THE MORNING RANT: President Trump’s Use of Military Power - If We Have to Break It, We Aren't Going to Buy It

Our political class has repeatedly told us that the only allowable “solutions” to pressing problems are alternatives not embraced by the majority of Americans. That is why we finally turned to Donald Trump. Just one example was the border crisis – Democrats argued for mass amnesty and a wide-open border, while establishment Republicans countered by also proposing mass amnesty with a slightly less porous border. Trump laughed in all their faces, shut the border, and started deporting criminal aliens.

In the matter of foreign military engagement, we have also been presented just two bad options over the past few decades.

1) Massive military commitment to foreign wars, including nation building and boots on the ground in perpetuity, all with an endless airlift of fallen troops being flown home to Dover AFB.

2) Pacifism, with the U.S. never unleashing its military might, even where it is appropriate.

There is another much better option, which President Trump just demonstrated – the use of our military to destroy what needs destroying, and then leaving the mess as a lesson. If Iran attempts to rebuild its nuclear program in coming years, we can bust it all up again. We don’t have to occupy Iran or pretend that it will become a western democracy. It can figure out whatever it wants to become, but if Iran restarts its nuclear program or exports terror again, it can also face our wrath again.

I have been waiting for the U.S. to strike against Iran for more than 45 years. The lost wars of the Bush-Cheney era have driven home the futility of trying to impose democracy on those not capable of it. But still, I’ve never stopped wanting there to be righteous retribution against Iran’s mad mullahs. They attacked America on American territory when they took our embassy personnel hostage in 1979, and they’ve been killing Americans wherever they can ever since.

One of the dubious lessons learned from World War II was that we must always rebuild what we destroy in war. In that spirit, Colin Powell famously told President George W. Bush regarding the Iraq War debacle, “If you break it, you own it.”

Donald Trump has put that idea to rest. We broke it (Iran’s nuclear program) and Israel has destroyed Iran’s war fighting capabilities. And now we’re done fighting. What Iran does now is not our problem, unless/until we have to break it again sometime in the future.

With all that said, there are plenty of reasons why the mainstream American right has become so anti-war in recent years. The awful loss of young Americans’ lives in service to other countries interests - but not America’s interests - is paramount. But it is also the realization that the war-pushers have a deep reserve of ashamed-to-be-American guilt that motivates them. There is an inherent contradiction in how they go about waging war. Quite simply, they rush into foreign wars, but then refuse to fight for victory, because they believe:

1) The United State has a moral obligation to fight other countries’ wars because of our power, wealth, etc.

2) It is culturally offensive for the United States to inflict what is necessary to actually win a foreign war.

Donald Trump’s America-First position is rejected by this same war-loving crowd whose loyalty is to the “international community” that wants Americans to fight and to die, but not to win.

A repellant aspect of the “we broke it, we bought it” mindset is the belief that all wars require a Marshall Plan to rebuild the infrastructure and economies of lands where we battled. Perhaps Western Europe would not have rebuilt so quickly without all the American aid post-WWII, but maybe they wouldn’t now be failing welfare states either. We taught them that Uncle Sam will pay to (re)build their countries and provide their defense, thus allowing cradle-to-grave welfare, all while their politicians and populace screech about how awful the United States is. By contrast, Eastern Europeans who suffered under communism received nothing from America, but they are vocally pro-America now because they simply crave freedom, and they learned how awful the alternative was.

By rejecting “we broke it, we bought it,” President Trump is also rejecting any more 21st century occupations and Marshall Plans. That doesn’t mean the enemies of civilization will not incur the fearsome wrath of our military if they try to cause problems outside their borders. But under President Trump, if we have to break it, we’re just going to leave it.

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Social Contagions: The Recovered Gluten Sufferer Who is Now Transing Her Children

My latest piece at The Blaze has been published. “Her son wears dresses, her daughter’s a ‘boy,’ and it’s all for status”

It discusses how the trans fad is a social contagion preying on the same type of (non-celiac) people who got caught up in the gluten fad. A Millennial woman with whom I’m familiar was once a loudly vocal victim/star of the gluten show, but once that fad ran its course, she went back to eating bread and pasta. Now she is transing her children.

The transgender fad will fade away. But unlike the gluten fad, innocents are being disfigured for life and denied the pleasures of a normal adulthood — all in service to a runaway social experiment.

It’s behind a paywall, but if you’re a Blaze subscriber, I’d be honored if you’d give it a read.

My latest piece at The Blaze discusses a woman I'm familiar with who is prone to social contagions.

"The gluten craze didn’t leave scars. This social contagion will — especially for the children being raised in its wake by delusional adults like Marsha."https://t.co/rwMX6MzgMy
— Buck Throckmorton (@BuckThrockmort) June 28, 2025

[buck.throckmorton at protonmail dot com]

Posted by: Buck Throckmorton at 11:00 AM

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1 Rant on!

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at June 30, 2025 11:00 AM (/HDaX)

2 Rant on 2!

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at June 30, 2025 11:01 AM (/HDaX)

3 1st?

Posted by: Bulg at June 30, 2025 11:01 AM (77rzZ)

4 And NOODED.

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at June 30, 2025 11:01 AM (/HDaX)

5 Soonge!

Posted by: rickb223 at June 30, 2025 11:02 AM (LA0fN)

6 Rookie mitsake. Read the content first.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 30, 2025 11:03 AM (LA0fN)

7 I saw one of those videos yesterday where it is a moving graphic that showed total military strength in men from 1805 (or something) to the current day.

It was pretty cool. I'll see if I can run it down.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at June 30, 2025 11:03 AM (bss/y)

8 6 Rookie mitsake. Read the content first.
Posted by: rickb223 at June 30, 2025 11:03 AM (LA0fN)

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I don't get it.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 30, 2025 11:03 AM (GBKbO)

9 "The gluten craze didn’t leave scars. This social contagion will — especially for the children being raised in its wake by delusional adults like Marsha."

Posted by: Jan

Posted by: rickb223 at June 30, 2025 11:03 AM (LA0fN)

10 People who trans their kids should have just stuck to cats.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at June 30, 2025 11:03 AM (36PRH)

11 Lost wars? I’m out .

Posted by: polynikes at June 30, 2025 11:04 AM (VofaG)

12 “Her son wears dresses, her daughter’s a ‘boy,’ and it’s all for status”

GASSSSSSS HER

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at June 30, 2025 11:04 AM (TEJE9)

13 "If Iran attempts to rebuild its nuclear program in coming years, we can bust it all up again."

We won't have to. Israel will be happy to do it.

I doubt Iran will rebuild the program, though. Why would they? To build it back up, only for us or Israel to destroy it again?

Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at June 30, 2025 11:04 AM (iFTx/)

14 13 We won't have to. Israel will be happy to do it.

I doubt Iran will rebuild the program, though. Why would they? To build it back up, only for us or Israel to destroy it again?
Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at June 30, 2025 11:04 AM (iFTx/)

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They've been trying to dig out Fordow for the last week.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 30, 2025 11:05 AM (GBKbO)

15 People who trans their kids should have just stuck to cats.

You'd do that to a cat??!!

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at June 30, 2025 11:05 AM (TEJE9)

16 Trumps foreign policy can be summed up thusly..

1 .FAFO
2. Rubble Don't Make Trouble
3. If you deal fairly, we will deal fairly, other wise, see 1 and 2.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 30, 2025 11:05 AM (XV/Pl)

17 The gluten scare is the climate change of Y2Ks.

Posted by: Bulg at June 30, 2025 11:05 AM (77rzZ)

18 They spent like a trillion bucks on nukes.

Posted by: Boss Moss at June 30, 2025 11:05 AM (Iv8wu)

19 My doctor (who didn't recommend the vaxx for under-50s) doesn't want me to eat gluten. I don't think she's a crank.
There are maybe five genes that work together to make gluten bad; I have at least one of them. Besides, cauliflower-crust pizza just tastes better.

Posted by: gKWVE at June 30, 2025 11:05 AM (gKWVE)

20 18 They spent like a trillion bucks on nukes.
Posted by: Boss Moss at June 30, 2025 11:05 AM (Iv8wu)

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They blew their lottery winnings and can go back to living under a bridge.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 30, 2025 11:06 AM (GBKbO)

21 /and no, I'm not a femboy

Posted by: gKWVE at June 30, 2025 11:06 AM (gKWVE)

22 @13 I saw yesterday that the Ayatollah announced Iran kicked Israel's ass. Classic, "we got em right where we want em."

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at June 30, 2025 11:06 AM (36PRH)

23 If only we'd have just gone in and destroyed everything each time someone screwed with us the past 25 years.

With the message- screw with us again and we'll be back.

"Nation-Building" is a fools errand, unless of course your are actually colonizing.

But since the fools in charge are deathly afraid of being called "colonizers", they instead killed thousands of our people for no benefit whatsover.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at June 30, 2025 11:07 AM (N1DT3)

24 I doubt Iran will rebuild the program, though. Why would they? To build it back up, only for us or Israel to destroy it again?
Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at June 30, 2025 11:04 AM (iFTx/)

It's their only real bargaining chip, aside from oil.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at June 30, 2025 11:07 AM (bss/y)

25 We bomb them.
They Mamdani us.
In the long run, they win.

Posted by: REJECT COOKIES at June 30, 2025 11:07 AM (qUkBO)

26 Besides, cauliflower-crust pizza just tastes better.
Posted by: gKWVE

Disagree. My wife uses the cauli stuff, and I can always taste it. It's not horrible tasting, but still off-putting.

Posted by: Bulg at June 30, 2025 11:07 AM (77rzZ)

27 19 My doctor (who didn't recommend the vaxx for under-50s) doesn't want me to eat gluten. I don't think she's a crank.
There are maybe five genes that work together to make gluten bad; I have at least one of them. Besides, cauliflower-crust pizza just tastes better.
Posted by: gKWVE at June 30, 2025 11:05 AM (gKWVE)

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Celiac disease is a real thing.

It's just that, in our ridiculous culture, people latched onto it as an easy way to signal victimhood. "Sometimes I feel kind of heavy after eating a full loaf of bread. I probably have Celiac according to my TikTok."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 30, 2025 11:07 AM (GBKbO)

28 Beyond the social status of "transitioning" one's kids, what's the allure? These people getting paid to do it too?

If it's just the status then those people are broken.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 30, 2025 11:08 AM (Q4IgG)

29 22 @13 I saw yesterday that the Ayatollah announced Iran kicked Israel's ass. Classic, "we got em right where we want em."
Posted by: Chairman LMAO at June 30, 2025 11:06 AM (36PRH)

'Yeah, you BETTER walk away!'
-while his 'friends' pretend to hold him back

Posted by: Aetius451AD at June 30, 2025 11:08 AM (bss/y)

30 If only we'd have just gone in and destroyed everything each time someone screwed with us the past 25 years.

With the message- screw with us again and we'll be back.

And at that time, we are going old school and we are annexing territory.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 30, 2025 11:08 AM (LA0fN)

31 We use lavash, an Armenian flatbread, for pizza crust instead. Much better-tasting than the cauliflower stuff.

Posted by: Bulg at June 30, 2025 11:08 AM (77rzZ)

32 How do you know someone is on gluten free diet as soon as you meet them?

They tell you.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at June 30, 2025 11:09 AM (nwGCR)

33 I doubt Iran will rebuild the program, though. Why would they? To build it back up, only for us or Israel to destroy it again?
Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at June 30, 2025 11:04 AM (iFTx/)

You're assuming they're rational actors.

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at June 30, 2025 11:09 AM (/HDaX)

34 They won't have grandkids.

Posted by: Boss Moss at June 30, 2025 11:09 AM (Iv8wu)

35 Beyond the social status of "transitioning" one's kids, what's the allure? These people getting paid to do it too?

If it's just the status then those people are broken.
Posted by: Martini Farmer

They ARE broken.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 30, 2025 11:09 AM (LA0fN)

36 @26 people who avoid processed foods seem to be OK with processed cauliflower (into pizza crust).

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at June 30, 2025 11:09 AM (36PRH)

37 Excellent post, Buck.

I like it a lot.

Posted by: eleven at June 30, 2025 11:09 AM (fV+MH)

38 I almost read the whole thing!

Posted by: eleven at June 30, 2025 11:10 AM (fV+MH)

39 32 How do you know someone is on gluten free diet as soon as you meet them?

They tell you.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at June 30, 2025 11:09 AM (nwGCR)

Gluten free, vegetarian, vegan, atheist, mensa member.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at June 30, 2025 11:10 AM (bss/y)

40 I have been waiting for the U.S. to strike against Iran for more than 45 years. The lost wars of the Bush-Cheney era have driven home the futility of trying to impose democracy on those not capable of it. But still, I’ve never stopped wanting there to be righteous retribution against Iran’s mad mullahs.

Spot on. After watching previous presidents stumble around in the Middle East for decades, endlessly spilling blood and treasure trying to "build democracy", I have come to see that our interventions should primarily be proactively defensive (Iran) and/or punitive (as Afghanistan should have been).

Posted by: Paco at June 30, 2025 11:10 AM (mADJX)

41 39 Gluten free, vegetarian, vegan, atheist, mensa member.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at June 30, 2025 11:10 AM (bss/y)

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"Well, at least you don't do CrossFit."

