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Antifa Assassin Who Shot ICE Agents Arrested, Along With Two Other Antifa Terrorists Who Aided and Abetted Him

Andy Ngo:


Breaking: Texas Antifa gunman fugitive captured

North Texas Antifa member Benjamin Song has just been captured, and two more of his comrades have been charged for allegedly abetting his escape


Armed and dangerous North Texas Antifa gunman fugitive Benjamin Song has just been captured, and two more of his comrades have been charged for allegedly abetting his escape.

Benjamin Hanil Takeshi Song, 32, had been evading arrest from the FBI following the ambush shooting on the Prairieland Detention Center, an ICE facility, on the Fourth of July. Between 20 and 30 rounds were fired at the agents and responding police in Alvarado, Texas. One local officer was shot in the neck and survived.

11 members or associates of the heavily armed cell have been federally charged so far with attempted murder and discharging a firearm during a crime of violence. They also face local terrorism charges. At least 14 firearms have been recovered in the investigation, in addition to a cache of ammunition and body armor.

Democrats tried to shut down a hearing on the border because reporter Julio Rosas accurately stated that Democrat rhetoric was encouraging violence from Democrat supporters and voters.

"I'm here testifying today as a proud Latino, but most importantly, I'm here as an American citizen!"

"The rhetoric coming from one side of the aisle...They want to view Latinos simply as a underclass, to siphon votes and fear-monger from every time that there's an election."

"It is DISGUSTING to see them criticize that recent raid in Ventura County, where they found unaccompanied minors working alongside convicted sex offenders at a cannabis farm!"

"Now we got to keep them there or else are we gonna get high, If we can't have unaccompanied minors harvest our weed?!"

Democrats are increasingly dog-whistling for assassinations.

Axios recently published a round-up of House Democrats saying their constituents at town halls and in one-on-one meetings are telling them "civility isn't working" and to prepare for "violence ... to fight to protect our democracy."

Voters told one Democrat, who wished to remain anonymous, "what we really need to do is be willing to get shot" [when visiting ICE facilities or federal agencies]. "Our own base is telling us that what we're doing is not good enough ... [that] there needs to be blood to grab the attention of the press and the public."

We're increasingly seeing far-left extremists, emboldened by the rhetoric they hear from Democrats, take matters into their own hands. Last month, we watched the anti-ICE protests in Los Angeles quickly spiral into violence, for example. Then, on July 4, 11 individuals carried out a "preplanned" ambush on law enforcement officers at the ICE Prairie Detention Center in Alvarado, Texas. The Department of Justice has charged 10 of the 11 individuals with attempted murder.

Last week, a left-wing lunatic targeted law enforcement officers at a Border Patrol facility in McAllen, Texas. In a recent news release, ICE reported that assaults on agents have increased by 700% "as activists masquerading as immigrant advocates continue to impede operations. On July 2, a man repeatedly rammed an ICE vehicle with his car in Linda Vista, California, before three activists attacked agents."

Related: Border crossings fall to historic lows.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection reported the lowest number of border crossings in recorded history in June.

Nationwide, there were 25,228 CBP encounters, the lowest monthly number the agency has recorded, including a "historical low" of 8,024 apprehensions. Encounters include legal ports of entry, whereas apprehensions are arrests of those coming into the United States illegally.

At the southern border alone, there were only 6,072 apprehensions in June, which is "15% lower than the previous March record." June also brought along the lowest number of apprehensions in a day on June 28 with just 136.

"From shutting down illegal crossings to seizing fentanyl and enforcing billions in tariffs, CBP is delivering results on every front. Under this administration, we are protecting this country with relentless focus, and the numbers prove it." CBP Commissioner Rodney Scott said in a press release Wednesday.

Like May, there were no parole releases, compared with 27,766 in 2024.

Posted by: Ace at 02:16 PM




Comments

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1 SPONGE!!!

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 16, 2025 02:17 PM (ULPxl)

2 So deport...

Posted by: It's me donna at July 16, 2025 02:17 PM (VE6XX)

3 Oh thank God. Actual important news rather than f'ing that Epstein chicken to death.

Posted by: JROD at July 16, 2025 02:18 PM (IlL6s)

4 Ah, palette cleanser.

Posted by: toby928 at July 16, 2025 02:18 PM (jc0TO)

5 >>>Benjamin Hanil Takeshi Song

Ah. I see. Amish chap?

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 16, 2025 02:19 PM (uCjyK)

6 Winning!!!

Posted by: redridinghood at July 16, 2025 02:19 PM (NpAcC)

7 3 Oh thank God. Actual important news rather than f'ing that Epstein chicken to death.

Posted by: JROD at July 16, 2025 02:18 PM (IlL6s)

Seconded!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at July 16, 2025 02:19 PM (dKEEs)

8 At least 14 firearms have been recovered in the investigation, in addition to a cache of ammunition and body armor.


*shifty eyes*

Posted by: toby928 at July 16, 2025 02:20 PM (jc0TO)

9 So as I was saying, this Epstein stuff...

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at July 16, 2025 02:20 PM (KbCG3)

10 "Benjamin Hanil Takeshi Song"

Why do these rotters always have names like this?

Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at July 16, 2025 02:20 PM (iFTx/)

11 This is a separate incident from the one where the shooter got ventilated, right?

Posted by: toby928 at July 16, 2025 02:21 PM (jc0TO)

12
ICE officers made a grandfather jump off a bridge as they chased him off a job last week. This right-wing violence cannot continue. White supremacy is the greatest danger facing our nation. Ana, what's your take?

Posted by: MSM at July 16, 2025 02:21 PM (HL/Ld)

13 Go Straight To Jail The Hanging Tree

Do Not Pass Go

Do Not Collect $200

Posted by: garrett at July 16, 2025 02:21 PM (oSEaw)

14 10 "Benjamin Hanil Takeshi Song"

Why do these rotters always have names like this?
Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at July 16, 2025 02:20 PM
--

Sounds like a District Judge

Posted by: J. Frank Parnell at July 16, 2025 02:22 PM (0bjKf)

15 Moving trucks haul stuff to Mexico every day.

Posted by: huerfano at July 16, 2025 02:22 PM (n2swS)

16 >>ICE officers made a grandfather jump off a bridge as they chased him off a job last week.


Hasta Luego, Senor.

Posted by: garrett at July 16, 2025 02:22 PM (oSEaw)

17 But it's FASCISM if terrorists aren't free to assault LEOs!

Posted by: Axeman at July 16, 2025 02:22 PM (Q4cxx)

18 Why do these rotters always have names like this?
Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at July 16, 2025 02:20 PM (iFTx/)

Hard to say. But looking at the pictures - he looks Asiatic, but not quite Chinese or Korean, as the last name Song would seem to indicate.

Filipino, maybe?

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 16, 2025 02:23 PM (uCjyK)

19 12 days on the run is not long, but not short either.

Posted by: Adriane the Silly Love Song Critic . . . at July 16, 2025 02:23 PM (3ZUWJ)

20 Song was a member of the Elm Fork John Brown Gun Club. Every time I hear about AntiFa weapons training, it's always related to their local John Brown Gun Club.

Posted by: bonhomme at July 16, 2025 02:23 PM (lIio7)

21 Annouce a plan for bounties, and pop the corn. You don't have to actually do it. That's the evil brilliance.

Posted by: cliff at July 16, 2025 02:24 PM (yoqcZ)

22 Is it an urban myth that CA highways have been less congested since the deportations?

Posted by: Seems Legit at July 16, 2025 02:24 PM (PMtkd)

23 Nothing makes me feel so good as seeing new citizens being sworn in and holding American flags and so proud to now be known as an American citizen.

The Left don't understand that and I would guess they are as disgusted with the new citizen's patriotic display as I am proud of it.

Posted by: polynikes at July 16, 2025 02:24 PM (VofaG)

24 Python Prison waits for you.

Posted by: toby928 at July 16, 2025 02:25 PM (jc0TO)

25 I think they need to crack down hard on Antifa as policy right now. They have as a group murdered many people and done hundreds of millions of dollars in property damage, not to mention all the assaults and thefts as well as lesser crimes like noise ordinances, parading, etc.

Declaring them a domestic terrorist group would not be difficult at all to defend legally and open them up to prosecution in ways that only the local and state governments have available (and won't use).

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 16, 2025 02:25 PM (dfIr7)

26 The almost cheering reaction by Democraps to the 14-year-old illegals sweating in weed fields tell you all you need to know: Democraps truly believe illegals are their new slave class, to be used and exploited to benefit Democraps, just as they did black slaves 200 years ago. Democraps aren't even trying to hide it.

Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at July 16, 2025 02:25 PM (iFTx/)

27 24 Python Prison waits for you.
Posted by: toby928 at July 16, 2025 02:25 PM (jc0TO)

I'd rather he go to the Epstein one.

Posted by: ... at July 16, 2025 02:25 PM (Qr870)

28 Yeah, I’ve had a team working on this over the past few weeks, and what we’ve come up with can be reduced to two fundamental concepts. One: People aren’t wearing enough hats. Two: Matter is energy. In the universe there are many energy fields which we cannot normally perceive. Some energies have a spiritual source which act upon a person’s soul. However, this “soul” does not exist ab initio as orthodox Christianity teaches; it has to be brought into existence by a process of guided self-observation. However, this is rarely achieved owing to man’s unique ability to be distracted from spiritual matters by everyday trivia.

Posted by: Executive #2 at July 16, 2025 02:25 PM (TN0g+)

29 WOAH: Democrat Bennie Thompson just threw a FIT when Republican witness pointed out how Democrat rhetoric has led to an 800% increase in assaults against ICE agents.
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As would be expected.

I'm sure Democrats feel that such a statement is "below the belt".

They likely think that "it's harsh rhetoric" for a political gain.

... when they're not calling Pubs "Nazis" and claiming that Trump's talk started all the violence. And trying to blame whatever violent event on the nearest Republican to the perp.

Posted by: Axeman at July 16, 2025 02:26 PM (Q4cxx)

30 > ICE officers made a grandfather jump off a bridge as they chased him off a job last week.

Made him? Like ICE surrounded him on a bridge, held a gun to his head, and said, "Jump or we shoot you, gramps." Is that what happened?

Posted by: bonhomme at July 16, 2025 02:26 PM (lIio7)

31 These people really should get what they're asking for.

Violence. It probably isn't what they thought it'd be. If they survive.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 16, 2025 02:26 PM (Q4IgG)

32 This is a separate incident from the one where the shooter got ventilated, right?
Posted by: toby928

Not sure. iirc, the others scattered after the main homie went down.

Posted by: Adriane the Silly Love Song Critic . . . at July 16, 2025 02:26 PM (3ZUWJ)

33 Why are we talking about immigration when we could still be talking about Epstein?


The world wonders.

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at July 16, 2025 02:26 PM (dWlcQ)

34 This story - and those like it - are why Weasel is very seriously not kidding anymore.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider, still gloating at July 16, 2025 02:26 PM (oSeBJ)

35 Oh thank God. Actual important news rather than f'ing that Epstein chicken to death.

Posted by: JROD at July 16, 2025 02:18 PM (IlL6s)

Seconded!
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at July 16, 2025 02:19 PM (dKEEs)

Thirded

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at July 16, 2025 02:27 PM (g8Ew8)

36 Why do these rotters always have names like this?
Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at July 16, 2025 02:20 PM (iFTx/)

Hard to say. But looking at the pictures - he looks Asiatic, but not quite Chinese or Korean, as the last name Song would seem to indicate.

Filipino, maybe?
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 16, 2025 02:23 PM (uCjyK)
_____

I'm going with Japanese

Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at July 16, 2025 02:27 PM (iFTx/)

37 Made him? Like ICE surrounded him on a bridge, held a gun to his head, and said, "Jump or we shoot you, gramps." Is that what happened?

If you believe the legacy media, basically yeah. That was a satire post

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 16, 2025 02:27 PM (dfIr7)

38 Why do these rotters always have names like this?
Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at July 16, 2025 02:20 PM (iFTx/)

Hard to say. But looking at the pictures - he looks Asiatic, but not quite Chinese or Korean, as the last name Song would seem to indicate.

Filipino, maybe?
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 16, 2025 02:23 PM (uCjyK)
_____

I'm going with Japanese
---------

I really think so.

Posted by: Crusader at July 16, 2025 02:28 PM (TN0g+)

39 Nobody is as trained in doublethink as a Dem.

You can watch your account of documented violence whizz right by them a minute after they're trying to give you a sob story about a lesser incident--or more "stochastic" an explanation of "violence".

They don't have sympathy, their sympathy is their politics.

Posted by: Axeman at July 16, 2025 02:28 PM (Q4cxx)

40 These people really should get what they're asking for.

Violence. It probably isn't what they thought it'd be. If they survive.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 16, 2025 02:26 PM

We have plenty of sociopaths on our side as well, though I say that as shouldn't.

Posted by: toby928 at July 16, 2025 02:28 PM (jc0TO)

41 I like the part how they gleefully dismiss and mock the deaths of some 6 million Jews by claiming the detention center is just like the death camps.

Oh you mean the Jews could have just walked out anytime they wanted by merely requesting they be sent home?
Is that what you're saying, that the Jews wanted to be there?
That's what you are saying.

Because every single shitbag illegal in FL can go home any time they want if they walk up to the nearest guard and say, "I'd like to go home and I'll waive my hearing."

Home to where they were born.
Home to where they are a legal citizen.
Home to where they still have friends and family.
Home to their home country.

Fuck the left.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 16, 2025 02:28 PM (/avtW)

42 Song sounds Korean.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at July 16, 2025 02:28 PM (UGyV5)

43 > That was a satire post

Ah. I didn't get that. Sorry.

Posted by: bonhomme at July 16, 2025 02:29 PM (lIio7)

44 I hope these guys who just got arrested go to FMITA prison for a couple of centuries.

Posted by: ALH, Sister Golden Hair at July 16, 2025 02:29 PM (t0Out)

45 I think they need to crack down hard on Antifa as policy right now. They have as a group murdered many people and done hundreds of millions of dollars in property damage, not to mention all the assaults and thefts as well as lesser crimes like noise ordinances, parading, etc.

Declaring them a domestic terrorist group would not be difficult at all to defend legally and open them up to prosecution in ways that only the local and state governments have available (and won't use).

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 16, 2025 02:25 PM (dfIr7)


THIS. Exactly THIS. Antifa are the Democrat Party's Sturmabteilung. The only difference is that these fuckers wear black rather than brown.

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at July 16, 2025 02:29 PM (dWlcQ)

46 >>Why do these rotters always have names like this?


Because they are insane and believe their names are as mutable as their genders.

Posted by: garrett at July 16, 2025 02:29 PM (oSEaw)

47 It all started when border patrol started whipping migrants at the border with horse reins.

*sob*

Posted by: Axeman at July 16, 2025 02:30 PM (Q4cxx)

48 Just 14 guns?

Pikers

Posted by: polynikes at July 16, 2025 02:30 PM (VofaG)

49 Antifa is just an idea.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at July 16, 2025 02:30 PM (UGyV5)

50 Self-deportation. I remember media talking heads laughing when R's would bring this up as part of the strategy to remove illegals. They couldn't imagine such a thing.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at July 16, 2025 02:30 PM (Dv3i1)

51 ICE officers made a grandfather wear a festive little hat as they chased him off a job last week.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at July 16, 2025 02:30 PM (u6OfN)

52 Song sounds Korean.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls


Or Chinese. It was the name of one of the Chinese imperial dynasties.

Posted by: Bulg at July 16, 2025 02:31 PM (77rzZ)

53 5 >>>Benjamin Hanil Takeshi Song

Ah. I see. Amish chap?
Posted by: Harry Paratestes

This guy has some skills we could use! If Takeshi could build another castle along the southern border, we could watch immigrants try to survive the challenges to enter the US...

Posted by: Moron Analyst at July 16, 2025 02:31 PM (JCZqz)

54 >>We need some new tropes.
Posted by: Paco at July 16, 2025 01:55 PM (mADJX)

SPONGE!

I saw Paco open for New Tripe at the Moron Community Center in Brattleboro.
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt

I don't get it.

Posted by: Taq, Rickrolled by Jesus at July 16, 2025 02:31 PM (poS9c)

55 26 The almost cheering reaction by Democraps to the 14-year-old illegals sweating in weed fields tell you all you need to know: Democraps truly believe illegals are their new slave class, to be used and exploited to benefit Democraps, just as they did black slaves 200 years ago. Democraps aren't even trying to hide it.
Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at July 16, 2025 02:25 PM (iFTx/)

They even say it. And not just Democrats, plenty of Republicans too.

"whose going to clean your toilets if we deport all of the illegals?"

and "they're just doing the jobs Americans won't do"

and "they're VERY hard workers."

What else could they possibly mean by that other than these people are essentially slaves doing the "shitty" jobs "Americans" would be too proud or lazy to do.

It's shockingly callous, racist and classist, but a lot of people openly say some variation of those things anytime you talk to them about illegals.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 16, 2025 02:31 PM (uCjyK)

56 3 Oh thank God. Actual important news rather than f'ing that Epstein chicken to death.

Posted by: JROD at July 16, 2025 02:18 PM (IlL6s)

Seconded!
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at July 16, 2025 02:19 PM (dKEEs)

Thirded!

Posted by: Epstein Chicken at July 16, 2025 02:31 PM (q2NNn)

57 Benjamin Hanil Takeshi Song

In 20 years he will be professor of criminology at UC.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 16, 2025 02:31 PM (JvZF+)

58 Democrats are increasingly dog-whistling for assassinations.
---
A *majority* of Dems in a recent poll said it would be OKAY if somebody offed Trump.

And a smaller margin of Dems saying it would be OKAY if somebody offed Musk.

Plus they love Luigi. The Elvis of proletariat assassinations.

Posted by: Axeman at July 16, 2025 02:32 PM (Q4cxx)

59 "Benjamin Hanil Takeshi Song"

Why do these rotters always have names like this?
Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at July 16, 2025 02:20 PM

The question everyone is asking is whether he will sing for a lesser sentence.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at July 16, 2025 02:32 PM (S/Y4j)

60 50 Self-deportation. I remember media talking heads laughing when R's would bring this up as part of the strategy to remove illegals. They couldn't imagine such a thing.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at July 16, 2025 02:30 PM (Dv3i1)

--------

Too much brain power to understand that if you take away incentive, you get less of the action?

Posted by: Seems Legit at July 16, 2025 02:32 PM (PMtkd)

61 Self-deportation = going the hell home to your country where you belong.

Posted by: huerfano at July 16, 2025 02:32 PM (n2swS)

62 Off to the bank, BBL when I come up with some new tropes.

Posted by: toby928 at July 16, 2025 02:32 PM (jc0TO)

63 57 Benjamin Hanil Takeshi Song

In 20 years he will be professor of criminology at UC.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 16, 2025 02:31 PM (JvZF+)

------

Guilty as hell, free as a bird.

