"Crowds on Demand" CEO: I Turned Down a $20 Million Contract to Provide a Rent-a-Mob to Honor "Civil Rights" Leader John Lewis

Well, the bought-and-paid-for mob was really for the purposes of attacking Trump in the guise of honoring John Lewis.

The CEO of a "publicity" firm specializing in paying dregs and skels to come out to "protest" says he turned down an offer of $20 million to provide fake supporters for an event. He won't name the people who approached him.

He says he turned down the offer because... leftwing mobs keep turning violent.

During an interview on NewsNation, Adam Swart, CEO of Crowds on Demand, told the host that the people behind the planned "Good Trouble Lives On" protests scheduled for Thursday tried to enlist his services to bolster the size of the demonstration.
...

The CEO clarified that "the value of the contract [$20 million] would have been worth around that amount nationwide to organize huge demonstrations around the country."
However, Swart said he declined because he didn't believe it would be effective. "I'm not trying to call myself virtuous for rejecting it," he explained. "What I'm saying is I'm saying I'm rejecting it not because I don't want to take the business, but because, frankly, this is going to be ineffective. It's going to make us all look bad."
Swart would not divulge the identities of the people who approached him. The interviewer noted that Swart also "had some concern about violence based on what he's seen in the past."

If you're wondering, Was this guy involved in hiring fake crowds for the No Kings "protest," the answer is, allegedly yes:

Crowds on Demand came under fire from supporters of President Donald Trump for allegedly supplying paid protesters for the anti-ICE and "No Kings" protests that cropped up across the nation. Demonstrators protested against the White House’s immigration policies.

Video at the link.

I keep thinking we have to allow lawsuits against protest organizers and funders for any damage or carnage they cause. I can't fully commit to that because I know it will be abused to go after the right -- see the years-long prosecution of Trump for telling people to go to the Capitol to protest "peacefully" -- but it may be a bad idea whose time has come.

And we need to seize this motherf***er's estates and exile him.

The NY Post:

Socialist Zohran Mamdani has declared billionaires shouldn't exist, but it's unlikely he'd be the front-runner to become the Big Apple's next mayor if it wasn't for one -- far-left kingmaker George Soros, financial records reviewed by The Post show.
Mamdani recently told NBC News' "Meet the Press, "I don't think that we should have billionaires, frankly" while doubling down on his plan to jack up property taxes on "richer and whiter neighborhoods" if elected mayor.
But in less than a decade, Soros' ultra-woke grant-making network Open Society Foundation has indirectly funneled a combined $37 million to the Working Families Party and at least other nine left-wing groups whose endorsements and get-out-the-vote groundwork played a pivotal role in helping Mamdani upset ex-Gov. Andrew Cuomo in the Democratic mayoral primary, the foundation's records show.
Since 2016, the far-left, socialist-friendly WFP -- which helped score Mandani the Democratic line by brokering cross-endorsement deals that squeezed out Cuomo -- has pocketed a staggering $23.7 million from Soros through its nonprofit fundraising arm Working Families Organization Inc.
And at least another $13,944,005 went to the nine nonprofits and their offshoot fundraising entities -- including the Make The Road Action ($3,515,00), and social justice nonprofits Community Voices Heard ($2,635,000) and Move On ($2.3 million), and the anti-Zionist group Jewish Voice for Peace Acton ($650,000), according to records.

Here's a post about what the author calls the "quiet money" paying for this communist's campaign. It's not exactly secret money, but it is shuffled through several sub-grantees so that most aren't aware that, gee whiz, it's coming from the nihilistic world-destroying communist George Soros. Just like Anthony Fauci's grants were laundered through grantees and then sub-grantees before paying the Chinese to create a bioweapon that shut down the world for one politically-critical year.

Not secret, per se -- but quiet.

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1 LOL!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at July 16, 2025 05:45 PM (dKEEs)

2 Shocking! Shocked I am!

Posted by: Crouching Chigger at July 16, 2025 05:46 PM (W54U5)

3 Dang. This is what I was going to do after I turn 65.

Posted by: fd at July 16, 2025 05:46 PM (vFG9F)

4 That I made 2nd

Posted by: Crouching Chigger at July 16, 2025 05:46 PM (W54U5)

5 I mean, yeah. We all knew this was happening but again its nice to have confirmation of the suspicion.

willowed:

Jennifer Love Hewitt is being dragged on social media for this pic

https://tinyurl.com/JenLHewitt

I think she looks pretty good for being 46 and having 3 kids

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 16, 2025 05:47 PM (dfIr7)

6 Soros is non compos mentis, and Jr . is a nepo baby idiot. Who is utilizing his money ?

Posted by: runner at July 16, 2025 05:47 PM (g47mK)

7 "Jennifer Love Hewitt is being dragged on social media for this pic

https://tinyurl.com/JenLHewitt

I think she looks pretty good for being 46 and having 3 kids"

Ummm

Posted by: Crouching Chigger at July 16, 2025 05:48 PM (W54U5)

8 He's started a new company, Beejers On Demand.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at July 16, 2025 05:48 PM (/U5Yz)

9 I’m calling BIGGUS BULLSHITTUS on that $20M contract story. Nobody will turn down a $20M contract if they can make money on it. So, if indeed the story isn’t complete ratshit, then the reason it was turned down was that it wouldn’t be lucrative.

Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at July 16, 2025 05:49 PM (GMCoO)

10 "Jennifer Love Hewitt is being dragged on social media for this pic

https://tinyurl.com/JenLHewitt

I think she looks pretty good for being 46 and having 3 kids"

I'd hit it.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at July 16, 2025 05:49 PM (/U5Yz)

11 The key here is "pay". Did you pay people to be at the protest? if you did, then you are technically their employer. If my employees came to your house, as my employees, and wrecked it, could I sue your company? Of course.

Every protest where there is violence, seek out who was paid to be there, and go after the companies who arranged and profited from it. That protects legitimate protest.

Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at July 16, 2025 05:50 PM (gDhA9)

12 "Jennifer Love Hewitt is being dragged on social media for this pic

https://tinyurl.com/JenLHewitt

I think she looks pretty good for being 46 and having 3 kids"

I'd hit it.
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Me too! *hic*

Posted by: Hillary C. at July 16, 2025 05:50 PM (TN0g+)

13 Why, this reminds me of Selma!

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at July 16, 2025 05:50 PM (CBwi9)

14 9 I’m calling BIGGUS BULLSHITTUS on that $20M contract story. Nobody will turn down a $20M contract if they can make money on it. So, if indeed the story isn’t complete ratshit, then the reason it was turned down was that it wouldn’t be lucrative. Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at July 16, 2025 05:49 PM (GMCoO)

Nah, the reason he turned it down is he got a letter from the DOJ saying "you may be held liable."

Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at July 16, 2025 05:50 PM (gDhA9)

15 It's not exactly secret money, but it is shuffled through several sub-grantees so that most aren't aware that, gee whiz, it's coming from the nihilistic world-destroying communist George Soros.

It's also how the USAID money was getting laundered.

One of the more illuminating things that happened this year was that the week after USAID money was cut off, the executive directors of the major left-wing nonprofits in Portland met, and they were all talking about laying off staff.

None of them were directly getting USAID money, but they were all getting it through intermediaries.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at July 16, 2025 05:51 PM (CZVKQ)

16 Why, this reminds me of Selma!
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Fweedom...

Posted by: Kamala H at July 16, 2025 05:51 PM (TN0g+)

17 The key here is "pay". Did you pay people to be at the protest? if you did, then you are technically their employer. If my employees came to your house, as my employees, and wrecked it, could I sue your company? Of course.

This is one of the reasons I want someone, ANYONE to dig into the funding for those bus trips, food, stacks of bricks, etc at every riot. Just one reporter, somewhere? Is that so much to ask?

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 16, 2025 05:51 PM (dfIr7)

18 Who is john lewis?

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at July 16, 2025 05:52 PM (e5NfL)

19 Isn't John Lewis the late congressman and, apparently, marine biology expert who asserted that sharks still follow the routes that slave ships took to get from Africa to America? Which implies either (1) very old sharks, or (2) some kind of Jungian, archetypal memory among the species.

Posted by: Paco at July 16, 2025 05:52 PM (mADJX)

20 Why doesn't Soros Family money backing this guy surprise me in the least?

They've moved on from owning Secretary of State candidates, to local D.A.'s, to Mayors now?

They are probably funding that communist Somali running for mayor in Minneapolis, too.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 16, 2025 05:52 PM (6ydKt)

21 Adam Swart, CEO of Crowds on Demand,

TIL that there is an actual, literal, Rent-a-Mob Business.

