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Action-Packed Weekend Cafe

neuschwannstein.jpg
Neuschwanstein Castle in autumn

A parrot learns to trust. (What a gay sentence. Cancel my Man Card.)

Watching movies with your bunny.

This dog is tailmaxxing. Or something.

ADD puppy.

Ladies, if you met a man wearing this ring, what do you think? Keeper, right?

My weekend plans.

Further weekend plans.

I'll try to get in some reading.

Maybe move the furniture.

Take the car into the shop.

I'll see to cleaning the windows.

I might see a movie.

And maybe get in some vigorous calisthenics.

Definitely need to vacuum.

I might try to go to Costco too.

This reader liked the post about Olivia Nuzzi so much she sent me a sexy video of herself on her sex-swing.

Posted by: Ace at 07:20 PM




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1 qw3re4vtq3t4 vb

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at November 21, 2025 07:21 PM (RfDQK)

2
But what I really wanted to do was keep talking about the Trump/Mamdani convo.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at November 21, 2025 07:22 PM (RfDQK)

3 Posted by: Blonde Morticia at November 21, 2025 07:22 PM (RfDQK)

So it actually happened?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 21, 2025 07:23 PM (2sfNr)

4 I've been to that castle. a USO trip in 1992. It was pretty impressive, but militarily hapless.

Posted by: Lincolntf at November 21, 2025 07:24 PM (vV6n9)

5 I wonder how a lot of people survive in the world.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at November 21, 2025 07:24 PM (NwnyJ)

6 to 10!

Posted by: runner at November 21, 2025 07:25 PM (g47mK)

7 Ok, get this. There's a chillwave band called,...

Panda Bear

Posted by: banana Dream at November 21, 2025 07:25 PM (3uBP9)

8 Happy Friday, Ace. Sometimes after a hearty meal at the cafe, it's necessary to cleanse your liver with tequila.

https://tinyurl.com/4tvscp63

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at November 21, 2025 07:26 PM (WFC1M)

9
Cat on ledge. He had just set down his old-fashioned and was reaching for a pack of Lucky Strikes.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at November 21, 2025 07:26 PM (RfDQK)

10 My first criticism of chillwave is it sounds like it was mixed on a potato-computer.

Posted by: banana Dream at November 21, 2025 07:26 PM (3uBP9)

11
Who else thought of Snow White (or Sleeping Beauty?) when they saw the pic?

Posted by: Soothsayer at November 21, 2025 07:27 PM (01gtA)

12 It is Friday, indeed.

So who ordered FridayPlans.com?

Posted by: RickZ at November 21, 2025 07:28 PM (gKDq2)

13
Every puppy is ADD puppy.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 21, 2025 07:28 PM (tgvbd)

14 The Seattle Aquarium just welcomed a new little sea otter girl to the raft. Her name is Ruby.

I may need to go and meet her this weekend.

Posted by: nurse ratched at November 21, 2025 07:28 PM (k05yp)

15 The Café cleaning staff doesn't get nearly enough appreciation. The significant amount of overtime, not to mention the exposure to industrial-strength Febreeze they go through for the next few days after penguins have happy-footed through makes them saints, indeed.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at November 21, 2025 07:29 PM (0sNs1)

16
So it actually happened?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke

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Yes, apparently, and I'm surprised it didn't get more coverage. Trump was his usual happy, cordial, approving self, but he was like that with that North Korean leader, too.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at November 21, 2025 07:29 PM (RfDQK)

17 The dog getting its belly vacuumed..lol

Posted by: Tuna at November 21, 2025 07:29 PM (lJ0H4)

18 What a faggoty ring!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at November 21, 2025 07:29 PM (hZbnZ)

19 Blonde Morticia, me too.I thought the dynamics of PDT sitting and Mayor jihadi standing was most interesting.

Posted by: Ben Had at November 21, 2025 07:29 PM (sDNVV)

20 TRUST NO ONE!

Posted by: runner at November 21, 2025 07:29 PM (g47mK)

21 Neuschwanstein was pretty cool, but there were other castles in Germany I also liked. We saw Frankenstein Castle, but it was closed for renovation, so all we saw was the exterior. Nicely creepy.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, I Have Become Comfortably Lame at November 21, 2025 07:30 PM (0aYVJ)

22 Every puppy is ADD puppy.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 21, 2025 07:28 PM (tgvbd)

Everything's a brave new world for puppies.

Imagine if babies could walk in a week.

Posted by: RickZ at November 21, 2025 07:30 PM (gKDq2)

23 What is a potato-computer?

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at November 21, 2025 07:30 PM (hZbnZ)

24 Still wondering how they survive in the wild.. 😂 pic.twitter.com/yrsnMP8fni


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aww, those poor creatures

Posted by: runner at November 21, 2025 07:30 PM (g47mK)

25 Blonde: I heard the Trump/Mamdani convo was surprisingly sedate. Nothing exploded, no one got called 'piggy,' and the press corps are shocked (and probably trying to concoct some lame controversy out of it anyway).

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 21, 2025 07:30 PM (cQHrm)

26 Willowed and slightly edited:

In Dubai there's two brothels: one that rents women, one that rents sheep/goats.

Guess which one does better business?

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 21, 2025 07:31 PM (cQHrm)

27 Yes, apparently, and I'm surprised it didn't get more coverage. Trump was his usual happy, cordial, approving self, but he was like that with that North Korean leader, too.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia

The "kill 'em with kindness " offense.

Posted by: Tuna at November 21, 2025 07:31 PM (lJ0H4)

28 Schloss Johannesburg in Aschaffenburg was pretty cool. Had a tower from the original castle that was from medieval times.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, I Have Become Comfortably Lame at November 21, 2025 07:31 PM (0aYVJ)

29 Neuschwanstein Castle up top looks a bit like a steam ship plowing through an ocean of trees. Pretty cool.

In Tad Williams' epic fantasy Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn, there's a Sithi (elven) community whose name translates into "Boat on the Ocean of Trees."

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at November 21, 2025 07:32 PM (IBQGV)

30
Who else thought of Snow White (or Sleeping Beauty?) when they saw the pic?
Posted by: Soothsayer

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I think that Neushcshehchwwanhfeeisflll actually was the inspiration for Sleeping Beauty's castle.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at November 21, 2025 07:32 PM (RfDQK)

31 Happy weekend, ace!

Wanted to ask you and others if you've seen any good movies lately. This year I've actually kind of wanted to see Weapons, Eddington, and maybe Bugonia.

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 21, 2025 07:32 PM (cQHrm)

32
Everything's a brave new world for puppies.

___________

House time for little puppies is as charming as it is destructive.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 21, 2025 07:32 PM (tgvbd)

33 >>> What is a potato-computer?
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at November 21, 2025 07:30 PM (hZbnZ)


It means not very powerful. A computer that could run satisfactorily on the voltage output of one of the potato batteries everyone made in grade school science.

Posted by: banana Dream at November 21, 2025 07:32 PM (3uBP9)

34 In Dubai there's two brothels: one that rents women, one that rents sheep/goats.

Guess which one does better business?
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 21, 2025 07:31 PM (cQHrm)

The one the imam visits? Halal and all that.

Posted by: RickZ at November 21, 2025 07:33 PM (gKDq2)

35 Neuschwanstein was pretty cool, but there were other castles in Germany I also liked. We saw Frankenstein Castle, but it was closed for renovation, so all we saw was the exterior. Nicely creepy.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, I Have Become Comfortably Lame at November 21, 2025 07:30 PM (0aYVJ)
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Oh, sure it's the CASTLE that was under "renovation" and not the monster. That's what they want you to believe.

The Monster was getting some monumental upgrades.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at November 21, 2025 07:33 PM (IBQGV)

36 These later castles are really palaces. They are for show not defense.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at November 21, 2025 07:34 PM (hZbnZ)

37 I met a very accommodating young German woman at Neuschwanstein castle. She was very imaginative too. It wasn't in Autumn but early Spring. It might have gone on to a longer relationship but I was a stupid young man.

Posted by: Beartooth at November 21, 2025 07:34 PM (0714D)

38
Blonde Morticia, me too.I thought the dynamics of PDT sitting and Mayor jihadi standing was most interesting.
Posted by: Ben Had

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I noticed that. And Trump gave him a pat on the arm in what seems to be the most standout moment of their presser.

Reporter: "Are you affirming that you think President Trump is a fascist?"

Mamdani: (starts uttering some glib syllables)

Trump: "It's okay, just say it haha. It's easier."

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at November 21, 2025 07:35 PM (RfDQK)

39 Would be willowered ...

Bif: what no public septic tank duty?
Posted by: qdpsteve

That was the 1st SGT's favorite punishment. I used to step out of the maintenance platoon's ECP and walk over to Shitter Row, and help the junior NCO punishment detail stir the shit in the barrels. Completely undermined that asshole. If Chief Bif wanted something in Bartertown, Chief Bif got it.

Commander asked me once why, i told him the !st SGT was playing favorites and abusing his authority. I was merely offsetting his BS to keep the unit functional.

Y'all may remember me talking about some of my troop's misbehaviours. My fuel handler was the one firing his .45 ACP through the roof of the all grader's club at Ft. Bliss. One of the launcher platoon's crew was the one stabbing randos on Dyer street.

Bc bailed them out, busted them with company grade ucmj...then told them they belonged to Chief. If Chief said they were worthy, they got a 2nd chance.

Yes. Yes, i was the unit boogey man.

Posted by: BifBewalski - at November 21, 2025 07:36 PM (QVmho)

40 All puppies have ADD.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at November 21, 2025 07:36 PM (BW+Gb)

41 They took the heart of Frankenstein’s monster to Japan in WWII, where it got nuked. You wouldn’t believe what happened then!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at November 21, 2025 07:36 PM (hZbnZ)

42 Don't tell the Irish how to make a potato computer. They're dangerous enough as it is

Posted by: gKWVE at November 21, 2025 07:36 PM (gKWVE)

43 Mamdani: "Yes, but he's a nice fascist..."
:-P

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 21, 2025 07:36 PM (cQHrm)

44 Ladies, if you met a man wearing this ring, what do you think? Keeper, right?
-----
I just read a story where a man puts on a ring like that and inadvertently summons the attention of Hastur the Unspeakable.

To escape Hastur's attention, the protagonist uses the ring to transport himself to the realm of Shub-Niggurath. It doesn't go well for him there and he transports back, where Hastur awaits....

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at November 21, 2025 07:37 PM (IBQGV)

45
Neuschwanstein was pretty cool.

Posted by: Pug Mahon

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I would seriously love to live in an old castle -- even an abandoned, drafty old Scottish one. I'd go into every room every day.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at November 21, 2025 07:37 PM (RfDQK)

46 gKWVE:

"If you liked Apple, you're gonna LOVE Russet!" :-P

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 21, 2025 07:37 PM (cQHrm)

47 Penguins. Why'd it have to be penguins....?

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at November 21, 2025 07:37 PM (Wnv9h)

48 The coolest structure I saw in Germany was the "Church in the Rock" of Idar-Oberstein. It was about a 10 minute walk from the barracks, I would hook up with my Namibian gemology student girlfriend there at 5 PM on weekdays. No cellphones, had to make plans in advance.

Posted by: Lincolntf at November 21, 2025 07:37 PM (vV6n9)

49 Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at November 21, 2025 07:37 PM (IBQGV)

You said the name thrice.

Posted by: gKWVE at November 21, 2025 07:38 PM (gKWVE)

50 Potato AI works great, especially with some butter, sour cream, bacon and chives.

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 21, 2025 07:39 PM (cQHrm)

51 All puppies have ADD.
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at November 21, 2025 07:36 PM (BW+Gb)

As do all boys. Younger son would descend into what we called The Monkey Hour.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, I Have Become Comfortably Lame at November 21, 2025 07:39 PM (0aYVJ)

52 Meme about the Irish before the invention of beer…

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at November 21, 2025 07:40 PM (hZbnZ)

53 It might have gone on to a longer relationship but I was a stupid young man.
Posted by: Beartooth at November 21, 2025 07:34 PM (0714D)

Arent we all?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 21, 2025 07:40 PM (zZu0s)

54
These later castles are really palaces. They are for show not defense.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at November 21, 2025 07:34 PM (hZbnZ)

________

Hunting lodge >>>> Castle

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 21, 2025 07:40 PM (tgvbd)

55 Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at November 21, 2025 07:37 PM (IBQGV)

You said the name thrice.
Posted by: gKWVE at November 21, 2025 07:38 PM (gKWVE)
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Uh, oh...Why is it suddenly so cold in here?

Did you hear that noise? Sounded like a low, evil chuckle....

