The Morning Report

The Morning Report — 8/6/25

Good morning kids. Today marks the 80th anniversary of the dropping of the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima, which brought about the end of the Second World War.

Had this bomb and then the one on Nagasaki three days later not been used, there is no doubt in my mind that I and for sure many of you would likely never have been born as our fathers would have likely been shoved into the meat grinder to end all meat grinders. That is invasions of the Japanese home islands and the continued strategic bombing campaign that likely would have resulted in the death of at least a couple million soldiers, marines, airmen and sailors over the ensuing months or even years until the Japanese had been forced to surrender or the nascent political class in DC just unilaterally declared the war over to preserve their political hides. The lives of the average GI being not so much of a concern. Stay tuned for Korea, Vietnam and the GWOT.

Beyond that, despite the couple hundred thousand Japanese lives the atomic bombs took, an invasion and/or blockade of the islands with the continued bombing campaign of LeMay's 20th Air Force to make the rubble bounce, along with the arming of the populace with everything from suicide vests to sharpened sticks to face off against a US invasion force, would have killed millions of Japanese. The atom bombs in the end saved many more lives, Japanese and American, than they cost. This is an inarguable fact.

In any case, though this only comes around once a year, it is a bit irritating to have to repeat it. That said, there are a few other stories of note that seem to be happening on a much more frequent basis that are equally irritating and even more disgusting to me that I have to keep reporting on it. But as a great American once said "Deeze are da conditions dat prevail."

An arsonist attacked an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) office in Washington state over the weekend, throwing a rock through a window and lighting a fire on the property. The unidentified arsonist targeted an ICE field office in Yakima, Washington, about 140 miles away from Seattle. Federal agents, the Department of Homeland Security says, managed to escape from the attack unscathed. Department of Homeland Security Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin slammed Democrat politicians for their incendiary rhetoric against ICE agents, accusing them of contributing to the surge in violence against the federal law enforcement force. “Make no mistake, Democrat politicians like Hakeem Jeffries, Mayor Wu of Boston, Tim Walz, and Mayor Bass of Los Angeles are contributing to the surge in assaults of our ICE officers through their repeated vilification and demonization of ICE,” McLaughlin charged. “From comparisons to the modern-day Nazi Gestapo to glorifying rioters, the violent rhetoric of these sanctuary politicians is beyond the pale.”

While rhetoric may light the fuse, who is behind the supplying of the gasoline, the bottles and the fuses in the first place? Recall that Chlamydia Harris herself and several other key Democrat politicians had funded bail and legal defense of Antifa and BLM rioters during the 2020 Summer of Love Floyd riots-cum-insurrection to destabilize America in the months leading up to the elections.

Along with the Covid lockdowns and evisceration of any semblance of election integrity with mail-in ballots and all the fraud that that allowed on top of the Russian collusion hoax that at long last is being brought into the light for all the world to see.

Meanwhile, as Texas Democrats relax beneath the shade of J.B. Pritzker's gunt, we have this to contend with:

Democrat Rep. Delia Ramirez (D-IL) told a meeting of foreign Latinos in Mexico, “I’m a proud Guatemalan before I’m an American,” and the Department of Homeland Security wants citizens to see her confession of foreign loyalty.

Call me old fashioned, but is this not an open abrogation of one's oath as both an American citizen and as an elected official. Adding insult to injury is the fact that she opened her filthy sewer in Mexico. The DoJ, DHS or whichever agency is appropriate should move to immediately strip her of her citizenship and have her deported back to Guatemala since that is where she wants to be. Not that I'd blame President Arévalo in the least if he resisted her repatriation.

And lastly, a quick shout-out and thank you for your continued support in hitting our tip jar. It truly is appreciated more than you can know.

Have a great day!

ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY

1.5 million Purple Hearts were prepared for an invasion of Japan.
Nuking Japan Saved More Lives Than It Took

"BIDEN/HARRIS BORDER BLOODBATH," AMNESTY, IMMIGRATION, BORDER SECURITY, NEWSOM/DEMOCRAT VIOLENT INSURRECTION RIOTS

The Department of Homeland Security called out Democrat politicians for their incendiary rhetoric against ICE agents.
ICE Agents Narrowly Escape Arson Attack In Washington State
A rock was thrown through a window of a Washington State building that subleases an office to the agency on Saturday and a fire was set on the back of its property, according to the agency. While the motive is not yet clear, local authorities are investigating the incident as an act of arson and the Trump administration is calling on Democrats to tone down their anti-ICE rhetoric.
ICE Office Set Ablaze In Sanctuary State As Attacks Against Agency Rack Up
A Texas Democrat’s sudden departure overseas ‘for the foreseeable future’ raises important questions about immigration, assimilation, and American identity.
If An Immigrant Leaves The U.S. Indefinitely, How American Are They?
The plan, detailed in a proposed federal regulation, would require bonds of up to $15,000 for foreign nationals traveling to the United States on tourist and business visas from a select group of countries with high visa overstay rates. Visa holders would only receive their bonds back once they have departed the United States. The pilot program would run for 12 months before the Trump administration would then review the results to see whether overstay rates decreased from the countries hit with the bonds.
Trump’s State Department Drafts Crackdown on Visa Overstay Illegals
The Fox article said a recent report “showed Bay Staters will spend as much as $1 billion cumulatively on the state’s emergency shelter program in FY-2025, with migrant families making up a significant share of those receiving assistance.”
Massachusetts Democrat Gov. Maura Healey Ends $1 Billion Migrant Shelter Program
. . .illegal migrants depress wages in an interview published Saturday.
Labor Activist Makes Point Conservatives Have Been Making For Years Buried Deep Within Interview
Deporting illegal aliens may benefit more countries than just America.
A Counterintuitive Perspective on Deportations

CIVIL WAR 2.0: J-6 FBI FALSE FLAG "RIOT" & AFTERMATH, LEFTIST PERSECUTIONS, DEMOCRAT PUTSCH, AMERICAN DISSOLUTION
“That was a big red flag for a story that was heading for this was lone wolf terror by Timothy McVeigh."
The Oklahoma City bombing was never just a lone wolf attack
Holly Paz, a former deputy to Lois Lerner during the Obama-era IRS targeting scandal, was placed on leave following concerns raised by lawmakers over the politicization of a new IRS sub-department she was leading.
Lois Lerner’s Deputy Finally Removed at IRS Decades After Tea Party Targeting Scandal.
The exact reason for Trump and his tens of millions of dollars in holdings being kicked off the JPMorgan banking platform, and then denied access to Bank of America’s services has yet to be reported. But sources at the banks — the No. 1 and No. 2 largest in the US in terms of assets — confirmed the cause stemmed from the controversy surrounding Trump’s actions that day, and threats from Biden’s bank regulators that banking the former president’s money put them at in danger of falling afoul of rule that prohibit financial institution from doing business with individuals and companies that present a “reputational risk.”
JPMorgan and Bank of America ‘debanked’ Trump under pressure from Biden Junta over January 6th: Sources
SHAMPEACHMENTS, 2016 CLINTON/OBAMA COUP, CONGRESSIONAL PERSECUTION, SPYGATE, DEEP STATE, MUELLER DECEPTION
Susan Rice knew what she was doing.
Susan Rice and the crime nobody’s talked about

DOMESTIC AFFAIRS, THE COURTS, WASTE/FRAUD/ABUSE
Even for government work, the BLS has been breathtakingly bad at its job. . .
Is The BLS Corrupt, Or Just Hopelessly Incompetent?
Skyrocketing labor costs and mismanagement have pushed the system to the brink of bankruptcy.
The Bay Area Rapid Transit System Is a Warning for Other Cities

THE ECONOMY, STUPID
The president also clarified his stance on re-shoring pharmaceuticals.
Trump Reveals Trade Plans With China, EU Following Massive Deals
. . . Jerome Powell is showing the “same symptoms” as former Attorney General Merrick Garland.
‘Erratic And Vindictive’: Victor Davis Hanson Says Jerome Powell Reminds Him Of Another Powerful Federal Official
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ISRAEL AND USA vs Hamas, IRAN, et al
The aid organization, which traditionally works to provide aid to hostages during armed conflicts, has not visited the Israelis held captive by Hamas
‘Abandoning the Very People It Was Established To Protect’: Red Cross Comes Under Fire After Disturbing Footage Shows Starved Israeli Hostages
Because “journalist” Fteiha apparently has a mission: “Free Palestine.” This is what it says on a bombastic painting he presents on his Instagram account—in combat gear with the proud inscription “Presse.” The “artist” who created the image for Fteiha is an avowed Jew-hater.
Report: Anti-Israel Photographer Stages Photographs of Hunger in Gaza
Major Western countries set to formally recognize a 'Palestinian' state.
Rewarding Hamas
The error comes as judges push for 'more severe sanctions' for attorneys who cite AI slop
Attorney for Anti-Israel Activist Who Blocked DC Traffic Cites Fictitious Case in Motion to Dismiss Lawsuit, Suggesting AI Wrote It
WE-ALL-SLAM-FOR-I-SLAM
If only Tommy had done something respectable like block a street to support Hamas.
Tommy Robinson Arrested for Tweeting “F____ Hamas”
Sharia (Claws) is coming to town. (So you better kill Jooz for Fatwa from Sheiks - jjs)
Philly’s Muslim Day
Social workers for anti-Semitic attacks and domestic violence.
Mamdani Wants Cops to Stop Responding to Muslim Crimes
And a deafening silence.
Pakistan: Rape and Forced Conversion of Christians to Islam
FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUES, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER TECH
You can't reform the FBI because that's racist.
MSNSDAP: Firing FBI Brass Hurts Minorities
RED-GREENS, CLIMATE CHANGE HOAX, DEMOCRAT-LEFT WAR ON FOSSIL FUELS,
The order could limit the expansion of wind and solar projects, focusing instead on energy sources with higher efficiency and reliability.
Trump Admin Looks to End ‘Bird Killing’ Wind Farms.
Revoking the agency’s Endangerment Finding will lift costly regulatory burdens and restore the Clean Air Act to Congress’ original intent.
This Trump Proposal Will Reverse the EPA’s Climate Overreach
A mad rush for “clean technologies” is destroying Indonesia's ancient rain forests.
Asian forests victims of intolerable ‘green’ lie
CRIME & PUNISHMENT, NON-DOSTOYEVSKY
Trump and Congress could move to revoke home rule for the capital and re-exert federal control entirely over the city.
Trump Says He Will ‘Federalize D.C.’ If Violent Crime Continues.
The country has built more prisons to reduce crowding and enforces work-centric schedules for inmates.
America Should Look to Japan for Prison Reform
EDUCATION, AND WHAT PASSES FOR IT
The race hustlers and money grubbers must go, while the importance of intact families, rewarding the best teachers, closing failing schools, and phonics must be stressed.
Righting Our Sinking Educational Ship
ABORTION
Planned Parenthood’s services outside of abortion have decreased significantly since 2013, while its abortions have dramatically increased.
41 Planned Parenthood Facilities And Counting Set To Close As Trump Defunds Abortion Giant
THE 2020 and SUBSEQUENT ELECTION HEISTS , SHENANIGANS/FRAUD and AFTERMATH
'The ID number requirement is obviously designed to confirm that each mail-in ballot voter is precisely who he claims he is.'
‘Mail-In Ballots Are Not Secure’: Court Gives Texas Green Light To Enforce Voter ID Law
L'AFFAIRE EPSTEIN
In a separate motion introduced by Rep. Scott Perry (R-PA) and approved by voice vote, the subcommittee directed the chairman to compel testimony from Bill and Hillary Clinton, along with several former U.S. attorneys general and FBI directors. The move is part of the committee’s broader investigation into the federal government’s handling of the Epstein case and associated individuals, including Ghislaine Maxwell, Epstein’s longtime accomplice who is currently serving a 20-year sentence for sex trafficking of minors.
Comer Unleashes Subpoena Storm: Clintons, Comey, Garland, Mueller Ordered to Testify in Epstein Probe
Maxwell’s attorneys responded in opposition to the DOJ’s effort to unseal the court papers, according to documents submitted Tuesday in the Southern District of New York.
Ghislaine Maxwell Fights To Keep Epstein Grand Jury Secrets Buried
Acosta, a high-profile figure connected to the Epstein case, served as Labor Secretary under President Donald Trump’s first administration before resigning in 2019, according to a New York Times report.
Alex Acosta’s Name Is Missing From Epstein Testimony List
DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST AND RINO SCANDALS, MESHUGAS, CHUTZPOCRISY
Latest financial disclosure from Bowman's Built to Win PAC shows $3k on hand, $47k in debts
Jamaal Bowman Said He Had 'Millions' in Donations Lined Up for His PAC. It's Actually in Debt, Records Show.
A trail of questions about whether Lina Khan violated ethics in service of partisanship.
Socialist-Praising Biden Honcho Billed Luxury Travel To Taxpayers, IG Finds
Virginia Law prohibits foreign nationals from making political donations—but CCP members typically can’t hold foreign citizenship
Virginia Gubernatorial Hopeful Abigail Spanberger Raked In $50,000 From CCP Member and EV Tycoon
You think Kamala Harris picking her 2024 running mate was merely a strategic political move? Think again. As recently surfaced internal memos from the Department of Homeland Security and the FBI reveal, the choice of Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz sent more than a few alarm bells ringing inside U.S. counterintelligence circles. (Chi-Com agent with an appetite for Sum Yung Gai - jjs)
Bombshell Memos Show DHS and FBI Had HUGE Concerns About Tim Walz Last Year
State legislators must respect election laws and redistricting procedures—not game them for partisan advantage.
New York Democrats Play Fast and Loose With Redistricting
Partisan redistricting rigs elections coast to coast—but a cure may lie in algorithms that draw fairer maps than any politician ever will. (Depends who creates the al Gore Rhythms - jjs)
Redistricting and the Cure to Gerrymandering
If a Republican had said it, we'd never hear the end of it.
Newsom Accuses Republicans of Gerrymandering in States With Only One Seat
POLITICS
"The people of Texas elected lawmakers, not jet-setting runaways looking for headlines. If you don’t show up to work, you get fired."
Texas AG Asks Judge To Officially Remove AWOL Dems From Seats
As Texas House Democrats hole up in Illinois and New York to stall a congressional maps vote, Wisconsin conservatives are feeling deja vu.
It Won’t End Well For Texas Dems Fleeing Their Duties. Just Ask Wisconsin Liberals
O'Rourke, who has lost campaigns for governor, president, and Senate, helped finance a similar walkout in 2021
Now We Know: Beto O’Rourke’s PAC Funded Texas Dems’ Private Jet to Illinois
A DSA leader — organizer Daniel Goulden — made the remark during a panel discussion titled, “United Struggles: Resistance to Bodily Autonomy Restrictions.” During the discussion, Goulden made clear that DSA has been involved in Mamdani’s campaign, which has come under fire for vows to fight back against the work of United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) while pushing ideas such as government-run grocery stores.
DSA Admits Socialist Zohran Mamdani Gives Them Best Position to ‘Seize State Power’
Trump said earlier on Tuesday that he would "probably not" seek a third term.
Trump Reveals Who Will ‘Most Likely’ Be The 2028 Republican Nominee
FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL
Justice Alexandre de Moraes said that Bolsonaro had not complied with the judicial restraining orders imposed on him in July.
Brazilian Supreme Court orders house arrest for former President Jair Bolsonaro
This new speech-police insanity arrives via a reworking of the UK’s COVID lockdowns and suppression of dissent that began in 2020.
UK Reuses COVID-Era Speech To Silence Criticism of Subsidized Migration
HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE
Public trust in organ donation is at risk, with lawsuits and ethical concerns rising as donation after circulatory death (DCD) becomes more prevalent.
A Federal Investigation is Raising Serious Concerns for Organ Donors.
U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced that the Biden-era push for respiratory-based mRNA vaccines is being scaled back substantially.
Kennedy’s mRNA Course Correction: A Reset for Public Health, Not a Retreat
ACTUAL SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY
A nuclear reactor on the moon would provide a reliable power source for a U.S. base.
NASA Plans To Build Nuclear Reactor On The Moon In Race Against China, Russia (Martin Landau and Barbara Bain hardest hit! - jjs)
It appears that Amazon will sell its Kuiper terminals through NBN, instead of directly to customers, unlike Starlink which generally sells direct (unless local law forbids it). In this case it could be the Australian government is requiring these constellations to make such deals. It is also possible that government is playing favorites, favoring Amazon (not operational) over Starlink (now operational for years with millions of customers.
Amazon’s Kuiper constellation wins contract from Australian telecom
Lots of guesses, similar to the guesses I have been making for the past year. All suggest there are fundamental problems preventing launch.
A look at what might be causing the delay in launching Sierra Space’s Tenacity Dream Chaser mini-shuttle
CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE
“Right,” Maher agreed. . . “Everybody! ‘Where the fuck is my light?'”
Comedian Dana Carvey Says ‘Everyone’s A Republican When The Lights Go Out’
And I mean that in the nicest possible way.
The Fall of Ugly Liberal Chicks
Christian Toto: Spike Lee, Adam McKay slam President Trump after years of stone-cold silence
Wait, Hollywood Is Defending Free Speech … Now?
We are not only afraid of parental accountability for ourselves but for others because we all want the possibility of possessing these justifications if our children were to one day go awry.
Society must hold parents accountable for their children's failings
Thank God this generation wasn't in charge of landing at Jamestown or settling the West.
Woman Says She Can't Work 40 Hours a Week and Still Find Time to Shower...So She Quit
President Trump said the Commanders would be ‘much more valuable’ if they restored their old name. He couldn’t be more accurate.
Nuking The Redskins’ Name Did Nothing To Help American Indians, And Nobody’s Surprised
From fake news to moral chaos, today’s culture prefers invention over truth—and the consequences may tear the nation apart. (Today's Leftist evil hive-mind - jjs)
How Twisting the Truth Can Lead to National Destruction
What is most infuriating about Tucker Carlson, Candace Owens and the other “America sucks!” “conservatives” is not that they are asking stupid questions. It is that they are wrapping themselves up in the mantle of patriotism for doing so.
Eighty Years After

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1 Good morning horde!

