Trump Scrapes Enough Federal -- and Private -- Money to Pay the Troops for One More Week

Nick Sortor
@nicksortor
BREAKING: The White House has found a way to make sure troops are PAID this week, despite the ongoing Schumer Shutdown, VP JD Vance has confirmed
Fantastic.
These heroes deserve every dime on time.

A "mystery donor" reportedly donated $130 million to help pay the troops, but surely that isn't enough to cover the military's personnel budget, even for a week.

An unnamed donor is giving $130m (Ł100m) to the Pentagon to help pay US troops during the government shutdown, sparking ethics concerns.
US defence officials confirmed the gift, which President Donald Trump said will make up for shortfalls in paying the country's 1.32m service members, but declined to identify the donor.
Trump provided a few clues, though, saying on Saturday that he was "a big supporter of mine" and a US citizen.

The NYT identified the donor as Mellon fortune heir Tim Mellon, and then, you'll never believe it, claimed it would be illegal for the US to use the money to pay the troops whose salaries the Democrats are blocking.

Timothy Mellon, a reclusive billionaire and a major financial backer of President Trump, is the anonymous private donor who gave $130 million to the U.S. government to help pay troops during the shutdown, according to two people familiar with the matter.
Mr. Trump announced the donation on Thursday night, but he declined to name the person who provided the funds, only calling him a "patriot" and a friend. But the two people, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because the donation was private, identified him as Mr. Mellon.
Shortly after departing Washington on Friday, Mr. Trump again declined to identify Mr. Mellon while talking to reporters aboard Air Force One. He only said the individual was "a great American citizen" and a "substantial man.

...
Mr. Mellon, a wealthy banking heir and railroad magnate, is a longtime backer of Mr. Trump and gave tens of millions of dollars to groups supporting the president's campaign. Last year, he made a $50 million donation to a super PAC supporting Mr. Trump, which was one of the largest single contributions ever disclosed.
A grandson of former Treasury Secretary Andrew W. Mellon, Mr. Mellon was not a prominent Republican donor until Mr. Trump was elected. But in recent years, he has poured hundreds of millions of dollars into supporting Mr. Trump and the Republican Party.
Mr. Mellon, who lives primarily in Wyoming, keeps a low profile despite his prolific political spending. He is also a significant supporter of Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who also ran for president last year. Mr. Mellon donated millions to Mr. Kennedy's presidential campaign and has also given money to his anti-vaccine group, Children's Health Defense.
The Pentagon said it accepted the donation under the "general gift acceptance authority."

Still, the donation appears to be a potential violation of the Antideficiency Act, which prohibits federal agencies from spending money in excess of congressional appropriations or from accepting voluntary services.

They're gearing up to challenge the payments to the military. As Democrat Whip Katherine Clarke admitted last week -- before she began backpedaling -- the Democrats want to inflict "suffering" on the American people for "leverage" in trying to get money for illegal aliens.

Democrats don't want to be blamed for suing to stop Trump from paying troops stuck overseas in warzones without pay. They're counting on the ACLU or Norm Eisen to sue on their behalf -- but everyone knows those are just Democrat-Antifa-Media Party catspaws.

From Ed Morrissey: John Thune says that Democrats are quietly praying for the shutdown to end.

"There are rank-and-file Democrats, we've had back-channel conversations...that have intensified."
"There are people who want to get this figured out on the Democrat side."
"There are. But the challenge is the Democrat leadership couldn't care LESS about this."
"Chuck Schumer, they're in a BOX. They are running SCARED of the far-left."

Video at the link.

It is speculated by Mark Halperin (I think) that what will eventually happen is that Chuck Schumer will tell some purple-state Democrats to "betray" him and vote to end the shutdown, so that Chuck Schumer can pretend playing the Tough Guy for his inevitable primary fight with -- and primary loss to -- Alexandria Donkey Chompers.

CNN's excitable schmoll analyst delivers the bad news to the Democrats: the GOP has gained popularity during the Democrat-Antifa Shutdown.

CNN's Harry Enten is shocked to see the GOP's net approval rating is improving during the government shutdown vs pre-shutdown—not only with its base, but among independents.

The net approval rating for Republicans in Congress has improved, as well. pic.twitter.com/0qaQjkTE2g
— Julia 🇺🇸 (@Jules31415) October 29, 2025

Trump's trip to Japan, meanwhile, is a success. He promised to get the troops a pay raise.

Trump rallies US military's might, floats armed forces pay raise in address to troops in Japan

President Trump spoke to military members aboard the USS George Washington, and was joined by Japanese PM Takaichi

President Donald Trump addressed U.S. service members aboard the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier George Washington Tuesday amid his weeklong trip to Asia.
President Donald Trump spoke to U.S. service members aboard the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier George Washington in Yokosuka, Japan, Tuesday morning to promote his administration's "peace through strength" military messaging on the world stage.
"A year and a half ago, we had a different country than we do right now," Trump told the military members. "Now we're the most respected country in the world, we're the hottest country anywhere in the world. And it hasn't taken too long. But, I had no doubt. I just didn't know we were going to do it this fast. We've done it fast because of people like you."
Trump is in the midst of a whirlwind tour through Asia, including beginning his trip in Malaysia, before heading to Japan and later holding a planned meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping during his final stop in South Korea Thursday. The president also oversaw the signing of a peace agreement between Cambodia and Thailand Sunday.
...
Trump was joined by Japan's newly elected Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi aboard the U.S. aircraft carrier Tuesday, as well as by U.S. military leaders such as Secretary of War Pete Hegseth. Trump celebrated in his remarks that the U.S. military is once again respected after bucking "political correctness" out of an effort to better defend the U.S.
"When it comes to defending the United States, we're no longer politically correct," Trump said. "We're going to defend our country any way we have to. And that's usually not the politically, politically correct way. From now on, if we're in a war, we're going to win the war. We're going to win it like nobody ever before."
The service members were heard chanting "Trump, Trump, Trump" when the president first took the stage.
Trump thanked the military for their service and added that he's supporting a pay increase for every U.S. service member in the armed forces.

"I'm also supporting an across-the-board pay raise for every sailor and service member in the United States armed forces," Trump told the crowd, which earned widespread applause. "Now, if you don't want it, you want to give back to your country. Just let us know. We won't give it to you. Is there anybody in that category?" he joked before adding that Democrat lawmakers would approve the plan.
"But now all we really have to do is get the Democrats to approve it. But they'll come along. They always do. You know, they always do that," he continued.
...
Takaichi, Japan's first female prime minister, also addressed U.S. troops to thank them, as well as the Japanese military, for their dedication to protecting the region.
"I am truly honored to have this opportunity to deliver remarks with President Trump aboard the aircraft carrier USS George Washington, a symbol of protecting freedom and peace in this region," the Japanese leader said, according to a translator at the event.
"First and foremost, I would like to express my deep respect and sincere gratitude to all the men and women in uniform. From Japan's Self-Defense Forces and the U.S. forces, Japan, for your dedication and commitment to safeguard peace and security of our nation and the region, day and night," she continued.

Trump lauded the Japanese prime minister as a "winner" in his remarks, while celebrating the U.S.'s relationship with Japan following World War II.
"This woman is a winner. So, you know, we've become very close friends all of a sudden because their stock market today and our stock market today hit an all-time high. That means we're doing something right," he said.
..

The president concluded his speech by highlighting that the U.S. went "through four bad years, but now America will always be first," citing the U.S. military's strength.

"Every sailor here today inherits a legacy of valor and grit and glory unmatched in the long history of mankind's voyage on the seas," he said. "It's a voyage like nobody's ever had, like you have. For two and a half centuries, America's Navy has preserved the vision of our first commander in chief who gave this ship its storied name, its righteous soul and its timeless motto, 'first in war, first in peace.' Very famous phrase, George Washington. After 250 years, that is exactly what our country is today. It's first in war, first in peace, first in wealth, first in power, first in science, first in spirit and first in freedom."

Takaichi made a gift to Trump of assassinated Japanese PM Shinzo Abe's beloved putter.

Takaichi kicked off the meeting with a warm welcome of the US president and said that she hoped the meeting would mark "a new golden age of the Japan-US alliance".
During the meeting, Trump told Takaichi that becoming the nation's first woman Prime Minister was "a big deal" and that she would become "one of the great Prime Ministers" of Japan.
Takaichi presented Trump with several gifts
Some of them are:
1) A golf bag
2) A putter, that was used by Shinzo Abe
3) Two caps with the words "Japan is back".

As a woman of color, I hate this other woman of color, because she may be skinfolk, but she ain't kinfolk.

🚨 HOLY CRAP! President Trump just made an EPIC entrance aboard the USS George Washington in Japan

Navy Sailors went absolutely WILD

God bless our troops, and God bless President Trump 🇺🇸 pic.twitter.com/zJ4DIdM2KK
— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) October 28, 2025

🚨 WATCH: President Trump does his YMCA dance with US Navy sailors on the USS George Washington

It’s so clear that morale in the U.S. military is at an all time high

🇺🇸🔥 pic.twitter.com/AdT5NDyQmD
— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) October 28, 2025

How's you'se all doin'?

Posted by: Ace at 12:10 PM

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1 hey

Posted by: doug at October 29, 2025 12:12 PM (Hy+R4)

2 1

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at October 29, 2025 12:12 PM (aPBRN)

3 Uggg.... as a black person of color immigrant lesbian trans-biome, I am still first.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at October 29, 2025 12:12 PM (aPBRN)

4 Well, a lot of the flight tests we were planning to do provided the government was back in business by Nov 1... won't be happening.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at October 29, 2025 12:13 PM (YrYZr)

5 >>> Trump Scrapes Enough Federal -- and Private -- Money to Pay the Troops for One More Week

Next week they will have to scavage off the land to find sustinence. Hopefully a wal-mart and/or footlocker will be in range.

Posted by: Operator Error at October 29, 2025 12:14 PM (GdzM3)

6 The Democrats seriously miscalculated on the shutdown.

But they've never been in this position before. The republicans have always caved. All the left had to do was double down.

They know they're screwed, but they also don't know how their base will react to capitulating. They know they're screwed there, too.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at October 29, 2025 12:15 PM (aPBRN)

7 And I understand some furloughed employees on the Air Force 1 program have been recalled part-time to issue Stop Work orders.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at October 29, 2025 12:15 PM (YrYZr)

8 2

Posted by: doug at October 29, 2025 12:15 PM (Hy+R4)

9 >>The net approval rating for Republicans in Congress has improved, as well.

I hope reddit doesn't find out about this. It could spell trouble for their plans for a Republican civil war.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 29, 2025 12:15 PM (viF8m)

10 Did you see that the government of South Korea gave Trump a gold crown? I'm sure that made for some seething.

Posted by: Josephistan at October 29, 2025 12:16 PM (y9ksN)

11 Winning.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at October 29, 2025 12:16 PM (Q4IgG)

12

I believe troops in combat zones are permitted to forage. They just need to forage at Deutshe Bank and the Qatari treasury

Posted by: imp at October 29, 2025 12:16 PM (g6TN6)

13 They know they're screwed, but they also don't know how their base will react to capitulating. They know they're screwed there, too.
___________________

They brought the crazies into the tent and now they're trapped.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at October 29, 2025 12:16 PM (YrYZr)

14 Did you see that the government of South Korea gave Trump a gold crown? I'm sure that made for some seething.
Posted by: Josephistan at October 29, 2025 12:16 PM (y9ksN)

Even our allies are trolling the stupid american left.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at October 29, 2025 12:17 PM (aPBRN)

15 I think the markets have sniffed out that Powell is not going to cut rates today.

Every single condition he said for his entire tenure that would mandate a rate cut has been met and then some.

And his retarded ass will trot up to the lectern, mumble on about tariffs going to cause inflation any day now or as early as next July or whenever, and some stupid shit about the shutdown as justification.

He is doing everything in his power to hurt America in order to help the Democrats.

Trump should fire him this afternoon.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at October 29, 2025 12:17 PM (g1vDs)

16 The Dems will have to conduct a purge of the military if they ever get back into power. Fortunately for them, one of their heroes showed the way in 1936.

Posted by: Archimedes at October 29, 2025 12:17 PM (Riz8t)

17 Tards gonna tard. Accepting MONEY is not a violation of the Anti Deficiency Act's prohibition on accepting voluntary SERVICES (which can create an obligation for the government to reimburse in absence of any appropriations). In fact, there is even more nuance here because the government can accept voluntary services under some conditions. But the smart class of know it all journalists are here to explain things, so trust the great journalism, haters.

Posted by: DPICM at October 29, 2025 12:17 PM (M2VUX)

18 They know they're screwed, but they also don't know how their base will react to capitulating. They know they're screwed there, too.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at October 29, 2025 12:15 PM (aPBRN)

Don't celebrate yet. When (not if) the Left capitulates, they'll find a way to spin it making them look like the bigger persons in the room. The fawning media will jump on that and push that theme as well.

