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Democrats' Fundraising Collapses, Causing People to Wonder: Was the Democrats' Funding Almost All Government Money Laundered Through NGOs?

Teddy Schleifer
@teddyschleifer

Cash on hand as of June 30:

Republican National Committee: $80.8 million

Democratic National Committee: $15.2 million

democratswerefundedbythegovernment.jpg

A TIPP poll finds that a near majority of the country brands the Democrats as the party of radicals.

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Update to previous post: Hunter Unleashed.

He's burning it all down -- supporting runner's theory that this is a blackmail play. "Pay me to go away, or I'll inject myself into the news cycle twice per week."

Posted by: Ace at 03:30 PM




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1 Hola

Posted by: Thanatopsis at July 21, 2025 03:33 PM (GYt5+)

2 2nd?

Posted by: Thanatopsis at July 21, 2025 03:33 PM (GYt5+)

3 3rd

Posted by: Thanatopsis at July 21, 2025 03:33 PM (GYt5+)

4
ESPONJA!!1!!11!!

Posted by: AltonJackson at July 21, 2025 03:34 PM (tljrc)

5 4th?

Posted by: Thanatopsis at July 21, 2025 03:34 PM (GYt5+)

6 I was assured that all good news is actually bad news and that Democrats will get the money no matter what because it'll just get shuffled around.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 21, 2025 03:34 PM (GBKbO)

7 Afternoon, Ace and All.

Posted by: Bulg at July 21, 2025 03:34 PM (77rzZ)

8 Remember, as late as 2012 the Dems were formally opposed to gay marriage.

Now opposition to gay marriage makes you a reichwing h8ter...

Posted by: 18-1 at July 21, 2025 03:35 PM (t0Rmr)

9 Oh, Hunter, you're so butch with all the f***s.
*swoons*

Posted by: Archimedes at July 21, 2025 03:36 PM (Riz8t)

10 The Democrat Party is a criminal enterprise.

RICO them.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at July 21, 2025 03:36 PM (N1DT3)

11 The Democratic Party would have more money in the bank than that, but they spent a lot of it at various strip clubs.

Posted by: Crusader at July 21, 2025 03:36 PM (TN0g+)

12 GO! - SpaceX - Falcon 9 - O3b mPOWER 9 & 10 - SLC-40
Launch Date: July 21, 2025
Launch Time: 5:12 p.m. EDT (2112 UTC, 23:12 CEST)
Launch Window: Open for 120 minutes until 7:12 p.m. EDT
Launch Site: SLC-40 - Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida, USA

https://www.youtube.com/live/CHA-UwYatFE

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at July 21, 2025 03:36 PM (S/Y4j)

13 I was assured that all good news is actually bad news and that Democrats will get the money no matter what because it'll just get shuffled around.

Its kind of like when you figure out how mice are getting into your house.

Are you going to find every potential way in? Probably not, but there is a reason they were going in through the holes they were...

Posted by: 18-1 at July 21, 2025 03:36 PM (t0Rmr)

14 Hunter Biden admits that Nancy Pelosi was the one who drove his dad out of the race:

"They already made a decision. They clearly made a decision. When I say 'they' I mean the Speaker." pic.twitter.com/nHjXlrB3Rs

— Greg Price (@greg_price11) July 21, 2025

======

Your father had agency and could have said, "This is bullshit, I'm in."

Unless he didn't have agency.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 21, 2025 03:36 PM (GBKbO)

15 Causing People to Wonder: Was the Democrats' Funding Almost All Government Money Laundered Through NGOs?

Umm...yes?

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 21, 2025 03:36 PM (dPfyF)

16 Has American discourse really fallen so far that anyone gives the slightest bit of a damn what Hunter Biden has to say about anything? I fear it is so.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 21, 2025 03:37 PM (Riz8t)

17 36% say Dems are not too radical. The Jacobins and sans-culottes.

Posted by: Everybody's Codetalking At gp at July 21, 2025 03:37 PM (klf3J)

18 Who among us is a fucking an actor?

Posted by: Axeman at July 21, 2025 03:37 PM (krQz2)

19 Archmere Academy must be really proud of this graduate.

Posted by: Dirac_Delta at July 21, 2025 03:37 PM (9EO0O)

20 thrdist

Posted by: Randi Weingarten at July 21, 2025 03:37 PM (PiwSw)

21 The Democratic Party would have more money in the bank than that, but they spent a lot of it at various strip clubs.

Pretty sure those aren't XX chromosome girls getting their g-strings filled with dollars by Dems...

Posted by: 18-1 at July 21, 2025 03:37 PM (t0Rmr)

22 15 Causing People to Wonder: Was the Democrats' Funding Almost All Government Money Laundered Through NGOs?

Umm...yes?
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 21, 2025 03:36 PM (dPfyF)

=======

I think it was a very conscious effort that started after the 2010 midterms where the Obama administration did everything in its power to shovel money towards cronies in an effort to cement their hold on government for generations.

To the point where a whole generation of Democrat operatives have literally no idea how to run campaigns.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 21, 2025 03:37 PM (GBKbO)

23 Hunter and Jill should team up and write an unvarnished account of their lives. I'd buy that book.

Posted by: mr tmz at July 21, 2025 03:37 PM (rJ48h)

24 Note to Hunter: Inserting profanity into every sentence does not, in fact, make you one of the cool kids. It's like you're a dad trying to learn the latest lingo in an effort to stay cool and only get eyerolls from the kids, except you're not that dad; instead you're his skeevy college friend. You know, the kind the dad invites over to relive the good old days, but after one afternoon, he's really wondering why he hung out with you in the first place, and his wife is threatening to take the kids and divorce him if he doesn't cut off all contact with you.

That kind.

Posted by: Dr. T at July 21, 2025 03:37 PM (jGGMD)

25 Causing People to Wonder: Was the Democrats' Funding Almost All Government Money Laundered Through NGOs?

Raising the question: did DOGE get lucky, or were USAID and related orgs targeted for this specific reason?

Posted by: Archimedes at July 21, 2025 03:38 PM (Riz8t)

26 Hunter seems to be... a bit agitated these days.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 21, 2025 03:38 PM (Q4IgG)

27 There's swears a lot. Then there's crackhead swears a lot.

Posted by: DaveA at July 21, 2025 03:38 PM (FhXTo)

28 "Has American discourse really fallen so far that anyone gives the slightest bit of a damn what Hunter Biden has to say about anything? I fear it is so."

We got a whole thread out of it. IMHO he's ancient history.

Posted by: Everybody's Codetalking At gp at July 21, 2025 03:38 PM (klf3J)

29 We should be handing out battle axes to Democrats, not giving them advice.

Posted by: Vengeance at July 21, 2025 03:38 PM (Gll9O)

30 How do like me now...bitches!

Posted by: Robert H. Biden at July 21, 2025 03:38 PM (PGK1w)

31 One 80 year old shoving another 80 year old out of the race. The modern dem party.

Posted by: Nick in Tallahassee at July 21, 2025 03:38 PM (wrEn7)

32 Raising the question: did DOGE get lucky, or were USAID and related orgs targeted for this specific reason?

USAID was a spy front back in the cold war days, so looking back on it, it should have been obvious it was still a front for the deep state.

Posted by: 18-1 at July 21, 2025 03:39 PM (t0Rmr)

33
Explains why democrats always out raised republicans in campaign war chests.

Posted by: Blanco at July 21, 2025 03:39 PM (q83gU)

34 I've have a really solid conviction for years that the U. S. taxpayer has been funding the left's causes.

Funny thing is, that Obama might have helped shed some light on this when he was all about suppressing any entry of any conservative organization into the ranks of not-for-profit orgs.

Posted by: Axeman at July 21, 2025 03:39 PM (krQz2)

35 Go Hunter...Go!

Somebody give that boy some Crack!

Posted by: garrett at July 21, 2025 03:39 PM (oSEaw)

36 It’s almost as if TJM is clairvoyant.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at July 21, 2025 03:39 PM (u73oe)

37 Hunter and Jill should team up and write an unvarnished account of their lives. I'd buy that book.
Posted by: mr tmz


No way I'd put any money into the Biden crime-family's pockets. Maybe I'd buy a used copy at the library booksale.

Posted by: Bulg at July 21, 2025 03:39 PM (77rzZ)

38 Yes, the democrats are funded almost solely through NGOs via USAID. That is why they went absolutely crazy when DOGE exposed a small portion of the unaccounted for (ie missing) billions of taxpayer dollars.

Posted by: Lemmiwinks at July 21, 2025 03:39 PM (GBH2X)

39 Huntie sounds like he's bucking for a job writing dialog for a Netflix drama series.

Posted by: Oddbob at July 21, 2025 03:39 PM (/y8xj)

40 We should be handing out battle axes to Democrats, not giving them advice.

Never bring an axe to a slap fight!

Posted by: As if the average Dem could lift a battle axe at July 21, 2025 03:39 PM (t0Rmr)

41 But was it a coup-coup?

Using the power of government to consolidate power over the government.
Or,
A selk-licking ice cream cone.

Posted by: Operator Error at July 21, 2025 03:39 PM (3OLGs)

42 Has American discourse really fallen so far that anyone gives the slightest bit of a damn what Hunter Biden has to say about anything? I fear it is so.
Posted by: Archimedes at July 21, 2025 03:37 PM (Riz8t)

Since he is a loose lipped member of a crime family, I care what he says. It's evidence. And since he admitted to a new crime of drug creation after the pardon, it might even be actionable.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 21, 2025 03:40 PM (8avO+)

43 My, that Hunter has a potty mouth!

Posted by: Ozzy Osbourne at July 21, 2025 03:40 PM (PiwSw)

44 36 It’s almost as if TJM is clairvoyant.
Posted by: Duke Lowell at July 21, 2025 03:39 PM (u73oe)

=====

Nope.

Just an asshole.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 21, 2025 03:40 PM (GBKbO)

45 >> -18% are unsure

Does this match the percentage of the population who are mentally challenged? Because it feels like it matches that.

Posted by: Vengeance at July 21, 2025 03:40 PM (/Mfdi)

46 I repeat... Hunter is using again.

Posted by: MkY at July 21, 2025 03:40 PM (cPGH3)

47
36 It’s almost as if TJM is clairvoyant.

Ok, what stocks should I go buy?

Posted by: As if the average Dem could lift a battle axe at July 21, 2025 03:40 PM (t0Rmr)

48 I like the suspicion that Hunter is threatening to nuke the DNC by continuing to throw public fits. It warms the cockles of my cold, black heart.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 21, 2025 03:40 PM (Riz8t)

49 You're goddam right I ordered the Code Red on Biden!!!!!!

Posted by: Nancy Pelosi at July 21, 2025 03:41 PM (k1E2D)

50 Babu The Immigrant Journalist needs to go back to where ever he came from.

Posted by: Deport Babu The Immigrant Journalist at July 21, 2025 03:41 PM (rqga2)

51 lolol

Hunter Big Mad that the gravy train is OVAH and nobody wants his ridiculous "artwork" anymore

he has no influence to peddle

go EABOD legendary scumbag

Posted by: kallisto at July 21, 2025 03:41 PM (dCxaZ)

52 My suspicion...Hunter has run out of money for coke, hookers, and beer...and he is PISSED

Posted by: 18-1 at July 21, 2025 03:41 PM (t0Rmr)

53
Holy carp, Hunter going off on George Clooney ("friends with Barack Obama"), Pod Save America ("junior fucking speechwriters"), is there any bridge he doesn't want to burn?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 21, 2025 03:41 PM (HL/Ld)

54 Causing People to Wonder: Was the Democrats' Funding Almost All Government Money Laundered Through NGOs?

Raising the question: did DOGE get lucky, or were USAID and related orgs targeted for this specific reason?
Posted by: Archimedes at July 21, 2025 03:38 PM (Riz8t)

Yes. It was and is the 'tall poppy' that needed to be killed first.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 21, 2025 03:41 PM (8avO+)

55 USAID was nothing but the money laundering division of the DNC.

Posted by: Vengeance at July 21, 2025 03:41 PM (/Mfdi)

56 92% of Khmer Rouge say Dems not too radical.

Posted by: Everybody's Codetalking At gp at July 21, 2025 03:41 PM (klf3J)

57 Who sees this as the next Hunter Biden headline: "Hunter Biden has information that could lead to the arrest of Hillary Clinton."

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at July 21, 2025 03:41 PM (S/Y4j)

58 Good work, Hunter. Keep it up.

Posted by: Ben Had at July 21, 2025 03:42 PM (HFcKg)

59
"They already made a decision. They clearly made a decision. When I say 'they' I mean the Speaker."

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

Sounds kind of oligarchical.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 21, 2025 03:42 PM (HL/Ld)

60 I repeat... Hunter is using again.

"Again" implies that he ever stopped. Unless you just mean again today.

Posted by: Oddbob at July 21, 2025 03:42 PM (/y8xj)

61 That blanket pardon that Hunter Biden got may come back to bite the Dems on the ass.

Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper at July 21, 2025 03:42 PM (k1E2D)

62 I repeat... Hunter is using again.
Posted by: MkY at July 21, 2025 03:40 PM

Oh, no!

Anyway....

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 21, 2025 03:42 PM (dPfyF)

63 Hunter Big Mad that the gravy train is OVAH and nobody wants his ridiculous "artwork" anymore

he has no influence to peddle

He can't do anything positive, but I think he's in "nobody move, or the n..... gets it" territory now.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 21, 2025 03:42 PM (Riz8t)

64 Hillary wasn't supposed to lose. She really did fuck everything up.

Posted by: Accomack on the Sheepscot at July 21, 2025 03:42 PM (HaTLf)

65 And as a note of how long USAID has been crooked...Obama's mother worked for them...

Posted by: 18-1 at July 21, 2025 03:42 PM (t0Rmr)

66 Hunter did not kill himself

Posted by: doug at July 21, 2025 03:42 PM (Hy+R4)

67 I’m waiting for Hunter to tell us Obama was gayer than a Liberace Tupperware Party with Bad of Dicks favors.

Posted by: Vengeance at July 21, 2025 03:42 PM (/Mfdi)

68 >> -18% are unsure

Does this match the percentage of the population who are mentally challenged? Because it feels like it matches that.
Posted by: Vengeance at July 21, 2025 03:40 PM (/Mfdi)


It's probably the folks who avoid paying attention to politics if at all possible. My guess is, they have memories of the Democrat Party being "the party for helping poor folks," but then they also vaguely remember hearing something about how it wants to give sex changes to third-graders. Thus, "unsure."

