Senate Invokes "Nuclear Option" to Confirm 48 Trump Nominees Long Delayed By Insurrectionist Democrats

Late last week, Senate Republicans invoked the "nuclear option" to push through President Trump's nominees, after Senate Democrats dragged their feet on votes. In discussions prior to this, Senate Majority Leader John Thune noted, "It's time to take steps to restore Senate precedent and codify in Senate rules what once was understood to be standard practice -- and that is the Senate acting expeditiously on presidential nominations to allow a president to get his team into place."
Democrats complained, of course, with Chuck Schumer using this as an opportunity to claim Republicans stole a Supreme Court seat.
Today, the Senate voted under those new rules to confirm a group of 48 nominees in one fell swoop.
Here's more:

The U.S. Senate voted Thursday to approve dozens of nominees, acting on a rule change GOP leadership made last week that allows the chamber to confirm some of the president's appointees in large batches instead of one at a time.
The 51-47 vote followed weeks of debate over whether senators could work out a deal on groups of nominees, with Democrats warning along the way that any changes to Senate procedures that benefit the Trump administration now will likely aid a future Democratic president.
"What Republicans have done is chip away at the Senate even more to give Donald Trump more power and to rubber-stamp whomever he wants, whenever he wants them, no questions asked," Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said last week after Republicans initiated the rule change.

Oh -- so you do understand that once a precedent is established, it both binds and empowers both parties.

I thought you didn't understand this because you're still crying that Carr "jawboned" ABC just like Biden jawboned the media and banks.

Meanwhile, Schumer has promised the Democrat base that he will block any new spending bill and shut down the government to force the GOP to do what he wants.

Gee I remember when Ted Cruz suggested using that power as leverage against the Democrats, and Schumer said that was the worst betrayal of our precious democracy ever.

But Democrats are fearful of a shutdown -- because they know, in the end, they'll just surrender, and Schumer's tough talk will end up hurting the party.

Congressional Democrats are understandably unhappy with what happened last time they faced a government-shutdown crisis. In March, Republicans forced them into a trap where they either had to vote for another GOP-sponsored stopgap-spending measure, which offered Democrats zero concessions, or obstruct it and trigger a shutdown, punishing the government employees who were already being besieged by Elon Musk's DOGE and other Trump administration attacks. In the House, where Democrats had no power at all, it was an easy choice: They all voted against the GOP measure. But in the Senate, where a filibuster could have very definitely stopped the bill, Democratic leader Chuck Schumer did a lot of saber-rattling but then caved, rounding up enough votes to end the filibuster and ensure the government stayed open.
Democratic activists were infuriated, and House Democrats suggested Senate Democrats were gutless. The whole episode accomplished nothing other than underlining Democratic Party fecklessness, the lack of unified party leadership, and the whip hand held by the bully Donald Trump and his subalterns in Congress.
Now they're back to a near-identical point as the spending authority approved in March runs out on September 30. Republicans are again offering an extension of current spending levels -- this one a short-term measure until November 20 -- with zero concessions to the Democrats whose votes are necessary to keep the government open.
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In recognition of their leverage, Democrats began talking weeks ago about conditions that needed to be met to earn their votes to head off a shutdown. Some wanted the Trump administration to rein in budget director Russell Vought's highly provocative and probably unconstitutional spending clawbacks; why agree to spending levels if the people running the country felt free to ignore them? Others were interested in getting a grip on Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s ravaging of U.S. science, medicine, and public-health infrastructure. But the main focus among Democrats was the issue they've long considered their strongest heading toward the 2026 midterms: the damage being done to Americans' access to health insurance. That meant demanding at a minimum the continuation of Obamacare premium subsidies due to expire at the end of the year, which were omitted from Trump's megabill because of their cost and the hatred of many Republicans of the president's signature policy accomplishment.

"You'll get nothing and like it." -- Smails, J.

I hope they do shut down the government. For one thing, it establishes this as a legitimate point of leverage, something GOPers can use later. When the Democrats cry, we'll just point out they did it.

Precedent. What a concept.

But the other thing is... when there's a shutdown, and the government has no funds, doesn't the president gain the incredible power to decide what spending is absolutely necessary and which can be suspended? Who will be kept on the payroll and who will be furloughed -- this time, without pay?

I think that is how it works.

That's a Briar Patch Trump definitely doesn't want to be thrown into.

WHAT TRUMP SAID:

DON’T EVEN BOTHER TO DEAL WITH DEMOCRATS.

When Donald Trump says that, he’s saying he wants a shutdown. pic.twitter.com/7P24jIyfuW
— Chuck Schumer (@SenSchumer) September 18, 2025

When are they going to man up and kick this superannuated pansy out of leadership?

IS EPSTEIN THE REAL REASON TRUMP HAD KIMMEL CANCELED?! pic.twitter.com/StPMczciXx
— Chuck Schumer (@SenSchumer) September 18, 2025

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BREAKING -- It has been revealed Senator Chuck Schumer received $4,000 in campaign donations from Jeffrey Epstein between 1992 and 1997, according to OpenSecrets records.

Unrelated: Trump shows the effete pansies of Europe what actual men are like.

BREAKING: President Trump said he watched the Oct. 7 videos and saw Hamas cutting babies into pieces.

“I saw the tapes. Babies just four months old, chopped into pieces.”

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— Eyal Yakoby (@EYakoby) September 18, 2025

Posted by: Ace at 12:00 PM

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1 Ace is early.

Posted by: Nova Local at September 19, 2025 12:01 PM (tOcjL)

2 Can the Blade's march to FIRST be stopped?

Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 19, 2025 12:02 PM (iFTx/)

3 3rd

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at September 19, 2025 12:02 PM (5xuJ/)

4 I was just thinking about the October 7 hostages yesterday...what a NIGHTMARE for them and their families

Posted by: kallisto at September 19, 2025 12:03 PM (dCxaZ)

5 2 Can the Blade's march to FIRST be stopped?

check in with Nova Local, she may have an idea

Posted by: kallisto at September 19, 2025 12:03 PM (dCxaZ)

6 I will celebrate the day Chuck Schumer retires if he ever does and I'm still around.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 19, 2025 12:03 PM (Nx5jP)

7 2 Can the Blade's march to FIRST be stopped?
Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 19, 2025 12:02 PM (iFTx/)

Yes.

Yes it can.

Posted by: XTC at September 19, 2025 12:03 PM (UnA8+)

8 the demorats do not know that their star is setting

I love this factoid for them

Posted by: kallisto at September 19, 2025 12:04 PM (dCxaZ)

9 Just like toddlers. "But, but, but, you can't doooo that!!" After they've been doing the same crap to us year after year.

Here's the whirlwind. Reap it, mofos.

Posted by: hobbitopoly at September 19, 2025 12:04 PM (k9OZB)

10 Shut it down

Posted by: It's me donna at September 19, 2025 12:04 PM (VE6XX)

11 OK I will call them

Posted by: kallisto at September 19, 2025 12:04 PM (dCxaZ)

12 SHUT THAT BITCH DOWN!!!!

Posted by: Max Power at September 19, 2025 12:04 PM (q177U)

13 Wow
Early today
Happy Friday Ace
Maybe the Senate will now get down to business.
Maybe

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at September 19, 2025 12:04 PM (t/2Uw)

14 Just imagine how much fun Trump could have with a shutdown - first, suspend all IRS officers, because his base would love that and it would royally piss off all the dems. Next cut off all new student loans, since the government funds them as well. Lay off everyone except political appointees at the EPA and Dept of Ed, and any other agency that is overly infested with Dems. That's just a start.

Posted by: Tom Servo at September 19, 2025 12:05 PM (uWKK8)

15 Nooded to avoid a "You no noodin' bastiches" moment.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at September 19, 2025 12:05 PM (O7YUW)

16 Jonah Goldberg is of course warning that the Democrats will do the same thing to conservatives when they get back into power.

Yeah, there will be mass firings of all the conservative professors at colleges and universities, mass firings of all the conservatives working for the government, and mass firings of all the conservatives working in the mainstream media.

Can't have that, obviously.

Posted by: The Unread Jonah Goldberg! at September 19, 2025 12:06 PM (xTIDn)

17 But Democrats are fearful of a shutdown -- because they know, in the end, they'll just surrender, and Schumer's tough talk will end up hurting the party.

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Do you have any idea what Russ Vought, Director of the OMB, would do with a shutdown?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a world of gods and monsters with James Whale at September 19, 2025 12:06 PM (GBKbO)

18 It's continually amazing and pants-wetting humorous to me that probably 90% of Congress (both Dem and GOP) think that the threat of a "government shutdown" is very very scary to normal Americans. Like confronting a vampire with a cross dropping holy water.

But in reality, when normal people hear that the government might be shut down, they jump for joy and piss their pants in excitement.

There are fewer bigger disconnections between what the roaches in Congress think versus what normal Americans think than government shutdowns.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 19, 2025 12:06 PM (iFTx/)

19 Happy Friday everyone

Posted by: banana Dream at September 19, 2025 12:06 PM (3uBP9)

20 16 Jonah Goldberg is of course warning that the Democrats will do the same thing to conservatives when they get back into power.

Yeah, there will be mass firings of all the conservative professors at colleges and universities, mass firings of all the conservatives working for the government, and mass firings of all the conservatives working in the mainstream media.

Can't have that, obviously.
Posted by: The Unread Jonah Goldberg! at September 19, 2025 12:06 PM (xTIDn)

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Either Goldberg is operating from a false pretext that when Republicans give up power already established Democrats become too scared to use it once in power, or he's a retard.

Actually, strike that. It can definitely be both.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a world of gods and monsters with James Whale at September 19, 2025 12:07 PM (GBKbO)

21 I think a lot of people in the House and Senate don't understand that our reaction to a government shutdown is "Don't threaten me with a good time."

Posted by: NR Pax at September 19, 2025 12:07 PM (BpO1e)

22 It took Thune way too long to push this change on the appointees through, but at least he finally did it.

Posted by: Tom Servo at September 19, 2025 12:07 PM (uWKK8)

23 I am the 13th commenter on Friday. Is that bad luck?

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at September 19, 2025 12:07 PM (t/2Uw)

24 The Golden Rule was not working for republicans.

Posted by: huerfano at September 19, 2025 12:07 PM (98kQX)

25 Meanwhile, Schumer has promised the Democrat base that he will block any new spending bill and shut down the government to force the GOP to do what he wants.
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It moved.

It'll never happen, but ...

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 19, 2025 12:08 PM (6bTRc)

26 Good Morning, My Love.

Posted by: garrett at September 19, 2025 12:08 PM (YbF8U)

27 Did Trump tell Starmer that he looks like a Muppet when he was over there?

Posted by: Bulg at September 19, 2025 12:08 PM (77rzZ)

28 18 It's continually amazing and pants-wetting humorous to me that probably 90% of Congress (both Dem and GOP) think that the threat of a "government shutdown" is very very scary to normal Americans. Like confronting a vampire with a cross dropping holy water.

But in reality, when normal people hear that the government might be shut down, they jump for joy and piss their pants in excitement.

There are fewer bigger disconnections between what the roaches in Congress think versus what normal Americans think than government shutdowns.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 19, 2025 12:06 PM (iFTx/)

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I think DC is convinced that Obama's tactics during the 2013 (?) shutdown were some kind of great success. That it convinced the people that shutdowns were devastating because the National Park Service took time, money, and material to block people off from open spaces owned by the Federal government.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a world of gods and monsters with James Whale at September 19, 2025 12:08 PM (GBKbO)

29 But Democrats are fearful of a shutdown -- because they know, in the end, they'll just surrender, and Schumer's tough talk will end up hurting the party.
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Maybe. Shutdowns have a long track record of the Executive capitulating.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 19, 2025 12:08 PM (6bTRc)

30 Just imagine how much fun Trump could have with a shutdown

Lay off all the people who cut the checks for Federal grants.

"I'm sorry that you're not getting the $200 million grant you were expecting this week, Chicago, but due to the shutdown we are unable to disburse the money."

Posted by: The ARC of History! at September 19, 2025 12:09 PM (xTIDn)

31 A wonderful Friday. Again.
Must suck to be irrelevant, and not know it.
Dems on the fast track becoming completely so.

Posted by: Wyoming lurker at September 19, 2025 12:09 PM (oUz8C)

32 But the other thing is... when there's a shutdown, and the government has no funds, doesn't the president gain the incredible power to decide what spending is absolutely necessary and which can be suspended? Who will be kept on the payroll and who will be furloughed -- this time, without pay?

I think that is how it works.

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Russ Vought is jerking it at the thought with how much he'll be able to cut in a shutdown.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a world of gods and monsters with James Whale at September 19, 2025 12:09 PM (GBKbO)

33 Can the Blade's march to FIRST be stopped?
Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 19, 2025 12:02 PM (iFTx/)
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Spoiler alert: Yes. Yes, it can be. For now.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 19, 2025 12:09 PM (iFTx/)

34 23 I am the 13th commenter on Friday. Is that bad luck?
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at September 19, 2025 12:07 PM (t/2Uw)

Nah.. Only if it's Friday the 13th

Posted by: It's me donna at September 19, 2025 12:09 PM (VE6XX)

35 You get what you deserve.

Looking like California will get prop 50.
Newscum's Gerrymandering jerkoff.

Posted by: commissar of plenty and festive little hats at September 19, 2025 12:09 PM (Wrf9j)

36 Yes, I did want an earth-shattering kaboom.
Maybe Thune's calling of pro-forma sessions (denying the recess appointments) was a 3d chess move. He played chicken with Schumer. So that now, we get these nonrecess appointments which don't have an expiration date.

Posted by: gKWVE at September 19, 2025 12:09 PM (gKWVE)

37 When are they going to man up and kick this superannuated pansy out of leadership?
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Never. Our elected government is more or less a superannuated pansy club.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 19, 2025 12:09 PM (6bTRc)

38 Good start.

Now smash through the rest.

JD Vance has show the way: "There is no unity with those people."

Posted by: Washington Nearsider - Preparing for the reckoning at September 19, 2025 12:10 PM (oSeBJ)

39 "Jonah Goldberg is of course warning that the Democrats will do the same thing to conservatives when they get back into power."
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"They're gonna do what they already always do!!"

Posted by: davidt at September 19, 2025 12:10 PM (i0F8b)

40 The House has passed the CR. Now goes to the Senste. Will Schumer actually cause a shut down? I think he is too much of a coward.

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at September 19, 2025 12:10 PM (t/2Uw)

41 I am the 13th commenter on Friday. Is that bad luck?
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice)

Possibly. But you can ward it off by eating nothing but maple syrup on French toast and chili with carrots in it for the rest of the day.

Posted by: Bulg at September 19, 2025 12:10 PM (77rzZ)

42 2 Can the Blade's march to FIRST be stopped?
Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 19, 2025 12:02 PM (iFTx/)
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Apparently.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 19, 2025 12:10 PM (6bTRc)

43 You know, everything the Democrats say is tainted with fear. Fear that Congress will do this, or not do that. Fear that Trump will do that, but not this. And every time they don't get their way, it's somehow "bad."

Fear that if they are not abided, there will be bloodshed... but on this, they are absolutely correct.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 19, 2025 12:10 PM (Q4IgG)

44 A shutdown sounds like fun! Let’s give it a go!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at September 19, 2025 12:11 PM (lI6w+)

45 42 2 Can the Blade's march to FIRST be stopped?
Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 19, 2025 12:02 PM (iFTx/)

I never understood the FIRST thing

Posted by: It's me donna at September 19, 2025 12:11 PM (VE6XX)

46 36 Yes, I did want an earth-shattering kaboom.
Maybe Thune's calling of pro-forma sessions (denying the recess appointments) was a 3d chess move. He played chicken with Schumer. So that now, we get these nonrecess appointments which don't have an expiration date.
Posted by: gKWVE at September 19, 2025 12:09 PM (gKWVE)

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Trump never complained about it publicly. That's a key point.

Even in Trump 1.0, Democrats allowed for unanimous consent on many lower offices requiring presidential nomination. They have allowed 0 since January.

So, Trump and Thune played nice for 8 months to make sure that Collins and Murkowski and McConnell would vote for a rules change by clearly establishing that it was Democrats who weren't respecting the rules and precedent of the hallowed Senate.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a world of gods and monsters with James Whale at September 19, 2025 12:11 PM (GBKbO)

47 jump for joy and piss their pants

Used to date her.

Posted by: commissar of plenty and festive little hats at September 19, 2025 12:11 PM (Wrf9j)

48 8 the demorats do not know that their star is setting

I love this factoid for them
Posted by: kallisto at September 19, 2025 12:04 PM (dCxaZ)

I think this shutdown push is coming from the same basic impulse that caused 12 officials to get themselves arrested for a stupid reason yesterday - it's performance art for the voting base, and they feel they have to do outrageous, stupid things to keep their remaining voters satisfied with them.
Of course those same things repel a solid majority of voters; so Dems are stuck in a Doom Loop where the only candidates able to win primaries are guaranteed to lose a general election.
Well except in hellholes like NYC, where the radicals will probably take over. But even that won't help them nationally, as the city collapses under their "leadership" with the rest of the country watching and jeering.

Posted by: Tom Servo at September 19, 2025 12:12 PM (uWKK8)

49 I still laugh about Schumer cutting into a funeral procession is his Ford Escort. Good times!

Posted by: Squid at September 19, 2025 12:12 PM (9tIK7)

50 Can the Blade's march to FIRST be stopped?
Posted by: Elric The Blade

How many divisions does Sponge have?

Posted by: Bulg at September 19, 2025 12:12 PM (77rzZ)

51 39 "Jonah Goldberg is of course warning that the Democrats will do the same thing to conservatives when they get back into power."
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"They're gonna do what they already always do!!"
Posted by: davidt at September 19, 2025 12:10 PM (i0F8b)

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"Democrats might unevenly apply the law and overstep it, waiting for sign off from the courts because they ask for forgiveness, not permission, if Republicans use existing law against Democrats who are breaking the law."
-a fucking loser

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a world of gods and monsters with James Whale at September 19, 2025 12:12 PM (GBKbO)

52 >>>Unrelated: Trump shows the effete pansies of Europe what actual men are like.

