CBS's New Management Doesn't Know What to Do With Woke Ratings-Disaster Gayle King

CBS faces a growing dilemma over the future of mega-buck anchor Gayle King as ratings for her "woke" morning show collapse -- and the struggling network's new owners vow to root out left-wing bias, The Post has learned.
The "CBS Mornings" co-host, one of the fading Tiffany Network's few remaining stars, is part of a culture that has "dug in" against attempts by higher-ups to move away from polarizing coverage, according to sources with knowledge of the situation.
A key problem is that George Cheeks -- the co-CEO of CBS parent Paramount who is in line to run the network under new overlords Skydance Media -- has for years promoted a diversity, equity and inclusion mandate, the sources said.
That has allowed 70-year-old King and her executive producer Shawna Thomas to set a programming "agenda" that has alienated traditional morning show viewers, one of the sources close to the situation told The Post.
"The audience doesn't want woke. It doesn't like progressive and provocative bookings," one of the sources told The Post. "The morning show audience wants optimism and cheer and joy and what they were producing is at odds with audience expectations."
One insider pointed to a March 26 interview with "RuPaul's Drag Race" winner Bob the Drag Queen, who was publicizing his first novel, "Harriet Tubman: Live in Concert."
The "CBS Mornings" website described the book as a "gender-bending story where the historic icon appears in modern-day America to tell her story through a hip-hop album," as previously reported by The Post.
The perennially last-place show -- once regarded as a cash cow for the beleaguered news division -- has seen its ratings plummet to below 2 million in recent months.
In the past three weeks, King and co-hosts Tony Dokoupil and Nate Burleson lost between 20% and 30% of their audience versus last year in the advertiser-coveted 25- to 54-year-old demographic, according to Nielsen.
King signed an extension for between $13 million and $15 million that runs through next May, according to a well-placed source. That's the same month CBS will pull the plug on late-night host Stephen Colbert and his reported $15 million-a-year contract.

CBS has demanded they make more of an effort to appeal to people outside of the narrow identity-politics left niche, but the show's producer -- a catspaw of the leftwing shill Gayle King -- refuses.

McMahon, who was brought in as co-president in 2021 and was handed the reins in 2023 after Neeraj Khemlani got canned, was charged by Cheeks to make the morning show more appealing to middle America, two sources with knowledge told The Post.
But her directives were allegedly ignored by Thomas, one of the few African American executive producers in TV, in favor of programming for niche audiences who are black, LGBTQ or other minorities, the sources said.
Two insiders said Thomas didn't push back directly on McMahon's orders, she just "didn't do what she was told."
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"In these cases, you have to fire somebody," one longtime producer told The Post. "Wendy McMahon was not strong enough. She needed a head on a stick but Shawna had the protection of Gayle King."
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The insider remarked that aside from woke programming, many viewers were "alienated" by the fact that none of the show's anchors -- aside from Dokoupil -- are white. In addition, the majority of the show's substitute anchors are African American, due in part to initiatives to diversify the talent pool over the years.

Could this be another case of the Trump Curse delivering a reckoning?

Sources say "yes."

According to one insider, "CBS Mornings lost its curveball" when Trump was elected and the staff were unable to hide their "distaste" for the result and were "shocked," "sad" and unable to recover.

Gayle king says it’s sexist to call the all-female spaceflight as a “ride”

“They never say men went for a ride.” pic.twitter.com/5wQ3tp5y1V
— kira 👾 (@kirawontmiss) April 16, 2025

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1 She could always try the Kamala route.

Posted by: ... at August 05, 2025 01:17 PM (jRYyy)

2 And so it begins.

Posted by: That guy who always thinks it's beginning at August 05, 2025 01:18 PM (WvZaB)

3 Gayle king says its sexist to call the all-female spaceflight as a ride
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Hear that?

That's the sound of no one giving a fuck.

Posted by: ... at August 05, 2025 01:18 PM (jRYyy)

4 Heading to the Big Podcast In The Sky...

Posted by: Mister Ghost at August 05, 2025 01:19 PM (TGPs7)

5 Noted Astronaut and Ratings Disaster, Gayle King.

Posted by: garrett at August 05, 2025 01:19 PM (L2IqH)

6 Hola

Posted by: Thanatopsis at August 05, 2025 01:20 PM (GYt5+)

7 Um, someone help me out here - Don't competent Chief Executives fire non-performing employees?

Crazy, I know.

Posted by: Tonypete at August 05, 2025 01:20 PM (cYBz/)

8 >> Obesity-related cancer deaths have soared in the U.S. over the last two decades, rising from 3.73 million to 13.52 million.

But it’s totes ok because “body image” is more important.

https://tinyurl.com/y6japwmt

Posted by: Vengeance at August 05, 2025 01:20 PM (iiQg8)

9 She never had a good ride, now she's a libtard idiot.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at August 05, 2025 01:21 PM (lDS7x)

10 Man, I wish I could get a gig where I'm paid millions of dollars to lose millions more dollars for a company.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at August 05, 2025 01:21 PM (WvZaB)

11 Don't forget the 'h' in divershitty

Posted by: Zeera. I voted for ALL of this at August 05, 2025 01:21 PM (Y/vFe)

12 >> Gayle king says it’s sexist to call the all-female spaceflight as a “ride”

“They never say men went for a ride.”

Is this her OnlyFans opening pitch?

Posted by: Vengeance at August 05, 2025 01:21 PM (iiQg8)

13 One insider pointed to a March 26 interview with "RuPaul's Drag Race" winner Bob the Drag Queen, who was publicizing his first novel, "Harriet Tubman: Live in Concert."

This would've been taken as obvious parody 20 years ago.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 05, 2025 01:22 PM (6ydKt)

14 For those interested, the wondrous Dark Journalist will be on Alex Jones at 2 PM (Eastern Time) talking about nukes on the Moon, the upcoming UFO hearings, probably the missing government trillions...

Posted by: Mister Ghost at August 05, 2025 01:22 PM (TGPs7)

15 Internet rumors are saying SNL is going to be canceled.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at August 05, 2025 01:22 PM (9vYpt)

16 McMahon, who was brought in as co-president in 2021 and was handed the reins in 2023 after Neeraj Khemlani got canned, was charged by Cheeks to make the morning show more appealing to middle America, two sources with knowledge told The Post.
But her directives were allegedly ignored by Thomas, one of the few African American executive producers in TV, in favor of programming for niche audiences who are black, LGBTQ or other minorities, the sources said.
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Anyone involved in conversations such as these in amy circumstances should be dropped into a volcano.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 05, 2025 01:22 PM (JvZF+)

17
Called 'em.

*waits for treat*

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 05, 2025 01:22 PM (kkTda)

18 (Willowed and reposted just because, then off to swim. Someone brought up "Ridgemont High" in last thread, how it showed very different teen lifestyles.)

Ridgemont High = Clairemont High (author did his undercover student thing there and then wrote the book, his mom worked at the school).

Beat them in water polo to get to CIF (state-wide competition system). They were definitely a better team. Like many teams at that time, they had football players who could swim they used as "hole men" (stay in front of the net, get a pass, turn and fire), very hard to guard them.

But our 2nd game against them was at our 3rd pool of that year (city schools didn't have their own pools) - at NAS Miramar. The pool used in the award scene in "Top Gun", where "Ice" gets the nod and says he'll be Maverick's wingman any time.

Unheated pool. November. We were used to the cold, other team wasn't. Squeaked out a win, got 2nd in the city, and on to CIF.

Posted by: rhomboid at August 05, 2025 01:23 PM (U/Byj)

19 I miss the days when Jane Clayton was the host.

Posted by: Cow Demon at August 05, 2025 01:23 PM (vm8sq)

20
Thing: Women are stronk! Women can do anything!

Reality: Men designed and built that rocket. You got in.

Posted by: ... at August 05, 2025 01:23 PM (jRYyy)

21
The "CBS Mornings" co-host, one of the fading Tiffany Network's few remaining stars, is part of a culture that has "dug in" against attempts by higher-ups to move away from polarizing coverage

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"Dug in". Like bloodsucking lice.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 05, 2025 01:24 PM (kkTda)

22 All these talk shows are obsolete and will die deserving deaths. Maybe there's a market for a few of them. Maybe. But just like with late-night talk shows, there are like 500 of these talk shows.

They're all chasing the same small audience of basement incels, boozey AWFLs, perverts, faggots, ass-sniffers, and paranoid lunatics. There's just not enough audience -- or ad dollars -- to support all these shows.

And who are the guests on these programs? Over-exposed celebrity half-wits, sleazy politicians and activists, and boring assholes that nobody gives a shit about. I mean, who is gonna tune into the loathsome Jimmy Kimmel talking to odious fuglies like Adam Schiff and that pig JD Pritzker?

Posted by: Elric "Literary Creation" Blade at August 05, 2025 01:24 PM (iFTx/)

23 According to one insider, "CBS Mornings lost its curveball" when Trump was elected and the staff were unable to hide their "distaste" for the result and were "shocked," "sad" and unable to recover.

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Party time! Excellent!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Something Smells Funny In Here at August 05, 2025 01:24 PM (L/fGl)

24 Internet rumors are saying SNL is going to be canceled.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at August 05, 2025 01:22 PM (9vYpt)
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To kill a zombie you need a headshot.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 05, 2025 01:24 PM (JvZF+)

25 7 Um, someone help me out here - Don't competent Chief Executives fire non-performing employees?

Crazy, I know.
Posted by: Tonypete at August 05, 2025 01:20 PM (cYBz/)

It is amazing watching this go on!

She REFUSES to do as directed. well, I thought there was a very convenient remedy for that. But what do I know? I'm not running a failing network.

Posted by: ghbucky at August 05, 2025 01:24 PM (/xDbx)

26 If you let a piece of meat sit in the fridge too long and it goes bad, do you eat it anyway? After all, to throw it away is to say goodbye to the money you spent on it. Or do you pay for it a second time by eating that rotten meat?

Obviously, you throw it away. It's no longer of use to you and trying to deny that fact just costs you more.

If Paramount / CBS wants to change direction, they should just do it. Fire the bad meat, even if that means paying off their contracts to be rid of them. Don't leave them in place to continue to destroy your product.

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at August 05, 2025 01:25 PM (p4nXC)

27 Gayle is Oprah's gal pal and her ascent was basically nepotism IYKWIMAITTYD.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at August 05, 2025 01:25 PM (wBaIH)

28 Gayle King only has a career because she's Oprah's Bestie.

Posted by: tsj017 at August 05, 2025 01:25 PM (ZiGm9)

29 CBS's New Management Doesn't Know What to Do With Woke Ratings-Disaster Gayle King
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I read that as "CBS New Mismanagement".

