After Russiagate, where do you go for news?

Above, a cartoon borrowed from a lefty. I'm surprised that he's still hanging on to this issue. Can't decide if that lefty agrees that networks like the one Colbert dissed should die, too. Would you be okay with that?

The Colbert kerfuffle is widely misrepresented as involving his cancelation after CBS gave in to Trump concerning the way Trump was portrayed on CBS. But remember that Trump's lawsuit concerned the refusal of CBS to release the transcript of the interview of Kamala Harris on "60 Minutes". It was NOT about programs like Colbert's criticizing Trump.

One of my lefty's own commenters said, "He's still alive but no longer caged!" What repression!

Their misrepresentation of the Trump suit against CBS in current memes demonstrates that they aren't used to people fighting back.

He then posted a worrisome meme about the impending transformation of CBS into another Fox News with the upcoming buy-out of the network. You get the idea . . . Progressives are under siege in the mainstream media. Heh.

Matt Taibbi:

“Threatening television networks” lol. I seem to remember the IRS coming to my house and House Democrats threatening me with jail and not a peep of protest from the supposed civil liberties party

This seems to me to be an example of the left's ability to create images in our minds. Trump is from the world of entertainment, and they don't quite understand his non-linear, fun-house version of the ways they "mold" the truth. But the left still has the edge.

Though most everybody stayed with the message, the iconograpny suffered a little with Kamala.

Things are gonna get worse with AI. David Thompson, No Escape from Now.

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On the bright side, Media Matters is in trouble. And at Reason: The CEO of NPR Made the Best Case for Defunding It

The notion that NPR can somehow become unbiased is about as believable as the IRS sending you a fruit basket to commend you for filing your taxes.

Once again, making Adam Schiff your muse is a bad idea.

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Russiagate hurt people

Many on the left say that we should just forget about Russiagate and move on. But in addition to the obvious people hurt (in the Trump Administration, etc.), other people were deeply hurt. This surprised me:

Scott Adams: Obama's Russia Hoax & 'Fine People' Lie Ruined My Life and Divided America!@ScottAdamsSays: "Let me say that again. Those two hoaxes, Russia, Russia, Russia and the fine people hoax ruined my life because those are the hoaxes that allowed my entire social group to… pic.twitter.com/wCHJ46yORc
— Quotes By Scott Adams ☕️ (@QuotesFromCWSA) July 24, 2025

Incidentally, Scott Adams had a detailed conversation with Cynical Publius about why the crimes of Russiagate would be hard to prove in court. Interesting reading.

Walter Kirn was treated very badly by members of the press when he was trying to get information about issues involved in Russiagate back when the issues were first in the news. He still seems quite passionate about this. He and his commenters have thoughts:

Growing up we laughed at the sick old people running the Soviet Union.. Brezhnev, Chernenko, Andropov... I must say I was surprised to find the press over here in the states treat Biden much the same way Pravda treated Soviet heads of state!
— Richard Clarke (@richard_cl3097 July 23, 2025

Walter Kirn again:

Our society was torn in two by the deliberate lie that Trump was a Russian agent & his supporters, by extension, Putin patsies, fools, traitors. This lie was amplified by the media into a years-long chainsaw roar by media, from news to comedy shows to the NYT. Out with them.

Simply ignore, turn off, delete, & unsubscribe from the outlets that lied to you, loudly, relentlessly, knowingly.

Instantly doable.

And the reporters, observers, & companies remaining will be the rootstock for the future.

It's a surprisingly diverse group.

Give it sun.
— Walter Kirn (@walterkirn) July 23, 2025

So, who do you trust for news now?

Should we make a list?

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History

How has war changed since this?

A Daily Dose of History (FB), today:

On this day in 1945 the governments of the United States, China, and Great Britain issued what would come to known as the “Potsdam Declaration,” calling upon the Japanese government “to proclaim now the unconditional surrender of all Japanese armed forces, and to provide proper and adequate assurances of their good faith in such action.” The final sentence of the Declaration announced, “The alternative for Japan is prompt and utter destruction.”
U.S. President Harry Truman, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, had gathered in Potsdam, Germany, on July 17, ten weeks after the German surrender, to reach an agreement on how the disarmament and occupation of Germany would be handled. With the war against Japan still continuing, Truman decided to use the opportunity to issue a demand for Japanese surrender, having been advised a day before the conference began that an atomic bomb had been successfully detonated at a test site in New Mexico. Although Stalin had agreed to enter the war against Japan, the Soviet surprise attack was not scheduled to occur until August 9, so he declined to join the Declaration (the Soviets would adopt it later, after their invasion of Manchuria).
The 13-paragraph Declaration first described the Allied intention to continue the war until Japan ceased resistance, employing all the military power that had destroyed the Nazis. “The full application of our military power,” it stated, “backed by our resolve, will mean the inevitable and complete destruction of the Japanese armed forces and just as inevitably the utter devastation of the Japanese homeland.”

Although three members of the six-man Japanese Supreme War Council were in favor of opening negotiations for surrender, the war minister and the chiefs of staff of the Japanese army and navy flatly rejected the terms as too harsh and urged that the war continue. Meanwhile the moderates were still holding out hope that the Soviet Union might mediate a peace deal, unaware that the Soviets were on the eve of declaring war against Japan. Finally, the Japanese government publicly announced that their response to the Potsdam demands was “mokusatsu.”
Kazuo Kawai had been an editor of the Nippon Times in Tokyo during the war. Afterwards, when he was a professor of Far Eastern history at Stanford University, he lamented the poor decision by the Japanese government. “Mokusatsu,” he wrote, “is a word which has no exact equivalent in the English language. It is a word which is ambiguous even in the Japanese. It might be translated roughly as ‘to be silent’ or ‘to withhold comment’ or ‘to ignore.’ ‘To withhold comment’ probably comes closest to its true meaning, implying that something is being held back, that there is something significant impending. Certainly, that is what the Japanese government meant.” The Japanese government had never intended to reject the Potsdam Declaration outright, Kawai argued, but was counting on the Soviets to make known the Japanese willingness to surrender.
Further, the ambiguity of “mokusatsu” gave the military hardliners room to construe it as meaning rejection by ignoring, and they insisted that Japanese media construe it that way. A Tokyo newspaper printed the Potsdam Declaration terms under the heading “Laughable Matter” and the Japanese English-language propaganda agency “Radio Tokyo” declared flatly that Japan was “ignoring” the Declaration.
Thus, to the Allies the Japanese response seemed plain enough—they had decided to reject the Allied demands by “ignoring” them rather than responding to them. Accordingly, Truman authorized the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6 and August 9. . .

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Music

How many of you knew that Clint
Eastwood was quite the singer?

Well here he is in a 1962 episode of
Rawhide, entertaining us with his
cowboy crooning 🤠 pic.twitter.com/nnFWTQa7pp
— Farm Girl Carrie 👩‍🌾 (@FarmGirlCarrie) July 26, 2025

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Hope you have something nice planned for this weekend.

This is the Thread before the Gardening Thread.

Serving your mid-day open thread needs

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Last week's thread, July 19, NPR provides community and emergency information to Rural Americans?

Comments are closed so you won't ban yourself by trying to comment on a week-old thread. But don't try it anyway.

At root, the NPR story and the Colbert story are the same: progressives took over a product, made it so that people didn’t want to pay it for it—whether via advertising, subscriptions, or donations—and they’re now upset that it won’t be perpetually bailed out by a third party.
— Charles C. W. Cooke (@charlescwcooke) July 19, 2025

Posted by: K.T. at 11:07 AM

Comments

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1 I thought your lefty friend was equating Colbert to a canary in the coal mine. Colbert dying means, "we're all gonna die now! Reeee!"

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at July 26, 2025 11:11 AM (36PRH)

2 This place is my news source.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 26, 2025 11:16 AM (Vvm2m)

3 Clint Eastwood has written a lot of music but like Kris Kristofferson he has the voice of a frog.

Posted by: polynikes at July 26, 2025 11:17 AM (VofaG)

4 CBS should have canned Colbert when they had the chance... when they announced his show's cancellation, happening next year. Losing $40M between now and then seems... unwise. The litigation to can him now would probably cost less.

And it was never about Trump. It was about Colbert's miserable ratings and bleeding cash by the millions.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 26, 2025 11:19 AM (Q4IgG)

5 I was told this was a sign of a loser

@LeadingReport 15m
BREAKING: Gavin Newsom says President Trump is “trying to steal the 2026 election.”

Posted by: weft cut-loop at July 26, 2025 11:19 AM (mlg/3)

6 Chairman LMAO at July 26, 2025 11:11 AM

Yes, the "canary in the coal mine" could be interpreted on several levels - all lefty comedians will die, all lefty media will die, all progressives will die, etc.

