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The Morning Report — 9/3/25

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Good morning kids. First, a super-massive gas giant has imploded, seemingly leaving an unfillable void in the continuum? No, that is not a headline from the Science section, but the news that the noxious cloud of sulfurous methane, mustard, cream soda and lipids also known as Gerald Nadler has announced his retirement from Congress.

In a recent interview with The New York Times, Nadler, 78, acknowledged his reluctance to step aside, citing his belief that President Donald Trump “is threatening the foundations of democracy.” Still, he said he wanted to clear a path for “generational change” within the Democratic Party. “Watching the Biden thing really said something about the necessity for generational change in the party, and I think I want to respect that,” Nadler told the Times. He added that a younger successor “can maybe do better, can maybe help us more.” . . .his retirement raises questions about who will succeed him. It’s entirely possible that voters could opt for a successor in the mold of Democratic Socialist Zohran Mamdani, the far-left, antisemitic, current frontrunner in New York City’s mayoral race, whom Nadler has endorsed.

Meh, the science is settled; the void will doubtless be filled by dark matter. Extremely DARK matter . . . an entity that has more longevity than Nadler 1.0 and the ability to not have to use the cloaking device to conceal its anti-semitism and anti-Americanism every two years for political expediency (not that that matters with its many orbiting cohorts that willingly stay in its orbit and vote Democrat either regardless or worse because of the hatred.


Moving on to the top story -- American military assets being used to sink a Venezuelan boat in international waters that was suspected of being used as a drug smuggling vessel. God bless President Trump, as his second term is certainly turning out to be the FAFO presidency.

Former U.S. Army Special Forces and WorldStrat President Jim Hanson warned drug cartels Tuesday on Fox News’ “Jesse Watters Primetime” that a “holy hell” would be “unleashed” if they tried to retaliate against America for cracking down on their activities.

President Donald Trump announced Tuesday that the American military sank a vessel belonging to Venezuelan drug cartel Tren de Aragua, killing 11 cartel members on board. Discussing the strike against the vessel, Fox’s Jesse Watters asked Hanson if he believes there’s a risk of “counterstrikes inside the U.S.” from cartel members. (RELATED: Latin America’s Narco States Freaking Out Over Trump’s Cartel Crackdown) . .

. . .The strike, conducted by the U.S. Southern Command in international waters, took place near three Aegis-class missile boats stationed alongside other assets to disrupt the Latin American cartel’s drug trade routes. In a post about the hit against the organization, Trump wrote that the drug cartel has been “operating under the control of [Venezuela President] Nicolas Maduro,” who is “responsible for mass murder, drug trafficking, sex trafficking, and acts of violence and terror across the United States and Western Hemisphere.”


Let's hope that this attitude extends to our enemies not just foreign but most especially domestic.

President Donald Trump has once again struck at the heart of the globalist machine, demanding federal racketeering charges against Democrat megadonor George Soros and his son, Alexander. For decades, Soros has funneled billions into organizations and movements that destabilize nations, bankroll violent protests, and manipulate democratic processes under the cover of “philanthropy.” . . .George Soros has not worked alone; his son, Alexander, has stepped forward as the heir and executor of this vast political machinery. Far from a passive observer, Alexander has publicly embraced his role in steering progressive movements, funding left-wing media, and coordinating initiatives that mirror his father’s strategy of global influence. Together, the Soros family represents a dynastic network, blending philanthropy with political engineering, and ensuring that radical agendas persist across generations.


And the accursed Soros and spawn are not the sole bad actors at home and abroad. Yes, he the elder is foreign-born but the actions of the progeny of a name that is as American as it gets are just as malign.

The Ford Foundation has been funneling millions of dollars into leftist advocacy groups, including those promoting the abolition of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Concerningly, taxpayer-funded grants have been used to support some of the same initiatives. . . “Media Matters for America, approved for a $250,000 Ford grant in November 2024, was founded by Clinton Family attack lapdog David Brock. As that history would indicate, Media Matters is the epitome of a rabidly partisan, anti-Republican media platform. The only reason to give them money is to advance the political and policy messaging of Democrat presidents and congressional leadership.” – Capital Research Center

Coincidentally or not, both Soros and Henry Ford were virulently anti-Semitic, with the former despite being born Jewish and the latter both linked closely with Hitler (the actual Adolf not the mythical Hitler Democrats call Trump). Ford admired and along with many others sought an accommodation if not an actual alliance with him before WW2 while George Soros acted as an eager and willing Nazi collaborator in Hungary helping the SS roundup and deport that country's Jews, among them a number of my relatives.

But that aside, as a first amendment/free speech absolutist, the Fords and even Soros can have and express their views on any issue they desire, even if their opinions are repulsive and repugnant. But, if they are funding groups that are actually working to destroy our civil society from within in a provably criminal manner, then they must be silenced and stopped by any and every legal means necessary.


While we're on the subject of free speech, here's yet another sign that the Sun is finally setting not only on the British Empire but on Western Civilization itself.

British comedy writer Graham Linehan, who has been shunned and canceled in the entertainment industry for speaking out against trans, was arrested in England after he returned there from Arizona, where he's been living and working. As soon as he stepped off the plane at Heathrow, he was snagged by five police officers and taken into custody. The charge? Three tweets.  Once a nation starts arresting people over speech, over social media posts, that nation is essentially lost. The leaders in the UK believe that they have to shut up their citizens rather than address their complaints and concerns. The UK is lost. They're arresting people for social media posts and they're doing it quite frequently, with data suggesting it's up to some 30 people per day, or 12,000 per year. It's not just an arrest with caution, these people see the inside of a prison cell, often for months at a time. And the posts vary. They're not all about trans. 

UK citizens are arrested for complaining about mass migration, about foreign flags being flown over their high streets, a candidate with the Reform Party was arrested for waving the Union Jack in a public building. Muslims are allowed to hold mass prayer in public squares but Christians are arrested for praying—silently—near abortion clinics. 

A tragic bookend to the story covered over the last few days about brave Scottish lass Sophie of Dundee.

In perhaps a not entirely unrelated story, I give you the most recent actions of greasy greasball Gavin Newsom:

California Democrat governor Gavin Newsom's "agricultural equity" advisers are finalizing recommendations for the state to redistribute farmland to non-white Californians and Native American tribes through land transfers and financial assistance programs that exclusively benefit racial minorities. For more than two years, the California Agricultural Land Equity Task Force—part of Newsom's Office of Land Use and Climate Innovation—has crafted a set of policy recommendations to "equitably increase agricultural land access." It will deliver a final report to Newsom and the California legislature cementing those recommendations by the end of the year. . . "The wealth of the U.S., including that of its agriculture industry, has been built on stolen land and the forced labor of California Tribal Nations, enslaved African Americans, and other exploited communities, who have been systematically excluded from land ownership and wealth-building opportunities," the report says. "Addressing these past and continuing harms requires active efforts to ensure that all people have secure and affordable access to viable land for the care and cultivation of food, fiber, medicine, and culturally valuable resources, free from systemic barriers and
racial disparities."

The initiative marks the latest left-wing attempt to pursue reparations through the agriculture industry. The Biden junta and congressional Democrats, for example, allocated $5 billion in the Inflation Reduction Act to grant loan forgiveness to non-white farmers, though that initiative was held up in the courts. In a separate program, the junta authorized more than $2 billion in payments to non-white farmers and ranchers whose applications for loans had been rejected by the USDA—rejections that the Biden junta chalked up to racial discrimination.

Put this in context with the actions of Newsom and Karen Bass in the wake of the Pacific Palisades wildfires and their moves to deny homeowners permission to rebuild and instead demand that their land be essentially de facto confiscated and forcibly transformed into low income government approved housing.

Well, just smear Newsom's face with Sharpton's feces and call him Tawana Mugabe. The bitter irony is that the justification for all of this is built on outright blood-libels against America, and the people who actually built America and made California the one time 6th most prosperous place on earth, and America's promised land. No, it wasn't slaves nor was it Mexicans. It was American-Americans, which is the only hyphenate category I recognize.

The bastards who drape themselves in the Constitution are the same ones who have spent over 200 years ripping it to shreds. The sheer Chutzpocrisy is sickening beyond my capacity to describe it. And yet here we are, surrounded on all sides by Mamdanis.

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  • President Donald Trump announced Tuesday that the American military sank a vessel belonging to Venezuelan drug cartel Tren de Aragua, killing 11 cartel members on board. Discussing the strike against the vessel, Fox’s Jesse Watters asked Hanson if he believes there’s a risk of “counterstrikes inside the U.S.” from cartel members. “There is. Asymmetric warfare is the Achilles heel of the United States. We are one giant soft target here inside the United States. However, payback can be a medevac if they try something like that,” Hanson said. “You know, you go ahead and hit us here, and you want to see some holy hell unleashed wherever you’re operating. I don’t think they’d do it more than once.”

    Fmr US Army Special Forces Warns Cartels Of ‘Holy Hell Unleashed’ If They Try Anything Against America

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1 Its Hump day

Posted by: r hennigantx at September 03, 2025 07:30 AM (gbOdA)

2 Yonder Horde

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 03, 2025 07:30 AM (Q4IgG)

3 Good morning horde!

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 03, 2025 07:32 AM (ExV1e)

4 Its Hump day
Posted by: r hennigantx at September 03, 2025 07:30 AM (gbOdA)


I retire in exactly 100 days. Exciting milestone.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 03, 2025 07:32 AM (ExV1e)

5 Tech thread alerted.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 03, 2025 07:33 AM (ExV1e)

6 Happy Wednesday, everyone. It's a gorgeous day, I've got some work to do and two co-workers brought in okra and peppers respectively.

Posted by: NR Pax at September 03, 2025 07:33 AM (BpO1e)

7 Yay me! Top 250!

Posted by: rickb223 at September 03, 2025 07:36 AM (FPR3/)

8 China's Xi projects narcissism at military parade with Putin and Kim

Posted by: SMOD at September 03, 2025 07:37 AM (ri7GP)

9 I retire in exactly 100 days. Exciting milestone.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic


1643 days for me, but who's counting?

Posted by: rickb223 at September 03, 2025 07:37 AM (FPR3/)

10 Good morning!

Let's smile & be happy & strike fear in the hearts of killjoy leftists everywhere.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 03, 2025 07:39 AM (u82oZ)

11
Pasty Degenerate Pederast Gov. Tim Schmaltz-Walz: America Has ‘More Guns’ and ‘The Wrong Types of Guns’

Homicide rates in 2023, per 100,000

Asian: 1.4
White: 3.2
Black: 21.3

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 03, 2025 07:39 AM (kkTda)

12 Anti-Trump Judge James Boasberg Releases Woman Arrested for Threatening to ‘Sacrificially Kill This POTUS’

I DO NOT ADVOCATE VIOLENCE AGAINST ANYONE

I wonder what Judge Boasberg would say if another judge were to release someone who had said, repeatedly, that they intend to kill all DC judges whose names begin with 'B'.

I DO NOT ADVOCATE VIOLENCE AGAINST ANYONE

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 03, 2025 07:39 AM (ExV1e)

13 Outstanding editorial writing today! Thanks JJS!

Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 03, 2025 07:40 AM (rC1kg)

14 Local story on my Fox outlet: A football coach (or "the" coach) has been assaulted at my old high school, the famous Warren Easton High "adopted" by Sandra Bullock, according to the cops. The story is only on their bottom-of-the-screen chyron and I can't find it on the CBS outlet's website.

Whaddaya wanna bet that if the coach is white and the assailant black (Easton is now 100% black enrollment), the story will vanish into the morning mist?

Assaulting a teacher or coach? Unthinkable, once upon a time in America. We were all terrified of, or respected, our teachers. Jeez.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 03, 2025 07:41 AM (omVj0)

15 11 Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 03, 2025 07:39 AM (kkTda)



America has too many of the wrong types of people.


Far too many Leftists.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at September 03, 2025 07:42 AM (x0n13)

16 I used to have a different nic

Have you let your boss know yet?

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 03, 2025 07:43 AM (u82oZ)

17 CNN Panelist Jonah Goldberg Floats Gun Confiscation Fantasy: Democrats Could Deploy Military to Seize Guns from Law-Abiding Americans

… his conversion to the “Dark Side” is complete

Posted by: SMOD at September 03, 2025 07:43 AM (ri7GP)

18 Chris Columbus, director of the early Harry Potter films, publicly tried shaming JK Rowling for her "gender beliefs", and boom! She responded.

Good for her.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 03, 2025 07:44 AM (ozHEJ)

19 If Trump keeps up his deportations, California may have to secede in order to maintain its peculiar institution of imported brown skinned menial labor.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at September 03, 2025 07:45 AM (Vi61D)

20 Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere

I went to YuTube and watched all 11 of the UK Gold Blend couple commercials starring Anthony Head and Sharon Maughan. They knew how to sell.

Thanks again. I was at sea, and missed all but one of them.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 03, 2025 07:46 AM (u82oZ)

21 I'm not clear on where newsom plans on taking this arable land from.

Posted by: Ben Had at September 03, 2025 07:47 AM (mFSH6)

22 Re: Nadler's retirement.

Observation: This is a sure fire way to remove Zohran Mamdami as the Democrat nominee as Mayor of NYC.

Send him to Congress.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at September 03, 2025 07:47 AM (a4flb)

23 This is a sure fire way to remove Zohran Mamdami as the Democrat nominee as Mayor of NYC.

Send him to Congress.
________________________

He might not be left wing enough

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at September 03, 2025 07:48 AM (Vi61D)

24 Have you let your boss know yet?
Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 03, 2025 07:43 AM (u82oZ)


No. I will give my notice on Oct. 1st.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 03, 2025 07:48 AM (ExV1e)

25 17 CNN Panelist Jonah Goldberg Floats Gun Confiscation Fantasy: Democrats Could Deploy Military to Seize Guns from Law-Abiding Americans

… his conversion to the “Dark Side” is complete
Posted by: SMOD at September 03, 2025 07:43 AM (ri7GP)


Is it still reasonable to assume that the vast majority of those in the Military are conservative and Republican. GO with that Goldberg.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at September 03, 2025 07:49 AM (x0n13)

26 {{{Ben Had}}}
🎼 ♭ 5/4 ♫♫ ♫♫ Good morning! ♬♬ ♩ ♪

Gov Newscum is reenacting Rhodesia to Zimbabwe. We know how this will turn out.

Will no one rid us of this deranged Mugabe?

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 03, 2025 07:50 AM (u82oZ)

27 I retire in exactly 100 days. Exciting milestone.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 03, 2025 07:32 AM (ExV1e)

I retired my first time in around 2018. Then worked about 3 years and retired again.
I now have a part time job again doing construction mgmt.

Posted by: r hennigantx at September 03, 2025 07:51 AM (gbOdA)

28 NaCly, the insanity keeps growing.

Posted by: Ben Had at September 03, 2025 07:52 AM (mFSH6)

29 Good morning, J.J.
Good morning, Horde.

Posted by: Inogame at September 03, 2025 07:53 AM (53oGX)

30 >>CNN Panelist Jonah Goldberg Floats Gun Confiscation Fantasy: Democrats Could Deploy Military to Seize Guns from Law-Abiding Americans


Careful. That barrel is gonna be real hot.