Posted by: Dr. T at July 21, 2025 03:43 PM (jGGMD)

69 USAID was a spy front back in the cold war days, so looking back on it, it should have been obvious it was still a front for the deep state.
Posted by: 18-1 at July 21, 2025 03:39 PM (t0Rmr)
---
Mike Benz said the very anagram is an op. To make you think that this was foreign aid.

But it's not, it's a fund to "develop the US interest" in whatever country it finds itself. Obama, started using it to develop "America's interest" in America. So that the current zeitgeist had a bulwark against change.

Obama kind of exposed this when his IRA was so hot on keeping conservative organizations from getting the status of 501c3

Posted by: Axeman at July 21, 2025 03:43 PM (krQz2)

70 Is our DU Liason amongst us? My friend (yes, I have them!) just sent me a bunch of screenshots of a thread on a person considering leaving the country because of Trump, considering Europe, France, Spain and Portugal. It’s a hoot! We have such gems as not considering Canada because it’s too expensive, Costa Rica too dangerous, same with Mexico, also Canada has strict visa requirements. It’s really….something.

Posted by: Piper at July 21, 2025 03:43 PM (pZEOD)

71 I repeat... Hunter is using again.

nah, if he uses again he'll go straight past profane to incomprehensible.

Posted by: DaveA at July 21, 2025 03:43 PM (FhXTo)

72 "I can also confirm that Michele Obama has a giant penis."

Posted by: Hunter Biden at July 21, 2025 03:43 PM (oSEaw)

73 Democrats' Fundraising Collapses, Causing People to Wonder: Was the Democrats' Funding Almost All Government Money Laundered Through NGOs?

So quite seriously ? Yes. But so are things like The Chamber of Commerce.

This is hard for "you and me" to grasp - because you and me aren't giving a dime to any of these people.

But remember Sven ? He was pretty open and honest about being a donor. And that's tax deductible. And I'm not banging on Sven. He's a straight shooter in my book.

jwest ? Another fellow I like. You think he doesn't deduct contributions to this start-up business or that politician ? I'd be disappointed if he didn't. And if I ever make it up to Michigan on vacation ? I hope that restaurant he was trying to start up for the daughters is running. Sign me up for the country fried steak and eggs.

So places like the "CoC" ? Or Black Lives Matter ? Or Move On ? All funded, either by taxes directly or work arounds.

That's how corrupt our system works.

Posted by: Man Without A Party at July 21, 2025 03:43 PM (k+T0p)

74 Was the Democrats' Funding Almost All Government Money Laundered Through NGOs?
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Sure looks like it. It's a frightening thought actually.

Posted by: WisRich at July 21, 2025 03:43 PM (G0vdT)

75 Oh boy, this is great!

Posted by: Flounder at July 21, 2025 03:43 PM (0sNs1)

76 Nope.

Just an asshole.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 21, 2025 03:40 PM (GBKbO)

wait...when did this happen???

Posted by: kallisto at July 21, 2025 03:43 PM (dCxaZ)

77 "Was the Democrats' Funding Almost All Government Money Laundered Through NGOs?"


The Magic Eight ball says....yes.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at July 21, 2025 03:43 PM (e5NfL)

78 And as a note of how long USAID has been crooked...Obama's mother worked for them...

Posted by: 18-1 at July 21, 2025 03:42 PM (t0Rmr)
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So did AOC.

Posted by: Axeman at July 21, 2025 03:43 PM (krQz2)

79 We only investigate things that benefit us and our lobbyists financially.

Posted by: GOP at July 21, 2025 03:43 PM (/U5Yz)

80 "Hunter Big Mad that the gravy train is OVAH"

Nobody will front him toot and he can't even beg free tastes anymore.

Posted by: Everybody's Codetalking At gp at July 21, 2025 03:44 PM (klf3J)

81 A crackhead's gonna crackhead.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 21, 2025 03:44 PM (i24o9)

82
I like the suspicion that Hunter is threatening to nuke the DNC by continuing to throw public fits. It warms the cockles of my cold, black heart.
Posted by: Archimedes

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

He's been pardoned. He could go Chernobyl on the DNC with what he knows.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 21, 2025 03:44 PM (HL/Ld)

83 Hunter did not kill himself
Posted by: doug at July 21, 2025 03:42 PM (Hy+R4)


I think the correct usage is "Hunter will not have killed himself."

Posted by: Dr. T at July 21, 2025 03:44 PM (jGGMD)

84 Hunter did not kill himself
Posted by: doug


It'll be a damn shame to wake up to a news story abount Hunter being found behind a Waffle House dumpster with a needle in his arm.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 21, 2025 03:44 PM (hu2N2)

85 Hunter and Jill should team up and write an unvarnished account of their lives. I'd buy that book.
Posted by: mr tmz

Have that girl that Joe molested in the shower into the mix too.

Posted by: Operator Error at July 21, 2025 03:44 PM (3OLGs)

86 Democrats' Fundraising Collapses, Causing People to Wonder: Was the Democrats' Funding Almost All Government Money Laundered Through NGOs?
________________________________

I still don't think the perceived "Billionaire" donors were playing with their own money. There was a large exodus of the "big whale" donors from the DNC. They used Kamala Harris's flippant use of donations for their excuse to step aside. But, I think their non-participation is more related to the tax payer dollars no longer passing through the gambit (Established foundation and grant depot; transferred through cycles to non-profits, then back to a "legit" foundation run by these billionaires, or sitting on its board).

I think the John Morgan's and the Lindy Li's were allowing their names to be used to give a veil of legitimacy, but the money wasn't coming from them. Their exodus is more related to self-preservation legally than any partisan beliefs.

Posted by: Orson at July 21, 2025 03:45 PM (dIske)

87 There is no business rationale for giving the Obamas 100 million dollars for book and production deals, that money most assuredly is money laundered through NGO's.

Remember, the grant money goes out, there is zero financial auditing of the entities that get that money.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 21, 2025 03:45 PM (XV/Pl)

88 He can't do anything positive, but I think he's in "nobody move, or the n..... gets it" territory now.
Posted by: Archimedes at July 21, 2025 03:42 PM

Over/under on when he's found in a ditch with enough fentanyl in him to kill a blue whale?

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 21, 2025 03:45 PM (dPfyF)

89 76 Nope.

Just an asshole.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 21, 2025 03:40 PM (GBKbO)

wait...when did this happen???
Posted by: kallisto at July 21, 2025 03:43 PM (dCxaZ)

=======

I know two, count 'em two, Latin words.

Progress!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 21, 2025 03:45 PM (GBKbO)

90 So, which Dem power broker will send a condolences message on Hunter's coming suicide before he's actually dead?

Posted by: 18-1 at July 21, 2025 03:45 PM (t0Rmr)

91 78 And as a note of how long USAID has been crooked...Obama's mother worked for them...

Posted by: 18-1 at July 21, 2025 03:42 PM (t0Rmr)
---
So did AOC.
Posted by: Axeman at July 21, 2025 03:43 PM (krQz2)

They were both IC plants or working for the IC is my conspiracy theory that I totally believe.

Posted by: CaliGirl at July 21, 2025 03:45 PM (hs4ik)

92 ANOTHER ONE: Woman Shot In Butt By Gun She Brought Into MRI Scan

-
Sounds like malpractice to me.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Lying Dogface Pony Soldier at July 21, 2025 03:46 PM (L/fGl)

93 82 He's been pardoned. He could go Chernobyl on the DNC with what he knows.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 21, 2025 03:44 PM (HL/Ld)

======

Well, unless he's used Schedule 1 drugs recreationally since the pardon date.

That could be amusing.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 21, 2025 03:46 PM (GBKbO)

94
Dims (19-Jan-2025): The spice must flow!

Dims (19-Jul-2025): WHO CUT OFF THE FLOW OF THE SPICE!!!!

WHO, GODDAMMIT??!!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh![ at July 21, 2025 03:46 PM (xG4kz)

95 It’s almost as if TJM is clairvoyant.

===

Ok, what stocks should I go buy?
Posted by: As if the average Dem could lift a battle axe at July 21, 2025 03:40 PM

He remarked on an earlier Thread that some Director's-Cut Laser Discs are quite valuable.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 21, 2025 03:46 PM (0sNs1)

96 I still don't think the perceived "Billionaire" donors were playing with their own money.


NO DEM ever plays with their own money.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 21, 2025 03:46 PM (hu2N2)

97 The GOPe will really need to buckle down and get creative in order to screw this up!

Posted by: Weasel at July 21, 2025 03:46 PM (FdjOh)

98 Raising the question: did DOGE get lucky, or were USAID and related orgs targeted for this specific reason?
Posted by: Archimedes at July 21, 2025 03:38 PM (Riz8t)
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I recall DOGE saying that USAID was the most uncooperative agency to allow access so they started there.

Posted by: WisRich at July 21, 2025 03:46 PM (G0vdT)

99 It's probably the folks who avoid paying attention to politics if at all possible. My guess is, they have memories of the Democrat Party being "the party for helping poor folks," but then they also vaguely remember hearing something about how it wants to give sex changes to third-graders. Thus, "unsure."
Posted by: Dr. T at July 21, 2025 03:43 PM (jGGMD)

A large proportion is just people who don't want to give away their views because it can be dangerous.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 21, 2025 03:46 PM (8avO+)

100 That blanket pardon that Hunter Biden got may come back to bite the Dems on the ass.
Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper at July 21, 2025 03:42 PM (k1E2D)


He did not! Wait, what are we talking about?

Posted by: Ashley Biden at July 21, 2025 03:46 PM (jGGMD)

101 It's probably the folks who avoid paying attention to politics if at all possible.

Just because you don't take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics doesn't take an interest in you - Pericles

And that's about all need to be said. Its the same as "but that's just my opinion". Well, if your opinion is "Always look on the bright side" while we're marching to the camps ? Fuck your opinion.

Pretending this shit doesn't matter doesn't make you above it. It makes you a problem. Talk less.

Posted by: Man Without A Party at July 21, 2025 03:47 PM (k+T0p)

102 Dims (19-Jan-2025): The spice must flow!

Dims (19-Jul-2025): WHO CUT OFF THE FLOW OF THE SPICE!!!!

WHO, GODDAMMIT??!!

Out: Trump as the Emperor of Mankind

In: Trump as the Kwisatz Haderach

Posted by: 18-1 at July 21, 2025 03:47 PM (t0Rmr)

103 @86

>>I think the John Morgan's and the Lindy Li's were allowing their names to be used to give a veil of legitimacy, but the money wasn't coming from them. Their exodus is more related to self-preservation legally than any partisan beliefs.

I think they do front the money but then they get made whole on the backend.

That backend is systematically being dismantled.

Except for HIV and condemn funding for Africa.

Somebody better keep an eye on those orgs.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 21, 2025 03:47 PM (XV/Pl)

104 My suspicion...Hunter has run out of money for coke, hookers, and beer...and he is PISSED

Posted by: 18-1 at July 21, 2025 03:41 PM (t0Rmr)

It would be a shame if he committed suicide by shooting himself in the back of the head multiple times.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 21, 2025 03:47 PM (i24o9)

105 I still don't think the perceived "Billionaire" donors were playing with their own money.


NO DEM ever plays with their own money.
Posted by: rickb223 at July 21, 2025 03:46 PM (hu2N2)

Certainly one of "Soroses NGOs" was getting USAID money for its elect a criminal DA program.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 21, 2025 03:48 PM (8avO+)

106 A TIPP poll finds that a near majority of the country brands the Democrats as the party of radicals.

Even my very liberal, retired union teacher sister in law, says that teachers who push the gender and trans issues are activists, not educators. I don't think the ultra liberal democrats understand how radical the whole trans business is. In the midwest, even liberals think it is nuts.

Posted by: nerdygirl at July 21, 2025 03:48 PM (0Htd1)

107 He sure likes talking.
Hunter must have got his hands on an ounce.

Posted by: wth at July 21, 2025 03:48 PM (v0R5T)

108 I know two, count 'em two, Latin words.

Progress!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 21, 2025 03:45 PM

PLURA DISCE

Posted by: GAIVS KILROYNIVS at July 21, 2025 03:48 PM (0sNs1)

109
by sundown thursday, they'll announce that hunter is entering re-hab (again) and could we all please respect his privacy & wish him well as he undergoes this difficult stage of his life story

Posted by: AltonJackson at July 21, 2025 03:49 PM (tljrc)

110 I'm old enough to remember DogEater's Wing-Man and Butt-Bitch AGs suing companies owned by and/or producing products preferred by conservatives -- who would inevitably settle (given the feral government's bottomless pit of lawyers, guns, & money) for multiple millions of dollars in fines ... and then distributing those monies to Lunatic Leftist Causes and Organizations.

Shit times, shit times ...

And they say racketeering, conspiracy, sedition treason, deprivation of rights under color of law, and all manner of other criminality doesn't pay!

Posted by: ShainS -- Make Alligator Alcatraz the Gulf of Gator Gitmo! at July 21, 2025 03:49 PM (KU4xk)

111 I don't think the ultra liberal democrats understand how radical the whole trans business is. In the midwest, even liberals think it is nuts.

In my blue area all the AWFLs brag about having tranny kids and aggressively pair their kids up with groomers whenever they can...

Posted by: 18-1 at July 21, 2025 03:49 PM (t0Rmr)

112 I know two, count 'em two, Latin words.

Progress!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 21, 2025 03:45 PM (GBKbO)

——-

Assholius Maximus?

Posted by: Duke Lowell at July 21, 2025 03:49 PM (u73oe)

113 Except for HIV and condemn funding for Africa.

Somebody better keep an eye on those orgs.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 21, 2025 03:47 PM (XV/Pl)

Those scams are pretty old and crusty by now. They probably predate the current day finding currents.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 21, 2025 03:49 PM (8avO+)

114
carpe diem -- the per diem payment you receive for working in a carpeted office.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh![ at July 21, 2025 03:49 PM (xG4kz)

115 "Hunter must have got his hands on an ounce."

For sure he'll photograph it sitting on the scale.

Posted by: Everybody's Codetalking At gp at July 21, 2025 03:49 PM (klf3J)

116 I suspect one reason we're getting so many tribalist "democratic socialists" up in front of New York and Minneapolis, and add Chicago and maybe Los Angeles, is that the machine is broken. The old crooked Democrats at least knew they couldn't cook the golden goose.
Nobody's funding the crooks anymore so now the real Democrats don't have opposition.

Posted by: gKWVE at July 21, 2025 03:49 PM (gKWVE)

117 Crack is wack, yo.

Posted by: Bunter Hiden at July 21, 2025 03:49 PM (i0Uo8)

118 GO HUNTER GO!

Posted by: The ARC of History! at July 21, 2025 03:49 PM (xTIDn)

119 Is Joe Biden aware of Hunter's rants?

Posted by: mr tmz at July 21, 2025 03:49 PM (rJ48h)

120 Hunter Biden will not have killed himself and if he does, it will not have happened, but it will have been a good thing and here's why that will be.