Is this a great country or what?

Posted by: FeatherBlade at July 16, 2025 05:52 PM (a+4eV)

22 Jennifer Love Hewitt is being dragged on social media for this pic

https://tinyurl.com/JenLHewitt
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Well, now we know why she’s been bitching about how hard and degrading it was for her to get paid millions of dollars when she was younger because she had a hot rack.

Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at July 16, 2025 05:52 PM (GMCoO)

23 "Jennifer Love Hewitt poses as Brian Denehy.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at July 16, 2025 05:53 PM (CBwi9)

24 Jennifer Love Hewitt looks great.
She hasn’t hit the Ozempic band wagon. She looks like a “normal”, middle aged American woman with three Littles. Hollywood sees her body type so rarely they have a meltdown.

Posted by: Jmel at July 16, 2025 05:53 PM (Sum6E)

25 Isn't John Lewis the late congressman and, apparently, marine biology expert who asserted that sharks still follow the routes that slave ships took to get from Africa to America? Which implies either (1) very old sharks, or (2) some kind of Jungian, archetypal memory among the species.
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"...tastes like chicken!"

Posted by: Just The Punchline at July 16, 2025 05:53 PM (TN0g+)

26 I wonder how much Crowds on Demand pays monthly for liability insurance

Posted by: Polka will never die at July 16, 2025 05:54 PM (J99w0)

27 I think she looks pretty good for being 46 and having 3 kids
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 16, 2025 05:47 PM (dfIr7)

I certainly have no room to talk. She looks fine. Love the hair!

Posted by: hobbitopoly at July 16, 2025 05:55 PM (k9OZB)

28 19 Isn't John Lewis the late congressman and, apparently, marine biology expert who asserted that sharks still follow the routes that slave ships took to get from Africa to America? Which implies either (1) very old sharks, or (2) some kind of Jungian, archetypal memory among the species. - Paco

Sorry, my mistake. It was another congressman and secret marine biologist named Major Owens.

Posted by: Paco at July 16, 2025 05:56 PM (mADJX)

29 Jennifer Love Hewitt is being dragged on social media for this pic

https://tinyurl.com/JenLHewitt
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Fake lips, pass. (otherwise fine, fine)

Posted by: Chuck Martel at July 16, 2025 05:56 PM (Dv3i1)

30 >> I’m calling BIGGUS BULLSHITTUS on that $20M contract story. Nobody will turn down a $20M contract if they can make money on it. So, if indeed the story isn’t complete ratshit, then the reason it was turned down was that it wouldn’t be lucrative.

Probably didn't want to have his books subpoenaed when the shit hit the fan.

Posted by: the dandy at July 16, 2025 05:56 PM (8l8nW)

31 Bloomberg quietly bankrolled proven loser Eric Adams and proven loser Andrew Cuomo, handing the race to Mamdani.

Lots of "quiet" bankrolling going on, except for Curtis Sliwa.

Posted by: NYC Republicans at July 16, 2025 05:56 PM (0DnHq)

32 >>>doubling down on his plan to jack up property taxes on "richer and whiter neighborhoods" if elected mayor

On the one hand, it is still a bit jarring to see politicians speak like that. It would have been an OUTRAGEOUS OUTRAGE 15 years ago to specifically say "my plan is to raise taxes -- but only on white people, don't worry"

But on the other hand, good. I'm glad we can be honest about what's going on at this point.

Because here's how I see it: a bunch of people who hate Americans (specifically white americans) have moved here, both legally and illegally, taken advantage of DEI / Affirmative Action programs meant to help Black Americans to get in to positions of power, and are now using those positions of power to try to "go after" White people.

Mostly economically and legally at this point, but, well ... see: South Africa

And we allowed this to happen. And continue to allow it to happen.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 16, 2025 05:57 PM (uCjyK)

33 Wasn't John Lewis the lying cocksucker who said Tea Party people spat on him and called him a kneegar?

*quick internet search*

Why yes. The very same lying cocksucker.

Posted by: Of course they want to honor him at July 16, 2025 05:57 PM (TbWk/)

34
Soros is a camera-friendly public figure and it's not news that he's funding left-wing orgs and individuals, and it's not illegal either. I think Mamdani should just come out and lavish praise all over him and encourage other billionaires to follow his example. If someone asks Mamdani about his previous anti-billionaire sentiment, he can easily finesse it, he's got a forked tongue.

Why not daylight?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 16, 2025 05:58 PM (HL/Ld)

35 Yeah John Lewis is one of those guys who showed up to a march once in the 60s and rode it into a life time political career of racism and radical leftist ideology.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 16, 2025 05:58 PM (dfIr7)

36 Fake lips, pass. (otherwise fine, fine)

Posted by: Chuck Martel at July 16, 2025 05:56 PM (Dv3i1)

Who's the chick that ate Jennifer Love Hewitt?

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 16, 2025 05:58 PM (i24o9)

37 Oh another retard protest. Nice how they're using that dumbass John Lewis, I guess MLK Jr has finally been unpersoned?

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 16, 2025 05:59 PM (ULPxl)

38 I’m calling BIGGUS BULLSHITTUS on that $20M contract story. Nobody will turn down a $20M contract if they can make money on it. So, if indeed the story isn’t complete ratshit, then the reason it was turned down was that it wouldn’t be lucrative.

Probably didn't want to have his books subpoenaed when the shit hit the fan.

Posted by: the dandy at July 16, 2025 05:56 PM

If there actually was a $20 million contract that he turned down it was because his insurance company said NO FVCKING WAY DUDE!

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at July 16, 2025 05:59 PM (e5NfL)

39 When SS was enacted the average life expectancies of males was somewhere just north of 63, I believe.
Now, what? 82? 83?
That's not right, folks.
I think we need to drastically shorten the lifespan of white males.

Already happening with Processed Food and Obesity....

"HOPE AND CHANGE" ..................

Posted by: Buster Hymand at July 16, 2025 05:59 PM (BltCC)

40 >>> 17 The key here is "pay". Did you pay people to be at the protest? if you did, then you are technically their employer. If my employees came to your house, as my employees, and wrecked it, could I sue your company? Of course.
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This is one of the reasons I want someone, ANYONE to dig into the funding for those bus trips, food, stacks of bricks, etc at every riot. Just one reporter, somewhere? Is that so much to ask?
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 16, 2025 05:51 PM (dfIr7)

*sniff*

"journalists"

Posted by: we, the brave firefighters at July 16, 2025 06:00 PM (ULPxl)

41 20 Why doesn't Soros Family money backing this guy surprise me in the least?

They've moved on from owning Secretary of State candidates, to local D.A.'s, to Mayors now?

They are probably funding that communist Somali running for mayor in Minneapolis, too.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 16, 2025 05:52 PM (6ydKt)

I think the USAID revelations have moved the "Soros's groups are funded by the US government, he's not actually using his own money, he's working with the CIA" conspiracy theories from outlandish ridiculous antisemitic conspiracy theories to "Conspiracy Facts."

So who knows if Soros is actually involved in this or not. But somebody is pouring a lot of money in to electing these people.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 16, 2025 06:00 PM (uCjyK)

42 If there actually was a $20 million contract that he turned down it was because his insurance company said NO FVCKING WAY DUDE!
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at July 16, 2025 05:59 PM (e5NfL)

That could be. His liability insurance is probably void for things like intentional criminal activity, riots, insurrections, affrays, public disorder, etc. Doesn't meant the whole story holds water but there are reasons why you'd decline rent-a-riot business.

Posted by: Probably leftover USAID money at July 16, 2025 06:01 PM (TbWk/)

43
Tsunami warning for Aleutian coast of Alaska, I just saw. A preliminary magnitude 7.3 quake hit a few miles off the coast of the chain. They are warning people to get a least a mile away from shore in the warning area.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 16, 2025 06:02 PM (w6EFb)

44
the week after USAID money was cut off, the executive directors of the major left-wing nonprofits in Portland met, and they were all talking about laying off staff.

Posted by: The ARC of History!