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at November 21, 2025 07:40 PM (IBQGV)

56 Seems fairly type able at least.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 21, 2025 07:42 PM (zZu0s)

57 Close enough:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7-yQ4s6IBec

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at November 21, 2025 07:42 PM (hZbnZ)

58 Because Willowed:
I think the last person in an iron lung has died. Most weren't in it all the time, just when they needed the extra help breathing. There was an interesting article a year or so on what they had to do to k(+mUZM)eep an iron lung working, since the companies that made them are no longer in business.
Posted by: Notsothoreau at November 21, 2025 07:29 PM

In the Western Development Museum in Swift Current, Saskatchewan, there is an iron lung that was hand-built by a local farmer to save the life of his 5 year-old daughter who was stricken with polio. He used an electric motor and a washing machine gearbox. It worked, and saved the girl's life, and she was able to recover.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 21, 2025 07:43 PM (npFr7)

59 Morticia typing with her feet again. There's a glitch in her matrix, I think.

Posted by: Concerned Viewer at November 21, 2025 07:43 PM (oftw2)

60 I would seriously love to live in an old castle -- even an abandoned, drafty old Scottish one. I'd go into every room every day.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at November 21, 2025 07:37 PM (RfDQK)

I knew a lady who went to Scotland, and she sent me a pic of her and her husband in the Camelot Castle, standing in that alcove where the knights were singing. She confirmed that it was a silly place.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, I Have Become Comfortably Lame at November 21, 2025 07:44 PM (0aYVJ)

61 A penguin cavorting on the beach is the best way to kick off a weekend!

Posted by: Let Joy Be Unconfined! at November 21, 2025 07:45 PM (oftw2)

62
I knew a lady who went to Scotland, and she sent me a pic of her and her husband in the Camelot Castle, standing in that alcove where the knights were singing. She confirmed that it was a silly place.
Posted by: Pug Mahon

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The Camelot Castle? What was that, a castle that was used as a movie location?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at November 21, 2025 07:47 PM (RfDQK)

63
Morticia typing with her feet again. There's a glitch in her matrix, I think.
Posted by: Concerned Viewer

=================

You have to literally jump on first.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at November 21, 2025 07:47 PM (RfDQK)

64
I would seriously love to live in an old castle -- even an abandoned, drafty old Scottish one. I'd go into every room every day.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia

________

From what I've read, they're very uncomfortable and stupidly laid out.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 21, 2025 07:47 PM (tgvbd)

65 The Camelot Castle? What was that, a castle that was used as a movie location?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at November 21, 2025 07:47 PM (RfDQK)

Monty Python and the Holy Grail. That part was filmed in a very old castle in Scotland.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, I Have Become Comfortably Lame at November 21, 2025 07:48 PM (0aYVJ)

66
she was able to recover.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

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WHOA. Like she got out of the iron lung and went on to live normally?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at November 21, 2025 07:49 PM (RfDQK)

67 I would seriously love to live in an old castle -- even an abandoned, drafty old Scottish one. I'd go into every room every day.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at November 21, 2025 07:37 PM (RfDQK)

One of the tricks of the fae: they offer you a castle but not the means to support it so that you wind up in debtor’s prison, poorer than you were. Oh, you should call them the neighbors, or such like, and never tell them your name. Basically never ask for or accept gifts, especially from the “neighbors”.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at November 21, 2025 07:49 PM (hZbnZ)

68 I was immeasurably disappointed to learn that Trump did not pull a Longshanks moment with Mamdani.

"Immunity, bitchez! Woooo!"

Posted by: PabloD at November 21, 2025 07:49 PM (Ep1e/)

69
From what I've read, they're very uncomfortable and stupidly laid out.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

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So am I.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at November 21, 2025 07:50 PM (RfDQK)

70 A penguin cavorting on the beach is the best way to kick off a weekend!
Posted by: Let Joy Be Unconfined! at November 21, 2025 07:45 PM (oftw2)

Where's 'Penguin Facts' when you need him, huh?

Probably down at that beach chomping on fish.

Posted by: RickZ at November 21, 2025 07:50 PM (gKDq2)

71 The Camelot Castle? What was that, a castle that was used as a movie location?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at November 21, 2025 07:47 PM (RfDQK)

Monty Python and the Holy Grail. That part was filmed in a very old castle in Scotland.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, I Have Become Comfortably Lame at November 21, 2025 07:48 PM (0aYVJ)
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Critical Drinker recently posted a video showcasing some of the famous Scottish locations that have appeared on film. That castle was definitely part of his tour.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at November 21, 2025 07:50 PM (IBQGV)

72 Apologies all, but I just had to share this.
I found it at Instagram.

* * * * *

Dear Santa,

When I was a child, my father cheated on my Mom. Later, my parents divorced.

Soon after, my mother died in a car accident.

My brother and I could only live in my grandma's old house.

Grandma's sister was an alcoholic. The whole family lived on my grandma's savings. Grandma recently died.

My Uncle Andy is barely keeping himself out of jail from day to day.

My brother left home and won't talk to us any more.

Dad, now 74, had to go out to work to support the family and eventually he is going to want me to do the same thing.

Yours sincerely,

Prince William

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 21, 2025 07:50 PM (cQHrm)

73 Greetings to my colony of brothers and sisters! We are bombarded almost daily with the the insults and threats of Spheniscidaphobes, unfeathered beasts who abide in gutters and devour their own young. Fear not, my people, for they shall never conquer our hearts or enslave our homeland, and it is I, Benito Macaroni, who says so!

Tutto nella Antarctica, niente al di fuori della Antarctica, nulla contro la Antarctica!

Posted by: Paco at November 21, 2025 07:50 PM (mADJX)

74
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The Camelot Castle? What was that, a castle that was used as a movie location?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia

We dance when e'er we're able.
We do routines and chorus scenes
With footwork impeccable.
We dine well here in Camelot.
We eat ham and jam and spam a lot.

[dancing]
We're knights of the Round Table.
Our shows are formidable,
But many times we're given rhymes
That are quite unsingable.
We're opera mad in Camelot.
We sing from the diaphragm a lot.

Posted by: BifBewalski - at November 21, 2025 07:50 PM (QVmho)

75 Martha Mason wrote the book "Breath" about her life living in an iron lung for 61 years. It was a great book.

Posted by: NCKate at November 21, 2025 07:51 PM (uQzkA)

76 It’s only a model.

Posted by: nurse ratched at November 21, 2025 07:51 PM (XP5BY)

77 Camelot Castle? ‘It’s only a model!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at November 21, 2025 07:52 PM (hZbnZ)

78 >>> I was immeasurably disappointed to learn that Trump did not pull a Longshanks moment with Mamdani.

"Immunity, bitchez! Woooo!"
Posted by: PabloD at November 21, 2025 07:49 PM (Ep1e/)


That's more of a Russian thing to do these days.

Posted by: banana Dream at November 21, 2025 07:52 PM (3uBP9)

79 >>Yes, apparently, and I'm surprised it didn't get more coverage. Trump was his usual happy, cordial, approving self, but he was like that with that North Korean leader, too.

Kind of a pattern, huh?

I liked when he kept insisting Momdani was the leader of the Democrat Party. A socialist.

Posted by: JackStraw at November 21, 2025 07:52 PM (viF8m)

80 Ewetub is going nuts on t he Mamdani-Trump thing.

Most of the right seems to be trying to make it the commie bitching out and Trump patting his head.

That could be good optics.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 21, 2025 07:52 PM (zZu0s)

81 One of the tricks of the fae: they offer you a castle but not the means to support it so that you wind up in debtor’s prison, poorer than you were. Oh, you should call them the neighbors, or such like, and never tell them your name. Basically never ask for or accept gifts, especially from the “neighbors”.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at November 21, 2025 07:49 PM (hZbnZ)
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Never, ever deal with a fae. The ultimate price is far less than you can believe, yet far, far more than you can possibly afford.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at November 21, 2025 07:52 PM (IBQGV)

82 I'd rather have a Papal Palace than a drafty old castle. Gandolfo is too nice for Pope Bob. He should let me live there and feed the cats.

Posted by: The Great Northern Italian Cat-Sitting Service at November 21, 2025 07:52 PM (oftw2)

83 Proper penguins frown on this cavorting behavior.

Posted by: Penguin Advancement League at November 21, 2025 07:53 PM (vL0rw)

84 WHOA. Like she got out of the iron lung and went on to live normally?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at November 21, 2025 07:49 PM (RfDQK)

I believe so. She may have had some lingering paralysis, I don't know. As I understand it, if your immune system conquers the polio virus, you can regain some of your lost muscular control.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 21, 2025 07:53 PM (npFr7)

85 One of the tricks of the fae: they offer you a castle but not the means to support it so that you wind up in debtor’s prison, poorer than you were. Oh, you should call them the neighbors, or such like, and never tell them your name. Basically never ask for or accept gifts, especially from the “neighbors”.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at November 21, 2025 07:49 PM (hZbnZ)

The old Indian (dot, not feather) 'white elephant' trick. A raja giving an elephant as a gift to some underling, a real honor. The expense of the elephant maintainance kept him in check.

Posted by: RickZ at November 21, 2025 07:54 PM (gKDq2)

86 Mamdani wouldn't have gotten such a nice reception from Vlad Putin, that's for sure.

"Can you fly, Mammi?"

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 21, 2025 07:54 PM (cQHrm)

87
"Tancredi wanted Angelica to know the whole palace with its inextricable complex of guest rooms, state rooms, kitchens, chapels, theaters, picture galleries, odorous tack rooms, stables, stuffy conservatories, passages, stairs, terraces and porticoes, and particularly a series of abandoned and uninhabited apartments which had not been used for many years and formed a mysterious and intricate labyrinth of their own. Tancredi did not realize (or he realized perfectly well) that he was drawing the girl into the hidden center of the sensual cyclone; and Angelica at that time wanted whatever Tancredi did. Their wanderings through the almost limitless building were interminable; they would set off as if for some unknown land, and unknown indeed it was because in many of those apartments and corners not even Don Fabrizio had ever set foot (a cause of great satisfaction to him, for he used to say that a palace of which one knew every room wasn’t worth living in)." - Giuseppe di Lampedusa, The Leopard

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 21, 2025 07:54 PM (tgvbd)

88 Oh the Shiba baby! And a dreamy creamy like Saijo! My heart!

Posted by: Piper at November 21, 2025 07:55 PM (Wmg4n)

89 We have crazy fireworks going off due to a football game at the school here. My Shiba just squished under the bed, he hates it. Cats are glued to me.

Posted by: Piper at November 21, 2025 07:57 PM (Wmg4n)

90 Should you spend a night carousing with them, you’ll return in the morning to find centuries have passed.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at November 21, 2025 07:58 PM (hZbnZ)

91
It was too cloudy here tonight, but one of my things of late is to see how thin of a "young" Moon crescent I can see right before sunset.

Any of you out mid to west where it's clear might catch it just before sunset. It's about 2.2% illuminated now.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at November 21, 2025 07:59 PM (w6EFb)

92
Gandolfo is too nice for Pope Bob. He should let me live there and feed the cats.
Posted by: The Great Northern Italian Cat-Sitting Service

__________

Francis's performative humility in not using Castel Gandolfo had the unfortunate effect of cutting off the town from tourist income.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 21, 2025 08:00 PM (tgvbd)

93 Prince William
Posted by: qdpsteve at November

Diana was insane and cheated, too. She actually did first before Charles went back to Camilla- they were toxic to each other. Is incredible William is as normal as royals get.

Posted by: Piper at November 21, 2025 08:01 PM (Wmg4n)

94 Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 21, 2025 07:54 PM
Tancredi sounds like a guy who loses his car keys and just buys a new car.

Posted by: Eromero at November 21, 2025 08:01 PM (LHPAg)

95 Reporter: "Are you affirming that you think President Trump is a fascist?"

Mamdani: (starts uttering some glib syllables)

Trump: "It's okay, just say it haha. It's easier."

Trump's way of saying "You don't deserve to be taken seriously anyway."

Posted by: Oddbob at November 21, 2025 08:01 PM (3nLb4)

96 Piper, all true.

If the Windsors were just another poor family from a trailer park in Appalachia...

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 21, 2025 08:02 PM (cQHrm)

97 SCOTUS news: Alito just stayed the Texas district court order on gerrymandering.

Not a final decision on the merits, but the new maps continue to live for now.

Posted by: TRex - judicious Rex at November 21, 2025 08:03 PM (IQ6Gq)

98
I think the last person in an iron lung has died.

Posted by: Notsothoreau

==============

When I was a little kid and I saw those old B&W pictures of big hospital rooms with lots of little kids in iron lungs with just their heads sticking out and nurses standing by, I was so filled with horror and pity I can't even tell you. I've read that the vast majority of those kids died, and I bet it wasn't just because of strictly medical reasons.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at November 21, 2025 08:03 PM (RfDQK)

99 Lone penguins frolicking on a beach may be infected with rabies and should be avoided.

Posted by: Penguin Facts at November 21, 2025 08:04 PM (vFG9F)

100 Good evening everyone

Posted by: Skip at November 21, 2025 08:04 PM (+qU29)

101 The old Indian (dot, not feather) 'white elephant' trick. A raja giving an elephant as a gift to some underling, a real honor. The expense of the elephant maintainance kept him in check.
Posted by: RickZ

It was known to the Iraqi Christians as well. They cited it to Shah Khusro I when his choice pope Joseph (of the Nestorians) proved to be a tyrant. "Please take back your elephant", they told the shah.

Posted by: gKWVE at November 21, 2025 08:04 PM (gKWVE)

102 SCOTUS news: Alito just stayed the Texas district court order on gerrymandering.

Not a final decision on the merits, but the new maps continue to live for now.
Posted by: TRex - judicious Rex at November 21, 2025 08:03 PM (IQ6Gq)

Awesome!

Posted by: runner at November 21, 2025 08:05 PM (g47mK)

103
SCOTUS news: Alito just stayed the Texas district court order on gerrymandering.

Not a final decision on the merits, but the new maps continue to live for now.
Posted by: TRex - judicious Rex

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w00t

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at November 21, 2025 08:05 PM (RfDQK)

104 Not a final decision on the merits, but the new maps continue to live for now.
Posted by: TRex - judicious Rex at November

Woohoo!

