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The Morning Report — 7/24/25

Good morning kids. CBD and I mused on the latest edition of the podcast, here and in the sidebar as well as on the usual platforms listed below, is the Democrat Party tearing itself apart over actual policy or merely over tactics. As the late great Rush Limbaugh of blessed memory stated time and again, if Democrats were open and honest about the policies they supported, they'd never win any election. Of course, electoral fraud notwithstanding. And of course, generational Democrats still perceive of their party being led by FDR, that is the mythological media/generated image of FDR, It's why to this day, the titanic lie of the Democrat Party as the party of civil rights and justice is still swallowed whole by ignorant dupes who vote for the party of slavery and Jim Crow believing that post 1964 the several hundred segregationists instantaneously switched parties and became Republicans. But I digress.

So with that as a set-up, there's this item to chew on:

The Democratic Party’s attempt to “resist” President Donald Trump is backfiring, the latest I&I/TIPP poll shows. A plurality of American adults now believe the one-time party of the center has gone too far to the left.
Voters who responded to the online national poll of 1,421 adults, taken from June 25 to June 27, were asked the following question: “Do you think the Democratic Party has become too radical in its views and policies?”
A strong plurality of 45% of all poll respondents said yes, while 36% said no and another 18% said they weren’t sure. The poll’s margin of error is +/-2.7 percentage points. . .
. . . I&I/TIPP went a little further on a second question, asking: “Should Democrats in Congress work with President Trump when possible, or should they focus on resisting his agenda?”
Overall, voters preferred for congressional Democrats to work with Trump, rather than simply opposing his agenda. Among all respondents, 46% answered “work with Trump,” 19% said “resist Trump,” a sizable 26% said “depends on the issue,” with only 9% “not sure.”
Summed up, that means that an overwhelming 72% would like to see Democrats cooperate with Trump, at least on an issue-by-issue basis. Just 19% would resist all Trumpian initiatives.

And yet despite all of that, how does one explain the rise of Momdani in NYC and this Fateh/Fatah whatever in Minneapolis? Of course Curtis Sliwa has virtually zero chance in NYC, but when as one pundit claimed even Anthony Weiner looked sane in comparison to Momdani. And Democrats still could have gone with Cuomo or even Eric Adams who is now running as an independent. Sadly, if as expected this cancer does become the candidate, the voters will reflexively vote him in simply because he has that magical "D" designator by his name. And yet it was not that long ago that New Yorkers twice chose Rudy Giuliani and then Michelito Lo-Lo Bloomberg despite Tammany Hall and a thoroughly corrupt Marxist city council. What the hell happened in the intervening years?

So are the Democrats really TOO "radical" for their own good or is it that they are too open and honest about who and what they always have been which is radical, period.

On a not necessarily unrelated subject, there are a couple of links that certainly shed some light as to how our society in many frightening ways sank so low as to make Momdani, Bro-Fo Omar, Bernie Sanders and Obama appeal to far too many of our fellow citizens when the reaction to them should have been utter revulsion.

First up:

America’s colleges and universities have long been the bright lights of our civilization. For nearly four centuries, they have pioneered new fields of knowledge, brought the arts and sciences to new heights, and educated the men who built our republic. But over the past half-century, these institutions gradually discarded their founding principles and burned down their accumulated prestige, all in pursuit of ideologies that corrupt knowledge and point the nation toward nihilism…
. . . The universities have capitulated to the radical left’s “long march through the institutions,” which has converted them into laboratories of ideology, rather than institutions oriented toward truth. 
. . .The universities have contributed to a new kind of tyranny, with publicly funded initiatives designed to advance the cause of digital censorship, public health lockdowns, child sex-trait modification, race-based redistribution, and other infringements on America’s long-standing rights and liberties.

And it starts in Pre-Kindergarten all the way through to past-graduate:

The National Education Association Representative Assembly met for four days earlier this month. This annual event usually reveals how deplorable the organization is, and this year was no different. . .
. . . But the most outrageous speech at the convention—and perhaps ever given—came from NEA boss Becky Pringle, who ranted on about how those in power are “trying to erase the truth of our history. They want to whitewash the past so our students are denied the full story of who we are. They want to silence all of the pain, all of the struggle. Even in the telling of the triumphs, their narration is incomplete. They want to stop our students from looking inward to see their own dignity or outward to a diverse world filled with possibility and pride.”
Worse than the content was Pringle’s tone, which was way beyond hysterical. If you watch this 36-second clip, you will get the idea.
. . . In 1906, Congress granted the NEA a special status among U.S. labor unions as a federally chartered corporation to “elevate the character and advance the interests of the profession of teaching and to promote the cause of education in the United States.”
Since the union has obviously failed miserably in its mission, GOP lawmakers are trying to revoke its charter. On July 16, Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., and Reps. Mark Harris, R-N.C., Mary Miller, R-Ill., and Ralph Norman, R-S.C., introduced the latest proposal to repeal it. The new legislation was introduced following reports that the NEA prioritized politics over education at its annual meeting.

In light of what American academia has done to the minds of at least three generations of students, it's a miracle that Ronald Reagan was elected let alone the coming of Donald Trump and the glimmer of hope that the MAGA movement will engender a true American renaissance.

That said, we don't have a chance unless and until we wrest control of the education of future generations from these evil degenerate pied-pipers of perversion, dissolution, anti-civilization and tyranny.

So, in 2028 is it Greasy greasball Newsome, Titty-Caca, the Bro Fo, Beto and his E.L. Fudge special filling cookies, or even Hunter Biden?! who will lead the Democrats to victory . . .

Gee, what a surprise, Hilary Clinton was a falling down drunken pill-popping maniac hopped up on alcohol, uppers and antipsychotics and her own ego. If only Putin shared that intel with Trump in 2016? Pfft.

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ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY

Victor Davis Hanson: There's no longer such a thing as conventional wisdom -- or the status quo.
The World Woke Up (See what he did there?! - jjs)
The NEA’s true agenda was on full display at its recent convention.
Uncivil Union

DOMESTIC AFFAIRS, THE COURTS, WASTE/FRAUD/ABUSE

“President Trump nominated a lawyer, Alina Habba, who I know was one of his lawyers to be US attorney for New Jersey. That’s very common for a president to appoint somebody he knows, somebody who’s worked with him,” Dershowitz said at the start of the episode. “Ronald Reagan appointed his own personal lawyer to be the attorney general of the United States. John Kennedy appointed his brother.”
Alan Dershowitz Needs Just 4 Words To Describe Alina Habba’s Ouster By Obama-Biden Judges
In its 6-3 decision, the justices granted an application filed by the Trump administration to stay a June 13 district court order attempting to block the president from firing the officials in question. As described by The New York Times, the five-member group “monitors the safety of items like toys, cribs and electronics.” (Eliot Maimway unavailable for comment - jjs)
SCOTUS Hands Trump Win In Consumer Product Safety Commission Case

"BIDEN/HARRIS BORDER BLOODBATH," AMNESTY, IMMIGRATION, BORDER SECURITY, NEWSOM/DEMOCRAT VIOLENT INSURRECTION RIOTS
“The stakes are too high," Louisville's Democrat Mayor Craig Greenberg said.
Blue City Abandons ‘Sanctuary City’ Policy After Warning From Trump Administration
CIVIL WAR 2.0: J-6 FBI FALSE FLAG "RIOT" & AFTERMATH, LEFTIST PERSECUTIONS, DEMOCRAT PUTSCH, AMERICAN DISSOLUTION
The work to restore the integrity of the Constitution isn't done.
The New Dangers of the Woke Left
Distrust in institutions is at all-time high. Americans are looking for alternatives.
The Death of 'Expertise' Is America’s Great Rebirth
House Republicans are finally beginning the process of establishing their own select subcommittee to investigate the involvement of federal agents prior to and during the January 6, 2021, Capitol riots, and alleged malfeasance by the January 6 Committee established by Congressional Democrats. Congressman Barry Loudermilk (R-GA), who has championed the effort, is slated to lead the select subcommittee.
House GOP Finally Moves to Investigate J6 Feds and J6 Committee.
As the former president’s “chickens come home to roost,” it will be interesting to see how this slick politician twists the revelations.
Obama’s Self-Incriminating Defense
SHAMPEACHMENTS, 2016 CLINTON/OBAMA COUP, CONGRESSIONAL PERSECUTION, SPYGATE, DEEP STATE, MUELLER DECEPTION
Putin Knew Too; And Kept It Quiet — This is the point where all those yells of "Trump is Putin's Puppet" die an agonizing death.
Everyone in the Neighborhood Knew Hillary Was Batsh*t Crazy. Now the Intel Confirms It
Victor Davis Hanson: Tulsi Gabbard’s doc dump revives a damning question: Did Obama’s intel chiefs knowingly push the Russia hoax to cripple Trump before he even took office?
Revenge or Justice?
Whether or not indictments, trials and convictions of high-profile figures like Hussein Obama, James Clapper, John Brennan, James Comey, and Hillary Clinton occur, the consequences will likely be profound.
The Law Strikes Back
Newly unsealed records contradict claims made by top Obama officials that the Steele dossier was not incorporated into the 2017 ICA.
New Docs Contradict Top Obama Officials’ Claims Steele Dossier Wasn’t Included In Critical Russiagate Report
“The committee also found that the ICA suppressed intelligence showing that Putin was ‘not only demonstrating a clear lack of concern for Trump’s election fate,’ but also indicated ‘that he preferred to see Secretary Clinton elected, knowing she would be a more vulnerable President.'”
Tulsi Gabbard Demolishes Obama’s Weak Attempt at Damage Control
Gabbard took to X to publish the 46-page report on Wednesday morning, noting, “New evidence has emerged of the most egregious weaponization and politicization of intelligence in American history.”
Gabbard Releases House Intel Report on How Obama Administration ‘Manufactured’ Russia Collusion Hoax
Tulsi Gabbard is a glutton for justice.
‘They all must be held accountable’
THE ECONOMY, STUPID
The pay hikes may be politically popular, but new research confirms they come at a price for workers.
California’s $20 Fast-Food Minimum Wage Costs Jobs
Grocery stores have some of the smallest profit margins as a proportion of sales of any economic sector.
No, Corporate Power Isn’t to Blame for High Grocery Prices
ISRAEL AND USA vs Hamas, IRAN, et al
Sinwar's brother's wife also fled Gaza, according to Ynet
Wife of Slain October 7 Mastermind Yahya Sinwar Fled Gaza for Turkey: Report (Erdogan and his pals need to meet their maker-jus)
The New York Times: “Iranian officials blame Israel for ‘mysterious fires’ and blasts targeting IRGC operatives, [and] nuclear weapons experts.”
IDF Releases Video Showing Hamas Terrorists Feasting in Gaza Tunnels
But has it?
Hamas Wants the World to Believe It Has ‘Lost Control’ of Gaza
The shocking footage, published Wednesday by Lieutenant Colonel Adraee, offers a rare glimpse into the comfortable lifestyle Hamas leadership maintains while ordinary Gazans reportedly face a humanitarian crisis above ground as a result of the terrorist group’s actions.
Hamas Terrorists Caught Feasting Underground on Lavish Meals While Exploiting Gaza Civilians Suffering Above

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CNN seems shocked that Syrian national Mahmoud Khalil, who only came to the United States to demand its “total eradication,” refuses to condemn Hamas. But despite advocating for our destruction, Democrat lawmakers invited him to the Capitol on Tuesday, as an honored guest.
Democrats Honor Mahmoud Khalil On Capitol When He REFUSES To Condemn Hamas
British law firm represents Hamas . . . and vows death to Zionism. (They just made themselves legitimate targets for the IDF/Mossad - jjs)
From the Riverway to the Sea, Britain Should Be Free

ASSAD REGIME COLLAPSES"
Robert Spencer: And in Islam, it is.
Syrian President’s Cousin on Druze: ‘It Is Permissible to Enslave Their Women’
OFFICIAL DEMOCRAT PARTY/LEFTIST-ENDORSED ANTI-SEMITISM, ANTI-CHRISTIANITY
After a four-year legal battle, the State of New York has agreed to pay Christian wedding photographer Emilee Carpenter $225,000 in legal fees and to stop enforcing laws that violate her First Amendment rights. The settlement allows Carpenter to decline photographing homosexual weddings without fear of state penalties.The agreement, detailed in a consent decree between New York Attorney General Letitia James and Carpenter’s legal team at the Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF), follows a ruling in May by U.S. District Judge Frank Geraci, a Barack Obama appointee, who stated it was “beyond debate” that New York cannot use public accommodations laws to “compel speech.”
New York Pays Out $225K After Trying to Force Christian Photographer to Shoot Gay Weddings. (with a Nikon or a Chicago typewriter? - jjs)

WE-ALL-SLAM-FOR-I-SLAM
Will the world ever care?
Mozambique: Al-Shabaab Abducts Over 100 Children Since January
The present security scenario and political instability in Bangladesh have boosted the morale of radical Islamic groups in Bangladesh. The demand to run the country on a Sharia-based system, shunning democracy, is an outcome of this development. If not checked, Bangladesh could soon be a roosting ground for fundamentalist and radical Islamic elements, threatening the wider region and the world at large.
In Bangladesh, Increasing Islamic Radicalism Is a Worrisome Trend

FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUES, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER TECH
Candid assessments were immediately overturned. The narrative was flipped, claiming that Russia had interfered to help Trump win.
New DNI Docs Reveal Washington Post’s Central Role In Russiagate Hoax
“The family of the individual allegedly told reporters he was handcuffed and taken by federal officers at a green card appointment in Philadelphia. This claim is completely false.”
Media Driven Story About ICE Secretly Deporting Pennsylvania Man to Guatemala is a Hoax
Legacy media’s biggest players — NBC News, The New York Times (NYT) and others — appear to be in full damage control mode over the “Russiagate” revelations Director of National Intelligence (DNI) Tulsi Gabbard unveiled Friday. NBC accused Gabbard of trying to “rewrite the history of the 2016 election” in a Tuesday headline.
Legacy Media In Panic Mode Over Russiagate’s Implosion
Want to guess which outlets are redlined as “unreliable”? That’s right: conservative sources like Fox News, the Daily Wire, the Daily Caller and even The NY Post.
AI is eating leftist garbage from Wikipedia — and YOU consume what comes out
When the press distorts law enforcement and downplays explosive violence, facts become casualties.
Gonzo Gaslighting: How the Media Turn Molotovs into Protests and Prosecutors into Villains
RED-GREENS, CLIMATE CHANGE HOAX, DEMOCRAT-LEFT WAR ON FOSSIL FUELS,
Groups funded by the Hewlett Foundation were given special access to Newsom on the trip
Left-Wing Foundation That Funds CCP-Affiliated Green Groups in China Also Paid for Gavin Newsom’s Trip There, Records Show
Government Accountability Office slams the program's lack of 'performance goals with measurable targets and time frames for its activities'
Biden Junta's $7.5 Billion EV Initiative Built Fewer Than 400 Charging Ports in 3 Years, Watchdog Says
We cannot afford to be dependent on foreign suppliers for energy that can and should be sourced from our own untapped, highly reusable spent fuel we mislabel as "waste."
America must lead the world in nuclear waste recycling for cleaner energy, better future (Force feed it to Leftists and Muslims - jjs)
The Biden junta's push to electrify the U.S. Postal Service’s (USPS) delivery fleet has collapsed into a nearly $10 billion quagmire, a textbook case of central planning’s inevitable failure. With $3 billion from the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) and a goal to deploy 35,000 electric mail trucks by September 2028, the USPS has managed to produce just 250 vehicles—each a costly, leaking, airbag-plagued embarrassment.
USPS Charge To 'Electrify' Delivery Fleet FAILS As Predicted
Daniel Greenfield:The United Nations exists to create conflict
UN Encourages Countries to Sue Each Other Over the Weather

CRIME & PUNISHMENT, NON-DOSTOYEVSKY
Two of the officers were seriously wounded and life-flighted. The suspect is dead.
Three Ohio Police Officers Shot In ‘Ambush’
The murders occurred in the early hours of November 13, 2022, at a residence in Moscow, Idaho. Kohberger was arrested six weeks later at his parents’ home in Pennsylvania. Prosecutors revealed that DNA evidence, surveillance footage, online purchase history, and cellphone data connected him to the crime. During the hearing, Kohberger declined to make any statement, prompting murmurs from the victims’ families.
Bryan Kohberger Receives Four Life Sentences for Idaho Murders.
It’s a billion-dollar industry, illegal and controlled by Chinese mafia networks in quiet rural and suburban neighborhoods across America.
The Enemy Within: The Billion Dollar Chinese Grow House Industry (the enemy within is the DemocratParty - jjs)
EDUCATION, AND WHAT PASSES FOR IT
Columbia University said on Thursday that is has agreed to pay the Trump administration $200 million over three years, as well as $21 million to settle Equal Employment Opportunity Commission investigations (EEOC) in exchange for the return of the $400 million in frozen federal grants and the majority of its $1.3 billion a year in federal funding. The Trump administration notably canceled $400 million in federal grants and contracts to the school, accusing the university of failing to act “in the face of persistent harassment of Jewish students.”
Columbia University Agrees to Pay $200M Fine, Ditch DEI in Settlement with Trump Administration
“The gravest internal threat to this country is … leftist professors who are waging a war against America and teaching our young people to hate this country.”
The Battle for Higher Education and the Manhattan Statement
We must end this nightmare in American education once and for all and reclaim our position as the world's leader in innovation and opportunity.
Repealing the National Education Association's Charter will restore education to parents and states
Ivy League school is facing a litany of federal investigations on issues ranging from anti-Semitism to discriminatory hiring practices
Trump Admin Launches Probe Into Harvard's Foreign Visa Practices
L'AFFAIRE EPSTEIN
Daniel Greenfield: "Release the Epstein files," they cry, while blocking their release.
Obama Judge Blocks Release of Epstein Transcripts
Christopher F. Rufo: A myth is a story that expresses the collective dreamworld of a culture: its fears, its wishes, its self-conception. Some myths refine themselves over generations. Others spring into consciousness in an instant.
Epstein conspiracy theories obscure the obvious truth — he was nothing more than a high society snake
DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST AND RINO SCANDALS, MESHUGAS, CHUTZPOCRISY
Biden may have signed off with an autopen, but it’s his staff—and not the president—who may have really wielded the pen and the power.
The Autopen Presidency Controversy Is Just Beginning
The senator represents the suburbs east of Saint Paul and is a member of the Minnesota Democrat-Farmer-Labor Party (DFL), which is affiliated with the national Democrat Party. (DFL is a half-step to the Left of the Vietcong - jjs)
Minnesota State Senator to Vacate Seat After Unlikely Felony Conviction
POLITICS
Overall, voters preferred for congressional Democrats to work with Trump, rather than simply opposing his agenda. Among all respondents, 46% answered “work with Trump,” 19% said “resist Trump,” a sizable 26% said “depends on the issue,” with only 9% “not sure.”
More Bad News For Dems — Most Voters Now Call Them ‘Too Radical’: I&I/TIPP Poll (So if they were merely radical, that would be ok? - jjs)
“Political rhetoric is easily co-opted. . . The post-left’s contrarian energy became an identity of its own. . . The post-left had neither a robust institutional framework nor a labor base.”
The Death of the Post-Left
A dangerous turning point for America. (Meh, she's just open about Democrat evil unlike their SOP of lying and projection - jjs)
Is Bro-Fo Omar the New Standard-Bearer for Democrats?
Mark Lynch isn’t a politician—and that’s exactly why he belongs in office: principled, unpolished, and driven by conviction, not careerism.
A Rare Thing in Washington: A Good Man Runs for Office
“I do think people running for public office really ought to fit eventually where they are trying to land at. And I really do, hope, frankly, that [Harris] comes to that reality,” Brown said of Harris’ political future when asked by “State of Gold” podcast host Jon Slavet.
Kamala Harris’ ex-lover (all-day sucker/suckee) Willie Brown warns her of ‘difficult’ road to win California governor’s race after resounding 2024 loss
Former candidate for everything Beto O'Rourke may be running again.
0 for 3 Beto up to bat again?
He may actually be the Democrats’ most viable candidate for POTUS. (RUFKM? - jjs)
The Re-Invention of Hunter Biden
FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL
The burning fuselage of the plane, which was from the Soviet era and was nearly 50 years old, was spotted on the ground by a helicopter and rescue crews were rushing to the scene.
Russian plane crashes in Russia’s far east, nearly 50 people — including 5 children — on board feared dead
The survey also revealed concerns that targeting the AfD could be perceived as a political maneuver to suppress legitimate opposition. Currently serving as the official opposition in the Bundestag (federal legislature) and ranking as the second-largest party, the AfD’s removal would be undemocratic. Over half of those surveyed, 54 percent, said they believed that banning the party would not significantly change the political landscape, since another group with similar views would likely take its place.
‘Path to Civil War’ — Majority of Germans Oppose Banning Populist Opposition.
The Macrons definitely have a case.
French President Emmanuel Macron, Wife Brigitte Sue Candace Owens for Defamation
Visitors with existing reservations at the four-star Britannia Hotel in Canary Wharf, London, were unexpectedly denied entry on July 22 after the British Home Office—roughly equivalent to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS)—repurposed the property to house asylum seekers. Tourists were captured on video being refused access at the entrance, while security personnel stood behind locked glass doors. Major booking websites have since halted all reservations for the upscale, four-star hotel located in one of London’s most affluent districts. Staff were also reportedly fired.
Guests Kicked Out, Staff Fired So Four-Star Hotel Can Be Filled With Migrants.
DEFENSE, MILITARY, SECURITY AFFAIRS
Trump 'represents a serious and legitimate threat to the rule of law,' the Anthropic CEO claimed.
DOD Awards Massive AI Contract To Company Whose CEO Likened Trump To ‘Feudal Warlord’
HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE
But in the real world, it’s how the Center for Medicare & Medicare Services (CMS) administers the order that will have the most profound impact on bringing down costs. And right now, there’s a real danger that CMS is about to repeat the same structural mistakes that helped create this crisis in the first place – by putting for-profit PBMs in the driver’s seat.
Trump’s Executive Order Named The Scoundrels In Our Drug Supply Chain. Why Is CMS Giving Them More Control?
How could it possibly be a bad idea to be an organ donor?
The Dark Truth About Becoming An Organ Donor
“After more than two decades of delay, this action fulfills a long-overdue promise to protect our most vulnerable populations from unnecessary mercury exposure,” Secretary Kennedy said. “Injecting any amount of mercury into children when safe, mercury-free alternatives exist defies common sense and public health responsibility. Today, we put safety first.”
RFK Jr. Removes Mercury-Based Thimerosal from U.S. Flu Shots. (whither Michelle Bachmann and Tardisil? - jjs)