FFS, new level of respect attained. I am pretty sure that I could not bear to do that.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 19, 2025 12:12 PM (i24o9)

53 >>> Maybe. Shutdowns have a long track record of the Executive capitulating.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 19, 2025 12:08 PM (6bTRc)

I remember R's pussying out yes. But Obama shut it all down and used it to punish his enemies.

Posted by: banana Dream at September 19, 2025 12:12 PM (3uBP9)

54 Can the Blade's march to FIRST be stopped?
Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 19, 2025 12:02 PM (iFTx/)

I never understood the FIRST thing

Posted by: It's me donna at September 19, 2025 12:11 PM (VE6XX)

You'll never be first with that attitude.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 19, 2025 12:13 PM (i24o9)

55 babies ... what!?!?

did those monsters make a stew out of them?!?!

also yes, shut it down. love it. shut the damn govt down. yay shutdowns!

Posted by: Black Orchid at September 19, 2025 12:13 PM (FHttA)

56 It's continually amazing and pants-wetting humorous to me that probably 90% of Congress (both Dem and GOP) think that the threat of a "government shutdown" is very very scary to normal Americans. Like confronting a vampire with a cross dropping holy water.

But in reality, when normal people hear that the government might be shut down, they jump for joy and piss their pants in excitement.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 19, 2025 12:06 PM (iFTx/)

=======

I think DC is convinced that Obama's tactics during the 2013 (?) shutdown were some kind of great success. That it convinced the people that shutdowns were devastating because the National Park Service took time, money, and material to block people off from open spaces owned by the Federal government.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a world of gods and monsters with James Whale at September 19, 2025 12:08 PM (GBKbO)
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Maybe, but the reason for that was that Democraps already thought that shutting down was scary to Americans. If anything, I thought that images of "barrycaides" blocking federal parks -- while federal no-work paper-pushers continued to get paid -- backfired on the Dums, but they didn't learn any lessons.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 19, 2025 12:13 PM (iFTx/)

57 You know, everything the Democrats say is tainted with fear. Fear that Congress will do this, or not do that. Fear that Trump will do that, but not this. And every time they don't get their way, it's somehow "bad."

Fear that if they are not abided, there will be bloodshed... but on this, they are absolutely correct.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 19, 2025 12:10 PM (Q4IgG)
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What you're describing is not "fear," but "threat." They're *threatening* to get their way and sometimes, carrying that out.

I am pretty sure there is a word for someone who uses threats and direct violation action for the purpose of forcing acceptance of unpopular political changes, but I can't quite put my finger on it.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 19, 2025 12:13 PM (6bTRc)

58 Do it, Chucklef***.

Posted by: XTC at September 19, 2025 12:13 PM (UnA8+)

59 Now goes to the Senste. Will Schumer actually cause a shut down? I think he is too much of a coward.

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at September 19, 2025 12:10 PM (t/2Uw)

He can't NOT shut it down. Not after he caved last time.

Or else the next tranny shooter will be coming for him, and he knows it.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider - Preparing for the reckoning at September 19, 2025 12:13 PM (oSeBJ)

60 48 I think this shutdown push is coming from the same basic impulse that caused 12 officials to get themselves arrested for a stupid reason yesterday - it's performance art for the voting base, and they feel they have to do outrageous, stupid things to keep their remaining voters satisfied with them.
Of course those same things repel a solid majority of voters; so Dems are stuck in a Doom Loop where the only candidates able to win primaries are guaranteed to lose a general election.
Well except in hellholes like NYC, where the radicals will probably take over. But even that won't help them nationally, as the city collapses under their "leadership" with the rest of the country watching and jeering.
Posted by: Tom Servo at September 19, 2025 12:12 PM (uWKK

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Performative posturing for donations.

That's all it is.

And Schumer pissed off the left just a few months ago for folding during the OBBB fight.

(Also,...why is there a budget fight again after the OBBB passed? Appropriations haven't been passed yet. 12 are out of committee in the House and 8 out of committee in the Senate.)

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a world of gods and monsters with James Whale at September 19, 2025 12:13 PM (GBKbO)

61 You'll never be first with that attitude.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 19, 2025 12:13 PM (i24o9

LOL... true

Posted by: It's me donna at September 19, 2025 12:14 PM (VE6XX)

62
Maybe Thune's calling of pro-forma sessions (denying the recess appointments) was a 3d chess move. He played chicken with Schumer. So that now, we get these nonrecess appointments which don't have an expiration date.
Posted by: gKWVE

I think this was the deal all along. He couldn't have gotten away with this without Trump's approval. This first batch was non partisan. Next week we will start to see batches with controversial nominees.
Outsmarted the Dems again. Just like with the recissions. Sneaky sometimes wins the day.

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at September 19, 2025 12:14 PM (t/2Uw)

63 Can the Blade's march to FIRST be stopped?
Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 19, 2025 12:02 PM (iFTx/)

I never understood the FIRST thing

Posted by: It's me donna at September 19, 2025 12:11 PM (VE6XX)

You'll never be first with that attitude.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 19, 2025 12:13 PM (i24o9)
_________

[Golf clap]

Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 19, 2025 12:14 PM (iFTx/)

64 Can the Blade's march to FIRST be stopped?
Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 19, 2025 12:02 PM (iFTx/)

I never understood the FIRST thing

Posted by: It's me donna at September 19, 2025 12:11 PM (VE6XX)

Ask any of the dozens of hot chicks he's banged how THEY feel about him always being first...

Posted by: Washington Nearsider - Preparing for the reckoning at September 19, 2025 12:14 PM (oSeBJ)

65 BREAKING -- It has been revealed Senator Chuck Schumer received $4,000 in campaign donations from Jeffrey Epstein between 1992 and 1997, according to OpenSecrets records.

Is there a list of all the pols he donated to?

Also, that is the period we have poor info on what he was doing isn't it? He wasn't teaching for Bill Barr's dad any more and he wasn't a billionaire hedge fund manager yet...

Posted by: 18-1 at September 19, 2025 12:14 PM (sKqQm)

66 Posted by: Tom Servo at September 19, 2025 12:12 PM (uWKK

What did the 12 officials do to get arrested ?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 19, 2025 12:15 PM (Nx5jP)

67 Ask any of the dozens of hot chicks he's banged how THEY feel about him always being first...

Posted by: Washington Nearsider - Preparing for the reckoning at September 19, 2025 12:14 PM (oSeBJ)

Second is first loser.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 19, 2025 12:15 PM (i24o9)

68 56 Maybe, but the reason for that was that Democraps already thought that shutting down was scary to Americans. If anything, I thought that images of "barrycaides" blocking federal parks -- while federal no-work paper-pushers continued to get paid -- backfired on the Dums, but they didn't learn any lessons.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 19, 2025 12:13 PM (iFTx/)

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It's also a bullshit narrative.

Voters don't give a shit about this stuff.

Remember when the leadership fight in the House early 2024 was going to doom the entire Republican Party's chances in November? I 'member.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a world of gods and monsters with James Whale at September 19, 2025 12:15 PM (GBKbO)

69 Schumer's burger is totes cooked.

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 19, 2025 12:16 PM (XDtG+)

70 I think DC is convinced that Obama's tactics during the 2013 (?) shutdown were some kind of great success.

I remember the Lincoln Memoria being barricaded and two cops standing guard. They quickly got out of the way when they saw the mob coming towards them.

Posted by: NR Pax at September 19, 2025 12:16 PM (BpO1e)

71 Can the Blade's march to FIRST be stopped?
Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 19, 2025 12:02 PM (iFTx/)

I never understood the FIRST thing

Posted by: It's me donna at September 19, 2025 12:11 PM (VE6XX)

Ask any of the dozens of hot chicks he's banged how THEY feel about him always being first...
Posted by: Washington Nearsider - Preparing for the reckoning at September 19, 2025 12:14 PM (oSeBJ)
_____

I hear there's a pill for that ....

Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 19, 2025 12:16 PM (iFTx/)

72 At least now we know that Schumer wasn't an Epstein client. Epstein was a Schumer client

Posted by: gKWVE at September 19, 2025 12:16 PM (gKWVE)

73 What did the 12 officials do to get arrested ?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 19, 2025 12:15 PM (Nx5jP)

Trespass, obbstruction, probably. They tried to grandstand in an ICE holding facility, prevent detention of detainees, etc., IIRC.

General stupidity.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 19, 2025 12:16 PM (i24o9)

74 Schumer's burger is totes cooked.

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 19, 2025 12:16 PM (XDtG+)

Nah.

He hasn't even turned on the grill yet.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider - Preparing for the reckoning at September 19, 2025 12:17 PM (oSeBJ)

75 That last video… is that Starmer trying to debate Trump? Pathetic

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at September 19, 2025 12:17 PM (jSZ9s)

76 How about some real art?

https://i.pin___.com/originals
/f2/43/d1/f243d1a46aba5248a
c59be7537e4baa5.png

Posted by: commissar of plenty and festive little hats at September 19, 2025 12:17 PM (Wrf9j)

77 Who was the first to wear their glasses low on their nose, Schumer or Whoopie?

Posted by: davidt at September 19, 2025 12:17 PM (i0F8b)

78 18 It's continually amazing and pants-wetting humorous to me that probably 90% of Congress (both Dem and GOP) think that the threat of a "government shutdown" is very very scary to normal Americans. Like confronting a vampire with a cross dropping holy water.
Posted by Elric the Blade,
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They think that way because to them, donors get upset that their rent payments on Congress critters ain't getting no return.

Shutdowns occurred all the time in the 70's and yet no one blinked an eye. Like most things, it is a media op designed to cram in unwarranted spending and/taxes under the cover of 'emergency' due to a shutdown. Dems in 1990 used it to impale GHWB during the Gulf War with such. And GHWB like the whiny bitch he was, took it like a furry troon.

Posted by: whig at September 19, 2025 12:17 PM (WDjG6)

79 Is Chuckles the Lion of the Senate for today?

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at September 19, 2025 12:17 PM (SXxzC)

80 …when there’s a shutdown, and the government has no funds, doesn’t the president gain the incredible power to decide what spending is absolutely necessary and which can be suspended? Who will be kept on the payroll and who will be furloughed—this time, without pay?

No.

Ignore the precedent behind the curtain.

Posted by: Hawaiian District Court Judge at September 19, 2025 12:17 PM (EXyHK)

81 Schumer would love a government shutdown. Gives him more time to work on his cookout skills

Posted by: Josephistan at September 19, 2025 12:17 PM (y9ksN)

82 I don’t know about you losers, but I’m still on team Blade.

Get ‘em next time.

Posted by: Corona_Exile at September 19, 2025 12:17 PM (qHgX8)

83 Only thing I know about the 48 nukular optioneers is that Don Jr's ex gets a vacation in Greece, and Noot's wife gets a vacation... somewhere. Hopefully nice.

I'll get excited when it's real appointees who have real jobs to do.

Posted by: BurtTC at September 19, 2025 12:17 PM (tAPWz)

84 A fed shutdown, a boycott of abc and disney is like having Christmas, New Years and a SuperBowl party all wrapped into one. Mardi Gras will be nothing compared to that party.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at September 19, 2025 12:18 PM (rvwwT)

85 66 Posted by: Tom Servo at September 19, 2025 12:12 PM (uWKK

What did the 12 officials do to get arrested ?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 19, 2025 12:15 PM (Nx5jP)

They tried to charge and occupy an ICE office in NYC. They were politely told that what they were doing was illegal and asked to leave several times, but they brought a camera crew and forced the ICE officials and Marshalls to arrest them. It was very obviously a huge publicity stunt on their part.

Posted by: Tom Servo at September 19, 2025 12:18 PM (uWKK8)

86 Schumer has no choice with his party. If he doesn't shut down the government, AOC will run for his seat.

Posted by: redridinghood at September 19, 2025 12:18 PM (NpAcC)

87 Kimmel bragging about anything Epstein is truly rich, since he was identified by name in the late Virginia Giufre's lawsuit as somebody she had sex with at Epstein's house.

Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at September 19, 2025 12:18 PM (Da7Vv)

88 Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 19, 2025 12:16 PM (i24o9)

So it was "Follies on Ice" again.? I'm tired of that show.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 19, 2025 12:18 PM (Nx5jP)

89 Can the Blade's march to FIRST be stopped?
Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 19, 2025 12:02 PM (iFTx/)

I never understood the FIRST thing
Posted by: It's me donna at September 19, 2025 12:11 PM (VE6XX)
__

Dumb game to play on lazy boring Friday. But there will probably be more comments goofing on The Blade failing to be 1st than responding to Ace's post. Kinda like when someone starts a "pun" game ... uh oh ...

Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 19, 2025 12:18 PM (iFTx/)

90 Good afternoon Ace. Gosh I really like my senator Chuck. He shows up in this county maybe once a year with goodies , aka your own tax dollars governmentalized. He is a complete putz. It would be a pleasure to see him lose a primary to AOC or any other far left lunatic, because he allowed them to grow. Of course NY would be even more effed than it is now

Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 19, 2025 12:18 PM (lmTGO)

91 79 Is Chuckles the Lion of the Senate for today?
Posted by: Northernlurker

Give him a week and Schumer will be on all fours wearing those cat ears and tail I mentioned in the furry thread OwO

Posted by: gKWVE at September 19, 2025 12:18 PM (gKWVE)

92 Trespass, obbstruction, probably. They tried to grandstand in an ICE holding facility, prevent detention of detainees, etc., IIRC.

General stupidity.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder
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From what I've read, the 10th Floor in that building were the worst of the worst of criminal illegals en route to being deported. Everything the Dems are doing now is an op designed for performative disruption of deporting illegals.

Posted by: whig at September 19, 2025 12:18 PM (WDjG6)

93 81 Schumer would love a government shutdown. Gives him more time to work on his cookout skills
Posted by: Josephistan at September 19, 2025 12:17 PM (y9ksN)

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Schumer cannot allow a shutdown.

At all.

Yes, politically he has to put on a show for his donors, but allowing a shutdown gives Russ Vought, Director of the OMB, full authority to prioritize spending.

Any last grants not yet cut for whatever reason? Grants to leftist aligned NGOs that fund things like...cowboy poetry or violent insurrection against the American Constitution? Cut.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a world of gods and monsters with James Whale at September 19, 2025 12:19 PM (GBKbO)

94 82 I don’t know about you losers, but I’m still on team Blade.

Get ‘em next time.
Posted by: Corona_Exile at September 19, 2025 12:17 PM (qHgX

The comment on being First wasn't aimed at "Blade" alone.. It was a generic question...

Posted by: It's me donna at September 19, 2025 12:19 PM (VE6XX)

95 hear there's a pill for that ....
Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 19, 2025 12:16 PM (iFTx/)

Oh yeah? I want to know what these losers are taking for their weak shambling members and how you spell it.

Posted by: ... at September 19, 2025 12:19 PM (ZW9XP)

96 The only way they can stop the vote is with a filibuster, otherwise simple majority vote is all that's needed. Make them actually do it, stand and talk for days on end. Won't happen. They are too lazy. It is Biden's budget being extended so what is their complaint? Their constituents won't care so why should they. It's just theatre for political junkies.

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at September 19, 2025 12:20 PM (t/2Uw)

97 Who was the first to wear their glasses low on their nose, Schumer or Whoopie?
Posted by: davidt

Me but that's because when I was younger, the lenses were heavy and slid forward.

Posted by: NR Pax at September 19, 2025 12:20 PM (BpO1e)

98 UniParty (R) could have nukular on Day One.
But UniParty.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at September 19, 2025 12:21 PM (/lPRQ)

99 Kinda like when someone starts a "pun" game ... uh oh ...
Posted by: Elric The Blade

Welp, I guess it's time for me to start trouting out the fish puns.

Posted by: Bulg at September 19, 2025 12:21 PM (77rzZ)

100 I never understood the FIRST thing

Posted by: It's me donna at September 19, 2025 12:11 PM (VE6XX)

It's not necessary to gloat about it, just relax in the warmth of the applause.

Oh, wait...

Posted by: Nazdar at September 19, 2025 12:21 PM (NcvvS)

101 86 Schumer has no choice with his party. If he doesn't shut down the government, AOC will run for his seat.

Posted by: redridinghood at September 19, 2025 12:18 PM (NpAcC)

What happens when Chuckles caves to PDT, Thune, and Johnson, agreeing to the R-proposed bill? Go long on popcorn futures.

Posted by: Gref at September 19, 2025 12:21 PM (5rh/l)

102 @93 TJM yup. As someone pointed out the furloughing of non essential workers would be used for mass firings. It would be DOGE on steroids

Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 19, 2025 12:21 PM (lmTGO)

103 Republicans are going in raw, like one of Schumer's burgers.

Posted by: ... at September 19, 2025 12:21 PM (ZW9XP)

104 As a self respecting bio-mechanical neko-grrl...

Schumer in cat ears is a disturbing image, next you will say he licks his balls.

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 19, 2025 12:22 PM (XDtG+)

105 Maybe, but the reason for that was that Democraps already thought that shutting down was scary to Americans. If anything, I thought that images of "barrycaides" blocking federal parks -- while federal no-work paper-pushers continued to get paid -- backfired on the Dums, but they didn't learn any lessons.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 19, 2025 12:13 PM (iFTx/)

I don't see how the Democrats ever lose these things. It's all theater. The shutdown gets threatened, maybe it happens, maybe it doesn't, but then in the end the Republicans give in, and the Democrats get most if not all they asked for.

Now, the real trick is... THE REPUBLICANS WANTED IT TOO! They just had to put on the show, so their voters would "know" they're really really serious about cutting government spending.