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

42 And some people who don't actually have celiac disease have a sensitivity to gluten, not because they ate an entire loaf of bread or are virtue signaling , but because they have a sensitivity to gluten. Some of these people don't actually think their sons are girls or girls are boys and don't endorse the hideous evil of mutiltating kids.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 30, 2025 11:11 AM (2GCMq)

43 "Well, at least you don't do CrossFit."
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 30, 2025 11:11 AM (GBKbO)

Good addition.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at June 30, 2025 11:11 AM (bss/y)

44 "Nation-building" worked with Germany and Japan because they were both nations with intelligent, organized, hard-working people.

We made the mistake of extrapolating that experience to every other country we got mixed up with.

Posted by: Bulg at June 30, 2025 11:11 AM (77rzZ)

45 The lost wars of the Bush-Cheney era have driven home the futility of trying to impose democracy on those not capable of it. But still, I’ve never stopped wanting there to be righteous retribution against Iran’s mad mullahs.

I agree with almost everything you wrote, but I think Iran is probably the ME country with the best shot at eventually becoming a democracy. They sort of were in the 50s, but sadly got lost on the path to modernity. IMHO, they're still capable of it, especially now that the younger Iranians are so thoroughly disillusioned with Sharia and the mullahcracy.

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

46 The meat I eat is vegetarian.

Posted by: Boss Moss at June 30, 2025 11:12 AM (Iv8wu)

47 @41 you know a vegan is hardcore when they can't also be a vegetarian.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at June 30, 2025 11:12 AM (36PRH)

48 I wonder, how many single biological fathers transition their kids?

Bet that's a low number.

Posted by: Grudge Harbor at June 30, 2025 11:12 AM (53oPJ)

49 46 The meat I eat is vegetarian.
Posted by: Boss Moss at June 30, 2025 11:12 AM (Iv8wu)

Salad is not food. Salad is what food eats.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at June 30, 2025 11:12 AM (bss/y)

50 I doubt Iran will rebuild the program, though. Why would they? To build it back up, only for us or Israel to destroy it again?
Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at June 30, 2025 11:04 AM (iFTx/)

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They've been trying to dig out Fordow for the last week.

TJM - gotta link for that?

Posted by: Archimedes at June 30, 2025 11:12 AM (Riz8t)

51 The Venn diagram of people who did the gluten free thing and have “anxiety” is almost a circle.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at June 30, 2025 11:12 AM (nwGCR)

52 44 "Nation-building" worked with Germany and Japan because they were both nations with intelligent, organized, hard-working people.

We made the mistake of extrapolating that experience to every other country we got mixed up with.
Posted by: Bulg at June 30, 2025 11:11 AM (77rzZ)

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I think part of the reason it worked was our occupation was...aggressive. We imposed it. We didn't gingerly set up the apparatus and say, "We'll handle your security now. Don't screw up."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 30, 2025 11:12 AM (GBKbO)

53 48 I wonder, how many single biological fathers transition their kids?

Bet that's a low number.
Posted by: Grudge Harbor at June 30, 2025 11:12 AM (53oPJ)

Low number of single fathers.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at June 30, 2025 11:13 AM (bss/y)

54 A couple of thoughts on going to war:
1. What does victory look like?
2. The enemy always gets a vote.
3. Be ready for #2 while working to achieve #1.
4. You'd better achieve #1, otherwise WTF are you doing this for?

Posted by: Diogenes at June 30, 2025 11:13 AM (1bdKO)

55 Culturally offensive to win you mean.

"Not fighting to win since the 40's" is not a good recruiting slogan.

Posted by: Mongo at June 30, 2025 11:13 AM (Ef4Ak)

56 Humans have evolved to eat every-fucking thing.

It's called survival.

Posted by: eleven at June 30, 2025 11:13 AM (fV+MH)

57 "The transgender fad will fade away. But unlike the gluten fad, innocents are being disfigured for life and denied the pleasures of a normal adulthood — all in service to a runaway social experiment."

I have to disagree with this. The trans fad does share some similarities with other social-contagion fads, so it's tempting to think it will fade away like they did.

But there's at least one very crucial difference: there's billions of dollars to be made from Big Tranny. And it's money to be made across professions and even industries. Big Pharma, surgeons, consultants, shrinks, hospitals, Planned Parenthood and similar organizations, even home health care -- all are making yuge bank preying on confused young kids.

So long as money is raining down from the sky, tranny lunacy will never go away. Even 40+ years later, pharma is still making piles of money off of the homosexual movement and all the assorted diseases and dysfunction it created. Big Tranny is another meal ticket for them.

Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at June 30, 2025 11:13 AM (iFTx/)

58 Y2K would have actually been a real disaster if we had not done a lot of work to keep it from being so. There is another digital problem coming next decade: 32 bit UNIX and its derivatives will quit working as the seconds count since UNIX was created will roll over. Fortunately most UNIX machines today are 64 bit, and that won't roll over until after the Universe has ceased to exist.

Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at June 30, 2025 11:13 AM (Da7Vv)

59 50 They've been trying to dig out Fordow for the last week.

TJM - gotta link for that?
Posted by: Archimedes at June 30, 2025 11:12 AM (Riz8t)

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https://x.com/C__Herridge/status/
1939379239931068837

" “…new high-resolution satellite imagery today (June 29th) that reveals ongoing activity at and near the ventilation shafts and holes caused by last week’s airstrikes on the Fordow fuel enrichment complex in Iran.

On today’s imagery, an excavator and several personnel are positioned immediately next to the northern shaft on the ridge above the underground complex.

The crane appears to be operating at the entrance to the shaft/hole. Several additional vehicles are also seen below the ridge and are parked along the access path that was built to access the site.”"

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 30, 2025 11:13 AM (GBKbO)

60 There was always an assumption that it was futile to attack Iran directly. Almost to the point of being a fear. This idea that the world would be plunged into unbelievable chaos should anyone so much as muss the hem of the Ayatollah's wanking robe.

That assumption has now been show to be completely false, if not cravenly and maliciously so. A week of Israeli bombing and a single bombing raid from Uncle Sam brought them to their knees.

It's high time we got rid of this nasty manipulative phrase "We Can't Just Go And...." from the American foreign policy lexicon.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 30, 2025 11:14 AM (VoAdT)

61 I think we owe Iran a lot more than what Trump did but it's a good start.

Posted by: SamIam at June 30, 2025 11:14 AM (oasF3)

62 The meat I eat is vegetarian.
Posted by: Boss Moss at June 30, 2025 11:12 AM (Iv8wu)

Salad is not food. Salad is what food eats.
Posted by: Aetius451AD

I found an awesome way to transform leafy greens into meat.

Feed it to cows.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 30, 2025 11:14 AM (LA0fN)

63 "Well, at least you don't do CrossFit."

Actually, we don't know that for a fact.

Posted by: Paco at June 30, 2025 11:14 AM (mADJX)

64 >>Beyond the social status of "transitioning" one's kids, what's the allure? These people getting paid to do it too?

The one I've seen, where the mom was playing gender confusion w/her daughter since she was a toddler, the mom is crazy. It's a narcissistic/ Munchausen by proxyish thing -- it's all about her making the world safe for her kid (who is now depressed and a mess).

Posted by: Lizzy at June 30, 2025 11:14 AM (VVnrT)

65 63 "Well, at least you don't do CrossFit."

Actually, we don't know that for a fact.
Posted by: Paco at June 30, 2025 11:14 AM (mADJX)

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We do know for sure.

They didn't mention it.

Unless they were just catching their breath.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 30, 2025 11:14 AM (GBKbO)

66 GASSSSSSS HER
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats

Seconded.

Posted by: From about That Time at June 30, 2025 11:15 AM (n4GiU)

67 Wouldn't digging up nuclear stuff be dangerous?

Posted by: Boss Moss at June 30, 2025 11:15 AM (Iv8wu)

68 But under President Trump, if we have to break it, we’re just going to leave it.

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Why do I have the bad feeling that we will eventually finance and rebuild Ukraine?

Follow the grift ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Digital Arsonist (former Stochastic Terrorist) at June 30, 2025 11:15 AM (Qof+9)

69
I don't get it.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

This is not surprising!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at June 30, 2025 11:15 AM (s/SFW)

70 Jay Guevera,
May the road rise up to meet you,
May the wind be always at your back,
May the sun shine warm upon your face,
May the rains fall soft upon your fields,
And until we meet again,
May God hold you in the palm of his hand.
-Ino

Posted by: Inogame at June 30, 2025 11:15 AM (53oGX)

71 Salad is an Italian dressing conveyance mechanism.

Posted by: eleven at June 30, 2025 11:15 AM (fV+MH)

72 18
Read the e content & LOVED IT !!

Posted by: OkJohn at June 30, 2025 11:15 AM (AZWEO)

73 They've been trying to dig out Fordow for the last week.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 30, 2025 11:05 AM (GBKbO)

I think that's the clearest sign of all as to where the enriched U-235 was stored. They're on a radioactive treasure hunt.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 30, 2025 11:16 AM (uWKK8)

74 The notion of "We can't fight to win!" is so painfully stupid it has to be a product of people with a job in the defense industry.

I served. I'm happy I did. I'm irritated at the waste of people because higher ups are too squeamish.

Posted by: NR Pax at June 30, 2025 11:16 AM (lXoJ5)

75
Why do I have the bad feeling that we will eventually finance and rebuild Ukraine?

Follow the grift ...
Posted by: ShainS

It will not happen with Trump or Vance.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at June 30, 2025 11:16 AM (s/SFW)

76 The one I've seen, where the mom was playing gender confusion w/her daughter since she was a toddler, the mom is crazy. It's a narcissistic/ Munchausen by proxyish thing -- it's all about her making the world safe for her kid (who is now depressed and a mess).
Posted by: Lizzy at June 30, 2025 11:14 AM (VVnrT)

There is a weird form of handbagging... living vicariously... it is strange.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at June 30, 2025 11:16 AM (bss/y)

77 @64 Speaking of crazy I saw a crazy woman featured in one of "Cecil Says"' streams with a nose ring that looked the size of a damned door knocker.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at June 30, 2025 11:17 AM (36PRH)

78 TJM - gotta link for that?
Posted by: Archimedes at June 30, 2025 11:12 AM (Riz8t)

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https://x.com/C__Herridge/status/
1939379239931068837

Thanks. I assume the crane operator is wearing lead underwear.

Regardless, Trump needs to tell the ayatollahs, "next time those things show up, Tomahawks will make them go boom".

Posted by: Archimedes at June 30, 2025 11:17 AM (Riz8t)

79 The transgender fad will fade away. But unlike the gluten fad, innocents are being disfigured for life and denied the pleasures of a normal adulthood — all in service to a runaway social experiment.

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Munchausen's-by-Butchery.

Posted by: ShainS -- Digital Arsonist (former Stochastic Terrorist) at June 30, 2025 11:17 AM (Qof+9)

80 75
Why do I have the bad feeling that we will eventually finance and rebuild Ukraine?

Follow the grift ...
Posted by: ShainS

It will not happen with Trump or Vance.
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at June 30, 2025 11:16 AM (s/SFW)

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I'm just hoping that the EU forms its army under the guise of paying for NATO and invades Russia.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 30, 2025 11:17 AM (GBKbO)

81 We won't have to. Israel will be happy to do it.

I doubt Iran will rebuild the program, though. Why would they? To build it back up, only for us or Israel to destroy it again?
Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at June 30, 2025 11:04 AM (iFTx/)

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They've been trying to dig out Fordow for the last week.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 30, 2025 11:05 AM (GBKbO)
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Meh. They have no choice but to appear to act defiant in the face of their utter impotence and humiliation. But they must know if they actually restart the program, it will get blown up again -- and the scientists working on it will be killed again.

Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at June 30, 2025 11:17 AM (iFTx/)

82 If you aren't going to waste them all and take all their stuff war is pointless.

Posted by: Boss Moss at June 30, 2025 11:17 AM (Iv8wu)

83 They're on a radioactive treasure hunt.
Posted by: Tom Servo

And may their rulers visit too soon!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at June 30, 2025 11:17 AM (s/SFW)

84 Salad is what goes on the meat -- lettuce, onion, parsley, garlic, etc.

Posted by: Bulg at June 30, 2025 11:18 AM (77rzZ)

85 I have a general dietary rule that I've learned from life: sugar, milk products and wheat should be avoided.

I enjoy those things but I keep them to a minimum.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at June 30, 2025 11:18 AM (t11Bq)

86 The meat I eat is vegetarian.
Posted by: Boss Moss at June 30, 2025 11:12 AM (Iv8wu)

Salad is not food. Salad is what food eats.
Posted by: Aetius451AD

My food eats their food.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at June 30, 2025 11:18 AM (N39Ws)

87 I'm just hoping that the EU forms its army under the guise of paying for NATO and invades Russia.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 30, 2025 11:17 AM (GBKbO)

...in November.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 30, 2025 11:18 AM (VoAdT)

88 We do know for sure.

They didn't mention it.

Unless they were just catching their breath.

Yeah, that's true.

