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The Morning Report — 7/16/25

Good morning kids, Yet again the revolting combination of Democrat/Leftist chutzpocrisy, outright incitement and cognitive dissonance reveals itself in this combination of links this morning.

First up we have

During a recent appearance on MSNBC’s “Velshi,” MSNBC contributor Joyce Vance, also a law professor at the University of Alabama, argued that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents wearing masks during immigration enforcement could face “lawful” violence. . . Protesters Might Exercise ‘Lawful Right’ to Attack ICE

Must have been hired on a Roland Freisler fellowship to advance the Nuremberg Laws in Jive. This charmer must have thought Alabama meant Allah+Obama . . .

So, when someone who is supposed to represent the upholding of law and order gives what is essentially a green light to commit domestic terrorism, it's small wonder that . . .

‘Reprehensible’: Assaults On ICE Agents Skyrocket, Up 830% Over Last Year

Of course, ICE agents are not the only targets of the evil entity within our midst known as the Democrat Party and its constituents of the (anti)-American Left. Over the weekend this happened:

"Genderfluid" 19-Year-Old Attempts to Firebomb GOP Office in Michigan. Arcand admitted to throwing the Molotov cocktail, which failed to ignite, at the Republican Party office “to send a message against the corruption.” The suspect acted out of dissatisfaction with Trump administration policies, according to authorities.

I may not know, nor do I really want to know the definition of "genderfluid," but between GOP offices, Tesla dealerships, churches, synagogues, pregnancy crisis centers and sleeping subway riders, I know the chemical composition is at least 87 octane with 10% ethanol.

Apologies in advance for inflicting this festering, gaping, sewage-seeping sepsis on civilized society on you, but it's the cherry on the parfait, if you will:

Democrat Texas Rep. Jasmine Crockett went on a tirade Tuesday about why Americans must spend their taxpayer dollars on a “Sesame Street” program in Iraq.
The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) dismantled the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) in February over its misuse of taxpayer dollars, including its funding of a “Sesame Street” program for children in Iraq and other Middle Eastern countries. Crockett claimed during a House Judiciary Committee hearing that USAID must fund the children’s television program at the American taxpayers’ expense because it stops other countries from being “radicalized” against the U.S.

I've got some news for this shambling shit-stain of a subhuman, Middle Eastern countries which are 100% Islamic (Israel the lone exception) have been "radicalized" against the USA and western civilization for nigh on 1,500 years.

Besides, How many Muslim parents, especially in and around Gaza and the so-called "Palestinian" authority who have children to turn them into human Islamikaze bombs are going to let their little darlings watch Sesame Street in Arabic when they've been glued to Farfour the Hamas mouse for decades. Meh, Elmo is now turning into a Nazi courtesy of AI as we reported the other day.

All that aside, my concern is the anti-American radicalization of America's children to hate their own country, history, heritage and themselves that has been going on for at least the past 50 years and more right here on our own soil, where 87-octane gender fluids are lit on fire and tossed at ICE agents and any other Democrat approved targets.

And while ICE are dodging flaming gender fluids or Crockett's eyelash glue, this has been slipping in across the border for years already. On top of murderers, rapists, drug- and human-traffickers and other assorted future Democrat voters.

Fox News reported that “a Customs and Border Protection (CBP) spokesman confirmed Tuesday that five Iranians were arrested while attempting to illegally cross the U.S. northern border with Canada.” CBP's Swanton Sector stated that “on July 1, Border Patrol Agents from the Champlain, New York Station, responded to suspicious activity near Mooers Forks, NY. Agents located a minivan occupied by five citizens of Iran and two citizens of Uzbekistan." Swanton, Vt., is a small town just south of the U.S.-Canadian border.
It's important not to jump to conclusions. Maybe these guys were really, really lost. Or maybe they were sneaking across the border in search of a better life, ready to do the jobs that Americans aren’t willing to do. It’s also a genuine possibility, however, that they were coming into the United States to try to make good on what by now are repeated threats from the Islamic Republic of Iran to assassinate President Donald Trump, along with members of his administration.
Increasing the suspicious aspect of this incident is the fact that “CBP said that all seven men had been previously arrested for attempting to cross the border illegally.” Now, however, because Donald Trump is president rather than Old Joe Biden’s autopen, “all seven aliens are detained and awaiting deportation.” One hopes that none of them will ever see delightful Swanton ever again.
This comes amid concerns that the Islamic Republic is bent on avenging the strikes on its nuclear program with strikes of its own inside the U.S. Jonathan Gilliam, a former FBI special agent, explained: "Where these sleeper cells may be is in plain sight. And that's the real terrifying part of this is that putting people in place, as we've seen over the past four years, everyone's scrambling because certain amounts of people could come in here and get in here."

Let us switch gears completely. While the Epstein files release/non-release drama continues, I am at a loss as to what President Trump is thinking on this:

Though endlessly critical of his predecessor, President Trump has adopted a Ukraine strategy similar to that of former President Joe Biden: Arm the Ukrainians to the teeth and threaten Russian President Vladimir Putin with even more sanctions if he does not agree to a peace deal.
Some of Trump’s closest domestic allies are already warning that the “expanded American role in the Ukraine War” will be “quite shocking” to the America First voters who returned him to the Oval Office.
But the same president who vowed to end the war in 24 hours has lost patience with Putin after six months. “He’s fooled a lot of people,” Trump said of the Russian leader. “He fooled Clinton, Bush, Obama, Biden. He didn’t fool me.” Seated in the Oval Office next to NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte, the president offered a glimpse into the negotiation process and his seemingly shifting mood on the war.

Psaki-Psircling back to Crockett shedding her Alligator Alcatraz tears for Sesame Street in Arabic getting the chop (pun intended), we have other scummy politicians who are as revolting as she is in their own, venal, amoral, vainglorious way.

Vice President JD Vance cast two tie-breaking votes in the Senate Tuesday to move forward a $9.4B rescissions package — which would rip federal funding from PBS and NPR — in the upper chamber.
The Senate deadlocked, 50-50, on two procedural votes to start debate on the multibillion-dollar spending clawback package before Vance’s votes advanced the measure requested by the White House.
Three Republicans – Sens. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) and Susan Collins (R-Maine) – joined all Democrats in opposition to the bill.

If only some flaming gender-funds could be hurled at the offices of those three and the other RINOs like them.

I"M JUST KIDDING! (nudge nudge wink wink!)

Rounding things out, this story gives me a sense of hope that perhaps there is a sea change in the culture and a move away from the socieal/cultural dissolution of the past 60 years back towards American values of morality and personal responsibility. Am I reading too much into it, who knows. Only time will tell.

But after years of being blasted as cruel for wanting to end welfare, government benefits and insisting on the inculcation of personal responsibility and morality, as well as the propaganda against the American work ethic and promotion of socialism, It's refreshing to see someone who knows what the right thing is and despite her own situation is willing to jump into the breach to do the right thing. She is to be applauded and lauded. We need more people like her. And the more we can convert and attract to our side like her, the sooner we can rid ourselves of the cancer that Leftism/socialism has wrought on our nation and society.

She and her attitude are the anti-Momdani/Sanders/Titty Caca. Anyone and everyone like her is antithetical to those three.

Yes, thank God for Trump, but it's the Nykia Hamiltons out there that will truly make America great again.

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Have a great day!

ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY

Michael Walsh: One solution is simply to abolish an individual judge's appointment or his jurisdiction. . . There's one other possible remedy that should be on the table as well. Nowhere in the Constitution does it say the Chief Justice position is irrevocable: demoting the hopeless Roberts and replacing him with Justice Clarence Thomas would go a long way toward solving some of the problems "Brutus" identified two centuries ago, along with saving the Court from itself, and helping to heal the nation's divide. A continuation of this farce should no longer be countenanced.
THE COLUMN: Et tu, Brute?
A South Carolina Burger King employee is being praised for her commitment to providing for her three children after she was forced to run an entire store by herself when her co-worker quit on her.
Burger King worker, mom of 3 Nykia Hamilton forced to run South Carolina store by herself: ‘Nobody wants to work anymore’

DOMESTIC AFFAIRS, THE COURTS, WASTE/FRAUD/ABUSE

As DOGE continues its cost-cutting mission, broader fiscal policy is also in focus. The U.S. Senate is preparing to vote on a proposed package of spending reductions, which includes a rescission of $9.4 billion from programs related to public broadcasting and foreign aid. President Donald J. Trump has voiced strong support for the plan, particularly targeting taxpayer funding for public media outlets.
DOGE Cancels Billions in Federal Contracts.
“But we’re getting to a point when you’re shooting ICE agents, and you have people egging them on, or you have Hakeem Jeffries posing with a bat, or you have Democrats saying that our constituents want us to take a bullet and get violent,” Hanson added. “Or you got Jasmine Crockett every day spouting off about white people. I think you’re getting to a point, if we’re not careful, it’s gonna be scary. It is scary now.”
Victor Davis Hanson Predicts What ‘Egomaniac, Narcissistic’ Judges Will Try Next To Sabotage Trump
Paid for with a permanent tax hike, the Texas city’s ambitious Project Connect initiative has delivered on few of its promises.
Austin’s Public Transit Bait-and-Switch
California’s collapse isn’t due to nature or chance—it’s the predictable result of progressive policies that reward bureaucracy, punish productivity, and excuse decay as equity.
California’s State of Decay
The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) dismantled the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) in February over its misuse of taxpayer dollars, including its funding of a “Sesame Street” program for children in Iraq and other Middle Eastern countries. Crockett claimed during a House Judiciary Committee hearing that USAID must fund the children’s television program at the American taxpayers’ expense because it stops other countries from being “radicalized” against the U.S. (She must've missed Farfour the Hamas Mouse! - jjs)
Jasmine Crockett Serves Up Head-Scratching Word Salad About ‘Sesame Street’ In Iraq

"BIDEN/HARRIS BORDER BLOODBATH," AMNESTY, IMMIGRATION, BORDER SECURITY, NEWSOM/DEMOCRAT VIOLENT INSURRECTION RIOTS
In May, Trump’s DHS announced that the agency would end TPS, a quasi-amnesty program, for about 75,000 Afghan migrants whom the Biden junta had resettled across the U.S. in mere months. (RESIST — HE AND WE BETTER START - jjs)
U.S. Appeals Court Blocks Trump from Ending ‘Temporary’ Amnesty for Biden’s Afghan Migrants
Daniel Greenfield: This is what an insurrection looks like.
California Mayors Urge Cops, Gang Members to Fight ICE
"Crazed rhetoric from gutter politicians are inspiring a massive increase in assaults against them."
‘Reprehensible’: Assaults On ICE Agents Skyrocket, Up 830% Over Last Year
The employer stands accused of paying to smuggle illegal aliens into the United States before hiring them for his restaurant. (Warp Speed this and watch the illegal alien invasion stop cold - jjs)
Trump Admin Charges Business Owner For Hiring Illegal Alien Workers
On March 1, 2025, President Donald J. Trump signed Executive Order 14224, making English the official language of the federal government. To most Americans, that move seemed natural, if not overdue. But within minutes, predictable corners of the country erupted in protest, suggesting the apocalypse had arrived.
One Nation, One Language: Why Declaring English Isn’t Bigotry—It’s Common Sense
Uncontrolled migration empowers the cruel.
Child exploitation on California's weed farms show why controlled immigration is compassionate—open borders are not
California is behind an effort to force American taxpayers to fund English classes for illegal aliens.
Dem States Want American Taxpayers To Fund English Classes For Illegals
CIVIL WAR 2.0: J-6 FBI FALSE FLAG "RIOT" & AFTERMATH, LEFTIST PERSECUTIONS, DEMOCRAT PUTSCH, AMERICAN DISSOLUTION
Arcand admitted to throwing the Molotov cocktail, which failed to ignite, at the Republican Party office “to send a message against the corruption.” The suspect acted out of dissatisfaction with Trump administration policies, according to authorities.
‘Genderfluid’ 19-Year-Old Attempts to Firebomb GOP Office in Michigan
For decades, the political and corporate elite in America have not been held to proper account for monopoly abuse of power and corruption.
What If the Obama Plan to 'Fundamentally Transform' America is Already Underway?
THE ECONOMY, STUPID
. . .overall inflation isn’t showing tariff pressure. The increases were narrow and isolated. That’s not a trade-fueled inflation breakout—it’s a relative price reshuffling.
The Economy Passes the Tariff-Inflation Test
Trump told the press, “. ..it’s going to be—it could be a very big positive,” adding, “But I think it’s going to be a great incentive for a lot of people that really need money.”
President Trump Signals Support for Bill Eliminating Capital Gains Taxes on Home Sales
According to the president, Indonesia has agreed to a 19 percent tariff on its imported goods into the United States, while the United States will not pay any tariffs in the Indonesian market and will have “full access” to it.
Trump: Indonesia Agrees to Pay 19 Percent Tariff, Open Up Market to U.S. in Trade Deal
ISRAEL AND USA vs IRAN
Fox News reported that “a Customs and Border Protection (CBP) spokesman confirmed Tuesday that five Iranians were arrested while attempting to illegally cross the U.S. northern border with Canada.” CBP's Swanton Sector stated that “on July 1, Border Patrol Agents from the Champlain, New York Station, responded to suspicious activity near Mooers Forks, NY. Agents located a minivan occupied by five citizens of Iran and two citizens of Uzbekistan." Swanton, Vt., is a small town just south of the U.S.-Canadian border.
Robert Spencer: Either These Guys Were Very, Very Lost, Or They Were Up to No Good (Why are we not waterboarding the shit out of them? - jjs)
Netanyahu touted progress on the plan during a recent visit to the US
Israel Begins Talks With Countries That Could Take In Gazans Under Trump Plan
This proposal could be transformational for the region. (It's a ruse, another taqqiya sunrise; Islam never cedes land it controls or even controlled in the distant past, especially to Jews - jjs)
A Revolutionary 'Palestinian' Proposal for Peace
Iranian tyrants ramp up their torture of the Iranian people.
Mullahs’ Reign of Terror
ALan Dershowitz: It trivializes the powerful term “genocide” and applies it to nearly every war fought by democracies during the last century, especially those directed against terrorism and other forms of modern asymmetrical warfare.
There is no ‘genocide’ in Gaza — why the claim equals Holocaust denial
WE-ALL-SLAM-FOR-I-SLAM
And no Fatwas?
Naomi Wolf: Is it Okay to Love the America of No Cliterodectomies?
FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUES, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER TECH
MSNSDAP’s Vance: Anti-Deportation Protesters Might Exercise ‘Lawful Right’ to Attack ICE
During a recent appearance on MSNBC’s “Velshi,” MSNBC contributor Joyce Vance, also a law professor at the University of Alabama, argued that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents wearing masks during immigration enforcement could face “lawful” violence. (Dear ICE agents, take no chances shoot to kill on sight - jjs)
There’s a strange, unsettling irony in the endless chants for Donald Trump to release the so-called ‘Epstein names.’
The Epstein Diversion: How Economic Pain Spiraled into Social Media Self-Destruction
Three Republicans – Sens. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) and Susan Collins (R-Maine) – joined all Democrats in opposition to the bill.
Vance casts tie-breaking votes to move forward $9.4B rescissions package — which would defund PBS and NPR — in Senate
RED-GREENS, CLIMATE CHANGE HOAX, DEMOCRAT-LEFT WAR ON FOSSIL FUELS,
The announcement comes after GM CEO Mary Barra said in 2021 that the company would exclusively offer EVs by 2023, citing carbon emissions. (GM realizes Greenbacks >>> green energy - jjs)
General Motors Announces Plan to Expand Production of Gas-Powered Vehicles in Michigan
CRIME & PUNISHMENT, NON-DOSTOYEVSKY
Daniel Greenfield: "Maniac stabs man sleeping on NYC train multiple times in the head."
Mamdani Blames Trump, Not Subway Arsonists, Corpse Rapers and Head Stabbers, for Tourism Decline
The proceedings will take place at the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida and mark the first time a jury will hear arguments about the responsibility of Tesla’s Autopilot system in a fatal accident. The plaintiffs argue the company exaggerated the system’s capabilities and failed to include safety features that could have prevented the crash.
Musk’s Tesla Will Face Jury Trial Over Deadly Autopilot Crash.
EDUCATION, AND WHAT PASSES FOR IT
Michigan has a "history of downplaying its vulnerabilities to malign foreign influence."
Trump Admin Probes University’s Foreign Funding After Chinese Biohazard Smuggling Arrests
Robert Groves also defended an award the school gave to a Hamas-loving Qatari royal
Georgetown President Says He's 'Very Proud' of School's Relationship With Hamas-Friendly Qatar
DEI’s medical school infiltration is frightening.
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Update
‘I do not recall reading a single email you have sent to the GMU community … in which you solely denounced antisemitism,’ one professor wrote
George Mason Faculty Members Asked Their President To Denounce Anti-Semitism Like He Did Islamophobia. He Declined, Emails Show.
After the public University of North Texas (UNT) blacklisted and
dismissed professor Timothy Jackson from his job as editor of the music
history journal he founded in 2020 for daring to express some academic
conclusions the faculty and students didn’t like, he sued. After a five year battle, Jackson and the university have now settled
out of court, with the terms of the settlement [pdf] largely a big win
for Jackson.
Another win for a blacklisted professor
THE 2020 and SUBSEQUENT ELECTION HEISTS , SHENANIGANS/FRAUD and AFTERMATH
It is good officials are still digging into the 2020 election, but it is past time to repair the election process for future elections. (It must be stopped now or we will one day lose Texas and every election afterwards - jjs)
Exclusive: Hundreds Of Ballots Cast By More Than 100 Potential Noncitizens In Texas, AG Says
DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST AND RINO SCANDALS, MESHUGAS, CHUTZPOCRISY
“Joe Biden was the worst, most incompetent, and senile [so-called quote-unquote] president in our country's history.”
White House Reportedly Reviewing One Million Docs Approved By Biden Autopen
It is not the first time the issue of Schiff’s claims about his primary residence has come up. The difference now is that it has been criminally investigated. It was widely reported in 2023 — even by CNN — that Schiff claimed both his Maryland and California homes as primary residences.
Feds Find Adam ‘No One Is Above The Law’ Schiff-for-Brains Likely Committed Mortgage Fraud, Trump Says
As if watching Fauci, Comey, and Brennan getting perp-walked into Leavenworth prison for treason isn't reason enough to start day drinking... wink wink... mega-creepster and deep state yobbo California Sen. Adam Schiff, who lied and humiliated himself pushing the bogus "Trump-Russia collusion" codswallop, has been referred for criminal investigation by the Federal Housing Finance Agency.
I Love the Smell of Dem Panic in the Morning. It Smells Like Schiff (and Other Slimers).
Lawmakers voted along party lines against permitting Democrats to offer an amendment to force Attorney General Pam Bondi to publish any “records and evidence” regarding the federal government’s investigation into and incarceration of Epstein. House Democratic leadership has sought to put GOP lawmakers in politically uncharted territory by making them choose between compelling the Trump administration to release all records related to Epstein or deferring to the president’s judgement about which contents to make public on his timeline.
GOP Derails Second Democrat Effort To Unearth Epstein Files
Farra has a history of political contributions to Democrat causes, including a $10,000 donation to Newsom in 2018 and contributions to the Santa Barbara County Democrat Central Committee’s federal PAC and Rep. Salud Carbajal (D-CA).
Owner of Illegal Alien Weed Farm Is Newsom Donor.
Daniel Greenfield: Who else could have protected Epstein across three states and shut down a federal investigation?
The Jeffrey Epstein Story Begins and Ends with the Clintons
POLITICS
President Trump won in 2024 because of the reality on the ground. Republicans need to make sure that promises are kept for 2026.
Trump's Wins Now Need To Translate to Votes in 2026 And Beyond
“Just a very simple redrawing, we pick up five seats. We have a couple of other states where we’ll pick up seats also.”
Trump Says GOP Can Get Five More House Seats Redistricting Just One State
A frightening number of them still believe the big lie about Trump (which one, there are a half dozen or more - jjs)
Is There No Cure For Democrats’ Derangement?
Once again, Johnson seems inspired by The Shaggs as he picks up a poorly tuned guitar and attempts to turn a popular song into an anti-Trump earache. (Resembles the bastard child of Dr. Zaius and the Mugatu - jjs)
WATCH: Rep. Johnson Melts ‘Dreamsicle’ Into Musical Nightmare
California Governor Gavin Newsom has been boldly — and annoyingly — trying to make a case to Democrats to be the party's presidential nominee in 2028. Some may say it's a premature bid but, let's be honest, our presidential election cycles are practically endless now. For all intents and purposes, the 2028 primary season starts next Sunday, just after brunch.
The Kamala Harris-ing of Gavin Newsom Is Underway
THE UKRAINIAN "FRONT"
Trump, once vowing to end the Ukraine war in 24 hours, now arms Kyiv through NATO and threatens Putin.
How Trump, Biden’s Arms Shipments Differ: NATO Pays ‘100%’ for Ukraine
FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL
Jaishankar has not visited China in six years, so his trip to Beijing for the SCO foreign ministers’ event was taken as a sign of healing relations between India and China. Prime Minister Narendra Modi got the healing storyline rolling by meeting with Xi on the sidelines of another multilateral summit, the BRICS meeting in October 2024, two days after India and China signed a deal to back down from hostile confrontations along their unstable border in the Himalayas.
India’s Top Diplomat Visits China for First Time in 6 Years for Trade and Security Talks
Official figures reveal over 1.26 million migrants are now claiming Universal Credit in Britain, a sharp increase from 883,470 in 2022.
Over 1.2 Million Migrants on Welfare, 700,000 Jobless.
DEFENSE, MILITARY, SECURITY AFFAIRS
Fake MAGA influencers advance agendas aligned with hostile foreign states.
Foreign Bot Networks Are Trying to Take Down Trump
HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE
Reestablishing a culture of work via the reconciliation bill represents a hard-earned victory for common sense.
Report: Medicaid Recipients The GOP Made Work Part-Time Watch TV And ‘Relax’ 6 Hours A Day
This sort of profiteering by supposedly “charitable” institutions is unconscionable. It certainly qualifies as waste, fraud, and abuse of the system, and it’s made even worse by the industry in which it’s taking place: caring for sick people.
Waste, fraud, and abuse are hiding in plain sight at many American hospitals
With this effort, dozens of U.S. ice cream companies are pledging to eliminate the use of certified artificial colors Red 3, Red 40, Green 3, Blue 1, Blue 2, Yellow 5, and Yellow 6 from their ice cream and frozen dairy desserts by 2028. The Commitment represents companies making more than 90% of the ice cream volume sold in the United States.
MAHA: Nearly 35 Percent of U.S. Food Industry Has Committed to Removing Artificial Dyes
ACTUAL SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY
Because it will never get closer to the Sun then just inside the orbit of Mars, it is not likely it will ever get bright enough for naked eye observations. At the same time, it is large enough and will be close enough to make possible some excellent observations as it zips by and leaves the solar system sometime in the fall. The previous two identified interstellar objects, Oumuamua and Comet 21/Borisov, were either too small or too far away as they flew past to get this kind of good data.
First good image released of interstellar object 3I/Atlas as it plunges through the solar system
. . .astronomers have discovered the collision of two spiral galaxies that appears to have caused a supermassive black hole to collapse in its wake. . . .The team proposes that the black hole formed there via the direct collapse of a gas cloud – a process that may explain some of the incredibly massive black holes Webb has found in the early universe.
Webb spots aftermath of collision of two galaxies
FEMINAZISM, TRANSGENDER PSYCHOSIS, HOMOSEXUALIZATION, WAR ON MASCULINITY/NORMALCY
‘While young female athletes and students are forced to share single-sex spaces with biological males, leaders in states like California and Maine continue to play politics at the expense of women’s rights.’
Exclusive: 18 States Are Still Letting Dudes Dominate Girls’ Sports, Compliance Tracker Shows
CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE
Fulfillment theology not only fails to do justice to the actual Bible but also caricatures Christian Zionism, rooting it all in dispensationalism.
No, You Don’t Have To Be A Dispensationalist To Believe In Zionism
Christian Toto: Here's why we shouldn't trust far-left talkers on free speech rights (on anything! - jjs)
Late-Night Comics Pretend Trump May Come for Them Next
HITHER & YON
“Our hearts are heavy, yet rejoicing, as we share the news that our beloved pastor and teacher John MacArthur has entered into the presence of the Savior,” Grace to You wrote. “This evening, his faith became sight. He faithfully endured until his race was run.”
Evangelical Pastor, Author John MacArthur Dead at 86