Posted by: Piper at November 21, 2025 08:06 PM (Wmg4n)

105 Hi, Skip!

Posted by: Piper at November 21, 2025 08:06 PM (Wmg4n)

106 So that's a Shiba on the ride? Pretty cute, even I must say....

Posted by: Felix the Cat at November 21, 2025 08:06 PM (oftw2)

107 The Swan Knight’s son deals with the Fae in one of John C. Wright’s novels (The Feast of the Elfs, second book in the Moth and Cobweb series) but comes out ahead, because he has the protection of the (sleeping) King Arthur.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at November 21, 2025 08:08 PM (hZbnZ)

108 Alito just stayed the Texas district court order on gerrymandering.

Thank you Dubya. Or anyway thank you Malkin for helping force Dubya not to nominate his mare Harriet Miers.

Posted by: gKWVE at November 21, 2025 08:09 PM (gKWVE)

109 106 So that's a Shiba on the ride? Pretty cute, even I must say....
Posted by: Felix the Cat at November 21, 2025

It’s disgusting how cute they are, little menaces. I know Ace meant to say “for Piper”. He just forgot. 😂

Posted by: Piper at November 21, 2025 08:09 PM (Wmg4n)

110 Skip speaking as a black lesbian, good evening.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 21, 2025 08:10 PM (A6iMD)

111 gKWVE, whatever became of Michelle Malkin?

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 21, 2025 08:11 PM (cQHrm)

112
Ladies, if you met a man wearing this ring, what do you think? Keeper, right?

naw, he already has a boyfriend

g'early evenin', 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at November 21, 2025 08:14 PM (tljrc)

113 >> Not a final decision on the merits, but the new maps continue to live for now.

Not final but a pretty good indicator, especially given how fast Alito moved.

Posted by: JackStraw at November 21, 2025 08:14 PM (viF8m)

114 111 gKWVE, whatever became of Michelle Malkin?
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 21, 2025 08:11 PM (cQHrm)
Colorado.......changed.

Posted by: Eromero at November 21, 2025 08:15 PM (LHPAg)

115 Alito just stayed the Texas district court order on gerrymandering.

Thank you Dubya. Or anyway thank you Malkin for helping force Dubya not to nominate his mare Harriet Miers.
Posted by: gKWVE at November 21, 2025 08:09 PM (gKWVE)

Alito is great but nothing was wrong with Miers. And Malkin didn’t have anything to do with it.

Posted by: the way I see it at November 21, 2025 08:15 PM (KDPiq)

116 Eromero, I would bet MM doesn't live there anymore.

With all the money she made with other sites, such as HotAir, I'd imagine she owns a big spread in Wyoming now.

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 21, 2025 08:16 PM (cQHrm)

117 The doobadoo song that they play on all animal videos, is travelling across the universe on electromagnetic waves and when it finally hits the shores of an advanced spacefaring alien race we are done for. They'll be all, "Everyone . must . DIE".

They should make a doobadoo filter, and all it does is constantly listens for doobadoo and when found active noise cancels it.

Posted by: banana Dream at November 21, 2025 08:16 PM (3uBP9)

118 Whatever became of Michelle Malkin? She “retired from the fray”:

https://is.gd/d7TXss

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at November 21, 2025 08:16 PM (hZbnZ)

119 I think Michelle was fairly traumatized by the disappearance of her cousin and just wanted to conclude her public life.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 21, 2025 08:17 PM (A6iMD)

120 81
'That could be good optics.'

I don't see the value in it. It just elevates Mamdani and makes him look reasonable which he isn't

Posted by: Dr. Claw at November 21, 2025 08:17 PM (fd80v)

121 I think Malkin was getting too many threats maybe ? It's all fun and games and cool and trolling, but these people in the public eye who go against some serious evil need tons of security, and it's costly.

Posted by: runner at November 21, 2025 08:17 PM (g47mK)

122 99 Lone penguins frolicking on a beach may be infected with rabies and should be avoided. - Penguin Facts

Did you know...?

...that Morton Sobel, a member of the Rosenberg spy ring, was an executive director of the communist front organization, Penguin Facts, which assisted him in his flight to Mexico to avoid federal charges, although he was later captured, tried and convicted of espionage against the United States.

Posted by: PenguinAnti-CommunistOrganization at November 21, 2025 08:18 PM (mADJX)

123 when my position as Galactic Overlord is finally recognized, Neuschwanstein will be my European hq/residence ... in the US, it will be Fallingwater. in asia, still TBD.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at November 21, 2025 08:18 PM (Cjt/F)

124 I think Michelle was fairly traumatized by the disappearance of her cousin and just wanted to conclude her public life.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 21, 2025 08:17 PM (A6iMD)

That's my take.

Posted by: RickZ at November 21, 2025 08:19 PM (gKDq2)

125 If you can think of the doobadoo song, you’ve probably got it as an earworm.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at November 21, 2025 08:19 PM (hZbnZ)

126 99 Lone penguins frolicking on a beach may be infected with rabies and should be avoided. - Penguin Facts

Did you know...?

...that Morton Sobel, a member of the Rosenberg spy ring, was an executive director of the communist front organization, Penguin Facts, which assisted him in his flight to Mexico to avoid federal charges, although he was later captured, tried and convicted of espionage against the United States.
Posted by: PenguinAnti-CommunistOrganization at November 21, 2025 08:18 PM (mADJX)

Busted ! Exactly right! it's in the national archives in DC !

Posted by: runner at November 21, 2025 08:19 PM (g47mK)

127 My take. After the Pennsylvania courts told Alito " take your opinion and shove it" he is not in a forgiving mood.

Posted by: Ben Had at November 21, 2025 08:20 PM (sDNVV)

128 119 I think Michelle was fairly traumatized by the disappearance of her cousin and just wanted to conclude her public life.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 21, 2025

Except for those moments where she was keynote speaker at skin head rallies. Maybe the original groyper.

Posted by: Piper at November 21, 2025 08:20 PM (OoFl2)

129 102 SCOTUS news: Alito just stayed the Texas district court order on gerrymandering.

Not a final decision on the merits, but the new maps continue to live for now.
Posted by: TRex - judicious Rex at November 21, 2025 08:03 PM (IQ6Gq)

Great news! I shall toast the decision with a shot of my bootleg apple-pie whiskey.

Posted by: Paco at November 21, 2025 08:21 PM (mADJX)

130 The Swan Knight’s son deals with the Fae in one of John C. Wright’s novels (The Feast of the Elfs, second book in the Moth and Cobweb series) but comes out ahead, because he has the protection of the (sleeping) King Arthur.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at November 21, 2025 08:08 PM (hZbnZ)
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His grandchildren and great-grandchildren will need to keep their head on a swivel. The fae don't like to be "cheated" (anyone who gets the better of them is a cheater) and they have long, long memories. They'll take their frustration out on future generations. Evil, petty assholes, the lot of them.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at November 21, 2025 08:22 PM (IBQGV)

131 Except for those moments where she was keynote speaker at skin head rallies. Maybe the original groyper

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oh....missed all that...

Posted by: runner at November 21, 2025 08:22 PM (g47mK)

132 Ran across the best Ryan Long video. Its...perfect. https://tinyurl.com/2t9fnh9v

Posted by: 18-1 at November 21, 2025 08:22 PM (sKqQm)

133
oh....missed all that...
Posted by: runner at November 21, 2025 08:22 PM (g47mK)

I can try to find some links for you, if they still exist out there.

Posted by: Piper at November 21, 2025 08:23 PM (OoFl2)

134 San Franpsycho, I agree with that.
I know the police seemed to be actively inhibiting that investigation. They just didn't GAF.

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 21, 2025 08:23 PM (cQHrm)

135 Busted ! Exactly right! it's in the national archives in DC !

Unless the dastardly Chris Wray had the info put in a burn bag.

Posted by: Paco at November 21, 2025 08:23 PM (mADJX)

136 And...youtube just gave me a video for an anti-COVID vaccine that isn't a clot shot?!? "Looking for protection from COVID but worried about COVID vaccine side effects? Try new Nuvaxovid"

Funny, I'm so old I remember when talking about clot shot side effects was rayciss, anti-science, and probably made you Hitler.

Posted by: 18-1 at November 21, 2025 08:24 PM (sKqQm)

137 Marjorie Taylor Green quitting in about six weeks.

Watch whatever special election takes place to replace her. They'll allow three months of voting, two before and one after to do the count in secret, Soros will spend a billion to see some communist run and win, and the lines of AWFLs will extend from the polling places to Savannah.

Posted by: M. Gaga at November 21, 2025 08:24 PM (zeLd4)

138 I suspect Pandas build backyard gyms even in the wild

Posted by: Skip at November 21, 2025 08:26 PM (+qU29)

139 Michelle Malkin wandered off the deep end and landed in anti-semetic territory. She even included the "just asking questions" step.

Posted by: Crusader at November 21, 2025 08:26 PM (TN0g+)

140 Morton Sobell served more than 17 years in prison for espionage. The Corporation for Public Broadcasting made a documentary stating that he was innocent. Later, after his release from prison he admitted to spying. From Wikipedia: Sobell died at the age of 101 on December 26, 2018. He was the last surviving member of the Rosenberg spy ring.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at November 21, 2025 08:26 PM (hZbnZ)

141 Some NFL special teams coach upset at Trump because he called the new NFL kick off rule for sissies. Said Trump doesn’t know what he’s talking about like the NFL is some special esoteric science that the common man can’t comprehend.

Never mind Trump was the owner of a professional football team.

The kick off rule pairs perfectly with the NFL tranny cheerleaders.

Posted by: the way I see it at November 21, 2025 08:26 PM (KDPiq)

142 Posted by: sock_rat_eez at November 21, 2025 08:18 PM (Cjt/F)

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I admire your ambition!

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 21, 2025 08:27 PM (m6HS6)

143 Malkin is one of the few conservative pundits of her era that didn't screw over the movement - compare her to Goldberg, Kristol, or Will...

Posted by: 18-1 at November 21, 2025 08:27 PM (sKqQm)

144 >>I don't see the value in it. It just elevates Mamdani and makes him look reasonable which he isn't

Well it certainly elevates him. Again, Trump labeled him the leader of the Democrat Party and said the NYC Mayor's job is one of the most important jobs in the world.

Everyone on the left was in a crouch waiting for Trump to hammer him and they were going to come out swinging. Instead, Trump praised Mamdani and defanged them and made them wonder why Mamdani didn't push back when Trump said he agree with deporting criminal illegals.

Now Trump looks reasonable and Mamdani is the leader of the Democrat Party. What happens when he fails?

Posted by: JackStraw at November 21, 2025 08:27 PM (viF8m)

145
I think Michelle was fairly traumatized by the disappearance of her cousin and just wanted to conclude her public life.
Posted by: San Franpsycho

===============

I think her teenage daughter also had some illness.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at November 21, 2025 08:27 PM (RfDQK)

146 Piper, I would like to know more about that

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 21, 2025 08:27 PM (m6HS6)

147 >>> Except for those moments where she was keynote speaker at skin head rallies. Maybe the original groyper

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oh....missed all that...
Posted by: runner at November 21, 2025 08:22 PM (g47mK)


Ace had a post that touched on it some time in the last few weeks I think. I think it was here. But that's when I first heard about it. Maybe Piper read the same thing.

Posted by: banana Dream at November 21, 2025 08:27 PM (3uBP9)

148 So there was fear early on that DOGE was going to collect this and they were going to curate a list and get rid of 'the undesirables.'"

-----

What's to fear, here? Gay and trans people are gross in the first place, of course, and they are pushy, demanding and disruptive, to boot. That's before we even discuss their frequently demonstrated predilection for sodomizing children.

You motherfuckers are undesirable. It's not a fear that you'll be rousted out of polite society. It's what normies call a hope. It's a hope you'll be sent off without pay.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 21, 2025 08:27 PM (BI5O2)

149 Didn't Ace write about Malkin recently?

Posted by: banana Dream at November 21, 2025 08:28 PM (3uBP9)

150 MTG just gave her two weeks?

Posted by: nurse ratched at November 21, 2025 08:28 PM (mT+6a)

151 I suspect Pandas build backyard gyms even in the wild
Posted by: Skip at November 21, 2025 08:26 PM (+qU29)

A panda's gotta do what a panda's gotta do in order to keep up that roly-poly physique.

Posted by: RickZ at November 21, 2025 08:29 PM (gKDq2)

152 It was an AmRen conference. And no, I didn’t know Ace touched on it so not sure if this is the same thing but it wouldn’t surprise me.

Posted by: Piper at November 21, 2025 08:29 PM (OoFl2)

153 Alito is great but nothing was wrong with Miers. And Malkin didn’t have anything to do with it.

Harriet Miers was the first clue that "W" wasn't serious about a damn thing. She was more stringent - would have been a better originalist judge - than Scalia.

Posted by: Keep The Record Straight at November 21, 2025 08:29 PM (+nY70)

154 Marjorie Taylor Green quitting in about six weeks.


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She is such a flake.

Posted by: runner at November 21, 2025 08:29 PM (g47mK)

155 when Ace had a podcast he had Malkin in as an interviewee

Posted by: gKWVE at November 21, 2025 08:30 PM (gKWVE)

156
NYC Mayor's job is one of the most important jobs in the world.

____________

Ahhhhhhh, no.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 21, 2025 08:30 PM (tgvbd)

157 Ok, maybe it wasn't Ace but I read the same about Malkin and groypers somewhere recently.

Posted by: banana Dream at November 21, 2025 08:30 PM (3uBP9)

158 NYC Mayor's job is one of the most important jobs in the world.

From where I live ? No. Let the banks fail - we'll still grow corn and mine coal.