Posted by: Paco at June 30, 2025 11:18 AM (mADJX)

89 Now I want a good steak.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at June 30, 2025 11:18 AM (bss/y)

90 Meanwhile the CCP is slowly installing hundreds of maritime posts throughout the Pacific, 'borging' western politicians, and funding marxist madrassas called 'universities.' YAY!~

Posted by: weft cut-loop at June 30, 2025 11:18 AM (mlg/3)

91 We did not "break" Iran. Leadership is still in power. Trump made that point. There is nothing for us to "fix."

Posted by: actually inside the beltway at June 30, 2025 11:19 AM (k0XeG)

92 Modern romance.

https://is.gd/wIaLYn

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Well, This Is Another Fine Mess You've Gotten Me Into at June 30, 2025 11:19 AM (L/fGl)

93 Well, at least you don't do CrossFit."
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 30, 2025 11:11 AM (GBKbO)

Good addition.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at June 30, 2025 11:11 AM (bss/y)

As long as they don't have a stack of "The Secret" DVDs

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at June 30, 2025 11:19 AM (FoIOl)

94 Meh. They have no choice but to appear to act defiant in the face of their utter impotence and humiliation. But they must know if they actually restart the program, it will get blown up again -- and the scientists working on it will be killed again.

I'll bet they'll say they're on a humanitarian mission to rescue workers trapped by the explosion. Because, you know, they're all about the humanity.

Posted by: Archimedes at June 30, 2025 11:19 AM (Riz8t)

95 it's just the status then those people are broken.
Posted by: Martini Farmer

It's a desperate search for inclusion because all her beneficial associations are denied in these times.
Modern mobility plays a big part in this. It's not just wokeness and progressivism.

Posted by: From about That Time at June 30, 2025 11:19 AM (n4GiU)

96 Maybe they should start in the Spring. 9 months to wrap it up.

Posted by: Boss Moss at June 30, 2025 11:20 AM (Iv8wu)

97 Fordow Stood Still: Why Iran's Uranium Stayed Put

https://tinyurl.com/3ettta3a

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at June 30, 2025 11:20 AM (t11Bq)

98 "Oh yeah, forgot to mention, some of those MOPs had delayed triggers on them, just in case you feel cute and want to come back and----"

FPLOOOOOOMMMMMMmmmmm

".... nevermind."

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 30, 2025 11:20 AM (VoAdT)

99 And some people who don't actually have celiac disease have a sensitivity to gluten, not because they ate an entire loaf of bread or are virtue signaling , but because they have a sensitivity to gluten. Some of these people don't actually think their sons are girls or girls are boys and don't endorse the hideous evil of mutiltating kids.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 30, 2025 11:11 AM (2GCMq)

Sure but those people aren't fun to talk about.

Posted by: ... at June 30, 2025 11:20 AM (VPwHp)

100 Adam Carolla has talked about this, and I’ve experienced it a million times.

You’re at a gathering of sorts be it a party, office lunch, whatever. There’s food delivered. Inevitably there is a fuckton of vegan/vegetarian stuff brought in. And 90% of it is untouched and thrown away.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at June 30, 2025 11:20 AM (nwGCR)

101 >>The transgender fad will fade away. But unlike the gluten fad, innocents are being disfigured for life. . .

The difference is: there is a huge political use for trannies: https://tinyurl.com/y7yebr5r

Transgenderism is used by the left as a method of turning pathology and alienation into politically viable resentment.
. . .
The true nefariousness of the left’s designs with regards to transgenderism can be seen in their obsession over transitioning children. Should the left be successful here, they will be able to essentially create political inquisitors who have never known anything other than transgender ideology, who will have a lifetime of resentment for the left to use and who, due to the poisoning and mutilation of their bodies, can never leave or create a normal life for themselves outside the leftist political-ideological machine. Inquisitors whom the left, nota bene, intend to place in every institution, company, media franchise, etc.

Posted by: Lizzy at June 30, 2025 11:20 AM (VVnrT)

102 I'm just hoping that the EU forms its army under the guise of paying for NATO and invades Russia.

Germany says it will increase it's defense spending to 3.5% of GDP...within 10 years, and it will be deficit financed. Yay?

Posted by: Archimedes at June 30, 2025 11:20 AM (Riz8t)

103 94 Meh. They have no choice but to appear to act defiant in the face of their utter impotence and humiliation. But they must know if they actually restart the program, it will get blown up again -- and the scientists working on it will be killed again.

I'll bet they'll say they're on a humanitarian mission to rescue workers trapped by the explosion. Because, you know, they're all about the humanity.
Posted by: Archimedes at June 30, 2025 11:19 AM (Riz8t)

======

"The Great Satan Trump left a poor gay man down there, and we're digging them out."
-The Ayatollah

"We must give Iran a trillion dollars to save that gay man."
-The entire western left and 30% of the Western right

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 30, 2025 11:20 AM (GBKbO)

104 "We did not "break" Iran. Leadership is still in power. Trump made that point. There is nothing for us to "fix.""

Reminds of Ukraine no?

Posted by: Mongo at June 30, 2025 11:21 AM (Ef4Ak)

105 I have never met a healthy vegetarian. They always seem to have some sort of 'condition'.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 30, 2025 11:21 AM (Q4IgG)

106 Who puts lettuce on steak?

Posted by: eleven at June 30, 2025 11:21 AM (fV+MH)

107 Now I want a good steak.
Posted by: Aetius451AD

Fist bump!

Posted by: rickb223 at June 30, 2025 11:21 AM (LA0fN)

108 19 My doctor (who didn't recommend the vaxx for under-50s) doesn't want me to eat gluten. I don't think she's a crank.
There are maybe five genes that work together to make gluten bad; I have at least one of them. Besides, cauliflower-crust pizza just tastes better.
Posted by: gKWVE at June 30, 2025 11:05 AM (gKWVE)

also, and this is from experience - cutting wheat out of your diet is a great way to lose weight, if you're trying. It also makes eating fast food almost impossible. Wheat is in everything, and much of it is calories that a lot of us don't need.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 30, 2025 11:21 AM (uWKK8)

109 102 I'm just hoping that the EU forms its army under the guise of paying for NATO and invades Russia.

Germany says it will increase it's defense spending to 3.5% of GDP...within 10 years, and it will be deficit financed. Yay?
Posted by: Archimedes at June 30, 2025 11:20 AM (Riz8t)

======

I thought all member nations promised to increase to 5%.

NATO chief even called Trump "daddy" when he announced it.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 30, 2025 11:21 AM (GBKbO)

110 Who puts lettuce on steak?
Posted by: eleven

I was thinking of burgers.

Posted by: Bulg at June 30, 2025 11:22 AM (77rzZ)

111 Letteuce is reformulated water.

Posted by: Boss Moss at June 30, 2025 11:22 AM (Iv8wu)

112 Gluten is like food dyes. A few people have reactions from it so they scream until everyone has to give them up. It's why I definitely don't trust RFK jr. He's definitely established himself as a food nazi. Just tell me the info you think might be important and let me decide if I want to eat it. Don't ban it just because you have a bad opinion of it.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at June 30, 2025 11:22 AM (g8Ew8)

113 Beyond the social status of "transitioning" one's kids, what's the allure? These people getting paid to do it too?

The one I've seen, where the mom was playing gender confusion w/her daughter since she was a toddler, the mom is crazy. It's a narcissistic/ Munchausen by proxyish thing -- it's all about her making the world safe for her kid (who is now depressed and a mess).
Posted by: Lizzy at June 30, 2025 11:14 AM (VVnrT)
____

That tranny who dominated the girls' softball championship was "transitioned" by his mom ... at 9 years old. She had his birth certificate amended to change his sex to female. Again: at 9 years old.

I very strongly suspect this was a bitter, hateful "mom" abusing the son to punish the father. A lot of these "forced" transitions are just that.

But there's another possibility: she set this in motion to get her son -- otherwise a despised white male -- a higher position on the social totem pole. Get your son into girls' sports to dominate, and if nothing else scholarships open up.

Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at June 30, 2025 11:22 AM (iFTx/)

114 It goes without saying that every death of a young patriotic American is a tragedy for the family and for the nation, a loss of what was, and what could have been. I both salute and mourn them.

But in all honesty, our losses since 2000 are minimal. Young people die every day, almost always pointlessly.

Posted by: toby928 at June 30, 2025 11:23 AM (jc0TO)

115 Thx Buck. I know people who fell into the lactose intolerance thing. I said to to one guy "so milk makes you fart" . He said basically. I know it does exist but similar to the gluten thing it's way overstated

Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 30, 2025 11:23 AM (eBgDF)

116 It should be remembered that we unseated our elder brother, Great Britain, and became the new Great Britain as a result of our shear power in WWII. We ended up with an empire. Let's treat it like an empire.

Posted by: pudinhead at June 30, 2025 11:23 AM (W3T6M)

117 @99 Healthy, active people need more natural protein than a vegan diet offers, and supplementing it with vegan-approved processed proteins make it expensive.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at June 30, 2025 11:23 AM (36PRH)

118 44
‘ Nation-building" worked with Germany and Japan because they were both nations with intelligent, organized, hard-working people.’

That and dread of the USSR.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at June 30, 2025 11:23 AM (jbnUc)

119 Great rant, and solid point, but i will disagree about post WWII Western Europe. I do believe that it was in american interest to rebuild eurpoe at the time. the threat of communism was high, and leaving them to fend for themselves would have invited it to take hold. And having western europe in the hands of the soviets might have tipped the balance, but for sure would have prolonged the cold war, imo.

our mistake was in NOT forcing them to be more self sufficient once the '70s came around, and expecially into the 80 when they became rich and prosperous and could spoil their populations with giveaways known the US would keep them safe.

Posted by: Sturmtoddler at June 30, 2025 11:24 AM (nXhwP)

120 >>Reminds of Ukraine no?

No. Not in any way.

Posted by: JackStraw at June 30, 2025 11:24 AM (viF8m)

121 OT, but there is a lot of weird, damaged shit on ewetub.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at June 30, 2025 11:24 AM (bss/y)

122 I thought all member nations promised to increase to 5%.

NATO chief even called Trump "daddy" when he announced it.

It was my understanding that 1.5% of the spending (to bring it up to 5%) will be something like "defense related", whatever the hell that means, other than that it will definitely be of no use to the military.

Posted by: Archimedes at June 30, 2025 11:24 AM (Riz8t)

123 Germany needs deficit financing just to pay for keeping the D in Deutschland capitalized.

Those fuckers are cruising for disaster, military or no.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 30, 2025 11:25 AM (VoAdT)

124 Ok, so let's take the analogy: Iraq was the Ukraine before Ukraine.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at June 30, 2025 11:25 AM (bss/y)

125
Y2K would have actually been a real disaster if we had not done a lot of work to keep it from being so. There is another digital problem coming next decade: 32 bit UNIX and its derivatives will quit working as the seconds count since UNIX was created will roll over. Fortunately most UNIX machines today are 64 bit, and that won't roll over until after the Universe has ceased to exist.

Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at June 30, 2025 11:13 AM (Da7Vv)

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[per Grok:]

The 32-bit UNIX time rollover, often called the "Year 2038 problem," occurs when the number of seconds since January 1, 1970 (the UNIX epoch) exceeds the maximum value a 32-bit signed integer can hold, which is 2,147,483,647 seconds.

This happens on January 19, 2038, at 03:14:07 UTC. After this point, 32-bit systems using a signed 32-bit integer for timekeeping will overflow, causing the time to wrap around to December 13, 1901, or result in undefined behavior, depending on the system.

Posted by: ShainS -- Digital Arsonist (former Stochastic Terrorist) at June 30, 2025 11:25 AM (Qof+9)

126 Besides, cauliflower-crust pizza just tastes better.
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This gives me the shivers.

Posted by: pudinhead at June 30, 2025 11:26 AM (W3T6M)

127 You’re at a gathering of sorts be it a party, office lunch, whatever. There’s food delivered. Inevitably there is a fuckton of vegan/vegetarian stuff brought in. And 90% of it is untouched and thrown away.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald

True story; at a service 'frat' meetup. We traveled 8 hours to join. They break out the burgers and dogs on a grill. They had one pack of veggie burgers. I doublestacked two of them because they were just going to burn and I got shamed for taking them.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at June 30, 2025 11:26 AM (mlg/3)

128 122 It was my understanding that 1.5% of the spending (to bring it up to 5%) will be something like "defense related", whatever the hell that means, other than that it will definitely be of no use to the military.
Posted by: Archimedes at June 30, 2025 11:24 AM (Riz8t)

=======

"Hundreds of millions spent studying the effectiveness of trannies with mustaches in non-combat roles during peacetime is a good use of our money."
-Belgium

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 30, 2025 11:26 AM (GBKbO)

129 Those fuckers are cruising for disaster, military or no.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 30, 2025 11:25 AM (VoAdT)
You almost want Poland o invade them.

1) Surprise, motherfuckers!

2) Variety.

3) Just to watch the lols.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at June 30, 2025 11:26 AM (bss/y)

130 It was my understanding that 1.5% of the spending (to bring it up to 5%) will be something like "defense related", whatever the hell that means, other than that it will definitely be of no use to the military.
Posted by: Archimedes at June 30, 2025 11:24 AM

I wonder if tax breaks for larger families could be justified as defense related in this age of collapsing birth rates.