Hah... burn that shit down you magnificent piece of shit!!

Posted by: eleven at July 21, 2025 03:50 PM (fV+MH)

121 112 I know two, count 'em two, Latin words.

Progress!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 21, 2025 03:45 PM (GBKbO)

——-

Assholius Maximus?
Posted by: Duke Lowell at July 21, 2025 03:49 PM (u73oe)

======

Alumna and alumnus.

I made a joke at David Hogg's expense calling him an alumna.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 21, 2025 03:50 PM (GBKbO)

122 I loathe and despise "debaters" who can only speed-spew the leftist talking points they've been given and Gish Gallop over people without addressing a single goddamn point, yet get lifted up on the shoulders of their fellow leftists retards as heroes and intellectual giants and standard-bearers of the cause. This is one more example of our degenerate society.

Posted by: Like that blue haired literal cocksucker Destiny at July 21, 2025 03:50 PM (TbWk/)

123 Sorry, TJM. "Prometheus" is only one word. And it's Greek.

Posted by: Bulg at July 21, 2025 03:50 PM (77rzZ)

124 ANOTHER ONE: Woman Shot In Butt By Gun She Brought Into MRI Scan
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Sounds like malpractice to me.

Last time I had one of those they made me strip down to skivvies and put on a humiliation, er I mean "hospital" gown. Where was she hiding the gun?

Posted by: Oddbob at July 21, 2025 03:50 PM (/y8xj)

125 In my blue area all the AWFLs brag about having tranny kids and aggressively pair their kids up with groomers whenever they can...
Posted by: 18-1 at July 21, 2025 03:49 PM

Well...MA.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 21, 2025 03:50 PM (dPfyF)

126 My friend (yes, I have them!)

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I had a friend once. It just didn't work out, that's all.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Lying Dogface Pony Soldier at July 21, 2025 03:50 PM (L/fGl)

127 Tell me that the DNC raising 8.x million in June was residual graft. Lie if you must. Given their huge amount of free services from the FNM they are still a high risk to the country even if they get zero actual trackable donations.

Posted by: PaleRider at July 21, 2025 03:50 PM (bP/i4)

128 I know two, count 'em two, Latin words.

Well I know three!

Veni, vidi, vici

Posted by: The Italics guy that shows up when people don't close their tags at July 21, 2025 03:50 PM (t0Rmr)

129 Hunter Biden will not have killed himself and if he does, it will not have happened, but it will have been a good thing and here's why that will be.

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I saw the video. Hunter Biden buried himself.

Posted by: Axeman at July 21, 2025 03:50 PM (krQz2)

130 carpe diem -- the per diem payment you receive for working in a carpeted office.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh![ at July 21, 2025 03:49 PM (xG4kz)
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That would be carpet diem!

Posted by: WisRich at July 21, 2025 03:50 PM (G0vdT)

131 I don't think the ultra liberal democrats understand how radical the whole trans business is. In the midwest, even liberals think it is nuts.

In my blue area all the AWFLs brag about having tranny kids and aggressively pair their kids up with groomers whenever they can...
Posted by: 18-1 at July 21, 2025 03:49 PM (t0Rmr)

They know it fine, its how they show their moral superiority over the proles. They may have not anticipated the backlash...

Posted by: Oldcat at July 21, 2025 03:51 PM (8avO+)

132 Huh? Well, considering Axios says the Ds are favored to retake the House next year, I guess money doesn't matter in elections.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 21, 2025 03:51 PM (0eaVi)

133 The two guys in the Texas Dude v Snobby Reporter both annoyed me.

Points and arguments buried under logical fallacies and fast talking. 😊

Posted by: WitchDoktor at July 21, 2025 03:51 PM (fz7Mb)

134 I don't think the ultra liberal democrats understand how radical the whole trans business is.

That sentence, right there, is worth talking more about.

Because I don't think its "ultra" or "liberal" or "democrats" at all.

I'm sure its people that are divorced from the idea of cause and effect. They span all ages and sexes and politics and even tax brackets.

Its cause and effect. And its sped up since Covid.

Posted by: Man Without A Party at July 21, 2025 03:51 PM (k+T0p)

135
It's a write off, Jerry.
They just write it off.

Posted by: Kramer at July 21, 2025 03:51 PM (XQo4F)

136 FUCK YOU, PAY ME!

OR ELSE!

Posted by: Hunter Biden, Running Out Of Cash! at July 21, 2025 03:51 PM (xTIDn)

137 carpe diem -- the per diem payment you receive for working in a carpeted office.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh![ at July 21, 2025 03:49 PM (xG4kz)
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That would be carpet diem!
Posted by: WisRich at July 21, 2025 03:50 PM (G0vdT)

Its the daily catch of carp.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 21, 2025 03:51 PM (8avO+)

138 Carpe Diem - the daily pay fishing for carp.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at July 21, 2025 03:51 PM (S/Y4j)

139 Well, hunter sounds a bit fucked up. Matches the same kind of truculent stupidity he has displayed before, so I think he's authentic.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 21, 2025 03:51 PM (zZu0s)

140 Ok, we’ll, now you know four.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at July 21, 2025 03:51 PM (u73oe)

141 >>Where was she hiding the gun?


In her Ham Holster?

Posted by: garrett at July 21, 2025 03:51 PM (oSEaw)

142 ANOTHER ONE: Woman Shot In Butt By Gun She Brought Into MRI Scan


Had a vasectomy. Went to get an MRI done. Tech said "no way. Not unless you want your nuts up around your throat."

Surgical stainless steel, also known as 316L or 304 stainless steel, is often considered non-magnetic. However, this is not entirely accurate. While it is true that surgical stainless steel is less magnetic than other types of steel, it can still exhibit some magnetic properties under certain conditions.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 21, 2025 03:51 PM (hu2N2)

143 Where was she hiding the gun?
Posted by: Oddbob at July 21, 2025 03:50 PM (/y8xj)

Don't ask.

Posted by: a metal buttplug at July 21, 2025 03:52 PM (gKWVE)

144 I know two, count 'em two, Latin words.
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Latine nescio.

Posted by: Axeman at July 21, 2025 03:52 PM (krQz2)

145 To the point where a whole generation of Democrat operatives have literally no idea how to run campaigns.
--
As Hunter points out, Axlerod, Plouffe, Carville, et al.--none of them have won a race this decade.
And that's the best the Dems have.

E.g., the campaign chair of PA--an absolutely must-win state for Kamala--was a 33 year old woman, not even 10 years from her Masters, whose last big job before co-chairing in her 1st campaign job for Biden in 2020 was some sort of labor union liaison in Pittsburg.

How is that anywhere near the experience you have to have in a must-win state?

That's all they have/had: Overwhelming money advantages and massive free air support from the media.
1 is gone; 2 is dying.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 21, 2025 03:52 PM (uEVfM)

146 I'm sure its people that are divorced from the idea of cause and effect.

I've been told many times by leftists that the idea of cause and effect is racist, sexist, and homophobic

Posted by: 18-1 at July 21, 2025 03:52 PM (t0Rmr)

147 132 Huh? Well, considering Axios says the Ds are favored to retake the House next year, I guess money doesn't matter in elections.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 21, 2025 03:51 PM (0eaVi)

=======

I mean...maybe it'll happen.

Hard to argue against normal political calculus.

But...what is the normal political calculus for the only midterm in a second, non-contiguous presidential administration where the term in between was viewed as stolen by a majority of the public while the opposition party is seeing massive blows to its ability to raise money in preparation for reduced GOTV efforts?

I guess we'll find out next year.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 21, 2025 03:52 PM (GBKbO)

148 Is Joe Biden aware of Hunter's rants?

Huh? Wha?

Posted by: Joe Biden, Looking For Ice Cream! at July 21, 2025 03:53 PM (xTIDn)

149 136 FUCK YOU, PAY ME!

OR ELSE!
Posted by: Hunter Biden, Running Out Of Cash! at July 21, 2025 03:51 PM (xTIDn)
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Wow, for a second there, I thought you were the WNBA players.

Posted by: WisRich at July 21, 2025 03:53 PM (G0vdT)

150 I'm sure its people that are divorced from the idea of cause and effect. They span all ages and sexes and politics and even tax brackets.

Its cause and effect. And its sped up since Covid.
Posted by: Man Without A Party at July 21, 2025 03:51 PM (k+T0p)

Its a social climber thing. Having a kid with sports trophies or piano lessons is out. Carving them up to match the fashion is in. But it is still the same tallying points on the list of fashionable things for clout.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 21, 2025 03:53 PM (8avO+)

151 Huh? Well, considering Axios says the Ds are favored to retake the House next year, I guess money doesn't matter in elections.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 21, 2025 03:51 PM (0eaVi)
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Or apparently, a 19% approval rating.

Posted by: Axeman at July 21, 2025 03:53 PM (krQz2)

152 137. 138...Hordemind!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 21, 2025 03:53 PM (dPfyF)

153 The commander of the Navy detachment at DLI would always say, "Seize the day, Shipmate!"

It got damned annoying after a while.

Posted by: Bulg at July 21, 2025 03:53 PM (77rzZ)

154 Had a vasectomy. Went to get an MRI done. Tech said "no way. Not unless you want your nuts up around your throat."

Wow! You got the fancy one with the on/off valve?

Posted by: MkY at July 21, 2025 03:53 PM (cPGH3)

155 They leave metal in there during vasectomy? They didn't tell me that. I figured it was all inert ligatures or whatever.

Posted by: Everybody's Codetalking At gp at July 21, 2025 03:54 PM (klf3J)

156 The bacon must flow.

Posted by: Aaron Burr at July 21, 2025 03:54 PM (EQg1P)

157 ANOTHER ONE: Woman Shot In Butt By Gun She Brought Into MRI Scan


Had a vasectomy. Went to get an MRI done. Tech said "no way. Not unless you want your nuts up around your throat."

Surgical stainless steel, also known as 316L or 304 stainless steel, is often considered non-magnetic. However, this is not entirely accurate. While it is true that surgical stainless steel is less magnetic than other types of steel, it can still exhibit some magnetic properties under certain conditions.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 21, 2025 03:51 PM (hu2N2)

I read that the dude that was killed in an MRI because he had a chain around his neck had a 20# chain around his neck. Sounded like an aspiring ignoble award winner to me.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 21, 2025 03:54 PM (i24o9)

158 Is Joe Biden aware of Hunter's rants?

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What do I care what dressing he puts on his salad?!!!

Posted by: ex-President Charlie Foxtrot at July 21, 2025 03:54 PM (krQz2)

159 In her Ham Holster?

The big surprise? It was an antique Purdy sidelock.

Posted by: Oddbob at July 21, 2025 03:54 PM (/y8xj)

160 Nobody warned me about bringing my gun into MRI. Just about piercings, jewelry, coins and the like. How could I know?

Posted by: Ass Shot Genius at July 21, 2025 03:54 PM (G5+As)

161 >>In my blue area all the AWFLs brag about having tranny kids and aggressively pair their kids up with groomers whenever they can...

I have pointed this out many times over the years.

In the early-mid 90s, it was having a Gay Kid.
By the late 90s, it was having a Gay Kid with AIDS.
By the Mid-Late 2000s, it was having a Gay Son/Daughter In-Law.

In between, you could claim the same Virtue Status Bonus by adopting an African Child.

It's Branding to these people.

Posted by: garrett at July 21, 2025 03:54 PM (oSEaw)

162 In my blue area all the AWFLs brag about having tranny kids and aggressively pair their kids up with groomers whenever they can...
________________________
A trans kid is the ultimate status symbol

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at July 21, 2025 03:55 PM (E0uAQ)

163 Has American discourse really fallen so far that anyone gives the slightest bit of a damn what Hunter Biden has to say about anything? I fear it is so.

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You should always pay attention to the grievances of disgruntled insiders..... lots of good evidence is intense words.

Posted by: Lemmiwinks at July 21, 2025 03:55 PM (GBH2X)

164 Cash on hand as of June 30:

Republican National Committee: $80.8 million

Democratic National Committee: $15.2 million

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

Putin, you magnificent bastard! Is there nothing you can't do?

Posted by: ShainS -- Make Alligator Alcatraz the Gulf of Gator Gitmo! at July 21, 2025 03:55 PM (KU4xk)

165 My prediction on Hunter is going to be a "disappearance."

He'll hold on for a short time waiting to see what's in the Old Man's probate will. He won't be happy with that. And, Dr. Jill will make sure he isn't.

Then *poof*. Where's Hunter? They'll find his remains a year or two later.

Posted by: Orson at July 21, 2025 03:55 PM (dIske)

166 Had a vasectomy. Went to get an MRI done. Tech said "no way. Not unless you want your nuts up around your throat."

Wow! You got the fancy one with the on/off valve?

Posted by: MkY at July 21, 2025 03:53 PM (cPGH3)

I am going to invent one that you can remote turn on and off with bluetooth. Imagine the possibilities.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 21, 2025 03:55 PM (i24o9)

167 by sundown thursday, they'll announce that hunter is entering re-hab (again) and could we all please respect his privacy & wish him well as he undergoes this difficult stage of his life story
Posted by: AltonJackson at July 21, 2025 03:49 PM (tljrc)
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And by "rehab," we mean having an electrical probe accidentally punched through his ear drum into his brain.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at July 21, 2025 03:55 PM (XZ5S6)

168 As Hunter points out, Axlerod, Plouffe, Carville, et al.--none of them have won a race this decade. And that's the best the Dems have.

Anybody else remember the fat fuck that was always on board with the establishment Republican candidate ?

Posted by: Man Without A Party at July 21, 2025 03:55 PM (k+T0p)

169 how did we jump to vasectomies ???

Posted by: runner at July 21, 2025 03:55 PM (g47mK)

170 A large proportion is just people who don't want to give away their views because it can be dangerous.
Posted by: Oldcat at July 21, 2025 03:46 PM (8avO+)

I learned the hard way that the WORST thing the parent of a Teenager can be... is right. They will never forgive you for telling them the hard truth, and then later being proven correct.... and the vast majority will NEVER admit it.

Most of the American populace, is now in that same mind space. On Covid, on Trump, on Tariffs... on immigration... most cannot and will not admit that they were wrong... and just like a Teenager... will now speak really LOUDLY trying to drown out the Parent... and are throwing Nation Wide Temper Tantrums.

Posted by: Romeo13 at July 21, 2025 03:55 PM (mP0Kj)

171 I agree with Hunter.

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at July 21, 2025 03:56 PM (FCrpy)

172 132 Huh? Well, considering Axios says the Ds are favored to retake the House next year, I guess money doesn't matter in elections.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 21, 2025 03:51 PM (0eaVi)

=======

I mean...maybe it'll happen.

