restocking and rebuilding their missile program and figuring out new terror weapons to put on them.
Posted by: whig at June 23, 2025 04:05 PM (ctrM5)

That's not the only problem.

The other problem is... if you don't really have the means of defeating another nation in war, what then?

Posted by: BurtTC at June 23, 2025 04:07 PM (dGCAG)

105 48

Hi, Doc

If Israel just wanted to "punish the nation which supported Hamas," etc., it would turn off the lights; destroy the ports, etc.

Instead, I think Israel is attempting to lay the groundwork for regime change (I know I'm repeating myself), and that the really heavy lifting is perhaps/probably being done by the Mossad.

This is not original thinking on my part. There's a lot of speculation in the Israeli press about it.

Posted by: mnw at June 23, 2025 04:07 PM (kd60y)

106 I was really bad at Operation.

Posted by: Boss Moss at June 23, 2025 04:08 PM (6iGXV)

107 Since we are talking about the UK, MI6 got a new boss! It's ~~Judith Dench Blaise Metreweli !~~

Posted by: runner at June 23, 2025 04:08 PM (g47mK)

108 My trekking pole has transitioned into a baseball bat with nails in it.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at June 23, 2025 04:08 PM (/U5Yz)

109 > A human being that at no time in their life EVER had to think or worry about contracting testicular cancer or prostate cancer.

I told my wife I was worried about cancer because of my family history. My wonderful wife bought some cancer insurance to help me worry less. I later got cancer, and that insurance policy was amazing. Every time I had a surgery, big or small, they cut me a check. Every time I had to get chemo, they cut me a check. Cancer sucked, but that was great.

Posted by: bonhomme at June 23, 2025 04:08 PM (lIio7)

110 I am honestly surprised that a batshit crazy muslim theocracy would allow it…
Posted by: tubal

Well it’s like the mullahs say
Take the manly bits away
Then it’s not gay.

For when they run out of goats I mean.

Posted by: haffhowershower at June 23, 2025 04:08 PM (yC5D1)

111 > 76 protip: a transistor is not your sister
Posted by: anachronda at June 23, 2025 03:58 PM (sGtp+)

And a resistor doesn't refer to getting a new sister when something has happened to the first one.

Posted by: Elon Musk at June 23, 2025 04:08 PM (qpyNK)

112 Bill Maher, the liberal Trump hater, watched his side get spanked in November. He watched Tom Hanks and Clooney slink off to Europe like beaten dogs. Now he's trying to figure out how to fix the mess that the liberals and democrats created for themselves. He wants us to forget that democrats are the USA hating, pervert loving that they are. We're not buying it.

To his credit, he has been banging the drum a LOT about how the craziness is going to destroy the Dems, and they need to knock it off.

Posted by: Archimedes at June 23, 2025 04:09 PM (Riz8t)

113 ok, that was a fail! Blaise Metreweli.

Posted by: runner at June 23, 2025 04:09 PM (g47mK)

114 If a transgender man has an operation to become kinda female and still has the boys below, and it/they/them is raped by a Transgender female that is kinda a male with fake nuts...............

So, Justice Ketanji Brown Is It Rape????

Posted by: Allota Fagina at June 23, 2025 04:09 PM (BltCC)

115
The pendulum always swings back. Sometimes very quickly and violently or sometimes slowly with a whimper, but it always swings back.
Posted by: Mister Scott

But doesn't it swing back the other way again?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 23, 2025 04:09 PM (63Dwl)

116 112 To his credit, he has been banging the drum a LOT about how the craziness is going to destroy the Dems, and they need to knock it off.
Posted by: Archimedes at June 23, 2025 04:09 PM (Riz8t)

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Which means he's fine with the craziness in principle but only wishes that they'd tone it down to regain power.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 23, 2025 04:09 PM (GBKbO)

117 78 75 The #2 country for trans surgeries is Iran??? wtf?
We should send all our trans wannabes over there.

Can we trade them for something?
Posted by: redridinghood at June 23, 2025 04:03 PM (NpAcC)

I am honestly surprised that a batshit crazy muslim theocracy would allow it…
Posted by: tubal
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Iranian clerics also allow temporary 'marriages' in order to prevent fornication. So vacay marriages occur.

Posted by: whig at June 23, 2025 04:09 PM (ctrM5)

118 Pendulums are the pits.

Posted by: Boss Moss at June 23, 2025 04:10 PM (6iGXV)

119 I can't let this pass from the previous thread without a snort from me.

399 One man's meat is another man's poi, son.
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at June 23, 2025 03:27 PM

*snort*

Posted by: toby928 at June 23, 2025 04:10 PM (jc0TO)

120 Norms Restored!

Side note: just pulled a lonestar tick off my dog. Ticks creep me out.

Posted by: A pawn in game of life. at June 23, 2025 04:10 PM (Ef4Ak)

121 And a resistor doesn't refer to getting a new sister when something has happened to the first one.
Posted by: Elon Musk at June 23, 2025 04:08 PM (qpyNK)

Speaking of, is it ok to buy a Tesla now, or are we still burning them?

Posted by: BurtTC at June 23, 2025 04:11 PM (dGCAG)

122 >> 103 I am honestly surprised that a batshit crazy muslim theocracy would allow it…

We talking about the guy that’s about to win the Dem nomination for NYC mayor?

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at June 23, 2025 04:11 PM (5MZNC)

123 117 78 75 The #2 country for trans surgeries is Iran???

Another reason to level the place........... Next please.........

Posted by: Allota Fagina at June 23, 2025 04:11 PM (BltCC)

124 The #2 country for trans surgeries is Iran??? wtf?
We should send all our trans wannabes over there.

Can we trade them for something?
Posted by: redridinghood at June 23, 2025 04:03 PM (NpAcC)

I am honestly surprised that a batshit crazy muslim theocracy would allow it…
Posted by: tubal at June 23, 2025 04:04 PM (PCK5/)

They're not exactly "voluntary."

Posted by: Dr. T at June 23, 2025 04:11 PM (jGGMD)

125 55 This is no time for speculuming, people….

speculume makes my privates smell nice

Posted by: general annoyance at June 23, 2025 04:11 PM (sGtp+)

126 Which means he's fine with the craziness in principle but only wishes that they'd tone it down to regain power.

No, he also is quick to point out when positions and policies are just stupid and out of touch with reality. Sure, he wants the Dems to win, but he wants the sane Dems to win. I leave it as an exercise to the reader what constitutes a sane Dem.

Posted by: Archimedes at June 23, 2025 04:11 PM (Riz8t)

127 >>I'm a pair of electrified forceps that causes a buzzer to go off when you touch the sides in a game of Operation.

Pretty sure that is set off by a ground loop and not electrified forceps.

Posted by: garrett at June 23, 2025 04:11 PM (MmNOR)

128 I can go either way on pendulums.

Posted by: dantesed at June 23, 2025 04:11 PM (Oy/m2)

129 > To his credit, he has been banging the drum a LOT about how the craziness is going to destroy the Dems, and they need to knock it off.

For every one issue he gets right, there are at least three he's still a doctrinaire leftist idiot on. He's still 100% invested in the idea that 1/6 was a real coup attempt directed by Trump personally.

Posted by: bonhomme at June 23, 2025 04:11 PM (lIio7)

130 The regime has to go. Otherwise we'll just have to keep mowing the lawn at regular intervals.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at June 23, 2025 04:12 PM (ITkJX)

131 "Intensely relaxed"?
England can't do English very well.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at June 23, 2025 04:12 PM (xcxpd)

132 >>Side note: just pulled a lonestar tick off my dog. Ticks creep me out.

Coat them in oil and they let go.

Posted by: garrett at June 23, 2025 04:12 PM (MmNOR)

133 118 Pendulums are the pits.

we all know that african swallows aren't migratory, but are they pendulatory?

Posted by: enquiring minds want to know at June 23, 2025 04:12 PM (sGtp+)

134 126 Which means he's fine with the craziness in principle but only wishes that they'd tone it down to regain power.

