Deranged Democrat-Antifa-Media Party Terrorist Attempts to Blow Up Mass Where Supreme Court Justices Were Gathered

Trump's been racking up wins at the Supreme Court recently.

President Donald Trump has an almost flawless record on the Supreme Court's emergency docket this year, a streak that has delivered crucial moments of relief to the government as it fights hundreds of lawsuits challenging the president's agenda.
The Supreme Court has ruled in Trump's favor on government cuts, nationwide injunctions, immigration policies and more, leading the White House to tout what it recently counted as 21 victories before the high court.
Those victories are, however, temporary. The upcoming term, which begins Monday, will allow the justices to begin weighing the full merits of some of these court disputes and ultimately cement or undo key parts of the Trump agenda.
Jonathan Adler, a William & Mary Law School professor, attributed the interim wins to the Supreme Court's desire to narrow the judicial branch's role in policymaking.
Speaking during a Federalist Society panel this week, Adler said the high court's thinking might be that "lower courts are doing too much. We're going to scale that back because it's not our place, and it's for the executive branch and the legislative branch to figure that out."
The Trump administration has only challenged about one-fifth of the adverse rulings it has received from the lower courts. Adler said Solicitor General John Sauer, who represents the government, is strategically selecting which cases to bring to the high court.
"If you go through them, setting Humphrey's Executor stuff slightly to the side, what they all have in common is that there's a kind of clear argument that ... district courts were a little too aggressive here," Adler said.

The Humprey's Executor cases are about whether bureaucrats have some property interest in employment by the government so that the president cannot fire them. Which seems plainly unconstitutional, as the Constitution says "The Executive Power shall be invested in a President." All of the executive power. Is invested in a president. And thus the president has plenary power over the Executive.

Supposed "Good Government" liberals attempted to limit the president's control over the executive branch on the absurd theory that left-wing partisan bureaucrats are "non-partisan," and hence we should give bureaucrats unconstitutional power and unconstitutionally strip power from the president. Of course, these left-wing bureaucrats are not only hyper-partisan actors but are unelected and unaccountable -- unlike the president -- and, thanks to "good government reforms," can't even be made accountable through firing or discipline.

So that's the situation.

And so a Democrat-Antifa-Media aligned terrorist tried to blow up the traditional "Red Mass" before the start of the Supreme Court term, where justices (presumably right-leaning) would be in attendance.

Scott Thuman
@ScottThuman
ATTACK AVOIDED AT CATHEDRAL? DC police say they found 200 devices and a smell of acetone emitting from some of the vials, in a tent a New Jersey man allegedly set up on the steps of St. Matthew's Cathedral just hours before the annual Red Mass. Louis Geri, 41, has been arrested. He allegedly said the devices were going to be used as "grenades and explosives". The 'Red Mass' is before the start of the Supreme Court's term and brings together justices, judges, attorneys & government officials.

CNN stresses that no Justices were actually present, hoping to downplay the left's latest terror attack:

(CNN) -- Police arrested and charged a man with possession of explosives Sunday outside a Washington, DC, church where an annual Mass to mark the start of the Supreme Court term was set to take place hours later.
The so-called Red Mass is held each year to "invoke God's blessings on those responsible for the administration of justice," according to St. Matthew's Cathedral. A spokesperson for the Supreme Court told CNN that no justices were in attendance on Sunday, though members of the high court have previously gone to the mass. The Supreme Court's new term begins on Monday.

Laszlo Varga
@LaszloRealtor
BREAKING: Shocking arrest outside DC's St. Matthew's Cathedral this morning--NJ man Louis Geri, 41, nabbed with a Molotov cocktail, fireworks, and vials of flammable liquid in a tent on the church steps, just before the 73rd Red Mass kicked off for SCOTUS justices and top officials.
Joint FBI-ATF task force on scene; no ongoing threat, but was he plotting disruption? Stay safe, DC.

Writings found on the Democrat-Antifa Terrorist showed he was a card-carrying member of the atheist terrorist left.

A man was arrested early Sunday morning outside St. Matthew's Cathedral in NW Washington, D.C. after officers say they found a cache of over 200 homemade explosive devices in a tent on the church's front steps, along with writings opposed to the Catholic Church, the Jewish faith, the Supreme Court, and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
Court documents released today indicated that Metropolitan Police Department officers encountered the man, later identified by police as Louis Geri of New Jersey, while clearing the block ahead of the annual Red Mass service, which draws members of the legal community and was expected to be attended by some justices of the Supreme Court, officials said.
Early on Sunday morning, officers told him Geri he would have to move a tent and his belongings, but he refused and warned, "You might want to stay back and call the federales. I have explosives/bombs," according to police accounts.
"...several of your people are gonna to die from one of these"
Police said a sergeant from the bomb squad spoke with Geri and told him he needed to leave because of the Red Mass. Geri acknowledged the event and, officers say, began making threats and describing the devices. "Do you want me to throw one out, I'll test one out in the street? I have a hundred plus of them. If you just step back, I'll throw one in the street, no one will get hurt, there will be a hole in the street...if you just step back, I'll take out that tree," he told officers, according to the police statement.
When told he would be removed, Geri said, "...several of your people are gonna to die from one of these," police said.
Officers reported that Geri was holding a butane lighter and a small white-capped object, and that he had written documents in his tent titled "Written Negotiations for the Avoidance of Destruction of Property via Detonation of Explosives." He later confirmed that he had written the documents and that he had an "explosive background," police said. At one point, investigators said, Geri positioned his thumb over the lighter and threatened to ignite a device; officers retreated and sought to regroup.

He also had a house full of bombs.

The individual arrested for a bomb threat at a Washington, DC, church was carrying an arsenal of explosive devices on his person, according to police.
The Washington Post reported on Tuesday that Louis Geri, who was apprehended outside of St. Matthew's Cathedral before an event, had over 200 handmade bombs in his home, including bottle rockets and Molotov cocktails.

I know bottle rockets aren't a big deal but you can take the gunpowder from each and combine them to make a lethal bomb.

When he was arrested, police found a Molotov cocktail in his possession.

A man had more than 200 handmade destructive devices -- including bottle rockets and molotov cocktails -- in a tent on the steps of a D.C. cathedral where Supreme Court justices were expected to attend Mass on Sunday, court records show. During his arrest, Louis Geri threatened to ignite explosives and handed authorities pages of his notebook that, according to court records, expressed animosity toward the Catholic Church, Supreme Court justices, members of the Jewish faith and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
D.C. police first approached Geri inside a green tent posted on the top of the stairs leading to St. Matthew's Cathedral as they cleared the block for Red Mass -- an annual religious service marking the start of a new Supreme Court term and honoring the judiciary.
But records filed in D.C. Superior Court on Monday show that when officers asked Geri to leave, he told them, "You might want to stay back and call the federales, I have explosives." An attorney for Geri did not immediately respond to a request for comment Monday.

While the left-wing Terrorist Media buries this story, they eagerly promoted the, get this, left-wing H O A X story about a left-wing judge having her house burned down.

In fact, there was no arson. It was a spontaneous accidental fire.

Prominent Democrats pushed a lie blaming the Trump admin for a fire at a Judge’s house.

The truth: "The South Carolina Law Enforcement Division says the investigation into a massive house fire has found NO EVIDENCE OF ARSON."

Any shame @mehdirhasan @danielsgoldman… pic.twitter.com/PxDtOGEgmv
— Robby Starbuck (@robbystarbuck) October 7, 2025

MSNBC's Nicolle Wallace and Mary McCord tried to blame Trump for the fire at the house of the South Carolina judge.

In a proper society these people would be taken off the air. pic.twitter.com/yK8X6vSttX
— MAZE (@mazemoore) October 7, 2025

Officer Lew
@officer_Lew
5h
BREAKING🚨: This morning, MSNBC is grappling with widespread demands to dismiss liberal commentator Nicolle Wallace after she attempted to pin a South Carolina judge's house fire--officially cleared as non-arson by authorities--on the Trump administration, risking a potential defamation lawsuit.

Posted by: Ace at 03:26 PM

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1 1st

Posted by: GF at October 07, 2025 03:27 PM (bOvra)

2 2nd?

Posted by: Mike D'Hammer, etc., etc. at October 07, 2025 03:27 PM (XeU6L)

3 Another Mostly Peaceful Bombing

Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 07, 2025 03:28 PM (iFTx/)

4 Oh, I don't know, the guy sounds like he is mostly peaceful.

Posted by: Mike D'Hammer, etc., etc. at October 07, 2025 03:28 PM (XeU6L)

5 Eric - [fist bump]

Posted by: Mike D'Hammer, etc., etc. at October 07, 2025 03:29 PM (XeU6L)

6 "Quick! Someone find a connection to a loving family to this guy! That will make him a right wing MAGA type!"

-Journalists right now.

Posted by: NR Pax at October 07, 2025 03:29 PM (RjOoY)

7 Wallace is as dumb as a box of rocks.. Apologies to the rocks...

Posted by: It's me donna at October 07, 2025 03:29 PM (VE6XX)

8 Posted by: Mike D'Hammer, etc., etc. at October 07, 2025 03:27

You almost made it to Elric's spot. When you do, you can say "First with the hammer" 🙂

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 07, 2025 03:30 PM (Nx5jP)

9 Mostly peaceful incendiary devices.

Posted by: Squid at October 07, 2025 03:30 PM (ouErq)

10 What its all about!

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at October 07, 2025 03:30 PM (YlWIZ)

11 Yeah, but his mom once liked a tweet by Trump before he entered politics.

So he must be MAGA.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 07, 2025 03:31 PM (GBKbO)

12
If they fire Nicolle Wallace for gross lying and legally actionable slander, I guess I'll have to catch her on her upcoming YouTube channel where that sort of thing is encouraged.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 07, 2025 03:31 PM (XQ8QH)

13 A mostly peaceful attempted assassination.

He deserves a mostly peaceful death sentence.

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 07, 2025 03:31 PM (w6y5s)

14 Just why was Humphrey executed, anyway?

Posted by: Bulg at October 07, 2025 03:32 PM (77rzZ)

15
My infrequent bouts of diarrhea have an "explosive background", too.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at October 07, 2025 03:32 PM (xG4kz)

16 Lone wolf.

Posted by: Yeah, sure at October 07, 2025 03:32 PM (vFG9F)

17 I bet this story gets less traction then the rando judge whose house burned down where they are already saying it wasn't arson...

Posted by: 18-1 at October 07, 2025 03:33 PM (sKqQm)

18 Yeah, but his mom once liked a tweet by Trump before he entered politics.

So he must be MAGA.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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Maybe she was even a church-going Christian. Guy inherited Christian Nationalist genes! It's THEIR fault!

Posted by: Mike D'Hammer, etc., etc. at October 07, 2025 03:33 PM (XeU6L)

19 Oh, those calm and rational terrorist Atheists.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 07, 2025 03:33 PM (Nx5jP)

20 these people are all nuts

Posted by: Black Orchid at October 07, 2025 03:33 PM (emBoF)

21 18 Yeah, but his mom once liked a tweet by Trump before he entered politics.

So he must be MAGA.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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Maybe she was even a church-going Christian. Guy inherited Christian Nationalist genes! It's THEIR fault!
Posted by: Mike D'Hammer, etc., etc. at October 07, 2025 03:33 PM (XeU6L)

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"His grandmother was married in a church! He's MAGA!"

