The Morning Rant: Minimalist Edition

American Exceptionalism! What a grand and glorious thing...driven by (among other things) the self selection of exactly who comes here. Until fairly recently it was incredibly difficult just to arrive on our shores. Weeks or months-long voyages with no guarantee that one would survive the trip, only to arrive in America and have to fend for one's self. No immigrant support system for 16th (or 17th or 18th or 19th or even 20th) century arrivals!

And imagine the decision to leave Bavaria or Prussia or Ireland or Holland or Sweden or Poland or Russia Italy or any of the other sclerotic and rigid countries that sent its most adventurous and brave citizens to our shores. Nothing was sure for these people; it was a great unknown, they knew it would be incredibly difficult, yet they did it!

And the result is the greatest country in the history of the world. Sure, there are places with better discrete things. Mass transit is one: I'll take the London underground or the Paris Metro any day over the NYC or San Francisco or Chicago transit systems. And European trains are great! French and Italian food? Ooh la la! The list goes on and on, but add them all up, and what do you get? Because you have to consider everything, not just the good stuff in Europe and the rest of the developed world. Count everything, like our incredible physical beauty, and amazing room for everything, and our freedom to do whatever the hell we want, which is buttressed by our flawed but still amazing Constitution, not to mention big washing machines and great air conditioning and big cars and endless vistas and huge houses and great barbecue and an absolutely incredible ethos that makes the low trust societies of most countries on earth a miserable and pale and diminished reflection of us.

The United States of America is the greatest country in the world! Yet there are many among us who see this wonderful place as irredeemably broken, and a place to sneer at and mock and yes...hate.

What happened to the Democrats of America? Are they so coddled and soft and unappreciative that they despise the very thing that created the conditions necessary for them to be free to have their vile opinions? Only 36% of them are proud of their country? Have they finally been co-opted by the progressives in their midst who fervently desire a socialist hell hole in place of America? Has the never-ending drumbeat of denigration of America coming from off our shores finally taken effect? Has the long march through our institutions that was designed to destroy the concept of American Exceptionalism among our youth finally bearing fruit for the socialists?

The answer of course is: Yes to all!

But the next question is: what can we do about it?

I think that the Trump administration's efforts to hold Harvard University accountable for teaching the very things that lead to Democrat hatred of America is a powerful broadside in defense of American Exceptionalism, and it is hopefully the first of many such efforts.

The Department of Defense is doing a huge amount to destroy the post-modern malaise that has infected our armed forces, and a rejuvenated and vigorous armed forces is a valuable counterweight to hatred of country.

The Department of State, led by the impressive Marco Rubio has shifted the onus of legal entrance into America onto those who wish to come here. If they break the rules, their visas are withdrawn! No more visitors who preach against us.

The Justice Department, in fits and starts, is attacking the premise of that twisted, culture-destroying lunacy of transexualism. No boys competing with girls!

That is a snapshot of what the government is doing, but there is much more to be done, and it must be done by all of us. Love of country is not passive, it is an active part of life, and must be pursued lest it wither.

Is your local high school flying the gay flag alongside the American flag? Go complain at a school board meeting. Does your workplace have a flag pole? If not, suggest one that flies our flag...proudly. Does your idiot 2nd cousin jabber during Thanksgiving dinner about the evils of white supremacist America? Give him a gentle lesson in reality. Write letters to your local paper, shop at businesses that support America, and tell the ones that don't why they aren't getting your money.

There are so many things that we can do to defend America from those who would tear it down. Maybe you can't do all of them, but perhaps you can do one of them...every day...every week...every month!

Being proud of America isn't difficult; there is so much to be proud of!

[Crossposted at CutJibNewsletter and X/Twitter] And the Apple and Spotify feeds for CJN's podcast should be working!

PS. Some of you might be aware that long-time commenter "Jay Guevara" passed away recently. In addition to his erudite comments on a wide range of topics, including his profession as a professor of chemistry and later in the private sector, he contributed to AoSHQ as an Open Blogger on the general topic of "Science Isn't Dead, But It Is Ailing."

I had the pleasure of meeting him and his charming wife, and we had many discussions over the years about pretty much everything, including his lifelong attachment to baseball, both as a player (he played organized ball for most of his life) and as a knowledgeable fan. He also joined me and J.J. Sefton on our podcast a couple of times. He was a polymath, with the insatiable curiosity of someone who is fascinated by the world. In our conversations I could always count on his rigorous and logical perspective, and it was a joy!

He leaves his wife and son, about whom he bragged and bragged!

He will be missed.

Posted by: CBD at 11:00 AM

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1 Good morning everyone

Posted by: Skip at July 01, 2025 11:01 AM (+qU29)

2 No monkey?

Posted by: Duke Lowell at July 01, 2025 11:01 AM (u73oe)

3 I'm actually shocked that Democrats were proud to be Americans back in 2000.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at July 01, 2025 11:01 AM (N1DT3)

4 FIRST person to post FIRST

Posted by: 18-1 at July 01, 2025 11:02 AM (t0Rmr)

5 If Democrats hate it here so much, why don't they go somewhere else?

*rhetorical*

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 01, 2025 11:02 AM (Q4IgG)

6 Alrighty

Posted by: Lizzy at July 01, 2025 11:02 AM (VVnrT)

7 Good morning good people.

Posted by: Tonypete at July 01, 2025 11:02 AM (H7X8V)

8 I guess the independents are more easily manipulated by the Spirit of the Age, as well. (They are matching the Dems trajectory.)

I've met too many people who think history started when they were born.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at July 01, 2025 11:03 AM (N1DT3)

9 Jay will be dearly missed, what a wonderful person. I pray for the best for his wife and son.

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 01, 2025 11:03 AM (JmEcb)

10 Terrible news about Jay Guevara. He will be sorely missed here. May he rest in peace.

Posted by: whig at July 01, 2025 11:04 AM (ctrM5)

11 Democrats have weaponized Guilty of being American

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 01, 2025 11:04 AM (JmEcb)

12 >>... He will be missed.

Indeed, he will!!

Posted by: Lizzy at July 01, 2025 11:04 AM (VVnrT)

13 Only 36% of them are proud of their country?

The official take on American History by the left is that we are uniquely evil.

It is a stupid take...but...that's what they claim to believe.

And the funniest part of it is the left will claim, for example, that Clinton's America was a racist, homophobic nightmare...while they honor Bill Clinton as a great humanitarian...and feminist hero.

Posted by: 18-1 at July 01, 2025 11:04 AM (t0Rmr)

14 Oh, this is going to go well...

@libsoftiktok 1m
BREAKING: 10,000 city workers in Philadelphia just went on strike after their demands for higher pay weren’t agreed on

911 operators, trash collectors, rec center staffers, etc.

The mayor just told residents not to take out their trash and to have patience when calling 911

Posted by: weft cut-loop at July 01, 2025 11:04 AM (mlg/3)

15 RIP Jay.

Posted by: eleven at July 01, 2025 11:05 AM (fV+MH)

16 God Bless the USA

Posted by: Skip at July 01, 2025 11:05 AM (+qU29)

17 RIP Jay, enjoyed our interactions. Condolences to his family and friends

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 01, 2025 11:05 AM (eBgDF)

18 This incredible depression on the part of Democrats is, I believe, the best marker yet of the fact that our side has won the long fight. (there's a whole lot of mopping up to do, years worth of course) They're not just depressed because they've lost; they now hate "America" because they've given up hope that things will ever be different. They know their glory days are gone, and all they have left is the endless depression of the defeated.

Really the best they can do is drop out of politics, stop reading the news, and try to live a normal simple life with family. (alienated all your family? well sucks to be you , I guess)

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 01, 2025 11:06 AM (uWKK8)

19 May Jay G RIP and may his memory be a blessing to all.

Posted by: From about That Time at July 01, 2025 11:06 AM (n4GiU)

20
The mayor just told residents not to take out their trash and to have patience when calling 911

Like the CHAZ callers. "Sorry madam I am not allowed to send police to your location...have you tried nicely asking the man to not rape you?"

Posted by: 18-1 at July 01, 2025 11:06 AM (t0Rmr)

21 5 If Democrats hate it here so much, why don't they go somewhere else?

*rhetorical*
Posted by: Martini Farmer
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Many Dems like their candidate for mayor in NYC aren't originally from here and want the US to be like their own dystopic home countries that they left. They are colonizers that hate the US, its values, and its history and NOT immigrants.

Others are cloud people that view the US as a block to their Globo Homo ambitions on a seamless world of Furries, buggery, and servility.

Posted by: whig at July 01, 2025 11:06 AM (ctrM5)

22 Keep the trash inside?

Philidelphia, rushing with headlong indifference to becoming a third world sh1thold of disease.

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 01, 2025 11:07 AM (JmEcb)

23 @14 will anyone notice in Philly?

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 01, 2025 11:07 AM (eBgDF)

24 Only in a blue city would 911 go on strike.

Not my circus, not my clowns.

And great job on Kensington, Philly!

Posted by: eleven at July 01, 2025 11:07 AM (fV+MH)

25 The mayor just told residents not to take out their trash and to have patience when calling 911
Posted by: weft cut-loop

Do they have county transfer stations in Pennsylvania, or is all the trash pickup mob-run?

Somebody with a pickup could do a brisk business transporting his neighbors' trash out there.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at July 01, 2025 11:07 AM (a+4eV)

26 Skip and I were the only ones to nood.

The rest of you should not be surprised if disparaging comments are muttered toward you.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 01, 2025 11:07 AM (0sNs1)

27 Jay was one of my favorites and I don't have many of those. Intelligent, funny, a good writer, and easy to like. His family is in my prayers.

Posted by: ... at July 01, 2025 11:07 AM (VPwHp)

28 Rest in peace, Jay

And may God grant comfort to his family

Posted by: 2009Refugee at July 01, 2025 11:07 AM (8AONa)

29 Sandy from the block has some splainin to do.

Posted by: Boss Moss at July 01, 2025 11:07 AM (LL6Kc)

30 >>@JohnMcCloy
🔥Trump Arrived at ALLIGATOR ALCATRAZ. HUGE..
DESANTIS says “ We will be deputing IMMIGRATION JUDGES TO GET THESE HEARINGS DONE IN A DAY”
GJ @GovRonDeSantis

Gotta love this.
They demand due process for people who happily bypassed due process breaking into our country, so Trump sets it up so that it's done quickly, in a swamp, surrounded by gators.

Posted by: Lizzy at July 01, 2025 11:09 AM (VVnrT)

31 Dems are only proud when they win elections.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 01, 2025 11:09 AM (nwGCR)

32 3 I'm actually shocked that Democrats were proud to be Americans back in 2000.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at July 01, 2025 11:01 AM (N1DT3)

They still thought they were winning, especially after 2008. The peaks at 2020 and 2024 were because they thought they were getting power back.

If they can't have power, they hate life itself.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 01, 2025 11:09 AM (uWKK8)

33 Madmani dancing with what brung him.

Mamdani Says Illegal Aliens Have Kept NYC Safe For Decades, Vows To Fight ICE If Elected

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Well, This Is Another Fine Mess You've Gotten Me Into at July 01, 2025 11:09 AM (L/fGl)

34 " Skip and I were the only ones to nood.

The rest of you should not be surprised if disparaging comments are muttered toward you.
Posted by: Duncanthrax"

You're my favorite Duncanthrax on this blog.

Posted by: eleven at July 01, 2025 11:09 AM (fV+MH)

35 Dems are only proud when they win elections.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 01, 2025 11:09 AM (nwGCR)

And even when they don't. See: 2020

Posted by: ... at July 01, 2025 11:10 AM (VPwHp)

36 Ugh. We just spent the weekend as the guest of an America-shamer. I am soooo looking forward to returning to my own sane community.

I realize the America hate is purposely cultivated so that people will be too ashamed to effectively defend against hostile forces. I would set this person straight if I thought it were possible. Best I can do is pray for enlightenment.

Posted by: Emmie celebrates the Audacity of Trump! at July 01, 2025 11:10 AM (043Zg)

37 Like the CHAZ callers. "Sorry madam I am not allowed to send police to your location...have you tried nicely ~~asking the man to not rape you~~ telling the man "Stop! Don't touch! That is my no-no square!"?"
Posted by: 18-1 at July 01, 2025 11:06 AM

Suggested edit.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 01, 2025 11:10 AM (0sNs1)

38 We do need a national divorce. Like all divorces it will be messy. But why stay together and be miserable?

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 01, 2025 11:11 AM (nwGCR)

39 30 >>@JohnMcCloy
🔥Trump Arrived at ALLIGATOR ALCATRAZ. HUGE..
DESANTIS says “ We will be deputing IMMIGRATION JUDGES TO GET THESE HEARINGS DONE IN A DAY”
GJ @GovRonDeSantis

Gotta love this.
They demand due process for people who happily bypassed due process breaking into our country, so Trump sets it up so that it's done quickly, in a swamp, surrounded by gators.
Posted by: Lizzy at July 01, 2025 11:09 AM (VVnrT)

The cherry on top will be if DeSantis holds swamp buggy races to see who will be appointed as Immigration Judges.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 01, 2025 11:11 AM (uWKK8)

40 Remember when Andrew Cuomo said "America was never that great" and his PR team had to go into crisis mode to explain that he didn't mean what he plainly did?

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at July 01, 2025 11:11 AM (PiwSw)

41 Which are some businesses that support America?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 01, 2025 11:11 AM (2GCMq)

42 Read an article a few years ago about how the left embraces "the tyranny of the now". Every is worse than it has ever been and therefore we have to act immediately. This would explain some of the lefts hatred of the US. Trump is a Nazi, the Republicans are fascist. We have to save our democracy

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 01, 2025 11:11 AM (eBgDF)

43 38 We do need a national divorce. Like all divorces it will be messy. But why stay together and be miserable?
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 01, 2025 11:11 AM (nwGCR)

Divorce, ok. But we keep the house.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 01, 2025 11:11 AM (uWKK8)

44 AOC is not from the Bronx. She is a Sandy from the affluent suburbs.

Posted by: Boss Moss at July 01, 2025 11:11 AM (LL6Kc)

45 Alligator Alcatraz is more catchy than Python Prison.

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 01, 2025 11:12 AM (JmEcb)

46 If Democrats hate it here so much, why don't they go somewhere else?

Back during the Obamacare debate, I pointed out to leftists there was nothing stopping them from forming their own healthcare collective and sharing costs.

The response? But then YOU wouldn't have to pay for it.

Its the same thing here. They aren't leaving because most of them are living off of our tax dollars

Posted by: 18-1 at July 01, 2025 11:12 AM (t0Rmr)

47 CBD -
Any chance a link to Jay's obit would be shared? Be nice to have the opportunity share with his family just how much he meant to us here.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at July 01, 2025 11:12 AM (N39Ws)

48 I am still turning over in my mind the concept that half the people in the world have no inside dialogue, no inner voice. Blank NPC minds.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at July 01, 2025 11:12 AM (BLds9)

49 I had no idea there was trash pickup in Philly. Damn sure can't tell from looking that Kensington avenue shithole.

Posted by: Reforger at July 01, 2025 11:12 AM (LgDgc)

50
Democrats increasingly see America not as a society with a long-standing organic culture and polity but as a barren latifundium on which they can plant their increasingly lunatic ideas.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 01, 2025 11:12 AM (/HVsR)

51 I found out my in laws attended No Kings, lol.

They used to be sane. Trump broke them. It’s kinda sad. But also kinda funny.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 01, 2025 11:12 AM (nwGCR)

52 43 38 We do need a national divorce. Like all divorces it will be messy. But why stay together and be miserable?
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 01, 2025 11:11 AM (nwGCR)

Divorce, ok. But we keep the house.
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 01, 2025 11:11 AM (uWKK

They can visit the “ kids” in prisons or overseas….

Posted by: tubal at July 01, 2025 11:13 AM (PCK5/)

53 I think you pretty much have to be disgusted with being American if you are willing to fly the Iranian flag. Even if you disgreed with Trump bombing their nuclear production facilities, which is fine, to fly the flag of a country that killed so many of our countrymen takes at least a little bit of hatred toward the USA.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at July 01, 2025 11:13 AM (Dv3i1)

54 Well, the Left have always loved America like Ike loved Tina.

This is them realizing Tina has fled, and is going to be a much more successful singer without Ike. See, it turned out the beatings didn't make her better, they kept her down -- as the America-hating Lefties have kept down to this country.

