The Morning Report

The Morning Report — 9/10/25

Good morning kids. Midweek and there are quite a few things happening, beyond the total news blackout, or twisting of the narrative to preserve protect and defend the status of the subhuman Democrat-spawned savage as the real victim of his butchery of an innocent young woman on a Charlotte tramcar.

First we have the State of Israel swatting the radioactive hornet's nest of Hamas in Qatar.

In a post on Truth Social, Trump pointed out that “unilaterally bombing” Qatar, which has worked “very hard and bravely” to try to broker peace between Israel and Hamas, did “not advance” the goals of the United States or Israel. Trump also expressed that while “eliminating Hamas” was a “worthy goal,” Qatar is a strong ally to the U.S., and he felt “very badly” about the strike.
“This morning, the Trump Administration was notified by the United States Military that Israel was attacking Hamas which, very unfortunately, was located in a section of Doha, the Capital of Qatar,” Trump said. “This was a decision made by Prime Minister Netanyahu, it was not a decision made by me. Unilaterally bombing inside Qatar, a Sovereign Nation and close Ally of the United States, that is working very hard and bravely taking risks with us to broker Peace, does not advance Israel or America’s goals.”

Define the word "ally" for us Mr. President. Qatar is an ally of convenience, nothing more or less. As an Islamic nation first and foremost they culturally and philosophically do not share our values or ultimate geopolitical aims. About the best you can say about the Qataris is that they allow Hamas to be in their midst because it prevents Hamas from slitting their throats. And that's giving them too much of the benefit of the doubt. Yes, we have a huge military presence in that country but perhaps, all things considered we should rethink that. Oh well, it is what it is. At the end of the day, even if Israel were to utterly decimate the ranks of Hamas, the nature of Islam dictates that some other entity will emerge to take its place, perhaps under a different name but the 1500 year and counting quest to slit the throats of every Jew on the planet will go on. Even if Trump knows this, I suppose it is a huge domestic and international third rail he'd be stepping on if he were to utter that undeniable truth, and that's giving him the benefit of the doubt.

Elsewhere in the world, the Ukraine bloodletting now has the potential to get completely out of hand.

Poland shot down drones that entered its airspace during a widespread Russian attack in western Ukraine on Wednesday, with the NATO member calling the incursion “an act of aggression.”
Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said that he was in “constant contact” with NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte. Tusk has called for an emergency meeting of the council of ministers at 8 a.m., a government spokesman said.
Poland’s military command said drones repeatedly violated Polish airspace during the Russian attack across the border, in western Ukraine, but that operations against these violations had now concluded.. .
. . .“Some of the drones that entered our airspace were shot down. Searches and efforts to locate the potential crash sites of these objects are ongoing,” it said in a statement.
It urged people to stay at home, naming the regions of Podlaskie, Mazowieckie, and Lublin as most at risk, adding: “This is an act of aggression that posed a real threat to the safety of our citizens.”
. . .NATO has yet to comment on the incident. Since the war started in 2022, there have been several incidents of Russian drones entering the airspace of states bordering Ukraine, including Poland and Romania, but they have so far avoided shooting them down. Officials have cited the physical danger that such actions could cause and a desire to avoid an escalation in tensions between Russia and NATO.

Back here in the US-of-A, I posted a poll yesterday by our good friends at the estimable Heartland Institute in conjunction with Rasmussen about the sentiments of young voters that is disturbing in their attitudes about the direction of the nation.

And the beat goes on as Heartland/Rasmussen has released a couple more polls that are painting a rather frightening picture of the future political landscape of America. One of them is again in the lead.

Heartland/Rasmussen Poll: 59% of Young Voters Support Income Caps, 40% Support Penalties for Free Speech, and 59% Support UN Authority Over the United States

There are polls and then there are polls as we know all too well. Over the past few months, I have also reported on polls that seem to indicate just the opposite; a very significant shift of the youth vote away from the Left and and heavily towards the Right if not towards Trump/MAGA him/itself.

The contradictory nature of these polls is something that both CBD and I will raise with our very special guest, Jim Lakely the Comms director at Heartland on the upcoming podcast that will post a bit later today, so stay tuned for that.

While we're on that subject, we also have the Democrat Party itself seemingly tearing itself apart over the rise of this horrid scumbag Zohran Mamdani likely to be installed into Gracie Mansion as NYC's next mayor largely with the votes (legit and otherwise) of a sizable number of the city's youth, far too many of the self-gassing apostate Jews-by birth only and other fools, degenerates and the usual gang of idiots aka registered Democrats. This despite some pretty loud protests from very well-known Democrat pollsters, pols and pundits who see him and see disaster for their party. But, do they have it wrong? Is in-your-face socialism/Communism the future unmasked face of the Democrat Party?

On that note, John Fetterman, the improbable and at first glance laughable Democrat senator from Pennsylvania who we once derided as Lumpy, continues to pleasantly surprise me with his rationality and sanity in the face of the vile insanity of the positions that his party has embraced not just of late but historically in its unslakable thirst for absolute power and control.

First was his full-throated and unwavering support of the state of Israel and unequivocal condemnation of Hamas in the wake of the latter's terrorist mass wave assault and subsequent dark age savagery across southern Israel on 10/7. His words were the diametric opposite of much of the rest of his party, save for its leadership who at best knew that they had to fake even a tepid support of Israel to preserve the Jewish voting bloc and stave off the rusty hacksaws of the Hamas-niks of the "SQUAD" and their ilk.

And with that, I give you this latest gem from the Junior Senator from Pennsylvania:

Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) criticized Democrats who have been warming up to and embracing socialism while dismissing capitalism, describing them as “morons.”
. . . “Senator, there’s a Gallup poll that was released that 42 percent of Democrat voters view capitalism favorably, while 66 percent of Democrat voters view socialism favorably. Do you think that’s a messaging issue for Democrats?” a reporter asked.
“Oh, that’s a great, it’s a great question,” Fetterman responded. “I literally was in a former communist nation, and I asked that. I said, ‘Some people in my party, some of the lefties are talking about socialism now. What do you think?’ And he’s like, ‘That’s the worst thing ever. You would never want to live here, I’ve lived through that kind of a thing. You’re going to need a reality check if you ever adopt any of those things. You know, like, you are morons. It’s like, it was a nightmare for us, and now we are a free market nation.’ It was Croatia.”
. . . Fetterman continued to note that people in Croatia were “mystified” why Americans are “even having that conversation in our nation.”

Obviously not "morons" in the Ace of Spades HQ sense of the word but literal morons.

In a conversation with a friend of mine about the polls, while not dismissing them entirely, he did say that when more of Trump's economic policies kick in, many of these youthful poll respondents might have a very different view of things as their personal situations improve along with the rest of the nation.

It's a fair point, but that said the constant media and cultural drumbeat of "capitalism and Trump evil" along with at least 3 generations of propagandizing from Pre-K through Post-Grad has done quite a bit of damage and warped many minds along the way, as we are all too painfully aware.

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Have a great day!

ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY

“These results are deeply alarming. Young voters are not only embracing income redistribution and collectivist economics, but also expressing shocking support for dismantling America’s constitutional system and handing power to international organizations. These are radical views that strike at the heart of liberty and national sovereignty.”
Heartland/Rasmussen Poll: 59% of Young Voters Support Income Caps, 40% Support Penalties for Free Speech, and 59% Support UN Authority Over the United States
Kurt Schlichter: Remember, nobody is above the law, right?
Dems, Please Cry More About the New Rules
The campaign has triggered debate over religious freedom, legal norms, and concerns about the emergence of ‘Sharia patrols’ in the U.S.
‘Sharia Patrols’ in Texas Demand Alcohol, Pork Sales Halt.

CRIME & PUNISHMENT, NON-DOSTOYEVSKY

“We are heartbroken beyond words. Iryna came here to find peace and safety, and instead her life was stolen from her in the most horrific way,” a family spokesperson said in the statement.
Iryna Zarutska’s family speaks out after Ukrainian refugee slaughtered on train: ‘No family should have to go through this’
Passengers gathered around in an apparent attempt to massage Iryna Zarutska’s wounds after she was fatally stabbed on the night of Aug. 22, as shown in extended video footage released Tuesday by Headline USA. The suspect, a mentally ill homeless man with a lengthy criminal record, now faces local and federal charges and could be put to death if convicted in federal court, the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced Tuesday. (RELATED: Democrat DA Pushed Racial Equity As Crime Spiked Before Horrific Train Stabbing)
Bystanders Tried To Help Charlotte Stabbing Victim In Her Dying Moments
The Left can’t handle the truth.
‘I Got That White Girl’
Glenn H. Reynolds: In the last few days the horrific stabbing death of Iryna Zarutska by oft-arrested offender Decarlos Brown, Jr. on a Charlotte, NC, commuter train finally broke into the national conversation. National media — aside from this newspaper — studiously ignored the heinous Aug. 22 attack, while Wikipedia’s editors did their best to airbrush it. Why? Because they run interference for Democrats, and the story is political nitroglycerine.
Iryna Zarutska’s murder exposes the left’s utter incoherence on crime (They're not incoherent, Glenn; they're EVIL - jjs)
Urban dystopia isn’t confined to New York, Chicago, or Los Angeles—Charlotte, North Carolina, proves the next tier of cities is just as rotten. Iryna Zarutska—and millions of Americans—deserve better.
Charlotte’s Crime Sanctuary: You Can’t Spell Violence Without Vi
Lyles’ firmer statement does not acknowledge one released at the end of August to reporter Joe Bruno, in which she painted the killer as the real victim.
Charlotte Mayor Scrambles To Sound Less Evil After Comments Sympathizing With Stabber Prompt Backlash
Two women doing nothing out of the ordinary whose lives were cut short by criminals.
Maybe These Murders Aren’t So ‘Random’ After All
The two bills would prohibit federal funds from supporting programs that release violent offenders without posting bail
Stefanik Introduces Legislation Aimed at Making Trump’s Cashless Bail Ban Permanent
A friend of the 88-year-old owner said he “suffered a stroke and injuries from broken glass.”
Dozens of Masked Thieves Assault Elderly California Jewelry Store Owner

"BIDEN/HARRIS BORDER BLOODBATH," AMNESTY, IMMIGRATION, BORDER SECURITY, NEWSOM/DEMOCRAT VIOLENT INSURRECTION RIOTS
“Null and void,” Judge Mary Rosado lawlessly declared of Mayor Adams’ executive order reopening an ICE office on Rikers Island, as she invented an entirely new “legal” standard to reach her desired conclusion. That is, the problem was an “impermissible appearance of a conflict of interest” because she believes the mayor was simply out to please President Donald Trump. An appearance; reality is apparently irrelevant in Rosado’s chambers.
Manhattan Hack-in-black shit-whore judge’s ruling against ICE on Rikers is blatantly lawless
Biden’s team was running what amounts to a government-sanctioned child distribution network.
A Tragedy Worse Than Epstein’s Island, But With Less Paperwork
After Sciutto cut in to say that they will need some Democrat votes, Ansari responded, “Correct. And, again, my view is unless they are going to roll back some of the egregious policies that they passed a couple of weeks ago, unless they’re going to make sure that Medicaid isn’t cut, unless they’re going to take away funding from ICE, which they quadrupled in the last budget, then I do not intend to vote for this budget.”
Wog Shit-whore Dem Rep. Ansari: I’ll Shut Down Gov’t if We Don’t ‘Take Away Funding From’ ‘Rogue’ ICE
‘Consistency and neutrality are hallmarks of good judging, and in my view, we abide by those enduring judicial values in this case by granting the stay.’
SCOTUS’ ICE Ruling Is The Latest Embarrassment For Rogue Lower Courts
Biden gave temporary protected status to hundreds of thousands of illegal aliens.
New Bill Would Close Loophole That Lets Millions Of Illegals Work In United States
Other residents called it a “form of colonization,” because “foreigners come in with these different types of foods and then Mexicans have a tendency to adopt them as well.”
The NYT Won’t Say It, But Mexico City Is Learning A Lesson About Assimilation
CIVIL WAR 2.0: J-6 FBI FALSE FLAG "RIOT" & AFTERMATH, LEFTIST PERSECUTIONS, DEMOCRAT PUTSCH, AMERICAN DISSOLUTION
Oh, it gets better, you guys.
Hakeem Jeffries Picks Yum-Yum Swalwell to Lead New J6 Committee
'We do this work without any billing or publicity. These policies will be yours.'
How A Lefty Soviet Influence Group Formed A Shadow Government In Prosecutor Offices
U.S. Sen. Tim Kaine’s outrageous claim that our rights come from government and not God should be condemned by every religious leader in Virginia.
Sen. Tim Kaine Doesn’t Deserve to be Called a Virginian (the title he deserves ASAP is "the Late unlamented" - jjs)
Ragebait? Stupidest take you’ve ever seen from a Democrat? Or, both?
Nina Turner envisions a utopic America where ‘one job’ is enough…as she supports student loan payoffs, socialism, and reparations
DIVINE’s MADNESS — Ongoing Wave of transgender Terrorism
Under [so-called quote-unquote] President Biden, the FBI attempted to keep the transgender murderer’s writings under wraps. New pages are out.
New FBI Releases From Tennessee Christian School Shooter Call Out And Depict Demons
DOMESTIC AFFAIRS, THE COURTS, WASTE/FRAUD/ABUSE
The report now estimates the budget will eventually rise above $3 billion, cost that is eating away at NASA’s entire planetary budget, making other missions impossible. The project itself is far from ready, with multiple unfinished issues that make its present launch target of 2028 very unlikely.
another great example of our wonderful swamp in DC: NASA inspector general: Dragonfly mission is vastly over budget and behind schedule
THE ECONOMY, STUPID
The U.S. economy added nearly a million fewer jobs in the year through March 2025 than previously reported, according to preliminary figures released Tuesday by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The revision, the largest on record, suggests job growth during that period was running at roughly half the pace initially believed.
Biden’s Final Flop: 911,000 Fewer Jobs Than Reported in the Year Through March
The criticism highlights growing concerns about the Federal Reserve’s approach to monetary policy and its potential consequences for the U.S. economy.
Trump Ramps Up Pressure on Powell to Cut Rates Ahead of Pivotal Fed Meeting.
“Unwinding them could cause significant disruption.”
Supreme Court Ruling Against Trump Tariffs Could Trigger $1 Trillion Economic Disaster, Bessent Warns
ISRAEL AND USA vs Hamas, IRAN, et al
The IDF called the attack 'a precise strike targeting the senior leadership of the Hamas terrorist organization' in Doha
FAFO: Israel Strikes Hamas Leadership in Qatar as Top Terrorist Denigrates Ceasefire Deal Following Trump's 'Final Warning'
In a post on Truth Social, Trump pointed out that “unilaterally bombing” Qatar, which has worked “very hard and bravely” to try to broker peace between Israel and Hamas, did “not advance” the goals of the United States or Israel. Trump also expressed that while “eliminating Hamas” was a “worthy goal,” Qatar is a strong ally to the U.S., and he felt “very badly” about the strike. (UGH, Mr. President - jjs)
Trump Responds to Israel Strike on Hamas Leaders in Qatar: ‘Not a Decision Made by Me’
Hamas leaders have enjoyed a luxurious exile in Doha, living in plus five-star hotels and posh homes.
Israel Targets Hamas Leaders in Airstrike on Qatar Capital, Doha
“Tunisia’s interior ministry said the report has ‘no basis in truth,’ and that a fire broke out on the vessel itself.”
Tunisia: Thunberg’s Gaza Flotilla Not Hit by Drone, Fire Likely Caused by a Cigarette
Israel will even endanger its own men, sometimes leading to their deaths, trying to avoid killing civilians in Gaza, even though a majority of Gazans support jihad against Israel. In contrast, Hamas brutally rapes and murders Israelis of all ages while the Palestinian Authority financially rewards them.
Over 400 Genocide Scholars Say That Hamas, Not Israel, Committed Genocide
But the lie has gone two or three times around the world by now.
IDF Kills 'Palestinian' Boy, and Then the Boy Gives a TV Interview(Media to compare or declare him to he Jesus Christ, a favorite butchery of history by the 'Palestine' myth hustlers for years. - jjs)