Posted by: Axeman at August 05, 2025 01:25 PM (krQz2)

30 My dog drove to the vet the other day.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Something Smells Funny In Here at August 05, 2025 01:25 PM (L/fGl)

31 Internet rumors are saying SNL is going to be canceled.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at August 05, 2025 01:22 PM (9vYpt)
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Another victim of defunding NPR!!!!!

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at August 05, 2025 01:25 PM (WvZaB)

32 Internet rumors are saying SNL is going to be canceled.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at August 05, 2025 01:22 PM (9vYpt)

What's an SNL

Posted by: ... at August 05, 2025 01:25 PM (jRYyy)

33
And who are the guests on these programs? Over-exposed celebrity half-wits, sleazy politicians and activists, and boring assholes that nobody gives a shit about.

__________

Who get asked softball questions.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 05, 2025 01:26 PM (kkTda)

34 I wouldn't want to fire Oprah's wife either.

Posted by: Alec Leamas at August 05, 2025 01:26 PM (ssz2a)

35 Amusing thought: Alex Jones is hired by CBS for what they consider to be an irrelevant time slot...and he pulls in the best ratings of any of their shows...and the show actually makes money in the process.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at August 05, 2025 01:26 PM (tT6L1)

36 27 Gayle is Oprah's gal pal and her ascent was basically nepotism IYKWIMAITTYD.
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at August 05, 2025 01:25 PM (wBaIH)

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Never heard this before. Thanks!

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28 Gayle King only has a career because she's Oprah's Bestie.
Posted by: tsj017 at August 05, 2025 01:25 PM (ZiGm9)

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Bruh. Totally old news. Catch up.

Posted by: TJM's phone at August 05, 2025 01:26 PM (Vmn5q)

37 https://x.com/RealSLokhova/status/1952575795630940340

NBC actually reported the grand jury referral. It hurt the propagandist greatly to have to discuss this, although she did reassure the leftis that the Russia Collusion Hoax is "unsubstantiated and largely debunked" - sure Jan..

Posted by: Fastly Strokewater at August 05, 2025 01:26 PM (H/u99)

38 If you let a piece of meat sit in the fridge too long and it goes bad, do you eat it anyway? After all, to throw it away is to say goodbye to the money you spent on it. Or do you pay for it a second time by eating that rotten meat?

Does it smell bad?

Posted by: toby928 at August 05, 2025 01:26 PM (jc0TO)

39 Gayle King is one of those insufferable THOTs who went into "space" in a dick-shaped rocket only because some of the joy-riders were fucking rich white guys, correct?

Posted by: Elric "Literary Creation" Blade at August 05, 2025 01:26 PM (iFTx/)

40 "The audience doesn't want woke. It doesn't like progressive and provocative bookings," one of the sources told The Post. "The morning show audience wants optimism and cheer and joy and what they were producing is at odds with audience expectations."
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O boy. I can see the Anchorman 2 comparisons coming...

Posted by: Axeman at August 05, 2025 01:26 PM (krQz2)

41

Ozzy Osbourne Cause of Death Revealed
Yeah he was Rock and Rolled to death

Posted by: Captain Fantastic at August 05, 2025 01:27 PM (VPPG8)

42 J.K. Rowling taking names, kicking ass.

https://is.gd/d58dbl

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Something Smells Funny In Here at August 05, 2025 01:27 PM (L/fGl)

43 "George Cheeks".

C'mon, somebody made that up.

Posted by: Paco at August 05, 2025 01:27 PM (mADJX)

44 It is completely, totally, absolutely a Coincidence! that all these overpaid retards are getting dumped a few months after USAID and other slush funds were nuked.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at August 05, 2025 01:27 PM (ULPxl)

45 My dog drove to the vet the other day.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Something Smells Funny In Here at August 05, 2025 01:25 PM

To get tutored?

Posted by: toby928 at August 05, 2025 01:27 PM (jc0TO)

46 Gayle King
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CBS: No Kings!

Posted by: Axeman at August 05, 2025 01:28 PM (krQz2)

47
HM watches this every morning. I refuse to. Can't endure hacks trying to pretend they're "just folks". Plus the shopping segment with some brassy-voiced woman braying about some product.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 05, 2025 01:28 PM (kkTda)

48

I can't believe they're doing this to a BLACK WOMAN OF COLOR.

Posted by: Dr.Rev. Senator Your Highness E Buzz Miller, Esq PhD MA MS at August 05, 2025 01:28 PM (et1vG)

49 If you let a piece of meat sit in the fridge too long and it goes bad, do you eat it anyway? After all, to throw it away is to say goodbye to the money you spent on it. Or do you pay for it a second time by eating that rotten meat?

Does it smell bad?
Posted by: toby928

I've got brown meat and green meat. -- Oscar Madison

Posted by: Bulg at August 05, 2025 01:28 PM (77rzZ)

50 >>> 3 Gayle king says its sexist to call the all-female spaceflight as a ride
------

Hear that?

That's the sound of no one giving a fuck.
Posted by: ... at August 05, 2025 01:18 PM (jRYyy)

What if someone throws a neon green dildo at Bezos' space rocket???

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at August 05, 2025 01:29 PM (ULPxl)

51 Do viewers like Gayle King?

Posted by: mr tmz at August 05, 2025 01:29 PM (rJ48h)

52 For the Record I believe that Gayle King does not know that men like Shepard and Aldrin were Experimental Test pilots with extensive training in hard sciences and that they were actually operating the systems of the spacecraft during their missions. Like, she actually doesn't know that they were doing things that made the spacecraft work and not crash and so that they didn't die.

Posted by: Alec Leamas at August 05, 2025 01:29 PM (ssz2a)

53 the majority of the show's substitute anchors are African American, due in part to initiatives to diversify the talent pool over the years.
__________________'

They diversified it by making all the anchors from the same race?

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at August 05, 2025 01:30 PM (O07Z2)

54 "George Cheeks".

C'mon, somebody made that up.
Posted by: Paco at August 05, 2025 01:27 PM (mADJX)
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*sadz*

Posted by: Seymour Butz at August 05, 2025 01:30 PM (WvZaB)

55 USAID funding cuts claim another victim?

Everything is totally fake and ghey. Subsidized by phony baloney confetti-buck cannon. Since oh, say 1968 for an arbitrary jumping off point.

“New Journalism” you see.

Posted by: Common Tater at August 05, 2025 01:30 PM (idVke)

56 Nate Burleson is a fucking idiot.

Posted by: SSBN 656 (G) at August 05, 2025 01:30 PM (i49OE)

57 They were riding a penis shaped rocket.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at August 05, 2025 01:30 PM (rvwwT)

58 I could do an interview on Gayle King's show for ratings; dance a bit, share recipes.

Posted by: Michelle Obama at August 05, 2025 01:30 PM (wVcYX)

59 52 For the Record I believe that Gayle King does not know that men like Shepard and Aldrin were Experimental Test pilots with extensive training in hard sciences and that they were actually operating the systems of the spacecraft during their missions. Like, she actually doesn't know that they were doing things that made the spacecraft work and not crash and so that they didn't die.
Posted by: Alec Leamas at August 05, 2025 01:29 PM (ssz2a)

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Siri didn't do it all?

Who knew?

Posted by: TJM's phone at August 05, 2025 01:30 PM (Vmn5q)

60 Do viewers like Gayle King?
Posted by: mr tmz

They don't know, you naughty boy, they've never gayleked.

Posted by: Bulg at August 05, 2025 01:30 PM (77rzZ)

61 Gayle kings space shot killed her show. She came off as such an out of touch elite bully the few fans she had recoiled in embarrassment.

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at August 05, 2025 01:31 PM (OA79/)

62 “They never say men went for a ride.”

AFAIK, neither Bezos nor Shatner has declared himself an astronaut. If either did, I'm pretty sure he would be mocked the same as King or Katy Perry.

Posted by: Oddbob at August 05, 2025 01:31 PM (DLW9z)

63 The New York Post strikes again with its cover featuring Senator Elizabeth Warren meeting with New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani on the campaign trail yesterday.

The cover reads African American Meets Native American. And it adds: Mamdani and Warren in liars’ summit.
-Powerline
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Believe me the irony is lost on most nyc voters.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 05, 2025 01:31 PM (JvZF+)

64 HM watches this every morning. I refuse to. Can't endure hacks trying to pretend they're "just folks". Plus the shopping segment with some brassy-voiced woman braying about some product.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

Where does HM fall in her political views?

Posted by: Bulg at August 05, 2025 01:32 PM (77rzZ)

65 "CBS's New Management Doesn't Know What to Do"

If so, they have truly risen to their level of incompetence.

Posted by: gp-aroctonus at August 05, 2025 01:32 PM (2XN3U)

66 When men get on a bus they don't say the men piloted the fucker.

Posted by: ... at August 05, 2025 01:32 PM (jRYyy)

67 That mystery click is one of the worst videos ever, and it looks like they spent some cash on it. At least on costumes.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at August 05, 2025 01:32 PM (XvL8K)

68 62 “They never say men went for a ride.”

AFAIK, neither Bezos nor Shatner has declared himself an astronaut. If either did, I'm pretty sure he would be mocked the same as King or Katy Perry.
Posted by: Oddbob at August 05, 2025 01:31 PM (DLW9z

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"Men are never mocked in the patriarchal America! Next, why you should continue to hate all men as worms."

Posted by: TJM's phone at August 05, 2025 01:33 PM (Vmn5q)

69 For the Record I believe that Gayle King does not know that men like Shepard and Aldrin were Experimental Test pilots with extensive training in hard sciences and that they were actually operating the systems of the spacecraft during their missions. Like, she actually doesn't know that they were doing things that made the spacecraft work and not crash and so that they didn't die.
Posted by: Alec Leamas at August 05, 2025 01:29 PM (ssz2a)
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And there are plenty of holes in the ground around Edward AFB which are basically the last resting place of many test pilots, because there wasn't really anything left to properly inter.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at August 05, 2025 01:33 PM (tT6L1)

70 Gayle King is supposedly Oprah's carpet partner, right?
So CBS has to answer to Oprah on this..

Posted by: Don Black. Message: Got my mojo workin' at August 05, 2025 01:33 PM (AOsQT)

71 If you let a piece of meat sit in the fridge too long and it goes bad, do you eat it anyway? After all, to throw it away is to say goodbye to the money you spent on it. Or do you pay for it a second time by eating that rotten meat?

Does it smell bad?
Posted by: toby928 at August 05, 2025 01:26 PM (jc0TO)

Just microwave 30 extra seconds.

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at August 05, 2025 01:33 PM (/HDaX)

72 53 the majority of the show's substitute anchors are African American, due in part to initiatives to diversify the talent pool over the years.
__________________'

They diversified it by making all the anchors from the same race?
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at August 05, 2025 01:30 PM (O07Z2)

If you make a show for a niche audience then you need to work for niche audience pay levels. Really, Gayle king makes 13mill a year?

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at August 05, 2025 01:33 PM (OA79/)

73
"What kind of message does this send?"