ACTUAL SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY
The lack of explanation or warning strongly suggests the county’s
actions were a political retaliation against the recent creation of the
town of Starbase. County Commissioner Benavides [Democrat] had
previously opposed the recently passed state law that gave Starbase the
power to close Boca Chica’s beaches. As one of my readers noted, "And all this time I’ve been told that it’s
the Republicans that are mean spirited and spiteful monsters. Cutting
off a towns water supply in July in Texas with no notice? Yep, that
classifies as the very definition of mean spirited."
Local county abruptly stops delivering water to Boca Chica
It appears the company needs to dredge a deeper channel to ship the heavier Neutron hardware into Wallops, but it has not been able to begin work because of approval delays by the federal government.
Rocket Lab’s new Neutron rocket faces red tape delays at Wallops
FEMINAZISM, TRANSGENDER PSYCHOSIS, HOMOSEXUALIZATION, WAR ON MASCULINITY/NORMALCY
Democrat California Gov. Gavin Newsom has made a feeble effort to distance himself from the worst excesses of the left. It’s cast him out of the good graces of certain Californians. And, in their telling, into the hands of President Donald Trump. The New York Times (NYT) claims many “families of transgender minors” in California are “angry with the Trump administration, but also with Gavin Newsom.”
Liberals Seethe After Gavin Newsom Does Something Sort Of Sane For Once
The pause comes as a result of pressure from the Trump administration.
Health Care Puts Stop To Trans Surgeries On Kids
If your entire identity is defined by aberrant sexual behavior, you’re going to be a sex pest.
‘Trans’ school employee who preyed on young girls now revealed to have sent homemade porn to school board mom for his ‘fetish’
CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE
Anti-Israel vermin took to social media in the hours after rock legend Ozzy Osbourne’s death on Tuesday at the age of 76, trashing him for performing in Tel Aviv despite far-left attempts to enforce an artistic boycott.
Anti-Israel Scum Trash the Late Ozzy Osbourne for Ignoring ‘Boycott’

HITHER & YON
This initiative is set for the fall, and the marketing campaign will likely capitalize on the public’s growing demand for more ‘natural’ ingredients in food and beverages.
Coca-Cola Confirms Launch of New Product Line Made With … American Cane Sugar
Kooymans, who wrote Golden Earring’s biggest American hit, 1982’s “Twilight Zone,” had retired from music in 2021 upon being diagnosed with ALS. He was 77. (And the outstanding 1973 classic rock smash "Radar Love" - RIP jjs!)
Golden Earring’s George Kooymans Dead At 77

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Comments

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Life is good!

Posted by: Jeffrey Epstein, on a beach, sipping mai tais at July 24, 2025 07:30 AM (EFZgU)

2 Morning, one and all!

Posted by: NR Pax at July 24, 2025 07:30 AM (+4yJ5)

3 Thirsty Thursday

Posted by: Navin hennigantx at July 24, 2025 07:31 AM (gbOdA)

4 Good morning horde!

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 24, 2025 07:31 AM (ExV1e)

5 thx, JJ!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at July 24, 2025 07:32 AM (dKEEs)

6 The Democrat Party's attempt to 'resist' President Donald Trump is backfiring, the latest I&I/TIPP poll shows. A plurality of American adults now believe the one-time party of the center has gone too far to the left.

The one-time party of the center? Damn, dude, leave some drugs for everyone else.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 24, 2025 07:34 AM (ExV1e)

7 Good morning all!

Posted by: Polka will never die at July 24, 2025 07:34 AM (uxAXv)

8 "And yet despite all of that, how does one explain the rise of Momdani in NYC and this Fateh/Fatah whatever in Minneapolis? "

The pendulum always swings back, sometimes violently, but it always swings back.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at July 24, 2025 07:37 AM (e5NfL)

9

Intersectionality - where Hershey Highway meets Jizz Lane.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 24, 2025 07:37 AM (x0n13)

10 Good morning, J.J.
Good morning, Horde.

Posted by: Inogame at July 24, 2025 07:37 AM (53oGX)

11 Not one NBI addressed that student learning in the U.S. is tanking. No teacher mentioned that on the 2024 NAEP, the percentage of U.S. public school 4th graders who scored “below basic” on the reading test was the largest in 20 years, at 40%. Some 33% of 8th graders scored “below basic” on the exam—a record low.

Stage 4 is demand respect.
Stage 5 must be Buy a Clown Car.

Posted by: Navin hennigantx at July 24, 2025 07:37 AM (gbOdA)

12 good morning JJ, Horde

Posted by: callsign claymore at July 24, 2025 07:39 AM (PClog)

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And yet despite all of that, how does one explain the rise of Momdani in NYC and this Fateh/Fatah whatever in Minneapolis?

What's the percentage of foreign-born voters in each city? Immigrants used to try to adapt to the organic polity of this country. Now they bring all the sociopolitical pathologies of their native countries here.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 24, 2025 07:40 AM (HZi96)

14 The Death of 'Expertise' Is America’s Great Rebirth

The experts will still hold onto their fading relevancy while wondering what all the laughter is about.

Posted by: NR Pax at July 24, 2025 07:41 AM (+4yJ5)

15 Thank you JJ

That Pringle lady ranting and raving is illustrative of the modern left. They are all anger and outrage all the time; no thought, just rage and lashing out

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 24, 2025 07:41 AM (i5Vkf)

16 California’s $20 Fast-Food Minimum Wage Costs Jobs

My youngest, who is one semester away from graduating with a civil engineering degree, is working this summer for $25/hr. - albeit not in Cali. These minimum wage hikes have become absurd.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 24, 2025 07:41 AM (ExV1e)

17 Rush BingBang is proven right again. He always said the democrats always run as "moderates" or "in the center", lie about everything while running for office then once in office let their marxist homo pederast freak flags fly. Nowadays they just drop the act and go full bore freak a leak. Never vote democrat unless you like strange things shoved in your anus, your kids molested or worse and all paid for by your taxes while you have to sip a penis or two.

Posted by: Bo Snerdley at July 24, 2025 07:42 AM (rfMRc)

18 I've always assumed Hillary's body odor makes eyes water.

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at July 24, 2025 07:42 AM (kTd/k)

19 13
And yet despite all of that, how does one explain the rise of Momdani in NYC and this Fateh/Fatah whatever in Minneapolis?

What's the percentage of foreign-born voters in each city? Immigrants used to try to adapt to the organic polity of this country. Now they bring all the sociopolitical pathologies of their native countries here.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 24, 2025 07:40 AM (HZi96)

Sadly they know which party is the party of Uncle Sugar and Santa Claus.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 24, 2025 07:43 AM (x0n13)

20 ok hi good morning still in lovely Florida and thinking about where we're going after the boys graduate...

meanwhile OMG there is NO WAY Hunt could be US President! Dear Lord that is not even funny to joke about! That WOULD be Idiocracy.

Posted by: Black Orchid at July 24, 2025 07:44 AM (Md4iB)

21 Yonder Horde

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 24, 2025 07:44 AM (Q4IgG)

22 What's the percentage of foreign-born voters in each city? Immigrants used to try to adapt to the organic polity of this country. Now they bring all the sociopolitical pathologies of their native countries here.

this is also a partial explanation of why many US colleges went so "woke" or really anti-semetic/anti-West btw

Posted by: Black Orchid at July 24, 2025 07:45 AM (Md4iB)

23 Free Press exposed Madmani today, assigning a reporter to read all of his tweets going back years. TL : DR is the guy is a total communist, believes socialism is better, despite all evidence, believes in state force to be used to dispossess people of the fruits of hard work, and wants criminals to terrorize the population at will.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 24, 2025 07:45 AM (Gr2Nw)

24 DOD Awards Massive AI Contract

It's like these people have never seen WarGames, or Terminator.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 24, 2025 07:46 AM (ExV1e)

25 Willowed:

"As Rumman Chowdhury, a data scientist, CEO of the tech nonprofit Humane Intelligence, and former U.S. science envoy for AI, put it, "Anything [the Trump administration doesn't] like is immediately tossed into this pejorative pile of woke."

This is the sort of thing that just makes me laugh.

Ol' Rummie Chowderhead hates the correct use of his and other progtards like him descriptive adjective of "woke".

Woke is not a word that conservatives or Trump would come up with to describe your beliefs, Rumdumb. Insane would come closest to it.

Woke is your descriptor and supposed to mean that you are awake to all that is fair and equitable, unlike the rest of the horrible American populous who are but sleeping sheep.

I love that they hate their own creation being turned back on them like some grammatical Frankenstein monster.

BONUS!: I also love that Rummie Chowderhead's phony baloney business of festooning other people's software with woke garbage is most likely DOA.

Hahaha.

Posted by: naturalfake at July 24, 2025 07:46 AM (iJfKG)

26 Great Britain is a muslim state. For many years I thought that the UK has what it takes to remove the yoke of Islamism that is choking its society, after all, the nazi party was quite popular in the UK in 1930s , 1940, and members of aristocracy were if not members of various fascist and nazi groups but at least very sympathetic. And then Churchill and the Battle of Britain, etc. But now? I have my doubts they will recover. They still can, but the measures will have to be innovative and radical to English eyes and ears. Like freedom of speech and assembly.

Posted by: runner at July 24, 2025 07:47 AM (g47mK)

27 Nixon ran for President in 1960 and lost. Then he ran for governor of California in 1962 and lost. 6 years later he was President of the United States.

Posted by: Don Black at July 24, 2025 07:47 AM (AOsQT)

28 "Radar Love" is the greatest driving song ever. Fight me, if you must, but I'm right on this one.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 24, 2025 07:48 AM (Gr2Nw)

29 Trump 'represents a serious and legitimate threat to the rule of law,' the Anthropic CEO claimed.
DOD Awards Massive AI Contract To Company Whose CEO Likened Trump To ‘Feudal Warlord’

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they really need to look at the selection criteria they are using to award these contract, don't they

Posted by: runner at July 24, 2025 07:48 AM (g47mK)

30 >But now? I have my doubts they will recover.
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The royal family should have an escape plan in place. That day will come.

Posted by: Don Black at July 24, 2025 07:48 AM (AOsQT)

31 "Radar Love" is the greatest driving song ever. Fight me, if you must, but I'm right on this one.

Highway Star

Posted by: Halfhand at July 24, 2025 07:51 AM (p9+cC)

32 Nixon ran for President in 1960 and lost. Then he ran for governor of California in 1962 and lost. 6 years later he was President of the United States.
Posted by: Don Black at July 24, 2025 07:47 AM (AOsQT)

Are you suggesting Mamala will win in 2032? Heaven forfend

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 24, 2025 07:52 AM (ANuwa)

33 La Grange

Posted by: Don Black at July 24, 2025 07:52 AM (AOsQT)

34 @30, the Royal family under the old queen was in the middle of it. There is a love affair between the UK aristocrats and "mystical" Arabia. I don't know wtf is wrong with them. Probably calling each other "king" and"prince" appeals to them.

Posted by: runner at July 24, 2025 07:54 AM (g47mK)

35 Mamdani won his primary with what, 12% of the party voting? That massive flip in polling right before the election with no real explanation (no scandal or epic gaffe) makes the whole thing even fishier IMO.

Posted by: pookysgirl smells something rotten in NYC at July 24, 2025 07:54 AM (Wt5PA)

36 Morning all

Posted by: rickb223 at July 24, 2025 07:54 AM (rw9H/)

37 IDF Releases Video Showing Hamas Terrorists ~~Feasting~~ Roasting in Gaza Tunnels

fixed it

Posted by: Navin hennigantx at July 24, 2025 07:55 AM (gbOdA)

38 >Are you suggesting Mamala will win in 2032? Heaven forfend

Posted by: LinusVanPelt
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The parallels just occurred to me. Let's hope not.

Posted by: Don Black at July 24, 2025 07:55 AM (AOsQT)

39 Disco Inferno

Posted by: Elrond Hubbard at July 24, 2025 07:55 AM (P0m9n)

40 33 La Grange
Posted by: Don Black at July 24, 2025 07:52 AM (AOsQT)

Point where Austin and Houston will touch in 22 years.

Posted by: Navin hennigantx at July 24, 2025 07:56 AM (gbOdA)

41 off sox

Posted by: hennigantx at July 24, 2025 07:56 AM (gbOdA)

42 > ...is the Democrat Party tearing itself apart over actual policy or merely over tactics.
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I think it's more of a struggle for control between the Olde Guard (of which there are many) and the new crew (of which there are some). The oldsters are tired. But still in charge. Thus, the bitching and moaning.

But what's more troubling, to me, is that Democrats seem to be able to wield great power from a small minority; the clinically insane. Add in the socially dysfunctional and the "commie-curious" and, well, you get what you get.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 24, 2025 07:57 AM (Q4IgG)

43 This initiative is set for the fall, and the marketing campaign will likely capitalize on the public’s growing demand for more ‘natural’ ingredients in food and beverages.
Coca-Cola Confirms Launch of New Product Line Made With … American Cane Sugar
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Can the Everglades produce enough cane? Does any other state produce sugar cane?

Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 24, 2025 07:57 AM (Gr2Nw)

44 Is Fauci in jail?

Posted by: I gotta ask at July 24, 2025 07:58 AM (kDa4+)

45 Normal rational people are a minority in NYC, confined to a few neighborhoods on Staten Island. NYC is now majority AWFLs, hipsters, and left-leaning ethnics. That's what happened in the intervening years. The normies left.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at July 24, 2025 07:58 AM (zLAXK)

46 “Should Democrats in Congress work with President Trump when possible, or should they focus on resisting his agenda?”

What kind of phuqued up question is that?

The pollsters have corrupted a process of governance into a sporting event. It never should be a blind "resist the agenda" as if this is a NFL match and the defense is supposed to do whatever it takes to prevent the offense from gaining ground.

We can't let the Executive enforce an agenda of following the law! Oh No! The Executive's Agenda is to balance the budget and increase prosperity! Can't have them gaining ground!

Can't ever be a policy by policy discussion, or, I don't know, let the voting majority have their agenda enacted. Its like the Democrats are acting as if they are in the Offense's Home Stadium and the majority of fans are cheering the Home Team and the point of the poll is to test how loud the crowd cheers.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 24, 2025 07:58 AM (a4flb)

47 Seems that several used helo engines attached to a tunnel opening and then after 1400 F operating temp is achieved you atomize in about 3000 gals of preheated diesel would keep the tunnel dwellers warm.

Posted by: hennigantx at July 24, 2025 07:59 AM (gbOdA)

48 Were it not for ZZ Top, I would never have known about John Lee Hooker.

"Uh how how how how..."

Posted by: Don Black at July 24, 2025 07:59 AM (AOsQT)

49 Does any other state produce sugar cane?
Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 24, 2025 07:57 AM (Gr2Nw)

Tex LA and MS

Posted by: hennigantx at July 24, 2025 07:59 AM (gbOdA)

50 Summer of '73, Schroon Lake in the Adirondacks, only one rock station available on my tiny Sony transistor radio, every third song played is "Radar Love." Over and over. It really was beat to death unfortunately.

Posted by: actually inside the beltway at July 24, 2025 07:59 AM (BW+Gb)

51 OK, photoshop at top has elicited a chuckle from this reader

Posted by: Don Black at July 24, 2025 07:59 AM (AOsQT)

52 Don't look to Cuba for sugar. Last year Cuba had to import raw sugar. Communism, what can't it do !

Posted by: Ben Had at July 24, 2025 08:00 AM (HFcKg)

53 [ik]Is Fauci in jail?

I wish the choice was jail or an urn.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 24, 2025 08:00 AM (a4flb)

54 Desert Plains, by Judas Priest

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at July 24, 2025 08:00 AM (ufFY8)

55 And yet despite all of that, how does one explain the rise of Momdani in NYC and this Fateh/Fatah whatever in Minneapolis?

This one's easy - I'll take it. Because people in Minneapolis and NYC are extremely different than people in the Southeast and Midwest. The cultures are simply incompatible with each other.

There is a constant thought here, by some, to insist that "people really are all the same". They surely are not. We have three distinct cultures here in the US. They should be three separate nation-states. We all in one only by force. It won't last forever.

Posted by: Long Memory at July 24, 2025 08:00 AM (ciJ04)

56
I saw Falling Down Drunken Pill-popping Maniac open for Shane MacGowan and the Pogues at the Cow Palace in '77.

Posted by: naturalfake at July 24, 2025 08:01 AM (iJfKG)

57 31 "Radar Love" is the greatest driving song ever. Fight me, if you must, but I'm right on this one.

Highway Star
Posted by: Halfhand at July 24, 2025 07:51 AM (p9+cC)

Love both!

Always wanted to make a short film that mirrored the lyrics of Radar Love with the song as the entire soundtrack. Alas, film class daydreaming.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 24, 2025 08:02 AM (x0n13)

58 England is a back water 3rd world island with bad weather, bad food and a substandard health care system who were able to involve the whole world in numerous wars from Napoleon to The Kaiser to Hitler. Hope they enjoy their new found mooselim overlords. The sooner they are regulated to the dust bin of history the better.

