Analysis: The Transgender Tulip Bubble Has Popped

A few weeks ago, I published results from six waves of the massive Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE) annual survey of undergraduate students. The data were unequivocal: the share of students identifying as a gender other than male or female--that is, as non-binary--peaked in 2023 and has halved in the two years since. This is a stunning reversal in the culture that will reverberate through society and politics in the coming years.

The survey captures over 50,000 students per year from nearly 250 leading American universities. Its size guarantees statistical power and enables us to look at small subgroups like trans or queer people. FIRE data is a random sample, a small percentage of each university's student body, and I wanted to be sure it triangulated with two surveys capturing a much greater share of the total. One comes from the elite Andover Phillips prep school near Boston; the other is run by Brown University's student newspaper. Both interview a far higher share of their target pool than FIRE surveys (up to 50 percent for Brown freshmen, and 75 percent in the Andover case). As Figure 1 shows, these surveys corroborate the "peak trans" pattern in the FIRE data, revealing a rapid decline since 2023.

Note that chart actually shows students saying their neither male nor female -- i.e., "non-binary" -- and is not about transgenderism per se. But transgenders would claim to be of the other sex, so it's hard to find them in these surveys. The author argues (plausibly) that the "non-binary" delusion is closely correlated with the trans delusion, but some, like pro-life/anti-groomer activist Billboard Chris, think it's an error to conflate the two.

The article also responds to technical criticisms like claims that these figures aren't weighted by demographics. That's both above my pay grade and below my threshold of actual interest.

Make up your own minds. I'm not your daddy.

Or... am I...?

Son?

...
I expand more fully on these findings in my University of Buckingham Centre for Heterodox Social Science report, which also found that the decline in non-binary identification was matched by a 10-point drop in unconventional sexual identification. Namely, in students identifying their sexual orientation as something other than heterosexual or homosexual--such as pansexual, queer, questioning, bisexual, or asexual. Many students who identify as neither male nor female also identify as sexually non-conforming, so the correlation trend is unsurprising.
Sexual orientation has been measured in more youth surveys for longer than gender identity has been. While gay and lesbian share remained flat through 2020 to 2025, Figure 2 shows that the broader non-heterosexual group--covering bisexual, queer, pansexual, asexual, questioning, and other labels--rose steeply to 2023 and then fell across a wide range of surveys.

See the link for the chart. Preposterously, identification as non-heterosexual rose to 40% at some schools. It's so depressing I don't want to reproduce the chart here.

Here, in my digital home. My home!

The non-heterosexual proportion peaked at around 30 percent overall, reaching as high as 40 percent at progressive-leaning Ivy League schools like Brown and 50 percent in liberal arts colleges such as Smith College. Importantly, the decline in non-conforming sexual orientation parallels the decline in non-conforming gender identity, suggesting a common underlying dynamic.

Well, Smith is famously Finishing School for Lesbians.

Identification as non-heterosexual has also fallen, though not as dramatically as identification as "neither male nor female."

Classic pattern of social contagion or viral mental illness.

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Why is the trans curve bending downward? Are young people becoming more conservative and religious? No. The same FIRE student surveys that show non-binary gender and queer sexuality dropping like a stone find no shift to the political right over time, and no rise in the share affiliating with a religion. Students are also no more supportive of free speech, and no more opposed to shouting down speakers, than they were in 2020. They are as woke as ever, just less trans and queer.

Oh well that's just great.

Peter Heck at NottheBee is a high school teacher and he says these stats match his direct-but-anecdotal observations.

While it's purely anecdotal, I can testify that from my own vantage point as a public high school teacher that the researchers are not imagining things. Not long ago, many schools across the country became pronoun battlegrounds, with students cycling through new "identities" every semester, and teachers instructed to oblige and rat out their colleagues who refused.
Today, pronoun announcements have all but disappeared. The once-growing cluster of self-identified non-binary students has shrunk dramatically. Whatever once felt like an unstoppable cultural wave now looks like what many warned it was all along: a disastrous social contagion.

But now must come The Great Reckoning:

While the trend may be reversing, the damage remains. Adults who have been entrusted with the well-being of our children, who should have been a bulwark of stability and truth, instead bent the knee to ideas that were, from the start, patently unscientific and philosophically incoherent. Administrators, professors, teachers, board members, and counselors all treated biological reality as hateful. Feelings were elevated above facts, and the ideological whims of a political crusade were permitted to rewrite human nature.

But, like the Japanese soldiers at the end of World War II -- and I still do not know which side I wanted to win that war; Demon Attack Survivor Tucker Carlson teaches me that both sides had heroes and villains, like Winston Churchill and also Jews -- they are still fighting to the last man for the last beach on the last island.

🚨BIG SCANDAL IN KANSAS SCHOOL— DISTRICT ALLEGEDLY HIDING PRO-TRANS BATHROOM POLICIES

Mother at @GardnerEdgerton in Kansas RIPS into the school board after discovering that a MALE student was allowed to INVADE the FEMALE locker rooms, potentially endangering the privacy of her… pic.twitter.com/ui4BS1BU1B
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) November 12, 2025

MUST WATCH: Parents at @DexterSchools in Michigan BLAST the school board for a new proposed Sex Ed curriculum that pushes radical LGBTQ propaganda, teaching kids they can be born in the wrong body and be trans.

THIS is what your tax dollars are funding.

This violates Trump’s… pic.twitter.com/2Af9vIIt1F
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) November 11, 2025

A 6th grade classroom in @GreaterAlbanySD. The small American flag is rolled up in the corner while the room is plastered with dozens of lgbtq pride flags

Absolutely disgusting.

You can reach the office here: 541-967-4501 pic.twitter.com/7BCGqs3fJY
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) November 10, 2025

Trans teacher on Reddit asks if it's normal to get a "euphoria boner" when kids use his "preferred pronouns." pic.twitter.com/EvJEivr9MX
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) November 10, 2025

Posted by: Ace at 05:20 PM

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1 first.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at November 12, 2025 04:20 PM (0N4FZ)

2 The Transgender Tulip Bubble Has Popped

We have reached Peak Perv.

Posted by: Joe Mama at November 12, 2025 04:21 PM (TezPK)

3 Told 'em.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at November 12, 2025 04:21 PM (LxER7)

4 IMO Tran Gender is a mental health disorder

Posted by: Skip at November 12, 2025 04:21 PM (+qU29)

5 The transgender bubble would not have burst if kamala had won, it would have accelerated. The government would have went at it with tons of $$$$$ and new regulations aimed at coddling the freaks.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at November 12, 2025 04:21 PM (0N4FZ)

6 Euphoria Boner would be a good band name.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, diseased garbage human at November 12, 2025 04:21 PM (P7vXf)

7 This will go down in history as worse than lobotomies.

Posted by: Kestrel at November 12, 2025 04:22 PM (wyl5F)

8 Hola

Posted by: Thanatopsis at November 12, 2025 04:22 PM (XKYub)

9 well sure, most of them have offed themselves by now.

Posted by: cmeat at November 12, 2025 04:22 PM (R11M+)

10 If they had this Trans Shit when I was in High School it would been great to "Hey I am Non-binary" and check out all the T & A and not have any problems...

Posted by: Jackson at November 12, 2025 04:23 PM (J9q9v)

11 mistakes were made

Posted by: ace at November 12, 2025 04:24 PM (1wjle)

12 The downside here is:

The leftists will abandon this and come up with a new outrage within a month.

Posted by: Joe Mama at November 12, 2025 04:24 PM (TezPK)

13 I saw Euphoria Boners open for Nashville Pussy back in 2003!

Posted by: garrett at November 12, 2025 04:24 PM (rO4EG)

14 Euphoria boner teacher needs to be fired.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 12, 2025 04:24 PM (Nx5jP)

15 Purge

Posted by: NCKate at November 12, 2025 04:24 PM (uQzkA)

16 Whenever the kids in my class referred to me as "she" or "miss" I got quite excited

I think that means you're a garden variety pedo.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at November 12, 2025 04:25 PM (a+4eV)

17 Wow, I never thought so much psychosis could be contained in so few words.

The guy gets off on kids affirming his madness?

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (UJMvS) at November 12, 2025 04:25 PM (UJMvS)

18 >>>10 If they had this Trans Shit when I was in High School it would been great to "Hey I am Non-binary" and check out all the T & A and not have any problems...

it's literally the fantasy of all young boys to connive their way into the girl's locker rooms.

I think there was an 80s movie where Chad Lowe dressed as a girl and the big selling point of hte movie was him getting into the girls locker room.

Posted by: ace at November 12, 2025 04:25 PM (1wjle)

19 If I ever win the lottery I'm going to give much of it to parents who want to get their kids out of public school and into a decent private school.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 12, 2025 04:26 PM (Nx5jP)

20 Euphoria boner teacher needs to be fired.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 12, 2025 04:24 PM (Nx5jP)
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You misspelled "confined to a psych ward."

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (UJMvS) at November 12, 2025 04:26 PM (UJMvS)

21
If some freak showed up at the redneck schools I attended they would have had the shit beat out of them.

Posted by: fourseasons at November 12, 2025 04:26 PM (3ek7K)

22 High school had option of PE or dance class (basically all stretching). Dance class, full of hot chicks? Sign me up.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at November 12, 2025 04:26 PM (zvOYi)

23 Hello, Horde! 😊♥️

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at November 12, 2025 04:26 PM (SRRAx)

24 This whole subject in insane. The people are insane, and their enablers are insane. The losers are the kids who get groomed, and damaged for life. Sue all these asshats, arrest them, deport them, do whatever, just get them the hell away from kids.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at November 12, 2025 04:26 PM (BB/Oc)

25 The Left have sown the confusion and doubt they needed to, and their new friends the Islamists don't take kindly to gays or trans, so to the back burner and the rooftops they will go.

And make no mistake, the Left will defend every last toss.

Just like they laughed at women getting their faces broken by men in "all female" competitions. And how they guffaw as their precious blacks have their jobs swallowed by all the illegal mexicans they swarmed in.

They have no real loyalty other than their next form of destructor.

Posted by: ... at November 12, 2025 04:27 PM (E0p3T)

26 Teresa, I hope you are well!

Posted by: Huck Follywood at November 12, 2025 04:27 PM (BB/Oc)

27 I heard that non-binary or similar variants was a dodge to get people to leave you the hell alone for a lot of kids these late years without drawing hostile fire for being straight of either variety.

Posted by: Oldcat at November 12, 2025 04:27 PM (8avO+)

28 Analysis: The Transgender Tulip Bubble Has Popped

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This is a metaphor for a virgin bonus hole, amirite?

/

Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at November 12, 2025 04:27 PM (Yw8Ag)

29 Euphoria boner teacher needs to be fired.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 12, 2025 04:24 PM (Nx5jP)
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You misspelled "confined to a psych ward."
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I wish Libs of Tiktok hadn't obscured the username so that consequences might have showed up more easily.

Posted by: Crusader at November 12, 2025 04:27 PM (TN0g+)

30 Chad Lowe finally got into the girls locker room but then died of aids.

Posted by: NCKate at November 12, 2025 04:27 PM (uQzkA)

31 >>it's literally the fantasy of all young boys to connive their way into the girl's locker rooms.

I used to clean the Locker Rooms as the USTA Center in Flushing Meadows...cured me of my desire to see inside the women's locker room.
Holy shit. It was worse than servicing the Milk Pumps at the Dairy.

Posted by: garrett at November 12, 2025 04:27 PM (rO4EG)

32 These days if anybody asks my frigging pronoun I say System Lord.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at November 12, 2025 04:27 PM (snZF9)

33 A trannie admitting he gets a boner in front of children should 1) not be near children and 2) no longer have the equipment to get boner

Posted by: Smell the Glove at November 12, 2025 04:27 PM (bfwj/)

34 Dude, if you get a boner when being called a girl, you are autogynephilic, which is a mental disorder. Check yourself into your local mental institution and for heaven's sake, cover that bad boy up. We don't need to see how pathetic you really are.

Posted by: tcn, Pickle Queen in AK at November 12, 2025 04:28 PM (yKmBH)

35 >>These days if anybody asks my frigging pronoun I say System Lord.

Stomps : Queers

Posted by: garrett at November 12, 2025 04:28 PM (rO4EG)

36 32 These days if anybody asks my frigging pronoun I say System Lord.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at November 12, 2025 04:27 PM (snZF9)

I prefer Your Majesty.

Posted by: tcn, Pickle Queen in AK at November 12, 2025 04:28 PM (yKmBH)

37 "The government would have sent at it with tons of $$$$$..."

With tons of $$$$$ from where? What comes after a Trillion ?

Posted by: Case at November 12, 2025 04:29 PM (9HFDU)

38 UForia Boner's new name will be:

Dick Shotov

Posted by: Joe Mama at November 12, 2025 04:29 PM (TezPK)

39 If the dude gets a boner when students refer to him as "Miss", then he isn't Transgender.

As far as I'm concerned, if it hasn't had its wang lopped off, it's just a perv.