Posted by: toby928 at June 30, 2025 11:26 AM (jc0TO)

131 There is talk of building a bridge in Holland that can support an APC.

Posted by: Boss Moss at June 30, 2025 11:26 AM (Iv8wu)

132 Idaho shooter identified.

https://is.gd/FZw92s

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Well, This Is Another Fine Mess You've Gotten Me Into at June 30, 2025 11:26 AM (L/fGl)

133 Wes Roley is the name of the dead suspect I Coeur d'Alene.

Posted by: Sasquatch, the Original Trans-Wookie at June 30, 2025 11:27 AM (xmFdX)

134 I saw the NF documentary on the Astroworld disaster. It's an interesting watch, although it whitewashes the blame too much.

What stood out to me is how nobody cared about 10 dead brown people. I don't think anyone even apologized. It was all fake gaslighting, and blame-shifting, and false denials. And of course, a bonanza for lawyers.

Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at June 30, 2025 11:27 AM (iFTx/)

135 "Ok, so let's take the analogy: Iraq was the Ukraine before Ukraine.
Posted by: Aetius451AD "

You just whooshed my very smooth brane.

Posted by: eleven at June 30, 2025 11:27 AM (fV+MH)

136 130 I wonder if tax breaks for larger families could be justified as defense related in this age of collapsing birth rates.
Posted by: toby928 at June 30, 2025 11:26 AM (jc0TO)

=======

Collapsing birthrates aren't as big of an issue if you maintain your culture by refusing mass immigration and don't rely on the government to spend huge amounts of money on elder care by replacing reliance on government with reliance on family.

Still an issue, but more manageable.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 30, 2025 11:27 AM (GBKbO)

137 I have a relative with celiac and can confirm that when she inadvertently eats something with gluten, she is violently ill (not as bad as food poisoning, but miserable for days, then so-so for 1-2weeks). One of the issues that she's experienced is that celiac effects people differently. For some reason, she reacts to sorghum, which is a common replacement ingredient to make gluten-free food.

Apart from the fad dieters who've annoyed many with their gluten-free demands, it is a legitimate food allergy that can be a struggle to deal with (discerning GF vs. certified GF, etc.).

Posted by: Lizzy at June 30, 2025 11:28 AM (VVnrT)

138 Remember a few weeks ago when the Tuckers of the world were telling us that we would have boots on the ground and regime change bullshit in Iran and it would end Trump's presidency?

Good times.

Posted by: JackStraw at June 30, 2025 11:28 AM (viF8m)

139 It wasn't the guy who killed his three daughters. Travis Decker.

Posted by: Boss Moss at June 30, 2025 11:29 AM (Iv8wu)

140 ‘ Nation-building" worked with Germany and Japan because they were both nations with intelligent, organized, hard-working people.’

Is that why Germany is consistently one of our loudest critics ?

Posted by: Doug Roberts at June 30, 2025 11:29 AM (Ail5Y)

141 Still an issue, but more manageable.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 30, 2025 11:27 AM

I just mean that a military needs soldiers.

Posted by: toby928 at June 30, 2025 11:29 AM (jc0TO)

142 138 Remember a few weeks ago when the Tuckers of the world were telling us that we would have boots on the ground and regime change bullshit in Iran and it would end Trump's presidency?

Good times.
Posted by: JackStraw at June 30, 2025 11:28 AM (viF8m)

Always fighting the last war.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at June 30, 2025 11:30 AM (bss/y)

143 Posers. They're all just lying posers.

Mamdani eats rice with his fingers, like some 3rd World peasant, but him mother's a Bollywood producer worth tens of millions, and his Dad's a...wait for it...tenured professor at Columbia.

https://is.gd/2TKopY

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

144 Idaho shooter identified.

https://is.gd/FZw92s
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Well, This Is Another Fine Mess You've Gotten Me Into at June 30, 2025 11:26 AM (L/fGl)
_______

Unconfirmed at this point, though. I'll follow 24 hour rule on this.

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

145 In the NCAA there are 40 trans athletes competing out of 400000
1 out of 10,000
About 50% are girls competing in boy's sports because their schools do not offer a girl's team in that sport

Posted by: Aliassmithsmith at June 30, 2025 11:30 AM (l7Qfl)

146 The motive may never be known.

Posted by: toby928 at June 30, 2025 11:30 AM (jc0TO)

147 Shut up, Dunce.

Posted by: toby928 at June 30, 2025 11:31 AM (jc0TO)

148 You know who else was from Kenya?

Posted by: Boss Moss at June 30, 2025 11:31 AM (Iv8wu)

149 Is that why Germany is consistently one of our loudest critics ?
Posted by: Doug Roberts

Because we didn't stomp the socialism out of them for fear of allowing them to starve to death.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at June 30, 2025 11:31 AM (mlg/3)

150 [also per Grok:] Older Windows Versions (e.g., Windows XP, 32-bit editions): Some older Windows systems and applications used 32-bit signed integers for timekeeping, similar to UNIX systems, storing time as seconds since January 1, 1970 (or other epochs). These are susceptible to the Year 2038 problem, where the time will overflow on January 19, 2038, at 03:14:07 UTC, causing potential issues like wrapping to an earlier date or errors in time-dependent functions.

Modern Windows (e.g., Windows 10, 11, 64-bit editions): Most modern Windows versions use 64-bit time representations internally for core system functions, especially in 64-bit editions. For example, Windows uses the FILETIME structure, which counts 100-nanosecond intervals since January 1, 1601, and is stored as a 64-bit value. This avoids the 2038 problem, as it can represent dates far into the future (up to the year 30,82

Posted by: ShainS -- Digital Arsonist (former Stochastic Terrorist) at June 30, 2025 11:31 AM (Qof+9)

151 Is that why Germany is consistently one of our loudest critics ?
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Our loudest German critics are normally on the payroll of either CIA or NATO. Satraps can be expensive.

Posted by: pudinhead at June 30, 2025 11:31 AM (W3T6M)

152 You just whooshed my very smooth brane.
Posted by: eleven at June 30, 2025 11:27 AM (fV+MH)

Well, the idea that it was a massive boondoggle that was a windfall to a lot of vested interests in policy. Not the war, but making the peace.

If you really want to tighten the tinfoil, what if the ukraine was a way to not just insulate these interests from the effects of covid on the economy, but make them shitloads of money?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at June 30, 2025 11:31 AM (bss/y)

153 Germany's problems come from unification with the East.

Posted by: toby928 at June 30, 2025 11:32 AM (jc0TO)

154 141 Still an issue, but more manageable.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 30, 2025 11:27 AM

I just mean that a military needs soldiers.
Posted by: toby928 at June 30, 2025 11:29 AM (jc0TO)

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Funnily enough, China's been trying government benefits to make families bigger for a few years.

Hasn't worked. At all.

Culture determines birthrates, not government incentives. China created a culture where you had one child. Even grandparents today barely remember larger families.

Europe did something similar by shoving as many people into cities as possible.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 30, 2025 11:32 AM (GBKbO)

155 fuck these shit pebbles are yummy
just amazing

Posted by: Aliassmithsmith at June 30, 2025 11:32 AM (l7Qfl)

156 >>Always fighting the last war.

Anyone who still doesn't get that Trump is not a uniparty neocon is a retard. They didn't try to put a bullet in his head because he was one of the gang.

Posted by: JackStraw at June 30, 2025 11:32 AM (viF8m)

157 143 Posers. They're all just lying posers.

Mamdani eats rice with his fingers, like some 3rd World peasant, but him mother's a Bollywood producer worth tens of millions, and his Dad's a...wait for it...tenured professor at Columbia.

https://is.gd/2TKopY
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So, another Obama, rite?

Posted by: pudinhead at June 30, 2025 11:32 AM (W3T6M)

158 Trump and Hegseth have completely turned the military and foreign policy around. Like you say, we break what we need to break with lethal unapologetic force and then leave. It's up to the Iranians now what to do about their country.

I also hope and pray that the ROE in actual war have been changed so our guys don't need to call the JAG lawyer for permission to shoot an enemy.

Posted by: PJ at June 30, 2025 11:33 AM (RRCAT)

159 Not to be too generous in the interpretation, but "you broke it/you own it" means you own the consequences of breaking it. That does not necessarily mean you have to now fix what you broke. Libya, for example.

We haven't fixed shit over there, but we certainly broke it. Those that broke it need to own what they did. And perhaps go to jail for it, but of course that will never happen.

Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at June 30, 2025 11:33 AM (MZ+PY)

160 >>Posted by: Aliassmithsmith

As I said. Retard.

Posted by: JackStraw at June 30, 2025 11:33 AM (viF8m)

161 Besides, cauliflower-crust pizza just tastes better.

-
British scientists are taking the "first steps" to make synthetic human DNA

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Well, This Is Another Fine Mess You've Gotten Me Into at June 30, 2025 11:33 AM (L/fGl)

162 ‘ Nation-building" worked with Germany and Japan because they were both nations with intelligent, organized, hard-working people.’

Is that why Germany is consistently one of our loudest critics ?

Oh no, it's the GERMANS!

Objectively speaking every single major policy/collective choice by Germany in my adult life has been astonishingly stupid:
- Giving their manufacturing technology to China
- Destroying Eurozone growth
- The Energiewende
- Letting in millions of Middle Eastern migrants
- Allowing themselves to become dependent on Russian gas
- Not investing in their own defense

Literally every single one of those choices was obviously retarded at the time it was being made and almost every intelligent person said so at the time and each time the Germans smugly and autistically refused to listen.

https://is.gd/vNQPNo

Posted by: Archimedes at June 30, 2025 11:33 AM (Riz8t)

163 Edi Amin DaDa.

Posted by: Boss Moss at June 30, 2025 11:33 AM (Iv8wu)

164 Posted by: Aliassmithsmith at June 30, 2025 11:32 AM

You literally know nothing, dunderkind.

Posted by: toby928 at June 30, 2025 11:33 AM (jc0TO)

165 Germany is a critic because Pax Americana has allowed them to engage in all kind of stupid leftist crap with no repercussions. That lets them think they are smart enough to fart in our general direction.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 30, 2025 11:33 AM (eBgDF)

166 I saw on one of those landing page news feeds that Canada dropped one of its taxes on US products in order to advance trade talks with Trump.

Posted by: kallisto at June 30, 2025 11:33 AM (dCxaZ)

167 Europe did something similar by shoving as many people into cities as possible.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 30, 2025 11:32 AM (GBKbO)

There is also something that does not get enough play: optimism in the future makes people want to fuck and have kids.

One reason Covid lockdowns did not result in a baby boom.

Note: I am not asserting this as fact, but it does track.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at June 30, 2025 11:34 AM (bss/y)

168 ""I have been waiting for the U.S. to strike against Iran for more than 45 years.""

Yup. For 45 years I was hoping for a strike large enough that passing space aliens would say "shit man, look at the dent in that planet"

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at June 30, 2025 11:34 AM (snZF9)

169 166 I saw on one of those landing page news feeds that Canada dropped one of its taxes on US products in order to advance trade talks with Trump.
Posted by: kallisto at June 30, 2025 11:33 AM (dCxaZ)

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Digital trade tax, or something.

Trump threatened increased tariffs and cut off trade talks until they repealed it.

They repealed it.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 30, 2025 11:34 AM (GBKbO)

170 You're supposed to use a piece of bread or something to pick up your rice. And have a fingerbowl nearby. You filthy phoney ass monkey.

Probably eats a dirty water dog with chopsticks, too, the fucking cretin.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 30, 2025 11:34 AM (VoAdT)

171 "Nation-building" worked with Germany and Japan because they were both nations with intelligent, organized, hard-working people.

We made the mistake of extrapolating that experience to every other country we got mixed up with.
Posted by: Bulg at June 30, 2025 11:11 AM (77rzZ)

And neither country had any muslims to speak of.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 30, 2025 11:34 AM (oTy3B)

172 Posers. They're all just lying posers.

Mamdani eats rice with his fingers, like some 3rd World peasant, but him mother's a Bollywood producer worth tens of millions, and his Dad's a...wait for it...tenured professor at Columbia.

https://is.gd/2TKopY
Posted by: Archimedes at June 30, 2025 11:30 AM (Riz8t)
_________

He's a fag, right? Gotta be.

Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at June 30, 2025 11:35 AM (iFTx/)

173 >>Germany's problems come from unification with the East.

Truth.

Posted by: JackStraw at June 30, 2025 11:35 AM (viF8m)

174 There was a comic that filled in for Bob Bartlett on Imus's TV show. He did a comedic Patton imitation, with the General giving "The Patton Doctrine". "If it moves, it dies".

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at June 30, 2025 11:35 AM (gm9Sb)

175 One reason Covid lockdowns did not result in a baby boom.

Note: I am not asserting this as fact, but it does track.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at June 30, 2025 11:34 AM (bss/y)

A conflating variable would be all the reproductive damage caused by the clot shot.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 30, 2025 11:35 AM (VoAdT)

176 161 Besides, cauliflower-crust pizza just tastes better.

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British scientists are taking the "first steps" to make synthetic human DNA
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Well, This Is Another Fine Mess You've Gotten Me Into at June 30, 2025 11:33 AM (L/fGl)

Non sequitur?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at June 30, 2025 11:35 AM (bss/y)

177 167 There is also something that does not get enough play: optimism in the future makes people want to fuck and have kids.

