Wednesday Morning Non-Rant

Giving Thanks

Thanksgiving gives us an opportunity to reflect on the good in our lives. The day to day can be dull or even pretty lousy and there will always be particularly bad days and personal disasters. In bad years, many days be will be of this type. Thanksgiving is an opportunity to take a step back and consider our blessings, even when we might otherwise forget that we have them.

Blessings are manifold, despite the tribulations. Thanksgiving is a holiday rooted in tribulation, from the informal celebrations of often hard-pressed colonists in early New England to its relatively recent form first proclaimed during the depths of war in 1863. It wasn't formalized in law until just before WWII, but by then it was a formality (though it did, of course, provide much cause for disagreement in the particulars).

Some are alienated. Some are poor. Some are disabled. Some are depressed. Some are in pain. All of these and more are real, and can feel as if they define us. Stepping back, taking a breath, and counting blessings is important. While many things may be bad, not all things are bad, and Thanksgiving helps us to acknowledge that which is good.

So long as one is able to acknowledge and experience gratitude, Thanksgiving is all things to all men. It is serious and joyful. It is a solemn reflection as well as a lighthearted celebration. It is religious if you want it to be, or secular if that is your preference. Gratitude as such is worth celebrating, and Thanksgiving helps us recognize and celebrate it. Family, faith and the fact of life itself are all worthy of gratitude!

Whatever your situation this Thanksgiving, I fervently hope that you have the opportunity to consider that for which you are thankful, and that your have a joyous and hopeful holiday!

Posted by: Joe Mannix at 11:00 AM

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1 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 26, 2025 11:00 AM (Zz0t1)

2 Sponge!

Posted by: rickb223 at November 26, 2025 11:00 AM (rYMt6)

3 Maybe I'll be first. Either way, I'll go summon the otters.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at November 26, 2025 11:00 AM (O7YUW)

4 With all the adversity in my life over the last few years, I still know I have much to be thankful for.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 26, 2025 11:01 AM (Zz0t1)

5 Attaboy Sponge!

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at November 26, 2025 11:01 AM (O7YUW)

6 Well said

Posted by: It's me donna at November 26, 2025 11:02 AM (VE6XX)

7 Attaboy Sponge!
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at November 26, 2025 11:01 AM (O7YUW)

*fistbump*

Priorities ARE in order.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 26, 2025 11:02 AM (Zz0t1)

8
Refugees from math oppression got here right quick, I see.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at November 26, 2025 11:02 AM (xG4kz)

9
I am grateful for all y'all

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at November 26, 2025 11:03 AM (xG4kz)

10 I recently befriended a gay couple who was evicted from their family when they came out.

They are living with a friend until they get back on their feet, one of them lost a job due to no fault of their own around the same time.

I think most of us here take the roof over our heads for granted. I am definitely thankful I have a safe and warm place to lay my head every night.

Posted by: kallisto at November 26, 2025 11:03 AM (dCxaZ)

11 Blessings are manifold, despite the tribulations.

Headers > Manifolds

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 26, 2025 11:03 AM (Zz0t1)

12 Whatever your situation this Thanksgiving, I fervently hope that you have the opportunity to consider that for which you are thankful, and that your have a joyous and hopeful holiday!

Mine's easy. I have a new SiL on the way, and 4 grandkids. Life is good.

Posted by: Archimedes at November 26, 2025 11:03 AM (Riz8t)

13 1 FIRST!!!!!
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 26, 2025 11:00 AM (Zz0t1)

=====

Yeah baby.

Posted by: Jordan61 at November 26, 2025 11:03 AM (DRSnL)

14 I am grateful for all y'all
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot

Same here.

Posted by: Bulg at November 26, 2025 11:04 AM (77rzZ)

15 I am grateful for all y'all
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at November 26, 2025 11:03 AM (xG4kz)

This.

Things would've been a lot harder were it not for you crazy fargin bastages.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 26, 2025 11:04 AM (Zz0t1)

16
Yeah baby.
Posted by: Jordan61 at November 26, 2025 11:03 AM (DRSnL)

Woot!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 26, 2025 11:04 AM (Zz0t1)

17 I will likely be working until I croak to keep that roof over my head. I could sell it and move into a trailer or condo, but I really like my house.

so hi-ho, it's off to werk I go

so I guess I should be thankful for my job.
Ok, ok...I AM thankful for my job

Posted by: kallisto at November 26, 2025 11:04 AM (dCxaZ)

18 Time's up, pencils down!

Dang it, I had almost figured out 249*87!

Posted by: t-bird at November 26, 2025 11:04 AM (qXAQs)

19
Has anyone here still got a Grandma who lives "over the river and through the woods"?

Or is that your burden to bear, now? << THIS

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at November 26, 2025 11:05 AM (xG4kz)

20 >>Whatever your situation this Thanksgiving, I fervently hope that you have the opportunity to consider that for which you are thankful, and that your have a joyous and hopeful holiday!

Why, thank you, Mannix! Same to you and the rest of the horde.

Isn't it great that we have an official holiday to do this and those around us to celebrate it with?!

Posted by: Lizzy at November 26, 2025 11:05 AM (GbwPZ)

21 It is nice to have an online "community" that's not full of hate.

There's plenty of that elsewhere.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at November 26, 2025 11:05 AM (NwnyJ)

22

I'm grateful that I do not have yo read any more turgid prose from Olivia Nutzi.

Posted by: imp at November 26, 2025 11:05 AM (g6TN6)

23 I'd just like to add my thanks for all y'all.

I don't think I could look at the news and keep my sanity if it wasn't for this place.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at November 26, 2025 11:06 AM (O7YUW)

24 It is nice to have an online "community" that's not full of hate.
Posted by: Martini Farmer

Just don't bring up arrotscay in ilichay.

Posted by: Bulg at November 26, 2025 11:06 AM (77rzZ)

25 I'm thankful nobody will deliver a land acknowledgment at the Thanksgiving feast.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 26, 2025 11:07 AM (dyewR)

26 I'm thankful for Ace and this place. Because of him, I've gotten to know a lot of wonderful people. And also gotten some solid medical, cooking, and relationship advice.

Posted by: Jordan61 at November 26, 2025 11:07 AM (DRSnL)

27 Mannix, I hope you have a great Thanksgiving!

Are you going to be celebrating it with YD and his family?

Posted by: Bulg at November 26, 2025 11:07 AM (77rzZ)

28 I really don't trust many polls but one came out saying that the midterms are not looking good.

On the one hand we have Trump, head of the Republican party settle 8 conflicts around the world, cut inflation from 9% to 2.6% while real wages are rising, deep state being cut down to size (a bit), chucks out 2MM illegals thus far, cuts taxes for workin' folk.

And the Pedocrats are 5% ahead for the midterms. All while the Pedos have done nothing but run a color revolution and release their military auxiliaries.

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at November 26, 2025 11:07 AM (cxFcK)

29
I'm grateful that I do not have yo read any more turgid prose from Olivia Nutzi.
Posted by: imp

That drivel was as de-turgid-fying as any coffee table book of candid photographs of Lena Dunham.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at November 26, 2025 11:08 AM (xG4kz)

30 Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 26, 2025 11:07 AM (dyewR)

LOL

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 26, 2025 11:08 AM (PFs9e)

31 A year like this, even as unsteady as things still are for me I've loads to be thankful for. Including finally learning to focus on those things instead of the bad stuff.

Still gonna hope next year's a little smoother, though...

Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at November 26, 2025 11:08 AM (OUMaO)

32
I'm thankful for Smash, Junior-ette, and this extended Horde family.

Posted by: BifBewalski - at November 26, 2025 11:08 AM (QVmho)

33 Are the casinos open on Thanksgiving.

Posted by: Boss Moss at November 26, 2025 11:08 AM (1HZta)

34

I would like to thank the local Native American tribes for either getting hoodwinked like gullible fools or being really bad at War so that we can put this land proper use....

Posted by: imp at November 26, 2025 11:08 AM (g6TN6)

35 I'm thankful for Chuckles Johnston and LGF, for should he not have lost his mind and gone batshit retard, I likely never would've found this place.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 26, 2025 11:09 AM (Zz0t1)

36 This has been a tough, trying year. I am thankful for this place, my health, my job & my home.

Posted by: rickb223 at November 26, 2025 11:09 AM (rYMt6)

37 I am grateful that we do not have Sleepy Joe as President, anymore.

Posted by: Axeman at November 26, 2025 11:10 AM (krQz2)

38 33 Are the casinos open on Thanksgiving.
Posted by: Boss Moss at November 26, 2025 11:08 AM (1HZta)

24 -7-365

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 26, 2025 11:10 AM (HW6XE)

39 ... (though it did, of course, provide much cause for disagreement in the particulars).

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"No carrots in stuffing!"

Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at November 26, 2025 11:10 AM (DcNYf)

40 Are the casinos open on Thanksgiving.
Posted by: Boss Moss

The casinos are like Waffle House. They never close. They are even open on Christmas morning.

