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The Morning Rant: Minimalist Edition

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Bombast and hyperbole are some of the hallmarks of president Trump's communication, but the reality of his administration's policies are quietly impressive.

For instance, this bit of news will get very little airplay among the savagely anti-Trump mainstream media, but it will be a concrete and powerful message to the people who must rely on the President for almost everything, including their lives!

America's Troops Come First as Commander in Chief Steps Up During Shutdown to Make Sure They Get Paid

"We have identified funds to do this, and Secretary Hegseth will use them to PAY OUR TROOPS," the president declared. He explained that "our Brave Troops will miss the paychecks they are rightfully due on October 15th," so he was compelled to act.

No big deal for the self-described intelligentsia who live in their cloistered communes on the Upper West Side and Hyde Park and Noe Valley, but a very big deal indeed for a young E4 with a pregnant wife. And perhaps a big deal for that E4's parents, who all of a sudden notice that the President of The United States actually gives a sh*t about the welfare of their son.

That's a powerful message, and one that will go completely unnoticed in those leftist enclaves, because they don't know a single person who is in the armed forces, and very probably don't even know anyone who has ever served!

It's difficult to get past the sound bites and the combative press conferences and find out what the President and his administration are doing. They are methodically dismantling the massive administrative state, and refocusing the government's attention on the people of the United States. Behind much of the loud braggadocio are carefully constructed policies that may not yield immediate results, but will nudge the leviathan in a better direction, while simultaneously flensing the fat from the government whale.

There is a long way to go, and it will take many years, but think of the incredible progress we have made already, less than nine months into President Trump's term!

[Crossposted at CutJibNewsletter and X/Twitter]. If you folks who are on X/Twitter would follow us it would be much appreciated!

Posted by: CBD at 11:00 AM




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1 It's lunch time

Posted by: Skip at October 14, 2025 11:00 AM (xatjc)

2 That's a powerful message, and one that will go completely unnoticed in those leftist enclaves, because they don't know a single person who is in the armed forces, and very probably don't even know anyone who has ever served!

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The Antideficiency Act gives the president unilateral power to maneuver funds around to fund what he considers essential?

Was this some kind of hidden knowledge?

Was it a secret?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 14, 2025 11:01 AM (GBKbO)

3 Legalinsurrection.com saw Hamas performing mass execution already

Posted by: Skip at October 14, 2025 11:02 AM (xatjc)

4 It's lunch time
Posted by: Skip


Wow, none of that "can be" ambiguity. Excellent.

Posted by: Bulg at October 14, 2025 11:02 AM (77rzZ)

5 If he has to cut entire departments scrape together the funds to pay the soldiers, so be it!

Posted by: t-bird at October 14, 2025 11:02 AM (DD6gL)

6 The bitching and moaning about this from the media will be instructional for those not paying attention.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at October 14, 2025 11:02 AM (Q4IgG)

7 If Trump and co are smart about this they can just keep paying right leaning groups during the shut down and leave the left unpaid.

This strategy from the left is mystifying. They NEED government dollars to function

Posted by: 18-1 at October 14, 2025 11:03 AM (sKqQm)

8 I work for a defense contractor. Will be furloughed Oct 27 if there is still a shutdown.

Posted by: Bitcoin Fixes Everything at October 14, 2025 11:03 AM (V6W16)

9 pay the guys with the guns first, that's just common sense

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at October 14, 2025 11:04 AM (xcxpd)

10 MONKEY!

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at October 14, 2025 11:04 AM (N1DT3)

11 I do sympathy with the military, It won't be much different now than when I was In that many have a hand to mouth existence

Posted by: Skip at October 14, 2025 11:04 AM (xatjc)

12 It continues to be astounding to see how upset the pro-ceasefire agitators are towards Trump's ceasefire.

And I think Candace is seriously brain damaged. The last couple days she's been posting things that have completely abandoned the land of Sanity.

Posted by: Tom Servo at October 14, 2025 11:04 AM (uWKK8)

13 The Antideficiency Act gives the president unilateral power to maneuver funds around to fund what he considers essential?

Was this some kind of hidden knowledge?

Was it a secret?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 14, 2025 11:01 AM (GBKbO)

Well we haven't had a real president in decades, so maybe so

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at October 14, 2025 11:04 AM (xcxpd)

14 I work for a defense contractor. Will be furloughed Oct 27 if there is still a shutdown.
____________________________

In the same boat. I understand all budget votes were cancelled for this week.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at October 14, 2025 11:05 AM (owbWv)

15 7 If Trump and co are smart about this they can just keep paying right leaning groups during the shut down and leave the left unpaid.

This strategy from the left is mystifying. They NEED government dollars to function
Posted by: 18-1 at October 14, 2025 11:03 AM (sKqQm)

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The idea that shutdowns sway elections more than a year out is Inside the Beltway fantasy.

Democrats jumping into it thinking that Republicans will get the blame and lead to a wipeout next year (or maybe even just for the VA and NJ elections) is them sniffing their own farts.

Especially when they can receive real policy losses with the OMB deciding that the $3 billion reserved for some project in MA-3 isn't worth it, especially if its not backed by statute.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 14, 2025 11:05 AM (GBKbO)

16 he Antideficiency Act gives the president unilateral power to maneuver funds around to fund what he considers essential?

Was this some kind of hidden knowledge?

Was it a secret?


The GOP never wanted to actually fight a shut down before this point...

Posted by: 18-1 at October 14, 2025 11:05 AM (sKqQm)

17 9 pay the guys with the guns first, that's just common sense
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at October 14, 2025 11:04 AM (xcxpd)

Always worked for me!

Posted by: Julius C. at October 14, 2025 11:05 AM (uWKK8)

18 My EBT better not get cut. Runnin' low on steak and lobstuh here. And somebody got to pay for all these kids!

Posted by: Laqueefah Jones at October 14, 2025 11:05 AM (oftw2)

19 13 Well we haven't had a real president in decades, so maybe so
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at October 14, 2025 11:04 AM (xcxpd)

========

That Trump didn't do this shit during the 35 day shutdown in his first term is a travesty.

I do think that this shutdown could end up playing so badly on a real policy term for Democrats that we don't see a shutdown again for years.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 14, 2025 11:06 AM (GBKbO)

20 Because of this decision, the roughly 1.3 million active-duty members of the military will see their well-earned pay, regardless of the ongoing impasse in Congress.

As it should be. 👍


Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at October 14, 2025 11:06 AM (NFX2v)

21 It's lunch time
Posted by: Skip


One mo owa. 😢

Posted by: rickb223 at October 14, 2025 11:06 AM (+A5KH)

22 This is a brilliant maneuver politically as well. It benefits a small, but loyal part of his base, it makes the rest of his base pleased and it infuriates the liberals because the pain of the shutdown is now born mostly by their base.

And as much as they complain about it, they can't sue him for doing it because of how bad it would look for them to take food away from the E4 and his pregnant wife.

Absolutely brilliant.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at October 14, 2025 11:06 AM (N1DT3)

23 Another part of all this - as welfare for illegals isn't being funded, it will persuade even more of them to self deport.

Posted by: 18-1 at October 14, 2025 11:08 AM (sKqQm)

24 22 This is a brilliant maneuver politically as well. It benefits a small, but loyal part of his base, it makes the rest of his base pleased and it infuriates the liberals because the pain of the shutdown is now born mostly by their base.

And as much as they complain about it, they can't sue him for doing it because of how bad it would look for them to take food away from the E4 and his pregnant wife.

Absolutely brilliant.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at October 14, 2025 11:06 AM (N1DT3)

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Conservatives have never actually cared about the "fallout" from shutdowns because the vast majority of the voting base for conservatives don't actually work directly for the government.

So, you have the few who do, who are caught between ideological support and personal loss who will be very vocal about effects, and then the other 99% who are just on board.

When one is advised by a bunch of Lockheed Martin revolving door execs, they're going to advise you a certain way.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 14, 2025 11:08 AM (GBKbO)

25 is them sniffing their own farts.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 14, 2025 11:05 AM


Why do you say that like it's a bad thing?

Posted by: Eric Swalwell (D-CA & Cuck-CCP) at October 14, 2025 11:08 AM (0sNs1)

26 I'm impressed by the way Trump and Russ Vought have begun surgically laying off certain departments which particularly support only Democrat Party goals.

Posted by: Tom Servo at October 14, 2025 11:08 AM (uWKK8)

27 Its been 13 days and 11 hours since you took your love away...

Posted by: Sinead O'Shutdown at October 14, 2025 11:09 AM (c13TP)

28
MUNKEY

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at October 14, 2025 11:09 AM (y9nCu)

29 > less than nine months into President Trump's term

It's so easy to forget that it's barely been the blink of an eye

Posted by: RandomDave at October 14, 2025 11:09 AM (aJQbY)

30 Legalinsurrection.com saw Hamas performing mass execution already
Posted by: Skip at October 14, 2025 11:02 AM (xatjc)

I saw someone point out that Hamas (and other Muslim terrorists) are the only "army" in the world that puts on civilian clothes during a war and then immediately puts on the uniforms when the war is over.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at October 14, 2025 11:09 AM (N1DT3)

31 26 I'm impressed by the way Trump and Russ Vought have begun surgically laying off certain departments which particularly support only Democrat Party goals.
Posted by: Tom Servo at October 14, 2025 11:08 AM (uWKK

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Trump 2.0 is a surgical approach to everything in ways that are in alignment with law even if out of alignment with lower court impulses.