Posted by: BurtTC at September 19, 2025 12:22 PM (tAPWz)

106 This is good news but, a CR has just passed. Another day another stop gap funding bill.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at September 19, 2025 12:22 PM (abIsI)

107 77 Who was the first to wear their glasses low on their nose, Schumer or Whoopie?
Posted by: davidt
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Schumer and Whoopie are converging in looks--Schumer is almost there with a face like an aging lesbian with multiple abortions such as Whoopie.

Posted by: whig at September 19, 2025 12:22 PM (WDjG6)

108 According to inflation Calculator, $4,000 is $8,000 in today’s money. If we weren’t making everything political, who would care? But that’s the rules.

Posted by: Corona_Exile at September 19, 2025 12:22 PM (qHgX8)

109 100 I never understood the FIRST thing

Posted by: It's me donna at September 19, 2025 12:11 PM (VE6XX)
It's not necessary to gloat about it, just relax in the warmth of the applause.
Oh, wait...
Posted by: Nazdar at September 19, 2025 12:21 PM (NcvvS)

If you're not First, you're Last.

Posted by: Ricky Bobby's Dad at September 19, 2025 12:22 PM (uWKK8)

110 96 The only way they can stop the vote is with a filibuster, otherwise simple majority vote is all that's needed. Make them actually do it, stand and talk for days on end. Won't happen. They are too lazy. It is Biden's budget being extended so what is their complaint? Their constituents won't care so why should they. It's just theatre for political junkies.
Posted by: Sharon(willow

Aren't they too busy with Kimmel being "fired" ? You know My Democracy ! First Amendment ! Blah,blah,blah ?

Posted by: It's me donna at September 19, 2025 12:22 PM (VE6XX)

111 I don't think the left fully understand that the assassination of Charlie Kirk, everything has changed, forever.

We are going to impose our moral vision by, in the parlance and in a manner they can understand, any means necessary.

Or Alternatively....

WAR!

Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 19, 2025 12:22 PM (XV/Pl)

112 I never understood the FIRST thing
Posted by: It's me donna at September 19, 2025 12:11 PM (VE6XX)

Well, first, there were the dinosaurs, then.......

Posted by: Johnny at September 19, 2025 12:22 PM (5xuJ/)

113 BlackOrchid, the shooting was at a farmhouse next to a cornfield. Not a plant of any sort. He was stalking a girl he dated a few times. The police had been to his parents house looking for him and already had a bolo out on his vehicle. Brought them to the farmhouse where the girl lived with her mom. They had already left in fear for their safety. He was inside the house and had killed the family dog and then gunned down the officers

Posted by: NoLongerintheBellyoftheBeast at September 19, 2025 12:22 PM (OpLc2)

114 106 This is good news but, a CR has just passed. Another day another stop gap funding bill.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at September 19, 2025 12:22 PM (abIsI)

=======

The difference is that this is based on the reduced spending from the OBBB, not the previous CR spending levels.

The CBO rescored the OBBB recently. They had said it would cost several trillion dollars.

The new scoring? Save $300 billion.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a world of gods and monsters with James Whale at September 19, 2025 12:23 PM (GBKbO)

115 Everything the Dems are doing now is an op designed for performative disruption of deporting illegals.

Posted by: whig at September 19, 2025 12:18 PM (WDjG6)

It's ALL performative and has been for a long time, most of GOPe flapping their gums and waving their arms, too.

If not for Trump, it would be like a giant game of charades or something.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 19, 2025 12:23 PM (i24o9)

116 Kimmel bragging about anything Epstein is truly rich, since he was identified by name in the late Virginia Giufre's lawsuit as somebody she had sex with at Epstein's house.
Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at September 19, 2025 12:18 PM (Da7Vv)
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Giuffre was batty as a loon and probably 90% of what she said was either pure fiction or heavily embellished. But the odds that she was telling the truth about having sex with Kimmel are ... high. He seems exactly like the kinda roaching scumbag who would take advantage of a desperate, mentally ill woman.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 19, 2025 12:23 PM (iFTx/)

117 Senate Invokes "Nuclear Option" to Confirm 48 Trump Nominees Long Delayed By Insurrectionist Democrats, My Love

Posted by: ... at September 19, 2025 12:23 PM (ZW9XP)

118 > What you're describing is not "fear," but "threat." They're *threatening* to get their way and sometimes, carrying that out.

I am pretty sure there is a word for someone who uses threats and direct violation action for the purpose of forcing acceptance of unpopular political changes, but I can't quite put my finger on it.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)
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Oh... I get that. It's just that they almost always say "I fear that if this, that or the other thing is/isn't done..."

The threats are implied, but always there. Sometimes they're not even implied... they're promised. At this point I think the Republicans should take Democrats at their literal word and act accordingly. They won't, of course.

Because they're cowards and in many cases, are in agreement with the left.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 19, 2025 12:24 PM (Q4IgG)

119 106 This is good news but, a CR has just passed. Another day another stop gap funding bill.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at September 19, 2025 12:22 PM (abIsI)

Only in the House, that's not where the issue is. We always knew it would pass the House.

Posted by: Tom Servo at September 19, 2025 12:24 PM (uWKK8)

120 IS EPSTEIN THE REAL REASON TRUMP HAD KIMMEL CANCELED?! pic.twitter.com/StPMczciXx
— Chuck Schumer

So much for knocking off the inflammatory rhetoric.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at September 19, 2025 12:24 PM (/lPRQ)

121 Who was the first to wear their glasses low on their nose, Schumer or Whoopie?

Fred Mertz? Yeah, it's goofy looking but now that I've reached 29 I find myself doing it sometimes.

Posted by: Oddbob at September 19, 2025 12:24 PM (3nLb4)

122 He was inside the house and had killed the family dog and then gunned down the officers
Posted by: NoLongerintheBellyoftheBeast

The cops were probably pissed that he killed the dog before they could.

Posted by: Bulg at September 19, 2025 12:24 PM (77rzZ)

123 >>> Me but that's because when I was younger, the lenses were heavy and slid forward.
Posted by: NR Pax at September 19, 2025 12:20 PM (BpO1e)

My glasses would probably weigh ten pounds if they were still made out of glass or even regular optical index polymers. And be an inch thick. As much as being near-sighted as a mole sucks I am thankful for all the technological breakthroughs.

Posted by: banana Dream at September 19, 2025 12:24 PM (3uBP9)

124 Before the first term i was saying i am voting for trump but i wouldn want to live next door to him. I was wrong. After be went through all that crap and kept winning, he's the man. He also seems authetic. He is who he is and is fine with it. Happy to have him in the white house or in my neighborhood. He be a funny guy to hang with at a barbeque.

Also i did not know AI song creation was so advanced. There is an AI song modeling Ed Sheeran on youtube. Rest in peace charlie kirk. It is amazing but totally AI. I could not tell and had to look it up.

Posted by: Trump is a good guy at September 19, 2025 12:24 PM (6xU54)

125 100 I never understood the FIRST thing

Posted by: It's me donna at September 19, 2025 12:11 PM (VE6XX)

It's a guys thing.

Posted by: Gref at September 19, 2025 12:24 PM (5rh/l)

126 Thanks TJM, I didn't know that. No wonder Trump was all for this.

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at September 19, 2025 12:25 PM (t/2Uw)

127 I like how the Dems have managed to piss off the three "moderate" Republican Senators so much that they voted for this.

Like, even they are tired of your shit.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at September 19, 2025 12:25 PM (qHqHk)

128 i bet schumer puts mayo on his heart healthy veg burgers

Posted by: gnats local 678 at September 19, 2025 12:25 PM (CWTWj)

129 Nice to see the GOP getting off its dead ass for a change.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at September 19, 2025 12:26 PM (jbnUc)

130 Kinda like when someone starts a "pun" game ... uh oh ...
Posted by: Elric The Blade

Welp, I guess it's time for me to start trouting out the fish puns.
Posted by: Bulg at September 19, 2025

***
Ah, this plaice --!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 19, 2025 12:26 PM (omVj0)

131 hear there's a pill for that ....
Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 19, 2025 12:16 PM (iFTx/)

Oh yeah? I want to know what these losers are taking for their weak shambling members and how you spell it.
Posted by: ... at September 19, 2025 12:19 PM (ZW9XP)
___

C-o-c-a-i-n-e

Oh wait, that makes your dick droopy. So you take s-i-l-d-e-n-a-f-i-l to fire it back up!

Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 19, 2025 12:26 PM (iFTx/)

132 They're *still* rolling with Epstein. Funny how Epstein didn't seem a big deal to them through either of the last two presidential terms.

Must have slipped their mind.

Posted by: ... at September 19, 2025 12:26 PM (ZW9XP)

133
"epstein" is the new "Trump's tax returns"

Posted by: Soothsayer at September 19, 2025 12:26 PM (/ZFN7)

134 It's a guys thing.
Posted by: Gref at September 19, 2025

Nope. I've done it but the absolute best time was when I came in second.

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at September 19, 2025 12:27 PM (t/2Uw)

135 80 …when there’s a shutdown, and the government has no funds, doesn’t the president gain the incredible power to decide what spending is absolutely necessary and which can be suspended? Who will be kept on the payroll and who will be furloughed—this time, without pay?

No.

Ignore the precedent behind the curtain.

Posted by: Hawaiian District Court Judge at September 19, 2025 12:17 PM (EXyHK)

A law passed after the last shutdown prevents the last part - "without pay" - all fed gov employees (note this does NOT include fed gov contractors) are eventually paid their full salaries for shutdowns. It was a passed law with TRUMP's signature in 2019, so Trump would have a hard time going to court to reverse his past signature.

Posted by: Nova Local at September 19, 2025 12:27 PM (tOcjL)

136 Only in the House, that's not where the issue is. We always knew it would pass the House.
Posted by: Tom Servo

True; but now that Chucky is all trussed up, the bill has stronger chances in the Senate.

Posted by: gKWVE at September 19, 2025 12:27 PM (gKWVE)

137 Of course NY would be even more effed than it is now

==

In Democrat-run hellholes, is there even such a thing as peak effed? I don't think so.

Posted by: Lady in Black at September 19, 2025 12:27 PM (qBdHI)

138 79 Is Chuckles the Lion of the Senate for today?
Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at September 19, 2025 12:17 PM (SXxzC)

He's certainly the Lyin'.

Posted by: XTC at September 19, 2025 12:27 PM (UnA8+)

139 i bet schumer puts mayo on his heart healthy veg burgers
Posted by: gnats local 678

If it's not Duke's, it's not mayo.

Posted by: Bulg at September 19, 2025 12:27 PM (77rzZ)

140 I never understood the FIRST thing

Posted by: It's me donna at September 19, 2025 12:11 PM (VE6XX)

It's a guys thing.
Posted by: Gref

Breaking the hymen of the thread.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at September 19, 2025 12:27 PM (rvwwT)

141 Sorry (legit). I endeavored to dampen black pills.

So I'll go with a lighter note.

Walked in my oldest who was supposed to be doing school work, and suspected that he was goofing off on the computer.

I made him show me his other browser window tabs, not the Latin or Science tabs, that he always has up to cover his goofing off.

There were two youtube video tabs on "how to show a girl that you like her." I took it on faith that the advice was not, "send dick pics."

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 19, 2025 12:28 PM (i24o9)

142 I'll get excited when it's real appointees who have real jobs to do.
Posted by: BurtTC
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Lot of undersecretaries, etc. in that crowd and more coming. If you actually read the stories on it, you would already know that.

Link goes to US Senate with list of who they are and what they have been confirmed to do.
https://tinyurl.com/42mpb2sn

Posted by: whig at September 19, 2025 12:28 PM (WDjG6)

143 What happens when Chuckles caves to PDT, Thune, and Johnson, agreeing to the R-proposed bill? Go long on popcorn futures.
Posted by: Gref at September 19, 2025 12:21 PM (5rh/l)
*******
He got hell from his party the last time for caving I would really be surprised if he did so this time.. 🍿

Posted by: redridinghood at September 19, 2025 12:28 PM (NpAcC)

144 Dutch govt. has voted to designate Antifa a terrorist org. Winning and sporty.

Posted by: Kingsman at September 19, 2025 12:28 PM (ehY6c)

145 Is this about us?

Posted by: aging lesbian with multiple abortions at September 19, 2025 12:28 PM (6TrWP)

146 It's a guys thing.
Posted by: Gref at September 19, 2025 12:24 PM (5rh/l)
++++
Did ... did ... did you just perpetuate the hateful and disproven theory of a sexual binary while simultaneously assuming Donna's gender just because it is a name typically socially constructed as "female" and the Donna's previous use of feminine pronouns? On so little evidence, you dare categorize a fellow poster - neigh, a fellow *human* - into the depraved and fictional binary without the poster's consent?

Please apologize to Donna - and to us - immediately.

And all, can we PLEASE put our pronouns in our nickname fields to avoid such offense in the future?

Posted by: Clueless Gender Activist Who Doesn't Know What Time It Is (they/them) at September 19, 2025 12:28 PM (6bTRc)

147 UniParty (R) could have nukular on Day One.
But UniParty.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at September 19, 2025 12:21 PM (/lPRQ)

Very succinct and accurate.

Posted by: BurtTC at September 19, 2025 12:28 PM (PtAHv)

148 Saw on the internet that Schumer is in direct control of elements of Antifa.
Just a rumor I am sure.
Would not want to spread any rumors that Schumer is an Antifa Grand Klegle or whatever.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at September 19, 2025 12:28 PM (/lPRQ)

149 Kinda like when someone starts a "pun" game ... uh oh ...
Posted by: Elric The Blade

Welp, I guess it's time for me to start trouting out the fish puns.
Posted by: Bulg at September 19, 2025 12:21 PM (77rzZ)
______

You're kraken me up

Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 19, 2025 12:29 PM (iFTx/)

150 There were two youtube video tabs on "how to show a girl that you like her." I took it on faith that the advice was not, "send dick pics."
Posted by: Comrade Flounder
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Amusingly wholesome, thanks for the laughs.

Posted by: whig at September 19, 2025 12:29 PM (WDjG6)

151 I read somewhere that the next bunch of confirmations will be even larger than the 48 yesterday. Thune is getting things done

Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 19, 2025 12:29 PM (lmTGO)

152

Yes, I understand about the babies hacked to pieces but what about Gaza.

Fucking scumbags.

This KImmel shit is a way for those assholes not to have to talk about Kirk's assassination.

Anything for them to change the subject from their culpability.

Posted by: REv Dr E Buzz at September 19, 2025 12:29 PM (et1vG)

153 We need more coverage of Starmer's boy toys. A commie pansy pedo.

Posted by: Eeyore at September 19, 2025 12:29 PM (s0JqF)

154 21 I think a lot of people in the House and Senate don't understand that our reaction to a government shutdown is "Don't threaten me with a good time."
Posted by: NR Pax at September 19, 2025 12:07 PM

I wholeheartedly agree!

Happy Friday, Ace!

Posted by: Moonbeam at September 19, 2025 12:29 PM (rbKZ6)

155 ‘ IS EPSTEIN THE REAL REASON TRUMP HAD KIMMEL CANCELED?! pic.twitter.com/StPMczciXx

— Chuck Schumer’

Haha, yeah that’s right. Kimmel was this close to uncovering the Epstein news that was finally going to finish Trump. But then he got kicked off the air for no reason at all.
Too damn bad for you guys. You were SO close to.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at September 19, 2025 12:29 PM (jbnUc)

156 C-o-c-a-i-n-e

Oh wait, that makes your dick droopy. So you take s-i-l-d-e-n-a-f-i-l to fire it back up!
Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 19, 2025

***
"It's BlueChew."
(-- Busty blonde in the BlueChew commercials)

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 19, 2025 12:29 PM (omVj0)

157 From what I've read, the 10th Floor in that building were the worst of the worst of criminal illegals en route to being deported.

A few days ago, a couple of "fathers" were arrested in their cars in Portland - targeted arrests.

Some local politicians initially screamed about this, but since then - nothing.

I guess they don't want to discuss what these "fathers" were actually guilty of.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at September 19, 2025 12:29 PM (xTIDn)

158 Reap the whirlwind, Chucky!

Posted by: Curly Shuffle at September 19, 2025 12:29 PM (5yDGQ)

159 I can't even listen to the media anymore. I just mute them and wait for Trump or whomever to speak.

Posted by: Ordinary American at September 19, 2025 12:30 PM (WHfpM)

160 148 Saw on the internet that Schumer is in direct control of elements of Antifa.
Just a rumor I am sure.
Would not want to spread any rumors that Schumer is an Antifa Grand Klegle or whatever.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher
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Fun begins abroad as Dutch Parliament has labeled Antifa as a terrorist organization now too. And urging other Euro governments to do so as well.

Posted by: whig at September 19, 2025 12:30 PM (WDjG6)

161 144 Dutch govt. has voted to designate Antifa a terrorist org. Winning and sporty.
Posted by: Kingsman

What about The Netherlands?

Posted by: George Costanza at September 19, 2025 12:30 PM (6TrWP)

162 >>> C-o-c-a-i-n-e
Oh wait, that makes your dick droopy. So you take s-i-l-d-e-n-a-f-i-l to fire it back up!
Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 19, 2025 12:26 PM (iFTx/)

This place has a frighteningly deep knowledge of recreational sex pharmacology.