No, he also is quick to point out when positions and policies are just stupid and out of touch with reality. Sure, he wants the Dems to win, but he wants the sane Dems to win. I leave it as an exercise to the reader what constitutes a sane Dem.
Posted by: Archimedes at June 23, 2025 04:11 PM (Riz8t)

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Except he didn't call this shit out when his party was in power.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 23, 2025 04:13 PM (GBKbO)

135 112 Bill Maher, the liberal Trump hater, watched his side get spanked in November. He watched Tom Hanks and Clooney slink off to Europe like beaten dogs. Now he's trying to figure out how to fix the mess that the liberals and democrats created for themselves. He wants us to forget that democrats are the USA hating, pervert loving that they are. We're not buying it.

To his credit, he has been banging the drum a LOT about how the craziness is going to destroy the Dems, and they need to knock it off.
Posted by: Archimedes
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Maher is an old style libertine pervert liberal in a party where white males with any testosterone have been neutered and cancelled. Even merely hinting like Hogg did that young guys want to have fun and get laid is controversial in that feminized party.

So in part, I think Maher should be viewed as like old serpent head (Carville) as pining for the old days when Dems were the 'cool' anything goes coalition rather than the humorless pinched faced Puritans they have become.

Posted by: whig at June 23, 2025 04:13 PM (ctrM5)

136 "Coat them in oil and they let go."

Too late cleansed the dog with fire.

Posted by: A pawn in game of life. at June 23, 2025 04:13 PM (Ef4Ak)

137 4 Good looking 56 year old presenter...errr, woman!...there
Posted by: Huck Follywood at June 23, 2025 03:49 PM (K+Cdu)
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She must be seven times stronger than Viagra.

Posted by: Eeyore at June 23, 2025 04:13 PM (od0dV)

138 Truly, these are incredibly stupid, insane times with this sort of shit going on. Future historians will look back at the first three decades of the 21st century and wonder what the fuck was wrong with us.

Assuming there's still an "us" in the future.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 23, 2025 04:13 PM (Q4IgG)

139 Hey. Can y'all take a minute to pray for LittleBro928. His appendix burst last night and he had to have emergency surgery. Seems to be stable at the moment but an intercession with the Great Physician would be much appreciated.

Posted by: toby928 at June 23, 2025 04:14 PM (jc0TO)

140 Except he didn't call this shit out when his party was in power.

Actually, he did. Not all of it, but the trans stuff and the Joo hate in particular came in for some heavy criticism.

Posted by: Archimedes at June 23, 2025 04:14 PM (Riz8t)

141 Posted by: mnw at June 23, 2025 04:07 PM (kd60y)

I've seen the same speculation, and Pahlavi has certainly made some friendly noises lately concerning the Israelis.

The big question is, does Israel see regime change as a real possibility? I'm not sure anyone has an answer to that yet.

Posted by: Dr. T at June 23, 2025 04:14 PM (jGGMD)

142 135

So in part, I think Maher should be viewed as like old serpent head (Carville) as pining for the old days when Dems were the 'cool' anything goes coalition rather than the humorless pinched faced Puritans they have become.
Posted by: whig at June 23, 2025 04:13 PM (ctrM5)

Nailed it… I am sure he LOVED Clinton…

Posted by: tubal at June 23, 2025 04:14 PM (PCK5/)

143 140 Except he didn't call this shit out when his party was in power.

Actually, he did. Not all of it, but the trans stuff and the Joo hate in particular came in for some heavy criticism.
Posted by: Archimedes at June 23, 2025 04:14 PM (Riz8t)

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But only ever as a warning that the party would lose the next election.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 23, 2025 04:14 PM (GBKbO)

144 For every one issue he gets right, there are at least three he's still a doctrinaire leftist idiot on. He's still 100% invested in the idea that 1/6 was a real coup attempt directed by Trump personally.
Posted by: bonhomme
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It's an act. If he was true blue, he never would have had a private dinner with Trump recently.

He ain't a thinker--more of a celeb pervert that does not want to be cancelled.

Posted by: whig at June 23, 2025 04:14 PM (ctrM5)

145 I leave it as an exercise to the reader what constitutes a sane Dem.
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Pretty sure in today's Dem party, unless they've been in a coma for about 60 years, there are exactly zero.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at June 23, 2025 04:14 PM (Dv3i1)

146 >>> 139 Hey. Can y'all take a minute to pray for LittleBro928. His appendix burst last night and he had to have emergency surgery. Seems to be stable at the moment but an intercession with the Great Physician would be much appreciated.
Posted by: toby928 at June 23, 2025 04:14 PM (jc0TO)

Certainly.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at June 23, 2025 04:15 PM (ULPxl)

147 75 The #2 country for trans surgeries is Iran??? wtf?
We should send all our trans wannabes over there.

Can we trade them for something?
Posted by: redridinghood at June 23, 2025 04:03 PM (NpAcC)

I am honestly surprised that a batshit crazy muslim theocracy would allow it…
Posted by: tubal at June 23, 2025 04:04 PM (PCK5/)

Its more that they want to cut up the homosexual men and maybe women too. "You wanna play woman, we will make you a woman bud"

Posted by: Oldcat at June 23, 2025 04:15 PM (8avO+)

148 The #2 country for trans surgeries is Iran??? wtf?
We should send all our trans wannabes over there.

Can we trade them for something?
Posted by: redridinghood at June 23, 2025 04:03 PM (NpAcC)

I am honestly surprised that a batshit crazy muslim theocracy would allow it…
Posted by: tubal at June 23, 2025 04:04 PM (PCK5/)

They're not exactly "voluntary."
Posted by: Dr. T at June 23, 2025 04:11 PM (jGGMD)

It just means they have better aim with their rubber bullets. They get both balls at once.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at June 23, 2025 04:15 PM (S/Y4j)

149 Hey. Can y'all take a minute to pray for LittleBro928. His appendix burst last night and he had to have emergency surgery. Seems to be stable at the moment but an intercession with the Great Physician would be much appreciated.
Posted by: toby928

Prayers up. Hang in there LittleBro928! God's got this.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 23, 2025 04:15 PM (5WDkb)

150 So, Justice Brown.............. What do you classify yourself ??

Male, Female, Non-Binary, non of the above, all of the above, or I do not know ????

Posted by: Allota Fagina at June 23, 2025 04:15 PM (BltCC)

151 Nailed it… I am sure he LOVED Clinton…
Posted by: tubal
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Abortions, blowjobs, and pulling chicks is exactly the thing that would get Maher all hot and bothered. Carville longs for those days too as he got checks to clean up Clinton's messes.

Posted by: whig at June 23, 2025 04:16 PM (ctrM5)

152 23 What does that presenter think she, some kind of *Baptist*?
Posted by: Crusader at June 23, 2025 03:52 PM (TN0g+)
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Obviously not Church of England.

Posted by: Eeyore at June 23, 2025 04:16 PM (od0dV)

153 Actually, he did. Not all of it, but the trans stuff and the Joo hate in particular came in for some heavy criticism.
Posted by: Archimedes at June 23, 2025 04:14 PM (Riz8t)

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But only ever as a warning that the party would lose the next election.

No. Again, lots of times he was just angry with people who were clearly pushing positions that weren't in touch with reality.

Posted by: Archimedes at June 23, 2025 04:16 PM (Riz8t)

154 I leave it as an exercise to the reader what constitutes a sane Dem.

I'm old enough to remember Sam Nunn.

Posted by: dantesed at June 23, 2025 04:16 PM (Oy/m2)

155 140 Except he didn't call this shit out when his party was in power.

Actually, he did. Not all of it, but the trans stuff and the Joo hate in particular came in for some heavy criticism.
Posted by: Archimedes at June 23, 2025 04:14 PM (Riz8t)

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But only ever as a warning that the party would lose the next election.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 23, 2025 04:14 PM (GBKbO)

Maher isn't a big ideologue but can't stray too far from the reservation.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 23, 2025 04:17 PM (8avO+)

156 Can y'all take a minute to pray for LittleBro928. His appendix burst last night and he had to have emergency surgery. Seems to be stable at the moment but an intercession with the Great Physician would be much appreciated.
Posted by: toby928
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Done. Hang in there toby928 for your bro.

Posted by: whig at June 23, 2025 04:17 PM (ctrM5)

157 This has nothing to do with nukes. This has to do with prepping the ground for regime change.
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Sounds good. Carry on.

