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With Massive Assist from Trump, Argeninian President and "Afuerza!" Enthusiast Javier Milei Defies Expectations and Stomps the Parliamentary Mid-Term Elections

This video explains the trouble Milei was in, and how Trump got him out of it.

Basically, no one believed that Millei's reforms would stick. People did not want to invest in Argentina's economy because they were pretty sure another leftist would just defeat him at the next elections and return the country to basket-case socialist rule.

The only way to get people to invest would be to convince them that Millei was popular and that he'd be around to make sure the reforms stuck. But people didn't believe this, and the Argentinian peso continued to decline in value.

This is when Trump intervened. He declared the US dollar would trade at a fixed rate against the Argentinian peso, thus effectively setting a floor for the peso's value. He also spent billions of America dollars buying up the Argentinian peso, buttressing its value.

But that's not all he did. Trump declared that America's support for the Argentinan peso was conditioned absolutely on the Argentines voting in favor of Milei's party at the mid-terms. If the public turned on Milei, Trump would end all support for the country.

He said that if the Argentines chose basket-case socialism again, America would bail out of bailing out Argentina, as Argentina would just be a "waste of our time."

Did it work?

You betcha.

All of the polls showed Milei's party losing the mid-terms.

Instead, he stompenated them.


@ContextOfficiel

🔴 𝗔𝗟𝗘𝗥𝗧 𝗜𝗡𝗙𝗢 • 🇦🇷 • In the Midterm Elections, President Javier Milei's party "La libertad avanza" defied ALL the predictions:

• Large victory at 41%
• 101 deputies (+64)
• 20 senators (+14)
• He also won in Buenos Aires, a city historically very left-wing

Now, he did not win parliament outright, but it's very hard to win a parliament outright unless, say, you're the UK Labour party, and the UK "Conservative" party decides to allow absolute open borders despite their own voters telling them to STOP THE BOATS at the top of their lungs.

But this gives Milei the whip-hand in getting his laws passed, and he also secured a one-third bloc in the Senate which means that the Senate cannot override his vetoes with a two-thirds vote.

Posted by: Ace at 01:10 PM




Comments

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1 I have summoned the others.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at October 27, 2025 01:11 PM (O7YUW)

2 It should also be assumed that their polling sucks.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 27, 2025 01:11 PM (GBKbO)

3 Surprise!

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 27, 2025 01:12 PM (ExV1e)

4 Good afternoon good people.

Any more winning today?

Why, yes. I believe there is!

Posted by: Tonypete at October 27, 2025 01:12 PM (cYBz/)

5 "Afuera".

No z. I don't think.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at October 27, 2025 01:13 PM (JwNbV)

6 it's 40% chainsaw, 30% "centre right" (using the metric spelling for parliamentary systems). And unlike third world shitholes like Germany and France, Argentina doesn't run a "cordon sanitaire" scam where they just refuse to let the majority form the government because cooties.

Posted by: gKWVE at October 27, 2025 01:13 PM (gKWVE)

7 Sometimes reality defies media narrative.

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 27, 2025 01:14 PM (hJuCq)

8 This is good news for them, I was hoping they'd give freedom a real chance.

Posted by: Inogame at October 27, 2025 01:14 PM (53oGX)

9 Let's hope it sticks.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 27, 2025 01:14 PM (i24o9)

10 Damn, I'm so tired of all this global winning.

Posted by: Bulg at October 27, 2025 01:14 PM (77rzZ)

11 Now imagine what could get done if Trump cared about anything more than his own ego. All it would take is one compliment from Democrats and he would flip on conservatives.

Posted by: ... at October 27, 2025 01:15 PM (AXQOo)

12 Yep, this is also why Trump is encouraging beef imports to the US. Smart move.

Posted by: Pudinhead at October 27, 2025 01:15 PM (jFCkp)

13 Where's the beef?

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 27, 2025 01:15 PM (hJuCq)

14 Is Chile next?

Posted by: Pudinhead at October 27, 2025 01:16 PM (jFCkp)

15 It amazing. And entire county wrecked by socialism finally declares its had enough. Meanwhile in NY Democrats with their AWFL cheerleading division are about to elect an America hating, left wing communist jihadist.

Posted by: vengeance at October 27, 2025 01:16 PM (bi3Es)

16 They call the actual no hyperbole Peronist party "Center Left". The words mean nothing.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at October 27, 2025 01:16 PM (JwNbV)

17 There are still some commie governments in South America

we gotta root that shit out

Monroe Doctrine FTW

Posted by: Don Black. Message: don't drop it at October 27, 2025 01:16 PM (AOsQT)

18
Trumps diplomacy is turning all the "norms" over at foggy bottom on their head.

Posted by: Frank Barone at October 27, 2025 01:16 PM (IifOV)

19 This is good news, so inshallah we'll get some of those billons back, somehow, since I know a lot of concerntrolls here in the US were whining about $20B for Argies and $0B for Our Troops.
[... or for EBT, but screw 'em.]

Posted by: gKWVE at October 27, 2025 01:16 PM (gKWVE)

20 Trumptor stompenating the countryside, stompenating the socialist!

Posted by: Cray Cray at October 27, 2025 01:17 PM (5Uw2I)

21 We have about a week until New York City becomes New York Caliphate.

I, for one, look forward to watching it burn.

Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at October 27, 2025 01:17 PM (1Nv0l)

22 Trump is about to slap down Brazil next. They’re in bed with the Chinese.

Posted by: vengeance at October 27, 2025 01:17 PM (bi3Es)

23 Does Chile have beef? They seem to have a penchant for Hugo Boss.

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 27, 2025 01:18 PM (hJuCq)

24 Argentina has Hitler's Brain.

Posted by: Pudinhead at October 27, 2025 01:18 PM (jFCkp)

25 Trump just keeps on w-i-n-n-i-n-g

Posted by: kallisto at October 27, 2025 01:18 PM (dCxaZ)

26 22 Trump is about to slap down Brazil next. They’re in bed with the Chinese.
Posted by: vengeance at October 27, 2025 01:17 PM (bi3Es)

What a shock. I miss Bolsonaro already.

Posted by: Cow Demon at October 27, 2025 01:18 PM (sVOFR)

27 21 We have about a week until New York City becomes New York Caliphate.

I, for one, look forward to watching it burn.
Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at

I do not look forward to the mass exodus and the locusts arriving here.

Posted by: Piper at October 27, 2025 01:18 PM (pZEOD)

28 I wonder if it was truly caused by the carrot-and-stick methods of the administration or simply because Milei's policies are actually working. Given South American sensitivity towards Yankee meddling in their affairs, I could see our president's efforts just as easily backfiring.

Posted by: Citizen Cake at October 27, 2025 01:18 PM (CwhoI)

29 Is Chile next?
Posted by: Pudinhead at October 27, 2025 01:16 PM (jFCkp)

They're going to need to hold a seance, and summon the ghost of Pinochet.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 27, 2025 01:18 PM (npFr7)

30
New York City is about to learn how voting for socialists is going to hurt and hurt very bad.

Posted by: Frank Barone at October 27, 2025 01:19 PM (IifOV)

31 Peronism was just fascism. Maybe a little more Catholic than Mussolini's version.
As for what it is now, I have no idea. It smells like some typical Nehru-style crooked local socialism interspersed with blaming the Yanquis for when it all goes wrong.

Posted by: gKWVE at October 27, 2025 01:19 PM (gKWVE)

32 So Argentina's voters actually pay attention to important fundamental facts of economics before voting?

Wow.

Can we replace the coastal populations with people from Argentina?!?

Posted by: 18-1 with words of wisdom at October 27, 2025 01:19 PM (sKqQm)

33 Argentina has Hitler's Brain.
Posted by: Pudinhead

Nah. That went to Stalin.

Posted by: Bulg at October 27, 2025 01:19 PM (77rzZ)

34 Wil Trump put carrots in Chile?

Posted by: Johnny Quest at October 27, 2025 01:19 PM (y9ksN)

35 I think the Kirk Ballroom sounds nice
Posted by: BlackOrchid at October 27, 2025 12:49 PM (emBoF)

The press briefing room should be the Charlie Kirk Room. A place for calm, open, polite discourse. Watch the Democrats fight it tooth and nail, then sit back and laugh.

Posted by: ... at October 27, 2025 01:19 PM (AXQOo)

36 Milei's untested, dangerous and reckless strategy consists of ... delivering on his campaign promises.

Something unheard of in modern, western countries--a debasement of one's character far beneath all entitled leaders.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at October 27, 2025 01:20 PM (6EDhb)

37 It should also be assumed that their polling sucks.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 27, 2025 01:11 PM (GBKbO)
---
I'm guessing they learned it from us.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 27, 2025 01:20 PM (IBQGV)

38 What kind of beans do the Chileans use?

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 27, 2025 01:20 PM (hJuCq)

39 We have about a week until New York City becomes New York Caliphate.

--

Billy Joel should rewrite the lyrics to "New York State of Mind." Think of the possibilities.

Posted by: Lady in Black at October 27, 2025 01:20 PM (qBdHI)

40 Back good guys when you can.

Posted by: Eromero at October 27, 2025 01:21 PM (jgmnb)

41 38 What kind of beans do the Chileans use?
-------------
Inca Beans.

Posted by: Pudinhead at October 27, 2025 01:21 PM (jFCkp)

42 28 I wonder if it was truly caused by the carrot-and-stick methods of the administration or simply because Milei's policies are actually working. Given South American sensitivity towards Yankee meddling in their affairs, I could see our president's efforts just as easily backfiring.
Posted by: Citizen Cake at October 27, 2025 01:18 PM (CwhoI)

Perhaps it is both. And Latin American has a love-hate relationship with this country, and understandably so. May Trump tread carefully.

Posted by: Cow Demon at October 27, 2025 01:21 PM (sVOFR)

43 That's my President!

Posted by: fd at October 27, 2025 01:21 PM (GTBtP)

44 Afternoon.

*Ahem*

Argentina's legislature is called Congress.

*Adjusts glasses*

Posted by: Robert, the Love Walrus at October 27, 2025 01:21 PM (3yQ81)

45 Could Peruvia be next.

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 27, 2025 01:22 PM (hJuCq)

46 Now, if Trump and Xi find common ground this week, the seethe and cope will be epic.

Posted by: SloPitch Whiffer at October 27, 2025 01:22 PM (NYInA)

47 Surprisingly the official rate in ARG for the Peso is very close to the Dollar Blue rate (official black market rate, trust me it is Argentina) which it hasn't been since President Macri tried to end the official peg.



Posted by: Kindltot at October 27, 2025 01:22 PM (rbvCR)

48 The Monroe Doctrine being enforced via economics?

And the military I guess, as in Venezuela, and our own border.

Posted by: illiniwek at October 27, 2025 01:23 PM (vbXSk)

49 5 "Afuera".

No z. I don't think.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at October 27, 2025 01:13 PM (JwNbV)

Correct.

Posted by: Robert, the Love Walrus at October 27, 2025 01:23 PM (N0R2b)

50 Billy Joel should rewrite the lyrics to "New York State of Mind." Think of the possibilities.
Posted by: Lady in Black at October 27, 2025 01:20 PM (qBdHI)
----
"We DID Start the Fire!"

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 27, 2025 01:23 PM (IBQGV)

51 Gunboat Diplomacy.

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 27, 2025 01:23 PM (hJuCq)

52 Sometimes reality defies media narrative."

Hmmm. Without USAID, much media seems to have reduced influence...

Just a thought...