That question ought to be an automatic firing.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 05, 2025 01:33 PM (n7rxJ)

74 I would imagine that once the Democrats regain control over the government all these changes away from woke, divisive behavior will just get reignited. Thinking the left has learned anything, or even calmed down a bit is really missing the boat here.

I think a lot of these "walking back the woke" behaviors are appeasement ploys until the left is back in control.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 05, 2025 01:33 PM (Q4IgG)

75 I still don't know what a Hoda Kotb is; and I wish to remain blissfully ignant.

Posted by: Count de Monet at August 05, 2025 01:34 PM (wVcYX)

76
And good morning!

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 05, 2025 01:34 PM (n7rxJ)

77 I was devoted to CBS when it was Paula Zahn and her two mooks, Harry and Mark.

Hi Paula, how you doin.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 05, 2025 01:34 PM (JvZF+)

78 That has allowed 70-year-old King and her executive producer Shawna Thomas to set a programming "agenda" that has alienated traditional morning show viewers, one of the sources close to the situation told The Post.
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She's 70? King meets the qualification for flight attendants at any major US airline.

Posted by: mrp at August 05, 2025 01:34 PM (rj6Yv)

79 For the Record I believe that Gayle King does not know that men like Shepard and Aldrin were Experimental Test pilots with extensive training in hard sciences and that they were actually operating the systems of the spacecraft during their missions. Like, she actually doesn't know that they were doing things that made the spacecraft work and not crash and so that they didn't die.
Posted by: Alec Leamas at August 05, 2025 01:29 PM (ssz2a)

An X-2 test pilot, Iven Kincheloe, lived in my hometown. Killed in the line of duty when his aircraft crashed. He's buried in Arlington. Probably would have gone to the moon had he survived.

There's a memorial to him outside of town.

Posted by: Bulg at August 05, 2025 01:36 PM (77rzZ)

80 Nate Burleson is a fucking idiot.
Posted by: SSBN 656 (G) at August 05, 2025 01:30 PM (i49OE)
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As an ex-Lion, I like him.

Possibly not his politics, though.

Posted by: Axeman at August 05, 2025 01:36 PM (krQz2)

81 Gayle king says its sexist to call the all-female spaceflight a ride
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Ok. Well call it a "flight".

The women were passengers on the flight.

Happy?

Posted by: ... at August 05, 2025 01:36 PM (jRYyy)

82 I still don't know what a Hoda Kotb is; and I wish to remain blissfully ignant.
Posted by: Count de Monet at August 05, 2025 01:34 PM (wVcYX)
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They are an ignorant fisher folk who live on the hither shore of the far sea, and worship the beast-god Wheen, denying all others.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at August 05, 2025 01:36 PM (WvZaB)

83 I watch Gayle King only because I’m hoping one time she has a lesbian orgy with big breasted women.

Posted by: That Guy at August 05, 2025 01:36 PM (ZBder)

84 When men get on a bus they don't say the men piloted the fucker.
Posted by: ... at August 05, 2025 01:32 PM (jRYyy)
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Yet, we are confident we could do a better job at it than the pilot.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 05, 2025 01:36 PM (JvZF+)

85 I'm offended, Ace.

You know my favorite Band is the Greatest Band.

Put some God Damned Loverboy in the Sidebar.

Posted by: garrett at August 05, 2025 01:36 PM (L2IqH)

86 Isn't this Trannie Awareness Month? Seriously. 🙄

Posted by: Jane D'oh at August 05, 2025 01:36 PM (4tmpE)

87 While we're on the subject of lunatic crudcunt women ....

From the NY Post: "I tried The Tea app and saw its dating dysfunction, porn addicts, STIs and cheats galore firsthand."

You may not be surprised that the app collapsed into little more than an toxic sub-reddit. I didn't realize that the lunatics could post messages and message each other in the app.

https://tinyurl.com/4y2rer9j

Posted by: Elric "Literary Creation" Blade at August 05, 2025 01:36 PM (iFTx/)

88
I think a lot of these "walking back the woke" behaviors are appeasement ploys until the left is back in control.
Posted by: Martini Farmer

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100%. We know this from the relabeling of the DEI machinery in universities. They're just continuing their work on the down-low, waiting until they can break out the old stationery and signage and continue in broad daylight.

Their talk of getting voters back will never touch on changing their noxious policies -- just how to relabel them.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 05, 2025 01:37 PM (n7rxJ)

89 "Ozzy Osbourne Cause of Death Revealed
Yeah he was Rock and Rolled to death"

Last nite I saw Judas Priest's tribute video of 'War Pigs,' and I consider it a must-see/listen. 8 mins:
youtube.com/watch?v=IB6jbWoGtlA

Posted by: gp-aroctonus at August 05, 2025 01:37 PM (2XN3U)

90 CBS should replace her with Sydney Sweeny for diversity purposes.

Replace some of the ugly with pretty.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at August 05, 2025 01:37 PM (rvwwT)

91 For the Record I believe that Gayle King does not know that men like Shepard and Aldrin were Experimental Test pilots with extensive training in hard sciences and that they were actually operating the systems of the spacecraft during their missions. Like, she actually doesn't know that they were doing things that made the spacecraft work and not crash and so that they didn't die.
Posted by: Alec Leamas at August 05, 2025 01:29 PM (ssz2a)
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What does it gain you to guess what somebody knows?

Posted by: Axeman at August 05, 2025 01:37 PM (krQz2)

92 Hi Blondie.

Posted by: ... at August 05, 2025 01:37 PM (jRYyy)

93 Oprah is a lesbo now? What happened to Steadman?

Posted by: Bulg at August 05, 2025 01:37 PM (77rzZ)

94 >>Nate Burleson is a fucking idiot.

Sure.
But put Gayle King's wighat on him and they look like sisters.

Posted by: garrett at August 05, 2025 01:37 PM (L2IqH)

95 75 I still don't know what a Hoda Kotb is; and I wish to remain blissfully ignant.
Posted by: Count de Monet
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Ask your masseuse at the Happy Endings spa. It will cost you extra at a tip.

Posted by: whig at August 05, 2025 01:37 PM (ctrM5)

96 “They never say men went for a ride.”

Male astronauts riding moon buggy: "YABBA DABBA DOOOOO!!!"

Posted by: gp-aroctonus at August 05, 2025 01:38 PM (2XN3U)

97 15 Internet rumors are saying SNL is going to be canceled.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at August 05, 2025 01:22 PM (9vYpt)

Wow, get rid of USAIDS and watch all the dominoes fall.

Posted by: Cray Cray at August 05, 2025 01:38 PM (l4FzB)

98 How on earth would we ever find out about blacks, gays and trannies without specific months dedicated to hearing about them?

Posted by: ... at August 05, 2025 01:38 PM (jRYyy)

99 Shepard’s first flight - the Mercury rocket, basically lobbed him into space, though just barely, and splashdown a few hundred miles away into the ocean. No earth orbit. That was left to John Glenn.

I’m not sure what her point is though. Test pilots are a different breed, apart from pilots, who are a different breed altogether as well. They were men of great courage, and they didn’t make a big deal of it. Death was part of their world, and routine. A legacy of the Army Air Force fighter & bomber missions of World War II.

Posted by: Common Tater at August 05, 2025 01:38 PM (idVke)

100 What does it gain you to guess what somebody knows?
Posted by: Axeman
======
The proper form is "Objection, Speculation!!"

Posted by: whig at August 05, 2025 01:38 PM (ctrM5)

101 CBS should replace her with Sydney Sweeny for diversity purposes.

Replace some of the ugly with pretty.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at August 05, 2025 01:37 PM (rvwwT)

CBS should replace her with someone who will invite Melania Trump as the show's first guest.

Posted by: mrp at August 05, 2025 01:39 PM (rj6Yv)

102 I still don't know what a Hoda Kotb is
Posted by: Count de Monet

20 dinars, same as in the Casbah.

Posted by: Bulg at August 05, 2025 01:39 PM (77rzZ)

103 If 7 minutes in space makes Gayle an astronaut, then I'm a gynecologist.

Posted by: proudvastrightwingguy at August 05, 2025 01:39 PM (Ovc06)

104 Al Roker is still alive and smarmy, put a purple wig on him and the AWFLs will drink him up like white Zin.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at August 05, 2025 01:39 PM (wBaIH)

105 Male astronauts riding moon buggy: "YABBA DABBA DOOOOO!!!"
Posted by: gp-aroctonus at August 05, 2025 01:38 PM (2XN3U)
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heh, ultimate "Hold my beer and watch this!" moment.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at August 05, 2025 01:39 PM (tT6L1)

106 Speaking of journalism, Jim Acosta sees dead people.

https://is.gd/Pb5h6l

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Something Smells Funny In Here at August 05, 2025 01:39 PM (L/fGl)

107
Hi Blondie.
Posted by: ...

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

Hiya!

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 05, 2025 01:39 PM (n7rxJ)

108 "I still don't know what a Hoda Kotb is"

She is (was?) kinda MILFy.

Posted by: gp-aroctonus at August 05, 2025 01:39 PM (2XN3U)

109 93 Oprah is a lesbo now? What happened to Steadman?
Posted by: Bulg
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Long time supposed beard according to rumors. Oprah was always gay is the rumor.

Posted by: whig at August 05, 2025 01:40 PM (ctrM5)

110 Gayle king says it’s sexist to call the all-female spaceflight as a “ride”

“They never say men went for a ride.”

Is this her OnlyFans opening pitch?
Posted by: Vengeance at August 05, 2025

People pay for her to put clothes on?

Posted by: Josephistan at August 05, 2025 01:40 PM (y9ksN)

111 I think a lot of these "walking back the woke" behaviors are appeasement ploys until the left is back in control.
Posted by: Martini Farmer

It's because the funding has been cut off, no other reason. It was always astroturf.

Posted by: ... at August 05, 2025 01:40 PM (jRYyy)

112 ---
What does it gain you to guess what somebody knows?

Posted by: Axeman at August 05, 2025 01:37 PM (krQz2)
___________

Knowing what someone knows and what that someone does not know can gain you a lot, actually. Thanks for the troll. Fail better next time.

Posted by: Alec Leamas at August 05, 2025 01:40 PM (ssz2a)

113 Texas wins at the 5th Circuit over voter ID on mail-in ballots.

Justice James Ho: "Mail-in ballots are not secure."

Confirming the finding of the district court: "Mail-in ballot fraud is a significant threat."

Harris county is about to lose around 100,000 Democrat "voters."

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 05, 2025 01:40 PM (NwfFc)

114 A Blue Origin sub-orbital flight is hands down the best amusement park ride ever

and we first did it in 1961
congrats, Bezos- you duplicated a 64 year old feat

Posted by: Don Black. Message: Got my mojo workin' at August 05, 2025 01:40 PM (AOsQT)

115 >> She is (was?) kinda MILFy.

