THE MORNING RANT: Perhaps the Populist Left is Finally Turning Against the “Philanthropaths”

A subject I return to periodically is the problem of “philanthropaths.” These are mega-rich sociopaths who are seeking to impose an anti-freedom, global tyranny on the rest of us, deploying their wealth toward their evil agenda in the name of “philanthropy.”

Left-wing political parties across the globe have generally embraced these Bond villains, since their causes tend to align. However, the growing working-class revolt in the western world may finally be causing some people who default to the left to re-think their tribes’ peculiar allegiance to the world’s richest people.

First, a little background. In a 2024 article in The Pipeline I wrote:

So who is funding Just Stop Oil and the Climate Emergency Fund? Its wealthy, left-wing benefactors include Rory Kennedy (daughter of the late Robert Kennedy), Abigail Disney, and co-founder oil heiress Aileen Getty, among others.

A few months ago in a Blaze article titled “Meet the Philanthropaths” I discussed the societal problem of having people with unfathomable wealth seeking to use their fortunes to upend western civilization.

Many of us on the political right once held a principled aversion to telling the ultra-wealthy how to spend their money. If billionaires wanted to build libraries, fund symphonies, or throw lavish parties, fine — they were reinvesting in society, directly or indirectly.
But that was before the rise of the modern “philanthropath,” a new breed of sociopathic billionaire using inherited or self-made fortunes to re-engineer civilization from the top down. These aren’t benevolent stewards. They’re ideological crusaders waging war on tradition, prosperity, and truth.

By their actions, it seems clear to me that Bill Gates, George Soros, the Walton family heirs, and plenty of others are working toward a one-world government that sees everyday people as a pestilence. World Economic Forum guru Yuval Noah Harari stated the ugly truth when he said, “We just don’t need the vast majority of the population.” He’s not referring to himself. He’s referring to you and me. Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker and his ~~brother~~ ~~sister~~ sibling Jennifer Pritzker have turned Illinois into a sanctuary state for mutilating children in service to the transgender agenda, stating that it’s “a continuation of my family’s tradition of putting personal philanthropy into service for the public good.”

With all that as a lead in, I was intrigued while driving recently and listening to Sirius’ Outlaw Country station when a song with the title “Philanthropist” by Jesse Welles popped up. Although I had never heard of Mr. Welles, I am a fan of Billy Strings, who contributes instrumentally to the song, which made me even more interested. The song is a blistering condemnation of the people I call “philanthropaths,” with lyrics including:

“If if I got bored or money-weary, I'd try my hand in dabbling in social engineering.”

“I'm gonna be a billionaire, with a big foundation. We used to rule in shadows but I'd come right out, and I'd rule the nation.”

“I'm gonna do all my own laundry in a third-world nation state. Experiment with the locals, like some philanthropic saint.”

This song is not conservative by any means, nor is Mr. Welles. He is politically unaffiliated, but he writes in the tradition of populist, left-wing protest singers like Woody Guthrie and Butch Hancock. The music press likens him to Oliver Anthony, who was made famous with his protest song, “Rich Men North of Richmond.” Many conservatives thought a singer mocking the Washington power structure must be Republican, but Mr. Anthony is not.

The good news is that the populist left may be turning on their billionaire benefactors. But much of MAGA’s strength comes from disaffected “deplorables” who have found a champion in Donald Trump. If the RINOs and Republican establishment eventually succeed in purging the GOP of Donald Trump’s blue-collar base, the populist left might be singing a welcoming tune to them.

Anyhow, here is Jesse Welles with “Philanthropist”

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My latest piece at The Blaze has been published. “Buc-ee’s Gets Rich by Doing Everything Wall Street Hates” discusses the amazing success story of Buc-ees, which is still owned by its founders. Buc-ees has developed a cult following by employing management practices that repudiate the cost-cutting, poorly staffed, poor-quality ethos that has consumed corporate C-suites and private equity.

Buc-ee's has enormous restrooms that are immaculately clean, cheap gas with often more than 100 pumps, a kitschy-fun shopping experience, and exceptional food — including Texas barbecue and an in-house bakery. In addition, it’s heavily staffed with low-turnover, career employees.
Buc-ee's still understands the power of the previous business model that Las Vegas abandoned: Provide a high-quality “loss leader” or two to get the customers in the door, and then provide high-margin products that entice them to open their wallets.

The piece is behind a paywall, but if you’re a Blaze subscriber, I’d be honored if you’d give it a read.

My latest piece at The Blaze discusses the Buc-ees business model and its fanatic customer loyalty, and how the company prospers by rejecting the toxic business model of Wall Street & private equity. https://t.co/a1lTVqLakS
— Buck Throckmorton (@BuckThrockmort) September 2, 2025

[buck.throckmorton at protonmail dot com]

Posted by: Buck Throckmorton at 11:00 AM

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1 Sponge!

Posted by: rickb223 at September 05, 2025 11:00 AM (VSujA)

2 1st

Posted by: GF at September 05, 2025 11:00 AM (jRlwL)

3 1st?

Posted by: Bulg at September 05, 2025 11:01 AM (77rzZ)

4 Nope, not first.

Posted by: Bulg at September 05, 2025 11:01 AM (77rzZ)

5 Yonder

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 05, 2025 11:01 AM (Q4IgG)

6 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 05, 2025 11:02 AM (Zz0t1)

7 Well

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at September 05, 2025 11:02 AM (hqSyT)

8 Cracker Barrel CEO is still being a stupid militant Karen.

There must be a great rectification.

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 05, 2025 11:03 AM (suaGp)

9 This song is not conservative by any means, nor is Mr. Welles. He is politically unaffiliated, but he writes in the tradition of populist, left-wing protest singers like Woody Guthrie and Butch Hancock.

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Eh...Guthrie was an outright communist who supported Stalin.

Does that mean he's still a populist?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a world of gods and monsters with James Whale at September 05, 2025 11:03 AM (GBKbO)

10 Buc-ee's still understands the power of the previous business model that Las Vegas abandoned: Provide a high-quality “loss leader” or two to get the customers in the door, and then provide high-margin products that entice them to open their wallets.

You know who else does that? HEB Grocery Store.

Ho. Lee. Shit. I was like a five yr old in a penny candy store with a dollar bill.

Posted by: rickb223 at September 05, 2025 11:03 AM (VSujA)

11 Ist grau ja?

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 05, 2025 11:03 AM (suaGp)

12 8 Cracker Barrel CEO is still being a stupid militant Karen.

There must be a great rectification.
Posted by: Anna Puma at September 05, 2025 11:03 AM (suaGp)

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They spent $700 million on the rebrand which go no further than the public reveal.

Almost a billion dollars.

She absolutely should be sued personally for misuse of shareholder funds.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a world of gods and monsters with James Whale at September 05, 2025 11:03 AM (GBKbO)

13 The music press likens him to Oliver Anthony, who was made famous with his protest song, “Rich Men North of Richmond.” Many conservatives thought a singer mocking the Washington power structure must be Republican, but Mr. Anthony is not.

I've always though that song sucked. Dude yells the entire time and it's annoying.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 05, 2025 11:04 AM (Zz0t1)

14 The Rainmakers' "Government Cheese" is a pretty good populist song.

Posted by: Frasier Crane at September 05, 2025 11:04 AM (bNf8H)

15 Pic going around on X of White House dinner with Gates and Zuckerberg seated at the table on either side of Trump and Melania. No idea if it is real, X posters seem to think so.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at September 05, 2025 11:05 AM (Dv3i1)

16 I don’t get the buccees thing. It’s a gas station at the end of the day. But whatevs, people love it and good for them for running a profitable business that gives customers what they want.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at September 05, 2025 11:05 AM (b3G0I)

17 Trump to officially rename Department of Defense as "Department of War"

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Well, I'd've preferred "Department of Kick Ass" but I guess you can't have everything.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Dinosaur Wrangler at September 05, 2025 11:06 AM (gDsTb)

18 I was just reading a thread on a left leaning forum complaining about how the very wealthy can minimize their tax liability and while the initial post and many comments have no understanding of taxes, high finance, or well, the mere basics of how an economy works every now and then one of them stumbles along the truth with something like;

"Well of course the tax system is going to benefit the people who the politicians and bureaucrats that write the tax code"

and...then they go off and rant about Trump or Musk but...so so close...

Posted by: 18-1 at September 05, 2025 11:06 AM (sKqQm)

19 >>ic going around on X of White House dinner with Gates and Zuckerberg
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It's real. Jut a summit on American AI dominance. Nothing nefarious.

Posted by: Frasier Crane at September 05, 2025 11:07 AM (bNf8H)

20 Buc-ee's still understands the power of the previous business model that Las Vegas abandoned: Provide a high-quality “loss leader” or two to get the customers in the door, and then provide high-margin products that entice them to open their wallets.

I've read where Buc-ee's pays cash for every new facility built, so there's no debt incurred, ever.

That dude is a f*cking genius.

Oh, and you can make in excess of $250k managing a store. You start at $18 an hour, I believe, and can truly work your way up to your own store. Buc-ee's isn't a job, its a damn career.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 05, 2025 11:07 AM (Zz0t1)

21 Willowed:
"LAX is spending a gajillion mostly federal tax dollars for renovations. Part of that is removing the iconic LAX sign as you drive in."

So it'll be Ex-LAX?

Posted by: Dark Litigator at September 05, 2025 11:07 AM (KAi1n)

22 The good news is that the populist left may be turning on their billionaire benefactors.
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Populists are of the devil. Or so I've read in National Review.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at September 05, 2025 11:07 AM (Dv3i1)

23 You know who else does that? HEB Grocery Store.

Ho. Lee. Shit. I was like a five yr old in a penny candy store with a dollar bill.
Posted by: rickb223 at September 05, 2025 11:03 AM (VSujA)

The new HEB's are teh shizznit.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 05, 2025 11:07 AM (Zz0t1)

24 Zuxk was invited to the inauguration. Remember his wandering eyes to Mrs Bezos’s titties? So yeah it’s not surprising he’d have dinner at the WH with OrangeManBad.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at September 05, 2025 11:08 AM (b3G0I)

25 Well, I'd've preferred "Department of Kick Ass" but I guess you can't have everything.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Dinosaur Wrangler at September 05, 2025 11:06 AM (gDsTb)

The movie ruined it for everyone.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 05, 2025 11:08 AM (Zz0t1)

26 philanthopath is a good word. very carrollian.

Posted by: gKWVE at September 05, 2025 11:09 AM (gKWVE)

27
Buc-ee's isn't a job, its a damn career.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 05, 2025 11:07 AM (Zz0t1)

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HQ in Lake Jackson, TX, about 20 miles south of us.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 05, 2025 11:09 AM (2mxw7)

28 Oh and another thing I see on lefty forums, occasionally someone will point out that explicitly leftwing billionaires are not living the way that they want everyone else to live - from Taylor Swift to Jeff Bezos*

The response is ALWAYS "well they are rich and doing important things we can't expect them to live like everyone else"

But don't worry someone will quickly bring up that some rightwing billionaire also doesn't and really he's the guy we should all hate

Posted by: 18-1 at September 05, 2025 11:09 AM (sKqQm)

29 Sheetz seems to also follow the Buc-Ees model and is likewise family owned.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at September 05, 2025 11:10 AM (h8SDH)

30 Washington, D.C. Sues Trump to Return to Its Crime-Ridden Traditions

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We want our hell hole and we want it now!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Dinosaur Wrangler at September 05, 2025 11:10 AM (gDsTb)

31 28 Oh and another thing I see on lefty forums, occasionally someone will point out that explicitly leftwing billionaires are not living the way that they want everyone else to live - from Taylor Swift to Jeff Bezos*

The response is ALWAYS "well they are rich and doing important things we can't expect them to live like everyone else"

But don't worry someone will quickly bring up that some rightwing billionaire also doesn't and really he's the guy we should all hate
Posted by: 18-1 at September 05, 2025 11:09 AM (sKqQm)

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Their ideals are just unattractive, so they have to build acceptance of hypocrisy into their political source code.

It's what they think we do regarding sexual mores and government representatives of the people.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a world of gods and monsters with James Whale at September 05, 2025 11:11 AM (GBKbO)

32 >>You know who else does that? HEB Grocery Store.

We have a similar grocery store chain around here, Dave's. Always running specials on staples but once you get into the place it's almost impossible to pass by their meat, produce, seafood or other fresh food areas without indulging.

Old strategy. It's the sections on the outside of the grocery store that make you money.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 05, 2025 11:11 AM (viF8m)

33 Washington, D.C. Sues Trump to Return to Its Crime-Ridden Traditions

Don't think of the Dems as soft on crime.

Think of them as the political wing of the crime syndicates and then everything makes sense

Posted by: 18-1 at September 05, 2025 11:11 AM (sKqQm)

34 Yeah TayTay flew a private jet from Japan to the US and back to see her boy toy play in the Super Bowl. When it was pointed out how much pollution that caused the left was all “well it was for a good reason and it’s Taylor so shut up racist”.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at September 05, 2025 11:11 AM (b3G0I)

35 Buc-ee's used to be a Texas thing.

Drove to Myrtle Beach from DFW a couple years ago. We only stopped at Buc-ee's for bio and fuel all but once on the way out.

They've expanded...a LOT.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 05, 2025 11:11 AM (Zz0t1)

36 The new HEB's are teh shizznit.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer

I left work at 4 yesterday. Got home at 7 because I stopped at the new one in Melissa.

Usually home by 5:54/6:00.

Posted by: rickb223 at September 05, 2025 11:11 AM (VSujA)

37 Trump may (or may not) realize that while Zuck and Gates sit at his table, they're working behind the scenes against him. I also doubt he fully grasps AI and the potential damage it could to if left to the likes of Zuck and Gates.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 05, 2025 11:12 AM (Q4IgG)

38 outside section

Not, you know, outside.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 05, 2025 11:12 AM (viF8m)

39 Eh...Guthrie was an outright communist who supported Stalin.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a world of gods and monsters with James Whale at September 05, 2025 11:03 AM

Not all Guthrie's are like that.

Posted by: Cybersmythe at September 05, 2025 11:12 AM (AnKDS)

40 Sheetz seems to also follow the Buc-Ees model and is likewise family owned.
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at September 05, 2025 11:10 AM (h8SDH)

Moar Sheetz means Moar Shitz.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 05, 2025 11:12 AM (Zz0t1)

41 >29 Sheetz seems to also follow the Buc-Ees model and is likewise family owned.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at September 05, 2025 11:10 AM (h8SDH)

WaWa has entered the chat.

Posted by: Heavy Meta at September 05, 2025 11:13 AM (GTqXr)

42
I left work at 4 yesterday. Got home at 7 because I stopped at the new one in Melissa.

Usually home by 5:54/6:00.
Posted by: rickb223 at September 05, 2025 11:11 AM (VSujA)

It was still under construction last time I was through there. Isn't it by the Melissa Buc-ee's?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 05, 2025 11:13 AM (Zz0t1)

43 It's the sections on the outside of the grocery store that make you money.
Posted by: JackStraw

You a cop, ese?

Posted by: that shady guy outside the HEB at September 05, 2025 11:13 AM (gKWVE)

44
I wonder if some businesses will increasingly choose to remain private rather than going public and becoming slaves of financialization.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 05, 2025 11:13 AM (2mxw7)

45 29 Sheetz seems to also follow the Buc-Ees model and is likewise family owned.
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I've learned that Sheetz doesn't sell industry designated TOP TIER™ gasoline, which is recommended for many cars. Read your manual. I'm disappointed.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at September 05, 2025 11:14 AM (Dv3i1)

46 I think the USAID scandal exposed the fact that these mega-rich urticaria are very stingy when it comes to donating their own money.

Just like we found out with that Soros ghast, the vast majority of this "donated" money was really our money laundered through USAID and the rest.

Shutting down USAID was a major stab at the very (black) heart of the entire Democrap machine. I don't think we can really predict how this will all shape out.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 05, 2025 11:14 AM (iFTx/)

47 If not that most of these sociopaths are using wrath they inherited and didn’t earn. IMHO that is the main reason they are sociopaths or psychopaths.

Idle rich hands are the devil’s playground.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable at September 05, 2025 11:14 AM (17s+e)

48 I occasionally wish I had millions or billions of dollars to blow… even though I know that money can’t buy happiness or contentment.

But I know my tastes are simple; if in a swoop I had $200M dollars I probably wouldn’t do anything more than buy a nice modest house for each child…. Pretty sure I wouldn’t even buy a new car. I certainly wouldn’t give any money to fake charities… my tithe to my church would go way up.

Oh…, and I’d immediately put in my 2 week retirement notice at work

People like Bill Gates befuddle me…. I do not want to control others. With his wealth I’d retire and enjoy my family… I would not try to “save the world”

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at September 05, 2025 11:14 AM (nrfI8)

49
Not all Guthrie's are like that.
Posted by: Cybersmythe at September 05, 2025 11:12 AM (AnKDS)

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You would say that.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 05, 2025 11:14 AM (2mxw7)

50 Buc-ee's business model is spreading. I stopped for gas outside Victoria, TX two weeks ago, heading to Houston. It was a place called The Texan. I hadn't seen highway signs for it; first gas station outside Victoria and I needed gas. The restroom was spotless, about a third the size of a Buc-ee's. I was amazed. I didn't buy anything inside but it had a huge assortment of cold drinks, snack food, and pre-made sammiches. Much smaller interior than a Buc-ee's. At least 40 gas pumps. I don't know if it one of a chain.

Posted by: Gref at September 05, 2025 11:14 AM (aBgBM)

51 I don’t get the buccees thing. It’s a gas station at the end of the day. But whatevs, people love it and good for them for running a profitable business that gives customers what they want.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald

It's a 7-11 without the crack ho's, thots, Methican Americans, drug dealers, pick pockets, murderers & methodists.