All of the cuts will end up surviving appeals, though there will be appeals.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 14, 2025 11:10 AM (GBKbO)

32 From the last thread:

Take a Milwaukee abortion clinic’s recent Instagram post in which they offer supporters the opportunity (for a mere $10) to suggest a name for their new – wait for it – suction aspiration machine. You read that correctly. They are holding a naming contest for a machine whose sole purpose is to abort children.
Posted by: SMOD

Sucky McAuschwitz?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Going For the Brass Ring! at October 14, 2025 11:00 AM (L/fGl)


"Hillary Clinton"

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at October 14, 2025 11:10 AM (ufSfZ)

33
I saw someone point out that Hamas (and other Muslim terrorists) are the only "army" in the world that puts on civilian clothes during a war and then immediately puts on the uniforms when the war is over. /i]

They've got a dedicated group that will run to areas where their armed members were killed by a airstrike or similar that takes the weapons away and then claims they were "in a wedding party" or some such...and the FNM parrots their claims...

Posted by: 18-1 at October 14, 2025 11:10 AM (sKqQm)

34 Apparently, the "Feed and Forage Act" of 1861 allows for some limited payments to troops and for supplies in advance of appropriations.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at October 14, 2025 11:10 AM (Ts6bp)

35 Democrats and the Cato Institute are furious that Trump has found a way to pay the troops. Are they shopping for a district judge?

https://thehill.com/policy/defense/ 5553717-military-pay-controversy-trump/

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at October 14, 2025 11:10 AM (WagEk)

36 The idea that shutdowns sway elections more than a year out is Inside the Beltway fantasy.

Democrats jumping into it thinking that Republicans will get the blame and lead to a wipeout next year (or maybe even just for the VA and NJ elections) is them sniffing their own farts.

Especially when they can receive real policy losses with the OMB deciding that the $3 billion reserved for some project in MA-3 isn't worth it, especially if its not backed by statute.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 14, 2025 11:05 AM (GBKbO)

I'm fairly certain this is to affect the Virginia Gubernatorial race, but I could be over-thinking it.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at October 14, 2025 11:11 AM (N1DT3)

37 That Trump didn't do this shit during the 35 day shutdown in his first term is a travesty.

I do think that this shutdown could end up playing so badly on a real policy term for Democrats that we don't see a shutdown again for years.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 14, 2025 11:06 AM (GBKbO)

I agree. And it didn't happen in his first term because almost everyone inside his administration was working against him.

It is continually amazing to see the difference with an administration filled with people who are actually loyal to Trump. And I am overjoyed that they so quickly fire anyone who isn't up to snuff.

Posted by: Tom Servo at October 14, 2025 11:11 AM (uWKK8)

38 The Antideficiency Act gives the president unilateral power to maneuver funds around to fund what he considers essential?

Was this some kind of hidden knowledge?

Was it a secret?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 14, 2025 11:01 AM (GBKbO)


Just ignored by all previous administrations so they could use the troops as bargaining chips.

Also, responding to late comment from last thread... AFAIK, the subsidies were for ACA plans which include drug coverage. The prescription "plan eliminations and extreme premium hikes" are for Medicare part D and it's been driven, supposedly, by the IRA and fed regulations. Should be improved by Trump's Rx pricing changes.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 14, 2025 11:11 AM (ExV1e)

39 I only knew about 1 out of the 3 places the shitlib intelligentsia live. Am I a rube?

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at October 14, 2025 11:12 AM (zw9S9)

40 That Trump didn't do this shit during the 35 day shutdown in his first term is a travesty.

Some parts of Trump's first term were very, very disappointing. To the point where I favored the Meatball over Orangeman in the lead up to this last election.

But Trump really took his time away to learn and come up with a strategy and honestly really surprised me

Posted by: 18-1 at October 14, 2025 11:12 AM (sKqQm)

41

Exactly as it should be. We gave for you until it bled--literally.

Posted by: IRONGRAMPA at October 14, 2025 11:13 AM (vFbHf)

42 They should stop pay for Dem Senatorial and Congressional staffers. Most of them on the D side are old and decrepit and can't even find a bathroom without a staffer.

Posted by: runner at October 14, 2025 11:14 AM (g47mK)

43 Apparently, the "Feed and Forage Act" of 1861 allows for some limited payments to troops and for supplies in advance of appropriations.

Can we send military supply officers to LA, NYC, and SF to requisition needed supplies? Give the merchants there IOUs...

Posted by: 18-1 at October 14, 2025 11:14 AM (sKqQm)

44 I wouldn't put it past the Marxists to find one of their Commissar Judges to stop payments to military personnel

Posted by: Skip at October 14, 2025 11:14 AM (xatjc)

45 42 They should stop pay for Dem Senatorial and Congressional staffers. Most of them on the D side are old and decrepit and can't even find a bathroom without a staffer.
Posted by: runner at October 14, 2025 11:14 AM (g47mK)

=======

"Psssh. Katie Porter denied me air for 3 days, and I would still crawl over broken glass to wipe her ass."
-Congressional staffer

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 14, 2025 11:14 AM (GBKbO)

46 ‘ That's a powerful message, and one that will go completely unnoticed in those leftist enclaves, because they don't know a single person who is in the armed forces’

Their loyalties are with a different army: with their army of malcontents and domestic terrorists.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at October 14, 2025 11:15 AM (jbnUc)

47
I saw someone point out that Hamas (and other Muslim terrorists) are the only "army" in the world that puts on civilian clothes during a war and then immediately puts on the uniforms when the war is over.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at October 14, 2025 11:09 AM (N1DT3)




How long do you have to wait before summarily executing unlawful combatants under the Geneva and Hague conventions again? Need to plan the PPV broadcasts.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at October 14, 2025 11:15 AM (y9nCu)

48 (small print:

"O-9s not included. Get bent.")

Posted by: Warai-otoko at October 14, 2025 11:15 AM (06Hmj)

49 Some parts of Trump's first term were very, very disappointing.

Trump's 'team' were mostly traitors.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 14, 2025 11:16 AM (ExV1e)

50 Take the 800 generals and admirals and tell them they can either resign or enter the arena. Two men enter, one man leaves.

2 rounds of this should get us back to a reasonable number of senior officers

Posted by: 18-1 at October 14, 2025 11:17 AM (sKqQm)

51 Big astroturf no kings rally on Oct 18. Coordinated with dems shutting down the govt, of course.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at October 14, 2025 11:17 AM (zw9S9)

52 7
‘ This strategy from the left is mystifying. They NEED government dollars to function’

The left thought that they could manipulate the narrative and force Trump to cave.
It hasn’t happened so far.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at October 14, 2025 11:18 AM (jbnUc)

53 How long do you have to wait before summarily executing unlawful combatants under the Geneva and Hague conventions again? Need to plan the PPV broadcasts.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur


Wait? Oops.
We finished yesterday.

Posted by: rickb223 at October 14, 2025 11:18 AM (+A5KH)

54 Explain it to me like I got the vaxx for an order of French fries: why can't Congress push through regular appropriation bills during the shutdown?

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at October 14, 2025 11:19 AM (MhhhI)

55 Does anyone think that Donnie Two Scoops could have done this for the troops with Peelosi and the turtle running congress?

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at October 14, 2025 11:19 AM (GKLmo)

56 I'm honestly surprised that there has not been screeching about how Trump is paying the troops but the Office of Diversity isn't.

Posted by: NR Pax at October 14, 2025 11:19 AM (RjOoY)

57 >>>I wouldn't put it past the Marxists to find one of their Commissar Judges to stop payments to military personnel

Probably. No biggie, though. I'm a member of both USAA and Navy Federal Credit Union. Both are offering service members no interest loans in the event they are not paid.

That's just two that I am aware of, I'm sure there are others.

Posted by: one hour sober at October 14, 2025 11:20 AM (Y1sOo)

58 50 Take the 800 generals and admirals and tell them they can either resign or enter the arena. Two men enter, one man leaves.

2 rounds of this should get us back to a reasonable number of senior officers
Posted by: 18-1 at October 14, 2025 11:17 AM (sKqQm)

2 rounds? 4 at least.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at October 14, 2025 11:20 AM (xcxpd)

59 Trump gives the haters some shiny object to mewl at while he sneaks behind them and rams a fat green dildo up their asses

Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 14, 2025 11:20 AM (iFTx/)

60 52 7
‘ This strategy from the left is mystifying. They NEED government dollars to function’

The left thought that they could manipulate the narrative and force Trump to cave.
It hasn’t happened so far.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at October 14, 2025 11:18 AM (jbnUc)

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What are you talking about?

They forced Hegseth to resign because of Signal, Homan to resign because of the $50,000 retainer, and JD Vance to give up on his online dunking of the left because they made him look like a big, bearded baby.

It's working great!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 14, 2025 11:20 AM (GBKbO)

61 32
...You read that correctly. They are holding a naming contest for a machine whose sole purpose is to abort children.
Posted by: SMOD

Sucky McAuschwitz?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Going For the Brass Ring! at October 14, 2025 11:00 AM (L/fGl)

"Hillary Clinton"
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at October 14, 2025 11:10 AM (ufSfZ)

Monica Lewinsky

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at October 14, 2025 11:20 AM (N39Ws)

62 I had to buy a car battery yesterday,
20% tariff added on to the price, so $27 more.
American made battery almost $100 more so bought import.
Figured it paid the troops! I helped.