Posted by: KT at July 26, 2025 11:21 AM (xekrU)

7 Didn't Eastwood sing in Paint Your Wagon?

Posted by: MkY at July 26, 2025 11:22 AM (cPGH3)

8 I was trained very early in my life to be able to pick out lies and truth in media reporting.

My mother bought the National Enquirer every week and you could eventually learn what were exaggerations, fact and likely made up. its like reading Wikipedia.

Posted by: polynikes at July 26, 2025 11:22 AM (VofaG)

9 This is called Phase 4:
Demanding Respect

They beat, killed, strangled, and skinned every media outlet into a shell that while looking like media is really just a semi-marxist organization.

Posted by: r hennigantx at July 26, 2025 11:24 AM (gbOdA)

10 Matt Von Swol has what is basically his walkaway story. He believed what he was told, until Hurricane Helene. Then he saw how little the Dems care about us. He's still struggling to understand it.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at July 26, 2025 11:26 AM (TEi+a)

11 idn't Eastwood sing in Paint Your Wagon?
Posted by: MkY at July 26, 2025 11:22 AM (cPGH3)

Yes and also banged his co-star and likely contributed to her reasons for suicide. Contributed doesn't mean they were valid reasons. He just ghosted her.

Posted by: polynikes at July 26, 2025 11:27 AM (VofaG)

12 On the bright side, Media Matters is in trouble.

The interesting thing is that the Elias Law Form is demanding millions from Media Matters, payable immediately.

Elias has clearly concluded that Media Matters will soon be pining for the fjords, so it should extract as much money from MMfA as possible.

Posted by: The ARC Of History! at July 26, 2025 11:27 AM (xTIDn)

13 "After Russiagate, where do you go for news?"

The Morning Report.

Posted by: Reforger at July 26, 2025 11:28 AM (sNI6D)

14 the Left are like the old metaphor of the man who killed his parents looking for sympathy because he's an orphan.

Posted by: polynikes at July 26, 2025 11:29 AM (VofaG)

15 The story of NPeeR and Colbarf is the same as any number of leftwing productions that deliberately and gleefully piss on the majority of the country. When the majority righteously tunes out and the remaining audience is too small to support the production, the leftwing scolds bitch and screech that the majority is tuning them out.

Same thing happened with that slimy perverted ‘Bros’ movie from that slimy pervert ass pirate. He made a nasty, filthy movie about faggots. Then he told straights to fuck off if they don’t like it. When the movie predictably bombed, he then whined that it was straights’ fault for not going to see it. (Gays didn’t go see it, either.)

Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at July 26, 2025 11:34 AM (aeiyZ)

16 I have always assumed that news is flavored and tinted to match the latest approved viewpoint on every major event.

Like the Social Security that is now a major headline as it will become pay as you go in around 7 years and lead to 24% cuts.
Bush ran on his second term on a plan to fix SS and allow people to be bought out and allow others to self-fund their own retirement.
He was destroyed by (D) for trying to fix a real problem.

Posted by: r hennigantx at July 26, 2025 11:35 AM (gbOdA)

17 Having seen Paint Your Wagon, I never thought of Clint as much of a singer.

Posted by: Kindltot at July 26, 2025 11:37 AM (D7oie)

18 Yeah, it is horrible making millions of dollars and being able to trash anyone and everything with no repercussions. I mean, he's just like Leon Trotsky escaping to Mexico and catching an ice axe.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 26, 2025 11:41 AM (bss/y)

19 17 Having seen Paint Your Wagon, I never thought of Clint as much of a singer.
Posted by: Kindltot at July 26, 2025 11:37 AM (D7oie)

Better than Lee Marvin.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 26, 2025 11:41 AM (bss/y)

20 Having seen Paint Your Wagon, I never thought of Clint as much of a singer.
Posted by: Kindltot at July 26, 2025 11:37 AM (D7oie)

Better than Lee Marvin.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 26, 2025 11:41 AM (bss/y)

Both better that Willie Nelson.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at July 26, 2025 11:43 AM (g8Ew8)

21 It wouldn't be a good conversation with my mother, but would love to ask after her Democrats Propaganda Ministry nightly watching and told Russia, Russia, Russia and nothing was true or came out of it what she thinks of the Democrats Propaganda Ministry

Posted by: Skip at July 26, 2025 11:44 AM (+qU29)

22 Describe Obama's Library in one word:

Flakturm

Posted by: Kindltot at July 26, 2025 11:44 AM (D7oie)

23 Both better that Willie Nelson.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at July 26, 2025 11:43 AM (g8Ew

Lol.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 26, 2025 11:46 AM (bss/y)

24 idn't Eastwood sing in Paint Your Wagon?
Posted by: MkY at July 26, 2025 11:22 AM (cPGH3)

Yes and also banged his co-star and likely contributed to her reasons for suicide. Contributed doesn't mean they were valid reasons. He just ghosted her.
Posted by: polynikes at July 26, 2025 11:27 AM (VofaG)
——
If that was a suicide. She was nutty and in with the wrong crowd (black panthers, etc) and hounded mercilessly by the … FBI. It probably was a suicide, and supposedly she tried killing herself for years, but knowing what we know about the FBI now, it wouldn’t be wrong to have doubts.

Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at July 26, 2025 11:49 AM (aeiyZ)

25 Not a fan of musicals

Posted by: Skip at July 26, 2025 11:49 AM (+qU29)

26 Describe Obama's Library in one word:

Flakturm
Posted by: Kindltot at July 26, 2025 11:44 AM (D7oie
—-

Asspack

Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at July 26, 2025 11:49 AM (aeiyZ)

27 Eastwood is a pretty fair piano player, but does not have a strong voice. This has not stopped him from singing. There's a reason you don't see many references to "Honky Tonk Man."

"He banged his co-star."
I don't care what you say. Lee Marvin did not kill himself.

Posted by: Stringer Davis at July 26, 2025 11:50 AM (zdLoL)

28 I know it's long been the very dumb pattern with contemporary totalitarian and/or fanatical regimes, but use of the term "moderate" with respect to the surrender or peace faction in the Big Six of Japan in 1945 is amusing.

The "hardliners", the other three, unlike several of the problem regimes in recent history, actually had a non-insane, somewhat rational (if ruthless and reckless) strategy. They had specific terms - completely unthinkable of course to the Allies - for ending hostilities. Their entire strategy for years had been to make prosecution of the unconditional surrender policy too painful to complete.

Posted by: rhomboid at July 26, 2025 11:52 AM (U/Byj)

29 Growing up we laughed at the sick old people running the Soviet Union.. Brezhnev, Chernenko, Andropov... I must say I was surprised to find the press over here in the states treat Biden much the same way Pravda treated Soviet heads of state!

The truly unbelievable thing is that the Russians knew that Hillary was just as bad, if not worse, than Biden. She was physically decrepit, drug-addicted, and mentally unstable. Say what you will about Biden, he was stable, in the sense of being an eggplant and not deviating from it.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 26, 2025 11:52 AM (Riz8t)

30 Matt Von Swol has what is basically his walkaway story. He believed what he was told, until Hurricane Helene. Then he saw how little the Dems care about us. He's still struggling to understand it.
Posted by: Notsothoreau at July 26, 2025 11:26 AM (TEi+a)

I saw it firsthand. A few other Horde members as well. Truly disgusting and validated my beliefs of the commies in the Democrat Party.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at July 26, 2025 11:52 AM (dR6yv)

31 Kindltot, lol. I've only just briefly glanced the hideous structure in one photo, and didn't get it at first. Great joke.

Posted by: rhomboid at July 26, 2025 11:53 AM (U/Byj)