Posted by: rickb223 at September 05, 2025 11:15 AM (VSujA)

52 This barely got any coverage since everyone was screeching about Medicaid. But the big beautiful bill forbids states from imposing AI restrictions. Only the feds can do that.

A yuuuuge giveaway to Zuck, Gates and the rest of the tech oligarchs.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at September 05, 2025 11:15 AM (b3G0I)

53 I question the timing!

R A W S A L E R T S@rawsalertsI'm
#BREAKING: ICE agents are now officially set to surge into Chicago Illinois imminently as part of an immigration crackdown this move comes in addition to the National Guard
. . . .
Also the timing might be turn little spicy as multiple large Mexican Independence Day parades are scheduled around the city too

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Dinosaur Wrangler at September 05, 2025 11:15 AM (gDsTb)

54 wrath they inherited

Inherited wrath is bad.

Posted by: Bulg at September 05, 2025 11:15 AM (77rzZ)

55 I've read where Buc-ee's pays cash for every new facility built, so there's no debt incurred, ever.

That dude is a f*cking genius.

Oh, and you can make in excess of $250k managing a store. You start at $18 an hour, I believe, and can truly work your way up to your own store. Buc-ee's isn't a job, its a damn career.
Posted by: Sponge
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Debt leverage is usually what happens with the inevitable growth slows and the founders cash out via IPOs or acquisition by private equity. Then the rot begins.

Posted by: whig at September 05, 2025 11:15 AM (WDjG6)

56 51 It's a 7-11 without the crack ho's, thots, Methican Americans, drug dealers, pick pockets, murderers & methodists.
Posted by: rickb223 at September 05, 2025 11:15 AM (VSujA)

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And consistently clean, and very large, bathrooms.

Plus a jerky wall.

Did I mention the jerky wall?

I like the jerky wall.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a world of gods and monsters with James Whale at September 05, 2025 11:15 AM (GBKbO)

57 Drove to Myrtle Beach from DFW a couple years ago. We only stopped at Buc-ee's for bio and fuel all but once on the way out.

They've expanded...a LOT.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 05, 2025 11:11 AM (Zz0t1)
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A new one just opened up near Springfield, MO recently.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 05, 2025 11:17 AM (7fElN)

58 People like Bill Gates befuddle me…. I do not want to control others.
Posted by: LinusVanPelt

I'm too much of a misanthrope to want control over other people.

Posted by: Bulg at September 05, 2025 11:17 AM (77rzZ)

59 Buc-ee's used to be a Texas thing.

Drove to Myrtle Beach from DFW a couple years ago. We only stopped at Buc-ee's for bio and fuel all but once on the way out.

They've expanded...a LOT.
Posted by: Sponge

If you stop at the one on I40 in TN, lay on the horn and I'll run over to say Hey.

Posted by: Tonypete at September 05, 2025 11:17 AM (cYBz/)

60 In the west there is a chain called Maverick. It’s not on the scale of buccees but same concept. Clean stores and specifically bathrooms, pretty good food options. They’re popping up all over the place.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at September 05, 2025 11:17 AM (b3G0I)

61

Plus a jerky wall.

Did I mention the jerky wall?

I like the jerky wall.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a world of gods and monsters with James Whale at September 05, 2025 11:15 AM (GBKbO)

We deep fried the Buc-ee's Ghost Pepper Jerky at the TxMoMe last year. We will likely do it again this year.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 05, 2025 11:17 AM (Zz0t1)

62 I *hope* that Trump's engagement of Bill Gates is more along the lines of "Keep your enemies closer".

Posted by: Axeman at September 05, 2025 11:17 AM (9eaV3)

63 52 This barely got any coverage since everyone was screeching about Medicaid. But the big beautiful bill forbids states from imposing AI restrictions. Only the feds can do that.

A yuuuuge giveaway to Zuck, Gates and the rest of the tech oligarchs.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald
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50 state regulation of AI is exactly what the commerce clause is for. What it does is also prevent oligarchs from creating their own home cooked donation funded hindrances via funding state legislators to their competitors.

Some things have to be regulated at the national level and AI is probably one of those things because borders mean little to electrons.

Posted by: whig at September 05, 2025 11:17 AM (WDjG6)

64
It's a 7-11 without the crack ho's, thots, Methican Americans, drug dealers, pick pockets, murderers & methodists.
Posted by: rickb223 at September 05, 2025 11:15 AM (VSujA)

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They are clean, well stocked, good coffee and immaculate rest rooms. They cater to their customers, which is increasingly rare in American businesses, who usually cater to the MBAs.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 05, 2025 11:18 AM (2mxw7)

65
If you stop at the one on I40 in TN, lay on the horn and I'll run over to say Hey.

Posted by: Tonypete at September 05, 2025 11:17 AM (cYBz/)

BET!

I'll have to remember that.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 05, 2025 11:18 AM (Zz0t1)

66 I occasionally wish I had millions or billions of dollars to blow… even though I know that money can’t buy happiness or contentment.

People that say that don't know where to shop.

Not having to worry about money, (literally anything - everything is taken care of forever) allows you to purchase freedom and peace.

Not a cash transaction, no. But never having to worry about anything ever again? Yeah.

Posted by: rickb223 at September 05, 2025 11:18 AM (VSujA)

67 57 Drove to Myrtle Beach from DFW a couple years ago. We only stopped at Buc-ee's for bio and fuel all but once on the way out.

They've expanded...a LOT.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 05, 2025 11:11 AM (Zz0t1)
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A new one just opened up near Springfield, MO recently.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 05, 2025 11:17 AM (7fElN)

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There are now 3 on I-95 from South Carolina to Daytona.

A new one opened about 45 miles north of the GA/FL border.

They need to build one in SC. That stretch of 85 miles from the GA border to 26 is just...devoid of anything.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a world of gods and monsters with James Whale at September 05, 2025 11:18 AM (GBKbO)

68 61 We deep fried the Buc-ee's Ghost Pepper Jerky at the TxMoMe last year. We will likely do it again this year.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 05, 2025 11:17 AM (Zz0t1)

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I mean...I'd eat it.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a world of gods and monsters with James Whale at September 05, 2025 11:19 AM (GBKbO)

69
I mean...I'd eat it.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a world of gods and monsters with James Whale at September 05, 2025 11:19 AM (GBKbO)

It was surprisingly good.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 05, 2025 11:20 AM (Zz0t1)

70 The notion of a "philanthropath" isn't all that new (the word is). As on so many other things, Chesterton saw it coming over a century ago. Even then, he saw them using contributions to remake the poor in the image they wished.

Posted by: Eeyore at September 05, 2025 11:20 AM (s0JqF)

71 50 state regulation of AI is exactly what the commerce clause is for. What it does is also prevent oligarchs from creating their own home cooked donation funded hindrances via funding state legislators to their competitors.

Some things have to be regulated at the national level and AI is probably one of those things because borders mean little to electrons.
Posted by: whig at September 05, 2025 11:17 AM (WDjG6)
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We're having a lot of fun with AI in education right now since Google Chrome added a "Homework Help" (Google Lens) feature to their browser. Now students can go into their Learning Management System, go to the homework and quizzes and use "Homework Help" to immediately get the answer. Yay!

Needless to say, the tech support in higher ed and professors are freaking out about this advancement.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 05, 2025 11:20 AM (7fElN)

72 >58 People like Bill Gates befuddle me…. I do not want to control others.
Posted by: LinusVanPelt

I'm too much of a misanthrope to want control over other people.

Posted by: Bulg at September 05, 2025 11:17 AM (77rzZ)

Gates is a creep, and if not an outright pedo, he's pedo-adjacant.

Posted by: Heavy Meta at September 05, 2025 11:20 AM (GTqXr)

73 34
‘ Yeah TayTay flew a private jet from Japan to the US and back to see her boy toy play in the Super Bowl.’

I wouldn’t have even known that if you hadn’t posted it.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at September 05, 2025 11:20 AM (jbnUc)

74 Uh oh.

Bob Dylan, Gene Simmons Power “Reagan” Soundtrack

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Dinosaur Wrangler at September 05, 2025 11:20 AM (gDsTb)

75 We made a special trip to the Buc' ees in Richmond, KY a couple years ago. At the time it was the only one in the state.

Now, I believe there are 3. None "close."

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 05, 2025 11:21 AM (Q4IgG)

76
Gates is a creep, and if not an outright pedo, he's pedo-adjacant.
Posted by: Heavy Meta at September 05, 2025 11:20 AM (GTqXr)

He's a Bond villain and should be nuked from space, just to be sure.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 05, 2025 11:21 AM (Zz0t1)

77 Not a cash transaction, no. But never having to worry about anything ever again? Yeah.
Posted by: rickb223 at September 05, 2025 11:18 AM (VSujA

Only difference is that instead of worrying how you're going to pay for stuff, you now worry about who's going to screw you out of the pile of money that you now solely rely on for survival.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 05, 2025 11:21 AM (Vq1pX)

78 61 We deep fried the Buc-ee's Ghost Pepper Jerky at the TxMoMe last year. We will likely do it again this year.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 05, 2025 11:17 AM (Zz0t1)

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I mean...I'd eat it.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a world of gods and monsters with James Whale at September 05, 2025 11:19 AM (GBKbO)
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Hmmm. Maybe we should have a taste competition for the best deep-fried Buc-ee's beef jerky...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 05, 2025 11:21 AM (7fElN)

79 People that say that don't know where to shop.

Not having to worry about money, (literally anything - everything is taken care of forever) allows you to purchase freedom and peace.

Not a cash transaction, no. But never having to worry about anything ever again? Yeah.
Posted by: rickb223 at September 05, 2025 11:18 AM (VSujA)

I agree with you. My dad used to joke about a song from the 50s he liked with the lyrics: Your lovin’ gives me thrills but your lovin’ don’t pay the bills. I need some money 🎶

Truth

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at September 05, 2025 11:22 AM (nrfI8)

80 Isn't Arlo Guthrie kinda, sorta conservative?

Posted by: Bulg at September 05, 2025 11:22 AM (77rzZ)

81 69
I mean...I'd eat it.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a world of gods and monsters with James Whale at September 05, 2025 11:19 AM (GBKbO)

It was surprisingly good.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 05, 2025 11:20 AM (Zz0t1)

You did a food experiment on folks at a TXMoMe? Aiiiieeeeeee!!! Imma gonna keep my eye on you from now on!

Posted by: Gref at September 05, 2025 11:22 AM (aBgBM)

82 Read your manual. I'm disappointed.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at September 05, 2025 11:14 AM (Dv3i1)

Read the manual? Have you seen that thing? It takes up the whole "glove" box.

Posted by: Reforger at September 05, 2025 11:23 AM (CjwnQ)

83
You did a food experiment on folks at a TXMoMe? Aiiiieeeeeee!!! Imma gonna keep my eye on you from now on!

Posted by: Gref at September 05, 2025 11:22 AM (aBgBM)

I blame Doof.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 05, 2025 11:23 AM (Zz0t1)

84 Thx Buck. The wealthy come up with a new product or service which makes them wealthy. Or they inherited their wealth. Either way they think it makes them brilliant at everything including how the human race exists. Arrogance meet Nemesis

Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 05, 2025 11:23 AM (Ah2Jt)

85 62 I *hope* that Trump's engagement of Bill Gates is more along the lines of "Keep your enemies closer".
Posted by: Axeman
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Trump is a natural triangulator--no permanent enemies normally and no permanent allies. Aka the Dealmaker. This was one of the most feared things by the Right before and after he became president. And he still gets criticism from true believers in this or that (see the Tranny ban on firearms for example). But he has deeper principles governing that he sees an objective in the distance such as disentangling foreign power and influence over the US and then adapts tactical approaches like a sailor sailing into the wind using tacking back and forth. Same with being a intl peacemaker and getting us out of permanent wars, trying to solve the debt bomb by killing regulations, spurring growth, and full employment rather than austerity per se.

True believers in any cause hate this approach because it seems to be sacrificing principles constantly but they ignore the fact that massive disruptions in policy only come about from a calamity usually and Trump is trying to avoid that circumstance while fixing the ship of state.

Posted by: whig at September 05, 2025 11:23 AM (WDjG6)

86 You did a food experiment on folks at a TXMoMe? Aiiiieeeeeee!!! Imma gonna keep my eye on you from now on!

Posted by: Gref at September 05, 2025 11:22 AM (aBgBM)
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CBD conducts psychological profiling experiments on us 5 days a week on the "Art" Thread.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 05, 2025 11:23 AM (7fElN)

87 People like Bill Gates befuddle me…. I do not want to control others.

Posted by: LinusVanPelt
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You have learned humility, Bill Gates has not.

As a Christian, I thank the Lord I am not the judge of anybody.

Posted by: Axeman at September 05, 2025 11:24 AM (9eaV3)

88 I occasionally wish I had millions or billions of dollars to blow… even though I know that money can’t buy happiness or contentment.

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Shoot, a fella' could have a pretty good weekend in Vegas with all that stuff.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Dinosaur Wrangler at September 05, 2025 11:24 AM (gDsTb)

89 My father used to say “I wish these companies would go back to making a profit instead of doing things for me. Because that is costing me too much money.”

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable at September 05, 2025 11:24 AM (17s+e)

90 ----
Hmmm. Maybe we should have a taste competition for the best deep-fried Buc-ee's beef jerky...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 05, 2025 11:21 AM (7fElN)

I'm guessing we'd just have to wait for the Bacon Wench to finish her rounds.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 05, 2025 11:24 AM (Zz0t1)

91 Buc-ee's opened up in our area, Shenandoah Valley near Harrisonburg, VA.

A nice place to rest while battling insane trucks on I-81...

Posted by: Diabeetus at September 05, 2025 11:25 AM (fq8Zx)

92 One of very few things I miss about CO was our proximity to the Buc-ees in Johnstown. I was thrilled to learn that Meridian ID will be getting one in the near future.

Posted by: Mikey Alpha Kilo at Werk at September 05, 2025 11:25 AM (PSEDc)

93 Thx Buck. The wealthy come up with a new product or service which makes them wealthy. Or they inherited their wealth. Either way they think it makes them brilliant at everything including how the human race exists. Arrogance meet Nemesis
Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 05, 2025 11:23 AM (Ah2Jt)

See:

Mark Cuban

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 05, 2025 11:25 AM (Zz0t1)

94 Willowed:
"LAX is spending a gajillion mostly federal tax dollars for renovations. Part of that is removing the iconic LAX sign as you drive in."

So it'll be Ex-LAX?
Posted by: Dark Litigator at September 05, 2025 11:07 AM (KAi1n)

Heh!

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 05, 2025 11:25 AM (pjBYi)

95
In Brazoria County, home of Buc-ee's, we have:

4 in Lake Jackson
2 in Angleton
1 in Brazoria
1 in Alvin
1 in Pearland

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 05, 2025 11:25 AM (2mxw7)

96 84 Thx Buck. The wealthy come up with a new product or service which makes them wealthy. Or they inherited their wealth. Either way they think it makes them brilliant at everything including how the human race exists. Arrogance meet Nemesis
Posted by: Smell the Glove
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Not much different among the Thinkers in Academe. Expert in one field does not constitute expertise in another. And a consensus of such experts simply means that the consensus is the lowest common denominator agreement of what truth is in a matter. Not that it actually is true.

We are indeed made of crooked timbers.

Posted by: whig at September 05, 2025 11:25 AM (WDjG6)

97 86 You did a food experiment on folks at a TXMoMe? Aiiiieeeeeee!!! Imma gonna keep my eye on you from now on!

Posted by: Gref at September 05, 2025 11:22 AM (aBgBM)
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CBD conducts psychological profiling experiments on us 5 days a week on the "Art" Thread.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 05, 2025 11:23 AM (7fElN)

Yeah, but he's a Certified and Licensed CoB. If you can't trust him to not corrupt your mind, who can you trust?????

Posted by: Gref at September 05, 2025 11:26 AM (aBgBM)

98 Maryland is for the little people.

Daily Mail US@Daily_MailUS
Damning photos burn top Democrat Maryland Gov. Wes Moore's 2028 plans to the ground as he's busted half-naked on kingmaker George Clooney's luxury yacht in ITALY while his 'hellhole' state faces crime apocalypse

https://is.gd/0OzjQl

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Dinosaur Wrangler at September 05, 2025 11:27 AM (gDsTb)

99 I know what these rich philanthropists are doing but why? White guilt? Do they want to honestly try and improve the world? Boredom? What ?

Posted by: anon2020 at September 05, 2025 11:27 AM (RqMDa)

100 98 Maryland is for the little people.

Daily Mail US@Daily_MailUS
Damning photos burn top Democrat Maryland Gov. Wes Moore's 2028 plans to the ground as he's busted half-naked on kingmaker George Clooney's luxury yacht in ITALY while his 'hellhole' state faces crime apocalypse

https://is.gd/0OzjQl
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Dinosaur Wrangler at September 05, 2025 11:27 AM (gDsTb)

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Wes Moore was the Deval Patrick of 2028.

He never had a chance no matter what. And Moore is actually a far worse politician than Patrick.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a world of gods and monsters with James Whale at September 05, 2025 11:28 AM (GBKbO)

101 I've learned that Sheetz doesn't sell industry designated TOP TIER™ gasoline, which is recommended for many cars. Read your manual. I'm disappointed.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at September 05, 2025 11:14 AM (Dv3i1)

Meh, marketing hype.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 05, 2025 11:28 AM (pjBYi)

102 Trumps weakness to this day is still being impressed by credentials or status. It’s why he has Gates and Zuck over for dinner. And why his cabinet is populated heavily by Ivy League grads.

A lot of that is a function of his age. Up until the 90sish someone like Gates or Zuck would have been an industrialist who built an empire , provided good paying jobs for employees and contributed positively to society. He still sees those traits in Zuck when in fact Zuck has done all he can to destroy society.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at September 05, 2025 11:29 AM (b3G0I)

103 What is the sole advantage of dating Chelsea Clinton?

She's so ugly that if she gives you head it also counts as getting anal.