Posted by: rickb223 at November 26, 2025 11:10 AM (rYMt6)

41 As instructive, informative, and downright useful as Sefton's early morning rants are, I find that my mood throughout the day is much improved if I take time to be grateful and consider the eternal perspective before I dig into the unfailingly rage-inducing news dump each morning.

Posted by: Part-time Thinker at November 26, 2025 11:10 AM (aVO1v)

42
And the Pedocrats are 5% ahead for the midterms. All while the Pedos have done nothing but run a color revolution and release their military auxiliaries.
Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at November 26, 2025 11:07 AM (cxFcK)

The media still carries a f*ckload of weight in this world. As sad as that is, NONE of what you say is being reported and 95% of Americans have no clue.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 26, 2025 11:10 AM (Zz0t1)

43 I'm thankful for Chuckles Johnston and LGF, for should he not have lost his mind and gone batshit retard, I likely never would've found this place.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 26, 2025 11:09 AM (Zz0t1)
---
Same thing with Hot Air going FaceBook comments.

Posted by: Axeman at November 26, 2025 11:11 AM (krQz2)

44
I'm thankful nobody will deliver a land acknowledgment at the Thanksgiving feast.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43)

I would offer up one, but only for the mats of stromatolites which converted this planet's atmosphere from reducing to oxidizing Lo! those billions of years ago. Everything and everybody after that were nothing but parasitic freeloaders.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at November 26, 2025 11:11 AM (xG4kz)

45 I am grateful that we do not have Sleepy Joe as President, anymore.

I wonder if he knows.

Posted by: Archimedes at November 26, 2025 11:11 AM (Riz8t)

46 I too, am thankful for all the posters and commenters here.

You guys make my work days workable, often getting me to laugh.

Thank you. /\

Posted by: Bad Andrew at November 26, 2025 11:11 AM (6qf1m)

47 >>I'm thankful nobody will deliver a land acknowledgment at the Thanksgiving feast.

Heh!
My bro and his wife sort of hijacked the planning of Thanksgiving at my parents', and want to start with a champagne toast. I am hoping they don't eulogize my sick dad before he's passed

But I remain thankful for a relatively healthy and definitely loving family, despite a little dysfunction!

Posted by: Lizzy at November 26, 2025 11:11 AM (GbwPZ)

48 This has been a tough, trying year. I am thankful for this place, my health, my job & my home.

Posted by: rickb223 at November 26, 2025 11:09 AM (rYMt6)

*brohug*

I'm thankful you made it to the TxMoMe this year.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 26, 2025 11:11 AM (Zz0t1)

49

I'm thankful for Chuckles Johnston and LGF, for should he not have lost his mind and gone batshit retard, I likely never would've found this place.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer

HEAR, HEAR!!!

How so many of us stumbled upon here, even before he lost his mind. That bike seat sure did a number on the brain though

Posted by: imp at November 26, 2025 11:11 AM (g6TN6)

50 The other shoe has not dropped yet, for which I am thankful.

Posted by: John Brennan at November 26, 2025 11:12 AM (qXAQs)

51 *brohug*

I'm thankful you made it to the TxMoMe this year.
Posted by: Sponge

Me too. Thank you. And everyone that was there.

Posted by: rickb223 at November 26, 2025 11:12 AM (rYMt6)

52 It looks like my dumb-a* state has finally killed the stupid election interference case against Trump. Some good news.

Posted by: banana Dream at November 26, 2025 11:13 AM (3uBP9)

53 >>I'm thankful for Chuckles Johnston and LGF, for should he not have lost his mind and gone batshit retard, I likely never would've found this place.

Amen!
Think I found AoSHQ via blogger NeoNeocon.

Posted by: Lizzy at November 26, 2025 11:13 AM (GbwPZ)

54 Nice post . Thanks, Joe Mannix

0ne of the most powerful hymns the church has for Thanksgiving is "Now thank we all our God" by Martin Rinkhart. He was a Lutheran pastor in a walled city during the Thirty Years War . ( 1600s) He wrote it to encourage his children to thank God even in difficult times.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 26, 2025 11:13 AM (PFs9e)

55 How so many of us stumbled upon here, even before he lost his mind. That bike seat sure did a number on the brain though
Posted by: imp at November 26, 2025 11:11 AM (g6TN6)

Who knew shoving things up your ass would lead to such a disaster.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 26, 2025 11:14 AM (Zz0t1)

56
33 Are the casinos open on Thanksgiving.
Posted by: Boss Moss at November 26, 2025 11:08 AM (1HZta)

34

I would like to thank the local Native American tribes for either getting hoodwinked like gullible fools or being really bad at War so that we can put this land proper use....
Posted by: imp

The juxtaposition of these two comments was ironic, to say the least, given which groups have been given an almost free rein to put up casinos practically everywhere in this country.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at November 26, 2025 11:14 AM (xG4kz)

57 All of these and more are real, and can feel as if they define us. Stepping back, taking a breath, and counting blessings is important.

--------------

Arguably there's been no better time or place (America in general) to have been alive.

Of course, I couldn't say that between one and four years ago ... we're definitely approaching more short-term inflection points (following the Novembers of 2016 and 2024).

Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at November 26, 2025 11:14 AM (DcNYf)

58 0ne of the most powerful hymns the church has for Thanksgiving is "Now thank we all our God" by Martin Rinkhart. He was a Lutheran pastor in a walled city during the Thirty Years War . ( 1600s) He wrote it to encourage his children to thank God even in difficult times.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke

"Come Ye Thankful People, Come" and "We Gather Together" are two of my favorite hymns.

Posted by: Bulg at November 26, 2025 11:14 AM (77rzZ)

59 @35/Sponge:

Well since you mentioned the place, it's time for me to check and see if I'm still banned at LGF...

"error!
This account is suspended."

Haha, good times. Never got a warning, just suddenly got caught up in the mass ban that one day when Chuck chug-a-lugged the leftist hemlock.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at November 26, 2025 11:14 AM (O7YUW)

60 We are also very thankful this time of year. Very thankful.

Posted by: Big Turkey at November 26, 2025 11:15 AM (PiwSw)

61 >>I would like to thank the local Native American tribes for either getting hoodwinked like gullible fools or being really bad at War so that we can put this land proper use....

You're welcome, not that I had planned on doing my part.

Posted by: Hannah Dustin, colonial badazz at November 26, 2025 11:15 AM (GbwPZ)

62 Some are...
Yes, they are. But they are in the most blessed nation on Earth, and they have all this from the hand of the Creator. Much to be thankful for, even if life is pressing you hard at the moment.

Posted by: GWB at November 26, 2025 11:16 AM (oZL1r)

63 BREAKING NEWS: The Georgia Prosecuting Attorneys Council has dismissed all charges in the Fani Willis v Trump case.

Posted by: Eric at November 26, 2025 11:16 AM (a2F+C)

64
The juxtaposition of these two comments was ironic, to say the least, given which groups have been given an almost free rein to put up casinos practically everywhere in this country.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at November 26, 2025 11:14 AM (xG4kz)

Casinos to help the Native American community, yet they're still largely living in shithole trailer parks and suffering from alcohol and drug abuse.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 26, 2025 11:16 AM (Zz0t1)

65

Nutzi's nudes, lmao

http://tiny.cc/2cnv001

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/
vanity-fair-nuzzi-unreleased-portrait-scandal-1234763355/
?utm_source=www.status.news&utm_medium=newsletter
&utm_campaign=business-insider-s-paywall-backslide

Posted by: imp at November 26, 2025 11:16 AM (g6TN6)

66 The media still carries a f*ckload of weight in this world. As sad as that is, NONE of what you say is being reported and 95% of Americans have no clue.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 26, 2025 11:10 AM (Zz0t1)
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Yup. People consciously don't trust the media. Trust in the media is at a historic low.

But that doesn't mean that the other side gets filled in just because when asked on a poll and you think of it you say you don't trust the media. The ubiquity of the legacy media plays a role, in generally getting people to believe something.

After all, the more you hear a statement the closer your brain comes to perceiving it as true. The brain is even more an organ of recognition than rigor.

Posted by: Axeman at November 26, 2025 11:16 AM (krQz2)

67 Morning.
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I'm thankful for Chuckles Johnston and LGF, for should he not have lost his mind and gone batshit retard, I likely never would've found this place.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 26, 2025 11:09 AM (Zz0t1)

Ditto.

Posted by: Robert, The Love Walrus at November 26, 2025 11:16 AM (1Yy3c)

68
Haha, good times. Never got a warning, just suddenly got caught up in the mass ban that one day when Chuck chug-a-lugged the leftist hemlock.
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at November 26, 2025 11:14 AM (O7YUW)

And he's largely the reason behind the whole "FIRST" thing. I will be forever grateful.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 26, 2025 11:17 AM (Zz0t1)

69 A few links to the GA case against Trump being ended just now:

abc
https://is.gd/P5ZZwl

cnn
https://is.gd/KZpFwE

A little something for everyone to be thankful for.