Posted by: garrett at September 03, 2025 07:53 AM (a9WGd)

31 I am glad that President Trump is giving Rudy Giuliani the Medal of Freedom and Rudy Guliani was also the best Mayor in decades. Michael Goodwin gives his opinion:

https://tinyurl.com/nhfm47ns

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 03, 2025 07:54 AM (2GCMq)

32 I retired my first time in around 2018. Then worked about 3 years and retired again.
I now have a part time job again doing construction mgmt.
Posted by: r hennigantx at September 03, 2025 07:51 AM (gbOdA)


I intend to follow the lead of my mentor-from-afar Weasel and perfect my technique of doing nothing productive for 24 hours at a time.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 03, 2025 07:54 AM (ExV1e)

33 $1M in taxpayer money going to build a megamosque that spews hate at Christians and Jews.

--

I fear the worst is coming to NYC. Mamdani will likely be elected, bringing yet another radical Islamist into public office in America. This one being in one of the most iconic cities in the world. Add in the "megamosque" in the conservative Italian American neighborhood of Morris Park and you can only imagine the glee muslims will feel post 9/11 at just how easily they've conquered NYC.

Add in demons like the foul-mouthed Tlaib, Bro-Fo Omar, that little freak looking to become mayor of Minneapolis and it's sure easy to see how, slowly but surely, they are transforming the country in the same way they've done in the UK. It might take them a bit longer here, but the wheels in motion are so very obvious. Hundreds of thousands of imported 3rd world Islamists are sure paying off.

Posted by: Lady in Black at September 03, 2025 07:54 AM (qBdHI)

34 J.J. Sefton

Yes, up to some of the top enlisted and more of the officers. I do not expect orders to confiscate guns to be obeyed. Although I do not know how much training there is in not having to follow illegal orders.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 03, 2025 07:54 AM (u82oZ)

35 That's funny, I don't recall slavery in California. Oh, that's because there never was, at least until modern illegal alien slavery.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at September 03, 2025 07:54 AM (WD/ks)

36 When a fake conservative moves left they have to go way beyond leftist to larger depths of stupidity.

Posted by: Ben Had at September 03, 2025 07:55 AM (mFSH6)

37 >>That's funny, I don't recall slavery in California. Oh, that's because there never was, at least until modern illegal alien slavery.


I DO recall the State of California stealing the lands of Japanese Farmers who were interred by FDR, though.

Posted by: garrett at September 03, 2025 07:56 AM (a9WGd)

38 Jasmine Crockett Mocked Over Dramatic Change In Speech
________________

She grew up in wealth and attended private schools. Her "ghetto trash" persona is just a Step'n Fetchit act that amuses racist Democrats by playing to their stereotype of black women.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at September 03, 2025 07:56 AM (Vi61D)

39 CNN Panelist Jonah Goldberg Floats Gun Confiscation Fantasy: Democrats Could Deploy Military to Seize Guns from Law-Abiding Americans

I recall, back in my military days, that we were told that we not only COULD disobey an illegal order but that we were REQUIRED to disobey an illegal order. Given that military protocol insists on punishing enlisted personnel if there is any conceivable way that they can be punished, I suspect that a lot of people would disobey that order.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 03, 2025 07:57 AM (ExV1e)

40 “ Guide me in your truth and teach me, for you are God my Savior, and my hope is in you all day long.”

Psalm 25:5

Posted by: Marcus T at September 03, 2025 07:57 AM (u+yKD)

41 From the David Geffen piece:

Some of the country's most prestigious institutions have been renamed for the billionaire Democratic power broker who's being accused in explosive court documents of exploiting 'a vulnerable, marginalized young gay Black man'

That's a funny way of saying "having a sugarbaby so he can take BBc in the ass." The normalest of people, Democrats.

Posted by: British Broadcasting Corporation It Is Not at September 03, 2025 07:57 AM (7KgSH)

42
I went to YuTube and watched all 11 of the UK Gold Blend couple commercials starring Anthony Head and Sharon Maughan. They knew how to sell.

Thanks again. I was at sea, and missed all but one of them.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 03, 2025


***
They did indeed know. The nostalgia draw now is Anthony, since his famous turn in Buffy, but the ads are still compelling in and of themselves.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 03, 2025 07:58 AM (omVj0)

43 Lisa Cook is fundamentally unqualified for her job. Despite her PhD fields being listed as macroeconomics and international economics, she has never published a single peer-reviewed article on macroeconomics or monetary policy. Her entire academic output is focused on economic history through the narrow, ideological lens of race and gender.

Who would have thunk it? The profs that let her skate in undergrad. The advisors that let her write papers on racial grievances with nothing to do with banking and eco. The Phds that let her get into programs but then made sure that she could not be rehired when the program ended.

Posted by: r hennigantx at September 03, 2025 08:00 AM (gbOdA)

44 Wolfus Aurelius

Never saw Buffy, but then again, I have been without TV since 1977. Did not watch anything but KSU football games on my late wife's TV.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 03, 2025 08:01 AM (u82oZ)

45 Mornin’, All. Happy Wednesday.

Posted by: Bulg at September 03, 2025 08:01 AM (77rzZ)

46 Some of the country's most prestigious institutions have been renamed for the billionaire Democratic power broker who's being accused in explosive court documents of exploiting 'a vulnerable, marginalized young gay Black man'

Blah blah blah... this is like the yacht girls whining that they totally had no idea that they would be expected to 'perform' for the folks on the yacht and only did so because they were afraid that they'd be killed and dumped overboard.

The guy is a whore. He knew that he was a whore going in. He benefitted from being a whore. Now he wants to double dip.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 03, 2025 08:01 AM (ExV1e)

47 But she's black.

Posted by: The evergreen Teflon at September 03, 2025 08:03 AM (qTzjh)

48 Re: that kratom article, I don't know much about this stuff, but I was given some by a friend because I have a pain-related malady and they wanted me to see if it helped. I took it in powder form in a very low dose for 2 weeks and then stopped. My own reading on it was that it could affect liver function if used long term. But I noticed in the article that one guy who died took 40mg. That's a lot of kratom, even in my very limited knowledge.

Posted by: Lady in Black at September 03, 2025 08:04 AM (qBdHI)

49 Good Morning Grammie

Posted by: Jonah at September 03, 2025 08:05 AM (YCxFk)

50 17 CNN Panelist Jonah Goldberg Floats Gun Confiscation Fantasy: Democrats Could Deploy Military to Seize Guns from Law-Abiding Americans


It's no fantasy. If the Left ever regains majority government control, their first six months will make Trump's look like Gerald Ford's.

Posted by: Ordinary American at September 03, 2025 08:05 AM (h/ffs)

51 Under Trump, that cut-off point (for being in lowest 25% income) rose by nearly $3,950; under Biden, it fell slightly, by about $170, suggesting that many lower-income families on average lost purchasing power during the Biden years.

These findings resoundingly contradict Democrats’ frequent claims that Trump’s tax and budget policies primarily favored the rich. In truth, the purchasing power of Americans in the bottom quarter of household income rose by 10% during his first White House term.

We have the richest po' folks in the world.

Posted by: r hennigantx at September 03, 2025 08:06 AM (gbOdA)

52 I'm not clear on where newsom plans on taking this arable land from."

I'd like to stake a claim (after all, I have similar... wait, no - better proofs of Indian [feather, not dot] Ancestry than Faux Warren).

I'll settle for just a few acres. Monterey penensula will do fine, thanks.

Posted by: man at September 03, 2025 08:08 AM (tubbA)

53 It's no fantasy. If the Left ever regains majority government control, their first six months will make Trump's look like Gerald Ford's.

That will be a very ugly battle and one of the end results is that our military will lose a lot of the trust they have as an insitution.

Posted by: NR Pax at September 03, 2025 08:08 AM (BpO1e)

54 Why are government employees allowed to unionize?

Posted by: Cow Demon at September 03, 2025 08:08 AM (bcMTj)

55 "I want to live in a country where the poor people are fat."

Posted by: Immigrant from India at September 03, 2025 08:09 AM (qTzjh)

56 >>The UK has lost the plot when they arrest a comedy writer over tweets—don't let America be next

That ship has sailed. See Douglass Mackey.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 03, 2025 08:09 AM (viF8m)

57 Never saw Buffy, but then again, I have been without TV since 1977. Did not watch anything but KSU football games on my late wife's TV.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 03, 2025

***
Buffy
was a highly intelligent and fun fantasy series, well worth your time (esp. in the first five seasons). It didn't only feature vampires as antagonists, but other entities as well. The characters changed and grew, and the scripts explored topics like living with the consequences of one's actions with both drama and humor. It was not just a live-action version of Scooby-Doo.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 03, 2025 08:09 AM (omVj0)

58 >>Why are government employees allowed to unionize?


Jack Kennedy's kid wanted to be President.

Posted by: garrett at September 03, 2025 08:10 AM (a9WGd)

59 That will be a very ugly battle and one of the end results is that our military will lose a lot of the trust they have as an insitution.
Posted by: NR Pax at September 03, 2025 08:08 AM (BpO1e)

They have no trust to begin with. Those warmongers are why we hate this country and why it is so disgusting and evil.

Posted by: AoS Isolationists and Code Pinkers at September 03, 2025 08:10 AM (bcMTj)

60 Yes, up to some of the top enlisted and more of the officers. I do not expect orders to confiscate guns to be obeyed. Although I do not know how much training there is in not having to follow illegal orders.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 03, 2025 07:54 AM


We used to have mandatory UCMJ training every quarter that covered stuff like that. Pretty sure that's been converted into lgqtb+++ training. pete has his work cut out for him. Hopefully when vance wins in 2028 he will keep him on to continue the good work he is doing.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at September 03, 2025 08:10 AM (0N4FZ)

61 The Trump Doctrine. You fuck around, we will kill you and destroy your shit. No more nation building bullshit or spreading horseshit like “democracy”.

Posted by: Speak Softly and Carry A Big Penis at September 03, 2025 08:10 AM (M7GNj)

62 "...free from systemic barriers and
racial disparities."

Offering benefits to only members of two races is the very definition of racial disparities.

Posted by: tankdemon at September 03, 2025 08:11 AM (wJMZu)

63 58 >>Why are government employees allowed to unionize?


Jack Kennedy's kid wanted to be President.
Posted by: garrett at September 03, 2025 08:10 AM (a9WGd)

I think you mean Joseph…

Well, both are dead. Why are government employees allowed to unionize?

Posted by: Cow Demon at September 03, 2025 08:11 AM (bcMTj)

64 "56 >>The UK has lost the plot when they arrest a comedy writer over tweets—don't let America be next"

The power is the plot. That's their mindset anyway.

Posted by: Ordinary American at September 03, 2025 08:11 AM (h/ffs)

65
Reparations is just another term for armed robbery.

Posted by: Auspex at September 03, 2025 08:11 AM (Y8DZL)

66 Pretty sure that's been converted into lgqtb+++ training. "

*re-imagines Ermy role in Full Metal Jacket*

"are you a peter puffer?"

"Sir, yes Sir"

Posted by: man at September 03, 2025 08:12 AM (tubbA)

67 During the confrontation, the suspect reportedly recited verses from the Islamic Quran. Police initially attempted to use a taser to subdue him, but when he failed to submit and continued to pose a threat, they resorted to lethal force. French newspaper Le Figaro noted that the suspect had previously been under judicial supervision, which prohibited him from possessing weapons.

hahahaha
Reads like a Houston Chronicle post on some kid named D'Various.

Posted by: r hennigantx at September 03, 2025 08:12 AM (gbOdA)

68 >> Lisa Cook is fundamentally unqualified for her job.

Biden and the communists running the White House didn’t have an interest in finding the most qualified person for the job. They had an interest in promoting division and furthering their insidious goals by using a certain politically targeted demographic as their guidepost. Cook, like Jackson on SCOTUS represent two of the most wholly unqualified people ever elevated to those positions. In the end they’ve done a tremendous disservice to that targeted demographic by promoting corrupt, unaccomplished people of relatively low intellect.

Posted by: Marcus T at September 03, 2025 08:13 AM (u+yKD)

69 Reparations were paid in full at Antietam.

Posted by: Are we gonna do THIS again? at September 03, 2025 08:13 AM (qTzjh)

70 12 Anti-Trump Judge James Boasberg Releases Woman Arrested for Threatening to ‘Sacrificially Kill This POTUS’

I DO NOT ADVOCATE VIOLENCE AGAINST ANYONE
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 03, 2025 07:39 AM (ExV1e)

IIRC, this individual was one of the people who denied bail to overcharged J6 citizens touring the Capitol and handed down excessive sentences.

Posted by: Lurking Cheshirecat at September 03, 2025 08:13 AM (w3u3d)

71 The surveillance clip was among the more than 33,000 pages of documents and videos tied to Epstein’s sex-trafficking probe that were released by the House Oversight Committee late Tuesday.

‘Missing minute’ from Jeffrey Epstein’s prison cell on night of his death is shown in newly released video

Posted by: SMOD at September 03, 2025 08:13 AM (ri7GP)

72 I do not expect orders to confiscate guns to be obeyed.

And if they obey it, they will learn that people are willing to do very horrible things to protect themselves.

Posted by: NR Pax at September 03, 2025 08:13 AM (BpO1e)

73
Jack Kennedy's kid wanted to be President.
Posted by: garrett

Caroline is dumber than Kamala and Jr. thought he could fly in the dark without an instrument rating.

Posted by: Auspex at September 03, 2025 08:13 AM (Y8DZL)

74 So Gov Newsom wants CA to be Zimbabwe-West. Someone ought to let him know how that has worked out for Zimbabwe. Oh, who am I kidding, he can’t find the place in a map…

I’m guessing no redistribution for the Napa wineries?

Posted by: Cow Demon at September 03, 2025 08:13 AM (bcMTj)

75 Ordinary American

Something deep in out UR-DNA from tribal caveman days leads some people to want to rule over burnt out anthills.

The Anti-Enlightenment Revolution is what we are fighting.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 03, 2025 08:13 AM (u82oZ)

76 It's National Welsh Rarebit Day.

Posted by: redridinghood at September 03, 2025 08:13 AM (NpAcC)

77 It's no fantasy. If the Left ever regains majority government control, their first six months will make Trump's look like Gerald Ford's.

That will be a very ugly battle and one of the end results is that our military will lose a lot of the trust they have as an insitution.
Posted by: NR Pax


They'll lose a lot of family too. Asymmetrical warfare sucks. Extended families are vulnerable.

Posted by: rickb223 at September 03, 2025 08:14 AM (FPR3/)

78 69 Reparations were paid in full at Antietam.
Posted by: Are we gonna do THIS again? at September 03, 2025 08:13 AM (qTzjh)

And other places besides.