Tell me you're sight impaired without telling me you’re sight impaired.

Posted by: That Guy at August 05, 2025 01:40 PM (ZBder)

116 "The perennially last-place show ... has seen its ratings plummet to below 2 million in recent months."

Let's just assume that's about 1.75 million.

US population can be ballparked at 350 million.

1.75 million /350 million = 0.005, or

ONE HALF OF A PERCENTAGE POINT.

Half of one percent of the population watches? This show is utterly irrelevant. It's so irrelevant, it's barely even worth the time to dismiss it as irrelevant.

Massive salaries, massive production values, massive costs, massive amounts of time fretting over it-- for what? You could fill the slot with a test-pattern and get approximately the same viewership. "TIffany Network"? Give me a break. More like Dollar Store Network.

Posted by: zombie at August 05, 2025 01:41 PM (pMi6S)

117 SNL will hang around until Michels retires/dies.
I dug thru 6" of mud to get to my water shut off valve. The handle was removed, so I am off to rent a valve from HD.

Posted by: Accomack at August 05, 2025 01:41 PM (Y6Ecf)

118
Speaking of journalism, Jim Acosta sees dead people.

https://is.gd/Pb5h6l
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks

===========

No live people of any consequence have returned his calls.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 05, 2025 01:41 PM (n7rxJ)

119 113 Harris county is about to lose around 100,000 Democrat "voters."
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 05, 2025 01:40 PM (NwfFc

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$5 says this doesn't get appealed to SCOTUS.

Posted by: TJM's phone at August 05, 2025 01:41 PM (Vmn5q)

120 She's 70? King meets the qualification for flight attendants at any major US airline.
Posted by: mrp at August 05, 2025 01:34 PM (rj6Yv).

Her Required Minimum Distributions start the in the year she turns 73.

Posted by: Count de Monet at August 05, 2025 01:41 PM (wVcYX)

121 Midgets should get a month. I suggest May.

Posted by: ... at August 05, 2025 01:42 PM (jRYyy)

122 104 Al Roker is still alive and smarmy, put a purple wig on him and the AWFLs will drink him up like white Zin.
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov
---------
Not enough Boomer AWFLs in the dwindling audience for broadcast TV to prop up dying morning shows (or for that matter, Late Night Shows as well).

Broadcast TV and even cable is a dying industry as shown by market evaluation and audience share.

Posted by: whig at August 05, 2025 01:42 PM (ctrM5)

123 What does it gain you to guess what somebody knows?
Posted by: Axeman
======
The proper form is "Objection, Speculation!!"
Posted by: whig at August 05, 2025 01:38 PM (ctrM5)
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Well, I assume effective argumentation plays some role in legal proceedings. So my knowledge of argumentation has some carry over into that realm.

But, on the other hand, I've read some judge's opinions..... so it's not, at the end, just about sound judgment.

Posted by: Axeman at August 05, 2025 01:42 PM (krQz2)

124 Ace is on a break. You have been chatting with his AI slave.

Posted by: Dreamingrobot at August 05, 2025 01:42 PM (2e92h)

125 If NJ isn’t forced to clean up their voter lists and election process their next governor is going to be an AWFL. But she was a pilot!!

Scott Pressler can’t do it all on his own.

Posted by: That Guy at August 05, 2025 01:42 PM (ZBder)

126
Throwing a Green Dildo should be like throwing a penalty flag in the NFL, except for feminitards/progtards.

Every time some leftard woman says something stupid, like Gayle King blabbering about space rides,

someone should blow a whistle, step forward and throw a green dildo onto the "playing field".

and call out the progtard's stupidity.

Make Ridicule Great Again!

Posted by: naturalfake at August 05, 2025 01:43 PM (iJfKG)

127 >>> 113 Texas wins at the 5th Circuit over voter ID on mail-in ballots.

Justice James Ho: "Mail-in ballots are not secure."

Confirming the finding of the district court: "Mail-in ballot fraud is a significant threat."

Harris county is about to lose around 100,000 Democrat "voters."
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 05, 2025 01:40 PM (NwfFc)

HA HA!

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at August 05, 2025 01:43 PM (ULPxl)

128 122 Broadcast TV and even cable is a dying industry as shown by market evaluation and audience share.
Posted by: whig at August 05, 2025 01:42 PM (ctrM5)

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My kids mainly watch Ryan Trahan videos on the Dude Perfect app.

Posted by: TJM's phone at August 05, 2025 01:43 PM (Vmn5q)

129 Re Hoda Ktob

Two things:
1) she sounds like a fantasy book character. 'Hoda!'

2) she has the saddlebag kind of look.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 05, 2025 01:44 PM (GLdIU)

130 Texas wins at the 5th Circuit over voter ID on mail-in ballots.

Justice James Ho: "Mail-in ballots are not secure."

Confirming the finding of the district court: "Mail-in ballot fraud is a significant threat."

Harris county is about to lose around 100,000 Democrat "voters."
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 05, 2025 01:40 PM (NwfFc)

That's a shame.

Posted by: Count de Monet at August 05, 2025 01:44 PM (wVcYX)

131 George Cheeks? Not the least bit gay. No sirree Bob

Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 05, 2025 01:44 PM (r/xMY)

132 I has the sadz.. LOL - learn to code.

Posted by: NALNAMSAM at August 05, 2025 01:45 PM (VkY89)

133 I've been on a huge Brandon Herrera kick on YouTube lately.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 05, 2025 01:45 PM (rIQZh)

134
What will we do with a Ratings-Disaster
What will we do with a Ratings-Disaster
What will we do with a Ratings-Disaster
What will we do with a Ratings-Disaster
Early in the morning!

Posted by: Kindltot at August 05, 2025 01:45 PM (rbvCR)

135 “Buzz” Aldrin was not an experimental test pilot, iirc. He was a combat pilot in the Korean war. He recorded some gun camera footage that became iconic, shooting down a MIG.

He went to MIT and his dissertation was on Lunar Orbit Rendezvous. By the time his astronaut class was selected, the requirements had been relaxed somewhat.

Posted by: Common Tater at August 05, 2025 01:45 PM (idVke)

136 If you let a piece of meat sit in the fridge too long and it goes bad, do you eat it anyway? After all, to throw it away is to say goodbye to the money you spent on it. Or do you pay for it a second time by eating that rotten meat?
Does it smell bad?
Posted by: toby928

I say, is any of this at all unusual?

Posted by: Loyal British Subjects at August 05, 2025 01:45 PM (w9Wax)

137 Marina Medvin 🇺🇸
@MarinaMedvin
Today is the 20 year anniversary of when Israel dragged all the Jews out of their homes in Gaza, walked away, and gave the Palestinians the keys to make their own destiny. The rest is some very sad and disturbing history.

Why a colossal mistake.
6:01 PM · Aug 3, 2025
====

Yet one more time the "experts" fvcked up.

And today the Israelis announced their plan will be to reinstitute occupation.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 05, 2025 01:45 PM (JvZF+)

138
Where does HM fall in her political views?
Posted by: Bulg at August 05, 2025 01:32 PM (77rzZ)

_________

We don't, on the whole, discuss politics. She doesn't like Trump, but she has much less problem with what he's doing. As a legal immigrant, she has no sympathy for illegals. She's traditionally minded, and so culturally conservative. She'd make a good 'Ette.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 05, 2025 01:45 PM (kkTda)

139 121 Midgets should get a month. I suggest May.
Posted by: ... at August 05, 2025 01:42 PM (jRYyy)

I'd say February. It is the shortest month.

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at August 05, 2025 01:45 PM (p4nXC)

140 What does it gain you to guess what somebody knows?

Posted by: Axeman at August 05, 2025 01:37 PM (krQz2)
___________

Knowing what someone knows and what that someone does not know can gain you a lot, actually. Thanks for the troll. Fail better next time.

Posted by: Alec Leamas at August 05, 2025 01:40 PM (ssz2a)
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Yeah, *knowing* what someone knows. But not *guessing* what someone knows.

I think of "mind reading" more of an illustration of the left's incompetence.

Posted by: Axeman at August 05, 2025 01:45 PM (krQz2)

141 Heads up for anyone who has one... Ring Doorbell has once more changed its policy and will give Police Access to all their video WITHOUT a Warrant.

Yes, you get to pay to have a Police camera at your door....

Posted by: Romeo13 at August 05, 2025 01:46 PM (mP0Kj)

142 All the lefty shows are getting canceled.

All of the government subsidies have been canceled.

Me thinks these things are related.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 05, 2025 01:46 PM (cWNll)

143 I’m not sure what her point is though. Test pilots are a different breed, apart from pilots, who are a different breed altogether as well. They were men of great courage, and they didn’t make a big deal of it. Death was part of their world, and routine. A legacy of the Army Air Force fighter & bomber missions of World War II.

Posted by: Common Tater

The point is that she is pig ignorant of what the space pioneers did and how hard they had to train plus prior record to simply be picked in the first place. Scott Carpenter had the weakest background of the original seven and he towers over Gayle King despite being probably the worst of the original seven (according to Chris Kraft who permanently removed Carpenter as an active astronaut after his disastrous debut flight.) Grissom survived the loss of his capsule because he worked hard and had an excellent mission up until that time.

Posted by: whig at August 05, 2025 01:46 PM (ctrM5)

144 My kids mainly watch Ryan Trahan videos on the Dude Perfect app.
Posted by: TJM's phone at August 05, 2025 01:43 PM (Vmn5q)
====

The who on the what-now again?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 05, 2025 01:46 PM (JvZF+)

145 Harris county is about to lose around 100,000 Democrat "voters."
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 05, 2025 01:40 PM (NwfFc)

That's a shame.
Posted by: Count de Monet at August 05, 2025 01:44 PM (wVcYX)

Awesome. I'm tempted to type "Now do King County", but then ... 9th Circuit.

Posted by: mrp at August 05, 2025 01:46 PM (rj6Yv)

146
Isn't a Hoda that rock-eating thing on Star Trek TOS?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 05, 2025 01:46 PM (kkTda)

147 Rescuers responding to screams in the woods find man singing Nickleback instead

-
Euthanasia would be appropriate. And appreciated.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Something Smells Funny In Here at August 05, 2025 01:46 PM (L/fGl)

148 >Gayle king says it’s sexist to call the all-female spaceflight as a “ride”
----

If you're not behind the wheel, you're a rider

Posted by: Don Black. Message: Got my mojo workin' at August 05, 2025 01:47 PM (AOsQT)

149 Ace is on a break. You have been chatting with his AI slave.
Posted by: Dreamingrobot at August 05, 2025 01:42 PM (2e92h

I thought ace was the AI slave...?

Rich "Psycho" Giamboni just prompts it "entertain these morons im goin 2 the tiddy bar", and the blog just sort of runs on its own for a while.