That still frosts my ass.

Posted by: Seems Legit at July 16, 2025 02:32 PM (PMtkd)

64 We need some new tropes.
----------

Meet the new tropes
Same as the old tropes

Posted by: Roger D at July 16, 2025 02:32 PM (TN0g+)

65 Bennie Thompson is the idiot from the J6 committee. He can throw fits until he strokes out for all I care

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 16, 2025 02:32 PM (volu5)

66
I voted for this.

Posted by: Frank Barone at July 16, 2025 02:33 PM (IifOV)

67
Julio Mendoza fvcked his family. Had kids while he was here illegally and therefore subject to deportation. Some might call it selfish, unwise, short-sighted, that sort of thing.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 16, 2025 02:33 PM (HL/Ld)

68 52 Song sounds Korean.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls


Or Chinese. It was the name of one of the Chinese imperial dynasties.
Posted by: Bulg at July 16, 2025 02:31 PM (77rzZ)

This is why we had the term "mongoloid." Sometimes you just can't tell!

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 16, 2025 02:33 PM (uCjyK)

69 Self-Deport! Self-Deport! Self-Deport!

This is what I voted for and I am enjoying every little bit.

(Chef's Kiss!)

Posted by: Get The Hell Out Already! at July 16, 2025 02:33 PM (rqga2)

70 "Hail the Crimson Blood...Violence has Arrived!"

ABYSS OF WOE

https://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=lG7DKnXXL1A

Posted by: GWAR at July 16, 2025 02:33 PM (oSEaw)

71 The entire antifa crap is predicated on being the cool kids where they once were a bunch of nerdy losers (the are still losers, even if they don't see that). The behavior is remarkably like middle schoolers, except with guns and bombs. I doubt any of them could articulate what motivates them, because they don't have a clue about the politics or the reality of life in the US. I suspect a great many of them are just trying to impress a chick.

And in what country could they have pulled off this kind of nonsense and NOT be in jail, shot, or otherwise curtailed?

One strong father figure in their pathetic lives and they might have become something. Instead, they wallow in their own filth.

Posted by: tcn in AK at July 16, 2025 02:34 PM (1Gsou)

72 What is the approval process for new tropes? Is there a form I have to fill out? A fee to pay?

Posted by: Bulg at July 16, 2025 02:34 PM (77rzZ)

73 >>We need some new tropes.
Posted by: Paco at July 16, 2025 01:55 PM (mADJX)


Trope Face Boogie

Posted by: Little Feat at July 16, 2025 02:34 PM (q2NNn)

74 Oh thank God. Actual important news rather than f'ing that Epstein chicken to death.

Posted by: JROD at July 16, 2025 02:18 PM (IlL6s)

Seconded!
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at July 16, 2025 02:19 PM (dKEEs)

Thirded!
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How old is the chicken?

Posted by: Asking for a friend at July 16, 2025 02:34 PM (TN0g+)

75 It’s fairly amazing the wins we have experienced.

Posted by: thathalfrican - The One at July 16, 2025 02:34 PM (eZwyX)

76 You know what I confidently predict? News stories about how the average American weight has dropped mysteriously over the next few years. Somehow Americans got slimmer, and nobody can explain it.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 16, 2025 02:34 PM (dfIr7)

77 Is it an urban myth that CA highways have been less congested since the deportations?

Posted by: Seems Legit

No

Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at July 16, 2025 02:34 PM (JkCto)

78 56 3 Oh thank God. Actual important news rather than f'ing that Epstein chicken to death.

Posted by: JROD at July 16, 2025 02:18 PM (IlL6s)

Seconded!
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at July 16, 2025 02:19 PM (dKEEs)

Thirded!
Posted by: Epstein Chicken at July 16, 2025 02:31 PM (q2NNn)

Reminds me of one of my favorite Seinfeld scenes when Elaine complains that she cannot go to Jerry's apartment all the time to discuss the excruciating minutiae of everyday life and Jerry immediately starts complaining about a bank teller giving him a look.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at July 16, 2025 02:35 PM (KbCG3)

79 "Benjamin Hanil Takeshi Song"

Why do these rotters always have names like this?
Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at July 16, 2025 02:20 PM
--

Sounds like a District Judge
Posted by: J. Frank Parnell
---------

Yeah, I'm still trying to digest District Judge Maame Ewusi-Mensah Frimpong. Not so bad as her maiden name, Maame Abena Famanyame Ewusi-Mensah.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 16, 2025 02:35 PM (XeU6L)

80 76 You know what I confidently predict? News stories about how the average American weight has dropped mysteriously over the next few years. Somehow Americans got slimmer, and nobody can explain it.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 16, 2025 02:34 PM (dfIr7)

We've gotten shorter and fatter in recent years with our massive influx of south of the border amigos.

Which I'm not complaining about. Makes me taller and thinner.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 16, 2025 02:35 PM (uCjyK)

81 >>Trope Face Boogie


RIP Lowell George

Posted by: garrett at July 16, 2025 02:35 PM (oSEaw)

82 The behavior is remarkably like middle schoolers, except with guns and bombs.

It has for a while been my contention that most on the left never matured past middle school. They got older, but mentally and spiritualy they still giggle at the word "scrotum" and respond like a 13 year old to things.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 16, 2025 02:36 PM (dfIr7)

83 You know what I confidently predict? News stories about how the average American weight has dropped mysteriously over the next few years. Somehow Americans got slimmer, and nobody can explain it.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor

Loss of appetite and projectile vomiting from a Joy Reid sex video?

Posted by: Bulg at July 16, 2025 02:36 PM (77rzZ)

84 How old is the chicken?
Posted by: Asking for a friend at July 16, 2025 02:34 PM (TN0g+)

"Can I kill THAT chicken?" Ron White

Posted by: tcn in AK at July 16, 2025 02:36 PM (1Gsou)

85 All I can say is: Do not put me in a position where I have to make a choice if I see ICE or other cops surrounded and being threatened by people wearing masks.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 16, 2025 02:36 PM (tT6L1)

86 This is why we had the term "mongoloid." Sometimes you just can't tell!
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 16, 2025 02:33 PM (uCjyK)

Meathead once asked Archie how Archie could tell the difference between a Chinese person and a Japanese person?

Archie said that was easy. You walked up to them and asked them which one of them was the chink.

Posted by: All In The Family at July 16, 2025 02:36 PM (rqga2)

87 They got older, but mentally and spiritualy they still giggle at the word "scrotum" and respond like a 13 year old to things.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor

You mean like the Morons here?

Posted by: Bulg at July 16, 2025 02:36 PM (77rzZ)

88 We are getting about 85-90% of what we want, hey let's shitcan the administration over one case....

Posted by: steevy at July 16, 2025 02:36 PM (YwEeS)

89 I've rarely seen an argument I don't want to be on either side of with a barge pole, but the Epstein one in last thread is one, the stupid Iran one from a few weeks ago is another. It's making me think about some things.

Posted by: ... at July 16, 2025 02:37 PM (Qr870)

90 Bet they never thought they would get caught or if so let off by a judge

Posted by: Skip at July 16, 2025 02:37 PM (+qU29)

91 74 Oh thank God. Actual important news rather than f'ing that Epstein chicken to death.

Posted by: JROD at July 16, 2025 02:18 PM (IlL6s)

Seconded!
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at July 16, 2025 02:19 PM (dKEEs)

Thirded!
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How old is the chicken?
Posted by: Asking for a friend at July 16, 2025 02:34 PM (TN0g+)
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Why did that chicken cross the road?

Posted by: WisRich at July 16, 2025 02:37 PM (G0vdT)

92 At least 14 firearms have been recovered in the investigation, in addition to a cache of ammunition and body armor.
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But no less than the FBI Director said Antifa is just an idea, how can that be?

How can an idea carry guns, stash ammo, shoot at law enforcement, wear body armor?

Also, just after this happened, DU was trying to downplay it as, "there probably weren't even any guns and the officer misreported fireworks as gunshots."

PS: imaging if one, just one of the hundreds of "white supremacist" witch-hunts under Biden had turned up a stash of guns, ammo and body armor.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 16, 2025 02:37 PM (/avtW)

93 They got older, but mentally and spiritualy they still giggle at the word "scrotum" and respond like a 13 year old to things.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 16, 2025 02:36 PM (dfIr7)

To be fair, scrotum is a pretty silly word.

Posted by: tcn in AK at July 16, 2025 02:37 PM (1Gsou)

94 They got older, but mentally and spiritualy they still giggle at the word "scrotum" and respond like a 13 year old to things.
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This is about us, isn't it?

Posted by: The Horde at July 16, 2025 02:37 PM (TN0g+)

95 ICE officers made a grandfather jump off a bridge as they chased him off a job last week.

Made him? Like ICE surrounded him on a bridge, held a gun to his head, and said, "Jump or we shoot you, gramps." Is that what happened?
Posted by: bonhomme

Right after they shot at his feet to make him 'dance'.

Posted by: Stu Podaso at July 16, 2025 02:37 PM (UPaw4)

96 77 Is it an urban myth that CA highways have been less congested since the deportations?

Posted by: Seems Legit

No
Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at July 16, 2025 02:34 PM (JkCto)

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Good to hear.
Someone rightly said, apply that to emergency rooms, housing, healthcare, welfare, etc..

Posted by: Seems Legit at July 16, 2025 02:37 PM (PMtkd)

97 82 The behavior is remarkably like middle schoolers, except with guns and bombs.

It has for a while been my contention that most on the left never matured past middle school. They got older, but mentally and spiritualy they still giggle at the word "scrotum" and respond like a 13 year old to things.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 16, 2025 02:36 PM (dfIr7)

Arrested Development ain't just a show that went from underrated to awful in the span of one reboot.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at July 16, 2025 02:37 PM (KbCG3)

98 Meathead once asked Archie how Archie could tell the difference between a Chinese person and a Japanese person?

Archie said that was easy. You walked up to them and asked them which one of them was the chink.
Posted by: All In The Family

Japanese look more Caucasian in their features.

Posted by: Bulg at July 16, 2025 02:37 PM (77rzZ)

99 Oh thank God. Actual important news rather than f'ing that Epstein chicken to death.
Posted by: JROD

I'm with you. If Trump does nothing else for the next years of his term, I would have put this as the #1 accomplishment, followed by Tariff/Trade agreements, DOGE activity, Supreme Court wins, and exposing the Deep State and the prosecution of bad actors. For me, everything else is gravy.

We were literally being invaded and killed from within.

Posted by: Cheri at July 16, 2025 02:38 PM (oiNtH)

100 We've gotten shorter and fatter in recent years with our massive influx of south of the border amigos.

I think I'm getting shorter and fatter.
Physics has turned on me.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at July 16, 2025 02:38 PM (UGyV5)

101 >>We need some new tropes.
Posted by: Paco at July 16, 2025 01:55 PM (mADJX)

*sobs*

Posted by: Michelle Fields at July 16, 2025 02:39 PM (Qr870)

102 @93 Guardian's of the Galaxy II was on last night
"My name is Taser Face
Rocket : "What other names did you come up with : scrotum hat?"

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 16, 2025 02:39 PM (volu5)

103 That was a long movie review down there

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at July 16, 2025 02:39 PM (RUfir)

104 They got older, but mentally and spiritualy they still giggle at the word "scrotum" and respond like a 13 year old to things.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 16, 2025 02:36 PM (dfIr7)

To be fair, scrotum is a pretty silly word.
Posted by: tcn in AK at July 16, 2025 02:37 PM (1Gsou)

It's tinny.

Posted by: Upper Class Twit at July 16, 2025 02:39 PM (q2NNn)

105 Rocket is my hero.

"What's a racoon?"

Posted by: tcn in AK at July 16, 2025 02:40 PM (1Gsou)

106 New tropes? I'm not walking away from St. Pancake

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 16, 2025 02:40 PM (volu5)

107 Posted by: steevy at July 16, 2025 02:36 PM (YwEeS)

Nobody wants to shitcan the administration but people rightfully want to know if our decision and law makers are compromised because they engage in pure evil.

We’ve been lied to for so long by the government people are over it and Trump said he’d release the list.

People will sit out the midterms over this if something isn’t done.

Posted by: thathalfrican - The One at July 16, 2025 02:40 PM (eZwyX)

108 >>> Antifa Assassin Who Shot ICE Agents Arrested, Along With Two Other Antifa Terrorists Who Aided and Abetted Him

I don't have much hope these domestic terrorists will get true justice. Because even if they are convicted and tossed in federal prison, the democrats have set precedent that when THEIR terrorists get jailed for life, and they get a little bit of power back, they pardon them. (Thanks, Clinton!)

Clinton pardoned a bunch of murderers and Capitol building bombers, including Susan Rosenberg, who then went on to get her claws in the Black Lives Matter Movement. Or the FBI "botched" their evidence and they get let go, like with Bill Ayers, who then went on to get his hooks in Obama. And ALL of them are completely unrepentant of what they did. Even the murderers.

https://www.salon.com/2001/09/04/evans/
(Actually not a tongue bath piece but honest journalism, I was surprised! Evans is trash.)

Posted by: LizLem at July 16, 2025 02:41 PM (gWBY1)

109 I think I'm getting shorter and fatter.
Physics has turned on me.
Posted by: bear
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Gravity. It's the law.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 16, 2025 02:41 PM (XeU6L)

110 >>We need some new tropes.


Even still...Messenger Bags are gay.

Posted by: garrett at July 16, 2025 02:41 PM (oSEaw)

111 They got older, but mentally and spiritualy they still giggle at the word "scrotum" and respond like a 13 year old to things.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 16, 2025 02:36 PM (dfIr7)

To be fair, scrotum is a pretty silly word.
Posted by: tcn in AK at July 16, 2025 02:37 PM (1Gsou)

It's tinny.

Posted by: Upper Class Twit at July 16, 2025 02:39 PM (q2NNn)

I WAS IN THE POOL!

Posted by: Scrotum at July 16, 2025 02:41 PM (i24o9)

112 34 This story - and those like it - are why Weasel is very seriously not kidding anymore.
Posted by: Washington Nearsider
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If one lives in a blue area certainly. If you are a Fed or local LEO, again, certainly and that includes their family members.

That being said, for ordinary individuals, survival, evasion, escape are better than the Resistance part if you are at all able. Thus situational awareness training trumps all other options because it allows time to figure out what the optimal strategy is before you run out of time.

I would also suggest 2a self defense insurance but that will not protect you from an overt act if a jury of twelve decides you are guilty.

Posted by: whig at July 16, 2025 02:41 PM (ctrM5)

113 We need some new tropes.
Posted by: Paco at July 16, 2025 01:55 PM (mADJX)

*sobs*
Posted by: Michelle Fields
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Tell us about it.

Posted by: The Toaster, and Sofa at July 16, 2025 02:41 PM (XeU6L)

114 New tropes? I'm not walking away from St. Pancake
Posted by: Smell the Glove

Rachel Corrie would concur.

Posted by: Taq, Rickrolled by Jesus at July 16, 2025 02:42 PM (poS9c)

115 I doubt any of them could articulate what motivates them, because they don't have a clue about the politics or the reality of life in the US
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I've watch many of the live feeds of the protests.

All they have is incoherent, profanity-laced rage.

Uncontrolled anger is a dopamine high for a powerless mind to cope with weakness--for a brief moment, the anger makes them feel like they have power and control.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 16, 2025 02:42 PM (/avtW)

116 >>RIP Lowell George

He did his time in their rodeo.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 16, 2025 02:42 PM (viF8m)

117 @91

>>Why did that chicken cross the road?

Because he forgot his Ben Wah Balls and Gimp Suit.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 16, 2025 02:42 PM (XV/Pl)

118 Even still...Messenger Bags are gay.
Posted by: garrett at July 16, 2025 02:41 PM (oSEaw)

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And not just because the guy is also wearing a "The future is female" t-shirt.

Posted by: Seems Legit at July 16, 2025 02:42 PM (PMtkd)

119 25 I think they need to crack down hard on Antifa as policy right now. They have as a group murdered many people and done hundreds of millions of dollars in property damage... Declaring them a domestic terrorist group would not be difficult at all to defend legally and open them up to prosecution in ways that only the local and state governments have available (and won't use). Posted by: Christopher R Taylor

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So why doesn't Trump? I can't understand with ICE agents being not just assaulted but shot why Trump hasn't reached the point of naming "Antifa" by name and declaring a policy to prosecute them... I would think agents literally being shot, after all the other anti-Trump violence for years, would trigger Trump to act more than anything, given the assassination attempt he survived...

Posted by: bearski at July 16, 2025 02:42 PM (Bhsk7)

120 THIS. Exactly THIS. Antifa are the Democrat Party's Sturmabteilung. The only difference is that these fuckers wear black rather than brown.

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at July 16, 2025 02:29 PM (dWlcQ)

Go after the money men, and this goes away.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 16, 2025 02:43 PM (i24o9)

121 They got older, but mentally and spiritualy they still giggle at the word "scrotum" and respond like a 13 year old to things.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 16, 2025 02:36 PM (dfIr7)

To be fair, scrotum is a pretty silly word.
Posted by: tcn in AK at July 16, 2025 02:37 PM (1Gsou)

I prefer the term "chickenbag" myself.

Posted by: Inwardly we are all still middle schoolers at July 16, 2025 02:43 PM (TbWk/)

122 Nobody wants to shitcan the administration but people rightfully want to know if our decision and law makers are compromised because they engage in pure evil.

We’ve been lied to for so long by the government people are over it and Trump said he’d release the list.

People will sit out the midterms over this if something isn’t done.
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Bullshit. Nobody with a lick of sense will "sit out the midterms" if Trump continues to grow the economy, cut the size and spending of our government, and occasionally break stuff in the middle east. "Sitting out the midterms" is a wetdream that the monsters of the deep state have, not something that those who want a better life aspire to.

Posted by: Crusader at July 16, 2025 02:43 PM (TN0g+)

123 Tell us about it.
Posted by: The Toaster, and Sofa at July 16, 2025 02:41 PM (XeU6L)

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Shut your whore mouth.

Posted by: The Shelves at July 16, 2025 02:43 PM (PMtkd)

124 Amazing. "Oh, woe is me, these people are self-deporting!"

Uh, dipwad, if they self deport, they get the chance to return, legally. If they're summarily tossed out of the country, they don't get to come back.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 16, 2025 02:44 PM (tT6L1)

125 >>He did his time in their rodeo.


RIP Paul Barrere as well. Man, that Band was stacked with talent.

Posted by: garrett at July 16, 2025 02:44 PM (oSEaw)

126
>>Fernando Artese, an undocumented immigrant from Argentina, was thrown into the notorious jail - plagued with accusations of deplorable conditions including overcrowding and food shortages - after he was arrested for driving with a suspended license.

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Plagued. Right. Sorry, accusations don't mean spit.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 16, 2025 02:44 PM (HL/Ld)

127 Killing ICE softly, with this Song
Killing ICE softly
With this Song
Killing ICE softly
With this Song
Killing ICE softly...
With this Song....