Commit to it, dude -

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at November 12, 2025 04:29 PM (SRRAx)

40 Hello, plucky wee one! How are you this fine day?

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (UJMvS) at November 12, 2025 04:29 PM (UJMvS)

41 Homeschool, people. Homeschool.

Posted by: bluebell at November 12, 2025 04:29 PM (79pEw)

42 I believe it is not as cool to be trans since the last school massacre. So I choose to like the stats. And I pray against them every night...the adults and politicians and Munchausen's by Proxy parents.

In me, hope springs eternal.

It is a pity that a trans weirdo did not enter my locker room as a teen. He would have been beaten to a bloody pulp by us all. Redneck HS basketball girls.

Now? Should one enter a restroom with my granddaughers? I will quietly ask DIL to remove them and call the police, as I'm going to jail. The trans will need an ambulance.

I am hoping normal values are returning people to God.

There are two genders.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at November 12, 2025 04:30 PM (MAl//)

43 "Transexual."

The word your looking for is transexual.

Gender refers to possessive pronouns: his and hers.
Sex refers to male or female.

You know, like we all learned in "grammar" school.

Posted by: It starts with language at November 12, 2025 04:30 PM (gHosT)

44 I tell people my pronoun is "Trans is Made up Bullshit".

Posted by: ... at November 12, 2025 04:30 PM (E0p3T)

45 I prefer Your Majesty.
Posted by: tcn, Pickle Queen in AK at November 12, 2025 04:28 PM (yKmBH)
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Considering you're married to someone who must have been a Viking at some point in his life, I'll grant you this.

Your Majesty.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (UJMvS) at November 12, 2025 04:30 PM (UJMvS)

46 27 I heard that non-binary or similar variants was a dodge to get people to leave you the hell alone for a lot of kids these late years without drawing hostile fire for being straight of either variety.
Posted by: Oldcat

Or if you're a weird kid getting bullied, this is one way to get the school administration to give a shit.
Because school administration never gives a shit on its own, same as any other administration.

Posted by: gKWVE at November 12, 2025 04:30 PM (gKWVE)

47 Schadenboner > Euphoria boner

Posted by: JackStraw at November 12, 2025 04:30 PM (viF8m)

48 defund the schools.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at November 12, 2025 04:30 PM (rkTTp)

49 This is a tough one. Kids & young adults who trans'ed during the madness pose a problem. The ones who were just pretending to go along with the prevailing trends will mostly be fine, I think.

But the ones who got drugged or chopped are the issue. On one hand, they were victims of adult psychopaths. On the other, they are now also mentally ill and dangerous, and pose a threat to society.

I think the most humane and practical answer is to carve out an outlying island possession for them and quarantine them there. They can write deranged slogans on rocks and sticks and go at each other there.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 12, 2025 04:30 PM (BI5O2)

50 See the link for the chart. Preposterously, identification as non-heterosexual rose to 40% at some schools. It's so depressing I don't want to reproduce the chart here.

These unfortunates don't want to reproduce, either.

Posted by: Moron Analyst at November 12, 2025 04:31 PM (ToZLk)

51 High school had option of PE or dance class (basically all stretching). Dance class, full of hot chicks? Sign me up.
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at November 12, 2025 04:26 PM (zvOYi)

Think again. You have to *hold them up* and *NOT drop them* if you are a guy in dance class. Square dances are more fun.

Posted by: Oldcat at November 12, 2025 04:31 PM (8avO+)

52 IMO Tran Gender is a mental health disorder
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It was considered so by the mental health professional boards until recently.

Posted by: Crusader at November 12, 2025 04:31 PM (TN0g+)

53 >>>That's both above my pay grade and below my threshold of actual interest.

>>>Make up your own minds. I'm not your daddy.

>>>Or... am I...?

>>>Son?

Daddy Cruel?

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at November 12, 2025 04:31 PM (d6aqp)

54 22 High school had option of PE or dance class (basically all stretching). Dance class, full of hot chicks? Sign me up.
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at November 12, 2025 04:26 PM (zvOYi)

DH took HomeEc for exactly that reason. He still can't cook, but he got lots of dates in HS.

Posted by: tcn, Pickle Queen in AK at November 12, 2025 04:32 PM (yKmBH)

55 Hey garrett! :-)

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 12, 2025 04:32 PM (Ixlky)

56 I'm not your daddy.

Or... am I...?

Son?

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Ace will live on through his only son?

/What's he now, like 29?

Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at November 12, 2025 04:32 PM (Yw8Ag)

57 There is no changing your DNA no matter how badly one lies to themselves.

Posted by: Ben Had at November 12, 2025 04:32 PM (zzXla)

58 See the link for the chart. Preposterously, identification as non-heterosexual rose to 40% at some schools. It's so depressing I don't want to reproduce the chart here.

These unfortunates don't want to reproduce, either.
Posted by: Moron Analyst at November 12, 2025 04:31 PM (ToZLk)

Jewish identification dropped considerably when there was a Gestapo around, studies find.

Posted by: Oldcat at November 12, 2025 04:32 PM (8avO+)

59 https://pmc.ncbi. (blank) nlm.nih.gov/ (blank) articles/PMC7317390/

Significant outcomes.
Suicide death risk in trans people did not increase over time.

Suicide deaths occurred during every stage of transitioning.

Suicide death risk is higher in trans people than in the general population.
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So, after all the heartbroken have killed themselves, early on, the suicide rate levels off to a rate more than the general population.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 12, 2025 04:33 PM (wCq0Y)

60 I wish I had never heard about euphoria boners.

Posted by: Max Power at November 12, 2025 04:33 PM (q177U)

61 The pronoun police
They live inside of my head
The pronoun police
They come to me in my bed
The pronoun police
They're coming to arrest me, oh no

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Why Do the Heathen Rage? at November 12, 2025 04:33 PM (L/fGl)

62 OT
so someone mentioned the First Lady recovering.

I had no idea she was sick (or what happened)

So I searched DDG, and all the images are big mike or that crazy lady. Of the first 30 photos, I think two were Trump.

I also looked at just news, and man the liberal press is crazy on how they report her - every article is either attacking her, or of her attacking Trump. We all know the Left live in a bubble, but this was a bit stark.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at November 12, 2025 04:33 PM (rkTTp)

63 'X' seems more of a dumpster fire today. Well, more than usual. Lots of 'TWUMP BETWAYED USSSS'.

So, WTH happened now?

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at November 12, 2025 04:34 PM (sAmhv)

64 Here, in my digital home. My home!

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I think of it more as your digital van down by the river
...

Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at November 12, 2025 04:34 PM (Yw8Ag)

65 I think the most humane and practical answer is to carve out an outlying island possession for them and quarantine them there. They can write deranged slogans on rocks and sticks and go at each other there.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 12, 2025 04:30 PM (BI5O2)

Its the doctors, shrinks and lawyers and possibly parents you want on the island.

Posted by: Oldcat at November 12, 2025 04:34 PM (8avO+)

66 Many Male Trannies are thete mostly to watch females not be one

Posted by: Skip at November 12, 2025 04:34 PM (+qU29)

67 Know who else didn't want to reproduce?

Posted by: With only one ball at November 12, 2025 04:34 PM (gHosT)

68
Also, FTR: I am for giving any parent, teacher, or doctor who trans'ed a kid the needle. I know there's no law in place for that, but if the King wants to send forth a plague of pursuivants to snatch them up at night and make them all vanish like dew in the morn, I both approve and will apply to be a pursuivant.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 12, 2025 04:34 PM (BI5O2)

69 University of Buckingham Centre for Heterodox Social Science
___________
What the fuck?

Posted by: Martini Farmer at November 12, 2025 04:35 PM (NwnyJ)

70 I must say I love the "Fuck You Tucker Carlson!" bit at the end.

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 12, 2025 04:35 PM (uWKK8)

71 Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at November 12, 2025 04:33 PM (rkTTp)

Sponge's lady

Posted by: ... at November 12, 2025 04:35 PM (E0p3T)

72 So I searched DDG, and all the images are big mike or that crazy lady. Of the first 30 photos, I think two were Trump.

I also looked at just news, and man the liberal press is crazy on how they report her - every article is either attacking her, or of her attacking Trump. We all know the Left live in a bubble, but this was a bit stark.
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at November 12, 2025 04:33 PM (rkTTp)

I think the commenter is referring to his wife there

Posted by: Oldcat at November 12, 2025 04:35 PM (8avO+)

73
Its the doctors, shrinks and lawyers and possibly parents you want on the island.
Posted by: Oldcat at November 12, 2025 04:34 PM (8avO+)

No they should all get the death penalty.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 12, 2025 04:35 PM (BI5O2)

74 SUBURBAN HOME

https://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=x9PPlQp5DT4

Posted by: DESCENDENTS at November 12, 2025 04:35 PM (rO4EG)

75 The pronoun police
They live inside of my head
The pronoun police
They come to me in my bed
The pronoun police
They're coming to arrest me, oh no
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They keyboard line that sounds like something out of a Vincent Price soundtrack is artistic genius.

Posted by: Crusader at November 12, 2025 04:36 PM (TN0g+)

76 so someone mentioned the First Lady recovering.

I had no idea she was sick (or what happened)"

ummm.... who wants to tell him?

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 12, 2025 04:36 PM (uWKK8)

77 'X' seems more of a dumpster fire today. Well, more than usual. Lots of 'TWUMP BETWAYED USSSS'.

So, WTH happened now?

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at November 12, 2025 04:34 PM (sAmhv)

Spoiler alert: It's an op. Likely gay.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at November 12, 2025 04:36 PM (d6aqp)

78 YD, I volunteer to help.

Posted by: Ben Had at November 12, 2025 04:36 PM (zzXla)

79 Its the doctors, shrinks and lawyers and possibly parents you want on the island.
Posted by: Oldcat

Australia is a very Big Island.

G'day

Posted by: Joe Mama at November 12, 2025 04:36 PM (TezPK)

80 Gender dysphoria and accompanying surgery is a relatively new phenomena. Yet, even within that short span of time, it's still possible to track the suicide rate against the general population of the US.

Yet, somehow, that minor detail seems to be missed by the "experts."

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (UJMvS) at November 12, 2025 04:36 PM (UJMvS)

81 bob, someone (I think it was Sponge) was referring to heir wife as the First Lady.

God knows that if anything horrible happened to Melania, the left would start masturbating as badly as when Kirk got killed.

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 12, 2025 04:36 PM (Ixlky)

82 57 There is no changing your DNA no matter how badly one lies to themselves.
Posted by: Ben Had at November 12, 2025 04:32 PM (zzXla)

Gelding is supposed to calm them down, but these freaks seem to get more violent after.

"It's MAAM!"

Posted by: tcn, Pickle Queen in AK at November 12, 2025 04:36 PM (yKmBH)

83 yo stevie

Posted by: garrett at November 12, 2025 04:36 PM (rO4EG)

84 Sponge is a he. HIS wife. :-)
Sorry Sponge.

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 12, 2025 04:37 PM (Ixlky)

85 So, WTH happened now?
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at November 12, 2025 04:34 PM (sAmhv)

x.com/disclosetv/status/1988591341765525996

Posted by: gKWVE at November 12, 2025 04:37 PM (gKWVE)

86 When I was at collage I just identified as horney.

Posted by: Easy the Elder at November 12, 2025 04:37 PM (8I4hW)

87 "Do any of you girlies also get hard when you get validated or is it just me lol"
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What are the odds this "girlie" has male pattern baldness and longshoreman's hands?

Still, I absolutely adore "Euphoria Boner" and I want Elon to name one of his recovery platforms or rockets "Euphoria Boner".

Posted by: All Hail Eris,, coming to you live from the Roller Disco of Discord! at November 12, 2025 04:37 PM (kpS4V)

88 (I'm not gonna start doing the pronoun shit now y'all)

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 12, 2025 04:37 PM (Ixlky)

89 There is no changing your DNA no matter how badly one lies to themselves.
Posted by: Ben Had at November 12, 2025 04:32 PM (zzXla)

Gelding is supposed to calm them down, but these freaks seem to get more violent after.

"It's MAAM!"
Posted by: tcn, Pickle Queen in AK at November 12, 2025 04:36 PM (yKmBH)

The thug stormtroopers aren't cutting themselves OR taking drugs. That cuts into the rioting and murdering time.

Posted by: Oldcat at November 12, 2025 04:37 PM (8avO+)

90 well, maybe the end of cancelling people for using the wrong pronouns will end cancellation other places.
It is, after all, a very feminized method of attack, and an unworthy one. It tries to create a real life Asch Conformity situation by using Edward Bernays' tactics and enforced by "popular displeasure" by the AWFLs

Posted by: Kindltot at November 12, 2025 04:38 PM (rbvCR)

91 The Transgender Tulip Bubble Has Popped

Thank God.

