Revealed: The Six-Page Memo That Conned Biden Into Debating Trump Early (So That the Democrat Party Could Force Him Out)

Matt Margolis suggested that Biden's staff knew that Biden was declining rapidly, and so their gamble was to schedule the debate as soon as possible and give Biden a week off so that his dying brain could repair a little. They figured that Biden would be worse in July than in June, worse in August than in July, worse in September than in August, etc. So the "best Biden" was the current Biden, and every day they delayed a debate, Biden would be 1-2% more mentally degraded.

So there's that interesting theory, and then there's the older theory that Biden's inner circle wanted to pressure him to leave the race but they could not budge the stubborn vegetable, and figured that he would melt down in the debate so bad that even this brain-dead husk could see it for himself.

I'm not sure which theory is true. It's possible that both are. It could be that Biden's staff knew that he would get worse literally every single day, so current day Biden was as good as Biden was going to get, and also wanted the debate early so that if Biden melted down they would have time to attempt to push Anyone But Kamala into the nomination.

Either way, the memo advising Biden that YOU need to debate as soon as possible to put YOUR campaign in the best position to win has been leaked, and not even to Fake Jake Tapper.

With friends like these: In the ill-fated briefing document, dated April 15, 2024, Biden's senior advisers told him not to wait for the autumn dates proposed by the Commission on Presidential Debates -- the first of which, they noted, was scheduled after mail-in ballots would start going out -- but instead to arrange a head-to-head with Trump within a matter of weeks. The memo was obtained by journalists Josh Dawsey, Tyler Pager and Isaac Arnsdorf, in the process of reporting their new book, "2024: How Trump Retook the White House and the Democrats Lost America," which is out tomorrow.
Read it and weep: "By holding the first debate in the spring, YOU will be able to reach the widest audience possible," Biden's top aides told him -- and by the way, every reference to Biden is written in attention-grabbing all-caps and bold -- "before we are deep in the summer months with the conventions, Olympics and family vacations taking precedence. In addition, the earlier YOU are able to debate the better, so that the American people can see YOU standing next to Trump and showing the strength of YOUR leadership, compared to Trump's weakness and chaos."

Biden was apparently so mentally degraded that he needed to have the word "YOU" written in all-caps bold to get his attention. Democrat memo more like Ace of Spades HTML protocol, am i rite

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And there's more: The book says support for an early debate was not unanimous among the president's aides, and that Some members of Biden world felt he should not go head-to-head with Trump at all. One unnamed donor called the White House in May, the book reports, "alarmed" by a recent appearance by the president at a Chicago fundraiser, and urged his team to "find an excuse" to get him out of the debates. This was rejected out of hand.

Of course. Biden thinks he's a real fighter and could whoop Trump behind the shack.

Among Biden's many fantastical vanities, his belief that he's some kind of tough-guy All-American pugilist turned out to be his most disastrous.

The whole memo is like this, with the bolded all-cap YOU and YOUR.

I just remembered -- we've seen photos of Biden's briefing notes written in this style. Stuff like: "YOU will walk out on stage when YOU are introduced by the host. YOU will walk ten paces to the podium, then YOU will take out YOUR speech cards and read from them."

MEMO TO BIDEN:
YOUR staff is deliberately sabotaging YOU.
YOU are a semi-ambulatory VEGETABLE. YOU could not debate a CHICKPEA. YOU are a shambling SWAMP HUSK from a 1950s HORROR MOVIE.
YOU are now more MONSTER than MAN.
YOUR brain is rotten and YOUR "memories" are mostly just childhood sports fantasies mixed with half-remembered parts of 70s and 80s action movies. No, YOU did not defeat THUNDERLIPS (The Ultimate Male) at a charity wrestling match. That was ROCKY III.
Please stop saying this. YOU are causing headaches for YOUR staff. We cannot keep fabricating new timelines in which YOU led the Dallas Cowboys to victory in SUPERBOWL VI.
YOU are being set-up to fail so that YOUR presidency can be stolen from YOU and given to Kamala Harris or the GAY NERD.
As Kamala Harris would say, YOU are NOT being Positioned for Success.

Posted by: Ace at 05:30 PM

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1 first.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at July 07, 2025 05:32 PM (e5NfL)

2 Hi

Posted by: Susan at July 07, 2025 05:33 PM (vt7xw)

3 Top 5!

Posted by: Crusader at July 07, 2025 05:33 PM (TN0g+)

4 So they are claiming that the democrat donors set biden up to fail in the debate to get rid of him?

That's a reach and I am not buying that.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at July 07, 2025 05:33 PM (e5NfL)

5 Top 7?!?

Posted by: Grayman27 at July 07, 2025 05:34 PM (pgwxJ)

6 If the memo did not include pictures of Joe Biden next to every you and your, I can only believe that it is fake.

Posted by: huerfano at July 07, 2025 05:34 PM (n2swS)

7 As Kamala Harris would say, YOU are NOT being Positioned for Success.

On yer knees butt up, kamala?

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at July 07, 2025 05:34 PM (Wcf+j)

8 But what were Jill and Hunter telling him to do? Why would they let this happen if they knew he was going to tank.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at July 07, 2025 05:34 PM (QqW4y)

9 LOL!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at July 07, 2025 05:35 PM (dKEEs)

10 But what were Jill and Hunter telling him to do? Why would they let this happen if they knew he was going to tank.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at July 07, 2025 05:34 PM

They were telling him to keep running no matter what. No way they wanted to give up the high life and all of the grifting that came with joe biden being president.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at July 07, 2025 05:36 PM (e5NfL)

11 pbho killed the Democrat up and comers in the 2010 midterms.

No one in the rank and file to promote. Only oldsters hanging on to power.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 07, 2025 05:37 PM (u82oZ)

12 ACE, thank you for all you do around here!

Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 07, 2025 05:37 PM (0sNs1)

13
10 - Yes, but about the debate? Why did they let it happen? He could have refused to debate the scoundrel Trump and the press would have covered for him.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at July 07, 2025 05:38 PM (QqW4y)

14 8 But what were Jill and Hunter telling him to do? Why would they let this happen if they knew he was going to tank.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba

Hunter is not known for making the best decisions all the time.
As for Lady MacBiden, as her fellow Dems call her, she probably didn't have much of a choice. If the Biden of the 2008 debate was no longer around, maybe the Biden of the 2020 debate could show up and everyone could call it a mulligan.

Posted by: gKWVE at July 07, 2025 05:38 PM (gKWVE)

15 Democrat memo more like Ace of Spades HTML protocol, am i rite

Not sure what you mean, capital-A Ace.

Posted by: Kratwurst at July 07, 2025 05:38 PM (evrF/)

16 I dislike these theories about how this was staff sabotage. Too clever by half, and there were plenty of ways to leave your boss enough rope to hang himself without making your hated rival look good while doing it. The debate performance was as beneficial to Trump as it was damaging to Biden. Occam's Razor - they thought they could muddle through it like they did in 2020.

Posted by: Citizen Cake at July 07, 2025 05:38 PM (CwhoI)

17 - and the press was not going to cover for Biden if they thought a candidate with a functioning cerebrum could swap in for him.

Posted by: gKWVE at July 07, 2025 05:39 PM (gKWVE)

18 YOU will claim to have stage 4 prostate cancer.
YOU will not undergo any cancer treatment.
YOU will keep your hair.
YOU will never mention cancer again.

Posted by: bonhomme at July 07, 2025 05:39 PM (lIio7)

19 the new book you mentioned above, wsj had excerpts last saturday: a highlight (i saved it):

June 2024 was going to be a momentous month for Joe Biden's presidency: trips to France and Italy, a star-studded fundraiser in Los Angeles with Barack Obama, George Clooney and Julia Roberts, and the first debate against Donald Trump. But there was another matter at the top of the president's mind. As Biden confided to a close friend, "The only thing I care about is that my son is not convicted."

Posted by: gnats local 678 at July 07, 2025 05:40 PM (CWTWj)

20 YOU could not debate a CHICKPEA.

Humus is made from chickpeas.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at July 07, 2025 05:40 PM (/U5Yz)

21 >>>YOU will claim to have stage 4 prostate cancer.
YOU will not undergo any cancer treatment.
YOU will keep your hair.
YOU will never mention cancer again.

hah

Posted by: ace at July 07, 2025 05:40 PM (KRtlO)

22 and the press was not going to cover for Biden if they thought a candidate with a functioning cerebrum could swap in for him.
Posted by: gKWVE at July 07, 2025 05:39 PM (gKWVE

As evidenced by them not doing their usual debate shit at that singular debate.

Posted by: BruceWayne at July 07, 2025 05:40 PM (MGB5H)

23 IDK, I find this all completely implausible, but possibly true.

I so desperately want all of the people who foisted this vicious lunatic, meat puppet on us to die of painful ass cancer.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 07, 2025 05:41 PM (XV/Pl)

24 Quality Memo, Ace.
Let's hope the meat puppet reads it.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at July 07, 2025 05:41 PM (xcxpd)

25 i saw bits of that debate with trump and knew biden was lost early on when he loudly said 'we created fifteen thousand jobs!'

Posted by: gnats local 678 at July 07, 2025 05:42 PM (CWTWj)

26 10 - Yes, but about the debate? Why did they let it happen? He could have refused to debate the scoundrel Trump and the press would have covered for him.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at July 07, 2025 05:38 PM (QqW4y)

No way that asshole would ever stand for chickening out, vegetative or not.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 07, 2025 05:42 PM (BjH5D)

27 YOU will not shower with YOUR daughter again

Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at July 07, 2025 05:42 PM (+qMtE)

28 Humus is made from chickpeas.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at July 07, 2025 05:40 PM (/U5Yz)

well, she married Alex Soros, so there is that.

Posted by: Kindltot at July 07, 2025 05:43 PM (D7oie)

29 YOU will wear GOOFY CLOWN SHOES when out in public

Posted by: Maj. Healey at July 07, 2025 05:43 PM (/U5Yz)

30 One or two questions I have:

Did they also give him a placebo instead of whatever they were injecting into him for earlier public appearances?