Posted by: Lizzy at July 01, 2025 11:13 AM (VVnrT)

55 Those people on Kensington make odd poses. Something to do with horse tranquilizers.

Posted by: Boss Moss at July 01, 2025 11:14 AM (LL6Kc)

56 Speaking of Philly, any update on the house explosions there?

Posted by: Bulg at July 01, 2025 11:14 AM (77rzZ)

57 I think you pretty much have to be disgusted with being American if you are willing to fly the Iranian flag

Iran is formally a theocracy, which the FNM/left tells me is the worst form of government and inherently evil.

Posted by: 18-1 at July 01, 2025 11:14 AM (t0Rmr)

58 Relax, everybody.

PolitiFact Claims Zohran Mamdani Isn’t a Communist

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Well, This Is Another Fine Mess You've Gotten Me Into at July 01, 2025 11:14 AM (L/fGl)

59 57 I think you pretty much have to be disgusted with being American if you are willing to fly the Iranian flag

Iran is formally a theocracy, which the FNM/left tells me is the worst form of government and inherently evil.
Posted by: 18-1 at July 01, 2025 11:14 AM (t0Rmr)

======

Islamic theocracy is about freedom.

Christian theocracy is about controlling women's bodies.

Duh.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 01, 2025 11:15 AM (GBKbO)

60 18 This incredible depression on the part of Democrats is, I believe, the best marker yet of the fact that our side has won the long fight. (there's a whole lot of mopping up to do, years worth of course) They're not just depressed because they've lost; they now hate "America" because they've given up hope that things will ever be different. They know their glory days are gone, and all they have left is the endless depression of the defeated.
Posted by: Tom Servo
========
I hope you are right but I see the Democrats more splintered over the older Clintonian transactional buying votes to get power and the newer Obama Marxist identity bullshit which is more akin to a religion than politics.

I fear escalating violence by the left even as they take over the Democratic party entirely.

Posted by: whig at July 01, 2025 11:15 AM (ctrM5)

61 Those people on Kensington make odd poses. Something to do with horse tranquilizers.

But they always find time to vote for the top level Dem candidates in every state/national election

Posted by: 18-1 at July 01, 2025 11:15 AM (t0Rmr)

62 PolitiFact Claims Zohran Mamdani Isn’t a Communist
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Well, This Is Another Fine Mess You've Gotten Me Into at July 01, 2025 11:14 AM (L/fGl)

Maoist? Stalinist?

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 01, 2025 11:15 AM (nwGCR)

63 A leftist woman I know posted on Facebook that Alligator Alcatraz is a concentration camp.
How is it a concentration camp when they can leave and go to their home country at any time? And we'll pay for the flight

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 01, 2025 11:15 AM (eBgDF)

64 Willowed:
You really went all out to fisk my comment. Noted.
Posted by: Don Black

I'm a diehard Redskins fan. I attended the Super Bowl parade in the rain after the win against Miami - my father signed my permission slip (10th grade). Don't take it personally. ;->

Posted by: Dark Litigator at July 01, 2025 11:16 AM (KAi1n)

65 62 PolitiFact Claims Zohran Mamdani Isn’t a Communist
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Well, This Is Another Fine Mess You've Gotten Me Into at July 01, 2025 11:14 AM (L/fGl)

Maoist? Stalinist?
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 01, 2025 11:15 AM (nwGCR)

=======

Democrat socialist!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 01, 2025 11:16 AM (GBKbO)

66 In a true National Divorce, it would interesting to note on which side of the border the concertina wire is.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at July 01, 2025 11:16 AM (PiwSw)

67 AOC is not from the Bronx. She is a Sandy from the affluent suburbs.

Posted by: Boss Moss

And Mamdani eats rice with his fingers because, you know, he's so authentically third world.

https://is.gd/BFtmBO

Chances that Mamdani would ever shop in one of the government-run groceries he favors: 0.0%

Posted by: Archimedes at July 01, 2025 11:17 AM (Riz8t)

68 It's odd how urban areas that rank dead last in all other measures of civic engagement turn out 100%+ on election day.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at July 01, 2025 11:17 AM (BLds9)

69 Rev. Jimmy Swaggart passes away at age 90

... honesty, he was not my cup of tea, but God Bless Him

Posted by: SMOD at July 01, 2025 11:17 AM (RHGPo)

70 >>Relax, everybody.

PolitiFact Claims Zohran Mamdani Isn’t a Communist

Think we've just heard the Politifact "Lie of the Year" -- and it's coming from inside the house, lol.

Posted by: Lizzy at July 01, 2025 11:17 AM (VVnrT)

71 63 A leftist woman I know posted on Facebook that Alligator Alcatraz is a concentration camp.
How is it a concentration camp when they can leave and go to their home country at any time? And we'll pay for the flight
Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 01, 2025 11:15 AM (eBgDF)

=======

It's an easy escape.

Sign a waiver of all rights to being in America at all. Get a plane flight to a home where the police aren't given free reign to murder everyone with brown skin at will.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 01, 2025 11:17 AM (GBKbO)

72 Aligator Alcatraz is a transit camp. It has a 10000 foot runway.

Posted by: Boss Moss at July 01, 2025 11:17 AM (LL6Kc)

73 Sorry to say - we are the clear outliers on that chart.

Yes at least half of independents are just leftards but even so I would be remiss if I pretended I still got all fuzzy at the Anthem and apple pie.

This country, through its power brokers, cheaters and liars, has revealed what it is, and it's not pretty. It is also not deserving of our unconditional love. We may love its people, but if we're being honest we don't really love *all* it's people anymore. Or at least, I don't.

So what do we love? The soldiers? Fine. But that's not the country, just part of it, even if a big one. The police? Sorry that ship sailed on beaches and in parks during covid. The workers? Ok that's like a third of the people, and a third of those are commie idiots who want you silenced or dead. So yeah - the chart is clear.

Posted by: ... at July 01, 2025 11:17 AM (VPwHp)

74 I saw a brilliant meme.

Ricardo Montalban as Khan ranting about getting his revenge on Kirk

Then Tatoo saying, "Boss you need to eat a snickers because you become a homicidal manic when you get hungry"

Next frame a snickers bar

Final frame Ricardo Montalban as Mr Rourk happy and welcoming people to Fantasy Island.

Posted by: 18-1 at July 01, 2025 11:17 AM (t0Rmr)

75 55 Those people on Kensington make odd poses. Something to do with horse tranquilizers.
Posted by: Boss Moss at July 01, 2025 11:14 AM (LL6Kc)

And they vote.

Posted by: Reforger at July 01, 2025 11:17 AM (LgDgc)

76 "And Mamdani eats rice with his fingers because, you know, he's so authentically third world."

Someone should ask him why one only eats with the right hand.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at July 01, 2025 11:18 AM (BLds9)

77
Vaya con Dios Jay.

A great loss.

Posted by: Hatari Somewhere on Ventura Highway at July 01, 2025 11:18 AM (WF/xn)

78 NyC is just the start. This revolutionary mindset is going to sweep every blue city shithole. Gonna make for some interesting times.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 01, 2025 11:18 AM (nwGCR)

79 Condolences to the wife and son of Jay Guevara. Loved his posts and interactions with him in the comments on his posts and on other posts.

Posted by: KT at July 01, 2025 11:18 AM (xekrU)

80 76 "And Mamdani eats rice with his fingers because, you know, he's so authentically third world."

Someone should ask him why one only eats with the right hand.
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at July 01, 2025 11:18 AM (BLds9)

=======

There's video of him eating a burrito on the subway with a knife and fork.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 01, 2025 11:18 AM (GBKbO)

81 AOC is not from the Bronx. She is a Sandy from the affluent suburbs.
Posted by: Boss Moss

Sandy Vagina from Long Island.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 01, 2025 11:19 AM (KdGoM)

82 PolitiFact Claims Zohran Mamdani Isn’t a Communist
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Well, This Is Another Fine Mess You've Gotten Me Into at July 01, 2025 11:14 AM (L/fGl)

Maoist? Stalinist?

Government ownership of the means of production is a hallmark of Amish ideology.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 01, 2025 11:19 AM (Riz8t)

83 How is it a concentration camp when they can leave and go to their home country at any time? And we'll pay for the flight

It is literally a concentration camp, as was the place that Biden sent the illegals that DeSantis sent to MV island. It just means a place where you concentrate people.

But most people think of German Socialist Death Camps when they hear the name...

Posted by: 18-1 at July 01, 2025 11:19 AM (t0Rmr)

84 36 Ugh. We just spent the weekend as the guest of an America-shamer. I am soooo looking forward to returning to my own sane community.

I realize the America hate is purposely cultivated so that people will be too ashamed to effectively defend against hostile forces. I would set this person straight if I thought it were possible. Best I can do is pray for enlightenment.
Posted by: Emmie
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Sorry about your sore tongue from biting it for the last several day. It's tough to do so and takes the patience of a saint.

Posted by: whig at July 01, 2025 11:19 AM (ctrM5)

85 "Love of country is not passive, it is an active part of life, and must be pursued lest it wither."

Aye!

Great, uplifting post, CBD. Thanks.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at July 01, 2025 11:19 AM (NFX2v)

86 I fear escalating violence by the left even as they take over the Democratic party entirely.
Posted by: whig at July 01, 2025 11:15 AM (ctrM5)

We're already seeing it; re the firefighter shooting this week, the riots in LA, etc.

But because they have no cohesive leadership, the violence is unfocused, sporadic, and ineffectual. It does damage, but only causes the general public to despise those doing it even more.

I would be worried about the military, but for Hegseth cleansing the leadership ranks as quickly as he can.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 01, 2025 11:19 AM (uWKK8)

87 A wonderful tribute to Jay Guevara, CBD.

Again, if anyone has a link to his obit I know we would all like to read it.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 01, 2025 11:20 AM (z7PWo)

88 Alec Baldwin was pretty good as Swaggart in that movie where the singer dude married his 13-year-old cousin.

Posted by: Bulg at July 01, 2025 11:20 AM (77rzZ)

89 Vaya con Dios Jay.

A great loss.
Posted by: Hatari Somewhere on Ventura Highway

Amen.
You will be missed Jay.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 01, 2025 11:20 AM (KdGoM)

90 Pouring one out for Jay.

As for the rest...hokey as it may sound, I've a feeling that things may get rough for a while, but they will sort out right. Just got to remember to practice the important things and pass them on.

Posted by: Brother Tim sez at July 01, 2025 11:20 AM (ENA4W)

91 All you have to do to let the Left come charging back is to stop fighting them. Unlike Haman, who plotted to kill all the Jews in the Persian Empire just because one old Jew, Mordechai, wouldn’t bow down and worship him, our foes are many, and firmly convinced of several contradictory ideas at once, all of them inimical to the American way of life. And while we don’t have Esther in the palace, we do have Donald Trump in the White House, for a while. Remain vigilant! Never let up! And may God preserve America against her attackers!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 01, 2025 11:21 AM (PY8/y)

92
"Sorry madam I am not allowed to send police to your location...have you tried nicely asking the man to not rape you?"
Posted by: 18-1

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I think that's the script for the "emergency social workers" that Mayor Mad-manny will be substituting for policemen.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 01, 2025 11:21 AM (egH3D)

93 I'm a diehard Redskins fan. I attended the Super Bowl parade in the rain after the win against Miami - my father signed my permission slip (10th grade). Don't take it personally. ;->
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I was in Georgetown that night. It was bonkers. My buddy and I jumped into a bar cuz they were barring the door to save the structure. Didn't get out until 3:00AM. That was a very special moment. HTTR.

Posted by: pudinhead at July 01, 2025 11:22 AM (W3T6M)

94
This incredible depression on the part of Democrats is, I believe, the best marker yet of the fact that our side has won the long fight.

I have not yet begun to fight.

Posted by: Zohran the magnificent at July 01, 2025 11:22 AM (63Dwl)

95 That pride graph… look at the dem plot and the time axis. The inflection point occurred in 2015-16 timeframe… that’s when they lost their pride in America. Hmmm… what happened about then?? Oh yeah… the rise of Trump.

That graph is just another display of TDS afflicting millions. And it’s incurable

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 01, 2025 11:22 AM (nrfI8)

96 31
‘ Dems are only proud when they win elections.’

This is very accurate. They are also extremely unhappy when they lose.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at July 01, 2025 11:22 AM (jbnUc)

97 Sandy Occasional Cortex went to high school in Yorktown Heights a nice town in Westchester County NY. It's one of the wealthiest counties in the country

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 01, 2025 11:22 AM (eBgDF)

98 95 That pride graph… look at the dem plot and the time axis. The inflection point occurred in 2015-16 timeframe… that’s when they lost their pride in America. Hmmm… what happened about then?? Oh yeah… the rise of Trump.

That graph is just another display of TDS afflicting millions. And it’s incurable
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 01, 2025 11:22 AM (nrfI

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Even during Biden, their pride levels never got high enough to match what it was under W.

Open contempt for America is going to drive Democrat politics for a while.

Should be...interesting.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 01, 2025 11:23 AM (GBKbO)

99 You're older than me.

Posted by: Boss Moss at July 01, 2025 11:23 AM (LL6Kc)

100
Sandy Vagina from Long Island.
Posted by: rickb223 at July 01, 2025 11:19 AM (KdGoM)

It's always irritated and orating but not irragated

Posted by: Hatari Somewhere on Ventura Highway at July 01, 2025 11:24 AM (WF/xn)

101 As far as self-loathing Democrats go, they have been on a long decline, which gains traction and velocity whenever Trump gets elected. The two minutes of hate has turned into a constant noise of hate, and it is completely irrational.

The latest hobbyhorse, ICE, is most insane, given that ICE merely enforces our nutty immigration laws. No doubt Trump, who makes every issue his issue, will ultimately present an immigration reform bill to Congress. Probably after the midterms, he will force Democrats to go on the record voting against immigration reform, and take that issue away from them too.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 01, 2025 11:24 AM (kv+Nx)

102 The mindset you are dealing with on the left is that the US is the most hate-filled, xenophobic and bigoted country in the world. It's also the only one that has ever held slaves and we are forever racist and will never be forgiven for it in this world or the next (If they believe in the afterlife.).

People like us who appreciate this nation are seen as regressive and roadblocks on the Forward March of Humanity. The fact that we mock them for their views and continue to enjoy life enrages them even more.

Basically, they suck and they know it.

Posted by: NR Pax at July 01, 2025 11:24 AM (RjOoY)

103 A strike by some union in Philadelphia is a monthly thing, at the minimum. It - like Chester, PA - needs broad control which it hasn't had it for decades.

But on the positive side, the a**holes are getting, "A WNBA team is coming to Philadelphia, league announces
A WNBA team is coming to Philadelphia and is set to debut in 2030, the league announced on Monday, June 30, 2025.

Just what is not needed.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at July 01, 2025 11:24 AM (NFX2v)

104 We're already seeing it; re the firefighter shooting this week, the riots in LA, etc.

But because they have no cohesive leadership, the violence is unfocused, sporadic, and ineffectual. It does damage, but only causes the general public to despise those doing it even more.

I would be worried about the military, but for Hegseth cleansing the leadership ranks as quickly as he can.
Posted by: Tom Servo
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The usual tactic by the left finding itself losing in domestic relevance in other countries is to look abroad for support by hostile countries like Iran, cartels, or China.

Posted by: whig at July 01, 2025 11:24 AM (ctrM5)

105 I hate sand.

Posted by: Boss Moss at July 01, 2025 11:25 AM (LL6Kc)

106 @70/Lizzy: Think we've just heard the Politifact "Lie of the Year" -- and it's coming from inside the house, lol.

Taqiyya Tom (cousin of Baghdad Bob) rates Politifact's statement as "5/5 - This doesn't stink like bullshit at all, and it's good that it does!"

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at July 01, 2025 11:25 AM (O7YUW)

107 >>REPORTER: Is this the model going forward, Mr. President?

@POTUS
: "It can be. You don't always have land so beautiful and so secure. We have a lot of bodyguards and a lot of cops in the form of alligators... I wouldn't want to run through the Everglades for long."

Which side is having more fun?

Posted by: Lizzy at July 01, 2025 11:25 AM (VVnrT)

108 101 As far as self-loathing Democrats go, they have been on a long decline, which gains traction and velocity whenever Trump gets elected. The two minutes of hate has turned into a constant noise of hate, and it is completely irrational.

The latest hobbyhorse, ICE, is most insane, given that ICE merely enforces our nutty immigration laws. No doubt Trump, who makes every issue his issue, will ultimately present an immigration reform bill to Congress. Probably after the midterms, he will force Democrats to go on the record voting against immigration reform, and take that issue away from them too.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 01, 2025 11:24 AM (kv+Nx)

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The level of hate towards a Republican president was sky high under W as well.

I think it's more than that.

