As Democrats Remain Silent on the Insurrectionary Assaults on Federal Agents, Senator Schmitt Proposes Increased Criminal Penalties

The Democrats will vote against this. I assume he just wants them on the record supporting revolutionary terrorism.

Sen. Eric Schmitt, R-Mo., on Thursday announced that he would introduce a bill to raise the maximum penalties for attacking Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) personnel amid an uptick in violent opposition to mass deportations.
"The punishment for attacking an ICE agent should be swift and devastating," he said.
"
I'm introducing a bill to double the maximum federal penalty.
Left-wing radicals want to use violence to advance their political agenda. We can't let them win.
The mass deportations must continue."
The White House confirmed this week that ICE agents had faced a 700% surge in assaults against them as federal agents moved to ramp up arrests and deportations following passage of the "One, Big Beautiful Bill Act."
That legislation greatly expanded ICE's budget to double its detention space from 50,000 beds to 100,000 and to hire as many as 10,000 additional agents.

CNN and MSNBC continue to completely suppress any reporting on one of the Democrat-Media Party's terror cells that just shot up ICE agents.

Even left-leaning Mediaite thinks this is notable.

If you hadn't heard about it yet, you might just be a CNN or MSNBC viewer; neither network has devoted a single minute of airtime to covering the attack, though CNN managed to devote a sentence to it in an online story about another attack on immigration authorities.
Should that not strike you as unusual, imagine this scenario: 11 members of a right-wing militia group open fire on an FBI field office on a major holiday, and a responding police officer is shot in the neck.
You think that would have a cold chance in hell of escaping the attention of the likes of Joe Scarborough, Wolf Blitzer, Jen Psaki, Brian Stelter, Lawrence O'Donnell, and Dana Bash?
This glaring omission is particularly notable given the two news organizations' relentlessly critical coverage of ICE and persistent warnings about right-wing extremism and violence.
Searches for mentions of ICE on air may not turn up any coverage at all of the attempted murder of innocent law enforcement officers, but they do yield plenty of segments about other protests of the organization, MSNBC's Catherine Rampell ranting about its employees "potentially like beating people, and committing violence," and a CNN interview of a Latino man lamenting that his "own people" were being "arrested and harassed by the ICE agents."
Nothing about bullets flying by heads, though.

Just as illegal aliens tell lies about the oppression they're facing in their home countries to get the US to let them into the country, so too are the residents of Gator Gitmo now telling Sad Stories about mosquitoes and "food filled with maggots" to be released back into America.

The "mosquitos are as big as elephants." "We're like rats in an experiment." "I don't know why they're doing this, if it's a form of torture." "They took the Bible I had and told me here, there is no right to religion."

Obvious lies. Just spamming out whatever complaints sound like they might be of constitutional-level import, so that another Biden/Obama judge can issue a restraining order.

Fuck you. If you don't like it, GO THE FUCK HOME.

The dude you're crying about is this guy, who was arrested for aggravated assault with a deadly weapon. And the only info you're basing it off is this uncorroborated claim. All from a phone call to his girlfriend that was miraculously recorded for the news.

Also, how did he… pic.twitter.com/7J4HkQpqLY
— The LFB (@The_LFB) July 9, 2025

Posted by: Ace at 05:29 PM

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1 "The punishment for attacking an ICE agent should be swift and devastating,"

The punishment for all violent crime should be swift, severe and certain. We got a long way to go.

Posted by: Give gp Some Of That Good Stuff at July 10, 2025 05:31 PM (TwZXH)

2 You didn’t really think the media would start combining journalism with their news, did you?

Posted by: Unkaren at July 10, 2025 05:32 PM (J4BK5)

3 Get Out!

Posted by: Boss Moss at July 10, 2025 05:32 PM (zhBpy)

4 Tell me that's a real cover. Lie if you have to.

Posted by: toby928 at July 10, 2025 05:32 PM (jc0TO)

5 "If you support this, you are an evil Nazi."

.... raises hand.

Posted by: Bea Arthur's Dick at July 10, 2025 05:32 PM (eYAt4)

6 Nobody there would serve them food with maggots or take their Bibles.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 10, 2025 05:33 PM (2GCMq)

7 Ace, you're in fire! I mean on fire.

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at July 10, 2025 05:33 PM (QSrLX)

8 Look how cute the UK fags are, replacing the Statue of Liberty with OrangeManBad.

Let's start sending the worst of the asshoes to Londonistan.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 10, 2025 05:33 PM (ULPxl)

9 Entschludigung Sie bitte.

Posted by: Boss Moss at July 10, 2025 05:33 PM (zhBpy)

10
Make Capital Offenses and Pubic Executions Great Again!

Posted by: ShainS -- Three Days To 'FIGHT! FIGHT! FIGHT! Day' at July 10, 2025 05:34 PM (itv8P)

11 He looks nice....

Posted by: It's me donna at July 10, 2025 05:34 PM (VE6XX)

12 Schmitt seems to be at least trying to do shit since he got to the senate. He was a really good state ag.

Posted by: BruceWayne at July 10, 2025 05:34 PM (XZ6f8)

13 I love it! Replace that Frog lady with the torch (and manface) with that Trump statue! Make it happen!

Posted by: Bulg at July 10, 2025 05:35 PM (77rzZ)

14 Would paint on the side of my Free Candy van.

Posted by: toby928 at July 10, 2025 05:35 PM (jc0TO)

15 The Floyd riots got a lot of airplay. Twisted commentary. But a lot of airplay.

*taps head*

What could be different this time?

Weird.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 10, 2025 05:35 PM (Q4IgG)

16 >>> 13 I love it! Replace that Frog lady with the torch (and manface) with that Trump statue! Make it happen!
Posted by: Bulg at July 10, 2025 05:35 PM (77rzZ)

'Murica is full. Trump out front should have told you.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 10, 2025 05:35 PM (ULPxl)

17 The Democrats absolutist hard-line, extremist position of no deportation, no one for any reason, has only driven more Americans to support deportation of everyone.

Here's something that will help:
The Pali supporter who organized the riots at Columbia in support of Hamas and 10/7?

He's suing for $20 million now.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 10, 2025 05:35 PM (VlU/R)

18
Got Her Majesty and Mr. Varus on the road to San Antonio. Had lunch. Took a nap. I was going to mow the yard but I just don't feel like doing it today.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 10, 2025 05:36 PM (HZi96)

19 The mosquitos I believe. And I'm sure the food sucks. It is a prison after all. I doubt there are any maggots though.

As far as bathing? I also don't believe that either, but whatever.

Here's the thing ... I don't care. You need to just go home. Stop forcing us to spend money to deal with you. We'll give you some Florida oranges as a memento on your trip out.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 10, 2025 05:36 PM (uCjyK)

20 Sen. Eric Schmitt, R-Mo., on Thursday announced that he would introduce a bill to raise the maximum penalties for attacking Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) personnel amid an uptick in violent opposition to mass deportations.

Has Senator Schmitt, R-Moron, considered enforcing the penalties that already exist, rather than making more severe penalties that won't be enforced at all?

Posted by: FeatherBlade at July 10, 2025 05:36 PM (a+4eV)

21
I love that Economist cover. That's what I voted for.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 10, 2025 05:36 PM (UmB+t)

22 Don't mind the maggots!

Posted by: Shattered Jagger/Richards at July 10, 2025 05:36 PM (G5+As)

23 Any illegal in Alcatraz can voluntarily leave the country tight?

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 10, 2025 05:36 PM (ImXfC)

24 >>> 17 The Democrats absolutist hard-line, extremist position of no deportation, no one for any reason, has only driven more Americans to support deportation of everyone.

Here's something that will help:
The Pali supporter who organized the riots at Columbia in support of Hamas and 10/7?

He's suing for $20 million now.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 10, 2025 05:35 PM (VlU/R)

Airdrop him into Gaza, no parachute.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 10, 2025 05:36 PM (ULPxl)

25 If you're going to wear Guy Fieri hair you better know how to cook gator.

Posted by: DaveA at July 10, 2025 05:36 PM (FhXTo)

26 My Mother came to America and spent 2 weeks on Ellis Island... My Grandmother had a sponsor... They didn't just crawl across the border.. and yes.. I am that old...

Posted by: It's me donna at July 10, 2025 05:37 PM (VE6XX)

27 Deport the Columbia Statue back to France.

Posted by: Boss Moss at July 10, 2025 05:37 PM (zhBpy)

28 Just deport the bastards, to make room for more bastards, maybe American violence inciters?

Posted by: night lifted at July 10, 2025 05:37 PM (FZn/N)

29 23 Any illegal in Alcatraz can voluntarily leave the country tight?
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 10, 2025 05:36 PM (ImXfC)

I believe so....

Posted by: It's me donna at July 10, 2025 05:37 PM (VE6XX)

30 The "mosquitos are as big as elephants." "We're like rats in an experiment." "I don't know why they're doing this, if it's a form of torture." "They took the Bible I had and told me here, there is no right to religion."

Dude also complained it was freezing in the tents. The tents that apparently are full of mosquitos as big as elephants. Pick one my guy. If the mosquitos are free to enter, the hot outdoor air is getting in.

Posted by: bonhomme at July 10, 2025 05:37 PM (lIio7)

31 He looks nice. Like a future engineer or Doctor...

Posted by: steevy at July 10, 2025 05:37 PM (YwEeS)

32 The photos of the facilities in the swamp look like the kind of temporary but stormworthy outbuildings my former employer erected for classrooms, citing "distancing" concerns, during the Sniffle Scare. They are not tents. After the hoax collapsed, they continued using the buildings as classrooms for the School of Architecture while its 80-year-old building is being renovated.

These outbuildings are air-conditioned. I suspect the ones in Alligator Alcatraz/Gator Gitmo (I'm happy to see Ace use the phrase) are as well.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 10, 2025 05:38 PM (omVj0)

33 >>> 21
I love that Economist cover. That's what I voted for.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 10, 2025 05:36 PM (UmB+t)

But he's so MEAN!!!

Posted by: Economist employees at July 10, 2025 05:38 PM (ULPxl)

34 "They took the Bible I had and told me here, there is no right to religion."

----------

Good Gawd, It's as if Abu Ghraib has been resurrected in Florida! I cannot image what they would do to a Koran.