Posted by: Crusader at June 23, 2025 04:17 PM (TN0g+)

158 I won't say LittleBro is vital to national security, but he is important to it, so it's not just personal.

Posted by: toby928 at June 23, 2025 04:17 PM (jc0TO)

159 Oooooh, I like this. Here's a great video demonstrating an interesting technique to handle "protestors" who stand right against your front bumper, and walk with you as you try to shake them off.

http://tiny.cc/jgsn001

This has far better legal implications than simply running them over. Running them over has a time and a place, of course, but it's good to have this trick in your back pocket for when it's not that time or place.

Posted by: bonhomme at June 23, 2025 04:17 PM (lIio7)

160 "How many fingers am I holding up, Winston?" | 1984

Posted by: Ignoramus at June 23, 2025 04:17 PM (Gqoy+)

161 Obviously not Church of England.
Posted by: Eeyore at June 23, 2025 04:16 PM (od0dV)

Those goofballs think the Bible says that babies come from storks.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 23, 2025 04:17 PM (BjH5D)

162 I leave it as an exercise to the reader what constitutes a sane Dem.

I'm old enough to remember Sam Nunn.
Posted by: dantesed at June 23, 2025 04:16 PM (Oy/m2)

That was when radical dems were in the Klan.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 23, 2025 04:17 PM (8avO+)

163 One of the top destination for gender reassignment is Turkey. Another muslim country, and a great friend of Iran.

Posted by: runner at June 23, 2025 04:17 PM (g47mK)

164 I've seen the same speculation, and Pahlavi has certainly made some friendly noises lately concerning the Israelis.

The big question is, does Israel see regime change as a real possibility? I'm not sure anyone has an answer to that yet.
Posted by: Dr. T

It sounds like everyone is tired of the hard line religious extremism, except for the mullahs.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 23, 2025 04:17 PM (5WDkb)

165 >>> She will vote Labour forever because her greatest issue is replacing white rural Britons with Syrian migrants.

Well, the middle east DOES believe a man is a man and a women is a woman...they just want to take away all women's rights and make them wear a burqua. No biggie.

A Venn Diagram of Rowling's beliefs on women's biology and rights, and who it overlaps with (the right vs the left vs radical islam), would be amusing.

Posted by: LizLem at June 23, 2025 04:18 PM (Eng1Z)

166 Who's taller, Jerry Nadler or Bill Maher?

Posted by: Maj. Healey at June 23, 2025 04:18 PM (/U5Yz)

167 At this point, Marianne Williamson seems like a sober, circumspect Democrat. That's how crazy the spokespersyns for that party have become.

I don't think Maher disagrees with much of this insanity deep down. He'd just like people to exercise restraint so that Dems don't have to defend this nonsense. He yearns for the days in which the uniparty was quietly forcing this on everyone via the administrative state.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at June 23, 2025 04:18 PM (4/BuS)

168 Prayers up for your brother, Toby.

Posted by: bonhomme at June 23, 2025 04:18 PM (lIio7)

169 The #2 country for trans surgeries is Iran??? wtf?
We should send all our trans wannabes over there.

Can we trade them for something?
Posted by: redridinghood at June 23, 2025 04:03 PM (NpAcC)

I am honestly surprised that a batshit crazy muslim theocracy would allow it…
Posted by: tubal at June 23, 2025 04:04 PM (PCK5/)

The way I understand it is that if a gay guy " becomes a woman", now he's not gay anymore and won't get thrown off of a tall building.

Posted by: Josephistan at June 23, 2025 04:18 PM (CZRJo)

170 45 “intensely relaxed”

Hmmmmm

Stiffly flexible
Slenderly fat
America-first GOP

Posted by: haffhowershower at June 23, 2025 03:57 PM (yC5D1)

Jumbo shrimp.
Military Intelligence.
Etc.

Posted by: tcn in AK at June 23, 2025 04:18 PM (a4NoL)

171 Abortions, blowjobs, and pulling chicks is exactly the thing that would get Maher all hot and bothered. Carville longs for those days too as he got checks to clean up Clinton's messes.
Posted by: whig at June 23, 2025 04:16 PM (ctrM5)

As far as I know, Carville and Mary Matalin are still married.

Not sure either of them ever believed a word that came out of their mouths. Or maybe one of them does and the other doesn't. They're not in the business of expressing what they believe. They're in the business of expressing what they're paid to express.

Posted by: BurtTC at June 23, 2025 04:18 PM (dGCAG)

172 Iran's retaliation is much like Jerking Off during a Hurricane and the spouge blowing back into your face........

Posted by: Allota Fagina at June 23, 2025 04:18 PM (BltCC)

173 LittleBro928 guts have been hurting since Friday but he just dismissed it until it became unbearable last night.

Sometimes guys are just too tough for their own good.

Posted by: toby928 at June 23, 2025 04:19 PM (jc0TO)

174 If Israel just wanted to "punish the nation which supported Hamas," etc., it would turn off the lights; destroy the ports, etc.

Let's keep in mind, too, that money is not fungible.

Posted by: Bibi Netanyahu at June 23, 2025 04:19 PM (G7MqD)

175 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 23, 2025 04:20 PM (Zz0t1)

176 Bill Maher is not your friend.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 23, 2025 04:20 PM (Zz0t1)

177 167 At this point, Marianne Williamson seems like a sober, circumspect Democrat. That's how crazy the spokespersyns for that party have become.

My spell didn't work on her.

Posted by: Christine O'Donnell - Republican at June 23, 2025 04:20 PM (/U5Yz)

178 They say somewhere between 60% and 85% of the Iranian citizenry want regime change. Seems it should happen.

But apparently as in China and many places, totalitarians have figured out that brutal force and disappearing people that speak up is pretty effective.

Posted by: illiniwek at June 23, 2025 04:20 PM (vbXSk)

179 Done toby

Posted by: ... at June 23, 2025 04:21 PM (E0p3T)

180
Remember the Iranian uprising a while back, and how Barky sided with the mullahs?

Only the Iranian people can do that. Now, if they do start something, I hope Trump will help and not hinder. That doesn't mean boots on the ground shit, it means not hindering it like Barky did.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at June 23, 2025 04:21 PM (w6EFb)

181 Not sure either of them ever believed a word that came out of their mouths. Or maybe one of them does and the other doesn't. They're not in the business of expressing what they believe. They're in the business of expressing what they're paid to express.
Posted by: BurtTC at June 23, 2025 04:18 PM (dGCAG)

Yep, uniparty to the core. Not an ounce of patriotism or morals in either.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 23, 2025 04:21 PM (8avO+)

182 The big question is, does Israel see regime change as a real possibility? I'm not sure anyone has an answer to that yet.
Posted by: Dr. T
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That sort of thing depends on a preference cascade which are always difficult to predict in advance but seem obvious after the fact.

Fair to say though that any love toward the regime from ordinary folks is gone but willingness of ordinary people to stand up and potentially get whacked by the regime's butt boys may not be present right now.

Waves of of massive nationwide protests in 2018 and again in 2022 as well as the Obama era Green Revolution in Iran have simply made the regime behave worse.

Posted by: whig at June 23, 2025 04:21 PM (ctrM5)

183 Thanks guys. The prayers of the Hoard seem to often be heard by the Big Guy.

Oddly enough.

Posted by: toby928 at June 23, 2025 04:21 PM (jc0TO)

184 Bwahahahaha. Now children, settle down, or there will be spankings.

BREAKING

President Trump says he hopes the Islamic Republic of Iran has “gotten it all out of their system,” and will not attack US bases and personnel in response to the bombing of nuclear sites.

He also thanks the Islamic Republic for giving advance noticed (something reporters say was done with Qatar).

https://is.gd/KeXnNc

Posted by: Archimedes at June 23, 2025 04:22 PM (Riz8t)

185 New Mets reliever, Richard Lovelady, has requested to go by his nickname, Dickie.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 23, 2025 04:22 PM (5WDkb)

186 177 167 At this point, Marianne Williamson seems like a sober, circumspect Democrat. That's how crazy the spokespersyns for that party have become.

My spell didn't work on her.
Posted by: Christine O'Donnell - Republican at June 23, 2025 04:20 PM (/U5Yz)

Of course not. Marianne's healing crystals protecter her from Christine's feeble witchcraft.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at June 23, 2025 04:22 PM (4/BuS)

187
According to Elica Le Bon I linked above, it's 80% of the Iranian inside Iran that are against the mullah tyranny. If you add in the "diaspora" she calls it, those who had to feel after '79, it's higher.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at June 23, 2025 04:22 PM (w6EFb)

188 But apparently as in China and many places, totalitarians have figured out that brutal force and disappearing people that speak up is pretty effective.
Posted by: illiniwek
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Until your guards lay down their arms and you get a Romanian Christmas. Repression works until it doesn't and that is damned hard to predict in advance.