Posted by: banana Dream at September 19, 2025 12:30 PM (3uBP9)

163 113 BlackOrchid, the shooting was at a farmhouse next to a cornfield. Not a plant of any sort. He was stalking a girl he dated a few times. The police had been to his parents house looking for him and already had a bolo out on his vehicle. Brought them to the farmhouse where the girl lived with her mom. They had already left in fear for their safety. He was inside the house and had killed the family dog and then gunned down the officers

thank you! so ok I have no idea why the MX consulate did anything then

initially you were seeing stuff on social media about ICE but that was obviously wrong

what a piece of work that guy was! ugh, so sorry for everyone especially those police

Posted by: Black Orchid at September 19, 2025 12:30 PM (FHttA)

164 >>> 155 ‘ IS EPSTEIN THE REAL REASON TRUMP HAD KIMMEL CANCELED?! pic.twitter.com/StPMczciXx

— Chuck Schumer’

Haha, yeah that’s right. Kimmel was this close to uncovering the Epstein news that was finally going to finish Trump. But then he got kicked off the air for no reason at all.
Too damn bad for you guys. You were SO close to.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at September 19, 2025 12:29 PM (jbnUc)

Ima put it on my TikTok! So there!!!

Posted by: Jimmy Kimmel at September 19, 2025 12:30 PM (ULPxl)

165 "epstein" is the new "Trump's tax returns"
Posted by: Soothsayer at September 19, 2025 12:26 PM (/ZFN7)

Trump saw it coming and defused it masterfully. Everyone on our side was like WHAT IS HE DOING?

And like usual what he was doing was using the escape hatch that they predicted he never would. The guy is beyond a magician. "Epstein" was supposed to divide all of MAGA, and carry on weakening for the rest of his term.

So Trump split his base first, counting on being able to bring them back together if needed, or the casualties being much lower than letting it be victimized along prepared fault lines by a pre planned years long psy op.

Whoops! Whoopsie!!!

Posted by: ... at September 19, 2025 12:31 PM (ZW9XP)

166 Can the Blade's march to FIRST be stopped?
Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 19, 2025 12:02 PM (iFTx/)

Elric's met his Waterloo.

He'll now be exiled to Little Green Footballs.

Posted by: naturalfake at September 19, 2025 12:31 PM (iJfKG)

167 161 144 Dutch govt. has voted to designate Antifa a terrorist org. Winning and sporty.

Hungary did as well

I think this is significant progress

come on Italy!

Posted by: Black Orchid at September 19, 2025 12:31 PM (FHttA)

168 Or the people in Holland?

Posted by: Jerry Seinfeld at September 19, 2025 12:31 PM (6TrWP)

169 Walked in my oldest who was supposed to be doing school work, and suspected that he was goofing off on the computer.

I made him show me his other browser window tabs, not the Latin or Science tabs, that he always has up to cover his goofing off.

There were two youtube video tabs on "how to show a girl that you like her." I took it on faith that the advice was not, "send dick pics."
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 19, 2025 12:28 PM (i24o9)
____

Or "send me nudes!"

Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 19, 2025 12:31 PM (iFTx/)

170 159 I can't even listen to the media anymore. I just mute them and wait for Trump or whomever to speak.
Posted by: Ordinary American
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Improves digestion that way and cognitive function. Always go to the original sources as far as they are available.

For the media, if you don't watch, one is uninformed, if you do watch, you are misinformed.

Posted by: whig at September 19, 2025 12:31 PM (WDjG6)

171 If you actually read the stories on it, you would already know that.

Posted by: whig at September 19, 2025 12:28 PM (WDjG6)

That's what I count on you for.

You read, and then summarize what you read in a thousand words or more. Make sure to use lots of big words, so we all know you went to law school, champ.

Posted by: BurtTC at September 19, 2025 12:31 PM (7ULbr)

172 He'll now be exiled to Little Green Footballs
_____________

That still exists????

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at September 19, 2025 12:31 PM (1MlMk)

173 As long as Democrats refuse to offer solutions they will only be able to string together silly lies like Trump had Kimmel fired.

I dunno, put forward a plan to do...something.

Where's my $20M consulting fee?

Posted by: MJ at September 19, 2025 12:31 PM (XOmY9)

174 This place has a frighteningly deep knowledge of recreational sex pharmacology.
Posted by: banana Dream at September 19, 2025 12:30 PM (3uBP9)

Excuse me??? There is nothing recreational about it.

Posted by: ... at September 19, 2025 12:31 PM (ZW9XP)

175 Haha, yeah that’s right. Kimmel was this close to uncovering the Epstein news that was finally going to finish Trump.

It's like the Harvard professors who were within six months of curing cancer when their Federal research grants were cancelled.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at September 19, 2025 12:31 PM (xTIDn)

176
I wish Harry Reid were alive just to he could see what he has done.

Posted by: Frank Barone at September 19, 2025 12:31 PM (IifOV)

177 Jimmy Kibble was going to release the Epstein files?

Posted by: Axeman at September 19, 2025 12:32 PM (nzwmT)

178 The difference is that this is based on the reduced spending from the OBBB, not the previous CR spending levels.

The CBO rescored the OBBB recently. They had said it would cost several trillion dollars.

The new scoring? Save $300 billion.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a world of gods and monsters with James Whale

Got it. Thanks.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at September 19, 2025 12:32 PM (abIsI)

179 151 I read somewhere that the next bunch of confirmations will be even larger than the 48 yesterday. Thune is getting things done
Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 19, 2025 12:29 PM

I waiting for the confirmation of his judicial nominees. I'd like to see at least as many appointments as in his first term. I've noticed quite a few sane rulings coming out of the Ninth Circuit, which never used to happen.

Posted by: Moonbeam at September 19, 2025 12:32 PM (rbKZ6)

180 Committee for a Responsible Government Shutdown (CRFB org*) - Government Shutdowns Q&A: Everything You Should Know, Sep 16, 2025

*Likes to reference long ago, i.e., 1995-1996, 2013, 2018-2019
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AI does it better:
During a U.S. government shutdown, essential services that protect the safety of human life and property continue to operate, along with "mandatory spending" programs that do not rely on annual congressional appropriations.

Services & programs that continue -
Mandatory spending: These are programs funded outside of the annual appropriations process and continue largely uninterrupted. This includes: Social Security and Medicare benefit payments, Medicaid, Supplemental Security Income (SSI)
Essential services: Federal employees designated as "essential" or "excepted" remain on the job. The types of activities that fall under this umbrella include: Border Patrol and law enforcement; Air traffic control; Military operations and active-duty personnel; In-hospital medical care for veterans; Federal law enforcement and criminal investigations; Power grid maintenance
Other: The USPS; The Federal Reserve; IRS services; Agencies with multi-year funding

It'll be fine.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at September 19, 2025 12:32 PM (NFX2v)

181 It's a both sides thing.

'Can't Offend the Violent Base': Over 100 House Dems Didn't Vote to Condemn Charlie Kirk's Assassination

Greg Price@greg_price11
Here are the 58 House Democrats that voted "No" and the 38 that voted "Present" on a resolution honoring Charlie Kirk's life and condemning his assassination.

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I know math isn't allowed but I thought 58 + 38 = 96. I guess they counted Jerry Nadler and his ilk twice.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy! at September 19, 2025 12:32 PM (L/fGl)

182 >>> 166 Can the Blade's march to FIRST be stopped?
Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 19, 2025 12:02 PM (iFTx/)

Elric's met his Waterloo.

He'll now be exiled to [puny, tiny, miniscule lime sportsballs].

Posted by: naturalfake at September 19, 2025 12:31 PM (iJfKG)

Whoa. That's harsh.

Posted by: the Barrel at September 19, 2025 12:32 PM (ULPxl)

183 And for reference, when I first met my wife to be, I mooned her.

So I credit my ample posterior for closing the deal.

That got her to put her boobs on me, and the rest is history, almost 30 years on.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 19, 2025 12:33 PM (i24o9)

184 Tee hee! I'm still not in jail.

Posted by: Fauci at September 19, 2025 12:33 PM (6TrWP)

185 Bulg, our cops here don't go around tossing flash bangs and shooting the family dog. They don't harass Amish farmers either. This is a very rural area. The shooter was waiting for either the family to return or the cops to show up. He ambushed them.

Posted by: NoLongerintheBellyoftheBeast at September 19, 2025 12:33 PM (OpLc2)

186 Victor Tango Kilo

172 He'll now be exiled to Little Green Footballs
_____________

That still exists????

HAHAHAHAHAHAHHA!!!!
I was among the banned.

Posted by: goddessoftheclassroom at September 19, 2025 12:33 PM (3kQml)

187 I would still like have the Epstein client list; at least Ghislaine Maxwell's little black book which is still under court seal.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at September 19, 2025 12:33 PM (1MlMk)

188 Or "send me nudes!"

Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 19, 2025 12:31 PM (iFTx/)

Yeah, we've had THAT discussion. I don't want a knock on the door from the FBI.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 19, 2025 12:34 PM (i24o9)

189 Can the Blade's march to FIRST be stopped?
Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 19, 2025 12:02 PM (iFTx/)

Elric's met his Waterloo.

He'll now be exiled to Little Green Footballs.

Posted by: naturalfake at September 19, 2025 12:31 PM (iJfKG)
_

Better than the Bulfark!

Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 19, 2025 12:34 PM (iFTx/)

190 Bulg, our cops here don't go around tossing flash bangs and shooting the family dog. They don't harass Amish farmers either. This is a very rural area. The shooter was waiting for either the family to return or the cops to show up. He ambushed them.
Posted by: NoLongerintheBellyoftheBeast

It was just a joke.

Posted by: Bulg at September 19, 2025 12:34 PM (77rzZ)

191 I read somewhere that the next bunch of confirmations will be even larger than the 48 yesterday. Thune is getting things done

--

I'd love mucho judges confirmed, but I think TJM said yesterday there just aren't a whole lot of vacancies at the moment.

Posted by: Lady in Black at September 19, 2025 12:34 PM (qBdHI)

192 1From The NY Times editorial board:

First paragraph:

A founding principle of the United States, enshrined in the Constitution’s opening amendment, is that our republic depends on citizens’ freedom to disagree with one another. They need to be able to do so intensely, on matters of life and death, including war and divisive modern issues like abortion, gun safety and health insurance. There are limits to free speech, yes, but they involve edge cases, like falsely shouting fire in a theater...

Posted by: Oglebay at September 19, 2025 12:34 PM (MMp6W)

193 163 thank you! so ok I have no idea why the MX consulate did anything then

initially you were seeing stuff on social media about ICE but that was obviously wrong

what a piece of work that guy was! ugh, so sorry for everyone especially those police
Posted by: Black Orchid at September 19, 2025 12:30 PM (FHttA)

I still don't understand an organization in Philadelphia getting involved when South-Central PA is over 90 minutes away.

York County is closer to Baltimore than Philly.

Posted by: XTC at September 19, 2025 12:34 PM (UnA8+)

194 What about The Netherlands?
Posted by: George Costanza at September 19, 2025 12:30 PM (6TrWP)

I just want to know why Constantinople got the works.

Posted by: BurtTC at September 19, 2025 12:35 PM (MIY8C)

195 So Trump split his base first, counting on being able to bring them back together if needed, or the casualties being much lower than letting it be victimized along prepared fault lines by a pre planned years long psy op.

Whoops! Whoopsie!!!
Posted by: ...
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Any sudden hysteria over something is non-organic when it comes from something that happened years ago. And like the stupid faked birthday card bullshit, when seen in daylight and reality, it collapsed and burned like the Hindenburg.

And if you note the timing of it, was deployed to stop the BBB from being passed this summer. And I have taken full account of those pushing that crap sandwich on our side.

Posted by: whig at September 19, 2025 12:35 PM (WDjG6)

196 You can't share a country when half of House democrats endorse political violence #CivilWar

Townhall.com
@townhallcom
🚨 58 Dems just voted "NO" & 38 Dems voted “Present” to THIS?!

RESOLUTION COPY: "The House of Representatives calls upon all Americans to reject political violence, recommit to respectful debate, uphold American values and respect one another as fellow Americans."

DESPICABLE!!
8:10 AM · Sep 19, 2025

Posted by: BetaCuck4Lyfe at September 19, 2025 12:35 PM (PCOea)

197 [Little Green Footballs] still exists????

Yes, but now they’re blue.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at September 19, 2025 12:35 PM (EXyHK)

198 Funny thing going around.

Saying that the regulation disallowing the promulgation of knowingly false material about a crime doesn't apply to Kimmel. Like, it's so obvious man. Especially since he's just a funny man, and it hasn't, like, been enforced in forever, and stuff.

So, fine. Assume it's all true. The application of the regulation against Kimmel has no teeth since it obviously doesn't apply.

Which means that Carr's "threat" against ABC and its affiliates has no teeth. Which means ABC and Disney are abject cowards who won't stand up for principle against a specious charge that hasn't even been levied by the government yet.

And this is supposed to help Kimmel and hurt the administration.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a world of gods and monsters with James Whale at September 19, 2025 12:36 PM (GBKbO)

199 I just want to know why Constantinople got the works.
Posted by: BurtTC

That's nobody's business but the Turks'!

Posted by: Bulg at September 19, 2025 12:36 PM (77rzZ)

200 190 Bulg, our cops here don't go around tossing flash bangs and shooting the family dog. They don't harass Amish farmers either. This is a very rural area. The shooter was waiting for either the family to return or the cops to show up. He ambushed them.
Posted by: NoLongerintheBellyoftheBeast

It was just a joke.
Posted by: Bulg at September 19, 2025 12:34 PM (77rzZ)

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Well, I didn't get it.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a world of gods and monsters with James Whale at September 19, 2025 12:36 PM (GBKbO)

201 To paraphrase another 'ron, the NYT quotes the Constitution like and atheist quotes the Bible, devil a doubt. Sink me for a marlinspike, else!

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at September 19, 2025 12:36 PM (WvZaB)

202 What about The Netherlands?
Posted by: George Costanza
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Keep your private parts to yourself--turtle.

Posted by: whig at September 19, 2025 12:36 PM (WDjG6)

203 >>There are limits to free speech, yes, but they involve edge cases, like falsely shouting fire in a theater...

That Canard doesn't fly.

Posted by: garrett at September 19, 2025 12:36 PM (YbF8U)

204 *You read, and then summarize what you read in a thousand words or more. Make sure to use lots of big words, so we all know you went to law school, champ.*

And be sure to use voice to text so we all have to try to interpret what you MEANT to say since proofreading is too hard.

Posted by: Don't get me started at September 19, 2025 12:36 PM (6TrWP)

205 NoLonger I can't imagine how you all are feeling over there.

What a horrible tragedy.

Posted by: Black Orchid at September 19, 2025 12:36 PM (FHttA)

206 Or "send me nudes!"
Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 19, 2025 12:31 PM (iFTx/)
++++
I saw, in real life and with my own eyes, a guy (I assume it was a guy, almost had to be) with an SUV. On the rear windshield of that SUV was, written in white grease pen, a social media handle at the top center and then the large words "SEND NUDES" covering the rest of the window.

I wonder how many bites he got. My guess is, "meaningfully more than zero." Dude took the "it's a numbers game" theory to its logical conclusion.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 19, 2025 12:36 PM (6bTRc)

207 Judge appointments are not part of the deal.

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at September 19, 2025 12:37 PM (t/2Uw)

208 191 I'd love mucho judges confirmed, but I think TJM said yesterday there just aren't a whole lot of vacancies at the moment.
Posted by: Lady in Black at September 19, 2025 12:34 PM (qBdHI)

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There's that (I think it's like a couple dozen total), and none of these batch appointments will be judges anyway. That's part of the rule change. The lower court judges still have to individually approved.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a world of gods and monsters with James Whale at September 19, 2025 12:37 PM (GBKbO)

209 >>> 200

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Well, I didn't get it.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a world of gods and monsters with James Whale at September 19, 2025 12:36 PM (GBKbO)

WHAT ELSE IS NEW.

Posted by: BEN ROTHLESSBERGERER at September 19, 2025 12:37 PM (ULPxl)

210 Netherlands...Eva Vlaardingerbroek...mmmmmmmmm...

Posted by: Bulg at September 19, 2025 12:37 PM (77rzZ)

211 There are limits to free speech, yes, but they involve edge cases, like falsely shouting fire in a theater...
Posted by: Oglebay

How about falsely shouting "Nazi murderer!" on MSNSDAP?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy! at September 19, 2025 12:37 PM (L/fGl)

212 Which means that Carr's "threat" against ABC and its affiliates has no teeth. Which means ABC and Disney are abject cowards who won't stand up for principle against a specious charge that hasn't even been levied by the government yet.

And this is supposed to help Kimmel and hurt the administration.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a world of gods and monsters with James Whale at September 19, 2025 12:36 PM (GBKbO)

Or they wanted him gone because low ratings and he's an ass, and this was a convenient time and excuse.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 19, 2025 12:37 PM (i24o9)

213 23 I am the 13th commenter on Friday. Is that bad luck?
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at September 19, 2025 12:07 PM (t/2Uw)

Nah.. Only if it's Friday the 13th
Posted by: It's me donna at

Or maybe yes, but only for length of thread. So don't post if skiing or something.

Posted by: From about That Time at September 19, 2025 12:37 PM (n4GiU)

214 203 That Canard doesn't fly.
Posted by: garrett at September 19, 2025 12:36 PM (YbF8U)

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Well, yeah.

Because birds aren't real, yo.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a world of gods and monsters with James Whale at September 19, 2025 12:37 PM (GBKbO)

215 And this is supposed to help Kimmel and hurt the administration.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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They are only talking to themselves nowadays--like the weird guy on the train muttering before they try to stab someone.

Posted by: whig at September 19, 2025 12:38 PM (WDjG6)

216 G00GLE AI:

AI Overview
When a person uses threats and direct, illegal action to force acceptance of unpopular political changes, several words can describe them, depending on the specific context and the type of actions taken.

Words describing the actor

_Terrorist: This term is used for someone who uses violence against non-combatants to achieve political aims. It originates from the French Revolution's "Reign of Terror," where the state used violence to enforce acceptance of its ideology.

_Tyrant: A ruler who exercises oppressive and cruel authority over their people, often through the use of force and intimidation.

_Dictator: A ruler with total power over a country, typically one who has obtained control by force.

_Autocrat: A ruler with absolute, unlimited power, who governs without the consent or input of the people.

