Washington Post Goes On Firing Spree, Canning Presumably Far-Left Opinion Writers

The Washington Post launched a sweeping round of layoffs Friday in its Opinion section, cutting veteran journalists and longtime staffers.
The Washington Post ignited a firestorm inside its own newsroom after reportedly axing more than a dozen editorial staffers, according to multiple reports. NBC News reporter Mark Segraves said that Marc Fisher -- a 39-year veteran of the paper and one of its most recognized voices -- was among those terminated.
"The @washingtonpost has fired writer & editor @mffisher along with 15 other columnists & editors. Marc Fisher spent 39 years at WaPo and is one of the greatest voices and reporters our city has. Democracy Dies In Darkness and the Washington Post is turning out the lights," Segraves wrote.
New York Times media reporter Ben Mullin posted a confirmation that Adam O'Neal, the Post's new Opinion Editor, ordered the dismissals as part of a planned overhaul. Mullin reported that six employees were formally laid off, while several contractors also lost their jobs. He shared an internal email that outlined O'Neal's decision to restructure the section.
"Scoop: Adam O'Neal, the new Opinion Editor at The Washington Post, is laying off staffers as part of a plan to shake up the section. A source says six employees are affected. I've also been told some contractors are being terminated," Mullin posted.
Retired Washington Post editor, correspondent and columnist Robert McCartney added more details, warning that the Opinion section will now operate without copy editors.

The Washington Post actually reported on DC cops complaining that serious crimes are routinely recorded as minor crimes to make the numbers look good and to avoid the "ire" of the brass.

D.C. police officers are feeding information to the Justice Department as it probes accusations of manipulated crime data, according to the D.C. Police Union and five other people familiar with the situation who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss an investigation in progress. The voluntary cooperation of about three dozen from the police force, according to three of the people, reflects long-standing frustrations about how violent crime is categorized by supervisors -- and surfaces as public safety in D.C. continues to capture the president's attention.
Some rank-and-file officers and detectives have complained for months -- in some cases, years -- that managers were recording serious crimes as more minor ones to make their police districts appear safer or avoid the ire of top department brass. Some kept lists, documenting cases where they believed a higher-up improperly classified a crime as a lesser offense. One such tally, obtained by The Washington Post, lists more than 150 instances since March 2024 where staff in a Southeast D.C. police district believed offenses were, at least initially, inappropriately classified.

Previously, just a month ago, the Washington Post insisted that Trump was crazy to claim that crime was out-of-control because all of the numbers say crime is down!

What changed in the past month? pic.twitter.com/orCjMjoATv
— Small Gov Lizard (@smallgovlizard) October 5, 2025

And they just admitted that the "Affordable Care Act" has always been unaffordable.

This is an amazing sentence to see in a @wapo editorial. I am truly impressed. pic.twitter.com/l9E82bMl0X
— Conn Carroll (@conncarroll) October 6, 2025

The Post also offered this tepid condemnation of Jay Jones' murder fantasies about white children. At least they covered and condemned it.

Washington Post editorial board stops short of calling on Jay Jones to withdraw: “Jones has a month to convince voters that his hateful rhetoric does not reflect how he’d behave if elected as attorney general.” pic.twitter.com/ceWTzEwIfS
— Peter J. Hasson (@peterjhasson) October 4, 2025

Posted by: Ace at 01:30 PM

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1 BLADE

Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 06, 2025 01:31 PM (iFTx/)

2 !

Posted by: wth at October 06, 2025 01:31 PM (v0R5T)

3 Will it matter?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 06, 2025 01:32 PM (ExV1e)

4 "Marc Fisher spent 39 years at WaPo and is one of the greatest voices and reporters our city has. Democracy Dies In Darkness and the Washington Post is turning out the lights," Segraves wrote.
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Suck my balls

Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 06, 2025 01:33 PM (iFTx/)

5 Still not tired.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at October 06, 2025 01:33 PM (aPBRN)

6 Washington Post editorial board stops short of calling on Jay Jones to withdraw: Jones has a month to convince voters that his hateful rhetoric does not reflect how he'd behave if elected as attorney general.

Has his driving improved?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 06, 2025 01:33 PM (ExV1e)

7 Washington Post Goes On Firing Spree, Canning Presumably Far-Left Opinion Writers

—Ace

Oh no. No!
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No. Don't ... stop.

Posted by: Willie Wonka at October 06, 2025 01:33 PM (krQz2)

8 It's a start

Posted by: It's me donna at October 06, 2025 01:34 PM (VE6XX)

9 "The @washingtonpost has fired writer & editor @mffisher along with 15 other columnists & editors. Marc Fisher spent 39 years at WaPo and is one of the greatest voices and reporters our city has. Democracy Dies In Darkness and the Washington Post is turning out the lights," Segraves wrote.
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*Exaggerated wanking motion*

Posted by: ballistic at October 06, 2025 01:34 PM (3BwY8)

10 Suck my balls
Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 06, 2025 01:33 PM (iFTx/)

It's probably that kind of talk that makes you first and leaves the 'ladies' disappointed.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 06, 2025 01:34 PM (ExV1e)

11 Has WaPoo changed? Nah. We are being gaslit.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 06, 2025 01:35 PM (iFTx/)

12 This is obviously a threat to democracy, and to our way of life. Unless it's not, in which case, whatever.

Posted by: Don Black at October 06, 2025 01:35 PM (AOsQT)

13 As always, they need to see this as an opportunity to go to small town papers so they can have a greater impact on localities.

The Bleetheville Trumpeter investigating cornhole fixing at the Sphincter County Fair.

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at October 06, 2025 01:35 PM (qwx/I)

14 Terrible shame!
Just terrible…

Posted by: Lizzy at October 06, 2025 01:36 PM (Hkcdp)

15 All I can hear is Bernie Sanders screaming "an oligarch is running the Washington Post. It's all lies"

Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 06, 2025 01:36 PM (pwtJC)

16 It's pretty much guaranteed that any Democrat bill with an on-the-nose name like "Affordable Care Act" or "Inflation Reduction Act" will result in the exact opposite if its title.

Posted by: Always making things worse at October 06, 2025 01:36 PM (TbWk/)

17 This is obviously a threat to democracy, and to our way of life. Unless it's not, in which case, whatever.

Posted by: Don Black at October 06, 2025 01:35 PM (AOsQT)
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s/democracy/crime/g.

Posted by: Axeman at October 06, 2025 01:36 PM (krQz2)

18 Marc Fisher -- a 39-year veteran of the paper and one of its most recognized voices -- was among those terminated.

Not to be insensitive, but ... who?

Posted by: t-bird at October 06, 2025 01:36 PM (Lp05i)

19 ... Canning Presumably Far-Left Opinion Writers

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So everyone?

Posted by: ShainS -- The Sombrero Memes Will Continue Until Morality Improves! at October 06, 2025 01:36 PM (bQNZY)

20 Introduce them to the business end of a Machete.

Posted by: XTC at October 06, 2025 01:36 PM (UnA8+)

21 Our Precious Democracy Dies in Darkness

HA HA!

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at October 06, 2025 01:37 PM (ULPxl)

22 It's pretty much guaranteed that any Democrat bill with an on-the-nose name like "Affordable Care Act" or "Inflation Reduction Act" will result in the exact opposite if its title.

Posted by: Always making things worse at October 06, 2025 01:36 PM (TbWk/)
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In the case of "Inflation Reduction" it was a totally irrelevant reference.

Almost to an engagement-farming level.

Posted by: Axeman at October 06, 2025 01:37 PM (krQz2)

23 I'm still waiting for Trump to kick in with mass firings of federal employees. Get'r done, Don!

Posted by: Paco at October 06, 2025 01:37 PM (mADJX)

24 The Washington Post actually reported on DC cops complaining that serious crimes are routinely recorded as minor crimes to make the numbers look good and to avoid the "ire" of the brass.

--In the show The Wire, it's called "juking the stats "

Posted by: logprof at October 06, 2025 01:37 PM (v3tnz)

25 Jones has a month to convince voters that his hateful rhetoric does not reflect how he’d behave if elected as attorney general.
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If a Republican had texted what Jones had, the Republican would have 20 minutes to withdraw before they'd begin a move to Dox his home address and the location of his kids schools.

Posted by: Crusader at October 06, 2025 01:37 PM (TN0g+)

26 Holy cow...we may have broken, or at least overwhelmed, the Left. I can't find anything on this on Reddit, DU, Daily Kos...there's just too much losing/outrage for them to track lol!

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at October 06, 2025 01:38 PM (JCZqz)

27 Did they fire Bezos yet?

Posted by: Wiley at October 06, 2025 01:38 PM (e+fEN)

28 > The Washington Post ignited a firestorm inside its own newsroom after reportedly axing more than a dozen editorial staffers, according to multiple reports. NBC News reporter Mark Segraves said that Marc Fisher -- a 39-year veteran of the paper and one of its most recognized voices -- was among those terminated.
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"More than a dozen." 15. "Sweeping"

Posted by: Martini Farmer at October 06, 2025 01:38 PM (Q4IgG)

29 Marc Fisher spent 39 years at WaPo

Learn to say, "would you like fries with that?"

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at October 06, 2025 01:38 PM (ULPxl)

30 11 Has WaPoo changed? Nah. We are being gaslit.
Posted by: Elric The Blade
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Bezos is losing millions as Resist as a media strategy is no longer paying the freight like in Trump I term and worse yet, with a Trump tide in office, his government contracts might be at risk.

Incentives work but sometimes it takes time to do act.

Never trust an oligarch but the fact that lefties are now calling for assassinations of CEOs etc. is not something that oligarchs particularly like.

Posted by: whig at October 06, 2025 01:38 PM (WDjG6)

31 Washington Post is spelled g-a-s-l-i-g-h-t.

Posted by: Archer at October 06, 2025 01:38 PM (NYB6t)

32 Some rank-and-file officers and detectives have complained for months -- in some cases, years -- that managers were recording serious crimes as more minor ones to make their police districts appear safer or avoid the ire of top department brass.

The Wire, though fictional, portrayed this with tremendous accuracy. And showed how this approach of "juking the stats" carried into other areas, like the public school system.

Posted by: Weirdly the show creator is a leftist at October 06, 2025 01:38 PM (TbWk/)

33 The real problem is that the Affordable Care Act was never actually affordable.
________

Remember Jonathan Gruber, the architect of the plan, admitting that he relied on us being stupid?

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at October 06, 2025 01:39 PM (XvL8K)

34
20th century Dems were soft on crime.
21st century Dems are soft on crime.

("But January 6th!!!" -- People dining-out on January 6th forever)

The "right-wing" threat of terror is all about lumping criminals in with conservative pro-Law-and-Order politics.

("But January 6th!!!")

Posted by: Axeman at October 06, 2025 01:39 PM (krQz2)

35 Repeating in this thread: the WashPost had over ***30*** front page stories about a VA gubernatorial candidate saying “macaca” under his breath at a campaign event. IIRC, it was in exasperation over a Democrat operative relentlessly following him, pushing a camera in his face at every event.

The WashPost has been broken for a very, very long time. Better to layoff everyone and start over from scratch.

Posted by: Lizzy at October 06, 2025 01:39 PM (Hkcdp)

36 24 The Washington Post actually reported on DC cops complaining that serious crimes are routinely recorded as minor crimes to make the numbers look good and to avoid the "ire" of the brass.

--In the show The Wire, it's called "juking the stats "
Posted by: logprof

Now do education statistics, welfare caseload statistics, etc. Local governments systematically lie to their constituents in favor of doing what strong organized interests want them to do.

Only solution is to break up consolidated governments down to manageable levels in schools, local government, etc.

Posted by: whig at October 06, 2025 01:40 PM (WDjG6)

37 Adding to my comment above, WaPoo won't -- and can't -- change because its entire brand is Hate Trump Porn. There's no way to go from there.

WaPoo can't try to appeal to conservative or even moderate audiences, even if they genuinely wanted to, because those audiences would never trust them. Besides, those audiences already have other news sources. WaPoo has zero chance of getting any portion of this audience.

WaPoo also can't do anything that even looks to its deranged audience of retards and perverts like WaPoo is moderating to the right. This audience will literally firebomb their offices.

So WaPoo has no choice -- none whatsoever -- to continue to pimp Hate Trump Porn to its shrinking audience of deranged perverts. The same is happening with the late-night talk shows.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 06, 2025 01:40 PM (iFTx/)

38 I went to a comic-con before Obamacare was passed, and one of the comic artists on a panel was singing its praises and how affordable his medical care for his family would be after it passed. He was a regular working class artist with a family to take care of.

I knew his premiums were going to go up, I knew the ACA rests on his back as a middle class average joe. I wonder what his premiums are like now vs then.

Posted by: LizLem at October 06, 2025 01:40 PM (gWBY1)

39 33 The real problem is that the Affordable Care Act was never actually affordable.
________

Remember Jonathan Gruber, the architect of the plan, admitting that he relied on us being stupid?
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at October 06, 2025 01:39 PM (XvL8K)

Yes. His faith was not misplaced, at least not at that time.

Posted by: It's racist to criticize the ACA at October 06, 2025 01:40 PM (TbWk/)

40 Any person living in a large city at any point in the last 15 years knows this. Year after year, crime goes down - except in any neighborhood you happen to live in.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at October 06, 2025 01:41 PM (nnKHe)

41 And showed how this approach of "juking the stats" carried into other areas, like the public school system.

The official record is the official record. If it shows no crime then crime did not occur. To state otherwise is to engage in disinformation, a thoughtcrime. Embrace Big Brother and know peace, comrade.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 06, 2025 01:41 PM (ExV1e)

42 The real problem is that the Affordable Care Act was never actually affordable.
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It was passed under budget reconciliation, and the only thing that made it budget-positive were the mandates Obama did not have the guts to implement.

So, they passed a de-facto giant spending bill under "budget reconciliation" rules--avoiding a need for a cloture vote.

Posted by: Axeman at October 06, 2025 01:41 PM (krQz2)

43 Jen Rubin is going to have so many top-notch guests available for her podcast.

A literal who's-who of the smartest of smarty thinker peoples.

LOL

When does it launch again?

Dumb bitch.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at October 06, 2025 01:41 PM (9k34X)

44 25 If a Republican had texted what Jones had, the Republican would have 20 minutes to withdraw before they'd begin a move to Dox his home address and the location of his kids schools. - Crusader

Hell, if a Republican had dome something like that, there'd probably be a dozen other Republicans calling for his withdrawal. Democrats don't seem to be particularly bothered for some reason.

Posted by: Paco at October 06, 2025 01:42 PM (mADJX)

45 Willowed:

Christians. I've never encountered a true anti-semite is meat space. Anti-Christians are a staple of the left.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 06, 2025 01:28 PM (i24o9)

All the "Sophie"s out there think that Christians are the only thing stopping them from being True and Honest Anime Girls.

Posted by: XTC at October 06, 2025 01:33 PM (UnA8+)

That, I think, is one of the most revealing aspects of troon-love on the left.