Posted by: Tasteless Joke of the Day at September 05, 2025 11:29 AM (qpyNK)

104 Yeah, but he's a Certified and Licensed CoB.
Posted by: Gref

I wonder what kind of CPE the CoBs have to attend to keep their certification and license.

Posted by: Bulg at September 05, 2025 11:29 AM (77rzZ)

105 I love the wall of chocolate covered peanuts cashews etc at Bucee’s…. Goes great with a hot BBQ sandwich. I always gain a few pounds at that place

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at September 05, 2025 11:29 AM (nrfI8)

106 Buc-ee’s makes their own fudge and bbq.

Posted by: Eromero at September 05, 2025 11:30 AM (jgmnb)

107 In Brazoria County, home of Buc-ee's, we have:

4 in Lake Jackson
2 in Angleton
1 in Brazoria
1 in Alvin
1 in Pearland
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

Love the one in Waller on County Line Rd.

Posted by: rickb223 at September 05, 2025 11:30 AM (VSujA)

108 98 Maryland is for the little people.

Daily Mail US@Daily_MailUS
Damning photos burn top Democrat Maryland Gov. Wes Moore's 2028 plans to the ground as he's busted half-naked on kingmaker George Clooney's luxury yacht in ITALY while his 'hellhole' state faces crime apocalypse

https://is.gd/0OzjQl

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Dinosaur Wrangler at September 05, 2025 11:27 AM (gDsTb)

Were the photos leaked to the media by an unknown? If so, the DNC must already be culling the herd.

Posted by: Gref at September 05, 2025 11:30 AM (aBgBM)

109 One world government..

Small group of ultra wealthy "elites" make up a World Council.
That's maybe 1000 people who are the wealthiest, best educated, most elite scum of the earth.
This group is divided in to smaller groups. Each of the smaller groups represents one continent. Each smaller group has several even smaller groups that "represent" each country of that continent.
Sooo.... 1000 member World Council is divided into six Continental Councils. Continental Councils are made up of "representatives" for each country. Every country gets the same number of representatives as all other countries.
Each Continental Council " elects" a chairman. Those six chairmen are known as the Brethren.
The Brethren Council rules the World Council. They will be the scion of the wealthiest, most evil families on earth. They will rule the world.

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at September 05, 2025 11:30 AM (2J/Lj)

110 106 Buc-ee’s makes their own fudge and bbq.
Posted by: Eromero at September 05, 2025 11:30 AM (jgmnb)

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FRESH MEAT ON THE BOARD!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a world of gods and monsters with James Whale at September 05, 2025 11:30 AM (GBKbO)

111 Daily Mail US@Daily_MailUS
Damning photos burn top Democrat Maryland Gov. Wes Moore's 2028 plans to the ground as he's busted half-naked on kingmaker George Clooney's luxury yacht in ITALY while his 'hellhole' state faces crime apocalypse

https://is.gd/0OzjQl
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Dinosaur Wrangler at September 05, 2025 11:27 AM (gDsTb)

A man, shirtless, in shorts, on a yacht during the summer?

OMG!!!!!! *lights hair on fire*

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 05, 2025 11:30 AM (Zz0t1)

112 I have no doubt Bucee's hiring practices do not include handing out no-work jobs to endless gaggles of DEI retards. I also have no doubt the company's philanthropic practices do not include giving millions in shakedown money to BLM and the rest of the grifters.

Which means the company will ultimately become a target to be infiltrated and destroyed like all the rest. Or it will be sued into oblivion. MAGA's ascendency probably delayed this a while, but you can count on a Democrap DOJ to go after the company.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 05, 2025 11:31 AM (iFTx/)

113 Buc-ee's is an amazing place. I wish we had some on the east coast. Their bathrooms are nicer than I saw on some cruise ships. I have tiled a shit ton of bathrooms in my time, and even the tile work in a buc-ee's bathroom is top notch. The first time I was in one people probably thought I was out of my frigging mind. I was checking the walls like an archaeologist. Perfect tile lines, perfect grout lines, perfect tile layout. It was far beyond things I saw in a commercial settings. That was some serious attention to detail, they definitely don't hire dudes hanging in home depot parking lots.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at September 05, 2025 11:31 AM (snZF9)

114
FRESH MEAT ON THE BOARD!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a world of gods and monsters with James Whale at September 05, 2025 11:30 AM (GBKbO)

Brisket.....fresh brisket.....or sausage......or turkey......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 05, 2025 11:31 AM (Zz0t1)

115 By their actions, it seems clear to me that Bill Gates, George Soros, the Walton family heirs, and plenty of others are working toward a one-world government that sees everyday people as a pestilence.
——-

Keep in mind attitudes are contagious. These beliefs spread through propaganda in the media, entertainment and education. Relentless repetition and censorship of any opposing views.

So it should not be surprising when we ALSO hear “everyday people” (apologies to Sly and the Family Stone) parroting the same view point. They hate themselves first, but they have offloaded their self-loathing, externalized it to hate humanity generally and are supportive of policies, laws, rules that are inherently anti-human.

From a practical psychological standpoint it makes for a misanthropic type of cynic. You can’t reason with people who get that far off the beam.

Posted by: Common Tater at September 05, 2025 11:31 AM (8JbE1)

116 I think it was Trump's ego at the dinner with Zuck and Gates. It's still a monster on his shoulder. And people in and outside of his administration know how to manipulate it.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 05, 2025 11:31 AM (Q4IgG)

117
I thought there were API standards for gasoline. Your roadside place sells stuff at standard, which won't hurt your engine. Anything above that is hype.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 05, 2025 11:31 AM (2mxw7)

118 These are mega-rich sociopaths who are seeking to impose an anti-freedom, global tyranny on the rest of us, deploying their wealth toward their evil agenda in the name of “philanthropy.”
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Well said, Buck. And I hate them.

Posted by: scampydog at September 05, 2025 11:32 AM (2bFN5)

119 Were the photos leaked to the media by an unknown? If so, the DNC must already be culling the herd.

Posted by: Gref at September 05, 2025 11:30 AM (aBgBM)

Newsom, probably.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 05, 2025 11:33 AM (i24o9)

120 116 I think it was Trump's ego at the dinner with Zuck and Gates. It's still a monster on his shoulder. And people in and outside of his administration know how to manipulate it.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 05, 2025 11:31 AM (Q4IgG)

Keep your friends close and your enemies closer

Posted by: It's me donna at September 05, 2025 11:33 AM (VE6XX)

121
Love the one in Waller on County Line Rd.
Posted by: rickb223 at September 05, 2025 11:30 AM (VSujA)

_________

Regular stop heading up to Navasota. HM stops at the one in Ennis when going through Dallas.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 05, 2025 11:34 AM (2mxw7)

122 Putin, Xi Caught Casually Chatting About Using Other People’s Organs to Become Immortal

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I mean, they've got plenty of donors in the concentration camps.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Dinosaur Wrangler at September 05, 2025 11:34 AM (gDsTb)

123 106 Buc-ee’s makes their own fudge and bbq.

Posted by: Eromero at September 05, 2025 11:30 AM (jgmnb)

My problem with Buc-ee's is practically none of their good stuff is on my diet list. Simply waling to/from the restroom makes me salivate uncontrollably and want to buy 10,000 calories of stuff. First World Problem!

Posted by: Gref at September 05, 2025 11:34 AM (aBgBM)

124 103
‘ What is the sole advantage of dating Chelsea Clinton?’

It satisfies a Howdy Doody fetish?

Posted by: Dr. Claw at September 05, 2025 11:34 AM (jbnUc)

125 HM stops at the one in Ennis when going through Dallas.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 05, 2025 11:34 AM (2mxw7)

Usually stop there on the way to the TxMoMe.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 05, 2025 11:34 AM (Zz0t1)

126 Yeah, but he's a Certified and Licensed CoB. If you can't trust him to ~~not~~ corrupt your mind, who can you trust?????
Posted by: Gref at September 05, 2025 11:26 AM (aBgBM)
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Fixed for accuracy.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 05, 2025 11:34 AM (7fElN)

127 In their recent expansion, Whataburger has done a horrible job. Increased prices and poorer quality is not a good business model.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at September 05, 2025 11:34 AM (gm9Sb)

128 A man, shirtless, in shorts, on a yacht during the summer?

OMG!!!!!! *lights hair on fire*

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 05, 2025 11:30 AM (Zz0t1)

Well, its 3 things you'll never see me do. lol

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at September 05, 2025 11:35 AM (snZF9)

129 The Philanthropaths fund & support The Psychopathocrats destroying America in particular and Western Civilization in general.

A Psychopathocracy, if you can keep it ...

Posted by: ShainS -- The 5th Great Awakening: MAGA is Winning the Culture Wars at September 05, 2025 11:35 AM (Jq918)

130 How is that a damning photo? Lol.

He’s on a yacht wearing swim shorts.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at September 05, 2025 11:35 AM (b3G0I)

131 Ironic that these arrested development ersatz philosopher kings ibankrolled the “no kings” protests largely manned by oblivious aging hippies.

Posted by: Farmer Bob at September 05, 2025 11:35 AM (J/GHB)

132 That song is brilliant

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at September 05, 2025 11:35 AM (gDlxJ)

133 >>Well, its 3 things you'll never see me do. lol
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at September 05, 2025 11:35 AM (snZF9)
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You'll do a man?

Posted by: Frasier Crane at September 05, 2025 11:36 AM (bNf8H)

134 Needless to say, the tech support in higher ed and professors are freaking out about this advancement.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel
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They were with cut and paste plagiarism back in the day as well. Part of the issue though is universities are going to have to roll back to an older understanding of academe (and cheaper) instead of our current massive institutions that are wasteful imitations of bad urban school districts. Most people are seeking a credential from universities and colleges, not to learn how to think nor how to educate themselves.

And that is perfectly reasonable approach--people gotta eat. But we can no longer afford the expense of credentialism--it will be much more affordable to use gateway exams with job apprenticeships where AI usage can be strictly controlled for many jobs that simply require ability to do a specific task and the apprenticeships serve to indicate to suitability for the task.

We need to spend substantial amount of money to improve technical education as well--the old Vo Tech approach has been destroyed by shoveling money and effort instead toward the cheaper grievance and lecture in soft subject focuses.

Posted by: whig at September 05, 2025 11:36 AM (WDjG6)

135 True believers in any cause hate this approach because it seems to be sacrificing principles constantly but they ignore the fact that massive disruptions in policy only come about from a calamity usually and Trump is trying to avoid that circumstance while fixing the ship of state.
Posted by: whig at September 05, 2025 11:23 AM (WDjG6)
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Yup. I eschew purism.

The world is not systematic enough to not have to make judgment calls here and there.

To me, faith has the highest ceiling of any human cognition, but the history of men using the authority of the divine authority for their own self-aggrandizement is abundant.

So, I even need to make judgment calls in the pursuit of the Highest.

I can see that the inevitability of making judgment calls is God familiarizing us with what judgment calls are. And how better outcomes require judgment calls, and the living out the consequences of our judgments.

This path ultimately describes what has been called the "Problem of Evil". Why does Evil exist? It's in keeping with a judgment call the Almighty made. In this way, we shall truly learn Good from Evil.

Posted by: Axeman at September 05, 2025 11:36 AM (9eaV3)

136 So I see another judge has stopped Trump from cutting USAID funds... I thought that was already overturned ?

Posted by: It's me donna at September 05, 2025 11:36 AM (VE6XX)

137 "I was checking the walls like an archaeologist."
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at September 05, 2025 11:31 AM (snZF9)

People think that sort of stuff is weird?
Shit. I do it almost everywhere I go.

Posted by: Reforger at September 05, 2025 11:36 AM (CjwnQ)

138 124 103 Dating Chelsea Clinton? A cheap date happy with an extra handful of oats and maybe half an apple.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at September 05, 2025 11:36 AM (gm9Sb)

139
My one gripe with Buc-ee's was their discontinuing the sausage-only kolaches.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 05, 2025 11:36 AM (2mxw7)

140 I don't know if it's still true, but at one point essentially all of the gasoline sold in Alaska, regardless of brand, came from a single Tesoro refinery down on the Kenai Peninsula.

I've also heard that essentially all of the aspirin sold in the United States, again regardless of brand, comes from the same chemical plant.

That was a number of years ago, though. Nowadays it probably comes from Chy-na.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at September 05, 2025 11:37 AM (qpyNK)

141 A man, shirtless, in shorts, on a yacht during the summer?

OMG!!!!!! *lights hair on fire*

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 05, 2025 11:30 AM (Zz0t1)

Yeah, a nothingburger; the left won't care.

FJB, an old, corrupt, racist, white pedo was clearly suffering late stage dementia, and they ALL circled the wagons. To every last trans-man.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 05, 2025 11:37 AM (i24o9)

142 "Cracker Barrel CEO is still being a stupid militant Karen.
There must be a great rectification.
Posted by: Anna Puma"

They may lose most of their remaining customers but they will gain David French, so it will be worth it.

Posted by: Ripley at September 05, 2025 11:37 AM (GUOwU)

143 A man, shirtless, in shorts, on a yacht during the summer?

OMG!!!!!! *lights hair on fire*

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 05, 2025 11:30 AM (Zz0t1)

Ted Cruz being in Mexico during the big Texas ice storm is a trillion times worse!
- The Unofficial Wes Moore for POTUS Campaign Press Office

Posted by: Gref at September 05, 2025 11:37 AM (aBgBM)

144 136 So I see another judge has stopped Trump from cutting USAID funds... I thought that was already overturned ?
Posted by: It's me donna at September 05, 2025 11:36 AM (VE6XX)

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I think this is in reference to a higher court's order to stay a PI on a district judge, and then the district judge lifted the PI and then immediately imposed another.

It's a rather egregious example of judicial malpractice.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a world of gods and monsters with James Whale at September 05, 2025 11:37 AM (GBKbO)

145 Love the one in Waller on County Line Rd.
Posted by: rickb223 at September 05, 2025 11:30 AM (VSujA)

_________

Regular stop heading up to Navasota. HM stops at the one in Ennis when going through Dallas.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

That was the one I always stopped at going to Spring/Cypress for paintball games. IH-35 to Highway 6 in Waco, down thru College Station to 289, past Prairie View A&M.

Posted by: rickb223 at September 05, 2025 11:38 AM (VSujA)

146 "LAX is spending a gajillion mostly federal tax dollars for renovations. Part of that is removing the iconic LAX sign as you drive in."

So it'll be Ex-LAX?
Posted by: Dark Litigator

Smooth move!

Posted by: mikeski at September 05, 2025 11:38 AM (Q97SL)

147 I have changed my viewpoint on the matter of the super wealthy in a way that I would never have imagined 40 years ago. I now think that there is a limit, in a Republic, to how rich someone can be, even if legitimately earned. When you are as wealthy as a quarter of the countries on Earth, you are going to corrupt the Republic, if only in self defense. I can't tell you where that point is but I am willing to entertain limits.

Not to mention the ill intended noted in this post who should just be hunted through the streets with dogs.

Posted by: toby928 at September 05, 2025 11:38 AM (jc0TO)

148 So I see another judge has stopped Trump from cutting USAID funds... I thought that was already overturned ?
Posted by: It's me donna at September 05, 2025 11:36 AM (VE6XX)

They dont care. SCOTUS rules and then five minutes later another judges shrugs and says no I get to decide.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at September 05, 2025 11:38 AM (b3G0I)

149 He’s on a yacht wearing swim shorts.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at September 05, 2025 11:35 AM (b3G0I)

Maybe the yacht came from that shipyard in Turkey, and he's just being prudent...

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 05, 2025 11:38 AM (pjBYi)

150 127 In their recent expansion, Whataburger has done a horrible job. Increased prices and poorer quality is not a good business model.
Posted by: bill in arkansas
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Common enough in the fast food industry--often the trick is the roll out the new stores so fast that you maximize grabbing market share and bucks for the franchisor while the franchisees begin to fail to maintain the original's success.

Lots of failed concepts for chain restaurants (and the same for retail). So the emphasis is on strip mining for the maximum revenue to get investors on board and then you walk away from the coming dumpster fire. Larger version of pump and dump.

Posted by: whig at September 05, 2025 11:39 AM (WDjG6)

151 top tier gas? I do think non-ethanol gas gives better performance/mileage and is heaalthier on the engine parts

Posted by: free tibet with purchase of equal or greater value tibet at September 05, 2025 11:39 AM (iNp3L)

152 > I mean, they've got plenty of donors in the concentration camps.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Dinosaur Wrangler at September 05, 2025 11:34 AM (gDsTb)

Their latest advancement is a mobile execution van that comes right to your house. Whacks you, breaks you up for spare parts, and presents your family with the bill.

Saves tons of money on camps and box cars.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at September 05, 2025 11:39 AM (qpyNK)

153 Trump is a natural triangulator--no permanent enemies normally and no permanent allies. Aka the Dealmaker. This was one of the most feared things by the Right before and after he became president. And he still gets criticism from true believers in this or that (see the Tranny ban on firearms for example). But he has deeper principles governing that he sees an objective in the distance such as disentangling foreign power and influence over the US and then adapts tactical approaches like a sailor sailing into the wind using tacking back and forth. Same with being a intl peacemaker and getting us out of permanent wars, trying to solve the debt bomb by killing regulations, spurring growth, and full employment rather than austerity per se.

True believers in any cause hate this approach because it seems to be sacrificing principles constantly but they ignore the fact that massive disruptions in policy only come about from a calamity usually and Trump is trying to avoid that circumstance while fixing the ship of state.