32 >>>Incidentally, Scott Adams had a detailed conversation with Cynical Publius about why the crimes of Russiagate would be hard to prove in court.
~~~~~

I don't doubt this is true, but Bongino's latest tweet gives me hope:

"The Director and I are committed to stamping out public corruption and the political weaponization of both law enforcement and intelligence operations. It is a priority for us. But what I have learned in the course of our properly predicated and necessary investigations into these aforementioned matters, has shocked me down to my core. We cannot run a Republic like this. I’ll never be the same after learning what I’ve learned."

https://tinyurl.com/3ent2smz

Posted by: IrishEi at July 26, 2025 11:53 AM (3ImbR)

33 I rely on this site and its bloggers and commenters for my news. Enough of the comments have links to other sites wherein I get other info and also where I may find more links to more info. I feel I get enough diversified reporting (as well as primary and secondary sources from following rabbit holes) that my thoughts, ideas, and beliefs are fairly sound. Plus my husband is a professional historian and very well informed and we bounce ideas and thoughts off each other all the time.

Posted by: Brunnhilde at July 26, 2025 11:53 AM (3AwA+)

34 NBC has a quandary.

NBC News@NBCNews
Former Obama aides say they have to balance unnecessarily giving oxygen to unfounded Trump administration claims and allowing them to balloon unchecked.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Lying Dogface Pony Soldier at July 26, 2025 11:55 AM (L/fGl)

35 After Russiagate, where do you go for news?

Same place I have been going to for decades: trade publications, retired practitioners and books.

I have backed away from trade publications since I discovered that many have taken outside money to change opinion, but it requires reading between the lines because certain trades have lobbyists and their narrative becomes the news. It may be lies and doctored stats, but that is used to persuade legislators and regulators which decide future events which becomes the news.

Other than that, since we are a practical Low Trust Society, everything, regardless of source is first considered lies and manipulation and requires some homework in order to find any level of acceptability.

I'm hoping with USAID and similar cuts, there will be a winnowing of the outright propaganda and we return to superlatives, inflammatory rhetoric and click-bait for our "news".

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 26, 2025 11:55 AM (a4flb)

36 Anyone who says we didn't need to drop the bomb must read Downfall, by Richard Franks. It's an hour by hour description of the inner councils of the IJ government/military.

https://is.gd/PzoIFa

Posted by: Archimedes at July 26, 2025 11:56 AM (Riz8t)

37 I go where I've always gone.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 26, 2025 11:58 AM (viF8m)

38 Remember, Julius Streicher was hung at Nuremberg.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at July 26, 2025 12:00 PM (XQo4F)

39 Also highly recommended: The Fall of Japan: The Final Weeks of World War II in the Pacific by William Craig.

https://tinyurl.com/2ebhcsue

Posted by: Archimedes at July 26, 2025 12:01 PM (Riz8t)

40 Former Obama aides say they have to balance unnecessarily giving oxygen to unfounded Trump administration claims and allowing them to balloon unchecked.

That is another way of saying that they are listening to the advise of their lawyers.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 26, 2025 12:01 PM (a4flb)

41 I'm tailoring my X feed to deliver news from sources I trust.

There are many independent reporters. Also, the Federalist feed.

I do block the ones that veer off into conspiracy-land, and the clowns who just repost with comments like, "This is sick." Then I subscribe to whoever they reposted.

Posted by: Michael Rittenhouse at July 26, 2025 12:01 PM (WIBH6)

42 Bad news, everyone.

New York Post@nypost
‘Possibly hostile’ alien threat detected in unknown interstellar object, a shocking new study claims
. . . .
A mysterious intergalactic object could potentially be a 'hostile' alien spacecraft that’s slated to attack our planet in November, according to a controversial new study by a small group of scientists.

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And you know it's true because the scientist is from Harvard!

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One of the researchers, Avi Loeb — a prominent Harvard astrophysicist known for linking extraterrestrial objects to alien life — previously made waves after floating the theory that 2017 interstellar object ʻOumuamua could be an artificial recon probe sent by an alien civilization, based on its odd shape and acceleration.'

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Lying Dogface Pony Soldier at July 26, 2025 12:02 PM (L/fGl)

43 40 Former Obama aides say they have to balance unnecessarily giving oxygen to unfounded Trump administration claims and allowing them to balloon unchecked.

That is another way of saying that they are listening to the advise of their lawyers.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 26, 2025 12:01 PM (a4flb)

I love the constant 'unfounded' 'without evidence' yadda yadda. Notice they do not call them straight up wrong. Lies. Etc.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 26, 2025 12:02 PM (bss/y)

44 Former Obama aides say they have to balance unnecessarily giving oxygen to unfounded Trump administration claims and allowing them to balloon unchecked.

One gets the sense that the atmosphere in the final days of the Fuhrerbunker and that amongst the Obamanites now has a great deal in common.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 26, 2025 12:02 PM (Riz8t)

45 I get my news from AoSHQ, and news aggregators like Citizen Free Press, Rantingly, and TheLibertyDaily that replaced Drudge for me around 2018.

They still link to mainstream outlets, so I read those sites occasionally from there.

I also read some of the Salem Media sites; Townhall, Red State, PJ Media, and Twitchy.

And then I read a lot from The Federalist, American Thinker, and American Greatness thanks to JJ Sefton's links.

I watched Fox News up until election night 2020, and then I watched Tucker's show on there every now and then.

Now I only turn it on during breaking news, or elections, events, etc.

I watch a lot more news and opinion on YouTube than I did five or six years ago, too.

Matt Walsh, Glenn Beck and Megyn Kelly, and several others are in my recommendations a lot now.

Kinda off topic, but:
Nerdrotic and Critical Drinker on YouTube have both given Fantastic Four: First Steps positive reviews.

*shocked face*

It seems it isn't woke, has a decent story, and suffers mainly from it being cut too much (probably some of the woke stuff) to the point that the story suffers.

I still won't see in a theater, but I may check it out one day if that's the case.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 26, 2025 12:03 PM (6ydKt)

46 New York Post@nypost
‘Possibly hostile’ alien threat detected in unknown interstellar object, a shocking new study claims
. . . .
A mysterious intergalactic object could potentially be a 'hostile' alien spacecraft that’s slated to attack our planet in November, according to a controversial new study by a small group of scientists.

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And you know it's true because the scientist is from Harvard!

Did they originate in a solar system with three suns?

Posted by: Archimedes at July 26, 2025 12:03 PM (Riz8t)

47 You know I would welcome our Alien overlords
Well until I found out I was dinner

Posted by: Skip at July 26, 2025 12:05 PM (+qU29)

48 All the juicy stuff at Daily Mail is behind a paywall. How will I know which 3rd tier actress wore a skimpy bikini on holiday in Spain?

All serious aside, I get news tips here and at Focks and NYPost. Then I chase stories I'm interested in around the internet (a series of smart tubes) to know more.

Posted by: Don Black at July 26, 2025 12:05 PM (AOsQT)

49 One gets the sense that the atmosphere in the final days of the Fuhrerbunker and that amongst the Obamanites now has a great deal in common.
Posted by: Archimedes at July 26, 2025 12:02 PM (Riz8t)

I don't get that frantic sense. They still know they are unlikely to face any real consequences.

However, Obama is a narcissist. Destroy his image and more importantly how others view and revere him, and you have done far worse than arrest or imprison him. He always responded the strongest to mockery. All of them do. There's a reason for that.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 26, 2025 12:05 PM (bss/y)

50 >>That is another way of saying that they are listening to the advise of their lawyers.

It's another way of saying we are winning. Bigly.

Trump is playing golf in Scotland while also stopping a war between Cambodia and Thailand. We are living in a remarkable time we won't see again. Enjoy it.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 26, 2025 12:06 PM (viF8m)

51 The RUSSIA! nonsense was just another redundant test, however spectacular and more consequential, of people's understanding of the world they live in.

There's no reason whatever to think Moscow had a preference in 2016, as they usually don't. They still hold, mostly, to a Cold War mindset that there is little difference between "alternative" US political factions - which was partly true from their perspective, and partly self-delusion in service of their dumb ideological biases.

Of course on many issues Americans rightly grew fed up with the actual lack of choice on the usual menu, and thus picked Trump as nominee/prez in 2016 - but the Russians care mostly about foreign policy, and on that end still often pretend to believe "they're all the same", when the gap between the parties in many ways had grown yuuuge after '91.

Add to this the ignorance, which is very widespread, of how poor election integrity is in the US, owing entirely to domestic actors, and the mere concept of Russian "interference" should have drawn a contemptuous laugh. The very mediocre artists of Beltway nonsense paint on a canvas of amazingly ignorant and unthoughtful citizens.

Posted by: rhomboid at July 26, 2025 12:06 PM (U/Byj)

