The Morning Report

The Morning Report — 10/15/25

Good morning kids. And so with the ceasefire so-called "peace" agreement signed and delivered in Gaza, President Trump laid down the law.

President Donald Trump said on Tuesday that Hamas terrorists would lay down their weapons, or the United States would “disarm them.”
Speaking to reporters during a roundtable with Argentinian President Javier Milei at the White House, Trump said that Hamas has already promised to disarm, which was a major demand in the president’s 20-point peace plan. “They’re going to disarm because they said they were going to disarm,” Trump said. “And if they don’t disarm, we will disarm them.”
“How will you do that?” a reporter asked. “I don’t have to explain that to you, but if they don’t disarm, we will disarm them,” Trump reiterated. “They know I’m not playing games.”

With all due respect to the President, color me highly skeptical. Even if this ceasefire holds for any appreciable length of time, the problem isn't necessarily Hamas nor its caches of weapons. The issue was and always will be Islam. You can disarm Hamas and every other armed Muslim, unless and until you deprogram them and successive generations of Muslims from what the Koran tells them is their duty on this Earth — the death or submission of every infidel on Earth — then despite the blessed liberation of the innocents they held captive and abused for two years, All of this is destined to happen again, perhaps even worse than before.

As I've stated many times, I hold no illusions about Islam reforming itself but perhaps, this next item might hold out a kernel of hope, however subatomic it may be that even some segments of the much talked about Muslim/Arab street might be ripe for change.

With the U.S.-brokered ceasefire providing a breather, Hamas terrorists have crawled out of their tunnels and fanned out into the streets of Gaza — massacring political rivals and opposing Arab clans to reestablish their reign of terror. It is worth noting that the massive Hamas tunnel network was exclusively for terrorist warfare, and not to shield a single Gaza civilian during the two-year-long war.

Despite the 5 times a day yammering of the Imams and even louder and harder on Fridays about how evil the Jews are, perhaps the truth of who really is the source of their misery as illustrated by this piece, might one day have the salutary effect of breaking through and raising some consciousnesses . Tribalism, xenophobia and hatred are unfortunately a part of human nature. In fits and starts we have somehow managed over the past 2,000 years to generally advance to a level where most people do believe or at the very least aspire to the goal of Live and Let Live. Of course, wars and revolutions and other base desires notwithstanding in that time have dragged us backwards, but the direction has nevertheless has always been towards the light of God and truth.

Evil persists as it always has and human nature being what it is, always will. We must always be on our guard to fight it as well as protect whatever sparks of humanity there are the crop up in the most unexpected place, to try and encourage them.

On that note, one of the brightest sparks here in this country who was taken from us all too soon by the very same sort of retrograde forces I mentioned above, was recognized for his service in advancing the cause of freedom.

President Donald Trump will award Charlie Kirk the Medal of Freedom today at 4 PM ET. You can watch the livestream below. Today would have been Charlie’s 32nd birthday.
Erika, Charlie’s widow, will attend the ceremony along with those associated with his organization Turning Point USA.

God bless Charlie Kirk's memory. We sure could use a whole lot more like him. And that said, Kirk came onto the sene during the dark days of the Obama years when we seemingly thought we had lost his generation to the insanity of Leftist/Socialist/progressivism and yet he came to the fore and inspired many young people to return to God and also to open their eyes and minds to the insanity all around us. And he along with others helped propel Donald Trump and the MAGA movement forward. That momentum I hope and pray is still with us.

Have a good day!

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ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY LINKS

Erika, Charlie’s widow, will attend the ceremony along with those associated with his organization Turning Point USA.
Trump Awards Medal of Freedom to Charlie Kirk
Honoring an American hero.
Charlie’s Courage
A new level of coercion in the climate war.
Weaponizing Ticks: Academics Propose Meat Allergy to Fight Climate Change

CIVIL WAR 2.0: J-6 FBI FALSE FLAG "RIOT" & AFTERMATH, LEFTIST PERSECUTIONS, DEMOCRAT PUTSCH, AMERICAN DISSOLUTION

Harris said, “At President Trump’s Antifa roundtable last week, Schweitzer’s colleague Seamus Bruner sharing with the administration what they found so far, pointing to guy investigations showing coordination across cities like Portland and Seattle involving people who are paid to participate in the unrest, naming some major funding sources like George Soros, his Open Society Foundations.”
Schweizer: Trump Administration Will Use IRS to Find Antifa Funding
It knows no bounds.
Democrat Blood Lust
Just where is the proverbial line drawn for behavior, words spoken, or actions of a candidate to disqualify him for elected office?
What Would it Take for Democrats to Withdraw Support from Jay Jones?
Had he even a modicum of self-awareness, Obama would’ve realized how ridiculous, hypocritical, and flat-out dangerous his accusations were. Which means, of course, he’ll never realize it.
Obama Accuses Trump of Wanting to ‘Steal’ and ‘Rig the Next Election’

ISRAEL AND USA vs Hamas, IRAN, et al
"They know I'm not playing games."
Trump: Hamas ‘Will Disarm’ Or ‘We Will Disarm Them’ (The only way is to burn every Koran on the planet - jjs)
Gaza woman: “They’re dragging people away, children are screaming and dying, they’re burning our houses. What did we do wrong?”
“They’re Dragging People Away”: Hamas Begins Mass Executions as Israeli Military Withdraws From Gaza
The Trump-designed peace plan calls for the immediate return of all remaining hostages from Gaza
Trump, Israel Pile on Pressure as Hamas Fails to Return Hostage Bodies
The guns are silent, relief supplies are being poured into Gaza, IDF troops have withdrawn to agreed areas and the 20 surviving hostages have been released, along with four of the 28 bodies of the dead, the others to be returned when they are found by Hamas. That spikes the most powerful weapon Hamas had.
Trump’s Gaza plan has resulted in a ceasefire — but the devil lies in the details going forward
President Donald Trump was heralded Monday as a hero by a grateful Israel that rejoiced in the return of the last living hostages.
The Man The Left Calls A ‘Nazi’ Just Signed A Peace Deal Protecting Millions Of Jews
As long as Israel allows its enemies to use hostages as leverage, it will never be able to live in peace.
Never Again: Exchanging Vicious Terrorists For Innocent Hostages
For two years, beginning within hours of the October 7 attack on Israel, we’ve incessantly heard the “genocide” of Gaza's civilians needs to stop. Where are the celebrations among pro-'Palestinian' protesters?
Why the 'Anti-Genocide' Dog Didn't Bark

AMNESTY, IMMIGRATION, BORDER SECURITY, NEWSOM/DEMOCRAT VIOLENT INSURRECTION RIOTS
“These criminal networks are not just resisting the rule of law, they are waging an organized campaign of terror against the brave men and women who protect our borders and communities,” Noem said in a statement...
Feds Reveal Mexican Drug Cartels Placing Bounties on ICE Agents with Help from Antifa, Latin Kings
"This incident is not isolated."
Rioters In Chicago Hurl Rocks At Feds After Illegal Immigrant Rams Border Patrol Car
Increased scrutiny of platforms enabling doxxing and violence against ICE agents, alongside legal actions against people targeting federal law enforcement.
Facebook Shuts Down Group Targeting ICE Agents.
The deportation highlights ongoing enforcement of immigration laws and the consequences for illegal immigrants engaging in criminal activity.
DEPORTED: Illegal Alien Who Organized Anti-ICE Protests.
A case that should have been thrown out immediately for lack of evidence supporting blue states’ claims is now being appealed to the Supreme Court.
Records: Blue States Can’t Provide Any Evidence To Defend Anchor Baby Citizenship
DOMESTIC AFFAIRS, THE COURTS, WASTE/FRAUD/ABUSE
Van Hollen said, “I’ve now voted seven times in the Senate, and will vote an eighth time this evening, to keep the federal government open, but to do so without giving Donald Trump a total blank check to continue his illegal activities, which, from day one, have harmed federal employees, and to deal with the healthcare crisis that is about to be triggered because Republicans left a ticking time bomb on health care. (Destroyed by Obamacare! - jjs)
Van Hollen: We Won’t Vote to Open Government Because Trump’s Firing Government Employees

CRIME & PUNISHMENT, NON-DOSTOYEVSKY
More than 100 people were involved in a street takeover that included racing vehicles and trying to attack police cruisers with fireworks, cones, poles, among other items, just after 2:00 a.m. on October 5, the Boston Police Department told Fox News.
Report: Boston ‘Street Takeover’ Ends with Police Cars in Flames
Gunshot-detection technology can help police departments if they use it properly.
Is ShotSpotter Effective?
THE ECONOMY, STUPID
JPMorganChase on Monday launched a $1.5 trillion initiative to ensure America’s resiliency in key industries such as rare earth minerals and artificial intelligence.
JPMorganChase Launches $1.5 Trillion Plan to Boost American Manufacturing Critical to National Security

WE-ALL-SLAM-FOR-I-SLAM
Robert Spencer: The Byzantine Empire stood against jihad, and thereby saved the West, for 800 years.
The Bulwark

FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUES, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER TECH
The “banned books” lie is still being spread.
Book Ban Baloney Lives On

RED-GREENS, CLIMATE CHANGE HOAX, DEMOCRAT-LEFT WAR ON FOSSIL FUELS,
Robert Zimmerman: "...the important takeaway from this story is that the scientists who claim to know what is going to happen simply don’t know anything. They are guessing, because as the paper above admits, the Earth’s weather and climate are incredibly complex, and our understanding of it is still in its infancy. Remember this when you read the next 'We’re all gonna die!' prediction touted in the propaganda press."
The hurricane season in 2024 confounded the predictions again
Unwinding the twisted "truths" of the global warming activists.
Checking In On The Climate: Here Are A Few Facts

EDUCATION, AND WHAT PASSES FOR IT
Equal Protection Project to take legal action: “The attacks on him serve as a deterrent to other students who may want to come forward, particularly Israeli or Jewish students who may be afraid that if they do complain about discrimination, their name is going to appear in public and they will be subject to potential threats.”
Israeli Cornell Student Who Prevailed On Discrimination Complaint Against Anti-Zionist Prof. Eric Cheyfitz Doxxed
Ismael Jimenez, who oversees Philadelphia schools' social studies curriculum, has discussed his adoration for Shakur for over a year
Top Philadelphia Public School Official Posts Tributes to Fugitive Cop-Killer Assata Shakur

THE 2020 and SUBSEQUENT ELECTION HEISTS , SHENANIGANS/FRAUD and AFTERMATH
Now is the time to put an end to mystery ballot deliveries in Amazon boxes by enacting voter ID in Maine. Real democracy requires trustworthy elections, and trustworthy elections require voter ID
Woman Finds 250 Ballots In Amazon Box As Maine Dems Fight Voter ID Law
Something was very wrong with Georgia’s 2020 election conduct, and the state—especially in Fulton County—must improve to ensure election integrity.
My Conversation With Georgia Election Expert Garland Favorito
DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST AND RINO SCANDALS, MESHUGAS, CHUTZPOCRISY
According to the outlet, the money was given to a businesswoman named Fay Beydoun, who has for quite some time been a supporter of Democrat candidates, according to Bridge Michigan.
Democrat Donor Faces Embezzlement Probe over $20M Grant from Gretchen Whitmer’s Administration
POLITICS
Abigail Spanberger appears to view Harris' famous quote as so idiotic that she has looped Sears saying it in multiple ads.
Virginia Dem Hits Opponent For Saying Something Dumb. She Was Quoting Kamala Harris.
The new ranking by The Institute of Legislative Analysis (ILA) expanded and updated the “Trump Score” first fashioned by the now bygone FiveThirtyEight.com, looking at both Republican and Democratic lawmakers’ alignment with Trump’s policies, the ILA press release said.
New ‘Trump Score’ Rankings Expose GOP Lawmakers Who Break With President’s Policies
The new large, independent, and unaffiliated voting bloc may well decide the 2026 governor’s race, so perhaps there is hope the state will elect as governor someone less odious than Katie Porter.
California’s Democrat Drought: Only 190 New Voters After Months of Effort
Silicon Valley’s billionaires are breaking ranks with Democrats, signaling the possible collapse of the party’s once-unshakable “upstairs-downstairs” coalition.
The Up-Down Coalition Is Turning Red
Red-state rubes who cling to their guns and religion need a Democrat who owns a gun and clings to his Bible.
A new Beto named James
The city council’s dysfunction could thwart similar reforms nationwide.
Portland’s Troubled Proportional Representation Experiment
FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL
“The strike was conducted in International Waters, and six male narcoterrorists aboard the vessel were killed in the strike.”
Trump Announces Another Strike on Drug Boat Near Venezuela
Unlike the U.S. model of power projection, China’s military-civil fusion leverages seemingly commercial assets and supply chain dominance – such as operating the Panama Canal or owning the refining and processing nodes on which Argentine lithium mines depend – to secure overseas economic interests and accrue coercive power.
Trump’s Dept. of War Must Respond to China finding new allies in Brazil and Peru
While Washington preached climate virtue, Moscow and Beijing built power plants. It’s time for America to reenter Africa’s energy arena with realism, technology, and true partnership.
American energy diplomacy can spur human flourishing in Africa and counter Beijing and Moscow