Was i wrong this entire time?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 05, 2025 01:47 PM (rIQZh)

150 I've been on a huge Brandon Herrera kick on YouTube lately.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 05, 2025 01:45 PM (rIQZh)

Pre or post seeing the unsub podcast?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 05, 2025 01:47 PM (GLdIU)

151 If your not going to call you he all female space trip a ride, it must be called a gynolaunch

Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 05, 2025 01:47 PM (r/xMY)

152 141 Heads up for anyone who has one... Ring Doorbell has once more changed its policy and will give Police Access to all their video WITHOUT a Warrant.

Yes, you get to pay to have a Police camera at your door....
Posted by: Romeo13

Go with Eufy. Been with them for two years now and no problems. You control the video server at home with its own storage unless you want to put stuff on their cloud. Have no idea about how that works as I refuse to pay for it as unneeded.

Posted by: whig at August 05, 2025 01:47 PM (ctrM5)

153 I've been on a huge Brandon Herrera kick on YouTube lately.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 05, 2025 01:45 PM (rIQZh)

I loved his campaign poster

that smile!

https://tinyurl.com/ywj6bu39

Posted by: Kindltot at August 05, 2025 01:48 PM (rbvCR)

154 I'd say February. It is the shortest month.
Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at August 05, 2025 01:45 PM (p4nXC)

So is May.

Posted by: ... at August 05, 2025 01:48 PM (jRYyy)

155 All of the government subsidies have been canceled.

some kind of money stream - it can't just be USAID! - has been disrupted

also rhomboid I love your water polo story!

Posted by: Black Orchid at August 05, 2025 01:48 PM (Pv3Rg)

156 " All the lefty shows are getting canceled.

All of the government subsidies have been canceled.

Me thinks these things are related.

Posted by: AlaBAMA"

Does seem quite the coincidence doesn't it?

Posted by: eleven at August 05, 2025 01:49 PM (fV+MH)

157 Isn't a Hoda that rock-eating thing on Star Trek TOS?
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 05, 2025 01:46 PM (kkTda)
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Horta.

And yes.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 05, 2025 01:49 PM (JvZF+)

158 Dude Perfect sounds like the gay version of OnlyFans.

Posted by: Bulg at August 05, 2025 01:49 PM (77rzZ)

159 Having a totally transparent voting system would be so easy, yet even many red states would refuse to do it.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at August 05, 2025 01:50 PM (rvwwT)

160 Fun fact: the first man to walk on the moon was a civilian.

Posted by: Don Black. Message: Got my mojo workin' at August 05, 2025 01:50 PM (AOsQT)

161
The Original Seven fought hard not to simply be "Spam in a Can". Ms. King, on the other hand, did nothing but sit there.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 05, 2025 01:50 PM (kkTda)

162 Pre or post seeing the unsub podcast?
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 05, 2025 01:47 PM (GLdIU)

Pre.

But, then, post too.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 05, 2025 01:50 PM (rIQZh)

163 I'd say February. It is the shortest month.
Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at August 05, 2025 01:45 PM (p4nXC)

Black Midget History Month

Posted by: Bulg at August 05, 2025 01:50 PM (77rzZ)

164 Is there a Hoda KotA, a Hoda KotC?

Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 05, 2025 01:51 PM (r/xMY)

165 Right now you're likely doing what Gayle King did on that flight.

Posted by: ... at August 05, 2025 01:51 PM (jRYyy)

166 "Broadcast TV and even cable is a dying industry"

Broadcast TV 'DTV' is horrible. There's a Rifleman channel, a House channel, a Two-and-a-Half Men channel, a cartoon channel, and that's about it. Utterly worthless.

Posted by: gp-aroctonus at August 05, 2025 01:51 PM (2XN3U)

167 Well, I assume effective argumentation plays some role in legal proceedings. So my knowledge of argumentation has some carry over into that realm.

But, on the other hand, I've read some judge's opinions..... so it's not, at the end, just about sound judgment.
Posted by: Axeman
=======
Eh, on judges, if an individual opinion, can be awful at times, if as a panel, then the usual rule of of any committee work applies. About as good as the dullest member of the panel.

Posted by: whig at August 05, 2025 01:52 PM (ctrM5)

168 When 60 minutes does a truthful number on Russia gate and all the Perps I'll know things have turned around there.

Not holding my breath.

Posted by: FLOUNDER at August 05, 2025 01:52 PM (b7MbH)

169 Everybody get on the floor
Let's dance!
Don't fight the feeling
Give yourself a chance!

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 05, 2025 01:52 PM (JvZF+)

170 Gayle king says it’s sexist to call the all-female spaceflight as a “ride”
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They've been trying to hype this for some time.

It doesn't surprise me that they throw the misogyny flag if you don't agree.

This culture demands concurrence so you don't make people "feel bad".

Again, the "Age of Information" has become the "Age of Emoting".

Posted by: Axeman at August 05, 2025 01:52 PM (krQz2)

171
Right now you're likely doing what Gayle King did on that flight.
Posted by: ... at August 05, 2025 01:51 PM (jRYyy)

_________

She ascended into space the way she ascended at CBS: on her back.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 05, 2025 01:52 PM (kkTda)

172 Right now you're likely doing what Gayle King did on that flight.
Posted by: ... at August 05, 2025 01:51 PM (jRYyy)

Screaming in terror?

Posted by: Count de Monet at August 05, 2025 01:52 PM (wVcYX)

173 Do viewers like Gayle King?
Posted by: mr tmz

They don't know, you naughty boy, they've never gayleked.
Posted by: Bulg

Is that a verb? To 'gaylek'?

Or maybe it's her alter ego: Gay LeKing

Posted by: haffhowershower at August 05, 2025 01:52 PM (144I4)

174 Right now you're likely doing what Gayle King did on that flight.
Posted by: ... at August 05, 2025 01:51 PM (jRYyy)

Getting ready to walk in to work?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 05, 2025 01:53 PM (GLdIU)

175 Cruel to be kind?

Woke history teacher says Inca child sacrifices were "kind” and critics have been brainwashed by “white education”

https://is.gd/qNpzn3

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Something Smells Funny In Here at August 05, 2025 01:53 PM (L/fGl)

176
Oprah know what to do with Gayle King.

Posted by: Frank Barone at August 05, 2025 01:53 PM (IifOV)

177 144 My kids mainly watch Ryan Trahan videos on the Dude Perfect app.
Posted by: TJM's phone at August 05, 2025 01:43 PM (Vmn5q)
====

The who on the what-now again?
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 05, 2025 01:46 PM (JvZF+)

===

Took them to a Dude Perfect live show a couple of years ago.

Time of their lives.

Posted by: TJM's phone at August 05, 2025 01:53 PM (Vmn5q)

178 >>Horta.

Hodor!

Posted by: JackStraw at August 05, 2025 01:53 PM (viF8m)

179 169 I miss the old Jimmy Carter “Let’s dance!” posts.

Posted by: Bulg at August 05, 2025 01:53 PM (77rzZ)

180 It's funny.

People that do amazing shit like walking on the moon and breaking the sound barrier don't have to argue that what they did was amazing.

Yet Space Vaginas all want you to know they broke some non-existent glass ceiling by riding in a space dildo a few thousand feet higher than an airplane.

You protest too much.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 05, 2025 01:54 PM (cWNll)

181
No Cancel I

Posted by: The Hoda at August 05, 2025 01:54 PM (w9Wax)

182 159 Having a totally transparent voting system would be so easy, yet even many red states would refuse to do it.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk

I think in many of the red states, the establishment GOP rigs a lot of the primary contests as much as possible. Splitter candidates, recruiting Dems to vote in open primaries in places like Alabama and Mississippi, and desertion from a GOP candidate if they are too far right in the establishment's eyes.

Then there are the smears and probably a bit of vote fraud involved in close primary races.

Posted by: whig at August 05, 2025 01:55 PM (ctrM5)

183 181 Ha!

Posted by: gp-aroctonus at August 05, 2025 01:55 PM (2XN3U)

184

NO
KILL
I

Posted by: The Hoda at August 05, 2025 01:55 PM (63Dwl)

185 I've never heard of this show or this person, but if more libtard talking heads get tossed into the landfill, I got no complaints...

Posted by: Grapefruit LaCroix at August 05, 2025 01:56 PM (sS5Fw)

186 Yet Space Vaginas all want you to know they broke some non-existent glass ceiling by riding in a space dildo a few thousand feet higher than an airplane.

You protest too much.
Posted by: AlaBAMA
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To be fair, they penetrated space rather than being penetrated. So I guess that counts for something.

Posted by: whig at August 05, 2025 01:56 PM (ctrM5)

187 So.... why? Why is it bad if you went on a "ride"? Who the hell gets to just "ride" into fecking orbit? That alone is cool. What is wrong with saying "yeah we just took a ride into space and it was amazing!"? Do these nincompoops actually expect us to think they were running experiments up there for their umpteenth doctoral dissertation? You're a bunch of celebrity meatsacks. It's OK. That's why you were sent up there. There's nothing wrong with that.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 05, 2025 01:56 PM (rIQZh)

188 180 It's funny.

People that do amazing shit like walking on the moon and breaking the sound barrier don't have to argue that what they did was amazing.

Yet Space Vaginas all want you to know they broke some non-existent glass ceiling by riding in a space dildo a few thousand feet higher than an airplane.

You protest too much.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 05, 2025 01:54 PM (cWNll)

====

Buzz Aldrin reportedly tells terrible moon jokes, and when they don't land he adds, "Well, you had to be there."

Posted by: TJM's phone at August 05, 2025 01:56 PM (Vmn5q)

189 Kotb is the Americanized version of Qutb, the name of that wacky Islamist theorist decades ago.

Posted by: gp-aroctonus at August 05, 2025 01:56 PM (2XN3U)

190 That guy who did that skydive from space several years ago died in some kind of a mishap earlier this year. Dude went out doing what he loved.

Posted by: Bulg at August 05, 2025 01:56 PM (77rzZ)

191
She's 70? King meets the qualification for flight attendants at any major US airline.
Posted by: mrp at August 05, 2025 01:34 PM (rj6Yv)

Frumpy and bitchy.

Posted by: Cow Demon at August 05, 2025 01:57 PM (vm8sq)

192 If they didn't 'ride' the thing, what did they do up there? They certainly weren't piloting the thing.

I guess we could just call 'em "Ballast" and then maybe they'd be happy.

Posted by: Grapefruit LaCroix at August 05, 2025 01:57 PM (sS5Fw)

193 Networks are already irrelevant to me and have been for some time. I suspect they're irrelevant to a lot of people now.

They burned their beds, let them cry in the ashes. No pity.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at August 05, 2025 01:57 PM (O7YUW)

194
"Wacky Islamist theorist" is a redundancy.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 05, 2025 01:57 PM (kkTda)

195 139
I'd say February. It is the shortest month.
Posted by: Anon Y. Mous

Nope. Mercedonius is the shortest month.