Posted by: whig at September 05, 2025 11:23 AM (WDjG6)

Well said.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 05, 2025 11:40 AM (i24o9)

154 Well, see? That's why he wasn't a quarterback. You've got to hit what you're aiming at.

Former Giants Linebacker [Michael Barrow] Arrested After Accidentally Punching Wife During Wild Family Airport Fight

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Dinosaur Wrangler at September 05, 2025 11:40 AM (gDsTb)

155 USAID “judge” is Amir Ali.

Another non-American judge appointed by Democrats.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at September 05, 2025 11:40 AM (b3G0I)

156
Ted Cruz being in Mexico during the big Texas ice storm is a trillion times worse!
- The Unofficial Wes Moore for POTUS Campaign Press Office
Posted by: Gref at September 05, 2025 11:37 AM (aBgBM)

How DARE he go on a pre-planned family vacation that just so happened to coincide with a freak 100 year winter storm in Tx......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 05, 2025 11:40 AM (Zz0t1)

157 It's a gas station with pretty good food. The brisket sandwiches are good. They would be great if you got a choice of sauces. I like my BBQ sauce less sweet, more hot.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at September 05, 2025 11:40 AM (ZmEVT)

158 Cracker Barrel CEO is still being a stupid militant Karen.

There must be a great rectification.

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 05, 2025 11:03 AM (suaGp)

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* goes to etymonline.com wondering if "rectify" and "rectum" evolved from the same root *

Posted by: ShainS -- The 5th Great Awakening: MAGA is Winning the Culture Wars at September 05, 2025 11:40 AM (Jq918)

159 149 He’s on a yacht wearing swim shorts.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at September 05, 2025 11:35 AM (b3G0I)

I expected a speedo or something... Hardly half naked...

Posted by: It's me donna at September 05, 2025 11:40 AM (VE6XX)

160 >>Perfect tile lines, perfect grout lines, perfect tile layout.

It all starts with layout. No small cuts!

Posted by: garrett at September 05, 2025 11:41 AM (Tuo+M)

161 This path ultimately describes what has been called the "Problem of Evil". Why does Evil exist? It's in keeping with a judgment call the Almighty made. In this way, we shall truly learn Good from Evil.
Posted by: Axeman
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That comment is an impressive response to my throwaway one of temporal matters. Yours deserves wider dissemination as a perfect distillation of Christian doctrine.

Posted by: whig at September 05, 2025 11:41 AM (WDjG6)

162 top tier gas? I do think non-ethanol gas gives better performance/mileage and is heaalthier on the engine parts

Posted by: free tibet with purchase of equal or greater value tibet at September 05, 2025 11:39 AM (iNp3L)

Absolutely. Today's gas is real shit.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at September 05, 2025 11:41 AM (snZF9)

163 More than 50 years of delighting tourists and travelers and now you ignore me. We sell fine Sunoco gasoline and delicious foodstuffs! And a Reptile Lagoon! Come visit. You never sausage a place!

Posted by: Pedro @ SOTB at September 05, 2025 11:41 AM (oftw2)

164 I do think non-ethanol gas gives better performance/mileage and is heaalthier on the engine parts
Posted by: free tibet with purchase of equal or greater value tibet at September 05, 2025 11:39 AM (iNp3L)

Proven fact.

Trump should end ethanol mandates permanently and do whatever it takes to never allow such bullshit again.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 05, 2025 11:42 AM (Zz0t1)

165 "Cracker Barrel CEO is still being a stupid militant Karen.
There must be a great rectification.
Posted by: Anna Puma"
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I really didn't mind the sign change. As a modernization, it wasn't bad. Confession, though: I really never valued the restaurant in the first place.

I think the updated decor to Barista Modern was jarring, as well as the modernized rockers and removal of the Country Store in some locations.

The worst was their commitment to DEI.

Posted by: Axeman at September 05, 2025 11:42 AM (9eaV3)

166 "How is that a damning photo? Lol.

He’s on a yacht wearing swim shorts.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald"

WTF? This is the type of phony scandal they would pull on Trump. They must be stoned at down at editing/photo-shopping. Or maybe their AI went haywire.

Posted by: Ripley at September 05, 2025 11:42 AM (GUOwU)

167 > > So I see another judge has stopped Trump from cutting USAID funds... I thought that was already overturned ?
Posted by: It's me donna at September 05, 2025 11:36 AM (VE6XX)

They dont care. SCOTUS rules and then five minutes later another judges shrugs and says no I get to decide.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at September 05, 2025 11:38 AM (b3G0I)
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I think this is coming to a head. SCOTUS is going to have to address it sooner rather than later. It's escalating. Lower court judges are in outright defiance of both SCOTUS and the Constitution.

And getting all uppity with the Supremes.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 05, 2025 11:43 AM (Q4IgG)

168 * goes to etymonline.com wondering if "rectify" and "rectum" evolved from the same root *

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Heh. Indeed, from the Latin rectus or "straight."

I really wish I'd studied and learned Latin as a lad ...

Posted by: ShainS -- The 5th Great Awakening: MAGA is Winning the Culture Wars at September 05, 2025 11:43 AM (Jq918)

169 > Common enough in the fast food industry--often the trick is the roll out the new stores so fast that you maximize grabbing market share and bucks for the franchisor while the franchisees begin to fail to maintain the original's success.

I've noticed that new fast food stores generally have better food -- until they get busy. Then they seem to gradually reduce the food quality until they *just* start to lose business, then raise it back up a tad.

Basically the same business model as Chinese exports.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at September 05, 2025 11:43 AM (qpyNK)

170 165 I really didn't mind the sign change. As a modernization, it wasn't bad. Confession, though: I really never valued the restaurant in the first place.

I think the updated decor to Barista Modern was jarring, as well as the modernized rockers and removal of the Country Store in some locations.

The worst was their commitment to DEI.
Posted by: Axeman at September 05, 2025 11:42 AM (9eaV3)

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The problem with the new logo is that it replaced something distinct and unique with something blandly corporate.

It was a good image on which to hang the other problems with the rebrand.

It got folded into "wokeness" mostly out of laziness, but it was mostly about bland corporatization of regionally distinctive things.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a world of gods and monsters with James Whale at September 05, 2025 11:43 AM (GBKbO)

171 >> top tier gas? I do think non-ethanol gas gives better performance/mileage and is heaalthier on the engine parts

IIRC, the Octane Requirement means you will not find much if any ethanol in Premium gas [93].

Posted by: garrett at September 05, 2025 11:43 AM (Tuo+M)

172
I expected a speedo or something... Hardly half naked...
Posted by: It's me donna at September 05, 2025 11:40 AM (VE6XX)

He's actually 2/3's naked.

But, wearing shorts / swim trunks without a shirt on a boat in the summer hardly constitutes some wild conspiracy.

The media sucks at it's job, bigly.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 05, 2025 11:44 AM (Zz0t1)

173 If I am going to pay 40 grand for a new truck, it had better be able to run on Top Tier, Bottom Tier, or pureed Communists.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 05, 2025 11:45 AM (pjBYi)

174 I think this is coming to a head. SCOTUS is going to have to address it sooner rather than later. It's escalating. Lower court judges are in outright defiance of both SCOTUS and the Constitution.

And getting all uppity with the Supremes.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 05, 2025 11:43 AM (Q4IgG)

"There are no conservative or liberal judges."

- - - - - Chief Wampum John Roberts

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 05, 2025 11:45 AM (Zz0t1)

175 167 -------------
I think this is coming to a head. SCOTUS is going to have to address it sooner rather than later. It's escalating. Lower court judges are in outright defiance of both SCOTUS and the Constitution.

And getting all uppity with the Supremes.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 05, 2025 11:43 AM (Q4IgG)

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Background pressure on Chief Judges of circuits not DC or the 9th might lead to some punishments of the individual judges.

SCOUTS might start sending out writs of mandamus against them.

It could end up being part of a larger effort to reform the Circuit Court system by adding 1-2 new Circuits (already an issue, mostly because the 9th is so big and has been for a while) and folding the DC circuit into Maryland, or something.

We'll see.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a world of gods and monsters with James Whale at September 05, 2025 11:45 AM (GBKbO)

176 But, wearing shorts / swim trunks without a shirt on a boat in the summer hardly constitutes some wild conspiracy.

The media sucks at it's job, bigly.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 05, 2025 11:44 AM (Zz0t1)

Well he's with George Clooney and Clooney is enemy # 1 to the Libs for backstabbing Biden

Posted by: It's me donna at September 05, 2025 11:45 AM (VE6XX)

177 I think this is in reference to a higher court's order to stay a PI on a district judge, and then the district judge lifted the PI and then immediately imposed another.

It's a rather egregious example of judicial malpractice.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

Good. It is necessary to destroy the mystique of the federal judiciary as nothing more than unelected politicians in robes. They are not particularly wise, nor are they particularly learned as a group though some may be. But ultimately, policy control in our government has to be through the political branches because otherwise you get minority rule by veto, not persuasion. EU is already suffering because their Court system is thoroughly destructive to good governance and combined with the unelected EU Bureaucracy, is strangling representative democracy in Euroland in order to rule.

Posted by: whig at September 05, 2025 11:47 AM (WDjG6)

178 Well he's with George Clooney and Clooney is enemy # 1 to the Libs for backstabbing Biden
Posted by: It's me donna at September 05, 2025 11:45 AM (VE6XX)

But Clooney's wife is a Hamas-scrunt.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 05, 2025 11:47 AM (pjBYi)

179 Did I mention the campground and remodeled motel? And fireworks, so you can blow up your neighbor's mailbox?

Posted by: Pedro @ SOTB! at September 05, 2025 11:48 AM (oftw2)

180 Uh oh. Bad news for Speaks With Forked Tongue.

Massachusetts is removing the Native American from their state flag, and you gotta see some of the entries for the new design

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Dinosaur Wrangler at September 05, 2025 11:48 AM (gDsTb)

181 Uh oh. Bad news for Speaks With Forked Tongue.

Massachusetts is removing the Native American from their state flag, and you gotta see some of the entries for the new design
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Dinosaur Wrangler at September 05, 2025 11:48 AM (gDsTb)

Reports of DEI and woke being dead were grossly inaccurate.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 05, 2025 11:49 AM (Zz0t1)

182 Buck: Loved the piece about Buc-ee's at The Blaze. Here's hoping owners Arch Aplin and Don Wasek never sell out or decide to take the company public. Either would be the beginning of one of the great enshittifications of our time.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at September 05, 2025 11:49 AM (O7YUW)

183 USAID “judge” is Amir Ali.

Another non-American judge appointed by Democrats.

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I'm tired of foreigners in the government.

I'm also tired of foreigners not changing their stupid foreign names. I have a random Anglo surname because my grandfather wanted to be American, and not have his kids running around with some sinister commie Russian name.

Change that shit. Bill Wilson. Whatever. Not "Amir Ali," capiche?

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at September 05, 2025 11:49 AM (SiOSr)

184 183 I'm tired of foreigners in the government.

I'm also tired of foreigners not changing their stupid foreign names. I have a random Anglo surname because my grandfather wanted to be American, and not have his kids running around with some sinister commie Russian name.

Change that shit. Bill Wilson. Whatever. Not "Amir Ali," capiche?
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at September 05, 2025 11:49 AM (SiOSr)

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A constitutional amendment making federal judgeships having the same biographical requirements for office as the president of the United States would be a good thing.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a world of gods and monsters with James Whale at September 05, 2025 11:49 AM (GBKbO)

185 He's actually 2/3's naked.

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NO MATH AND CERTAINTLY NO FRACTIONS!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Dinosaur Wrangler at September 05, 2025 11:50 AM (gDsTb)

186 167
‘ Lower court judges are in outright defiance of both SCOTUS and the Constitution.’

Who would have guessed some 3rd World shithead pretending to be a judge would do that?

Posted by: Dr. Claw at September 05, 2025 11:50 AM (jbnUc)

187
A constitutional amendment making federal judgeships having the same biographical requirements for office as the president of the United States would be a good thing.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a world of gods and monsters with James Whale at September 05, 2025 11:49 AM (GBKbO)

But that would thwart the islhamic takeover of the world and we just can't have that.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 05, 2025 11:50 AM (Zz0t1)

188 Background pressure on Chief Judges of circuits not DC or the 9th might lead to some punishments of the individual judges.

SCOUTS might start sending out writs of mandamus against them.

It could end up being part of a larger effort to reform the Circuit Court system by adding 1-2 new Circuits (already an issue, mostly because the 9th is so big and has been for a while) and folding the DC circuit into Maryland, or something.

We'll see.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

Have to break the filibuster to do that either by holding up all business by doing it via a talking filibuster (exhaust the speakers list and it proceeds to cloture automatically as Senate rules limit speaking on a subject under debate) or you do it via the nuclear option.

I think the time has come to break the Senate ratchet possibly starting with the next reconciliation bill on financial matters. Byrd rule has to go.

Posted by: whig at September 05, 2025 11:51 AM (WDjG6)

189 USAID “judge” is Amir Ali.

A Biden appointee? Couldn't he find any Americans ?

Posted by: It's me donna at September 05, 2025 11:51 AM (VE6XX)

190 187 But that would thwart the islhamic takeover of the world and we just can't have that.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 05, 2025 11:50 AM (Zz0t1)

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It also wouldn't fix everything wrong in America at once, so it should be discarded as not serious and probably even socialist.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a world of gods and monsters with James Whale at September 05, 2025 11:51 AM (GBKbO)

191 Downhill World Cup is this weekend in Champery...
this Track/Course is straight up nuts.

https://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=tIHH6xeDC4k

Posted by: garrett at September 05, 2025 11:51 AM (Tuo+M)

192
A Biden appointee? Couldn't he find any Americans ?
Posted by: It's me donna at September 05, 2025 11:51 AM (VE6XX)

Dats rayciss.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 05, 2025 11:51 AM (Zz0t1)

193 This path ultimately describes what has been called the "Problem of Evil". Why does Evil exist? It's in keeping with a judgment call the Almighty made. In this way, we shall truly learn Good from Evil.
Posted by: Axeman
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That comment is an impressive response to my throwaway one of temporal matters. Yours deserves wider dissemination as a perfect distillation of Christian doctrine.
Posted by: whig at September 05, 2025 11:41 AM (WDjG6)
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Always enjoy our exchanges, Whig.

I just start wandering. My faith is central to me, so saying as a sort of absolute that I'm not a purist could make it sound like I'm a cultural Christian. So, the next step was clarifying that since rejoining the faith, I have been mindful that the endeavors that God's engagement with Man from Creation, the Flood, Babel, Israel, the Incarnation, and the Church, Man clouds the perfect judgment of the Lord with the venial judgments of men. Or just the fleshly need to say "I am right."

At the risk of turning around the last sentence of Judges: we all tend to be "right" in our own eyes.

Posted by: Axeman at September 05, 2025 11:51 AM (9eaV3)

194 The thugs have won.

After months of abuse, injured Caitlin Clark is sitting out the rest of the WNBA season

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Dinosaur Wrangler at September 05, 2025 11:52 AM (gDsTb)

195 Trump should end ethanol mandates permanently
Can't and won't happen; he's spoken out on this.
He'd lose at least five corn states that are firmly in his column.

A better strategy would be to find a more profitable market for all that corn, or another big-paying crop for some of the corn growers.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at September 05, 2025 11:52 AM (zdLoL)

196 I think this is coming to a head. SCOTUS is going to have to address it sooner rather than later. It's escalating. Lower court judges are in outright defiance of both SCOTUS and the Constitution.

And getting all uppity with the Supremes.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 05, 2025 11:43 AM (Q4IgG)

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Was listening to "Old Yeller" Levin on radio yesterday, and he was reading from some piece supposedly quoting a dozen (anonymous, natch) Federal District Coward Judges criticizing SCOTUS for continually overturning and "not having their backs" and failing to provide explanations for their rulings (an obvious lie) in attempting to stop the Unitary Executive POTUS from exercising his authority and doing his job ... as if it's their primary purview to be part of a Mandarin judicial caste instead of say actually ruling on the basis of The U.S. F*cking Constitution! * spit *

* searches online *

Here's the first story (dated yesterday) from The Hill: "Federal judges anonymously criticize Supreme Court over Trump cases."

https://is.gd/6sVMhB

Posted by: ShainS -- The 5th Great Awakening: MAGA is Winning the Culture Wars at September 05, 2025 11:52 AM (Jq918)

197 Can SCOTUS order Marshals to arrest judges and jail them for "contempt of court?"

Posted by: no one of any consequence at September 05, 2025 11:52 AM (ZmEVT)

198 181 I'm waiting for some nuts to demand a new Ohio State flag. The current one is the only one in the shape of a burgee, used by cavalry to slaughter Injuns and presently being used by Dictator Trump in his military occupations of minority controlled neighborhoods.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at September 05, 2025 11:52 AM (gm9Sb)

199 I think this is coming to a head. SCOTUS is going to have to address it sooner rather than later. It's escalating. Lower court judges are in outright defiance of both SCOTUS and the Constitution.

And getting all uppity with the Supremes.

Hmmm. On which side does Action Jackson come down? She wants to tell everyone how to live, so is simpatico with the rebel alliance, but OTOH, she wants people to obey.

Posted by: Archimedes at September 05, 2025 11:52 AM (Riz8t)

200 But Clooney's wife is a Hamas-scrunt.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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Possibly a beard if Clooney's antics with young males around Lake Como are considered.

Posted by: whig at September 05, 2025 11:52 AM (WDjG6)

201 188 Have to break the filibuster to do that either by holding up all business by doing it via a talking filibuster (exhaust the speakers list and it proceeds to cloture automatically as Senate rules limit speaking on a subject under debate) or you do it via the nuclear option.

I think the time has come to break the Senate ratchet possibly starting with the next reconciliation bill on financial matters. Byrd rule has to go.
Posted by: whig at September 05, 2025 11:51 AM (WDjG6)

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The long-running issue of the circuit court being overstretched could make it feel less outrightly partisan if leadership handles it right.

People don't care about judges, so maybe the Senate could get 7 Democrats to sign onto a 12th and 13th Circuit while kind of ignoring the elimination of the DC Circuit.