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That's the kind of stats I've been looking for. I can't vouch for less congestion on California freeways, but THAT looks like results.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 16, 2025 06:03 PM (HL/Ld)

45 Jennifer Love Hewitt pole dancing on the Ghost Whisperer or whatever

https://youtu.be/7mtIiMfTCek?si=TeBbzUjc8CMLLPNS

Posted by: ace at July 16, 2025 06:03 PM (KRtlO)

46 >>> 43
Tsunami warning for Aleutian coast of Alaska, I just saw. A preliminary magnitude 7.3 quake hit a few miles off the coast of the chain. They are warning people to get a least a mile away from shore in the warning area.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 16, 2025 06:02 PM (w6EFb)

I'm sure NPR will broadcast a warning... probably Saturday evening.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 16, 2025 06:03 PM (ULPxl)

47 And so it begins.

Posted by: That guy who always thinks it's beginning at July 16, 2025 06:03 PM (XZ5S6)

48
Apropos of nothing, was Tank Abrams anywhere near Alaska this afternoon?

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 16, 2025 06:03 PM (w6EFb)

49 That could be. His liability insurance is probably void for things like intentional criminal activity, riots, insurrections, affrays, public disorder, etc. Doesn't meant the whole story holds water but there are reasons why you'd decline rent-a-riot business.
Posted by: Probably leftover USAID money at July 16, 2025 06:01 PM (TbWk/)

To be charitable, it's possible his organization primarily does the legal version of Rent a Mobs. Like hire people to stand around in the background of a press conference thrown by a corporation in a PR crisis wearing hardhats.

Then he got a little involved in the rent a mob world and said "oooh boy, no thanks. Someone's going to get killed, and somehow I will get blamed. I'm not going to be the scapegoat here."

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 16, 2025 06:03 PM (uCjyK)

50 Whoa ...

Chief Judge Boasberg and all his little Indians just admitted their pre-hearings biases to Chief Justice Roberts at a Judicial Conference.

Whoa ...

Posted by: mrp at July 16, 2025 06:03 PM (rj6Yv)

51 CBD needs a thread with a picture of the “7x stronger than Viagra”chick instead of that Freud hostage with a dog picture on the Mid-morning Art thread !

Posted by: UNKAREN at July 16, 2025 06:03 PM (J4BK5)

52 The Crowds on Deman CEO must feel the hot breath of the law on his neck.

A new sheriff is in town.

Posted by: Imma Bad Person at July 16, 2025 06:04 PM (RRCAT)

53 So how longs this little Troll(Lewis) been hiding away in his Tunnel? We all know that when Trolls are exposed to Sunlight they turn to stone

Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at July 16, 2025 06:04 PM (wGqjj)

54 >>> 50 Whoa ...

Chief Judge Boasberg and all his little Indians just admitted their pre-hearings biases to Chief Justice Roberts at a Judicial Conference.

Whoa ...
Posted by: mrp at July 16, 2025 06:03 PM (rj6Yv)

We can't impeach them, that would look mean.

Posted by: GOPe congresscritters at July 16, 2025 06:05 PM (ULPxl)

55
I think we need to drastically shorten the lifespan of white males.

Already happening with Processed Food and Obesity....

Make cigarettes cheap again.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 16, 2025 06:05 PM (63Dwl)

56 Chief Judge Boasberg and all his little Indians just admitted their pre-hearings biases to Chief Justice Roberts at a Judicial Conference.

Not like they hid it very well

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 16, 2025 06:05 PM (dfIr7)

57 I’m calling BIGGUS BULLSHITTUS on that $20M contract story. Nobody will turn down a $20M contract if they can make money on it. So, if indeed the story isn’t complete ratshit, then the reason it was turned down was that it wouldn’t be lucrative. Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade

Probably didn't want to have his books subpoenaed when the shit hit the fan.
Posted by: the dandy

Or in the case of an anti-ICE riot, "when the brick hit the van".

Posted by: Stu Podaso at July 16, 2025 06:05 PM (tEsXg)

58 Lewis was an authentic hero in the Civil Rights Movement. He founded SNCC and spoke at the March on Washington. He got the hell beat out of him on the Freedom Rides and led the Selma Marches. He deserves all the accolades he got for what he did then. But he was never a genius and honestly had no business being in the Congress.

Posted by: Ted Torgerson at July 16, 2025 06:06 PM (R86kT)

59 Chief Judge Boasberg and all his little Indians just admitted their pre-hearings biases to Chief Justice Roberts at a Judicial Conference.

Not like they hid it very well
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 16, 2025 06:05 PM (dfIr7)

According to Sean Davis:
chief judge strategizing with other judges over how to thwart a party with dozens of cases before that judge and district is beyond unethical and inappropriate. It is a massive violation of the formal code of conduct for federal judges."
"

Posted by: mrp at July 16, 2025 06:06 PM (rj6Yv)

60 >>> 57 I’m calling BIGGUS BULLSHITTUS on that $20M contract story. Nobody will turn down a $20M contract if they can make money on it. So, if indeed the story isn’t complete ratshit, then the reason it was turned down was that it wouldn’t be lucrative. Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade

Probably didn't want to have his books subpoenaed when the shit hit the fan.
Posted by: the dandy

Or in the case of an anti-ICE riot, "when the brick hit the van".
Posted by: Stu Podaso at July 16, 2025 06:05 PM (tEsXg)

Have they found the asshoe who was shooting at the ICE vehicles during the CA pot farm raid?

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 16, 2025 06:06 PM (ULPxl)

61 >> John Lewis is one of those guys who showed up to a march once in the 60s and rode it into a life time political career of racism and radical leftist ideology.

I think he's the one who got a healthy beatdown at one of the seminal protests of the Civil Rights Movement.

Too bad they didn't throw him off the Bridge, instead. Would have saved us years of listening to him shuck and jive.

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

62 Let's not lose sight of the fact someone had $20M (!!) to throw at ONE DAY.

Posted by: the dandy at July 16, 2025 06:08 PM (8l8nW)

63 How can anyone tell it's not the son of Soros who is now in charge of fomenting "insurrection"? I expect George is now as sane as Biden. And if any Soros is to be ejected then all of them need to go.

Posted by: Decaf at July 16, 2025 06:08 PM (unUNN)

64 I keep thinking we have to allow lawsuits against protest organizers and funders for any damage or carnage they cause. I can't fully commit to that because I know it will be abused to go after the right -- see the years-long prosecution of Trump for telling people to go to the Capitol to protest "peacefully" -- but it may be a bad idea whose time has come.
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On the contrary. Since - as you say above - they are already doing it to us, we should do it back. We really have to embrace mutually assured destruction. Or we embrace losing forever.

Posted by: Eeyore at July 16, 2025 06:09 PM (od0dV)

65 So who knows if Soros is actually involved in this or not. But somebody is pouring a lot of money in to electing these people.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 16, 2025 06:00 PM (uCjyK)

Could be Soros starts the seed cash and then USAID and other charities come along to fill the gap.

Soros Cash is like a venture capitalist firm for Socialists/Communists everywhere.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 16, 2025 06:09 PM (6ydKt)

66 Lewis was an authentic hero in the Civil Rights Movement. He founded SNCC and spoke at the March on Washington. He got the hell beat out of him on the Freedom Rides and led the Selma Marches. He deserves all the accolades he got for what he did then. But he was never a genius and honestly had no business being in the Congress.
Posted by: Ted Torgerson at July 16, 2025 06:06 PM (R86kT)

And then he stayed firmly on the dem plantation and did as he was told for the rest of his life so he could get a cut of the graft.

Posted by: BruceWayne at July 16, 2025 06:09 PM (MGB5H)

67 @7

>>I think she looks pretty good for being 46 and having 3 kids"

Her body is fine, it's the plastic surgeries that are off putting.

She's aged out of most roles and if she lets her body go any further and she can kiss cougar roles goodbye.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 16, 2025 06:09 PM (nouTT)

68 Is this guy the same dude who paid the attendees at Chelsea Clinton's wedding to show up and pretend to like her? That must have been some heavy lifting, easily $20M.

Posted by: muldoon at July 16, 2025 06:10 PM (poXs5)

69 OT but I've been thinking about this a lot recently...

Do you think the MTA goes out of their way to only find people who don't speak English as a first language to do their in-station announcements, or is that just the way the cookie crumbles?

Because it would be helpful for communicating if the person was understandable. Are you saying "E" trains aren't stopping in this station, or are you saying "E" trains aren't running at all and I need to find an alternative way to get to my destination?

You'd think they'd have someone on staff who spoke unaccented English. Maybe not.

Anyways, carry on.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 16, 2025 06:10 PM (uCjyK)

70 >>> 69 OT but I've been thinking about this a lot recently...

Do you think the MTA goes out of their way to only find people who don't speak English as a first language to do their in-station announcements, or is that just the way the cookie crumbles?