Posted by: Keep The Record Straight at November 21, 2025 08:31 PM (+nY70)

159 Malkin was a conservative Karen imo.

Posted by: the way I see it at November 21, 2025 08:33 PM (KDPiq)

160 139 Michelle Malkin wandered off the deep end and landed in anti-semetic territory. She even included the "just asking questions" step.
Posted by: Crusader


Filtering every aspect of human existence through politics can break you and politics seems to break people after a while. If they recognize it, they bail. Leave the scene. Some, sociopaths mostly, marinate in it all there lives and are wretched.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at November 21, 2025 08:33 PM (BW+Gb)

161 Will Marjorie Taylor Green end up on the View? The prior appearance was an audition

Posted by: Smell the Glove at November 21, 2025 08:35 PM (bfwj/)

162 Filtering every aspect of human existence through politics can break you and politics seems to break people after a while.

Please tell me what part of human existence ISN'T dictated by politics ? I'll wait.

Do the roses look good on the long march to the camps ? Don't care.

Posted by: Keep The Record Straight at November 21, 2025 08:35 PM (+nY70)

163 Thank you for the example, #162.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at November 21, 2025 08:36 PM (BW+Gb)

164 I better turn this off though have no reason to get up except call nood for the tech thread.

Have a good night everyone

Posted by: Skip at November 21, 2025 08:36 PM (+qU29)

165 Please tell me what part of human existence ISN'T dictated by politics ? I'll wait.

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In a healthy society? 99% of it.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 21, 2025 08:36 PM (BI5O2)

166 99 Lone penguins frolicking on a beach may be infected with rabies and should be avoided.
Posted by: Penguin Facts at November 21, 2025 08:04 PM (vFG9F)

Lone penguins frolicking in any environment is generally the result of it being ostracized by penguin society. It should be avoided regardless its status of rabididy.

Posted by: tankdemon at November 21, 2025 08:37 PM (o7Ps5)

167 The Swan Knight’s Son has more help than just the protection of King Arthur. He has been warned about giving in to anger by no less than the Mother of our Savior, who, we are given to believe, will look kindly on him when he does keep it in check. I suspect wrath is a burdening sin to more than just him: let’s all know the difference between righteous and unrighteous anger!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at November 21, 2025 08:37 PM (hZbnZ)

168 Filtering every aspect of human existence through politics can break you and politics seems to break people after a while.
-----

Please tell me what part of human existence ISN'T dictated by politics ? I'll wait.

Do the roses look good on the long march to the camps ? Don't care.
Posted by: Keep The Record Straight at November 21, 2025 08:35 PM (+nY70)

The old joke: You may not be interested in politics but Politics is interested in you.

Posted by: RickZ at November 21, 2025 08:37 PM (gKDq2)

169 In a sane world politics would be about whether the tax rate was 10%...or lower.. Not whether trannies are allowed to groom kids.

Posted by: 18-1 at November 21, 2025 08:37 PM (sKqQm)

170 Thank you for that SFp!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at November 21, 2025 08:38 PM (Cjt/F)

171 MTG apparently resigning from Congress in January, if the AP wire is to be believed.

Posted by: Look At this at November 21, 2025 08:38 PM (sXcYT)

172 In a healthy society? 99% of it.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 21, 2025 08:36 PM (BI5O2)

And in this society ? Where we took a few years off for a combination "racial protest" and mystery cold ?

I'm talking about his society. How about this one ?

Posted by: Keep The Record Straight at November 21, 2025 08:38 PM (+nY70)

173 & g'night Skip!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at November 21, 2025 08:38 PM (Cjt/F)

174 GOPe throwing the midterms again

Posted by: Accomack at November 21, 2025 08:39 PM (OP3E2)

175 Human existence is dictated by pursuit of the opposite sex. Politics is just one part of the process.

Posted by: the way I see it at November 21, 2025 08:39 PM (KDPiq)

176 I've seen it reported a few places that MTG's resignation on January 5th is just two days after her congressional pension vests on January 3rd, five years of service.

Posted by: Mark1971 at November 21, 2025 08:39 PM (CNl8/)

177 I don't see the value in it. It just elevates Mamdani and makes him look reasonable which he isn't
Posted by: Dr. Claw at November 21, 2025 08:17 PM (fd80v)

It might also make him look like an accomadationisg to Trump to his supporters. They can easily turn on him like the rabid weasels they are.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 21, 2025 08:40 PM (zZu0s)

178 Too bad about Michelle Mankin, I used to like to read her stuff.

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 21, 2025 08:40 PM (/ZNPI)

179 Michelle Maulkin has retired from public life. I intend to respect her wishes and hope her life is fruitful outside of the spotlight.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at November 21, 2025 08:41 PM (hZbnZ)

180 " ... if the AP wire is to be believed. "

aye, there's the rub!

if they said water boiled at 212 degrees (yes, at STP ...) I would look it up in the CRC to be sure.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at November 21, 2025 08:41 PM (Cjt/F)

181 So. I just watched the ABC national coverage of Trump and mandamus.

Positive for Trump. Unbelievable.


Trump made the press show him as a good guy.


I’m gobsmacked.

Posted by: nurse ratched at November 21, 2025 08:41 PM (mT+6a)

182 In a sane world politics would be about whether the tax rate was 10%...or lower.. Not whether trannies are allowed to groom kids.
Posted by: 18-1 at November 21, 2025 08:37 PM (sKqQm)

Or setting the cars a rich guy sold on fire.

I swear every one of those bastardes ahould have been shot on the spot. Arson is no laughing matter. Society must be better than that. So a whiff of 12-guage should work.

Posted by: RickZ at November 21, 2025 08:42 PM (gKDq2)

183 Malkin jumped the shark when she went nuts over Rachel Ray's scarf.

Posted by: Mark1971 at November 21, 2025 08:42 PM (CNl8/)

184
3 Movies, Yay or Nay?

-- Guy Ritchie's The Covenant
-- Extraction
-- Lone Survivor

Posted by: Soothsayer at November 21, 2025 08:42 PM (01gtA)

185 aye, there's the rub!

if they said water boiled at 212 degrees (yes, at STP ...) I would look it up in the CRC to be sure.
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at November 21, 2025 08:41 PM (Cjt/F)

F or C, AP?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 21, 2025 08:42 PM (zZu0s)

186 The most traitorous thing in the world is choosing morality based on consensus, and not ethics.

Posted by: Kindltot at November 21, 2025 08:42 PM (rbvCR)

187 176 I've seen it reported a few places that MTG's resignation on January 5th is just two days after her congressional pension vests on January 3rd, five years of service.

In her position, wouldn’t you do the same?

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at November 21, 2025 08:43 PM (hZbnZ)

188 Human existence is dictated by pursuit of the opposite sex.

Until you get to a certain age. I've hit it.

There's a reason rich dudes - back in the day - didn't want girls at Augusta. You hit a point where they're all just not worth it.

Posted by: Keep The Record Straight at November 21, 2025 08:43 PM (+nY70)

189 >>> 186 The most traitorous thing in the world is choosing morality based on consensus, and not ethics.
Posted by: Kindltot at November 21, 2025 08:42 PM (rbvCR)

I don't get it.

Posted by: Anthony SCIENCE! Fauci at November 21, 2025 08:43 PM (ULPxl)

190 Gut Ritchie’s The Gentlemen though the Covenant is pretty good.

Posted by: the way I see it at November 21, 2025 08:44 PM (KDPiq)

191 I wonder why she is resigning ...hmmmm

Posted by: runner at November 21, 2025 08:44 PM (g47mK)

192 Niece playing HS basketball. Other team has a boy. 84 year old FiL just said, "How many points for Tim Walz's grandson."

Posted by: scampydog at November 21, 2025 08:44 PM (41CYW)

193 Trump and mandamus."

Heh. FWIW, a couple of left leaning acquaintances are just flabbergasted and venting that "he sold us out to Trump"

I laughed.

Posted by: man at November 21, 2025 08:44 PM (XuXeR)

194 Epstein files!

Posted by: runner at November 21, 2025 08:44 PM (g47mK)

195 good point, Aetius

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at November 21, 2025 08:44 PM (Cjt/F)

196 127
'After the Pennsylvania courts told Alito " take your opinion and shove it" he is not in a forgiving mood.'

And he frigging well shouldn't be.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at November 21, 2025 08:45 PM (fd80v)

197 192, LOL!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at November 21, 2025 08:46 PM (Cjt/F)

198
Will Marjorie Taylor Green end up on the View? The prior appearance was an audition
Posted by: Smell the Glove

She might move to New York and work for Mamdani.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at November 21, 2025 08:46 PM (pkeXY)

199 In her position, wouldn’t you do the same?

No. I can honestly say I would not.

Because I would have never kissed ass for five years just to get a pension. Of course, I would have never been a cop or any other public service mooch either.

Posted by: Keep The Record Straight at November 21, 2025 08:46 PM (+nY70)

200 >>Ahhhhhhh, no.

Trump does this every single time with everyone he negotiates with. From Little Rocket Man to Putin. He publicly praises and exaggerates their importance and acts like the gracious guy which makes him look good. Then if things go pear shaped the focus is on what they did not Trump.

Mamdani is the hero of the radical left and Trump is making him the face of the Democrat Party. If Mamdani buckles to reality and works with Trump then Trump wins. If he doesn't and his idiotic socialist plans further break NYC during the 2026 elections guess who wins?

Posted by: JackStraw at November 21, 2025 08:47 PM (viF8m)

201 MTGbseems to primarily be an attention whore.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 21, 2025 08:47 PM (zZu0s)

202 212 degrees Kelvin, Fahrenheit, Celsius, Reamur?

Oh yeah, you’re not supposed to use degrees with Kelvin anymore, just, say, 273 K or the like.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at November 21, 2025 08:47 PM (hZbnZ)

203 I've seen it reported a few places that MTG's resignation on January 5th is just two days after her congressional pension vests on January 3rd, five years of service.

Posted by: Mark1971 at November 21, 2025 08:39 PM (CNl8/)


As well, paydays are on the 5th and 20th, so she will get a full paycheck on the 20th for the pay period ending on the 5th.

Posted by: Vendette at November 21, 2025 08:47 PM (LOCTm)

204 MTGbseems to primarily be an attention whore"

And without attention?

Posted by: man at November 21, 2025 08:48 PM (XuXeR)

205 Not hot enough to go Hollywood or thot route, so politics it is.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 21, 2025 08:48 PM (zZu0s)

206 The most traitorous thing in the world is choosing morality based on consensus, and not ethics.
Posted by: Kindltot at November 21, 2025 08:42 PM (rbvCR)

Depends on where one gets their ethics from, I guess. To wit: Pisslam. Not just the cultural abominations of it like FGM, but the 'religious' tenets as well. Not too many 'faiths' have 'kill the unbelievers' as immutable dogma.

Muzzies think shari'a is just swell and a perfectly moral system for all. I tend to disagree.

Posted by: RickZ at November 21, 2025 08:48 PM (gKDq2)

207 160 Filtering every aspect of human existence through politics can break you and politics seems to break people after a while. If they recognize it, they bail. Leave the scene. Some, sociopaths mostly, marinate in it all there lives and are wretched. - Puddleglum at work

Boy, if that ain't the truth! I used to work in DC and there were people, I'm convinced, whose entire self-identity was wrapped up in politics. When people - mostly ultra liberal types - tried to engage me in political discussions, I just told them that I was a proponent of anarcho-syndicalism and had nothing but the merest academic interest in the workings of bourgeois American democracy; furthermore, I considered the two major parties to be nothing but elements of political kabuki theater, working secretly to fleece the citizenry while maintaining the fiction of principled opposition. All hogwash, of course - although I think there's some truth to the last bit - but at least it sent them away muttering to themselves.

Posted by: Paco at November 21, 2025 08:48 PM (mADJX)

208 JackStraw - please make a point to drop into the hobby thread tomorrow. Thank you.

Posted by: TRex - Hobby Rex at November 21, 2025 08:48 PM (IQ6Gq)

209 The dog getting its belly vacuumed..lol

Posted by: Tuna at November 21, 2025 07:29 PM (lJ0H4)

A body shop I worked at right out of high school had a doberman that acted like a golden retriever. Total goofball. His favorite thing was laying down while somebody broomed him with a large shop broom. Every day he got the broom.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at November 21, 2025 08:48 PM (snZF9)

210 Mamdani is the hero of the radical left and Trump is making him the face of the Democrat Party.

Recognizing Arafat - and thus Palestine / Gaza - wasn't a winning move.

You just don't handle the snake. One of Trump's problems.

Posted by: Keep The Record Straight at November 21, 2025 08:49 PM (+nY70)

211 Valid counter.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 21, 2025 08:49 PM (zZu0s)

212 MTGbseems to primarily be an attention whore"

And without attention?
Posted by: man at November 21, 2025 08:48 PM (XuXeR)


she a whooore ??

Posted by: runner at November 21, 2025 08:50 PM (g47mK)

213 Posted by: Paco at November 21, 2025 08:48 PM (mADJX)

I just start sing Chicken pot Chicken pot Chicken Pot pie !

It works the same.