They don't really care about troons. They're just a tool to be used - same as any other leftist human tool to be discarded as soon as their utility expires - against the predominantly Christian right.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 06, 2025 01:42 PM (i24o9)

46 " Democracy Dies In Darkness and the Washington Post is turning out the lights"

Ha ha ha. I can skip my Geritol because I get all the irony I need from this.

Posted by: fd at October 06, 2025 01:42 PM (vFG9F)

47 Oh no. Anyway.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 06, 2025 01:42 PM (i24o9)

48 Wow, Marc Fisher dumped after 39!years at the WashPost?

*clears throat *

Guess he’ll need to learn to code!

Posted by: Lizzy at October 06, 2025 01:42 PM (Hkcdp)

49 Oh, and instead of typing "sing its praises," I initially typed "sing tits praises." And I was like that's what the Morons here do every day, and gladly!

Posted by: LizLem at October 06, 2025 01:42 PM (gWBY1)

50 "Democracy dies in Darkness"

That was their mission statement. Unfortunately for them, the country is being flooded with light.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at October 06, 2025 01:43 PM (0U5gm)

51 Evidently the local NBC affiliate reported on this also, a few month ago. They do stuff like report homicide with a deadly weapon as "endangerment" to get the weapon crime stats lowered.

I knew his premiums were going to go up, I knew the ACA rests on his back as a middle class average joe. I wonder what his premiums are like now vs then.

They went up. A lot.

You know why? So poor people get free health care. Not "here's a bit of help for emergencies" but absolutely no copay 100% free coverage for everything, including dental and eye care. Medicine, nearly everything. How do I know? Because I am poor and have this gold plated super nice coverage.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 06, 2025 01:43 PM (dfIr7)

52 34 The "right-wing" threat of terror is all about lumping criminals in with conservative pro-Law-and-Order politics.

("But January 6th!!!")
Posted by: Axeman at October 06, 2025 01:39 PM (krQz2)

Whenever a left-wing celebrity gets accused of Rape...

"See, he was a secret Right-winger all along!!!"

Posted by: XTC at October 06, 2025 01:43 PM (UnA8+)

53 33 The real problem is that the Affordable Care Act was never actually affordable.
________

Remember Jonathan Gruber, the architect of the plan, admitting that he relied on us being stupid?
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at October 06, 2025 01:39 PM (XvL8K)

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Remember the GOP establishment backing Mitt Romney in 2012?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 06, 2025 01:43 PM (GBKbO)

54
Alex Thompson

Oct 5, 2025
@AlexThomp

WaPo: Some rank-and-file DC officers and detectives have complained for months — in some cases, years — that managers were recording serious crimes as more minor ones to make their police districts appear safer or avoid the ire of top department brass.

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Yet another story arc stolen from "The Wire" ...

Posted by: ShainS -- The Sombrero Memes Will Continue Until Morality Improves! at October 06, 2025 01:43 PM (TDZAZ)

55 I knew his premiums were going to go up, I knew the ACA rests on his back as a middle class average joe. I wonder what his premiums are like now vs then.

Posted by: LizLem at October 06, 2025 01:40 PM (gWBY1)
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I'm sure he's got his pre-printed blame of Trump for that.

Posted by: Axeman at October 06, 2025 01:43 PM (krQz2)

56 Good morning.

I saw some bonehead leftist whining about the GOP running on the fact Democrats want to kill them.

That post was up about half a second before someone pointed out the Charlie Kirk assassination.

We've long known such statement weren't just "talk." Any leftist who tries to claim that, which they still do, should instantly be hit with the Charile Kirk assassination. They'll bleat, deflect and deny, but, in the end secretly, they think Democrats are onto something.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at October 06, 2025 01:43 PM (tT6L1)

57 I knew his premiums were going to go up, I knew the ACA rests on his back as a middle class average joe. I wonder what his premiums are like now vs then.
Posted by: LizLem at October 06, 2025 01:40 PM (gWBY1)

That was all Trump, enriching the billionaires. -- comic artists

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 06, 2025 01:43 PM (ExV1e)

58 38 I went to a comic-con before Obamacare was passed, and one of the comic artists on a panel was singing its praises and how affordable his medical care for his family would be after it passed. He was a regular working class artist with a family to take care of.

I knew his premiums were going to go up, I knew the ACA rests on his back as a middle class average joe. I wonder what his premiums are like now vs then.
Posted by: LizLem at October 06, 2025 01:40 PM (gWBY1)

Supposedly smart people in or adjacent to the industry who 100% should have known better were saying the same thing. The extent people turned off their brains and individual judgment to glaze the Mocha Messiah was absolutely mind-blowing.

Posted by: We praise our Lord and Savior Barry! at October 06, 2025 01:44 PM (TbWk/)

59 Again - it's not the laughable distortion and bias of giving a ridiculous candidate a "second chance" after he uttered career-ending (in all contexts) outrageous things. Or even the more hilarious contrast with the "macaca" thing (kudos to Lizzy for bringing that up).

It's the mental capacity (effectively, especially in a civic context) of voters who would read the WaPo* and still vote for the idiot in VA.

* that alone indicates a level of unworldliness and inability to think critically that makes a person unsuitable as a voter, period

Posted by: rhomboid at October 06, 2025 01:44 PM (U/Byj)

60 >>>"Democracy Dies In Darkness and the Washington Post is turning out the lights"

lol

Alternatively, you can only waste someone else's money for so long before they decide to pull the plug.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 06, 2025 01:44 PM (i24o9)

61 >> Now do education statistics, welfare caseload statistics, etc. Local governments systematically lie to their constituents in favor of doing what strong organized interests want them to do.

Now do "11 million illegal aliens"

Posted by: the dandy at October 06, 2025 01:44 PM (8l8nW)

62 I went to a comic-con before Obamacare was passed, and one of the comic artists on a panel was singing its praises and how affordable his medical care for his family would be after it passed. He was a regular working class artist with a family to take care of.

I knew his premiums were going to go up, I knew the ACA rests on his back as a middle class average joe. I wonder what his premiums are like now vs then.
Posted by: LizLem at October 06, 2025 01:40 PM (gWBY1)
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I'm going to ComiCon this weekend. I'll ask him!

Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 06, 2025 01:44 PM (iFTx/)

63 The donks really stick together, for the most part. It's like I once said about Nancy Pelosi: she could burn down an abortion clinic owned by six gay doctors while wearing a Trump punisher baseball cap, and the Democrats would still elect her.

Posted by: Paco at October 06, 2025 01:44 PM (mADJX)

64 56 Good morning.

I saw some bonehead leftist whining about the GOP running on the fact Democrats want to kill them.

That post was up about half a second before someone pointed out the Charlie Kirk assassination.

We've long known such statement weren't just "talk." Any leftist who tries to claim that, which they still do, should instantly be hit with the Charile Kirk assassination. They'll bleat, deflect and deny, but, in the end secretly, they think Democrats are onto something.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at October 06, 2025 01:43 PM (tT6L1)

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"Yeah, but the guy who killed one of the most prominent, non-politicians on the right, who sucked tranny cock and wrote anti-fascist stuff on his bullets he used to kill Kirk, was actually a good Mormon boy and MAGA because his parents."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 06, 2025 01:44 PM (GBKbO)

65 Remember the GOP establishment backing Mitt Romney in 2012?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 06, 2025 01:43 PM (GBKbO)
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Hey, with those well creased pants and meticulously groomed locks, Mitt could have managed our decline in style!

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at October 06, 2025 01:45 PM (tT6L1)

66 Private conversation, lol. If Jones walked up to a lectern and said "I will murder a Republican with *this very gun* the moment I'm elected," his polling would improve. This story helps him with his base voters. The coverage might as well count as in-kind contribution to his GOTV effort.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at October 06, 2025 01:45 PM (nnKHe)

67 I want Trump to use the narrative of the moment to push for some kind of ACA reform.

Gotta call it reform.

Even if the actual bill kills the ACA dead and returns the American health insurance landscape to 2008.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 06, 2025 01:45 PM (GBKbO)

68 I'm thrilled when WaPo staffers are cut, but that doesn't change the fact that the Blade must be stopped!

Posted by: Avid Late Poster at October 06, 2025 01:45 PM (oftw2)

69 WashPost was also the paper that attempted to destroy GOP candidates for a slur painted on a rock at a rented childhood vacation cabin and giving a fellow high school student a haircut.

We won’t expect courage from them, obviously.

So…

Well
Bye!

Posted by: Lizzy at October 06, 2025 01:46 PM (Hkcdp)

70 65 Remember the GOP establishment backing Mitt Romney in 2012?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 06, 2025 01:43 PM (GBKbO)
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Hey, with those well creased pants and meticulously groomed locks, Mitt could have managed our decline in style!
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at October 06, 2025 01:45 PM (tT6L1)

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"He looks like a president!"
-lost in his hair

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 06, 2025 01:46 PM (GBKbO)

71 Supposedly smart people in or adjacent to the industry who 100% should have known better were saying the same thing. The extent people turned off their brains and individual judgment to glaze the Mocha Messiah was absolutely mind-blowing.
Posted by: We praise our Lord and Savior Barry! at October 06, 2025 01:44 PM (TbWk/)

Some of it may have been "I'm getting something for nothing". The Democrats play on greed a lot.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 06, 2025 01:46 PM (ExV1e)

72 Sad to see the Chris Dreja notice in the sidebar.

RIP Yardbird.

Posted by: garrett at October 06, 2025 01:46 PM (fd/UI)

73 If someone spent 39 years at one company making a decent salary, they ought to have saved enough to not have to work anymore.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at October 06, 2025 01:46 PM (0U5gm)

74 39 years is a good run at any company. Time to retire anyway.

Posted by: haffhowershower at October 06, 2025 01:46 PM (eds4q)

75 >>

At this point, if you're starting a new politics based left leaning podcast, what new thing is there that you can bring to the conversation?

I specially the propagandists. I feel like we are reaching peak leftist podcasting.

Posted by: LizLem at October 06, 2025 01:47 PM (gWBY1)

76 71 Supposedly smart people in or adjacent to the industry who 100% should have known better were saying the same thing. The extent people turned off their brains and individual judgment to glaze the Mocha Messiah was absolutely mind-blowing.
Posted by: We praise our Lord and Savior Barry! at October 06, 2025 01:44 PM (TbWk/)

Some of it may have been "I'm getting something for nothing". The Democrats play on greed a lot.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 06, 2025 01:46 PM (ExV1e)

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The insurance industry lobbied for the ACA and probably helped write it.

It made it a requirement to live in America and buy their products while jacking up prices at the same time.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 06, 2025 01:47 PM (GBKbO)

77 The real problem is that the Affordable Care Act was never actually affordable
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I asked AI to estimate retirement healthcare costs, premiums and out of pocket, for the years between COBRA and Medicare. Came up with $30k per year. That was on ACA. Slightly better for catastrophic plans, if you're eligible in your state.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at October 06, 2025 01:47 PM (Dv3i1)

78 Well. So has the revolution started in Chicago and Oregon?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at October 06, 2025 01:47 PM (jbdNc)

79 Jen Rubin is going to have so many top-notch guests available for her podcast.

A literal who's-who of the smartest of smarty thinker peoples.

Close. With guests like Bill Kristol, Don Lemon, Brian Stelter, and Mona Charen, most people who accidently stumble upon her podcast will be asking "Who? Who?"

Posted by: Moron Analyst at October 06, 2025 01:47 PM (JCZqz)

80 Hell, if a Republican had dome something like that, there'd probably be a dozen other Republicans calling for his withdrawal. Democrats don't seem to be particularly bothered for some reason.

Posted by: Paco at October 06, 2025 01:42 PM (mADJX)
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Difference: we would be embarrassed.

We would also might be chagrined by his lack of discretion.

It's the other side that allows them to vomit their politics all over themselves.

Traditionals still prefer sound judgment, and we would look suspiciously at death fantasies. (I would hope.)

Posted by: Axeman at October 06, 2025 01:47 PM (krQz2)

81 Marc Fisher spent 39 years at WaPo

Learn to say, "would you like fries with that?"
Posted by: Helena Handbasket

He'd never be able to keep up with the orders at 'fast' food place. Welcome to walmart is his next gig.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at October 06, 2025 01:47 PM (zTWGi)

82 38 I went to a comic-con before Obamacare was passed, and one of the comic artists on a panel was singing its praises and how affordable his medical care for his family would be after it passed. He was a regular working class artist with a family to take care of.

I knew his premiums were going to go up, I knew the ACA rests on his back as a middle class average joe. I wonder what his premiums are like now vs then.
Posted by: LizLem at October 06, 2025 01:40 PM (gWBY1)

Visual Artists (comic artists, fantasy artists, etc...) were probably the people most enamored with Obamacare.

They thought it was finally going to allow them to do Freelance art full time and not have to work for a company.

Posted by: XTC at October 06, 2025 01:47 PM (UnA8+)

83 Oh, and instead of typing "sing its praises," I initially typed "sing tits praises." And I was like that's what the Morons here do every day, and gladly!
Posted by: LizLem

Why yes. Yes we do.

Posted by: Bulg at October 06, 2025 01:48 PM (77rzZ)

84 78 Well. So has the revolution started in Chicago and Oregon?
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at October 06, 2025 01:47 PM (jbdNc)

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A few dozen paid protestors getting arrested in a couple of blocks square of a deeply blue enclave isn't really the makings of a revolution.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 06, 2025 01:48 PM (GBKbO)

85 Jen Rubin is going to have so many top-notch guests available for her podcast.

A literal who's-who of the smartest of smarty thinker peoples.

Close. With guests like Bill Kristol, Don Lemon, Brian Stelter, and Mona Charen, most people who accidently stumble upon her podcast will be asking "Who? Who?"
Posted by: Moron Analyst at October 06, 2025 01:47 PM (JCZqz)
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The best the echo chamber can produce, according to the echo chamber.

Posted by: Axeman at October 06, 2025 01:48 PM (krQz2)

86 Jeez, no wonder they 86'd Marc Fisher from the WP. 90%+ of his articles are Trump bashing. Obviously, the guy knew his audience, but that audience was anemic in size.

Posted by: Orson at October 06, 2025 01:48 PM (dIske)

87
The insurance industry lobbied for the ACA and probably helped write it.

It made it a requirement to live in America and buy their products while jacking up prices at the same time.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 06, 2025 01:47 PM (GBKbO)
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I think some coercion was involved. They were told to get in line or else. Then, once those sweet sweet taxpayer dollars were waived in their collective faces, insurance execs shrugged and said, "why not?"

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at October 06, 2025 01:48 PM (tT6L1)

88 Maybe the Post's appeal is becoming more selective.

Posted by: Don Black at October 06, 2025 01:49 PM (AOsQT)

89 80 Difference: we would be embarrassed.

We would also might be chagrined by his lack of discretion.

It's the other side that allows them to vomit their politics all over themselves.