Because it would be helpful for communicating if the person was understandable. Are you saying "E" trains aren't stopping in this station, or are you saying "E" trains aren't running at all and I need to find an alternative way to get to my destination?

You'd think they'd have someone on staff who spoke unaccented English. Maybe not.

Anyways, carry on.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 16, 2025 06:10 PM (uCjyK)

Hello, my name is Peggy.

Posted by: MTA in-station announcer at July 16, 2025 06:11 PM (ULPxl)

71 We can't impeach them, that would look mean.
Posted by: GOPe congresscritters

This is not who we are.

Posted by: Sen. Thune at July 16, 2025 06:11 PM (/U5Yz)

72 Have they found the asshoe who was shooting at the ICE vehicles during the CA pot farm raid?

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 16, 2025 06:06 PM

No sure about that guy but they did arrest one of the guys who was shooting at ICE in Texas last week where a cop was wounded. He was arrested in a section 8 housing place in Dallas yesterday. An ex-marine with an OTH. A very nice piece of work.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at July 16, 2025 06:11 PM (e5NfL)

73
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 16, 2025 06:10 PM (uCjyK)

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Dave Barry's 2 things you must know about New York cab drivers could apply to MTA announcers.

1) The driver hates you.
2) The driver speaks no English.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 16, 2025 06:12 PM (HL/Ld)

74 @69

>>Do you think the MTA goes out of their way to only find people who don't speak English as a first language to do their in-station announcements, or is that just the way the cookie crumbles?

Over 40pct of NYC is foreign born, so it's the pool of applicants.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 16, 2025 06:12 PM (nouTT)

75 >>> 72
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No sure about that guy but they did arrest one of the guys who was shooting at ICE in Texas last week where a cop was wounded. He was arrested in a section 8 housing place in Dallas yesterday. An ex-marine with an OTH. A very nice piece of work.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at July 16, 2025 06:11 PM (e5NfL)

I did see that one; they got two of his other buddies also.

HA HA!

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 16, 2025 06:12 PM (ULPxl)

76 You'd think they'd have someone on staff who spoke unaccented English. Maybe not.

Anyways, carry on.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 16, 2025 06:10 PM (uCjyK)
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Thank you, come again!

Posted by: Gurdip on the PA at July 16, 2025 06:12 PM (XZ5S6)

77 How much was Kamala's campaign in the hole for again?

Posted by: ... at July 16, 2025 06:12 PM (Qr870)

78 Mamdani recently told NBC News' "Meet the Press, "I don't think that we should have billionaires, frankly" while doubling down on his plan to jack up property taxes on "richer and whiter neighborhoods" if elected mayor.

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He is very much in the Obama tradition of politicians. Didn't Obama once say that at some point you have enough money? The Dems have found their next Obama though not as a presidential candidate. What a shame, they will have to go with Jasmine Ratchet for the president.

Posted by: Decaf at July 16, 2025 06:12 PM (unUNN)

79
it's coming from the nihilistic world-destroying communist George Soros."

It's coming from his closeted psychopath son. George Soros, while undeniably an evil Bond villain brought to real life, is in his 90s and probably not making decisions on anything. Don't get me twisted, I can't wait for him to die, but it's Scott Evil that is behind the current mess.

Posted by: UGAdawg at July 16, 2025 06:13 PM (xP8uf)

80 What's the "stand clear of the closing door please" guy up to? They should have him pre-record ever possible announcement that would ever have to be made.

He was great. I hope they don't replace his voice with some heavily accented Asian woman with a lisp or something.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 16, 2025 06:13 PM (uCjyK)

81 63 How can anyone tell it's not the son of Soros who is now in charge of fomenting "insurrection"? I expect George is now as sane as Biden. And if any Soros is to be ejected then all of them need to go.

Posted by: Decaf at July 16, 2025 06:08 PM (unUNN)

It's Alex Soros (Huma's beard) that is pretty much running things in the philanthropy department now.

That was announced a few years back.

Elon Musk said in an interview last year, with Tucker I believe, that old man Soros was pretty much gone mentally, worse than Biden is.

George hasn't been seen in public in years.
Who knows if he has a functioning brain.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 16, 2025 06:14 PM (6ydKt)

82 "Crowds on Demand"

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hmmm, is this lucrative ???? axing for a friend !

Posted by: runner at July 16, 2025 06:14 PM (g47mK)

83 Robert Creamer hardest hit ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Trump Needs to Sue Donkey-Chompers for Defamation a la ABC at July 16, 2025 06:14 PM (GAIyz)

84 I'm sure NPR will broadcast a warning... probably Saturday evening.

Sorry, that would interfere with our planned story about oppressed transgender Aleuts then.

Posted by: Alaska Public Radio! at July 16, 2025 06:14 PM (CZVKQ)

85 69 OT but I've been thinking about this a lot recently...

Do you think the MTA goes out of their way to only find people who don't speak English as a first language to do their in-station announcements, or is that just the way the cookie crumbles?

Because it would be helpful for communicating if the person was understandable. Are you saying "E" trains aren't stopping in this station, or are you saying "E" trains aren't running at all and I need to find an alternative way to get to my destination?

You'd think they'd have someone on staff who spoke unaccented English. Maybe not.

Anyways, carry on.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 16, 2025 06:10 PM (uCjyK)

This rider in Seattle is talking a foreign language. What is it?
https://tinyurl.com/24h4mrsw

Posted by: Maj. Healey at July 16, 2025 06:14 PM (/U5Yz)

86 Never forget Soros was behind both Obama and McCain. That was our "choice" in 2008.

Posted by: ... at July 16, 2025 06:15 PM (Qr870)

87 Elon Musk said in an interview last year, with Tucker I believe, that old man Soros was pretty much gone mentally, worse than Biden is.

George hasn't been seen in public in years.
Who knows if he has a functioning brain.
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*blinks twice*

Posted by: Captain Pike at July 16, 2025 06:15 PM (TN0g+)

88 Over 40pct of NYC is foreign born, so it's the pool of applicants.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 16, 2025 06:12 PM (nouTT)

Yeah. And even that stat is a bit misleading.

Lots of domestic born 20 and 30 year olds in the city, but they're kind of transient. They'll get married and move back to Ohio or wherever they came from.

People that live live here and plan to for life -- outside of certain enclaves, it's pretty noticeable how few are Heritage Americans.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 16, 2025 06:15 PM (uCjyK)

89
Whoa ...

Chief Judge Boasberg and all his little Indians just admitted their pre-hearings biases to Chief Justice Roberts at a Judicial Conference.

Whoa ...
Posted by: mrp

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Um, what's a Judicial Conference? Does it include a luncheon?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 16, 2025 06:15 PM (HL/Ld)

90 Bingo! Who the fuck is John Lewis? I'm sure he's the cat's meow in Georgia, but he's just another Democrat in flyover country.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at July 16, 2025 06:15 PM (/gTjv)

91 Rent-a-mobs, huh?

High pressure effluent pumps + sewage pump trucks providing the liquid for spraying.

I'm betting nobody in that crowd would ever sign up for that job ever again.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at July 16, 2025 06:15 PM (O7YUW)

92 Most of NPR's funding is from donations, no? only 1/3 is subsidies. You know , they should have stuck with reruns of foreign detective shows, nature, and whatever else they they have. And stayed away from politics.

Posted by: runner at July 16, 2025 06:17 PM (g47mK)

93 So are the bricks a sub-division or a "Contractor"?

Posted by: DaveA at July 16, 2025 06:17 PM (FhXTo)

94 You're only as good as your worst performance, assuming it follows the good stuff. Lewis made a contemporary name for himself as a dim racist idiot. So don't care what he did in the 60s. Like many other cases such as this, he more than cancelled out any contribution or heroism.

Posted by: rhomboid at July 16, 2025 06:17 PM (1m82a)

95 Elon Musk said in an interview last year, with Tucker I believe, that old man Soros was pretty much gone mentally, worse than Biden is.

George hasn't been seen in public in years.
Who knows if he has a functioning brain.
Posted by: SpeakingOf

Spuh-loosh.

Posted by: Dr. Jill Biden at July 16, 2025 06:17 PM (tEsXg)

96 91 Rent-a-mobs, huh?

High pressure effluent pumps + sewage pump trucks providing the liquid for spraying.

I'm betting nobody in that crowd would ever sign up for that job ever again.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at July 16, 2025 06:15 PM (O7YUW)

Send in the HoneyDrippers!