One reason Covid lockdowns did not result in a baby boom.

Note: I am not asserting this as fact, but it does track.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at June 30, 2025 11:34 AM (bss/y)

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The birth replacement rate across the US is very different per region.

There's no state above replacement level (2.1), but the closest regions are all Republican and rural. The lowest state is...Vermont. The lowest regions are all cities (a regular observable pattern across populations is that urban areas have lower birth rates than rural ones).

The future belongs to those that show up.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 30, 2025 11:36 AM (GBKbO)

178 Besides, cauliflower-crust pizza just tastes better.

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British scientists are taking the "first steps" to make synthetic human DNA
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Well, This Is Another Fine Mess You've Gotten Me Into at June 30, 2025 11:33 AM (L/fGl)

Non sequitur?
Posted by: Aetius451AD at June 30, 2025 11:35 AM

THE CRUST IS MADE FROM PEOPLE!!

Posted by: toby928 at June 30, 2025 11:36 AM (jc0TO)

179 Germany's unification did produce the wonderful governance of Fuhrer Merkel

Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 30, 2025 11:36 AM (eBgDF)

180 158 Trump and Hegseth have completely turned the military and foreign policy around. Like you say, we break what we need to break with lethal unapologetic force and then leave. It's up to the Iranians now what to do about their country.

I also hope and pray that the ROE in actual war have been changed so our guys don't need to call the JAG lawyer for permission to shoot an enemy.
Posted by: PJ at June 30, 2025 11:33 AM (RRCAT)

I would say they haven't turned it completely around yet, but they've made a very good start. They will have completely turned it around when they have finally replaced everyone who held the rank of Colonel or higher during the Obama years.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 30, 2025 11:36 AM (uWKK8)

181 The future belongs to those that show up.

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Ding ding ding!

Have faith, we may win this thing yet.

Posted by: SH (no more socks) at June 30, 2025 11:37 AM (sX1BW)

182 A conflating variable would be all the reproductive damage caused by the clot shot.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 30, 2025 11:35 AM (VoAdT)

Valid as well. Did you see the czech study linked over at Insty? Really interesting.

https://tinyurl.com/2ddj3r4m

Posted by: Aetius451AD at June 30, 2025 11:37 AM (bss/y)

183 181 The future belongs to those that show up.

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Ding ding ding!

Have faith, we may win this thing yet.
Posted by: SH (no more socks) at June 30, 2025 11:37 AM (sX1BW)

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The American left has known that it's been in demographic collapse for a while. That's why they took over the education system (well, one reason). That's why they opened the borders.

They knew they were being bred out.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 30, 2025 11:37 AM (GBKbO)

184 Iran's Grand Ayatollah Issues Fatwa: Kill Donald Trump

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I wouldn't be poking that dog if I were you.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Well, This Is Another Fine Mess You've Gotten Me Into at June 30, 2025 11:38 AM (L/fGl)

185 Digital trade tax, or something.

Trump threatened increased tariffs and cut off trade talks until they repealed it.

They repealed it.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 30, 2025 11:34 AM (GBKbO)

Carney folded like a cheap lawn chair.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 30, 2025 11:38 AM (uWKK8)

186 Let's just agree that Woodrow Wilson is the most evil person in history.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at June 30, 2025 11:38 AM (mlg/3)

187 wasn't the guy who killed his three daughters. Travis Decker.
Posted by: Boss Moss at June 30, 2025 11:29 AM (Iv8wu)

That was a dumb theory. It made zero sense. But the internet being the internet….

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at June 30, 2025 11:38 AM (nwGCR)

188
But there's another possibility: she set this in motion to get her son -- otherwise a despised white male -- a higher position on the social totem pole. Get your son into girls' sports to dominate, and if nothing else scholarships open up.
Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at June 30, 2025 11:22 AM (iFTx/)

I think you are assigning logic to the insane. It is “pay attention to me! I am part of the cool crowd” and unfortunately their child is an accessory to their TikToks, much like a Stanley cup. They to play the victim Olympics, both for themselves and on behalf of their child. It’s Munchausen syndrome by proxy, or factitious disorder imposed on another (FDIA), with the trans trend twist. The child can’t cross mommy and push back here, either. If you watch that Jazz show, he tried, you see him thinking there is something wrong and his mom loses her shizzle. It’s insane.

Posted by: Piper at June 30, 2025 11:38 AM (pZEOD)

189 What is needed today is a return of the African Stunt Baby Craze!

Posted by: Madonna, Old and Vagina Like A Wizard's Sleeve at June 30, 2025 11:38 AM (+Q63G)

190 185
Carney folded like a cheap lawn chair.
Posted by: Tom Servo at June 30, 2025 11:38 AM (uWKK

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Export economies shouldn't pick fights with their chief customer.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 30, 2025 11:38 AM (GBKbO)

191 The US has an age curve better than almost everywhere in the Western World, even with the Boomers.

Posted by: toby928 at June 30, 2025 11:38 AM (jc0TO)

192 All wymmins are crazy, liberal wymmins is the craziest.

Posted by: Archer at June 30, 2025 11:39 AM (IDphi)

193 191 The US has an age curve better than almost everywhere in the Western World, even with the Boomers.
Posted by: toby928 at June 30, 2025 11:38 AM (jc0TO)

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Germany just...doesn't have kids. So they import Syria.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 30, 2025 11:39 AM (GBKbO)

194 They knew they were being bred out.

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This is the lesson from Braveheart.

Posted by: SH (no more socks) at June 30, 2025 11:39 AM (sX1BW)

195 Non sequitur?
Posted by: Aetius451AD

Fake is better than real.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Well, This Is Another Fine Mess You've Gotten Me Into at June 30, 2025 11:39 AM (L/fGl)

196 184 Iran's Grand Ayatollah Issues Fatwa: Kill Donald Trump

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I wouldn't be poking that dog if I were you.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Well, This Is Another Fine Mess You've Gotten Me Into at June 30, 2025 11:38 AM (L/fGl)

Feckin' eejit.

I hope Trump issues a "fatwa" of his own.

$10M USD on the barrel head. Bring me the head of Ali Khamenei.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 30, 2025 11:39 AM (VoAdT)

197 Any more info on the explosions in Philly?

Posted by: Bulg at June 30, 2025 11:40 AM (77rzZ)

198 138
‘ and regime change bullshit in Iran’

I think Trump did float a trial balloon about regim change in the MIGA tweet and saw little enthusiasm.

Trump’s strength isn’t so much having good ideas but instead figuring it out fast when he has bad ideas. And then changing course.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at June 30, 2025 11:41 AM (jbnUc)

199 Let's just agree that Woodrow Wilson is the most evil person in history.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at June 30, 2025 11:38 AM

I remain History's Greatest Monster, also I AM IN AGONY IN THIS FIRE.

Posted by: James Earl Carter at June 30, 2025 11:41 AM (jc0TO)

200 Fake is better than real.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Well, This Is Another Fine Mess You've Gotten Me Into at June 30, 2025 11:39 AM (L/fGl)

https://tinyurl.com/bdhpwmza

Oh, come on, I couldn't NOT swing at that.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at June 30, 2025 11:42 AM (bss/y)

201 Iran's Grand Ayatollah Issues Fatwa
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Now I'm not a betting man............

Posted by: ... at June 30, 2025 11:42 AM (VPwHp)

202 This happens on January 19, 2038, at 03:14:07 UTC. After this point, 32-bit systems using a signed 32-bit integer for timekeeping will overflow, causing the time to wrap around to December 13, 1901, or result in undefined behavior, depending on the system.
Posted by: ShainS -- Digital Arsonist

The IRS is fucked. Can live with that.

Posted by: From about That Time at June 30, 2025 11:42 AM (n4GiU)

203 There is another digital problem coming next decade: 32 bit UNIX and its derivatives will quit working as the seconds count since UNIX was created will roll over.
Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at June 30, 2025 11:13 AM (Da7Vv)

Between AI and Sundeep, this won't be a problem.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 30, 2025 11:42 AM (ExV1e)

204 The US has an age curve better than almost everywhere in the Western World, even with the Boomers.
Posted by: toby928 at June 30, 2025 11:38 AM (jc0TO)

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Germany just...doesn't have kids. So they import Syria.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 30, 2025 11:39 AM (GBKbO)
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South Korea has entered the chat ....

Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at June 30, 2025 11:42 AM (iFTx/)

205 "Remember a few weeks ago when the Tuckers of the world were telling us that we would have boots on the ground and regime change bullshit in Iran and it would end Trump's presidency?

Good times.
Posted by: JackStraw "

That was such a disingenuous argument.

Posted by: eleven at June 30, 2025 11:42 AM (fV+MH)

206 https://tinyurl.com/bdhpwmza

MOOOO.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at June 30, 2025 11:43 AM (3LBah)

207 So what’s up with the BBB? I didnt really follow it closely over the past few days. Just reading headlines seems like it was gutted by the Parlimentarian and Tillis has gone full Murkowski in opposing it.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at June 30, 2025 11:43 AM (nwGCR)

208 This happens on January 19, 2038, at 03:14:07 UTC. After this point, 32-bit systems using a signed 32-bit integer for timekeeping will overflow, causing the time to wrap around to December 13, 1901, or result in undefined behavior, depending on the system.
Posted by: ShainS -- Digital Arsonist

The IRS is fucked. Can live with that.
Posted by: From about That Time at June 30, 2025 11:42 AM

Aren't they still COBOL?

Posted by: James Earl Carter at June 30, 2025 11:43 AM (jc0TO)

209 Posted by: Dr. Claw at June 30, 2025 11:41 AM (jbnUc)

Trump's strength is keeping his enemies guessing rather than showing every card all the time.

Posted by: ... at June 30, 2025 11:43 AM (VPwHp)

210 Iran's Grand Ayatollah Issues Fatwa: Kill Donald Trump

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I wouldn't be poking that dog if I were you.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks

Really bad idea.

Iran's newest Grand Mufti?

Donald John Trump - Supreme Leader
(Since he's termed out here)

Posted by: rickb223 at June 30, 2025 11:43 AM (LA0fN)

211 dammit

Posted by: toby928 at June 30, 2025 11:43 AM (jc0TO)

212 Let's just agree that Woodrow Wilson is the most evil person in history.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at June 30, 2025 11:38 AM (mlg/3)

WHAT?? He was norhing compared to Reagan, Bush, and his son, Shrub. But Drump is the most evil of ALL! (runs from room with hair on fire)

Posted by: Dedicated Democrat at June 30, 2025 11:43 AM (5xuJ/)

213 Trump’s strength isn’t so much having good ideas but instead figuring it out fast when he has bad ideas. And then changing course.

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He does seem to do this. Seems like he is doing this right now with immigration permits for hotels. Testing to see how palatable it will be.

Is it possible Mike Lee did the same with western land sales?

There has been a conservative argument for years that the federal government should cede to the states a lot of western land.

Posted by: SH (no more socks) at June 30, 2025 11:43 AM (sX1BW)

214 204 South Korea has entered the chat ....
Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at June 30, 2025 11:42 AM (iFTx/)

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South Korea is in the worst shape.

Except it's not importing the third world to "fix it".

Their population will decrease heavily and quickly over the next two generations. But then that generation will find itself with a lot of space and with the ability to grow larger, faster.

I could see South Korea with a replacement rate over 3 in 40 years.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 30, 2025 11:44 AM (GBKbO)

215 >>The American left has known that it's been in demographic collapse for a while. That's why they took over the education system (well, one reason). That's why they opened the borders.

Not sure why so many still don't understand this is not a uniquely US phenomenon. It's not a coicidence that virtually the entire EU is being overrun with illegals, even worse than here.

Those of us who have been saying for years this a worldwide conspiracy by leftists weren't crazy conspiracy theorists. We were right.

Posted by: JackStraw at June 30, 2025 11:44 AM (viF8m)

216 And now for something completely different.

https://tinyurl.com/a86d8k3a

Those Duke Boys... *shakes head*

Posted by: Aetius451AD at June 30, 2025 11:44 AM (bss/y)

217 Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at June 30, 2025 11:43 AM (nwGCR)

It's still a piece of shit and will probably pass. No one will be happy, but the tax cuts will be there (I think) until Democrats get rid of them so it will be good for most working pockets.

Posted by: ... at June 30, 2025 11:44 AM (VPwHp)

218
Oh no, it's the GERMANS!

Germany: After 9 underage girls sexually abused by Syrians at swimming pool, CDU mayor points to ‘hot weather’

https://t.ly/gET29

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 30, 2025 11:44 AM (63Dwl)

219 I was wrong about bombing Iran. I thought it would lead to more. It still might. For the time
Being I’ll happily admit I was wrong and hope it works out well long term.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at June 30, 2025 11:45 AM (nwGCR)

220 It cut fertility vy what a third?

Posted by: Boss Moss at June 30, 2025 11:45 AM (Iv8wu)

221 MOOOO.
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at June 30, 2025 11:43 AM (3LBah)

I said I wanted steak.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at June 30, 2025 11:45 AM (bss/y)

222 [O/T:]
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene🇺🇸
@RepMTG

I just got off the phone with President Trump!!