Posted by: toby928(c) at November 12, 2025 04:38 PM (jc0TO)

92 The Paolo, he is quite familiar with the, how you say, boner creating this, how you say, euphoria.

Posted by: The Paolo at November 12, 2025 04:38 PM (gHosT)

93 Sponge's lady
Posted by: ...

Ahhh. Thanks. No wonder DDG did not answer that question.

I miss a lot of HQ news being only a part timer.

Glad to hear Spnge's wife is doing well.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at November 12, 2025 04:38 PM (rkTTp)

94 Back when I was a student, I didn’t have money or time to ponder which way my wiener twitched, it twitched constantly.

I had to get a fucking job!

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at November 12, 2025 04:38 PM (Cjet/)

95 57 There is no changing your DNA no matter how badly one lies to themselves.
Posted by: Ben Had at November 12, 2025 04:32 PM (zzXla)

Merck and Pfizer sure as heck tried.

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 12, 2025 04:38 PM (uWKK8)

96 Its the doctors, shrinks and lawyers and possibly parents you want on the island.
Posted by: Oldcat at November 12, 2025 04:34 PM (8avO+)

Then carpet bomb it.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, diseased garbage human at November 12, 2025 04:38 PM (P7vXf)

97 77 'X' seems more of a dumpster fire today. Well, more than usual. Lots of 'TWUMP BETWAYED USSSS'.

So, WTH happened now?

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at November 12, 2025 04:34 PM (sAmhv)

Spoiler alert: It's an op. Likely gay.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder

I assumed that. Just thought maybe something legit happened. 'Amusing Ourselves To Death' indeed. I've said it before, the internet was a mistake.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at November 12, 2025 04:39 PM (sAmhv)

98 So I threw him out, I don't fool around
With no Oscar Mayer wiener
You must be sure that your girl is pure
For the Funky Cold Medina

You know?
Ain't no plans with a man
This is the 80s, and you know I'm down with the ladies
No joke…

Posted by: Tone Loc, not a homosexual at November 12, 2025 04:39 PM (35JFI)

99 Gelding is supposed to calm them down, but these freaks seem to get more violent after.

"It's MAAM!"
Posted by: tcn, Pickle Queen in AK at November 12, 2025 04:36 PM (yKmBH)
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Well, couple the realization they just had a very intimate piece of their anatomy skinned and turned inside out with the drugs they've got swirling through their bodies...I'm not sure it's that much of a surprise.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (UJMvS) at November 12, 2025 04:39 PM (UJMvS)

100 In the late 2000s it was lesbian identity.

15 years later it was trans.

Its almost always a way to standout/ look at me.

Furries will be next

Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at November 12, 2025 04:39 PM (JkCto)

101
So that rainbow class is a math class. That explains this report I just read. 15% of incoming students at UC San Diego can't do math at 1st grade level, and only 20% make it to the 8th grade level.

The halfway level is about the 5th grade. That is, only about half the incoming students can do math, hell, not math, just basic arithmetic, at a 5th grade level.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at November 12, 2025 04:39 PM (w6EFb)

102 Its the doctors, shrinks and lawyers and possibly parents you want on the island.
Posted by: Oldcat

Australia is a very Big Island.

G'day
Posted by: Joe Mama at November 12, 2025 04:36 PM (TezPK)

We want a small one, preferably in the Arctic.

Posted by: Oldcat at November 12, 2025 04:39 PM (8avO+)

103 Then carpet bomb it.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, diseased garbage human at November 12, 2025 04:38 PM (P7vXf)

Carpet bomb the carpet munchers?

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 12, 2025 04:39 PM (Ixlky)

104 X' seems more of a dumpster fire today. Well, more than usual. Lots of 'TWUMP BETWAYED USSSS'.

So, WTH happened now?
Posted by: Puddleglum,

Foreign bot farms trying to increase chaos in the US

Posted by: FeatherBlade at November 12, 2025 04:40 PM (a+4eV)

105 Fact Check: No, There Is Not A New Survey Showing Trans Identity Is Decreasing. The claim, which originates from far-right professor Eric Kaufmann, appears to have made a glaring error: the survey actually shows more people have come out, not fewer.

I do not understand the right-wing hate. I don't give one shit what consenting adults do. Why the need for violent repression?

Their worldview is built around a hierarchy, which is intrinsic to nature and it means that some people are intrinsically superior to others. We trans people falsify the hierarchy and prove that it is artificial.

Ahh. My anti hierarchy autism gets in the way of my understanding. I never thought about it just this way before. Thank you.

their hierarchy is so natural it only takes billions of dollars in media spending and the threat of state violence to uphold it.

More trans people are coming forward to be their authentic selves. The right are trying to shove them back in the closet. We’ve reached critical mass. All they can do from here is oppression, the closet’s doors are gone.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at November 12, 2025 04:40 PM (ToZLk)

106 91 The Transgender Tulip Bubble Has Popped

Thank God.
Posted by: toby928(c) at November 12, 2025 04:38 PM (jc0TO)

A tremendous boil on America's ass.

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 12, 2025 04:40 PM (uWKK8)

107 I'm of an age where in my youth, anorexia was a big thing and now I never hear mention of it. Was it a social contagion, something that was overreported at the time, or something that is underreported now?

Posted by: Wally at November 12, 2025 04:40 PM (qeNaE)

108 85 So, WTH happened now?
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at November 12, 2025 04:34 PM (sAmhv)

x.com/disclosetv/status/1988591341765525996
Posted by: gKWVE

Oh. That does suck, if true.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at November 12, 2025 04:40 PM (sAmhv)

109 Thank you all for informing me about my confusion.

Wow. Sometimes I think no one reads my comments (they are really very good.) so I appreciate being seen.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at November 12, 2025 04:41 PM (rkTTp)

110 So that rainbow class is a math class. That explains this report I just read. 15% of incoming students at UC San Diego can't do math at 1st grade level, and only 20% make it to the 8th grade level.

The halfway level is about the 5th grade. That is, only about half the incoming students can do math, hell, not math, just basic arithmetic, at a 5th grade level.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at November 12, 2025 04:39 PM (w6EFb)

what the hell is UC SD doing admitting someone with grades that low? Even a 'state school'?

Posted by: Oldcat at November 12, 2025 04:41 PM (8avO+)

111 It always was living a lie

Posted by: Skip at November 12, 2025 04:41 PM (+qU29)

112 High school had option of PE or dance class (basically all stretching). Dance class, full of hot chicks? Sign me up.
Posted by: Commissar of plenty

Ironically, Larry Linville joined Drama because as he said " hey. There's a lot of fine chickadees over there."

Great convocation speech in college.

Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at November 12, 2025 04:41 PM (JkCto)

113 Judge orders release of 600 migrants swept up in ICE’s ‘Midway Blitz’ operation in Chicago

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What could possibly go wrong?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Why Do the Heathen Rage? at November 12, 2025 04:41 PM (L/fGl)

114 I read the headline as 'The transgender cherry has been popped"

Posted by: Miklos, dyslexic ervpert at November 12, 2025 04:41 PM (u+AWT)

115 >>I'm of an age where in my youth, anorexia was a big thing

The Anorexic all got Popcorn Lung and died back in 2018.

Posted by: garrett at November 12, 2025 04:41 PM (rO4EG)

116 I'm of an age where in my youth, anorexia was a big thing and now I never hear mention of it. Was it a social contagion, something that was overreported at the time, or something that is underreported now?
Posted by: Wally at November 12, 2025 04:40 PM (qeNaE)

probably all three

Posted by: Oldcat at November 12, 2025 04:42 PM (8avO+)

117 Also, why do people feel they need to share so much info on social media? . It didn't occur to this person that " boner euphoria" about people using preferred pronouns might not go over so well twith everyone who had kids who read it ?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 12, 2025 04:42 PM (2sfNr)

118 97 77 'X' seems more of a dumpster fire today. Well, more than usual. Lots of 'TWUMP BETWAYED USSSS'.

oh not an op

absolutely god-awful interview of PDJT by Laura Ingraham

who is advising him?!? he's lost a lot of people and needs to walk a lot of stuff back, quickly.

Posted by: BlackOrchid at November 12, 2025 04:42 PM (emBoF)

119 And no, the complaints about visa abuse are not an op. The abuse is real. Trump, for whatever reasons, is presently fucking his base.
I've been waiting 11 months and humiliating myself on LinkedIn just to hear this shit, now we're early in the 2026 election season.
x.com/EricLDaugh/status/1988602354434748750#
Meanwhile about the best I've heard from commenters here is "maybe try a career not in tech". Dude. I thought I was supposed to learn to code.

There are some Congresspeople who are pushing back.
x.com/RepChipRoy/status/1988679868704518299#

Posted by: gKWVE at November 12, 2025 04:42 PM (gKWVE)

120 This is where their energy is going but reading, writing and arithmetic are just racists concepts. Got it.

I thank God that when my kids were in public school (SoCal no less) it was school uniforms K-12 and classical education for all.

Posted by: Cheri at November 12, 2025 04:42 PM (oiNtH)

121 Steve_in_SoCal, Larry Linville was I think one of the greatest and smartest actors ever.

His work as Frank Burns on M*A*S*H was incredible. Made you have empathy for Burns, even while he was being a jerk.

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 12, 2025 04:43 PM (Ixlky)

122 You know who's all-in with fake men taking over women's sports and women's rest rooms? Misogynists. Big surprise, huh?

Posted by: Gref at November 12, 2025 04:43 PM (5rh/l)

123 The halfway level is about the 5th grade. That is, only about half the incoming students can do math, hell, not math, just basic arithmetic, at a 5th grade level.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at November 12, 2025 04:39 PM (w6EFb)

Even I took Calculus in high school. WTF?

Posted by: tcn, Pickle Queen in AK at November 12, 2025 04:43 PM (yKmBH)

124 Sarah McBride, the trans woman congressman, actually had a decent conversation on why trans are losing the trans wars, and had it with Ezra Klein of all people.

She said they are losing because they are demonizing the people that are with them on 90% of pro trans policies. If you don't agree 100%, especially on the policies affecting kids and girls, they call you a transphobe. And then those "imperfect allies," as she calls them, lose interest or become hostile to all the other good sane teams policies. (Stuff like you can't kick out a tenant, fire a worker, deny someone entering your business, kick donor s out of a restaurant, or deny them a loan because they're trans. Which I hope people agree are sane policies.) so now someone once an ally and 90% in agreement with you is now only 50%.

The problem is Sarah clearly WANTS all these insane policies. But she's studied the civil rights movement enough to know some things have to happen slowly. The trans movement doesn't want slow, so they are boiling the pot too fast and all the frogs are jumping out. Sarah isn't saying stop having these insane policies, just make them slower and more palatable for the plebes.

Posted by: LizLem at November 12, 2025 04:43 PM (gWBY1)

125 51- depends on where you drop “em

Posted by: Farmer Bob at November 12, 2025 04:43 PM (hlNLQ)

126 thank YOU blackorchid for not posting pablum at us, sincerely

Posted by: gKWVE at November 12, 2025 04:43 PM (gKWVE)

127 Also, why do people feel they need to share so much info on social media? . It didn't occur to this person that " boner euphoria" about people using preferred pronouns might not go over so well twith everyone who had kids who read it ?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 12, 2025 04:42 PM (2sfNr)
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Victim class protection, most likely.

If a straight white male said something like that, he'd be out of a job within a few hours of posting that.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (UJMvS) at November 12, 2025 04:43 PM (UJMvS)

128 >> what the hell is UC SD doing admitting someone with grades that low?

Hell, looks like if they didn't admit them, they wouldn't have any students and tuition at all....

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at November 12, 2025 04:44 PM (w6EFb)

129 In the late 2000s it was lesbian identity.

15 years later it was trans.

Its almost always a way to standout/ look at me.

Furries will be next
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Furries are pathetic. One of the antifa videos had some goofball speaking and off to his right was some nothing of a chick wearing some sort of horse mask and she was on her knees with her hands up against her chest like some sort of animal's feet. And this was in broad daylight in the public. Every single time we think "They can't get any more stupid", they surprise us.

Posted by: Crusader at November 12, 2025 04:44 PM (TN0g+)

130 Much like COVID, people have built up an immunity to the Trans virus.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider, a black, LGBT, child of immigrants at November 12, 2025 04:44 PM (oSeBJ)

131 If the Cultural Marxists loose their Trannies they will move on to something else. Race seems to be picking up

Posted by: Skip at November 12, 2025 04:45 PM (+qU29)

132
Oh, apparently their high school grades are good on paper. When they actually test them, they found out they are all Lamonts the Big Dummies.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at November 12, 2025 04:45 PM (w6EFb)

133 I implore commenters here not to shrug this off as "it's an op" or "skill issue" or "just learn a trade bro".
Because this is how you get more Fuentes. Or more Mamdani

Posted by: gKWVE at November 12, 2025 04:45 PM (gKWVE)

134 126 thank YOU blackorchid for not posting pablum at us, sincerely

I'm honestly worried about PDJTs mental state

what the heck was he THINKING?!?!?

and Ms Ingraham did a good job with the interview. it wasn't an attack interview. he stepped in it all on his own

Posted by: BlackOrchid at November 12, 2025 04:45 PM (emBoF)

135 I do not understand the right-wing hate.

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I'm not a psychologist but it might have something to do with all those dead elementary students.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Why Do the Heathen Rage? at November 12, 2025 04:45 PM (L/fGl)

136 Sarah McBride, the trans woman congressman, actually had a decent conversation on why trans are losing the trans wars, and had it with Ezra Klein of all people.