DEFENSE, MILITARY, SECURITY AFFAIRS
“The idea of taking the profit motive out of war is not new.”
Nationalize the Defense Industry
ACTUAL SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY
Similarly, the Swarm data has shown the South Atlantic Anomaly, a major weak area of the field above South America near the equator, has grown significantly eastward towards Africa. That change is important for satellite operations, as spacecraft passing through it experience higher levels of radiation.
Swarm satellite constellation detects changes in the Earth’s magnetic field during the past decade
I remain very skeptical of any claim that relies on gravitational lensing, because though it is a real phenomenon the uncertainties are so great any detailed conclusions from the data — such as this one — are always suspect. That it was further used to detect a “dark matter” object makes me even more skeptical.
Astronomers detect lowest mass dark object ever measured using gravitational lensing
FEMINAZISM, TRANSGENDER PSYCHOSIS, HOMOSEXUALIZATION, WAR ON MASCULINITY/NORMALCY
Can Colorado ban treatment that helps kids overcome gender dysphoria?
Chiles v. Salazar: a Defining Test for the First Amendment
The comments came in an order released by the high court on Tuesday that listed which pending lower court cases it will and will not be taking up in its 2025-2026 term. Among the cases rejected by the justices was Lee v. Poudre School District R-1, which centers around a lawsuit brought by two sets of parents against the Colorado-based Poudre School District R-1.
Alito Scolds Lower Courts For Dodging Cases On Schools ‘Transing’ Kids Behind Parents’ Backs
The report, authored by Eric Kaufmann, director of the centre and professor of politics at the University of Buckingham, found that transgender and queer identification has dropped sharply among young Americans in Generation Z since 2023. Kaufmann analyzed troves of data from recent surveys about gender and sexuality, including the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE) survey, and surveys from elite institutions like Andover Phillips Academy in Boston and Brown University.
Report: Transgender Identification in ‘Free Fall’ Among Young Americans
Two sets of parents with minor children at Wellington Middle School in Poudre School District R-1 asked the High Court to revive their lawsuit after lower courts dismissed the case on procedural grounds without considering the merits of the case. The parents argued the “District Secrecy Policies” usurp their parental rights in violation the Fourteenth Amendment’s Due Process Clause.
SCOTUS Rejects Case About Colorado School Hiding Sex Transitions from Parents

CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE
Pope urges “true ecological conversion” and calls for wealth redistribution.
Pope Leo May Be the Most Radical Pope Yet
Why documentary about America's school closures deserves fair hearing
’15 Days’ and Hollywood’s Free Speech Dilemma
HITHER & YON
And isolation and loneliness were recurring themes among NDE sufferers.
70% of people who have a near-death experience make this change — even more than getting a divorce

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1 Its Hump Day

Posted by: r hennigantx at October 15, 2025 07:28 AM (gbOdA)

2 Yonder Horde

Posted by: Martini Farmer at October 15, 2025 07:29 AM (Q4IgG)

3 Thank you, JJ!

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at October 15, 2025 07:29 AM (hGA0Z)

4 Howdy JJ!

Posted by: Doof at October 15, 2025 07:29 AM (k/Pkr)

5 Academics Propose Meat Allergy to Fight Climate Change

No jury would convict me. And naturally, the academics will be allowed to eat meat because they Care So Hard for us and sacrifice for the greater good.

Posted by: NR Pax at October 15, 2025 07:30 AM (svLOV)

6 good morning JJ, Horde

Posted by: callsign claymore at October 15, 2025 07:30 AM (x923d)

7 Trump indicated that a large donor had offered to pay the troops if necessary

Posted by: SMOD at October 15, 2025 07:30 AM (nsTJH)

8 Thx JJ! You rock!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at October 15, 2025 07:30 AM (kHop/)

9 Doof, top o' the mornin' to ya

Posted by: callsign claymore at October 15, 2025 07:30 AM (x923d)

10 And good morning one and all. As I mentioned earlier, today is the second of three injections into my knee. With luck the pain will subside and I can avoid the possibility of getting a replacement knee.

Posted by: NR Pax at October 15, 2025 07:31 AM (svLOV)

11 Good morning horde!

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 15, 2025 07:31 AM (ExV1e)

12
g'mornin' again, 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at October 15, 2025 07:31 AM (tljrc)

13 Academics Propose Meat Allergy to Fight Climate Change

… I’ve known people who couldn’t eat beef

Posted by: SMOD at October 15, 2025 07:31 AM (nsTJH)

14 Meow

Posted by: Lurking Cheshirecat at October 15, 2025 07:32 AM (w3u3d)

15 As David Bernstein said, the important thing about this deal isn't if Hamas is going to comply. It's that Iran is off the field and Turkey, Qatar, and Egypt are all sick of Hamas' shit and/or sufficiently afraid of The Donald to act in public like they are.

Posted by: Ian S. at October 15, 2025 07:33 AM (aUxYo)

16 Doof, top o' the mornin' to ya
Posted by: callsign claymore at October 15, 2025 07:30 AM (x923d)

Howdy, Double C!

Posted by: Doof at October 15, 2025 07:33 AM (k/Pkr)

17 Socialist New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani said there is no room for pro-Israel voters within his coalition, arguing that fellow Democrats should not make "an exception" for people who are "progressive except Palestine."

Posted by: SMOD at October 15, 2025 07:33 AM (nsTJH)

18 I’ve known people who couldn’t eat beef

They're called lesbians.

Posted by: Ian S. at October 15, 2025 07:34 AM (aUxYo)

19 Weaponizing Ticks: Academics Propose Meat Allergy to Fight Climate Change

And they call us Nazis.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 15, 2025 07:34 AM (ExV1e)

20 10 And good morning one and all. As I mentioned earlier, today is the second of three injections into my knee. With luck the pain will subside and I can avoid the possibility of getting a replacement knee.
Posted by: NR Pax at October 15, 2025 07:31 AM (svLOV)

Good luck and fingers crossed.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at October 15, 2025 07:34 AM (x0n13)

21 One of the four bodies handed over to Israel by Hamas does not belong to an Israeli hostage but to a Gazan, a security official said following identification attempts at the Abu Kabir Forensic Institute.

Posted by: SMOD at October 15, 2025 07:35 AM (nsTJH)

22 What Would it Take for Democrats to Withdraw Support from Jay Jones?

They'll be shocked at his comments as soon as he loses an election.

Will to Power is the first commandment in the Democrat's religion.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 15, 2025 07:36 AM (ExV1e)

23 "Hamas terrorists have crawled out of their tunnels and fanned out into the streets of Gaza — massacring political rivals and opposing Arab clans to reestablish their reign of terror. "

So long as the Arabs fight tribe against tribe, so long will they be a little people, a silly people - greedy, barbarous, and cruel.

Posted by: Lawrence at October 15, 2025 07:36 AM (vFG9F)

24 Did we ever see a final count on how many people attended the charlie kirk funeral or watched it online?

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at October 15, 2025 07:36 AM (0N4FZ)

25 Good morning JJ and horde

Posted by: Skip at October 15, 2025 07:37 AM (xatjc)

26 Weaponizing Ticks: Academics Propose Meat Allergy to Fight Climate Change
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This is insidious and insane.

These people will not be satisfied until the entire human race is eliminated.

The ticks shall inherit the earth.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 15, 2025 07:37 AM (IBQGV)

27 They'll be shocked at his comments as soon as he loses an election.

Will to Power is the first commandment in the Democrat's religion.

Yeah, although the fact that they think they can win while saying they're going to kill kids is pretty crazy.

Posted by: Ian S. at October 15, 2025 07:38 AM (aUxYo)

28 Sure do hope the shut down goes on and on and on.

Seems no one is missing the federal leviathan like the federal leviathan and the moochers and looters therein.

Make the shut down permanent and save everyone a lot of heartburn.

Posted by: Neil Boortz at October 15, 2025 07:38 AM (Hsed0)

29 Mandani wins its good bye NY

Posted by: Skip at October 15, 2025 07:38 AM (xatjc)

30 The only way is to burn every Koran on the planet - jjs

Islam is a degenerate religion, it's true, but it can be lived with. All that is required is for muslims to be restricted to muslim countries and for Christendom - and Israel - to let them know that the instant they look like they might be getting out of line, the territory held my muslim countries will shrink. And it will continue shrinking until they all live in a single tower in Mecca.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 15, 2025 07:39 AM (ExV1e)

31 Until it all crashes in debt

Posted by: Skip at October 15, 2025 07:39 AM (xatjc)

32 Hamas failed to make good on its end of the Trump-designed Gaza peace plan on Tuesday, returning just 4 of the 28 bodies it agreed to release as part of the first phase of the agreement.

And 1 of the 4 is NOT an Israeli hostage.

Posted by: r hennigantx at October 15, 2025 07:39 AM (gbOdA)

33 An unknown bacteria on Earth has developed in the Chinese space station: astronauts are faced with a situation straight out of a science fiction movie.

Posted by: SMOD at October 15, 2025 07:40 AM (nsTJH)

34 Trump indicated that a large donor had offered to pay the troops if necessary

Hegseth said it's not necessary. Also apparently some Democrats have been dumb enough to say it's bad that the troops are being paid. Like, what?

Posted by: Ian S. at October 15, 2025 07:40 AM (aUxYo)

35 What did we do wrong?

You should have sided with the Israelis.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 15, 2025 07:40 AM (ExV1e)

36
A new level of coercion in the climate war.
Weaponizing Ticks: Academics Propose Meat Allergy to Fight Climate Change

Those academics are just begging to be removed from humankind, aren't they? Soulless ghouls, they are, and of a kind with the "run gas pumps more slowly" to make matters seemingly "more fair" for EVs v ICEs.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars(TM) - what makes you think you are in charge? at October 15, 2025 07:41 AM (xG4kz)

37 I think ticks are pretty well weaponized on their own. They really don't need our help to be any more of a nuisance.

The idiots floating this idea need to be buried alive.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at October 15, 2025 07:42 AM (Q4IgG)

38 Reporter To Hakeem Jeffries: Aren't Obamacare Subsidies An 'Indictment There's A Problem With It?

Posted by: SMOD at October 15, 2025 07:42 AM (nsTJH)

39 How many Progressives were celebrating international indigenous peoples day with the Israelis?

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at October 15, 2025 07:43 AM (hGA0Z)

40 Good morning everyone. Thx JJ.
It's not surprising to see the anti Israeli crowd completely ignoring the slaughter of Palestinians by Hamas. The Jews aren't involved , you see.
My way of looking at it is Muslims slaughtering other Muslims. It's horrible but it should be educational for everyone who isn't Islamic. But the lesson will be ignored

Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 15, 2025 07:46 AM (mO7bs)

41 Good morning, J.J.
Good morning, Horde.

Posted by: Inogame at October 15, 2025 07:47 AM (53oGX)

42 When the data disagrees with theory you adjust the data until it agrees, you might be a pseudoscientist.
If you think consensus is a good way to establish scientific truth, you just might be a pseudoscientist.
If you refuse to debate with anyone that disagrees, you might be a pseudoscientist.
If your principal arguments consist of abuse, insults, and smearing the opposition, you just might be a pseudoscientist.
If you blacklist scientists that disagree with your opinions, you just might be a pseudoscientist.
If you ever use the phrase “the science is settled,” you just might be a pseudoscientist.
If you ever use the phrase the “science says,” you might be a pseudoscientist.
If you think correlation proves causation, you might be a pseudoscientist.
If you only use data that supports your theory while ignoring any data that disproves it, you just might be a pseudoscientist.

Posted by: SMOD at October 15, 2025 07:47 AM (nsTJH)

43 “How will you do that?” a reporter asked. “I don’t have to explain that to you, but if they don’t disarm, we will disarm them,” Trump reiterated. “They know I’m not playing games.”

My guess is that in today's surveillance state, intelligence agencies know who the suppliers are, know the intermediary money sources, and can disrupt the supply chains by making it extremely difficult and costly to continue to support the Hamassholes.