52 A mysterious intergalactic object could potentially be a 'hostile' alien spacecraft that’s slated to attack our planet in November, according to a controversial new study by a small group of scientists.

This is a prime example of what it means to be cast out into Outer Darkness. This is bat scat insane dystopian fantasy that can only be believed with years of uninhibited drug use, constant exposure to Leftists and a thorough estrangement from God.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 26, 2025 12:06 PM (a4flb)

53 Powerline Week in Pictures: Colbert edition

https://is.gd/ZEGMZx

Posted by: Archimedes at July 26, 2025 12:07 PM (Riz8t)

54 To say Biden was stable is a lie; perhaps even The Big Lie.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at July 26, 2025 12:07 PM (wBaIH)

55 I still won't see in a theater, but I may check it out one day if that's the case.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 26, 2025 12:03 PM (6ydKt)

I like what they have said about the 60's retro futurist look.

Plus, I know she has the crazy eyes from hell, but I think Vanessa Kirby is insanely hot.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 26, 2025 12:07 PM (bss/y)

56 Notsothoreau ,
Thanks for the link about that King Randall guy on the covfefe thread. It gives some hope for the future.

Posted by: lin-duh at July 26, 2025 12:07 PM (VCgbV)

57 In wish you all could hear my groovy playlist that's up right now. It's part surf, part Booker T & The MGs.

Posted by: Don Black at July 26, 2025 12:08 PM (AOsQT)

58 @amuse
36m
DEI: Thanks to diversity, equity, and inclusion requirements, Obama's 'presidential' library is almost a billion over budget and three years late.

The Federal Reserve is using the same contractor and facing the same delays and budget overruns.

Posted by: IrishEi at July 26, 2025 12:08 PM (3ImbR)

59 Jerry Oh! shows us the way!

Geraldo Rivera@GeraldoRivera
NYT reports, Netanyahu government is perpetuating horrible abuse of captive Gaza population. Starvation is not a weapon of war. Israel must allow into Gaza appropriate food and medicine.
To save itself, Hamas is encouraging this suffering.
Ceasefire now. Free the hostages.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Lying Dogface Pony Soldier at July 26, 2025 12:09 PM (L/fGl)

60 Geraldo, pick a fucking lane. You do not seem able to decide what side you are on.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 26, 2025 12:11 PM (bss/y)

61 The RUSSIA! nonsense was just another redundant test, however spectacular and more consequential, of people's understanding of the world they live in.

Its a huge example of Projection. The same people whining about alleged Russian interference are the exact same people who overthrew the governments of Libya, Ukraine, Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, Syria, Kosovo et al and were in the process of manipulating the outcome of the Israeli elections. The State Department, under their direction, are constantly trying to overthrow other countries, pervert their culture and society and otherwise degrade and destroy any functioning society.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 26, 2025 12:11 PM (a4flb)

62 Thailand and Cambodia is on. Thailand has 48 F16s and 11ish Grippens vs nothing for Cambodia.

Posted by: Boss Moss at July 26, 2025 12:11 PM (Vmw0O)

63 >Plus, I know she has the crazy eyes from hell, but I think Vanessa Kirby is insanely hot.

Posted by: Aetius451AD
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I first saw her in The Crown and was smitten

Posted by: Don Black at July 26, 2025 12:11 PM (AOsQT)

64 Some of us mentioned waaaaay back when the RUSSIA! idiocy was first being exposed how it might be very difficult to find criminal activity amidst all the outrageously improper activity. And this is without reference to presidential immunity for official acts.

Again, unwritten rules, and the electorate as the check on power. Both of these are pillars of a functioning republic under rule of law. One side has apparently completely abandoned the unwritten rules (with amazing impunity - the Agency spying on the SSCI???!! Would have been a nuclear event just half a generation earlier, with consequences). And the electorate ...... well.

Posted by: rhomboid at July 26, 2025 12:12 PM (U/Byj)

65 Thx K.T. great post, hope you are well. I don't think I've watched network news in 20 years. Read JJ in the morning, watch Fox Business in the morning and otherwise surf the web.
Blade Runner is on E! . Sean Young gorgeous and rule #1

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 26, 2025 12:12 PM (hIY2p)

66 I first saw her in The Crown and was smitten
Posted by: Don Black at July 26, 2025 12:11 PM (AOsQT)

In the Mission Impossible movies she is playing the crazy hot thing to the utmost.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 26, 2025 12:13 PM (bss/y)

67 "He's still alive but no longer caged!"

***********

Eh, uncaged, unhinged. A difference without a distinction.

Posted by: muldoon at July 26, 2025 12:13 PM (poXs5)

68 Starvation is not a weapon of war. /i]

Historically speaking, its one of the most effective weapons of war. Why were sieges on a city so popular?

The Siege on 589-587BC by Nebuchadnezzar on Jerusalem is a well understood example.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 26, 2025 12:14 PM (a4flb)

69 67 "He's still alive but no longer caged!"

***********

Eh, uncaged, unhinged. A difference without a distinction.
Posted by: muldoon at July 26, 2025 12:13 PM (poXs5)

Untarded.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 26, 2025 12:14 PM (bss/y)

70 68 Starvation is not a weapon of war. /i]

Historically speaking, its one of the most effective weapons of war. Why were sieges on a city so popular?

The Siege on 589-587BC by Nebuchadnezzar on Jerusalem is a well understood example.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 26, 2025 12:14 PM (a4flb)

Come on, Jerry Rivers is not exactly Julius Caesar. If for no other reason than I do not think Caesar would have been caught dead with that idiotic mustache.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 26, 2025 12:16 PM (bss/y)

71 Archimedes, good recos on books.

Another one, might be hard to find, is "Japan's Longest Day". It's a group project written by journalists and historians in the mid-60s (all Japanese) about the final 48 hours or so, including the coup attempt against the palace.

A much more recent book is good as a companion piece to that just mentioned. "Japan 1941" by Eri Hotta. A very good scene-setting account of the uniquely dysfunctional "system" of governance in Japan had evolved in the pre-war years, which contributed directly to the war happening in the first place.

This "system" persisted into 1945. The surrender decision represented a shattering of the pattern, and solely because Lord Privy Seal Kido was able to convince the emperor that it was time to quit.

The attempt of "revisionists" to simply make-up and ignore history back in the 90s, to sully the 50-year anniversary of the atomic bombings, was actually a pretty good marker as to how unserious, degraded, and "political" (in the dumbest sense) academia and the expert class had become.

Posted by: rhomboid at July 26, 2025 12:17 PM (U/Byj)

72 Geraldo go Fk yourself

Posted by: Skip at July 26, 2025 12:18 PM (+qU29)

73 Plus, I know she has the crazy eyes from hell, but I think Vanessa Kirby is insanely hot.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 26, 2025 12:07 PM (bss/y)

She's not horrible.
Her eyes are very pretty, but she's tall & thin.

I still picture Sue Storm in the body of Jessica Alba.
She looked really, really good in that suit.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 26, 2025 12:19 PM (6ydKt)

74 Southern rock was the shit.

https://tinyurl.com/4w9pk6kw

Posted by: JackStraw at July 26, 2025 12:19 PM (viF8m)

75 7 Didn't Eastwood sing in Paint Your Wagon?
Posted by: MkY at July 26, 2025 11:22 AM (cPGH3)

A friend told me “watch Eastwood - whenever he sings, he looks like he is scanning the horizon for enemy aircraft.”

Next time I saw that movie, I realized that he was right!

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 26, 2025 12:20 PM (9Tdlv)

76 This'll fix everything!

Astronomer hired Coldplay singer's ex-wife Gwyneth Paltrow to manage the fallout from its cheating CEO scandal 😂

https://is.gd/PIWA9G

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Lying Dogface Pony Soldier at July 26, 2025 12:21 PM (L/fGl)

77 Earth people. Beware.

Be nice to America or I'll tell Zardoz to nuke you. He is already mad enough to use them.

Don't we have clean nukes that don't leave so much radiation?

Posted by: Dreamingrobot at July 26, 2025 12:21 PM (NNsrR)

78 I pretty much stopped mainstream media near the end of 2012 after B.O. was reelected. Got rid of DirectTV about a year later.
I have about a 45 minute commute and would listen to a lot of talk radio. I remember my right index finger kind of shaking as I reached for the mute button whenever the top of the hour or bottom of the hour news break would come on. Eventually I became conditioned to live without it and never even think about it. Why should I listen to them? What credibility do they have?
Then my web surfing. It used to be Instapundit and AOSHQ. Could find out anything I wanted to know about what is going on in the world.
Eventually Insty became tiresome and now I pretty much just hang out here. If there's something going on I'll hear about it here and I get to hang out with all you lovable weirdos.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at July 26, 2025 12:21 PM (XQo4F)

79 Bury Colbert at sea with the illegal aliens.

Posted by: torabora at July 26, 2025 12:23 PM (WTo7d)

80 The Florida guitar army.

https://tinyurl.com/msx2fxvt

Posted by: JackStraw at July 26, 2025 12:25 PM (viF8m)

81 She's gunnin' for him!

Lol: Pelosi Boldly Vows to “Take Down” Trump’s Approval Numbers Ahead of 2026 Midterms

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Lying Dogface Pony Soldier at July 26, 2025 12:26 PM (L/fGl)

82 It's absolutely hilarious to me that the majority of reactions about the media empires falling into ruin are one of the following:

1. A collective shrug of shoulders.