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1 Its Hump Day

Posted by: rhennigantx at July 16, 2025 07:24 AM (gbOdA)

2 Hi, everyone!

Posted by: NR Pax at July 16, 2025 07:24 AM (BpO1e)

3 Good morning!

Let's smile & be happy & strike fear in the hearts of killjoy leftists everywhere.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 16, 2025 07:25 AM (u82oZ)

4 Thanks for the report JJ

Posted by: actually inside the beltway at July 16, 2025 07:26 AM (BW+Gb)

5 Yonder Horde

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 16, 2025 07:27 AM (Q4IgG)

6 Sesame Street in Iraq is most likely same as the fake Disney Channel in Gaza that had Mickey Mouse in a murder vest and carrying an AK.

Posted by: rhennigantx at July 16, 2025 07:28 AM (gbOdA)

7 “ The Lord is my strength and my defense; he has become my salvation. He is my God, and I will praise him, my father’s God, and I will exalt him.”

Exodus 15:2

Posted by: Marcus T at July 16, 2025 07:28 AM (O1nHK)

8
"shambling shit-stain of a subhuman"

J.J., tell us what you really think of her. No sugar-coating, please!

Posted by: Auspex at July 16, 2025 07:28 AM (Y8DZL)

9 Good morning horde!

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 16, 2025 07:29 AM (ExV1e)

10 "Where these sleeper cells may be is in plain sight."

If you see something, say something. And then be prepared to be called a racist and Islamaphobe.

Posted by: fd at July 16, 2025 07:29 AM (vFG9F)

11 Farfour the Hamas mouse

F A R Really hate them Jews
F O U R
U R going to Paradise as a Martyr
M O U S E

Posted by: rhennigantx at July 16, 2025 07:30 AM (gbOdA)

12 Did the J6 citizens have a right to defend themselves when they were led into a tunnel, tear-gassed and then beaten?

Posted by: Ordinary American at July 16, 2025 07:31 AM (WHfpM)

13 Putin has won pretty much all of what he wanted and is content to let Ukrainians die for the Wests War Machine.

Much like, the Deep State winning in Le Affair Epstein, it looks like the MiC has won in Ukraine.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 16, 2025 07:31 AM (XV/Pl)

14 @I used to have a different nic: I willowed a reply to you. Please see #157 (07:30 AM) to you in the tech thread.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at July 16, 2025 07:32 AM (O7YUW)

15 "Three Republicans – Sens. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) and Susan Collins (R-Maine) – joined all Democrats in opposition to the bill. "

Ahggg. Will no one 86 these amphibian turncoats?

To clarify, by "86" I mean "remove from the menu".

Posted by: fd at July 16, 2025 07:33 AM (vFG9F)

16 Genderfluid definition?

I KNOW THIS ONE!

A person who takes the position that whatever pronoun you pick will be wrong, and I will be offended, making me morally superior.

Posted by: But I'm a Hero, the media says so at July 16, 2025 07:34 AM (F/35S)

17 @J.J. Sefton: "I may not know, nor do I really want to know the definition of "genderfluid,"

Batshit insane. That's the definition.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at July 16, 2025 07:34 AM (O7YUW)

18 “Mexico sustainable landscapes consultant”

Juan 1 and Juan 2

Posted by: rhennigantx at July 16, 2025 07:34 AM (gbOdA)

19 6 Sesame Street in Iraq is most likely same as the fake Disney Channel in Gaza that had Mickey Mouse in a murder vest and carrying an AK.
Posted by: rhennigantx at July 16, 2025 07:28 AM (gbOdA)

FYI: I have a hyperlink to MEMRI about Farfour in that section of my editorial.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 16, 2025 07:35 AM (x0n13)

20 The UK has been overrun by the unorganized caliphate.

But resistance is possible.
https://gatesofvienna.net/2025/07/ crown-crescent-pitchfork-part-seven/
Mind the gap.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 16, 2025 07:35 AM (u82oZ)

21 Ahggg. Will no one 86 these amphibian turncoats?

To clarify, by "86" I mean "remove from the menu".
Posted by: fd at July 16, 2025 07:33 AM (vFG9F)

Collins's popularity in Maine is plummeting.

Posted by: Ordinary American at July 16, 2025 07:35 AM (WHfpM)

22 The left won’t even recognize they have third-worlded our country.

Police and other law enforcement having to wear masks to do their jobs to prevent being identified and then being killed, or their families being killed, is part & parcel of every country south of the border down to Argentina.

They are getting what they wanted and complain about it every step of the way.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 16, 2025 07:37 AM (6ydKt)

23
18 “Mexico sustainable landscapes consultant”

Juan 1 and Juan 2
Posted by: rhennigantx at July 16, 2025 07:34 AM (gbOdA)

Hose A and Hose B hardest hit...

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 16, 2025 07:37 AM (x0n13)

24 "Late-Night Comics Pretend Trump May Come for Them Next"

Jimmy Kimmel seen crying on Trevor Noah's shoulder. Stephen Colbert seen desperately trying to be relevant.

Posted by: NR Pax at July 16, 2025 07:38 AM (BpO1e)

25 Et tu, Brute?

That's what I've said. When, hopefully soon, there's a vacancy on the court, a replacement for chief justice should be announced, not an associate. Kick Roberts out.

Posted by: Orange Chicken at July 16, 2025 07:38 AM (0eaVi)

26 Susie Wiles was interviewed by New York Post's Miranda Devine in her podcast. Wiles comes off as very genuine, down to earth while handling a demanding job. Yes, partisan hacks have no place in this White House.

Posted by: JM in Illinois at July 16, 2025 07:40 AM (e+Yrg)

27 But the same president who vowed to end the war in 24 hours has lost patience with Putin after six months.

Translation: America Last Because Trump's Vanity.

Still better than the alternative.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 16, 2025 07:40 AM (a4flb)

28 Who determines what the Epstein Files actually are? What would happen if they have become the "epstein files", like Bubba's "noose", received a Microsoft "system update", or "independent audit from a non-partisan group".

Posted by: Micky Dolenz at July 16, 2025 07:42 AM (m/1AG)

29
Texans killed in flooding: 100% the fault of Texas government and Trump.

California collapse: How could we have known this was going to happen???

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 16, 2025 07:43 AM (HZi96)

30 I say it's worth it just to see the advent of the Falafel Monster.

Sorry, Bert and Ernie. Hope you're not afraid of heights.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 16, 2025 07:43 AM (RlmPm)

31 21 Collins's popularity in Maine is plummeting.
Posted by: Ordinary American at July 16, 2025 07:35 AM (WHfpM)

Well, Maine did get rid of Olympia Snowe, but Angus King is a waste of space.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 16, 2025 07:43 AM (x0n13)

32 Project Connect was a $7.1 billion initiative, with $4.8 billion allocated to a 27-mile, multiline rail system. It aimed to serve 81,700 riders per day, linking Austin–Bergstrom International Airport to downtown.

1. There is no place downtown to Park whereas the airport has over 15k parking places.
b. Once downtown the core industries are govt and ed. Most of the new business near Austin is about 15 miles from downtown (Dell Tesla).
iii. Public transit ridership is dropping by 10% every 10 years in major Texas cities.

Posted by: rhennigantx at July 16, 2025 07:44 AM (gbOdA)

33 Hadrian the Seventh

The lack of symmetry is amazing.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 16, 2025 07:44 AM (u82oZ)

34 The left won’t even recognize they have third-worlded our country.

Know how hockey teams have mid-talent players who are the designated goons to enforce and protect the star players?

ICE could recruit some equivalents on to the payroll who can wear whatever the hell they want and their role is to work-over any "protestor" that decides to interfere in normal ICE operations.

Give them nominal training in law enforcement and level five Krav Maga training.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 16, 2025 07:45 AM (a4flb)

35 Good morning Horde, happy Humpday. Thx JJ
Genderfluid=sometimes you feel like a nut , sometimes you don't . But you're always insane

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 16, 2025 07:45 AM (volu5)

36 Carried over, in case G&R is here...

Are you getting out of Tech for good?

I'm retiring so, yes. Things were great back in the day... working on exciting stuff, colleagues were smart, wringing every available bit out of the system.

But then the money guys took over. Nothing had to be good, just good enough. Every new "miracle technology" had to have a dev team thrown at it for just long enough to have PITA code sprinkled throughout everywhere until the money guys realized that the payoff, assuming there was one, was a decade away and the whole thing was scrapped. Constant tooling changes so the new director could show that "they'd made an impact". And all that papered over by the increased power in the system.

And now we have new "engineers" who cheated their way through school and don't UNDERSTAND anything and don't have the foundation necessary to learn anything even if they were given the time and coaching needed.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 16, 2025 07:46 AM (ExV1e)

37 Mornin’, All. Happy Wednesday.

Posted by: Bulg at July 16, 2025 07:46 AM (77rzZ)

38 J.J. Sefton

Thank you, again. The personal commentary makes the data pop in a good way.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 16, 2025 07:46 AM (u82oZ)

39 Hose A and Hose B hardest hit...
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 16, 2025 07:37 AM (x0n13)

Whore A had to drop prices down to 15 bux.

Posted by: rhennigantx at July 16, 2025 07:46 AM (gbOdA)

40 But the same president who vowed to end the war in 24 hours has lost patience with Putin after six months.

Translation: America Last Because Trump's Vanity.

Still better than the alternative.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 16, 2025 07:40 AM (a4flb)

I never believed Trump could end the war in 24 hours so that didn’t really bother me much. I just took it as another one of salesman Trump exaggerating the benefits of his product.

Even if Trump had cut off all arms sales & deliveries on day one the Ukes had enough to get them by for six months, and the EU would’ve backstopped them with their own supplies.

I’ve been thinking for months now that the only participant who wants to end the war is Trump, and he’s found that out the hard way since January.

It will end when Putin wants it to end, it seems.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 16, 2025 07:47 AM (6ydKt)

41 Bulg

How are you doing, behind enemy lines?

Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 16, 2025 07:47 AM (u82oZ)

42 represents companies making more than 90% of the ice cream volume sold in the United States.
MAHA: Nearly 35 Percent of U.S. Food Industry Has Committed to Removing Artificial Dyes

===

ok, sounds good. they can replace DEI and other nonsense cooked up by the marxists, with MAHA

Posted by: runner at July 16, 2025 07:47 AM (g47mK)

43 Give them nominal training in law enforcement and level five Krav Maga training.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 16, 2025 07:45 AM (a4flb)

Jew-jitsu?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 16, 2025 07:47 AM (RlmPm)

44 26 Susie Wiles was interviewed by New York Post's Miranda Devine in her podcast. Wiles comes off as very genuine, down to earth while handling a demanding job. Yes, partisan hacks have no place in this White House.
Posted by: JM in Illinois at July 16, 2025 07:40 AM (e+Yrg)

Had that link in yesterday's MR.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 16, 2025 07:48 AM (x0n13)

45 SpeakingOf

I can understand Putin's motivation, but his actions have mission-killed Russia. The loss of life casts a long shadow, as WWII losses did for the USSR.

Do not approve. One star.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 16, 2025 07:49 AM (u82oZ)

46 Give them nominal training in law enforcement and level five Krav Maga training.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 16, 2025 07:45 AM (a4flb)

And a good piece of hickory

Posted by: Preacher at July 16, 2025 07:49 AM (/6GbT)

47 Thanks for my morning newspaper, JJ.

Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at July 16, 2025 07:49 AM (SfhV1)

48 BOING!

To the pool! Then friends coming for some appetizers and drinks before heading out together to a local restaurant for dinner.

Busy day. Maybe l8r.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at July 16, 2025 07:50 AM (4tvN6)

49 Republican Congresswoman Elvira Salazar has done her biennial submission of her "Dignity Act" immigration reform bill. SSDD. This time, in addition to Amnesty, she's tacked on a provision making it illegal for ICE to arrest people in schools, welfare offices, or "places of worship."

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at July 16, 2025 07:50 AM (Y7FQD)

50 39 Hose A and Hose B hardest hit...
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 16, 2025 07:37 AM (x0n13)

Whore A had to drop prices down to 15 bux.
Posted by: rhennigantx at July 16, 2025 07:46 AM (gbOdA)

Whore Hay mattresses on sale at Bed Bath and Beyond 50% off

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 16, 2025 07:50 AM (x0n13)

51 ‘Genderfluid’ 19-Year-Old Attempts to Firebomb GOP Office in Michigan

Genderfluid should be changed on the same schedule as your Blinker Fluid.
And Remember that GM and Ford are different.

Posted by: rhennigantx at July 16, 2025 07:51 AM (gbOdA)

52 Know how hockey teams have mid-talent players who are the designated goons to enforce and protect the star players?

ICE could recruit some equivalents on to the payroll who can wear whatever the hell they want and their role is to work-over any "protestor" that decides to interfere in normal ICE operations.

Give them nominal training in law enforcement and level five Krav Maga training.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 16, 2025 07:45 AM (a4flb)

They are supposed to be hiring 10,000 new agents with the budget increase from the BBB.

They could surely put a large number of them to good use as linebackers against the protesters and hooligans and shit-stirrers around during operations.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 16, 2025 07:51 AM (6ydKt)

53 I loved Farfour, the Hamas Mouse as a child! It was on Saturday AM between the Banana Splits and Fireball XL-5. Big part of my education.

Posted by: Little Abdul at July 16, 2025 07:52 AM (G5+As)

54 Israel Begins Talks With Countries That Could Take In Gazans Under Trump Plan

Free Palestine with the Purchase of equal value Palestine.

Posted by: rhennigantx at July 16, 2025 07:53 AM (gbOdA)

55 It will end when Putin wants it to end, it seems.

Everyone on the planet knows this. That is why the Forever War people encouraged it so that Putin will be the focus of the hate while the Forever War beneficiaries make off with hundreds of billions of dollars.

Putin is used to the West hating him because he knows most of it is synthesized by the propaganda press and weak minded consumers of propaganda.

So we don't talk about how Zelenskyys is now a multi-millionaire and soon to be worth billions just like Yasser Arafat. War is good for the underdog in a NeoCon war.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 16, 2025 07:53 AM (a4flb)

56 Have a great day, everyone.

May a cloud-dappled sky shield you from an oppressive heat pressure caused by fission action at a distance of 1 astronomical units.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 16, 2025 07:53 AM (u82oZ)

57 I think Putin's still butthurt over the creative drone attack Ukraine (with, ahem, help) pulled off earlier that destroyed a significant percentage of Russia's long range military aviation assets. The implications of that go far beyond what's happening in Ukraine/Crimea.

Putin's on a revenge tour.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 16, 2025 07:53 AM (Q4IgG)

58 You have a wonderful day as well; hoping your head is well.

Trump Ukraine: Scratching my head as well. Me thinks Putin really pissed him off in their talk... Time will tell. Perhaps this is another move to force Europe to take leadership on THEIR issue. After all, Rutte just told him America "is the world police." Fvcker.

Posted by: Danimal28 at July 16, 2025 07:53 AM (klw0w)

59 53 I loved Farfour, the Hamas Mouse as a child! It was on Saturday AM between the Banana Splits and Fireball XL-5. Big part of my education.
Posted by: Little Abdul at July 16, 2025 07:52 AM (G5+As)

The writers and directors of the Splits did serious amounts of drugs.

Posted by: rhennigantx at July 16, 2025 07:53 AM (gbOdA)

60 Watched the video of the "genderfluid" bomber throw his Molotov cocktail. I know a lot of ladies who throw better than that guy. The bottle he threw probably didn't even break when it hit the wall

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 16, 2025 07:55 AM (volu5)

61 Fusion. Damm AI in my test generation. Now GTG.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 16, 2025 07:56 AM (u82oZ)

62 Austin’s Public Transit Bait-and-Switch

I think all the people who have, historically, voted against the stupid have moved out of Austin so I anticipate a future multi-trillion dollar high-speed line to connect north Austin to south Austin.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 16, 2025 07:56 AM (ExV1e)

63 53 I loved Farfour, the Hamas Mouse as a child! It was on Saturday AM between the Banana Splits and Fireball XL-5. Big part of my education.
Posted by: Little Abdul at July 16, 2025 07:52 AM (G5+As)

Dastardly and Muzzly . . .

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 16, 2025 07:56 AM (x0n13)

64 41 Salty, I’m OK. Got my second colonoscopy scheduled yesterday. Yay!

Posted by: Bulg at July 16, 2025 07:56 AM (77rzZ)

65 I'm retiring so, yes. Things were great back in the day... working on exciting stuff, colleagues were smart, wringing every available bit out of the system.

all of that sounds exactly accurate, I Used to Have...

tech is still in a bubble, a really long one. it's a hot mess.

enjoy retirement!

Posted by: Black Orchid at July 16, 2025 07:57 AM (Pv3Rg)

66 45 I can understand Putin's motivation, but his actions have mission-killed Russia. The loss of life casts a long shadow, as WWII losses did for the USSR.

Do not approve. One star.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 16, 2025 07:49 AM (u82oZ)

I’m positive Putin thought this thing would be over by the end of 2022.

But now he’s in and can’t stop until he’s redrawn the map the way he wants it.

The Russians see this war as existential at this point, so they’ll keep going and win through attrition if nothing else.

But it’s going to be damaging once the smoke clears.

They’ve already been forced to invite in a million Indian workers in certain regions of Russia due to manpower shortages across the country.

They’re really going to be feeling the effects from this war for quite some time. But that’s tomorrow and they’ll worry about tomorrow later on.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 16, 2025 07:58 AM (6ydKt)

67 At the end of Trump's fifty day warning to Putin there may not be much left of the Ukraine east of the Dneiper. The Ukrainian are running low on men and can't plug the holes that the Russians are creating at different points along the front. Add in Russian drone and missile strikes and this is a serious bad time for the Ukraine

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 16, 2025 08:00 AM (volu5)

68 Former Intelligence people that dealt with Russia, say Putin is just protecting his vast fortune, and does not the war to end. Because if it does end, the Russian people will finally turn on him

Posted by: Jonah at July 16, 2025 08:00 AM (YCxFk)

69 I don't think there's a lot to unpack in Trump's pivot to supporting Ukraine more directly.

He tried. Zelenskyy kicked up a fuss but eventually decided to play ball. Putin was sweetness and light and then pissed in the geopolitical wheaties. So "All right, well fuck ya then" is a perfectly rational policy directive.