Posted by: banana Dream at November 26, 2025 11:17 AM (3uBP9)

70 How so many of us stumbled upon here, even before he lost his mind. That bike seat sure did a number on the brain though
Posted by: imp

Who knew shoving things up your ass would lead to such a disaster.
Posted by: Sponge

Guy presents at the ER. Has a toy horse shoved up his ass.

Doctor describes him as stable.

Posted by: rickb223 at November 26, 2025 11:17 AM (rYMt6)

71
I'm so incredibly grateful for Trump 2.0 instead of Kamala. You want to see something? I think I posted this before, but here's an English woman on November 6, 2024:

youtube.com/watch?v=0Yj364aCyfk

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at November 26, 2025 11:17 AM (6yxOS)

72 I want to say that I'm thankful for Pixy Misa and the Tech Thread that appears every morning. I am NOT techy, but the column is entertaining and well-written. I read it every single day because its a fun read and it helps keep me somewhat aware of what the computer geeks and their money is up to. I know better than to post on an old thread, and I'm never awake when the Tech Thread is active, so I want to say "Thanks!" here instead.

Posted by: Crusader at November 26, 2025 11:18 AM (TN0g+)

73

The juxtaposition of these two comments was ironic, to say the least, given which groups have been given an almost free rein to put up casinos practically everywhere in this country.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot:

Not ironic at all! Lol Now it's their turn to hoodwink the gullible fools. It's about fucking time they learned.

Posted by: imp at November 26, 2025 11:18 AM (g6TN6)

74 Doctor describes him as stable.
Posted by: rickb223 at November 26, 2025 11:17 AM (rYMt6)

Putting the "OW!" back into Augean?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at November 26, 2025 11:18 AM (06Hmj)

75 >>Guy presents at the ER. Has a toy horse shoved up his ass.

Doctor describes him as stable.

Lol!
Didn't we have a wild thread where everyone paired a movie name + "in my azz?"

Posted by: Hannah Dustin, colonial badazz at November 26, 2025 11:19 AM (GbwPZ)

76 Why the long face?

Posted by: Boss Moss at November 26, 2025 11:19 AM (1HZta)

77 > Are the casinos open on Thanksgiving.
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True story;

Our daughter was in "Pop Warner" cheerleading many moons ago. We were living in CA at the time. Anyway, there were "championships" held over Thanksgiving weekend.

In Reno, NV.

At a casino.

Where we had Thanksgiving dinner. Served on plastic plates. No booze.

I was miserable.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at November 26, 2025 11:19 AM (NwnyJ)

78 "The media still carries a f*ckload of weight in this world. As sad as that is, NONE of what you say is being reported and 95% of Americans have no clue.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer"

On the rare occasion I see/hear some MSM in TV it is like a window to another universe. Through The Looking Glass.

Oddly, while driving yesterday I caught an NPR piece on Obamacare and the massive rate increases coming. It went through all the reasons for them and to my surprise it was mostly fair and accurate. It almost caused me to crash I was stunned. Mysterious. Are Dems getting ready to throw it under the bus?

Posted by: Ripley at November 26, 2025 11:19 AM (GUOwU)

79 Some are alienated. Some are poor. Some are disabled. Some are depressed. Some are in pain. All of these and more are real, and can feel as if they define us. Stepping back, taking a breath, and counting blessings is important.
---------

I have to remind myself of this almost constantly these days. Just among my circle of friends and acquaintances (and certainly including Horde folk) there are those whose life difficulties are much more demanding than whatever I am experiencing.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at November 26, 2025 11:20 AM (XeU6L)

80 >>Doctor describes him as stable.

His name was Buck, iirc. Liked to stirrup trouble all the dang time.
Only hurt a bit.

Posted by: Hannah Dustin, colonial badazz at November 26, 2025 11:20 AM (GbwPZ)

81

Btw, nutzi is fairly sfw. It's like a cartoon drawing of a shapley naked woman, so nothing like the subject at all I'd guess (aside from the hardwood floors)

Posted by: imp at November 26, 2025 11:20 AM (g6TN6)

82 Yes, Bulg

Those are very nice hymns as well. We had those and "Now thanks we all our God" on Sunday. Here is the story behind the hymn shared by a Roman Catholic deacon:

https://tinyurl.com/3266a3m2

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 26, 2025 11:20 AM (PFs9e)

83 MONKEY!

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at November 26, 2025 11:21 AM (cuae1)

84 78 Oddly, while driving yesterday I caught an NPR piece on Obamacare and the massive rate increases coming. It went through all the reasons for them and to my surprise it was mostly fair and accurate. It almost caused me to crash I was stunned. Mysterious. Are Dems getting ready to throw it under the bus?
Posted by: Ripley at November 26, 2025 11:19 AM (GUOwU)

"Republicans have had 15 years to save your healthcare, but this is what they think of YOU."

*picture of a gurning John McCain raising his middle finger*

Posted by: XTC at November 26, 2025 11:21 AM (UnA8+)

85 I never was at lgf or hotair. I had spent a lot of time for years at freerepublic and they linked to here alot. When Jef got elected things got weird there and I came here. I was too intimidated to comment much at first, still am, but I am thankful for the HQ and the cobs and the people.

Posted by: banana Dream at November 26, 2025 11:21 AM (3uBP9)

86
I want to say that I'm thankful for Pixy Misa and the Tech Thread that appears every morning.

I need to practice giving my eyes a real thorough cleaning before commenting on that thread.

My blurred vision and my fat fingers lead me to making more typos in my responses there than on any other thread in a twenty-four hour cycle.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at November 26, 2025 11:21 AM (xG4kz)

87 I am, weirdly, thankful for the obnoxious schedules that wife and I had during our careers. We both had white collar jobs and our busy times alternated. The only time that we *might* have had joint freedom was when the kiddos were in school.

But... as a result, we saved a lot and we're able to retire - slightly - before we start taking social security.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 26, 2025 11:21 AM (ExV1e)

88 >>I'm thankful for Chuckles Johnston and LGF, for should he not have lost his mind and gone batshit retard, I likely never would've found this place.

-----------------

Thankful that Hot Gas went full TDS in 2016 and to Facebook Comments as a way to give the middle finger to their commenter base.

Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at November 26, 2025 11:22 AM (9UYps)

89 I’m thankful for scotus. They’ve done a lot of good this year.

Not perfect, nobody is. But overall we’re lucky to have them in our corner.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 26, 2025 11:22 AM (HW6XE)

90 Happy Thanksgiving to all the American Morons and Moronettes!

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 26, 2025 11:22 AM (npFr7)

91 I was miserable.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at November 26, 2025 11:19 AM (NwnyJ)

I can say the same about going to NY for the Thanksgiving Day parade. Pizza on Thanksgiving. Disappointing beyond words.

Posted by: Doesn't Matter at November 26, 2025 11:22 AM (JCLJi)

92 Where we had Thanksgiving dinner. Served on plastic plates. No booze.

I was miserable.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at November 26, 2025 11:19 AM (NwnyJ)

my worst Thanksgiving was the year my mom passed away. My bro and I went to a restaurant near his house...the food was near inedible.
I don't know how anyone can mess up Thanksgiving dinner, but that place certainly did. If the food had been at least passable, it *may* have lessened the sting of Mom being gone.

Posted by: kallisto at November 26, 2025 11:24 AM (dCxaZ)

93 I want to say that I'm thankful for Pixy Misa and the Tech Thread that appears every morning. I am NOT techy, but the column is entertaining and well-written.
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Always informative, even though I'm still mired in 2005 technology. Pixy's a gem.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at November 26, 2025 11:24 AM (XeU6L)

94
POKER MONKEY

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at November 26, 2025 11:24 AM (y9nCu)

95 88 Thankful that Hot Gas went full TDS in 2016 and to Facebook Comments as a way to give the middle finger to their commenter base.
Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at November 26, 2025 11:22 AM (9UYps)

The Hot Air going to Facebook Comments was before 2016. It was even before Trump came down the staircase in 2015.

Posted by: XTC at November 26, 2025 11:24 AM (UnA8+)

96 @72/Crusader: I'll make sure that gets posted in tomorrow's tech thread. It'll make Pixy's day, I'm sure!

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at November 26, 2025 11:25 AM (O7YUW)

97 I was a teenage NRO-nik back in the day.

I'd split my blog-reading time between there and here.

Then they got far, far too fart-sniffy, and shitcanning Derb was the last straw.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at November 26, 2025 11:25 AM (06Hmj)

98 It’s been 10 years so I may be misremembering. But was HotAir really that TDS? It was just AP right? The commenters and the other writers were Trumpy.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 26, 2025 11:25 AM (HW6XE)

99 Poker? I hardly KNEW 'er.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 26, 2025 11:25 AM (Zz0t1)

100 I'm thankful so many young people, well over 60 %, think America is too invested in Israel and that the Israel lobby has too much power over our politicians.