The Department of War and the State Department do not need to rely on the utterly worthless DOJ to take down the financiers and other bad actors that need to be removed.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at October 15, 2025 07:47 AM (a4flb)

44 New ‘Trump Score’ Rankings Expose GOP Lawmakers Who Break With President’s Policies

Ted Cruz - 90%
John Cornyn - 69%

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 15, 2025 07:48 AM (ExV1e)

45
An unknown bacteria on Earth has developed in the Chinese space station: astronauts are faced with a situation straight out of a science fiction movie.
Posted by: SMOD

If this is true, I'm positive that we will be told that the unknown bacterium arose "by accident". It's what CCP scientists do.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars(TM) - what makes you think you are in charge? at October 15, 2025 07:48 AM (xG4kz)

46 “A crowd began to form and as federal authorities were leaving the scene, CPD members attempted to de-escalate the situation for the safety of everyone, including ~~community members~~ Terrorist Sympathizers who were gathering at the location.

fixed it

Posted by: r hennigantx at October 15, 2025 07:48 AM (gbOdA)

47 Mornin’, All. Happy Wednesday.

Posted by: Bulg at October 15, 2025 07:48 AM (77rzZ)

48 Democrats are using the shutdown to avoid testifying in multiple investigations, including the Clinton's visits to Epstein Island, Biden's dementia, Biden's autopen, FBI corruption, etc.

That's why we are where we are. No government funding, no sworn testimony. Gives them time to strategize and coordinate their talking points.

Posted by: Sam Adams at October 15, 2025 07:49 AM (X+xvk)

49 ... you just might be a pseudoscientist.

Which pretty much leaves applied sciences.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at October 15, 2025 07:49 AM (a4flb)

50 2025 CBO Budget Review Shows We Can’t Afford To Extend ‘Temporary’ Obamacare Subsidies

.. perhaps a tax on Democrat campaign donations

Posted by: SMOD at October 15, 2025 07:50 AM (nsTJH)

51 >>Obama Accuses Trump of Wanting to ‘Steal’ and ‘Rig the Next Election’

Suggested headline change: Dog Eater Blows the Dog Whistle

Posted by: one hour sober at October 15, 2025 07:50 AM (Y1sOo)

52 Democrats are using the shutdown to avoid testifying in multiple investigations, including the Clinton's visits to Epstein Island, Biden's dementia, Biden's autopen, FBI corruption, etc.

None of those things, even if fully "investigated" would result in real criminal prosecutions and penalties.

Look elsewhere. They truly believe, because there is a mountain of evidence, that the GOP will concede and give all budgetary and regulatory power back to the minority party.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at October 15, 2025 07:52 AM (a4flb)

53 Pope Leo May Be the Most Radical Pope Yet

Two South American commie Popes in a row (yeah, I know Leo was born in the US... sort of). JPII is spinning in his grave.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 15, 2025 07:54 AM (ExV1e)

54 Time for this morning's entertainment. Here's the video of Alec Baldwin's tree encounter:

x.com/stillgray/status/1978182057483190776

Some say he was trying to pass on the right. I think he might have been following too close at a high rate of speed and tried to avoid a collision with the garbage truck by swerving right.

Alcohol may have been involved.

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at October 15, 2025 07:55 AM (/HDaX)

55 Good morning dear horde and happy birthday JJ

"They know I'm not playing games."

Oh?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 15, 2025 07:56 AM (qD9Ib)

56 Also apparently some Democrats have been dumb enough to say it's bad that the troops are being paid.

If that clip exists, it needs to be placed in proximity to their other slip in saying that the money is needed to underwrite illegal aliens' medical bills, including genital mutilation surgery for those in prison.

Wouldn't hurt to keep reminding people that the US was only a mere $1Trillion in debt when Chuck Schumer began his "service" to America in Babylon DC.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at October 15, 2025 07:57 AM (a4flb)

57 I agree it’s Islam that’s the root of the problem.
But that’s one big-ass root to pull out if the ground.

Is it even possible to remake a religion practiced by over a billion people that’s been around for well over a thousand years?

We can’t even get rid of Marxism and it’s not even hit 200 years old and keeps coming back from the dead every time we get a handle on it.

It took hundreds of years and quite a few wars to compkete a reformation of Christianity. And all that really boiled down to was schisms and removing the Catholic church as an extension of the state.

I’m not sure if Islam can be reformed in the same way anytime soon. It seems the thinking is to bring them some prosperity and maybe they’ll chill out a little as the best we can hope for in the short term.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 15, 2025 07:57 AM (6ydKt)

58 One major coping mechanism stood out among the rest — almost 70% of participants reported a shift in their religious or spiritual beliefs and their fears of death in the aftermath of their NDE.

Reportedly, a significant number of Muslims who have a NDE become Christian.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 15, 2025 07:57 AM (ExV1e)

59 My mother's penis tastes of Nadler's colostomy bag

Posted by: Aliassmithsmith at October 15, 2025 07:57 AM (1tV9u)

60 Nicely-executed PIT maneuver by the ICE agent in Chicago. The two shitbirds were bailing out as the SUV was still in its spin.

Posted by: one hour sober at October 15, 2025 07:58 AM (Y1sOo)

61 Have a great day as well, brother JJ.

I am hoping Trump is threatening the funding to nefarious groups via NGO's and foreign sourcing like I assume he did in Trump 1.0. There was peace.

I'd also like to think Trump is essentially telling the ME to "Stop this shit" like he did in his 2017 speech to the Arabs.

Posted by: Danimal28 at October 15, 2025 07:58 AM (1E4GV)

62 DOGE says that it has created $210 billion in taxpayer savings

Posted by: SMOD at October 15, 2025 07:58 AM (nsTJH)

63 Yeah, although the fact that they think they can win while saying they're going to kill kids is pretty crazy.
Posted by: Ian S. at October 15, 2025 07:38 AM (aUxYo)

He won't kill my kids. He'll kill that bitch Heather's kids. -- Karen McAWFL

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 15, 2025 08:00 AM (ExV1e)

64 “Let everything that has breath praise the Lord.
Praise the Lord.”

Psalm 150:6

Posted by: Marcus T at October 15, 2025 08:01 AM (iiQg8)

65 The report, authored by Eric Kaufmann, director of the centre and professor of politics at the University of Buckingham, found that transgender and queer identification has dropped sharply among young Americans in Generation Z since 2023.

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Well, this is certainly good news. I hope the trajectory continues. It's crystal clear that this tranny identification was and is purely a social contagion among young people. Any idiot could've seen that, as cases exploded into the stratosphere over the last 5+ years for that age group. An age group, btw, who was saturated, inundated and propagandized into believing it was real and would solve all of their angst. Let's hope this ridiculous nonsense is finally sent to the bowels of hell where it belongs.

Posted by: Lady in Black at October 15, 2025 08:01 AM (qBdHI)

66 My way of looking at it is Muslims slaughtering other Muslims. It's horrible but it should be educational for everyone who isn't Islamic. But the lesson will be ignored
Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 15, 2025 07:46 AM (mO7bs)

Not unlike certain, specific, episodes of violence in this country.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 15, 2025 08:03 AM (ExV1e)

67 If this is true, I'm positive that we will be told that the unknown bacterium arose "by accident". It's what CCP scientists do.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars(TM) - what makes you think you are in charge? at October 15, 2025 07:48 AM (xG4kz)

They were enjoying some pangolin soup when they found it.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 15, 2025 08:04 AM (ExV1e)

68 Weaponizing Ticks: Academics Propose Meat Allergy to Fight Climate Change

These two academics need to be disappeared. That level of evil should not be allowed to walk free on this earth.

Allergy to meat? News Flash: Human beings are a form of meat.

Basically they want a insect spread illness that will genocide everyone who is exposed to ticks, which I'm sure does not effect the limousine and private jet crowd, but does effect people who enjoy the wooded outdoors or have domestic pets who can bring the disease home to them.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at October 15, 2025 08:05 AM (a4flb)

69 Leidy Tatiana Mafla-Martinez, a 24-year-old illegal alien from Colombia known for her vocal criticism of U.S. immigration enforcement on social media, was deported on October 8, according to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).

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Good. Now that this b*tch has been deported, she should never be allowed entry into the country again.

Posted by: Lady in Black at October 15, 2025 08:05 AM (qBdHI)

70 Weaponizing Ticks: Academics Propose Meat Allergy to Fight Climate Change

Who underwrites this sort of research? Why can't they be disappeared too?

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at October 15, 2025 08:06 AM (a4flb)

71 So even as Sears rolled out ad after ad that criticized Spanberger by showing her responses when asked about policy positions, the most damaging thing Spanberger could attribute to Sears, even after four years as lieutenant governor, was something that was actually said by the Democrats’ presidential nominee, with Spanberger falsely giving the impression that it was a Sears quote.

Posted by: SMOD at October 15, 2025 08:06 AM (nsTJH)

72 Let's hope this ridiculous nonsense is finally sent to the bowels of hell where it belongs.
Posted by: Lady in Black at October 15, 2025 08:01 AM (qBdHI)

I’m hope so, too.
But I believe once medical technology improves to a certain point, it will become far too easy to change genders and all of this will come back with a vengeance in a decade or two.

It won’t be long before biomedical 3D printers are ubiquitous and then it’s off to the races.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 15, 2025 08:06 AM (6ydKt)

73 DOGE says that it has created $210 billion in taxpayer savings

Simply leaving the Demonic Party out of budget discussions will save an addition trillion dollars or more.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at October 15, 2025 08:08 AM (a4flb)

74 "but does effect people who enjoy the wooded outdoors or have domestic pets who can bring the disease home to them.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure"

Well who cares about those inbred moonshiners.

Posted by: fd at October 15, 2025 08:08 AM (vFG9F)

75 >> My way of looking at it is Muslims slaughtering other Muslims.

In the end it’s not about that. It’s about power. It was a fools errand to believe that hostages took priority over wiping out Hamas. Right now they aren’t just indiscriminately murdering people. They are murdering anyone who could take away their power and stop the cycle of violence. They are also continuing to ensure the civilian population fears them. It’s not going to end with this “peace” deal.

Posted by: Marcus T at October 15, 2025 08:08 AM (iiQg8)

76 Traveling in general - ugh.
Traveling to MoMe - much bettah!

Posted by: RI Red at October 15, 2025 08:09 AM (ZAcoF)

77 I think the Chinese "space aids" story surfaced a couple weeks ago. The only way they'd know some bacteria was growing, and new, was if they were doing experiments on... bacteria.

In space.

It'll be fun if the ChiComs televise the return of their astronauts (they won't) and they're whisked away in an unmarked van.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at October 15, 2025 08:10 AM (Q4IgG)

78 Once the hostages are dealt with Hamas can be dealt with.

Posted by: fd at October 15, 2025 08:11 AM (vFG9F)

79 I will share my NDE at Story Time with Piper at the MoMe.

Posted by: Piper at October 15, 2025 08:12 AM (aT5K/)

80 Alec Baldwin drives pretty much like you'd expect Alec Baldwin to drive. Like an asshole.

Posted by: mr tmz at October 15, 2025 08:13 AM (rJ48h)

81 "It'll be fun if the ChiComs televise the return of their astronauts (they won't) and they're whisked away in an unmarked van.
Posted by: Martini Farmer"

That won't be the end of it.

Posted by: The Bacteria That Ate Beijing at October 15, 2025 08:13 AM (vFG9F)

82 Maine Democrat Party Chairman Charlie Dingman recently sent out a text message to supporters warning that if the voter ID law passes, Democrats would lose about 13,000 votes in Maine’s elections.

Total Registered Voters: 1,109,343

So Dems have about 1.3% illegals voters.

Harris securing 435,652 votes compared to Trump's 377,977 votes.

In this case the 50k vote diff between Trump and Kammie the illegal voters are close to 25% of the outcome.

I believe that Dems in most state have close to 5% of the votes hidden away in fake and illegal voters.

Posted by: r hennigantx at October 15, 2025 08:14 AM (gbOdA)

83 G'morning, News Addicts,

SnailRacer, if you're still here: I am impressed with what I'm reading about Fort Smith, as well as Van Buren (that was actually where my brother was born) and Barling, the suburbs. Hot summers, but there seems to be some fall come late October and November, unlike Da Swamp; some cold in the winter, with a little snow; affordable houses that are not all fixer-uppers.

Time for a new road trip, maybe. . . .

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 15, 2025 08:14 AM (omVj0)

84 President Donald Trump will award Charlie Kirk the Medal of Freedom today at 4 PM ET. You can watch the livestream below. Today would have been Charlie’s 32nd birthday.

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Will his speech include a list of Leftist terrorists who've been killed or captured?

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at October 15, 2025 08:14 AM (BI5O2)

85 Morning, 'rons and 'ronettes. 50 cloudy degrees here at Stately Poppins Manor. Just finished 3 hours of work left over from yesterday.