Posted by: whig at June 23, 2025 04:22 PM (ctrM5)

189 @139 prayers up for Little Bro. Burst appendix can be a nasty happening

Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 23, 2025 04:23 PM (pwtJC)

190 Telegram for Mongo!!!

Posted by: eleven at June 23, 2025 04:23 PM (fV+MH)

191 I would guess that the Iranian people are completely disarmed..

Posted by: tubal at June 23, 2025 04:23 PM (PCK5/)

192 Living under current Iranian regime is like living under Stalin, Beria and Ezhov. Stalin had persian/Iranian roots - he was Ossetian, not really Georgian. Ossetians are indigenous Iranians.

Posted by: runner at June 23, 2025 04:23 PM (g47mK)

193 President Trump says he hopes the Islamic Republic of Iran has “gotten it all out of their system,” and will not attack US bases and personnel in response to the bombing of nuclear sites.

He also thanks the Islamic Republic for giving advance noticed (something reporters say was done with Qatar).

https://is.gd/KeXnNc
Posted by: Archimedes at June 23, 2025 04:22 PM (Riz8t)

Haaaaaaaahahahahha, wow, even I didn't think Trump was that much of a dick.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 23, 2025 04:23 PM (BjH5D)

194 >>Only the Iranian people can do that. Now, if they do start something, I hope Trump will help and not hinder. That doesn't mean boots on the ground shit, it means not hindering it like Barky did.

I have read several sources that claim Israel asked the opposition in Iran to hold off until the Israelis are done with their bombing campaign against the Regime/IRGC.
I expect that once the Israelis finish up with the IRGC and Targeted Hits on the Regime Leaders, the Israelis will go after the known Islamic Police HQs and then give the nod to the Iranian Opposition that it is safe to take to the streets.

Posted by: garrett at June 23, 2025 04:24 PM (MmNOR)

195 106 I was really bad at Operation.
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Removing funny bones is hard.

Posted by: pudinhead at June 23, 2025 04:24 PM (FmapG)

196 If Israel just wanted to "punish the nation which supported Hamas," etc., it would turn off the lights; destroy the ports, etc.
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Israel is maybe remembering Cyrus the Great of Persia and repaying the favor to today's Persians for what Cyrus did for the Jews 2500 years ago.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at June 23, 2025 04:24 PM (Dv3i1)

197 Damn, this timeline is weird.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 23, 2025 04:24 PM (BjH5D)

198
Sometimes guys are just too tough for their own good.

Posted by: toby928 at June 23, 2025 04:19 PM (jc0TO)

Praying for your brother. Hope he has no complications and a quick recovery.

Posted by: moki at June 23, 2025 04:24 PM (wLjpr)

199 Ooops.

Sorry. I fd it up.

Happy post Juneteenth Monday, anyways.

Posted by: eleven at June 23, 2025 04:24 PM (fV+MH)

200 176 Bill Maher is not your friend.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 23, 2025 04:20 PM (Zz0t1)

Bill Maher is no one's friend. In fact, if he was an ice cream flavor, he'd be 'pralines & dick'...

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at June 23, 2025 04:25 PM (xcxpd)

201 According to Elica Le Bon I linked above, it's 80% of the Iranian inside Iran that are against the mullah tyranny. If you add in the "diaspora" she calls it, those who had to feel after '79, it's higher.

I've mentioned here before that after the revolution, I once worked with an Iranian who was pretty clearly gay. He was a really nice guy. I wonder if he's still alive. Regardless, I'm sure he was no fan of the mullahs.

Posted by: Archimedes at June 23, 2025 04:25 PM (Riz8t)

202 Burst appendix can be a nasty happening
Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 23, 2025 04:23 PM

A hundred years ago he would have just died. And that is an era with planes and automobiles, not some medieval time.

I very much appreciate what medical science, the REAL Medical Science, has done for us.

Posted by: toby928 at June 23, 2025 04:25 PM (jc0TO)

203 IRGC is all that is propping up the regime.

Posted by: steevy at June 23, 2025 04:25 PM (YwEeS)

204 Damn, my typos are getting ridiculous, must be the heat dome over here.

And that reminds me, Mrs. Duke (Energy) sent out a warning begging us not to conserve power cause her grid is stressed. Thanks, idiot Greenies. We get a typical little heat wave and it's a crisis.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at June 23, 2025 04:25 PM (w6EFb)

205 Waves of of massive nationwide protests in 2018 and again in 2022 as well as the Obama era Green Revolution in Iran have simply made the regime behave worse.
=
Well, protests, strikes etc. Don't have any impact. Direct permanent problem elimination works every time. Don't ask me how I know.

Posted by: Ceausescu is it just me or is it really hot??? at June 23, 2025 04:26 PM (tM/2C)

206 As far as I know, Carville and Mary Matalin are still married.

Not sure either of them ever believed a word that came out of their mouths. Or maybe one of them does and the other doesn't. They're not in the business of expressing what they believe. They're in the business of expressing what they're paid to express.
Posted by: BurtTC

Back in the heyday of the Uniparty, such things were common and this was true through the Bush years. That is why so many of those Bush or even some Reagan former appointees have embraced the Dems hellishness against Trump to an extraordinary level.

He is their SMOD of their uniparty bullshit system and the dinosaurs in both parties like Pelosi and McConnell know it.

Posted by: whig at June 23, 2025 04:26 PM (ctrM5)

207 He is their SMOD of their uniparty bullshit system and the dinosaurs in both parties like Pelosi and McConnell know it.
Posted by: whig at June 23, 2025 04:26 PM (ctrM5)

George and Kellyanne Conway have joined the chat...

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at June 23, 2025 04:27 PM (PiwSw)

208 IRGC is all that is propping up the regime.

Posted by: steevy

Yup. When enough of them decide that they don't want their neighbors remembering what they did during the reign of the ayatollahs, it'll be all over for the Islamic Republic.

Posted by: Archimedes at June 23, 2025 04:27 PM (Riz8t)

209 Thanks guys. The prayers of the Hoard seem to often be heard by the Big Guy.

Oddly enough.
Posted by: toby928 at June 23, 2025 04:21 PM (jc0TO)

They usually are. And there are those of us that are blessed because of it.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 23, 2025 04:27 PM (Zz0t1)

210 "We've got to do something about the View."

Well, they seem to be food motivated, so I'm thinking a large scale box trap. We prop up one end of a shipping container with a big stick tied with a rope. Then we put something tasty under the shipping container and when they go for it, we yank the rope and the container falls, solving the problem.

Now I know what you're thinking, You forgot to cut the bottom out of the container.

Did I?

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at June 23, 2025 04:27 PM (pIfcn)

211 Israel is maybe remembering Cyrus the Great of Persia and repaying the favor to today's Persians for what Cyrus did for the Jews 2500 years ago.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at June 23, 2025 04:24 PM (Dv3i1)

Cyrus was just tired of Chicken Soup and Motza every day for meals.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 23, 2025 04:27 PM (8avO+)

212 "Bill Maher is no one's friend. In fact, if he was an ice cream flavor, he'd be 'pralines & dick'...
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo"

With pubes.

Posted by: eleven at June 23, 2025 04:27 PM (fV+MH)

213 So why hasn't the US or Israel been providing an Iranian insurgency with weapons?

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at June 23, 2025 04:28 PM (O9qN1)

214 What kind of an idiot is still watching The BBC?

Posted by: Estelle Costanza at June 23, 2025 04:28 PM (HgFW6)

215 207

George and Kellyanne Conway have joined the chat...
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at June 23, 2025 04:27 PM (PiwSw)

Tell me Trump did not give Kellyanne a job… lie to me if you must..

Posted by: tubal at June 23, 2025 04:28 PM (PCK5/)

216 George and Kellyanne Conway have joined the chat...
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at June 23, 2025 04:27 PM (PiwSw)

Tell me Trump did not give Kellyanne a job… lie to me if you must..
Posted by: tubal at June 23, 2025 04:28 PM (PCK5/)

Those two split up years ago, didn't they?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 23, 2025 04:29 PM (BjH5D)

217 Any guesses on what the Conway daughter thinks?

Most here would be accurate I think.