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 06, 2025 07:34 AM (ExV1e)

2 First!!!

Posted by: Polka will never die at August 06, 2025 07:35 AM (uOLAf)

3 I dropped the bomb on the tech thread.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 06, 2025 07:35 AM (ExV1e)

4 Drat. G'morning horde and JJ!

Posted by: Polka will never die at August 06, 2025 07:35 AM (uOLAf)

5
g'mornin' again, 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at August 06, 2025 07:37 AM (tljrc)

6 Happy Wednesday, Horde! It's a peaceful work day here at the GPROMD and the weather has become something more civilized. Tomorrow is my brother's birthday and hopefully, the distillery I ordered from is going to come through and ship his present on time. Then again, my family keeps celebrating as long as the gifts are still arriving.

Now let us remember the famous saying from the Mayor of Hiroshima: "What the fuck was that noise?"

Posted by: NR Pax at August 06, 2025 07:37 AM (lXoJ5)

7 Beyond that, despite the couple hundred thousand Japanese lives the atomic bombs took, an invasion and/or blockade of the islands with the continued bombing campaign of LeMay's 20th Air Force to make the rubble bounce, along with the arming of the populace with everything from suicide vests to sharpened sticks to face off against a US invasion force, would have killed millions of Japanese. The atom bombs in the end saved many more lives than they cost.

I suspect that the WW2-era fanaticism of the Japanese would have resulted in their annihilation had the US been required to invade.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 06, 2025 07:38 AM (ExV1e)

8 Dropping the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki was the greatest humanitarian act in human history.

It saved millions of lives.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (with a beret and a Gauloises) at August 06, 2025 07:38 AM (L5An7)

9 my browser be funky and I cant click on things

thx jjs

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 06, 2025 07:38 AM (gbOdA)

10 Morning, Horde!

Posted by: Hawkpilot at August 06, 2025 07:38 AM (lgrfo)

11 President Bukele Is president of El Salvador.

Posted by: uniparty, Raping and Mutilating the Children They do not kill at August 06, 2025 07:38 AM (gxokI)

12 In 1969, we had to read "Hiroshima" in school.

One of my older brothers quipped "The Japs had it coming."

Posted by: no one of any consequence at August 06, 2025 07:39 AM (ZmEVT)

13 11 President Bukele Is president of El Salvador.
Posted by: uniparty, Raping and Mutilating the Children They do not kill at August 06, 2025 07:38 AM (gxokI)

Corrected. Thanks

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 06, 2025 07:40 AM (x0n13)

14 Good morning, J.J.
Good morning, Horde.

Posted by: Inogame at August 06, 2025 07:41 AM (53oGX)

15

~bat-bat-bat,,, BAT-BAT~

Posted by: Jasmine Crocketts' Eye Lashes at August 06, 2025 07:41 AM (5hfjS)

16 Labor Activist Makes Point Conservatives Have Been Making For Years Buried Deep Within Interview

Caesar Chavez previously made that point. Bernie Sanders previously made that point. Lot of people have previously made that point.

But then the Dems decided that illegals were the future so all that was thrown out the window. Now they're trying to get in front of the mob so as to call themselves leaders.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 06, 2025 07:42 AM (ExV1e)

17 7 I suspect that the WW2-era fanaticism of the Japanese would have resulted in their annihilation had the US been required to invade.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 06, 2025 07:38 AM (ExV1e)

The Japanese themselves said "10 millions Souls for the Emperor!"

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 06, 2025 07:42 AM (x0n13)

18 @Wolfus: If you show up here, I left you a reply about wall clocks in the tech thread. See # 131 there.

Also, g'morning Horde.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at August 06, 2025 07:42 AM (O7YUW)

19 At first it appeared that Tucker had controversial guests allowing every opinion to be voiced and questioned. Sadly that is not so.
Tucker has a bias and it's ugly.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 06, 2025 07:43 AM (AneyV)

20 THe DoJ, DHS or whichever agency is appropriate should move to immediately strip her of her citizenship and have her deported back to Guatemala since that is where she wants to be.

Honestly, I don't understand why they stick around here since we're so unforgivably raysis.

Not that I'd blame President Bukele in the least if he resisted her repatriation.

Wrong country but I don't think he'd want her as a neighbor.

Posted by: NR Pax at August 06, 2025 07:43 AM (lXoJ5)

21 Several countries have business and tourist visa overstay rates that exceed 20 percent, including Burma, Chad, the Congo, Djibouti, Equatorial Guinea, and Haiti.

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 06, 2025 07:44 AM (gbOdA)

22 The commander of the secretive 509th Composite group - Col. Paul Tibbetts, was widely considered the most experienced B-29 pilot in the US Army Air Forces. He had cut his teeth flying and leading B-17s on the first combat missions over Europe. He was the pilot in command on Enola Gay for the Hiroshima bomb drop. After the war, Paul drove a Toyota. Said it was a good car, and that American automakers only offered what they wanted you to have, not what the customer wanted.

Posted by: Common Tater at August 06, 2025 07:44 AM (qBPIs)

23 JPMorgan and Bank of America ‘debanked’ Trump under pressure from Biden Junta over January 6th: Sources

And this is why no one should be particularly upset with the banks (over this specific issue) or too excited by the idea of the government enforcing business neutrality.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 06, 2025 07:44 AM (ExV1e)

24 I suspect that the WW2-era fanaticism of the Japanese would have resulted in their annihilation had the US been required to invade.

We'd probably would have ended up with a new state from that.

Posted by: NR Pax at August 06, 2025 07:44 AM (lXoJ5)

25 Gene Wu, head of the Texas Democrats, and who engineered their fleeing from the state and funded the effort, is apparently under the influence of the communist Chinese. Let that sink it.

Posted by: That Guy at August 06, 2025 07:47 AM (u+yKD)

26 Good morning Horde, thx JJ. Has American Thinker gone paywall?. Understand if it does but unfortunate

Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 06, 2025 07:47 AM (r/xMY)

27 1.5 million Purple Hearts were prepared for an invasion of Japan.
Nuking Japan Saved More Lives Than It Took

==

Stop the presses!! Did you know that the Immaculate Conception Cathedral as Nunoike Catholic Church in Nagasaki were destroyed in the bombing ? 2/3 of the city's Catholics were killed ! Nagasaki was considered Japanese capital of Catholicism !

Posted by: runner at August 06, 2025 07:47 AM (g47mK)

28 Wow, Amazon Drivers are stealing people's pets. This is from Lizzie Borden Land in the People's Republic...

Jessica Machado@jessicamachadoshow

My friend Kathy's indoor/outdoor cat didn't come home yesterday, and it didn't take us long to figure out that an Amazon driver stole him. Here she is, giving him food and trying to get him in her car. Neighbors say she eventually got him and drove away.

We contacted Amazon but they would not help, so we went to the police. They are actively working to find Murphy, who my friend Kathy has had for 18 years.

Hey @amazon , want to step in here?

Posted by: Mister Ghost at August 06, 2025 07:48 AM (TGPs7)

29 DC should be more like Singapore and less like Memphis.

Posted by: mr tmz at August 06, 2025 07:48 AM (rJ48h)

30 26 Good morning Horde, thx JJ. Has American Thinker gone paywall?. Understand if it does but unfortunate
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 06, 2025 07:47 AM (r/xMY)

Yes. It appears that way. Too bad

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 06, 2025 07:49 AM (x0n13)

31 We sent the kitty to Denmark where it can be with other animals.

Posted by: Amazon at August 06, 2025 07:49 AM (vFG9F)

32 Did the cat have a shipping label for Abu Dhabi on it?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 06, 2025 07:50 AM (rIQZh)

33 @26/Smell the Glove: On American Thinker's web site, is this notice: "Unfortunately, some of our readers have been receiving a rogue ad blocker message that prevents access to American Thinker's content. Our technical team is working to resolve the problem."

I'm having no trouble pulling up their articles. I use FireFox and I use NoScript, uBlock Origin, Privacy Badger, and Canvas Blocker as my main add-ons to tame nonsense on web sites.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at August 06, 2025 07:50 AM (O7YUW)

34 Is The BLS Corrupt, Or AND Just Hopelessly Incompetent?

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 06, 2025 07:51 AM (gbOdA)

35 My dad was a toddler in WWII. Grandpa was a reservist. But his service in the war effort was working as a Boeing machinist and draftsman. He had a hand in building B 29s, including having hands on the Enola Gay.

The horrific battle of Okinawa is what galvanized the US to drop the big ones. It was the right thing to do, but for the men who made that decision, it certainly kept them awake at night.

Posted by: Mikey Alpha Kilo, Got a Ton of Boring Stories at August 06, 2025 07:51 AM (0aYVJ)

36 Yonder Horde
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We were a much more serious nation back in the day.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 06, 2025 07:52 AM (Q4IgG)

37 By the time the first “gun type” uranium bomb was getting ready, the B-29s the 509th had been training on were getting long in the tooth. Tibbets went to Omaha and picked out a brand new plane right off the assembly lime. A foreman helped him in his selection. “This is the one you want, it was made mid week”.

Posted by: Common Tater at August 06, 2025 07:52 AM (qBPIs)

38 Willowed from Grumpy & Recalcitrant, about the Marathon Watch Co.: Here's their atomic clock web page:
https://tinyurl.com/4f7ftkew

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I wasn't really thinking digital, though I like the "self-correcting time from WWVB" feature. Their website says they have analog wall clocks, and even a picture, but no such products are available.

An "outdoor/indoor" clock with temp and humidity dials would be cool too.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 06, 2025 07:52 AM (omVj0)

39 Wouldn't mind ads if they weren't so intrusive and offensive.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 06, 2025 07:53 AM (AneyV)

40 Good morning!

Posted by: gp Bet His Bippy (And Lost) at August 06, 2025 07:53 AM (msvyE)

41 39 Wouldn't mind ads if they weren't so intrusive and offensive.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 06, 2025 07:53 AM (AneyV)

And also for an actual product.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 06, 2025 07:53 AM (rIQZh)

42 @26 thx for the info, appreciated

Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 06, 2025 07:54 AM (r/xMY)

43 @33 thx for the info , much appreciated.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 06, 2025 07:55 AM (r/xMY)

44 I had a next door neighbor who was Japanese. Who was 9yo in Hiroshima when the bomb was dropped. I never knew for years until I asked if any of her family was affected by the Fukushima reactor meltdown after the earthquake they had. She said her family wasn't near there but, they were making too big a deal about the reactor. She said 'I had an atomic bomb dropped on my head when I was 9 and I'm fine.' She is 89 now and still kicking. She also said that dropping the bomb was the right thing to do.

Posted by: Tennessee Jed at August 06, 2025 07:55 AM (MuIdM)

45 I dropped a boom-boom in my PJs!

Posted by: Preznit Depends at August 06, 2025 07:55 AM (G5+As)

46 Cancelled an order I made July 6, from Amazon.
Delivery's not what it used to be.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 06, 2025 07:56 AM (AneyV)

47 Most bloggy/punditry sites are literally unbrowse-able on a mobile browser.

Seven layers of bullshit to click through or scroll past to even see the first sentence of a three sentence article. And by the second sentence, seven more ads swoop in and obstruct your view again.

Some sites are far worse than others. This place is practically an ad desert comparatively speaking.

If you don't want me to read your crap, then I don't want to read your crap either.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 06, 2025 07:56 AM (rIQZh)

48 Did any of you watch the all-trans team compete on ABC's Celebrity Family Feud and win money for black trans prostitutes?

If not, we can assure you that it was totally awesome.

Posted by: The Walt Disney Company at August 06, 2025 07:57 AM (Y1sOo)

49 Surprisingly, lefties are closing ranks to fight one big burning issue: the White House addition proposed by PDJT.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 06, 2025 07:58 AM (vyuWd)

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Posted by: Aliassmithsmith... the anal behind anal sex at August 06, 2025 07:58 AM (IEC5n)

51 Dropping the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki was the greatest humanitarian act in human history.

It saved millions of lives.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (with a beret and a Gauloises) at August 06, 2025 07:38 AM (L5An7)
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Morning, CBD. Though, Though, with the time difference, it's probably just about noon for you. Or it is a 9 hour difference? No matter. Anyway, the "atomic bomb reee" crowd is incapable of doing the simple math which says a million or more Allied casualties and 10 times that, or more, on the Japanese side.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at August 06, 2025 07:59 AM (tT6L1)

52 Ramirez can't be "deported" or "repatriated" to Guatemala. She was born in the US, and does not have Guatemalan citizenship. Their rules, not ours.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at August 06, 2025 07:59 AM (zdLoL)

53 There wasn’t really a “decision” made to drop the bomb, they had spent $2 billion dollars over 3 years to build one as fast as they could. There was never any question whether it would be used, the entire raison d etre was to “end the war” and stop the killing, ironically enough.

The only question was where. At the last minute there was some discussion about a “demonstration” test, and various panels went over the idea. It was considered unworkable for numerous reasons. One, what if it was a dud?

A distinct possibility. They concluded it must be used without warning per se, and on a military target. It was dropped precisely over the 2nd Army parade field where they were doing morning PT.

Posted by: Common Tater at August 06, 2025 07:59 AM (qBPIs)

54 It is also possible that government is playing favorites, favoring Amazon (not operational) over Starlink (now operational for years with millions of customers.

Slander. The idea that a government choosing a vendor which hasn't actually begun service over one with actual history is 'playing favorites' as opposed to seeking to level the field and ensure the best quality censorship for their citizens is scurrilous.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 06, 2025 07:59 AM (ExV1e)

55 There was one Japanese guy who survived both atomic bombs. He was in Hiroshima on a business trip and despite injuries went back to his home. His home and place of business was in Nagasaki. He was there on 8/9. He lived to 93 .

Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 06, 2025 08:00 AM (r/xMY)

56 52 Ramirez can't be "deported" or "repatriated" to Guatemala. She was born in the US, and does not have Guatemalan citizenship. Their rules, not ours.
Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at August 06, 2025 07:59 AM (zdLoL)

Yeah.

But her husband can.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 06, 2025 08:00 AM (rIQZh)

57 Cancelled an order I made July 6, from Amazon.
Delivery's not what it used to be.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 06, 2025 07:56 AM (AneyV)
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One thing I see now that is new is Amazon offers "same day" delivery on something but once you click "buy" the site tells you a delivery date days away in the future instead.

Bait and switch.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 06, 2025 08:00 AM (vyuWd)

58 Morning, CBD. Though, Though, with the time difference, it's probably just about noon for you. Or it is a 9 hour difference? No matter. Anyway, the "atomic bomb reee" crowd is incapable of doing the simple math which says a million or more Allied casualties and 10 times that, or more, on the Japanese side.

==

yes, yes, but what about feeding the Japanese during the war?! was the US delivering food stuffs and food aid to the Japanese during the war ??!!

Posted by: runner at August 06, 2025 08:02 AM (g47mK)

59 That troll is either paid by the word or the amount of bs contained in the words. Either way, it's a load.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 06, 2025 08:02 AM (AneyV)

60 Nuking Japan Saved More Lives Than It Took
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There was a third option, rarely discussed. We had total supremacy in the air and on the sea. We could simply have imposed starvation on them, as they wouldn't even have been able to move the food they grew themselves.

That would have taken time, and would likely have reduced them to cannibalism. Also, it doesn't deal with the threat of their killing all the prisoners they held. But it should be mentioned.

My problem with the linked story is that it is consequentialist through and through. And that can lead to horrors.

Posted by: Eeyore at August 06, 2025 08:02 AM (od0dV)

61 Cancelled an order I made July 6, from Amazon.
Delivery's not what it used to be.

--

Apropos of nothing really, but I just got back from a road trip from Orlando. I marveled at just how many Amazon semis are on the road. Seemed like every 10-15 semis I saw were Amazon. All I could think was that's a whole lotta dough Bezos and his plastic wife are raking in.

Posted by: Lady in Black at August 06, 2025 08:02 AM (qBdHI)

62 Does anyone have a good Amazon contact?
Seems I have a cat in a box I did not order.
Box is still unopened I just need a return label.

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 06, 2025 08:03 AM (gbOdA)

63 OKC bombing... Funny how many potential damning files relating to MENA Arkansas, et al. were destroyed.

MENA airport was the only available airport to Roger Reeves and Barry Seal in the 80s and they had to give a $50K to 'somebody'...

Posted by: Danimal28 at August 06, 2025 08:03 AM (1E4GV)

64 >> Tim Scott pressed on CBS about how he can 'reconcile' his Christian faith with supporting Trump

The South Carolina senator defended his faith while touting new book on America's Christian roots during CBS interview

https://tinyurl.com/mtmns4k2

Where does one even start with this, CBS anchor Adriana Diaz? The entire Democrat Party platform is antithetical to the teachings of ga of Jesus Christ. All of it starting with killing babies in the womb. Let’s try this, honey;

“ To the pure, all things are pure, but to those who are corrupted and do not believe, nothing is pure. In fact, both their minds and consciences are corrupted. They claim to know God, but by their actions they deny him. They are detestable, disobedient and unfit for doing anything good.”

Titus 1:15-16

Posted by: Marcus T, Jesus is Lord at August 06, 2025 08:03 AM (Dzvaz)

65 If you want to fight wats to win abject surrender, and thereby end a war with certainty, then dropping those bombs (and burning Tokyo to the ground) was exactly the right thing to do.

Truman may have been a hack but his decision will forever have my thanks.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 06, 2025 08:04 AM (vyuWd)

66 54 It is also possible that government is playing favorites,
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It's time for Musk to wise up and kiss the ring.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 06, 2025 08:04 AM (AneyV)

67 Apropos of nothing really, but I just got back from a road trip from Orlando. I marveled at just how many Amazon semis are on the road. Seemed like every 10-15 semis I saw were Amazon. All I could think was that's a whole lotta dough Bezos and his plastic wife are raking in.
Posted by: Lady in Black at August 06, 2025 08:02 AM (qBdHI)

51% is convenience.
49% is I just dont want to rub elbows with the grifters, and grabbers, and thugs in Target and WMT.

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 06, 2025 08:04 AM (gbOdA)

68 Does anyone have a good Amazon contact?
Seems I have a cat in a box I did not order.
Box is still unopened I just need a return label.
Posted by: rhennigantx at August 06, 2025 08:03 AM (gbOdA)

there was a story about Denmark (?), how they invented a novel way of dealing with unwanted pets

Posted by: runner at August 06, 2025 08:05 AM (g47mK)

69 Alias person has some amazing sources about what's going on inside a prison.

Or, it's just making stuff up.

Yeah, I'm going with the latter.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at August 06, 2025 08:06 AM (tT6L1)

70 Does anyone have a good Amazon contact?
Seems I have a cat in a box I did not order.
Box is still unopened I just need a return label.
Posted by: rhennigantx at August 06, 2025 08:03 AM

Go on...

Posted by: Schroedinger at August 06, 2025 08:06 AM (kgE5c)

71 @26/Smell the Glove: On American Thinker's web site, is this notice: "Unfortunately, some of our readers have been receiving a rogue ad blocker message that prevents access to American Thinker's content. Our technical team is working to resolve the problem."

I'm having no trouble pulling up their articles. I use FireFox and I use NoScript, uBlock Origin, Privacy Badger, and Canvas Blocker as my main add-ons to tame nonsense on web sites.
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at August 06, 2025 07:50 AM (O7YUW)

I use Brave and also have no issues.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 06, 2025 08:06 AM (ExV1e)

72 I've never had a minute of regret over dropping the nukes on Japan. Same reason I don't have any problem with Israel laying waste to Gaza.

War is ugly and once one is started it always escalates in ways nobody wants and people die, combatants and non-combatants. So don't start one and there won't be one.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 06, 2025 08:06 AM (viF8m)

73 Jerome Powell and Merrick Garland in common:

Both are failed lawyers.

How is it that a failed lawyer is controlling our money supply. No wonder the CCP has infiltrated the Fed at every level.

Communism.

Posted by: Danimal28 at August 06, 2025 08:06 AM (1E4GV)

74 there was a story about Denmark (?), how they invented a novel way of dealing with unwanted pets
Posted by: runner at August 06, 2025 08:05 AM (g47mK)

/punchline

I did and he liked it so much were going to Six Flags today.

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 06, 2025 08:07 AM (gbOdA)

75 Sean Duffy has a lot on his plate, but I hope to see some progress cleaning up the Air Traffic Control issue before he gets sidetracked building reactors in space.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 06, 2025 08:07 AM (vyuWd)

76 Vaccine hesitancy and parents concern about possible effects of too many is being demonized on the propaganda radio today. We are urged to tune out the internet noise and just listen to the experts. Especial about the covid 'vaccine' which has been deemed safe, effective and saved untold millions.

Remember when there was no such thing as dumb question'? Now asking question makes you a conspiracy nut.

Posted by: Ripley at August 06, 2025 08:07 AM (GUOwU)

77 The only reason the second bomb was dropped was because the Japanese thought they could shrug off the first one and keep fighting.

It wasn't some kind of magical War Off switch. We had to do it twice to make it stick. And IINM we were gearing up to drop #3 just as they were surrendering.

What would the world's mythology about scary scary nuclear weapons be now had they been nuked three times and still not surrendered?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 06, 2025 08:07 AM (rIQZh)

78 So did anyone see the article where FBI was really really worried about what info Walz was getting as they knew it was being sent directly to CCP?

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 06, 2025 08:08 AM (gbOdA)

79 >>>
MENA airport was the only available airport to Roger Reeves and Barry Seal in the 80s and they had to give a $50K to 'somebody'...
Posted by: Danimal28
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That's where they flew the drugs in from south of the border.
There are stories about Gov. Clinton driving up, demanding his cut for the use of the airport.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 06, 2025 08:08 AM (AneyV)

80 Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at August 06, 2025 07:59 AM (tT6L1)

GMT+1

I mock and spit at anyone who is too stupid or politically jingoistic to claim anything other than that the Atomic bombs were fantastic.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (with a beret and a Gauloises) at August 06, 2025 08:08 AM (L5An7)

81 Lois Lerner’s Deputy Finally Removed at IRS Decades After Tea Party Targeting Scandal.
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I wish there was a way to force them to leave DC for California. On foot. The drone films of the bureaucrats on that trail of tears would bring joy to the heart.

Posted by: Eeyore at August 06, 2025 08:09 AM (od0dV)

82 Tim Scott pressed on CBS about how he can 'reconcile' his Christian faith with supporting Trump

"You people despise Christianity and all it stands for. If I was a Muslim supporting him, you wouldn't dare ask me about that. So why should I bother giving you the attention your parents didn't?"

There is a reason I am not in politics.

Posted by: NR Pax at August 06, 2025 08:09 AM (lXoJ5)

83
Those pillars of morality and love for all mankind who decry the dropping of the atomic bombs on Japan likely overlapped with, if not actually became, the same pillars of rectitude who would have imposed strict censorship rules on this country, imprisoned fellow citizens for "wrong thinking" (if not have slayed them), and imposed a rigid and inflexible social system on us all because they were "the smart ones who would do it right, this time."

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh![ at August 06, 2025 08:10 AM (xG4kz)

84 Posted by: Eeyore at August 06, 2025 08:02 AM (od0dV)

That route still would have killed more Japanese than the bombs did.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 06, 2025 08:11 AM (ExV1e)

85 The only reason the second bomb was dropped was because the Japanese thought they could shrug off the first one and keep fighting.

I have joked that the second bomb was dropped because apparently we stuttered the first time.

Posted by: NR Pax at August 06, 2025 08:11 AM (lXoJ5)

86 I try to avoid purchasing anything through Amazon if I possibly can , because I liked brick and mortar stores ( and don't need more stuff anyway). Also,
the nice guy who moved in next to us has been fixing up an old house and he must get at least three packages almost every day from. Amazon so he makes up for my lack of purchases from them..

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 06, 2025 08:11 AM (2GCMq)

87 Today, we can celebrate 80 years of no World War III.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at August 06, 2025 08:12 AM (ZmEVT)

88 >>So did anyone see the article where FBI was really really worried about what info Walz was getting as they knew it was being sent directly to CCP?

There were plenty of whispers during the campaign that Walz was a Manchurian Candidate. Basically doing with China exactly what the left accused Trump of doing with Russia. And of course the FBI and the rest of the intel community did squat.

The left is irredeemably corrupt. They can't be negotiated with only beaten and their policies destroyed.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 06, 2025 08:12 AM (viF8m)

89
So did anyone see the article where FBI was really really worried about what info Walz was getting as they knew it was being sent directly to CCP?
Posted by: rhennigantx

Filed under "nonexistent fiction", is it not?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh![ at August 06, 2025 08:12 AM (xG4kz)

90 Good morning dear morons and happy birthday JJ

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 06, 2025 08:12 AM (JvZF+)

91 I have joked that the second bomb was dropped because apparently we stuttered the first time.
Posted by: NR Pax at August 06, 2025 08:11 AM (lXoJ5)

They were still all stammering around trying to say "nuclear" for so long they forgot to surrender.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 06, 2025 08:12 AM (rIQZh)

92 Dropping the bomb wasn't controversial at the time and mostly lauded. It's taken on different meaning today.

More people died in the firebombing of Tokyo, but that didn't have the same shock and awe. Just sayin'

John Hersey's Hiroshima was published in its entirety in The New Yorker in 1946, and came to sway public opinion. It brilliantly focused on the tales of six survivors to make its point.

"A million dead is a statistic. One death is a tragedy." Said Stalin, the guy who ought to know.

And then Hiroshima got caught up in the politics of the Cold War, and fears of nuclear Armaggedon. You could argue that without the examples of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, we might have tripped into using them more easily. Just look at the examples of Curtis LeMay and Alan Dulles and what they wanted to do.

Posted by: Ignoramus at August 06, 2025 08:12 AM (dtajH)

93 mRNA vax for cats actually killed about 99% of the cats that were exposed to the virus 2 to 3 years later.
mRNA CV vax is proven to make you more suspectable to CV.
RFK kills $500 M in funding and that is considered end of medicine.

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 06, 2025 08:13 AM (gbOdA)

94 One thing FF beats them all on. Background colors, contrast and fonts. Hands down they are the winner on that. Brave is the one because it's the smoothest and they didn't fire the inventor who donated to Trump.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 06, 2025 08:13 AM (AneyV)

95 Arf! Arf!

https://tinyurl.com/msjjhwp9

Posted by: zombie Blondi at August 06, 2025 08:13 AM (2yoRf)

96 And, because I forgot, thanks again, J.J. for all of your work.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at August 06, 2025 08:13 AM (tT6L1)

97 In the end, war is about killing more of the other guy before he kills more of you in order to ultimately bend him to your will. Period.

US 2, Japan 0.

Posted by: Marcus T, Jesus is Lord at August 06, 2025 08:13 AM (Dzvaz)

98 ''...and imposed a rigid and inflexible social system on us all because they were "the smart ones who would do it right, this time."

They were close to some social credit system they were hoping to sneak in with a covid passport. Looking back it is hard to believe the tyranny that was being imposed on this country with the consent of the majority.

Posted by: Ripley at August 06, 2025 08:13 AM (GUOwU)

99 @38/Wolfus: I seriously can't say enough good things about that WWVB radio auto-time setting feature. Apparently Casio has a wristwatch that has this feature, and I'm considering getting one.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at August 06, 2025 08:14 AM (O7YUW)

100 Filed under "nonexistent fiction", is it not?
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh![ at August 06, 2025 08:12 AM (xG4kz)

Bombshell Memos Show DHS and FBI Had HUGE Concerns About Tim Walz Last Year
Matt Margolis | 2:06 PM on August 05, 2025

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 06, 2025 08:14 AM (gbOdA)

101 I would like to see a nuclear bomb dropped on Japan every anniversary of the 1st dropping.

Make me horny!

Posted by: Godzilla, Jap Eater at August 06, 2025 08:14 AM (px4dC)

102 Credit card debt equalled an all-time high record amount at month end, the Fed reported. Over half of credit card users pay their bills in full every month and do not carry balances, according to their analysis, which surprised me. So 46% of credit card users are burdened with record debt, carrying interest rates of 20% plus.

That fact probably explains why so few working class people can buy a house.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 06, 2025 08:14 AM (L6UpC)

103
And IINM we were gearing up to drop #3 just as they were surrendering.

I had read that there was not a third bomb in existence after Fat Man did its business on Nagasaki.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh![ at August 06, 2025 08:15 AM (xG4kz)

104 RFKJ is also reviewing all vaccines and especially the necessity, sequencing and frequency in babies.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 06, 2025 08:15 AM (AneyV)

105 The Left deliberately destroyed the American national character. Partly through wave after wave immigration from every corner of the world. But in many, many other ways. Through aggressive ideological indoctrination. Through educational capture, and cultural corrosion, economic warfare, religious and linguistic subversion, and on and on.

What does a Guatemalan have in common with her neighbors from old Chicago? How, for that matter, do those of us in the hated flyover states share a common cultural identity with our theoretically "American" rulers on the coasts?

While it may be a big cultural divide, I'd argue that the mestizo Guatemalan Communist has a hell of a lot more in common with Chicagoans than I do.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 06, 2025 08:16 AM (BI5O2)

106 Seems I have a cat in a box I did not order.
Box is still unopened I just need a return label.
————

Are you certain there is a Cat inside the box? There is a principle involved here.

Posted by: Werner Heisenberg at August 06, 2025 08:16 AM (XkVSB)

107 I had read that there was not a third bomb in existence after Fat Man did its business on Nagasaki.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh![ at August 06, 2025 08:15 AM (xG4kz)

I thought we had one in the chamber yet, but if that didn't work it would have taken a while to make any more. I don't know, i'm probably misremembering.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 06, 2025 08:16 AM (rIQZh)

108 My father, my father in law, and most of the men in the family served in the Pacific.
Never any questions about yes or no growing up.