Posted by: torabora at October 14, 2025 11:21 AM (KtOUo)

63 "Hillary Clinton"
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at October 14, 2025 11:10 AM


Given the mechanism, I suggest the Kamala 5000.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 14, 2025 11:21 AM (kgE5c)

64 Does anyone think that Donnie Two Scoops could have done this for the troops with Peelosi and the turtle running congress?/i]

The current congressional leadership is the best the GOP has had in 20 years or so.

That isn't really a measure of how great Coryn and Johnson are, but a measure of how bad their predecessors were

Posted by: 18-1 at October 14, 2025 11:21 AM (sKqQm)

65 Explain it to me like I got the vaxx for an order of French fries: why can't Congress push through regular appropriation bills during the shutdown?
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at October 14, 2025 11:19 AM


Because ... reasons ...

Posted by: Chuck, Hakeem, John, and Mike at October 14, 2025 11:22 AM (0sNs1)

66 IT'S FUNNY BECAUSE 2-ROUND IS GENERAL MILLEY'S "STREET NAME".

Posted by: BEN ROETHLISSBERGER at October 14, 2025 11:22 AM (06Hmj)

67 64 The current congressional leadership is the best the GOP has had in 20 years or so.

That isn't really a measure of how great Coryn and Johnson are, but a measure of how bad their predecessors were
Posted by: 18-1 at October 14, 2025 11:21 AM (sKqQm)

======

"We have to support Mitch because he knows all the ins and outs of Senate rules."

*Mitch uses those rules to fuck us over for 10+ years*

"Oh, god...John Thune...Mitch acolyte...more of the same."

*Thune uses those rules to just get things done.*

Well, I did not expect that.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 14, 2025 11:22 AM (GBKbO)

68 2 rounds of this should get us back to a reasonable number of senior officers
Posted by: 18-1 at October 14, 2025 11:17 AM (sKqQm)

2 rounds? 4 at least.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo

At least Admiral Boorda had the decency to commit suicide!

Posted by: Tom Lantos at October 14, 2025 11:22 AM (oftw2)

69 37 That Trump didn't do this shit during the 35 day shutdown in his first term is a travesty.

I do think that this shutdown could end up playing so badly on a real policy term for Democrats that we don't see a shutdown again for years.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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I agree. And it didn't happen in his first term because almost everyone inside his administration was working against him.

It is continually amazing to see the difference with an administration filled with people who are actually loyal to Trump. And I am overjoyed that they so quickly fire anyone who isn't up to snuff.
Posted by: Tom Servo
====
Also makes a difference that Congress is not resisting Trump unlike 2017-2019 and that no fake Russia Russia investigation is going on to cover evil activity by the IC and FBI.

Posted by: whig at October 14, 2025 11:24 AM (WDjG6)

70 Flensing…. New word for me. Good descriptive word for what should be done to the administrative state!

Learn something new almost every day here….

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at October 14, 2025 11:24 AM (lepZb)

71 Abortion machine name:

Baal's Blaster
Moloch's Murderer
Eichmann's Annihilator

Posted by: 18-1 at October 14, 2025 11:24 AM (sKqQm)

72 That Trump didn't do this shit during the 35 day shutdown in his first term is a travesty.

I do think that this shutdown could end up playing so badly on a real policy term for Democrats that we don't see a shutdown again for years.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 14, 2025 11:06 AM (GBKbO)

Incentives work!

Yeah, Trump trusted bad people the first time around. He learned, oh he learned, the hard way though.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at October 14, 2025 11:24 AM (xcxpd)

73 65 Explain it to me like I got the vaxx for an order of French fries: why can't Congress push through regular appropriation bills during the shutdown?
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at October 14, 2025 11:19 AM

Because ... reasons ...
Posted by: Chuck, Hakeem, John, and Mike at October 14, 2025 11:22 AM (0sNs1)

=======

Senate can only do one thing at a time, and they're consumed with the CR drama.

House has gone home to put pressure on the Senate to resolve the CR drama.

Trump is making hay while the sun shines during the shutdown drama, and I'm here for it.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 14, 2025 11:24 AM (GBKbO)

74 That isn't really a measure of how great Coryn and Johnson are, but a measure of how bad their predecessors were
Posted by: 18-1


F Cornyn.

Posted by: rickb223 at October 14, 2025 11:24 AM (+A5KH)

75 Thx CBD. This sounds like one of those situations where the Dems can't remember all the laws they have passed or all the monies allocated. Let's see them scream about soldiers getting paid.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 14, 2025 11:25 AM (mO7bs)

76 71 Abortion machine name:

Baal's Blaster
Moloch's Murderer
Eichmann's Annihilator
Posted by: 18-1 at October 14, 2025 11:24 AM (sKqQm)

"Black-Out"

Posted by: Warai-otoko at October 14, 2025 11:25 AM (06Hmj)

77 At least Admiral Boorda had the decency to commit suicide!
Posted by: Tom Lantos at October 14, 2025 11:22 AM (oftw2)

He was capable of feeling guilt. That morality mostly gets hammered out of you before they let you put stars on your shoulder.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at October 14, 2025 11:25 AM (xcxpd)

78 "Bombast and hyperbole are some of the hallmarks of president Trump's communication, but the reality of his administration's policies are quietly impressive."

Best president ever. The audacity of Donald J. Trump is only 9 months old he has put Europe in its place as a fading has been, is in a full on confrontation with the Chicoms before it gets to the kinetic stage, has reordered the global economy in favor of the USA as it rightly should be based on the value of US economic output, is eradiating the Marxist green new scam and reasserting reliable energy to power the 21st century and American energy independence, is rebuilding US manufacturing and asserting the US as the technology leader for the next few centuries, re-established the US military as a lethal force that can and will when needed protect US interests, is erasing the federal administrative state and by doing so is cutting off the balls of a key source of the Left's political power, is in a low grade war with the Marxists over getting illegals out of the country, and is using the fullness of his audacity to go after, maybe solve, the intractable Middle East internecine tribalism and global terrorism.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convicitions at October 14, 2025 11:25 AM (LKdE6)

79 Senate can only do one thing at a time, and they're consumed with the CR drama.

House has gone home to put pressure on the Senate to resolve the CR drama.

Trump is making hay while the sun shines during the shutdown drama, and I'm here for it.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 14, 2025 11:24 AM (GBKbO)

I hope he's got far more firings and department eliminations planned.

The longer this shutdown goes on, the more he should make the left pay.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at October 14, 2025 11:26 AM (N1DT3)

80 Cheetos and Mountain Dew is still a thing. Mire Chardonnay?

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at October 14, 2025 11:26 AM (YlWIZ)

81 "Psssh. Katie Porter denied me air for 3 days, and I would still crawl over broken glass to wipe her ass."
-Congressional staffer
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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Not so much, she had one of the highest rates of turnover for congressional offices when she was there. Up there with whatshername that died from the Houston area.

Posted by: whig at October 14, 2025 11:26 AM (WDjG6)

82 ...You read that correctly. They are holding a naming contest for a machine whose sole purpose is to abort children.
Posted by: SMOD


M.O.L.O.C.H.: Machine Only Lops Off Children's Heads

Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at October 14, 2025 11:26 AM (OUMaO)

83 Trump should target the EPA for layoffs next.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at October 14, 2025 11:26 AM (MhhhI)

84 > That Trump didn't do this shit during the 35 day shutdown in his first term is a travesty.
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That shutdown was over funding for the border wall. Only "some" agencies, bureaus or departments were shuttered.

And the Republicans were onboard with the Democrats at that time. Lastly, the ability to do what Trump's doing now was likely never revealed to him. By Republicans or his staff. That's the travesty. IMO.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at October 14, 2025 11:26 AM (Q4IgG)

85 Abortion machine name:

Baal's Blaster
Moloch's Murderer
Eichmann's Annihilator
Posted by: 18-1 at October 14, 2025 11:24 AM (sKqQm)

"Black-Out"
Posted by: Warai-otoko at October 14, 2025 11:25 AM (06Hmj)


"T-4"

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at October 14, 2025 11:27 AM (ufSfZ)

86 Too bad we only get 4 years of this instead of the 8 we voted for. I pray Vance learns and can/will continue these policies.

Posted by: lin-duh: I'm offended! at October 14, 2025 11:27 AM (YDB6U)

87 Malapropisms Rile!

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at October 14, 2025 11:27 AM (YlWIZ)

88 House has gone home to put pressure on the Senate to resolve the CR drama.

Trump is making hay while the sun shines during the shutdown drama, and I'm here for it.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 14, 2025 11:24 AM (GBKbO)

I hope he's got far more firings and department eliminations planned.

The longer this shutdown goes on, the more he should make the left pay.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian
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The Senate is also confirming in batches most of his appointments since it is in session not doing anything other than votes on ending the shutdown.

Posted by: whig at October 14, 2025 11:27 AM (WDjG6)

89 Remember $5B for a wall is way too much...

>$5B to pay illegals to come here and get on welfare? Well, I'm sure we have some spare change somewhere

Posted by: The GOPe at October 14, 2025 11:27 AM (sKqQm)

90 79 I hope he's got far more firings and department eliminations planned.