Posted by: the way I see it at November 21, 2025 08:50 PM (KDPiq)

214 Oy Vey - these politics are getting awful. Lets have a bagel ... 1935 Jew in Germany.

Posted by: Keep The Record Straight at November 21, 2025 08:50 PM (+nY70)

215 A pension after just 5 years “work”: nice work if you can get it!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at November 21, 2025 08:50 PM (hZbnZ)

216 Trump does this every single time with everyone he negotiates with. From Little Rocket Man to Putin. He publicly praises and exaggerates their importance and acts like the gracious guy which makes him look good. Then if things go pear shaped the focus is on what they did not Trump.

Mamdani is the hero of the radical left and Trump is making him the face of the Democrat Party. If Mamdani buckles to reality and works with Trump then Trump wins. If he doesn't and his idiotic socialist plans further break NYC during the 2026 elections guess who wins? - JackStraw

It would be hilarious if Mamdani returned to New York and was denounced by his "comintern" or whatever as a running dog of capitalism, now that he's met with Trump.

Posted by: Paco at November 21, 2025 08:51 PM (mADJX)

217 207,
That was my play. Blow right past them, and they walked off muttering. I'd laugh at that point

Posted by: man at November 21, 2025 08:51 PM (XuXeR)

218 Maybe she will do a podcast with Liz Cheney.

Posted by: Mark1971 at November 21, 2025 08:51 PM (CNl8/)

219 In a healthy society, politicians grow tremendously wealthy stealing from people who are too busy and prosperous to notice the skim.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 21, 2025 08:51 PM (BI5O2)

220 I just start sing Chicken pot Chicken pot Chicken Pot pie !

It works the same.
Posted by: the way I see it at November 21, 2025 08:50 PM (KDPiq)

LOL always loved that episode!

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 21, 2025 08:52 PM (/ZNPI)

221 or whatever as a running dog of capitalism, now that he's met with Trump.
Posted by: Paco at November 21, 2025 08:51 PM (mADJX)

Trump is trying to make him Trotsky. Or the Meschevics. Or a White. Harder to go for a corrallary.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 21, 2025 08:52 PM (zZu0s)

222 In a healthy society, politicians grow tremendously wealthy stealing from people who are too busy and prosperous to notice the skim.

You are welcome - Nancy from San Fran.

Posted by: Keep The Record Straight at November 21, 2025 08:53 PM (+nY70)

223 207 160 Filtering every aspect of human existence through politics can break you and politics seems to break people after a while. If they recognize it, they bail. Leave the scene. Some, sociopaths mostly, marinate in it all there lives and are wretched. - Puddleglum at work

Boy, if that ain't the truth! I used to work in DC and there were people, I'm convinced, whose entire self-identity was wrapped up in politics. When people - mostly ultra liberal types - tried to engage me in political discussions, I just told them that I was a proponent of anarcho-syndicalism and had nothing but the merest academic interest in the workings of bourgeois American democracy; furthermore, I considered the two major parties to be nothing but elements of political kabuki theater, working secretly to fleece the citizenry while maintaining the fiction of principled opposition. All hogwash, of course - although I think there's some truth to the last bit - but at least it sent them away muttering to themselves.
Posted by: Paco


I've lived and worked in Babylon DC for about 28 years now. A beltway bandit working for the Fed Leviathan. Apparently nothing has changed since you lived here.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at November 21, 2025 08:53 PM (BW+Gb)

224 @200 JackStraw, correct and the thing that the worrywarts seem not to realize is that by the time 11/26 rolls around the Dems will have had a full scale war during the primaries. The hard left are going to take over from the old guard and they won't look good to independents or even conservative Dems

Posted by: Smell the Glove at November 21, 2025 08:54 PM (bfwj/)

225 213 I just start sing Chicken pot Chicken pot Chicken Pot pie ! - the way I see it

Well, that certainly represents a more economical use of words!

Posted by: Paco at November 21, 2025 08:54 PM (mADJX)

226 Boy, if that ain't the truth! I used to work in DC and there were people, I'm convinced, whose entire self-identity was wrapped up in politics.

The Rest of the Jews in 1930s Germany - we should have paid more attention to politics.

Posted by: Keep The Record Straight at November 21, 2025 08:54 PM (+nY70)

227

ROME (AP) — Pope Leo XIV opened a virtual meeting with American Catholic young people Friday by revealing a closely held pontifical secret: He uses a different Wordle start word each day.

Leo divulged his strategy for the popular New York Times online game before fielding questions via videoconference about artificial intelligence, social media and the future of the Catholic Church.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at November 21, 2025 08:55 PM (pkeXY)

228 Boy, if that ain't the truth! I used to work in DC and there were people, I'm convinced, whose entire self-identity was wrapped up in politics.

The Carthagenians - we also got screwed by politics. Should have took it more serious.

Posted by: Keep The Record Straight at November 21, 2025 08:55 PM (+nY70)

229 >>It would be hilarious if Mamdani returned to New York and was denounced by his "comintern" or whatever as a running dog of capitalism, now that he's met with Trump.

He's already taking some flak for not standing up to literally Hitler. It's pretty hard to argue that Trump isn't a really good negotiator. He lives for this stuff.

Posted by: JackStraw at November 21, 2025 08:56 PM (viF8m)

230 Boy, if that ain't the truth! I used to work in DC and there were people, I'm convinced, whose entire self-identity was wrapped up in politics.

We didn't pay enough attention. And now our five tribes are gone. Other than those living in poverty - The Five Civilized Tribes.

Posted by: Keep The Record Straight at November 21, 2025 08:57 PM (+nY70)

231 177
'It might also make him look like an accomadationisg to Trump to his supporters. They can easily turn on him like the rabid weasels they are.'

He's going to shiv Trump and repudiate any 'understanding' the next chance he gets so that won't happen.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at November 21, 2025 08:57 PM (fd80v)

232 Boy, if that ain't the truth! I used to work in DC and there were people, I'm convinced, whose entire self-identity was wrapped up in politics.

We ignored the Khmer Rouge - but they took Politics seriously ...

... Every in a Mass Grave in the Killing Fields

Posted by: Keep The Record Straight at November 21, 2025 08:58 PM (+nY70)

233 ROME (AP) — Pope Leo XIV opened a virtual meeting with American Catholic young people Friday by revealing a closely held pontifical secret: He uses a different Wordle start word each day.

***

Any follow-up on the crossword puzzle?

Posted by: Father Guido Sarducci at November 21, 2025 08:58 PM (Q+gd/)

234 The Carthagenians - we also got screwed by politics. Should have took it more serious.
Posted by: Keep The Record Straight at November 21, 2025 08:55 PM (+nY70)

They were already fucked and dead. As soon as Cannae happened, Rome was never, ever going to live and let live. Hannibal wanted to destroy them. Turns out all he could do was hurt them and all that did was doom those poor fuckers.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 21, 2025 08:59 PM (zZu0s)

235 They can easily turn on him like the rabid weasels they are.'"

I suspect they already are...

Posted by: man at November 21, 2025 08:59 PM (XuXeR)

236 Boy, if that ain't the truth! I used to work in DC and there were people, I'm convinced, whose entire self-identity was wrapped up in politics.

Also us - we just thought this shit would work itself out ...

... the Hmong. We picked poorly. And now we're here.

Posted by: Keep The Record Straight at November 21, 2025 09:00 PM (+nY70)

237 186
'The most traitorous thing in the world is choosing morality based on consensus, and not ethics.'

But how else are you going to make sure people keep liking you?

Posted by: Dr. Claw at November 21, 2025 09:00 PM (fd80v)

238 Carthage tried to buy off the Roman Senate, but found out you could only rent them, not buy.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at November 21, 2025 09:00 PM (hZbnZ)

239 Pope Leo XIV opened a virtual meeting with American Catholic young people Friday by revealing a closely held pontifical secret:

You're going to protect our people from being replaced by antiCatholic invaders and help our people be productive citizens through meaningful employment?

He uses a different Wordle start word each day.

Sigh.

Posted by: gKWVE at November 21, 2025 09:00 PM (gKWVE)

240 226: Kittuhs!!

youtu.be/dZZMyYkv0ps

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at November 21, 2025 09:00 PM (BW+Gb)

241 All this talk about MTG delaying her resignation until the 5th to cash in makes me want to re-iterate my proposal that all Congressional salaries be tax free, but any additional money "earned" (maybe "acquired" is a better word) while in office is to be taxed at 100%, wirh all married members of Congress required to file joint returns.

Posted by: tankdemon at November 21, 2025 09:01 PM (o7Ps5)

242 You are welcome - Nancy from San Fran.
Posted by: Keep The Record Straight at November 21, 2025 08:53 PM (+

Our problem is that everyone is noticing her theft, and Lindsey Graham's, and everyone else in DC who's running some scam.

None of this can work if these demons claw for so much money and power that they start drawing blood from their fatted lambs.

Politics is supposed to be a seedy, back room criminal enterprise that doesn't intrude too far into normal life - we're well past that.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 21, 2025 09:01 PM (BI5O2)

243 I would seriously love to live in an old castle -- even an abandoned, drafty old Scottish one. I'd go into every room every day.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at November 21, 2025 07:37 PM (RfDQK)

Saw a thing that said castles weren't that drafty, they had wood frames with paneling and used decorated cloth hangings on the walls to act as insulation.

Posted by: Oldcat at November 21, 2025 09:01 PM (8avO+)

244 Carthage tried to buy off the Roman Senate, but found out you could only rent them, not buy.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at November 21, 2025 09:00 PM (hZbnZ)

After the second punic war, the romans made damn sure they never accepted gifts from Carthage.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 21, 2025 09:02 PM (zZu0s)

245 Boy, if that ain't the truth! I used to work in DC and there were people, I'm convinced, whose entire self-identity was wrapped up in politics.

Every White GI that saw Five Promotion Points in the packet to the Black GI to his left.

Its just politics. Don't mean nothin'.

I shit you not - there are some times - I wonder what planet some of you live on.

Posted by: Keep The Record Straight at November 21, 2025 09:02 PM (+nY70)

246 Carthage tried to buy off the Roman Senate, but found out you could only rent them, not buy.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at November 21, 2025 09:00 PM (hZbnZ)

Same as it ever was with politicians.

'When I buy a politician, I want them to stay bought.'

Posted by: RickZ at November 21, 2025 09:03 PM (gKDq2)

247 The German tribes did keep the Romans out of their territory, after the Battle of the Teutoberg Forest.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at November 21, 2025 09:03 PM (hZbnZ)

248 Yeah politics controls everything about human existence if you consider every human interaction political.

Posted by: the way I see it at November 21, 2025 09:03 PM (KDPiq)

249 Carthage tried to buy off the Roman Senate, but found out you could only rent them, not buy.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at November 21, 2025 09:00 PM (hZbnZ)

I think that was the African King Jugurtha.

Posted by: Oldcat at November 21, 2025 09:04 PM (8avO+)

250 You worship at the alter of politics. I live and work around people who do just that. They're miserable, but good luck to you!

More Kittuhs!!

youtu.be/I0fo6G1bha4

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at November 21, 2025 09:05 PM (BW+Gb)

251 ROME (AP) — Pope Leo XIV opened a virtual meeting with American Catholic young people Friday by revealing a closely held pontifical secret: He uses a different Wordle start word each day.

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Oh. I was hoping he might have demonstrated some steel in his spine by disclosing a secret plan to perpetuate Western Civilization against the coordinated onslaught of demonic forces represented by nihilism, communism and islam.

But Wordle is good too.

*spit*

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 21, 2025 09:05 PM (0RiMX)

252 I almost forgot this is the cafe. Here's a short one, probably AI, about dogs and cats living together.
youtube.com/shorts/p0f9stNeS-s

Posted by: tankdemon at November 21, 2025 09:05 PM (o7Ps5)

253 The German tribes did keep the Romans out of their territory, after the Battle of the Teutoberg Forest.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at November 21, 2025 09:03 PM (hZbnZ)

Sort of.

Germanicus did a lot of punitive raids before Tiberius or Patrick Stewart had him killed.

Trajan pretty much laughed at the idea of not going there.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 21, 2025 09:05 PM (zZu0s)

254
Trump is trying to make him Trotsky. Or the Meschevics. Or a White. Harder to go for a corrallary.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone

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Trump's been doing this since 2016. Remember his meeting with Romney in one of those New York luxury hotels, when Trump was still interviewing for his cabinet? Trump with his usual happy grin, Romney sitting there in post-ravaging afterglow, thinking he was going to be Secretary of State. And then Trump dumping him down the garbage chute.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at November 21, 2025 09:05 PM (RfDQK)

255 And then Trump dumping him down the garbage chute.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at November 21, 2025 09:05 PM (RfDQK)

*snort*

I just had an image of Romney on one of those black leather couches for a casting video. Gah.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 21, 2025 09:07 PM (zZu0s)

256 Yeah politics controls everything about human existence if you consider every human interaction political.

Do you think Fen chases my ass around because she just wants to save my soul ?

No. She does it for control. Group politics / dynamics.

Rarely will you run into a dude that talks you OUT of buying the undercoat.