Posted by: Curly Shuffle at July 10, 2025 05:38 PM (t8yj6)

35 Make Capital Offenses and Pubic Executions Great Again!

The problem is the use of lawfare. Don’t you think that given the chance that DC prosecutors would’ve gone after J6ers, and a DC jury would’ve convicted in nanoseconds?

Posted by: Unkaren at July 10, 2025 05:38 PM (J4BK5)

36 CNN and MSNBC continue to completely suppress any reporting on one of the Democrat-Media Party's terror cells that just shot up ICE agents.

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

They had the same reaction to the Gretchen Whitmer "Kidnapping" Sting PsyOp.

Oh, wait ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Three Days To 'FIGHT! FIGHT! FIGHT! Day' at July 10, 2025 05:38 PM (itv8P)

37 I believe so....
Posted by: It's me donna at July 10, 2025 05:37 PM (VE6XX)

They should have no say in the matter, DEPORT

Posted by: night lifted at July 10, 2025 05:38 PM (FZn/N)

38 OT a bit but I don't know why prisoners who kill a prison guard aren't tried immediately and if convicted put to death within the week.

Posted by: polynikes at July 10, 2025 05:38 PM (VofaG)

39 Fuck these people

Posted by: melodicmetal1 at July 10, 2025 05:38 PM (XLfSN)

40 Got Her Majesty and Mr. Varus on the road to San Antonio. Had lunch. Took a nap. I was going to mow the yard but I just don't feel like doing it today.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 10, 2025

***
Has Varus lost any legions?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 10, 2025 05:39 PM (omVj0)

41 As far as bathing? I also don't believe that either, but whatever.

I once heard from someone who had been in prison, that you could tell the Mexican-Mexican criminals (imprisoned in the US) by smell. It seems that they found sending their clothes to the prison laundry with everyone else's garments to be unsanitary, so they'd hand-wash them in their cell toilets instead.

The American criminals of Mexican descent didn't do this.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at July 10, 2025 05:39 PM (a+4eV)

42 It reminds me of (tie in!) when Ghislaine Maxwell got to the federal prison in Brooklyn and her lawyers filed a motion saying she couldn't be expected to live there. The prison was dirty, the lights were on all night, the toilet clogged, the food was terrible.

Yeah, guys, you're describing a prison. It sucks. Try to live your life in such a way where you don't end up having to go there.

While I agree our prisons SHOULD be nicer and better run, they aren't and we all know that.

So stop your bitching.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 10, 2025 05:39 PM (uCjyK)

43 I once heard from someone who had been in prison, that you could tell the Mexican-Mexican criminals (imprisoned in the US) by smell. It seems that they found sending their clothes to the prison laundry with everyone else's garments to be unsanitary, so they'd hand-wash them in their cell toilets instead.

The American criminals of Mexican descent didn't do this.
Posted by: FeatherBlade at July 10, 2025 05:39 PM (a+4eV)

jeez, I can imagine what they smelled like.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 10, 2025 05:40 PM (uWKK8)

44 One of the things he complains about is a power outage so their AC is off. Prisoners in real shithole prisons say " They have AC?"

Posted by: steevy at July 10, 2025 05:40 PM (YwEeS)

45
My Perrier is warm!

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 10, 2025 05:40 PM (HZi96)

46 That guy with the wad of cash above doesn't look like the Bible reading type

Posted by: It's me donna at July 10, 2025 05:41 PM (VE6XX)

47 42. No nicer, hotter, and more unpleasant, so they beg to be deported. As for maggots, that mouthy maggot apparently watched Shawshank Redemption

Posted by: night lifted at July 10, 2025 05:41 PM (FZn/N)

48 The worst thing about jail, in my limited experience, is the ceaseless noise.

Posted by: Give gp Some Of That Good Stuff at July 10, 2025 05:42 PM (TwZXH)

49 I can eat 50 eggs.

Posted by: Luke at July 10, 2025 05:42 PM (A7fWT)

50 "food filled with maggots"

"Those maggots were cooked. It's extra protein. EAT ZE BUGS."

Posted by: FeatherBlade at July 10, 2025 05:42 PM (a+4eV)

51 Apropos of nothing, the yellow in your urine comes from the breakdown of hemoglobin in your blood.

♫ The More You Know...♫

Posted by: toby928 at July 10, 2025 05:42 PM (jc0TO)

52 Prisoners can be allowed showers once a week though prisons in the US allow more frequent showering depending where you're housed in the prison.

Posted by: polynikes at July 10, 2025 05:43 PM (VofaG)

53 How soon until Hurricane season? And we need live cams set up so we can watch the alligators start lumbering down the complex hallway when they look for shelter.

I'd pay a Netflix subscription for that enjoyment. But, I'll only pay if there is audio.

Posted by: Orson at July 10, 2025 05:43 PM (dIske)

54 The worst thing about jail, in my limited experience, is the ceaseless noise.
Posted by: Give gp Some Of That Good Stuff at July 10, 2025 05:42 PM

That, and the ass rape, but mostly...

Posted by: toby928 at July 10, 2025 05:43 PM (jc0TO)

55
Yeah, guys, you're describing a prison. It sucks. Try to live your life in such a way where you don't end up having to go there.

_________

Why are prisons so bad? They're full of bad people. You can put them in a five-star hotel and in a week it would be a pesthole.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 10, 2025 05:43 PM (HZi96)

56 I'm just releasing hemoglobin on your boot.

Posted by: Boss Moss at July 10, 2025 05:43 PM (zhBpy)

57 Somehow I'm guessing that punks current lack of a bible is the least of his problems...

Posted by: Crusader at July 10, 2025 05:43 PM (TN0g+)

58 48 The worst thing about jail, in my limited experience, is the ceaseless noise.
Posted by: Give gp Some Of That Good Stuff at July 10, 2025 05:42 PM (TwZXH)

I've been in several jails and prisons (work related, not for personal reasons), and I'd say the worst thing is the criminals.

And I don't mean that as a Norm Macdonald punch line.

I can't imagine having to live around the dregs of society for months / years / decades. It would be horrible.

That's yet another reason I don't do shit that will get me thrown in prison.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 10, 2025 05:44 PM (uCjyK)

59 "Mosquitoes as big as elephants"

"They have tsetse flies down there the size of eagles. In the evening, I would stand in front of my hut and watch in horror as these giant flies would pick children off the ground and carry them away."

Posted by: Pete in Texas at July 10, 2025 05:44 PM (BHrzb)

60 The worst thing about jail, in my limited experience, is the ceaseless noise.
Posted by: Give gp Some Of That Good Stuff at July 10, 2025 05:42 PM (TwZXH)

That's right up there for sure.

Posted by: polynikes at July 10, 2025 05:45 PM (VofaG)

61
Getting only one meal a day, haven't bathed in days? How many days are they being held? I thought they were going to be in and outta there in 48 hours. If they have complaints, expedite they asses back home extra pronto.

As for bugs and rodents, the countries they come from have some hellacious ones.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 10, 2025 05:45 PM (UmB+t)

62 Dude also complained it was freezing in the tents.

They need to hire a better BS Coordinator. Another claim I saw was that there was no A/C. But yet it's freezing in FL in July? Uh huh.

Posted by: Oddbob at July 10, 2025 05:45 PM (/y8xj)

63 I'm so old I can actually remember when The Economist was a well-regarded, well-written, intelligent magazine instead of what it has devolved to today.

Posted by: Chuck C at July 10, 2025 05:45 PM (D0HYP)

64 Whig, a willowed response to your comment about your friend that was possibly denied a BYU professor job for asking to drink caffeine during his interview:

If you are employed by BYU, I think you have to live the BYU standards. Professors, coaches, everyone. BYU as a school banned caffeine/soda for decades, so of course it spread like a virus through the whole church culture that you could not drink caffeine at all, if you were a "good" mormon. It became an insufferable holier-than-thou thing, but there was no officially policy against soda, just black tea and coffee.

The cynical side of me thinks BYU reversed this caffeine ban on campus when they realized all the money they were losing out on, not getting Pepsi or Coke on campus as an official sponsor. Those exclusive contracts with a soda brand for universities is a big deal! But I loved that it threw the holier- than-thous in a tizzy. How can they judge their fellow members now, if not by their caffeine consumption!

I adore my church. But huge parts of the judgmental social culture within it, especially in insular Utah, bugs the crap out of me. Out of Utah, the culture is more chill.

Posted by: LizLem at July 10, 2025 05:45 PM (gWBY1)

65
You were not invited to come here, nor are you wanted here.

Read the room and get the fuck out of here.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh![ at July 10, 2025 05:46 PM (Tv15w)

66 Jail protip: if you play chess against the other inmates, let them win once in a while.

Posted by: Give gp Some Of That Good Stuff at July 10, 2025 05:46 PM (TwZXH)

67 The "mosquitos are as big as elephants." "We're like rats in an experiment." "I don't know why they're doing this, if it's a form of torture." "They took the Bible I had and told me here, there is no right to religion."

If I can live through it - they can.

Basic Training - Cape May NJ: "We're like rats in an experiment." "I don't know why they're doing this, if it's a form of torture." "They took the Bible I had and told me here, there is no right to religion."

1st Duty Station - USCG Base Miami Beach: "mosquitos are as big as elephants."

Posted by: Cheri at July 10, 2025 05:46 PM (oiNtH)

68 66 Jail protip: if you play chess against the other inmates, let them win once in a while.
Posted by: Give gp Some Of That Good Stuff at July 10, 2025 05:46 PM (TwZXH)

As a poet once said, "let the wookie win."

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 10, 2025 05:46 PM (uCjyK)

69 Juan Williams called Obama the "deporter in chief."

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 10, 2025 05:47 PM (63Dwl)

70 Tom Homam should sue the The Economist for the trauma of not getting credit for his work.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 10, 2025 05:48 PM (ULPxl)

71 The thing about the mosquito is ... he's got black eyes .. lifeless eyes .. like a doll's eyes.

Posted by: toby928 at July 10, 2025 05:48 PM (jc0TO)

72 Jail protip: if you play chess against the other inmates, let them win once in a while.
Posted by: Give gp Some Of That Good Stuff at July 10, 2025 05:46 PM (TwZXH)

Or your hustle can be giving chess lessons.

Serious tip. Don't show you have money for commissary.

Posted by: polynikes at July 10, 2025 05:48 PM (VofaG)

73 >>> It reminds me of (tie in!) when Ghislaine Maxwell got to the federal prison in Brooklyn and her lawyers filed a motion saying she couldn't be expected to live there. The prison was dirty, the lights were on all night, the toilet clogged, the food was terrible.