I'm just speculating that the rationale for ending the war isn't just that "War is Bad", but that this is a war that won't end itself, and the longer it goes on, the better the perverts and scumbags running it are making out from it. Kick over the bucket of stagnant water and the mosquitoes won't be able to breed there anymore. Or something like that.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 16, 2025 08:01 AM (RlmPm)

70 So Mitch is really showing his true colors.

Posted by: WisRich at July 16, 2025 08:01 AM (+xcAz)

71 This festering, gaping, sewage-seeping sepsis, shambling shit-stain of a subhuman, Jasmine Crockett, will never grasp that the
100% Islamic Middle Eastern countries have been "radicalized" against western civilization for nigh on 1,500 years.

I had to edit this so all of her carefully explained characteristics are in one place. This is worthy of 11 stars.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at July 16, 2025 08:01 AM (NXz8h)

72 NATO is a paper tiger, who started this war by teasing Ukraine membership. Let the dimwitted Europeans deal with this shit from now on

Posted by: Jonah at July 16, 2025 08:02 AM (YCxFk)

73 How's that working out for you?

"USAID must fund the children’s television program at the American taxpayers’ expense because it stops other countries from being “radicalized” against the U.S."

Posted by: Dr. Phil at July 16, 2025 08:02 AM (ArWDi)

74 Willowed: It's an opiate/opioid and all the negatives associate with them applies.
Posted by: pawn at July 16, 2025
__________

Her Majesty was on it after the pain management for her knee replacement went disastrously wrong. The effects were awful. Poor thing was in agony from the pain and in agony from the hydrocodone.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 16, 2025

***
What kind of pain did the hydrocodone cause?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 16, 2025 08:02 AM (omVj0)

75 @28

>>Who determines what the Epstein Files actually are?

How about this, produce all of the unredacted search warrants for Epsteins homes and devices.

How about we start there.

Also release Epstein's combined IC/LE dossier and all of the work product.

Remember, Blondi went on FOX and was screeching about the SDNY witholding documents, what were they withholding?

Again, the administration brought this onto themselves and if they think they can simply hand wave all of this away, they are kidding themselves.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 16, 2025 08:03 AM (XV/Pl)

76 Like Romney retiring, Mitch's will be a GOP pickup in 2026.

Was only good on Judges

Posted by: Jonah at July 16, 2025 08:03 AM (YCxFk)

77 "And now we have new "engineers" who cheated their way through school and don't UNDERSTAND anything and don't have the foundation necessary to learn anything even if they were given the time and coaching needed."

It's shocking to hear some of them try to explain things when you can get them to actually interact with you. They know they are in over their heads.

Lord help us in 10 years or so.

Posted by: pawn at July 16, 2025 08:04 AM (QB+5g)

78 Morning all.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 16, 2025 08:04 AM (gdBb2)

79 Burger King worker, mom of 3 Nykia Hamilton forced to run South Carolina store by herself: ‘Nobody wants to work anymore’

--

I gotta give props to this young woman. I can't believe that the franchise owner didn't at least show up to help her. She's 100% right...nobody wants to work anymore. It's a trend that desperately needs to end.

Posted by: Lady in Black at July 16, 2025 08:05 AM (qBdHI)

80 Mitch actually voted without drooling. Will wonders never cease.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 16, 2025 08:05 AM (volu5)

81 While the Epstein files release/non-release drama continues, I am at a loss as to what President Trump is thinking on this

Neither do I. We have no business in Ukraine. I would happily make arrangements for an American Battalion, similar to the Spanish Civil War, to tell the warmongerers to go over there and fight themselves. No blood for that corrupt shithole.

WRT Epstein, I am angry that there seems to be a half-assed coverup with the condescending tone of "well, you proles wouldn't understand why we have to keep it secret, but trust us!". However, to paraphrase another commenter from yesterday, if hiding the identities of famous pedos leads to arrest and summary execution of the traitors who orchestrated the coup against Teh Donald, then that is a trade I can live with.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at July 16, 2025 08:06 AM (Dg2sF)

82 I like to regurgitate the nonsense I see on TikTok, but sometimes I don't spell words correctly!

Posted by: Aliassmithsmith... the anal behind anal sex at July 16, 2025 08:06 AM (zlWsb)

83 When Trump was on the brink of Dying in prison, Rino's jumping ship etc.. in 2022 Bondi stood by him.

She is loyal. Epstein is not her call. Obvious the list is a National Security problem. Many on the list are deep cover CIA with ongoing cases.

Trump screwed up by saying he would release after he won for sure

Posted by: Jonah at July 16, 2025 08:06 AM (YCxFk)

84 Morning again, everyone,

Miss Linda, who has been sleeping here so that she can take care of me, is getting cleaned up and dressed. She'll come with me to the doctor, and then to Target where I'll have the new Rx filled. We need some groceries too. It's going to rain heavily the next few days.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 16, 2025 08:06 AM (omVj0)

85 79 Burger King worker, mom of 3 Nykia Hamilton forced to run South Carolina store by herself: ‘Nobody wants to work anymore’

--

I gotta give props to this young woman. I can't believe that the franchise owner didn't at least show up to help her. She's 100% right...nobody wants to work anymore. It's a trend that desperately needs to end.

Posted by: Lady in Black at July 16, 2025 08:05 AM (qBdHI)

Or was it the BK hired a bunch of illegals vs teenagers and retirees b/c the illegals could work any and all hours, and now they aren't coming to work anymore...

Posted by: Nova Local at July 16, 2025 08:06 AM (tOcjL)

86 Mitch actually voted without drooling. Will wonders never cease.
Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 16, 2025 08:05 AM (volu5)

Well, it's because he was doing what he truly loved. Screwing over Republican voters.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 16, 2025 08:07 AM (0eaVi)

87 >>>Michigan has a "history of downplaying its vulnerabilities to malign foreign influence."

Not to mention its team doctor digitally raping hundreds of football players in the 70s and 80s, its basketball program cheating its ass off during the Fab Five era in the 90s and its football program cheating its ass off from 2020 - 2023.

Posted by: one hour sober at July 16, 2025 08:07 AM (Y1sOo)

88 Trump Ukraine: Scratching my head as well.

Particularly since Trump decided to harass Iran and encourage a missile firing nation to attack American bases.

So naturally, he gave away missile defense systems that would be used to protect American military bases to Europe so that they can give them to Ukraine (minus the usual vig).

The US builds maybe 500 Patriot missiles a year, and just handling Iran's temper tantrum over the Big Beautiful Bombing a good chunk of the already small inventory was exhausted.

Now Trump is picking fights in China's AO.

Maybe Trump knows that he will never get a Nobel, and he needed the Neocons to get the B³ passed, so this is just the price to pay for our tax cuts and border defense.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 16, 2025 08:07 AM (a4flb)

89 Nope. [CBD]

Posted by: Jonah at July 16, 2025 08:08 AM (YCxFk)

90 @69

>>He tried. Zelenskyy kicked up a fuss but eventually decided to play ball. Putin was sweetness and light and then pissed in the geopolitical wheaties. So "All right, well fuck ya then" is a perfectly rational policy directive.

Again, but what is the end goal? Putin giving up the territory he's won?

That's not happening short of NATO, ie US boots on the ground.

So, continuing to feed the Ukraine meat grinder only enriches the MIC and a Zelensky and loots the US treasury.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 16, 2025 08:08 AM (XV/Pl)

91 I care much less about arming Ukraine if the European countries that are pushing the war are paying for the arms.

And that's what President Trump said... if they want to send them to Ukraine, he would SELL arms to Europe.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (with a beret and a Gauloises) at July 16, 2025 08:08 AM (L5An7)

92 Wolfus,

Be honest with yourself.

You know what I'm talking about.

Posted by: pawn at July 16, 2025 08:09 AM (QB+5g)

93 Nope. [CBD]

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at July 16, 2025 08:09 AM (Qf511)

94 Trump screwed up by saying he would release after he won for sure

"after" = anytime after Jan 20, 2025 until the day before Never.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 16, 2025 08:11 AM (a4flb)

95 Don't feed the trolls.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (with a beret and a Gauloises) at July 16, 2025 08:11 AM (L5An7)

96 so, here is my idea, those who paste troll stuff get booted with the trolls....

Posted by: runner at July 16, 2025 08:11 AM (g47mK)

97 that is the only way!

Posted by: runner at July 16, 2025 08:11 AM (g47mK)

98 Wolfus,

Be honest with yourself.

You know what I'm talking about.
Posted by: pawn at July 16, 2025

***
You mean the potential for addiction or dependence with opioids? Yes, of course. That was why I said I didn't want something strong to start with. But the pain has been more than I expected.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 16, 2025 08:11 AM (omVj0)

99 Biden let them in against the law. We're kicking them out based on the law. Pretty simple.

Posted by: Ordinary American at July 16, 2025 08:11 AM (WHfpM)

100 We need some groceries too. It's going to rain heavily the next few days.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 16, 2025 08:06 AM (omVj0)

Buy a small boat.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 16, 2025 08:11 AM (0eaVi)

101 @36/I used to have a different nic: "Carried over, in case G&R is here...
I'm retiring so, yes.'

Yup, I'm here still.

Congratulations. I'm glad you're getting out of tech as well. Everything you wrote was spot on, and I'm just waiting for the failure cascade from those "engineers" you mentioned having been involved in the design and building of various things and systems we rely on as a society.

Gonna be a LOT of downtime, with much headscratching and "I dunno, it used to work..." Keep your important stuff stand-alone.

Really gonna suck when that's our "It's up for a few hours every day, IF we're lucky" powergrid.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at July 16, 2025 08:12 AM (O7YUW)

102 Or was it the BK hired a bunch of illegals vs teenagers and retirees b/c the illegals could work any and all hours, and now they aren't coming to work anymore...

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I've heard too many stories to count of people just not wanting to work to believe it's anything other than a bad trend. Just personally, I know many business owners that can't keep employees anymore. These are people that don't hire illegals. They can't get employees to show up. When they do, they don't want to put in what's necessary to get the job done, and then they just stop coming in and quit on a dime's notice. It's a definite pattern.

Posted by: Lady in Black at July 16, 2025 08:12 AM (qBdHI)

103 And that's what President Trump said... if they want to send them to Ukraine, he would SELL arms to Europe.

So next time a barrage of missiles comes hurtling towards any one of the hundreds of US bases spread around the planet, what are they going to do use a T-Shirt cannon to shoot wads of Eurodollars at the incoming missiles?

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 16, 2025 08:13 AM (a4flb)

104 I gotta give props to this young woman. I can't believe that the franchise owner didn't at least show up to help her. She's 100% right...nobody wants to work anymore.

It's a trend that desperately needs to end.
Posted by: Lady in Black

Stop fucking feeding them. No workee, no eatee.
No workee, no homee.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 16, 2025 08:13 AM (gdBb2)

105 There is a huge difference between Anne Frank running for her life to Holland during WWII and Juan Perez running to America for a job in 2025.

That somebody would even compare the two shows me that history is nothing but a propaganda angle for silly cultists bent on erasing America’s borders while letting every country that isn’t inhabited by a white peoples keep their own.

Jews don’t vote left because of Anne Frank, they vote Democrat because so many are overeducated, indoctrinated, urban, leftists who think socialism is the answer.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 16, 2025 08:13 AM (6ydKt)

106 We need some groceries too. It's going to rain heavily the next few days.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 16, 2025
*
Buy a small boat.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 16, 2025

***
Fortunately the West Bank never floods seriously near where I live, and the apartments and condos here are at a fairly high level for this swamp. And I'll park my car in the back lot, which is a bit higher still.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 16, 2025 08:13 AM (omVj0)

107 Nice to see the feds changing gears and going after a business owner for importing slave labor for his food trucks, which are most likely nasty but stupid people who think they are all hip and cool will visit a food truck and wonder why they end up not shitting right for a few weeks. Be kind to your shitter, avoid food trucks.

Posted by: Good Advice at July 16, 2025 08:14 AM (lX1hk)

108 You mean the potential for addiction or dependence with opioids? Yes, of course. That was why I said I didn't want something strong to start with. But the pain has been more than I expected.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 16, 2025 08:11 AM (omVj0)

Oh, I forgot to ask and didn't read anything since yesterday. What procedure did the surgeon use? The old cut open across, or three hole system?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 16, 2025 08:14 AM (0eaVi)

109 > This comes amid concerns that the Islamic Republic is bent on avenging the strikes on its nuclear program with strikes of its own inside the U.S. Jonathan Gilliam, a former FBI special agent, explained: "Where these sleeper cells may be is in plain sight.
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Thousands of Middle Eastern men, most of them single, entered the country illegally under *biden's reign. So did a record number of single Chinese men. Personally, I have no doubt those men are here to do harm.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 16, 2025 08:14 AM (Q4IgG)

110 enjoy retirement!
Posted by: Black Orchid at July 16, 2025 07:57 AM (Pv3Rg)

Wife thinks she wants to "go places" so I'm gonna chauffer her around the country.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 16, 2025 08:15 AM (ExV1e)

111 Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 16, 2025 08:13 AM (a4flb)

Pay attention to what the President and the Secretary of Defense have said about the issue.

They will not jeopardize American security. If we have the arms then they will sell them.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (with a beret and a Gauloises) at July 16, 2025 08:15 AM (L5An7)

112 47 Thanks for my morning newspaper, JJ.

Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at July 16, 2025 07:49 AM (SfhV1)

Thank you, grammie. Instead of flapping open newsprint, I reach for my laptop in the morning and head to AOS for the Morning Report.

Posted by: moki at July 16, 2025 08:15 AM (wLjpr)

113 I've heard too many stories to count of people just not wanting to work to believe it's anything other than a bad trend.

But if we only embrace socialism and impose a UBI, then surely the work ethic will return and people will be willing to work whatever it takes to make the franchise owner happy.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 16, 2025 08:15 AM (a4flb)

114 89 82. Not to feed the troll, but you do realize Trump has Jewish Grandchildren right?
Posted by: Jonah at July 16, 2025 08:08 AM (YCxFk)

Engaging with troll dribblings as if there was any conversation or argument to actually be had there is like trying to teach yourself algebraic topology by poking bear scat with a stick, or trying to convince the ex-girlfriend who's currently in the act of vandalizing your truck in your driveway that she actually was factually incorrect about something and she should probably calm down.

It's like trying to stop an armed mugger by quoting Rothbard at him.

It's like trying to teach a dog a trick while it has 1.5 of your testicles between its teeth.

There's nothing to be gained. It's a kafkatrap.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 16, 2025 08:16 AM (RlmPm)

115
lol, jazzy ratchet spoke at the TX Democrats press conference yesterday about the racist gerrymandering she enjoys -- and boy howdy did she drop her fake ghetto accent and she spoke proper!

Posted by: Soothsayer at July 16, 2025 08:16 AM (PtCPU)

116 @Wolfus: Hydrocodone (Vicodin) works exceptionally well for me, except for the fact that it makes me feel like lead has been poured in my veins 20 minutes after I take it. (I feel very sluggish and weighted down.) Three days into taking it, and I just feel generally unwell and want to stop taking it.

However, it works really well on sharp or intense pain. I just hate how the things make me feel otherwise. As long as that's only a couple of days, I can put up with the side effects.

(Figured you could use another data-point on the stuff.)

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at July 16, 2025 08:16 AM (O7YUW)

117 Oh, I forgot to ask and didn't read anything since yesterday. What procedure did the surgeon use? The old cut open across, or three hole system?
Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 16, 2025

***
He told me it would be a cut about "so long" (measuring with his fingers -- not very long at all), so I guess it's he former. I can remove the dressing tomorrow, shower, and replace the bandage with some gauze and tape, so I guess I'll get a look at the damage.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 16, 2025 08:17 AM (omVj0)

118 Thank you, grammie. Instead of flapping open newsprint, I reach for my laptop in the morning and head to AOS for the Morning Report.
Posted by: moki at July 16, 2025 08:15 AM (wLjpr)

You're supposed to be reading something else!!!

Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 16, 2025 08:17 AM (0eaVi)

119 Former Intelligence people that dealt with Russia, say Putin is just protecting his vast fortune, and does not the war to end. Because if it does end, the Russian people will finally turn on him
Posted by: Jonah at July 16, 2025 08:00 AM (YCxFk)

I suspect that "former Intelligence people" don't know their ass from a hole in a ground and are so used to just spewing out bullshit that they'll do it until their dying day.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 16, 2025 08:17 AM (ExV1e)

120 But then the money guys took over. Nothing had to be good, just good enough.

And now we have new "engineers"

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 16, 2025 07:46 AM (ExV1e)

In my little corner of the tech world the biggest downfall happened with your first sentence above: the money guys took over and the engineers became “those guys you have to pay” instead of “those intellectual assets who enable your business”… that started happening around 25 years ago and the chickens are definitely coming home to roost now. I see things at work now… behavioral pathologies I never would’ve dreamed of…. I’m glad I can retire “soon” (but not soon enough for my liking alas)

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 16, 2025 08:18 AM (6RwsA)

121 Official figures reveal over 1.26 million migrants are now claiming Universal Credit in Britain, a sharp increase from 883,470 in 2022.

Several towns did surveys (door to door) and found 8 out 10 migrant men do not work and 10 out of 10 women have employment outside the home.

The idea that workers from Shit Hole countries are going to come in and pay your pensions is like letting Cousin Eddy show up the Week after Thanksgiving with his RV in your driveway and you hope he only stays thru Christmas.

Posted by: rhennigantx at July 16, 2025 08:18 AM (gbOdA)

122 NATO is a paper tiger, who started this war by teasing Ukraine membership. Let the dimwitted Europeans deal with this shit from now on
Posted by: Jonah at July 16, 2025 08:02 AM (YCxFk)

And get the US out of NATO to put an exclamation point on that message.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 16, 2025 08:18 AM (ExV1e)

123
No one else noticed the fancy embroided jackets the Democrat gaslighters had special-made for themselves to go prison visiting?

They were dressed like they were responding to a disaster, which was the image they intended to convey.

Posted by: Soothsayer at July 16, 2025 08:18 AM (PtCPU)

124 Pay attention to what the President and the Secretary of Defense have said about the issue.

They will not jeopardize American security. If we have the arms then they will sell them.

How .... gullible ...

So I'm supposed to reject objective reality (under stocked Patriot missiles, inability to manufacture enough, and a proclivity to kick hornet's nests) and believe politicians?

The same people who you believe here has lied to us about a lot of other things. But this time they are ready to make pinky swears that this is the truth.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 16, 2025 08:18 AM (a4flb)

125 The Europeans are now buying our weapons to give to Ukraine. The Europeans also bought $9B in LNG from the Russians in 2023 and probably more last year. There are also sanction waivers and the dark fleet moving products out of Russia. Everyone is making money while Ukes and Russians die.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 16, 2025 08:19 AM (volu5)

126 @109

>>Thousands of Middle Eastern men, most of them single, entered the country illegally under *biden's reign. So did a record number of single Chinese men. Personally, I have no doubt those men are here to do harm.

The interesting thing about the Chinese is that they flowed up together but seemed to have a separate support apparatus, whereas the general migrants flows would layover in teaming camps, the Chinese would layup in hotels and seemed to have minders.

This was probably for forms of indentured servitude and slavery for the various organized Chinese Crime Syndicates.

Like did you know that the Chinese Control the legal pot industry in Maine and most of the North East?

I bet you didn't.

I wonder if the DOJ and FBI know this?

Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 16, 2025 08:19 AM (XV/Pl)

127 Good morning, J.J.
Good morning, Horde.

Posted by: Inogame at July 16, 2025 08:20 AM (53oGX)

128 He told me it would be a cut about "so long" (measuring with his fingers -- not very long at all), so I guess it's he former. I can remove the dressing tomorrow, shower, and replace the bandage with some gauze and tape, so I guess I'll get a look at the damage.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 16, 2025 08:17 AM (omVj0)

Yep, sounds like the old way. My incision was about five inches long. Same procedure for recovery, but I had staples. Did you have staples?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 16, 2025 08:20 AM (0eaVi)

129 : Hydrocodone (Vicodin) works exceptionally well for me, except for the fact that it makes me feel like lead has been poured in my veins 20 minutes after I take it. (I feel very sluggish and weighted down.) Three days into taking it, and I just feel generally unwell and want to stop taking it.

However, it works really well on sharp or intense pain. I just hate how the things make me feel otherwise. As long as that's only a couple of days, I can put up with the side effects.

(Figured you could use another data-point on the stuff.)
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at July 16, 2025

***
If I get to feeling leaden, Ill try a half tab, or go back to the Tramadol. Can't hurt to have the stuff in the med cabinet in case. I've never been one for pills; if I'm taking some (like Oxycodone) for pain, and the pain ends, I put the pills away and never think about them again.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 16, 2025 08:20 AM (omVj0)

130 So I'm supposed to reject objective reality (under stocked Patriot missiles, inability to manufacture enough, and a proclivity to kick hornet's nests) and believe politicians?

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 16, 2025 08:18 AM (a4flb)

I guess you didn't notice the presidential election in 2024.

Trump and Hegseth are different, and perhaps you should pay attention to what they are doing, not your extrapolation of Democrats and GOPe behavior to the issues.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (with a beret and a Gauloises) at July 16, 2025 08:21 AM (L5An7)

131 It's National Hot Dog Day.🌭

Posted by: redridinghood at July 16, 2025 08:21 AM (NpAcC)

132 "Trump, once vowing to end the Ukraine war in 24 hours, now arms Kyiv through NATO and threatens Putin."