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Israeli actress Gal Gadot deserves an apology.
A Victory for Hamas at Venice Film Festival
Ibrahim Abusharif teaches a mandatory seminar promoting Qatar after a lawsuit from a Hamas terror victim crippled the group he cofounded
In a Previous Life, He Ran an Organization That Funneled Money to Hamas. Now He's a Journalism Professor at Northwestern. (Like letting Chris Christie Be a product developer at Ben & Jerry's - jjs)
WE-ALL-SLAM-FOR-I-SLAM
"I won't shy away from decisions to protect kids"
UK PM Vows to Protect Kids From Energy Drinks, Not Muslim Rapists
Will he be prevented from treating Jewish patients?
Muslim Doctor in Belgium Lists ‘Jewish’ as a Medical Problem (Sound of Leon Degrelle cackling from hell - jjs)

FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUES, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER TECH
Their bias is showing.
'Republicans Pounce;' After ignoring murder of Ukrainian refugee, media covers conservative reaction, not the crime

SHAMPEACHMENTS, 2016 CLINTON/OBAMA COUP, CONGRESSIONAL PERSECUTION, SPYGATE, DEEP STATE, MUELLER DECEPTION
Again, when have statements defending yourself or denying allegations been defamatory? I just don’t get it.
Court Upholds Carroll’s $83 Million Defamation Award Against Trump
RED-GREENS, CLIMATE CHANGE HOAX, DEMOCRAT-LEFT WAR ON FOSSIL FUELS,
How many more can it stand before it breaks?
Another Crack Appears In The Global Warming Narrative
Newsom touts “clean energy” as California’s growth engine, but fact-checks reveal costly mandates, false claims, and heavy reliance on gas, oil, and nuclear to keep the lights on.
Fact-Checking Newsom’s ‘Clean Energy’ Claims
Coal, the energy source routinely demonized in Western capitals and at global climate summits, has met nearly all of the ASEAN nation's new electricity needs. (they're not stupid, they're third world - jjs)
The developing world embraces coal

EDUCATION, AND WHAT PASSES FOR IT
"The achievement gap between students is widening, not shrinking."
‘Nation’s Report Card’ Finds Reading Scores For High School Seniors At Record Lows
Parental freedom expands - and teachers’ unions resort to litigation.
School Choice Battles Are Widespread
AMERICA AND THE WORLD IMPRISONED: CHINESE+Fauci-created CORONAVIRUS FICTIONS AND FACTS
We were lied to about everything. We were lied to about natural immunity. We were told again and again the vaccines would prevent transmission, they’d prevent infection. It wasn’t true. They knew it wasn’t true from the start, because that’s what the animal studies and clinical trials showed.
New study of 300,000 people in Italy proves COVID jab caused gigantic increase in cancer cases
DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST AND RINO SCANDALS, MESHUGAS, CHUTZPOCRISY
Cherfilus-McCormick’s campaign began working with Mark Goodrich — a political consultant who had previously worked for Republicans — in 2021, while running in a special election for the south Florida House seat she currently represents. The Coolidge-Reagan Foundation’s Aug. 11 legal complaint to the FEC, based on an investigation by the Office of Congressional Ethics’ (OCE), alleges Cherfilus-McCormick’s campaign failed to report illegal in-kind contributions from an organization with ties to Goodrich and the congresswoman’s family.
Democrat Florida Rep. Cherfilus-McCormick Under Investigation For Alleged Fraud (Is she related to ChikFilA? - jjs

POLITICS
The revelation comes after committed socialist Zohran Mamdani claimed the Democrat primary in the race for New York City mayor.
Poll: Democrats Lurch Left, Embrace Socialism as Republicans Stand Firm with Capitalism
Fetterman continued to explain how one guy expressed that socialism is “the worst thing ever” and warned that people would “never want to live” in a country with socialism.
Sen. Fetterman Slams Democrats Embracing Socialism: ‘You Are Morons’
While Trump remains energetic and committed to his MAGA agenda.
Democrats Descend to Deeper Depths of Trump Despair
Let's start with Texas, where Republicans are poised to add up to five additional seats through redistricting. That's five more reliable conservative votes in a chamber where control often comes down to a handful of seats. Meanwhile, California Democrats are scrambling to squeeze more seats from an already gerrymandered state. They've already maximized their redistricting potential in the Golden State, leaving little room for meaningful gains even if they pursue further changes.
Here's How Badly Democrats Messed up Their Redistricting Gamble
Christopher F. Rufo: A shift from dissident to establishment has opportunities—and pitfalls.
The Conservative Movement at a Crossroads
Anger is a poor substitute for a vision.
Democrats Appeal to Miserable People

THE UKRAINIAN "FRONT"
Poland’s military command said drones repeatedly violated Polish airspace during the Russian attack across the border, in western Ukraine, but that operations against these violations had now concluded.
'Real threat' Poland shoots down drones in its airspace during Russia’s Ukraine attack, calls violation act of aggression
The bomb hit the village of Yarova in the Donetsk region, Zelenskyy said in a post on Telegram.
Russian Glide Bomb Kills At Least 21 in Ukraine Pension Line
FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL
Schwezier said, “I think it’s so important that President Trump is taking a strategic approach to the fentanyl crisis, because Joe Biden thought it was just a healthcare issue. The bottom line is, this is a Chinese operation, the drug cartels are the junior partners.”
Schweizer: Cartels Are CCP’s ‘Junior Partners’
The African Union plans to formulate its own reparations demands, following the Caribbean’s call for trillions in compensation.
Africa Demands Reparations From Britain.
Labour’s failures on migration, jobs, and taxes fuel the Reform UK leader’s political resurgence.
Keir Starmer’s Incompetence Is Pushing Voters into Nigel Farage’s Arms (Starmer is Oswald Moseley in a burqa - jjs)
When it comes to the causes of Germany’s collapse, there is an iron silence in both corporate boardrooms and political circles.
Will Germany's Bogus Elite Ride Out the Coming Economic Collapse?
FEMINAZISM, TRANSGENDER PSYCHOSIS, HOMOSEXUALIZATION, WAR ON MASCULINITY/NORMALCY
This is a terrible thing for society.
Poll: Young leftist women (that is, most young women) reject marriage and children
CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE
Trump's intent to rededicate America to its Christian origins is not only a commitment, but a transformation into what the United States was founded to be.
Trump's 'One Nation Under God' initiative brings America back to its Christian roots
Christian Toto: Bipartisan rom-com tries to heal divided nation ... but there's a problem
Why Is Everyone Afraid of ‘Elephant in the Room?’

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Posted by: J.J. Sefton at 07:31 AM

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1 Good morning, J.J.
Good morning, Horde.

Posted by: Inogame at September 10, 2025 07:31 AM (53oGX)

2 Not first.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at September 10, 2025 07:32 AM (0N4FZ)

3 Its Hump Day

Posted by: r hennigantx at September 10, 2025 07:32 AM (gbOdA)

4 I called to the tech thread...

Posted by: Inogame at September 10, 2025 07:32 AM (53oGX)

5 Good morning horde!

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 10, 2025 07:32 AM (ExV1e)

6
*cracks knuckles loudly*

Good morning, Hordians. Shall we begin?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 10, 2025 07:33 AM (kkTda)

7 Yonder Horde

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 10, 2025 07:33 AM (Q4IgG)

8 Morning, early risers and news junkies! I slept late, for me anyway, and have been taking it easy this morning. Didn't get to the Tech Thread. Grumpy & Recalcitrant, if you see this, yes, I saw your comment on the Tuesday Tech Thread. Thanks!

The Killer Kittenz From Outer Space have been fed and are dozing. I've had breakfast and a pipe. Now it's time for me to go back up and read JJ's news roundup.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 10, 2025 07:34 AM (omVj0)

9
I called to the tech thread...
Posted by: Inogame at September 10, 2025 07:32 AM (53oGX)

Do you expect to be thanked for doing your job?

/60s dad

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 10, 2025 07:36 AM (kkTda)

10 59% said they would support a proposal for a new constitutional amendment that would give the United Nations authority to oversee the Supreme Court and president to ensure Americans’ rights are being protected

Sheep deciding the herders crook and dog are too controlling and move across the fence to wooded area guarded by wolves.

Posted by: r hennigantx at September 10, 2025 07:37 AM (gbOdA)

11 I just look at the ADP number as those are real checks, cut to real people, by real companies.

Posted by: r hennigantx at September 10, 2025 07:38 AM (gbOdA)

12 Good morning!

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

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 10, 2025 07:38 AM (u82oZ)

13 You rock, JJ! Thank you!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at September 10, 2025 07:39 AM (ppG5b)

14 The prosecutions of Letitia James and Adam Schiff, which are totally coming, will be glorious. They’re both particularly obnoxious creatures whose existence was made possible by a rotten establishment and a craven regime media.

And we still do not know the crime! What was the crime?

Posted by: r hennigantx at September 10, 2025 07:39 AM (gbOdA)

15 Alleged FED Fraudster keeps job. Until SC reverses.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 10, 2025 07:40 AM (0eaVi)

16 From the "while they were posturing " Dept. Finance Minister Smotrich has mostly annexed Judea and Samaria. The importance of this move is huge.

Posted by: Ben Had at September 10, 2025 07:41 AM (mFSH6)

17 > And the beat goes on as Heartland/Rasmussen has released a couple more polls that are painting a rather frightening picture of the future political landscape of America. One of them is again in the lead.

Heartland/Rasmussen Poll: 59% of Young Voters Support Income Caps, 40% Support Penalties for Free Speech, and 59% Support UN Authority Over the United States
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When (not if) the left regains the levers of power you can bet your very last dollar this will be the direction of the country... at warp speed. With mechanisms in place to keep it that way.

Plan accordingly. Or act soon. Later you won't be given a choice. But, at least the Democrats are spelling out exactly what to expect... as they do.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 10, 2025 07:41 AM (Q4IgG)

18 Everyone should watch this JRE podcast about our current fuckery in the medical/ pharmacy arena.

https://youtu.be/By17xYkP6jg?si=wwUoTYe4A40JiMT4

Posted by: Elrond Hubbard at September 10, 2025 07:41 AM (ekM0A)

19 ‘Sharia Patrols’ in Texas Demand Alcohol, Pork Sales Halt.

It is long overdue to have an Operation Wetback for Muslims. They simply cannot be allowed to live in this country.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at September 10, 2025 07:42 AM (ufSfZ)

20 “This is how Sharia zones take root.” – Amy Mekelburg of the RAIR Foundation

Sharia patrol was making their rounds
So he fired a shot just to flag em down
A big bellied Imam grabbed his gun and said
"Why'd you do it?"

Posted by: r hennigantx at September 10, 2025 07:42 AM (gbOdA)

21 I do not intend to vote for this budget

So... a Democrat is saying they'll vote against a budget while the Democrats are the minority party? Bold pledge.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 10, 2025 07:42 AM (ExV1e)

22 "59% said they would support a proposal for a new constitutional amendment that would give the United Nations authority to oversee the Supreme Court and president to ensure Americans’ rights are being protected"

It's the old, "Sell the Sizzle," sales trick. Or scam, if you prefer.

The theory of The United Nations sounds great on paper, when in reality it's just another crooked scam.

Posted by: davidt at September 10, 2025 07:43 AM (i0F8b)

23 (UGH, Mr. President - jjs)

I suspect that it's just realpolitik.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 10, 2025 07:45 AM (ExV1e)

24 VA special election yesterday (almost 75-25 D-R in a district not THAT split) shows how this VA election is likely to go. In VA, Ds are energized and Rs are not...so even with the good news of Ds statewide imploding, it's likely not going to matter enough.

As I've said, job and unemployment numbers are currently false here b/c of the way feds were let go (aka, still not actually considered "unemployed" yet, even now) and even with them not in the number, VA is worse than last year...especially in NoVa...and jobs determine most elections...an energized NoVa sweeps VA for Ds...an energized rest of VA (which is not having the jobs problem) sweeps VA for Rs...we only have the former right now...

My spouse and I did vote for the R b/c he was a good guy...maybe in a future tilt a couple years down the line, he can stand a chance...

Posted by: Nova Local at September 10, 2025 07:46 AM (tOcjL)

25 Heartland/Rasmussen Poll: 59% of Young Voters Support Income Caps, 40% Support Penalties for Free Speech, and 59% Support UN Authority Over the United States

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I always take these kinds of polls with a grain of salt, just because young people are ignorant and reality slaps most of them in the face as they grow and mature.

But I'd be remiss if I didn't say I feel extreme alarm at this. If these answered questions, and the % of young people are really represented here as a whole, we have big problems coming our way in the next few short decades. It's a Kiss America Goodbye foreboding.

Posted by: Lady in Black at September 10, 2025 07:47 AM (qBdHI)

26
Fetterman has been assimilated into the Lump.

A Mossad operation, for sure.

Posted by: Auspex at September 10, 2025 07:47 AM (Y8DZL)

27 Biden Judge Jia Cobb Blocks President Trump From Firing Embattled Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook – Her Sorority Sister!

Posted by: SMOD at September 10, 2025 07:47 AM (pqKih)

28 New study of 300,000 people in Italy proves COVID jab caused gigantic increase in cancer cases

That's, what, four national studies now? Pretty soon I'm gonna start wondering about the safety of those shots.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 10, 2025 07:48 AM (ExV1e)

29 We may have a minor flareup of Musk Derangement Syndrom soon. In response to the stabbing of the young Ukrainian lady, someone on X posted:

White people have a simple choice to make:

1. Be conquered, enslaved, raped, and genocided while being called "racist."

2. Reclaim our nations and dignity while being called "racist."

And Musk responded with a simple "Yes".

Scott Adams would be proud lol.

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at September 10, 2025 07:49 AM (ycI94)

30 They investigated and found an illegal firearm. Dabney was charged with possession of a sawed-off shotgun, altering or removing the serial number on a firearm, unlawfully carrying a concealed weapon, trespassing, and public intoxication. He received unsupervised probation and a fine.

No permit and no stamp:2 Fed violations of 1934
Transfer, Ownership, Criminal Use: 3 Fed violations of 1968.
So why wasn't this info turned over to ATF? I count at least 5 Fed Crimes.

Posted by: r hennigantx at September 10, 2025 07:49 AM (gbOdA)

31 The theory of The United Nations sounds great on paper, when in reality it's just another crooked scam.
Posted by: davidt at September 10, 2025 07:43 AM (i0F8b)

The theory doesn't even sound good. This country was created by telling a foreign power to stuff it. Fuck those guys. All of them.

Americans need to rediscover their hostility.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at September 10, 2025 07:49 AM (2+SeL)

32 Why would “our precious democracy” cede authority away from We The People to an outside foreign entity?

Turns out they aren’t democratic. We knew that, but it’s always interesting to watch their origami logic at work.

Posted by: Common Tater at September 10, 2025 07:49 AM (PVt/n)

33 17 Heartland/Rasmussen Poll: 59% of Young Voters Support Income Caps, 40% Support Penalties for Free Speech, and 59% Support UN Authority Over the United States
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Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 10, 2025 07:41 AM (Q4IgG)

"I want whatever it takes to get revenge on my dad because he wouldn't let me go to school dressed as an anime character" is as far as "young voters" are thinking, if they're thinking at all.

Posted by: XTC at September 10, 2025 07:50 AM (UnA8+)

34 'Real threat' Poland shoots down drones in its airspace during Russia’s Ukraine attack, calls violation act of aggression

Not sure that I believe anything an EU nation says about a conflict that they're invested in prolonging.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 10, 2025 07:50 AM (ExV1e)

35 I believe Fetterman is the senior senator from Pennsylvania.

Nitpicking.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at September 10, 2025 07:50 AM (4Yjdo)

36 The bomb hit the village of Yarova in the Donetsk region, Zelenskyy said in a post on Telegram.
Russian Glide Bomb Kills At Least 21 in Ukraine Pension Line

And I wouldn't believe Zelenskyy if he said that water was wet.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 10, 2025 07:51 AM (ExV1e)

37 In local news, Dondrea Katia Sallad, 28, Yarshae Remairia Dent, 32, Nigeria Lashaine McClendon, 30, and Ashele Shana Floyd Syed, 34 were arrested after shoplifting bags of goods from a Bed Bath & Beyond. All four of these people have something in common. Three names!

Posted by: fd at September 10, 2025 07:51 AM (vFG9F)

38 It looks like “Judge” Cobb believes not even the Fed chair can fire for cause? Way too many cretins in gubbmint.

Who has authority to fire, then?

Posted by: Common Tater at September 10, 2025 07:52 AM (PVt/n)

39 The USPS is hiring postal inspectors, nationwide.

You get a cool badge and a windbreaker. Plus, once you get in, it's likely you'll never be fired. IYKWIM

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 10, 2025 07:52 AM (Q4IgG)

40 “ When Jesus spoke again to the people, he said, “I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will never walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.””