I despise her, but I honestly do think her lawyers should try to appeal her sentencing again, if she was convicted due to the idea of an Epstein client list.

The DOJ is saying there's no client list? Why is she in jail then over a list that doesn't exist? It would be fascinating legal theatre, if it worked. But I don't remember the specific crimes she was convicted over.

Posted by: LizLem at July 10, 2025 05:48 PM (gWBY1)

74 >>> 71 The thing about the mosquito is ... he's got black eyes .. lifeless eyes .. like a doll's eyes.
Posted by: toby928 at July 10, 2025 05:48 PM (jc0TO)

Yeah? Does he have a laser on his head?

Posted by: well-equipped sharks at July 10, 2025 05:49 PM (ULPxl)

75
Apropos of nothing, the yellow in your urine comes from the breakdown of hemoglobin in your blood.

__________

*makes note*

I'll mention this to HM the next time we go out to dinner.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 10, 2025 05:49 PM (HZi96)

76 "Take the Bible". I should have thought of that.

Posted by: Warden Norton at July 10, 2025 05:49 PM (D0HYP)

77 The thing about the mosquito is ... he's got black eyes .. lifeless eyes .. like a doll's eyes.
Posted by: toby928 at July 10, 2025

***
If you're that close . . . well, you're too close.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 10, 2025 05:50 PM (omVj0)

78 It just annoys me how performative this whole thing is.

Every one of our illegal friends from Mexico & central america 100% understands they were breaking the law, they are not wanted here, and why they have to go home.

They had a good thing going, it's over now. They are not holding it against us, their home countries do the same shit.

Walk around Mexico City and count how many non-ethnic Mexicans there are. Very few, and almost all of them are tourists. Mexico has very strict immigration laws.

They were just taking advantage of us. They know it, we know it.

So just... stop. It's over, go home. Stop acting like assholes, and the AWFL's pushing all of this need to shut the fuck up and find another cause to care about. Why can't they go back to worrying about spotted owls in Oregon or whatever?

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 10, 2025 05:50 PM (uCjyK)

79 Posted by: LizLem at July 10, 2025 05:48 PM (gWBY1)

That's not why she was convicted. She recruited girls to provide sexual services.

Posted by: polynikes at July 10, 2025 05:50 PM (VofaG)

80 Nobody there would serve them food with maggots or take their Bibles.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke

Depends on how much of the Good Book they'd hollowed out to smuggle in contraband, really

Posted by: FeatherBlade at July 10, 2025 05:51 PM (a+4eV)

81 69 Juan Williams called Obama the "deporter in chief."
Posted by: Bertram Cabot,

Obama thought he was so f---ing clever. He redefined people blocked at border as "deportations" in order to claim he was doing something while he let in millions.

He deported very few. But now people complain about Trump deporting, and at the same time claim he is doing a lousy job since Obama deported more.

Never look for consistency when a marxist speaks -- their words are meant to confuse and humiliate.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at July 10, 2025 05:51 PM (A7fWT)

82 Services for whom?

Posted by: Boss Moss at July 10, 2025 05:51 PM (zhBpy)

83 I despise her, but I honestly do think her lawyers should try to appeal her sentencing again, if she was convicted due to the idea of an Epstein client list.

The DOJ is saying there's no client list? Why is she in jail then over a list that doesn't exist? It would be fascinating legal theatre, if it worked. But I don't remember the specific crimes she was convicted over.
Posted by: LizLem at July 10, 2025 05:48 PM (gWBY1)

Sex trafficking.

Which... if there are no traffickees and Ghislaine and Epstein were just having sex with underaged girls for their own sick purposes, that sounds much more like a statutory rape case than a sex trafficking case.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 10, 2025 05:51 PM (uCjyK)

84 The thing about the mosquito is ... he's got black eyes .. lifeless eyes .. like a doll's eyes.
Posted by: toby928 at July 10, 2025

***
Like the old joke about "sniffing mothballs": "Did you at least get dinner first?"

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 10, 2025 05:52 PM (omVj0)

85 Without giving credence to the claim, I state IMHO if a prisoner wants a Bible, and he's actually going to read it (not shred it and use it to deliberately clog the toilet, or start a fire,) then he ought to be given one.

Any edifying reading materials, as long as they are sincerely desired and genuinely used, seems the humane thing to do. Or maybe better to let them have tablets or kindles.

Posted by: Give gp Some Of That Good Stuff at July 10, 2025 05:52 PM (TwZXH)

86 Showing my age but, do the cops still phonebook people? Even without phonebooks? Do they use Bibles instead these days?

Posted by: toby928 at July 10, 2025 05:52 PM (jc0TO)

87 Sarah Ironside is a totally woke idiot but does have nice boobs. But not enough to make her a 1.

Don't like the heat and humidity? Just wait until they open Arctic Alcatraz.

Posted by: Ripley at July 10, 2025 05:52 PM (PTDkx)

88 There are mosquitoes in the swamps of the Gulf coast that will make alligators submerge.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 10, 2025 05:53 PM (Xlykt)

89 > Posted by: LizLem at July 10, 2025 05:45 PM (gWBY1)

Huh. I didn't know BYU used to have a soda ban. I was a student there in the late 90s and they had soda.

Posted by: bonhomme at July 10, 2025 05:53 PM (lIio7)

90 Some rootbeers have no caffeine.

Posted by: Boss Moss at July 10, 2025 05:54 PM (zhBpy)

91 90 Some rootbeers have no caffeine.
Posted by: Boss Moss at July 10, 2025 05:54 PM (zhBpy

Coke too...

Posted by: It's me donna at July 10, 2025 05:54 PM (VE6XX)

92 BYU just lost their starting QB over premarital sex, so they still enforce some stuff.

Posted by: toby928 at July 10, 2025 05:55 PM (jc0TO)

93 Does the "Putting a price on Greenland" heading suggest Denmark is thinking about selling?

And should EU women take the "Battle and the sexes: Women in combat" heading as a hint that they may be drafted to fight OMG Russia?

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 10, 2025 05:55 PM (ULPxl)

94 Is Alligator Alcatraz plumbed? Or do they use latrines? I would hope plumbed, or portapottied.

Posted by: Give gp Some Of That Good Stuff at July 10, 2025 05:55 PM (TwZXH)

95 60 The worst thing about jail, in my limited experience, is the ceaseless noise.
Posted by: Give gp Some Of That Good Stuff at July 10, 2025 05:42 PM (TwZXH)

That's right up there for sure.
Posted by: polynikes at July 10, 2025 05:45 PM (VofaG)

This reminds of the scene in My Cousin Vinny, where Vinny's in jail and there's a riot going on, and sirens, and incredible noise - and he's sleeping soundly because it's the quietist, most peaceful night he's had in days.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 10, 2025 05:55 PM (uWKK8)

96 Huh. I didn't know BYU used to have a soda ban. I was a student there in the late 90s and they had soda.
Posted by: bonhomme at July 10, 2025 05:53 PM (lIio7)

I went to school with a Mormon kid who didn't drink soda. He said it wasn't expressly banned, but most Mormons extended the ban on mind altering drinks like coffee to all caffeinated drinks.

He also said he thinks alcohol is okay but only if you made it by hand the way Jesus would have.

No idea if that's true or not, I just found it interesting.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 10, 2025 05:56 PM (uCjyK)

97 Posted by: Give gp Some Of That Good Stuff at July 10, 2025 05:52 PM (TwZXH)

Prisoners in our harshest solitary confinement lock ups are allowed the religious book of their choice.

Posted by: polynikes at July 10, 2025 05:56 PM (VofaG)

98 "I was a student there in the late 90s and they had soda."

At my alma mater, all we had was pop.

Posted by: Give gp Some Of That Good Stuff at July 10, 2025 05:56 PM (TwZXH)

99
The DOJ is saying there's no client list? Why is she in jail then over a list that doesn't exist? It would be fascinating legal theatre, if it worked. But I don't remember the specific crimes she was convicted over.
Posted by: LizLem

================

She was convicted of trafficking minors for Epstein's sexual abuse, centered on 4 key victims. What we all damn well know beyond that is a matter of sealed documents and limited trial scope.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 10, 2025 05:56 PM (UmB+t)

100 94 Is Alligator Alcatraz plumbed? Or do they use latrines? I would hope plumbed, or portapottied.
Posted by: Give gp Some Of That Good Stuff at July 10, 2025 05:55 PM (TwZXH)

4" PVC pipes running out into the everglades.

hope the snakes don't climb up 'em.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 10, 2025 05:56 PM (uWKK8)

101 "I was a student there in the late 90s and they had soda."

At my alma mater, all we had was pop.
Posted by: Give gp Some Of That Good Stuff at July 10, 2025 05:56 PM

We just had various Cokes.

Posted by: toby928 at July 10, 2025 05:56 PM (jc0TO)

102
Showing my age but, do the cops still phonebook people? Even without phonebooks? Do they use Bibles instead these days?
Posted by: toby928 at July 10, 2025 05:52 PM (jc0TO)

__________

"It's her lucky day. Only made it it 1 Timothy. Next time there won't be a next time."

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 10, 2025 05:56 PM (HZi96)

103 So they're eating maggots. The World Economic Forum's diet is being implemented. Stop whining plebes

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 10, 2025 05:57 PM (JtH6i)

104 I thought all root beer was caffeine-free.

Posted by: Bulg at July 10, 2025 05:57 PM (77rzZ)

105 SSS, piss on the grave.

Posted by: Elrond Hubbard at July 10, 2025 05:58 PM (P0m9n)

106 At Reuters: Journalist attempt to confuse a cat, and fails:
https://tinyurl.com/54czv6ue

Posted by: Give gp Some Of That Good Stuff at July 10, 2025 05:58 PM (TwZXH)

107 Deport the Columbia Statue back to France.
Posted by: Boss Moss at July 10, 2025 05:37 PM

And send that fucking poem with it!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 10, 2025 05:58 PM (JGU+s)

108 98 "I was a student there in the late 90s and they had soda."

At my alma mater, all we had was pop.
Posted by: Give gp Some Of That Good Stuff

Carbonated Sweet Drink Wars, begun they have.