The longer this shutdown goes on, the more he should make the left pay.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at October 14, 2025 11:26 AM (N1DT3)

=======

The government spends $17.5 billion a day and only takes in a fraction of that per day.

Every day draws down on the available funds.

Tick tock.

We won't get to 1914 levels of government when this is over, but we should get the smallest government we've seen since the...2010s.

Eh, it's something.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 14, 2025 11:27 AM (GBKbO)

91 Aborted baby McNuggets Machine

Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 14, 2025 11:28 AM (mO7bs)

92 I think it's always been possible (well, for over a century) for an administration to move funds on hand around to pay costs as it sees fit. Never have had to work with the nitty-gritty of the matter, but I know previous admins did so during appropriations gaps. Would think that tariff revenue would be a new helpful factor in the picture. Steadier than tax intake, which is highly cyclical and seasonal.

And regular appropriations bills face the same procedural barrier in the Senate, the requirement for 60 votes to proceed to consideration, so same things at work there as WRT a CR.

Posted by: rhomboid at October 14, 2025 11:29 AM (U/Byj)

93 We won't get to 1914 levels of government when this is over, but we should get the smallest government we've seen since the...2010s.

Eh, it's something./i]

I've often noted to left leaning LIVs that if Trump is completely successful the most you could expect to come from him is returning the government to its scale and scope of 2012, maybe 2008.

Posted by: The GOPe at October 14, 2025 11:29 AM (sKqQm)

94 Democrats and the Cato Institute are furious that Trump has found a way to pay the troops. Are they shopping for a district judge?


Boasberg forcing Trump to stop paying the military would be a PR disaster of epic proportions. It'd play well on BlueSky though, so I'm sure someone will attempt it.

Posted by: Ian S. at October 14, 2025 11:29 AM (2ocoG)

95 We won't get to 1914 levels of government when this is over, but we should get the smallest government we've seen since the...2010s.

Eh, it's something.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 14, 2025 11:27 AM (GBKbO)

I'd love if we could get back to 2007 spending levels.

I'd even take 2007 spending levels, adjusted for current population.

But our rulers are not serious people.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at October 14, 2025 11:30 AM (N1DT3)

96 Trump is making hay while the sun shines during the shutdown drama, and I'm here for it.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison

====

At some future point, at least 7 Dems are going to vote for a budget plan that PDT signs. I can't even guess how they're going to do that.

Posted by: 2009Refugee at October 14, 2025 11:30 AM (J5Lb6)

97 "Black-Out"
Posted by: Warai-otoko at October 14, 2025 11:25 AM (06Hmj)

"fucky-fucky, sucky-sucky"

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 14, 2025 11:30 AM (8zz6B)

98 Aborted baby McNuggets Machine

There's a family farmstand near me with a sign of a hen sitting on a nest, labeled "Farm Fresh Butt Nuggets."

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at October 14, 2025 11:30 AM (ufSfZ)

99 40
Some parts of Trump's first term were very, very disappointing. To the point where I favored the Meatball over Orangeman in the lead up to this last election.

But Trump really took his time away to learn and come up with a strategy and honestly really surprised me
Posted by: 18-1 at October 14, 2025 11:12 AM (sKqQm)

And he has surrounded himself with much better people. Especially his Chief of Staff.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at October 14, 2025 11:30 AM (N39Ws)

100 I remember when Shrub was elected and we expected him to cut the bloated then $2T budget.

HAHAHA looking back on it now...

Posted by: 18-1 at October 14, 2025 11:30 AM (sKqQm)

101 returning the government to its scale and scope of 2012, maybe 2008.
_-_
I want to believe that, but I don't. Government will continue growing.
Deport all of the illegal aliens.
End the H1-B Visa program.
No Chinese students.
Sue states with 2nd-amendment-violating laws for civil rights violations.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at October 14, 2025 11:31 AM (vd6bO)

102 IT'S FUNNY BECAUSE 2-ROUND IS GENERAL MILLEY'S "STREET NAME".
Posted by: BEN ROETHLISSBERGER

Ok. That one was funny.

Posted by: clarence at October 14, 2025 11:32 AM (UTVh+)

103 Take a Milwaukee abortion clinic’s recent Instagram post in which they offer supporters the opportunity (for a mere $10) to suggest a name for their new – wait for it – suction aspiration machine. You read that correctly. They are holding a naming contest for a machine whose sole purpose is to abort children.
Posted by: SMOD
****
The Bernie Sanders

Posted by: torabora at October 14, 2025 11:32 AM (KtOUo)

104 yum yum shit
yummy shit pebbles
in my mouth

Posted by: Aliassmithsmith at October 14, 2025 11:32 AM (8vDUP)

105 We won't get to 1914 levels of government
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 14, 2025 11:27 AM


You know who was 25 years old in 1914.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at October 14, 2025 11:33 AM (0sNs1)

106 Deport all of the illegal aliens.
End the H1-B Visa program.
No Chinese students.
Sue states with 2nd-amendment-violating laws for civil rights violations.


No foreign ownership of American farmland.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at October 14, 2025 11:33 AM (ufSfZ)

107 105 We won't get to 1914 levels of government
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 14, 2025 11:27 AM

You know who was 25 years old in 1914.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at October 14, 2025 11:33 AM (0sNs1)

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125 was Vic...

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 14, 2025 11:33 AM (GBKbO)

108 I remember when Shrub was elected and we expected him to cut the bloated then $2T budget.

HAHAHA looking back on it now...
Posted by: 18-1 at October 14, 2025 11:30 AM (sKqQm)

It's funny how the Democrats respect Republican Presidents more after they get out of office, but Republicans hate the Republicans more after they get out of office.

Ok, I really only have 3 Presidents to compare (Trump doesn't count since he's still in office, umm.. again...), and both of the hated ones are Bushes.... so maybe it was just the Bush family, rather than Republican presidents in general. But the Bushes really did suck.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at October 14, 2025 11:34 AM (N1DT3)

109 OT Just saw Letitia James running her gums at a NYC rally for the Commie Mayor candidate. I'm going on record there is only a 30% chance of her getting convicted, but a 100% chance she will be "Big Momma, Queen of the Yard" in wimmens prison if it goes down.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at October 14, 2025 11:34 AM (gm9Sb)

110 You know who was 25 years old in 1914.

Helen Thomas?

Posted by: Ian S. at October 14, 2025 11:34 AM (2ocoG)

111 I can't wait to shop at the Mamdani Grocery Store. Only in NYC. Should be sweet.

Posted by: Pudinhead at October 14, 2025 11:34 AM (AdHga)

112 returning the government to its scale and scope of 2012, maybe 2008.
_-_
How much did we spend in total last year, and how much did we spend in total last year.

More theater.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at October 14, 2025 11:34 AM (vd6bO)

113 I'd love if we could get back to 2007 spending levels.

I'd even take 2007 spending levels, adjusted for current population.

But our rulers are not serious people.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian
_________

Not long before that we were running a surplus for what, three or four years.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at October 14, 2025 11:35 AM (XvL8K)

114 You know who was 25 years old in 1914.

Charlie Chaplin?

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at October 14, 2025 11:35 AM (ufSfZ)

115 You know who was 25 years old in 1914.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at October 14, 2025 11:33 AM (0sNs1)

Charlie Chaplin?

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at October 14, 2025 11:35 AM (N1DT3)

116 But our rulers are not serious people.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at October 14, 2025 11:30 AM


Acksully, they're very serious; some are even deadly serious.

Just not for the same things you're serious about.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at October 14, 2025 11:35 AM (0sNs1)

117 A news story just came up telling me that the "mood" of the electorate will be shown in the 2 elections coming up in VA and NJ... If Republicans lose all is lost for Trump or something...

Posted by: It's me donna at October 14, 2025 11:35 AM (VE6XX)

118 You know who was 25 years old in 1914.

Charlie Chaplin?
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at October 14, 2025 11:35 AM (ufSfZ)

115 You know who was 25 years old in 1914.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at October 14, 2025 11:33 AM (0sNs1)

Charlie Chaplin?
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at October 14, 2025 11:35 AM (N1DT3)

WOW

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at October 14, 2025 11:35 AM (N1DT3)

119 110 You know who was 25 years old in 1914.
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Adolph?

Posted by: Pudinhead at October 14, 2025 11:35 AM (AdHga)

120 No foreign ownership of American farmland.
_-_

Amen to that!

Posted by: Don in SoCo at October 14, 2025 11:36 AM (vd6bO)

121 78 "Bombast and hyperbole are some of the hallmarks of president Trump's communication, but the reality of his administration's policies are quietly impressive."
=========
GWB--Islam is a religion of Peace
Obama--my grandmother was a typical white woman--if I had a son......
Biden--yelling while making no sense
Clinton--that depends on what the meaning of is....is. I did not have sex with that woman.....
GHWB--Kicked a little ass......

The truth is that politicians hate direct speech like a vampire does the cross. And their bombast comes out as fake and contrived just like GHWB claiming pork rinds were a favorite treat.

Trump's rhetoric matches what he is trying to accomplish unlike the bloviations,however erudite, that most presidents get from their comm staff.