Posted by: Keep The Record Straight at November 21, 2025 09:10 PM (+nY70)

257 We should all go look at the Shiba again. Mine just pulled his blankie out here.

Posted by: Piper at November 21, 2025 09:11 PM (Wmg4n)

258
I just told them that I was a proponent of anarcho-syndicalism and had nothing but the merest academic interest in the workings of bourgeois American democracy

Posted by: Paco

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Haha, I just might dress that up with some more "isms" and made-up words and use it as needed.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at November 21, 2025 09:11 PM (RfDQK)

259 Oldcat, I believe you are right! The quickest way to get a question answered: state the wrong answer on the internet.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at November 21, 2025 09:11 PM (hZbnZ)

260 Trump's been doing this since 2016. Remember his meeting with Romney in one of those New York luxury hotels, when Trump was still interviewing for his cabinet? Trump with his usual happy grin, Romney sitting there in post-ravaging afterglow, thinking he was going to be Secretary of State. And then Trump dumping him down the garbage chute.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at November 21, 2025 09:05 PM (RfDQK)

Yes, I still laugh about that whenever I see Romney.

That moment when he was photographed chomping on shrimp with a big smile on his face and a nonexistent cabinet post in his fine, woolen pocket will always be good for a chuckle, because it's been eating Mitt Romney ever since. He will never get over that wound.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 21, 2025 09:11 PM (BI5O2)

261 The Sidebar Brit couple also visited my town.

We Visited Alabama's SUPER RICH Small-Town

https://youtu.be/Q-YTQ2K-5uQ

1. It's not SUPER RICH
2. They came on a Monday, when all the best restaurants are closed. It they had waited a couple of days, they could have been here for The Lighting of the Trees, which is a cool town thing, and the good eating would have been better.

Posted by: toby928(c) at November 21, 2025 09:11 PM (jc0TO)

262 WHat is the state food of Alabama, hmmm ?

Posted by: runner at November 21, 2025 09:13 PM (g47mK)

263 Sec of State must net a shit-ton of graft.

Posted by: davidt at November 21, 2025 09:13 PM (Q+gd/)

264 The Lighting of the Trees, which is a cool town thing, and the good eating would have been better.
Posted by: toby928(c) at November

I was there! Did you go?

Posted by: Piper at November 21, 2025 09:14 PM (Wmg4n)

265
1. It's not SUPER RICH"

Well, compared to most of England...

Posted by: man at November 21, 2025 09:14 PM (XuXeR)

266 I was there! Did you go?
Posted by: Piper at November 21, 2025 09:14 PM

Yeah, I am surprised I didn't sense your Moron aura.

Posted by: toby928(c) at November 21, 2025 09:15 PM (jc0TO)

267 262 WHat is the state food of Alabama, hmmm ?
Posted by: runner at November 21, 2025

It’s a cake…lane cake?

Posted by: Piper at November 21, 2025 09:15 PM (Wmg4n)

268 I think Fen does want to save souls. It’s just hard to do that without coming off as preachy. It’s better to pray for lost souls, that they may see the truth. Now that sounded preachy, didn’t it?

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at November 21, 2025 09:15 PM (hZbnZ)

269 WHat is the state food of Alabama, hmmm ?

Cracker Barrel ... other than that little strip in the Gulf.

Posted by: Keep The Record Straight at November 21, 2025 09:16 PM (+nY70)

270 We have good biscuits. I doubt that is an official food though.

Posted by: toby928(c) at November 21, 2025 09:16 PM (jc0TO)

271 1 qw3re4vtq3t4 vb
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at November 21, 2025 07:21 PM (RfDQK)

_________________________

Damn it!!! I always go to the coordinates you post and I never find anything interesting. This time is was a fat guy in a wife beater selling brownies out of his garage. Told me I was too late. He sold all the girl scouts an hour previously.

Posted by: Orson at November 21, 2025 09:16 PM (dIske)

272 263 Sec of State must net a shit-ton of graft.
Posted by: davidt at November 21, 2025 09:13 PM (Q+gd/)

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AT THIS POINT WHAT DIFFERENCE DOES IT MAKE!!!

*hic*

Posted by: Hillary! Dark Horse Candidate 2028 at November 21, 2025 09:16 PM (0RiMX)

273 262 WHat is the state food of Alabama, hmmm ?
Posted by: runner at November 21, 2025

We were right by the tree. I have cute pics- I was the one with the latte from Provision. lol.

Posted by: Piper at November 21, 2025 09:17 PM (Wmg4n)

274 It’s a cake…lane cake?
Posted by: Piper at November 21, 2025 09:15 PM (Wmg4n)

yes , I've heard that ! and sweet potato is your vegetable!

Posted by: runner at November 21, 2025 09:17 PM (g47mK)

275 Now that sounded preachy, didn’t it?

Leave me alone. Or piss off. Did that sound harsh ?

Get my point ?

Posted by: Keep The Record Straight at November 21, 2025 09:17 PM (+nY70)

276 Yeah, it’s the Lane Cake, which is a layer cake made with bourbon, pecans, coconut, and raisins. Sounds tasty!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at November 21, 2025 09:18 PM (hZbnZ)

277 Always get the undercoat!

Posted by: Zippy Ziebart at November 21, 2025 09:18 PM (oftw2)

278 God bless you and keep you!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at November 21, 2025 09:20 PM (hZbnZ)

279 Ziebart"

There's a blast from the past...

Posted by: man at November 21, 2025 09:21 PM (XuXeR)

280 276 Yeah, it’s the Lane Cake, which is a layer cake made with bourbon, pecans, coconut, and raisins. Sounds tasty!
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at

Add some pineapple and we are heading into hummingbird cake!

Posted by: Piper at November 21, 2025 09:21 PM (Wmg4n)

281 We were right by the tree. I have cute pics- I was the one with the latte from Provision. lol.
Posted by: Piper at November 21, 2025 09:17 PM

I walked around the clock area drinking a coffee but was more down Section at The Moment. I was just one of many old hippie looking dudes.

Posted by: toby928(c) at November 21, 2025 09:21 PM (jc0TO)

282 I think there was a time for domestic cars when the undercoat actually was a good idea.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 21, 2025 09:21 PM (zZu0s)

283 That ring looks frickin evil.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at November 21, 2025 09:22 PM (36PRH)

284 My County is too poor to have a tree lighting. We just light some mulch piles on fire down at the transfer station*.

Posted by: *Locals Call It The Dump at November 21, 2025 09:22 PM (oftw2)

285 It's official the clowness by the name of Marjorie taylor green is leaving for greener pastures

Posted by: runner at November 21, 2025 09:22 PM (g47mK)

286 234; and Aetius should know!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at November 21, 2025 09:22 PM (Cjt/F)

287 I hear the official state nut in Alabama is any guy visiting from Florida. Is that true?

Posted by: Orson at November 21, 2025 09:22 PM (dIske)

288 I used to see everyone I knew downtown but I guess my circle of surviving friends is shrinking.

Posted by: toby928(c) at November 21, 2025 09:23 PM (jc0TO)

289 Always get the undercoat!
Posted by: Zippy Ziebart at November 21, 2025 09:18 PM (oftw2)

Earl Scheib's $19.95 paint job.

That Zep song is bouncing around in my head: 'In the days of my youth . . . .'

Posted by: RickZ at November 21, 2025 09:24 PM (gKDq2)

290 No ups, no extras!

Posted by: toby928(c) at November 21, 2025 09:24 PM (jc0TO)

291 Virtually of America's various grifts revolve around the international paper-hanging business, and SecState sits at the center of that chaotic Venn diagram of mass-theft. It's one of the most lucrative and influential positions in the world - a years-long episode of the Oprah Winfrey Show, where there's always a prize under your chair.

YOU get a Bentley, and YOU get a Swiss bank account, and YOU get a Central Asian pipeline concession, and YOUR husband gets a bevy of child prostitutes to keep him busy while you wallow in your ill-gotten gain.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 21, 2025 09:25 PM (BI5O2)

292 Earl Scheib's $19.95 paint job.

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*masking available at additional cost

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 21, 2025 09:25 PM (0RiMX)

293 MTG lost her mind when they booted out McCarthy. She was on a revenge mission ever since. It was only going to end like it has.

Posted by: the way I see it at November 21, 2025 09:25 PM (KDPiq)

294 Will Marjorie Taylor Green end up on the View? The prior appearance was an audition
Posted by: Smell the Glove

She might move to New York and work for Mamdani.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at November 21, 2025 08:46 PM (pkeXY)

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I'm guessing Shitcago to work as a Towel-Girl in the DogEater Presidential Outhouse and Bathhouse.

Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at November 21, 2025 09:25 PM (+mTgD)

295 Next week is OTD, don’t forget to pronounce it oldeee towneeee.

Posted by: Piper at November 21, 2025 09:26 PM (Wmg4n)

296 I think there was a time for domestic cars when the undercoat actually was a good idea.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 21, 2025 09:21 PM (zZu0s)

Until it begins to crack and peel, trapping water-soaked mud beneath it, promoting rust.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 21, 2025 09:26 PM (npFr7)

297 MTG lost her mind when they booted out McCarthy.

I blame 1920s men. Same as I blame 1800s men.

Posted by: Keep The Record Straight at November 21, 2025 09:26 PM (+nY70)

298 We do have Santa coming around on our 1948 Crown Fire Truck, though.

Posted by: (He's Jed From The Feed Store) at November 21, 2025 09:27 PM (oftw2)

299 Isn't she quite wealthy now ??i

Posted by: runner at November 21, 2025 09:27 PM (g47mK)

300 Someone posted this years lighting to YT already.

https://youtu.be/qQ8zClRxH00

Posted by: toby928(c) at November 21, 2025 09:27 PM (jc0TO)

301 MTG lost her mind when they booted out McCarthy.
-----

I blame 1920s men. Same as I blame 1800s men.
Posted by: Keep The Record Straight at November 21, 2025 09:26 PM (+nY70)

Eh. Let's just blame everybody and get it over with.

Posted by: RickZ at November 21, 2025 09:28 PM (gKDq2)

302 Well, I'm disappointed in MTG. I would have liked to see her stay. She was our Fetterman: critical of us, BUT would usually vote the way we needed her to.

Okay everyone, feel free to call me a traitor to the cause. :-)

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 21, 2025 09:28 PM (cQHrm)

303 MTG lost her mind when they booted out McCarthy.

The puppet was old and had a bad termite infection.

It was a mercy really.

Posted by: toby928(c) at November 21, 2025 09:28 PM (jc0TO)

304 meh, g'night everyone!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at November 21, 2025 09:29 PM (Cjt/F)

305 Now to get ready for my 2028 POTUS run!!
Me and Liz Cheney are gonna be unstoppable!

Posted by: MTG at November 21, 2025 09:29 PM (cQHrm)

306
MTG was 100% right when she said her R "colleagues" were stupidfuckingassholes when they expelled that NY fag, Santos, or whatever his name is.

Posted by: Soothsayer at November 21, 2025 09:30 PM (01gtA)

307 Don't let the door hit you MTG. She could have handed shit so much better instead of publicly. Fck her.

Posted by: Minnfidel at November 21, 2025 09:31 PM (4p0Xq)

308 I forgot. The "new truck" is a 51 Crown. It's the old Mack that's the 48. Hall-Scott big gas engine. About 2 miles to the gallon. Less if it's hauling Santa.

Posted by: Sligo Fire and Rescue at November 21, 2025 09:32 PM (oftw2)

309 I will throw my pics on X, I have the clock and the tree.

Posted by: Piper at November 21, 2025 09:32 PM (Wmg4n)

310 Well, I'm disappointed in MTG. I would have liked to see her stay. She was our Fetterman: critical of us, BUT would usually vote the way we needed her to.

Okay everyone, feel free to call me a traitor to the cause. :-)
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 21, 2025 09:28 PM (cQHrm)

There's only one cause, the cause that's best for America. When you begin to think you're bigger than that cause, see ya later, Cupcake.

Keeping around such politicians is why the Dems are where they are. Thanks but no thanks.

Posted by: RickZ at November 21, 2025 09:33 PM (gKDq2)

311
We have LOTS of problems and Shitbums in the GOP, and MTG is the least of them.

I would give a finger to have a Rep like MTG. You People need to smarten up.

I live in MA, which votes 40% Republican, and we have 0 Republican representation in the House. ZERO.

Posted by: Soothsayer at November 21, 2025 09:34 PM (01gtA)

312 Marjorie Taylor-Green coughs up her campaign war chest to the national Party after elections, like a good soldier. Her seat is safe.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 21, 2025 09:34 PM (BI5O2)

313 so we are down a vote...great

Posted by: runner at November 21, 2025 09:34 PM (g47mK)

314 MTG announces resignation, and SCOTUS issues stay of Texas district court decision halting Texas redistricting. A good night.

Posted by: Well, There's Always The Unexpected at November 21, 2025 09:35 PM (qUkBO)

315
That's why I laff every time I see You People bitch about John Cornyn.

I would LOVE to have a Senator here equal to Cornyn. Appreciate what you have, because the grass is always piss-stained yellow on the other side...

Posted by: Soothsayer at November 21, 2025 09:36 PM (01gtA)

316 I don't know why she's resigning, but it's not because of electoral politics.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 21, 2025 09:36 PM (BI5O2)

317 so we are down a vote...great
Posted by: runner at November 21, 2025 09:34 PM

At least she didn't jump to the Democrats but if I never see or hear her again I won't lament it.

Posted by: toby928(c) at November 21, 2025 09:37 PM (jc0TO)

318 Couple months ago, MTG had visions of being a Senator from GA. Now, she will be nothing.

Posted by: The Harder They Fall at November 21, 2025 09:37 PM (oftw2)

319 @292-Earl Scheib's $19.95 paint job.

I got one of those, back in 1972 I think. Bought a used Firebird. But it was a yuck green color. Had it painted candy apple red. For the money, they did a pretty good job. Kept that car for five years and the paint job held up.