And that is presuming the GOPe doesn't cave.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at October 29, 2025 12:18 PM (N39Ws)

19 Donald Trump is a force of nature. We won’t see the likes of him again in my lifetime

Amazing really… my first memories of Trump were his appearances on Late Night with David Letterman in college (the original Letterman show that aired on NBC after Carson). Then he was just a rich, brash playboy

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at October 29, 2025 12:18 PM (lepZb)

20 Dems have continued to flail for a message other than "Orange Man Bad" and everyone, even the press, has started to notice and challenge them on it.

Going against the federal union with the vote this week is not gonna help them with squish Rs, Is, and squish Ds (like Fetterman)...not to mention the uncaringness about SNAP. Around here, Youngkin, the R, found the state money to pay...the D Govs and May in MD and DC will not. THAT will get around to LIVs.

And it helps that Youngkin took a page out of Trump's book and announced his plan while denouncing the Ds running and the 2 D Senators here...over and over and over again. And he boxed in the Ds in the special session who would have spent that money to interest groups, PACs, and their own pockets.

It will help Rs in VA for the vote with LIVs...

Posted by: Nova Local at October 29, 2025 12:18 PM (tOcjL)

21 Everything about the dems is shameful.

Posted by: Seems Legit at October 29, 2025 12:19 PM (PMtkd)

22 The NYT is contorting itself so badly over trying to find something to charge Trump with, Cirque de Soleil will send them job applications.

Posted by: NR Pax at October 29, 2025 12:19 PM (svLOV)

23 I thought the shutdown was surely going to end because the polls last week showed the Dems were not gaining any ground. I guess they think the hardline with SNAP, if that is still happening will turn people away from mean old Trump. Do you think the D's will be able to convince their street thugs to 'dress poor, and only take food when we give you the signal to riot'

Posted by: PaleRider at October 29, 2025 12:19 PM (kdHU2)

24 The Dems continually prove they are neither friends nor allies of the average American citizen. Who would hold our active military's pay hostage unless foreigners illegally in our country get Gov't monies?

Enemies and Traitors would...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 29, 2025 12:20 PM (ynpvh)

25

"1.32m service members"

Is that number just a bit high?

Posted by: Dr.Rev. Senator Your Highness E Buzz Miller, Esq PhD MA MS at October 29, 2025 12:20 PM (et1vG)

26 25

"1.32m service members"

Is that number just a bit high?

Posted by: Dr.Rev. Senator Your Highness E Buzz Miller, Esq PhD MA MS at October 29, 2025 12:20 PM (et1vG)

In California and Colorado, perhaps so...

Posted by: 420 High at October 29, 2025 12:21 PM (ynpvh)

27 These corrupt judges are reminding us of how things used to be. Not tired of winning. Could use more scalps though.

My morale is up fer sure.

Posted by: connected and litigious at October 29, 2025 12:22 PM (s9EN2)

28 25

"1.32m service members"

Is that number just a bit high?

Posted by: Dr.Rev. Senator Your Highness E Buzz Miller, Esq PhD MA MS at October 29, 2025 12:20 PM (et1vG)

There's one of the reasons DoW's budget is around $1T now...

Posted by: Nova Local at October 29, 2025 12:22 PM (tOcjL)

29 Been blocking and reporting as spam the emails I get from Senator Van Hollen. Takes a lot of restraint to ask him why he and his kind care more about illegals than citizens.

Posted by: NR Pax at October 29, 2025 12:22 PM (svLOV)

30 21 Everything about the dems is shameful.

Posted by: Seems Legit at October 29, 2025 12:19 PM (PMtkd)

The dems feel no shame.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 29, 2025 12:22 PM (ynpvh)

31 *falls face first into gray box*

I just spent two hours in an "NGO stakeholder" meeting.

Shoot me now.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 29, 2025 12:22 PM (ySpAZ)

32 29: edit "to not ask him why."

Posted by: NR Pax at October 29, 2025 12:23 PM (svLOV)

33 Shoot me now.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState

You be quiet. He does not have to shoot you now!

Posted by: NR Pax at October 29, 2025 12:23 PM (svLOV)

34 I don't know who Tim Mellon is but thank you for that donation to the men and women of the military.

Posted by: dantesed at October 29, 2025 12:23 PM (Oy/m2)

35 I’m not confident it’ll end soon. The dem party is fully run by lunatics now and popular or not they’ll plunge ahead into chaos

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at October 29, 2025 12:24 PM (lepZb)

36 Still, the donation appears to be a potential violation of the Antideficiency Act, which prohibits federal agencies from spending money in excess of congressional appropriations or from accepting voluntary services.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHahahaha... whew.

That's a good joke. As if any law like that has ever been honored in anything but the breach of it.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at October 29, 2025 12:24 PM (a+4eV)

37 Get fucked, Chuck.

I'm not sure you'll find a man on the planet I'd love to see get punched in the face more than Chuck Schumer.

Posted by: XTC at October 29, 2025 12:24 PM (UnA8+)

38 I feel like Harry Enten on meth. Time to go for a run!

Posted by: Oglebay at October 29, 2025 12:24 PM (GPa4z)

39 Google "most common purchase with SNAP funds".

It's SODA POP!

It's not a "nutrition program", it's a dependency program.

Posted by: proudvastrightwingguy at October 29, 2025 12:24 PM (MNCvZ)

40 No one dropped a new'd..,

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 29, 2025 12:25 PM (xjCM4)

41 39 Google "most common purchase with SNAP funds".

It's SODA POP!

It's not a "nutrition program", it's a dependency program.

Posted by: proudvastrightwingguy at October 29, 2025 12:24 PM (MNCvZ)

That's the most often purchase to trade for cash.

Posted by: Nova Local at October 29, 2025 12:25 PM (tOcjL)

42 Illegals are guaranteed democrat voters. That’s why.

Posted by: Eromero at October 29, 2025 12:25 PM (jgmnb)

43 Don't celebrate yet. When (not if) the Left capitulates, they'll find a way to spin it making them look like the bigger persons in the room. The fawning media will jump on that and push that theme as well.

And that is presuming the GOPe doesn't cave.
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at October 29, 2025 12:18 PM (N39Ws)

I don't think so, because Schumer has led them so far up the box canyon that there's no respectable way out. And the better things look for the Republicans, the less likely they are to give in.

Posted by: Tom Servo at October 29, 2025 12:26 PM (uWKK8)

44 "HEY!! YOU CAN'T FIND MONEY TO REPLACE THE MONEY OUR SIDE IS BLOCKING IN ORDER TO REDUCE THE POLITICAL LEVERAGE!!!" - NYT, probably

Posted by: exdem13 FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT at October 29, 2025 12:26 PM (XjTSo)

45 If the troops are not paid, they will sack DC, there is historical precedent for that.

Posted by: tubal at October 29, 2025 12:26 PM (PCK5/)

46 33 Shoot me now.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState

You be quiet. He does not have to shoot you now!

Posted by: NR Pax at October 29, 2025 12:23 PM (svLOV)

Equine medicine is easy to administer, but the cleanup is hell.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 29, 2025 12:26 PM (ynpvh)

47 39 Google "most common purchase with SNAP funds".

It's SODA POP!

It's not a "nutrition program", it's a dependency program.
Posted by: proudvastrightwingguy at October 29, 2025 12:24 PM (MNCvZ)

Because they can return the unopened cans for a cash refund.

And the store can sell it all over again.

Posted by: XTC at October 29, 2025 12:26 PM (UnA8+)

48 Doin' great, thanks for asking.

I posted this on the last thread. Apropos here. Fantastic photo of Trump in conversation with Takaichi, who is on his arm, old-school style:

https://tinyurl.com/33rm8ytz

Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at October 29, 2025 12:26 PM (1Nv0l)

49 I can't tell you how much I am looking forward to the shutdown extending past Saturday.

Either:
1) there are no EBT riots and the empty threat is exposed
2) there are EBT riots and America gets an up-close and ugly look at just who is really spending their tax dollars.
While they are pinching pennies to make ends meet.

It's a win-win.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at October 29, 2025 12:26 PM (g1vDs)

50 Apparently the Democrats are dumber than Custer.

You idiots are going to die on this hill?

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 29, 2025 12:26 PM (xjCM4)

51 "You be quiet. He does not have to shoot you now!'

Actual pronoun trouble.

Posted by: connected and litigious at October 29, 2025 12:27 PM (s9EN2)

52 35 I’m not confident it’ll end soon. The dem party is fully run by lunatics now and popular or not they’ll plunge ahead into chaos
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at October 29, 2025 12:24 PM (lepZb)

That's how things go wrong when a party no longer has any actual leadership; Mamdani, AOC, and Jasmine Crockett are the only leaders the Party is listening to now.

Posted by: Tom Servo at October 29, 2025 12:27 PM (uWKK8)

53 Morning again, folken,

It's genius of Trump or his campaign people to use "YMCA" as theme music. The song is stirring, fun, and it makes people *want* to move to it. Only a pinch-faced scold (lookin' at you, Nancy and Alex OC) could sit in her seat and not bounce to the tune.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 29, 2025 12:27 PM (omVj0)

54 45 If the troops are not paid, they will sack DC, there is historical precedent for that.

Posted by: tubal at October 29, 2025 12:26 PM (PCK5/)

Like with a jute bag?

Posted by: Hilary, Wiping Phones With Cloths at October 29, 2025 12:27 PM (ynpvh)

55 Not only is accepting money not a violation of the Anti-Deficiency Act, but is expressly legal to donate money to the government, and there is even a website at the Bureau of the Fiscal Services to do it.

But the professionals at the NYT can't be bothered to literally do 10 seconds of google research to determine these things.

Posted by: DPICM at October 29, 2025 12:28 PM (M2VUX)

56 Democrats are not going to sign the CR. They’ve finally found a way to crash the country. They don’t care about people or polls. They care about power. The hard left sees this as their last opportunity to have people riot and they are using the government to do it.

Posted by: Vengeance at October 29, 2025 12:28 PM (nJ4c1)

57 Speaking of Shinzo's putter gift, the South Korean president also gave Trump a gift. It was a replica of an ancient..... wait for it.....audacious looking......golden crown.

Trump said he was thinking about putting it on right then and there.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at October 29, 2025 12:28 PM (w6EFb)

58 What if the Dems are waiting until the Nov 4 election to see how Mamdani does? If he wins, they’ll think they’ve got the upper hand and can dictate terms, and I’m not so sure the Republicans won’t cave.

Posted by: RebeccaH at October 29, 2025 12:29 PM (VFung)

59 NEVER interupt your enemies when they are digging their own graves.

Posted by: Gmac - WTF did you think was going to happen? at October 29, 2025 12:29 PM (qZdIZ)

60 55 But the professionals at the NYT can't be bothered to literally do 10 seconds of google research to determine these things.

it's not *my* fault there was a candy crush emergency going on!

Posted by: professionals at the nyt at October 29, 2025 12:29 PM (v3pYe)

61 39: Hey you hater, soda pop is very calorie dense, don't you want those po folks to have enough energy to get through their day? /sarc

Maybe Bobby can convince the USDA to let states ban the purchase of food with zero protein or vitamins with SNAP bennies. Pepsi-co and Coke would instantly start adding a couple vitamins to their drinks to skirt the law, but it would be something.

Posted by: PaleRider at October 29, 2025 12:29 PM (kdHU2)

62 I posted this on the last thread. Apropos here. Fantastic photo of Trump in conversation with Takaichi, who is on his arm, old-school style:

https://tinyurl.com/33rm8ytz

In case anyone was wondering, she does speak English.

Posted by: Archimedes at October 29, 2025 12:29 PM (Riz8t)

63 Funny meme going around. (It’s also true.)

If you type “is they” into Google search, the top auto fill is, “is they cutting food stamps”.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at October 29, 2025 12:29 PM (vhG7R)

64 Approval for Republicans is improving becauae they haven't bent over for once.

Posted by: Rob Crawford at October 29, 2025 12:29 PM (BPdXS)

65 57 Speaking of Shinzo's putter gift, the South Korean president also gave Trump a gift. It was a replica of an ancient..... wait for it.....audacious looking......golden crown.

Trump said he was thinking about putting it on right then and there.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at October 29, 2025 12:28 PM (w6EFb)

LOL... He should have....

Posted by: It's me donna at October 29, 2025 12:29 PM (VE6XX)

66 I do believe the Democrat machine politicians are afraid of offending the Obummer-era Antifa-hugging leftards. The radical Left (but I repeat myself) is fond of setting things on fire, stalking, and attempting homicide against people they hate this week. Apparently the likes of Schiff & Schumer are afraid to stop riding the tiger.