Posted by: man at October 27, 2025 01:23 PM (tubbA)

53 I do not look forward to the mass exodus and the locusts arriving here.
Posted by: Piper

My sister relocated to your area specifically as she ID'd it as a deep blue area. (Correctly or incorrectly)

Posted by: Tonypete at October 27, 2025 01:23 PM (cYBz/)

54 I do not look forward to the mass exodus and the locusts arriving here.
Posted by: Piper at October 27, 2025 01:18 PM (pZEOD)

we are already inundated with NY, NJ and Philadelphia refugees, who are driving up our real estate prices

Posted by: kallisto at October 27, 2025 01:23 PM (dCxaZ)

55 Was it bad, bigoted polling or was Trump really the decisive factor in the big win? Would Milie have won anyway but just by less of a margin?

Posted by: Ordinary American at October 27, 2025 01:24 PM (WHfpM)

56 Milei Helicopter Tours next?

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at October 27, 2025 01:24 PM (PHCb/)

57 NYC and NY in general have some of the most corrupt elections in the country. The mail-in and harvesting is so insecure it’s a joke. They have no idea who is on the voters rolls and don’t care.

Posted by: vengeance at October 27, 2025 01:24 PM (bi3Es)

58 why is Argentina so screwed up? 90 years of Peronism and related jackassery.

Evita Perón said, "Where there is a need there is born a Right" and the Peronists have been using that as a justification ever since.

Posted by: Kindltot at October 27, 2025 01:24 PM (rbvCR)

59 What I like least about giving them "aid" or whatever you want to call it is that it completely undercuts what they're accomplishing down there.

So this radical free-market liberal agenda is going so gangbusters that you have to.... mooch $20B from Uncle Sam to stay afloat, just like any other basketcase latin kleptocracy? Doesn't sound very successful to me.

Would be fun if they had framed it as the US buying up a shit-ton of Argentine bonds. Call it an Investment, instead of a gift, or worse, Charity.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at October 27, 2025 01:25 PM (JwNbV)

60 I do not look forward to the mass exodus and the locusts arriving here.
Posted by: Piper

---
You may have a little time. I suspect they'll try to finish colonizing Florida before moving west through the Deep South.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 27, 2025 01:25 PM (IBQGV)

61 "Hey, you're not supposed to influence South American politics openly like that. We're experts in the clandestine stuff." -CIA ham and egggers (probably)

Posted by: Flyguy at October 27, 2025 01:25 PM (l7eyG)

62 Given South American sensitivity towards Yankee meddling in their affairs"

They have to blame someone else. "Those imperialists want bananas! "

Posted by: man at October 27, 2025 01:25 PM (tubbA)

63 I followed Milei a few years ago and forgot. I was wondering why my timeline on X was all Milei all the time

Posted by: mishdog at October 27, 2025 01:25 PM (OqX4h)

64 I hear Bolivia is f***ed up

also, Bolivia killed Butch & Sundance


DEFEAT BOLIVIA

Posted by: Don Black. Message: don't drop it at October 27, 2025 01:26 PM (AOsQT)

65 Argentina has something like 30 parties participating in elections, so it's virtually impossible for any to win a true majority. But there are enough conservative parties willing to ally with Milei to give his party control.

Posted by: Tom Servo at October 27, 2025 01:26 PM (uWKK8)

66 Bolivia killed Che so there’s that.

Posted by: Cow Demon at October 27, 2025 01:27 PM (sVOFR)

67 64 I hear Bolivia is f***ed up

also, Bolivia killed Butch & Sundance

DEFEAT BOLIVIA
-----------
Didn't they kill Che as well?

Posted by: Pudinhead at October 27, 2025 01:27 PM (jFCkp)

68 There are still some commie governments in South America
we gotta root that shit out
Monroe Doctrine FTW
Posted by: Don Black. Message: don't drop it at October 27, 2025 01:16 PM (AOsQT)

Lula in Brazil pretty much had a coup wrapped in a rigged election. And apparently that rigged election was funded by the CIA.
The Brazilian Right is about to loose its collective mind with the disclosures coming out.

Posted by: Kindltot at October 27, 2025 01:27 PM (rbvCR)

69 Did Trump give Argentina direct aid, or was it all buying the Peso?

Yes buying the Peso is a form of aid, but we still old their Peso.

Posted by: illiniwek at October 27, 2025 01:27 PM (vbXSk)

70 I wonder if a similar ploy could be used by Trump here, before the next national election. I mean, there's time between the election itself and when the next President takes office to royally fuck things up for the Democrats.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at October 27, 2025 01:28 PM (Q4IgG)

71 Libs of TikTok
@libsoftiktok
BREAKING: Wilbur Wright College Staffer Moises Bernal, who called to shoot and kiII ICE agents, has been FIRED

Another one bites the dust!

-----
What the hell is wrong with people? He's clearly in his 50's and had his cushy little life and all he had to do was keep going thru the motions and INSTEAD decided that what he needed to do was go FULLY CRAZY in public and cost him his job. In a better world, it would cost him his career as well, but we all know he'll be quietly hired by another leftist university 6 months from now.

Posted by: Crusader at October 27, 2025 01:28 PM (TN0g+)

72 If you rank Presidents by how well they set socialism back, it's either Trump, then Reagan or Reagan (who "won the Cold War") then Trump.

Posted by: Axeman at October 27, 2025 01:28 PM (krQz2)

73 Had no idea this was going on. Good info, Ace.

Posted by: Paco at October 27, 2025 01:29 PM (mADJX)

74 BREAKING: Wilbur Wright College Staffer Moises Bernal, who called to shoot and kiII ICE agents, has been FIRED

Another one bites the dust!
---
TRUMP IS CHILLING SPEECH!!!

Posted by: Axeman at October 27, 2025 01:29 PM (krQz2)

75 I think the Kirk Ballroom sounds nice
Posted by: BlackOrchid

Hillary belched out some inane criticism of the new WH ballroom on social media to which Trump responded that he'd name it after Monica Lewinsky.

Posted by: Stu Podaso at October 27, 2025 01:29 PM (S1ral)

76 Willowed, so reposting this. Just to see how much shit it gets.
Also, the name seems to be a combination of fat man and little boy.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads

Just named for the only type of customer they got.
Posted by: UJM man.

Posted by: UJM man. at October 27, 2025 01:29 PM (n4GiU)

77 Over the past five years, Argentina has exported beef worth over $800 million to the U.S., while the U.S. has only sold $7 million worth of beef to Argentina.

Posted by: redridinghood at October 27, 2025 01:29 PM (NpAcC)

78 Shooting ICE agents is just an idea.

Posted by: Axeman at October 27, 2025 01:29 PM (krQz2)

79 Are we sure Argentina has free and fair elections?

If so, can we get those here?

Posted by: BurtTC at October 27, 2025 01:29 PM (dGCAG)

80 Cocaine and bananas.

Posted by: Hunter Biden, Artiste at October 27, 2025 01:29 PM (UjdFS)

81 167 Crusader, was it "moslem"?
------

I think it was! Thank you. I'll now take the slings and arrows from everyone who feels like it was obvious and I shouldn't have asked, but for the life of me I couldn't recall it.
Posted by: Crusader at October 27, 2025 12:45 PM (TN0g+)

*******

If you are lurking here, Crusader, I'm glad you found the answer.

Neither slings nor arrows from me.

Posted by: EFG at October 27, 2025 01:29 PM (LMBN3)

82 Was Bolsonaro the Brazilian guy who was in before Silva stole it back again? Or was that a different guy?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at October 27, 2025 01:29 PM (JwNbV)

83 Gosh, it's possible to use economic power to influence rather than sending in CIA operatives with nefarious motives?

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (UJMvS) at October 27, 2025 01:30 PM (UJMvS)

84 72 If you rank Presidents by how well they set socialism back, it's either Trump, then Reagan or Reagan (who "won the Cold War") then Trump.
Posted by: Axeman at October 27, 2025 01:28 PM (krQz2)

Reagan altered the world map. Trump still might, but it’s an open question right now. As of today, I still place Reagan ahead of Trump on that score.

Posted by: Cow Demon at October 27, 2025 01:30 PM (sVOFR)

85 What the hell is wrong with people? He's clearly in his 50's and had his cushy little life and all he had to do was keep going thru the motions and INSTEAD decided that what he needed to do was go FULLY CRAZY in public and cost him his job.
Posted by: Crusader

They think they are oh so important and will influence people. They've coasted for so long already that they can't conceive of being held accountable for anything.

Posted by: Tonypete at October 27, 2025 01:30 PM (cYBz/)

86 82 Was Bolsonaro the Brazilian guy who was in before Silva stole it back again? Or was that a different guy?
Posted by: Warai-otoko at October 27, 2025 01:29 PM (JwNbV)

Yes.

Posted by: Cow Demon at October 27, 2025 01:30 PM (sVOFR)

87 New York City is about to learn how voting for socialists is going to hurt and hurt very bad.

Posted by: Frank Barone at October 27, 2025 01:19 PM (IifOV)


My worry is that NYC will collapse financially and then the Dems will demand the rest of us bail them out. For the sake of the starving children. And the Repubs will cave instead of letting them fucking "starve". That's my fear.

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at October 27, 2025 01:30 PM (bDt0k)

88 Go Go Go Trumpzilla!

Posted by: toby928(c) at October 27, 2025 01:30 PM (jc0TO)

89 Throughout the world it is quite the amazing coincidence that pollsters always overestimate left-wing support. I guess math and statistics aren't useful things after all.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at October 27, 2025 01:30 PM (n5tGW)

90 but it's very hard to win a parliament outright unless, say, you're the UK Labour party, and the UK "Conservative" party decides to allow absolute open borders despite their own voters telling them to STOP THE BOATS at the top of their lungs.

You can't really blame us if the voters keep sending mixed messages like this.

Posted by: Conservative Party at October 27, 2025 01:31 PM (Riz8t)

91 And apparently that rigged election was funded by the CIA."

USAID weeps...

Posted by: man at October 27, 2025 01:31 PM (tubbA)

92 My worry is that NYC will collapse financially and then the Dems will demand the rest of us bail them out. For the sake of the starving children. And the Repubs will cave instead of letting them fucking "starve". That's my fear.
Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at October 27, 2025 01:30 PM

Have they no U-Hauls?

Posted by: toby928(c) at October 27, 2025 01:31 PM (jc0TO)

93 Hillary belched out some inane criticism of the new WH ballroom on social media to which Trump responded that he'd name it after Monica Lewinsky.
Posted by: Stu Podaso

Hillary: "We'll that would blow."

"Uh, I mean. . . . "

Posted by: Tonypete at October 27, 2025 01:31 PM (cYBz/)

94 I was informed Trump was going to get us into nonstop wars because of his giant ego and unpreparedness. Did someone lie to me?

Posted by: ... at October 27, 2025 01:31 PM (AXQOo)

95 "Conservative" party decides to allow absolute open borders despite their own voters telling them to STOP THE BOATS at the top of their lungs.

* scribbles notes *

Posted by: RINOs at October 27, 2025 01:31 PM (0sNs1)

96 Trump should take a No Beans approach with Chile.

Posted by: Axeman at October 27, 2025 01:32 PM (krQz2)

97 the Bolivians seem shifty, standoffish

Posted by: Don Black. Message: don't drop it at October 27, 2025 01:32 PM (AOsQT)

98 69 Did Trump give Argentina direct aid, or was it all buying the Peso?

Yes buying the Peso is a form of aid, but we still old their Peso.
Posted by: illiniwek at October 27, 2025 01:27 PM (vbXSk)

I thought there was a direct $20B in aid over and above that. But maybe i'm wrong. Actually, no, screw that-- Maybe journalism in general just sucks ballsacks, which made me have a false understanding of events. Don't blame me.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at October 27, 2025 01:32 PM (JwNbV)

99 Trump is greater than Reagan. Reagan got fooled by Tip O'Neal. Trump is not fooled by Schumer.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at October 27, 2025 01:32 PM (W7XSX)

100 Argentina has Hitler's Brain.
Posted by: Pudinhead

Nah. That went to Stalin.
Posted by: Bulg at October 27, 2025 01:19 PM (77rzZ)

i thought that was the bunker wall paint?