_Authoritarian: An individual who enforces strict obedience to authority, especially at the expense of personal freedom, and suppresses dissent through coercive tactics.

_Despot: A cruel and oppressive ruler, similar to a tyrant.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 19, 2025 12:38 PM (ZSyTt)

217 The amount of people that don't understand the concept of free speech is amazing. Mostly that they don't understand social consequences... oh wait they used to... when conservatives were being cancelled.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at September 19, 2025 12:38 PM (rvwwT)

218 212 Or they wanted him gone because low ratings and he's an ass, and this was a convenient time and excuse.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 19, 2025 12:37 PM (i24o9)

=======

I mean, this is the easiest, most logical explanation.

But narrative must be made of Trump being a totalitarian, given increased oxygen by people like...Larry Correia.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a world of gods and monsters with James Whale at September 19, 2025 12:38 PM (GBKbO)

219 58 Dems just voted "NO" & 38 Dems voted “Present” to THIS?!

Honestly it's a stunt and a waste of time, so if I was a D in a safe district I'd probably sit in the cloakroom playing with my Nintendo Switch for this vote.

Posted by: gKWVE at September 19, 2025 12:38 PM (gKWVE)

220 Or "send me nudes!"
Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 19, 2025 12:31 PM (iFTx/)
++++
I saw, in real life and with my own eyes, a guy (I assume it was a guy, almost had to be) with an SUV. On the rear windshield of that SUV was, written in white grease pen, a social media handle at the top center and then the large words "SEND NUDES" covering the rest of the window.

I wonder how many bites he got. My guess is, "meaningfully more than zero." Dude took the "it's a numbers game" theory to its logical conclusion.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 19, 2025 12:36 PM (6bTRc)
____

He almost surely got a lot from aspiring THOTs and OF "models" hoping for an easy mark.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 19, 2025 12:39 PM (iFTx/)

221 This blonde in the kitchen is not worried about a government shutdown:
http://tiny.cc/l0ts001

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 19, 2025 12:39 PM (6bTRc)

222 Does Schumer drive an EV?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 19, 2025 12:39 PM (63Dwl)

223 The Mexican Consulate statement was just weird. But we do have a lot of illegals here. They originally came to pick the apple harvest, but around200 or so, they came and never left. I live 8 miles from the shooting and I also live in the same town where the shooter lived with his parents. They bought their home in 2002

Posted by: NoLongerintheBellyoftheBeast at September 19, 2025 12:39 PM (OpLc2)

224 215 And this is supposed to help Kimmel and hurt the administration.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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They are only talking to themselves nowadays--like the weird guy on the train muttering before they try to stab someone.
Posted by: whig at September 19, 2025 12:38 PM (WDjG6)

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I think it was a FIRE lawyer I saw it from.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a world of gods and monsters with James Whale at September 19, 2025 12:39 PM (GBKbO)

225 I would still like have the Epstein client list; at least Ghislaine Maxwell's little black book which is still under court seal.
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at September 19, 2025 12:33 PM (1MlMk)

You picked a fine time to leave me, court seal.

It's pretty simple, really. Don and Kash and Dan and Pam went into this thing, thinking the "Epstein List" would reveal a bunch of rogues who needed to be outed as the pedos they are.

Unfortunately, after they saw the list, they noticed a number of their "friends" on it. So no, you can't have the list.

Posted by: BurtTC at September 19, 2025 12:39 PM (MIY8C)

226
WHAT TRUMP SAID:

DON’T EVEN BOTHER TO DEAL WITH DEMOCRATS.

When Donald Trump says that, he’s saying he wants a shutdown.

You already sold me, Schumer. No need to overdo it.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at September 19, 2025 12:39 PM (y9nCu)

227 IMHO Chuckles is a genuine piece of shit. At least he's genuine.

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at September 19, 2025 12:39 PM (SXxzC)

228 Or they wanted him gone because low ratings and he's an ass, and this was a convenient time and excuse.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder
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It was his doubling down that did him in. ABC wanted him to apologize, he refused, they own the show and told him to go away while they think about his fate.

Same attitude gets a lot of people in trouble with judges in court and they are always amazed when their pee pee gets whacked with a gavel.

Posted by: whig at September 19, 2025 12:39 PM (WDjG6)

229 226
WHAT TRUMP SAID:

DON’T EVEN BOTHER TO DEAL WITH DEMOCRATS.

When Donald Trump says that, he’s saying he wants a shutdown.

You already sold me, Schumer. No need to overdo it.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at September 19, 2025 12:39 PM (y9nCu)

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Schumer's demands include putting illegals back on Medicaid, by the way.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a world of gods and monsters with James Whale at September 19, 2025 12:39 PM (GBKbO)

230 Not going skiing but do need to do my exercises so I can get a little bettr every day.
BBL

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at September 19, 2025 12:40 PM (t/2Uw)

231 Posted by: whig at September 19, 2025 12:35 PM (WDjG6)

Any lesser man would have been destroyed by what they had coming. And what's more he would have lost the bigger war - with half his base genuinely "just asking questions" and the other half genuinely wanting to kill them and shut them up. This was an Intelligence operation like we have no doubt ran many times before in other countries.

Epstein was Russia II. And Trump flicked it away like it was nothing. And risked looking like a rudderless coward to the people who potentially loved him most in the process, trusting that his larger vision will carry everybody that matters, and more.

Posted by: ... at September 19, 2025 12:40 PM (ZW9XP)

232 26 Good Morning, My Love.
Posted by: garrett

Dude. You are cracking me up.

Posted by: nurse ratched at September 19, 2025 12:40 PM (D9x5h)

233 Heh. Piers Morgan told Don Lemon that he was being a dick. Thx Capt Obvious

Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 19, 2025 12:40 PM (lmTGO)

234 I saw The Flying Canards at Barnum and Bailey once. They were pretty good.

Posted by: Circus nerd at September 19, 2025 12:41 PM (6TrWP)

235 This blonde in the kitchen is not worried about a government shutdown:
http://tiny.cc/l0ts001
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 19, 2025 12:39 PM (6bTRc)

Reminds me of Erika Kirk.

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at September 19, 2025 12:41 PM (SXxzC)

236 This blonde in the kitchen is not worried about a government shutdown:
http://tiny.cc/l0ts001
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 19, 2025 12:39 PM (6bTRc)
___

That's a composite pic. Girl was never in the kitchen. But ... what is it about all these pics of hotties in kitchens? That's the least of all places in a home you'd think would be popular for cheesecake pics.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 19, 2025 12:41 PM (iFTx/)

237 Oh, XTC, it happened in North Codorus Twp, between Spring Grove and Porters

Posted by: NoLongerintheBellyoftheBeast at September 19, 2025 12:42 PM (OpLc2)

238 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 19, 2025 12:42 PM (Zz0t1)

239 They originally came to pick the apple harvest, but around200 or so, they came and never left.

well I live near Kennett so I feel this. used to be they were seasonal and the families stayed home

now they are all here all the time.

Posted by: Black Orchid at September 19, 2025 12:42 PM (FHttA)

240 >>> I wonder how many bites he got. My guess is, "meaningfully more than zero." Dude took the "it's a numbers game" theory to its logical conclusion.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 19, 2025 12:36 PM (6bTRc)

There would be a non-zero number of nudes so disgusting that it would make a man give up on women and join a cliffside monastery.

Posted by: banana Dream at September 19, 2025 12:42 PM (3uBP9)

241 A law passed after the last shutdown prevents the last part - "without pay" - all fed gov employees (note this does NOT include fed gov contractors) are eventually paid their full salaries for shutdowns. It was a passed law with TRUMP's signature in 2019, so Trump would have a hard time going to court to reverse his past signature.
Posted by: Nova Local

Fiscal law requires contracts be fully funded up front (for Wesley - with rare exceptions).
Gov employees and military are funded with annual personnel budgets. However, there are some employees that are funded through other means, such as oversight for contracts, and are fully funded on the front end.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at September 19, 2025 12:42 PM (/lPRQ)

242 punishing the government employees who were already being besieged by Elon Musk's DOGE and other Trump administration attacks.

Oh, f*ck right off with that bullshit.

The only ones being 'besieged' are the useless f*cks stealing a paycheck.

What a load......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 19, 2025 12:42 PM (Zz0t1)

243 221 This blonde in the kitchen is not worried about a government shutdown:
http://tiny.cc/l0ts001
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 19, 2025 12:39 PM (6bTRc)

now *those* are the kind of heels Dolly should wear around the house.

Posted by: Tom Servo at September 19, 2025 12:42 PM (uWKK8)

244 Heh. Piers Morgan told Don Lemon that he was being a dick. Thx Capt Obvious
Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 19, 2025 12:40 PM (lmTGO)
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I be standin' right here, matey, and damn all wi' a curse.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at September 19, 2025 12:42 PM (WvZaB)

245 171
‘ Make sure to use lots of big words, so we all know you went to law school, champ.’

Look who’s being snarky.
I was wanting to excoriate you for earlier for believing that EVs are as good as ICE cars but I was in a meeting and couldn’t. You really undermined your credibility there.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at September 19, 2025 12:43 PM (jbnUc)

246 FIRST!!!!!
Posted by: Sponge

Did you know that Elric's trying to horn in on your gig?

Posted by: Bulg at September 19, 2025 12:43 PM (77rzZ)

247 This blonde in the kitchen is not worried about a government shutdown:
http://tiny.cc/l0ts001
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 19, 2025 12:39 PM (6bTRc)

Woof......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 19, 2025 12:43 PM (Zz0t1)

248 But ... what is it about all these pics of hotties in kitchens? That's the least of all places in a home you'd think would be popular for cheesecake pics.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 19, 2025 12:41 PM (iFTx/)

Where else is she going to make you pancakes the next morning?

Unless you just left the money on the nightstand and called her a cab.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 19, 2025 12:43 PM (i24o9)

249 BurtTC is best when calling me a glowie.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a world of gods and monsters with James Whale at September 19, 2025 12:43 PM (GBKbO)

250 Senate Invokes "Nuclear Option" to Confirm 48 Trump Nominees

Funny how letting everybody vote is "The Nuclear Option" to them.

Posted by: t-bird at September 19, 2025 12:43 PM (Q6Bu6)

251 Kimmel knew the deal. Colbert got shot down for the same reason as him. They have the same agent (James Dixon), who hid the move from Colbert, blindsiding him. Kimmel immediately bought a villa (retirement home) in Italy, and blamed his purchase on fascism and Trump.

This guy knew the end was nigh, and took one last shot at the Right. He figured it was better to go out in a blaze of "glory" than to get humiliated like his colleague.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at September 19, 2025 12:43 PM (BI5O2)

252 But narrative must be made of Trump being a totalitarian, given increased oxygen by people like...Larry Correia.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
======
I find Larry's rants somewhat amusing at times but he is not someone I would look for as knowing that much about politics outside of the 2A or affiliated areas. Glenn, Insty, went through cancel culture himself over a social media comment awhile back and nearly lost his main lawprof gig. He has been taught a lesson. Strangely diminished since then.

Posted by: whig at September 19, 2025 12:44 PM (WDjG6)

253 That Canard doesn't fly.
Posted by: garrett at September 19, 2025 12:36 PM (YbF8U)

Of course not, isn't Canard a cruise ship?

Posted by: BurtTC at September 19, 2025 12:44 PM (gonTq)

254 >>Dude. You are cracking me up.

Hope you are enjoying this ridiculous weather window. Fall is the best season.

Posted by: garrett at September 19, 2025 12:44 PM (YbF8U)

255 Did someone say "Send me dudes!"?

Posted by: Tim Miller in a sequined thong at September 19, 2025 12:44 PM (7Q0e+)

256 It's pretty simple, really. Don and Kash and Dan and Pam went into this thing, thinking the "Epstein List" would reveal a bunch of rogues who needed to be outed as the pedos they are.

Unfortunately, after they saw the list, they noticed a number of their "friends" on it. So no, you can't have the list.
______________________________________

That's one of my theories. Another is the IC went to Trump and said "These clients are assets now. As long as we keep quiet, they feed us Intel."

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at September 19, 2025 12:45 PM (1MlMk)

257
Did you know that Elric's trying to horn in on your gig?
Posted by: Bulg at September 19, 2025 12:43 PM (77rzZ)

Yes. I have to remind on occasion who the boss is round these parts.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 19, 2025 12:45 PM (Zz0t1)

258 254 Hope you are enjoying this ridiculous weather window. Fall is the best season.
Posted by: garrett at September 19, 2025 12:44 PM (YbF8U)

========

This is knowingly broadcasting false material (fall is the best season) about a crime (the season of fall).

You will be hearing from the FCC.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a world of gods and monsters with James Whale at September 19, 2025 12:45 PM (GBKbO)

259 2 Can the Blade's march to FIRST be stopped?
Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 19, 2025 12:02 PM

Informed sources, who asked for anonymity because they weren't authorized to speak on the record, say yes.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at September 19, 2025 12:45 PM (0sNs1)

260 I just want to know why Constantinople got the works.
Posted by: BurtTC at September 19, 2025 12:35 PM (MIY8C)

That's nobody's business but the Turks

Posted by: Josephistan at September 19, 2025 12:45 PM (y9ksN)

261 Is that kitchen chick gonna bake a cake for her man or make him sammiches?

If she's gonna do both, she's a definite keeper.

Posted by: Bulg at September 19, 2025 12:45 PM (77rzZ)

262 Schumer is afraid of only one thing: getting primaried by the Puerto-Rican jugs.

Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at September 19, 2025 12:45 PM (1Nv0l)

263 249 BurtTC is best when calling me a glowie.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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Seen this show before--like Boulder Terlit Hobo and others spiraling down the rabbithole. Usually flouncing is involved at some point but a few simply leave silently.

Idee fixe and too damn lazy to look up unicode to put in the accent markes.

Posted by: whig at September 19, 2025 12:45 PM (WDjG6)

264 104 As a self respecting bio-mechanical neko-grrl...

Schumer in cat ears is a disturbing image, next you will say he licks his balls.
Posted by: Anna Puma at September 19, 2025 12:22 PM (XDtG+)
:::Mal Reynolds voice:::
I did *not* need to hear that!

:3

Posted by: Barkingmad59, wandering lurkette at September 19, 2025 12:46 PM (0lzjf)

265 >>Is that kitchen chick gonna bake a cake for her man or make him sammiches?

Feet. On the Counter.

She's getting a spanking before she does anything.

Posted by: garrett at September 19, 2025 12:46 PM (YbF8U)

266 I never understood the FIRST thing
Posted by: It's me donna

Go watch "Finding Nemo."

Pay attention to the seagulls.

It's that.

Posted by: mikeski at September 19, 2025 12:46 PM (nhCoE)

267 I never understood the FIRST thing
Posted by: It's me donna at September 19, 2025 12:11 PM (VE6XX)

Neither did I.

Posted by: Sir Edmund Hillary, no relation at September 19, 2025 12:46 PM (E2S8e)

268 Schumer's demands include putting illegals back on Medicaid, by the way.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a world of gods and monsters
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Schumer and United Healthcare.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 19, 2025 12:46 PM (jj2yx)

269 My husband knew about the shooting and how many were dead within the first hour. He was over at the Hanover Fire Museum. All those retired firefighters carry hand held scanners. As soon as they heard Code 4 for 4 people (including the shooter) he knew at least 3 cops were dead.

Posted by: NoLongerintheBellyoftheBeast at September 19, 2025 12:47 PM (OpLc2)

270 I was wanting to excoriate you for earlier for believing that EVs are as good as ICE cars but I was in a meeting and couldn’t. You really undermined your credibility there.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at September 19, 2025 12:43 PM (jbnUc)

But I never said EVs were as good as ICE cars. I don't even know what an ICE car is.

People have a funny way of putting words in my mouth around here. Because it's easier than taking on what I have to say.

Which... if you weren't in a meeting you might have noticed, I said I don't care one way or another how people get around, I just think it's funny watching people complain about electric cars, like a bunch of old farts complaining about horseless carriages more than 20 years ago.

Really, I'm only here because some of you amuse me. You don't think I take your arguments seriously... do you?

Posted by: BurtTC at September 19, 2025 12:47 PM (gonTq)

271 BurtTC is best when calling me a glowie.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a world of gods and monsters with James Whale at September 19, 2025 12:43 PM

To be fair, you did buy a new pair of khakis for your Italian sojourn.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at September 19, 2025 12:47 PM (0sNs1)

272 wonder how many bites he got. My guess is, "meaningfully more than zero." Dude took the "it's a numbers game" theory to its logical conclusion.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 19, 2025 12:36 PM (6bTRc)

There would be a non-zero number of nudes so disgusting that it would make a man give up on women and join a cliffside monastery.
Posted by: banana Dream at September 19, 2025 12:42 PM (3uBP9)
____

I once got a set of nudes so revolting I almost vomited. It was from an unknown and obviously wrong local number (I have a NYC number and this was from the Jackson Hole area; I was skiing there at the time).

Anyway, it was pics of some fat slobby faggot totally naked with closeups of his balls and asshole. I cannot imagine how anyone would ever think to do this or why anyone would ever want to see such nastiness. But this guy did it and presumably thought whoever he intended to send them to would like them.

[Vomits]

Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 19, 2025 12:47 PM (iFTx/)

273 Corriea didn't criticize Trump much at all - at first he thought Carr's threat from the FTC was unnecessary and distracting, but I think he's beginning to see that's just chaff that nobody really cares much about, and it wasn't the real reason Kimmel was fired anyway.

Posted by: Tom Servo at September 19, 2025 12:48 PM (uWKK8)

274 271 BurtTC is best when calling me a glowie.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a world of gods and monsters with James Whale at September 19, 2025 12:43 PM

To be fair, you did buy a new pair of khakis for your Italian sojourn.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at September 19, 2025 12:47 PM (0sNs1)

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And I looked fucking good in 'em.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a world of gods and monsters with James Whale at September 19, 2025 12:48 PM (GBKbO)

275
This blonde in the kitchen is not worried about a government shutdown:
http://tiny.cc/l0ts001
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 19, 2025 12:39 PM (6bTRc)

Woof......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 19, 2025 12:43 PM (Zz0t1)

Yeah, I'll go by her place to give her something to hang her towels on.....