Posted by: zombie at August 05, 2025 01:58 PM (pMi6S)

196 >>Kotb is the Americanized version of Qutb, the name of that wacky Islamist theorist decades ago.

That's one way of describing the asshole who was one of the driving forces behind the Muslim Brotherhood.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 05, 2025 01:58 PM (viF8m)

197 Since she's returned from "space" life has kicked Katy Perry in the butt. Broke up with Legolas, her new album tanked, her concerts weren't well received and now she seeing Trudeau. Should have stayed up there

Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 05, 2025 01:58 PM (r/xMY)

198 Broadcast TV 'DTV' is horrible. There's a Two-and-a-Half Men channel
Posted by: gp-aroctonus at August 05, 2025 01:51 PM (2XN3U)
--

That sounds new. Must've replaced the Everybody Loves Raymond channel.

Posted by: J. Frank Parnell at August 05, 2025 01:59 PM (0bjKf)

199 I am the only certified astronaut!

Posted by: Lev Andropov, Armageddon at August 05, 2025 01:59 PM (wVcYX)

200 41

Ozzy Osbourne Cause of Death Revealed
Yeah he was Rock and Rolled to death
Posted by: Captain Fantastic at August 05, 2025 01:27 PM (VPPG

They sold their souls for rock and roll.

Posted by: Cow Demon at August 05, 2025 01:59 PM (vm8sq)

201 Now he’s Spiderman.

https://is.gd/6C9h5x

Superman, Batman, and Spiderman all wrapped into one!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Something Smells Funny In Here at August 05, 2025 01:59 PM (L/fGl)

202 To be fair, King was a decent local news anchor in Connecticut before going big time.

Posted by: shavtyp at August 05, 2025 02:00 PM (BudYP)

203 Cruel to be kind?

Woke history teacher says Inca child sacrifices were "kind” and critics have been brainwashed by “white education”

https://is.gd/qNpzn3
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Something Smells Funny In Here at August 05, 2025 01:53 PM (L/fGl)
---
Well, I wouldn't put too much into that because, as somebody posted yesterday, "candor" and "rigor" are White Supremacist ideas.

So it may come from due diligence, but it may not.

Why should I give over power to somebody who thinks that telling the truth to obtain my agreement is optional?

You can't cede any argument where candor is not a high value. Because then it's not in good faith, and it's just a power grab.

Now we have "nice human sacrifice" that we're too stupid to accept, or something.

However, if it had been Europeans sacrificing people, we'd still never hear the end of it. Because they would realize that under European (Christian) value system, other people aren't yours to sacrifice.

Posted by: Axeman at August 05, 2025 02:00 PM (krQz2)

204 Sally Ride was an astronaut.

I wouldn't trust any of these idiots with a toaster.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 05, 2025 02:00 PM (cWNll)

205 "Lost its curveball."

Jeez'em cripes.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at August 05, 2025 02:00 PM (KbCG3)

206 To be fair, they penetrated space rather than being penetrated. So I guess that counts for something.
Posted by: whig at August 05, 2025 01:56 PM (ctrM5)

Just the tip and just for a little bit; to see how it feels.

Posted by: Count de Monet at August 05, 2025 02:01 PM (wVcYX)

207 93 Oprah is a lesbo now? What happened to Steadman?
Posted by: Bulg at August 05, 2025 01:37 PM (77rzZ)

When I lived in LA, I attended a fancy dinner where Steadman was seated at my table. We chatted for a while about business and politics. Interestingly enough, if I didn't know better I'd swear he sounded like a Republican. He was based in Chicago, and Oprah was in LA and NYC. Her name *never* came up in our conversation. It was like he was living his own life, and she was living hers.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at August 05, 2025 02:01 PM (02Hk3)

208 Hmmm...I'm pretty sure some of those Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo astronauts were described as "riding" in the spacecraft, despite them actually operating critical systems of the spacecraft.

Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at August 05, 2025 02:02 PM (XMwZJ)

209 > Dude went out doing what he loved.

-----

....paragliding into a wooden hut near a swimming pool

Posted by: Don Black. Message: Got my mojo workin' at August 05, 2025 02:02 PM (AOsQT)

210 I have no idea what "Dude Perfect" is but it sounds like it involves multiple dicks and they touch

Posted by: Elric "Literary Creation" Blade at August 05, 2025 02:02 PM (iFTx/)

211 Roid Sally, Roid!

Posted by: The Commitments at August 05, 2025 02:03 PM (PSEDc)

212 >Ozzy Osbourne Cause of Death Revealed
---

his heart stopped beating

Posted by: Don Black. Message: Got my mojo workin' at August 05, 2025 02:03 PM (AOsQT)

213 Oprah is a lesbo now? What happened to Steadman?

Posted by: Bulg at August 05, 2025 01:37 PM (77rzZ)
---
Steadman has long been suspected as a beard.

Posted by: Axeman at August 05, 2025 02:03 PM (krQz2)

214 If y'all weren't so bigoted you wouldn't call what I'm doing "posting a comment". I'm William Fucking Shakespeare, motherfucker.

You know... I'm starting to see why they identify so much with the trannies.

Posted by: ... at August 05, 2025 02:04 PM (jRYyy)

215 Sally Ride was an astronaut.

I wouldn't trust any of these idiots with a toaster.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 05, 2025 02:00 PM (cWNll)
______

Yea, it's not like there haven't been true female astronauts before these haggish twats. That's true of every fake girlbossy bullshit that the left fawns over. Some other girl was there first, and did it for real.

Posted by: Elric at August 05, 2025 02:04 PM (iFTx/)

216 210 I have no idea what "Dude Perfect" is but it sounds like it involves multiple dicks and they touch
Posted by: Elric "Literary Creation" Blade at August 05, 2025 02:02 PM (iFTx/)

===

5 friends from Texas A&M who started doing trick shots on YouTube and are now freaking Multi-millionaires because of YouTube.

They are also Christian and try to evangelize after their live shows.

Posted by: TJM's phone at August 05, 2025 02:04 PM (Vmn5q)

217 >> Presidential Message on National Shooting Sports Month

The White House
August 4, 2025

https://tinyurl.com/mvuujuwn

Posted by: Marcus T at August 05, 2025 02:05 PM (3OEdW)

218 NO
KILL
I
Posted by: The Hoda at August 05, 2025 01:55 PM (63Dwl)

NO
SPEND
I

Posted by: THE HODL at August 05, 2025 02:05 PM (rbvCR)

219 210 I have no idea what "Dude Perfect" is but it sounds like it involves multiple dicks and they touch
Posted by: Elric "Literary Creation" Blade at August 05, 2025 02:02 PM (iFTx/)

Imagine hanging out with your best friends all the time, doing stupid sports-related stunts, having fun along the way, and making tons of money and having lots of fans around the world in the process.

That's Dude Perfect. My son's friends think they're hilarious.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at August 05, 2025 02:05 PM (02Hk3)

220 I wouldn't trust any of these idiots with a toaster.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 05, 2025 02:00 PM (cWNll)

I would. They could start at level 1 - the bathtub.

Posted by: ... at August 05, 2025 02:05 PM (jRYyy)

221 ... riding in a space dildo a few thousand feet higher than an airplane.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 05, 2025 01:54 PM

Pffft. It wasn't neon green.

Posted by: WNBA fans at August 05, 2025 02:05 PM (0sNs1)

222 Sally Ride was an astronaut.

I wouldn't trust any of these idiots with a toaster.
Posted by: AlaBAMA

Hey! I have a stainless steel toaster and I can run it perfectly, thank you very much.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at August 05, 2025 02:05 PM (9vYpt)

223 Of course, the Beatles did it first.

https://is.gd/6C9h5x

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Something Smells Funny In Here at August 05, 2025 02:06 PM (L/fGl)

224 I have no idea what "Dude Perfect" is but it sounds like it involves multiple dicks and they touch
Posted by: Elric "Literary Creation" Blade at August 05, 2025 02:02 PM (iFTx/)

Imagine hanging out with your best friends all the time, doing stupid sports-related stunts, having fun along the way, and making tons of money and having lots of fans around the world in the process.

That's Dude Perfect. My son's friends think they're hilarious.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at August 05, 2025 02:05 PM (02Hk3)
______

So ... Jackass?

Posted by: Elric at August 05, 2025 02:06 PM (iFTx/)

225 If y'all weren't so bigoted you wouldn't call what I'm doing "posting a comment". I'm William Fucking Shakespeare, motherfucker.

You know... I'm starting to see why they identify so much with the trannies.
Posted by: ...

Plus you do a pretty solid Samuel L. Jackson imitation.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at August 05, 2025 02:07 PM (9vYpt)

226 Posted by: Elric at August 05, 2025 02:06 PM (iFTx/)

No they got famous doing trick shot videos. They're fun.

Posted by: ... at August 05, 2025 02:07 PM (jRYyy)

227 Sally Ride was an astronaut.

I wouldn't trust any of these idiots with a toaster.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 05, 2025 02:00 PM (cWNll)
______

Yea, it's not like there haven't been true female astronauts before these haggish twats. That's true of every fake girlbossy bullshit that the left fawns over. Some other girl was there first, and did it for real.
Posted by: Elric at August 05, 2025 02:04 PM (iFTx/)

Needed to be said. Much obliged.

Posted by: Zombie Rear Adm Grace Hopper at August 05, 2025 02:07 PM (wVcYX)

228 It is mind boggling to me that these dimwitted people can get paid so much to do so little. She gets up early in the morning and reads stuff off a teleprompter. Plenty of people would do that for a lot less money and would look and sound better doing it. Its not rocket science.

Posted by: Average is as average does at August 05, 2025 02:07 PM (uku6t)

229 211 Roid Sally, Roid!
Posted by: The Commitments

Is this the band then? Betcha U2 are shittin' themselves.

Posted by: Grapefruit LaCroix at August 05, 2025 02:07 PM (sS5Fw)

230 I think in many of the red states, the establishment GOP rigs a lot of the primary contests as much as possible. Splitter candidates, recruiting Dems to vote in open primaries in places like Alabama and Mississippi, and desertion from a GOP candidate if they are too far right in the establishment's eyes.
---
There are also a lot of "gentleman's agreements" the GOPe has with Dems to thwart the will of the voters.

I like how any newcomer Republican that wins is suddenly spirited off to a big-wig conference or training seminar, massive peer pressure and in-group coercion applied, where the entire point is "here is what you must support--no matter if it's opposite of what you ran on--and here is how you are going to justify it to your voters."

There is a reason Brian Kemp is governor.
And isn't running for Senate.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 05, 2025 02:08 PM (NwfFc)

231 Why is the President up on the roof of the White House?

Posted by: Don Black. Message: Got my mojo workin' at August 05, 2025 02:08 PM (AOsQT)

232 Neighbors ...

Headline: "A Thirst for Beer, Hot Dogs, and a High-End Cooler Leads to Arrest"

Tampa Free Press LINK: https://tinyurl.com/3w2n7xwc

Posted by: mrp at August 05, 2025 02:08 PM (rj6Yv)

233 Its not rocket science.
Posted by: Average is as average does at August 05, 2025 02:07 PM (uku6t)

Cultural Brutalism.