What were the conversations like about a Kamala presidency? Did they Biden Cabal think they could take over her presidency as well or would it have been Kamala sitting on Nancy Pelosi's lap with Nancy's right hand never in view?

Posted by: JB1000 at July 07, 2025 05:43 PM (UP8/b)

31 Nobody in personal, daily contact with Brandon could believe he'd perform well in a scripted interview. Any television viewer knew by then he did poorly in those. They were clearly setting Brandon up to fail.

When it didn't work and Dr. Jill stayed in the race, they went for Plan B, and shot The Donald a couple weeks later.

That also failed. So from then on, we're seeing whatever Plan C is.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 07, 2025 05:43 PM (BI5O2)

32 [I so desperately want all of the people who foisted this vicious lunatic, meat puppet on us to die of painful ass cancer.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 07, 2025 05:41 PM

Seriously? No thought for me?

Posted by: Stan's Barbed C**k at July 07, 2025 05:43 PM (0sNs1)

33 this is all so freaking weird

all these people are dumb as rocks! they only think they're smart

crafty and snarky =/ smart, you guys

Posted by: BlackOrchid at July 07, 2025 05:43 PM (Pv3Rg)

34 I personally don’t think Biden is much worse than he was 10 or 15 years ago. He has always acted like he has been senile only he was too young to call it that.

The fact that he’s being put out there to give speeches now confirms it for me. He’s just an immoral , fabulist fuck up and he’s alway been one.

.

Posted by: polynikes at July 07, 2025 05:43 PM (VofaG)

35
Only oldsters hanging on to power.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 07, 2025 05:37 PM (u82oZ)

__________

I still stop traffic!

*hair flip*

Posted by: Nancy D'Alessandro, Pin-Up Girl at July 07, 2025 05:44 PM (EFq9Y)

36 Great summary of two alternative reasonings behind an early debate, Ace.

I lean toward the first. It was a Hail Mary, hoping he would do OK and then they could cancel all future debates, leaving the stage on a win like George Constanza.

That kind of makes sense to me. Also, they all wanted to keep their power-jobs for another 4 years and why would they sabotage that--ethics?

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at July 07, 2025 05:44 PM (276nJ)

37 17 - and the press was not going to cover for Biden if they thought a candidate with a functioning cerebrum could swap in for him.
Posted by: gKWVE at July 07, 2025 05:39 PM (gKWVE)

So they swapped him out with a chick whose brain's entire lower half has been wrecked from the accumulated blunt force trauma of Her Entire Career.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 07, 2025 05:44 PM (BjH5D)

38 YOU will keep YOUR Goddamn stutter under control!

Posted by: Duke Lowell at July 07, 2025 05:45 PM (u73oe)

39 Just another day with news about Biden when I can thank God Joe Biden is not my husband..
I wonder if anyone who covered up for this man has left " governmental service" or are they all still employed. In DC ?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 07, 2025 05:45 PM (2GCMq)

40 before we are deep in the summer months with the conventions, Olympics and family vacations taking precedence.

——-

There was an Olympics?

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at July 07, 2025 05:45 PM (+pRFM)

41 It’s funny—Biden was probably, for whatever reason, the only Democrat who could beat Trump. And many of us here were pointing that out as far back as 2016.

Posted by: sven at July 07, 2025 05:45 PM (XFYYr)

42 YD that is exactly what occurred

thank you for the rundown

the Biden camp was supposed to take PDJT out

they failed - barely, let's not forget! - and ergo they were gonna get pushed out - he was made to "sink or swim" at that debate for his failure to murder

that's why Jill was so odd after, yelling "you answered everything!!!!" - she was saying "see we did it, we're fine, let us stay"

Posted by: BlackOrchid at July 07, 2025 05:45 PM (Pv3Rg)

43 I wonder why neither side ever brings up his brain surgeries .

Posted by: polynikes at July 07, 2025 05:46 PM (VofaG)

44 I said at the time. Biden was clearly incapable of serving a full term, even if he were capable of winning.

They wanted him to win enough primary votes so that nobody else could win, then have The Party Elite anoint the real candidate at the DNC so they didn't have to deal with those pesky voters and risk somebody like RFK.

Having a presidential debate before the primary is even official over is utterly unheard of in history. The ONLY reason to do it, was to expose Biden early enough.

Their problem was that even after his complete and utter meltdown, Biden simply REFUSED to withdraw, and in fact insisted that he 'won' the debate! The single most impactful video (other than the debate itself of course) was the immediate afterwards of Jill praising him for 'answering every question' like he was 5 years old, and him grinning at the praise like he WAS 5 years old!

The DNC schemed to not have a real primary, and then they were stuck with Kamala because they had no actual justification to throw her out when the far left racists demanded Strong Black Woman, because they hadn't had a primary!

Posted by: DudeAbiding at July 07, 2025 05:46 PM (setIA)

45 I still stop traffic!

*hair flip*
Posted by: Nancy D'Alessandro, Pin-Up Girl at July 07, 2025 05:44 PM (EFq9Y)

You only need to pin them up so you don't fucking trip on them, Tit-punzel.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 07, 2025 05:46 PM (BjH5D)

46 I so desperately want all of the people who foisted this vicious lunatic, meat puppet on us to die of painful ass cancer.

" Bartender, I'll have what he's having..."

Posted by: Heirloominati at July 07, 2025 05:46 PM (euPbd)

47
Yeah, the really dirty stuff about the Biden preznicy has yet to come out.

Posted by: Auspex at July 07, 2025 05:46 PM (j4U/Z)

48 41 It’s funny—Biden was probably, for whatever reason, the only Democrat who could beat Trump. And many of us here were pointing that out as far back as 2016.

oh it's us dumbasses around here, PA and NJ and DE

we like him for some reason, I guess his connection here. we have this weird thing for "our peeps"

Posted by: BlackOrchid at July 07, 2025 05:46 PM (Pv3Rg)

49 and towards the end of the debate when the moderator asked trump if he wanted to respond to what jellybrain had said, i think about 'defeating medicare', and trump replied 'i don't know what he said... i don't think he knew what he said.' (or something like that)

but european leaders have been engaging with biden recently. ice cream is very important in germany this time of year

Posted by: gnats local 678 at July 07, 2025 05:47 PM (CWTWj)

50
So they swapped him out with a chick whose brain's entire lower half has been wrecked from the accumulated blunt force trauma of Her Entire Career.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 07, 2025 05:44 PM (BjH5D)

____________

Did I see the joke here that unemployment is the first position for which Kamala is fully qualified based on her merits?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 07, 2025 05:47 PM (EFq9Y)

51 >> It’s funny—Biden was probably, for whatever reason, the only Democrat who could beat Trump. And many of us here were pointing that out as far back as 2016.

Posted by: sven at July 07, 2025 05:45 PM

Barry Obama wouldn't let him run in 2016.

Posted by: huerfano at July 07, 2025 05:47 PM (n2swS)

52 > He has always acted like he has been senile only he was too young to call it that.

As I like to put it, Dopey Joe was stupid even before he went senile.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at July 07, 2025 05:47 PM (qpyNK)

53 That kind of makes sense to me. Also, they all wanted to keep their power-jobs for another 4 years and why would they sabotage that--ethics?
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at July 07, 2025 05:44 PM (276nJ)

If you don't have a winning hand, you have to play what you got. Pros can do that and , try to minimize the losses and hope they can make it up in the following hand.

Posted by: Kindltot at July 07, 2025 05:47 PM (D7oie)

54 Hmmm, who is in charge here?

Breathtaking disrespect. I mean, it is Joe Biden, but still.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 07, 2025 05:47 PM (d8x+f)

55 Ah, found the Brennan Skull. Here's hoping we end up needing it:

https://is.gd/fvz9pR

Posted by: ... at July 07, 2025 05:47 PM (E0p3T)

56 So they swapped him out with a chick whose brain's entire lower half has been wrecked from the accumulated blunt force trauma of Her Entire Career.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 07, 2025 05:44 PM (BjH5D)

You're talking about me aren't you.

Posted by: Willie Brown's pulsing boner at July 07, 2025 05:48 PM (gKWVE)

57 On the "You" "Your" thing.

My guess is that this came about in state meetings. They are all scripted, explaining who will talk, who will go where, who will have photos, etc. This is done for security staff as well as others involved.

I think Biden probably got angry because it is so confusing to read if you are senile, so he made them be specific so he could read and follow the instructions like a drunk actor reading a script for prompts during a scene. It then carried over to all documents written in WH.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at July 07, 2025 05:48 PM (276nJ)

58 I saw Painful Ass Cancer open for the Vomit Pigs in a punk club in Austin back in '79.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at July 07, 2025 05:49 PM (qpyNK)

59 YOU are now more MONSTER than MAN.

"The Beast Within", 1982.

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at July 07, 2025 05:49 PM (/HDaX)

60 It was the money. Some peopleneeded Biden upright and talking, so did Jill.

Posted by: Eromero at July 07, 2025 05:49 PM (LHPAg)

61 YOU will ride a bicycle ONLY when PRESS is present

https://tinyurl.com/yh9j5snu

Posted by: Maj. Healey at July 07, 2025 05:49 PM (/U5Yz)

62 I've always assumed that Jill kept them from pulling Biden out and this was their way of appealing enough to Biden's pride to get him out in public where Jill and the MSM couldn't shield him anymore.

Posted by: 29Victor at July 07, 2025 05:49 PM (j6Ika)

63 Can you imagine if in 2024 Biden said that FDR went on TV to calm the American people after the market crash.

Posted by: polynikes at July 07, 2025 05:49 PM (VofaG)

64 re 40: don't you remember how the guy from algeria won the women's boxing title?