I think it would be worth a try, at least.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a world of gods and monsters with James Whale at September 05, 2025 11:52 AM (GBKbO)

202 189 USAID “judge” is Amir Ali.

A Biden appointee? Couldn't he find any Americans ?
Posted by: It's me donna at September 05, 2025 11:51 AM (VE6XX)

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One of his final appointees, yeah.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a world of gods and monsters with James Whale at September 05, 2025 11:53 AM (GBKbO)

203 Change that shit. Bill Wilson. Whatever. Not "Amir Ali," capiche?
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice

YD is correct here. Would I have become "The World's Greatest Entertainer" if I had kept the name Asa Yoelson?

Posted by: Al Jolson at September 05, 2025 11:53 AM (oftw2)

204 Oh, and you can make in excess of $250k managing a store. You start at $18 an hour, I believe, and can truly work your way up to your own store. Buc-ee's isn't a job, its a damn career.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 05, 2025 11:07 AM (Zz0t1)

They post their job openings at the gas pumps. And note the salary for positions such as manager of the gas station pumps. Extremely livable wages for someone who wants to apply themselves. No 4yr degree required.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at September 05, 2025 11:53 AM (N39Ws)

205 Can SCOTUS order Marshals to arrest judges and jail them for "contempt of court?"

Posted by: no one of any consequence at September 05, 2025 11:52 AM (ZmEVT)

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I say go for it; and then, when ultimately sued for doing so, SCOTUS can rule in SCOTUS' favor.

WIN-WIN!

Posted by: ShainS -- The 5th Great Awakening: MAGA is Winning the Culture Wars at September 05, 2025 11:53 AM (Jq918)

206 > A constitutional amendment making federal judgeships having the same biographical requirements for office as the president of the United States would be a good thing.
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That they're likely foreigners in positions of authority, like federal judges, makes me wonder WFT is going on.

The whole country needs an industrial enema.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 05, 2025 11:54 AM (Q4IgG)

207 World Economic Forum guru Yuval Noah Harari stated the ugly truth when he said, “We just don’t need the vast majority of the population.” He’s not referring to himself. He’s referring to you and me.

My first rule when exposed to any article:

Why am I seeing this article, with this narrative, right now?

Why the barrage of "AI WILL REPLACE YOU" articles? Because The They™ are prepping the population to accept the idea that their neighbors are obsolete and promise to be only Useless Eaters.

The Climate Change™ Hoax served this narrative by equating humans to cancer or a virus plaguing the world.

The Hate YT™ and DEI establishes a pecking order of who needs to be marginalized or removed (this follows the Euthanasia Movement)

Now the AI articles explain how murdering billions of people will not result in a loss of continuity.

Its sort of a progress map on how they are conditioning us for a mass murder event. C-1984 was a dress rehearsal.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at September 05, 2025 11:54 AM (nCgQz)

208 Daily Mail US@Daily_MailUS
Damning photos burn top Democrat Maryland Gov. Wes Moore's 2028 plans to the ground as he's busted half-naked on kingmaker George Clooney's luxury yacht in ITALY while his 'hellhole' state faces crime apocalypse

https://is.gd/0OzjQl
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Dinosaur Wrangler at September 05, 2025 11:27 AM (gDsTb)

A man, shirtless, in shorts, on a yacht during the summer?

OMG!!!!!! *lights hair on fire*
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 05, 2025 11:30 AM (Zz0t1)
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I think the angle is not that he's shirtless on a yacht, but that he's living the lavish life on a yacht with the rich and famous while his state languishes in the shitter. It won't work on hardcore lefties because they envy and aspire to this. It might work on Joe Six Pack and Jermaine Six Pack, who are tired of seeing their elected officials living like kings.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 05, 2025 11:55 AM (iFTx/)

209 197 Can SCOTUS order Marshals to arrest judges and jail them for "contempt of court?"
Posted by: no one of any consequence
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Yes. Scotus has the power of civil contempt which they have used once where a sheriff in Chattanooga did not protect a prisoner from being lynched. Civil contempt is the exception to a jury trial requirement for incarceration up to one year and fines for non compliance can also be levied.

The argument made for the exception is that the keys to the jail and fines are in your pocket--if you agree to comply, both stop immediately.

Posted by: whig at September 05, 2025 11:55 AM (WDjG6)

210 The thugs have won.

After months of abuse, injured Caitlin Clark is sitting out the rest of the WNBA season

Have they. When 3 of their 4 fans stays home, what will become of them?

Posted by: Archimedes at September 05, 2025 11:55 AM (Riz8t)

211 208 I think the angle is not that he's shirtless on a yacht, but that he's living the lavish life on a yacht with the rich and famous while his state languishes in the shitter. It won't work on hardcore lefties because they envy and aspire to this. It might work on Joe Six Pack and Jermaine Six Pack, who are tired of seeing their elected officials living like kings.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 05, 2025 11:55 AM (iFTx/)

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Wes Moore is the candidate of Manhattan white liberals who desperately want another Obama.

You know, Deval Patrick in the 2020 campaign.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a world of gods and monsters with James Whale at September 05, 2025 11:56 AM (GBKbO)

212 177
‘ EU is already suffering because their Court system is thoroughly destructive to good governance and combined with the unelected EU Bureaucracy’

There is a lot of cross pollination of tyranny between Europe and North America.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at September 05, 2025 11:56 AM (jbnUc)

213 The thugs have won.

After months of abuse, injured Caitlin Clark is sitting out the rest of the WNBA season
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks

Pyrrhic victory.

The WNBA is dead. Or will be. They'll be back to playing in high school gymnasiums.
They've run off their new fan base with the thuggery.

Posted by: rickb223 at September 05, 2025 11:57 AM (VSujA)

214 ICE is just helping to celebrate Mexican Independence ! From America !

Posted by: runner at September 05, 2025 11:57 AM (g47mK)

215 Now the AI articles explain how murdering billions of people will not result in a loss of continuity.

Its sort of a progress map on how they are conditioning us for a mass murder event. C-1984 was a dress rehearsal.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure

Dunning Kruger syndrome is high with these sorts of plotters. Most don't figure in second and third order effects from complicated decisions--they are essentially Veruca Salts wanting their Oompa Loompa Now.

Posted by: whig at September 05, 2025 11:57 AM (WDjG6)

216 World Economic Forum guru Yuval Noah Harari stated the ugly truth when he said, “We just don’t need the vast majority of the population.” He’s not referring to himself. He’s referring to you and me.

My first rule when exposed to any article:

Why am I seeing this article, with this narrative, right now?

Why the barrage of "AI WILL REPLACE YOU" articles? Because The They™ are prepping the population to accept the idea that their neighbors are obsolete and promise to be only Useless Eaters.

The Climate Change™ Hoax served this narrative by equating humans to cancer or a virus plaguing the world.

The Hate YT™ and DEI establishes a pecking order of who needs to be marginalized or removed (this follows the Euthanasia Movement)

Now the AI articles explain how murdering billions of people will not result in a loss of continuity.

Its sort of a progress map on how they are conditioning us for a mass murder event. C-1984 was a dress rehearsal.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at September 05, 2025 11:54 AM (nCgQz)

Nice synthesis of disparate topics into a cohesive realization.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 05, 2025 11:57 AM (i24o9)

217 I'm totally unschooled in the world of judges and all but doesn't "someone" have to bring a suit and the Judge rules on it ? If so who's bringing these suits and who's paying for them ?

Posted by: It's me donna at September 05, 2025 11:57 AM (VE6XX)

218 I think this is coming to a head. SCOTUS is going to have to address it sooner rather than later. It's escalating. Lower court judges are in outright defiance of both SCOTUS and the Constitution.

And getting all uppity with the Supremes.

Hmmm. On which side does Action Jackson come down? She wants to tell everyone how to live, so is simpatico with the rebel alliance, but OTOH, she wants people to obey.
Posted by: Archimedes at September 05, 2025 11:52 AM (Riz8t)

Oh I think we know for a surety that she comes down on the anti-Trump side no matter what

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at September 05, 2025 11:58 AM (YobFY)

219 I think the angle is not that he's shirtless on a yacht, but that he's living the lavish life on a yacht with the rich and famous while his state languishes in the shitter. It won't work on hardcore lefties because they envy and aspire to this. It might work on Joe Six Pack and Jermaine Six Pack, who are tired of seeing their elected officials living like kings.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 05, 2025 11:55 AM (iFTx/)

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Wes Moore is the candidate of Manhattan white liberals who desperately want another Obama.

You know, Deval Patrick in the 2020 campaign.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a world of gods and monsters with James Whale at September 05, 2025 11:56 AM (GBKbO)
_____

"This uppity Wes Moore should stay in his lane, or I'm ... gonna cry moar!"

-- Spartacus Booker

Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 05, 2025 11:58 AM (iFTx/)

220 > 194 The thugs have won.

After months of abuse, injured Caitlin Clark is sitting out the rest of the WNBA season
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Dinosaur Wrangler at September 05, 2025 11:52 AM (gDsTb)

Dildo salesmen hardest hit.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at September 05, 2025 11:58 AM (qpyNK)

221 Enjoyed the philanthropist song video...a truer song was never sung...

Posted by: Nova Local at September 05, 2025 11:58 AM (tOcjL)

222 The thugs have won.

After months of abuse, injured Caitlin Clark is sitting out the rest of the WNBA season

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Dinosaur Wrangler at September 05, 2025 11:52 AM (gDsTb)

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"Reparations gotta cost, yo!"

If you can't kill whitey, at least get 'em off the field and off the court ...

Posted by: ShainS -- The 5th Great Awakening: MAGA is Winning the Culture Wars at September 05, 2025 11:59 AM (Jq918)

223 Wes Moore is the candidate of Manhattan white liberals who desperately want another Obama.

You know, Deval Patrick in the 2020 campaign.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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Sometimes politicians know deep down they don't want the job as Prezzie and thus seemingly self sabotage their own path to such. Gary Hart comes to mind. Edwards is another.

Posted by: whig at September 05, 2025 11:59 AM (WDjG6)

224 91 Buc-ee's opened up in our area, Shenandoah Valley near Harrisonburg, VA.

A nice place to rest while battling insane trucks on I-81...
Posted by: Diabeetus at September 05, 2025 11:25 AM (fq8Zx)

This is great news. I'll be driving from NH to FL after Christmas. I usually come down I-81 to avoid DC.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at September 05, 2025 11:59 AM (N39Ws)

225 Good. It is necessary to destroy the mystique of the federal judiciary as nothing more than unelected politicians in robes. They are not particularly wise, nor are they particularly learned as a group though some may be. But ultimately, policy control in our government has to be through the political branches because otherwise you get minority rule by veto, not persuasion. EU is already suffering because their Court system is thoroughly destructive to good governance and combined with the unelected EU Bureaucracy, is strangling representative democracy in Euroland in order to rule.
Posted by: whig at September 05, 2025 11:47 AM

As Rhom has noted before, inferior court judges should be regarded as clerks or factotum , carrying out the SC's directives. No more, no less.

Posted by: toby928 at September 05, 2025 11:59 AM (jc0TO)

226 @185 He's actually 2/3's naked.

"I see you've managed to get your shirt off."
--Alexander Dane, Galaxy Quest

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at September 05, 2025 11:59 AM (zdLoL)

227 It would be funny if Caitlin quits the WNBA and pursues a career in the LPGA because of a lack of....

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at September 05, 2025 12:00 PM (gm9Sb)

228 "Reparations gotta cost, yo!"

If you can't kill whitey, at least get 'em off the field and off the court ...
Posted by: ShainS

And the cracker fans go with.

Posted by: rickb223 at September 05, 2025 12:00 PM (VSujA)

229 > Gary Hart comes to mind. Edwards is another.
Posted by: whig at September 05, 2025 11:59 AM (WDjG6)

(coughs significantly)

Posted by: Beatoff O'Cuck at September 05, 2025 12:00 PM (qpyNK)

230 223 Sometimes politicians know deep down they don't want the job as Prezzie and thus seemingly self sabotage their own path to such. Gary Hart comes to mind. Edwards is another.
Posted by: whig at September 05, 2025 11:59 AM (WDjG6)

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This vacation is nothing, but it's obvious that someone's convincing Moore that he can do it.

His interview where he talked about being tough against Trump at a football game when there's video of him practically hugging the president from that football game is enough evidence of that.

He doesn't lie that stupidly if he's not running for president.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a world of gods and monsters with James Whale at September 05, 2025 12:00 PM (GBKbO)

231 It might work on Joe Six Pack and Jermaine Six Pack, who are tired of seeing their elected officials living like kings.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 05, 2025 11:55 AM (iFTx/)

Again. They ALL covered for a corrupt old white pedo suffering late stage dementia. Their only moral compass always points toward political power.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 05, 2025 12:00 PM (i24o9)

232 Can SCOTUS order Marshals to arrest judges and jail them for "contempt of court?"

Posted by: no one of any consequence at September 05, 2025 11:52 AM (ZmEVT)
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The SCOTUS was an experiment, as one of the Federalist Papers indicates. It's the only branch in which one of the authors says that if it turns out to be something it wasn't intended to be, maybe it should never have been.

Because the founders, and in particular Madison, had never seen a separated Judicial branch in action, the novelty of the invention appears to have precluded knowing what abuses the Court could fall into.

There doesn't seem to be any structure for quality assurance other than judicial review.

Congress has the role to impeach--of course, Congress was *never* supposed to create branch hybrids, either. But various "independent agencies" *are* just that.

Anything that is not tied to researching, making and adjudicating laws is an *executive* function, if the US government is going to perform that function, that power is VESTED in the single person of the President.

"Independence" of government power from elected representatives is a mind-virus the media is spreading.

Posted by: Axeman at September 05, 2025 12:01 PM (9eaV3)

233 One world government, continued....

These philanthropaths, great word!, intend to be part of the World Council. Their spawn and grandspawn will be members of the Brethren Council. They will determine the path of humanity. They will decide the fate of every human being that walks the earth.
That is why they do this. Their descendants will be like gods that rule over humanity. Their own names will be spoken with reverence as the visionary creators of this new world order.

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at September 05, 2025 12:01 PM (2J/Lj)

234 Jobs numbers are down this month. What's the chance the estimates are more accurate after PDT fired the BLM head last month?

Posted by: fd at September 05, 2025 12:02 PM (vFG9F)

235 It might work on Joe Six Pack and Jermaine Six Pack, who are tired of seeing their elected officials living like kings.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 05, 2025 11:55 AM (iFTx/)

Again. They ALL covered for a corrupt old white pedo suffering late stage dementia. Their only moral compass always points toward political power.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder

Joe & Jermaine Six Pack is who Trump peeled off.

Posted by: rickb223 at September 05, 2025 12:02 PM (VSujA)

236 I would love to be at Lake Como on a yacht, but I would probably forego the shorts. The place is spectacular.

Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at September 05, 2025 12:02 PM (czzj5)

237
I think the angle is not that he's shirtless on a yacht, but that he's living the lavish life on a yacht with the rich and famous while his state languishes in the shitter. It won't work on hardcore lefties because they envy and aspire to this. It might work on Joe Six Pack and Jermaine Six Pack, who are tired of seeing their elected officials living like kings.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 05, 2025 11:55 AM (iFTx/)

They should've reported it that way. Declaring he's 'half naked' on Clooney's yacht was just stupid.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 05, 2025 12:02 PM (Zz0t1)

238 I have to wonder when SCOTUS will simply declare, "A majority of us find that {name of rogue judge} is not exhibiting 'good Behaviour', per Article III, Section 1 of the U.S. Constitution. As such, they are no longer a judge, effective immediately."

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at September 05, 2025 12:02 PM (O7YUW)

239 Dildo salesmen hardest hit.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at September 05, 2025 11:58 AM (qpyNK)

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* snort *

"PAY THEM WHAT THEY'RE WORTH, H8RS!"

/which is less than nothing ...

Posted by: ShainS -- The 5th Great Awakening: MAGA is Winning the Culture Wars at September 05, 2025 12:02 PM (Jq918)

240 Sometimes politicians know deep down they don't want the job as Prezzie and thus seemingly self sabotage their own path to such. Gary Hart comes to mind. Edwards is another.

Posted by: whig at September 05, 2025 11:59 AM (WDjG6)

There is a lot of money and second lake houses running a losing campaign. That needs to change including processes to force the unused proceeds to be used to pay legit campaign bills then refunded to donors.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 05, 2025 12:02 PM (i24o9)

241 Well at least the media has something to talk about other than the murder of those 11 Maryland Dads on the family fishing boat in International waters... Trump killed the economy !

Posted by: It's me donna at September 05, 2025 12:03 PM (VE6XX)

242 Can SCOTUS order Marshals to arrest judges and jail them for "contempt of court?"

Posted by: no one of any consequence at September 05, 2025 11:52 AM

I wish they could but it will never happen. What can be done is for roberts to start censuring some of these rouge judges which is well within his power as chief justice. That would get their attention.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at September 05, 2025 12:03 PM (0N4FZ)

243 234 Jobs numbers are down this month. What's the chance the estimates are more accurate after PDT fired the BLM head last month?
Posted by: fd at September 05, 2025 12:02 PM (vFG9F)

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They're up, slightly. Lower than estimates.

In an environment where the administration has deported from the interior at least 300,000 and 1.4 million or so have self-deported.

And one of the major losses in jobs was government jobs.

Remember, Biden's job numbers were consistently pretty good because illegals were flooding in and getting jobs and governments were constantly on hiring binges.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a world of gods and monsters with James Whale at September 05, 2025 12:03 PM (GBKbO)

244 "They should've reported it that way. Declaring he's 'half naked' on Clooney's yacht was just stupid.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer"

Shoulda said he was half-dressed.

Posted by: fd at September 05, 2025 12:03 PM (vFG9F)

245 238 I have to wonder when SCOTUS will simply declare, "A majority of us find that {name of rogue judge} is not exhibiting 'good Behaviour', per Article III, Section 1 of the U.S. Constitution. As such, they are no longer a judge, effective immediately."
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at September 05, 2025 12:02 PM (O7YUW)

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Who would stop them?