Hard to argue against normal political calculus.

But...what is the normal political calculus for the only midterm in a second, non-contiguous presidential administration where the term in between was viewed as stolen by a majority of the public while the opposition party is seeing massive blows to its ability to raise money in preparation for reduced GOTV efforts?

I guess we'll find out next year.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 21, 2025 03:52 PM (GBKbO)

I guess Axios doesn't realize that Texas redistricting alone gives the R's plus 5. And the current day razor thin Congressional margin that never shifts much is very, very rare in US history.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 21, 2025 03:56 PM (8avO+)

173 Well, I suppose Son of Soros, Bill Gates and the Communist guy who lives in China (He's not Chinese) can fund them.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 21, 2025 03:56 PM (2GCMq)

174 When you say 'People', you mean other than us, right?

Posted by: Tonypete at July 21, 2025 03:56 PM (cYBz/)

175 155 They leave metal in there during vasectomy? They didn't tell me that. I figured it was all inert ligatures or whatever.
Posted by: Everybody's Codetalking At gp at July 21, 2025 03:54 PM (klf3J)

Sometimes metal clips are used.

The method used makes a vas deferens in effectiveness.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at July 21, 2025 03:56 PM (fz7Mb)

176 "Not unless you want your nuts up around your throat."

Wait. Let me think about that. They are really nice nuts.

Posted by: Everybody's Codetalking At gp at July 21, 2025 03:56 PM (klf3J)

177 I've had crappy diems.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Lying Dogface Pony Soldier at July 21, 2025 03:56 PM (L/fGl)

178 In my blue area all the AWFLs brag about having tranny kids and aggressively pair their kids up with groomers whenever they can...
________________________
A trans kid is the ultimate status symbol

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at July 21, 2025 03:55 PM (E0uAQ)

I have a teacher/in-law who has a tranny kid. She is not welcome in our home.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 21, 2025 03:56 PM (i24o9)

179 I love it when they eat their own.

Posted by: nerdygirl at July 21, 2025 03:56 PM (0Htd1)

180 They leave metal in there during vasectomy? They didn't tell me that. I figured it was all inert ligatures or whatever.
Posted by: Everybody's Codetalking


Clipped in 95. Don't know if they've changed it since then. Told my GP and he said, "oh, yeah. Sorry".

Posted by: rickb223 at July 21, 2025 03:56 PM (hu2N2)

181
What's hilarious about that anti-Clooney rant is the visuals provided by the editor. Clooney's kajillion-dollar Italian villa, Clooney ascending to a jet all palsy with Obama. All the stereotypes about the undeservedly rich -- and Hunter is furious that he isn't part of it.

The Clintons made bank, the Obamas made bank, and the Bidens... fucking furious.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 21, 2025 03:56 PM (HL/Ld)

182 Hunter just found out that he's not actually an in-demand artist. Like when the ugly girl in the movie finds out the hot guy asked her out as a joke.

He's not taking it well.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at July 21, 2025 03:57 PM (KbCG3)

183 172 I guess Axios doesn't realize that Texas redistricting alone gives the R's plus 5. And the current day razor thin Congressional margin that never shifts much is very, very rare in US history.
Posted by: Oldcat at July 21, 2025 03:56 PM (8avO+)

======

OH has to redistrict this year by law (the 2024 map was interim).

That's probably going to be another 2-4 seats as well.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 21, 2025 03:57 PM (GBKbO)

184 >>Sometimes metal clips are used.

The method used makes a vas deferens in effectiveness.


I thought they just threw and Improved Half Hitch on there and hit the Tag End with a lighter?

Posted by: garrett at July 21, 2025 03:57 PM (oSEaw)

185 Had a vasectomy. Went to get an MRI done. Tech said "no way. Not unless you want your nuts up around your throat."

Surgical stainless steel, also known as 316L or 304 stainless steel, is often considered non-magnetic. However, this is not entirely accurate. While it is true that surgical stainless steel is less magnetic than other types of steel, it can still exhibit some magnetic properties under certain conditions.
Posted by: rickb223 at July 21, 2025 03:51 PM (hu2N2)

Whoa! They left metal stuff behind in the, uh, affected area?

Posted by: Schnorflepuppy (OT but harmless) at July 21, 2025 03:57 PM (v23vE)

186 It’s creepy how much he sounds like his dad. The ease of lying at high speed is genetic.

Posted by: Mad Max in VA at July 21, 2025 03:57 PM (8iNlE)

187 19 Archmere Academy must be really proud of this graduate.

Posted by: Dirac_Delta at July 21, 2025 03:37 PM (9EO0O)

they probably are

my bro and my cousin both attended there. Brother told me they were teaching his class how communism is the best form of government, back in the 1980s

Posted by: kallisto at July 21, 2025 03:57 PM (dCxaZ)

188 The method used makes a vas deferens in effectiveness.
Posted by: WitchDoktor at July 21, 2025 03:56 PM (fz7Mb)

Oh, very well done!

Posted by: hobbitopoly at July 21, 2025 03:57 PM (k9OZB)

189 162 In my blue area all the AWFLs brag about having tranny kids and aggressively pair their kids up with groomers whenever they can...
________________________
A trans kid is the ultimate status symbol
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at July 21, 2025 03:55 PM (E0uAQ)

Among this particular sick subset of society it is. Why it is just baffles me. And so much for that protective maternal instinct. Fucking with your kids head, destroying their endocrine system and mutilating their sex organs for likes and admiration from your progtard friends? That makes you one of the worst kind of debauched fiends that could be.

Posted by: Fuck these people straight to hell at July 21, 2025 03:57 PM (TbWk/)

190 168 As Hunter points out, Axlerod, Plouffe, Carville, et al.--none of them have won a race this decade. And that's the best the Dems have.

Anybody else remember the fat fuck that was always on board with the establishment Republican candidate ?
Posted by: Man Without A Party at July 21, 2025 03:55 PM (k+T0p)

The media can't really ask valid questions of the newer Dem Political operators... they have done way too many illegal actions to submit to that much investigation.

Posted by: Romeo13 at July 21, 2025 03:57 PM (mP0Kj)

191 Anybody else remember the fat fuck that was always on board with the establishment Republican candidate ?
Posted by: Man Without A Party at July 21, 2025 03:55 PM

Hmmm...could you be a little more specific?

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 21, 2025 03:58 PM (dPfyF)

192 Had a vasectomy. Went to get an MRI done. Tech said "no way. Not unless you want your nuts up around your throat."

Wow! You got the fancy one with the on/off valve?

Posted by: MkY at July 21, 2025 03:53 PM (cPGH3)

I am going to invent one that you can remote turn on and off with bluetooth. Imagine the possibilities.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 21, 2025 03:55 PM (i24o9)

Someone leave a scalpel in there ?

Posted by: Oldcat at July 21, 2025 03:58 PM (8avO+)

193 My prediction on Hunter is going to be a "disappearance."

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Anal probes on a UFO for eternity.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Lying Dogface Pony Soldier at July 21, 2025 03:58 PM (L/fGl)

194 Tonsillectomy , not vasectomy !!

Posted by: runner at July 21, 2025 03:58 PM (g47mK)

195 "how did we jump to vasectomies ???
Posted by: runner "


No idea.

Shit happens.

Posted by: eleven at July 21, 2025 03:58 PM (fV+MH)

196 As I said earlier, keep dumping documents on the older Dems. Let Hunter go scorched Earth. Tell the younger Dems you are going after the old Dems and their minions. The younger Dems won't help the oldsters because the young want the power. Divide and conquer. Plus the younger Dems are lunatic Marxists. Keep pushing

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 21, 2025 03:58 PM (Uahmw)

197 Anybody else remember the fat fuck that was always on board with the establishment Republican candidate ?
Posted by: Man Without A Party at July 21, 2025 03:55 PM

Hmmm...could you be a little more specific?
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 21, 2025 03:58 PM (dPfyF)

Rove probably

Posted by: Oldcat at July 21, 2025 03:58 PM (8avO+)

198 how did we jump to vasectomies ???
Posted by: runner


MRI's sucking up all metal in the area. Enough to make a hidden gun go off & strong enough to strangle a guy using his necklaces.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 21, 2025 03:58 PM (hu2N2)

199 180 That's wild! It means I can keep em warm with an induction heater. Gonna have to stop putting them in microwave, though.

Posted by: Everybody's Codetalking At gp at July 21, 2025 03:59 PM (klf3J)

200 165 My prediction on Hunter is going to be a "disappearance."

He'll hold on for a short time waiting to see what's in the Old Man's probate will. He won't be happy with that. And, Dr. Jill will make sure he isn't.

Then *poof*. Where's Hunter? They'll find his remains a year or two later
Posted by: Orson at July 21, 2025 03:55 PM (dIske)

He's gonna run for something


at least he's believable when he's swearing unlike the focus group Dem's use to see which swear word to say.

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at July 21, 2025 03:59 PM (FCrpy)

201 Those discussions like that of the immigrant "journalist" and the white kid, surrounded by a circle of other kids, just seems pretty pointless. It's like striking a full hornet's nest with a baseball bat and trying to follow along with the 150mph speaking. I guess this is some kind of college thing? Who knows, but props to the kid who obviously is quite bright and quick on his feet.

Posted by: Lady in Black at July 21, 2025 03:59 PM (qBdHI)

202 I love it when they eat their own.
Posted by: nerdygirl at July 21, 2025 03:56 PM (0Htd1)
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Hampsters?

Posted by: Axeman at July 21, 2025 03:59 PM (krQz2)

203 Clooney hasn't been a brand in about a decade, unless pitching Netsprsso plays in Peoria in ways that elude me.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 21, 2025 03:59 PM (XV/Pl)

204 Got a vasectomy in '93?
Used the soldering iron, near as I could tell.

Posted by: MkY at July 21, 2025 03:59 PM (cPGH3)

205 > Is Joe Biden aware of Hunter's rants?

Joe's too busy getting chemotherapy. He's the first guy ever to get chemotherapy and keep his hair. That's how much of a superman Joe Biden is.

Posted by: bonhomme at July 21, 2025 04:00 PM (lIio7)

206 >>Had a vasectomy. Went to get an MRI done. Tech said "no way. Not unless you want your nuts up around your throat."


So, on Hot Windy Days you sound like a Wind Chime?

Posted by: garrett at July 21, 2025 04:00 PM (oSEaw)

207 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 21, 2025 04:00 PM (Zz0t1)

208 I am going to invent one that you can remote turn on and off with bluetooth. Imagine the possibilities.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder


Guy forgets. Leaves it on. Gets secretary pregnant.
Sues you.

Nah. Good idea though.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 21, 2025 04:00 PM (hu2N2)

209 "Anybody else remember the fat fuck that was always on board with the establishment Republican candidate ?"

Sean Hannity?

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at July 21, 2025 04:00 PM (E0uAQ)

210 Hell hath no fury like a Hunter scorned.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 21, 2025 04:00 PM (Zz0t1)

211 Anybody else remember the fat fuck that was always on board with the establishment Republican candidate ?

Jeb Bush has put together the best, most experienced campaign team in history!

Posted by: Jeb! at July 21, 2025 04:00 PM (xTIDn)

212 I always thought that George Clooney had that department store mannequin vibe going for him. Or a male model. He's one of those actors that you suspect is just playing himself. If he didn't look good, he wouldn't have made it in the business.

Posted by: nerdygirl at July 21, 2025 04:00 PM (0Htd1)

213 What are the odds?

Trump's $10B Lawsuit Against Rupert Murdoch Assigned to Obama-appointed Judge

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Lying Dogface Pony Soldier at July 21, 2025 04:00 PM (L/fGl)

214 Got a vasectomy in '93?
Used the soldering iron, near as I could tell.

Posted by: MkY at July 21, 2025 03:59 PM (cPGH3)
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The HQ way. Slap hot iron to it!

Posted by: Axeman at July 21, 2025 04:00 PM (krQz2)

215 Guy forgets. Leaves it on. Gets secretary pregnant.
Sues you.

Nah. Good idea though.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 21, 2025 04:00 PM (hu2N2)

I was hacked!

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 21, 2025 04:00 PM (i24o9)

216 Posted by: WitchDoktor at July 21, 2025 03:56 PM (fz7Mb)

Vasectomy puns? Really, WD?

Those really make testy. Kill 'em all!

Posted by: Bulg at July 21, 2025 04:00 PM (77rzZ)

217 203 Clooney hasn't been a brand in about a decade, unless pitching Netsprsso plays in Peoria in ways that elude me.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 21, 2025 03:59 PM (XV/Pl)

=======

He's never really been a movie star at all. Oh, sure, he's lead casts, but his movies have never had big box office appeal, the best being the Ocean's movies where he's, at best, the head of an ensemble in a relatively enduring and popular genre.

But on his own? Tank after tank.

He's a creation of Hollywood PR agents, and the only people dumb enough to buy Hollywood PR agent spin are Democrat politicians.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 21, 2025 04:01 PM (GBKbO)

218 Among this particular sick subset of society it is. Why it is just baffles me. And so much for that protective maternal instinct. Fucking with your kids head, destroying their endocrine system and mutilating their sex organs for likes and admiration from your progtard friends? That makes you one of the worst kind of debauched fiends that could be.
Posted by: Fuck these people straight to hell at July 21, 2025 03:57 PM (TbWk/)

Maternal instinct died with RvWade becoming a sacrament with the Dems. Pretending to think of murdering your own kids is the best thing ever leaves a big mark on the soul.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 21, 2025 04:01 PM (8avO+)

219 197 Anybody else remember the fat fuck that was always on board with the establishment Republican candidate ?
Posted by: Man Without A Party at July 21, 2025 03:55 PM

It couldn't have been me!

Posted by: Ann Coulter at July 21, 2025 04:01 PM (PiwSw)

220 I always thought that George Clooney had that department store mannequin vibe going for him.

===

THAT"S IT!!

Posted by: runner at July 21, 2025 04:01 PM (g47mK)

221 186 It’s creepy how much he sounds like his dad. The ease of lying at high speed is genetic.
Posted by: Mad Max in VA at July 21, 2025 03:57 PM (8iNlE)

Well, there's a lot of Joe's DNA in ol' Hunter. Probably had even more when he was peak showering age

Posted by: gKWVE at July 21, 2025 04:01 PM (gKWVE)

222 how did we jump to vasectomies ???
Posted by: runner

The balls of youse guys!!

Posted by: Tonypete at July 21, 2025 04:01 PM (cYBz/)

223 Sometimes metal clips are used.

The method used makes a vas deferens in effectiveness.
Posted by: WitchDoktor

I was picking my feeble brain really hard trying to think of a vas deferens joke, and you jump in and post a gem. Kudos!