Posted by: exdem13 FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT at October 29, 2025 12:29 PM (XjTSo)

67 The real stupidity of this? This will only fund the Government for 3 more weeks. On Nov 21 this will all start again.

This bill just kicked the can down the road to give them time to negotiate and finish the real spending bills... but they aint doing that....

Posted by: Romeo13 at October 29, 2025 12:29 PM (mP0Kj)

68 Like with a jute bag?
Posted by: Hilary, Wiping Phones With Cloths at October 29, 2025 12:27 PM

Please to be contacting my office!

Posted by: Bangladesh Minister of Jute at October 29, 2025 12:29 PM (ySpAZ)

69 I just watched the first X video. Holy carp, what an entrance! DJT knows how to take the stage, doesn't he?

And the service people know he has their backs.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 29, 2025 12:29 PM (omVj0)

70 Gold crown?

Trump I, Emperor of Man

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 29, 2025 12:29 PM (xjCM4)

71 59 NEVER interupt your enemies when they are digging their own graves.

Posted by: Gmac - WTF did you think was going to happen? at October 29, 2025 12:29 PM (qZdIZ)

That's not entirely useful until they shoot each other...

Posted by: Hilary, Wiping Phones With Cloths at October 29, 2025 12:30 PM (ynpvh)

72 Regarding the potential SNAP riots. Supposedly, there are Walmarts taking the threats to their stores seriously and bringing in cops for protection.

Posted by: NR Pax at October 29, 2025 12:30 PM (svLOV)

73 58 What if the Dems are waiting until the Nov 4 election to see how Mamdani does?

*california prop 50 has entered the chat*

Posted by: anachronda at October 29, 2025 12:30 PM (v3pYe)

74 Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies because they become fashions.
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Today's uncontested absurdities become the slogans of tomorrow. -Some White Chick

Posted by: ... at October 29, 2025 12:30 PM (7mCLy)

75 70 Gold crown?

Trump I, Emperor of Man

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 29, 2025 12:29 PM (xjCM4)

UK is selling that isle?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 29, 2025 12:31 PM (ynpvh)

76 67 The real stupidity of this? This will only fund the Government for 3 more weeks. On Nov 21 this will all start again.

This bill just kicked the can down the road to give them time to negotiate and finish the real spending bills... but they aint doing that....

Posted by: Romeo13 at October 29, 2025 12:29 PM (mP0Kj)

While they could again shutdown, with 7 weeks of budget authority, they won't, b/c Trump would again pay his priorities and leave the others rotting...so, they'd be in an even worse position.

Thus, why they are trying to wait out the bill entirely...

Posted by: Nova Local at October 29, 2025 12:31 PM (tOcjL)

77 64 Approval for Republicans is improving becauase they haven't bent over for once.
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Yeah, funny how that works. maybe it will convince Johnson & whoever is running the GOP Senate instead of the Falling Turtle to actually keep doing it.

Posted by: exdem13 FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT at October 29, 2025 12:31 PM (XjTSo)

78 If you’re able to steal you’re able to work.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at October 29, 2025 12:31 PM (vhG7R)

79 73 58 What if the Dems are waiting until the Nov 4 election to see how Mamdani does?

*california prop 50 has entered the chat*
Posted by: anachronda at October 29, 2025 12:30 PM (v3pYe)

I'm in Ca. and it looks like 50 is gonna pass handily unfortunately...

Posted by: It's me donna at October 29, 2025 12:32 PM (VE6XX)

80 Gold crown?

Trump I, Emperor of Man
Posted by: Anna Puma at October 29, 2025 12:29 PM

Trumpus Maximus I, Capillorum Aureorum

I could work with that.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 29, 2025 12:33 PM (ySpAZ)

81 Approval for Republicans is improving becauase they haven't bent over for once.

Thank you sir, may I have another?

Posted by: Your GOPe at October 29, 2025 12:33 PM (Riz8t)

82 Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies because they become fashions.
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Just because a million people believe a foolish thing is not foolish doesn't make it not foolish.

Posted by: the way I see It at October 29, 2025 12:33 PM (EYmYM)

83
Antideficiency Act. What a weird name.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at October 29, 2025 12:33 PM (pkeXY)

84 72 Regarding the potential SNAP riots. Supposedly, there are Walmarts taking the threats to their stores seriously and bringing in cops for protection.
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Walmart has learned a few painful lessons about trusting to public order on the days of the Purge.

Posted by: exdem13 FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT at October 29, 2025 12:33 PM (XjTSo)

85 79 73 58 What if the Dems are waiting until the Nov 4 election to see how Mamdani does?

*california prop 50 has entered the chat*
Posted by: anachronda at October 29, 2025 12:30 PM (v3pYe)

I'm in Ca. and it looks like 50 is gonna pass handily unfortunately...

Posted by: It's me donna at October 29, 2025 12:32 PM (VE6XX)

Yeah, spending hundreds of millions to billions to get this road-kill rat turd passed. I keep getting ads on EweToob with Sh!t Midas pushing it hard...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 29, 2025 12:33 PM (ynpvh)

86 I'll tell you right now, the End of The Trump Era will be celebrated with a Roman Triumph and the commissioning of a mountain in his honor.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at October 29, 2025 12:33 PM (XV/Pl)

87 there are EBT riots and America gets an up-close and ugly look at just who is really spending their tax dollars.

There aren't enough "courtesy carts" at the shops to keep the rioters mobile.

Posted by: Rob Crawford at October 29, 2025 12:34 PM (BPdXS)

88 I am also looking forward to the inevitable clown judge ruling that a federal judge has the power to order the President on how to spend emergency funds.

That's going to be a delicious pile of Harvard Bullshit.

I'm sure it'll be sprinkled with some delightful "and not paying SNAP is racist."

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at October 29, 2025 12:34 PM (g1vDs)

89 I mean, there's a more apropos Village People song for the occasion, but the YMCA is DJT's thing so I guess I'll let it slide. lol.

Posted by: ballistic at October 29, 2025 12:34 PM (5aZAZ)

90 Did you see that the government of South Korea gave Trump a gold crown? I'm sure that made for some seething.
Posted by: Josephistan at October 29, 2025 12:16 PM (y9ksN)

Even our allies are trolling the stupid american left.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at October 29, 2025 12:17 PM (aPBRN

This is hilarious! It takes some serious balls to top the troll king, Trump. But they may have done it with that!!

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at October 29, 2025 12:35 PM (2J/Lj)

91 Everything about the dems is shameful.
Posted by: Seems Legit
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It's as if...as if they are driven solely by socio-political idealogy rather than the well-being of the country.

/s

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 29, 2025 12:35 PM (XeU6L)

92
The crown was a replica of a Silla crown. Silla was one of three kingdoms of ancient Korea. It existed on the peninsula from about 50ish BC to 900ish AD. I don't know anything about the history over there at all. Here is an article about those crowns:

https://is.gd/8wlWB4

Anyway, the "Trump crown" is a nice replica of one of those.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at October 29, 2025 12:35 PM (w6EFb)

93 88 I am also looking forward to the inevitable clown judge ruling that a federal judge has the power to order the President on how to spend emergency funds.

That's going to be a delicious pile of Harvard Bullshit.

I'm sure it'll be sprinkled with some delightful "and not paying SNAP is racist."

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at October 29, 2025 12:34 PM (g1vDs)

Who knew SNAP recipients were a race...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 29, 2025 12:35 PM (ynpvh)

94 87 there are EBT riots and America gets an up-close and ugly look at just who is really spending their tax dollars.

They get testy when you take away their Little Debbies.....

Posted by: It's me donna at October 29, 2025 12:35 PM (VE6XX)

95 Isn't it time to privatize The US Military?

/only half-joking -- have neither thought nor read anything about that before (obviously the biggest downside risk is someone like Soros (or Chairman Xi) could purchase and co-opt it for their own tyrannical purposes against the American people) -- unless there were some practical checks and balances against that; maybe Diogenes could discuss one day in a guest post ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at October 29, 2025 12:35 PM (mrdUs)

96 $130 million for 1.32 million troops... (carry the 1...). $100.

If the Feds printed and spent $6.8 trillion in 2024, and now we are NOT spending that much, that means something else is going on.

If the military isn't a national essential function, then nothing is. And if tariffs can't finance national essential functions, then we're toast.

Posted by: t-bird at October 29, 2025 12:35 PM (IeX0j)

97 "A year and a half ago, we had a different country than we do right now," Trump told the military members. "Now we're the most respected country in the world, we're the hottest country anywhere in the world"

Clearly, this man is responsible for global warming.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at October 29, 2025 12:35 PM (Gv/+5)

98 OT: You know those little perforated tear strips you see on almost every box nowadays?

I have yet to encounter one that tears all the way across. They start fine, but then they shred halfway and you end up using your fingers to pry open the box, as you would have anyway.

(First World Problem)

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 29, 2025 12:35 PM (omVj0)

99 Approval for Republicans is improving becauase they haven't bent over for once.

Thank you sir, may I have another?
Posted by: Your GOPe at October 29, 2025 12:33 PM (Riz8t)

The two senators from Kentucky joined all the Democrats along with Collins, Mucowski and Tillis to prevent Trump from implementing his 50% tariff against the Socialist run Brazil.

You know when you hate crooked cops more than than your normal criminal. This is that.

Posted by: the way I see It at October 29, 2025 12:36 PM (EYmYM)

100 Funny meme going around. (It’s also true.)

If you type “is they” into Google search, the top auto fill is, “is they cutting food stamps”.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe
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The top auto fill for "are they" is "discontinuing Dr. Pepper."

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at October 29, 2025 12:36 PM (XvL8K)

101 How's you'se all doin'?
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We trisexual immigrants of color are living of fear of when our benefits are about to be cut off, because TRUMP!

Posted by: Eeyore (Is, Eum) at October 29, 2025 12:36 PM (s0JqF)

102 The "Citizen arrests" are going to be fun. The use of excessive force has been authorized.

It's in the Constitution!

Posted by: connected and litigious at October 29, 2025 12:37 PM (s9EN2)

103
The two senators from Kentucky joined all the Democrats along with Collins, Mucowski and Tillis to prevent Trump from implementing his 50% tariff against the Socialist run Brazil.

You know when you hate crooked cops more than than your normal criminal. This is that.
Posted by: the way I see It at October 29, 2025 12:36 PM (EYmYM)

That pissed me off...

Posted by: It's me donna at October 29, 2025 12:37 PM (VE6XX)

104 98 OT: You know those little perforated tear strips you see on almost every box nowadays?

I have yet to encounter one that tears all the way across. They start fine, but then they shred halfway and you end up using your fingers to pry open the box, as you would have anyway.

(First World Problem)

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 29, 2025 12:35 PM (omVj0)

That's why you find the seam and open the box that way...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 29, 2025 12:37 PM (ynpvh)

105 Senator Chris Coons
@ChrisCoons

Our national parks are paying the price for Republicans' government shutdown, and every day they delay, they are making neglect become the nation’s environmental policy.

Posted by: redridinghood at October 29, 2025 12:37 PM (NpAcC)

106 Who knew SNAP recipients were a race...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 29, 2025 12:35 PM (ynpvh)

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Somalian Nymphomaniacs Against Prophylactics?

Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at October 29, 2025 12:37 PM (mrdUs)

107 > Regarding the potential SNAP riots. Supposedly, there are Walmarts taking the threats to their stores seriously and bringing in cops for protection.
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Smart play.

We were at a Kroger's yesterday. The town it is located in is not in any manner, shape or form, a ghetto type place. It's rural. White. But... it was packed. Because people do believe the ghetto rats will riot if enough of them are agitated enough and in a large enough group.

And they will travel if they have to once the urban shithole stores are wiped clean.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at October 29, 2025 12:37 PM (Q4IgG)

108 _______
We trisexual immigrants of color are living of fear of when our benefits are about to be cut off, because TRUMP!
Posted by: Eeyore
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Is that you Mary Cloggenstein?

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 29, 2025 12:37 PM (XeU6L)

109 31 *falls face first into gray box*

I just spent two hours in an "NGO stakeholder" meeting.

Shoot me now.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 29, 2025 12:22 PM (ySpAZ)

No. I like you.

And I need someone to commiserate with, being in a blue city and all………

Posted by: nurse ratched at October 29, 2025 12:38 PM (W2Pud)

110 Speaking of Shinzo's putter gift, the South Korean president also gave Trump a gift. It was a replica of an ancient..... wait for it.....audacious looking......golden crown.

Trump said he was thinking about putting it on right then and there.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at October 29, 2025

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I was going to say he should have refused it like Julius Caesar . . . but then I remembered how Big Julie met his end. Never mind, Donald, you done fine.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 29, 2025 12:38 PM (omVj0)

111 Sinking those narco boats is a message actors on the global stage understand.

Democrats, not so much.