Posted by: gnats local 678 at July 07, 2025 05:50 PM (CWTWj)

65 YOU will only grope girls below the age of consent in private. Never in a public venue.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at July 07, 2025 05:50 PM (qpyNK)

66 They should have used hand puppets to get the message across to Joey Bidet.

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 07, 2025 05:50 PM (XOckW)

67 YOU did not threaten any prosecutors. Or meet with any Ukrainian investors who hired your son.

Also YOU are NOT the Ghost of Kiev, and Beau did NOT die in the Don basin.

YOU WILL NOT KEEP SAYING THESE THINGS.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 07, 2025 05:50 PM (BI5O2)

68 Alternate theory: Biden's staff wanted him to debate early so that if it did go badly they could stuff Biden back into the White House basement and conduct the entire campaign from the recording studio they had set up. Deny Trump a second debate and depend upon carefully edited videos and the media's compliance with the narrative. Let's not forget, they pulled this technique once and they won the election by doing so.

I think the staff was honestly surprised at how poorly Biden did during his debate with Trump.

Posted by: Semper Why at July 07, 2025 05:50 PM (nKug+)

69 re 63: yes we can.

Posted by: gnats local 678 at July 07, 2025 05:50 PM (CWTWj)

70 63 Can you imagine if in 2024 Biden said that FDR went on TV to calm the American people after the market crash.
Posted by: polynikes at July 07, 2025 05:49 PM (VofaG)

I actually assume that was a quip written for Biden by an idiot who knows nothing. Not a brain misfire per se.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 07, 2025 05:51 PM (d8x+f)

71
They should have used hand puppets to get the message across to Joey Bidet.
Posted by: Anna Puma at July 07, 2025 05:50 PM (XOckW)

__________

Joe's Secret Service code name: Lambchop

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 07, 2025 05:51 PM (EFq9Y)

72 The people coming up with the plans were the products of the Ivy League. They were told from birth that they were the elite, that it was their right to rule. All their lives they believed themselves much more intelligent than they really were. Born on third base, grew up thinking they hit a triple. In the end, the best and brightest turned out to be dullards and incompetents.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at July 07, 2025 05:51 PM (u73oe)

73 A totally separate aspect to this that I really want to know for amusement purposes is just what type and dosage of pharmaceuticals were they injecting into this guy.

There had to be a regular regimen they we applying on all public appearances...BUT you have to assume that the night of the debate they injected the motherload.

Posted by: Orson at July 07, 2025 05:51 PM (dIske)

74 You told me I couldn't out-debate Joe Biden, Jake Tapper, and Dana Bash.

You told me I was gonna get beat by a corpse, a homo and a skirt.

How's your new career as a political advisor working out for you, ace?

Posted by: Donald J Trump, 3X POTUS at July 07, 2025 05:52 PM (0nOAz)

75 > 64 re 40: don't you remember how the guy from algeria won the women's boxing title?
Posted by: gnats local 678 at July 07, 2025 05:50 PM (CWTWj)

Anyone remember the "Celebrity Challenge of the Sexes and Races" skit on SNL back in the '70s? As I recall, it was OJ Simpson and Leon Spinks against Sandy Duncan and Marie Osmond.

Who knew we'd live long enough that this became reality, not parody.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at July 07, 2025 05:52 PM (qpyNK)

76 YOU will take your medicine. YOU enjoy them. YOU will NOT shit your pants.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 07, 2025 05:52 PM (d8x+f)

77 The hilarity of pumping up busted bike tire Biden is a soothing tonic to chase away the sad loss of Ciampino

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at July 07, 2025 05:53 PM (wBaIH)

78
In the end, the best and brightest turned out to be dullards and incompetents.
Posted by: Duke Lowell at July 07, 2025 05:51 PM (u73oe)

_________

Army guard at Nuremberg: "Who knew we were fighting against a bunch of idiots?"

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 07, 2025 05:53 PM (EFq9Y)

79 >YOU are a shambling SWAMP HUSK from a 1950s HORROR MOVIE.

----

ah me
laughing

Posted by: Don Black at July 07, 2025 05:53 PM (AOsQT)

80 June 27, 2025 pictures of Joe Biden with a normal amount of hair and face fat:
http://tiny.cc/42vo001

July 2, 2025 pictures of Joe Biden with a normal amount of hair and face fat:
http://tiny.cc/92vo001

Does that look like someone with an aggressive stage 4 cancer? I may turn out to be wrong, but I'm fairly confident he lied about that too.

Posted by: bonhomme at July 07, 2025 05:53 PM (lIio7)

81 away the sad loss of Ciampino

WHAT?

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 07, 2025 05:53 PM (XOckW)

82 Posted by: BlackOrchid at July 07, 2025 05:46 PM (Pv3Rg

I haven't liked him since the hearings for Clarence Thomas when I was a voting Democrat.. You should have heard what one of my older parishioners who grew up in Scranton PA and had a home in Delaware had to say about him. She wasn't a curser but I could hear it behind her words.

Joe was as you know presented as "average Joe" the working class stiff and sadly many people bought into it because they would never think of not voting for a Democrat.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 07, 2025 05:54 PM (2GCMq)

83 Afternoon, all,

Who was the Gay Nerd?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 07, 2025 05:54 PM (omVj0)

84 We lost ciampino? Oh no.

Hope i misread.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 07, 2025 05:54 PM (d8x+f)

85 81 away the sad loss of Ciampino

WHAT?
Posted by: Anna Puma at July 07, 2025 05:53 PM (XOckW)

Yeah, his daughter posted in some threads. He died today a little after noon.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at July 07, 2025 05:54 PM (xcxpd)

86 You got a problem with SWAMP HUSKs, buddy? My cousin is a SWAMP HUSK, and I bet he'd kick your ass.

Posted by: Bombadil at July 07, 2025 05:55 PM (MX0bI)

87 Yeah, the really dirty stuff about the Biden preznicy has yet to come out.
Posted by: Auspex

As if fondling your Granddaughter or having your wife noodle with your son isn't dirty enough.

Posted by: Tonypete at July 07, 2025 05:55 PM (cYBz/)

88 YOU will only grope girls below the age of consent in private. Never in a public venue.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at July 07, 2025 05:50 PM (qpyNK)

The Left gave us a gift when Jon Stewart and the Daily Show gave us The Audacity of Grope when Biden was VP and it was never really used .

Posted by: polynikes at July 07, 2025 05:55 PM (VofaG)

89 48 Posted by: BlackOrchid at July 07, 2025 05:46 PM (Pv3Rg)

It's throughout the rust belt, really-he is like some pied piper of asshole retard faux union labor tough guy....the cocksucker is yellow-dog democrat catnip.

Posted by: sven at July 07, 2025 05:55 PM (XFYYr)

90 Guys, seriously: Quit fucking dying! I'm serious.

God bless ciampino.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 07, 2025 05:56 PM (d8x+f)

91 Biden's long-term belief that he is some type of Olympian tough guy is baffling.

IIRC the loonies at Democratic Underground were convinced Joe unleashed would kick Trump's ass.

Posted by: Still lurking up north, read some, don't comment much at July 07, 2025 05:56 PM (kTd/k)

92 Oh, man.

Sorry about Ciampino.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at July 07, 2025 05:56 PM (qpyNK)

93
Biden wasn't much of a President if he can get fooled by his staff.

Posted by: Frank Barone at July 07, 2025 05:56 PM (IifOV)

94 The DNC schemed to not have a real primary, and then they were stuck with Kamala because they had no actual justification to throw her out when the far left racists demanded Strong Black Woman, because they hadn't had a primary!
Posted by: DudeAbiding at July 07, 2025 05:46 PM (setIA)
You know who was a Strong Black Woman?
Butterfly McQueen. Scorchin’ too.

Posted by: Eromero at July 07, 2025 05:56 PM (LHPAg)

95 8 But what were Jill and Hunter telling him to do? Why would they let this happen if they knew he was going to tank.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at July 07, 2025 05:34 PM (QqW4y)

Those two rolled the dice. How'd you like to have your fate gambled by two idiots like Jill and Hunter?

Posted by: Gref at July 07, 2025 05:58 PM (aBgBM)

96 Who was the Gay Nerd?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere

Chastains butt plug

Posted by: Frank Barone at July 07, 2025 05:58 PM (IifOV)

97 82 Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 07, 2025 05:54 PM (2GCMq)

His unearned protestations of intellectual mediocrity—let alone his feigned genius—were opprobrious to me even at age six. I held him in the same contempt I bore for Byrd and Kennedy.

Posted by: sven at July 07, 2025 05:58 PM (XFYYr)

98 93
Biden wasn't much of a President if he can get fooled by his staff.
Posted by: Frank Barone

It wasn't just Biden. They would have had to have fooled Jill, Hunter, and all the loyalists. No way it was planned sabotage.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at July 07, 2025 05:58 PM (276nJ)

99
You know who was a Strong Black Woman?
Butterfly McQueen. Scorchin’ too.
Posted by: Eromero at July 07, 2025 05:56 PM (LHPAg)

________

Pam Grier. Yum.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 07, 2025 05:58 PM (EFq9Y)

100 Rest in peace Ciampino and may the Lord grant His mercy and comfort to your family.

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 07, 2025 05:59 PM (XOckW)

101 91 Posted by: Still lurking up north, read some, don't comment much at July 07, 2025 05:56 PM (kTd/k)

His dad was a fixer for the Hoffa era Teamsters. He is as tough, personally, as Carmine Jr in the Sopranos. Kid of a union thug.

Posted by: sven at July 07, 2025 05:59 PM (XFYYr)

102 Gay Nerd?

Another nickname for the Ungrateful Loaf?

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 07, 2025 05:59 PM (XOckW)

103 The completely Democratic method by which the incumbent was removed from a ballot because of power, our precious norms and save our Democracy from literally Hitler. But mostly to retain power.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 07, 2025 05:59 PM (tT6L1)

104 I think the staff was honestly surprised at how poorly Biden did during his debate with Trump.

Posted by: Semper Why at July 07, 2025 05:50 PM

That's because his staff kept telling him day after day that he was sharp as a tack and mentally fit. At some point they started believing their own lies and let joe biden debate Trump.