Posted by: From about That Time at August 06, 2025 08:17 AM (n4GiU)

109 38/Wolfus: I seriously can't say enough good things about that WWVB radio auto-time setting feature. Apparently Casio has a wristwatch that has this feature, and I'm considering getting one.
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at August 06, 2025

***
Does anybody make an analog wall clock with that feature?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 06, 2025 08:17 AM (omVj0)

110 I'd like to recommend P.T. Deutermann's book "Second Sun" which asks the question, "What if the Japanese had been working on an atomic weapon and were really close to having it ready?" as a slightly alt-history look at World War 2.

I enjoyed it, and I figured it's rather topical on this day.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at August 06, 2025 08:18 AM (O7YUW)

111 Well I uncertainly hope no one puts my pussy in a box.

Posted by: Mrs Slocumbe at August 06, 2025 08:18 AM (vFG9F)

112 That fact probably explains why so few working class people can buy a house.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 06, 2025 08:14 AM (L6UpC)

I taught my children about debt. Other than the mortgage that the oldest has and the note for their spouse's car, neither has any AFAIK.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 06, 2025 08:18 AM (ExV1e)

113 RFKJ is also reviewing all vaccines and especially the necessity, sequencing and frequency in babies.

==

saving lives

Posted by: runner at August 06, 2025 08:18 AM (g47mK)

114 Are you certain there is a Cat inside the box? There is a principle involved here.
Posted by: Werner Heisenberg
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grrrrr, grrrrrr, arf! arf!

Posted by: zombie Blondi at August 06, 2025 08:19 AM (2yoRf)

115
Walz was the useful idiot, then. Most of us caught the "idiot" part right away. The CCP was privy to the "useful" part.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh![ at August 06, 2025 08:19 AM (xG4kz)

116 If they go back to child vaccine protocols of the 80s we'll be good.

Posted by: runner at August 06, 2025 08:19 AM (g47mK)

117 A pussycat in a box, you say?

Posted by: Justine Timberlake and Andy Samberg at August 06, 2025 08:20 AM (wVcYX)

118 As I said on the ONT, I don't really feel a need to justify dropping the bomb twice, argue that it saved lives etc. Imperial Japan asked for it and got what it had coming. It was every but as malevolent as the Third Reich but has never paid the reputational price that Germany justly did.

That said, I've never understood the purpose of the planned invasion of the home islands. Once the IJN was dispatched, I'd have just blockaded them and carpet bombed till they had a change of heart or nothing was left. It'd take more time, but Japan could have been reduced to stone age conditions.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at August 06, 2025 08:20 AM (wKJf5)

119 @109/Wolfus:

Apparently 'Swish' does?
https://tinyurl.com/559bsdxy

I searched Google for terms: analog wall clock atomic wwvb

That came up first.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at August 06, 2025 08:20 AM (O7YUW)

120 Nothing will happen.

Posted by: The person who always says that at August 06, 2025 08:20 AM (fafxz)

121 Pay my credit cards off every month. I like credit cards because they offer more consumer protection than any other.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 06, 2025 08:21 AM (AneyV)

122 Does anybody make an analog wall clock with that feature?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 06, 2025 08:17 AM (omVj0)

https://tinyurl.com/37b7swum+

Even if you don't buy from there you can see a list of the manufacturers.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 06, 2025 08:22 AM (ExV1e)

123 Is this about my muffin?

Posted by: Betty White at August 06, 2025 08:22 AM (fafxz)

124 My father, my father in law, and most of the men in the family served in the Pacific.
Never any questions about yes or no growing up.
Posted by: From about That Time at August 06, 2025 08:17 AM (n4GiU)
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My late uncle survived the war. He was serving on the Helena during Pearl Harbor. I don't know if he was on the Helena when it was sunk the battle of Kula Gulf. I suspect he was. I do remember WWII was something he did not talk about.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at August 06, 2025 08:22 AM (tT6L1)

125 121 Pay my credit cards off every month. I like credit cards because they offer more consumer protection than any other.
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I'm sitting right here.

Posted by: Cash back rewards at August 06, 2025 08:23 AM (fafxz)

126 The constraint in making the bombs was fuel. You needed the rare U-235 or man-made plutonium for a chain reaction. It took an enormous effort to make two bombs before it got easier.

I'm working on a book "100 Americans Who Should Be Famous (But Aren't)" that includes Vannevar Bush with pride of place. As America's chief scientist in WWII he greenlit the Bomb and the B-29, among other things.

Posted by: Ignoramus at August 06, 2025 08:23 AM (dtajH)

127 If they go back to child vaccine protocols of the 80s we'll be good.
Posted by: runner at August 06, 2025 08:19 AM (g47mK)

Fuck you. -- pharma execs with only 3 Lamborghinis and 2 mistresses

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 06, 2025 08:23 AM (ExV1e)

128
Happy American Technology Day! You Krauts and Nips might have done the same thing, but nooooo. You had to call it Jewish science!

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 06, 2025 08:23 AM (kkTda)

129 Tojo convinced the Emperor to not surrender after Hiroshima, resulting in Nagaski.

Imagine the weight on Truman's shoulders

Posted by: Jonah at August 06, 2025 08:23 AM (YCxFk)

130
Is this about my muffin?
Posted by: Betty White

It's about a chaise lounge. Do try to remain au courant.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh![ at August 06, 2025 08:23 AM (xG4kz)

131 "Nothing will happen.
Posted by: The person who always says that"

Two weeks

Posted by: When it will happen at August 06, 2025 08:24 AM (GUOwU)

132 108 My father, my father in law, and most of the men in the family served in the Pacific.
Never any questions about yes or no growing up.
Posted by: From about That Time
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The question is the sewing of communist seeds of doubt.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 06, 2025 08:24 AM (AneyV)

133 Pay my credit cards off every month. I like credit cards because they offer more consumer protection than any other.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 06, 2025 08:21 AM (AneyV)

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Same. I've twice had my CC information stolen, company notified me, killed the card and shipped me a new one.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at August 06, 2025 08:24 AM (tT6L1)

134 The WNBA was bombed again last night with another weapon of war, the infamous green dildo of destruction. This time in LA.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 06, 2025 08:24 AM (viF8m)

135 That they hid and corrupted the VAERS system tells you all you need to know about certain vaccines. When they started getting negative results, they basically subverted the system and didn’t share that information with the public anymore, or what they did share was “sanitized” for what they insidiously decided were “anomalies”. This allowed them along with their Big Pharma buddies to continue pushing mandatory vaccines without interruption, ultimately to line their pockets. They also hid some of the secondary ingredients being put into vaccines and the country of manufacture.

What RFKjr is doing is to open the books and allow people to see all this information for themselves. They also want to revise the “mandatory” vaccine schedule which some states are using as a “stick”
In order to enroll your child in public school. Some are even trying to mandate for home or private schooling.

Posted by: Marcus T, Jesus is Lord at August 06, 2025 08:25 AM (Dzvaz)

136 128
Happy American Technology Day! You Krauts and Nips might have done the same thing, but nooooo. You had to call it Jewish science!
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 06, 2025 08:23 AM

+++

You're welcome.

Posted by: The Patriarchy at August 06, 2025 08:25 AM (fafxz)

137 Today is National Root Beer Float Day.

Posted by: redridinghood at August 06, 2025 08:26 AM (NpAcC)

138
Fuck you. -- pharma execs with only 3 Lamborghinis and 2 mistresses
Posted by: I used to have a different nic
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You're correct.
There are some pharmacists and their directors who should be hanged.
There are also pharmaceutical companies that should be broken up.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 06, 2025 08:27 AM (AneyV)

139 It takes a tiny needle to sew seeds.

Posted by: Grammar Gestapo at August 06, 2025 08:27 AM (fafxz)

140 No one under 60 can read an analog clock, so it's discriminatory to sell/buy one.

Posted by: The Torture Never Stops at August 06, 2025 08:27 AM (G5+As)

141
I thought I read that the B-29 program actually cost more than the Manhattan Project.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 06, 2025 08:27 AM (kkTda)

142 Are you certain there is a Cat inside the box? There is a principle involved here.
Posted by: Werner Heisenberg at August 06, 2025 08:16 AM (XkVSB)

*shakes box vigorously*

I hear some screeching.
Wife just confirmed Sounds like you got a cat in that box.

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 06, 2025 08:28 AM (gbOdA)

143 Green Dildos of Destruction was the garage band name of the group that ultimately became known as The Sex Pistols.

Posted by: Music nerd at August 06, 2025 08:28 AM (fafxz)

144 134 The WNBA was bombed again last night with another weapon of war, the infamous green dildo of destruction. This time in LA.
Posted by: JackStraw
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Insert sex into the WNBA. Attendance rises.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 06, 2025 08:29 AM (AneyV)

145 @141 It did. 1.5x IIRC. And it gave us the modern passenger plane, jets to follow

Posted by: Ignoramus at August 06, 2025 08:29 AM (dtajH)

146
I don't know if he was on the Helena when it was sunk the battle of Kula Gulf. I suspect he was. I do remember WWII was something he did not talk about.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1)

His military records, available from the National Archives (for a fee) would settle that question.

I have those for my father and his father, although the most exciting thing in either case is that Grandpa was serving on the U.S.S. Maryland when President Hoover came aboard for some reason or another in the late 20s / early 30s.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh![ at August 06, 2025 08:29 AM (xG4kz)

147 134 The WNBA was bombed again last night with another weapon of war, the infamous green dildo of destruction. This time in LA.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 06, 2025 08:24 AM (viF8m)

Halftime Show Dildo Throw would be a crowd pleaser.

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 06, 2025 08:29 AM (gbOdA)

148
I was right. The B-29 program cost $3 billion and the Manhattan Project $1.9 billion.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 06, 2025 08:29 AM (kkTda)

149 Senator Marsha Blackburn is running for Tennessee governor.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 06, 2025 08:29 AM (viF8m)

150 Ghislaine Maxwell Fights To Keep Epstein Grand Jury Secrets Buried
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There are good reasons to keep Grand Jury records secret. They aren't open to rebuttal when recorded. In effect, it's as if we just too Brennan's word for things.

Posted by: Eeyore at August 06, 2025 08:30 AM (od0dV)

151
And both were, basically, just engineering projects.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 06, 2025 08:31 AM (kkTda)

152 "The B-29 program cost $3 billion and the Manhattan Project $1.9 billion."
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It's a write off, Jerry.
They just write it off.

Posted by: Kramer at August 06, 2025 08:31 AM (fafxz)

153 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 06, 2025 08:31 AM (Zz0t1)

154 > The WNBA was bombed again last night with another weapon of war, the infamous green dildo of destruction. This time in LA.
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Was green one of the colors you could bet on? This might be the "official dildo color of the WNBA."

The manufacturer is missing a golden opportunity to cash in.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 06, 2025 08:31 AM (Q4IgG)

155 Apparently 'Swish' does?
https://tinyurl.com/559bsdxy

I searched Google for terms: analog wall clock atomic wwvb

That came up first.
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at August 06, 2025

***
Yes, this weekend I was looking at LaCrosse clocks. Very nice.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 06, 2025 08:31 AM (omVj0)

156 The Nazis were never going to get the Bomb. They were incapable of getting the fuel, which required a massive effort in the safe American heartland.

Posted by: Ignoramus at August 06, 2025 08:32 AM (dtajH)

157 I actually had to look up a Lamborghini because I had no idea what that was aside from being an expensive car ( Meh) but I agree that most CEO's of pharma companies seem like they might just be interested in profits or certainly did during Covid.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 06, 2025 08:32 AM (2GCMq)

158 148
I was right. The B-29 program cost $3 billion and the Manhattan Project $1.9 billion.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 06, 2025 08:29 AM (kkTda)

Pop Sefton was in training to be a gun commander. Top turret and also in charge of all the other gunnery stations. Wanted him to change over to P-61 Black Widow night fighters and that's when the bombs dropped.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 06, 2025 08:32 AM (x0n13)

159 We've been infiltrated by commies and leftist Marxists for generations. They've taken our schools, or government and are actively destroying this country from within.

They achieve this because our side has no stones and allows it. There are no punishments. There is no accountability.

Largely, we're f*cked.

Communists used to be called out, ridiculed and ostracized. No more. Now, they get elected, appointed or straight up funded to destroy us and our way of life.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 06, 2025 08:33 AM (Zz0t1)

160 Big black Stirling is galloping around here as if he were a kitten again. He's usually hyper before breakfast, but not after. I wonder what's keying him up.

Maybe some "calming chews" are in order. . . .

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 06, 2025 08:33 AM (omVj0)

161 Jeez, I just accidentally swiped a "you won't believe these breast lifts" pop up, and it popped up.
For how long are similar ads going to stalk me now?
At least it wasn't an incontinence ad.

Posted by: From about That Time at August 06, 2025 08:33 AM (n4GiU)

162 *Was green one of the colors you could bet on? This might be the "official dildo color of the WNBA."*

We're on it.

Posted by: Draft Kings at August 06, 2025 08:33 AM (fafxz)

163 I think people throwing junk on a basketball court are morons, and not in a good way.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 06, 2025 08:34 AM (2GCMq)

164 Watching the WNBA is torture. Dildos being thrown on the court heightens the torture to absurdity.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 06, 2025 08:34 AM (r/xMY)

165 @Wolfus: What I really wanted, and have been unable to find, is a proper 24 hour analog wall clock (00:00 at the top of the dial, with 12:00 at the bottom) that has the WWVB auto-set feature.

Apparently I was asking for too much at once, and settled on the digital one.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at August 06, 2025 08:34 AM (O7YUW)

166 Americans engineer everything. If we're not engineering something we're loafing.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 06, 2025 08:34 AM (AneyV)

167
Halftime Show Dildo Throw would be a crowd pleaser.
Posted by: rhennigantx at August 06, 2025 08:29 AM (gbOdA)

The target at the other end of the court is a hairy bush between open legs.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 06, 2025 08:34 AM (Zz0t1)

168 If we had not dropped the bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan would not exist as a country today. They were prepared to send every man, woman, and child against the US soldiers. The intent was to give every life rather than surrender.

The US planners also expected at least a million US deaths and at least as many wounded in the invasion.

Posted by: Thomans Paine at August 06, 2025 08:34 AM (Vfq+S)

169 161 Jeez, I just accidentally swiped a "you won't believe these breast lifts" pop up, and it popped up.
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You know about the cup sizes?

Posted by: Frank Costanza at August 06, 2025 08:35 AM (fafxz)

170 His military records, available from the National Archives (for a fee) would settle that question.

I have those for my father and his father, although the most exciting thing in either case is that Grandpa was serving on the U.S.S. Maryland when President Hoover came aboard for some reason or another in the late 20s / early 30s.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh![ at August 06, 2025 08:29 AM (xG4kz)
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Great information, thanks. I'll have to see if I can get them.

Time to wander. Later!

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at August 06, 2025 08:35 AM (tT6L1)

171 Truman wrote it didn’t bother him a bit.

What bothered him was greenlighting an invasion, of a 1.5 million strong force, scheduled for 1 November 1945, of the home islands.

The Kamikaze attacks killed thousands of Navy sailors. Okinawa was brutal, Japanese did not even have a word for “Surrender”. Code of the Bushido. There is much to be admired about their culture, but the bombs gave their leadership an out - a way of saving face perhaps. Ending the war without a coups, and also without the Soviets invading, and having a part Communist Japan, the way Korea turned out.

Posted by: Werner Heisenberg at August 06, 2025 08:36 AM (nn1Cr)

172 Apparently I was asking for too much at once, and settled on the digital one.
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant
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You want a European or Military clock.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 06, 2025 08:36 AM (AneyV)

173 Watching the WNBA is torture. Dildos being thrown on the court heightens the torture to absurdity.
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 06, 2025 08:34 AM (r/xMY)

It's an absurd league. They get some premier talent infused and because they're white, they're targeted, maimed and abused. Then, the game is brought to a halt because one player LOSES THEIR WIG mid-play.