Posted by: Carly Simon Says: at July 16, 2025 02:44 PM (w9Wax)

128 New tropes? I'm not walking away from St. Pancake
Posted by: Smell the Glove

Rachel Corrie would concur.
Posted by: Taq
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I won't comment.

Posted by: Abe Vigoda at July 16, 2025 02:44 PM (XeU6L)

129 Have we forgotten about "snizz" so soon?

Posted by: Bulg at July 16, 2025 02:44 PM (77rzZ)

130 IIRC some internet sleuths figured out which NGO's are likely responsible for funneling money to Antifa. The money passes through several cutouts but at least a couple of them are associated with radical, leftwing entities that were first identified during the George Floyd summer of hate.

Maybe the DoJ could spend some time looking into that instead of what's his name and his list.

I mean, it takes money to buy guns, body armor and transport a dozen losers around the countryside so they can ambush the Feds.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 16, 2025 02:44 PM (Q4IgG)

131
We’ve been lied to for so long by the government people are over it and Trump said he’d release the list.

People will sit out the midterms over this if something isn’t done.

This is a no "E" zone

Posted by: It's me donna at July 16, 2025 02:44 PM (VE6XX)

132 116 >>RIP Lowell George

He did his time in their rodeo.
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Am i mistaken or hasn't he been a corpse for almost 50 years?

Posted by: But I'm a Hero, the media says so at July 16, 2025 02:44 PM (F/35S)

133 Posted by: Crusader at July 16, 2025 02:43 PM (TN0g+)

I won’t be sitting it out but people, who are not normal GOP voters, will.

Posted by: thathalfrican - The One at July 16, 2025 02:44 PM (eZwyX)

134 Apparently he was a character from the beginning of the guardians almost an afterthought by jim valentine

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at July 16, 2025 02:45 PM (RUfir)

135 >>Have we forgotten about "snizz" so soon?


Never!

If I'm gonna die for a word...that word is: Snizz.

Posted by: Sonobi at July 16, 2025 02:45 PM (oSEaw)

136 "civility isn't working"

If by civility they mean "enforcing our insane ideology and social experiments on everybody in the country by hook or crook and force, all in order to keep power indefinitely so we can reward ourselves and our friends while punishing our enemies," then yeah, that stopped working for them.

That they can't understand why that stopped working for them is not surprising considering the people we're talking about here.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 16, 2025 02:45 PM (6ydKt)

137 So why doesn't Trump? I can't understand with ICE agents being not just assaulted but shot why Trump hasn't reached the point of naming "Antifa" by name and declaring a policy to prosecute them... I would think agents literally being shot, after all the other anti-Trump violence for years, would trigger Trump to act more than anything, given the assassination attempt he survived...
Posted by: bearski at July 16, 2025 02:42 PM

As it turns out, funny enough, he's not the all-powerful dictator the progs claim he is, nor the one I seriously wish he was.

Posted by: Taq, Rickrolled by Jesus at July 16, 2025 02:45 PM (poS9c)

138 If a political movement does not have a means to persuade with evidence and reason, their only tools to promote their goals are censorship, intimidation, harassment, and violence.

Fortunately for them, they enjoy censoring, intimidating, harassing, and wreaking violence.

Posted by: Emmie celebrates the Audacity of Trump! at July 16, 2025 02:46 PM (rF2iL)

139 >>Am i mistaken or hasn't he been a corpse for almost 50 years?


Yes. But his rest is eternal.

Posted by: garrett at July 16, 2025 02:46 PM (oSEaw)

140 >>We need some new tropes.
Posted by: Paco at July 16, 2025 01:55 PM

The Paolo, he thinks this is very gay.

Posted by: Paolo at July 16, 2025 02:46 PM (dPfyF)

141 Nobody wants to shitcan the administration but people rightfully want to know if our decision and law makers are compromised because they engage in pure evil.

We’ve been lied to for so long by the government people are over it and Trump said he’d release the list.

People will sit out the midterms over this if something isn’t done.
Posted by: thathalfrican - The One
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Easy to assume you are talking about Russia Russia, vaxx, or Jan 6 but probably not.

Ready for arresting Obama? Clinton? GWB?; Epstein's career such as it was dates from the 90's. In fact, the only person we can be sure about NOT being a pedo is Trump himself. He is the only one that actually took action as a private citizen to drive the local Florida establishment to have Epstein arrested in the 00's. I trust him more on the issue than I trust other people on it especially by people with no skin in the game and his political enemies.

Posted by: whig at July 16, 2025 02:46 PM (ctrM5)

142 >>> Meathead once asked Archie how Archie could tell the difference between a Chinese person and a Japanese person?

A dear Chinese friend of mine told me once the joke amongst Chinese for how you tell: If the outer fold of their eyes goes up, Chinese. Down, Japanese. And Koreans' folds are in the inner corner of their eye.

And he proceeded to demonstrate with his own fingers, to show me. And he made it clear he thought the Koreans were inferior.

I adore him, but it was one of the key moments of my life when I got a glimpse of how incredibly racist Asians are to each other!!

Posted by: LizLem at July 16, 2025 02:46 PM (gWBY1)

143 Fernando Artese, an undocumented immigrant from Argentina, was thrown into the notorious jail - plagued with accusations of deplorable conditions including overcrowding and food shortages - after he was arrested for driving with a suspended license.

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Plagued. Right. Sorry, accusations don't mean spit.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 16, 2025 02:44 PM (HL/Ld)
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"deplorable conditions including overcrowding and food shortages"

Yea, so? Fuck this guy. Feed him to the gators for all I care.

Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at July 16, 2025 02:46 PM (iFTx/)

144 138 Forgot a biggie: deception.

Posted by: Emmie celebrates the Audacity of Trump! at July 16, 2025 02:47 PM (rF2iL)

145 This story - and those like it - are why Weasel is very seriously not kidding anymore.
Posted by: Washington Nearsider

My youngest watched some Fox News coverage of people throwing rocks at ICE vehicles in Camarillo.

*long Q&A ensues, adequately summarized as Democrats are evil*

Dude cried about people being evil like that, and I had to ensure him that people don't act like that around here (solidly red), because such would get you shot in your stupid fat face.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 16, 2025 02:47 PM (i24o9)

146 I won't comment.

Posted by: Abe Vigoda at July 16, 2025 02:44 PM (XeU6L)


Sounds like you're fishing for a compliment.

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at July 16, 2025 02:47 PM (dWlcQ)

147
"deplorable conditions including overcrowding and food shortages"

Yea, so? Fuck this guy. Feed him to the gators for all I care.
Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at July 16, 2025 02:46 PM (iFTx/)
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Heh, If he wants to eat, send him out to catch his own alligator to cook.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 16, 2025 02:47 PM (tT6L1)

148 Fernando Artese, an undocumented immigrant from Argentina, was thrown into the notorious jail - plagued with accusations of deplorable conditions including overcrowding and food shortages - after he was arrested for driving with a suspended license.
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Oh, Mr. Professional Journalist? Yes, yes, some of us in the audience have a question: how does a "undocumented immigrant from Argentina" have a *license*, whether suspended or otherwise?

Posted by: Crusader at July 16, 2025 02:48 PM (TN0g+)

149 Fortunately for them, they enjoy censoring, intimidating, harassing, and wreaking violence.
Posted by: Emmie celebrates the Audacity of Trump! at July 16, 2025 02:46 PM (rF2iL)

"A good tactic is one you enjoy."

One of Saul Alinsky's Rules for Radicals.

Posted by: Taq, Rickrolled by Jesus at July 16, 2025 02:48 PM (poS9c)

150 I won’t be sitting it out but people, who are not normal GOP voters, will.

I see no reason to vote for a republican just to give Trump a majority when he apparently is just as cool with human trafficking as the DNC.

The tax cuts simply aren't as important in the grand scheme.

Posted by: The Cover Up at July 16, 2025 02:48 PM (/T6Pm)

151 Every time I hear about AntiFa weapons training, it's always related to their local John Brown Gun Club.

Posted by: bonhomme



I prefer the John Browning Club.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at July 16, 2025 02:49 PM (Vfq+S)

152 Holy shit!

The "do-nothing" DOJ just announced charges against 3 Louisiana police chiefs for taking bribes to file false police reports of a crime against an illegal.

Which report would entitle the illegal to a U-Visa as a crime victim.
For them and their families.

$5k for each name.
And there are hundreds of names.

And we haven't gotten to the NGO that funded these bribes.

The immigration fraud in this country is far, far bigger than we even know.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 16, 2025 02:49 PM (/avtW)

153 I've always thought the term "self-deportation" is kinda stilted and goofy and shouldn't be a thing.

It's just going home.

Posted by: ballistic at July 16, 2025 02:49 PM (01DnR)

154 People will sit out the midterms over this if something isn’t done.
Posted by: thathalfrican - The One at July 16, 2025 02:40 PM (eZwyX)

Yeah, I don't know how many of our fellow commenters are paid commenters, how many are just hyper political people trying to steer conversations, and how many are true believers, but I think all of them are out of their minds if they think this Epstein thing will not be a huge problem for Trump.

It's not even so much that we don't get the Epstein files. I'm as cynical as the next guy about this stuff.

It's the lying, gaslighting and insulting that's really getting to me.

Maybe I was naive when I was younger, but I do not remember this level of narrative steering in blog comments (or across the entire internet / right wing media for that matter) being just the way things have always been.

Yes, Laup Nor people showed up during the primaries and all of that, but they were pretty honest about who they were and what they were saying. And people have their preferred candidates, etc. And that was fine.

But this?

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 16, 2025 02:49 PM (uCjyK)

155 150 I won’t be sitting it out but people, who are not normal GOP voters, will.

I see no reason to vote for a republican just to give Trump a majority when he apparently is just as cool with human trafficking as the DNC.

The tax cuts simply aren't as important in the grand scheme.
Posted by: The Cover Up at July 16, 2025 02:48 PM (/T6Pm)

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OFFS, shut up.

Posted by: The Shelves at July 16, 2025 02:49 PM (PMtkd)

156 So- there’s over 20 million illegal immigrants. Have we even dented that?

Posted by: Vengeance at July 16, 2025 02:50 PM (pe21j)

157 Hasta Luego, Senor.
Posted by: garrett at July 16, 2025 02:22 PM (oSEaw)

It is more authentic to say "Chau, pués"

Posted by: Kindltot at July 16, 2025 02:50 PM (D7oie)

158 Meathead once asked Archie how Archie could tell the difference between a Chinese person and a Japanese person?

A dear Chinese friend of mine told me once the joke amongst Chinese for how you tell: If the outer fold of their eyes goes up, Chinese. Down, Japanese. And Koreans' folds are in the inner corner of their eye.

And he proceeded to demonstrate with his own fingers, to show me. And he made it clear he thought the Koreans were inferior.

I adore him, but it was one of the key moments of my life when I got a glimpse of how incredibly racist Asians are to each other!!
Posted by: LizLem at July 16, 2025 02:46 PM (gWBY1)
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I'm not sure that method ever worked, but the Asian "eyelid surgery" is so popular now it won't work now for sure.

But yea, they are very racist against each other. That, plus the Japanese have pretty much continually invaded, conquered, subjugated, raped, and pillaged both Korea and China for a thousand years.

Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at July 16, 2025 02:50 PM (iFTx/)

159 As andy ngo points out we know so called antifa by their tactics not their names

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at July 16, 2025 02:50 PM (RUfir)

160 Ready for arresting Obama? Clinton? GWB?; Epstein's career such as it was dates from the 90's.

Absolutely. Let the chips fall where they may.

Posted by: The Cover Up at July 16, 2025 02:50 PM (/T6Pm)

161 @142

>>I adore him, but it was one of the key moments of my life when I got a glimpse of how incredibly racist Asians are to each other!!

Have you ever seen a Korean and Japanese person going at it making fun of how they talk?

It's f**king hysterical.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 16, 2025 02:50 PM (XV/Pl)

162 Its it ciao

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at July 16, 2025 02:51 PM (RUfir)

163 As it turns out, funny enough, he's not the all-powerful dictator the progs claim he is, nor the one I seriously wish he was.
Posted by: Taq, Rickrolled by Jesus
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Like the Roman Senate and elites during the era of Caesar, our elites are driving us into that position of getting Caesar or Augustus.

You see the same thing in the rest of the West by the elites trying to create existential crises for self governance--the money is gone, they are allowing invasion of the west by barbarians, and picking endless wars on the borders for fun and profit.

We, the commoners can either go along with their ridiculous made up controversies to divide us all or we can try to support those with moderation who are trying to do reform the beast while it is going down the highway at 65 mph.

Posted by: whig at July 16, 2025 02:51 PM (ctrM5)

164 I see no reason to vote for a republican just to give Trump a majority when he apparently is just as cool with human trafficking as the DNC.

The tax cuts simply aren't as important in the grand scheme.
Posted by: The Cover Up at July 16, 2025 02:48 PM (/T6Pm)

I don't know who you are but this is an absolutely castastrophically stupid hill to die on.

Yeah let's get more Democrats elected, that will definitely prevent the sex trafficking of more minors than what we have now.

Fucking retard.

Posted by: ballistic at July 16, 2025 02:51 PM (01DnR)

165 So many new nics offering us sound advice about putting democrats back in power.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at July 16, 2025 02:51 PM (Vfq+S)

166 137 So why doesn't Trump? I can't understand with ICE agents being not just assaulted but shot why Trump hasn't reached the point of naming "Antifa" by name and declaring a policy to prosecute them... Posted by: bearski at July 16, 2025 02:42 PM

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As it turns out, funny enough, he's not the all-powerful dictator the progs claim he is, nor the one I seriously wish he was. Posted by: Taq, Rickrolled by Jesus

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Agreed that he's not that dictator, but that can't be why he isn't going after Antifa, at least not aggressively / publicly. He's issued hundreds of executive orders and isn't batting an eye at the dictator / Hitler insults. There must be some reason he won't name them when they are so explicitly, violently, substantively opposing him. But when he doesn't, it just feels like Wray saying they're just 'an idea'. Or saying that Epstein didn't kill himself... :-P

Posted by: bearski at July 16, 2025 02:51 PM (Bhsk7)

167
OFFS, shut up.
Posted by: The Shelves

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There we have it--The Shelves have spoken.

Posted by: Crusader at July 16, 2025 02:51 PM (TN0g+)

168 >>I adore him, but it was one of the key moments of my life when I got a glimpse of how incredibly racist Asians are to each other!!

I had some Fishing Clients from Mexico City.

Holy shit, they could teach a Master Level Course of Racisms.

Posted by: garrett at July 16, 2025 02:51 PM (oSEaw)

169 Fernando Artese, an undocumented immigrant from Argentina, was thrown into the notorious jail - plagued with accusations of deplorable conditions including overcrowding and food shortages - after he was arrested for driving with a suspended license.
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Alligator Alcatraz has not been around long enough to develop a reputation. "Notorious" implies a history, which Alligator Alcatraz does not have.

But, hey, use the adjective of the day which means "unfavorable." Don't grab your own Thesaurus and try for something just a bit different. I mean, I know it's a lot easier to be to copy and paste versus doing some original word slinging.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 16, 2025 02:52 PM (tT6L1)

170 > I prefer the John Browning Club.

PBUH

Posted by: bonhomme at July 16, 2025 02:52 PM (lIio7)

171 165 So many new nics offering us sound advice about putting democrats back in power.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at July 16, 2025 02:51 PM (Vfq+S)

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lol
Yes, they've earned our vote with reason and the best policies for America!!

Posted by: Seems Legit at July 16, 2025 02:52 PM (PMtkd)

172 Im reminded of the quellists from altered carbon which was poorly adapted into a netflix series they were 24th century anarchists

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at July 16, 2025 02:53 PM (RUfir)

173 153 I've always thought the term "self-deportation" is kinda stilted and goofy and shouldn't be a thing.

It's just going home.

Posted by: ballistic at July 16, 2025 02:49 PM (01DnR)

They're calling it "remigration" over in Europe.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 16, 2025 02:53 PM (6ydKt)

174 >>Trope Face Boogie
RIP Lowell George
Posted by: garrett at July 16, 2025 02:35 PM (oSEaw)
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Reading that still makes me sad. Great talent, lost way too soon.

Posted by: Rufus T. Firefly at July 16, 2025 02:53 PM (SvOs/)

175 >>>Fernando Artese, an undocumented immigrant from Argentina, was thrown into the notorious jail - plagued with accusations of deplorable conditions including overcrowding and food shortages - after he was arrested for driving with a suspended license.

Oh no! Anyway . . . .

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 16, 2025 02:53 PM (i24o9)

176 "deplorable conditions including overcrowding and food shortages"

Yea, so? Fuck this guy. Feed him to the gators for all I care.
Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at July 16, 2025 02:46 PM (iFTx/)

Jail. They're describing jail. Yes, they're gross and overcrowded and the food sucks.

Yes, in a perfect world they would be nicer.

But really the goal should be to not do anything to get you thrown in jail. Like, for example, violating a countries immigration laws to illegally move there then get arrested for driving on that countries roads without a valid drivers license.

Those are things that land you in jail. Where the food sucks and there are a lot of people.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 16, 2025 02:53 PM (uCjyK)

177 Gavin Newsom’s San Francisco: Walgreens Manager Convicted of Assaulting Shoplifter

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If this is the way San Francisco treats her shoplifters, she doesn't deserve to have any!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Lying Dogface Pony Soldier at July 16, 2025 02:53 PM (L/fGl)

178 Yeah let's get more Democrats elected, that will definitely prevent the sex trafficking of more minors than what we have now. Fucking retard.

Right back at you. I've seen the GOP control the House, Senate, and Oval Office three times in my lifetime.

The first ? W signed the Patriot Act and created the greatest expansion of the domestic police state in decades The second ? Republicans refuse to defund ObamaCare under Trump and sat out over 50 House Reps to cede control back to the DNC.

And now ? Apparently we're going to bury the entire Epstein situation. So I'm a retard for not picking the lesser of two evils ?

Keep your GOP. I want none of it.

Posted by: The Cover Up at July 16, 2025 02:54 PM (/T6Pm)

179 Absolutely. Let the chips fall where they may.
Posted by: The Cover Up
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Yep--that proves disruption intent because ultimately that way ends up in civil war. Because I guarantee you that it will all be via inference (he shoulda known or coulda known), etc. If we cannot decipher who killed JFK and why after years of digging, you won't be able to pin anything on the IC-LEO community.

So do your own homework, much of the depositions and testimony from Giuffre's lawsuit and the earlier Palm Beach ops have been released. So have the flight manifests, etc. and I would imagine you can find other information out there in public domain. Instead you waste time here--go to it MAN!.

BTW, I've read them months ago.