John 8:12

Posted by: Marcus T at September 10, 2025 07:53 AM (lMONC)

41 Marcus, thank you for posting one of my favorite Bible quotes.

Posted by: Lady in Black at September 10, 2025 07:55 AM (qBdHI)

42 39 The USPS is hiring postal inspectors, nationwide.

You get a cool badge and a windbreaker. Plus, once you get in, it's likely you'll never be fired. IYKWIM
Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 10, 2025 07:52 AM (Q4IgG)

As long as you steal the required quota of ballots and fill them out for the Democrats

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at September 10, 2025 07:55 AM (x0n13)

43 All four of these people have something in common. Three names!

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Also they're fugly

https://www.41nbc.com/ four-women-arrested-in-felony- shoplifting-case-at-macon-bath-body-works/

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at September 10, 2025 07:55 AM (4Yjdo)

44 Democrats Appeal to Miserable People

They don't appeal to me.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at September 10, 2025 07:56 AM (ufSfZ)

45 Trump just announced that he's having the FDA go after direct-to-consumer drug ads. This is a stake through the heart of cable news which has lived off these ads. How else can they pay Rachel?

Cynical me says Pharma was paying for these ads for protection from Media looking into Pharma's nefarious doings.

Posted by: Ignoramus at September 10, 2025 07:56 AM (dtajH)

46 “What Happened to Mexico City’s Food Scene?” The New York Times’ Priya Krishna asked on Monday.

The culprits?

“Americans,” Krishna emphatically declares.

So 24,000 Americans have changed all of the food in a city of 23 MILLION.

Fucking idiot.

Posted by: r hennigantx at September 10, 2025 07:56 AM (gbOdA)

47 59% said they would support a proposal for a new constitutional amendment that would give the United Nations authority to oversee the Supreme Court and president to ensure Americans’ rights are being protected

That is because they have no imagination. They think that the UN is some magical place where only the best people from around the world gather, the giant brains throbbing as they solve exactly none of the world's problems.

It would be almost comical to see people discover that the UN decided that the American people had the right to be taxed into oblivion with the money sent to other countries and no longer had the right to amend the Constitution without the permission of the UN.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 10, 2025 07:57 AM (ExV1e)

48 Also they're fugly

https://www.41nbc.com/ four-women-arrested-in-felony- shoplifting-case-at-macon-bath-body-works/
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at September 10, 2025 07:55 AM (4Yjdo)

And all are smiling in mug shots as they know they will be back there "shopping" next week.

Posted by: r hennigantx at September 10, 2025 07:58 AM (gbOdA)

49 Officials have cited the physical danger that such actions could cause and a desire to avoid an escalation in tensions between Russia and NATO.

The longer this war drags on, the more risk that something like this will lead to a NATO member being attacked, accidentally, intentionally, or a false flag.

I still think Trump should just wash his hands of it all, and let the EU deal with this. They obviously don’t want it to end as much as Zelenskyy, so let them deal with the consequences.

If they don’t want to give up the land and sign the peace agreement to end it, more power to them.

But let’s leave us out of their fight,
I’m tired of the games from all sides of this avoidable war.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 10, 2025 07:58 AM (6ydKt)

50 46 “What Happened to Mexico City’s Food Scene?” The New York Times’ Priya Krishna asked on Monday.

The culprits?

“Americans,” Krishna emphatically declares.

So 24,000 Americans have changed all of the food in a city of 23 MILLION.

Fucking idiot.
Posted by: r hennigantx at September 10, 2025 07:56 AM (gbOdA)

Now go after Bobby Flay and Rick Bayliss for cultural appropriation, bitch!

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at September 10, 2025 07:58 AM (x0n13)

51 “Unwinding them could cause significant disruption.”
Supreme Court Ruling Against Trump Tariffs Could Trigger $1 Trillion Economic Disaster, Bessent Warns

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This leaves me unsettled. I don't know why, particularly, other than it would be a sure-fire and easy way to sink the economy and, thus, obliterate Trump's presidency. I don't trust whatever machinations are going on behind the scenes. It's all too easy to believe they'd harm the country just to get rid of Trump and all that that implies.

Posted by: Lady in Black at September 10, 2025 07:58 AM (qBdHI)

52 Good morning JJ and horde
Have I mentioned I h8 my coworkers lately?

Posted by: Skip at September 10, 2025 07:59 AM (RHxs6)

53 Morning again all

Posted by: rickb223 at September 10, 2025 07:59 AM (bvx1O)

54 >> Posted by: Lady in Black at September 10, 2025 07:55 AM (qBdHI)

Amen my friend. May God Bless you and all here this day.

Posted by: Marcus T at September 10, 2025 07:59 AM (lMONC)

55 Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing

You have talent, achievements, and presumably, strong ethics. Of course you are immune.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 10, 2025 08:00 AM (u82oZ)

56 I dispute these polls. Young men in particular are rejecting Leftism. How much they act on that is TBD.

Posted by: Ignoramus at September 10, 2025 08:01 AM (dtajH)

57 Lady in Black

Nepal's yut had an answer.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 10, 2025 08:01 AM (u82oZ)

58 Democrats Appeal to Miserable People

They don't appeal to me.

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I read between the lines there, MP3. ;-)

I'd say they appeal to envious, angry freaks of all kinds.

Posted by: Lady in Black at September 10, 2025 08:01 AM (qBdHI)

59 Nepal is going whole hog.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at September 10, 2025 08:02 AM (+LUqy)

60 Lady in Black

Does a Supreme Court decision make national suicide a requirement?

Don't think so. But head on a swivel, and have a plan.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 10, 2025 08:02 AM (u82oZ)

61 Fetterman?

Enjoy his talk.

Pay attention to his voting record.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at September 10, 2025 08:02 AM (4tvN6)

62 The suspects were identified as 28-year-old Dondrea Katia Sallad, 32-year-old Yarshae Remairia Dent, 30-year-old Nigeria Lashaine McClendon and 34-year-old Ashele Shana Floyd Syed.

Dodrea could use a few Sallads.

Nigeria?

Come on, I thought they were supposed to be a little more creative in the Names For Black Kids contest?

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 10, 2025 08:04 AM (6ydKt)

63 This leaves me unsettled. I don't know why, particularly, other than it would be a sure-fire and easy way to sink the economy and, thus, obliterate Trump's presidency.
Posted by: Lady in Black at September 10, 2025 07:58 AM (qBdHI)

Would it obliterate Trump? People know that things are getting better. If SCOTUS undoes something that Trump did and then everything goes into the shitter, seems like that would vindicated Trump - even more - and might light a fire under the asses of the asses in Congress to do their fucking jobs.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 10, 2025 08:04 AM (ExV1e)

64 >59% of Young Voters Support Income Caps, 40% Support Penalties for Free Speech, and 59% Support UN Authority Over the United States
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Obviously, young voters are stupid

Posted by: Don Black at September 10, 2025 08:05 AM (AOsQT)

65 I've been seeing a bunch of tv commercials the past few days..."our national parks are in crisis! Thousands of employees have been forced out and we're all paying the price. Call Congress today and save our parks before it's too late!"

Before it's too late? Is a meteor coming?

Posted by: Lady in Black at September 10, 2025 08:06 AM (qBdHI)

66 6
*cracks knuckles loudly*

Good morning, Hordians. Shall we begin?
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

I used to crack my knuckles like that, until I developed Arthuritis.

Posted by: Fred G. Sanford. at September 10, 2025 08:06 AM (oftw2)

67 39 The USPS is hiring postal inspectors, nationwide.

You get a cool badge and a windbreaker. Plus, once you get in, it's likely you'll never be fired. IYKWIM
Posted by: Martini Farmer

Two packages we've mailed this year have been opened, contents stolen, resealed then delivered. We reported it.

An inside job, or the FBI is sending us a message.

Posted by: Auspex at September 10, 2025 08:08 AM (Y8DZL)

68 *cracks knuckles loudly*

Rev can't do that, nor can he whistle

Posted by: Grammie Wingers' ipad at September 10, 2025 08:08 AM (DCWfW)

69 Before it's too late? Is a meteor coming?
Posted by: Lady in Black at September 10, 2025 08:06 AM (qBdHI)

Well, obviously, those parks will completely fall apart and revert back to natural wilderness if there aren’t any park rangers around to keep the Chinese tourists in line.

Think of the horror of national parks without an overpaid tour guide in a funny looking hat.

And we can’t have that now can we?

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 10, 2025 08:08 AM (6ydKt)

70 If SCOTUS undoes something that Trump did and then everything goes into the shitter, seems like that would vindicated Trump - even more - and might light a fire under the asses of the asses in Congress to do their fucking jobs.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 10, 2025 08:04 AM (ExV1e)

Job? We'll have you know our job is to get re-elected! Doing the people's business takes a distant - far distant - second, or third, or fifth to creating generational wealth.

Posted by: 538 of US at September 10, 2025 08:09 AM (0eaVi)

71 Trump is aggressively using tariffs but he's legally based his actions by declaring emergencies over fentanyl and trade deficits. This should be enough for SCOTUS.

If not, Trump has made it known that SCOTUS will be responsible for the resulting catastrophe. Your move Roberts.

Posted by: Ignoramus at September 10, 2025 08:09 AM (dtajH)

72 59 Nepal is going whole hog.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at September 10, 2025 08:02 AM (+LUqy)

My Nepals are bursting with excitement...

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at September 10, 2025 08:11 AM (x0n13)

73 Come on, I thought they were supposed to be a little more creative in the Names For Black Kids contest?
Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 10, 2025 08:04 AM (6ydKt)

.............

One of my favorites was a black woman working in the cashiers cage in Vegas. Her nametag was LaTina.

Posted by: Molly k. at September 10, 2025 08:11 AM (j/yko)

74 Obviously, young voters are stupid
Posted by: Don Black

They have been conditioned to give the responses their teachers want to hear, polls skew in the same manner.

Yes, it's like the dad handing the baseball over.

Posted by: Auspex at September 10, 2025 08:11 AM (Y8DZL)

75 Democrat Florida Rep. Cherfilus-McCormick Under Investigation For Alleged Fraud

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Don't take Cherfilus if you're allergic to Cherfilus. Side affects may include nausea, diarrhea, headache, hives, piles, tremors and insomnia.

Posted by: Lady in Black at September 10, 2025 08:12 AM (qBdHI)

76 - Okay, the thread is now official.

Grammie Wingers' IPad has shown up.
Hi Grammie,
I watched highlights last night of the Cubs beating the Braves.
Thought about you the entire time.
🙏

Posted by: TeeJ at September 10, 2025 08:13 AM (eDPLA)

77 Just spent time in 2 national parks. Except for Zion where the contractor that runs their housing and food service everything was running smoothly when it came to actual park employees.

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at September 10, 2025 08:13 AM (xMQ8n)

78 You're sweet TeeJ

Posted by: Grammie Wingers' ipad at September 10, 2025 08:13 AM (DCWfW)

79 It's just a minor incursion.

Posted by: Creepy Joe Biden at September 10, 2025 08:13 AM (XQo4F)

80 One of my favorites was a black woman working in the cashiers cage in Vegas. Her nametag was LaTina.
Posted by: Molly k. at September 10, 2025 08:11 AM (j/yko)

They’ve got a thing for adding a ‘La’ or ‘Le’ to names.

I guess having some French makes it a little more chic.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 10, 2025 08:15 AM (6ydKt)

81 79 It's just a minor incursion.
Posted by: Creepy Joe Biden at September 10, 2025 08:13 AM (XQo4F)

Also known as Biden's shower time with daughter.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at September 10, 2025 08:17 AM (x0n13)

82 59% said they would support a proposal for a new constitutional amendment that would give the United Nations authority to oversee the Supreme Court and president to ensure Americans’ rights are being protected

That is because they have no imagination. They think that the UN is some magical place where only the best people from around the world gather, the giant brains throbbing as they solve exactly none of the world's problems.

It would be almost comical to see people discover that the UN decided that the American people had the right to be taxed into oblivion with the money sent to other countries and no longer had the right to amend the Constitution without the permission of the UN.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic

And magically, no 1st or 2nd Amendments.

Posted by: rickb223 at September 10, 2025 08:18 AM (bvx1O)

83 80 One of my favorites was a black woman working in the cashiers cage in Vegas. Her nametag was LaTina.
Posted by: Molly k. at September 10, 2025 08:11 AM (j/yko)

They’ve got a thing for adding a ‘La’ or ‘Le’ to names.

I guess having some French makes it a little more chic.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 10, 2025 08:15 AM (6ydKt)

Just add Pute Salope after your name, sweetie!

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at September 10, 2025 08:18 AM (x0n13)

84 "They’ve got a thing for adding a ‘La’ or ‘Le’ to names.

I guess having some French makes it a little more chic.
Posted by: SpeakingOf"

One of my favorites I saw last month was "Travodka".

Posted by: fd at September 10, 2025 08:18 AM (vFG9F)

85 I presume that Trump's criticism of the Israeli attack on Hamas in Qatar, and his talking up of Qatar, is disingenuous.

Undoubtedly, the US really needs the large military base we have there, so that's why he said what he said. There will be no sanctions against Israel for it, and I have to wonder just how "unilateral" the attack really was.

Seems like I've heard Qatar has been sponsoring terrorism over the years. Trump knows they're not nice guys, but his whole career has been based on the recognition that to be successful, you often have to deal effectively with people you don't like.

Posted by: MrExcitement at September 10, 2025 08:19 AM (hOOi9)

86 Two links about criminal-releasing NC judge Teresa Stokes:

https://tinyurl.com/3ffmndsf

https://tinyurl.com/yuz567h8

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at September 10, 2025 08:19 AM (4tvN6)

87 Now the ruZZian Nazis have attacked our NATO ally Poland and murdered 21 pensioners standing in line in Ukraine, as well as blowing up orphanages and old age homes and atrocities against women and children… what happened on a train in Charlotte that’s got everyone in an uproar happens every in Ukraine perpetrated by the ruZZian Nazi animals. What’s Trump gonna do about it? Roll out another red carpet for Nazi Putin?

Posted by: Tucker Carlson is an antisemitic racist at September 10, 2025 08:21 AM (NgjaL)

88 Posted by: Tucker Carlson is an antisemitic racist at September 10, 2025 08:21 AM (NgjaL)

I suspect that anti-war Carlson would overrule anti-Jew Carlson where Russia/Ukraine is concerned.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 10, 2025 08:23 AM (ExV1e)

89 a case that has turned into a flashpoint as the Trump administration

MAGA influencers are drawing repeated attention

The video is easily shared or leaked, and can instantly pollinate

Driving the news

Even noticing the CRIME is now almost CRIMINAL

Posted by: r hennigantx at September 10, 2025 08:24 AM (gbOdA)

90 New study of 300,000 people in Italy proves COVID jab caused gigantic increase in cancer cases

That's, what, four national studies now? Pretty soon I'm gonna start wondering about the safety of those shots.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 10, 2025 07:48 AM

And they are still passing those shots out. Big sign at Krogers when you walk in the door. Get your flu shot and your covid booster for free today at your Kroger pharmacy!

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at September 10, 2025 08:24 AM (0N4FZ)

91 It's National TV Dinner Day.

Posted by: redridinghood at September 10, 2025 08:26 AM (NpAcC)

92 Morning Horse, thx JJ.
Judge Cobb may have just sealed the final fate of Humphrey's Executor. The SC has been looking for the right case and this is the clearest message as to "independent agency ' gibberish.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 10, 2025 08:26 AM (Ve63F)

93 Media tried to bury that horrific murder, even as a local story, but citizen journalists got the news out.

Interesting development, no?

Posted by: Ignoramus at September 10, 2025 08:27 AM (dtajH)

94 The Post Office is weird. They have a mix of employees. Some are absolutely the finest people you’ll ever want to meet. It is not an easy job being a clerk or carrier. They get actual work out of people, trust me. They also have a non-trivial number of absolute shit heads, who cannot ever be fired, for all practical purposes. They too often go into management compounding the problem

Posted by: Common Tater at September 10, 2025 08:27 AM (jP603)

95 Mornin’, All. Happy Wednesday.

Posted by: Bulg at September 10, 2025 08:28 AM (77rzZ)

96 “approximately 95% of the suitable locations” researchers looked at showed “no statistically significant acceleration of the rate of sea level rise.”

Posted by: r hennigantx at September 10, 2025 08:28 AM (gbOdA)

97 And they are still passing those shots out. Big sign at Krogers when you walk in the door. Get your flu shot and your covid booster for free today at your Kroger pharmacy!
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at September 10, 2025 08:24 AM (0N4FZ)

Wypepo must die. Come in and get your FREE euthanasia shot! FREE!