Traditionals still prefer sound judgment, and we would look suspiciously at death fantasies. (I would hope.)
Posted by: Axeman at October 06, 2025 01:47 PM (krQz2)

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Everyone called on Mark Robinson to drop out...LAST YEAR...in the NC governor's race when the "I'm a black Nazi" stuff came out.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 06, 2025 01:49 PM (GBKbO)

90 Trying to convince your average Dem sheep that the crime stats are faked is next to impossible. I got into an argument with leftist friends and even though I was able to show the statements of DC cops , it was impossible to get through to them

Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 06, 2025 01:49 PM (pwtJC)

91 Just get a Green Card and head for the Emergency Room. Cheapest Health Insurance Evah!

Posted by: pudinhead at October 06, 2025 01:49 PM (AdHga)

92 Oh, and instead of typing "sing its praises," I initially typed "sing tits praises." And I was like that's what the Morons here do every day, and gladly!
Posted by: LizLem
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And, like that, it's a bewb thread.

Posted by: Axeman at October 06, 2025 01:49 PM (krQz2)

93 90 Trying to convince your average Dem sheep that the crime stats are faked is next to impossible. I got into an argument with leftist friends and even though I was able to show the statements of DC cops , it was impossible to get through to them
Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 06, 2025 01:49 PM (pwtJC)

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"Why doesn't Los Angeles report its crime statistics to the FBI?"

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 06, 2025 01:49 PM (GBKbO)

94 I’m so old I remember Jimmy Kimmel blubbering about his son’s heart surgery and how Obamacare is what made it possible.

Spoiler alert: no, no it didn’t. The surgery was pioneered and perfected long before Obama, and it was doubtful it was covered - or that Kimmel didn’t use private healthcare to pay for it.

Posted by: Lizzy at October 06, 2025 01:49 PM (Hkcdp)

95 Yeah, but the guy who killed one of the most prominent, non-politicians on the right, who sucked tranny cock and wrote anti-fascist stuff on his bullets he used to kill Kirk, was actually a good Mormon boy and MAGA because his parents."
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 06, 2025 01

"The guy who killed that legislator for voting with the GOP was a Tim Walz employee with a car full of No Kangz propaganda, but he's a registered Republican, so MAGA did it!"

Hell, I know a broad who remains convinced that Trump hired a pimply-faced Supersniper First-Class to pierce his ear with 5.56.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at October 06, 2025 01:49 PM (nnKHe)

96 Any person living in a large city at any point in the last 15 years knows this. Year after year, crime goes down - except in any neighborhood you happen to live in.

One of my absolute biggest irritations about living in - I am convinced - the absolute era of the dumbest people with the most information in any time in recorded history.

"The Numbers Say Crime is Down". Well who compiles the numbers ? Not anybody honest, just tooling around town with a clipboard. "Ooh - there's a crime - gotta' mark that down". Nope - not how that shit works at all.

And that's how it goes with ... honestly ... any "number" anyone ever quotes or uses in their socio-political rationalizations. Pure math isn't up for debate. Most, but not all, engineering constants are provable just by experience and personal use.

The rest ? All bullshit. As if any group could actually quantify and qualify something like "crime" or "quality of life" or whatever the rest as a simple number. As if they wouldn't lie when given the power to do so.

Posted by: Head On A Swivel at October 06, 2025 01:49 PM (1u6qW)

97 I knew his premiums were going to go up, I knew the ACA rests on his back as a middle class average joe. I wonder what his premiums are like now vs then.
Posted by: LizLem

Somewhere in the formula for the plan, someone forgot to include the magic money influx that would make it so that people could pay less, more people could get free coverage, and the system would run better than ever.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at October 06, 2025 01:50 PM (0U5gm)

98 I'm going to ComiCon this weekend. I'll ask him!
Posted by: Elric The Blade

So you're a comic-book nerd, too?

Posted by: Bulg at October 06, 2025 01:50 PM (77rzZ)

99 Calls for the resignation of Chicago Police Patrol Chief Jon P. Hein are growing after he ordered his officers to withdraw support from federal agents surrounded by a violent crowd of anti-ICE extremists.

Hein should be arrested.

Posted by: Crusader at October 06, 2025 01:50 PM (TN0g+)

100 Guess he’ll need to learn to code!
Posted by: Lizzy

No, learn to croon!

Posted by: Alfalfa Switzer at October 06, 2025 01:50 PM (oftw2)

101 15? That is hardly a regular capacity magazine.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at October 06, 2025 01:50 PM (17s+e)

102 95 "The guy who killed that legislator for voting with the GOP was a Tim Walz employee with a car full of No Kangz propaganda, but he's a registered Republican, so MAGA did it!"

Hell, I know a broad who remains convinced that Trump hired a pimply-faced Supersniper First-Class to pierce his ear with 5.56.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at October 06, 2025 01:49 PM (nnKHe)

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He killed those MN legislators right after they voted to end medical care for illegal immigrants because they didn't vote hard enough to end it.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 06, 2025 01:51 PM (GBKbO)

103 75 >>

At this point, if you're starting a new politics based left leaning podcast, what new thing is there that you can bring to the conversation?

I specially the propagandists. I feel like we are reaching peak leftist podcasting.
Posted by: LizLem at October 06, 2025 01:47 PM (gWBY1)

If you're a woman under 30?

Skintight or Revealing cosplay outfits.

That'll still bring in the subscriptions and superchats.

Otherwise? If you can't hit someone's fetish, you're fucked.

Posted by: XTC at October 06, 2025 01:51 PM (UnA8+)

104 Just get a Green Card and head for the Emergency Room. Cheapest Health Insurance Evah!
Posted by: pudinhead at October 06, 2025 01:49 PM (AdHga)

Green card? Just learn how to say "no English" in some language uncommon in your area and to the ER.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 06, 2025 01:51 PM (ExV1e)

105 90 Trying to convince your average Dem sheep that the crime stats are faked is next to impossible. I got into an argument with leftist friends and even though I was able to show the statements of DC cops , it was impossible to get through to them
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One of the big reasons we moved out of DC. Education and free range choices for Future Leader was number. Kids don't do very well in DC.

Posted by: pudinhead at October 06, 2025 01:51 PM (AdHga)

106 This is wishful thinking, but it'd be nice if Jeff Bezos is looking where the Democrat party is headed and is seeing how radical the party is becoming.

All you have to do is look at how Mamdani is becoming the face of the Democrat party and realize how frightening this is.

Bezos needs to cut ties with the Dems, if he has any common sense.

Posted by: redridinghood at October 06, 2025 01:51 PM (NpAcC)

107 The insurance industry lobbied for the ACA and probably helped write it.

It made it a requirement to live in America and buy their products while jacking up prices at the same time.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 06, 2025 01:47 PM (GBKbO)

Now that is true. It ended up throwing a LOT of money the way of companies like UnitedHealthcare, who the left claims to murderously hate, yet gave full (and deep) throated support to the ACA because Barry and "it'll make care affordable!" But now they suck Luigi's dick because he shot an executive for a company that was enriched by legislation they supported...

I perhaps wasn't as clear as I should have been - I was referring to people in the health care industry more broadly not the health insurance business per se.

Posted by: I want to say they're stupid, but they're really evil too at October 06, 2025 01:51 PM (TbWk/)

108 Any person living in a large city at any point in the last 15 years knows this. Year after year, crime goes down - except in any neighborhood you happen to live in.

We had a guy set off a bomb in my neighborhood.

Well, tbh, that guy was me.

And I accidentally put a spray can in the burn barrel.

Posted by: rickb223 at October 06, 2025 01:51 PM (JnEe8)

109 Somewhere in the formula for the plan, someone forgot to include the magic money influx that would make it so that people could pay less, more people could get free coverage, and the system would run better than ever.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at October 06, 2025 01:50 PM (0U5gm)
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Those were the Employer Mandates that would have totally tanked the recovering economy, when employers would have had to add to the cost of retaining their employees.

Posted by: Axeman at October 06, 2025 01:51 PM (krQz2)

110 “Jones has a month to convince voters that his hateful rhetoric does not reflect how he’d behave if elected as attorney general.”
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Stupidest sentence of 2025? And 2026?

Posted by: ... at October 06, 2025 01:52 PM (o1u+L)

111 Trying to convince your average Dem sheep that the crime stats are faked is next to impossible. I got into an argument with leftist friends and even though I was able to show the statements of DC cops , it was impossible to get through to them
Posted by: Smell the Glove
_______

The lefty friend I argue with always ends up saying, "That's just your news."

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at October 06, 2025 01:52 PM (XvL8K)

112 Leaving J(im) Jones in the race keeps him as a talking-point.
My suggestion to Republicans is to send moles into his rallies. Heckle the guy with big posters with two cartridges on them.
I don't suggest playing the moby, but I'm sure someone could troll a Karen true-believing supporter into playing one for us. Look at water-fountain girl in Arlington.

Posted by: gKWVE at October 06, 2025 01:52 PM (gKWVE)

113 I never understood why ACA didn't get knocked down by SCOTUS. How can we as citizens be forced to buy a product?

Unless I'm wrong.

Posted by: Don Black at October 06, 2025 01:52 PM (AOsQT)

114 113 I never understood why ACA didn't get knocked down by SCOTUS. How can we as citizens be forced to buy a product?

Unless I'm wrong.
Posted by: Don Black at October 06, 2025 01:52 PM (AOsQT)

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"It's a tax."
-John Roberts, meme-maker

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 06, 2025 01:53 PM (GBKbO)

115 98 I'm going to ComiCon this weekend. I'll ask him!
Posted by: Elric The Blade
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Give my regard to Poison Ivy. There will be at least four or five of them. Take snatch shots, too.

Posted by: pudinhead at October 06, 2025 01:53 PM (AdHga)

116 Trying to convince your average Dem sheep that the crime stats are faked is next to impossible.

Now do the S&P 500. Now do Inflation. Employment.

Posted by: Head On A Swivel at October 06, 2025 01:53 PM (1u6qW)

117 Green card? Just learn how to say "no English" in some language uncommon in your area and to the ER.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic

With my luck, I'd learn some ancient Tibetan language, and the person checking me in would be from there and speak it fluently.

Posted by: rickb223 at October 06, 2025 01:53 PM (JnEe8)

118 108 Looks like we need commonsense spray-can control.

Posted by: Bulg at October 06, 2025 01:53 PM (77rzZ)

119 Now that is true. It ended up throwing a LOT of money the way of companies like UnitedHealthcare, who the left claims to murderously hate, yet gave full (and deep) throated support to the ACA because Barry and "it'll make care affordable!" But now they suck Luigi's dick because he shot an executive for a company that was enriched by legislation they supported...

Posted by: I want to say they're stupid, but they're really evil too at October 06, 2025 01:51 PM (TbWk/)
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Just give them their Two-minute Hate and they'll be happy within the complexities of life.

Posted by: Axeman at October 06, 2025 01:53 PM (krQz2)

120 113 I never understood why ACA didn't get knocked down by SCOTUS. How can we as citizens be forced to buy a product?
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Its a TAX.

Posted by: pudinhead at October 06, 2025 01:53 PM (AdHga)

121 119 Just give them their Two-minute Hate and they'll be happy within the complexities of life.
Posted by: Axeman at October 06, 2025 01:53 PM (krQz2)

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Can we make Obama their Emmanuel Goldstein?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 06, 2025 01:54 PM (GBKbO)

122 Washington Post Goes On Firing Spree, Canning Presumably Far-Left Opinion Writers

I understood that,thinking a Firing Spree was a Shooting Spree...
I blame it on the anesthesia from the double colonoscopy.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 06, 2025 01:54 PM (ynpvh)

123 Hell, I know a broad who remains convinced that Trump hired a pimply-faced Supersniper First-Class to pierce his ear with 5.56.

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See and raised.

Posted by: Candace Owens at October 06, 2025 01:54 PM (y9ksN)

124 Wasn't the WAPOO the democrat propaganda outlet that went "macaca" 247 for 3 months to get a donk elected governor.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at October 06, 2025 01:54 PM (17s+e)

125 118 108 Looks like we need commonsense spray-can control.

Posted by: Bulg at October 06, 2025 01:53 PM (77rzZ)

Assault paint sprayers need to be banned.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 06, 2025 01:54 PM (ynpvh)

126 As for WaPo, even if they want Jones out (I suspect most of the staff does, because he sucks and makes the tribe look bad) they are uneasy about saying so. Antifa knows where the HQ is. Also they don't want to look like they're caving under pressure.

Posted by: gKWVE at October 06, 2025 01:54 PM (gKWVE)

127 115 Give my regard to Poison Ivy. There will be at least four or five of them. Take snatch shots, too.
Posted by: pudinhead at October 06, 2025 01:53 PM (AdHga)

And at least 30 people cosplaying as Power Girl.

(at least 8 of THOSE will be dudes.)

Posted by: XTC at October 06, 2025 01:54 PM (UnA8+)

128 Green card? Just learn how to say "no English" in some language uncommon in your area and to the ER.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 06, 2025 01:51 PM (ExV1e)
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In my area, that might be Ibo.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at October 06, 2025 01:55 PM (WvZaB)

129 Washington Post Goes On Firing Spree, Canning Presumably Far-Left Opinion Writers

I understood that,thinking a Firing Spree was a Shooting Spree...
I blame it on the anesthesia from the double colonoscopy.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 06, 2025 01:54 PM (ynpvh)

That was my first thought too. I blame it on the scented magic markers I huffed as a kid.

Posted by: Josephistan at October 06, 2025 01:55 PM (y9ksN)

130 90 Trying to convince your average Dem sheep that the crime stats are faked is next to impossible. I got into an argument with leftist friends and even though I was able to show the statements of DC cops , it was impossible to get through to them
Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 06, 2025 01:49 PM (pwtJC)

You might as well be trying to talk a multi-generational old-school Southern Baptist out of believing in Jesus. One big difference the Southern Baptist after listening to you would just say "well bless your heart" and invite you in for dinner. The democrat puts you on a mental kill list and bears rage against you forever.

Posted by: They think they aren't religious but they are at October 06, 2025 01:55 PM (TbWk/)

131 Unless my memory's faulty, the ACA gives the HHS Sec near plenary powers to f**k with/manage/direct/etc all kinds of parts of the "system". I wondered why nothing was done in the first term along these lines, to mitigate the damage of the ACA, at least in sane states. And/or to hasten its insolvency and collapse.

The ACA remains a (redundant?) confirmation of the general ignorance and economic illiteracy of the American populace, or at least a large portion thereof.

Posted by: rhomboid at October 06, 2025 01:55 PM (U/Byj)

132 We have a dramatic oversupply of leftwing pundits and leftwing pundits pretending to be reporters.

Now that the USAID grift has been cut off they are going to have to compete for the fairly small amount of dollars left...