I told him about my new bill I am introducing that will save America’s elections from ever being stolen again!

My bill will require the U.S. Census Bureau to conduct a new census immediately upon enactment of the bill. In conducting the new census of the U.S. population, it shall require questions determining the citizenship of each individual, and count US citizens only.
Upon completion of the census, the bill will direct states to immediately begin a redistricting of all U.S. House seats process using only the population of United States citizens.

Thank you President Trump for your strong support of my bill, Making American Elections Great Again!!!

Let’s get this done!!!

https://is.gd/pQQzh4

Posted by: ShainS -- Digital Arsonist (former Stochastic Terrorist) at June 30, 2025 11:45 AM (Qof+9)

223 Charlize Theron Claims “Millions Are Going to Die” Following Trump Cuts to Foreign Aid

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Actually, everybody's going to die. Just a question of time.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Well, This Is Another Fine Mess You've Gotten Me Into at June 30, 2025 11:45 AM (L/fGl)

224 186 Let's just agree that Woodrow Wilson is the most evil person in history.
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Second worst. Lincoln is the worst.

Posted by: pudinhead at June 30, 2025 11:45 AM (W3T6M)

225 210 David Letterman now has a hobo beard, and looks a lot like the ayatollah. Probably has enough crazy shit running through his mind that would make him a shoe in for the job.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at June 30, 2025 11:45 AM (gm9Sb)

226 Also i mean come on how is there not already a Standing Order fatwa over there to kill whoever happens to be POTUS currently?

It's like their sole unifying concept as a nation, for fuck's aches. It's part of their entire ethos.

- Women are livestock.
- Wear at least a pint of cologne at all times or else your dick might fall off and you'll die.
- Death To America.

It's right there in the top three.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 30, 2025 11:45 AM (VoAdT)

227 220 It cut fertility vy what a third?
Posted by: Boss Moss at June 30, 2025 11:45 AM (Iv8wu)

In the study, yeah.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at June 30, 2025 11:46 AM (bss/y)

228 "Well, the idea that it was a massive boondoggle that was a windfall to a lot of vested interests in policy. Not the war, but making the peace.

If you really want to tighten the tinfoil, what if the ukraine was a way to not just insulate these interests from the effects of covid on the economy, but make them shitloads of money?
Posted by: Aetius451AD "

I guess I just don't get what you're saying.

It's ok, that happens to me a lot.

Posted by: eleven at June 30, 2025 11:46 AM (fV+MH)

229 217 It's still a piece of shit and will probably pass. No one will be happy, but the tax cuts will be there (I think) until Democrats get rid of them so it will be good for most working pockets.
Posted by: ... at June 30, 2025 11:44 AM (VPwHp)

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Cutting out illegals from Medicaid is a huge win. Increased funding for ICE is a win. Ending all federally backed loans to humanities graduate programs is a huge win.

There's genuinely a lot of good stuff in it.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 30, 2025 11:46 AM (GBKbO)

230 You know, autism is another trend attention seeking moms have globbed onto as well. It is a badge to be neurodivergent or, neurospicy, because doesn’t that sound like fun! You know how you can tell it’s a person who is on the trend side of it versus someone whose child really is autistic? The person who has an autistic child would give anything to fix it and works their tail off to try to get their child through it as much as humanly possible. Their hearts are broken when their child is left out or teased because of autism, they are not making videos cheering it on. It’s all sick, and these faker parents haven’t a clue how hard it really is.

Posted by: Piper at June 30, 2025 11:46 AM (pZEOD)

231 Cutting out illegals from Medicaid is a huge win.

Is that still in there?

Posted by: toby928 at June 30, 2025 11:47 AM (jc0TO)

232 Wes Roley is the name of the dead suspect I Coeur d'Alene.
Posted by: Sasquatc

A twenty year old. A victim himself in a way, mind broken I'm sure. Still deserves to be dead, once broke can't fix.

Posted by: From about That Time at June 30, 2025 11:47 AM (n4GiU)

233 White liberal women are the curse on America.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at June 30, 2025 11:47 AM (/U5Yz)

234 231 Cutting out illegals from Medicaid is a huge win.

Is that still in there?
Posted by: toby928 at June 30, 2025 11:47 AM (jc0TO)

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Yes, it got put back in.

They slightly rewrote the language and put it back in.

Just like some people predicted.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 30, 2025 11:47 AM (GBKbO)

235 153
‘ Germany's problems come from unification with the East.’

I’m going to disagree there. East Germany is where most of of the anti-migrant voters are concentrated.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at June 30, 2025 11:47 AM (jbnUc)

236 I was happy about selling fed land. It was going to be something like 0.5% of all the land the feds own. But environmentalists went apeshit and of course the gop caved.

The feds own 650M acres of land. Land that could be used for drilling, mining, agriculture, you name it. It could be an economic engine.

But no. A moose might be disturbed so let’s let it all sit there doing nothing.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at June 30, 2025 11:47 AM (nwGCR)

237 Breitbart: Iran Asks U.N. to Make U.S. Pay Reparations for Bombed Nuclear Sites

Posted by: SMOD at June 30, 2025 11:48 AM (RHGPo)

238 >>Is that still in there?

Yes.

Posted by: JackStraw at June 30, 2025 11:48 AM (viF8m)

239 238 >>Is that still in there?

Yes.
Posted by: JackStraw at June 30, 2025 11:48 AM (viF8m)

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And it's one reason Tillis went full-retard.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 30, 2025 11:48 AM (GBKbO)

240 They are digging at Fordow?? lol. "Mustafa, I forgot my favorite glasses at my work desk, let's go get them!"

Posted by: runner at June 30, 2025 11:48 AM (g47mK)

241 South Korea has entered the chat ....
Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at June 30, 2025 11:42 AM (iFTx/)

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South Korea is in the worst shape.

Except it's not importing the third world to "fix it".

Their population will decrease heavily and quickly over the next two generations. But then that generation will find itself with a lot of space and with the ability to grow larger, faster.

I could see South Korea with a replacement rate over 3 in 40 years.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 30, 2025 11:44 AM (GBKbO)
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Maybe. SK's immigration rate is increasing and I expect that will continue.

Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at June 30, 2025 11:48 AM (iFTx/)

242 > Those Duke Boys... *shakes head*
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Somerset, KY. Devastated by tornados back in May. Not to be deterred to have fun. Insane stunt.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 30, 2025 11:49 AM (Q4IgG)

243 40 acres and an ICBM?

Posted by: Boss Moss at June 30, 2025 11:49 AM (Iv8wu)

244 The centrifuges enriching Uranium were working with Uranium Hexaflouride gas. That is one of the deadliest poisonous gasses known to man. If the centrifuges were smashed by the bunker busters the tunnels are filled with that gas.

Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at June 30, 2025 11:49 AM (Da7Vv)

245 224 186 Let's just agree that Woodrow Wilson is the most evil person in history.
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Second worst. Lincoln is the worst.
Posted by: pudinhead at June 30, 2025 11:45 AM (W3T6M)

It's more thought provoking to see Lincoln as the archetype of an extremely good person given an incredible amount of power, and placed in a horrific and impossible situation.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 30, 2025 11:49 AM (uWKK8)

246 I guess I just don't get what you're saying.

It's ok, that happens to me a lot.
Posted by: eleven at June 30, 2025 11:46 AM (fV+MH)

I think the Ukraine was almost 100% manufactured. Like covid, it is not the thing, but the response to the thing.

Wow, trying to explain makes me feel like a nut.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at June 30, 2025 11:49 AM (bss/y)

247 Oh no, it's the GERMANS!

Germany: After 9 underage girls sexually abused by Syrians at swimming pool, CDU mayor points to ‘hot weather’

https://t.ly/gET29

It kind of, almost, makes you nostalgic for the Nazis. For a day. There would be a rather abrupt end to this sort of thing.

Posted by: Archimedes at June 30, 2025 11:49 AM (Riz8t)

248 There's genuinely a lot of good stuff in it.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 30, 2025 11:46 AM (GBKbO)

I guess we'll see what passes and what it looks like. My trust in "Republicans" is somewhere around that where Karen Gillan is going to show up tonight in her drama club police uniform.

Posted by: ... at June 30, 2025 11:50 AM (VPwHp)

249 Apparently Schumer didn't stick around and listen while all 900+ pages of the bill were read, an action he force. He went home and went to bed. POS

Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 30, 2025 11:50 AM (eBgDF)

250 241 Maybe. SK's immigration rate is increasing and I expect that will continue.
Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at June 30, 2025 11:48 AM (iFTx/)

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Collapsing birth rates are a bigger problem for expansionist countries like China or those with large welfare programs for the elderly.

Pretty sure SK has the latter, but at least it's not trying to conquer North Korea at the same time.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 30, 2025 11:50 AM (GBKbO)

251 >>And it's one reason Tillis went full-retard.

Liz Cheney. Adam Kinziger. Mitch the Turtle. Tillis and more.

Trump's legacy will live on long after he is out of office.

Posted by: JackStraw at June 30, 2025 11:51 AM (viF8m)

252 240 Mahmoud looking for a red Swingline stapler.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at June 30, 2025 11:51 AM (gm9Sb)

253 Germany: After 9 underage girls sexually abused by Syrians at swimming pool, CDU mayor points to ‘hot weather’
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That's why German establishment is working to ban the ADf party. Their explanation for what caused this will be politically inconvenient.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at June 30, 2025 11:51 AM (Dv3i1)

254 But no. A moose might be disturbed so let’s let it all sit there doing nothing.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at June 30, 2025 11:47 AM (nwGCR)

I thought they took it out because there wasn’t a mechanism to stop China or someone like Blackrock from buying it all up.

Posted by: Piper at June 30, 2025 11:51 AM (p4NUW)

255 206
‘ MOOOO’

Happy Pride Month, by the way.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at June 30, 2025 11:51 AM (jbnUc)

256 Korean women must be complete assholes.

Posted by: eleven at June 30, 2025 11:51 AM (fV+MH)

257 248 I guess we'll see what passes and what it looks like. My trust in "Republicans" is somewhere around that where Karen Gillan is going to show up tonight in her drama club police uniform.
Posted by: ... at June 30, 2025 11:50 AM (VPwHp)

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AND, it's a return to regular order.

The return actually does kill a lot of CR funding automatically, from what I understand, and it allows for rescissions.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 30, 2025 11:51 AM (GBKbO)

258 237 Breitbart: Iran Asks U.N. to Make U.S. Pay Reparations for Bombed Nuclear Sites
Posted by: SMOD at June 30, 2025 11:48 AM (RHGPo)

LOL. GF.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at June 30, 2025 11:51 AM (bss/y)

259 Apparently Schumer didn't stick around and listen while all 900+ pages of the bill were read, an action he force. He went home and went to bed. POS
Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 30, 2025 11:50 AM (eBgDF)

Those raw burgers with cheese aren't going to flip themselves.

Posted by: ... at June 30, 2025 11:51 AM (VPwHp)

260 John Cusack Says Iran Will Rush to Get a Nuclear Weapon and They Should

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Genius.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Well, This Is Another Fine Mess You've Gotten Me Into at June 30, 2025 11:52 AM (L/fGl)

261 256 Korean women must be complete assholes.

Posted by: eleven at June 30, 2025 11:51 AM (fV+MH)

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Dolley watches dating shows a lot. We have Netflix. Netflix has a lot of Korean content, including dating shows.

Unmarried people in Korea don't touch each other. It's an extremely reserved culture.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 30, 2025 11:52 AM (GBKbO)

262 The Chinese colonies to the west have higher birth rates. The Chinese Empire conquered large nations to the west.

Posted by: Boss Moss at June 30, 2025 11:52 AM (Iv8wu)

263 Charlize Theron Claims “Millions Are Going to Die” Following Trump Cuts to Foreign Aid

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Eh. I died twice already from the tax cuts and net neutrality. You get used to it.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at June 30, 2025 11:52 AM (nwGCR)

264 >>I think the Ukraine was almost 100% manufactured.

It was 100% manufactured as I've been saying since day 1.

Posted by: JackStraw at June 30, 2025 11:52 AM (viF8m)

265 I will say wrt government ownership of land, I have very little issue with National Parks.

Owning 10,000 acres in Bumblefuck KS though, not so much.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at June 30, 2025 11:52 AM (Z+A8w)

266 The bill is not great, but it's a start. Killing the bill would mean nothing ever gets started.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 30, 2025 11:53 AM (uWKK8)

267 259 Apparently Schumer didn't stick around and listen while all 900+ pages of the bill were read, an action he force. He went home and went to bed. POS
Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 30, 2025 11:50 AM (eBgDF)

Those raw burgers with cheese aren't going to flip themselves.
Posted by: ... at June 30, 2025 11:51 AM (VPwHp)

Who would expect anything less from Schumer, or his ilk?

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at June 30, 2025 11:53 AM (N39Ws)

268 266 The bill is not great, but it's a start. Killing the bill would mean nothing ever gets started.
Posted by: Tom Servo at June 30, 2025 11:53 AM (uWKK

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Just another CR that keeps TARP funding.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 30, 2025 11:53 AM (GBKbO)

269 Posted by: Piper at June 30, 2025 11:46 AM (pZEOD)

Well said, Ma'am. How is your youngest doing these days?