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 07, 2025 03:33 PM (GBKbO)

22 How about loser pays in court.

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at October 07, 2025 03:33 PM (YlWIZ)

23 Let me guess...fire bombing a church is mostly peaceful yet fiery protest?

Posted by: 18-1 at October 07, 2025 03:33 PM (sKqQm)

24 17 I bet this story gets less traction then the rando judge whose house burned down where they are already saying it wasn't arson...
Posted by: 18-1 at October 07, 2025 03:33 PM (sKqQm)

And you'd be right...

Posted by: It's me donna at October 07, 2025 03:34 PM (VE6XX)

25 When is CNN going to go broke paying off defamation lawsuits?

Posted by: Joe Mama at October 07, 2025 03:34 PM (2sMLA)

26 MSNBC could save a lot of money by replacing Nicole with an AI look-a-like.

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 07, 2025 03:34 PM (w6y5s)

27 No big deal, people often show up for mass with all sorts of explosives, molotov cocktails and other various incendiary devices. Happens everyday.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at October 07, 2025 03:34 PM (0N4FZ)

28 Willowed:

I always grinds me gears when a headline contains the word "scientists." OK, tell me specifically what kind of scientists.

And sometimes the story isn't even about science per se.

"Scientists discover lost Mayan city in the Guatemalan jungle."

You mean "archaeologists?" Archaeology isn't science. Now, it's a very demanding, useful, and fascinating field, but it's not science, anymore than history is.
Posted by: Bulg

Posted by: Bulg at October 07, 2025 03:34 PM (77rzZ)

29 "was he plotting disruption?"

Naw. Just some fireworks.

Posted by: Yeah, sure at October 07, 2025 03:34 PM (vFG9F)

30 Posted by: Mike D'Hammer, etc., etc. at October 07, 2025 03:27

You almost made it to Elric's spot. When you do, you can say "First with the hammer" 🙂
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 07, 2025 03:30 PM (Nx5jP)
________

[Golf clap]

Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 07, 2025 03:34 PM (iFTx/)

31 A lot of this is just them trying to avoid the polling after their public jacking off following the murder of Charlie Kirk.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at October 07, 2025 03:35 PM (zZu0s)

32 Black Orchid

Using Jay Jones as a yardstick, evil nuts.

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 07, 2025 03:35 PM (w6y5s)

33 Louis Geri ... pages of his notebook that, according to court records, expressed animosity toward the Catholic Church, Supreme Court justices, members of the Jewish faith

As believers in Judaism, or just against assholes like Greenblatt and Schumer? The distinction is important. It's like if someone says "he said terrible things about women!!" and you find he just called Nancy Pelosi a thief or something.

Posted by: gKWVE at October 07, 2025 03:35 PM (gKWVE)

34 "Victories" at SCOTUS are nice and all, I guess in a short-term practical sense, so to be welcomed.

Would be much more meaningful if the entire false framework of "doctrines" and other court-fabricated pseudo-law were flushed. Looking at the current legal cult (which in this key sense includes 99% of "conservative" legal types), and the pipeline of dumbed-down authoritarians coming out of law schools .... prospects do not seem good.

Posted by: rhomboid at October 07, 2025 03:35 PM (U/Byj)

35 Ace is sounding like he doesn't think it's both sides equally.

That's just mean.

Posted by: Axeman at October 07, 2025 03:36 PM (krQz2)

36 So is Chuck Schumers' burger finally cooked?

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 07, 2025 03:36 PM (w6y5s)

37 The Humprey's Executor cases are about whether bureaucrats have some property interest in employment by the government so that the president cannot fire them.
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Sounds a lot like the flagrantly unconstitutional Tenure of Office Act, that got Andrew Johnson impeached.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at October 07, 2025 03:36 PM (WvZaB)

38 37 The Humprey's Executor cases are about whether bureaucrats have some property interest in employment by the government so that the president cannot fire them.
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Sounds a lot like the flagrantly unconstitutional Tenure of Office Act, that got Andrew Johnson impeached.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at October 07, 2025 03:36 PM (WvZaB)

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Which was then overturned by SCOTUS a couple of years after Johnson's impeachment, which is hilarious.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 07, 2025 03:37 PM (GBKbO)

39 MOVE ALONG, NOTHING TO SEE HERE

/MSM

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at October 07, 2025 03:37 PM (zjgNU)

40 Searching I find a Louis Geri from AZ who sued a motorcycle company in 2021 and was then arrested in 2022.

Posted by: 18-1 at October 07, 2025 03:38 PM (sKqQm)

41 No big deal, people often show up for mass with all sorts of explosives, molotov cocktails and other various incendiary devices. Happens everyday.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at October 07, 2025 03:34 PM (0N4FZ)
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Fridays at the local mosque.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 07, 2025 03:38 PM (IBQGV)

42 Guy puts up a tent on the steps well before event and tells cops he has bombs..this world class professionalism can only point at Mossad

Posted by: Azjaeger at October 07, 2025 03:38 PM (+AVru)

43 Frank Drebin > MSNBC.

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 07, 2025 03:38 PM (w6y5s)

44 Democrat-Antifa-Media Party Terrorist

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BYRY (But You Repeat Yourself) Quattro.

AKA The Satanic Nihilistic Marxist Islamacist Assassination Culture Death Cult.

Imma gonna need a bigger thesaurus ...

Posted by: ShainS -- The Sombrero Memes Will Continue Until Morality Improves! at October 07, 2025 03:39 PM (g6m68)

45 Ace, the word is vested.

It's actually a stronger word than "invested".

Posted by: Axeman at October 07, 2025 03:39 PM (krQz2)

46 Apparently the Germans are mulling increasing the retirement age - to try and save the pension system. This, after an insane and disastrous policy of importing masses of unsuitable migrants - who of course had inter alia the virtue of likely saving the pension system by bulking up the number of active workers.

Chef's kiss, really. Couldn't make up better stuff.

Posted by: rhomboid at October 07, 2025 03:39 PM (U/Byj)

47 If it was Friday at the local mosque, all of that stuff would be inside.

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 07, 2025 03:39 PM (w6y5s)

48 Apparently the Germans are mulling increasing the retirement age - to try and save the pension system. This, after an insane and disastrous policy of importing masses of unsuitable migrants - who of course had inter alia the virtue of likely saving the pension system by bulking up the number of active workers.

I went to Germany a while back and the streets are full of women in hijabs and burkas pushing baby carriages...

Posted by: 18-1 at October 07, 2025 03:40 PM (sKqQm)

49 I’m taking notes guys
- Jay Jones

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at October 07, 2025 03:40 PM (wrRTB)

50 it's not science, anymore than history is.
Posted by: Bulg

*GLARE*

Posted by: Miklos, Political Science major at October 07, 2025 03:40 PM (YGmAl)

51 The obvious solution to a 6-3 court is to have Trump appoint 9 replacements galvanized by a Dem plot.

Smart move there.

Posted by: Oldcat at October 07, 2025 03:41 PM (8avO+)

52 I'm trying to find out what this fucknugget looks like. Or do I even need to bother? I'm 90% sure what he looks like.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 07, 2025 03:41 PM (iFTx/)

53 I went to Germany a while back and the streets are full of women in hijabs and burkas pushing baby carriages...
Posted by: 18-1 at October 07, 2025 03:40 PM (sKqQm)

Future Jihad "The Syrian"(s)?

Posted by: Thrawn at October 07, 2025 03:41 PM (9Ovst)

54 Vested?

They have to wear vests now?

That Trump!

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 07, 2025 03:41 PM (w6y5s)

55 51 The obvious solution to a 6-3 court is to have Trump appoint 9 replacements galvanized by a Dem plot.

I suppose the idea is the Left would all rally to stop any appointments that were to the right of Stalin

Posted by: Black Orchid at October 07, 2025 03:42 PM (emBoF)

56 Supposed "Good Government" liberals attempted to limit the president's control over the executive branch on the absurd theory that left-wing partisan bureaucrats are "non-partisan," and hence we should give bureaucrats unconstitutional power and unconstitutionally strip power from the president.
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"It's what the founders would have wanted, if they had foreseen Trump."

Posted by: Axeman at October 07, 2025 03:42 PM (krQz2)

57 Humphrey is a such a comical name. No real person has that as a given name.

Posted by: mishdog at October 07, 2025 03:42 PM (znpJ8)

58 Humphrey would be a good cat name

Posted by: Black Orchid at October 07, 2025 03:43 PM (emBoF)

59 They have to wear vests now?

That Trump!
Posted by: Anna Puma

If I have to trade an orange robe for an orange vest, fine.

But there's no way I'm giving up my orange fez.

Posted by: Bulg at October 07, 2025 03:43 PM (77rzZ)

60 36 So is Chuck Schumers' burger finally cooked?
-Anna Puma.

LOL. I hope so!

Posted by: NancyB at October 07, 2025 03:43 PM (BV6iw)

61 Humphrey Bogart, "I'm looking at you kid."

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 07, 2025 03:43 PM (w6y5s)

62 The White House reveals the Dems' to do list.

https://is.gd/3AoPgD

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Going For the Brass Ring! at October 07, 2025 03:44 PM (L/fGl)

63 https://www.google.com/search?nord=1&q=Vested
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vest·ed
/ˈvestəd/
adjective
1.
secured in the possession of or assigned to a person.

Posted by: Axeman at October 07, 2025 03:44 PM (krQz2)

64 56 Supposed "Good Government" liberals attempted to limit the president's control over the executive branch on the absurd theory that left-wing partisan bureaucrats are "non-partisan," and hence we should give bureaucrats unconstitutional power and unconstitutionally strip power from the president.
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"It's what the founders would have wanted, if they had foreseen Trump."
Posted by: Axeman at October 07, 2025 03:42 PM (krQz2)

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Rutherford B. Hayes is America's greatest monster of a president for getting the civil service ball rolling.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 07, 2025 03:44 PM (GBKbO)

65 So they have to wear vests but uh, no rule about pants right?

Posted by: Jeffrey Toobin at October 07, 2025 03:44 PM (sKqQm)

66 Imma gonna need a bigger thesaurus ...

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Should have thrown in "Anarcho-Terroristic."

Posted by: ShainS -- The Sombrero Memes Will Continue Until Morality Improves! at October 07, 2025 03:44 PM (RougF)

67 57 Humphrey is a such a comical name. No real person has that as a given name.
Posted by: mishdog at October 07, 2025 03:42 PM (znpJ

*Shock G has entered the chat, wearing fake glasses and nose costume*

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at October 07, 2025 03:44 PM (xcxpd)

68 Democrat AG Candidate Appears To Have Violated Judge’s Terms For Reckless Driving Charge

Democrat Virginia Attorney General candidate Jay Jones appears to have violated the community service terms for his 2022 reckless driving charge, according to a statement the office that prosecuted the case provided to the Daily Caller. Jones was arrested in New Kent County for driving 46 miles per hour over the speed limit in 2022. He avoided jail time through a “deferred deposition,” which allowed him to pay a fine and complete community service hours.

Posted by: SMOD at October 07, 2025 03:44 PM (RHGPo)

69 I put in Louis Geri and image and this is what the search gave me:

https://tinyurl.com/bdzjfj3e

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 07, 2025 03:44 PM (lQ+/f)

70 Sounds a lot like the flagrantly unconstitutional Tenure of Office Act, that got Andrew Johnson impeached.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at October 07, 2025 03:36 PM (WvZaB)

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Which was then overturned by SCOTUS a couple of years after Johnson's impeachment, which is hilarious.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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It was in Myers v. US. Myers was protected by a similar Tenure in Office Act that applied to postmasters of a certain size city and larger. He was postmaster in Portland, I think, and was discharged for inefficiency under President Wilson. Case finally got up the Scotus and unfortunately for Myers, the Chief Justice was former president William Howard Taft. Taft eviscerated Myer's claims and even Humphreys, a few years later, only qualified the Myers precedent. Myers got it right, Humphreys and the later Weiner v. US got it wrong. The latter two set up a complicated analysis of whether the position was predominatedly legislative or judicial rather than political or managerial framework. Unworkable so no one much got fired.