Posted by: 18-1 at October 06, 2025 01:56 PM (sKqQm)

133 “Jones has a month to convince voters that his hateful rhetoric does not reflect how he’d behave if elected as attorney general.”
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Stupidest sentence of 2025? And 2026?
Posted by: ... at October 06, 2025 01:52 PM

Don't sell the WaPo short...that could include 2027.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 06, 2025 01:56 PM (ySpAZ)

134 One of my favorite genders of 2025 is watching redditors complain about how Twitter is full of misinformation and hate while before Elon it was great.

Posted by: ... at October 06, 2025 01:56 PM (o1u+L)

135 Just give them their Two-minute Hate and they'll be happy within the complexities of life.
Posted by: Axeman at October 06, 2025 01:53 PM (krQz2)

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Can we make Obama their Emmanuel Goldstein?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 06, 2025 01:54 PM (GBKbO)
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No. Trump is easier.

Obamacare didn't end up working, because MAGA voted for Trump. (...who at the time thought "healthcare" was an essential service of government).

Posted by: Axeman at October 06, 2025 01:56 PM (krQz2)

136 123 Hell, I know a broad who remains convinced that Trump hired a pimply-faced Supersniper First-Class to pierce his ear with 5.56.

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See and raised.

Posted by: Candace Owens at October 06, 2025 01:54 PM (y9ksN)

There are much easier ways to get an ear pierced.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 06, 2025 01:56 PM (ynpvh)

137 I blame it on the anesthesia from the double colonoscopy.
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You must be gay now, rite?

Posted by: pudinhead at October 06, 2025 01:56 PM (AdHga)

138 The WaPo is owned by Bezos. So is Amazon. The most important customer Amazon has is the federal government. Amazon has billions of dollars of contracts with the feds.

I guess Bezos wants to keep them.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 06, 2025 01:56 PM (viF8m)

139 Hey WAPO guys. YOU are the darkness.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at October 06, 2025 01:57 PM (DqbnI)

140 Osama Unaffordable care took away my $300 healthcare insurance made buy a $500 healthcare package that has been reduced fro that $500/month to $1750/month. Oh and I had to immediately change doctors.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at October 06, 2025 01:57 PM (17s+e)

141 "Firing"
WaPo's words are violence.

Posted by: torabora at October 06, 2025 01:57 PM (wyEkt)

142 Visual Artists (comic artists, fantasy artists, etc...) were probably the people most enamored with Obamacare.

They thought it was finally going to allow them to do Freelance art full time and not have to work for a company.

Posted by: XTC at October 06, 2025 01:47 PM (UnA8+)

In a perfect world they would now be sitting in china hand painting cheap fridge magnets.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at October 06, 2025 01:57 PM (snZF9)

143 Interpretation of the Commerce Clause is out of control. Has been for a long time.

Posted by: Don Black at October 06, 2025 01:57 PM (AOsQT)

144 Trying to convince your average Dem sheep that the crime stats are faked is next to impossible.

Present some number or other that the Trump admin has been put out and ask a lefty if they trust it...no way...the King makes people churn out fake stats to make him look good!

Then ask them if they think similiar state or local stats, collated by a leftwing politician are believable...of course the government is always accurate and honest!

Posted by: 18-1 at October 06, 2025 01:57 PM (sKqQm)

145 The real problem is that the Affordable Care Act was never actually affordable.

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Unexpectedly.

No one could ever have predicted that socialized medicine and insurance would be a disaster.

/I haven't been calling it DeathCare from Day One for no reason ... and am old enough to remember the bumper snicker: "Obamacare: Death And Taxes Now In One Convenient Bill!"

Posted by: ShainS -- The Sombrero Memes Will Continue Until Morality Improves! at October 06, 2025 01:57 PM (ju6Vm)

146 I'm going to ComiCon this weekend. I'll ask him!
Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 06, 2025 01:44 PM (iFTx/)

Same here. Hoping to geta few authors to sign some books

Posted by: Josephistan at October 06, 2025 01:58 PM (y9ksN)

147 jim (in Kalifornia) what do you mean double colonoscopy?!?!

I thought I was the only one

Posted by: Black Orchid at October 06, 2025 01:58 PM (emBoF)

148 I wasn't being remotely sarcastic, either. No Republicans were going to vote for him. No Democrat will be perturbed enough by this to sit it out, and a bunch of lazy ones who would have might be motivated to go vote for him.

To the extent this moves a single vote, it'll be in his direction. "Murder their fascist children and bathe in their blood" is a statement that reflects the core values of the Democrat base voter.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at October 06, 2025 01:58 PM (nnKHe)

149 lol sorry I had a rough weekend - giddy over here

Posted by: Black Orchid at October 06, 2025 01:58 PM (emBoF)

150 And they just admitted that the "Affordable Care Act" has always been unaffordable.

Obamacare was always designed to fail - it was always intended to be a way-station to completely nationalized health care, so of course it was never going to work.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at October 06, 2025 01:58 PM (xTIDn)

151 One of the stupidest things in ObamaCare is you can sign up anytime. A minor penalty for not signing up? sure. Diagnosis for cancer? Sign me up!

How can you price insurance when customers don't pay premiums until sick or injured? Oh and the ABA mandated trans treatment coverage. Never forget that.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at October 06, 2025 01:59 PM (wBaIH)

152 137 I blame it on the anesthesia from the double colonoscopy.
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You must be gay now, rite?
Posted by: pudinhead at October 06, 2025 01:56 PM (AdHga)

After an experience like that, my guess would be doubleplusungay.

Posted by: Aversion therapy at October 06, 2025 01:59 PM (TbWk/)

153 Interpretation of the Commerce Clause is out of control. Has been for a long time.
Posted by: Don Black at October 06, 2025 01:57 PM (AOsQT)
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Ya think?

Posted by: Wickard v. Filburn at October 06, 2025 01:59 PM (WvZaB)

154 118 108 Looks like we need commonsense spray-can control.
Posted by: Bulg

Hope it blowed up real good.

Posted by: The Huge Manatee!! at October 06, 2025 01:59 PM (oftw2)

155 His stance covers him perfectly.
I have other targets. I'm sure somebody will come along. Act like a Japanese homicidal prince from the sword days past.

Posted by: dreamingrobot at October 06, 2025 01:59 PM (EyfuW)

156 134 One of my favorite genders of 2025 is watching redditors complain about how Twitter is full of misinformation and hate while before Elon it was great.
Posted by: ... at October 06, 2025 01:56 PM (o1u+L)

People are abandoning BlueSky en masse because the moderation team said they are banning Rape Artwork and Fiction.

Troons flat out called it the one of the greatest betrayals of Troonkind ever.

Posted by: XTC at October 06, 2025 01:59 PM (UnA8+)

157 to the fired WaPo writers, cry harder you entitled tw@ts.

you haven't experienced 1/100th of what the average person suffers out here on these streets

you all have a golden parachute, enjoy your sunset years a-holes

Posted by: kallisto at October 06, 2025 01:59 PM (dCxaZ)

158 #136
I met a fella that thinks Trump hurt his own ear.
You can't reason with the insane.

Posted by: torabora at October 06, 2025 01:59 PM (wyEkt)

159 Just learn how to say "no English" in some language uncommon in your area and to the ER.

*checks the mirror*
Cymraeg?

Posted by: gKWVE at October 06, 2025 01:59 PM (gKWVE)

160 Osama Unaffordable care took away my $300 healthcare insurance made buy a $500 healthcare package that has been reduced fro that $500/month to $1750/month. Oh and I had to immediately change doctors.
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger

ObamaCare made my PCP sell his practice and quit. He was 62 at the time and didn't need to put up with the bullshit.

Posted by: rickb223 at October 06, 2025 01:59 PM (JnEe8)

161 "Murder their fascist children and bathe in their blood" is a statement that reflects the core values of the Democrat base voter.
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Yep.

Posted by: Crusader at October 06, 2025 01:59 PM (TN0g+)

162 137 I blame it on the anesthesia from the double colonoscopy.
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You must be gay now, rite?

Posted by: pudinhead at October 06, 2025 01:56 PM (AdHga)

The entire nursing staff and doctor were women...so more like pegged, I supposed.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 06, 2025 01:59 PM (ynpvh)

163 I guess Bezos wants to keep them.

I think the leftwing media class lauding someone that assassinated a healthcare CEO because "he's rich and therefore deserved it!" has also cooled Bezos's ardor for paying leftwing pundits.

If Brian Thompson deserved to be killed, it is very, very easy to argue Bezos does as well..

Posted by: 18-1 at October 06, 2025 01:59 PM (sKqQm)

164 Are a firing spree and the Graf Spree the same thing?

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at October 06, 2025 02:00 PM (kTd/k)

165 I never understood why ACA didn't get knocked down by SCOTUS. How can we as citizens be forced to buy a product?
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Its a TAX.

Posted by: pudinhead

The exact argument used by the supreme court in 1934 when the constitutionality of social security was being argued. The court in that case ruled it was just an additional income tax, and nobody has any right to payments from it.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at October 06, 2025 02:00 PM (0U5gm)

166 37 Adding to my comment above, WaPoo won't -- and can't -- change because its entire brand is Hate Trump Porn. There's no way to go from there.

WaPoo can't try to appeal to conservative or even moderate audiences, even if they genuinely wanted to, because those audiences would never trust them. Besides, those audiences already have other news sources. WaPoo has zero chance of getting any portion of this audience.

WaPoo also can't do anything that even looks to its deranged audience of retards and perverts like WaPoo is moderating to the right. This audience will literally firebomb their offices.

So WaPoo has no choice -- none whatsoever -- to continue to pimp Hate Trump Porn to its shrinking audience of deranged perverts. The same is happening with the late-night talk shows.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 06, 2025 01:40 PM (iFTx/)

What makes this even worse for WaPo is that they have very little revenue coming from anything other than subscriptions. The NYT, by contrast, has Wirecutter, Wordle, the Crossword Puzzles and other digital content subs. They're a one-trick pony, and their horse is coming up lame.

Posted by: Darrell Harris - Je Suis Charlie at October 06, 2025 02:00 PM (cV1Xe)

167 147 jim (in Kalifornia) what do you mean double colonoscopy?!?!

I thought I was the only one

Posted by: Black Orchid at October 06, 2025 01:58 PM (emBoF)

The normal back hole and the abdominal hole with the stoma (colostomy bag)

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 06, 2025 02:00 PM (ynpvh)

168 How can you price insurance when customers don't pay premiums until sick or injured? Oh and the ABA mandated trans treatment coverage. Never forget that.

Easy. Make EVERYONE pay more.

Posted by: 18-1 at October 06, 2025 02:00 PM (sKqQm)

169 156 134 One of my favorite genders of 2025 is watching redditors complain about how Twitter is full of misinformation and hate while before Elon it was great.
Posted by: ... at October 06, 2025 01:56 PM (o1u+L)

People are abandoning BlueSky en masse because the moderation team said they are banning Rape Artwork and Fiction.

Troons flat out called it the one of the greatest betrayals of Troonkind ever.
Posted by: XTC at October 06, 2025 01:59 PM (UnA8+)

IT'S LITERALLY TRANS GENOCIDE!!!

Posted by: LITERALLY SHAKING!!!! at October 06, 2025 02:00 PM (TbWk/)

170 165 The exact argument used by the supreme court in 1934 when the constitutionality of social security was being argued. The court in that case ruled it was just an additional income tax, and nobody has any right to payments from it.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at October 06, 2025 02:00 PM (0U5gm)

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Wait...that doesn't sound like a lock box or savings account...but welfare...

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 06, 2025 02:00 PM (GBKbO)

171 162 137 I blame it on the anesthesia from the double colonoscopy.
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You must be gay now, rite?

Posted by: pudinhead at October 06, 2025 01:56 PM (AdHga)

The entire nursing staff and doctor were women...so more like pegged, I supposed.
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Sure, Jan.

Posted by: pudinhead at October 06, 2025 02:01 PM (AdHga)

172 I met a fella that thinks Trump hurt his own ear

On the other hand, DJT's artwork is now lit.

Posted by: gKWVE at October 06, 2025 02:01 PM (gKWVE)

173 When I was in the endoscopic camera business, we called it the "REAR-ENDOSCOPE."

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at October 06, 2025 02:01 PM (17s+e)

174 Getting pegged by a woman isn't gay people! Why are you so narrowminded?!?

And that's true even if she uses her ladypenis

Posted by: David French at October 06, 2025 02:01 PM (sKqQm)

175 148 To the extent this moves a single vote, it'll be in his direction. "Murder their fascist children and bathe in their blood" is a statement that reflects the core values of the Democrat base voter.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at October 06, 2025 01:58 PM (nnKHe)

It's weird how so many "Badasses" on the right do not take the left's Bloodlust seriously...

Posted by: XTC at October 06, 2025 02:01 PM (UnA8+)

176 Amazon has billions of dollars of contracts with the feds.

I guess Bezos wants to keep them.
Posted by: JackStraw

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More importantly: he wants the feds to throw his Blue Origin a bone. Like many billionaires, Bezos hates the fact that no-one lauds his contribution to the human race, and no-one ever will.

Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at October 06, 2025 02:01 PM (1Nv0l)

177 The normal back hole and the abdominal hole with the stoma (colostomy bag)

ok now my joke is even dumber

sorry! I was trying to be flirty

Posted by: Black Orchid at October 06, 2025 02:01 PM (emBoF)

178 90 Trying to convince your average Dem sheep that the crime stats are faked is next to impossible. I got into an argument with leftist friends and even though I was able to show the statements of DC cops , it was impossible to get through to them
Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 06, 2025 01

I think this is true for anything- whatever they are told by their Wizard of Oz is their doctrine. If we can figure out who initiates the plan, we could have a blast hacking into this and inserting new beliefs. We can watch them all line up behind it like good little ducklings.

Posted by: Piper at October 06, 2025 02:01 PM (OoFl2)

179 Remember Jonathan Gruber, the architect of the plan, admitting that he relied on us being stupid?
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at October 06, 2025 01:39 PM (XvL8K)

Electing and then re-electing Barky the Dogeater proved him right.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at October 06, 2025 02:02 PM (g8Ew8)

180 I never understood why ACA didn't get knocked down by SCOTUS. How can we as citizens be forced to buy a product?

Same way you can be forced to pay for it for somebody else. Hence Ronald Reagan and EMTALA.

Posted by: Head On A Swivel at October 06, 2025 02:02 PM (1u6qW)

181
ObamaCare made my PCP sell his practice and quit. He was 62 at the time and didn't need to put up with the bullshit.
Posted by: rickb223 at October 06, 2025 01:59 PM (JnEe

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Guy I worked with, just before Obamacare kicked in, was told, by his doctor, "next visit, cash."

Dr stopped accepting insurance.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at October 06, 2025 02:02 PM (tT6L1)

182 ObamaCare made my PCP sell his practice and quit. He was 62 at the time and didn't need to put up with the bullshit.
Posted by: rickb223 at October 06, 2025 01:59 PM (JnEe

There's probably a code for that.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 06, 2025 02:02 PM (ExV1e)

183 Unless my memory's faulty, the ACA gives the HHS Sec near plenary powers to f**k with/manage/direct/etc all kinds of parts of the "system". I wondered why nothing was done in the first term along these lines, to mitigate the damage of the ACA, at least in sane states. And/or to hasten its insolvency and collapse.