Posted by: Sturmtoddler at October 27, 2025 01:32 PM (nXhwP)

101 Dems will demand the rest of us bail them out"

"Ford to City: Drop Dead "

Posted by: man at October 27, 2025 01:33 PM (tubbA)

102 My worry is that NYC will collapse financially and then the Dems will demand the rest of us bail them out. For the sake of the starving children. And the Repubs will cave instead of letting them fucking "starve". That's my fear.
-----------------
There is a troika of dead beat states - NY, CA, and IL. Only one of them gets a bailout. This is like Survivor television.

Posted by: Pudinhead at October 27, 2025 01:33 PM (jFCkp)

103 The headline taxes us!

Posted by: Moron Grammar Nazis in Every Language Guild, Inc. at October 27, 2025 01:33 PM (7nrYO)

104 My worry is that NYC will collapse financially and then the Dems will demand the rest of us bail them out. For the sake of the starving children. And the Repubs will cave instead of letting them fucking "starve". That's my fear.
Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at October 27, 2025 01:30 PM

Worse, they'll demand that Texas ship them salsa worth eating.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at October 27, 2025 01:33 PM (0sNs1)

105 They've coasted for so long already that they can't conceive of being held accountable for anything.
Posted by: Tonypete at October 27, 2025 01:30 PM (cYBz/)

There's that, and also no impulse control. They're emotionally children.

Posted by: Ordinary American at October 27, 2025 01:33 PM (WHfpM)

106 Culturally, Trump has done more to set the Left back than the previous 10 presidents combined. Not even a contest.

Posted by: ... at October 27, 2025 01:33 PM (AXQOo)

107 90 You can't really blame us if the voters keep sending mixed messages like this.

Posted by: Conservative Party at October 27, 2025 01:31 PM (Riz8t)

======

I don't think the CP ever actually ran, holistically outside of some handful of MPs, to limit immigration at all.

It was always about keeping quiet, and then just opening the borders.

And Labour was historically more vocal about criticizing the CP for being so open borders, like Bernie Sanders.

The UK is a weird place politically where genuinely Labour has been more for closed borders rhetorically than the party everyone kind of assumed was about closed borders: the CP.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 27, 2025 01:33 PM (GBKbO)

108 106 Culturally, Trump has done more to set the Left back than the previous 10 presidents combined. Not even a contest.

Posted by: ... at October 27, 2025 01:33 PM (AXQOo)

======

I'll be very fair:

I think Biden did more.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 27, 2025 01:34 PM (GBKbO)

109 They think they are oh so important and will influence people. They've coasted for so long already that they can't conceive of being held accountable for anything.
Posted by: Tonypete at October 27, 2025 01:30 PM (cYBz/)

Get them fired, fine. But also doxx them. Make them tremble every time the doorbell rings.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 27, 2025 01:34 PM (npFr7)

110 This must be my day of simple questions, but here we go:

What is the modern consensus (if any) regarding Simon Bolivar?

Posted by: Crusader at October 27, 2025 01:34 PM (TN0g+)

111 I was informed Trump was going to get us into nonstop wars because of his giant ego and unpreparedness. Did someone lie to me?

Posted by: ... at October 27, 2025 01:31 PM (AXQOo)
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"It's gonna happen. Trust us." -- DC

Posted by: Axeman at October 27, 2025 01:35 PM (krQz2)

112 Maybe journalism in general just sucks ballsacks"

This. I chuckle at depictions of business, war, and science in media. It's all fiction.

Posted by: man at October 27, 2025 01:35 PM (tubbA)

113 was informed Trump was going to get us into nonstop wars because of his giant ego and unpreparedness. Did someone lie to me?
Posted by: ... at October 27, 2025 01:31 PM (AXQOo)

I'm old enough to remember when Trump was just a stalking horse for Hillard. Good times, good times!!

Posted by: Somewhere South of I-80 at October 27, 2025 01:35 PM (89Sog)

114 Maybe journalism in general just sucks ballsacks
Posted by: Warai-otoko

This guy gets it!

Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at October 27, 2025 01:35 PM (Dyujk)

115 104 My worry is that NYC will collapse financially and then the Dems will demand the rest of us bail them out.
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"Too big to fail." But Bessant has already nixed the possibility.

Posted by: Ordinary American at October 27, 2025 01:35 PM (WHfpM)

116 What is the modern consensus (if any) regarding Simon Bolivar?
Posted by: Crusader

His watches were great.

Posted by: Bulg at October 27, 2025 01:35 PM (77rzZ)

117 It might be fun to consider giving them a little bailout if Mamdami will strip down to a loincloth, lay on the ground and lavishly lick Trump's dirty riding boots.

Posted by: Tom Servo at October 27, 2025 01:35 PM (uWKK8)

118 Evita Perón said, "Where there is a need there is born a Right" and the Peronists have been using that as a justification ever since.
Posted by: Kindltot at October 27, 2025 01:24 PM (rbvCR)

I neeeeeeeed for the government to stop taking my money and giving to other people for nothing.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 27, 2025 01:35 PM (ExV1e)

119 NYC has a special place in Trump's heart so hopefully he's got a whole set of plans ABC Nd Z for Mamdami

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at October 27, 2025 01:36 PM (H6u9a)

120 Peronism was just fascism. Maybe a little more Catholic than Mussolini's version.
As for what it is now, I have no idea. It smells like some typical Nehru-style crooked local socialism interspersed with blaming the Yanquis for when it all goes wrong.
Posted by: gKWVE at October 27, 2025 01:19 PM (gKWVE)

Peronism was Fascism 100%, based on the Italian model - and Mussolini was Catholic. Milei . . . Reagan once said that it is amazing what you can get done as long as you don't insist on getting credit for success. Milei seems to be willing to embrace that.
He is an economist and a professor. He is relying on his cabinet who are amazing, and he has them out working in the open as well.

To put your mind at rest, it is not socialism. It is an attempt to do a number of things to reduce the reach and power of the state over business, individuals and the economy in a country where for two centuries the state has been focused on collecting up the power over everything and giving it out to its backers. The only question is how far can it go and how long will it last.

Posted by: Kindltot at October 27, 2025 01:36 PM (rbvCR)

121 The only thing you really have to do to "beat the left" politically is to stop actively supporting The Left by maniacally excusing every lie and cheat and trick they pull, while staunchly forbidding even the slightest offensive maneuver from your own trenches.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at October 27, 2025 01:36 PM (JwNbV)

122 Argentines are
Italians who
Speak Spanish
Wish they were British
Act like they're French
And have a Prussian military

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 27, 2025 01:36 PM (7nrYO)

123 Leftards are all Churchill now.

Ward Churchill.

(callback!)

Posted by: ... at October 27, 2025 01:36 PM (AXQOo)

124 Hey TJM, any job offers yet? I hope so. You're in my thoughts.

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at October 27, 2025 01:36 PM (bDt0k)

125 What is the modern consensus (if any) regarding Simon Bolivar?"

He's dead, Jim.

Posted by: man at October 27, 2025 01:36 PM (tubbA)

126 Hillary: "We'll that would blow."

"Uh, I mean. . . . "
Posted by: Tonypete at October 27, 2025 01:31 PM (cYBz/)

Monica gave Billy Jeff;s balls room...

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 27, 2025 01:36 PM (npFr7)

127 You may have a little time. I suspect they'll try to finish colonizing Florida before moving west through the Deep South.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel

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The Communist Caliphate refugees will come to NJ first. Will bump up the value of my house even further. I'm moving to Florida in a couple of years anyway, so good timing as far as I am concerned.

Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at October 27, 2025 01:36 PM (1Nv0l)

128 The UK is a weird place politically where genuinely Labour has been more for closed borders rhetorically than the party everyone kind of assumed was about closed borders: the CP.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 27, 2025 01:33 PM (GBKbO)

Yeah, let's see how wide the Republican Party here spreads open for illegals once Trump is safely out of the way.

Posted by: BurtTC at October 27, 2025 01:37 PM (dGCAG)

129 119 NYC has a special place in Trump's heart so hopefully he's got a whole set of plans ABC Nd Z for Mamdami

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at October 27, 2025 01:36 PM (H6u9a)

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I think the best way would be to go after the City Council's very definite corruption issues.

Cripple the city there, and leave Mamdani alone.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 27, 2025 01:37 PM (GBKbO)

130 I do not look forward to the mass exodus and the locusts arriving here.
Posted by: Piper

My sister relocated to your area specifically as she ID'd it as a deep blue area. (Correctly or incorrectly)

Posted by: Tonypete at October 27, 2025 01:23 PM

The 1st District last elected a Democrat to Congress in 1960. She chose either poorly or well, depending on your POV.

Posted by: toby928(c) at October 27, 2025 01:37 PM (jc0TO)

131 122 That explains a lot about the Argentinians I know.

Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at October 27, 2025 01:37 PM (1Nv0l)

132 But that's not all he did. Trump declared that America's support for the Argentinan peso was conditioned absolutely on the Argentines voting in favor of Milei's party at the mid-terms. If the public turned on Milei, Trump would end all support for the country.

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"COLLUSION! IMPEACH! REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!"

Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at October 27, 2025 01:38 PM (7ZZER)

133 124 Hey TJM, any job offers yet? I hope so. You're in my thoughts.

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at October 27, 2025 01:36 PM (bDt0k)

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Nope. Not yet. I did get one follow up for an extra electronic form to fill out, so that was nice.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 27, 2025 01:38 PM (GBKbO)

134 Get them fired, fine. But also doxx them. Make them tremble every time the doorbell rings.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 27, 2025 01:34 PM (npFr7)


THIS. Ruin their lives. Just like they did to anyone on our side.

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at October 27, 2025 01:38 PM (bDt0k)

135 What is the modern consensus (if any) regarding Simon Bolivar?"
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My guess is "Who?"

Posted by: Axeman at October 27, 2025 01:39 PM (krQz2)

136 Posted by: Somewhere South of I-80 at October 27, 2025 01:35 PM (89Sog)

Also when National Review said that we couldn't trust him to be "conservative enough".

😂😂

Posted by: ... at October 27, 2025 01:39 PM (AXQOo)

137 Argentines are
Italians who
Speak Spanish
Posted by: San Franpsycho

My brother-in-law is from Argentina. His Italian grandmother took care of him a lot, so he spoke Italian before he spoke Spanish.

Posted by: Bulg at October 27, 2025 01:39 PM (77rzZ)

138 Cripple the city there, and leave Mamdani alone.
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That would work. Mamdani is merely a dancing windup doll like Obama.

Posted by: Pudinhead at October 27, 2025 01:39 PM (jFCkp)

139 What is the modern consensus (if any) regarding Simon Bolivar?
Posted by: Crusader

He's history.

Posted by: From about That Time at October 27, 2025 01:39 PM (n4GiU)

140 Well, good for them.

Good for Trump as well.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at October 27, 2025 01:40 PM (PKI1F)

141 Worked for a company once that had an Argentinian who was a much feared Senior VP. Those who knew him said that all he ever wanted to do was to stand on the balcony and shout at the troops.

Posted by: Tom Servo at October 27, 2025 01:40 PM (uWKK8)

142 What is the modern consensus (if any) regarding Simon Bolivar?
Posted by: Crusader

He's history.
Posted by: From about That Time at October 27, 2025 01:39 PM

I snorted out loud.

Posted by: toby928(c) at October 27, 2025 01:40 PM (jc0TO)

143 Nope. Not yet. I did get one follow up for an extra electronic form to fill out, so that was nice.
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TJM, what are you looking for?