2. A cry of MORE! while people break out the booze.

Posted by: NR Pax at July 26, 2025 12:28 PM (7xrfc)

83 I heard mention on a podcast yesterday that the absolute roasting South Park gave Trump the other day pretty much proves that Colbert's firing was not over politics. Would Paramount really give $1.5 billion to Matt and Trey to make content more denigrating than anything Colbert ever did if they were trying to censure speech?

Nope. Matt and Trey bring in the eyes, which bring in the advertising bucks. Colbert doesn't.

The bottom line is the bottom line.

Posted by: tankdemon at July 26, 2025 12:29 PM (gDAc2)

84 The NY Post cover story has Dan Bongino saying he is "shocked" by what they have found and they're going by the book to get it out. His comment "you can't run a republic like this." Nothing specific but sounds like a lot more fun to come

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 26, 2025 12:29 PM (hIY2p)

85 She's gunnin' for him!

Lol: Pelosi Boldly Vows to “Take Down” Trump’s Approval Numbers Ahead of 2026 Midterms

Ooooh, Nanzi is mad at me. I'm so scared. Ooooh, Pelosi. Uh oh, Pelosi...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPNMO1pnZOc

Posted by: Archimedes at July 26, 2025 12:30 PM (Riz8t)

86 Epoch Times - no paywall, has a page and if you continue scrolling, about 70 pages each of ledes to their well written essays on;

Russiagate: theepochtimes.com/focus/russiagate
and
Spygate: theepochtimes.com/focus/spygate
and
theepochtimes.com/us/spygate-special-coverage

Posted by: ` at July 26, 2025 12:30 PM (9OSHs)

87 Something else Obama did which ruined a lot of careers was when he jerked the construction permits for the Dakota Gas pipeline. Up until that point, once the permits were issued they stayed issued as long as the company complied with their terms and stipulations. The company would be able to capitalize the expenses of the project.

Obama changed all that. Now that it became evident that the permit was not necessarily sacrosanct anymore, companies became very leery of embarking on major projects which wouldn't be completed during the current administration. A lot of jobs got suspended from that; a lot of construction workers lost jobs, and lost opportunities for other projects.

That permit seizure by Obama froze big chunks of major construction projects. Then Biden came along and reinforced that paralysis by jerking the Keystone permit.

Posted by: LCMS Rulz! at July 26, 2025 12:31 PM (bufu1)

88 I always enjoy re-listening to the song “Barroom Buddies” with Clint Eastwood joining in with Merle Haggard.

Posted by: Buck Throckmorton at July 26, 2025 12:31 PM (d9Cw3)

89 >>> 81 She's gunnin' for him!

Lol: Pelosi Boldly Vows to “Take Down” Trump’s Approval Numbers Ahead of 2026 Midterms
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Lying Dogface Pony Soldier at July 26, 2025 12:26 PM (L/fGl)

Wouldn't the correct phrase be "she wants to hammer him"?

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 26, 2025 12:33 PM (ULPxl)

90 Easter Island Stonehead is big mad at Gabbard!

Obama CIA Director Brennan Lashes Out at Tulsi Gabbard After Documents Exposed Him

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Lying Dogface Pony Soldier at July 26, 2025 12:34 PM (L/fGl)

91 You'd think if aliens had the tech to travel across the galaxy to get her, they'd also have to ability to camouflage their ships so we idiot humans couldn't see them coming.

3I/ATLAS is estimated to be about 15 miles long.
That's one helluva alien ship if true.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 26, 2025 12:34 PM (6ydKt)

92 Trump's approval numbers are good because he is proudly implementing America first policies.

Pelosi and her fellow Democrats want to stop that. They have absolutely no self awareness how Anti-American they sound.

Posted by: polynikes at July 26, 2025 12:34 PM (VofaG)

93 I get my TV news from Real Americas Voice
War Room with Steve Bannon and Natalie Winters
Just the News with John Solomon and Amanda Head
Many more segments are on RAV.
I subscribe to Fox News and The New York Post on Youtube
as well. I like the Youtube angle becaust I don't have to listen to commercials and misc noise from blabber mouths...

Posted by: Captain Fantastic at July 26, 2025 12:35 PM (VPPG8)

94 Obama changed all that. Now that it became evident that the permit was not necessarily sacrosanct anymore, companies became very leery of embarking on major projects which wouldn't be completed during the current administration. A lot of jobs got suspended from that; a lot of construction workers lost jobs, and lost opportunities for other projects.

That permit seizure by Obama froze big chunks of major construction projects. Then Biden came along and reinforced that paralysis by jerking the Keystone permit.

Also Obama:
"Turns out shovel -ready jobs aren't shovel ready."

What. An. Assclown.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 26, 2025 12:35 PM (Riz8t)

95 If a person is pardoned, what about their spouses? As an accessory.

Posted by: Dreamingrobot at July 26, 2025 12:35 PM (NNsrR)

96 ***Growing up we laughed at the sick old people running the Soviet Union.. Brezhnev, Chernenko, Andropov... I must say I was surprised to find the press over here in the states treat Biden much the same way Pravda treated Soviet heads of state!
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Watching it in realtime they appeared as exemplars of the state of that nation. The people were dour, the breadlines were long, there was no hope. Reagan gave them the courage to break out of their cage.

Posted by: ` at July 26, 2025 12:35 PM (9OSHs)

97 Lol: Pelosi Boldly Vows to “Take Down” Trump’s Approval Numbers Ahead of 2026 Midterms

Like gravity "took down" Nancy's boobs to her knees?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 26, 2025 12:37 PM (TcVeV)

98 At Newsweek: "Americans Advised Not to Drink Alcohol in 18 States"

Three of the 18 states are Blotto, Stuporous, and Comatose.

Posted by: gp at July 26, 2025 12:37 PM (hNDvI)

99 90 Easter Island Stonehead is big mad at Gabbard!

Instant classic

Posted by: Captain Fantastic at July 26, 2025 12:38 PM (VPPG8)

100 Ex-Rep George Santos Begins Seven-Year Prison Sentence for Fraud

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And on deck is Adam Schiff-For-Brains!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Lying Dogface Pony Soldier at July 26, 2025 12:38 PM (L/fGl)

101 I would add to t ?hat Lefty cartoon caption on top .

Colbert ? Colbert ?

Where's our 40 million dollars ?

Posted by: polynikes at July 26, 2025 12:38 PM (VofaG)

102 Epoch Times - no paywall, has a page and if you continue scrolling, about 70 pages each of ledes to their well written essays on;

The New American also has good in depth articles, though unfortunately they dial up the rhetoric so that the articles are not something you can share with someone who is making up their mind.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 26, 2025 12:39 PM (a4flb)

103 We had the best music. I don't even know how you fuck that up.

https://tinyurl.com/3u4hx77u

Posted by: JackStraw at July 26, 2025 12:39 PM (viF8m)

104 I only trust Sefton for news these days.

Posted by: Too many newsliars at July 26, 2025 12:39 PM (TbWk/)

105 Obama CIA Director Brennan Lashes Out at Tulsi Gabbard After Documents Exposed Him

In a sane world, a Gus Hall supporter commie crypto-muslim like Brennan would never have been allowed to mop the floors at the CIA, let alone run it.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 26, 2025 12:40 PM (TcVeV)

106 AoSHQ is my sole source for news. I follow links to other sites, but I always start here.

Posted by: Mike,Shedding the Pug Mahon Nic at July 26, 2025 12:41 PM (0aYVJ)

107 Shut your mouth! He's an anti-Moron!

Actor Michael Rappaport Rips Into “Zohran the Moron” Mamdani: “Three-Card Monty Socialist”

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Lying Dogface Pony Soldier at July 26, 2025 12:42 PM (L/fGl)

108 So, who do you trust for news now?

No one. Seriously. Even the phrase 'trust but authenticate' seems like a marginal practice so now I just try to listen, observe and verify by action. Hearing and seeing 'the media' use the same phrases and buzz words on a given topic indicates the news on a subject is probably BS.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at July 26, 2025 12:42 PM (3Ope8)

109 Backpfeifengesicht. A word used for awhile around here, but not so much lately. Sums up Colbert.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at July 26, 2025 12:42 PM (gm9Sb)

110 This'll fix everything!

Astronomer hired Coldplay singer's ex-wife Gwyneth Paltrow to manage the fallout from its cheating CEO scandal 😂

https://is.gd/PIWA9G
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Lying Dogface Pony Soldier at July 26, 2025 12:21 PM (L/fGl)
——

This can’t be real. I’m waiting for the lawsuits against Coldplay and Chris Martin to drop.

Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at July 26, 2025 12:42 PM (aeiyZ)

111 Is CCR considered 'Southern Rock'?

Because a lot of their songs sound like it.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 26, 2025 12:42 PM (6ydKt)

112 Obama CIA Director Brennan Lashes Out at Tulsi Gabbard After Documents Exposed Him

In a sane world, a Gus Hall supporter commie crypto-muslim like Brennan would never have been allowed to mop the floors at the CIA, let alone run it.

He's just bitter because he could never attract a Tulsi.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 26, 2025 12:42 PM (Riz8t)

113 The war in the Pacific might have continued even after Hiroshima, Nagasaki, and the USSR declaring war if a single G4M Betty bomber had crashed.

August 19th two G4M Betty bombers painted white with green crosses landed at Ie Shima. The Japanese delegation was then transported via C-54 to the Phillipines to meet Gen. Douglas MacArthur.

They returned to Ie Shima with two copies of the surrender documents. One version states the Japanese refused to mix American 100octane with their lower octane fuel so one Betty returning to Japan crashed short of Tokyo after running out of fuel. Second Betty was refueled with American Avgas and returned safely to Tokyo with the surrender documents.