One thing we need to remember in regards to the debate is team biden had him sequestered for 9 days for debate prep. At that point I am pretty sure they knew he was toast and the debate was going to be a disaster for him but they couldn't back out or he would be toast. They had to go through with it no matter what.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at July 07, 2025 05:59 PM (e5NfL)

105 Tropical Storm Chantal has formed in the Atlantc.

For the unsophisticated, Chantal is pronounced Shan-Tahl

Posted by: Maj. Healey at July 07, 2025 06:00 PM (/U5Yz)

106 81 Posted by: Anna Puma at July 07, 2025 05:53 PM (XOckW)

Evidently we lost another member of the Horde?

Prayers to the survivors and every dead 'ron or 'ette is a loss.

Posted by: sven at July 07, 2025 06:01 PM (XFYYr)

107 Gah, I wonder if Kamala Harris' staff using a similar format during her VP events?

* You will approach the lectern and stand BEHIND it.
* The moderator will ask PENETRATING questions of Trump.
* You will be given EASY questions. Provide the rehearsed answers (provided on REAR side of the page).
* You will not go TOO DEEP down rabbit HOLES.
* You will not cackle
* You will kick his ASS at this debate.

Posted by: Semper Why at July 07, 2025 06:01 PM (nKug+)

108 re-posting; some still have not heard:

180 Willowed

I'm sorry if I shouldn't post this here.
I just wanted to let you all know that our Dad, Ciampino passed away around 12:30pm today. Dad loved everyone's witty humor here. Thank you for giving him years of enjoyment and community.
Posted by: Joyenz at July 07, 2025 02:34 PM (sPQoU)

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 07, 2025 04:04 PM (oXJtT)

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at July 07, 2025 06:01 PM (dKEEs)

109 Pam Grier. Yum.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 07, 2025 05:58 PM (EFq9Y)
--------------

I thought Pam Grief was hotter than blazes in "Jackie Brown."

No idea who her surgeon was, but, they did an excellent job.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 07, 2025 06:02 PM (tT6L1)

110 These short video over at Battleswarm are very good.
They detail management at "The People's Forum" and and "Progress Unity Fund" paid protesters, drawing links to Singham and Soros. The clear intent is to destroy the West.
https://www.battleswarmblog.com/?p=65829

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at July 07, 2025 06:02 PM (276nJ)

111 i thought the gay nerd was obama

Posted by: gnats local 678 at July 07, 2025 06:02 PM (CWTWj)

112 YOU could not debate a CHICKPEA.

Humus is made from chickpeas.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at July 07, 2025 05:40 PM (/U5Yz)

aka bean dip. Pricey bean dip, even.

Posted by: Count de Monet at July 07, 2025 06:02 PM (wVcYX)

113 RIP Ciampino. He did a terrific job keeping us notified of rocket launches. I will miss him, for much more than that. I am glad I was able to converse with him here. Condolences to his family and all his friends.

Posted by: Gref at July 07, 2025 06:02 PM (aBgBM)

114 Can you imagine if in 2024 Biden said that FDR went on TV to calm the American people after the market crash.
Posted by: polynikes at July 07, 2025

***
On last night's Atlantic Crossing episode, with Kyle McLachlan as FDR, the final scene of the episode had him speaking to the nation on the radio -- and on a TV set in an appliance store window. In early 1941. Now I know television had been *demonstrated* as early as the '39 World's Fair -- but were there working sets (even if they were fantastically expensive) in early '41?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 07, 2025 06:02 PM (omVj0)

115 I was, at first, going to get bothered by the clown judge in the Maryland Man case stamping her little feet and banging her little fists on the dais, yelling at the DOJ lawyers.
But then I realized, "she's too fucking stupid to see how she's being played, isn't she?"

She is too dumb to see she's already lost, that the self-important phony anger at not being instantly obeyed is exactly what Trump's team wants:
If she had an ounce of sense, she'd write her angry missive and dismiss the case.

Instead, she's blowing it up over trivial matters. And is going to give Trump a SCOTUS ruling expanding his deportation authority further.
With a line something along, "When we said 'minimal due process' we did not print a license to delve into every possible destination on the legal map--district courts should stay within their delineated authority and jurisdiction."

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 07, 2025 06:02 PM (VlwBF)

116 "YOU could not debate a CHICKPEA"

The name Cicero comes from the Latin for "chickpea". Seems he had an ancestor who had a funny looking nose. Maybe Brandon should've debated zombie Cicero.

Posted by: Raoul Ortega at July 07, 2025 06:03 PM (TizQb)

117 I thought Pam Grief was hotter than blazes in "Jackie Brown."

No idea who her surgeon was, but, they did an excellent job.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 07, 2025 06:02 PM (tT6L1)

You know who is unrecognizable now and not in a good way?

Bridget Fonda,

Posted by: polynikes at July 07, 2025 06:03 PM (VofaG)

118 Gah, I wonder if Kamala Harris' staff using a similar format during her VP events?
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You will TAKE it all

Posted by: ... at July 07, 2025 06:03 PM (E0p3T)

119 Ciampino is gone???? I always loved his stories of growing up in Africa, and his concern for the cats. Damn. . . .

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 07, 2025 06:03 PM (omVj0)

120 re 107: and if trump says 'blow me', don't

Posted by: gnats local 678 at July 07, 2025 06:03 PM (CWTWj)

121 YOU fought the beach chair, and the chair won.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 07, 2025 06:04 PM (0sNs1)

122 @nicksortor
·
11m
🚨 BREAKING: An Obama judge just BLOCKED the Big Beautiful Bill provision which bars taxpayer funding for Planned Parenthood

Posted by: Don Black at July 07, 2025 06:05 PM (AOsQT)

123 I thought Pam Grief was hotter than blazes in "Jackie Brown."

No idea who her surgeon was, but, they did an excellent job.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 07, 2025 06:02 PM (tT6L1)

You know who is unrecognizable now and not in a good way?

Bridget Fonda,
Posted by: polynikes at July 07, 2025 06:03 PM (VofaG)

*shudder*

She had a car accident and basically gave up on everything. Except carbs.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at July 07, 2025 06:05 PM (xcxpd)

124 Looks like the Supreme Court ain't so supreme

Posted by: Don Black at July 07, 2025 06:06 PM (AOsQT)

125 11m
🚨 BREAKING: An Obama judge just BLOCKED the Big Beautiful Bill provision which bars taxpayer funding for Planned Parenthood
Posted by: Don Black at July 07, 2025 06:05 PM (AOsQT)

Passed by Congress. Could luck with that.

Posted by: BruceWayne at July 07, 2025 06:06 PM (MGB5H)

126 Good*

Posted by: BruceWayne at July 07, 2025 06:06 PM (MGB5H)

127 Not a HIPAA violation? Any of it? Biden was being outed as stupid and arrogant, but no one in tiny Delaware gave a shit. Like Bill and Hill needed a squad of paralegals to screw their pants on in the morning they were so crooked. But they were in charge. Right.

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at July 07, 2025 06:06 PM (QSrLX)

128 Democrat memo more like Ace of Spades HTML protocol, am i rite

Rotting vegetables would improve the smell of the barrel.
And govern better than Biden did.

Posted by: DaveA at July 07, 2025 06:07 PM (FhXTo)

129 We're still disinfecting and airing out after Mr. Biden's "incident".

Posted by: Vatican Staff at July 07, 2025 06:07 PM (wVcYX)

130 re 114: i thought mclachlan was lousy in the original 'dune', not so bad years later in some 'law and order' episode

Posted by: gnats local 678 at July 07, 2025 06:07 PM (CWTWj)

131 Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 07, 2025 06:02 PM (omVj0)

TV invented in the 20’s but didn’t become a common household item until the late 40’s /early 50’s when it overtook the radio.

Posted by: polynikes at July 07, 2025 06:07 PM (VofaG)

132 >>> 125 11m
🚨 BREAKING: An Obama judge just BLOCKED the Big Beautiful Bill provision which bars taxpayer funding for Planned Parenthood
Posted by: Don Black at July 07, 2025 06:05 PM (AOsQT)

Passed by Congress. Could luck with that.
Posted by: BruceWayne at July 07, 2025 06:06 PM (MGB5H)

Sounds like *somebody* wants to be the first judge fired by the congresscritters.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 07, 2025 06:07 PM (ULPxl)

133 Biden was apparently so mentally degraded that he needed to have the word "YOU" written in all-caps bold to get his attention.

I DON'T SEE THE PROBLEM.

Posted by: BEN ROETHLISBERGER at July 07, 2025 06:08 PM (D0HYP)

134 "You know who is unrecognizable now and not in a good way?

Bridget Fonda,
Posted by: polynikes "

Yeah. If she was standing next to you, you would have no idea. Like Amanda Bynes level.

Posted by: eleven at July 07, 2025 06:08 PM (fV+MH)

135 124 Looks like the Supreme Court ain't so supreme
Posted by: Don Black

Not only that, Congress is so worthless they will let this slide. The easy way to address most issues. Ignore.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at July 07, 2025 06:08 PM (/U5Yz)

136 Biden of 40 years ago was a lying trash person. He was always stupid, venal, and corrupt. He made Presidential bids before when he was younger and failed miserably because he's a horrible pile of nuclear grade excrement. Biden just added a rotting brain to the mix. Nothing changed otherwise.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at July 07, 2025 06:09 PM (sAmhv)

137 i thought mclachlan was lousy in the original 'dune', not so bad years later in some 'law and order' episode
Posted by: gnats local 678 at July 07, 2025 06:07 PM (CWTWj)

His greatest role was obviously Showgirls.

Posted by: BruceWayne at July 07, 2025 06:09 PM (MGB5H)

138 At least Biden stabbed them in the back by immediately endorsing Kamala, blocking the Obama/Pelosi intention to have a "mini-primary", specifically to get rid of Kamala.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at July 07, 2025 06:09 PM (xTIDn)

139 BREAKING: An Obama judge just BLOCKED the Big Beautiful Bill provision which bars taxpayer funding for Planned Parenthood
Posted by: Don Black at July 07, 2025 06:05 PM (AOsQT)

That should be an impeachable offense.