Posted by: Pudinhead at October 27, 2025 01:40 PM (jFCkp)

144 And how do you justify such a massive assist to Argentina?

Simple, and typical Trump negotiating tactics. We are coming up on the "re-negotiation" of the USMCA (NAFTA) Agreement with Canada and Mexico (our second biggest and biggest trading partners respectively). Argentina is on the cusp of becoming a newly minted economic power player. Argentina just happens to have abundant resources, a significant number of them overlapping with exports from both Canada and Mexico. Having another source for these exports puts the US in a stronger negotiating position...and it will lead to individual trade agreements with Canada and Mexico.

Solid investment and act by Trump Administration.

Now, Argentina needs to get off it's ass and wind up that new Coffee industry to stick it to Columbia.

Posted by: Orson at October 27, 2025 01:40 PM (dIske)

145 106 Culturally, Trump has done more to set the Left back than the previous 10 presidents combined. Not even a contest.

Posted by: ... at October 27, 2025 01:33 PM (AXQOo)

I don't know. It remains to be seen. They're historically very resilient. He's certainly agitated them, forced their hands, helped to expose them. But "set back" in anything but a temporary way? It will take something beyond what we've seen so far.

Posted by: Ordinary American at October 27, 2025 01:41 PM (WHfpM)

146 143 Nope. Not yet. I did get one follow up for an extra electronic form to fill out, so that was nice.
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TJM, what are you looking for?

Posted by: Pudinhead at October 27, 2025 01:40 PM (jFCkp)

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Something that will feed me.

But, more specifically, software implementation/testing.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 27, 2025 01:41 PM (GBKbO)

147 Was it bad, bigoted polling or was Trump really the decisive factor in the big win? Would Milie have won anyway but just by less of a margin?
Posted by: Ordinary American at October 27, 2025 01:24 PM (WHfpM)

In my opinion, the one weak area for Milei was the economy. The World Bank could have called in loans, the Europeans could have dumped what bonds they had, and done more "rule changes" to exclude ARG exports further. What Trump did was to backstop the Argie economy. Kristina Fernandez de Kirchner couldn't have done that, she had the Navy cadet training ship seized in an African port for default on loans, even if she weren't in jail for corruption charges.

Posted by: Kindltot at October 27, 2025 01:41 PM (rbvCR)

148 What the hell is wrong with people? He's clearly in his 50's and had his cushy little life and all he had to do was keep going thru the motions and INSTEAD decided that what he needed to do was go FULLY CRAZY in public and cost him his job. In a better world, it would cost him his career as well, but we all know he'll be quietly hired by another leftist university 6 months from now.
Posted by: Crusader at October 27, 2025 01:28 PM (TN0g+)

Your last sentence answered your first.

Posted by: ... at October 27, 2025 01:41 PM (AXQOo)

149 Can Canada be next?

Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 18.1% at October 27, 2025 01:41 PM (Sco7b)

150 "COLLUSION! IMPEACH! REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!"
Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at October 27, 2025 01:38 PM (7ZZER)

This is a good point. But unlike the color revolution in say Ukraine, Trump is not doing it to enrich himself (ala Biden.)

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at October 27, 2025 01:41 PM (PKI1F)

151 Over the past five years, Argentina has exported beef worth over $800 million to the U.S., while the U.S. has only sold $7 million worth of beef to Argentina.
Posted by: redridinghood


To be fair, trying to sell Argentina beef is like trying to sell Eskimos ice.

Posted by: rickb223 Acehole Extraordinaire coined by JSpicy at October 27, 2025 01:41 PM (UjDHi)

152 Lula in Brazil pretty much had a coup wrapped in a rigged election. And apparently that rigged election was funded by the CIA.
The Brazilian Right is about to loose its collective mind with the disclosures coming out.
Posted by: Kindltot at October 27, 2025 01:27 PM (rbvCR)

And, if memory serves, Lula was ineligible to run based on Brazilian law but their High Court said whatever...

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 27, 2025 01:42 PM (ExV1e)

153 Bolivar himself was a garden variety rabble rouser who did a good job inciting and sometimes leading a string of regular old 19th century revolutions against atrociously shitty colonialist dictatorships, and in his wake ushering in at best chaos and at worst even shittier dictatorships.

The worst thing about Bolivar is all the generations of utter human filth who claimed him as their personal spirit animal and ruined a whole continent for a century.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at October 27, 2025 01:42 PM (JwNbV)

154 He said that if the Argentines chose basket-case socialism again, America would bail out of bailing out Argentina, as Argentina would just be a "waste of our time."

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If the Democrat-Communists manage to Steal Another Future Presidential Election, maybe Argentina will be able to repay The Favor and Bail-Out America.

Although they'll likely need north of $1quadrillion to do so ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at October 27, 2025 01:42 PM (7ZZER)

155 Would be fun if they had framed it as the US buying up a shit-ton of Argentine bonds. Call it an Investment, instead of a gift, or worse, Charity.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at October 27, 2025 01:25 PM (JwNbV)

never do that, Argentina has not managed to bring a 30-year bond to maturity for a century.

Posted by: Kindltot at October 27, 2025 01:42 PM (rbvCR)

156 Kindltot, I was talking about modern Peronism, which got the wooden spoon in the election so will have no impact on Milei.

Posted by: gKWVE at October 27, 2025 01:43 PM (gKWVE)

157 TJM, what are you looking for?
Posted by: Pudinhead at October 27, 2025 01:40 PM (jFCkp)

I believe it's a 'job.' Something he can work for a set amount of time in exchange for money- which he can then turn around and exchange for goods and services.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at October 27, 2025 01:43 PM (PKI1F)

158 Something that will feed me.

But, more specifically, software implementation/testing.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 27, 2025 01:41 PM (GBKbO)
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According to posters at Insty, they're making enormous bucks working from home for Google.

Seriously, though, good luck and prayers offered.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (UJMvS) at October 27, 2025 01:43 PM (UJMvS)

159 Che was an Argentine?

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 27, 2025 01:43 PM (hJuCq)

160 157 I believe it's a 'job.' Something he can work for a set amount of time in exchange for money- which he can then turn around and exchange for goods and services.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at October 27, 2025 01:43 PM (PKI1F)

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But that's not important right now. What's important right now is if you can fly this plane.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 27, 2025 01:43 PM (GBKbO)

161 I find Argentine Spanish completely unintelligible and it does sound like Italian to me.

Messican, Cuban, Puerto Rican, even Castilian, I'm good.

I think they must speak "Spanish" like the Quebecois speak "French"

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 27, 2025 01:44 PM (7nrYO)

162 But, more specifically, software implementation/testing.
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Jeebus, that should not be a hard find. I guess you are looking around Charlotte but the Research Triangle used to be the hub for that in NC. You want to work remotely, right?

Posted by: Pudinhead at October 27, 2025 01:44 PM (jFCkp)

163 Solid investment and act by Trump Administration.

Now, Argentina needs to get off it's ass and wind up that new Coffee industry to stick it to Columbia.
Posted by: Orson at October 27, 2025 01:40 PM (dIske)

Can't say I know much about the history of South America, just that it seems like a land that has rich resources, but has been poorly run for decades.

I believe we had our usuals down there for much of that time, the spooks who played around with regime change here and there, and I don't see how it made anything better.

Maybe it's time for a wheeler dealer businessman to take a shot at it.

Posted by: BurtTC at October 27, 2025 01:44 PM (dGCAG)

164 Che was an Argentine?
Posted by: Boss Moss at October 27, 2025 01:43 PM (hJuCq
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Yep, er, si.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at October 27, 2025 01:45 PM (x7EH8)

165 If you rank Presidents by how well they set socialism back, it's either Trump, then Reagan or Reagan (who "won the Cold War") then Trump.
Posted by: Axeman at October 27, 2025 01:28 PM (krQz2)

I hope Trump does better, because pretty much everything Reagan did was dumped, perverted or used as a pretext to do the opposite.

Posted by: Kindltot at October 27, 2025 01:45 PM (rbvCR)

166 Shirley, you're joking.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 27, 2025 01:45 PM (7nrYO)

167 Meanwhile, at Drudge, "I Tried to Have Sex With AI Clive Owen'..."

My browser is secured so tightly that I can't follow his weird link, but I just want to say: I've been there, tried that, and AI Clive Owen turned my proposition down flat. I thought about stalking him, but that thought passed after a while. I got over it. Time heals all wounds.

Posted by: gp at October 27, 2025 01:45 PM (7imtn)

168 Slightly willowed ( I had to take a call)

Real Origin: Descriptive Design
The name "Fat Boy" was chosen during a Harley-Davidson internal brainstorming session. According to Harley historian Martin Jack Rosenblum and confirmed by VP of styling Scott Miller, the name reflects the bike’s wide, solid, and imposing appearance—especially when viewed head-on.

so sez Copilot
it was apparently a fat motorcycle

Posted by: Don Black. Message: don't drop it at October 27, 2025 12:57 PM (AOsQT)

Well, there is the official story, and then there's the classified one. I'm calling bullshit on the fat motorcycle thing, because they were already making the heritage for 4 years by the time the fatboy was made. Its the same bike. Same front end, same frame. If anything the fatboy is a slightly stripped down heritage. From the front they look identical except for the slightly smaller more stylized front fender. What matters is the message they tried to convey, and it worked. I was working on them when they came out, and everyone who bought one said the same thing. Air force looking logo, B-29 color with small color accents the color of an A-bomb explosion. That isn't coincidence. It was planned.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at October 27, 2025 01:45 PM (snZF9)

169 But that's not important right now. What's important right now is if you can fly this plane.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 27, 2025 01:43 PM (GBKbO)

Surely you can't be serious. It's a completely different kind of flying- altogether!

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at October 27, 2025 01:45 PM (PKI1F)

170 Spanish speakers can't understand Uruguayan Spanish.

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 27, 2025 01:45 PM (hJuCq)

171 158 Seriously, though, good luck and prayers offered.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (UJMvS) at October 27, 2025 01:43 PM (UJMvS)

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Thank you.

I had a call with our financial advisor, and he was telling me that we should be fine, even under the assumption that we have to dip into our savings (we probably won't have to).

The most direct way to help, if you feel so inclined, is to subscribe to my new YouTube channel (link in nic goes to my site which has a sticky about it) or buying my books. The latter is cheaper, so please, people, at least do that.

I should have my first real video up by Friday.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 27, 2025 01:45 PM (GBKbO)

172 Worked for a company once that had an Argentinian who was a much feared Senior VP. Those who knew him said that all he ever wanted to do was to stand on the balcony and shout at the troops.
Posted by: Tom Servo at October 27, 2025 01:40 PM (uWKK

😵‍💫

Posted by: runner at October 27, 2025 01:45 PM (g47mK)

173 never do that, Argentina has not managed to bring a 30-year bond to maturity for a century.
Posted by: Kindltot at October 27, 2025 01:42 PM (rbvCR)

It's more of a framing device than an actual investment. Actually getting paid on the coupon is a fantastical pipe dream, sure, but if it was going to get pissed away on aboriginal lesbian macaroni art in the South Sandwich Islands anyways, who gives a crap?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at October 27, 2025 01:46 PM (JwNbV)

174 maybe Argentina will be able to repay The Favor"

I'd like some Argentinian red wine please...

Posted by: man at October 27, 2025 01:46 PM (tubbA)

175 Che was an Argentine?
Posted by: Boss Moss at October 27, 2025 01:43 PM (hJuCq)

Yes, and that is the literal meaning of his nickname.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 27, 2025 01:46 PM (npFr7)

176 162 But, more specifically, software implementation/testing.
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Jeebus, that should not be a hard find. I guess you are looking around Charlotte but the Research Triangle used to be the hub for that in NC. You want to work remotely, right?

Posted by: Pudinhead at October 27, 2025 01:44 PM (jFCkp)

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I would love to keep working from home, but I'm also looking for jobs in the Charlotte area that require in-person work.