One really doesn't have to wonder how the Imperial Japanese Army would have interpreted losing two planes on a diplomatic mission to the American devils. Thankfully it never happened and Japan did surrender.

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 26, 2025 12:43 PM (7d1L5)

114 So, who do you trust for news now?

No one. Seriously. Even the phrase 'trust but authenticate' seems like a marginal practice so now I just try to listen, observe and verify by action. Hearing and seeing 'the media' use the same phrases and buzz words on a given topic indicates the news on a subject is probably BS.

You are wise. Never be an unthinking receptacle for what passes for news, even here. The fact that the fights here are so vigorous should tell you that.

Engage your brain!

Posted by: Archimedes at July 26, 2025 12:44 PM (Riz8t)

115 Just play this in the background while you read AoS

https://youtu.be/G5oOQgiIwXI

Posted by: Don Black at July 26, 2025 12:45 PM (AOsQT)

116 Wait wait wait. So Nancy has been being really kind to Trump for the past 10 years?

Huh.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 26, 2025 12:45 PM (bss/y)

117 76 This'll fix everything!

Astronomer hired Coldplay singer's ex-wife Gwyneth Paltrow to manage the fallout from its cheating CEO scandal 😂

https://is.gd/PIWA9G
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Lying Dogface Pony Soldier at July 26, 2025 12:21 PM (L/fGl)

She's a washed-up actress who sells gold vibrators, jade vagina eggs and clam steamers to empty-headed AWFLs. What the fuck does she know about crisis communications?

Posted by: She can scam dumb broads but so what? at July 26, 2025 12:46 PM (TbWk/)

118 For Hunter.

https://tinyurl.com/yexxayyk

Posted by: JackStraw at July 26, 2025 12:46 PM (viF8m)

119 One really doesn't have to wonder how the Imperial Japanese Army would have interpreted losing two planes on a diplomatic mission to the American devils. Thankfully it never happened and Japan did surrender.

I think most people simply don't understand how dysfunctional Imperial Japan was, and just sort of assume it was as efficient as a Toyota plant. The Army and Navy hated each others. Mid-level officers shot ministers for disagreeing with them. Some worshipped a bespectacled little man with very little in the way of insight. It's really kind of unbelievable.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 26, 2025 12:47 PM (Riz8t)

120 Aaron Judge has a bad elbow.
Oh no!
Anyways...

Posted by: Accomack at July 26, 2025 12:47 PM (JKkdu)

121 The unkindest cut.

Trump Dismisses Macron Recognizing Palestinian State: “What He Says Doesn’t Matter”

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And he's married to a man, an old man.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Lying Dogface Pony Soldier at July 26, 2025 12:48 PM (L/fGl)

122 Some worshipped a bespectacled little man with very little in the way of insight. It's really kind of unbelievable.
Posted by: Archimedes at July 26, 2025 12:47 PM (Riz8t)

People- when left to their own devices- can be kind of crazy, yo.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 26, 2025 12:48 PM (bss/y)

123 The unkindest cut.

Trump Dismisses Macron Recognizing Palestinian State: “What He Says Doesn’t Matter”

I wonder if he's trying to "subtly" influence upcoming elections.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 26, 2025 12:49 PM (Riz8t)

124 > Is CCR considered 'Southern Rock'?

Because a lot of their songs sound like it.
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Fun fact: the guy who wrote "Proud Mary" is from Berkeley CA

Posted by: Don Black at July 26, 2025 12:49 PM (AOsQT)

125 That permit seizure by Obama froze big chunks of major construction projects. Then Biden came along and reinforced that paralysis by jerking the Keystone permit.

And that is yet one more reason why no one wants to build a large scale nuclear power plant - if nuclear has a chance at all, it will by SMR and initiated during the first year of a non Democrat regime's term.

Don't forget that Obama also wrecked the contract Government Motors had with everyone except The Party's donors (e.g. UAW).

Obama also replaced Government Motors leadership with globalists dedicated to hollowing out GM's entire development and manufacturing abilities to China's SAIC. I think the only thing remaining is a Potemkin Village of beta engineers and the racially based sub-prime lending GMAC.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 26, 2025 12:49 PM (a4flb)

126 Gus Hall supporter Brennan. Gus Hall's real name was Arvo Halsberg, pure Finn. My Dad (born in Finland) used to shake his head when we went by the tiny CPUSA hall in my home town. Buncha old Finns laying about, swilling coffee and dreaming of a workers paradise. You could probably find a hall like that in MN or WI today.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at July 26, 2025 12:50 PM (gm9Sb)

127 Come on, Jerry Rivers is not exactly Julius Caesar. If for no other reason than I do not think Caesar would have been caught dead with that idiotic mustache.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 26, 2025 12:16 PM (bss/y)

*sigh* The "Jerry Rivers" thing again.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at July 26, 2025 12:50 PM (5xuJ/)

128 Trump Dismisses Macron Recognizing Palestinian State: “What He Says Doesn’t Matter”

I wonder if he's trying to "subtly" influence upcoming elections.

When the French Courts declared by fiat that Gazans had a free pass to all that France can offer, it was a point-blank shotgun blast to the head in terms of France's survival as a first world country or anything other than the worst parts of the Mad Max franchise series.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 26, 2025 12:52 PM (a4flb)

129 One really doesn't have to wonder how the Imperial Japanese Army would have interpreted losing two planes on a diplomatic mission to the American devils. Thankfully it never happened and Japan did surrender.

I think most people simply don't understand how dysfunctional Imperial Japan was, and just sort of assume it was as efficient as a Toyota plant. The Army and Navy hated each others. Mid-level officers shot ministers for disagreeing with them. Some worshipped a bespectacled little man with very little in the way of insight. It's really kind of unbelievable.
Posted by: Archimedes at July 26, 2025 12:47 PM (Riz8t)
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Several Japanese naval commanders tried to shoot down the Betties to prevent the surrender. At least one navy guy killed himself after he was unable to do that. Nutters all around.

Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at July 26, 2025 12:52 PM (aeiyZ)

130 Contributed doesn't mean they were valid reasons. He just ghosted her.
Posted by: polynikes
---------------------

If getting dumped and ignored by the current flame in your heart were means for suicide we'd all be dead. (most of us anyway)

Posted by: ` at July 26, 2025 12:52 PM (9OSHs)

131 The Chinese war games this week included these super cool tank/Higgins boat combo thingy's.
Wow very cool!!!!
Must be a take off of the real men of genius failed attempt to float tanks across the English channel for the D-Day invasion

https://tinyurl.com/3hfrnwzx

Posted by: Captain Fantastic at July 26, 2025 12:53 PM (VPPG8)

132 Come on, Jerry Rivers is not exactly Julius Caesar. If for no other reason than I do not think Caesar would have been caught dead with that idiotic mustache.

Jerry Rivers needs more friends and confidants like Julius Caesar's.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 26, 2025 12:53 PM (a4flb)

133 The Army and Navy hated each others. Mid-level officers shot ministers for disagreeing with them

Japan's decision to attack the world's most powerful industrial nation just seems insane on the surface. But the rivalry between the army and the navy created a dynamic where neither could be seen as being less bellicose than the other. Even when the top brass had well-founded fears of picking a fight with America, they couldn't abide having the mid-level hotheads in each branch of service denounce them as cowards.

So the march toward catastrophe went on unabated.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 26, 2025 12:54 PM (TcVeV)

134 You'd think if aliens had the tech to travel across the galaxy to get her, they'd also have to ability to camouflage their ships so we idiot humans couldn't see them coming.

3I/ATLAS is estimated to be about 15 miles long.
That's one helluva alien ship if true.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 26, 2025 12:34 PM (6ydKt)

Time to watch "Independence Day" again.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at July 26, 2025 12:54 PM (5xuJ/)

135 81 She's gunnin' for him!

Lol: Pelosi Boldly Vows to “Take Down” Trump’s Approval Numbers Ahead of 2026 Midterms
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Lying Dogface Pony Soldier at July 26, 2025 12:26 PM (L/fGl)

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How's she going to top Jan 6?

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at July 26, 2025 12:54 PM (36PRH)

136 Land mines are bad, mmmkay?

Tensions over a disputed border area erupted into fighting after a land mine explosion along the [Cambodian] border . . . wounded five Thai soldiers on Wednesday.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Lying Dogface Pony Soldier at July 26, 2025 12:55 PM (L/fGl)

137 Nanzi is another one I just want to see see stoke out and go away

Posted by: Skip at July 26, 2025 12:55 PM (+qU29)

138 I'll settle for watching John Brennan hang by the neck until dead, and seeing Predident Trump pardon ex-Prez'nit Cock-Curious Obama, AKA The Emperor Shit Midas, but not before the Stuttering Clusterfuck of a Miserable Failure ("SCOAMF," for those scoring at home) has to spend $10 million in legal fees dealing with being arrested for defrauding the US, committing insurrection, and generally being a useless tool.

Posted by: Sharkman at July 26, 2025 12:56 PM (/RHNq)

139 Japan not surrendering. Of course the troops in place as a homeland guard would have put up a spirited, to say the least, defense, there would have been the civilian element. Imagine mowing down wave after wave of Japanese civilians, armed with nothing but sharpened bamboo.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at July 26, 2025 12:56 PM (gm9Sb)