Posted by: polynikes at July 07, 2025 06:09 PM (VofaG)

140 Wow, very integrity. Much caring. Just the kind of people you'd want to run your country!

Posted by: William F. 'Buck' Dharma at July 07, 2025 06:09 PM (Ft5W9)

141 The only reason THE POLITBURO pushed Biden to debate early was so it would have maximum negative impact on him and get him out of the race. The only part Biden screwed up is he didn't strip off his pants and force Tapper and Bash to stroke his hairy legs while signing "I Love A Parade."

https://youtu.be/AcIOFVFzNCw

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at July 07, 2025 06:10 PM (NXz8h)

142 i thought mclachlan was lousy in the original 'dune', not so bad years later in some 'law and order' episode
Posted by: gnats local 678 at July 07, 2025 06:07 PM (CWTWj)

He was VASTLY better than the twink they cast in DUNC and DUNC 2.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at July 07, 2025 06:10 PM (xcxpd)

143
Ace's favorite "Simon Phoenix" says Republicans are rigging the Midterms and there won't be a 2028 election.

jim acosta agrees.

Posted by: Soothsayer at July 07, 2025 06:10 PM (vt9he)

144 I'd honestly like to know how a judge is able to block what is arguably a spending bill.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 07, 2025 06:10 PM (tT6L1)

145 " re 114: i thought mclachlan was lousy in the original 'dune', not so bad years later in some 'law and order' episode
Posted by: gnats local 678"

That whole thing was a train wreck. Lynch was a bizarre choice for that. At least they got the worms right.

The hardest thing, they got right.

Posted by: eleven at July 07, 2025 06:10 PM (fV+MH)

146 YOU will never SIT IN A CHAIR inside the VATICAN

Posted by: Maj. Healey at July 07, 2025 06:10 PM (/U5Yz)

147 Kyle McLachlan

The Hidden. Wooden acting required for the role.

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 07, 2025 06:11 PM (XOckW)

148 So we had four years of the Far Side "What we say to dogs"/"What they hear" comic.

Posted by: Chuck C at July 07, 2025 06:11 PM (D0HYP)

149 IIRC the loonies at Democratic Underground were convinced Joe unleashed would kick Trump's ass.
---
Harry Sisson, the left's biggest name among the TicTok crowd, posted a video just before the debate that Biden was going to crush Trump.

His biggest proof was that Biden had been prepping for a whole week and Trump had done no prep.

DU was positively drooling over finally--finally!--someone was going to call Trump a felon to his face and that was totally going to DESTROY Trump.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 07, 2025 06:11 PM (VlwBF)

150 RIP Ciampino. He became our friend and made my late nights always better.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at July 07, 2025 06:12 PM (NXz8h)

151 None of this makes any sense. His advisors, who stood to lose all their perks, pushed him into an early debate so he would fail. Not buying it.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at July 07, 2025 06:12 PM (p16cu)

152 I would have no idea Bridget Fonda was standing next to me or 40 years ago, because I doubt I ve seen any movies or shows she was in. I'd recognize Henry Fonda ( if he were alive) or Jane Fonda ( is she still alive?) but that's it.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 07, 2025 06:12 PM (2GCMq)

153 I’m the minority in that I like the original Dune. The remake part one was much better though and then part 2 had me liking the original Dune better overall.

Posted by: polynikes at July 07, 2025 06:12 PM (VofaG)

154 Although Slow Joe was certainly three entire suits shy of a full deck, the capitalization might be just protocol. Having spent some years in the "Generate Useless Government Documents" industry, whenever a particular person was the subject of a document, their last name along with all pronouns (this was years ago, so we only had HE, HIM, SHE, and HER) were always capitalized. So a sentence might read: "BIDEN will be in charge of analyzing the olfactory status of all minors present, as HE has proven HIS skill at this in the past."

Just a possibility.

Posted by: Pennsyltucky at July 07, 2025 06:12 PM (F30Bl)

155 Nothing on Bondi et al claiming there is no Epstein list and case closed? Interesting editorial choice, Ace.

Posted by: The Earl of Sandwich at July 07, 2025 06:13 PM (9jFu1)

156 The judge can't block shit. All he's done is cracked another crack in Article III.1-2.

Posted by: gKWVE at July 07, 2025 06:14 PM (gKWVE)

157 I’m the minority in that I like the original Dune. The remake part one was much better though and then part 2 had me liking the original Dune better overall.

Posted by: polynikes at July 07, 2025 06:12 PM (VofaG)

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The people who made the latest Dune did a great job with part 1. They didn't have the nerve to make it a three part movies, which is what it needed. Instead, they rushed the ending, obviously because they were under orders to wrap it up.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 07, 2025 06:15 PM (tT6L1)

158 >I'd honestly like to know how a judge is able to block what is arguably a spending bill.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker i
====

not a bill anymore
It is law

Posted by: Don Black at July 07, 2025 06:15 PM (AOsQT)

159 Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 07, 2025 06:12 PM (2GCMq)

You never saw Cocoon?

Posted by: polynikes at July 07, 2025 06:15 PM (VofaG)

160 Wasn't The Stubborn Vegetable Faulkner's sequel to The Sound and the Fury?

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 07, 2025 06:16 PM (JtH6i)

161 The Hidden. Wooden acting required for the role.
Posted by: Anna Puma

Great flick. Started the whole alien skinwalker fad of the 80's.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at July 07, 2025 06:16 PM (mlg/3)

162 None of this makes any sense. His advisors, who stood to lose all their perks, pushed him into an early debate so he would fail. Not buying it.

HIS advisors were Obama's people who had other plans

Posted by: DanMan at July 07, 2025 06:17 PM (8uzBS)

163 This level of cruelty is why the Democrats have been incited to violence and mayhem.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at July 07, 2025 06:17 PM (QnXVi)

164 153 I’m the minority in that I like the original Dune. The remake part one was much better though and then part 2 had me liking the original Dune better overall.

Posted by: polynikes at July 07, 2025 06:12 PM (VofaG)
The best character was the Guild Navigator. Gerald Nadler got no screen credit, either

Posted by: Eromero at July 07, 2025 06:17 PM (LHPAg)

165 I got bit by an Asian Murder Hornet yesterday and now I have a red swollen patch on my knee about 3" x 5"

(Actually, it was the slightly smaller kogata suzume batchi, but it was a queen building a nest and must have been 1.5", so pretty big.)

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at July 07, 2025 06:17 PM (276nJ)

166 Ace- this whole question hinges on the rather dubious assumption that Biden's staff was more mentally functional and coherent than he was.

Posted by: muldoon at July 07, 2025 06:17 PM (poXs5)

167 So we had four years of the Far Side "What we say to dogs"/"What they hear" comic.
Posted by: Chuck C

Still laugh at the one with a car full of cows driving by a field of humans, yelling "Yakkity-Yak~!"

Posted by: weft cut-loop at July 07, 2025 06:17 PM (mlg/3)

168 I thought he was good in Blue Velvet,

Posted by: polynikes at July 07, 2025 06:18 PM (VofaG)

169 You never saw Cocoon?
Posted by: polynikes at July 07, 2025 06:15 PM (VofaG)

Nope; There are any number of films known to others that I just never saw.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 07, 2025 06:18 PM (2GCMq)

170 Doc Hollywood was peak Bridget Fonda

imho

Posted by: Don Black at July 07, 2025 06:18 PM (AOsQT)

171 I saw Nuclear Grade Excrement open for Green Day in 1994 at the PNC Music Pavilion in Charlotte NC.
There weren't enough portapotties.

Posted by: gKWVE at July 07, 2025 06:18 PM (gKWVE)

172 Another theory regarding the Biden debate "strategy":

My (fuzzy) recollection from that time is that the Biden underlings were talking a ton of smack saying Trump was too chicken to debate Biden.

Is there also a chance that the Democrats ran a bluff with a very weak hand, on the slight chance that Trump might fold the better hand?

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at July 07, 2025 06:19 PM (HlyYF)

173 Killed some wasps yesterday who had built some nests in the garage.

Soak nests with spray.

Run away.

Wait an hour.

Return and knock down nests with shovel.

Sweep out garage.

I have no problem saying wasps give the willies.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 07, 2025 06:20 PM (zZu0s)

174 we've been treating it as if Joe was a shambling vegetable being masterfully managed by a team of malevolent highly-skilled experts. What if Joe was the real brains of the operation?

Posted by: muldoon at July 07, 2025 06:20 PM (poXs5)

175 Is there also a chance that the Democrats ran a bluff with a very weak hand, on the slight chance that Trump might fold the better hand?
Posted by: Pillage Idiot at July 07, 2025 06:19 PM (HlyYF)
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Yeah, because they themselves know they'd have cut and run. They project their fear and anger on everyone.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 07, 2025 06:20 PM (tT6L1)

176 HIS advisors were Obama's people who had other plans
Posted by: DanMan

----
sure, some of them. But even those would have known the risk of the next person (Kamala) considering them unreliable since they juts f-cked their boss. But I think the people the family trusted the most would have been unconnected to obama.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at July 07, 2025 06:20 PM (276nJ)

177 u never saw Cocoon?
Posted by: polynikes at July 07, 2025 06:15 PM (VofaG)

Nope; There are any number of films known to others that I just never saw.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 07, 2025 06:18 PM (2GCMq)

Never mind anyway because that was Raquel Welch daughter not Bridget Fonda .

Posted by: polynikes at July 07, 2025 06:20 PM (VofaG)

178 @nicksortor
·
11m
🚨 BREAKING: An Obama judge just BLOCKED the Big Beautiful Bill provision which bars taxpayer funding for Planned Parenthood
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You know that ruling over the weekend, where even Kagan was like, "look, I joined the dissent on this but you fucking retards in the trial courts need to follow the majority no matter how much you don't like it?"

Yeah, there's another 7-2 beat-down coming.