Posted by: A pawn in game of life. at June 23, 2025 04:29 PM (Ef4Ak)

218 Apparently they are "treating" being gay by applying transition surgery.

When not using tall buildings.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket

Or maybe it's so that gay mullahs can marry a tranny and pretend that they aren't gay.

Posted by: nerdygirl at June 23, 2025 04:29 PM (0Htd1)

219 This is how you reel the fish in, you have to give them some slack every once in a while.

Posted by: PG at June 23, 2025 04:29 PM (afPT4)

220 I was not optimistic that the public opinion on this topic was going to turn this quickly.

I don't have actual data and I don't care enough to dig some up but maybe, just maybe, except for a few hardcores who built their self image on it, delusional social trends evaporate faster than they build? I seem to recall that the Satanic Preschool panic went away more-or-less overnight. After months of hysteria, people stopped talking about COVID pretty quickly. Historically, how long after the famous Salem trials did the witch panic continue? Probably not very long or there would have been more trials. Say, has anybody heard anything about Tay-Tay lately?

Posted by: Oddbob at June 23, 2025 04:29 PM (/y8xj)

221 So why hasn't the US or Israel been providing an Iranian insurgency with weapons?
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at June 23, 2025 04:28 PM (O9qN1)

Because there isn't one yet.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 23, 2025 04:30 PM (8avO+)

222 I remember a few years ago the FNM was crowing that science had advanced so far that men could get pregnant.

And...it was a woman. Yes, yes a tranny, but one of those low effort trannies that still have all her original parts and just dressed like a guy.

And in the article she mentioned she had been so surprised to get pregnant as a man. Of course her boyfriend had standard sexual intercourse with her so why the hell she's be surprised her eggs didn't care if she called herself a man is a testimony to what stupid times we live in.

Posted by: 18-1 at June 23, 2025 04:30 PM (t0Rmr)

223 214 What kind of an idiot is still watching The BBC?
Posted by: Estelle Costanza at June 23, 2025 04:28 PM (HgFW6)

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They don't even have Bake Off anymore.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 23, 2025 04:30 PM (GBKbO)

224 >>> Maher is an old style libertine pervert liberal in a party where white males with any testosterone have been neutered and cancelled. Even merely hinting like Hogg did that young guys want to have fun and get laid is controversial in that feminized party.

Brett Cooper had a good take recently on why the feminists are trying to cancel Sabrina Carpenter (kneeling in front of a guy while he holds her hair on her new album cover, implying giving him a BJ) and Sydney Sweeney (putting drops of her bathwater into soap made by Dr. Squatch for eager stans to buy.) It's not about them being sexual. Madonna was sexual and not canceled, the WAP song was extremely sexual and Cardi B wasn't canceled. It's that they are allowing men to have FUN instead of just being passive, submissive objects only to pleasure women. Men get to be in on the fun and have just as much fun as the women do. In modern feminism, that's verboten.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZAt54CiUGg

Posted by: LizLem at June 23, 2025 04:30 PM (Eng1Z)

225 Stock market did well today. I was told by NPR and others that it was going to be a bad day

Yeah, sure. Whatever.

Posted by: dantesed at June 23, 2025 04:30 PM (Oy/m2)

226 202 Burst appendix can be a nasty happening
Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 23, 2025 04:23 PM

A hundred years ago he would have just died. And that is an era with planes and automobiles, not some medieval time.

I very much appreciate what medical science, the REAL Medical Science, has done for us.
Posted by: toby928 at June 23, 2025 04:25 PM (jc0TO)

Yeah, my appendix went sideways right around 29 (quarter century ago or so). No burst; I went in early, sensing something was off. Even as recently as the 70s or so it was apparently a significant surgery. I was back at work in less than a week.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at June 23, 2025 04:30 PM (4/BuS)

227 Toughing out an appendix?

So toby is the smart one in the family.

Posted by: eleven at June 23, 2025 04:30 PM (fV+MH)

228 Haaaaaaaahahahahha, wow, even I didn't think Trump was that much of a dick.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at
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You thought wrong. I am an enormous dick. Huge. The biggest dick. The best dick ever.

Posted by: Donnie Two Scoops at June 23, 2025 04:30 PM (tM/2C)

229 If Bill Maher was an ice cream flavor he would be Cherry Gay-cia.

I dunno, it's my day off, work with me a little.

Posted by: ... at June 23, 2025 04:31 PM (E0p3T)

230 I would guess that the Iranian people are completely disarmed..
Posted by: tubal

*Bursts into tears*

Posted by: Michelle Fields at June 23, 2025 04:31 PM (TN0g+)

231 IRGC is all that is propping up the regime.
Posted by: steevy at June 23, 2025 04:25 PM (YwEeS)
****
There's an indigenous cure for that.
I betcha there is help in country.

Posted by: torabora at June 23, 2025 04:31 PM (SV+tM)

232 They don't even have Bake Off anymore.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 23, 2025 04:30 PM (GBKbO)

You know who else stopped doing Bake Off?

Posted by: ... at June 23, 2025 04:31 PM (E0p3T)

233 Persian shahs were big on eunuchs. They would do that to Armenian boys. To keep them around harems.

Posted by: runner at June 23, 2025 04:31 PM (g47mK)

234 There a YouTube channel called B1M that is about mega construction projects. It’s hosted by a Brit. They have some cool stuff.

I saw one recently about the Olympic Stadium in Montreal. Total clusterfuck they’re still paying for it 50 years later. Its crazy.

Anyway the intro to the video was about the 1976 Olympics and part of it was Kaitlyn Jenner winning the decathlon. Yep, Kaitlyn won it. Not Bruce.

We still have a long way to go de-wokifying society.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at June 23, 2025 04:31 PM (/CkK4)

235 Say, has anybody heard anything about Tay-Tay lately?
Posted by: Oddbob at June 23, 2025 04:29 PM (/y8xj)

Kelce dumped her so she's now writing hate songs about him for her next album. What rhymes with "Chiefs"?

Posted by: Oldcat at June 23, 2025 04:31 PM (8avO+)

236 @202 a law partner of mine about twenty years ago had a burst appendix. Was in hospital for two weeks fighting infections. Pulled through but he was weak as a new born kitten for weeks

Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 23, 2025 04:32 PM (pwtJC)

237 ...or keep them as playthings...

Posted by: runner at June 23, 2025 04:32 PM (g47mK)

238 George and Kellyanne Conway have joined the chat...
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes
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Yep. You notice that leaks in Trump II administration are much scantier than in the first one.

Helps when you don't have uniparty tools like the Conways in your administration and when you rapidly defenestrate them when they pop up like Walz.

Posted by: whig at June 23, 2025 04:32 PM (ctrM5)

239 So why hasn't the US or Israel been providing an Iranian insurgency with weapons?

When Iran became a major supplier of the jihadis in Iraq...and then actually ambushed and murdered some US soldiers some GOP types called for arming MEK, which was an insurgency in the SE parts of Iran as they aren't Persians and wanted independence.

The FNM, Dems, and Shrub also noted that MEK does bad things and therefore they couldn't support people that do bad things even if it would distract Iran from murdering Americans.

Posted by: 18-1 at June 23, 2025 04:32 PM (t0Rmr)

240 Normies claimed a scalp in the culture wars.

Simone Biles has deleted her twitter account.

Riley Gaines has not.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at June 23, 2025 04:33 PM (KbCG3)

241 235 Say, has anybody heard anything about Tay-Tay lately?
Posted by: Oddbob at June 23, 2025 04:29 PM (/y8xj)

Kelce dumped her so she's now writing hate songs about him for her next album. What rhymes with "Chiefs"?
Posted by: Oldcat
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Something something about tight ends.

Posted by: whig at June 23, 2025 04:33 PM (ctrM5)

242
When did Charles III, King of Tampax, land that job as King Harv's ricksha driver?

I'll bet that Hairy and MeAgain, Duck and Duckling of Windex, curse the day that they missed that advert!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh! at June 23, 2025 04:33 PM (xG4kz)

243 240 Normies claimed a scalp in the culture wars.

Simone Biles has deleted her twitter account.