It's everywhere.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 05, 2025 02:08 PM (rIQZh)

234 As if morning news/talk shows weren't mind numbingly stupid enough. They had to be made Woke just to make sure.

Posted by: Ripley at August 05, 2025 02:08 PM (GUOwU)

235
Back to the topic,

>>A key problem is that George Cheeks -- the co-CEO of CBS parent Paramount who is in line to run the network under new overlords Skydance Media -- has for years promoted a diversity, equity and inclusion mandate, the sources said.

Why is Cheeks in line to run CBS if the "new overlords" are unfriendly to DEI?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 05, 2025 02:09 PM (n7rxJ)

236 231 Why is the President up on the roof of the White House?

Posted by: Don Black. Message: Got my mojo workin' at August 05, 2025 02:08 PM (AOsQT)

That's where everyone goes to smoke.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 05, 2025 02:09 PM (cWNll)

237 Oprah is a lesbo now?

Yes she’s a dyke, since forever.

She has dyke-jaw

Posted by: kallisto at August 05, 2025 02:09 PM (Jd1e1)

238 231 Don, apparently he’s building a yuuuuge addition onto the WH, and he was up there seeing how it’s coming along.

Posted by: Bulg at August 05, 2025 02:10 PM (77rzZ)

239 Canadian officials say recent brush fire was caused by fish that fell from sky

https://is.gd/WNod6G

-
Martian fish?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Something Smells Funny In Here at August 05, 2025 02:10 PM (L/fGl)

240 They never say men went for a ride.

Perhaps someone should explain to Ms. King the difference between being a mission specialist and a passenger.

Posted by: Halfhand at August 05, 2025 02:10 PM (fb+zr)

241 Broadcast TV 'DTV' is horrible. There's a Rifleman channel, a House channel, a Two-and-a-Half Men channel, a cartoon channel, and that's about it. Utterly worthless.
Posted by: gp-aroctonus

Can we agree that the Clutch Cargo channel makes up for all of this?

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at August 05, 2025 02:10 PM (9vYpt)

242 Why is Cheeks in line to run CBS if the "new overlords" are unfriendly to DEI?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 05, 2025 02:09 PM (n7rxJ)

Hey, if you can't trust the guy who sent his kids to the same summer camp as yours, who can you trust? I mean, he knows the business.

Posted by: Kindltot at August 05, 2025 02:11 PM (rbvCR)

243 Perhaps someone should explain to Ms. King the difference between being a mission specialist and a passenger.
Posted by: Halfhand at August 05, 2025 02:10 PM (fb+zr)

That would be wasting twice the oxygen.

Posted by: ... at August 05, 2025 02:11 PM (jRYyy)

244 Two insiders said Thomas didn't push back directly on McMahon's orders, she just "didn't do what she was told."

Ummmm.

Yes she did directly pushback. But she's black.

Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at August 05, 2025 02:11 PM (JkCto)

245 Why is the President up on the roof of the White House?
Posted by: Don Black. Message: Got my mojo workin' at August 05, 2025 02:08 PM (AOsQT)

He's a Drifters fan?

When this old world starts getting me down
And people are just too much for me to face
(Up on the roof)
I climb way up to the top of the stairs
And all my cares just drift right into space
(Up on the roof)

On the roof, it's peaceful as can be
And there, the world below can't bother me
Let me tell you now

Posted by: Count de Monet at August 05, 2025 02:11 PM (wVcYX)

246 @charliekirk11
·
2h
President Trump is up on the roof of the White House and still taking questions from reporters:

REPORTER: "Mr. President, what are you doing up there? TRUMP: "Taking a little look!"

Posted by: Don Black. Message: Got my mojo workin' at August 05, 2025 02:11 PM (AOsQT)

247 June trade deficit was the lowest number in 2 years.

Unexpectedly!!

Economists and experts stumped.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at August 05, 2025 02:11 PM (AiNp4)

248 @charliekirk11
·
2h
President Trump is up on the roof of the White House and still taking questions from reporters:

REPORTER: "Mr. President, what are you doing up there? TRUMP: "Taking a little look!"
Posted by: Don Black. Message: Got my mojo workin' at August 05, 2025 02:11 PM (AOsQT)
___________

I assume it's scouting for the new ballroom?

Posted by: Elric "Literary Creation" Blade at August 05, 2025 02:12 PM (iFTx/)

249 Whatever happened to Steadman, Oprah’s “boyfriend”?

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at August 05, 2025 02:13 PM (AiNp4)

250 Either way Gaile, it was still a ride on a giant penis.

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at August 05, 2025 02:13 PM (NtVYv)

251 Whatever happened to Steadman, Oprah’s “boyfriend”?
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at August 05, 2025 02:13 PM (AiNp4)

_____

He drowned on a paddleboard at Obama's place

Posted by: Elric "Literary Creation" Blade at August 05, 2025 02:14 PM (iFTx/)

252
Of course, the Beatles did it first.

https://is.gd/6C9h5x
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks

Be sharp

https://youtu.be/NdD33NsqzgE

Posted by: The Hoda at August 05, 2025 02:14 PM (63Dwl)

253 Don't cry for her, Argentina.

NEW: The House Ethics Committee has rebuked @AOC for simultaneously claiming her longtime partner, Riley Roberts, is and isn't her "spouse."
This has allowed AOC to grant her "spouse" special perks and freebies while also shielding his financial affairs from the public.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Something Smells Funny In Here at August 05, 2025 02:14 PM (L/fGl)

254 Not sure why Trump is building a ballroom on the WH right after bashing the Fed for refurbishing their digs.

Bad optics.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 05, 2025 02:14 PM (cWNll)

255 I was searching the internet for video of Trump on the WH roof and decided to look at Newsweeks story. Mistake number one. Mistake number two was reading the comments. Made the DU comment section seem intelligent.

Posted by: Jen the original at August 05, 2025 02:14 PM (ENz1H)

256 Not sure why Trump is building a ballroom on the WH right after bashing the Fed for refurbishing their digs.

Bad optics.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 05, 2025 02:14 PM (cWNll)
------------

The Ballroom is privately funded.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at August 05, 2025 02:15 PM (tT6L1)

257
Hey, if you can't trust the guy who sent his kids to the same summer camp as yours, who can you trust? I mean, he knows the business.
Posted by: Kindltot

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

I get it, but Ellison Junior is spending some serious money on this merger, isn't he? And then he leaves Mr. Money-Losing DEI in place?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 05, 2025 02:15 PM (n7rxJ)

258 The Ballroom is privately funded.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at August 05, 2025 02:15 PM (tT6L1)

Oh yeah? By whom? I hadn't heard that.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 05, 2025 02:15 PM (cWNll)

259 Either way Gaile, it was still a ride on a giant penis.
Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at August 05, 2025 02:13 PM (NtVYv)

Also, is it a coincidence it's called Blue Origin ? Giant Penis, blue pill, c'mon, Bezos is trolling us ?

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at August 05, 2025 02:15 PM (NtVYv)

260 This has allowed AOC to grant her "spouse" special perks and freebies while also shielding his financial affairs from the public.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Something Smells Funny In Here at August 05, 2025 02:14 PM (L/fGl)

...

Who a person is married to is a matter of public record. Why is this even a thing? Am i taking crazy pills?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 05, 2025 02:15 PM (rIQZh)

261 I have some thoughts but I don't actually own a wood chipper myself.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at August 05, 2025 02:16 PM (xcxpd)

262 254 Not sure why Trump is building a ballroom on the WH right after bashing the Fed for refurbishing their digs.

Bad optics.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at

Trump is paying for it. Not us.

Posted by: Piper at August 05, 2025 02:16 PM (QzINz)

263 There is a reason Brian Kemp is governor.
And isn't running for Senate.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice
====
He is running for prezzie supposedly and more likely angling to become VP nominee in 2028.

Posted by: whig at August 05, 2025 02:16 PM (ctrM5)

264 254 Not sure why Trump is building a ballroom on the WH right after bashing the Fed for refurbishing their digs.

a) it's his fucking money he's using

b) he only has a few years to get the project complete, so needs to get r going

c) optics?!?! are you kidding? wtf who cares at this point he cures cancer it's somehow the Most Evil Thing Ever. this will be a lovely part of the WH into posterity. more important than "optics"

Posted by: Black Orchid at August 05, 2025 02:16 PM (Pv3Rg)

265 How can something be sexist when there are a billion genders?

Posted by: ... at August 05, 2025 02:16 PM (jRYyy)

266 Not sure why Trump is building a ballroom on the WH right after bashing the Fed for refurbishing their digs.

Bad optics.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 05, 2025 02:14 PM (cWNll)

He's got big balls, she's got big balls

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at August 05, 2025 02:16 PM (NtVYv)

267 Ok, that was a little harsh on the carpet muncher

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at August 05, 2025 02:16 PM (xcxpd)

268 Ah. Ok. I never heard that Trump was paying for it.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 05, 2025 02:17 PM (cWNll)

269
Maurice Cheeks >>>> George Cheeks

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 05, 2025 02:17 PM (kkTda)

270 I am proud to say that not only have I never watched a show by Gayle King, I really don't know what she looks like. Although people keep talking about black, so I guess she's black.

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 05, 2025 02:17 PM (uWKK8)

271 fap

@shellenberger
·
6m
The media say Obama's CIA Dir. John Brennan didn't manipulate intelligence to frame Trump. But now, a top CIA analyst who coauthored the Jan. 2017 report on Russian interference reveals, for first time, that a "pathological" Brennan put analysts "under duress" to cook the intel.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 05, 2025 02:17 PM (viF8m)

272 Oh yeah? By whom? I hadn't heard that.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 05, 2025 02:15 PM (cWNll)
---------

Several private donors, I believe. President Trump may also be contributing.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at August 05, 2025 02:17 PM (tT6L1)

273 Right smack dab in the middle of town
I found a paradise that's trouble-proof
(Up on the roof)

And if this world starts getting you down
There's room enough for two up on the roof
(Up on the roof)

Posted by: OrangeMan Crooning the Drifters at August 05, 2025 02:17 PM (wVcYX)

274 258 The Ballroom is privately funded.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at August 05, 2025 02:15 PM (tT6L1)

Oh yeah? By whom? I hadn't heard that.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 05, 2025 02:15 PM (cWNll

===

He's paying for it himself.

How bout them optics?

Posted by: TJM's phone at August 05, 2025 02:17 PM (Vmn5q)

275 Not sure why Trump is building a ballroom on the WH right after bashing the Fed for refurbishing their digs
-----

Then you don't know Trump.