Posted by: First Loser, Again at July 21, 2025 04:01 PM (G5+As)

224 Anybody else remember the fat fuck that was always on board with the establishment Republican candidate ?
Posted by: Man Without A Party at July 21, 2025 03:55 PM

Hmmm...could you be a little more specific?
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 21, 2025 03:58 PM (dPfyF)

Yeah that covers a lot of territory. Christie? Kristol? Goldberg? Williamson?

Posted by: A smorgasbord of fat fucks at July 21, 2025 04:01 PM (TbWk/)

225 I am going to invent one that you can remote turn on and off with bluetooth. Imagine the possibilities.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder


Guy forgets. Leaves it on. Gets secretary pregnant.
Sues you.

Nah. Good idea though.
Posted by: rickb223 at July 21, 2025 04:00 PM (hu2N2)

Or worse, secretary names her baby after you.

Posted by: Schnorflepuppy (OT but harmless) at July 21, 2025 04:02 PM (v23vE)

226 I always thought that George Clooney had that department store mannequin vibe going for him. Or a male model. He's one of those actors that you suspect is just playing himself. If he didn't look good, he wouldn't have made it in the business.

Posted by: nerdygirl at July 21, 2025 04:00 PM (0Htd1)

It's a safe bet that they ALL got their jobs by sucking dick, the men, the women, and the children, alike.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 21, 2025 04:02 PM (i24o9)

227 Joe's too busy getting chemotherapy. He's the first guy ever to get chemotherapy and keep his hair. That's how much of a superman Joe Biden is.

I get special chemotherapy, that the peasants don't get!

Posted by: Joe Biden, Living For The Next Twenty Years! at July 21, 2025 04:02 PM (xTIDn)

228 Joe's too busy getting chemotherapy. He's the first guy ever to get chemotherapy and keep his hair. That's how much of a superman Joe Biden is.
Posted by: bonhomme
.....

Oil cancer can only be cured with ice cream.

Posted by: wth at July 21, 2025 04:03 PM (v0R5T)

229 George Clooney had that hit as the Hippy Dippy Weatherman though.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at July 21, 2025 04:03 PM (fz7Mb)

230 The media can't really ask valid questions of the newer Dem Political operators... they have done way too many illegal actions to submit to that much investigation.
Posted by: Romeo13 at July 21, 2025 03:57 PM (mP0Kj)

The media today only knows what their handlers tell them.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 21, 2025 04:04 PM (8avO+)

231 Hmmm...could you be a little more specific?

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 21, 2025 03:58 PM (dPfyF)

Yeah - Karl Rove - as OldCat said.

Thats my constant point. The GOP does it to. Just not as well, and not as in your face, because they're still not in charge.

If this latest Trump thing actually reforms the GOP ? Hell, I wouldn't be all in, but I'd be in more than just the tip.

I like Trump. I criticize Trump, I think he fucks up a lot. But I like what he's doing. Couldn't sit more than five minutes at a table with him. But all in all ? Still like him in the big chair.

Now release whatever you've got on Epstein. It matters. Clear the books.

Posted by: Man Without A Party at July 21, 2025 04:04 PM (k+T0p)

232 > I read that the dude that was killed in an MRI because he had a chain around his neck had a 20# chain around his neck. Sounded like an aspiring ignoble award winner to me.

The latest version I heard was the guy with the chain was there with the lady who was getting the MRI. The lady needed help getting up. The MRI tech asked the chain guy to help get her up. Chain guy got sucked in when he entered the room.

That story makes no sense to me. How does the MRI tech not notice a freaking twenty pound chain around this guy's neck?

I've had MRIs. They ALWAYS ask you if you have any metal on you. They asked me several times on each visit. I'm sure they've all seen the videos of metal objects getting yanked into the machine and big burly guys trying and failing to pull them out.

Posted by: bonhomme at July 21, 2025 04:04 PM (lIio7)

233 The Democrats have gone radical extreme radical

did i mention the democrats are extreme ?

Posted by: SMOD at July 21, 2025 04:04 PM (RHGPo)

234 I always thought that George Clooney had that department store mannequin vibe going for him. Or a male model. He's one of those actors that you suspect is just playing himself. If he didn't look good, he wouldn't have made it in the business.

Posted by: nerdygirl at July 21, 2025 04:00 PM (0Htd1)
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Don't agree. Watch Welcome to Collinwood. Or Intolerable Cruelty, or O Brother.

When he wasn't playing the "hunk", he had quite a presence. Especially Collinwood, made pretty early in his movie career.

I don't like his politics, but I'm not going to be like the Hollywood commies and slag his talent, simply because of his politics.

Posted by: Axeman at July 21, 2025 04:04 PM (krQz2)

235 27 There's swears a lot. Then there's crackhead swears a lot.
Posted by: DaveA

Drug use does some brain damage.

Posted by: nerdygirl at July 21, 2025 04:04 PM (0Htd1)

236 I bet Quest Diagnostics can sell you a test to see if your nutsack rocks iron or not. They got tests for everything.

Posted by: Everybody's Codetalking At gp at July 21, 2025 04:04 PM (klf3J)

237 47
36 It’s almost as if TJM is clairvoyant.

Ok, what stocks should I go buy?
Posted by: As if the average Dem could lift a battle axe at July 21, 2025 03:40 PM (t0Rmr)


That’s a Nancy question…or eyepatch McCain if she’s busy.

Posted by: Cray Cray at July 21, 2025 04:05 PM (iAH/S)

238 BREAKING: Rep. Mark Green (R-TN) has just RESIGNED from Congress, reducing the GOP’s majority

He just ran for re-election months ago, and is now resigning because he wants a different job.

These people are incredibly selfish.
https://tinyurl.com/46et4s4y

Marko Green looks like he enjoys sipping penis.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at July 21, 2025 04:05 PM (/U5Yz)

239 Trump's $10B Lawsuit Against Rupert Murdoch Assigned to Obama-appointed Judge
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Lying Dogface Pony Soldier at July 21, 2025 04:00 PM (L/fGl)
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It's like that meme where the guy has to choose between two bad choice buttons. Judge either saves Rupert Murdoch or helps Trump.

Posted by: J. Frank Parnell at July 21, 2025 04:05 PM (0bjKf)

240 Anybody else remember the fat fuck that was always on board with the establishment Republican candidate ?
---
Karl Rove of Whiteboard.

The genius behind the two part strategy of:
1) Never hit back at any of the Dems attacks, and
2) You don't have to deliver on anything to the conservative base, just position yourself 1/2 inch "better" than the Democrat.

That the Republican Party wasn't wiped out under his tutelage is sheer luck.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 21, 2025 04:05 PM (uEVfM)

241 >> I bet Quest Diagnostics can sell you a test to see if your nutsack rocks iron or not. They got tests for everything.


Couldn't you do that with a refrigerator magnet?

Posted by: garrett at July 21, 2025 04:06 PM (oSEaw)

242 I thought he was trying to encourage people to vote for him.

Cuomo: Says He’ll “Move to Florida” If He Loses; DeSantis Says “Don't”

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Lying Dogface Pony Soldier at July 21, 2025 04:06 PM (L/fGl)

243 Wearing a 20lb chain around an MRI machine is a Darwin Award in the making

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 21, 2025 04:06 PM (Uahmw)

244 BREAKING: Rep. Mark Green (R-TN) has just RESIGNED from Congress, reducing the GOP’s majority

He just ran for re-election months ago, and is now resigning because he wants a different job.

These people are incredibly selfish.
https://tinyurl.com/46et4s4y

Marko Green looks like he enjoys sipping penis.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at July 21, 2025 04:05 PM (/U5Yz)

he one of the backers of that Amnesty Bill?

Posted by: Oldcat at July 21, 2025 04:06 PM (8avO+)

245 What? Why would he want me to get a vasectomy, Carl? I barely know the man! Cutting off my manhood? I think it's barbaric. No one's getting near that part of my body. No one, Carl. Unless, of course, it's a woman. And then she better not have a scalpel. Don't joke with me like that, man.

Posted by: Dupree at July 21, 2025 04:06 PM (rqga2)

246 233 The Democrats have gone radical extreme radical

did i mention the democrats are extreme ?
Posted by: SMOD at July 21, 2025 04:04 PM (RHGPo)



Time for them to put them on Double Secret Probation.

Posted by: Cray Cray at July 21, 2025 04:06 PM (iAH/S)

247 "15 Causing People to Wonder: Was the Democrats' Funding Almost All Government Money Laundered Through NGOs?

Umm...yes?

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 21, 2025 03:36 PM (dPfyF)"

all signs point to "yes"

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at July 21, 2025 04:06 PM (dKEEs)

248 Marko Green looks like he enjoys sipping penis.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at July 21, 2025 04:05 PM (/U5Yz)

WHERE DID YOU GET THAT PICTURE.

Posted by: ex-Rep. Green at July 21, 2025 04:06 PM (gKWVE)

249 I will say that Clooney did best fit my mental picture of what Bruce Wayne would look like.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at July 21, 2025 04:07 PM (fz7Mb)

250 BREAKING: Rep. Mark Green (R-TN) has just RESIGNED from Congress, reducing the GOP’s majority

I hope the new job is with a big Dem donor.
After it's official, he gets fired.
Screw him and the horse he rode in on.

Posted by: MkY at July 21, 2025 04:07 PM (cPGH3)

251 "Couldn't you do that with a refrigerator magnet?"

I tried it but I don't know how to interpret the results. The magnet did warm up some, but I chalk that up to thermodynamics.

Posted by: Everybody's Codetalking At gp at July 21, 2025 04:08 PM (klf3J)

252 That the Republican Party wasn't wiped out under his tutelage is sheer luck.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 21, 2025 04:05 PM (uEVfM)

He inherited the anti Clinton tidal wave and turned it into a 500 vote win...and then started digging more big holes.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 21, 2025 04:08 PM (8avO+)

253 I bet Quest Diagnostics can sell you a test to see if your nutsack rocks iron or not. They got tests for everything.


Couldn't you do that with a refrigerator magnet?
Posted by: garrett at July 21, 2025 04:06 PM (oSEaw)

Orange colored urine is a sign of rust.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at July 21, 2025 04:08 PM (fz7Mb)

254 I will say that Clooney did best fit my mental picture of what Bruce Wayne would look like.

Posted by: WitchDoktor

Keaton did a better job in the role, though.

Posted by: Bulg at July 21, 2025 04:08 PM (77rzZ)

255 He just ran for re-election months ago, and is now resigning because he wants a different job.
_________________________

Scandal about to drop. Staffer or underage boy? Place your bets!

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at July 21, 2025 04:08 PM (E0uAQ)

256 @217

>>He's never really been a movie star at all.

Oh, I disagree, he's one of the last movie stars, he's been in number of big box office movies, his career has been varied from action, to comedy to drama, he was well regarded in the industry and the trades. He was a thing on television before he was in the movies.

Sure his star has faded dramatically in the last 5 years but give the man his due.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 21, 2025 04:08 PM (XV/Pl)

257 IMBD has updated Malcolm-Jamal Warner's bio.

I checked earlier, and they hadn't yet.

Posted by: Axeman at July 21, 2025 04:09 PM (krQz2)

258 >> I bet Quest Diagnostics can sell you a test to see if your nutsack rocks iron or not. They got tests for everything.


Couldn't you do that with a refrigerator magnet?

Posted by: garrett at July 21, 2025 04:06 PM (oSEaw)

I'd think you'd rapidly run out of room for the kids' latest "artwork."

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 21, 2025 04:09 PM (i24o9)

259 I don't even know that "journalist" dude and I hate him. Deport that guy, in part.

Posted by: Texican ette at July 21, 2025 04:09 PM (SNf74)

260 I worked for a Cleaning Firm that had several Medical Centers as clients, when I was in college.

The amount of signage in and around the MRI Machines was insane. How anyone can get close to one without noticing them boggles my mind.

Posted by: garrett at July 21, 2025 04:09 PM (oSEaw)

261 >>he one of the backers of that Amnesty Bill?
Posted by: Oldcat

I thought so too but, here are the R traitors.
No Mark Green.



Mario Rafael Diaz-Balart (Florida)
Brian Fitzpatrick (Pennsylvania)
Mike Lawler (New York)
Dan Newhouse (Washington)
David Valadao (California)
Mike Kelly (Pennsylvania)
Gabe Evans (Colorado)
Marlin Stutzman (Indiana)
Don Bacon (Nebraska)
Young Kim (California

Posted by: Maj. Healey at July 21, 2025 04:09 PM (/U5Yz)

262 Keaton did a better job in the role, though.
Posted by: Bulg at July 21, 2025 04:08 PM (77rzZ)

Undoubtedly. Keaton has the whole "crazy eyes" thing that worked for him.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at July 21, 2025 04:10 PM (fz7Mb)

263 The White House has removed the Wall Street Journal from its press pool on President Trump’s next foreign trip after the paper published their Epstein hoax last week.

Posted by: redridinghood at July 21, 2025 04:10 PM (NpAcC)

264 I will say that Clooney did best fit my mental picture of what Bruce Wayne would look like.

Posted by: WitchDoktor

Keaton did a better job in the role, though.
Posted by: Bulg at July 21, 2025 04:08 PM (77rzZ)
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Agree on both.

People underestimate how good an actor Keaton is.

Posted by: Axeman at July 21, 2025 04:10 PM (krQz2)

265 Karl Rove of Whiteboard.

The genius behind the two part strategy of:
1) Never hit back at any of the Dems attacks, and
2) You don't have to deliver on anything to the conservative base, just position yourself 1/2 inch "better" than the Democrat.


3). Pass Democrat legislation to "take it off the table," that's how we got the Medicare prescription entitlement.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at July 21, 2025 04:10 PM (E0uAQ)

266 "is now resigning because he wants a different job."

I heard on X he had marital difficulties.

Posted by: Everybody's Codetalking At gp at July 21, 2025 04:10 PM (klf3J)

267 he latest version I heard was the guy with the chain was there with the lady who was getting the MRI. The lady needed help getting up. The MRI tech asked the chain guy to help get her up. Chain guy got sucked in when he entered the room.

That story makes no sense to me. How does the MRI tech not notice a freaking twenty pound chain around this guy's neck?

I've had MRIs. They ALWAYS ask you if you have any metal on you. They asked me several times on each visit. I'm sure they've all seen the videos of metal objects getting yanked into the machine and big burly guys trying and failing to pull them out.
Posted by: bonhomme at July 21, 2025 04:04 PM (lIio7)

Turning off the MRI would seem number one job when getting someone out of the machine.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 21, 2025 04:10 PM (8avO+)

268 198 how did we jump to vasectomies ???
Posted by: runner

MRI's sucking up all metal in the area. Enough to make a hidden gun go off & strong enough to strangle a guy using his necklaces.
Posted by: rickb223

-----
New meaning to chocking the chicken perhaps?

