The Morning Report

The Morning Report — 8/7/25

Good morning kids. There was a mass shooting at Ft. Stewart yesterday and prayers for the victims and loved ones. No word on the motive, so I assume the propaganda complex is working overtime to circle the wagons and protect whatever Leftist Democrat mythological grievance group might be responsible or else lay the blame on MAGA. On that note,

So, evidently President Trump and team are mulling this over:

In a post on Truth Social, President Donald J. Trump said he will move to federalize the nation’s capital, Washington, D.C., unless the city government, led by Mayor Muriel Bowser (D), reins in violent crime.. . Trump and Congress could move to revoke home rule for the capital and re-exert federal control entirely over the city.

The odds of this actually happening are well into the none end of the Slim to None scale for a number of reasons, all of them political, from the practical to the petty (hatred of President Trump).

WIth that as the set up, I would argue that the problems of Washington D.C. as a city regardless of the fact that it is the nation's capital, and the misery that local residents must endure (politicians notwithstanding [and they live in places like Alexandria and Silver Spring anyway]) pose less of a threat to us as a nation than California:

Case in point:

A nationally known California pastor is calling on parents of underage school children to pack up and leave the state if Assembly Bill 495 passes and is signed into law. The bill makes all underage California school children the target of traffickers and kidnappers—by design. "This is the end of [parental rights]," Calvary Chapel Chino Hills Pastor Jack Hibbs told parishioners last week. "If this bill passes, I'm going to ask you [parents] to leave the state of California. You're going to have to pack up and you're gonna have to get out. You gotta get out. You gotta run with your kids. You gotta go." With this bill, California Democrats are going all-in on the destroy-the-village-to-save-it rationale for "saving" children illegally in the country, while endangering every other child as well. Indeed, all children legally or illegally in this country could be kidnapped or trafficked under this bill. We don't understand why it's acceptable to allow children illegally in the U.S. to be trafficked, but these Democrats are evil. They don't care about kids or their parents. A visibly angry Hibbs warned parents attending Calvary Chapel Chino Hills recently that the bill "100% strips parents of their parental rights."
. . . Here's how we got here. Last spring, the California Assembly Democrats decided to cleverly switch the language of the California Family Code to somehow "protect" children illegally in the country from feared ICE raids by allowing shirttail relatives or, for that matter, perfect strangers to take them out of school or daycare. This was an apparent attempt to allow NGOs, non-profits, or other groups —you know, the same bunch who lost those more than 300,000 children who were brought over the borders by Joe Biden's cartel buddies and disappeared— to take the kids again without parental permission or notification. The bill also gives these strangers the ability to provide children with medical and dental care. Think abortions, sex change operations, STD checks, mental exams, and female circumcisions.

Now consider this item:

The Babylon Bee and Rumble are suing California over two laws that censor political satire during election season, including some images like memes that mock political candidates. A hearing in a Sacramento federal court was held Tuesday to determine whether the laws will be permanently blocked after a judge issued a temporary injunction. The final decision is expected in the coming weeks.

Imagine losing your children if you are regular viewers/readers of the aforementioned and of course this website and other websites deemed dangerous purveyors of dangerous content, etc. etc. etc. And whatever his chances are, Gavin Newsom seems to be, as of now, the leading contender to get the Democrat nomination for 2028. Of course any spoof or even criticism of him in any media might bring a giant hammer (and sickle) down on your head, and kiss your kids goodbye?

Orwellian? For sure. Hyperbole? Look back on all we've been through the past 10 years or so, if if not longer before you dismiss it.

It's long been seen that what happens in California sooner or later happens in the rest of the nation. And it seems that what happens in the UK sooner or later winds up over here:

Maybe California's statehood needs to be revoked and the region returned to territorial status, governed by a Trump-appointed territorial governor.

OFCOM, the UK’s Orwellian name for the Office of Communications, has decided to issue a reporting demanding that YouTube prioritize its propaganda content because of ‘democracy’ and ‘public service’ or something of that sort.
Even for the Starmer regime, which is racking up more speech arrest than Cuba, this is really something.
The regime believes that its programming is entitled to first row prioritization and that if people don’t choose to watch it, that’s because YouTube isn’t trying hard enough to make them.

For those of a certain age, like me, it brings to mind a line from the old comic Yakov Smirnoff, paraphrasing, In the Soviet Union we have two channels. Channel 1 is government Propaganda and Channel 2 is a KGB agent ordering you to switch back to Channel 1!"

It was not that long ago, gentle reader you will remember that Joey Sponge-Brain Shits-Pants almost created an American Ministry of Truth, "Disinformation Governance Board" with that Skankowitz Jankowicz shitwhore as Reichminister für propaganda regulating what was to be believed and what was to be censored.

Thank the Lord for the dissolution of PBS and with it NPR.

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Have a great day!

ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY

“The incident remains under investigation and no additional information will be released until the investigation is complete,” the Army stated. (No tranny, Islam or other Lefty references YET - jjs)
Yesterday, Five Soldiers Wounded in Mass Shooting at Fort Stewart in Georgia–UPDATE: Gunman Identified
Victor Davis Hanson: DEI is collapsing under its own contradictions—no longer able to define who qualifies, who deserves preference, or why identity should outweigh merit.
Why DEI Was Already Dying
A nationally known California pastor is calling on parents of underage school children to pack up and leave the state if Assembly Bill 495 passes and is signed into law. The bill makes all underage California school children the target of traffickers and kidnappers—by design.
Pastor Warns Parents: If Democrats Pass AB 495, 'This Is It. Pack Up, Grab Your Kids, Leave California'

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

The remittance figures serve partially as a barometer for how the federal government is enforcing federal immigration law, as illegal aliens often work illegally in the U.S. and send money back to their home countries.
The Trump Effect: Remittances to Mexico Continue Plunging as ICE Raids Soar Across U.S.
. . . I'd just say, feel free to let the door hit you on the way out.
Illegal Says He's Returning to Mexico: 'I Don't Want to Be Captive To This Country Anymore'
When it comes to statutory interpretation, every word, including the little three-letter ones, has a profound meaning.
Birthright Citizen: The Little Conjunction That Explains Everything

CIVIL WAR 2.0: J-6 FBI FALSE FLAG "RIOT" & AFTERMATH, LEFTIST PERSECUTIONS, DEMOCRAT PUTSCH, AMERICAN DISSOLUTION
A woman allegedly victimized in a brawl in Cincinnati, Ohio, claimed that the city’s mayor and police chief have not contacted her since the incident in a Monday interview with commentator Benny Johnson. She also claimed people labeled her a “Russian asset.”
Cincinnati Brawl Allegations Just Got Even Worse
The 2023 beating took place outside of a local Planned Parenthood.
Baltimore Man Who Brutally Beat Pro-Lifers Faces Years In Prison
“Political correctness” pales next to the stupidity, toxic hyperbole, and preposterous lies of wokeness.
The Unbearable Lightness of the Woke Mind
Andrea Lucas rejects the idea that civil rights law is inherently left-wing. And as chair of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, she's working to show just how conservative it can be.
Meet the Trump Official Working To De-Wokify Civil Rights
"Jabari Peoples was an 18-year-old college student with big dreams". And a gun.
Latest BLM Martyr Had a Gun

SHAMPEACHMENTS, 2016 CLINTON/OBAMA COUP, CONGRESSIONAL PERSECUTION, SPYGATE, DEEP STATE, MUELLER DECEPTION
Absent justice for the Russia hoax, the lesson to the conspirators is that they should go even bigger next time.
Why Raining Justice On The Russia Hoaxers Is So Tricky — And So Important
They knew it could spark a geopolitical catastrophe, but they did it anyway.
The ‘Ghastly’ Gamble: How the Clinton–Obama Intelligence Op Risked War to Take Down Trump

DOMESTIC AFFAIRS, THE COURTS, WASTE/FRAUD/ABUSE
When responding to an emergency or a natural disaster, FEMA employees were directed to make voter registration a “key priority.”
Miranda Devine: Biden abused his authority by turning FEMA into a far-left political machine (a Gestapo-esque political persecution apparatus - jjs)
While the media and Democrat lawmakers assured us that there would be chaos and a body count as a result of federal job cuts, what was the real impact?
The Federal Job Cuts Disaster That Never Was
THE ECONOMY, STUPID
Trump’s trade policies defied economists’ dire predictions, delivering substantial gains in opening foreign markets to American exports without tanking the US economy.
Hey, experts — admit what you got so wrong on Trump’s tariffs
Johnson told his constituents that the “systems that people rely on” are “woefully underfunded” and he wants higher taxes, adding, “everyone knows that. Everyone knows what, you know, my commitment is to progressive revenue. I can’t do this by myself”
Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson Says Finances at ‘Point of No Return’ Without Massive Tax Hike
Leaders like Donald Trump and Chinese president Xi Jinping want the vibes of a good economy—and now.
Why Is Economic Data Disappearing?
“This is the largest investment Apple has ever made in America and anywhere else,” Trump said, adding that the company is “coming home.”
Trump and Apple CEO Tim Cook Announce $600 Billion Total Investment in America
He has already delivered results. Treasury under Bessent has reshaped incentives, redirected global capital flows, and neutralized the bureaucratic veto power that throttled investment under the old regime. The next task is making that framework durable. That means restoring monetary policy as a tool for growth and ensuring the Fed does its job without undermining the rest of the economic strategy.
Breitbart Business Digest: Why Scott Bessent Might Still Become Fed Chair
ISRAEL AND USA vs Hamas, IRAN, et al
After 5% success rate, UN demands another $265 million or everyone will starve.
UN Admits 95% of its Gaza Aid Trucks Were “Intercepted”
The Israeli security cabinet meets Thursday, reportedly to greenlight either a full occupation or at least plans for the IDF to move into or surround new territory, such as in Deir al-Balah and Gaza City.
Israel has every right to finish the job in Gaza — by obliterating Hamas

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Bashar Masri is accused of allowing the terror group to use his properties to launch rockets and train commandos
Former Harvard Kennedy School Official Accused of Aiding Hamas Hides in 'Palestinian' Territories To Avoid Summons (So, he's in Dearborn? HamasTramck?- jjs)
The group says it 'will spend every dollar we receive...organizing and supporting the movement for a free Palestine.'
University of Maryland Will Pay Anti-Israel Group That Planned Campus Rally On October 7
OFFICIAL DEMOCRAT PARTY/LEFTIST-ENDORSED ANTI-SEMITISM, ANTI-CHRISTIANITY
The attack in St. Louis is an ‘example of what happens when antisemitic and anti-Israel rhetoric are normalized,’ local Jewish orgs say
‘Death to the IDF’: Vandals Target American IDF Vet With Graffiti, Torched Cars
WE-ALL-SLAM-FOR-I-SLAM
The incident occurred on a flight from London Heathrow to Lahore, with Iftikhar arrested at his home in Buckinghamshire on March 16, 2024. He was sentenced to prison in August 2025.
Muslim Passenger Threatens to Rape, Set Light to Air Hostess.
The influence that even a minority Muslim population can have in a democratic state can cause unthinkable damage, but Western leaders have their heads in the sand.
The West—in a fight for survival—does not even know it is on a battlefield
One tour goer called on Arab leaders to throw the Jews into the sea.
Broward County Sheriff Gregory Tony Gives Tour to Radical Muslims (Pardon that redundancy - jjs)

FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUES, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER TECH
YouTube viewers aren't watching the BBC. The UK Gov wants to force them to.
UK Gov Wants to Turn YouTube Into 1984’s Big Brother TV
A hearing was held on Tuesday in a Sacramento federal court.
Babylon Bee, Rumble Push Back Against California’s Censorship of Satire
It’s sickening that our legacy media, yet alone any civilized human can look at video footage showing modern-day Holocaust victims being forced to dig their own graves, and side with their captors.
The New York Times and BBC Shill For Hamas...Again
RED-GREENS, CLIMATE CHANGE HOAX, DEMOCRAT-LEFT WAR ON FOSSIL FUELS,
The global warming activists are in desperation mode.
When The Climate Zealotry Runs Hot

EDUCATION, AND WHAT PASSES FOR IT
The Trump administration should investigate them to stop potential violations of federal civil rights laws.
Medical Schools Still Discriminate Based on Race, Records Show
SECOND AMENDMENT
Several Second Amendment advocacy groups, including the National Rifle Association (NRA), have filed a lawsuit to challenge the constitutionality of the National Firearms Act of 1934 (NFA).
Lawsuit: The Regulation Of Untaxed Firearms Under Federal Law Is Unconstitutional