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 10, 2025 08:28 AM (ExV1e)

98 Posted by: Lady in Black at September 10, 2025 08:12 AM (qBdHI)

It does sound like sound kind of medication. It's probably better as part of a last name, than the first name of the judge ruling against Trump named "Sparkle" whatever. I think I'd try to keep a straight face if someone's first name was Cherfulis ( it was her last name) . She'd spend years with people saying, "You don't seem very cheerful today, Cherfulis"

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 10, 2025 08:28 AM (TMjCf)

99 59% Support UN Authority Over the United States
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And I think the UN has been, and will be again when the US has a Dem admin, a huge threat to civil liberties of US citizens. I want the USA out of the UN as soon as possible. This opinion will make 59% of these kids' heads spin.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at September 10, 2025 08:28 AM (Dv3i1)

100 And yet Asians tend to go for Anglian names like Charles, Megan, Robert, Amy....

Kinda like they want their kids to succeed and not just be an expression of their post natal creativity.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at September 10, 2025 08:29 AM (4Yjdo)

101 94 The Post Office is weird. They have a mix of employees. Some are absolutely the finest people you’ll ever want to meet. It is not an easy job being a clerk or carrier. They get actual work out of people, trust me. They also have a non-trivial number of absolute shit heads, who cannot ever be fired, for all practical purposes. They too often go into management compounding the problem
Posted by: Common Tater at September 10, 2025 08:27 AM (jP603)

Do not know if you saw this but the new central postmarking system (all mail collected locally but marked centrally) makes mail voting almost impossible.

Posted by: r hennigantx at September 10, 2025 08:29 AM (gbOdA)

102 Youngsters haven't made "their" money yet. So it's not surprising, but disappointing, they favor income caps. Hopefully they learn.

Free speech numbers are a result of the education bubble. Let them out in the workforce for 5-10 years and i think the attitude changes.

In short: they're pissed off because they can't find a job and many woke degrees are becoming more worthless by the day.

Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at September 10, 2025 08:31 AM (JkCto)

103 Hey, Wolfus,

Did you ever talk to Miss Linda about Indiana?

Posted by: Brunnhilde at September 10, 2025 08:31 AM (3AwA+)

104 > The Post Office is weird. They have a mix of employees. Some are absolutely the finest people you’ll ever want to meet.
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The postman who has been delivering our mail periodically has to bring it up to the house. Like, when there's a package too large for our mailbox. I always meet him in the driveway, sometimes at his truck when the weather's bad so he doesn't have to get out.

He'll sometimes bring our mail up to the house anyway if the weather's bad so I don't have to get out in it.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 10, 2025 08:31 AM (Q4IgG)

105 Do you expect to be thanked for doing your job?

/60s dad"

"We're not paying to heat the outside"

/also 60's dad

Posted by: man at September 10, 2025 08:31 AM (tubbA)

106 Our mail carrier is a hipster doofus and I love him. I get him a gift card at Christmas.

And the post office here seems to be staffed mostly staffed by women in their fifties who at least try to be pleasant.

Ohio ain't as bad as I was led to believe.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at September 10, 2025 08:32 AM (4Yjdo)

107 The Catholic Church has a Jesuit problem.

(LifeSiteNews) — A brave graduate student whistleblower has revealed that the Jesuit-run university she attended until recently sends students to intern at a local “gender-affirming care” center that offers “transitioning” services to children as young as five years old.

Naomi Epps Best, a former marriage and family therapy graduate student at Santa Clara University (SCU), has spent the last few months reporting on the astonishing high degree of ideological capture within her field of study at the school.

“Just confirmed: Santa Clara U trains therapy students to give ‘gender-affirming’ counseling to kids as young as 5 at a state-funded clinic that hands out free binders and does affirming garment fittings with no parent consent required,” wrote Best on X.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at September 10, 2025 08:32 AM (Dv3i1)

108 "It's National TV Dinner Day.
Posted by: redridinghood"

*cues up ZZ Top*

Posted by: fd at September 10, 2025 08:33 AM (vFG9F)

109 The crooked McCormick rep in Florida wears those 2 inch long eyelashes like Jazzmine-looks unhinged. Also be approriatin' my straight blond hair.

Posted by: Seasoned Viking at September 10, 2025 08:33 AM (oftw2)

110
It's National TV Dinner Day.
Posted by: redridinghood

I even like the chicken
If the sauce is not too blue

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 10, 2025 08:34 AM (63Dwl)

111 Of course I, and by extension my hulking mutant, am in favor of capitalism. A ravenous neurophage of distinction like me must live in the style to which he's become accustomed. Not to mention the financial pressure of constant womanly demands from his hirsute bride, who services my turgid brain tentacle during the mutant's rest periods.

Tomorrow, I will force him to begin reciting passages from The Wealth of Nations and The Fountainhead.

Posted by: Fetterman's Neck Kuato at September 10, 2025 08:34 AM (BI5O2)

112 BTW, not worried about these "polls" - Gallup is on a roll w/real garbage (go read @ their methodology - "wishcasting" would be a better term).
I LOL at the "No one is drinking anymore" BS - then explain why $$ sales and volume production is up/level...

Heh.

Posted by: man at September 10, 2025 08:34 AM (tubbA)

113 The Charlotte murder shows the results of 2 of the Left's dumber ideas - taking your guns and having you rely on police for protection, and taking your cars and having you rely on public transportation. That's 2 more reasons the Left doesn't want to talk about the murder.

Posted by: Wally at September 10, 2025 08:34 AM (7CamO)

114 crooked McCormick rep in Florida "

Spicy?

Posted by: man at September 10, 2025 08:35 AM (tubbA)

115 Somebody tell me the difference between income caps and the 91% top marginal tax rate that was repealed in ... 1964.

Yes - todays youth is crazy for socialism. But so was the "Greatest Generation". This is nothing new.

Posted by: The Way It Is at September 10, 2025 08:35 AM (N6elY)

116 Today's my wife's birthday.

No TV dinner.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 10, 2025 08:36 AM (Q4IgG)

117 crooked McCormick rep in Florida "

Spicy?
Posted by: man

Marsha, Marsha, Marsha

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 10, 2025 08:36 AM (P7vXf)

118 Good morning dear horde and happy birthday JJ

Unilaterally bombing inside Qatar, a Sovereign Nation and close Ally of the United States, that is working very hard and bravely taking risks with us to broker Peace, does not advance Israel or America’s goals.
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Wrong.

Not everything is about the deal.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 10, 2025 08:37 AM (RIvkX)

119 Go John Go
Signed PA resident

Posted by: Skip at September 10, 2025 08:37 AM (RHxs6)

120 Youngsters haven't made "their" money yet. So it's not surprising, but disappointing, they favor income caps. Hopefully they learn.

Youngsters don't understand wealth. They think that people like Musk became as rich as he is by being paid a huge salary.

The Left encourages that ignorance.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 10, 2025 08:37 AM (ExV1e)

121 'Real threat' Poland shoots down drones in its airspace during Russia’s Ukraine attack, calls violation act of aggression
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Russia needs to knock it off, and all the yapping dogs nipping at Trump's heels need to back off and let him negotiate to end this stupid war.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at September 10, 2025 08:38 AM (Dv3i1)

122 No TV dinner for you, or for her?

Posted by: Common Tater at September 10, 2025 08:38 AM (iFul6)

123 Youngsters don't understand wealth."

We're doing our part!

/Nation's educators

Posted by: man at September 10, 2025 08:38 AM (tubbA)

124 92 Morning Horse, thx JJ.
Judge Cobb may have just sealed the final fate of Humphrey's Executor. The SC has been looking for the right case and this is the clearest message as to "independent agency ' gibberish.
Posted by: Smell the Glove

Why would the government want to execute Hubert Horatio Humphrey? Hasn't he been dead for decades?

Posted by: Emily Litella at September 10, 2025 08:39 AM (oftw2)

125 What if the real secret that the media is sitting on is that hundreds of white women are dead because of Soros DAs? What if thousands and thousands of crimes of committed annually by thugs with 13 or 14 priors?

Posted by: r hennigantx at September 10, 2025 08:39 AM (gbOdA)

126 ZZ Top had a song for today.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 10, 2025 08:40 AM (P7vXf)

127 The drone action in Poland makes no sense, not from Russia’s side nor from Polands side as a false flag. I do not see what benefit could have been gained by anyone from it.

Posted by: Tom Servo at September 10, 2025 08:40 AM (BSY5a)

128 117 crooked McCormick rep in Florida "

Spicy?
Posted by: man

Marsha, Marsha, Marsha
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 10, 2025 08:36 AM
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Ahem.

Posted by: Mrs. Dash at September 10, 2025 08:40 AM (XQo4F)

129 Russia needs to knock it off, and all the yapping dogs nipping at Trump's heels need to back off and let him negotiate to end this stupid war.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at September 10, 2025 08:38 AM (Dv3i1)

1. If Ukraine is gonna send drone strikes, Ukraine is gonna receive drone strikes.
2. If Trump wants to end the war then he should walk away from it... and NATO. Not our circus, not our monkeys.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 10, 2025 08:41 AM (ExV1e)

130 Unwinding them could cause significant disruption.”
Supreme Court Ruling Against Trump Tariffs Could Trigger $1 Trillion Economic Disaster, Bessent Warns

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This leaves me unsettled. I don't know why, particularly, other than it would be a sure-fire and easy way to sink the economy and, thus, obliterate Trump's presidency. I don't trust whatever machinations are going on behind the scenes. It's all too easy to believe they'd harm the country just to get rid of Trump and all that that implies.
Posted by: Lady in Black at September 10, 2025 07:58 AM (qBdHI)

IF John Roberts and the SCOTUS DEI squad and another SCOTUS weak link stop or significantly impede Trumps tariffs we will, in many respects, be lost at sea. Not everything would be lost . Just most of everything that Trump wants to accomplish. Sugar coat such a potential SCOTUS catastrophe at the risk of appearing MSM -level clueless. And complicit.

Posted by: Voter theater. at September 10, 2025 08:41 AM (FCPbW)

131 What if the real secret that the media is sitting on is that hundreds of white women are dead because of Soros DAs?

We don't care !!! You can take your "male logic" and shove it !!!

Posted by: Affluent White Women Everywhere at September 10, 2025 08:42 AM (N6elY)

132 "ZZ Top had a song for today."

"Lord take me downtown, I'm just lookin' for some tush"? It's kind of a song for everyday, isn't it?

Posted by: Wally at September 10, 2025 08:42 AM (7CamO)

133 Yes - todays youth is crazy for socialism. But so was the "Greatest Generation". This is nothing new.
Posted by: The Way It Is

No. That generation knew nothing different. My generation does/did and I hope at some point the younger generations figure it out.

As Margaret said: pretty soon you run out of other people's money.

People in CA, NY & IL are figuring it out now.

Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at September 10, 2025 08:42 AM (JkCto)

134 What if thousands and thousands of crimes of committed annually by thugs with 13 or 14 priors?
Posted by: r hennigantx at September 10, 2025 08:39 AM (gbOdA)

If?

This is America, not Europe. We have real, mean criminals here.

I guarantee that the criminals being constantly kicked back onto the pavement by our corrupt government have murdered thousands of people. It can be no other way.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at September 10, 2025 08:42 AM (BI5O2)

135 Today's my wife's birthday.

No TV dinner.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 10, 2025 08:36 AM (Q4IgG)
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Sammiches?

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at September 10, 2025 08:42 AM (4tvN6)

136 We don't care !!! You can take your "male logic" and shove it !!!
Posted by: Affluent White Women Everywhere at September 10, 2025 08:42 AM (N6elY)

They call it Dead Wrong for a reason.

Posted by: r hennigantx at September 10, 2025 08:43 AM (gbOdA)

137 124 92 Morning Horse, thx JJ.
Judge Cobb may have just sealed the final fate of Humphrey's Executor. The SC has been looking for the right case and this is the clearest message as to "independent agency ' gibberish.
Posted by: Smell the Glove

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Nah. This won't be the vehicle to kill Humphrey's.

Cook's case clearly doesn't apply. Trump's firing of her is within the context of the written statute that established the Federal Reserve that gives the president power to fire governors for cause.

There's another case, a fired FTC commissioner, Rebecca Slaughter, who's suing to keep her job. Humphrey's Executor was decided based on FDR's firing of an FTC commissioner in the 30s. It's the perfect vehicle.

The DC Circuit will probably kill the Cook injunction within a day or so.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a world of gods and monsters with James Whale at September 10, 2025 08:43 AM (GBKbO)

138 127 The drone action in Poland makes no sense, not from Russia’s side nor from Polands side as a false flag. I do not see what benefit could have been gained by anyone from it.

Posted by: Tom Servo at September 10, 2025 08:40 AM (BSY5a)

It may have been a Belarus f up...

Posted by: Nova Local at September 10, 2025 08:43 AM (tOcjL)

139 The drone action in Poland makes no sense, not from Russia’s side nor from Polands side as a false flag. I do not see what benefit could have been gained by anyone from it.
Posted by: Tom Servo at September 10, 2025 08:40 AM (BSY5a)

Assuming the report is accurate... and assuming that the drones were Russian... Russia was probably hitting Ukrainian targets near the border.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 10, 2025 08:43 AM (ExV1e)

140 135 Today's my wife's birthday.

No TV dinner.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 10, 2025 08:36 AM (Q4IgG)
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Sammiches?
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at September 10, 2025 08:42 AM (4tvN6)

Tell her to get in the Kitchen and bake me a pie.

Posted by: r hennigantx at September 10, 2025 08:43 AM (gbOdA)

141 "ZZ Top had a song for today."

"Lord take me downtown, I'm just lookin' for some tush"? It's kind of a song for everyday, isn't it?

Posted by: Wally at September 10, 2025 08:42 AM (7CamO)
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Are you ass kink for a friend?

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at September 10, 2025 08:44 AM (4tvN6)

142 Today's my wife's birthday.

No TV dinner.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at

Mickey Ds ?

Best to the Mrs.

Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at September 10, 2025 08:44 AM (JkCto)

143 The Charlotte murder - just the pics of the victim and the perp, side-by-side, and peoples' first reaction is telling. Just that image, and knowing who kilt who...

Libs immediate reaction is, "All you MAGAs is racist projection.

You bet your ass they tried their damnedest to suppress it. Then, when you point out the blatant suppression...

"All you MAGAs is racist "

Posted by: Operator Error at September 10, 2025 08:44 AM (cmAwL)

144 We don't care !!! You can take your "male logic" and shove it !!!
Posted by: Affluent White Women Everywhere at September 10, 2025 08:42 AM

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And give us back our baseballs!

Posted by: Subaru Karen at September 10, 2025 08:44 AM (XQo4F)

145 1. If Ukraine is gonna send drone strikes, Ukraine is gonna receive drone strikes.
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Sure, agree. Neither country should send them over a NATO country's airspace though.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at September 10, 2025 08:44 AM (Dv3i1)

146 130 IF John Roberts and the SCOTUS DEI squad and another SCOTUS weak link stop or significantly impede Trumps tariffs we will, in many respects, be lost at sea. Not everything would be lost . Just most of everything that Trump wants to accomplish. Sugar coat such a potential SCOTUS catastrophe at the risk of appearing MSM -level clueless. And complicit.
Posted by: Voter theater. at September 10, 2025 08:41 AM (FCPbW)

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Roberts is a coward who doesn't want to rock boats.

The lawsuit doesn't attack the basic constitutionality of Congress' delegation of the tariff power to the president, just that Trump misused it.

Perfect lane to say, "these tariffs are fine because we've allowed it since about 1797."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a world of gods and monsters with James Whale at September 10, 2025 08:44 AM (GBKbO)

147 > Youngsters haven't made "their" money yet. So it's not surprising, but disappointing, they favor income caps. Hopefully they learn.
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Youngsters don't understand wealth. They think that people like Musk became as rich as he is by being paid a huge salary.

The Left encourages that ignorance.
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Some of the younger set today do not have money management skills of any kind. They're impulse buyers. That $1200 'eco-bike' that got ridden twice or the money put in a CD to make more money... even if it's a little bit.

They spend more on DoorDash and Starbucks in a month than a family of 4 making their own meals.

Will they get a clue? Probably not. Because the allure of socialism is strong and it's being framed as "equitable."

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 10, 2025 08:45 AM (Q4IgG)

148 It's National TV Dinner Day.

I used to love Swanson TV dinner Salisbury Steak back in the day. Of course, I don't know whether it was because my palate had not yet formed or because they tasted better back then.