That number will only grow in years to come, and perhaps America will finally be out from under the boot of Israeli control.

Posted by: It is What it Is at November 26, 2025 11:25 AM (tY8eL)

101 Guy presents at the ER. Has a toy horse shoved up his ass.

Doctor describes him as stable.
Posted by: rickb223 at November 26, 2025 11:17 AM (rYMt6)

I r been laughing at this for like ten minutes.

Posted by: Robert, The Love Walrus at November 26, 2025 11:25 AM (1Yy3c)

102 Are Dems getting ready to throw it [DeathCare] under the bus?

Posted by: Ripley at a November 26, 2025 11:19 AM (GUOwU)

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It was always designed to fail and it's working as designed -- their goal was always single-payer (full Feral Gubmint socialistic control), and this was their intermediate step to get there.

Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at November 26, 2025 11:25 AM (v9Nce)

103 My blurred vision and my fat fingers lead me to making more typos in my responses there than on any other thread in a twenty-four hour cycle.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot
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I can fix that.

Posted by: AI at November 26, 2025 11:25 AM (XeU6L)

104

https://www.gettyimages.no/photos/large-bucket-loader

More nuzzi unclothed

Posted by: imp at November 26, 2025 11:26 AM (g6TN6)

105 81 Btw, nutzi is fairly sfw. It's like a cartoon drawing of a shapley naked woman, so nothing like the subject at all I'd guess (aside from the hardwood floors)
Posted by: imp

As Andy Ngo reports, trans weirdo Chad "Charly" Mecca, who was arrested (and released) in Illinois with fellow trans Wisonsin Slenderman stabber Morgan Geyser, is also SFW to look at in his mugshot, but not safe for sanity or hope for the future. I guess I can be thankful my kids have turned out much better?

https://shorturl.at/GoqYm

Posted by: Moron Analyst at November 26, 2025 11:26 AM (JCZqz)

106 so I posted my worst Thanksgiving, but here is a very good out-of-town Thanksgiving I experienced when I was on a road trip for work.

We were in Providence, RI. The Omni hotel served an EXCELLENT brunch, it still lives in my memory.

Good job, Providence Omni!!!

someone told me that students and graduates from Johnson and Wales staffed the kitchen, so that tracks.

Posted by: kallisto at November 26, 2025 11:27 AM (dCxaZ)

107 I'm thankful for Chuckles Johnston and LGF, for should he not have lost his mind and gone batshit retard, I likely never would've found this place.

***

Me too. LGF was great before the crazy times

Posted by: Truck Monkey at November 26, 2025 11:27 AM (Bo9Yf)

108 Posted by: It is What it Is at November 26, 2025 11:25 AM (tY8eL)

What an inappropriate post to put on this thread, IMO.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 26, 2025 11:27 AM (Nx5jP)

109 My freerepublic account is still active, hmm. I liked the ones running it, they seemed like good people.

Posted by: banana Dream at November 26, 2025 11:27 AM (3uBP9)

110 BREAKING NEWS: The Georgia Prosecuting Attorneys Council has dismissed all charges in the Fani Willis v Trump case.
Posted by: Eric at November 26, 2025 11:16 AM (a2F+C)

Charges against whom?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 26, 2025 11:28 AM (npFr7)

111 What an inappropriate post to put on this thread, IMO.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 26, 2025 11:27 AM (Nx5jP)

That's why they call it "shit stirring".

Posted by: Warai-otoko at November 26, 2025 11:28 AM (06Hmj)

112

Regarding the trans weirdo, that dude is really not even trying. It's just Larry from accounting with some blue shit in his hair

Posted by: imp at November 26, 2025 11:28 AM (g6TN6)

113 Guy presents at the ER. Has a toy horse shoved up his ass.

Doctor describes him as stable.
Posted by: rickb223 at November 26, 2025 11:17 AM (rYMt6)

I r been laughing at this for like ten minutes.
Posted by: Robert, The Love Walrus at November 26, 2025 11:25 AM (1Yy3c)

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Gives new meaning to having "the trots" ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at November 26, 2025 11:28 AM (WfgFO)

114 Americans are all thankful that Trump will be impeached and removed from power in early 2027 when Republicans are swept from office by the cleansing broom of democracy.

Posted by: Sid at November 26, 2025 11:29 AM (8BQId)

115 What an inappropriate post to put on this thread, IMO.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 26, 2025 11:27 AM (Nx5jP)

Based on the information revealed on X, I assume they're just a poor Indian trying to make a living gaslighting Americans for 5 rupees a post.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 26, 2025 11:29 AM (ExV1e)

116 I’m thankful I was born in the USA.

Posted by: the way I see it at November 26, 2025 11:29 AM (KDPiq)

117

The shit stirring is in the grand Thanksgiving tradition of not having to worry about Christmas presents or hosting Christmas dinner.

Posted by: imp at November 26, 2025 11:29 AM (g6TN6)

118 105 As Andy Ngo reports, trans weirdo Chad "Charly" Mecca, who was arrested (and released) in Illinois with fellow trans Wisonsin Slenderman stabber Morgan Geyser, is also SFW to look at in his mugshot, but not safe for sanity or hope for the future. I guess I can be thankful my kids have turned out much better?

https://shorturl.at/GoqYm
Posted by: Moron Analyst at November 26, 2025 11:26 AM (JCZqz)

Not defending a Troon, but Mecca wasn't involved in the stabbing.

Posted by: XTC at November 26, 2025 11:29 AM (UnA8+)

119 90 Happy Thanksgiving to all the American Morons and Moronettes!
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

I'm willing to extend the best wishes to any international Morons. Citizenship, to me, should be based on common cultural beliefs and expectations, and international Morons probably have much more in common with traditional American values than the modern Left does.

Posted by: Moron Analyst at November 26, 2025 11:29 AM (JCZqz)

120 Posted by: It is What it Is at November 26, 2025 11:25 AM (tY8eL)

***

You're an idiot

Posted by: Truck Monkey at November 26, 2025 11:30 AM (Bo9Yf)

121 Thankful that Hot Gas went full TDS in 2016 and to Facebook Comments as a way to give the middle finger to their commenter base.
Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at November 26, 2025 11:22 AM (9UYps)

The Hot Air going to Facebook Comments was before 2016. It was even before Trump came down the staircase in 2015.
Posted by: XTC at November 26, 2025 11:24 AM (UnA8+)

Let's be real here. HotAir comments section was always trash.

How Ace managed to have the best commentors in the blogosphere is beyond me BUT I'm quite thankful.

Posted by: Robert, The Love Walrus at November 26, 2025 11:30 AM (1Yy3c)

122 Now, I don't know who you are, or where you are, or where you come from, but I do know that it doesn't matter because if you didn't cackle with laughter at the phrase "cleansing broom of democracy", there's something wrong with you.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at November 26, 2025 11:30 AM (06Hmj)

123 Charges against whom?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 26, 2025 11:28 AM (npFr7)

Trump. That's the case Fani was thrown off of and no one else wants to touch it.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 26, 2025 11:30 AM (ExV1e)

124 >>>
Charges against whom?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 26, 2025 11:28 AM (npFr7)

They had cases against Trump and were trying to roll up a bunch of people with him too. A wasteful circle jerk, but a dangerous one.

Posted by: banana Dream at November 26, 2025 11:30 AM (3uBP9)

125 I was a teenage NRO-nik back in the day.

I'd split my blog-reading time between there and here.

Then they got far, far too fart-sniffy, and shitcanning Derb was the last straw.
Posted by: Warai-otoko
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I had a subscription to the Magazine for years. Still retain a few with significant articles. Like you, when Derb was cut I dropped all association with it. I've mentioned before that I exchanged a couple of emails with him, regarding Mr. Buckley.

Posted by: AI at November 26, 2025 11:30 AM (XeU6L)

126

The location of most of those posts somewhere in like North Africa or aasia?

Posted by: imp at November 26, 2025 11:30 AM (g6TN6)

127 Crusader: I'll make sure that gets posted in tomorrow's tech thread. It'll make Pixy's day, I'm sure!
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I appreciate that so much!

Posted by: Crusader at November 26, 2025 11:30 AM (TN0g+)

128 Oooops /AI

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at November 26, 2025 11:30 AM (XeU6L)

129 The trolls are sad that we have things to be thankful for, apparently.

Posted by: Jordan61 at November 26, 2025 11:30 AM (DRSnL)

130 Not defending a Troon, but Mecca wasn't involved in the stabbing.
Posted by: XTC at November 26, 2025 11:29 AM (UnA8+)

not any that occurred in the past...but if he and Morgan had been left unfettered, who knows what type of violence they would have perpetrated...

it wasn't a matter of "if", but "when"

Posted by: kallisto at November 26, 2025 11:31 AM (dCxaZ)

131 Well that's good news. The new prosecutor assigned to the rico case against Trump in Georgia just announced they are dropping all charges.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at November 26, 2025 11:31 AM (0N4FZ)

132 116 I’m thankful I was born in the USA.