Posted by: whig at October 07, 2025 03:45 PM (WDjG6)

71 Humphrey Bogart, "I'm looking at you kid."
Posted by: Anna Puma

"Here's looking at you, kid."

Posted by: Bulg at October 07, 2025 03:45 PM (77rzZ)

72 62 The White House reveals the Dems' to do list.

https://is.gd/3AoPgD
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Going For the Brass Ring! at October 07, 2025 03:44 PM (L/fGl)

I'm assuming 'underaged kids' is one of the items

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at October 07, 2025 03:45 PM (xcxpd)

73 Well this is weird. Greta Thunberg posted a piece decrying the suffering of poor "Palestinians," but one of the pictures she used is that of Hamas hostage Evyatar David.

https://tinyurl.com/46bhx5c7

Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at October 07, 2025 03:45 PM (paSBy)

74 >>> CNN stresses that no Justices were actually present, hoping to downplay the left's latest terror attack:

They did this at the 1983 capitol bombing too, since the senate wasn't in session. They had recessed early. But no mistake, the bombs were intended to hurt senators and staff.

Then the FBI "botched" evidence letting Ayers off scott free, allegedly. And his wife and others that were convicted were quietly pardoned by Clinton later.

They want the right dead, and the narrative doesn't matter.

Posted by: LizLem at October 07, 2025 03:46 PM (IY9wB)

75 Rutherford B. Hayes is America's greatest monster of a president for getting the civil service ball rolling.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

Erm, it was Chester Arthur after Garfield got assassinated. Used the scandal to push through the Pendleton Act of 1883 aka Civil Service Act due to Guiteau's office seeking being blamed for the assassination.

Posted by: whig at October 07, 2025 03:46 PM (WDjG6)

76 What a great service to the community. Jones works for his own PAC/s

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 07, 2025 03:46 PM (lQ+/f)

77 46 Apparently the Germans are mulling increasing the retirement age - to try and save the pension system. This, after an insane and disastrous policy of importing masses of unsuitable migrants - who of course had inter alia the virtue of likely saving the pension system by bulking up the number of active workers.

Chef's kiss, really. Couldn't make up better stuff.

Posted by: rhomboid at October 07, 2025 03:39 PM (U/Byj)

I saw that too. The marginal benefit of Gett Ng someone to work into their 70s has to be very small. My dad had to retire at 66 because of a heart attack, and he just updated mapping software for a power company. How many 70 y ar olds can still make a decent amount of money? And don't get me started on Walmart greeters. Apparently when Walmart had those at their German stores, it made German shoppers uncomfortable...

Posted by: mishdog at October 07, 2025 03:46 PM (znpJ8)

78 75 Rutherford B. Hayes is America's greatest monster of a president for getting the civil service ball rolling.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

Erm, it was Chester Arthur after Garfield got assassinated. Used the scandal to push through the Pendleton Act of 1883 aka Civil Service Act due to Guiteau's office seeking being blamed for the assassination.
Posted by: whig at October 07, 2025 03:46 PM (WDjG6)

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I know Hayes didn't get anything passed, but Hayes pushed hard for it. He was the godfather of the effort in the presidency.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 07, 2025 03:47 PM (GBKbO)

79 He was hump-free? Poor guy.

Posted by: Bulg at October 07, 2025 03:47 PM (77rzZ)

80 Humphrey Bogart, "I'm looking at you kid."
Posted by: Anna Puma

Jay Jones: "I'm looking at your kid."

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Going For the Brass Ring! at October 07, 2025 03:47 PM (L/fGl)

81 The Commissar Judge will let them off with just a few years.

Posted by: Skip at October 07, 2025 03:47 PM (+qU29)

82 What's this "told him he needed to leave" bullshit. You send the bomb squad and they tell him to take his bombs and go somewhere else?

Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at October 07, 2025 03:47 PM (MZ+PY)

83 Apparently when Walmart had those at their German stores, it made German shoppers uncomfortable...
Posted by: mishdog at October 07, 2025 03:46 PM (znpJ

Well that's because some of them enjoyed wearing their old armbands.

Posted by: Tom Servo at October 07, 2025 03:48 PM (uWKK8)

84 You mean "archaeologists?" Archaeology isn't science. Now, it's a very demanding, useful, and fascinating field, but it's not science, anymore than history is.
Posted by: Bulg
Posted by: Bulg at October 07, 2025 03:34 PM (77rzZ)

I would expect that "Sub-nucleonic Particle Physicists Discover Ancient Mayan City" would be a mind-bending article.

Posted by: Kindltot at October 07, 2025 03:48 PM (rbvCR)

85 Rutherford B. Hayes is America's greatest monster of a president for getting the civil service ball rolling.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 07, 2025 03:44 PM (GBKbO)

Having the president in a secession crisis have to appoint every mailman in the country was no picnic either.

Posted by: Oldcat at October 07, 2025 03:48 PM (8avO+)

86 Bulg, you are far too literal.

I was playing on Bogart's phrase in response to the comment that Humphrey is a silly name.

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 07, 2025 03:49 PM (w6y5s)

87 Like I said yesterday, if as that Fox article claims, now the real backseat driving discussion begins, it's clear that you always have to watch out for the hungry, hungry judges.

Posted by: Axeman at October 07, 2025 03:49 PM (krQz2)

88 Apparently when Walmart had those at their German stores, it made German shoppers uncomfortable...
Posted by: mishdog at October 07, 2025 03:46 PM (znpJ

Well that's because some of them enjoyed wearing their old armbands.
Posted by: Tom Servo

The black leather trenchcoats were a poor choice of work attire.

Posted by: Miklos, presenting papers at October 07, 2025 03:49 PM (YGmAl)

89 I would expect that "Sub-nucleonic Particle Physicists Discover Ancient Mayan City" would be a mind-bending article.
Posted by: Kindltot at October 07, 2025 03:48 PM (rbvCR)

They actually do have 'ground penetrating radar' that can
spot ruins underground from aircraft.

Posted by: Oldcat at October 07, 2025 03:49 PM (8avO+)

90 The husband of the judge was trying to fry a turkey in his kitchen. Give his wife a nice surprise when she got home from her walk.

Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at October 07, 2025 03:49 PM (gDhA9)

91 I was playing on Bogart's phrase in response to the comment that Humphrey is a silly name.
Posted by: Anna Puma

Oh, OK. Sorry.

Posted by: Bulg at October 07, 2025 03:50 PM (77rzZ)

92 85 Having the president in a secession crisis have to appoint every mailman in the country was no picnic either.
Posted by: Oldcat at October 07, 2025 03:48 PM (8avO+)

======

There was only about 10% turnover in the spoils system.

Every post wasn't uprooted and replaced. Most postmasters were just left alone. It was the key posts, like NYC, where turnover was prevalent.

That 10% was better than the less than .1% turnover since.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 07, 2025 03:50 PM (GBKbO)

93 CNN says "so-called Red Mass."

It is the Red Mass.

That's all you need to know about CNN.

Posted by: tcn, Pickle Queen of AK at October 07, 2025 03:50 PM (urtE/)

94 Archaeology isn't science. Now, it's a very demanding, useful, and fascinating field, but it's not science, anymore than history is.

Posted by: Bulg at October 07, 2025 03:34 PM (77rzZ)
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* apoplexy *

Posted by: Library Scientists at October 07, 2025 03:50 PM (krQz2)

95 One Battle After Another is going to win all the Oscars, even though its budget was insanely overblown for the kind of film it is, and it will never ever make its money back. And more films lionizing lefty marxists bombing the right will get greenlit. And the acceptance speeches will be horrific.

I'm waiting for "Bomb Makers: Love from the Underground" to get greenlit: the fake love story of Bill Ayers and his wife, and their love blossoming amid building bombs and plotting murders and terrorism. The perfect double feature with "South Side With You," the fake Obama and Michelle love story.

Posted by: LizLem at October 07, 2025 03:50 PM (cKQXo)

96 Well this is weird. Greta Thunberg posted a piece decrying the suffering of poor "Palestinians," but one of the pictures she used is that of Hamas hostage Evyatar David.

https://tinyurl.com/46bhx5c7
Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist

Nobody said she was a genius. Now, retarded, sure.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Going For the Brass Ring! at October 07, 2025 03:50 PM (L/fGl)

97 Marxist Socialists National Broadcasting System probably says Trump himself set the fire

Posted by: Skip at October 07, 2025 03:51 PM (+qU29)

98
As to the term "Red Mass", dioceses in the Catholic Church have Masses said for various professions.

Red Mass: Legal

White Mass: Health care

Blue Mass: Law enforcement and first responders

Gold Mass: Scientists

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 07, 2025 03:51 PM (tgvbd)

99 So if some bartender named Molotov comes up with a new drink recipe, what does he call it?

Posted by: Thomas Paine at October 07, 2025 03:51 PM (0U5gm)

100 I know Hayes didn't get anything passed, but Hayes pushed hard for it. He was the godfather of the effort in the presidency.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 07, 2025 03:47 PM (GBKbO)

Hayes may or may not have been corrupt, but he DID manage to negotiate the end of the Gran Chaco War, and managed to get a Paraguayan state named after him, Departemento Presidente Hayes"

Posted by: Kindltot at October 07, 2025 03:51 PM (rbvCR)

101 Fun fact: After the Civil War, we had three Civil-War generals in succession as President: Grant, Garfield, and Hayes.

Posted by: Bulg at October 07, 2025 03:51 PM (77rzZ)

102 And don't get me started on Walmart greeters. Apparently when Walmart had those at their German stores, it made German shoppers uncomfortable...
Posted by: mishdog at October 07, 2025 03:46 PM (znpJ

Probably because they didn't bark orders about what to buy.

Posted by: Oldcat at October 07, 2025 03:51 PM (8avO+)

103 Grant, Garfield, and Hayes.

Sorry, wrong order: Grant, Hayes, and Garfield. Jeesh.

Posted by: Bulg at October 07, 2025 03:51 PM (77rzZ)

104 Grant, Hayes*, and Garfield you mean.

Posted by: gKWVE at October 07, 2025 03:52 PM (gKWVE)

105 >>>Writings found on the Democrat-Antifa Terrorist showed he was a card-carrying member of the atheist terrorist left.

So you're saying he was MAGA?

Posted by: MSM at October 07, 2025 03:53 PM (jGJov)

106 "We may never know his motives" vowed the media.

"He was probably MAGA," declared Jimmy Kimmeal.

"Would have been fiery but peaceful protest," proclaims CNN

"It's just property," whines BLM, "besides, it's insured."

"Trump needs to de-escalate his attacks on democracy and stop instigating these lone wolves," says Ha-keem Jefferis from under his sombrero.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at October 07, 2025 03:53 PM (9k34X)

107 CNN says "so-called Red Mass."

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CNN goes to the Hammer and Sickle Mass.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Going For the Brass Ring! at October 07, 2025 03:53 PM (L/fGl)

108 >>> Well this is weird. Greta Thunberg posted a piece decrying the suffering of poor "Palestinians," but one of the pictures she used is that of Hamas hostage Evyatar David.

Did anyone ask her where all the supposed Gaza aid was on her boat? since that was the whole purpose of their mission?