Now I'm hungry for either a steak or some gold old southern fried chicken.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at September 10, 2025 08:45 AM (ufSfZ)

149 135 Today's my wife's birthday.

No TV dinner.

Posted by: Martini Farmer

Sending her to be without dinner on her birthday seems cruel and mean.

Posted by: This Fasting Shit Is Getting Out Of Hand at September 10, 2025 08:45 AM (oftw2)

150 Good morning! I will be in the Fetterman camp when he votes like he speaks. As of now! He says these things, and then votes in lockstep with the rest of his crazy party.

His wife is suspiciously quiet, however, as she was not early on. And not that we should judge on looks, we should not, but she is one of those people who sometimes looks really pretty and other times not so much. Angles, I guess.

Posted by: Piper at September 10, 2025 08:46 AM (PRqXW)

151 Such a cute bday card to send to your best friend who is a pedo !

Posted by: Aliassmithsmith at September 10, 2025 08:44 AM (jrrEL)
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Whose gonna tell the troll?

Or is he referring to his favorite pastime in momma's basement?

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at September 10, 2025 08:46 AM (4tvN6)

152 The drone action in Poland makes no sense, not from Russia’s side nor from Polands side as a false flag. I do not see what benefit could have been gained by anyone from it.
Posted by: Tom Servo at September 10, 2025 08:40 AM (BSY5a)

It's entirely possible that some Russian screwed up and crossed their airspace by accident, or just took a reckless shortcut for whatever reason.

Whatever happened, the Poles are duty-bound to forcefully respond to any Russian incursion. They had to shoot them down.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at September 10, 2025 08:46 AM (BI5O2)

153 When will it ever change?

Soft-On-Crime Democrat Mayor of Charlotte Wins Primary Election While Nation Mourns Iryna Zarutska

https://tinyurl.com/9hz4ex7f

Posted by: redridinghood at September 10, 2025 08:47 AM (NpAcC)

154 Russia fired so many drones , they had a few strangles, some ended up over Poland and some over other nations. We just don't hear when Uke drones end up over Poland. Those things are not 100% (many are made in China).

Posted by: runner at September 10, 2025 08:47 AM (g47mK)

155 Our product line of Hungry Woman dinners never caught on.

Posted by: Swanson at September 10, 2025 08:47 AM (XQo4F)

156 "Is in-your-face socialism/Communism the future unmasked face of the Democrat Party?"

For me, yes, that is where the Democrat Party is headed. There is a case that can be made that the Squad is the tip of the spear of a generational and ideological shift in the Democrat Party. The leadership is feeble and essentially, at its core, is still using an ossified 1960s issues playbook, all be it with bolted on Socialist/Communist sops to this radical younger generation. The Democrat leadership is ripe to be overthrown by an impatient younger generation that are Socialist/Communist to the core and have every intention of filling that power vacuum.

I lean towards the notion this is a done situation. This raises serious concerns about how this negatively impacts the core tenets that make the USA the USA. The bigger question is are they the seed of something that will take hold and then take over or are they a bunch of noisy radicals who are so distasteful that will never gain widespread acceptance. Zohran Mamdani is something of test case that puts direct executive governance control in the hands of the bastards. The visceral reactions he raises reflects this larger dynamic.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at September 10, 2025 08:48 AM (aJQjq)

157 Good early, early, morning to all.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 10, 2025 08:48 AM (Ri+6K)

158 not stranglers ! waywanrd droned

Posted by: runner at September 10, 2025 08:48 AM (g47mK)

159 Today's my wife's birthday.

No TV dinner.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 10, 2025 08:36 AM (Q4IgG)
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Sammiches?
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at September 10, 2025 08:42 AM (4tvN6)
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Pizza Hut?

Posted by: redridinghood at September 10, 2025 08:48 AM (NpAcC)

160 wayward ( I give up !)

Posted by: runner at September 10, 2025 08:49 AM (g47mK)

161 Isn't Tucker Carlson a scion of the TV Dinner Cartel? Is National TV Dinner Day an antisemitic plot?

Posted by: Conspiracy Theorist #13 at September 10, 2025 08:49 AM (oftw2)

162 Sure, agree. Neither country should send them over a NATO country's airspace though.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at September 10, 2025 08:44 AM (Dv3i1)

Given that NATO abuts Ukraine and that Ukrainian assets could just sit next to the border and declare themselves safe, it would seem that NATO has an interest in maintaining an exclusion zone. This would be like German troops staging raids out of Switzerland during WW2. Once your assets enter the "I can't be attacked here" zone, they have to stay out of the conflict forever or the owner of the zone has decided to enter the war.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 10, 2025 08:49 AM (ExV1e)

163 Trump could insulate his tariffs from the Supreme Court by getting Congress to pass a law granting him authority to impose tariffs.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at September 10, 2025 08:49 AM (4Yjdo)

164 Hmm, the producer price index went down for August, and July was revised down as well. Where is that tariff inflation Powell promised us?

Posted by: Thomas Paine at September 10, 2025 08:49 AM (R1shw)

165 153 When will it ever change?

Soft-On-Crime Democrat Mayor of Charlotte Wins Primary Election While Nation Mourns Iryna Zarutska
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Tigress Sydney Acute McDaniel? I think I see the problem here.

Lyles’ handling of the aftermath has drawn sharp rebukes, especially as the primary loomed. One of her challengers, Tigress Sydney Acute McDaniel, didn’t hold back, labeling the mayor’s response a “day late and a dollar short.”

Posted by: Chuck Martel at September 10, 2025 08:49 AM (Dv3i1)

166 Are the Russian's upset? I just got here, doesn't make sense the Russian's picking a fight with the Poles. Not at this point in time anyway.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 10, 2025 08:49 AM (Ri+6K)

167 No. That generation knew nothing different. My generation does/did and I hope at some point the younger generations figure it out.

What does "this young generation" know different ? They've never seen true capitalism - none of us have. They can afford very little personally while they see a group not very different from the old robber barons consuming quite a bit.

And so, like significant numbers of every generation before them - including yours - they've came to the same suggested remedies. Only this time - they finally call them by the proper names at least.

This country has long been enthralled with socialist remedies to curb the upper class. And speech codes. And all the rest. They just dared not name it Socialism.

Posted by: The Way It Is at September 10, 2025 08:49 AM (N6elY)

168 > If Ukraine is gonna send drone strikes, Ukraine is gonna receive drone strikes.
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One reason (I think) why this war goes on is because it's a pretty nifty proving ground for new weapons and tactics. The massive drone strike Ukraine pulled off (with likely US help) on Russia's strategic bomber and recon aircraft fleets was... impressive and unique. It woke up a lot of people to a huge hole in defensive postures at our own military installations.

Same for the unmanned surface vessels and submarines Ukraine's been using with good success at sinking a significant portion of Russia's Black Sea Fleet.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 10, 2025 08:50 AM (Q4IgG)

169 163 Trump could insulate his tariffs from the Supreme Court by getting Congress to pass a law granting him authority to impose tariffs.
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at September 10, 2025 08:49 AM (4Yjdo)

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Congress did.

The Tariff Act of 1789.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a world of gods and monsters with James Whale at September 10, 2025 08:50 AM (GBKbO)

170 Kamala’s book is out. As are the claws. The synopsis is she was amazing. Stunning. Perfect. Everyone else was jealous of her and brought her down.

Posted by: Piper at September 10, 2025 08:50 AM (PRqXW)

171 He's in the pay of Big Dinner.

Posted by: And we all know it! at September 10, 2025 08:50 AM (XQo4F)

172 You can vote your way into Socialism. The reverse is not true, however. You have to shoot your way out. It’s another scam, like pretty much everything else, preying upon people’s innate naïveté and good nature and frustration with a system the same people ruined, in many cases.

Of course young people are outraged. They have every right to be. But the media and usual suspects have to spend all their time.making sure the young folk don’t start connecting the dots. The focus of their ire must be channeled in the right direction or they are Fooked.

It’s always that way. Humans can change direction at the drop of a hat. Thus no dissent is allowed. It must be 99 per cent control of the Message. That’s why they are all exercised about censorship and the rest of it. They got a tiger by the tail, and it ain’t looking too good.

Posted by: Common Tater at September 10, 2025 08:50 AM (iFul6)

173 State of Israel swatting the radioactive hornet's nest of Hamas in Qatar.------

Snoopy does happy dance. Asks for more.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 10, 2025 08:51 AM (Ri+6K)

174 Russian positions are moving further into Uke territory, probably the possibility of some of them overshooting the targets increases.

Posted by: runner at September 10, 2025 08:51 AM (g47mK)

175 Good morning,

Quick reminder before I have to go out.

SpaceX - Falcon 9 - Tranche 1 Layer B
SLC-4E - Vandenberg SFB, CA - Space Affairs Live
Launch Date: September 10, 2025
Launch Time: 7:12 a.m. PDT (1412 UTC, 16:12 CEST)

https://youtu.be/_i3mvsEWQE8

Posted by: Joyenz at September 10, 2025 08:51 AM (2F0/Y)

176 @146 the SC will say that since Congress retained the ability to change Trump's tariffs ( or any president) this is a fight between the executive and the legislative and not the judiciary.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 10, 2025 08:52 AM (Ve63F)

177 176 @146 the SC will say that since Congress retained the ability to change Trump's tariffs ( or any president) this is a fight between the executive and the legislative and not the judiciary.
Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 10, 2025 08:52 AM (Ve63F)

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And Congress actually spoke about them earlier this year.

Rand Paul's efforts to end Trump's tariffs died in the Senate (49-49, if I remember correctly).

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a world of gods and monsters with James Whale at September 10, 2025 08:53 AM (GBKbO)

178 Some of the younger set today do not have money management skills of any kind. They're impulse buyers. That $1200 'eco-bike' that got ridden twice or the money put in a CD to make more money... even if it's a little bit.

And everything encourages that.

You don't need to buy a CD. Pay Spotify forever and just stream whatever they permit.

You don't need to buy a video game. Pay some game pass company forever and just play whatever they permit.

You don't need to have the money to DoorDash your nuggies. Put it on one of the new pay-over-time services... there are several so you can use them all.

Own nothing... obey, obey, obey.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 10, 2025 08:53 AM (ExV1e)

179 After the close, Oracle reported Q2 earning that were a big disappointment, missing from top to bottom: revenue was $14.93BN, below the est of $15.02BN, all-important cloud revenue of $3.3BN also missed expectations of $3.38BN. And yes, EPS also missed coming in at $1.47, just below the $1.48 median estimate.

And yet the stock, which is not some retail favorite penny stock prone to short squeezes but a massive $680 billion market cap giant (with very little short interest) is soaring 25% after hours, an unheard of move for a company this size.

"We signed four multi-billion-dollar contracts with three different customers in Q1," said Oracle CEO, Safra Catz. "This resulted in RPO contract backlog increasing 359% to $455 billion. It was an astonishing quarter—and demand for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure continues to build."

Posted by: SMOD at September 10, 2025 08:53 AM (RHGPo)

180 I really needed to see some of the articles listed today. I had to call an early night for me last night because after seeing the video of what happened to that poor girl I was just too horrified to even form coherent thoughts. I'm glad to hear that some of the bystanders at least tried to help, because the shock of the initial video did not seem like they did. I feel better about... people after that. Thanks JJ!

Posted by: American Hawkman at September 10, 2025 08:53 AM (9VDxG)

181 I used to love Swanson TV dinner Salisbury Steak back in the day. Of course, I don't know whether it was because my palate had not yet formed or because they tasted better back then.

Now I'm hungry for either a steak or some gold old southern fried chicken.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at September 10, 2025 08:45 AM (ufSfZ)
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That or the turkey and stuffing dinner whenever mom and dad had other plans for dinner.

*chef's kiss*

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 10, 2025 08:53 AM (RIvkX)

182 Tru.p / Doha statement: diplomacy.

If there was a real problem, the Saudis, Morocco and others would have spoken loud and clear. If for no other reason than domestic politics.

Those folks want the Palis gone just as much as the Israelis.

Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at September 10, 2025 08:54 AM (JkCto)

183 Wholesale prices UNEXPECTEDLY fell 0.1% last month.

But muhTarriffs!!!

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at September 10, 2025 08:54 AM (66jKa)

184 There was a leak, possibly from US, or from Qatar. Maybe US told Qatar and those told Hamas. Or Tucker Carlson's son who is on JD Vances's staff leaked... Hamas got a warning prior to the strike. Rumor has it some high value targets escaped. It's OK, you'll get them next time!

Posted by: runner at September 10, 2025 08:55 AM (g47mK)

185 Oh, look...

PPI is down 0.1%.

Because tariffs cause inflation, I guess.

Also, deporting people doesn't affect inflation at all, I guess.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a world of gods and monsters with James Whale at September 10, 2025 08:55 AM (GBKbO)

186 As we turn inexorably towards a food thread...

Posted by: Next up: deli meats at September 10, 2025 08:56 AM (XQo4F)

187 I remember TV dinners. They were gnarly. Dad solved that equation by purchasing a large chest freezer, and getting frozen pizzas for $1 a piece. (This was when Brady Bunch and Partridge Family ran back to back on Friday prime time). Us kids thought the pizza acceptable.

Posted by: Common Tater at September 10, 2025 08:56 AM (iFul6)

188 Kamala’s book is out. As are the claws. The synopsis is she was amazing. Stunning. Perfect. Everyone else was jealous of her and brought her down.
Posted by: Piper at September 10, 2025 08:50 AM (PRqXW)
******
They were talking about it this morning on F&F and reading excerpts.
She is totally delusional.

Posted by: redridinghood at September 10, 2025 08:56 AM (NpAcC)

189 186 As we turn inexorably towards a food thread...
Posted by: Next up: deli meats at September 10, 2025 08:56 AM (XQo4F)

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Babette didn't serve deli meats at her feast!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a world of gods and monsters with James Whale at September 10, 2025 08:56 AM (GBKbO)

190 When will it ever change?

Soft-On-Crime Democrat Mayor of Charlotte Wins Primary Election While Nation Mourns Iryna Zarutska

https://tinyurl.com/9hz4ex7f
Posted by: redridinghood at September 10, 2025 08:47 AM (NpAcC)

Charlotte, NC, is...

40% white
33% black
16% Hispanic

based on the 2020 Census. It'll change when non-whites start being affected.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 10, 2025 08:57 AM (ExV1e)

191 Premarket is going crazy - not just Oracle - everything is way up...

Posted by: Boswell at September 10, 2025 08:57 AM (NTVPI)

192 191 Premarket is going crazy - not just Oracle - everything is way up...
Posted by: Boswell at September 10, 2025 08:57 AM (NTVPI)

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Rate cuts are guaranteed now.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a world of gods and monsters with James Whale at September 10, 2025 08:58 AM (GBKbO)

193 Has anybody seen or heard from Gov Kemp in Georgia about the illegal S. Koreans working at the Georgia plant? Think he might be concerned about getting Georgia citizens jobs. Or just keep getting kickbacks

Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 10, 2025 08:58 AM (Ve63F)

194 Damn. I need a drink.

Posted by: Old Lady Emhoff at September 10, 2025 08:58 AM (XQo4F)

195 About 5 years ago, Swanson had 21 grams of protein in their turkey dinner. Overnight, the number went to 16. They took out a big slice of meat, but kept the price the same. All the profit went into Tucker's podcast.

Posted by: Savvy Shopper at September 10, 2025 08:59 AM (oftw2)

196 Oh, look... PPI is down 0.1%. Because tariffs cause inflation, I guess.

In true capitalism - where companies were in competition so hard that prices were already cut and profits were as low as possible ? Then I would assume tariffs would indeed be passed onto the consumer.

But we don't live in a true capitalist system. Too bad. We would be better off if we did.

Posted by: The Way It Is at September 10, 2025 08:59 AM (N6elY)

197 Trump could insulate his tariffs from the Supreme Court by getting Congress to pass a law granting him authority to impose tariffs.
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at September 10, 2025 08:49 AM (4Yjdo)

How many bills have been passed out of Congress during Trump's administration?

Trump could achieve his policies better by getting the Senate to confirm the, what, 150+ nominees that they're just sitting on.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 10, 2025 08:59 AM (ExV1e)

198 7-Eleven Robbers in Florida

A victim was robbed at gunpoint in the store’s parking lot.
Robber entered the store, where a clerk was robbed.
First victim decides being a "victim" is bad, get gun.
Robber comes out of store, get shot.
Getaway vehicle tries to run over first victim.
First victim shoots at car.
Robber held till police arrive.
Getaway car found with shot driver who dies at hospital.
Taxpayers only have one criminal to process.