I got this wonderful book yesterday, so I hope my weekend will be a happier one than the past.

https://tinyurl.com/2ruezcu2

Now time for tea, then to read the links and then, perchance, to comment.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at October 15, 2025 08:14 AM (ufSfZ)

86 The Chinese space station bacteria story is five months old.

Posted by: one hour sober at October 15, 2025 08:14 AM (Y1sOo)

87 Just a note to everyone: The word "bacteria" is plural; "bacterium" is the singular.

Thank you for your attention to this matter.

Posted by: Bulg at October 15, 2025 08:14 AM (77rzZ)

88 The Chinese space station bacteria story is five months old.
Posted by: one hour sober at October 15, 2025 08:14 AM (Y1sOo)

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Translation: We're already doomed.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 15, 2025 08:15 AM (IBQGV)

89 Just a note to everyone: The word "bacteria" is plural; "bacterium" is the singular.

Thank you for your attention to this matter.

Data, datum

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at October 15, 2025 08:16 AM (a4flb)

90 >>>Alec Baldwin drives pretty much like you'd expect Alec Baldwin to drive. Like an asshole.

Tell me the truck driver noticed in his sideview mirror Baldwin's SUV trying to pass using the bike lane/shoulder and intentionally cutting him off and forcing Baldwin to eat tree bark.

Lie if you must.

Posted by: one hour sober at October 15, 2025 08:17 AM (Y1sOo)

91 Translation: We're already doomed.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel

Good thing I already died from net neutrality.

Have fun with the ticks and ChiCom space bug, y'all.

Posted by: Bulg at October 15, 2025 08:17 AM (77rzZ)

92 "Weaponizing Ticks..."

The intelligence and imagination of these people, such as they exist, are entirely dedicated to the subversive and sinister.

Posted by: Ordinary American at October 15, 2025 08:18 AM (UseAb)

93 "The Chinese space station bacteria story is five months old.
Posted by: one hour sober "

The whole place is probably covered in gray fuzz by now.

Posted by: The Bacteria That Ate Beijing at October 15, 2025 08:18 AM (vFG9F)

94 Byzantine story piqued my interest, but it's behind a paywall.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at October 15, 2025 08:18 AM (uQesX)

95 According to research VoterGA performed, Georgia had 374,000 in-person ballots for which there are no images. That violates “both federal and state law.” And in Fulton County, there were more than 3,900 double-scanned and double-counted ballots.

The many items listed above do not comprise a complete list of the irregularities discovered. According to Garland Favorito, “All in total, there are a million electronic records missing from the 2020 election.”

Posted by: r hennigantx at October 15, 2025 08:20 AM (gbOdA)

96 You want: hot space vampire girl from "LIfeforce."
You'll settle for: ET.
You'll get: flesh-dissolving Chinese space bacteria.

Posted by: PabloD at October 15, 2025 08:20 AM (Mme4T)

97 Red China is a polluted, stinking hellhole of slave labor and rich Americans and euros touristing amongst the poverty.

Not a surprise their space station is a toilet.

Posted by: Zombie Sun Yat-Sen at October 15, 2025 08:21 AM (Hsed0)

98 The end goal of the global warming believers is to kill over half of the people on earth, as that is the known end state of net zero. Only a few of them will admit this.

They should all just be honest about the plan and directly kill people, instead of these James Bond methods of indirectly killing people.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at October 15, 2025 08:22 AM (AqFYi)

99 "American energy diplomacy can spur human flourishing in Africa and counter Beijing and Moscow"

That's an idea. Why not put these big ass data centers that everybody hates in Africa?

Posted by: fd at October 15, 2025 08:22 AM (vFG9F)

100 Your back yard and the neighborhood park have ticks. Not just, "The Woods."

Posted by: davidt at October 15, 2025 08:23 AM (i0F8b)

101 It is truly a shame that JJ will never be satisfied until an entire religion and all of its adherents are exterminated from the face of the earth.

He's not wrong. But it's still a shame.

Posted by: Frasier Crane at October 15, 2025 08:23 AM (bNf8H)

102 I seriously doubt that the bacterium came into being in the space station.

Probably some previously unknown species here on earth that was transported to the station, where for some reason it was easier to spot.

Posted by: Bulg at October 15, 2025 08:23 AM (77rzZ)

103 "The end goal of the global warming believers is to kill over half of the people on earth, as that is the known end state of net zero. Only a few of them will admit this."

And even fewer will admit the penguins are in on it.

Posted by: Penguin Facts at October 15, 2025 08:24 AM (vFG9F)

104 83 Wolf, you would enjoy Van Buren. Nice downtown area with a variety of shops and restaurants along with the usual commercial strip with big box stores. Summer humidity is pretty rough, as is early morning humidity year round, but usually blows out of here mid morning. Real low housing costs, both purchase and rental. Now, I'm in Barling which has just become a highway into Fort Smith. Lots of closed commercial properties. Fort Smith is just your medium to large mostly industrial town with good and not so good neighborhoods.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at October 15, 2025 08:24 AM (gm9Sb)

105 "The end goal of the global warming believers is to kill over half of the people on earth, as that is the known end state of net zero. Only a few of them will admit this."

They all believe they will survive, and live in paradise.

Posted by: davidt at October 15, 2025 08:25 AM (i0F8b)

106 We were invading Afghanistan 26 days after 9/11. Afghanistan is much further away from America than America is.

Antifa was designated as a terrorist organization 23 days ago.

*taps watch*

This thing workin'?

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at October 15, 2025 08:26 AM (BI5O2)

107 You want: hot space vampire girl from "LIfeforce."
Posted by: PabloD

NEKKID hot space vampire girl from "Lifeforce." For almost the entire movie.

Posted by: Bulg at October 15, 2025 08:26 AM (77rzZ)

108 206.

Sen. John Wayne McCornyn
US Sen. - R - TX

69.01%

I cannot wait to vote against him on March 3, 2026 (day after Texas Independence Day).

Posted by: r hennigantx at October 15, 2025 08:27 AM (gbOdA)

109 I have no problem with Trump playing "Whack-a-mole" with Hamas.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at October 15, 2025 08:27 AM (ZmEVT)

110 "It is microscopic and rod-shaped, can create spores, and may have evolved to survive hundreds of miles above our planet's surface. This bacterium, never before seen on Earth, was detected on China's Tiangong space station. It has been named Niallia tiangongensis, and it inhabited the cockpit controls on the station, living in microgravity conditions."

All over the fight controls? Your leg.

Posted by: Airline pilot humor at October 15, 2025 08:27 AM (Y1sOo)

111 Translation: We're already doomed.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel

Good thing I already died from net neutrality.

Have fun with the ticks and ChiCom space bug, y'all.
Posted by: Bulg at October 15, 2025 08:17 AM (77rzZ)

What's next, Space Herpes?

Posted by: Count de Monet, Ice Pirate at October 15, 2025 08:28 AM (wVcYX)

112 Today is National Mushroom Day

Posted by: redridinghood at October 15, 2025 08:28 AM (NpAcC)

113 "It is microscopic and rod-shaped.."

I was in the pool!

Posted by: Chinese Space Bacterium at October 15, 2025 08:29 AM (Y1sOo)

114 That's an idea. Why not put these big ass data centers that everybody hates in Africa?
Posted by: fd at October 15, 2025 08:22 AM (vFG9F)

They would be strip down to bare concrete floors and the server racks beaten into swords and donkey carts within 2 weeks.

Posted by: r hennigantx at October 15, 2025 08:29 AM (gbOdA)

115 If we end up with troops chasing terrorists around the Middle East before this administration takes action against our domestic terrorists, I'm gonna puke all over the place.

Priorities, Don. What are they?

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at October 15, 2025 08:29 AM (BI5O2)

116 I would just liked to say that I am tired of Tish James acting the part of a defiant hero when it's risible that she's complaining against the weaponization of government when she ran against "getting Trump". "I fear no man" she said. O.K. Maybe God is rather annoyed with her as well.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 15, 2025 08:29 AM (uPdai)

117 101 It is truly a shame that JJ will never be satisfied until an entire religion and all of its adherents are exterminated from the face of the earth.

He's not wrong. But it's still a shame.
Posted by: Frasier Crane at October 15, 2025 08:23 AM (bNf8H)

A shame? It would be an exponential advancement for humanity.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at October 15, 2025 08:30 AM (g8Ew8)

118 112 We will be kept in the dark and fed a lot of shit.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at October 15, 2025 08:30 AM (gm9Sb)

119 Today is National Mushroom Day
Posted by: redridinghood

That's gonna boost morel!

Posted by: Bulg at October 15, 2025 08:30 AM (77rzZ)

120 What's next, Space Herpes?
Posted by: Count de Monet, Ice Pirate at October 15, 2025 08:28 AM (wVcYX)

I tells him dont be fuckin dem green bitches

Posted by: Dr. Ty'Rone at October 15, 2025 08:30 AM (gbOdA)

121 Posted by: Bulg at October 15, 2025 08:30 AM (77rzZ)

Well done!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 15, 2025 08:31 AM (ix8EF)

122 Today is National Mushroom Day
Posted by: redridinghood at October 15, 2025 08:28 AM (NpAcC)

Far out, man.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at October 15, 2025 08:32 AM (g8Ew8)

123 Pope Leo May Be the Most Radical Pope Yet

Leo 14 is Francis 2: Ecumenical Boogaloo. Same agenda in a less brutal package

Posted by: callsign claymore at October 15, 2025 08:32 AM (x923d)

124 Trees jumping out in front of Baldwin's SUV now. The guy can't catch a break.

Posted by: Ban Racist Trees! at October 15, 2025 08:32 AM (oftw2)

125 "It is microscopic and rod-shaped.."

I was in the pool!
Posted by: Chinese Space Bacterium at October 15, 2025 08:29 AM (Y1sOo)

By my size, judge me you do, hmmm?

Posted by: Jedi Master Chinese Space Bacterium at October 15, 2025 08:33 AM (wVcYX)

126 An inexperienced tree master left a loaded tree right in front of Baldwin.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at October 15, 2025 08:33 AM (BI5O2)

127 It might have been one of those apple trees from on the way to Oz what attacked Baldwin. Nasty s.o.b.s

Posted by: Scarecrow at October 15, 2025 08:36 AM (wVcYX)

128 If you've seen recent pictures of the ISS you'd probably get grossed out thinking of "space bacteria."

I realize the thing is decades old, but holy crap is it a mess. And the smell. My God, the smell....

Posted by: Martini Farmer at October 15, 2025 08:36 AM (Q4IgG)

129 And even fewer will admit the penguins are in on it.
Posted by: Penguin Facts

Flagrant hate speech should not be tolerated on this smart military blog!

Posted by: Penguin Pete at October 15, 2025 08:36 AM (oftw2)

130 Regarding the success of the latest SpaceX Starship test (#11), CNN had this to say, "As the Starship prototype ejected its last dummy satellite during a payload deployment test, employees cheered loudly and began chanting “USA! USA!” in unison. It’s unclear why.”

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at October 15, 2025 08:38 AM (36PRH)

131 Scenes from coming attractions.

Trump will make examples of Deep Blue Enclaves including Chicago, home of Alinsky and his acolytes Hillary and Obama. He'll torch Pritzker and the Mayor.

Antifa's funding will be traced to NGOs and the likes of Soros. This is already underway, as Antifa has been declared a foreign terrorist organization.

If ICE agents get killed or wounded -- and I expect some will -- it will surely be grounds for Trump to invoke the Insurrection Act.

Developing ....

Posted by: Ignoramus at October 15, 2025 08:38 AM (dtajH)

132 An inexperienced tree master

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I'm going to out on a limb here, but that looks like one of them there oxymorons.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at October 15, 2025 08:38 AM (g8Ew8)

133 Contributing factors come out about Baldwin's accident. Wet roads. East Hampton PD Chief will enjoy the Rolex.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at October 15, 2025 08:39 AM (gm9Sb)

134 Today is National Mushroom Day
Posted by: redridinghood
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Boys! Raise Giant Mushrooms in Your Cellar!

Posted by: Zombie Ray Bradbury at October 15, 2025 08:39 AM (IBQGV)

135 OT: Tariff money will now be used to fund WIC during the shutdown.

Not in love with this move (vs paying Air Traffic Control), but Trump does have voters that use WIC, and removing a benny opens the door to suffering babies non-stop from the media...

Posted by: Nova Local at October 15, 2025 08:41 AM (tOcjL)

136 Let's leaf the tree puns alone.

Posted by: Oh, no. They've begun at October 15, 2025 08:41 AM (J5A2J)

137 Great time of year for National Mushroom Day. Very wet here in wake of Nor'easter. Many mushroom "rings" in people's lawns. Looks like there should be fairies dancing in them, but I don't think there all that many fairies living in this rock-ribbed county. I could be wrong, though.