Posted by: whig at July 16, 2025 02:55 PM (ctrM5)

180 But yea, they are very racist against each other. That, plus the Japanese have pretty much continually invaded, conquered, subjugated, raped, and pillaged both Korea and China for a thousand years.
Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade

We rike lape.

Posted by: The Japanese at July 16, 2025 02:55 PM (UPaw4)

181 These arrests might just be more consequential than anticipated. If you look up the booking information on the culprits you will see that each was charged with "Terrorism."

As they are operating under "ANTIFA", it stands to reason that the next step would be to label the entire organization as "Terrorists."

Waiting to see if the OHS office steps in with the designation.

Posted by: Orson at July 16, 2025 02:56 PM (dIske)

182 The shelves will see you now.

Posted by: eleven at July 16, 2025 02:56 PM (fV+MH)

183 >>> I see no reason to vote for a republican just to give Trump a majority when he apparently is just as cool with human trafficking as the DNC.

I don't know if I'd go that far.

The video of the raid of that CA pot farm, and the kids found there, and the reactions on cable news, was eye opening to me. Democrats are DOUBLING down on condoning child slavery. Trump and Homan are ending that, and the liberals just can't give up their CHILD slaves.

One talking head lady said it was legally ok for those illegal child slaves to work on a pot farm because, TECHNICALLY, the law allows them to. (Yeah, for farm kids raised on the farm, lady! Not for slaves!) Jillian Michaels id a good job of putting her in her place.

No matter how much I hate the lack of transparency on Epstein, and how that rollout is being botched, the dems and Trump are NOT the same.

Posted by: LizLem at July 16, 2025 02:56 PM (gWBY1)

184
Old: Beirut is the Paris of the Middle East.

New: Paris is the Paris of the Middle East.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 16, 2025 02:56 PM (HZi96)

185 Can we move on from Epstein for today, please?

So, how about that Nickelback group?

Posted by: Bulg at July 16, 2025 02:56 PM (77rzZ)

186 175 >>>Fernando Artese, an undocumented immigrant from Argentina, was thrown into the notorious jail - plagued with accusations of deplorable conditions including overcrowding and food shortages - after he was arrested for driving with a suspended license.

Oh no! Anyway . . . .
Posted by: Comrade Flounder
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Like contempt of court individuals, deportees have the key to the jail in their own pocket. Agree to be deported and voila, released from jail. Not much sympathy for that guy.

Posted by: whig at July 16, 2025 02:57 PM (ctrM5)

187
Is it an urban myth that CA highways have been less congested since the deportations?

Posted by: Seems Legit

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They're as congested as ever in my experience. I don't think there's been significant deportation, self- or otherwise, in California.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 16, 2025 02:57 PM (HL/Ld)

188 Its it ciao
Posted by: Miguel cervantes at July 16, 2025 02:51 PM (RUfir)

Mijo, si eres Italiano se lo escribe "Ciao"
Si hablas Español lo escribe "Chau"

Si, en sudamerica, lo escribes "ciao" se van a pronunciar lo como "See-ow-a"

Ortografia es importante

Posted by: Kindltot at July 16, 2025 02:57 PM (D7oie)

189 Some people are getting worked up as hell over Epstein, while some of us are sitting up on the hill, having seen it all before, trying to tell you guys Let's just walk down the hill and fuck 'em all at.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 16, 2025 02:57 PM (6ydKt)

190 @142 all races and ethnic groups have prejudices. I was taking testimony in court with an over the phone interpreter. The interpreter was Columbian and terrible , while the witness was Mexican and none to bright. Thankfully the reporter was a very smart Puerto Rican girl who helped out but it still took way too long. After it was over the reporter turned to me an said "stupid fucking Mexican". Damn funny

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 16, 2025 02:57 PM (volu5)

191 narf!

Posted by: Kindltot at July 16, 2025 02:57 PM (D7oie)

192 Alligator Alcatraz is too good for them ...

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 02:58 PM (sjMEO)

193 at =all

I saw as soon as I hit Post...

Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 16, 2025 02:58 PM (6ydKt)

194 Fernando Artese, an undocumented immigrant from Argentina, was thrown into the notorious jail - plagued with accusations of deplorable conditions including overcrowding and food shortages - after he was arrested for driving with a suspended license.

Whatever. Looking at the interior video and photos, I can say the sleeping accommodations I've had at summer camp weren't much better. And there was no AC. Or privacy. And there were mosquitoes. So they can all kindly shut the fuck up about how atrocious and inhumane the facility is.

Posted by: And these people shouldn't even be here! at July 16, 2025 02:58 PM (TbWk/)

195 By their tropes ye shall know them.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 16, 2025 02:58 PM (0sNs1)

196 Pf kuangs series captures the whole china japan wars in magical realism more like game of thrones

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at July 16, 2025 02:58 PM (RUfir)

197 No matter how much I hate the lack of transparency on Epstein, and how that rollout is being botched, the dems and Trump are NOT the same.
Posted by: LizLem

Yes, we can all tell how upset the Dems were as they had those records for 4 years and sat on them. Don't think of our Coverup dude ever went after Biden and Co which such fervor. When people are screaming about shit that must be done by others is when I trust them least.

Posted by: whig at July 16, 2025 02:59 PM (ctrM5)

198
*cylinder slams down around Kindltot*

*rapidly fills with sewage*

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 16, 2025 02:59 PM (HZi96)

199 Those are things that land you in jail. Where the food sucks and there are a lot of people.
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It's the only jail of its kind that encourages you to leave anytime you are ready to return home to the country to which you are subject to the jurisdiction thereof.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at July 16, 2025 02:59 PM (Dv3i1)

200 Old: Beirut is the Paris of the Middle East.

New: Paris is the Paris of the Middle East.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 16, 2025 02:56 PM (HZi96)

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New 2030: Paris is the Beirut of the Middle East.

Posted by: ShainS -- Trump Needs to Sue Donkey-Chompers for Defamation a la ABC at July 16, 2025 02:59 PM (sjMEO)

201 Senor Kindltot,

Por favor, vaya al Barrelo.

Posted by: Bulg at July 16, 2025 03:00 PM (77rzZ)

202 One talking head lady said it was legally ok for those illegal child slaves to work on a pot farm because, TECHNICALLY, the law allows them to.

Are you listening to the Epstein spinners here ? We've had dissertations on the statute of limitations - you see, its old news, move on. We've got whig telling us to let it go - because if the truth came out, it would just be too disruptive. We've got Jen and zombie telling us that hey - its not like they were twelve, so it really isn't creepy-creepy. And besides ... the Dems would have TWO Epstein Islands or something, so be sure to vote GOP in the midterms.

Posted by: The Cover Up at July 16, 2025 03:00 PM (/T6Pm)

203 I just took the common advice and added close tags to my nick.

Let's see if I screwed that up.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 16, 2025 03:00 PM (6ydKt)

204 So why doesn't Trump? I can't understand with ICE agents being not just assaulted but shot why Trump hasn't reached the point of naming "Antifa" by name and declaring a policy to prosecute them/'

That's really the duty of someone like Bondi, who was surprised that her own department was investigating a pharma exec for fraud. But yeah Trump could order it. Probably a low priority as he has a ton of stuff on his plate.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 16, 2025 03:00 PM (dfIr7)

205 When corrected by Meathead about a Puerto Rican actually being Cuban, Archie Bunker says "Same ting!!"

*That's* a trope in my house.

Posted by: Taq, Rickrolled by Jesus at July 16, 2025 03:00 PM (poS9c)

206 Its it ciao
Posted by: Miguel cervantes at July 16, 2025 02:51 PM (RUfir)

Mijo, si eres Italiano se lo escribe "Ciao"
Si hablas Español lo escribe "Chau"

Si, en sudamerica, lo escribes "ciao" se van a pronunciar lo como "See-ow-a"

Ortografia es importante
Posted by: Kindltot at July 16, 2025 02:57 PM

We know es importante by los italicaños.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 16, 2025 03:00 PM (0sNs1)

207 The child is white, the foster parents are black...

National Conservative@NatCon2022

Foster parents charged with horrific torture murder.

408 days after the death of Mackenzi Felmlee, 18, police charged her foster mother and foster grandmother with murder.

Authorities say they videotaped themselves gleefully torturing the girl.

Posted by: Mister Ghost at July 16, 2025 03:00 PM (TGPs7)

208 Wow, surprised I was able to remember that much of my high-school Spanish.

Posted by: Bulg at July 16, 2025 03:00 PM (77rzZ)

209 Well you say adios in that case (dieresis is hard to enter)

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at July 16, 2025 03:00 PM (RUfir)

210 @185

>>So, how about that Nickelback group?

The opening line of Nickelback’s Photograph functions as both thesis and dagger, an invocation of nostalgia disguised as sentimentality. But it’s more than that. Much more.

When Chad Kroeger delivers that refrain, croaky, elongated, agonized, it’s not laughter he's referencing. It’s regret. It’s subtextual grief. It’s the laughter of a man who is laughing not with joy, but at his own youthful foolishness. This isn’t Bruce Springsteen's Glory Days. It’s suburban Götterdämmerung.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 16, 2025 03:00 PM (XV/Pl)

211 Benjamin Song -> Song Dynasty -> collapsed due to overprinting of paper money -> annualized June month over month inflation rate was nearly 4.2%

Posted by: Oglebay at July 16, 2025 03:01 PM (2ap+5)

212 Meanwhile, 11 Republican Congress critters just dropped a brand new amnesty bill. The DIGNIDAD Act of 2025.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at July 16, 2025 03:01 PM (xTtk1)

213 No matter how much I hate the lack of transparency on Epstein, and how that rollout is being botched, the dems and Trump are NOT the same.
Posted by: LizLem at July 16, 2025 02:56 PM (gWBY1)

My biggest issue is more cultural than political, I guess. And I think the biggest reasons our culture is collapsing (outside of smart phones and social media) is immigration and forever wars.

So on that front, obviously I support Trump over D's. That said, other than Trump (or before Trump), pretty much every R was just as on board with unlimited immigration as any D. So I'm not sure where I go in a post-Trump world politically.

That said, as someone who has supported Trump since 2016, this is the first time I feel like he not only lied directly to my face (as a supporter), but he also insulted my intelligence by making the lie so stupid, then he followed up with calling me "stupid."

So... I don't know. For all of the people who don't want to talk about Epstein, I suspect this is what we'll be spending a lot of time talking about for the coming few years.

And it's a complete self-goal by Trump and team.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 16, 2025 03:01 PM (uCjyK)

214 Old: Beirut is the Paris of the Middle East.

New: Paris is the Paris of the Middle East.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 16, 2025 02:56 PM (HZi96)

Old: Beirut is the Paris of the ME
New : Paris is the Beirut of Europe !

Posted by: runner at July 16, 2025 03:01 PM (g47mK)

215 *cylinder slams down around Kindltot*

*rapidly fills with sewage*

Dang the barrel has gotten rough these days

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 16, 2025 03:01 PM (dfIr7)

216 heLO, fELLow koNSerVatIveS;!!!

Good to see some new nics. Or would be if they weren't obvious trollbots

Posted by: Puddleglum, chillin' in Amish Country at July 16, 2025 03:01 PM (uGaBv)

217 The word has gone out. If NPR and PBS are defunded, people will die!

https://is.gd/uD7YfT

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Lying Dogface Pony Soldier at July 16, 2025 03:01 PM (L/fGl)

218 I'm really tired of the "undocumented immigrant" crap. He's here illegally.

Varnish that turd all you want, leftists. in the end, you've got a turd with varnish on it and you're wondering if you really want to clean the brush you painted the turd with.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 16, 2025 03:01 PM (tT6L1)

219 After it was over the reporter turned to me an said "stupid fucking Mexican". Damn funny
Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 16, 2025 02:57 PM (volu5)

Orale.

Posted by: Kindltot at July 16, 2025 03:01 PM (D7oie)

220 Asians are incredibly racist. The Indian's entire civilization is based on it. China thinks they are the Middle Kingdom and the universe revolves around them. The Japanese won't take other Asians in even as slaves. And the Koreans are de-Asianing themselves with plastic surgery.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at July 16, 2025 03:01 PM (wBaIH)

221 Have a point but, as usual, twirling around:

>H.R.3758 - EQUAL Defense Act of 2023
118th Congress (2023-2024)
Introduced in House (05/31/2023)
Ensuring Quality Access to Legal Defense Act of 2023 or the EQUAL Defense Act of 2023

In part, "This bill establishes and modifies certain programs that support the delivery of public defense services (i.e., legal services for criminal defendants who cannot afford counsel).

Specifically, the bill directs the Department of Justice (DOJ) to award grants to state and local governments, tribal organizations, and public defender offices for public defense. A grant recipient must use the grant to establish a data collection process, develop workload limits, and satisfy specified compensation requirements (e.g., pay parity between public defenders and prosecutors). (More)

Still more...

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at July 16, 2025 03:02 PM (NFX2v)

222 >Welch Introduces Bipartisan, Bicameral Bill to Address Structural Concerns within the Federal Public Defense System, December 13, 2024
Press Release
WASHINGTON, D.C. – This week, U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.), the Senate’s only former federal public defender, joined U.S. Representatives Suzanne Bonamici (D-OR-01) and Kelly Armstrong (R-ND-At Large) in introducing the Federal Public Defense Commission Act of 2024, bicameral legislation that would establish a new Federal Public Defense Commission to address current structural concerns within the federal public defense system. The Federal Public Defense Commission would function independently from the Administrative Office of U.S. Courts and oversee federal public defense programs, including the federal defender system and private appointed counsel. This new commission would streamline funding, organization, and leadership of the federal public defender system.

>Lawfare Media Org:
Peter Neal
Peter Neal is a Deputy Public Defender in the Los Angeles County Public Defender’s Office and a Captain in the US Army Reserves where he serves as a Judge Advocate.

What else is Mr. Neal? Hubby of Naomi B, Hunter's oldest.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at July 16, 2025 03:02 PM (NFX2v)

223 Well you say adios in that case (dieresis is hard to enter)
Posted by: Miguel cervantes at July 16, 2025 03:00 PM

Not if you coördinate well.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 16, 2025 03:02 PM (0sNs1)

224 Old: Beirut is the Paris of the Middle East.

New: Paris is the Paris of the Middle East.

_______________________

Or is Paris the Beirut of Europe?

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at July 16, 2025 03:02 PM (xTtk1)

225 You know a band I always underestimated but have gotten a lot of respect for recently by listening to their oldest stuff is Def Leppard. I grew up listening to Pyromania and singing along good time party rock but High and Dry and On Through The Night are damn good rock albums.

Respect for them

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 16, 2025 03:03 PM (dfIr7)

226 The opening line of Nickelback’s Photograph functions as both thesis and dagger, an invocation of nostalgia disguised as sentimentality. But it’s more than that. Much more.

When Chad Kroeger delivers that refrain, croaky, elongated, agonized, it’s not laughter he's referencing. It’s regret. It’s subtextual grief. It’s the laughter of a man who is laughing not with joy, but at his own youthful foolishness. This isn’t Bruce Springsteen's Glory Days. It’s suburban Götterdämmerung.
Posted by: Thomas Bender


Wow. That's worthy of a "Your Kid's Music Teacher" nic.

Posted by: Bulg at July 16, 2025 03:03 PM (77rzZ)

227
Whatever. Looking at the interior video and photos, I can say the sleeping accommodations I've had at summer camp weren't much better. And there was no AC. Or privacy. And there were mosquitoes. So they can all kindly shut the fuck up about how atrocious and inhumane the facility is.
Posted by: And these people shouldn't even be here!

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"Plagued." It's no different from any other prison. There are several YouTubers monetizing their prison experiences who talk about what it's like, and limited showers, no privacy, no climate control, hard cots, crummy food, meds under lock and key, stingy toilet paper rations, etc are the rule. In fact, it looks like a positive bonding experience:

>>'My dad tells me, 'We're all like a family in there eating together,'' Carla told the Miami New Times of her father's experience in the camp.

'It's the Hispanic community,' she added.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 16, 2025 03:03 PM (HL/Ld)

228 I see no reason to vote for a republican just to give Trump a majority when he apparently is just as cool with human trafficking as the DNC.

The tax cuts simply aren't as important in the grand scheme.
Posted by: The Cover Up at July 16, 2025 02:48 PM (/T6Pm)

Your morals are astonishing. Some of the best I've ever seen. I've never been in the presence of this kind of righteousness.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at July 16, 2025 03:03 PM (g8Ew8)

229 And it's a complete self-goal by Trump and team.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 16, 2025 03:01 PM (uCjyK)

This is a wait & see issue.

Wait six months or a year and see is any new info has been released or leaked.

I wouldn't base my vote on it here in July of '25.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 16, 2025 03:03 PM (6ydKt)

230 Agreed that he's not that dictator, but that can't be why he isn't going after Antifa, at least not aggressively / publicly. He's issued hundreds of executive orders and isn't batting an eye at the dictator / Hitler insults. There must be some reason he won't name them when they are so explicitly, violently, substantively opposing him. But when he doesn't, it just feels like Wray saying they're just 'an idea'. Or saying that Epstein didn't kill himself... :-P
Posted by: bearski
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I think he is trying to avoid a civil war yet. Plus, the Senate has been slow rolling his appointees due to Democrats using delay tactics on everything there. Not all the district DA's are approved as of yet. Plus Biden and Obama larded the whole DoJ, FBI, and federal LEO establishment with antifa symps. That is one of the reason for the mass firings in various departments. Note that tip offs on these immigration raids is frequently occurring and those calls often have to be coming from inside the agencies.

Posted by: whig at July 16, 2025 03:03 PM (ctrM5)

231 The opening line of Nickelback’s Photograph functions as both thesis and dagger, an invocation of nostalgia disguised as sentimentality. But it’s more than that. Much more.

When Chad Kroeger delivers that refrain, croaky, elongated, agonized, it’s not laughter he's referencing. It’s regret. It’s subtextual grief. It’s the laughter of a man who is laughing not with joy, but at his own youthful foolishness. This isn’t Bruce Springsteen's Glory Days. It’s suburban Götterdämmerung.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 16, 2025 03:00 PM

So you're saying Nickelback > Queensrÿche?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 16, 2025 03:04 PM (0sNs1)

232 The word has gone out. If NPR and PBS are defunded, people will die!

Are you gonna make me post Remy's song again?

The argument is so goofy. Nobody in the history of ever has used PBS for weather warnings or information, let alone today. The weird cartoonish depiction of rural people by the elites is so hilarious to watch.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 16, 2025 03:04 PM (dfIr7)

233 Don't think of our Coverup dude ever went after Biden and Co which such fervor. When people are screaming about shit that must be done by others is when I trust them least.

Because nobody was sitting here with trying to lie, with a straight face, and somehow defend Epstein and the obvious FBI cover-up that started with a total loss fire two weeks after they took control of the island. The closest we had were those who still wanted to defend the FBI because "back the blue".