Posted by: SMOD at September 10, 2025 08:59 AM (RHGPo)

199 Where is the country of Houthi located and why aren’t they a smoking crater? I don’t get it. The sea lanes, and shipping have to remain open for commerce. The End

Who or what is supporting these clowns?

Posted by: Common Tater at September 10, 2025 08:59 AM (iFul6)

200 >>>This country has long been enthralled with socialist remedies to curb the upper class. And speech codes. And all the rest. They just dared not name it Socialism.
Posted by: The Way It Is at
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The socialist remedies are instituted by the upper class to keep the middle class minimal and subordinate.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 10, 2025 09:00 AM (Ri+6K)

201 What exactly is Salisbury Steak?

Posted by: Don Black at September 10, 2025 09:00 AM (AOsQT)

202 186 As we turn inexorably towards a food thread...
Posted by: Next up: deli meats at September 10, 2025 08:56 AM (XQo4F)

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Babette didn't serve deli meats at her feast!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

I am hoping for a manly Gucci bag thread. This is known in some circles as a man sack thread.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at September 10, 2025 09:00 AM (aJQjq)

203 190 Charlotte, NC, is...

40% white
33% black
16% Hispanic

based on the 2020 Census. It'll change when non-whites start being affected.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 10, 2025 08:57 AM (ExV1e)

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I didn't expect Vi to lose her primary. Incumbency and the recency of the issue would insulate her from any serious blowback in the primary election.

However, it can be noted that she won by a good bit less than 2 years ago. She won 85% of the vote against one candidate in 2023 and only got 70% of the vote against four other candidates.

However, she won the last general with 73% of the vote, so I don't expect her to lose the general this year.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a world of gods and monsters with James Whale at September 10, 2025 09:01 AM (GBKbO)

204 The thing I remember most about TV dinners was the rogue pea or rogue carrot that would end up in the apple pie or the peach cobbler.

Posted by: Bulg at September 10, 2025 09:01 AM (77rzZ)

205 Babette didn't serve deli meats at her feast!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a world of gods and monsters with James Whale

And I never got a dinner!

Posted by: Red Buttons, AKA Aaron Chwatt at September 10, 2025 09:01 AM (oftw2)

206 >Where is the country of Houthi located?

It's a suburb of Palestine.

Posted by: The UN at September 10, 2025 09:02 AM (XQo4F)

207 What exactly is Salisbury Steak?
Posted by: Don Black

The fact that nobody seems to know should serve as a warning that you don't want to know.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at September 10, 2025 09:02 AM (aJQjq)

208 204 The thing I remember most about TV dinners was the rogue pea or rogue carrot that would end up in the apple pie or the peach cobbler.
Posted by: Bulg

We need common sense rogue pea control!

Posted by: Dept. of Compliance at September 10, 2025 09:03 AM (oftw2)

209 Rand Paul's efforts to end Trump's tariffs

Thank goodness we've got someone like Rand Paul on our side.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 10, 2025 09:03 AM (ExV1e)

210 What does "this young generation" know different ? They've never seen true capitalism - none of us have. They can afford very little personally while they see a group not very different from the old robber barons consuming quite a bit.

Posted by: The Way It Is

Your initial comment was about "The Greatest Generation " which I addressed.

This younger generation knows more about general economics of capitalism than did The Greatest Generation. If for no other reason they aren't being nor familiar with a 90% tax rate.

Most every youngster thinks people make too much money. Whether it's Mr Jones the local car dealer in the mid 70s to today's youngsters looking at Gates and Musk.

Once they get their first "occupational" check and realize WTF, many will figure it out.

People vote with their feet if they can. Seeing the moving patterns tells you they are figuring it out. Albeit, slowly.

Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at September 10, 2025 09:03 AM (JkCto)

211 >>>Robber held till police arrive.
Getaway car found with shot driver who dies at hospital.
Taxpayers only have one criminal to process.
Posted by: SMOD
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Importantly, immediate negative consequences of behaving uncivilly illustrated in clear form to all potential hot shot idiots.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 10, 2025 09:03 AM (Ri+6K)

212 The socialist remedies are instituted by the upper class to keep the middle class minimal and subordinate.

A 91% top marginal rate wasn't. Nor were capital gains taxes. Or inheritance taxes.

This country has always had more than a pinch of Socialism baked into the cake. Don't blame it all on the kids.

Posted by: The Way It Is at September 10, 2025 09:04 AM (N6elY)

213 Nina Turner seems to be one of the most uniformly stupid former Congress critters. Allowing her anywhere near government guarantees disaster

Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 10, 2025 09:04 AM (Ve63F)

214 It occurred to me suddenly yesterday (as I'm sure it has occurred to many of you well before) that New York, the target of the most devastating Islamic attack in the western world, is about to elect an Islamic mayor. Despite all the brave cries to "never forget," I guess they forgot. So now they pay the price.

Posted by: Ordinary American at September 10, 2025 09:05 AM (h/ffs)

215 Snoopy does happy dance. Asks for more.

I expect I am in an exceedingly small minority on this, but I think Peanuts went down the toilet when Snoopy began walking upright.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at September 10, 2025 09:05 AM (ufSfZ)

216 > Where is the country of Houthi located and why aren’t they a smoking crater? I don’t get it. The sea lanes, and shipping have to remain open for commerce. The End

Who or what is supporting these clowns?
Posted by: Common Tater
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Houthis have taken over the country of Yemen. They're supported by Iran. Yemen is the shithole of the Arabian Peninsula... which is saying a lot.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 10, 2025 09:05 AM (Q4IgG)

217 Socialism requires a massive propaganda effort and constant coercion to convince people it works.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at September 10, 2025 09:05 AM (4Yjdo)

218 What is Salisbury Steak?

A cross between meatloaf and a hamburger, Salisbury steak is made from seasoned ground beef patties served with a simple mushroom and onion gravy.

Posted by: SMOD at September 10, 2025 09:06 AM (RHGPo)

219 Reaction from the left at today’s inflation number? It’s fake of course.

Lol

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at September 10, 2025 09:06 AM (66jKa)

220 If it is now legal to racially profile Hispanics, why won't it be OK to stop and arrest African Americans, LGBTQ, Women, Liberals, Union members, etc.?

We've just had our first German Lutheran pastor Martin Niemöller moment: First they came for Hispanics...

Some courts are trying to protect people from abuses. The problem is Trump ignores and flouts all Lower Court rulings because he's got SCOTUS in his back pocket.

Yep! Stop and frisk gone national. Supposedly it's not about racial profiling, they could stop anybody, but first they only pick on those 'undesirable' dark skinned folks.

It's worse than stop and frisk. Stop and frisk let people go if they didn't have drugs or weapons. Now, they arrest you if du hast papellen nicht. Dump has repeatedly said that he wants to go after the "home growns". The next logical step is arrests and detainment of American citizens.

Pool: How long until Sotomayor is ICEd? It’s only a matter of time until she is stopped by some ICE goon who thinks/pretends she’s an illegal. He’ll get to humiliate and incarcerate her just because of the color of her skin. The rest of SCOTUS surely knew they were setting her up.

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at September 10, 2025 09:06 AM (JCZqz)

221 Salisbury University in Maryland used to be named Salisbury State University.

The mascot was named Swanson.

Posted by: OK, I might have made that last part up at September 10, 2025 09:06 AM (XQo4F)

222 >>The campaign has triggered debate over religious freedom, legal norms, and concerns about the emergence of ‘Sharia patrols’ in the U.S.

Send them home.
Do not pass Go, do not care if your kids were born here, this achieving 'paperwork American' status.
Go Home.

Posted by: Lizzy at September 10, 2025 09:06 AM (GbwPZ)

223 What exactly is Salisbury Steak?
Posted by: Don Black at September 10, 2025 09:00 AM (AOsQT)

Basically just ground beef with mushrooms and brown gravy.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at September 10, 2025 09:06 AM (ufSfZ)

224 Most every youngster thinks people make too much money.

The over 60 tradesman I was working with yesterday couldn't shut up about how Trump needed to cap NFL players earnings - because they "just play a game" and working people couldn't afford to go. This kind of talk is nothing new. I've heard it all my life.

Posted by: The Way It Is at September 10, 2025 09:07 AM (N6elY)

225 220 Pool: How long until Sotomayor is ICEd? It’s only a matter of time until she is stopped by some ICE goon who thinks/pretends she’s an illegal. He’ll get to humiliate and incarcerate her just because of the color of her skin. The rest of SCOTUS surely knew they were setting her up.
Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at September 10, 2025 09:06 AM (JCZqz)

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If she hangs out in a well-known illegal immigrant stronghold in close vicinity with illegal immigrant criminals with active deportation orders, then yes, she'll probably get picked up and then released within a couple of hours.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a world of gods and monsters with James Whale at September 10, 2025 09:07 AM (GBKbO)

226 The United States Transhumanist Party has endorsed independent candidate Timothy Grady in the 2026 race for governor of Ohio.

... what exactly is a Transhumanist ?
.. an animal who transitioned to human ?

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

227 If people want to live in a shit hole then keep electing shithole politicians. You get what you vote for.

Posted by: Case at September 10, 2025 09:08 AM (iwlvf)

228 207 What exactly is Salisbury Steak?
Posted by: Don Black

The fact that nobody seems to know should serve as a warning that you don't want to know.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions.
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I stick with chicken. Marie Calendar's quality has gone down. Hungry Man has bang for the buck. Hormel has some Hormel Compleats Beef recommended by a moron but yet untried here.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 10, 2025 09:08 AM (Ri+6K)

229 209 Rand Paul's efforts to end Trump's tariffs

Thank goodness we've got someone like Rand Paul on our side.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic
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Perfect example of how muh principles types never end up achieving much. Politics, nor the world, resemble heuristic models of theorists.

Or to quote Bobbie Burns in plain English, the best laid plans of men and mice often go astray.

Posted by: whig at September 10, 2025 09:09 AM (WDjG6)

230 Russia condemns Israeli strike on Doha as 'gross violation of international law'

.. it wasn't a 'strike' but rather a "special military operation"

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

231 The campaign has triggered debate over religious freedom, legal norms, and concerns about the emergence of ‘Sharia patrols’ in the U.S.

There should be no debate. Send them to an Islamic country and be done with them.

Posted by: NR Pax at September 10, 2025 09:09 AM (BpO1e)

232 @226 I looked up Timothy Grady. About what you'd expect. He oozes soy

Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 10, 2025 09:09 AM (Ve63F)

233 If it is now legal to racially profile Hispanics, why won't it be OK to stop and arrest African Americans, LGBTQ, Women, Liberals, Union members, etc.?

How would the police know that you're LGBTQ, or a liberal, or a union member, etc? Why would they stop women? I don't know what percentage of illegals in the US are blacks so I won't question that.

These people really are profoundly delusional.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 10, 2025 09:09 AM (ExV1e)

234 231 The campaign has triggered debate over religious freedom, legal norms, and concerns about the emergence of ‘Sharia patrols’ in the U.S.

There should be no debate. Send them to an Islamic country and be done with them.
Posted by: NR Pax at September 10, 2025 09:09 AM (BpO1e)

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That could inflame things with the rebels in the UK, though.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a world of gods and monsters with James Whale at September 10, 2025 09:10 AM (GBKbO)

235 Door dash is a luxury, and should be treated as such. For that matter, any food delivery is a luxury.

Game and music subscriptions? Meh, not that much of a bite of they are substituted for costlier alternative forms of entertainment.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at September 10, 2025 09:10 AM (4Yjdo)

236 > What exactly is Salisbury Steak?
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Meat-like substance with brown gravy and a year's worth of sodium in it.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 10, 2025 09:10 AM (Q4IgG)

237

Paul A. Szypula
@Bubblebathgirl
Elon Musk pledges $1 MILLION to paint murals of the face of Iryna Zarutska in prominent places.

Her life mattered. She will be immortalized.

She would be alive today if not for the incompetent judge in Charlotte, NC, who freed a career criminal who then took Iryna’s life.

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

238 Under Joe Biden, or whoever was running the country between 2021 and 2024, over 470,000 unaccompanied migrant children waltzed into the country. Many of these kids promptly vanished into a bureaucratic black hole. Since then, in a move both heroic and horrifyingly necessary, the Trump administration has located over 22,000 of these kids, arrested 400 traffickers, and uncovered the grim reality that 27 children met tragic ends through murder, overdose, or suicide. Yes, Epstein’s operation was a master class in depravity, but Biden’s border policies might just take the cake, and it’s a moldy, taxpayer-funded one at that.

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

239 Not clear what Rand Paul wants. A return to being tariffed up the ass and having no recourse?

Posted by: Ordinary American at September 10, 2025 09:10 AM (h/ffs)

240 It occurred to me suddenly yesterday (as I'm sure it has occurred to many of you well before) that New York, the target of the most devastating Islamic attack in the western world, is about to elect an Islamic mayor. Despite all the brave cries to "never forget," I guess they forgot. So now they pay the price.
Posted by: Ordinary American at September 10, 2025 09:05 AM (h/ffs)

The entire country forgot when it allowed a Kenyan dog-eating crackhead named Huusein who was mentored by a Communist and faithfully attended a 'church' whose teaching consisted solely of "God damn America!" to infest the Oval Office.

As far as I'm concerned, 9/11 is just a sick joke and has been for a long time.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at September 10, 2025 09:11 AM (ufSfZ)

241 Kamala’s book is out. As are the claws. The synopsis is she was amazing. Stunning. Perfect. Everyone else was jealous of her and brought her down.
Posted by: Piper at September 10, 2025 08:50 AM (PRqXW)
******
They were talking about it this morning on F&F and reading excerpts.
She is totally delusional.
Posted by: redridinghood at September 10, 2025 08:56 AM (NpAcC)
——

‘She was amazing when she went down!’

— Willie Brown

Posted by: Sir Elric the Blade at September 10, 2025 09:11 AM (xJ9VG)

242 227 If people want to live in a shit hole then keep electing shithole politicians. You get what you vote for.
Posted by: Case
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Blue cities have been so rigged we don't know what people voted for.
Trump is clearing that up.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 10, 2025 09:11 AM (Ri+6K)

243 CNBC: Oracle now sees cloud infrastructure revenue climbing to $144 billion over the next four years, up from $18 billion this fiscal year.

WTH? Larry Ellison be like micro dosing hard again.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at September 10, 2025 09:11 AM (aJQjq)

244 The over 60 tradesman I was working with yesterday couldn't shut up about how Trump needed to cap NFL players earnings - because they "just play a game" and working people couldn't afford to go. This kind of talk is nothing new. I've heard it all my life.
Posted by: The Way It Is at September 10, 2025 09:07 AM (N6elY)

To the extent that ticket prices determine player salaries - which is almost not at all, they have cause/effect backwards.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 10, 2025 09:11 AM (ExV1e)

245 >>If it is now legal to racially profile Hispanics, why won't it be OK to stop and arrest African Americans, LGBTQ, Women, Liberals, Union members, etc.?

I'm confused -- is it illegal to be AF-Am, a woman, LGBt. . . etc.?

Posted by: Lizzy at September 10, 2025 09:12 AM (GbwPZ)

246 I'm seeing more and more posts on the socials about people "being radicalized" (still figuring that out) after seeing and reading about Iryna Zarutska's murder.

I'm presuming the readers are pissed off and not planning more violence. But, in this day and age....

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 10, 2025 09:12 AM (Q4IgG)

247 "...over 470,000 unaccompanied migrant children waltzed into the country..."

Where does that number come from?

Posted by: Please cite a source at September 10, 2025 09:12 AM (XQo4F)

248 France got a fever, street clashes with police.

Posted by: runner at September 10, 2025 09:13 AM (g47mK)

249 Russia condemns Israeli strike on Doha as 'gross violation of international law'

.. it wasn't a 'strike' but rather a "special military operation"
Posted by: SMOD at September 10, 2025 09:09 AM (RHGPo)

The difference between us and Russia is that Russia condemned the strike and left it at that.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 10, 2025 09:13 AM (ExV1e)

250 Houthis have taken over the country of Yemen. They're supported by Iran. Yemen is the shithole of the Arabian Peninsula... which is saying a lot.
Posted by: Martini Farmer

No they haven't. Yemen used to be two countries in the Cold War, N. Yemen and S. Yemen. Houthis seized power in N. Yemen but a shell civilian government still exists there. Basically Yemen is tribal and the Houthis are a Shiite tribe while most of the rest of the tribes in Yemen are Sunni.