Posted by: NALNAMSAM at July 21, 2025 04:11 PM (VkY89)

269 Fundraising collapses? The Democrats have way more money in Virginia races this year than Republicans do. Lots of Democrat money comes from out of state, also.

Posted by: Isophorone at July 21, 2025 04:11 PM (IG5iM)

270 The Democrats have gone radical extreme radical

did i mention the democrats are extreme ?
Posted by: SMOD at July 21, 2025 04:04 PM (RHGPo)

They've been radical for a long time but they've also been playing a long game. Their SDS, Weathermen, Weather Underground etc types became politicians and professors and talking heads and so forth. Their ideology never changed, they just got respectable-looking positions. And they've been philosophically and financially backing the more current violent radical street thug groups like BLM and Antifa, and those various USAID funded spin-offs rioting and burning in California in response to immigration enforcement.

Posted by: It never left at July 21, 2025 04:11 PM (TbWk/)

271 > BREAKING: Rep. Mark Green (R-TN) has just RESIGNED from Congress, reducing the GOP’s majority

I wasn't reading carefully and I thought you wrote Marjorie Taylor Greene. I had to read it again.

Posted by: bonhomme at July 21, 2025 04:11 PM (lIio7)

272 Hunter is getting very close to unexpectedly committing suicide.

Posted by: Ripley at July 21, 2025 04:11 PM (GUOwU)

273 any Burton / Keaton / Nicholson Batman movie deserved to be a bad cartoon that took itself too seriously. Look what loads of shit Burton made of Planet of the Apes and Alice.
The studio saved that movie.

Posted by: gKWVE at July 21, 2025 04:11 PM (gKWVE)

274 249 I will say that Clooney did best fit my mental picture of what Bruce Wayne would look like.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at July 21, 2025 04:07 PM (fz7Mb)

Not mine, he looks like a little, skinny soy boy. I bet he's all of 5'6".

And Hunter is not wrong, who the hell is Clooney to decide anything.

Posted by: CaliGirl at July 21, 2025 04:12 PM (hs4ik)

275 The latest from Critical Drinker:

Why Modern Movies Suck - They're Completely Forgettable

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vK1LY1KC_w

Posted by: Archimedes at July 21, 2025 04:12 PM (Riz8t)

276 I heard on X he had marital difficulties.
Posted by: Everybody's Codetalking

Cold Play concert?

Posted by: MkY at July 21, 2025 04:12 PM (cPGH3)

277 The rank order of the best Batmans...

1. Adam West.
2. Michael Keaton
3. Batman from the animated series
4. Bale
5. Pattinson.
6. Everyone else.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 21, 2025 04:12 PM (XV/Pl)

278 Bale is a good actor, and Nolan (IMO) is a better screen writer than Sam Ham.

But Bale still comes up second, IMO.

Posted by: Axeman at July 21, 2025 04:12 PM (krQz2)

279 256 Oh, I disagree, he's one of the last movie stars, he's been in number of big box office movies, his career has been varied from action, to comedy to drama, he was well regarded in the industry and the trades. He was a thing on television before he was in the movies.

Sure his star has faded dramatically in the last 5 years but give the man his due.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 21, 2025 04:08 PM (XV/Pl)

=======

Looking at the list of his top ten box office movies:

https://www.therichest.com/george-clooney-movies/

Taking out Ocean's movies (ensembles), Gravity (small part), the Batman films (franchise), Spy Kids (small part), and IF (only his voice), that leaves you with Tomorrowland (a flop), and The Descendants (an unalloyed success at the box office).

So...I disagree. Dude can't sell movie tickets unless the rest of the package is along for the ride.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 21, 2025 04:13 PM (GBKbO)

280 Before I had the operation, I looked at my essence with a microscope. I knew what to expect, but it was still startling to see.

Posted by: Everybody's Codetalking At gp at July 21, 2025 04:13 PM (klf3J)

281 They've been radical for a long time but they've also been playing a long game. Their SDS, Weathermen, Weather Underground etc types became politicians and professors and talking heads and so forth. Their ideology never changed, they just got respectable-looking positions. And they've been philosophically and financially backing the more current violent radical street thug groups like BLM and Antifa, and those various USAID funded spin-offs rioting and burning in California in response to immigration enforcement.
Posted by: It never left at July 21, 2025 04:11 PM (TbWk/)

In the past the thugs were the tools of the movers and shakers. Increasingly they are becoming the ones running the party.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 21, 2025 04:13 PM (8avO+)

282 “Freakier Friday” Star Jamie Lee Curtis Suggests Trump “Trying to Silence People” After Colbert Cancelation

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Eh, she's hagged out anyway.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Lying Dogface Pony Soldier at July 21, 2025 04:13 PM (L/fGl)

283 Keep on talking, Hunter! Maybe no one else appreciates you, but, I sure do!

Posted by: Zombie Billy Carter at July 21, 2025 04:13 PM (tT6L1)

284 The Dems will just go to Laurene Jobs or Melinda Gates, or Bezos ex for more funding

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 21, 2025 04:13 PM (Uahmw)

285 NGOs funded every imaginable pos project you can imagine. Of COURSE they funded the dem election machine.

Posted by: Dan Patterson at July 21, 2025 04:13 PM (Lqvid)

286
Posted by: Axeman at July 21, 2025 04:04 PM (krQz2)

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I thought Intolerable Cruelty was a crap movie and his "acting" was the mugging, mouthing-off, and posing that mediocre performers do. He can do the stuff that elevates him above mannequins.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 21, 2025 04:13 PM (HL/Ld)

287 Hunter is getting very close to unexpectedly committing suicide.

Posted by: Ripley at July 21, 2025 04:11 PM (GUOwU)
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I've been told that "unintended consequences" is a "right-wing talking point".

Posted by: Axeman at July 21, 2025 04:13 PM (krQz2)

288 Marko Green looks like he enjoys sipping penis.
___

Who doesn't?

Posted by: Kamala H. at July 21, 2025 04:14 PM (Dv3i1)

289 So...I disagree. Dude can't sell movie tickets unless the rest of the package is along for the ride.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 21, 2025 04:13 PM (GBKbO)

In his defense, he hasn't shot anyone in the face yet.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 21, 2025 04:14 PM (i24o9)

290 ZaCTLY..

No more debates
No more 'studies'
No more 'experts'

I do like Hunter Biden's two word hypothesis
Fuck Them!!!

Posted by: Captain Fantastic at July 21, 2025 04:14 PM (uEWUd)

291 So it's a movie thread now?

Posted by: Just got hey at July 21, 2025 04:15 PM (XQo4F)

292 So...I disagree. Dude can't sell movie tickets unless the rest of the package is along for the ride.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 21, 2025 04:13 PM (GBKbO)

You can argue if he's a star or not.

Today the only person you can even argue is a star is Pedro Pascal. Which shows the death of Hollywood right there.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 21, 2025 04:15 PM (8avO+)

293 I vote Hunter Biden as most likely to get robbed and shot in the face during one of his drug fueled hooker escapades.

Posted by: torabora at July 21, 2025 04:15 PM (273sz)

294 No one trusts fast talkers. They're insecure and afraid they'll be interrupted, because they themselves do not weigh their words seriously. When it comes to words, gravity matters, not volume nor speed.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at July 21, 2025 04:15 PM (wBaIH)

295 “Freakier Friday” Star Jamie Lee Curtis Suggests Trump “Trying to Silence People” After Colbert Cancelation

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Eh, she's hagged out anyway.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Lying Dogface Pony Soldier at July 21, 2025 04:13 PM (L/fGl)

Oh, no, the dozens of people who were planning to see that movie might reconsider!

Posted by: hobbitopoly at July 21, 2025 04:15 PM (k9OZB)

296 People underestimate how good an actor Keaton is.
Posted by: Axeman

He was great in Much Ado About Nothing.

Posted by: Bulg at July 21, 2025 04:15 PM (77rzZ)

297 "Hunter is getting very close to unexpectedly committing suicide."

If Ghislane really wanted to fuck the world hard, just for lulz, she could commit suicide tonite. What a mess that would make.

Posted by: Everybody's Codetalking At gp at July 21, 2025 04:15 PM (klf3J)

298 So...I disagree. Dude can't sell movie tickets unless the rest of the package is along for the ride.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 21, 2025 04:13 PM (GBKbO)

In his defense, he hasn't shot anyone in the face yet.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 21, 2025 04:14 PM (i24o9)

Linking back to the vasectomy topic, he probably has, just not with a gun

Posted by: Oldcat at July 21, 2025 04:16 PM (8avO+)

299 I will say that Clooney did best fit my mental picture of what Bruce Wayne would look like.

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I'm a helluva lot more interested in what Catwoman looks like.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Lying Dogface Pony Soldier at July 21, 2025 04:16 PM (L/fGl)

300 The Dems will just go to Laurene Jobs or Melinda Gates, or Bezos ex for more funding
Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 21, 2025 04:13 PM (Uahmw)

They can also try the ex of the Walton clan.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at July 21, 2025 04:16 PM (S/Y4j)

301 I thought Intolerable Cruelty was a crap movie and his "acting" was the mugging, mouthing-off, and posing that mediocre performers do. He can do the stuff that elevates him above mannequins.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 21, 2025 04:13 PM (HL/Ld)
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We definitely disagree then. IC is one of my favorite Coen Bros movie. And I like a lot of their movies.

I would still refer somebody to Welcome to Collinwood. It's about 3/4s of a good movie--I watched it mainly for Sam Rockwell and William F. Macy.

Posted by: Axeman at July 21, 2025 04:16 PM (krQz2)

302 They've been radical for a long time but they've also been playing a long game. Their SDS, Weathermen, Weather Underground etc types became politicians and professors and talking heads and so forth.

I knew someone in the Clinton Administration who mentioned that a lot of their appointees were having problems getting security clearances due to radical pasts.

Posted by: Joe Biden, Living For The Next Twenty Years! at July 21, 2025 04:16 PM (xTIDn)

303 Today the only person you can even argue is a star is Pedro Pascal.

Commenter, please.

Posted by: Brad Pitt at July 21, 2025 04:16 PM (Riz8t)

304 292 Today the only person you can even argue is a star is Pedro Pascal. Which shows the death of Hollywood right there.
Posted by: Oldcat at July 21, 2025 04:15 PM (8avO+)

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Well, I think the movie star concept is mostly fake and you could assign the label as it's intended to just a few people over the past few decades, but only in specific moments of time.

Will Smith in the early 2000s, for instance. Hitch is not a success without him.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 21, 2025 04:16 PM (GBKbO)

305 I thought Intolerable Cruelty was a crap movie and his "acting" was the mugging, mouthing-off, and posing that mediocre performers do. He can do the stuff that elevates him above mannequins.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia

It had near-peak CZJ.

Posted by: Bulg at July 21, 2025 04:17 PM (77rzZ)

306 282 “Freakier Friday” Star Jamie Lee Curtis Suggests Trump “Trying to Silence People” After Colbert Cancelation

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Eh, she's hagged out anyway.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Lying Dogface Pony Soldier at July 21, 2025 04:13 PM (L/fGl)

I think she has trans kids or something.

Posted by: CaliGirl at July 21, 2025 04:17 PM (hs4ik)

307 A follow-up poll question needed to be “Is the Democratic Party radical enough?” That breakdown among democrats would have been illuminating.

Posted by: Advo at July 21, 2025 04:17 PM (jO4mz)

308
256 Oh, I disagree, he's one of the last movie stars,

Posted by: Thomas Bender

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Not even, Bender. He's one of the people who can pull in money on the front end but loses it on the back end. I say he's replaceable in every role he ever played. He's not like Bette Davis in All About Eve or Humphrey Bogart in Casablanca. He's just another good-looking guy who's sufficiently uninhibited to deliver the lines with a little gusto.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 21, 2025 04:17 PM (HL/Ld)

309 Do the FEC reports for Dems show anything about ActBlue? I'd love to see a year-over-year comparison of how much is getting laundered through there.

Posted by: the dandy at July 21, 2025 04:17 PM (8l8nW)

310 288 Marko Green looks like he enjoys sipping penis.
___

Who doesn't?
Posted by: Kamala H. at July 21, 2025 04:14 PM (Dv3i1)

Are we talking officially?

Posted by: Sen. Cory Booker at July 21, 2025 04:17 PM (PiwSw)

311 282 “Freakier Friday” Star Jamie Lee Curtis Suggests Trump “Trying to Silence People” After Colbert Cancelation

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Eh, she's hagged out anyway.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Lying Dogface Pony Soldier at July 21, 2025 04:13 PM (L/fGl)

She had to take down a picture of a kid in a box that was behind her during an interview. and it was creepy as hell, then you see her son is trans so it all makes sense.

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at July 21, 2025 04:17 PM (FCrpy)

312 "is now resigning because he wants a different job."

I heard on X he had marital difficulties.
Posted by: Everybody's Codetalking


Went to a coldplay concert?

Posted by: rickb223 at July 21, 2025 04:17 PM (hu2N2)

313 So it's a movie thread now?
Posted by: Just got hey

Better than a vasectomy thread.

Posted by: Bulg at July 21, 2025 04:17 PM (77rzZ)

314 People underestimate how good an actor Keaton is.

He was great as Ray Kroc, American Hero in The Founder. A man who has fed and employed billions. Ray Kroc deserves a world wide holiday.

Posted by: Ronald McDonald at July 21, 2025 04:18 PM (rqga2)

315 I've heard many people say for many years that Clooney is a decent actor, but that he can't carry a movie on his own. He's not that type of movie star.

I tend to agree. I do like his performances on O Brother, the Ocean's movies, and Fantastic Mr Fox, but I've never thought of him as someone who can carry a bad movie all on his own.

Posted by: bonhomme at July 21, 2025 04:18 PM (lIio7)

316 312 "is now resigning because he wants a different job."

I heard on X he had marital difficulties.
Posted by: Everybody's Codetalking


Went to a coldplay concert?
Posted by: rickb223 at July 21, 2025 04:17 PM (hu2N2)

Interstate rest stop.

Posted by: its a possibility at July 21, 2025 04:18 PM (TbWk/)

317
It had near-peak CZJ.
Posted by: Bulg

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Every crap movie from that era has a pretty girl.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 21, 2025 04:18 PM (HL/Ld)

318 People underestimate how good an actor Keaton is.
Posted by: Axeman

He was great in Much Ado About Nothing.
Posted by: Bulg at July 21, 2025 04:15 PM (77rzZ)
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That's the thing. He's an intense drama actor. But when you put him in a comedic role--that's his element.