I mean, the earlier injunctions were illegal writs of mandamus, ordering the Executive to spend money in a specified way when Congress had given the Executive discretion.
But now? Now they're ordering the Executive to spend money Congress hasn't even allocated?

It's not a imperial judiciary, it just demands no accountability with the authority to order the other branches to act and to act when they don't--it's the People's Democratic Republic of the Judiciary.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 07, 2025 06:20 PM (VlwBF)

179 I'm not sure which theory is true. It's possible that both are. It could be that Biden's staff knew that he would get worse literally every single day, so current day Biden was as good as Biden was going to get, and also wanted the debate early so that if Biden melted down they would have time to attempt to push Anyone But Kamala into the nomination.

—

Probably all of the above.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 07, 2025 06:21 PM (ImXfC)

180 Anyone who has seen the cheat sheets that Bribehim used during press conferences from photographs of the events will be familiar with the YOU will read off the teleprompter and YOU will not read stage directions like "Repeat the line." or "Salute the Marines."

Posted by: Philip Nolan at July 07, 2025 06:22 PM (1kQia)

181 If you didn't see Cocoon in the 1980s (or early 1990s on VCR) it's going to be difficult to see it legally now. It's notorious for falling into legal hell. Considering the movie was actually good, popular at the time, and well-reviewed.

Posted by: gKWVE at July 07, 2025 06:22 PM (gKWVE)

182
YOU did NOT whip a black boy with a chain for using a public pool in Jim Crow's Delaware.

YOU did NOT catch cancer from your windshield wipers.

YOU did NOT encourage the children at your racist pool to caress your legs.

STOP SAYING THESE THINGS. FOR REAL!

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 07, 2025 06:22 PM (BI5O2)

183 Tahnee Welch looked good naked in Playboy.
Great genes.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at July 07, 2025 06:22 PM (xcxpd)

184 ...so current day Biden was as good as Biden was going to get,...

That ain't any kind of fun, but what I have to offer you, that's as good as it's gonna get. And it won't ever get that good again.
-Biden's staff role-playing Vincenzo Coccotti

Posted by: haffhowershower at July 07, 2025 06:22 PM (144I4)

185 I mean, the earlier injunctions were illegal writs of mandamus, ordering the Executive to spend money in a specified way when Congress had given the Executive discretion.
But now? Now they're ordering the Executive to spend money Congress hasn't even allocated?

It's not a imperial judiciary, it just demands no accountability with the authority to order the other branches to act and to act when they don't--it's the People's Democratic Republic of the Judiciary.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 07, 2025 06:20 PM (VlwBF)
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Minor quibble on my part: The judges in question were also ordering the president to break the law through spending money on obvious fraud. That was the part of the whole thing which amazed me.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 07, 2025 06:22 PM (tT6L1)

186 TV invented in the 20’s but didn’t become a common household item until the late 40’s /early 50’s when it overtook the radio.
Posted by: polynikes at July 07, 2025

***
That's what I thought: that having FDR appear in 1941 on TV -- even if only in a display set in a store window, so people could watch -- was an anachronism.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 07, 2025 06:22 PM (omVj0)

187 In some ways, Biden got his after ripping off the Medicare Part B/Medicaid crowd for Alzheimer's drugs:

>KFF, FDA’s Approval of Biogen’s New Alzheimer’s Drug Has Huge Cost Implications for Medicare and Beneficiaries, June 10, 2021
--
Reuters, Biden Medicare costs victory due mostly to Alzheimer's drug change, September 27, 2022

WASHINGTON, Sept 27 (Reuters) - "U.S. President Joe Biden claimed victory on Tuesday for a drop in costs for tens of millions of Americans covered by the Medicare health program, though it is primarily due to a decision to severely limit coverage of an expensive, new Alzheimer's drug."
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marketplace dot org, 'Medicare recipients foot bill for a rejected Alzheimer's drug'

Oct 24, 2022 — 'Medicare rejected a controversial Alzheimer's drug. Participants still ended up paying for it.'
Medicare raised premiums late last year in preparation to cover the drug Aduhelm.
--
alz dot org: 'Bipartisan Group of Attorneys General Urge Biden Administration to Provide Access to Alzheimer’s Treatments,' May 1, 2023
--
CBS, MoneyWatch, July 10, 2023
'Medicare says it will pay for the Alzheimer's medication Leqsebi. Here's how it works.'

Now a spending conundrum.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at July 07, 2025 06:22 PM (NFX2v)

188 Doc Hollywood was peak Bridget Fonda

imho
Posted by: Don Black at July 07, 2025 06:18 PM (AOsQT)

Point of No Return for me.

Posted by: polynikes at July 07, 2025 06:22 PM (VofaG)

189 ^^ I assume most of the Horde already knows this.

Posted by: gKWVE at July 07, 2025 06:22 PM (gKWVE)

190 HIS advisors were Obama's people who had other plans
Posted by: DanMan
_________

There's a quote out there on Donilon about him being terrified of giving up the perks. Can't lay my hands on it, but looking.

I just don't believe these people pushed him into a debate that they knew would be disastrous, and over objections of Jill and Hunter, who would never let that happen.

It was false hope from his less disastrous state of the union, plus the right drugs.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at July 07, 2025 06:23 PM (p16cu)

191 i see a "dune 3" is in the works. when it comes out i'll check drunken critic's review

Posted by: gnats local 678 at July 07, 2025 06:23 PM (CWTWj)

192 I have no problem saying wasps give the willies.
Posted by: Aetius451AD

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I was trimming my fig and had seen it many times and it was not bothering me. But it was building a nest under my hot water heater and when I went to trim some stuff nearby it must have panicked. So I panicked and ran and fell and got scrapped up. Everyone panicked, it seems.

I came back with some bug spray and a 2x4.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at July 07, 2025 06:23 PM (276nJ)

193 >> My (fuzzy) recollection from that time is that the Biden underlings were talking a ton of smack saying Trump was too chicken to debate Biden.

They also tried to set the conditions to be so ridiculous as to induce Trump to refuse (it was on CNN of all places, the mic muting, etc). When he accepted all their BS conditions they were stuck. My fuzzy recollection is that there was a lot of consternation on our side about why Trump would agree to all Biden's terms ... but like most things turns out he knew what he was doing.

Posted by: the dandy at July 07, 2025 06:24 PM (8l8nW)

194 polynikes at July 07, 2025 06:15 PM (

It was a source of some amusement to some Hordians that I only saw "Die Hard" for the first time about two years ago. I really know more about films from the 30-50's because some were shown later on TV when I was growing up.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 07, 2025 06:24 PM (2GCMq)

195 >But now? Now they're ordering the Executive to spend money Congress hasn't even allocated?
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looks like it
this judge is ordering Congress to fund Planned Parenthood

Posted by: Don Black at July 07, 2025 06:24 PM (AOsQT)

196 News Flash - 24 injured in French town after bees attacked.

They remade The Swarm?

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 07, 2025 06:24 PM (XOckW)

197 I wonder how they factor in voters who convince themselves that the Dem candidate is the best choice no matter how obviously false this is. I mean, Biden was obviously well down the path of dementia for the 2020 campaign.

I guess another factor is election "fortification."

Posted by: Emmie at July 07, 2025 06:24 PM (rF2iL)

198
Ciampino is gone?

Posted by: Soothsayer at July 07, 2025 06:24 PM (vt9he)

199 Ace- this whole question hinges on the rather dubious assumption that Biden's staff was more mentally functional and coherent than he was.
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Like the old saying, if your brain was a nuclear bomb, you couldn't blow out a tissue paper.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 07, 2025 06:24 PM (VlwBF)

200 sure, some of them. But even those would have known the risk of the next person (Kamala) considering them unreliable since they juts f-cked their boss. But I think the people the family trusted the most would have been unconnected to obama.

they wanted the early debate so if he tanked they thought they would have time to bypass Kamala or Shapiro...they thought wrong

Posted by: DanMan at July 07, 2025 06:24 PM (8uzBS)

201 Point of No Return for me.
Posted by: polynikes at July 07, 2025 06:22 PM (VofaG)
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I could never bring myself to watch that film. It just looked like a cheap knockoff of "La Femme Nikita."

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 07, 2025 06:25 PM (tT6L1)

202 i thought mclachlan was lousy in the original 'dune', not so bad years later in some 'law and order' episode
Posted by: gnats local 678 at July 07, 2025 06:07 PM (CWTWj

In his defense, everybody has been lousy in the role in all the adaptations. It's as if the character is basically unlikable.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at July 07, 2025 06:25 PM (cnmiW)

203 196 News Flash - 24 injured in French town after bees attacked.

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 07, 2025 06:24 PM (XOckW)

Trump's fault.

Posted by: The Media at July 07, 2025 06:25 PM (rF2iL)

204 I would have no idea Bridget Fonda was standing next to me or 40 years ago, because I doubt I ve seen any movies or shows she was in. I'd recognize Henry Fonda ( if he were alive) or Jane Fonda ( is she still alive?) but that's it.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 07, 2025

***
In her prime (Jackie Brown and Single White Female), Bridget resembled her brother Peter in the face more than she did Henry or Jane.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 07, 2025 06:26 PM (omVj0)

205 Dune 3 - Alia gets funky with zombie Duncan Idaho?

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 07, 2025 06:26 PM (XOckW)

206 ok, i meant critical drinker. my oops

Posted by: gnats local 678 at July 07, 2025 06:26 PM (CWTWj)

207
I have no problem saying wasps give the willies.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 07, 2025 06:20 PM (zZu0s)

Wasps are asshoe.

When I was growing up in Hawaii, we had these big brown wasps that were decidedly short-tempered. Turns out they get pissed off and go on the warpath when you stomp on them with your Chucks.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at July 07, 2025 06:26 PM (y9nCu)

208 No need for memos, the Joe's soiled adult diapers should have been enough.

Posted by: White House Cleaning Staff at July 07, 2025 06:26 PM (R/m4+)

209 198
Ciampino is gone?
Posted by: Soothsayer

Yes. Died earlier today.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at July 07, 2025 06:26 PM (sAmhv)

210 Posted by: The Earl of Sandwich at July 07, 2025 06:13 PM (9jFu1)

***********

You know what I've found Ace really really likes? It's when you tell HIM what HE should post on HIS damn blog. That really motivates HIM to change HIS whole schedule for the rest of HIS day.