So, fingers' crossed...that this process takes long enough for my YouTube channel to blow up and I don't need actual work and can just talk about movies for a living.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 27, 2025 01:46 PM (GBKbO)

177 don't know. It remains to be seen. They're historically very resilient. He's certainly agitated them, forced their hands, helped to expose them. But "set back" in anything but a temporary way? It will take something beyond what we've seen so far.
Posted by: Ordinary American at October 27, 2025 01:41 PM (WHfpM)

They have lost the phony moral high ground they cultivated under Bush, starting with the wars, then Katrina, then Obama, then Trayvon, then gays, and finally Floyd.

It seemed the whole country and world was under their spell. They even had half the Republican Party secretly on their side. To the point where most of even THIS place would fight you if you called out specific Republican Slime.

Trump forcefully broke the spell. That genie is not going back in the bottle which is why the Left are more out and proud than ever. The moral high ground play is all but gone until Republicans conveniently come back with some of their scripted "Rape is God's plan" bullshit.

Posted by: ... at October 27, 2025 01:47 PM (AXQOo)

178 Can Canada be next?
Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 18.1% at October 27, 2025 01:41 PM (Sco7b)

We're going to carve it up. Bring some of the western provinces in as states. Maybe give Newfoundland to the new Greenland coalition.

Leave Keeebeck to F off and stay frenchified.

Posted by: BurtTC at October 27, 2025 01:47 PM (dGCAG)

179 You may have a little time. I suspect they'll try to finish colonizing Florida before moving west through the Deep South.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel

Pensacola is only 40 minutes away! But to your point, we should keep highlighting just how backwards Alabama is, and so help me, if Southern Living does one more article on Fairhope…

Posted by: Piper at October 27, 2025 01:47 PM (Wmg4n)

180 Every gain Trump made in his first term was undone in six months by Biden. That's how aggressively ruinous the Left can be. It will happen again if we don't find more and better ways to uproot their influences and damage their brand.

Posted by: Ordinary American at October 27, 2025 01:47 PM (WHfpM)

181 169 But that's not important right now. What's important right now is if you can fly this plane.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 27, 2025 01:43 PM (GBKbO)

Surely you can't be serious. It's a completely different kind of flying- altogether!

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at October 27, 2025 01:45 PM (PKI1F)

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It's a completely different kind of flying.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 27, 2025 01:47 PM (GBKbO)

182 Bolivar himself was a garden variety rabble rouser who did a good job inciting and sometimes leading a string of regular old 19th century revolutions against atrociously shitty colonialist dictatorships, and in his wake ushering in at best chaos and at worst even shittier dictatorships.

The worst thing about Bolivar is all the generations of utter human filth who claimed him as their personal spirit animal and ruined a whole continent for a century.
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Ok, that was the kind of summary I was hoping someone would offer. "Objective" reading of his life shows Bolivar as some sort of freedom figure, but all of the wrong people espousing all of the wrong "-isms" seem to love the guy, and the damage they've inflicted is incalculable.

Posted by: Crusader at October 27, 2025 01:47 PM (TN0g+)

183 Go for it TJM

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 27, 2025 01:48 PM (IC093)

184 I should have my first real video up by Friday.
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You're into pron, now?

Posted by: Pudinhead at October 27, 2025 01:48 PM (jFCkp)

185 129 119 I think the best way would be to go after the City Council's very definite corruption issues.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava

Yeah, let's get Alvin Bragg on that pronto.

Posted by: Auspex at October 27, 2025 01:48 PM (Y8DZL)

186 I don't think I'll ever get over Macho Grande.

Posted by: toby928(c) at October 27, 2025 01:48 PM (jc0TO)

187 183 Go for it TJM

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 27, 2025 01:48 PM (IC093)

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Thanks!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 27, 2025 01:48 PM (GBKbO)

188 Spanish speakers can't understand Uruguayan Spanish."

There's greater variety in "Spanish" than in "English"...

Posted by: man at October 27, 2025 01:48 PM (tubbA)

189 If they patch things up with Canadia we can get their beef.

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 27, 2025 01:48 PM (hJuCq)

190 It's a completely different kind of flying.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 27, 2025 01:47 PM (GBKbO)
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Flying can be a habit.

Posted by: Sally Field at October 27, 2025 01:48 PM (UJMvS)

191 104 My worry is that NYC will collapse financially and then the Dems will demand the rest of us bail them out.
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"Too big to fail." But Bessant has already nixed the possibility.
Posted by: Ordinary American at October 27, 2025 01:35 PM

The problem is that the collapse won't happen in a year. Trump will likely be out of office when the finaal collapse comes. And unless someone like JD follows him I can see it happening. Same with CA.

Posted by: Minnfidel at October 27, 2025 01:49 PM (4p0Xq)

192 181 169 But that's not important right now. What's important right now is if you can fly this plane.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 27, 2025 01:43 PM (GBKbO)

Surely you can't be serious. It's a completely different kind of flying- altogether!

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at October 27, 2025 01:45 PM (PKI1F)

He is serious. And don't call him Shirley.

Posted by: Now open the inflation tube at October 27, 2025 01:49 PM (TbWk/)

193 184 I should have my first real video up by Friday.
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You're into pron, now?

Posted by: Pudinhead at October 27, 2025 01:48 PM (jFCkp)

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Well, Theresa did call me a cutie earlier today...

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 27, 2025 01:49 PM (GBKbO)

194 You're into pron, now?
Posted by: Pudinhead at October 27, 2025 01:48 PM (jFCkp)

Probably thr only OnlyFans with a Groucho Marx theme.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at October 27, 2025 01:49 PM (PKI1F)

195 So much white supremacy in Argentina!!!!!

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at October 27, 2025 01:49 PM (VYKOS)

196 Are we sure POTUS is working with Aubergintina? I looked it up, and all they have there is eggplants.

Posted by: gp at October 27, 2025 01:50 PM (7imtn)

197 But to your point, we should keep highlighting just how backwards Alabama is
Posted by: Piper

Your state's affinity for kale smoothies says it all.

Posted by: Bulg at October 27, 2025 01:50 PM (77rzZ)

198 Probably thr only OnlyFans with a Groucho Marx theme.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at October 27, 2025 01:49 PM (PKI1F)
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That's a weird unibrow and nose......

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (UJMvS) at October 27, 2025 01:50 PM (UJMvS)

199 >>>ou're the UK Labour party, and the UK "Conservative" party decides to allow absolute open borders despite their own voters telling them to STOP THE BOATS at the top of their lungs.

oi, mate, you got a loicense for that there hate speech?

Posted by: London Metro Police at October 27, 2025 01:51 PM (jGJov)

200 I should have my first real video up by Friday.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 27, 2025 01:45 PM (GBKbO)

Gosh, I hope it is about that visual masterpiece - Prometheus !

Posted by: runner at October 27, 2025 01:51 PM (g47mK)

201 "New York City is about to learn how voting for socialists is going to hurt and hurt very bad.
Posted by: Frank Barone"


I hear this a lot. They had Bolshevik de Blasio for 8 years and learned nothing. Why does anybody think electing Mandami will be any different?

To be fair I think deBlasio had some very rich, powerful Dems holding him back from his worst instincts, which may not be the case here.

Posted by: Ripley at October 27, 2025 01:51 PM (GUOwU)

202 It's a completely different kind of flying."

No fear, though...

Posted by: man at October 27, 2025 01:51 PM (tubbA)

203 Maybe TJM will become the new Joe Rogan ! but with less drugs!

Posted by: runner at October 27, 2025 01:52 PM (g47mK)

204 My brother-in-law is from Argentina. His Italian grandmother took care of him a lot, so he spoke Italian before he spoke Spanish.
Posted by: Bulg

I was well into my 20's when I learned my first name was not 'Stunad!'

Posted by: Tonypete at October 27, 2025 01:52 PM (cYBz/)

205 If they patch things up with Canadia we can get their beef.
Posted by: Boss Moss at October 27, 2025 01:48 PM (hJuCq)

I saw cattle liners on I-15 heading for the border yesterday.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 27, 2025 01:52 PM (npFr7)

206 You're up to 55 views.

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 27, 2025 01:52 PM (hJuCq)

207 The worst thing about Bolivar is all the generations of utter human filth who claimed him as their personal spirit animal and ruined a whole continent for a century.

It was the Spanish who effed up Latin America, just like they effed up Spain.

Posted by: Bulg at October 27, 2025 01:52 PM (77rzZ)

208 Maybe TJM will become the new Joe Rogan ! but with less drugs!
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I wonder what questions TJM would ask Mike Tyson?

Posted by: Crusader at October 27, 2025 01:53 PM (TN0g+)

209 If the NYC election only allowed US born citizens Cuomo would win. Mamdani is getting overwhelming support from foreign born voters.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 27, 2025 01:53 PM (viF8m)

210 199 >>>ou're the UK Labour party, and the UK "Conservative" party decides to allow absolute open borders despite their own voters telling them to STOP THE BOATS at the top of their lungs.

oi, mate, you got a loicense for that there hate speech?
Posted by: London Metro Police at October 27, 2025 01:51 PM (jGJov)

You look like a bloke 'oo moight be finkin' foughts you ought not be finkin'. Oim takin' yooo in on suspicion of finkin' unapproved foughts.

Posted by: Coming soon to a police force near you at October 27, 2025 01:53 PM (TbWk/)

211 208 I wonder what questions TJM would ask Mike Tyson?

Posted by: Crusader at October 27, 2025 01:53 PM (TN0g+)

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"Can you say that again...?"

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 27, 2025 01:53 PM (GBKbO)

212 They had Bolshevik de Blasio for 8 years and learned nothing."

Not a surprise, as most tend to view mayors as being near dog catchers on the scale of influence...

Posted by: man at October 27, 2025 01:54 PM (tubbA)

213 I wonder what questions TJM would ask Mike Tyson?
Posted by: Crusader at October 27, 2025 01:53 PM (TN0g+)

What do you think of Prometheus ?
Is Gone with the Wind the most overrated movie ever ??

Posted by: runner at October 27, 2025 01:54 PM (g47mK)

214 We're going to carve it up. Bring some of the western provinces in as states. Maybe give Newfoundland to the new Greenland coalition.

Leave Keeebeck to F off and stay frenchified.

Posted by: BurtTC at October 27, 2025 01:47 PM (dGCAG)

Expel the socialists, keep us good people and keep the entire country for it's natural resources.

Just an idea.

Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 18.1% at October 27, 2025 01:54 PM (Sco7b)

215 My sister relocated to your area specifically as she ID'd it as a deep blue area. (Correctly or incorrectly)

Posted by: Tonypete at October 27, 2025 01:23 PM

The 1st District last elected a Democrat to Congress in 1960. She chose either poorly or well, depending on your POV.
Posted by: toby928(c) at October 27, 2025 01:37 PM (jc0TO)

Maybe she was thinking Mobile would be more in line politically, but decided diversity is best left to others to support.

Posted by: Piper at October 27, 2025 01:54 PM (Wmg4n)

216 TJM, Red Hat up in Raleigh could use some help

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at October 27, 2025 01:55 PM (wBaIH)

217 My worry is that NYC will collapse financially and then the Dems will demand the rest of us bail them out.

Of course they will. Dem electoral politics is YOLO... we'll take from everyone else so you can have a slowly worsening life without having to exert yourself over it... and we get rich.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 27, 2025 01:55 PM (ExV1e)

218 I hear this a lot. They had Bolshevik de Blasio for 8 years and learned nothing. Why does anybody think electing Mandami will be any different?

To be fair I think deBlasio had some very rich, powerful Dems holding him back from his worst instincts, which may not be the case here.