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 29, 2025 12:38 PM (xjCM4)

112 72 Regarding the potential SNAP riots. Supposedly, there are Walmarts taking the threats to their stores seriously and bringing in cops for protection.
Posted by: NR Pax

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Reporting for duty, sir!

Posted by: Rooftop Korean at October 29, 2025 12:38 PM (1Nv0l)

113 If you have Hairy Enten see your doctor.

Posted by: TV commercial narrator voice at October 29, 2025 12:38 PM (Cb1ST)

114 >> Trumpus Maximus I, Capillorum Aureorum

No, it's got to be Augustus. Trumpus Augustus. I'll leave the over the top further laudations to the Horde.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at October 29, 2025 12:38 PM (w6EFb)

115 No. I like you.

And I need someone to commiserate with, being in a blue city and all………
Posted by: nurse ratched at October 29, 2025 12:38 PM (W2Pud)

We've got to stick together...

Posted by: It's me donna at October 29, 2025 12:38 PM (VE6XX)

116 103
The two senators from Kentucky joined all the Democrats along with Collins, Mucowski and Tillis to prevent Trump from implementing his 50% tariff against the Socialist run Brazil.

You know when you hate crooked cops more than than your normal criminal. This is that.
Posted by: the way I see It at October 29, 2025 12:36 PM (EYmYM)

That pissed me off...

Posted by: It's me donna at October 29, 2025 12:37 PM (VE6XX)

True. I've seen some vids of cops behaving badly, and they are worse than regular criminals; they're criminals with badges. Just like polyticks are worse than regular criminals, because they write the laws that allow them to steal, and if anything, Gov't hates competition.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 29, 2025 12:39 PM (ynpvh)

117 31 *falls face first into gray box*

I just spent two hours in an "NGO stakeholder" meeting.

Shoot me now.

ngo stakeholders are the folks who kill ngo vampires, right?

Posted by: anachronda at October 29, 2025 12:39 PM (v3pYe)

118 "mystery donor" reportedly donated $130 million to help pay the troops"

Someone who says "thank you for your service" and actually means it.

That's nice.

Posted by: Fen at October 29, 2025 12:39 PM (soOfD)

119 And I need someone to commiserate with, being in a blue city and all………
Posted by: nurse ratched at October 29, 2025 12:38 PM

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 29, 2025 12:39 PM (ySpAZ)

120 Chris Coons

Did you say that when Gaylord shut the parks down?

No? Then STFU.

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 29, 2025 12:39 PM (xjCM4)

121 >>The net approval rating for Republicans in Congress has improved, as well.

I hope reddit doesn't find out about this. It could spell trouble for their plans for a Republican civil war.

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Go long on Lithium futures if the DUmmies find out.

Posted by: Lady in Black at October 29, 2025 12:39 PM (qBdHI)

122 That entrance was next generation stuff. Hollywood couldn't put together something as good as that.

Posted by: Diogenes at October 29, 2025 12:39 PM (2WIwB)

123 I loved the videos and the reaction of the troops.

I was also rather amused by the new Japanese PM jumping up and down at the podium. I think she likes President Trump and I'm glad they watched a softball game together. I think Trump can be charming.and complimentary which is the other side of his herder negotiating tactics.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 29, 2025 12:39 PM (Nx5jP)

124 111 Sinking those narco boats is a message actors on the global stage understand.

Democrats, not so much.

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 29, 2025 12:38 PM (xjCM4)

That's killing THEIR people!

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 29, 2025 12:40 PM (ynpvh)

125 That entrance gave me goosebumps and I'm a friggin' Army guy.

Posted by: Diogenes at October 29, 2025 12:40 PM (2WIwB)

126 My elderly dad, RIP, really appreciated the courtesy carts at the stores. All his old injuries had caught up with him and it was painful for him to walk any distance. And he had lost weight after he retired from driving OTR.

I'm thinking that regular folks that have to stretch their budgets are going to notice the NIKE shoes, gold chains, new model iphones, fancy earrings etc on the rioters and be turned off by that vs the land whales. A lot of fattening food is not high cost.

Posted by: PaleRider at October 29, 2025 12:40 PM (kdHU2)

127

If you type “is they” into Google search, the top auto fill is, “is they cutting food stamps”.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe

Oh, what would we as a nation and society do without the near endless creative enrichment brought about by AAVE

Posted by: imp at October 29, 2025 12:41 PM (g6TN6)

128 Sorry. Baseball not softball.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 29, 2025 12:41 PM (Nx5jP)

129 I don't know anything about the history over there at all.

That's because Korea had a turbulent history with a lot of textual destruction.
AD 600s was the high water mark of the Tang dynasty in China, when they ran the Japanese off the peninsula and made protectorates of all the Korean kingdoms. Might also have ended the Japonic languages on Korea, which is where Japonic comes from but where now only Korean is spoken.
But that's about all I know (I read up on this in 2016ish when people were mocking Republicans for saying that Korea was once under Chinese rule, and - well, yeah, the Tang were badasses and did just that).

Posted by: gKWVE at October 29, 2025 12:41 PM (gKWVE)

130 120 Chris Coons

Did you say that when Gaylord shut the parks down?

No? Then STFU.

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 29, 2025 12:39 PM (xjCM4)

AND spent extra money to put up barriers in an open park to do so...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 29, 2025 12:41 PM (ynpvh)

131 https://tinyurl.com/33rm8ytz
Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at October 29, 2025 12:26 PM (1Nv0l)

Love that! Thanks!

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at October 29, 2025 12:41 PM (2J/Lj)

132 I'm in Ca. and it looks like 50 is gonna pass handily unfortunately...

Posted by: It's me donna at October 29, 2025 12:32 PM (VE6XX)

That's why I left CA a long time ago. Californians were becoming brain-dead even then.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo [Flying the American Flag!] at October 29, 2025 12:41 PM (n9ltV)

133 124 111 Sinking those narco boats is a message actors on the global stage understand.

Democrats, not so much.

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 29, 2025 12:38 PM (xjCM4)

That's killing THEIR people!
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 29, 2025 12:40 PM (ynpvh)

Probably also cutting into their cash stuffed envelops that show up from time to time.

Posted by: Diogenes at October 29, 2025 12:41 PM (2WIwB)

134 Man Halloween candy was 'spensive this year. We cut back. If we run out, we run out.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at October 29, 2025 12:41 PM (YrYZr)

135 Afternoon Ace.
Everything Trump does turns into a laser pointer being chased by a leftist cat . It will get serious when the cat knocks something over, like an inner city or two

Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 29, 2025 12:41 PM (8RjCi)

136 I think that regardless of how this shutdown ends it will result in a boost to proponents of smaller government.

The relentless freakout by SNAP and EBT recipients and their almost terroristic demands that we taxpayers give them what they demand is going to open a lot of eyes. What were designed to help groups like single mothers and people temporarily down on their luck has turned into a way of life by a large segment of our underclass and they demand that it continue.

Lots of us already knew this. Lots of people who don't follow politics closely do not. But they are starting to see it.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 29, 2025 12:41 PM (viF8m)

137 Approval for Republicans is improving becauase they haven't bent over for once.

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I can't speak for everyone but this is true for me.

I've been waiting for the soft assholes to pressure Johnson (hoo boy that sounds dirty) to cave like they always do.

Posted by: Seems Legit at October 29, 2025 12:42 PM (PMtkd)

138 Sinking those narco boats is a message actors on the global stage understand.

Time to ask the CIA for a raise!

Posted by: t-bird at October 29, 2025 12:42 PM (IeX0j)

139 How's you'se all doin'?

Everyt'ing's jake wid us, Mr. A, absolutely cool. Tony da Beak and Fat Marco send dere, whaddayacall, salivations.

Posted by: Waddles, il pinguino de tutti pinguini at October 29, 2025 12:42 PM (mADJX)

140 For those of you who remember the Costner movie No Way Out… I wonder if the putter and crown gifts will be properly registered in the state department gift database?

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at October 29, 2025 12:42 PM (lepZb)

141
Had a fairly long and heated exchange at a gas station mini mart this morning with someone who was ranting about Trump and the GOP keeping the government shut down. I told him the Senate needs 60 votes in order to pass it, and the republicans have voted 12 times to open the government and the dems have voted to keep it shut. He said "Trump could open it if he wanted to". I let him know that he was wanting Trump to be a king,and I assumed he didn't want that. I got told to "fuck off fascist" as is typical of any Portlander who doesn't like getting cornered with facts.

Posted by: Frank Barone at October 29, 2025 12:42 PM (IifOV)

142 SO, the Democrats on TDS scream themselves Blue in the face because they are afraid Trump will be King or Hitler or God-Emperor or something. then the Democrat politicos have their walkout, and allow Trump to directly pay the troops, and the Media makes sure everybody knows he did it. Man, those people are stupid.

Posted by: exdem13 FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT at October 29, 2025 12:42 PM (XjTSo)

143 132 I'm in Ca. and it looks like 50 is gonna pass handily unfortunately...

Posted by: It's me donna at October 29, 2025 12:32 PM (VE6XX)

That's why I left CA a long time ago. Californians were becoming brain-dead even then.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo [Flying the American Flag!] at October 29, 2025 12:41 PM (n9ltV)

Where do you live again, CBD? New Joisey?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 29, 2025 12:43 PM (ynpvh)

144 We need to stand on the Democrat's necks. Pay the troops while stiffing the Gimmedats.

Posted by: toby928(c) at October 29, 2025 12:43 PM (jc0TO)

145 Make Elon Musk the new JP Morgan!

And then appoint him Chairman of the Federal Reserve so he can proceed to DOGE it out of existence ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at October 29, 2025 12:43 PM (mrdUs)

146 What's even made in Brazil?

Fruit Hats and Jujutsu Gis?

Posted by: XTC at October 29, 2025 12:43 PM (UnA8+)

147 >> pproval for Republicans is improving becauase they haven't bent over for once.

MTG has entered the chat. She’s openly criticizing Johnson for not having the House in session because the welfare recipients in her district need their cheese.

Posted by: Vengeance at October 29, 2025 12:43 PM (powGL)

148 146 What's even made in Brazil?

Fruit Hats and Jujutsu Gis?

Posted by: XTC at October 29, 2025 12:43 PM (UnA8+)

Brazil Nuts...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 29, 2025 12:44 PM (ynpvh)

149 Posted by: Frank Barone at October 29, 2025 12:42 PM (IifOV)

I admire your speaking up with the facts in your leftist city.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 29, 2025 12:44 PM (Nx5jP)

150 77 64 Approval for Republicans is improving becauase they haven't bent over for once.
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Yeah, funny how that works. maybe it will convince Johnson & whoever is running the GOP Senate instead of the Falling Turtle to actually keep doing it.
Posted by: exdem13 FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT at October 29, 2025 12:31 PM (XjTSo)

Johnson is our best Speaker since Newt.

Matt Gaetz deserves our undying gratitude for pushing Kevin McCarthy out the door. He caught a lot of flak for doing it - especially from our side. It was worth it, however.

If only he could have been head of DOJ...

Posted by: Darrell Harris at October 29, 2025 12:44 PM (0CU3H)

151 Korea was once under Chinese rule, and - well, yeah, the Tang were badasses and did just that).
Posted by: gKWVE at October 29, 2025 12:41 PM (gKWVE)

Kublai Khan started the Tang dynasty. The Mongols were badasses back then.

Posted by: the way I see It at October 29, 2025 12:44 PM (EYmYM)

152 Wait until next week when they demand we let a few million Haitians into the country. Temporarily, of course.

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at October 29, 2025 12:45 PM (pIfcn)

153
If the East Wing was such a political and cultural touchstone, then why didn't big brain storyteller Aaron Sorkin create a companion show for his West Wing and call it ... East Wing?

Is it because any East Wing story would be little more than a retelling of the story of a Carl the janitor type from "Breakfast Club" or the two custodians in "Good Will Hunting", replete with sneering disdain for the soft handed and mush minded "betters" elsewhere in the White House premises?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars(TM) - what makes you think you are in charge? at October 29, 2025 12:45 PM (xG4kz)

154 >> pproval for Republicans is improving becauase they haven't bent over for once.

MTG has entered the chat. She’s openly criticizing Johnson for not having the House in session because the welfare recipients in her district need their cheese.
Posted by: Vengeance at October 29, 2025 12:43 PM (powGL)

I really don’t understand conservatives like MTG and Rand Paul….sigh

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at October 29, 2025 12:45 PM (lepZb)

155 MTG has entered the chat. She’s openly criticizing Johnson for not having the House in session because the welfare recipients in her district need their cheese.