Posted by: Polka will never die at July 16, 2025 06:17 PM (YxDKd)

97 "It's a weakness masquerading as strength. That's what I don't like about this son of a bitch. And forgive me I know he's the President of the United States. He calls me Newscum. How do I explain that to my kid?"
--Governor Newsome

Yeah um, how do you explain calling the president of the United States an SOB then saying GD it in the next sentence?

He's on this "dudes like me see I am like you" tour and its failing miserably

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 16, 2025 06:17 PM (dfIr7)

98 Rent-a-mobs, huh?

High pressure effluent pumps + sewage pump trucks providing the liquid for spraying.

I'm betting nobody in that crowd would ever sign up for that job ever again.
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Sewage pump trucks have no speed--somebody would make a note of the license plate and that would be that.

Posted by: Crusader at July 16, 2025 06:17 PM (TN0g+)

99 Communists sure do like money, huh?

Posted by: ... at July 16, 2025 06:17 PM (Qr870)

100 This rider in Seattle is talking a foreign language. What is it?
https://tinyurl.com/24h4mrsw
Posted by: Maj. Healey at July 16, 2025 06:14 PM (/U5Yz)

He's speaking English. He's just a drug addict going through a psychotic episode.

And honestly, he's still much more understandable than most of the in station MTA people.

So maybe the MTA should hire him.

"Ahhh Fuckkk Ahhh! E train, emergency brake pulled, ahhhhh expect delays! Fuck!" is still much better than what we have now.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 16, 2025 06:18 PM (uCjyK)

101 I keep thinking we have to allow lawsuits against protest organizers and funders for any damage or carnage they cause.

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There would be a contractual agreement. That agreement would have a "Hold Harmless" clause.

My thoughts on the whole rent-a-mob thingy is that were the roles reversed, Mr. Swart would promptly have is posterior slammed down in front of a Congressional committee, and if he refused to divulge to the names of those seeking his services, he'd be ushered off to prison for contempt of Congress.

Our side is afraid to do the same thing (and at this point we should). Something about The Marquess of Queensberry Rules and "that's not who we are."

Posted by: Orson at July 16, 2025 06:18 PM (dIske)

102 Is Mandami going to win?

Posted by: Ben Had at July 16, 2025 06:18 PM (HFcKg)

103
Is Mandami going to win?
Posted by: Ben Had

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Yes.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 16, 2025 06:19 PM (HL/Ld)

104 back in the day unions were really good at ren-a-mobs, but these days ? any Tom, Dick, and Harry can pull together a rent-a-mob!

Posted by: runner at July 16, 2025 06:20 PM (g47mK)

105 102 Is Mandami going to win?
Posted by: Ben Had at July 16, 2025 06:18 PM (HFcKg)

Maybe. Better than even shot. Depends how things shake out with Cuomo and Adams.

But if you think it's hard to get anything done in DC, whoo boy is he going to have a hard time doing anything in NYC.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 16, 2025 06:20 PM (uCjyK)

106 all they need is tik-tok

Posted by: runner at July 16, 2025 06:20 PM (g47mK)

107 too early to tell with Mandami

Posted by: runner at July 16, 2025 06:21 PM (g47mK)

108 He calls me Newscum. How do I explain that to my kid?"
--Governor Newsome
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Try it in between the gay and tranny lessons.

Damn but these libs have nerve.

"How do we explain (2nd grade namecalling) to our precious virgin chiddrens!!!"

Same people want teachers and pedos BIRM to molest other people's children in secret and fag them up. They are from hell.

Posted by: ... at July 16, 2025 06:21 PM (Qr870)

109 There is a vast difference between telling someone to peacefully protest...

And PAYING them to do so... especially if it is not peaceful.

Posted by: Romeo13 at July 16, 2025 06:21 PM (mP0Kj)

110 John Lewis is the congress critter that accused the tea party protestors of spitting on him. he claimed the protestors called him the n word and Breitbart challenged the media and everyone to provide proof of the slurs and Breitbart would pay a reward. No one came forward.

It was the day they signed the Obama care bill and Nancy had the giant gavel and instead of traveling underground as they normally do they decided to stroll across the street through the protestors. I believe if there was any spittle flying, it was a say it don't spray it situation.

Posted by: CaliGirl at July 16, 2025 06:22 PM (TmEds)

111 I'd bet my hat and (_!_) if you dug deep enough you'd find Madmani is worth a few million.

Posted by: creeper at July 16, 2025 06:22 PM (zFwIe)

112 And of course the issue is the histrionically stupid, lawless, arrogant behavior of a few judges, not the wildly disastrously inflated power of the judiciary.

Haven't followed it, but how the F does Khalil remain in the country? Does SecState/President have the power to revoke visas at their discretion, or don't they? The law and common sense and history say they do, without nuance or complication.

I guess not! Inertia's the greatest force in the universe, the US has been relying on it for a generation or two not to completely destroy itself. But it's a finite, umm, "resource". We're plumbing the limits now, and next prez is any Dem or some GOPers, this bandaid of a 2nd Trump term will be more than erased.

Posted by: rhomboid at July 16, 2025 06:22 PM (1m82a)

113 Is Mandami going to win?
Posted by: Ben Had at July 16, 2025 06:18 PM (HFcKg)

Maybe. Better than even shot. Depends how things shake out with Cuomo and Adams.

But if you think it's hard to get anything done in DC, whoo boy is he going to have a hard time doing anything in NYC.
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I'm no longer convinced that anyone who runs any of the blue-hell-holes is interested in "getting anything done"--their sole focus is on the grifting.

Posted by: Crusader at July 16, 2025 06:22 PM (TN0g+)

114 Because here's how I see it: a bunch of people who hate Americans (specifically white americans) have moved here, both legally and illegally, taken advantage of DEI / Affirmative Action programs meant to help Black Americans to get in to positions of power, and are now using those positions of power to try to "go after" White people.

Mostly economically and legally at this point, but, well ... see: South Africa

And we allowed this to happen. And continue to allow it to happen.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 16, 2025 05:57 PM (uCjyK)

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All this will do is accelerate the realignment of states by populations. the blue states will become more and more black and other races while red states will become whiter. At least there is a possibility for a peaceful realignment while the UK and euros don't have that luxury.

Posted by: Decaf at July 16, 2025 06:22 PM (unUNN)

115 Whoa ...

Chief Judge Boasberg and all his little Indians just admitted their pre-hearings biases to Chief Justice Roberts at a Judicial Conference.

Whoa ...
Posted by: mrp

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Um, what's a Judicial Conference? Does it include a luncheon?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 16, 2025 06:15 PM

It was a breakfast conference.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at July 16, 2025 06:22 PM (e5NfL)

116 breakfast luncheon

Posted by: runner at July 16, 2025 06:23 PM (g47mK)

117 95 Elon Musk said in an interview last year, with Tucker I believe, that old man Soros was pretty much gone mentally, worse than Biden is.
Spuh-loosh.
Posted by: Dr. Jill Biden at July 16, 2025 06:17 PM (tEsXg)
_______________________________

Lately there have been a whole lot of short videos popping up on Soros in YouTube explaining what a wonderful man he is, and how he's considered a financial genius.

They should have turned off the comments section on these. I linked to his banishment from the French financial market for Insider Trading. I was promptly reported and blocked.

But, the fact that they are popping up in mass suggests an orchestrated effort. So, maybe his time is approaching.

Posted by: Orson at July 16, 2025 06:23 PM (dIske)

118 Is Mandami going to win?
Posted by: Ben Had at July 16, 2025 06:18 PM (HFcKg)

If everyone stays in and it looks like they will, he will be cheated in with room to spare. Remember what a "vote" is in lib land.

The left have already moved past trannies and illegals and into the wahabbi phase, we just haven't quite caught on yet.

Posted by: ... at July 16, 2025 06:24 PM (Qr870)

119 He calls me Newscum. How do I explain that to my kid?"
--Governor Newsome

Interpretive dance. You already have the hand motions down.

Posted by: Stu Podaso at July 16, 2025 06:24 PM (tEsXg)

120 111 I'd bet my hat and (_!_) if you dug deep enough you'd find Madmani is worth a few million.
Posted by: creeper at July 16, 2025 06:22 PM (zFwIe)

I'm sure he has family money. His family travelled and lived all over the word, it seems, and other than saying his mom is a "film maker" and his dad is an "academic" there isn't a whole lot of information on how they could afford to do so, absent family money.