She said...

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That would be Tim McBride. And He said...

Posted by: Crusader at November 12, 2025 04:46 PM (TN0g+)

137 The ones I feel sorry for are the kids who were carved up and chemically mutilated by sick parents and psycho doctors.

The docs and any teachers or counselors who participated or encouraged this madness should be legally and financially liable under the law , as well as flat out thrown in jail for assault and whatever else the state can think up.

These sick creeps need to reap their just rewards.

Posted by: naturalfake at November 12, 2025 04:46 PM (iJfKG)

138 Ironically, Larry Linville joined Drama because as he said " hey. There's a lot of fine chickadees over there."

Great convocation speech in college.
Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal
_________

He provided the only real comedy in MASH. It was a drama after he left.

They filled my foxhole with peas and carrots!

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at November 12, 2025 04:46 PM (XvL8K)

139 55 Hey garrett! :-)
Posted by: qdpsteve

Get a room.

Posted by: nurse ratched at November 12, 2025 04:46 PM (W2Pud)

140 Shit! Now what am I going to do with all these trans virtual signals running round the house?

Posted by: Hollywood Celebrity at November 12, 2025 04:47 PM (0714D)

141 Many times I will reread the Left's manual The Naked Communist 45 goals to communism and think just like the book 1984 it is so fitting for 2025, but even worse.

#25.Break down cultural standards of morality by promoting pornography and obscenity in books, magazines, motion pictures, radio
and TV. [Note: This is the Gramscian agenda of the "long march through the institutions" spelled out explicitly: gradual takeover
of the "means of communication" and then using those vehicles to debauch the culture and weaken the will of the individual to
resist.]

26. Present homosexuality, degeneracy and promiscuity as "normal, natural and healthy." [Note: Today those few who still have the
courage to advocate public morality are denounced and viciously attacked. Most Americans are entirely unwitting regarding the
motives behind this agenda.]

27. Infiltrate the churches and replace revealed religion with "social" religion. Discredit the Bible

Posted by: redridinghood at November 12, 2025 04:47 PM (NpAcC)

142 Oh, apparently their high school grades are good on paper. When they actually test them, they found out they are all Lamonts the Big Dummies.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at November 12, 2025 04:45 PM (w6EFb)
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20 years ago or so, colleges admitted 4 year degrees took 5 years, because they were doing a lot of remedial instruction.

It's probably a 6 year degree these days.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (UJMvS) at November 12, 2025 04:47 PM (UJMvS)

143 Furries are pathetic. One of the antifa videos had some goofball speaking and off to his right was some nothing of a chick wearing some sort of horse mask and she was on her knees with her hands up against her chest like some sort of animal's feet. And this was in broad daylight in the public. Every single time we think "They can't get any more stupid", they surprise us.
Posted by: Crusader at November 12, 2025 04:44 PM (TN0g+)

Yeah, horses don't sit like that at all. and they should have one finger out since the hoof is the only finger left.
The middle one, I expect.

Posted by: Oldcat at November 12, 2025 04:47 PM (8avO+)

144 Hey nurse!

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 12, 2025 04:47 PM (Ixlky)

145 Anorexia, emo, repressed memories of abuse, everyone’s a vampire, everyone’s binary, and so it goes, whatever’s next will be just as stupid, and taken just as seriously by all the right people

Posted by: Farmer Bob at November 12, 2025 04:47 PM (hlNLQ)

146 Why shouldn't they lie about it.

Lying works when opposed by indifference.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 12, 2025 04:47 PM (A0sqA)

147 (Stuff like you can't kick out a tenant, fire a worker, deny someone entering your business, kick donor s out of a restaurant, or deny them a loan because they're trans. Which I hope people agree are sane policies.)

Posted by: LizLe

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FUCK that shit. Public accommodation has to go. Private businesses and individuals should be allowed to serve, hire, rent to, and associate whomever they want. It is in the constitution.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at November 12, 2025 04:48 PM (rkTTp)

148 >>> Also, why do people feel they need to share so much info on social media?

They think the hivemind of Tumblr or Reddit is real life. They think people sharing their same fetishes or proclivities on these niche sites means everyone is in their corner. And then get shocked and triggered to find people are not. The people pushing back aren't even hostile, just ambivalent. But even a little bit of pushback damages their fragile psyche and ego.

Posted by: LizLem at November 12, 2025 04:48 PM (gWBY1)

149 34 Dude, if you get a boner when being called a girl, you are autogynephilic, which is a mental disorder. Check yourself into your local mental institution and for heaven's sake, cover that bad boy up. We don't need to see how pathetic you really are.
Posted by: tcn, Pickle Queen in AK at November 12, 2025 04:28 PM (yKmBH)

A few years ago it was trendy for people on twitter to include their stupid pronouns. Now I have no idea. I spy on liberals I know now and then.

Pretty sure I knew my pronoun when I was about 3yrs old. It takes liberals longer & one must stand with the transmutation bowel movement or be not cool.

I stand, after I kick them all to when they discover what is in their pants. An outie or an innie. Either/or. Not neither/nor.

This is why I mostly stay home in my castle and bother only one husband, my own he/him. Occasionally I appear in public and sometimes people are on guard, like I am going to make a fool of myself.

Yes, I've been known to take control of thousands of people at a Romney/Ryan rally in Daytona Beach when the union busses left us in a hot garage.

Yes, I've taken over a flight when a basically harmless lunatic hippie woman ran rampant. Big deal!

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at November 12, 2025 04:48 PM (MAl//)

150 I'm still shocked and amazed that so many Americans have fallen for this. Metaphorically, taken the bait, hook, line and sinker.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 12, 2025 04:48 PM (wCq0Y)

151 I'm of an age where I remember when people were acting all upset about Trump remodeling the White House.

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 12, 2025 04:48 PM (uWKK8)

152 I implore commenters here not to shrug this off as "it's an op" or "skill issue" or "just learn a trade bro".
Because this is how you get more Fuentes. Or more Mamdani
Posted by: gKWVE at November 12, 2025 04:45 PM (gKWVE)

Well Mandami was just voter fraud, like usual.

Posted by: Oldcat at November 12, 2025 04:49 PM (8avO+)

153 On LinkedIn pronouns are not a thing anymore. Some idiots still have them which make it easy to identify them as, you know, idiots.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 12, 2025 04:49 PM (F2Ar1)

154 It seems not to matter who you vote for and which party. They are all in on these H1-B's visa's. It's been so horribly abused, they need to stop for now. This is nuts.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at November 12, 2025 04:49 PM (sAmhv)

155 Yes, I've taken over a flight when a basically harmless lunatic hippie woman ran rampant. Big deal!
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at November 12, 2025 04:48 PM (MAl//)

So long as you're not referring to yourself, that's cool.

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 12, 2025 04:50 PM (uWKK8)

156 I'm still shocked and amazed that so many Americans have fallen for this. Metaphorically, taken the bait, hook, line and sinker.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 12, 2025 04:48 PM (wCq0Y)
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Controlling the language is Commie 101.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (UJMvS) at November 12, 2025 04:50 PM (UJMvS)

157 Why is uncle garret always visiting mom when you're not home, dad?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 12, 2025 04:50 PM (zZu0s)

158 I wonder if I would get a euphoria boner from denting that faggots skull with an axe handle.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at November 12, 2025 04:50 PM (/5TNL)

159 Living on Tulsa Time.

Posted by: Boss Moss at November 12, 2025 04:51 PM (ishno)

160 Aetius, and why is Mom always dressed in that French Maid outfit when Garrett comes?

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 12, 2025 04:51 PM (Ixlky)

161 Well Mandami was just voter fraud, like usual.
Posted by: Oldcat

If that were true, there would be thousands of black and Italian Cuomo supporters in the streets rioting against Mamdani's election.

Posted by: gKWVE, really trying not to spaz out at November 12, 2025 04:51 PM (gKWVE)

162 Furries are pathetic. One of the antifa videos had some goofball speaking and off to his right was some nothing of a chick wearing some sort of horse mask and she was on her knees with her hands up against her chest like some sort of animal's feet. And this was in broad daylight in the public. Every single time we think "They can't get any more stupid", they surprise us.
Posted by: Crusader at November 12, 2025 04:44 PM

Furries get the bullet.

Posted by: The Ghost of Insomniac at November 12, 2025 04:51 PM (0714D)

163 26. Present homosexuality, degeneracy and promiscuity as "normal, natural and healthy." [Note: Today those few who still have the
courage to advocate public morality are denounced and viciously attacked. Most Americans are entirely unwitting regarding the
motives behind this agenda.]

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Exhibit A: The way Tim Tebow was and is treated, even by those more sane than those on the left. He's still looked at as some sort of 'oddity', even though seemingly the only sin he's guilty of is being a mediocre-to-poor NFL Quarterback (after an outstanding college career).

Posted by: Crusader at November 12, 2025 04:51 PM (TN0g+)

164 157- would have been funnier and more in line with blog lore if you’d switch mom and dad in the sentence.

Posted by: Farmer Bob at November 12, 2025 04:51 PM (hlNLQ)

165 Anorexia, emo, repressed memories of abuse, everyone’s a vampire, everyone’s binary, and so it goes, whatever’s next will be just as stupid, and taken just as seriously by all the right people

Posted by: Farmer Bob at November 12, 2025 04:47 PM (hlNLQ)

Everyone's neurodivergent, which in essence means nobody is.

No, you're all just boring, lazy assholes, who don't take enough time or exert enough effort to make yourself interesting and a benefit to get to know.

A furry mask or cat ears ain't changing that.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at November 12, 2025 04:52 PM (d6aqp)

166 >> what the hell is UC SD doing admitting someone with grades that low?

Hell, looks like if they didn't admit them, they wouldn't have any students and tuition at all....
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at November 12, 2025 04:44 PM (w6EFb)

All the better since even the decent ones going in get destroyed there.

Posted by: Oldcat at November 12, 2025 04:52 PM (8avO+)

167 >>Hell, looks like if they didn't admit them, they wouldn't have any students and tuition at all....

As someone who has read resumes, interviewed and hired (a few) college grads over the last x years I can assure you the problem is a lot bigger than UCSD.

This is one of the big disconnects with the whole H1B issues. Yes, we have a lot of very smart people who graduate from US schools and they are getting squeezed and that needs to be fixed. But we also have a metric shitload of college graduates who are dumber than a bag of hammers because of our garbage schools. If we don't fix the schools this problem just gets worse.

Posted by: JackStraw at November 12, 2025 04:52 PM (viF8m)

168 145 Anorexia, emo, repressed memories of abuse, everyone’s a vampire, everyone’s binary, and so it goes, whatever’s next will be just as stupid, and taken just as seriously by all the right people
Posted by: Farmer Bob at November 12, 2025 04:47 PM (hlNLQ)

The goth girls eventually grew out of it though the only lasting harm done was the hole in their tongue or gauges in their ears which is fixable, sex changes not so much.

Posted by: CaliGirl at November 12, 2025 04:52 PM (CueAq)

169 Why would it matter what the public thinks? Public polling data has shown very lopsided opposition to illegal immigration for a long time. What have both parties (other than Trump) given the public: lots of illegal immigration. The uniparty doesn't care what the public thinks and has discovered that if both sides more or less adopt the same/similar policy, it can ride roughshod over the public. Who are you gonna vote for that's going to do anything different? Same situation that Britain is effectively in, where voting for Tories just got you the same basic Labour policy.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at November 12, 2025 04:52 PM (UGyV5)

170 Steve_in_SoCal, Larry Linville was I think one of the greatest and smartest actors ever.

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I rewatched Young Frankenstein the other day and remarked on the talent and skill of Marty Feldman. Sure, he's goofy looking but it's more than that.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Why Do the Heathen Rage? at November 12, 2025 04:52 PM (L/fGl)

171 Every generation, in some form, expresses its uniqueness, its individuality but what's happening is not that. Not one iteration of this crap should be accepted.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 12, 2025 04:52 PM (wCq0Y)

172 Probably the most humane solution to the trans problem is to encourage them to all move to Canada where they will be happy, and if they're not at least Canada now encourages assisted suicide for severe mental depression.

a funny thing about assisted suicide is that the program only *starts off* as "assisted."