Posted by: rhomboid at October 06, 2025 01:55 PM (U/Byj)
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That was back when the Dems commonly believed that because of demographics, it was a short time before the Republicans never won the Presidency again.

It was really the wholesale sign-over of medicine, constrained by laws, to the administration of Democrat-appointed bureaucrats.

They really believed in Point-X when Republicans would never win the Presidency again.

Which is why they learned to hate the electoral college, because it at first awarded a victory despite the demographic correlate of a "popular vote"

Posted by: Axeman at October 06, 2025 02:02 PM (krQz2)

184 You haters just can't stand that ObamaCare reduced premiums by 3000%.

Posted by: ... at October 06, 2025 02:02 PM (o1u+L)

185 171 162 137 I blame it on the anesthesia from the double colonoscopy.
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You must be gay now, rite?

Posted by: pudinhead at October 06, 2025 01:56 PM (AdHga)

The entire nursing staff and doctor were women...so more like pegged, I supposed.
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Sure, Jan.

Posted by: pudinhead at October 06, 2025 02:01 PM (AdHga)

I was awake for the back hole (more like a sigmoidoscopy, given how short that run is). Once I went on my back, no memory until they wheeled my into recovery.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 06, 2025 02:02 PM (ynpvh)

186 #119, yeah that's a beaut, isn't it?

Those old enough might recall how in 1993 the insurance industry helped kill Hillarycare in the crib. Now whether that was a mix of motives, or a narrow self-interested one, is irrelevant. They helped kill a disastrous (obviously) *additional* massive state intervention into medical finance and "insurance"*.

By 2010 ...... well. Was it part of the general decline of citizenship, civic literacy, standards, values, character (which has been dramatic)? Hard to say. Of course just the chef's kiss was SCOTUS beclowning itself with its ridiculous ruling, which should have killed it from a constitutional and institutional perspective.

I listened to the broadcast oral arguments at the beginning of the case. Unsurprising, and starkly clear, was that nobody in the room (either party, or the justices) had any idea what they were talking about. Which was the universe's reminder that actual economics should rule in, ya know, economic matters. It was unsurprising and stunning at the same time.

Posted by: rhomboid at October 06, 2025 02:02 PM (U/Byj)

187 But still under the affects of the anesthesia...my walking is a bit uncoordinated and my mind is a bit slow...like I'm drunk.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 06, 2025 02:03 PM (ynpvh)

188 The normal back hole and the abdominal hole with the stoma (colostomy bag)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)

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Some things are better left unsaid.

Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at October 06, 2025 02:03 PM (1Nv0l)

189 >> It was passed under budget reconciliation, and the only thing that made it budget-positive were the mandates Obama did not have the guts to implement.

They also had to fully federalize the student loan program and use its revenue to make the books balance, at least on paper.

Posted by: the dandy at October 06, 2025 02:03 PM (8l8nW)

190 Gentile is to Jew as Gentility is to Jewtility?

* looks up definition of "Jewtility" *

I am disappoint ...

Posted by: ShainS -- The Sombrero Memes Will Continue Until Morality Improves! at October 06, 2025 02:03 PM (y8sAm)

191 ObamaCare made my PCP sell his practice and quit. He was 62 at the time and didn't need to put up with the bullshit.
Posted by: rickb223 at October 06, 2025 01:59 PM (JnEe
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I'd bet because private practice was pretty much outlawed. And the only way you could stay an equivalent doctor was to be pretty much employed under a hospital.

Posted by: Axeman at October 06, 2025 02:03 PM (krQz2)

192
I think this is true for anything- whatever they are told by their Wizard of Oz is their doctrine. If we can figure out who initiates the plan, we could have a blast hacking into this and inserting new beliefs. We can watch them all line up behind it like good little ducklings.

Best example of this was when Colbert announced Trump had fired Comey and his crowd cheered. Then he spent 5 minutes voxplaining to them why it was bad and they started booing.

Complete NPCs/Sheep/etc. And no amount of embarrassing them over this ever works.

Posted by: 18-1 at October 06, 2025 02:03 PM (sKqQm)

193 160 Osama Unaffordable care took away my $300 healthcare insurance made buy a $500 healthcare package that has been reduced fro that $500/month to $1750/month. Oh and I had to immediately change doctors.
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger

ObamaCare made my PCP sell his practice and quit. He was 62 at the time and didn't need to put up with the bullshit.
Posted by: rickb223 at October 06, 2025 01:59 PM (JnEe

This is why I have no idea why the Dems decided to shut down the government on the basis of renewing Obamacare. Even worse than the illegal alien angle, is the fact that the ACA is unaffordable. The last thing that one would have done as a Dem is to put a spotlight on those negotiations once the gov't reopens. All the Rs need to do is to break down why the ACA didn't do what it promised to do, and there will be a revolt. The media won't be able to hide how this sausage is getting made.

Posted by: Darrell Harris - Je Suis Charlie at October 06, 2025 02:04 PM (cV1Xe)

194 It was passed under budget reconciliation, and the only thing that made it budget-positive were the mandates Obama did not have the guts to implement.

They deem it passed, Jerry! They just deem it and it's passed!

Posted by: Cosmo Kramer at October 06, 2025 02:04 PM (TbWk/)

195 If Brian Thompson deserved to be killed, it is very, very easy to argue Bezos does as well.

Interesting point - the ardor of billionaires to finance left-wing operations may cool as left-wingers increasingly call for the murder of billionaires.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at October 06, 2025 02:04 PM (xTIDn)

196 It's weird how so many "Badasses" on the right do not take the left's Bloodlust seriously...
Posted by: XTC at October 06, 2025 02:01 PM (UnA8

I can't count how many times I've heard some variation of "what are they gonna do? Come for us with their army of trannies and soyboys, hahaha?!"

Yes. That's exactly what they're going to do, and are doing practically every day already.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at October 06, 2025 02:04 PM (nnKHe)

197 Murder their fascist children and bathe in their blood" is a statement that reflects the core values of the Democrat base voter.
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Yep.
Posted by: Crusader at October 06, 2025 01:59 PM (TN0g+)

No, sorry. Since when do they bathe?

Posted by: ... at October 06, 2025 02:05 PM (o1u+L)

198 > The real problem is that the Affordable Care Act was never actually affordable.

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But it was an act.

Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at October 06, 2025 02:05 PM (1Nv0l)

199 Four days ago, due to the government shutdown. the Blue Angels cancelled their west coast airshows and returned here to Pensacola. Lack of funding, I guess.

Well, they are out at this very moment burning fuel in practicing their low show.

Is the government back open for business?

Posted by: one hour sober at October 06, 2025 02:05 PM (Y1sOo)

200 So now it's a colonoscopy thread.

So, I will endeavor to steer the conversation back to boobs.

So, about that Sydney Sweeney...

Posted by: Bulg at October 06, 2025 02:05 PM (77rzZ)

201 190 Gentile is to Jew as Gentility is to Jewtility?

* looks up definition of "Jewtility" *

I am disappoint ...

Posted by: ShainS -- The Sombrero Memes Will Continue Until Morality Improves! at October 06, 2025 02:03 PM (y8sAm)

I thought it was Gentry is to Jewry...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 06, 2025 02:05 PM (ynpvh)

202 "The Wire, though fictional, portrayed this with tremendous accuracy. And showed how this approach of "juking the stats" carried into other areas, like the public school system.
Posted by: Weirdly"

Like the recent announcement by Fulton County schools (Atlanta) that graduation rates are higher than ever, well above 90. Yay! Massive recognitions and congratulations are in order.

Yet not one in three can read or do math at an eight grade level.

Posted by: Ripley at October 06, 2025 02:05 PM (GUOwU)

203 * "insurance" is a tiny remaining part of "health insurance", hence the financial disaster it is. Oligopoly, mandates, lack of competition render "health insurance" a gross misnomer for what people can actually buy. The only remaining product that resembles insurance in this field is short term (where it is still available) and travel insurance. Insurance - the simplest business that is a key building block of modern world prosperity, but which is understood by about 7% of the population.

Posted by: rhomboid at October 06, 2025 02:05 PM (U/Byj)

204 I've said it a million times but I'll say it a again

Journalism isn't a profession. It's basic human observation broken down into useful categories like who what where when and sometimes why.

It shouldn't require anything more than having eyes and ears. Yet it has become THE Ivory tower that has been the hardest to topple.

Posted by: melodicmetal1 at October 06, 2025 02:05 PM (61TgR)

205 The real problem is that the Affordable Care Act was never actually affordable.

I pay 4X as much as I did before Obamacare to get less actual healthcare with longer wait times.

Posted by: 18-1 at October 06, 2025 02:05 PM (sKqQm)

206 And unwittingly you been programming ai to do your job.

Posted by: dreamingrobot at October 06, 2025 02:05 PM (EyfuW)

207 wow, those recent articles published by WaPo demonstrate a real change in the air.

the documentation of the progress of the First Turning

Posted by: kallisto at October 06, 2025 02:05 PM (dCxaZ)

208 200 So now it's a colonoscopy thread.

So, I will endeavor to steer the conversation back to boobs.

So, about that Sydney Sweeney...

Posted by: Bulg at October 06, 2025 02:05 PM (77rzZ)

Don't want to see here colonoscopy...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 06, 2025 02:06 PM (ynpvh)

209 Nothing screams flirty like a colostomy bag.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at October 06, 2025 02:06 PM (dR5yc)

210 ObamaCare made my PCP sell his practice and quit. He was 62 at the time and didn't need to put up with the bullshit.

A lot did. A lot had to raise prices too because they had to hire on additional staff just to handle the paperwork.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 06, 2025 02:06 PM (dfIr7)

211 I'd bet because private practice was pretty much outlawed. And the only way you could stay an equivalent doctor was to be pretty much employed under a hospital.
Posted by: Axeman

Our doc went to concierge care, where we pay him a set amount each year.

Posted by: Bulg at October 06, 2025 02:06 PM (77rzZ)

212 All the Rs need to do is to break down why the ACA didn't do what it promised to do, and there will be a revolt.

Not everything Marjorie Taylor Greene says is cogent, but she's raising the ridiculous state of healthcare on her Twitter.

Posted by: gKWVE at October 06, 2025 02:06 PM (gKWVE)

213 196 I can't count how many times I've heard some variation of "what are they gonna do? Come for us with their army of trannies and soyboys, hahaha?!"

Yes. That's exactly what they're going to do, and are doing practically every day already.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at October 06, 2025 02:04 PM (nnKHe)

Their army of trannies, soyboys, and fully-on-board Police Departments.

Posted by: XTC at October 06, 2025 02:06 PM (UnA8+)

214 We showing our colonoscopies now? WOO HOO Let me grab a bottle of wine and upload the video!

Posted by: Katie Couric at October 06, 2025 02:07 PM (sKqQm)

215 193 The media won't be able to hide how this sausage is getting made.
Posted by: Darrell Harris - Je Suis Charlie at October 06, 2025 02:04 PM (cV1Xe)

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It's the narrative they've latched onto, but I don't think it's the reason.

They have decided that fighting this is good for a news cycle. They found something to latch onto, a subsidy of welfare, as their raison d'etre in the fight.

I believe Russ Vought has already permanently cut more money to leftist groups since the start of the shutdown (roughly $2 billion permanent, with another $25 or so paused) while rumors of firings having already started have popped up over the weekend.

It's a tactical mistake to take on this fight at all. They're going to lose big. Maybe they win the narrative, but they're going to lose the actual policy fight very, very badly.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 06, 2025 02:07 PM (GBKbO)

216 And if you have a shovel, you can keep your doctor.

Posted by: dreamingrobot at October 06, 2025 02:07 PM (EyfuW)

217 209 Nothing screams flirty like a colostomy bag.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at October 06, 2025 02:06 PM (dR5yc)

Oh yeah. And the best part is there is no such think as silent with a colostomy bag, but at least, being captured, they're not deadly.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 06, 2025 02:07 PM (ynpvh)

218 205 The real problem is that the Affordable Care Act was never actually affordable.

I pay 4X as much as I did before Obamacare to get less actual healthcare with longer wait times.
Posted by: 18-1 at October 06, 2025 02:05 PM (sKqQm)

Between that and the newly minted and admitted doctors - largely a combination of DEI hires, foreigners, and know-nothings - it's becoming hard to get good medical care.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls
bleh to hominy at October 06, 2025 02:07 PM (hG7ox)

219 "Marc Fisher spent 39 years at WaPo and is one of the greatest voices and reporters our city has. Democracy Dies In Darkness and the Washington Post is turning out the lights," Segraves wrote.
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Suck my balls
Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 06, 2025 01:33 PM/i]

Their unearned high opinions of themselves is pathological.

Posted by: toby928 at October 06, 2025 02:07 PM (jDBeC)

220 Delco Today, Medcaid Insurer AmeriHealth Caritas has New Interim President, By David Bjorkgren, Published Oct. 6, 2025

Truncated -

"AmeriHealth is one of the nation’s largest Medicaid insurers. It lost members after the federal government ended pandemic-era provisions that let people stay enrolled in Medicaid even if they no longer qualified.

That change meant many insurers lost money because high-cost patients kept the coverage available to low-income people, with sicker people staying in the program.

The company had a net loss of $199 million last year, with $24.3 billion in revenue. Independence owns 61.3 percent of AmeriHealth Caritas. Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan owns the rest."

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at October 06, 2025 02:07 PM (NFX2v)

221 No one could ever have predicted that socialized medicine and insurance would be a disaster.

Posted by: ShainS -- The Sombrero Memes Will Continue Until Morality Improves! at October 06, 2025 01:57 PM (ju6Vm)
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"Except Republicans--and fuck them!"

Posted by: Axeman at October 06, 2025 02:07 PM (krQz2)

222 Jim I'm sorry for everything you've been going through. I was really bad and still have crappy days sometimes but even still had a lucky escape so far with Crohns.

Posted by: ... at October 06, 2025 02:08 PM (o1u+L)

223 The real problem is that the Affordable Care Act was never actually affordable.

It is for poor people, and on the backs of everyone else. It helps 30% or so of the population a lot and cripples the middle class.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 06, 2025 02:08 PM (dfIr7)

224 Interesting point - the ardor of billionaires to finance left-wing operations may cool as left-wingers increasingly call for the murder of billionaires.
Posted by: The ARC of History!

The billionaires' plan is to move to the Alps or NZ, and continue funding evil from over there.

Posted by: gKWVE at October 06, 2025 02:08 PM (gKWVE)

225 dammit

Posted by: toby928 at October 06, 2025 02:08 PM (jDBeC)

226 Sorry, Jeff B. has not gone far enough - he still employs Katie Shepherd, who served as Antifa's stenographer during the riots in Portland in 2020 (working for an alt-weekly), and was rewarded with a job at the Post.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at October 06, 2025 02:08 PM (xTIDn)

227 212 All the Rs need to do is to break down why the ACA didn't do what it promised to do, and there will be a revolt.