His timing and comic sense basically holds down Gung Ho.

Posted by: Axeman at July 21, 2025 04:18 PM (krQz2)

319
Went to a coldplay concert?
Posted by: rickb223 at July 21, 2025 04:17 PM (hu2N2)
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Heh.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 21, 2025 04:18 PM (tT6L1)

320 I guess we'll find out next year.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 21, 2025 03:52 PM (GBKbO)

And the GOP being lazy, along with the GOPe not wanting to win because of Trump, I guess it's pretty likely the Ds will take the House.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 21, 2025 04:19 PM (0eaVi)

321 Hunter's comments are those who has seen the money dry up.

He doesn't want revenge. He wants a reckoning.

Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at July 21, 2025 04:19 PM (FxH7T)

322 318 That's the thing. He's an intense drama actor. But when you put him in a comedic role--that's his element.

His timing and comic sense basically holds down Gung Ho.
Posted by: Axeman at July 21, 2025 04:18 PM (krQz2)

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The definition of movie star is ever-changing depending on who's talking about it, but most of the time it comes down to something like charisma and watchability.

I find many characters actors more watchable than most "movie stars".

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 21, 2025 04:19 PM (GBKbO)

323 I liked Clooney in Michael Clayton and The Peacemaker.

Posted by: Everybody's Codetalking At gp at July 21, 2025 04:19 PM (klf3J)

324
I would still refer somebody to Welcome to Collinwood. It's about 3/4s of a good movie--I watched it mainly for Sam Rockwell and William F. Macy.
Posted by: Axeman

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I'll give it a look.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 21, 2025 04:19 PM (HL/Ld)

325 @279

>>So...I disagree. Dude can't sell movie tickets unless the rest of the package is along for the ride.

There's selling tickets and there's being a movie star.

Chris Pratt has sold more tickets than Clooney, would you say Pratt is a movie star?

No, Pratt is not a movie star in the way we think of movie stars.

Clooney was a movie in the ways we used to think of movie stars.

And the day of the movie star has largely ended.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 21, 2025 04:20 PM (XV/Pl)

326 314 He was great as Ray Kroc, American Hero in The Founder. A man who has fed and employed billions. Ray Kroc deserves a world wide holiday.

get in line

Posted by: norman borlaug at July 21, 2025 04:20 PM (v3pYe)

327 Are there any good vasectomy movies?

Posted by: Just got here at July 21, 2025 04:20 PM (XQo4F)

328 Hunty getting the shakes

Posted by: DanMan at July 21, 2025 04:20 PM (8uzBS)

329 I've heard many people say for many years that Clooney is a decent actor, but that he can't carry a movie on his own. He's not that type of movie star.

I tend to agree. I do like his performances on O Brother, the Ocean's movies, and Fantastic Mr Fox, but I've never thought of him as someone who can carry a bad movie all on his own.

Posted by: bonhomme at July 21, 2025 04:18 PM (lIio7)
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I don't know of any other actor who can shine in a bad movie than Michael Caine. He was one of a kind.

Posted by: Axeman at July 21, 2025 04:20 PM (krQz2)

330 "is now resigning because he wants a different job."

I heard on X he had marital difficulties.
Posted by: Everybody's Codetalking


Went to a coldplay concert?
Posted by: rickb223 at July 21, 2025 04:17 PM (hu2N2)

Jumbotron shot at a WNBA game.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at July 21, 2025 04:20 PM (S/Y4j)

331 TJM, no love for O Brother??

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 21, 2025 04:20 PM (JvZF+)

332
Hunter's comments are those who has seen the money dry up.

He doesn't want revenge. He wants a reckoning.
Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal

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Agreed! And I'll say it again: he's the man who can summon a reckoning. He knows stuff.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 21, 2025 04:21 PM (HL/Ld)

333 Better than a vasectomy thread.
Posted by: Bulg

I've never had to worry about that.

Posted by: Lindsey Graham at July 21, 2025 04:21 PM (/U5Yz)

334 Also, as another Clooney highlight, I quite like Hail, Caesar, the Coen's last (hopefully just most-recent) movie.

Although, yeah, Clooney is not given the weight of having to carry the movie and mainly shines in a comic role.

Posted by: Axeman at July 21, 2025 04:21 PM (krQz2)

335 Jumbotron shot at a WNBA game.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at July 21, 2025 04:20 PM (S/Y4j)

How could a pic of an empty pair of seats hurt him?

Posted by: Oldcat at July 21, 2025 04:21 PM (8avO+)

336 325 Clooney was a movie in the ways we used to think of movie stars.

And the day of the movie star has largely ended.

the day of the large movie star has also ended

Posted by: brian dennehy at July 21, 2025 04:22 PM (v3pYe)

337 325 There's selling tickets and there's being a movie star.

Chris Pratt has sold more tickets than Clooney, would you say Pratt is a movie star?

No, Pratt is not a movie star in the way we think of movie stars.

Clooney was a movie in the ways we used to think of movie stars.

And the day of the movie star has largely ended.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 21, 2025 04:20 PM (XV/Pl)

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The movie star sells tickets. That's what a movie star was supposed to do. That was the point of the star system as created by Irving Thalberg at MGM in the 20s.

It was an effort to find ways to easily and quickly determine which potential projects and talent could make the most money, where to invest the studio's cash.

The movie stars themselves turned it into something magical through their PR agents, and the term has lost all meaning to be no more than, "I like this actor."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 21, 2025 04:22 PM (GBKbO)

338 No honor among thieves. I kinda like this version of Hunter.

Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at July 21, 2025 04:22 PM (MZ+PY)

339 So it's a movie thread now?
Posted by: Just got hey

Better than a vasectomy thread.

Posted by: Bulg at July 21, 2025 04:17 PM (77rzZ)

There need to be more movies about vasectomies, at least for the ability to tie this up nicely in the comments. Maybe a superhero with bionic supernuts or something.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 21, 2025 04:22 PM (i24o9)

340 His timing and comic sense basically holds down Gung Ho.
Posted by: Axeman at July 21, 2025 04:18 PM (krQz2)

Mr Mom, Night Shift, Johnny Dangerously all funny movies he was a stand up Comic and I guess he Hated Robin Williams because he stole several of his jokes

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at July 21, 2025 04:22 PM (FCrpy)

341 I don't know of any other actor who can shine in a bad movie than Michael Caine.

Rodney Dangerfield. Where would Caddyshack have been without him and Ted Knight?

Posted by: Archimedes at July 21, 2025 04:22 PM (Riz8t)

342 Green Transition Has Caused Germany’s Electrical Grid Costs to Double Over Past Decade

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Small price to pay to avoid the apocalypse.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Lying Dogface Pony Soldier at July 21, 2025 04:22 PM (L/fGl)

343 > I think she has trans kids or something.

One trans kid. She has a real daughter and a fake daughter.

Posted by: bonhomme at July 21, 2025 04:22 PM (lIio7)

344 I knew someone in the Clinton Administration who mentioned that a lot of their appointees were having problems getting security clearances due to radical pasts.
Posted by: Joe Biden
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There is not the remotest chance that Barky would have been granted a security clearance. Every warning light on the dashboard would have been flashing.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 21, 2025 04:22 PM (XeU6L)

345 Jumbotron shot at a WNBA game.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf




Oooooooh. 😂

Posted by: rickb223 at July 21, 2025 04:22 PM (hu2N2)

346
The rank order of the best Batmans...

1. Adam West.
2. Michael Keaton
3. Batman from the animated series
4. Bale
5. Pattinson.
6. Everyone else.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 21, 2025 04:12 PM (XV/Pl)


Best non-Batman Adam West Batman

1. Nick Cage as Big Daddy in Kick Ass

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at July 21, 2025 04:22 PM (y9nCu)

347 331 TJM, no love for O Brother??
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 21, 2025 04:20 PM (JvZF+)

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Love it.

And I have nothing against Clooney as an actor. He's fine.

He just doesn't sell movie tickets.

And, a missed though: No, I don't consider Chris Pine a movie star either the same way I don't consider any Marvel actor a movie star. They can't sell tickets on their own.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 21, 2025 04:23 PM (GBKbO)

348 I would guess NGO money laundering and straw man donations are where the money is coming from to the DNC. I also hope and pray that whistleblowers will start coming forward to say just that.

Posted by: Imma Bad Person at July 21, 2025 04:23 PM (RRCAT)

349 Why did that guy wear a tie to interview Hunter Biden? Does he know who Hunter Biden is? He's Hunter Fuckin Biden. He doesn't warrant a tie, dude. Maybe dress up and wear one of those t-shirts with the tuxedo printed on the front, but the guy's a crackhead.

I guess: dress for the job you want, not the one you've got.

Posted by: red speck at July 21, 2025 04:23 PM (0Id0S)

350 I find many characters actors more watchable than most "movie stars".
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 21, 2025 04:19 PM (GBKbO)
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I'm partial to character actors too. Probably because I appreciate people who show up, do their job in a professional manner, then go home.

Although, Tim Blake Nelson as Billy the Kid was interesting.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 21, 2025 04:23 PM (tT6L1)

351 Clooney was a movie in the ways we used to think of movie stars.

And the day of the movie star has largely ended.

the day of the large movie star has also ended
Posted by: brian dennehy at July 21, 2025 04:22 PM (v3pYe)

The days of movies making money has largely ended too.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 21, 2025 04:23 PM (8avO+)

352 "Are there any good vasectomy movies?"

I think there's at least one bad one.

Posted by: Everybody's Codetalking At gp at July 21, 2025 04:23 PM (klf3J)

353 Every crap movie from that era has a pretty girl.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia

Referring to the CZJ in her heyday as "a pretty girl" is like referring to an Irish wolfhound as "a large dog."

Posted by: Bulg at July 21, 2025 04:23 PM (77rzZ)

354 VOTE VANCE!

Posted by: Sid at July 21, 2025 04:23 PM (4X30M)

355 Jumbotron shot at a WNBA game.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at July 21, 2025 04:20 PM (S/Y4j)

How could a pic of an empty pair of seats hurt him?
Posted by: Oldcat at July 21, 2025 04:21 PM (8avO+)

Trying out for a team?

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at July 21, 2025 04:23 PM (S/Y4j)

356 350 I'm partial to character actors too. Probably because I appreciate people who show up, do their job in a professional manner, then go home.

Although, Tim Blake Nelson as Billy the Kid was interesting.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 21, 2025 04:23 PM (tT6L1)

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Thomas Mitchell was the most interesting presence in probably every movie he was in.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 21, 2025 04:23 PM (GBKbO)

357 Today the only person you can even argue is a star is Pedro Pascal. Which shows the death of Hollywood right there.
Posted by: Oldcat at July 21, 2025 04:15 PM (8avO+)
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The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent.

Pascal and Cage are stellar in that.

Posted by: Axeman at July 21, 2025 04:24 PM (krQz2)

358 sid is the result of a vasectomy gone horribly wrong.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at July 21, 2025 04:24 PM (/U5Yz)

359 No honor among thieves. I kinda like this version of Hunter.
Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder
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'Hunter Unchained'

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 21, 2025 04:24 PM (XeU6L)

360 Although, Tim Blake Nelson as Billy the Kid was interesting.
Posted by: blake


Good movie.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 21, 2025 04:24 PM (hu2N2)

361
I don't know of any other actor who can shine in a bad movie than Michael Caine. He was one of a kind.

Posted by: Axeman

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

Morgan Freeman has that reputation, too.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 21, 2025 04:24 PM (HL/Ld)

362

Paul A. Szypula
@Bubblebathgirl

Gov. Kathy Hochul is showing off all the money she’s raised for her campaign.

Meanwhile, New Yorkers continue to see their tax dollars wasted on illegals.

Is Hochul accepting contributions to her campaign from illegals?

https://tinyurl.com/ym276j3e

Posted by: redridinghood at July 21, 2025 04:24 PM (NpAcC)

363 TJM, but Tarkovsky Solaris is still best Solaris, right?

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at July 21, 2025 04:25 PM (PiwSw)

364 Hunter was angry that day, my friends...

Posted by: George Costanza at July 21, 2025 04:25 PM (XQo4F)

365 363 TJM, but Tarkovsky Solaris is still best Solaris, right?
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at July 21, 2025 04:25 PM (PiwSw)

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Soderbergh's version is good.

But yes, I much prefer Tarkovsky's.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 21, 2025 04:25 PM (GBKbO)

366 358 sid is the result of a vasectomy gone horribly wrong.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at July 21, 2025 04:24 PM (/U5Yz)

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He just wants to vote for Vance.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 21, 2025 04:25 PM (GBKbO)

367 If Hunter Biden suddenly disappeared, forever, do you think anyone would care? Would anyone even notice?

Asking for a friend.

Posted by: Chief, DNC Wet Operations Directorate at July 21, 2025 04:25 PM (aBgBM)

368 you know, I think Hunter might have some problems. what a rascal!

Posted by: Jay in CDA at July 21, 2025 04:26 PM (F1XbI)

369 Hey Sid, Biden isn't president any more.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at July 21, 2025 04:26 PM (CHHv1)

370 Pedro is someone who would have benefited from the studio system. Mainly because they'd have told him to do his job and only speak to the press using the script we give you.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 21, 2025 04:26 PM (tT6L1)

371 341 I don't know of any other actor who can shine in a bad movie than Michael Caine.


I love the movie THE HAND and his other bad movies, The Swarm and I can't remember the one where he and his son are kidnapped by inbred Pirates in the Modern day. He had bills to pay when asked.

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at July 21, 2025 04:26 PM (FCrpy)

372 There's the numbers that are reported, and then there are the real numbers. The Democrats probably aren't as broke as one would be lead to believe.

The only caveat would be, the Democrats are also a vast criminal enterprise, so a lot of money went into a lot of different pockets, on or off the books. Maybe most of it.

Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at July 21, 2025 04:26 PM (MZ+PY)

373 I think Tom Cruise is the last of the movie stars, maybe Brad Pitt.

I miss when you had zero idea about what the stars thought about anything, let alone politics. And they faked like they loved America even if they were card carrying members of the Communist Party USA.

The old ways were better.

Posted by: CaliGirl at July 21, 2025 04:26 PM (hs4ik)

374 To me a movie star nowdays is someone who doesn't pick bad movies. If it has Brad Pitt or Marky Mark Wahlberg or Denzel Washington I'll probably give it a shot since they dont seem to do shitty projects.

Posted by: the dandy at July 21, 2025 04:27 PM (TAiya)

375 358 sid is the result of a vasectomy gone horribly wrong.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at July 21, 2025 04:24 PM

Is there a movie about it?