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Wonder if she's seen the Tik Tok's of fat, black women saying if they don't get their food stamps, "we robbin' whites."

Posted by: Lady in Black at October 29, 2025 12:45 PM (qBdHI)

156 Approval for Republicans is improving becauase they haven't bent over for once.

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I can't speak for everyone but this is true for me.

I've been waiting for the soft assholes to pressure Johnson (hoo boy that sounds dirty) to cave like they always do.
Posted by: Seems Legit at October 29, 2025 12:42 PM

The Republican Speakers have tried to appear hard while being soft men. Johnson appears soft but, so far, has been firm. I like this change.

Posted by: toby928(c) at October 29, 2025 12:46 PM (jc0TO)

157 Just a reminder, there are 40 million food stamp recipients in this country, and the average monthly giveaway to them is higher than most taxpayer's monthly grocery budget.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at October 29, 2025 12:46 PM (Gv/+5)

158 First World Problem Thread is Sunday, 2PM Eastern. Interjecting them willy-nilly into a thread posted by a woman of coler is bad form and probably racist.

Posted by: Be Sensible, People at October 29, 2025 12:46 PM (oftw2)

159 152 Wait until next week when they demand we let a few million Haitians into the country. Temporarily, of course.
Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at October 29, 2025 12:45 PM (pIfcn)

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And the whole country of Jamaica.

Posted by: Seems Legit at October 29, 2025 12:46 PM (PMtkd)

160 Matt Gaetz deserves our undying gratitude for pushing Kevin McCarthy out the door. He caught a lot of flak for doing it - especially from our side. It was worth it, however.

If only he could have been head of DOJ...
Posted by: Darrell Harris at October 29, 2025 12:44 PM (0CU3H)

And that's the reason MTG has gone more nuts than she already was. I think she's more of a negative than a positive and needs to be primared.

Posted by: the way I see It at October 29, 2025 12:46 PM (EYmYM)

161 ... wikipedia is telling me that the Tang intervention ran into problems when their ally Silla (having used the Tang to wreck their opposition) decided they didn't want to be a protectorate. Silla–Tang War (670–676)

Posted by: gKWVE at October 29, 2025 12:46 PM (gKWVE)

162 So the roadblock is 60 votes in the Senate to move forward? Correct?

I just think the filibuster has helped Democrats far more than it has ever helped Republicans. I also see long term the Senate being controlled by Republicans. Good case to just get rid of it because nothing is ever going to be reformed.

Posted by: Leupold at October 29, 2025 12:47 PM (eIzlH)

163 150 Matt Gaetz deserves our undying gratitude for pushing Kevin McCarthy out the door. He caught a lot of flak for doing it - especially from our side. It was worth it, however.

If only he could have been head of DOJ...
Posted by: Darrell Harris at October 29, 2025 12:44 PM (0CU3H)

He's also a fucking idiot who said on Tim Pool's youtube channel that Israel killed Charlie Kirk.

Posted by: XTC at October 29, 2025 12:47 PM (UnA8+)

164 136 I think that regardless of how this shutdown ends it will result in a boost to proponents of smaller government.

The relentless freakout by SNAP and EBT recipients and their almost terroristic demands that we taxpayers give them what they demand is going to open a lot of eyes. What were designed to help groups like single mothers and people temporarily down on their luck has turned into a way of life by a large segment of our underclass and they demand that it continue.

Lots of us already knew this. Lots of people who don't follow politics closely do not. But they are starting to see it.
Posted by: JackStraw at October 29, 2025 12:41 PM (viF8m)

Has Ace put of a post yet on the SNAPs of TikTok? I've seen some impassioned pleas from folks on the 2Way morning show, but they are being far outweighed by the folks on TikTok that can't wait to do a Purge on their local supermarkets.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at October 29, 2025 12:47 PM (0CU3H)

165 Kublai was Yuan not Tang

Posted by: gKWVE at October 29, 2025 12:47 PM (gKWVE)

166 Honestly, the House should have stayed in session to pass appropriation bills

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at October 29, 2025 12:47 PM (YrYZr)

167
Kublai Khan started the Tang dynasty.

And the orange breakfast drink, which those NASA homos stole!

-- Reverend Al's "USAwful: A True History of Oppression"

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars(TM) - what makes you think you are in charge? at October 29, 2025 12:47 PM (xG4kz)

168 105 Senator Chris Coons
@ChrisCoons

Our national parks are paying the price for Republicans' government shutdown, and every day they delay, they are making neglect become the nation’s environmental policy.
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S'okay Senator Coons, all the cute animals in the parks & the protected Sasquatch populations will get on as they've always done, without human interference. It'll be a bummer for Leviathan not to be fed that sweet visitor $$$, but somehow we'll all get by.

Posted by: exdem13 FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT at October 29, 2025 12:48 PM (XjTSo)

169 I ran across another great hottake from the left...

It is racist to claim that welfare mostly goes to immigrants/minorities because half goes to white people.

Then someone asked...so that means it is NOT racist to cut welfare right?

PS: Based on the follow on comments apparently it is still very racist to cut welfare benefits.

Posted by: 18-1 at October 29, 2025 12:48 PM (sKqQm)

170 Johnson will pull off his glasses and reveal that he is .... Superman.

Posted by: toby928(c) at October 29, 2025 12:49 PM (jc0TO)

171 The socialists have several goals here.
1. F*ck with Trump in every way possible.
2. Fund their friends.
3. Punish the public for choosing Trump. "Remember how good things were when we were in charge?"
4. Trick the retardlicans into ditching the filibuster.
5. Tank the economy (like the Chicoms did by unleashing Covid to derail Trump V1.0) in preparation for the 2026 midterms.

They know they have exactly nobody who can beat any of the leading lights of the Trump administration in 2028, so they best they can do is grab the House and Senate to resume impeachments.

Posted by: p-squared at October 29, 2025 12:49 PM (0prFs)

172 I really don’t understand conservatives like MTG and Rand Paul….sigh - LinusVanPelt

Rand Paul hides behind his veneer of libertarianism. MTG hides behind her therapist, I guess.

Posted by: Paco at October 29, 2025 12:49 PM (mADJX)

173 He's also a fucking idiot who said on Tim Pool's youtube channel that Israel killed Charlie Kirk.
Posted by: XTC at October 29, 2025 12:47 PM (UnA8+)

Not quite but close enough to still be a fucking idiot.

Posted by: the way I see It at October 29, 2025 12:49 PM (EYmYM)

174 I see a bunch of blue states suing Trump to make him fund EBT which is interesting since they could just get their senators to vote to reopen the government

Posted by: 18-1 at October 29, 2025 12:49 PM (sKqQm)

175 >>The Republican Speakers have tried to appear hard while being soft men. Johnson appears soft but, so far, has been firm. I like this change.

He deserves credit but I doubt anyone would have folded to the Democrats this time. They just went through a hammer and tong battle during the BBB to get rid of the very things Democrats are demanding right now.

Democrats are demanding $1.5 trillion, with a t, to restore insane funding to NPR and essentially recreating USAID without the bureaucracy. And Trump wouldn't sign it anyway.

If anyone deserves the lion's share of credit it should go to Trump. He has created this new attitude by showing Republicans how to fight and not back down.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 29, 2025 12:50 PM (viF8m)

176 Narco Boats. Going back, way back and during second deployment an A4E making a run on a sampan. Opens up with internals. It worked then, it works now. Plus it's sporty.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at October 29, 2025 12:50 PM (gm9Sb)

177 "Bon Appetit Yor Majesty" on netflix is Korean history with some cooking and romance. I am ashamed to say I really liked it. Very "Conneticut Yankee in King Arthurs Court" vibe.

Posted by: connected and litigious at October 29, 2025 12:50 PM (s9EN2)

178 161 ... wikipedia is telling me that the Tang intervention ran into problems when their ally Silla (having used the Tang to wreck their opposition) decided they didn't want to be a protectorate. Silla–Tang War (670–676)
Posted by: gKWVE at October 29, 2025 12:46 PM (gKWVE)

I just started using Grokipedia, Elon Musk's Wiki competitor. It's just launched, but I'm liking it a lot. Here's a Silla comparison:

https://grokipedia.com/page/Silla

Posted by: Darrell Harris at October 29, 2025 12:50 PM (0CU3H)

179
Senator Chris Coons
@ChrisCoons

Our national parks are paying the price for Republicans' government shutdown, and every day they delay, they are making neglect become the nation’s environmental policy.

Posted by: redridinghood

My god, who's gonna feed all those birds?!

Posted by: Environmental Illness at October 29, 2025 12:50 PM (4DY5T)

180 What's even made in Brazil?

Fruit Hats and Jujutsu Gis?
Posted by: XTC at October 29, 2025 12:43 PM (UnA8+)

***

They make some pretty good artillery and rocket launchers...and some of the most beautiful women I have ever seen.

Posted by: Diogenes at October 29, 2025 12:50 PM (2WIwB)

181 Just a reminder, there are 40 million food stamp recipients in this country...
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I haven't seen a number--do we have any idea how many of that 40 million are here legally?

Posted by: Crusader at October 29, 2025 12:50 PM (TN0g+)

182 What the Democrats are trying to do now is to pass something, anything, in the Senate that is not the House Bill. The ensuing conference is where the spice will flow.

Posted by: toby928(c) at October 29, 2025 12:51 PM (jc0TO)

183 161 ... wikipedia is telling me that the Tang intervention ran into problems when their ally Silla (having used the Tang to wreck their opposition) decided they didn't want to be a protectorate. Silla–Tang War (670–676)

Posted by: gKWVE at October 29, 2025 12:46 PM (gKWVE)

I thought NASA used Tang...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 29, 2025 12:51 PM (ynpvh)

184 Is it because any East Wing story would be little more than a retelling of the story of a Carl the janitor type from "Breakfast Club" or the two custodians in "Good Will Hunting", replete with sneering disdain for the soft handed and mush minded "betters" elsewhere in the White House premises?
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars(TM) - what makes you think you are in charge? at October 29, 2025 12:45 PM (xG4kz)

The East Wing is where that commie bitch Eleanor Roosevelt had her office where she consorted with her commie friends.

Salt the earth where it stood!

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at October 29, 2025 12:51 PM (l3YAf)

185 First: but they are being far outweighed by the folks on TikTok that can't wait to do a Purge on their local supermarkets

Then: The only reason there aren't grocery stores in the inner city is racism

Posted by: 18-1 at October 29, 2025 12:51 PM (sKqQm)

186 I see a bunch of blue states suing Trump to make him fund EBT...

So much for "no kings".

Posted by: Rob Crawford at October 29, 2025 12:51 PM (BPdXS)

187 I will always believe that the bid to make Gaetz AG was just a feint to give Gaetz and Mike Johnson a face saving way to get Gaetz out of the House before the damaging report was released. And it worked.

Posted by: Tom Servo at October 29, 2025 12:51 PM (uWKK8)

188 174 I see a bunch of blue states suing Trump to make him fund EBT which is interesting since they could just get their senators to vote to reopen the government
Posted by: 18-1 at October 29, 2025 12:49 PM (sKqQm)

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I'm going to need some kind of chart or diagram from the left to explain the logic in this bullshit.

Posted by: Seems Legit at October 29, 2025 12:51 PM (PMtkd)

189 75 it's Plan B if the Danes won't sell Greenland

Posted by: tintex at October 29, 2025 12:51 PM (sBl13)

190
S'okay Senator Coons, all the cute animals in the parks & the protected Sasquatch populations...

...have zero fooks to give for you, your pedantic and unimaginative virtue signaling, and all the hapless "helpers" that are the staffs of our National Parks.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars(TM) - what makes you think you are in charge? at October 29, 2025 12:51 PM (xG4kz)

191 Why aren't they suing their senators?

Posted by: Seems Legit at October 29, 2025 12:51 PM (PMtkd)

192 mocking Republicans for saying that Korea was once under Chinese rule, and - well, yeah, the Tang were badasses and did just that).
Posted by: gKWVE
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It was essentially a vassal state of China's until the Sino-Japanese War in 1894. The Chinese filled some of their naval shells with sawdust, so it didn't end well for them.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at October 29, 2025 12:51 PM (XvL8K)

193 BTW, Tillis, McConnell, Collins, Paul and Murcokeski voted with all Democrats in an attempt to overturn Trump’s tariffs on Brazil.

It’s time for all of them to go with that idiot Tillis.

Posted by: Vengeance at October 29, 2025 12:52 PM (powGL)

194 159 152 Wait until next week when they demand we let a few million Haitians into the country. Temporarily, of course.
Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at October 29, 2025 12:45 PM (pIfcn)

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And the whole country of Jamaica.
Posted by: Seems Legit at October 29, 2025 12:46 PM (PMtkd)

Yeah, the other one. Or the other other one. Who was eating the geese in Ohio?