And why one of her boat mates tossed her cell phone into the water, instead of risking the Israelis might confiscate it?

Posted by: LizLem at October 07, 2025 03:54 PM (cKQXo)

109 Hayes may or may not have been corrupt, but he DID manage to negotiate the end of the Gran Chaco War, and managed to get a Paraguayan state named after him, Departemento Presidente Hayes"
Posted by: Kindltot at October 07, 2025 03:51 PM (rbvCR)

Think the Chaco war was in the 1920s or 30s. The war of the Triple Alliance where Paraguay managed to get in a war with all their larger neighbors and the males of the nation were virtually exterminated.

Posted by: Oldcat at October 07, 2025 03:54 PM (8avO+)

110 Hayes may or may not have been corrupt, but he DID manage to negotiate the end of the Gran Chaco War, and managed to get a Paraguayan state named after him, Departemento Presidente Hayes"
Posted by: Kindltot

But Garfield had a cartoon cat named for him, so THERE

Posted by: Miklos, President, The James Garfield Society at October 07, 2025 03:54 PM (YGmAl)

111 Grant, Hayes*, and Garfield you mean.
Posted by: gKWVE

Ah yes. "His Frauduelncy."

Whatevs. It got the US troops out of the South, so there's that.

Posted by: Bulg at October 07, 2025 03:54 PM (77rzZ)

112 "If you go through them, setting Humphrey's Executor stuff slightly to the side, what they all have in common is that there's a kind of clear argument that ... district courts were a little too aggressive here," Adler said.

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You mean like being a little bit too pregnant?

My Low-T Meter is pegging right now ...

Posted by: ShainS -- The Sombrero Memes Will Continue Until Morality Improves! at October 07, 2025 03:54 PM (RougF)

113 30 Posted by: Mike D'Hammer, etc., etc. at October 07, 2025 03:27

You almost made it to Elric's spot. When you do, you can say "First with the hammer" 🙂
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 07, 2025 03:30 PM (Nx5jP)

If I ever manage to hit first, i'll be like Ruprecht banging his pots together from Dirty Rotten Scoundrels.

Posted by: Nelly at October 07, 2025 03:54 PM (cHLus)

114 98
As to the term "Red Mass", dioceses in the Catholic Church have Masses said for various professions.
Red Mass: Legal
White Mass: Health care
Blue Mass: Law enforcement and first responders
Gold Mass: Scientists
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 07, 2025 03:51 PM (tgvbd)

We had a Blue Mass on 9/14. We try to have it as close to 9/11 as possible. Lots of LEO and first responders came this year. Not one protestor though, interestingly enough

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at October 07, 2025 03:55 PM (N39Ws)

115 I would not be surprised if the bomber at the church didn't had multiple arrests and was let out or had some sort of serious mental condition.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 07, 2025 03:55 PM (PFs9e)

116 85 Rutherford B. Hayes is America's greatest monster of a president for getting the civil service ball rolling. Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 07, 2025 03:44 PM (GBKbO)

Well, the original problem he was solving was relatively straightforward...each president was firing everyone every four to 8 years then hiring all their cronies and pals. Many of whom were incompetent. The protections were designed to stop this. And it did, to some extent. But t created other problems in having a civil service that was largely unaccountable to the president or the public. That problem has grown and grown till we got to Trump I, and they came out in open defiance. Trump spent most of his first time fighting with the civil service.

Round II he discovered DOGE - a law passed ages ago by congress to modernize the government. He pushed that law to the extreme. Why did he even bothering to use DOGE? Because to was cover to get around civil service protection.

Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at October 07, 2025 03:55 PM (gDhA9)

117 The 'Red Mass' is before the start of the Supreme Court's term and brings together justices, judges, attorneys & government officials.
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Whaa-aat?

Wasn't Coney-Barrett too Catholic to be a justice?!

Oh, fuck the disinformation machine of DC.

Posted by: Library Scientists at October 07, 2025 03:55 PM (krQz2)

118 >>> CNN goes to the Hammer and Sickle Mass.

Maybe also tied to the red/green coalition, commies and Jihadists.

Posted by: LizLem at October 07, 2025 03:55 PM (cKQXo)

119 The kind of person that sits at home and watches Nicole Wallace on TV has lost the will to live, and is choosing to die by eliminating brain cells by exposure to the tedium of a dullard talking to other tedious dullards.

Posted by: My work here is done. at October 07, 2025 03:55 PM (B23BQ)

120 99 So if some bartender named Molotov comes up with a new drink recipe, what does he call it?
Posted by: Thomas Paine at October 07, 2025 03:51 PM (0U5gm)

A Flaming Mol'.

Posted by: Thrawn at October 07, 2025 03:56 PM (9Ovst)

121 73 Well this is weird. Greta Thunberg posted a piece decrying the suffering of poor "Palestinians," but one of the pictures she used is that of Hamas hostage Evyatar David.

https://tinyurl.com/46bhx5c7
Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at October 07, 2025 03:45 PM (paSBy)

She really couldn't get dumber or more malignant if she tried.

Posted by: tcn, Pickle Queen of AK at October 07, 2025 03:56 PM (urtE/)

122 100 I know Hayes didn't get anything passed, but Hayes pushed hard for it. He was the godfather of the effort in the presidency.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

Congress was a lot more assertive in those days and Rutherford, known as His Fraudulency after the 1876 election and subsequent extralegal resolution of it, had no political capital at all during his term.

It took Garfield getting assassinated and Chester Arthur as vp becoming president signing it.

Posted by: whig at October 07, 2025 03:56 PM (WDjG6)

123 They actually do have 'ground penetrating radar' that can
spot ruins underground from aircraft.
Posted by: Oldcat at October 07, 2025 03:49 PM (8avO+)

LIDAR which is a game changer in mapping surfaces, but there is deeper scans like synthetic aperture, which uses variation from earthquakes to determine underground structures.

Posted by: Kindltot at October 07, 2025 03:56 PM (rbvCR)

124 Grant, Garfield, and Hayes.

Sorry, wrong order: Grant, Hayes, and Garfield. Jeesh.
Posted by: Bulg at October 07, 2025 03:51 PM (77rzZ)

The largest monument on the battlefield of Antietam commemorates Orderly Sgt McKinley taking coffee to the men on the battle line under fire.

Posted by: Oldcat at October 07, 2025 03:56 PM (8avO+)

125 >> A spokesperson for the Supreme Court told CNN that no justices were in attendance on Sunday, though members of the high court have previously gone to the mass

No justices were in attendance because of the threats of violence. Turns out those threats were real.

CNN is a complete dumpster fire.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 07, 2025 03:57 PM (viF8m)

126 Think the Chaco war was in the 1920s or 30s. The war of the Triple Alliance where Paraguay managed to get in a war with all their larger neighbors and the males of the nation were virtually exterminated.
Posted by: Oldcat

Hayes did not negotiate an end to that war. He merely arbitrated a territorial dispute between Paraguay and Uruguay, and found in Paraguay's favor.

Posted by: Bulg at October 07, 2025 03:57 PM (77rzZ)

127 As to the term "Red Mass", dioceses in the Catholic Church have Masses said for various professions.
Red Mass: Legal
White Mass: Health care
Blue Mass: Law enforcement and first responders
Gold Mass: Scientists
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 07, 2025 03:51 PM (tgvbd)
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That's all messed up.

It should be
Gold Mass: Command
Blue Mass: Science
Red Mass: Engineering and Security.

Posted by: Axeman at October 07, 2025 03:57 PM (krQz2)

128 The largest monument on the battlefield of Antietam commemorates Orderly Sgt McKinley taking coffee to the men on the battle line under fire.
Posted by: Oldcat

Yes, I've seen that. My brother and I cracked up when we saw it.

Posted by: Bulg at October 07, 2025 03:57 PM (77rzZ)

129 LIDAR which is a game changer in mapping surfaces, but there is deeper scans like synthetic aperture, which uses variation from earthquakes to determine underground structures.
Posted by: Kindltot at October 07, 2025 03:56 PM (rbvCR)

They have something now that can see the subducted plates sinking right down to the bottom of the mantle like ribbon candy for the entire width of the current US.

Posted by: Oldcat at October 07, 2025 03:58 PM (8avO+)

130 We could have a Blue Mass for us vulgar Morons

Posted by: 2009Refugee at October 07, 2025 03:58 PM (8AONa)

131 between Paraguay and Argentina, rather.

Jeesh, I'm not covering myself with glory today.

Posted by: Bulg at October 07, 2025 03:58 PM (77rzZ)

132 And so a Democrat-Antifa-Media aligned terrorist tried to blow up the traditional "Red Mass" before the start of the Supreme Court term
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So a Judicial version of the Red Wedding?

Posted by: Methos at October 07, 2025 03:58 PM (vSvIl)

133 Every post wasn't uprooted and replaced. Most postmasters were just left alone. It was the key posts, like NYC, where turnover was prevalent.

That 10% was better than the less than .1% turnover since.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 07, 2025 03:50 PM (GBKbO)

There were a variation on those posts too, some were subject to spoils, and some were classed as civil service instead, and weren't switched out. IIRC it had something to do with the size, location, and if there was a rail road involved.

Posted by: Kindltot at October 07, 2025 03:59 PM (rbvCR)

134 So if some bartender named Molotov comes up with a new drink recipe, what does he call it?
Posted by: Thomas Paine at October 07, 2025 03:51 PM (0U5gm)

Great Patriotic War Hero Blast!

Posted by: Count de Monet at October 07, 2025 03:59 PM (wVcYX)

135
CNN says "so-called Red Mass."

CNN is a so-called news network.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at October 07, 2025 03:59 PM (63Dwl)

136 I'm driving to the TPUSA event in Montana today! I can talk about it later. Pray all of us there stays safe. I get to hear the MT Governor and Vivek tonight.

Before I get back on the road and stop spamming you...

Why isn't Clarence Thomas head of the Supreme Court? He's the oldest and clearly the wisest. I don't know how that works.

Posted by: LizLem at October 07, 2025 03:59 PM (cKQXo)

137
So if some bartender named Molotov comes up with a new drink recipe, what does he call it?
Posted by: Thomas Paine

Great Patriotic War Hero Blast!
Posted by: Count de Monet

Harvey Wallblaster

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at October 07, 2025 04:00 PM (63Dwl)

138 133 There were a variation on those posts too, some were subject to spoils, and some were classed as civil service instead, and weren't switched out. IIRC it had something to do with the size, location, and if there was a rail road involved.
Posted by: Kindltot at October 07, 2025 03:59 PM (rbvCR)

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I imagine the call for civil service reform came mostly from partisan post holders who didn't want to lose their jobs every four years and had little to do with some kind of esoteric desire for better governance.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 07, 2025 04:00 PM (GBKbO)

139 Sounds a whole lot more real that the DNC/RNC "bombings" on J6.

Posted by: Axeman at October 07, 2025 04:00 PM (krQz2)

140 Speaking of civil war . . .

Jeremy Harris@JeremyHarrisTV
Neighbors tell me an Amazon driver shot the USPS worker in a mailroom, then went to the front office and told them to call 911.