A couple months ago I read an article, maybe linked by JJ or Ace, claiming Trump had played himself on peace in Ukraine. The author said Trump and the two Dear Leaders had completely different goals in the negotiations up to then. Trump believed he along with those two valued lives above all. Wrong. Putin and Little Z will keep feeding the meat-grinder forever if they can. The scales seem to have fallen from Trump's eyes about this.

Posted by: Gref at July 16, 2025 08:21 AM (aBgBM)

133 I gotta give props to this young woman. I can't believe that the franchise owner didn't at least show up to help her. She's 100% right...nobody wants to work anymore. It's a trend that desperately needs to end.
Posted by: Lady in Black at July 16, 2025 08:05 AM (qBdHI)

In a lot of places, government benefits will net you way more than starting pay AND still leave you with all your time free to get freaky in the club. Why work?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 16, 2025 08:22 AM (ExV1e)

134 Yep, sounds like the old way. My incision was about five inches long. Same procedure for recovery, but I had staples. Did you have staples?
Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 16, 2025

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I asked if I would need to have the stitches removed (as opposed to the modern dissolving stitches), and he didn't correct me when he said yes. So I suppose it was not staples.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 16, 2025 08:22 AM (omVj0)

135 Congress should do something about these hacks calling themselves judges.

Posted by: runner at July 16, 2025 08:23 AM (g47mK)

136 In my little corner of the tech world the biggest downfall happened with your first sentence above: the money guys took over and the engineers became “those guys you have to pay” instead of “those intellectual assets who enable your business”… that started happening around 25 years ago and the chickens are definitely coming home to roost now. I see things at work now… behavioral pathologies I never would’ve dreamed of…. I’m glad I can retire “soon” (but not soon enough for my liking alas)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 16, 2025

***
Even in '97 through 2000, I kept getting laid off from tech jobs in Denver. The routine you mention is even older than the turn of this century.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 16, 2025 08:24 AM (omVj0)

137 @130 the BBB contains big $ to rebuild our munitions stockpile. Biden's admin drained the stockpile horribly

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 16, 2025 08:25 AM (volu5)

138 It appears Margot Cleveland has uncovered the smoking gun document that proves the judical lawfare we have been seeing against the Trump administration is indeed a coordinated plan. A group of federal judges led by Boasberg assumed the Trump administration wouldn't follow the Constitution They admit they are biased against Trump.

It's time to start impeaching and defunding these courts.

https://tinyurl.com/mr22twa9

Posted by: JackStraw at July 16, 2025 08:25 AM (viF8m)

139 I asked if I would need to have the stitches removed (as opposed to the modern dissolving stitches), and he didn't correct me when he said yes. So I suppose it was not staples.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 16, 2025 08:22 AM (omVj0)

I'll compare procedures from my first one in 2009 and the next one in 2027 when I get Medicare. Unless I'm dead because of the BBB.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 16, 2025 08:25 AM (0eaVi)

140 I suspect that "former Intelligence people" don't know their ass from a hole in a ground and are so used to just spewing out bullshit that they'll do it until their dying day.

When I see the words "former Intelligence people" I also see John Brennan's face.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 16, 2025 08:26 AM (a4flb)

141 Obvious the list is a National Security problem. Many on the list are deep cover CIA with ongoing cases.

Here's the thing... the dirty secret that no one wants to admit.

Not one of us actually knows the truth about Epstein. Everyone has their theories, and they MIGHT be correct, but they also might not. The problem, at this point, is that Christ Himself could appear and tell you that there's nothing there and a significant fraction of the population would call him a liar.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 16, 2025 08:26 AM (ExV1e)

142 "Immigration is not a right guaranteed by the Constitution... Immigration is a privilege, granted by the people, to those we choose to admit."
Barbara Jordan, African-American civil rights leader.

Posted by: Ordinary American at July 16, 2025 08:26 AM (WHfpM)

143 Why would judges find it useful to belong to a Union?

Posted by: pudinhead at July 16, 2025 08:26 AM (W3T6M)

144 I gotta give props to this young woman. I can't believe that the franchise owner didn't at least show up to help her. She's 100% right...nobody wants to work anymore. It's a trend that desperately needs to end.
Posted by: Lady in Black

Yep. When I had my pizza shops, my biggest problem was staffing. I paid well and the employees were given some pretty good perks.

Still was very difficult to have a full compliment of crew every day.

Posted by: Tonypete at July 16, 2025 08:27 AM (cYBz/)

145 I guess you didn't notice the presidential election in 2024.

Trump and Hegseth are different, and perhaps you should pay attention to what they are doing, not your extrapolation of Democrats and GOPe behavior to the issues.

I want to play poker with you.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 16, 2025 08:27 AM (a4flb)

146 Congress should do something about these hacks calling themselves judges.

__________ __________

Congress should do something about a lot of things
But they won't.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at July 16, 2025 08:27 AM (hXMJW)

147 Whatever happened to booze as a painkiller?

Posted by: Bulg at July 16, 2025 08:28 AM (77rzZ)

148 >>Posted by: JackStraw at July 16, 2025 08:25 AM (viF8m)

Damn. That's quite the Scoop.

Posted by: garrett at July 16, 2025 08:28 AM (oSEaw)

149 On the topic of drug use for pain...

A few months back, I took a spill at work and sprained my knee. I'm going through PT but the pain gets its moments where things are really bad.

Last night, I took Tramadol and Melatonin. Absolute oblivion masquerading as sleep. And then I looked at my clock and saw that I'd only been out for 2 hours. I really have to find a better sleep aid.

Posted by: NR Pax at July 16, 2025 08:29 AM (BpO1e)

150 Pay attention to what the President and the Secretary of Defense have said about the issue.

They will not jeopardize American security. If we have the arms then they will sell them.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (with a beret and a Gauloises) at July 16, 2025 08:15 AM (L5An7)
*****
I'm good with that. I think it's a brilliant idea.

Posted by: redridinghood at July 16, 2025 08:29 AM (NpAcC)

151
It appears Margot Cleveland has uncovered the smoking gun document that proves the judical lawfare we have been seeing against the Trump administration is indeed a coordinated plan.

_________

Smoking gun or BOMBSHELL!! smoking gun?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 16, 2025 08:30 AM (HZi96)

152 Miss us yet?

Posted by: Fifty year old white guys at July 16, 2025 08:30 AM (XQo4F)

153 Trump was pushed into a corner by Putin by violating his own rule. He suspended the Ukrainian weapons shipments before seeing if Putin would keep his word.

From what I gathered from reports and Trump’s own words is that Putin agreed not to implement any major offensive operations. Not only did Putin do it he started the biggest offensive operation of the war other than the initial attack.

Posted by: polynikes at July 16, 2025 08:31 AM (VofaG)

154 Everything you wrote was spot on, and I'm just waiting for the failure cascade from those "engineers" you mentioned having been involved in the design and building of various things and systems we rely on as a society.

I think it's one of the reasons why absolutely everyone must have a phone app. They tell themselves that Apple and Google will keep their OSes running so all they need to do is keep their backends up... what's that? We got hacked again? We've crashed for some unknown reason? Our data is corrupt?

Oh, woe is us.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 16, 2025 08:31 AM (ExV1e)

155 I have had a therapeutic dose of opiates in my blood since 2006. Never had a negative effect. Don't crave more. Don't get buzzed. Still able to be productive.

Posted by: Cooter Brown at July 16, 2025 08:31 AM (G5+As)

156 Austin’s Public Transit Bait-and-Switch

I think all the people who have, historically, voted against the stupid have moved out of Austin so I anticipate a future multi-trillion dollar high-speed line to connect north Austin to south Austin.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic

Houston actually completed their light rail. It connects the people on welfare in the fourth ward to the medical center, so they can easily travel to their free doctor visits under medicaid.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at July 16, 2025 08:31 AM (Vfq+S)

157 142 "Immigration is not a right guaranteed by the Constitution... Immigration is a privilege, granted by the people, to those we choose to admit."
Barbara Jordan, African-American civil rights leader.

Posted by: Ordinary American at July 16, 2025 08:26 AM (WHfpM)

The Leftists like to say, "We are a nation of immigrants!" They also like to say, "We all live on stolen land!"

Consistent hypocrisy. One of the many constants in Leftist Land.

Posted by: Gref at July 16, 2025 08:32 AM (aBgBM)

158 Posted by: JackStraw at July 16, 2025 08:25 AM (viF8m)

Tucker, to his credit, had on a guest about 18 months ago who said he knew of this plan being hatched at Georgetown Law School. I can't remember his name or find the clip. But he said that lawfare was the fail-safe plan if Trump won and that they were recruiting and drawing up the operation.

Posted by: Ordinary American at July 16, 2025 08:32 AM (WHfpM)

159 Even in '97 through 2000, I kept getting laid off from tech jobs in Denver. The routine you mention is even older than the turn of this century.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 16, 2025 08:24 AM (omVj0)

I believe that! As early as 1992 my then company hired a new CEO; the first time that company had a non-engineer as CEO. He promptly did massive layoffs which I somehow miraculously avoided. The graybeards who knew their craft survived and for about the next 10 years we still had a solid work culture

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 16, 2025 08:33 AM (WdMlw)

160
Last night, I took Tramadol and Melatonin. Absolute oblivion masquerading as sleep. And then I looked at my clock and saw that I'd only been out for 2 hours. I really have to find a better sleep aid.
Posted by: NR Pax at July 16, 2025

***
Same here: bed at nine, awake at midnight, dozing until one-fifteen (and another Tramadol), then dozing off and on until four. "Scruit, I'm getting up." I just haven't been sleeping well since the surgery -- can't seem to fall asleep for an afternoon nap, for example. Perhaps once our pains reduce far enough, it'll be easier to fall, and stay, asleep.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 16, 2025 08:33 AM (omVj0)

161 Glad to see General Motors is going to start making more gas powered engines. Can we also push them to get away from those 1.3l turbo engines in the SUVs? My motorcycle has a bigger motor than that. And just how long is a puny 1.3l 3 or 4 cylinder engine going to withstand forced induction before it ingests a turbine impellor or worse?

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at July 16, 2025 08:34 AM (N39Ws)

162 I've heard too many stories to count of people just not wanting to work to believe it's anything other than a bad trend. Just personally, I know many business owners that can't keep employees anymore.

My oldest, and their spouse, work for a non-food related, customer interacting company. They're both in levels of management and, whenever I go by one of their places, the drones are all different. Admittedly, they both tell me that the customers can tend to be really obnoxious assholes but, still, people will just quit.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 16, 2025 08:34 AM (ExV1e)

163
What's that song that goes keep your hands to yourself?

Posted by: Soothsayer at July 16, 2025 08:34 AM (PtCPU)

164 Gender Fluid has been foisted on us by Globohomo, just like DEF for diesel engines.

Posted by: O-O-O-O-Reilly! at July 16, 2025 08:34 AM (G5+As)

165
Miss us yet?
Posted by: Fifty year old white guys at July 16, 2025 08:30 AM (XQo4F)

___________

Miss you? You never existed. You are the hole left in the air by a falling acorn. Nothing. Zero.

Posted by: C-Suite and MBAs at July 16, 2025 08:34 AM (HZi96)

166 Tucker, to his credit, h

==

Tucker is a trained propagandist. Not professionally trained (was not a good student) , but by his dad. Mix in lies and propaganda with a bit of truth and people will give you a chance. Soviets used to do it constantly.

Posted by: runner at July 16, 2025 08:35 AM (g47mK)

167 >> can't seem to fall asleep for an afternoon nap, for example.

Suggestion: Aldous Huxley's 'Point, Counterpoint'.

I defy you to stay awake for over 20 pages.

Posted by: garrett at July 16, 2025 08:35 AM (oSEaw)

168 What's that song that goes keep your hands to yourself?

Georgia Satellites my guy

Posted by: Black Orchid at July 16, 2025 08:35 AM (Pv3Rg)

169 I really have to find a better sleep aid.
--------------
Blow Jobs work.

Posted by: pudinhead at July 16, 2025 08:35 AM (W3T6M)

170 Opiate constipation sucks with a groin hernia repair. Weed makes me more sensitive to pain. I I just toughed it out after awhile. Been nearly 5 years and no probs.

Posted by: Dark Litigator at July 16, 2025 08:36 AM (KAi1n)

171 Posted by: runner at July 16, 2025 08:35 AM (g47mK)

I don't disagree. Nonetheless, he has given a platform to some interesting, counter-cultural people.

Posted by: Ordinary American at July 16, 2025 08:36 AM (WHfpM)

172 Tucker is a trained propagandist. Not professionally trained (was not a good student) , but by his dad. Mix in lies and propaganda with a bit of truth and people will give you a chance. Soviets used to do it constantly.

I agree with runner

he's always just .. squicked me out

do. not. trust.

Posted by: Black Orchid at July 16, 2025 08:36 AM (Pv3Rg)

173
Houston actually completed their light rail. It connects the people on welfare in the fourth ward to the medical center, so they can easily travel to their free doctor visits under medicaid.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at July 16, 2025 08:31 AM (Vfq+S)

__________

It also loses incredible amounts of money.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 16, 2025 08:36 AM (HZi96)

174 > It's time to start ~~impeaching and defunding~~ arresting and hanging until dead these ~~courts~~ judges.
---------
Fixt

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 16, 2025 08:36 AM (Q4IgG)

175 the BBB contains big $ to rebuild our munitions stockpile. Biden's admin drained the stockpile horribly

The B³ contains money for every interest group under the Heavens.

Retired Raytheon engineers are enticed to return so that mothballed equipment can be made to function. Except that a lot of the production equipment and the test gear has long been sold or scrapped.

You just don't flip a switch and thousands of skilled technicians are instantly shoving early 1970s technology PATRIOT missiles out the door. Try three year minimum if everything goes perfectly from once the switch is thrown.

The only difference in the burn down between Biden and Trump is that Biden gave it away, Trump is auctioning it off. At the end, the missiles are for someone else's benefit, not the US troops, but the usual suspects.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 16, 2025 08:36 AM (a4flb)

176 Protesters Might Exercise ‘Lawful Right’ to Attack ICE

I'm so old I remember when pushing a cop in DC would get you years in jail.

Seems an open plot to assassinate ICE agents should get rather a longer jail term no?

Posted by: 18-1 at July 16, 2025 08:36 AM (t0Rmr)

177 I want to play poker with you.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 16, 2025 08:27 AM (a4flb)

So Trump and Hegseth are lying about resupplying Ukraine?

We are going to send them arms we desperately need?

Who is being illogical?

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (with a beret and a Gauloises) at July 16, 2025 08:36 AM (L5An7)

178 So for Tucker it's dump a shitload of antisemitism, unsubstantiated claims and conspiracies in the public square, and then invite a few guests who have credible stories to tell. Does not confuse people who are well versed in Soviet propaganda tactics, but may fool a few who are not.

Posted by: runner at July 16, 2025 08:37 AM (g47mK)

179 Last night, I took Tramadol and Melatonin. Absolute oblivion masquerading as sleep. And then I looked at my clock and saw that I'd only been out for 2 hours. I really have to find a better sleep aid.
Posted by: NR Pax at July 16, 2025

***
Unisom, doxylamine succinate, works fine for me in combo with melatonin. Naturally, while I'm taking the pain meds, I'm wary of using the Unisom on top of them.

The usual product, the diphenhydramine found in Benadryl, used to work fine . . . but last year it began to send me to the head every two hours all night long. The Unisom does not.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 16, 2025 08:37 AM (omVj0)

180
Georgia Satellites my guy
Posted by: Black Orchid

Well, I HATE that song.
They played that incessant noise over and over and over all throughout 1986, 1987, and 1988.

Posted by: Soothsayer at July 16, 2025 08:37 AM (PtCPU)

181 Perhaps once our pains reduce far enough, it'll be easier to fall, and stay, asleep.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

Thankfully, the knee pain is not keeping me awake. It's just that melatonin works for a short time and then I'm as awake and alert as if I mainlined coffee.

Posted by: NR Pax at July 16, 2025 08:38 AM (BpO1e)

182 PPI coming in light. Official inflation numbers fail to show any inflation. Trump tariff haters hardest hit. Also, Powell is a shit weasel.

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at July 16, 2025 08:38 AM (pIfcn)

183 Tucker is a trained propagandist. Not professionally trained (was not a good student) , but by his dad. Mix in lies and propaganda with a bit of truth and people will give you a chance. Soviets used to do it constantly.
Posted by: runner at July 16, 2025 08:35 AM (g47mK)
*******
He loves being the edgy contrarian. He's become a fool and a joke.
Maybe he should move to Russia.

Posted by: redridinghood at July 16, 2025 08:38 AM (NpAcC)

184 I've heard too many stories to count of people just not wanting to work to believe it's anything other than a bad trend.

Most people work to get a paycheck.

If you can get a similar or larger paycheck from the government for not working then why would you work?

Posted by: 18-1 at July 16, 2025 08:38 AM (t0Rmr)

185 Everyone is making money while (insert groups here) die.

A story as old as time.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 16, 2025 08:39 AM (ExV1e)

186 Also, Powell is a shit weasel.
-----------------
He's the last Obama puppet hold out.

Posted by: pudinhead at July 16, 2025 08:39 AM (W3T6M)

187 Well, I HATE that song.
They played that incessant noise over and over and over all throughout , , , ,
Posted by: Soothsayer

"More than a feeling" by Boston in the mid '70s' has entered the chat.

Posted by: Tonypete at July 16, 2025 08:39 AM (cYBz/)

188
I gotta li'l change in my pocket going jingle -ingle lingle...

His voice makes me mad.

Posted by: Soothsayer at July 16, 2025 08:40 AM (PtCPU)

189 128 Yep, sounds like the old way. My incision was about five inches long. Same procedure for recovery, but I had staples. Did you have staples?
Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 16, 2025 08:20 AM (0eaVi)

That’s how mine was done back in 1995.
The staples were taken out about two weeks later.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 16, 2025 08:40 AM (6ydKt)

190 He loves being the edgy contrarian. He's become a fool and a joke.
Maybe he should move to Russia.
Posted by: redridinghood at July 16, 2025 08:38 AM (NpAcC)

Qatar, where his friends live.

Posted by: runner at July 16, 2025 08:40 AM (g47mK)

191 Posted by: runner at July 16, 2025 08:37 AM (g47mK)

He's had on his show Shawn Ryan, RFK Jr, Scott Atlas, Peter McCullough, and a long list of more obscure but credible, anti-establishment figures. I'm not defending Tucker, certainly not with his recent anti-Israel mania. But I can't deny that in the past he has given voice to important voices.

Posted by: Ordinary American at July 16, 2025 08:40 AM (WHfpM)

192 Good morning dear morons and happy birthday JJ

Mrs. F. reports a lot of Israeli ordnance exploding this morning in southern Syria.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 16, 2025 08:40 AM (JvZF+)

193
"More than a feeling" by Boston in the mid '70s' has entered the chat.
Posted by: Tonypete

Is that the one where he screams like a bitch?

Posted by: Soothsayer at July 16, 2025 08:40 AM (PtCPU)

194 Houston actually completed their light rail. It connects the people on welfare in the fourth ward to the medical center, so they can easily travel to their free doctor visits under medicaid.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at July 16, 2025 08:31 AM (Vfq+S)

__________

It also loses incredible amounts of money.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 16, 2025 08:36 AM (HZi9

It was also the entirely wrong type of light rail that should have been built in Houston. . It is ground level and shares the road with car traffic.

Posted by: polynikes at July 16, 2025 08:41 AM (VofaG)

195 It's also...
World Snake Day.

Posted by: redridinghood at July 16, 2025 08:41 AM (NpAcC)

196 It also loses incredible amounts of money.

I asked three different LLM engines to identify any public transportation system that is self-sustaining.

The Answer: Zero

They all have operating costs that greatly exceed any fare revenue.

Governments actually go out of their way to create the most costly and wasteful systems imaginable. Austin added tolled lanes. So instead of just laying down another lane, they added pension seeking highly compensated positions to collect, manage and enforce tolls - along with all of the infrastructure initially and continued maintenance of toll gathering equipment.

Because asphalt and paint just doesn't bring in enough perpetual grift.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 16, 2025 08:41 AM (a4flb)

197 131 It's National Hot Dog Day.🌭
Posted by: redridinghood

Yay! My favorite sandwich!

Posted by: The Kielbasa Lady at July 16, 2025 08:41 AM (G5+As)

198 But I can't deny that in the past he has given voice to important voices.
Posted by: Ordinary American at July 16, 2025 08:40 AM (WHfpM)

he is fair and balanced !

Posted by: runner at July 16, 2025 08:41 AM (g47mK)

199 He loves being the edgy contrarian. He's become a fool and a joke.

Maybe he should move to Russia.

Posted by: redridinghood at July 16, 2025 08:38 AM (NpAcC)

He fooled me for a long while. But without an army of editors and some higher-ups controlling his impulses, he has been exposed.

Hell, he thinks Darryl Cooper is the world's greatest historian. That alone makes him a retard.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (with a beret and a Gauloises) at July 16, 2025 08:42 AM (L5An7)

200 "More than a feeling" by Boston in the mid '70s' has entered the chat.
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Rocket Man has been played too much. And its gay.

Posted by: pudinhead at July 16, 2025 08:42 AM (W3T6M)

201 It's also...
World Snake Day.

==

I love snacks !