I think it's the Obama influence. Rejection of the Obama years broke the Democrat party's mind.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 01, 2025 11:25 AM (GBKbO)

109 RIP Jay. Condolences to Mrs. Jay & family. It’s difficult when AOSHQ loses a commenter because of the clever and knowledgeable remarks posted here. There’s no other place like it.

Posted by: Unkaren at July 01, 2025 11:26 AM (LPL2Y)

110 Remember when Andrew Cuomo said "America was never that great" and his PR team had to go into crisis mode to explain that he didn't mean what he plainly did?
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at July 01, 2025 11:11 AM (PiwSw)

I'm old enough to remember Mooch whining that she was never proud of America until it 'elected' her swishy, dog-eating crackhead 'husband' as POTUS.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at July 01, 2025 11:26 AM (Dg2sF)

111
"The level of hate towards a Republican president was sky high under W as well."

What is the unit of measure for hate?

Posted by: I'll ask at July 01, 2025 11:26 AM (P+mok)

112 I'll miss Jay Guevera - praying for fortitude and grace for his family.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at July 01, 2025 11:27 AM (w6EFb)

113 The only immigration reform I want to see is a twenty year moratorium.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at July 01, 2025 11:27 AM (u73oe)

114 111
"The level of hate towards a Republican president was sky high under W as well."

What is the unit of measure for hate?
Posted by: I'll ask at July 01, 2025 11:26 AM (P+mok)

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The Kinison.

Between 0 and 1 with asymptotic approach to 1.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 01, 2025 11:27 AM (GBKbO)

115 What is the unit of measure for hate?

Heat of multiples of 1,000 suns.

Posted by: Bulg at July 01, 2025 11:28 AM (77rzZ)

116 111
"The level of hate towards a Republican president was sky high under W as well."

What is the unit of measure for hate?
Posted by: I'll ask
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Whoopi's or Joyless Behars, pick one.

Posted by: whig at July 01, 2025 11:28 AM (ctrM5)

117 If Mooch and Barack divorce (I doubt it’ll happen) I’m thinking that might cause something to snap even further in the dem psyche… they’ve had a weird public vibe going over the last year…

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 01, 2025 11:28 AM (nrfI8)

118 Commie coffee?

China’s Biggest Coffee Chain Makes U.S. Debut

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Luckin. Never heard of it. But . . .

Commie commie commie commie commie coffee
It sucks and blows it sucks and blows

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Well, This Is Another Fine Mess You've Gotten Me Into at July 01, 2025 11:28 AM (L/fGl)

119 I'm gonna do it. I'm predicting that Adams will win the NYC mayoral election, because I think most people can see what a disaster Mamdani will be for the city. It's fun to back the loon early on, but at some point, he becomes a real threat. I think the city has reached that point.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 01, 2025 11:29 AM (Riz8t)

120 ActBlue, the Dem Party’s prized fundraising platform, is now officially facing serious heat after years of allegations about shady donations, money laundering, and foreign interference. Top executives have now been subpoenaed by Congress. There’s nowhere left to run.

It appears that massive amounts of taxpayer money have been funneled through USAID and Dem-aligned NGOs. The money is missing, and allegations are that Biden’s Treasury Department was trying to cover it all up.

It’s a really scary notion: the artery of the Dem fundraising machine is now being investigated as a criminal enterprise, with foreign money, stolen identities, and election interference all swirling around it.

And just like that, once again, the conspiracy theorists, who the media mocked, are right yet again.

Posted by: SMOD at July 01, 2025 11:29 AM (RHGPo)

121 What is the unit of measure for hate?

Fickies from Ficki Fiona.

Posted by: 18-1 at July 01, 2025 11:29 AM (t0Rmr)

122 Between 0 and 1 with asymptotic approach to 1.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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No fair, you brought the maths to a literary conversation. Next you will be Poissoning the debate.

Posted by: whig at July 01, 2025 11:29 AM (ctrM5)

123 119 I'm gonna do it. I'm predicting that Adams will win the NYC mayoral election, because I think most people can see what a disaster Mamdani will be for the city. It's fun to back the loon early on, but at some point, he becomes a real threat. I think the city has reached that point.
Posted by: Archimedes at July 01, 2025 11:29 AM (Riz8t)

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I'm hoping that the Democrats have finally found a candidate so nutty that they go with an alternative.

I'm also hoping that the great Brown Hope does win, fixes nothing, NYC gets worse, and Mamdani blames Vance well into Vance's second term.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 01, 2025 11:29 AM (GBKbO)

124 Commie coffee?

China’s Biggest Coffee Chain Makes U.S. Debut

I'd like a Venti Macchiato, with extra melamine and lead

Posted by: Archimedes at July 01, 2025 11:30 AM (Riz8t)

125 See your 20 and raise you 100.

Posted by: Boss Moss at July 01, 2025 11:30 AM (LL6Kc)

126 In some measure I believe that our side is influenced by Christian ethics, which is opposed to Hate… even of our enemies.. the other side is free of that restriction..

Posted by: tubal at July 01, 2025 11:30 AM (PCK5/)

127 I didn't know about Jay Guevara's passing. That is so sad. Was it sudden? I mean had he been ill? So sorry to hear that. Prayers to his family.

Posted by: Minnfidel at July 01, 2025 11:30 AM (ewjUl)

128
The mindset you are dealing with on the left is that the US is the most hate-filled, xenophobic and bigoted country in the world. It's also the only one that has ever held slaves and we are forever racist and will never be forgiven for it in this world or the next (If they believe in the afterlife.).

But everyone should be allowed to come here, no questions asked.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 01, 2025 11:30 AM (/HVsR)

129 The Bryan Kohberger plea deal is odd. Nothing about the case made any sense. I thought there was a good chance the guy would get off. The prosecution's case seemed thin, at least what was publicly available.

What was the guy's motive? I get it that there are just insane people in the world, but even true loonies like Ed Gein have some motive. As far as I know, the prosecution in this case never offered a motive.

I still think it's highly unlikely that one guy could hack up four people -- including an adult male -- and escape without a trace of the crime. The only non-circumstantial evidence the prosecution had was a tiny bit of DNA left on a knife sheath at the crime scene.

Anyway, this tragedy is at an end, although the families of the victims will never be the same.

Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at July 01, 2025 11:30 AM (iFTx/)

130 Unit of intelligence — millikohn.. lately rebranded as a milliAOC

Unit of hate — Kinison… or a Rickles?

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 01, 2025 11:30 AM (nrfI8)

131 Cafe Bustelo was created by a Cuban Immigrant.

Posted by: Boss Moss at July 01, 2025 11:30 AM (LL6Kc)

132 120 It’s a really scary notion: the artery of the Dem fundraising machine is now being investigated as a criminal enterprise, with foreign money, stolen identities, and election interference all swirling around it.

And just like that, once again, the conspiracy theorists, who the media mocked, are right yet again.
Posted by: SMOD at July 01, 2025 11:29 AM (RHGPo)

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DNC is talking about funding its current operating costs with debt now.

It entertains me.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 01, 2025 11:30 AM (GBKbO)

133 122 Between 0 and 1 with asymptotic approach to 1.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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No fair, you brought the maths to a literary conversation. Next you will be Poissoning the debate.
Posted by: whig at July 01, 2025 11:29 AM (ctrM5)

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Sounds fishy.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 01, 2025 11:31 AM (GBKbO)

134 I hate carrots in chili with the white hot fury of one millionth of a sun.

Posted by: eleven at July 01, 2025 11:31 AM (fV+MH)

135 Democrats are generally miserable people.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at July 01, 2025 11:31 AM (/U5Yz)

136 I had insomnia last night, so I went online and disrespected an Australian in his own comments section. It took hours for the comment to get through mediation. It's like they sleep all day or something.

But really, screw that guy. I don't have opinions about Australian politics. Whatever, run along now, it's not my business. And here was an Australian claiming to know what Donald Trump is doing!

I didn't even know they could take their front paws off the ground.

Posted by: Bombadil at July 01, 2025 11:31 AM (MX0bI)

137 What is the unit of hate?[

I propose the Carville.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 01, 2025 11:31 AM (PY8/y)

138 58
‘ PolitiFact Claims Zohran Mamdani Isn’t a Communist’

He’s a Third World looter.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at July 01, 2025 11:31 AM (jbnUc)

139 RIP Jay. Condolences to Mrs. Jay & family. It’s difficult when AOSHQ loses a commenter because of the clever and knowledgeable remarks posted here. There’s no other place like it.
Posted by: Unkaren

I hope Ace really realizes just how special of a place he has built. This isn't just a blog with comments. AoSHQ is like home.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 01, 2025 11:31 AM (KdGoM)

140 Very interesting chart, CBD. One of the things that is clear is that no matter who is in office, Republicans have a consistent overwhelming faith in America. Democrats, on the other hand, have a love of America that waxes and wanes depending upon who's in power. What's also consistent about Dems is that they have much less faith in America as a group than Republican do; Rs had 30-40% more of it than Dems most of the time, and they have almost triple (!!) the faith than Dems do this year.

Very interesting.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at July 01, 2025 11:32 AM (0CU3H)

141 Maybe I’m missing something, but I thought AOC’s suburban upbringing was well known.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at July 01, 2025 11:32 AM (u73oe)

142 It’s a really scary notion: the artery of the Dem fundraising machine is now being investigated as a criminal enterprise, with foreign money, stolen identities, and election interference all swirling around it.

And just like that, once again, the conspiracy theorists, who the media mocked, are right yet again.
Posted by: SMOD

The Democrat party has ALWAYS been a self licking ice cream cone for funding. Good ole Tom Jefferson put his media hatchet man on the Dept. of State payroll in order to subvert domestic politics. Tammany Hall was famous for paying voters in order to keep getting grift from local and federal governments. Etc. Etc.

GOP reluctantly takes out its trash when a GOP member breaks the law; the Democrats celebrate their criminals in office.

Posted by: whig at July 01, 2025 11:32 AM (ctrM5)

143 You use big words for an illiterate.

Posted by: Boss Moss at July 01, 2025 11:32 AM (LL6Kc)

144 Gotta love this.
They demand due process for people who happily bypassed due process breaking into our country, so Trump sets it up so that it's done quickly, in a swamp, surrounded by gators.
Posted by: Lizzy at July 01, 2025 11:09 AM

In this case, fill the swamp don't drain it!

Posted by: Minnfidel at July 01, 2025 11:32 AM (ewjUl)

145 Open contempt for America is going to drive Democrat politics for a while.

Should be...interesting.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 01, 2025 11:23 AM (GBKbO)

Those who are full of hate can never build coalitions, never attract those outside of their group, and can never take power through ordinary civic methods. You may think this creates a risk of revolution - but strong, well led governments are never at risk from such movements. They can only threaten governments and systems that are on the verge of collapse already, usually for economic reasons.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 01, 2025 11:33 AM (uWKK8)

146 143 You use big words for an illiterate.
Posted by: Boss Moss at July 01, 2025 11:32 AM (LL6Kc)

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I don't know how to respond to this.

Because I can't read it.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 01, 2025 11:33 AM (GBKbO)

147 I'm gonna do it. I'm predicting that Adams will win the NYC mayoral election, because I think most people can see what a disaster Mamdani will be for the city. It's fun to back the loon early on, but at some point, he becomes a real threat. I think the city has reached that point.
Posted by: Archimedes at July 01, 2025 11:29 AM (Riz8t)

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I'm hoping that the Democrats have finally found a candidate so nutty that they go with an alternative.

I'm also hoping that the great Brown Hope does win, fixes nothing, NYC gets worse, and Mamdani blames Vance well into Vance's second term.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 01, 2025 11:29 AM (GBKbO)
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If NYC had a functioning GOP party -- it doesn't -- this would be the perfect time to run a solid candidate against Saw'em Bombdaddy. It wasn't that long ago that Rudy G snuck in under similar circumstances. But alas, the NYC GOP makes the national GOP look like superheroes.

Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at July 01, 2025 11:33 AM (iFTx/)

148 141 Maybe I’m missing something, but I thought AOC’s suburban upbringing was well known.
Posted by: Duke Lowell
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People forget, particularly Democrats and Independents. Won't Get Fooled Again is never compatible with being a Democrat partisan.

Posted by: whig at July 01, 2025 11:33 AM (ctrM5)

149
"The level of hate towards a Republican president was sky high under W as well."

But they loved Reagan.

/s

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 01, 2025 11:33 AM (63Dwl)

150 i got my shit pebbles stuck inmy teeth
they give me flavor explosions all day that way

Posted by: Aliassmithsmith at July 01, 2025 11:34 AM (n4n7o)

151 The Democrat party has ALWAYS been a self licking ice cream cone for funding. Good ole Tom Jefferson put his media hatchet man on the Dept. of State payroll in order to subvert domestic politics.

You and I used to disagree about TJ, with me taking the negative and you the positive. If this shift continues, do I have to support him? I won't do it!

Posted by: Archimedes at July 01, 2025 11:34 AM (Riz8t)

152 They’re not conspiracy theories: they’re spoiler notes!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 01, 2025 11:34 AM (PY8/y)

153 I didn't know about Jay Guevara's passing. That is so sad. Was it sudden? I mean had he been ill? So sorry to hear that. Prayers to his family.
Posted by: Minnfidel

Very sudden. I think it was soothsayer who said yesterday that he thought it was an aneurism.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 01, 2025 11:34 AM (KdGoM)

154 145 Those who are full of hate can never build coalitions, never attract those outside of their group, and can never take power through ordinary civic methods. You may think this creates a risk of revolution - but strong, well led governments are never at risk from such movements. They can only threaten governments and systems that are on the verge of collapse already, usually for economic reasons.
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 01, 2025 11:33 AM (uWKK

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Steady progress on election reforms, the cutting of funding directly to the Democrat Party, the expulsion of millions of illegal immigrants...

2028 is going to be an interesting cycle from a narrative point of view.

I just want Amy Kloubucher on stage at the DNC screaming that her lawn hasn't been mowed in 3 years.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 01, 2025 11:34 AM (GBKbO)

155 PolitiFact Claims Zohran Mamdani Isn’t a Communist
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Well, This Is Another Fine Mess You've Gotten Me Into at July 01, 2025 11:14 AM

He's more of a communist than Sanders. Bernie never threatened to seize the means of production.

Posted by: toby928 at July 01, 2025 11:34 AM (jc0TO)

156 Fucktard is back.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 01, 2025 11:35 AM (P7vXf)

157 This isn't just a blog with comments. AoSHQ is like home.
Posted by: rickb223 at July 01, 2025 11:31 AM (KdGoM)

It's not a blog with comments - it's comments with a blog.

Posted by: ... at July 01, 2025 11:35 AM (VPwHp)

158 147 If NYC had a functioning GOP party -- it doesn't -- this would be the perfect time to run a solid candidate against Saw'em Bombdaddy. It wasn't that long ago that Rudy G snuck in under similar circumstances. But alas, the NYC GOP makes the national GOP look like superheroes.
Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at July 01, 2025 11:33 AM (iFTx/)

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"We'll be Democrats, but more gay."
-The NYGOP

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 01, 2025 11:35 AM (GBKbO)

159 I mentioned in an earlier thread I ran across charlotte grant who is miss england

She's a pretty, pale redhead.

But I noticed in half her professional pictures they have so much makeup on her she looks like a tranny.

Is this the new thing putting so much makeup on women in the media you can't actually tell if they are women?

Posted by: 18-1 at July 01, 2025 11:35 AM (t0Rmr)

160 149
"The level of hate towards a Republican president was sky high under W as well."

But they loved Reagan.

/s

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 01, 2025 11:33 AM (63Dwl)

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Yeah, but the graph only covers from 2000 on.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 01, 2025 11:35 AM (GBKbO)

161 But really, screw that guy. I don't have opinions about Australian politics. Whatever, run along now, it's not my business. And here was an Australian claiming to know what Donald Trump is doing!

I didn't even know they could take their front paws off the ground.
Posted by: Bombadil at July 01, 2025 11:31 AM (MX0bI)

Tell him you can't respect opinions from any country that has less people in it than Texas.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 01, 2025 11:35 AM (uWKK8)

162 I keep hearing that there are 11 million illegals on Medicaid.
If an illegal uses Medicaid then we would know the name and address?
Why are they not being deported?
????

Posted by: MAC V SOG at July 01, 2025 11:36 AM (P4Pk9)

163 The parties switched a number of years ago!!!!

/Says a leftist that loves Obama, Clinton, Carter, Kennedy, and FDR....

Posted by: 18-1 at July 01, 2025 11:36 AM (t0Rmr)

164 All in Pod was talking about mayor Hamas and brought up some good points. The biggest support he got was from people who voted white college grads. These are the ones with $75k college debt making $20 an hour working as a barista.They have no future.