Houthis were nuisance goat rapers in the wilderness until Iran armed them to act as a catspaw to launch missiles at the Saudis and later to harass traffic in the Red Sea. Destroy Iran's ability to supply the Houthis (sea and air) and you destroy any real power the Houthis have to bother anyone other than goats.

Posted by: whig at September 10, 2025 09:14 AM (WDjG6)

251 Another violent Antifa BLM trannie committed a senseless murder. Shot a father of three.

Snehal Srivastava

Posted by: polynikes at September 10, 2025 09:14 AM (EYmYM)

252 I liked this story. Students at a RC high school ( Frassati high school in Texas )gather together to celebrate the canonization of Pier Giorgio Frassati ,just canonized in Rome:

https://tinyurl.com/mfxf9xj7

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 10, 2025 09:14 AM (SnvHx)

253 >>Kamala’s book is out. As are the claws. The synopsis is she was amazing. Stunning. Perfect. Everyone else was jealous of her and brought her down.

One can only imagine what her presidency would have been like -- Obama's "you only criticize me because I'm black" routine on steroids (because she had 3x the diversity points as TFB).

Posted by: Lizzy at September 10, 2025 09:14 AM (GbwPZ)

254 "The US Transhumanist Party expressly supports the rights of Artificial General Intelligence entities that are sentient and/or lucid. The Transhumanist Bill of Rights Version 3.0 recognizes 7 levels of sentience and requires entities to exist at level 5 or higher to be considered as having rights. At level 5, the main criterion is that the entity be "lucid", meaning the entity is "meta-aware", or aware of its own awareness."

It's like Scientology rebranded as a political party.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at September 10, 2025 09:14 AM (4Yjdo)

255 Another factoid on the Biden job market.

He only added 1.7 million jobs in 2024 while flooding the country with illegals.

Also, 650,000 of that 1.7 million, well more than a third, were government jobs.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a world of gods and monsters with James Whale at September 10, 2025 09:14 AM (GBKbO)

256 NC is becoming a shithole. I don’t know why anyone would move there. Between Charlotte, Durham and Asheville, it’s like NY with better weather and more criminals.

Posted by: That Guy, Truth Teller at September 10, 2025 09:14 AM (Dzvaz)

257
Eric Daugherty
@EricLDaugh

BREAKING: They just admitted President Trump was right all along on tariffs.

"There's the exporter, there's the importer, and there's the consumer. So far? The consumer is carrying the LEAST of the [tariff] burden."

"They're finding out they cannot pass through as much of the price increase as they want."

https://tinyurl.com/yeyp5xd6

Posted by: redridinghood at September 10, 2025 09:15 AM (NpAcC)

258 Poaching:

The Federal Reserve was created to care for and protect the fortunes of the wealthiest Americans and their bankers.

The gauges used to determine rates are pegged to aggregate data that is skewed by the fortunes of the wealthy. ...

,,,the 'Establishment' is squirming like no other period in memory. They control all the levers of influence & continue to lose.

They will never stop trying to put things back in place which means wealth accumulation is skewed in favor of the wealthy.
Barriers disguised as good deeds keep the masses corralled in a pool of self-doubt, content with keeping up with the Jones' via high credit card bills and living paycheck to paycheck.

To break the system individuals must establish their own priorities.

Buying crap you don't need shouldn't be on that list.
_proprietary

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 10, 2025 09:16 AM (Ri+6K)

259 I’m going to NC (Asheville) and SC (Spartemsburg) in October

Posted by: Sir Elric the Blade at September 10, 2025 09:16 AM (xJ9VG)

260 >>Russia condemns Israeli strike on Doha as 'gross violation of international law'

GFY. What about your incursions into Poland, losers? We should be unmerciful in launching artillery into their Donbas military locations and wipe them out.

Posted by: That Guy, Truth Teller at September 10, 2025 09:17 AM (Dzvaz)

261 Paul A. Szypula
@Bubblebathgirl
Elon Musk pledges $1 MILLION to paint murals of the face of Iryna Zarutska in prominent places.

Good for him. But watch them be painted over, vandalized or forbidden by city governments the moment they're put up.

Her life mattered. She will be immortalized.

Yes, it did. And no, I doubt it. The GOP could shove this so far down Dems' throats in the midterms that the entire party would be vaporized. . .but that would mean standing up against charges of 'racism' and actually wanting to win, which, of course, they do not.

She would be alive today if not for the incompetent judge in Charlotte, NC, who freed a career criminal who then took Iryna’s life.

Malignant judge. "Incompetent" presumes an inability to perform a job correctly. This judge knew exactly what they were doing and did not care.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at September 10, 2025 09:17 AM (ufSfZ)

262 248 France got a fever, street clashes with police.
Posted by: runner

CBD is there for months on end, then skips out right before shit hits fan. Is he secretly in Nepal now?

Posted by: Mayhem at September 10, 2025 09:17 AM (oftw2)

263 re: Italy COVID vaccine study. The linked article trumpets the apparent slight increase in certain cancer hospitalizations while not mentioning the finding of apparent lower all-cause mortality in the vaccinated. Cherry picking results to fit your chosen narrative is not science.

Direct quote from the study authors:

"Compared with the unvaccinated, those receiving ≥1 dose showed a significantly lower likelihood of all-cause death"

As always, the controversy is more about the mandates. The actual risks vs. effectiveness of the vaccine remain muddy.

Posted by: muldoon at September 10, 2025 09:17 AM (/iMjX)

264 Elon Musk pledges $1 MILLION to paint murals of the face of Iryna Zarutska in prominent places.

Better than statues and commemorative riots in my opinion.

Posted by: NR Pax at September 10, 2025 09:17 AM (BpO1e)

265 Posted by: Grammie Wingers' ipad at September 10, 2025 08:13 AM (DCWfW)

Good morning Grammie. Our day is brightened by your presence here today. Please know you, Rev and family are in our prayers. Dear Lord, please watch over, bless them, and please give them comfort and peace. Amen.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at September 10, 2025 09:17 AM (N39Ws)

266 Asheville was once a beautiful place until the libs took it over. Now it’s just another Shitlib city.

Posted by: That Guy, Truth Teller at September 10, 2025 09:18 AM (Dzvaz)

267 Buying crap you don't need shouldn't be on that list.
Posted by: Braenyard

Except for the new iPhone 17. Right? RIGHT?

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at September 10, 2025 09:18 AM (aJQjq)

268 How about all the information they uncovered on the Hep B shot? Who knew they require a shot at birth for that?

Posted by: That Guy, Truth Teller at September 10, 2025 09:19 AM (Dzvaz)

269 259 I’m going to NC (Asheville) and SC (Spartemsburg) in October
Posted by: Sir Elric the Blade at September 10, 2025 09:16 AM (xJ9VG)

My parents retired to the median point, Landrum, SC. I would regularly visit "Sparkleburg" and Asheville. That was some time ago, and they were nice places. I wonder what they look like now.

Posted by: Ordinary American at September 10, 2025 09:19 AM (h/ffs)

270 Eric Daugherty
@EricLDaugh

BREAKING: They just admitted President Trump was right all along on tariffs.

"There's the exporter, there's the importer, and there's the consumer. So far? The consumer is carrying the LEAST of the [tariff] burden."

"They're finding out they cannot pass through as much of the price increase as they want."

https://tinyurl.com/yeyp5xd6
Posted by: redridinghood
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Trump has been right on everything. J.Powel is stepping on Trump's plan and holding the biggest American job instrument, small business, hostage.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 10, 2025 09:19 AM (Ri+6K)

271 252 I liked this story. Students at a RC high school ( Frassati high school in Texas )gather together to celebrate the canonization of Pier Giorgio Frassati ,just canonized in Rome”

Meanwhile, AOS hordelings gather to celebrate the artistic canonization of Frank Frazetta, in Texas.

Posted by: Tom Servo at September 10, 2025 09:19 AM (BSY5a)

272 Please cite a source"

Nice goal switching - the issue, of course, is that we're one quarter thru the 21st freaking century, and cannot (won't) keep track of border crossings.

Yet I have to wave paperwork around to travel anywhere else on the planet.

We're farked. Maybe forever...

Posted by: man at September 10, 2025 09:19 AM (tubbA)

273 Meanwhile, AOS hordelings gather to celebrate the artistic canonization of Frank Frazetta, in Texas.

I shall play Molly Hatchet and break out early editions of Dragon Magazine in his honor.

Posted by: NR Pax at September 10, 2025 09:21 AM (BpO1e)

274 >>Malignant judge. "Incompetent" presumes an inability to perform a job correctly. This judge knew exactly what they were doing and did not care.

She has a grift - she runs rehabilitation centers these criminals she releases go into. Will find the links. . .

Posted by: Lizzy at September 10, 2025 09:21 AM (GbwPZ)

275 CBD is there for months on end, then skips out right before shit hits fan. Is he secretly in Nepal now?
Posted by: Mayhem at September 10, 2025 09:17 AM (oftw2)

That’s how pro surfers do it. Ride the wave until just before it breaks.

Posted by: Tom Servo at September 10, 2025 09:21 AM (BSY5a)

276 Posted by: Tom Servo at September 10, 2025 09:19 AM (BSY5a)

Sorry; I don't know who Frank Frazetta is, but I hope the AOS folks have a good time.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 10, 2025 09:21 AM (SnvHx)

277 Not clear what Rand Paul wants. A return to being tariffed up the ass and having no recourse?
Posted by: Ordinary American at September 10, 2025 09:10 AM (h/ffs)

Kentucky is as bad as CA.

Posted by: polynikes at September 10, 2025 09:21 AM (EYmYM)

278 "There's the exporter, there's the importer, and there's the consumer. So far? The consumer is carrying the LEAST of the [tariff] burden."

Further proof that our "betters" don't know the difference between prices and costs - nor what tariffs are actuall assessed against.

The illiterati strike again

Posted by: man at September 10, 2025 09:21 AM (tubbA)

279 I would regularly visit "Sparkleburg" and Asheville. That was some time ago, and they were nice places. I wonder what they look like now.
Posted by: Ordinary American

Asheville got whacked pretty bad by that hurricane last year. It's probably still recovering from that.

Posted by: Bulg at September 10, 2025 09:22 AM (77rzZ)

280 278 "There's the exporter, there's the importer, and there's the consumer. So far? The consumer is carrying the LEAST of the [tariff] burden."

Further proof that our "betters" don't know the difference between prices and costs - nor what tariffs are actuall assessed against.

The illiterati strike again
Posted by: man at September 10, 2025 09:21 AM (tubbA)

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Or how competitive markets with different inputs, only some of which are affected by import tariffs, work.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a world of gods and monsters with James Whale at September 10, 2025 09:22 AM (GBKbO)

281 on't know who Frank Frazetta is"

*weeps*

Posted by: man at September 10, 2025 09:23 AM (tubbA)

282 Buying crap you don't need shouldn't be on that list.
Posted by: Braenyard

Except for the new iPhone 17. Right? RIGHT?
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at September 10, 2025 09:18 AM (aJQjq)
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90% of buying is things we don’t ’need’ or can be bought cheaper if we sacrificed quality. Buying things we want is one of the things that makes life worth living. The contrary view, that we shouldn’t buy things we don’t need, is the toxic spawn of communism.

If you want an iPhone 17 and can afford it, then you alone make the personal decision whether it’s worth it to buy it. Need has nothing to do with it.

Posted by: Sir Elric the Blade at September 10, 2025 09:23 AM (xJ9VG)

283 Game and music subscriptions? Meh, not that much of a bite of they are substituted for costlier alternative forms of entertainment.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at September 10, 2025 09:10 AM (4Yjdo)

Not that much of a bite... for you. But Spotify costs $12 per month. At the end of the year you've spent $125 and you have nothing to show for it. If they remove music you want to hear... too bad. If they raise prices... too bad.

Convenience costs but people don't consider that. They just say that this isn't that much. And this isn't that much. And this isn't that much. Ad infinitum.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 10, 2025 09:24 AM (ExV1e)

284 239 Not clear what Rand Paul wants. A return to being tariffed up the ass and having no recourse?
Posted by: Ordinary American
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Std modern day libertarianism---open borders so open flow of workers, open flow of capital, and open flow of goods. Corporate agenda basically with little relation to our economic experiences post WWII.

Thus utopian with little relation to facts on the ground. Basically theory dictates facts fallacy because of a basic presupposition of 'good' and 'rational' human nature.

Like communism, theory comes first and human experiences not in accordance to theory either is dismissed as not valid or the true theory has never been applied. There is a reason that you cannot point to any true 'libertarian' country--the closest you can get is places where government does not exist. Same is technically true of communism but if you consider communism as a way for a new elite to replace the old one, then you end up in despotism like with Stalin or oppression by an corrupt oligarchy misnamed as a democratic republic (E. Germany for example)

Posted by: whig at September 10, 2025 09:24 AM (WDjG6)

285 Is National TV Dinner Day an antisemitic plot?

Posted by: Conspiracy Theorist #13 at September 10, 2025 08:49 AM (oftw2)
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Isn't it obvious? Have you ever noticed that every single one of the major TV dinner products are not kosher?

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at September 10, 2025 09:24 AM (4tvN6)

286 Morning all. I’m late today… got in a run before work. Beautiful morning here in DFW.

Regarding Trump’s statement on Qatar… I strongly suspect it’s all a show for diplomacy. I think he gave Netanyahu a wink and a nod to conduct the strikes in Doha but he had to “condemn” them publicly for diplomatic reasons. I hope that’s the case because I agree there’s no way that Qatar is a real ally

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at September 10, 2025 09:24 AM (WdMlw)

287 269 259 I’m going to NC (Asheville) and SC (Spartemsburg) in October
Posted by: Sir Elric the Blade at September 10, 2025 09:16 AM (xJ9VG)

My parents retired to the median point, Landrum, SC. I would regularly visit "Sparkleburg" and Asheville. That was some time ago, and they were nice places. I wonder what they look like now.
Posted by: Ordinary American at September 10, 2025 09:19 AM (h/ffs)
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I guess I’ll find out!

Posted by: Sir Elric the Blade at September 10, 2025 09:25 AM (xJ9VG)

288 Buying things we want is one of the things that makes life worth living.
Posted by: Sir Elric the Blade
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A truer statement of materialism is not to be found.

Posted by: whig at September 10, 2025 09:25 AM (WDjG6)

289 Or how competitive markets with different inputs, only some of which are affected by import tariffs, work."

Are you suggesting that producers may switch providers, change transportation types, alter production methods and so forth?

What wizardry is that?
/business skrool profs

Posted by: man at September 10, 2025 09:25 AM (tubbA)

290 Posted by: muldoon at September 10, 2025 09:17 AM (/iMjX)

So are they saying the COVID vax protects people more from just COVID? I’m not sure there is a cause and effect one could establish here.

Posted by: polynikes at September 10, 2025 09:26 AM (EYmYM)

291 289 Or how competitive markets with different inputs, only some of which are affected by import tariffs, work."

Are you suggesting that producers may switch providers, change transportation types, alter production methods and so forth?

What wizardry is that?
/business skrool profs
Posted by: man at September 10, 2025 09:25 AM (tubbA)

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"No, just everyone's lying about what they import now which means that tariffs simply aren't working and the increased revenue to the federal government is just lying statistics."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a world of gods and monsters with James Whale at September 10, 2025 09:26 AM (GBKbO)

292 170 Kamala’s book is out. As are the claws. The synopsis is she was amazing. Stunning. Perfect. Everyone else was jealous of her and brought her down.
Posted by: Piper at September 10, 2025 08:50 AM (PRqXW)

At least she didn't ghostwrite it.

Posted by: gKWVE at September 10, 2025 09:26 AM (tL5sl)

293 Asheville has a High-A baseball team, the Tourists. A cool ballpark in a nice location. Affiliated with the Astros. Really had fun there.

Posted by: NC Feller at September 10, 2025 09:26 AM (oftw2)

294 for example, occurrence of colorectal cancer:

Vaccinated: 18 casses per 10,000 population
Unvaccinated: 11 cases per 10,000

As a percentage that seems impressive. As an absolute number, it is a small enough difference that it could be accounted for by other variables that weren;t considered in the study.

Suggestive but not conclusive results.

Posted by: muldoon at September 10, 2025 09:27 AM (/iMjX)

295 Regarding Trump’s statement on Qatar… I strongly suspect it’s all a show for diplomacy. I think he gave Netanyahu a wink and a nod to conduct the strikes in Doha but he had to “condemn” them publicly for diplomatic reasons.
Posted by: LinusVanPelt

I think the same thing.