‘USPS workers don't let people in the area when they have the mailboxes open. The Amazon driver didn't particularly like that, they got into an argument, which escalated to a shoving match, which escalated to the Amazon driver shooting the USPS guy in the freaking eye!!! Then he sat there calmly and waited for the cops to show up and claimed self defense,' a poster named Rich Ryan said on Facebook.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Going For the Brass Ring! at October 07, 2025 04:00 PM (L/fGl)

141 Media.
Hatred.
Some assembly required.

Posted by: Tex Lovera at October 07, 2025 04:00 PM (wtvvX)

142 Humphrey would be a good cat name
Posted by: Black Orchid at October 07, 2025

***
Someone here has named his cats Bogie and Bacall (one male, one female).

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 07, 2025 04:00 PM (omVj0)

143 Mary McCord is another raving lunatic. That these kooks still have jobs is an amazement.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at October 07, 2025 04:01 PM (r4QN2)

144 >>> 139 Sounds a whole lot more real that the DNC/RNC "bombings" on J6.
Posted by: Axeman at October 07, 2025 04:00 PM (krQz2)

Has the Eff.Bee.EYE managed to track down *any* of the culprits yet?

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at October 07, 2025 04:01 PM (ULPxl)

145 Hayes did not negotiate an end to that war. He merely arbitrated a territorial dispute between Paraguay and Uruguay, and found in Paraguay's favor.
Posted by: Bulg

In Hayes' famous phrase, "knock it off you guays"

Posted by: Miklos academically accredited Historian at October 07, 2025 04:01 PM (YGmAl)

146 Think the Chaco war was in the 1920s or 30s. The war of the Triple Alliance where Paraguay managed to get in a war with all their larger neighbors and the males of the nation were virtually exterminated.
Posted by: Oldcat

Mid 30's. The Chaco war caused FDR to invoke the Neutrality Act for the first time. That caused Curtiss Wright Aircraft to be fined for selling old aircraft machine guns to one side or the other. Thus, the Scotus case US v. Curtiss Wright Export in 1936 which upheld FDR's invocation. If you read Sutherland's opinion, it gives the president expansive powers with foreign affairs as the sole organ of conducting diplomacy. So if you take the president's power and augment it with Congress ability to make criminal law, then presidential power is at its peak.

Posted by: whig at October 07, 2025 04:02 PM (WDjG6)

147 Any recommendations for places in Bozeman to eat? I've never been there before.

Ok, that's all, heading back on the road. Keep your chins up, eyes bright, and pants off! I'll check back in later after the TPUSA event.

Posted by: LizLem at October 07, 2025 04:02 PM (jZ8cZ)

148 Not even GAYDAR can find where I'm buried.

Posted by: Flying Green Dildo at October 07, 2025 04:02 PM (wBaIH)

149 Humphrey would be a good cat name
Posted by: Black Orchid at October 07, 2025

***
Someone here has named his cats Bogie and Bacall (one male, one female).
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 07, 2025 04:00 PM (omVj0)

My male cats are Marshal Davout, Gen WT Sherman and Gen US Grant.

Posted by: Oldcat at October 07, 2025 04:02 PM (8avO+)

150 So if some bartender named Molotov comes up with a new drink recipe, what does he call it?
Posted by: Thomas Paine

Great Patriotic War Hero Blast!
Posted by: Count de Monet

Harvey Wallblaster

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at October 07, 2025 04:00 PM (63Dwl)

Dead Russian

Posted by: Tex Lovera at October 07, 2025 04:02 PM (wtvvX)

151 All he's got to do now is say he's a tranny and they'll plead him down to a ticket for misdemeanor unpermitted camping.

Posted by: Worked for the second PDT assassin at October 07, 2025 04:02 PM (TbWk/)

152 No need to collect bottle rockets for gun powder. You can get it delivered in the mail.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at October 07, 2025 04:02 PM (1a7X7)

153 Good news for the bomber; being arrested in DC, all he has to do is wear a dress to his arraignment and he can expect time served.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at October 07, 2025 04:03 PM (r4QN2)

154 Posted by: Bulg at October 07, 2025 03:57 PM (77rzZ)

I think it's great that he did that!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 07, 2025 04:03 PM (PFs9e)

155 >>> 150 So if some bartender named Molotov comes up with a new drink recipe, what does he call it?
Posted by: Thomas Paine

Great Patriotic War Hero Blast!
Posted by: Count de Monet

Harvey Wallblaster

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at October 07, 2025 04:00 PM (63Dwl)

Dead Russian
Posted by: Tex Lovera at October 07, 2025 04:02 PM (wtvvX)

aka Ex Russian Literature Author?

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at October 07, 2025 04:03 PM (ULPxl)

156 153 Good news for the bomber; being arrested in DC, all he has to do is wear a dress to his arraignment and he can expect time served.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at October 07, 2025 04:03 PM (r4QN2)

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Won't even get to that.

DC Grand Jury will refuse any felony charge.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 07, 2025 04:04 PM (GBKbO)

157 That's all messed up.

It should be
Gold Mass: Command
Blue Mass: Science
Red Mass: Engineering and Security.
Posted by: Axeman at October 07, 2025 03:57 PM (krQz2)

Can't do that... the casualty count from the Red Mass would be horrendous!

Posted by: Romeo13 at October 07, 2025 04:04 PM (mP0Kj)

158 He also had a house full of bombs.
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Damn, I wish some Republicans' kids could have been there!

Posted by: TOTALLY NOT Jay Jones at October 07, 2025 04:04 PM (krQz2)

159 Posted by: LizLem at October 07, 2025 03:59 PM (cKQXo)

Will pray for everybody at the event.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 07, 2025 04:04 PM (PFs9e)

160 67 57 Humphrey is a such a comical name. No real person has that as a given name.
Posted by: mishdog at October 07, 2025 03:42 PM (znpJ

*Shock G has entered the chat, wearing fake glasses and nose costume*
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at October 07, 2025 03:44 PM (xcxpd)

My name is Humphrey
Spelled with a "umphrey"
Yo ladies, oh how I love to bump thee

Posted by: The Humphrey Dance is your chance to do the Humph at October 07, 2025 04:04 PM (TbWk/)

161 157 Can't do that... the casualty count from the Red Mass would be horrendous!
Posted by: Romeo13 at October 07, 2025 04:04 PM (mP0Kj)

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*scribbling notes furiously*
-George R.R. Martin

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 07, 2025 04:04 PM (GBKbO)

162 Remember guys all political violence comes from the right! There is like a study and an infographic that says so!

Posted by: 18-1 at October 07, 2025 04:05 PM (sKqQm)

163 That’s a buttload of bottle rockets

Posted by: Snerdly at October 07, 2025 04:05 PM (OG5XA)

164 162 Remember guys all political violence comes from the right! There is like a study and an infographic that says so!
Posted by: 18-1 at October 07, 2025 04:05 PM (sKqQm)

======

2020 was the most peaceful year in America in decades, guys.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 07, 2025 04:05 PM (GBKbO)

165 I assume Louis Geri let off a Brown Mass when he realized he'd got caught

Posted by: gKWVE at October 07, 2025 04:05 PM (gKWVE)

166 85 Having the president in a secession crisis have to appoint every mailman in the country was no picnic either.
Posted by: Oldcat
=======
Journalists and politicians overstated patronage problems because they had an angle. Jackson obliterated it when he took office because under the old system up to and including JQ Adams constituted a sort of permanent civil service without the title. Most were adamantly opposed to upstart Jackson. So he got rid of them.

Posted by: whig at October 07, 2025 04:05 PM (WDjG6)

167 They could have a yellow mass for Dick "Dick" Blumenthal and Tim Walz.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Going For the Brass Ring! at October 07, 2025 04:05 PM (L/fGl)

168 Won't even get to that.

DC Grand Jury will refuse any felony charge.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 07, 2025 04:04 PM (GBKbO)
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I believe the DC courts allow a plea of "Mulligan!" for allies.

Posted by: Axeman at October 07, 2025 04:05 PM (krQz2)

169 Why isn't Clarence Thomas head of the Supreme Court? He's the oldest and clearly the wisest. I don't know how that works.

Posted by: LizLem at October 07, 2025 03:59 PM (cKQXo)

Chief Justice is a different post than the Associate Justices. A president could make a new justice chief in one step, or appoint an associate to Chief and appoint a new associate.

Posted by: Oldcat at October 07, 2025 04:05 PM (8avO+)

170 This latest MAGA bomb conspiracy in DC should be the last straw, America! These Republicans terrorists have killed enough people already, and trying to take out KBJ and the Saintly Justice Sotomayor just because they are black and brown, must stop!

Posted by: Jimmy Kimmel at October 07, 2025 04:05 PM (r4QN2)

171 Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Going For the Brass Ring! at October 07, 2025 04:00 PM (L/fGl)

Best under reported Amazon story? A Lady in Maine ordered something through Amazon, and got delivered 250 unmarked Ballots for the next election...

Uhhhh....

Posted by: Romeo13 at October 07, 2025 04:06 PM (mP0Kj)

172 Red Mass is kinda a big deal among traditional Catholics.
It's not just the Justices that were targeted by this, but pretty much all the top conservative Catholic lawyers and judges in the DC area.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at October 07, 2025 04:07 PM (9k34X)

173 Nicole Wallace needs to go.
She's a vitriolic bitch that is responsible for a lot of the hate towards Republicans by her lying rhetoric.

Posted by: redridinghood at October 07, 2025 04:07 PM (NpAcC)

174 Rutheford Hayes was considered to be unscrupulous, but also incredibly lucky. He was dealing with scandals that came about from the resolution of the Civil War, and the problems that came to a head during Grant's administration.
He did manage to get a number of reforms started.

I think H. L. Menken either quoted himself, or quoted someone else that Hayes was the only one who could have waded through Washington and got out clean, in time for someone else to get assassinated.

Posted by: Kindltot at October 07, 2025 04:08 PM (rbvCR)

175 What is the cardinal rule of the Red Mass?

Posted by: Axeman at October 07, 2025 04:08 PM (krQz2)

176 What's the connection between the color red and the legal profession?

Posted by: Bulg at October 07, 2025 04:08 PM (77rzZ)

177 CNN is a complete dumpster fire.

does FUBO even carry CNN? if they do I haven't seen it

Posted by: DanMan at October 07, 2025 04:08 PM (8uzBS)

178 The Dems hate the Catholic Church. It is the last major American institution saying publicly that abortion, trannymania, and homosexuality are morally wrong. The attacks will only intensify in the next 3 years.

Posted by: Wally at October 07, 2025 04:08 PM (7CamO)

179 "While the left-wing Terrorist Media buries this story, they eagerly promoted the, get this, left-wing H O A X story about a left-wing judge having her house burned down.

In fact, there was no arson. It was a spontaneous accidental fire."
>>

Lies are all that's left in the fridge. We just look at the clowns in front of the camera, but there are entire production team surrounding them, feeding the lies, approving the lies, creating more lies, calling their masters for another batch of lies for the next day's shows. 24/7 365 days years, except for leap year, when there are 366 days in the year.

That's a lot of lying.

Posted by: mrp at October 07, 2025 04:08 PM (rj6Yv)

180 141 Media.
Hatred.
Some assembly required.
Posted by: Tex Lovera

"Boss? I got that hatred for the media you asked for."
"Sorry, but that's not quite going to be enough."
"I get it boss but the amount you need would take a while to put together."

Posted by: NR Pax at October 07, 2025 04:08 PM (RjOoY)

181 177 CNN is a complete dumpster fire.

does FUBO even carry CNN? if they do I haven't seen it

Posted by: DanMan at October 07, 2025 04:08 PM (8uzBS)

No, but FUBAR does.

Posted by: Tex Lovera at October 07, 2025 04:09 PM (wtvvX)

182 Also, Rutherford B. Hayes never ate a dog.

Posted by: Bulg at October 07, 2025 04:09 PM (77rzZ)

183 182 Also, Rutherford B. Hayes never ate a dog.
Posted by: Bulg at October 07, 2025 04:09 PM (77rzZ)

======

Dude was a general in the Civil War.