Posted by: Cow Demon at September 03, 2025 08:14 AM (bcMTj)

79 69 Reparations were paid in full at Antietam.
Posted by: Are we gonna do THIS again? at September 03, 2025 08:13 AM (qTzjh)

You know, that is an interesting point to consider.

Posted by: Lurking Cheshirecat at September 03, 2025 08:14 AM (w3u3d)

80 Agricultural Equity?

The Soviets did that.

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 03, 2025 08:15 AM (4w2Cy)

81 Reads like a Houston Chronicle post on some kid named D'Various."

D'aquinta says "hey holmes, wassup"

I note we (Greater Houston area) were to celebrate the inclusion of cultural diversity post Katrina, as "studies showed" that crime "did not severely increase" by bringing (depending on who's estimate) 35 to 50K "refugees" from N.O....

Posted by: man at September 03, 2025 08:15 AM (tubbA)

82 I retire in exactly 100 days. Exciting milestone.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic


1643 days for me, but who's counting?
Posted by: rickb223 at September 03, 2025 07:37 AM (FPR3/)


160 days for me.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at September 03, 2025 08:15 AM (ufSfZ)

83 Buffy was a highly intelligent and fun fantasy series, well worth your time (esp. in the first five seasons).
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 03, 2025 08:09 AM (omVj0)

Quite right. One of most well-structured and character-rich shows ever. But I thought the sixth season was especially bold and brilliant, challenging and even deconstructing itself.

Posted by: Ordinary American at September 03, 2025 08:16 AM (h/ffs)

84 The Welsh Rabbits was the garage band name for the group that would go on to call themselves The Byrds.

Posted by: Music nerd at September 03, 2025 08:16 AM (O1fjF)

85 I’m guessing no redistribution for the Napa wineries?"

Depends.

On donations to Guv HighHair.

Posted by: man at September 03, 2025 08:16 AM (tubbA)

86 The problem is so widespread that the publication of fraudulent science is outpacing the growth rate of legitimate scientific publications. The authors argue these findings should serve as a wake-up call to the scientific community, which needs to act before the public loses confidence in the scientific process.

Is this the end result of Publish or Die in academia?

Posted by: r hennigantx at September 03, 2025 08:17 AM (gbOdA)

87 Good morning Horde, happy hump day. Thx JJ.
JJ noticed this yesterday , with Nadler going only Sen Schumer and Congressman Goldman are Jewish NYC reps in Congress. Elkind I think is Jewish and has the edge running for Nadler's seat , ewww, and let's see if the leftist antisemitic loons will support him.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 03, 2025 08:17 AM (1yw2U)

88 They'll lose a lot of family too. Asymmetrical warfare sucks.

How willing will they be to carry out the orders when the get a letter saying "Hey! Isn't this your wife and kids?" and pictures are enclosed?

Posted by: NR Pax at September 03, 2025 08:17 AM (BpO1e)

89 BTW let this sink in. Schumer is holding up over 150 of Trump’s picks in the senate. Go look at that list. Most of those nominees are eminently qualified and have deep resumes. His reason? They are unqualified, ergo he won’t even give them a hearing.

That’s why Trump nuked and deal and Barrasso mentioned yesterday they’re about to go with a rule change.

Posted by: Marcus T at September 03, 2025 08:17 AM (u+yKD)

90 > Lisa Cook is fundamentally unqualified for her job.
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Most appointees are. Under *biden's reign many were picked because they tweaked the Republicans and the conservative base, not because they had skillz.

Republican appointees can be classified the same. Certainly not all of them. But certainly some of them.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 03, 2025 08:18 AM (Q4IgG)

91 84 The Welsh Rabbits was the garage band name for the group that would go on to call themselves The Byrds.
Posted by: Music nerd at September 03, 2025 08:16 AM (O1fjF)

I heard the Burritos out in California
Could fly higher than the Byrds
Roger McGuinn had a 12-string guitar
It was like nothing I'd ever heard
And the Eagles flew in from the West Coast
Like The Byrds they were trying to be free
While in Texas the talk turned to Outlaws
Like Willie and Waylon and me

Posted by: r hennigantx at September 03, 2025 08:18 AM (gbOdA)

92 Western Lensman@WesternLensman
Brandon Johnson just blamed 'gun violence' in Chicago on Trump and red states:
"These guns come from red states. That is the harsh reality. Whether Republicans like it or not."

-
Vast herds of wetback firearms are sneaking across the border!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, We're Living On Land Stolen From the Dinosaur! at September 03, 2025 08:18 AM (L/fGl)

93 California Democrat governor Gavin Newsom's "agricultural equity" advisers are finalizing recommendations for the state to redistribute farmland to non-white Californians and Native American tribes

Shades of Rhodesia and South Africa...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 03, 2025 08:18 AM (ynpvh)

94 34 J.J. Sefton

Yes, up to some of the top enlisted and more of the officers. I do not expect orders to confiscate guns to be obeyed. Although I do not know how much training there is in not having to follow illegal orders.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 03, 2025 07:54 AM (u82oZ)

We’ll happily do it! And the Nuremberg Defense is something we are allowed to use all the time!!! Best of all, we can do whatever we damn well please BECAUSE WE ARE THE GOOD GUYS!!!

Posted by: Police at September 03, 2025 08:19 AM (bcMTj)

95 88 They'll lose a lot of family too. Asymmetrical warfare sucks.

How willing will they be to carry out the orders when the get a letter saying "Hey! Isn't this your wife and kids?" and pictures are enclosed?
Posted by: NR Pax at September 03, 2025 08:17 AM (BpO1e)

Supposedly in Trump 1.0 he did just that to some Middle East PooBah. He showed him a pic of his mansion.

Posted by: r hennigantx at September 03, 2025 08:19 AM (gbOdA)

96 92 Western Lensman@WesternLensman
Brandon Johnson just blamed 'gun violence' in Chicago on Trump and red states:
"These guns come from red states. That is the harsh reality. Whether Republicans like it or not."

-
Vast herds of wetback firearms are sneaking across the border!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, We're Living On Land Stolen From the Dinosaur! at September 03, 2025 08:18 AM (L/fGl)

=======

I was mostly shocked that anyone still used that line of reasoning.

"Indiana isn't a battleground because while they sell more guns, they export all the guns to Chicago," is so eminently stupid that I thought the left stopped using it years ago.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, growing up with John Hughes at September 03, 2025 08:19 AM (GBKbO)

97 Jack Kennedy's kid wanted to be President.
Posted by: garrett

Caroline is dumber than Kamala and Jr. thought he could fly in the dark without an instrument rating.
Posted by: Auspex at September 03, 2025


***
I seem to recall that actress Daryl Hannah of Splash fame was involved with JFK Jr. at one point. I'll bet when she heard the news of his death and his wife's, she thought, deep down, "Whew! Dodged a bullet there!"

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 03, 2025 08:20 AM (omVj0)

98 92 Western Lensman@WesternLensman
Brandon Johnson just blamed 'gun violence' in Chicago on Trump and red states:
"These guns come from red states. That is the harsh reality. Whether Republicans like it or not."

-
Vast herds of wetback firearms are sneaking across the border!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, We're Living On Land Stolen From the Dinosaur! at September 03, 2025 08:18 AM (L/fGl)

Yeah, they tried to "prove" it via "Fast and Furious" during the SCOAMF's first regime.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 03, 2025 08:20 AM (ynpvh)

99 In general I have never quite understood Trump’s desire to do this. I suspect there are some quid pro quo agreements in the background with Alabama politicians: “If you bring the Space Force to Alabama, Mr. Trump, we will back you on your other plans.” Then again, Trump might simply want to punish the increasingly leftist haven of Colorado.

Space is increasingly a southern US thing. Florida and Texas are where everything launches from. Of course, it's also good to pull organizations and people out of blue states.

Posted by: Ian S. at September 03, 2025 08:20 AM (84SEz)

100 MPPPP

Did you see this video about Theda Bara and her lost movies like Cleopatra. There are a few goofs in it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PsTEEiLZ5Is

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 03, 2025 08:20 AM (4w2Cy)

101 The Dead Kennedys were off by 40 years with the song "California Uber Alles"

Posted by: Halfhand at September 03, 2025 08:20 AM (ayLqq)

102 Lisa Cook is fundamentally unqualified for her job.

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What are you talking about? She's got DEI out ass!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, We're Living On Land Stolen From the Dinosaur! at September 03, 2025 08:21 AM (L/fGl)

103 It's no fantasy. If the Left ever regains majority government control, their first six months will make Trump's look like Gerald Ford's.

==

They will regain majority gov't someday. Even the next D presidency terrifies me. Each succeeding D president over the last 30 years has radicalized exponentially so far to the left that they won't let one single opportunity for their "utopia" to go to waste again. Not after Trump. It's going to be one hell of a nightmare when that happens because they will cement every wet dream they ever had into place in ways never seen before. I can't get around the fact that our divide is a bottomless pit. We can't cohabitate. There is no cohesion. Looking at where everything is headed, we're at loggerheads and it's not going away.

/turning off my Debbie Downer

Posted by: Lady in Black at September 03, 2025 08:21 AM (qBdHI)

104
I was mostly shocked that anyone still used that line of reasoning.

"Indiana isn't a battleground because while they sell more guns, they export all the guns to Chicago," is so eminently stupid that I thought the left stopped using it years ago.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, growing up with John Hughes at September 03, 2025 08:19 AM (GBKbO)

Which means the Left will never let it go. They will not rest until only criminals legal or otherwise have all the guns.

Posted by: Cow Demon at September 03, 2025 08:22 AM (bcMTj)

105 I note we (Greater Houston area) were to celebrate the inclusion of cultural diversity post Katrina, as "studies showed" that crime "did not severely increase" by bringing (depending on who's estimate) 35 to 50K "refugees" from N.O....

New Orleans didn't send their best and brightest. Reports from trusted sources who were actually on the front-lines supporting these new-comers into the Houston area, in particular the temporary housing in the domes stadiums, these were the laziest and least grateful people on the planet.

Refusing to police their own beds and areas, destroying the bathrooms and complaining about the food (which they also refused to help prepare, bus or cleanup). They were loud, beligerent and hate-filled to the whites (mostly from the local churches) who gave up their vacation time to minister in service.

Awful, horrible people.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at September 03, 2025 08:22 AM (a4flb)

106 >>Supposedly in Trump 1.0 he did just that to some Middle East PooBah. He showed him a pic of his mansion.

Afghanistan.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 03, 2025 08:22 AM (viF8m)

107 My wife asked me what I thought about our military being off the shores of Venezuela.

I told her, paraphrasing, "Venezuela has been exporting violent gangs which are operating in the US. By doing this, Venezuela is on the line of, if not over the line of a military incursion into the US."

"Also, Venezuela does not border on the US and very likely is the cartel strong horse of South America. Take out Venezuela's para military cartel operation, send a message to other countries" allowing/encouraging activity in the US.

"Mexico also benefits from such a warning."

My take, anyway.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at September 03, 2025 08:23 AM (tT6L1)

108 Have a great day, everyone.

May your travels be safe. The cool air is so nice; tis a shame about that global warming meme.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 03, 2025 08:23 AM (u82oZ)

109 They will not rest until only criminals legal or otherwise have all the guns.

And when they have paradise on Earth because no one has those scary guns, they'll hand wave away the continued violence.

Posted by: NR Pax at September 03, 2025 08:24 AM (BpO1e)

110 The cartels are backed by China, Mexico and Canada. I have nonissue blowing up their stuff but if the gov'ts backing them are not dissuaded, then, this will go on forever

Posted by: Accomack at September 03, 2025 08:24 AM (IG7T0)

111 107 My wife asked me what I thought about our military being off the shores of Venezuela.

I told her, paraphrasing, "Venezuela has been exporting violent gangs which are operating in the US. By doing this, Venezuela is on the line of, if not over the line of a military incursion into the US."

"Also, Venezuela does not border on the US and very likely is the cartel strong horse of South America. Take out Venezuela's para military cartel operation, send a message to other countries" allowing/encouraging activity in the US.

"Mexico also benefits from such a warning."

My take, anyway.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at September 03, 2025 08:23 AM (tT6L1)

=======

The authorization of force against terror groups is still in effect. The president has congressional approval to take actions against terrorist groups.

Trump named Tren de Agua a terrorist group.

Trump's attack on a Tren de Agua boat bringing illegal substances to be smuggled into America was perfectly legal.

It was also a moral good.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, growing up with John Hughes at September 03, 2025 08:24 AM (GBKbO)

112 CNN Panelist Jonah Goldberg Floats Gun Confiscation Fantasy: Democrats Could Deploy Military to Seize Guns from Law-Abiding Americans

I'm too lazy and frankly don't want to expose myself to that oleaginous hot dog-molesting putz, but I wonder what pushback (if any) was given to him. I think he's under the impression that, after a few high-profile raids establishing a high body count, the remainder of gun owners will knuckle under and hand over their scary boom sticks.

I'd like someone to ask him, "Let's assume for the moment, that things go sideways and gun owners begin fighting back and killing the military who come to take their guns. What makes you think gun owners won't also go after the civilians pushing for confiscation - civilians like you, for example?"

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at September 03, 2025 08:24 AM (ufSfZ)

113 I was mostly shocked that anyone still used that line of reasoning.


===

Johnson's double digit IQ is serving him well !

Posted by: runner at September 03, 2025 08:25 AM (g47mK)

114 Thanks and morning JJ

Without Nadler around who’s gonna do the “Nadler thing” (ie crap your pants on live TV)? The Biden Thing and The Nadler Thing… and The Thing (creepy John Carpenter flick)…. All gross

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at September 03, 2025 08:25 AM (OW907)

115 I think this business with the cartels is going to be a real issue for the administration. Not a problem, but something the media and the left will latch onto because the cartels are a demographic both support.

The interdiction of the Venezuelan drug smugglers was proper, but it probably has antagonized certain people.

The protests should be enlightening.

Lastly, I'm sure Mexico's girlboss president took notice. Her country's on Trump's "shit list" too.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 03, 2025 08:26 AM (Q4IgG)

116 113 I was mostly shocked that anyone still used that line of reasoning.


===

Johnson's double digit IQ is serving him well !
Posted by: runner at September 03, 2025 08:25 AM (g47mK)


Well two zeroes constitutes double digits.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at September 03, 2025 08:26 AM (x0n13)

117 Western Lensman@WesternLensman
Brandon Johnson just blamed 'gun violence' in Chicago on Trump and red states:
"These guns come from red states. That is the harsh reality. Whether Republicans like it or not."

--

He then offered proof of such a wild statement, am I correct? I'm guessing when arrested, those committing gun violence have to fill out a form checking the box where they got their firearms?

Dear Criminal, please fill out the below form. Where did you purchase your gun? Your answers will be kept confidential.