Posted by: zombie at July 10, 2025 05:58 PM (pMi6S)

109 107 Deport the Columbia Statue back to France.
Posted by: Boss Moss at July 10, 2025 05:37 PM

And send that fucking poem with it!
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 10, 2025 05:58 PM (JGU+s)

Agreed

Posted by: It's me donna at July 10, 2025 05:58 PM (VE6XX)

110 Barq's is caffeinated.

Posted by: Boss Moss at July 10, 2025 05:59 PM (zhBpy)

111 1 "The punishment for attacking an ICE agent should be swift and devastating,"

The punishment for all violent crime should be swift, severe and certain. We got a long way to go.
Posted by: Give gp Some Of That Good Stuff at July 10, 2025 05:31 PM (TwZXH)

THIS!!!! The penalty for a crime should not depend on who the victim was... that should be irrelevant.

Murdering me should be the same as murdering a Cop, or Grandma... equal protection under the law, should mean just that.... equal...

Not depend on what your job is.

Posted by: Romeo13 at July 10, 2025 05:59 PM (mP0Kj)

112 109 107 Deport the Columbia Statue back to France.
Posted by: Boss Moss at July 10, 2025 05:37 PM

And send that fucking poem with it!
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 10, 2025 05:58 PM (JGU+s)

Agreed
Posted by: It's me donna at July 10, 2025 05:58 PM (VE6XX)

America is full... Moose up North should have told you...

Posted by: Romeo13 at July 10, 2025 06:00 PM (mP0Kj)

113 30 The "mosquitos are as big as elephants." "We're like rats in an experiment." "I don't know why they're doing this, if it's a form of torture." "They took the Bible I had and told me here, there is no right to religion."

Dude also complained it was freezing in the tents. The tents that apparently are full of mosquitos as big as elephants. Pick one my guy. If the mosquitos are free to enter, the hot outdoor air is getting in.
Posted by: bonhomme at July 10, 2025 05:37 PM (lIio7)

As sure as there is no sex in the champagne room, there is no freezing in the Everglades.

Posted by: Nope. No way. at July 10, 2025 06:00 PM (TbWk/)

114 I went to school with a Mormon kid who didn't drink soda. He said it wasn't expressly banned, but most Mormons extended the ban on mind altering drinks like coffee to all caffeinated drinks.

He also said he thinks alcohol is okay but only if you made it by hand the way Jesus would have.

I don't know about most Mormons. In my experience, the people who eschewed all caffeine were the minority. As to the bootleg hooch being kosher theory, that's wild. I don't think I've ever met a LDS person who held that opinion.

Posted by: bonhomme at July 10, 2025 06:00 PM (lIio7)

115 "America is a fascist totalitarian racist shithole that I hate and want to destroy. Please, please let me stay!"

-- Typical illegal immigrant argument

Posted by: zombie at July 10, 2025 06:00 PM (pMi6S)

116 99
The DOJ is saying there's no client list? Why is she in jail then over a list that doesn't exist? It would be fascinating legal theatre, if it worked. But I don't remember the specific crimes she was convicted over.
Posted by: LizLem

================

She was convicted of trafficking minors for Epstein's sexual abuse, centered on 4 key victims. What we all damn well know beyond that is a matter of sealed documents and limited trial scope.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia
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Documents, there are no documents, only thousands and thousands of pedo videos that filthy pervert Epstein downloaded off the internet.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 10, 2025 06:00 PM (Xlykt)

117 MOAR Alligator Alcatraz residents rather than less will dampen insurrectionist fervor—ie let the insurrection arrestees do an Alligator Alcatraz stint.
Push harder against The Left.
The LAST thing we can do is back off.
It is us or them….metaphorically speaking of course.

Posted by: Voter theater. at July 10, 2025 06:01 PM (FCPbW)

118 111 Well put.

Posted by: Give gp Some Of That Good Stuff at July 10, 2025 06:01 PM (TwZXH)

119 The "maggots in the food" ploy will almost certainly be used by the Democrat politicians and MSM once they get access to the prison.

Their low information audience (that never passed 7th-grade biology) will easily fall for it.

Step 1.) Take 1/3rd of your evening meatloaf and hide it behind your toilet.

Step 2.) Wait two, maybe three days for the eggs from the flies that landed on your meatloaf to hatch into maggots.

Step 3.) Put that piece of meatloaf back on your food tray for the photograph.

Step 4.) PROFIT!!!

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at July 10, 2025 06:01 PM (HlyYF)

120
He also said he thinks alcohol is okay but only if you made it by hand the way Jesus would have.

Did Jesus have a still?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 10, 2025 06:01 PM (63Dwl)

121 "I was a student there in the late 90s and they had soda."

At my alma mater, all we had was pop.
Posted by: Give gp Some Of That Good Stuff at July 10, 2025 05:56 PM

We just had various Cokes.

-----------

*Golf clap*

Posted by: Crusader at July 10, 2025 06:01 PM (TN0g+)

122 The cynical side of me thinks BYU reversed this caffeine ban on campus when they realized all the money they were losing out on, not getting Pepsi or Coke on campus as an official sponsor.

I adore my church. But huge parts of the judgmental social culture within it, especially in insular Utah, bugs the crap out of me. Out of Utah, the culture is more chill.
Posted by: LizLem at July 10, 2025 05:45 PM (gWBY1)

They could have only brought the caffeine free sodas if they were serious.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 10, 2025 06:02 PM (8avO+)

123 Posted by: Romeo13 at July 10, 2025 05:59 PM (mP0Kj)

You don't agree with the elder enhancement for assault?

Posted by: polynikes at July 10, 2025 06:02 PM (VofaG)

124 I don't know about most Mormons. In my experience, the people who eschewed all caffeine were the minority. As to the bootleg hooch being kosher theory, that's wild. I don't think I've ever met a LDS person who held that opinion.
Posted by: bonhomme at July 10, 2025 06:00 PM (lIio7)

Yeah, I don't know. He had certainly never drank alcohol, and I probably put him on the defensive with my questions. I was just curious though.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 10, 2025 06:02 PM (uCjyK)

125 Murdering me should be the same as murdering a Cop, or Grandma... equal protection under the law, should mean just that.... equal...

Not depend on what your job is.
Posted by: Romeo13

YES!

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at July 10, 2025 06:02 PM (A7fWT)

126 Never forget:

Some poem on a French statue always outranks the Constitution.

Posted by: zombie at July 10, 2025 06:02 PM (pMi6S)

127 >>> 119 The "maggots in the food" ploy will almost certainly be used by the Democrat politicians and MSM once they get access to the prison.
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Posted by: Pillage Idiot at July 10, 2025 06:01 PM (HlyYF)

They should only get access to the prison by being inmates.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 10, 2025 06:03 PM (ULPxl)

128 I thought all root beer was caffeine-free.
Posted by: Bulg at July 10, 2025 05:57 PM (77rzZ)

Barq's has caffeine. My wife will drink it occasionally for just that reason.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Cynical Member of Generation X at July 10, 2025 06:03 PM (0aYVJ)

129 Did Jesus have a still?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 10, 2025 06:01 PM (63Dwl)

My memory was he handwaved some water in to wine, so maybe that's what my friend was getting at. If you can turn water in to wine, you're allowed to drink it.

I don't know.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 10, 2025 06:03 PM (uCjyK)

130 (Re: Tuesday's Antifa 10 event, because DU hasn't addressed their more recent violence)

Jury Nullification 😊

Who the hell are these dipshits? What "Militia" are they in?

RW Jackholes are claiming they're Antifa, so I'd like a bit more information about those arrested.

People set off fireworks. Gestapo comes out and claims gunfire. Gestapo agent hit by bottle rocket, claims gunshot wound.

Agents provocateur? It sounds like they had all sorts of scary stuff and were completely inept. What have they accomplished beyond justification for the police state?

In a country with more guns than people, I'm surprised it took this long for something like to happen.

whether it's contrived or not....what's the difference between this and a bunch of cosplay ICE boys ambushing immigraants who are going about their daily lives> Seriously. Think about it.

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at July 10, 2025 06:03 PM (ycI94)

131 This is the statue that needs to go in the place of the French Statue:

https://tinyurl.com/b5pwcxua

(btw look at the left knee)

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 10, 2025 06:04 PM (uWKK8)

132 I need grapes and some time.

Posted by: Boss Moss at July 10, 2025 06:04 PM (zhBpy)

133
Any edifying reading materials, as long as they are sincerely desired and genuinely used, seems the humane thing to do.

Posted by: Give gp Some Of That Good Stuff

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"Sincerely" and "genuinely" are not things you can quantify or define sufficiently to satisfy me. If I could have any book that would edify me in prison, I'd probably pick a volume of Mark Twain sketches or perhaps Wuthering Heights. Don't even go down that path. Prisoners can pray.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 10, 2025 06:04 PM (UmB+t)

134 Some poem on a French statue always outranks the Constitution.
Posted by: zombie at July 10, 2025 06:02 PM (pMi6S)

A statue that was given to the US to commemorate the hundred year anniversary of the Declaration of Independence...

Posted by: It's me donna at July 10, 2025 06:04 PM (VE6XX)

135 whether it's contrived or not....what's the difference between this and a bunch of cosplay ICE boys ambushing immigraants who are going about their daily lives> Seriously. Think about it.
Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at July 10, 2025 06:03 PM (ycI94)

That's, like, deep man.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 10, 2025 06:04 PM (uCjyK)

136
"We're like rats in an experiment."

Despite all their rage...

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 10, 2025 06:04 PM (63Dwl)

137 > They could have only brought the caffeine free sodas if they were serious.

I'm pretty sure that's what they had when I was there.

Posted by: bonhomme at July 10, 2025 06:05 PM (lIio7)

138 104 I thought all root beer was caffeine-free.

Posted by: Bulg at July 10, 2025 05:57 PM

"Barq's has sparks!" (An old ad campaign.)

That was also how I remembered it for my kids. Barq's had caffeine, A&W didn't.

Only administer to the kids the correct one for the upcoming activities or lack of activites!

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at July 10, 2025 06:05 PM (HlyYF)

139 We drummy drum drum to annoy you!!
- ICE protesters

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at July 10, 2025 06:05 PM (5OC6U)

140 Tell me that's a real cover. Lie if you have to.
Posted by: toby928 at July 10, 2025 05:32 PM (jc0TO)

Suitable for framing. That would make an awesome poster.