Posted by: Their Sun Has Set at July 24, 2025 08:02 AM (rfMRc)

59 "Highway Song" by Blackfoot

Posted by: Elrond Hubbard at July 24, 2025 08:02 AM (P0m9n)

60
King Tampon III is proving to be every bit the nullity he clearly always has been.

There'll be damn few tears shed when he shuffles off this mortal coil.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh![ at July 24, 2025 08:02 AM (Tv15w)

61 Biden Junta's $7.5 Billion EV Initiative Built Fewer Than 400 Charging Ports in 3 Years, Watchdog Says

7,000,000,000/384

$18,229,166 per charger.

They will make it up on volume.

Posted by: hennigantx at July 24, 2025 08:03 AM (gbOdA)

62 52 Don't look to Cuba for sugar. Last year Cuba had to import raw sugar. Communism, what can't it do !
Posted by: Ben Had at July 24, 2025 08:00 AM (HFcKg)

As Milton Friedman PBUH once observed, "If the federal government were in charge of the Sahara Desert, within 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand."

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 24, 2025 08:04 AM (x0n13)

63 Good morning!

Posted by: Hacked gp's Feed Off The Bird at July 24, 2025 08:04 AM (VUviF)

64 Can the Everglades produce enough cane? Does any other state produce sugar cane?
Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 24, 2025 07:57 AM (Gr2Nw)

I think there's a bit of cart before horse in all this. We don't produce much sugar cane, certainly not enough to replace current imports let alone support a whole new industry. But that's more due to extrinsic factors like Ag and trade policy than the actual ability to grow it.

Supply may create its own demand, but restoring an artificially reduced demand will probably always create its own demand, too. If allowed to.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 24, 2025 08:04 AM (RlmPm)

65 Mamdani is bad enough but how can Fateh even be a consideration?

Posted by: Ben Had at July 24, 2025 08:05 AM (HFcKg)

66 I can't read "The Dark Truth About Becoming An Organ Donor", so if anyone else knows I'd appreciate hearing. I suspect that it means the hospital in which you die technically kills you by removing your organs before you are actually dead, which is what my daughters keep telling me, horrified as they are by the idea.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 24, 2025 08:05 AM (7Q+sU)

67 Clinically insane sick white woman 300k votes from ruling the world.

Hell of a movie idea.

Posted by: hennigantx at July 24, 2025 08:05 AM (gbOdA)

68 Mamdani is bad enough but how can Fateh even be a consideration?

==

It's a test.

Posted by: runner at July 24, 2025 08:05 AM (g47mK)

69 *supply

Whatever, you know what i was trying to say. Third coffee hasn't kicked in yet. Harrumph.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 24, 2025 08:06 AM (RlmPm)

70 Those feasting terrorists are looking rather pale. They need to get some sun.

Posted by: pawn at July 24, 2025 08:06 AM (QB+5g)

71 Can the Everglades produce enough cane? Does any other state produce sugar cane?
Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 24, 2025 07:57 AM (Gr2Nw)
I know Louisiana and Texas produce sugar cane.

Posted by: Eromero at July 24, 2025 08:06 AM (jgmnb)

72 In answer to the original question, yes, the Dems have become too radical for their own good. The woke/tranny/DEI wing has dragged the Party to the extreme left edge of reality. And mainstream Dems (is there such a thing?) are helpless to resist the pull. The extreme left has guns and bricks and bottles and firebombs, and isn't afraid to use them. The Democrats have created a monster, and now they are compelled to follow.

IMO

Posted by: Don Black at July 24, 2025 08:06 AM (AOsQT)

73 Can the Everglades produce enough cane? Does any other state produce sugar cane?
Posted by: Huck Follywood

C&H, C&H, Pure Cane Sugar, Pure Cane Sugar,
From Hawaii, From Hawaii, Growing in the Sun 🎶

Off 70's commercial jingle

Posted by: rickb223 at July 24, 2025 08:07 AM (rw9H/)

74 > Mamdani is bad enough but how can Fateh even be a consideration?
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If one were to presume the Democrat Party had control over who, and who wasn't permitted to run for office....

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 24, 2025 08:07 AM (Q4IgG)

75 Trump 'represents a serious and legitimate threat to the rule of law,' the Anthropic CEO claimed.

In what way? What laws? Ask your AI to answer that. If it merely projects or says that Trump is failing to embrace rogue District Judges then maybe you should sell your AI to the CCP.

Where in Hell was your opinion with Resident Auto-Pen?

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 24, 2025 08:08 AM (a4flb)

76
Why has not Shrillary burned down their NY mansion yet? She has to be furious that Tulsi released the Soviets' scathing report on her health issues from 2016.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh![ at July 24, 2025 08:08 AM (Tv15w)

77 Obligatory Hot Balls reference:

https://tinyurl.com/4pnzjjzz

Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at July 24, 2025 08:08 AM (T4qa/)

78 Annex the rest of panama. Grow it there.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 24, 2025 08:08 AM (RlmPm)

79 They don't care how. They don't care why. They don't care what might happen afterwards.

They just need the boxes ticked.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 24, 2025 08:10 AM (RlmPm)

80 Makes one wonder what the sugar beet industry is thinking right now.
It's a yuge part of the ag industry in the Snake River Plain.

Posted by: Elrond Hubbard at July 24, 2025 08:10 AM (P0m9n)

81 So about 40 years ago Pepsi switched to corn syrup and then bragged at the big meetings of beverage companies that their bottlers would make about $500k more each year. This is back when bottlers were local family owned business.
So Coca-Cola bottlers demanded the same switch and ta fucking da Coke came out with New Coke, a formula that then Chairman Goizueta played a big role in. Well that went over like fart in church.
So back to cane sugar. Then about 5 years alter with a few tweaks corn was added to Coke. Then about 5 years after that CCE was formed to buy out all the bitchy families and now Coke own the formula and local bottlers.

Mu old man worked for Coke USA for 20 years.

Posted by: hennigantx at July 24, 2025 08:11 AM (gbOdA)

82 I can't read "The Dark Truth About Becoming An Organ Donor", so if anyone else knows I'd appreciate hearing. I suspect that it means the hospital in which you die technically kills you by removing your organs before you are actually dead, which is what my daughters keep telling me, horrified as they are by the idea.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 24, 2025 08:05 AM (7Q+sU)

I think that giving the hospitals and doctors an incentive to kill you/let you die instead of trying to save you/let you live/heal,

is always and everywhere a bad idea at all times.

I have no desire to become some a-hole's Medical Lunchbox.

Posted by: naturalfake at July 24, 2025 08:11 AM (iJfKG)

83 Is beet sugar closer to corn syrup than cane sugar?

Asking for a friend. Who is me. Because i actually don't know.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 24, 2025 08:11 AM (RlmPm)

84 Nice article on Mark Lynch. I sure wish he had a good chance at uprooting the nefarious gov't blood sucker Lindsey Graham. We've dealt with Lynch's appliance business several times over the years. Good people. I'd love nothing more than to send Graham packing. Only, it seems like a very hard thing to do here in SC. I wish Mark luck. I'll be voting for him.

Posted by: Lady in Black at July 24, 2025 08:11 AM (qBdHI)

85 Were it not for ZZ Top, I would never have known about John Lee Hooker.

"Uh how how how how..."
Posted by: Don Black at July 24, 2025 07:59 AM (AOsQT)
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Carlos Santana turned me on to John Lee Hooker

Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 24, 2025 08:12 AM (hs23C)

86 So, odds Barry Soetoro will comply with a Congressional Committee to answer questions about Barry Soetoro?

Posted by: pudinhead at July 24, 2025 08:12 AM (W3T6M)

87 >>And yet despite all of that, how does one explain the rise of Momdani in NYC and this Fateh/Fatah whatever in Minneapolis?

Because they are not American cities populated by Americans by and large, being that over 40pct of NYC is foreign born, and the natives by and large are transients and lunatics hellbent on immanitizing a marxist utopia, whatever that is.

It's done, NYC will have a marxist mayor and the denizens of the putrid hive of scum and lunacy will get what they've been agitating for good and hard.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 24, 2025 08:13 AM (XV/Pl)

88 ok,so do we like cane sugar, or not? Doesn't it destroy teeth ?

Posted by: runner at July 24, 2025 08:13 AM (g47mK)

89
Sugar cane is cool because the crushed stalks that renain after extracting the juice are called "bagasse".

Bagasse is cool because it brings to mind the delightful image of our politicos and their baggy asses.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh![ at July 24, 2025 08:13 AM (Tv15w)

90 Although, after saying all that about NYC, I did get bomb Caribbean food on my site visit yesterday.

So, they have that going for them.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 24, 2025 08:14 AM (XV/Pl)

91 La Grange
Posted by: Don Black at July 24, 2025 07:52 AM (AOsQT)

They got a lot of nice girls up there.

Posted by: Count de Monet at July 24, 2025 08:14 AM (wVcYX)

92 Closer to cane sugar. Heavier grain.

Posted by: Elrond Hubbard at July 24, 2025 08:14 AM (P0m9n)

93 83 Is beet sugar closer to corn syrup than cane sugar?

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I'm here to help.

Posted by: The Internet at July 24, 2025 08:14 AM (kDa4+)

94 "Radar Love" is the greatest driving song ever. Fight me, if you must, but I'm right on this one.

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"Head On" by the Jesus and Mary Chain is a contender.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at July 24, 2025 08:14 AM (zLAXK)

95 Beet sugar, I think, is ..E. European thing? because they don't have cane sugar ?

Posted by: runner at July 24, 2025 08:14 AM (g47mK)

96 Radar Love" is the greatest driving song ever. Fight me, if you must, but I'm right on this one.

Highway Star
Posted by: Halfhand at July 24, 2025 07:51 AM (p9+cC)

Love both!

Always wanted to make a short film that mirrored the lyrics of Radar Love with the song as the entire soundtrack. Alas, film class daydreaming.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 24, 2025 08:02 AM (x0n13)
—-

I Speed At Night

Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at July 24, 2025 08:14 AM (T4qa/)

97 Biden Junta's $7.5 Billion EV Initiative Built Fewer Than 400 Charging Ports in 3 Years, Watchdog Says

400 chargers? Heck Buc-ees did that and more. I think they did it for a lot less, and most, if not all, are still working rather than the USG's $18m per copy version.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 24, 2025 08:14 AM (a4flb)

98 Can the Everglades produce enough cane? Does any other state produce sugar cane?
Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 24, 2025

Ain’t no cane on the Brazos.

Posted by: RetSgtRN at July 24, 2025 08:14 AM (wivH/)

99 Motley Crue - Kickstart My Heart

More than one speeding ticket with that one.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 24, 2025 08:15 AM (Q4IgG)

100 I had to look up a picture of the pervert trans tennis coach from Pennsylvania. Was not expecting it, but he looks like Amy Schumer.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at July 24, 2025 08:15 AM (zLAXK)

101 And yet despite all of that, how does one explain the rise of Momdani in NYC and this Fateh/Fatah whatever in Minneapolis?

Electoral pockets of immigrant Islamism abetted by Leftist-anarchic resentment and rage.

Posted by: Ordinary American at July 24, 2025 08:15 AM (UseAb)

102 I’m glad Tulsi Gabbard is getting all the Russia Obama fuckery out there but I’m pretty sure nothing will come of it. Most people just don’t care and it’s too subtle to quickly explain.

I mean if you’re talking to the uninitiated and have to spend 5 minutes describing the subtle difference between “sowing chaos” and “sowing chaos plus aspiring to help Trump” you’ve already lost their interest. When Abby Phillips on CNN can derail Scott Jennings by bringing up how Marco Rubio agreed with Obama in 2017 the discussion is over… the public en masse will never get it or care

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 24, 2025 08:16 AM (6RwsA)

103 It's National Tequila Day!

Posted by: redridinghood at July 24, 2025 08:16 AM (NpAcC)

104 "Obama Judge Blocks Release of Epstein Transcripts"

Do we now trust Trump's instincts to move on?

There is NO way the corrupt Deep State will ever let this happen.

Posted by: Danimal28 at July 24, 2025 08:16 AM (1E4GV)

105 ok,so do we like cane sugar, or not? Doesn't it destroy teeth ?

Hell yeah! Bring on the metabolic dysfunction, rotting teeth and Type II diabetes!

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 24, 2025 08:16 AM (a4flb)

106 Everyone in the Neighborhood Knew Hillary Was Batsh*t Crazy. Now the Intel Confirms It[/]
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Democrats choose old and crazy people as candidates. It's a pattern.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 24, 2025 08:16 AM (hs23C)

107 We don't do sugar.
We do chicken.

Posted by: Raising Cane's Restaurants at July 24, 2025 08:16 AM (kDa4+)

108 In the 2020's, sugarcane is grown commercially in Florida, Louisiana & Texas.
Florida 2019/20 17,011 thousands of short tons
Louisiana 2019/20 14,629 thousands of short tons
Texas 2019/2020 1,251 thousands of short tons

Sugar Cane production ended in Texas on April 23rd, 2024 as the last sugarcane mill closed.
The final sugarcane mill in Maui closed in 2016.

Sugarcane beets? 34,751 thousands of short tons spread over 10 northern states.

Per Wikipedia.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 24, 2025 08:17 AM (rw9H/)

109 It's done, NYC will have a marxist mayor and the denizens of the putrid hive of scum and lunacy will get what they've been agitating for good and hard.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 24, 2025 08:13 AM (XV/Pl)

Going the way of Great Britain. It's the template.

Posted by: Ordinary American at July 24, 2025 08:17 AM (UseAb)

110 The barrel calls.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 24, 2025 08:17 AM (hs23C)

111 So what do we gain by swapping out HFCS for natural cane sugar?

Science me.

Posted by: Don Black at July 24, 2025 08:17 AM (AOsQT)

112 111 So what do we gain by swapping out HFCS for natural cane sugar?
+++

Weight.

Posted by: The bathroom scale at July 24, 2025 08:18 AM (kDa4+)

113
It's done, NYC will have a marxist mayor and the denizens of the putrid hive of scum and lunacy will get what they've been agitating for good and hard.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 24, 2025 08:13 AM (XV/Pl)

I think "the numbers" (scare quotes because I'm totally rumor mongering and don't have any data myself) shows that the non-natives of NYC overwhelmingly rejected Mamdani. It was white kids and AWFLs who came out for him. Bro Fo is likely the same, and i assume this casting call reject from Captain Phillips up in Minnesota is, too.

"Look at me. I am the congressman now."

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 24, 2025 08:18 AM (RlmPm)

114 66 "Brain death" was created to give cover for murdering people for their organs. It ranks up there with "products of conception" and "safe and effective."

Practice defensive medicine. Assume doctors, nurses, and Big Pharma pill pushers are out to kill you.

Posted by: callsign claymore at July 24, 2025 08:19 AM (PClog)

115 Since I live in the GPROMD, the local news station was giving the MS13 Maryland Man a tongue bath. They bemoaned how horrible it was that a noble father, falsely accused of being MS13 (Because he denied it so it must be true) could be sent out of this country.

My local government is really determined to burn this state to the ground in this man's name.

Posted by: NR Pax at July 24, 2025 08:19 AM (+4yJ5)

116 WHO says Israeli forces hit its staff residence and main warehouse in Gaza. WHO said its staff residence was attacked three times, with airstrikes causing a fire and extensive damage, and endangering staff and their families, including children. Two WHO staff and two family members were detained, it said in a post on X. Its director general said: “WHO demands the immediate release of the detained staff and protection of all its staff.”

The WHO is an international health organization, and authoritarian armies don't get to order it around and treat it like criminals.

THAT is the real story here. The facilities of these international agencies are inviolable, per international law, even in an evacuation zone. Why would they have evacuated before the airstrikes? It would have meant abandoning people in need.

Is there no way to stop Netanyahu? The world must just sit back and watch this criminal bomb, maim and kIll?

If a nation or group of nations had the moral courage to send their military assets to directly attack the IDF it would change in a moment.

Release the hostages. Disarm Hamas. Everyone knows how to stop Netanyahu.

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at July 24, 2025 08:19 AM (ycI94)

117 The US sugar industry is one of the most highly government protected agricultural sectors. The consumer prices are controlled by a ton of requirements to inflate the cost and limit the amount of imports.

Big Cane is actually a big thing.

Posted by: pawn at July 24, 2025 08:20 AM (QB+5g)

118 > It's National Tequila Day!

Posted by: redridinghood
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One tequila
two tequila
three tequila
Floor.

Posted by: Don Black at July 24, 2025 08:20 AM (AOsQT)

119 NFL Teams acceptable to cheer for this year...

1. Philadelphia Eagles - they showed up to visit Trump post Super Bowl
2. Baltimore Ravens - their coach just gave a masterclass on embarrassing a reporter while talking highly of our president and his visit to the president with his family
3. LA Chargers - their coach, the brother of the Ravens coach, also went to the recent Harbaugh family visit

And I guess you can cheer for Patrick Mahomes and KC, but man, cheer for the others...

Posted by: Nova Local at July 24, 2025 08:20 AM (tOcjL)

120 It's done, NYC will have a marxist mayor and the denizens of the putrid hive of scum and lunacy will get what they've been agitating for good and hard.

Well, me and Cletus sure was planning ona visiting New York City this year so we could overpay for our motel room, food and licker drinks which Cletus sure does like. Oh well. Maysbe we could visit San Francisco where I hear they still poop in the streets. Lord Almighty! Here in Bugtussle Arkansas we don't much cotton to that.

Posted by: Hannah And Cletus Doohickey, Flatland Hillbillies at July 24, 2025 08:20 AM (rfMRc)

121
HFCS destroys teeth, too, in addition to other ill health-contributing effects.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh![ at July 24, 2025 08:20 AM (Tv15w)

122 Sugarcane beets? 34,751 thousands of short tons spread over 10 northern states.
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Hey Wikipedia, there is no such animal as "sugarcane beets". Sugar beets and sugar cane are different plants.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 24, 2025 08:20 AM (hs23C)

123 Trump's 4th Judge confirmed yesterday. 3 hardcore Maga's from Missouri. Sweet.

Should be fireworks in Senate today. Emil Bove vote scheduled

Posted by: Jonah at July 24, 2025 08:21 AM (YCxFk)

124 Also on my road trip list, "Crash" by the Primitives

"A Girl Like You" - Smithereens,

"A Complicated Song" - Weird Al

https://open.spotify.com/ playlist/0t6TCfOKVEQ7sq8EFfLUQP

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at July 24, 2025 08:21 AM (zLAXK)

125 "... the local news station..."

Ha.

Posted by: Pull the other one at July 24, 2025 08:21 AM (kDa4+)

126 ZZ Top… an awesome song with their usual stellar guitar work that maybe many haven’t heard: I need you tonight. Good stuff

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 24, 2025 08:21 AM (6RwsA)

127 @104

>>Do we now trust Trump's instincts to move on?
There is NO way the corrupt Deep State will ever let this happen.

You're not going to learn much from the grand jury transcripts, and their release is not in the control of the DOJ, which is why the administration offered that as some chum for bubba.

What you need to understand what Epstein was are the search warrant affidavits for his residences, devices and accounts, as well as the LE/IC assessments.

And that is just scratching as Epstein was a long time IC assest probably going back to when Donald Barr recruited a young college dropout to be a math teacher, and most of what Epstein was doing was largely, "OFF THE BOOKS," so the paper trail will more than likely be sparse to non-existent.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 24, 2025 08:22 AM (XV/Pl)

128 So what do we gain by swapping out HFCS for natural cane sugar?

Science me.
Posted by: Don Black at July 24, 2025 08:17 AM (AOsQT)

Nuthin'.

Or next to nuthin'.

All sugar or corn syrup all have the same downsides health wise if you eat too much of them.

So...you know...don't eat too much of them.

Posted by: naturalfake at July 24, 2025 08:22 AM (iJfKG)

129 Hey Wikipedia, there is no such animal as "sugarcane beets". Sugar beets and sugar cane are different plants.
Posted by: Huck Follywood

Sorry. That was my typo. After typing out sugarcane, I stayed in the mode.