Posted by: Bulg at June 30, 2025 11:53 AM (77rzZ)

270 It seems Based Mike Lee turned himself inside out until he 'discovered' that selling fed land to Blackrock and China probably wasn't the best thing for the country.

The entire idea of selling fed land is to enrich politician's and their lobbyists bank accounts.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at June 30, 2025 11:53 AM (/U5Yz)

271 John Cusack and Charlize Theron?

2002 called they want their "stars" back.

Actually Charlize is fun to watch. Too bad she's such a dim bulb.

Posted by: ... at June 30, 2025 11:54 AM (VPwHp)

272 Unmarried people in Korea don't touch each other. It's an extremely reserved culture.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 30, 2025 11:52 AM (GBKbO)

I dated a Korean girl in college.

There was touching.

I am a barbarian in that culture though so maybe that was part of it.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at June 30, 2025 11:54 AM (Z+A8w)

273 Don't worry, there's still the conference for people to freak out about.

Looking forward to it!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 30, 2025 11:54 AM (GBKbO)

274 237 Breitbart: Iran Asks U.N. to Make U.S. Pay Reparations for Bombed Nuclear Sites
Posted by: SMOD

What? US taxpayers paid for construction and de-construction. Now they want us to pay for their hurt feelings as well?

Posted by: Chuck Martel at June 30, 2025 11:54 AM (Dv3i1)

275 Report: Iranian Official Says Tehran Deporting 8,000 Afghans a Day

The Afghan news agency Khaama Press quoted the governor of Taybad, a city on the border with Afghanistan, on Sunday stating that Iran has successfully deported over 95,000 people in the past week.
While the United Nations urged neighboring countries to welcome the few Afghans who successfully escaped Taliban rule at the time, that call went largely unheeded.

Posted by: SMOD at June 30, 2025 11:54 AM (RHGPo)

276 Apparently Schumer didn't stick around and listen while all 900+ pages of the bill were read, an action he force. He went home and went to bed. POS
Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 30, 2025 11:50 AM

This is why JD needed to be there issuing repeated quorum calls.

Posted by: toby928 at June 30, 2025 11:54 AM (jc0TO)

277 It's more thought provoking to see Lincoln as the archetype of an extremely good person given an incredible amount of power, and placed in a horrific and impossible situation.
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He believed something that was not true and launched a total war against his brother Able to win an absurdity. The Law of Lincoln states, that if your spouse or siblings wish to leave you, you are permitted to kill them in order to preserve a union that no longer exists. This is crazy. Slavery was already collapsing. There was no need for mass murder. Yet, he is the first Western Modern Leader to go full tilt Total War. And he did it on his own people.

Posted by: pudinhead at June 30, 2025 11:54 AM (W3T6M)

278 258 237 Breitbart: Iran Asks U.N. to Make U.S. Pay Reparations for Bombed Nuclear Sites
Posted by: SMOD at June 30, 2025 11:48 AM (RHGPo)

LOL. GF.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at June 30, 2025 11:51 AM (bss/y)

Sounds like someone hasn't been bombed nearly enough, don't it?

Fire up the B-2s and don't quit until they're somewhere halfway between "used panty vending machines" and "fully operable Thunderdome".

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 30, 2025 11:55 AM (VoAdT)

279 The enviros weren’t concerned about China and Blackrock. They were concerned about the moose. 😄

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at June 30, 2025 11:55 AM (nwGCR)

280
Aren't they still COBOL?

So are most major banks.

Installed base...

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at June 30, 2025 11:55 AM (s/SFW)

281 Can you guys explain to me how the Ukraine was 100 percent manufactured?

Posted by: eleven at June 30, 2025 11:55 AM (fV+MH)

282 There has been a conservative argument for years that the federal government should cede to the states a lot of western land.
Posted by: SH (no more socks) at June 30, 2025 11:43 AM (sX1BW)

Yep.

Posted by: Nevada at June 30, 2025 11:55 AM (LgDgc)

283 I dated a Korean girl in college.

There was touching.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at June 30, 2025 11:54 AM (Z+A8w)

And that was just her name!

Posted by: ... at June 30, 2025 11:56 AM (VPwHp)

284 Math question:
Charlize Theron crazy + Sean Penn crazy ==?

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at June 30, 2025 11:56 AM (PiwSw)

285 Can you guys explain to me how the Ukraine was 100 percent manufactured?

Don't encourage them.

Posted by: Archimedes at June 30, 2025 11:56 AM (Riz8t)

286 I think I can agree with Buck's premise, although normally I'm in favor of "you break it, you buy it." The price a country has to pay for poking the American bear is that the bear gets to smash their stuff and not rebuild it.

Posted by: pookysgirl, using natural law at June 30, 2025 11:56 AM (Wt5PA)

287 One of the top Shia mullahs in Iran issued a statement yesterday saying Trump is an enemy of God. Basically, put a price on his head.

I'm pretty sure Trump noticed.

Posted by: JackStraw at June 30, 2025 11:56 AM (viF8m)

288
Breitbart: Iran Asks U.N. to Make U.S. Pay Reparations for Bombed Nuclear Sites
Posted by: SMOD at June 30, 2025 11:48 AM (RHGPo)

LOL. GF.
Posted by: Aetius451AD

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Not the Bee? Are you sure? (j/k, I know you know, but it's so daft...)

We need to start a new sister international organization to the UN called LOL-GF. Refer all laughable matters to this organization, which will respond within 30 days.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 30, 2025 11:56 AM (HuRzZ)

289 The entire idea of selling fed land is to enrich politician's and their lobbyists bank accounts.
Posted by: Maj. Healey

I'd prefer that the feds grant large portions of the land to the state where the land is located. Especially in the West. Let the citizens of those states decide what to do with it.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at June 30, 2025 11:56 AM (Dv3i1)

290 Even if blackrock owned some land so what? They’d do something with it that would be profitable.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at June 30, 2025 11:57 AM (nwGCR)

291 Who was the fat Ukrainian lady with the Princess Leia hair rolls?

Posted by: Boss Moss at June 30, 2025 11:57 AM (Iv8wu)

292 There has been a conservative argument for years that the federal government should cede to the states a lot of western land.
Posted by: SH (no more socks) at June 30, 2025 11:43 AM (sX1BW)

Yep.

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With that being said, it also seems there was a sizable group of MAGA people who did not like the provision. In the end, it appears Mike Lee has relented.

My point is, is the GOP getting better at A/B testing and testing out ideas? And has Trump had influence on that?

Posted by: SH (no more socks) at June 30, 2025 11:57 AM (sX1BW)

293 Can you guys explain to me how the Ukraine was 100 percent manufactured?

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USAID

Posted by: runner at June 30, 2025 11:57 AM (g47mK)

294 Korean women must be complete assholes.
Posted by: eleven

I knew a few guys in the Navy who had been married to Korean women.

They had stories.

Posted by: Bulg at June 30, 2025 11:58 AM (77rzZ)

295 Well said, Ma'am. How is your youngest doing these days?
Posted by: Bulg at June 30, 2025 11:53 AM (77rzZ)

Good! She is reading Harry Potter for her book club. Thank you for asking!

Posted by: Piper at June 30, 2025 11:58 AM (p4NUW)

296 Charlize Theron crazy + Sean Penn crazy ==?

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Take the square of those two levels of crazy, then double it? And the square root of that number is Whoopi crazy.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at June 30, 2025 11:58 AM (nwGCR)

297 Ghouls: ABC’s "The View" Applauds Rising Abortion Rates

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GooooOOOOO DEATH!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Well, This Is Another Fine Mess You've Gotten Me Into at June 30, 2025 11:58 AM (L/fGl)

298 What promise to Medicare recipients? Free healthcare for life?

Fuck that.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at June 30, 2025 11:58 AM (17s+e)

299 297 Ghouls: ABC’s "The View" Applauds Rising Abortion Rates

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GooooOOOOO DEATH!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Well, This Is Another Fine Mess You've Gotten Me Into at June 30, 2025 11:58 AM (L/fGl)

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Speaking of uneven birth rates across a culture...

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 30, 2025 11:59 AM (GBKbO)

300 I am mighty sick of the narrative that Iraq was a waste of lives.

You know what we DID accomplish in Iraq?
- they are no longer threatening or invading neighbors
- they are no longer gassing their own people (you know, using those WMD we were later lied to about and told they didn't have)
- they aren't supporting and exporting terrorism
- they aren't sending assassins into the US to kill our politicians
- they aren't trying to get nukes anymore
- putting US boots in Iraq invited the Jihadis to attack American troops, instead of attacking American civilians. And our troops killed the shit out of Jihadis!

A lot of brave Americans paid the ultimate sacrifice to accomplish those ends. We really need to stop accepting the MSM narrative that their sacrifices were wasted. Should that war have been prosecuted differently, and should we have left sooner? That is a reasonable argument.

And stop swallowing the lie that Iran having WMD was faulty or fake intel. That is pure revisionist history by the MSM.

Iraq HAD a nuke program. How do we know? Because 550 tons of yellow cake uranium (concentrated Uranium) was shipped out of Iraq to Canada in 2008

Posted by: ghbucky at June 30, 2025 11:59 AM (/xDbx)

301 Blackrock, the devil's corporation.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 30, 2025 11:59 AM (Dng1D)

302 >>Can you guys explain to me how the Ukraine was 100 percent manufactured?

How much time you got?

You bring the beer.

Posted by: JackStraw at June 30, 2025 11:59 AM (viF8m)

303 In regards to selling federal land, I will once again dispel the idea of giving it to the states. I assure you, the states do not want it.

Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at June 30, 2025 11:59 AM (MZ+PY)

304 I have a feeling it's gonna be a late start from ace today...

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 30, 2025 11:59 AM (GBKbO)

305 Can I have some context to how Ukraine was manufactured?

Nevermind. It ain't going to happen here.

Posted by: eleven at June 30, 2025 11:59 AM (fV+MH)

306 All war are manufactured in the sense that someone did something. It's not like the populations spontaneously started fighting, like at a soccer match.

Posted by: toby928 at June 30, 2025 12:00 PM (jc0TO)

307
Don't encourage them.
Posted by: Archimedes at June 30, 2025 11:56 AM (Riz8t)

LOL.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at June 30, 2025 12:00 PM (bss/y)

308 I assure you, the states do not want it.
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Don't states also have politicians that want to sell land to thier lobbyist friends?

Posted by: Chuck Martel at June 30, 2025 12:00 PM (Dv3i1)

309 No matter who owned it, they were talking about selling 0.5% of a federal owned land. But the opponents made it sounds, Yellowstone would be turned into a housing project.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at June 30, 2025 12:01 PM (nwGCR)

310 " >>Can you guys explain to me how the Ukraine was 100 percent manufactured?

How much time you got?

You bring the beer.
Posted by: JackStraw"

Yes I will bring the beer, but you also have to explain WWI to me.

Posted by: eleven at June 30, 2025 12:01 PM (fV+MH)

311 309 No matter who owned it, they were talking about selling 0.5% of a federal owned land. But the opponents made it sounds, Yellowstone would be turned into a housing project.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at June 30, 2025 12:01 PM (nwGCR)

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No, it's just family farms that get turned into housing projects.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 30, 2025 12:01 PM (GBKbO)

312 Korean women must be complete assholes.

Posted by: eleven at June 30, 2025 11:51 AM (fV+MH)

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Dolley watches dating shows a lot. We have Netflix. Netflix has a lot of Korean content, including dating shows.

Unmarried people in Korea don't touch each other. It's an extremely reserved culture.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 30, 2025 11:52 AM (GBKbO)
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I think there's the public persona and the private persona. Publicly, the country is very reserved. But then so is Japan. Privately, they all be freaky-deaky.

Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at June 30, 2025 12:01 PM (iFTx/)

313 >>All war are manufactured in the sense that someone did something. It's not like the populations spontaneously started fighting, like at a soccer match.

The idiotic war in Ukraine is different. It was 100% manufactured.

Posted by: JackStraw at June 30, 2025 12:01 PM (viF8m)

314 You bring the beer.
Posted by: JackStraw

You shouldn't mix booze and weed.

Posted by: ... at June 30, 2025 12:02 PM (VPwHp)

315 306 All war are manufactured in the sense that someone did something. It's not like the populations spontaneously started fighting, like at a soccer match.
Posted by: toby928 at June 30, 2025 12:00 PM (jc0TO)

actually - that exact thing *did* happen once in South America.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 30, 2025 12:02 PM (uWKK8)

316 ***And now we’re done fighting. What Iran does now is not our problem, unless/until we have to break it again sometime in the future.***
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It won't be long, they haven't learned their lesson.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 30, 2025 12:02 PM (Dng1D)

317 Breitbart: Iran Asks U.N. to Make U.S. Pay Reparations for Bombed Nuclear Sites
Posted by: SMOD at June 30, 2025 11:48 AM (RHGPo)
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Quit asking about the USA paying reparations or the USA will give you something to really ask the USA to pay reparations about.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at June 30, 2025 12:02 PM (17s+e)

318 Who was the fat Ukrainian lady with the Princess Leia hair rolls?
Posted by: Boss Moss at June 30, 2025 11:57 AM (Iv8wu)

Oksana Markarova, which means "Fat Tub Of Goo" in Russki.