Posted by: Shroom Follies at October 15, 2025 08:41 AM (oftw2)

138

I love mushrooms. But they trigger my gout. Like asparagus, beans, spinach and cocoa powder.

Oh well.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at October 15, 2025 08:42 AM (x0n13)

139 Priorities, Don. What are they?
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at October 15, 2025 08:29 AM (BI5O2)

Good reminder. But Bessent sounds like he is on the money trail. He's is a quietly serious character.

Posted by: Ordinary American at October 15, 2025 08:42 AM (UseAb)

140 **ponders**
Leftover Chinese food isn't as tasty as you might think.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at October 15, 2025 08:42 AM (ufSfZ)

141 (vs paying Air Traffic Control)

Why are ATCs federal employees anyway? Why can't the airports pay them?

Posted by: Bulg at October 15, 2025 08:42 AM (77rzZ)

142 They look FABULOUS!

Posted by: The mushroom fairies at October 15, 2025 08:42 AM (J5A2J)

143 Another mushroom fact. One ripe Giant Puffball can contain up to four billion spores.

Posted by: Shroom Facts And Figgers at October 15, 2025 08:43 AM (oftw2)

144 >>Contributing factors come out about Baldwin's accident. Wet roads.

So, Baldwin was either drunk, attempting to pass on the shoulder, or driving too fast for road conditions.

Pick one, Chief, and write him up.

As if that is going to happen.

Posted by: one hour sober at October 15, 2025 08:43 AM (Y1sOo)

145 Let's leaf the tree puns alone.
Posted by: Oh, no. They've begun

I will never abanyan my tree puns.

Posted by: Bulg at October 15, 2025 08:43 AM (77rzZ)

146 Would like to see mushrooms and gout in a limerick.

Posted by: But that's just me at October 15, 2025 08:44 AM (J5A2J)

147 Let's leaf the tree puns alone.
Posted by: Oh, no. They've begun at October 15, 2025 08:41 AM (J5A2J)

I can't deciduous whether to engage in tree punnery or not.

Posted by: Count de Monet at October 15, 2025 08:44 AM (wVcYX)

148 Babylon Bee:

Letitia James smooths things over by sending Trump heartfelt ' Sorry I maliciously prosecuted you ' card:

Dear Donald, my bad for trying to falsely imprison you," James wrote in the card. "We may be on different sides of the political aisle, but that doesn't mean we can't be friendly. I know I said a lot of mean things and tried to destroy you, your family, and your legacy, but please accept this card as a token of my remorse. Please do not put me in jail. Thanks. P.S. — Your hair looked great on TV yesterday."

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 15, 2025 08:44 AM (ix8EF)

149 Talarico grilled proponents of the bill by challenging their Christian faith, and compared banning male athletes from participating in female sports to excluding black athletes from professional leagues. "Some things are more important than perfectly fair competition in sports," he said.

Posted by: r hennigantx at October 15, 2025 08:44 AM (gbOdA)

150 141 (vs paying Air Traffic Control)

Why are ATCs federal employees anyway? Why can't the airports pay them?

Posted by: Bulg at October 15, 2025 08:42 AM (77rzZ)

B/c it's effectively national security. And do you really want illegals doing those jobs, b/c that's happened in every industry that has been corporately run the last decade in some way (90 day tourist visa) or another (just flat border jumpers)...

Posted by: Nova Local at October 15, 2025 08:45 AM (tOcjL)

151 Boris Johnson in 2025 on net zero:

"I was flying over Africa at night time, and saw so many lights. There are far too many people, which is why I support net zero."

Posted by: Thomas Paine at October 15, 2025 08:45 AM (GBMzZ)

152 *Pick one, Chief, and write him up.

As if that is going to happen.*

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Nothing will happen.

Posted by: The person who always says that at October 15, 2025 08:45 AM (J5A2J)

153 So, who's Talarico?

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at October 15, 2025 08:45 AM (/HDaX)

154 147 Let's leaf the tree puns alone.
Posted by: Oh, no. They've begun at October 15, 2025 08:41 AM (J5A2J)

I can't deciduous whether to engage in tree punnery or not.
Posted by: Count de Monet at October 15, 2025 08:44 AM (wVcYX)

The comments on this are evergreen.

Posted by: r hennigantx at October 15, 2025 08:46 AM (gbOdA)

155 JJ, what is gout, exactly? I've always thought of it was being kinda like arthritis. Affects the joints, no?

Posted by: Bulg at October 15, 2025 08:46 AM (77rzZ)

156 153 So, who's Talarico?
Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at October 15, 2025 08:45 AM (/HDaX)

The new improved Beto 2.0 Ver D.

Posted by: r hennigantx at October 15, 2025 08:46 AM (gbOdA)

157 Guarantee Obama/Soros are feverishly drawing their brain trust troops together and working thru plans to destroy the ceasefire, either by outright resumption of Hamas fighting or otherwise instigating Israel so as to justify resumption. Trump needs to put THAT warning out there loud and public - Andrew Breitbart style - in their face. State that he has our spies watching closely for any indication by the dems to undo this. These aren't normal times.

Posted by: SixtySix at October 15, 2025 08:47 AM (wc9RC)

158 > If ICE agents get killed or wounded -- and I expect some will -- it will surely be grounds for Trump to invoke the Insurrection Act.

Developing ....
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I'm not clear on why Trump would have to wait until an ICE agent is wounded or killed to invoke the Insurrection Act. The state/local governments have already made their declarations and there have already been injured ICE agents.

Wasn't one shot in the head in TX not long ago?

Seems to me that Antifa, as a declared foreign terrorist organization, is already fomenting insurrection with the help of said state/local governments.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at October 15, 2025 08:47 AM (Q4IgG)

159 I can't deciduous whether to engage in tree punnery or not.

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Soon we'll be pining for the fish puns.

Posted by: Up to our gills at October 15, 2025 08:47 AM (J5A2J)

160 153 So, who's Talarico?
Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at October 15, 2025 08:45 AM (/HDaX)

=======

Thinks that Mary would have been justified in aborting Jesus.

He told Joe Rogan that.

He's gonna raise so much money.

And he's going to lose by 20 in the general election.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 15, 2025 08:48 AM (GBKbO)

161 President Donald Trump will award Charlie Kirk the Medal of Freedom today at 4 PM ET. Y

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(That took place yesterday)

Posted by: runner at October 15, 2025 08:49 AM (g47mK)

162 Don't take Talarico if you're allergic to Talarico.

Posted by: The lawyers make us say this stuff at October 15, 2025 08:50 AM (J5A2J)

163 So, who's Talarico?
Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at October 15, 2025 08:45 AM (/HDaX)

Younger, better looking, not as creepy version of David French.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at October 15, 2025 08:50 AM (BI5O2)

164 I've seen filthy twenty year old Nissan Sentras parked outside the Dollar Store with similar biological pathogens as the Chinee Space Station. All the french fries and onion rings under/between the seats breed previously unknown life forms.

Posted by: The Next Contagion at October 15, 2025 08:51 AM (oftw2)

165 23 So long as the Arabs fight tribe against tribe, so long will they be a little people, a silly people - greedy, barbarous, and cruel.
Posted by: Lawrence at October 15, 2025 07:36 AM (vFG9F)

Brother against Brother, because they just have to know who Allah's Favorite is.

Posted by: XTC at October 15, 2025 08:51 AM (UnA8+)

166 Heh, watching police videos on UT00b.

Ma'am, have you had anything to drink.

No.

I can smell the alcohol on your breath.

So?

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at October 15, 2025 08:52 AM (/HDaX)

167 Are we barking about tree puns again?

Posted by: dantesed at October 15, 2025 08:52 AM (Oy/m2)

168 Leftover Chinese food isn't as tasty as you might think.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at October 15, 2025 08:42 AM (ufSfZ)
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Must cook with a scrambled egg.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 15, 2025 08:52 AM (qD9Ib)

169 Politico has found a texting scandal worth covering.
No, not a major candidate for state-wide office, for chief law enforcement officer, who wished death on his opponent's children, to die in front of their parents, or that wished death upon police officers.

No, no: This is much bigger!

Young Republicans (who?) of hundreds in a group chat, where some used bad words or said awful things.
No, you're not given the full context.
Yes, all involved have been fired and unequivocally condemned by all Republicans when asked.

But damnit!
You need to be outraged to Outrage 11 that young kids, in a group with no policy or political power, said stupid shit!!!

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at October 15, 2025 08:52 AM (HXT0k)

170 *All the french fries and onion rings under/between the seats breed previously unknown life forms.*

This is about us, too, isn't it?

Posted by: The half eaten ketchup packets at October 15, 2025 08:53 AM (J5A2J)

171 At the President’s direction, the Department of War is establishing a new counter-narcotics Joint Task Force in the @SOUTHCOM area of responsibility to crush the cartels, stop the poison, and keep America safe. The message is clear: if you traffic drugs toward our shores, we will…

— Secretary of War Pete Hegseth

blow you da fuck out the water

ttfn

Posted by: r hennigantx at October 15, 2025 08:53 AM (gbOdA)

172 We're never going to eliminate Islam. Containment is the best we can do.

And even if we did eliminate it, Stan would just come up with another giant scam.

Evil never rests, as JJ's mother used to say.

Posted by: Bulg at October 15, 2025 08:53 AM (77rzZ)

173 Wolf, you would enjoy Van Buren....

********

Just sure you have the secret hand signal down before you run into the boys. They don't mess around.

Posted by: Kramer at October 15, 2025 08:53 AM (wc9RC)

174 Thinks that Mary would have been justified in aborting Jesus.

He told Joe Rogan that.

He's gonna raise so much money.

And he's going to lose by 20 in the general election.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 15, 2025 08:48 AM (GBKbO)
*****
Can't wait for that little tidbit to come out in ads across Texas.

Posted by: redridinghood at October 15, 2025 08:54 AM (NpAcC)

175 Everyone's seen this, right?

https://x.com/sircalebhammer/status/
1976044496099082473

It's a snippet from a podcast about how the American dream is dead and the interviewee wants to move to Denmark where the ability to live well is still alive.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 15, 2025 08:54 AM (GBKbO)

176 Sheesh. Sounds like this Talarico feller's a real winner.

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at October 15, 2025 08:54 AM (/HDaX)

177 176 Sheesh. Sounds like this Talarico feller's a real winner.
Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at October 15, 2025 08:54 AM (/HDaX)

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He will raise $100 million from Hollywood. Just like Governor/Senator/President Beto

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 15, 2025 08:55 AM (GBKbO)

178 The going rate for a talarico is twenty bucks.
Same as in town.

Posted by: But you already knew that at October 15, 2025 08:55 AM (J5A2J)

179 Only wealthy people get gout. I'm so poor, I'll never suffer from it. We po' folks have to settle for more pedestrian foot problems.

Posted by: Paul Bunion at October 15, 2025 08:55 AM (oftw2)

180 Jack Smith warned that attacks on public servants would have an “incalculable” cost on the country.“I think the attacks on public servants, particularly the mythical nonpartisan public servants

Posted by: SMOD at October 15, 2025 08:55 AM (RHGPo)

181 Are we barking about tree puns again?
Posted by: dantesed

Not me. I'm rooting for the tree puns.

Posted by: Bulg at October 15, 2025 08:55 AM (77rzZ)

182 Weaponizing Ticks: Academics Propose Meat Allergy to Fight Climate Change

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In On Her Majesty's Secret Service, Lovely did something very similar. Very Bond villain stuff

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at October 15, 2025 08:56 AM (L/fGl)

183 The Larch

Posted by: Flying Circus at October 15, 2025 08:56 AM (wVcYX)

184 Mr Talarico seems like he's not exactly top drawer with his theology and the Bible:

https://tinyurl.com/mrthvksf

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 15, 2025 08:56 AM (rZCVI)

185 Must cook with a scrambled egg.
Posted by: San Franpsycho

*********

Respectfully....two over easy, for the win.

Posted by: NumNums at October 15, 2025 08:56 AM (wc9RC)

186 "Just sure you have the secret hand signal down before you run into the boys. They don't mess around."

LOL.

Posted by: Seinfeld addict at October 15, 2025 08:57 AM (J5A2J)

187 All the french fries and onion rings under/between the seats breed previously unknown life forms.
Posted by: The Next Contagion
____________

I used to pull up those fries all the time when I was a smoker, fumbling for a cig I'd dropped down there.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at October 15, 2025 08:57 AM (XvL8K)

188 Posted by: Neil Boortz at October 15, 2025 07:38 AM (Hsed0)

wait wait wait

you're a Moron?