That's not a serious league. That's a grift.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 06, 2025 08:36 AM (Zz0t1)

174 My father-in-law was in Naval flight training in Pensacola when the bomb was dropped. He was 19. My father had just been liberated from the Nazis he lived under from 1940-45 in Norway. He was 14.

Posted by: Survival Is Good at August 06, 2025 08:37 AM (G5+As)

175 Senator Marsha Blackburn is running for Tennessee governor.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 06, 2025 08:29 AM (viF8m)
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Never stop sucking from the public trough

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 06, 2025 08:37 AM (JvZF+)

176 If I was given a revolver and told I could shoot the top five (it's a snubbie) miscreants of the three Obama terms, Susan Rice would be first.

Posted by: From about That Time at August 06, 2025 08:37 AM (n4GiU)

177 Is BLS corrupt or incompetent?

Yes

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at August 06, 2025 08:37 AM (AiNp4)

178 Furthermore, the report found no significant difference in school grades among demographically diverse children raised in intact families. Black and white students living with their fathers earn mostly similar grades and are equally unlikely to face behavioral problems at school. In other words, the achievement gap is not about race but rather family structure and stability.

well duh!

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 06, 2025 08:37 AM (gbOdA)

179 Big black Stirling is galloping around here as if he were a kitten again. He's usually hyper before breakfast, but not after. I wonder what's keying him up.

Maybe some "calming chews" are in order. . . .
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 06, 2025 08:33 AM (omVj0)
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Maybe he just has the "zoomies."

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 06, 2025 08:37 AM (7fElN)

180 Society must hold parents accountable for their children's failings
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I expected that to be BS, but it does raise interesting questions. One thing, implicit throughout, is that our culture has watered down shame to a stunning degree. How much is that due to the building up of "high trust" vs "honor" bases for society? Quick version: Maybe a single-axis way of looking at societies isn't the best way.

Posted by: Eeyore at August 06, 2025 08:37 AM (od0dV)

181 I searched Google for terms: analog wall clock atomic wwvb

That came up first.
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at August 06, 2025

I remember listening to Wally Wally Victor as dad roamed the house attempting to set the clocks way back when.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 06, 2025 08:38 AM (Zz0t1)

182 I'm not yelling
I'm speaking Cantonese

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 06, 2025 08:38 AM (JvZF+)

183 176 If I was given a revolver and told I could shoot the top five (it's a snubbie) miscreants of the three Obama terms, Susan Rice would be first.
Posted by: From about That Time at August 06, 2025 08:37 AM (n4GiU)

I would shoot Hilldog 5 times

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 06, 2025 08:38 AM (gbOdA)

184 Do they make blinking dildoes?
They should throw blinking dildos onto the court.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 06, 2025 08:38 AM (AneyV)

185 Wolfus: What I really wanted, and have been unable to find, is a proper 24 hour analog wall clock (00:00 at the top of the dial, with 12:00 at the bottom) that has the WWVB auto-set feature.

Apparently I was asking for too much at once, and settled on the digital one.
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at August 06, 2025

***
La Crosse has a very nice 10-inch one, a dark case with steel-blue trim, with the auto-set feature for $49. Think I'll go for that.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 06, 2025 08:39 AM (omVj0)

186 And so it begins....
Another Mamdani progressive, Katie Wilson, beats the incumbent in the Democrat primary for mayor of Seattle.

Posted by: redridinghood at August 06, 2025 08:39 AM (NpAcC)

187 Democrat Rep. Delia Ramirez (D-IL) needs to be removed as an American in-office politician.

Posted by: Joe at August 06, 2025 08:39 AM (Uy/WF)

188 Posted by: From about That Time at August 06, 2025 08:37 AM (n4GiU)
====
Valerie Jarrett

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 06, 2025 08:39 AM (JvZF+)

189 The Los Angeles Dildos of Anaheim has a nice ring to it

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at August 06, 2025 08:40 AM (AiNp4)

190 Man imagine working 60 hours a week, taking care of your house, property, family, finding time to hit the gym 5x a week. It's inconceivable.

Posted by: BruceWayne at August 06, 2025 08:40 AM (MGB5H)

191 "And both were, basically, just engineering projects."

Vannevar Bush was more of an engineer than a scientist. He was a pioneer in analog computers, which actually worked. His protege Claude Shannon invented the modern digital computer by embedding formal logic into electric switches. In his late 1940 writings, Bush anticipated the PC and the internet.

Posted by: Ignoramus at August 06, 2025 08:40 AM (dtajH)

192 Ok city was either islamic terror or a plot along the lines of the Whitmer "kidnapping". This is what I've always believed. But then I'm "crazy".

Posted by: ... at August 06, 2025 08:40 AM (jRYyy)

193 Woman Says She Can't Work 40 Hours a Week and Still Find Time to Shower...So She Quit
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Anything less than having everything handed to you on a silver platter is oppression. Good luck with life.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at August 06, 2025 08:40 AM (Dv3i1)

194 179 Big black Stirling is galloping around here as if he were a kitten again. He's usually hyper before breakfast, but not after. I wonder what's keying him up.

Maybe some "calming chews" are in order. . . .
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 06, 2025 08:33 AM (omVj0)
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Maybe he just has the "zoomies."
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 06, 2025

***
Usually he naps after breakfast. Something is stirring him up. Possibly yesterday's flea treatment is making his fleas thrash around as they die (I hope), and that's making him twitchy.

Dagny got the same treatment, and she's doing fine.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 06, 2025 08:41 AM (omVj0)

195 How much more left can Seattle really get though? It’s already at 11.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at August 06, 2025 08:41 AM (AiNp4)

196 I prefer Carmen Miranda ) from.Brazil to this politician who loves Guatemala. I wasn't following all the details of this, but I assume she doesn't like illegals being deported . After all, she's a Dem. However , if she meant " I am proud of my Guatemalan heritage " that was not how the sentence came out.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 06, 2025 08:41 AM (2GCMq)

197 It's difficult to be analogue and atomic at the same time.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 06, 2025 08:41 AM (AneyV)

198 ‘ Democrat politicians like Hakeem Jeffries, Mayor Wu of Boston, Tim Walz, and Mayor Bass of Los Angeles’

Did they break any current laws that we can arrest them for right now?

Posted by: Dr. Claw at August 06, 2025 08:41 AM (jbnUc)

199 I had read that there was not a third bomb in existence after Fat Man did its business on Nagasaki.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot

There was a third bomb in production, but the refinement of uranium was a very slow process, so it would have taken several weeks to be ready. That bomb is part of the grim story of the first US atomic casualties, as the technicians exposed themselves to radiation by exposing the core.

Posted by: Thomans Paine at August 06, 2025 08:41 AM (Vfq+S)

200
The Japs knew they weren't going to win. Their aim was to make the battle for the home islands so brutal that we'd give up and agree on better terms.

And it was brutal. Okinawa was a horrible meat grinder for the Army and Navy. And Kyushu was going to be much worse. The Japs had learned more about kamikaze tactics and were going to go for transports, not armed ships. It would have been a slaughterhouse on both sides.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 06, 2025 08:42 AM (kkTda)

201 184 Do they make blinking dildoes?

You do not want to know.

Posted by: clarence at August 06, 2025 08:42 AM (EjTJl)

202 Woman Says She Can't Work 40 Hours a Week and Still Find Time to Shower...So She Quit
_____

I know a guy that refuses to mow the lawn in the house he lives in rent free because he "works a full time job."

That doesn't stop him from spending hours a day playing video games online and streaming shit.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 06, 2025 08:42 AM (Zz0t1)

203 60 hours is old skool and a sign of laziness. The hot new thing is 996. Work 9-9, 6 days a week.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at August 06, 2025 08:42 AM (AiNp4)

204 Anything less than having everything handed to you on a silver platter is oppression. Good luck with life.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at August 06, 2025 08:40 AM (Dv3i1)

So true.

Posted by: Michelle Obama at August 06, 2025 08:42 AM (Zz0t1)

205 You want a European or Military clock.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 06, 2025 08:36 AM (AneyV)
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oh...clock!

and here I was puzzling over the distinction between a military and European Glock

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 06, 2025 08:42 AM (Ry0uK)

206 >>> if she meant " I am proud of my Guatemalan heritage " that was not how the sentence came out.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke
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She's a commie rabble rowser.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 06, 2025 08:43 AM (AneyV)

207 DSA Admits Socialist Zohran Mamdani Gives Them Best Position to ‘Seize State Power’
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I don't know. That could be the quickest way to a solution; sacrificing NY to save the country. (It's not as if NY is worth the trouble, anyway. And note, I'm 4th generation New Yorker, still have family there. But it's doomed anyway.)

Posted by: Eeyore at August 06, 2025 08:43 AM (od0dV)

208 I'm not yelling
I'm a Russian yenta reminding Franpsycho to bundle and wrap his young children because it is 45 degrees outside and they are obviously about to die due to hypothermia and they might call the police.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 06, 2025 08:43 AM (JvZF+)

209 rabble-rouser

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 06, 2025 08:43 AM (AneyV)

210 "We have considered deeply the general trends of the world and the current situation of the Empire, and We have decided to take extraordinary measures to bring the current state of affairs to an end. We hereby inform Our loyal and devoted subjects.

We have commanded the Imperial Government to communicate to the governments of the United States, Great Britain, China, and the Soviet Union that the Empire accepts the terms of their Joint Declaration."

Posted by: Emporer Hirohito at August 06, 2025 08:43 AM (fafxz)

211 > Woman Says She Can't Work 40 Hours a Week and Still Find Time to Shower...So She Quit
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The "burning times" are going to take a lot, I mean a lot of people. This level of helplessness is staggering.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 06, 2025 08:44 AM (Q4IgG)

212 I saw LA Green Dildo open for the Red Hit Chili Peppers at the Palladium in 1990

Posted by: gKWVE at August 06, 2025 08:45 AM (lmXsx)

213 Thought a yenta was a match-maker.
Or is it a dual use word?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 06, 2025 08:45 AM (AneyV)

214 Credit card debt equalled an all-time high record amount at month end, the Fed reported. Over half of credit card users pay their bills in full every month and do not carry balances, according to their analysis, which surprised me. So 46% of credit card users are burdened with record debt, carrying interest rates of 20% plus.

That fact probably explains why so few working class people can buy a house.

Posted by: Huck Follywood

The first rule of credit cards is to never carry a balance. There is a reason that the credit card companies put their operations in the states with the weakest usury laws.

Posted by: Thomans Paine at August 06, 2025 08:45 AM (Vfq+S)

215 Saw a Porta-potty @O'hare graffitied "ICE getem boyz".

Posted by: DaveA at August 06, 2025 08:46 AM (FhXTo)

216 In my younger days I was on board with work work work culture. As I’ve aged I realize that’s dumb. I put in my 40 and I’m done.

Unless you own the company there’s no incentive to go above and beyond. This term has been called “quiet quitting” which is really retarded. It’s like I do the job I’m paid for and somehow I’m a quitter? lol. Da fuq outta here with that shit.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at August 06, 2025 08:46 AM (AiNp4)

217
The "burning times" are going to take a lot, I mean a lot of people. This level of helplessness is staggering.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 06, 2025 08:44 AM (Q4IgG)

_________

We've gone from a nation of farmers who got up at 3:00 to milk the cows to one where perfectly healthy people can't get out of bed for days.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 06, 2025 08:46 AM (kkTda)

218
The first rule of credit cards is to never carry a balance. There is a reason that the credit card companies put their operations in the states with the weakest usury laws.
Posted by: Thomans Paine at August 06, 2025 08:45 AM (Vfq+S)

However, the easiest way to get positive credit is to carry a balance, then pay it off after the next 30 to 60 days. Showing debt then a payoff adds positivity to your credit score.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 06, 2025 08:47 AM (Zz0t1)

219 Depends who creates the al Gore Rhythms - jjs
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Precisely. My own view is just let them gerrymander away. Though I'm not sure it's a good idea to allow mid-decade redistricting. (Not that I'm not all for us doing it now. But I suspect it's a bad policy, in general.)

Posted by: Eeyore at August 06, 2025 08:47 AM (od0dV)

220 Woman Says She Can't Work 40 Hours a Week and Still Find Time to Shower...So She Quit
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I know a guy that refuses to mow the lawn in the house he lives in rent free because he "works a full time job."

That doesn't stop him from spending hours a day playing video games online and streaming shit.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 06, 2025 08:42 AM (Zz0t1)
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I bet all of us know people (or we ARE people) who work 60+ hours per week, take care of families, take care of household responsibilities, AND find time for charitable works in the community.

Oh, and they take showers, too.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 06, 2025 08:47 AM (7fElN)

221 Prayers for all the civilians who lost their lives because of World War 2.
May they rest in peace.

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at August 06, 2025 08:48 AM (G9bbC)

222 >>> if she meant " I am proud of my Guatemalan heritage " that was not how the sentence came out.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke
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She's a commie rabble rowser.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 06, 2025 08:43 AM (AneyV)

Her festive little hat status?

Posted by: Count de Monet at August 06, 2025 08:48 AM (wVcYX)

223 In other words, the achievement gap is not about race but rather family structure and stability.

Almost as if traditional families work. SHOCKER!

Posted by: NR Pax at August 06, 2025 08:48 AM (lXoJ5)

224 They needed nuclear material for testing, because the longhairs were not sure how much fissionable material was necessary for critical mass. But the amount of plutonium on hand was about the size of a grain of salt. Groves expected estimates that were fairly precise, but early on they weren’t sure. Imagine you are told to cook breakfast, and 10 people might show up, or 1000.

Then it was discovered that the “gun type” of bomb was unsuitable for plutonium. Now they had a problem, because implosion was technically very difficult. That’s why the uranium bomb was never tested (well - over Hiroshima) they knew it would work. The plutonium bomb had to be tested, despite the lack of material, which was done in July of ‘45 out in New Mexico.

Posted by: Werner Heisenberg at August 06, 2025 08:49 AM (nn1Cr)

225 I bet all of us know people (or we ARE people) who work 60+ hours per week, take care of families, take care of household responsibilities, AND find time for charitable works in the community.

Oh, and they take showers, too.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 06, 2025 08:47 AM (7fElN)/i]

I spent a lot of years working long hours. Being in my 29's prevents me from doing that very often anymore, but I WILL be at work at around 02:30 on Sunday morning for several hours this weekend.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 06, 2025 08:49 AM (Zz0t1)

226 yenta is any old lady who needs to mind her own business.

One of the main functions of a yenta is to seek out and marry off every eligible person they find.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 06, 2025 08:49 AM (JvZF+)

227
I bet all of us know people (or we ARE people) who work 60+ hours per week, take care of families, take care of household responsibilities, AND find time for charitable works in the community.

________

OK boomer

*watches Netflix for 18 hours straight*

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 06, 2025 08:49 AM (kkTda)

228 Virginia Gubernatorial Hopeful Abigail Spanberger Raked In $50,000 From CCP Member and EV Tycoon
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Unfortunately, she'll almost certainly win. PO'd NOVA bureaucrats - who shouldn't get to vote - will ensure that.

Posted by: Eeyore at August 06, 2025 08:49 AM (od0dV)

229 Prayers also for the recovery of Big Balls, who has demonstrated he has physical as well as moral courage in coming to the rescue of a young lady being car jacked by a gang of DC yutes.

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at August 06, 2025 08:50 AM (G9bbC)

230 In my younger days I was on board with work work work culture. As I’ve aged I realize that’s dumb. I put in my 40 and I’m done.

That's why I've been very aggressive with my retirement plan. I want out of Maryland and I would like to work less.

Posted by: NR Pax at August 06, 2025 08:50 AM (lXoJ5)

231 84 Posted by: Eeyore at August 06, 2025 08:02 AM (od0dV)

That route still would have killed more Japanese than the bombs did.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 06, 2025 08:11 AM (ExV1e)
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Yes, it would.