He definitely ate a dog.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 07, 2025 04:09 PM (GBKbO)

184 That's all messed up.

It should be
Gold Mass: Command
Blue Mass: Science
Red Mass: Engineering and Security.
Posted by: Axeman at October 07, 2025 03:57 PM (krQz2)

Can't do that... the casualty count from the Red Mass would be horrendous!
Posted by: Romeo13 at October 07, 2025 04:04 PM (mP0Kj)
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Only if planetside.

Posted by: Axeman at October 07, 2025 04:09 PM (krQz2)

185 175 What is the cardinal rule of the Red Mass?
Posted by: Axeman at October 07, 2025 04:08 PM (krQz2)

That you can state the difference between a cardinal and an ordinal number.

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at October 07, 2025 04:09 PM (YlWIZ)

186 I think the dems really hate the Catholic Church because they still do exorcisms.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at October 07, 2025 04:10 PM (1a7X7)

187 The 200 handmade bombs this guy had in his home hadn’t exploded yet so you really can’t say they were violent, now can you? Just sayin’…

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at October 07, 2025 04:10 PM (ZVgZ4)

188 "If you want a good meal in Washington, get a dog"

Posted by: Barry Soetoro at October 07, 2025 04:10 PM (YGmAl)

189 178 The Dems hate the Catholic Church. It is the last major American institution saying publicly that abortion, trannymania, and homosexuality are morally wrong. The attacks will only intensify in the next 3 years.
Posted by: Wally at October 07, 2025 04:08 PM (7CamO)

Their aiding and abetting illegal immigration isn't enough to cancel out the other stuff. Though the rank and file are more likely to hold traditional Catholic beliefs about abortion and sexuality than the brass.

Posted by: The Pope is a heretic and a fink at October 07, 2025 04:10 PM (TbWk/)

190 When the judges are targeted, you know it’s go time!

Posted by: Izzy Mandelbaum at October 07, 2025 04:11 PM (Hsed0)

191 "While the left-wing Terrorist Media buries this story, they eagerly promoted the, get this, left-wing H O A X story about a left-wing judge having her house burned down.

In fact, there was no arson. It was a spontaneous accidental fire."
---
The Both Sides (but really mostly the right) narrative is too important to fail.

Posted by: Axeman at October 07, 2025 04:11 PM (krQz2)

192 between Paraguay and Argentina, rather.

Jeesh, I'm not covering myself with glory today.
Posted by: Bulg at October 07, 2025 03:58 PM (77rzZ)

It was Argentina, Uruguay and Brazil, but I brainfarted and called it the Gran Chaco

He still got a department named after him, which is better than a poke in the eye

Posted by: Kindltot at October 07, 2025 04:11 PM (rbvCR)

193 180 141 Media.
Hatred.
Some assembly required.
Posted by: Tex Lovera

"Boss? I got that hatred for the media you asked for."
"Sorry, but that's not quite going to be enough."
"I get it boss but the amount you need would take a while to put together."
Posted by: NR Pax at October 07, 2025 04:08 PM (RjOoY)

Ikea hatred. Takes all afternoon to assemble.

Posted by: Sometimes longer at October 07, 2025 04:12 PM (TbWk/)

194 you are going to loose badly.
read some history
read any books with various perspectives.
change course or death will

Posted by: dreamingrobot at October 07, 2025 04:12 PM (EyfuW)

195 He still got a department named after him, which is better than a poke in the eye
Posted by: Kindltot

Why I oughtta

Posted by: Moe Howard at October 07, 2025 04:12 PM (YGmAl)

196 The 200 handmade bombs this guy had in his home hadn’t exploded yet so you really can’t say they were violent, now can you? Just sayin’…

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at October 07, 2025 04:10 PM (ZVgZ4)
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Now do the retard in the van sending inert "bombs" around the country.

Posted by: Axeman at October 07, 2025 04:13 PM (krQz2)

197 194 you are going to loose badly.
read some history
read any books with various perspectives.
change course or death will
Posted by: dreamingrobot at October 07, 2025 04:12 PM (EyfuW)

Incorrectly using the word "loose" is TIGHT!

Posted by: Grammar pitch guy at October 07, 2025 04:13 PM (TbWk/)

198 Just a handful of explosive/incendiary devices.

Besides, he didn't hurt anyone, so how can we even charge him with anything?

Posted by: haffhowershower at October 07, 2025 04:13 PM (144I4)

199 The Dems hate the Catholic Church. It is the last major American institution saying publicly that abortion, trannymania, and homosexuality are morally wrong. The attacks will only intensify in the next 3 years.
Posted by: Wally at October 07, 2025 04:08 PM (7CamO)
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Not just Americans. The Spanish left made attacking churches and lynching clergy a top priority. Fun fact: a higher percentage of clergy and religious (nuns) were killed in Spain than in the Soviet Union after the Reds won.

And that's how they got a Crusade preached against them.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at October 07, 2025 04:13 PM (ZOv7s)

200 The only red shirt you could be sure would make it to the end of an original series Star Trek episode was Scotty!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at October 07, 2025 04:13 PM (ZVgZ4)

201 Mary McCord, as everyone may recall, is a former tick embedded in the DOJ by Barack Obama and married to the former Chief administrative advisor to .... John Roberts.

Who totally didn't ride on Epsteins Lolita Express, btw.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at October 07, 2025 04:14 PM (r4QN2)

202 And that's how they got a Crusade preached against them.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd

In the 20th century?

Posted by: Bulg at October 07, 2025 04:14 PM (77rzZ)

203 "While the left-wing Terrorist Media buries this story, they eagerly promoted the, get this, left-wing H O A X story about a left-wing judge having her house burned down.

In fact, there was no arson. It was a spontaneous accidental fire."
---
The Both Sides (but really mostly the right) narrative is too important to fail.
Posted by: Axeman at October 07, 2025 04:11 PM (krQz2)

Cooking a frozen turkey in hot oil *inside* seems less like an accident and rather an inevitability. I know next to nothing about deep frying turkeys and half of it is 'how you can reduce your chance of having it go out like a large bomb of napalm'.

Posted by: Oldcat at October 07, 2025 04:15 PM (8avO+)

204 what does he call it?

Crazy Ivan.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at October 07, 2025 04:15 PM (Wa4C0)

205 The only red shirt you could be sure would make it to the end of an original series Star Trek episode was Scotty!
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit

That's because he was an expert in the use of his light saber.

Posted by: Bulg at October 07, 2025 04:15 PM (77rzZ)

206 At some point soon yet another one of these deranged, danger-haired commie Antifa bastards they've been priming for violence will keep down the crazy enough to get it right and kill one or more of our own. Again. What then?

As an aside, churches are establishing in-house protective details and using cops and veterans in their congregations to train them. I've seen their training videos on YT. This is where we are now. It's horribly sad and infuriating all at once.

Posted by: troyriser at October 07, 2025 04:16 PM (DPeYO)

207 The only red shirt you could be sure would make it to the end of an original series Star Trek episode was Scotty!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at October 07, 2025 04:13 PM (ZVgZ4)
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Wrath of Khan put us all on edge, when they *all* started wearing red. (Or was that Star Wars IV?)

Posted by: Axeman at October 07, 2025 04:16 PM (krQz2)

208 NBC allows this filth.

ABC /Disney pull Feinbaum for having an opinion.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at October 07, 2025 04:16 PM (wrRTB)

209 Gran Chaco? New Blizzard at Dairy Queen?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Going For the Brass Ring! at October 07, 2025 04:16 PM (L/fGl)

210 207 ---
Wrath of Khan put us all on edge, when they *all* started wearing red. (Or was that Star Wars IV?)
Posted by: Axeman at October 07, 2025 04:16 PM (krQz2)

=======

Yes, it was II.

Which was a downgrade from the uniforms of The Motion Picture, Star Trek's sexiest film.

Deckard bones a computer.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 07, 2025 04:17 PM (GBKbO)

211 >>>read some history
read any books with various perspectives.

America really doesn't like a theocracy. Look at any groups that got uppity with their religious practices, like the Mormons, so see how well that goes.

I keep wondering when America will finally slap down sharia law and Islam creep into the fabric of American freedoms. NYC will be an interesting case study.

Posted by: LizLem at October 07, 2025 04:17 PM (uB7hK)

212 Cooking a frozen turkey in hot oil *inside* seems less like an accident and rather an inevitability. I know next to nothing about deep frying turkeys and half of it is 'how you can reduce your chance of having it go out like a large bomb of napalm'.
Posted by: Oldcat

Alton Brown did an episode of Good Eats about how to deep fry a turkey. It was crazy, the contraption he built and the precautions he took.

Posted by: Bulg at October 07, 2025 04:17 PM (77rzZ)

213 Billy Graham waged his own crusades.

Posted by: Axeman at October 07, 2025 04:17 PM (krQz2)

214 Democrats: The Party of Terrorism.

The GOP marketing folks should get on that. But they won't, because #sameTeam.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 07, 2025 04:19 PM (B2vkr)

215 I Meme Therefore I Am
@ImMeme0
Oops… what we got here!!

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services reported that, nationally:

2021: $7 BILLION was spent on healthcare for illegal immigrants

2022: $4.54 BILLION was spent on healthcare for illegal immigrants

In 2025, Democrats and the media claim that illegal immigrants have never received Medicare or Medicaid services.

https://tinyurl.com/58xzb4hm

Posted by: redridinghood at October 07, 2025 04:19 PM (NpAcC)

216 The obvious solution to a 6-3 court is to have Trump appoint 9 replacements galvanized by a Dem plot.

Smart move there.
Posted by: Oldcat

This was my immediate thought as well.

Posted by: QED Texan at October 07, 2025 04:19 PM (0/5l1)

217 Democrats: The Party of Terrorism.

The GOP marketing folks should get on that. But they won't, because #sameTeam.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 07, 2025 04:19 PM (B2vkr)
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"Limp on Crime" would also be a good campaign.

Posted by: Axeman at October 07, 2025 04:20 PM (krQz2)

218 Gran Chaco? New Blizzard at Dairy Queen?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Going For the Brass Ring! at October 07, 2025 04:16 PM (L/fGl)

It was a war fought over the oil reserves under the grand Chaco desert in south america. Turned out there were no oil deposits there.

Posted by: Oldcat at October 07, 2025 04:20 PM (8avO+)

219 deranged, danger-haired commie Antifa bastards

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A waitress, a young kid, who waited on me today had silver blue hair and it was actually quite attractive. Captain Kirk would've nailed her in a nanosecond.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Going For the Brass Ring! at October 07, 2025 04:20 PM (L/fGl)

220 It seems the left has an appointment in Samarra and must not miss it!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at October 07, 2025 04:20 PM (ZVgZ4)

221 "At one point, investigators said, Geri positioned his thumb over the lighter and threatened to ignite a device; officers retreated and sought to regroup."

When he threatened to ignite the device, why didn't LE immediately shoot him DRT? What the hell were they thinking?

Posted by: gp at October 07, 2025 04:21 PM (qNqzk)

222 "Limp on Crime" would also be a good campaign.
Posted by: Axeman at October 07, 2025 04:20 PM (krQz2)
++++
Based on that article about lib chicks loving up on felons, they could go with the racier "soft and wet on crime" direction...

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 07, 2025 04:21 PM (B2vkr)

223 Incorrectly using the word "loose" is TIGHT!
Posted by: Grammar pitch guy at October 07, 2025 04:13 PM (TbWk/)

When one does this one loses all respect.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at October 07, 2025 04:21 PM (wrRTB)

224 220 Great novella!