Posted by: Darrell Harris at October 15, 2025 08:57 AM (AW9vN)

189 Minnesota Judge Finds Mike Lindell Guilty Of Defaming Dominion Voting Systems – With No Trial Or Jury.

Posted by: redridinghood at October 15, 2025 08:58 AM (NpAcC)

190 That's quite the braid that Mrs. Kirk is wearing in the pic up top.

Posted by: Bulg at October 15, 2025 08:59 AM (77rzZ)

191 Declarations of peace in the Middle East may be premature. I hope Trump will not be shown to have stepped on his johnson with this.

Posted by: Don Black at October 15, 2025 08:59 AM (AOsQT)

192 Mythical Nonpartisan Public Servants was the garage band name for the group that would ultimately come to be known as Public Enemy.

Posted by: Music Nerd at October 15, 2025 09:00 AM (J5A2J)

193 It's also...
National Fossil Day.

Posted by: redridinghood at October 15, 2025 09:00 AM (NpAcC)

194 180 Jack Smith warned that attacks on public servants would have an “incalculable” cost on the country.“I think the attacks on public servants, particularly the mythical nonpartisan public servants
Posted by: SMOD at October 15, 2025 08:55 AM (RHGPo)

A Fed is a Fed is a Fed.

Posted by: XTC at October 15, 2025 09:00 AM (UnA8+)

195 We can't reform Islam and don't need to. We just need to destroy Western tolerance of Islam so it is confined in practice to specific shitholes that we keep on a tight leash and socially shunned everywhere else.

Posted by: Bigsmith at October 15, 2025 09:01 AM (1Au9i)

196 It's also...
National Fossil Day.
Posted by: redridinghood

Joe Biden's birthday? Or George Soros'?

Posted by: Bulg at October 15, 2025 09:01 AM (77rzZ)

197 "I'm not clear on why Trump would have to wait until an ICE agent is wounded or killed to invoke the Insurrection Act."

He shouldn't but he's facing a hostile federal judiciary.

Posted by: Ignoramus at October 15, 2025 09:01 AM (dtajH)

198 Rather than following any Biden-Blinken model (whatever the hell that was), Trump turned our entire negotiating structure around the Middle East on its head. Here is Batya Unya-Sargon explaining to Megan Kelly.

https://tinyurl.com/2s4usjh9

Posted by: Ordinary American at October 15, 2025 09:01 AM (WHfpM)

199 We can't reform Islam and don't need to. We just need to destroy Western tolerance of Islam so it is confined in practice to specific shitholes that we keep on a tight leash and socially shunned everywhere else.
Posted by: Bigsmith

Concur.

Posted by: Bulg at October 15, 2025 09:01 AM (77rzZ)

200 I gotta say, "Batya Unya-Sargon" is a cool name.

Posted by: Bulg at October 15, 2025 09:03 AM (77rzZ)

201 I can't think of another tree pun. I'm stumped.

Posted by: Oh, wait... at October 15, 2025 09:03 AM (J5A2J)

202 195 We can't reform Islam and don't need to. We just need to destroy Western tolerance of Islam so it is confined in practice to specific shitholes that we keep on a tight leash and socially shunned everywhere else.
Posted by: Bigsmith at October 15, 2025 09:01 AM (1Au9i)

As long as the left keeps on with the "Islam is a Race" shit, you won't be able to do that, either.

Posted by: XTC at October 15, 2025 09:03 AM (UnA8+)

203 "I'm not clear on why Trump would have to wait until an ICE agent is wounded or killed to invoke the Insurrection Act."

He shouldn't but he's facing a hostile federal judiciary.
Posted by: Ignoramus at October 15, 2025 09:01 AM (dtajH)

Easily quashed by broaching the elimination of all fed courts except SC. Threatening should stifle quite a bit of it.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at October 15, 2025 09:04 AM (uQesX)

204 Is Hindu also a race?

Posted by: What about Druid? at October 15, 2025 09:04 AM (J5A2J)

205 I can't think of another tree pun. I'm stumped.
Posted by: Oh, wait...

When it comes to tree puns, I can run rings around you.

Posted by: Bulg at October 15, 2025 09:04 AM (77rzZ)

206 What Would it Take for Democrats to Withdraw Support from Jay Jones?

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Support ending the Schumer shutdown?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at October 15, 2025 09:05 AM (L/fGl)

207 My sister had a Mr. Tallarico as a HS music teacher in The Bronx. His son is Aerosmith's Steve Tyler who grew up in neighboring Yonkers.

Posted by: Ignoramus at October 15, 2025 09:05 AM (dtajH)

208 The young lady who attacked an elderly man for wearing a MAGA hat looks exactly like you think she would

https://tinyurl.com/mrxu7uw3

Posted by: Josephistan at October 15, 2025 09:06 AM (FLx59)

209 >When it comes to tree puns, I can run rings around you.

Don't be a sap.

Posted by: Said the Maple at October 15, 2025 09:06 AM (J5A2J)

210 203 "I'm not clear on why Trump would have to wait until an ICE agent is wounded or killed to invoke the Insurrection Act."

He shouldn't but he's facing a hostile federal judiciary.
Posted by: Ignoramus at October 15, 2025 09:01 AM (dtajH)

Easily quashed by broaching the elimination of all fed courts except SC. Threatening should stifle quite a bit of it.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at October 15, 2025 09:04 AM (uQesX)

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Invoking the Insurrection Act would probably include arresting a bunch of judges at this point.

That's...a big step. I understand the reticence.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 15, 2025 09:07 AM (GBKbO)

211 206 What Would it Take for Democrats to Withdraw Support from Jay Jones?

Clearly nothing within the moral realm itself. Only something which reached a critical-mass point in the public perception realm.

Posted by: Ordinary American at October 15, 2025 09:07 AM (WHfpM)

212 Gravitational lensing is weak, but the signature is clear. Einstein rings or multiple images.

Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at October 15, 2025 09:08 AM (1Nv0l)

213 We're never going to eliminate Islam. Containment is the best we can do.

And even if we did eliminate it, Stan would just come up with another giant scam.

Evil never rests, as JJ's mother used to say.
Posted by: Bulg at October 15, 2025 08:53 AM (77rzZ

Yup. Besides, we'd still have the democrats to contend with.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at October 15, 2025 09:08 AM (g8Ew8)

214 Talarico's play is not to get religious Christians to vote for him.

They know he's working for Satan and his bizarre notions of Christianity boil down to Frenchism - "Republicans Pounce on New Democrat Proposal - But Here’s Why Jesus Would Have Fed Kittens to Hyenas, Too."

His play is toward liberals with little or no religious faith, who want a clean-cut putative "Christian" without eyeball tattoos or a dick made from the contents of a mohel's trashcan.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at October 15, 2025 09:09 AM (tn4Hy)

215 Van Hollen and the rest of the Schum gang are fighting to make COVID changes to obamacare permanent. We all lost our minds and blew trillions on hooker and blow. Yes, we like hookers and blow, but making it a lifestyle is going to kill us.

Posted by: Oglebay at October 15, 2025 09:09 AM (2ap+5)

216 Gaza woman: “They’re dragging people away, children are screaming and dying, they’re burning our houses. What did we do wrong?”
“They’re Dragging People Away”: Hamas Begins Mass Executions as Israeli Military Withdraws From Gaza

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Well, at least they're not as bad as ICE.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at October 15, 2025 09:09 AM (L/fGl)

217 I can't think of another tree pun. I'm stumped.
Posted by: Oh, wait... at October 15, 2025 09:03 AM (J5A2J)

I've logged your tapout.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 15, 2025 09:09 AM (ExV1e)

218 Point is the distance: even a tiny lensing effect yields a large dispersion over a long-enough distance.

Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at October 15, 2025 09:09 AM (1Nv0l)

219 184 Mr Talarico
_-_
Agreed, Fen.
This guy is one of those who opens the Bible to fabricate support for his own ideas, not to understand how God would have us understand things.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at October 15, 2025 09:10 AM (vd6bO)

220 [The first comment is precious:

"BREAKING: Pfizer announces that if government shutdown persists, they may have to lay off more than 200 members of Congress."]

Stacy is Right
@PoliticalStacy

Chief Lying Bitch of the PharmaHoe tribe.

[Nice PharmaHoe Meme Image]

https://is.gd/YQKXjF

Posted by: ShainS -- Galt's Heirs Rising (MAGA, Trump, Musk, Kirk)! at October 15, 2025 09:10 AM (P7UKg)

221 As long as the left keeps on with the "Islam is a Race" shit, you won't be able to do that, either.
Posted by: XTC at October 15, 2025 09:03 AM

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I didn't say it would be easy. Indeed it boils down to eradicating leftism, the primary driver of the world's tolerance for evil of all kinds.

Posted by: Bigsmith at October 15, 2025 09:10 AM (1Au9i)

222 214 Talarico's play is not to get religious Christians to vote for him.

They know he's working for Satan and his bizarre notions of Christianity boil down to Frenchism - "Republicans Pounce on New Democrat Proposal - But Here’s Why Jesus Would Have Fed Kittens to Hyenas, Too."

His play is toward liberals with little or no religious faith, who want a clean-cut putative "Christian" without eyeball tattoos or a dick made from the contents of a mohel's trashcan.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at October 15, 2025 09:09 AM (tn4Hy)

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The funny thing is, I don't think it's an electoral play that can work anywhere.

He's going to raise a bunch of cash in Texas because Blue Texas is a dream that won't die, but he's going to lose big.

But, could he raise any money in...Colorado or California with that act? Progressives don't want overt Christians at all, even if they say that Mary could have aborted Jesus, so he'd get swamped out of the race as not trustworthy because overt Christian signaling is considered bad.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 15, 2025 09:11 AM (GBKbO)

223
Let's leaf the tree puns alone.
Posted by: Oh, no. They've begun

What'sa stomata you?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars(TM) - what makes you think you are in charge? at October 15, 2025 09:11 AM (xG4kz)

224 His play is toward liberals with little or no religious faith, who want a clean-cut putative "Christian" without eyeball tattoos or a dick made from the contents of a mohel's trashcan.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at October 15, 2025 09:09 AM (tn4Hy)

The problem for him is that a big part of the Dem base, particularly in Texas, is blacks and Mexicans and they're unlikely to cotton to his ideas.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 15, 2025 09:12 AM (ExV1e)

225 100% of headlines with “this” are clickbait and very poorly written.

Posted by: Cow Demon at October 15, 2025 09:12 AM (XaI3x)

226 Trump Is Rolling Up The Drug Scourge Once and For All
https://shorturl.at/YZHYh
Elizabeth Nickson (substack)

Spoiler: she blames NOT teh jooz.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at October 15, 2025 09:12 AM (ULPxl)

227 As far as I'm concerned, this is war and we should treat these street thugs as such.

Stop fucking around and do it already.

Posted by: melodicmetal1 at October 15, 2025 09:13 AM (61TgR)

228 North Carolina’s two top Republicans will hold votes next week to try and redraw the state’s Congressional maps in order to save one Republican seat.

Serious question: What can be done about the Republicans cheating and doing this kind of crap? Does every single blue state need to redraw things to cut out all Republicans from blue states?

We won't be voting ourselves out of this mess. But nobody's ready for that conversation.

We just gotta hold our signs higher! That'll stop the guns!

Rational discussion and civil discourse are useless when one side has decided truth and facts don't matter, in favor of flat-out reality denial.

Blue states just need to be extremely aggressive about it, and force Supreme Court to ban gerrymandering completely, or face massive (Reddit admin team approved) backlash.

If you think the supreme court still has any legitimacy, you're insane. The only people who still trust them are the people who will trust them no matter what.

Republicans would follow a gerrymandering ban? In Ohio, they've been told to redraw the maps, but stalled and said it was too close to the election. They still haven't.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at October 15, 2025 09:13 AM (JCZqz)

229 222 But, could he raise any money in...Colorado or California with that act? Progressives don't want overt Christians at all, even if they say that Mary could have aborted Jesus, so he'd get swamped out of the race as not trustworthy because overt Christian signaling is considered bad.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 15, 2025 09:11 AM (GBKbO)

California, maybe.

Colorado, probably not. Colorado is pushing hard to compete with Oregon and Washington (state) for the "Green Haired, Septum Ring, Queer Polycule" demographic.

Posted by: XTC at October 15, 2025 09:13 AM (UnA8+)

230 228 Serious question: What can be done about the Republicans cheating and doing this kind of crap? Does every single blue state need to redraw things to cut out all Republicans from blue states?

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at October 15, 2025 09:13 AM (JCZqz)

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Get Massachusetts to respond in kind!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 15, 2025 09:13 AM (GBKbO)

231 208 The young lady who attacked an elderly man for wearing a MAGA hat looks exactly like you think she would

https://tinyurl.com/mrxu7uw3
Posted by: Josephistan at October 15, 2025 09:06 AM

At least she had the courtesy to self identity with purple hair.