THE 2020 and SUBSEQUENT ELECTION HEISTS , SHENANIGANS/FRAUD and AFTERMATH
“Our constitutional duty is to protect the right to vote for all Americans,” Dhillon said. “Today, under the leadership of President Trump and Attorney General Pam Bondi, this Civil Rights Division is continuing to protect equal and transparent ballot access with vigilance and resolve.”
60th Anniversary of Voting Rights Act: DOJ Enforcing Voter Eligibility, Clean Rolls, and Fair District Maps
Reid Hoffman, the billionaire co-founder of LinkedIn who has backed Smartmatic — the company suing Fox for alleged defamation following the 2020 election — is remaining silent in the wake of new bribery allegations against Smartmatic’s co-founder.
Reid Hoffman Stands By Smartmatic Amid Latest Bribery Charges After Gifting Firm $25M To Fight Election Reporting
L'AFFAIRE EPSTEIN
The report emerged as House Oversight Chairman James Comer announced Monday that subpoenas were sent to prominent political figures and officials — including Mueller — requiring them to testify about the FBI’s investigation into Jeffrey Epstein.
REPORT: Former Special Counsel Robert Mueller Allegedly Living In Memory Care Facility
Did you catch that? After years of “bombshells” that never landed, their latest Hail Mary just failed spectacularly, with Maxwell confirming what we already knew: that there are no Epstein skeletons in Trump’s closet. If that wasn’t damning enough for the narrative, the Trump administration looks poised to make the whole thing public, transcripts and all. When you’re innocent, transparency is your weapon; when you’re hiding something, you fight like hell to keep the records sealed. The article underscores the administration’s intent:
The Left's Trump-Epstein Witch Hunt Implodes Amid Ghislaine Maxwell Bombshell
“Everything should come out and the president should lead the campaign and start tomorrow, saying, ‘I’m ordering my attorney general to go in front of every judge, seek everything out there.” – Alan Dershowitz. . . Renewed calls for transparency over Epstein files and scrutiny of high-profile connections.
Dershowitz Says All Epstein Material Should Come Out and Trump Should ‘Lead The Campaign.’
DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST AND RINO SCANDALS, MESHUGAS, CHUTZPOCRISY
No explosive devices were found, and the hotel guests were given the all-clear to return to their rooms.
Runaway Texas Dems Evacuate Hotel Over Bomb Scare, Blame GOP’s ‘Reckless Rhetoric’
According to the FHFA referral obtained by Fox News, Schiff allegedly falsified bank documents and property records to obtain more favorable loan terms on multiple occasions. In a letter dated May 2025, FHFA Director William Pulte wrote that Schiff’s conduct “jeopardizes the safety and soundness of FHFA’s regulated entities and the security and stability of the U.S. mortgage market.”
Adam Schiff-for-Brains Under Criminal Investigation for Mortgage Fraud, DOJ Referred by Federal Housing Agency
Langston, who serves as a Republican state committee member in Columbia County, told authorities with the Columbia County Sheriff’s Department on July 14 that Mills threatened to harm any of her future romantic partners and share videos of them having sex, according to The Blaze Media. Mills has not faced any charges, while his office told the Daily Caller News Foundation that his office has not been made aware of any police report.
REPORT: Reigning Miss USA Files Restraining Order Against Congressman, Says He Threatened To Release Sex Videos
POLITICS
Gov. Abbot's actions, backed by history’s precedent, will ensure the redistricting vote happens, the maps are drawn, and Texas’ voice rings true in Washington.
Governor Abbott's Resolve Has the Backing of History
These steps would put Republicans in a considerably stronger position.
These are the 3 electoral earthquakes that could shake up US politics for years
An EAC report shows huge spikes in early in-person voting in swing states; ballot chasers want to keep that momentum growing into the midterms and beyond.
Conservative Groups Work Overtime To Hold Congress In 2026 Midterms
What upsets Democrats about these new Hispanic majority maps is that they are probably going to elect Hispanic GOP candidates.
I guess Jolanda don’t know much about history
“I watched the black-white stuff start on Thursday night.”
Daniel Greenfield: Racism Made Kamala the Candidate and Cost Dems the White House
THE UKRAINIAN "FRONT"
The meeting signals potential diplomatic progress on ending the Ukraine War, though no specific compromises were mentioned.
Trump Hails ‘Highly Productive’ Witkoff-Putin Meeting.
The president reportedly said that he wanted the meeting to only include Putin, Zelensky, and himself — and no European counterparts.
Trump Looking To Meet With Putin, Zelensky Next Week: Report
FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL
Trump signed an executive order raising tariffs on India an additional 25 percent, on top of the 25 percent duty that took effect on August 1. When Trump announced the initial 25 percent tariff, he declared that India would pay an additional duty for being a top buyer of Russian oil “at a time when everyone wants Russia to STOP THE KILLING IN UKRAINE,” according to the AFP’s citation of a Truth Social post.
Trump Will Hike Tariffs on India to 50 Percent over Oil Purchases from Russia
Right now, polling shows that while Britons back Farage and his Reform party on immigration, law and order, and Brexit, they have some way to go on healthcare, education, and the economy in general.
The Greatest Hurdle Farage Faces En Route to 10 Downing Street… And How to Address It.
HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE
A viral illness spread by mosquitoes known as chikungunya is infecting China and other nations across Africa and Europe, prompting the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to issue a travel advisory for Americans.
Another Virus Rattling China Puts America On Red Alert
ACTUAL SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY
This month’s update graph is below, and it shows once again that it is a big mistake to put any faith into any prediction anyone makes about the Sun’s eleven-year sunspot cycle, tracked by scientists since the 1700s.
1. Sunspot update: The Sun appears ready to once again confound the experts
The company notes that this technology, which the image suggests will use robot arms to grab its targets, will allow its spacecraft to remove not only inactive satellites that were launched with docking equipment already attached but also rocket bodies and older satellites without that docking capability.
Astroscale awarded patent for its space junk removal technology

CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE
“After you saw what happened with Stephen Colbert, it’s like they just can’t afford to keep him going,” the source said. “If Sirius isn’t going to give Stern a good offer, I don’t think it would have anything to do with his ratings. It’s more likely everything to do with the political climate.”
Report: SiriusXM Plans to End Howard Stern Show After 20 Years
The man has long been irrelevant, but he changed our culture. For the worse
Howard Stern’s End
“It serves as a way of establishing the writer’s membership in a moral community.”
Contemporary Fiction and Men Who Talk Too Much
HITHER & YON
Tulsi Gabbard, the Director of National Intelligence, has stated that she believes extraterrestrial life exists. However, she emphasized the need to tread carefully when discussing classified intelligence. Gabbard made the comments during an appearance on the Pod Force One podcast hosted by Miranda Devine.
Did Tulsi Gabbard Just Reveal Aliens Exist?!
Truman dropped the bomb, not out of cruelty, but to end a fanatical war that would have cost millions more lives—he ended it, and the world should be glad he did.
Eighty Years Ago, Truman Did the Right Thing
Christian Toto: Zach Cregger builds on 'Barbarian' with bold, undeniably tense thrill ride
‘Weapons’ Confirms a New Horror Auteur Has Arrived

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Posted by: J.J. Sefton at 07:42 AM

Comments

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1 Good morning horde!

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

2 Its Day After Hump Day

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 07, 2025 07:42 AM (gbOdA)

3 Happy almost Friday!

Posted by: NR Pax at August 07, 2025 07:42 AM (99eI0)

4 Tech thread alerted.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 07, 2025 07:43 AM (ExV1e)

5 Yonder Horde

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 07, 2025 07:43 AM (Q4IgG)

6 Morning, all!

Posted by: Caf at August 07, 2025 07:44 AM (/+mVZ)

7 Willowed: @200 (tech thread)/sock_rat_eez: "Had to scour the chateau for mice, keyboards and monitors, but up and running Linux Mint in fine style!"

Congratulations! Did you select Cinnamon, XFCE, or Mate as your desktop? I usually go with Cinnamon and then turn the effects off under Menu - Preferences - Effects.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at August 07, 2025 07:45 AM (O7YUW)

8 @4/I used to have a different nic: Thank you!

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at August 07, 2025 07:46 AM (O7YUW)

9 American Ministry of Truth, "Disinformation GOvernance Board" with that Skankowitz Jankowicz shitwhore as Reichminister für propaganda regulating what was to be believed and what was to be censored.

Nina Jankowicz [1] is an American researcher and writer. She is the author of How to Lose the Information War (2020), on Russian use of disinformation as geopolitical strategy.

Imagine writing a book about something that never happened.

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 07, 2025 07:47 AM (gbOdA)

10 Sugar cane

Posted by: Accomack at August 07, 2025 07:48 AM (6cOjz)

11 Imagine writing a book about something that never happened.

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 07, 2025 07:47 AM (gbOdA)

Imagine being part of the Manhattan Project and writing "How to Lose the Nuclear War against Imperial Japan" in 1947.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 07, 2025 07:48 AM (rIQZh)

12 The odds of this actually happening are well into the none end of the Slim to None scale for a number of reasons, all of them political, from the practical to the petty (hatred of President Trump).
==

I disagree, the odds are pretty good. And politically they are excellent - he will show what R taking over a D blue city can look like. And in record time, and then everyone will run on it and everything else in '26. So the sooner the better. Perfect.

Posted by: runner at August 07, 2025 07:49 AM (g47mK)

13 Another Virus Rattling China Puts America On Red Alert

But we dare not call it a bioweapon. That would be...rude!

Posted by: NR Pax at August 07, 2025 07:50 AM (99eI0)

14 9 Imagine writing a book about something that never happened.

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 07, 2025 07:47 AM (gbOdA)

Sefton jumping out of his first grade seat to answer the teacher. . .

"I know that word! "FICTION!!!!!!

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 07, 2025 07:50 AM (x0n13)

15 Washington DC is a toilet and reflects well on the people who live, work and are elected there to our nation’s shithole to steal from other Americans.

Looters and mooches all of them.

Posted by: Kampala On The Potomac at August 07, 2025 07:51 AM (ZU2mU)

16 OFCOM, the UK’s Orwellian name for the Office of Communications, has decided to issue a reporting demanding that YouTube prioritize its propaganda content because of ‘democracy’ and ‘public service’ or something of that sort.

There is a lovely little browser extension I run called BlockTube which let's me completely block channels or individual videos no matter what YT wants. I use it because I loathe shorts and this prevents them from appearing, even in searches.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 07, 2025 07:51 AM (ExV1e)

17 “ have spoken to you of earthly things and you do not believe; how then will you believe if I speak of heavenly things? ”

John 3:12

Posted by: Marcus T at August 07, 2025 07:52 AM (kfDsi)

18 Good morning, J.J.
Good morning, Horde.

Posted by: Inogame at August 07, 2025 07:52 AM (53oGX)

19 This Ft Stewart shooting does NOT look good for the legacy Army.

Guy was in the Army for 6 years, reached the rank of Sergeant, shot at 5 people... and didn't kill any of them? Dude.

Even an Army psych did better than that, back before Biden.

(Yes, it's a weird angle, but it does go to training, IMO.)

Posted by: GWB at August 07, 2025 07:53 AM (Mi0CH)

20 Forgive me for being "that guy", but....

Isn't D.C. by definition federal? Why is it not federal now? Hasn't it always been federal?

How much shit that is entrusted to be the job of Congress can they look and and touch their noses saying "Not It"? Is there anything that is actually their job that they actually.... do?

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

21 "Why DEI Was Already Dying"

Doesn't matter. Chop it to pieces, burn it to ashes, scatter the ashes to the four winds and keep a flamethrower handy when they try this nonsense again.

Posted by: NR Pax at August 07, 2025 07:53 AM (99eI0)

22 Context is critical when discussing Truman. The decision was made long before the bomb was ready, before he even knew of the program. Deploy it as soon as it was ready.

He was agonizing over whether to green light an invasion, if his diary can be believed. The JCS was split - some favored a blockade and some continued napalm fire bombing. Nobody was one hundred percent sure the bomb would work. The planning for an invasion had to continue months in advance.

The war changed early on. Roosevelt in ‘39 asked that belligerents avoid bombing civilians. That didn’t last too long, did it? By the end of the war roasting 100s of thousands in a single night was deriguer. “Dehoused” as it was known.

Posted by: Common Tater at August 07, 2025 07:54 AM (jXtns)

23 Everything California does is meant to assert the primacy of the state over the individual.

Hammer the proles into submission.

Posted by: Don Black at August 07, 2025 07:54 AM (AOsQT)

24 Poland's new President Karol Nawrocki: "My Poland is a Poland without illegal migrants. It is a Poland where instead of integration centers, there are deportation centers for those who want to destroy our safety."

The EU is gonna be *pissed*.

Posted by: Ian S. at August 07, 2025 07:55 AM (wItF4)

25 Guy was in the Army for 6 years, reached the rank of Sergeant, shot at 5 people... and didn't kill any of them? Dude.

This is one of the few times that I'm glad the military's training budget is still a bit sparse.

Posted by: NR Pax at August 07, 2025 07:55 AM (99eI0)

26 Sefton jumping out of his first grade seat to answer the teacher. . .

"I know that word! "FICTION!!!!!!
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 07, 2025 07:50 AM (x0n13)

Just thinking
Mrs Downey would be about 157 by now.

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 07, 2025 07:55 AM (gbOdA)

27 23 Everything California does is meant to assert the primacy of the state over the individual.

Hammer the proles into submission.
Posted by: Don Black at August 07, 2025 07:54 AM (AOsQT)

Sickle them into . . . cells?

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 07, 2025 07:55 AM (x0n13)

28
Saw a graphic yesterday that proudly said that Germany's homicide rate was much lower than the US or Russia. The question that came to mind was: what's the homicide rate of German-Americans?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 07, 2025 07:55 AM (kkTda)

29 The EU is gonna be *pissed*.

Someone at the EU is going to call Bulgaria and ask if they can take care of a problem for them.

Posted by: NR Pax at August 07, 2025 07:56 AM (99eI0)

30 >>Imagine writing a book about something that never happened.

Happens all the time. There's a large fiction section in every library and bookstore which is exactly where that crap belongs.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 07, 2025 07:56 AM (viF8m)

31 >Isn't D.C. by definition federal? Why is it not federal now? Hasn't it always been federal?
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It was until Congress granted the District 'home rule' in 1973

Posted by: Don Black at August 07, 2025 07:57 AM (AOsQT)

32 It was not that long ago, gentle reader you will remember that Joey Sponge-Brain Shits-Pants almost created an American Ministry of Truth, "Disinformation Governance Board" with that Skankowitz Jankowicz shitwhore as Reichminister für propaganda regulating what was to be believed and what was to be censored.

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It is exactly what is already happening in the UK. I don't think for one second the next D-emon president elected or "elected" will go full pedal to the metal to cement this hellscape dystopia here.

Posted by: Lady in Black at August 07, 2025 07:57 AM (qBdHI)

33 "Hey, experts — admit what you got so wrong on Trump’s tariffs"

Trump's tariffs doomsday is HERE as Americans brace for price hikes on favorite everyday items.

Posted by: The Experts at August 07, 2025 07:57 AM (vFG9F)

34 Victor Davis Hanson: DEI is collapsing under its own contradictions—no longer able to define who qualifies, who deserves preference, or why identity should outweigh merit.
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I have a fundamental problem with that argument. Not that DEI isn't just as bad as he says, but I'm tired of hearing "merit" held up as some standard. Frankly, anyone who looks at military history (or other history) should realize that we just aren't very good at recognizing it. Every attempt I've seen ends up as just more credentialism.

I'm increasingly led to think the best way to choose people is (a) set minimum standards, then (b) choose by lot.

Posted by: Eeyore at August 07, 2025 07:57 AM (od0dV)

35 Winston realized he loved OFCOM.

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 07, 2025 07:57 AM (gbOdA)

36 26 Just thinking
Mrs Downey would be about 157 by now.
Posted by: rhennigantx at August 07, 2025 07:55 AM (gbOdA)

Mrs. Rothchild, would be into her 120s. First grade was 60 years ago this fall! Yikes.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 07, 2025 07:58 AM (x0n13)

37 will show what R taking over a D blue city can look like.
Posted by: runner at August 07, 2025 07:49 AM (g47mK)

Not really. DC will primarily be run by Congress. Which means still, mostly, run by Ds and wannabe Ds.

Posted by: GWB at August 07, 2025 07:59 AM (Mi0CH)

38
The JCS was split - some favored a blockade and some continued napalm fire bombing.

The problem with continued bombing was that we were running out of targets. The problem with a blockade was that the Navy took a dreadful mauling off Okinawa.

George MacDonald Fraser, no fan of the bomb, asked, if you don't drop the bomb, when does the war end? If the answer isn't August 15th, you have some explaining to do as to when and how many more people die after that date. For example, the buck-toothed sons of Nippon were ready to kill all 120,000 POWs.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 07, 2025 08:00 AM (kkTda)

39 Not really. DC will primarily be run by Congress. Which means still, mostly, run by Ds and wannabe Ds.
Posted by: GWB at August 07, 2025 07:59 AM (Mi0CH)

Or they'll keep the exact same people and structure in place with a blanket bill passed saying "everything those people just said or ever will say is fine".

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 07, 2025 08:00 AM (rIQZh)

40 Not really. DC will primarily be run by Congress. Which means still, mostly, run by Ds and wannabe Ds.

==

There is only one way to find out.

Posted by: runner at August 07, 2025 08:00 AM (g47mK)

41 Thank you JJ.

The California situation just makes me sad. I met my wife, got married, had a family and raised our kids in that state. Many great memories there…. It’s a paradise of sorts, or should be… but lefties seem intent on destroying it and/or making it so that only the uber-rich can afford to live there (in their walled enclaves with private security). Just sad

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 07, 2025 08:00 AM (nrfI8)

42 Victor Davis Hanson: DEI is collapsing under its own contradictions—no longer able to define who qualifies, who deserves preference, or why identity should outweigh merit.