Posted by: the way I see it at November 26, 2025 11:29 AM (KDPiq)

Us too senor. We love that you were born here so you can pay all the taxes for us to live a great life.
- immigrants

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 26, 2025 11:31 AM (HW6XE)

133 Not defending a Troon, but Mecca wasn't involved in the stabbing.
Posted by: XTC

Yup...i guess my twisted intro was a BIT misleading. He was just harboring and aiding a fleeing felon...and the Illinois Police released him with a trespass charge or something.

Posted by: Moron Analyst at November 26, 2025 11:31 AM (JCZqz)

134 I'm pre-thankful for the the soon to come Ace post on Mr. SweetDick Esq.

Fanny news is always great here.

Posted by: banana Dream at November 26, 2025 11:31 AM (3uBP9)

135 107 I'm thankful for Chuckles Johnston and LGF, for should he not have lost his mind and gone batshit retard, I likely never would've found this place.

Same here...

Posted by: It's me donna at November 26, 2025 11:32 AM (VE6XX)

136 100 Yes, the boot of Chinese control is much preferable.

Posted by: Bulg at November 26, 2025 11:32 AM (77rzZ)

137 I'm thankful for Chuckles Johnston and LGF, for should he not have lost his mind and gone batshit retard, I likely never would've found this place.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer

Right? Registration at that place was always closed. One day I saw it open and joined...and then it died.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at November 26, 2025 11:32 AM (snZF9)

138 Guys you realize if Obamacare goes away the replacement will be govt run insurance right? Medicaid for all.

That was always the long term goal of the left.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 26, 2025 11:32 AM (HW6XE)

139 I've gone through the morning with zero fuck yous

Posted by: thug dolphin at November 26, 2025 11:32 AM (EyfuW)

140 139 I've gone through the morning with zero fuck yous
Posted by: thug dolphin at November 26, 2025 11:32 AM (EyfuW)

There's still time. Don't give up hope.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at November 26, 2025 11:32 AM (06Hmj)

141 I’m thankful I’m not a miserable commie lying, God hating , scum retard like Sid who doesn’t comprehend that even so I still pray for his soul and a road to Damascus event.

Posted by: the way I see it at November 26, 2025 11:33 AM (KDPiq)

142

Derb's firing was the death knell for Natl Review. Let the subscription lapse, didn't save them any money by canceling it (I knew I'd never get a refund), and never looked back.

Posted by: imp at November 26, 2025 11:33 AM (g6TN6)

143 The American nature of Thanksgiving is why Christmas decorations are up.

I resent the "just skip it".

Posted by: connected and litigious at November 26, 2025 11:33 AM (s9EN2)

144 Nice post Joe.
Thanxs!

Posted by: Diogenes at November 26, 2025 11:33 AM (y3bZw)

145 I'm thankful for Chuckles Johnston and LGF, for should he not have lost his mind and gone batshit retard, I likely never would've found this place.

Same here...

Posted by: It's me donna at November 26, 2025 11:32 AM

That goes for me as well.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at November 26, 2025 11:33 AM (0N4FZ)

146 I’m thankful I was born in the USA.

Posted by: the way I see it
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Fate is fickle stuff. There is no reason that any of us might not have been born in a mud hut somewhere.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at November 26, 2025 11:34 AM (XeU6L)

147 One day I saw it open and joined...and then it died.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at November 26, 2025 11:32 AM (snZF9)

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Oh, so it's YOUR fault.

Posted by: Jordan61 at November 26, 2025 11:34 AM (DRSnL)

148 You're an idiot
Posted by: Truck Monkey at November 26, 2025 11:30 AM (Bo9Yf)

Very cogent reply. That’s how you change people’s minds and get them to come to your side. Keep doing that. It can’t fail.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 26, 2025 11:34 AM (HW6XE)

149 Posted by: It is What it Is at November 26, 2025 11:25 AM (tY8eL)

***

You're an idiot
Posted by: Truck Monkey at November 26, 2025 11:30 AM (Bo9Yf)

Pakistani.

I know, I know...what's the difference, right?

Posted by: Robert, The Love Walrus at November 26, 2025 11:34 AM (1Yy3c)

150 Doctor describes him as stable.
Liked to stirrup trouble all the dang time.
Only hurt a bit.

They put him in the bridle suite.
Should we halter keep on going? We could all pillion...

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at November 26, 2025 11:34 AM (zdLoL)

151 Morning guys,

We have a launch.

b]SpaceX - Falcon 9 - Transporter 15
SLC-4E - Vandenberg SFB, CA - Space Affairs Live
Launch Date: November 26, 2025
Launch Time: 10:18 a.m. PST (1818 UTC, 19:18 CET)

https://youtu.be/A3hKRzEjGIk

Posted by: Joyenz at November 26, 2025 11:35 AM (2F0/Y)

152 I’m thankful I was born in the USA.
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That's not what I meant.

Posted by: Bruce Springsteen at November 26, 2025 11:35 AM (TN0g+)

153 Argh, I need to go get some sleep, can't type today lol

Posted by: Joyenz at November 26, 2025 11:36 AM (2F0/Y)

154 I feel like even though it probably isn't actually true it would be very easy to get the majority of Americans to believe that Springsteen was born in Canada.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at November 26, 2025 11:36 AM (06Hmj)

155 They had cases against Trump and were trying to roll up a bunch of people with him too. A wasteful circle jerk, but a dangerous one.
Posted by: banana Dream at November 26, 2025 11:30 AM (3uBP9)

I sort of assumed so, but I recall charges against Fanny, too.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 26, 2025 11:36 AM (npFr7)

156 My lowest Thanksgiving was by myself in Warmsutter, WY. The rest of the survey crew had family and headed home while I stayed and kept an eye on the equipment.

Posted by: Beartooth at November 26, 2025 11:36 AM (0714D)

157 Read here for many years, but seldom read very far into comments until about 2017. Still don't comment much, but enjoy the byplay & in-jokes a lot.

Here and Insty are the only sites I still read from early days; miss Protein Wisdom & Daily Pundit.

Posted by: Nazdar at November 26, 2025 11:36 AM (NcvvS)

158 41 As instructive, informative, and downright useful as Sefton's early morning rants are, I find that my mood throughout the day is much improved if I take time to be grateful and consider the eternal perspective before I dig into the unfailingly rage-inducing news dump each morning.
Posted by: Part-time Thinker
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Smart enough. The news is always centered around conflict and bad things while the good news is often not covered or covered very incompletely. The media in general is the devil's plaything and it is no surprise that those in media demonstrate high levels of narcissism and sociopathy. As a profession, they rank right up with politicians for those personality types.

Posted by: whig at November 26, 2025 11:37 AM (WDjG6)

159 131 Well that's good news. The new prosecutor assigned to the rico case against Trump in Georgia just announced they are dropping all charges.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at November 26, 2025 11:31 AM (0N4FZ)

Finally! It should have been dropped when Fani Willis was disqualified, but the Georgia Supreme Court was too timid to go that far, instead asking that some other Prosecutor take it over. Everyone in Fani's office was barred from taking it, so they had to look to some other prosecutor's office in Georgia. EVERY Prosecutor in Georgia turned it down and refused to touch it, it was sucn an obvious stinkbomb. So the guy in charge of getting another Prosecutor to take that case said "ok I'll do it myself."
Which was ridiculous, he never had the resources or staff to even touch something like this.
So he finally wised up and bailed. And it's over.

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 26, 2025 11:37 AM (uWKK8)

160 I’m thankful for the upcoming feast of food and football tomorrow… continuing through the entire weekend

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at November 26, 2025 11:37 AM (YobFY)

161 The American nature of Thanksgiving is why Christmas decorations are up.

I resent the "just skip it".
Posted by: connected and litigious at November 26, 2025 11:33 AM (s9EN2)

***

One 4x8 sheet of plywood, painted white.
One small spotlight.
"HUMBUG!" Painted onto the board.
Prop board up against tree in the yard.

Done.

Posted by: Diogenes at November 26, 2025 11:38 AM (y3bZw)

162 enjoy the byplay & in-jokes a lot.

Posted by: Nazdar at November 26, 2025 11:36 AM (NcvvS)

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Those are...interesting to try to explain to people like Mr. Jordan61 who doesn't hang out here.

Posted by: Jordan61 at November 26, 2025 11:38 AM (DRSnL)

163 >>> Right? Registration at that place was always closed. One day I saw it open and joined...and then it died.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at November 26, 2025 11:32 AM (snZF9)

I don't know how many times my wife and I try out a new restaurant, really like it, and during the meal the waitress tells us, oh we're closing this is our last night. An uncanny number of times, like statistically impossible. I don't know how we were chosen for this, but I think we're the restaurant grim reaper.