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at October 29, 2025 12:52 PM (pIfcn)

195 That's why I left CA a long time ago. Californians were becoming brain-dead even then.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo [Flying the American Flag!] at October 29, 2025 12:41 PM

And landed in Jersey? Bold strategy, CBD...

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 29, 2025 12:52 PM (ySpAZ)

196 >>MTG has entered the chat. She’s openly criticizing Johnson for not having the House in session because the welfare recipients in her district need their cheese.

Well, she's a retard.

Posted by: garrett at October 29, 2025 12:52 PM (3zg3l)

197 I haven't seen a number--do we have any idea how many of that 40 million are here legally?

illegals are around 50 percent

but include "visa holders" and "refugees" and there ae 80 percent non-citizens getting SNAP

Posted by: BlackOrchid at October 29, 2025 12:52 PM (emBoF)

198 195 That's why I left CA a long time ago. Californians were becoming brain-dead even then.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo [Flying the American Flag!] at October 29, 2025 12:41 PM

And landed in Jersey? Bold strategy, CBD...
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 29, 2025 12:52 PM (ySpAZ)

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*snicker*

Posted by: Seems Legit at October 29, 2025 12:53 PM (PMtkd)

199 196 >>MTG has entered the chat. She’s openly criticizing Johnson for not having the House in session because the welfare recipients in her district need their cheese.

Johnson stated he is working along with others, so she's full of it. they don't need her moron self around tho

Posted by: BlackOrchid at October 29, 2025 12:53 PM (emBoF)

200 Just a reminder, there are 40 million food stamp recipients in this country...
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I haven't seen a number--do we have any idea how many of that 40 million are here legally?
Posted by: Crusader at October 29, 2025 12:50 PM (TN0g+)

Total population ~330 million… so 1 in 8 are on food stamps?? Absurd

Sorry for the math…

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at October 29, 2025 12:53 PM (FNvF+)

201 I hope Grokipedia has the same cool maps that Wikipedia does.

Posted by: Bulg at October 29, 2025 12:53 PM (77rzZ)

202 From Ed Morrissey: John Thune says that Democrats are quietly praying for the shutdown to end.

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I was assured by "compassionate" Democrat-Communist leaders and minions that prayers were to be mocked and that Charlie Kirk deserved to be assassinated.

Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at October 29, 2025 12:53 PM (mrdUs)

203

Kublai Khan started the Tang dynasty.

And the orange breakfast drink, which those NASA homos stole!

-- Reverend Al's "USAwful: A True History of Oppression"
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars(TM) -

Lololololol

5-star funny, would laugh again

Posted by: imp at October 29, 2025 12:53 PM (g6TN6)

204 Kublai was Yuan not Tang
Posted by: gKWVE at October 29, 2025 12:47 PM (gKWVE

Thanks for correction. He started the Yuan Dynasty and Yuan started the Tang dynasty.

Posted by: the way I see It at October 29, 2025 12:54 PM (EYmYM)

205 Total population ~330 million… so 1 in 8 are on food stamps?? Absurd

Sorry for the math…
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at October 29, 2025 12:53 PM

Burn the witch!

Posted by: toby928(c) at October 29, 2025 12:54 PM (jc0TO)

206
What really disturbs the left about the East Wing is that it was its facade that was demolished.

They are petrified of facades being demolished, especially their own.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars(TM) - what makes you think you are in charge? at October 29, 2025 12:54 PM (xG4kz)

207 Kublai Khan started the Tang dynasty. The Mongols were badasses back then.
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Asia's Comanches.

Posted by: Pudinhead at October 29, 2025 12:54 PM (jFCkp)

208 199 196 >>MTG has entered the chat. She’s openly criticizing Johnson for not having the House in session because the welfare recipients in her district need their cheese.

Johnson stated he is working along with others, so she's full of it. they don't need her moron self around tho
Posted by: BlackOrchid at October 29, 2025 12:53 PM (emBoF)

She needs to be primaried...

Posted by: It's me donna at October 29, 2025 12:54 PM (VE6XX)

209 I'm very excited for next week. I just want to see what this does to remittances! hopefully the American citizens can hang on for a week so we get some data

I bet it will be one hell of a graph

Posted by: BlackOrchid at October 29, 2025 12:54 PM (emBoF)

210 EBT pays for edible panties. Seriously.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at October 29, 2025 12:54 PM (l3YAf)

211 >>I will always believe that the bid to make Gaetz AG was just a feint to give Gaetz and Mike Johnson a face saving way to get Gaetz out of the House before the damaging report was released. And it worked.

Me too.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 29, 2025 12:54 PM (viF8m)

212 EBT pays for edible panties. Seriously.

Well, they can end up getting expensive when you buy them in bulk.

Posted by: Sandra Fluke at October 29, 2025 12:55 PM (sKqQm)

213 I see a bunch of blue states suing Trump to make him fund EBT which is interesting since they could just get their senators to vote to reopen the government
Posted by: 18-1 at October 29, 2025 12:49 PM

And our feckless governor is wasting government time and money sending out texts to all SNAP recipients telling them how Evil Orange Man is stopping their November benefits and how the OBBB might be cutting their benefits down the road.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 29, 2025 12:55 PM (ySpAZ)

214 I haven't seen a number--do we have any idea how many of that 40 million are here legally?

illegals are around 50 percent

but include "visa holders" and "refugees" and there ae 80 percent non-citizens getting SNAP
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That's rather amazing! I wish "our" side did a better job of getting these facts out to the public!

Posted by: Crusader at October 29, 2025 12:55 PM (TN0g+)

215 by: gKWVE at October 29, 2025 12:47 PM (gKWVE

Thanks for correction. He started the Yuan Dynasty and Yuan started the Tang dynasty.
Posted by: the way I see It at October 29, 2025 12:54 PM (EYmYM)

And Tang was before Yuan iIIRC which apparently there's a good chance I don't.

Posted by: the way I see It at October 29, 2025 12:55 PM (EYmYM)

216 211 >>I will always believe that the bid to make Gaetz AG was just a feint to give Gaetz and Mike Johnson a face saving way to get Gaetz out of the House before the damaging report was released. And it worked.

oh no question

Posted by: BlackOrchid at October 29, 2025 12:55 PM (emBoF)

217 EBT pays for edible panties. Seriously.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at October 29, 2025 12:54 PM (l3YAf)

$20… same as in town?

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at October 29, 2025 12:55 PM (FNvF+)

218 What really disturbs the left about the East Wing is that it was its facade that was demolished.

They are petrified of facades being demolished, especially their own.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars(TM) - what makes you think you are in charge? at October 29, 2025 12:54 PM (xG4kz)

The whole thing was torn down. That’s not a problem, but let’s be honest.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at October 29, 2025 12:55 PM (l3YAf)

219 BTW, Tillis, McConnell, Collins, Paul and Murcokeski voted with all Democrats in an attempt to overturn Trump’s tariffs on Brazil.

It’s time for all of them to go with that idiot Tillis.

With any luck, all but Paul and Collins will be gone by '28.

Posted by: Archimedes at October 29, 2025 12:56 PM (Riz8t)

220 Tang > Gatorade

Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at October 29, 2025 12:56 PM (1Nv0l)

221 The Tang Dynasty was way before Genghis.

Posted by: Bulg at October 29, 2025 12:56 PM (77rzZ)

222 "Trump Scrapes Enough Federal -- and Private -- Money to Pay the Troops for One More Week"

Isn't this really just a dog whistle for racist white supremacy?

Posted by: Ripley at October 29, 2025 12:56 PM (GUOwU)

223 That's rather amazing! I wish "our" side did a better job of getting these facts out to the public!

Biden doubled spending on SNAP in two years, almost all of that was illegals and "refugees"

Posted by: BlackOrchid at October 29, 2025 12:56 PM (emBoF)

224 Buttigieg leads early 2028 Democratic field: New Hampshire poll. I like Pete, but he's not going to win a general. Too many boomers still alive and voting for him to get any chance of winning. We need someone that can win 2 terms in a row.

Electability is a myth. No one can predict who will be electable. We voted for Clinton, a woman AND one of the most reviled politicians. Lincoln would also have been considered unelectable.

Pete and Newsom showed how they feel about the Trans community with lines like "legitimate concerns." If you'd sell the Trans people out, you'd sell someone else out. You can't be trusted.

Pete is a great communicator. Unfortunately, I agree with you because I feel there are too many people who wouldn't be able to look past his sexual orientation

Polls like this reinforce to me that Kamala is toast - although she's doing well in the national polling she's not even breaking the top 3 in any of the 3 states.

Pete is leading in NH, AOC in VT, and Newsom in Maine - and all 3 of them are in striking distance of each other in each state

Why in the world does Bernie keep showing up in 2028 polls? He is not going to run

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at October 29, 2025 12:56 PM (rp7QE)

225 103
The two senators from Kentucky joined all the Democrats along with Collins, Mucowski and Tillis to prevent Trump from implementing his 50% tariff against the Socialist run Brazil.

You know when you hate crooked cops more than than your normal criminal. This is that.
Posted by: the way I see It at

That pissed me off...
Posted by: It's me donna
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I believe is non-binding and all kabuki theater. There isn't anything the can do other then posture. Now about that USSC case.... hmmm.

Posted by: NALNAMSAM at October 29, 2025 12:57 PM (VkY89)

226 Tang was crap.

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 29, 2025 12:57 PM (3J7e7)

227 Tang is Kool Aid for Astronauts.

Posted by: Pudinhead at October 29, 2025 12:57 PM (jFCkp)

228 And our feckless governor is wasting government time and money sending out texts to all SNAP recipients telling them how Evil Orange Man is stopping their November benefits and how the OBBB might be cutting their benefits down the road.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 29, 2025 12:55 PM

The poors have smart phones. Think about that for a minute.

I had an Indian friend who used to say that to be poor in America was to have a B&W TV and ride the bus while to be poor in India was to have no clothes.

Posted by: toby928(c) at October 29, 2025 12:57 PM (jc0TO)

229 I can’t wait to see what the deal is on Obamacare that Republicans will fold on. Johnson has said the committees are working on an alternative plan, but right now that’s all super secret. Hopefully they will acknowledge that, as Cruz stated years ago, the goal of Obamacare is to destroy private insurance.

Posted by: Vengeance at October 29, 2025 12:57 PM (powGL)

230 illegals are around 50 percent

but include "visa holders" and "refugees" and there ae 80 percent non-citizens getting SNAP
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That's rather amazing! I wish "our" side did a better job of getting these facts out to the public!
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I'm only slightly giggling when I point out that those TikTok folks planning on looting the stores on Saturday have zero understanding that at least part of the problem in giving them "their" money is that the program is now largely one huge racket of fraud.

Posted by: Crusader at October 29, 2025 12:57 PM (TN0g+)

231 I'm looking forward to the DNC platform of unlimited subsidized healthcare and EBT cards for illegals and tearing down the White House ballroom. Priorities.

Posted by: brak at October 29, 2025 12:57 PM (jGJov)

232 Total population ~330 million… so 1 in 8 are on food stamps?? Absurd

Sorry for the math…
Posted by: LinusVanPelt

I looked it up - more than 42 million recipients.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at October 29, 2025 12:57 PM (Gv/+5)

233 The Tang Dynasty was way before Genghis.
Posted by: Bulg at October 29, 2025

***
Oo-ee, oo-ah-ah, ting tang,
Walla walla bing bang

Posted by: Ross B.'s Witch Doctor at October 29, 2025 12:58 PM (omVj0)

234 And landed in Jersey? Bold strategy, CBD...
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 29, 2025 12:52 PM (ySpAZ)

So did the Martians and the Hindenburg.

Posted by: Rob Crawford at October 29, 2025 12:58 PM (BPdXS)

235 Takaichi made a gift to Trump of assassinated Japanese PM Shinzo Abe's beloved putter.

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[Insert infamous Johnny Carson joke here]

/I denounce myself ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at October 29, 2025 12:58 PM (7QtTW)

236 The two senators from Kentucky joined all the Democrats along with Collins, Mucowski and Tillis to prevent Trump from implementing his 50% tariff against the Socialist run Brazil.

Remember Vlad Putin is our eternal enemy because he controls the Russian media, imprisons his political opponents, and steals elections.

But...just because the Brazilian government controls their media, imprisons its political opponents, and steals elections doesn't mean you can do something crazy like put tariffs on them

Posted by: 18-1 at October 29, 2025 12:58 PM (sKqQm)

237 The Tang Dynasty was way before Genghis.

The Tangs were preceded by the Boscos.

Posted by: Archimedes at October 29, 2025 12:59 PM (Riz8t)

238 > I really don’t understand conservatives like MTG and Rand Paul….sigh
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Cuz they're not conservatives.