Posted by: So the police can find her at October 15, 2025 09:14 AM (J5A2J)

232 Trump honoring Kirk is going to drive lefties nuts. They alternated between:

He was killed by a rightwing loser just like all political violence
He deserved it and its a good thing he was assassinated
This was a false flag attack to give Trump emergency powers

but then mostly just tried to bury the story.

And...speaking of which has anyone in the Cock Curious Avenger's antifa cell been arrested yet outside of him? And funders/leaders? No?

Posted by: 18-1 at October 15, 2025 09:14 AM (sKqQm)

233 Does every single blue state need to redraw things to cut out all Republicans from blue states?

Do they really not know?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 15, 2025 09:14 AM (ExV1e)

234 Spoiler: she blames NOT teh jooz.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket

Did King Charles inherit control of the international drug trade from his mum?

Posted by: Bulg at October 15, 2025 09:14 AM (77rzZ)

235 Anyone else get the sense GOP is once again in bare minimum mode, like '17? Should be wall to wall media blitz ridiculing congressional dems, nonstop podium pressers re the shutdown, announcing next steps on various bills/measures, etc. Instead de minimus

Posted by: SixtySix at October 15, 2025 09:15 AM (wc9RC)

236 Can't imagine any circumstance where I would be desperate enough to get somewhere that accepting a ride from Alec Baldwin might seem reasonable.

Posted by: Hitchin' A Ride at October 15, 2025 09:15 AM (oftw2)

237
Eric Daugherty
@EricLDaugh

🚨 This is AWESOME: They put up a huge “THANK YOU” sign for President Trump on the beach in Tel Aviv, which Trump saw aboard Air Force One on his way in 👏🏻

[37-second video of the beach message from airplane]

https://is.gd/U09Fd2

Posted by: ShainS -- Galt's Heirs Rising (MAGA, Trump, Musk, Kirk)! at October 15, 2025 09:15 AM (P7UKg)

238 233 Does every single blue state need to redraw things to cut out all Republicans from blue states?

Do they really not know?
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 15, 2025 09:14 AM (ExV1e)

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They don't.

"The independent commission of IL was just non-partisan when it drew its map," is a common refrain.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 15, 2025 09:15 AM (GBKbO)

239 We just gotta hold our signs higher! That'll stop the guns!

Yeah, sure, go with that.

Posted by: dantesed at October 15, 2025 09:15 AM (Oy/m2)

240 Anyone else get the sense GOP is once again in bare minimum mode, like '17? Should be wall to wall media blitz ridiculing congressional dems, nonstop podium pressers re the shutdown, announcing next steps on various bills/measures, etc. Instead de minimus
Posted by: SixtySix at October 15, 2025 09:15 AM (wc9RC)

If we did what you demand, we'd win.

Can't have that.

Posted by: GOPe at October 15, 2025 09:16 AM (uQesX)

241 "At your feet or at your throat".

The only two non-surrender options are to keep them at your feet, or Actual Genocide. First one is cheaper and easier, and all you need is to actually do it.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at October 15, 2025 09:16 AM (JwNbV)

242 I didn't say it would be easy. Indeed it boils down to eradicating leftism, the primary driver of the world's tolerance for evil of all kinds.
Posted by: Bigsmith at October 15, 2025 09:10 AM (1Au9i)

That should be one of the highest priorities of this administration (though operating on a shadow parallel track with the others).

Posted by: Ordinary American at October 15, 2025 09:16 AM (WHfpM)

243 Reporting from a hotel near Johnson space center . .

The bodies are strewn throughout the property. Looters everywhere. The living envy the dead.

Posted by: 2009Refugee at October 15, 2025 09:17 AM (eoYN0)

244 Anyone else get the sense GOP is once again in bare minimum mode, like '17? Should be wall to wall media blitz ridiculing congressional dems, nonstop podium pressers re the shutdown, announcing next steps on various bills/measures, etc. Instead de minimus

The 2026 election is almost 13 months away. Money spent on ads is largely wasted. Money spent now doubly so.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 15, 2025 09:17 AM (ExV1e)

245
CBD went to France and emerged woke!

Or, French...or Woke and French!!!

In his latest sidebar comment, he used the Archaic and French-Approved Woke term "Gulf of Mexico" instead of the Star-Spangledd Approved name "Gulf of America"*

Sad.

On the upside: Those of you at TXMOME this weekend will get to see CBD's rumored new life-sized chest tattoo of Macron and his new neck tattoos of Biden and Kamala. So, y'all have that going for you.

*Almost as bad as drinking unshaken Manhattans.

Posted by: naturalfake at October 15, 2025 09:17 AM (iJfKG)

246 235 Anyone else get the sense GOP is once again in bare minimum mode, like '17? Should be wall to wall media blitz ridiculing congressional dems, nonstop podium pressers re the shutdown, announcing next steps on various bills/measures, etc. Instead de minimus
Posted by: SixtySix at October 15, 2025 09:15 AM (wc9RC)

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Trump quietly killing leftist programs and firing thousands (probably tens of thousands, if the court filing from the administration is to be believed) of federal bureaucrats is a good thing that I want to continue for weeks and months and outweighs any effort to get the shutdown to end.

Perfunctory, "We are trying to get the government back open," is fine because it gives time for Russ Vought to pick apart more leftist projects in the government in accordance with the Antideficiency Act.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 15, 2025 09:17 AM (GBKbO)

247 238 They don't.

"The independent commission of IL was just non-partisan when it drew its map," is a common refrain.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 15, 2025 09:15 AM (GBKbO)

PA was the same.

And now Scott Pressler is trying to un-fuck it, trying to get people to vote against retention on three Lefty judges on the PA Supreme Court.

Posted by: XTC at October 15, 2025 09:18 AM (UnA8+)

248 Posted by: ShainS -- Galt's Heirs Rising (MAGA, Trump, Musk, Kirk)! at October 15, 2025 09:15 AM (P7UKg)

Link does not match description.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 15, 2025 09:18 AM (ExV1e)

249 233 Does every single blue state need to redraw things to cut out all Republicans from blue states?

Do they really not know?
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 15, 2025 09:14 AM (ExV1e)

There really is no such thing as a "blue state" anymore, is there? Only blue cities, blue enclaves, and corrupt/perverted state governments.

That "wins by county" map from the 2024 presidential election was pretty stark. Like America has a case of blue measles.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at October 15, 2025 09:19 AM (JwNbV)

250 The funny thing is, I don't think it's an electoral play that can work anywhere.
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Nope. But there's a real thirst among the moderate Dem voters for a candidate who isn't one of these nightmare mutants who led them to disaster. His """Christianity""" is a cultural marker that even the atheists among those moderates like, because it signals normality, unlike danger hair and turbans and shit.

What moderate Dems haven't figured out - most never will - is that the Party has left them. It is fully captive to the barking mad demon spawn coalition, and a putative normie can't carry enough of the base to win anywhere - even in Texas. Those normies will have to bite the bullet and vote for an unseemly homunculus from Hell, or switch Parties. We know what most will choose.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at October 15, 2025 09:19 AM (tn4Hy)

251 226 Trump Is Rolling Up The Drug Scourge Once and For All
https://shorturl.at/YZHYh
Elizabeth Nickson (substack)

Spoiler: she blames NOT teh jooz.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket

If true, it explains a lot.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at October 15, 2025 09:19 AM (Dv3i1)

252 244 Anyone else get the sense GOP is once again in bare minimum mode,
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I don't know. I think Johnson's daily briefings on the shutdown have been pretty strong. More than anything I would have seen from the stiffs that preceded him. He's buttoned up and precise in a way that contrasts well with the shit-slinging democrats.

Posted by: Ordinary American at October 15, 2025 09:20 AM (WHfpM)

253 CBD went to France and emerged woke!

In fairness to CBD - holds back retching, he was quoting the linked article, hence the quotation marks.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 15, 2025 09:21 AM (ExV1e)

254 207 My sister had a Mr. Tallarico as a HS music teacher in The Bronx. His son is Aerosmith's Steve Tyler who grew up in neighboring Yonkers.
Posted by: Ignoramus

"Upstate" starts at the Yonkers/Bronx Line.

Posted by: Not Open To Debate at October 15, 2025 09:21 AM (oftw2)

255 And now Scott Pressler is trying to un-fuck it, trying to get people to vote against retention on three Lefty judges on the PA Supreme Court.
Posted by: XTC at October 15, 2025 09:18 AM (UnA8+)

From the few commercials I've seen before i could get to the "never show this ad again" button, it sounds like their play on this one is to push the Abortion angle over everything else.

Never interrupt your enemy etc etc....

Posted by: Warai-otoko at October 15, 2025 09:21 AM (JwNbV)

256 > Invoking the Insurrection Act would probably include arresting a bunch of judges at this point.

That's...a big step. I understand the reticence.
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You have one side actively attacking the other. Threatening violence daily and, in many cases, acting on it.

If the current situation was developing under a Democrat administration we'd already be under martial law. Severely restrictive and punitive martial law.

I can understand an unwillingness to broach certain norms and institute crushing and restrictive policies on one's foes. But we're in something of a simmering civil war as it is, with one side actively involved in terrorizing the the other side.

Arresting recalcitrant judges is the least of our problems right now... IMO.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at October 15, 2025 09:21 AM (Q4IgG)

257 249 There really is no such thing as a "blue state" anymore, is there? Only blue cities, blue enclaves, and corrupt/perverted state governments.

That "wins by county" map from the 2024 presidential election was pretty stark. Like America has a case of blue measles.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at October 15, 2025 09:19 AM (JwNbV)

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Today is oral arguments on ending the majority minority district requirement of the VRA at SCOTUS (Louisiana made it explicit that's what they were looking for when they filed).

There's a very, very solid chance that they rule it unconstitutional which could lead to Democrats losing 15-20 House seats when new maps get drawn around the nation to account for the change in requirement.

Expect...heated rhetoric directed at conservative jurists.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 15, 2025 09:21 AM (GBKbO)

258 Does every single blue state need to redraw things to cut out all Republicans from blue states?

New England has 21 reps - all Donks.

Yes the region leans D, so you'd expect them to have 60% of the seats but not 100%.

The amusing part here is the Donks are all pretty close to 100% gerrymandered in the regions they control

Posted by: 18-1 at October 15, 2025 09:22 AM (sKqQm)

259 Texas, like the rest of the south, has a long history and a long memory of preachers who use fake Christianity to gain power, wealth, and sex. Nothing new there.
“Night of the Hunter” is about one of them.

Posted by: Tom Servo at October 15, 2025 09:22 AM (TBCjf)

260 "President Donald Trump said on Tuesday that Hamas terrorists would lay down their weapons, or the United States would “disarm them.”"

Daddy's home, don't make him take off his belt

Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at October 15, 2025 09:22 AM (LMBW0)

261 258 The amusing part here is the Donks are all pretty close to 100% gerrymandered in the regions they control
Posted by: 18-1 at October 15, 2025 09:22 AM (sKqQm)

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CA and MD are really the only states with possible seats to pick up for Democrats, and there's a very solid chance that the CA map is a dummymander that will backfire.

And MD would only pick up 1.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 15, 2025 09:23 AM (GBKbO)

262 Anyone else get the sense GOP is once again in bare minimum mode, like '17? Should be wall to wall media blitz ridiculing congressional dems, nonstop podium pressers re the shutdown, announcing next steps on various bills/measures, etc. Instead de minimus
Posted by: SixtySix at October 15, 2025 09:15 AM (wc9RC)

What could repubs say or do that would be more damaging than what the dems are saying and doing?

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at October 15, 2025 09:23 AM (g8Ew8)

263 Is a person from Yonkers called "A Yonker"? Yonkersite? Yonkersian?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at October 15, 2025 09:23 AM (JwNbV)

264
The Hamas Palis ongoing massacre of their fellow but different clanned Palis tells me that-

they believe they can maintain control and stay armed in Gaza.

They will probably need to be disabused of this notion.

Posted by: naturalfake at October 15, 2025 09:23 AM (iJfKG)

265 Anyone else get the sense GOP is once again in bare minimum mode, like '17? Should be wall to wall media blitz ridiculing congressional dems, nonstop podium pressers re the shutdown, announcing next steps on various bills/measures, etc. Instead de minimus

I said a couple of weeks ago that my view is that the GOP is keeping their heads down and mouths shut because they really do think Trump is an anomaly and if they just wait him out, all will be back to normal.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at October 15, 2025 09:23 AM (ufSfZ)

266 2017 wasn't bare minimum for the GOP, it was full on treachery. And yes they are there again, it's just buried slightly deeper.

Posted by: ... at October 15, 2025 09:23 AM (/GhVw)

267 "It'll be fun if the ChiComs televise the return of their astronauts (they won't) and they're whisked away in an unmarked van.
Posted by: Martini Farmer"

That won't be the end of it.