However, the proscribed process goes through the Chief Judges of the individual circuits. He forms a panel to go over accusations of misconduct.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a world of gods and monsters with James Whale at September 05, 2025 12:04 PM (GBKbO)

246 Sometimes politicians know deep down they don't want the job as Prezzie and thus seemingly self sabotage their own path to such. Gary Hart comes to mind. Edwards is another.
Posted by: whig at September 05, 2025 11:59 AM (WDjG6)

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This vacation is nothing, but it's obvious that someone's convincing Moore that he can do it.

His interview where he talked about being tough against Trump at a football game when there's video of him practically hugging the president from that football game is enough evidence of that.

He doesn't lie that stupidly if he's not running for president.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a world of gods and monsters with James Whale at September 05, 2025 12:00 PM (GBKbO)
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He's of course "running." I think we should assume every Democrap of even above-average notoriety is "running."

I suspect 20 commie shitstains will announce they are running in 2028, or exploring a run, or fingering their assholes for monkeypox bumps for signs of running as some kind of Magic 8 Ball.

There's no downside to running, and piles of money as an upside. Shit, maybe The Blade should run!

Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 05, 2025 12:04 PM (iFTx/)

247 Joe & Jermaine Six Pack is who Trump peeled off.

Posted by: rickb223 at September 05, 2025 12:02 PM (VSujA)

Trump did. Is Vance or another MAGA successor capable of the same? That remains to be seen.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 05, 2025 12:04 PM (i24o9)

248 Never been to a Buc'ees, hope to rectify that some day.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at September 05, 2025 12:04 PM (xcxpd)

249 217 I'm totally unschooled in the world of judges and all but doesn't "someone" have to bring a suit and the Judge rules on it ? If so who's bringing these suits and who's paying for them ?
Posted by: It's me donna

Brookings has had a Lawfare section headed by Norm Eisen among others for a long while. And Brookings accepts foreign money (Qatar among others) to peddle influence in DC. So what has become is a loose network tied to law school profs, former clerks to SC justices and federal judges working for political Big Law, and idealistic junior lawyers as grunt workers along with the DNC galaxy of special interest groups and activists. The special interest groups and activists are those claiming standing, the lawfare apparatus provides the lawyers, and foreign/domestic donors fund the lawsuits.

Same as the pattern litigation against Trump and his officials like Navarro. All of this is plotted in advance to target people, freeze them by investigations, punish them with impoverishment by legal fees, and ultimately drive them out of the public square and power in government.

Sarah Palin was such a case in Alaska and this mode of Democrat lawfare has spread since then.

Posted by: whig at September 05, 2025 12:04 PM (WDjG6)

250
Pyrrhic victory.

The WNBA is dead. Or will be. They'll be back to playing in high school gymnasiums.
They've run off their new fan base with the thuggery.
Posted by: rickb223 at September 05, 2025 11:57 AM (VSujA)

Angel Reese has alienated her entire team saying that if they don't get her some top tier, younger talent, she'll go elsewhere.

She's not even close to mid tier talent.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 05, 2025 12:04 PM (Zz0t1)

251 246 He's of course "running." I think we should assume every Democrap of even above-average notoriety is "running."

I suspect 20 commie shitstains will announce they are running in 2028, or exploring a run, or fingering their assholes for monkeypox bumps for signs of running as some kind of Magic 8 Ball.

There's no downside to running, and piles of money as an upside. Shit, maybe The Blade should run!
Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 05, 2025 12:04 PM (iFTx/)

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In that environment, name recognition wins everything.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a world of gods and monsters with James Whale at September 05, 2025 12:04 PM (GBKbO)

252 Can Trump use Pocket Rescissions to defund US Feral District Clown Courts?

A man can dream ...

Posted by: ShainS -- The 5th Great Awakening: MAGA is Winning the Culture Wars at September 05, 2025 12:05 PM (Jq918)

253 If I am going to pay 40 grand for a new truck, it had better be able to run on Top Tier, Bottom Tier, or pureed Communists.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

These days, 40 grand is about half of a truck.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at September 05, 2025 12:05 PM (0U5gm)

254 Dildo salesmen hardest hit.
"PAY THEM WHAT THEY'RE WORTH, H8RS!"

Greyhound stock ought to soar on this news.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at September 05, 2025 12:05 PM (zdLoL)

255 >>Jobs numbers are down this month. What's the chance the estimates are more accurate after PDT fired the BLM head last month?

Going into September, Job Numbers are down? You don't say...

Owing to Seasonal Work, School starting back up and the end of fiscal year approaching?

That can't be...it just can't be!?

Posted by: garrett at September 05, 2025 12:06 PM (Tuo+M)

256 I think the angle is not that he's shirtless on a yacht, but that he's living the lavish life on a yacht with the rich and famous while his state languishes in the shitter. It won't work on hardcore lefties because they envy and aspire to this. It might work on Joe Six Pack and Jermaine Six Pack, who are tired of seeing their elected officials living like kings.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 05, 2025 11:55 AM (iFTx/)

They should've reported it that way. Declaring he's 'half naked' on Clooney's yacht was just stupid.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 05, 2025 12:02 PM (Zz0t1)
______

"Hey, what do you want from us? We've all got the intellect set to Full Retard."

-- GOP Messaging Corps that isn't Trump.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 05, 2025 12:06 PM (iFTx/)

257
These days, 40 grand is about half of a truck.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at September 05, 2025 12:05 PM (0U5gm)

I thought he was asking about truck tires.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 05, 2025 12:06 PM (Zz0t1)

258 218 I think this is coming to a head. SCOTUS is going to have to address it sooner rather than later. It's escalating. Lower court judges are in outright defiance of both SCOTUS and the Constitution.

And getting all uppity with the Supremes.

Hmmm. On which side does Action Jackson come down? She wants to tell everyone how to live, so is simpatico with the rebel alliance, but OTOH, she wants people to obey.
Posted by: Archimedes at September 05, 2025 11:52 AM (Riz8t)

Oh I think we know for a surety that she comes down on the anti-Trump side no matter what
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at September 05, 2025 11:58 AM (YobFY)

This. These lower court lefty ideologues over ruling and ignoring the Supremes feel they have impunity and fear no blowback or damage to their personal reputations for making clearly partisan rulings. I wonder how the supremes feel. Sure the president can ignore them and the senate, but now all the lesser courts are doing it too. What have we become?

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at September 05, 2025 12:06 PM (OA79/)

259 Ah, I made a sizable mistake, Congress is also charged with oversight of the executive offices and all courts under SCOTUS.

The reason that between 1942 and 1991 we had "police actions" and not wars--even though they looked a lot like wars--is the collective cowardice of the Congress to not want that word attached to military actions.

Posted by: Axeman at September 05, 2025 12:07 PM (9eaV3)

260 Never been to a Buc'ees, hope to rectify that some day.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at September 05, 2025 12:04 PM

Skip the jerky shop. To me it is sub par and way over priced. You can get better jerky at the checkout counters at walmart IMO.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at September 05, 2025 12:07 PM (0N4FZ)

261 250 Playing in high school gymnasiums? How about us, playing in McAlester OK Eagles lodges?

The wimmens of roller derby

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at September 05, 2025 12:07 PM (gm9Sb)

262 Never been to a Buc'ees, hope to rectify that some day.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at September 05, 2025 12:04 PM (xcxpd)

Two words.

Texas MoMe.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 05, 2025 12:07 PM (Zz0t1)

263 Going into September, Job Numbers are down? You don't say...

They're not down. They're up less than CNN thought was a good number.

Posted by: Ian S. at September 05, 2025 12:07 PM (QZThv)

264 Joe & Jermaine Six Pack is who Trump peeled off.

Posted by: rickb223 at September 05, 2025 12:02 PM (VSujA)

Trump did. Is Vance or another MAGA successor capable of the same? That remains to be seen.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 05, 2025 12:04 PM (i24o9)
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I agree, which is why this is coming out about Moore. If you want to keep Joe and Jermaine in MAGA, you not only give them reasons to stay, but you also show them that going back sucks too.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 05, 2025 12:07 PM (iFTx/)

265 So half naked > half dressed?

This seems like an inaccurate statement of mathematics

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at September 05, 2025 12:07 PM (YobFY)

266 248 Never been to a Buc'ees, hope to rectify that some day.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards
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IMHO, they are okay if you are not trying to make time on a trip--usually pretty crowded at the ones around where I live and the food is meh fast food. Cheap gas, clean but crowded restrooms, friendly staff, and I think all have doggie parks if traveling with furry friends. Mecca though for casual travelers.

I usually stop at Loves instead though rather than fighting crowds and Loves also has doggie parks for furry friends to stretch legs. I can be in and out of a Loves in about 15 minutes if necessary. Buccees is usually more like 30 or so around here if you get something to eat, bathroom break, walk dogs, and pump gas.

Posted by: whig at September 05, 2025 12:08 PM (WDjG6)

267 A nice perk for Buccees is you can get ethanol free gasoline. Costs a bit more, but you'll pick up 2-5mpg on your vehicle.
I gained 3mpg+ with my Silverado 1500 5.3L running I-95 highway speeds.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at September 05, 2025 12:08 PM (N39Ws)

268 >>They're not down. They're up less than CNN thought was a good number.

I know...but, historic trends will reveal that to be normal for the end of Summer.

Posted by: garrett at September 05, 2025 12:08 PM (Tuo+M)

269 Hmmm. On which side does Action Jackson come down? She wants to tell everyone how to live, so is simpatico with the rebel alliance, but OTOH, she wants people to obey.

Posted by: Archimedes at September 05, 2025 11:52 AM (Riz8t)
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Chaos, definitely chaos.

And holding two standards have never bothered a progressive ideologue.

Posted by: Axeman at September 05, 2025 12:08 PM (9eaV3)

270 In a few months, the WNBA is gonna be begging for neon green dildos to be heaved from stands

Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 05, 2025 12:08 PM (iFTx/)

271 IIRC, the Octane Requirement means you will not find much if any ethanol in Premium gas [93].

No 93 octane around here. 91 is "premium" here.

Posted by: free tibet with purchase of equal or greater value tibet at September 05, 2025 12:09 PM (iNp3L)

272 ======
IMHO, they are okay if you are not trying to make time on a trip--usually pretty crowded at the ones around where I live and the food is meh fast food. Cheap gas, clean but crowded restrooms, friendly staff, and I think all have doggie parks if traveling with furry friends. Mecca though for casual travelers.

I usually stop at Loves instead though rather than fighting crowds and Loves also has doggie parks for furry friends to stretch legs. I can be in and out of a Loves in about 15 minutes if necessary. Buccees is usually more like 30 or so around here if you get something to eat, bathroom break, walk dogs, and pump gas.
Posted by: whig at September 05, 2025 12:08 PM (WDjG6)

No one goes to Buc-ee's anymore.

Too crowded.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 05, 2025 12:09 PM (Zz0t1)

273 91 Buc-ee's opened up in our area, Shenandoah Valley near Harrisonburg, VA.

A nice place to rest while battling insane trucks on I-81...
Posted by: Diabeetus at September 05, 2025 11:25 AM (fq8Zx)

Little and I had our first Buc-ee's experience as we were driving through Amarillo, TX. I noticed a lack of windshield cleaning stations at the pumps. Strange...

Got a couple of sunshades, one for my truck and one for his girlfriend's BMW. She

Posted by: Joe Kidd at September 05, 2025 12:09 PM (nbLIj)

274 Going into September, Job Numbers are down? You don't say...

Owing to Seasonal Work, School starting back up and the end of fiscal year approaching?

That can't be...it just can't be!?

Posted by: garrett at September 05, 2025 12:06 PM

They are down because over a million working ages males have either been deported or have left the country voluntarily.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at September 05, 2025 12:09 PM (0N4FZ)

275 These are mega-rich sociopaths

The philanthrapists?

Posted by: The Children of Haiti at September 05, 2025 12:09 PM (4x8X3)

276 250
Pyrrhic victory.

The WNBA is dead. Or will be. They'll be back to playing in high school gymnasiums.
They've run off their new fan base with the thuggery.
Posted by: rickb223 at September 05, 2025 11:57 AM (VSujA)

Angel Reese has alienated her entire team saying that if they don't get her some top tier, younger talent, she'll go elsewhere.

She's not even close to mid tier talent.......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 05, 2025 12:04 PM (Zz0t1)

Watching 6 foot angry lesbians jog up and down the court beating up other players is not much of a sport. A lot of the gameplay is just slow and bad. And the politics. Watching Paige beuckers give a privilege speech before a game attracts who?

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at September 05, 2025 12:10 PM (OA79/)

277 A nice perk for Buccees is you can get ethanol free gasoline. Costs a bit more, but you'll pick up 2-5mpg on your vehicle.
I gained 3mpg+ with my Silverado 1500 5.3L running I-95 highway speeds.
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at September 05, 2025 12:08 PM (N39Ws)

Ethanol is much harder to produce and transport, so it really makes zero sense that non-ethanol fuel is more expensive.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 05, 2025 12:10 PM (Zz0t1)

278 No one goes to Buc-ee's anymore.

Too crowded.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 05, 2025 12:09 PM (Zz0t1)

Heh… ISWYDT

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at September 05, 2025 12:10 PM (5MZNC)

279 >>In a few months, the WNBA is gonna be begging for neon green dildos to be heaved from stands

Before it is over, they will be lining up at the Base Line and Presenting for the Halftime, Half-Court Dildo Toss.

Posted by: garrett at September 05, 2025 12:10 PM (Tuo+M)

280 Trump killed innocent Venezuelan tourists touristing in an innocent boat to distract from his disastrous job numbers !

--Every stupid news network

Posted by: runner at September 05, 2025 12:10 PM (g47mK)

281 However, the growing working-class revolt in the western world may finally be causing some people who default to the left to re-think their tribes’ peculiar allegiance to the world’s richest people.
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I'm for it, but it seems like we're in some bizzaro world in which we're preaching for the workers of the world to unite.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at September 05, 2025 12:11 PM (XvL8K)

282 I never heard of TOP TIER gas (caps in trademark) until I bought my wife's new used car and double checked the manual (I didn't want to find out it needed more than 87 octane gas). Both AAA and Consumer Reports have done studies showing it is better for the engine. It has added detergents (electrolytes?) that reduce carbon deposits more than simple API standard gas. Plus nearly all the recognized brands sell TOP TIER. So that's why when I found out Sheetz doesn't, I was disappointed.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at September 05, 2025 12:11 PM (Dv3i1)

283 273 - (cont)

Girlfriend is thrilled with her sunshade, which brings her closer to "keeper" status...

Posted by: Joe Kidd at September 05, 2025 12:11 PM (nbLIj)

284 280 Trump killed innocent Venezuelan tourists touristing in an innocent boat to distract from his disastrous job numbers !

--Every stupid news network
Posted by: runner at September 05, 2025 12:10 PM (g47mK)

11 Maryland Dads out fishing to feed their families !

Posted by: It's me donna at September 05, 2025 12:11 PM (VE6XX)

285 There is a lot of money and second lake houses running a losing campaign. That needs to change including processes to force the unused proceeds to be used to pay legit campaign bills then refunded to donors.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder

Don't disagree. One of the more egregious holes was allowing wealthy self funders to loan money to their campaigns and then pay themselves back if they won with donor money. Maria Cantwell did it to the tune of millions as did a few other plutocrats.

Basically institutionalized corruption. That got closed off but The Producers! problem of running sham campaigns paying family members to do such (see Maxine Waters and Bernie Sanders as poster children) simply serve as a conduit for legal bribes to pols.

Posted by: whig at September 05, 2025 12:12 PM (WDjG6)

286 I have to wonder when SCOTUS will simply declare, "A majority of us find that {name of rogue judge} is not exhibiting 'good Behaviour', per Article III, Section 1 of the U.S. Constitution. As such, they are no longer a judge, effective immediately."

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at September 05, 2025 12:02 PM (O7YUW)
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That's an intriguing idea. I think it could pass. After all Marbury v Madison was an elaboration that some people consider a power-grab. But that was over the executive.

That would be a judicial QA measure.

Posted by: Axeman at September 05, 2025 12:12 PM (9eaV3)

287 In that environment, name recognition wins everything.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a world of gods and monsters with James Whale at September 05, 2025 12:04 PM (GBKbO)

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Michael Obama 2028 -- It's Tranny Time!

BTW, recently watched an interesting podcast interviewing Patrick Byrne, former (Deep State plant) CEO of Overstock.com who claimed that the RussiaGate PsyOp morphed out of the SpyGate PsyOp -- which was DogEater's plan to blackmail Hillary and control her anointed Presidency for eight years, after which they'd install Michael for another eight ... giving Obama six consecutive terms to eviscerate the country and turn it into a turd-world shithole (the Dream of His Father).

When Trump unexpectedly won, they had to cover-up SpyGate by creating RussiaGate. Here's a link to the episode "The Deep Rig" for those interested (1 hour and 45 minutes):

youtube.com/watch?v=5wxJ14Ny90Q

Posted by: ShainS -- The 5th Great Awakening: MAGA is Winning the Culture Wars at September 05, 2025 12:12 PM (Jq918)

288 Little and I had our first Buc-ee's experience as we were driving through Amarillo, TX. I noticed a lack of windshield cleaning stations at the pumps. Strange...

During the Biden junta, videos started popping up online of (usually) non-white non-English-speaking drivers using the windshield squeegees to wash their entire car - the paint, the bumpers, even the tires. That's bad for their paint and clearcoat, and worse for anyone who subsequently tries to use it on glass.

Wouldn't be surprised if they decided to stop that while dodging being called raaaaacist by just eliminating them.