Posted by: Case at November 21, 2025 09:37 PM (5Je/N)

320
You'll all be begging for more MTG's a year from now when the Democrats take the House...

Posted by: Soothsayer at November 21, 2025 09:37 PM (01gtA)

321 Keeping around such politicians is why the Dems are where they are. Thanks but no thanks.
Posted by: RickZ at November 21, 2025 09:33 PM (gKDq2)

This. Goal oriented vs personality oriented. This is what the left accuses us of with Trump. He gets us closer to the goal and is therefore rewarded with loyalty- not the other way around.

I agree, fuck this diva bitch.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 21, 2025 09:37 PM (zZu0s)

322 At least she didn't jump to the Democrats but if I never see or hear her again I won't lament it.
Posted by: toby928(c) at November 21, 2025 09:37 PM (jc0TO)

Silver lining !

Posted by: runner at November 21, 2025 09:38 PM (g47mK)

323 We wants two thanx a Mr. Mike Hunt who be emailed us twoday wanting makes a donation to help the Brattleboro Childron of coler fund.

Posted by: Mary Cloggistein from Brattleboro, Vt at November 21, 2025 09:38 PM (357Ky)

324 so we are down a vote...great
Posted by: runner at November 21, 2025 09:34 PM (g47mK)

Of course you're ultimately correct. R''s have a razor-thin margin in the House. And thin in the Senate as well. Important, yes, but not enough to force an ObamaCare down our throats margin, e.g.

Posted by: RickZ at November 21, 2025 09:38 PM (gKDq2)

325 Well, I'm disappointed in MTG. I would have liked to see her stay. She was our Fetterman: critical of us, BUT would usually vote the way we needed her to.

Okay everyone, feel free to call me a traitor to the cause. :-)
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 21, 2025 09:28 PM (cQHrm)

Some people around here think anyone who disagrees with them must have an ulterior motive.

I think she did what she thought was right. Including resigning. I don't hang on her every word, but everything I have heard her say is that she remained 100% loyal to Trump, and him coming at her like she was a traitor, she did what she thought was right in resigning her seat.

Posted by: BurtTC at November 21, 2025 09:39 PM (3BNtu)

326 Have the Dicken's Cider people made contact, Mary?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 21, 2025 09:39 PM (zZu0s)

327 Of course you're ultimately correct. R''s have a razor-thin margin in the House. And thin in the Senate as well. Important, yes, but not enough to force an ObamaCare down our throats margin, e.g.
Posted by: RickZ at November 21, 2025 09:38 PM (gKDq2)

Congress doesn't do anything anyway.

Ultimately it doesn't make a damn bit of difference.

Posted by: BurtTC at November 21, 2025 09:40 PM (3BNtu)

328 Probably see a lot of resignations and R's mysteriously not running again.

Posted by: ... at November 21, 2025 09:41 PM (E0p3T)

329 Is MTG quitting because Trump was mean to her? Or does she have another better offer?

Posted by: AlaBAMA at November 21, 2025 09:41 PM (yZqjq)

330 MTG wanted to give the Dems what they wanted and reopen the government. Why should I regret her resignation.

Posted by: the way I see it at November 21, 2025 09:42 PM (KDPiq)

331 This. Goal oriented vs personality oriented.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 21, 2025 09:37 PM (zZu0s)

I have to keep saying this: This is exactly why Sec. Rubio has impressed me. Not out for himself as Sec. Clinton was. His cause is America and I'm very good with that.

He's raised my esteem of him a lot as Sec. of State, I'll say that.

Posted by: RickZ at November 21, 2025 09:43 PM (gKDq2)

332 I think she did what she thought was right. Including resigning.

-----

LOL.

She's a consummate political lizard.

Someone brought pressure on her that she couldn't resist. Maybe a bribe from Democrats, maybe blackmail from Trump's team.

But she didn't leave for any more honorable reason than she ran for. She's never once considered what's right before today, and I doubt she turned a new leaf thus morning.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 21, 2025 09:44 PM (BI5O2)

333 Yeah, Vance/Rubio will be a strong ticket

Posted by: AlaBAMA at November 21, 2025 09:44 PM (yZqjq)

334 That Senator Kelly from Arizona is a piece of S**t. He was the one that held a CCP flag while on the ISS.

He should be stripped of his Military Retirement Pay...

Kelly U and Schumer can F88K Off and we will not obey anything your Commie-Lib Judges tell us because they are "UNLAWFUL"

Posted by: Jackson at November 21, 2025 09:44 PM (J9q9v)

335 @LauraLoomer
Her life being made miserable this last week makes me happy.
Traitor Greene is a terrible person. I get a lot of joy in watching my enemies fall.
It’s one of life’s joys. It’s called justice.
Nov 22, 2025 · 2:29 AM UTC

Posted by: gKWVE at November 21, 2025 09:44 PM (gKWVE)

336 BurtTC, thanks.

I am NOT saying MTG was always right, not by a longshot. Her idea of asking Dems for forgiveness was especially and absolutely laughable. They'd much rather see her murdered and she can't see it.

I just hope that her local GOP doesn't now just give up and give away the seat to yet another hair-on-fire dumbshit Dem. While I'm wishing the impossible, I'd like a pony too.

Posted by: MTG at November 21, 2025 09:45 PM (cQHrm)

337 Is MTG quitting because Trump was mean to her? Or does she have another better offer?
Posted by: AlaBAMA at November 21, 2025 09:41 PM (yZqjq)

In the military, when you disagree with your commanders, or you lose the trust of your subordinates, you do the honorable thing. You resign.

I think that's what she's doing.

Posted by: BurtTC at November 21, 2025 09:45 PM (3BNtu)

338 We need to lose the crazy chicks from Congress. It's been embarrassing.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at November 21, 2025 09:45 PM (yZqjq)

339 Oops, off Greene sock.

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 21, 2025 09:46 PM (cQHrm)

340 LOL.

She's a consummate political lizard.

Someone brought pressure on her that she couldn't resist. Maybe a bribe from Democrats, maybe blackmail from Trump's team.

But she didn't leave for any more honorable reason than she ran for. She's never once considered what's right before today, and I doubt she turned a new leaf thus morning.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 21, 2025 09:44 PM (BI5O2)

I know, everyone's a piece of shit. Except you.

You bore me.

Posted by: BurtTC at November 21, 2025 09:46 PM (3BNtu)

341 I never though I would have a grandchild of coler, but do now. The adoption is final. Three year old who has been fostered by my son/DIL since he came out of NICU. Four siblings, everyone else in the family looks like a Viking. He looks like a little Gary Coleman. It's pretty cool.

Two of his siblings were also adopted after fostering. They are brothers by blood, who were living kinda ferally, spawned by two meth heads. All the kids are great.

Posted by: Bananas Foster at November 21, 2025 09:47 PM (oftw2)

342 Please allow me to repost the above under my actual nic:

BurtTC, thanks.

I am NOT saying MTG was always right, not by a longshot. Her idea of asking Dems for forgiveness was especially and absolutely laughable. They'd much rather see her murdered and she can't see it.

And yes, she was wrong about other stuff too, like giving up on the shutdown.

I just hope that her local GOP doesn't now just give up and give away the seat to yet another hair-on-fire dumbshit Dem. While I'm wishing the impossible, I'd like a pony too.

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 21, 2025 09:47 PM (cQHrm)

343 @LauraLoomer
Her life being made miserable this last week makes me happy.
Traitor Greene is a terrible person. I get a lot of joy in watching my enemies fall.
It’s one of life’s joys. It’s called justice.
Nov 22, 2025 · 2:29 AM UTC

Posted by: gKWVE at November 21, 2025 09:44 PM (gKWVE)

Speaking of pieces of shit, here's Laura Loomer.

Posted by: BurtTC at November 21, 2025 09:47 PM (3BNtu)

344 So, why didn't the Generals tell Biden to Muck Off when he ordered the ClusterF**k withdrawal out of Afghanistan.

Was that an illegal or unlawful order ???

Posted by: Jackson at November 21, 2025 09:47 PM (J9q9v)

345 Posted by: Bananas Foster at November 21, 2025 09:47 PM (oftw2

You've got a good son .

Posted by: the way I see it at November 21, 2025 09:48 PM (KDPiq)

346 He's raised my esteem of him a lot as Sec. of State, I'll say that.
Posted by: RickZ at November 21, 2025 09:43 PM (gKDq2)

Rubio's also feathering his seamy little nest.Tonight, we excoriate MTG. Tomorrow it will be someone else, and eventually it will be Rubio. They're all scumbags.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 21, 2025 09:48 PM (BI5O2)

347
We need to lose the crazy chicks from Congress. It's been embarrassing.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at November 21, 2025 09:45 PM (yZqjq)

PoliticalInsustrialComplex 11!1*that made me sooo rich - net worth from 700K to 22 million in 5 years...

Posted by: runner at November 21, 2025 09:48 PM (g47mK)

348 I am NOT saying MTG was always right, not by a longshot. Her idea of asking Dems for forgiveness was especially and absolutely laughable. They'd much rather see her murdered and she can't see it.

And yes, she was wrong about other stuff too, like giving up on the shutdown.

I just hope that her local GOP doesn't now just give up and give away the seat to yet another hair-on-fire dumbshit Dem. While I'm wishing the impossible, I'd like a pony too.
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 21, 2025 09:47 PM (cQHrm)

Ain't a politician ever made who I trusted or agreed with all the time.

There's just always one common denominator, when it comes to Republicans who get the AoSHQ raspberry treatment.

Posted by: BurtTC at November 21, 2025 09:48 PM (3BNtu)

349 BurtTC, looks like we are on the same page on numerous things. :-)

YES, our side needs fierce fighters.
NO. we don't need psychobeasts like Loomer.

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 21, 2025 09:48 PM (cQHrm)

350 I know, everyone's a piece of shit. Except you.

----

I'm glad you finally figured it out, Burt.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 21, 2025 09:49 PM (BI5O2)

351 Her resignation letter is quite the flounce. I appreciate her voting record, despite her being a bit of a whackadoodle. I think the distinction lost is America First doesn’t mean, and never meant, America Only. In many respects, protecting strategic interests is putting America first. Is it perfect? of course not. We have a 2 party system that won’t allow the changes we want exactly how we want them. We have to do better, we can do better, but we won’t get nirvana unless we actually do go the benevolent dictator route.

Posted by: Piper at November 21, 2025 09:49 PM (Wmg4n)

352 Loomer is a freak show

Posted by: NCKate at November 21, 2025 09:50 PM (uQzkA)

353 Of course I can absolutely empathize with the feeling:

Now that House Republicans are FINALLY learning to use their razor-thin margin to flex some real power? Of course they just can't wait to give it all away. The HRs LOVE AND CHERISH being powerless, bullied and abused.

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 21, 2025 09:51 PM (cQHrm)

354 NCKate, yes!

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 21, 2025 09:51 PM (cQHrm)

355 Loomer is a freak show
Posted by: NCKate at November 21, 2025 09:50 PM (uQzkA)

will never forget how she broke the story about Biden's Las Vegas near death experience

Posted by: runner at November 21, 2025 09:51 PM (g47mK)

356 Loomer is also a nut.

Posted by: the way I see it at November 21, 2025 09:52 PM (KDPiq)

357 I'm sure Trump will be magnanimous when he posts on Truth soon.

MTG was amazing, she's doing a great thing, always liked her, yada yada yada.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at November 21, 2025 09:52 PM (yZqjq)

358 In the military, when you disagree with your commanders, or you lose the trust of your subordinates, you do the honorable thing. You resign.

I think that's what she's doing.
Posted by: BurtTC at November 21, 2025 09:45 PM


and give an edge to the enemy. I don't think heroes work that way.

Posted by: toby928(c) at November 21, 2025 09:52 PM (jc0TO)

359 RickZ: fair enough.

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 21, 2025 09:53 PM (cQHrm)

360 There's just always one common denominator, when it comes to Republicans who get the AoSHQ raspberry treatment.
Posted by: BurtTC at November 21, 2025 09:48 PM (3BNtu)

I don't think there is any such thing.

And as a friendly you oughta watch the projection on the "everyone but me" stuff.

This place can't agree on anything, and doesn't. Especially not politics. It is definitely not everyone against you. Sorry.

Posted by: ... at November 21, 2025 09:54 PM (E0p3T)

361 MTG could have just announced that she wasn't seeking reelection. Then she could have stayed in and voted for the country. She has chosen not to do that.

Posted by: toby928(c) at November 21, 2025 09:54 PM (jc0TO)

362 341 I never though I would have a grandchild of coler, but do now. The adoption is final. Three year old who has been fostered by my son/DIL since he came out of NICU. Four siblings, everyone else in the family looks like a Viking. He looks like a little Gary Coleman. It's pretty cool.

Two of his siblings were also adopted after fostering. They are brothers by blood, who were living kinda ferally, spawned by two meth heads. All the kids are great.
Posted by: Bananas Foster at November 21, 2025 09:47 PM (oftw2)

Congratulations on the adoption! That is so awesome. I love this for him, for your DIL, your son and you.

Posted by: Piper at November 21, 2025 09:55 PM (Wmg4n)

363 the way I see it: also yup.

Loomer especially lost me when she was claiming last year, America is already absolutely doomed, and Trump was just a means of delaying what she thinks is inevitable: the fall of our country to Stalinism.

I admit I also hated that in Loomer's mind, if you thought DeSantis just might maybe be a better choice than Trump, you're a traitor and you need to be punished severely.