Posted by: ... at August 05, 2025 02:18 PM (jRYyy)

276 254. Trump said last week that whenever they host foreign leaders for state dinners,etc, the East Ballroom only holds 250. The WH has to put a tent up on the lawn and when it rains, it’s a mess for those in formal attire. He and other donors are paying for this, no taxpayer money involved.

Posted by: Jen the original at August 05, 2025 02:18 PM (ENz1H)

277 Alabama,
Here is a Fox Business News story about it.
https://tinyurl.com/yc7dej39

Posted by: whig at August 05, 2025 02:18 PM (ctrM5)

278 You want to talk about optics?

"White House too small. Trump needs more ballroom."

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 05, 2025 02:18 PM (rIQZh)

279 273 Right smack dab in the middle of town
I found a paradise that's trouble-proof
(Up on the roof)

And if this world starts getting you down
There's room enough for two up on the roof
(Up on the roof)
Posted by: OrangeMan Crooning the Drifters at August 05, 2025 02:17 PM (wVcYX)

I hear the roof is on fire...

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at August 05, 2025 02:18 PM (xcxpd)

280 276 254. Trump said last week that whenever they host foreign leaders for state dinners,etc, the East Ballroom only holds 250. The WH has to put a tent up on the lawn and when it rains, it’s a mess for those in formal attire. He and other donors are paying for this, no taxpayer money involved.
Posted by: Jen the original at August 05, 2025 02:18 PM (ENz1H

I heard about the tent part. Makes sense. Just glad it's privately funded.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 05, 2025 02:19 PM (cWNll)

281 Trumpmas! Every day!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at August 05, 2025 02:19 PM (dKEEs)

282 Trump is paying for more ballroom out of pocket?

Posted by: eleven at August 05, 2025 02:19 PM (fV+MH)

283 Not sure why Trump is building a ballroom on the WH right after bashing the Fed for refurbishing their digs.

Bad optics.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at

Trump is paying for it. Not us.
Posted by: Piper at August 05, 2025 02:16 PM (QzINz)
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Some other private donors too, I think

Posted by: Elric "Literary Creation" Blade at August 05, 2025 02:19 PM (iFTx/)

284 I hear the roof is on fire...
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at August 05, 2025 02:18 PM (xcxpd)

Another stupid with a flare gun?

Posted by: OrangeMan Crooning the Drifters at August 05, 2025 02:19 PM (wVcYX)

285 270 I am proud to say that not only have I never watched a show by Gayle King, I really don't know what she looks like. Although people keep talking about black, so I guess she's black.
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 05, 2025 02:17 PM (uWKK

Yeah but she's no Billy Paul.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at August 05, 2025 02:19 PM (xcxpd)

286 259 Either way Gaile, it was still a ride on a giant penis.
Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at August 05, 2025 02:13 PM (NtVYv)

The Crew Cabin would have had much better design if it had been given a large central shaft, and the seats were positioned where they all had to wrap their legs and arms around it and laid their heads on it.

Boy now that would have blown up youtube!

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 05, 2025 02:19 PM (uWKK8)

287
Interestingly enough, if I didn't know better I'd swear he sounded like a Republican.

Posted by: Darrell Harris

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Tons of liberals are like this. They don't know that their ideas are conservative ideas. They seriously believe that Republicans are dedicated to the eradication of "people of color," the poor, etc. In any number of cases, they'd pick Republicans if you did an unlabeled side-by-side comparison of policies and governmental actions of Dems vs Repubs.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 05, 2025 02:20 PM (n7rxJ)

288 Isn't Gayle King Oprahpottumus' dildo ride?

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at August 05, 2025 02:20 PM (17s+e)

289 277 Alabama,
Here is a Fox Business News story about it.
https://tinyurl.com/yc7dej39
Posted by: whig at August 05, 2025 02:18 PM (ctrM5

Ty!

Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 05, 2025 02:20 PM (cWNll)

290 278 You want to talk about optics?

"White House too small. Trump needs more ballroom."
Posted by: Warai-otoko
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I saw what you did there. Well played sir.

Posted by: whig at August 05, 2025 02:20 PM (ctrM5)

291 284 I hear the roof is on fire...
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at August 05, 2025 02:18 PM (xcxpd)

Another stupid with a flare gun?
Posted by: OrangeMan Crooning the Drifters at August 05, 2025 02:19 PM (wVcYX)

Worse. The Dynamic Three.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at August 05, 2025 02:20 PM (xcxpd)

292 On the WH ballroom topic, I'm surprised the WH doesn't already have a yuge formal ballroom. They have a smaller one, but it's barely big enough for a small wedding. Kinda embarrassing, IMO.

Posted by: Elric "Literary Creation" Blade at August 05, 2025 02:21 PM (iFTx/)

293 Bad optics.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at

Trump is paying for it. Not us.
Posted by: Piper at August 05, 2025 02:16 PM (QzINz)
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Some other private donors too, I think
Posted by: Elric "Literary Creation" Blade at August 05, 2025 02:19 PM (iFTx/)
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Bingo.

And it's not costing him a whole second building to get what he wants.

He denied Powell because of *big* cost *overruns*.

Do not prematurely fall for the Alinskyan "hypocrite" bait.

Posted by: Axeman at August 05, 2025 02:21 PM (krQz2)

294 Ironically, the space program in the 60s (almost) made it look easy. It is not.

And while the insanely off the charts balls of steel Astronauts get a lot of credit for success, it was a team effort of very talented administrators and flight controllers and industry leaders and very dedicated workers - hundreds of thousands - who did the very best work they could, because people were going to ride on them.

Excellence in engineering and fabrication. Attention to detail. Intellectual curiosity and the rest of it. By their own lights, very much in keeping with the leftist “white supremacy” smear. Totally.

A dilemma, for them. If a reasonable expectation that say, planes don’t fall out of the sky on the regular is “white supremacy” then sign me up. Reservoirs with water, fire hydrants that work? Sign me up.

They have no idea what they are doing in the long run to race relations. Or maybe they do? Inexplicable

Posted by: Common Tater at August 05, 2025 02:21 PM (2OKI5)

295 264 c) optics?!?! are you kidding? wtf who cares at this point he cures cancer it's somehow the Most Evil Thing Ever. this will be a lovely part of the WH into posterity. more important than "optics"
Posted by: Black Orchid at August 05, 2025 02:16 PM (Pv3Rg

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I remember when Ace did a fisking of some soft right talking head because he only talked about optics. Guy Benson, maybe

It was because it was obvious the guy didn't have anything else to say of any substance.

Complaints about optics are...stupid. The vast majority of the time it's inside baseball stuff that just doesn't matter, and, on top of it, it's without much merit anyway because the optics of whatever won't affect anything materially regarding electoral politics anyway.

And, most of the time, when people on our side start it, especially on X, it's obvious that these people hate Trump, the base, and actual policy over policing the right over meaningless garbage.

Posted by: TJM's phone at August 05, 2025 02:22 PM (Vmn5q)

296 I'm going to laugh long and hard when the Trump Ballroom is finished on time and comes in under budget.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at August 05, 2025 02:22 PM (tT6L1)

297 He and other donors are paying for this, no taxpayer money involved.

May I suggest floor to ceiling mirrors?

Posted by: Louis Le Vau at August 05, 2025 02:23 PM (w9Wax)

298 Powell is welcome to pay for his new building out of his own pocket.

Posted by: Reforger at August 05, 2025 02:23 PM (h5TUr)

299 As to optics, I got to go with W-o @ 278

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at August 05, 2025 02:24 PM (dKEEs)

300 I'm 1000% behind this.

Alligator Alcatraz: Illegal Aliens Launch Hunger Strike, Demand Respect in Florida

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Something Smells Funny In Here at August 05, 2025 02:27 PM (L/fGl)

301 NOOD

subpoenas

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at August 05, 2025 02:29 PM (ULPxl)

302 I'm 1000% behind this.

Alligator Alcatraz: Illegal Aliens Launch Hunger Strike, Demand Respect in Florida
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Something Smells Funny In Here at August 05, 2025 02:27 PM (L/fGl)

Your deportation flight has no meal service. Go with something in your belly, or go hungry, your choice. But you're going away.

Posted by: Count de Monet at August 05, 2025 02:30 PM (wVcYX)

303 @300/Anonosaurus Wrecks: "I'm 1000% behind this.

Alligator Alcatraz: Illegal Aliens Launch Hunger Strike, Demand Respect in Florida"

Deport them faster, like in time for dinner in their home countries.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at August 05, 2025 02:30 PM (O7YUW)

304 Ironically, the space program in the 60s (almost) made it look easy. It is not.
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DEI makes everything two orders of magnitude harder.

DEI is like third grade on a DEIer, long and hard.... often repeated.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at August 05, 2025 02:32 PM (17s+e)

305 He gotta eat, too.

Tesla Grants Elon Musk New $29 Billion Pay Deal

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Something Smells Funny In Here at August 05, 2025 02:33 PM (L/fGl)

306 Nate Burleson is a fucking idiot.
Posted by: SSBN 656 (G) at August

Is this the basketball NB? And now he's a talking head?

Posted by: From about That Tim at August 05, 2025 02:35 PM (RE0lB)

307 Whose old bitch this is?

Shouldn't granny be loading up the grandkids on sugar and thwarting their parents?

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at August 05, 2025 02:49 PM (9bq/n)

308 “Let’s light this candle!”

Posted by: Dirac_Delta at August 05, 2025 03:07 PM (4qvWZ)

309 The "CBS Mornings" co-host, one of the fading Tiffany Network's few remaining stars...

Are you really a star if you can't get people to watch your show?

Posted by: Ace's liver at August 05, 2025 03:32 PM (B9Dv5)

310 52 "For the Record I believe that Gayle King does not know that men like Shepard and Aldrin were Experimental Test pilots with extensive training in hard sciences and that they were actually operating the systems of the spacecraft during their missions. Like, she actually doesn't know that they were doing things that made the spacecraft work and not crash and so that they didn't die."

Read your Tom Wolfe ("The Right Stuff"). Astronaut control was a point of pride back then; they were test pilots and pushed back against any automation designs which did not give them at least override capability or rendered them "Spam in a can".

By contrast, Soviet rockets were fully controlled from the ground during launch and automated during re-entry. (Cosmonauts did operate spacecraft systems while in orbit. They were tough because they had to be, given communist engineering and official indifference to their deaths.)

Posted by: craig at August 05, 2025 04:53 PM (1dUlh)

311 The best part about what has happened to CBS? They brought it all upon themselves.
When you give Middle America the finger, they change the channel, quit watching altogether, give bad word of mouth and they don't come back. What Gayle King and her slew of Trump hating co-hosts are receiving is well deserved!

Posted by: Tracy at August 05, 2025 05:11 PM (jvv25)

312 See B.S. Chickens have come home to roost

Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at August 05, 2025 06:29 PM (wGqjj)

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