Posted by: runner at July 16, 2025 08:42 AM (g47mK)

202 >> I HATE that song.

Could be worse.

Could be Fleetwood Mac.

Posted by: garrett at July 16, 2025 08:42 AM (oSEaw)

203 Opiate constipation sucks with a groin hernia repair. Weed makes me more sensitive to pain. I I just toughed it out after awhile. Been nearly 5 years and no probs.
Posted by: Dark Litigator at July 16, 2025

***
Yes, I am beginning to wonder if some of my discomfort right now is more due to being a little, shall we say, backed up than it is to the surgery. An occasional laxative, some coffee, and if I want to get serious, drinking some baking soda and water *ought* to take care of it.

Certain pipe tobacco blends have a diuretic effect, too, but I'm laying off the pipes until this is truly over.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 16, 2025 08:42 AM (omVj0)

204 Saw the Georgia Satellites on a bill with The Del Fuegos and Tom Petty at SPAC . Had lawn seats. Started dripping during the Del Fuegos , a little harder during the Satellites and then an absolute deluge while Petty was playing. Could barely see a friend ten feet from me. Great show though

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 16, 2025 08:43 AM (volu5)

205 Trump is a deal maker and genuinely wants that war to end. His problem is this: Neither Putin nor Zelensky want it to end so he can threaten cajole plead beg and deal all he wants… it’s not gonna end. It’s gonna continue on as it has been indefinitely… it’s not his fault he’s trying. And I do believe it wouldn’t have started if he’d been prez in 2021-22… but mushbrains handlers and Boris Johnson and NATO practically begged for it….

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 16, 2025 08:43 AM (nrfI8)

206 the BBB contains big $ to rebuild our munitions stockpile. Biden's admin drained the stockpile horribly
Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 16, 2025 08:25 AM (volu5)

And the SPR, and military manning, and...

Why, if I didn't know better, I might suspect that the Biden Administration had set out to deliberate weaken the US, possibly prior to some sort of international conflict.

Good thing that would never happen.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 16, 2025 08:43 AM (ExV1e)

207 Crockett claimed during a House Judiciary Committee hearing that USAID must fund the children’s television program at the American taxpayers’ expense because it stops other countries from being “radicalized” against the U.S.

.. another remnant of the "nation building" strategy that worked so well.

Posted by: SMOD at July 16, 2025 08:43 AM (RHGPo)

208 argued that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents wearing masks during immigration enforcement could face “lawful” violence

So, does this apply to ANTIFA too?

Posted by: ruralcounsel at July 16, 2025 08:43 AM (u9OdC)

209 They played that incessant noise over and over and over all throughout 1986, 1987, and 1988.

lol it's not a favorite

the other day XPN was doing a "1985" hour and it was ...okay overall but they played "We Built This City"

so now I'm super glad CPB is getting the axe

HOW DARE U

Posted by: Black Orchid at July 16, 2025 08:43 AM (Pv3Rg)

210 "More than a feeling" by Boston in the mid '70s' has entered the chat.
Posted by: Tonypete

Is that the one where he screams like a bitch?
Posted by: Soothsayer

Every song by Boston sounds the same. Terrible.

Posted by: One-Note Samba at July 16, 2025 08:43 AM (G5+As)

211 Could be worse.

Could be Fleetwood Mac.

==

REO Speedwagon...

Posted by: runner at July 16, 2025 08:43 AM (g47mK)

212 200 "More than a feeling" by Boston in the mid '70s' has entered the chat.
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Rocket Man has been played too much. And its gay.

Posted by: pudinhead at July 16, 2025 08:42 AM (W3T6M)

FreeBird!!

Posted by: davidt at July 16, 2025 08:43 AM (i0F8b)

213 I really have to find a better sleep aid.

I've had no issue with these:

Equate Maximum Strength Nighttime Sleep-Aid Diphenhydramine HCl Sleep Support Softgels, 50 mg, 100 Count, Compare to Unisom® SleepGel®s Active Ingredient

Posted by: rickb223 at July 16, 2025 08:43 AM (gdBb2)

214
The first time Tucker caused me to raise my eyebrows and wonder about him was a couple of years when he went to Moscow and had the opportunity to ask putin some questions.

Total Disaster.
Total waste of time.
Total nincompoopery from BOTH men.
Two fucking idiots jerking each other off, was my conclusion.

Not a single noteworthy or worthwhile moment.

Posted by: Soothsayer at July 16, 2025 08:44 AM (PtCPU)

215 Tucker is a trained propagandist. Not professionally trained (was not a good student) , but by his dad. Mix in lies and propaganda with a bit of truth and people will give you a chance. Soviets used to do it constantly.

This message brought to you by AIPAC.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 16, 2025 08:44 AM (a4flb)

216 Jasmine Crockett believes in the adage there is no "bad" publicity because she a dope.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 16, 2025 08:44 AM (JvZF+)

217 I've noticed on my team that generally it's the younger set, like 25 -ish year olds, who are bouncing around jobs. The Gen Xers on my team are quite solid, but the younger people tend to jet after 4-5 years for other jobs as a way achieve career advancement.

The 90s imo kind of messed things up. In my area anyway the older generation (read Boomers) didn't retire for a variety of reasons (stock market issues wiped out more than a few 401Ks, etc) which left GenX kind of floundering. It had a ripple effect such that the millennials/Gen Z or whatever don't have many opportunities for advancement if they stick around a company for 20 years.

FWIW anyway. Not that they don't want to work, only that in today's market loyalty isn't rewarded like it used to be.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at July 16, 2025 08:44 AM (23/y9)

218
Whoa. Whoa. WHOA.

Do NOT talk shit about Led Zeppelin.

Led Zep is the best of all time.

Posted by: Soothsayer at July 16, 2025 08:44 AM (PtCPU)

219
You're supposed to be reading something else!!!

Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 16, 2025 08:17 AM (0eaVi)

It's three books! I'm working on em!!

They are good, btw. Really and truly good!

Posted by: moki at July 16, 2025 08:45 AM (wLjpr)

220 He's the last Obama puppet hold out.

Posted by: pudinhead at July 16, 2025 08:39 AM (W3T6M)

Obama made him a governor. Trump made him chairman.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (with a beret and a Gauloises) at July 16, 2025 08:45 AM (L5An7)

221 Thankfully, the knee pain is not keeping me awake. It's just that melatonin works for a short time and then I'm as awake and alert as if I mainlined coffee.
Posted by: NR Pax at July 16, 2025

***
Melatonin, as I understand it, helps to put you to sleep. It doesn't *keep* you asleep.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 16, 2025 08:45 AM (omVj0)

222 PPI coming in light. Official inflation numbers fail to show any inflation. Trump tariff haters hardest hit. Also, Powell is a shit weasel.

Tariffs are *deflationary*

They might raise costs, but not all cost increases are inflationary

Now printing billions of dollars for NPR, or tranny operas in Peru, or weapons for Ukraine? THAT is inflationary

Posted by: 18-1 at July 16, 2025 08:45 AM (t0Rmr)

223
This message brought to you by AIPAC.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 16, 2025 08:44 AM (a4flb)
====

Those darn jooz! Amirite?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 16, 2025 08:45 AM (JvZF+)

224 Let us switch gears completely. While the Epstein files release/non-release drama continues, I am at a loss as to what President Trump is thinking on this:

Yeah, it's really difficult to figure out.

Especially when he makes statements on how the US in "only" gonna give $50 billion in , but the UN and Europe are gonna give a $100 billion, which US MIC will make and sell to them to give to Ukraine. It becomes really difficult to understand his motivation when he says "we're gonna make those weapons, we're gonna make a lot of money!"

Let me get out my Tarot cards, roll the chicken bones and read the tea leaves at the bottom of my cup and I'll get back to you guys if the spirits are able to reveal the answer to this great mystery to me.

Posted by: Resident Psychic at July 16, 2025 08:45 AM (3cNdM)

225 > Also, Powell is a shit weasel.
-----------------
He's the last Obama puppet hold out.
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I think there's lots more "Obama puppet hold outs" to be found. Or, perhaps more accurately; "ticks." Like thousands of them, still embedded in FedGov at all levels.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 16, 2025 08:45 AM (Q4IgG)

226 Putin and Zelensky is in that place where NGOs go when they have fulfilled their original purpose

Posted by: SMOD at July 16, 2025 08:45 AM (RHGPo)

227 Tucker is a trained propagandist. Not professionally trained (was not a good student) , but by his dad. Mix in lies and propaganda with a bit of truth and people will give you a chance. Soviets used to do it constantly.

This message brought to you by AIPAC.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 16, 2025 08:44 AM (a4flb)

said a banned troll

Posted by: runner at July 16, 2025 08:45 AM (g47mK)

228 >> A group of federal judges led by Boasberg assumed the Trump administration wouldn't follow the Constitution They admit they are biased against Trump.

IMVHO there are a great deal of judges who have been proven lawless, antithetical to the constitution, biased and whom use their office for subversive political purposes. In that regard they are treasonous and should not only be removed, but hung.

That said this is hardly the document they say it is. We have a group of biased judges simply admitting their bias vis a vis voicing “concerns”, -thereby outing the basis of their decisions which are subversive of law and constitution. That’s material to their decisions and the ultimate judicial outcome most of which has landed at SCOTUS for resolution. Furthermore, the administration has gone to great lengths to obey those decisions (against people like me, admittedly) so as not to fall into their constitutional trap. Conclusively, this is what we already know and not a revelation.

Posted by: Marcus T at July 16, 2025 08:45 AM (QsgVg)

229 Crockett claimed during a House Judiciary Committee hearing that USAID must fund the children’s television program at the American taxpayers’ expense because it stops other countries from being “radicalized” against the U.S.

Crockett firmly believes that all radicalization against the US should be home-grown and be managed by the DNC.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 16, 2025 08:46 AM (a4flb)

230
He sounds like Mr fucking Haney from Green Acres!

I hate that song with all my tiny, black heart.

Posted by: Soothsayer at July 16, 2025 08:46 AM (PtCPU)

231 Obama made him a governor. Trump made him chairman.

yeah that was dumb

I'm guessing he's a reallllly good kiss up when required

Posted by: Black Orchid at July 16, 2025 08:46 AM (Pv3Rg)

232 This message brought to you by AIPAC.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 16, 2025 08:44 AM (a4flb)

Oh yes. It's always the Jews, no matter what.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (with a beret and a Gauloises) at July 16, 2025 08:46 AM (L5An7)

233 >>Led Zep is the best of all time.

You are thinking of Black Sabbath

Posted by: garrett at July 16, 2025 08:46 AM (oSEaw)

234 I’m pretty sure the deal is that the EU pays for all the Patriot batteries going to Ukraine sourced from other countries.

I’m more interested if Trump is going to send the Tomahawk missiles to Ukraine.

Patriots are purely air defense.
Tomahawks are purely offensive and can reach St. Petersburg and Moscow.

Trump has been hinting he wants to send them after seeing what they did to Iran a few weeks ago.

If Z hits Moscow with a Tomahawk I don’t know what Putin will do in response.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 16, 2025 08:46 AM (6ydKt)

235 I believe that! As early as 1992 my then company hired a new CEO; the first time that company had a non-engineer as CEO. He promptly did massive layoffs which I somehow miraculously avoided. The graybeards who knew their craft survived and for about the next 10 years we still had a solid work culture
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 16, 2025 08:33 AM (WdMlw)

I feel like there was a 'but' coming.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 16, 2025 08:46 AM (ExV1e)

236 Boston’s first album was a masterpiece. Please folks no negativity regarding more than a feeling. Sacrilege!! What’s next: criticizing foreplay / longtime??

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 16, 2025 08:46 AM (nrfI8)

237 Whoa. Whoa. WHOA.

Do NOT talk shit about Led Zeppelin.

Led Zep is the best of all time.

Wait they are putting LED lights on balloons now? That's cool! Maybe that caused all those UFO sightings in NJ?

Posted by: Some Millenial at July 16, 2025 08:46 AM (t0Rmr)

238 All trolls are Average Joe.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at July 16, 2025 08:46 AM (23/y9)

239 Tramadol is a synthetic opiod and is addictive. It is the only drug I am allergic to, after just two doses. I have no problems with the other pain meds.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at July 16, 2025 08:48 AM (cuCUO)

240 Melatonin, as I understand it, helps to put you to sleep. It doesn't *keep* you asleep.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

So I've noticed. -:-|

But thank you for the unisom recommendation along with the others. I'll hit CVS on the way home.

Posted by: NR Pax at July 16, 2025 08:48 AM (BpO1e)

241 I believe the chances of any expansion of the “Abraham Accords” has just gone into the crapper today. Looks like Israel is now at war with the new Syrian government.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 16, 2025 08:48 AM (I5+UQ)

242 I asked three different LLM engines to identify any public transportation system that is self-sustaining.

The Answer: Zero

They all have operating costs that greatly exceed any fare revenue.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure

I briefly worked in the industry, and it is correct that every single public transit system is a hole that subsidies are dumped into. It is also an industry that fully embraces every fantasy about green energy, and every single project in that realm loses even more.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at July 16, 2025 08:48 AM (Vfq+S)

243 Japan Confirms Covid ‘Vaccines’ Have Now Killed Over 600,000 Citizens

While analyzing the data, Professor Murakami of Tokyo Science University uncovered a consistent and alarming pattern.

The renowned scientist confirmed that a surge in deaths occurred 90 to 120 days after individuals received an mRNA injection.

Those who received more doses saw earlier spikes in deaths, suggesting cumulative toxicity, not isolated incidents.

Murakami estimates that between 600,000 and 610,000 people in Japan have now been killed by mRNA “vaccinations.”

Posted by: SMOD at July 16, 2025 08:48 AM (RHGPo)

244 AIPAC took over Tucker's mouth, and made his brain stupid. this is the same troll who claimed that ace sold out to AIPAC, or was it Jew interests ? something like that. got banned and now spreading his wisdom under a different nic

Posted by: runner at July 16, 2025 08:49 AM (g47mK)

245 Ok. I like the light rail in Houston. Especially when I go to the zoo.

*ducks*

Posted by: Marcus T at July 16, 2025 08:49 AM (QsgVg)

246 Well, I HATE that song.
They played that incessant noise over and over and over all throughout 1986, 1987, and 1988.
Posted by: Soothsayer at July 16, 2025 08:37 AM (PtCPU)

I feel the same way about pretty much any song by Michael Jackson or Madonna. Played so much in the early 80s that I just can't stand them.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 16, 2025 08:49 AM (ExV1e)

247 ***
Yes, I am beginning to wonder if some of my discomfort right now is more due to being a little, shall we say, backed up than it is to the surgery. An occasional laxative, some coffee, and if I want to get serious, drinking some baking soda and water *ought* to take care of it.

Wolfus, colace, along with a breakfast of oatmeal with ground flaxseed are your friends for this particular problem. Harsh laxatives can stress the surgical area.

Posted by: moki at July 16, 2025 08:49 AM (wLjpr)

248 Tucker is a trained propagandist. Not professionally trained (was not a good student) , but by his dad. Mix in lies and propaganda with a bit of truth and people will give you a chance. Soviets used to do it constantly.

This message brought to you by AIPAC.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 16, 2025 08:44 AM (a4flb)

said a banned troll
Posted by: runner at July 16, 2025 08:45 AM (g47mK)

Says the guy who doesn't understand irony or his own hypocrisy.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 16, 2025 08:50 AM (a4flb)

249 ace used to say, if I recall correctly, I am not your secret racist friend, and then ban the assholes who would show up with racist shite

Posted by: runner at July 16, 2025 08:50 AM (g47mK)

250 he is fair and balanced !
Posted by: runner at July 16, 2025 08:41 AM (g47mK)

That's not what I said. You can ignore the list of guests he's featured over the years such as RFK Jr., Shawn Ryan, Peter McCullough, and other more obscure counter-cultural and inconvenient figures, but I found these interview choices to be a good thing. I have stopped watching him myself lately. But the library of worthy interviews is what it is.

Posted by: Ordinary American at July 16, 2025 08:50 AM (WHfpM)

251 Yes, I am beginning to wonder if some of my discomfort right now is more due to being a little, shall we say, backed up than it is to the surgery. An occasional laxative, some coffee, and if I want to get serious, drinking some baking soda and water *ought* to take care of it.

Certain pipe tobacco blends have a diuretic effect, too, but I'm laying off the pipes until this is truly over.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

Brand name Suprep, aka, colon blow. Colonoscopy prep.
A mixture of sodium sulfate, potassium sulfate & magnesium sulfate.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 16, 2025 08:50 AM (gdBb2)

252 MEME ALERT:

Russians mock Trump's 'deteriorating health' after turning on Putin - 'He's lost his mind!

Posted by: SMOD at July 16, 2025 08:50 AM (RHGPo)

253
The renowned scientist confirmed that a surge in deaths occurred 90 to 120 days after individuals received an mRNA injection.

I remember Scotland was one of the few places to release their excess death numbers after rolling out the clot shot.

They experienced a 1% increase over the previous summer (when they had COVID with no clot shot). The only difference was the clot shot. I suspect most countries saw similar numbers.

Posted by: 18-1 at July 16, 2025 08:51 AM (t0Rmr)

254 Tramadol is a synthetic opiod and is addictive. It is the only drug I am allergic to, after just two doses. I have no problems with the other pain meds.
Posted by: Notsothoreau at July 16, 2025

***
I've been taking it every four to six hours (with a longer break overnight) since Monday afternoon. Now that my pain is lessening, my interest in the pills is less too.

I'll get the Rx and decide how I feel at that point, whether I need to have it filled or not. Got to pick up some grocery items while I'm at Target anyway.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 16, 2025 08:51 AM (omVj0)

255 The staples were taken out about two weeks later.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 16, 2025 08:40 AM (6ydKt)

The Roman ways are the best ways.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 16, 2025 08:51 AM (0eaVi)

256
Meatloaf's Paradise By The Dashboard Light

Iconic masterpiece or Overrated mediocrity?

Posted by: Soothsayer at July 16, 2025 08:51 AM (PtCPU)

257 Looks like Israel is now at war with the new Syrian government.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 16, 2025 08:48 AM (I5+UQ)

The Syrians are killing the Druze, and Israel has said that they will defend them.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (with a beret and a Gauloises) at July 16, 2025 08:51 AM (L5An7)

258 I think Trump really believed he could come in and negotiate peace in the Middle East, peace in the Ukraine. He’s learning the hard way that if no one in those places wants peace, then endless negotiations are a fools errand. These people only respect war, and even then, only for so long as the gun is pointed directly at their heads.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 16, 2025 08:51 AM (I5+UQ)

259 I feel like there was a 'but' coming.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 16, 2025 08:46 AM (ExV1e)

The unspoken “but” is that subsequently the culture started to slowly unravel and now it’s a dumpster fire

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 16, 2025 08:51 AM (WdMlw)

260 And these manufacturing and retail corps are doing the same thing they did during the Biden and first Trump administration. .

They are taking advantage of ‘negative’ economic situations both real and perceived to increase their profit margins.

During COVID and the subsequent inflationary factors they increased prices more than the increased cost to manufacture their products or to obtain product to sell. They hid behind the real cost inflation to increase their profit even more. And when COVID was over and fuel prices decreased they didn’t lower prices .

Now they are doing the same only blaming the Trump tariffs. Only thing is they are increasing prices on products that aren’t part of the tariffs.

Posted by: polynikes at July 16, 2025 08:51 AM (VofaG)

261 Boston’s first album was a masterpiece. Please folks no negativity regarding more than a feeling. Sacrilege!! What’s next: criticizing foreplay / longtime??

Posted by: LinusVanPelt

I watched a documentary on the history of that album. Tom Sholz played every instrument on all of the songs, other than the lead vocals, and then hired a group to perform on stage with him.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at July 16, 2025 08:51 AM (Vfq+S)

262 Wolfus, colace, along with a breakfast of oatmeal with ground flaxseed are your friends for this particular problem. Harsh laxatives can stress the surgical area.
Posted by: moki

Prometheus, hot dog as a sammich, carrots in chili, longbow vs. crossbow, bewbs, pudding cups, weaponry, and now - laxative type foods.

Is there nothing we can't solve here?

Posted by: Tonypete at July 16, 2025 08:52 AM (cYBz/)

263 I don't always agree with Tucker's takes, but TBH I want more such takes rather then less.

He's got a perspective that isn't Trump's exactly and certainly isn't the FNM. Why is that a problem?

Posted by: 18-1 at July 16, 2025 08:52 AM (t0Rmr)

264 Tucker, to his credit, had on a guest about 18 months ago who said he knew of this plan being hatched at Georgetown Law School. I can't remember his name or find the clip. But he said that lawfare was the fail-safe plan if Trump won and that they were recruiting and drawing up the operation.
Posted by: Ordinary American at July 16, 2025 08:32 AM (WHfpM)
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Mike Benz?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 16, 2025 08:53 AM (JvZF+)

265 The Syrians are killing the Druze, and Israel has said that they will defend them.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (with a beret and a Gauloises) at July 16, 2025 08:51 AM (L5An7)

Israel just bombed the Presidential Palace in Damascus. That’s a whole level above just protecting the Druze.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 16, 2025 08:53 AM (I5+UQ)

266 That song played by Squeeze over and over and over in the grocery store is horrible.

It's right up there with the Taylor Swift song that gets played over and over and over.