Need more sleep or more caffeine.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 24, 2025 08:22 AM (rw9H/)

130
g'mornin' again, 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at July 24, 2025 08:22 AM (tljrc)

131 Desert Plains, by Judas Priest
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt

Great choice

Posted by: Dark Litigator at July 24, 2025 08:22 AM (KAi1n)

132 So, odds Barry Soetoro will comply with a Congressional Committee to answer questions about Barry Soetoro?
Posted by: pudinhead at July 24, 2025

***
Even if the Kenyan doesn't wind up in jail, to have him publicly vetted, and grilled, the way he should have been in 2008 would be delightful.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 24, 2025 08:22 AM (omVj0)

133 Is 34,000 thousands the same as 34 million?

Posted by: Uh, oh. Maths. at July 24, 2025 08:23 AM (kDa4+)

134 I like Clapton's big hit, Sugarcane.

Posted by: Count de Monet at July 24, 2025 08:23 AM (wVcYX)

135 127 @104

>>Do we now trust Trump's instincts to move on?
There is NO way the corrupt Deep State will ever let this happen.

You're not going to learn much from the grand jury transcripts, and their release is not in the control of the DOJ, which is why the administration offered that as some chum for bubba.

What you need to understand what Epstein was are the search warrant affidavits for his residences, devices and accounts, as well as the LE/IC assessments.

And that is just scratching as Epstein was a long time IC assest probably going back to when Donald Barr recruited a young college dropout to be a math teacher, and most of what Epstein was doing was largely, "OFF THE BOOKS," so the paper trail will more than likely be sparse to non-existent.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 24, 2025 08:22 AM (XV/Pl) \

And all of that is tainted/manufactured/destroyed. The reason Gran Jury transcripts were requested is b/c they are the one thing that is probably still untouched b/c it was sealed.

Posted by: Nova Local at July 24, 2025 08:23 AM (tOcjL)

136 Type 11 diabetes and obesity haven't increased since the introduction of HFCS?

Posted by: Ben Had at July 24, 2025 08:23 AM (HFcKg)

137 119. Cool Nova, but Eagles QB Jalen Hurts did not show up. He was a Black dude for Kameltoe

Posted by: Jonah at July 24, 2025 08:24 AM (YCxFk)

138 Hyperactive by Thomas Dolby.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher, phoning it in at July 24, 2025 08:24 AM (JOJkK)

139 I can't read "The Dark Truth About Becoming An Organ Donor", so if anyone else knows I'd appreciate hearing. I suspect that it means the hospital in which you die technically kills you by removing your organs before you are actually dead, which is what my daughters keep telling me, horrified as they are by the idea..

I used to be a volunteer fireman. Which means that sometimes you take people into the ER, and sometimes you stand around and shoot the shit with the nurses and sometimes you overhear things.

I can assure you that doctors absolutely take into consideration if you are an organ donor - and they "pull the plug" quicker if they know they can harvest your organs. I've seen it.

Posted by: Long Memory at July 24, 2025 08:24 AM (ciJ04)

140 Practice defensive medicine. Assume doctors, nurses, and Big Pharma pill pushers are out to kill you.

That comes later, after the insurance stops. The Prime Directive is to get you on an expensive perpetual narcotics subscription. Occasionally, when the budget directors detect a gap in their income stream then they will push you to go under the knife.

Like an oil well, or older sex-trafficked kid , you get to an age where you are all used up, then they kill you.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 24, 2025 08:24 AM (a4flb)

141 A migrant who came to America as a boy 20 years ago is set to be deported after accidentally missing an exit on the freeway in Southern California and winding up in Mexico... Hernandez's family and attorney told NBC San Diego that he was working as a rideshare driver on June 1 when he missed a freeway exit in San Ysidro and found himself in Tijuana. ‘And when that happened, he lost everything, basically,' his immigration lawyer, Valerie Sigamani, toldthe outlet. DACA recipients need to apply for 'advance parole' to travel internationally and return to the US.

Posted by: SMOD at July 24, 2025 08:24 AM (gNtJN)

142
The WHO is an international health organization, and authoritarian armies don't get to order it around and treat it like criminals.

And yet, when members of the Taliban, a terrorist organization, were treated by staff from Doctors Without Borders some years back, that was a-ok by these same miralizing a-holes.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh![ at July 24, 2025 08:24 AM (Tv15w)

143 All sugar or corn syrup all have the same downsides health wise if you eat too much of them.

So...you know...don't eat too much of them.
Posted by: naturalfake at July 24, 2025

***
Even since I cut both out of my diet a couple of years ago, my heartburn has vanished. Oh, I allow myself an occasional muffin at a coffee shop, or a Klondike bar once in a great while. But no evening or lunchtime cookies; fruit instead. Lost an inch or so off my waistline too.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 24, 2025 08:25 AM (omVj0)

144 135. Thomas, the big difference between 2017 and 2025. is that MSM has been severly weakened and discredited.

Even low info voters realize that

Posted by: Jonah at July 24, 2025 08:25 AM (YCxFk)

145 The WHO is an international health organization, and authoritarian armies don't get to order it around and treat it like criminals.

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at July 24, 2025 08:19 AM (ycI94)
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LOLGF. Percentage of WHO personnel who are there solely to have sexual rape-y access to desperate, pliable, willing-to-do-anything boys and girls? North of 30%. The remaining 70 just want the money.

Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at July 24, 2025 08:25 AM (T4qa/)

146 Ex-President Barack Obama Facing Serious Criminal Charges

Posted by: SMOD at July 24, 2025 08:26 AM (gNtJN)

147 We do need to be careful handling that intel that Russia thought Hillary was a drug-addled buffoon. We all know it's true, but we need to dismiss that Russian intel as nothing more than "Duh" and uninteresting. We could fall into a trap of "See?! They were relying on Russians to influence the election!" Stick to the "Puhlease, we ALL knew that to some extent, and the public saw it. This wasn't anything we would have had to rely on to win in 2016."

"OTOH, this Russiagate thing, and the failure to prosecute Hillary for the email server, clearly was bogus 'intel' used to try and sway the election."

Posted by: GWB at July 24, 2025 08:26 AM (mdVyk)

148 137 119. Cool Nova, but Eagles QB Jalen Hurts did not show up. He was a Black dude for Kameltoe

Posted by: Jonah at July 24, 2025 08:24 AM (YCxFk)

Coach did - as did Saquon...and coaches lead the teams.

3 coaches setting the correct standard for their players...

Posted by: Nova Local at July 24, 2025 08:26 AM (tOcjL)

149 Ex-President Barack Obama Facing Serious Criminal Charges
Posted by: SMOD at July 24, 2025

***
Couldn't happen to a nicer guy

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 24, 2025 08:27 AM (omVj0)

150 @113

>>It was white kids and AWFLs who came out for him. Bro Fo is likely the same, and i assume this casting call reject from Captain Phillips up in Minnesota is, too.

There aren't enough white people in the city to propel this retard to the mayoralty if blacks and latinos get off their asses and vote.

I really wish Sliwa and Cuomo could somehow be forced to drop out and make a contest between Adams and Mahndani, but it appears that's not going to happen.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 24, 2025 08:27 AM (XV/Pl)

151 Type 11 diabetes and obesity haven't increased since the introduction of HFCS?

HFCS made it economically possible to lace everything with glucose/fructose. Cane sugar didn't scale well, but HFCS is produced at industrial scale and there is no practical top. Eventually you run out of arable land so there is a practical upper end to coffee, cocoa and sugar, not so for corn.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 24, 2025 08:27 AM (a4flb)

152 Big reason Jim Harbaugh was run out of Michigan by NCAA, was his Pro Life remarks after the Roe vs Wade decision.

Posted by: Jonah at July 24, 2025 08:27 AM (YCxFk)

153 As usual, The Monty Python crew has already covered organ donation:

https://youtu.be/EqBNIh-Lx1c

Posted by: Count de Monet at July 24, 2025 08:28 AM (wVcYX)

154 Desert Plains, by Judas Priest
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt

Great choice
Posted by: Dark Litigator at July 24, 2025 08:22 AM (KAi1n)
—-

Greta song, but he’s on a motorcycle and the song is gay as fuck.

Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at July 24, 2025 08:28 AM (T4qa/)

155 I love Mike Gallagher and his radio show, but he had Silwa on the other day. Mike said Curtis had a great chance to win and please donate.

Adams has the only chance as sitting Mayor and a ex cop

Cuomo has been paid off By Soros to stay in

Posted by: Jonah at July 24, 2025 08:30 AM (YCxFk)

156 Mornin’, All. Happy Thursday.

Posted by: Bulg at July 24, 2025 08:30 AM (77rzZ)

157 I'm here to help.
Posted by: The Internet at July 24, 2025 08:14 AM (kDa4+)

Oh, get over it. Yeah, one could just look shit up, but, A) have you seen The Internet?, B) why not give someone here who does know a chance to flex, C) if there are points of contention about anything, i'd rather hear you knuckleheads hash it out than a bunch of dickheads on reddit or Wikipedia.

"Just Google it or you're wasting people's time" is really a super weak tea form of gaslighting. Only We Have The Truth, and there's something wrong with you if you try to answer even silly questions any other way". Especially knowing what there is to know about the prime information brokers that get pushed in every search (namely reddit and Wikipedia)

Not trying to jump down your throat, really, just ranting because you touched a nerve.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 24, 2025 08:30 AM (RlmPm)

158 >Ex-President Barack Obama Facing Serious Criminal Charges

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Normally, this sort of thing would be a meatball pitch, right over the plate for me

But I'm Not Going To Say It.

Posted by: Don Black at July 24, 2025 08:31 AM (AOsQT)

159
There aren't enough white people in the city to propel this retard to the mayoralty if blacks and latinos get off their asses and vote.

I really wish Sliwa and Cuomo could somehow be forced to drop out and make a contest between Adams and Mahndani, but it appears that's not going to happen.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 24, 2025 08:27 AM (XV/Pl)

I think that a lot of people are just convinced that their votes don't mean anything. They just choose not to participate in a rigged game.

So they get Momdani.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at July 24, 2025 08:31 AM (8dSZC)

160 Summed up, that means that an overwhelming 72% would like to see Democrats cooperate with Trump, at least on an issue-by-issue basis. Just 19% would resist all Trumpian initiatives.

So that's 72% of living American citizens.

If you add in illegals and the dead its much closer to 50-50

Posted by: 18-1 at July 24, 2025 08:31 AM (t0Rmr)

161 In just three hours, Hunter Biden blew the lid off the Biden family empire and dragged the Democrat Party into full public disgrace. This wasn’t a gaffe, a fluke, or a meltdown. It was a confession.
Gave step-by-step instructions on how to cook crack. Told Nancy Pelosi’s daughter to f*** herself.
Claimed Pelosi secretly hates Kamala Harris.
Said Joe Biden was strung out on Ambien during the Trump debate. Bragged that he was the one actually running things for Joe. Declared he should be the one running for president in 2028. Took credit for managing his father’s political machine.
Admitted the Biden family relies on illegal alien slave labor. Threatened to invade El Salvador to retrieve gang members. Finally confessed the laptop was his ending years of lies about “Russian disinformation”. Claimed Israel allowed the October 7 massacre to justify war. Argued crack is cleaner and safer than alcohol. Defended cheating on his taxes. He doesn't care the pardon he received was the only valid one Joe Biden ever personally signed.
This is not a DOJ cover-up. This is a coordinated protection racket political, media, legal, and global.
(cont.)

Posted by: rickb223 at July 24, 2025 08:32 AM (rw9H/)

162 Hunter thinks he is untouchable because he knows where every body is buried, and every Democrat insider is terrified he’ll take them down with him.
Nancy Pelosi? Nowhere to be found.
The same woman who never shuts up about “saving democracy” suddenly has nothing to say while her own party’s golden child sets fire to the truth. And now Hunter says he’s ready to run in 2028. Good. Pair him with Jasmine Crockett and let the American people see exactly what the Democrat Party has become: crack pipes, coups, cartel cash, and communist sympathizers.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 24, 2025 08:32 AM (rw9H/)

163 @109

>>Going the way of Great Britain. It's the template.

The only reason I care about NYC at all is because I have to go there for site visits and meetings, otherwise I could give two sh*ts who they elect as mayor.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 24, 2025 08:32 AM (XV/Pl)

164 Release the hostages. Disarm Hamas. Everyone knows how to stop Netanyahu.

==

*rubs eyes, reads it again

huh, at least one boomer gets it

Posted by: runner at July 24, 2025 08:32 AM (g47mK)

165 I really wish Sliwa and Cuomo could somehow be forced to drop out and make a contest between Adams and Mahndani, but it appears that's not going to happen.

NYC's elites want to live though the plot of The Dark Knight Rises.

Well, let them have it good and hard.

Posted by: 18-1 at July 24, 2025 08:32 AM (t0Rmr)

166 Sorry. That was my typo. After typing out sugarcane, I stayed in the mode.

Need more sleep or more caffeine.
Posted by: rickb223 at July 24, 2025 08:22 AM (rw9H/)
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Oh well, I always like blaming Wiki.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 24, 2025 08:32 AM (RlEt2)

167 Wait. There are eleven types of diabetes now? Sheesh.

Posted by: I can't keep up at July 24, 2025 08:33 AM (kDa4+)

168 Sugarcane Beats would be a great band name.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 24, 2025 08:33 AM (RlmPm)

169
If you're driving through the desert on a cool, moonlit night with the windows rolled down,

It's tough to find a better driving song than-

"Gypsy's Curse" by Calexico

https://www.youtube.com/watch?

v=ZfidKiHSlbw&list=RDZfidKiHSlbw&start_radio=1

Posted by: naturalfake at July 24, 2025 08:33 AM (iJfKG)

170 149 Ex-President Barack Obama Facing Serious Criminal Charges
Posted by: SMOD at July 24, 2025

***
Couldn't happen to a nicer guy
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 24, 2025 08:27 AM (omVj0)

Maybe in prison Barry will meet a nice gay friend to teach him about empathy, role modeling and whatnot.

Posted by: Polka will never die at July 24, 2025 08:33 AM (uxAXv)

171 I removed my essence and body from donor listing about 10 years ago. My lovely wife of 40 years was on the kidney transplant list, yet passed on with no help from them. I disliked the entire program-they were more interested in keeping up their "Center of Excellence" status than actually helping sick folks. Fie on them and no surprise they are shifty about harvesting parts of living "donors".

Posted by: Everything Is Broken at July 24, 2025 08:33 AM (G5+As)

172 165 I really wish Sliwa and Cuomo could somehow be forced to drop out and make a contest between Adams and Mahndani, but it appears that's not going to happen.

NYC's elites want to live though the plot of The Dark Knight Rises.

Well, let them have it good and hard.

Posted by: 18-1 at July 24, 2025 08:32 AM (t0Rmr)

Any one of the 3 might beat Mamdani in a 1-on-1 race...and thus the problem...

Posted by: Nova Local at July 24, 2025 08:34 AM (tOcjL)

173 Big reason Jim Harbaugh was run out of Michigan by NCAA, was his Pro Life remarks after the Roe vs Wade decision.
Posted by: Jonah at July 24, 2025 08:27 AM (YCxFk)

so now poor man is a coach of an NFL team that will beat that other NFL team that ran him out of town..sometimes things just work out

Posted by: runner at July 24, 2025 08:34 AM (g47mK)

174 Sugarcane Beats would be a great band name.

==

+1

Posted by: runner at July 24, 2025 08:34 AM (g47mK)

175 Maybe they’ll start growing sugarcane in Hawaii again.

Posted by: Bulg at July 24, 2025 08:35 AM (77rzZ)

176 Well excuuuuse me.

Posted by: The Internet at July 24, 2025 08:35 AM (kDa4+)

177 Let's consider the incentives in the organ donor situation.

One patient on life support = one revenue center for the medicorp.

Multiple organ recipients = multiple revenue centers for the medicorp.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at July 24, 2025 08:35 AM (zLAXK)

178 "165 I really wish Sliwa and Cuomo could somehow be forced to drop out and make a contest between Adams and Mahndani, but it appears that's not going to happen."

Three opposing candidates who excite no one. Perfect storm for Madmanny to win.

Posted by: Ordinary American at July 24, 2025 08:36 AM (UseAb)

179 Sugarcane Beats would be a great band name.

==

+1
Posted by: runner at July 24, 2025 08:34 AM (g47mK)

Ah-one. Ah-two. Ah-one, two, three, four!

Posted by: Count de Monet at July 24, 2025 08:36 AM (wVcYX)

180 167 Wait. There are eleven types of diabetes now? Sheesh.

Posted by: I can't keep up at July 24, 2025 08:33 AM (kDa4+)

60 types of blood cancer...

Posted by: Nova Local at July 24, 2025 08:36 AM (tOcjL)

181 I confess, I don't drink regular cola, or whatever you call it in your neck of the woods. So I don't have a dog in this cane v. corn syrup fight. They both suck probably. Healthwise.

Posted by: runner at July 24, 2025 08:36 AM (g47mK)

182 "Radar Love" is the greatest driving song ever. Fight me, if you must, but I'm right on this one.

***

Pat Travers. Crash and Burn

Posted by: Kumswala Hair Ass at July 24, 2025 08:37 AM (ycs3a)

183 This is the end, my friend, the end...

Insider Paper @TheInsiderPaper 2h
Thailand, Cambodia clash with jets and rockets in deadly border row
Thailand launched air strikes on Cambodian military targets on Thursday as Cambodia fired rockets and artillery, killing at least 11 civilians, [...]

Insider Paper @TheInsiderPaper 1h
China says 'deeply concerned' over deadly Cambodia-Thailand border clashes
China said Thursday it was "deeply concerned" over deadly clashes between Cambodia and Thailand, which mark a dramatic escalation of a long-running border dispute.

Insider Paper @TheInsiderPaper 53m
Thailand condemns 'war-hungry' Cambodia over border clashes
Thailand condemned Cambodia on Thursday as "inhumane, brutal and war-hungry", accusing it of targeting homes and civilian infrastructure with artillery...

Insider Paper @TheInsiderPaper 32m
China warns citizens against travelling to Cambodia-Thailand border areas
China urged its citizens in Cambodia on Thursday to avoid areas near the frontier with Thailand, as the two countries' militaries traded fire in an an escalating conflict over a disputed border.

Posted by: andycanuck at July 24, 2025 08:38 AM (2yoRf)

184 Even the behind the scenes world of blood donation is crooked as hell. Not the same animal as organ donation, but the machinations and power politics that goes on for something that seems so good and wonderful is.... icky.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 24, 2025 08:38 AM (RlmPm)

185 "Just Google it or you're wasting people's time" is really a super weak tea form of gaslighting.

Yeah, that sets me off as well. I mock anyone who tries that with me after having this exchange a while back.

Me: "Where do get that idea?"
Them: (Sneering tone) "Just google it!"
Me: Provides link backing up my argument.
Them: "I don't like that source. Give me another!"

Posted by: NR Pax at July 24, 2025 08:38 AM (+4yJ5)

186 181 I confess, I don't drink regular cola, or whatever you call it in your neck of the woods. So I don't have a dog in this cane v. corn syrup fight. They both suck probably. Healthwise.

Posted by: runner at July 24, 2025 08:36 AM (g47mK)

This, 1000%. Whether it's diet or regular, I think Sesame Street would call all sodas a "sometimes" food, similar to cake and cookies. If you're gonna have the soda, that's the treat.

Posted by: Nova Local at July 24, 2025 08:39 AM (tOcjL)

187 60 types of blood cancer...
Posted by: Nova Local

I was told by Biden that if he was elected President, he would cure cancer. Was I misled?

Posted by: NR Pax at July 24, 2025 08:39 AM (+4yJ5)

188 Ex-President Barack Obama Facing Serious Criminal Charges

Barry has been stealing since he could crawl.

Posted by: Mortimer Duke at July 24, 2025 08:40 AM (rfMRc)

189 Greta song, but he’s on a motorcycle and the song is gay as fuck.
Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade

Wonder what's on your mind?