But now, because its the God Emperor, we've got people - including you - trying seven ways from Sunday to sell the same message ... "Move On". Your tactic is "it would just be too messy to let out the truth that we all know but can't prove".

Hard pass.

Posted by: The Cover Up at July 16, 2025 03:05 PM (/T6Pm)

234 Too much brain power to understand that if you take away incentive, you get less of the action?

Huh?
-Vegas casino management offering 6-5 blackjack and triple zero Craps and fewer comps and wondering why visits and handle are down

Posted by: Lahaina at July 16, 2025 03:05 PM (D0HYP)

235 The opening line of Nickelback’s Photograph functions as both thesis and dagger, an invocation of nostalgia disguised as sentimentality. But it’s more than that. Much more.

Posted by: Thomas Bender


I had no idea anybody, ever, had put that much thought into analyzing a Nickleback song.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 16, 2025 03:05 PM (6ydKt)

236 Your morals are astonishing. Some of the best I've ever seen. I've never been in the presence of this kind of righteousness.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons
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New nic, same person, same purpose. Disrupt and claim purity. If challenged, eventually ends up threatening and spewing nonsense.

Boring really.

Posted by: whig at July 16, 2025 03:05 PM (ctrM5)

237 Yes, we can all tell how upset the Dems were as they had those records for 4 years and sat on them. Don't think of our Coverup dude ever went after Biden and Co which such fervor. When people are screaming about shit that must be done by others is when I trust them least.
Posted by: whig at July 16, 2025 02:59 PM (ctrM5)

I can't speak for our new friend, but a lot of people were talking about Epstein for years.

First, the files couldn't be released because Epstein was going to face trial (fair). Then because Ghislaine was going to face trial (mmm.. okay...). Then because "shut up".

Which is why so many people were asking Trump about the Epstein files when he was running.

Because many people have wanted to see those files since Epstein was first arrested.

This, by the way, is the same game the media plays. "There's nothing to see here" morphs in to "well, sure there might have been something, but that was a long time ago, move on"

Like COVID coming from a lab. Went from a conspiracy theory to eventually "eh, probably, who cares, it's old news. Not worth looking in to" overnight.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 16, 2025 03:05 PM (uCjyK)

238 204 So why doesn't Trump? I can't understand with ICE agents being not just assaulted but shot why Trump hasn't reached the point of naming "Antifa" by name and declaring a policy to prosecute them/'

That's really the duty of someone like Bondi, who was surprised that her own department was investigating a pharma exec for fraud. But yeah Trump could order it. Probably a low priority as he has a ton of stuff on his plate.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor

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That's what I mentally come back to, but Antifa seems pretty meaningfully engaged in the full spectrum of domestic issues Trump is spearheading. And as you say, they are homicidally violent. I realize it doesn't connect to anything international, but still seems like it'd be higher on his list. Again, esp after the ICE agent getting shot, and he's so apt to talk about ICE's work and the nasty people they're fighting (without naming Antifa, ugh)... Things are going great, but I'd much rather see Antifa named and on the record mainstream than progress on Epstein. Or theater about the autopen (which is outrageous but if this won't advance pass simple hearings, let's move to something that will make progress...)

Posted by: bearski at July 16, 2025 03:06 PM (Bhsk7)

239 Voters told one Democrat, who wished to remain anonymous, "what we really need to do is be willing to get shot"


I'm your huckleberry.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 16, 2025 03:06 PM (gdBb2)

240 >>> Some people are getting worked up as hell over Epstein, while some of us are sitting up on the hill, having seen it all before, trying to tell you guys Let's just walk down the hill and fuck 'em all at.

I am not saying you are this, at all, but your analogy reminds me of the Beatles song "Fool on the hill." I may have horribly misinterpreted the song, but I thought the point of it was that we can't tell who is right, the fool on the hill or the ones mocking him. The fool may be the wisest of all.

Anyway, it will never happen, but supposedly there is a bill being floated around that if congress can't pass a budget, ALL of congress gets ejected and a new crop gets to come in and start over.

I'm sure it would get contested, because the people, at the end of the day, voted those losers in, and it violates the will of the people in that state. But it's a lovely dream!! Can you imagine? But congress never votes against their own self interests.

Posted by: LizLem at July 16, 2025 03:06 PM (gWBY1)

241 By their tropes ye shall know them.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 16, 2025 02:58 PM (0sNs1)

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The biblical verse "you will know them by their fruits" has unfortunately taken on a new meaning this century ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Trump Needs to Sue Donkey-Chompers for Defamation a la ABC at July 16, 2025 03:06 PM (sjMEO)

242 >>High and Dry and On Through The Night are damn good rock albums.


High and Dry is, arguably, their best LP.

But, Pyromania shows you what the right Producer can do for a band.

Mutt Lang killed the production on that LP.
Also cool to note, he was born a Rhodesian.

Posted by: garrett at July 16, 2025 03:06 PM (oSEaw)

243 The argument is so goofy. Nobody in the history of ever has used PBS for weather warnings or information, let alone today. The weird cartoonish depiction of rural people by the elites is so hilarious to watch.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor

People making those arguments are often urbanites that view country folks as backwards, out of touch, and stupid. How dare they not embrace the gubmint propaganda designed to fix their racist, homophobic, gunloving, religious fixations.

Posted by: whig at July 16, 2025 03:06 PM (ctrM5)

244 Huh?
-Vegas casino management offering 6-5 blackjack and triple zero Craps and fewer comps and wondering why visits and handle are down
Posted by: Lahaina at July 16, 2025 03:05 PM

Since craps is played with 2 dice, each with sides numbered 1 through 6, getting a triple zero is impossible, both from the number of dies used, and the numbers inscribed thereon.

Perhaps you meant to refer to roulette?

Posted by: Wesley Crusher at July 16, 2025 03:07 PM (0sNs1)

245 The word has gone out. If NPR and PBS are defunded, people will die!

https://is.gd/uD7YfT
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Lying Dogface Pony Soldier at July 16, 2025 03:01 PM (L/fGl)
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Which people?

Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at July 16, 2025 03:07 PM (iFTx/)

246 The good news about Japanese rape is that their dicks are so small.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at July 16, 2025 03:07 PM (wBaIH)

247 Hard to say. But looking at the pictures - he looks Asiatic, but not quite Chinese or Korean, as the last name Song would seem to indicate.

Looks Japanese to me, and "Takeshi" suggests that too.

Posted by: Ian S. at July 16, 2025 03:08 PM (2ocoG)

248 Detroit is the Beirut of the mid west.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Lying Dogface Pony Soldier at July 16, 2025 03:08 PM (L/fGl)

249 It’s suburban Götterdämmerung.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 16, 2025 03:00 PM (XV/Pl)

Does that mean it sucks? Because that's what it should mean.

Posted by: Reforger at July 16, 2025 03:08 PM (lPvx2)

250 That's what I mentally come back to, but Antifa seems pretty meaningfully engaged in the full spectrum of domestic issues Trump is spearheading.

I think most of Trump's agenda is "I'm gonna make those SOB's pay" right now, which overlaps well with ours in a Venn diagram (Kamala's favorite kind of diagram), but not exactly.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 16, 2025 03:08 PM (dfIr7)

251 We need some new tropes.

Posted by: Amy Schumer at July 16, 2025 03:08 PM (UGyV5)

252 @231

>>So you're saying Nickelback > Queensrÿche?

Most people dismiss Nickelback without actually listening, really listening, to their work. But that's the tragedy of modern music criticism: it's performative. Disingenuous. Everyone pretends to hate them because someone on Reddit said it was cool. But if you look deeper, beyond the memes, beyond the denim, their structure, tone, and emotional resonance present a clearer, more accessible vision of masculinity than the overwrought theater of Queensrÿche.

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

253 Meanwhile, 11 Republican Congress critters just dropped a brand new amnesty bill. The DIGNIDAD Act of 2025.
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at July 16, 2025 03:01 PM

You "Republicans"...how about LOLGF? Does LOLGF work for you? Because LOLGF works for us.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 16, 2025 03:08 PM (dPfyF)

254 217 The word has gone out. If NPR and PBS are defunded, people will die!

https://is.gd/uD7YfT
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks
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Defunding NPR and PBS will reduce the excess population and help heal mommy Earf!! There, now the Left will be all for it!!

Posted by: Puddleglum, chillin' in Amish Country at July 16, 2025 03:08 PM (uGaBv)

255 "you will know them by their festive little hats"

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at July 16, 2025 03:09 PM (I4Ulf)

256 I am not saying you are this, at all, but your analogy reminds me of the Beatles song "Fool on the hill." I may have horribly misinterpreted the song, but I thought the point of it was that we can't tell who is right, the fool on the hill or the ones mocking him. The fool may be the wisest of all.

Anyway, it will never happen, but supposedly there is a bill being floated around that if congress can't pass a budget, ALL of congress gets ejected and a new crop gets to come in and start over.

I'm sure it would get contested, because the people, at the end of the day, voted those losers in, and it violates the will of the people in that state. But it's a lovely dream!! Can you imagine? But congress never votes against their own self interests.
Posted by: LizLem
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Humility, the acceptance of our human limitations, and moderation are keys to a happier life. Almost like the Good Book tells us repeatedly in Ecclesiastes and Proverbs.

Ideologues are rarely happy individuals let alone the various troll types throwing dung at passerbys.

Posted by: whig at July 16, 2025 03:09 PM (ctrM5)

257 High and Dry and On Through The Night are damn good rock albums.


High and Dry is, arguably, their best LP.

But, Pyromania shows you what the right Producer can do for a band.

Mutt Lang killed the production on that LP.
Also cool to note, he was born a Rhodesian.
Posted by: garrett at July 16, 2025 03:06 PM (oSEaw)
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Rich kid, IIRC

Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at July 16, 2025 03:09 PM (iFTx/)

258 Only two dice in craps? Not the way I play it. -- WC Fields

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at July 16, 2025 03:09 PM (wBaIH)

259 Also cool to note, he was born a Rhodesian.

African Americans built this country!

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 16, 2025 03:09 PM (dfIr7)

260 They put my stepson in jail a couple of times for driving suspended. It's a big money maker for counties.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at July 16, 2025 03:09 PM (cuCUO)

261 It took all this drama to get the mainstream media to talke about the Epstein case.

If they didn't think it was hurting Trump they'd go back to basically ignoring like they've done for a decade.

I'm crossing my fingers that now the media have involved themselves and are trying to turn this into a Trump story that if past is prelude this will now backfire on them like everything else the Dems & Media have thrown at him.

Let them go wild until it blows up in their faces when the names and allegations come out.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 16, 2025 03:10 PM (6ydKt)

262 230 Agreed that he's not that dictator, but that can't be why he isn't going after Antifa, at least not aggressively / publicly... Posted by: bearski
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I think he is trying to avoid a civil war yet. Plus, the Senate has been slow rolling his appointees due to Democrats using delay tactics on everything there. Not all the district DA's are approved as of yet. Plus Biden and Obama larded the whole DoJ, FBI, and federal LEO establishment with antifa symps. That is one of the reason for the mass firings in various departments. Note that tip offs on these immigration raids is frequently occurring and those calls often have to be coming from inside the agencies.
Posted by: whig

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Interesting take. I can see that. But wouldn't announcing a policy to go after them smoke out more of those symps? Trump's been doing great so not unhappy, just would really like to see movement on this... And I think it's high profile enough for Trump (more than Bondi) to name them. Gonna make it much harder for Dems to pretend they don't exist, or they do exist but the Dems don't actually support them...

Posted by: bearski at July 16, 2025 03:10 PM (Bhsk7)

263 Posted by: Mister Ghost at July 16, 2025 03:00 PM (TGPs7)


86 the perps.

Posted by: thathalfrican - The One at July 16, 2025 03:10 PM (eZwyX)

264 A mouse study has found the sugar 2-deoxy-D-ribose stimulates hair regrowth.

Posted by: SMOD at July 16, 2025 03:10 PM (RHGPo)

265 And it's a complete self-goal by Trump and team.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 16, 2025 03:01 PM (uCjyK)

You can head off to team kammielalalala any time you want.

Posted by: Somewhere South of I-80 at July 16, 2025 03:10 PM (89Sog)

266 Has trope become a trope now?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 16, 2025 03:11 PM (0sNs1)

267 Rural PBS stations could bear brunt of public media cuts. Just ask those in Kansas
BrieAnna J. Frank, USA TODAY, July 16, 2025

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at July 16, 2025 03:11 PM (NFX2v)

268 So you're saying Nickelback > Queensrÿche?

Everything is better than Queensryche.

Posted by: Ian S. at July 16, 2025 03:11 PM (2ocoG)

269 The word has gone out. If NPR and PBS are defunded, people will die!

Are you gonna make me post Remy's song again?

The argument is so goofy. Nobody in the history of ever has used PBS for weather warnings or information, let alone today. The weird cartoonish depiction of rural people by the elites is so hilarious to watch.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 16, 2025 03:04 PM (dfIr7)
********
Media Research Center
@theMRC
The "objective" journalists your tax dollars go to

https://tinyurl.com/4ys9pj66

Posted by: redridinghood at July 16, 2025 03:11 PM (NpAcC)

270
Foster parents charged with horrific torture murder.

408 days after the death of Mackenzi Felmlee, 18, police charged her foster mother and foster grandmother with murder.

Authorities say they videotaped themselves gleefully torturing the girl.
Posted by: Mister Ghost at July 16, 2025 03:00 PM (TGPs7)

And the other foster kids made reports of abuse to Illinois DCFS previously that were hand-waved away as "unfounded." DCFS/CPS departments generally suck, and this is Illinois so I'm sure their baseline of suck is worse than others. Also, I would bet money they let it slide because the foster parent is a black woman and didn't want to be accused of being racist which is, of course, far worse than letting children be beaten and murdered.

Posted by: They can all go to hell at July 16, 2025 03:11 PM (TbWk/)

271 The argument is so goofy. Nobody in the history of ever has used PBS for weather warnings or information, let alone today. The weird cartoonish depiction of rural people by the elites is so hilarious to watch.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor


Green Acres was a tv comedy. They think it's real.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 16, 2025 03:11 PM (gdBb2)

272 With six dice you get Yahtzee.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 16, 2025 03:12 PM (0sNs1)

273 A mouse study has found the sugar 2-deoxy-D-ribose stimulates hair regrowth.
Posted by: SMOD

Arriba! Arriba!

Posted by: Speedy Gonzalez at July 16, 2025 03:12 PM (oiNtH)

274 A mouse study has found the sugar 2-deoxy-D-ribose stimulates hair regrowth.
Posted by: SMOD at July 16, 2025 03:10 PM

Side effects include...

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 16, 2025 03:12 PM (dPfyF)

275 You can head off to team kammielalalala any time you want.
Posted by: Somewhere South of I-80


What about the vibrant Hot Air Art Thread?

Posted by: Bulg at July 16, 2025 03:12 PM (77rzZ)

276 The word has gone out. If NPR and PBS are defunded, people will die!

They're still pushing that after being mocked into oblivion for suggesting it's the only TV rural people are able to watch?

Posted by: Ian S. at July 16, 2025 03:12 PM (2ocoG)

277 Rural PBS stations could bear brunt of public media cuts. Just ask those in Kansas

Odd, how suddenly they care about the people in Kansas

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 16, 2025 03:12 PM (dfIr7)

278 I would also suggest 2a self defense insurance but that will not protect you from an overt act if a jury of twelve decides you are guilty.
Posted by: whig at July 16, 2025 02:41 PM (ctrM5)


If the sh*t hits the fan in a Blue City, formal trials and 12 member juries fly out the window, so to speak. The Left would slide right into tribunals staffed by commissars.

Posted by: mrp at July 16, 2025 03:12 PM (rj6Yv)

279 At The Sun: "Area 51 at risk as huge fire creeps closer to base"

If the fire reaches the storage depot where they keep the UFOs and their fuel, hellza poppin.

Posted by: Blame It On gp's Juice at July 16, 2025 03:12 PM (J4/Z5)

280 African Americans built this country!
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor

Not entirely voluntarily.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Lying Dogface Pony Soldier at July 16, 2025 03:13 PM (L/fGl)

281 >>> 217 The word has gone out. If NPR and PBS are defunded, people will die!

This is completely petty and I admit that, but I cannot STAND Mary Louise Kelly's voice, or the theme jingle for All Things Considered. So if shutting down NPR happens, and she gets the axe, it will be a good day.

I will say this though...NPR is trash, but the state public radio programs that are feeder stations for NPR actually do good work on local issues! I worry that they will also die if NPR gets funded.

But I get needing to cut off the head of the snake, aka the liberal propaganda pipeline that we pay for.

Posted by: LizLem at July 16, 2025 03:13 PM (gWBY1)

282 Perhaps you meant to refer to roulette?
Posted by: Wesley Crusher

Ensign Crusher, you are correct.

Posted by: Lahaina at July 16, 2025 03:13 PM (D0HYP)

283
I'm really tired of the "undocumented immigrant" crap. He's here illegally.

Varnish that turd all you want, leftists. in the end, you've got a turd with varnish on it and you're wondering if you really want to clean the brush you painted the turd with.
Posted by: blake

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Anyway, they have documents. Just from this countrym they have those crazy "TSA-excused, fly anywhere" cards that Jeff Rubin found out about, Temporary Deferred documents, DACA documents. Beyond that, they have foreign birth certificates.

This "undocumented" label makes it seem like they were some Chinese peasant's secret unauthorized child who officially doesn't exist, or some amnesiac who was picked up wandering the side of the freeway in shorts and a t-shirt with no wallet and no idea how he got there.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 16, 2025 03:13 PM (HL/Ld)

284 Meanwhile, 11 Republican Congress critters just dropped a brand new amnesty bill. The DIGNIDAD Act of 2025.
___

Dignidad? Is that dignity in Spanish? Aliens can earn amnesty by digging the dignity canal. I'll consider it.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at July 16, 2025 03:13 PM (Dv3i1)

285 With six dice you get Yahtzee.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 16, 2025 03:12 PM

I though that with six you got eggroll. Was I lied to?

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 16, 2025 03:13 PM (dPfyF)

286 Rural PBS stations could bear brunt of public media cuts. Just ask those in Kansas

Odd, how suddenly they care about the people in Kansas
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 16, 2025 03:12 PM (dfIr7)
______

Well, the new Supergay movie just came out ....

Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at July 16, 2025 03:13 PM (iFTx/)

287 dieresis is hard to enter

That is only a problem at night when you don't want to turn on the lights. My wife thinks I should sit down instead of stand

(I kid, slang is important, and Chao is typical in South America and that is how they spell it. Mexicans treat it like Americans hearing someone say "ta!" for goodbye. But then again, they say "ándale" which I think is worse)

Posted by: Kindltot at July 16, 2025 03:13 PM (D7oie)

288 You can head off to team kammielalalala any time you want.
Posted by: Somewhere South of I-80 at July 16, 2025 03:10 PM (89Sog)

Thanks for your permission and helpful and insightful commentary on the subject.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 16, 2025 03:13 PM (uCjyK)

289 Chuck Schumer: Sometimes "public broadcasting" is the only way people can get information on natural disasters:

“It’s a matter of life and death."