Posted by: muldoon at July 07, 2025 06:27 PM (poXs5)

211 196 News Flash - 24 injured in French town after bees attacked.

They remade The Swarm?
Posted by: Anna Puma at July 07, 2025 06:24 PM (XOckW)
NOT THE BEES!

Posted by: Eromero at July 07, 2025 06:27 PM (LHPAg)

212 Ok, the Thunderlips reference in the memo made me laugh out loud at work. Rocky III was one of my favorite movies as a teenager.
Until I saw Aliens.

Posted by: Nelly at July 07, 2025 06:27 PM (cHLus)

213 Ciampino is gone?

Sadly, yes. R. I. P.

Posted by: Miflin at July 07, 2025 06:27 PM (aA6YN)

214 could never bring myself to watch that film. It just looked like a cheap knockoff of "La Femme Nikita."
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 07, 2025 06:25 PM (tT6L1)

I think they did a good job.

But I liked Let Me In better than the Scandi original.

I’m just an ugly jingoistic American

Posted by: polynikes at July 07, 2025 06:28 PM (VofaG)

215 Anyone who has seen the cheat sheets that Bribehim used during press conferences from photographs of the events will be familiar with the YOU will read off the teleprompter and YOU will not read stage directions like "Repeat the line." or "Salute the Marines."
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Recall how not one person in Jake Tapper's "We Waz Dupped Too" Tour asked, "say, did you find out, in your months of interviews and research, why all the media agreed to submit their questions in advance--and further--agreed to accept the answer with no follow up?"

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 07, 2025 06:28 PM (VlwBF)

216 @ 174 - there is iron in muldoon's words!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at July 07, 2025 06:28 PM (dKEEs)

217 "In his defense, everybody has been lousy in the role in all the adaptations. It's as if the character is basically unlikable.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy "

Nobody in Dune is likeable. That's it's basic flaw.

It's epic and all, but there's no one to root for.

Posted by: eleven at July 07, 2025 06:28 PM (fV+MH)

218 You wonder; if they had managed to hide Biden and keep him under wraps, could he have done better than Kamala? I don't think so, he would have had to stick his head out sooner or later.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 07, 2025 06:28 PM (uWKK8)

219
Exterminator is coming out Wednesday to take care of the yellow jacket nest. They said they've gotten a number of these calls. Apparently this is some superasshole strain.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 07, 2025 06:28 PM (EFq9Y)

220 You know Dr. Jill was in every staff meeting wielding her stun gun in one hand and cattle prod in the other. No one was going to go up against an enraged Dr. Jill.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at July 07, 2025 06:28 PM (/U5Yz)

221 The new Dune films while technically excellent were completely unnecessary.

No one will remark on them in 50 years, but the 1984 film, always.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 07, 2025 06:28 PM (XV/Pl)

222 Hello from my friend's trailer!

I'm de-stressing. It's nice here. It's also my first time out of the house overnight in 9.9 years. Sweet

Posted by: Stateless, 95% clawing back from 10% at July 07, 2025 06:29 PM (hPMk+)

223 Well, this won't be a clusterf.

@KTLA 21m
#BREAKING: Brush fire threatens homes in Laguna Beach. Live updates:

Posted by: weft cut-loop at July 07, 2025 06:29 PM (mlg/3)

224 It's epic and all, but there's no one to root for.
Posted by: eleven at July 07, 2025 06:28 PM (fV+MH)
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Sandwoms.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 07, 2025 06:29 PM (tT6L1)

225 FenelonSpoke

I first saw Die Hard two years ago also.

Pro tip: Always wear shoes. Especially at parties. Never know when you need to flee terrorists.

Plenty of plot holes, like a working escape plan.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 07, 2025 06:29 PM (u82oZ)

226 It did amaze me how much McLachlan resembled FDR at some angles, and captured that jaunty grin with the cigarette holder sticking out of it. He also resembles the late Robert Vaughn, who famously also played FDR on stage. If you dig up a photo of FDR from before the polio got him, there is a distinct resemblance between him and how Vaughn looked at the same age.

Eleanor was played by Harriet Sansom Harris, whom we all know as Frasier's predatory (and very funny) agent. I did not recognize her at first.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 07, 2025 06:29 PM (omVj0)

227 Over at Insty

As you can see, in one poster, a white man is invading the privacy of a brown woman; in the second, a white man is grabbing the bottom of a brown woman; in the third, two white men are assaulting a brown woman; and, in the fourth, a predatory redhead is groping a brown man with a peg leg — presumably a Somali pirate whose storm-tossed galleon was forced to put into port at the Cologne municipal baths.

The cabin boys are afeared with excitement.

Posted by: Capn Ned (Raging Queen) at July 07, 2025 06:30 PM (gbOdA)

228 TBH, I've seen her in 2 movies

but she was cute as all get out in Doc Hollywood

https://tinyurl.com/hmf7e44e

Posted by: Don Black at July 07, 2025 06:30 PM (AOsQT)

229 I dislike these theories about how this was staff sabotage. Too clever by half, and there were plenty of ways to leave your boss enough rope to hang himself without making your hated rival look good while doing it. The debate performance was as beneficial to Trump as it was damaging to Biden. Occam's Razor - they thought they could muddle through it like they did in 2020.
Posted by: Citizen Cake at July 07, 2025 05:38 PM (CwhoI)

If the debate was an op, then the 'good guys' should have been ready for the next step. Instead, they took a shot at Trump in Butler. And then Biden forced them to run with Kamala.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 07, 2025 06:30 PM (8avO+)

230 Ciampino is gone???? I always loved his stories of growing up in Africa, and his concern for the cats. Damn. . . .
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere

Same here. The ONT will not be the same without him.

Posted by: Tuna at July 07, 2025 06:30 PM (lJ0H4)

231 Cruel. But fair.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at July 07, 2025 06:30 PM (XZ5S6)

232
I could never bring myself to watch that film. It just looked like a cheap knockoff of "La Femme Nikita."
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 07, 2025 06:25 PM (tT6L1)

That's because it WAS a cheap knockoff of LFN. When Anne Bancroft is more compelling to watch than your hottie with guns lead actress, you have a problem.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at July 07, 2025 06:30 PM (y9nCu)

233 Biden's the past, man. Dead, arguably.
Focus on the future.

Yeah, it's fun to make fun of coleslaw brain, but it's time for winning the future. For your progeny.

Posted by: jsg at July 07, 2025 06:30 PM (1l+t9)

234 Dune 3 - Alia gets funky with zombie Duncan Idaho?
Posted by: Anna Puma at July 07, 2025 06:26 PM (XOckW)

To be fair, Alia got freaky with a few people in that book.

Duncan Idaho gets brought back to life only to have his woman cheat on him.

Sorry man. The hot did not outweigh the crazy.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 07, 2025 06:31 PM (d8x+f)

235
Eleanor was played by Harriet Sansom Harris, whom we all know as Frasier's predatory (and very funny) agent. I did not recognize her at first.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 07, 2025 06:29 PM (omVj0)

_________

"I hate WAH! But I'd rather be in Wah than in Eleanor."

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 07, 2025 06:32 PM (EFq9Y)

236 Plenty of plot holes, like a working escape plan.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 07, 2025 06:29 PM (u82oZ)

John McLane didn't want to escape without his wife.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 07, 2025 06:32 PM (8avO+)

237 >Plenty of plot holes, like a working escape plan.

Posted by: NaCly Dog
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some bad editing too, where Bruce's stunt double's face is clearly seen

Posted by: Don Black at July 07, 2025 06:32 PM (AOsQT)

238 The other reason we don't talk about much anymore is the notion that this debate proposal was so out-of-the-ordinary that Trump's campaign was sure to say no to the proposal, letting Biden off the hook while claiming "Trump is too scared to debate". When the Trump team accepted the entire proposal without one suggested change, it handcuffed the Biden team.

Posted by: Rusty Nail at July 07, 2025 06:32 PM (TdCYS)

239 The next thing I want to read about Bribe'em is his obit.

Posted by: Ben Had at July 07, 2025 06:32 PM (HFcKg)

240 I'm sure Jilly had a lot of input in wanting the Stubborn Vegetable to stay in. And thankfully, it all blew up in their faces.

Posted by: Lady in Black at July 07, 2025 06:32 PM (qBdHI)

241
YOUR butt's been wiped. Do NOT tell the Press (core).

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 07, 2025 06:32 PM (BI5O2)

242 Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 07, 2025 06:29 PM (u82oZ)

Thanks for the tip about shoes. 😊I don't go to a lot of parties. I particularly enjoyed "Die Hard"" because I've always enjoyed Alan Rickman in whatever he performed in. He was a very versatile actor -and good looking.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 07, 2025 06:32 PM (2GCMq)

243 The other reason we don't talk about much anymore is the notion that this debate proposal was so out-of-the-ordinary that Trump's campaign was sure to say no to the proposal, letting Biden off the hook while claiming "Trump is too scared to debate". When the Trump team accepted the entire proposal without one suggested change, it handcuffed the Biden team.
Posted by: Rusty Nail at July 07, 2025

***
Heh, heh, heh . . .

Posted by: The Trump Team at July 07, 2025 06:33 PM (omVj0)

244 Nood.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 07, 2025 06:33 PM (0sNs1)

245 YOUR butt's been wiped. Do NOT tell the Press (core).
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 07, 2025 06:32 PM (BI5O2)
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That's not funny!

Posted by: Ron Burgundy at July 07, 2025 06:34 PM (tT6L1)

246
*runs in waving arms*

NOOOOD!