Posted by: Dark Litigator at July 24, 2025 08:40 AM (KAi1n)

190 181 I confess, I don't drink regular cola, or whatever you call it in your neck of the woods. So I don't have a dog in this cane v. corn syrup fight. They both suck probably. Healthwise.
Posted by: runner at July 24, 2025 08:36 AM (g47mK)

My parents didn't allow it. My father called it "sugar syrup."

Posted by: Ordinary American at July 24, 2025 08:40 AM (UseAb)

191 "Radar Love" is the greatest driving song ever. Fight me, if you must, but I'm right on this one.

***

Pat Travers. Crash and Burn
Posted by: Kumswala Hair Ass at July 24, 2025 08:37 AM (ycs3a)

Honorable Mention to Marshall Tucker's 24 Hours At A Time.
https://youtu.be/Q51Osg0Kdn8

Posted by: Count de Monet at July 24, 2025 08:41 AM (wVcYX)

192 @178

>>Three opposing candidates who excite no one. Perfect storm for Madmanny to win.

Sliwa has no shot, the thought of Cuomo having his hand at the levers of power again scares the sh*t out of me, and Adams, as much as I find him a loathsome figure from his days of being a thorn in the side of Giuliani when he was a cop, doesn't seem to be a lunatic or a crook, he just seems like a smallball innercity ward healer that was propelled to running the city who isn't totally down with the leftist agenda.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 24, 2025 08:41 AM (XV/Pl)

193 Three opposing candidates who excite no one. Perfect storm for Madmanny to win.
Posted by: Ordinary American at July 24, 2025 08:36 AM (UseAb)

I hope he does win.

They're all hell-bent on Clowarding their own Pivens for us without even sending an invoice.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 24, 2025 08:41 AM (RlmPm)

194 - sugar cane
**thinks back to early/mid 70's Oahu**
And then I remember looking at that island on giggle earth 10 or so years ago. All of that country on the island side of the N shore two lane had become housing. I guess the cane fields too? And the pineapple fields between Schofield and Haleiva?

Posted by: TeeJ at July 24, 2025 08:41 AM (jocM1)

195 184 Even the behind the scenes world of blood donation is crooked as hell. Not the same animal as organ donation, but the machinations and power politics that goes on for something that seems so good and wonderful is.... icky.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 24, 2025 08:38 AM (RlmPm)

But blood donation never kills you, so please keep doing it. And don't watch the sausage being made (same is usually said for Churches - you eventually get cynical and bitter if you see the backroom running, so stay in the front and just volunteer)

Signed, a blood cancer member...

Posted by: Nova Local at July 24, 2025 08:41 AM (tOcjL)

196 I confess, I don't drink regular cola, or whatever you call it in your neck of the woods. So I don't have a dog in this cane v. corn syrup fight. They both suck probably. Healthwise.
Posted by: runner at July 24, 2025 08:36 AM (g47mK)

I drink a good amount of Diet Coke; never drink the straight non-diet stuff. There’s probably something bad for my health in the diet stuff. Oh well…

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 24, 2025 08:42 AM (i5Vkf)

197 184 Even the behind the scenes world of blood donation is crooked as hell.

I'm still going to donate platelets as long as I can.

Posted by: NR Pax at July 24, 2025 08:42 AM (+4yJ5)

198 Yeah, that sets me off as well. I mock anyone who tries that with me after having this exchange a while back.

Me: "Where do get that idea?"
Them: (Sneering tone) "Just google it!"
Me: Provides link backing up my argument.
Them: "I don't like that source. Give me another!"
Posted by: NR Pax

I do something similar. I'll give the the link to the search results page and tell them to go pick their poison.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 24, 2025 08:42 AM (rw9H/)

199 "Argued crack is cleaner and safer than alcohol."

Depends on the adulterants in the baking soda.

Posted by: Dark Litigator at July 24, 2025 08:42 AM (KAi1n)

200 60 types of blood cancer...
Posted by: Nova Local

I was told by Biden that if he was elected President, he would cure cancer. Was I misled?
Posted by: NR Pax at July 24, 2025 08:39 AM (+4yJ5)

Well...Biden thought that shitting his pants cured cancer, so...you know...he tried.

Dear God, how he tried!!!

Posted by: naturalfake at July 24, 2025 08:42 AM (iJfKG)

201 As opposed to the Unserious Criminal Charges?

Posted by: Like sedition at July 24, 2025 08:43 AM (kDa4+)

202 Not trying to jump down your throat, really, just ranting because you touched a nerve.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 24, 2025 08:30 AM (RlmPm)

Nothing unreasonable in anything you said.

Wiki is only good for episode recaps of tv shows. Reddit is a pile of garbage with maybe something useful occasionally buried in the middle of it.

Sad thing is that even paid sources (I subscribe to Encyclopedia Brittanica...yeah I know) aren't immune, but at least on the fact based stuff like science, math, etc they are better than the free internet crap.

Present company excepted, of course.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at July 24, 2025 08:43 AM (8dSZC)

203 Adams, as much as I find him a loathsome figure from his days of being a thorn in the side of Giuliani when he was a cop, doesn't seem to be a lunatic or a crook, he just seems like a smallball innercity ward healer that was propelled to running the city who isn't totally down with the leftist agenda.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 24, 2025 08:41 AM (XV/Pl)

Adams keeps declaring NYC as a sanctuary for illegals every other day in this campaign - he's literally shooting his entire shot of getting the Rs and rational Ds to back him in the foot. He's polling lowest at 7% of voters right now, so should be the 1st out...

Posted by: Nova Local at July 24, 2025 08:43 AM (tOcjL)

204 "Type 11 diabetes and obesity haven't increased since the introduction of HFCS?"

I thought there were only 2.

Posted by: Dark Litigator at July 24, 2025 08:43 AM (KAi1n)

205 yu myum shit pebbles

Posted by: Aliassmithsmith at July 24, 2025 08:43 AM (TGWo+)

206 The only cola I can tolerate is Pepsi Zero Sugar. And it's distribution system must be fckd because the local groceries and konbinis are constantly running out of it.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at July 24, 2025 08:44 AM (zLAXK)

207 I'm still going to donate platelets as long as I can.

Posted by: NR Pax at July 24, 2025 08:42 AM (+4yJ5)

Thank you from a frequent platelet recipient.

Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at July 24, 2025 08:44 AM (SfhV1)

208 shitpebbles is here !

Posted by: runner at July 24, 2025 08:44 AM (g47mK)

209 I drink a good amount of Diet Coke; never drink the straight non-diet stuff. There’s probably something bad for my health in the diet stuff. Oh well…
Posted by: LinusVanPelt

Aspartame

Posted by: Dark Litigator at July 24, 2025 08:44 AM (KAi1n)

210 “ If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you—you of little faith?”

Matthew 6:30

Posted by: Marcus T at July 24, 2025 08:44 AM (SyCqh)

211
HAHAHAHA!

You Can't Make This Up!

The fake "judge" in New Jersey who decided she was President of the United States and was entitled & empowered to appoint a US Attorney is named BUM.

She's a Bum. Her name is, literally, Bum.

Posted by: Soothsayer at July 24, 2025 08:44 AM (+Wsza)

212 The NYC elites getting behind the communist NOW is interesting.

They won't get a bailout from FedGov under Trump. So I guess they are hoping they'll get another corrupt Dem as president in 4 years to refill NYC's coffers after they empty them?

At least CA started down this path with the Biden junta in power.

Posted by: 18-1 at July 24, 2025 08:44 AM (t0Rmr)

213 Insider Paper @TheInsiderPaper 11h; AFP
Israel, Ukraine announce 'dialogue' on countering Iran
Israel and Ukraine said Wednesday they had agreed to start talks on countering the “threat” posed by Iran, in a sign of deepening ties between the two countries.

Both see Iran, a close ally of Russia, as a malign actor on the world stage.

Israel has long accused Iran of developing nuclear weapons, an allegation it denies, while Ukraine is regularly attacked from Russia by Iranian-designed drones.

Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andriy Sybiga described Iran as an “existential threat” to global security during a joint press conference in Kyiv with Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saar — the most senior Israeli official to visit Ukraine since 2023.

“Our countries face common security challenges. Today we have decided to launch a separate dialogue on the Iranian threat,” Sybiga said.

Saar said any effort to curb Tehran’s access to weapons and technology contributed to the security of Europe and Ukraine.

“I thank President (Volodymyr) Zelensky and the Ukrainian government for its position that Iran must not have nuclear weapons,” he said.

Posted by: andycanuck at July 24, 2025 08:45 AM (2yoRf)

214 Soda without booze in it is like... i don't know... cereal without milk. Or a sandwich without cheese. A steak without ketchup (i'm kidding i'm kidding!)

Why even bother?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 24, 2025 08:45 AM (RlmPm)

215 HFCS is a lot cheaper than cane sugar. It's fructose as opposed to sucrose. Cost is the major factor it is used in place of sucrose.

The cost of cane sugar is kept artificially high by government regulation.

Revamping the regulations to lower the price of sugar will put the US producers out of business.

Big Cane has a very powerful political base.

Posted by: pawn at July 24, 2025 08:45 AM (QB+5g)

216 The only cola I can tolerate is Pepsi Zero Sugar.

It's really good.

Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at July 24, 2025 08:45 AM (SfhV1)

217 “Pied-Piper’s of Perversion”

Hey! Watch this guy, has potential!

Posted by: Spiro Agnew at July 24, 2025 08:45 AM (rNCmn)

218 In just three hours, Hunter Biden blew the lid off the Biden family empire and dragged the Democrat Party into full public disgrace. This wasn’t a gaffe, a fluke, or a meltdown. It was a confession.

So when is Hunter Biden scheduled to talk with Tucker Carlson?

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 24, 2025 08:45 AM (a4flb)

219 @203

>>He's polling lowest at 7% of voters right now, so should be the 1st out...

Do we really want Cuomo back at the stick?

I for one have no desire to listen to that monster warble, prattle and mug for the cameras at all.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 24, 2025 08:46 AM (XV/Pl)

220 The new ad slogan for Pepsi should be "Is Pepsi OK?"

Posted by: WitchDoktor at July 24, 2025 08:46 AM (8dSZC)

221 "AI is eating leftist garbage from Wikipedia — and YOU consume what comes out"

"President Donald Trump just released an “action plan” that puts Big Tech on alert. AI companies will need to feed their LLMs a balanced diet of information or risk losing federal contracts."

Glad the Trump administration is taking this serious.
Too many people use ChatGPT as the gospel truth.

Posted by: redridinghood at July 24, 2025 08:46 AM (NpAcC)

222

"judge" renee Bumb of New Jersey

I shit you not.

Posted by: Soothsayer at July 24, 2025 08:46 AM (+Wsza)

223 What the hell happened in the intervening years?

FA with a lack of quality salsa, and now the FO.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 24, 2025 08:46 AM (0sNs1)

224 So what do we gain by swapping out HFCS for natural cane sugar?

Science me.

Posted by: Don Black

An American obesity rate of 40%.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at July 24, 2025 08:47 AM (Vfq+S)

225 Radar Love" is the greatest driving song ever. Fight me, if you must, but I'm right on this one.

Highway Star
Posted by: Halfhand

Riders on the Storm

Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at July 24, 2025 08:47 AM (JkCto)

226 Nothing declares “we are now a low trust society” like the fact that folks rightly have to worry about being a declared organ donor because they might be knocked off early in a hospital to harvest those organs.

We were already going downhill but covid sent trust in the medical establishment over a cliff (and rightly so)

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 24, 2025 08:48 AM (i5Vkf)

227 219 @203

>>He's polling lowest at 7% of voters right now, so should be the 1st out...

Do we really want Cuomo back at the stick?

I for one have no desire to listen to that monster warble, prattle and mug for the cameras at all.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 24, 2025 08:46 AM (XV/Pl)

It's not what "we" want - Adams is getting zero interest from anyone. Silwa is polling higher. So, the R alternative should be Silwa.

Posted by: Nova Local at July 24, 2025 08:48 AM (tOcjL)

228
btw, the douche bag who was Un-Constitutionally & Illegally appointed by NJ District "judges" "vows" to "take office" and "sue" the DOJ.

Posted by: Soothsayer at July 24, 2025 08:48 AM (+Wsza)

229 What qualities must a song have to make it a great driving song?

Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at July 24, 2025 08:48 AM (SfhV1)

230 G'morn, y'all. 🌞

Putin is Hillz' puppet? Just because he didn't reveal her decrepit state? I'll have to ponder this one.

At least I can figure out who's who and what's happening in the top pic today. And you've dropped that muddy font so it's readable. Whatever sot's-fodder means.

I'm sure it will all become clearer when I read the Report. And have some coffee. Ah! Brewing's done.

Oh, I'm off to get an EKG in a little while. In the past two years I've had an MRI, a few CT scans, a couple of ultrasoundings, and every kind of probing and scoping, invasive and vasive, but this will be my first EKG. It's been…educational.

Now, coffee and Reportage. ☕📰

Posted by: mindful webworker - just another Thursday in the life at July 24, 2025 08:48 AM (bLpGh)

231 HAHAHAHA!

You Can't Make This Up!

The fake "judge" in New Jersey who decided she was President of the United States and was entitled & empowered to appoint a US Attorney is named BUM.

She's a Bum. Her name is, literally, Bum.
Posted by: Soothsayer at July 24, 2025 08:44 AM (+Wsza)

*lights candle at Bum Phillips shrine to the greatest coach the Houston Oilers ever had, to ward off negative waves*

Posted by: Count de Monet at July 24, 2025 08:48 AM (wVcYX)

232 My driving song tends to be In The Air Tonight assuming I can time the drum solo with my highway merge.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at July 24, 2025 08:48 AM (8dSZC)

233 “Pied-Piper’s of Perversion”

Penguins, like rust, never sleep.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 24, 2025 08:48 AM (0sNs1)

234 Thank you from a frequent platelet recipient.
Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead

Glad to help. I wonder if the recipients of my platelets suddenly had an overwhelming addiction to coffee?

Posted by: NR Pax at July 24, 2025 08:49 AM (+4yJ5)

235 228
btw, the douche bag who was Un-Constitutionally & Illegally appointed by NJ District "judges" "vows" to "take office" and "sue" the DOJ.

Posted by: Soothsayer at July 24, 2025 08:48 AM (+Wsza)

Interesting - so truly fired and not just reassigned?

Posted by: Nova Local at July 24, 2025 08:49 AM (tOcjL)

236 "Type 11 diabetes and obesity haven't increased since the introduction of HFCS?"

I thought there were only 2.

Think: "Spinal Tap".

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 24, 2025 08:49 AM (a4flb)

237 Mars needs women!!!

R A W S A L E R T S @rawsalerts 16h
🚨#BREAKING: Congressman Frost is claiming that the White House is preparing to release concrete evidence of extraterrestrial life

Posted by: andycanuck at July 24, 2025 08:49 AM (2yoRf)

238 Glad to help. I wonder if the recipients of my platelets suddenly had an overwhelming addiction to coffee?

Posted by: NR Pax at July 24, 2025 08:49 AM (+4yJ5)

I dunno but I'm on my 5th cup.

Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at July 24, 2025 08:50 AM (SfhV1)

239 One tequila
two tequila
three tequila
Floor.
Posted by: Don Black at July 24, 2025 08:20 AM (AOsQT)
******
True story.

Posted by: redridinghood at July 24, 2025 08:50 AM (NpAcC)

240 🚨#BREAKING: Congressman Frost is claiming that the White House is preparing to release concrete evidence of extraterrestrial life

They usually do that when they are trying to distract people from something else.

Posted by: 18-1 at July 24, 2025 08:50 AM (t0Rmr)

241 But blood donation never kills you, so please keep doing it. And don't watch the sausage being made (same is usually said for Churches - you eventually get cynical and bitter if you see the backroom running, so stay in the front and just volunteer)

Signed, a blood cancer member...
Posted by: Nova Local at July 24, 2025 08:41 AM (tOcjL)

That's pretty much what it boils down to. It's just jarring that something that really is amazing and good has to have this seedy, crooked underbelly. At least I can comfort myself that in this case there's a competitive mechanism in play where the crooked corrupt blood banks and the crooked corrupt hospital are pulling against each other, instead of teaming up and somehow finding new and creative ways of screwing everyone else over, together. And the thing that is their stated purpose still gets done successfully.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 24, 2025 08:50 AM (RlmPm)

242 BIRB!

( ﾟヮﾟ

Posted by: andycanuck at July 24, 2025 08:51 AM (2yoRf)

243 There must be some kind of NatSec nonsense Trump can invoke to blockade Manhattan and turn it into a vast starvation camp where the living envy the dead.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 24, 2025 08:51 AM (BI5O2)

244 @227

>> So, the R alternative should be Silwa.

Sliwa has no shot, unfortunately, so it seems Mahndani will win by default.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 24, 2025 08:51 AM (XV/Pl)

245 Now I'm pissed!!!

( ﾟヮﾟ

Posted by: andycanuck at July 24, 2025 08:52 AM (2yoRf)

246 "This Beat Goes On/Switchin To Glide"...

Posted by: The Kings at July 24, 2025 08:52 AM (rfMRc)

247 140 Under normal circumstances, sure.

But the Covid hospital protocols greased the skids. Remdesivir and ventilators were used to murder patients. Remdesivir was known to nuke the kidneys. And high flow ventilators blow out the alveoli.

Posted by: callsign claymore at July 24, 2025 08:52 AM (PClog)

248 AAAAARRRGGGHHHH!!!!!!

Posted by: andycanuck at July 24, 2025 08:52 AM (2yoRf)

249 Corn Syrup tastes like shit, they have to use far more of it, so it changes the product itself. Notice how crisp the carbonation is in a soda made with sugar. Get these ersatz, industrial lubricants & poisons out of your life, out of your food, if not for health reasons, for taste & quality reasons. Maybe they made sense 85 years ago as wartime measures. Not now

War Is Over If You Want it

Posted by: Common Tater at July 24, 2025 08:52 AM (e7zAw)

250 Maybe in prison Barry will meet a nice gay friend to teach him about empathy, role modeling and whatnot.
Posted by: Polka will never die at July 24, 2025

***
Imagine him having a cellmate who looks like Ving Rhames or Michael Clarke Duncan. . . .

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 24, 2025 08:52 AM (omVj0)

251 "We'll ask the court to request the Epstein grand jury transcripts!" was always Failure Theater. They knew the judge wouldn't unseal anything. Now they get to say "we tried but an OBAMA JUDGE blocked us."

It's all bullshit. Don't get played. DOJ has their own files that they can release without permission from anyone

Posted by: Masturbatin' Pete at July 24, 2025 08:53 AM (mJAuW)

252 There must be some kind of NatSec nonsense Trump can invoke to blockade Manhattan and turn it into a vast starvation camp where the living envy the dead.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 24, 2025 08:51 AM (BI5O2)

I picture a cross between Arkham City and Escape from New York.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at July 24, 2025 08:53 AM (1yQAg)

253 I'm sure it will all become clearer when I read the Report. And have some coffee. Ah! Brewing's done.

Oh, I'm off to get an EKG in a little while. In the past two years I've had an MRI, a few CT scans, a couple of ultrasoundings, and every kind of probing and scoping, invasive and vasive, but this will be my first EKG. It's been…educational.

Now, coffee and Reportage. ☕📰
Posted by: mindful webworker - just another Thursday in the life at July 24, 2025 08:48 AM (bLpGh)

Just spitballin' here, is loading up on coffee right before an EKG test going to spoil the test?

Posted by: Count de Monet at July 24, 2025 08:53 AM (wVcYX)

254 So what do we gain by swapping out HFCS for natural cane sugar?

Science me.
Posted by: Don Black at July 24, 2025 08:17 AM (AOsQT)

Cane Sugar: Contains 50% glucose and 50% fructose, bonded as sucrose. It requires an extra metabolic step to break down into individual sugars.