Or maybe his dad was smuggling weapons or drugs in Africa, who knows. I can't imagine teaching at a Ugandan college or whatever pays very well.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 16, 2025 06:24 PM (uCjyK)

121 The Left will cast Madmani as the ultimate anti Trump "protest" vote. And it will work.

Posted by: ... at July 16, 2025 06:25 PM (Qr870)

122 "Crowds On Demand" reminded me of "Books By The Foot" that all laptop class used during Covid for zoom appearances to make themselves look scholarly.

Posted by: Mark1971 at July 16, 2025 06:25 PM (CNl8/)

123 >>He calls me Newscum. How do I explain that to my kid?"
--Governor Newsome

They already know.

Posted by: garrett at July 16, 2025 06:25 PM (oSEaw)

124 Interpretive dance. You already have the hand motions down.
Posted by: Stu Podaso at July 16, 2025 06:24 PM (tEsXg)

Lmao

Posted by: ... at July 16, 2025 06:25 PM (Qr870)

125 Tsunami warning for Aleutian coast of Alaska, "

Was a kid on Kodiak in '64. Hope all are ok...

Posted by: man at July 16, 2025 06:25 PM (tubbA)

126 Never forget Soros was behind both Obama and McCain. That was our "choice" in 2008.

Posted by: ... at July 16, 2025 06:15 PM (Qr870)

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The McCain Crony Machine helped to continue screwing us in AZ by giving us Soros butt-bitch and retard Katie Hobbs.

* spit *

Posted by: ShainS -- Trump Needs to Sue Donkey-Chompers for Defamation a la ABC at July 16, 2025 06:25 PM (kRJmT)

127 94 You're only as good as your worst performance, assuming it follows the good stuff. Lewis made a contemporary name for himself as a dim racist idiot. So don't care what he did in the 60s. Like many other cases such as this, he more than cancelled out any contribution or heroism.
Posted by: rhomboid at July 16, 2025 06:17 PM (1m82a)

Similar thing with John McCain. People worked really hard to give him a pass because "war hero" or what have you. Anything good or brave he did decades ago doesn't erase all the shitbaggery he engaged in afterward.

Posted by: Eventually the laurels rot at July 16, 2025 06:25 PM (TbWk/)

128 >>I think she looks pretty good for being 46 and having 3 kids"
Her body is fine, it's the plastic surgeries that are off putting.

Women like her can't seem to realize that any "work" done to the face doesn't end well. Aging gracefully is hard when they are so horrified by getting older.

Posted by: Long time guy at July 16, 2025 06:26 PM (B7IUE)

129 All this will do is accelerate the realignment of states by populations. the blue states will become more and more black and other races while red states will become whiter. At least there is a possibility for a peaceful realignment while the UK and euros don't have that luxury.
Posted by: Decaf at July 16, 2025 06:22 PM (unUNN)

Yeah, I don't think so. Our government and the NGO's have been "resettling" people allll over the country. And have been at it for quite some times.

Like the Somalis in Lewiston, Maine who got plopped there in the 1990's and created Little Mogadishu.

In fucking Maine.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 16, 2025 06:27 PM (uCjyK)

130 >>I think she looks pretty good for being 46 and having 3 kids"
Her body is fine, it's the plastic surgeries that are off putting.

Women like her can't seem to realize that any "work" done to the face doesn't end well. Aging gracefully is hard when they are so horrified by getting older.

Posted by: Long time guy at July 16, 2025 06:26 PM (B7IUE)

Neve Campbell of the same era is looking pretty good, and appears to have forgone any obvious work.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 16, 2025 06:27 PM (i24o9)

131 From the NY Post:
Cops seize 21 kids — including 17 toddlers — from California couple who had them all via surrogacy: ‘Smells of trafficking’

https://tinyurl.com/yjuscfwm

Posted by: IrishEi at July 16, 2025 06:27 PM (3ImbR)

132 There's a weird-looking Somali guy looks like a 19 year old "I'm the captain now" guy from that Tm Hanks movie running for mayor of Minneapolis I think it is. He's basically open about caring only for the Somali people and calls it his homeland. Super radical left winger.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 16, 2025 06:28 PM (dfIr7)

133 17 The key here is "pay". Did you pay people to be at the protest? if you did, then you are technically their employer. If my employees came to your house, as my employees, and wrecked it, could I sue your company? Of course.

This is one of the reasons I want someone, ANYONE to dig into the funding for those bus trips, food, stacks of bricks, etc at every riot. Just one reporter, somewhere? Is that so much to ask?
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 16, 2025 05:51 PM (dfIr7)

———

If only we had some governmental bureau at the Federal level to investigate it.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at July 16, 2025 06:28 PM (JvW60)

134 131 From the NY Post:
Cops seize 21 kids — including 17 toddlers — from California couple who had them all via surrogacy: ‘Smells of trafficking’

https://tinyurl.com/yjuscfwm
Posted by: IrishEi at July 16, 2025 06:27 PM (3ImbR)

It's probably a plot by Chinese nationals to purchase their own little anchor baby.

Posted by: CaliGirl at July 16, 2025 06:29 PM (TmEds)

135 'Smells of trafficking’
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There it is. The worst three word phrase of 2025

Posted by: ... at July 16, 2025 06:29 PM (Qr870)

136 131 From the NY Post:
Cops seize 21 kids — including 17 toddlers — from California couple who had them all via surrogacy: ‘Smells of trafficking’

https://tinyurl.com/yjuscfwm
Posted by: IrishEi at July 16, 2025 06:27 PM (3ImbR)

Guojun Xuan, 65, and Silvia Zhang, 38

Oh.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 16, 2025 06:29 PM (uCjyK)

137 She's aged out of most roles and if she lets her body go any further and she can kiss cougar roles goodbye.
Posted by: Thomas Bender

Last Call Pick-Up

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at July 16, 2025 06:29 PM (/lPRQ)

138 Seeing if I've banned my self. ( I accidumbly posted in a day old cafe thread browser tab because I'm a dummy and do dumb things dumbly )

Posted by: banana Dumb of Dumbledore at July 16, 2025 06:30 PM (cduTK)

139 Jennifer Love Hewitt is doing publicity for an inexplicable sequel to I know what you did last summer that she's in.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 16, 2025 06:31 PM (dfIr7)

140 "he turned down an offer of $20 million to provide fake supporters for an event."

Maybe he'll pay that much to get real supporters for the next MoMe. Morons can whack up the loot among themselves.

Posted by: Blame It On gp's Juice at July 16, 2025 06:32 PM (J4/Z5)

141 Jennifer Love Hewitt is doing publicity for an inexplicable sequel to I know what you did last summer that she's in.
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Apparently what she did last summer was "eat".

Posted by: Crusader at July 16, 2025 06:32 PM (TN0g+)

142 It's probably a plot by Chinese nationals to purchase their own little anchor baby.
Posted by: CaliGirl at July 16, 2025 06:29 PM (TmEds)

Actually that makes a lot of sense. I was thinking sex trafficking, but the article said they were all the biological children of the Chinese couple.

And the Chinese couple ran a "surrogacy company" and had a household staff, so clearly have some money.

They can then sell these babies to Chinese nationals (the babies have US birth certificates since they were born in US hospitals to US surrogates), who will use those babies as anchor babies in a back-door way to become US citizens.

I'm not sure how they get the fake parents on a birth certificate, but also, I'm not sure if they'd need to since the babies were born to a surrogate.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 16, 2025 06:32 PM (uCjyK)

143 Let's not be censorious here, after all, John Lewis himself hired groups of rioters and violent men to terrorize politicians and communities into submitting to his demands.
It was the union way then, and it is truly the union way today.

Posted by: Kindltot at July 16, 2025 06:33 PM (D7oie)

144 Jennifer Love Hewitt is doing publicity for an inexplicable sequel to I know what you did last summer that she's in.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 16, 2025 06:31 PM (dfIr7)

I'll go if she releases the sweater puppies.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at July 16, 2025 06:33 PM (dR6yv)

145 Is Mandami going to win?
Posted by: Ben Had

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Yes.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 16, 2025 06:19 PM (HL/Ld)

A city that elected Bill De Blasio will elect Mamdani without any doubt.

Posted by: Decaf at July 16, 2025 06:35 PM (unUNN)

146 Jennifer Love Hewitt is doing publicity for an inexplicable sequel to I know what you did last summer that she's in.
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Apparently what she did last summer was "eat".

Posted by: Crusader at July 16, 2025 06:32 PM (TN0g+)

VDH-approved.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 16, 2025 06:35 PM (i24o9)

147 From the NY Post:
Cops seize 21 kids — including 17 toddlers — from California couple who had them all via surrogacy: ‘Smells of trafficking’

Wow! So many choices! I wonder if I should get an African Stunt Baby or a Chinese Stunt Anchor Baby?