Not everything Marjorie Taylor Greene says is cogent, but she's raising the ridiculous state of healthcare on her Twitter.

Posted by: gKWVE at October 06, 2025 02:06 PM (gKWVE)

I always called it the CACA...first letter stands for Crappy.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 06, 2025 02:08 PM (ynpvh)

228 It was passed under budget reconciliation, and the only thing that made it budget-positive were the mandates Obama did not have the guts to implement.

They also had to fully federalize the student loan program and use its revenue to make the books balance, at least on paper.

Posted by: the dandy
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Do NOT forget how Osama gutted medicare for the money to make Unaffordable care revenue neutral for the first 10 years. That was cool!

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at October 06, 2025 02:08 PM (17s+e)

229 Remember that stupid Obamaganda video that convinced all the lib retards that healthcare was amazing and free in Cuba? Fucking fat ass faggot

Posted by: ... at October 06, 2025 02:09 PM (o1u+L)

230 I am a HUGE germaphobe. I don't think I could deal with having a colonoscopy bag, psychologically. I'd go mad.

Posted by: Bulg at October 06, 2025 02:09 PM (77rzZ)

231 More Chardonnay?

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at October 06, 2025 02:09 PM (YlWIZ)

232 It's a tactical mistake to take on this fight at all. They're going to lose big. Maybe they win the narrative, but they're going to lose the actual policy fight very, very badly.

The party of government spending shutting down the government over, well, nothing, is bizarre.

I suspect it is a combination of things:

1) They've always won they fights before because the Rs immediately give in and now we have TACO Trump right?

2) The people making the decision, like Schumer, would be punished by his activist base if he didn't shut it down, and unlike them HE isn't directly losing anything by shutting it down

Posted by: Katie Couric at October 06, 2025 02:09 PM (sKqQm)

233 It's weird how so many "Badasses" on the right do not take the left's Bloodlust seriously...
Posted by: XTC at October 06, 2025 02:01 PM (UnA8

I can't count how many times I've heard some variation of "what are they gonna do? Come for us with their army of trannies and soyboys, hahaha?!"

Yes. That's exactly what they're going to do, and are doing practically every day already.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice

Wake me when we can shoot them on sight.

Posted by: rickb223 at October 06, 2025 02:09 PM (JnEe8)

234 222 Jim I'm sorry for everything you've been going through. I was really bad and still have crappy days sometimes but even still had a lucky escape so far with Crohns.

Posted by: ... at October 06, 2025 02:08 PM (o1u+L)

Sorry to hear that; that disease really sucks. I know a few people that suffer from it.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 06, 2025 02:09 PM (ynpvh)

235 Lrn 2 Kode cucks.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at October 06, 2025 02:09 PM (wrRTB)

236 I do like what Hegseth is doing, and I hope he keeps up maximum pressure every day that he can - if he can create a lasting reform in the military he'll leave behind a major impediment to the reign of terror Democrats are planning to unleash the next they have a President in charge.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at October 06, 2025 02:10 PM (nnKHe)

237 WAPO - Fire all dey asses in the newsroom.

Posted by: Count de Monet at October 06, 2025 02:10 PM (wVcYX)

238 230 I am a HUGE germaphobe. I don't think I could deal with having a colonoscopy bag, psychologically. I'd go mad.
Posted by: Bulg at October 06, 2025 02:09 PM (77rzZ)

A Germanphobe?

Scheisse!

Posted by: XTC at October 06, 2025 02:10 PM (UnA8+)

239 The real problem is that the Affordable Care Act was never actually affordable.

It is for poor people, and on the backs of everyone else. It helps 30% or so of the population a lot and cripples the middle class.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 06, 2025 02:08 PM

We could have simply expand medicaid a bit and done nothing else for a fraction of the cost and complications of ObamaCare and had better results.

Posted by: toby928 at October 06, 2025 02:10 PM (jDBeC)

240 The Post is never going to actually be sane and centrist, but they cannot afford to keep all the no-work and radical crazies on the staff so they had to cut back. Reporters have a severe problem in that much of the work that they do can be very easily replaced by AI. You cannot replace interviews and chasing down stories with AI, but you can replace all the opinion and just writing stories people. And editors. Especially editors.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 06, 2025 02:11 PM (dfIr7)

241
I pay 4X as much as I did before Obamacare to get less actual healthcare with longer wait times.
Posted by: 18-1 at October 06, 2025 02:05 PM (sKqQm)

Between that and the newly minted and admitted doctors - largely a combination of DEI hires, foreigners, and know-nothings - it's becoming hard to get good medical care.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls
bleh to hominy at October 06, 2025 02:07 PM (hG7ox)

Considering they're spending more time on queer theory, critical race theory, and all that shit than ever before rather than putting students through the rigors necessary to make them the best doctors possible, it's no wonder.

Posted by: Soon it'll all be rapist Pakistanis, like England at October 06, 2025 02:11 PM (TbWk/)

242 We could have simply expand medicaid a bit and done nothing else for a fraction of the cost and complications of ObamaCare and had better results.

I suspect the idea is to get the middle class stuck on government healthcare, just like Britain, so they'll never elect someone that would actually cut government spending.

Remember people have close to infinite demands on healthcare so you can always claim you need to raise taxes for it...

Posted by: 18-1 at October 06, 2025 02:11 PM (sKqQm)

243 230 I am a HUGE germaphobe. I don't think I could deal with having a colonoscopy bag, psychologically. I'd go mad.

Posted by: Bulg at October 06, 2025 02:09 PM (77rzZ)

I use gloves when I have to empty it.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 06, 2025 02:11 PM (ynpvh)

244 Some things are better left unsaid.
Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at October 06, 2025 02:03 PM

That goes without saying.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 06, 2025 02:11 PM (ySpAZ)

245 Well, getting sleepy...I guess I should let the anesthetic finish wearing off...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 06, 2025 02:12 PM (ynpvh)

246 Their unearned high opinions of themselves is pathological.

The Newseum in DC was the ultimate expression of that.

Opened in 1997, closed in 2019.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at October 06, 2025 02:12 PM (xTIDn)

247 Anybody else remember - once the GOP controlling the House and Senate and Oval Office how they DIDN'T just put the simple eight page Defund ObamaCare bill back on the House Floor ?

Anybody else remember how what they did put back on the floor was over 100 pages ? Before Maverick finally did Failure Theatre and voted it down ? Even though he voted for the original eight page bill ?

I remember.

Posted by: Head On A Swivel at October 06, 2025 02:12 PM (1u6qW)

248 It was passed under budget reconciliation, and the only thing that made it budget-positive were the mandates Obama did not have the guts to implement.

They deem it passed, Jerry! They just deem it and it's passed!

Posted by: Cosmo Kramer

They are fighting to try and save a failure that was not even constitutionally passed. Any court worth its salt should have thrown it out based on that alone.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at October 06, 2025 02:12 PM (0U5gm)

249 WAPO - Fire all dey asses in the newsroom.

Posted by: Count de Monet at October 06, 2025 02:10 PM (wVcYX)
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I think that newsroom was mostly asses.

Posted by: Axeman at October 06, 2025 02:12 PM (krQz2)

250 The Angels cancelled their SF show (if they still had one planned)? Thought that was usually their last show of the season, but I hadn't checked their calendar.

Related, one of the redundant examples of the civic collapse in the country, without which none of this was imaginable - back in the Obamanation one year, the Miramar show was cancelled on IIRC a Wednesday (it's a 3-day show, starting on a Friday). By the Pentagon, on some ridiculous rationale (especially as all the costs by that point were "sunk").

Ruining many exhibitors and vendors, who of course had already spent all their money prepping for the event, and leaving the MWR funding (principal beneficiary of show proceeds) at Miramar in difficulty. I talked to a former senior commander just after he got the word from the base CO. Furious does not describe it. And the CO was spitting nails as well.

But from an electorate that doesn't care about the govt. making special efforts to block elderly WWII vets from visiting their monument in DC on their last opportunity - all to force through the disastrous ACA - clearly nothing was (or sadly, still is) beyond the pale.

Posted by: rhomboid at October 06, 2025 02:12 PM (U/Byj)

251 We could have simply expand medicaid a bit and done nothing else for a fraction of the cost and complications of ObamaCare and had better results.

Yeah but that wasn't the purpose of Obamacare. It was never about affordability, it was always about control, gathering information on Americans, and crippling the medical care system so that full socialized medicine was the "only solution"

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 06, 2025 02:12 PM (dfIr7)

252 Some things are better left unsaid.
Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at October 06, 2025 02:03 PM

That goes without saying.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 06, 2025 02:11 PM

I don't get it.

Posted by: toby928 at October 06, 2025 02:12 PM (jDBeC)

253 243 230 I am a HUGE germaphobe. I don't think I could deal with having a colonoscopy bag, psychologically. I'd go mad.

Posted by: Bulg at October 06, 2025 02:09 PM (77rzZ)

I use gloves when I have to empty it.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 06, 2025 02:11 PM (ynpvh)

A spigot would make it easier.

Posted by: Hang on. Little more. Almost there. at October 06, 2025 02:13 PM (TbWk/)

254 It's weird how so many "Badasses" on the right do not take the left's Bloodlust seriously...
Posted by: XTC at October 06, 2025 02:01 PM (UnA8

I can't count how many times I've heard some variation of "what are they gonna do? Come for us with their army of trannies and soyboys, hahaha?!"

Yes. That's exactly what they're going to do, and are doing practically every day already.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice
==

Yes there are a majority of democrats that are soi boys and Karens but there is a rather large-non zero amount that are serious about killing, trained, and motivated. I do not underestimate that percentage in any way and neither should anyone else.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at October 06, 2025 02:13 PM (17s+e)

255
I can't count how many times I've heard some variation of "what are they gonna do? Come for us with their army of trannies and soyboys, hahaha?!"

Yes. That's exactly what they're going to do, and are doing practically every day already.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice

But but but we have all the guns. Never mind that we will never use them. We have a bazillion guns that are never used. They have 5 guns that are used every day. Which is the stronger group?

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at October 06, 2025 02:13 PM (wrRTB)

256 It is for poor people, and on the backs of everyone else. It helps 30% or so of the population a lot and cripples the middle class.

A third of the population of Oregon and a majority of the children are on the state-run "Oregon Health Plan".

Posted by: The ARC of History! at October 06, 2025 02:13 PM (xTIDn)

257 We could have simply expand medicaid a bit and done nothing else for a fraction of the cost and complications of ObamaCare and had better results.
Posted by: toby928 at October 06, 2025 02:10 PM (jDBeC)

Stop being practical! Stop that right now! This is politics!

From the Greek word poly - meaning many. And ticks.

Posted by: Count de Monet at October 06, 2025 02:14 PM (wVcYX)

258 >I am a HUGE germaphobe.
----

how huge
like Bigfoot, or huge like the Colossus Of Rhodes

Posted by: Don Black at October 06, 2025 02:14 PM (AOsQT)

259 What the WaPo did was get rid of their Neo-Confederate insurrection propagandists. Sounds like they took their cue from President Trump who is doing actively battling the Neo- Confederate states and cities that are openly and violently engaging in nullification and insurrection.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at October 06, 2025 02:15 PM (aJQjq)

260 A third of the population of Oregon and a majority of the children are on the state-run "Oregon Health Plan".

And in 2023, they finally made illegal aliens fully eligible for OHP.

Just remember that it's a filthy lie that illegals are getting Medicaid.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at October 06, 2025 02:15 PM (xTIDn)

261
They are fighting to try and save a failure that was not even constitutionally passed. Any court worth its salt should have thrown it out based on that alone.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at October 06, 2025 02:12 PM (0U5gm)
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Somehow the 5-year sunset hasn't kicked in.

Either

1. it wasn't passed with the 5-year automatic sunset that was part of the Reconciliation Package of rules.

Or

2. DC has ignored the automatic 5-year sunset if the implementation does not actually save the budget any money.

Posted by: Axeman at October 06, 2025 02:15 PM (krQz2)

262 Yes there are a majority of democrats that are soi boys and Karens but there is a rather large-non zero amount that are serious about killing, trained, and motivated.

-----

Yeah. Every big city and federal cop are a big part of the number.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at October 06, 2025 02:15 PM (nnKHe)

263 Yes there are a majority of democrats that are soi boys and Karens but there is a rather large-non zero amount that are serious about killing, trained, and motivated. I do not underestimate that percentage in any way and neither should anyone else.
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger

There was some story, on today's Morning Report, I think that mentioned a left-wing gun group. So at least some of them are training.

Posted by: Bulg at October 06, 2025 02:15 PM (77rzZ)

264 Yes. That's exactly what they're going to do, and are doing practically every day already.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice

Nothing every happens around me. I would have to go on hunting trips.

Posted by: toby928 at October 06, 2025 02:15 PM (jDBeC)

265 >>Thought that was usually their last show of the season

Their last show of the season is always the homecoming airshow here at NAS Pensacola.

Posted by: one hour sober at October 06, 2025 02:15 PM (Y1sOo)

266 Yes there are a majority of democrats that are soi boys and Karens but there is a rather large-non zero amount that are serious about killing, trained, and motivated. I do not underestimate that percentage in any way and neither should anyone else.
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at October 06, 2025 02:13 PM (17s+e)

And has been pointed out, they have the backing of local police departments in certain cities. They can harass, mob, riot, stalk, intimidate, vandalize, burn, beat, obstruct and even kill with impunity. Defending yourself, hell, even DOCUMENTING what they're doing will get you arrested in these places.

Posted by: Through the looking glass at October 06, 2025 02:15 PM (TbWk/)

267
But but but we have all the guns. Never mind that we will never use them. We have a bazillion guns that are never used. They have 5 guns that are used every day. Which is the stronger group?

There have been a couple of times where right leaning people used fire arms in blue to purple areas and they are a mixed bag.

Rittenhouse won, though the fact it was even brought to trial is absurd, but I remember another case where a right leaning videographer was in...Portland...? and when antifa found out they mobbed him. Before the beat down could start he pulled out a hand gun and they ran. He was sentenced to jail time for brandishment...

Posted by: 18-1 at October 06, 2025 02:15 PM (sKqQm)

268 I am a HUGE germaphobe.
----

how huge
like Bigfoot, or huge like the Colossus Of Rhodes
Posted by: Don Black

Colossus of Rhodes

Posted by: Bulg at October 06, 2025 02:16 PM (77rzZ)

269 Obamacare might as well have been named the Make Insurance Executives Ricoh Beyond Their Wildest Dreams bio.

Look at stock prices of health insurance companies post Ocare. Parabolic growth. As always follow the money.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at October 06, 2025 02:16 PM (wrRTB)

270 Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 06, 2025 02:09 PM (ynpvh)

You are in my prayers.