For them communism sounds great. Because capitalism for them sucks. At least their perception of it.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 01, 2025 11:36 AM (nwGCR)

165 162 I keep hearing that there are 11 million illegals on Medicaid.
If an illegal uses Medicaid then we would know the name and address?
Why are they not being deported?
????
Posted by: MAC V SOG at July 01, 2025 11:36 AM (P4Pk9)

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Manpower.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 01, 2025 11:36 AM (GBKbO)

166 Libtards now claim to be the party of Hamas and Anne Frank.

Posted by: ... at July 01, 2025 11:36 AM (VPwHp)

167 156 Could you be more specific?

Posted by: Boss Moss at July 01, 2025 11:36 AM (LL6Kc)

168 I mentioned in an earlier thread I ran across charlotte grant who is miss england

She's a pretty, pale redhead.

IMHO, she's not very attractive.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 01, 2025 11:36 AM (Riz8t)

169
Happy 95th to Thomas Sowell. Someday, waves of Black people are going to stumble blinking into the light shouting "Why didn't anyone tell us about this guy?!"

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 01, 2025 11:37 AM (egH3D)

170 PolitiFact Claims Zohran Mamdani Isn’t a Communist
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Well, This Is Another Fine Mess You've Gotten Me Into at July 01, 2025 11:14 AM

He's more of a communist than Sanders. Bernie never threatened to seize the means of production.
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Just look to California and NYC--one doesn't have to "seize" the means of production so long as one can gum the entire process up with endless regulation, red tape, and taxation. The outcome is the same.

Posted by: Crusader at July 01, 2025 11:37 AM (TN0g+)

171 But everyone should be allowed to come here, no questions asked.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

This brings up one of my other observations. There are good neighborhoods and bad neighborhoods in this nation. The average liberal looks at that and demands that the good neighborhoods bring in the folks from the bad so that everyone is equally miserable.

Thus their obsession for open borders and importing 3rd world criminals.

Posted by: NR Pax at July 01, 2025 11:37 AM (RjOoY)

172 The parties switched a number of years ago!!!!

They became the party of Calvin Coolidge so gradually that we never noticed.

Posted by: toby928 at July 01, 2025 11:37 AM (jc0TO)

173 171 This brings up one of my other observations. There are good neighborhoods and bad neighborhoods in this nation. The average liberal looks at that and demands that the good neighborhoods bring in the folks from the bad so that everyone is equally miserable.

Thus their obsession for open borders and importing 3rd world criminals.
Posted by: NR Pax at July 01, 2025 11:37 AM (RjOoY)

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The leftist critique of America is actually a critique of Democrat run urban centers.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 01, 2025 11:37 AM (GBKbO)

174 low trust societies

**********

I am more and more of the view that the U.S. has, in a relatively short amount of time shifted from a high trust environment to low trust in virtually all aspects of society. Be it healthcare, telephone calls, strangers at my door, news reports, law enforcement, government, friends, family,, you name it. I am shifting from a default stance of 'trust but verify' to one of 'skepticism in all things'.

And it sucks.

Posted by: muldoon at July 01, 2025 11:37 AM (poXs5)

175 For them communism sounds great. Because capitalism for them sucks. At least their perception of it.

It sucks because they suck. If you refuse to do what it takes to be successful, don't be surprised if success eludes you.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 01, 2025 11:37 AM (Riz8t)

176 156 Could you be more specific?
Posted by: Boss Moss

#150

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 01, 2025 11:38 AM (P7vXf)

177 Thanks, Whig. The "virtue" of the left is exhausting with all the shame, guilt, and condemnation. The virtue on the sane side of the family is joyful and uplifting.

Posted by: Emmie celebrates the Audacity of Trump! at July 01, 2025 11:38 AM (043Zg)

178 Libtards now claim to be the party of Hamas and Anne Frank.
Posted by: ...

Um, Libtards? Anne Frank was a dirty joo.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 01, 2025 11:38 AM (KdGoM)

179 If NYC had a functioning GOP party -- it doesn't -- this would be the perfect time to run a solid candidate against Saw'em Bombdaddy. It wasn't that long ago that Rudy G snuck in under similar circumstances. But alas, the NYC GOP makes the national GOP look like superheroes.
Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at July 01, 2025 11:33 AM (iFTx/)

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"We'll be Democrats, but more gay."
-The NYGOP
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 01, 2025 11:35 AM (GBKbO)
______

Some good GOP guys in Long Island (Lee Zeldin) and Staten Island, but those areas don't have enough population to overcome the sheer volume of (mostly harvested and many fake) ballots in the more densely populated deep-blue areas.

Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at July 01, 2025 11:38 AM (iFTx/)

180 I hope Ace really realizes just how special of a place he has built. This isn't just a blog with comments. AoSHQ is like home.

A noisy and dysfunctional home with a barrel out in the backyard that has a funny smell, four crates of Val-U-Rite vodka on the driveway and the occasional troll pooping on the lawn.

But it's still one of my favorite places to be online.

Posted by: NR Pax at July 01, 2025 11:38 AM (RjOoY)

181 That seems to enrich the discussion.

Posted by: Boss Moss at July 01, 2025 11:38 AM (LL6Kc)

182 180 I hope Ace really realizes just how special of a place he has built. This isn't just a blog with comments. AoSHQ is like home.

A noisy and dysfunctional home with a barrel out in the backyard that has a funny smell, four crates of Val-U-Rite vodka on the driveway and the occasional troll pooping on the lawn.

But it's still one of my favorite places to be online.
Posted by: NR Pax at July 01, 2025 11:38 AM (RjOoY)

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Just don't tell him to use Rumble instead of Instagram.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 01, 2025 11:39 AM (GBKbO)

183 Speaking of Philly, any update on the house explosions there?

Eh. It happens.

Posted by: Woodrow WIlson Goode at July 01, 2025 11:39 AM (/y8xj)

184 Is this the new thing putting so much makeup on women in the media you can't actually tell if they are women?
Posted by: 18-1 at July 01, 2025 11:35 AM (t0Rmr)

What has happened is, the only women that are allowed to look like women now are "trans" women.

They have made femininity illegal for everyone EXCEPT men. A very strange perverted faggot people, commies are.

Posted by: ... at July 01, 2025 11:39 AM (VPwHp)

185 average liberal looks at that and demands that the good neighborhoods bring in the folks from the bad so that everyone is equally miserable.

Thus their obsession for open borders and importing 3rd world criminals.
Posted by: NR Pax at July 01, 2025 11:37 AM (RjOoY)

They want YOUR neighborhood to be enriched by diversity. Not theirs.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 01, 2025 11:39 AM (nwGCR)

186 He's more of a communist than Sanders. Bernie never threatened to seize the means of production.
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Bernie is, and has always been, a national socialist.

Posted by: pudinhead at July 01, 2025 11:39 AM (W3T6M)

187 Sounds fishy.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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Look up the fictitious case of Poisson v. D'Avril. Justice Rose of the Arkansas Supreme Court was infamous for his little legal joke opinions. One actually got published in West's SW Reporter by accident.

Posted by: whig at July 01, 2025 11:39 AM (ctrM5)

188 25 years ago, I used to think dems and reps all really wated what was best for the country, it's just that we disagreed on how to get there. I no longer feel that way. Perhaps it was naive. Yea it was. I feel that they are my enemy who wishes to take down my country and has an ulterior motive behind everything they do.

I wasn't raised with necessarily conservative values. I was raised to be honest, care for others, apply the golden rule. That the United States of America was the best nation on earth and that I was blessed to have been born here. That hard work would get me ahead. That there were others before me that sacrificed and to honor them. Those used to be American values across the board for the most part. Now conservatives are the only ones that adhere to it.

Posted by: Minnfidel at July 01, 2025 11:40 AM (ewjUl)

189 Thanks for your encouraging, patriotic post, CBD and for the remembrance of Jay who was a very smart, interesting and nice man. I am praying for his family

I have written letters to the editor, gone to township committee meetings and run for office twice. I guess I can go to school board meetings. I am happy to say that we have two very smart men running as Republicans for our township committee, and I think they are much better with social media than I am. They'd have to be. We had an Independence Day celebration in our town recently and - surprisingly- there seemed to be much more interest in the Republican booth than that of the Democrats.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 01, 2025 11:40 AM (2GCMq)

190 average liberal looks at that and demands that the good neighborhoods bring in the folks from the bad so that everyone is equally miserable.

Thus their obsession for open borders and importing 3rd world criminals.
Posted by: NR Pax at July 01, 2025 11:37 AM (RjOoY)

Levelers can only level down.

Posted by: toby928 reminds you at July 01, 2025 11:40 AM (jc0TO)

191 I never recall one of our trolls offering condolences on the passing of one of our commenters…

Posted by: tubal at July 01, 2025 11:40 AM (PCK5/)

192 The leftist critique of America is actually a critique of Democrat run urban centers.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu

OK, I am man enough to admit that what you said did not occur to me. And I think the anger stems from their almost religious belief that if they ran everything, the world would be sunshine and rainbows. But those blighted places keep messing things up for them.

Posted by: NR Pax at July 01, 2025 11:40 AM (RjOoY)

193 164 All in Pod was talking about mayor Hamas and brought up some good points. The biggest support he got was from people who voted white college grads. These are the ones with $75k college debt making $20 an hour working as a barista.They have no future.

For them communism sounds great. Because capitalism for them sucks. At least their perception of it.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 01, 2025 11:36 AM (nwGCR)

I like all the Besties - especially Sacks - but Friedberg is the most orthogonal thinker of them all. He's a nominal Democrat, but he goes about subjects from a different angle that leads him to some very un-Democrat conclusions. His thesis on Momdani is at the same time sympathetic and devastating to the ultra-libs of NYC. The Rs are truly becoming the America-First nationalists (not isolationists), while the Ds are becoming the Democratic Socialists.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at July 01, 2025 11:40 AM (0CU3H)

194 Trump threatens Musk with deportation.

This is why we cannot have nice things.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at July 01, 2025 11:40 AM (/U5Yz)

195 Any chance a link to Jay's obit would be shared?

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at July 01, 2025 11:12 AM (N39Ws)

If and when one is published I will post it.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (with a beret and a Gauloises) at July 01, 2025 11:41 AM (L5An7)

196 Probably some Fent Zombie engaging in advanced cheniatry sans degree.

Posted by: Boss Moss at July 01, 2025 11:41 AM (LL6Kc)

197 Communism is bringing everyone down to the lowest common denominator

Posted by: Skip at July 01, 2025 11:41 AM (+qU29)

198 What is the unit of measure for hate?

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Down twinkles.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Well, This Is Another Fine Mess You've Gotten Me Into at July 01, 2025 11:41 AM (L/fGl)

199 We had an Independence Day celebration in our town recently and - surprisingly- there seemed to be much more interest in the Republican booth than that of the Democrats.

What's to understand? They haven't had an original idea in 170 years.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 01, 2025 11:41 AM (Riz8t)

200 One of the YouTube people I watch went on a tirade about the 4th of July being the worst holiday, this country was the worst, yada yada. I watch her fir her review of horror movies that I'm too scared to watch. I unsubscribed but not before I told her what a pu#%y she was for taking money for her opinions, and there were lots of other countries she could visit and compare the freedoms they have with what we have here. Pissed me right off.

Posted by: Megthered at July 01, 2025 11:41 AM (GOJbT)

201 And it sucks.
Posted by: muldoon at July 01, 2025 11:37 AM (poXs5

Yes, I wish there were a way to preserve a high-trust society and protect it from the ravages of the left. When people have strong communities and work cooperatively, that makes it harder for totalitarians to take power, so they must destroy functional societies.

Posted by: Emmie celebrates the Audacity of Trump! at July 01, 2025 11:41 AM (043Zg)

202 They have made femininity illegal for everyone EXCEPT men.

It's worse than that. They have made it illegal to have dating preferences. Thankfully it looks like Gen Z is starting to punch back on this.

Posted by: NR Pax at July 01, 2025 11:42 AM (RjOoY)

203 Democrats run on hate. Always.

The Democrat's propaganda arm, the media, isn't really all that fond of America either. Certainly not as it stands today. Even under *biden and after a couple years of being locked down the media was still spinning narratives about Republicans, conservatives being vaccine deniers, science deniers and so on.

They hate us every bit as they hate the US, but I think we're the catalyst for all of it. And the media amplifies their hate.

I wonder what America would look like once the left has it's way. There's still going to be some segment that ain't happy with it.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 01, 2025 11:42 AM (Q4IgG)

204 192 The leftist critique of America is actually a critique of Democrat run urban centers.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu

OK, I am man enough to admit that what you said did not occur to me. And I think the anger stems from their almost religious belief that if they ran everything, the world would be sunshine and rainbows. But those blighted places keep messing things up for them.
Posted by: NR Pax at July 01, 2025 11:40 AM (RjOoY)

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It's something I realized when watching a clip of a music video, actually. Childish Gambino put out a video about what it's like to be a black man in America, and it was all about how city life sucks.

And it just kind of bloomed in my head. Almost everything domestic they complain about is limited to urban centers. Gun crime, in particular.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 01, 2025 11:42 AM (GBKbO)

205 177 Thanks, Whig. The "virtue" of the left is exhausting with all the shame, guilt, and condemnation. The virtue on the sane side of the family is joyful and uplifting.
Posted by: Emmie
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Leftism is a religion without joy focused on a worship of statist power so being without power is an existential crisis for them.

Posted by: whig at July 01, 2025 11:42 AM (ctrM5)

206 I'm gonna do it. I'm predicting that Adams will win the NYC mayoral election, because I think most people can see what a disaster Mamdani will be for the city. It's fun to back the loon early on, but at some point, he becomes a real threat. I think the city has reached that point.
Posted by: Archimedes at July 01, 2025 11:29 AM (Riz8t)

NYC deserves Mammydamy.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at July 01, 2025 11:42 AM (g8Ew8)

207 "Down twinkles.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks"

That's even worse than white hot suns.

Posted by: eleven at July 01, 2025 11:42 AM (fV+MH)

208 119
‘ I'm gonna do it. I'm predicting that Adams will win the NYC mayoral election, because I think most people can see what a disaster Mamdani will be for the city.’

I not only think that but I think it was pre-arranged to get Adam’s back in the first place.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at July 01, 2025 11:43 AM (jbnUc)

209 No more we waz Kangz.

Posted by: Boss Moss at July 01, 2025 11:43 AM (LL6Kc)

210
A noisy and dysfunctional home with a barrel out in the backyard that has a funny smell, four crates of Val-U-Rite vodka on the driveway and the occasional troll pooping on the lawn.

I don't know what I'd do without you folks. I have no meatspace friends. I never seek to get in touch with people from my past because it would be embarrassing for them and humiliating for me. I scarcely talk to anyone except Her Majesty now and I usually regret the rare exceptions. Here, at least, I'm tolerated (or endured).

I am not kidding at all when I say I pray for all of you every day.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 01, 2025 11:43 AM (/HVsR)

211 He will be missed.

Yes.
Yes he will.

Posted by: Diogenes at July 01, 2025 11:43 AM (1bdKO)

212 Alligator Alcatraz is exactly like a Nazi concentration camp except instead of trying to keep them in, they're trying to get them to leave.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Well, This Is Another Fine Mess You've Gotten Me Into at July 01, 2025 11:43 AM (L/fGl)

213 Three more days til Independence Day 🇺🇸

I've already put some red white and blue led bunting around the entry porch.

Posted by: Rex B at July 01, 2025 11:44 AM (n8d+Q)

214 For most of our lives in this country the Left claimed morality was stupid uptight bullshit invented by the rich to control everyone.

Then one day like magic, under a muzzie twink called Hussein (and with the help of a couple neverending wars and cooperation brought to you by Bush-Cheney, Inc) suddenly, right under our noses, the Commie Left became the Party of Morality and Goodness and Light.

It was a neat trick, and we are still soaking in it. Trump removed a *lot* of the veil but it is persistent and they don't plan to let it go until well after the death camps are open.

Posted by: ... at July 01, 2025 11:44 AM (VPwHp)

215 Hah, the Paris Metro.

July 1975, riding the Paris Metro with a friend, everyone smoking like chimneys, train jostles and some Frenchman accidentally burns my friend's arm with the lit end.

I stood very close to the doors so when the train moved, "fresh" air would pass thru the gap and reduce the suffocating stench of sweaty French and cigarettes.

Posted by: actually inside the beltway at July 01, 2025 11:44 AM (AdHga)

216 I don't know what I'd do without you folks. I have no meatspace friends. I never seek to get in touch with people from my past because it would be embarrassing for them and humiliating for me. I scarcely talk to anyone except Her Majesty now and I usually regret the rare exceptions. Here, at least, I'm tolerated (or endured).