Posted by: Eeyore at August 06, 2025 08:50 AM (od0dV)

232 221 Prayers for all the civilians who lost their lives because of World War 2.
May they rest in peace.
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at August 06, 2025 08:48 AM (G9bbC)

Most of the Americans who died fighting Imperial Japan were civilians right up until those pricks bombed Pearl Harbor without declaring war.

It's why the civilian/military distinction is especially preposterous in the context of this discussion.

Screw their civilian dead.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at August 06, 2025 08:51 AM (wKJf5)

233 According to The National Pulse, this secretive operation, once known as the Counter Disinformation Unit during the COVID-19 lockdowns, has been rebranded as the National Security and Online Information Team (NSOIT) and is now targeting online dissent about migrants housed in hotels. This move is not just a bureaucratic shuffle; it’s a deliberate escalation of authoritarianism and Orwell’s total awareness surveillance, as depicted in “Nineteen-Eighty-Four.”

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 06, 2025 08:51 AM (gbOdA)

234 Another Mamdani progressive, Katie Wilson, beats the incumbent in the Democrat primary for mayor of Seattle.
Posted by: redridinghood at August 06, 2025 08:39 AM (NpAcC)
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Describing these candidates as "progressive" doesn't sit well with me, as they are really regressive communists or terrorists smiling for cameras, throwbacks to fifty years or more ago.

There has to be a better, more descriptive name than "progressive", but I don't know what it is. Bill Maher calls Madmani a "straight up communist", fwiw.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 06, 2025 08:52 AM (mkzvC)

235 I have those for my father and his father, although the most exciting thing in either case is that Grandpa was serving on the U.S.S. Maryland when President Hoover came aboard for some reason or another in the late 20s / early 30s.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot
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My Dad was on the Maryland too

Posted by: Swamp Rabbit at August 06, 2025 08:52 AM (5hfjS)

236 Big Balls' testes grew three sizes that day

Posted by: gKWVE at August 06, 2025 08:52 AM (lmXsx)

237 Prayers also for the recovery of Big Balls, who has demonstrated he has physical as well as moral courage in coming to the rescue of a young lady being car jacked by a gang of DC yutes.
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at August 06, 2025 08:50 AM (G9bbC)
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And now we know how he earned that name.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 06, 2025 08:53 AM (JvZF+)

238 He has a first name?

Posted by: gKWVE at August 06, 2025 08:53 AM (lmXsx)

239 I have read that the Japanese had sharpened sticks and wooded knives and planned to have schoolchildren in the fight.

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 06, 2025 08:54 AM (gbOdA)

240 234. I think the Seattle Mayor is going to a runoff?

Posted by: Jonah at August 06, 2025 08:54 AM (YCxFk)

241 doing morning PT.

Drop and give me...
Never mind.

Posted by: DaveA at August 06, 2025 08:54 AM (FhXTo)

242 Working 60 hours shouldn’t be something to brag about. Only exception is if you own the business.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at August 06, 2025 08:54 AM (AiNp4)

243 It’s interesting to consider, now that you mention it, most of our dystopian open air insane asylum in this country is due to the globalist commies working overtime for decades to destroy families, as this is considered a prerequisite to global governance and ending sovereign nations and all that nonsense.

They blame “Capitalism” too, for all the woes, ironically enough. Even the so-called “black lives matter” website is totally onboard with family destruction. Ya do have to have a certain grudging admiration for fvcking people’s minds over that thoroughly.

Posted by: Werner Heisenberg at August 06, 2025 08:54 AM (nn1Cr)

244 Somewhere in the afterlife Tojo is hanging out with the Aztecs.

Posted by: gKWVE at August 06, 2025 08:54 AM (lmXsx)

245 Grandfather was on the Queen Mary for the right over.
Marching to Battle of the Bulge he was wounded and sent back home on the Queen Mary as a Hospital Ship.

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 06, 2025 08:55 AM (gbOdA)

246 Huh. The Visa program to post a bond of between 5k and 15k is interesting.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 06, 2025 08:55 AM (bss/y)

247 Screw their civilian dead.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at August 06, 2025 08:51 AM (wKJf5)

Nagasaki was picked as alternate target partly because there was no POW camp nearby.
There was no POW camp because the Nagasaki residents were considered untrustworthy by the Jap govt, mainly because so many of them were Christians.

Let's not dismiss the price civilians paid for the games of the power hungry warmongers of the Axis.

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at August 06, 2025 08:55 AM (G9bbC)

248 These progressive mayors of Big Cities only have real power when they have a safety net in D.C funding their communism.

Posted by: Jonah at August 06, 2025 08:56 AM (YCxFk)

249 I spent a lot of years working long hours. Being in my 29's prevents me from doing that very often anymore, but I WILL be at work at around 02:30 on Sunday morning for several hours this weekend.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 06, 2025 08:49 AM (Zz0t1)
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Can't say I've ever had to come in at 02:30, but I have started my day as early 4 a.m. or so when I've worked from home just because that's when I felt productive.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 06, 2025 08:56 AM (7fElN)

250 Prayers also for the recovery of Big Balls, who has demonstrated he has physical as well as moral courage in coming to the rescue of a young lady being car jacked by a gang of DC yutes.
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at August 06, 2025 08:50 AM (G9bbC)
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And now we know how he earned that name.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 06, 2025 08:53 AM (JvZF+)
******
Definitely prayers for him. He really is a hero.

Posted by: redridinghood at August 06, 2025 08:57 AM (NpAcC)

251 The UAW endorsed Madmani.

There are Manhattan autoworkers? Who knew.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 06, 2025 08:57 AM (mkzvC)

252 They blame “Capitalism” too, for all the woes, ironically enough. Even the so-called “black lives matter” website is totally onboard with family destruction. Ya do have to have a certain grudging admiration for fvcking people’s minds over that thoroughly.
Posted by: Werner Heisenberg at August 06, 2025 08:54 AM (nn1Cr)

“It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own self-interest. We address ourselves not to their humanity but to their self-love, and never talk to them of our own necessities, but of their advantages”

Posted by: A Smith at August 06, 2025 08:57 AM (gbOdA)

253 Valerie Jarrett
Posted by: San Franpsycho
She's next on my list, then another woman who's name escapes me.
I'm skipping Obama and the Hildebeast as too obvious. Hopefully they'll have been torn limb from limb by the mob.

Posted by: From about That Time at August 06, 2025 08:58 AM (n4GiU)

254 Working 60 hours shouldn’t be something to brag about. Only exception is if you own the business.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at August 06, 2025 08:54 AM (AiNp4)

It does show a willingness to go the extra mile, regardless, and a passion for what you do and a desire for overall success.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 06, 2025 08:58 AM (Zz0t1)

255 Working 60 hours shouldn’t be something to brag about. Only exception is if you own the business.

Someone on Twitter posted an exchange with a guy who owns his company. It's a startup and he expects people to put in 80 hours/week. He told a potential employee that asking for work/life balance was a deal killer during their interview.

My thoughts: "The only reason I would give that much time is if I owned the company and worked from home."

Posted by: NR Pax at August 06, 2025 08:58 AM (lXoJ5)

256 If you can dream it, we can tax it.

Posted by: The People's Republic of Maryland at August 06, 2025 08:58 AM (fafxz)

257 Look up "Demon Core" sometime.

Via Wiki:
The demon core was a sphere of plutonium that was involved in two fatal radiation accidents when scientists tested it as a fissile core of an early atomic bomb. It was manufactured in 1945 by the Manhattan Project, the U.S. nuclear weapon development effort during World War II. It was a subcritical mass that weighed 6.2 kilograms (14 lb) and was 8.9 centimeters (3.5 in) in diameter. The core was prepared for shipment to the Pacific Theater as part of the third nuclear weapon to be dropped on Japan, but when Japan surrendered, the core was retained for testing and potential later use in the case of another conflict.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 06, 2025 08:59 AM (Q4IgG)

258 ---
Can't say I've ever had to come in at 02:30, but I have started my day as early 4 a.m. or so when I've worked from home just because that's when I felt productive.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 06, 2025 08:56 AM (7fElN)

I've been on site for 26 hours, gotten 4 or 5 hours of sleep, then back on site for another 30..........I was a LOT younger then.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 06, 2025 09:00 AM (Zz0t1)

259 242 Working 60 hours shouldn’t be something to brag about. Only exception is if you own the business.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald
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You wouldn't have been on my short list for long.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 06, 2025 09:00 AM (AneyV)

260 It’s like I do the job I’m paid for and somehow I’m a quitter? lol. Da fuq outta here with that shit.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at August 06, 2025 08:46 AM (AiNp4)

Quiet Quitting means *not* doing the job you're paid for, and knowing that the odds of you getting fired are acceptably low thanks to inertia and general corporate stupidity.

Anyone saying a person who does their job, but doesn't go nuts about it or try to climb the proverbial ladder, is "quiet quitting" is just plain wrong.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 06, 2025 09:01 AM (rIQZh)

261 30 26 Good morning Horde, thx JJ. Has American Thinker gone paywall?. Understand if it does but unfortunate
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 06, 2025 07:47 AM (r/xMY)

Yes. It appears that way. Too bad
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 06, 2025 07:49 AM (x0n13)

It's not on purpose,
"Unfortunately, some of our readers have been receiving a rogue ad blocker message that prevents access to American Thinker's content. Our technical team is working to resolve the problem. "

^ this is posted on their page.

Posted by: Inogame at August 06, 2025 09:01 AM (53oGX)

262 I have read that the Japanese had sharpened sticks and wooded knives and planned to have schoolchildren in the fight.

Posted by: rhennigantx

Yes, the plan for the expected invasion was that everyone in Japan was expected to fight and die for the home country.

Posted by: Thomans Paine at August 06, 2025 09:01 AM (Vfq+S)

263 Someone on Twitter posted an exchange with a guy who owns his company. It's a startup and he expects people to put in 80 hours/week. He told a potential employee that asking for work/life balance was a deal killer during their interview.

My thoughts: "The only reason I would give that much time is if I owned the company and worked from home."
Posted by: NR Pax at August 06, 2025 08:58 AM (lXoJ5)

I'm not doing that for less than part ownership in said company. Demanding that from the start and just earning a simple wage isn't going to move my needle at all.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 06, 2025 09:02 AM (Zz0t1)

264 Benny Johnson interviews the lady who was knocked unconcious in the Cincinnati beatdown, if you are curious. Link to Youtube

https://tinyurl.com/bdh48uhn

Posted by: Chuck Martel at August 06, 2025 09:03 AM (Dv3i1)

265 Working 60 hours shouldn’t be something to brag about. Only exception is if you own the business.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald

Different strokes for ifferent folks with different aspirations/ priorities

Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at August 06, 2025 09:03 AM (FxH7T)

266 Blackburn is selfish. We need her in the Senate, and now creates a open seat going into a midterm election. Granted Tenn is deep red but strange things can happen

Posted by: Jonah at August 06, 2025 09:03 AM (YCxFk)

267 253 Valerie Jarrett
Posted by: San Franpsycho
She's next on my list, then another woman who's name escapes me.
I'm skipping Obama and the Hildebeast as too obvious. Hopefully they'll have been torn limb from limb by the mob.
Posted by: From about That Time at August 06, 2025 08:58 AM (n4GiU)

Linda Something the one that went to congress to pinky swear that Russia info was real.

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 06, 2025 09:04 AM (gbOdA)

268 Benny Johnson interviews the lady who was knocked unconcious in the Cincinnati beatdown, if you are curious. Link to Youtube

https://tinyurl.com/bdh48uhn
Posted by: Chuck Martel at August 06, 2025 09:03 AM (Dv3i1)

Johnson started a GiveSendGo, I think, for the woman. Charlie Sheen even donated $1000.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 06, 2025 09:04 AM (Zz0t1)

269 Demanding that from the start and just earning a simple wage isn't going to move my needle at all.

And now reminded of a guy who runs a company and had two employees that were great but they always left on time and weren't doing things for the company outside of work.

"How can I get this to change?"

The most popular response was (Paraphrased) "You people will do anything other than increasing someone's salary."

Posted by: NR Pax at August 06, 2025 09:05 AM (lXoJ5)

270 228 Virginia Gubernatorial Hopeful Abigail Spanberger Raked In $50,000 From CCP Member and EV Tycoon
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Unfortunately, she'll almost certainly win. PO'd NOVA bureaucrats - who shouldn't get to vote - will ensure that.

Posted by: Eeyore at August 06, 2025 08:49 AM (od0dV)

Unemployment does tend to be the ultimate vote motivator...we always say jobs, jobs, jobs, so VA will be no surprise this year.

Posted by: Nova Local at August 06, 2025 09:05 AM (tOcjL)

271 People often ask how the Democrats can be so out of touch and extreme.

And part of the answer is a bunch of them aren't even Americans.

No one is surprised that if you go to Guatemala that their political culture is wildly different from ours, so then if you bring a Guatemalan here and give her a political title why would anyone be surprised that she still follow the Guatemala political culture instead of our own?

Posted by: 18-1 at August 06, 2025 09:05 AM (t0Rmr)

272 Jerome "Too Late" Powell refuses to lower rates, despite indications he is harming the economy. VDH calls it:

Amid pressure from Trump, Powell has reportedly told trusted colleagues that he intends to finish his tenure, which concludes in May 2026. During an appearance on “Kudlow,” Hanson said that Powell has shown signs of personal sensitivity and agitation while responding to public criticism, especially from President Donald Trump.

“I think he’s very sensitive. He’s kind of like Merrick Garland. Merrick Garland was broken by the Republicans when they delayed his Supreme Court nomination into nothing, and he never forgave them. And he was sort of an erratic and vindictive attorney general, and Powell is starting to show the same symptoms as Garland,” Hanson told host Larry Kudlow.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 06, 2025 09:05 AM (mkzvC)

273 OT-prayer request . Someone I know who is highly strung at the moment /not without some reason-is going into what might be a contentious job meeting. Shortly . If you could pray for calmness for all concerned and rough places made smooth to the glory of God- I would most grateful . Thanks.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 06, 2025 09:05 AM (21XMo)

274 'Brag' I am not sure is the right word.

More along the lines 'Damn, look at that. That kind of sucked.' And then being willing to do it again.

The way I always described it to anyone: 'This is not slavery. Every day you hit the time clock on your way in, you are saying 'I am ok with this.' If, at some point, you are no longer ok with this, you know where the clock is.'

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 06, 2025 09:06 AM (bss/y)

275 7 am to 7 pm?

Half day schedule. Luxury!

Posted by: Farmers & Ranchers at August 06, 2025 09:06 AM (nn1Cr)

276 Benny Johnson
@bennyjohnson

BREAKING: DHS Secretary Kristi Noem announces over 80,000 new applications have been submitted to join ICE.

This is incredible.

https://tinyurl.com/yjfbxhc4

Posted by: redridinghood at August 06, 2025 09:06 AM (NpAcC)

277 Imagine being such a fucktart that you pledge alliance to an incandescent shithole of shitholes like Guatemala — fucking Guatemala — over the USA. Deport this fucking cunt, along with her entire family. No mercy.

Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at August 06, 2025 09:06 AM (ioNiu)

278 Side bet on the Trinity test igniting the atmosphere? Place your bets here.

Posted by: Enrico Fermi at August 06, 2025 09:06 AM (wVcYX)

279 "How can I get this to change?"

The most popular response was (Paraphrased) "You people will do anything other than increasing someone's salary."
Posted by: NR Pax at August 06, 2025 09:05 AM (lXoJ5)

Giving someone a piece of the pie can be a GREAT motivator.

We're asking the First Daughter to start paying her car payment (a portion of it, anyway) so she has a skin in the game and understands the concept of paying your way a little better. She's responding quite well thus far.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 06, 2025 09:06 AM (Zz0t1)

280 Both kinds of work style should be open to people, and employers ought to be very up front with what's expected. Hiring someone for 40 hrs a week, and negotiating a salary based on 40hrs, then saying they suck for not working 80hrs, is bullshit. Some people want that though.