Posted by: banana Dream at November 26, 2025 11:38 AM (3uBP9)

164 135 107 I'm thankful for Chuckles Johnston and LGF, for should he not have lost his mind and gone batshit retard, I likely never would've found this place.

Same here...
Posted by: It's me donna

I like how many of our "Thankfuls" are just shitting on the traitors formerly within our ranks. I'm thankful for McCain, Romney, Paul Ryan and others for failing so hard they gave us Trump, who thankfully got Drudge, National Review, The Weekly Standard, and the rest of GOPe Inc to expose and destroy themselves lol.

Aside from personal family things, I am pretty Thankful Trump 2.0 seems to have learned a lot from his first term, and is taking immigration VERY seriously, despite the non-stop resistance. I'm also thankful SCOTUS has been much more willing to step in, shut down lower court overreach nonsense, and overturn bad legal precedents despite decades of prior allowance. May it continue into next term!

Posted by: Moron Analyst at November 26, 2025 11:38 AM (JCZqz)

165 Argh, I need to go get some sleep, can't type today lol
Posted by: Joyenz
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Pfft. That's normal for me.

I wonder what things would look like if we could not see our own typing until it was posted.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at November 26, 2025 11:38 AM (XeU6L)

166 I don’t see born in the USA as anti-American. More like anti government doing shitty things and normal people suffering the consequences.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 26, 2025 11:39 AM (HW6XE)

167 LGF was great before the crazy times
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The St. Rachel and pancakes era was a lot of fun. And then it swerved and became dead to me.

Posted by: Crusader at November 26, 2025 11:39 AM (TN0g+)

168 The Mithras season is upon us.

Posted by: Boss Moss at November 26, 2025 11:39 AM (1HZta)

169 I wonder what things would look like if we could not see our own typing until it was posted.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at November 26, 2025 11:38 AM (XeU6L)

Who reads their own content?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at November 26, 2025 11:39 AM (06Hmj)

170 >>So the guy in charge of getting another Prosecutor to take that case said "ok I'll do it myself."
Which was ridiculous, he never had the resources or staff to even touch something like this.
So he finally wised up and bailed. And it's over.

I remember reading a post from one of the lawyers on X that he knew the moment that guy took over the case it was done. He seemed very familiar with the legal community in Georgia and that guy in particular.

He took it to close it.

Posted by: JackStraw at November 26, 2025 11:40 AM (viF8m)

171 Posted by: Joyenz at November 26, 2025 11:36 AM (2F0/Y)

Hey, Joyenz. Good to see you. Hope you are well.

Posted by: Bulg at November 26, 2025 11:40 AM (77rzZ)

172 Allowing a partisan state prosecution headed out of a partisan city in regard to charges arising out of a Federal election against a political opponent should never be allowed in the first place.

Posted by: the way I see it at November 26, 2025 11:40 AM (KDPiq)

173 Same week Comey case and Trump case are dismissed.

Interesting coincidence.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 26, 2025 11:40 AM (HW6XE)

174 Very cogent reply. That’s how you change people’s minds and get them to come to your side. Keep doing that. It can’t fail.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald
=====
There is no changing minds of drive by trolls like that. They are only interested in dropping turds in the discussion. And many if not most have been revealed to be foreign assholes interfering in US politics for money and kicks. They can fuck right off and fix their own miserable societies first.

Posted by: whig at November 26, 2025 11:41 AM (WDjG6)

175 I’m thankful I’m not a miserable commie lying, God hating , scum retard like Sid who doesn’t comprehend that even so I still pray for his soul and a road to Damascus event.

On the road to Damascus, Paul was met with the epiphany that Jesus is Lord and that being the Jewiest of Jews made Paul the gravest of sinners.

Posted by: Sid at November 26, 2025 11:42 AM (myJeS)

176
Well, I've got an audit to prepare for that has yet to be scheduled for December and I am both the auditee and the scheduling bottleneck, so BBL.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at November 26, 2025 11:42 AM (xG4kz)

177 "I don't know how many times my wife and I try out a new restaurant, really like it, and during the meal the waitress tells us, oh we're closing this is our last night. An uncanny number of times, like statistically impossible. I don't know how we were chosen for this, but I think we're the restaurant grim reaper.
Posted by: banana Dream"

Can you please go check out Cracker Barrel?

Posted by: Ripley at November 26, 2025 11:42 AM (GUOwU)

178 Posted by: Bulg at November 26, 2025 11:40 AM (77rzZ)

Hey Bulg, doing ok. Hoping everyone has a wonderful Thanksgiving. :-)

Posted by: Joyenz at November 26, 2025 11:43 AM (2F0/Y)

179 Can you please go check out Cracker Barrel?
Posted by: Ripley at November 26, 2025 11:42 AM (GUOwU)

*snort*

Posted by: Jordan61 at November 26, 2025 11:43 AM (DRSnL)

180 I’ve like Springsteen’s Born in the USA for 40 years without really paying attention to the lyrics (other than the title which is sung repeatedly)… but I just went and read the lyrics for the very first time and damn they’re depressing. Music sounds like a positive anthem juxtaposed against those depressing lyrics… still like the music heh

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at November 26, 2025 11:43 AM (YobFY)

181 There is no changing minds of drive by trolls like that. They are only interested in dropping turds in the discussion. And many if not most have been revealed to be foreign assholes interfering in US politics for money and kicks. They can fuck right off and fix their own miserable societies first.
Posted by: whig at November 26, 2025 11:41 AM (WDjG6)

A majority of American yuuutes are anti-Israel. That’s reality foreign trolls or bot.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 26, 2025 11:43 AM (HW6XE)

182 One 4x8 sheet of plywood, painted white.
One small spotlight.
"HUMBUG!" Painted onto the board.
Prop board up against tree in the yard.

Done.
Posted by: Diogenes

One of those companies that will put up your Christmas lights here in NoVa is called "Humbug," and has a depiction of ol' Ebenezer as a logo.

Posted by: Bulg at November 26, 2025 11:44 AM (77rzZ)

183 For those so inclined, a prayer for Mama Publius would be appreciated. She's in the hospital again with super low platelets; seems she's developed a resistance to the N-plate infusions and now she's under 2000. Poor lady will be in there for the holiday. She's a good sport, though.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at November 26, 2025 11:44 AM (w6EFb)

184 170 >>So the guy in charge of getting another Prosecutor to take that case said "ok I'll do it myself."
Which was ridiculous, he never had the resources or staff to even touch something like this.
So he finally wised up and bailed. And it's over.

I remember reading a post from one of the lawyers on X that he knew the moment that guy took over the case it was done. He seemed very familiar with the legal community in Georgia and that guy in particular.

He took it to close it.
Posted by: JackStraw

Georgia law when a prosecutor is removed from a case. Skadalakis had to take the case over in order to kill it as he could find no other GA prosecutor willing to take the case in order to dismiss it. As Skandalakis was executive director of the Prosecutorial Council, he was not at risk from leftist idiots in the population wanting vengeance for Trump winning in 2020 and 2024.

Posted by: whig at November 26, 2025 11:44 AM (WDjG6)

185 Jordcan61, yeah, Mrs Nazdar just shakes her head when she hears some of it. She does like the Pet Thread, though, and usually laughs at the Saturday Night Joke.

Posted by: Nazdar at November 26, 2025 11:44 AM (NcvvS)

186 For those so inclined, a prayer for Mama Publius would be appreciated. She's in the hospital again with super low platelets; seems she's developed a resistance to the N-plate infusions and now she's under 2000. Poor lady will be in there for the holiday. She's a good sport, though.
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at November 26, 2025 11:44 AM (w6EFb)

Prayers up.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 26, 2025 11:44 AM (Zz0t1)

187 Great post Mannix. I have a lot to be grateful this year.

I'm doing much better emotionally than last year, praying to be delivered from resentment has helped a lot.
I still have a good job and a decent place to live and keep horses.
Have a housemate now and am way less lonely even though we don't interact a lot having different schedules.
I have great neighbors and my health is still decent

Posted by: PaleRider at November 26, 2025 11:45 AM (hhkIi)

188 miss Protein Wisdom & Daily Pundit.
Posted by: Nazdar at November 26, 2025 11:36 AM (NcvvS)

Jeff Goldstein opened a Substack.

I remember reading the PW comments early on and the comments section was great. Then Jeff encountered some serious bumps in the road of life and turned it over to some chick who ran it into the ground.

Posted by: Robert, The Love Walrus at November 26, 2025 11:45 AM (1Yy3c)

189 Posted by: whig at November 26, 2025 11:37 AM (WDjG6)

The other thing I try to remind people is history. Same as it’s always been and current events aren’t always a sign of impending doom.

Mr Smith Goes to Washington was released in 1939.