140 Eastwood is a pretty fair piano player, but does not have a strong voice. This has not stopped him from singing. There's a reason you don't see many references to "Honky Tonk Man."

"He banged his co-star."
I don't care what you say. Lee Marvin did not kill himself.
Posted by: Stringer Davis at July 26, 2025 11:50 AM (zdLoL)

Long time, no see!

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 26, 2025 12:56 PM (l6wpV)

141 Nancy is babbling drunkenly worse than usual. Drunk at 85 doesn't work

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 26, 2025 12:57 PM (hIY2p)

142 3I/ATLAS is estimated to be about 15 miles long.
That's one helluva alien ship if true.
Posted by: SpeakingOf

I'm not worried. Homan's in charge. May need more Alligator Alcatrazes, though.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Lying Dogface Pony Soldier at July 26, 2025 12:57 PM (L/fGl)

143 Just imagine a world where the Japanese hotheads had managed to assassinate Yamamoto before he was put in command of the Imperial Japanese Navy.

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 26, 2025 12:57 PM (7d1L5)

144 I still get my news from everyone of these media outlets. BUT, I do it with my own rules:

1. Discount all adjectives in hard news stories. That's editorializing.
2. Anonymous sources are disregarded totally.
3. Compare stories in one media outlet to other media outlets
4. Be aware enough to understand when there is purposeful emission.
5. Always consider the source, and their past history on accuracy.
6. Compare compatibility. If one media outlet reports using the same grammar and catch phrases, it's orchestrated by an interested 3rd party.
7. Question the author. That's the beauty of social media. These guys can't drop a "bomb" and hide.
8. Look for qualifiers in the article that allow wiggle room when the veracity is challenged.

And Finally:

The single most dependable and accurate news source is yourself. By applying the above rules you become a critical thought machine that filters, evaluates, and concludes. The media outlets are that place mat at a diner with all kinds of unrelated advertisements. You can judge for yourself what's interesting and applicable.

Posted by: Orson at July 26, 2025 12:57 PM (dIske)

145 Go get it Lowell.

https://tinyurl.com/haabfd93

Posted by: JackStraw at July 26, 2025 12:58 PM (viF8m)

146 142 Look no farther than the Dry Tortugas. Worked before, can work again.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at July 26, 2025 12:59 PM (gm9Sb)

147 Hope Trump gives us lots of glossy revenges of with Quentin Tarantino big endings.

Posted by: Dreamingrobot at July 26, 2025 01:00 PM (eibb3)

148 The Army and Navy hated each others. Mid-level officers shot ministers for disagreeing with them
. . . .
So the march toward catastrophe went on unabated.
Posted by: Cicero

Thank God nothing like that could happen here!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Lying Dogface Pony Soldier at July 26, 2025 01:00 PM (L/fGl)

149 Leftists are the cheapest bastards you’ll ever meet for the most part. My dad described this character trait thusly: “He’s tighter than bark on a tree”.

That’s OK as far as it goes, but that’s not how it went.

To a leftist, their idea of Charity is to steal money from someone else, and divert it to their favored pet groups. It is very easy to be generous with someone else’s money. And when it comes to a faceless or seemingly inexhaustible supply of Federal Tax Dollars, it’s even easier.

That’s their notion of Doing a Good Deed. Punish the Innocent, and Reward the Wicked. Their world view can remain unsullied as they simultaneously lament the open air insane asylum their neighbor hood has descended. Time to move! Rinse, lather, repeat.

“That’s Not The Way We Did It Back In …..”

Bang!

Posted by: Common Tater at July 26, 2025 01:02 PM (vSCm4)

150 The Chinese war games this week included these super cool tank/Higgins boat combo thingy's.
Wow very cool!!!!
Must be a take off of the real men of genius failed attempt to float tanks across the English channel for the D-Day invasion

https://tinyurl.com/3hfrnwzx

Gee, I wonder how they'll fare after being hit by drones.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 26, 2025 01:03 PM (Riz8t)

151 Savannah Banana.

https://is.gd/GUF6sC

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Lying Dogface Pony Soldier at July 26, 2025 01:05 PM (L/fGl)

152 Drones?

Drop The View on them?

Oh wait, that's crones.

Nevermind.

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 26, 2025 01:05 PM (7d1L5)

153 So, who do you trust for news now?

I don't trust anyone for news. I take everything I read with a large grain of salt and do my own research of multiple sources to see if I can get the full story of things.

Prior to 09/11/2001 (age 25), I didn't watch the news. My life centered around work and sports (playing and watching). Only "news" I watched was ESPN to keep up with all the professional sports goings-on.

Starting the morning of 09/11/2001 after the planes hit the towers, I started watching CNN. Then switched soon after to Fox News Channel. Soon after that I discovered the Rush Limbaugh program and listened to his show every day at work.

Stopped watching Fox News Channel (and any tv news) during the summer of 2004 during the Presidential election when I realized it was all biased crap or just BS spewed for entertainment purposes.

Thankfully that summer was the advent of blogs. I've gotten my news from nothing but blogs, military blogs and eventually Twitter/X from 2004 to now.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at July 26, 2025 01:06 PM (P5BPp)

154 Can those amphibious vehicles cross 100 miles under fire?

Posted by: Boss Moss at July 26, 2025 01:07 PM (Vmw0O)

155 Cartoon is accurate—Colbert is a peckerhead

Posted by: Give em the bird at July 26, 2025 01:08 PM (hD90I)

156 JD Vance Blasts Big Tech for “Bulls***” Claim They Can’t Find Enough Workers in U.S.

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They just need to get rid of the DEI.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Lying Dogface Pony Soldier at July 26, 2025 01:09 PM (L/fGl)

157 This guy was a babe magnet. Best looking women at a concert I've ever seen.

https://tinyurl.com/yu5pk58

Posted by: JackStraw at July 26, 2025 01:09 PM (viF8m)

158 Everyone associated with the Bomb was motivated from the start, as a way to end the war early. Maybe they should have paid attention to the longhairs in 1939.

But they gave the main go ahead in 1942, and the work was performed just as quickly and effectively as possible. Virtually nothing was left to chance.

Every day thousands were being killed. The faster the Bomb is produced, the faster the war will be over. Every day counts. Whose kid is going to be the last to die?

Some of the brass thought it not necessary, that the combination of blockades (starvation) and incendiary bombs would induce surrender. No way to know for sure. Estimates were a million troops necessary, maybe 250k killed. A year or so.

And “Home alive by 45” was looking less than certain. My uncle said ETO soldiers were being told they may be re-deployed to PTO for invasion. Not very Happy Campers. He said there was talk of going AWOL even.

Posted by: Common Tater at July 26, 2025 01:11 PM (/OGDK)

159 Drew Holden@DrewHolden360
NYT’s calls the revelation that Trump’s supposed “connection” to Russia’s election interference was a conspiracy cooked up by his rivals to sink his presidential campaign just “messy details.”

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You know, like wearing white after Labor Day.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Lying Dogface Pony Soldier at July 26, 2025 01:14 PM (L/fGl)

160 131 The Chinese war games this week included these super cool tank/Higgins boat combo thingy's.
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China's made so many enemies, they should rethink their aggression. Their biggest ally is Pakistan. There is border contention between them and Russia, they continue to front the Indians, Mongols don't like them and the fire ants to their east are more ready to get some than they let on. Not even mentioning all of the South China Sea and other Pacific Island nations.

Posted by: ` at July 26, 2025 01:16 PM (9OSHs)

161 Chris Frank parody country song of Coldplay Kiss Cam Affair:

https://bit.ly/4m7vkdA

"Got some Coldplay tickets on the company card.
Brought that cute old lady from down in HR.

She been filing expense reports with her throat on my pole
now I'm pitching quarterlies straight out of my f-cking soul.

We pre-gamed hard at the Marriot bar, she blew me so deep I saw last quarter's charts
The band hit the lights, folks hollered and screamed, And that jumbo tron made us TikTok's favorite meme

Now my wife's at the lawyer's, burning all my clothes
while TikTok replays me mid hug with that HR ho.

Used to rule the boardroom, now I'm just a viral meme
ain't no viva la vida when your cream goes mainstream.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at July 26, 2025 01:18 PM (P5BPp)

162 I think there is hope for the future but it won't get media coverage. I was trying to explain the local men to a guy in Seattle, writing about how feminism has ruined men. He was describing the soi boys he sees. I let him know that boys here are free to ride bikes and go places by themselves.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at July 26, 2025 01:20 PM (TEi+a)

163 The media has always been a bunch of retarded bottom feeders. This guy knew.

https://tinyurl.com/3yt5sn4c

Posted by: JackStraw at July 26, 2025 01:21 PM (viF8m)

164 FTR, this is not my experience with women, although I've been off the market for *cough* years.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/07ZgJ2pkqK8?feature=share

Posted by: Archimedes at July 26, 2025 01:26 PM (Riz8t)

165 Nnodleo

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at July 26, 2025 01:26 PM (yCLJY)

166
160 131 The Chinese war games this week included these super cool tank/Higgins boat combo thingy's.