The ‘people will die’ talking point was issued over NPR/PBS defunding. Of course it was.

Posted by: SMOD at July 16, 2025 03:13 PM (RHGPo)

290 Green Acres was a tv comedy. They think it's real.

Its why James Gunn portrayed Ma and Pa Kent as retards with Alabama accents in Kansas, unable to comprehend a cell phone at the age of 50

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 16, 2025 03:13 PM (dfIr7)

291 To be fair, PBS did show one of Messalina's boobs in I, Claudius.

Posted by: Bulg at July 16, 2025 03:13 PM (77rzZ)

292 Let them go wild until it blows up in their faces when the names and allegations come out.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 16, 2025 03:10 PM (6ydKt)

I think its the only chance of anything getting released at this point. Because one thing we know - absolutely know - about Trump ... he's pretty much a wooden actor. He can't fake it. And he's genuinely pissed that people won't let this Epstein business go.

He's not playing "Nth Dimensional Chess". He's stepped in shit, most likely because he doesn't like who will get exposed, and now he's caught. If the press digs and this and exposes it ?

Great. A political loss for Trump ? Sure. But if johns in high places get exposed ? A win for society.

Posted by: The Cover Up at July 16, 2025 03:14 PM (/T6Pm)

293 I only mock Nickelback because it pleases me.

Posted by: eleven at July 16, 2025 03:14 PM (fV+MH)

294 Benjamin Song -> Song Dynasty -> collapsed due to overprinting of paper money -> annualized June month over month inflation rate was nearly 4.2%
Posted by: Oglebay at July 16, 2025 03:01 PM (2ap+5)

overprinting of money and invasion by the Mongols, but mostly due to invasion by the Mongols.

Posted by: Kindltot at July 16, 2025 03:14 PM (D7oie)

295 Hey Jethro, turn on NPR for a little Debussy and the crop report, while I'm tied up in the outhouse

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at July 16, 2025 03:14 PM (wBaIH)

296 @268

>>Everything is better than Queensryche.

Now contrast Photograph with Queensrÿche’s Operation: Mindcrime. A concept album? Really? Who has time for that? It's progressive metal for people who never got over Ayn Rand. It’s meticulous, yes,complex time signatures, layered synthesizers, a plot involving a heroin-addicted assassin named Nikki,but it’s exhausting. You don’t nod your head to Mindcrime, you endure it. It’s music for dark rooms and brooding Europeans.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 16, 2025 03:15 PM (XV/Pl)

297 And now ? Apparently we're going to bury the entire Epstein situation. So I'm a retard for not picking the lesser of two evils ?

Keep your GOP. I want none of it.
Posted by: The Cover Up at July 16, 2025 02:54 PM (/T6Pm)
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I don't want it either, but you go to war with the army you have, not the one you wish you had.

It sucks but it's the best chance we've got. Your options are as follows:
1) Vote for republicans no matter what, temper your expectations about how republican those folks are going to be and understand that every politician is going to disappoint you a significant amount of time.
2) Don't vote, and let the democrats win because they are a hive mind of retards who would elect a sandwich if it had a D next to its name, and then you'll be helping us all enter the Finding Out portion of the FA/FO paradigm.
3) STFU and run for office yourself and go change the world to your liking.

Posted by: ballistic at July 16, 2025 03:15 PM (01DnR)

298 Hairy Balls...you a troll?

Serious question.

Posted by: eleven at July 16, 2025 03:15 PM (fV+MH)

299 Because many people have wanted to see those files since Epstein was first arrested.

This, by the way, is the same game the media plays. "There's nothing to see here" morphs in to "well, sure there might have been something, but that was a long time ago, move on"

Like COVID coming from a lab. Went from a conspiracy theory to eventually "eh, probably, who cares, it's old news. Not worth looking in to" overnight.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes
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COVID is ultimately more important worldwide as a small band of scientists infected the world via using ChiCom assistance with a man made disease. Killing a lot of people by doing so.

Then compounded it by releasing horrible vaxxes killing more along with authoritarian shutdowns of everything.

And again, the putrid tentacles of the IC are involved but this time along with our Public Health authorities and health care providers.

So what do we do about that? In comparison, the Epstein crap is a piker compared with releasing a world wide epidemic and nasty vaxx.

So why here and why now? Smacks of manipulation of topic by fixing upon the easy scapegoat and every parent's (at least should be) nightmares--child predators.


Posted by: whig at July 16, 2025 03:15 PM (ctrM5)

300 At The Sun: "Area 51 at risk as huge fire creeps closer to base"

Wait, what? Area 51 is in the middle of a damn desert. Global warming made it hot enough to burn sand?

Posted by: Ian S. at July 16, 2025 03:16 PM (2ocoG)

301 >>> The opening line of Nickelback’s Photograph functions as both thesis and dagger, an invocation of nostalgia disguised as sentimentality. But it’s more than that. Much more.

When Chad Kroeger delivers that refrain, croaky, elongated, agonized, it’s not laughter he's referencing. It’s regret. It’s subtextual grief. It’s the laughter of a man who is laughing not with joy, but at his own youthful foolishness. This isn’t Bruce Springsteen's Glory Days. It’s suburban Götterdämmerung.
Posted by: Thomas Bender

You should go back to college in liberal arts and make that your master's thesis. Because dang! If someone can get their masters in talking about taylor swift or fanfic, surely you can get one for Nickelback.

Posted by: LizLem at July 16, 2025 03:16 PM (gWBY1)

302 But I get needing to cut off the head of the snake, aka the liberal propaganda pipeline that we pay for.

All they had to do was dial the radical leftist anti-American back like, 30% and maybe they could have avoided this. But they couldn't even do that

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 16, 2025 03:16 PM (dfIr7)

303 It's well known that rural America gets its news and weather from Charlie Farquahrson at KORN.

Posted by: Bulg at July 16, 2025 03:16 PM (77rzZ)

304 Also, I would bet money they let it slide because the foster parent is a black woman and didn't want to be accused of being racist which is, of course, far worse than letting children be beaten and murdered.
Posted by: They can all go to hell

Correct.

Posted by: Rotherham Authorities at July 16, 2025 03:16 PM (Dv3i1)

305 Nickelback v Queensryche?


Nerdfight.

Posted by: eleven at July 16, 2025 03:17 PM (fV+MH)

306 If you are reading into Nickleback Lyrics, I feel sorry for you.

I generally feel that way about all lyrics, though. I don't care about the artist's intent.
And it can't save a bad song.

Posted by: garrett at July 16, 2025 03:17 PM (oSEaw)

307 298 Hairy Balls...you a troll?

Serious question.
Posted by: eleven at July 16, 2025 03:15 PM (fV+MH)

What's a troll? If it's someone whose opinions may not be in lockstep with yours, then sure.

If it's someone who purposely tries to troll comment sections to annoy people, often for money or just the lulz, then no.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 16, 2025 03:17 PM (uCjyK)

308 But if you look deeper, beyond the memes, beyond the denim, their structure, tone, and emotional resonance present a clearer, more accessible vision of masculinity than the overwrought theater of Queensrÿche.

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

Blink 182 > Train > Queensrÿche > Nickelback

I think ÿa'll just like tÿping the ÿ.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 16, 2025 03:17 PM (6ydKt)

309 If he's undocumented, why do I see pictures and articles of him? Checkmate, atheists.

Posted by: joe, living dangerously at July 16, 2025 03:18 PM (B9Prs)

310 new tropes, old tropes, bent tropes, fast tropes, under tropes, wide tropes, either tropes, call tropes, deep tropes, shallow tropes, ugly tropes, neat tropes, weird tropes, used tropes, dish tropes, dog tropes, cat tropes, dirt tropes, tree tropes, long tropes, short tropes, dirty tropes, clean tropes, slow tropes, legal tropes, illegal tropes, air tropes, machine tropes, butt tropes, boob tropes, lady tropes, horse tropes, cow tropes, fish tropes

Posted by: Topes for Sale! at July 16, 2025 03:18 PM (/avtW)

311
Meanwhile, 11 Republican Congress critters just dropped a brand new amnesty bill. The DIGNIDAD Act of 2025.
___

Do we even need to look? We don't owe anyone dignity or pity!!! In fact, they had it for 20 years while they lived here illegally and started families, built careers, and bought homes. It was a good run, amigo. Congrats to you for keeping it up as long as you did. Now chao.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 16, 2025 03:18 PM (HL/Ld)

312 USA Today,

Up to 1 million Kansans live in areas without “high-speed broadband services at adequate speeds,” according to University of Kansas research published in 2023.

Who stole THAT $?

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at July 16, 2025 03:18 PM (NFX2v)

313 I asked for Nickelback. I got a dime.

Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at July 16, 2025 03:18 PM (iFTx/)

314 Townhall.com@townhallcom
WOAH: Democrat Bennie Thompson just threw a FIT when Republican witness pointed out how Democrat rhetoric has led to an 800% increase in assaults against ICE agents.
He tried to stop the hearing!

-
He had to! If we allow truth on Capital Hill, where will it end?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Lying Dogface Pony Soldier at July 16, 2025 03:18 PM (L/fGl)

315 3) STFU and run for office yourself and go change the world to your liking.
Posted by: ballistic
=======
Most people like to stay out of the game and bitch--whether politics, ballgames, etc.

I've spent my time on local issues, state issues plus politics at the local, state, and federal levels, and frankly punched my ticket on those.

At the end of the day, politics is always the art of the possible at any one time and requires a pragmatic, non-ideological framework for addressing political issues. It is always the case that you can't always get what you want. If we as a society are lucky enough--we get what we need.

Posted by: whig at July 16, 2025 03:18 PM (ctrM5)

316 Is a consistently successful troll a master baiter?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 16, 2025 03:19 PM (0sNs1)

317 But that's the tragedy of modern music criticism: it's performative. Disingenuous. Everyone pretends to hate them because someone on Reddit said it was cool.

I know this is a skit, but outsourcing your tastes to the Internet is real and it's generally an excellent marker for people you should ignore.

Posted by: Ian S. at July 16, 2025 03:19 PM (2ocoG)

318 Nickelback v Queensryche?


Coldplay has entered the chat.

Posted by: nurse ratched at July 16, 2025 03:19 PM (W2Pud)

319 What about the vibrant Hot Air Art Thread?
Posted by: Bulg at July 16, 2025 03:12 PM (77rzZ)

Pit stop.

Thanks for your permission and helpful and insightful commentary on the subject.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 16, 2025 03:13 PM (uCjyK)

You are welcome. I think the major problem with you is that not enough people have told you to go away. Your story is always the same.

Trump's a doody head!!

We get it it. You don't have to keep telling us over and over and over and over and over and over...

I'm pretty sure you get the picture.

Posted by: Somewhere South of I-80 at July 16, 2025 03:20 PM (89Sog)

320 'Up to 1 million Kansans live in areas without “high-speed broadband services at adequate speeds,”'

Take the NPR/PBS money and use it to install internet then. Internet is infinitely more valuable and useful than NPR/PBS.

Posted by: Blame It On gp's Juice at July 16, 2025 03:20 PM (J4/Z5)

321 I would love to see Harry and Elric go up against each other in a courtroom.

Posted by: Bulg at July 16, 2025 03:20 PM (77rzZ)

322 I've got nothing to say. I'm gonna go have sex with the 5th.

Posted by: Dreamingrobot at July 16, 2025 03:20 PM (WvWi7)

323 People making those arguments are often urbanites that view country folks as backwards, out of touch, and stupid. How dare they not embrace the gubmint propaganda designed to fix their racist, homophobic, gunloving, religious fixations.
Posted by: whig
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High speed internet will fix that!

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 16, 2025 03:20 PM (XeU6L)

324 PBS introduced me to Monty Python and Blackadder, it showed me stuff on Masterpiece Theater I would have never otherwise seen. Its not like they did no good. When the Corporation for Public Broadcasting was formed, TV and radio was largely awful crap and I get the concerns that it was supposed to address.

But like employee unions, whatever valid purpose they once served was soon corrupted into just another hard left machine and ruined, and we need to get rid of it as soon as possible, even if it had not been completely made pointless by the huge array of entertainment and information available now.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 16, 2025 03:20 PM (dfIr7)

325 It's well known that rural America gets its news and weather from Charlie Farquahrson at KORN.
Posted by: Bulg at July 16, 2025 03:16 PM (77rzZ)

And cinema reviews from Farm Film Report with Big Jim McBob and Billy Sol Hurok.

Posted by: SCTV at July 16, 2025 03:20 PM (q2NNn)

326 311
Meanwhile, 11 Republican Congress critters just dropped a brand new amnesty bill. The DIGNIDAD Act of 2025.
___

Do we even need to look? We don't owe anyone dignity or pity!!! In fact, they had it for 20 years while they lived here illegally and started families, built careers, and bought homes. It was a good run, amigo. Congrats to you for keeping it up as long as you did. Now chao.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia
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Bill is DOA and done to forestall blame for the upcoming raids in their districts. I'd imagine that a lot of these congress critters are in districts with large illegal populations and this is setting a backfire to don't blame me personally at the polls in 2026. This allows them to claim they are trying to do something about it plus bipartisan. No chance whatsoever for passage.

Posted by: whig at July 16, 2025 03:21 PM (ctrM5)

327
USA Today,

Up to 1 million Kansans live in areas without “high-speed broadband services at adequate speeds,” according to University of Kansas research published in 2023.

Who stole THAT $?
Posted by: L - No nic

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

You'll be shocked at who answers this question:
https://tinyurl.com/48zah7r5

This is an excerpt from a "How Democrats lost" lament from Ezra Klein and Jon Stewart.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 16, 2025 03:21 PM (HL/Ld)

328
Posted by: whig at July 16, 2025 03:15 PM (ctrM5)

Because if what we suspect is true (and the actions of the government from Acosta to Biden to now Trump seem to suggest they're at least SOMEWHAT true), then this is as big, if not a bigger scandal than COVID.

And I would wager that if we knew the full truth of the Epstein situation, it would point fingers at a lot of the same people that we could point fingers at for COVID and the censorship and everything that came out of it.

Or the Epstein thing could be nothing, in which case -- why the hell didn't Trump release the files Day 1? Why is this even a thing? If Epstein is just a lone wolf, he's dead, release everything the CIA, FBI, NSA or anyone else ever had on him.

Because the longer this shitshow goes on, the more it looks like this Epstein thing is exactly what it looks like, and that very prominent members of our society have been being blackmailed by the CIA / Deep State for decades. If that is true, that is a pretty big deal, I would think.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 16, 2025 03:21 PM (uCjyK)

329 Seconded!
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at July 16, 2025 02:19 PM (dKEEs)

Thirded!
Posted by: Epstein Chicken at July 16, 2025 02:31 PM (q2NNn)

Fourthed!

Posted by: The Toaster at July 16, 2025 03:22 PM (ufFY8)

330 Yowzie!

Poll: Only 3% of Americans are satisfied with how much info Trump has provided about the Epstein Files

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Lying Dogface Pony Soldier at July 16, 2025 03:22 PM (L/fGl)

331 I know this is a skit, but outsourcing your tastes to the Internet is real and it's generally an excellent marker for people you should ignore.

But its a behavior decades old, with roots that go far back before the Internet. I can't be the only one that knew several people who tuned into Rush to get told what to think. Or people that got "all the news they need" from The Times or The Post. Or swore by whatever Cronkite or Rather or Brokaw said.

GroupThink has been around forever, best as I can tell.

Posted by: The Cover Up at July 16, 2025 03:22 PM (/T6Pm)

332 Take the NPR/PBS money and use it to install internet then. Internet is infinitely more valuable and useful than NPR/PBS.

The Internet gets you the HQ. Internet > PBS.

Posted by: Ian S. at July 16, 2025 03:22 PM (2ocoG)

333
This allows them to claim they are trying to do something about it plus bipartisan. No chance whatsoever for passage.
Posted by: whig

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

Exactly. It should be renamed the STUNT Act of 2025.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 16, 2025 03:22 PM (HL/Ld)

334 I think ÿa'll just like tÿping the ÿ.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 16, 2025 03:17 PM

Aren't ÿou a little ÿoung to be so cÿnical?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 16, 2025 03:22 PM (0sNs1)

335 The chamber of commerce has just paid (I mean contributed to their campaign) 11 republicans a shit ton of money.

Posted by: Seems Legit at July 16, 2025 03:22 PM (PMtkd)

336 Wait, what? Area 51 is in the middle of a damn desert. Global warming made it hot enough to burn sand?
Posted by: Ian S. at July 16, 2025 03:16 PM (2ocoG)

It's not a Looney Toons desert. There is grass and brush to burn. Some trees. It'll be funny to see who puts it out.

Posted by: Reforger at July 16, 2025 03:22 PM (lPvx2)

337 Clinton pardoned a bunch of murderers and Capitol building bombers, including Susan Rosenberg, who then went on to get her claws in the Black Lives Matter Movement. Or the FBI "botched" their evidence and they get let go, like with Bill Ayers, who then went on to get his hooks in Obama. And ALL of them are completely unrepentant of what they did. Even the murderers.

Good reason for the police/ICE/FBI to work on their marksmanship.

Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at July 16, 2025 03:23 PM (Da7Vv)

338 The good news about Japanese rape is that their dicks are so small.
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at July 16, 2025 03:07 PM (wBaIH)

Not so fast. The promise of huge Japanese dicks is what kept me on the radio.

---------Zombie Tokyo Rose

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at July 16, 2025 03:23 PM (g8Ew8)

339 You can head off to team kammielalalala any time you want.
Posted by: Somewhere South of I-80


What about the vibrant Hot Air Art Thread?
Posted by: Bulg at July 16, 2025 03:12 PM (77rzZ)
______

The Blade was originally a commenter at HA. Under the same name. But I got tired of that slapfag fucknugget Allahpundit and his constant fake hysteria and lies about Covid. He would swallow every bullshit story about how HOSPITALS IN NYC ARE OVERRUN WITH DEAD BODIES. I would go to the hospital itself and report that, no, the hospital is practically empty. He would not admit he was wrong. I said "see ya."

Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at July 16, 2025 03:23 PM (iFTx/)

340 You know what they can do with their "Dignity Act 2025" ?

Posted by: runner at July 16, 2025 03:23 PM (g47mK)

341 Everyone pretends to hate them because someone on Reddit said it was cool.

Yeah that happens a lot. You see terms suddenly show up out of nowhere that everyone is using like "aura farming." Its like there's a committee coming up with stupid crap that is supposed to sound fresh and hip and young and people cannot wait to leap on that bandwagon.

"Clowns are scary!"
"Coffee makes you poop!"
"You only use 10% of your brain!"