Posted by: haffhowershower at July 10, 2025 06:05 PM (144I4)

141 whether it's contrived or not....what's the difference between this and a bunch of cosplay ICE boys ambushing immigraants who are going about their daily lives> Seriously. Think about it.
Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at July 10, 2025 06:03 PM (ycI94)
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The "can't tell the difference due to stupidity" is strong with this one.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 10, 2025 06:05 PM (tT6L1)

142 What kind of prison is it where none of the inmates have to be there?

Every single one of those in Alligator Alcatraz are there by choice.

If they simply say, "I'd like to go home," waiving all hearings or protests, they will be walked out the gate, put on the next flight and sent home.

Their real home.

What they're really objecting to is, they'll be walked right in to a prison in their home country.
For the multiple crimes they committed there before they fled to America.
To commit more crimes.
Real cream of the crop, salt of the Earth, hard-working, religious, family-men, them.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 10, 2025 06:06 PM (VlU/R)

143 whether it's contrived or not....what's the difference between this and a bunch of cosplay ICE boys ambushing immigraants who are going about their daily lives> Seriously. Think about it.

Sometimes I just sit with my mouth agape.

Posted by: toby928 at July 10, 2025 06:06 PM (jc0TO)

144 "Sincerely" and "genuinely" are not things you can quantify or define sufficiently to satisfy me. If I could have any book that would edify me in prison, I'd probably pick a volume of Mark Twain sketches or perhaps Wuthering Heights. Don't even go down that path. Prisoners can pray.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 10, 2025 06:04 PM (UmB+t)

I have no problem giving inmates full access to a library full of books or anything else to occupy their time in a somewhat productive way.

Being locked up is hell on earth, the least we can do is give them an opportunity for some escapism and hopefully they read some books that open their minds a bit (particularly people in prison, not people in an ICE detention facility. Their minds can be opened when they get home)

As a practical matter, it also keeps people occupied so they're less likely to be causing issues.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 10, 2025 06:07 PM (uCjyK)

145 "bootleg hooch being kosher theory"

Not if it's made with bacon spice. (I wonder what bacon-flavored bourbon tastes like.)

Posted by: Dark Litigator at July 10, 2025 06:07 PM (KAi1n)

146 "We're like rats in an experiment."

Despite all their rage...
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I'll burn my eyes out
Before I get out

Posted by: Billy C. at July 10, 2025 06:07 PM (TN0g+)

147 Barq's is caffeinated.
______

Excuse to post this, per wiki:

The world's largest root beer float was created in 1990, when Barq's Root Beer cooperated with a Pick N Save grocery store in Dekalb, Illinois by mixing 1,500 gallons of Barq’s root beer with 1,000 gallons of vanilla ice cream in an above-ground swimming pool.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at July 10, 2025 06:07 PM (QqW4y)

148 He also said he thinks alcohol is okay but only if you made it by hand the way Jesus would have.

No idea if that's true or not, I just found it interesting.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 10, 2025 05:56 PM (uCjyK)

The only time I heard of Jesus making alcohol was the Wedding of Cana. If you can wave a hand and turn water into wine you are all set. This sounds like another way to say 'you never can'

Posted by: Oldcat at July 10, 2025 06:07 PM (8avO+)

149 I think the only book the Feds allowed Jeff Davis at Ft. Monroe was the Bible.

Posted by: Bulg at July 10, 2025 06:07 PM (77rzZ)

150
And send that fucking poem with it!
Posted by: RedMindBlueState

The poem was added later.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 10, 2025 06:07 PM (63Dwl)

151 I'm supposed to give a fuck 'bout some cracker-ass bitches drowning in Texas when dey got some fine-looking Gs lock up in da Evahglades? Dat maff ain't maffin!

Posted by: Jasmine Ratchet, her eyelashes dragging at July 10, 2025 06:08 PM (TbWk/)

152 I wonder what bacon-flavored bourbon tastes like.

I will go out on a limb and guess whiskey and bacon.

Posted by: toby928 at July 10, 2025 06:08 PM (jc0TO)

153 They only get the finest food at the Mon Dieu Alligator Alcatraz Cafe'... Fronch Fries, Fronch Dressing, Fronch Bread, and to drink... Peru!

Posted by: Jenny Meyer at July 10, 2025 06:08 PM (O1zNK)

154 Increasing the penalties for messing with FedGov employees is wrong. I don't care if they're ICE or IRS. Their lives are not more valuable than mine.

I'd rather the Feds just relax the rules of engagement. That way we're all on a level playing field when the shit hits the fan. Whichever side of the equation I'm on.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 10, 2025 06:08 PM (Q4IgG)

155 BYU just lost their starting QB over premarital sex, so they still enforce some stuff.
Posted by: toby928

If they were really traditional, they'd have a shotgun wedding between the participants.

But because it's the modern world, which one would have to be persuaded at shotgun-point is anyone's guess.

I like to think it'd be a matter of the gal being told to take responsibility and make an honest man out of the QB.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at July 10, 2025 06:08 PM (a+4eV)

156
No, she comes from a privileged family. The ghetto is faked.
Posted by: Oldcat at July 10, 2025 04:50 PM (8avO+)

My point is why do you think a gourmet meal would disguise itself as trash? Maybe in the end it really is just trash.

Posted by: ... at July 10, 2025 06:08 PM (Qr870)

157 Hints of spice.

Posted by: Boss Moss at July 10, 2025 06:08 PM (zhBpy)

158 That was also how I remembered it for my kids. Barq's had caffeine, A&W didn't.

Only administer to the kids the correct one for the upcoming activities or lack of activites!
Posted by: Pillage Idiot at July 10, 2025 06:05 PM (HlyYF)

Not sure the caffeine is as big an issue as the mountain of sugar is.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 10, 2025 06:09 PM (8avO+)

159 157 Hints of spice.
Posted by: Boss Moss at July 10, 2025 06:08 PM (zhBpy

Bacon is spice

Posted by: Kamala at July 10, 2025 06:09 PM (VE6XX)

160 133 I was thinking along the lines of the Adlerian 'Great Books.' If you don't think a prisoner should read 'bad' thinkers, say Rousseau or Nietzsche, you can take those out.

Posted by: Give gp Some Of That Good Stuff at July 10, 2025 06:09 PM (TwZXH)

161 so DU realizes that the Antifa group of 10 isn't a good look for them.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 10, 2025 06:10 PM (uWKK8)

162 I would like to think that my stint as the prison librarian had a positive effect on the inmate population.
— Ex-con Leo Bloom

Posted by: Bulg at July 10, 2025 06:10 PM (77rzZ)

163 the only book the Feds allowed Jeff Davis at Ft. Monroe was the Bible.
Posted by: Bulg at July 10, 2025 06:07 PM (77rzZ)

That Pharaoh guy sure got a bum rap.

Posted by: Jeffy at July 10, 2025 06:10 PM (yYROg)

164 I like to think it'd be a matter of the gal being told to take responsibility and make an honest man out of the QB.
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Have you considered a career as a Supreme Court Justice?

Posted by: Crusader at July 10, 2025 06:10 PM (TN0g+)

165 No, she comes from a privileged family. The ghetto is faked.
Posted by: Oldcat at July 10, 2025 04:50 PM (8avO+)

My point is why do you think a gourmet meal would disguise itself as trash? Maybe in the end it really is just trash.
Posted by: ... at July 10, 2025 06:08 PM (Qr870)

The money comes if you 'relate' to the trash. If you don't, no money.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 10, 2025 06:10 PM (8avO+)

166 But because it's the modern world, which one would have to be persuaded at shotgun-point is anyone's guess.

I like to think it'd be a matter of the gal being told to take responsibility and make an honest man out of the QB.
Posted by: FeatherBlade at July 10, 2025 06:08 PM

She was claiming non-consensual, he otherwise. The team suspended him for seven games upcoming and he said Hello Portal.

And then she changed her mind and dropped the charges.

Posted by: toby928 at July 10, 2025 06:10 PM (jc0TO)

167 BYU has recently shitcanned all the fag loving profs in the sociology dept.
Reality is making a comeback.

Posted by: Elrond Hubbard at July 10, 2025 06:11 PM (P0m9n)

168 How about this as a compromise: still no bath water, BUT for your one meal, you get to eat tacos made by an abuelita for lunch, and up to 6 cervezas of your choice, assuming you agree to leave on a plane the next morning.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 10, 2025 06:11 PM (uCjyK)

169 No, she comes from a privileged family. The ghetto is faked.
Posted by: Oldcat at July 10, 2025 04:50 PM (8avO+)

My point is why do you think a gourmet meal would disguise itself as trash? Maybe in the end it really is just trash.
Posted by: ... at July 10, 2025 06:08 PM (Qr870)

I think she's got some big money backers who are writing her scripts for her. Now that what their motives and goals are, we can only guess.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 10, 2025 06:11 PM (uWKK8)

170 She was claiming non-consensual, he otherwise. The team suspended him for seven games upcoming and he said Hello Portal.

And then she changed her mind and dropped the charges.
Posted by: toby928

Oooh, time to find out which of the rival teams paid her!

Posted by: FeatherBlade at July 10, 2025 06:11 PM (a+4eV)

171 Look at what the Great Books did for Max Cady in prison! He came out smarter than the average bear.

Posted by: Give gp Some Of That Good Stuff at July 10, 2025 06:11 PM (TwZXH)

172 I don’t think we can really blame Emma Lazarus for the liberties taken with the poem on the Statue of Liberty. She was a Jewish woman trying to aid refugees fleeing pogroms and anti semetism in Europe. The situation for people coming here ( as several people have noted was they needed a sponsor among other legal requirements. The government didnt want you to be deadbeat on society There was no idea that we should let anyone in who come over the border.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 10, 2025 06:12 PM (2GCMq)

173 She was claiming non-consensual, he otherwise. The team suspended him for seven games upcoming and he said Hello Portal.

And then she changed her mind and dropped the charges.
Posted by: toby928 at July 10, 2025 06:10 PM (jc0TO)

Hello portal? What does that mean?

Posted by: Anything to do with GlaDOS? at July 10, 2025 06:12 PM (TbWk/)

174 @145

>>I wonder what bacon-flavored bourbon tastes like.

Probably really good, especially if it's real crispy, dipped in honey and crumbled, into the glass.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 10, 2025 06:13 PM (QpTJY)

175 Hello portal? What does that mean?

He left for another school rather than sit out seven games.