[X] Red State
[ ] Blue State

Posted by: Lady in Black at September 03, 2025 08:26 AM (qBdHI)

118 I'd like someone to ask him, "Let's assume for the moment, that things go sideways and gun owners begin fighting back and killing the military who come to take their guns. What makes you think gun owners won't also go after the civilians pushing for confiscation - civilians like you, for example?"
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at September 03, 2025 08:24 AM (ufSfZ)
---------------

Good morning, MP4. Jonah doesn't realize or refuses to admit a lot of people on the right see him as a traitor. Gun confiscation starts, things go sideways in a hurry.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at September 03, 2025 08:27 AM (tT6L1)

119 160 days for me.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at September 03, 2025 08:15 AM (ufSfZ)


Mid-February?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 03, 2025 08:28 AM (ExV1e)

120 >>WATCH: AG Letitia James Mispronounces Zohran Mamdani’s Name While Mocking Those Who Can’t Pronounce It

Pathetic. I took me a few days to get his name burned into my memory. Now I am annoyed by those who don't say or spell it correctly. Yet I will cut Tish and others in the New York Democrat ranks a bit of slack. They all h8te, envy, and fear him as a political force. That combination of emotions will mix up anyone's brain. It totally short-circuits weak brains. Example: Brains of Democrats.

Posted by: Gref at September 03, 2025 08:28 AM (aBgBM)

121 Whew! Dodged a bullet there!"

Not like his old man.

Posted by: Lee Harvey Oswald at September 03, 2025 08:28 AM (ufSfZ)

122 >>My take, anyway.

I would add that Venezuela has been a long time partner of Hezbollah, giving them a footing in the Americas to help spread drugs and violence throughout the region but particularly in the US.

And when you get Hezbollah you get Iran.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 03, 2025 08:28 AM (viF8m)

123 New Orleans didn't send their best and brightest. "

No. You're kidding, right?

*notes rise in a certain demographics crime stats in cities "enriched" by taxpayer's moving said demo to Houston, Memphis, etc...*

Posted by: man at September 03, 2025 08:28 AM (tubbA)

124 Shades of Rhodesia and South Africa...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 03, 2025 08:18 AM (ynpvh)

Killing the Boring would sure make movies and TV better.

Posted by: r hennigantx at September 03, 2025 08:29 AM (gbOdA)

125 *notes rise in a certain demographics crime stats in cities "enriched" by taxpayer's moving said demo to Houston, Memphis, etc...*
Posted by: man at September 03, 2025 08:28 AM (tubbA)

Shreveport is now just Upper NOLA.

Posted by: r hennigantx at September 03, 2025 08:29 AM (gbOdA)

126 The authors argue these findings should serve as a wake-up call to the scientific community, which needs to act before the public loses confidence in the scientific process.

Most of the public knows slightly less than jack shit about anything scientific. They only know the click-bait headlines written by people who also know slightly less than jack shit about anything scientific but have a byline.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 03, 2025 08:30 AM (ExV1e)

127 Space is increasingly a southern US thing. Florida and Texas are where everything launches from. Of course, it's also good to pull organizations and people out of blue states.
Posted by: Ian S. at September 03, 2025


***
Plus, the closer to the equator the launch site is, the more velocity the spacecraft will have to launch. CO has the advantage of higher elevation, though. I don't know if that would offset the near-equator arrangement.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 03, 2025 08:30 AM (omVj0)

128 Trump got Dems to side with the Tren de Aruga drug smugglers.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at September 03, 2025 08:30 AM (Dv3i1)

129 I DO NOT ADVOCATE VIOLENCE AGAINST ANYONE
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 03, 2025 07:39 AM (ExV1e)

Don't smoke don't drink don't advocate violence against anyone, what do you do?

Posted by: mea culpa at September 03, 2025 08:30 AM (32DCw)

130 Johnson's double digit IQ is serving him well !"

Howard? Olson? Reverend? Van? Gabby?

*ducks*

Posted by: man at September 03, 2025 08:30 AM (tubbA)

131 There is some idiot who managed to get published 19 papers on the medicine and ethics of Star Trek

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 03, 2025 08:30 AM (4w2Cy)

132 > And when you get Hezbollah you get Iran.
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Iran's been cozy with Venezuela for quite a while. Might have been that relationship that brought in Hezbollah.

Either or....

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 03, 2025 08:30 AM (Q4IgG)

133 New Orleans didn't send their best and brightest. "

***
If they had the resources, the best and brightest left long before Katrina.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 03, 2025 08:31 AM (omVj0)

134 About the dismantling of the British Space Agency. Most people don't know the story of why England abandoned its space shuttle program; the Jaguar engineers couldn't figure out how to make it leak oil.

Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at September 03, 2025 08:31 AM (Da7Vv)

135 Is this the end result of Publish or Die in academia?

This is the end result of the government, and leftist foundations almost certainly subsidized by the government, paying for scientific papers which appear to justify their policy preferences.

It's the "magic words" problem. They think that if they get someone in a lab coat to say something, that makes it true.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 03, 2025 08:31 AM (ExV1e)

136 I thought it was because Lucas Electric got the wiring contract.

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 03, 2025 08:32 AM (4w2Cy)

137 Letters of Marque. Done and done.

Posted by: Eromero at September 03, 2025 08:32 AM (jgmnb)

138 160 days for me.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing


Congratulations to you too!

Posted by: rickb223 at September 03, 2025 08:32 AM (FPR3/)

139
When we left Houston in 1998, it was still a city that worked well. When we returned in 2009, the decay was well advanced. Now under the combined misrule of the Moron Mayor and the Teen Commissar, Houston has become violent and broke.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 03, 2025 08:32 AM (kkTda)

140 Posted by: Anna Puma at September 03, 2025 08:20 AM (4w2Cy)

No, I hadn't, Anna, thank you. I'll have to look at it later.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at September 03, 2025 08:32 AM (ufSfZ)

141 Afghanistan.
Posted by: JackStraw at September 03, 2025 08:22 AM (viF8m)

Then is was a picture of his boy band harem.

Posted by: r hennigantx at September 03, 2025 08:32 AM (gbOdA)

142 I'm cautiously optimistic about the mid-terms. "We hate Trump" only works for safe seats. The marginal seats, it's about turnout and I don't know if Democrats have the funding for the ground game any more.

I mention it, because if the mid terms go against Democrats, the explanations as to why it happened should be hilarious.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at September 03, 2025 08:33 AM (tT6L1)

143 139
When we left Houston in 1998, it was still a city that worked well. When we returned in 2009, the decay was well advanced. Now under the combined misrule of the Moron Mayor and the Teen Commissar, Houston has become violent and broke.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 03, 2025 08:32 AM (kkTda)

SheJack was gonna fixed everytang till Jesus called!

Posted by: r hennigantx at September 03, 2025 08:33 AM (gbOdA)

144 Supposedly in Trump 1.0 he did just that to some Middle East PooBah. He showed him a pic of his mansion.
Posted by: r hennigantx at September 03, 2025 08:19 AM (gbOdA)


I believe it was some Taliban honcho so probably not a mansion.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 03, 2025 08:34 AM (ExV1e)

145 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 03, 2025 08:34 AM (Zz0t1)

146 I was mostly shocked that anyone still used that line of reasoning.

"Indiana isn't a battleground because while they sell more guns, they export all the guns to Chicago," is so eminently stupid that I thought the left stopped using it years ago.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, growing up with John Hughes at September 03, 2025 08:19 AM (GBKbO)


Every year there's a new crop of 18 year olds who don't know shit.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 03, 2025 08:34 AM (ExV1e)

147 Trump takes actions that are above all necessary and right and which feel that way in the guts of most Americans. He mostly reaps political benefits from this, not because he acts first to reap political benefit. This makes him almost entirely, weirdly unique among our so-called leaders. The drug interdiction is another example. It is necessary and right.

Posted by: Ordinary American at September 03, 2025 08:35 AM (h/ffs)

148 I DO NOT ADVOCATE VIOLENCE AGAINST ANYONE
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 03, 2025 07:39 AM (ExV1e)

Don't smoke don't drink don't advocate violence against anyone, what do you do?
Posted by: mea culpa at September 03, 2025 08:30 AM (32DCw)

Norfolk!

Posted by: Count de Monet at September 03, 2025 08:35 AM (wVcYX)

149 The "Battle of Los Angeles" was the informal name for the final conflict of the California Campaign during the Mexican-American War, known as the Battle of La Mesa, which took place on January 9, 1847. Following the earlier Siege of Los Angeles and the battles of Río San Gabriel and La Mesa, American forces under Commodore Robert F. Stockton and General Stephen Watts Kearny recaptured the city, leading to a Californio retreat and the eventual signing of the Treaty of Cahuenga, which ended the war in California.
Earlier events leading to the Battle of La Mesa:
1. Siege of Los Angeles (September 1846):
.
A revolt led by Californios under José María Flores successfully drove out a U.S. garrison from Los Angeles.
2. Battle of Río San Gabriel (January 8, 1847):

American forces marched to recapture the city, encountering and defeating the Californios at a ford on the San Gabriel River.
The Battle of La Mesa (January 9, 1847):
The Californios, led by Flores, made a final stand but were no match for the disciplined American troops.
The American forces were victorious, leading to the recapture of Los Angeles and the final collapse of Californio resistance in Southern California.

Posted by: pudinhead at September 03, 2025 08:35 AM (c711F)

150 Spent the entirety of the holiday weekend, which was supposed to be a weekend of camping and fishing, prepping things to be moved from my dad's place as the step-sister has turned out to be a real piece of shit and has her mother, the legal owner, convinced they MUST SELL to get money for her care and are literally giving the house away to some rando cousin of an in-law that wants it for HER mom.......

To the winner go the spoils and my dad died first.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 03, 2025 08:36 AM (Zz0t1)

151 The Aegis cruisers are nasty combatants - great combo of speed & radar/ weapons tech.

Posted by: Mo Bland at September 03, 2025 08:36 AM (nOahv)

152 I Meme Therefore I Am
@ImMeme0
Woman who thinks she is a man and is a psych major has a meltdown over Trump being alive.

Make Asylums Great Again!

https://tinyurl.com/yx6xev8a

Posted by: redridinghood at September 03, 2025 08:37 AM (NpAcC)

153 Want evidence that the propaganda ministries won't publish or report bad news about China? Check out the lack of coverage about the Chinese owned Zambia mine disaster. A tailings pond dam ruptured dumping what turns out to be 1.5 liters of sludge including arsenic, cyanide and uranium into the Kafue river system. 60%of the country use the water for everything. A complete horror show

Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 03, 2025 08:37 AM (1yw2U)

154
160 days for me.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at September 03, 2025 08:15 AM (ufSfZ)



I thought you were already retired?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 03, 2025 08:38 AM (Zz0t1)

155 >>I believe it was some Taliban honcho so probably not a mansion.

>Former President Donald Trump said that at one point when he was in the White House, he threatened one of the top members of the Taliban by sending him a satellite picture of his house and saying he would “obliterate” him.

https://tinyurl.com/4nnr6mu8

If the military had stalled the withdrawal under Trump those 13 service members blown up by a suicide bomber would likely still be alive.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 03, 2025 08:38 AM (viF8m)

156 Sorry to hear that, Sponge. It's tough, dealing with that kind of fallout from the death of a parent.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at September 03, 2025 08:38 AM (tT6L1)

157 We're probably a day out from an earnest Tucker Carlson interview with someone asking whether Tren de Agua isn't just an organization of plucky, misunderstood entrepreneurs.

Posted by: Friar Tuck Carlson at September 03, 2025 08:38 AM (hrnx0)

158
127 Space is increasingly a southern US thing. Florida and Texas are where everything launches from. Of course, it's also good to pull organizations and people out of blue states.
Posted by: Ian S. at September 03, 2025

Another great advantage to Texas and Florida is that, with the launch pads situated near the beach, the spacecraft immediately heads out over the ocean. So if there’s an abort or debris, there’s no worry about where it will land. (China had a big incident with this recently, video went viral.)

Posted by: Tom Servo at September 03, 2025 08:38 AM (r2+h3)

159 1.5 million liters not 1.5 liters.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 03, 2025 08:39 AM (1yw2U)

160 Don't smoke don't drink don't advocate violence against anyone, what do you do?
Posted by: mea culpa at September 03, 2025 08:30 AM (32DCw)


I have no idea where to find it, but I once saw a Bill Hoest (The Lockhorns) one-panel cartoon from the 1960s. A man is sitting on a couch, staring off into the distance and mumbling, "You don't smoke, you don't drink. . .what do you do?"

Meanwhile, behind him, his date is stripping off all of her clothes.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at September 03, 2025 08:39 AM (ufSfZ)

161 Want evidence that the propaganda ministries won't publish or report bad news about China? Check out the lack of coverage about the Chinese owned Zambia mine disaster. A tailings pond dam ruptured dumping what turns out to be 1.5 liters of sludge including arsenic, cyanide and uranium into the Kafue river system. 60%of the country use the water for everything. A complete horror show
Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 03, 2025 08:37 AM (1yw2U)

Was the EPA advising China?

Posted by: Count de Monet at September 03, 2025 08:39 AM (wVcYX)

162 han't

Posted by: JackStraw at September 03, 2025 08:39 AM (viF8m)

163 That is why confirming Judges is so vital at the Federal level at this point, and not mid level cabinet appointees.
Reason why Schumer is obstructing. he knows this.

there are 4 district judge vacancies in NC. Have to fill those in case Cooper wins in 2026, and will have a blue slip

Posted by: Jonah at September 03, 2025 08:39 AM (YCxFk)

164 Virginia used to be at fault as a pipeline for all the guns going to New York.

I did my part by buying a lot of guns so the supply would dry up.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at September 03, 2025 08:40 AM (cIOlQ)

165 The Taliban, now seen as the new rulers of the "graveyard of empires," Afghanistan, has long been supported by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), which is often seen as the head of the "axis of evil" and the global mafia. However, recent tensions between this close partnership have been publicly escalating, drawing significant attention.

Posted by: SMOD at September 03, 2025 08:40 AM (RHGPo)

166 MSNBC Analyst [Ashley Parker] Robbed Repeatedly in DC Doesn’t Understand Why Trump Cracked Down on Crime

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It's the spice that adds piquancy to urban life!

P.S. I thought it was MS.NOW now.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, We're Living On Land Stolen From the Dinosaur! at September 03, 2025 08:40 AM (L/fGl)

167 To the winner go the spoils and my dad died first."

Aren't families + estates wonderful?

Posted by: man at September 03, 2025 08:40 AM (tubbA)

168 Well, time to wander.

later!

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at September 03, 2025 08:41 AM (tT6L1)

169 WATCH — Degenerate pederast Tim Walz Appears to Fantasize About President Trump’s Demise: ‘There Will Be News Sometime’
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Minnesota killer who claimed Walz directed him seemed to have been dropped into the memory hole.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at September 03, 2025 08:41 AM (Dv3i1)

170 Oh, and thanks again, J.J!

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at September 03, 2025 08:41 AM (tT6L1)

171 Don't smoke don't drink don't advocate violence against anyone, what do you do?
Posted by: mea culpa at September 03, 2025 08:30 AM (32DCw)


Well... while it wasn't quoted, the portion of my statement immediately proceeding that could be taken as a call to violence against certain individuals. I've been bitched at by CBD before about approaching the line and I don't relish the thought of being banned so I made that specification.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 03, 2025 08:42 AM (ExV1e)

172 I thought you were already retired?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 03, 2025 08:38 AM (Zz0t1)


I was close, but then my car broke down and so I had to work another year in order to pay off the new one. I really hope nothing else happens.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at September 03, 2025 08:42 AM (ufSfZ)

173 Good morning dear morons and happy birthday JJ

When I hear "threat to our democracy," I think, "go fvck yourself liar."