If you don't want a boss up your ass demanding results yesterday, don't work for a start up. If you aren't a start up and don't intend to dangle the high risk benefits of being at a start up, then don't demand your salaried employees LARP as if they work for that sort of thing.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 06, 2025 09:07 AM (rIQZh)

281
My thoughts: "The only reason I would give that much time is if I owned the company and worked from home."

This.

Hardwork is something of value but on your deathbed you aren't going to care about how many hours you put in at the office.

Now, leaving your family a successful business? That's a little different but still...you'll wish you spent more time with your family not with your clients...

Posted by: 18-1 at August 06, 2025 09:07 AM (t0Rmr)

282 BREAKING: DHS Secretary Kristi Noem announces over 80,000 new applications have been submitted to join ICE.

This is incredible.

https://tinyurl.com/yjfbxhc4
Posted by: redridinghood at August 06, 2025 09:06 AM (NpAcC)

Aren't they offering something like a $50k bonus, tuition forgiveness and some other benefits to entice signing up?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 06, 2025 09:07 AM (Zz0t1)

283 Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 06, 2025 09:05 AM (21XMo)

Sure Fen. I am not the best for business meetings being made smooth...

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 06, 2025 09:07 AM (bss/y)

284 And now reminded of a guy who runs a company and had two employees that were great but they always left on time and weren't doing things for the company outside of work.

"How can I get this to change?"

The most popular response was (Paraphrased) "You people will do anything other than increasing someone's salary."

Posted by: NR Pax

Funny how the same people who ask you to be on call at all hours and be a team player get very reticent when it comes time for raises and potential equity.

Posted by: Thomans Paine at August 06, 2025 09:08 AM (Vfq+S)

285 BREAKING: DHS Secretary Kristi Noem announces over 80,000 new applications have been submitted to join ICE.

This is incredible.

https://tinyurl.com/yjfbxhc4
Posted by: redridinghood at August 06, 2025 09:06 AM (NpAcC)

You want to join now that the border, she is secure?

Johnny come lately. (joke)

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 06, 2025 09:09 AM (bss/y)

286 Miss Plus size Guatemala is the Daughter of 2 illegal parents... I believe she's an anchor baby... It's not too late to remove them...

Posted by: It's me donna at August 06, 2025 09:09 AM (VE6XX)

287 If you can advance your position in some way (promotion, increased pay, gaining experience that can lead to better opportunities), working lots of hours makes sense. But you're trading something you won't get back and can't get more of (life) for money, so it needs to be worth it. I don't blame lots of people for being unwilling to slave away for indifferent bosses and companies that would can them without shedding a tear if doing so served their interests. Most people have jobs, not careers.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at August 06, 2025 09:10 AM (wKJf5)

288 It does show a willingness to go the extra mile, regardless, and a passion for what you do and a desire for overall success.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 06, 2025 08:58 AM (Zz0t1)

How is giving 20 hours of free labor away successful?

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at August 06, 2025 09:10 AM (AiNp4)

289 December 9, 2016 — The Obama White House gathers top cabinet officials for a National Security
Council Principals Committee (PC) Meeting. James Clapper, John Brennan, Susan Rice, John Kerry,
Brian McKeon, Loretta Lynch, Andrew McCabe, and Avril Haines are among those in attendance.

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 06, 2025 09:11 AM (gbOdA)

290 Jerome "Too Late" Powell refuses to lower rates, despite indications he is harming the economy. VDH calls it:

Amid pressure from Trump, Powell has reportedly told trusted colleagues that he intends to finish his tenure, which concludes in May 2026. During an appearance on “Kudlow,” Hanson said that Powell has shown signs of personal sensitivity and agitation while responding to public criticism, especially from President Donald Trump.

“I think he’s very sensitive. He’s kind of like Merrick Garland. Merrick Garland was broken by the Republicans when they delayed his Supreme Court nomination into nothing, and he never forgave them. And he was sort of an erratic and vindictive attorney general, and Powell is starting to show the same symptoms as Garland,” Hanson told host Larry Kudlow.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 06, 2025 09:05 AM (mkzvC)

I owe you an apology, Mr. Fed Chair. I always thought that you were a cold, unimaginative, tight-lipped bureaucrat. But you're really quite emotional, aren't you?

Posted by: Major John Reisman at August 06, 2025 09:12 AM (wVcYX)

291 >>My thoughts: "The only reason I would give that much time is if I owned the company and worked from home."

Welcome to my world.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 06, 2025 09:12 AM (viF8m)

292 Miss Plus size Guatemala is the Daughter of 2 illegal parents... I believe she's an anchor baby... It's not too late to remove them...
Posted by: It's me donna at August 06, 2025 09:09 AM (VE6XX)

I think her hubby is a daca kid too.

Posted by: BruceWayne at August 06, 2025 09:12 AM (MGB5H)

293 Lisa Monaco was the gal sent to congress to tell them Russia Russia Russia was real real real.

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 06, 2025 09:12 AM (gbOdA)

294 Merrick Garland was broken by the Republicans when they delayed his Supreme Court nomination into nothing

Its funny, when Congress stops a number of Republican nominees to the SC its just politics but when some extreme leftwing lunatic is denied a seat we all have to worry about his fee fees.

Posted by: 18-1 at August 06, 2025 09:12 AM (t0Rmr)

295 287 If you can advance your position in some way (promotion, increased pay, gaining experience that can lead to better opportunities), working lots of hours makes sense. But you're trading something you won't get back and can't get more of (life) for money, so it needs to be worth it. I don't blame lots of people for being unwilling to slave away for indifferent bosses and companies that would can them without shedding a tear if doing so served their interests. Most people have jobs, not careers.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at August 06, 2025 09:10 AM (wKJf5)

People aren't buying into "You need to suffer because misery makes you a badass" anymore.

Posted by: XTC at August 06, 2025 09:13 AM (UnA8+)

296 Aren't they offering something like a $50k bonus, tuition forgiveness and some other benefits to entice signing up?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 06, 2025 09:07 AM (Zz0t1)
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Yes, they are.

Posted by: redridinghood at August 06, 2025 09:13 AM (NpAcC)

297 I worked for a startup. And put in crazy hours. But I had equity in it. If the company did well I did well. And it did pay off in the long run.

But if you’re a regular employee, salaried, no equity and you’re working for free after 5, you’re just working for free and someone else is getting the benefit.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at August 06, 2025 09:13 AM (AiNp4)

298 “I think he’s very sensitive. He’s kind of like Merrick Garland. Merrick Garland was broken by the Republicans when they delayed his Supreme Court nomination into nothing, and he never forgave them. And he was sort of an erratic and vindictive attorney general, and Powell is starting to show the same symptoms as Garland,” Hanson told host Larry Kudlow.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 06, 2025 09:05 AM (mkzvC)
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I drink his tears with Joy.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 06, 2025 09:14 AM (JvZF+)

299 @172/Braenyard: "You want a European or Military clock."

Yep, I know.

But try finding one with the analog 24 hour face and that also has a way of setting its own time via WWVB or maybe via a GPS signal. I'd even accept one that had built-in WIFI that could connect to my wireless router, and synch the time off the NTP service running there.

Still looking.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at August 06, 2025 09:14 AM (O7YUW)

300 Upon the threat of losing their federal funding after Trump signed the “big beautiful bill,” the abortion giant sued, insisting that it had a constitutional right to taxpayer dollars in order to kill unborn babies.
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And found a judge to agree!!

She evidently believes taxpayers have a duty to support killing black babies.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 06, 2025 09:14 AM (HibCC)

301 You know who else went the extra mile and had a passion for what he did? And was a terr-ific dancer?

Posted by: Franz Liebkind at August 06, 2025 09:14 AM (G5+As)

302 242 Working 60 hours shouldn’t be something to brag about. Only exception is if you own the business.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at August 06, 2025 08:54 AM (AiNp4)
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Depends what your priorities and personal situation is like. I worked 80 hour weeks. Sometimes 100. It sucked the suckiest balls. But they paid me piles of money, and the prestige was enough to carry me forward into almost any job I wanted. I eventually cashed out as a rich man and now work maybe 20 hours a week. Was it worth it? 100%.

Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at August 06, 2025 09:14 AM (ioNiu)

303 Fairness Doctrine was a big deal. With it, no side dominated and We the People got balanced political messaging on the mass media.

Without it, We the People got “hate the liberals” 24/7 and now full-blown open-air fascism.

Not that the broadcast news business ever was putting out anything resembling reality for the majority, but they had to at least give time for the other side’s POV. Without it, too many have learned to love Big Brother.

Ronny paved the way for 15 hrs a week of lies and propaganda from Rush. 3 hrs every week day for years and years and years…

This was essential to making the first amendment work. It will take a generation or more to come close to undoing the damage. We don’t have that kind of time.

Exactly! Ben Franklin wrote:

5. Printers are educated in the Belief, that when Men differ in Opinion, both Sides ought equally to have the Advantage of being heard by the Publick; and that when Truth and Error have fair Play, the former is always an overmatch for the latter: Hence they chearfully serve all contending Writers that pay them well, without regarding on which side they are of the Question in Dispute.

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at August 06, 2025 09:14 AM (JCZqz)

304 Exactly! Ben Franklin wrote:

5. Printers are educated in the Belief, that when Men differ in Opinion, both Sides ought equally to have the Advantage of being heard by the Publick; and that when Truth and Error have fair Play, the former is always an overmatch for the latter: Hence they chearfully serve all contending Writers that pay them well, without regarding on which side they are of the Question in Dispute.

==

oh look!! somebody took a Social Studies class!

Posted by: runner at August 06, 2025 09:16 AM (g47mK)

305 IT startups (which mostly fail), usually have a very culture environment. Which is why they tend to hire really young people. It's kind of like the military in that regard. Not the cult thing, but the need for kids who can take indoctrination easily because they aren't old enough to know how to question it.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 06, 2025 09:17 AM (zqoQn)

306 I manage a team of people. If I see someone sending emails at 8 o clock or whatever I’ll tell them the next day, you need to stop doing that.

Sure there are crunch times when everyone needs to meet a deadline and work some unpaid overtime. But that is the exception not the rule.

And I get mad if people go on vacation and I see their Teams icon green, lol. Seriously dude, you’re at the beach put the fucking wok laptop away.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at August 06, 2025 09:17 AM (AiNp4)

307 Funny how the same people who ask you to be on call at all hours and be a team player get very reticent when it comes time for raises and potential equity.
Posted by: Thomans Paine at August 06, 2025 09:08 AM (Vfq+S)

This is true too. But the converse is also true.

This past weekend is an example. We have a teams chat (multiple in fact) where we are supposed to put info and be able to get feedback down and up the leadership chain.

I asked a question. It was of moderate importance. Not enough for me to call someone in the middle of the night- or I would have done so, but not unimportant. No answer. I went ahead and made a call on my own. But Monday I told my boss. 'Look, I have been the asshole who has to respond at 2am. Or on a Sunday morning. Or both. This was not something that needed any amount of time to make a call on. If it is too much, then why the fuck are you paying these people to not do their jobs?'

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 06, 2025 09:17 AM (bss/y)

308 People aren't buying into "You need to suffer because misery makes you a badass" anymore.
Posted by: XTC at August 06, 2025 09:13 AM (UnA8+)

I've been in that "work your ass off" mode before. If it's really suffering, that means someone along the way messed up. That kind of grind is its own reward when you've accomplished something awesome out of it. A product launch, a successful legal battle, whatever it is. And then you get the recognition and compensation for your efforts. Our, heck, maybe it doesn't work but you at least tried and hopefully learnt something useful. Slaving away for nothing just because you think that's what your're supposed to do, then getting shat on for your efforts, is what crushes people. It's what crushes entire companies.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 06, 2025 09:17 AM (rIQZh)

309 Oh all the weird stuff leftists believe the idea that the media is a vast rightwing cabal has to be the most bizarre. The left would not exist without the media running cover for them for the last 50 years.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 06, 2025 09:18 AM (viF8m)

310 As an aside if you read furturists from save 50 years ago they expected we'd be working less hours how then we did then.

Modern leftwingers attribute this to greedy business owners but those business owners 50 years ago were just as "greedy".

So why were those futurists wrong then? Two main reasons:

1) Excluding stay at home moms, way fewer people work now. So you working stiffs? You are ultimately paying for the people on welfare/SSDI/asylum claims

2) The cost of government has exploded. Every dollar they tax and every dollar they inflate come from you - and it is well over 50% now.

Deal with those two issues and you'll see the hours you need to work drop, those I suspect it would be more in the form of way earlier retirement then say a 20 hour work week.

Posted by: 18-1 at August 06, 2025 09:18 AM (t0Rmr)

311 And now a public service announcement from the official account of the comedy team at DHS.gov:

https://tinyurl.com/5fr58snw

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 06, 2025 09:18 AM (NGwt8)

312 How is giving 20 hours of free labor away successful?
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at August 06, 2025 09:10 AM (AiNp4)

Time and a half and double time can be wonderful things, father!

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 06, 2025 09:18 AM (bss/y)

313 I think you have to take into account how dystopian many corporate workplaces are these days. They often have bizarre cultures where laggards are mollycoddled and the ones who go the extra mile are tasked extra hard - because they are reliable - but not compensated any differently. Environments where certain demos get away with murder so the company's employment statistics look right and so lots of people at the top can feel great about how jot racist they are. There's tons of this stuff. I'd be very reluctant to bust my ass for a lot of employers too. And I've always been a hard worker.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at August 06, 2025 09:18 AM (wKJf5)

314 Working 80hrs/week and getting paid for 80 hours is one thing. Getting paid less is another.

As a salaried employee most of my career I did a fair amount of unpaid overtime... part of the job. Sometimes, if planned, I'd get paid. Most of the time, I did not.

Today's workforce is highly unmotivated to work any number of hours. Those already in the workforce probably don't have a problem working, and getting paid for those hours. But there are those that can't be troubled to put in the time required, yet still want a check.

IMO the work ethic for a lot of people sucks.

YMMV

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 06, 2025 09:19 AM (Q4IgG)

315 People aren't buying into "You need to suffer because misery makes you a badass" anymore.
Posted by: XTC at August 06, 2025 09:13 AM (UnA8+)

The yuuutes for the most part aren’t. Older people, sadly, still cling to this mentality. LinkedIn is full of this shit.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at August 06, 2025 09:19 AM (AiNp4)

316 S/b "cultish environment "

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 06, 2025 09:19 AM (zqoQn)

317 @285/Aetius451AD: "You want to join now that the border, she is secure?

Johnny come lately. (joke)"

I think a lot of the interest is for the same base reason that recruitment shortfalls in the military are now being met easily.

The men and women that would be attracted to this kind of work now see that they won't be working for a bunch of Marxist assholes that thwart them from doing their core job role at every turn.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at August 06, 2025 09:19 AM (O7YUW)

318 Salary without overtime... that is a definite way to get bent over and broken open like a shotgun.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 06, 2025 09:19 AM (bss/y)

319 The men and women that would be attracted to this kind of work now see that they won't be working for a bunch of Marxist assholes that thwart them from doing their core job role at every turn.
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at August 06, 2025 09:19 AM (O7YUW)

Valid. I think it is good, I just think it is funny.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 06, 2025 09:20 AM (bss/y)

320 I hope they screen those applicants through microscopic sieves. I don't trust anyone now, especially with what's been happening to those agents.

Posted by: Moki at August 06, 2025 09:20 AM (wLjpr)

321 And now a public service announcement from the official account of the comedy team at DHS.gov:

https://tinyurl.com/5fr58snw
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 06, 2025 09:18 AM (NGwt

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Haha! Turning the left's objection into a meme is always a good response.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 06, 2025 09:21 AM (HibCC)

322 Indict a few of the lesser figures like Avril Haines or Ciarmella and watch the scrambling for a deal to begin. Canaries don't sing as much as they will

Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 06, 2025 09:21 AM (r/xMY)

323 How is giving 20 hours of free labor away successful?
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at August 06, 2025 09:10 AM (AiNp4)

I’m not going to pick you for a promotion.