They're paid politicos.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at October 29, 2025 12:59 PM (Q4IgG)

239 The Tang Dynasty was way before Genghis.
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Gatorade did them in.

Posted by: Crusader at October 29, 2025 12:59 PM (TN0g+)

240 I believe is non-binding and all kabuki theater. There isn't anything the can do other then posture. Now about that USSC case.... hmmm.
Posted by: NALNAMSAM at October 29, 2025 12:57 PM (VkY89)

I think something about it not being able to implement that legislation until January .

Posted by: the way I see It at October 29, 2025 12:59 PM (EYmYM)

241

Posted by: Ross B.'s Witch Doctor at October 29, 2025 01:00 PM (omVj0)

242 China's major dynasties, in chronological order:

Shang;
Chou;
Chin ("the First Emperor");
Former Han;
Xing;
Later Han;
Sui;
Tang;
Sung;
Yuan (Mongols);
Ming;
Ching.

That's leaving out the various periods of division.

Posted by: Bulg at October 29, 2025 01:00 PM (77rzZ)

243 When was the Ovaltine Dynasty?

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 29, 2025 01:00 PM (3J7e7)

244 That dance stinks. No real expert dancer would dance like that. But Hitler? He danced like that a lot.

Posted by: Tom Nichol at October 29, 2025 01:00 PM (OhBRn)

245 Benny Johnson
@bennyjohnson
You know it’s bad when even CNN abandons the Democrats…

TAPPER: "This is a choice by Senate Democrats to not open the government."

DEM. REP STANSBURY: "No it’s not."

TAPPER: "Yes it is."

https://tinyurl.com/mwhwuc43

Posted by: redridinghood at October 29, 2025 01:00 PM (NpAcC)

246 We're now available in grape, lemon, mango, and pineapple flavors!

Posted by: The Tang Dynasty at October 29, 2025 01:00 PM (Cb1ST)

247 "Total population ~330 million… so 1 in 8 are on food stamps?? Absurd

Sorry for the math…
Posted by: LinusVanPelt

I looked it up - more than 42 million recipients.

Posted by: Thomas Paine"

Every single anchor baby is getting food stamps, which is how the illegals do it. That is 10-20 million

Posted by: Ripley at October 29, 2025 01:00 PM (GUOwU)

248 I had an Indian friend who used to say that to be poor in America was to have a B&W TV and ride the bus while to be poor in India was to have no clothes.
Posted by: toby928(c) at October 29, 2025 12:57)

Dinesh D'Souza was talking about someone in India that wanted to come to the US and he asked him why and the response was he wanted to live in such a rich country that the poor people were fat.

Posted by: CaliGirl at October 29, 2025 01:00 PM (Cg3Gl)

249 As a woman of color, I hate this other woman of color, because she may be skinfolk, but she ain't kinfolk.

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"She be the Asian Face of White Supremacy, H8R!"

Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at October 29, 2025 01:01 PM (7QtTW)

250 Why in the world does Bernie keep showing up in 2028 polls? He is not going to run

Because leftists are idiots?

Posted by: Archimedes at October 29, 2025 01:01 PM (Riz8t)

251
The Tangs were preceded by the Boscos.
Posted by: Archimedes at October 29, 2025

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And followed by the Quisps and the Klackers?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 29, 2025 01:01 PM (omVj0)

252 Based on the online crassness from the welfare queens, it's hard to imagine caring whether they ate for a year or not.

Posted by: Seems Legit at October 29, 2025 01:01 PM (PMtkd)

253 "They're gearing up to challenge the payments to the military. As Democrat Whip Katherine Clarke admitted last week -- before she began backpedaling -- the Democrats want to inflict "suffering" on the American people for "leverage" in trying to get money for illegal aliens."

Ah. The Hamas ploy.

Posted by: Kindltot at October 29, 2025 01:01 PM (rbvCR)

254 243 When was the Ovaltine Dynasty?
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A decoder ring is necessary to answer your question.

Posted by: Pudinhead at October 29, 2025 01:01 PM (jFCkp)

255 "She be the Asian Face of White Supremacy, H8R!"
Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at October 29, 2025

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If Lucy Liu is the Asian Face of White Supremacy, bring it on.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 29, 2025 01:02 PM (omVj0)

256 But the professionals at the NYT can't be bothered to literally do 10 seconds of google research to determine these things.

Or they did and took Wikipedia's word for it.

Posted by: Oddbob at October 29, 2025 01:02 PM (3nLb4)

257 Tang is better than Nutella and Ovaltine. Not better than Carnation Instant Breakfast.

Posted by: connected and litigious at October 29, 2025 01:02 PM (s9EN2)

258 Why in the world does Bernie keep showing up in 2028 polls? He is not going to run
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Why in the world do they keep pretending he's an "Independent"?

Posted by: Crusader at October 29, 2025 01:02 PM (TN0g+)

259 When was the Kam Fong dynasty?

Posted by: dantesed at October 29, 2025 01:03 PM (Oy/m2)

260 That dance stinks. No real expert dancer would dance like that. But Hitler? He danced like that a lot.
Posted by: Tom Nichol at October 29, 2025

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No human being would stack books like that, either.

Posted by: Peter Venkman at October 29, 2025 01:03 PM (omVj0)

261 The Postum Dynasty was never popular with the people.

Posted by: Bulg at October 29, 2025 01:03 PM (77rzZ)

262
China's major dynasties, in chronological order:

Shang;
Chou;
Chin ("the First Emperor");
Former Han;
Xing;
Later Han;
Sui;
Tang;
Sung;
Yuan (Mongols);
Ming;
Ching.

That's leaving out the various periods of division.
Posted by: Bulg

You left out the Han Solo Dynasty. Where did that fit in?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars(TM) - what makes you think you are in charge? at October 29, 2025 01:03 PM (xG4kz)

263 Look at the smiles of those sailors! as he dances!

He cracks me up.

I wish I could hire a blimp or sky writer over NYC and other blue cities that says the stall over this is for free everything for ILLEGALS. Then see what the black folk and po' white folks say.

IF, during a shut down, Congress was also not paid, this would end quickly. IF they had term limits and were part time by a USA vote on the ballot. A lot of IF, but it would work.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at October 29, 2025 01:03 PM (j5WMt)

264 The Tang Dynasty was way before Genghis.
Posted by: Bulg at October 29, 2025 12:56 PM (77rzZ)

Yeah about 200 years before it ended in the 900s.

Yuan dynasty was around 1200

Posted by: the way I see It at October 29, 2025 01:03 PM (EYmYM)

265 "They're gearing up to challenge the payments to the military. As Democrat Whip Katherine Clarke admitted last week -- before she began backpedaling -- the Democrats want to inflict "suffering" on the American people for "leverage" in trying to get money for illegal aliens."

This shutdown is really not going like they hoped.

The only thing people have noticed is EBT going away. So...what is the other $7T we are spending being used for?

Posted by: 18-1 at October 29, 2025 01:04 PM (sKqQm)

266 Trump landed on the USS George Washington? We shouldn’t HAVE such a thing, or a military. If we didn’t, we wouldn’t have any national debt ever.

End the DoD and DoS. It will solve everything. And if China takes over the world and subjugates us? So be it.

Posted by: AoS Isolationists and Code Pinkers at October 29, 2025 01:04 PM (sVOFR)

267 When was the Ovaltine Dynasty?
Posted by: Boss Moss at October 29, 2025 01:00 PM

Can't say. No one can decode their writings.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 29, 2025 01:04 PM (ySpAZ)

268 I used to be a thing.

Posted by: Strawberry Instant Breakfast at October 29, 2025 01:05 PM (Cb1ST)

269 Weak troll is weak.

Posted by: toby928(c) at October 29, 2025 01:05 PM (jc0TO)

270 Are our exalted, august Congresscritters missing paychecks?

Posted by: Cow Demon at October 29, 2025 01:05 PM (sVOFR)

271 You left out the Han Solo Dynasty. Where did that fit in?
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars(TM) - what makes you think you are in charge? at October 29, 2025 01:03 PM

A long time ago, in a country far, far away.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 29, 2025 01:05 PM (ySpAZ)

272 ***
If Lucy Liu is the Asian Face of White Supremacy, bring it on.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 29, 2025 01:02 PM (omVj0)

She was at her cutest in Lucky Number Slevin.

Pretty good movie.

Posted by: the way I see It at October 29, 2025 01:05 PM (EYmYM)

273 If "our" government could manage to *do its effing job* or even follow the effing laws IT created...

Ah, never mind.

My give-a-damn got pitched into the trash anyway.

Posted by: JQ at October 29, 2025 01:05 PM (rdVOm)

274 The Postum Dynasty was never popular with the people.
Posted by: Bulg at October 29, 2025

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Some of their descendants are still bitter about the Kava Interregnum.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 29, 2025 01:05 PM (omVj0)

275 It is astonishing that congress gets paid during a Federal shutdown.

Posted by: Seems Legit at October 29, 2025 01:06 PM (PMtkd)

276 257 Tang is better than Nutella and Ovaltine. Not better than Carnation Instant Breakfast.
Posted by: connected and litigious at October 29, 2025 01:02 PM (s9EN2)

I wish we still have the Carnation Breakfast Bars. A staple of my early youth in the mornings.

Posted by: Cow Demon at October 29, 2025 01:06 PM (sVOFR)

277 Is Tim Mellon related to Thornton Mellon, of the Big and Fat clothing empire?

Posted by: Citizen Cake at October 29, 2025 01:06 PM (CwhoI)

278 187 I will always believe that the bid to make Gaetz AG was just a feint to give Gaetz and Mike Johnson a face saving way to get Gaetz out of the House before the damaging report was released. And it worked.
Posted by: Tom Servo at October 29, 2025 12:51 PM (uWKK

You're probably right about that. Trump probably always wanted Bondi in there, so this was a way to negotiate away something that wasn't meaningful - giving the Dems a 'win' - to get him something that was.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at October 29, 2025 01:06 PM (0CU3H)

279 No human being would stack books like that, either.
Posted by: Peter Venkman at October 29, 2025 01:03 PM (omVj0)

One of the best jokes in the movie. Perfectly encapsulates Venkman’s character.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at October 29, 2025 01:06 PM (l3YAf)

280

Takaichi made a gift to Trump of assassinated Japanese PM Shinzo Abe's beloved putter.

*gorf crap*

Posted by: imp at October 29, 2025 01:06 PM (g6TN6)

281 259 When was the Kam Fong dynasty?

Just after the Chin Ho dynasty.

Posted by: Book em Danno at October 29, 2025 01:06 PM (Cb1ST)

282 Yuan (Mongols);
Ming;
Ching

The Qing were another foreign dynasty after the Ming

Posted by: 18-1 at October 29, 2025 01:06 PM (sKqQm)

283 If Lucy Liu is the Asian Face of White Supremacy, bring it on.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 29, 2025 01:02 PM (omVj0)

She was at her cutest in Lucky Number Slevin.
Posted by: the way I see It

I've heard she's really short.

Posted by: Bulg at October 29, 2025 01:07 PM (77rzZ)

284 Apropos of nothing but the Purge, pocket pistols are on sale at party favor prices. I am seeing Ruger 380s and Taurus Gs at under $200 new.

Posted by: toby928(c) at October 29, 2025 01:07 PM (jc0TO)

285 Weak troll is weak.
Posted by: toby928(c) at October 29, 2025 01:05 PM (jc0TO)

but, TJM is not here ....

Posted by: runner at October 29, 2025 01:07 PM (g47mK)

286 trans-indigenous is just beautiful

https://tinyurl.com/57d2enme

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at October 29, 2025 01:07 PM (n5tGW)

287 South Korea also gifted President Trump with a yuge gold crown.

I think he should wear it to the State of the Union speech to show, on live tv, Dim heads sploding. Nancy would have a done fall out. The "girls" in white suffragette couture would rip their wigs off. That ugly moose limb beetch would tear her turban thing off. Then mass exodus and clearing the trash from the chamber.

In short, it would be a glorious troll. Epic.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at October 29, 2025 01:07 PM (j5WMt)

288 IF, during a shut down, Congress was also not paid, this would end quickly. IF they had term limits and were part time by a USA vote on the ballot. A lot of IF, but it would work.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at October 29, 2025 01:03 PM (j5WMt)

Term limits are a lazy solution for the lazy by the lazy.

Laziness is what got us to where we are. Shirking our duty to engage in self-government only hurts, never helps.