Posted by: Ian S. at September 05, 2025 12:12 PM (QZThv)

289 Buc-ee's is great. But avoid the Florence, SC one on weekends in the summer.

It's unreal. A teeming throng of people, shoulder to shoulder, with beleaguered employees literally screaming to each other over the crowd to funnel the mass of humanity around the store.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at September 05, 2025 12:12 PM (SiOSr)

290 Damn guys, did all of you get blowjobs from supermodels in the Bucee's bathrooms? I'll admit it's a better place to stop on the highway than most, but some of you guys are carrying on like you have fond memories of ... blowjobs in the bathrooms.

LOL.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 05, 2025 12:13 PM (iFTx/)

291 I agree, which is why this is coming out about Moore. If you want to keep Joe and Jermaine in MAGA, you not only give them reasons to stay, but you also show them that going back sucks too.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 05, 2025 12:07 PM (iFTx/)

Perhaps, if this were closer to an election and if he was already a declared prospect. I doubt Joe and Jermaine even know who this guy is at this point, and I confess, not being on the East coast, I did not know of him until I read about him here.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 05, 2025 12:13 PM (i24o9)

292 I never heard of TOP TIER gas (caps in trademark) until I bought my wife's new used car and double checked the manual (I didn't want to find out it needed more than 87 octane gas). Both AAA and Consumer Reports have done studies showing it is better for the engine. It has added detergents (electrolytes?) that reduce carbon deposits more than simple API standard gas. Plus nearly all the recognized brands sell TOP TIER. So that's why when I found out Sheetz doesn't, I was disappointed.

Posted by: Chuck Martel
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You can do Sheetz etc. for gas but use something like additives and fuel system cleaners every so often. Comes out about the same that way.

Posted by: whig at September 05, 2025 12:13 PM (WDjG6)

293 If you are predictable...you are not news.

Posted by: runner at September 05, 2025 12:14 PM (g47mK)

294 266 248 Never been to a Buc'ees, hope to rectify that some day.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards
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IMHO, they are okay if you are not trying to make time on a trip--usually pretty crowded at the ones around where I live and the food is meh fast food. Cheap gas, clean but crowded restrooms, friendly staff, and I think all have doggie parks if traveling with furry friends. Mecca though for casual travelers.

I usually stop at Loves instead though rather than fighting crowds and Loves also has doggie parks for furry friends to stretch legs. I can be in and out of a Loves in about 15 minutes if necessary. Buccees is usually more like 30 or so around here if you get something to eat, bathroom break, walk dogs, and pump gas.
Posted by: whig at September 05, 2025 12:08 PM (WDjG6)

The food is the main reason I want to stop. Sorry to hear its 'meh'.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at September 05, 2025 12:14 PM (xcxpd)

295 One world government, continued....
The "others", those little people who aren't wealthy, aren't relatives of the elite, aren't the " chosen" of the World Council, will be divided into categories...
Bureaucrats = white people who have some wealth and good education. They will run government agencies and manage industry and own farms or ranches. They get paid well, get the good medical care, and access to better goods and services. Doctors and surgeons are in this category also.
Security= military personnel who act as police force to keep the "others" from getting too uppity. Mostly Caucasian.
Servants = mostly Caucasian with a few very light skin "ethnics" they serve the elites as nurses,maids, chauffeurs, chefs, teachers,etc. Some education. Access to some goods and services. Decent food and medical care. Small paid income.
Serfs= Caucasian with dark skin ie Mediterranean, medium skin tone "ethnics" ie Asian, Hispanic. They work the farms and factories. Little education. Restricted access to goods and services. Marginal food and medical care. Tiny financial allowance.
Slaves= Dark skin "ethnics". They work the dangerous jobs. Mining, refineries,etc. Uneducated. Unpaid.

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at September 05, 2025 12:14 PM (2J/Lj)

296
Wouldn't be surprised if they decided to stop that while dodging being called raaaaacist by just eliminating them.
Posted by: Ian S. at September 05, 2025 12:12 PM (QZThv)

They're a good perk, but people suck, so if you do find them, they're usually tore up, the cleaning solution is full of shit and not really worth using.

I'm guessing Buc-ee's just determined they weren't worth the hassle.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 05, 2025 12:14 PM (Zz0t1)

297 291
Perhaps, if this were closer to an election and if he was already a declared prospect. I doubt Joe and Jermaine even know who this guy is at this point, and I confess, not being on the East coast, I did not know of him until I read about him here.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 05, 2025 12:13 PM (i24o9)

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He's a complete non-entity, essentially 1990s thinking that governors are easy to elevate to the presidency mixed with 2000s thinking of black faces win the presidency.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a world of gods and monsters with James Whale at September 05, 2025 12:14 PM (GBKbO)

298 Gasoline is gasoline, the difference in top tier brands is the proprietary detergents added, which do make a slight difference in performance and engine durability.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at September 05, 2025 12:14 PM (0U5gm)

299 A nice perk for Buccees is you can get ethanol free gasoline. Costs a bit more, but you'll pick up 2-5mpg on your vehicle.
I gained 3mpg+ with my Silverado 1500 5.3L running I-95 highway speeds.
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at September 05, 2025 12:08 PM (N39Ws)

Ethanol is much harder to produce and transport, so it really makes zero sense that non-ethanol fuel is more expensive.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer

Same with diesel. Diesel comes off the cracking tower first. Least refined. $1 more a gallon.

Posted by: rickb223 at September 05, 2025 12:15 PM (VSujA)

300 Perhaps, if this were closer to an election and if he was already a declared prospect. I doubt Joe and Jermaine even know who this guy is at this point, and I confess, not being on the East coast, I did not know of him until I read about him here.

I live in Maryland. Moore is basically ultra-low-IQ Corey Booker: white women think he's dreamy like Obama, but he doesn't even have the brain cells to go into a Kamala rhapsody about the passage of time.

Posted by: Ian S. at September 05, 2025 12:15 PM (QZThv)

301 300 I live in Maryland. Moore is basically ultra-low-IQ Corey Booker: white women think he's dreamy like Obama, but he doesn't even have the brain cells to go into a Kamala rhapsody about the passage of time.
Posted by: Ian S. at September 05, 2025 12:15 PM (QZThv)

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"But he was a radio host!"

Dude sounds retarded to me.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a world of gods and monsters with James Whale at September 05, 2025 12:16 PM (GBKbO)

302 Completely OT:

Well, when a person is "a certain age" and they throw up more than 5 times in a 12 hour period, doctors recommend they head to the ER to get checked out....

...so I have been at Harris ER Downtown since 2:30am; I am still throwing up intermittently. They are going to admit me and I will be staying at least another day or two until they can figure out what is causing this.

This does NOT appear to be cancer-related; all of my tests are coming back normal. I am dehydrated, so they are loading me full of IV liquids (I am not holding oral liquids very well right now...).

Thank goodness for Power Ports - I haven't had to get stuck with any needles so far!

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas - Ace of Spades Ladies Brigade, plucky comic relief at September 05, 2025 12:16 PM (x/c4Y)

303
The food is the main reason I want to stop. Sorry to hear its 'meh'.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at September 05, 2025 12:14 PM (xcxpd)

I disagree. I find a lot of their food quite good, including their jerky.

It really is an incredible place. And their prices aren't 'convenience store' prices. They're average or sometimes lower on products you'd find in your local grocery store.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 05, 2025 12:16 PM (Zz0t1)

304 I never heard of TOP TIER gas (caps in trademark) until I bought my wife's new used car and double checked the manual (I didn't want to find out it needed more than 87 octane gas). Both AAA and Consumer Reports have done studies showing it is better for the engine. It has added detergents (electrolytes?) that reduce carbon deposits more than simple API standard gas. Plus nearly all the recognized brands sell TOP TIER. So that's why when I found out Sheetz doesn't, I was disappointed.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at September 05, 2025 12:11 PM (Dv3i1)
________

Top Tier is mostly a marketing exercise, but all name-brand gas comes from the same refinery in the area. It's all quality stuff.

What actually goes into your tank is more a function of how well the individual gas stations maintain their pumps and tanks than what gas gets to the stations in tanker trucks.

I fill up with Costco 93. I'll ad some octane boost for races and track days, just in case.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 05, 2025 12:16 PM (iFTx/)

305 302 This does NOT appear to be cancer-related; all of my tests are coming back normal. I am dehydrated, so they are loading me full of IV liquids (I am not holding oral liquids very well right now...).

Thank goodness for Power Ports - I haven't had to get stuck with any needles so far!
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas - Ace of Spades Ladies Brigade, plucky comic relief at September 05, 2025 12:16 PM (x/c4Y)

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"It's covid. Here's a booster."

jk

Feel better!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a world of gods and monsters with James Whale at September 05, 2025 12:16 PM (GBKbO)

306 >>They are down because over a million working ages males have either been deported or have left the country voluntarily.

Seasonal Jobs reflect more directly than illegals who often don't even make the jobs report.

Posted by: garrett at September 05, 2025 12:16 PM (Tuo+M)

307 I like Buccees, Pilot, QT, and Sheetz gas stops.

However, eating mostly "ketovore" I can pick up most snacks at any of these at a Speedway.

Posted by: Axeman at September 05, 2025 12:16 PM (9eaV3)

308 Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas - Ace of Spades Ladies Brigade, plucky comic relief at

Will keep you in my prayers

Posted by: It's me donna at September 05, 2025 12:17 PM (VE6XX)

309 Gasoline is gasoline, the difference in top tier brands is the proprietary detergents added, which do make a slight difference in performance and engine durability.

Given that the detergents are to keep carbon build up off the valves, and direct injection bypasses the valves, do detergent enhanced fuels even make sense for newer cars (that don't have hybrid injection)?

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at September 05, 2025 12:17 PM (nAS9C)

310 Damn guys, did all of you get blowjobs from supermodels in the Bucee's bathrooms? I'll admit it's a better place to stop on the highway than most, but some of you guys are carrying on like you have fond memories of ... blowjobs in the bathrooms.

LOL.

I got a BJ in a gas station men's bathroom. It was magical.

Posted by: Zombie Freddy Mercury at September 05, 2025 12:17 PM (Riz8t)

311 The Philanthropath was the villain's plot in the first Kingsmen movie.

Posted by: hadsil at September 05, 2025 12:17 PM (Xht4H)

312 In a few months, the WNBA is gonna be begging for neon green dildos to be heaved from stands

You know that thing sandlot baseball teams do to decide who bats first? Catch a bat, then one hand after the other up the bat until the winner can grab the pommel? Ok, let's call it the 'knob' in this case. Anyways, the WNBA could do that with the green dildoes.

Posted by: t-bird at September 05, 2025 12:17 PM (4x8X3)

313 No one goes to Buc-ee's anymore.

Too crowded.
Posted by: Sponge
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And I am sure it affects them somewhat. Fine place to take a 30 minute to 1 hour sojourn or if you are RVing. Most of my few essential trips nowadays are get there and back for a visit and business with her memory care facility. Not interested in spending more time than getting there and back asap. Trips are arduous enough for me nowadays that I am simply not willing to dawdle en route plus even though I am retired, my wife is not.

Posted by: whig at September 05, 2025 12:17 PM (WDjG6)

314
This does NOT appear to be cancer-related; all of my tests are coming back normal. I am dehydrated, so they are loading me full of IV liquids (I am not holding oral liquids very well right now...).

Thank goodness for Power Ports - I haven't had to get stuck with any needles so far!
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas - Ace of Spades Ladies Brigade, plucky comic relief at September 05, 2025 12:16 PM (x/c4Y)

We spent our share of time in ERs for similar things over the last year with the First Lady's treatments.

Sorry you're going through that.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 05, 2025 12:18 PM (Zz0t1)

315 I agree, which is why this is coming out about Moore. If you want to keep Joe and Jermaine in MAGA, you not only give them reasons to stay, but you also show them that going back sucks too.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 05, 2025 12:07 PM (iFTx/)

Perhaps, if this were closer to an election and if he was already a declared prospect. I doubt Joe and Jermaine even know who this guy is at this point, and I confess, not being on the East coast, I did not know of him until I read about him here.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 05, 2025 12:13 PM (i24o9)
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He's better known on the East coast. He's being touted as some kind of TEMU Obama. He and Gay Homo Spartacus Faggot will be battling each other for that lane.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 05, 2025 12:18 PM (iFTx/)

316 TBH the only time I ever hear about Moore is when someone brings him up on AoS.

And I live on the east coast.

Posted by: 18-1 at September 05, 2025 12:19 PM (sKqQm)

317 He's better known on the East coast. He's being touted as some kind of TEMU Obama. He and Gay Homo Spartacus Faggot will be battling each other for that lane.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 05, 2025 12:18 PM (iFTx/)

They'll have to fight it out with Governor Greaseball

Posted by: It's me donna at September 05, 2025 12:19 PM (VE6XX)

318 One of the more egregious holes was allowing wealthy self funders to loan money to their campaigns and then pay themselves back if they won with donor money.

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

* 2028 Presidential ~~Hopeful~~ Asshole JB "Jabba the Hut" Pritzker has entered the chat *

Posted by: ShainS -- The 5th Great Awakening: MAGA is Winning the Culture Wars at September 05, 2025 12:19 PM (Jq918)

319

Same with diesel. Diesel comes off the cracking tower first. Least refined. $1 more a gallon.
Posted by: rickb223 at September 05, 2025 12:15 PM (VSujA)

Supply n' demand n' shit........assholes.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 05, 2025 12:19 PM (Zz0t1)

320 Buck I would love to read your stuff but I'm not going to pay money to The Blaze to do it.

Posted by: Missing out at September 05, 2025 12:20 PM (TbWk/)

321 Given that the detergents are to keep carbon build up off the valves, and direct injection bypasses the valves, do detergent enhanced fuels even make sense for newer cars (that don't have hybrid injection)?
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure
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Injectors foul over time and detergent gas lengthens the time on replacing them. Injectors are a wear item by essentially clogging up over time and replacing them early is very expensive.

If you lease and return cars in a couple of years or drive fleet, not worth worrying about fouled injectors--but those of us keeping vehicles for a long time, it is a factor. Pay now or pay later. Plus, a vehicle with fouled injectors drives like crap.

Posted by: whig at September 05, 2025 12:20 PM (WDjG6)

322 DC Metro Police Chief on Fox right now.Four stars, female, and guess what else.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at September 05, 2025 12:20 PM (gm9Sb)

323 Massachusetts is removing the Native American from their state flag, and you gotta see some of the entries for the new design
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wreck

One would think the local tribes would object to this erasure of their history from the state's symbols.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at September 05, 2025 12:20 PM (a+4eV)

324 11 Maryland Dads out fishing to feed their families !

Posted by: It's me donna at September 05, 2025 12:11 PM (VE6XX)

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I was assured here that they were just off to Harvard this month.

/Oh wait, that was me ...

Posted by: ShainS -- The 5th Great Awakening: MAGA is Winning the Culture Wars at September 05, 2025 12:20 PM (Jq918)

325 Given that the detergents are to keep carbon build up off the valves, and direct injection bypasses the valves, do detergent enhanced fuels even make sense for newer cars (that don't have hybrid injection)?

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure

It should help the valves even then, as they are subject to ignition heat, and theoretically, it also reduces carbon in the exhaust manifold, and you would be surprised at how performance can suffer with reduced exhaust flow.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at September 05, 2025 12:21 PM (0U5gm)

326 I never heard of TOP TIER gas (caps in trademark) until I bought my wife's new used car and double checked the manual (I didn't want to find out it needed more than 87 octane gas). Both AAA and Consumer Reports have done studies showing it is better for the engine. It has added detergents (electrolytes?) that reduce carbon deposits more than simple API standard gas. Plus nearly all the recognized brands sell TOP TIER. So that's why when I found out Sheetz doesn't, I was disappointed.

Posted by: Chuck Martel

Marketing hype. Neither AAA nor Consumer Reports inspire any confidence in me. Why own a car that needs to use extra-costly fuel, unless it's some kind of high-performance job?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 05, 2025 12:21 PM (efKgu)

327 302 This does NOT appear to be cancer-related; all of my tests are coming back normal. I am dehydrated, so they are loading me full of IV liquids (I am not holding oral liquids very well right now...).

Thank goodness for Power Ports - I haven't had to get stuck with any needles so far!
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas - Ace of Spades Ladies Brigade, plucky comic relief at September 05, 2025 12:16 PM (x/c4Y)

+1 on Power Ports. Made the 20+ weeks of chemo go so much smoother. I had to get IV liquids a few times during my chemo treatments.

After the "Red Devil" chemo, I couldn't stand the taste of water, or ice. So I would have the oncology nurses hook up a IV fluids bag.

Great news on your tests. Hope your treatments are going OK. You are in my prayers.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at September 05, 2025 12:21 PM (N39Ws)

328 I am dehydrated, so they are loading me full of IV liquids (I am not holding oral liquids very well right now...).

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas - Ace of Spades Ladies Brigade, plucky comic relief at September 05, 2025 12:16 PM (x/c4Y)
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Remember to hydrate, don't drink straight water. Mix in some trace minerals, or magnesium and potassium. Salt is good to retain water in your body, but magnesium and potassium sucks water into your cells, which *is* hydration.

Your body reads un-mixed water as *excess* water, it goes right to your kidneys and you pee it right out.

A lot of people walk around with nearly-transparent pee and take that as they must be really *hydrated* because they've seen the shade charts. But if you're are drinking un-mixed water, it's probably just your body ridding itself of "excess water".

Posted by: Axeman at September 05, 2025 12:21 PM (9eaV3)

329 I suspect what MA replaces their currently ugly flag with will be uglier.

MA loves ugliness, in design, in art, and in people...