Posted by: ... at October 06, 2025 02:17 PM (o1u+L)

271 262 Yeah. Every big city and federal cop are a big part of the number.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at October 06, 2025 02:15 PM (nnKHe)

Not to mention the National Lawyer's Guild, to make sure they never get prosecuted...

Posted by: XTC at October 06, 2025 02:17 PM (UnA8+)

272 Wasn't Obamacare ultimately just to give illegals formal healthcare?

The number of poor Americans using it was quite small IIRC...

Posted by: 18-1 at October 06, 2025 02:17 PM (sKqQm)

273
OUT: Fuck Around
IN: Find Out

Posted by: Tex Lovera at October 06, 2025 02:17 PM (wtvvX)

274 "A proud tradition of elevating sensible politicians from both parties. Gentility is the Virginia Way." Whoever wrote that probably lives in Maryland. Or the District.

Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at October 06, 2025 02:17 PM (MZ+PY)

275 Its a darn shame that these people.are.losing their jobs at a company that hasnt made money in a decade. Pity they cant just endlessly fail and get paid for it. Like the Cleveland Browns or something.

Posted by: See at October 06, 2025 02:17 PM (TLpVe)

276 I can't count how many times I've heard some variation of "what are they gonna do? Come for us with their army of trannies and soyboys, hahaha?!"

Yes. That's exactly what they're going to do, and are doing practically every day already.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice
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The only way that that has been effective is like in Portland, the public restraint of the police and the public prosecution of Auntie Fa's victims.

Posted by: Axeman at October 06, 2025 02:18 PM (krQz2)

277 "Their unearned high opinions of themselves is pathological.
Posted by: toby928"

They all think think they are Robert Redford and Dustin Hoffman in "All the President Men" At least the older ones. The newer ones are even more malicious and self-righteous and imagine they are are in 1930's Germany standing up to the Nazis.

Posted by: Ripley at October 06, 2025 02:18 PM (GUOwU)

278 Unfortunately, angry people on the right are doing stuff, like the guy who shot a couple people a few days ago "For Charlie" and someone lit a judge's house on fire in South Carolina. If that's what you want more of, you are on the wrong side. You're the bad guy.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 06, 2025 02:18 PM (dfIr7)

279 "Jones has a month to convince voters that his hateful rhetoric does not reflect how he’d behave if elected as attorney general.”
---------
Sorry, he had time to think about what he'd said after he'd been called out. He responded by going in even hotter.

Posted by: SloPitch Whiffer at October 06, 2025 02:18 PM (WiRP8)

280 FoxNews

The DEI chicago police superindent is talking.

Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 18.1% at October 06, 2025 02:18 PM (Sco7b)

281
Just remember that it's a filthy lie that illegals are getting Medicaid.

Posted by: The ARC of History

I was trying to explain that to a LIV this weekend. Illegals aren't eligible for medicaid. They go to the hospital and are treated for free, then the hospital bills medicare and medicare pays them. So, how are illegals not getting medicaid?

Posted by: Thomas Paine at October 06, 2025 02:18 PM (0U5gm)

282 257 We could have simply expand medicaid a bit and done nothing else for a fraction of the cost and complications of ObamaCare and had better results.
Posted by: toby928 at October 06, 2025 02:10 PM (jDBeC)

Stop being practical! Stop that right now! This is politics!

From the Greek word poly - meaning many. And ticks.
Posted by: Count de Monet at October 06, 2025 02:14 PM (wVcYX)

Well...yes. In theory you could accomplish this fairly easily. In reality there are too many vested interests and snouts in the trough for it to ever actually work. And if people thing single payer or "socialized medicine" will make the corporate oligarchs go away, they have another thing coming. I guaran-fucking-tee you they will still get billions from FedGov to act as the administrators for it.

Posted by: People don't think and that's a problem at October 06, 2025 02:19 PM (TbWk/)

283 Hey Man - I just do what I'm told. You know, for the pension. And the tacti-cool toys and take home cars are nice. Also, I like being able to say "I'm a cop" and instantly settle any debate amongst my lessers at any bar or family gathering.

Back the Blue.

Posted by: Every Cop During COVID - and also Recorded History at October 06, 2025 02:20 PM (1u6qW)

284 and someone lit a judge's house on fire in South Carolina

I see lefties are on this one. The generally sort of comment I see is something like, "Do we really want to be the kind of country that allows political violence?!?" and no they'll tell you murdering Kirk was just a random act of violence by some rightwing kook unlike burning down that judge's house

Posted by: 18-1 at October 06, 2025 02:20 PM (sKqQm)

285 FoxNews

The DEI chicago police superindent is talking.
Posted by: Posted by: Stateless

I'll bet it sounds like the adults on Charlie Brown:

Wah wah wahwah Wah Wah.

Posted by: rickb223 at October 06, 2025 02:20 PM (JnEe8)

286 I was trying to explain that to a LIV this weekend. Illegals aren't eligible for medicaid. They go to the hospital and are treated for free, then the hospital bills medicare and medicare pays them. So, how are illegals not getting medicaid?

And the federal government sends medicare funds to states, who then use that to give free health care to illegals. New York, California, Washington, Oregon, etc etc

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 06, 2025 02:20 PM (dfIr7)

287 They all think think they are Robert Redford and Dustin Hoffman in "All the President Men"

Posted by: Ripley at October 06, 2025 02:18 PM (GUOwU)
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But very few of them are fresh government spooks like Woodward.

Posted by: Axeman at October 06, 2025 02:20 PM (krQz2)

288 Unfortunately, angry people on the right are doing stuff, like the guy who shot a couple people a few days ago "For Charlie" and someone lit a judge's house on fire in South Carolina. If that's what you want more of, you are on the wrong side. You're the bad guy.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor
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Assumes facts not in evidence.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at October 06, 2025 02:21 PM (17s+e)

289 When did SC's license plate motto become "While I breathe, I Hope"? This seems so passive.

In Alabama we conjugate the verb Fuckoff for our motto.

Posted by: toby928 at October 06, 2025 02:21 PM (jDBeC)

290 People in Britain are proud of the National Health Service. Yet service and outcomes are awful and the wait for treatment is usually terminal. The Dems here celebrate the crap that is Obamacare. It's not about health care , it's about control

Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 06, 2025 02:21 PM (pwtJC)

291 FoxNews

The DEI chicago police superindent is talking.
Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 18.1% at October 06, 2025 02:18 PM (Sco7b)

In Charlie Brown teacher voice?

Posted by: Count de Monet at October 06, 2025 02:21 PM (wVcYX)

292 I was trying to explain that to a LIV this weekend. Illegals aren't eligible for medicaid. They go to the hospital and are treated for free, then the hospital bills medicare and medicare pays them. So, how are illegals not getting medicaid?
Posted by: Thomas Paine at October 06, 2025 02:18 PM (0U5gm)

Medicaid and Medicare are separate things.

Hospitals don’t do that though. They make everyone else pay. It’s why a visit to the ER costs $1000 to get stitches or a cast on a broken arm. It’s not really $1000. It’s $200. But you’re paying $800 to cover Jose and Maria’s visits for which they pay nothing.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at October 06, 2025 02:21 PM (wrRTB)

293 angry people on the right are doing stuff

But is it plant based?

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at October 06, 2025 02:22 PM (BLepj)

294 they'll tell you murdering Kirk was just a random act of violence by some rightwing kook unlike burning down that judge's house

Yeah. No idea who burned the judge's house, it might have been some right wing nutjob or it could just be they left a pan full of grease on the stove and forgot it. This was one of the idiot judges who tried to overrule the executive department but they always get shot down in higher courts.

Like the Oregon judge who ruled that the federal government cannot protect ICE facilities with national guard. For, you know, reasons.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 06, 2025 02:22 PM (dfIr7)

295 someone lit a judge's house on fire in South Carolina."

No report as of this AM...

Odd.

Posted by: man at October 06, 2025 02:22 PM (tubbA)

296 C Taylor: angry people on the right are doing stuff,

I heard about the former case (not the latter), and yeah, assholes exist.
One difference is that when I read stuff like that I call the guy an asshole and disavow him. I believe most of us are on that page. Last thing I want to do is go on Instagram and do a dance in his honor, like a dumb gaywad.

Posted by: gKWVE at October 06, 2025 02:23 PM (gKWVE)

297 278 Unfortunately, angry people on the right are doing stuff, like the guy who shot a couple people a few days ago "For Charlie" and someone lit a judge's house on fire in South Carolina. If that's what you want more of, you are on the wrong side. You're the bad guy.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 06, 2025 02:18 PM (dfIr7)

Haven't heard of any of this, and am immediately skeptical of the purported motive because it sounds just too much like leftist wish fulfillment.

Posted by: I'm willing to be persuaded though at October 06, 2025 02:23 PM (TbWk/)

298 and someone lit a judge's house on fire in South Carolina.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor

Do we know that someone set the fire? There was reportedly an explosion first, so it might have been a gas leak

Was the judge known for liberal opinions?

Are we sure that the fire was "set" by a "conservative?" See Gov. Shapiro's house fire in PA.

Posted by: Bulg at October 06, 2025 02:23 PM (77rzZ)

299 Hospitals don’t do that though.

I mean, yes, they do make everyone else pay but, the Big Beautiful Bill removed the reimbursement from medicare that was being paid to hospitals for illegal immigrants getting free health care. This is one of the many things that Democrats are fighting to restore and refuse to fund the government until it is.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 06, 2025 02:23 PM (dfIr7)

300 The only way that that has been effective is like in Portland, the public restraint of the police and the public prosecution of Auntie Fa's victims.
Posted by: Axeman at October 06, 2025 02:18 PM (krQz2

It was pretty damned effective at a bunch of churches, and schools, and ICE facilities, and incinerated downtown districts, and in Butler, and Orem, and on and on into the foreseeable future.

They're already in a hot war against the normies. I have it better where I live than in most places. But this violence will accelerate over the course of the next handful of years, and once the Party is back in control, the brakes will be completely gone.

Buckle up.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at October 06, 2025 02:24 PM (BI5O2)

301 someone lit a judge's house on fire in South Carolina."

No report as of this AM...

Odd.
Posted by: man at October 06, 2025 02:22 PM (tubbA)
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Last thing I heard arson is suspected.

They don't even know if it was an accident or neglect, yet.

Posted by: Axeman at October 06, 2025 02:24 PM (krQz2)

302 No report as of this AM

https://tinyurl.com/2c2xv49y

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 06, 2025 02:25 PM (dfIr7)

303 239 The real problem is that the Affordable Care Act was never actually affordable.

It is for poor people, and on the backs of everyone else. It helps 30% or so of the population a lot and cripples the middle class.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 06, 2025 02:08 PM

We could have simply expand medicaid a bit and done nothing else for a fraction of the cost and complications of ObamaCare and had better results.
Posted by: toby928 at October 06, 2025 02:10 PM (jDBeC)

Comprehensive catastrophic healthcare coverage. $5000 deductible (to encourage savings) and low monthly premiums - $100/month for everyone. Make it $50/month so that everyone kicks in. Easy peasy.

Posted by: Darrell Harris - Je Suis Charlie at October 06, 2025 02:25 PM (cV1Xe)

304 Last thing I heard arson is suspected.

They don't even know if it was an accident or neglect, yet.
Posted by: Axeman at October 06, 2025 02:24 PM

Her husband had to jump from the 2nd floor into a swamp, where he got stuck and had to be rescued.

Posted by: toby928 at October 06, 2025 02:25 PM (jDBeC)

305 Are we sure that the fire was "set" by a "conservative?" See Gov. Shapiro's house fire in PA.

Posted by: Bulg at October 06, 2025 02:23 PM (77rzZ)
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Goodstein wasn't a jew, was she?

Nah, can't be.

Posted by: Axeman at October 06, 2025 02:26 PM (krQz2)

306 As for SC, I suggest the Twenty Four Hour Rule. As the HQ (correctly) maintained for the Shapiro fire until the facts came out (that it was a Hamashole).

Posted by: gKWVE at October 06, 2025 02:26 PM (gKWVE)

307 301 someone lit a judge's house on fire in South Carolina."

No report as of this AM...

Odd.
Posted by: man at October 06, 2025 02:22 PM (tubbA)
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Last thing I heard arson is suspected.

They don't even know if it was an accident or neglect, yet.
Posted by: Axeman at October 06, 2025 02:24 PM (krQz2)

And they were insinuating that it was done by MAGA because this judge ruled against Trump...

Posted by: It's me donna at October 06, 2025 02:26 PM (VE6XX)

308 300 It was pretty damned effective at a bunch of churches, and schools, and ICE facilities, and incinerated downtown districts, and in Butler, and Orem, and on and on into the foreseeable future.

They're already in a hot war against the normies. I have it better where I live than in most places. But this violence will accelerate over the course of the next handful of years, and once the Party is back in control, the brakes will be completely gone.

Buckle up.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at October 06, 2025 02:24 PM (BI5O2)

You'd have hoped by now that there'd be a lot less hubris going on.

And yet...

"Oh, just wait until someone gives me the order!"

Nobody's going to give anyone an order.

Posted by: XTC at October 06, 2025 02:26 PM (UnA8+)

309 So it's still "under investigation"... no news, then.

Posted by: man at October 06, 2025 02:26 PM (tubbA)

310 Hospitals don’t do that though. They make everyone else pay. It’s why a visit to the ER costs $1000 to get stitches or a cast on a broken arm. It’s not really $1000. It’s $200. But you’re paying $800 to cover Jose and Maria’s visits for which they pay nothing.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at October 06, 2025 02:21 PM (wrRTB)

Sort of. They've been doing this for a LONG time, going back to the days of indemnification insurance and when Medicare paid the hospital's charges, not fixed DRGs or prospective payment. They would basically figure out what uncompensated care was costing them, price things out accordingly (and build in opportunities to make money), then send that on to the insurance companies and Medicare. That was the incentive structure for a long time until indemnity insurance disappeared and Medicare started making fixed payments.

Posted by: It's a long complicated history at October 06, 2025 02:27 PM (TbWk/)

311 DC crime is down, Covid deaths are up, Insurance is cheaper, Democrats are more popular than ever, BIDEN GOT MORE VOTES THAN ANYONE, UP IS DOWN, TRUTH IS LIES, FREEDOM IS SLAVERY WE HAVE ALWAYS BEEN AT WAR WITH EASTASIA!!!!111!!!

Posted by: Kindltot at October 06, 2025 02:27 PM (rbvCR)

312 Her husband had to jump from the 2nd floor into a swamp, where he got stuck and had to be rescued.

So there were people home at the time but there are no statements that they were attacked?

Posted by: 18-1 at October 06, 2025 02:27 PM (sKqQm)

313 What kind of an idiot works at The Washington Post?

Posted by: Estelle Costanza at October 06, 2025 02:27 PM (Hsed0)

314 Businessman and salesman extraordinaire, Jeff Bezos will only tolerate losing X million for the cause.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 06, 2025 02:28 PM (vMQ5f)

315 When did they decide the housefire was arson, and by a right winger no less. Do judges not have enemies? You sentence criminals to prison, sometimes they hold a grudge. I mean come on lets not get our shorts in a wad just yet.