Trump is more like Reagan's "Mr. Gorbachev--Tear Down This Wall"---"There you go again" etc. From a long sojourn in academia, I have grown to hate the 'discourse'. This discourse is no more than the nattering of the elite class to show class markers in a classless society.

Reagan and Trump earn the disdain of those who routinely toy with words and meanings in order to conceal rather than enlighten.


Posted by: whig at October 14, 2025 11:36 AM (WDjG6)

122 The Democrats always seem to find the funds to do their stupid shit. And note, the judiciary never bats an eye. So nobody ever questioned it before... thought it was just smoke and mirrors with the budget.

But now...

Posted by: Martini Farmer at October 14, 2025 11:36 AM (Q4IgG)

123 My newly-minted soldier grandson is grateful.

I'd rather not have the bombast but so far it's been worth it.

G'morning, Horde.

Posted by: creeper at October 14, 2025 11:36 AM (zFwIe)

124 Abortion machine name:

"Black-Out"
Posted by: Warai-otoko



Too on the nose.

Posted by: rickb223 at October 14, 2025 11:37 AM (+A5KH)

125 Acksully, they're very serious; some are even deadly serious.

Just not for the same things you're serious about.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at October 14, 2025 11:35 AM (0sNs1)

This is very true. They are serious about padding their own nests and ensuring their families' futures.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at October 14, 2025 11:37 AM (N1DT3)

126 Democrats and the Cato Institute are furious that Trump has found a way to pay the troops. Are they shopping for a district judge?


Boasberg forcing Trump to stop paying the military would be a PR disaster of epic proportions. It'd play well on BlueSky though, so I'm sure someone will attempt it.
Posted by: Ian S.

Tanned, rested, and ready!
-- Hawaiian judge

Posted by: Bulg at October 14, 2025 11:37 AM (77rzZ)

127 At least Admiral Boorda had the decency to commit suicide!
Posted by: Tom Lantos at October 14, 2025 11:22 AM (oftw2)

I was drinking coffee in an RTO class when the admin came and pulled the instructor into the passageway and told him the news. Flabbergastered was the word. We got the next couple days off to handle our grief. Still handling it.

Posted by: Eromero at October 14, 2025 11:37 AM (jgmnb)

128 Charlie Chaplin?
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at October 14, 2025 11:35 AM (N1DT3)

WOW/i]


He was the great dictator you had in mind right?

Posted by: 18-1 at October 14, 2025 11:37 AM (sKqQm)

129 I am so glad to be out of the Pentagon rat race right now.

Catch me on my new show, "My 400 Pound Life" on NBC, Saturdays at 7!

Posted by: Mark Milley, Former General, now a Colonel, Fired at October 14, 2025 11:37 AM (5AiAs)

130 A news story just came up telling me that the "mood" of the electorate will be shown in the 2 elections coming up in VA and NJ... If Republicans lose all is lost for Trump or something...

They're desperate for something to distract people from the ceasefire and other Trump wins.

Or as the Bee put it, "Dems vow to keep the government shut down until someone notices that it's shut down".

Posted by: Ian S. at October 14, 2025 11:37 AM (2ocoG)

131

More theater.

Ahem. Trying again.
How much did we spend in total last year, and how much did we spend in total THIS year.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at October 14, 2025 11:37 AM (vd6bO)

132 Be nice if the RIFs included some lower level courts.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead...Wearing Pants and Working at October 14, 2025 11:37 AM (luW68)

133 TJM, did you do any research on the Chesapeake Gun Boat Fleet?

Most naval history fans have heard of Oliver Hazard Perry, Thomas Macdonough and James Lawrence (“Don’t give up the ship!” and the big battles waged against the British on the Great Lakes in the War of 1812. But who has heard of Capt. Joshua Barney, who led the Chesapeake Flotilla during the War of 1812? A seasoned Navy veteran of the American Revolution, Captain Barney was responsible for identifying the weaknesses in the Royal Navy’s armada that was terrorizing Maryland and Virginia at the time.

Posted by: Pudinhead at October 14, 2025 11:38 AM (AdHga)

134 No foreign ownership of American farmland.



No solar panels on farmland.

Posted by: rickb223 at October 14, 2025 11:38 AM (+A5KH)

135 34 Apparently, the "Feed and Forage Act" of 1861 allows for some limited payments to troops and for supplies in advance of appropriations.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at October 14, 2025 11:10 AM (Ts6bp)

Trump has the best legal researchers...

Posted by: Nova Local at October 14, 2025 11:38 AM (tOcjL)

136 Jared Leto is in the news.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at October 14, 2025 11:39 AM (0sNs1)

137 Today' word for the day is flensing, as in flensing the fat.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at October 14, 2025 11:39 AM (ZmEVT)

138 You know who was 25 years old in 1914.

Helen Thomas?
Posted by: Ian S. at October 14, 2025 11:34 AM (2ocoG)


You have that backwards. She was 1914 in 25.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 14, 2025 11:40 AM (ExV1e)

139 P.S. CBD, I really liked this one. It flowed like a mountain stream. Thank you.

Posted by: creeper at October 14, 2025 11:40 AM (zFwIe)

140 KEN LEY TREATMENT or PUBLIC DEPOSITION -- GIVE EPSTEINS MONEY BACK or there will be TROUBLE....

Jamie Dimon: Our Investments for National Security
JPMorganChase plans a 10-year, $1.5 trillion initiative to shore up America’s resiliency.

Proof Positive Patriotism has become the last refuge of the Scoundrel, who not only enabled the Desperate and Deliberately Guilty, but made 300% profit off of it.

OFF COURSE he's willing *now* to give some of it back... Justice is Cash-Flow.

Posted by: MANFRED the Heat Seeking OBOE at October 14, 2025 11:40 AM (P+4+B)

141 Charlie Chaplin?
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at October 14, 2025 11:35 AM (N1DT3)

WOW/i]


He was the great dictator you had in mind right?
Posted by: 18-1

Wow, indeed. Charlie and Adolf were born only four days apart: Charlie on Apr. 16, 1889, and Adolf on Apr. 20.

Posted by: Bulg at October 14, 2025 11:40 AM (77rzZ)

142 117 A news story just came up telling me that the "mood" of the electorate will be shown in the 2 elections coming up in VA and NJ... If Republicans lose all is lost for Trump or something...
Posted by: It's me donna
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Pretty much all news is bullshit nowadays. For better or worse, Trump is going to be a 50-50 president for the rest of his term even if his policies earn an 80-20 approval.

His sin is showing the elites of both parties and in society that they have lied and manipulated the rest of the country by their implicit and explicit policies. Things can be done that the elites claim never could and things the elites claim never happened, Trump shines a flashlight of truth on them and finds out they lied.

Our best and brightest in much of society and government are repulsive lizard people that have little concern for the masses as they reserve their concerns for their bank accounts and social status.

Posted by: whig at October 14, 2025 11:40 AM (WDjG6)

143 ...and all this my-guy-versus-your-guy stuff is merely a distraction. Did you cut spending or not?

Posted by: Don in SoCo at October 14, 2025 11:40 AM (vd6bO)

144 Apparently, the "Feed and Forage Act" of 1861 allows for some limited payments to troops and for supplies in advance of appropriations.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at October 14, 2025 11:10 AM (Ts6bp)

Trump has the best legal researchers...
Posted by: Nova Local


There is precedence.
Go to LA. Take what you need.
Thanks General Sherman!

Posted by: rickb223 at October 14, 2025 11:41 AM (+A5KH)

145 > Be nice if the RIFs included some lower level courts.
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Which courts get their funding from DoJ? Those "should" be shuttered.

The administration oughta' look into that.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at October 14, 2025 11:41 AM (Q4IgG)

146 But who has heard of Capt. Joshua Barney, who led the Chesapeake Flotilla during the War of 1812? A seasoned Navy veteran of the American Revolution, Captain Barney was responsible for identifying the weaknesses in the Royal Navy’s armada that was terrorizing Maryland and Virginia at the time.
Posted by: Pudinhead
_________

He and his sailors were also the only troops who fought well at Bladensburg. Everybody else ran for it.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at October 14, 2025 11:41 AM (XvL8K)

147 Jared Leto is in the news.

For something besides being producer on a film where he gets cucked by multiple non-white girlbosses? Or just that.

Posted by: Ian S. at October 14, 2025 11:41 AM (2ocoG)

148 But who has heard of Capt. Joshua Barney, who led the Chesapeake Flotilla during the War of 1812? A seasoned Navy veteran of the American Revolution, Captain Barney was responsible for identifying the weaknesses in the Royal Navy’s armada that was terrorizing Maryland and Virginia at the time.
Posted by: Pudinhead
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I have a direct ancestor that served on that flotilla. From Maryland he was and got a veteran's land grant out of it.

Posted by: whig at October 14, 2025 11:42 AM (WDjG6)

149 There is precedence.
Go to LA. Take what you need.
Thanks General Sherman!
---------------
It was Sherman's Burn, Loot and Murder Shopping Spree that created the name 'bummer'. Stuff you learn.

Posted by: Pudinhead at October 14, 2025 11:42 AM (AdHga)

150 There is precedence.
Go to LA. Take what you need.
Thanks General Sherman!
Posted by: rickb223 at October 14, 2025 11:41 AM


Don't forget 'Burn the rest.'