I am not kidding at all when I say I pray for all of you every day.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

Goes double for me.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 01, 2025 11:44 AM (KdGoM)

217 Maybe I’m missing something, but I thought AOC’s suburban upbringing was well known.
Posted by: Duke Lowell

Her ideas are retarded, so I’m not sure where she grew up is relevant. That dipshit that won the NYC democratic mayoral primary was brought up in an upperclass family. He has retarded ideological ideas about governing, yet all I’ve heard is how charismatic he is. You know who else was considered charismatic! Yup, the big H!

Posted by: Unkaren at July 01, 2025 11:45 AM (LPL2Y)

218 I am shifting from a default stance of 'trust but verify' to one of 'skepticism in all things'.

Posted by: muldoon at July 01, 2025 11:37 AM (poXs5)

Low trust societies tend to have powerful governments.

That's a total coincidence of course!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (with a beret and a Gauloises) at July 01, 2025 11:45 AM (L5An7)

219 like all the Besties - especially Sacks - but Friedberg is the most orthogonal thinker of them all. He's a nominal Democrat, but he goes about subjects from a different angle that leads him to some very un-Democrat conclusions. His thesis on Momdani is at the same time sympathetic and devastating to the ultra-libs of NYC.

Schlichter just had a column about Ro Khanna - the communist congressman from CA. It's an interesting column because it describes a man who is capable of thinking (yes, they exist), and does, yet still clings to the orthodoxies of the left. Schlichter therefore thinks he's potentially a very dangerous candidate for the left.

https://is.gd/SJf0Yr

Posted by: Archimedes at July 01, 2025 11:45 AM (Riz8t)

220 191 I never recall one of our trolls offering condolences on the passing of one of our commenters…
Posted by: tubal
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For some of them, they could care less as long as they got paid for the troll. The other trolls though often reveal themselves because ultimately they are concerned with themselves more than others.

By their fruits, ye shall know them.

Posted by: whig at July 01, 2025 11:45 AM (ctrM5)

221 there were a way to preserve a high-trust society"

There is, and it's well documented thru history. Diversity it isn't...

Posted by: man at July 01, 2025 11:45 AM (tubbA)

222 A noisy and dysfunctional home with a barrel out in the backyard that has a funny smell, four crates of Val-U-Rite vodka on the driveway and the occasional troll pooping on the lawn.

Discarded shelving sticking out of the garbage containers. Empty pudding cups in the recycle bin of course because we care about Earf!

Posted by: Minnfidel at July 01, 2025 11:45 AM (ewjUl)

223 What could be better than July 4th on a Friday?

Posted by: eleven at July 01, 2025 11:45 AM (fV+MH)

224
#150
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 01, 2025 11:38 AM (P7vXf)

*checks frantically*

*breathes sigh of relief*

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 01, 2025 11:46 AM (/HVsR)

225 Posted by: Archimedes at July 01, 2025 11:41 AM (Riz8t)

Well, either something has changed or the Democrats weren't giving out free ice cream this year. The Dems way outnumber registered Republicans but we have a lot of people who are registered as Democrats who originally came from other countries and I think quite a number of them are fed up with the LBGT push on the public schools.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 01, 2025 11:46 AM (2GCMq)

226 204 Gun crime. If you take five major cities, all blue, off the rolls the national gun crime rate drops to nearly nothing figuring population and number of firearms owned. Chicago, NOLA, Memphis, LA, and Philly come to mind.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at July 01, 2025 11:46 AM (gm9Sb)

227 223 What could be better than July 4th on a Friday?
Posted by: eleven at July 01, 2025 11:45 AM (fV+MH)

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On a Thursday.

The Friday after is barely a work day.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 01, 2025 11:46 AM (GBKbO)

228 Schlichter just had a column about Ro Khanna - the communist congressman from CA. It's an interesting column because it describes a man who is capable of thinking (yes, they exist), and does, yet still clings to the orthodoxies of the left. Schlichter therefore thinks he's potentially a very dangerous candidate for the left.

https://is.gd/SJf0Yr
Posted by: Archimedes
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Like most things, we shall see. Schlicter is not someone (Cernovich is another) that I highly rate as pundits based on the track record of their predictions.

Posted by: whig at July 01, 2025 11:46 AM (ctrM5)

229 I think the city has reached that point.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 01, 2025 11:29 AM (Riz8t)

I think Adams has a small shot. But if Cuomo stays in the race, then all bets are off. My guess is that Mamdani will win.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (with a beret and a Gauloises) at July 01, 2025 11:47 AM (L5An7)

230 Slichter iirc is a pitcher?

Posted by: Boss Moss at July 01, 2025 11:47 AM (LL6Kc)

231 what do we love?
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I love the beliefs this country was founded on.

Posted by: From about That Time at July 01, 2025 11:47 AM (n4GiU)

232 174 low trust societies

**********

I am more and more of the view that the U.S. has, in a relatively short amount of time shifted from a high trust environment to low trust in virtually all aspects of society. Be it healthcare, telephone calls, strangers at my door, news reports, law enforcement, government, friends, family,, you name it. I am shifting from a default stance of 'trust but verify' to one of 'skepticism in all things'.

And it sucks.
Posted by: muldoon at July 01, 2025 11:37 AM (poXs5)

Muldoon, it does - bigtime. I blame multiculturism. Not the Melting Pot multiculti that made everyone Americans first and their ancestral countries a distant second, but the modern one that switched the two. If you can keep the low-trust culture that you came here with (or, in the case of blacks like me, the grievance culture that we've had forced down our throats by the race hucksters for decades), you make our culture low-trust by extension. When you have a major political party (the Dems) that needs a low-trust environment like an engine needs fuel, this is what you get - on steroids.

Shameful. And sad.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at July 01, 2025 11:47 AM (0CU3H)

233 229 I think Adams has a small shot. But if Cuomo stays in the race, then all bets are off. My guess is that Mamdani will win.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (with a beret and a Gauloises) at July 01, 2025 11:47 AM (L5An7)

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I read that Cuomo said he wouldn't pursue an independent run.

(for those wondering, no, NY does not have sore loser laws)

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 01, 2025 11:47 AM (GBKbO)

234 OUT: Free cell phones, EBT, Voter ID, and SSI for Illegals.

IN: 3 Hots and a Cot along with Herpetophobia for Illegals.

Posted by: Wally Gator at July 01, 2025 11:48 AM (5yGIt)

235 Jay Guevera - RIP. A wonderful commenter with a warrior's heart. May the Lord's perpetual light shine upon him.

Posted by: mrp at July 01, 2025 11:48 AM (rj6Yv)

236 216 I don't know what I'd do without you folks. I have no meatspace friends. I never seek to get in touch with people from my past because it would be embarrassing for them and humiliating for me. I scarcely talk to anyone except Her Majesty now and I usually regret the rare exceptions. Here, at least, I'm tolerated (or endured).

I am not kidding at all when I say I pray for all of you every day.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

Goes double for me.
Posted by: rickb223
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The Lord loves you and wants you to be happy so believers are never alone.

Posted by: whig at July 01, 2025 11:48 AM (ctrM5)

237 As I was reading above about American Exceptionalism, Mrs.D.was pointing out an article about the garbage stacked on Coney Island. Massive piles of trash.
It is indeed time to fight back.

Posted by: Diogenes at July 01, 2025 11:48 AM (1bdKO)

238 I think turnout will be key. Only 5% of NY city voted Muhamadani.

Posted by: runner at July 01, 2025 11:49 AM (g47mK)

239 Libtards now claim to be the party of Hamas and Anne Frank.
Posted by: ...

Um, Libtards? Anne Frank was a dirty joo.

That's ok. She's dead. The best kind.

Posted by: Libtards at July 01, 2025 11:49 AM (83DvQ)

240 Hadrian, your commentary here is valued. We miss you when you take your annual hiatus from the Horde during Lent.

Posted by: Bulg at July 01, 2025 11:49 AM (77rzZ)

241 Well, either something has changed or the Democrats weren't giving out free ice cream this year. The Dems way outnumber registered Republicans but we have a lot of people who are registered as Democrats who originally came from other countries and I think quite a number of them are fed up with the LBGT push on the public schools.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 01, 2025 11:46 AM

I have some dem friends and employees. They are all sick of the LBGQWERTY Tranny stuff. Their eyes are being opened, slowly. But let's be honest. It's hard for any of us to admit we were wrong.

Posted by: Minnfidel at July 01, 2025 11:49 AM (ewjUl)

242 f you take five major cities, all blue, off the rolls the national gun crime rate drops to nearly nothing figuring population and number of firearms owned. Chicago, NOLA, Memphis, LA, and Philly come to mind.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at July 01, 2025 11:46 AM (gm9Sb)

Jay Guevara crunched the numbers and discovered that if we take the top six cities (all blue shitholes) out, then we have the same murder rate as Belgium.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (with a beret and a Gauloises) at July 01, 2025 11:49 AM (L5An7)

243 Tip: Whatever day of the week July 4 falls on, Christmas of that year will fall on the day before.

Posted by: ... at July 01, 2025 11:49 AM (VPwHp)

244 Manpower.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 01, 2025 11:36 AM (GBKbO)

Deport them all now, raid Maine with exceptional vigor, throw their big connected employers in prison...maybe hat new zoo lie one in Florida?

Posted by: night lifted at July 01, 2025 11:49 AM (FZn/N)

245 College kinds get excited and need a "cause". So they went all in on the terrorist adjacent.

Posted by: runner at July 01, 2025 11:49 AM (g47mK)

246 I'm afraid of herpets.

Posted by: Boss Moss at July 01, 2025 11:49 AM (LL6Kc)

247 238 I think turnout will be key. Only 5% of NY city voted Muhamadani.
Posted by: runner at July 01, 2025 11:49 AM (g47mK)

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And if only 5% of NYC votes in the general, and Mamdani wins, then Mamdani is still mayor.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 01, 2025 11:49 AM (GBKbO)

248 Smucker's (which also owns many other brands including Hostess and Jif) has just announced that it is phasing out all artificial colorings.

RFK Jr. keeps winning.

But this opens up a philosophical problem: is a Twinkie still a Twinkie without artificial flavorings and colorings?

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at July 01, 2025 11:49 AM (qpyNK)

249 Only 5% of NY city voted Muhamadani.

Posted by: runner at July 01, 2025 11:49 AM (g47mK)

NYC had 23% turnout in the last mayoral election.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (with a beret and a Gauloises) at July 01, 2025 11:50 AM (L5An7)

250 244 Manpower.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 01, 2025 11:36 AM (GBKbO)

Deport them all now, raid Maine with exceptional vigor, throw their big connected employers in prison...maybe hat new zoo lie one in Florida?
Posted by: night lifted at July 01, 2025 11:49 AM (FZn/N)

=======

Maybe the most important part of the OBBB is the increase in funding for ICE.

Could get to 10,000 deports a day with it.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 01, 2025 11:50 AM (GBKbO)

251 Kurt Schlitchter…. Wasn’t he an Ohio State QB that got embroiled in some gambling controversy early in his NFL career and never heard from again? Not sure who this colonel guy is…

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 01, 2025 11:50 AM (5MZNC)

252 @180

>>A noisy and dysfunctional home with a barrel out in the backyard that has a funny smell, four crates of Val-U-Rite vodka on the driveway and the occasional troll pooping on the lawn.

This is exactly how Hunter S. Thompson would describe this place.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 01, 2025 11:50 AM (XV/Pl)

253 There have been Great Awakenings in America before… but the ones I am thinking of involved a revival of Christianity… not sure if that translates well into politics, although culture overlaps both areas…

Posted by: tubal at July 01, 2025 11:50 AM (PCK5/)

254 249 Only 5% of NY city voted Muhamadani.

Posted by: runner at July 01, 2025 11:49 AM (g47mK)

NYC had 23% turnout in the last mayoral election.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (with a beret and a Gauloises) at July 01, 2025 11:50 AM (L5An7)

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Republicans could run the table in NYC.

If they showed up to vote.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 01, 2025 11:50 AM (GBKbO)

255 I would like to see the Mooselim marxist get elected mayor of Gotham City. It would resemble the housing scene in "Dr. Zhivago" except with more rape. Be fun to see the homeless move into the Swells luxurious penthouse condos and using the hallways as toilets.

Posted by: Strelnikov at July 01, 2025 11:50 AM (1ngll)

256 I think Adams has a small shot. But if Cuomo stays in the race, then all bets are off. My guess is that Mamdani will win.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (with a beret and a Gauloises) at July 01, 2025 11:47 AM (L5An7)

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I read that Cuomo said he wouldn't pursue an independent run.

Yeah, that's what I thought.

I think turnout will be key. Only 5% of NY city voted Muhamadani.

And if you saw the video of the Mamdani HQ when the primary victory was announced, it makes a Klan rally look like the UN. Every single person that I saw was a young, obviously affluent, person of pallor.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 01, 2025 11:51 AM (Riz8t)

257 Republicans could run the table in NYC.

If they showed up to vote.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 01, 2025 11:50 AM (GBKbO)

THIS. If NYC Republicans came out four years ago, we'd be talking about a Mayor Sliwa right now.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at July 01, 2025 11:51 AM (0CU3H)

258 Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

I can't really speak for anyone else but heck, I will anyway. 😉. You are neither just "tolerated" or "endured" I among others appreciate your thoughts, as well as your sharing about your dog family and their trials and triumphs

And I am so glad to hear your reflections on the importance of your faith, your comments about Holy Days and how you make it a regular thing to get to Mass.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 01, 2025 11:52 AM (2GCMq)

259 NYC had 23% turnout in the last mayoral election.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (with a beret and a Gauloises) at July 01, 2025 11:50 AM (L5An7)

and then people wonder how they get where they get

Posted by: runner at July 01, 2025 11:52 AM (g47mK)

260
The Lord loves you and wants you to be happy so believers are never alone.
Posted by: whig at July 01, 2025 11:48 AM (ctrM5)

I was lapsed for 40 years and I'm only now realizing how profoundly damaging that was, both horizontally and vertically. I can conceive of a God that notices all your mistakes but not One to whom I can bring all my troubles; He told you what to do, so go do it.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 01, 2025 11:52 AM (/HVsR)

261 What could be better than July 4th on a Friday?

Posted by: eleven at July 01, 2025 11:45 AM (fV+MH)

Independence Day on a Friday.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (with a beret and a Gauloises) at July 01, 2025 11:53 AM (L5An7)

262 238 I think turnout will be key. Only 5% of NY city voted Muhamadani.
Posted by: runner

Bingo. If you look at the commie base, it was NOT the predominant working class nor minorities. It was AWFLs using ranked choice bullshit which is not in the general.

Adams might be able to win reelection but it will take turnout of low propensity voters and promising to do better in office mainly by stuffing the AWFLs and the perverts into a school locker as mayor next term.

Posted by: whig at July 01, 2025 11:53 AM (ctrM5)

263 174
‘ I am shifting from a default stance of 'trust but verify' to one of 'skepticism in all things'.

I have the same experience. It started when Obama was elected and really accelerated in 2020-2021.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at July 01, 2025 11:53 AM (jbnUc)

264 @238

>>I think turnout will be key. Only 5% of NY city voted Muhamadani.

As the saying goes, if you fail to decide, you still have made a choice.

Having said that, I don't think more people voting changes the outcome materially.

There is a ragtag band of GOP resistance on the islands, but NY is now a majority foreign born city, it has more in common with Marikesh than Main Street USA.

This is it's destiny. Manifest.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 01, 2025 11:53 AM (XV/Pl)

265 * pinched scoldface looks to you all *

Posted by: Joys Behar & Reid at July 01, 2025 11:53 AM (0sNs1)

266 255 I would like to see the Mooselim marxist get elected mayor of Gotham City. It would resemble the housing scene in "Dr. Zhivago" except with more rape. Be fun to see the homeless move into the Swells luxurious penthouse condos and using the hallways as toilets.
Posted by: Strelnikov at July 01, 2025 11:50 AM (1ngll)

It'll be great for Texas - most of the stock exchange will move to Dallas, and all of the financial firms will relocate, some to Texas, some around the country to low tax havens.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 01, 2025 11:53 AM (uWKK8)

267 Old joke/riddle:

Q. Do they have the Fourth of July in Canada?

A. Of course they do. It's just not a holiday.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at July 01, 2025 11:53 AM (qpyNK)

268 Could get to 10,000 deports a day with it.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 01, 2025 11:50 AM (GBKbO)

Relentlessly raid Maine, South Dakota, and other rino states

Posted by: night lifted at July 01, 2025 11:54 AM (FZn/N)

269 60. I fear escalating violence by the left even as they take over the Democratic party entirely.
Posted by: whig

I do too. The Guerrilla Theater of old on steroids.