Posted by: 18-1 at September 05, 2025 12:22 PM (sKqQm)

330 DC Metro Police Chief on Fox right now.Four stars, female, and guess what else.
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at September 05, 2025 12:20 PM (gm9Sb)

Four chins?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 05, 2025 12:22 PM (efKgu)

331 I fill up with Costco 93. I'll ad some octane boost for races and track days, just in case.

I was disappointed that Costco didn't offer nitro methane.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at September 05, 2025 12:23 PM (nAS9C)

332 DC Metro Police Chief on Fox right now.Four stars, female, and guess what else.
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at September 05, 2025 12:20 PM (gm9Sb)

Her face smells of wet pussy?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 05, 2025 12:23 PM (Zz0t1)

333 330 DC Metro Police Chief on Fox right now.Four stars, female, and guess what else.
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at September 05, 2025 12:20 PM (gm9Sb)

Lesbian ? Black ? Both ?

Posted by: It's me donna at September 05, 2025 12:23 PM (VE6XX)

334 I suspect what MA replaces their currently ugly flag with will be uglier.

MA loves ugliness, in design, in art, and in people...

Posted by: 18-1

Who are you calling ugly?

Posted by: Maryland Flag at September 05, 2025 12:23 PM (0U5gm)

335 I'm starting to worry Ace's fasting didn't work out as planned.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 05, 2025 12:23 PM (Zz0t1)

336 Massachusetts is removing the Native American from their state flag, and you gotta see some of the entries for the new design
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wreck

Homos sucking díck?

Posted by: Cause Massachusetts is gay and it sucks at September 05, 2025 12:24 PM (TbWk/)

337 Plus, a vehicle with fouled injectors drives like crap.
____

One of my cars runs a little rough and I'm trying the 'Sea Foam' cleaner treatment on it for next few fillups, I'm hoping to see improvement. I'd like to also clean the throttle body and MAF sensor, but that's a pain and it's not throwing off a code yet. I'll try it though if the gas treatment doesn't work.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at September 05, 2025 12:24 PM (Dv3i1)

338 Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas

Sorry you are going through all that, Teresa. I hope you can go home soon feeling much better and not being being dehydrated and throwing up.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 05, 2025 12:24 PM (2GCMq)

339 Massachusetts is removing the Native American from their state flag, and you gotta see some of the entries for the new design

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks

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Hammer and Sickle?

Posted by: ShainS -- The 5th Great Awakening: MAGA is Winning the Culture Wars at September 05, 2025 12:24 PM (Jq918)

340 Mass should just say screw it and openly fly the LGBT pride flag as it's state flag

Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 05, 2025 12:24 PM (Ah2Jt)

341 He's better known on the East coast. He's being touted as some kind of TEMU Obama. He and Gay Homo Spartacus Faggot will be battling each other for that lane.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 05, 2025 12:18 PM (iFTx/)

They'll have to fight it out with Governor Greaseball
Posted by: It's me donna at September 05, 2025 12:19 PM (VE6XX)
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True, but they will hit each other hardest because both are (or will be) vying for the Obama voters (to the extent they still exist). Both are Northeast black DEI males about the same age. Hell they even look and groom the same! Gay Spartacus has the inside track at this point. But Yacht Girl Moore won't give up without a fight. Two "men" enter, one man leaves!

Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 05, 2025 12:25 PM (iFTx/)

342 Given that the detergents are to keep carbon build up off the valves, and direct injection bypasses the valves, do detergent enhanced fuels even make sense for newer cars (that don't have hybrid injection)?

A fair number of engines aren't direct injection and thus prone to carbon buildup.

Also, modern engines often run at an order of magnitude more compression than your bitchin' 68 GTO so good quality gas does run better.

Posted by: Ian S. at September 05, 2025 12:25 PM (QZThv)

343 * 2028 Presidential Hopeful Asshole JB "Jabba the Hut" Pritzker has entered the chat *
Posted by: ShainS
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I quit staying at any Hyatt hotel because of the Pritzker family toxicity. All of them are repulsive examples of humanity that I have read about. Penny, Troon Jennifer, JB, and his nasty sex fiend brother. Something wrong with that entire family plus they were major backers of Obammy way back. Penny helped run the country into the ground by waiving hi tech goods to China as Commerce Secretary and thence to Harvard's Board with her DEI crap. Jennifer, nuff said, wants to valid its choice by funding befuddled kids into cutting off their junk and living horrible lives after. Plus prodding state and local governments to troon the pop. JB is a horrible governor and horrible person demonstrated every time he opens his mouth. And the brother has had brushes with sex problems.

Posted by: whig at September 05, 2025 12:25 PM (WDjG6)

344 Marketing hype. Neither AAA nor Consumer Reports inspire any confidence in me. Why own a car that needs to use extra-costly fuel, unless it's some kind of high-performance job?

Good thing no one is qualifying the engine warranty on the exclusive use of ethanol free 95 octane gasoline.†

† if you have a computer controlled vehicle, it would be interesting to see what mileage/performance gains are noted. I had a 11% increase in mileage, but not enough to justify the delta in cost.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at September 05, 2025 12:26 PM (nAS9C)

345 MA should have one of those four quadrant flags, in each quadrant:

1) Gay Flag
2) Indian (dot) flag
3) Picture of Liz Warren in a headdress
4) Picture of a pig eating at a trough

Posted by: 18-1 at September 05, 2025 12:26 PM (sKqQm)

346 341 True, but they will hit each other hardest because both are (or will be) vying for the Obama voters (to the extent they still exist). Both are Northeast black DEI males about the same age. Hell they even look and groom the same! Gay Spartacus has the inside track at this point. But Yacht Girl Moore won't give up without a fight. Two "men" enter, one man leaves!
Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 05, 2025 12:25 PM (iFTx/)

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It's important to note how the black vote gets reported in early polling of the 28 field.

Kamala keeps winning it. By dozens of points.

Newsom is usually in the single digits.

Booker spiked right around his filibuster, but he's gone back to being background noise.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a world of gods and monsters with James Whale at September 05, 2025 12:26 PM (GBKbO)

347 334 The MD state flag has been approved for draperies in all our fine hotels and motels.

K.S.G. Patel, owner, Travelers Most Excellent Motel

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at September 05, 2025 12:27 PM (gm9Sb)

348 Trump killed innocent Venezuelan tourists touristing in an innocent boat to distract from his disastrous job numbers !

--Every stupid news network
Posted by: runner

Supergenius Kathy Griffen says Trump is attacking Rosie Oh! to distract from all this Epstein stuff coming out.

https://is.gd/6Vuu2y

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks at September 05, 2025 12:27 PM (ysNEr)

349 @EndWokeness
·
1h
BREAKING: Shabana Mahmood named as UK Home Secretary, in charge of borders, police, immigration
https://tinyurl.com/nksbcdh4

nice burka

Posted by: Don Black. Message: Yes, it's true at September 05, 2025 12:28 PM (AOsQT)

350 MA should have one of those four quadrant flags, in each quadrant:

1) Gay Flag
2) Indian (dot) flag
3) Picture of Liz Warren in a headdress
4) Picture of a pig eating at a trough

No love for the Ted Kennedy/Chris Dodd waitress sandwich?

Posted by: Ian S. at September 05, 2025 12:28 PM (QZThv)

351 Top Tier is mostly a marketing exercise, but all name-brand gas comes from the same refinery in the area. It's all quality stuff.

There's a pipeline fill station that I pass on the way home. It's a fuel pipeline from Houston to just north of Dallas. I know of at least four different companies that fill their tankers there. Loves parks their fuel tanker on site.

Posted by: rickb223 at September 05, 2025 12:28 PM (VSujA)

352 One of my cars runs a little rough and I'm trying the 'Sea Foam' cleaner treatment on it for next few fillups, I'm hoping to see improvement. I'd like to also clean the throttle body and MAF sensor, but that's a pain and it's not throwing off a code yet. I'll try it though if the gas treatment doesn't work.
Posted by: Chuck Martel
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Depends on mileage and how much you can afford--many injectors are a pita nowadays to replace due to having to remove a bunch of junk to get to them. Used SeaFoam on small engines but tend toward Chevron Techron products for injector cleaners and stuff. STP is another product line that won't mess up your car.

Posted by: whig at September 05, 2025 12:28 PM (WDjG6)

353 Same as the pattern litigation against Trump and his officials like Navarro. All of this is plotted in advance to target people, freeze them by investigations, punish them with impoverishment by legal fees, and ultimately drive them out of the public square and power in government.

Sarah Palin was such a case in Alaska and this mode of Democrat lawfare has spread since then.
Posted by: whig at September 05, 2025 12:04 PM (WDjG6)

The knock on Sarah Palin was that she was a quitter, but that ignores the lawfare that was taking place at that time against her. I thought that line of attack was more than a little unfair, considering the circumstances. This seems to confirm that that was the opposition's plan all along.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at September 05, 2025 12:28 PM (0CU3H)

354 It's important to note how the black vote gets reported in early polling of the 28 field.

Kamala keeps winning it. By dozens of points.

Newsom is usually in the single digits.

Booker spiked right around his filibuster, but he's gone back to being background noise.

It's hard to imagine they're excited about any of those candidates. I think there's a strong possibility of a dark horse.

Posted by: Archimedes at September 05, 2025 12:28 PM (Riz8t)

355 Marketing hype. Neither AAA nor Consumer Reports inspire any confidence in me. Why own a car that needs to use extra-costly fuel, unless it's some kind of high-performance job?
___

If you go to Shell, Sunoco, Marathon or the other top 40 or so recongizable brands, that's what is coming out of the pump anyway no matter which octane level. You may save a couple of cents a gallon at Sheetz or the few other companies that aren't with the program.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at September 05, 2025 12:28 PM (Dv3i1)

356 A fair number of engines aren't direct injection and thus prone to carbon buildup.

I was surprised by the number of direct injection engines - mostly on the down-trim cars because DI is a trick to squeeze more performance and efficiency out of an undersized engine.

Hyundai/Kia use DI, their upscale Genesis brand uses hybrid - DI for moving, port injection when idle or not in need of performance/efficiency.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at September 05, 2025 12:29 PM (nAS9C)

357 BREAKING: Shabana Mahmood named as UK Home Secretary, in charge of borders, police, immigration

"England" will be renamed "Dirka-Dirkastan". I hope Gary's acting is ready.

Posted by: Ian S. at September 05, 2025 12:29 PM (QZThv)

358 @EndWokeness
·
1h
BREAKING: Shabana Mahmood named as UK Home Secretary, in charge of borders, police, immigration
https://tinyurl.com/nksbcdh4

nice burka
Posted by: Don Black. Message: Yes, it's true at September 05, 2025 12:28 PM (AOsQT)

Far cry from the Britain that tried to take over the world........

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 05, 2025 12:29 PM (Zz0t1)

359 One of my cars runs a little rough and I'm trying the 'Sea Foam' cleaner treatment on it for next few fillups, I'm hoping to see improvement. I'd like to also clean the throttle body and MAF sensor, but that's a pain and it's not throwing off a code yet. I'll try it though if the gas treatment doesn't work.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at September 05, 2025 12:24 PM (Dv3i1)

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I have a funny story about the MAF (Mass Airflow Sensor) -- a part I was unfamiliar with beforehand.

After an oil change, I start to drive my car out of the parking lot and it loses all power for some reason. Had it towed to the Dealer.

Service Advisor calls and says they "found a bug in my Mass Airflow Sensor." When I pick the car up, I ask: "So what, did you have to upgrade some firmware or something?"

Guy looks at me like I have two heads; turns out it was an actual physical bug body that was blocking the airflow (causing the fuel injection to cease). I suspect they checked my air filter and a dead bug body fell inside ...

Posted by: ShainS -- The 5th Great Awakening: MAGA is Winning the Culture Wars at September 05, 2025 12:29 PM (Jq918)

360 World Economic Forum guru Yuval Noah Harari stated the ugly truth when he said, “We just don’t need the vast majority of the population.”
.....

We certainly don't need people named Yuval.

Posted by: wth at September 05, 2025 12:29 PM (v0R5T)

361 308 Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas - Ace of Spades Ladies Brigade, plucky comic relief at

Will keep you in my prayers
Posted by: It's me donna at September 05, 2025 12:17 PM (VE6XX)

Same..

Posted by: Joe Kidd at September 05, 2025 12:29 PM (nbLIj)

362 nood

ace lum

Posted by: banana Dream at September 05, 2025 12:31 PM (3uBP9)

363 BREAKING: Shabana Mahmood named as UK Home Secretary, in charge of borders, police, immigration
https://tinyurl.com/nksbcdh4

nice burka
Posted by: Don Black. Message: Yes, it's true
......

I thought it was a dish towel.

Posted by: wth at September 05, 2025 12:31 PM (v0R5T)

364 I give my little KIA a treat of no ethanol every few months when I run the tank down and add a bottle of injector cleaner. After that it runs fine on 87 octane.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at September 05, 2025 12:31 PM (gm9Sb)

365 351 Top Tier is mostly a marketing exercise, but all name-brand gas comes from the same refinery in the area. It's all quality stuff.

There's a pipeline fill station that I pass on the way home. It's a fuel pipeline from Houston to just north of Dallas. I know of at least four different companies that fill their tankers there. Loves parks their fuel tanker on site.
Posted by: rickb223

My dad was partners with a guy (who used to work for him) hauling fuel out of the refinery in Memphis. The major difference in the gas loads are still the detergent packages--those are added per the fuel retailer just like the pump dispensers do while being fed into the tanker. That was directly at the refinery. Dunno how the gasoline pipeline loading facilities work but I'd imagine something similar.

So yes, same gas base, but additive packages vary among the retailer's load of gas heading out.

Posted by: whig at September 05, 2025 12:31 PM (WDjG6)

366 Nood
Ace is up, and slept well

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at September 05, 2025 12:31 PM (xcxpd)

367 MA loves ugliness, in design, in art, and in people...

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The only thing the progs hate more than beauty is truth.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks at September 05, 2025 12:32 PM (ysNEr)

368 343 * 2028 Presidential Hopeful Asshole JB "Jabba the Hut" Pritzker has entered the chat *
Posted by: ShainS
=======
I quit staying at any Hyatt hotel because of the Pritzker family toxicity. All of them are repulsive examples of humanity that I have read about. Penny, Troon Jennifer, JB, and his nasty sex fiend brother. Something wrong with that entire family plus they were major backers of Obammy way back. Penny helped run the country into the ground by waiving hi tech goods to China as Commerce Secretary and thence to Harvard's Board with her DEI crap. Jennifer, nuff said, wants to valid its choice by funding befuddled kids into cutting off their junk and living horrible lives after. Plus prodding state and local governments to troon the pop. JB is a horrible governor and horrible person demonstrated every time he opens his mouth. And the brother has had brushes with sex problems.
Posted by: whig at September 05, 2025 12:25 PM (WDjG6)

There is one good Pritzker. Tony Pritzker is a Republican, and has a massive house in CA. JackStraw would love that he's a Deadhead as well. He hosted a Dark Star Orchestra concert at his home when I was still living out n CA. Nice guy.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at September 05, 2025 12:32 PM (0CU3H)

369 >The MD state flag has been approved for draperies in all our fine hotels and motels.
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as a native Marylander, I object to this calumny!

It's a tablecloth
also suitable as a tapestry

Posted by: Don Black. Message: Yes, it's true at September 05, 2025 12:32 PM (AOsQT)

370 MA flag looked much better as it was with the Indian:

https://tinyurl.com/bdz7khcb

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 05, 2025 12:35 PM (2GCMq)

371 If you go to Shell, Sunoco, Marathon or the other top 40 or so recongizable brands, that's what is coming out of the pump anyway no matter which octane level. You may save a couple of cents a gallon at Sheetz or the few other companies that aren't with the program.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at September 05, 2025 12:28 PM (Dv3i1)

I usually buy the least expensive fuel I can find. It's a commodity, after all. The marginal improvement in mileage or performance to be had from more expensive fuel rarely justifies the premium in price.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 05, 2025 12:36 PM (efKgu)

372 Nood.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 05, 2025 12:36 PM (efKgu)

373 364 I give my little KIA a treat of no ethanol every few months when I run the tank down and add a bottle of injector cleaner. After that it runs fine on 87 octane.
Posted by: bill in arkansas,
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Where higher octane can actually help is long trips at high speed which also helps to burn out crap from stop and go city traffic and with older worn engines that have lost some compression affecting acceleration. Plus, some, not all, hi test may not have alcohol in it allowing for slightly better gas mileage on long trips.

Posted by: whig at September 05, 2025 12:39 PM (WDjG6)

374 A nice place to rest while battling insane trucks on I-81...
----------------
No shit. They should just call I-81 Amazon Highway.

Posted by: pudinhead at September 05, 2025 12:45 PM (c711F)

375 My wife and I a year ago walked around Las Vegas in one of the hottest periods there in years. It was like 120 F near the pavement.

We drank a lot of water and rarely had to pee, because we put electrolytes in every bottle of water we drank.

Posted by: Axeman at September 05, 2025 12:52 PM (9eaV3)

376 Buc-ees does something else Wall Street hates, it pays its employees, and pays them well.

Here is Tennessee, where money goes a little further, $125,000 is pretty good grease for managing a gas station.

Posted by: Every Time at September 05, 2025 01:10 PM (UXWBn)

377 United Air is the antithesis of the Buc-ee method. After being stuffed into a seat that barely would fit a child, and charged extra because it was close to an actually good seat, and after enjoying the bathroom which was like out of a bus station, I checked to see what the CEO was making after all this cost cutting due to the pandemic.

$33 million a year.

Posted by: Random PJ at September 05, 2025 01:12 PM (RRCAT)

378 We stopped at the one off of 81 nearish 66 going into DC. Totally packed and amazing how every employee we encountered was friendly and offered assistance. So far Buc’s is reliable. On frequently driven routes, have a list of stops to make or move along. There are some on 81 that are truly horrifying and disgusting.

Posted by: Hyacinth at September 05, 2025 01:15 PM (ryp7h)

379 Nic Update

Posted by: ShainS -- The 5th Great Awakening: MAGA is Winning the Culture Wars at September 05, 2025 02:57 PM (o48o8)

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