Posted by: IMDB executives at July 21, 2025 04:27 PM (XQo4F)

376 Hey nice chain you got there Mr. Patient.
wink wink
- X-ray tech in cahoots with the wifey.

Posted by: Captain Fantastic at July 21, 2025 04:27 PM (uEWUd)

377
Referring to the CZJ in her heyday as "a pretty girl" is like referring to an Irish wolfhound as "a large dog."
Posted by: Bulg

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She wasn't a goddess. A foxy chick. A buxom babe. Made for St. John Knits.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 21, 2025 04:27 PM (HL/Ld)

378 Pedro is someone who would have benefited from the studio system. Mainly because they'd have told him to do his job and only speak to the press using the script we give you.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 21, 2025 04:26 PM (tT6L1)

What makes you think he isn't?

Posted by: Oldcat at July 21, 2025 04:27 PM (8avO+)

379 The days of movies making money has largely ended too.
Posted by: Oldcat at July 21, 2025 04:23 PM (8avO+)

Nah. They're just not brown and gay enough yet.

The public hungers for trans actresses.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at July 21, 2025 04:28 PM (TdYBy)

380 224 Anybody else remember the fat fuck that was always on board with the establishment Republican candidate ?
Posted by: Man Without A Party at July 21, 2025 03:55 PM

Hmmm...could you be a little more specific?
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 21, 2025 03:58 PM (dPfyF)

Yeah that covers a lot of territory. Christie? Kristol? Goldberg? Williamson?
Posted by: A smorgasbord of fat fucks at July 21, 2025 04:01 PM (TbWk/)

Man, don't let them get in front of you at the buffett...

Posted by: Inogame at July 21, 2025 04:28 PM (53oGX)

381
I don't know of any other actor who can shine in a bad movie than Michael Caine. He was one of a kind.

Posted by: Axeman

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

Morgan Freeman has that reputation, too.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 21, 2025 04:24 PM (HL/Ld)


Gene Hackman

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at July 21, 2025 04:28 PM (y9nCu)

382 There is only one Batman and his name is Adam West.

Posted by: Open Channel D at July 21, 2025 04:28 PM (o0SsQ)

383 157 I read that the dude that was killed in an MRI because he had a chain around his neck had a 20# chain around his neck. Sounded like an aspiring ignoble award winner to me.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 21, 2025 03:54 PM (i24o9)

His wife was in the MRI, and it sucked him in because he walked in to pull her out.

Still not exactly a towering intellect, and it'll certainly make all the IQ Race Realists happy.

Posted by: XTC at July 21, 2025 04:28 PM (UnA8+)

384 Are there any good vasectomy movies?

==

Are you looking for a happy end ?

Posted by: runner at July 21, 2025 04:28 PM (g47mK)

385 267 Turning off the MRI would seem number one job when getting someone out of the machine.

i believe they have a large permanent magnetic field. aiui, the idea is that the large permanent field lines up the hydrogen atoms, which are then smacked upside the head by a smaller, transient field and the machine watches for a signal as they re-align themselves to the permanent field.

Posted by: anachronda at July 21, 2025 04:28 PM (v3pYe)

386 What makes you think he isn't?
Posted by: Oldcat at July 21, 2025 04:27 PM (8avO+)
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Unfortunately, that's probably a good point.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 21, 2025 04:28 PM (tT6L1)

387 To me a movie star nowdays is someone who doesn't pick bad movies. If it has Brad Pitt or Marky Mark Wahlberg or Denzel Washington I'll probably give it a shot since they dont seem to do shitty projects.
Posted by: the dandy at July 21, 2025 04:27 PM (TAiya)

Hey, I'm a MOVIE STAR! I don't pick any movies!!

Posted by: Oldcat at July 21, 2025 04:29 PM (8avO+)

388 Pelosi thought Kamala could win??

I thought she was savvy or something.

Posted by: Seems Legit at July 21, 2025 04:29 PM (PMtkd)

389
It's kind of interesting that the Republican party could raise fundraise comparably to Democrats, despite the apparent flow of laundered Federal funds to Democrats and not Republicans.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at July 21, 2025 04:29 PM (QwK6F)

390 I always thought that George Clooney had that department store mannequin vibe going for him.

===

THAT"S IT!!
Posted by: runner at July 21, 2025 04:01 PM (g47mK)

Marsha!

Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 21, 2025 04:29 PM (0eaVi)

391 She wasn't a goddess. A foxy chick. A buxom babe. Made for St. John Knits.

She was actually quite flat chested until she got a bit of chemical assistance. She looked better before.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 21, 2025 04:29 PM (Riz8t)

392
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 21, 2025 04:25 PM (GBKbO)

What do you think about the movie Sovereign?

I never know, am I going to start watching a movie and then get angry at who the bad guy is and turn it off. I get tired of the cheap shots at conservative Christians.

Posted by: CaliGirl at July 21, 2025 04:29 PM (hs4ik)

393 Thomas Mitchell was the most interesting presence in probably every movie he was in.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

Probably my favorite character actor.

Posted by: Bulg at July 21, 2025 04:29 PM (77rzZ)

394 I don't know of any other actor who can shine in a bad movie than Michael Caine. He was one of a kind.
--

Aside from Jaws: The Revenge and The Swarm, Caine hasn't been in a really bad movie. He takes a lot of roles, sure. But most of those are in average to pretty good movies.

Posted by: J. Frank Parnell at July 21, 2025 04:29 PM (0bjKf)

395 Jumbotron shot at a WNBA game.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf

Nobody would've seen it.

Posted by: If a tree fell in the woods at July 21, 2025 04:29 PM (TbWk/)

396 Morgan Freeman has that reputation, too.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 21, 2025 04:24 PM (HL/Ld)

Gene Hackman

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at July 21, 2025 04:28 PM (y9nCu)

Alan Rickman, Gary Oldman.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 21, 2025 04:29 PM (i24o9)

397
Posted by: CaliGirl at July 21, 2025 04:26 PM (hs4ik)

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

Yup, they say Tom Cruise. They also say "the last." AI and the democratization of film-making killed the movie star.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 21, 2025 04:30 PM (HL/Ld)

398 392 What do you think about the movie Sovereign?

I never know, am I going to start watching a movie and then get angry at who the bad guy is and turn it off. I get tired of the cheap shots at conservative Christians.
Posted by: CaliGirl at July 21, 2025 04:29 PM (hs4ik)

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I dunno. I haven't seen it.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 21, 2025 04:30 PM (GBKbO)

399
Marsha!
Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 21, 2025 04:29 PM (0eaVi)


I actually understood that.

Posted by: CaliGirl at July 21, 2025 04:30 PM (hs4ik)

400 Although, Tim Blake Nelson as Billy the Kid was interesting.
Posted by: blake


Good movie.

--

Yes, an excellent movie.

Posted by: Lady in Black at July 21, 2025 04:30 PM (qBdHI)

401 Hunters last hope was a remake on PBS The Bob Ross Channel. He bought an Afro wig and everything.

Posted by: Captain Fantastic at July 21, 2025 04:31 PM (uEWUd)

402 I don't know of any other actor who can shine in a bad movie than Michael Caine. He was one of a kind.
--

Aside from Jaws: The Revenge and The Swarm, Caine hasn't been in a really bad movie. He takes a lot of roles, sure. But most of those are in average to pretty good movies.

Posted by: J. Frank Parnell at July 21, 2025 04:29 PM (0bjKf)
---
Blame it on Rio. But yeah, he's a major enough talent that the studios wanted him in a lot of major projects--especially Nolan, before MC retired.

Posted by: Axeman at July 21, 2025 04:31 PM (krQz2)

403 Nood.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at July 21, 2025 04:31 PM (PiwSw)

404
I dunno. I haven't seen it.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 21, 2025 04:30 PM (GBKbO)

Thanks, I'm still not going to pay for it unless I see it's a decent movie that doesn't hate conservatives.

Posted by: CaliGirl at July 21, 2025 04:31 PM (hs4ik)

405 nood crazies!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at July 21, 2025 04:31 PM (pw0qI)

406 It's kind of interesting that the Republican party could raise fundraise comparably to Democrats, despite the apparent flow of laundered Federal funds to Democrats and not Republicans.
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at July 21, 2025 04:29 PM (QwK6F)

For a long time the GOP has had a wide lead in small donations from individuals. The 'harvesting' and fraud in ActBlue might have muddied the waters a bit.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 21, 2025 04:32 PM (8avO+)

407 Nood. It's 0400 hours.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 21, 2025 04:32 PM (0sNs1)

408 Did you all see the news that the fat "male youth outreach coordinator" toad finally got canned by the DNC? She reportedly burned through $20 million with little to no results.

Posted by: bonhomme at July 21, 2025 04:33 PM (lIio7)

409 Blame it on Rio. But yeah, he's a major enough talent that the studios wanted him in a lot of major projects--especially Nolan, before MC retired.
Posted by: Axeman at July 21, 2025 04:31 PM (krQz2)

That one where he had a gay romance with Christopher Reeve was pretty bad.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 21, 2025 04:33 PM (8avO+)

410 Alan Rickman, Gary Oldman.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 21, 2025 04:29 PM (i24o9)

Is it just me or does Gary Oldman do the same character in every one of his movie roles.. ?

Posted by: Captain Fantastic at July 21, 2025 04:33 PM (uEWUd)

411 There is only one Batman and his name is Adam West.

Posted by: Open Channel D at July 21, 2025 04:28 PM (o0SsQ)
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And Burt Ward is his vice-regent.

Posted by: Axeman at July 21, 2025 04:33 PM (krQz2)

412 Aside from Jaws: The Revenge and The Swarm, Caine hasn't been in a really bad movie. He takes a lot of roles, sure. But most of those are in average to pretty good movies.
Posted by: J. Frank Parnell at July 21, 2025 04:29 PM (0bjKf)

THE HAND, a coked up Stephen King movie about a comicbook writer that loses his hand at a road rage incident and the HAND comes back to kill him and his family

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at July 21, 2025 04:34 PM (FCrpy)

413 That one where he had a gay romance with Christopher Reeve was pretty bad.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 21, 2025 04:33 PM (8avO+)
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That misses the main draw of Mousetrap.

Posted by: Axeman at July 21, 2025 04:34 PM (krQz2)

414 Caine said about the Jaws movie he was on "I've never seen it, I hear it's awful. I have seen the house it bought and it's very nice"

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 21, 2025 04:34 PM (Uahmw)

415 Did you all see the news that the fat "male youth outreach coordinator" toad finally got canned by the DNC? She reportedly burned through $20 million with little to no results.
Posted by: bonhomme at July 21, 2025 04:33 PM (lIio7)

At the breakfast buffet in the fancy hotels the DNC had, probably. Pre-screening the expense plan was too hard for them.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 21, 2025 04:34 PM (8avO+)

416 NOOD

crazy bint Kam Kam fans

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 21, 2025 04:35 PM (ULPxl)

417 348 I would guess NGO money laundering and straw man donations are where the money is coming from to the DNC.
_____

It comes from...Chy-na

Posted by: Chuck Martel at July 21, 2025 04:36 PM (Dv3i1)

418
i believe they have a large permanent magnetic field.
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Electro magnet(s)

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 21, 2025 04:37 PM (XeU6L)

419
385 267 Turning off the MRI would seem number one job when getting someone out of the machine.

i believe they have a large permanent magnetic field. aiui, the idea is that the large permanent field lines up the hydrogen atoms, which are then smacked upside the head by a smaller, transient field and the machine watches for a signal as they re-align themselves to the permanent field.
Posted by: anachronda at July 21, 2025 04:28 PM (v3pYe)

------

Yes. Giant superconducting magnet that can't be shut down except by a rather long and specific procedure. There is a coil of superconducting wire that carries a current of a hundred amps or so. The liquid helium covering the coil has to be kept topped off. If the liquid helium level gets too low and superconductivity is lost in some part of the coil, electrical resistance heats the coil rapidly and boils off the remaining liquid helium like a giant tea kettle. It's called a quench. Destroys the magnet, possibly asphyxiates people in the room.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at July 21, 2025 04:40 PM (QwK6F)

420 Marsha!
Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 21, 2025 04:29 PM (0eaVi)


I actually understood that.
Posted by: CaliGirl at July 21, 2025 04:30 PM (hs4ik)

Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 21, 2025 04:46 PM (0eaVi)

421 To me a movie star nowdays is someone who doesn't pick bad movies. If it has Brad Pitt or Marky Mark Wahlberg or Denzel Washington I'll probably give it a shot since they dont seem to do shitty projects.

I'd agree with that. Just recently saw Wahlberg in "Flight Risk", directed by Mel "but first" Gibson. I haven't seen Wahlberg in that kind of a role before and he was fantastic.

Posted by: Ian S. at July 21, 2025 04:50 PM (4XgaH)

422 I don't think the ultra liberal democrats understand how radical the whole trans business is. In the midwest, even liberals think it is nuts.
Posted by: nerdygirl at July 21, 2025 03:48 PM (0Htd1)

In my blue area all the AWFLs brag about having tranny kids and aggressively pair their kids up with groomers whenever they can...
Posted by: 18-1 at July 21, 2025 03:49 PM (t0Rmr)

Mrs. Cop's crazy leftist sister has a transgender grandson (I suspect he's taking cross-sex hormones, but hasn't had his genitals mutilated yet). This young man's mother was crazy/abusive during his formative years. He figured out a way to go from "Zero to Hero" and now his mother is all-in on enabling his mental illness. It's sad; all I can do is pray for him.

Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at July 21, 2025 04:55 PM (pJWtt)

423 To Hunter: I'm listening....

Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at July 21, 2025 05:30 PM (gDhA9)

424 "Was the Democrats' Funding Almost All Government Money Laundered Through NGOs?"

Yes, that was the general idea. because their ideas suck, and no sane person would fund them.

Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at July 21, 2025 05:31 PM (gDhA9)

425 Whaaaa?!?!?

Posted by: Lyle the effeminate hetero at July 21, 2025 05:31 PM (vP0N6)

426 Not to mention - republicans have a lot of cash on hand because Trump didn't use a lot of it. One thing about trump is he's incredibly frugal with campaign spending and knows how to get a lot of free publicity.

meanwhile Harris was pissing away money on one dumb idea after another...

Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at July 21, 2025 05:32 PM (gDhA9)

427 Break the teacher's union and watch dem finances be cut in half.

Look, being the party of the homeless, illegals, and antifa means you are going to have chronic money shortages.

Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at July 21, 2025 05:37 PM (gDhA9)

428 Billionaires get to be billionaires by getting other people to pay their bills.

Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at July 21, 2025 05:40 PM (gDhA9)

429 The Dem-O-Rats have gone way too Global for us in America we can do without them

Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at July 21, 2025 06:11 PM (wGqjj)

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