Posted by: toby928 at July 10, 2025 06:13 PM (jc0TO)

176 BYU has recently shitcanned all the fag loving profs in the sociology dept.
Reality is making a comeback.
Posted by: Elrond Hubbard at July 10, 2025 06:11 PM (P0m9n)

now toss out the department. Teaching Pokemon would be better.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 10, 2025 06:13 PM (8avO+)

177 And the Onion Field killer. He booked up in prison too. So maybe it ain't the best idea.

Posted by: Give gp Some Of That Good Stuff at July 10, 2025 06:14 PM (TwZXH)

178
I have no problem giving inmates full access to a library full of books or anything else to occupy their time in a somewhat productive way.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 10, 2025 06:07 PM (uCjyK)

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My impression of Alligator Alcatraz -- and it could be wrong -- is that it's meant to be a very short stay and it's a temporary facility that will be dismantled once we catch up with this illegal criminal backlog. Just keep it to no frills.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 10, 2025 06:14 PM (UmB+t)

179 I agree with the sentiment above that murdering a cop and murdering a non-LEO citizen should both earn the same (massive) punishment.

However, I do want a severe increase in the penalty for "interfering with a federal officer in performing the arrest or transportation" of a suspected criminal.

Normal citizens do not have that job. The ICE, CBP, and other federal LEOs do, and Antifa is dragging away perps, putting hands on officers (which could easily hold a knife on the second attempt), etc.

THAT needs to be stopped with harsh sentences, or the only way the LEOs can function would be numerous baton strikes on the crowd - which the Democrat politicians would actually love!

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at July 10, 2025 06:14 PM (HlyYF)

180
The armed sissies who fired at ICE and the local police folded as soon as there was return fire. They would have done so much better if they targeted an elementary school as trannies usually do.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at July 10, 2025 06:14 PM (ES1Rb)

181 Hello portal? What does that mean?
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"Upon learning he was facing a 7-game suspension, the youthful QB decided he was departing BYU and seeking his academic, athletic, and sexual adventures elsewhere."

Posted by: Crusader at July 10, 2025 06:14 PM (TN0g+)

182 114 I went to school with a Mormon kid who didn't drink soda. He said it wasn't expressly banned, but most Mormons extended the ban on mind altering drinks like coffee to all caffeinated drinks.

He also said he thinks alcohol is okay but only if you made it by hand the way Jesus would have.

I don't know about most Mormons. In my experience, the people who eschewed all caffeine were the minority. As to the bootleg hooch being kosher theory, that's wild. I don't think I've ever met a LDS person who held that opinion.

Posted by: bonhomme at July 10, 2025 06:00 PM (lIio7)

Wasn't Dr Pepper very popular with LDS members, until sometime in the 70s when it became known Dr Pepper is caffeinated? Maybe this is an Urban Legend.

Posted by: Gref at July 10, 2025 06:14 PM (aBgBM)

183 The real problem illegals have with Alligator Alcatraz: They don't like the people they're having to associate with.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 10, 2025 06:15 PM (tT6L1)

184 My impression of Alligator Alcatraz -- and it could be wrong -- is that it's meant to be a very short stay and it's a temporary facility that will be dismantled once we catch up with this illegal criminal backlog. Just keep it to no frills.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 10, 2025 06:14 PM (UmB+t)

Sure, but I'm fine with them spending their time there (as limited as it may be), reading books.

But also, we have tens of millions of illegals in this country right now. It will take a lonnnng time to catch up with that backlog.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 10, 2025 06:15 PM (uCjyK)

185 Only 10,000 new ICE agents when Joepedo and the democrats found a way for 80,000 new IRS agents. I haz the sadz.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at July 10, 2025 06:15 PM (17s+e)

186 Look at what the Great Books did for Max Cady in prison! He came out smarter than the average bear.
Posted by: Give gp Some Of That Good Stuff at July 10, 2025 06:11 PM (TwZXH)

His grandpappy used to handle snakes in church. His grandmother swallowed strychnine. You could say he had a leg up, genetically speaking.

Posted by: More annoying than scary at July 10, 2025 06:16 PM (TbWk/)

187 I've ever met a LDS person who held that opinion.

Posted by: bonhomme at July 10, 2025 06:00 PM (lIio7)
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I initially read that as "LSD" and went, "wait, what?"

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 10, 2025 06:16 PM (tT6L1)

188
Look at what the Great Books did for Max Cady in prison! He came out smarter than the average bear.
Posted by: Give gp Some Of That Good Stuff

===============

Haha, Jack Henry Abbott also used his stay to improve his mind.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 10, 2025 06:16 PM (UmB+t)

189 Only 10,000 new ICE agents when Joepedo and the democrats found a way for 80,000 new IRS agents. I haz the sadz.
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at July 10, 2025 06:15 PM (17s+e)

We already stole some of the new IRS dudes for border patrol.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 10, 2025 06:16 PM (8avO+)

190 Um, they are being held their pending deportation hearings. They could be out tomorrow if they agreed to be deported. Literally - Trump will buy them a first-class ticket to their home countries.

Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at July 10, 2025 06:17 PM (gDhA9)

191 175 Hello portal? What does that mean?

He left for another school rather than sit out seven games.
Posted by: toby928 at July 10, 2025 06:13 PM (jc0TO)

Huh I have never heard that phrase used before to mean that. Or ever for anything actually.

Posted by: Something new at July 10, 2025 06:17 PM (TbWk/)

192 The "can't tell the difference due to stupidity" is strong with this one.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 10, 2025 06:05 PM

You can't fix stupid. But you can give it a court date.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 10, 2025 06:18 PM (JGU+s)

193 190 Um, they are being held their pending deportation hearings. They could be out tomorrow if they agreed to be deported. Literally - Trump will buy them a first-class ticket to their home countries.
Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at July 10, 2025 06:17 PM (gDhA9)

First class!? Let's not go crazy here. They can ride in steerage like the rest of us.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 10, 2025 06:18 PM (uCjyK)

194 Look how cute the UK fags are, replacing the Statue of Liberty with OrangeManBad.

Let's start sending the worst of the asshoes to Londonistan.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 10, 2025 05:33 PM (ULPxl)

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I love that image. If The Economist think it's an insult they got it wrong.

Posted by: Decaf at July 10, 2025 06:18 PM (unUNN)

195 >>> 190 Um, they are being held their pending deportation hearings. They could be out tomorrow if they agreed to be deported. Literally - Trump will buy them a first-class ticket to their home countries.
Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at July 10, 2025 06:17 PM (gDhA9)

JUST LIKE AUSCHWITZ!!!

Posted by: The Bull~~wark~~seeker at July 10, 2025 06:18 PM (ULPxl)

196 Heh. The old cult movie "Food of the Gods" had mosquitoes the size of elephants. I say if we find one and you can last 24 hours in the room with that bad boy, you get automatic citizenship.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at July 10, 2025 06:18 PM (rvwwT)

197 Only send books to AA (“Alligator Alcatraz”

that are written in English, heavily weighted to Shakespeare, Milton, Dickens, Kipling, and Hawthorne.

Posted by: Bulg at July 10, 2025 06:19 PM (77rzZ)

198 Look how cute the UK fags are, replacing the Statue of Liberty with OrangeManBad.

Let's start sending the worst of the asshoes to Londonistan.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 10, 2025 05:33 PM (ULPxl)

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I love that image. If The Economist think it's an insult they got it wrong.
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Suitable for framing.

Posted by: Crusader at July 10, 2025 06:19 PM (TN0g+)

199 I agree with the sentiment above that murdering a cop and murdering a non-LEO citizen should both earn the same (massive) punishment.

However, I do want a severe increase in the penalty for "interfering with a federal officer in performing the arrest or transportation" of a suspected criminal.

Normal citizens do not have that job. The ICE, CBP, and other federal LEOs do, and Antifa is dragging away perps, putting hands on officers (which could easily hold a knife on the second attempt), etc.

THAT needs to be stopped with harsh sentences, or the only way the LEOs can function would be numerous baton strikes on the crowd - which the Democrat politicians would actually love!
Posted by: Pillage Idiot at July 10, 2025 06:14 PM (HlyYF)

Make the punishment deportation without trial and cuff them to their new buddy. They can reapply to enter at the destination.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 10, 2025 06:19 PM (8avO+)

200 >>> 194

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I love that image. If The Economist think it's an insult they got it wrong.
Posted by: Decaf at July 10, 2025 06:18 PM (unUNN)

They're brits, they still haven't figured out "YES, this IS what we voted for!"

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 10, 2025 06:20 PM (ULPxl)

201 161 so DU realizes that the Antifa group of 10 isn't a good look for them.
Posted by: Tom Servo

DU organizers and agitators: "Everyone -- kill ICE! Go nuts! Throw yourselves on their vehicles! Shoot them! Martyr yourselves! It's the only way to stop fascism!"

10 random Trantifa cretins: "OK -- sounds like a plan! Let's do it!"

(Get arrested.)

DU organizers and agitators: "We don't know those guys. It was a false flag operation!"

Posted by: zombie at July 10, 2025 06:20 PM (pMi6S)

202 “Hello Portal” sounds like the name of a pron site.

Posted by: Bulg at July 10, 2025 06:20 PM (77rzZ)

203 Re BYU QB..seriously? If you weren't thinking you would make the pros, why ELSE would you want to be a college QB?

Posted by: Azjaeger at July 10, 2025 06:20 PM (VTxKl)

204 I had a friend with unpaid tickets. he finally got arrested. the judge told him, pay up or a week in jail. He said, a week in jail. he lasted two days, then called me and asked to pay his tickets.

I asked, what broke you man? He said the 300th time he got asked for a cigarette by the same guy.

Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at July 10, 2025 06:21 PM (gDhA9)

205 Coffee and tea are taboo but I estimate about 75% of us drink caffeineated .drinks.
It's not going to keep you out of heaven but you'll prolly meet your Maker guicker.