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China's made so many enemies, they should rethink their aggression. Their biggest ally is Pakistan. There is border contention between them and Russia, they continue to front the Indians, Mongols don't like them and the fire ants to their east are more ready to get some than they let on. Not even mentioning all of the South China Sea and other Pacific Island nations.
Posted by: ` at July 26, 2025 01:16 PM (9OSHs)

Absolutely and screw China but those tank landing craft are cool and as a kid who played 'ARMY" we would thought they were the go to weapon. In reality they look like drone bait to me....

Posted by: Captain Fantastic at July 26, 2025 01:27 PM (VPPG8)

167 Paul Fussell's excellent column "Thank God for the Atom Bomb" is my go to commentary on the morality of using the bomb on Japan. Written from the point of view of an already-wounded combat veteran of ETO, who was slated to die invading Japan.

Posted by: Sharkman at July 26, 2025 01:30 PM (/RHNq)

168 How I think I look when I sing in the shower.

https://tinyurl.com/pn6y8pdc

Posted by: JackStraw at July 26, 2025 01:33 PM (viF8m)

169 Great thread KT very eclectic.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 26, 2025 01:34 PM (JvZF+)

170 The ex-president cannot be prosecuted but can he be deprived of possessions he acquired because of his presidency? Can he be de-banked, have his credit lines cut off.
Can he be de-ported/exiled?

Posted by: ` at July 26, 2025 01:36 PM (9OSHs)

171 Insty had a link this morning to a lefty article explaining to fellow liberals that linear TV is dead outside of live sports, and streaming isn't profitable either so their other late night heroes are going away too. The only currently produced scripted network TV show that cracked the top 100 in 2024 was Tracker on CBS (which is surprisingly good in an 80s/90s kind of way, and you can stream it on Hulu or Paramount+).

Posted by: Ian S. at July 26, 2025 01:40 PM (QZThv)

172 >>>New York Post@nypost
‘Possibly hostile’ alien threat detected in unknown interstellar object, a shocking new study claims
. . . .
A mysterious intergalactic object could potentially be a 'hostile' alien spacecraft that’s slated to attack our planet in November, according to a controversial new study by a small group of scientists.
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Or it could be a big ass rock that needs to meet with Starship loaded with A bombs ---- way out there.

Posted by: ` at July 26, 2025 01:41 PM (9OSHs)

173 Elon needs to get over his butt hurt and go back to work.

Posted by: ` at July 26, 2025 01:42 PM (9OSHs)

174 I watched CBS Evening News almost nightly from when I was about nine until I was 24.

At that time I was reading a lot of Spanish and Soviet press, and crap like Financial Times and the Economist. Feh.

Is it any wonder I was a communist?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 26, 2025 01:44 PM (JvZF+)

175 How I think I look when I sing in the shower.
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I'm the horn section from KC and the Sunshine Band

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 26, 2025 01:48 PM (JvZF+)

176 France is doomed to join the Caliphate. Just owning up to their new masters.

Posted by: Skip at July 26, 2025 01:48 PM (+qU29)

177 For heaven's sake, the national weather service has done a bang up job of warning about emergencies for years - long before tv reached the more remote places.
Satellite tv and internet has filled any gaps in recent years.
As for general news, the local radio AM stations have always provided regular updates, as well as allowed people to access national speeches and politics.
And, in Limbaugh's heyday, there was usually a station that could pick up his show.
So, no, not uninformed rubes.

Posted by: Linda S Fox at July 26, 2025 01:48 PM (7Rs+y)

178 You sign in and go along reading and posting never getting to the end. Then you come across a post you made but under some other nic. WTF? _ Checks log in. Logged in as " ' " with nic in the email and no kickback.

This my friends is what happens to one who starts the day with no coffee.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 26, 2025 01:49 PM (9OSHs)

179 This my friends is what happens to one who starts the day with no coffee.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 26, 2025 01:49 PM (9OSHs)

I was about to start complaining j g about people following '...' and start saying people need to quit being lazy and come up with a nic.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 26, 2025 01:52 PM (idIpT)

180 Like most of the problems today, the worthlessness of the news stems from computer world. Media used to be independent because the money came from advertising and you needed a big operation for media dissemination and the dissemination was what you needed to get the advertising money. Once that dried up with the internet the media went on a desperate search for cash and became totally for sale, trading what was left of their reputation for money. We are in the end stage of that as the reputation is almost all gone.

Posted by: Azjaeger at July 26, 2025 02:01 PM (3/XaG)

181 180 Like most of the problems today, the worthlessness of the news stems from computer world.
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There's an article, not saved, on how Obama intimidated Companies to adopt his BS, who then paid advertising to accommodate this new perspective. None of what's been happening is/was organic. We were so close to being co-opted
into a communist state it's incredible. It's incredible that bitch is still walking loose.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 26, 2025 02:18 PM (9OSHs)

182 Brain check

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 26, 2025 02:20 PM (9OSHs)

183 Does the left actually believe there will be no one left to criticize Trump if Colbert doesn't keep his present platform? Seems kind of stupid.

Posted by: Still lurking up north, read some, don't comment much at July 26, 2025 02:25 PM (kTd/k)

184 Trump has spoken with Thailand and Cambodia and portends peace soon. 2h

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 26, 2025 02:33 PM (9OSHs)

185 Emmanuel, does my fist make your ass look bigger?

“I am very much in favour of the State of Palestine but I am not in favour of recognising it prior to establishing it,” Meloni told Italian daily La Repubblica.

“If something that doesn’t exist is recognised on paper, the problem could appear to be solved when it isn’t,” Meloni added.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 26, 2025 03:13 PM (9OSHs)

186 >>>Incidentally, Scott Adams had a detailed conversation with Cynical Publius about why the crimes of Russiagate would be hard to prove in court.
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The hard part is getting past prosecutors and judges prejudice in what "reasonable doubt" means and leave it to the jury.
... that and getting a jury in a red state.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at July 26, 2025 03:52 PM (/lPRQ)

187 I just realized that today is Her Grace's birthday.

Happy Birthday, AtC.
Posted by: toby928 at July 26, 2025 05:00 PM

Posted by: toby928 repeats himself at July 26, 2025 05:09 PM (jc0TO)

188 Though most everybody stayed with the message, the iconograpny suffered a little with Kamala.

Seriously - and straight up. That video is must watch. It explains quite a bit that you and I may know - but boils it down to concrete terms.

A fantastic watch. That cat is on to how things work.

Posted by: This Guy at July 26, 2025 05:25 PM (hk7Ln)

189 >Incidentally, Scott Adams had a detailed conversation with Cynical Publius about why the crimes of Russiagate would be hard to prove in court.

I would love to have a conversation with them both about why they're both full of shit. Because it doesn't matter about getting a Perry Mason Confession. That's old thinking.

You drag their asses out in the court of public opinion. If you only sway 60% of the country that they're criminal ? You write your own ticket every even numbered election year.

And then you cut their money and watch them not starve - but its not like they'll go to work.

Posted by: This Guy at July 26, 2025 05:30 PM (hk7Ln)

190 Aaron Rodger’s has no chill.

https://tinyurl.com/yfdrc2zh

Posted by: toby928 repeats himself at July 26, 2025 05:50 PM (jc0TO)

191 This Guy at July 26, 2025 05:30 PM

I think that thread was on legalities. Cynical Publius is all for changing Democrats' thinking about Russiagate.

"The Steele Dossier was once the bedrock upon which Democrat Trump hate was built. But because we were relentless in exposing its lies, it's now understood to be a total hoax. That means we can do the same with all the other Russiagate lies Democrats currently believe."

https://x.com/CynicalPublius/status/1949193582373376078

Posted by: KT at July 26, 2025 05:58 PM (xekrU)

192 Dan Bongino@FBIDDBongino . 6h

During my tenure here as the Deputy Director of the FBI, I have repeatedly relayed to you that things are happening that might not be immediately visible, but they are happening.

The Director and I are committed to stamping out public corruption and the political weaponization of both law enforcement and intelligence operations. It is a priority for us. But what I have learned in the course of our properly predicated and necessary investigations into these aforementioned matters, has shocked me down to my core. We cannot run a Republic like this. I’ll never be the same after learning what I’ve learned.

We are going to conduct these righteous and proper investigations by the book and in accordance with the law. We are going to get the answers WE ALL DESERVE. As with any investigation, I cannot predict where it will land, but I can promise you an honest and dignified effort at truth. Not “my truth,” or “your truth,” but THE TRUTH.

God bless America, and all those who defend Her.
Respectfully,
Dan
Jul 26, 2025 · 3:12 PM UTC

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 26, 2025 06:25 PM (9OSHs)

193 Democrats are psychologically ensured to communist / collectivist mindset, whether they changed their mind on one thing or another makes no difference. They are an antithesis to the Republican form of government.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 26, 2025 07:04 PM (9OSHs)

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