Decisions, decisions...

Posted by: Amy Conehead Barrett, Collector Of Trophy Children at July 16, 2025 06:35 PM (R/m4+)

148 Jennifer Love Hewitt is doing publicity for an inexplicable sequel to I know what you did last summer that she's in.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 16, 2025 06:31 PM (dfIr7)

Since most of the big studio releases are series, sequels and re-makes it isn't all that inexplicable.

Posted by: Long time guy at July 16, 2025 06:36 PM (B7IUE)

149 But I thought John Lewis was a champion of peace and brotherhood and tolerance and goodness and light and Dr Martin Luther The King? Why would they need to import a mob?

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at July 16, 2025 06:36 PM (qwx/I)

150
Chinese baby-manufacturing couple is probably one of dozens -- scores? -- hundreds? -- in America.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 16, 2025 06:37 PM (HL/Ld)

151 Cops seize 21 kids — including 17 toddlers — from California couple who had them all via surrogacy: ‘Smells of trafficking’

And no tears shampoo.

Posted by: A Johnson and Johnson product at July 16, 2025 06:37 PM (TbWk/)

152 150
Chinese baby-manufacturing couple is probably one of dozens -- scores? -- hundreds? -- in America.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 16, 2025 06:37 PM (HL/Ld)

Who knows? One thing I'll say about our ridiculous immigration system: it breeds some interesting scams.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 16, 2025 06:38 PM (uCjyK)

153 But I thought John Lewis was a champion of peace and brotherhood and tolerance and goodness and light and Dr Martin Luther The King? Why would they need to import a mob?
Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at July 16, 2025 06:36 PM (qwx/I)

To kill whitey...

Posted by: Al Sharpton, Race Warlord And Killer Of White Folks at July 16, 2025 06:38 PM (R/m4+)

154 19 Isn't John Lewis the late congressman and, apparently, marine biology expert who asserted that sharks still follow the routes that slave ships took to get from Africa to America? Which implies either (1) very old sharks, or (2) some kind of Jungian, archetypal memory among the species.

I recently learned while playing Dave the Diver that Greenland Sharks can live to be hundreds of years old. Now granted, I don't think they are at all relevant to this discussion as I don't think they range that far from..um..Greenland, however I did find that bit of information fascinating.

Posted by: Nelly at July 16, 2025 06:38 PM (cHLus)

155 From what ace is saying, sounds like Rent a Mob guy was starting to realize he might be in the line of fire, should the PTB decide to go after his company.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 16, 2025 06:39 PM (tT6L1)

156 Like the Somalis in Lewiston, Maine who got plopped there in the 1990's and created Little Mogadishu.

In fucking Maine.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 16, 2025 06:27 PM (uCjyK)

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And when they get fed up white Maine residents will move to South Carolina. For the warmer weather, of course.

Posted by: Decaf at July 16, 2025 06:39 PM (unUNN)

157 He calls me Newscum. How do I explain that to my kid?"
--Governor Newsome

As if that's the most embarrassing conversation he's had to have with his kid. Remember when Newsome got caught cheating on his wife? That's a much more embarrassing conversation to have with your kid than someone calling you by a mildly rude nickname.

Posted by: bonhomme at July 16, 2025 06:39 PM (lIio7)

158 To kill whitey...
Posted by: Al Sharpton, Race Warlord And Killer Of White Folks at July 16, 2025 06:38 PM (R/m4+)

I can put up with the racial anger from Black Americans. I don't think it's helpful, but I get why they would be angry.

Where I get really offended is racial anger from fucking immigrants.

Why would we import people who hate us and just want to use us to get rich? It's the most cuck think I've ever heard of in my life, and I used to read Jonah Goldberg.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 16, 2025 06:39 PM (uCjyK)

159 Since most of the big studio releases are series, sequels and re-makes it isn't all that inexplicable.

Yeah and horror movies are cheap to make and almost always make money so I guess its kind of a no-brainer

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 16, 2025 06:40 PM (dfIr7)

160 Tsunami warning for Aleutian coast of Alaska, "

Was a kid on Kodiak in '64. Hope all are ok...

Posted by: man at July 16, 2025 06:25 PM

We spent four years stationed on Adak and I can't recall a single tsunami warning.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at July 16, 2025 06:40 PM (e5NfL)

161
One thing I'll say about our ridiculous immigration system: it breeds some interesting scams.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes

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That plus infertility technology and the possibilities are endless -- well beyond mere citizenship scams to projects I don't even want to contemplate.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 16, 2025 06:40 PM (HL/Ld)

162 Yeah and horror movies are cheap to make and almost always make money so I guess its kind of a no-brainer
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 16, 2025 06:40 PM (dfIr7)
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Maybe Jennifer is eating her way into the role of crazed killer?

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 16, 2025 06:41 PM (tT6L1)

163 Apparently what she did last summer was "eat".
Posted by: Crusader at July 16, 2025 06:32 PM (TN0g+)

Slight revision to the phrasing and that would have been a perfect norm macdonald

Posted by: ... at July 16, 2025 06:41 PM (Qr870)

164 And when they get fed up white Maine residents will move to South Carolina. For the warmer weather, of course.
Posted by: Decaf at July 16, 2025 06:39 PM (unUNN)

A state which is currently 62% white, compared to Maine's 90%?

Obviously both numbers are projected to drop immensely in the coming decades.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 16, 2025 06:41 PM (uCjyK)

165 Which implies either (1) very old sharks, or (2) some kind of Jungian, archetypal memory among the species.

(3) the offspring of the parent sharks followed them on their journeys.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 16, 2025 06:41 PM (a4flb)

166 There's a weird-looking Somali guy looks like a 19 year old "I'm the captain now" guy from that Tm Hanks movie running for mayor of Minneapolis I think it is. He's basically open about caring only for the Somali people and calls it his homeland. Super radical left winger.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 16, 2025 06:28 PM (dfIr7)

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That 60s melting pot is fast turning into a butter churn with a definite separation of components.

Posted by: Decaf at July 16, 2025 06:41 PM (unUNN)

167 And when they get fed up white Maine residents will move to South Carolina. For the warmer weather, of course.

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And then they'll wonder why there aren't more old fashioned drag shows at the public libraries and see what they can do to rectify that problem.

Posted by: Crusader at July 16, 2025 06:42 PM (TN0g+)

168
Posted by: Nelly at July 16, 2025 06:38 PM (cHLus)

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Did he talk about that one Greenland shark that's estimated to be ~470 years old or something? You think back on human history of that long ago and reflect that that shark was alive at the time!

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 16, 2025 06:42 PM (HL/Ld)

169 Um, what's a Judicial Conference? Does it include a luncheon?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 16, 2025 06:15 PM

Ballroom at the Alexandria Ramada Inn. It was lucky they could book it on so short of a notice, usually the Rotary holds their luncheon that day

Posted by: Kindltot at July 16, 2025 06:42 PM (D7oie)

170 That 60s melting pot is fast turning into a butter churn with a definite separation of components.
Posted by: Decaf at July 16, 2025 06:41 PM (unUNN)

Yeah, it kind of pisses me off because the BLM era / immigration era is forcing all of us to be racists or whatever and we didn't want it to be this way. Remember the era of "no hyphenated Americans! We're all just Americans!" Yeah, silly, but I agreed with the goal at the time.

But when every other ethnic group in the country is talking about about race and saying things like "I'm going to raise taxes in White areas" well... I guess we don't really have a choice here.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 16, 2025 06:44 PM (uCjyK)

171 >>Which implies either (1) very old sharks, or (2) some kind of Jungian, archetypal memory among the species.

Certainly, they aren't taking advantage of the same natural phenomena that the sailors were to cross the Ocean.

That wouldn't be possible.

Posted by: garrett at July 16, 2025 06:44 PM (oSEaw)

172 Or maybe his dad was smuggling weapons or drugs in Africa, who knows. I can't imagine teaching at a Ugandan college or whatever pays very well.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 16, 2025 06:24 PM (uCjyK)

I will hold my finger to the wind and guess that he was the Ugandan end of a USAID funding pipeline while a professor.