Posted by: polynikes at August 06, 2025 09:21 AM (VofaG)

324 312 How is giving 20 hours of free labor away successful?
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at August 06, 2025 09:10 AM (AiNp4)

Time and a half and double time can be wonderful things, father!
Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 06, 2025 09:18 AM (bss/y)

That’s a different story. I’m talking about salaried people who get $0 for extra hours worked. Yeah I mean if you’re paid hourly and want to work 60 or 100 hours a week, have at it. It’s when you get paid for 40 that you become a sucker.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at August 06, 2025 09:21 AM (AiNp4)

325 If you like what you do it isn't suffering. In fact it can be quite enjoyable.

If you don't like what you are doing then that's on you and it always feels like misery.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 06, 2025 09:21 AM (viF8m)

326 320 I hope they screen those applicants through microscopic sieves. I don't trust anyone now, especially with what's been happening to those agents.
Posted by: Moki at August 06, 2025 09:20 AM (wLjpr)

THIS. If you have a wide selection, you can be more discriminating. Maybe choose guys who will... give fewer hostages to fortune.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 06, 2025 09:21 AM (bss/y)

327 Merrick Garland was broken by the Republicans when they delayed his Supreme Court nomination into nothing

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Most likely he was always like that, but the mask slipped.

Posted by: runner at August 06, 2025 09:21 AM (g47mK)

328 End Wokeness
@EndWokeness
History teacher: "Incas were kind when they did chiId sacrifices. White history hides it."

https://tinyurl.com/y5xdbwyc

Posted by: redridinghood at August 06, 2025 09:22 AM (NpAcC)

329 "Nuking The Redskins’ Name Did Nothing To Help American Indians, And Nobody’s Surprised"

What is so infuriating about the whole "controversy " over team names is that being a team mascot is an honor meant to convey respect, not derision. Why are groups descended from Viking or Irish not offended? Yankees, Packers, Patriots, Steelers. Brewers, Padres, Rangers.... Why isn't there a mass outcry about the disrespect?

It is all such obvious BS that it is amazing it wasn't ridiculed and dismissed when it first got started decades ago.

Posted by: Ripley at August 06, 2025 09:22 AM (GUOwU)

330 323 How is giving 20 hours of free labor away successful?
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at August 06, 2025 09:10 AM (AiNp4)

I’m not going to pick you for a promotion.
Posted by: polynikes at August 06, 2025 09:21 AM (VofaG)

Then you’re a shitty manager yourself if you think grinding away is a sign of a good worker who should be promoted. Work smart not hard is a saying for a reason.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at August 06, 2025 09:22 AM (AiNp4)

331 Woman Says She Can't Work 40 Hours a Week and Still Find Time to Shower...So She Quit

**********

That stinks.

Posted by: muldoon at August 06, 2025 09:23 AM (poXs5)

332 History teacher: "Incas were kind when they did chiId sacrifices."

Posted by: redridinghood at August 06, 2025 09:22 AM (NpAcC)
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It really did look civilized when it was accompanied by the song and dance act "Inca Dinka Do."

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 06, 2025 09:24 AM (NGwt8)

333 Then you’re a shitty manager yourself if you think grinding away is a sign of a good worker who should be promoted. Work smart not hard is a saying for a reason.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at August 06, 2025 09:22 AM (AiNp4)

Your attitude ain’t helping you calling me a shitty manager. I’d probably fire you.

Posted by: polynikes at August 06, 2025 09:24 AM (VofaG)

334 End Wokeness
@EndWokeness
History teacher: "Incas were kind when they did chiId sacrifices. White history hides it."

https://tinyurl.com/y5xdbwyc
Posted by: redridinghood at August 06, 2025 09:22 AM (NpAcC)
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Baal approves

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 06, 2025 09:24 AM (HibCC)

335 IMO the work ethic for a lot of people sucks.

I think there are a couple of things wrapped up in this.

1) Few people actually want to work. Imagine you were offered your current salary as UBI (and that this didn't tank the economy) as an alternative to working. Would you really still work instead? Most would not.

2) We all want goods and services so someone has to create them

Capitalism handles this the time proven way..."he who will not work will not eat"

But in socialism, or semi-socialist systems like ours, it gets thorny.

Why bust your butt building a career which will start off with low pay and lots of hours when you can get welfare? And this is a deeply corrupting influence. When Jane gets home from her job and her friend Julia tells her about all the soap operas she watched all day Jane is likely to decide welfare is a better career choice isn't she?

Posted by: 18-1 at August 06, 2025 09:25 AM (t0Rmr)

336 I see the winner of the Dem primary in Seattle is a transplanted upstate NYer. She's from Binghamton which is it didn't have a college would be a ghost town. Take those brilliant leftist NY ideas on the road

Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 06, 2025 09:25 AM (r/xMY)

337 If you like what you do it isn't suffering. In fact it can be quite enjoyable.

If you don't like what you are doing then that's on you and it always feels like misery.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 06, 2025 09:21 AM (viF8m)

I like what I do for work. It’s pretty easy work, I work remote. I work with good people, my manager is very cool. Out upper management is a little dysfunctional but what we they always are. I don’t “suffer” at work whatsoever.

But even if I like the work, I’m not doing it for free after hours or on weekends.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at August 06, 2025 09:25 AM (AiNp4)

338 It’s when you get paid for 40 that you become a sucker.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at August 06, 2025 09:21 AM (AiNp4)

Yeah, salary exempt can be a big trap. Best of both worlds is salary, but you get paid for overtime.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 06, 2025 09:27 AM (bss/y)

339 Woman Says She Can't Work 40 Hours a Week and Still Find Time to Shower...So She Quit

**********

That stinks.

Posted by: muldoon at August 06, 2025 09:23 AM (poXs5)
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I bet she didn't quit and was really fired for bath behavior.

(I'm sure some moron will now chime in and ask, "You know who else was fired for bath behavior"? But I don't know the answer).

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 06, 2025 09:27 AM (NGwt8)

340 That stinks.

Posted by: muldoon at August 06, 2025 09:23 AM (poXs5)

What a douche!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (with a beret and a Gauloises) at August 06, 2025 09:27 AM (L5An7)

341 If you like what you do it isn't suffering. In fact it can be quite enjoyable.

If you don't like what you are doing then that's on you and it always feels like misery.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 06, 2025 09:21 AM (viF8m)

If I had a manager that promoted people solely on how much free labor they give I would have quit long ago.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at August 06, 2025 09:27 AM (AiNp4)

342 I worked my ass off for my last company, put in 60 hours a week all summer, helped bring in a quarter billion dollars of revenue and what was my thanks? Laid off in March of this year.

That's how corporations reward hard work and loyalty.

My new job is two-thirds the salary at one-third the stress. And overtime work is banked so you can use it as time of later. A much better situation.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at August 06, 2025 09:28 AM (q04Io)

343 She's from Binghamton which is it didn't have a college would be a ghost town. Take those brilliant leftist NY ideas on the road

Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 06, 2025 09:25 AM (r/xMY)

Binghamton is a sh*thole even WITH the university!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (with a beret and a Gauloises) at August 06, 2025 09:29 AM (L5An7)

344 I hated my job but worked harder and smarter and got rewarded for it and able to retire early. It’s a personal choice. Why get mad and call people who choose to work more than required suckers? That’s just being a dick.

Posted by: polynikes at August 06, 2025 09:30 AM (VofaG)

345 The point of corporations is to earn money for the stockholders.

Now a smart company will do this be attracting and retaining good employees but...just like if you are picking a contractor for your house you want to get the most well done work for the least amount of money.

Posted by: 18-1 at August 06, 2025 09:30 AM (t0Rmr)

346 J.B. Pritzker's gunt

In the Battle of the Gunts, who reigns supreme, Gerrold Nadler or J.B. Pritzker?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 06, 2025 09:30 AM (0sNs1)

347 >>If I had a manager that promoted people solely on how much free labor they give I would have quit long ago.

When did say people should work for free? I've been doing startups for many years and the hours are long. I've spent weeks at a time on the road including weekends thousands of miles from home because that's what it takes to get the job done when you are wearing a lot of hats.

Hopefully, the payoff comes when the company is successful but it's always a gamble.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 06, 2025 09:31 AM (viF8m)

348 The whole “nobody wants to work” and “everyone is lazy” mentality is wrong. Are there lazy people? Sure there have always been. But generally speaking what some see as lazy is really people doing their job and going home. It’s a generational thing, and as the yuutes replace the olds that will change naturally.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at August 06, 2025 09:31 AM (AiNp4)

349 The salary no overtime, the times I have done it have usually been:

1) Its a comfortable salary.

2) The long hours at least theoretically are meant to be a temporary situation where if you can resolve the situation, the hours will come back down to normal. The long hours are not meant to be the baseline.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 06, 2025 09:31 AM (bss/y)

350 Victoria Nuland

Posted by: no one of any consequence at August 06, 2025 09:31 AM (ZmEVT)

351 Nood art.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 06, 2025 09:31 AM (bss/y)

352 I like the points made in the
A Counterintuitive Perspective on Deportations article. Sometimes (always) the right thing to do is the best thing to do.

Posted by: Emmie at August 06, 2025 09:32 AM (FMtrg)

353 Democrat Rep. Delia Ramirez (D-IL) told a meeting of foreign Latinos in Mexico, “I’m a proud Guatemalan before I’m an American,”

Have the GOP strategists (if they even exist) bothered to interview likely voters in Ramirez's district as to why they would prefer to elect a person who has no intention of representing them or acting in the US's interest?

It doesn't look like typical Maladaptive Coping Mechanism, though voting for her is a form of Self Sabotage. Are there that many masochists in Delia's district?

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at August 06, 2025 09:32 AM (9Hs2w)

354 345 The point of corporations is to earn money for the stockholders.

Now a smart company will do this be attracting and retaining good employees but...just like if you are picking a contractor for your house you want to get the most well done work for the least amount of money.

Posted by: 18-1 at August 06, 2025 09:30 AM (t0Rmr)

Sure.

But that's a two-way street. Workers want the highest pay and best perks for the least work.

But when workers say so, they're just lazy and immoral. Because.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at August 06, 2025 09:32 AM (wKJf5)

355 Binghamton is a sh*thole even WITH the university!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (with a beret and a Gauloises) at August 06, 2025 09:29 AM (L5An7)
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Yeah, right?

Posted by: Buffalo, Rochester, Utica, and Fredonia at August 06, 2025 09:32 AM (JvZF+)

356 End Wokeness
@EndWokeness
History teacher: "Incas were kind when they did chiId sacrifices. White history hides it."

https://tinyurl.com/y5xdbwyc
Posted by: redridinghood at August 06, 2025 09:22 AM (NpAcC)
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This babe (Emily Pool) says she teaches AP Euro (no idea where, but I'm betting on California) and she is a heavy social media user in connection with her teaching. Lord only knows what she posts under her personal accounts....

In addition to videos and crazy theories about Incan human sacrifice, she sells AP prep kits under the name "ACDC Leadership Ultimate Review Packet", so she's making money off these videos.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 06, 2025 09:32 AM (4QNhH)

357 NOODlum.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 06, 2025 09:32 AM (Zz0t1)

358 If I had a manager that promoted people solely on how much free labor they give I would have quit long ago.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at August 06, 2025 09:27 AM (AiNp4)

You’re changing the parameters to fit your opinion. All things being equal I’m picking the person willing to go above and beyond. You know that a job is a competition right. That’s why there are annual reviews.

Posted by: polynikes at August 06, 2025 09:33 AM (VofaG)

359 Jack straw: see a post of mine above. I said working at a startup is different when you have equity in the company. I did the same thing. Worked ungodly hours. But I owned a piece of the company. My work was directly correlated with my success and financial payoff.

That is is totally different than being a typical employee with no skin in the company. For those people working 80 hours is being a sucker.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at August 06, 2025 09:33 AM (AiNp4)

360 308 I've been in that "work your ass off" mode before. If it's really suffering, that means someone along the way messed up. That kind of grind is its own reward when you've accomplished something awesome out of it. A product launch, a successful legal battle, whatever it is. And then you get the recognition and compensation for your efforts. Our, heck, maybe it doesn't work but you at least tried and hopefully learnt something useful. Slaving away for nothing just because you think that's what your're supposed to do, then getting shat on for your efforts, is what crushes people. It's what crushes entire companies.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 06, 2025 09:17 AM (rIQZh)

I'm in a workplace where there really isn't opportunity to get ahead and make it big. And thanks to union rules (even though we no longer have to join it), there aren't even individual raises. Management gets frustrated that nobody's going the extra mile, but there's no way to be rewarded for it, so...

Posted by: XTC at August 06, 2025 09:33 AM (UnA8+)

361 Another thing about managers that gets missed is that they are not always honest about job conditions. "Oh, we said OT was an irregular thing but we actually meant every day of the month including weekends."

Or "Well, we said it would be remote job but that was just to see who would apply. You only get one day a week remote and we really need you in the office on the rest of the days."

The shitty attitude about workers is kind of easy to understand.

Posted by: NR Pax at August 06, 2025 09:34 AM (lXoJ5)

362 @308/Warai-otoko:

Then there's the computer gaming industry where "it's always crunch time". Hire new programmers, burn them out, and throw them away; over and over again.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at August 06, 2025 09:34 AM (O7YUW)

363 2) The long hours at least theoretically are meant to be a temporary situation where if you can resolve the situation, the hours will come back down to normal. The long hours are not meant to be the baseline.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 06, 2025 09:31 AM (bss/y)

Exactly

Posted by: polynikes at August 06, 2025 09:34 AM (VofaG)

364 She's from Binghamton which is it didn't have a college would be a ghost town. Take those brilliant leftist NY ideas on the road

Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 06, 2025 09:25 AM (r/xMY)

Binghamton is a sh*thole even WITH the university!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (with a beret and a Gauloises) at August 06, 2025 09:29 AM (L5An7)
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The funny thing about the Southern Tier, from Binghamton all the way west to the PA border is it sits on NatGas reserves that could transform those towns and enrich the people, but nah bruh.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 06, 2025 09:35 AM (4QNhH)

365 You’re changing the parameters to fit your opinion. All things being equal I’m picking the person willing to go above and beyond. You know that a job is a competition right. That’s why there are annual reviews.
Posted by: polynikes at August 06, 2025 09:33 AM (VofaG)

Absolutely.
But if you’re picking someone based on how much he grinds vs the contributions he makes you’re going about it the wrong way. I’ll take someone Someone working 30 hours efficiently vs is much someone working 50 hours inefficiently.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at August 06, 2025 09:36 AM (AiNp4)

366 >>> Democrat Rep. Delia Ramirez (D-IL) told a meeting of foreign Latinos in Mexico, “I’m a proud Guatemalan before I’m an American,”

No reason to make it overly complicated - she is just a Guatemalan racist and proud of it.

Americans have a very hard time comprehending how racist almost every single nationality is. She is refuting that shit.

Posted by: Operator Error at August 06, 2025 09:42 AM (UkJH7)

367 WWII was deadliest war in human history. This war had already claimed some 50 million lives, or about 3% of the world population by the time we dropped The Bombs.

So movies like Oppenheimer annoy me with their simplistic moralizing.

Thank you for your attention to this matter.

Posted by: Random PJ at August 06, 2025 09:57 AM (RRCAT)

368 TRUMP TO PROTECT BIRDS FROM WIND TURBINES WILL HAVE THE ECO-FREAKS ALL SCREWED UP

Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at August 06, 2025 05:34 PM (wGqjj)

369 The US government was projecting 500,000 allied casualties for an invasion of the Japanese Homeland. I don't know what the projected Japanese casualties were.

There was another strategic concern. If the Japanese were not shocked into an immediate surrender, the war would have dragged on for months. High US losses would have welcomed aid from allies. Russia would have responded as the war dragged on.

I wonder if the Japanese are not grateful that some of their home islands were not invaded and permanently captured by the Russians.

Posted by: FlimFlamed at August 06, 2025 10:59 PM (Eaklp)

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