Posted by: zombie William T. Sherman, USA Ret. at October 14, 2025 11:43 AM (0sNs1)

151 He and his sailors were also the only troops who fought well at Bladensburg. Everybody else ran for it.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba
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TJM was not so good at being actual commander in chief in the field. Didn't help he is illiterate.

Posted by: whig at October 14, 2025 11:43 AM (WDjG6)

152 Most naval history fans have heard of Oliver Hazard Perry, Thomas Macdonough and James Lawrence (“Don’t give up the ship!” and the big battles waged against the British on the Great Lakes in the War of 1812. But who has heard of Capt. Joshua Barney, who led the Chesapeake Flotilla during the War of 1812? A seasoned Navy veteran of the American Revolution, Captain Barney was responsible for identifying the weaknesses in the Royal Navy’s armada that was terrorizing Maryland and Virginia at the time.
Posted by: Pudinhead

Barney also led US Army troops at the disastrous Battle of Bladensburg, where the American defeat laid open the road to Washington.

Posted by: Bulg at October 14, 2025 11:43 AM (77rzZ)

153 109
‘ I'm going on record there is only a 30% chance of her getting convicted’

I hope you’re wrong. It would be so good for this country if that pig got locked up in the pen.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at October 14, 2025 11:43 AM (jbnUc)

154 No foreign ownership of American farmland.

No solar panels on farmland.
Posted by: rickb223 at October 14, 2025 11:38 AM (+A5KH)


Bill Gates required to wear a shock collar activated by an app which can be downloaded to any smart phone.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 14, 2025 11:43 AM (ExV1e)

155 No solar panels on farmland.
_-_
Right.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at October 14, 2025 11:44 AM (vd6bO)

156 Incidentally, someone's opened the wallet for an online smear campaign against anyone who says anything remotely negative about that Antifa movie. Kinda interesting.

Posted by: Ian S. at October 14, 2025 11:44 AM (2ocoG)

157 I have a direct ancestor that served on that flotilla. From Maryland he was and got a veteran's land grant out of it.
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The flotilla is findable. Most of it is in the wetlands as the river has found new ways to drain. Watched a documentary on it this weekend. Much moar entertaining than watching pro football which requires a flag every other play.

Posted by: Pudinhead at October 14, 2025 11:44 AM (AdHga)

158 Bill Gates required to wear a shock collar activated by an app which can be downloaded to any smart phone.

Hasan Piker will be excited to hear that you can put those on people now too.

Posted by: Ian S. at October 14, 2025 11:45 AM (2ocoG)

159 those leftist enclaves, because they don't know a single person who is in the armed forces, and very probably don't even know anyone who has ever served!

I wonder...
Could we somehow reverse the idea of a mercenary state, and re-carve our country into the Real America - which serves in the military, operates a very limited hierarchy of government, out-produces the world on everything - and the Client States - who live off our welfare and act as the necessary warm bodies for maintaining our sewage plants and media? They don't get to vote or anything, but we'll keep them safe and warm and fed.

Posted by: GWB at October 14, 2025 11:45 AM (2+/1D)

160 flensing the fat should be right in the middle of whatever stylebook ace is updating.

Posted by: paulnjax at October 14, 2025 11:45 AM (j5/wM)

161 No solar panels on farmland.
Posted by: rickb223
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Vertical installs of bi directional solar panels get about 70-80 percent of solar power as do those at a 30 percent southern facing. Make decent fences actually.

Posted by: whig at October 14, 2025 11:45 AM (WDjG6)

162 It's difficult deliberate to get past the sound bites and the combative press conferences and so they can't quit 20%ing long enough to find out what the President and his administration are doing.

Maybe.

Posted by: DaveA at October 14, 2025 11:45 AM (FhXTo)

163 Correction: Joshua Barney commanded sailors and marines at Bladensburg, not Army troops.

Posted by: Bulg at October 14, 2025 11:45 AM (77rzZ)

164 Too bad we only get 4 years of this instead of the 8 we voted for. I pray Vance learns and can/will continue these policies. Posted by: lin-duh: I'm offended!

Rubio is showing real leg when it comes to being centered on Trump's doctrines, can execute complex agendas in a complex environment, having the backbone to win, and is getting the experience to do battle internationally. His is contender.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convicitions at October 14, 2025 11:45 AM (LKdE6)

165 Bill Gates required to wear a shock collar activated by an app which can be downloaded to any smart phone.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 14, 2025 11:43 AM


I *like* this proposal.

Posted by: Melinda French Gates at October 14, 2025 11:46 AM (0sNs1)

166 117 A news story just came up telling me that the "mood" of the electorate will be shown in the 2 elections coming up in VA and NJ... If Republicans lose all is lost for Trump or something...

Posted by: It's me donna at October 14, 2025 11:35 AM (VE6XX)

So Dems are holding out til Nov 5, minimum, it seems...or so they are trying to get the media to peddle for them...

Posted by: Nova Local at October 14, 2025 11:46 AM (tOcjL)

167 Hasan Piker will be excited to hear that you can put those on people now too.
Posted by: Ian S. at October 14, 2025 11:45 AM (2ocoG)


It's funny watching him continue to deny it and people bringing out more and more video evidence.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 14, 2025 11:47 AM (ExV1e)

168 Trump has the best legal researchers...
Posted by: Nova Local at October 14, 2025 11:38 AM (tOcjL)

Everyone says there's no one better. I get other world leaders asking me "where did you get such good legal researchers?" No one finds legal researchers like me.

Posted by: President DJT at October 14, 2025 11:48 AM (N1DT3)

169 Rubio is showing real leg when it comes to being centered on Trump's doctrines, can execute complex agendas in a complex environment, having the backbone to win, and is getting the experience to do battle internationally. His is contender.

I like Rubio for Vance's VP as things stand.

Posted by: Ian S. at October 14, 2025 11:48 AM (2ocoG)

170 They don't get to vote or anything, but we'll keep them safe and warm and fed.
Posted by: GWB
======
Which is how Indian reservations used to be before 1920's. They don't have to pay taxes or obey state laws on reservations but they did not get to vote in state or federal elections. Aka Non Taxed Indians.

Convert blue cities to reservations under the old terms, have Congress recognize the Gimme Dats as a tribes such as the NYC tribe, the Atlanta tribe, the Memphis tribe, and return to the pre 1920's std.

Posted by: whig at October 14, 2025 11:48 AM (WDjG6)

171 Vertical installs of bi directional solar panels get about 70-80 percent of solar power as do those at a 30 percent southern facing. Make decent fences actually.
Posted by: whig


I know a lot of parking lots here in Texas that would benefit having them installed over the vehicle parking areas.

Posted by: rickb223 at October 14, 2025 11:48 AM (+A5KH)

172 I really liked this one. It flowed like a mountain stream. Thank you.

Posted by: creeper at October 14, 2025 11:40 AM (zFwIe)


My pleasure!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo [Flying the American Flag!] at October 14, 2025 11:48 AM (n9ltV)

173 168 Trump has the best legal researchers...
Posted by: Nova Local at October 14, 2025 11:38 AM (tOcjL)

Everyone says there's no one better. I get other world leaders asking me "where did you get such good legal researchers?" No one finds legal researchers like me.
Posted by: President DJT
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The best rhetoric is true at its core.

Posted by: whig at October 14, 2025 11:49 AM (WDjG6)

174 134 No foreign ownership of American farmland.



No solar panels on farmland.
Posted by: rickb223



Ding ding ding ding ding

Posted by: nurse ratched at October 14, 2025 11:49 AM (W2Pud)

175 and return to the pre 1920's std.
Posted by: whig

No one wants STD's from any era.

Posted by: Bulg at October 14, 2025 11:49 AM (77rzZ)

176 Abortion machine name:

"Black-Out"
Posted by: Warai-otoko



Too on the nose.
Posted by: rickb223 at October 14, 2025 11:37 AM (+A5KH)

Slap Chop. (You're going to love the nuts.)

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at October 14, 2025 11:50 AM (h7+Gp)

177 I like Rubio for Vance's VP as things stand.
Posted by: Ian S. at October 14, 2025 11:48 AM (2ocoG)

How will Rubio not drop from total exhaustion by 2028?? How many jobs is he doing? He’s everywhere…. If I were him I’d need a year of solid sleep

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at October 14, 2025 11:50 AM (FNvF+)

178 177 I like Rubio for Vance's VP as things stand.
Posted by: Ian S. at October 14, 2025 11:48 AM (2ocoG)

How will Rubio not drop from total exhaustion by 2028?? How many jobs is he doing? He’s everywhere…. If I were him I’d need a year of solid sleep
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at October 14, 2025 11:50 AM (FNvF+)

=======

He's gonna coach Penn State for the rest of the year, too.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 14, 2025 11:50 AM (GBKbO)

179 "WHY ARE WE HERE," Douglas cried, as the poo came out from his wiener in a long, thin strip.

It was weiner poop - which is the grossest poop of all.

Posted by: Scrotie McBoogerballs at October 14, 2025 11:51 AM (BI5O2)

180 Posted by: President DJT at October 14, 2025 11:48 AM (N1DT3)

Almost perfect hash for a sock?

Posted by: clarence at October 14, 2025 11:51 AM (UTVh+)

181 Kinda hoping Ace continues the All-Day Animal Cafe Thread like yesterday, but I think he used up all the cute videos.