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 16, 2025 03:23 PM (dfIr7)

342 324 PBS introduced me to Monty Python and Blackadder, it showed me stuff on Masterpiece Theater I would have never otherwise seen. Its not like they did no good. When the Corporation for Public Broadcasting was formed, TV and radio was largely awful crap and I get the concerns that it was supposed to address.

But like employee unions, whatever valid purpose they once served was soon corrupted into just another hard left machine and ruined, and we need to get rid of it as soon as possible, even if it had not been completely made pointless by the huge array of entertainment and information available now.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor
------
From PBS itself,
"PBS’s reach is wide and deep. Over the course of a year, 58% of all U.S. television households—over 130 million people—watch PBS.

Because PBS is commercial-free, many people mistakenly believe public funding provides the bulk of our resources. In fact, federal funding provides only about 15% of the revenue for the public television system. That’s an investment of $1.40 per taxpayer per year.

Private support from donors like you provides the revenue .. . ."

Posted by: whig at July 16, 2025 03:23 PM (ctrM5)

343 321 I would love to see Harry and Elric go up against each other in a courtroom.
Posted by: Bulg at July 16, 2025 03:20 PM (77rzZ)

I don't think we practice similar types of law, but I'm sure it would be collegiate and boring like most things in the court room are.

I've only had one or two attorneys in my career that I've ever had an issue with on a personal level.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 16, 2025 03:24 PM (uCjyK)

344 Dignity Act? See National Immigration Forum

"The Dignity Act of 2025 Summary"

No way, Jose.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at July 16, 2025 03:24 PM (NFX2v)

345 That’s not to say Queensrÿche isn’t important. They are. In the way Moby Dick is important. You respect it. You admire it. But you don’t take it to the gym.

Nickelback is the gym. It’s chrome and sweat and testosterone. It's strip clubs, muscle memory, and late‑stage capitalism turned into power chords. It's efficient. It’s American.

And in the end, that’s what matters.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 16, 2025 03:24 PM (XV/Pl)

346 Poll: Only 3% of Americans are satisfied with how much info Trump has provided about the Epstein Files
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Lying Dogface Pony Soldier at July 16, 2025 03:22 PM (L/fGl)

And I think they're all in the comment section of this blog.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 16, 2025 03:25 PM (uCjyK)

347 "When the Corporation for Public Broadcasting was formed, TV and radio was largely awful crap"

There is no need for state-sponsored media, period, even if the media landscape is a vast wasteland.

Posted by: Blame It On gp's Juice at July 16, 2025 03:26 PM (J4/Z5)

348 Chuck Schumer: Sometimes "public broadcasting" is the only way people can get information on natural disasters.

Rich coming from a walking, bloviating disaster of a decades long grifting politician who is a hazard even at a grill cooking raw hamburger meat ready to serve salmonella, campylobacter, listeria and E. coli.

Posted by: Speedy Gonzalez at July 16, 2025 03:26 PM (oiNtH)

349
easy scapegoat and every parent's (at least should be) nightmares--child predators.

Meanwhile, law enforcement has apprehended and arrested hundreds of predators, rescued their victims in 2025 stings…equal ir more than Trump’s first term.
But all this is lost in the WAHWAH Epstein noise. Ppl can’t see the forest for one dessicated burnt out tree.

As of July 16, 2025, there have been several significant operations and arrests related to child predators reported by US law enforcement agencies. These include:

Posted by: kallisto at July 16, 2025 03:26 PM (K4Exm)

350 "Clowns are scary!"
"Coffee makes you poop!"
"You only use 10% of your brain!"

Pop Rocks and a Pepsi will explode your stomach.
Playing D&D makes kids kill themselves.
Jagger, Bowie, and Stewart were caught in a threesome (OK, that one might have been true).

GroupThink. Been going on long before the Internet.

Posted by: The Cover Up at July 16, 2025 03:26 PM (/T6Pm)

351 Money ? People get paid for mocking Trumpets ?
Lol
6 months in and Trump is dying in the polls
Stock market still down 1000 from its Biden high. And the tariffs haven't even hit
Trump is sending more arms to Ukraine and Trump is talking about openly giving AMNESTY to 2 million farm workers and hotel maidsl

1000s of minor girls were pimped off to those despised "elites"
Now Trump wants to protect them

Posted by: Aliassmithsmith at July 16, 2025 03:26 PM (O183S)

352 "You only use 10% of your brain!"

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 16, 2025 03:23 PM (dfIr7)

That's a high estimate for a lot of these people.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 16, 2025 03:26 PM (6ydKt)

353 So why here and why now? Smacks of manipulation of topic by fixing upon the easy scapegoat and every parent's (at least should be) nightmares--child predators.

Posted by: whig at July 16, 2025 03:15 PM (ctrM5)

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

Never made the connection before, but this would be consistent with my belief from the beginning that Q Anon was created as an online "Anonymous"
Deep State PsyOp -- perhaps merely as a false flag "squirrel!" to misdirect from and discredit all the actual child pedo crimes we've since learned about and confirmed -- especially as a result of The AutoPen Empire's open borders and facilitation of human and child sex trafficking on an unimaginable scale never before seen.

Posted by: ShainS -- Trump Needs to Sue Donkey-Chompers for Defamation a la ABC at July 16, 2025 03:27 PM (sjMEO)

354 Exactly. It should be renamed the STUNT Act of 2025.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia

Any congress critter can drop a bill into the hopper and get x number of other congress critters to endorse it. Recently some dumbass MI shady ass Congress critter dropped such a bill that ended up the embarrassing his Dem co sponsors to the extent of them having their names redacted from the bill.

Our legislative branch is truly a Confederation of Dunces.

Posted by: whig at July 16, 2025 03:27 PM (ctrM5)

355 Nickelback is the gym. It’s chrome and sweat and testosterone. It's strip clubs, muscle memory, and late‑stage capitalism turned into power chords. It's efficient. It’s American.

And in the end, that’s what matters.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 16, 2025 03:24 PM (XV/Pl)

They're Canadian.

Posted by: Reforger at July 16, 2025 03:27 PM (lPvx2)

356 "Clowns are scary!"
"Coffee makes you poop!"

Well, those two are correct, anyway.

Posted by: Bulg at July 16, 2025 03:27 PM (77rzZ)

357 They're Canadian.
Posted by: Reforger at July 16, 2025 03:27 PM

Shhhhhhh. He's on a roll.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 16, 2025 03:28 PM (0sNs1)

358 Major Operations and arrests
Operation Restore Justice: A nationwide FBI initiative in April 2025 resulted in the arrest of 205 alleged child sex offenders and the rescue of 115 children. This operation involved all 55 FBI field offices and focused on identifying, tracking, and apprehending child sex predators across the country.
ICE Arrests: ICE officials have arrested several individuals in 2025 for child sex crimes, including those who victimized children nationwide. One operation targeted and arrested illegal aliens convicted of child sex crimes in Massachusetts, California, New York, and Texas. In July 2025, ICE Atlanta, ICE Baltimore, ICE Houston, ICE Salt Lake City, and ICE San Antonio took down convicted illegal alien sexual predators and pedophiles over a weekend.
Global Child Exploitation Enterprise: Two leaders of a global child exploitation enterprise known as "764" were arrested and charged in April 2025. This enterprise involved a network of nihilistic violent extremists engaged in the production and distribution of child sexual abuse material and the exploitation of minors.
International Operation: An international operation

Posted by: kallisto at July 16, 2025 03:28 PM (K4Exm)

359 Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free work on Marijuana farms.

-
Needs to be updated.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Lying Dogface Pony Soldier at July 16, 2025 03:28 PM (L/fGl)

360 Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 16, 2025 03:24 PM (uCjyK)


I just think, from the arguments that the two of you make here, it would be fun to see you match wits in court.

Posted by: Bulg at July 16, 2025 03:28 PM (77rzZ)

361 Oh, and five dice. You play YAHTZEE with five dice.

Posted by: The Cover Up at July 16, 2025 03:28 PM (/T6Pm)

362 330 Yowzie!

Poll: Only 3% of Americans are satisfied with how much info Trump has provided about the Epstein Files
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Lying Dogface Pony Soldier

On the other hand, 50% of Americans were satisfied by how much info Biden had provided about the Epstein Files. Splits D:100%, R:0%

Posted by: Polls are for Strippers! at July 16, 2025 03:29 PM (Dv3i1)

363 GroupThink. Been going on long before the Internet.

Yeah I remember the rumors when I was a kid: Rod Stewart had to have his stomach pumped because of all the man-mayo in it. The blue part of the eraser is for ink. If you swallow a watermelon seed it sprouts in your stomch!

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 16, 2025 03:29 PM (dfIr7)

364 Benjamin Hanil Takeshi Song
......

Country or Pop?

Posted by: wth at July 16, 2025 03:29 PM (UjdFS)

365 Cthulhu/2028: Why settle for the Lesser Evil?

Posted by: toby928 at July 16, 2025 03:29 PM (jc0TO)

366 Clowns per se aren't scary.

But people who will put on heavy makeup so kids will sit on their laps? Scary AF.

Posted by: Wally at July 16, 2025 03:30 PM (jnr8F)

367 Link to more info re: child predator arrests since Trump took office


https://tinyurl.com/5d3swkxr

Posted by: kallisto at July 16, 2025 03:30 PM (K4Exm)

368 @355

>>They're Canadian.

I don't believe in irony. I believe in branding.
That’s why when people say Nickelback isn’t American—they’re Canadian, I don’t laugh. I correct them.

Geographically, yes. But spiritually? Existentially? Sonically?

Nickelback is more American than Bruce Springsteen eating a cheeseburger in a Ford F-150 while watching football on a gas station TV.

They are pure, unadaulturted Americana at it's apex.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 16, 2025 03:30 PM (XV/Pl)

369 Benjamin Hanil Takeshi Song
......

Country or Pop?
Posted by: wth

Strophic or through-composed?

Posted by: Bulg at July 16, 2025 03:30 PM (77rzZ)

370 Oh, and five dice. You play YAHTZEE with five dice.
Posted by: The Cover Up at July 16, 2025 03:28 PM

You missed a chance to sock me.

Posted by: Wesley Crusher at July 16, 2025 03:30 PM (0sNs1)

371 @328 Harry Paratestes-you know what I think is a bigger deal(?) the fact that the names on a supposed list and guilty of shit pertaining to COVID have been in your face(some for decades) breaking laws or committing acts that should have had them removed from office or thrown in jail years ago. Blackmail, underage girls is just a smidgen of what these assholes are guilty of. They're f'ing criminals.

Posted by: JROD at July 16, 2025 03:30 PM (IlL6s)

372 Poll: Only 3% of Americans are satisfied with how much info Trump has provided about the Epstein Files
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Lying Dogface Pony Soldier at July 16, 2025 03:22 PM (L/fGl)

And I think they're all in the comment section of this blog.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 16, 2025 03:25 PM (uCjyK)

It's possible to walk and chew gum. I'm not satisfied with the info, but I'm also beyond fucking sick of hearing about it, especially since the initial hysteria about it came from the anti-Israel crowd. If something happens with it, great. Until then, it's not like the CIA is sitting around waiting to hear what Ace or any of us think.

Posted by: Ian S. at July 16, 2025 03:30 PM (2ocoG)

373 Jagger, Bowie, and Stewart were caught in a threesome (OK, that one might have been true).

After watching the Dancing in the Street video I am certain that Bowie and Jagger were dancing in the sheets

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 16, 2025 03:30 PM (dfIr7)

374 Posted by: Aliassmithsmith at July 16, 2025 03:26 PM

Your tears nourish me, Dunce.

Posted by: toby928 at July 16, 2025 03:31 PM (jc0TO)

375 >>> This is an excerpt from a "How Democrats lost" lament from Ezra Klein and Jon Stewart.

Ezra is Ezra, but I did like an interview he did with Sarah McBride, the new DE Trans congresswoman that had the bathroom fight with Nancy Mace.

Listening to it helped strengthen how to talk about my own stances on Trans rights. And how I'm an "imperfect ally" of the LGBT movement. I love that term. Sarah totally admits that the trans movement did such a good job of purging allies that agreed with them on 90% of issues (like me), and the purity tests killed the trans movement.

But I can't tell if Sarah is an old school dem, and someone I can grudgingly like, or a wolf in sheep's clothing. Because she seems to admits she WANTS all the extremist trans positions, she just thinks the trans community messed up in not rolling it out slowly like gay marriage was rolled out slowly, and eventually accepted. She gets the long con, that being well spoken and polite and gracious to the Nancy Maces of politics will get her the throne someday. And I think that terrifies me, that she ACTUALLY understands how to play the political game, versus the loudmouths.

Posted by: LizLem at July 16, 2025 03:31 PM (gWBY1)

376 I just think, from the arguments that the two of you make here, it would be fun to see you match wits in court.
Posted by: Bulg at July 16, 2025 03:28 PM (77rzZ)

I doubt I'd match his wit. Knowing me, I'd probably bring the wrong file to court and have to argue oral arguments from memory while the judge looks at me through squinted eyes. (just kidding, that only happened to me once.)

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 16, 2025 03:31 PM (uCjyK)

377 You missed a chance to sock me.
Posted by: Wesley Crusher

Never miss a chance to sock that little twerp

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 16, 2025 03:31 PM (dfIr7)

378 William Shatner and Peter North are also famous Canadians.

Posted by: Wesley Crusher at July 16, 2025 03:32 PM (0sNs1)

379 Yeah I remember the rumors when I was a kid: Rod Stewart had to have his stomach pumped because of all the man-mayo in it. The blue part of the eraser is for ink. If you swallow a watermelon seed it sprouts in your stomch!
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 16, 2025 03:29 PM (dfIr7)

Damn! I'm imagining trying to shit a watermelon.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at July 16, 2025 03:32 PM (g8Ew8)

380 Top Three New Tropes for the AOSHQ:

3) But who stole the glockenspiel?

2) It tastes like tapir's blood.

1) Brain Ghost!

Posted by: naturalfake at July 16, 2025 03:32 PM (KPGae)

381 Bozo the Clown, Bozo's Big Top, etc. on TV scared me many decades ago. Never got over it.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at July 16, 2025 03:32 PM (NFX2v)

382 Never miss a chance to sock that little twerp
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 16, 2025 03:31 PM


IT'S FUNNY BECAUSE HE'S JUST AN OLD TROPE.



WAIT...

Posted by: BEN ROETHLISBERGER at July 16, 2025 03:32 PM (jc0TO)

383 Is a spirited defense of Nickelback considered trolling?

😜

Posted by: Puddleglum, chillin' in Amish Country at July 16, 2025 03:32 PM (uGaBv)

384 You missed a chance to sock me.
Posted by: Wesley Crusher

Never miss a chance to sock that little twerp
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor

And CRT misses a chance to sock Picard.

Posted by: Bulg at July 16, 2025 03:33 PM (77rzZ)

385 Gun violence in Texas by antifa?
When the left wants stricter gun laws the right days we need them to protect us from tyrannical governments. That is the purpose of the 2nd Amendment
Only problem is that every body gets to decide who they think is "tyrannical" and they can decide when force with guns is justified

Posted by: Aliassmithsmith at July 16, 2025 03:33 PM (O183S)

386
"When the Corporation for Public Broadcasting was formed, TV and radio was largely awful crap"

Is it better today?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 16, 2025 03:33 PM (63Dwl)

387 Blackmail, underage girls is just a smidgen of what these assholes are guilty of. They're f'ing criminals.

If the argument is we can't expose Epstein for all the harm it would do ? Then yeah, we should be out there hanging people after military tribunal - on the hopes it placates the rest of the world before they wake up and rightly blame us for paying the Chinese to accidentally release a poorly made bio-weapon on the planet.

Posted by: The Cover Up at July 16, 2025 03:33 PM (/T6Pm)

388 I only mock Nickelback because it pleases me.
Posted by: eleven
......

I only mock Nickelback because of the guy with the light bulb shaped head.

Posted by: wth at July 16, 2025 03:33 PM (UjdFS)

389 "Rockstar" would be a quintessential hit if it were performed by a band not named Nickelback.

it's a banger of a track but the internet hate machine does what it does.

Posted by: ballistic at July 16, 2025 03:33 PM (01DnR)

390 Clowns per se aren't scary.

But people who will put on heavy makeup so kids will sit on their laps? Scary AF.

Holy shit. Drag queens and trannies are clowns! That's the missing link!

Posted by: Ian S. at July 16, 2025 03:33 PM (2ocoG)

391 I would support a law denying firearms to Democrats.

Those fuckers are crazy.

Posted by: toby928 at July 16, 2025 03:34 PM (jc0TO)

392 Jagger, Bowie, and Stewart were caught in a threesome (OK, that one might have been true).

After watching the Dancing in the Street video I am certain that Bowie and Jagger were dancing in the sheets
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 16, 2025 03:30 PM (dfIr7)
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I'm fairly certain that Bowie and Stewart admitted they had sex with men. Jagger almost certainly did too, although I don't think he admitted it.

So many fags in British society -- and in British rock -- that openly gay dudes like Rob Halford didn't have to import fags into the backstage. There were already enough of them there. He would just fuck the roadies and sometimes members of opening acts.

Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at July 16, 2025 03:34 PM (iFTx/)

393 If a watermelon sprouted in your stomach you would never be hungry again!

Free watermelon for life.

Posted by: eleven at July 16, 2025 03:34 PM (fV+MH)

394 1) Brain Ghost!

Posted by: naturalfake

Coast to Coast!

Posted by: Bulg at July 16, 2025 03:34 PM (77rzZ)

395 Only 3% of Americans are satisfied with how much info Trump has provided about the Epstein Files

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The Donks 80% /20% support doesn't look so bad now, does it?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Lying Dogface Pony Soldier at July 16, 2025 03:35 PM (L/fGl)

396 If turds were biscuits I'd eat 'til I died.

Posted by: toby928 at July 16, 2025 03:35 PM (jc0TO)

397 I'm fairly certain that Bowie and Stewart admitted they had sex with men. Jagger almost certainly did too, although I don't think he admitted it.

I mean, "Gay or British?" is a real thing.

Posted by: Ian S. at July 16, 2025 03:35 PM (2ocoG)

398 391 I would support a law denying firearms to Democrats.

Those fuckers are crazy.
Posted by: toby928

And hammers, knives, bricks, bottles..

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at July 16, 2025 03:35 PM (NFX2v)

399 I would support a law denying firearms to Democrats.

I would absolutely support disarming a few major cities. Block to block searches. Start with LA, NYC, and CHI. Lets see how it goes.

Posted by: The Cover Up at July 16, 2025 03:35 PM (/T6Pm)

400 After 4 years of a Biden DOJ I never expected any evidence to exist anymore so I was not let down.

Posted by: Reforger at July 16, 2025 03:36 PM (lPvx2)

401 Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at July 16, 2025 03:32 PM (NFX2v)

I didn’t know children were afraid of clowns so I hired a birthday greeting clown to visit my 3 yr old niece…the poor little thing started screaming and crying

That was a bigtime Auntie FAIL

Posted by: kallisto at July 16, 2025 03:36 PM (K4Exm)

402 So many fags in British society -- and in British rock -- that openly gay dudes like Rob Halford didn't have to import fags into the backstage. There were already enough of them there.