Posted by: Cow Demon at October 29, 2025 01:08 PM (sVOFR)

289 If Lucy Liu is the Asian Face of White Supremacy, bring it on.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 29, 2025
*
She was at her cutest in Lucky Number Slevin.
Posted by: the way I see It
*
I've heard she's really short.
Posted by: Bulg at October 29, 2025

***
Short but slim is fine by me

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 29, 2025 01:08 PM (omVj0)

290 Shut up Cow Demon! Term limits have only served to improve our government!!!

Posted by: California government at October 29, 2025 01:08 PM (sVOFR)

291 When was the Kam Fong dynasty?

Just after the Chin Ho dynasty.
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When was the Hop Sing dynasty?

Posted by: Crusader at October 29, 2025 01:08 PM (TN0g+)

292 The Qing were another foreign dynasty after the Ming
Posted by: 18-1

Yes, the Manchus. Sorry, I should've noticed that.

Also, I should have spelled "Chin" and "Ching" with an initial "Q" to keep with the Pinyin.

Posted by: Bulg at October 29, 2025 01:09 PM (77rzZ)

293 The Sing-Dings wore red turbans, if I remember my "Big Trouble in Little China" lore.

Posted by: Citizen Cake at October 29, 2025 01:09 PM (CwhoI)

294 Speaking of Shinzo's putter gift, the South Korean president also gave Trump a gift. It was a replica of an ancient..... wait for it.....audacious looking......golden crown.

Trump said he was thinking about putting it on right then and there.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at October 29, 2025 12:28 PM (w6EFb)

LOL... He should have....
Posted by: It's me donna

He should wear it for his Presidential Portrait.

Posted by: Stu Podaso at October 29, 2025 01:09 PM (h37py)

295 Electability is a myth. No one can predict who will be electable. We voted for Clinton, a woman AND one of the most reviled politicians. Lincoln would also have been considered unelectable.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions

Umm... besides Lincoln being a Republican, what point does he think he's making there?

Posted by: Oddbob at October 29, 2025 01:09 PM (3nLb4)

296 289 If Lucy Liu is the Asian Face of White Supremacy, bring it on.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 29, 2025
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She was at her cutest in Lucky Number Slevin.
Posted by: the way I see It
*
I've heard she's really short.
Posted by: Bulg at October 29, 2025

***
Short but slim is fine by me
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 29, 2025 01:08 PM (omVj0)

I don’t know why, but Asian women have never appealed to me at all. YMMV.

Posted by: Cow Demon at October 29, 2025 01:09 PM (sVOFR)

297 How's you'se all doin'?

Posted by: Ace at 12:10 PM

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As a formerly poor white heterosexual alpha male deplorable garbage person possessing Pallor Privilege and ~~Melanin~~ Melatonin Deficiency, I'm really tired of all this trash talk!

Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at October 29, 2025 01:10 PM (7QtTW)

298 I bought a genuine Ming vase on 42nd street in '85. Along with a genuine CIMEQA Swiss Watch.

Posted by: Savvy Shopper at October 29, 2025 01:10 PM (oftw2)

299 The whole thing was torn down. That’s not a problem, but let’s be honest.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at October 29, 2025 12:55 PM (l3YAf)

Where's the dishonesty? It was used as the First Lady's offices. That's one of the virtue signaling complaints the Left is making

Posted by: the way I see It at October 29, 2025 01:10 PM (EYmYM)

300 229 I can’t wait to see what the deal is on Obamacare that Republicans will fold on. Johnson has said the committees are working on an alternative plan, but right now that’s all super secret. Hopefully they will acknowledge that, as Cruz stated years ago, the goal of Obamacare is to destroy private insurance.
Posted by: Vengeance at October 29, 2025 12:57 PM (powGL)

The irony of that is that Obama would never have gotten Obamacare off the ground unless he made a deal with the insurance companies to back him up on this. They jumped at the deal because it actually protected their business. You saw that at the time, when healthcare stocks took an initial hit, but when they realized that the companies' profits were locked in going forward, the stocks soared.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at October 29, 2025 01:10 PM (0CU3H)

301 Lucy Liu is great. She also Watson.

Posted by: runner at October 29, 2025 01:10 PM (g47mK)

302 Had a fairly long and heated exchange at a gas station mini mart this morning with someone who was ranting about Trump and the GOP keeping the government shut down. I told him the Senate needs 60 votes in order to pass it, and the republicans have voted 12 times to open the government and the dems have voted to keep it shut. He said "Trump could open it if he wanted to". I let him know that he was wanting Trump to be a king,and I assumed he didn't want that. I got told to "fuck off fascist" as is typical of any Portlander who doesn't like getting cornered with facts.
Posted by: Frank Barone at October 29, 2025 12:42 PM (IifOV)
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Glad you were able to give him the education that he isn't getting on MSNBC.

Posted by: redridinghood at October 29, 2025 01:10 PM (NpAcC)

303 >> Just after the Chin Ho dynasty.

Which was overthrown by the Zulu as Kono, or was it Kono as Zulu dynasty.

And the Jack Lord Hair dynasty finally just wiped 'em all out.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at October 29, 2025 01:11 PM (w6EFb)

304
Also, I should have spelled "Chin" and "Ching" with an initial "Q" to keep with the Pinyin.
Posted by: Bulg

Keep your O-Pinyin to yourself.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars(TM) - what makes you think you are in charge? at October 29, 2025 01:11 PM (xG4kz)

305 When was the Hop Sing dynasty?
Posted by: Crusader at October 29, 2025 01:08 PM

Just before the Lee Ho Fook dynasty, and just after the Sum Dum Goy dynasty.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 29, 2025 01:11 PM (ySpAZ)

306 Liu was best in Kill Bill.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at October 29, 2025 01:11 PM (n5tGW)

307 Shut up Cow Demon! Term limits have only served to improve our government!!!
Posted by: California government at October 29, 2025 01:08 PM (sVOFR)

Reagan’s amnesty is what destroyed California. Demographics is destiny, coming to Texas soon.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at October 29, 2025 01:11 PM (l3YAf)

308 I don’t know why, but Asian women have never appealed to me at all. YMMV.
Posted by: Cow Demon at October 29, 2025 01:09 PM

Tell me about it.

Posted by: Hunter Biden at October 29, 2025 01:12 PM (Cb1ST)

309 Optics. Some red states have rainy day funds that will cover the free shit army costs. Blue states are screwed.

Posted by: Ben Had at October 29, 2025 01:12 PM (QGLzn)

310 I don’t know why, but Asian women have never appealed to me at all. YMMV.
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The ones that appealed to me have been safe, legal, and rare.

Posted by: Bill Clinton at October 29, 2025 01:12 PM (TN0g+)

311 243 When was the Ovaltine Dynasty?
---------------
A decoder ring is necessary to answer your question.
Posted by: Pudinhead at October 29, 2025 01:01 PM (jFCkp)

"Be sure to support your Han Chinese."

That's it? Crummy Sino-ethnic propaganda? Son of a bítch!

Posted by: I left that room wiser at October 29, 2025 01:12 PM (TbWk/)

312 Term limits are a lazy solution for the lazy by the lazy.

Laziness is what got us to where we are. Shirking our duty to engage in self-government only hurts, never helps.
Posted by: Cow Demon at October 29, 2025 01:08 PM (sVOFR)

With no term limits we have Nanzi, Schuma, McConnell, dead Feinstein...shall I go on? Biden for example. McCain. See! Trying to cross the damn aisle!

When you have one foot in the grave there should AT LEAST be an age limit of 65yrs, when normal people retire. Not 80yrs to you are dead and a state stupid funeral.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at October 29, 2025 01:12 PM (j5WMt)

313 I don’t know why, but Asian women have never appealed to me at all. YMMV.
Posted by: Cow Demon

No Yellow here either!

Posted by: First Son Emeritus at October 29, 2025 01:12 PM (oftw2)

314 Bosco…. George Costanza’s ATM card secret code!

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at October 29, 2025 01:13 PM (IurwF)

315 Regarding the potential SNAP riots. Supposedly, there are Walmarts taking the threats to their stores seriously and bringing in cops for protection.
Posted by: NR Pax at October 29, 2025 12:30 PM (svLOV)

The WalMart in Apache Junction should get the AJ Mounted Rangers to hang out. Bunch of armed cowboys (and cowgirls) on horseback. They do come out for holiday events.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 29, 2025 01:14 PM (npFr7)

316
He should wear it for his Presidential Portrait.
Posted by: Stu Podaso at October 29, 2025 01:09 PM (h37py)

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Or state of the union.

Posted by: Seems Legit at October 29, 2025 01:14 PM (PMtkd)

317 Keep your O-Pinyin to yourself.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars(TM)

Sorry, you kanjist leave if you don't like it.

Posted by: Bulg at October 29, 2025 01:14 PM (77rzZ)

318 In past shutdown fights it was generally the president formally shutting down the government as in congress produced a budget/CR and gave it to the president.

Here it is the Senate as the house passed a CR and the Senate won't approve it. While the Republicans control the Senate narrowly, they need Dem votes and almost all of the Dems have voted against it.

The FNM/left lives off voxplaining a more complex situation here to dumb it down for their readers. Its Trump's fault. Why? He won't give the Democrats shutting down the government free healthcare for illegals...but they say that last part very very quietly

Posted by: 18-1 at October 29, 2025 01:14 PM (sKqQm)

319 Trump scrapes enough Federal and private money to pay the troops for one more week
What Dems hear "Trump rapes troops"

Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 29, 2025 01:14 PM (8RjCi)

320 NOOD

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at October 29, 2025 01:14 PM (W3AhE)

321 I like Harry Enten. I suspect our politics are wildly different, but it almost doesn't matter, because his passion for data seems authentic. (If it's performative, give the guy an Emmy!) He seems like he'd be a fun guy to run into at a bar on a Saturday afternoon, to shoot the breeze with about hard numbers vs. popular assumptions.

Posted by: SciVo at October 29, 2025 01:15 PM (VB5xp)

322 Keep your O-Pinyin to yourself.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars(TM)

Sorry, you kanjist leave if you don't like it.
Posted by: Bulg at October 29, 2025 01:14 PM

Double *golf clap* for both of youse.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 29, 2025 01:15 PM (ySpAZ)

323
I watched some of Trump's dinner with the South Korean president. There were some other honchos from the region at the table. Also, the PM of Australia was there, too, I think.

Anyway, they made sure Trump had all the ketchup and Thousand Island dressing he desired. High symbolism with the menu, too. And some nice Korean "K-pop looking" girls attending. There were in nice uniforms.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at October 29, 2025 01:15 PM (w6EFb)

324
NOOD -- Ain't No Fool Like A Minnesota Fool

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars(TM) - what makes you think you are in charge? at October 29, 2025 01:16 PM (xG4kz)

325 I don’t know why, but Asian women have never appealed to me at all. YMMV.
Posted by: Cow Demon

Jerry Seinfeld couldn’t wait for that date with Donna Chang but was mighty disappointed

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at October 29, 2025 01:17 PM (IurwF)

326 They know they're screwed, but they also don't know how their base will react to capitulating. They know they're screwed there, too.
___________________

They brought the crazies into the tent and now they're trapped.
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at October 29, 2025 12:16 PM (YrYZr)

How could this happen?

When I brought this rabid wolf home, I never expected to eat my children and chew my legs off!

How could I possibly have known?

Posted by: naturalfake at October 29, 2025 01:19 PM (iJfKG)

327 Rumors are that Tim Mellon also donated substantially to the East Wing project in return for naming rights....

The Mellon Ballroom

Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at October 29, 2025 01:23 PM (w9Wax)

328 They make some pretty good artillery and rocket launchers...and some of the most beautiful women I have ever seen.
Posted by: Diogenes at October 29, 2025 12:50 PM (2WIwB)

They grow a gang of coffee in Brazil.

Posted by: zombie Frank Sinatra at October 29, 2025 01:27 PM (npFr7)

329 If Lucy Liu is the Asian Face of White Supremacy, bring it on.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 29, 2025
*
She was at her cutest in Lucky Number Slevin.
Posted by: the way I see It
*
I've heard she's really short.
Posted by: Bulg at October 29, 2025

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We've been watching elementary thanks to recommendations here -- it's a little #Woke but still entertaining -- and she's always dressed in a different interesting wardrobe, including very high heels (sometimes multiple times of course) throughout each episode.

Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at October 29, 2025 01:38 PM (1mNdF)

330 Here is the thing about Trump - he loves people, and he is fucking funny as hell. That is what a lot of people don't understand. He also talks like a normal person. About how great an awesome things are or could be.

Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at October 29, 2025 02:50 PM (gDhA9)

331 Schumer should have called Mitch McConnell in March to learn how to be 'betrayed' by his Senate colleagues so he doesn't take the blame for giving the other party what they want.

Posted by: MikeN at October 29, 2025 03:03 PM (HVZOH)

332 Cut all funding to the Useless Nations and pay our Military who should be defending America not the Useless Nations COFFEE CUP ANNAN GO HOME

Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at October 29, 2025 05:58 PM (wGqjj)

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