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 12, 2025 04:52 PM (uWKK8)

173 158 I wonder if I would get a euphoria boner from denting that faggots skull with an axe handle.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at November 12, 2025 04:50 PM (/5TNL)

Sounds worthy of a NIST grant.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at November 12, 2025 04:53 PM (d6aqp)

174 I'm still shocked and amazed that so many Americans have fallen for this. Metaphorically, taken the bait, hook, line and sinker.

Posted by: Braenyard

Is this about me?

Posted by: COVID-19 at November 12, 2025 04:53 PM (lzcng)

175 You know where they have no trannies? In the slums of India and Brazil. Because this shit is a luxury of rich people in the west who have time to invent problems for themselves.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 12, 2025 04:53 PM (F2Ar1)

176 a funny thing about assisted suicide is that the program only *starts off* as "assisted."
Posted by: Tom Servo at November 12, 2025 04:52 PM (uWKK

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1. Assisted
2. Suggested
3. Required

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 12, 2025 04:54 PM (A0sqA)

177 -------

Exhibit A: The way Tim Tebow was and is treated, even by those more sane than those on the left. He's still looked at as some sort of 'oddity',
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By whom is he looked upon as an oddity?
Those who look upon him as an oddity are those that have allowed this crap to fester.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 12, 2025 04:55 PM (wCq0Y)

178 Seriously -- defund the schools.

I am 100% revanchivist on this issue.
Taxes should be low enough, and wages high enough, that families can survive on one salary. Anything less is feudalism.

More dependency of family is also a good thing (instead of gov.)

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at November 12, 2025 04:55 PM (rkTTp)

179 Every generation, in some form, expresses its uniqueness, its individuality but what's happening is not that. Not one iteration of this crap should be accepted.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 12, 2025 04:52 PM

Each generation should lay some new foreign country under tribute.

Posted by: toby928(c) at November 12, 2025 04:55 PM (jc0TO)

180 I rewatched Young Frankenstein the other day and remarked on the talent and skill of Marty Feldman. Sure, he's goofy looking but it's more than that.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Why Do the Heathen Rage? at November 12, 2025 04:52 PM (L/fGl)

so many little things about his performance that crack me up. That part at near the end where he counts, and counts, and counts and then plays a few notes on the French Horn? First, anyone who's played an instrument knows the feeling; second Feldman actually played the French Horn in an orchestra before he started acting.

I think "Could be worse, could be raining!" is the one movie line I've quoted more than any other in my life.

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 12, 2025 04:55 PM (uWKK8)

181 Representative Rosa L. DeLauro is one ugly dude !!!!!!

Posted by: Jackson at November 12, 2025 04:55 PM (J9q9v)

182 Significant outcomes.
Suicide death risk in trans people did not increase over time.

Suicide deaths occurred during every stage of transitioning.

Suicide death risk is higher in trans people than in the general population.

Increases in suicide among the young trans population are almost all related to the chemicals the medical profession are pumping into their bodies to *help* them. It has nothing to do with gender confusion.

The medical professionals have forgotten the biggest rule of their oath....first do no harm.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at November 12, 2025 04:55 PM (0N4FZ)

183 Well Mandami was just voter fraud, like usual.
Posted by: Oldcat

If that were true, there would be thousands of black and Italian Cuomo supporters in the streets rioting against Mamdani's election.
Posted by: gKWVE, really trying not to spaz out at November 12, 2025 04:51 PM (gKWVE)

of course its true. Its new york, son.

Posted by: Oldcat at November 12, 2025 04:55 PM (8avO+)

184
David Strom at Hot Gas on this Lamont math problem:
https://is.gd/8q9GhE

They've had remedial classes for high school level math deficiency for a while. Now, they're having to do middle and elementary school level remediation.

Students admitted to college who can't do elementary school arithmetic. They blame the Covid school closures. That did a lot of damage, a hell of a lot, I don't argue, but the problem goes back way before that.

This is a crisis for the US as a "going concern". The public schools are turning out Big Dummies.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at November 12, 2025 04:56 PM (w6EFb)

185 I implore commenters here not to shrug this off as "it's an op" or "skill issue" or "just learn a trade bro".
Because this is how you get more Fuentes. Or more Mamdani
Posted by: gKWVE at November 12, 2025 04:45 PM (gKWVE)

That would require many here to admit that there is such a thing as change, that change may not be their preferred direction or preferred goals, and that that "the kids" and other uneducated people can't really be brought along because there is no other choice but to comply.

Posted by: Kindltot at November 12, 2025 04:57 PM (rbvCR)

186 Ban Spencer Davis!

Well, my pad is very messy
And there's whiskers on my chin
And I'm all hung up on music
And I always play to win
I ain't got no time for loving
'Cause my time is all used up
Just to sit around creating
All that groovy kind of stuff
But I'm a man, yes I am
And I can't help but love you so, no, no, no
But I'm a man, yes I am
And I can't help but love you so, no, no, no

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Damn misogynist transphobe!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Why Do the Heathen Rage? at November 12, 2025 04:58 PM (L/fGl)

187 Exhibit A: The way Tim Tebow was and is treated, even by those more sane than those on the left. He's still looked at as some sort of 'oddity',
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By whom is he looked upon as an oddity?
Those who look upon him as an oddity are those that have allowed this crap to fester.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 12, 2025 04:55 PM (wCq0Y)

Tebow beat the Steelers in a playoff game which endears me to him.

But he was the worst treated player in a long time if ever, topped out only by Caitlin Clark who taught the WNBA to play real basketball a little and had to be maimed for it.

Posted by: Oldcat at November 12, 2025 04:59 PM (8avO+)

188 Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 12, 2025 04:30 PM (BI5O2)

Its the doctors, shrinks and lawyers and possibly parents you want on the island.
Posted by: Oldcat
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That's a start.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 12, 2025 04:59 PM (wCq0Y)

189 "High school grade inflation is not helping the university evaluate students’ math skills, the report states. In 2024, the average high school math GPA for students in Math 2, the middle school-level remedial math course, was 3.65 - an A-minus."

The plummeting value of a high school diploma.

Posted by: My Ridiculously Circuitous Plan at November 12, 2025 04:59 PM (Jd5cC)

190 Well, Smith is famously Finishing School for Lesbians.

With pop culture demanding that leftists in good stead believe in trannyism I wonder if this was a way for low value leftist women to jump up on the dating value chart?

I mean...they are Smith lesbians, so they don't have to change how they dress, act, or groom - just change your name from Sarah to Steve and if any of your fellow lesbians refuse to "date" you, claim they are transphobic h8ters

Posted by: 18-1 at November 12, 2025 04:59 PM (sKqQm)

191 I mean...they are Smith lesbians, so they don't have to change how they dress, act, or groom - just change your name from Sarah to Steve and if any of your fellow lesbians refuse to "date" you, claim they are transphobic h8ters
Posted by: 18-1 at November 12, 2025 04:59 PM (sKqQm)

its usually the men transes bullying the man haters in practice. Becoming a man is a step down on the victim pyramid.

Posted by: Oldcat at November 12, 2025 05:01 PM (8avO+)

192 Students admitted to college who can't do elementary school arithmetic. They blame the Covid school closures. That did a lot of damage, a hell of a lot, I don't argue, but the problem goes back way before that.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at November 12, 2025 04:56 PM (w6EFb)

Assume 100% of the learning dropoff is due to the Covid closures. Grant them that out of the gate.

Now get them to explain why 50% of America's 9th graders (going back four years from college freshmen) can't solve the following - an actual example:

7 + 5 = ___ + 9

Posted by: Washington Nearsider, a black, LGBT, child of immigrants at November 12, 2025 05:01 PM (oSeBJ)

193 of course its true. Its new york, son.
Posted by: Oldcat

Mamdani outhustled the Democrat machine in New York. "Its new york, son" would work if Cuomo won. Cuomo did not win.
Mamdani tapped into a force your whole generation, I am guessing (you just cited a 1974 movie), simply did not see coming.

Posted by: gKWVE at November 12, 2025 05:01 PM (gKWVE)

194 Do you remember back in the good old days when the movie 'Five Easy Pieces' was about the Vassar Basketball team?

Posted by: Fritzy at November 12, 2025 05:02 PM (2GIh1)

195 I'm from that area of Michigan near Dexter - just a stone's toss from stupidly idiotically shitlib Ann Arbor and Univesity of Michigan. Makes sense that the Ann Arbor cancer has spread to that once Conservative farmland to the east.

Posted by: Margo at November 12, 2025 05:02 PM (jDisd)

196 Euphoria boners are The Wishbones of Schadenboners.

Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at November 12, 2025 05:02 PM (Yw8Ag)

197 Three.

Posted by: Boss Moss at November 12, 2025 05:02 PM (ishno)

198 I took Chorus in high school mostly because the score was like 80-8. They treated the boys well.

Posted by: No Pavarotti, But Happy at November 12, 2025 05:02 PM (oftw2)

199 Students admitted to college who can't do elementary school arithmetic. They blame the Covid school closures. That did a lot of damage, a hell of a lot, I don't argue, but the problem goes back way before that.

This is a crisis for the US as a "going concern". The public schools are turning out Big Dummies.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at November 12, 2025 04:56 PM (w6EFb)

Math teachers talking about pronouns rather than math is the big clue. For all I know the math teachers had boners too

Posted by: Oldcat at November 12, 2025 05:03 PM (8avO+)

200
Each generation should lay some new foreign country under tribute.
Posted by: toby928(c)
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That's a genuine rite of passage.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 12, 2025 05:03 PM (wCq0Y)

201 I took Chorus in high school mostly because the score was like 80-8. They treated the boys well.

Posted by: No Pavarotti, But Happy at November 12, 2025 05:02 PM (oftw2)

Wow. You're practically swimming in it.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at November 12, 2025 05:04 PM (d6aqp)

202 You know what would be a fun bit of science.

Take a group of traditional nerds - not the cool knows everything about computers type from pop culture but the real losers in HS.

And require their classmates to take "nerdphobia awareness" courses and refer to these nerds as brave, stunning, and wonderful...under pain of school discipline. Give them special awards and opportunities. And on and on

Then after a year see if their self esteem has gone up and their suicide rates have gone down...

Posted by: 18-1 at November 12, 2025 05:04 PM (sKqQm)

203 of course its true. Its new york, son.
Posted by: Oldcat

Mamdani outhustled the Democrat machine in New York. "Its new york, son" would work if Cuomo won. Cuomo did not win.
Mamdani tapped into a force your whole generation, I am guessing (you just cited a 1974 movie), simply did not see coming.
Posted by: gKWVE at November 12, 2025 05:01 PM (gKWVE)

The machine backed him. He was the Dem candidate of choice.

Posted by: Oldcat at November 12, 2025 05:04 PM (8avO+)

204 The woodchippers beckon.

Posted by: ballistic at November 12, 2025 05:04 PM (3BwY8)

205 So are we all at AOSHQ just okay with throwing away STEM grads and tellin' em to try being baristas for new Hyderabad arrivals, or nah?
Because it's Trump tellin' em this now? "At least the Democrat didn't win"

Posted by: gKWVE at November 12, 2025 05:04 PM (gKWVE)

206 I would think Covid would've made kids smarter since parents were home to supervise school lessons via all the online days. Instead kids and parents all got more retarded.

Posted by: NCKate at November 12, 2025 05:05 PM (uQzkA)

207 The whole "Trans women are real women" is total crap, and was thrust upon us by (at the top) radicals that want to destroy USA. That is my "Conspiracy Theory" #1.

The 2020 election was definitely stolen ... My Conspiracy #2.

The fake "Vax" was a government funded and implemented scheme. My Conspiracy #3.

I think Ace said we could only have three conspiracy theories or we start to become loons ... so that is enough (for now, that I admit to).

Unless I get credit for not believing in Mole People, or real alien UFOs. Then I could probably come up with a few other Conspiracy Theories (Global Banking Cartel, CIA formed globalist secret "society" after (?) WW2).

Posted by: illiniwek at November 12, 2025 05:05 PM (vbXSk)

208 I do not understand the right-wing hate. I don't give one shit what consenting adults do. Why the need for violent repression?

1. Most people don't care what consenting adults do in privacy either. It's the shoving it in your face everywhere, the use of lawfare against parents and in the workplace if you "misgender" someone, and shoving trans everything in the faces of children without parental consent, and the ghoulish surgeries on children and young adults that are so objectionable.

2. When it comes to violence, the "trans" community has a lock on this. What violent repression are you speaking of? That people are objecting is violence to you? Oh, okay.

Posted by: Cheri at November 12, 2025 05:06 PM (oiNtH)

209 The best pronoun?

Hey fucker.

Covers everyone.