Yes and no. DEI's primary beneficiaries have always been liberal women, particularly AWFLs. The blacks and Hispanics and whatnot are just human shields to make it sound better. So in that light there are no contradictions.

Posted by: Ian S. at August 07, 2025 08:00 AM (wItF4)

43 I'm increasingly led to think the best way to choose people is (a) set minimum standards, then (b) choose by lot.
Posted by: Eeyore at August 07, 2025 07:57 AM (od0dV)

Drawing 435 names out of a big fucking hat would be better than the people in the House today.

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 07, 2025 08:00 AM (gbOdA)

44 Headline: Jerusalem has frozen all bank accounts of the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate.

Posted by: Pete in Texas at August 07, 2025 08:00 AM (BHrzb)

45
g'mornin' again, 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at August 07, 2025 08:00 AM (tljrc)

46 Run little children. Run for your lives!

Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at August 07, 2025 08:01 AM (SfhV1)

47
The EU is gonna be *pissed*.
Posted by: Ian S. at August 07, 2025 07:55 AM (wItF4)

Kind of funny that defending "The Truth" involves the most rigorous control over your own citizens, but defending your culture against invaders is somehow so horrifying that it can't be contemplated.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 07, 2025 08:02 AM (kkTda)

48 >will show what R taking over a D blue city can look like.
Posted by: runner
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It will be like Vietnam, with the local population playing the part of the Viet Cong

just my opinion

Posted by: Don Black at August 07, 2025 08:03 AM (AOsQT)

49 Illegal Says He's Returning to Mexico: 'I Don't Want to Be Captive To This Country Anymore'

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"Captive" is quite an interesting word. He was never a captive. He was free to go home whenever he wanted. He's also free to apply for citizenship. My tear ducts are dry.

Posted by: Lady in Black at August 07, 2025 08:03 AM (qBdHI)

50 The plummet in remittances to Mexico comes before Trump’s one percent remittance tax takes effect in January of next year. Initially, the tax was supposed to be set at 3.5 percent, but was quickly slashed by Senate Republicans to just one percent with huge carveouts.

It is too much to hope a few CoC (R) die in firey car crashes with their illegal crack whores.

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 07, 2025 08:03 AM (gbOdA)

51 I wonder if one was a fag Medic??

AZ Intel @AZ_Intel_ 3h
Sudan army shoots down UAE plane in Darfur, killing 40 Colombian mercenaries.

Posted by: andycanuck at August 07, 2025 08:04 AM (2yoRf)

52 Good morning dear morons and happy birthday JJ

It's long been seen that what happens in California sooner or later happens in the rest of the nation.
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I've been trying to provide insights about that for 15 years.

Everything the Party wants to do to you has already been done to me.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 07, 2025 08:04 AM (JvZF+)

53 DEI may be dying but no way will its natural death will be conceded. The only possible response from the maniacs behind its creation is deliberate societal chaos in every possible way they can imagine. These are not people and forces which for one second will accept a status quo ante or ongoing peaceful coexistence.

Posted by: Ordinary American at August 07, 2025 08:04 AM (h/ffs)

54 Drawing 435 names out of a big fucking hat would be better than the people in the House today.
Posted by: rhennigantx at August 07, 2025 08:00 AM (gbOdA)

Or picking them out of a phone book, at random?

Posted by: Buckley at August 07, 2025 08:05 AM (Mi0CH)

55 By the way, the Babylon Bee and Rumble won their lawsuit against the State of California either yesterday or Tuesday.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 07, 2025 08:05 AM (viF8m)

56 I’m not an economist but I’ve read (was it Thomas Sowell) that inflation is simply too much money (money supply) chasing too few goods. Now if that’s a good definition, that has nothing to do with tariffs…. Unless, I suppose, the imposition of tariffs reduces the amount of goods in circulation? This doesn’t seem likely because to take just one example: steel… a huge tariff on foreign steel doesn’t reduce the amount of steel to buy unless domestic producers can’t meet demand and importers refuse to accept foreign steel… IOW Jerome Powell is an imbecile

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 07, 2025 08:06 AM (nrfI8)

57 I have to say, federalizing DC would likely be a disaster. FFS, congress can't even produce a budget or effectively administer oversight of the various public institutions it has now.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at August 07, 2025 08:07 AM (3Ope8)

58 I love when smooth brains who have zero understanding of Christianity attempt to lecture me on Christianity.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 07, 2025 08:08 AM (viF8m)

59 >Isn't D.C. by definition federal? Why is it not federal now? Hasn't it always been federal?
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It was until Congress granted the District 'home rule' in 1973
Posted by: Don Black at August 07, 2025 07:57 AM (AOsQT)

Fifty years in and the results are . . . not good.

Posted by: Count de Monet at August 07, 2025 08:08 AM (wVcYX)

60 IOW Jerome Powell is an imbecile
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 07, 2025 08:06 AM (nrfI

True in some respects but the problem is his animus against Trump and that he sees himself as one of the last and most important impediments to Trump's success (a heroic role as he sees it).

Posted by: Ordinary American at August 07, 2025 08:08 AM (h/ffs)

61 Runaway Texas Dems Evacuate Hotel Over Bomb Scare, Blame GOP’s ‘Reckless Rhetoric’

I wonder if the citizens of Texas could file a class action lawsuit against Pritzker for interfering in the governance of our state.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 07, 2025 08:08 AM (ExV1e)

62 Some of the early Greek city states had municipal posts filled by lottery. Sort of like jury duty. Now you’re the Water Works commissioner. Don’t screw it up - they had the death penalty for malfeasance in office, too. Apparently worked pretty well.

I do believe Capital Punishment for miscreants in elected office would clean things up a bit. Way too many grifters and low frequency type individuals infesting public offices.

Posted by: Common Tater at August 07, 2025 08:09 AM (7t4fv)

63 The Bible commands Christians to treat all strangers (migrants) equally as citizens.
If we are a Christian country why is that not done?
Posted by: Aliassmithsmith at August 07, 2025 08:07 AM (tbzGa)

It's not done because that's not what the Bible says.

Posted by: GWB at August 07, 2025 08:09 AM (Mi0CH)

64 CNN ‘Global Affairs Analyst' Kim Dozier:

The big worry about a Russiagate grand jury probe is that it furthers the aims of Russian influence operations to sow chaos and turn Americans against each other.

"Moscow is going to be cheering!"

Politicians gotta lie and criminals gotta crime

Posted by: SMOD at August 07, 2025 08:10 AM (g5Irf)

65 Drawing 435 names out of a big fucking hat would be better than the people in the House today.
Posted by: rhennigantx at August 07, 2025 08:00 AM (gbOdA)

Or picking them out of a phone book, at random?
Posted by: Buckley at August 07, 2025 08:05 AM (Mi0CH)

Phone book?

Posted by: Millenial at August 07, 2025 08:10 AM (wVcYX)

66 If you want to learn more about the DC Home Rule Act of 1973, here is the wiki:

https://tinyurl.com/2899m2re

Posted by: Don Black at August 07, 2025 08:11 AM (AOsQT)

67 "Moscow is going to be cheering!"

… and how is this my problem ?

Posted by: SMOD at August 07, 2025 08:11 AM (g5Irf)

68 The big worry about a Russiagate grand jury probe is that it furthers the aims of Russian influence operations to sow chaos and turn Americans against each other.
Posted by: SMOD at August 07, 2025 08:10 AM (g5Irf)

"Why do you make me hit you like that?"
Oy vey.

Posted by: GWB at August 07, 2025 08:11 AM (Mi0CH)

69 Guy was in the Army for 6 years, reached the rank of Sergeant, shot at 5 people... and didn't kill any of them? Dude.

Even an Army psych did better than that, back before Biden.

(Yes, it's a weird angle, but it does go to training, IMO.)
Posted by: GWB at August 07, 2025 07:53 AM (Mi0CH)

He is in Supply. He probably only touches a rifle once a year to qualify.

Posted by: AZ Hi Desert (Gringo fuertemente armado-Tempus belli) at August 07, 2025 08:12 AM (jyMs9)

70 Baltimore Man Who Brutally Beat Pro-Lifers Faces Years In Prison.

Nah, not really. Guilty of Misdemeanor charges only. He'll be fined and have to do community service. It's Baltimore city.

Posted by: Lurking Cheshirecat at August 07, 2025 08:12 AM (w3u3d)

71 It's not done because that's not what the Bible says.

It's so funny when trolls like that read one line in the Bible and think that it covers their delusions.

He keeps forgetting that as a Christian, you are commanded to obey the laws of the land. Even those icky immigration laws the left hate so much.

Posted by: NR Pax at August 07, 2025 08:13 AM (99eI0)

72 Ciampino's obituary posted

https://tinyurl.com/32dd9853

Posted by: Notsothoreau at August 07, 2025 08:13 AM (kUxzU)

73 Morning, 'rons and 'ettes.

Posted by: olddog in mo at August 07, 2025 08:14 AM (X7zFE)

74 “Separation of Church and State”; you can’t demand adherence to biblical principles when it suits your fancy.

Good try though.

Posted by: Common Tater at August 07, 2025 08:14 AM (7t4fv)

75 Contemporary Fiction and Men Who Talk Too Much
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I didn't know any of the books cited, as all were too recent for me. But I do recognize what is going on. It's what Lewis called "wish fulfillment fantasy", not to be confused with the sort he and Tolkien were writing. In which the main character is just too, too smart, good looking, brave, etc. And it's pretty much all crap.

Posted by: Eeyore at August 07, 2025 08:15 AM (od0dV)

76 “Separation of Church and State”

Whenever I talk about it, I say (non-existent) Separation of Church and State.

Posted by: NR Pax at August 07, 2025 08:15 AM (99eI0)

77 Well, the shooter on the army base is Quorneilius Jackson or some last name, and he has been quaught.

Posted by: M. Gaga at August 07, 2025 08:15 AM (k8b4u)

78 The California situation just makes me sad. I met my wife, got married, had a family and raised our kids in that state. Many great memories there…. It’s a paradise of sorts, or should be… but lefties seem intent on destroying it and/or making it so that only the uber-rich can afford to live there (in their walled enclaves with private security). Just sad
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 07, 2025 08:00 AM (nrfI

====

We will be gone within 60 days of MiL's passing.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 07, 2025 08:15 AM (JvZF+)

79 Guy was in the Army for 6 years, reached the rank of Sergeant, shot at 5 people... and didn't kill any of them? Dude.

Guy wasn't infantry and the Army doesn't have that "every Marine is a rifleman first" ethos.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 07, 2025 08:15 AM (ExV1e)

80 Fun fact: the first mayor of DC was Walter Washington

Posted by: Don Black at August 07, 2025 08:16 AM (AOsQT)

81 ICE kidnaps dems: 'We've been trapped!' Democratic lawmakers say ICE 'incarcerated' them at detention center.

Rep. Adriano Espaillat (D-NY) said that he, along with Reps. Dan Goldman (D-NY) and Nydia Valazquez (D-NY), attempted to visit the Sunset Park Detention Center in Brooklyn in an effort to observe the treatment of detained migrants.

"We were greeted by a masked agent who refused to give us his name, who refused to show his face, and who proceeded to lock the door, keeping us, in essence, incarcerated, because we cannot go in or out until we get further notice.”

Call the NYPD. These stupid Republicans don’t seem to understand that when they disrespect a congressman, they are also disrespecting all of that person‘s constituents.

Things are going to get really ugly in this country. ICE is multiplying is size, they don't answer to the law, they are going to be everywhere terrorizing our population.

Definitely a mistake by these detention goons. Goldman is an outspoken and skilled Democratic Representative who could make those idiots regret their crime. This will not end with just a small news story.

Call NATO! We need help.

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at August 07, 2025 08:16 AM (ycI94)

82 It's National Sea Serpent Day.

Posted by: redridinghood at August 07, 2025 08:17 AM (NpAcC)

83 Isn't D.C. by definition federal? Why is it not federal now? Hasn't it always been federal?

How much shit that is entrusted to be the job of Congress can they look and and touch their noses saying "Not It"? Is there anything that is actually their job that they actually.... do?
Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 07, 2025 07:53 AM (rIQZh)

The solution is to return the portions of DC where people, other than the President, live to the states which had previously ceded that territory. No one should have DC as their residence. Even the President is officially a resident of some state.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 07, 2025 08:18 AM (ExV1e)

84 >>Call NATO! We need help.

That is best unintended comedy I've read in a long time.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 07, 2025 08:18 AM (viF8m)

85 Baltimore Man Who Brutally Beat Pro-Lifers Faces Years In Prison
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Not bloody likely

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at August 07, 2025 08:18 AM (q04Io)

86 These stupid Republicans don’t seem to understand that when they disrespect a congressman, they are also disrespecting all of that person‘s constituents.

Self awareness is not one of their strong points.

Call NATO! We need help.

I guess that's a step up from begging the UN for help.

Posted by: NR Pax at August 07, 2025 08:19 AM (99eI0)

87 The Greatest Hurdle Farage Faces En Route to 10 Downing Street… And How to Address It.
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Maybe. But I find that if you go to British conservative sources, Farage isn't all that popular. It's more like the way we backed Romney instead of what we wanted. If so, then GWB is the upside possibility, a scary thought. American accounts never seem to mention that.

Posted by: Eeyore at August 07, 2025 08:19 AM (od0dV)

88 Julie says it will be a long-term affair to demonize Putin and Trump. Now it is good for a post-convention bounce. Later the FBI will put more oil into the fire... Anyway, things are ghastly for US-Russian relations. —Leonard Bernardo, July 25, 2016 email.

Just 4 years earlier Obama called Romney crazy for saying the Russia was a problem.

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 07, 2025 08:19 AM (gbOdA)

89 I love when smooth brains who have zero understanding of Christianity attempt to lecture me on Christianity.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 07, 2025 08:08 AM (viF8m)

Can't atheists just stick to lecturing me about the glories of the Flying Spaghetti Monster?

At least, they have an understanding of that.

Posted by: naturalfake at August 07, 2025 08:19 AM (iJfKG)

90 https://tinyurl.com/32dd9853

Very nice. Ciampino mentioned time he spent in Kigali but I did not see that in his bio...

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 07, 2025 08:20 AM (JvZF+)

91 JJ, if you're still about, Sarah Hoyt has a humongous book coming out in September and she's looking for help marketing it. Any chance you'd be interested in having her on your podcast?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 07, 2025 08:20 AM (0eaVi)

92 Roosevelt in ‘39 asked that belligerents avoid bombing civilians.

Retard. The way to end a war quickest and with the fewest overall casualties, particularly for your side, is to go as hard as possible, as soon as possible, and make them beg for mercy. Playing around at 'civilized warfare' from hundreds or thousands of miles away from the danger is utter bullshit.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 07, 2025 08:20 AM (ExV1e)

93 U.S. officials have directed people to exercise enhanced precaution when traveling to a province in China because of the outbreak of the chikungunya virus.