Posted by: gp at October 07, 2025 04:21 PM (qNqzk)

225 well, the Samarra Mosque DID get bombed . . .

Posted by: gKWVE at October 07, 2025 04:21 PM (gKWVE)

226 Yes, it was II.

Which was a downgrade from the uniforms of The Motion Picture, Star Trek's sexiest film.

Deckard bones a computer.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 07, 2025 04:17 PM (GBKbO)

the uni boots attached to the legs is a deal breaker for me.

Posted by: Oldcat at October 07, 2025 04:22 PM (8avO+)

227 >>> The obvious solution to a 6-3 court is to have Trump appoint 9 replacements galvanized by a Dem plot.Smart move there.

It's so smart to try and persuade judges to rule on your side's favor in court by trying to bomb them. How to win friends and influence people 2.0.

Posted by: LizLem at October 07, 2025 04:23 PM (g4ZSD)

228 "Limp on Crime" would also be a good campaign.
Posted by: Axeman at October 07, 2025 04:20 PM (krQz2)
++++
Except it goes way beyond that. The Dems are not "soft on crime."

"Soft on crime" would indicate that they're uninterested in enforcement and don't care. That is certainly true, but only to a point.

The real issue is not that the Democrats are "soft on crime." That's *a* problem to be sure, and a serious one, but the far more serious problem is that the Democrats openly sponsor and engage in terrorism. That isn't being "soft on crime."

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 07, 2025 04:23 PM (B2vkr)

229 221 "At one point, investigators said, Geri positioned his thumb over the lighter and threatened to ignite a device; officers retreated and sought to regroup."

When he threatened to ignite the device, why didn't LE immediately shoot him DRT? What the hell were they thinking?
Posted by: gp at October 07, 2025 04:21 PM (qNqzk)

One of them might have gotten an ouchie and not gone home completely safe that night. If it was a middle aged guy holding a small cardboard sign saying "God bless the homeless vets" they wouldn't have hesitated for a moment.

Posted by: Protecting and serving...what exactly? at October 07, 2025 04:23 PM (TbWk/)

230 Democrats: The Party of Terrorism.

The GOP marketing folks should get on that. But they won't, because #sameTeam.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 07, 2025 04:19 PM (B2vkr)

We just need to disagree better.

Posted by: Gov Cucks of Utah at October 07, 2025 04:23 PM (5Yz+T)

231
The Dems hate the Catholic Church. It is the last major American institution saying publicly that abortion, trannymania, and homosexuality are morally wrong. The attacks will only intensify in the next 3 years.
Posted by: Wally at October 07, 2025 04:08 PM (7CamO)

The Democrats want a Catholic Church that resembles the Chinese Patriotic Association or the Russian Orthodox Church, i.e. one that's essentially an agency of the government and toes the party line.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 07, 2025 04:23 PM (tgvbd)

232 In fact, there was no arson. It was a spontaneous accidental fire.

In other words, somehow it's still Trump's fault.

Posted by: Emmie at October 07, 2025 04:23 PM (FMtrg)

233 We be alls think that Presdent Obama should dew something about this Trump terrism stuff. Trump lied and kayos survived.

Impeech Trump now Senatour Sanders ......

NOW !!

Posted by: Mary Cloggenstein from Brattleboro, Vt at October 07, 2025 04:24 PM (th3pr)

234 Geri positioned his thumb over the lighter and threatened to ignite a device

And THAT'S why I'm not a cop. I would have neutralized the offender.

Posted by: rickb223 at October 07, 2025 04:24 PM (9loYT)

235 232 In fact, there was no arson. It was a spontaneous accidental fire.

In other words, somehow it's still Trump's fault.
Posted by: Emmie at October 07, 2025 04:23 PM (FMtrg)

Incendiary rhetoric, dontcha know.

Posted by: Getting heated at October 07, 2025 04:24 PM (TbWk/)

236 What the fuck are "200 explosives"?

Firecrackers? Nuclear warheads?

It turns out that there's a distinction here.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at October 07, 2025 02:32 PM (qpyNK)

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Not to mention lethal thundersharts fired from Nadler's ass ...

Posted by: ShainS -- The Sombrero Memes Will Continue Until Morality Improves! at October 07, 2025 04:24 PM (RougF)

237 This bikini blonde had to take refuge on a boat to escape Democrat terrorism:
http://tiny.cc/k4kt001

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 07, 2025 04:24 PM (B2vkr)

238 Oh my...

"Two of Five Drivers Killed in Car Crashes Were High"

https://tinyurl.com/3mhtjp6a

Posted by: pawn at October 07, 2025 04:25 PM (9kses)

239 The Democrats want a Catholic Church that resembles the Chinese Patriotic Association or the Russian Orthodox Church, i.e. one that's essentially an agency of the government and toes the party line.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 07, 2025 04:23 PM (tgvbd)

Despite that, the modernized Ukraine government is persecuting their own branch of Orthodox Christian.

Posted by: Oldcat at October 07, 2025 04:25 PM (8avO+)

240 "Limp on Crime" would also be a good campaign.
Posted by: Axeman at October 07, 2025 04:20 PM (krQz2)
++++
Based on that article about lib chicks loving up on felons, they could go with the racier "soft and wet on crime" direction...
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 07, 2025 04:21 PM (B2vkr)
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Also the not-so-far-fetched "Pro-Crime" label.

A couple weeks ago I saw a post from a guy on X who swears he's never voted conservative but, in reaction to the Dem reaction about DC, he posted that it's not hard to see where it's legitimate to say that the Democratic Party has swung to "Pro-crime".

Posted by: Axeman at October 07, 2025 04:25 PM (krQz2)

241 So Capitol Police were walking by 200+ bombs every day.
Nothing has changed since J6.

Posted by: torabora at October 07, 2025 04:25 PM (wyEkt)

242 Millions of people heard maga set the fire. Virtually nobody will hear “oh never mind it was an accident”.

Posted by: Gov Cucks of Utah at October 07, 2025 04:25 PM (5Yz+T)

243 237 This bikini blonde had to take refuge on a boat to escape Democrat terrorism:
http://tiny.cc/k4kt001
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 07, 2025 04:24 PM (B2vkr)

=======

Blood mustache from drinking the blood of the innocent.

3/10

Would not bang.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 07, 2025 04:25 PM (GBKbO)

244 lib chicks loving up on felons

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Study Finds Possible Link Between TikTok Use and Women’s Attraction to Criminals

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Going For the Brass Ring! at October 07, 2025 04:25 PM (L/fGl)

245 And THAT'S why I'm not a cop. I would have neutralized the offender.

Posted by: rickb223 at October 07, 2025 04:24 PM (9loYT)

Aim at the lighter and hit him in the bridge of the nose.

Posted by: Oldcat at October 07, 2025 04:26 PM (8avO+)

246 Once Mandami is elected and NYC gets mouth full of Marxism Ass....

Will like the taste left in their mouths ?????

Posted by: Jackson at October 07, 2025 04:26 PM (xl8DV)

247 This bikini blonde had to take refuge on a boat to escape Democrat terrorism:
http://tiny.cc/k4kt001
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 07, 2025 04:24 PM (B2vkr)

A possible keeper! No tats or hardware box face. Is she above minimum size?

Posted by: Count de Monet at October 07, 2025 04:27 PM (wVcYX)

248 In fact, there was no arson. It was a spontaneous accidental fire.

In other words, somehow it's still Trump's fault.
Posted by: Emmie at October 07, 2025 04:23 PM (FMtrg)
---
Somebody gets it.

Posted by: Axeman at October 07, 2025 04:27 PM (krQz2)

249 Once Mandami is elected and NYC gets mouth full of Marxism Ass....

Will like the taste left in their mouths ?????
Posted by: Jackson at October 07, 2025 04:26 PM (xl8DV)

Can't recommend.

Posted by: Monica Lewinsky at October 07, 2025 04:28 PM (wVcYX)

250 Defamation gets clicks. It pays the bills. Corporate lawyers are on the pad anyway.

Posted by: CNN at October 07, 2025 04:28 PM (wyEkt)

251 The left: Undocumented workers never ever receive any aid from the government

Also the left: If you require proof of citizenship then millions of people won't be able to get free healthcare from the government

Posted by: 18-1 at October 07, 2025 04:28 PM (sKqQm)

252 244 lib chicks loving up on felons

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Study Finds Possible Link Between TikTok Use and Women’s Attraction to Criminals
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Going For the Brass Ring! at October 07, 2025 04:25 PM (L/fGl)

Hybristophilia has been a thing LONG before TikTok was even in itch in the CCP's pants. Dahmer, Ramirez, hell even Bundy.

Posted by: But sugar and spice and everything nice at October 07, 2025 04:28 PM (TbWk/)

253 "All we are saying, is give crime a chance." -- DNC

Posted by: Axeman at October 07, 2025 04:28 PM (krQz2)

254 "The Dems hate the Catholic Church."

Christians are threatened by a worldwide organized campaign of extermination. Not just by American Dems. The enemy is bigger than that.

It shouldn't be a big surprise. Matt 10:22 KJV:

"And ye shall be hated of all men for my name's sake: but he that endureth to the end shall be saved."

Posted by: gp at October 07, 2025 04:28 PM (qNqzk)

255 This bikini blonde had to take refuge on a boat to escape Democrat terrorism:
http://tiny.cc/k4kt001
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 07, 2025 04:24 PM (B2vkr)

A possible keeper! No tats or hardware box face. Is she above minimum size?
Posted by: Count de Monet at October 07, 2025 04:27 PM (wVcYX)

Look on the bright side. With one of those you always have a bottle opener.

Posted by: Oldcat at October 07, 2025 04:30 PM (8avO+)

256 239 The Democrats want a Catholic Church that resembles the Chinese Patriotic Association or the Russian Orthodox Church, i.e. one that's essentially an agency of the government and toes the party line.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 07, 2025 04:23 PM (tgvbd)

Despite that, the modernized Ukraine government is persecuting their own branch of Orthodox Christian.
Posted by: Oldcat at October 07, 2025 04:25 PM (8avO+)

And we must defend Democracy by supporting the Dictator in Ukraine who cancelled their elections, destroyed Free Speech, and Freedom of Religion, and outlawed other political parties...

Posted by: Romeo13 at October 07, 2025 04:30 PM (mP0Kj)

257 Senator Schiff and Schumer are outraged at this picture !!!!

They want more pictures of girls in Bikinis that look like Mazie Hirono or Liz Warren and face that was on fire and put out by an ice pick....

YOU FAT GIRL HATERS !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Posted by: Jackson at October 07, 2025 04:30 PM (xl8DV)

258 Is there any 4th amendment protections for phones used by gov't employees?
I understand that's probably a stupid question at this juncture, but someone should be going through the NSA database to get all this rot out of the DOJ.

Listen very carefully people: Cell Phones are not phones. They are 2 way radios. There is absolutely zero wire tap protection for conversations on these devices. ANYONE CAN LEGALLY LISTEN IN ON ANY CONVERSATION HELD OVER CELL PHONES, AND THAT INCLUDES TEXT MESSAGES. LAW ENFORCEMENT LISTENS TO CELL PHONE CONVERSATIONS REGULARLY.

Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at October 07, 2025 04:30 PM (Da7Vv)

259 ""At one point, investigators said, Geri positioned his thumb over the lighter and threatened to ignite a device; officers retreated and sought to regroup."

At that point he should have had the impression of a 9 mm gun barrel in the middle of his forehead.