Posted by: rickb223 at November 12, 2025 05:06 PM (soZKq)

210 155 Yes, I've taken over a flight when a basically harmless lunatic hippie woman ran rampant. Big deal!
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at November 12, 2025 04:48 PM (MAl//)

So long as you're not referring to yourself, that's cool.
Posted by: Tom Servo at November 12, 2025 04:50 PM (uWKK

No. She was crazier than I am but harmless. Before takeoff and across the aisle, I thought, "nervous flyer." Once we reached 10k feet I went to the loo. On return, husband said she'd lost it and was throwing beads and a cup of water in the aisle. I watched her pace a bit, talking to herself.

I, Leader of All Things, went to a flight attendant and pointed her out as she paced. As either having a drug issue or psychological break. It was the latter and maybe both. They corralled her in the back galley and paged me to come back there. I checked her out and we all decided she was no threat, even though she grabbed the handle to a door (by then we were over Atlanta). The lead flight attendant talked to the pilot and Atlanta & we decided to go on with the flight.

I was rewarded with gin and tonics and made dinner on time. A half hour after I left my dude found me where I remained with the lunatic.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at November 12, 2025 05:06 PM (MAl//)

211 I had an acquaintance join the dance team in college and...he wasn't really good at it nor did it seem to be his thing. And when I asked him about it he...introduced me to the female dancers on the squad and I suddenly got why he did it.

Posted by: 18-1 at November 12, 2025 05:06 PM (sKqQm)

212 I used to bang girls at Smith. Nancy Reagan went to Smith.

I did not bang Nancy Reagan.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at November 12, 2025 05:07 PM (wBaIH)

213 I would think Covid would've made kids smarter since parents were home to supervise school lessons via all the online days. Instead kids and parents all got more retarded.
Posted by: NCKate at November 12, 2025 05:05 PM (uQzkA)

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Pfft. They probably stuck the kids in their rooms with a Playstation while they sat on the couch watching TikTok videos.

Posted by: Jordan61 at November 12, 2025 05:07 PM (DRSnL)

214 So are we all at AOSHQ just okay with throwing away STEM grads and tellin' em to try being baristas for new Hyderabad arrivals, or nah?
Because it's Trump tellin' em this now? "At least the Democrat didn't win"
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Is there an English version of what we're guilty of?

Posted by: Crusader at November 12, 2025 05:07 PM (TN0g+)

215 A fun movie about dance class is "Take the Lead". Pierre Dulaine introduced ballroom dancing in NY public schools.

Posted by: Ben Had at November 12, 2025 05:07 PM (zzXla)

216 And require their classmates to take "nerdphobia awareness" courses and refer to these nerds as brave, stunning, and wonderful...under pain of school discipline. Give them special awards and opportunities. And on and on

Then after a year see if their self esteem has gone up and their suicide rates have gone down...
Posted by: 18-1 at November 12, 2025 05:04 PM (sKqQm)

They did that in the 60s with blue eyes versus non blue eyes. it worked both directions on the same people.

Posted by: Oldcat at November 12, 2025 05:07 PM (8avO+)

217 I think Ace said we could only have three conspiracy theories or we start to become loons ... so that is enough (for now, that I admit to).

When they are true, they are no longer conspiracy theories

Posted by: rickb223 at November 12, 2025 05:07 PM (soZKq)

218 Had a girlfriend who toured Smith but decided not to go there.

She told me the tour guide told her, and I quote, "At Smith we don't need men for ANYTHING"

And yes that is a big part of the reason my GF decided to not go there...

Posted by: 18-1 at November 12, 2025 05:08 PM (sKqQm)

219 More fruits of the Covid era shutdown...
Not allowed normal interaction with other kids, kept at home to "learn" online...
The combination of a lack of and/or abnormal social interaction, overload of groomer-inspired internet EVERYTHING, and (when actually interacting with K-12 "teachers") an intense dose of "Fagriculture" (the cultivation of over-the-top LGBTQ+++ beliefs and behavior in American youth- you heard it here at AoSHQ first!!)...
We see the timeline perfectly align with 8th grade-12th graders matriculating into college.

Posted by: UncleJefe at November 12, 2025 05:08 PM (DzC+b)

220 OMGOMGOMG!

New Study From Chinese And American Scientists Warns Of Incoming Ice Age

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Get your wooly mammoth ammo ready!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Why Do the Heathen Rage? at November 12, 2025 05:08 PM (L/fGl)

221 I used to bang girls at Smith. Nancy Reagan went to Smith.

I did not bang Nancy Reagan.
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Do you own a doghouse?

Posted by: Professor of Logic in Norm's Joke at November 12, 2025 05:08 PM (TN0g+)

222 "I would think Covid would've made kids smarter since parents were home to supervise school lessons via all the online days. Instead kids and parents all got more retarded."

I wonder if already home-schooled kids carried on at normal pace of learning, while public school kids atrophied?

Posted by: illiniwek at November 12, 2025 05:09 PM (vbXSk)

223 The current state of affairs is the result of now three generations of grown adults that never got punched in the face as kids for being little assholes to their peers.

I don't think it's much more complicated than that. Straight up bullying is one thing, but learning the physical consequences of your actions and your place in that pecking order is an important lesson for young people to learn. Learning to stand up for oneself against assholes and bullies is another one.

The soft-ass left made it impossible for kids to sort out their differences with a good old fashioned fistfight before it all boiled over into something much worse, or the treatment festered for so long with no outlet that the kid grows up into a broken, dangerous adult.

Posted by: ballistic at November 12, 2025 05:09 PM (3BwY8)

224 New Study From Chinese And American Scientists Warns Of Incoming Ice Age

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Get your wooly mammoth ammo ready!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Why Do the Heathen Rage?"

Relax. It's just Winter.

Posted by: fd at November 12, 2025 05:09 PM (vFG9F)

225 On being out of work 11 months, the advice I gave this morning was to get back to work, any work. Once someone is out of work long enough, they become radioactive to employers (b/c something must be "wrong" with them since no one hired them). Not to mention, skills stale out, benefits run out, etc. Even if it's not what you want to be doing, you go do something to help you get back to what you want. That's just personal 1-on-1 advice.

As for H1-Bs, I agree with you. They should be gone. But I can't change reality for you to get you hired fast enough, and did I mention the staling of a resume?

Education is a way to unstale a resume and stay tech...but digging a bigger financial hole is not always the best life plan...unless you can get it paid for with county resources for unemployed.

Posted by: Nova Local at November 12, 2025 05:09 PM (tOcjL)

226 What caliber is best for extinct species?

Posted by: Boss Moss at November 12, 2025 05:09 PM (ishno)

227 Get your wooly mammoth ammo ready!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Why Do the Heathen Rage? at November 12, 2025 05:08 PM (L/fGl)

45-70, same as first go 'round.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at November 12, 2025 05:09 PM (d6aqp)

228 224 New Study From Chinese And American Scientists Warns Of Incoming Ice Age

What happened to global warming ?

Posted by: It's me donna at November 12, 2025 05:10 PM (VE6XX)

229 I am not impressed with the current state of math education. My 12 year old Grandson is in accelerated classes, math being one.
I asked him if my 500 gallon propane tank was 27% full, and could only be filled legally to 80% how many gallons of propane could I buy?

Acted like I asked him to prove Laplace transforms.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at November 12, 2025 05:10 PM (/5TNL)

230 Hey fucker.

Covers everyone.
Posted by: rickb223

Aren’t the ladies considered fuckees?

Posted by: Kratwurst at November 12, 2025 05:10 PM (aAiV4)

231 New Study From Chinese And American Scientists Warns Of Incoming Ice Age
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Get your wooly mammoth ammo ready!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Why Do the Heathen Rage? at November 12, 2025 05:08 PM (L/fGl)
****************************************

Global Warming will cancel out the effects of both the incoming Ice Age and nuclear winter.

Posted by: My Ridiculously Circuitous Plan at November 12, 2025 05:10 PM (Jd5cC)

232 I did not bang Nancy Reagan

If you banged Nancy Reagan you'd possibly no longer be alive, not because of some angry parent but because most people her age are no longer alive.

So we're glad you didn't bang her.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 12, 2025 05:10 PM (Yl2Ob)

233 I gotta get a full workover and biometrics and clearances out the ass just to change a fuckin fuse in a school, yet these fucking chomos get to Walz* in and own the place.

(*holy shit autocorrect i take back anything mean I've ever said about you because that was fucking gold)

Posted by: Warai-otoko at November 12, 2025 05:10 PM (twjRB)

234 Is there an English version of what we're guilty of?
Posted by: Crusader at November 12, 2025 05:07 PM (TN0g+)

"Financialization" or maybe "Being cucks to private equity"

Posted by: Kindltot at November 12, 2025 05:11 PM (rbvCR)

235
Relax. It's just Winter.
Posted by: fd at November 12, 2025 05:09 PM (vFG9F)
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That's weather, not climate!

oh, wait...

That's climate, not weather!

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (UJMvS) at November 12, 2025 05:11 PM (UJMvS)

236 If someone had told high-school-age me that he could go shower with the girls just by saying that he was a girl...

I don't think I'd have actually done it.

But I would have thought about it. A lot. In great detail.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at November 12, 2025 05:12 PM (IG3/x)

237 Fire most of the teachers.

Posted by: thug dolphin at November 12, 2025 05:12 PM (EyfuW)

238 224 New Study From Chinese And American Scientists Warns Of Incoming Ice Age

What happened to global warming ?
Posted by: It's me donna at November 12, 2025 05:10 PM (VE6XX)

Wheee! We are back to the late 70s! Or Al Gore's book on the wheel of Climate Nonsense.

Posted by: Oldcat at November 12, 2025 05:12 PM (8avO+)

239 208 I do not understand the right-wing hate. I don't give one shit what consenting adults do. Why the need for violent repression?

If the last 20 years have not convinced you that live-and-let-live is not on the table, nothing will.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at November 12, 2025 05:12 PM (UGyV5)

240 -----------

By whom is he looked upon as an oddity?
Those who look upon him as an oddity are those that have allowed this crap to fester.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 12, 2025 04:55 PM (wCq0Y)

Tebow beat the Steelers in a playoff game which endears me to him.

But he was the worst treated player in a long time if ever, topped out only by Caitlin Clark who taught the WNBA to play real basketball a little and had to be maimed for it.
Posted by: Oldcat
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Yes. And those that cast upon Tim and those that beat Caitlin are the freaks, they are the oddities and those who don't recognize that are the deceived.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 12, 2025 05:12 PM (wCq0Y)

241 While the trend may be reversing, the damage remains. Adults who have been entrusted with the well-being of our children,

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*sigh...

Posted by: runner at November 12, 2025 05:13 PM (g47mK)

242 Well, Smith is famously Finishing School for Lesbians

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I hear Dickinson girls are fast.

Posted by: Flounder at November 12, 2025 05:13 PM (Az/gm)

243 238 224 New Study From Chinese And American Scientists Warns Of Incoming Ice Age

What happened to global warming ?
Posted by: It's me donna
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Incoming! Duck and cover.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 12, 2025 05:14 PM (wCq0Y)

244 Ace did the Time Warp Again?

Posted by: Eeyore at November 12, 2025 05:14 PM (s0JqF)

245 134 126 thank YOU blackorchid for not posting pablum at us, sincerely

I'm honestly worried about PDJTs mental state

what the heck was he THINKING?!?!?

and Ms Ingraham did a good job with the interview. it wasn't an attack interview. he stepped in it all on his own
Posted by: BlackOrchid at November 12, 2025 04:45 PM (emBoF)

Read the review vs watching it. I am against the 50yr mortgage for homes AND, more important:

I DO NOT WANT 600K CHINESE STUDENTS IN OUR COLLEGES

I hate that I am a nimby about the mortgage, but it is very stupid, and I can see this not being super smart. With interest you will die before owning your house.

The thought of rewarding Chinese students here, after Wuhan, is insane.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at November 12, 2025 05:15 PM (MAl//)

246 265 gallons?

Posted by: Kindltot at November 12, 2025 05:15 PM (rbvCR)

247 This could be interesting.

>>@rawsalerts
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3m
>>🚨#BREAKING: Much of the northern United States has a chance to see the Northern Lights again tonight as a G4 (Severe) geomagnetic Watch has been issued

Posted by: JackStraw at November 12, 2025 05:15 PM (viF8m)

248 208 I do not understand the right-wing hate. I don't give one shit what consenting adults do. Why the need for violent repression?

If the last 20 years have not convinced you that live-and-let-live is not on the table, nothing will.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at November 12, 2025 05:12 PM (UGyV5)

Whatever leftist said that is lying. They hate that we go to church, that we vote the way we do, that we say what we say, and that we laugh at them as fools.

Posted by: Oldcat at November 12, 2025 05:16 PM (8avO+)

249 Chinese and American scientists working together like before Covid?

Posted by: Boss Moss at November 12, 2025 05:16 PM (ishno)

250 > 198 I took Chorus in high school mostly because the score was like 80-8. They treated the boys well.
Posted by: No Pavarotti, But Happy at November 12, 2025 05:02 PM (oftw2)

With me it was typing. I took it because even then I knew I wanted to work with computers (this was back in the day when if you wanted a microcomputer you had to build it yourself out of parts...now get off my lawn). Come to think of it, that was pretty much the only thing of value that I learned in high school.