A passage in a 1961 Che Guevara essay, "The guerrilla fighter needs full help from the people.... From the very beginning he has the intention of destroying an unjust order and therefore an intention... to replace the old with something new." (Wikipedia, and other sources)

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at July 01, 2025 11:54 AM (NFX2v)

270 260
The Lord loves you and wants you to be happy so believers are never alone.
Posted by: whig at July 01, 2025 11:48 AM (ctrM5)

I was lapsed for 40 years and I'm only now realizing how profoundly damaging that was, both horizontally and vertically. I can conceive of a God that notices all your mistakes but not One to whom I can bring all my troubles; He told you what to do, so go do it.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 01, 2025 11:52 AM (/HVsR)

You are a thoughtful man who has moved off of the center of the universe…

Posted by: tubal at July 01, 2025 11:54 AM (PCK5/)

271 Bwahahahahahahaha! Can you imagine the headlines if it was LeBron instead?

HEADLINE: THIS IS WHY NO ONE WATCHES THE WNBA

WNBA star NaLyssa Smith says she’s “sick to her stomach” because she’s now separated from her girlfriend after unexpected trade.

Front office memo:
Less scissoring, more basketball.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 01, 2025 11:54 AM (KdGoM)

272 I Hope Kamala Harris Keeps Chasing Parked Cars.

Posted by: SMOD at July 01, 2025 11:54 AM (RHGPo)

273
Jay was a real mensch and I am sorry we did not have him on the podcast more frequently than we did.

RIP and condolences to family and friends.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 01, 2025 11:55 AM (x0n13)

274 Heh... Alligator Alcatraz has reviews up on Google.

Most are positive. 4 - 5 stars. Great trolling effort underway.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 01, 2025 11:55 AM (Q4IgG)

275 Republicans could run the table in NYC.

If they showed up to vote.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 01, 2025 11:50 AM (GBKbO)

Not a chance.

Dems outnumber Reps x6. Add in the independents who outnumber the Reps x3, and you get a Democrat controlled city forever.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (with a beret and a Gauloises) at July 01, 2025 11:55 AM (L5An7)

276 Apparently Schlichter is just a garbage human.

If you read up on him he's an absolute shit.

I think he's spent most of his life in prison.

Posted by: eleven at July 01, 2025 11:55 AM (fV+MH)

277 263 174
‘ I am shifting from a default stance of 'trust but verify' to one of 'skepticism in all things'.

I have the same experience. It started when Obama was elected and really accelerated in 2020-2021.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at July 01, 2025 11:53 AM (jbnUc)

This is only one of the reasons why Obama was the worst president of my lifetime - even more than Biden and Jimmuh.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at July 01, 2025 11:55 AM (0CU3H)

278 > The guerrilla fighter needs full help from the people....

Then he turned around and got dimed out by the peasants he and his "freedom fighters" were using as virtual slaves.

Talked the talk.

Didn't walk the walk.

It's also amusing to point out to a larval communist that the guy on their t shirt was a racist, sexist, homophobe.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at July 01, 2025 11:56 AM (qpyNK)

279 Some of my fave monologues of Rush Limbaugh where the ones where he explained American Exceptionalism -- the ACTUAL definition, not the liberal interpretation (which always leads to an apology tour for how horrible we are for thinking America has elements of our attitudes, culture, freedoms, and mentality that have built us to this exceptionalism.)

Rush never backed down and apologized for American Exceptionalism, but celebrated it, and he helped shape my thinking in profound ways.

Posted by: LizLem at July 01, 2025 11:56 AM (Eng1Z)

280 But this opens up a philosophical problem: is a Twinkie still a Twinkie without artificial flavorings and colorings?

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at July 01, 2025 11:49 AM (qpyNK)

I'll outlast you all ...

Posted by: cockroach at July 01, 2025 11:56 AM (TTAGa)

281 268 Could get to 10,000 deports a day with it.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 01, 2025 11:50 AM (GBKbO)

Relentlessly raid Maine, South Dakota, and other rino states
Posted by: night lifted at July 01, 2025 11:54 AM (FZn/N)

=======

One of the most publicized workplace raids over the last couple of weeks was in Nebraska.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 01, 2025 11:56 AM (GBKbO)

282 I still think it's highly unlikely that one guy could hack up four people -- including an adult male -- and escape without a trace of the crime. The only non-circumstantial evidence the prosecution had was a tiny bit of DNA left on a knife sheath at the crime scene.

Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade

Extremely unlikely is right. Kohberger was trained in forensic techniques and he took extreme precautions to leave no trace of his travel or presence. He almost pulled off the crime of the century.

Not quite. He left traces of his travel and his presence. There's no explanation for his travel other than his presence at the crime scene, and there's no explanation for his DNA at the scene other than his travel to the location. He didn't have other business in the area, and he went to one hell of lot of trouble to get there without leaving a trace. He demonstrably relied on his training as a Master of Criminal Psychology for purposes of obscuring his travel and presence.

Posted by: Bombadil at July 01, 2025 11:56 AM (MX0bI)

283 Brit Lass likes to tell me that England celebrates July 5th. She's a funny bitch.

Posted by: ... at July 01, 2025 11:56 AM (VPwHp)

284 Jay Guevara… as solid a guy as ever comes around… by their fruits you shall know them… indeed..

Posted by: tubal at July 01, 2025 11:56 AM (PCK5/)

285
What could be better than July 4th on a Friday?
Posted by: eleven

July 4th on a Monday

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 01, 2025 11:57 AM (63Dwl)

286 Firewoeks Boxing Day?

Posted by: Boss Moss at July 01, 2025 11:57 AM (LL6Kc)

287 Reuters, Danish national arrested for allegedly spying on Jewish targets in Berlin for Iran
By Miranda Murray and Stine Jacobsen
July 1, 2025, Updated 1 hour ago

In part,
Summary
-Spying may be for attacks on Jewish targets, prosecutors say
-Iran says allegations are unfounded
-Alleged targets of planned attacks call on Germany to take action

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at July 01, 2025 11:57 AM (NFX2v)

288 Republicans could run the table in NYC.

If they showed up to vote.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 01, 2025 11:50 AM (GBKbO)

THIS. If NYC Republicans came out four years ago, we'd be talking about a Mayor Sliwa right now.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at July 01, 2025 11:51 AM (0CU3H)
_______

And governor Zeldin. Sliwa is a bit nutty. He's not dumb and his platform is pretty solid. But he's kinda weird with an odd past. That, plus the fact that he's always running for mayor and losing, doesn't make him a great candidate. Much better than Bombdaddy, of course. As I commented above, the state and local GOP is trash, so we have no bench at all, let alone a deep one.

Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at July 01, 2025 11:57 AM (iFTx/)

289 @254

>>Republicans could run the table in NYC. If they showed up to vote.

Perhaps, who exactly are NYC Republicans going to vote for?

Curtis Sliwa?

I mean, have you ever really listened to him?

He's had as high a profile NYC existence as Trump, he's been on NYC radio for over 30 years and in the last election he mustered all of 312k votes in a city of 8 million.

I think the arc NYC is on is the one it's destined to take.

And as an old mayor opined, the people have spoken, now they must suffer.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 01, 2025 11:57 AM (XV/Pl)

290 Not quite. He left traces of his travel and his presence. There's no explanation for his travel other than his presence at the crime scene, and there's no explanation for his DNA at the scene other than his travel to the location. He didn't have other business in the area, and he went to one hell of lot of trouble to get there without leaving a trace. He demonstrably relied on his training as a Master of Criminal Psychology for purposes of obscuring his travel and presence.
Posted by: Bombadil at July 01, 2025 11:56 AM (MX0bI)

not to mention that there are no plausible alternate suspects.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 01, 2025 11:58 AM (uWKK8)

291 > Apparently Schlichter is just a garbage human.

Posted by: eleven at July 01, 2025 11:55 AM (fV+MH)

Apparently you're a lying communist troll.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at July 01, 2025 11:58 AM (qpyNK)

292 275 Not a chance.

Dems outnumber Reps x6. Add in the independents who outnumber the Reps x3, and you get a Democrat controlled city forever.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (with a beret and a Gauloises) at July 01, 2025 11:55 AM (L5An7)

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Eh. At 23% turnout total with the Democrat winning a majority, that means if 100% of Republicans turn out, it's, minimum, 11% of the entire registered population voting Republican.

Just 20% of Indies going Republican probably puts the Republican candidate over the line.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 01, 2025 11:58 AM (GBKbO)

293 162 I keep hearing that there are 11 million illegals on Medicaid.
If an illegal uses Medicaid then we would know the name and address?
Why are they not being deported?
____

I think if 11mm illegals were kicked off medicaid, you'd get some pct of them to self-deport. But I'm also wondering what happens to the hospitals that are required by law to treat them, but will not receive medicare payments to cover part of the costs. It could be disruptive, but still the right thing to do.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at July 01, 2025 11:59 AM (Dv3i1)

294 Whoa!!

Posted by: tubal at July 01, 2025 11:59 AM (PCK5/)

295 >>> 280 But this opens up a philosophical problem: is a Twinkie still a Twinkie without artificial flavorings and colorings?
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at July 01, 2025 11:49 AM (qpyNK)
I'll outlast you all ...
Posted by: cockroach at July 01, 2025 11:56 AM (TTAGa)

Been there done that...

Posted by: The cockroach INSIDE the Twinkie in Wall-E at July 01, 2025 11:59 AM (Eng1Z)

296 Apparently Schlichter is just a garbage human.

If you read up on him he's an absolute shit.

I think he's spent most of his life in prison.

Posted by: eleven at July 01, 2025 11:55 AM (fV+MH)

Uh...who?

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (with a beret and a Gauloises) at July 01, 2025 11:59 AM (L5An7)

297 Shameful. And sad.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at July 01, 2025 11:47 AM (0CU3H)

Very. I saw, on FB, a beautiful post by a black guy, cheering the deportations. For the first time in years he saw black and white Americans, working construction, installing new roofs, and even opening their own landscaping and mowing businesses. He rejoiced in seeing teens, lie the one he used to be earning money mowing lawns. Yeah, that's what I remember.

Posted by: night lifted at July 01, 2025 11:59 AM (FZn/N)

298 July 4th was invented by a guy. Grilling, blowing stuff up. I mean, no offense ettes. But it's true.

Posted by: Minnfidel at July 01, 2025 11:59 AM (ewjUl)

299
This is only one of the reasons why Obama was the worst president of my lifetime - even more than Biden and Jimmuh.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at July 01, 2025 11:55 AM (0CU3H)

They were about equally terrible presidents for different reasons. The disaster of Carter's economic policies took years to unwind. And then there's dumping the Shah, who was no worse thug than most we tolerate.

Obama's catastrophe was different. He might have been a unifying figure that moved the country away our racial past. He, more than anyone, is responsible for our present social and political rift.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 01, 2025 11:59 AM (/HVsR)

300 not to mention that there are no plausible alternate suspects.

Posted by: Tom Servo

No alternate suspects, no alternate theories, and all the breadcrumbs line up.

It was him.

Posted by: Bombadil at July 01, 2025 12:00 PM (MX0bI)

301 251 Kurt Schlitchter…. Wasn’t he an Ohio State QB that got embroiled in some gambling controversy early in his NFL career and never heard from again? Not sure who this colonel guy is…
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 01, 2025 11:50 AM (5MZNC)

Art ... Art Schlichter

Posted by: browndog remembering his Buckeye roots at July 01, 2025 12:00 PM (TTAGa)

302 Apparently Schlichter is just a garbage human.

If you read up on him he's an absolute shit.

I think he's spent most of his life in prison.
Posted by: eleven at July 01, 2025 11:55 AM (fV+MH)

So what are your source(s) for this?

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at July 01, 2025 12:00 PM (/HDaX)

303 289 Perhaps, who exactly are NYC Republicans going to vote for?

Curtis Sliwa?

I mean, have you ever really listened to him?

He's had as high a profile NYC existence as Trump, he's been on NYC radio for over 30 years and in the last election he mustered all of 312k votes in a city of 8 million.

I think the arc NYC is on is the one it's destined to take.

And as an old mayor opined, the people have spoken, now they must suffer.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 01, 2025 11:57 AM (XV/Pl)

======

And this is why Mitch wins his primaries.

"Oh, no. The other guy is CRAZY! Might as well stick with the guy I know and hate."

Seriously. Expecting partisans to just vote partisan is not a high bar. Just do it.

Like Sliwa would be worse than Adams.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 01, 2025 12:00 PM (GBKbO)

304 I think if 11mm illegals were kicked off medicaid, you'd get some pct of them to self-deport. But I'm also wondering what happens to the hospitals that are required by law to treat them, but will not receive medicare payments to cover part of the costs. It could be disruptive, but still the right thing to do.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at July 01, 2025 11:59 AM (Dv3i1)

They'll immediately lobby for illegals scroungers to be excluded from EMTALA

Posted by: night lifted at July 01, 2025 12:00 PM (FZn/N)

305 A wonderful tribute to Jay Guevara, CBD.

Again, if anyone has a link to his obit I know we would all like to read it.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 01, 2025 11:20 AM (z7PWo)

Seconded! I was pleased to read the tribute, and would indeed like to read the obit, and add my condolences to his family.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 01, 2025 12:00 PM (05iS8)

306 So the assholes get a little more proud of their country if the prez is a dem, and whoopsie!, big drop in that pride when the prez is a hitler R?

Posted by: Mr Gaga at July 01, 2025 12:00 PM (zeLd4)

307 Those of us far from New York are puzzled as to why New Yorkers don't like Sliwa; but reading around, it seems pretty clear that most New Yorkers don't like him.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 01, 2025 12:00 PM (uWKK8)

308 Remembering Ted Bundy and the Chi Omega Murders
May 15, 2024
FSA Blogs

By David Brand
Law Enforcement Coordinator, Florida Sheriffs Association

It begins, In January 1978, evil visited Tallahassee in the form of a psychopathic stalker who was later identified as one of the most vicious serial killers in modern history.

On January 15, 1978, around 4:00 am, a phone call awakened me at home. As a young Tallahassee Police detective, I was used to receiving calls in the middle of the night. However, this call was different. My lieutenant was calling to tell me there had been multiple homicides at the Chi Omega sorority house at FSU and to respond there immediately. This was the beginning of the saga of serial killer Ted Bundy’s reign of horror in Tallahassee.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at July 01, 2025 12:00 PM (NFX2v)

309 "Apparently Schlichter is just a garbage human.

If you read up on him he's an absolute shit.

I think he's spent most of his life in prison.

Posted by: eleven at July 01, 2025 11:55 AM (fV+MH)

Uh...who?"

Quarterback from THE Ohio State University.

Posted by: eleven at July 01, 2025 12:00 PM (fV+MH)

310 281 Nebraska has always been a hot place for illegals, along with Arkansas due to the large number of meat packing and poultry processing facilities. Cheap labor for monotonous, often times dangerous work, the work AMericans won't do. This was proven wrong in the recent raid in Nebraska. After the raid, a hiring notice went out and it was SRO to apply.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at July 01, 2025 12:01 PM (gm9Sb)

311 Barry Schlicter, of the Schenectady Schlicters

Posted by: ... at July 01, 2025 12:01 PM (VPwHp)

312 306 So the assholes get a little more proud of their country if the prez is a dem, and whoopsie!, big drop in that pride when the prez is a hitler R?

Posted by: Mr Gaga at July 01, 2025 12:00 PM (zeLd4)

======

Even under Biden it never got to levels it was under W.

The party has changed. It's no longer remotely moderate on the whole.

It's gone crazy.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 01, 2025 12:01 PM (GBKbO)

313 I was lapsed for 40 years and I'm only now realizing how profoundly damaging that was, both horizontally and vertically. I can conceive of a God that notices all your mistakes but not One to whom I can bring all my troubles; He told you what to do, so go do it.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh
=========
For me, a distinction between the Holy Spirit and Jesus is that Jesus is our interlocutor and advocate with us to the Father. A High Priest of the order of Melchizedek for all time but at the same time approachable as a worldly friend as he lived a human life and understands the pull of sin and the tendency to do wrong.

One of the benefits of Catholicism though is the confession as you can unburden your soul while receiving firm but fair guidance. All of us feel low and unworthy at times but your care for your show dogs and empathy for others is a reflection of your faith and does a credit to you here.

Pray to Jesus himself and you might be surprised that he listens and responds even to those that believe themselves lost. Remember the Prodigal Son metaphor.