Posted by: the way I see it at November 26, 2025 11:45 AM (KDPiq)

190 A majority of American yuuutes are anti-Israel. That’s reality foreign trolls or bot."

It's the day before Thanksgiving. Lighten up, Francis.

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 26, 2025 11:46 AM (uWKK8)

191 Oh, so it's YOUR fault.

Posted by: Jordan61 at November 26, 2025 11:34 AM (DRSnL)

I am doom. lol

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at November 26, 2025 11:46 AM (snZF9)

192 Well, I'm grateful for a little tinge of the way I see it every few days, to remind me that we are not among friends when in public.

If, in a fit of bonhommie, you reveal that your health is much improved, your family is doing very well, and/or your investments have done great and you've helped the homeless, there is some shit-flinging son of an unrequited whore lurking to spring his little shit-trap and get his undersized impotent rocks off.

Just a reminder that, if the syphilis ward of a mental hospital had a gay bar, there'd still be a smartass drunk in the last barstool.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at November 26, 2025 11:46 AM (zdLoL)

193 Poor lady will be in there for the holiday. She's a good sport, though.
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at November 26, 2025 11:44 AM (w6EFb)

Prayers...

Posted by: It's me donna at November 26, 2025 11:46 AM (VE6XX)

194 For those so inclined, a prayer for Mama Publius would be appreciated. She's in the hospital again with super low platelets; seems she's developed a resistance to the N-plate infusions and now she's under 2000. Poor lady will be in there for the holiday. She's a good sport, though.
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist
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Thoughts and prayers for you, publius, and Mama.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at November 26, 2025 11:46 AM (XeU6L)

195 A majority of American yuuutes are anti-Israel. That’s reality foreign trolls or bot.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald

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You really need to stop that. You're like half a tick away from being Mister Ghost.

Posted by: Crusader at November 26, 2025 11:46 AM (TN0g+)

196 Same to you, Joyenz.

Posted by: Bulg at November 26, 2025 11:47 AM (77rzZ)

197 Springsteen is an anti-American communist asshole.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 26, 2025 11:47 AM (Zz0t1)

198 *sigh* Jordan61. Sorry.

Posted by: Nazdar at November 26, 2025 11:47 AM (NcvvS)

199 Posted by: Sid at November 26, 2025 11:42 AM (myJeS)

Confirming you’re a retard. Still praying.

Posted by: the way I see it at November 26, 2025 11:47 AM (KDPiq)

200 I'm sad to admit that I first discovered AoSHQ through Jim Geraghty and his Morning Jolt column in 2011. He kept citing Ace so I had to check it out. I quit reading NR in 2016 (can't remember why??), but am on mu.nu all day long now.

Posted by: jayhawkone at November 26, 2025 11:48 AM (f/Ixs)

201 One of those companies that will put up your Christmas lights here in NoVa is called "Humbug," and has a depiction of ol' Ebenezer as a logo.
Posted by: Bulg at November 26, 2025 11:44 AM (77rzZ)

Ha!
Excellent!

Posted by: Diogenes at November 26, 2025 11:48 AM (y3bZw)

202 A majority of American yuuutes are anti-Israel. That’s reality foreign trolls or bot.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 26, 2025 11:43 AM (HW6XE)

If that is true (I don’t know one way or the other), then IMHO this is a failure of parents to take their kids to church and a failure of churches where the kids do show up. I say this because I was immersed in the Bible as a kid and a natural result was an affinity for Israel through all those wonderful OT stories… King David, Moses, Samuel, etc etc… I came to love those figures and I’m now constitutionally incapable of being anti-Israel

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at November 26, 2025 11:48 AM (YobFY)

203 You really need to stop that. You're like half a tick away from being Mister Ghost.
Posted by: Crusader at November 26, 2025 11:46 AM (TN0g+)

And even Mister Ghost has said he just reposts stuff leftists say, for discussion reasons. He doesn't actually believe it.

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 26, 2025 11:49 AM (uWKK8)

204 Not sure if that sound is gunshots or liberal heads exploding.

U.S. Justice Department To Create Gun Rights Office In Civil Rights Division

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks at November 26, 2025 11:49 AM (qO4LD)

205 Gratitude.
The healthiest emotion.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at November 26, 2025 11:49 AM (XQo4F)

206 A majority of American yuuutes are anti-Israel. That’s reality foreign trolls or bot.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald
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Most polls are garbage and yutes are the most changeable of all categories based on whatever they read last. Shitload of propaganda on TikTok and X have been dumped on the American population by foreigners and they ain't friendly to much of anything in the West.

I keep tabs on the alt right influencers and many of them have went toward outright anti Semitic fantasies and relied on the confluence between secular Jews in the West and leftism. Such is the stupid argument that Charlie Kirk was killed by Mossad because it could not be a troon boy lover shooting at short range.

So the whole religion of Judaism and Israel become the scapegoat of the West for idiotic decision made by their own politicians to strip their wealth, take their futures away, and bring in foreigners of every nasty disposition to displace them.

I despise bigots and those pied piper influencers that try lead people astray all for money and perhaps a slice of power. Satanic really.

Posted by: whig at November 26, 2025 11:50 AM (WDjG6)

207 If that is true (I don’t know one way or the other), then IMHO this is a failure of parents to take their kids to church and a failure of churches where the kids do show up. I say this because I was immersed in the Bible as a kid and a natural result was an affinity for Israel through all those wonderful OT stories… King David, Moses, Samuel, etc etc… I came to love those figures and I’m now constitutionally incapable of being anti-Israel
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at November 26, 2025 11:48 AM (YobFY)

Spend 10 mins on TikTok and you’ll understand why it’s true. It’s never ending “Israel is killing da Gaza babies”.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 26, 2025 11:50 AM (HW6XE)

208 I'm roasting turkey parts for gravy.. House smells like Thanksgiving...

Posted by: It's me donna at November 26, 2025 11:50 AM (VE6XX)

209 Miley, xxxxevangelist
Prayers up!

Posted by: Diogenes at November 26, 2025 11:50 AM (y3bZw)

210 Remember:
Trump saying, "it's only an 11k difference, can you find those votes?" in a private conversation, where no one said or implied anyone act illegally, is worth multiple felony RICO charges.

But 6 Democrats in a nationwide ad, in a climate where the entire left is daily--and loudly--accusing Trump of issuing illegal orders, telling the military, "don't follow illegal orders" is no big deal ....

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at November 26, 2025 11:51 AM (HXT0k)

211 Posted by: whig at November 26, 2025 11:50 AM (WDjG6)

Please don't feed the terminally online fashionably antisemitic trolls.

Posted by: Robert, The Love Walrus at November 26, 2025 11:51 AM (1Yy3c)

212 Doctor describes him as stable.
Posted by: rickb223 at November 26, 2025 11:17 AM (rYMt6)

Putting the "OW!" back into Augean?

*perks up*

Posted by: Catherine the Great at November 26, 2025 11:51 AM (w9Wax)

213 The other thing I try to remind people is history. Same as it’s always been and current events aren’t always a sign of impending doom.

Mr Smith Goes to Washington was released in 1939.
Posted by: the way I see it
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The future is always Pandora's box after opening. Some hope, some bad.

Posted by: whig at November 26, 2025 11:52 AM (WDjG6)

214 I'm grateful for the homework assignments teacher gives us over the holidays, so we can learn how to think instead of mindlessly watching football and eating sour cream and onion dip with ridged chips.

Posted by: The Brown-noser Sitting In Front at November 26, 2025 11:52 AM (RQBgz)

215 I originally posted a lot on Hot Air when Michelle Malkin was running it. (before she dropped out of everything) The great facebook switchover was what drove me away from that site, as well as fukkin' Nick Cottagio (Allahpundit) getting on the NeverTrump train.

It's really amazing how many once prominent supposed "conservatives" from that era turned out to be complete traitors to everything people like us out here in the sticks actually believed.

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 26, 2025 11:52 AM (uWKK8)

216 I'm roasting turkey parts for gravy.. House smells like Thanksgiving...
Posted by: It's me donna

Parts is parts.

And I love gravy. It's like the booze of food to me.

Posted by: Bulg at November 26, 2025 11:52 AM (77rzZ)

217 Springsteen is an anti-American communist asshole.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 26, 2025 11:47 AM (Zz0t1)

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Can't listen to any of his -- nor watch any of DeNiro's -- shit.

Nauseating scum ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at November 26, 2025 11:52 AM (OnxLp)

218 One of those companies that will put up your Christmas lights here in NoVa is called "Humbug," and has a depiction of ol' Ebenezer as a logo.
Posted by: Bulg
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Uh, oh...may trigger the debate of Alastair Sim vs. that other guy.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at November 26, 2025 11:52 AM (XeU6L)

219 I’m Not even talking about the Nick Fuentes followers. Those guys are in a world of their own. I’m talking your average 20 year old who is apolitical. They’ve been fed 3 years worth of anti-Israel propaganda on TikTok with virtually no counter propaganda. It’s not a shock their view is pro-Hamas.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 26, 2025 11:52 AM (HW6XE)

220 Robert, one problem with JeffG's comment section were a couple of people who had issues - one who couldn't talk about any woman in positive terms and one who was libelously belligerent toward other commenters. Didn't see Darleen as having run it into the ground, but they really needed to use the banhammer a bit more frequently.