The fact that the class was overwhelmingly girls was just icing on the cake.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at November 12, 2025 05:16 PM (IG3/x)

251 Ace did the Time Warp Again?
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Its just a jump to the left...

Posted by: Crusader at November 12, 2025 05:16 PM (TN0g+)

252 I do not understand the right-wing hate. I don't give one shit what consenting adults do. Why the need for violent repression?

Having lived through the normalization of homosexuality and now trannyism I too was generally of the "who cares what you do with a consenting adult" mindset. And...decades of a very real slippery slope have persuaded me I was wrong.

Posted by: 18-1 at November 12, 2025 05:16 PM (sKqQm)

253 Incoming! Duck and cover.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 12, 2025 05:14 PM (wCq0Y)

This is old news. We were supposed to have already had an ice age due to hair spray.

I want snow asap, so I'm fine with this.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at November 12, 2025 05:16 PM (MAl//)

254 Smith em and sniff em

Posted by: Skip at November 12, 2025 05:17 PM (+qU29)

255 Aurora. My state wasn't on the list.

Posted by: Boss Moss at November 12, 2025 05:17 PM (ishno)

256 #BREAKING: Much of the northern United States has a chance to see the Northern Lights again tonight as a G4 (Severe) geomagnetic Watch has been issued
Posted by: JackStraw at November 12, 2025 05:15 PM (viF8m)

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Oooh, I hope so. I missed the one last night.

Posted by: Jordan61 at November 12, 2025 05:17 PM (DRSnL)

257 Tebow beat the Steelers in a playoff game which endears me to him.

But he was the worst treated player in a long time if ever, topped out only by Caitlin Clark who taught the WNBA to play real basketball a little and had to be maimed for it.
Posted by: Oldcat
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I agree about Tebow as a player but the best player treated the worst of all time was Doug Flutie.

Posted by: the way I see it at November 12, 2025 05:17 PM (EYmYM)

258 I hate that I am a nimby about the mortgage, but it is very stupid, and I can see this not being super smart. With interest you will die before owning your house.

The thought of rewarding Chinese students here, after Wuhan, is insane.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at November 12, 2025 05:15 PM (MAl//)

I don't mind a 50 year option, pay a little more and you will chop that down considerably for a low cost. And if you move on, you just pay it off a time of sale.

Posted by: Oldcat at November 12, 2025 05:18 PM (8avO+)

259 3m
>>🚨#BREAKING: Much of the northern United States has a chance to see the Northern Lights again tonight as a G4 (Severe) geomagnetic Watch has been issued
Posted by: JackStraw at November 12, 2025 05:15 PM (viF8m)

Some of us unfortunates have clouds.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at November 12, 2025 05:18 PM (MAl//)

260 246
Yeah. Tough problem, no?

Posted by: Xipe Totec at November 12, 2025 05:18 PM (/5TNL)

261 Princeton Boys Tip Cows on Weekends

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 12, 2025 05:18 PM (A0sqA)

262 I saw Euphoria Boners open for Nashville Pussy back in 2003!

Posted by: garrett at November 12, 2025 04:24 PM (rO4EG)
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I think you have it reversed.

Posted by: Black JEM at November 12, 2025 05:19 PM (GZYu7)

263 "🚨#BREAKING: Much of the northern United States has a chance to see the Northern Lights again tonight as a G4 (Severe) geomagnetic Watch has been issued"
Posted by: JackStraw

It was awesome here last night ... not the swirling bands as I've seen in videos from up north, but a lot of red ... did not see the green some saw, in pics at least. They say the pics show more than the eye can see.

Tonight is supposed to be better.

Posted by: illiniwek at November 12, 2025 05:19 PM (vbXSk)

264 Bathrooms. It's always the stinking bathrooms. Perverts.

Posted by: wth at November 12, 2025 05:19 PM (UjdFS)

265 They are as woke as ever, just less trans and queer.
___________________________

These easily manipulated dolts will just move onto the next trend. Tide Pod consumption to Hey, I'm gay, to check out my new dress and my awesome beard to

....whatever is next.

I'm betting on the whole, "look at me I'm a Panda, or cosmetic cat implants, or I'm an actual rock.

These jackass nitwits think they can manifest imagination.

Posted by: Orson at November 12, 2025 05:19 PM (dIske)

266 Geez, dude! Tell me something I don't know.

Star Wars [ actor says he won't work with Disney because it has "succumb to fascism"

Oscar Isaac Was ‘Not So Open to Working With Disney’ After Jimmy Kimmel Suspension, Said He’d Return to ‘Star Wars’ if Disney Does ‘Not Succumb to Fascism’

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Oh. For a minute there I thought he'd been red pilled.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Why Do the Heathen Rage? at November 12, 2025 05:19 PM (L/fGl)

267 What percentage do you tip cows?

Posted by: Boss Moss at November 12, 2025 05:20 PM (ishno)

268 Having lived through the normalization of homosexuality and now trannyism I too was generally of the "who cares what you do with a consenting adult" mindset. And...decades of a very real slippery slope have persuaded me I was wrong.
Posted by: 18-1 at November 12, 2025 05:16 PM (sKqQm)

Thinking you were the first person in 100000 years to think of an improved way for human culture to go is extremely foolish and should be rethought

Posted by: Oldcat at November 12, 2025 05:20 PM (8avO+)

269 246
Yeah. Tough problem, no?
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I love stuff like that. Its fake-tough, in that a lot of folks never had or understood Algebra, but if you did or do it takes 30 seconds to solve.

Posted by: Crusader at November 12, 2025 05:20 PM (TN0g+)

270
See the NOAA space"weather" (god, I hate that term) page:
https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/

Click on the aurora forecast clip run. Lead time is 61 minutes, now (this depends on particle speed and all that).

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at November 12, 2025 05:20 PM (w6EFb)

271 232 Fenelon, that is the nicest thing anyone on this site has ever said to me.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at November 12, 2025 05:20 PM (wBaIH)

272 What percentage do you tip cows?
Posted by: Boss Moss at November 12, 2025 05:20 PM (ishno)

all the way or its a big waste of time.

Posted by: Oldcat at November 12, 2025 05:20 PM (8avO+)

273 Nice Godfather reference.

Posted by: NZFrank with an M2 at November 12, 2025 05:21 PM (bgJ0E)

274 What percentage do you tip cows?
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Whatever you're mooooooved to give, but if the service is satisfactory you're being udderly cheap with a tip of anything less than 15 percent.

Posted by: Crusader at November 12, 2025 05:21 PM (TN0g+)

275 I see some y’all been day drinking.

Posted by: nurse ratched at November 12, 2025 05:21 PM (W2Pud)

276 Read the review vs watching it. I am against the 50yr mortgage for homes AND, more important:

the price of housing is beyond the reach of most family aged adults, especially the ones we want to have lots of kids. A mortgage that long is a bad idea, but it is mildly less bad than renting for the rest of your life.

1) a mortgage with a fixed interest and fixed payment is going to be more stable than rent which goes up each year or each time the investment company sells it to their best friend's investment and management company
2) ownership stake in the community
3) If the owner gets a better job he can increase from the minimum payment
4) If the owner gets a better job he can SELL THE STARTER HOUSE and buy another one with that down payment because he has equity

Still sucks, but it is the best, fast fix for a situation where Blackstone or Progress Residential can out-bid Jerry and Helen who are newlyweds and are restricted to the earnings they can expect in the next five years

Posted by: Kindltot at November 12, 2025 05:21 PM (rbvCR)

277 Fenelon, that is the nicest thing anyone on this site has ever said to me.
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Ok, I lol'd!

Posted by: Crusader at November 12, 2025 05:22 PM (TN0g+)

278 New Study From Chinese And American Scientists Warns Of Incoming Ice Age
.......

I blame the EV's.

Posted by: wth at November 12, 2025 05:23 PM (UjdFS)

279 20 years ago or so, colleges admitted 4 year degrees took 5 years, because they were doing a lot of remedial instruction.

It's probably a 6 year degree these days.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (UJMvS) at November 12, 2025 04:47 PM

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At many colleges the 6 year graduation rate is under 50%. Lots of kids rack up 5 or 6 years worth of loans and never get a degree.

Posted by: Bigsmith at November 12, 2025 05:23 PM (1Au9i)

280 >>It was awesome here last night ... not the swirling bands as I've seen in videos from up north, but a lot of red ... did not see the green some saw, in pics at least. They say the pics show more than the eye can see.

>>Tonight is supposed to be better.

We had clouds last night but tonight is a bit more clear. Hope I can see it.

Posted by: JackStraw at November 12, 2025 05:23 PM (viF8m)

281 What percentage do you tip cows?
Posted by: Boss Moss at November 12, 2025 05:20 PM (ishno)

They kept serving me chicken when I requested a steak. 10%.

Posted by: the way I see it at November 12, 2025 05:23 PM (EYmYM)

282 Posted by: Crusader at November 12, 2025 05:20 PM (TN0g

You don’t need algebra. Simple arithmetic will do.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at November 12, 2025 05:23 PM (/5TNL)

283 I blame the windmills.

Posted by: Boss Moss at November 12, 2025 05:23 PM (ishno)

284 7 This will go down in history as worse than lobotomies.
Posted by: Kestrel at November 12, 2025 04:22 PM (wyl5F)

When the Great Trans Reckoning does come, another victim will be these kids themselves when they reach adulthood. The ones that mutilate their bodies have one set of circumstances to overcome. Yet another group will be the ones that don't go under the knife (or pill) but have to explain themselves to future employers or spouses. The internet is forever, and letting your flag fly could have some seriously unintended consequences down the road.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at November 12, 2025 05:23 PM (0CU3H)

285 Twenty year mortgage worked best when long term marriage was in vogue. Fifteen year mortgages are better. Cash is best.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 12, 2025 05:24 PM (wCq0Y)

286 "I would think Covid would've made kids smarter since parents were home to supervise school lessons via all the online days. Instead kids and parents all got more retarded."

One of the many crimes of the COVID hoax was that kids already living in homes in crisis were forced to remain in those homes. Going to school was their only refuge along with being with their friends, having adults - teachers, coaches, counselors that they liked and looked up to, a place where they could laugh and forget their home circumstances for a few hours a day was taken away. Now they were forced to be in a place that brought them fear, misery and the added stress from already stressed out adults and God know what else that were going on in their homes. A kid living with drug/alcohol addicts, sex abusers, physical abuse, no food in the home now got to live with it with no break except to leave the house on their own. When is Fauci every going to pay for this?

Posted by: Cheri at November 12, 2025 05:24 PM (oiNtH)

287 New Study From Chinese And American Scientists Warns Of Incoming Ice Age
.......

I blame the EV's.
Posted by: wth at November 12, 2025 05:23 PM (UjdFS)

I remember a SF book made on the premise that we cut fossil fuel emissions to stop warmening and dumped the world into an ice age instantly.

Posted by: Oldcat at November 12, 2025 05:24 PM (8avO+)

288
About a year ago I noticed on LinkedIn that nobody was putting "their pronouns" into their profiles any longer. That's when I guessed our Great National Nightmare may be over.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 12, 2025 05:25 PM (tgvbd)

289 Same as it ever was.

New York Post@nypost
The Gulf Stream is near collapse, scientists warn — inviting a new ice age and rising sea levels

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Why Do the Heathen Rage? at November 12, 2025 05:25 PM (L/fGl)

290 220 OMGOMGOMG!

New Study From Chinese And American Scientists Warns Of Incoming Ice Age

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Get your wooly mammoth ammo ready!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Why Do the Heathen Rage? at November 12, 2025 05:08 PM (L/fGl)
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Release the KRAKIN...um, I mean "CO2!"

Posted by: WisRich at November 12, 2025 05:25 PM (G0vdT)

291 Where is the prepay penalty on a 50 year mortgage?

Posted by: Pudinhead at November 12, 2025 05:25 PM (NBPRu)

292 A kid living with drug/alcohol addicts, sex abusers, physical abuse, no food in the home now got to live with it with no break except to leave the house on their own. When is Fauci every going to pay for this?
Posted by: Cheri at November 12, 2025 05:24 PM (oiNtH)

These days its likely that getting away from the teachers was more of a benefit. Note that they are turning out Republican.

Posted by: Oldcat at November 12, 2025 05:26 PM (8avO+)

293
Still sucks, but it is the best, fast fix for a situation where Blackstone or Progress Residential can out-bid Jerry and Helen who are newlyweds and are restricted to the earnings they can expect in the next five years
Posted by: Kindltot at November 12, 2025 05:21 PM (rbvCR)

I see your point. Our first house was an interest rate nightmare under Carter. We went on to better things and more earnings (in spite of putting 2 sons through college). Once we passed that hiccup we've done well.