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 03, 2025 08:42 AM (RIvkX)

174 >>>han't
~~~~~

Go back to bed.

Posted by: IrishEi at September 03, 2025 08:42 AM (3ImbR)

175 You don't smoke, you don't drink. . .what do you do"

Listen to 80's Adam Ant?

Posted by: man at September 03, 2025 08:42 AM (tubbA)

176 We're probably a day out from an earnest Tucker Carlson interview with someone asking whether Tren de Agua isn't just an organization of plucky, misunderstood entrepreneurs.

==

He is going to find a Jew(s) that made Trump do it, and then just ask questions why they let Jews near the seat of power of real Americans (like himself).

Posted by: runner at September 03, 2025 08:42 AM (g47mK)

177 Sorry to hear that, Sponge. It's tough, dealing with that kind of fallout from the death of a parent.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at September 03, 2025 08:38 AM (tT6L1)



Tough to learn your step-siblings are stupid pieces of shit after the fact.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 03, 2025 08:43 AM (Zz0t1)

178 >>Go back to bed.

I'm multi-tasking woman. Don't hassle me.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 03, 2025 08:44 AM (viF8m)

179 'Trump Zone' Would See South Lebanon Depopulated For Qatari, Saudi-Bankrolled Projects

Underpinning the plan would be 1,500 to 2,000 US troops occupying the Trump Zone...

Posted by: SMOD at September 03, 2025 08:44 AM (RHGPo)

180 The state of California never had slavery or indentured servitude.

Posted by: polynikes at September 03, 2025 08:44 AM (EYmYM)

181 Tough to learn your step-siblings are stupid pieces of shit after the fact."

Welcome to the relative haters club.

I watched several get into a literal screaming match over kitchen appliances (mixer, toaster, etc.). It was disheartning.

Posted by: man at September 03, 2025 08:46 AM (tubbA)

182 We're probably a day out from an earnest Tucker Carlson interview with someone asking whether Tren de Agua isn't just an organization of plucky, misunderstood entrepreneurs.
Posted by: Friar Tuck Carlson at September 03, 2025 08:38 AM (hrnx0)


College girls are already saying it.

https://youtu.be/fK-v-rqyhts

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 03, 2025 08:46 AM (ExV1e)

183 France is saddled with a massive debt pile, rising borrowing costs and governments that collapse in a matter of months.

So what to do? Macron is focused on recognizing a Palestinian state — terrorist, corrupt and threat to the West.

Posted by: SMOD at September 03, 2025 08:46 AM (RHGPo)

184 Israel is making plans to take Gaza city and I have this earworm
Take me on down to Gaza city where the goats are fine and the women ain't pretty.

Posted by: Ben Had at September 03, 2025 08:46 AM (mFSH6)

185 I retire in exactly 100 days. Exciting milestone.

I retired 6425 days ago.

Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at September 03, 2025 08:47 AM (Da7Vv)

186 Apparently the evidence against Routh involves “the highest levels of national security”, according to the judge. Oh, hello CIA!

Posted by: Ian S. at September 03, 2025 08:47 AM (QZThv)

187 Sponge , sorry for your troubles. Represented a few people in that situation and the second wives and family invariably are golddiggers. Tough to explain to clients who are in the first family that thems the rules

Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 03, 2025 08:47 AM (1yw2U)

188 The Californios, led by Flores, made a final stand but were no match for the disciplined American troops.
The American forces were victorious, leading to the recapture of Los Angeles and the final collapse of Californio resistance in Southern California.
_____

Imagine if today's UN was in existence at that time.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at September 03, 2025 08:47 AM (Dv3i1)

189 Tim Walz reminds me of the volleyball in Castaway. Same IQ as well.

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at September 03, 2025 08:47 AM (kTd/k)

190 My retirement date comes with an obituary.

Posted by: Ben Had at September 03, 2025 08:48 AM (mFSH6)

191 Brandon Johnson Basically Calling for Race War to Keep Federal Troops Out of Chicago

.. what is he trying to protect ?

Posted by: SMOD at September 03, 2025 08:48 AM (RHGPo)

192 It's the spice that adds piquancy to urban life!

Several years back there was some Broadway actress bemoaning how much safer had become because it was soooo much better when it was "Tawdry and Dangerous."

Posted by: NR Pax at September 03, 2025 08:48 AM (BpO1e)

193
I was close, but then my car broke down and so I had to work another year in order to pay off the new one. I really hope nothing else happens.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at September 03, 2025 08:42 AM (ufSfZ)



Oh. Well, I hope 2nd verse is BETTER than the first then.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 03, 2025 08:49 AM (Zz0t1)

194 I retired 6425 days ago.
Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at September 03, 2025 08:47 AM (Da7Vv)


Statements like this make me question whether you're actually 29.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 03, 2025 08:49 AM (ExV1e)

195 Imagine if today's UN was in existence at that time."

Ummm... Rape, murder, arson, and rape.

Posted by: man at September 03, 2025 08:49 AM (tubbA)

196 Ummm... Rape, murder, arson, and rape.
Posted by: man


In other words, no different. And you said rape twice. -:-)

Posted by: NR Pax at September 03, 2025 08:50 AM (BpO1e)

197 La Raza will avenge the original residents, take back California and make it El Norte Tijuana

Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 03, 2025 08:50 AM (1yw2U)

198 My retirement date comes with an obituary.
Posted by: Ben Had at September 03, 2025 08:48 AM (mFSH6)


May you have many more years of fruitful labor.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 03, 2025 08:50 AM (ExV1e)

199 Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 03, 2025 08:37 AM (1yw2U)

Just 1.5 liters?

Posted by: polynikes at September 03, 2025 08:50 AM (EYmYM)

200 And you said rape twice. -:-)

Watched Blazing Saddles over the weekend...

Posted by: man at September 03, 2025 08:50 AM (tubbA)

201 Straw:

Futile.
https://tinyurl.com/4bf7cesh

Posted by: IrishEi at September 03, 2025 08:50 AM (3ImbR)

202 Sponge , sorry for your troubles. Represented a few people in that situation and the second wives and family invariably are golddiggers. Tough to explain to clients who are in the first family that thems the rules
Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 03, 2025 08:47 AM (1yw2U)



Really didn't see my step-sis being such an unmitigated twat......

Talked quite a bit the past couple days with a mutual acquaintance and he filled me in about how she's been mostly psycho for a long time. I just didn't ever spend enough time with her to see it.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 03, 2025 08:51 AM (Zz0t1)

203 Mark Judge:

Earlier this year, I published a piece revealing that New York Times reporter David Enrich expressed regrets to me about things he wrote about me and Brett Kavanaugh in 2018. Enrich, like the rest of the Stasi media, had tried to destroy me and Kavanaugh, who was a friend of mine in high school, in order to prevent Brett from becoming a SCOTUS justice. Enrich and the New York Times used everything, including our high school yearbook, to try to ruin us.

“I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about my role in the Kavanaugh coverage,” Enrich wrote to me last December, “and I would be happy to talk to you about it at some point. For now, I will just say that I have learned some lessons and would probably do certain things differently next time.”

When I asked Enrich to elaborate on what he would do differently, he said, “This is a subject for a longer conversation that I’m not going to have over the holidays. Sorry.” Then he added this: “I can’t imagine what it was like for you to go thru that."

Posted by: SMOD at September 03, 2025 08:51 AM (RHGPo)

204 Watched Blazing Saddles over the weekend.

I have two friends that had never seen it. I was outraged and said that this deficiency had to be corrected.

Posted by: NR Pax at September 03, 2025 08:51 AM (BpO1e)

205 My retirement date comes with an obituary.
Posted by: Ben Had at September 03, 2025 08:48 AM (mFSH6)

If you love what you do , retirement is a punishment.

Posted by: polynikes at September 03, 2025 08:52 AM (EYmYM)

206 Ellen Degeneres Hit With Disturbing New Claim Involving Former Staffer’s Child After She Flees America for England

Insiders are claiming that a high-ranking producer was urged to reschedule a major operation their child was having, just to make life more convenient for DeGeneres.
A “The kid had a major surgery – like a bone marrow transplant,” another former staffer told Daily Mail. “It was asked of this particular person if the kid’s ‘thing’ – that’s what they referred to it as – was the same week as the Christmas holiday week.”
“This was a person pretty high up. This person was asked if they could move the procedure around the Christmas holiday week, for Ellen,” this insider continued. “They were there on the day of the taping that week – Ellen got exactly what she wanted. It was all loyalty to the show, but no loyalty to staff.”

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Ellen's convenience > child's life

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, We're Living On Land Stolen From the Dinosaur! at September 03, 2025 08:52 AM (L/fGl)

207 My retirement date comes with an obituary.
Posted by: Ben Had at September 03, 2025 08:48 AM (mFSH6)



I damn sure don't WANT this to be the case, but it will likely be the case.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 03, 2025 08:52 AM (Zz0t1)

208 The Ford Foundation’s funding has empowered far-left activists internationally.
The Ford Foundation Is Pouring $20 Million a Month Into Far-Left Activism.

The current head of the Ford Foundation is a black man, Darren Walker, who also happens to be gay. He will be stepping down from his role to run the Obama Foundation (?!). His replacement is not any better. Heather Gerken is currently Dean of Yale Law School - and she's a committed leftist herself.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at September 03, 2025 08:52 AM (SW/BM)

209
Retired for 2064 days. The date of my retirement and the two months preceding were the worst of my professional career.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 03, 2025 08:52 AM (kkTda)

210 Now under the combined misrule of the Moron Mayor and the Teen Commissar, Houston has become violent and broke.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

A perfect example of one of the many successes of DEI.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at September 03, 2025 08:52 AM (Dv3i1)

211 I used to have a different nic, I will get to thank you personally for that soon.

Posted by: Ben Had at September 03, 2025 08:52 AM (mFSH6)

212
If you love what you do , retirement is a punishment.
Posted by: polynikes at September 03, 2025 08:52 AM (EYmYM)



I like what I do, I just love the OTHER things I WANT to do but don't have time for a little more.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 03, 2025 08:52 AM (Zz0t1)

213 Wrap your head around her thinking. She is asked about affordability, and her answer is to reduce the supply of housing and increase the number of parking spots with EV chargers.

She seriously believes that this is the solution to out-of-control housing prices.

You can see in the face of the podcast host his incredulity at her response, and Senator Weiner's pain at having to share a screen with this moron.

Yet this is how most Californians, at least in urban areas, think. The inability to connect policy choices with consequences is the common thread that runs through most California policies.

Posted by: SMOD at September 03, 2025 08:53 AM (RHGPo)

214 Kenneth Roth@KenRoth

Drug trafficking is a crime, not an act of war. Traffickers must be arrested, not summarily executed, which U.S. forces just illegally did.

Posted by: Mister Ghost at September 03, 2025 08:53 AM (TGPs7)

215 Re: California white land confiscation

Those of you celebrating the death of wokeness are celebrating way the fuck too early. We maybe won a few battles but the war is by no means over. Not even close.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at September 03, 2025 08:53 AM (tNkpt)

216 Sponge, hope things get better.

Posted by: dantesed at September 03, 2025 08:53 AM (Oy/m2)

217
Should have said, "The date I was retired."

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 03, 2025 08:53 AM (kkTda)

218 I retire in exactly 100 days. Exciting milestone.

I retired 6425 days ago.
Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at September 03, 2025 08:47 AM (Da7Vv)

I hope my retirement day is as memorable as J.A. Steve Broady's, engineer at the controls of the "Fast Mail" Old 97. I'd like to go out with one hand on the throttle, wide open, and the other on the whistle while jumping the Stillhouse Trestle bridge. They'll compose and sing famous ballads about it for generations.

Posted by: Count de Monet at September 03, 2025 08:53 AM (wVcYX)

219 214 Kenneth Roth@KenRoth

Drug trafficking is a crime, not an act of war. Traffickers must be arrested, not summarily executed, which U.S. forces just illegally did.
Posted by: Mister Ghost at September 03, 2025 08:53 AM (TGPs7)

======

Repeal the authorization of military force in the War on Terror, then.

Because Tren de Agua has been deemed a terrorist organization.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, growing up with John Hughes at September 03, 2025 08:54 AM (GBKbO)

220
Futile.
https://tinyurl.com/4bf7cesh
Posted by: IrishEi at September 03, 2025 08:50 AM (3ImbR)



Design, engineer and build a functional bridge. THEN we'll talk.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 03, 2025 08:54 AM (Zz0t1)

221 What bothers me the most is that Omar has built her career thundering against the wealthy and declaring capitalism a system rigged against the little guy. She lectures about inequality, demonizes people who accumulate fortunes, and paints millionaires as morally compromised. Yet here she is, supposedly reaping the rewards of venture capital and luxury wine—two industries not exactly known for their devotion to socialist ideals.

Posted by: SMOD at September 03, 2025 08:54 AM (RHGPo)

222
Repeal the authorization of military force in the War on Terror, then.

Because Tren de Agua has been deemed a terrorist organization.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, growing up with John Hughes at September 03, 2025 08:54 AM (GBKbO)



Kenneth Roth is teh stupids.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 03, 2025 08:54 AM (Zz0t1)

223 step-sis being such an unmitigated twat......"

Clearly related to BiL's wife...

Posted by: man at September 03, 2025 08:55 AM (tubbA)

224
Ellen Degeneres Hit With Disturbing New Claim Involving Former Staffer’s Child After She Flees America for England

__________

Ellen DeGenerate is an abusive creep.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 03, 2025 08:56 AM (kkTda)

225 If you love what you do , retirement is a punishment.
Posted by: polynikes at September 03, 2025 08:52 AM (EYmYM)

I can see a LinkedIn “influencer” saying something like this. And it’s silly.

I like what I do for work. It pays very well. But I’ll be damned if I’m doing this when I’m 80. I want my “punishment” to start in about 5 years from now.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at September 03, 2025 08:56 AM (tNkpt)

226 Ellen Degeneres Hit With Disturbing New Claim Involving Former Staffer’s Child After She Flees America for England


It ain't like she's the father...

Posted by: rickb223 at September 03, 2025 08:56 AM (FPR3/)

227 Chelsea Clinton is allegedly thinking about running for Nadler's seat (ewww). Elkins has raised big bucks and is the leader now, but this would be a great fight. The ultimate nepo baby vs a leftist guy with leftist credentials. The Dem Socialists could find a candidate a best both

Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 03, 2025 08:57 AM (1yw2U)

228 222
Repeal the authorization of military force in the War on Terror, then.

Because Tren de Agua has been deemed a terrorist organization.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, growing up with John Hughes at September 03, 2025 08:54 AM (GBKbO)


Kenneth Roth is teh stupids.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 03, 2025 08:54 AM (Zz0t1)

=======

It's the first time I've seen his name, and I have to come to this conclusion.

He seems...vaccinated.

Sorry to hear about your family troubles. May it be behind you soon.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, growing up with John Hughes at September 03, 2025 08:57 AM (GBKbO)

229 Ellen DeGenerate is an abusive creep."

Why else flee Hollywierdland?

Posted by: man at September 03, 2025 08:57 AM (tubbA)

230 LA tow truck driver arrested for stealing ICE agents’ vehicle as they struggled to detain TikTok influencer

Posted by: SMOD at September 03, 2025 08:57 AM (RHGPo)

231 227 Chelsea Clinton is allegedly thinking about running for Nadler's seat (ewww). Elkins has raised big bucks and is the leader now, but this would be a great fight. The ultimate nepo baby vs a leftist guy with leftist credentials. The Dem Socialists could find a candidate a best both
Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 03, 2025 08:57 AM (1yw2U)

=======

I want her to follow George P. Bush's path to power.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, growing up with John Hughes at September 03, 2025 08:57 AM (GBKbO)

232 Traffickers must be arrested, not summarily executed, which U.S. forces just illegally did.

May I suggest crying harder? That may work.

Posted by: NR Pax at September 03, 2025 08:57 AM (BpO1e)

233 Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at September 03, 2025 08:53 AM (tNkpt)

I don't think anyone posting here is celebrating the death of wokeness.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 03, 2025 08:57 AM (2GCMq)

234 My retirement date comes with an obituary.

Most people can't handle retirement. Some of us are meant to be alone, and do nothing but think and experiment.

The correct equation is:

V = Ldi/dt, not V = dLi/dt. Run the experiment, the implications are profound.

Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at September 03, 2025 08:57 AM (Da7Vv)

235 The current head of the Ford Foundation is a black man, Darren Walker, who also happens to be gay. He will be stepping down from his role to run the Obama Foundation (?!).

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From what I understand, he can do that job part time at home with a search engine to sort through the dog recipes.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at September 03, 2025 08:58 AM (lwy00)

236 LA tow truck driver arrested for stealing ICE agents’ vehicle as they struggled to detain TikTok influencer

I saw the video. Apparently the driver was angry that his perp walk was on camera. And the towing company should be forced to answer awkward questions about this.

Posted by: NR Pax at September 03, 2025 08:58 AM (BpO1e)

237 I let my boss know about my intentions to retire during the covid nonsense. I think it was in February of 2020 while we were all supposed to be working from home.

End of June was my last day after 34 years. 1891 days ago.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 03, 2025 08:58 AM (Q4IgG)

238 @199 corrected it to read 1.5 million liters. Serious cluster**k

Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 03, 2025 08:59 AM (1yw2U)

239 I'm retiring again end of the month. They want me to stay through the year and I had to stop myself from busting out laughing.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 03, 2025 08:59 AM (RIvkX)

240
Sorry to hear about your family troubles. May it be behind you soon.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, growing up with John Hughes at September 03, 2025 08:57 AM (GBKbO)



Thanks.

The ONLY thing that I look forward to is the fact that by the end of this month, I likely won't be dealing with them again until their mother passes away, if I ever even find out about it.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 03, 2025 08:59 AM (Zz0t1)

241 I don't think anyone posting here is celebrating the death of wokeness.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 03, 2025 08:57 AM (2GCMq)

It's axiomatic that he doesn't actually read the site before posting things like that.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at September 03, 2025 09:00 AM (lwy00)

242 The current head of the Ford Foundation is a black man, Darren Walker, who also happens to be gay. He will be stepping down from his role to run the Obama Foundation (?!).

Black and gay makes him possibly the most qualified candidate to run the Obama Foundation. Especially if he’s also married to a cross dressing linebacker.

Posted by: Ian S. at September 03, 2025 09:00 AM (QZThv)

243 Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at September 03, 2025 08:56 AM (tNkpt)

Then you don’t love what you do . Is that too hard a concept for you?

Posted by: polynikes at September 03, 2025 09:00 AM (EYmYM)

244 I used to have a different nic, I will get to thank you personally for that soon.
Posted by: Ben Had at September 03, 2025 08:52 AM (mFSH6)


Should I wear a bullet-proof vest tot he MoMe?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 03, 2025 09:00 AM (ExV1e)

245
I want her to follow George P. Bush's path to power.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, growing up with John Hughes at September 03, 2025 08:57 AM (GBKbO)



Losing elections?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 03, 2025 09:00 AM (Zz0t1)

246 Iran's President Pezeshkian hits out at West's 'double standards' as he joins China parade

CRINK refers to the grouping of China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea and the growing anti-Western collaboration between these revisionist powers, beginning in the early 2020s.

It has also been called the "The Axis of Upheaval", "axis of autocracies", "quartet of chaos", or the "deadly quartet" by Western sources.

Posted by: SMOD at September 03, 2025 09:00 AM (RHGPo)

247 doesn't actually read the site before posting "

We're supposed to do that?

Huh.

*ducks. Again*

Posted by: man at September 03, 2025 09:01 AM (tubbA)

248 Israel is making plans to take Gaza city and I have this earworm
Take me on down to Gaza city where the goats are fine and the women ain't pretty.
Posted by: Ben Had at September 03, 2025 08:46 AM (mFSH6)

Followed up by Sweet Goat O' Mine.

Posted by: Count de Monet at September 03, 2025 09:01 AM (wVcYX)

249 They'll lose a lot of family too. Asymmetrical warfare sucks. Extended families are vulnerable.
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Most of these leftist families consist of cats and no matter how bad things get I'm not killing kitties

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at September 03, 2025 09:01 AM (Vi61D)

250 240 Thanks.

The ONLY thing that I look forward to is the fact that by the end of this month, I likely won't be dealing with them again until their mother passes away, if I ever even find out about it.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 03, 2025 08:59 AM (Zz0t1)

=======

I have this sneaking suspicion that my father in law is going to prioritize his step-daughter (who's no longer his step-daughter since he and her mother divorced) over Dolley.

I don't think he even sees her anymore, but, from what I've heard from him and from Dolley, he's weirdly attached to the girl.

We're well off enough that it's not like we'd strain under a financial promise not delivered, or anything, but it'll at least irritate Dolley in ways that only I will have to hear about.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, growing up with John Hughes at September 03, 2025 09:01 AM (GBKbO)

251
It ain't like she's the father...
Posted by: rickb223 at September 03, 2025 08:56 AM (FPR3/)



But she IS working towards looking like James Carville.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 03, 2025 09:02 AM (Zz0t1)

252 245
I want her to follow George P. Bush's path to power.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, growing up with John Hughes at September 03, 2025 08:57 AM (GBKbO)


Losing elections?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 03, 2025 09:00 AM (Zz0t1)

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*touches nose*

That's a bingo!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, growing up with John Hughes at September 03, 2025 09:02 AM (GBKbO)

253 JD Vance will be traveling to Minneapolis today to pay his respects to the victims of the Annunciation Catholic School shooting.

Posted by: redridinghood at September 03, 2025 09:02 AM (NpAcC)

254 @239 San Franpsycho , congrats and good luck in retirement.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 03, 2025 09:03 AM (1yw2U)

255 It has also been called the "The Axis of Upheaval", "axis of autocracies", "quartet of chaos", or the "deadly quartet" by Western sources.
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Is the Western source a writer for the 60's Batman tv show?

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

256 When I asked Enrich to elaborate on what he would do differently, he said, “This is a subject for a longer conversation that I’m not going to have over the holidays. Sorry.” Then he added this: “I can’t imagine what it was like for you to go thru that."
Posted by: SMOD at September 03, 2025 08:51 AM (RHGPo)
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Then he finished his latte and continued his round of golf, unperturbed and unmolested. Oh, well.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 03, 2025 09:03 AM (RIvkX)

257
We're well off enough that it's not like we'd strain under a financial promise not delivered, or anything, but it'll at least irritate Dolley in ways that only I will have to hear about.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, growing up with John Hughes at September 03, 2025 09:01 AM (GBKbO)



I've lived much of my life knowing full well there wasn't going to be some inheritance that would change my life, make it better, of give me any kind of comfort whatsoever, so this isn't shattering.

It's just frustrating enough to piss me off because the one that really gets screwed is their mom in the long run, because if she actually does pass the 2 year time line, they will have given away a minimum of one her of her care in this ignorant deal.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 03, 2025 09:04 AM (Zz0t1)

258 253 JD Vance will be traveling to Minneapolis today to pay his respects to the victims of the Annunciation Catholic School shooting.
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I hope his SS detail is the best. Walz likely has more killers on his payroll.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at September 03, 2025 09:04 AM (Dv3i1)

259 Then he added this: “I can’t imagine what it was like for you to go thru that."

And yet the bastard would do it all over again if his leftist masters ordered him to.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at September 03, 2025 09:04 AM (ufSfZ)

260
Sometimes it seems to me that every CEO and executive director is named Darren.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 03, 2025 09:04 AM (kkTda)

261 @239 San Franpsycho , congrats and good luck in retirement.
Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 03, 2025 09:03 AM (1yw2U)
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Thank you I "stopped working" in April 2023 but they keep sucking me back in like Michael Corleone. But I really want to work on my book.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 03, 2025 09:05 AM (RIvkX)

262 I like what I do for work. It pays very well.

I used to like what I did for work. I could talk to the engineers, find out what was holding them up, make system improvements... it's harder now since I don't speak Hindi.

I used to like who I worked for. But then they became like every other company and the workers became an expense item to be minimized.

It pays very well. Well, pretty well. I get paid enough that I haven't left for greener pastures but not enough that I's consider staying.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 03, 2025 09:05 AM (ExV1e)

263 I've lived much of my life knowing full well there wasn't going to be some inheritance that would change my life"

Welcome to the club. OTOH, I do have a priceless collection of fine Fiesta ware, along w/ a couple of cast iron pans.

So I've got that going for me, which is nice.

Posted by: man at September 03, 2025 09:05 AM (tubbA)

264 I don't think anyone posting here is celebrating the death of wokeness.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 03, 2025 08:57 AM (2GCMq)

It's axiomatic that he doesn't actually read the site before posting things like that.
Posted by: WitchDoktor at September 03, 2025 09:00 AM (lwy00)

Why this site is axiomatic,
It's systematic,
It's hydromatic
Why, it's greased lightning!
(Greased lightning!)

Posted by: Danny & Kenickie at September 03, 2025 09:06 AM (wVcYX)

265 I retired 6581 days ago. Been buzzed-up since August 20, 2007.

Posted by: Cooter Brown, Flyin' High at September 03, 2025 09:06 AM (G5+As)

266 O/T Mrs. F. finished her jury service and another criminal bit the dust yesterday.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 03, 2025 09:06 AM (RIvkX)

267 Gaston County District Attorney Travis Page had the parents arrested, charging them with involuntary manslaughter and child neglect.
Police Arrest Two Parents For Small-Town Tragedy. If We Let It Go, There’s No Going Back

Hmmmm... Me thinks there is a lot underneath the surface.
Gaston, Co, is next to Charlotte, NC. Gastonia, where even occurred is a smaller town west of the County Seat.

The story indicates that Page was pleased with himself for a "generous" plea deal as the parents had suffered enough. (Why were they charged in the first place?). Why did they spend 25 days in jail?
Wife is pregnant, 6 children. Given demographics of the area, I'm willing to bet, we are talking a poor white southern family here. So, why?

Child run over on a small town street, which no doubt has a low speed limit. A woman, 76 years old hits the kid. No name released. Is it still in the police report? This should be public record. Anyone wish to cover a bet that she has some political connections to the county? Probably resides in the county seat. The arrest of the parents gets her off the hook.

Just say in'.

Posted by: Lurking Cheshirecat at September 03, 2025 09:06 AM (w3u3d)

268 The authors argue these findings should serve as a wake-up call to the scientific community, which needs to act before the public loses confidence in the scientific process.

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That cat departed the bag some time ago.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, We're Living On Land Stolen From the Dinosaur! at September 03, 2025 09:06 AM (L/fGl)

269 The current head of the Ford Foundation is a black man, Darren Walker, who also happens to be gay. He will be stepping down from his role to run the Obama Foundation (?!).

Black and gay makes him possibly the most qualified candidate to run the Obama Foundation. Especially if he’s also married to a cross dressing linebacker.
Posted by: Ian S.


Or a chef.

Posted by: rickb223 at September 03, 2025 09:07 AM (FPR3/)

270 Sometimes it seems to me that every CEO and executive director is named Darren."

XOM says "hi"

Posted by: man at September 03, 2025 09:07 AM (tubbA)

271 May I suggest crying harder? That may work.
Posted by: NR Pax at September 03, 2025 08:57 AM (BpO1e)


I wonder if they've considered becoming a human shield on a drug smuggling boat. Maybe they could contact TdA and offer their services.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 03, 2025 09:07 AM (ExV1e)

272 So I've got that going for me, which is nice.
Posted by: man at September 03, 2025 09:05 AM (tubbA)
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Don't forget total enlightenment.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 03, 2025 09:07 AM (RIvkX)

273 O/T Mrs. F. finished her jury service and another criminal bit the dust yesterday.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 03, 2025 09:06 AM (RIvkX)



They still convict people in California? Were they a registered Republican or something?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 03, 2025 09:07 AM (Zz0t1)

274 Don't forget total enlightenment."

That got shipped off to Goodwill.

Posted by: man at September 03, 2025 09:08 AM (tubbA)

275 Will the Obama Foundation be headquartered at the abomination that is the Obama Library? Hopefully the whole thing collapses

Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 03, 2025 09:08 AM (1yw2U)

276 When I asked Enrich to elaborate on what he would do differently, he said, “This is a subject for a longer conversation that I’m not going to have over the holidays. Sorry.”
___________________

Classic left winger, demanding absolution without repentance

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at September 03, 2025 09:08 AM (Vi61D)

277
I enjoyed what I did. I flatter myself that I was good at it. But because I didn't manage money or turn a valve, I was considered superfluous by the girlboss CEO. Also, I was an older employee, the very kiss of death.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 03, 2025 09:08 AM (kkTda)

278 OT — I’ve recently gotten all fascinated again with the Alger Hiss case. I read Whittaker Chambers’ Witness 20 years ago or more…. But I stumbled onto a series of YouTube videos done by John Berresford which summarize the whole case amazingly well…. Hiss was as guilty as hell… what a contrast between the sauve Harvard man Hiss and the (literally) dirty smelly (but truthful) Chambers. You know… tailgunner Joe was not wrong!

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at September 03, 2025 09:09 AM (P/Wjn)

279 CNN: US military 'conducted a lethal strike' on alleged 'drug vessel' in southern Caribbean, Rubio says

there's a picture at CNN of the boat in sights. It's the size of a small fishing boat, but looks like it has powerful outboard motors and is going at speed. Sure, I'd suspect it was smuggling something, and drugs would be the obvious thing. But blowing it apart and killing 11 in international waters on suspicion, without an apparent attempt to capture it? Out of control authoritarianism.