HFCS: Contains unbound fructose and glucose, allowing for faster absorption in the body. HFCS-55 has a slightly higher fructose content than cane sugar.

Does that mean that consuming cane sugar will cause fewer health issues than consuming HFCS? There is a theory which says yes but little actual data on the subject.

Is switching to cane sugar likely to harm anyone? Other than corn farmers, the answer to that is unclear.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 24, 2025 08:53 AM (ExV1e)

255 Corn Syrup tastes like shit, they have to use far more of it, so it changes the product itself. Notice how crisp the carbonation is in a soda made with sugar. . . .

Posted by: Common Tater at July 24, 2025

***
Are there any brands of ice cream still made without the corn syrup? Maybe some of those overpriced brands you see at Whole Foods?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 24, 2025 08:53 AM (omVj0)

256 Good morning good people. Thank you J.J. and a belated Happy Birthday.

Posted by: Tonypete at July 24, 2025 08:54 AM (cYBz/)

257 Imagine him having a cellmate who looks like Ving Rhames or Michael Clarke Duncan. . . .

Couldn't be any rougher then Big Mike.

And you know they are kind of good looking...

Hey Trump, I'm gonna plead guilty ok?

Posted by: Barack Obama at July 24, 2025 08:54 AM (t0Rmr)

258 Just spitballin' here, is loading up on coffee right before an EKG test going to spoil the test?
Posted by: Count de Monet at July 24, 2025 08:53 AM (wVcYX)

Like turning up the idle on your car before the state safety inspection.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at July 24, 2025 08:54 AM (1yQAg)

259 Driving song: Crash and Burn

Oh, boy… I hope not!

Posted by: Jos� Jim�nez at July 24, 2025 08:54 AM (JRP2U)

260 Is 34,000 thousands the same as 34 million?
Posted by: Uh, oh. Maths. at July 24, 2025 08:23 AM (kDa4+)

In the US, yes. In Europe, or maybe just the UK, I believe it does not.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 24, 2025 08:55 AM (ExV1e)

261 Just spitballin' here, is loading up on coffee right before an EKG test going to spoil the test?
Posted by: Count de Monet at July 24, 2025

***
Two weeks ago, when I went for my EKG, I'd had coffee. Didn't seem to bother the doctor.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 24, 2025 08:55 AM (omVj0)

262
Cane sugar and glass bottles: Make Soda Great Again.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 24, 2025 08:55 AM (HZi96)

263
Is switching to cane sugar likely to harm anyone? Other than corn farmers, the answer to that is unclear.

It will likely marginally increase costs.

But I suspect the market is willing to pay a few more pennies per soda for it

Posted by: 18-1 at July 24, 2025 08:55 AM (t0Rmr)

264 "Remdesivir was known to nuke the kidneys."

Remdesivir = "Run-Death-Is-Near."

The establishment that blew up its trust has learned nothing. They're stoked to do it all again.

Posted by: Ordinary American at July 24, 2025 08:55 AM (UseAb)

265 I’ve never even visited NYC yet even I know that perpetual candidate Sliwa has precisely ZERO chance of winning. Only the incumbent Adams can beat the commie and that’s only if Sliwa and Cuomo both drop out and endorse Adams… which will not happen. But NYC (from afar anyway) already seems to be dead so the commie can be a zombie mayor

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 24, 2025 08:55 AM (i5Vkf)

266 I Meme Therefore I Am
@ImMeme0
Maine Democrat Deqa Dhalac admits on national TV that her goal is to “help our country of Somalia.”

https://tinyurl.com/mrxds2ty

Posted by: redridinghood at July 24, 2025 08:56 AM (NpAcC)

267 "Epstein conspiracy theories obscure the obvious truth — he was nothing more than a high society snake"

Cool story bro. Now release the files anyway.

Posted by: Masturbatin' Pete at July 24, 2025 08:56 AM (mJAuW)

268 But blood donation never kills you, so please keep doing it. And don't watch the sausage being made (same is usually said for Churches - you eventually get cynical and bitter if you see the backroom running, so stay in the front and just volunteer)

Signed, a blood cancer member...
Posted by: Nova Local

That's pretty much what it boils down to. It's just jarring that something that really is amazing and good has to have this seedy, crooked underbelly. At least I can comfort myself that in this case there's a competitive mechanism in play where the crooked corrupt blood banks and the crooked corrupt hospital are pulling against each other, instead of teaming up and somehow finding new and creative ways of screwing everyone else over, together. And the thing that is their stated purpose still gets done successfully.
Posted by: Warai-otoko

You know why?

Finite supply. Financial competition.

Barring a true emergency, the supply of blood donors is limited. Whomever draws it, supplies it. At whatever price they want.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 24, 2025 08:56 AM (rw9H/)

269 🚨#BREAKING: Congressman Frost is claiming that the White House is preparing to release concrete evidence of extraterrestrial life

They usually do that when they are trying to distract people from something else.
Posted by: 18-1 at July 24, 2025 08:50 AM (t0Rmr)

Yep.

FFS, enough with the exterrestrial life nonsense.

Wake me when they show up in flying saucers and land on the White House lawn.

Or, at the very least, when we start receiving their TV programs:

I Dream of Galflaxador

My Mother-unit the Birthing Module

It's Always Sunny in Zongoggle's Gut Pouch

Posted by: naturalfake at July 24, 2025 08:56 AM (iJfKG)

270 In the US, yes. In Europe, or maybe just the UK, I believe it does not.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 24, 2025 08:55 AM (ExV1e)

I think the UK used to do "thousand/million/thousand million/billion", so their "billion" is really our "trillion".

I don't know if they do that anymore.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 24, 2025 08:56 AM (RlmPm)

271 If Obama gets jailed I would imagine he'd go to some kind of luxury prison with Wagyu beef.

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at July 24, 2025 08:56 AM (kTd/k)

272 So what do we gain by swapping out HFCS for natural cane sugar?

Since there is really no top-end to producing HFCS, it can be used to lace everything. While sugar is not classified as an addictive substance (like nicotine or opioids) it does trigger reward pathways in the brain, which leads to strong preferences and cravings. Add marketing, availability and strong distribution and retail networks., As a food producer, you want to dope your products with as much sugar as you can get away with.

Cheap and effective HFCS gives you that additive that will increase your sales.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 24, 2025 08:57 AM (a4flb)

273 The Kids are Alright -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6WRxaC3QME

Posted by: Deep Purble at July 24, 2025 08:57 AM (GNu/9)

274 Two weeks ago, when I went for my EKG, I'd had coffee. Didn't seem to bother the doctor.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 24, 2025 08:55 AM (omVj0)

maybe your doctor had Tequila before your EKG ?

Posted by: runner at July 24, 2025 08:57 AM (g47mK)

275 You know why?

Finite supply. Financial competition.

Barring a true emergency, the supply of blood donors is limited. Whomever draws it, supplies it. At whatever price they want.
Posted by: rickb223 at July 24, 2025 08:56 AM (rw9H/)

Bingo ain't just a farmer's dog in Africa.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 24, 2025 08:57 AM (RlmPm)

276 NYC has even odder big city politics for several reasons.

Lots of commuters, who have an interest in the city but can't vote.

Huge tax base, which is a tempting honeypot for Lefties. Their policies would otherwise have bankrupted the city and nearly did in the 70s and may do it again.

Lots of immigrants, as we're a gateway city. This was once a good thing as it tended to create many model citizens over time. Today, not so much.

Posted by: Ignoramus at July 24, 2025 08:57 AM (dtajH)

277 Type 11 diabetes and obesity haven't increased since the introduction of HFCS?
Posted by: Ben Had at July 24, 2025 08:23 AM (HFcKg)

Personally, I believe that it's incidental. If memory serves, the switch to HFCS happened about the same time that dietary fat was demonized so processed food producers removed fat and added still more sugar. I suspect that it would have had the same effect if they had used cane sugar.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 24, 2025 08:57 AM (ExV1e)

278 I heard an interview once with some guy who had written a book on sugar. (Don't remember the name, but it was on the late Gerry Doyle's show.) The guy claimed that raw sugarcane actually has a lot of stuff in it that's good for you. Then they refine the sugar and take out all of that stuff, leaving only the bad refined sugar.

Posted by: Bulg at July 24, 2025 08:57 AM (77rzZ)

279
Just spitballin' here, is loading up on coffee right before an EKG test going to spoil the test?
Posted by: Count de Monet at July 24, 2025

Her Majesty had a nuclear heart test this week. They said, no caffeine. I had to bear the brunt of it.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 24, 2025 08:57 AM (HZi96)

280 🚨#BREAKING: Congressman Frost is claiming that the White House is preparing to release concrete evidence of extraterrestrial life

They usually do that when they are trying to distract people from something else.
Posted by: 18-1 at July 24, 2025 08:50 AM (t0Rmr)

Yep.

FFS, enough with the exterrestrial life nonsense.

Wake me when they show up in flying saucers and land on the White House lawn.

Or, at the very least, when we start receiving their TV programs:

I Dream of Galflaxador

My Mother-unit the Birthing Module

It's Always Sunny in Zongoggle's Gut Pouch

Posted by: naturalfake at July 24, 2025 08:56 AM (iJfKG)

To Serve Man

Posted by: Count de Monet at July 24, 2025 08:58 AM (wVcYX)

281 Finite supply. Financial competition.

Barring a true emergency, the supply of blood donors is limited. Whomever draws it, supplies it. At whatever price they want.
Posted by: rickb223 at July 24, 2025 08:56 AM (rw9H/)

It's something I batted around for awhile back in school for a research project.

What if donors were paid?

Posted by: WitchDoktor at July 24, 2025 08:58 AM (1yQAg)

282 LA Woman

Posted by: Don Black at July 24, 2025 08:58 AM (AOsQT)

283 If Obama gets jailed I would imagine he'd go to some kind of luxury prison with Wagyu beef.

Since he is an illegal alien deport him to CECOT. Of course, it would suck to be on his SS detail.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 24, 2025 08:59 AM (a4flb)

284 Two weeks ago, when I went for my EKG, I'd had coffee. Didn't seem to bother the doctor.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 24, 2025
*
maybe your doctor had Tequila before your EKG ?
Posted by: runner at July 24, 2025

***
As long as he didn't do any drugs before my surgery!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 24, 2025 08:59 AM (omVj0)

285 I Dream of Galflaxador
------
dunh duh
dunh dunh dunh dunh duh

Posted by: andycanuck at July 24, 2025 08:59 AM (2yoRf)

286 I dunno but I'm on my 5th cup.
Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at July 24, 2025 08:50 AM

We love you, grammie!

Posted by: Thorvald, creator of Thorvald's Cream of Lutefisk Soup at July 24, 2025 08:59 AM (0sNs1)

287 Good morning again everyone. Thx JJ.
Just finished nine. Hit a great second shot onto the fringe on #9 about fifteen feet from the hole. Promptly three putted for a bogey. Crap

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 24, 2025 09:00 AM (O8bOp)

288 @267

>>Cool story bro. Now release the files anyway.

High society snakes don't end up on planes with government bigshots taking a meeting at The Pentagon, nor doing work for notorious arms dealers.

So the idea that Epstein was just some lowball high society schnook rings hollow.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 24, 2025 09:00 AM (XV/Pl)

289 What qualities must a song have to make it a great driving song?
Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at July 24, 2025 08:48 AM (SfhV1)
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It should have a big base line driving the tune and the word "radar" should be in it, reminding you of the danger ahead

Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 24, 2025 09:00 AM (yOauX)

290 My prediction: the "files" are a jumble of unsupported, doctored bits and pieces from which no case against anybody can be made. Those who think they are a carefully curated documentation of sexual perversions by specific characters in high places will be very disappointed.

Posted by: Ordinary American at July 24, 2025 09:00 AM (UseAb)

291 Barring a true emergency, the supply of blood donors is limited. Whomever draws it, supplies it. At whatever price they want.
Posted by: rickb223 at July 24, 2025 08:56 AM (rw9H/)

It's something I batted around for awhile back in school for a research project.

What if donors were paid?
Posted by: WitchDoktor at July 24, 2025

***
Weren't they paid once upon a time? I recall stories of guys selling a pint to get the price of a bottle of wine.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 24, 2025 09:00 AM (omVj0)

292 Trump is obviously in the Epstein Files. They were friends for a while, then they had a falling out around 2005. It shouldn't surprise us at all that when the cops took every file that Epstein had when they arrested him, Trump's name showed up. I have computer files and physical documents that go back to the 80s and 90s. If you would look through those you'd find the names of people that I haven't spoken to in 30 years.

I don't expect that there's anything illegal in there. Maybe something mildly embarrassing like that 50th birthday note, which was pure cringe. But Trump has absolutely no chill about this. Too much ego, too much pride. He refuses to just shrug it off like a normal person, so he deserves all the attention that he's getting.

Posted by: Masturbatin' Pete at July 24, 2025 09:00 AM (mJAuW)

293 Two weeks ago, when I went for my EKG, I'd had coffee. Didn't seem to bother the doctor.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 24, 2025
*
maybe your doctor had Tequila before your EKG ?
Posted by: runner at July 24, 2025

***
As long as he didn't do any drugs before my surgery!
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 24, 2025 08:59 AM (omVj0)

And manages to keep his cigar / cigarette ash out of your incisions.

Posted by: Count de Monet at July 24, 2025 09:01 AM (wVcYX)

294 264 Remdesivir = "Run-Death-Is-Near." Thank you for that -- snappy handle

Posted by: callsign claymore at July 24, 2025 09:01 AM (PClog)

295 > 🚨#BREAKING: Congressman Frost is claiming that the White House is preparing to release concrete evidence of extraterrestrial life
---------
Microbes in a meteorite?

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 24, 2025 09:01 AM (Q4IgG)

296 >>And yet despite all of that, how does one explain the rise of Momdani in NYC and this Fateh/Fatah whatever in Minneapolis?

Third world voter fraud/shenanigans?

Posted by: Lizzy at July 24, 2025 09:01 AM (GbwPZ)

297 Maine Democrat Deqa Dhalac admits on national TV that her goal is to “help our country of Somalia.”

Is he? from the Bangor Dhalacs or the Portland Dhalacs?

Posted by: 18-1 at July 24, 2025 09:02 AM (t0Rmr)

298 289 What qualities must a song have to make it a great driving song?
Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at July 24, 2025 08:48 AM (SfhV1)
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It should have a big base line driving the tune and the word "radar" should be in it, reminding you of the danger ahead
Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 24, 2025 09:00 AM (yOauX)

--

Also try to avoid "I Fought the Law" and "I Shot the Sheriff."

Posted by: WitchDoktor at July 24, 2025 09:02 AM (1yQAg)

299 To Serve Man
-------
You can't boil him! He's a friar!!!

What are you?

You're a moron sandwich!!!

Posted by: Orgon Ramsay at July 24, 2025 09:02 AM (2yoRf)

300 And manages to keep his cigar / cigarette ash out of your incisions.
Posted by: Count de Monet at July 24, 2025 09:01 AM (wVcYX)

*pwfffff*

*brush brush*

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 24, 2025 09:02 AM (RlmPm)

301 What qualities must a song have to make it a great driving song?
Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at July 24, 2025 08:48 AM (SfhV1)
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It should have a big base line driving the tune and the word "radar" should be in it, reminding you of the danger ahead
Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 24, 2025

***
Examples: "Get Over It" by the Eagles; "Still in Saigon" by Charlie Daniels; "T-R-O-U-B-L-E" by Travis Tritt or Elvis; "Bad Case of Loving You" by Robert Palmer.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 24, 2025 09:02 AM (omVj0)

302 Hunter thinks he is untouchable because he knows where every body is buried, and every Democrat insider is terrified he’ll take them down with him.

We'll all mourn for him when he's killed in a drug deal gone bad. Next Thursday. -- DNC

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 24, 2025 09:02 AM (ExV1e)

303 297 Maine Democrat Deqa Dhalac admits on national TV that her goal is to “help our country of Somalia.”

Is he? from the Bangor Dhalacs or the Portland Dhalacs?
Posted by: 18-1 at July 24, 2025 09:02 AM (t0Rmr)

Exterminate.

Exterminate.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 24, 2025 09:03 AM (RlmPm)

304 So will the organ donation complex respond with A. Attacking critics of overzealous organ harvesters while denying there's any problem and/or B. Issuing 'new guidelines' that purport to offer reassurance while changing nothing.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at July 24, 2025 09:03 AM (zLAXK)

305 > 🚨#BREAKING: Congressman Frost is claiming that the White House is preparing to release concrete evidence of extraterrestrial life
---------
Microbes in a meteorite?
Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 24, 2025 09:01 AM (Q4IgG)

Another Wildfire?

Posted by: Dr. Jeremy Stone at July 24, 2025 09:03 AM (wVcYX)

306 Are there any brands of ice cream still made without the corn syrup? Maybe some of those overpriced brands you see at Whole Foods?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

I can't recall the last time I had store bought ice cream. I make my own, with real sugar, and no preservatives. Takes less than an hour.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at July 24, 2025 09:03 AM (Vfq+S)

307 “The city of Louisville is dropping its sanctuary city policies as a result of a strong written warning from my office,” Bondi posted on X on Tuesday.

.. if only Hans Blix were so effective

Posted by: SMOD at July 24, 2025 09:03 AM (RHGPo)

308 Re: blood.
I'm a regular donor. Something around 6 gallons.
During Covid I got a letter saying I had a rare blood type (antigens, not major group) and that I should only donate whole blood.
I wondered from the git-go how much they get for my blood, cause I guarantee it ain't being used for transfusions.

Posted by: MkY at July 24, 2025 09:03 AM (+Pp+Q)

309 Well, time I went to shave. Miss Linda will be here in an hour so I can take her to Kitten Yoga at the suburban library.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 24, 2025 09:03 AM (omVj0)

310 Wake me when they show up in flying saucers and land on the White House lawn.

"We're here to invade."
"Given the crap we deal with, you're a nice distraction."

Posted by: NR Pax at July 24, 2025 09:04 AM (+4yJ5)

311
Weren't they paid once upon a time? I recall stories of guys selling a pint to get the price of a bottle of wine.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 24, 2025 09:00 AM (omVj0)

William Nolan, who did his surgical residency at Bellevue in NYC, had a great many stories about Bowery winos.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 24, 2025 09:04 AM (HZi96)

312 The best driving pieces are the last movement of Tchaikovsky's Fifth Symphony and the last movement of Dvorak's Ninth.

Posted by: Bulg at July 24, 2025 09:04 AM (77rzZ)

313 290 My prediction: the "files" are a jumble of unsupported, doctored bits and pieces from which no case against anybody can be made. Those who think they are a carefully curated documentation of sexual perversions by specific characters in high places will be very disappointed.
Posted by: Ordinary American
-----

Nothing in there is "doctored." If they created something fake to frame Trump they would have used it the way they used the pee-pee dossier.

No, there's just a bunch of random stuff about Trump and many others in there, maybe some of it mildly embarrassing. But rather than shrug off some mildly embarrassing stuff from 30 years ago, Trump decides to act guilty. Not very smart.

Posted by: Masturbatin' Pete at July 24, 2025 09:04 AM (GgstE)

314 Is he? from the Bangor Dhalacs or the Portland Dhalacs?
Posted by: 18-1 at July 24, 2025 09:02 AM (t0Rmr)
******
A she from South Portland.

Posted by: redridinghood at July 24, 2025 09:05 AM (NpAcC)

315 #BREAKING: Congressman Frost is claiming that the White House is preparing to release concrete evidence of extraterrestrial life"

Frost is arguably the dumbest guy in DC.

Someone is punking him.

How would he get such information?

Posted by: pawn at July 24, 2025 09:05 AM (QB+5g)

316 Posted by: Masturbatin' Pete at July 24, 2025 09:00 AM (mJAuW)

You think Trump is not releasing “the files” to avoid personal embarrassment (reminder: access Hollywood tape is already out there along with old Howard Stern interviews)? And you believe that birthday card is genuine and not a fake?