Posted by: Ripley at October 27, 2025 01:51 PM (GUOwU)

You partially answered your question. Mandami is a completely different animal.

Posted by: Ordinary American at October 27, 2025 01:55 PM (WHfpM)

219 Surely you can't be serious. It's a completely different kind of flying- altogether!

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at October 27, 2025 01:45 PM (PKI1F)

He is serious. And don't call him Shirley.
Posted by: Now open the inflation tube at October 27, 2025 01:49 PM (TbWk/)

(In unison): "It's a completely different kind of flying!"

Posted by: LASue at October 27, 2025 01:55 PM (lCppi)

220 I don't know if anybody had "Not long enough to be a rape-rape" on their 2025 Bingo card.

Posted by: Axeman at October 27, 2025 01:55 PM (krQz2)

221 But, more specifically, software implementation/testing.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

So you're pivoting from assholery?

Posted by: Bulg at October 27, 2025 01:56 PM (77rzZ)

222 213 Is Gone with the Wind the most overrated movie ever ??

Posted by: runner at October 27, 2025 01:54 PM (g47mK)

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I'd never ask that. Gone with the Wind is great.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 27, 2025 01:56 PM (GBKbO)

223 201 "New York City is about to learn how voting for socialists is going to hurt and hurt very bad.
Posted by: Frank Barone"


I hear this a lot. They had Bolshevik de Blasio for 8 years and learned nothing. Why does anybody think electing Mandami will be any different?

To be fair I think deBlasio had some very rich, powerful Dems holding him back from his worst instincts, which may not be the case here.

Posted by: Ripley at October 27, 2025 01:51 PM (GUOwU)

This guy is hardcore. Can you imagine what the political implications for law enforcement will be by the time he's done. Rotherham on the Hudson.

Posted by: Kathleen Kenndey at October 27, 2025 01:57 PM (OA79/)

224 "I wonder what questions TJM would ask Mike Tyson?"

Please ask him about his favorite Ingmar Bergman movies. I'm watching 'Scenes From a Marriage' for the first time, even though I know how risky it is to watch Bergman without asking Mike first.

Posted by: gp at October 27, 2025 01:57 PM (7imtn)

225 216 TJM, Red Hat up in Raleigh could use some help

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at October 27, 2025 01:55 PM (wBaIH)

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Moving away from Charlotte is a no go, unfortunately.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 27, 2025 01:57 PM (GBKbO)

226 Nice to have adults back in the white house

Posted by: JM in Illinois at October 27, 2025 01:57 PM (FH4Rn)

227 We're going to carve it up. Bring some of the western provinces in as states. Maybe give Newfoundland to the new Greenland coalition.

Leave Keeebeck to F off and stay frenchified.

Posted by: BurtTC at October 27, 2025 01:47 PM (dGCAG)

Expel the socialists, keep us good people and keep the entire country for it's natural resources.

Just an idea.
Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 18.1% at October 27, 2025 01:54 PM (Sco7b)

Newfoundland just had a Provincial election, and gave a solid mandate to a Conservative premier. He has said job #1 is to renegotiate the dreadful agreement with Quebec to move Labrador-generated hydroelectric power South to market.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 27, 2025 01:57 PM (npFr7)

228 220 I don't know if anybody had "Not long enough to be a rape-rape" on their 2025 Bingo card.
Posted by: Axeman at October 27, 2025 01:55 PM (krQz2)

Who would've thought that being a premature ejaculator would become a defense to rape?

Posted by: It wan't THAT bad kid, quit crying at October 27, 2025 01:58 PM (TbWk/)

229 I think the US needs to send Milei some nice new comfortable helicopters

Posted by: General Augusto Pinochet at October 27, 2025 01:58 PM (k1E2D)

230 "7 Sometimes reality defies media narrative.

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 27, 2025 01:14 PM (hJuCq) "

words to live by! real is real, innit? gotta love it!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at October 27, 2025 01:58 PM (kHop/)

231 Carol Burnett's version of Gone With the Wind was better.

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 27, 2025 01:58 PM (hJuCq)

232 I'd never ask that. Gone with the Wind is great.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 27, 2025 01:56 PM (GBKbO)

I agree, great movie, I like the burning of Atlanta scenes especially.

Posted by: runner at October 27, 2025 01:58 PM (g47mK)

233 224 Please ask him about his favorite Ingmar Bergman movies. I'm watching 'Scenes From a Marriage' for the first time, even though I know how risky it is to watch Bergman without asking Mike first.

Posted by: gp at October 27, 2025 01:57 PM (7imtn)

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Factoid:

Divorce rates skyrocketed in Sweden during the series' initial broadcast run.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 27, 2025 01:58 PM (GBKbO)

234 Afuera translates to: "Yes, I purposely get my hair cut this way."

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at October 27, 2025 01:58 PM (9FEtL)

235 Is Gone with the Wind the most overrated movie ever ??

Posted by: runner

No - that would be My Dinner With Andre.

Pretentions, self-indulgent, elitist and tedious.

Posted by: Tonypete at October 27, 2025 01:59 PM (cYBz/)

236 Carol Burnett's version of Gone With the Wind was better.
Posted by: Boss Moss at October 27, 2025 01:58 PM (hJuCq)
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Is that the version where Carol was liberated by a sniveling coward?

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (UJMvS) at October 27, 2025 01:59 PM (UJMvS)

237 What is the modern consensus (if any) regarding Simon Bolivar?
Posted by: Crusader at October 27, 2025 01:34 PM (TN0g+)

Depends on where you are at. There really isn't a consensus outside of him being deeply prescient of politics (read his Letter from Jamaica and his Letter to General Jose Flores), extremely effective as a commander, deeply imaginative as a tactician, and sort of out of his depth in dealing with his political superiors and later political contemporaries in first Gran Colombia, then Colombia proper as the whole thing broke up. He relied deeply on his lover, Manuela Saenz to navigate the shifting sands of self interest of the various factions on the political side, but in the end he was too beat up and sick to keep fighting.

Now, General Jose de San Martin was truly a wonder.

Posted by: Kindltot at October 27, 2025 01:59 PM (rbvCR)

238 Oh, it's 'Argentina.' Never mind. No, wait: they might have silver! To heck with oil. Let's get that precious silver.

Posted by: gp at October 27, 2025 01:59 PM (7imtn)

239 >>>My worry is that NYC will collapse financially and then the Dems will demand the rest of us bail them out.

In many ways this is the story of the entire Democrat Party

Posted by: narrator at October 27, 2025 02:00 PM (jGJov)

240 This guy is hardcore. Can you imagine what the political implications for law enforcement will be by the time he's done. Rotherham on the Hudson.
Posted by: Kathleen Kenndey at October 27, 2025 01:57 PM

Blow the bridges, sink anything leaving the island.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 27, 2025 02:00 PM (ySpAZ)

241 I'd never ask that. Gone with the Wind is great.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

My problem with GWTW is probably its last 40 minutes or so, when all the bad stuff starts happening -- Scarlett falls and has a miscarriage, Bonnie dies, Melanie collapses and dies. It's like they said, "OK, let's kill everybody off and wrap this thing up."

The scene with Mammie's speech to Melanie is excellent, however, so there's that. Hattie McDaniel makes that movie for me.

Posted by: Bulg at October 27, 2025 02:00 PM (77rzZ)

242 234 Afuera translates to: "Yes, I purposely get my hair cut this way."
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at October 27, 2025 01:58 PM (9FEtL)

It's the Walter/Wendy Carlos sideburns that really pull the look together.

Posted by: Moog it on over at October 27, 2025 02:00 PM (TbWk/)

243 I'd never ask that. Gone with the Wind is great.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 27, 2025 01:56 PM (GBKbO)

I agree, great movie, I like the burning of Atlanta scenes especially.
Posted by: runner


You missed a prime opportunity to sock Phillip T Sherman.

Posted by: rickb223 Acehole Extraordinaire coined by JSpicy at October 27, 2025 02:00 PM (UjDHi)

244 I neeeeeeeed for the government to stop taking my money and giving to other people for nothing.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 27, 2025 01:35 PM (ExV1e)

And Lindsey Graham Neeeeeeeeds more sterling silver table settings. Get in line.

Posted by: Kindltot at October 27, 2025 02:00 PM (rbvCR)

245 241 My problem with GWTW is probably its last 40 minutes or so, when all the bad stuff starts happening -- Scarlett falls and has a miscarriage, Bonnie dies, Melanie collapses and dies. It's like they said, "OK, let's kill everybody off and wrap this thing up."

The scene with Mammie's speech to Melanie is excellent, however, so there's that. Hattie McDaniel makes that movie for me.

Posted by: Bulg at October 27, 2025 02:00 PM (77rzZ)

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It's a big sweeping melodrama. People gotta die eventually.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 27, 2025 02:01 PM (GBKbO)

246 Afuera translates to: "Yes, I purposely get my hair cut this way."
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at October 27, 2025 01:58 PM (9FEtL)
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We can leave Greta out of this.

Posted by: Axeman at October 27, 2025 02:01 PM (krQz2)

247 New York's going to need Snake Pliskin to fix it after Mamdami is done.

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at October 27, 2025 02:01 PM (bDt0k)

248 >"I wonder what questions TJM would ask Mike Tyson?"
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"What have you done with Robin Givens?"

Posted by: Don Black. Message: don't drop it at October 27, 2025 02:01 PM (AOsQT)

249 My problem with GWTW is probably its last 40 minutes or so, when all the bad stuff starts happening -- Scarlett falls and has a miscarriage, Bonnie dies, Melanie collapses and dies. It's like they said, "OK, let's kill everybody off and wrap this thing up."

The scene with Mammie's speech to Melanie is excellent, however, so there's that. Hattie McDaniel makes that movie for me.

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Yeah, I have the same problem with Romeo and Juliet.

Posted by: runner at October 27, 2025 02:01 PM (g47mK)

250 I'd never ask that. Gone with the Wind is great.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 27, 2025 01:56 PM (GBKbO)

I agree, great movie, I like the burning of Atlanta scenes especially.
Posted by: runner at October 27, 2025 01:58 PM (g47mK)
*******
One of my favorite movies of all time.

Posted by: redridinghood at October 27, 2025 02:02 PM (NpAcC)

251 It's a big sweeping melodrama. People gotta die eventually.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 27, 2025 02:01 PM (GBKbO)
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That was my point.

Posted by: Kathleen Sebelius at October 27, 2025 02:02 PM (krQz2)

252 You missed a prime opportunity to sock Phillip T Sherman.
Posted by: rickb223 Acehole Extraordinaire coined by JSpicy at October 27, 2025 02:00 PM (UjDHi)
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Psssst...William.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at October 27, 2025 02:02 PM (x7EH8)

253 249 Yeah, I have the same problem with Romeo and Juliet.

Posted by: runner at October 27, 2025 02:01 PM (g47mK)

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Friar Lawrence is one of literature's greatest monsters.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 27, 2025 02:02 PM (GBKbO)

254 Carol Burnett's version of Gone With the Wind was better.
Posted by: Boss Moss at October 27, 2025 01:58 PM (hJuCq)
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Is that the version where Carol was liberated by a sniveling coward?
Posted by: blake


It's where she wore the drapes as a dress. With the curtain rod still in it.

Posted by: rickb223 Acehole Extraordinaire coined by JSpicy at October 27, 2025 02:02 PM (UjDHi)

255 189 If they patch things up with Canadia we can get their beef.
Posted by: Boss Moss at October 27, 2025

But Argentinian beef is so good, though!

Posted by: Piper at October 27, 2025 02:03 PM (OoFl2)

256 "Divorce rates skyrocketed in Sweden during the series' initial broadcast run."

I can believe it. I rewatched 'Blue Valentine' last night, which I rate a 10 out of 10. I see the reviewers like to compare it to 'Scenes From a Marriage,' so I started watching that.