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 07, 2025 06:34 PM (EFq9Y)

247 If you thought Die Hard had issues don’t bother with the sequels.

Posted by: polynikes at July 07, 2025 06:34 PM (VofaG)

248 I’m an oncology counselor at a major cancer center, and as much as I despise Joe Biden, I have seen patients at his stage go through treatment and not show it outwardly.

Posted by: Open Channel D at July 07, 2025 06:34 PM (tgTrV)

249 Dems were in disarray during the time the memo came out and subsequent to the debate. The knew Biden was a veg, that Harris was a veg of a different kind and no one else would jump in given they be politically wrecked within the Dem party.
Couldn't happen to better bunch

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 07, 2025 06:34 PM (JtH6i)

250 >>> Revealed: The Six-Page Memo That Conned Biden Into Debating Trump Early (So That the Democrat Party Could Force Him Out)

"Conned Biden"?

Biden did not even know what year it was.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at July 07, 2025 06:34 PM (/lPRQ)

251 Nobody in Dune is likeable. That's it's basic flaw.

It's epic and all, but there's no one to root for.
Posted by: eleven at July 07, 2025 06:28 PM (fV+MH)

That got pretty common in the 1960s in SF among the trendy set. Then most of that branch of SF more or less died out.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 07, 2025 06:35 PM (8avO+)

252 Let it be known that if possible, real meatspace obits for our wonderful fallen comrades is quite nice. Was able to access Jules and was able to pass along a bit for her old rescue dogs, a cause worthy of her or any of us.

Posted by: Miflin at July 07, 2025 06:35 PM (aA6YN)

253 Cadaver Joe was a stuttering clusterfuck of a miserable failure during the Obama Administration.

None of this should be of any surprise to someone paying attention.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at July 07, 2025 06:35 PM (QnXVi)

254 >>> 246
*runs in waving arms*

NOOOOD!
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 07, 2025 06:34 PM (EFq9Y)

This is the way.

Use your *outside* voice!!!

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 07, 2025 06:35 PM (ULPxl)

255 Biden was not the Democrats' problem and, as has been shown, neither was Kamala. The Democrats' problem is the Democrat party, voters hate it.

Posted by: Decaf at July 07, 2025 06:36 PM (unUNN)

256 The other reason we don't talk about much anymore is the notion that this debate proposal was so out-of-the-ordinary that Trump's campaign was sure to say no to the proposal, letting Biden off the hook while claiming "Trump is too scared to debate". When the Trump team accepted the entire proposal without one suggested change, it handcuffed the Biden team.
Posted by: Rusty Nail at July 07, 2025 06:32 PM (TdCYS)

The idea that Trump would be scared to speak to Biden is so laughable that only a Dem in the bubble could buy into it.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 07, 2025 06:37 PM (8avO+)

257 225 FenelonSpoke

I first saw Die Hard two years ago also.

Pro tip: Always wear shoes. Especially at parties. Never know when you need to flee terrorists.

Plenty of plot holes, like a working escape plan.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 07, 2025 06:29 PM (u82oZ)

There are two types of plot holes -

1. Plot holes you immediately groan about real-time watching a movie or TV show.

2. Plot holes you don't think about much or at all until after the movie or TV show. Ideally, never or not until long after the first watch.

Ideally - no plot holes; near impossible in action and comedy movies. Second best - few or no Type 1 plot holes.

Posted by: Gref at July 07, 2025 06:38 PM (aBgBM)

258
Nobody in Dune is likeable. That's it's basic flaw.

It's epic and all, but there's no one to root for.
Posted by: eleven at July 07, 2025 06:28 PM (fV+MH)

That's kind of the whole point of Dune, beware of heroes.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at July 07, 2025 06:38 PM (y9nCu)

259 So the one that bit me was a kogata suzume bachi

Kogata means small, but suzume means sparrow -- they are small for a sparrow, but they are built like a bee, not a wasp -- very bulky and intimidating. Hachi (-bachi) means yellow stingy thing and is used for bees and wasps.

The Murder hornet is called an ou suzume bachi. Oo meaning big, but it is only a little bigger. The problem is that that one lives underground and if you step wrong it attacks, while the kogata one lives above ground in trees and hot water heaters.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at July 07, 2025 06:38 PM (276nJ)

260 >Plenty of plot holes, like a working escape plan.

Posted by: NaCly Dog
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some bad editing too, where Bruce's stunt double's face is clearly seen
Posted by: Don Black at July 07, 2025 06:32 PM (AOsQT)

Have to cut it a little slack for not anticipating the ability to step frame by frame and have huge resolution to see more than the camera did.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 07, 2025 06:40 PM (8avO+)

261 >Plenty of plot holes, like a working escape plan.

Posted by: NaCly Dog
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some bad editing too, where Bruce's stunt double's face is clearly seen
Posted by: Don Black at July 07, 2025 06:32 PM (AOsQT)

Tennis rackets are pretty good at teaching them a lesson.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 07, 2025 06:41 PM (8avO+)

262 As Greg Gutfeld said today, Democrats hate everything that is good for America and they celebrate anything bad that happens to America or Americans people notice and respond and vote accordingly.

If Musk doesn't change course he and his party will end up in the same place. People already know that Elon despises American technicians and workers by insisting that only H1B arrivals are good enough to employ.

Posted by: Decaf at July 07, 2025 06:42 PM (unUNN)

263 On last night's Atlantic Crossing episode, with Kyle McLachlan as FDR, the final scene of the episode had him speaking to the nation on the radio -- and on a TV set in an appliance store window. In early 1941. Now I know television had been *demonstrated* as early as the '39 World's Fair -- but were there working sets (even if they were fantastically expensive) in early '41?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 07, 2025 06:02 PM (omVj0)

Black and white sets were demoed for the 36 olympics.

Color was demoed in 41.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 07, 2025 06:53 PM (8avO+)

264 As Greg Gutfeld said today, Democrats hate everything that is good for America and they celebrate anything bad that happens to America or Americans people notice and respond and vote accordingly.

If Musk doesn't change course he and his party will end up in the same place. People already know that Elon despises American technicians and workers by insisting that only H1B arrivals are good enough to employ.
Posted by: Decaf at July 07, 2025 06:42 PM (unUNN)

Musk won't go anywhere unless he goes exclusively after GOPe and Dems.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 07, 2025 06:54 PM (8avO+)

265 196 News Flash - 24 injured in French town after bees attacked.

I rode my bike around the block to my son's house and saw the road was blocked. It was because he had bees removed from his house and it turned out to be a whole lot more than they expected!!

Posted by: DanMan at July 07, 2025 06:56 PM (8uzBS)

266 Alternative theory, actually kinda derivative:
Recall in the 2020 campaign first debate, Trump was so rude to Biden it actually turned off a number of his 2016 supporters.
(I know this cause my ex-wife texted me during that debate and said she could never vote for Trump based on how he treated Biden that night. She was from Idaho and thought Rush walked on water, so staunch GOP)
The staff figured the following:
1) Biden was getting worse, so an early debate was his best chance to come off as OK. Plus, IF he managed to perform well enough, it would put to rest any concerns about him and they would keep their jobs
2) Trump would be an ass, and again turn off lots of voters, especially females and they'd use Trump's rude behavior to justify dodging a 2nd deabte.
Biden's staff didn't want to lose THEIR power and position, and knowing that an alternative candidate would probably replace them, sabotaging Biden just doesn't make sense.

Posted by: proudvastrightwingguy at July 07, 2025 07:00 PM (bd54E)

267 My theory - Joe really, truly thought he was the smartest, bestest person ever, and was licking his chops to get into a debate with Trump. And the more people questioned his abilities, the more he kept thinking a glorious debate with trump would turn the whole thing around. Just one debate. That would show them!

He's like an ageing boxer who laces up his gloves to hop into the ring to show that young whippersnapper a thing or two. He then trips on the bottom rope and face plants.

Biden ALWAYS had a hugely inflated opinion of himself.

Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at July 07, 2025 07:02 PM (gDhA9)

268 174 we've been treating it as if Joe was a shambling vegetable being masterfully managed by a team of malevolent highly-skilled experts. What if Joe was the real brains of the operation?

Ah, I see we have a fan of the 'Jar Jar Binks was a Sith Lord!' crowd here.

Posted by: Nelly at July 07, 2025 07:03 PM (cHLus)

269 if you go to the mall in DC and see the FDR/Eleanor statues recall FDR was never shown to be an invalid. In public he had a rack he relied on to stand erect while he spoke. Eleanor was known for her fur collared coats.

The display has FDR in a wheelchair and Eleanor in a coat with no fur. Thanks Clintons.

Posted by: DanMan at July 07, 2025 07:04 PM (8uzBS)

270 Point of No Return for me.
Posted by: polynikes at July 07, 2025 06:22 PM (VofaG)

Same here. I will confess i had a bit of a crush on Bridget when i was a lad in my 20's. I think the last thing I remember seeing her in was Kiss of the Dragon with Jet Li (which was an amazing movie because Jet Li beats the f**k out of a bunch of crooked French Cops.)

Posted by: Nelly at July 07, 2025 07:14 PM (cHLus)

271 Muldoon, not only can you type a coherent sentence but you can make words bold for emphasis. Good for you! Your screed about this being Ace’s blog doesn’t at all speak to the fact that he is ignoring or embargoing a huge news story.

Posted by: The Earl of Sandwich at July 07, 2025 07:26 PM (TWbw0)

272 Love your cheat sheet to Bidet, Ace.

The only thing I miss is checking his orthopedic "running shoe" height and his falling up the stairs of AF1.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at July 07, 2025 07:29 PM (6PCLE)

273 It's NOT "Treason". It's not even sedition, since no force was used.

But those actions can rise to conspiracy, obstruction of justice, contempt of Congress interfering with elected officals performing their lawful duties...and of cours PERJURY by Brennan and his cabal.

Trump should have the DOJ go after him.

Posted by: Noam Sayen at July 07, 2025 08:30 PM (YEeds)

274 re 283:

Comment to wrong post! DOH!

Posted by: Noam Sayen at July 07, 2025 08:36 PM (YEeds)

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