Its like the rap scene, apparently 75% of rappers are queer.

And CRT misses a chance to sock Picard.

90% of the time when I change my nick for comedic effect its not very comedic and I screw up for several posts. I find its better for my sanity and the blog to just avoid it.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 16, 2025 03:36 PM (dfIr7)

403 Making tropes a trope is the sort of meta-humor you just don't get anywhere else.

Posted by: toby928 at July 16, 2025 03:36 PM (jc0TO)

404 @387 The Cover Up-.....and that clearly wasn't my argument.

Posted by: JROD at July 16, 2025 03:37 PM (IlL6s)

405 It's possible to walk and chew gum. I'm not satisfied with the info, but I'm also beyond fucking sick of hearing about it, especially since the initial hysteria about it came from the anti-Israel crowd. If something happens with it, great. Until then, it's not like the CIA is sitting around waiting to hear what Ace or any of us think.
Posted by: Ian S. at July 16, 2025 03:30 PM (2ocoG)

Lol, what? The initial hysteria, as you call it, came from Americans talking about American politics and had nothing to do with Israel.

And if Mossad is implicated, then it's not anti-Israel to call that out. It's anti-truth to avoid talking about an issue because you think Israel may be implicated.

And not for nothing, but if a foreign government in the middle east is kidnapping american children and pimping them out to American and British "elites" so that they can blackmail American politicians and all of that was going on under the eyes of our own intel agencies, well, that's something we should be talking about, no?

That said, it seems much more likely CIA was running this operation with MI-6. I find it very unlikely Israel would be able to pull this off, especially on US soil.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 16, 2025 03:37 PM (uCjyK)

406 You got that right. See, according to Cocteau's plan, I'm the enemy. Cause I like to think, I like to read. I'm into freedom of speech and freedom of choice. I'm the kind of guy who wants to sit in a greasy spoon and think, "Gee, should I have the T-bone steak or the jumbo rack of barbecued ribs with the side order of gravy fries?" I want high cholesterol. I want to eat bacon, butter and buckets of cheese, okay? I want to smoke a Cuban cigar the size of Cincinnati in a non-smoking section. I wanna run through the streets naked with green Jello all over my body reading Playboy magazine. Why? Because I suddenly might feel the need to. Okay, pal? I've seen the future, you know what it is? It's a 47-year-old virgin sittin' around in his beige pajamas, drinking a banana-broccoli shake singing "I'm an Oscar-Meyer Wiener".

Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 16, 2025 03:37 PM (6ydKt)

407 Never made the connection before, but this would be consistent with my belief from the beginning that Q Anon was created as an online "Anonymous"
Deep State PsyOp -- perhaps merely as a false flag "squirrel!" to misdirect from and discredit all the actual child pedo crimes we've since learned about and confirmed -- especially as a result of The AutoPen Empire's open borders and facilitation of human and child sex trafficking on an unimaginable scale never before seen.
Posted by: ShainS
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Very possible.

Posted by: whig at July 16, 2025 03:38 PM (ctrM5)

408 Never made the connection before, but this would be consistent with my belief from the beginning that Q Anon was created as an online "Anonymous"
Deep State PsyOp -- perhaps merely as a false flag "squirrel!" to misdirect from and discredit all the actual child pedo crimes we've since learned about and confirmed -- especially as a result of The AutoPen Empire's open borders and facilitation of human and child sex trafficking on an unimaginable scale never before seen.
Posted by: ShainS -- Trump Needs to Sue Donkey-Chompers for Defamation a la ABC at July 16, 2025 03:27 PM (sjMEO)

Which is EXACTLY what "they" would want you to believe. Open your eyes.

Posted by: ... at July 16, 2025 03:38 PM (Qr870)

409 You got that right. See, according to Cocteau's plan, I'm the enemy. Cause I like to think, I like to read.

I wonder how much of that was written and how much he came up with, largely on the spot.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 16, 2025 03:38 PM (dfIr7)

410 CIA, MI6, and Mossad were all involved in the Epstein thing. At least those three, maybe more.

Posted by: Bulg at July 16, 2025 03:38 PM (77rzZ)

411 Oh I forgot to add...Sarah McBride the trans congresscritter is just keeping her head down, quietly sponsoring or supporting bills that actually matter to her constituents (the economy, stupid!), giving grace to the Nancy Mace's of congress instead of picking fights (which I really appreciated at the time), slowly and steadily building their power and influence in an old school way.

The opposite of the Sandy Cortez's and the Jasmines. And I think Sarah scares me more. Because she actually gets how to win the DC game of thrones.

Posted by: LizLem at July 16, 2025 03:38 PM (gWBY1)

412 @387 The Cover Up-you're hedging your bet on a supposed list or smoking gun. I'm saying these people can go down for more obvious shit. Shit they've done aside from Epstein Island.

Posted by: JROD at July 16, 2025 03:39 PM (IlL6s)

413 *Am not a troll - I just don't post very often.*

Dersh had a short piece in the WSJ yesterday. I admit that it sounds like something he dictated under duress, but he may be telling the truth:

https://archive.ph/b78l4

Posted by: Clio Weeps at July 16, 2025 03:39 PM (kSAM8)

414 Nood Eggs

Posted by: toby928 at July 16, 2025 03:39 PM (jc0TO)

415 "Which is EXACTLY what "they" would want you to believe. Open your eyes."


Oh wake up you sheep.

Posted by: eleven at July 16, 2025 03:40 PM (fV+MH)

416 I didn’t know children were afraid of clowns so I hired a birthday greeting clown to visit my 3 yr old niece…the poor little thing started screaming and crying

That was a bigtime Auntie FAIL
Posted by: kallisto


Aw, poor little thing. I hope you made it up to her with lots of ice cream.

Posted by: Bulg at July 16, 2025 03:40 PM (77rzZ)

417 "Which is EXACTLY what "they" would want you to believe. Open your eyes."


Oh wake up you sheep.


Uh huh that's just what one of THEM would say!

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 16, 2025 03:40 PM (dfIr7)

418 372 Poll: Only 3% of Americans are satisfied with how much info Trump has provided about the Epstein Files
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Lying Dogface Pony Soldier at July 16, 2025 03:22 PM (L/fGl)

And I think they're all in the comment section of this blog.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 16, 2025 03:25 PM (uCjyK)

It's possible to walk and chew gum. I'm not satisfied with the info, but I'm also beyond fucking sick of hearing about it, especially since the initial hysteria about it came from the anti-Israel crowd. If something happens with it, great. Until then, it's not like the CIA is sitting around waiting to hear what Ace or any of us think.
Posted by: Ian S.
.......................................
My take on it was, as soon as Epstein was arrested, ALL of the 'files' were destroyed and disappeared. The open door to do something with them closed shortly after.

Posted by: Puddleglum, chillin' in Amish Country at July 16, 2025 03:41 PM (uGaBv)

419 I'm fairly certain that Bowie and Stewart admitted they had sex with men. Jagger almost certainly did too, although I don't think he admitted it.

So many fags in British society -- and in British rock -- that openly gay dudes like Rob Halford didn't have to import fags into the backstage. There were already enough of them there. He would just fuck the roadies and sometimes members of opening acts.
Posted by: Elric
========
Bowie's wife at the time claimed she found Bowie and Jagger in bed together. Neither sued her and British libel law is easier to sue and win than the US.

Simply put, I think most rock stars were so obliterated by drugs they did not give one shit about who or what they had sex with (see the awful fish story regarding Led Zep).

Posted by: whig at July 16, 2025 03:41 PM (ctrM5)

420
She gets the long con, that being well spoken and polite and gracious to the Nancy Maces of politics will get her the throne someday. And I think that terrifies me, that she ACTUALLY understands how to play the political game, versus the loudmouths.
Posted by: LizLem

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

Do NOT be deceived by the Sarah McBrides. They're the highly practiced soft-spoken, velvet-gloved persuaders of the extremists. I saw the interview, too, and in every word I detected regret over the failures and a determination to figure out why they failed and to retry in a different way. If Dems had won in 2024 (shudder), they -- including Sarah McBride -- wouldn't be looking at their extremism and wondering if they were going too far.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 16, 2025 03:41 PM (HL/Ld)

421 The only reason for Trump to hide the Epstein files is if one of our heroes, like Clarence Thomas or Reagan, were somehow on there. Which I doubt.

And if they were? Drop the names, and I will deal with the goring of my idols. Kids got raped.

I still am too dumb to get why Epstein being a foreign agent means we can't bring pedos to justice.

Posted by: LizLem at July 16, 2025 03:42 PM (gWBY1)

422 Self deporting guy's wife is fat fat fat. Maybe they're just going to Mexico because food is cheaper.

Posted by: wth at July 16, 2025 03:42 PM (UjdFS)

423 I think equally tiring as the Jews are behind everything people is the anti-Jews are behind everything. I know there are people that hate Jews just like I know there are people that hate blacks. But as we have learned by watching the Left for three seconds, not everything is about that.

Posted by: ... at July 16, 2025 03:42 PM (Qr870)

424 Speaks With Forked Tongue is lying again.

https://is.gd/T0W0P0

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Lying Dogface Pony Soldier at July 16, 2025 03:42 PM (L/fGl)

425 So, how about that Nickelback group?
Posted by: Bulg at July 16, 2025 02:56 PM (77rzZ)

I expect some of our trolls would look better with something in their mouths.

Posted by: tcn in AK at July 16, 2025 03:43 PM (1Gsou)

426 The Cover Up-you're hedging your bet on a supposed list or smoking gun. I'm saying these people can go down for more obvious shit. Shit they've done aside from Epstein Island.

But its the same problem. Because I doubt it was only Dems involved in COVID. Just too many old school, Cold War Republicans on Capitol Hill to not have at least a few involved.

Regardless, what happens when they start getting exposed ? Well, significant parts of the government fall. We lose world standing - bigly. I'm surprised there hasn't already been backlash. After all, we funded it.

So how long before we get the "whig lecture" then ? Politics is the art of the possible, don't be an agent of disruption, mature adults know when to pick between the lesser of two evils, and so on ?

Its the exact same situation. The crime is too big to expose.

Posted by: The Cover Up at July 16, 2025 03:43 PM (/T6Pm)

427 Self deporting guy's wife is fat fat fat. Maybe they're just going to Mexico because food is cheaper.

Posted by: wth at July 16, 2025 03:42 PM (UjdFS)
===

Doesn't get cheaper than having American taxpayers funding their food.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at July 16, 2025 03:44 PM (17s+e)

428 Bozo the Clown, Bozo's Big Top, etc. on TV scared me many decades ago. Never got over it.
Posted by: L - No nic
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I had a Bozo the Clown record player. The consequences are obvious.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 16, 2025 03:44 PM (XeU6L)

429 423 I think equally tiring as the Jews are behind everything people is the anti-Jews are behind everything. I know there are people that hate Jews just like I know there are people that hate blacks. But as we have learned by watching the Left for three seconds, not everything is about that.
Posted by: ... at July 16, 2025 03:42 PM (Qr870)

It's like talking to BLM people. "You're only against raising taxes on billionaires because you hate black people"?

"the fuck do black people have to do with my stance on marginal income tax rates?"

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 16, 2025 03:44 PM (uCjyK)

430 And that's exactly what one of THEM would say about what we would say about them.

Posted by: Trying to keep up at July 16, 2025 03:44 PM (78jGS)

431 Which is EXACTLY what "they" would want you to believe. Open your eyes.

Posted by: ... at July 16, 2025 03:38 PM (Qr870)

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

lol

Posted by: ShainS -- Trump Needs to Sue Donkey-Chompers for Defamation a la ABC at July 16, 2025 03:44 PM (z1wya)

432 Posted by: LizLem at July 16, 2025 03:42 PM (gWBY1)

If the people involved are that powerful? It could be biblical.

Posted by: thathalfrican - The One at July 16, 2025 03:46 PM (eZwyX)

433 Where will I get my Wegovy in Mehico?

Posted by: Self deporting guy's wife at July 16, 2025 03:46 PM (78jGS)

434 421 The only reason for Trump to hide the Epstein files is if one of our heroes, like Clarence Thomas or Reagan, were somehow on there. Which I doubt.

And if they were? Drop the names, and I will deal with the goring of my idols. Kids got raped.

I still am too dumb to get why Epstein being a foreign agent means we can't bring pedos to justice.
Posted by: LizLem at July 16, 2025 03:42 PM (gWBY1)

I think maybe the list is bogus, that is, a lot of accusations but no proof. Releasing that is essentially calumny, and could cause more harm than good.

The correct course of action is to find the proof first, and then release the names. Not everyone who shook Epstein's hand is a child rapist, and even Dershowitz said that the list contains a bunch of "hit list" folks that Virginia just added, not that they were really there and doing harm.

She was unbalanced, either before she was trafficked or because she was trafficked. It is perfectly horrible, but I don't think we can necessarily trust her word about who was or wasn't raping kids.

Posted by: tcn in AK at July 16, 2025 03:47 PM (1Gsou)

435 Doesn't get cheaper than having American taxpayers funding their food.
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger
......

She's on the Trump Diet?

Posted by: wth at July 16, 2025 03:47 PM (UjdFS)

436 Posted by: Ian S.
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Posted by: Puddleglum
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I would advise anyone to actually read read intelligence source report files (you can find them regarding JFK or a number of other topics). Essentially without context, you get a memo from x to y recounting discussions with Z. Z is usually codenamed if a source and other than the codename, you literally have nothing else to identify them. That was both need to know and protection of a source against being reveal to enemies or their own country. In the JFK files, you see reports of a code named source who was an editor level of a regionally important media type. Never enough to identify him unless you had access to gobs of other files and could cross triangulate and narrow the list. Often, handlers, especially as the initial recruiter left, did not even know the real identity of who they were talking to as info came from dead drops, etc. Nowadays, probably random untraceable texts or emails as well as phone calls plus in person meets with no record

Occasionally, you will get reports from someone willing to be named (usually these are walkin or sole purpose assets such business men, etc.).

Posted by: whig at July 16, 2025 03:48 PM (ctrM5)

437 433 Where will I get my Wegovy in Mehico?
Posted by: Self deporting guy's wife at July 16, 2025 03:46 PM (78jGS)

By the looks of her, she wasn't getting it here, either.

Posted by: tcn in AK at July 16, 2025 03:48 PM (1Gsou)

438 I think equally tiring as the Jews are behind everything people is the anti-Jews are behind everything. I know there are people that hate Jews just like I know there are people that hate blacks. But as we have learned by watching the Left for three seconds, not everything is about that.

Outside of the HQ, all mentions of Epstein push the Israel angle hard. Even though it's more likely a US/UK operation. Sex honeypots are a CIA and MI-6 trademark. The Mossad's not been that base. So yes, those of us that also read other sites tend to read posts screaming about Epstein as "CBD wants to sous-vide your children".

Posted by: Ian S. at July 16, 2025 03:50 PM (2ocoG)

439 And that's exactly what one of THEM would say about what we would say about them.
Posted by: Trying to keep up at July 16, 2025 03:44 PM (78jGS)

431 Which is EXACTLY what "they" would want you to believe. Open your eyes.

Posted by: ...
--------
I recollect a segment of 'The Strawberry Statement'.

He: "I'd like to find out who 'They' are."
She: "Then you will be They."

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 16, 2025 03:50 PM (XeU6L)

440 The correct course of action is to find the proof first, and then release the names. Not everyone who shook Epstein's hand is a child rapist, and even Dershowitz said that the list contains a bunch of "hit list" folks that Virginia just added, not that they were really there and doing harm.

She was unbalanced, either before she was trafficked or because she was trafficked. It is perfectly horrible, but I don't think we can necessarily trust her word about who was or wasn't raping kids.
Posted by: tcn in AK

I can remember reading the testimony of one instance, Epstein had a major scientific conference on his Pedo Island--including Stephen Hawking as a guest along with MIT and other science big wigs.

The girl testifying had no knowledge if any of those guest even knew what was going on behind the scenes and personally could not relate any stories from other girls about having sex with any of the visitors.

Posted by: whig at July 16, 2025 03:50 PM (ctrM5)

441 My take on it was, as soon as Epstein was arrested, ALL of the 'files' were destroyed and disappeared. The open door to do something with them closed shortly after.

Posted by: Puddleglum, chillin' in Amish Country at July 16, 2025 03:41 PM (uGaBv)

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That would possibly be consistent with his "dead man's switch" to protect him from being murdered having been rendered impotent (but only if the feds seized everything and there weren't multiple copies on multiple hidden platforms controlled by multiple trusted individuals).

Posted by: ShainS -- Trump Needs to Sue Donkey-Chompers for Defamation a la ABC at July 16, 2025 03:51 PM (z1wya)

442 Sex honeypots are a CIA and MI-6 trademark. The Mossad's not been that base.
Posted by: Ian S.
============
Specifically not true on the honeypots, Mossad views its role as preservation of its country at all costs so it depends more on what will generate blowback.

It is probable that if the CIA was involved, it would be either via false flag types (claiming to be from another agency) or a formal MI-6 type under 5 eyes arrangements for mutually beneficial information sharing.

Ghislaine, very possibly, was Epstein's handler and the actual one dealing with the intel types. She literally grew up with spies and agents of influence as Daddy. Robert was involved in all sorts of crap and there are actually KGB types that wrote about him post Soviet Union. Maxwell successfully cultivated a lifetime friendship with Leonid Breznev over publishing Breznev's books in the West. Counter intel KGB types fumed about it.

Spook world is full of murky people doing mucky things including sexpots, blackmail, financial bribery, false flag, disinfo, and sleazy favors given and returned without much question.

IC Operators always require people with flexible morality swimming in sewage.

Posted by: whig at July 16, 2025 03:57 PM (ctrM5)

443
Voters told one Democrat, who wished to remain anonymous, "what we really need to do is be willing to get shot"



YOUR PROPOSAL IS ACCEPTABLE

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at July 16, 2025 03:58 PM (y9nCu)

444 This was the lie they told you: there is no possible way we can deport 20 million illegals.

The truth is we don't have to deport 20 million illegals. We need to deport 200,000 and make life untenable in the U.S. for the remaining 19.8 million. Untenable means no jobs, no benefits, and a constant risk of deportation on short notice. Suddenly having the feds buy you a ticket on your own timeline, with time to say goodbye and liquidate your assets, and plan for where you will move to in your home country starts to look pretty good.

Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at July 16, 2025 04:14 PM (gDhA9)

445 Lets send this Bolshevik Scum Sucker and their two Minions to Alligator Alcatraz See Alligators with their Knives & Forks just waiting

Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at July 16, 2025 06:13 PM (wGqjj)

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