Posted by: Kindltot at July 16, 2025 06:44 PM (D7oie)

173 I too, how you say, provide on-demand services.

Posted by: The Paolo at July 16, 2025 06:44 PM (G5+As)

174 I will hold my finger to the wind and guess that he was the Ugandan end of a USAID funding pipeline while a professor.
Posted by: Kindltot at July 16, 2025 06:44 PM (D7oie)

Wouldn't shock me.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 16, 2025 06:44 PM (uCjyK)

175 Apparently what she did last summer was "eat".
Posted by: Crusader at July 16, 2025 06:32 PM (TN0g+)

Slight revision to the phrasing and that would have been a perfect norm macdonald
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Although I loved Norm on SNL back in the day, I had no idea just how amazingly funny he was once that portion of his career ended until he had already passed away. He was an icon.

Posted by: Crusader at July 16, 2025 06:44 PM (TN0g+)

176 Did he talk about that one Greenland shark that's estimated to be ~470 years old or something? You think back on human history of that long ago and reflect that that shark was alive at the time!
Posted by: Blonde Morticia

Oooooo. I wonder if Mr Shark was chasing the slave trade ships.

Posted by: nurse ratched at July 16, 2025 06:45 PM (W2Pud)

177 Good grief JLH is F A T. That's depressing : (

Posted by: JROD at July 16, 2025 06:45 PM (IlL6s)

178 Oooooo. I wonder if Mr Shark was chasing the slave trade ships.
Posted by: nurse ratched at July 16, 2025 06:45 PM (W2Pud)

I think he's one of those huge sharks that eats like plankton and boring things.

Actually now that I think about it, I don't think any sharks actively hunt humans.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 16, 2025 06:45 PM (uCjyK)

179 Actually now that I think about it, I don't think any sharks actively hunt humans.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 16, 2025 06:45 PM

Jaws did.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at July 16, 2025 06:46 PM (e5NfL)

180 Good grief JLH is F A T. That's depressing : (
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Well, when she sits around the house...

Posted by: Crusader at July 16, 2025 06:47 PM (TN0g+)

181 Although I loved Norm on SNL back in the day, I had no idea just how amazingly funny he was once that portion of his career ended until he had already passed away. He was an icon.
Posted by: Crusader at July 16, 2025 06:44 PM (TN0g+)

You may have already seen them, but check Norm Macdonald Live and Sports Show. He was amazing.

Posted by: ... at July 16, 2025 06:47 PM (Qr870)

182 165 Which implies either (1) very old sharks, or (2) some kind of Jungian, archetypal memory among the species.

(3) the offspring of the parent sharks followed them on their journeys.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 16, 2025 06:41 PM (a4flb)

Baby shark do doo do doo do doo

Posted by: With a taste for dark meat. I denounce myself. at July 16, 2025 06:47 PM (TbWk/)

183 NOOD!

Posted by: Moonbeam at July 16, 2025 06:48 PM (rbKZ6)

184 Actually now that I think about it, I don't think any sharks actively hunt humans.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes

BS! A whole slew of Sharknado documentaries tell the real story.

Posted by: Candygram For Harry at July 16, 2025 06:48 PM (G5+As)

185 I don't think enough ships were sailing often enough to teach the speck-brained sharks that food was coming from them. There were a lot of slaves traded but there weren't that many ships and the distances are very, very vast.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 16, 2025 06:49 PM (dfIr7)

186 Politics is the breeding ground of insanity anymore.

Posted by: Ben Had at July 16, 2025 06:49 PM (HFcKg)

187 We spent four years stationed on Adak and I can't recall a single tsunami warning.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at July 16, 2025 06:40 PM (e5NfL)

I will have you know I have here my father's US Naval Station Adak ash tray.

I think he bought it at the gift shop when he flew in for a day on vacation.

Posted by: Kindltot at July 16, 2025 06:50 PM (D7oie)

188 Ok, how many of you read the headline too quickly and thought someone was hiring a rent-a-mob to honor Jerry Lewis?

(Surveys room...lowers eyes...raises hand...)

Posted by: Joe Kidd at July 16, 2025 06:51 PM (bA75n)

189 I don't think enough ships were sailing often enough to teach the speck-brained sharks that food was coming from them. There were a lot of slaves traded but there weren't that many ships and the distances are very, very vast.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 16, 2025 06:49 PM (dfIr7)
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You'd think the "Horse Latitudes" would be swarming with sharks due to all the horses tossed overboard.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 16, 2025 06:51 PM (tT6L1)

190 We spent four years stationed on Adak and I can't recall a single tsunami warning.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at July 16, 2025 06:40 PM (e5NfL)

I will have you know I have here my father's US Naval Station Adak ash tray.

I think he bought it at the gift shop when he flew in for a day on vacation.

Posted by: Kindltot at July 16, 2025 06:50 PM

I also don't recall the island having a gift shop.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at July 16, 2025 06:52 PM (e5NfL)

191 When something goes bad, destroy it. Or force the cities citislaves to enjoy the bad. Even have to pay for it.

Posted by: Dreamingrobot at July 16, 2025 06:53 PM (ffYsK)

192 I also don't recall the island having a gift shop.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at July 16, 2025 06:52 PM (e5NfL)

He visited it in the late 90's because he wanted to be on the island the Japanese invaded, and Kiska was impossible for him to get to.

Posted by: Kindltot at July 16, 2025 06:55 PM (D7oie)

193 Its not that slavers didn't throw slaves overboard, the accounts from former slavers and British navy of how they were stacked in boats and treated is godawful. You lose some cargo on the way, it was expected. They cost little to buy and sold for hundreds. But they didn't sail like a downtown traffic jam for centuries, it was one ship every few months, taking weeks to cross the ocean.

Mostly to Brazil and the Caribbean, by the way.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 16, 2025 06:55 PM (dfIr7)

194 123 >>He calls me Newscum. How do I explain that to my kid?"
--Governor Newsome

Well you see, Billy, when a boy scum and a girl scum love each other very much....

Posted by: Joe Kidd at July 16, 2025 07:00 PM (bA75n)

195 LOL

Maurene Comey, the daughter of Former FBI Director James Comey, has been fired from her job as a federal prosecutor.

Apparently she was terrible at it so, no loss

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 16, 2025 07:01 PM (dfIr7)

196 Which implies either (1) very old sharks, or (2) some kind of Jungian, archetypal memory among the species.
(3) the offspring of the parent sharks followed them on their journeys.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure

And who can forget the sharks affected by the sinking of the cargo ship carrying vintage Oldsmobiles.

Shark Toranados

Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at July 16, 2025 07:04 PM (DsA2n)

197 Maurene Comey, the daughter of Former FBI Director James Comey, has been fired from her job as a federal prosecutor.
Apparently she was terrible at it so, no loss
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 16, 2025 07:01 PM (dfIr7)
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Awesome!

I know this is willowed, but too good not to repeat! Not only did she help hide all the really bad stuff on P. Diddy, she was also on the Ghislaine Maxwell trial and asked the court that the black book would never be released.

Tree.

apple.

Posted by: IrishEi at July 16, 2025 07:13 PM (3ImbR)

198 18 aftershocks so far in Sand Point, but no tsunami. Thankfully.

Posted by: tcn in AK at July 16, 2025 07:13 PM (1Gsou)

199 Rent a mob. Good work until you get tear gassed or shot

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 16, 2025 07:14 PM (xH5nl)

200 I'd bet my hat and (_!_) if you dug deep enough you'd find Madmani is worth a few million.
Posted by: creeper at July 16, 2025 06:22 PM (zFwIe)

I'm sure he has family money. His family travelled and lived all over the word, it seems, and other than saying his mom is a "film maker" and his dad is an "academic" there isn't a whole lot of information on how they could afford to do so, absent family money.

Or maybe his dad was smuggling weapons or drugs in Africa, who knows. I can't imagine teaching at a Ugandan college or whatever pays very well.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 16, 2025 06:24 PM (uCjyK)
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His dad was almost surely deep in the government and was surely paid very well. Nobody in Idi’s government lacked for anything. That’s how these commie governments in shithole countries stay in power. They pay their ppl well. The rest of the country starves, but who cares about them?

Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at July 16, 2025 07:24 PM (t+Wsp)

201 I actually worked for them about 20 years ago. They represented Barnum &Baileys Ringling brothers who were losing their permit to appear in New York City over animal abuse. Various groups were worried about abuse or animals escaping
Pay was 50$ they hired about 20 people.
I they have not posted any ads for bodies since in NYC except once for some pro Trump actors in front of Trump Toeer
I think the interview was done just got advertisement. They generally represent a conservative point of view.
A quick Google will show multiple instances of paid pro Trump rallies

Posted by: Aliassmithsmith at July 16, 2025 07:45 PM (LeOoG)

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