Okay…. Sigh

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 24, 2025 09:05 AM (6RwsA)

317 William Nolan, who did his surgical residency at Bellevue in NYC, had a great many stories about Bowery winos.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 24, 2025

***
Was he the Making of a Surgeon author?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 24, 2025 09:05 AM (omVj0)

318 No HFCS:

Haagen-Dazs
McConnell’s Fine Ice Creams
Jeni’s Splendid Ice Creams
Goodness Ice Cream
Comic Bliss
Van Leeuwen
Breyers natural vanilla

Posted by: I'm the internet; I can help at July 24, 2025 09:05 AM (kDa4+)

319 I'm a regular donor. Something around 6 gallons.
--------
You must be pretty freakin' tall!!!

Posted by: andycanuck at July 24, 2025 09:05 AM (2yoRf)

320
President Trump is in no way "acting guilty."

Posted by: Soothsayer at July 24, 2025 09:05 AM (+Wsza)

321 When I had my colonoscopy, the doc made a joke about just having had a three-martini lunch.

Posted by: Bulg at July 24, 2025 09:06 AM (77rzZ)

322 DiBlasio provided the model that Zohran is trying to follow. Win the light vote D primary with high turnout from narrow groups. DiBlasio had Black churches and unions. Zohran used Muslins and silly kids. Both had the usual Leftists.

In the general DiBlasio won because voters reflexively pulled the D lever. Zohran has incredibly high negatives. Ironically, he'd lose if Rank Choice applied in the general (I can show you the math). Instead he justs needs a plurality.

With three others running, Zohran will win. The only was out is for Adams to drop out (he's polling at 9%), and Sliwa to suspend his campaign so that Cuomo has a shot.

Posted by: Ignoramus at July 24, 2025 09:06 AM (dtajH)

323
It's bizarre people are acting like this is really important.

Posted by: Soothsayer at July 24, 2025 09:06 AM (+Wsza)

324 Cocaine is off the table before an EKG test, no?

Posted by: dantesed at July 24, 2025 09:06 AM (Oy/m2)

325 Weren't they paid once upon a time? I recall stories of guys selling a pint to get the price of a bottle of wine.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 24, 2025 09:00 AM (omVj0)

I don't know. Hm.

My blocker was finding data on donor rates and supply chains. Even back then the major players were very opaque in their operational disclosures. I couldn't build a model based on what I was able to find.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at July 24, 2025 09:06 AM (1yQAg)

326 No HFCS:
. . .
Jeni’s Splendid Ice Creams
. . . .
Posted by: I'm the internet; I can help

Now with more listeria!

Posted by: Tonypete at July 24, 2025 09:06 AM (cYBz/)

327 It's something I batted around for awhile back in school for a research project.

What if donors were paid?
Posted by: WitchDoktor

Price goes up on the back end. (Receiver)
Everyone involved passes on the costs.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 24, 2025 09:07 AM (rw9H/)

328 Another Honorable Mention:

Hot Rod Lincoln

Posted by: Count de Monet at July 24, 2025 09:07 AM (wVcYX)

329
Was he the Making of a Surgeon author?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 24, 2025 09:05 AM (omVj0)

Yes. Good book.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 24, 2025 09:07 AM (HZi96)

330 Weren't they paid once upon a time? I recall stories of guys selling a pint to get the price of a bottle of wine.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

Possibly plasma.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 24, 2025 09:07 AM (rw9H/)

331 There must be some kind of NatSec nonsense Trump can invoke to blockade Manhattan and turn it into a vast starvation camp where the living envy the dead.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 24, 2025 08:51 AM

and eat them.

Posted by: toby928 at July 24, 2025 09:07 AM (jc0TO)

332 What qualities must a song have to make it a great driving song?
Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at July 24, 2025 08:48 AM (SfhV1)

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

A driving beat is essential to keep you awake and alert while driving through the desert at night. Lyrics that keep you awake by evoking the journey ahead.

Hence my choice
https://youtu.be/eGp47YwDZ48

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at July 24, 2025 09:08 AM (zLAXK)

333

Paul A. Szypula
@Bubblebathgirl

President Trump announces Columbia University has agreed to pay $200M in fines to the Fed, $20M to Jewish employees who were harassed, and to end “their ridiculous DEI policies.”

Every other Higher Education Institution needs to take note.

https://tinyurl.com/ycyerr9w

Posted by: redridinghood at July 24, 2025 09:08 AM (NpAcC)

334 Tulsi Refers Obama For Criminal Charges After Debunking Top 'Russia Hoax Lies'

“The evidence that we have found and that we have released directly point to President Obama leading the manufacturing of this intelligence assessment,”

Posted by: SMOD at July 24, 2025 09:08 AM (RHGPo)

335 The guy claimed that raw sugarcane actually has a lot of stuff in it that's good for you. Then they refine the sugar and take out all of that stuff, leaving only the bad refined sugar.

Posted by: Bulg

I toured the Imperial Sugar plant in Sugar Land, Texas years ago, before it shut down. Essentially, the cane is crushed and boiled, and hardens and is made into rocks for transport to the mill. The rocks are boiled again to liquefy, and then is pumped into huge towers full of charcoal, where it is filtered down and all of the bug parts are filtered out.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at July 24, 2025 09:08 AM (Vfq+S)

336 Good morning dear morons and happy birthday JJ

Last year's Becky Pringle speech was a barnburner: "WE WANT ALL THE THINGS!"

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 24, 2025 09:09 AM (JvZF+)

337 House Panel Votes to Subpoena Bill and Hillary Clinton over Alleged Jeffrey Epstein Links

Posted by: SMOD at July 24, 2025 09:09 AM (RHGPo)

338
Paying people to donate blood will result in people donating blood in order to get paid. You do not want the blood donated by those people.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 24, 2025 09:09 AM (HZi96)

339 333

Paul A. Szypula
@Bubblebathgirl

President Trump announces Columbia University has agreed to pay $200M in fines to the Fed, $20M to Jewish employees who were harassed, and to end “their ridiculous DEI policies.”

Every other Higher Education Institution needs to take note.

https://tinyurl.com/ycyerr9w
Posted by: redridinghood at July 24, 2025 09:08 AM (NpAcC)

Still not tired of winning.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at July 24, 2025 09:09 AM (N39Ws)

340 Weren't they paid once upon a time? I recall stories of guys selling a pint to get the price of a bottle of wine.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 24, 2025 09:00 AM (omVj0)

I dunno about whole blood, but they still pay for plasma and you can give 3x a week. Was great for beer money in college.

Posted by: BruceWayne at July 24, 2025 09:10 AM (MGB5H)

341 Cocaine is off the table before an EKG test, no?
Posted by: dantesed at July 24, 2025 09:06 AM (Oy/m2)

Yes.

Posted by: Zombie Len Bias at July 24, 2025 09:10 AM (wVcYX)

342 The founder of the World Economic Forum (WEF) has been accused of ordering the falsification of research to make it appear that Brexit was detrimental to Britain’s economy.

.. I wonder where he got the idea of falsification

Posted by: SMOD at July 24, 2025 09:10 AM (RHGPo)

343 where it is filtered down and all of the bug parts are filtered out.
Posted by: Thomas Paine

But ze bug parts are ze best parts!
-- Klaus Schwab

Posted by: Bulg at July 24, 2025 09:10 AM (77rzZ)

344 >>Victor Davis Hanson: Tulsi Gabbard’s doc dump revives a damning question: Did Obama’s intel chiefs knowingly push the Russia hoax to cripple Trump before he even took office?
Revenge or Justice?

They pushed it to get their FISA warrant approved.

If Jack Straw is here, he'll correct me, but IIRC, the NSA shut down the sketchy database querying by FBI contractors in May of 2016, so the Obama/Hillary people scrambled together their first FISA request on the Trump campaign in June of 2016.

Hillary's team was openly pushing the Russia hoax during the 2016 RNC, after (coincidentally!) Trump hired Podesta friend Paul Manafort to be a campaign manager (been a while, but I think they had both represented Russia's interests on a project together - there was some history).

It was a set-up from the start - they had to make up the Russia hoax because their preferred method of digging up dirt to destroy him had been cut off by the honest head of the NSA, Adm Rogers.

Posted by: Lizzy at July 24, 2025 09:12 AM (GbwPZ)

345 No HFCS:

Haagen-Dazs
McConnell’s Fine Ice Creams

McConnell's Fine Ice Creams is the only company that makes-

"Dried Flies and Beetles Raspberry Crunch"

McCONNELL'S

It's the taste turtles crave!!!

Posted by: Sen Mitch McConnell at July 24, 2025 09:13 AM (iJfKG)

346 Hunter thinks he is untouchable because he knows where every body is buried, and every Democrat insider is terrified he’ll take them down with him.

========

People keep talking about individuals high up but kind of ancillary to the whole, giant Democrat apparatus like they know EVERYTHING.

Does Hunter Biden know all of Hillary's secrets? Obama's? Pelosi's? Pat Murray's?

Hunter knows the corruption he was personally involved in which probably touched some other high ups like Obama. His Burisma job probably wasn't just daddy's doing. Obama had a helping hand, for sure.

But...everything?

People were talking a couple of years ago like Joe Biden was THE CENTER of all corruption in DC. Like all corruption went through him personally (or at least his circle).

And it's nonsense. It's the stuff of fantasy and fiction that there's one baddie to beat and then all is roses.

It's a hydra of a million heads.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 24, 2025 09:13 AM (GBKbO)

347 >>152 Big reason Jim Harbaugh was run out of Michigan by NCAA, was his Pro Life remarks after the Roe vs Wade decision.

lol

Imagine someone believing this is the reason Harbaugh fled Michigan for the NFL.

Posted by: one hour sober at July 24, 2025 09:13 AM (Y1sOo)

348 Quick list of major ice cream brands with no HFCS:

(Some flavors may use HFCS but they are limited)

Tillamook
Ben & Jerry’s
Alden’s Organic
Straus Family Creamery
Breyers Natural Vanilla
Publix GreenWise
Häagen-Dazs

Posted by: pawn at July 24, 2025 09:13 AM (QB+5g)

349 Nothing will happen.

Posted by: The person who always says that at July 24, 2025 09:13 AM (kDa4+)

350 "Victor Davis Hanson: Tulsi Gabbard’s doc dump revives a damning question: Did Obama’s intel chiefs knowingly push the Russia hoax to cripple Trump before he even took office?"

No, VDH, it doesn't revive the question, it answers it.

Posted by: Ordinary American at July 24, 2025 09:14 AM (UseAb)

351 My prediction: the "files" are a jumble of unsupported, doctored bits and pieces from which no case against anybody can be made. Those who think they are a carefully curated documentation of sexual perversions by specific characters in high places will be very disappointed.
Posted by: Ordinary American at July 24, 2025 09:00 AM (UseAb)

Everybody knows that the Epstein files exist and contain damning evidence because everybody says they do.

Well... Bondi said they did. Sure, and if you were made AG you'd say the same thing. Right up until you found out that they don't. (Assuming, of course, that they don't)

The obvious problem is that the government and media lie so consistently that no one believes anything they say any more. Except that Trump has betrayed MAGA because (insert this week's freakout here).

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 24, 2025 09:14 AM (ExV1e)

352 >>The founder of the World Economic Forum (WEF) has been accused of ordering the falsification of research to make it appear that Brexit was detrimental to Britain’s economy.

The only thing that could shock me about Klaus' and the WEF's behavior would be that they did something honestly, legally and without malintent.

The guy is a goofy-looking Bond villain.

Posted by: Lizzy at July 24, 2025 09:14 AM (GbwPZ)

353 Paying people to donate blood will result in people donating blood in order to get paid. You do not want the blood donated by those people.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 24, 2025 09:09 AM

What if I donated someone else's blood?

Posted by: toby928 at July 24, 2025 09:15 AM (jc0TO)

354 > Tulsi Refers Obama For Criminal Charges After Debunking Top 'Russia Hoax Lies'
--------
Look........ squirrel ----->

Classic misdirection from something else the administration would rather not have on the public's mind. Oldest political trick in the book. Used... forever.

That's my first inclination.

I hope it is, in all actuality "the squirrel."

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 24, 2025 09:15 AM (Q4IgG)

355 Hunter thinks he is untouchable because he knows where every body is buried, and every Democrat insider is terrified he’ll take them down with him.

========

Better watch out his drugs don't get extra potent

Posted by: SMOD at July 24, 2025 09:15 AM (RHGPo)

356
The funny thing about the aburdly illegal appointment of a US Attorney by "judges" in New Jersey is the order says the Attorney General can elect to dismiss their selection after 120 days.

So they admit the AG has, at least, that much power/say in the matter. But then what? Will these NJ "judges" select another US Attorney??

Where do these fuckface "judges" get the idea they can do this? Appoint US Attorneys? Whatthefuck are these fascist "judges" thinking?

Posted by: Soothsayer at July 24, 2025 09:15 AM (3TbF6)

357 Paying people to donate blood will result in people donating blood in order to get paid. You do not want the blood donated by those people.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 24, 2025 09:09 AM (HZi96)

At the end of the chain, the hospital buying it needs to be able to use it. If they won't buy garbage from the banks, the banks won't buy garbage from donors either. They have a vested interest in screening donors. Possibly an enhanced interest, in this case.

However, if the hospital just goes full Crook and uses poor quality blood in patients, and then uses their institutional leverage (local government, local media, etc) to Make It All Go Away, then no one has a problem... except for all the patients kicking the bucket because they were pumped full of some derelict crackwhore's syphilis juice. And we all know from COVID how much anyone in the industry with any pull actually cares about patient outcomes.

So who knows.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 24, 2025 09:16 AM (RlmPm)

358 I had a friend who was one of the first to contract Hep C in the early 80s. Was from a blood transfusion after a car accident. He was on huge amounts of opioids for decades, "graduated" from Hospice 4 times, but the 5th time got him. Died in 2009.

Posted by: RIP DBG! at July 24, 2025 09:16 AM (G5+As)

359 357
The funny thing about the aburdly illegal appointment of a US Attorney by "judges" in New Jersey is the order says the Attorney General can elect to dismiss their selection after 120 days.

So they admit the AG has, at least, that much power/say in the matter. But then what? Will these NJ "judges" select another US Attorney??

Where do these fuckface "judges" get the idea they can do this? Appoint US Attorneys? Whatthefuck are these fascist "judges" thinking?
Posted by: Soothsayer at July 24, 2025 09:15 AM (3TbF6)

=

They have the power because Congress gave them the power, and a president signed off on it.

It's still unconstitutional as hell, but the judges didn't just make it up.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 24, 2025 09:16 AM (GBKbO)

360 Epstein again.

I've never had anyone tell me why I should care, that is without, frankly, bullying or talking down to me.

It seems to be a "principle of the thing" issue. At this point in the game I think we are still at the pragmatic stage. And I don't see that changing for a long time.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at July 24, 2025 09:17 AM (1yQAg)

361 They have the power because Congress gave them the power, and a president signed off on it.

It's still unconstitutional as hell, but the judges didn't just make it up.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 24, 2025 09:16 AM (GBKbO)

Time to push it up the court chain and kill it.

Posted by: BruceWayne at July 24, 2025 09:18 AM (MGB5H)

362 On Wednesday, the Browns combined watercraft and football when revealing their new helmets. If you’re thinking this venture ended badly, you must be familiar with the Browns.

The Browns constructed a raft (yes, this really happened) that featured a large inflatable helmet in the style of the new dark-brown alternate helmets the team will wear this year. The raft had the Browns and Dude Wipes mascots on board along with a videographer to capture the moment. However, in a scenario Browns fans are all too familiar with, a moment of triumph turned into a moment of terror as the videographer lost his footing while maneuvering for a better shot and fell into the lake.

Chomps, the Browns mascot, quickly threw a life preserver.

Posted by: SMOD at July 24, 2025 09:18 AM (RHGPo)

363 363 Time to push it up the court chain and kill it.
Posted by: BruceWayne at July 24, 2025 09:18 AM (MGB5H)

=======

I'm surprised the DOJ didn't make an issue of it when this happened earlier this year (Jeanie Perrio [however you spell her name] is the new acting USA of that district, whichever it was).

Maybe they will this time.

I dunno.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 24, 2025 09:19 AM (GBKbO)

364 I'm surprised the DOJ didn't make an issue of it when this happened earlier this year (Jeanie Perrio [however you spell her name] is the new acting USA of that district, whichever it was).

Maybe they will this time.

I dunno.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 24, 2025 09:19 AM (GBKbO)

DC

Posted by: BruceWayne at July 24, 2025 09:19 AM (MGB5H)

365
Oh really?

Well that judge-appointed fake US Attorney has the notion she cannot be fired by the DOJ. Did Congress also give her that immunity from answering to the DOJ?

Posted by: Soothsayer at July 24, 2025 09:19 AM (3TbF6)

366 When I had my colonoscopy, the doc made a joke about just having had a three-martini lunch.
Posted by: Bulg at July 24, 2025 09:06 AM (77rzZ)

Considering that I schedule mine for 6am, that would concern me.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 24, 2025 09:19 AM (ExV1e)

367 366
DC
Posted by: BruceWayne at July 24, 2025 09:19 AM (MGB5H)

======

Right. Ed Martin's replacement.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 24, 2025 09:19 AM (GBKbO)

368 367
Oh really?

Well that judge-appointed fake US Attorney has the notion she cannot be fired by the DOJ. Did Congress also give her that immunity from answering to the DOJ?
Posted by: Soothsayer at July 24, 2025 09:19 AM (3TbF6)

=======

I don't think she's being fired but reassigned.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 24, 2025 09:20 AM (GBKbO)

369 Paul A. Szypula
@Bubblebathgirl

President Trump announces Columbia University has agreed to pay $200M in fines to the Fed, $20M to Jewish employees who were harassed, and to end “their ridiculous DEI policies.”
Posted by: redridinghood

Why yes, yes I did vote for this.

Posted by: Tonypete at July 24, 2025 09:20 AM (cYBz/)

370
Search engines which use AI appear to put that result at the top of returned information.

If there are subsequent results, a perfunctory look at the AI result usually shows that it is an amateurish stitch job of information from the next three or so results. That is to say, an amalgam of information that you'd acquire from a lazy and / or shortcut addicted student.

It's all shit.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh![ at July 24, 2025 09:20 AM (Tv15w)

371 U.S. Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Marty Makary said he is focused on overhauling long-held standards and recommendations within the agency, including “rewriting” the FDA’s food pyramid recommendations created in 1992.

... probably will implement the "food tetrahedron"

Posted by: SMOD at July 24, 2025 09:21 AM (RHGPo)

372 I'm not in favor of prosecuting Obama unless and until the tried and convicted Clapper, Comey, Brennan, Rice cabal produces iron-clad smoking hun evidence to trade in working to avoid a firing squad.

Presidents are not your first target. They are the last.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 24, 2025 09:21 AM (iBZ/D)

373 Ok, off to a stupid-ass meeting.

The last meeting with these people featured a fifteen minute discussion on whether a single slide should or should not be included in the deck. In a thirty minute meeting.

Sigh.

What was that about martinis...?

Posted by: WitchDoktor at July 24, 2025 09:21 AM (1yQAg)

374 I'm surprised the DOJ didn't make an issue of it when this happened earlier this year (Jeanie Perrio [however you spell her name] is the new acting USA of that district, whichever it was).

Maybe they will this time.

I dunno.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 24, 2025 09:19 AM (GBKbO)

DC
Posted by: BruceWayne at July 24, 2025 09:19 AM

Tho if I'm remembering correctly. That was the senate wouldn't confirm the original pick (can't remember his name but he defended J6ers) so Trump put in Judge Janine as interim. I think she was approved during the walkout and Spartacus monologue. Could be mistaken on that.

Posted by: BruceWayne at July 24, 2025 09:21 AM (MGB5H)

375 My main worry right now about the Red Cross was seeing a sign on the front desk reassuring me that they rejected all forms of prejudice.