CDC Warns Travelers About Cases of Mosquito-Borne Virus in China

Posted by: SMOD at August 07, 2025 08:21 AM (g5Irf)

94 Definitely a mistake by these detention goons. Goldman is an outspoken and skilled Democratic Representative who could make those idiots regret their crime. This will not end with just a small news story.
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If Dan Goldman was half as smart as he thinks he is he'd be dangerous.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 07, 2025 08:22 AM (JvZF+)

95 U.S. officials have directed people to exercise enhanced precaution when traveling to a province in China because of the outbreak of the chikungunya virus.

CDC Warns Travelers About Cases of Mosquito-Borne Virus in China
Posted by: SMOD at August 07, 2025 08:21 AM (g5Irf)

Chick is gonna do what?

Posted by: Count de Monet at August 07, 2025 08:23 AM (wVcYX)

96 The capitol city has a weird relationship with the Feds and the surrounding states (MD and VA.) They operate as a city, but don't really have state laws, from either of those states, to fall back on. And I don't think there are Federal laws for some of the more mundane, city only functions for guidance. So D.C. made that shit up as they went along.

IOW, it's a mess.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 07, 2025 08:23 AM (Q4IgG)

97 The way to end a war quickest and with the fewest overall casualties, particularly for your side, is to go as hard as possible, as soon as possible, and make them beg for mercy. Playing around at 'civilized warfare' from hundreds or thousands of miles away from the danger is utter bullshit.
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Wait, whut?

Posted by: Bibi Netanyahu at August 07, 2025 08:23 AM (JvZF+)

98 Call NATO! We need help.

Yeah, when I need help, this is the first group I think of calling.

Posted by: dantesed at August 07, 2025 08:23 AM (Oy/m2)

99 83 It's National Sea Serpent Day.
Posted by: redridinghood at August 07, 2025 08:17 AM (NpAcC)

Cecil the SeaSick Sea Serpent

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 07, 2025 08:23 AM (gbOdA)

100 Please someone tell Trump to give most of DC back to Maryland.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at August 07, 2025 08:24 AM (xQz2n)

101 It's so funny when trolls like that read one line in the Bible and think that it covers their delusions.

He keeps forgetting that as a Christian, you are commanded to obey the laws of the land. Even those icky immigration laws the left hate so much.
Posted by: NR Pax at August 07, 2025 08:13 AM (99eI0)

But there's not even a line in the Bible that says that, old or new testaments. He added a bunch of words and ideas to a commandment to "care for" the sojourner (who is a traveller, by definition, not moving in to reside).

Posted by: GWB at August 07, 2025 08:24 AM (Mi0CH)

102 "Call Geico, WE NEED HELP!!"

Posted by: runner at August 07, 2025 08:24 AM (g47mK)

103 Ciampino's obituary posted

https://tinyurl.com/32dd9853
Posted by: Notsothoreau at August 07, 2025 08:13 AM (kUxzU)
******
Thanks.
Sounds like he had an adventurous life.
Please also post this so ace can see it.
Ciampino needs to be on the absent friends list.

Posted by: redridinghood at August 07, 2025 08:25 AM (NpAcC)

104 "Call COSTCO! We need help !!"

Posted by: runner at August 07, 2025 08:25 AM (g47mK)

105 Call NATO! We need help.

The fast response rape team is inbound.

Posted by: Blue Helmets at August 07, 2025 08:26 AM (wVcYX)

106 Just 4 years earlier Obama called Romney crazy for saying the Russia was a problem.
Posted by: rhennigantx

And the media barked and clapped like trained seals when they weren't giggling about "binders full of women."

Posted by: NR Pax at August 07, 2025 08:26 AM (99eI0)

107 Mornin’, All. Happy Thursday.

Posted by: Bulg at August 07, 2025 08:27 AM (77rzZ)

108 Incidentally, Yakov Smirnoff was on Michael Malice’s podcast this week. Given both men escaped the USSR there’s some good stuff about how Communism actually operates in practice. Also about how Yakov’s career ended when the USSR fell, which is something I never thought about. Apparently it was just weeks after he’d bought a house next door to Goldie Hawn.

He could repurpose the In Soviet Union jokes now as “In Putin’s Russia” and liberals would clap like trained seals.

Posted by: Ian S. at August 07, 2025 08:28 AM (QZThv)

109 A viral illness spread by mosquitoes known as chikungunya is infecting China and other nations across Africa and Europe, prompting the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to issue a travel advisory for Americans.

Call me.

Posted by: DDT at August 07, 2025 08:28 AM (0eaVi)

110 If MD were to take back the territory it ceded to the federal gov't, it would likely create a new Congressional district which would certainly add a Dem seat in Congress

Posted by: Don Black at August 07, 2025 08:28 AM (AOsQT)

111 If so, then GWB is the upside possibility, a scary thought. American accounts never seem to mention that.
Posted by: Eeyore at August 07, 2025 08:19 AM (od0dV)

Hey now! I think I'd make a great President! I'd even make a great PM of England!

(Unless you mean that other GWB.)

Posted by: GWB at August 07, 2025 08:29 AM (Mi0CH)

112 The Left's Trump-Epstein Witch Hunt Implodes Amid Ghislaine Maxwell Bombshell
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Maybe we should start calling the Left's reports of new revelations about Trump "Dudshells". That's all they are.

Posted by: Eeyore at August 07, 2025 08:29 AM (od0dV)

113 He could repurpose the In Soviet Union jokes now as “In Putin’s Russia” and liberals would clap like trained seals.
Posted by: Ian S. at August 07, 2025 08:28 AM (QZThv)

In Putins Russia Trained Seals give you clap.

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 07, 2025 08:29 AM (gbOdA)

114 REPORT: Former Special Counsel Robert Mueller Allegedly Living In Memory Care Facility
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Are there any of these guys competent to stand trial?

Posted by: Eeyore at August 07, 2025 08:30 AM (od0dV)

115 Please someone tell Trump to give most of DC back to Maryland.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at August 07, 2025 08:24 AM (xQz2n)

I'm not sure that would be an improvement for DC. Or Maryland.

Posted by: GWB at August 07, 2025 08:31 AM (Mi0CH)

116 btw, more hell weather for Fat City today

forecast is 99F with patchy wildfire smoke
hiding under the bed today

Posted by: Don Black at August 07, 2025 08:32 AM (AOsQT)

117 Just 4 years earlier Obama called Romney crazy for saying the Russia was a problem.

____________________________

That was before Hillary needed a scapegoat because she couldn't accept responsibility for losing.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at August 07, 2025 08:32 AM (q04Io)

118 Today's Yahoo headline: we taste tested the new Beyond Steak filet. How did it stack up to THE REAL THING?

I see a flaw in their marketing plan.

Posted by: From about That Time at August 07, 2025 08:32 AM (n4GiU)

119 Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson Says Finances at ‘Point of No Return’ Without Massive Tax Hike

They say the sea turns so dark that
You know its' time you see the signs
They say the point demons guard is
An ocean grave for all the brave

Was it you that said, "How long, how long
How long to the point of know return?"

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 07, 2025 08:33 AM (gbOdA)

120 It was obvious when Mueller testified before Congress about his Russia collusion investigation that his cheese had slid off his cracker.

Weissmann was running that shit show.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 07, 2025 08:33 AM (viF8m)

121 119 Today's Yahoo headline: we taste tested the new Beyond Steak filet. How did it stack up to THE REAL THING?

I see a flaw in their marketing plan.
Posted by: From about That Time at August 07, 2025 08:32 AM (n4GiU)

There is a thing that causes bodies of cell to grow rapidly and mutate.

Cancer

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 07, 2025 08:34 AM (gbOdA)

122 For those of you with an interest in such things, I give you The Memes of Thursday...

https://tinyurl.com/mrbfsne4+

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 07, 2025 08:34 AM (ExV1e)

123 Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson Says Finances at ‘Point of No Return’ Without Massive Tax Hike

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Maybe mayor conehead can sell all the illegal gifts he has stashed in one of his secret offices.

Posted by: BruceWayne at August 07, 2025 08:34 AM (MGB5H)

124 As I scan through my various feeds this morning I come across this meme. I snickered.

https://tinyurl.com/msttj4he

Goes to 𝕏

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 07, 2025 08:35 AM (Q4IgG)

125 Whenever I talk about it, I say (non-existent) Separation of Church and State.

___________________________

Whenever I talk about it, I mention that it entered jurisprudence through an opinion authored by justice Hugo Black .... Who was a klansman

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at August 07, 2025 08:35 AM (q04Io)

126 It was always astounding that Muller was so dedicated to the Deep State that he gladly tossed a 40 year reputation into the dumpster, just for a chance to get at Trump.

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 07, 2025 08:35 AM (q+E/R)

127 Our cities have descended into chaos because:

1) All problems are claimed to be caused by racism
2) Big government has driven most legal small business out
3) Welfare
4) Elections are a farce and have nothing to do with votes cast
5) The police see their job as protecting the government
6) City government sees its job as looting the treasury

Posted by: 18-1 at August 07, 2025 08:36 AM (t0Rmr)

128 The Bible also lists homosexuality as one of the sins that will prevent someone from entering the Kingdom of God.

Posted by: Pray The Gay Away at August 07, 2025 08:36 AM (ZU2mU)

129 126 Whenever I talk about it, I mention that it entered jurisprudence through an opinion authored by justice Hugo Black .... Who was a klansman
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at August 07, 2025 08:35 AM (q04Io)

Once Hugo Black, you never go back!

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 07, 2025 08:36 AM (x0n13)

130 >>That was before Hillary needed a scapegoat because she couldn't accept responsibility for losing.

But why Russia? And why did so much of the early stuff originate in Ukraine?

One of the most overlooked aspects of this whole thing is that the two countries that went to war almost as soon as Trump was gone in 2020 were featured as part of the Russia lie. Russia became the evil empire and Ukraine supplied a lot of the dirt.

Not a coincidence.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 07, 2025 08:36 AM (viF8m)

131 101 Please someone tell Trump to give most of DC back to Maryland.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at August 07, 2025 08:24 AM (xQz2n)

Neither the Maryland Democrats nor Republicans want DC.

MD dems don't like to share power. It is also a money loser.

Posted by: Lurking Cheshirecat at August 07, 2025 08:37 AM (w3u3d)

132 Maybe we should start calling the Left's reports of new revelations about Trump "Dudshells". That's all they are.
Posted by: Eeyore at August 07, 2025 08:29 AM (od0dV)

They're completely oblivious of their failures. At this moment they are desperately scrabbling for their next narrative.

Posted by: Ordinary American at August 07, 2025 08:38 AM (h/ffs)

133 As I scan through my various feeds this morning I come across this meme. I snickered.

https://tinyurl.com/msttj4he

Goes to 𝕏
Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 07, 2025 08:35 AM (Q4IgG)

Pro tip: if you add a '+' to the end of your tinyurl, it will take you to a redirect preview.

https://tinyurl.com/msttj4he+

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 07, 2025 08:38 AM (ExV1e)

134
A viral illness spread by mosquitoes known as chikungunya is infecting China and other nations across Africa and Europe, prompting the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to issue a travel advisory for Americans.

Make Third World Diseases Great Again!!!

Could uncontrolled immigration of infected peoples from various 3rd World unsanitary nations be responsible?....No way!

Posted by: naturalfake at August 07, 2025 08:38 AM (iJfKG)

135 Just thinking
Mrs Downey would be about 157 by now.
Posted by: rhennigantx

I'm still alive and well! I remember you! You were the star of the "Dumb Row".

Posted by: Mrs. Downey at The Villages at August 07, 2025 08:40 AM (G5+As)

136 Posted by: 18-1 at August 07, 2025 08:36 AM (t0Rmr)
______________

7) Prosecutors and judges see their jobs as advancing an ideological agenda

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at August 07, 2025 08:40 AM (q04Io)

137 How about " "SEATO" "??

Insider Paper @TheInsiderPaper Jul 12
BREAKING: The Pentagon is urging Japan and Australia to clarify what role they would play if the U.S. and China went to war over Taiwan, the Financial Times reported on Saturday.

Trump orders Pacific allies to prepare for war with China
Story by Daniel Smith • July 15
The US has told its Pacific allies to gear up for a potential scrap with China over the contentious territory of Taiwan, amid warnings from Japan that the world is on the brink of a 'new crisis era' and Beijing's hefty investment in cutting-edge military hardware. [...]

However, revelations from the Financial Times suggest that while the superpower is prepped to continue shielding Taiwan, it anticipates that regional partners – notably Japan and Australia – should share the load in the unfortunate event of an outbreak of hostilities, reports the Mirror US.

It's pressing these nations to ramp up defense expenditures to ward off any aggressive moves by China.

Posted by: andycanuck at August 07, 2025 08:42 AM (2yoRf)

138 >>It was always astounding that Muller was so dedicated to the Deep State that he gladly tossed a 40 year reputation into the dumpster, just for a chance to get at Trump.

Mueller began the politicization of the FBI by changing the promotion path and centralizing power at FBI HQ. That's how we got guys like McCabe and Strzok. Comey was his protege.

Mueller was dedicated to covering his own ass.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 07, 2025 08:42 AM (viF8m)

139 > But why Russia? And why did so much of the early stuff originate in Ukraine?
-----------
Money laundering. Probably. The *biden crime family was active in Ukraine years before the desiccated husk was president. He, and his family were not the only ones laundering money there.

And grifting off the budding social unrest.

The animosity between Putin and Z-man (after he was propped up by us) provided cover for a lot of shady shit over there. It was, and is, all about the money.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 07, 2025 08:42 AM (Q4IgG)

140 It's what Lewis called "wish fulfillment fantasy", not to be confused with the sort he and Tolkien were writing. In which the main character is just too, too smart, good looking, brave, etc. And it's pretty much all crap.
Posted by: Eeyore at August 07, 2025 08:15 AM (od0dV)

Quite closely related to the Mary Sue genre.

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 07, 2025 08:44 AM (q+E/R)

141 Good morning!
Yiiikes, California. Time to build a wall around you,

Posted by: Lizzy at August 07, 2025 08:44 AM (GbwPZ)

142 138 Posted by: andycanuck at August 07, 2025 08:42 AM (2yoRf)

SEATO - sounds like the gay bastard child of Buttgig and Beto . . .

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 07, 2025 08:44 AM (x0n13)

143 Are there any of these guys competent to stand trial?
——-

It’s a strategy. Non compos mentos? “Not guilty by reason of insanity”. Sort of covers most, if not all , Democrats. Joey was too far gone to run for re-election, too scatter brained to convict, but totally fine to remain in office.

Posted by: Common Tater at August 07, 2025 08:45 AM (tgJVA)

144 The vital reforms in the Media Act, once implemented, will help support PSBs, including by making
their on-demand players prominent on connected TVs.

1984 is not an instruction manual.

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 07, 2025 08:45 AM (gbOdA)

145 Disclose.tv @disclosetv 14h
NOW - Trump on Operation Warp Speed: "One of the most incredible things ever done in this country... Everything about it was has been amazing."

Posted by: andycanuck at August 07, 2025 08:47 AM (2yoRf)

146 NOW - Trump on Operation Warp Speed: "One of the most incredible things ever done in this country... Everything about it was has been amazing."

ugh yeah

total blind spot

depressing

Posted by: Black Orchid at August 07, 2025 08:48 AM (Pv3Rg)

147 146 So Trump still has a blind spot about the Vaxx, I guess. Sad, but kind of irrelevant at this point.