Posted by: whig at July 01, 2025 12:01 PM (ctrM5)

314 307 Those of us far from New York are puzzled as to why New Yorkers don't like Sliwa; but reading around, it seems pretty clear that most New Yorkers don't like him.
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 01, 2025 12:00 PM (uWKK

It’s the Beret… it wasn’t Raspberry…

Posted by: tubal at July 01, 2025 12:01 PM (PCK5/)

315 Eh. At 23% turnout total with the Democrat winning a majority, that means if 100% of Republicans turn out, it's, minimum, 11% of the entire registered population voting Republican.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 01, 2025 11:58 AM (GBKbO)

That is a fantasy. Even with historical turnout the Republicans won't win unless there are multiple candidates on the left, and a charismatic Republican.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (with a beret and a Gauloises) at July 01, 2025 12:01 PM (L5An7)

316 Is a Kinison bigger than a Goldthwaite? What's the conversion factor?

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at July 01, 2025 12:02 PM (PiwSw)

317 Do I have the wrong guy?

Posted by: eleven at July 01, 2025 12:02 PM (fV+MH)

318 >
I think he's spent most of his life in prison.
Posted by: eleven at July 01, 2025 11:55 AM (fV+MH)

So what are your source(s) for this?
Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at July 01, 2025 12:00 PM (/HDaX)

Yeah, I'm not seeing a lot of spare time in this biography for him to have "spent most of his life in prison", even if you count nights and weekends.

https://tinyurl.com/3kt7m8bt

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at July 01, 2025 12:02 PM (qpyNK)

319 315 That is a fantasy. Even with historical turnout the Republicans won't win unless there are multiple candidates on the left, and a charismatic Republican.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (with a beret and a Gauloises) at July 01, 2025 12:01 PM (L5An7)

=======

I'm just saying, 100% of Republicans turn out...there's a good chance of winning.

Of course it's fantasy.

But, it's not impossible fantasy.

Just...turn out. It's not like NY makes voting hard.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 01, 2025 12:02 PM (GBKbO)

320 Eh. At 23% turnout total with the Democrat winning a majority, that means if 100% of Republicans turn out, it's, minimum, 11% of the entire registered population voting Republican.

Just 20% of Indies going Republican probably puts the Republican candidate over the line.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 01, 2025 11:58 AM (GBKbO)

That’s an awful lot of mathiness TJM!

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 01, 2025 12:03 PM (P/Wjn)

321 Do I have the wrong guy?
Posted by: eleven at July 01, 2025 12:02 PM (fV+MH)

Safe to say!!! 😂

Posted by: ... at July 01, 2025 12:03 PM (VPwHp)

322 I never seek to get in touch with people from my past because it would be embarrassing for them and humiliating for me.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 01, 2025 11:43 AM (/HVsR)

It's your taste in music! Your fascination with mid-late 19th century classical is disturbing.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (with a beret and a Gauloises) at July 01, 2025 12:03 PM (L5An7)

323 Dudes. Quarterback.

Ohio State.

Posted by: eleven at July 01, 2025 12:03 PM (fV+MH)

324 316 Is a Kinison bigger than a Goldthwaite? What's the conversion factor?
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at July 01, 2025 12:02 PM (PiwSw)

====

The Goldthwaite was developed by the French during their Revolution and should be shunned by all good-thinking Americans.

However, if you must make the conversion, it's 1 Kinison = .72 Goldthwaite

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 01, 2025 12:03 PM (GBKbO)

325 Pray to Jesus himself and you might be surprised that he listens and responds even to those that believe themselves lost. Remember the Prodigal Son metaphor.

Posted by: whig at July 01, 2025 12:01 PM (ctrM5)

whig ...

God bless you and your contributions to this site

***bro hug***

Posted by: browndog remembering his Buckeye roots at July 01, 2025 12:03 PM (TTAGa)

326 307 Those of us far from New York are puzzled as to why New Yorkers don't like Sliwa; but reading around, it seems pretty clear that most New Yorkers don't like him.
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 01, 2025 12:00 PM (uWKK

A lot of NYCers and for that matter people, near me, in Philly LOVE criminals. I had an aunt who married a NYer who reported hating Giulianu for destroying the excitement of living in a big city. When the illegals started there, she immediately hired a group to help clean, they robbed her. I laughed in her face. DOn't miss her a bit and ignore those cousins.

Posted by: night lifted at July 01, 2025 12:04 PM (FZn/N)

327 310 281 Nebraska has always been a hot place for illegals, along with Arkansas due to the large number of meat packing and poultry processing facilities. Cheap labor for monotonous, often times dangerous work, the work AMericans won't do. This was proven wrong in the recent raid in Nebraska. After the raid, a hiring notice went out and it was SRO to apply.
Posted by: bill in arkansas

Anywhere there is food processing, you will find illegals and often food processors like them because they will not report injuries, bad or dangerous work conditions, and compelled and uncompenstated overtime.

History since Adam and Eve left the garden is a long chain of some people trying to compel others to do their work for them as cheaply as possible.

Posted by: whig at July 01, 2025 12:04 PM (ctrM5)

328 321 Do I have the wrong guy?
Posted by: eleven at July 01, 2025 12:02 PM (fV+MH)

Safe to say!!! 😂
Posted by: ... at July 01, 2025 12:03 PM (VPwHp)

We all screw up, here… the degrees vary though..

Posted by: tubal at July 01, 2025 12:04 PM (PCK5/)

329 Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at July 01, 2025 12:00 PM (/HDaX)

Did you go to UC Berkeley?

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (with a beret and a Gauloises) at July 01, 2025 12:04 PM (L5An7)

330
It's your taste in music! Your fascination with mid-late 19th century classical is disturbing.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (with a beret and a Gauloises) at July 01, 2025 12:03 PM (L5An7)

*points Berlioz at CBD*
*turns volume to 11*

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 01, 2025 12:04 PM (/HVsR)

331 This is only one of the reasons why Obama was the worst president of my lifetime - even more than Biden and Jimmuh.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at July 01, 2025 11:55 AM (0CU3H)

They were about equally terrible presidents for different reasons. The disaster of Carter's economic policies took years to unwind. And then there's dumping the Shah, who was no worse thug than most we tolerate.

Obama's catastrophe was different. He might have been a unifying figure that moved the country away our racial past. He, more than anyone, is responsible for our present social and political rift.

Biden is different, in that he wasn't really a president at all - just an inert facade behind which the true maniacs went to work.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 01, 2025 12:05 PM (Riz8t)

332 @303

>>Like Sliwa would be worse than Adams.

If I still lived in NYC, Sliwa would be my guy.

But I don't live in NYC and NYC is now, largely a foreign city.

Habeeb, Wong Lo Kim and Jesus Del Montoya are not going to vote for Curtis Sliwa.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 01, 2025 12:05 PM (XV/Pl)

333 322 CBD, that’s my favorite kind of music, as well.

Posted by: Bulg at July 01, 2025 12:05 PM (77rzZ)

334 *points Berlioz at CBD*
*turns volume to 11*
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 01, 2025 12:04 PM (/HVsR)

lol ...

Posted by: browndog remembering his Buckeye roots at July 01, 2025 12:05 PM (TTAGa)

335 Republicans could run the table in NYC.

If they showed up to vote.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

If they had someone to vote FOR. And no, professional publicity hound Curtis Sliwa doesn't count.

Posted by: J. Frank Parnell at July 01, 2025 12:06 PM (eb5mD)

336 Obama's catastrophe was different. He might have been a unifying figure that moved the country away our racial past. He, more than anyone, is responsible for our present social and political rift.
-----

Biden is different, in that he wasn't really a president at all - just an inert facade behind which the true maniacs went to work.
Posted by: Archimedes at July 01, 2025 12:05 PM (Riz8t)

Ummmmm

Posted by: ... at July 01, 2025 12:06 PM (VPwHp)

337 I would say my favorite is Mussorgsky but I might be ridiculed…

Posted by: tubal at July 01, 2025 12:06 PM (PCK5/)

338 I never seek to get in touch with people from my past because it would be embarrassing for them and humiliating for me.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 01, 2025 11:43 AM (/HVsR)

I didn't go to the 50th reunion in 2023 because I couldn't care less about them. None of us would be embarrassed, but they're on no interest.

Posted by: night lifted at July 01, 2025 12:06 PM (FZn/N)

339 *points Berlioz at CBD*
*turns volume to 11*

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 01, 2025 12:04 PM (/HVsR)

Animal.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (with a beret and a Gauloises) at July 01, 2025 12:07 PM (L5An7)

340 Mrs928 says that the crippled BBB just passed the Senate. I hope the conference puts back the stuff the voters wanted.

Posted by: toby928 at July 01, 2025 12:07 PM (jc0TO)

341 335 If they had someone to vote FOR. And no, professional publicity hound Curtis Sliwa doesn't count.
Posted by: J. Frank Parnell at July 01, 2025 12:06 PM (eb5mD)

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Sure, he's a shit choice, I guess. Seems like a publicity hound to me. I dunno.

But...more Adams or Mamdani?

It's just base Go TEAM RED stuff, but it's a starting point.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 01, 2025 12:07 PM (GBKbO)

342 I thought I was being witty mentioning OSU QB Schlitchter but alas I only sowed confusion and wasn’t witty at all. Sorry

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 01, 2025 12:07 PM (P/Wjn)

343 *points Berlioz at CBD*
*turns volume to 11*
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 01, 2025 12:04 PM (/HVsR)

H7, 20th century classical is where it's at:

https://is.gd/JLl6JM

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at July 01, 2025 12:07 PM (PiwSw)

344 340 Mrs928 says that the crippled BBB just passed the Senate. I hope the conference puts back the stuff the voters wanted.
Posted by: toby928 at July 01, 2025 12:07 PM (jc0TO)

======

Vance tie-broke.

Collins, Thune, and Paul voted against.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 01, 2025 12:08 PM (GBKbO)

345 Did you go to UC Berkeley?
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (with a beret and a Gauloises) at July 01, 2025 12:04 PM (L5An7)

Nope. I was just there for a Migration '94 meeting. Grad school was THE Ohio State University.

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at July 01, 2025 12:08 PM (/HDaX)

346 RIP Jay Guevara.

And I pray that God looks after the rest of you Morons and 'Ettes.

Posted by: NaughtyPine at July 01, 2025 12:08 PM (yoqKl)

347 I am a mucpsical Philistine.. I like Ravel and Copeland…

Posted by: tubal at July 01, 2025 12:08 PM (PCK5/)

348 My two favorite classical composers are Dvorak and Bizet. Closely followed by Brahms.

Posted by: Bulg at July 01, 2025 12:08 PM (77rzZ)

349
History since Adam and Eve left the garden is a long chain of some people trying to compel others to do their work for them as cheaply as possible.
Posted by: whig

Or locally when nobody showed up regularly and when they did, sabotaged the product being manufactured.

Posted by: Auspex at July 01, 2025 12:08 PM (j4U/Z)

350 Dudes. Quarterback.

Ohio State.
Posted by: eleven at July 01, 2025 12:03 PM

Doesn't the AoSHQ Style Guide mandate THE Ohio State?

Posted by: Wesley Crusher at July 01, 2025 12:08 PM (0sNs1)

351 " I thought I was being witty mentioning OSU QB Schlitchter but alas I only sowed confusion and wasn’t witty at all. Sorry
Posted by: LinusVanPelt"

Have you read up on the guy? Holy shit he is weasel.

Posted by: eleven at July 01, 2025 12:09 PM (fV+MH)

352 Can’t type well either…

Posted by: tubal at July 01, 2025 12:09 PM (PCK5/)

353 Shut up Wesley.

Posted by: eleven at July 01, 2025 12:09 PM (fV+MH)

354 https://is.gd/JLl6JM

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at July 01, 2025 12:07 PM (PiwSw)

That's worse than Admiral Ackbar's links!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (with a beret and a Gauloises) at July 01, 2025 12:09 PM (L5An7)

355 Whoops, getting a bit sloppy with my history. The Berkeley meeting concerned OHER, Migration was '93 in Charleston.

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at July 01, 2025 12:09 PM (/HDaX)

356 Apropos of nothing, aren't tourists and illegals already barred from Medicaid?

Posted by: toby928 at July 01, 2025 12:09 PM (jc0TO)

357 Posted by: browndog
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Shucks. Give praise however to my shepherd. When one tries to do and be good, it is in remembrance of he that lost his life to save each one of us if we let him shepard us to salvation.

Posted by: whig at July 01, 2025 12:09 PM (ctrM5)

358 Vance tie-broke.

Collins, Thune, and Paul voted against.

Thune. Because of course he did.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 01, 2025 12:09 PM (Riz8t)

359
Have you read up on the guy? Holy shit he is weasel.
Posted by: eleven at July 01, 2025 12:09 PM (fV+MH)

He's Weasel? Hey, everyone! Breaking news!!

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 01, 2025 12:10 PM (/HVsR)

360 >>I thought I was being witty mentioning OSU QB Schlitchter but alas I only sowed confusion and wasn’t witty at all. Sorry

You gambled and lost. Just like Art.

Posted by: one hour sober at July 01, 2025 12:10 PM (Y1sOo)

361 I'll be Bach.

Posted by: Ahnold at July 01, 2025 12:10 PM (0sNs1)

362 Nope. I was just there for a Migration '94 meeting. Grad school was THE Ohio State University.

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at July 01, 2025 12:08 PM (/HDaX)

Oh. You're one of those.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (with a beret and a Gauloises) at July 01, 2025 12:10 PM (L5An7)

363 358 Thune. Because of course he did.
Posted by: Archimedes at July 01, 2025 12:09 PM (Riz8t)

======

He's trying to save North Carolina from rewritten Medicaid rules that make them more responsible for illegal immigrants using hospital services for free!

He's a hero!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 01, 2025 12:10 PM (GBKbO)

364 If they had someone to vote FOR. And no, professional publicity hound Curtis Sliwa doesn't count.
Posted by: J. Frank Parnell

Isn't every politician a publicity hound? Isn't their motto "there's no such thing as bad press"?

Posted by: rickb223 at July 01, 2025 12:11 PM (KdGoM)

365 Vance tie-broke.

Collins, Thune, and Paul voted against.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 01, 2025 12:08 PM (GBKbO)

Paul is an ass, Collins is Collins, and I think there's a strategic reason for Thune to vote against it, knowing that Vance would tiebreak.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 01, 2025 12:11 PM (uWKK8)

366 I'm Haydn from the classical music puns

Posted by: Boss Moss at July 01, 2025 12:11 PM (LL6Kc)

367

After days of gridlock and backroom wrangling, the Senate passed the “One Big, Beautiful Bill,” the legislative linchpin of his second-term agenda. The tally was 51 yeas and 50 nays, with Vice President JD Vance casting the tiebreaking vote.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 01, 2025 12:12 PM (63Dwl)

368 Oh. You're one of those.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (with a beret and a Gauloises) at July 01, 2025 12:10 PM (L5An7)

Yeah, but at least on the undergrad side, I was a Spartan, not a Wolverine.

So, no psychotic break.

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at July 01, 2025 12:12 PM (/HDaX)

369 He's trying to save North Carolina from rewritten Medicaid rules that make them more responsible for illegal immigrants using hospital services for free!

He's a hero!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 01, 2025 12:10 PM (GBKbO)

Thune's from SOuth Dakota and he's a total POS

Posted by: night lifted at July 01, 2025 12:12 PM (FZn/N)

370 365 Paul is an ass, Collins is Collins, and I think there's a strategic reason for Thune to vote against it, knowing that Vance would tiebreak.
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 01, 2025 12:11 PM (uWKK

======

I think Paul would have fallen in line if his vote was necessary. He's a blowhard, but he's still a team player. Same with Collins.

Thune is just gonna go rogue for the next two years. He's letting his freak flag fly since he's not running for re-election.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 01, 2025 12:12 PM (GBKbO)

371 Nick Sortor@nicksortor
BREAKING: Sen. Rand Paul is preparing to SUBPOENA Dr. Fauci to testify about his role in COVID-19
Since Fauci accepted a “pardon” from Biden, he is NOT allowed to plead the fifth in this instance.
And if he lies under oath, he can be ARRESTED for perjury.
Fauci is SWEATING tonight.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Well, This Is Another Fine Mess You've Gotten Me Into at July 01, 2025 12:12 PM (L/fGl)

372
Thune's vote may have been tactical. There are all kinds of odd rules about who can ask for a reconsideration and stuff like that. These votes are not the drama you think they are. They're a species of theater.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 01, 2025 12:12 PM (/HVsR)

373 It's not only about the people that come to this country bringing their Commie/socialist ways with them but also the media, and the terrible politicians we have these days. We all know the media is far left and pushes their ideas on how the country should be run. And we have politicians that are against our system of government. They don't want to "serve" the people, they want the people to serve them. At least half of them are crooks and liars. It pains me to say it but it's true. Our so called leaders are just out for themselves. They don't give a crap about this country, only themselves. A good example is the Biden family. Joe in politics for fifty years and on the take ALL that time. But the people of Delaware just kept on re-electing him. The Big Guy playing them for fools the whole time.