Posted by: Elrond Hubbard at July 10, 2025 06:21 PM (P0m9n)

206 Huh I have never heard that phrase used before to mean that. Or ever for anything actually.
Posted by: Something new

I think "portal" is actually the name of a program by which football students can transfer schools.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at July 10, 2025 06:21 PM (a+4eV)

207 92 BYU just lost their starting QB over premarital sex, so they still enforce some stuff.
Posted by: toby928 at July 10, 2025 05:55 PM (jc0TO)

———

Fornication is a sin. It messes up your passing game. With the QB in the pocket we don’t want him to start thinking about the cooter he is going to get later that night.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at July 10, 2025 06:21 PM (+pRFM)

208 The Democrats absolutist hard-line, extremist position of no deportation, no one for any reason, has only driven more Americans to support deportation of everyone.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 10, 2025 05:35 PM (VlU/R)

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Democrats acting like total asses has forced Republicans and everyone else to go mulish.

Posted by: Decaf at July 10, 2025 06:21 PM (unUNN)

209 They're brits, they still haven't figured out "YES, this IS what we voted for!"
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 10, 2025 06:20 PM (ULPxl)

They know. Just like many of the citizens in Britain and most of Europe, Americans are over this shit.

But they have to manufacture consent here and shape the narrative and all of that.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 10, 2025 06:21 PM (uCjyK)

210 Hello portal? What does that mean?

He left for another school rather than sit out seven games.
Posted by: toby928 at July 10, 2025 06:13 PM (jc0TO)

Huh I have never heard that phrase used before to mean that. Or ever for anything actually.
Posted by: Something new at July 10, 2025 06:17 PM (TbWk/)

The full name is the 'transfer portal' to qualify for the sports team. Since the peeps rarely attend actual class the other minor details can be filled in later. Its a fairly recent thing to have so much shuffling of teams as now.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 10, 2025 06:21 PM (8avO+)

211 I love that image. If The Economist think it's an insult they got it wrong.
-----

Suitable for framing.
Posted by: Crusader at July 10, 2025 06:19 PM

I want a Trump and Vance pshop of the The Argonath from LoTR.

https://tinyurl.com/3umvcfbs

Posted by: toby928 at July 10, 2025 06:22 PM (jc0TO)

212 These are the people they are dealing with:

'Nobody knows if they're real ICE agents. They have no ID and wear masks.

Seems to me like neighborhood watch is doing its job'

- internet rando commie

Posted by: AlaBAMA at July 10, 2025 06:23 PM (rOh1h)

213 Trump looks like he should be yelling “Von otsyuda!” (basically “ Get out of here!”, in Russian) on that statue.

That could replace the Lazarus poem.

Posted by: Bulg at July 10, 2025 06:23 PM (77rzZ)

214 Penalogists: If you allow prisoners the Great Books, for sure take out Michel de Montaigne, Sigmund Freud, Coarse File, and Hacksaw Blade.

Posted by: Give gp Some Of That Good Stuff at July 10, 2025 06:23 PM (TwZXH)

215 >>> 212 These are the people they are dealing with:

'Nobody knows if they're real ICE agents. They have no ID and wear masks.

Seems to me like neighborhood watch is doing its job'

- internet rando commie
Posted by: AlaBAMA at July 10, 2025 06:23 PM (rOh1h)

Sounds like a great argument for their defense lawyers when they get to court!

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 10, 2025 06:24 PM (ULPxl)

216 Posted by: bonhomme at July 10, 2025 06:00 PM (lIio7)
_______________________

One of my first bosses in the corporate world was a hard line Mormon. No caffeine...and a set percentage of his rather generous salary directly to Mormon approved charities (Mormon missionary work).

I rationalized that to mean that I, personally, was a rather charitable guy since my hard work paid that guy's salary, and he gave a lot of it away.

Heh, I'm a pretty good guy...looking out for the unfortunate, vicariously through Mormons. I might be an honorary Mormon.

Posted by: Orson at July 10, 2025 06:24 PM (dIske)

217 That link to the journolist interviewing Larry the cat had a picture of a football float in Ireland for an upcoming American college game.

I have just started seeing TV commercials for Irish tourism. It's funny how they're not showing diversity for those. All white, mostly red heads. I guess they don't want to entice Americans with "come to Ireland and get stabbed by a 3rd world immigrant that we welcomed with open arms, and that the Irish (and probably US) taxpayers are paying for!
Slainte!

Posted by: haffhowershower at July 10, 2025 06:24 PM (144I4)

218 Fornication is a sin. It messes up your passing game. With the QB in the pocket we don’t want him to start thinking about the cooter he is going to get later that night.
Posted by: MAGA_Ken

Now, now, if he'd bothered to follow the policy, she'd have had a harder time accusing him of rape.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at July 10, 2025 06:24 PM (a+4eV)

219 I want a Trump and Vance pshop of the The Argonath from LoTR.

https://tinyurl.com/3umvcfbs
Posted by: toby928 at July 10, 2025 06:22 PM (jc0TO)

You could just use that one...one bearded, one not.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 10, 2025 06:24 PM (8avO+)

220
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 10, 2025 06:15 PM (uCjyK)

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You and I are on the same page (no pun intended) re the desirability of books -- I'd rather be shot than stuck with nothing to read during a period of enforced idleness. But I don't think that's what the worst-of-the-worst want, honestly. But it would be kind of funny to see them when the guy pushes the book cart around to their block saying Sure, what the hell, give me that one (pointing to some dick lit cover on some half-wit novel).

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 10, 2025 06:24 PM (UmB+t)

221 The transfer portal and NIL have ruined college football.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at July 10, 2025 06:25 PM (2UnvF)

222 'Nobody knows if they're real ICE agents. They have no ID and wear masks.

Seems to me like neighborhood watch is doing its job'

- internet rando commie
Posted by: AlaBAMA at July 10, 2025 06:23 PM (rOh1h)

I just picture all of these internet randos, as this guy (below) complaining to the local news that grok wants to rape him.

https://tinyurl.com/3yhz6pcu

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 10, 2025 06:25 PM (uCjyK)

223 Women weaken the legs.

It is known.

Posted by: toby928 at July 10, 2025 06:25 PM (jc0TO)

224 221 The transfer portal and NIL have ruined college football.
Posted by: Duke Lowell at July 10, 2025 06:25 PM (2UnvF)

What Duke said.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at July 10, 2025 06:25 PM (rOh1h)

225 The Mormon Tabernacle Choir rocks!

Posted by: Bulg at July 10, 2025 06:26 PM (77rzZ)

226 >>> 223 Women weaken the legs.

It is known.
Posted by: toby928 at July 10, 2025 06:25 PM (jc0TO)

Ewwwww!

Posted by: Mayor Pete at July 10, 2025 06:26 PM (ULPxl)

227 The "mosquitos are as big as elephants." "We're like rats in an experiment." "I don't know why they're doing this, if it's a form of torture." "They took the Bible I had and told me here, there is no right to religion."

They took the Bible I had, that is my favorite one, because the criminals and gang bangers just happened to be picked up while engaged in their street preaching ministry.

The Tales of Woe should get more extreme and shrill. Amplify this a lot so that others decide that self deporting is better than exsanguination by elephant sized mosquitos.

Why I am hearing the Hee Haw song "Doom, Despair and Agony on Me"?

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 10, 2025 06:26 PM (a4flb)

228 That link to the journolist interviewing Larry the cat had a picture of a football float in Ireland for an upcoming American college game.

I have just started seeing TV commercials for Irish tourism. It's funny how they're not showing diversity for those. All white, mostly red heads. I guess they don't want to entice Americans with "come to Ireland and get stabbed by a 3rd world immigrant that we welcomed with open arms, and that the Irish (and probably US) taxpayers are paying for!
Slainte!
Posted by: haffhowershower at July 10, 2025 06:24 PM (144I4)

I'm still scarred by those commercials where irish men talk about stippled green soap and pull knives to show they are armed. Then the redheads viciously take the soap away.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 10, 2025 06:27 PM (8avO+)

229 I just picture all of these internet randos, as this guy (below) complaining to the local news that grok wants to rape him.

https://tinyurl.com/3yhz6pcu
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 10, 2025 06:25 PM (uCjyK)

It's not Grok Grok.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at July 10, 2025 06:27 PM (rOh1h)

230
Fornication is a sin. It messes up your passing game.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken

===========

I think Joe Namath blew that one out of the water.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 10, 2025 06:27 PM (UmB+t)

231 228 Aye, I'll carve ye a piece of soap!

Posted by: Give gp Some Of That Good Stuff at July 10, 2025 06:27 PM (TwZXH)

232
They know. Just like many of the citizens in Britain and most of Europe, Americans are over this shit.

____________

Intellectually, I know most Euros are sick and tired of their "guests". And I know most of them are nice folks you could have a beer and a nice chat with. But all you hear, or are allowed to hear, are the throne-sniffers, the anti-American journalists and bureaucrats, and the hard-left politicos.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 10, 2025 06:27 PM (HZi96)

233 The transfer portal definitely. Unlimited NIL has been ... interesting. I wait to see how the House settlement ends up affecting it all.

And the damn final expiration of the Covid year stuff. Freaking six year players should be in the NFL.

Posted by: toby928 at July 10, 2025 06:28 PM (jc0TO)

234 Women weaken the legs.

It is known.

Posted by: toby928 at July 10, 2025 06:25 PM (jc0TO)

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I heard that Vince Lombardi kept his players segregated in a hotel (no women including wives) the nights before even home football games.

At least that's what one of my high school football coaches told us ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Three Days To 'FIGHT! FIGHT! FIGHT! Day' at July 10, 2025 06:28 PM (aKddq)

235 >>> 227 The "mosquitos are as big as elephants." "We're like rats in an experiment." "I don't know why they're doing this, if it's a form of torture." "They took the Bible I had and told me here, there is no right to religion."
==
They took the Bible I had, that is my favorite one, because the criminals and gang bangers just happened to be picked up while engaged in their street preaching ministry.

The Tales of Woe should get more extreme and shrill. Amplify this a lot so that others decide that self deporting is better than exsanguination by elephant sized mosquitos.

Why I am hearing the Hee Haw song "Doom, Despair and Agony on Me"?
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 10, 2025 06:26 PM (a4flb)

Did they also burn down his ranch and shoot his dog???

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 10, 2025 06:28 PM (ULPxl)

236 Strange that the criminals in Ireland are similar to ours...like they share a common ancestry.

Posted by: torabora at July 10, 2025 06:28 PM (Z6q/G)

237 Sex before a big game affects you on a sliding scale.

18? Not a problem at all. In fact, she should be ready for round two when the game finished.