"Go ahead fucker. Just try flicking your thumb"

Posted by: pawn at October 07, 2025 04:30 PM (9kses)

260 >>> Terrorist Attempts to Blow Up Mass Where Supreme Court Justices Were Gathered

Politicians with disproportionate power and little accountable would be obvious targets for terrorists.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at October 07, 2025 04:30 PM (/lPRQ)

261
The largest monument on the battlefield of Antietam commemorates Orderly Sgt McKinley taking coffee to the men on the battle line under fire.
Posted by: Oldcat at October 07, 2025 03:56 PM (8avO+)

Reminds me of Daniel Sickles, Union General, Congressman, Pimp, Enthusiastic Heterosexual (means he chased women), Prankster and Murderer (shot his wife's lover US Attorney for DC Barton Key in front of dozens in the middle of Lafayette Square a stone's throw from the White House. Acquitted of the crime and hailed as a hero, at least until he forgave his wife and took her back into his home. The public damned near lynched him.). Lost his leg at Gettysburg after almost losing the battle for the Union by disobeying orders.

Late in his life he was the primary advocate for preservation of the Gettysburg battlefield. Also, was the only Corps or above commander at the battle who wasn't honored with a statue.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at October 07, 2025 04:31 PM (y9nCu)

262 The real issue is not that the Democrats are "soft on crime." That's *a* problem to be sure, and a serious one, but the far more serious problem is that the Democrats openly sponsor and engage in terrorism. That isn't being "soft on crime."
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 07, 2025 04:23 PM (B2vkr)
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That does seem to cross the line to "aiding and abetting" crime.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 07, 2025 04:31 PM (IBQGV)

263 Once Mandami is elected and NYC gets mouth full of Marxism Ass....

Will like the taste left in their mouths ?????
Posted by: Jackson at October 07, 2025 04:26 PM (xl8DV)

Can't recommend.
Posted by: Monica Lewinsky at

Concur.

Posted by: Huma Abedin at October 07, 2025 04:31 PM (P7vXf)

264 Christians are threatened by a worldwide organized campaign of extermination. Not just by American Dems. The enemy is bigger than that.

It shouldn't be a big surprise. Matt 10:22 KJV:

"And ye shall be hated of all men for my name's sake: but he that endureth to the end shall be saved."
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Well we're only Christians on the prudish sex stuff. We don't want to believe our imaginary friend when he says let the illegals stay in the country and buy them houses.

Posted by: Axeman at October 07, 2025 04:31 PM (krQz2)

265 260 >>> Terrorist Attempts to Blow Up Mass Where Supreme Court Justices Were Gathered

Politicians with disproportionate power and little accountable would be obvious targets for terrorists.

Mostly Peaceful Large Cache of explosives found....
None Storey .... Next !!!!!!!!!!!!

Posted by: Jackson at October 07, 2025 04:32 PM (xl8DV)

266 "ANYONE CAN LEGALLY LISTEN IN ON ANY CONVERSATION HELD OVER CELL PHONES"

I'm pretty sure it's illegal. Doable, oh my yes! Legal, probably not, but they'd have a hard time catching you by mere passive eavesdropping.

Posted by: gp at October 07, 2025 04:32 PM (qNqzk)

267 Late in his life he was the primary advocate for preservation of the Gettysburg battlefield. Also, was the only Corps or above commander at the battle who wasn't honored with a statue.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at October 07, 2025 04:31 PM (y9nCu)

It would be hard to get the thing to stand up with one leg.

Posted by: Oldcat at October 07, 2025 04:33 PM (8avO+)

268 I keep wondering when America will finally slap down sharia law and Islam creep into the fabric of American freedoms. NYC will be an interesting case study.

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Someone posted a link a few threads ago (thatnewjerseyguy?) that showed a couple of Irish tourists who film and document various places. The two I watched were of Paris and London. They are very recent, within the last few weeks, I think. Both cities were horrifying. The complete squalor, the 3rd worldism, the muslims, the filth, the garbage, the graffiti. It was really astonishing. I knew it was bad. It's baaad. Those cities have been destroyed beyond recognition. I think the same thing will happen to NYC.

Posted by: Lady in Black at October 07, 2025 04:33 PM (qBdHI)

269 266 "ANYONE CAN LEGALLY LISTEN IN ON ANY CONVERSATION HELD OVER CELL PHONES"

I'm pretty sure it's illegal. Doable, oh my yes! Legal, probably not, but they'd have a hard time catching you by mere passive eavesdropping.
Posted by: gp at October 07, 2025 04:32 PM (qNqzk)

I think they got their phone records... I could be wrong

Posted by: It's me donna at October 07, 2025 04:33 PM (VE6XX)

270 Some guy hitting Paul Pelosi with a hammer: Right wing terrorism!

Some guy trying to blow up a Catholic Church with the conservative SC judges (he thought) inside: Hoohum local news story

Posted by: 18-1 at October 07, 2025 04:33 PM (sKqQm)

271 #231
I don't believe the Catholic Church is really against abortion, tranniemania, gender mutilation, antisemitism.

They're just waiting for an opportune time to make The Swerve.

You all should read that book: by Stephen Greenblatt.

Posted by: torabora at October 07, 2025 04:34 PM (wyEkt)

272 Some guy hitting Paul Pelosi with a hammer: Right wing terrorism!

Some guy trying to blow up a Catholic Church with the conservative SC judges (he thought) inside: Hoohum local news story

Posted by: 18-1 at October 07, 2025 04:33 PM (sKqQm)
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One person did something.

Posted by: Axeman at October 07, 2025 04:34 PM (krQz2)

273 ""At one point, investigators said, Geri positioned his thumb over the lighter and threatened to ignite a device; officers retreated and sought to regroup."

At that point he should have had the impression of a 9 mm gun barrel in the middle of his forehead.

"Go ahead fucker. Just try flicking your thumb"
Posted by: pawn at October 07, 2025 04:30 PM (9kses)

Needs a catch phrase that pops!

Posted by: Det. Harry Callahan at October 07, 2025 04:34 PM (wVcYX)

274 269 In Illinois, as in many states, merely tape-recording a phone call without the explicit permission of the other party is a serious felony.

Posted by: gp at October 07, 2025 04:35 PM (qNqzk)

275 Nood Ode to Wrinkle Noodle

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at October 07, 2025 04:35 PM (XvL8K)

276 Reminds me of Daniel Sickles, Union General, Congressman, Pimp, Enthusiastic Heterosexual (means he chased women), Prankster and Murderer (shot his wife's lover US Attorney for DC Barton Key in front of dozens in the middle of Lafayette Square a stone's throw from the White House. Acquitted of the crime and hailed as a hero, at least until he forgave his wife and took her back into his home.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at October 07, 2025 04:31 PM (y9nCu)

The acquittal was the first case of Temporary Insanity in US law at least. His lawyer was Edmond Stanton, later Secretary of War.

Posted by: Oldcat at October 07, 2025 04:36 PM (8avO+)

277 Couldn't they shoot the lighter out of his hand?

Posted by: fd at October 07, 2025 04:36 PM (vFG9F)

278 Family Home is in Vineland, NJ.

An obituary for Louis Geri, age 73, was published on Feb. 27, 2025. He appears to have been a fine gentleman. He graduated from Vineland High School in 1970, went to Columbia University where he spent 2 years before having to return home to care for the family grocery store.
He managed Shoprite in the community and was involved in teaching/working with young people. He had a wife and two sons, Lou and Sam.

The press seems to have mixed up the sons' names on some occasions. Sam, age 35, may have been a resident to TN and returned to New Jersey.

Lou, age 41, may have been a resident of ARIZONA, and also Oregon and New Jersey some years prior. (Emphasis added.)

He may be the same as reported to have set up dangerous devices on the steps of Cathedral of St. Matthew the Apostle. And, who knows, he may have returned to Vineland, NJ with the passing of his father.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at October 07, 2025 04:36 PM (NFX2v)

279 ANYONE CAN LEGALLY LISTEN IN ON ANY CONVERSATION HELD OVER CELL PHONES

Pretty sure that's illegal wiretapping. Now, does that mean cops and other third parties AREN'T unlawfully listening to cell phone conversations? Of course not. And does it mean the surveillance state isn't capturing and caching your movements using your cell signals/GPS? Of course not.

Posted by: Fourth amendment? Never heard of it. at October 07, 2025 04:36 PM (TbWk/)

280 Stephen Greenblatt > Jonathan Greenblatt

Posted by: gKWVE at October 07, 2025 04:37 PM (gKWVE)

281 Those cities have been destroyed beyond recognition. I think the same thing will happen to NYC.
Posted by: Lady in Black at October 07, 2025 04:33 PM (qBdHI)

NYC was already destroyed once in the 70s. A run of decent mayors brought it back for a time.

Posted by: Oldcat at October 07, 2025 04:38 PM (8avO+)

282 #269
Was a big deal many years ago when some 'civilians' listened in to some cell phone call by Speaker Gingrich using an off the shelf scanner.

Posted by: torabora at October 07, 2025 04:39 PM (wyEkt)

283 NOOD! Tay-Tay!

Posted by: Moonbeam at October 07, 2025 04:40 PM (rbKZ6)

284 Centre Daily Times, PENNSYLVANIA Google to pay Pennsylvania nearly $20M settlement, Shapiro says. Catch up on the case By Matt Hymowitz November 16, 2022

In part, Attorney General Josh Shapiro, who was elected last week as the state’s next governor, said Monday the $391.5 million, 40-state privacy settlement is the largest of its kind in U.S. history. “Right now, consumers are beholden to Google’s promise that Big Tech knows what’s best for users’ data,” Shapiro said in a statement. “Google’s impact on the lives of everyday Americans is pervasive — they have a responsibility to consumers to ensure that the data they collect is only obtained with express consent from the user. My office will continue to fight to ensure consumers can control when and how their personal data is collected.”

But PA adored them during C19 closure and tracking. 👍🤗

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at October 07, 2025 04:42 PM (NFX2v)

285 Stephen Greenblatt > Jonathan Greenblatt
Posted by: gKWVE at October 07, 2025 04:37 PM
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I have book in hand...it's Stephen Greenblatt

The Swerve. Interesting book. Worth your time. 2nd hand copies available cheap.

Posted by: torabora at October 07, 2025 04:42 PM (wyEkt)

286 I'm pretty sure it's illegal. Doable, oh my yes! Legal, probably not

No it is 100% legal. The FCC says so. You have zero expectation of privacy on a cell phone conversation, same as any other two way radio conversation. They are called WIRE taps for a very good reason. Cell phones also tell law enforcement exactly where you are through their GPS functions.

Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at October 07, 2025 04:49 PM (Da7Vv)

287 Was a big deal many years ago when some 'civilians' listened in to some cell phone call by Speaker Gingrich using an off the shelf scanner.

Yes, and absolutely nothing happened to those people because it wasn't illegal to do so.

Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at October 07, 2025 04:52 PM (Da7Vv)

288 I have a friend who says his wife is an archeologist because she is great at digging up the ancient past.

Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at October 07, 2025 05:01 PM (Da7Vv)

289 Geri positioned his thumb over the lighter and threatened to ignite a device; officers retreated and sought to regroup.
They should have drawn their weapons and shot him. We really have no idea how to deal with people who have destructive devices. (I'm assuming the device could be held in one hand, and that he hadn't already ignited the lighter.)

Posted by: GWB at October 07, 2025 05:28 PM (Dvcu+)

290 I'll take a wild leap here and say that Louis Geri is not his real name. I would do a DNA test on that sucker.

Posted by: wferrin at October 07, 2025 05:56 PM (8zVoY)

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