Most reviewers say that 'Blue Valentine' is a bad movie to take a date to. I'll have to take their word for it, since AI Clive Owen turned me down for that date too.

Posted by: gp at October 27, 2025 02:03 PM (7imtn)

257 You missed a prime opportunity to sock Phillip T Sherman.
Posted by: rickb223 Acehole Extraordinaire coined by JSpicy at October 27, 2025 02:00 PM (UjDHi)

William's brother?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at October 27, 2025 02:03 PM (JwNbV)

258 Psssst...William.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea


Correct. I always just call him "Sherman thru Atlanta".

Posted by: rickb223 Acehole Extraordinaire coined by JSpicy at October 27, 2025 02:04 PM (UjDHi)

259 Newfoundland just had a Provincial election, and gave a solid mandate to a Conservative premier. He has said job #1 is to renegotiate the dreadful agreement with Quebec to move Labrador-generated hydroelectric power South to market.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 27, 2025 01:57 PM 

I actually saw that on CBC.

Ford is on now. He'll never apologise for the ads.

Perhaps the tariffs need to be higher.

Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 18.1% at October 27, 2025 02:04 PM (Sco7b)

260 Friar Lawrence is one of literature's greatest monsters.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 27, 2025 02:02 PM (GBKbO)
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Everything the man touched turned to.mud.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at October 27, 2025 02:04 PM (x7EH8)

261 Mr. Peabody > Sherman

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at October 27, 2025 02:04 PM (9FEtL)

262 It's a big sweeping melodrama. People gotta die eventually.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison


Yeah, but it all comes so fast, and at once. Did they even have a chance to bury Bonnie before Melanie died? They could have spaced out a little better.

But I guess it was long enough as it was already.

Posted by: Bulg at October 27, 2025 02:04 PM (77rzZ)

263 GWTW is a fine movie. I can't knock it in any way.

Posted by: gp at October 27, 2025 02:04 PM (7imtn)

264 260 Friar Lawrence is one of literature's greatest monsters.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 27, 2025 02:02 PM (GBKbO)
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Everything the man touched turned to.mud.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at October 27, 2025 02:04 PM (x7EH

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Manipulative, scheming shit with no idea what he's doing.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 27, 2025 02:05 PM (GBKbO)

265 I could very easily be convinced that all AI is actually a couple hundred thousand indians spread out in a whole bunch of ugly office buildings in Hyderabad, just doing their best.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at October 27, 2025 02:05 PM (JwNbV)

266 William's brother?
Posted by: Warai-otoko


Yes. William was already on the march to the sea.

Posted by: rickb223 Acehole Extraordinaire coined by JSpicy at October 27, 2025 02:05 PM (UjDHi)

267 Only his hairdresser knows for sure.

Posted by: Just the punchline at October 27, 2025 02:05 PM (Y0ney)

268 Just read the big NYC Dem public employee unions are mostly endorsing Mandami. I believe the police and firefighters have stayed out, so far.

Posted by: Ripley at October 27, 2025 02:05 PM (GUOwU)

269 Speaking of historical melodrama just read Walter Clark's Oxbow Incident for the first time. A lot of it is hokey but if you're in the right mood it's a good, quick read that takes you down an interesting path of an Anti-Hero Western that doesn't quite give up on the core American-Western values. IMO.

Posted by: Zek at October 27, 2025 02:06 PM (5FPX4)

270 I think Sherman was named after a tank, wasn't he?

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at October 27, 2025 02:06 PM (bDt0k)

271 I read a report from an oklahoma cattleman, complaining about trump's investment in argentinian beef.He said, that's not america first.It had me wondering now, I totally understand

Posted by: Captain Fantastic at October 27, 2025 02:06 PM (mpCdY)

272 OT: Joe Biden just got the Kopechne award
x.com/CBSNews/status/1982789378159063077

Posted by: gKWVE at October 27, 2025 02:06 PM (gKWVE)

273 Also, Harry Davenport is one of my favorite character actors. He rocks as Dr. Meade.

Posted by: Bulg at October 27, 2025 02:06 PM (77rzZ)

274 220 I don't know if anybody had "Not long enough to be a rape-rape" on their 2025 Bingo card.
Posted by: Axeman at October 27, 2025 01:55 PM (krQz2)

Who would've thought that being a premature ejaculator would become a defense to rape?
Posted by: It wan't THAT bad kid, quit crying at October 27, 2025 01:58 PM

Wut are you guys talking about?

Posted by: Minnfidel at October 27, 2025 02:06 PM (4p0Xq)

275 Newfoundland just had a Provincial election, and gave a solid mandate to a Conservative premier. He has said job #1 is to renegotiate the dreadful agreement with Quebec to move Labrador-generated hydroelectric power South to market.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 27, 2025 01:57 PM (npFr7)

They should declare independence, and then build an army capable of kicking the Danes out of Greenland.

Posted by: BurtTC at October 27, 2025 02:07 PM (dGCAG)

276 Carol Burnett's version of Gone With the Wind was better.
Posted by: Boss Moss at October 27, 2025 01:58 PM (hJuCq)
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Is that the version where Carol was liberated by a sniveling coward?
Posted by: blake


It's where she wore the drapes as a dress. With the curtain rod still in it.
Posted by: rickb223 Acehole Extraordinaire coined by JSpicy at October 27, 2025 02:02 PM (UjDHi)

Carol as Charo's mother is a classic.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (UJMvS) at October 27, 2025 02:07 PM (UJMvS)

277 I was well into my 20's when I learned my first name was not 'Stunad!'

Posted by: Tonypete at October 27, 2025 01:52 PM (cYBz/)

I thought my name was Sfachiem. lol

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at October 27, 2025 02:07 PM (snZF9)

278 "Just read the big NYC Dem public employee unions are mostly endorsing Mandami. I believe the police and firefighters have stayed out, so far."

What's in it for me?

Posted by: The Sole Voting Rationale of 99% of Public Teat Sucking Unionites at October 27, 2025 02:07 PM (5FPX4)

279 272 Was he given an Oldsmobile?

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 27, 2025 02:07 PM (hJuCq)

280 Well, it is the party of peace, love, and understanding.

Delaware Democratic Party Chair forced to resign after people learned he paid young boys for sex

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, OMGWTFBBQ! at October 27, 2025 02:07 PM (L/fGl)

281 Ford is on now. He'll never apologise for the ads.

Perhaps the tariffs need to be higher.
Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 18.1% at October 27, 2025 02:04 PM (Sco7b)

The wrong brother croaked.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 27, 2025 02:07 PM (npFr7)

282 235 Is Gone with the Wind the most overrated movie ever ??

Posted by: runner

Perhaps (I happen to like it), but when I saw it for the first time (when it was broadcast on TV in the 70's), I finally was able to identify with a fictional character.

No matter how much I imagined myself as a Melanie Hamilton, when I saw Vivien Leigh on that screen, I saw myself for the first time.

Not the manipulative part, but the pull-up-your-big-girl-panties sort.

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at October 27, 2025 02:08 PM (SRRAx)

283 Kindltot, I was talking about modern Peronism, which got the wooden spoon in the election so will have no impact on Milei.
Posted by: gKWVE at October 27, 2025 01:43 PM (gKWVE)

Modern Peronism has to look back to its roots to be "authentic" otherwise they get to look at the Kirchners who were corrupt disasters. No matter which, however Peronism is just another majoritarianism that uses the idea of helping the poor and weak to take money from anyone who can't resist and stuff it in the pockets of their supporters on the idea that will somehow alleviate human suffering.

Posted by: Kindltot at October 27, 2025 02:08 PM (rbvCR)

284 "What have you done with Robin Givens?"
Posted by: Don Black.

Um. . . nothing. Nothing at all. . .

-- Playboy photographer 1980s.

Posted by: Tonypete at October 27, 2025 02:08 PM (cYBz/)

285 Well, Theresa did call me a cutie earlier today...
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 27, 2025 01:49 PM (GBKbO)
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Ah, starting an OnlyFan (note singular) channel!

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 27, 2025 02:08 PM (IBQGV)

286 William's brother?
Posted by: Warai-otoko at October 27, 2025 02:03 PM (JwNbV)

Col Potter's brother.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at October 27, 2025 02:08 PM (zZu0s)

287
Gettin' ready for the super-bowl over here boss!

Posted by: Flyin' Green Dildo at October 27, 2025 02:08 PM (DDJSl)

288 The wrong brother croaked.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 27, 2025 02:07 PM (npFr7)

The wrong kid died!!!!

Posted by: ... at October 27, 2025 02:08 PM (AXQOo)

289
Los Sideburnes

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at October 27, 2025 02:09 PM (NtVYv)

290 Messican, Cuban, Puerto Rican, even Castilian, I'm good.

I think they must speak "Spanish" like the Quebecois speak "French"
Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 27, 2025 01:44 PM (7nrYO)

Good lord, man you might as well be speaking pidgin.

Posted by: Kindltot at October 27, 2025 02:09 PM (rbvCR)

291 First time I watched 'Blue Valentine,' it ripped my guts out. Second time, it ripped out my spine and pelvis. Now there's nothing left but a fragment of cortex floating in a vat. So I'll probably stop rewatching it pretty soon. Good movie.

Posted by: gp at October 27, 2025 02:09 PM (7imtn)

292 Delaware Democratic Party Chair forced to resign after people learned he paid young boys for sex
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, OMGWTFBBQ! at October 27, 2025 02:07 PM (L/fGl)
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Wait, what? I had no idea there was a bridge to far for a Democrat.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (UJMvS) at October 27, 2025 02:09 PM (UJMvS)

293 > Wut are you guys talking about?

A 16 year old Swedish girl was raped by an Eritrean Muslim. A judge heard the case and decided not to order him deported. According to her, the rape didn't last long enough to be a deportable offense.

Posted by: bonhomme at October 27, 2025 02:10 PM (Yp6az)

294 Mary Jo unavailable for comment.

Posted by: Just the punchline at October 27, 2025 02:10 PM (Y0ney)

295 Wait, what? I had no idea there was a bridge to far for a Democrat.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (UJMvS) at October 27, 2025 02:09 PM (UJMvS)

He actually had to *pay*? What a loser!

Posted by: Warai-otoko at October 27, 2025 02:10 PM (JwNbV)

296 Spanish speakers can't understand Uruguayan Spanish.
Posted by: Boss Moss at October 27, 2025 01:45 PM (hJuCq)

Dude, it is Costeño with the Vos. Add in a bit of Brazilian "ZH" and you are good to go.

Posted by: Kindltot at October 27, 2025 02:11 PM (rbvCR)

297 The wrong kid died!!!!
Posted by: ... at October 27, 2025 02:08 PM (AXQOo)

Tell me about it.

Posted by: joe kennedy at October 27, 2025 02:11 PM (gKWVE)

298 Is Gone with the Wind the most overrated movie ever ??

In a world where Citizen Kane exists, that's a big ask.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 27, 2025 02:11 PM (ExV1e)

299 From zerohedge.

Wow, all of you must be rich as hell.

"That’s right. The US manufacturing economy has been shrinking in real physical terms for the past 18 years, notwithstanding the fact that during that interval the Fed has printed nearly $6 trillion in brand, spanking new money that it snatched from thin air."

Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 18.1% at October 27, 2025 02:11 PM (Sco7b)

300 "Oxbow Incident"

Another fine movie. Jane Darwell was a national treasure!

Posted by: gp at October 27, 2025 02:11 PM (7imtn)

301 "Delaware Democratic Party Chair forced to resign after people learned he paid young boys for sex"

Is Delaware the anus of Philadelphia, or vice versa?
Analyze and discuss.