Posted by: What Ya Gonna Do? at June 30, 2025 12:02 PM (+Q63G)

319 All war are manufactured in the sense that someone did something.

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I would not put it that way. Some wars are inevitable - history moves in certain direction. Others, like the one in Ukraine were very preventable. In fact, it took effort to have it happen.

Posted by: runner at June 30, 2025 12:02 PM (g47mK)

320 NPR Champions "Joyful Blowout" of Drag Queens for Climate Activism

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Well, they're awful damn smart.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Well, This Is Another Fine Mess You've Gotten Me Into at June 30, 2025 12:03 PM (L/fGl)

321 Yellowstone would be turned into a housing project.
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You should see this fountain I have in my backyard. It's programmed to go off every 44 mins to 2 hrs.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at June 30, 2025 12:03 PM (Dv3i1)

322 I saw somewhere that the Cookie Monster was wearing a suit. Volo Zelensky.

Posted by: Boss Moss at June 30, 2025 12:03 PM (Iv8wu)

323 And stop swallowing the lie that Iran having WMD was faulty or fake intel. That is pure revisionist history by the MSM.

Iraq HAD a nuke program. How do we know? Because 550 tons of yellow cake uranium (concentrated Uranium) was shipped out of Iraq to Canada in 2008

Posted by: ghbucky at June 30, 2025 11:59 AM (/xDbx)

And the chem weapons went over the border the night of the invasion and popped up in Syria several years later.

(agree with the rest of your post too)

Posted by: pookysgirl, feeding the Tchaikovsky addict at June 30, 2025 12:03 PM (Wt5PA)

324 Yellowstone would be turned into a housing project.

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Come on Yellowstone Caldera

Posted by: SH (no more socks) at June 30, 2025 12:04 PM (sX1BW)

325 If the UN tries to force us to pay reparations to Iran we should say byebye to the UN . We should say byebye anyway

Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 30, 2025 12:04 PM (eBgDF)

326 TJM, have you ever done a review of Preminger's oeuvre ?

Posted by: runner at June 30, 2025 12:04 PM (g47mK)

327 325 If the UN tries to force us to pay reparations to Iran we should say byebye to the UN . We should say byebye anyway
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Canada would be a wonderful place to move the UN to.

Posted by: pudinhead at June 30, 2025 12:05 PM (W3T6M)

328 Yes I will bring the beer, but you also have to explain WWI to me.
Posted by: eleven

I read a book a few years ago, "1914," by David Fromkin, that did the best job of explaining how that war started than any other account that I have read. Highly recommended.

Posted by: Bulg at June 30, 2025 12:05 PM (77rzZ)

329 And stop swallowing the lie that Iran having WMD was faulty or fake intel. That is pure revisionist history by the MSM.

Iraq HAD a nuke program. How do we know? Because 550 tons of yellow cake uranium (concentrated Uranium) was shipped out of Iraq to Canada in 2008

Posted by: ghbucky at June 30, 2025 11:59 AM (/xDbx)

And the chem weapons went over the border the night of the invasion and popped up in Syria several years later.

(agree with the rest of your post too)
Posted by: pookysgirl, feeding the Tchaikovsky addict at June 30, 2025 12:03 PM (Wt5PA)

...Russia was very busy that year...and so was Syria....

Posted by: runner at June 30, 2025 12:05 PM (g47mK)

330
You know, autism is another trend attention seeking moms have globbed onto as well. It is a badge to be neurodivergent

Posted by: Piper

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Absolutely. My theory: victimization being the prime social currency, wypipo are instantly eliminated from the race lane, so they have to make another. Mental illness! Who would know from looking at you? I'm autistic -- hire me for your air traffic control needs!

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 30, 2025 12:05 PM (HuRzZ)

331 So with this woman transing her kids, where's the father? Is this another case where she's doing it to get back at him?

Posted by: Ian S. at June 30, 2025 12:05 PM (QZThv)

332 How much time you got?

You bring the beer.
Posted by: JackStraw

Better buy a lottery ticket and win first!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at June 30, 2025 12:05 PM (s/SFW)

333 Preminger's oeuvre ?
Posted by: runner at June 30, 2025 12:04 PM (g47mK)

A nice glass of it goes well with steak.

Posted by: ... at June 30, 2025 12:05 PM (VPwHp)

334 The day before the war in Ukraine started 99.9% of Americans couldn't find Ukraine on a map. The day after the war started people were putting Ukrainian flags in their yard. And they didn't even know why.

And now those same people have moved on to wearing keffiyehs and don't know why either.

That's the deep state.

Posted by: JackStraw at June 30, 2025 12:06 PM (viF8m)

335 nood big beautiful bill

Posted by: Sturmtoddler at June 30, 2025 12:06 PM (nXhwP)

336 I've seen western states, where we live, completely fuck over state trust land. Restrict access, charge ridiculous fees to access, mismanage, log until its bare, build housing developments, etc. They would do the same with previously owned federal land. There is no doubt in my mind.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at June 30, 2025 12:06 PM (/U5Yz)

337 326 TJM, have you ever done a review of Preminger's oeuvre ?
Posted by: runner at June 30, 2025 12:04 PM (g47mK)

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He's always in the back of my mind to add to the list, but not yet.

He did finish one of Ernst Lubitsch's movies (A Royal Scandal). Lubitsch died a few weeks in. Preminger finished it.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 30, 2025 12:06 PM (GBKbO)

338 No matter who owned it, they were talking about selling 0.5% of a federal owned land. But the opponents made it sounds, Yellowstone would be turned into a housing project.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at June 30, 2025 12:01 PM (nwGCR)

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No, it's just family farms that get turned into housing projects.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 30, 2025 12:01 PM (GBKbO)
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The "don't sell federal land" movement is another front in the environmental lobby. It's basically affluent white people wanting to keep things nice and pristine ... for themselves. It also keeps rent and real estate values high ... which is good for them, since most already own.

Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at June 30, 2025 12:06 PM (iFTx/)

339 I've never understood why an omnipotent god needs Jihadis

Posted by: SMOD at June 30, 2025 12:07 PM (RHGPo)

340 The great thing about being dumb is I don't have to read books about WWI.

Posted by: ... at June 30, 2025 12:07 PM (VPwHp)

341 He did finish one of Ernst Lubitsch's movies (A Royal Scandal). Lubitsch died a few weeks in. Preminger finished it.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 30, 2025 12:06 PM (GBKbO)

yes ! there was lots of drama between him and his studio bosses

Posted by: runner at June 30, 2025 12:07 PM (g47mK)

342 Uhh, now he's made them mad!

Iranian Parliament Votes to End Cooperation With UN Nuclear Watchdog

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Well, This Is Another Fine Mess You've Gotten Me Into at June 30, 2025 12:07 PM (L/fGl)

343 My theory: victimization being the prime social currency

That makes a sad amount of sense.

Posted by: NR Pax at June 30, 2025 12:07 PM (lXoJ5)

344 "I read a book a few years ago, "1914," by David Fromkin, that did the best job of explaining how that war started than any other account that I have read. Highly recommended.
Posted by: Bulg"

Thank you Bulg. My real question about WWI is why did people want to fight so badly in the so called "Belle Epoch".

Posted by: eleven at June 30, 2025 12:07 PM (fV+MH)

345 Dr. Mengele sneaked out of Germany under an assumed name after the war going to South America and ended up in, surprise!: Brazil. He died an old man in 1979 of a stroke while swimming in a pool. Now God has him and has pronounced the final sentence in his case. But should we allow all the people involved in similar “experiments” today to get away with it in this life, like Mengele? What do you say?

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at June 30, 2025 12:08 PM (nHcc1)

346 News over the weekend from Yellowstone, one of the Bison got too close to the edge of one of the geyser ponds, fell in, and got par-boiled to death while visitors watched. No word on whether there was a bison burger fest afterwards.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 30, 2025 12:08 PM (uWKK8)

347 And now those same people have moved on to wearing keffiyehs and don't know why either.

Some of them recently have had Ukraine, Palestine, Iran, and pride flags all together. Peak "I support the current thing".

Posted by: Ian S. at June 30, 2025 12:08 PM (QZThv)

348 Breitbart: Iran Asks U.N. to Make U.S. Pay Reparations for Bombed Nuclear Sites
Posted by: SMOD

We didn't bomb shit.
That's what you get for denying you had nuke ambitions for decades.

If you deny having nuclear ambitions, then there's nothing for us to bomb. Ergo, we didn't bomb anything.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 30, 2025 12:08 PM (LA0fN)

349 I do feel better when I avoid gluten. I don't have Celiac's, but I try to stay away from gluten and feel I am better off for it. Could there be other factors? Of course. I'm not doing it because of a fad, just trial and error and realizing normal white bread and other gluten containing products don't seem to agree with me and when I don't consume them I have better days than worse.

Posted by: Lex at June 30, 2025 12:09 PM (l5xX+)

350 Thank you Bulg. My real question about WWI is why did people want to fight so badly in the so called "Belle Epoch".
Posted by: eleven at June 30, 2025 12:07 PM (fV+MH)

Might as well ask Why did European civilization, at the height of its powers, choose to commit suicide? Incredible pride and overconfidence in their own powers, mostly. Hubris, even.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 30, 2025 12:11 PM (uWKK8)

351 He did finish one of Ernst Lubitsch's movies (A Royal Scandal). Lubitsch died a few weeks in. Preminger finished it.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

If it's now a movie thread, I watched a strong contender for worst movie ever yesterday, Frankenstein Meets the Space Monster. 2/3 of the movie was just stock footage military planes, tanks and what not.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Well, This Is Another Fine Mess You've Gotten Me Into at June 30, 2025 12:12 PM (L/fGl)

352 WWI started because all the countries involved were led by f*cking idiots. Thank God we don't have to worry about that any more!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Well, This Is Another Fine Mess You've Gotten Me Into at June 30, 2025 12:16 PM (L/fGl)

353 I do feel better when I avoid gluten. I don't have Celiac's, but I try to stay away from gluten and feel I am better off for it. Could there be other factors? Of course. I'm not doing it because of a fad, just trial and error and realizing normal white bread and other gluten containing products don't seem to agree with me and when I don't consume them I have better days than worse.
Posted by: Lex

Something in wheat has changed since the 50/60's.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 30, 2025 12:16 PM (LA0fN)

354 Nood BBB

Posted by: From about That Time at June 30, 2025 12:18 PM (n4GiU)

355 "I read a book a few years ago, "1914," by David Fromkin,
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Looking, I can't resolve author/title. I find the title by different author, and two three by Fromkin on WWI, but different titles...

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 30, 2025 12:20 PM (XeU6L)

356 Good rant.

But there's also NATO. "In July 1949, 12 European countries, the U.S. and Canada established the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. NATO committed each member country to the mutual defense of fellow NATO members."

^ From an interesting article in UPI, Voices March 24, 2025 'The U.S. won't likely lead Ukraine's postwar recovery'
By Frank A. Blazich Jr., Smithsonian Institution

And the reprehensible (imo) UN:
Better World Campaign Org (🤷‍♀️

Newsroom / UN Explained, 04/22/2025, 'UN, Explained: Can a Country Quit the UN?'
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From above: Social Contagions: The Recovered Gluten Sufferer Who is Now Transing Her Children

Munchausen by proxy. It needs much more action.

ABC net au: Munchausen by Proxy: when parents hurt their kids. Program: All In the Mind, Thu 26 Jun 2025

Medscape Medical News
Could Your Patient Be a Victim of Munchausen by Proxy?
Batya Swift Yasgur, MA, LSW, January 15, 2025

Italian Journal of Pediatrics, Published: 25 February 2025
Knowledge and management of Münchausen’s Syndrome by proxy: a survey conducted through the compilation of a questionnaire by pediatricians belonging to the Italian Society of Pediatrics

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at June 30, 2025 12:21 PM (NFX2v)

357 I would nuke the nuke sites. This will shut up the assholes who think they're just damaged.

Then deport those in Gaza to Yemen and have the Houthi deal with them.

Then tell Tiawan to declare independence backed by our nukes or go back to the PRC; this has been dragging on for too many decades.

Afterward off to Florida for sun, surf, drinks and bikini clad babes.

Posted by: The Man from Athens at June 30, 2025 12:29 PM (icmmM)

358 I've never understood why an omnipotent god needs Jihadis
Posted by: SMOD at June 30, 2025 12:07 PM (RHGPo)

When you follow a false god this is what happens.

Posted by: The Man from Athens at June 30, 2025 12:31 PM (icmmM)

359 The first step in the political taking of the land was the ending of homesteading. I believe there is an annual compensation to the states as recompense.
It was a political taking due to the loss of California in an
election.
An extension of government dependance for electoral gain.

Posted by: yoeman at June 30, 2025 01:01 PM (Td03B)

360 John Derbyshire said it best.
"Rubble don't make Trouble"

Posted by: Jimmy McNulty at June 30, 2025 02:46 PM (m7IZx)

361 Just a last word on Japan and Germany: We forced them to change their form of government and of education. Forced them. So that's why it worked then and not now--we don't have the stomach to tell Afghanistan, for instance, that their country is barbaric.

Posted by: PJ at June 30, 2025 02:52 PM (RRCAT)

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