If they go down the path the United Way did, I'm not going to donate any more.

Posted by: NR Pax at July 24, 2025 09:21 AM (+4yJ5)

376 373 If you're going to fake this, fake it so that it shows that Trump was still friends with Epstein years after he claims that they had their falling-out.

Why the hell would you fake a nothingburger?
Posted by: Masturbatin' Pete at July 24, 2025 09:20 AM (rtvN

========

It isn't his voice. It's weird.

I dunno. It might be real.

But you're just right. They were friendly for years, in the same social circles. It might be genuine.

I have no emotion in the whole thing.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 24, 2025 09:21 AM (GBKbO)

377 I can't donate platelets because of heart meds (thinners and anti-clotting), but I can and do donate plasma or red cells, whichever is in demand at the moment for my blood type.

At my last donation, the question, "Are you pregnant?" no longer had an answer choice of "N/A". Just Yes or No. Prior instructions were for men to answer N/A. Now it's gone stupid woke.

Posted by: Count de Monet at July 24, 2025 09:22 AM (wVcYX)

378 Are the Cleveland Browns still without a Super Bowl trophy?

Incredible.

Posted by: dantesed at July 24, 2025 09:22 AM (Oy/m2)

379 1. Radar Love
2. LA Woman
3. The Little Old Lady From Pasadena
(a fun song about LA street drag racing; no thinking required about hidden meanings and so on; simply a fun and light-hearted driving song. Fight me!)

Posted by: Gref at July 24, 2025 09:23 AM (aBgBM)

380 I've donated about 30 gallons over my lifetime and all I got were these lousy Oreos.

Oh, and I got a license plate frame from Stanford Children's Hospital.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 24, 2025 09:23 AM (JvZF+)

381 Australia & Japan Are Seemingly Having Second Thoughts About The De Facto Asian NATO

Playing any role in a Sino-US war over Taiwan, even a logistical one, could provoke Chinese retaliation...

Posted by: SMOD at July 24, 2025 09:23 AM (RHGPo)

382 Posted by: SMOD at July 24, 2025 09:18 AM (RHGPo)
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The Browns have made more Clevelanders into Steelers fans than Mean Joe Greene ever did.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 24, 2025 09:24 AM (iBZ/D)

383 I don't think she's being fired but reassigned.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 24, 2025 09:20 AM (GBKbO)

And when she refuses... then she'll be fired.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 24, 2025 09:24 AM (ExV1e)

384 Parlez-vous Hebrew?

https://tinyurl.com/5dh5bjue

Enjoy beating your last Jews, Europe.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at July 24, 2025 09:24 AM (DIXP3)

385 Miami Herald: Congress would slash aid to Colombia over drug use allegations in Petro’s government

A powerful congressional panel led by Florida Republican Rep. Mario Díaz-Balart is moving to sharply cut non-military U.S. aid to Colombia, citing a combination of rising instability, weakening rule of law and growing concerns about drug use within the highest levels of President Gustavo Petro’s government. In a report released this week alongside the 2026 National Security, Department of State and Related Programs Appropriations Bill, the House Appropriations Committee criticized Petro’s government for what it called “detrimental policies, erratic behavior and malign relationships.” The report also flagged concerns about increased drug use in Colombia, including among top government officials, and what it described as a deteriorating security situation.

The bill still requires approval by the full House and reconciliation with Senate legislation before becoming law.

(Petro is a coke-head as well as an ex-terrorist)

Posted by: Kindltot at July 24, 2025 09:24 AM (D7oie)

386 362 Epstein again.

I've never had anyone tell me why I should care, that is without, frankly, bullying or talking down to me.

Posted by: WitchDoktor
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A man who brings underage girls to a private island in the Caribbean for sex is allowed to plead guilty to a single count that gets him put in jail for 11 months, except that he's allowed to leave the jail during the day, so basically he's just sentenced to sleep in jail.

Meanwhile, pretty much every famous politician and industry titan flies around the world on his private airplane.

That's pretty interesting to me. But there's no accounting for taste.

Posted by: Masturbatin' Pete at July 24, 2025 09:24 AM (1kXtQ)

387 @364 - Can't win anything, absolutely no ability to provide entertainment to fans by their play on the field, the Browns can only provide entertainment accidentally by acting like clowns. This is the franchise since 1999.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at July 24, 2025 09:24 AM (gbC8I)

388 (Petro is a coke-head as well as an ex-terrorist)
Posted by: Kindltot at July 24, 2025 09:24 AM (D7oie)

What, the FARC?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 24, 2025 09:25 AM (RlmPm)

389 FreeBeacon:

Skydance Media has made a series of new commitments to eliminate bias in news and entertainment programming at CBS and its parent company, Paramount, when its planned acquisition of the companies is complete. Skydance is also confirming the "elimination" of all "Diversity, Equity and Inclusion" policies and initiatives at Paramount, which had been one of the most aggressive proponents of DEI in the entertainment business.

Should the Trump administration, as expected, approve the transaction, Skydance now says it will launch a "comprehensive review of CBS" focused on bias, as well as appoint an "ombudsman" to "evaluate complaints of bias or other concerns involving CBS," and eliminate Paramount's controversial Office of Global Inclusion.

Posted by: SMOD at July 24, 2025 09:25 AM (RHGPo)

390
I want Ace to do a post on colbert and title it:

The Death of Clapter

Posted by: Soothsayer at July 24, 2025 09:25 AM (3TbF6)

391 Are the Cleveland Browns still without a Super Bowl trophy?

Incredible.
Posted by: dantesed at July 24, 2025 09:22 AM (Oy/m2)

Losers!

Posted by: Minnesota Vikings at July 24, 2025 09:25 AM (PSEDc)

392 386 362 Epstein again.

I've never had anyone tell me why I should care, that is without, frankly, bullying or talking down to me.

Posted by: WitchDoktor
--------

A man who brings underage girls to a private island in the Caribbean for sex is allowed to plead guilty to a single count that gets him put in jail for 11 months, except that he's allowed to leave the jail during the day, so basically he's just sentenced to sleep in jail.

Meanwhile, pretty much every famous politician and industry titan flies around the world on his private airplane.

That's pretty interesting to me. But there's no accounting for taste.
Posted by: Masturbatin' Pete at July 24, 2025 09:24 AM (1kXtQ)

Case in point.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at July 24, 2025 09:25 AM (1yQAg)

393
Radar Love at the top, sure.

Runner up is Hot Rod Lincoln - Commander Cody and the Lost Planet Airman

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh![ at July 24, 2025 09:26 AM (Tv15w)

394
"This Beat Goes On/Switchin To Glide"...

Posted by: The Kings at July 24, 2025 08:52 A

there's a rocumentary out there on one of the streams about the Kings and that song

IIRC, it's called Anatomy of a One Hit Wonder or some such...it's pretty good

Posted by: AltonJackson at July 24, 2025 09:26 AM (tljrc)

395 A man who brings underage girls to a private island in the Caribbean for sex is allowed to plead guilty to a single count that gets him put in jail for 11 months, except that he's allowed to leave the jail during the day, so basically he's just sentenced to sleep in jail.

Meanwhile, pretty much every famous politician and industry titan flies around the world on his private airplane.

All of whom are known to be guilty because the internet says so.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 24, 2025 09:26 AM (ExV1e)

396 Are the Cleveland Browns still without a Super Bowl trophy?

Incredible.
Posted by: dantesed at July 24, 2025 09:22 AM (Oy/m2)

Losers!
Posted by: Minnesota Vikings at July 24, 2025 09:25 AM (PSEDc)

Glad we're not them, those wankers!

Posted by: Houston Oilers / Tennessee Titans at July 24, 2025 09:27 AM (wVcYX)

397 The unintended consequences of gun control: in Australia a man recently went to prison for overpowering a burglar and buttraping them. That’s one way to make sure the burglar doesn’t re-offend.

Posted by: Ian S. at July 24, 2025 09:27 AM (QZThv)

398 Australia & Japan Are Seemingly Having Second Thoughts About The De Facto Asian NATO

Playing any role in a Sino-US war over Taiwan, even a logistical one, could provoke Chinese retaliation...
Posted by: SMOD at July 24, 2025 09:23 AM (RHGPo)
====

Biden lost Australia to China.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 24, 2025 09:27 AM (JvZF+)

399 Hey, WD, has your sister decided she doesn't wanna post here after all? She was a lot of fun for the brief time she was posting.

Posted by: Bulg at July 24, 2025 09:27 AM (77rzZ)

400 Posted by: Minnesota Vikings at July 24, 2025 09:25 AM (PSEDc)
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Of course the Browns would hire a Vikings coach. Perfect choice for the Browns.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 24, 2025 09:28 AM (iBZ/D)

401 We will continue to have meetings until we find out why no work is getting done.

Posted by: The Management at July 24, 2025 09:28 AM (kDa4+)

402
Clapter: fake "comedians" pretending to tell jokes receive "clapter" from their audiences -- not laughter, but clapping.

Because everyone "claps" at jokes instead of laughs. Right?

It's all theater -- and both the "comedian" and the audience are performers. The "comedian" tells an unfunny political joke, and the audience claps to express approval.

Posted by: Soothsayer at July 24, 2025 09:28 AM (3TbF6)

403 >>Can't win anything, absolutely no ability to provide entertainment to fans by their play on the field, the Browns can only provide entertainment accidentally by acting like clowns.

I'm of the opinion that the guy falling into the water was staged to generate social media attention to the Browns' alt uniform reveal.

And it worked well.

Posted by: one hour sober at July 24, 2025 09:28 AM (Y1sOo)

404 Should the Trump administration, as expected, approve the transaction, Skydance now says it will launch a "comprehensive review of CBS" focused on bias, as well as appoint an "ombudsman" to "evaluate complaints of bias or other concerns involving CBS," and eliminate Paramount's controversial Office of Global Inclusion.
Posted by: SMOD at July 24, 2025 09:25 AM (RHGPo)

As I understand it, the head of Skydance is the son of Larry Ellison and a conservative.

Posted by: Ordinary American at July 24, 2025 09:29 AM (UseAb)

405 The façade of a Queens building in AOC's district collapsed onto the sidewalk and the road in Queens on Wednesday. Two kids and a 25-year-old man were sent to the hospital for injuries after approximately 60 feet of the structure collapsed, according to the FDNY. Images from the scene show debris pouring out onto Jericho Turnpike in Bellrose, including the overhang, cement blocks and other material. Multiple cars were also hit with the debris. One of the kids, 11, was treated for back pain. The other, 13, was treated for leg pain.

Posted by: SMOD at July 24, 2025 09:29 AM (RHGPo)

406 376 I have no emotion in the whole thing.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
_________

I'm completely open to the possibility that he had an assistant write it, but it's preposterous that suggests that this is some sort of Deep State fake to frame Trump.

Emotionlessness is the correct response to this because there's nothing there. But Trump is freaking the fuck out. With anyone else I would say that that shows a guilty conscience, but Trump likes to go to DEFCON 1 anytime people say bad things about him. It's the scorpion and the frog. This is just what Trump does.

Posted by: Masturbatin' Pete at July 24, 2025 09:29 AM (1kXtQ)

407 I don't expect that there's anything illegal in there. Maybe something mildly embarrassing like that 50th birthday note, which was pure cringe. But Trump has absolutely no chill about this. Too much ego, too much pride. He refuses to just shrug it off like a normal person, so he deserves all the attention that he's getting.
Posted by: Masturbatin' Pete at July 24, 2025 09:00 AM (mJAuW)

Melania

Posted by: Kindltot at July 24, 2025 09:29 AM (D7oie)

408 Deion Sanders' QB kid got drafted in the 157th Round of the NFL draft and landed in Cleveland. I don't know who to feel sorry for, Shadeur Sanders or the Cleveland Browns.

Posted by: Don Black at July 24, 2025 09:29 AM (AOsQT)

409 Have a great day, JJ, Horde

Posted by: callsign claymore at July 24, 2025 09:30 AM (PClog)

410
"Eric Clapner" was Dr. Jocelyn Elder's name for Etic Clapton.

She of Everyone's gonna die from sumptin' during the glory days of the "AIDS crisis".

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh![ at July 24, 2025 09:30 AM (Tv15w)

411 Clapter: fake "comedians" pretending to tell jokes receive "clapter" from their audiences -- not laughter, but clapping.

Because everyone "claps" at jokes instead of laughs. Right?

It's all theater -- and both the "comedian" and the audience are performers. The "comedian" tells an unfunny political joke, and the audience claps to express approval.
Posted by: Soothsayer at July 24, 2025 09:28 A

Buggy the Clown from One Piece. His audience was all captives and would do as his henchman instructed.

Posted by: BruceWayne at July 24, 2025 09:30 AM (MGB5H)

412 406 Emotionlessness is the correct response to this because there's nothing there. But Trump is freaking the fuck out. With anyone else I would say that that shows a guilty conscience, but Trump likes to go to DEFCON 1 anytime people say bad things about him. It's the scorpion and the frog. This is just what Trump does.
Posted by: Masturbatin' Pete at July 24, 2025 09:29 AM (1kXtQ)

=======

After his first term where he was accommodating of an obvious lie (Russian collusion) which didn't work (the GOPe still tried to destroy him), righteous anger and indignation seems...understandable towards a new cooked up narrative with little to no basis in fact.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 24, 2025 09:30 AM (GBKbO)

413 Epstein got into options trading for high net worth people after he joined Bear Stearns -- he was a math whiz.

Then he went on his own, and I suspect he was using options trading as a cover for tax evasion and money laundering. Mossad and our spooks could have gotten involved, but how and when. This gave Epstein the means to indulge his tastes.

There couldn't have been that many people for him to blackmail over Pedo Island. I strongly suspect Bill Clinton was one. But this brought the heat.

Posted by: Ignoramus at July 24, 2025 09:30 AM (dtajH)

414 It's the scorpion and the frog. This is just what Trump does.
Posted by: Masturbatin' Pete at July 24, 2025 09:29 AM (1kXtQ)

Most politicians at least pretend that they're playing chess.

Trump plays Yahtzee.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 24, 2025 09:30 AM (RlmPm)

415 Long March through the institutions produced the intellectually vapid lazy moronic Barry Soetero.
Are they electing him or some behind the veil idea?

Posted by: torabora at July 24, 2025 09:31 AM (ct41j)

416 We need safer guns and safer bullets.

Posted by: Jocelyn Elders at July 24, 2025 09:31 AM (kDa4+)

417 Noodus gratia artis.

Posted by: Bulg at July 24, 2025 09:32 AM (77rzZ)

418 Boat Art

Posted by: Count de Monet at July 24, 2025 09:32 AM (wVcYX)

419 What, the FARC?
Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 24, 2025 09:25 AM (RlmPm)

No, dude, Gustavo Petro was OG: M-19

He took the stand down and went into politics where he did the normal leftist revolutionary thing of weaponizing government, installing cronies, grafting and drugs, and ruining the country he despises.

Posted by: Kindltot at July 24, 2025 09:33 AM (D7oie)

420 Hey, WD, has your sister decided she doesn't wanna post here after all? She was a lot of fun for the brief time she was posting.
Posted by: Bulg at July 24, 2025 09:27 AM (77rzZ)

She told me she likes a lot of you, but when she made a joke about watching crap golfers shooting over par on a single hole, somebody started doing a numbers check on her.

She said she was half tempted to make up a predictive model but decided it wasn't worth it just to put that guy in his place over a joke.

Meeting started. Ugh.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at July 24, 2025 09:34 AM (1yQAg)

421 392 Case in point.
Posted by: WitchDoktor
_____________

How is that bullying you were talking down to you? If you don't care about Epstein, you don't care about Epstein. I'm just explaining why it has appeal to a lot of people. I don't have any interest in Star Wars, but if someone explained its broad appeal to me I wouldn't feel bullied or talked down to.

I would LOVE to bully anyone who cared about the Epstein files until Trump came out and told them to stop caring. And there are quite a few of those. But I have no reason to suspect that you're one of them.

Posted by: Masturbatin' Pete at July 24, 2025 09:34 AM (1kXtQ)

422 The late financier and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein believed Donald Trump was the “rat” who informed on him to the FBI, leading to his 2006 arrest and sentencing for offenses involving underage girls, the Trump biographer Michael Wolff said.

Posted by: SMOD at July 24, 2025 09:35 AM (RHGPo)

423 Somebody told me that there is a video of something where it is claimed Trump says he is "a pedo"

Any sightings ?

Posted by: SMOD at July 24, 2025 09:36 AM (RHGPo)

424 >>Hey, WD, has your sister decided she doesn't wanna post here after all?

Oh, my, you actually thought that bit was real?

Posted by: one hour sober at July 24, 2025 09:38 AM (Y1sOo)

425 After his first term where he was accommodating of an obvious lie (Russian collusion) which didn't work (the GOPe still tried to destroy him), righteous anger and indignation seems...understandable towards a new cooked up narrative with little to no basis in fact.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
__________

This would be more persuasive if Trump's entire career didn't involve settling a lot of personal scores through litigation. And if the Epstein files were another Steele Dossier, which is clearly what Trump wants us to believe, then he should be investigating and naming the people who put this fraud together. But no, he just wants us to stop talking about it. He's letting the people who tried to frame him yet again get away with it. Does that make any sense at all?

Posted by: Masturbatin' Pete at July 24, 2025 09:38 AM (1kXtQ)

426 Epstein conspiracy theories obscure the obvious truth — he was nothing more than a high society snake
-------

Oh is this where we are now?

Posted by: ... at July 24, 2025 09:39 AM (h0r72)

427 Breyers makes an ice cream with sugar and no junk. I think it's five ingredients.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at July 24, 2025 09:39 AM (TEi+a)

428 "But Trump is freaking the fuck out."

Ridiculous. He was visibly frustrated at one point because it's a patently stupid distraction from his goals; he understands it as just one more psy-ops thrown in his way.

Posted by: Ordinary American at July 24, 2025 09:41 AM (UseAb)

429 Masturbatin Pete is one of the ones still desperate after a decade to prove he is the smart one on Trump and everyone else is dumb. Tiresome.

Posted by: ... at July 24, 2025 09:42 AM (h0r72)

430 A man who brings underage girls to a private island in the Caribbean for sex is allowed to plead guilty to a single count that gets him put in jail for 11 months, except that he's allowed to leave the jail during the day, so basically he's just sentenced to sleep in jail.

Meanwhile, pretty much every famous politician and industry titan flies around the world on his private airplane.

That's pretty interesting to me. But there's no accounting for taste.
Posted by: Masturbatin' Pete
=====
You are factually incorrect, the charge that he was convicted upon stemmed from his Palm Beach days. He acquired the notorious island later and in part because his newest hedge fund got favorable tax treatment there.

And we know even less of his NM ranch.

It also appears that Alex Acosta (US DA of Florida) himself did not claim Epstein was protected by intel or at least he denies that he did. The charges themselves and convictions for Palm Beach were brought by the state of Florida although federal grand juries were seated to consider charges.

Posted by: whig at July 24, 2025 09:59 AM (ctrM5)

431 Nic Update

Posted by: ShainS -- December 9th, 2016: A Date Which Will Live In Infamy! at July 24, 2025 10:03 AM (zqS3C)

432 If State Sen Mitchell is still in the AF, why isn’t she getting kicked out?

Posted by: Cow Demon at July 24, 2025 10:39 AM (Pce4l)

433 151 Type 11 diabetes and obesity haven't increased since the introduction of HFCS?

HFCS made it economically possible to lace everything with glucose/fructose. Cane sugar didn't scale well, but HFCS is produced at industrial scale and there is no practical top. Eventually you run out of arable land so there is a practical upper end to coffee, cocoa and sugar, not so for corn.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 24, 2025 08:27 AM (a4flb)

Fructose is more habit forming than Sucrose, in fact Mammals instinctively gorge on fructose, going back to our biology to eat fruits and berries in large quantities when found.

Posted by: Inogame at July 24, 2025 11:06 AM (53oGX)

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