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at September 19, 2025 12:48 PM (y9nCu)

276 >>> 257
Did you know that Elric's trying to horn in on your gig?
Posted by: Bulg at September 19, 2025 12:43 PM (77rzZ)

Yes. I have to remind on occasion who the boss is round these parts.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 19, 2025 12:45 PM (Zz0t1)

Heh. I am compelled to take this opportunity to mention he has said he might attend the next NoVa MoMee, but likely not TX, even after I pointed out that October is not summer (not even in TX).

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at September 19, 2025 12:48 PM (ULPxl)

277 > A law passed after the last shutdown prevents the last part - "without pay" - all fed gov employees (note this does NOT include fed gov contractors) are eventually paid their full salaries for shutdowns.
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There had always been a mechanism in place to refund lost pay to federal employees. Typically an act by Congress after the dust settled. I'm not aware of any, modern day government shutdown that resulted in a loss of pay for any federal employee.

Contractors... it depends on how deep the company's pockets are and whether the C-Suites care.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 19, 2025 12:49 PM (Q4IgG)

278 Did you know that Elric's trying to horn in on your gig?
Posted by: Bulg at September 19, 2025 12:43 PM (77rzZ)

Yes. I have to remind on occasion who the boss is round these parts.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 19, 2025 12:45 PM (Zz0t1)
____

Come at me, bro!

Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 19, 2025 12:49 PM (iFTx/)

279
Disgusting -

BREAKING: AOC just took to the House floor to defend her No vote on the Resolution honoring the life of Charlie Kirk.

This is going to make your blood boil.

AOC: "We should be clear about who Charlie Kirk was... His rhetoric and beliefs were ignorant, uneducated, and sought to disenfranchise millions of Americans."

"Far from the quote working tirelessly to promote unity, unquote, asserted by the majority in this resolution."

Posted by: beckster at September 19, 2025 12:49 PM (NLtte)

280 277 There had always been a mechanism in place to refund lost pay to federal employees. Typically an act by Congress after the dust settled. I'm not aware of any, modern day government shutdown that resulted in a loss of pay for any federal employee.

Contractors... it depends on how deep the company's pockets are and whether the C-Suites care.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 19, 2025 12:49 PM (Q4IgG)

======

The danger for this shutdown isn't furloughing without pay.

It's RIFs on steroids.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a world of gods and monsters with James Whale at September 19, 2025 12:49 PM (GBKbO)

281 Trump should block access to all the statues of fat, black women. Seal them off from public view due to the "shutdown."

Posted by: Max Power at September 19, 2025 12:49 PM (q177U)

282 This blonde in the kitchen...
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Woof......

A fair approximation of the sound of all that polyester going up in flames if the burner knob gets bumped.

Posted by: Oddbob at September 19, 2025 12:49 PM (3nLb4)

283 Schumer in cat ears is a disturbing image, next you will say he licks his balls.
Posted by: Anna Puma at September 19, 2025 12:22 PM

You say that like it's a bad thing.

Posted by: Gerrold Nadler (D-NY) at September 19, 2025 12:49 PM (0sNs1)

284 Idee fixe and too damn lazy to look up unicode to put in the accent markes.
Posted by: whig at September 19, 2025 12:45 PM (WDjG6)

You misspelled "idea," "fix," "unicorn," and "mark."

Posted by: BurtTC at September 19, 2025 12:49 PM (LpxA0)

285
Eric Daugherty
@EricLDaugh

NOW: Leftists just SLASHED THE TIRES of an ICE vehicle near Chicago. The tire deflated just as they were pulling into the ICE facility.

"They have taken matters into their own hands...slashing tires!"

Democrats are the party of violence and TERROR. Arrest these criminals.

https://tinyurl.com/5t5abe9k

Posted by: redridinghood at September 19, 2025 12:50 PM (NpAcC)

286 279
Disgusting -

BREAKING: AOC just took to the House floor to defend her No vote on the Resolution honoring the life of Charlie Kirk.

This is going to make your blood boil.

AOC: "We should be clear about who Charlie Kirk was... His rhetoric and beliefs were ignorant, uneducated, and sought to disenfranchise millions of Americans."

"Far from the quote working tirelessly to promote unity, unquote, asserted by the majority in this resolution."
Posted by: beckster at September 19, 2025 12:49 PM (NLtte)

=======

Why would a wanna be OnlyFans star's speech infuriate me?

Did she do it clothed?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a world of gods and monsters with James Whale at September 19, 2025 12:50 PM (GBKbO)

287 >>> 258 254 Hope you are enjoying this ridiculous weather window. Fall is the best season.
Posted by: garrett at September 19, 2025 12:44 PM (YbF8U)

========

This is knowingly broadcasting false material (fall is the best season) about a crime (the season of fall).

You will be hearing from the FCC.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a world of gods and monsters with James Whale at September 19, 2025 12:45 PM (GBKbO)

Silly TJM, Fall / Autumn != Pumpkin Spice Season.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at September 19, 2025 12:50 PM (ULPxl)

288 Idee fixe and too damn lazy to look up unicode to put in the accent markes.
Posted by: whig at September 19, 2025 12:45 PM (WDjG6)

=========

Tell ChatGPT to unicode it for you. It's good at that. Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose. Or something.

Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at September 19, 2025 12:50 PM (1Nv0l)

289 58;House Democrats voted against a resolution to condemn Charlie Kirk's assassination. 38 voted present.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at September 19, 2025 12:50 PM (1MlMk)

290 John Daniel Davidson
@johnddavidson
We have nothing in common with the left. Nothing. Let’s stop pretending we do.

Either they are going to rule us or we will rule them. There is no unity to be had with their side, and in truth there never was. At least now that much is clear.
Quote
Western Lensman
@WesternLensman·29m
On the House floor, AOC smears Charlie Kirk:
"His rhetoric and beliefs were ignorant and uneducated."
Video: https://x.com/johnddavidson/status/1969080047676928123
This is the Democrat party.
9:44 AM · Sep 19, 2025

Posted by: BetaCuck4Lyfe at September 19, 2025 12:50 PM (PCOea)

291 And I looked fucking good in 'em.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a world of gods and monsters with James Whale at September 19, 2025 12:48 PM (GBKbO)

Please tell me you don't wear them with loafers with the little tassels on them. I was just beginning to overlook the whole Prometheus thing.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 19, 2025 12:50 PM (i24o9)

292
Anyway, it was pics of some fat slobby faggot totally naked with closeups of his balls and asshole. I cannot imagine how anyone would ever think to do this or why anyone would ever want to see such nastiness. But this guy did it and presumably thought whoever he intended to send them to would like them.

[Vomits]
Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 19, 2025 12:47 PM (iFTx/)

"Are you suggesting that is somehow wrong?"

- - - - - - - Seth Rogan After Posting his Balloon Knot and Balls Online

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 19, 2025 12:51 PM (Zz0t1)

293 Imagine AOC calling someone ignorant and uneducated.

Posted by: steevy at September 19, 2025 12:51 PM (YwEeS)

294 This blonde in the kitchen is not worried about a government shutdown:
http://tiny.cc/l0ts001
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 19, 2025 12:39 PM (6bTRc)

Unsightly mole on her upper arm. 2/10. Would not bang.
- TJM, probably

Also - She got me with the circle thing with her left hand so now she gets to punch me.

Posted by: Doof at September 19, 2025 12:51 PM (wkXwO)

295
Best of Breed for The Big Dummy at today's Austin KC show. Hound Group at 3:00.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 19, 2025 12:51 PM (tgvbd)

296 237 Oh, XTC, it happened in North Codorus Twp, between Spring Grove and Porters
Posted by: NoLongerintheBellyoftheBeast at September 19, 2025 12:42 PM (OpLc2)

Used to have friends in Spring Grove, years ago...

Posted by: XTC at September 19, 2025 12:51 PM (UnA8+)

297 Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 19, 2025 12:47 PM (iFTx/)

Elric — Even that description is unsettling. We coulda gone on with life without knowing that happened to you!

BTW… is that a crime?? To send photos like that?

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at September 19, 2025 12:51 PM (5etEq)

298 291 Please tell me you don't wear them with loafers with the little tassels on them. I was just beginning to overlook the whole Prometheus thing.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 19, 2025 12:50 PM (i24o9)

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Don't own any, sorry.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a world of gods and monsters with James Whale at September 19, 2025 12:51 PM (GBKbO)

299 58;House Democrats voted against a resolution to condemn Charlie Kirk's assassination. 38 voted present.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at September 19, 2025 12:50 PM (1MlMk)

38% of dems. Sounds about what I had in mind.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 19, 2025 12:51 PM (i24o9)

300 Anyway, it was pics of some fat slobby faggot totally naked with closeups of his balls and asshole. I cannot imagine how anyone would ever think to do this or why anyone would ever want to see such nastiness. But this guy did it and presumably thought whoever he intended to send them to would like them.

[Vomits]
Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 19, 2025 12:47 PM (iFTx/)

Some extremely egotistical men (thinking of YOU, Andrew Wiener) think so highly of themselves that they imagine others will enjoy seeing them in flagrante delicto, so to speak. I cannot think of any normal person who actually would.
Women's bodies (when taken care of) look good. Men's do not. Even women agree on that.

Posted by: Tom Servo at September 19, 2025 12:52 PM (uWKK8)

301 I just want to know why Constantinople got the works.
Posted by: BurtTC

That's nobody's business but the Turks'!
Posted by: Bulg at September 19, 2025 12:36 PM

Fcuk those guys, in particular.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 19, 2025 12:52 PM (kgE5c)

302 @WesternLensman·29m
On the House floor, AOC smears Charlie Kirk:
"His rhetoric and beliefs were ignorant and uneducated."
Video: https://x.com/johnddavidson/status/1969080047676928123
This is the Democrat party.
9:44 AM · Sep 19, 2025
Posted by: BetaCuck4Lyfe at September 19, 2025 12:50 PM (PCOea)

Kirk was strong in his faith and peached the Gospel anywhere and everywhere.

AOC is the anti-Christ, so it's only natural for her to spew such bullshit.

Most Americans should not be allowed to vote......This is what we get when they do.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 19, 2025 12:53 PM (Zz0t1)

303 AOC: "We should be clear about who Charlie Kirk was... His rhetoric and beliefs were ignorant, uneducated, and sought to disenfranchise millions of Americans."

"Far from the quote working tirelessly to promote unity, unquote, asserted by the majority in this resolution."
Posted by: beckster at September 19, 2025 12:49 PM (NLtte)

=======

Why would a wanna be OnlyFans star's speech infuriate me?

Did she do it clothed?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a world of gods and monsters with James Whale at September 19, 2025 12:50 PM (GBKbO)
________

She's on MostlyFans

Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 19, 2025 12:53 PM (iFTx/)

304 Tell ChatGPT to unicode it for you. It's good at that. Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose. Or something.
Posted by: Don't blame the alligators
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Too much other things to do and I avoid doing coding nowadays. Too lazy and interested in other things.

Besides, other than the food, I prefer to make Anglicize my French.

Posted by: whig at September 19, 2025 12:53 PM (WDjG6)

305
A law passed after the last shutdown prevents the last part - "without pay" - all fed gov employees (note this does NOT include fed gov contractors) are eventually paid their full salaries for shutdowns.
-----------
There had always been a mechanism in place to refund lost pay to federal employees. Typically an act by Congress after the dust settled. I'm not aware of any, modern day government shutdown that resulted in a loss of pay for any federal employee.

Contractors... it depends on how deep the company's pockets are and whether the C-Suites care.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 19, 2025 12:49 PM (Q4IgG)

The disruption in their monthly cash flow might be good enough that a bunch of them quit because they can't make a mortgage payment. Plus, I imagine the govt can hold the $ and earn interest.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at September 19, 2025 12:53 PM (y9nCu)

306 Moar

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at September 19, 2025 12:54 PM (xcxpd)

307 Feet. On the Counter.

She's getting a spanking before she does anything.
Posted by: garrett

Those stilettos will wreck the hardwood flooring. I'd spank her for wearing those in the house, too.

Posted by: mikeski at September 19, 2025 12:54 PM (nhCoE)

308 221 This blonde in the kitchen is not worried about a government shutdown:
http://tiny.cc/l0ts001

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Mmm. Lunch.

Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at September 19, 2025 12:54 PM (1Nv0l)

309 Australia- We recognize Palestine
France- We recognize Palestine
Canada- We recognize Palestine
UK- We recognize Palestine

US- "I saw the tapes. Babies just 4 months old, chopped into pieces."

________________________________

Directness and common sense have a value all their own.

Posted by: Orson at September 19, 2025 12:54 PM (dIske)

310 That's one of my theories. Another is the IC went to Trump and said "These clients are assets now. As long as we keep quiet, they feed us Intel."
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at September 19, 2025 12:45 PM (1MlMk)

I'm sure that's part of it. I just don't think we're getting a lot of "good intel" from this sort of thing.

Everything they do is "classified," because they're "protecting assets for an ongoing investigation/operation."

Yeah, either that, or you're a bunch of dirtbags who got caught doing things you shouldn't, and We the People are not allowed to find out.

Posted by: BurtTC at September 19, 2025 12:54 PM (LpxA0)

311 Remember when that jug eared fuxk said "make it painful" back in 2013? Well barky.. yours was a stunt. This is an enema of leftists from gvt.

You get what you deserve BITCH

Posted by: melodicmetal1 at September 19, 2025 12:54 PM (PHufY)

312 Also - She got me with the circle thing with her left hand so now she gets to punch me.
Posted by: Doof at September 19, 2025 12:51 PM (wkXwO)

I actually saw a guy's pickup truck the other day that had that symbol as his receiver hitch guard.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 19, 2025 12:54 PM (Zz0t1)

313 Women's bodies (when taken care of) look good. Men's do not. Even women agree on that.
Posted by: Tom Servo at September 19, 2025 12:52 PM (uWKK

Women’s bodies are beautiful like pieces of art. Men’s bodies are hideous; they’re utilitarian… for getting around. — Elaine Benes

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at September 19, 2025 12:55 PM (5etEq)

314 Most Americans should not be allowed to vote......This is what we get when they do.
Posted by: Sponge
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AOC is what happens when most people do not turn out to vote. She got elected from a rotten borough by hard Dem primary votes. That is how she beat Crowley(from memory) to take the seat.

Posted by: whig at September 19, 2025 12:55 PM (WDjG6)

315 ‘ But I never said EVs were as good as ICE cars. I don't even know what an ICE car is.’

I’m glad for that. That’s Biden level inaccuracy. Protecting you from looking like FJB is a service I supply for free.

ICE = Internal Combustion Engines (as God intended)

Posted by: Dr. Claw at September 19, 2025 12:55 PM (jbnUc)

316 Netherlands...Eva Vlaardingerbroek...mmmmmmmmm...
Posted by: Bulg

Ever wonder what a "Vlaardingerbroek" is?
Hint - not a "black plowman".

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at September 19, 2025 12:55 PM (/lPRQ)

317 Elaine Benes
Posted by: LinusVanPelt
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Vapid, narcissistic, and vile--perfect prototype for AWFL Karen of the Covid era.

Posted by: whig at September 19, 2025 12:56 PM (WDjG6)

318 [Vomits]
Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 19, 2025 12:47 PM (iFTx/)

Some extremely egotistical men (thinking of YOU, Andrew Wiener) think so highly of themselves that they imagine others will enjoy seeing them in flagrante delicto, so to speak. I cannot think of any normal person who actually would.
Women's bodies (when taken care of) look good. Men's do not. Even women agree on that.
Posted by: Tom Servo at September 19, 2025 12:52 PM (uWKK

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The "sending nudes" thing is a weird thing I don't understand. But some girls are into sending them. Some girls are even into asking guys to send nudes to them. I'm a guy and don't want to send them or even receive them. But a lot of guys are into receiving, and more than you think are into sending.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 19, 2025 12:56 PM (iFTx/)

319 AOC is a despicable human being. I’ve long thought she’d have been quite comfortable in the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia during the killing fields. Crazy dead eyes

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at September 19, 2025 12:56 PM (5etEq)

320 The kink is that people will see them naked, not that they WANT to see them naked. It's a kind of eye rape.

Posted by: Max Power at September 19, 2025 12:56 PM (q177U)

321 277 > A law passed after the last shutdown prevents the last part - "without pay" - all fed gov employees (note this does NOT include fed gov contractors) are eventually paid their full salaries for shutdowns.
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There had always been a mechanism in place to refund lost pay to federal employees. Typically an act by Congress after the dust settled. I'm not aware of any, modern day government shutdown that resulted in a loss of pay for any federal employee.

Contractors... it depends on how deep the company's pockets are and whether the C-Suites care.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 19, 2025 12:49 PM (Q4IgG)

The mechanism was adding it to the "end the shutdown" deal. Now, that's not necessary. It also gives certainty to employees they'll be paid, and stops the "overwhelming the DC unemployment office every 4 years" issue. When they had the last long shutdown, that was a disaster that took that office, which operates like the DMV in quality and speed, 3-4 years to recover from...

Posted by: Nova Local at September 19, 2025 12:56 PM (tOcjL)

322 =======
AOC is what happens when most people do not turn out to vote. She got elected from a rotten borough by hard Dem primary votes. That is how she beat Crowley(from memory) to take the seat.
Posted by: whig at September 19, 2025 12:55 PM (WDjG6)

Your point is valid. And, NYC, so......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 19, 2025 12:56 PM (Zz0t1)

323 That's one of my theories. Another is the IC went to Trump and said "These clients are assets now. As long as we keep quiet, they feed us Intel."