Posted by: Bulg at August 07, 2025 08:48 AM (77rzZ)

148 64 The Bible commands Christians to treat all strangers (migrants) equally as citizens.
If we are a Christian country why is that not done?
Posted by: Aliassmithsmith at August 07, 2025 08:07 AM (tbzGa)

As to what the Bible Commands - if you’re not circumcised, hadn’t you better drop everything and go out and get circumcised today?

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 07, 2025 08:48 AM (q+E/R)

149 "Maybe California's statehood needs to be revoked and the region returned to territorial status, governed by a Trump-appointed territorial governor."

I have stated this in comments sections at a few different venues, only I left out the "maybe." This country would be so much better off. Unfortunately, California's ports are too important for imports from Asia to just flat out expell it from the nation.

Posted by: tankdemon at August 07, 2025 08:49 AM (R256O)

150 >>. . .She also claimed people labeled her a “Russian asset.”

Yeah, that's the ticket! Russia is sending middle-aged women to jazz festivals to incite a mob to attack and nearly kill her, in order to -- get this! -- provide Trump a talking point about urban violence!!

Dayum, Vladd has got some mad Jedi mindtrick skillzzzz, you guys!!!!

More seriously, how programmed does one have to be to call her a Russian asset?

Posted by: Lizzy at August 07, 2025 08:49 AM (GbwPZ)

151 The Bible commands Christians to treat all strangers (migrants) equally as citizens.

Stop using Grok or ChatGPT to read the Bible for you.

Posted by: 18-1 at August 07, 2025 08:49 AM (t0Rmr)

152 1984 is not an instruction manual
______________

Britain is beyond 1984 and we'll on its way to V for Vendetta.

We always kind of got the cultural attraction of Russians to authoritarianism because of their long history with the czars. And we got that Latin Americans love themselves a caudillo strongman. But what turned the British into totalitarians?

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at August 07, 2025 08:50 AM (q04Io)

153 R A W S A L E R T S @rawsalerts 18h
🚨#BREAKING: Officials say a strict no-bag policy has been put in place for tonight’s WNBA game in an effort to crack down on fans throwing dildos and other inappropriate items onto the court.

🚨#BREAKING: WNBA betting volume on dildos surpasses betting volume for who will win the game — Polymarket.

Posted by: andycanuck at August 07, 2025 08:50 AM (2yoRf)

154 Not at all a surprise Pastor Jack Hibbs is out front on this issue.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at August 07, 2025 08:50 AM (tT6L1)

155 Adam Kraut, the Second Amendment Foundation’s (SAF) executive director, said in a press release. “With Congress removing the tax on silencers, short-barreled firearms, and ‘any other weapons,’ the continued inclusion of these items in the NFA serves no purpose, except continuing to retain an impermissible hurdle to the exercise of one’s constitutional right to keep and bear arms.”

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 07, 2025 08:50 AM (gbOdA)

156 California was never a territory.

Posted by: Bulg at August 07, 2025 08:50 AM (77rzZ)

157 I see our resident troll is speaking about the Bible, a subject he knows less about than the other things of which he knows nothing.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at August 07, 2025 08:51 AM (tT6L1)

158 The Bible commands Christians to treat all strangers (migrants) equally as citizens.

Stop using Grok or ChatGPT to read the Bible for you.
Posted by: 18-1 at August 07, 2025 08:49 AM (t0Rmr)

Maybe he needs to use an electronic version because the hard copy burns his hands?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 07, 2025 08:51 AM (0eaVi)

159 see our resident troll is speaking about the Bible, a subject he knows less about than the other things of which he knows nothing.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1

He seems to know a lot about shit pebbles though.

Posted by: BruceWayne at August 07, 2025 08:52 AM (MGB5H)

160 Tech thread question that's too late. How does employee phishing enable network access if there is two factor authentication such as CAC and pw? Are big companies just not ready for hacking?

Posted by: actually inside the beltway at August 07, 2025 08:52 AM (A0ECY)

161 "It was always astounding that Muller was so dedicated to the Deep State that he gladly tossed a 40 year reputation into the dumpster, just for a chance to get at Trump."

They all (Mueller, Brennan, Clapper, Comey, et al) played their obedient role, believing they were entirely invulnerable, beyond serious inquiry or, for sure, accountability. Trump was an aberration, a one-off, and they could easily destroy him.

Posted by: Ordinary American at August 07, 2025 08:52 AM (h/ffs)

162 Britain is beyond 1984 and we'll on its way to V for Vendetta.

V for Vendetta added the notion our elites would be pedos to a general 1984 type IngSoc government. I guess points here for Alan Moore here.

Posted by: 18-1 at August 07, 2025 08:52 AM (t0Rmr)

163 As to what the Bible Commands - if you’re not circumcised, hadn’t you better drop everything and go out and get circumcised today?
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 07, 2025 08:48 AM (q+E/R)

The trolls, quoting them we do not. -- Yoda

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 07, 2025 08:52 AM (ExV1e)

164 The Bible commands Christians to treat all strangers (migrants) equally as citizens.
If we are a Christian country why is that not done?
Posted by: Aliassmithsmith at August 07, 2025 08:07 AM (tbzGa)
____________________________

"I am not a Christian and I detest your backwards superstitious beliefs, so this argument wouldn't work on me, but I will twist something out of the Bible to use against you "

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at August 07, 2025 08:53 AM (q04Io)

165 "It was always astounding that Muller was so dedicated to the Deep State that he gladly tossed a 40 year reputation into the dumpster, just for a chance to get at Trump."

Muller worked for Whitey. He's always been a corrupt SOB.

Posted by: 18-1 at August 07, 2025 08:53 AM (t0Rmr)

166 >>Money laundering. Probably. The *biden crime family was active in Ukraine years before the desiccated husk was president. He, and his family were not the only ones laundering money there.

I think it goes a lot deeper than just money laundering. By now it should be obvious that the reason the war started was the Biden administration teasing NATO membership for Ukraine. But it didn't start with Biden, it started publicly at least at the NATO Summit in Bucharest in 2008 under Bush when he announced that NATO should consider NATO membership for Ukraine and Georgia.

Putin said at the time that was a red line for him and to prove his point he invaded Georgia. Then the coup in Ukraine under Obama/Biden and then Putin took Crimea.

Then 4 years of Trump and Russia and Ukraine hoaxes but peace. But as soon as Biden got in office it was back to NATO expansion and war.

NATO expansion into Ukraine and eastern Europe has been a bi-partisan foreign policy goal of the neocon deep state for years. There is something bigger at play.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 07, 2025 08:53 AM (viF8m)

167 The Bible calls on God's people to be kind and compassionate to sojourners. Because of course we should. BTW 'sojourners' means people temporarily passing through. Not invaders. There's other rules for that.

Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at August 07, 2025 08:53 AM (SfhV1)

168 >>One of the most overlooked aspects of this whole thing is that the two countries that went to war almost as soon as Trump was gone in 2020 were featured as part of the Russia lie. Russia became the evil empire and Ukraine supplied a lot of the dirt.
___
This is really a key point. Almost everything leads back to Ukraine.

Posted by: Frasier Crane at August 07, 2025 08:53 AM (bNf8H)

169 Court Orders and Congressional Districts
The Department of Justice has identified four congressional districts in Texas as unconstitutional. These districts were flagged for unconstitutionally combining Black and Hispanic voters. The districts in question are:
9th District: Currently has no single racial majority.
18th District: Similar to the 9th, it lacks a majority.
29th District: Predominantly Hispanic but is now at risk of losing its majority status.
33rd District: Entirely redrawn but still does not have a majority racial group.

All of the BS about Texas is because Texas was ORDERED to redraw by the US 5th Court.

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 07, 2025 08:53 AM (gbOdA)

170 >>The Bible commands Christians to . . .If we are a Christian country why is that not done?

You don't get to use my religion to demand we implement *your* Commie policies.

Posted by: Lizzy at August 07, 2025 08:54 AM (GbwPZ)

171 >But what turned the British into totalitarians?

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo
---

my theory is, the quaint British custom of not wanting to cause offence* has been taken to the ridiculous extreme, and criminalized.

*Limey spelling

Posted by: Don Black at August 07, 2025 08:54 AM (AOsQT)

172 The Bible calls on God's people to be kind and compassionate to sojourners. Because of course we should. BTW 'sojourners' means people temporarily passing through. Not invaders. There's other rules for that.

Was reading a thread on what surprised Europeans visiting the US.

"Its so big" was one answer, but "Americans are the friendliest people I've met unlike I thought" was another...

Posted by: 18-1 at August 07, 2025 08:54 AM (t0Rmr)

173 The Bible calls on God's people to be kind and compassionate to sojourners. Because of course we should. BTW 'sojourners' means people temporarily passing through. Not invaders. There's other rules for that.
Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at August 07, 2025 08:53

*nods*

Double tap.

Posted by: BruceWayne at August 07, 2025 08:54 AM (MGB5H)

174 They loves them some children.

Posted by: Eromero at August 07, 2025 08:55 AM (jgmnb)

175 Satan knew the Bible.

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 07, 2025 08:55 AM (gbOdA)

176 The Bible calls on God's people to be kind and compassionate to sojourners. Because of course we should. BTW 'sojourners' means people temporarily passing through. Not invaders. There's other rules for that.
Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at August 07, 2025 08:53 AM (SfhV1)

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

Morning, Grammie!

Pastor Jack Hibbs spoke to the border issue. It's on youtube, and he clearly lays out the case for borders. Based on Scripture, no less. I know you'r shocked by that.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at August 07, 2025 08:55 AM (tT6L1)

177 146 Disclose.tv @disclosetv 14h
NOW - Trump on Operation Warp Speed: "One of the most incredible things ever done in this country... Everything about it was has been amazing."
Posted by: andycanuck at August 07, 2025 08:47 AM (2yoRf)

He said this recently?

On the other hand, he appointed RFK Jr., who is currently undoing the entire mRNA project.

Posted by: Ordinary American at August 07, 2025 08:55 AM (h/ffs)

178 While Brits are freer then Russian, de jure, I'm not sure its true de facto any more.

There are more political prisoners in the former then the latter, and remember Russia is at war...

Posted by: 18-1 at August 07, 2025 08:55 AM (t0Rmr)

179 California was never a territory.
Posted by: Bulg at August 07, 2025 08:50 AM (77rzZ)

You keep saying that and wiki keeps saying that you're wrong.

https://tinyurl.com/nc2n2a2r+

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 07, 2025 08:56 AM (ExV1e)

180 AZ Intel @AZ_Intel_ 4h
BREAKING: Agreement reached to hold meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and U.S. President Donald Trump in the coming days, and the parties have begun working on the details.

Insider Paper @TheInsiderPaper 1h
NEW 🚨 Trump-Putin meeting venue has been set: Kremlin

Insider Paper @TheInsiderPaper 48m
BREAKING 🚨 Putin says UAE could host meeting with Trump
===
Some place called the Field of the Cloth of Gold or something.

Posted by: andycanuck at August 07, 2025 08:56 AM (2yoRf)

181 The bible also says "Thou shalt not copy and paste trolls, for they are blind, uncircumcised, and refuse to see.."

Posted by: runner at August 07, 2025 08:56 AM (g47mK)

182 Pastor Jack Hibbs spoke to the border issue. It's on youtube, and he clearly lays out the case for borders. Based on Scripture, no less. I know you'r shocked by that.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at August 07, 2025 08:55 AM (tT6L1)

Thanks for the tip blake! I'll have to watch that.

Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at August 07, 2025 08:56 AM (SfhV1)

183 Pro tip: if you add a '+' to the end of your tinyurl, it will take you to a redirect preview.

Why on earth would anyone use that!?!?

Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at August 07, 2025 08:57 AM (JCZqz)

184 Like most leftists the troll is absolutely confident and factually incorrect.

The arrogance of ignorance.

Posted by: Bibi Netanyahu at August 07, 2025 08:57 AM (JvZF+)

185 Trolls are unclean.

Posted by: Don Black at August 07, 2025 08:58 AM (AOsQT)

186 Like most leftists the troll is absolutely confident and factually incorrect.

The arrogance of ignorance.

Most primary documents are available through the internet.

And the left has no interest in reading them even when "quoting" from them...

Posted by: 18-1 at August 07, 2025 08:58 AM (t0Rmr)

187 /macher sock off

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 07, 2025 08:58 AM (JvZF+)

188 Tech thread question that's too late. How does employee phishing enable network access if there is two factor authentication such as CAC and pw? Are big companies just not ready for hacking?
Posted by: actually inside the beltway at August 07, 2025 08:52 AM (A0ECY)

2FA allows access to your account. If you're already logged in and then run a script by clicking on a phishing link, you've bypassed that.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 07, 2025 08:58 AM (ExV1e)

189 On the other hand, he appointed RFK Jr., who is currently undoing the entire mRNA project.

RFK has exceeded my expectations! sharp guy, working diligently, really amazing cabinet member!

Posted by: Black Orchid at August 07, 2025 08:58 AM (Pv3Rg)

190 The Bubble Is Bursting: Delinquency Rates Have Doubled And Credit Card Defaults Are Soaring

Sadly, most of the country is just barely scraping by from month to month in this very harsh economic environment, and turning to credit cards for some relief can be extremely tempting...

Posted by: SMOD at August 07, 2025 08:59 AM (RHGPo)

191 Trump cut a deal with RFK.

I assume he doesn't exactly agree, but gave him authority in this area for his support.

Posted by: 18-1 at August 07, 2025 08:59 AM (t0Rmr)

192 13 USC Chapter 5, Subchapter IV – ITERIM CURRENT DATA
§182. Surveys
The Secretary may make surveys deemed necessary to furnish annual and other interim current data on
the subjects covered by the censuses provided for in this title.

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 07, 2025 08:59 AM (gbOdA)

193 191 The Bubble Is Bursting: Delinquency Rates Have Doubled And Credit Card Defaults Are Soaring

it's student loan payments I think

a lot of young people really thought they'd never have to pay

and I'm shocked at the amount of their loans! it's sad

Posted by: Black Orchid at August 07, 2025 08:59 AM (Pv3Rg)

194 I wonder if Jeb! realized his "Illegal immigration is an act of love" remark was the nail in the coffin of the Bush dynasty?

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at August 07, 2025 09:00 AM (q04Io)

195 Trump Demands Intel CEO "Must Resign" Over Alleged China Ties Cited In Senator Cotton's Letter

"The Pentagon took a stake in US rare earth miner MP Materials... when will it do the same with Intel..."

Posted by: SMOD at August 07, 2025 09:00 AM (RHGPo)

196 172 >But what turned the British into totalitarians?

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo
---

Paul Theroux, the American novelist and also an anglophile who spent many years working in England, has written about the English mentality to accept bureaucratic abuse and deprivation to a degree Americans never would. It started with the small things, like queues.