Riley Gaines has not.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at June 23, 2025 04:33 PM (KbCG3)

==

Biles' PR rep just threw up their hands and said, "There's no saving this. Burn it down."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 23, 2025 04:33 PM (GBKbO)

244
From some of Elica's links, here's an example of what happens to women in Iran who are uncovered:

https://tinyurl.com/2bgzbfx8

And she told the story of one young women who defied the morality police and dared to do something uncovered. The woman was brutally beaten to a pulp, her body just smashed up. Her mother was summoned to pick up the body, and taunted viciously.

The mother went home and hung herself.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at June 23, 2025 04:33 PM (w6EFb)

245 240 Normies claimed a scalp in the culture wars.

Simone Biles has deleted her twitter account.

Riley Gaines has not.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer
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Biles was apparently a Queen B type as a lot of gymnast colleagues came out that she was a douchebag to other women in the sport.

The better woman won.

Posted by: whig at June 23, 2025 04:34 PM (ctrM5)

246 Interesting fact about The View.

Kathy Griffin turned down $1.4 million to be a host of that garbage fire but at the time she was making $10 million a year.

Posted by: Stateless.. 41% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back now at June 23, 2025 04:34 PM (jvJvP)

247 By the way that “hot weather” that is gonna kill Brits, is like 85 degrees. Lol

That’s what a heat wave is in the UK.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at June 23, 2025 04:34 PM (/CkK4)

248 Kelce dumped her so she's now writing hate songs about him for her next album. What rhymes with "Chiefs"?

Queefs?

Posted by: Archimedes at June 23, 2025 04:34 PM (Riz8t)

249 The mullahs probably think sticking your Johnson in a slave tranny is less dangerous than sticking it in a goat

Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 23, 2025 04:34 PM (pwtJC)

250
What rhymes with "Chiefs"?

briefs
sheafs
leafs
beefs

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh! at June 23, 2025 04:35 PM (xG4kz)

251 He should release a counter, country album with at least 5 songs describing making love to a bucket of Lincoln logs.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 23, 2025 04:35 PM (zZu0s)

252 228 Haaaaaaaahahahahha, wow, even I didn't think Trump was that much of a dick.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at
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You thought wrong. I am an enormous dick. Huge. The biggest dick. The best dick ever.
Posted by: Donnie Two Scoops
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I heard this statement in Trump's voice. He is the trollmaster general.

Posted by: whig at June 23, 2025 04:35 PM (ctrM5)

253 Peeps?

Posted by: dantesed at June 23, 2025 04:35 PM (Oy/m2)

254 I was just trying to remember that Iranian gal that got shot in 2022? Media loved her for 2 minutes.

Posted by: A pawn in game of life. at June 23, 2025 04:35 PM (Ef4Ak)

255 It's that they are allowing men to have FUN instead of just being passive, submissive objects only to pleasure women.
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The secret sauce of feminism has always been that its about making men miserable, not making women happy. Communism is about making everyone equally miserable and feminism is a flavor of communism. Drab, jobless, envy driven, and sterile. You can all see it now right???

Posted by: Paternalistic, retrograde, knucledragger who likes to help others especially women at June 23, 2025 04:36 PM (tM/2C)

256 The mother went home and hung herself.
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She did it wrong. You go down fighting. You (aim to) take the oppressor down, not yourself.

Posted by: Michelle Fields at June 23, 2025 04:36 PM (TN0g+)

257 If Trump doesn't call the Iranian leader Cry-Atollah at some point during his dust up, I am going to be disappointed. Bigly.

Posted by: jmel at June 23, 2025 04:36 PM (bVhJi)

258 Wait, men can't have babies? Tell the rest of the media.
Posted by: illiniwek at June 23, 2025 03:48 PM (vbXSk)

Because we don't have the equipment, or we can't take the pain.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at June 23, 2025 03:49 PM (S/Y4j)

We would just end up doing it wrong.

We never read the directions.

Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at June 23, 2025 04:36 PM (MDua2)

259 WaPo has audio from what is reportedly a phone call made by Israeli Intel to an Iranian general. In the call, the Israeli tells the general he has twelve hours to make a video rejecting the current regime of Iran or Israel will kill the general, his wife, and his child.

http://tiny.cc/3isn001

Posted by: bonhomme at June 23, 2025 04:36 PM (lIio7)

260 I was just trying to remember that Iranian gal that got shot in 2022? Media loved her for 2 minutes.

Was that Neda, or was she one of the earlier victims of the IRGC?

Posted by: Archimedes at June 23, 2025 04:36 PM (Riz8t)

261 I was just trying to remember that Iranian gal that got shot in 2022? Media loved her for 2 minutes.
Posted by: A pawn in game of life. at June 23, 2025 04:35 PM

Mahsa Amini

Posted by: toby928 at June 23, 2025 04:37 PM (jc0TO)

262 Kathy Griffin turned down $1.4 million to be a host of that garbage fire but at the time she was making $10 million a year.
Posted by: Stateless
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Perfect example of the Peter Principle where Griffin was promoted way past her actual capabilities.

Posted by: whig at June 23, 2025 04:37 PM (ctrM5)

263 That's why there should be no nation building in these places. You wanna be assholes, go right ahead and do not make it our business.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 23, 2025 04:37 PM (zZu0s)

264 By the way that “hot weather” that is gonna kill Brits, is like 85 degrees. Lol

That’s what a heat wave is in the UK.

In fairness a bunch of them level in concrete tenements that don't have AC like a bunch of Soviet peasants.

Posted by: 18-1 at June 23, 2025 04:37 PM (t0Rmr)

265 Would buy the Iran being #2 for Trannies surgery for a second

Posted by: Skip at June 23, 2025 04:37 PM (+qU29)

266 2022 - Mahsa Amini was a Kurdish girl tortured to death by the "morality police".

Posted by: runner at June 23, 2025 04:37 PM (g47mK)

267 Israel is all out of horse heads, it seems.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 23, 2025 04:38 PM (zZu0s)

268 257 If Trump doesn't call the Iranian leader Cry-Atollah at some point during his dust up, I am going to be disappointed. Bigly.
Posted by: jmel
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Khameini has went to ground and apparently is communicating indirectly like bin Ladin through a trusted courier with the outside world.

Posted by: whig at June 23, 2025 04:38 PM (ctrM5)

269 It's a preference cascade.

Normies are sick of the language police and political correctness with genders and pronouns, they only did it because they thought it had widespread acceptance.

Now that it's become obvious that its the exact opposite, normies are no longer afraid to speak up and refuse this gender pronoun lunatic nonsense.

Posted by: DudeAbiding at June 23, 2025 04:38 PM (lCHt6)

270 >>Was that Neda, or was she one of the earlier victims of the IRGC?

Neda was the pretty girl who was shot on live TV during Obama, I think.

Masha, maybe...was the name of the 2022 Hijab/Headscarf girl.

Posted by: garrett at June 23, 2025 04:38 PM (MmNOR)

271 ..then the people protested ,so the police used live ammunition and killed hundreds of people

Posted by: runner at June 23, 2025 04:38 PM (g47mK)

272 The secret sauce of feminism has always been that its about making men miserable, not making women happy. Communism is about making everyone equally miserable and feminism is a flavor of communism. Drab, jobless, envy driven, and sterile. You can all see it now right???
Posted by: Paternalistic, retrograde, knucledragger who likes to help others especially women at June 23, 2025 04:36 PM (tM/2C)

Actually its core is making women miserable. Their first attack was on mothers and housewives, then they got girls into corporate and got them loose and drunk, and only then did they try the me-too to go for men.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 23, 2025 04:38 PM (8avO+)

273 Did I see Dave Barry in that Bill Maher clip?

Posted by: Emmie at June 23, 2025 04:38 PM (rF2iL)

274 Neda Agha-Soltan was murdered by the Regime in 2009 but that was an expressly political assassination.

Posted by: toby928 at June 23, 2025 04:39 PM (jc0TO)

275 It's unfortunately only a preference cascade until the next stolen election.

Posted by: ... at June 23, 2025 04:39 PM (E0p3T)

276 From some of Elica's links, here's an example of what happens to women in Iran who are uncovered:

https://tinyurl.com/2bgzbfx8

And she told the story of one young women who defied the morality police and dared to do something uncovered. The woman was brutally beaten to a pulp, her body just smashed up. Her mother was summoned to pick up the body, and taunted viciously.