Posted by: dantesed at July 16, 2025 08:53 AM (Oy/m2)

267 ut he said that lawfare was the fail-safe plan if Trump won and that they were recruiting and drawing up the operation.
Posted by: Ordinary American at July 16, 2025 08:32 AM (WHfpM)

I have explained for years that the Left is always planning about three years ahead. Ace didn't believe me way back when.

They know what's coming in three years. The "specifics" (like who runs for or wins president) don't matter as such.

How do I know? Because I'll often tell you what's coming years ahead, and the only way I could do that regularly is if someone else is making it happen.

Posted by: ... at July 16, 2025 08:53 AM (Qr870)

268 Says the guy who doesn't understand irony or his own hypocrisy.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 16, 2025 08:50 AM (a4flb)

I understand you perfectly, it is just that you are under the impression that you have fellow travelers on this site and you are trying to conjure them up with a few with magic words, AIPAC 11!!11 is one of them. Out of context and out of logic. Not working, people see through you.

Posted by: runner at July 16, 2025 08:53 AM (g47mK)

269
btw, david gergen is mort

What did Rush used to call him??

Posted by: Soothsayer at July 16, 2025 08:54 AM (PtCPU)

270 shit pebbles are so good for brekfast
also lunch
adn dinner

breakfast ofchampions

Posted by: Aliassmithsmith... the anal behind anal sex at July 16, 2025 08:54 AM (zlWsb)

271 Israel just bombed the Presidential Palace in Damascus. That’s a whole level above just protecting the Druze.

Seems like a reasonable response if you want the 'president' to stop targeting the Druze.

Posted by: 18-1 at July 16, 2025 08:54 AM (t0Rmr)

272 @203

>>Yes, I am beginning to wonder if some of my discomfort right now is more due to being a little, shall we say, backed up than it is to the surgery. An occasional laxative, some coffee, and if I want to get serious, drinking some baking soda and water *ought* to take care of it.

Two to three tablespoons of Castor Oil will clean you out completely in short order. You have experience what I have termed, stomach farts, that will feel like they are passing through your entire system, because they are.

You will also feel a decompression in your gut as all of the air is moved out of it.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 16, 2025 08:54 AM (XV/Pl)

273 Not that they don't want to work, only that in today's market loyalty isn't rewarded like it used to be.
Posted by: WitchDoktor at July 16, 2025 08:44 AM (23/y9)

I'll "celebrate" my 26th anniversary with my current employer later this year - I did stuff before I went into tech - and loyalty hasn't been rewarded for 20 years, at least.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 16, 2025 08:54 AM (ExV1e)

274 You're supposed to be reading something else!!!

Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 16, 2025 08:17 AM (0eaVi)

It's three books! I'm working on em!!

They are good, btw. Really and truly good!
Posted by: moki at July 16, 2025 08:45 AM (wLjpr)

(blushes)

Thanks. Someday, maybe I can get them published.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 16, 2025 08:54 AM (0eaVi)

275 Seems an open plot to assassinate ICE agents should get rather a longer jail term no?
Posted by: 18-1 at July 16, 2025 08:36 AM (t0Rmr)

A dirt nap would be acceptable.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at July 16, 2025 08:54 AM (5xuJ/)

276 > If Z hits Moscow with a Tomahawk I don’t know what Putin will do in response.
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There are one-way "suicide" drones that can already reach Moscow in Ukraine's hands. Not nearly as sophisticated or powerful, but Ukraine has the reach to hit Moscow now.

Doing so is not only a military consideration, but political as well. Whatever weapons we and/or NATO provide to Z-man will be used. Bet on it.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 16, 2025 08:55 AM (Q4IgG)

277 Is there nothing we can't solve here?
Posted by: Tonypete

The appeal of Jägermeister.

Posted by: NR Pax at July 16, 2025 08:55 AM (BpO1e)

278 256
Meatloaf's Paradise By The Dashboard Light

Iconic masterpiece or Overrated mediocrity?
Posted by: Soothsayer at July 16, 2025 08:51 AM (PtCPU)

Great song but the entire album Bat Out of Hell is IMHO outstanding.

Great writing from Jim Steinman, great musicianship from mostly the E Street Band (Springsteen's politics not relevant) and great production from Todd Rundgren.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 16, 2025 08:55 AM (x0n13)

279 He's got a perspective that isn't Trump's exactly and certainly isn't the FNM. Why is that a problem?
Posted by: 18-1 at July 16, 2025 08:52 AM (t0Rmr)

Because he’s become an outspoken advocate of islamofascism.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 16, 2025 08:55 AM (I5+UQ)

280 The Syrians are killing the Druze, and Israel has said that they will defend them.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo

IIRC, there were some Druze villages that actually requested to become part of Israel.

Funny how those horrible Jooooooos actually protect freedom of worship.

Posted by: Bulg at July 16, 2025 08:55 AM (77rzZ)

281 Today on All Things Considered, we'll consider a future where apparatchiks who are so unqualified that they couldn't hack it among the retards of unprofitable state-controlled media and had to work for state-owned media must find some kind of gainful employment.

In an unrelated news, we will also be debuting Part I of our investigative series "Overpass Overtures," where we explore the harsh realities of hobo prostitution in Trump's America.

Posted by: Stultifying Communist Broadcaster at July 16, 2025 08:55 AM (BI5O2)

282 The left then: There are no Epstein files. This is all a hoax. Why do you wingnuts call everyone you don't like a pedophile?

The left now: RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES. TRUMP IS AN EPSTEIN CLIENT AND A PEDO!

Posted by: 18-1 at July 16, 2025 08:55 AM (t0Rmr)

283 >>Conclusively, this is what we already know and not a revelation.

Which is exactly why unbiased courts are a prerequisite for a functioning society.

A lot of people "know" a lot of things. But they can't actually prove them because they lack proof. Try walking into court and claiming you know Bob killed your friend Fred without any proof and see where goes.

Having documented evidence that the courts admit they are biased against the Trump administration is a lot different that saying I know Jeffrey Epstein was pimping out underage girls on behalf of the CIA with zero proof.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 16, 2025 08:56 AM (viF8m)

284 Any truth that Brad Delp planted a camera in his roommate's bedroom, a roommate who also happened to be his girlfriend's sister, and the shame of getting caught by her caused him to kill himself?

Posted by: More Than A Feeling at July 16, 2025 08:56 AM (lX1hk)

285 I think Trump really believed he could come in and negotiate peace in the Middle East, peace in the Ukraine.

He did have the Abrahamic Accords to support his thesis.

It is hard to understand why he thinks all people want to live peacefully when he has been the subject to some of the most vile attacks, and the US is currently engaged in a civil war.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 16, 2025 08:56 AM (a4flb)

286
Meatloaf's Paradise By The Dashboard Light

Iconic masterpiece or Overrated mediocrity?
Posted by: Soothsayer

ICONIC

Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at July 16, 2025 08:56 AM (FxH7T)

287 Led Zep is the best of all time.

You know it, dude!

- Morning Zoo crew cranking up "Stairway to Heaven" for the 1 hour "No Commercials" work break

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at July 16, 2025 08:56 AM (Dg2sF)

288 Israel just bombed the Presidential Palace in Damascus. That’s a whole level above just protecting the Druze.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 16, 2025 08:53 AM (I5+UQ)

The "president" is a f*cking terrorist. Al Qaeda to the core.

I don't give a sh*t whether Israel kills him.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (with a beret and a Gauloises) at July 16, 2025 08:58 AM (L5An7)

289 I'd like to think I have some cred when it comes to the definition of gender fluid.

Posted by: Peter North, proud Canadian and irregular AoSHQ commenter at July 16, 2025 08:58 AM (0sNs1)

290 Patriots are purely air defense.

Can't win championships unless you stop the run.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 16, 2025 08:58 AM (ExV1e)

291 Israel just bombed the Presidential Palace in Damascus. That’s a whole level above just protecting the Druze.

Seems like a reasonable response if you want the 'president' to stop targeting the Druze.
Posted by: 18-1

Only works if he is at home at the time.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 16, 2025 08:59 AM (gdBb2)

292 Iconic masterpiece or Overrated mediocrity?

"Bohemian Rhapsody."

Worthless, witless glitz, just like the rest of Queen's dreck.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at July 16, 2025 08:59 AM (Dg2sF)

293 Tucker always had a stink - whether of uselessness or something darker - going back to that original "viral" clip that elevated John Stewart.

Course what was John Stewart's bullshit game back then? That the news was "biased" and that people like Tucker were presenting it in an unfair way but with a veneer of respectability.

Almost impossible to believe when you think about it but that's the Left for you.

Then in an even bigger dash of "irony" (?), Tucker made his own name by making funny faces while people talked. He is the best at making funny faces.

Posted by: ... at July 16, 2025 08:59 AM (Qr870)

294 Just days after the Supreme Court again made it clear that the separation of powers is sacrosanct, Indira Talwani, an Obama appointed federal judge in Massachusetts, has taken the unprecedented step of ordering the government to fund Planned Parenthood, purporting to enjoin implementation of a portion of the Big Beautiful Bill (BBB) passed by Congress.

Posted by: SMOD at July 16, 2025 08:59 AM (RHGPo)

295
Morning Mystery Trivia!

Who was born "Francis Timothy McCown," August 8, 1922?

Posted by: Soothsayer at July 16, 2025 08:59 AM (PtCPU)

296 Seems like a reasonable response if you want the 'president' to stop targeting the Druze.
Posted by: 18-1 at July 16, 2025 08:54 AM (t0Rmr)

I’m not saying it’s wrong. It’s more like a reasonable response if you now want to kill the new Syrian President and overthrow his government. In other words, War.

They’re just the old ISIS army, so I won’t shed any tears for them. But if this Syrian Govmt collapses, it probably invites Erdogan to move in from the north and take control of at least the northern provinces.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 16, 2025 09:00 AM (I5+UQ)

297 I saw some of the press from the Batman movie they made a few years ago with the Twillight guy (who actually is a decent actor).

The press called the movie "Instantly Iconic"

And as this was a few weeks after I saw the movie I tried to remember any of the scenes from it and...I couldn't.

Now the older Nolan movies? I do remember scenes from those movies. Hell I remember some scenes from the earlier movies from the 90s....mostly the bad scenes but still...

Posted by: 18-1 at July 16, 2025 09:00 AM (t0Rmr)

298 That song played by Squeeze over and over and over in the grocery store is horrible.

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Squeeze hired Paul Carrack to sing it. It is not really Squeeze and Squeeze hate that song too.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 16, 2025 09:00 AM (JvZF+)

299 Israel is pounding Syria with airstrikes. God bless Israel

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 16, 2025 09:00 AM (volu5)

300 Don’t fall for the lies. Trump’s Ukraine policy bears no resemblance to Biden’s. Biden just shoveled endless piles of our money to Gay Midget’s bank accounts. Trump is selling weapons to NATO. NATO can then do whatever it wants.

While I wouldn’t even do that, this plan is 10x better than Biden’s. The problem is that Biden so completely fucked up the entire situation that Trump has few options. Russia already won. They’re just mopping up. It’s insane to think Putin will agree to any peace deal that doesn’t recognize that.

Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at July 16, 2025 09:00 AM (t+Wsp)

301 I’m one of those grumpy old guys that will never accept Journey’s new singer. Steve “The Voice” Perry was/is Journey (along with Neal Schon’s guitar and Jonathan Cain’s keyboard)… that songwriting trio was dynamite. The “new guy” (who’s actually been with the band longer than Perry shockingly) only works because his voice is a reasonable facsimile of “The Voice”

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 16, 2025 09:01 AM (WdMlw)

302
Okay, then how about The Ramones' "Ball Room Blitz?"

Crap, Craptastic, or Fantastically Original?

Posted by: Soothsayer at July 16, 2025 09:01 AM (PtCPU)

303 It is hard to understand why he thinks all people want to live peacefully when he has been the subject to some of the most vile attacks, and the US is currently engaged in a civil war.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure

Most people do. It's the nutbag leaders that don't.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 16, 2025 09:01 AM (gdBb2)

304 233 >>Led Zep is the best of all time.

You are thinking of Black Sabbath
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The Doors.

Posted by: pudinhead at July 16, 2025 09:01 AM (W3T6M)

305 I don't always agree with Tucker's takes, but TBH I want more such takes rather then less.

He's got a perspective that isn't Trump's exactly and certainly isn't the FNM. Why is that a problem?
Posted by: 18-1 at July 16, 2025 08:52 AM (t0Rmr)
******
He just sows discourse on our side and loves doing that.
All this does is divides us.
I've given him a lot of chances, but no more.

Posted by: redridinghood at July 16, 2025 09:02 AM (NpAcC)

306 194 Houston actually completed their light rail. It connects the people on welfare in the fourth ward to the medical center, so they can easily travel to their free doctor visits under medicaid.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at July 16, 2025 08:31 AM (Vfq+S)

__________

It also loses incredible amounts of money.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 16, 2025 08:36 AM (HZi9

It was also the entirely wrong type of light rail that should have been built in Houston. . It is ground level and shares the road with car traffic.
Posted by: polynikes at July 16, 2025 08:41 AM (VofaG)

I assume that's a cost issue. Can't build underground due to water table and frequent flooding. So you could only build up. I don't know, but suspect that's a lot more to arrange.

At any rate, light rail inevitably devolves into a thug mobility system and should never be built in the US.

Posted by: ochre jelly at July 16, 2025 09:02 AM (SvsPg)

307 Posted by: SMOD at July 16, 2025 08:59 AM (RHGPo)

10 days ago.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (with a beret and a Gauloises) at July 16, 2025 09:02 AM (L5An7)

308 Great song but the entire album Bat Out of Hell is IMHO outstanding.

For what it's worth, Steinman collaborated with Andrew Lloyd Webber on the musical version of the 1961 film Whistle Down the Wind.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at July 16, 2025 09:03 AM (Dg2sF)

309 Two to three tablespoons of Castor Oil will clean you out completely in short order. You have experience what I have termed, stomach farts, that will feel like they are passing through your entire system, because they are.

You will also feel a decompression in your gut as all of the air is moved out of it.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 16, 2025 08:54 AM

Or, you could just purchase a MSNBC coffee cup like mine, and slide it across the table to simulate crepitatious sounds.

Posted by: Eric Swalwell (D-CA & Cuck-CCP) at July 16, 2025 09:03 AM (0sNs1)

310 I think Trump really believed he could come in and negotiate peace in the Middle East, peace in the Ukraine.
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Trump has proven there is nothing wrong with a positive mindset and some belief if you are smart and willing to put in the work. Trump was mocked for "believing" he could become president, the first, second AND third time.

Also give him time. He isn't done yet. We all know you cannot have "peace" with some folks, and I bet you a pound to a bag of shit Trump does too. So he does the next best thing which is to try and make peace the best option.

Posted by: ... at July 16, 2025 09:03 AM (Qr870)

311 297 I saw some of the press from the Batman movie they made a few years ago with the Twillight guy (who actually is a decent actor).

The press called the movie "Instantly Iconic"

Posted by: 18-1 at July 16, 2025 09:00 AM (t0Rmr)

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My movie thread this weekend starts with a couple of paragraphs about hyperbole and its general ineffectiveness.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 16, 2025 09:03 AM (GBKbO)

312 @293

>>Course what was John Stewart's bullshit game back then? That the news was "biased" and that people like Tucker were presenting it in an unfair way but with a veneer of respectability.

In many ways, John Stewart and his ilk are the reason we have ideological silos.

Say what you want about Crossfire, but it allowed for the discussion and inspection of different political philosophies.

Stewarts issue is that the liberal side often lost out and looked ridiculous.

Liberal and leftist ideologies can not survive scrutiny, hence the enforced ideological bubbles.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 16, 2025 09:03 AM (XV/Pl)

313 The left wants a working class that lives in tenements and takes a "net-zero" form of public transit to work. Ideally walking, but some old subway or train will work.

Posted by: 18-1 at July 16, 2025 09:03 AM (t0Rmr)

314 The unspoken “but” is that subsequently the culture started to slowly unravel and now it’s a dumpster fire
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 16, 2025 08:51 AM (WdMlw)

Well, at least at BigCorp we get to constantly celebrate and affirm the sexual deviancy of the majority of the remaining non-diverse employees. So that's something.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 16, 2025 09:03 AM (ExV1e)

315 Okay, then how about The Ramones' "Ball Room Blitz?"

Crap, Craptastic, or Fantastically Original?
Posted by: Soothsayer at July 16, 2025 09:01 AM (PtCPU)

The Ramones had a Steve, Andy and a Mick? Who knew?

Posted by: The Sweet at July 16, 2025 09:03 AM (wVcYX)

316 Mrs. F. reports armed Druze elements are xrossing the border from Golan into Suwayda

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 16, 2025 09:03 AM (JvZF+)

317 I just wish all the assholes who show up on JJ threads and complain about AIPAC, will do they same to ace , next time he talks about Tuckers very obvious antisemtism. I double dare them.

Posted by: runner at July 16, 2025 09:03 AM (g47mK)

318 Maybe Israel wants to encourage Syria breaking down into a Turkish controlled area in the north, a Kurdish controlled area in the east, and a Druze controlled area in the south. No more Syria at all.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 16, 2025 09:04 AM (I5+UQ)

319 If Trump didn’t respond to Putin lying to him then it would have created a big imbalance . I wish it wasn’t so because I would have rather Trump just totally take us out of the Ukrainian clusterfuck instead of trying to make peace. Let Europe handle it.

Posted by: polynikes at July 16, 2025 09:04 AM (VofaG)

320
Yes, that reminds me:

JJ, this post is a Triumph!

It elicited tears from me!

Posted by: Soothsayer at July 16, 2025 09:04 AM (PtCPU)

321 >>Democrat Texas Rep. Jasmine Crockett went on a tirade Tuesday about why Americans must spend their taxpayer dollars on a “Sesame Street” program in Iraq.

I don't know what's worse: that the Democrats are OK with this idiot loudmouth representing them to own the GOP in the MSM -- or that she truly represents who, and where, their supporters are today.

Posted by: Lizzy at July 16, 2025 09:04 AM (GbwPZ)

322 317 I just wish all the assholes who show up on JJ threads and complain about AIPAC, will do they same to ace , next time he talks about Tuckers very obvious antisemtism. I double dare them.
Posted by: runner at July 16, 2025 09:03 AM (g47mK)

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Eh.

Ace probably won't even pay attention to the comments.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 16, 2025 09:04 AM (GBKbO)

323 I saw some of the press from the Batman movie they made a few years ago with the Twillight guy (who actually is a decent actor).

The press called the movie "Instantly Iconic"

Posted by: 18-1 at July 16, 2025 09:00 AM (t0Rmr)

I think it is an interesting take on the franchise, which is one of the superhero movies that actually does benefit from that gritty kind of take. Inconic though? I'm not convinced.

The Penguin series that was on HBO, set in the same universe, is really quite very good.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at July 16, 2025 09:04 AM (Ldgt5)

324 The cat likes to lay on the bench under the dining room window to watch birds. There are four old blue mason jars on the window sill. Cat has rearranged the jars repeatedly. It seems to amuse her.

Morning, hordelings.

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at July 16, 2025 09:04 AM (2J/Lj)

325 Is there nothing we can't solve here?
Posted by: Tonypete

The appeal of Jägermeister.
Posted by: NR Pax

My BIL graduated from West Point, and eventually drove Blackhawks with the 82nd Airborne, 75 Ranger Reg. and 160th SOAR. Shot down once and crashed due to mechanical issues.

All he drinks is Jägermeister.

No surprise really.

Posted by: Tonypete at July 16, 2025 09:04 AM (cYBz/)

326 It's also...
World Snake Day.
Posted by: redridinghood at July 16, 2025 08:41 AM

No step!

Posted by: Snek at July 16, 2025 09:04 AM (dPfyF)

327 AC / DC’s Big Balls lyrics: silly or master satire?

I say the latter!

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 16, 2025 09:04 AM (WdMlw)

328 Regarding public transportation (AKA "The Shame Train"), when I lived in Santa Clara County, that was how I got around. It got to the point my friends called me for route planning instead of the company.

Still remember the phone number as well. -:-)

Posted by: NR Pax at July 16, 2025 09:04 AM (BpO1e)

329
That's what the paid shills are saying about the new fake Superman. A "triumph!"

Posted by: Soothsayer at July 16, 2025 09:05 AM (PtCPU)

330 Russia already won. They’re just mopping up. It’s insane to think Putin will agree to any peace deal that doesn’t recognize that.

So there is going to be a post Ukraine/Russia war, and by your calculus, Putin/Russia are the victors (whatever that looks like).

Wouldn't you like to be the T-shirt vendor that knows hours in advance who will win the Superbowl so that you aren't throwing away half your inventory?

Likewise, wouldn't the Smart Money™ already be making deals predicated on a Russian win rather than pitching money on losing causes?