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at September 19, 2025 12:45 PM (1MlMk)

Except that once Trump says, "sure, protect the pedos," he gives the IC kompromat. You'd have to think Trump is that stupid to take that deal with a known devil.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 19, 2025 12:56 PM (i24o9)

324 304 Tell ChatGPT to unicode it for you. It's good at that. Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose. Or something.
Posted by: Don't blame the alligators
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Too much other things to do and I avoid doing coding nowadays. Too lazy and interested in other things.

Posted by: whig at September 19, 2025 12:53 PM (WDjG6)

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No coding involved. Paste what you want uncoded and tell it: "unicode this".

Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at September 19, 2025 12:57 PM (1Nv0l)

325 I actually saw a guy's pickup truck the other day that had that symbol as his receiver hitch guard.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 19, 2025 12:54 PM (Zz0t1)

Legendary. Dude's got game. Gotta respect it.

Posted by: Doof at September 19, 2025 12:57 PM (wkXwO)

326 *unicoded*

Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at September 19, 2025 12:57 PM (1Nv0l)

327 The disruption in their monthly cash flow might be good enough that a bunch of them quit because they can't make a mortgage payment. Plus, I imagine the govt can hold the $ and earn interest.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at September 19, 2025 12:53 PM (y9nCu)
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It's *amazing*, actually. At my last company, we got acquired and when we switched to the new company's system, we had a short paycheck since it meant moving from paid-current to paid-arrears. 9 days short, I think. It gets made up at the other end in your last paycheck, but still, a weekish short at the transition point.

I had a staggering number of colleagues complaining about it because they were going to struggle to make the mortgage that month, or some other predictable, routine, very large bill like a car payment or somesuch.

I don't know what they were making, but I know *around* what they were making, because I knew what I made. It was firmly in "you have no excuse to not have reserves and live hand-to-mouth" territory. It blew me away that the number complaining for any reason other and surprise and dissatisfaction exceeded zero.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 19, 2025 12:57 PM (6bTRc)

328
Fcuk those guys, in particular.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 19, 2025 12:52 PM (kgE5c)

Oi Tourkey!! Any time something bad happened anywhere in Greece: wildfires in Sparta, snow on the streets, riots in Exarchia, the Greek ladies in the consulate would utter this and other disparagements. Those dang Turks were responsible for a lot of crap!!!!

Posted by: moki at September 19, 2025 12:58 PM (wLjpr)

329 Vapid, narcissistic, and vile--perfect prototype for AWFL Karen of the Covid era.
Posted by: whig at September 19, 2025 12:56 PM (WDjG6)

But funny! Remember the “little kicks”? Sweet fancy Moses

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at September 19, 2025 12:58 PM (5etEq)

330
The "sending nudes" thing is a weird thing I don't understand. But some girls are into sending them. Some girls are even into asking guys to send nudes to them. I'm a guy and don't want to send them or even receive them. But a lot of guys are into receiving, and more than you think are into sending.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 19, 2025 12:56 PM (iFTx/)

I've seen one woman naked, so I want to see the rest of them. Some, only that one time......so if they want to randomly send me nudes, I would view it before deleting it. They made a choice.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 19, 2025 12:58 PM (Zz0t1)

331 AOC is what happens when most people do not turn out to vote. She got elected from a rotten borough by hard Dem primary votes. That is how she beat Crowley(from memory) to take the seat.

this is the case in most of the deep blue cities in the USA

Philadelphia major elections (mayor, D.A., etc) traditionally have low turnout. Last mayoral election turnout was high, all the way up to a whopping 31%

People in the cities have very low expectations of their elected officials. If you want to get anything done, you make use of the patronage system. (that's for the longtimers.)
the new people, such as the gentrifiers are mainly a woke mob who set up their own little political ecosystems so they can control and terrorize their own little slice of urban yuppie/hipster heaven.

Posted by: kallisto at September 19, 2025 12:58 PM (dCxaZ)

332 Women's bodies (when taken care of) look good. Men's do not. Even women agree on that.
Posted by: Tom Servo
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Bah, both women and men focus on the right tail of beauty distribution--women just have additional criteria sometimes while men don't.

Most people live lives invisible to the opposite sex unless actually seeking a mate.

Posted by: whig at September 19, 2025 12:59 PM (WDjG6)

333 Don't own any, sorry.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a world of gods and monsters with James Whale at September 19, 2025 12:51 PM (GBKbO)

What then, sandals?

Posted by: BurtTC at September 19, 2025 12:59 PM (E3NGq)

334 I'll never forget when O&Joe shutdown National Parks including public restrooms in Salem, MA, related to the Salem Maritime National Historical Park. What a vacation debacle!

If there's a government shutdown, may it impact on Joe's First State National Historical Park of which PA has a part.

Yay!

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at September 19, 2025 12:59 PM (NFX2v)

335
Legendary. Dude's got game. Gotta respect it.
Posted by: Doof at September 19, 2025 12:57 PM (wkXwO)

I was going to approach him and allow him the free shot, but we were at a stoplight and it turned green shortly after noticing it.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 19, 2025 12:59 PM (Zz0t1)

336 281
‘ Trump should block access to all the statues of fat, black women. ’
From your keyboard to Trump’s eyes.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at September 19, 2025 12:59 PM (jbnUc)

337 327 I don't know what they were making, but I know *around* what they were making, because I knew what I made. It was firmly in "you have no excuse to not have reserves and live hand-to-mouth" territory. It blew me away that the number complaining for any reason other and surprise and dissatisfaction exceeded zero.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 19, 2025 12:57 PM (6bTRc)

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Our financial advisor has been almost begging us to stop adding to our cash reserves for 2 years.

I think we could survive at least six months if we both lost our jobs right now. Might be more now that we don't have car payments.

Finally, we are adding to our brokerage account.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a world of gods and monsters with James Whale at September 19, 2025 12:59 PM (GBKbO)

338 On the House floor, AOC smears Charlie Kirk:
"His rhetoric and beliefs were ignorant and uneducated."

--
AOC is, after all, the master of ignorant and uneducated rhetoric.

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at September 19, 2025 12:59 PM (a2Pv6)

339 During a shut down can't Trump call up the National Guard and police certain cities and neighborhoods?

Posted by: pudinhead at September 19, 2025 12:59 PM (AdHga)

340 That's a composite pic. Girl was never in the kitchen. But ... what is it about all these pics of hotties in kitchens? That's the least of all places in a home you'd think would be popular for cheesecake pics.
Posted by: Elric The Blade

It's about whipping up some baby batter.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at September 19, 2025 01:00 PM (/lPRQ)

341 Fellow morons… there is NO Epstein list. It doesn’t exist. Which is why Trump is so dismissive of the whole subject

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at September 19, 2025 01:00 PM (5etEq)

342 An attempted RIF would probably require a court case b/c emergency shutdowns (aka caused by Congress) are excluded from triggering a RIF, even if the shutdown goes more than 30 days.

It's more likely a shutdown would be a grant remover vs a people remover (although again, folks contracted into government could also be on the chopping block b/c that also does not take a RIF)...

Posted by: Nova Local at September 19, 2025 01:00 PM (tOcjL)

343 333 Don't own any, sorry.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a world of gods and monsters with James Whale at September 19, 2025 12:51 PM (GBKbO)

What then, sandals?
Posted by: BurtTC at September 19, 2025 12:59 PM (E3NGq)

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Oxfords, not Brogues.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a world of gods and monsters with James Whale at September 19, 2025 01:00 PM (GBKbO)

344 Bah, both women and men focus on the right tail of beauty distribution--women just have additional criteria sometimes while men don't.

Most people live lives invisible to the opposite sex unless actually seeking a mate.
Posted by: whig at September 19, 2025 12:59 PM (WDjG6)

get past age 50 or so and you REALLY become invisible.

Posted by: Tom Servo at September 19, 2025 01:01 PM (uWKK8)

345 I'm a guy and don't want to send them or even receive them. But a lot of guys are into receiving, and more than you think are into sending.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 19, 2025 12:56 PM (iFTx/)

my friend met her BF on Facebook singles or whatever that platform is

He is in his early 70s. He said that women in their late 70s would disrobe as they were Facetimeing, unprovoked.
They just volunteered. He said they would inject dirty talk into normal conversations

nothing but a bunch of pigs up in here. Worse yet, Old Lady Pigs.

Posted by: kallisto at September 19, 2025 01:01 PM (dCxaZ)

346 There's another possibility. Maybe they looked at the Epstein files, saw a few important Republicans on there, and said "now we own you, no more monkeyshines. If you reach across the aisle again, you'll draw back a stump."

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at September 19, 2025 01:01 PM (BI5O2)

347 People in the cities have very low expectations of their elected officials. If you want to get anything done, you make use of the patronage system. (that's for the longtimers.)
the new people, such as the gentrifiers are mainly a woke mob who set up their own little political ecosystems so they can control and terrorize their own little slice of urban yuppie/hipster heaven.
Posted by: kallisto

Absolutely true. The old city machines were maligned but people at the bottom end had some responsiveness from City Hall in return for their votes. Nowadays, it is all about faked elections and monied interests (mainly developers nowadays) calling the tune. And Nat Dems use the rotten borough urban areas to control the surrounding rural and suburban areas around urban fraud bases for grift and power.

Posted by: whig at September 19, 2025 01:01 PM (WDjG6)

348 ICE = Internal Combustion Engines (as God intended)
Posted by: Dr. Claw at September 19, 2025 12:55 PM (jbnUc)

Ok, so ICE is short for gas.

Got it.

Posted by: BurtTC at September 19, 2025 01:01 PM (XHNFq)

349 Please tell me you don't wear them with loafers with the little tassels on them. I was just beginning to overlook the whole Prometheus thing.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 19, 2025 12:50 PM

Pfffft. That's so 20th Century.

The hip, cool thing is Crocs with tassels.

Posted by: Gerrold Nadler (D-NY) at September 19, 2025 01:01 PM (0sNs1)

350
I think DC is convinced that Obama's tactics during the 2013 (?) shutdown were some kind of great success. That it convinced the people that shutdowns were devastating because the National Park Service took time, money, and material to block people off from open spaces owned by the Federal government.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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I have several examples of that, for instance; Paths down to the beach at the Outer Banks blockaded. There are no facilities of any kind, just paths, blockaded by the NPS.

My favorite was a restaurant on the Blue Ridge Parkway which is a concession. They could not shut down the restaurant, so they blocked the entrance to it.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 19, 2025 01:01 PM (XeU6L)

351 After about the fiftieth or sixtieth time the Dems have pulled the "government shutdown" nonsense, it kinda loses its effectiveness. Rather like calling everyone "fascists".

By this point, everyone knows that the only real effect of a "government shutdown" is that millions of bureaucrats wind up getting a paid vacation.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at September 19, 2025 01:02 PM (qpyNK)

352 303 AOC: "We should be clear about who Charlie Kirk was... His rhetoric and beliefs were ignorant, uneducated, and sought to disenfranchise millions of Americans."

I'd like to hear her say that to his widow's face ...

Posted by: It's me donna at September 19, 2025 01:02 PM (VE6XX)

353 341 Fellow morons… there is NO Epstein list. It doesn’t exist. Which is why Trump is so dismissive of the whole subject
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at September 19, 2025 01:00 PM (5etEq)
______________________________

There is something close to a list held in two Federal Court cases, both under gag order. And both cases will remain under gag order using the excuse that such pleadings also include the names of the "innocent/victims."

Posted by: Orson at September 19, 2025 01:02 PM (dIske)

354 Oxfords, not Brogues.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a world of gods and monsters with James Whale at September 19, 2025 01:00 PM (GBKbO)

Glowie

Posted by: BurtTC at September 19, 2025 01:02 PM (XHNFq)

355 338 On the House floor, AOC smears Charlie Kirk:
"His rhetoric and beliefs were ignorant and uneducated."
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The Westchester suburbs must be a den of villainy, piracy and stupid.

Posted by: pudinhead at September 19, 2025 01:02 PM (AdHga)

356 BREAKING: President Trump said he watched the Oct. 7 videos and saw Hamas cutting babies into pieces.

Anti-colonialism in its finest right?

Of course the Jews have been in Israel since the start of recorded history and the Muslims didn't show up for millennia later...

Posted by: 18-1 at September 19, 2025 01:03 PM (sKqQm)

357 The mechanism was adding it to the "end the shutdown" deal. Now, that's not necessary. It also gives certainty to employees they'll be paid, and stops the "overwhelming the DC unemployment office every 4 years" issue. When they had the last long shutdown, that was a disaster that took that office, which operates like the DMV in quality and speed, 3-4 years to recover from...
Posted by: Nova Local

Quit hiring DEI.

Posted by: rickb223 at September 19, 2025 01:03 PM (jddXn)

358 I don't know what they were making, but I know *around* what they were making, because I knew what I made. It was firmly in "you have no excuse to not have reserves and live hand-to-mouth" territory. It blew me away that the number complaining for any reason other and surprise and dissatisfaction exceeded zero.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 19, 2025 12:57 PM (6bTRc)

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Our financial advisor has been almost begging us to stop adding to our cash reserves for 2 years.

I think we could survive at least six months if we both lost our jobs right now. Might be more now that we don't have car payments.

Finally, we are adding to our brokerage account.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a world of gods and monsters with James Whale at September 19, 2025 12:59 PM (GBKbO)
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You might be very surprised how many people with outward wealth -- exotic cars, fancy houses, etc -- are very deep in debt and living way beyond their means

Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 19, 2025 01:03 PM (iFTx/)

359 350 I have several examples of that, for instance; Paths down to the beach at the Outer Banks blockaded. There are no facilities of any kind, just paths, blockaded by the NPS.

My favorite was a restaurant on the Blue Ridge Parkway which is a concession. They could not shut down the restaurant, so they blocked the entrance to it.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 19, 2025 01:01 PM (XeU6L)

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Mine is the Charles Pinckney house in Mount Pleasant, SC.

Just a house, a recreation of a house, in a small field off to the side of Long Point Road.

The metal gate to the little parking lot, which is usually just swung closed, was completely chained up with a sign.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a world of gods and monsters with James Whale at September 19, 2025 01:03 PM (GBKbO)

360
Russian Migs invading Estonian Airspace.

Putin's inching his way toward needing an ass whoopin'.

Posted by: Frank Barone at September 19, 2025 01:03 PM (IifOV)

361 As a matter of record, whig was one of BurtTC's (only?) defenders during "the recent trouble". I understand being the sort that will say anything and not GAF - to an extent - but why personally bite people who have tried in earnest to defend your name? This is rhetorical btw. The proof of the pudding is in the eating as they say.

Posted by: ... at September 19, 2025 01:03 PM (ZW9XP)

362 get past age 50 or so and you REALLY become invisible.
Posted by: Tom Servo
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And I am glad for it. Pride goeth before a downfall and all of that.

Posted by: whig at September 19, 2025 01:03 PM (WDjG6)

363 354 Oxfords, not Brogues.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a world of gods and monsters with James Whale at September 19, 2025 01:00 PM (GBKbO)

Glowie
Posted by: BurtTC at September 19, 2025 01:02 PM (XHNFq)

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I operate for a fully independent intelligence agency. Need a suit?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a world of gods and monsters with James Whale at September 19, 2025 01:03 PM (GBKbO)

364 I was going to approach him and allow him the free shot, but we were at a stoplight and it turned green shortly after noticing it.......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 19, 2025 12:59 PM (Zz0t1)

Because you have honor!

Now I'm envisioning a decal for the driver's door - like the ones some plumber's trucks have of a guy sitting on the can. But instead, it's just an arm with the hand circle thing at the bottom -- lined up under the driver's shoulder. Driver turns his head at a stoplight and just grins.

Posted by: Doof at September 19, 2025 01:04 PM (wkXwO)

365 After about the fiftieth or sixtieth time the Dems have pulled the "government shutdown" nonsense, it kinda loses its effectiveness. Rather like calling everyone "fascists".

By this point, everyone knows that the only real effect of a "government shutdown" is that millions of bureaucrats wind up getting a paid vacation.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at September 19, 2025 01:02 PM (qpyNK)

Chuck "The Sky is Falling, The Sky is Falling!" Schumer.

Posted by: LASue at September 19, 2025 01:04 PM (lCppi)

366 When they had the last long shutdown, that was a disaster that took that office, which operates like the DMV in quality and speed, 3-4 years to recover from...

You know what amazes me with every government office? How they demand endless repetitive paperwork...for information they already have.

Posted by: 18-1 at September 19, 2025 01:04 PM (sKqQm)

367 AOC is, after all, the master of ignorant and uneducated rhetoric.
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at September 19, 2025 12:59 PM

I say, am I merely julienned liver?

Posted by: Jasmine C. from Dallas at September 19, 2025 01:05 PM (0sNs1)

368 What then, sandals?

Ghetto slides.

Posted by: commissar of plenty and festive little hats at September 19, 2025 01:05 PM (9SIre)

369 But funny! Remember the “little kicks”? Sweet fancy Moses
Posted by: LinusVanPelt
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I barely tolerated that show when it was on because I found the people on it insufferable. And I understand that was the whole point of the show--bad people doing bad things so you laugh at them. Just not my kicks personally.

Posted by: whig at September 19, 2025 01:05 PM (WDjG6)

370 You might be very surprised how many people with outward wealth -- exotic cars, fancy houses, etc -- are very deep in debt and living way beyond their means
Posted by: Elric The Blade

We're hard to keep up with.

Posted by: The Joneses at September 19, 2025 01:06 PM (nhCoE)

371 =======
AOC is what happens when most people do not turn out to vote. She got elected from a rotten borough by hard Dem primary votes. That is how she beat Crowley(from memory) to take the seat.
Posted by: whig
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Primaries are controlled by entrenched party bosses and they
make sure the winner is not the people's choice.
The primary winner is the bosses' choice; both parties.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 19, 2025 01:06 PM (jj2yx)

372 You might be very surprised how many people with outward wealth -- exotic cars, fancy houses, etc -- are very deep in debt and living way beyond their means
Posted by: Elric The Blade
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I found that commercial with the guy saying just that as hilarious in a wicked sort of way.