That's usually how it's done with the Coast Guard's assistance, but it sounds like Whiskey Pete Kegbreath is trying to impress his boss.

The Epstein victims are publicly speaking out tomorrow. Coincidence? Not a chance. This was a lethal distraction

So now he's finally a war president? He's been salivating for military action for quite a while. There goes his Nobel Peace Prize.

A drug cartel ship is not a military target, unless this ship was literally bearing down on the US coast, the US military should not be engaging them - especially so far away from a US border. This is a law enforcement problem and not a military concern.

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at September 03, 2025 09:09 AM (JCZqz)

280 Will the Obama Foundation be headquartered at the abomination that is the Obama Library? Hopefully the whole thing collapses
Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 03, 2025 09:08 AM (1yw2U)

My understanding is that there will be a charge to get access to the library, just like it was with the Administration.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at September 03, 2025 09:10 AM (DJPFk)

281 279 A drug cartel ship is not a military target, unless this ship was literally bearing down on the US coast, the US military should not be engaging them - especially so far away from a US border. This is a law enforcement problem and not a military concern.
Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at September 03, 2025 09:09 AM (JCZqz)

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Repeal the authorization of military use for the War on Terror, then.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, growing up with John Hughes at September 03, 2025 09:10 AM (GBKbO)

282
A drug cartel ship is not a military target, unless this ship was literally bearing down on the US coast, the US military should not be engaging them - especially so far away from a US border. This is a law enforcement problem and not a military concern.
Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at September 03, 2025 09:09 AM (JCZqz)



Completely missing the fact that they've been declared a terrorist organization, changing the rules completely for hunting them down and killing them where they stand.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 03, 2025 09:10 AM (Zz0t1)

283
The Epstein victims are publicly speaking out tomorrow. Coincidence? Not a chance. This was a lethal distraction

I doubt it will be what they think it will

Posted by: It's me donna at September 03, 2025 09:10 AM (VE6XX)

284 Daskalakis ran the Biden administration’s weak response to the monkeypox outbreak — pushing to rename the illness “mpox” for reasons of political correctness.

Although he and other government experts were aware that the disease was spreading mostly via sex parties in the gay community, they chose to downplay that fact for fear of “stigma” and pretend that every American was equally at risk.

.. a little shame might go a long way to keep people from engaging in risky sex

Posted by: SMOD at September 03, 2025 09:10 AM (RHGPo)

285 Even if inheritance is small, passing people over leaves a bitter aftertaste.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 03, 2025 09:10 AM (FZc/T)

286 The Left didn’t blink an eye when Obama was droning American citizens.

Posted by: polynikes at September 03, 2025 09:11 AM (EYmYM)

287 disease was spreading mostly via sex parties in the gay community,"

Woof.

Posted by: man at September 03, 2025 09:11 AM (tubbA)

288 282 Completely missing the fact that they've been declared a terrorist organization, changing the rules completely for hunting them down and killing them where they stand.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 03, 2025 09:10 AM (Zz0t1)

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"Foreign drug smugglers who work for a declared terrorist organization with state backing need full due process in American courts," is an argument only Nick Gillespie could love.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, growing up with John Hughes at September 03, 2025 09:11 AM (GBKbO)

289 Is Graham Linehan British or Irish? Because I think he is a citizen of Ireland, not Britain.

Which means not only is Britain arresting its own people for saying things its government doesn't like...it is arresting foreigners for saying things it doesn't like on the internet.



Posted by: 18-1 at September 03, 2025 09:12 AM (sKqQm)

290 If you love what you do , retirement is a punishment.

Loved the work. Hated the job.

I've heard it said that nothing ruins a hobby faster than becoming a professional.

Posted by: Halfhand at September 03, 2025 09:13 AM (ayLqq)

291 The Epstein victims are publicly speaking out tomorrow.

Unless they're going to name abusers it's all bullshit.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 03, 2025 09:13 AM (ExV1e)

292 285 Even if inheritance is small, passing people over leaves a bitter aftertaste.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 03, 2025 09:10 AM (FZc/T)

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My dad has outlined, very clearly, to his children what our inheritances will be.

My eldest brother is the executor.

Not my father's wife (my step-mother).

For a reason.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, growing up with John Hughes at September 03, 2025 09:13 AM (GBKbO)

293 The Epstein victims are publicly speaking out tomorrow. Coincidence? Not a chance. This was a lethal distraction

I doubt it will be what they think it will
Posted by: It's me donna at September 03, 2025 09:10 AM (VE6XX)

Wonder if any are the proven liars determined during the first trial?

Posted by: polynikes at September 03, 2025 09:13 AM (EYmYM)

294 I'm noting that there was a lot of DU silence about the morality of hitting "non military targets" when Obama was doing his drone strikes but they find religion when it comes to drug dealers.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at September 03, 2025 09:14 AM (vt7xw)

295 Then you don’t love what you do . Is that too hard a concept for you?
Posted by: polynikes at September 03, 2025 09:00 AM (EYmYM)

Someone else said it further up. I love other things more.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at September 03, 2025 09:14 AM (tNkpt)

296
Mark Judge is our present-day Ancient Mariner, wandering the earth, telling his story over and over.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 03, 2025 09:14 AM (kkTda)

297 294 I'm noting that there was a lot of DU silence about the morality of hitting "non military targets" when Obama was doing his drone strikes but they find religion when it comes to drug dealers.
Posted by: WitchDoktor at September 03, 2025 09:14 AM (vt7xw)

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I'm just shocked they're not insisting it was a wedding party.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, growing up with John Hughes at September 03, 2025 09:14 AM (GBKbO)

298 .. a little shame might go a long way to keep people from engaging in risky sex

You'd think that, wouldn't you?

Posted by: Hope Solo's Globetrotting Squeakhole at September 03, 2025 09:14 AM (ufSfZ)

299
Although he and other government experts were aware that the disease was spreading mostly via sex parties in the gay community, they chose to downplay that fact for fear of “stigma” and pretend that every American was equally at risk


The FNM was absolutely desperate to prove this wasn't just another gay disease.

So...they flooded the story when a boy contracted it.

And then the internet found out about the boy's two dads. Who had it. And...that the dog had it too.

And suddenly the FNM did not want to talk about the boy and how in fact he had gotten the disease...

Posted by: 18-1 at September 03, 2025 09:15 AM (sKqQm)

300 A drug cartel ship is not a military target, unless this ship was literally bearing down on the US coast, the US military should not be engaging them - especially so far away from a US border. This is a law enforcement problem and not a military concern.
Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison


Repeal the authorization of military use for the War on Terror, then.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison


How is that german to the conversation?
Posted by: Dummies Unlimited

Posted by: rickb223 at September 03, 2025 09:16 AM (FPR3/)

301 Alcohol Consumption Hits Record Lows in U.S.

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Something wrong with Kamala?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, We're Living On Land Stolen From the Dinosaur! at September 03, 2025 09:16 AM (L/fGl)

302
I'm just shocked they're not insisting it was a wedding party.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, growing up with John Hughes at September 03, 2025 09:14 AM (GBKbO)



It was a kiddie boat from the Venezuelan Disneyland ride.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 03, 2025 09:16 AM (Zz0t1)

303 Retired in April. Wanted to work (IT consultant) another 16 months but the project I was working on was a) run by the worst customer project manager I had dealt with in 34 years as a consultant, and b) almost certainly never going to go live (see previous point). As it was, they had reached a stage where I was replaceable.

Posted by: Nazdar at September 03, 2025 09:16 AM (NcvvS)

304 301 Alcohol Consumption Hits Record Lows in U.S.

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Something wrong with Kamala?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, We're Living On Land Stolen From the Dinosaur! at September 03, 2025 09:16 AM (L/fGl)

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Good.

Maybe the stupid bourbon market will return to normal and I'll be able to find Blanton's in a store again.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, growing up with John Hughes at September 03, 2025 09:16 AM (GBKbO)

305 -
Something wrong with Kamala?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, We're Living On Land Stolen From the Dinosaur! at September 03, 2025 09:16 AM (L/fGl)



I mostly took last week off.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 03, 2025 09:16 AM (Zz0t1)

306
How is that german to the conversation?
Posted by: Dummies Unlimite

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Unrestricted U-boat warfare!

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 03, 2025 09:17 AM (kkTda)

307 Four candidates and two reserves from the right-wing AfD political party in Germany have dropped dead within 13 days of each other — just before elections, according to reports.

The Alternative for Deutschland candidates were set to appear on ballots in North Rhine-Westphalia on September 14.

Officials said no foul play is currently suspected in any of their deaths, the BBC reported.

Posted by: SMOD at September 03, 2025 09:17 AM (RHGPo)

308
They still convict people in California? Were they a registered Republican or something?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 03, 2025 09:07 AM (Zz0t1)

Living as a straight white male is itself illegal in the state.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at September 03, 2025 09:17 AM (tNkpt)

309 Sometimes it seems to me that every CEO and executive director is named Darren.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 03, 2025 09:04 AM (kkTda)
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You are simply bewitched.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at September 03, 2025 09:17 AM (ElQWS)

310 Regarding the drug smugglers hit...

Trump also mentioned creating a "buffer zone" inside Mexico where the US military would operate and conduct raids on the cartels in the area. He has not repeated it, but we are currently operating drones and intelligence aircraft over, or very near areas in Mexico where the cartels operate.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 03, 2025 09:18 AM (Q4IgG)

311 How is that german to the conversation?
Posted by: Dummies Unlimited

Posted by: rickb223 at September 03, 2025 09:16 AM (FPR3/)
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Sorry but I do not see your point.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at September 03, 2025 09:18 AM (ElQWS)

312 A propos of nothing, as a really small child, I thought it curious that Jesus would be referred to as the King of the Juice.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at September 03, 2025 09:18 AM (WvZaB)

313 Honestly, it kind of pisses me off that the Navy used an expensive missile to take out a boatload of drug thugs when gun camera footage from a restored P-47 trailing tracers into the boat at 500 yards would be so much more entertaining and cost effective.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at September 03, 2025 09:18 AM (pohLc)

314 a little shame might go a long way to keep people from engaging in risky sex

One thing to remember with things like AIDS or Monkeypox...they aren't just spread by anal sex...its specifically LOTS of anal sex with LOTS of new basically anonymous partners.

If the popular fiction of the gay couple that got married because they are in love and want to be exclusive sexually with each other were true these diseases still wouldn't spread...

I vaguely recall the gay male flight attendant that brought AIDS to the 1st world would often have anonymous sex with a pile of men at gay sex clubs, which is why it went from some obscure monkey disease in Africa to affecting thousands in Europe and the US.

Posted by: 18-1 at September 03, 2025 09:18 AM (sKqQm)

315 My dad has outlined, very clearly, to his children what our inheritances will be.

My eldest brother is the executor.

Not my father's wife (my step-mother).

For a reason.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, growing up with John Hughes at September 03, 2025 09:13 AM (GBKbO)

Can't be overstressed for situations like this: His Will, account titles/registrations, and beneficiary designations must all be checked for conformity with his stated intentions.

Posted by: Count de Monet at September 03, 2025 09:19 AM (wVcYX)

316 Clear and Present Danger 2: Tren de Aragua Boogaloo

Posted by: ShainS -- Clear and Present Danger 2: Tren de Aragua Boogaloo at September 03, 2025 09:19 AM (BtEeq)

317 I thought the story of the grooming gangs might be the "flashpoint." Then the 10th arrest of Tommy Robinson. Then arrest of the 14-year-old Scottish girl. Now the arrest of Linehan. Maybe the moral soil has gone too soggy in old Albion for any flashpoints.

Posted by: Ordinary American at September 03, 2025 09:19 AM (h/ffs)

318 A propos of nothing, as a really small child, I thought it curious that Jesus would be referred to as the King of the Juice.

He did turn water into wine which is arguably just more fun fruit juice...

Posted by: 18-1 at September 03, 2025 09:19 AM (sKqQm)

319
I vaguely recall the gay male flight attendant that brought AIDS to the 1st world would often have anonymous sex with a pile of men at gay sex clubs, which is why it went from some obscure monkey disease in Africa to affecting thousands in Europe and the US.

Posted by: 18-1 at September 03, 2025 09:18 AM (sKqQm)



Heh.

Posted by: Anthony Fauci at September 03, 2025 09:20 AM (Zz0t1)

320 Alcohol Consumption Hits Record Lows in U.S.




High cost of drinks at bars and elsewhere and crackdowns on DUI's. (Crackdowns were needed)

Three beers & tip at a NY ballpark = $72.

Yeah. I'm not drinking.

Posted by: rickb223 at September 03, 2025 09:20 AM (FPR3/)

321 A drug cartel ship is not a military target

==

A meme is born!

Posted by: runner at September 03, 2025 09:21 AM (g47mK)

322 I thought the story of the grooming gangs might be the "flashpoint." Then the 10th arrest of Tommy Robinson. Then arrest of the 14-year-old Scottish girl. Now the arrest of Linehan. Maybe the moral soil has gone too soggy in old Albion for any flashpoints.

They've been slow boiling this frog for a long time, and are now at the point where the frog isn't getting out no matter how hot it gets. I mean...he's got "free" healthcare in the pot. Who cares about these conspiracy theorists that think they are about to get boiled...

Posted by: 18-1 at September 03, 2025 09:21 AM (sKqQm)

323 >>.. a little shame might go a long way to keep people from engaging in risky sex

Have you seen pictures of Daskalaskis in his gay BSDM gear?

Shame is not in his vocabulary.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 03, 2025 09:21 AM (viF8m)

324 Officials said no foul play is currently suspected in any of their deaths, the BBC reported.
Posted by: SMOD at September 03, 2025 09:17 AM (RHGPo)

Oh, well if the BBC says there's nothing to see then it's nothing to be concerned about.

The BBC is not exactly a news organization.

Posted by: dantesed at September 03, 2025 09:21 AM (Oy/m2)

325
If the popular fiction of the gay couple that got married because they are in love and want to be exclusive sexually with each other were true

___________

It isn't. Basically, the whole Gay Marriage thing is a huge pack of lies.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 03, 2025 09:21 AM (kkTda)

326 Alcohol Consumption Hits Record Lows in U.S. ……

I assume weed and other drug use has increased.