The mother went home and hung herself.

Horrifying. I just hope the Iranian people administer some cosmic justice to these barbaric a-holes.

Posted by: Archimedes at June 23, 2025 04:39 PM (Riz8t)

277 It's 97° with heat index of 108°here. Played nine this AM and sweated like a pig . Will be hotter tomorrow. Might play anyway

Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 23, 2025 04:39 PM (pwtJC)

278 Yes; I have heard something about Taylor Swift, and no, I'm not a fan of her music. She apparently recently visited a children's hospital and fans of her raised money for families with huge medical bills. "Sunny Skyz" site:

https://tinyurl.com/27xxzn47

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 23, 2025 04:39 PM (2GCMq)

279 Neda Agah-Soltan

Posted by: Ben Had at June 23, 2025 04:39 PM (ZIggv)

280 Neda seems right. Which reminds me how much I dislike Obama. (spit)

Posted by: A pawn in game of life. at June 23, 2025 04:39 PM (Ef4Ak)

281 226 202 Burst appendix can be a nasty happening
Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 23, 2025 04:23 PM

Mine came close to bursting.

The morphine barely helped. Worst pain ever. The ER doctors thought it did burst.

22 hours after surgery, I walked around the ward one time for every hour I was there. They couldn't get me out of there fast enough.

Posted by: Stateless.. 41% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back now at June 23, 2025 04:40 PM (jvJvP)

282 Perfect example of the Peter Principle where Griffin was promoted way past her actual capabilities.
Posted by: whig at June 23, 2025 04:37 PM (ctrM5)

Assumes facts not in evidence, says the defense lawyer.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 23, 2025 04:40 PM (8avO+)

283 Neda Agah-Soltan
Posted by: Ben Had at June 23, 2025 04:39 PM (ZIggv)

Mahsa Amini.

Posted by: runner at June 23, 2025 04:40 PM (g47mK)

284 >>> Say, has anybody heard anything about Tay-Tay lately?
Posted by: Oddbob at June 23, 2025 04:29 PM (/y8xj)

Apparently they were spotted at the Stanley Cup finals. She's also supposedly doing the WAGs sportsball thing now her tour is wrapped up, getting heavily into that footballer GF life.

The Blake Lively lawsuits keep dragging Taylor's name into it, I'm sure her PR team is happy to have any press pop up that distracts from that. (OR pay for it themselves.)

A celeb bog site was convinced they are both gay and have a contracted dual beard relationship, but it's set to expire at any moment. Or they just keep renewing it since the beard life is going well for them.

Posted by: LizLem at June 23, 2025 04:40 PM (Eng1Z)

285 241 235 Say, has anybody heard anything about Tay-Tay lately?
Posted by: Oddbob at June 23, 2025 04:29 PM (/y8xj)

Kelce dumped her so she's now writing hate songs about him for her next album. What rhymes with "Chiefs"?
Posted by: Oldcat
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Something something about tight ends.
Posted by: whig at June 23, 2025 04:33 PM (ctrM5)

Something something about queens.

Posted by: Minuteman at June 23, 2025 04:40 PM (47/pr)

286 Smart for tay tay to get out of the public eye for while. Otherwise people get sick of her. Lay low for a bit then come back with a new album. Start the hype machine back up.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at June 23, 2025 04:41 PM (/CkK4)

287
Now I know what you're thinking, You forgot to cut the bottom out of the container.

Did I?
Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here

Bottom or not, paint the "underneath" to look like The Spew's green room.

Ana Navarro is attracted to green room feeds like flies to shit.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh! at June 23, 2025 04:41 PM (xG4kz)

288 New Tay Tay song "You were the Chief of Love Thief"

Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 23, 2025 04:41 PM (pwtJC)

289 18 Live Not By Lies.
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes,
........................
Out Troof, bitch!!

Posted by: Democrat Party at June 23, 2025 04:41 PM (sAmhv)

290 Yeah, my appendix went sideways right around 29 (quarter century ago or so). No burst; I went in early, sensing something was off. Even as recently as the 70s or so it was apparently a significant surgery. I was back at work in less than a week.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls
__________

They used to have to open you up to confirm the diagnosis, and were wrong half the time. I believe it's still not straightforward, even with CTs and MRIs.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at June 23, 2025 04:41 PM (ITkJX)

291 >>Smart for tay tay to get out of the public eye for while

She bought back her catalog and started a huge re-issue campaign of her LPs.

She's been busy.

Posted by: garrett at June 23, 2025 04:41 PM (MmNOR)

292 According to self reported metrics women in the west are much less happy then they were before feminism.

Feminists argue that's because women in the 60s were incapable of realizing how bad they had it.

Posted by: 18-1 at June 23, 2025 04:42 PM (t0Rmr)

293 CORRECTED COPY:

241 235 Say, has anybody heard anything about Tay-Tay lately?
Posted by: Oddbob at June 23, 2025 04:29 PM (/y8xj)

Kelce dumped her so she's now writing hate songs about him for her next album. What rhymes with "Chiefs"?
Posted by: Oldcat
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Something something about tight ends.
Posted by: whig at June 23, 2025 04:33 PM (ctrM5)

Something something queens.

Posted by: Minuteman at June 23, 2025 04:42 PM (47/pr)

294 Like all commie based ideology, the core tenet of feminism - "I don't need no man" - is a lie.

Posted by: ... at June 23, 2025 04:42 PM (E0p3T)

295 stray thought on the iranian missile barrage at Doha:

What if the mullahs told Qatar to duck and cover thinking they *wouldn't* tell the Americans?

What if they sincerely said to Qatar "Yeah, we're launching a bunch of crap at the base in Doha, and we really can't aim these things worth shit, so, you know, heads up. Sorry in advance."

Would they really be dumb enough to think the Qataris wouldn't immediately tell America to swat everything down for them just in case? Was it really stupidity and desperation, and not some lame ass ploy at "saving face"?

Is this something that will make the emirs in Qatar think twice about which side their flatbread is buttered on?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 23, 2025 04:42 PM (BjH5D)

296 263 That's why there should be no nation building in these places. You wanna be assholes, go right ahead and do not make it our business.
Posted by: Aetius451AD

Took centuries for Western culture after the Treaty of Westphalia to come to a Modus vivendi internally. Expecting ancient cultures to suddenly miss centuries of development and spring up as new democracies was always an idiotic notion. Politics is downstream from culture and even the ancient Greeks knew that democracies without agreed upon ground rules become deformed and transformed into oligarchies (aristocracies by other names) or despotisms (with or without a titular king).

Posted by: whig at June 23, 2025 04:42 PM (ctrM5)

297 Spell Czech won't let me spell "queefs"

Posted by: Minuteman at June 23, 2025 04:43 PM (47/pr)

298 Posted by: Ben Had at June 23, 2025 04:39 PM (ZIggv)

The original Say Her Name

Posted by: ... at June 23, 2025 04:43 PM (E0p3T)

299 Would they really be dumb enough to think the Qataris wouldn't immediately tell America to swat everything down for them just in case? Was it really stupidity and desperation, and not some lame ass ploy at "saving face"?

Is this something that will make the emirs in Qatar think twice about which side their flatbread is buttered on?
Posted by: Warai-otoko
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Iranians are not stupid so undoubtedly they did so. Israelis claim that they got the same warning from their backchannels.

Posted by: whig at June 23, 2025 04:43 PM (ctrM5)

300 Wonder how many potential views/hits Ace misses because the site doesn't load or worse jams their device and they perceive it as a mal. site?

Posted by: braenyard- Some friends are more equal than others at June 23, 2025 04:43 PM (lCWOD)

301 Something something about tight ends.
Posted by: whig at June 23, 2025 04:33 PM (ctrM5)

Something something queens.
Posted by: Minuteman at June 23, 2025 04:42 PM (47/pr)

Something something i was fucking your brother Go Birds.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 23, 2025 04:44 PM (BjH5D)

302 Israel says that it is going to wrap up in a couple of days. So y'all torturers and fanatical clerics who are in hiding can come out now!

Posted by: runner at June 23, 2025 04:44 PM (g47mK)

303 Yeah that's right.

Lesbians have that weird Tay Tay is gay cult.

Like that weird freak from the election melt-down vids.