Posted by: Moo Deng, Pygmy Hippo at October 14, 2025 11:52 AM (oftw2)

182 Abortion machine name:

Womb broom

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at October 14, 2025 11:52 AM (iGCkq)

183 Convert blue cities to reservations under the old terms, have Congress recognize the Gimme Dats as a tribes such as the NYC tribe, the Atlanta tribe, the Memphis tribe, and return to the pre 1920's std.
Posted by: whig at October 14, 2025 11:48 AM (WDjG6)

We could make it a requirement to bail out a city/state.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at October 14, 2025 11:52 AM (N1DT3)

184 179 "WHY ARE WE HERE," Douglas cried, as the poo came out from his wiener in a long, thin strip.

It was weiner poop - which is the grossest poop of all.
Posted by: Scrotie McBoogerballs at October 14, 2025 11:51 AM (BI5O2)

=======

Ohohh yeah, then why did Sarah Jessica Parker's butt-cheese end up in Scrotie's milkshake?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 14, 2025 11:52 AM (GBKbO)

185 I guess this *de facto* establishes that the executive can play accounting games with appropriated money.
With Congress losing the power of the purse, that's even less leverage they'll have to reopen the government.

The potency of this betrayal is precisely what makes this such an effective attack against the Constitution. We will accept dissolution of the ideals and institutions our nation was founded on after 2 weeks of pressure in the right place.

I feel sorry for the GS 12 at DFAS who will be holding the bag for criminal and civil prosecution on this for processing the payroll paperwork without congressional approval.

This administration knows that they need to reward loyalty like the mob if they're going to get people to continue to do illegal things for them.

Honestly if they can get away with this, they just took away the congress power. I wouldn't be surprised that they would dig into other agency funds to last another month.

The funniest part of this, is that the military is supposed to be protecting the Constitution. And now they are getting paid in the most unconstitutional way, and they are happy.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at October 14, 2025 11:53 AM (JCZqz)

186 BI5O2

Waqsn't that Banana Splits Guy's hash?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 14, 2025 11:53 AM (8zz6B)

187 Bill Gates required to wear a shock collar activated by an app which can be downloaded to any smart phone.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 14, 2025 11:43 AM

Genius!

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at October 14, 2025 11:53 AM (h7+Gp)

188 So, what exactly is the delta between actual federal spending last year and forecast expenditures this year - bet I could get some AI tool to lie about it.
FY 2025 $6.0 trillion $1.69 trillion $7.69 trillion
FY 2026 $6.1 trillion $1.69 trillion $7.79 trillion

From Duck.ai, and it involves forecasting mandatory spending, and all of the other caveats. No budget to go from, so, probably more noise.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at October 14, 2025 11:53 AM (vd6bO)

189 I like Rubio for Vance's VP as things stand.
Posted by: Ian S. at October 14, 2025 11:48 AM (2ocoG)

How will Rubio not drop from total exhaustion by 2028?? How many jobs is he doing? He’s everywhere…. If I were him I’d need a year of solid sleep
Posted by: LinusVanPelt


If you do what you love, you'll never work a day in your life.

Screwing over democrats would be like having a nuclear reactor inside of me.

Posted by: rickb223 at October 14, 2025 11:53 AM (+A5KH)

190 I know a lot of parking lots here in Texas that would benefit having them installed over the vehicle parking areas.
Posted by: rickb223
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If you include something like mylar reflectors on both sides, you get about another 10 percent and vertical installs are less affected by cloudy days.

You install a certain amount of vertical panels facing east and the others west and it evens out low output from solar using the typical 30 degree south facing early in the morning and late in the evening.

One use is that you can install verticals in fields and still harvest crops or have grazing by animals in between rows of solar panels. Sets up just like a fence.

Posted by: whig at October 14, 2025 11:53 AM (WDjG6)

191 185 185 I guess this *de facto* establishes that the executive can play accounting games with appropriated money.
With Congress losing the power of the purse, that's even less leverage they'll have to reopen the government.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the I

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"I had no idea that the Antifediciency Act existed! I would have disagreed with the shutdown theater if I had known that! I shall never reconsider my news sources, though."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 14, 2025 11:53 AM (GBKbO)

192 I know we're supposed to be vulgar here, but could we please stop with the gross scatological talk?

Posted by: Bulg at October 14, 2025 11:54 AM (77rzZ)

193 Keeping Rubio "busy" keeps him from running his mouth without thinking it through too much.

That, IMO, was one of his "issues."

Posted by: Martini Farmer at October 14, 2025 11:54 AM (Q4IgG)

194 185 Honestly if they can get away with this, they just took away the congress power. I wouldn't be surprised that they would dig into other agency funds to last another month.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at October 14, 2025 11:53 AM (JCZqz)

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Such a simple solution.

Vote for the clean CR.

Trump and Vought were saying they were going to do this for weeks before the shutdown happened.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 14, 2025 11:54 AM (GBKbO)

195 Rubio is changing the oil in two of my vehicles this afternoon-weather permitting.

Posted by: Lee Two-Stage Maxi Filter at October 14, 2025 11:54 AM (oftw2)

196 yum yum shit
yummy shit pebbles
in my mouth

Posted by: Aliassmithsmith at October 14, 2025 11:54 AM (8vDUP)

197 Don't say 'butt-cheese' in front of the children.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at October 14, 2025 11:55 AM (vd6bO)

198
"Useless Dick or, The Government Whale"

Herman Melville's Worst Novel


Posted by: naturalfake at October 14, 2025 11:55 AM (iJfKG)

199 Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions


Proof they have no clue how this country operates.

Posted by: rickb223 at October 14, 2025 11:55 AM (+A5KH)

200 Rubio is changing the oil in two of my vehicles this afternoon-weather permitting.
Posted by: Lee Two-Stage Maxi Filter

You know who else could change the oil in two vehicles in an afternoon?

Posted by: Bulg at October 14, 2025 11:55 AM (77rzZ)

201 I like Rubio for Vance's VP as things stand.
Posted by: Ian S. at October 14, 2025 11:48 AM

Same. I love JD's ability to connect with people. Rubio is more subdued but good in his own right. JD can go full Trump without making people think he's going full Trump. He learned from the master.

Posted by: Minnfidel at October 14, 2025 11:56 AM (ewjUl)

202 199 Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions


Proof they have no clue how this country operates.
Posted by: rickb223 at October 14, 2025 11:55 AM (+A5KH)

That's what you get if your sole news source is MSNBC

Posted by: It's me donna at October 14, 2025 11:56 AM (VE6XX)

203 "I had no idea that the Antifediciency Act existed! I would have disagreed with the shutdown theater if I had known that! I shall never reconsider my news sources, though."
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 14, 2025 11:53 AM (GBKbO)


Shorter...

Me stupid. Me have opinion me share on Reddit. Why not called Blueit?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 14, 2025 11:56 AM (ExV1e)

204 could we please stop with the gross scatological talk
_-_
I hope you don't mean those budget numbers upthread!

Kinda with you on that one, Bulg.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at October 14, 2025 11:56 AM (vd6bO)

205 We could make it a requirement to bail out a city/state.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian

Solves problems like dope, deviants, etc. Right now the rest of states with blue cities are at the mercy of their rotten boroughs and cheating in elections. Separate them and the deviants can go wild in the cities but the minute they step off reservation, then state law exists to restrain their drug and sex habits.

Cities and their legal systems are already ignoring state laws that that inconvenience them so formally recognizing that status would improve the rule of law elsewhere if not in the blue enclaves.

Posted by: whig at October 14, 2025 11:57 AM (WDjG6)

206 yum yum shit
yummy shit pebbles
in my mouth

Posted by: Aliassmithsmith at October 14, 2025 11:58 AM (8vDUP)

207 From the wiki on Barney at Bladensburg:

Barney's 300 sailors and 103 Marines nevertheless held off the British frontal attacks, launching counter-attacks armed with hand pikes and cutlasses, with cries of "Board'em! Board'em!". Eventually, as the British 1/4th and 1/44th Regiments enveloped their left flank, Barney ordered his men to retreat to avoid capture. Barney himself was badly wounded in the thigh with a musket ball and was taken prisoner. The British later congratulated Barney for his bravery and released him.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at October 14, 2025 11:58 AM (XvL8K)

208 @200 Queen Elizabeth II

Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 14, 2025 11:59 AM (mO7bs)

209 ASS needs to work on his haiku. The syllable count doesn't work out.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at October 14, 2025 11:59 AM (yy9ow)

210 You install a certain amount of vertical panels facing east and the others west and it evens out low output from solar using the typical 30 degree south facing early in the morning and late in the evening.

One use is that you can install verticals in fields and still harvest crops or have grazing by animals in between rows of solar panels. Sets up just like a fence.
Posted by: whig at October 14, 2025 11:53 AM (WDjG6)

There is a "solar farm" near Three Hills, Alberta, with tiltable panels in rows with the tilt axis running N-S. They face East in the morning, are horizontal during the midday hours, and face West in the afternoon. I guess they sacrifice peak output for a more even production level over the course of a day.