Posted by: Case at July 01, 2025 12:12 PM (ilX37)

374 369 He's trying to save North Carolina from rewritten Medicaid rules that make them more responsible for illegal immigrants using hospital services for free!

He's a hero!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 01, 2025 12:10 PM (GBKbO)

Thune's from SOuth Dakota and he's a total POS
Posted by: night lifted at July 01, 2025 12:12 PM (FZn/N)

======

Shit...I wrote Thune.

I meant Tillis.

Damn...I'm a moron.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 01, 2025 12:12 PM (GBKbO)

375 348 My two favorite classical composers are Dvorak and Bizet. Closely followed by Brahms.
Posted by: Bulg
=====
My classical tastes follow the seasons and my mood. Sometimes I like chamber music, sometimes orchestral works, and sometimes solo piano concertos.

Never, though, cared much for operatic singing. The music is great in many operas but I dislike the style of operatic singing.

Posted by: whig at July 01, 2025 12:13 PM (ctrM5)

376 Paul is an ass, Collins is Collins, and I think there's a strategic reason for Thune to vote against it, knowing that Vance would tiebreak.

Paul at least has a set of ethics he can defend. At least it's an ethos. Collins is the best we'll do in Maine.

There's no excuse for Thune, much less making him majority leader. I'd like to know what strategic reason would justify his vote.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 01, 2025 12:13 PM (Riz8t)

377 370 365 Paul is an ass, Collins is Collins, and I think there's a strategic reason for Thune to vote against it, knowing that Vance would tiebreak.
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 01, 2025 12:11 PM (uWKK

======

I think Paul would have fallen in line if his vote was necessary. He's a blowhard, but he's still a team player. Same with Collins.

Thune is just gonna go rogue for the next two years. He's letting his freak flag fly since he's not running for re-election.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 01, 2025 12:12 PM (GBKbO)

Cush job with the Left waiting for him???

Posted by: tubal at July 01, 2025 12:13 PM (PCK5/)

378 372
Thune's vote may have been tactical. There are all kinds of odd rules about who can ask for a reconsideration and stuff like that. These votes are not the drama you think they are. They're a species of theater.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 01, 2025 12:12 PM (/HVsR)

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No, I mixed up Thune and Tillis. It was Tillis who voted against it.

I've actually mixed up their names more than once over the past few days. No idea why.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 01, 2025 12:13 PM (GBKbO)

379 Nick Sortor@nicksortor
BREAKING: Sen. Rand Paul is preparing to SUBPOENA Dr. Fauci to testify about his role in COVID-19
Since Fauci accepted a “pardon” from Biden, he is NOT allowed to plead the fifth in this instance.
And if he lies under oath, he can be ARRESTED for perjury.
Fauci is SWEATING tonight.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks

Fauci: "I don't remember".
Game, set & match. He'll never see a second behind bars.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 01, 2025 12:13 PM (KdGoM)

380 376 There's no excuse for Thune, much less making him majority leader. I'd like to know what strategic reason would justify his vote.
Posted by: Archimedes at July 01, 2025 12:13 PM (Riz8t)

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It was Tillis.

I'm stupid. It's my only excuse.

Also an illiterate. I have two excuses.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 01, 2025 12:14 PM (GBKbO)

381 Isn't every politician a publicity hound? Isn't their motto "there's no such thing as bad press"?
Posted by: rickb223 at July 01, 2025 12:11 PM

No, some of us just quietly work to better the lives of our constituents, and citizens of the U.S.* as a whole.

* except for those smelly fly-over states

Posted by: Charles "Chuck" Schumer (D-NY) at July 01, 2025 12:14 PM (0sNs1)

382 So Murk and the Turtle voted for the BBB?

Posted by: Bulg at July 01, 2025 12:14 PM (77rzZ)

383 If illegal welcoming states' taxpayers had to pay for illegals care, and it can be exorbitant, they wouldn't welcome them. Force their employers, landlords, advocates to foot the bill. Party over

Posted by: night lifted at July 01, 2025 12:14 PM (FZn/N)

384 VOTE VANCE!

Posted by: Sid at July 01, 2025 12:14 PM (EiO0V)

385 National Guard JAG judges to serve as immigration judges.

Posted by: Boss Moss at July 01, 2025 12:14 PM (LL6Kc)

386 Thune is just gonna go rogue for the next two years. He's letting his freak flag fly since he's not running for re-election.

Is that true?

*please let it be true*

Posted by: Archimedes at July 01, 2025 12:14 PM (Riz8t)

387 Shit...I wrote Thune.

I meant Tillis.

Damn...I'm a moron.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
------
You could simply refer that mercenary and criminal senator from my home state. That pretty much covers all bases.

Posted by: whig at July 01, 2025 12:14 PM (ctrM5)

388 382 So Murk and the Turtle voted for the BBB?
Posted by: Bulg at July 01, 2025 12:14 PM (77rzZ)

========

Yes.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 01, 2025 12:14 PM (GBKbO)

389 No, I mixed up Thune and Tillis. It was Tillis who voted against it.

I've actually mixed up their names more than once over the past few days. No idea why.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 01, 2025 12:13 PM (GBKbO)

Advanced case of being "29" ...

Posted by: browndog remembering his Buckeye roots at July 01, 2025 12:14 PM (TTAGa)

390 If it isn't Bach it's CRAAPP!

Posted by: eleven at July 01, 2025 12:14 PM (fV+MH)

391 386 Thune is just gonna go rogue for the next two years. He's letting his freak flag fly since he's not running for re-election.

Is that true?

*please let it be true*
Posted by: Archimedes at July 01, 2025 12:14 PM (Riz8t)

=====

I meant Tillis. Sorry.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 01, 2025 12:14 PM (GBKbO)

392 Mrs928 says that the crippled BBB just passed the Senate. I hope the conference puts back the stuff the voters wanted.
Posted by: toby928 at July 01, 2025 12:07 PM (jc0TO)

======

Vance tie-broke.

Collins, Thune, and Paul voted against.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 01, 2025 12:08 PM

I haven't been following it because my blood pressure was nice and low this morning. I just hope it's enough to swing our bow in the right direction for a turn-around.

Posted by: NaughtyPine at July 01, 2025 12:15 PM (yoqKl)

393
It was Tillis who voted against it.

Oh, then it's just Tillis being an asshole. Point remains: this wouldn't have come up for a vote if it wasn't going to pass.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 01, 2025 12:15 PM (/HVsR)

394 Tourists, including old ladies, babies in strollers, disabled veterans being run over by members of the US Senate running to catch limos to National or Dulles.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at July 01, 2025 12:15 PM (gm9Sb)

395 TILLIS voted against, not Thune...

Posted by: Nova Local at July 01, 2025 12:15 PM (tOcjL)

396 378

No, I mixed up Thune and Tillis. It was Tillis who voted against it.

I've actually mixed up their names more than once over the past few days. No idea why.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 01, 2025 12:13 PM (GBKbO)

You are just an Agent Of Thread Chaos, TJM….

Posted by: tubal at July 01, 2025 12:15 PM (PCK5/)

397 382 So Murk and the Turtle voted for the BBB?
Posted by: Bulg
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Both are rental senators paid by the statute by their grifting donors.

Posted by: whig at July 01, 2025 12:15 PM (ctrM5)

398 It was Tillis.

I'm stupid. It's my only excuse.

Also an illiterate. I have two excuses.

...and this lamp...

Posted by: Archimedes at July 01, 2025 12:15 PM (Riz8t)

399 387 You could simply refer that mercenary and criminal senator from my home state. That pretty much covers all bases.
Posted by: whig at July 01, 2025 12:14 PM (ctrM5)

======

But I miss being from SC more than I enjoy being from NC...

Such a description of senators would just confuse me even more!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 01, 2025 12:15 PM (GBKbO)

400 @LauraLoomer
·
3h
A reporter just asked President Trump if he would deport @elonmusk
.

Trump: “We'll have to take a look. We might have to put DOGE on Elon. You know what DOGE is, the monster that might have to go back and eat Elon, wouldn't that be terrible. He gets a lot of subsidies.”

Posted by: Don Black at July 01, 2025 12:15 PM (AOsQT)

401
Does your idiot 2nd cousin jabber during Thanksgiving dinner about the evils of white supremacist America? Give him a gentle lesson in reality.

Getting stabbed in the tongue with a shrimp fork qualifies as "gentle", yes?

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at July 01, 2025 12:15 PM (y9nCu)

402 Jeez, I hadn't heard about Jay's passing.

We're losing our best.

Posted by: BurtTC at July 01, 2025 12:15 PM (dGCAG)

403 393
It was Tillis who voted against it.

Oh, then it's just Tillis being an asshole. Point remains: this wouldn't have come up for a vote if it wasn't going to pass.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 01, 2025 12:15 PM (/HVsR)

=======

Yeah, Thune (right one this time!) announced he had the votes for a reason.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at July 01, 2025 12:16 PM (GBKbO)

404 384 America is exceptional, alright. Only developed nation without universal healthcare. Only nation with universal gun violence. Two big detractions there. Built on stolen land using slave labor is another.
Posted by: Sid at July 01, 2025 12:14 PM (EiO0V)

God bless you, you one trick, simple minded, village idiot ...

Posted by: browndog howling with laughter at July 01, 2025 12:16 PM (TTAGa)

405 The war wasn't over. It was just a brief cease fire.

Posted by: Don Black at July 01, 2025 12:16 PM (AOsQT)

406 How do cease fires work?

Posted by: Boss Moss at July 01, 2025 12:17 PM (LL6Kc)

407 oh Tillis! Well of course.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 01, 2025 12:17 PM (uWKK8)

408 How do cease fires work?

They don't.

Posted by: Hamas at July 01, 2025 12:17 PM (Riz8t)

409 How do cease fires work?
Posted by: Boss Moss at July 01, 2025 12:17 PM

Magnets.

Posted by: toby928 at July 01, 2025 12:17 PM (jc0TO)

410 The chart is hilarious, because it proves the Democrats have no principles other than "are we in power?"

Posted by: Ian S. at July 01, 2025 12:17 PM (QZThv)

411 Yeah it was nice having Trump and Elon on the same team but that's over and we move on.

Posted by: eleven at July 01, 2025 12:18 PM (fV+MH)

412 People could confuse Thom with Thune, more so if affected by a lisp.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at July 01, 2025 12:18 PM (gm9Sb)

413 Only nation with universal gun violence.

???

Posted by: toby928 at July 01, 2025 12:18 PM (jc0TO)

414 Those of us far from New York are puzzled as to why New Yorkers don't like Sliwa; but reading around, it seems pretty clear that most New Yorkers don't like him.
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 01, 2025 12:00 PM (uWKK

Sliwa reminds them that they live in a crime-ridden shithole; they hate that.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 01, 2025 12:18 PM (iPe48)

415 383 If illegal welcoming states' taxpayers had to pay for illegals care, and it can be exorbitant, they wouldn't welcome them. Force their employers, landlords, advocates to foot the bill. Party over
Posted by: night lifted
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That is true of most government malfeasance. If the people who proposed and supported such legislation had to personally pay for it, then the incidence of such self serving moral twattery would be much less.

For example, 'refugee' groups would be a lot more picky if they were personally and organizationally financially and criminally liable for their charges.

Skin in the game is a wonderful concept that abruptly causes a lot of vacant moralist civic virtue signally and grifting mentality to pay for the costs of their actions.

Posted by: whig at July 01, 2025 12:18 PM (ctrM5)

416 Nood.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at July 01, 2025 12:20 PM (PiwSw)

417 >Only nation with universal gun violence...
Posted by: Sid

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Hey
I haven't shot anybody yet.

Posted by: Don Black. Message: get to da choppah at July 01, 2025 12:20 PM (AOsQT)

418 Sid, if our country is so awful, you should take up residence in another one. I’m sure that Zimbabwe would welcome you with open arms.

Posted by: Bulg at July 01, 2025 12:20 PM (77rzZ)

419 What could be better than July 4th on a Friday?

Posted by: eleven at July 01, 2025 11:45 AM (fV+MH)

Independence Day on a Friday.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (with a beret and a Gauloises) at July 01, 2025 11:53 AM (L5An7)

I remember a Friday July 4th very well. I spent 3.5 hours on the I-395/495 parking lot. Sunny, hotter 'n you know what and no shootings!

Posted by: mrp at July 01, 2025 12:20 PM (rj6Yv)

420
You are just an Agent Of Thread Chaos, TJM….
Posted by: tubal

You know who else was an Agent of KAOS!

Posted by: Ludwig Siegfried at July 01, 2025 12:21 PM (63Dwl)

421 I haven't been following it because my blood pressure was nice and low this morning. I just hope it's enough to swing our bow in the right direction for a turn-around.
Posted by: NaughtyPine
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Leaders know how to count votes and for better or worse, Thune knows his colleagues. He apprenticed under Mitch for a good long time as an assistant. Johnson has the harder task really because there are more representatives that he has to deal with having a slender majority.

Posted by: whig at July 01, 2025 12:21 PM (ctrM5)

422 Sliwa reminds them that they live in a crime-ridden shithole; they hate that.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

I think you're right.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 01, 2025 12:22 PM (Riz8t)

423 Is it true that Vance could overturn that democrat parliamentarian? He's presiding officer.

Posted by: night lifted at July 01, 2025 12:22 PM (FZn/N)

424 Ha ha ha! "Universal gun violence," Sid writes. The euros have to make do with stabbing and bombing.

Posted by: NaughtyPine at July 01, 2025 12:23 PM (yoqKl)

425 386 Thune is just gonna go rogue for the next two years. He's letting his freak flag fly since he's not running for re-election.

Is that true?

*please let it be true*
Posted by: Archimedes
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There are rumors that Thune wants to go back to SD and run for governor as his wife is reportedly unhappy living in DC. Term is up in 2028. Dunno if that is true though.

Posted by: whig at July 01, 2025 12:24 PM (ctrM5)

426 I don't know who needs to read this, but TILLIS not Thune.

Posted by: NaughtyPine at July 01, 2025 12:25 PM (yoqKl)

427 423 Is it true that Vance could overturn that democrat parliamentarian? He's presiding officer.
Posted by: night lifted
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Yes but that ruling can be appealed by any senator (aka appeal to the chair) and then a majority has to vote to sustain the ruling. Recently, this has become the new version of the nuclear option since Harry Reid employed it in 2013. The ruling by the parliamentarian using the Byrd rule requires 60 votes as per current Senate Rules to overrule unless the nuclear option of the majority to kill the filibuster changes that parliamentarian ruling.

Posted by: whig at July 01, 2025 12:26 PM (ctrM5)

428 But I miss being from SC more than I enjoy being from NC...

Such a description of senators would just confuse me even more!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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I haven't heard that Tillis visits male prostitutes so you have that going for you in your new state.

Posted by: whig at July 01, 2025 12:27 PM (ctrM5)

429 the Senate voted 51-50 to pass

Posted by: SMOD at July 01, 2025 12:33 PM (RHGPo)

430 US:
Invented the mass-produced automobile
Invented telephone
Invented internet
Invented cell phones
Invented the light bulb
Invented air conditioning
Invented air travel
Invented disease-resistant wheat, saving at least a billion lives from starvation

Europe:
Invented the tourist trap (thanks, Gustave Eiffel)
Invented squeekhole dorking (thanks, Greece)
Invented the pickelhaube (thanks, Prussia)
Invented concrete (thanks, Rome), then promptly forgot how to make it.

Asia:
Invented genocide (thanks, Genghis)
Invented the ventilated open-air public transportation toilet (also known as "shitting in the middle of the street")

Central and South America:
Invented the taco
Invented the quesadilla
Invented the burrito

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at July 01, 2025 12:55 PM (y9nCu)

431 Look: is the glass half full or half empty? I’d say the glass is over 3/4 full, and I’ll take it and enjoy it!
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 01, 2025 01:02 PM (1paM0)

. . . The glass is dosed with mRNA isn't it.

Posted by: Kindltot - remember, profit is violence and choice is a tool of the oppressor at July 01, 2025 01:08 PM (D7oie)

432 RIP Jay Guevara.

Posted by: El Kabongg at July 01, 2025 01:17 PM (1UudH)

433 That was shocking to hear of Jay Guevara's passing. God bless him and help assuage his family's grief and may perpetual light shine upon him. He was a good man.

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at July 01, 2025 01:54 PM (W6d+C)

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