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 21, 2025 09:55 PM (cQHrm)

364 Was MTG the one with the tittie play in the theater?

Posted by: davidt at November 21, 2025 09:56 PM (Q+gd/)

365 Loomer can be rational and break really stories for months, then go a little haywire for a while. Like Blonde Morticia's typing.

Posted by: Something With Synapses at November 21, 2025 09:56 PM (oftw2)

366 Was MTG the one with the tittie play in the theater?
Posted by: davidt at November 21, 2025 09:56 PM (Q+gd/)

No, that was Lauren Boebert, IIRC.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 21, 2025 09:57 PM (npFr7)

367 She is doing it to hurt Trump. There is nothing else there.

Posted by: runner at November 21, 2025 09:57 PM (g47mK)

368 Was MTG the one with the tittie play in the theater?
Posted by: davidt

Boebert.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at November 21, 2025 09:57 PM (LjSYW)

369 and give an edge to the enemy. I don't think heroes work that way.
Posted by: toby928(c) at November 21, 2025 09:52 PM (jc0TO)

I'm assuming Georgia has some system that allows her to be replaced. It's a safe district for the R party.

And, to repeat myself, Congress doesn't do anything anyway.

Posted by: BurtTC at November 21, 2025 09:57 PM (0+iUB)

370 364 Was MTG the one with the tittie play in the theater?
Posted by: davidt at November 21, 2025 09:56 PM (Q+gd/)


That Boebert

Posted by: AlaBAMA at November 21, 2025 09:57 PM (yZqjq)

371

Santos!

The freshmaker.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at November 21, 2025 09:58 PM (pkeXY)

372 Was MTG the one with the tittie play in the theater?
Posted by: davidt at November 21, 2025 09:56 PM (Q+g

No that's the one now trying to censure a fellow Republican for being a man.

Posted by: the way I see it at November 21, 2025 09:58 PM (KDPiq)

373 Trump just revoked the Temporary Protected Status of the Somalis in Minnesota.

Woot!

Posted by: IrishEi at November 21, 2025 09:58 PM (3ImbR)

374 It is definitely not everyone against you. Sorry.
Posted by: ... at November 21, 2025 09:54 PM (E0p3T)

Which is not what I said.

Posted by: BurtTC at November 21, 2025 09:58 PM (0+iUB)

375 In the meantime there's all these brain-dead NeverTrumpers out there who are so, so angry that every J6er (and in their minds, every Trump supporter) isn't being tortured to death.

Of course they're absolutely masturbating about MTG resigning, so in fairness that's another reason to think this latest move of hers is just stupid.

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 21, 2025 09:58 PM (cQHrm)

376 Boebert.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at November 21, 2025 09:57 PM (LjSYW)

You misspelled Boobert.

Posted by: BurtTC at November 21, 2025 09:59 PM (0+iUB)

377 Posted by: qdpsteve at November 21, 2025 09:55 PM (cQHrde

Opinions don't make people anything other than maybe dumb. DeSantis for certain wasn't a better choice and proved it. No way he was running the gauntlet it takes to win nationally as a Republican intact. No chance.

That Top Gov ad alone was disqualifying. Had the sorry embarrassing stink of GOPe. Felt like a John McCain ad circa 2005.

Posted by: ... at November 21, 2025 09:59 PM (E0p3T)

378 Boebert, Loomer and Green.

Something in common with these women.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at November 21, 2025 09:59 PM (yZqjq)

379 Boebert and Mace are the nut ball twins

Posted by: NCKate at November 21, 2025 09:59 PM (uQzkA)

380 Trump just revoked the Temporary Protected Status of the Somalis in Minnesota.

Woot!
Posted by: IrishEi at November 21, 2025 09:58 PM (3ImbR)

What does that mean? Can we shoot them now?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 21, 2025 09:59 PM (npFr7)

381 >>There's just always one common denominator, when it comes to Republicans who get the AoSHQ raspberry treatment.

Agreed. They betray what we are fighting for.

Posted by: JackStraw at November 21, 2025 09:59 PM (viF8m)

382 Sorry it's Mace trying to do the censure.

Posted by: the way I see it at November 21, 2025 10:00 PM (KDPiq)

383 344 So, why didn't the Generals tell Biden to Muck Off when he ordered the ClusterF**k withdrawal out of Afghanistan.

Was that an illegal or unlawful order ???
Posted by: Jackson at November 21, 2025 09:47 PM (J9q9v)

Just because an order is stupid doesn't mean it is illegal. The President is the boss, what he says goes. As much as some of them would like to, (e.g. MacArthur in Korea) they cannot go on their own against the President's wishes.

Posted by: tankdemon at November 21, 2025 10:00 PM (o7Ps5)

384 Which is not what I said.
Posted by: BurtTC at November 21, 2025 09:58 PM (0+iUB)

You all but directly stated that the entire board has a single opinion of particular politicians. If I got that wrong, by all means correct it. But do it for you not me.

Posted by: ... at November 21, 2025 10:01 PM (E0p3T)

385 I'm assuming Georgia has some system that allows her to be replaced. It's a safe district for the R party.

And, to repeat myself, Congress doesn't do anything anyway.
Posted by: BurtTC at November 21, 2025 09:57 PM

I think the governor must call for a special election and then have a couple of months go by. Maybe a replacement can be in by May.

Posted by: toby928(c) at November 21, 2025 10:01 PM (jc0TO)

386 ..., that's fine if you feel that way about DeSantis. But Loomer took it to an insane level: "you're either with Trump or F*** YOU!!!!!" :-p

Also, and just FYI, the reason I don't consider DeSantis GOPe is, just look at his record of accomplishment in Florida. In my mind, GOPe talks forever but never gets anything done. Ron gets things done!

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 21, 2025 10:01 PM (cQHrm)

387 Loomer broke a lot of stories. There is one current one about the rot at CMS. Subverting Trump's agenda at Center for Medicaid Medicare, and then pushing the lie that Trump does not care about seniors, health and poor people.

Posted by: runner at November 21, 2025 10:02 PM (g47mK)

388 You all but directly stated that the entire board has a single opinion of particular politicians. If I got that wrong, by all means correct it. But do it for you not me.
Posted by: ... at November 21, 2025 10:01 PM (E0p3T)

No. I specifically did NOT say that.

On purpose. Words have meaning, and reading other people's minds is always folly.

Posted by: BurtTC at November 21, 2025 10:03 PM (0+iUB)

389 I haven't a clue what the alleged common denominator is. Don't care actually.

Posted by: the way I see it at November 21, 2025 10:03 PM (KDPiq)

390 I think with enough push, DeSantis could absolutely win for POTUS in a general election.

Having said that? Ive become so enamored with Vance that I no longer miss Ron that much. Go ahead and make 2028 the year of JD and Sarah Huckabee.

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 21, 2025 10:03 PM (cQHrm)

391 38 Republicans bailed in the '18 midterms, directly after voting down border reforms. They were all well compensated for that, especially Paul Ryan.

This is the game. Taylor-Greene got her payday.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 21, 2025 10:04 PM (BI5O2)

392 Also, and just FYI, the reason I don't consider DeSantis GOPe is, just look at his record of accomplishment in Florida. In my mind, GOPe talks forever but never gets anything done. Ron gets things done!
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 21, 2025 10:01 PM (cQHrm)
~~~~~

DeSantis is a good guy, and he's done good things in Florida. I don't think he would be nearly as effective as President Trump has been with foreign policy though.

Posted by: IrishEi at November 21, 2025 10:04 PM (3ImbR)

393 Irish, again, fair point.

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 21, 2025 10:05 PM (cQHrm)

394 On purpose. Words have meaning, and reading other people's minds is always folly.
Posted by: BurtTC at November 21, 2025 10:03 PM (0+iUB)

What is the "AoSHQ raspberry treatment"? The opinion of "some" here? Words do have meaning, even acronyms, and that's an odd thing to call it.

BTW when I'm reading your mind you won't know it, you will only perhaps suspect it.

Posted by: ... at November 21, 2025 10:06 PM (E0p3T)

395 The common denominator is that these are all 21st century American politicians.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 21, 2025 10:06 PM (BI5O2)

396 So why isn't Greene resigning now? We might could have a special election in time to get our vote back for the January 30th shutdown. What's her grift?

Posted by: toby928(c) at November 21, 2025 10:07 PM (jc0TO)

397 Posted by: toby928(c) at November 21, 2025 10:07 PM (jc0TO)


Pension

Posted by: the way I see it at November 21, 2025 10:07 PM (KDPiq)

398 toby: it takes time for certain checks to clear. :-)

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 21, 2025 10:07 PM (cQHrm)

399 So why isn't Greene resigning now? We might could have a special election in time to get our vote back for the January 30th shutdown. What's her grift?
Posted by: toby928(c) at November 21, 2025 10:07 PM (jc0TO)

Pension! She needs to drag it out till January 2nd.

Posted by: runner at November 21, 2025 10:08 PM (g47mK)

400 Go ahead and make 2028 the year of JD and Sarah Huckabee.
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 21, 2025 10:03 PM (cQHrm)
~~~~~

Add Rubio too. We've got a great bench.

Posted by: IrishEi at November 21, 2025 10:08 PM (3ImbR)

401 there is still a month of trading left too...

Posted by: runner at November 21, 2025 10:09 PM (g47mK)

402 Pension
Posted by: the way I see it at November 21, 2025 10:07 PM

She won't have enough time in even by waiting. She is only in her second term I think.

Posted by: toby928(c) at November 21, 2025 10:11 PM (jc0TO)

403 And Burt is right, insofar as Congress doesn't do anything - if you haven't noticed, every single thing aside from the Big Beautiful Bill has been done by EOs, with indifference from Congress, and resistance from the judiciary. Congress has been a spectator in American governance for a long while, and particularly over the last 15 years.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 21, 2025 10:11 PM (BI5O2)

404 Ah, it's her third but that will still only be five years.

Posted by: toby928(c) at November 21, 2025 10:13 PM (jc0TO)

405 Gotta admit I'm shocked that GOP had so much respect for the Big Beautiful Bill, i.e. allowing the shutdown to keep going and going.

GOP has never had a problem before of, whenever Dems put up the slightest resistance, turning around and saying "fine whatever! We don't care! Voters, takesies backsies! Didn't mean nothing! We'll get 'em next time!" :-P

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 21, 2025 10:15 PM (cQHrm)

406 Congress has been a spectator in American governance for a long while, and particularly over the last 15 years.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 21, 2025 10:11 PM (BI5O2)

Nature abhors a vacuum so who the hell is doing what they are supposed to do? Or were they simply nudged aside.

Posted by: ... at November 21, 2025 10:15 PM (E0p3T)

407 @qdpsteve, I thought you voted Democrat ??

Posted by: runner at November 21, 2025 10:16 PM (g47mK)

408 What I mean is, was there never any vacuum to fill because it was pre-filled.

Posted by: ... at November 21, 2025 10:16 PM (E0p3T)

409 runner, no I do not. :-)
I've given up on the Ds. More and more I see you all were right, they stand for nothing except hate for Christianity and the USA.

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 21, 2025 10:17 PM (cQHrm)

410 Nature abhors a vacuum so who the hell is doing what they are supposed to do? Or were they simply nudged aside.
Posted by: ... at November 21, 2025 10:15 PM (E0p3T)

Only if they nudged themselves aside.

They gradually ceded their two most important powers to the Executive over the last half-century - first the warmaking power, then the purse.

They figured out it was much easier and more profitable to live off the fat of the land as a Party PR set-piece, while letting the other branches do the governing. They're no important than the Duma or the Reichstag at this point.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 21, 2025 10:21 PM (BI5O2)

411 Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 21, 2025 10:21 PM (BI5O2)

All fair but I heard tell the person who wrote ObamaCare did so while in jail. A tall tale? Maybe - but this is the kind of thing I'm talking about.

Posted by: ... at November 21, 2025 10:23 PM (E0p3T)

412 Nood ONT (possible repeat)

Posted by: LRob in OK, Moron and Lunatic at November 21, 2025 10:31 PM (47diA)

413 All fair but I heard tell the person who wrote ObamaCare did so while in jail. A tall tale? Maybe - but this is the kind of thing I'm talking about.
Posted by: ... at November 21, 2025 10:23 PM (E0p3T)

Oh? I hadn't heard that - but it wouldn't even slightly surprise me. I can only imagine the privation of that poor man in prison. I bet he ordered surf 'n' turf in his Landsberg-class cell, and they brought him langostinos with Salisbury steak.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 21, 2025 10:36 PM (BI5O2)

414 Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 21, 2025 10:36 PM (BI5O2)

LOL

Posted by: ... at November 21, 2025 10:42 PM (E0p3T)

415 never though I would have a grandchild of coler, but do now. The adoption is final. Three year old who has been fostered by my son/DIL since he came out of NICU. Four siblings, everyone else in the family looks like a Viking. He looks like a little Gary Coleman. It's pretty cool.

Two of his siblings were also adopted after fostering. They are brothers by blood, who were living kinda ferally, spawned by two meth heads. All the kids are great.
Posted by: Bananas Foster at November 21, 2025 09:47 PM (oftw2)

Congratulations to your whole family!! As an adoptee who has had an incredibly blessed life, i can confidently say that the greatest blessing of all was being chosen by my wonderful mom and dad. Im sure your newest grandson will feel the same

Posted by: LASue at November 21, 2025 11:49 PM (lCppi)

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