And if you knocked down the solar panels, and drilled a bunch of Horizontal Duvernay shale wells on the site, you would get far more energy than those damfool panels could ever deliver, and still be able to farm about 90% of the land area of the site.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 14, 2025 12:00 PM (8zz6B)

211 Be kind. ASS is obviously a retard.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at October 14, 2025 12:01 PM (MBfbo)

212 Say, any of you good people listen to Michael Yon? If so, what do you think of his stuff?

Posted by: Don in SoCo at October 14, 2025 12:01 PM (vd6bO)

213 But who has heard of Capt. Joshua Barney, who led the Chesapeake Flotilla during the War of 1812? A seasoned Navy veteran of the American Revolution, Captain Barney was responsible for identifying the weaknesses in the Royal Navy’s armada that was terrorizing Maryland and Virginia at the time.
Posted by: Pudinhead at October 14, 2025 11:38 AM (AdHga)

I'm directly related to Commodore Barney.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Time for the reckoning at October 14, 2025 12:01 PM (K9xEt)

214 189
‘ Screwing over democrats would be like having a nuclear reactor inside of me.’

You and me both. I hate those fuckers. The national debt will be paid off before we’re even with them.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at October 14, 2025 12:02 PM (jbnUc)

215 Barney's 300 sailors and 103 Marines nevertheless held off the British frontal attacks, launching counter-attacks armed with hand pikes and cutlasses, with cries of "Board'em! Board'em!". Eventually, as the British 1/4th and 1/44th Regiments enveloped their left flank, Barney ordered his men to retreat to avoid capture. Barney himself was badly wounded in the thigh with a musket ball and was taken prisoner. The British later congratulated Barney for his bravery and released him.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at October 14, 2025 11:58 AM (XvL8K)
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IIRR, they positioned a 24 pdr naval gun pointed right down the road the British were approaching on. They fired right down the column of troops and a single cannonball killed or wounded 120 men of the Colldstream Guards.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at October 14, 2025 12:02 PM (yy9ow)

216 "WHY ARE WE HERE," Douglas cried, as the poo came out from his wiener in a long, thin strip.

It was weiner poop - which is the grossest poop of all.
Posted by: Scrotie McBoogerballs at October 14, 2025 11:51 AM (BI5O2)

It's called the Poop Noodle. Which is separate and distinct from the wrinkle noodle.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Time for the reckoning at October 14, 2025 12:03 PM (K9xEt)

217 They fired right down the column of troops and a single cannonball killed or wounded 120 men of the Colldstream Guards.
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This is where bowling was invented.

Posted by: Pudinhead at October 14, 2025 12:03 PM (AdHga)

218 CBD is right, this is a big deal. Almost all of Pooky's time in the military was under Obama, so he had to deal with the "sequestration" nonsense. I had to go to the store and buy friggin pens for his unit because they didn't have the budget for office supplies.

Posted by: pookysgirl was happy to help however at October 14, 2025 12:04 PM (OKj00)

219 IIRR, they positioned a 24 pdr naval gun pointed right down the road the British were approaching on. They fired right down the column of troops and a single cannonball killed or wounded 120 men of the Colldstream Guards.

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Defilade, gentlemen. DEFILADE!!!

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at October 14, 2025 12:04 PM (MBfbo)

220 This is where bowling was invented.
Posted by: Pudinhead at October 14, 2025 12:03 PM (AdHga)
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Certainly a graphic demonstration of the effectiveness of enfilading fire.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at October 14, 2025 12:05 PM (yy9ow)

221 IIRR, they positioned a 24 pdr naval gun pointed right down the road the British were approaching on. They fired right down the column of troops and a single cannonball killed or wounded 120 men of the Colldstream Guards.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at October 14, 2025 12:02 PM


Sailors crossing the T.

Posted by: toby928 at October 14, 2025 12:07 PM (jc0TO)

222 That's what you get if your sole news source is MSNBC
Posted by: It's me donna

The Reddit posters I share probably complain MSNBC are right-wing corporatist sellouts.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at October 14, 2025 12:07 PM (JCZqz)

223 They fired right down the column of troops and a single cannonball killed or wounded 120 men of the Colldstream Guards.

And after we killed the guards, we seized all their delicious ice cream, which we still control today!

Posted by: Confused Moron at October 14, 2025 12:09 PM (JCZqz)

224 The Reddit posters I share probably complain MSNBC are right-wing corporatist sellouts.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at October 14, 2025 12:07 PM (JCZqz)

Remember how butthurt they all were that Mika and Joe kissed the ring?

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Time for the reckoning at October 14, 2025 12:10 PM (K9xEt)

225 Why do we have a loathsome retarded troll who repeatedly reminds us how much he likes the taste of shit?

Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 14, 2025 12:11 PM (iFTx/)

226 225 Why do we have a loathsome retarded troll who repeatedly reminds us how much he likes the taste of shit?
Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 14, 2025 12:11 PM (iFTx/)

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He may intend to say something else, but just fat fingers it.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 14, 2025 12:11 PM (GBKbO)

227 Why do we have a loathsome retarded troll who repeatedly reminds us how much he likes the taste of shit?
Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 14, 2025 12:11 PM



The shame is part of the kink.

Posted by: toby928 at October 14, 2025 12:11 PM (jc0TO)

228 The 44th Foot was also at Bladensburg, later wiped out to a man in Afghanistan.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at October 14, 2025 12:13 PM (XvL8K)

229 CBD, I missed this morning's Art Thread and am sorry I did. An intriguing choice today.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 14, 2025 12:13 PM (omVj0)

230 I love you. You love me.

Posted by: Barney the sailor at October 14, 2025 12:14 PM (63Dwl)

231 ASS-troll must be really retarded if he believes that any of us even get to read his droppings, since they get changed in near-real time for the shit pebble haiku.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 14, 2025 12:14 PM (8zz6B)

232 Nood Biden

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Time for the reckoning at October 14, 2025 12:14 PM (K9xEt)

233 S**t-for-brains NOOD

Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at October 14, 2025 12:15 PM (w9Wax)

234 Bombast and hyperbole are some of the hallmarks of president Trump's communication, but the reality of his administration's policies are quietly impressive.

i saw bombast open for hyperbole at the hallmark bowl back in the naughties.

Posted by: anachronda at October 14, 2025 12:16 PM (v3pYe)

235
Bill Gates required to wear a shock collar activated by an app which can be downloaded to any smart phone.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 14, 2025 11:43 AM

Genius!
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacon


Sign me up for this!

Let's make his nickname "Twitchy"!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars(TM) - what makes you think you are in charge? at October 14, 2025 12:17 PM (xG4kz)

236 https://is.gd/D2Oynw

@Whiplash437
BOOM. The Great Reclamation has begun. The Supreme Court just restored Trump's constitutional power to remove rogue commissioners from federal agencies. For the first time in ninety years, the President can clean house. The walls of bureaucratic tyranny are cracking.

Since 1935, the presidency has been a hostage. A hidden ruling called Humphrey's Executor v. United States....

10:49 PM - Oct 10, 2025


How did I miss this??? Well anyway...

HA HA!

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at October 14, 2025 12:17 PM (ULPxl)

237 I guess this *de facto* establishes that the executive can play accounting games with appropriated money.
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These would be the same people who saw no problem with Biden taking FEMA funds to house and feed illegals in New York City.

While American citizens spent the winter in tents in North Carolina.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at October 14, 2025 12:17 PM (hgDHZ)

238 And if you knocked down the solar panels, and drilled a bunch of Horizontal Duvernay shale wells on the site, you would get far more energy than those damfool panels could ever deliver, and still be able to farm about 90% of the land area of the site.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
========
Apples and oranges.

If one is going to have a fence, then what is the problem with having it generate electricity. Plus, having a separate energy source controllable by individuals is also useful against supply shocks. One of the conclusions of Talib's Black Swan book is that multipoint resilience should be pushed rather than single sourcing.

We see that efficiency argument as empty when China, for example, can threaten the rest of the world over rare earth minerals simply because the West shut down their mines and research on extraction because the Chicoms could do it cheaper so why worry.

And shale oil is better used as motor vehicle fuel than to generate electricity. If you are arguing for fossil fuels, coal is a better use for electricity than oil as converting coal to fuel consumes more energy and generates some nasty byproducts.

Posted by: whig at October 14, 2025 12:18 PM (WDjG6)

239 @Whiplash437
BOOM. The Great Reclamation has begun. The Supreme Court just restored Trump's constitutional power to remove rogue commissioners from federal agencies. For the first time in ninety years, the President can clean house. The walls of bureaucratic tyranny are cracking.

Since 1935, the presidency has been a hostage. A hidden ruling called Humphrey's Executor v. United States...
---
Read an article earlier today, in a panic, trying to find another justification for a Constitutional scheme that permits the Legislative the power to limit the authority of the Executive to fire.

They are seizing upon the "necessary and proper" clause. And trying to add that to the "advise and consent."
That is, since the Constitution grants the Legislative the power to do that which is necessary and proper to enact their legislation, that extends to limiting how the Executive can fire those hired.

But again, as I've said, if that was the intent, the Constitution would not need an Executive, as their scheme makes the Executive office a mere Administrator for Congress.
This continues their flawed reading of the "take care" clause, as well.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at October 14, 2025 12:27 PM (hgDHZ)

240 /i]
Posted by: (sKqQm)

Somebody got a real problem with their '[' key.

Posted by: GWB at October 14, 2025 01:03 PM (2+/1D)

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