40? Get away from me woman! I won't be able to walk later.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at July 10, 2025 06:29 PM (rOh1h)

238 Did they also burn down his ranch and shoot his dog???
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 10, 2025 06:28 PM

Stole his pickup truck, too.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 10, 2025 06:29 PM (JGU+s)

239 >>> 236 Strange that the criminals in Ireland are similar to ours...like they share a common ancestry.
Posted by: torabora at July 10, 2025 06:28 PM (Z6q/G)

torobora Johnson is right!

Posted by: Citizens of Rock Ridge at July 10, 2025 06:29 PM (ULPxl)

240 I am home. It's been a long day. Get off my back.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 10, 2025 06:29 PM (viF8m)

241 "food filled with maggots"
.....

"Gives it texture." - Gordon Ramsey

Posted by: wth at July 10, 2025 06:29 PM (UjdFS)

242 "They took the Bible I had and told me here, there is no right to religion."

They took the Bible I had, that is my favorite one, because the criminals and gang bangers just happened to be picked up while engaged in their street preaching ministry.

I can just hear the southern guards saying that: "Yall, I reckon in these parts their just ain't no reeeeligin"

Chilling. Or chitlin.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 10, 2025 06:29 PM (8avO+)

243
Women weaken the legs.

It is known.
Posted by: toby928 at July 10, 2025 06:25 PM (jc0TO)

___________

Paul Horning was pursued by zillions of them. Didn't seem to have affected his game.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 10, 2025 06:30 PM (HZi96)

244 The full name is the 'transfer portal' to qualify for the sports team.
Posted by: Oldcat
_______

In high school, it's called Transfer to Catholic School. The Catholics dominate high school sports in most states. Clearly some recruiting going on.

And I got nothing against Catholics. Just sayin'.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at July 10, 2025 06:30 PM (QqW4y)

245 Nobody there would serve them food with maggots or take their Bibles.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 10, 2025 05:33 PM (2GCMq)

Maybe they are giving them casu marzu (sp?) cheese?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 10, 2025 06:30 PM (TNJzY)

246 240 I am home. It's been a long day. Get off my back.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 10, 2025 06:29 PM (viF8m

Dad?

Posted by: AlaBAMA at July 10, 2025 06:30 PM (rOh1h)

247 >>> 238 Did they also burn down his ranch and shoot his dog???
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 10, 2025 06:28 PM

Stole his pickup truck, too.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 10, 2025 06:29 PM (JGU+s)

*sigh*

Posted by: Joan Wilder at July 10, 2025 06:30 PM (ULPxl)

248 Intellectually, I know most Euros are sick and tired of their "guests". And I know most of them are nice folks you could have a beer and a nice chat with. But all you hear, or are allowed to hear, are the throne-sniffers, the anti-American journalists and bureaucrats, and the hard-left politicos.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 10, 2025 06:27 PM (HZi96)

And you can imagine what they hear about when it comes to Americans!

But yes. At least in Ireland and the UK, the Ukrainian guests seemed to have very much overstayed their welcomes. As, of course, have their Muslim friends.

But if you're too loud about that, you get arrested. So people just seethe quietly.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 10, 2025 06:31 PM (uCjyK)

249 The transfer portal and NIL have ruined college football.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at July 10, 2025 06:25 PM (2UnvF)

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Who's going to win the PAC-2 championship?

Posted by: ShainS -- Three Days To 'FIGHT! FIGHT! FIGHT! Day' at July 10, 2025 06:31 PM (aKddq)

250 food filled with maggots"
.....

"Gives it texture." - Gordon Ramsey
Posted by: wth at July 10, 2025 06:29 PM

Hiyaa, use proper rice. Not use maggots!

Posted by: Uncle Roger at July 10, 2025 06:32 PM (JGU+s)

251 Did they also burn down his ranch and shoot his dog???
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 10, 2025 06:28 PM

Stole his pickup truck, too.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 10, 2025 06:29 PM (JGU+s)

*sigh*
Posted by: Joan Wilder at July 10, 2025 06:30 PM (ULPxl)
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heh. if it helps, I got the reference.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Cynical Member of Generation X at July 10, 2025 06:32 PM (0aYVJ)

252 Who's going to win the PAC-2 championship?

Posted by: ShainS -- Three Days To 'FIGHT! FIGHT! FIGHT! Day' at July 10, 2025 06:31 PM (aKddq)

They should just trade it back and forth each year. Run up those stats for the recruits!

Posted by: AlaBAMA at July 10, 2025 06:32 PM (rOh1h)

253 Why I am hearing the Hee Haw song "Doom, Despair and Agony on Me"?
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 10, 2025 06:26 PM (a4flb)

I also liked the bit where they had a new song each week about how their gal ran away with the guest star.

I searched the world over and I thought I'd found true love, buy she met another and phbbt she was gone!

Posted by: Oldcat at July 10, 2025 06:32 PM (8avO+)

254 >>Dad?

Clean your room.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 10, 2025 06:32 PM (viF8m)

255 Why I am hearing the Hee Haw song "Doom, Despair and Agony on Me"?
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 10, 2025 06:26 PM (a4flb)

Did they also burn down his ranch and shoot his dog???
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 10, 2025 06:28 PM (ULPxl)

The 4 game elimination playoff is the hardest part.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 10, 2025 06:33 PM (8avO+)

256 *sigh*
Posted by: Joan Wilder at July 10, 2025 06:30 PM

*The* Joan Wilder?!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 10, 2025 06:33 PM (JGU+s)

257 I have just started seeing TV commercials for Irish tourism.

Is that like an "Irish Exit" where you just quietly leave and don't tell anyone?

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 10, 2025 06:33 PM (a4flb)

258 Nood

Posted by: Thanatopsis at July 10, 2025 06:33 PM (GYt5+)

259 It's already a crime to interfere with ICE operations under a number of laws, though the ones involve harboring or concealing illegals have stiffer sentences than just garden variety interference.

What I don't like philosophically is further making LEOs into a higher caste, in which the mere act touching one gives them free rein to smash your face in and charge you with multiple felonies. Not OK with that at all.

Posted by: You're cops not Chinese god-emperors at July 10, 2025 06:33 PM (TbWk/)

260 My Walmart+ review:

It's not really free shipping. It's free shipping plus a tip. Not like UPS. So it's actually 15% on shipping, unless you want to stiff the poor shlub who's just trying to get by.

So I probably won't renew when the year's up.

Posted by: Give gp Some Of That Good Stuff at July 10, 2025 06:34 PM (TwZXH)

261 I would at least try cash marzu.

If we haf to eet zee bugs anyway, might as well have cheese with them.

Posted by: Bulg at July 10, 2025 06:34 PM (77rzZ)

262 >>> 256 *sigh*
Posted by: Joan Wilder at July 10, 2025 06:30 PM

*The* Joan Wilder?!
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 10, 2025 06:33 PM (JGU+s)

I read her books to my guys on Saturday!

Posted by: Juan the Bellmaker at July 10, 2025 06:34 PM (ULPxl)

263 Is that like an "Irish Exit" where you just quietly leave and don't tell anyone?
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 10, 2025 06:33 PM (a4flb)

I'm the master of that. I call it the Irish Goodbye. Even did it in Corsicana a few years ago.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Cynical Member of Generation X at July 10, 2025 06:34 PM (0aYVJ)

264 Who's going to win the PAC-2 championship?
Posted by: ShainS -- Three Days To 'FIGHT! FIGHT! FIGHT! Day' at July 10, 2025 06:31 PM

Boise probably. But I will say it's wide open.

Posted by: toby928 at July 10, 2025 06:34 PM (jc0TO)

265 NOOD

pine-scented druid philosopher

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 10, 2025 06:35 PM (ULPxl)

266 The full name is the 'transfer portal' to qualify for the sports team.
Posted by: Oldcat
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In high school, it's called Transfer to Catholic School. The Catholics dominate high school sports in most states. Clearly some recruiting going on.

And I got nothing against Catholics. Just sayin'.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at July 10, 2025 06:30 PM (QqW4y)

My HS senior year broke a Catholic school's 50 game win streak. They collected people from dozens of states. An odd quirk is they had no home stadium and played all road games. Their coach went on to coach at Notre Dame...not too well.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 10, 2025 06:36 PM (8avO+)

267 What I don't like philosophically is further making LEOs into a higher caste, in which the mere act touching one gives them free rein to smash your face in and charge you with multiple felonies. Not OK with that at all.
Posted by: You're cops not Chinese god-emperors at July 10, 2025 06:33 PM (TbWk/)

The assaulting shoe is on the other foot here, and evidence should be ample for hoo hit hoo

Posted by: Oldcat at July 10, 2025 06:39 PM (8avO+)

268 I hear everglades water is bathtub warm.

Posted by: Smellslikevictory at July 10, 2025 06:39 PM (jPdyB)

269
266 - Faust? You must be from Cincy. Or was that St. Ignatius or Massilon that broke the streak.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at July 10, 2025 06:40 PM (QqW4y)

270 Yeah I started watching a lot more college football after I expunged the NFL. Looks like I'll have to do the same with college ball. It no longer has the feel of rooting for your alma mater.

Posted by: polynikes at July 10, 2025 06:41 PM (VofaG)

271 My alma mater has been semi-pro for decades.

Posted by: toby928 at July 10, 2025 06:45 PM (jc0TO)

272 What I don't like philosophically is further making LEOs into a higher caste, in which the mere act touching one gives them free rein to smash your face in and charge you with multiple felonies. Not OK with that at all.

Posted by: You're cops not Chinese god-emperors at July 10, 2025 06:33 PM

They are not a higher caste.

When I see a skeevy perv approaching me or a family member, I can back away and buy time and evaluate their intentions and ask them to stop. (Failure to stop is a pretty clear signal about possible intentions.)

A LEO can do none of those things if he has hands on a person even mildly resisting arrest. His choices are "stay on the X" and risk an assault, or "release the arrestee".

Those are both bad outcomes for a free society.

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at July 10, 2025 06:47 PM (HlyYF)

273 Sure, but I'm fine with them spending their time there (as limited as it may be), reading books.

But also, we have tens of millions of illegals in this country right now. It will take a lonnnng time to catch up with that backlog.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 10, 2025 06:15 PM (uCjyK)

It's cute that you think they are literate in any language. A few, maybe.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 10, 2025 06:48 PM (TNJzY)

274 The Economist is such a shit mag now.

Posted by: Cow Demon at July 10, 2025 08:13 PM (vm8sq)

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