Posted by: Bulg at September 10, 2025 09:27 AM (77rzZ)

296 Isn't it obvious? Have you ever noticed that every single one of the major TV dinner products are not kosher?
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They just have to trim the aluminum lid a bit to make it kosher.

Posted by: pudinhead at September 10, 2025 09:27 AM (AdHga)

297 "No, just everyone's lying about what they import now which means that tariffs simply aren't working and the increased revenue to the federal government is just lying statistics."

I KNEW IT!!!!!

Posted by: man at September 10, 2025 09:27 AM (tubbA)

298 About that alcohol and pork cancelling....
Yeah, no. Not happening here (with Smithfield right down the road) or in Texas.

Beer, Babes, Bacon, Bourbon, Bullets. I told it to the Baptists, and I'll tell it to the Muslims: It won't be my cold, dead fingers you'll be prying loose.

Posted by: GWB at September 10, 2025 09:27 AM (RTQn+)

299 Regarding Trump’s statement on Qatar… I strongly suspect it’s all a show for diplomacy. I think he gave Netanyahu a wink and a nod to conduct the strikes in Doha but he had to “condemn” them publicly for diplomatic reasons. I hope that’s the case because I agree there’s no way that Qatar is a real ally
Posted by: LinusVanPelt
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Trump is a deal maker and he is trying to get those hostages out. If the US formally takes sides, then you get Euro nations or worse sliding in to mediate.

It is no accident that Trump gave Ham Ass an warning to release their hostages one day before the Israelis took out those billionaire terrorists in Qatar.

Kayfebe.

Posted by: whig at September 10, 2025 09:28 AM (WDjG6)

300 Also, 650,000 of that 1.7 million, well more than a third, were government jobs.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison,

Yup. They knew the true numbers. And the true numbers were sh!t

Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at September 10, 2025 09:28 AM (JkCto)

301 Isn't it obvious? Have you ever noticed that every single one of the major TV dinner products are not kosher?
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at September 10, 2025 09:24 AM (4tvN6)

I always wanted the one in the ZZ Topp video.

Posted by: Tom Servo at September 10, 2025 09:28 AM (BSY5a)

302 Not clear what Rand Paul wants. A return to being tariffed up the ass and having no recourse?
Posted by: Ordinary American at September 10, 2025 09:10 AM (h/ffs)

He's a "principled free trader". He wants absolute free trade with no restrictions whatsoever and he thinks that this is so important that he's willing to have his countrymen suffer by being the only principled free traders on the planet... in perpetuity.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 10, 2025 09:28 AM (ExV1e)

303 300 Also, 650,000 of that 1.7 million, well more than a third, were government jobs.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison,

Yup. They knew the true numbers. And the true numbers were sh!t
Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at September 10, 2025 09:28 AM (JkCto)

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One might have called it...stagflation. (I think...don't remember the actual definition. Too lazy to look up.)

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a world of gods and monsters with James Whale at September 10, 2025 09:29 AM (GBKbO)

304 Regarding Trump’s statement on Qatar… I strongly suspect it’s all a show for diplomacy. I think he gave Netanyahu a wink and a nod to conduct the strikes in Doha but he had to “condemn” them publicly for diplomatic reasons.
Posted by: LinusVanPelt

I think the same thing.
Posted by: Bulg at September 10, 2025 09:27 AM (77rzZ)
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It’s exactly right

Posted by: Sir Elric the Blade at September 10, 2025 09:29 AM (xJ9VG)

305 Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at September 10, 2025 09:06 AM (JCZqz)

These are more insane than usual. Long-term impotent rage must lead to a constant descent into more and more insanity.

Posted by: Gref at September 10, 2025 09:29 AM (aBgBM)

306 If you want an iPhone 17 and can afford it, then you alone make the personal decision whether it’s worth it to buy it. Need has nothing to do with it.
Posted by: Sir Elric

Communist.

Posted by: Tim Cook, Apple CEO at September 10, 2025 09:29 AM (aJQjq)

307 304 Regarding Trump’s statement on Qatar… I strongly suspect it’s all a show for diplomacy. I think he gave Netanyahu a wink and a nod to conduct the strikes in Doha but he had to “condemn” them publicly for diplomatic reasons.
Posted by: LinusVanPelt

I think the same thing.
Posted by: Bulg at September 10, 2025 09:27 AM (77rzZ)
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It’s exactly right
Posted by: Sir Elric the Blade at September 10, 2025 09:29 AM (xJ9VG)

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False.

Trump feels slighted and will now nuke Tokyo.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a world of gods and monsters with James Whale at September 10, 2025 09:29 AM (GBKbO)

308 (Starmer is Oswald Moseley in a burqa - jjs)p

Heil, Spode!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 10, 2025 09:29 AM (ySpAZ)

309 Posted by: LinusVanPelt at September 10, 2025 09:24 AM

They are a real ally in the fact that we called them an ally prior to this attack . We can’t keep going back on what we say or our credibility will be shot more than it already is.

Posted by: polynikes at September 10, 2025 09:30 AM (EYmYM)

310 3 300 Also, 650,000 of that 1.7 million, well more than a third, were government jobs.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison,

Yup. They knew the true numbers. And the true numbers were sh!t
Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at September 10, 2025 09:28 AM (JkCto)

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One might have called it...stagflation. (I think...don't remember the actual definition. Too lazy to look up.)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a world of gods and monsters with James Whale at September 10, 2025 09:29 AM (GBKbO)
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Communism?

Posted by: Sir Elric the Blade at September 10, 2025 09:30 AM (xJ9VG)

311 ORACLE earnings to go nuts? Great, get Larry to donate a billion $ to Michigan football so they can buy a stronger offensive line and better receivers.

Posted by: actually inside the beltway at September 10, 2025 09:31 AM (Kdi1r)

312 blanc nood

Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at September 10, 2025 09:32 AM (w9Wax)

313 Heil, Spode!"

Heil, overpriced slighty odd English brand famous for Christmas (transfer ware) dishes?

Posted by: man at September 10, 2025 09:32 AM (tubbA)

314 Posted by: whig at September 10, 2025 09:24 AM (WDjG6)

Nice analysis.

Posted by: Ordinary American at September 10, 2025 09:32 AM (h/ffs)

315 307 304 Regarding Trump’s statement on Qatar… I strongly suspect it’s all a show for diplomacy. I think he gave Netanyahu a wink and a nod to conduct the strikes in Doha but he had to “condemn” them publicly for diplomatic reasons.
Posted by: LinusVanPelt

I think the same thing.
Posted by: Bulg at September 10, 2025 09:27 AM (77rzZ)
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It’s exactly right
Posted by: Sir Elric the Blade at September 10, 2025 09:29 AM (xJ9VG)

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False.

Trump feels slighted and will now nuke Tokyo.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a world of gods and monsters with James Whale at September 10, 2025 09:29 AM (GBKbO)
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‘This is Tokyo!’

— Helloween

Posted by: Sir Elric the Blade at September 10, 2025 09:32 AM (xJ9VG)

316 Braenyard, I think it was you mentioned yesterday that your gramps was stationed just outside of gay Paree during the Great War. Same with my gramps, he knew how to type so he was plucked from the formation and assigned as a clerk to some Colonel.

It must have been good duty. He was getting all these picture post cards after the war from French hotties, which did not endear him to Grandma. Beats sitting in a foxhole getting gassed at the Marne, I reckon.

Posted by: Common Tater at September 10, 2025 09:32 AM (dBJdm)

317 As a percentage that seems impressive. As an absolute number, it is a small enough difference that it could be accounted for by other variables that weren;t considered in the study.

Suggestive but not conclusive results.
Posted by: muldoon
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Misspecification of models by omitted variables can affect results in statistical models but you can actually test for that problem. Dunno if that was done here.

Posted by: whig at September 10, 2025 09:33 AM (WDjG6)

318 False.

Trump feels slighted and will now nuke Tokyo.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a world of gods and monsters with James Whale at September 10, 2025 09:29 AM (GBKbO)

I thought Godzilla already took care of Tokyo….

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at September 10, 2025 09:33 AM (WdMlw)

319 276 Sorry; I don't know who Frank Frazetta is, but I hope the AOS folks have a good time.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke

Comic book illustrator. Drew impossibly muscled men and staggeringly proportioned women.

Posted by: Auspex at September 10, 2025 09:33 AM (Y8DZL)

320 Good morning, Hordians. Shall we begin?
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 10, 2025 07:33 AM (kkTda)

Hadrian the Hordian? I like it.

Posted by: GWB at September 10, 2025 09:37 AM (RTQn+)

321 As a layperson I see some connection to the mRNA vax and increase in cancer rate because the mRNA was created as a potential treatment for cancer. It may be a false correlation but it’s certainly a coincidence.

I always thought COVID was just an excuse to have the largest testing group for an experimental cancer drug in history.

Posted by: polynikes at September 10, 2025 09:37 AM (EYmYM)

322 318 Trump feels slighted and will now nuke Tokyo.
Posted by: LinusVanPelt

If he hurts one of those Japanese cuties wearing their little sailor suits it's over between him and me.

I see those and wonder why there's not a population explosion there instead of the other way.

Posted by: Auspex at September 10, 2025 09:37 AM (Y8DZL)

323 Comic book illustrator. Drew impossibly muscled men and staggeringly proportioned women.
Posted by: Auspex at September 10, 2025 09:33 AM (Y8DZL)

Better description: Frazetta drew every man as he sees himself in his own mind.

Posted by: Tom Servo at September 10, 2025 09:38 AM (BSY5a)

324 Isn't it obvious? Have you ever noticed that every single one of the major TV dinner products are not kosher?
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at September 10, 2025 09:24 AM (4tvN6)

Actually, several of them are. Or at least used to be - I remember the circle-K logo on Swanson's back in the day.

Pretty sure Amy's are, since they're vegetarian, too. (Well, except for the occasional finger.)

Posted by: GWB at September 10, 2025 09:40 AM (RTQn+)

325 Convenience costs but people don't consider that. They just say that this isn't that much. And this isn't that much. And this isn't that much. Ad infinitum.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 10, 2025 09:24 AM (ExV1e)

Oh, but I do consider it. I don't want to buy and store hundreds, or even thousands, of CDs. Spotify introduces me to musicians I'd never have heard of otherwise. I only have to have one song on an album that's mostly crap. I understand and accept its impermanent nature, because it fits my wants and needs.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at September 10, 2025 09:40 AM (48DFl)

326 Trump made it clear to Hamas and the world, Time's Up.
Qatar's got no bitch and they know it. Business is business.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 10, 2025 09:40 AM (Ri+6K)

327 304 Regarding Trump’s statement on Qatar… I strongly suspect it’s all a show for diplomacy. I think he gave Netanyahu a wink and a nod to conduct the strikes in Doha but he had to “condemn” them publicly for diplomatic reasons.
Posted by: LinusVanPelt

Absolutely. He loves it that Hamas leadership got smoked.

Posted by: Ordinary American at September 10, 2025 09:40 AM (h/ffs)

328 314 Posted by: whig at September 10, 2025 09:24 AM (WDjG6)

Nice analysis.
Posted by: Ordinary American

I am sympathetic to libertarianism and think it does work on an individual to individual level corrected by experiences but it simply does not scale up well to the level of nations. That is why I prefer small is beautiful in relations to society and government. Government policy should be driven by the lowest level possible for a task. You might even call this Madisonian (leaving aside Fed 46) as a compound republic.

Then, and this is where I depart from principles into pragmatism---there has to be some overarching dispute resolution mechanisms between the levels of government to prevent small tyrannies (such as a small HOA run amuck or that ordinary citizens are terrorized by criminal thugs in Charlotte NC riding the rail).

This comes from my recognition that humanity is not basically good and we are made up of crooked timber so any political system has to recognize that reality with circuit breakers. Aka If men were angels, no government would be necessary.

Posted by: whig at September 10, 2025 09:42 AM (WDjG6)

329 Don't know what's not Kosher about Hungry Man.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 10, 2025 09:43 AM (Ri+6K)

330 @163

>>Trump could insulate his tariffs from the Supreme Court by getting Congress to pass a law granting him authority to impose tariffs.

The President already has that power, they simply don't like his reasoning and interpretation and absent clear statutory guidance, who are the courts to say his reasoning and interpretation are not valid?

If congress doesn't like the unitary executives reasoning and interpretation, they are free to pass legislation clarifying or constraining the executive.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 10, 2025 09:51 AM (XV/Pl)

331 This comes from my recognition that humanity is not basically good and we are made up of crooked timber so any political system has to recognize that reality with circuit breakers. Aka If men were angels, no government would be necessary.
Posted by: whig at September 10, 2025 09:42 AM (WDjG6)

Yes, indeed. All men are corruptible -- no exceptions other than saints. And we know how common they are.

Posted by: Ordinary American at September 10, 2025 10:00 AM (h/ffs)

332 Good morning, all, and thanks, J.J.

Yes, Senator Fetterman is about the only bright spot in the otherwise terribly dreary world of SE Pennsylvania.

We've got needed profit hospital sites ran into the ground to make way for investors who pickup property on the (very) cheap & get amazingly low area tax valuations for years.

Partnership(s) to build neighborhood/micro hospitals with holding company(ies) that generates revenue through fee-for-service billing from patients, insurance reimbursements, and strategic partnerships with local hospitals and health systems around the country.

Think your hospitals are all non-profit? Look again at the groups' partnership(s).
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On the other side of the river: CBS News, New Jersey health officials make COVID-19 vaccines more accessible through executive directive, Sept. 9, 2025

In part, "The state health department issued an executive directive Tuesday allowing anyone older than 6 months to receive a COVID vaccine for the 2025-26 season, along with a standing order that allows pharmacists to administer the shot without the patient needing a prescription."
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So NO guarantee about insurance coverage but another solid F you, JFK Jr.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at September 10, 2025 10:35 AM (NFX2v)

333 Regarding the Houston imam boycotting Muslim stores that don’t operate as he sees fit-

If:

1) he can claim the authority of the Muslim prophet by simply declaring himself an imam, with no credentialing and while remaining answerable to no ecclesiastical hierarchy; and

2) he can interpret Islam in such a way that he can use his self-proclaimed authority to demand that his co-religionists stop their lawful productive activities which they rely upon to serve their communities and feed their families; and

3) his co-religionists cling to the tenets of that religion such that they are either duty-bound to do as he says and hence diminish their opportunities, or otherwise be seen as apostates in their own community…

…then what’s the problem?

As he says in the video, “This is America…” He’s not hassling Jews, Catholics, Protestants, or atheists, or anyone else but his co-religionists. The store owners can choose.

To them, I’d quote the words of a famous fictional Crusader, ”Choose wisely.”

Posted by: MarkW at September 10, 2025 10:54 AM (aC4DT)

334 Fetterman is a classic Union Democrat. Knows that the company is trying to screw the working man, but with the Union, it can be taken care of. In the 30's and 40's, unions were definitely Socialist/Communist in philosophy, but by the mid-50's the US unions had figured out that the way to play the game was to play a 3 corner game -company, union, government - rather than the obvious failures of far-left governments which had to.much power and screwed everyone.
That describes Fetterman. Don't mistake his support in these areas for a switch to libertarian/conservative views. He's still a big government guy.

Posted by: buddhaha at September 10, 2025 10:58 AM (+P94F)

335 Think your hospitals are all non-profit? Look again at the groups' partnership(s).
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Look at who is on the board, and look at the Doctors who have some sort of controlling/management positions (the ones that control who gets to admit patients.
Then look at which companies supply services/materials to the hospital, especially leasing arrangements, like in groom monitors.
Then look at who owns those companies.

Posted by: buddhaha at September 10, 2025 11:06 AM (+P94F)

336 332. Addendum: A solid DEMOCRATIC County Council, many well known politically & quite well-heeled to boot, behind the transfers of "hospital" group power & initiatives in the region.

And the low information electorate (including union members) have been misinformed & uneducated as to their intentions, imho of course.

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Fetterman is no saint either but does have a bit more heart for the common man, family.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at September 10, 2025 11:15 AM (NFX2v)

337 What exactly is Salisbury Steak?
Posted by: Don Black

The fact that nobody seems to know should serve as a warning that you don't want to know.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at September 10, 2025 09:02 AM (aJQjq)

A big hamburger with onions and spices, and gravy.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at September 10, 2025 11:21 AM (5xuJ/)

338 There seem to be garbage characters in the link to the Behind the Black article on cancer and the Covid-19 vaxx. You can copy the link and trim the end of it, or you can use this link:

https://is.gd/SwGyag

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at September 10, 2025 02:53 PM (sCPLh)

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