Posted by: Ordinary American at August 07, 2025 09:00 AM (h/ffs)

197 NATO expansion into Ukraine and eastern Europe has been a bi-partisan foreign policy goal of the neocon deep state for years. There is something bigger at play.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 07, 2025 08:53 AM (viF8m)

Globalist one world government with a technocratic elite running everything, ala the EU, without the ability of the citizens to affect anything.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 07, 2025 09:00 AM (ExV1e)

198 Mueller began the politicization of the FBI by changing the promotion path and centralizing power at FBI HQ. That's how we got guys like McCabe and Strzok. Comey was his protege.
Mueller was dedicated to covering his own ass.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 07, 2025 08:42 AM (viF8m)
~~~~~

Let's not forget his role in framing four innocent men and the Whitey Bulger mess.

Louis Gohmert tried hard to expose Mueller and prevent him from becoming the special counsel, sadly to no avail.

Posted by: IrishEi at August 07, 2025 09:00 AM (3ImbR)

199 Ghislaine Maxwell Tells DOJ She Never Saw Trump Do Anything That ‘Would Have Caused Concern’

Posted by: SMOD at August 07, 2025 09:01 AM (RHGPo)

200 Thought bubble appears. RFK Jr is still a Democrat. 2028 run?

Posted by: Ben Had at August 07, 2025 09:01 AM (HFcKg)

201 it's student loan payments I think

a lot of young people really thought they'd never have to pay

and I'm shocked at the amount of their loans! it's sad/i]

Spending $250K+ for a degree that doesn't help you get a job when you aren't coming from a family that can just waste that kind of money is absurd

Posted by: 18-1 at August 07, 2025 09:01 AM (t0Rmr)

202 Using AI is a skill onto itself. People who say they keep getting wrong answers tend to ask the wrong questions. You can’t just say hey chat, build me this app. You have to go step by step with precise instructions. Do that and it’s pretty fucking good.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at August 07, 2025 09:01 AM (AiNp4)

203 How long have I been saying here that nothing in the Constitution says the Census can only be done once every 10 years?

That what it actually says is that it must be done at least once ever ten years, but nothing says it can't be less than that?

So Trump can legally call for another Census.

And he has. Stating that it is to specifically exclude illegals.
Oh how the left will howl.
And further alienate Dems from the public and cement in the mind of the public just how many illegals there are in America.

Absolutely amazing.
Trump intends to destroy the Democrat Party. And he's attacking them from every direction.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 07, 2025 09:01 AM (gBFby)

204 MIT professor says she spends ‘a third’ of ‘working hours’ fighting Trump ‘terrorism’

When Professor Catherine D’Ignazio isn’t running the “Data + Feminism” lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology or organizing “reproductive justice hackathons” she is fighting Donald Trump’s “state terrorism.”

... is this one of those Made In Taiwan (MIT) things

Posted by: SMOD at August 07, 2025 09:02 AM (RHGPo)

205 #181 Trump and entourage leaving the tarmac for the meeting venue.

https://tinyurl.com/2s3v94ve
[artist's depiction]

Posted by: andycanuck at August 07, 2025 09:02 AM (2yoRf)

206 And he has. Stating that it is to specifically exclude illegals.
Oh how the left will howl.

Imagine counting Japanese soldiers in Alaska in a census in the 40s.

Counting our southern invaders is no different.

Posted by: 18-1 at August 07, 2025 09:03 AM (t0Rmr)

207 How long have I been saying here that nothing in the Constitution says the Census can only be done once every 10 years?

That what it actually says is that it must be done at least once ever ten years, but nothing says it can't be less than that?

So Trump can legally call for another Census.

And he has. Stating that it is to specifically exclude illegals.
Oh how the left will howl.
And further alienate Dems from the public and cement in the mind of the public just how many illegals there are in America.

Absolutely amazing.
Trump intends to destroy the Democrat Party. And he's attacking them from every direction.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 07, 2025 09:01 AM

They could reallocate reps today based on the updated census, that they admit was wrong. And run a new one before 28.

Posted by: BruceWayne at August 07, 2025 09:03 AM (MGB5H)

208 I assume he doesn't exactly agree, but gave him authority in this area for his support.

here's my little two cents

I think if the mRNA didn't do you in (via an almost immediate stroke or autoimmune attack) as an elderly person, you generally did ok. I don't think they protected, but for older folks with lesser immune systems, they were relatively harmless

but for younger people and kids especially, they were super damaging bc they triggered a very healthy immune system ... and didn't stop triggering it. the spike just kept getting produced. the shot didn't stay in your arm. now you have a systemic problem in healthy and young people. and still no protection from SARS II

so PDJT has a lot of old friends who like the shots still. his experience is colored by his own experience ("didn't hurt me, no big deal, and my at-risk friends either")

this situation is sneaky. it's hard to track. it's weird being in the "strange idiopathic autoimmune problem" bucket, for me, who spent a lot of time making fun of people who claimed things like that.

it's humbling.

Posted by: Black Orchid at August 07, 2025 09:03 AM (Pv3Rg)

209 I see potential for a movie. Government authorized kidnappers steal children. Angry parents arm up go hunting. The angry parents could include brown skinned folks an mom's.

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at August 07, 2025 09:04 AM (+CEhw)

210 Paul Theroux, the American novelist and also an anglophile who spent many years working in England, has written about the English mentality to accept bureaucratic abuse and deprivation to a degree Americans never would. It started with the small things, like queues.
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Island mentality. It also explains the rigid conformity of the Japanese.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at August 07, 2025 09:04 AM (q04Io)

211 France has reportedly stripped the residency permit of a man who lit a cigarette at a war memorial in Paris after he was caught on camera. Interior Minister Bruno Retailleau on Tuesday called the actions of a 47-year-old Moroccan man “indecent and pathetic” following his arrest. Footage of the incident shows a man kneeling beside the memorial, which appears to be off limits to visitors. He is seen leaning over the flame emitting from the memorial to light his cigarette before immediately leaving, as the stunned tourists watch.

Posted by: SMOD at August 07, 2025 09:04 AM (RHGPo)

212 Christ I can’t fathom being so enraged by Trump that you spend that much time “fighting” him. Even at my peak hatred of Obama I’d think about him maybe an hour a week.

These people are broken.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at August 07, 2025 09:04 AM (AiNp4)

213 I'm starting to believe "Expert" now means "clinging to my beliefs despite all evidence to the contrary."

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at August 07, 2025 09:05 AM (tT6L1)

214 1984 is not an instruction manual
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Says who? Aldous Huxley, author of Brave New World, had a brother Julian who was an early architect of using drugs for mind control. HG Wells was a strange cat, Aleister Crowley was some sort of spook, it is alleged. HP Lovecraft awfully strange. Limey poofters are a strange lot.

Posted by: Common Tater at August 07, 2025 09:05 AM (sNI9P)

215 Four NATO States Agree To Buy $1 Billion In US Weapons For Ukraine

"Ukraine is not only fighting for its own security, but also for our security."

Posted by: SMOD at August 07, 2025 09:05 AM (RHGPo)

216 Sadly, most of the country is just barely scraping by from month to month in this very harsh economic environment, and turning to credit cards for some relief can be extremely tempting...
Posted by: SMOD at August 07, 2025 08:59 AM (RHGPo)

I saw something the other day which claimed that just under 50% of all credit card users paid off their balance every month. The percentage of the populace drowning in consumer debt is less than widely believed but the amount of debt per drownee is higher.

I wonder if the segment of the population which has decided that stealing 100% of the time is okay carries debt.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 07, 2025 09:06 AM (ExV1e)

217 Limey poofters are a strange lot.
Posted by: Common Tater at August 07, 2025 09:05 AM (sNI9P)
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We are not!

Posted by: John Maynard Keynes at August 07, 2025 09:07 AM (tT6L1)

218 Stressed adults rely on pacifiers to soothe themselves: ‘I feel a sense of safety from childhood’

When the going gets tough, the tough … pop in a pacifier?

Posted by: SMOD at August 07, 2025 09:07 AM (RHGPo)

219 201 Thought bubble appears. RFK Jr is still a Democrat. 2028 run?

had similar thoughts, not that the Ds will allow a primary tho

RFK/Tulsi would be formidable!

Posted by: Black Orchid at August 07, 2025 09:07 AM (Pv3Rg)

220 It is student loans.

There have been no payments due for years.

The balance due is over a trillion dollars.

The government took over the debt and lied to the students to get their votes. But now they to pay.

Thy fvcked up, they trusted the Party.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 07, 2025 09:07 AM (JvZF+)

221 I do not believe any of the economic “statistics” touted in the media. It’s all propaganda to make you hate capitalism.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at August 07, 2025 09:07 AM (AiNp4)

222 How long have I been saying here that nothing in the Constitution says the Census can only be done once every 10 years?

That what it actually says is that it must be done at least once ever ten years, but nothing says it can't be less than that?

So Trump can legally call for another Census.

And he has. Stating that it is to specifically exclude illegals.
Oh how the left will howl.
And further alienate Dems from the public and cement in the mind of the public just how many illegals there are in America.

Absolutely amazing.
Trump intends to destroy the Democrat Party. And he's attacking them from every direction.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 07, 2025 09:01 AM

I remember when pacifiers were for babies and people on ecstasy at a rave.

Posted by: BruceWayne at August 07, 2025 09:08 AM (MGB5H)

223 You keep saying that and wiki keeps saying that you're wrong.

https://tinyurl.com/nc2n2a2r+
Posted by: I used to have a different nic

Read the article. There was an interim government under military rule. There was never a formal Territory of California.

Posted by: Bulg at August 07, 2025 09:08 AM (77rzZ)

224 Using AI is a skill onto itself. People who say they keep getting wrong answers tend to ask the wrong questions. You can’t just say hey chat, build me this app. You have to go step by step with precise instructions. Do that and it’s pretty fucking good.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at August 07, 2025 09:01 AM (AiNp4)

You and Bender should get together and write a guest post titled "You're all wrong. AI is great." The comment section would be awesome.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 07, 2025 09:08 AM (ExV1e)

225 >>While Brits are freer then Russian, de jure, I'm not sure its true de facto any more.

Just saw a story about a foreigner who went to the UK and started drugging and raping men - over 50 victims before he was caught. One victim went to the police, and they arrested *him* before they figured out he was the freakin' victim.

This has been the UK for years now - harassing and silencing victims while the rapists and attackers roam free.

Posted by: Lizzy at August 07, 2025 09:08 AM (GbwPZ)

226 Woman Finds Out She Can't Buy Junk Food With EBT

Food stamp restrictions got folks crossing the register lane just to check what's approved! RFK wasn't messing around. Welcome to the life of "just the necessities" like the rest of us.

Posted by: SMOD at August 07, 2025 09:08 AM (RHGPo)

227 RFK/Tulsi would be formidable!
Posted by: Black Orchid at August 07, 2025 09:07 AM (Pv3Rg)
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If Democrats had any sense, that's the duo they would have run against PDT.

instead, they decided to drive them both into the PDT camp, which, obviously, was better for the country, in the long run.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at August 07, 2025 09:08 AM (tT6L1)

228 Stressed adults rely on pacifiers to soothe themselves: ‘I feel a sense of safety from childhood’

When the going gets tough, the tough … pop in a pacifier?
Posted by: SMOD
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I got something they can suck on...

Posted by: flyin' green dildo at August 07, 2025 09:09 AM (5hfjS)

229 Credit Card Defaults Are Soaring"

Not according to FRED (May data is latest)
Oddly enough, said rate has dropped from a peak in Q4 of last year.
FWIW, the rate did rise (steeply) from 2021 thru 2024...

Posted by: man at August 07, 2025 09:09 AM (tubbA)

230 Says who? Aldous Huxley, author of Brave New World, had a brother Julian who was an early architect of using drugs for mind control. HG Wells was a strange cat, Aleister Crowley was some sort of spook, it is alleged. HP Lovecraft awfully strange. Limey poofters are a strange lot.
Posted by: Common Tater

We were Limey poofters, but were quite entertaining and were a danger only to ourselves!

Posted by: Graham Chapman and Charles Hawtrey at August 07, 2025 09:09 AM (G5+As)

231 Ugh paste fail

Stressed adults rely on pacifiers to soothe themselves: ‘I feel a sense of safety from childhood’

When the going gets tough, the tough … pop in a pacifier?
Posted by: SMOD at August 07, 2025 09:07

I remember when pacifiers were for babies and people on ecstasy at a rave.

Posted by: BruceWayne at August 07, 2025 09:09 AM (MGB5H)

232 Importing an illegal electorate to win elections is pretty much the definition of treason in a democracy.
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I always preferred “belligerently ignorant” because it encapsulates so many on the left. Weaponized idiots.

Posted by: Common Tater at August 07, 2025 09:09 AM (sNI9P)

233 You and Bender should get together and write a guest post titled "You're all wrong. AI is great." The comment section would be awesome.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 07, 2025 09:08 AM (ExV1e)

It’s a tool. If used right it can be great. If used poorly it will suck. Just like all tools.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at August 07, 2025 09:09 AM (AiNp4)

234 21st Century Problems

Damage scanners are taking over more rental car return lots — and customers aren't happy. Since Hertz rolled out AI scanners in April, it has faced backlash for charging almost $1,000 for tiny scuffs.

Posted by: SMOD at August 07, 2025 09:10 AM (RHGPo)

235 This theft ring in Minnesota stole over $47 million worth of tax funds meant for food

https://tinyurl.com/3uwz43kt

Posted by: redridinghood at August 07, 2025 09:10 AM (NpAcC)

236 The last decent Limey poofter was Mr. Humphries.

Posted by: Bulg at August 07, 2025 09:10 AM (77rzZ)

237 “Debanking” seems like something out of paranoid dystopian fiction, but this horrific abuse of government power is already all too real. We’re almost glad the Biden crew deployed it against then-former-President Donald Trump in 2021: That not only ensures he’s aware of this outrage; it points to how even the powerful are vulnerable. It’s as simple as it is scary: Government regulators give a quiet nod to financial institutions that certain people or industries are to be “unpersoned,” and pretty soon they get the same treatment as North Korean tyrants, terrorists or drug kingpins: locked out of the financial system.

Posted by: SMOD at August 07, 2025 09:10 AM (RHGPo)

238 Food stamp restrictions got folks crossing the register lane just to check what's approved! RFK wasn't messing around. Welcome to the life of "just the necessities" like the rest of us.

I've had this discussion with some LIVs and it is weird... "why shouldn't poor people be able to have the same things you do?"

And no amount of "because this crap is bad for them" or "if they want hohos they can spend their own money" seems to work...

Posted by: 18-1 at August 07, 2025 09:11 AM (t0Rmr)

239 I wonder if companies which make snack foods are going to howl now their stuff is no longer food stamp eligible?

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at August 07, 2025 09:11 AM (tT6L1)

240 You don't get to use my religion to demand we implement *your* Commie policies.
Posted by: Lizzy at August 07, 2025 08:54 AM (GbwPZ)

The vast majority of Progressive policies are Christian virtues, with the governor removed, warped, then turned to 11. IOW, heresy.

Posted by: GWB at August 07, 2025 09:12 AM (Mi0CH)

241 There was an interim government under military rule.

So, a territory.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 07, 2025 09:12 AM (ExV1e)

242 RFK Jr has no future in the Democrat party and knows it.

Posted by: Ordinary American at August 07, 2025 09:12 AM (h/ffs)

243 Woman Finds Out She Can't Buy Junk Food With EBT"

9% of SNAP sales went to soda.

Almost 1 dollar out of 10. No wonder certain corporations were heavily pimping "supports" (WalMart)

Posted by: man at August 07, 2025 09:12 AM (tubbA)

244 >>Absolutely amazing.
Trump intends to destroy the Democrat Party. And he's attacking them from every direction.

A severe hit to the Democrat Party could come from the Supreme Court. The Court indicated last week that they are open to hearing arguments about outlawing race based Congressional districts.

That would be a gut shot to the left.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 07, 2025 09:12 AM (viF8m)

245 Census commentary....

Sometime around 2010 a census taker showed up at our place in WV. We'd just bought it. Apparently the people at the Census Bureau didn't think the area was occupied and actually sent someone out to verify there was a live body there.

A legal, live body too.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 07, 2025 09:12 AM (Q4IgG)

246 Food stamps should basically only be for things on the perimeter of the grocery store. And for a limited time.

Posted by: BruceWayne at August 07, 2025 09:12 AM (MGB5H)

247 >>MIT professor says she spends ‘a third’ of ‘working hours’ fighting Trump ‘terrorism’

When Professor Catherine D’Ignazio isn’t running the “Data + Feminism” lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology or organizing “reproductive justice hackathons” she is fighting Donald Trump’s “state terrorism.”

Good?
The less time she spends corrupting young minds with her fake science/feminism fusion BS, the better.
You should quit, Catherine, your country NEEDS you to do this full time!!

Posted by: Lizzy at August 07, 2025 09:12 AM (GbwPZ)

248 Typically, when a Party media organ goes bankrupt, some billionaire white knight comes riding to the rescue with his steed buckling under the payload of cash he's ready to waste keeping it solvent.

I wonder if any billionaire is such an unrepentant spendthrift as to resuscitate PBS and NPR. Even someone like Carlos Slim or Jeff Bezos has to take umbrage at being asked to backstop a reeking heap of failure like that.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 07, 2025 09:12 AM (Frm63)

249 I still think that food aide should be packages of food you have to come to the office to get.

Offer one omnivore and one vegetarian option. All base ingredients like raw chicken, rice, beans, etc.

Posted by: 18-1 at August 07, 2025 09:13 AM (t0Rmr)

250 The UN’s top refugee official, Filippo Grandi, warned that “catastrophic” donor-driven budget cuts to his agency are already fueling increased migration to Europe and urged EU governments to fund existing asylum systems in countries like Chad, Iran, and Kenya rather than creating new ones, according to the Financial Times this week.