It does suck to see rent $ go nowhere. We did that for five years.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at November 12, 2025 05:26 PM (MAl//)

294 >>>Still sucks, but it is the best, fast fix for a situation where Blackstone or Progress Residential can out-bid Jerry and Helen who are newlyweds and are restricted to the earnings they can expect in the next five years
Posted by: Kindltot
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Better idea. Forbid investment cos from mass purchases of residential property.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 12, 2025 05:26 PM (wCq0Y)

295 By the way, the rates will have to be at least a little higher on 50-year mortgages. The reason is "asset-liability mismatch" risk, "demand deposit" monies (meaning that you-the-depositor can get it back "on demand") comprise a good chunk of the money banks lend, whereas the mortgage will have a theoretical duration of 50-years (even if it will likely be paid long before then).

Posted by: Crusader, Realtor & Former Federal Bank Examiner at November 12, 2025 05:26 PM (TN0g+)

296 I remember a SF book made on the premise that we cut fossil fuel emissions to stop warmening and dumped the world into an ice age instantly.
Posted by: Oldcat at November 12, 2025 05:24 PM (8avO+)

Falling Angels by Niven and Pournelle? Actually it was the ice age was coming but the Greenies had full control and would not change policies to save a single life

Posted by: Kindltot at November 12, 2025 05:26 PM (rbvCR)

297 New York Post@nypost
The Gulf Stream is near collapse, scientists warn — inviting a new ice age and rising sea levels
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Why Do the Heathen Rage? at November 12, 2025 05:25 PM (L/fGl)

.I was told the earth warming would make the seas rise...

Posted by: It's me donna at November 12, 2025 05:26 PM (VE6XX)

298 Same as it ever was.

New York Post@nypost
The Gulf Stream is near collapse, scientists warn — inviting a new ice age and rising sea levels
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks,

Water expands as it freezes, so the not frozen water would rise?

Posted by: Tucker Carlson at November 12, 2025 05:27 PM (jwRmx)

299 Where is the prepay penalty on a 50 year mortgage?
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The Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac versions likely won't have a prepay.

Posted by: Crusader, Realtor & Former Federal Bank Examiner at November 12, 2025 05:27 PM (TN0g+)

300 Maybe we shouldn't blot out the sun.

Posted by: wth at November 12, 2025 05:27 PM (UjdFS)

301 My parents had a 35 year VA mortgage in 1966. The house cost $13,500. I think the monthly payment was $90. Helped my mom sell it in 1997 and still had 4 years left ( math)

Posted by: the way I see it at November 12, 2025 05:28 PM (EYmYM)

302 The fixed-rate mortgage is generically available in this country providing Americans access to long-term credit unavailable to third-worlders and French.

If you're smart and lucky you should be able to make money on your mortgage.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 12, 2025 05:28 PM (A0sqA)

303 >
I remember a SF book made on the premise that we cut fossil fuel emissions to stop warmening and dumped the world into an ice age instantly.
Posted by: Oldcat at November 12, 2025 05:24 PM (8avO+)

Fallen Angels by Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle, and Michael Flynn.

Took the piss out of wokism long before we even had a name for it. Excellent book. Its only shortcoming was in underestimating the level of stupidity to which wokism would rise... stuff that was obviously intended as over-the-top parody at the time it was written looks tame compared to some of the shite we've actually seen.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at November 12, 2025 05:28 PM (IG3/x)

304

Hexagonal chess is the trans nonbinary of the board game world. No one understands it and it is hopelessly confusing if you try

Posted by: imp at November 12, 2025 05:29 PM (g6TN6)

305 ^^^^Prepay penalty I mean.

Posted by: Crusader, Realtor & Former Federal Bank Examiner at November 12, 2025 05:29 PM (TN0g+)

306 285 Twenty year mortgage worked best when long term marriage was in vogue. Fifteen year mortgages are better. Cash is best.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 12, 2025 05:24 PM (wCq0Y)
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We took a 30 year to get the better rate at that time but make our monthly payment on a 15 year amortization.

Posted by: WisRich at November 12, 2025 05:29 PM (G0vdT)

307 >>>New York Post@nypost
The Gulf Stream is near collapse, scientists warn — inviting a new ice age and rising sea levels
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Why Do the Heathen Rage?
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Saw that explicitly related on PBS, 1986.
By a renowned scientist. Expert.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 12, 2025 05:29 PM (wCq0Y)

308 Better idea. Forbid investment cos from mass purchases of residential property.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 12, 2025 05:26 PM (wCq0Y)

Better Idea is to have high property taxes and a substantial homestead deduction for the home and property one lives on.
Not sure how that works for apartment buildings, though.

Posted by: Kindltot at November 12, 2025 05:29 PM (rbvCR)

309 >>>4) If the owner gets a better job he can SELL THE STARTER HOUSE and buy another one with that down payment because he has equity

This is the way. Or retire to an area that has cheaper housing.

Posted by: Max Power at November 12, 2025 05:29 PM (q177U)

310 >I was told the earth warming would make the seas rise...

Posted by: It's me donna at November 12, 2025 05:26 PM (VE6XX)

Forget it, he's rolling.

Posted by: Heavy Meta at November 12, 2025 05:30 PM (GTqXr)

311 New York Post@nypost
The Gulf Stream is near collapse, scientists warn — inviting a new ice age and rising sea levels
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Why Do the Heathen Rage? at November 12, 2025 05:25 PM (L/fGl)

um...the weather in the US moves off shore to the Gulf Stream. Europe, on the other hand would be devastated.

Ice ages mean lowering sea levels, due to the ICE.

Jesus, reading one 1930s SF story (Shifting Seas by Weinbaum) refutes this entire nonsense.

In that one Panama and such was destroyed by volcanos and the Stream went straight out to the Pacific...threatening a world war to escape from Europe.

Posted by: Oldcat at November 12, 2025 05:30 PM (8avO+)

312 I am against the 50yr mortgage

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Banks Now Requiring Your Grandkids To Co-Sign Your 50-Year Mortgage

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From the Bee. Also,

Aw Crap: You’re In Line To Give An Account Of Your Life To God Right After Tim Tebow

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Why Do the Heathen Rage? at November 12, 2025 05:30 PM (L/fGl)

313 -------

We took a 30 year to get the better rate at that time but make our monthly payment on a 15 year amortization.
Posted by: WisRich
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That's it. Pay it off.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 12, 2025 05:30 PM (wCq0Y)

314 Double the beef herd and feed them egg salad sandwiches.

Posted by: Boss Moss at November 12, 2025 05:31 PM (ishno)

315
Hell, from that article, the Big Dummies can't even round 123,456 to the nearest hundred.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at November 12, 2025 05:31 PM (w6EFb)

316 Better Idea is to have high property taxes and a substantial homestead deduction for the home and property one lives on.
Not sure how that works for apartment buildings, though.
Posted by: Kindltot at November 12, 2025 05:29 PM (rbvCR)

No tax breaks for houses you don't live in.

Posted by: Oldcat at November 12, 2025 05:32 PM (8avO+)

317 Hell, from that article, the Big Dummies can't even round 123,456 to the nearest hundred.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at November 12, 2025 05:31 PM (w6EFb)
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Rounding?
-Millenials

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 12, 2025 05:32 PM (A0sqA)

318 We took a 30 year to get the better rate at that time but make our monthly payment on a 15 year amortization.
Posted by: WisRich
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That's it. Pay it off.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 12, 2025 05:30 PM (wCq0Y)

IIRC I think if you make one extra mortgage payment a year you basically reduce your 30 year to a 20 year.

Posted by: the way I see it at November 12, 2025 05:32 PM (EYmYM)

319 262 I saw Euphoria Boners open for Nashville Pussy back in 2003!

Posted by: garrett at November 12, 2025 04:24 PM (rO4EG)

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Strange. I thought they usually toured with Sad Vagina.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 12, 2025 05:32 PM (Q1uY4)

320 No tax breaks for houses you don't live in.
Posted by: Oldcat at November 12, 2025 05:32 PM (8avO+)

That or treat them at a commercial real estate rate

Posted by: Kindltot at November 12, 2025 05:33 PM (rbvCR)

321 I saw Euphoria Boners open for Nashville Pussy back in 2003!

Posted by: garrett at November 12, 2025 04:24 PM (rO4EG)

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Strange. I thought they usually toured with Sad Vagina.

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Ah, I didn't realize Pink had a new stage name.

Posted by: Crusader at November 12, 2025 05:34 PM (TN0g+)

322

Double property taxes for non-owner occupancy, even on multifamily

Posted by: imp at November 12, 2025 05:34 PM (g6TN6)

323 5:30 and it's dark out.

Posted by: Boss Moss at November 12, 2025 05:34 PM (ishno)

324 The fixed-rate mortgage is generically available in this country providing Americans access to long-term credit unavailable to third-worlders and French.

If you're smart and lucky you should be able to make money on your mortgage.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 12, 2025 05:28 PM (A0sqA)

I made money when I sold inside of a year from purchase on my first house.

Posted by: Oldcat at November 12, 2025 05:34 PM (8avO+)

325 I had to take a 30 year mortgage since the companies weren't risking anything more. The rate was high for 2012, but I was glad to get it since I was pretty sure that was the bottom of the market for real estate.
I did pay it off in 12 years. I was doing better income at the end.

Posted by: Kindltot at November 12, 2025 05:34 PM (rbvCR)

326 Ice ages mean lowering sea levels, due to the ICE.
......

plus they're deporting our nannies and lawn care specialists.

Posted by: wth at November 12, 2025 05:35 PM (UjdFS)

327 NOOD

Posted by: Max Power at November 12, 2025 05:35 PM (q177U)

328 IIRC I think if you make one extra mortgage payment a year you basically reduce your 30 year to a 20 year.
Posted by: the way I see it at November 12, 2025 05:32 PM (EYmYM)

Even paying half the mortgage payment every 2 weeks does a lot.

Posted by: Oldcat at November 12, 2025 05:35 PM (8avO+)

329 316 Better Idea is to have high property taxes and a substantial homestead deduction for the home and property one lives on.
Not sure how that works for apartment buildings, though.
Posted by: Kindltot at November 12, 2025 05:29 PM (rbvCR)

No tax breaks for houses you don't live in.
Posted by: Oldcat
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Problem is there must be city, county and state co-operation.
Don't expect that.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 12, 2025 05:35 PM (wCq0Y)

330 Double property taxes for non-owner occupancy, even on multifamily
Posted by: imp at November 12, 2025 05:34 PM (g6TN6)

Then again, if you live in the apartment complex you live in, you are likely to keep it nicer and safer than one you treat as a cash cow.
If only because your tenants can find you in emergencies.

Posted by: Kindltot at November 12, 2025 05:36 PM (rbvCR)

331 No way will a 50 Yr mortgage ever work, the house will be 10x the worth of it.

Posted by: Skip at November 12, 2025 05:37 PM (+qU29)

332 Problem is there must be city, county and state co-operation.
Don't expect that.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 12, 2025 05:35 PM (wCq0Y)

Well, the real solution in that case seems to be a 50 year mortgage.

Posted by: Kindltot at November 12, 2025 05:37 PM (rbvCR)

333 Rounding?
-Millenials
Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 12, 2025 05:32 PM (A0sqA)

turning all the digits into 8s and 0s to improve overall round-icity

Posted by: Oldcat at November 12, 2025 05:37 PM (8avO+)

334 Well, the real solution in that case seems to be a 50 year mortgage.
Posted by: Kindltot
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The real solution is to keep investment cos out of the neighborhood.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 12, 2025 05:38 PM (wCq0Y)

335 Bacon, I smell bacon.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 12, 2025 05:39 PM (wCq0Y)

336 Really, aren't ALL boners euphoria boners?

He's giving the game away there. They pretend to be women because it turns them on.

Posted by: tsj017 at November 12, 2025 05:40 PM (xakWh)

337 Pell Grant recipients graduate four-year institutions at lower rates (53.1%) than non-Pell students (73%).
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The U.S. Department of Education disbursed approximately $31.47 billion in Pell Grants during the 2023-24 academic year to 6.53 million students. This amount represents a significant increase from the previous year, with a higher number of students receiving awards and a higher maximum award amount. In 2024-25, the total federal Pell Grant expenditure is projected to be $38.6 billion

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at November 12, 2025 05:45 PM (XeU6L)

338 Also, why do people feel they need to share so much info on social media?

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It's the same need that people need to share their whole medical history on this blog. (Sat. am prayer thread).

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at November 12, 2025 05:46 PM (g8Ew8)

339 The real solution is to keep investment cos out of the neighborhood.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 12, 2025 05:38 PM (wCq0Y)

How? They can buy a legislature or a Land Use Commission as easily as a city council.

Posted by: Kindltot at November 12, 2025 05:48 PM (rbvCR)

340
Your "euphoria boner" can be dealt with right quick, freak

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars(TM) - what makes you think you are in charge?h hil at November 12, 2025 05:49 PM (xG4kz)

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