Posted by: polynikes at September 03, 2025 09:22 AM (EYmYM)

327 I drink a lot less then I used to in large measure because I go out to social events/restaurants a lot less.

COVID restrictions killed off a lot of the normal social interactions people had...permanently.

Posted by: 18-1 at September 03, 2025 09:23 AM (sKqQm)

328 Longest I’ve ever been with an employer was 3.5 years. Lots of contracting along the way with full time gigs as well. Gun for hire kinda career. There will be no grand retirement day after a 40 year career with Company X or anything like that.

I’ll probably still do some consulting here and there after I stop working full time.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at September 03, 2025 09:23 AM (tNkpt)

329 Have you seen pictures of Daskalaskis in his gay BSDM gear?



He's fabulous! Rifff!

Posted by: Sam Brinton at September 03, 2025 09:24 AM (wVcYX)

330 Alcohol Consumption Hits Record Lows in U.S.

==

what about drug consumption, pot etc ?

Posted by: runner at September 03, 2025 09:24 AM (g47mK)

331 COVID restrictions killed off a lot of the normal social interactions people had...permanently.
Posted by: 18-1

BECAUSE SO MANY PEOPLE DIED FROM IT, YOU SEE. KEEP MASKING UP AND GETTING BOOSTED!!!

Posted by: EVIL MIRROR UNIVERSE BRANCH COVIDIAN BEN ROETHLISBERGER at September 03, 2025 09:25 AM (JCZqz)

332 Big Pot overtaken Big Grape and Big Rye ? Or have they merged ??

Posted by: runner at September 03, 2025 09:25 AM (g47mK)

333 332 Big Pot overtaken Big Grape and Big Rye ? Or have they merged ??
Posted by: runner

Big Vice.

Posted by: Moron Analyst at September 03, 2025 09:27 AM (JCZqz)

334 "Jasmine Crockett is the Jussie Smollett of AOCs."

OK, which one of you was that?

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 03, 2025 09:27 AM (ySpAZ)

335 BECAUSE SO MANY PEOPLE DIED FROM IT, YOU SEE. KEEP MASKING UP AND GETTING BOOSTED!!!

On a tangent from this I remember lefties gleefully predicting that since MAGAts wouldn't take the clot shot that's we'd die in such massive numbers it would make them win elections easily.

Now of course not only has Trump been elected...he's trying to get a new census which the left is fighting tooth and nail. Yet lefties still say things like the above...

Posted by: 18-1 at September 03, 2025 09:27 AM (sKqQm)

336 COVID restrictions killed off a lot of the normal social interactions people had...permanently.
Posted by: 18-1

BECAUSE SO MANY PEOPLE DIED FROM IT, YOU SEE. KEEP MASKING UP AND GETTING BOOSTED!!!
Posted by: EVIL MIRROR UNIVERSE BRANCH COVIDIAN BEN ROETHLISBERGER at September 03, 2025 09:25 AM (JCZqz)

The bodies are still piled high like cordwood at the county's "temporary" overflow cremation site. The burners are still going 24x7x365.

Posted by: Count de Monet at September 03, 2025 09:27 AM (wVcYX)

337 Alright ... Whiskey Pete Kegbreath is a pretty funnt nickname. It is rare that I find anything the left does funny, but this is pretty good

Posted by: Truck Monkey at September 03, 2025 09:28 AM (ycs3a)

338 Greta Thunberg update:

Prince Valiant called from the Middle Ages. He wants is hair style back.

Posted by: SMOD at September 03, 2025 09:29 AM (RHGPo)

339 Longest I’ve ever been with an employer was 3.5 years. Lots of contracting along the way with full time gigs as well. Gun for hire kinda career. There will be no grand retirement day after a 40 year career with Company X or anything like that.

I’ll probably still do some consulting here and there after I stop working full time.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald


I'm at 36.4 years with one company.

Posted by: rickb223 at September 03, 2025 09:30 AM (FPR3/)

340 I'm at 36.4 years with one company.
Posted by: rickb223 at September 03, 2025 09:30 AM (FPR3/)


Longer than me although I did spend some time with Uncle Sam's Canoe Club.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 03, 2025 09:31 AM (ExV1e)

341 Art

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 03, 2025 09:31 AM (ExV1e)

342 for the state to redistribute farmland
It's very, very illegal for the state to "redistribute" ANYTHING it doesn't actually own, in America. I hope they do it and then Trump can simply declare the entire state in violation of Article 4, Section 4 and arrest everyone involved.

Posted by: GWB at September 03, 2025 09:32 AM (RTQn+)

343 I'm at 36.4 years with one company.
Posted by: rickb223 at September 03, 2025 09:30 AM (FPR3/)

Didn’t you ever get the itch to see what else is out there?

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at September 03, 2025 09:32 AM (tNkpt)

344 John Daniel Davidson: It’s Time To Eradicate Transgenderism From Public Life

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Before they eradicate us from life.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, We're Living On Land Stolen From the Dinosaur! at September 03, 2025 09:32 AM (L/fGl)

345 338 Greta Thunberg update:

Prince Valiant called from the Middle Ages. He wants is hair style back.
Posted by: SMOD

I'd hit it.

Posted by: Anton Chigurh at September 03, 2025 09:33 AM (JCZqz)

346 Hiss was as guilty as hell… what a contrast between the sauve Harvard man Hiss and the (literally) dirty smelly (but truthful) Chambers. You know… tailgunner Joe was not wrong!
———

They were butt buddies. And so were Roy Cohn and Dave Schine, and the opposition alluded to faggotry on Sen. McCarthy for his part. Jeeze Louise is there anyone normal in Washington?

Posted by: Common Tater at September 03, 2025 09:33 AM (eQfh1)

347 I'm at 36.4 years with one company.
Posted by: rickb223 at September 03, 2025 09:30 AM (FPR3/)

Used to be the way and the path I tried to follow.
Used to be that you could do better staying in one place with all the extra benefit programs an employer had . Pension, stock discount, profit sharing, Etc.

Now it’s just about chasing the salary.

Posted by: polynikes at September 03, 2025 09:35 AM (EYmYM)

348 Jeeze Louise is there anyone normal in Washington?
Posted by: Common Tater at September 03, 2025 09:33 AM (eQfh1)

Define "normal"....

Posted by: GWB at September 03, 2025 09:35 AM (RTQn+)

349 Study: ADHD Meds Often Given Too Early to Preschoolers

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You've gotta calm those toddlers down or they're no end of trouble!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, We're Living On Land Stolen From the Dinosaur! at September 03, 2025 09:37 AM (L/fGl)

350 What’s wrong with chasing salary?

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at September 03, 2025 09:38 AM (tNkpt)

351 Her claim that illegal aliens are “constituents” brought a backlash on social media. Ansari responded to the backlash by affirming that she thinks illegal aliens are legal “constituents” to whom lawmakers need to cater.

Democrat Arizona Rep. Yassamin Ansari Calls Illegal Aliens Her ‘Constituents’


Considering Arizona is probably filled with hundreds of thousands of illegal aliens and most of them voted for her, she's probably correct that they are her constituents.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at September 03, 2025 09:40 AM (P5BPp)

352 The Epstein victims are publicly speaking out tomorrow. Coincidence? Not a chance. This was a lethal distraction
____

Epstein was in the changing room at Bergdorf's with Trump, and they assaulted me sexually!

*fans face with hand*

Posted by: E Jean Carroll at September 03, 2025 09:42 AM (Dv3i1)

353
Roy Cohn being homo or him shagging Baba Wawa?!



Oy what a choice?

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at September 03, 2025 09:48 AM (x0n13)

354 I'm at 36.4 years with one company.

Posted by: rickb223 at September 03, 2025 09:30 AM

Used to be the way and the path I tried to follow.
Used to be that you could do better staying in one place with all the extra benefit programs an employer had . Pension, stock discount, profit sharing, Etc.

Now it’s just about chasing the salary.


Posted by: polynikes at September 03, 2025 09:35 AM

It used to be that during downturns in the economy, the rule for headcount reduction for a company to save costs was "last in, first out". Meaning those with the least experience were cut and those with the most experience were kept to manage the lean times.

That made the most sense. However, the past 5-10 years, companies, specifically in the auto industry, have taken advantage of the Great Reset and have been cutting high-cost experienced employees and replaced them with outsourced, remote-working cheap labor in India, Mexico and people from India living in Canada.

There is no sense or loyalty in corporations' decisions anymore. May as well just chase salary.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at September 03, 2025 09:54 AM (P5BPp)

355 @343 I'm at 36.4 years with one company woman.


Didn’t you ever get the itch to see what else is out there?

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at September 03, 2025 09:56 AM (zdLoL)

356 Good morning, all, and thanks, J.J.

"Gavin Newsom's "agricultural equity" advisers are finalizing recommendations for the state to redistribute farmland to non-white Californians and Native American tribes through land transfers and financial assistance programs that exclusively benefit racial minorities."

Little value other than "control" & perhaps selling or leasing back someday.

Pigford 1, Pigford II, the Inflation Reduction Act (2022) - Farmers across the country, including those in California, were eligible to apply if they met the federal criteria for racial discrimination by the USDA.

Then: US News and World Report, 'California Gov. Gavin Newsom Vetoes Bill to Help Black Families Reclaim Taken Land' California Gov. Gavin Newsom has vetoed a bill that would have helped Black families reclaim or be compensated for land that was taken unjustly by the government through eminent domain, By Associated Press, Sept. 25, 2024

Can it be 'cause, 'Silicon Valley billionaires put plans for new California city on hold' as per the LA Times, July 22, 2024?

But a pause.

In part, "Until recently, California Forever, whose roster includes tech giants such as LinkedIn co-

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at September 03, 2025 10:01 AM (NFX2v)

357 founder Reid Hoffman and venture capitalist Marc Andreessen, appeared set on taking the proposal directly to local voters this fall.
...
He said his group would work with the county to complete an environmental review and development agreement over the next two years, then bring the package back to local voters for approval in 2026."

That and Data Centers dot com: California Data Centers Locations (372), 56 cities, 102 providers. BTW, Top 10 Colocation Providers include China Telecom.

In part, "About China Telecom
Headquartered in Herndon, Virginia, China Telecom Americas is the largest international subsidiary of China Telecom Corporation Limited, as well as the only authorized re-seller of domestic Chinese telecom products to North American companies. China Telecom Americas has offices in 31 countries, providing access to Chinese telecom network assets for customers in the United States, Canada and Latin America."

🤷‍♀️

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at September 03, 2025 10:02 AM (NFX2v)

358 Question: What do you call "key sectors" of the world's fourth-largest economy when they rely on illegal alien labor working for substandard wages, fewer benefits, and at greater risk of exploitation? I'd call it a crime. But in California, they call it "putting billions of dollars at risk" when President Donald Trump actually enforces the law.

CNBC Just Spilled the Awful Truth About California


"Key sectors" like the automotive industry have also been outsourcing engineering and product development work to cheap labor in India, Mexico and people from India living in Canada. They work remotely and are paid 1/5 to 1/4 what would be paid to an American engineer working in office in the same position. Also, since they are contract, the automotive companies pay them no benefits. Those have to be paid by the contract company.

This has been a result of the Great Reset. Everyone in USA pushing for remote work has just make it easier for companies to fire them and replace them with cheap labor, which can work remotely from anywhere in the world and for much, much less cost.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at September 03, 2025 10:09 AM (P5BPp)

359 @343 I'm at 36.4 years with one company woman.

Didn’t you ever get the itch to see what else is out there?


Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at September 03, 2025 09:56 AM

Grass isn't always greener...

That applies for both.

Speaking serious about the former, my goal was always to find a job I enjoyed doing every day, working with coworkers I liked and we helped each other perform our best and working for managers who appreciated my work and brought out the best in me.

If I find that job and the salary meets the lifestyle I want to live, I don't care what else is out there.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at September 03, 2025 10:13 AM (P5BPp)

360 It took a while to find the 76 year-old pothead woman who ran over the 7 year-old mulatto in Gastonia, NC, on May 27, 2025. DuckDuckGo was useless. Chat GPT was useless. Perplexity.AI was useless. I was forced to resort to Google. Shit.

https://tinyurl.com/Gastoni-Shit

Case #: 2025-00038846

Story: 76 year-old female pothead runs over and kills 7 year-old mulatto boy in front of 10 year-old brother ... parents charged with and convicted of manslaughter for not chaining their kids up to prevent them from wandering to the Subway Sandwich shop next to the Food Lion.

Posted by: Marooned at September 03, 2025 10:21 AM (kt8QE)

361 DARE2BESTOOPID: theDancingBrennanUNDEAD: Pinnacle of 9/10 thinking -- Trading Venezuela for Epstein Parallel Construction
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMhwddNQSWQ

Distract. Found more Vince Foster body parts that didn't fit in the rolled up carpet? What to do? A: Toss'm out the window, let the squirrels handle'm.

Gee what could go wrong?

Posted by: MANFRED the Heat Seeking OBOE at September 03, 2025 10:26 AM (DMbpg)

362 292 285 Even if inheritance is small, passing people over leaves a bitter aftertaste.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 03, 2025 09:10 AM (FZc/T)

=====

My dad has outlined, very clearly, to his children what our inheritances will be.

My eldest brother is the executor.

Not my father's wife (my step-mother).

For a reason.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, growing up with John Hughes at September 03, 2025 09:13 AM (GBKbO)

This crushed my wife after her father died.
His second wife took over everything and no one ever saw the will.
Her children had new houses within six months of him passing...

Posted by: Inogame at September 03, 2025 10:29 AM (53oGX)

363 "Story: 76 year-old female pothead runs over and kills 7 year-old mulatto boy in front of 10 year-old brother ... parents charged with and convicted of manslaughter for not chaining their kids up to prevent them from wandering to the Subway Sandwich shop next to the Food Lion."

Damn, the bitch even had pot on her when she hit the kid.

Posted by: pawn at September 03, 2025 10:32 AM (PmITa)

364 Unlikely Chelsea goes for a US Rep. seat in the city. >Politico, 9/3/25: 'Coming soon: A primary in the media capital of the world' With Rep. Jerry Nadler announcing he’ll step down, the jockeying for a replacement is on.
--
Mom was the 1st female U.S. Senator from New York. In laws were both U. S. Representatives of questionable character. And Dad was, is... Well, you know.

HubPages, 'Who are Chelsea Clinton's In-laws, Ed Mezvinsky and Marjorie Margolies?' Brie Hoffman, Updated Mar 2, 2019



Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at September 03, 2025 11:08 AM (NFX2v)

365 We don’t have to tolerate a demonic ideology that destroys lives, tears families apart, and keeps producing mass shooters. (Trans is just one head; the hydra itself is Leftism - jjs)

It’s Time To Eradicate Transgenderism From Public Life


Good luck with that.

Unless Bostock v. Clayton County (2020) is overturned, it's not going away.

Bostock declared "gender identity" a protected class in the USA.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at September 03, 2025 11:36 AM (P5BPp)

366 363 "Story: 76 year-old female pothead runs over and kills 7 year-old mulatto boy in front of 10 year-old brother ... parents charged with and convicted of manslaughter for not chaining their kids up to prevent them from wandering to the Subway Sandwich shop next to the Food Lion."

Damn, the bitch even had pot on her when she hit the kid.
Posted by: pawn at September 03, 2025 10:32 AM (PmITa)



Driver wasn't a Chassidic Jew and so Sharpton cannot be bothered.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at September 03, 2025 11:55 AM (x0n13)

367 9 I retire in exactly 100 days. Exciting milestone.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic

Two digit midget!

Posted by: waepnedmann at September 03, 2025 12:06 PM (HMHcI)

368 Governor Nuisance is becoming even more bigger of a total idiot then Moonbeam Brown and Fumble It Joe(Biden)then any others

Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at September 03, 2025 06:06 PM (wGqjj)

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