“There is no doubt in my mind that people are already moving from Chad to Libya — Sudanese refugees,” Grandi told the Financial Times, pointing to evidence of displaced Sudanese heading north due to collapsing support in Chad and Sudan. “Give more assistance to states where people are ready to stay before going back home. You solve a lot of your problems by doing that.”

.. you might think this is why the EU keeps sending money to Gaza

Posted by: SMOD at August 07, 2025 09:13 AM (RHGPo)

251 I've had this discussion with some LIVs and it is weird... "why shouldn't poor people be able to have the same things you do?"

And no amount of "because this crap is bad for them" or "if they want hohos they can spend their own money" seems to work...
Posted by: 18-1 at August 07, 2025 09:11 AM (t0Rmr)
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I'm assuming the argument, "Because if I'm paying for it I should have a say in what's purchased" brought howls of anguish also.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at August 07, 2025 09:13 AM (tT6L1)

252 Says who? Aldous Huxley, author of Brave New World, had a brother Julian who was an early architect of using drugs for mind control. HG Wells was a strange cat, Aleister Crowley was some sort of spook, it is alleged. HP Lovecraft awfully strange. Limey poofters are a strange lot.
Posted by: Common Tater at August 07, 2025 09:05 AM (sNI9P)

better a gram than to give a dayum

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 07, 2025 09:13 AM (gbOdA)

253 I've had this discussion with some LIVs and it is weird... "why shouldn't poor people be able to have the same things you do?"
______________________________
Because resources are finite.

Not that it would register with them. The entire concept of economics as the management of scarcity is lost on a TikTok mind.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at August 07, 2025 09:14 AM (q04Io)

254 I've had this discussion with some LIVs and it is weird... "why shouldn't poor people be able to have the same things you do?"

Turn it around - "why aren't you giving more to those on support?"

The sputtering will entertain...

Posted by: man at August 07, 2025 09:14 AM (tubbA)

255 249 I wonder if any billionaire is such an unrepentant spendthrift as to resuscitate PBS and NPR. Even someone like Carlos Slim or Jeff Bezos has to take umbrage at being asked to backstop a reeking heap of failure like that.

... methinks Jeff Bezos is already hip-deep with the WaPo

Posted by: SMOD at August 07, 2025 09:14 AM (RHGPo)

256 Carlos Slim is actually a Turk, I read somewhere. It’s a contraction of “Selim”, something like that.

Posted by: Common Tater at August 07, 2025 09:14 AM (sNI9P)

257 Today is Purple Heart Day.

Wear it proudly. Honor those who have earned it.

Posted by: Marcus T, Jesus is Lord at August 07, 2025 09:15 AM (XMEJR)

258
I've had this discussion with some LIVs and it is weird... "why shouldn't poor people be able to have the same things you do?"

And no amount of "because this crap is bad for them" or "if they want hohos they can spend their own money" seems to work...
Posted by: 18-1 at August 07, 2025 09:11 AM (t0Rmr)

A while back the suburb I lived in had this awesome idea to build low income apartments in town. People were mad as hell and went to city council meetings to speak against it.

The counter argument was basically “why can’t poor people live in a nice like you”?

Luckily there was enough pushback that the project got cancelled. But that attitude infuriated me. Still does.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at August 07, 2025 09:15 AM (AiNp4)

259 The vast majority of Progressive policies are Christian virtues, with the governor removed, warped, then turned to 11. IOW, heresy.
Posted by: GWB at August 07, 2025 09:12 AM (Mi0CH)

The Pharisees and Sadducees are not ROLE models.

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 07, 2025 09:15 AM (gbOdA)

260 >I always preferred “belligerently ignorant” because it encapsulates so many on the left. Weaponized idiots.

Posted by: Common Tater
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“bellignorant”

CALL FUNK & WAGNALL'S
I done invented me a new word

Posted by: Don Black at August 07, 2025 09:15 AM (AOsQT)

261 There was an interim government under military rule.

So, a territory.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic

No. More like Alaska just after we bought it from the Russians. Territories, as precursors to states, were under civilian government.

Posted by: Bulg at August 07, 2025 09:15 AM (77rzZ)

262 You don't get to use my religion to demand we implement *your* Commie policies.
Posted by: Lizzy at August 07, 2025 08:54 AM (GbwPZ)
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Well said.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at August 07, 2025 09:16 AM (tT6L1)

263 Mark Halperin and his crew excoriating Republicans for not defending Trump and other conservatives who were debanked, calling it "the most underreported story in years".

They were quiet when JP Morgan and Bank of America pulled this crap and Sean Spicer says those banks should be paying a big price for what they did, but they aren't because Congressional Republicans are donor whores.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 07, 2025 09:16 AM (SBi1w)

264 “bellignorant”

CALL FUNK & WAGNALL'S
I done invented me a new word
Posted by: Don Black at August 07, 2025 09:15 AM (AOsQT)

I like it.

Posted by: Ordinary American at August 07, 2025 09:16 AM (h/ffs)

265 A while back the suburb I lived in had this awesome idea to build low income apartments in town. People were mad as hell and went to city council meetings to speak against it.

The counter argument was basically “why can’t poor people live in a nice like you”?

Luckily there was enough pushback that the project got cancelled. But that attitude infuriated me. Still does.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at August 07, 2025 09:15 AM (AiNp4)

Today, Secretary Scott Turner announced the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) will terminate the Biden-era 2021 Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing (AFFH) rule, cutting costly red tape imposed on localities and returning decision-making power to local and state governments. The Biden-era AFFH rule was, in effect a “zoning tax,” which fueled an increase in the cost and a decrease in the supply of affordable housing due to restrictions on local land.

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 07, 2025 09:17 AM (gbOdA)

266 Other than “because Trunp” what rational reason is there to allow soda to be purchased with SNAP money?

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at August 07, 2025 09:17 AM (AiNp4)

267 There is no doubt in my mind that people are already moving from Chad to Libya — Sudanese refugees"

They're walking from South Sudan, thru Chad, thru to Libya?

Yeah, sure. Pull the other one. Or, you know, look at a map...

Posted by: man at August 07, 2025 09:18 AM (tubbA)

268 Perfect timing.

>>@ElectionWiz
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>>36m
>>🚨 REPORT: Democrats could lose BIG between Red state redistricting, SCOTUS possibly striking down race-based districts and a new Census excluding non-citizens; these factors could collectively cost them 32 to 42 seats in a worst-case scenario.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 07, 2025 09:18 AM (viF8m)

269 You and Bender should get together and write a guest post titled "You're all wrong. AI is great." The comment section would be awesome.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic

It’s a tool. If used right it can be great. If used poorly it will suck. Just like all tools.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald
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Lick my frozen metal ass, meatbag!

Posted by: Bender Bending Rodr�guez at August 07, 2025 09:18 AM (2yoRf)

270 CALL FUNK & WAGNALL'S
I done invented me a new word
Posted by: Don Black

Nothing will happen because of it, though.

Posted by: Bulg at August 07, 2025 09:18 AM (77rzZ)

271 Carlos Slim's parents - Julián Slim Haddad (born Khalil Salim Haddad Aglamaz) and Linda Helú Atta, both Maronite Christians from Lebanon.

Posted by: 18-1 at August 07, 2025 09:19 AM (t0Rmr)

272 Will the real Carlos Slim Shady please stand up.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at August 07, 2025 09:20 AM (AiNp4)

273 Other than “because Trunp” what rational reason is there to allow soda to be purchased with SNAP money?

Remember the people that are howling about this now specifically put taxes on soda to get people to stop drinking it

Posted by: 18-1 at August 07, 2025 09:20 AM (t0Rmr)

274 Operation Warp Speed was an unmitigated disaster and basically everybody knows it.

But I say with no sarcasm that I understand why Trump brazens it out. He understands the "no apologies, ever" thing that nobody else seems to get.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 07, 2025 09:20 AM (Frm63)

275 The vast majority of Progressive policies are Christian virtues, with the governor removed, warped, then turned to 11. IOW, heresy.
Posted by: GWB at August 07, 2025 09:12 AM (Mi0CH)
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1. Identify a respected institution
2. Kill it.
3. Gut it.
4. Wear it's carcass as a skin suit, while demanding respect

~~ Iowahawk, 2015

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 07, 2025 09:20 AM (SBi1w)

276 No. More like Alaska just after we bought it from the Russians. Territories, as precursors to states, were under civilian government.
Posted by: Bulg at August 07, 2025 09:15 AM (77rzZ)

Fine. Let's return California to being "not a state and under a military Governorship but totally not a territory".

Satisfied?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 07, 2025 09:20 AM (ExV1e)

277 >>9% of SNAP sales went to soda.

Almost 1 dollar out of 10. No wonder certain corporations were heavily pimping "supports" (WalMart)

A few stories about food stamps I've read over the years. . .
One was about how recipients use them to barter. For example, you want a drink at a bar, and the bartender needs fresh lemons and limes, so they make an exchange (here's my card, go buy what you need from the little grocery store around the corner while I sip my drink here).

Another was when some crazy illegal alien crashed into a Boston Globe delivery truck, and out spilled 25+ EBT cards (each with a different name, none matching hers).

I bet we have no idea how these free food cards are actually being used, and what's behind the types of goods purchased with them. Let's continue to reduce what they can be spent on, where they are accepted (I mean, 7-11 and Taco Bell - srsly?), and ultimately, how many are out there. The program's current state is so far from its original purpose.

Posted by: Lizzy at August 07, 2025 09:21 AM (GbwPZ)

278 The LIV think being poor is something that just happens to people. They cannot conceive that poverty stems from people's choices.

Probably because a lot of them were born affluent and they think that's how it is for everyone. They imagine everything is an accident of birth. And its valid to a limited extent. The affluent tend to help each other out through networks and connections. The poor tend to tear each other down.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at August 07, 2025 09:21 AM (q04Io)

279 what rational reason is there to allow soda to be purchased with SNAP money?"

Well (if history is correct), no one at the time thought such a thing would be purchased by recipients. By the time it was obvious, various oxen refused to be gored (Coke, WalMart, etc.)
Later, the program became the defacto source for bodegas nationwide...

Posted by: man at August 07, 2025 09:22 AM (tubbA)

280 The legal and judicial system of Afghanistan has been “weaponized” by its brutal Taliban terrorist rulers to oppress women and girls in what amounts to “crimes against humanity,” a U.N. investigator on human rights reported Thursday.

Taliban leaders have barred education for women and girls beyond sixth grade, banned most employment, and prohibited women from many public spaces, including parks, gyms and hairdressers.

Posted by: SMOD at August 07, 2025 09:22 AM (RHGPo)

281 zerohedge @zerohedge 15h
AAPL will somehow invest $600 billion in the US in the next four years in the US when its total capex in the past 4 years was $43 billion.

Posted by: andycanuck at August 07, 2025 09:22 AM (2yoRf)

282 The town I grew up in, coastal CA, you can imagine the property values in the area, decided to build low income housing within half a mile of the beach. Prime real estate. Locals were furious but couldn't stop the project.

No idea what the developer kicked back to the city council but it was probably a nice chunk of change.

Of course, this is the same town which decided to put their own natural gas fired power plant out of business through hiking fees beyond what the company who owned the plant was willing to pay. The owners of the plant were already set to pay several million dollars a year worth of taxes. The town said it wasn't enough and wanted something like 18 million a year. Company said, "Nope" shuttered the power plant and the town got no dollars instead of 3 or 4 million a year.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at August 07, 2025 09:22 AM (tT6L1)

283 >Other than “because Trunp” what rational reason is there to allow soda to be purchased with SNAP money?
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"For the children"©️

Posted by: Don Black at August 07, 2025 09:23 AM (AOsQT)

284 Every government program for “the poor” doesn’t help the poor and is one giant money laundering operation.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at August 07, 2025 09:23 AM (AiNp4)

285 ✔️ test

Posted by: OkJohn at August 07, 2025 09:23 AM (HRuex)

286 >>Remember the people that are howling about this now specifically put taxes on soda to get people to stop drinking it

Heh, excellent point!

Posted by: Lizzy at August 07, 2025 09:23 AM (GbwPZ)

287 In a win for free speech, a federal judge on Tuesday struck down California’s law on AI-generated election parody videos. The lawsuit was filed from Elon Musk, his X platform, the Babylon Bee, and video platform Rumble ...

... The judge determined that the California law, authored by Democratic Assembly member Marc Berman, conflicted with Section 230 of the federal Communications Decency Act. 'They don’t have anything to do with these videos that the state is objecting to,' Mendez said of sites like X that host parody videos ...

... Mendez also indicated his intention to overrule a second California law, which would require labels on digitally altered campaign materials and ads, on First Amendment grounds.

Posted by: SMOD at August 07, 2025 09:23 AM (RHGPo)

288 Imagine counting Japanese soldiers in Alaska in a census in the 40s.

Counting our southern invaders is no different.
Posted by: 18-1

It's worse. Since Alaska was not a state yet in the 40s, its population would not have been a factor in the electoral college.

Posted by: Bulg at August 07, 2025 09:23 AM (77rzZ)

289 Stressed adults rely on pacifiers to soothe themselves what ever happened to booze

Posted by: doug at August 07, 2025 09:23 AM (Hy+R4)

290 >>This theft ring in Minnesota stole over $47 million worth of tax funds meant for food

https://tinyurl.com/3uwz43kt

Wait, wait -- don't tell me -- it was Ilhan Omar's community, right?

Posted by: Lizzy at August 07, 2025 09:24 AM (GbwPZ)

291 Wiki has an article on CA joining the US, their timelines says CA switched to civilian government in Dec 1849, and was admitted as a state in Sept 1850. They call this time frame a "quasi-state"

Posted by: 18-1 at August 07, 2025 09:24 AM (t0Rmr)

292 The town said it wasn't enough and wanted something like 18 million a year. Company said, "Nope" shuttered the power plant and the town got no dollars instead of 3 or 4 million a year.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at August 07, 2025 09:22 AM (tT6L1)

What a great victory for the people!!!
- AOC

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at August 07, 2025 09:24 AM (AiNp4)

293 "Maxwell confirming what we already knew: that there are no Epstein skeletons in Trump’s closet."

While I am sure this is true, (one doesn't ban another person from your facility if you are joining them in activity in question,) I would not fault people being skeptical of Maxwell on this matter, considering she could well gain a lot by cooperation with the current administration.

Posted by: tankdemon at August 07, 2025 09:25 AM (R256O)

294 Fuck the poor. Just like the ruling class, they live as a parasite on the middle class and working wealthy. All of 'em can take a knee and kiss my ass.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 07, 2025 09:25 AM (Frm63)

295 Imagine counting Japanese soldiers in Alaska in a census in the 40s.

starts getting tricky around ereven

Posted by: Otto Pen at August 07, 2025 09:25 AM (sJHOI)

296 >>Wait, wait -- don't tell me -- it was Ilhan Omar's community, right?

I'd say yes but you axed me not to tell you.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 07, 2025 09:25 AM (viF8m)

297 Check marks, copyright symbols...do NOT make me get out the ampersands again...

Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at August 07, 2025 09:25 AM (OUMaO)

298 NOW - Trump on Operation Warp Speed: "One of the most incredible things ever done in this country... Everything about it was has been amazing."
ugh yeah
total blind spot

depressing
Posted by: Black Orchid

You'd think his advisors would point that many think the "cure" is worse than the disease and both are crimes against humanity.

You'd think.

Posted by: Operator Error at August 07, 2025 09:25 AM (UKjVg)

299 180 California was never a territory.
Posted by: Bulg at August 07, 2025 08:50 AM (77rzZ)

You keep saying that and wiki keeps saying that you're wrong.

https://tinyurl.com/nc2n2a2r+
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 07, 2025 08:56 AM (ExV1e)

The only states that were never territories were the original 13, and Texas. West Virginia is an asterisk, since it started off as an extended piece of Virginia.

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 07, 2025 09:27 AM (uWKK8)

300 >>Taliban leaders have barred education for women and girls beyond sixth grade, banned most employment, and prohibited women from many public spaces, including parks, gyms and hairdressers.

*Sigh*

American troops were there for 20 years?
Think we've already seen how our attempts to fix things and implement democracy in Afghanistan turn out, given the ROE. . .

Posted by: Lizzy at August 07, 2025 09:27 AM (GbwPZ)

301

Paul A. Szypula
@Bubblebathgirl

Woman has an insane meltdown because of her student loan debt that she says has a 17% interest rate that she didn’t know about. So her loan is now larger than it was at the start.

She’s now begging for rich celebrities to pay her debt off for her.

https://tinyurl.com/5w67ncuz

Posted by: redridinghood at August 07, 2025 09:27 AM (NpAcC)

302 There are very few poor people in this country. With few exceptions (homeless), the “poor” have modern housing, heat, , running water, electricity, a smart phone, a car and enough food to be fat and happy.

A “poor” person in the US is in the top 20% of wealth worldwide.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at August 07, 2025 09:28 AM (AiNp4)

303 I was 'debanked" on a small scale. American Express canceled their card on me, despite a great credit score and no history of slow payment. No explanation. Mailed them their shredded cards back, along with a nice letter asking them to politely go squeeze a breeze and to kindly fornicate themselves.

Posted by: Trump Donor, Supporter at August 07, 2025 09:28 AM (G5+As)

304 I bet we have no idea how these free food cards are actually being used, and what's behind the types of goods purchased with them.
Posted by: Lizzy at August 07, 2025 09:21 AM (GbwPZ)
~~~~~