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Sounds unsanitary. It breaks down gelatin and forms biofilms. What gelatin? Are all of the astronauts accounted for?

Posted by: Smellslikevictory at October 15, 2025 09:24 AM (jPdyB)

268 255 From the few commercials I've seen before i could get to the "never show this ad again" button, it sounds like their play on this one is to push the Abortion angle over everything else.

Never interrupt your enemy etc etc....
Posted by: Warai-otoko at October 15, 2025 09:21 AM (JwNbV)

The thing is, that's not going to have much of an effect on the Retention Votes.

And for PA, getting those three off of the State Supreme Court is really the most important thing.

Posted by: XTC at October 15, 2025 09:24 AM (UnA8+)

269 I hope the work of bringing the 12 (13?) budget bills to the House floor is continuing and they'll be voted on and passed to the Senate before the next CR runs out (assuming it is passed to end the shutdown)

Posted by: Chuck Martel at October 15, 2025 09:24 AM (Dv3i1)

270 Is a person from Yonkers called "A Yonker"? Yonkersite? Yonkersian?
Posted by: Warai-otoko

Yonkeridian.

Posted by: Bulg at October 15, 2025 09:24 AM (77rzZ)

271 146 Would like to see mushrooms and gout in a limerick.

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There once was a jolly old Kraut,
With demeanor morbidly stout.
When high on the ’shrooms,
He excessively consumed
Now suffers the wages of gout.

Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at October 15, 2025 09:24 AM (1Nv0l)

272 Can't imagine any circumstance where I would be desperate enough to get somewhere that accepting a ride from Alec Baldwin might seem reasonable.
Posted by: Hitchin' A Ride

Would you go to the shooting range with him? Play paintball or airsoft against him?

Posted by: Moron Analyst at October 15, 2025 09:25 AM (JCZqz)

273 "Upstate" starts at the Yonkers/Bronx Line.

You know who else lived in Yonkers?

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at October 15, 2025 09:25 AM (ufSfZ)

274 "What Would it Take for Democrats to Withdraw Support from Jay Jones?"

don a MAGA hat

Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at October 15, 2025 09:25 AM (LMBW0)

275 The country is in a rare mood at the moment for harsh medicine for festering problems. Trump is leveraging this mood without exploiting it. We all want more and want it faster, but I think Trump is moving at the right pace.

I could be wrong.

Posted by: Ordinary American at October 15, 2025 09:25 AM (WHfpM)

276 We won't be voting ourselves out of this mess.

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So They’re reaching out across the aisle?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at October 15, 2025 09:26 AM (L/fGl)

277 You know who else lived in Yonkers?
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing

Horace Vandergelder

Posted by: Bulg at October 15, 2025 09:26 AM (77rzZ)

278 Johnson like much of the GOP gives off that Secret Society Pedo vibe. Maybe it's not his fault, I'm sure he's a lovely guy (ahem), but it sure helps keep dumb Democrats on their stupid plantation.

Posted by: ... at October 15, 2025 09:26 AM (/GhVw)

279 "What Would it Take for Democrats to Withdraw Support from Jay Jones?"

Only one way: if he claims trans women aren't women.

Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at October 15, 2025 09:26 AM (1Nv0l)

280 "Yonkers" most commonly refers to the city of Yonkers, New York, which was named after the Dutch title "Jonkheer" meaning "young gentleman" or "young nobleman". This title was given to Adriaen van der Donck, an early Dutch settler, and his land became known as "Donck's land" or "Yonkers" over time. The name is also an Americanized surname derived from this Dutch title.

BTW - Yankee means 'boy'.

Posted by: Pudinhead at October 15, 2025 09:27 AM (AdHga)

281 274 "What Would it Take for Democrats to Withdraw Support from Jay Jones?"

don a MAGA hat
Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at October 15, 2025 09:25 AM (LMBW0)

"Yeah, that was messed up, I shouldn't have said anything like that. I'm sorry."

Posted by: Warai-otoko at October 15, 2025 09:27 AM (JwNbV)

282 WE-ALL-SLAM-FOR-I-SLAM

Robert Spencer: The Byzantine Empire stood against jihad, and thereby saved the West, for 800 years.
The Bulwark

I saw this, and freaked out for a second thinking The Bulwark actually published a thoughtful, meaningful article that was worthy of being linked, unironically.

Not quite...

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at October 15, 2025 09:28 AM (JCZqz)

283 What Would it Take for Democrats to Withdraw Support from Jay Jones?

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Can't do it. Per my comment above - Jones reflects the sentiments of the Dem base. If the Party says it doesn't stand for politically motivated child murder, they lose those voters.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at October 15, 2025 09:28 AM (tn4Hy)

284 And how you turned to God from idols, to serve the living and true God.
And to wait for His Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead,
even Jesus, who delivers us from the wrath to come.

Posted by: Kingsman at October 15, 2025 09:28 AM (ehY6c)

285 279 "What Would it Take for Democrats to Withdraw Support from Jay Jones?"

Only one way: if he claims trans women aren't women.
Posted by: Don't blame the alligators

If he says Hamas is partially to blame for the Israeli/Palestinian conflict.

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at October 15, 2025 09:29 AM (JCZqz)

286 Johnson like much of the GOP gives off that Secret Society Pedo vibe. Maybe it's not his fault, I'm sure he's a lovely guy (ahem), but it sure helps keep dumb Democrats on their stupid plantation.
Posted by: ... at October 15, 2025 09:26 AM (/GhVw)

WTF?

Posted by: the way I see it at October 15, 2025 09:29 AM (EYmYM)

287 BTW - Yankee means 'boy'.
Posted by: Pudinhead at October 15, 2025 09:27 AM (AdHga)

I thought it was more along the lines of a gradual algonquian corruption of the French "anglaise"

Posted by: Warai-otoko at October 15, 2025 09:29 AM (JwNbV)

288 Bill, yes, Barling caught my attention too, as there is a long-time brand of pipe by that name. It and Van Buren look to be short drives from Fort Smith itself.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 15, 2025 09:30 AM (omVj0)

289 Invoking the Insurrection Act would probably include arresting a bunch of judges at this point.
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Unelected and unaccountable judges overruling the Executive, ignoring all law and precedent and, in nakedly political moves, taking for themselves the power of the duly elected President is how we protect democracy.

You wouldn't understand how that works because you didn't go to Harvard.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at October 15, 2025 09:30 AM (HXT0k)

290 You just know the Chinee "Scientists" will grow all the space pathogens in a Petri Dish, feed them to bats, and spread them throughout the planet.

Posted by: BTW, That Laura Petrie Was Quite The Dish at October 15, 2025 09:30 AM (oftw2)

291 Art.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 15, 2025 09:31 AM (ExV1e)

292 BTW - Yankee means 'boy'.
Posted by: Pudinhead at October 15, 2025 09:27 AM (AdHga)

I thought it was more along the lines of a gradual algonquian corruption of the French "anglaise"
Posted by: Warai-otoko

I always thought it was from "Jan Kees," "John Cheese," a derisive nickname for the English settlers in New York.

Posted by: Bulg at October 15, 2025 09:31 AM (77rzZ)

293 Ordered my Canon all-in-one printer. I have to head out in a bit for the post office and grocery, but I'll hang on for the Art Thread for a while.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 15, 2025 09:31 AM (omVj0)

294 "On the upside: Those of you at TXMOME this weekend will get to see CBD's rumored new life-sized chest tattoo of Macron and his new neck tattoos of Biden and Kamala. So, y'all have that going for you."

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That does it. I'm packing extra carrots for the chili.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at October 15, 2025 09:31 AM (J5A2J)

295 Ars gratia artis

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 15, 2025 09:32 AM (omVj0)

296 294 "On the upside: Those of you at TXMOME this weekend will get to see CBD's rumored new life-sized chest tattoo of Macron and his new neck tattoos of Biden and Kamala. So, y'all have that going for you."

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That does it. I'm packing extra carrots for the chili.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at October 15, 2025 09:31 AM (J5A2J)

What, does he have matching knuck tats saying "H-E-R-P" and "D-E-R-P" now, too?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at October 15, 2025 09:33 AM (JwNbV)

297 I don't get the sense that anyone on the left is listening to O-zero any more.

Posted by: chicomastronautpuddingcup at October 15, 2025 09:33 AM (jPdyB)

298 271 146 Would like to see mushrooms and gout in a limerick.

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There once was a jolly old Kraut,
With demeanor morbidly stout.
When high on the ’shrooms,
He excessively consumed
Now suffers the wages of gout.
Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at October 15, 2025 09:24 AM

LOL!

Posted by: Limerick lover at October 15, 2025 09:34 AM (J5A2J)

299 Blue states just need to be extremely aggressive about it, and force Supreme Court to ban gerrymandering completely, or face massive (Reddit admin team approved) backlash.
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Please Br'er Fox, don go an' throw poor Br'er Rabbit in that there briar patch.

LOL, f'ing tards. They have no clue, do they?

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at October 15, 2025 09:37 AM (HXT0k)

300 299 Please Br'er Fox, don go an' throw poor Br'er Rabbit in that there briar patch.

LOL, f'ing tards. They have no clue, do they?
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at October 15, 2025 09:37 AM (HXT0k)

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"Democrats would never do anything political."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 15, 2025 09:37 AM (GBKbO)

301 I too noticed that Cornyn votes with Republicans 69% of the time. I can’t wait to vote him out! I noticed some of our Texas luminaries such as McCaul and Crenshaw are no better (time for new blood) Also who is Talarico? I never heard of him? Beto 2.0 you say? Geez Louise. Where is he in Texas?

Posted by: AnnaS at October 15, 2025 09:46 AM (WdMlw)

302 I think I lost my Social Security card.
I can't find it.
I'll eventually need it at some point, especially when I have to renew the license and they make me go through the RealID routine.

So I go to the SS website.
It seems easy enough to get a replacement, you just have to confirm your identity, easy enough, right?

You have to first register at Login.gov.
Where they'll make you use your phone to take photos of your state DL/ID front & back, then take a selfie of yourself which uploads to the site.

The first thing you have to do is provide a phone number where they text you a link (keep this in mind for later) to your phone which opens up to the site which does all the uploads.
I did that, and after it failed the first few times, it finally went through. The site then directs you back to the PC where you did the original registration and now it has more questions to ask to finally confirm you are really you. It asks for your phone number again.

So I gave then the exact same number I used to do the ID/Selfie routine. And it comes back that that number can't be verified as mine.

Now I've got to go to the Post Office so they can verify I'm me.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 15, 2025 09:48 AM (6ydKt)

303 You know, once you start with the tree puns, it’s only a matter of time before they branch out to other areas of literature.

Posted by: RetSgtRN at October 15, 2025 09:49 AM (E4MHU)

304 What's this "mass conversion" of young people to socialism/progressivism that you speak of? No generation is a homogenous mass, of course - and mothers and fathers largely inculcate political beliefs and persuasions onto their children - not, in fact, the media.

Posted by: exonfixer_94 at October 15, 2025 09:50 AM (8Xy/A)

305 Fortunately, in my 20s, and always found extreme social liberalism to be abhorrent.

Posted by: exonfixer_94 at October 15, 2025 09:51 AM (8Xy/A)

306 "Anyone else get the sense GOP is once again in bare minimum mode,"

Trump keeps pulling up weeds that the GOP allowed to grow on their watch. They need to go.

Posted by: Fen at October 15, 2025 10:01 AM (aQIPF)

307 Good morning, all. Thanks, J.J.

>UN Human Rights Office says Israeli military ‘continues to kill civilians’ in Gaza

Note: Current High Commissioner (since 2022) is Volker Türk who has been with the United Nations for over 30 years. In 1991, Türk became a UN Junior Professional Officer and had a temporary assignment in Kuwait funded by the Austrian Foreign Ministry. (Obviously, thereafter, he became a permanent organizational squatter - much like our very own Congressional squatters.)

Turk seems to have a disproportionate focus on condemning Israel.
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Hamas calls for Gaza residents to hand over collaborators or face "strict hand of justice"

Hamas' Radaa is conducting a “comprehensive security operation” across Gaza to target those involved in collaboration.
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Palestinian rights organization ICHR condemns executions in Gaza

In part, "The Palestinian Independent Commission for Human Rights (ICHR), a rights organization established by late Palestinian Authority President Yasser Arafat, expressed deep concern about the apparent executions that recently took place in the Gaza Strip."

(CNN live stream articles cited in part.)

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at October 15, 2025 10:01 AM (NFX2v)

308 Yes, we will disarm them, and disleg them, and dishead them, etc.

Posted by: ERF at October 15, 2025 10:29 AM (qqD/x)

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