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 16, 2025 09:05 AM (a4flb)

331 "Bohemian Rhapsody."
Worthless, witless glitz, just like the rest of Queen's dreck.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at July 16, 2025 08:59 AM (Dg2sF)
~~~~~

Hey! I like Queen!

Posted by: IrishEi at July 16, 2025 09:05 AM (3ImbR)

332 They’re just the old ISIS army, so I won’t shed any tears for them.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 16, 2025 09:00 AM (I5+UQ)

No. al-Sharaa is Al Qaeda, not ISIS. He fought ISIS.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (with a beret and a Gauloises) at July 16, 2025 09:06 AM (L5An7)

333 Ace probably won't even pay attention to the comments.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 16, 2025 09:04 AM (GBKbO)

wait, WUT?! the comments are the best part of the site (so said Breitbart, so it must be true!)

Posted by: runner at July 16, 2025 09:06 AM (g47mK)

334 The "president" is a f*cking terrorist. Al Qaeda to the core.

Is that the official take this week?

When he was busy toppling Assad, he was a handsome guy with a lot of potential.

Posted by: Hard to Keep Up at July 16, 2025 09:06 AM (3cNdM)

335 Squeeze hired Paul Carrack to sing it. It is not really Squeeze and Squeeze hate that song too.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 16, 2025 09:00 AM (JvZF+)

Carrack was like Tony Burrows - a journeyman vocalist who could show up and sing on short notice. He was also the lead vocalist on Mike + The Mechanics "The Living Years."

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at July 16, 2025 09:06 AM (Dg2sF)

336 Posted by: ochre jelly at July 16, 2025 09:02 AM (SvsPg)

Elevated light rail is not a big deal.

Posted by: polynikes at July 16, 2025 09:06 AM (VofaG)

337 292 Iconic masterpiece or Overrated mediocrity?

"Bohemian Rhapsody."

Worthless, witless glitz, just like the rest of Queen's dreck.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing

Preach it, Brother! Amen!

Posted by: Arbiter of Good Taste at July 16, 2025 09:06 AM (G5+As)

338 At any rate, light rail inevitably devolves into a thug mobility system and should never be built in the US.
Posted by: ochre jelly at July 16, 2025 09:02 AM

Yeah, well, you know that's just like, uh, your opinion man.

Posted by: Urban Planners in the U.S. at July 16, 2025 09:06 AM (0sNs1)

339
The Ramones had a Steve, Andy and a Mick? Who knew?
Posted by: The Sweet

What? I don't get it.

Did I ballox up my own sarcastic comment with misinformation?

Posted by: Soothsayer at July 16, 2025 09:07 AM (PtCPU)

340 I like Jagermeister and Prometheus.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 16, 2025 09:07 AM (JvZF+)

341
I always thought that was The Ramones.

hmph

Posted by: Soothsayer at July 16, 2025 09:07 AM (PtCPU)

342 Perfect for urban renewal of Gaza...Komrad Bass!!!

Posted by: Qmark at July 16, 2025 09:07 AM (LANPd)

343 I liked that Batman. To my surprise. And despite being very, very tired of superhero movies.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at July 16, 2025 09:07 AM (XCUp7)

344 AC / DC’s Big Balls lyrics: silly or master satire?

I say the latter!
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 16, 2025 09:04 AM (WdMlw)

Right up there with Benny Bell's "Shaving Cream"

Posted by: Count de Monet at July 16, 2025 09:07 AM (wVcYX)

345
Stewarts issue is that the liberal side often lost out and looked ridiculous.

Liberal and leftist ideologies can not survive scrutiny, hence the enforced ideological bubbles.

This is a good point. Kinsley wasn't a bad debater and he was certainly a leftist, but Buchanan/Novak usually won their debates because their ideology had a stronger set of arguments.

It also kept Kinsley more grounded. I remember as the whole of the left just kept going farther and farther to the extreme he very slowly followed them, I assume because he didn't want to get embarrassed on the show...

Posted by: 18-1 at July 16, 2025 09:07 AM (t0Rmr)

346 In many ways, John Stewart and his ilk are the reason we have ideological silos.
.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 16, 2025 09:03 AM (XV/Pl)

Absolutely. The Daily Showization of the news is what we are left with. Stewart (with a lot of help) aided in dismantling the "respectable" media - the side that had facts and intellect on their side - and turn it into a clown show that only required brute force, a trained seal audience, and clever editing tricks to "win".

Posted by: ... at July 16, 2025 09:08 AM (Qr870)

347 VP Vance Breaks Tie To Advance "DOGE" Rescissions Bill Toward Final Senate Vote

Three Republicans - McConnell, Murkowski, and Collins - sided with Democrats in opposing the bill...

Posted by: SMOD at July 16, 2025 09:08 AM (RHGPo)

348 Bat Out of Hell was recorded about 10 miles from me at the Bearsville Studios. They had a tough time finding someone to release it. Clive Davis said it made no sense. Ha

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 16, 2025 09:08 AM (volu5)

349 Gen Z stare? Anyone experienced this? CNN just did a whole segment on the "Gen Z Stare" and how it is prevalent on social media. Apparently it is becoming a problem in the workplace where Gen Z employees give customers a dead-eyed stare with some side eye in response to questions.

I've seen it. I've heard a GenZer say she uses it intentionally when she doesn't feel like engaging with people. I love this particular GenZer, but that kind of pisses me off. She was raised better than that.

The next stage is drooling. They spent so much time being entertained by a screen they shut off without it.

My Gen Z stepson does this when he's tired of being lectured. My Millenial kids did it at the same age.

I feel sure that when I was a teen Boomer I stared straight ahead and occasionally rolled my eyes when I was bored or being lectured. I feel as if I saw this on sitcoms, and that every teenage human has done this since humans began.

Our whole country is collapsing around US and this is what CNN is talking about?!?! well, at least tRump won't sue them over it.

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at July 16, 2025 09:08 AM (JCZqz)

350 Carrack was like Tony Burrows - a journeyman vocalist who could show up and sing on short notice. He was also the lead vocalist on Mike + The Mechanics "The Living Years."
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at July 16, 2025 09:06 AM (Dg2sF)
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I want you to be on my Trivial Pursuit team.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 16, 2025 09:08 AM (JvZF+)

351 Also give him time. He isn't done yet. We all know you cannot have "peace" with some folks, and I bet you a pound to a bag of shit Trump does too. So he does the next best thing which is to try and make peace the best option.
Posted by: ... at July 16, 2025 09:03 AM (Qr870)

I think Trump believes, like most Americans do, that all of these leaders in these war torn areas care about how many of their own people get killed each month. But none of them - not Iran, not Hamas, not Putin, not Zelensky, give a shit about that. In fact they seem to delight in the slaughter.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 16, 2025 09:08 AM (I5+UQ)

352 I saw Sewage-Seeping Sepsis open for Sister Souljah at Harlem Nights in '92.

Posted by: ShainS -- Trump Needs to Sue Donkey-Chompers for Defamation a la ABC at July 16, 2025 09:08 AM (E2cCq)

353 I just wish all the assholes who show up on JJ threads and complain about AIPAC, will do they same to ace , next time he talks about Tuckers very obvious antisemtism. I double dare them.
Posted by: runner at July 16, 2025 09:03 AM (g47mK)

What is Ace's policy on commentors who routinely abuse and personally attack others on his site?

I would recommend decaf for a while so that you dial back your hatred and slander against people who aren't fully in lock-step with you.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 16, 2025 09:09 AM (a4flb)

354 >>Stewarts issue is that the liberal side often lost out and looked ridiculous.

IT'S FUNNY BECAUSE OLDE TYME SHOWS LIKE CROSSFIRE AND THE MACARTHUR REPORT ALWAYS HAD THE MOST TOXIC-LOOKING CONSERVATIVES, SUCH AS ROBERT NOVAK, TO ENSURE VIEWERS REJECTED THEM.

Posted by: BEN ROETHLISBERGER at July 16, 2025 09:09 AM (GbwPZ)

355 349 Gen Z stare? Anyone experienced this? CNN just did a whole segment on the "Gen Z Stare" and how it is prevalent on social media. Apparently it is becoming a problem in the workplace where Gen Z employees give customers a dead-eyed stare with some side eye in response to questions.

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at July 16, 2025 09:08 AM (JCZqz)

=======

You know what will fix this?

Paying teachers more without any connection to education results while also lowering education standards.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 16, 2025 09:09 AM (GBKbO)

356 Global Oil Consumption Reaches All-Time High
teaser image

...oil is still very much at the center of the global economy.

Net Zero ?? .. Net Zero ?? Bueller ?? Bueller ??

Posted by: SMOD at July 16, 2025 09:09 AM (RHGPo)

357 I liked that Batman. To my surprise. And despite being very, very tired of superhero movies.

Like I said I don't remember the movie being bad...I just don't really remember it at all.

The Penguin series that was on HBO, set in the same universe, is really quite very good.

Colin Farrell has become a pretty good actor.

Posted by: 18-1 at July 16, 2025 09:10 AM (t0Rmr)

358 Why was Stewart et al able to do it so easily? Because the GOPe who had colonized and inhabited that "intellect" lane for so long were a bunch of phonies fronting for moneyed interests, corporate and otherwise. That left them easy to destroy, with no reason to actually fight (as Trump ended up having to) beyond those interests.

Posted by: ... at July 16, 2025 09:10 AM (Qr870)

359 I bet the Gen Z. stare all the time from those people whenever I ask them to do anything.

Deer in the headlights and then a million pointless hypothetical questions meant to indicate their incompetence, lack of training, and being overdue for break.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 16, 2025 09:10 AM (JvZF+)

360 DIE gets people incapable of thinking into positions they have no business being and then it impacts the rest of us. Ms Vance should think twice before she loosens up the reasonable man definition of fear of death as regards self defense. She may find herself on the wrong side of that equation, along with the bulk of the woke, crazed left if she succeeds.

Posted by: Smellslikevictory at July 16, 2025 09:10 AM (jPdyB)

361 @335 Carrack was also the singer in the band Ace when they did the great song "How Long has this been Going On?"

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 16, 2025 09:10 AM (volu5)

362 357 Colin Farrell has become a pretty good actor.
Posted by: 18-1 at July 16, 2025 09:10 AM (t0Rmr)

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Always has been, really.

His performance as John Smith in The New World is fantastic.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 16, 2025 09:10 AM (GBKbO)

363 Experts.

>>@TrumpWarRoom

🚨 PPI Inflation falls to 2.3% BEATING expectations of all 50 forecasters in Bloomberg’s survey.

LOWEST READING SINCE SEPTEMBER 2024! 📉

The experts were wrong again, and of course—Trump was right about everything!

Posted by: JackStraw at July 16, 2025 09:11 AM (viF8m)

364 Ace probably won't even pay attention to the comments.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

wait, WUT?! the comments are the best part of the site (so said Breitbart, so it must be true!)
Posted by: runner

The comments are. But Ace doesn't stay & play in the comments very often. He likes leaving us wanting more.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 16, 2025 09:11 AM (gdBb2)

365 I feel sure that when I was a teen Boomer

==

mystery solved !!

Posted by: runner at July 16, 2025 09:11 AM (g47mK)

366
Helloooo, McFly:

Morning Mystery Trivia!

Who was born "Francis McCown," August 8, 1922?

Posted by: Soothsayer at July 16, 2025 09:12 AM (PtCPU)

367 >>I've seen it. I've heard a GenZer say she uses it intentionally when she doesn't feel like engaging with people. I love this particular GenZer, but that kind of pisses me off. She was raised better than that.

SHE LEARNED IT DURING COVID SHUTDOWN WHEN EVERY AUTHORITY, EXCEPT MAYBE HER PARENTS (IF SHE WAS LUCKY), BETRAYED HER.

Posted by: BEN ROETHLISBERGER at July 16, 2025 09:12 AM (GbwPZ)

368 I Meme Therefore I Am
@ImMeme0
Attention white people: Whatever you do, do not compliment a black person’s hair—it might just trigger them.

https://tinyurl.com/2p72fbc5

Posted by: redridinghood at July 16, 2025 09:12 AM (NpAcC)

369 The Ramones had a Steve, Andy and a Mick? Who knew?
Posted by: The Sweet

What? I don't get it.

Did I ballox up my own sarcastic comment with misinformation?
Posted by: Soothsayer at July 16, 2025 09:07 AM (PtCPU)

With the assist . . .
https://youtu.be/7lTwA5xMeTM

Posted by: Count de Monet at July 16, 2025 09:12 AM (wVcYX)

370 The San Francisco to Gilroy California corridor was/is serviced by "CalTrain." I used it off and on to commute to Menlo Park from our house in Monterey... although I did have to drive up to Gilroy. Still shorter than driving all the way to Menlo Park.

Punctual, fairly clean, inexpensive (at the time.) Plus I could bring my bike and ride over to the office and back instead of walking.

No thugs.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 16, 2025 09:12 AM (Q4IgG)

371 The comments are. But Ace doesn't stay & play in the comments very often. He likes leaving us wanting more.
Posted by: rickb223 at July 16, 2025 09:11 AM (gdBb2)

what else of import does he have ? make keto lasagna ??

Posted by: runner at July 16, 2025 09:12 AM (g47mK)

372 335 Carrack was also the singer in the band Ace when they did the great song "How Long has this been Going On?"
Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 16, 2025 09:10 AM (volu5)

Wow! That fella got around, that's for sure. I always remember that song because I knew a kid named "Ace" and we all called him "Acehole" around the same time, 1974-75.

Posted by: How Long at July 16, 2025 09:12 AM (lX1hk)

373 119 Former Intelligence people that dealt with Russia, say Putin is just protecting his vast fortune, and does not the war to end. Because if it does end, the Russian people will finally turn on him
Posted by: Jonah at July 16, 2025 08:00 AM (YCxFk)
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In August, the Saudis will increase oil production by a third. This is what's going to make Putin cut a deal. Trump is merely prodding NATO war hawks to buy in to their WWIII dystopia with cash or decide they don't really want WWIII in their backyard. The answer is NATO is a fucking Nursing Home and the Empire of Ghettoes must care for them. Fuck that.

Posted by: pudinhead at July 16, 2025 09:13 AM (W3T6M)

374 What is Ace's policy on commentors who routinely abuse and personally attack others on his site?
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Would a hot beverage make you feel better? Also, please spell.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 16, 2025 09:13 AM (JvZF+)

375
I quit The Penguin series after 4 episodes because it was so unoriginal, predictable, and boring.

Posted by: Soothsayer at July 16, 2025 09:13 AM (PtCPU)

376 Palestinian Muslim scholar:

“Europeans are lowlifes and a civilization of prostitutes, promiscuity, and homosexuality.

We will conquer Paris and Rome and rule Europe with Islam.”

And the useful idiots in the West protest daily in support of these people!

Posted by: SMOD at July 16, 2025 09:13 AM (RHGPo)

377 No. al-Sharaa is Al Qaeda, not ISIS. He fought ISIS.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (with a beret and a Gauloises) at July 16, 2025 09:06 AM (L5An7)

Interesting, since Israel released a photo today from the fighting in the Druze areas that showed (according to the Israelis) regular Syrian army soldiers now wearing ISIS insignia on their uniforms.
My guess is that the old distinctions have faded and they’re all melded into some new army of terror.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 16, 2025 09:13 AM (I5+UQ)

378 Ending birf-right citizenship was never going to be allowed.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 16, 2025 09:13 AM (ImXfC)

379 Posted by: Tom Servo at July 16, 2025 09:08 AM (I5+UQ)

I don't think he Does. Trump knows what they are just as he knows what the Left is. And he has known the Left from jump which is why they jumped on him so hard. And he knew it before most of our own "side". While we were still crying for fairness from them, Trump was yelling to take protestors' coats before throwing them out of his rallies in winter.

There is no sense in the idea that he understands commie scum but not (for example) muzzie scum. He does. He can't say it all all the time though.

Posted by: ... at July 16, 2025 09:14 AM (Qr870)

380 I wasn't too impressed with Farrell before In Bruges, but I really liked him in that and he's been good in the things I've seen him in since then like True Detective.

Posted by: 18-1 at July 16, 2025 09:14 AM (t0Rmr)

381 Morn' all... Is our hair still on fire or can I put it out ?

Posted by: It's me donna at July 16, 2025 09:15 AM (VE6XX)

382 California Gen Zers are different than Texas Gen Zers . Probably the same differences between all Red and Blue areas.

Posted by: polynikes at July 16, 2025 09:15 AM (VofaG)

383
Whatever you do, Do Not watch "The Lobster."

It is fucking stupid.

Posted by: Soothsayer at July 16, 2025 09:15 AM (PtCPU)

384 The truth is the truth - no matter who it comes from.

Posted by: ... at July 16, 2025 09:15 AM (Qr870)

385 376 Palestinian Muslim scholar:

“Europeans are lowlifes and a civilization of prostitutes, promiscuity, and homosexuality.”

I don’t like him and I hate to say it, but when the man’s right, he’s right.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 16, 2025 09:15 AM (I5+UQ)

386 What is Ace's policy on commentors who routinely abuse and personally attack others on his site?

I don't know about Ace but I do know that you called me a liar a few days ago.

Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at July 16, 2025 09:16 AM (SfhV1)

387 Colin Farrell has become a pretty good actor.
Posted by: 18-1 at July 16, 2025 09:10 AM (t0Rmr)

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Always has been, really.

His performance as John Smith in The New World is fantastic.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 16, 2025 09:10 AM (GBKbO)
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That crap movie with a tranny German Greta playing Pocahontas?

Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at July 16, 2025 09:16 AM (t+Wsp)

388 IT'S FUNNY BECAUSE OLDE TYME SHOWS LIKE CROSSFIRE AND THE MACARTHUR REPORT ALWAYS HAD THE MOST TOXIC-LOOKING CONSERVATIVES, SUCH AS ROBERT NOVAK, TO ENSURE VIEWERS REJECTED THEM.
Posted by: BEN ROETHLISBERGER

Not everyone is as ravishing as us!

Posted by: Mona Charen and Eleanor Clift at July 16, 2025 09:16 AM (G5+As)

389 I also saw Shambling Shit-Stain of a Subhuman open for Sister Souljah at Salem City Center in '92.

Posted by: ShainS -- Trump Needs to Sue Donkey-Chompers for Defamation a la ABC at July 16, 2025 09:17 AM (E2cCq)

390
“Europeans are lowlifes and a civilization of prostitutes, promiscuity, and homosexuality.”

I don’t like him and I hate to say it, but when the man’s right, he’s right.

The two world wars seemed to have destroyed the good things in European cultures and exacerbated the bad. And the jihadi's point? How could anyone argue against it?

Posted by: 18-1 at July 16, 2025 09:17 AM (t0Rmr)

391
I don't know about Ace but I do know that you called me a liar a few days ago.
Posted by: grammie winger

Well, you said Brett Favre was the greatest QB of all time.

Posted by: Soothsayer at July 16, 2025 09:17 AM (PtCPU)

392 @373

>>In August, the Saudis will increase oil production by a third. This is what's going to make Putin cut a deal.

Fun Fact: The US is the largest producer of oil in the world, in fact, we have roughly double their production.

If the US really got it's act together, we could crush Russia economically, and limit it's abilities to make war on its neighbors.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 16, 2025 09:17 AM (XV/Pl)

393 >>Our whole country is collapsing around US and this is what CNN is talking about?!?! well, at least tRump won't sue them over it.

Well, someone isn't paying attention: the DNC desperately needs to win back Gen Z, particularly Gen Z males. This is the MSM trying to figure them out so that they can get them on their side. Maybe consider hiring David Hogg to host a show. . . ?

Posted by: Lizzy at July 16, 2025 09:17 AM (GbwPZ)

394 Morn' all... Is our hair still on fire or can I put it out ?
Posted by: It's me donna

Much easier to extinguish the flames since Aqua Net lost it's popularity.

Posted by: Tonypete at July 16, 2025 09:17 AM (cYBz/)

395 Worthless, witless glitz, just like the rest of Queen's dreck.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at July 16, 2025 08:59 AM

*fistbump*

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 16, 2025 09:18 AM (dPfyF)

396 387 That crap movie with a tranny German Greta playing Pocahontas?
Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at July 16, 2025 09:16 AM (t+Wsp)

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1. I hate you.

2. She's not a tranny, though she did end up being an annoying activist who can't get work in movies.

3. Terrence Malick is a visionary genius, and a pox on those who cannot see it!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 16, 2025 09:18 AM (GBKbO)

397 Well, you said Brett Favre was the greatest QB of all time.

Posted by: Soothsayer at July 16, 2025 09:17 AM (PtCPU)

Fair point.

Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at July 16, 2025 09:18 AM (SfhV1)

398 382 California Gen Zers are different than Texas Gen Zers . Probably the same differences between all Red and Blue areas.

Posted by: polynikes at July 16, 2025 09:15 AM (VofaG)

You said a key word. Area. It’s not red and blue states it’s red and blue areas. Rural California is the same as rural Texas. San Francisco is the same as Austin.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 16, 2025 09:18 AM (ImXfC)

399 I don't know about Ace but I do know that you called me a liar a few days ago.
Posted by: grammie winger

Let me at im

Posted by: ... at July 16, 2025 09:18 AM (Qr870)

400 19 Former Intelligence people that dealt with Russia, say Putin is just protecting his vast fortune, and does not the war to end. Because if it does end, the Russian people will finally turn on him

Putin already had a peace agreement signed and had withdrawn troops from the outskirts of Kiev before the US/UK scuttled it.

How does that square with your pea/brained "Putin wants war" narrative given to you by "unnamed sources familiar with the situation"?

Posted by: Hard to Keep Up at July 16, 2025 09:19 AM (3cNdM)

401 If the US ~~really got~~ want to get it's act together, we could crush Russia economically, and limit it's abilities to make war on its neighbors.
Posted by: Thomas Bender

fify

Posted by: Tonypete at July 16, 2025 09:19 AM (cYBz/)

402 Perhaps some more enlightened Moron can explain to me why I should give a fat rat's diseased nutsack what the mullahs do to the Persian fucktards who put them in charge?

Posted by: Xipe Totec at July 16, 2025 09:19 AM (pohLc)

403 @396

>>Terrence Malick is a visionary genius, and a pox on those who cannot see it!

Facts!

--
Milos Foreman.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 16, 2025 09:19 AM (XV/Pl)