I worked with a woman who routinely bought her daughter's EBT card from her at a discount so the daughter could use the cash for drugs.

Yep, it's true. And not surprisingly, she was a government worker.

Posted by: IrishEi at August 07, 2025 09:28 AM (3ImbR)

305 There were certain batches of the vaccine that caused most ofthe problems. They don't know if they were contaminated or not kept at the correct temps. Other batches show no issues.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at August 07, 2025 09:29 AM (kUxzU)

306 NOW - Trump on Operation Warp Speed: "One of the most incredible things ever done in this country... Everything about it was has been amazing."
ugh yeah
total blind spot

depressing
Posted by: Black Orchid

It was Trump's mini-Manhattan Project and he's very proud of it. Yes, you'd think that RFK Jr would have his ear long enough to acquaint him with the awful repercussions.

Posted by: Ordinary American at August 07, 2025 09:29 AM (h/ffs)

307 The only states that were never territories were the original 13, and Texas. West Virginia is an asterisk, since it started off as an extended piece of Virginia.
Posted by: Tom Servo

Also Vermont, Kentucky (also broken off of Virginia), and Maine (broken off of Massachusetts).

California never had formal territorial status.

Posted by: Bulg at August 07, 2025 09:30 AM (77rzZ)

308 Woman has an insane meltdown because of her student loan debt that she says has a 17% interest rate"

Tats? Check
Apple Watch? Check
Tearful in car vid? Check

Posted by: man at August 07, 2025 09:30 AM (tubbA)

309 >>Woman has an insane meltdown because of her student loan debt that she says has a 17% interest rate that she didn’t know about. So her loan is now larger than it was at the start.

She’s now begging for rich celebrities to pay her debt off for her.

https://tinyurl.com/5w67ncuz
- - - -

Easy to point and laugh at dumb kids, but our political class' "Every kid goes to college!!" and promises to forgive loans, etc., and universities' greed (issuing BS degrees for $100's of thousands with promises of success) played a part, too.

The entire system stinks, with only one party in it getting screwed.

Posted by: Lizzy at August 07, 2025 09:30 AM (GbwPZ)

310 I believe Vermont was its own country for a while.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at August 07, 2025 09:31 AM (AiNp4)

311 Art is nood.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 07, 2025 09:31 AM (kgE5c)

312 The LIV think being poor is something that just happens to people. They cannot conceive that poverty stems from people's choices.

The argument for some sort of social net is indeed that "and things just happen to people sometimes" and...that is true some of the time - there are people that get in a rough state because of an accident, an illness, an economic downturn.

But there are a few practical problems here then with implementing such a net. Namely, anything you reward you get more of. So when you pay people to not work you'll get more people not working. And the money given to them comes from the working, and so when you penalize something, here working, you get less of it.

So in moving from where we are to somewhere better I would:

1) End direct cash transfers as part of aid - give people baskets of food instead of an EBT cards
2) Move government housing for the poor to areas with no/low skill employment to make it really easy to transition back to working
3) Require work to get aid. If you can't get a job in the private sector, you can spend 40hours/week picking up litter and removing graffiti.

Posted by: 18-1 at August 07, 2025 09:31 AM (t0Rmr)

313 This business of whether California was a territory or not will get out of hand.

Posted by: Don Black at August 07, 2025 09:31 AM (AOsQT)

314 She’s now begging for rich celebrities to pay her debt off for her.

"Hi, everyone! NR Pax here. Today I'm going to present my reasoning behind why indentured servitude can help pay off student loans!"

Posted by: NR Pax at August 07, 2025 09:31 AM (99eI0)

315 I am slowly coming around to the view that foreign aid should only be for disasters. Instead, we end up feeding countries that should feed themselves but for terrible choices made by their political rulers.

Why should any country have a government stay in power that is dependent on a steady supply of foreign food aid?

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 07, 2025 09:32 AM (SBi1w)

316 I bet we have no idea how these free food cards are actually being used"

Ever wander around WallyWorld or Target or.. others the 1st week of the month and wonder about the packaged snack foods/soft drinks at the endcaps/aisles? Yeah, that's why...

Posted by: man at August 07, 2025 09:33 AM (tubbA)

317 I was 'debanked" on a small scale. American Express canceled their card on me, despite a great credit score and no history of slow payment. No explanation. Mailed them their shredded cards back, along with a nice letter asking them to politely go squeeze a breeze and to kindly fornicate themselves.
Posted by: Trump Donor, Supporter at August 07, 2025 09:28 AM (G5+As)

Had the same experience with insurance. Out of the blue my home insurance carrier cancelled on me. No explanation just said we’re not renewing. I didn’t have any claims, always paid on time, etc.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at August 07, 2025 09:33 AM (AiNp4)

318 >>I worked with a woman who routinely bought her daughter's EBT card from her at a discount so the daughter could use the cash for drugs.

Yikes!

But yes, this is a great example of how they're bought an sold. We're giving them free money on a little, automatically replenished card - how silly to think the transaction ends there. . .

Posted by: Lizzy at August 07, 2025 09:33 AM (GbwPZ)

319 Take me home, country roads,
To the place I call home,
Extended piece of Virginia,
Country mama,
Take me home, country roads

Posted by: andycanuck at August 07, 2025 09:33 AM (2yoRf)

320 Mrs. Rothchild, would be into her 120s. First grade was 60 years ago this fall! Yikes.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 07, 2025 07:58 AM (x0n13)

First grade was 72 years ago this month!! Double YIKES!

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at August 07, 2025 09:33 AM (5xuJ/)

321 Bernie Sanders posted a graph that "homes are now more unaffordable than ever."
Which showed the average price of homes and average _weekly_ wages.

So the dollar amount on the Y axis was from $0 to $500k; with homes steady approaching the top.
While the average weekly wages is flat at the bottom at near $0.

To put it another way, for your weekly wages to even show up on the chart, you'd have to make ... $5.2 million a year.
So f'ing dishonest.

Others noted that the BLS uses the price of housing in its calculation of inflation.
Which I'd never thought about but, it means that "inflation adjusted" home prices isn't an accurate comparison over time.
A true measure would be something like "price per foot" against average size against average 30-year cumulative income(s) of the average buyer(s); % income spent per foot.
I'll bet that's pretty flat.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 07, 2025 09:34 AM (gBFby)

322 Every kid goes to college"

We're soooo smaht!

Posted by: man at August 07, 2025 09:34 AM (tubbA)

323 The difference between you and I wearing hairgel?

I make this oleaginous substance look good!

Posted by: Gavin Newsom (D-CA) at August 07, 2025 09:35 AM (0sNs1)

324 Take me home, country roads

that song is probably not about West Virginia, just the western part of VA

don't tell WVU that tho

Posted by: Black Orchid at August 07, 2025 09:35 AM (Pv3Rg)

325 First grade for me was 23 years ago.

Posted by: IrishEi at August 07, 2025 09:35 AM (3ImbR)

326 Never mentioned in the “homes are so expensive” discussions is how the average home today is 150% bigger than in the 70s. Hmm ya think they might cost more?

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at August 07, 2025 09:36 AM (AiNp4)

327 Why does the AP still exist?
---------------------------------
The Associated Press reached new heights of terrorist sympathy on Wednesday by publishing a compassionately credulous report on "the human toll of Israel's exploding-pagers attack targeting Hezbollah," the Iranian-funded terrorist group. The AP contacted the Hezbollah public relations department and was given the contact information of several "victims" of the September 2024 attack who agreed to discuss their "slow, painful path to recovery."

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 07, 2025 09:36 AM (SBi1w)

328 that song is probably not about West Virginia, just the western part of VA"

Well, Maryland (according to JD), but hey...

Posted by: man at August 07, 2025 09:36 AM (tubbA)

329 Taliban leaders have barred education for women and girls beyond sixth grade, banned most employment, and prohibited women from many public spaces, including parks, gyms and hairdressers.
====

You know, the thing.
-Joe Biden

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 07, 2025 09:36 AM (JvZF+)

330 An immigration lawyer in CA is being hit with a sanctions motion for lying to the court to prevent his convicted murderer pro bono client from being sent back to Laos.

He lied and said he was being deported under the Alien Enemies Act.
DOJ repeatedly informed him and the court that was not true.
He persisted in his lies.

He's now whining he's being targeted as retribution for opposing Trump--and says noting about his lies to the court.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 07, 2025 09:37 AM (gBFby)

331 Well, Maryland (according to JD), but hey...

right! duh

Posted by: Black Orchid at August 07, 2025 09:42 AM (Pv3Rg)

332 21st Century Problems

Damage scanners are taking over more rental car return lots — and customers aren't happy. Since Hertz rolled out AI scanners in April, it has faced backlash for charging almost $1,000 for tiny scuffs.
Posted by: SMOD at August 07, 2025 09:10 AM (RHGPo)

It's why I walked away from renting at Hertz over 20 years ago. They claimed extensive damage on a car I rented... over a month after I had turned it in. But they had evidently kept really bad records of intervening renters and I was the only one they could try to blame it on.

Posted by: GWB at August 07, 2025 09:48 AM (Mi0CH)

333 >>First grade for me was 23 years ago.

Ha! Good one.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 07, 2025 09:48 AM (viF8m)

334 "Taliban leaders have barred education for women and girls beyond sixth grade, banned most employment, and prohibited women from many public spaces, including parks, gyms and hairdressers."

So?
"I don't really care, Margaret. "

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at August 07, 2025 09:52 AM (2J/Lj)

335
Call the NYPD. These stupid Republicans don’t seem to understand that when they disrespect a congressman, they are also disrespecting all of that person‘s constituents.

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at August 07, 2025 08:16 AM (ycI94)

So when you, say, attempt to assassinate a congressman, you're attempting to assassinate all of that person's constituents, yes?

Or a president. When you attempt to assassinate him, you're attempting to assassinate every American.

I mean, that's the logic here, right?

Posted by: Washington Nearsider, still gloating at August 07, 2025 09:57 AM (oSeBJ)

336 Pastor Jack is a fighter and a great preacher. Love that man

Posted by: SOMEASSHOLESTOLEMYPEN at August 07, 2025 10:34 AM (gDAbt)

337 Footnote: The bomb scare was called in by the Democrat 'fleebaggers' themselves.

Change my mind.

Posted by: Beverly at August 07, 2025 08:26 PM (Epeb0)

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