Posted by: eleven at June 23, 2025 04:44 PM (fV+MH)

304
In the call, the Israeli tells the general he has twelve hours to make a video rejecting the current regime of Iran or Israel will kill the general, his wife, and his child.

http://tiny.cc/3isn001
Posted by: bonhomme

"Wait, who is this? How many times I got to tell you we don't want the extended car warranty? You guys are such jokers!"

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh! at June 23, 2025 04:45 PM (xG4kz)

305 Israel says that it is going to wrap up in a couple of days. So y'all torturers and fanatical clerics who are in hiding can come out now!

Somehow, I doubt they're going to trust the Israelis on that.

Posted by: Archimedes at June 23, 2025 04:45 PM (Riz8t)

306 Something something queens.
Posted by: Minuteman
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"Kansas City Queens, you know what I mean" (h/t Mountain)

Posted by: whig at June 23, 2025 04:45 PM (ctrM5)

307 BREAKING: "Biden appointed Federal district judge just ordered Trump to unbomb Iran."

Posted by: Somewhere South of I-80 at June 23, 2025 04:45 PM (89Sog)

308 Kyle Cheney
@kyledcheney
BREAKING: Supreme Court permits Trump administration to resume third country removals — like deportations to Sudan — without limited notice.

6-3 with Soromayor, Kagan and Jackson dissenting.

https://x.com/kyledcheney/status/
1937248200022216863

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While the left focuses on Garcia, human trafficker, Trump keeps deporting at least 2000 people per day.

And that's not counting self-deportations.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 23, 2025 04:45 PM (GBKbO)

309 >>Israel says that it is going to wrap up in a couple of days. So y'all torturers and fanatical clerics who are in hiding can come out now!

Saw reports this AM that they were taking out Bassidj offices/HQs, today.

If they are targeting the Religious Police Force directly, they are getting ready to let the Iranian people take a shot at revolution.

Posted by: garrett at June 23, 2025 04:46 PM (MmNOR)

310 Something something i was fucking your brother Go Birds.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 23, 2025 04:44 PM (BjH5D)

Hey other Kelce's wife is pretty and nice. I've seen her pop into their podcast here and there.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 23, 2025 04:46 PM (8avO+)

311 297 Spell Czech won't let me spell "queefs"
Posted by: Minuteman at June 23, 2025 04:43 PM (47/pr)

it's queeves

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at June 23, 2025 04:47 PM (pIfcn)

312 >>> Simone Biles has deleted her twitter account.

GOOD.

She pinned her whole post-Olympic brand on being a voice for women and lifting women up. She punched down when she went after Riley, shaming a fellow woman athlete, not just by calling her a loser and evil, but by attacking her looks and implying she's mannish.

It was so off brand, and her PR team realizes it. Better to yank the platform away and torch it and start fresh later on.

Posted by: LizLem at June 23, 2025 04:47 PM (Eng1Z)

313 We have Summer rules in our golf league. Today, due to the heat, we played from the red tees.

Had a great time. Two birdies on the par 5s on the front nine.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at June 23, 2025 04:47 PM (ZmEVT)

314 300 Wonder how many potential views/hits Ace misses because the site doesn't load or worse jams their device and they perceive it as a mal. site?
Posted by: braenyard
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On the other hand, hard to hack a one off like Minx beta.

Brave plus Linux has never given me problems. Apple and Safari are nothing but trouble as Apple's browser is not compliant with a lot of websites. Android and Brave don't have problems either.

Posted by: whig at June 23, 2025 04:47 PM (ctrM5)

315 Nood dems

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at June 23, 2025 04:47 PM (Splbu)

316 Second attack in Qatar.

12 missiles. 11 shot down.

Posted by: Stateless.. 41% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back now at June 23, 2025 04:48 PM (jvJvP)

317 If they are targeting the Religious Police Force directly, they are getting ready to let the Iranian people take a shot at revolution.
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Godspeed.

Posted by: Crusader at June 23, 2025 04:48 PM (TN0g+)

318 I keep seeing figures like 2,000 and 3,000 deportees a day, but this is the only actual figure I've seen:

The U.S. is currently deporting approximately 384 illegal immigrants per day, based on recent data. This figure is derived from a total of 140,000 deportations over the past year, according to a White House report published in April 2025, as reported by the White House, and dividing that by 365 days

https://is.gd/0AZ8Nw

Posted by: Archimedes at June 23, 2025 04:48 PM (Riz8t)

319 Is this something that will make the emirs in Qatar think twice about which side their flatbread is buttered on?
Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 23, 2025 04:42 PM (BjH5D)

I'm not sure at any time Qatar was friends with Iran. They are too big and too close.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 23, 2025 04:49 PM (8avO+)

320 Ayatollah and the mullahs are more disassociated from the citizens than our politicians are from us.

What ever the general population is it isn't reflected by their theocratic rulers.

Posted by: braenyard- Some friends are more equal than others at June 23, 2025 04:49 PM (lCWOD)

321 The U.S. is currently deporting approximately 384 illegal immigrants per day, based on recent data. This figure is derived from a total of 140,000 deportations over the past year, according to a White House report published in April 2025, as reported by the White House, and dividing that by 365 days

https://is.gd/0AZ8Nw
Posted by: Archimedes at June 23, 2025 04:48 PM (Riz8t)

The past year from April includes lots of 0 deport Biden months.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 23, 2025 04:50 PM (8avO+)

322
Here's another one, a relatively mild sentence for defying the Morality Police:
https://tinyurl.com/262f5e5x

Now, this may be wishful thinking, but they say the Iranian people are getting enough of this shit.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at June 23, 2025 04:51 PM (w6EFb)

323 I would laugh if Mossad came out and said "Well, no, that wasn't us, WaPo are a bunch of bullshitting liars. But also, you know, since you brought it up, yeah. That."

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 23, 2025 04:51 PM (BjH5D)

324 >>> Smart for tay tay to get out of the public eye for while. Otherwise people get sick of her. Lay low for a bit then come back with a new album. Start the hype machine back up.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at June 23, 2025 04:41 PM (/CkK4)

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I have the perfect idea for her.

Posted by: Chris Gaines at June 23, 2025 04:51 PM (6TlG5)

325
Reporting on a simple game of chess
Has turned into a horrible mess
Is it a King or Queen
Or something in between?
Cor Blimey! It's a dude in a dress!

Posted by: muldoon at June 23, 2025 04:52 PM (poXs5)

326 Dentist then to all nighter
BTW where is NGU?

Posted by: Skip at June 23, 2025 04:52 PM (+qU29)

327 Cor Blimey! It's a dude in a dress!
Posted by: muldoon at June 23, 2025 04:52 PM (poXs5)

It's not a dress, it's a cassock!

Posted by: The Bishop at June 23, 2025 04:54 PM (BjH5D)

328 "You were my Kansas City Chief
But you broke my heart.
It made me queef
Which is a fronthole fart.

Don't fall for the sportsball boys
You'll soon hear the sound
Of pelvic noise.
Pelvic noise"

Posted by: Tay Tay at June 23, 2025 04:57 PM (47/pr)

329 TJM,
The case is Dept of Homeland Security v. D.V.D. and the Docket number is 24A1153.

Scotus page has this to say about it,
"The application for stay presented to Justice Jackson and by her referred to the Court is granted. The April 18, 2025, preliminary injunction of the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts, case No. 25–cv–10676, is stayed pending the disposition of the appeal in the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit and disposition of a petition for a writ of certiorari, if such writ is timely sought. Should certiorari be denied, this stay shall terminate automatically. In the event certiorari is granted, the stay shall terminate upon the sending down of the judgment of the Court. Justice Sotomayor, with whom Justice Kagan and Jackson join, dissenting. (Detached opinion)"

Posted by: whig at June 23, 2025 04:58 PM (ctrM5)

330 I love this place. I try to make what I think is a salient point and the throwaway line at the end gets all the replies.

Posted by: Oddbob at June 23, 2025 05:07 PM (/y8xj)

331
As Turley points out, the Court considers this War Powers stuff a non-justiciable political question. IOW, they stay out of it completely.

If Congress wants to stop the President from conducting war, they can via the power of the purse. It's all on them vs the executive branch.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at June 23, 2025 05:16 PM (w6EFb)

332 Only Women get Pregnant you Bean Brain

Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at June 23, 2025 06:08 PM (wGqjj)

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