404 My guess is that the old distinctions have faded and they’re all melded into some new army of terror.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 16, 2025 09:13 AM (I5+UQ)

Until someone consolidates power, then they will start killing each other!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (with a beret and a Gauloises) at July 16, 2025 09:19 AM (L5An7)

405 Palestinian Muslim scholar:

“Europeans are lowlifes and a civilization of prostitutes, promiscuity, and homosexuality.”

I don’t like him and I hate to say it, but when the man’s right, he’s right.
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 16, 2025 09:15 AM

*sigh*

Broken clock, and all.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 16, 2025 09:20 AM (dPfyF)

406 @392 Thomas, always wondered if Biden was getting a cut of European LNG purchases from Russia. He stopped our LNG export business for some idiot reasons, but Speaker Johnson alleged that Biden had no memory of doing it . Maybe folks in his administration were getting $ from Putin

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 16, 2025 09:20 AM (volu5)

407 Europeans are lowlifes and a civilization of prostitutes, promiscuity, and homosexuality.”

—

I mean, he’s not wrong.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 16, 2025 09:20 AM (ImXfC)

408 384
385
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 16, 2025 09:15 AM (I5+UQ)

Does that count as Horde Mind

Posted by: ... at July 16, 2025 09:20 AM (Qr870)

409 >>“Europeans are lowlifes and a civilization of prostitutes, promiscuity, and homosexuality.

Yes, because marrying 9 year olds, raping livestock, honor killing by stoning and bacha bazi are so darn sophisticated and enlightened!

Posted by: Lizzy at July 16, 2025 09:20 AM (GbwPZ)

410 I don't know about Ace but I do know that you called me a liar a few days ago.
Posted by: grammie winger

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You said Surströmming was food.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 16, 2025 09:20 AM (JvZF+)

411 From the waste and abuse article: ...because hospitals “benefit financially from more tests and treatments, irrespective of outcomes or necessity, distorting clinical priorities and bloating budgets.”

***************

Take a scenario where a patient has a stable, chronic, at-worst very slowly progressive condition, e.g. a healthy child with a small congenital heart defect. Periodic surveillance/follow-up for such a condition typically includes an echocardiogram, priced at between $2-3,000. The question of how frequently such a test is needed has evolved over the years to shorter and shorter intervals. If you poll 10 cardiologists for their recommendation, you would likely get 4 saying "every six months", 3 saying"once a year", 2 sayin '"every 1 to 2 years" and one outlier saying, "only if there are signs of increased symptoms".

The standard of care at most Childrens' Hospitals, with the full backing of the hospital administration, has devolved to "every 6-12 months". And I can guarantee you that the echo will be done at the routine visit before the patient even sees the doctor, regardless of symptoms. KA-CHING!

Posted by: muldoon at July 16, 2025 09:21 AM (poXs5)

412 Former US Intel agents are a big reason there is a war in Ukraine right now.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 16, 2025 09:21 AM (viF8m)

413 You said a key word. Area. It’s not red and blue states it’s red and blue areas. Rural California is the same as rural Texas. San Francisco is the same as Austin.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 16, 2025 09:18 AM (ImXfC)

No red liberal areas are still much better than blue liberal areas by far.

Posted by: polynikes at July 16, 2025 09:21 AM (VofaG)

414 Palestinian Muslim scholar:

“Europeans are lowlifes and a civilization of prostitutes, promiscuity, and homosexuality.”

I don’t like him and I hate to say it, but when the man’s right, he’s right.
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 16, 2025 09:15 AM

And yet Muslims sure are eager to live there.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at July 16, 2025 09:21 AM (XCUp7)

415 Why are you using that horrible, difficult to read font for your headlines. Trying to decipher what it says gives me a headache. And it's even worse when there is a typo (like today) in it.

Posted by: BufordGooch at July 16, 2025 09:21 AM (ZoHZd)

416 ... back to Crockett shedding her Alligator Alcatraz tears ...

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

Rename Alligator Alcatraz to The Gulf of Gator Gitmo!

Posted by: ShainS -- Trump Needs to Sue Donkey-Chompers for Defamation a la ABC at July 16, 2025 09:22 AM (E2cCq)

417 “Europeans are lowlifes and a civilization of prostitutes, promiscuity, and homosexuality.

Yes, because marrying 9 year olds, raping livestock, honor killing by stoning and bacha bazi are so darn sophisticated and enlightened!
Posted by: Lizzy at July 16, 2025 09:20 AM (GbwPZ)

Did you ever want to see both sides lose a fight

Posted by: ... at July 16, 2025 09:22 AM (Qr870)

418 You said Surströmming was food.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 16, 2025 09:20 AM (JvZF+)

In my defense, I was high.

Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at July 16, 2025 09:22 AM (SfhV1)

419 Germans then: The great questions of the day will not be settled by means of speeches and majority decisions but by iron and blood.

Germans now: If I stand to pee my wife won't let me visit my boyfriend until I clean the water closet.

Posted by: 18-1 at July 16, 2025 09:22 AM (t0Rmr)

420 @406

>> Johnson alleged that Biden had no memory of doing it . Maybe folks in his administration were getting $ from Putin

If you assume everyone is dipping their beak and getting a cut except you and me, everything makes more sense.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 16, 2025 09:22 AM (XV/Pl)

421 Why are you using that horrible, difficult to read font for your headlines. Trying to decipher what it says gives me a headache. And it's even worse when there is a typo (like today) in it.
Posted by: BufordGooch

Noted. I'll alert the media.

Posted by: Tonypete at July 16, 2025 09:22 AM (cYBz/)

422 I want you to be on my Trivial Pursuit team.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 16, 2025 09:08 AM (JvZF+)

As I always tell people, my intellect is the equivalent of a puddle - a mile wide and an inch deep.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at July 16, 2025 09:22 AM (Dg2sF)

423 Colin Farrell has become a pretty good actor.
Posted by: 18-1 at July 16, 2025 09:10 AM (t0Rmr)

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Always has been, really.

His performance as John Smith in The New World is fantastic.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 16, 2025 09:10 AM (GBKbO)
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That crap movie with a tranny German Greta playing Pocahontas?
Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at July 16, 2025 09:16 AM (t+Wsp)

He was good as a vampire in Fright Night.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at July 16, 2025 09:23 AM (g8Ew8)

424 And yet Muslims sure are eager to live there.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at July 16, 2025 09:21 AM (XCUp7)

Good Muslim men don't sexually assault Muslim women. The EU is filled with not-Muslim women.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 16, 2025 09:23 AM (ExV1e)

425 No red liberal areas are still much better than blue liberal areas by far.
Posted by: polynikes at July 16, 2025 09:21 AM (VofaG)

Maybe in numbers. After all that’s what makes a red state red, fewer leftists. But the leftists in a large city in Texas or Florida are no different than leftists in a large city in California or the northeast.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 16, 2025 09:24 AM (ImXfC)

426 As I always tell people, my intellect is the equivalent of a puddle - a mile wide and an inch deep.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at July 16, 2025 09:22 AM (Dg2sF)

You give yourself too much credit.

Posted by: ... at July 16, 2025 09:24 AM (Qr870)

427 Speaking of songs that got way too much airplay, I still cannot for the life of me understand how "Headstrong" by Trapt was played on every rock station at almost 15-minute intervals for an entire summer.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at July 16, 2025 09:24 AM (KbCG3)

428
I concur.

That white font is No Bueno.

It's causing seizures.

Posted by: Soothsayer at July 16, 2025 09:24 AM (PtCPU)

429 Houston actually completed their light rail.

+++
It was years before people figured out how not to get hit by it.

Posted by: Smellslikevictory at July 16, 2025 09:25 AM (jPdyB)

430 You give yourself too much credit.
Posted by: ... at July 16, 2025 09:24 AM (Qr870)

Harsh.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 16, 2025 09:25 AM (ExV1e)

431 ...and the echocardiogram will never be performed and billed as a "limited" or "focused" echocardiogram at a lesser price. It will be billed as a "complete" echocardiogram, at top dollar.

Ask me how I know.

Posted by: muldoon at July 16, 2025 09:25 AM (poXs5)

432 >>Did you ever want to see both sides lose a fight

Yeah, I know defending European deviance is a losing battle. Same goes for defending US deviance.

However, the huge difference is that ours are deviants (the fallen) and theirs are the norm.

Posted by: Lizzy at July 16, 2025 09:25 AM (GbwPZ)

433 That crap movie with a tranny German Greta playing Pocahontas?
Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at July 16, 2025 09:16 AM (t+Wsp)

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1. I hate you.

2. She's not a tranny, though she did end up being an annoying activist who can't get work in movies.

3. Terrence Malick is a visionary genius, and a pox on those who cannot see it!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 16, 2025 09:18 AM (GBKbO)
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1. But The Blade is so loveable
2. She looks like a tranny and is about as Native America as sauerkraut
3. Meh.

Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at July 16, 2025 09:25 AM (t+Wsp)

434 I suspect the "Colin Farrell isn't a good actor" line of thought originates from Alexander.

But all of Alexander's problems lie fully at the feet of Oliver Stone who just made the movie...wrong.

Farrell was front and center of that disaster of a film, giving a swinging for the fences, operatic and melodramatic performance that didn't really work. But I'm pretty sure it's what Stone wanted from him: a bad performance because Stone didn't know what a good performance for the character was supposed to be.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 16, 2025 09:25 AM (GBKbO)

435 I may not know, nor do I really want to know the definition of "genderfluid

It's like blinker fluid.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 16, 2025 09:26 AM (ynpvh)

436 Ferrel was absolutely great in the truly execrable, Banshee's of Inishiran.

He was also great in In Bruges.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 16, 2025 09:26 AM (XV/Pl)

437 Saw on YouTube some talking heads on the left celebrate how Turning Points USA was cheering on Dave Smith and Tucker, in their anti -Israel speeches.

It was somewhat surpassing to see that. There definitely was a lot of applause and and cheering. How representative of the entire crowd that was is the unknown.

Dave Smith is a weird dude. Loathes Jews but is Jewish himself. But named Smith.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 16, 2025 09:27 AM (ImXfC)

438 Posted by: Lizzy at July 16, 2025 09:25 AM (GbwPZ)

I'll have to meditate on that one. But yeah I might have to give you it.

Posted by: ... at July 16, 2025 09:27 AM (Qr870)

439 “Our hearts are heavy, yet rejoicing, as we share the news that our beloved pastor and teacher John MacArthur has entered into the presence of the Savior,” Grace to You wrote. “This evening, his faith became sight. He faithfully endured until his race was run.”

I was privileged to see both MacArthur preach in person on the West Coast, and Tim Keller on the East Coast. Two giants of the faith, in different ways. MacArthur news on of the very few pastors to defy the COVID restrictions on church operations, and fought CA to victory, at great cost to himself. He should be recognized as prominently as Keller, in death - if not moreso.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at July 16, 2025 09:27 AM (9EwTD)

440 I suspect the "Colin Farrell isn't a good actor" line of thought originates from Alexander.

He was pretty terrible in Elektra as well, but everything about that movie was

Posted by: 18-1 at July 16, 2025 09:27 AM (t0Rmr)

441 I may not know, nor do I really want to know the definition of "genderfluid

Bi.
Goes either way on a moment's notice.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 16, 2025 09:27 AM (gdBb2)

442 Speaking of songs that got way too much airplay, I still cannot for the life of me understand how "Headstrong" by Trapt was played on every rock station at almost 15-minute intervals for an entire summer.

***MMMBop has entered the chat***

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at July 16, 2025 09:27 AM (Dg2sF)

443 440 I suspect the "Colin Farrell isn't a good actor" line of thought originates from Alexander.

He was pretty terrible in Elektra as well, but everything about that movie was
Posted by: 18-1 at July 16, 2025 09:27 AM (t0Rmr)

======

Trying to be a movie star didn't work for him. He's actually just an interesting actor and is better in character roles.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 16, 2025 09:28 AM (GBKbO)

444 Colin Ferrel is a good actor. Unrecognizable as Penguin. Had some tragedy in his personal life after partying hard.

Posted by: runner at July 16, 2025 09:28 AM (g47mK)

445 429 Houston actually completed their light rail.

+++
It was years before people figured out how not to get hit by it.
Posted by: Smellslikevictory at July 16, 2025 09:25 AM (jPdyB)

I've seen a couple of close calls in recent years that suggest we are very much still up to the challenge of being run over and ground into dogfood.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at July 16, 2025 09:28 AM (XCUp7)

446 Colin Farrell in The Gentlemen.

Posted by: davidt at July 16, 2025 09:29 AM (i0F8b)

447
Colin Farrel was good in a Guy Ritchie movie. Maybe a couple.

Posted by: Soothsayer at July 16, 2025 09:29 AM (PtCPU)

448 You give yourself too much credit.
Posted by: ... at July 16, 2025 09:24 AM (Qr870)

Harsh.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 16, 2025 09:25 AM (ExV1e)

Meh. He talks like a fag and his shit's all retarded.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at July 16, 2025 09:29 AM (Dg2sF)

449 I was privileged to see both MacArthur preach in person on the West Coast, and Tim Keller on the East Coast. Two giants of the faith, in different ways. MacArthur news on of the very few pastors to defy the COVID restrictions on church operations, and fought CA to victory, at great cost to himself. He should be recognized as prominently as Keller, in death - if not moreso.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at July 16, 2025 09:27 AM (9EwTD)

I never got to attend a service where MacArthur preached, but I did enjoy listening to him on "Grace to You".

Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at July 16, 2025 09:29 AM (SfhV1)

450 440 I suspect the "Colin Farrell isn't a good actor" line of thought originates from Alexander.

He was pretty terrible in Elektra as well, but everything about that movie was
Posted by: 18-1 at July 16, 2025 09:27 AM (t0Rmr)

He stole Minority Report from Tom Cruise in every scene they were in together.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at July 16, 2025 09:29 AM (9EwTD)

451
Heh.
That's the one. The Gentlemen.

Posted by: Soothsayer at July 16, 2025 09:29 AM (PtCPU)

452 I think Ferrel can absolutely be in a big role, not just character role, with a right director.

Posted by: runner at July 16, 2025 09:29 AM (g47mK)

453 Cities everywhere (including in red states) have declared war on single family housing. You can’t build a home in a city anymore. It’s nothing but apartments. If you want a home it has to be in the exurbs.

And then leftists turn around and go, why is there so much sprawl? Uhm because you’re forcing it assholes. You have to drive 20 miles from the city if you want to have a backyard.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 16, 2025 09:30 AM (ImXfC)

454 You need to change your genderfluid every 30,000 miles.

Posted by: Advance Auto Parts at July 16, 2025 09:30 AM (XQo4F)

455 452 I think Ferrel can absolutely be in a big role, not just character role, with a right director.
Posted by: runner at July 16, 2025 09:29 AM (g47mK)

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*soapbox*

Oliver Stone is not a good director.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 16, 2025 09:30 AM (GBKbO)

456 Meh. He talks like a fag and his shit's all retarded.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at July 16, 2025 09:29 AM (Dg2sF)

I have no defense for this.

Posted by: ... at July 16, 2025 09:30 AM (Qr870)

457 I concur.

That white font is No Bueno.

It's causing seizures.
Posted by: Soothsayer at July 16, 2025 09:24 AM (PtCPU)

I just looked and discovered that it's caused me to have eye cancer.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at July 16, 2025 09:30 AM (g8Ew8)

458 456 Meh. He talks like a fag and his shit's all retarded.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at July 16, 2025 09:29 AM (Dg2sF)

I have no defense for this.
Posted by: ... at July 16, 2025 09:30 AM (Qr870)

=======

There's always nickelfucker.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 16, 2025 09:30 AM (GBKbO)

459 *Farrell

Posted by: runner at July 16, 2025 09:30 AM (g47mK)

460 Tits up!

Posted by: rickb223 at July 16, 2025 09:31 AM (gdBb2)

461 I am so sorry to hear about John MacArthur's passing. He was a great man. He wrote my study Bible. And it is unsurpassed.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at July 16, 2025 09:31 AM (pohLc)

462 Trying to be a movie star didn't work for him. He's actually just an interesting actor and is better in character roles.
-----------------
He visually reads like he would fit any Wes Anderson movie. I'm surprised he has not been included in Wes's clique.

Posted by: pudinhead at July 16, 2025 09:32 AM (W3T6M)

463 I liked him in "Saving Mr. Banks."

Posted by: no one of any consequence at July 16, 2025 09:32 AM (3Rpkk)

464 *soapbox*

Oliver Stone is not a good director.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 16, 2025 09:30 AM (GBKbO)

not good sometime, and sometimes ... The Doors, Natural Born Killers, and..I don't think Alexander was that bad...

Posted by: runner at July 16, 2025 09:33 AM (g47mK)

465
The lovely thing about AOS is you can start reading a thread and go out to live an actual life, come back, and it's a movie thread.

Posted by: Auspex at July 16, 2025 09:39 AM (Y8DZL)

466 *soapbox*

Oliver Stone is not a good director.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 16, 2025 09:30 AM (GBKbO)

I've only ever seen Nixon and JFK, so my opinion isn't worth much. I will say Anthony Hopkins had no business playing Nixon. I did like James Woods as Haldeman.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at July 16, 2025 09:40 AM (Dg2sF)

467 (ICE) agents wearing masks during immigration enforcement could face “lawful” violence
____

Any chance this law professor cited any actual laws pertaining to how she got to violence against law enforcement officers being "legal"? Or is one of those conclusions that the law should allow it because it makes her feel good?

Posted by: Chuck Martel at July 16, 2025 09:42 AM (Dv3i1)

468 Never forget that McConnell refused to recess Congress so that Trump would be prevented from staffing his administration. An administration of his own party.

AFAIK, this is unprecedented. Mitch is asshoe.

Posted by: toby928 at July 16, 2025 09:42 AM (jc0TO)

469 "Crockett claimed . . . it stops other countries from being 'radicalized' against the U.S."

* * *

The meme headline misquotes Crockett. The meme headline quotes her as warning against "radializing."

Radializing?

Posted by: LibertyDefender at July 16, 2025 09:52 AM (yCnEb)

470 All trolls are Average Joe.
Posted by: WitchDoktor at July 16, 2025 08:46 AM (23/y9)

scoccy is average joe?

I did not know that.

Posted by: Somewhere South of I-80 at July 16, 2025 09:59 AM (89Sog)

471 Nic Update

Posted by: ShainS -- Trump Needs to Sue Donkey-Chompers for Defamation a la ABC at July 16, 2025 10:15 AM (cRqlV)

472 469 Posted by: LibertyDefender at July 16, 2025 09:52 AM (yCnEb)

Oh no! a Typo.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 16, 2025 10:20 AM (x0n13)

473 I'd like to thank you for the efforts you've put in writing this website.
I am hoping to view the same high-grade content from you later on as well.
In fact, your creative writing abilities has
motivated me to get my very own website now

Posted by: Driveway concrete company at July 16, 2025 10:25 AM (zRIel)

474 >it's the Nykia Hamiltons out there that will truly make America great again.

No, stigmatizing crime, single motherhood and obesity is what will make America great again. Praising this woman's work ethic is closing the barn door after the horses have gone.

Posted by: Daniel Ream at July 16, 2025 10:40 AM (xBngO)

475 GET RID OF THAT FUCKING WHITE BLOB FONT! I CANNOT READ IT.

Posted by: Ray Van Dune at July 16, 2025 11:11 AM (PQOq3)

476 "..this shambling shit-stain of a subhuman" Jasmine Crockett went to an elite prep school for the rich in St. Louis. Then went to a very expensive college: Rhodes, in Memphis. Her ghetto act is a complete put-on, but then her voters probably wouldn't vote for someone who uses good grammar.

Posted by: Ralph at July 16, 2025 11:11 AM (8WZD4)

477 Look at all the voices above that anyone who veers off the CIA/Deep State narrative that we need a good war with Russia is a propagandist. Is there any other Deep State narrative you defend as hard?

Russia is a fascinating country with a long history. It is also somewhere that I am glad not to live. When the EU turns all Sharia-Islamic, the old Orthodox roots of Russia may be, strangely, the only ally to defend western civilization.

Tucker seems to follow the Rogan philosophy that his job as an interviewer is to let the guy he is interviewing make his best case. I far prefer it to the MSM approach, in which one never hears what the interviewed says/thinks/claims, but merely a constant stream of derisive interruptions calculated to make sure that nothing breaks the hermetic seal of The Narrative.

I don't have to trust what they are saying to want to hear what they want to say.

Posted by: Old Toby at July 16, 2025 11:16 AM (VUF1p)

478 "While the Epstein files release/non-release drama continues, I am at a loss as to what President Trump is thinking on this"

I'll tell you what to think about it. it's exactly the same thing as the Epstein flap: another Democrat/anti-Trump op to try and bust up Trump's base and momentum. Is there anyone quoted in the article that is NOT a former member of the Biden administration?

Posted by: MartynWW at July 16, 2025 11:58 AM (vXpHP)

479 McConnell votes with Murkowski. Time for the Turtle to take a hike and retire.

Posted by: Comanche Voter at July 16, 2025 12:03 PM (cB7nX)

480 Please change the unreadable font in the title. It sucks.

Posted by: nraendowment at July 16, 2025 01:13 PM (UKRGV)

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