Posted by: SAT Prep at October 27, 2025 02:11 PM (5FPX4)

302 Now if we could do something about Brazil.

Posted by: Jim Rose at October 27, 2025 02:11 PM (miqrx)

303 No matter how much I imagined myself as a Melanie Hamilton, when I saw Vivien Leigh on that screen, I saw myself for the first time.

Not the manipulative part, but the pull-up-your-big-girl-panties sort.
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth

I love it that Scarlett mocks all of that Southern chivalry/honor bullshit in everything she does.

Posted by: Bulg at October 27, 2025 02:11 PM (77rzZ)

304 LOL

Posts a picture of himself and his wife in a decorated room at the White House. He said,
"My wife and I in the East Wing. I can't believe it's gone".


Celebrity Chef Tom Colicchio is HUMILIATED by Senator Mike Lee after Mike Lee pointed out that the picture he was posting was NOT in the East Wing, the image was actually in the Diplomatic Reception Room, which can be found in the main White House building.

😂😂😂

Posted by: rickb223 Acehole Extraordinaire coined by JSpicy at October 27, 2025 02:11 PM (UjDHi)

305 Delaware Democratic Party Chair forced to resign after people learned he paid young boys for sex
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, OMGWTFBBQ! at October 27, 2025 02:07 PM (L/fGl)

The darker, the better!

Posted by: Ed Buck at October 27, 2025 02:11 PM (P7vXf)

306 Sometimes they get schlonged.

Posted by: torabora at October 27, 2025 02:11 PM (r7b3t)

307 Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 27, 2025 02:05 PM (GBKbO)
--------------

I called you normal on your channel. It's my alter google ego. Or what passes for such.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (UJMvS) at October 27, 2025 02:11 PM (UJMvS)

308 Nood. Trump has room for balls.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 27, 2025 02:12 PM (ExV1e)

309 Wait, what? I had no idea there was a bridge to far for a Democrat.


Especially since he paid the boys for the sex. To a Dem, that should be honorable behavior.

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at October 27, 2025 02:12 PM (bDt0k)

310 nood

Posted by: gp at October 27, 2025 02:12 PM (7imtn)

311 Is Gone with the Wind the most overrated movie ever ??

In a world where Citizen Kane exists, that's a big ask.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic

Yeah, I never got the appeal of that flic. Welles was an overhyped windbag.

Posted by: Bulg at October 27, 2025 02:13 PM (77rzZ)

312 Manipulative, scheming shit with no idea what he's doing."

Dulles?

Posted by: man at October 27, 2025 02:13 PM (tubbA)

313 Geez! RFK Jr. has gone too far!

Kid named "Taki" handcuffed after school’s AI security system flags his Doritos as gun

-
"Let's see you eat those Dorito death chips with your hands cuffed behind your back!"

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, OMGWTFBBQ! at October 27, 2025 02:13 PM (L/fGl)

314 I love it that Scarlett mocks all of that Southern chivalry/honor bullshit in everything she does.
Posted by: Bulg at October 27, 2025 02:11 PM (77rzZ)

Rhett is the only one who understands her. And still...

Posted by: Ordinary American at October 27, 2025 02:13 PM (WHfpM)

315 Jeff Balk (D, Delaware) was paying off 15 year old boys for beejers when he was 28 back in the 1980s. That was when he was a (D, Missouri). MI judges didn't cotton to that behavior so sent him to chomo school for seven years.
That is why he is in Delaware, I guess.

Posted by: gKWVE at October 27, 2025 02:14 PM (gKWVE)

316 GWTW isn't just long
it's wide too

Posted by: Don Black. Message: don't drop it at October 27, 2025 02:14 PM (AOsQT)

317 Afuera translates to: "Yes, I purposely get my hair cut this way."
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at October 27, 2025 01:58 PM (9FEtL)

It's the Walter/Wendy Carlos sideburns that really pull the look together.
Posted by: Moog it on over at October 27, 2025 02:00 PM (TbWk/)

I think he is intentionally trying to look like General Jose de San Martin.

Posted by: Kindltot at October 27, 2025 02:15 PM (rbvCR)

318 "I think he is intentionally trying to look like General Jose de San Martin."

And who wouldn't, after all?

Posted by: gp at October 27, 2025 02:17 PM (7imtn)

319 Interestingly, I saw a video by a black Travel influencer who visited Argentina, and said that Argentina was by far the most racist country in the world. He was shocked. Every Argentine (he observed) just assumes that any black person they see is some sort of African or Brazilian criminal immigrant, and they just won't even look at you or speak to you. he was told that Argentines regard blacks as almost a different species.

This deeply affected the guy, and made him more BASED, saying :You fools think America is racist? You have no idea. I've been around the world, and I can tell you definitively that America is just about the LEAST racit country on Earth. G to Argentina if you don't believe me."

Posted by: zombie at October 27, 2025 02:17 PM (oraVG)

320 Now imagine what could get done if Trump cared about anything more than his own ego. All it would take is one compliment from Democrats and he would flip on conservatives.

Posted by: ... at October 27, 2025 01:15 PM (AXQOo)

I guess, thank God they shot him in the head, instead?

Posted by: Washington Nearsider at October 27, 2025 02:19 PM (K9xEt)

321 I read a report from an oklahoma cattleman, complaining about trump's investment in argentinian beef.He said, that's not america first.It had me wondering now, I totally understand
Posted by: Captain Fantastic at October 27, 2025 02:06 PM (mpCdY)

I don't believe Argentine beef is usually grain finished, so that is going to be a different taste. Still, unlike buying French beef, it is not subsidized so much so there is less actual dumping on the US market and more of a competitive market in the offing.

Posted by: Kindltot at October 27, 2025 02:19 PM (rbvCR)

322 "it's wide too"

VistaVision has entered the chat. First time I watched 'Bad Day at Blackrock' in the original aspect ratio, it busted my monitor.

Posted by: gp at October 27, 2025 02:19 PM (7imtn)

323 Gone with the mind at least has some decent quotes. Citizen Kane is fucking crap.

Posted by: Ryan Frank at October 27, 2025 02:23 PM (fgmuN)

324 I hope Trump does better, because pretty much everything Reagan did was dumped, perverted or used as a pretext to do the opposite.
Posted by: Kindltot at October 27, 2025 01:45 PM (rbvCR)

You can thank George HW Bush and his "kinder, gentler" conservatism for all that after Reagan.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at October 27, 2025 02:25 PM (g8Ew8)

325 252
Psssst...William.

Always the bridesmaid, never the bride

Posted by: Phillip Sheridan at October 27, 2025 02:26 PM (wh7vU)

326 I am Catholic and I love the Church. But American Catholics owe a great debt of gratitude to learning the "Protestant work ethic" from the Protestants. My theory is that Latin America never learned that to prosper, you must work hard and becoming prosperous is not a sin.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at October 27, 2025 02:30 PM (W7XSX)

327 Be careful with the Argentinian beef. Almost 40 years ago, they were putting so many hormones in the cattle that 9 year old girls were developing breasts.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at October 27, 2025 02:32 PM (W7XSX)

328 Newfoundland just had a Provincial election, and gave a solid mandate to a Conservative premier. He has said job #1 is to renegotiate the dreadful agreement with Quebec to move Labrador-generated hydroelectric power South to market.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 27, 2025 01:57 PM (npFr7)

They should declare independence, and then build an army capable of kicking the Danes out of Greenland.
Posted by: BurtTC at October 27, 2025 02:07 PM

That shouldn't be hard, there are like 500 of them in all of Greenland.

Posted by: toby928(c) at October 27, 2025 02:38 PM (jc0TO)

329 28 I wonder if it was truly caused by the carrot-and-stick methods of the administration or simply because Milei's policies are actually working. Given South American sensitivity towards Yankee meddling in their affairs, I could see our president's efforts just as easily backfiring.
Posted by: Citizen Cake at October 27, 2025 01:18 PM (CwhoI)

Perhaps it is both. And Latin American has a love-hate relationship with this country, and understandably so. May Trump tread carefully.
Posted by: Cow Demon at October 27, 2025 01:21 PM (sVOFR)

Cutting any part of government wastage and useless programs is going to help just because there are fewer dead weight divisions eating up the food and giving nothing back.

Posted by: Oldcat at October 27, 2025 03:06 PM (8avO+)

330 Is Gone with the Wind the most overrated movie ever ??

In a world where Citizen Kane exists, that's a big ask.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic

Yeah, I never got the appeal of that flic. Welles was an overhyped windbag.
Posted by: Bulg at October 27, 2025 02:13 PM (77rzZ)

I think GOTW is worth its hype. Shows the postwar dream of the Dixie Myth and the glorious war with enough realism tossed in by Rhett and events like the casualties at the Atlanta rail yard. Scarlett to is the belle of the dreams with enough flaws that you can like her some but not feel sympathy when Rhett leaves.

Posted by: Oldcat at October 27, 2025 03:13 PM (8avO+)

331 My problem with GWTW is probably its last 40 minutes or so, when all the bad stuff starts happening -- Scarlett falls and has a miscarriage, Bonnie dies, Melanie collapses and dies. It's like they said, "OK, let's kill everybody off and wrap this thing up."

The scene with Mammie's speech to Melanie is excellent, however, so there's that. Hattie McDaniel makes that movie for me.
Posted by: Bulg at October 27, 2025 02:00 PM (77rzZ)

Those things happened in that time. Both Jeff Davis and Lincoln lost sons during the war. So did WT Sherman. General Longstreet had three children die of fever in Richmond while he was down the Peninsula defending the town.

Posted by: Oldcat at October 27, 2025 03:16 PM (8avO+)

332 Well, there is the official story, and then there's the classified one. I'm calling bullshit on the fat motorcycle thing, because they were already making the heritage for 4 years by the time the fatboy was made. Its the same bike. Same front end, same frame. If anything the fatboy is a slightly stripped down heritage. From the front they look identical except for the slightly smaller more stylized front fender. What matters is the message they tried to convey, and it worked. I was working on them when they came out, and everyone who bought one said the same thing. Air force looking logo, B-29 color with small color accents the color of an A-bomb explosion. That isn't coincidence. It was planned.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at October 27, 2025 01:45 PM (snZF9)

The 2 A Bombs were Little Boy and Fat Man. The nickname refers to both of them and is pretty likely to come from the 2 bombs.

Posted by: Oldcat at October 27, 2025 03:28 PM (8avO+)

333
Yeah, let's see how wide the Republican Party here spreads open for illegals once Trump is safely out of the way.
Posted by: BurtTC at October 27, 2025 01:37 PM (dGCAG)

Well, if they are allowed to by We, the People, we deserve it, do we not?

Posted by: Cow Demon at October 27, 2025 03:32 PM (sVOFR)

334 I'll be very fair:

I think Biden did more.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 27, 2025 01:34 PM (GBKbO)

People who embrace unreality will find crises where ever they go and no matter what they do. Reality has a way of getting even.

Posted by: Oldcat at October 27, 2025 03:32 PM (8avO+)

335 You missed a prime opportunity to sock Phillip T Sherman.
Posted by: rickb223 Acehole Extraordinaire coined by JSpicy at October 27, 2025 02:00 PM (UjDHi)

William's brother?
Posted by: Warai-otoko at October 27, 2025 02:03 PM (JwNbV)


WT Sherman's brother was John Sherman, a Senator from Ohio.

Posted by: Oldcat at October 27, 2025 03:36 PM (8avO+)

336 You missed a prime opportunity to sock Phillip T Sherman.
Posted by: rickb223 Acehole Extraordinaire coined by JSpicy at October 27, 2025 02:00 PM (UjDHi)

William's brother?
Posted by: Warai-otoko at October 27, 2025 02:03 PM (JwNbV)

You might be thinking of Phillip Sheridan, a Cavalry General prominent in the late war.

Posted by: Oldcat at October 27, 2025 03:37 PM (8avO+)

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