Posted by: whig at September 19, 2025 01:06 PM (WDjG6)

373 Fellow morons… there is NO Epstein list. It doesn’t exist. Which is why Trump is so dismissive of the whole subject
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at September 19, 2025 01:00 PM (5etEq)

Patel and Bongino - both of whom I trust- have confirmed that. The 'problem' is that "list" means different things to different people. A bit more precision from our side would definitly help.

Posted by: LASue at September 19, 2025 01:07 PM (lCppi)

374
I used to love Birkenstocks when I was younger, but they kill my feet now.

Posted by: Frank Barone at September 19, 2025 01:07 PM (IifOV)

375 Whig — I never got the chance earlier at the end of the MR thread why you were down on Ed Meese. I always thought he was a good loyal friend of Ronaldus. You mentioned "inslaw"?

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at September 19, 2025 01:07 PM (P/Wjn)

376 249 BurtTC is best when calling me a glowie.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a world of gods and monsters with James Whale at September 19, 2025 12:43 PM (GBKbO)

"Everybody is a Fed but me!" is part and parcel of the right-wing internet experience.

Posted by: XTC at September 19, 2025 01:07 PM (UnA8+)

377 You might be very surprised how many people with outward wealth -- exotic cars, fancy houses, etc -- are very deep in debt and living way beyond their means

Posted by: Elric The Blade
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This is about me, isn't it?

Posted by: Hunter at September 19, 2025 01:07 PM (XeU6L)

378 The old city machines were maligned but people at the bottom end had some responsiveness from City Hall in return for their votes.

all you had to do was make friends with your councilman and he would help out.
In return you would help get out votes for him on election day, pad his war chest, etc.

Posted by: kallisto at September 19, 2025 01:07 PM (dCxaZ)

379 ARRRRRRRR.......

In case it hasn't been mentioned that it's Talk Like A Pirate Day.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 19, 2025 01:08 PM (Zz0t1)

380 "Everybody is a Fed but me!" is part and parcel of the right-wing internet experience.
Posted by: XTC at September 19, 2025 01:07 PM (UnA8+)

That's exactly what a Fed would say.

👀

Posted by: ... at September 19, 2025 01:08 PM (ZW9XP)

381 I'm considering moving into a retirement community (I'm getting old enough that shoveling snow is no longer fun, to the extent it was ever fun, which is not much).

From what I've heard, the one I'm considering is basically Sodom with wheelchairs. Women live longer than men, so if a old guy is looking for old women he has his pick.

I'm not actually looking for it (not ruling it out, but not actively looking) so I'll need to watch my six, I guess.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at September 19, 2025 01:08 PM (qpyNK)

382 Judge tosses Trump's $15B defamation suit against New York Times, Penguin Random House

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Court didn't require much briefing, I guess.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks at September 19, 2025 01:08 PM (L/fGl)

383 Primaries are controlled by entrenched party bosses and they
make sure the winner is not the people's choice.
The primary winner is the bosses' choice; both parties.

Posted by: Braenyard
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I would say that is fair in a large part of the US. Chamber of Commerce and fatcat donors call the shots in a lot of GOP organized states--that is why you get squishes in ruby red states.

Posted by: whig at September 19, 2025 01:08 PM (WDjG6)

384
Now I'm envisioning a decal for the driver's door - like the ones some plumber's trucks have of a guy sitting on the can. But instead, it's just an arm with the hand circle thing at the bottom -- lined up under the driver's shoulder. Driver turns his head at a stoplight and just grins.
Posted by: Doof at September 19, 2025 01:04 PM (wkXwO)

The next million dollar idea, left to die......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 19, 2025 01:08 PM (Zz0t1)

385 Tucker Carlson guest hosting the Charlie Kirk show. Interesting… I hope he stays sane while sitting in that chair…

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at September 19, 2025 01:09 PM (P/Wjn)

386
Fellow morons… there is NO Epstein list. It doesn’t exist. Which is why Trump is so dismissive of the whole subject
Posted by: LinusVanPelt

Precisely.

All the DOJ lawyers involved the cases against epstein & sean coombs need to be fired for misleading the American people.

Posted by: Soothsayer at September 19, 2025 01:09 PM (/ZFN7)

387 GOP will give in on the shut-down because they are afraid Trumps team will run it so smoothly no one will want them to turn it back on.

Posted by: Inogame at September 19, 2025 01:09 PM (53oGX)

388 382 Judge tosses Trump's $15B defamation suit against New York Times, Penguin Random House

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Court didn't require much briefing, I guess.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks
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Summary dismissals like that are the most overturned district court decisions. My guess is that 11th Circuit will require the district judge to redo their homework for shoddiness.

Posted by: whig at September 19, 2025 01:09 PM (WDjG6)

389 I used to love Birkenstocks when I was younger, but they kill my feet now.
Posted by: Frank Barone at September 19, 2025 01:07 PM (IifOV)

Florsheim made some damn comfortable shoes......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 19, 2025 01:09 PM (Zz0t1)

390 385 Tucker Carlson guest hosting the Charlie Kirk show. Interesting… I hope he stays sane while sitting in that chair…
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at September 19, 2025 01:09 PM (P/Wjn)

He's supposedly going to speak at Kirks Eulogy Sunday

Posted by: It's me donna at September 19, 2025 01:10 PM (VE6XX)

391 >>>370 You might be very surprised how many people with outward wealth -- exotic cars, fancy houses, etc -- are very deep in debt and living way beyond their means
Posted by: Elric The Blade

We're hard to keep up with.
Posted by: The Joneses
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To break the system individuals must establish their own priorities.
Buying crap you don't need shouldn't be on that list.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 19, 2025 01:10 PM (jj2yx)

392 379 ARRRRRRRR.......

In case it hasn't been mentioned that it's Talk Like A Pirate Day.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 19, 2025 01:08 PM (Zz0t1)
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Doontaada ka deg oo i sii. Arrrrrrg.

(this will only make sense if you know Somali)

Posted by: Orson at September 19, 2025 01:10 PM (dIske)

393 AOC is, after all, the master of ignorant and uneducated rhetoric.
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at September 19, 2025 12:59 PM

I say, am I merely julienned liver?

Posted by: Jasmine C.
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How about me, motherfucker?!

Posted by: Rashida Tlaib at September 19, 2025 01:10 PM (XeU6L)

394 387 GOP will give in on the shut-down because they are afraid Trumps team will run it so smoothly no one will want them to turn it back on.
Posted by: Inogame
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Trump is perfectly capable of shoving sticks into the spokes preventing that if he wishes.

Posted by: whig at September 19, 2025 01:10 PM (WDjG6)

395 Crowley got lazy and took his position for granted. AOC outworked him and ended his political career

Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 19, 2025 01:10 PM (lmTGO)

396 As a matter of record, whig was one of BurtTC's (only?) defenders during "the recent trouble". I understand being the sort that will say anything and not GAF - to an extent - but why personally bite people who have tried in earnest to defend your name? This is rhetorical btw. The proof of the pudding is in the eating as they say.
Posted by: ... at September 19, 2025 01:03 PM (ZW9XP)

No idea what you're talking about.

If you're referring to Ace's post, I didn't need any defenders. Ace was blowing off steam, and I was a convenient target. I did notice a lot of people who chimed in with their #metoo comments about how awful I am.

I'm really not trying to offend anyone. You seem to have taken something I said earlier as offense. I'm sorry you did.

Posted by: BurtTC at September 19, 2025 01:10 PM (2TaYR)

397 I'm not actually looking for it (not ruling it out, but not actively looking) so I'll need to watch my six, I guess.

Pretty sure as a guy in a building full of women on the prowl your six is the one area you don't have to watch...

Posted by: 18-1 at September 19, 2025 01:11 PM (sKqQm)

398 385 Tucker Carlson guest hosting the Charlie Kirk show. Interesting… I hope he stays sane while sitting in that chair…
Posted by: LinusVanPelt
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Don't consider that a wise choice but I ain't Erika Kirk. Her call.

Posted by: whig at September 19, 2025 01:11 PM (WDjG6)

399 NOOD

FCC

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at September 19, 2025 01:11 PM (ULPxl)

400
Our financial advisor has been almost begging us to stop adding to our cash reserves for 2 years.

I think we could survive at least six months if we both lost our jobs right now. Might be more now that we don't have car payments.

Finally, we are adding to our brokerage account.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a world of gods and monsters with James Whale at September 19, 2025 12:59 PM (GBKbO)
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You might be very surprised how many people with outward wealth -- exotic cars, fancy houses, etc -- are very deep in debt and living way beyond their means
Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 19, 2025 01:03 PM (iFTx/)

It's amazing to me how many people in my area are "house poor".

Between owning a big ole snazzy house and two big ole snazzy cars and at least two big ole fancy vacation per year, they literally have no more money.

Thank God for credit cards, amirite?

Sheesh.

I was shocked when I ran the demographics for this area when I was setting up muh business here.

Posted by: naturalfake at September 19, 2025 01:11 PM (iJfKG)

401 Florida Politics dot com: Cory Mills defends nixing Ilhan Omar censure, cites Charlie Kirk’s stance on free speech, by Jacob Ogles, Sep. 19, 2025

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at September 19, 2025 01:12 PM (NFX2v)

402 Pretty sure as a guy in a building full of women on the prowl your six is the one area you don't have to watch...

Watch for the 'cup check'

Posted by: Chuck Martel at September 19, 2025 01:12 PM (Dv3i1)

403 367 AOC is, after all, the master of ignorant and uneducated rhetoric.
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at September 19, 2025 12:59 PM
.I first read that as unmedicated rhetoric.

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at September 19, 2025 01:12 PM (SXxzC)

404 > Florsheim made some damn comfortable shoes......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 19, 2025 01:09 PM (Zz0t1)

Agreed. By far the most comfortable dress shoes on the market, or at least they were. I don't think I've bought any dress shoes since I retired. I still have a couple pair. They'll probably last the rest of my life. I only wear them for weddings and funerals and the like, and I'm long past caring whether my shoes and/or suit are still "in style".

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at September 19, 2025 01:13 PM (qpyNK)

405 If (please God) the Republicans hold the House and senate and increase their numbers so that the RINO’s are not a problem any more, will the Repubs and Trump actually pass some legislation we have been begging for for 30 years? Like ending the Deptartment of Education, Energy and the IRS and OBummerWill they actually pass laws that put Americans first and balance the budget?

Or am I just a Pollyanna?

I hope the GOP gets some big stuff done the last 2 years of Trump’s term.

Posted by: Czech Chick at September 19, 2025 01:13 PM (vK/Ja)

406 I'll get excited when it's real appointees who have real jobs to do.
Posted by: BurtTC at September 19, 2025 12:17 PM (tAPWz)

Ambassadors have real jobs. I know you don’t think we should even have a State Department and all, but some of us do live in the real world.

Posted by: Cow Demon at September 19, 2025 01:13 PM (MrWte)

407 NOW: Leftists just SLASHED THE TIRES of an ICE vehicle near Chicago. The tire deflated just as they were pulling into the ICE facility.

The obvious lesson for ICE vehicle drivers? Don't slow down.

Posted by: Oddbob at September 19, 2025 01:13 PM (3nLb4)

408 395 Crowley got lazy and took his position for granted. AOC outworked him and ended his political career
Posted by: Smell the Glove
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AOC got gobs of cash to literally buy that seat out from under Crowley. It was simply an op by the DSA types taking out a white Killary era pol.

And she promptly shit on her 'constituents' with the Amazon development getting canceled in part because of her.

Posted by: whig at September 19, 2025 01:13 PM (WDjG6)

409 388 382 Judge tosses Trump's $15B defamation suit against New York Times, Penguin Random House

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Court didn't require much briefing, I guess.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks
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Every Trump decision is tossed. HURRAH
Until it gets to the Supreme Court where it's overturned in his favor.
SURPRISE !!!

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 19, 2025 01:13 PM (jj2yx)

410 NOOD!

Posted by: Moonbeam at September 19, 2025 01:13 PM (rbKZ6)

411

noooood

nooojd

Posted by: Soothsayer at September 19, 2025 01:14 PM (/ZFN7)

412 chacos are more comfortable than birks and sufficiently hipster douchey.

I bought a pair over 30 years ago as camp shoes and chaco refurbished them completely a few years ago for zero cost. They cost a bajallion dollars at the time but I've been very satisfied. Wear them all the time. It has the toe loop so wearing socks with them isn't even possible.

Posted by: banana Dream at September 19, 2025 01:14 PM (3uBP9)

413 358 You might be very surprised how many people with outward wealth -- exotic cars, fancy houses, etc -- are very deep in debt and living way beyond their means
Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 19, 2025 01:03 PM (iFTx/)

This kind of reminds me of my grandparents. They were never in debt, but they spent a few years living relatively lavishly, and then pulled _way_ back and started living like normal people again around the time I was about 6 years old.

I guess that was probably how they planned it, though. Enjoy the first few years of their retirement, then settle in to the grandma and grandpa role.

Posted by: XTC at September 19, 2025 01:14 PM (UnA8+)

414 393 AOC is, after all, the master of ignorant and uneducated rhetoric.
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at September 19, 2025 12:59 PM

I say, am I merely julienned liver?

Posted by: Jasmine C.
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How about me, motherfucker?!
Posted by: Rashida Tlaib at September 19, 2025 01:10 PM (XeU6L)

Fuck you both and fuck the rules!

Posted by: Beto Pancho at September 19, 2025 01:14 PM (MrWte)

415 406 I'll get excited when it's real appointees who have real jobs to do.
Posted by: BurtTC
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Read the list up top which link I provided goes directly to the US Senate list of confirmees this Sept 18th. Plenty of adminstrators and relatively few ambassadors. Includes some DA posts.

Posted by: whig at September 19, 2025 01:15 PM (WDjG6)

416 Every Trump decision is tossed. HURRAH
Until it gets to the Supreme Court where it's overturned in his favor.
SURPRISE !!!

Posted by: Braenyard
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NYT v. Sullivan is probably looking a bit shaky here. And it should.

Posted by: whig at September 19, 2025 01:16 PM (WDjG6)

417 Ambassadors have real jobs. I know you don’t think we should even have a State Department and all, but some of us do live in the real world.
Posted by: Cow Demon at September 19, 2025 01:13 PM (MrWte)

Now, I never said we shouldn't have a State Department, but I suppose I would reluctantly agree there should be SOMEBODY talking to all those dirty swarthy foreigners.

Unfortunately our State Department has long been the realm of traitors and sodomizers, so yeah, I'd put that on the list of things we should blow up and start over.

Posted by: BurtTC at September 19, 2025 01:16 PM (/AIA+)

418 =======
I would say that is fair in a large part of the US. Chamber of Commerce and fatcat donors call the shots in a lot of GOP organized states--that is why you get squishes in ruby red states.
Posted by: whig at September 19, 2025 01:08 PM (WDjG6

Or, in TX, you have taxpayer funded lobbying which does the same.

Posted by: Cow Demon at September 19, 2025 01:17 PM (MrWte)

419 “Now, I never said we shouldn't have a State Department, but I suppose I would reluctantly agree there should be SOMEBODY talking to all those dirty swarthy foreigners.” - Well, that’s progress, I suppose. But clearly you don’t think ambassadors have real jobs. Some of those 48 being confirmed are ambassadors.

“Unfortunately our State Department has long been the realm of traitors and sodomizers, so yeah, I'd put that on the list of things we should blow up and start over.” - I wouldn’t mind that at all, and staffing it with people with more hard nosed viewpoints of foreign policy rather than pie in the sky dreamers. Foreign policy is….forget it.

Posted by: Cow Demon at September 19, 2025 01:24 PM (MrWte)

420 I hope the government gets shut down with Chuck Schumer leading the parade.

I am so sick of these jackasses in Congress, on both sides at times. Who, on our dime, take forever to get anything done. Form committees to discuss longer and even more boring. Waste more time. Scream at each other in "hearings" for anyone in a 10mi radius to "hear." And just generally annoy me.

I am in no mood to be annoyed at present.

I want it put to a vote for the country for two terms.

Once I get this done I want it put to a vote for the country for Congress to be part time and have pay cuts.

It is the same shite for decades. Over and over.

The only way I would cross the damn aisle would be to slap a Democrat.

If I run for office the above will be my bumper sticker.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at September 19, 2025 01:53 PM (6PCLE)

421 They were saying Congress wasn't doing its job in passing Obama's budget. Some commentators were calling it treason.

Posted by: MikeN at September 19, 2025 02:14 PM (HVZOH)

422 Medievals flying paragliders (they ran out of flying carpets) should not have started a war with a country with F-35s and nukes.

Posted by: Rachel Controltheweatherstein at September 19, 2025 02:54 PM (Q0+ZE)

423 Democrats - "oh it is terrible that trump is cutting spending and all these people are losing their jobs."

Aso Democrats "We are going to force Trump to agree with us by shutting down the government, giving him power to cut spending and eliminate jobs."

Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at September 19, 2025 03:13 PM (gDhA9)

424 If 47 Senate Democrats still voted against the Presidential Advisor deal, then what the heck was the point of negotiating with them. What Schumer's Senate Democrats have done so far, is ban the President from obtaining his advisors, as is laid out in the US Constitution.
The result of this, is unrestrained violence and chaos. The argument can be made that Sen. Schumer directly enabled and incited the assassination of Charlie Kirk. the Senate Democrats seem to have taken the lead in inciting rebellion and assassinations.

Posted by: wferrin at September 19, 2025 03:35 PM (lCdHU)

425 The S.S. Democrat sails into the Iceberg Field at full speed ahead

Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at September 19, 2025 06:06 PM (wGqjj)

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