Posted by: See at October 06, 2025 02:28 PM (TLpVe)

316 Goodstein wasn't a jew, was she?

Nah, can't be.
Posted by: Axeman

Hmmm. Good point.

Posted by: Bulg at October 06, 2025 02:28 PM (77rzZ)

317 Her husband had to jump from the 2nd floor into a swamp, where he got stuck and had to be rescued.
Posted by: toby928 at October 06, 2025 02:25 PM (jDBeC)

They have a swamp that close to the house?

Yeah... I'd check if there was water in the basement... could be a fire for insurance purposes that got out of hand.

Posted by: Romeo13 at October 06, 2025 02:29 PM (mP0Kj)

318 The CEO I worked for mumble years ago had his multi-million dollar home burn down. ProTip: don't let your wife move all the family heirlooms to storage the week before your house "catches fire".

IIRC, the insurance company told him that it's not insurance fraud if you don't put in a claim, so he had to eat the cost.

Posted by: toby928 at October 06, 2025 02:29 PM (jDBeC)

319 Do judges not have enemies? You sentence criminals to prison, sometimes they hold a grudge.
Posted by: See

See that judge that was offed by Woody Harrelson's father.

Posted by: Bulg at October 06, 2025 02:29 PM (77rzZ)

320 What kind of an idiot works at The Washington Post?

I think you answered your own question.

Posted by: Halfhand at October 06, 2025 02:30 PM (7adUC)

321 Speaking of the Brave New History or Health Managment:
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Viva Frei @thevivafrei

The Canadian government killed - I mean, “euthanized” - 92 people whose sole “medical condition” was “frailty”.

Understand that.

The Canadian government killed at least 92 people (because I guarantee the number is much higher) because of “frailty”.

But it’s totally hyperbolic to compare the Canadian Liberal government to Nazi-era “mercy killings”.
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Did they eat uselessly?

Posted by: Axeman at October 06, 2025 02:30 PM (krQz2)

322 Pass subsidies, don't pass subsidies - either way, me and my 11 kids are going to the emergency room and we ain't paying caca

Posted by: Jose Gomez at October 06, 2025 02:30 PM (7CamO)

323 I don’t think Bezos is a leftist. He learned as have many others like him, that if you placate the left with some money they’ll leave you alone. Spend a few $$ that he won’t even notice and the mobs leave you alone.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at October 06, 2025 02:30 PM (wrRTB)

324 What kind of an idiot works at The Washington Post?
Posted by: Estelle Costanza at October 06, 2025 02:27 PM (Hsed0)

Fat idiots, skinny idiots, idiots who climb on rocks; Tough idiots, sissy idiots; even idiots with chicken pox; Love WAPO, Bezos WAPO; the paper idiots love to read.!

Posted by: Count de Monet at October 06, 2025 02:30 PM (wVcYX)

325 Posted by: See at October 06, 2025 02:28 PM (TLpVe)

Somewhere on Taki is a David Cole aka "Stein" article where he discusses a left wing judge who got murdered, and it turned out the attacker was some jagoff who was still buttmad against a completely unpolitical personal ruling against him a decade earlier.
Moral of the story: some people are just jagoffs and politics matters less to them than personal grudges.

Posted by: gKWVE at October 06, 2025 02:30 PM (gKWVE)

326 To support Yid's point: Stephen Crowder went back to college with his "change my mind" series, the one that started all those programs and inspired Charlie Kirk. Crowder says that Charlie did it even better and went further than he ever did.

But to do so, he had to set it up at the last minute, put up bulletproof plexiglass around him, and surround himself with security. Because the reason he stopped doing these is that violence and attacks on him were ramping up, from things thrown to actual physical attacks, an arson attempt on his house, and the police busted an Eastern European guy who was hired to kill him. Among many other things.

Crowder sounds haunted and humble lately, as opposed to his previous bombastic, aggressive frat boy persona. He says that he feels partly responsible for Charlie's death because he downplayed the attacks and threats on him and his family, at the request of the police. They warned him that it might inspire copycat attacks. Tim Pool says the same thing.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 06, 2025 02:30 PM (dfIr7)

327 Her husband had to jump from the 2nd floor into a swamp, where he got stuck and had to be rescued.

Posted by: toby928 at October 06, 2025 02:25 PM (jDBeC)
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Definite sign of intention, then.

Posted by: Axeman at October 06, 2025 02:31 PM (krQz2)

328 And they were insinuating that it was done by MAGA because this judge ruled against Trump...
Posted by: It's me donna

State court judge and former state legislator in South Carolina not federal. No connection to Trump's policies whatsoever.

"Agents of the South Carolina State Law Enforcement Division (SLED) are investigating a massive house fire on Edisto Beach at a home owned by S.C. circuit court judge Diane Goodstein and her husband.

“SLED is investigating a house fire in Colleton County,” agency public information director Renée Wunderlich told FITSNews. “The investigation is active and ongoing. More information may be available as the investigation continues.”

SLED did not confirm the specific address of the incident – nor did the agency disclose the owners of the home. The agency also didn’t say whether it was investigating the incident as a suspected arson attack – although multiple sources close to Goodstein told FITSNews the judge had been receiving death threats in the weeks leading up to the fire.

“She’s had multiple death threats over the years,” a judge close to Goodstein told FITSNews."

Posted by: whig at October 06, 2025 02:31 PM (WDjG6)

329 You'd have hoped by now that there'd be a lot less hubris going on.

You're talking about a group that convinced themselves they were part of a Silent Majority. While they watched as they lost control of all parts of the Culture. All of the Governmental and Legal Bureaucracy.

The idea is baked into their mental cake.

Posted by: Head on a Swivel at October 06, 2025 02:31 PM (1u6qW)

330 Maybe we get Hawaii to pay for ACA? He's their turd that did it.

Posted by: pudinhead at October 06, 2025 02:32 PM (AdHga)

331 The main way you reduce costs for health care is not by stacking on more piles of mandates and insurance, but by you know, reducing costs.

Like Trump getting the pharma companies to lower their prices.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 06, 2025 02:32 PM (dfIr7)

332 NOOD JERSEY

Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at October 06, 2025 02:33 PM (OUMaO)

333 311, exactly.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at October 06, 2025 02:33 PM (K7MIk)

334
They play Marxist games. redefying values so crazy people won't feel guilty as they are murdering.

Posted by: dreamingrobot at October 06, 2025 02:33 PM (EyfuW)

335 The Washington Post has a front row seat for the DC crime debacle and the DJT frolics at the White House, and its coverage is hamstrung by the Dem fanatics running interference for the increasingly rag-tag Deepers.

Jeff Bezos can't make a White House visit as long as the clowns in op-ed offices and the commie troglodytes prowl the Post's hallways. Jeff is probably seething.

I bet he's bing-watching the Sombrero memes and itching for some major media impact.

Posted by: mrp at October 06, 2025 02:33 PM (rj6Yv)

336 Crowder sounds haunted and humble lately, as opposed to his previous bombastic, aggressive frat boy persona. He says that he feels partly responsible for Charlie's death because he downplayed the attacks and threats on him and his family, at the request of the police. They warned him that it might inspire copycat attacks. Tim Pool says the same thing.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 06, 2025 02:30 PM (dfIr7)
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Yeah, I saw Crowder give that message. He said that he left out all the times that he was told things like "You have to leave this campus, NOW" for the safety of him and his crew.

Because it was extraneous to the presentation of the whole purpose of Change My Mind, which was dialog.

Posted by: Axeman at October 06, 2025 02:33 PM (krQz2)

337 “She’s had multiple death threats over the years,” a judge close to Goodstein told FITSNews."
Posted by: whig at October 06, 2025 02:31 PM (WDjG6)

Never believe what the Libs say....They don't know s**t.. I should have done my research

Posted by: It's me donna at October 06, 2025 02:33 PM (VE6XX)

338 NOOD

NJ voting

CBD hardest hit

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at October 06, 2025 02:33 PM (ULPxl)

339 I didn't like Crowder when he first showed up, but he did a documentary on the state of Detroit 2010ish that was awesome.

Posted by: gKWVE at October 06, 2025 02:34 PM (gKWVE)

340 Hospitals don’t do that though. They make everyone else pay. It’s why a visit to the ER costs $1000 to get stitches or a cast on a broken arm. It’s not really $1000. It’s $200. But you’re paying $800 to cover Jose and Maria’s visits for which they pay nothing.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at October 06, 2025 02:21 PM (wrRTB)

Three years ago I had to go the the ER for a REALLY bad cough, on a Sunday. Ended up being a respiratory virus.... but I was coughing so hard I was damaging my lungs.

Saw the Doc for a total of 5 minutes after an Xray... didn't even give me any blood tests or anything even though Covid was still a thing then.

Well.... I was down sick, and the ER did not put in the insurance paperwork fast enough for TriCare to cover it... so after a LONNNGGGG fight... I ended up paying $4500 ... as I had to pay out of pocket.

TriCare would have only had to pay HALF of that... its in the damn paperwork.

Yup... scam.

Posted by: Romeo13 at October 06, 2025 02:34 PM (mP0Kj)

341 You're talking about a group that convinced themselves they were part of a Silent Majority.

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To be fair, they are. About three quarters of people, by my estimate, are more-or-less normal.

But that doesn't much matter when the Violent Minority has every powerful institution in its corner.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at October 06, 2025 02:34 PM (BI5O2)

342 Nood Jersey.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Time for the reckoning at October 06, 2025 02:34 PM (K9xEt)

343 although multiple sources close to Goodstein told FITSNews the judge had been receiving death threats in the weeks leading up to the fire.

I always take this with a grain of salt. Nearly everyone on the internet has gotten death threats, its a question of what kind and what degree. Was it some angry guy in an argument saying "someone should end you!" or was it someone sending a bullet in the mail with "I know where your kids go to school"? There's a significant difference here.

I think that when some leftist says "I got death threats from right wingers!" its the former 99% of the time

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 06, 2025 02:35 PM (dfIr7)

344 Jay Jones campaign ads have said Jason Miyares is too soft, and also have him standing beside Trump and saying he's too extreme. Covering all the bases, I guess.

They also say Winsome Sears is MAGA and supports Trump's policies. I'm thinking that's going to get her more votes than it takes away, but we'll see.

Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at October 06, 2025 02:35 PM (MZ+PY)

345 Nood Jersey.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Time for the reckoning

AHEM! /points at #332

Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at October 06, 2025 02:37 PM (OUMaO)

346 Nood Jersey.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Time for the reckoning

AHEM! /points at #332
Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at October 06, 2025 02:37 PM (OUMaO)

Unlike the Blade, I don't pride myself on... arriving early.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Time for the reckoning at October 06, 2025 02:38 PM (K9xEt)

347 I think this is true for anything- whatever they are told by their Wizard of Oz is their doctrine. If we can figure out who initiates the plan, we could have a blast hacking into this and inserting new beliefs. We can watch them all line up behind it like good little ducklings.
Posted by: Piper at October 06, 2025 02:01 PM (OoFl2)

I've always wanted to start the rumor that nose rings = slavery just to see how quick they rip them out.

Posted by: hobbitopoly at October 06, 2025 02:38 PM (k9OZB)

348 Jay Jones Political Ad. ....

(SUBTEXT I WILL MURDER YOU POLITICAL ENEMIES)

Posted by: He will win in Va at October 06, 2025 02:38 PM (TLpVe)

349 322 Pass subsidies, don't pass subsidies - either way, me and my 11 kids are going to the emergency room and we ain't paying caca
Posted by: Jose Gomez

Psst: We have our priorities in Philly and SE PA counties and white-Hispanic isn't it.

MCC's mission is to improve the health and well-being of Bucks County-based Black and Brown birthing people, infants, and their families. We know that each pregnancy and birthing journey is unique, and support can go a long way.

Posted by: Board of Health witches at October 06, 2025 02:39 PM (NFX2v)

350 It is the end of days:

Rush Sets Reunion Tour for 2026

Posted by: Don Black at October 06, 2025 02:40 PM (AOsQT)

351
Visual Artists (comic artists, fantasy artists, etc...) were probably the people most enamored with Obamacare.

They thought it was finally going to allow them to do Freelance art full time and not have to work for a company.

Posted by: XTC

I don't care who you are. ..^^^^that^^^^ right there is the funneh.

Learn to code unfunny lefty comics.

Posted by: BifBewalski at October 06, 2025 02:40 PM (gY6qb)

352 Never believe what the Libs say....They don't know s**t.. I should have done my research
Posted by: It's me donna
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NY Post has origins of the bullshit story. Dan Goldman, of Russia Russia fame is who blamed Trump etc. and Stephen Miller shoved it up Goldman's tuckus.

Posted by: whig at October 06, 2025 02:47 PM (WDjG6)

353 After 40 years on the job I'm sure his opinions are well purchased....er known.

Posted by: Oldcat at October 06, 2025 02:48 PM (8avO+)

354 I went to a comic-con before Obamacare was passed, and one of the comic artists on a panel was singing its praises and how affordable his medical care for his family would be after it passed. He was a regular working class artist with a family to take care of.

I knew his premiums were going to go up, I knew the ACA rests on his back as a middle class average joe. I wonder what his premiums are like now vs then.
Posted by: LizLem at October 06, 2025 01:40 PM (gWBY1)

It can't NOT work that way. Poor don't have money to tax away. Rich have means to legally or illegally evade taxes if they are too much. Only the middle of the bell curve has enough money to take a chunk out and the numbers to add up.

Posted by: Oldcat at October 06, 2025 02:52 PM (8avO+)

355 C Taylor: angry people on the right are doing stuff,

I heard about the former case (not the latter), and yeah, assholes exist.
One difference is that when I read stuff like that I call the guy an asshole and disavow him. I believe most of us are on that page. Last thing I want to do is go on Instagram and do a dance in his honor, like a dumb gaywad.
Posted by: gKWVE at October 06, 2025 02:23 PM (gKWVE)

If anyone significant on the right was doing it, it would be on every cable news show instead of bullshit lies about the actual killers being right wing.

Posted by: Oldcat at October 06, 2025 03:00 PM (8avO+)

356 Aliens!

Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS Shows "Extreme Negative Polarization". What Does That Mean?
According to the team the polarimetric behavior is "significantly different from all known comets (either interstellar or bound to our Solar System)".

IFLScience

Posted by: Mister Ghost at October 06, 2025 03:04 PM (TGPs7)

357 “Democracy Dies In Darkness!” is the gayest slogan

Posted by: Dead Howard S at October 06, 2025 03:24 PM (YZhRl)

358 An interesting discussion is worth comment.

I think that you need to write more on this issue, it may not be a taboo subject but generally
people do not speak about such subjects. To the next!
Kind regards!!

Posted by: where is the ryman auditorium at October 06, 2025 05:39 PM (yx9xx)

359 Violent Felons should never be allowed to ever see the Light of Day

Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at October 06, 2025 05:47 PM (wGqjj)

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