Posted by: Nazdar at November 26, 2025 11:52 AM (NcvvS)

221 Oh noooo, tha's turrible... Some AWFL doesn't like Buc-ee's because she thinks Europeans won't like it.

https://is.gd/kOKbFN

Posted by: Oddbob at November 26, 2025 11:53 AM (3nLb4)

222 Uh, oh...may trigger the debate of Alastair Sim vs. that other guy.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc.

There is no debate. Sim nails it.

Posted by: Bulg at November 26, 2025 11:53 AM (77rzZ)

223 I'm roasting turkey parts for gravy.. House smells like Thanksgiving...
Posted by: It's me donna
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Just for a moment, that triggered an aroma memory.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at November 26, 2025 11:54 AM (XeU6L)

224 Uh, oh...may trigger the debate of Alastair Sim vs. that other guy.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at November 26, 2025 11:52 AM (XeU6L)

I'm a sucker for all the versions, but that's a good one.. There's a 70's version with Albert Finney that I like too . It's a musical.. I even like the Muppets version .. LOL...

Posted by: It's me donna at November 26, 2025 11:54 AM (VE6XX)

225 Ok, ok I gotta go to this cob's house and move some furniture. Catch y'all on the flipside.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 26, 2025 11:54 AM (BI5O2)

226 Please don't feed the terminally online fashionably antisemitic trolls.
Posted by: Robert, The Love Walrus
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Not feeding them which is direct response to a particular troll. In my case, it is a general rule of thumb to ignore the troll but also debunk the stupidity for others that might be attracted by troll droppings.

Trolls are best thought of as a class of NPCs that only serve to disrupt, promote disinformation, and spread propaganda so as to dishearten, deceive, and promote ill will. And those that do it for pay are the worst of the worst-I have scraped dog turds off my shoes that were better than them.

Posted by: whig at November 26, 2025 11:55 AM (WDjG6)

227 If the evidence for youth hating Israel is TikTok videos then I doubt it…. TikTok is the opposite of real life

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at November 26, 2025 11:55 AM (/iXAp)

228 Plus we have limericks.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at November 26, 2025 11:55 AM (XQo4F)

229 It's really amazing how many once prominent supposed "conservatives" from that era turned out to be complete traitors to everything people like us out here in the sticks actually believed.
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Its amazing how many "Fox News" regulars from the Iraq war era turned out to be...unreliable. They were all "we" had at the time, but quite a few of them turned out to be just in it for the grift. They were playing the "heel" of Professional Wrestling--it was just a role for them, not their actual identity.

Posted by: Crusader at November 26, 2025 11:55 AM (TN0g+)

230 Puffer fish and Marxist share many genes.

Posted by: thug dolphin at November 26, 2025 11:56 AM (EyfuW)

231 I keep tabs on the alt right influencers and many of them have went toward outright anti Semitic fantasies and relied on the confluence between secular Jews in the West and leftism. Such is the stupid argument that Charlie Kirk was killed by Mossad because it could not be a troon boy lover shooting at short range."

Candace has changed her tune on Mossad killing Charlie Kirk - now she says it was elements of the French Foreign Legion. She tried saying it was Trump for a few days, but she decided her Jussie Smollett play might work better if she said it was The Dastardly French What Done It!

Why did they do it? Because Candace Owen is the Most Important Person in the Entire World, so the French Government killed Charlie Kirk to send Candace a Message.

Seriously, that's what she is saying these days.

Brilliant alt-right hero you got there, guys.

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 26, 2025 11:56 AM (uWKK8)

232 Remember:
Trump saying, "it's only an 11k difference, can you find those votes?" in a private conversation, where no one said or implied anyone act illegally, is worth multiple felony RICO charges.

But 6 Democrats in a nationwide ad, in a climate where the entire left is daily--and loudly--accusing Trump of issuing illegal orders, telling the military, "don't follow illegal orders" is no big deal ....

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at November 26, 2025 11:51 AM (HXT0k)

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Mutiny of the Pouty.

Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at November 26, 2025 11:56 AM (OnxLp)

233 Plus we have limericks.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty

Plus, fish puns. I always tuna in for those.

Posted by: Bulg at November 26, 2025 11:57 AM (77rzZ)

234 Posted by: LinusVanPelt at November 26, 2025 11:48 AM (YobFY)

Very good points. Thanks.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 26, 2025 11:57 AM (Nx5jP)

235 "I don't know how many times my wife and I try out a new restaurant, really like it, and during the meal the waitress tells us, oh we're closing this is our last night. An uncanny number of times, like statistically impossible. I don't know how we were chosen for this, but I think we're the restaurant grim reaper.
Posted by: banana Dream"

One of my old guitar players had track record of buying tickets to concerts right before disaster. Lynyrd Skynyrd tickets, they crash. The Who, keith moon dies. Ozzy tickets, Randy Rhoads dies. Zeppelin tickets, Bonham dies. He finishes telling me all this, and I said will you buy some frigging michael jackson, or springsteen tickets already??

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at November 26, 2025 11:57 AM (snZF9)

236 35 I'm thankful for Chuckles Johnston and LGF, for should he not have lost his mind and gone batshit retard, I likely never would've found this place.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 26, 2025 11:09 AM (Zz0t1)

Fukkin-A Sponge. I hope Bicycle Boy has to resume his old job of separating queer sheep from heterosexual by tasting their dicks for shit.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at November 26, 2025 11:58 AM (pohLc)

237 Just for a moment, that triggered an aroma memory.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at November 26, 2025 11:54 AM (XeU6L)

Quick! Grab a vanvera to save it!!!

Posted by: OrangeEnt at November 26, 2025 11:58 AM (uQesX)

238 I'm a sucker for all the versions, but that's a good one.. There's a 70's version with Albert Finney that I like too . It's a musical.. I even like the Muppets version .. LOL...
Posted by: It's me donna at November 26, 2025 11:54 AM (VE6XX)

Don't forget about me!

Posted by: Rich Little's A Christmas Carol at November 26, 2025 11:58 AM (0714D)

239 Yep. The fish punz are off the scale.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at November 26, 2025 11:58 AM (XQo4F)

240 I'm especially grateful and proud my oldest (right out of high school) recently successfully completed Marines boot camp and Marine Combat Training and is now starting aviation helicopter maintenance and repair program at NAS Pensacola. He is going to learn a lot, have great adventures and be a great Marine.

Posted by: Ripley at November 26, 2025 11:59 AM (GUOwU)

241 I'm a sucker for all the versions, but that's a good one.. There's a 70's version with Albert Finney that I like too . It's a musical.. I even like the Muppets version .. LOL...
Posted by: It's me donna at November 26, 2025 11:54 AM (VE6XX)

My favorite is the Alastair Sims version, but my second favorite is the Muppet version - because it's really just a solo performance by Micheal Caine with some muppets for him to interact with, and he does a typically brillant job.

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 26, 2025 11:59 AM (uWKK8)

242 Seriously, that's what she is saying these days.

Brilliant alt-right hero you got there, guys.
Posted by: Tom Servo at November 26, 2025 11:56 AM (uWKK

Speaking of CO, I’m thankful I’m not in the middle of a slow motion nervous breakdown

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at November 26, 2025 11:59 AM (/iXAp)

243 I've never seen "Scrooged," but my wife says it's good.

I'm a big fan of Bill Murray, so I should probably watch it.

Posted by: Bulg at November 26, 2025 11:59 AM (77rzZ)

244 >>He finishes telling me all this, and I said will you buy some frigging michael jackson, or springsteen tickets already??

Wasn't that a Denis Leary gag? Something like, 'We lost Stevie Ray Vaughn, why can't we get Barry Manilow into a helicopter?'

Posted by: Nazdar at November 26, 2025 11:59 AM (NcvvS)

245 > It's really amazing how many once prominent supposed "conservatives" from that era turned out to be complete traitors to everything people like us out here in the sticks actually believed.
Posted by: Tom Servo
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Still true today. As illustrated by the once "conservative" podcasters, too numerous to name.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at November 26, 2025 11:59 AM (NwnyJ)

246 241 I'm especially grateful and proud my oldest (right out of high school) recently successfully completed Marines boot camp and Marine Combat Training and is now starting aviation helicopter maintenance and repair program at NAS Pensacola. He is going to learn a lot, have great adventures and be a great Marine.
Posted by: Ripley at November 26, 2025 11:59 AM (GUOwU)

Fantastic.. My Step-Grandson started as a helicopter repairman and is now a Helicopter pilot...

Posted by: It's me donna at November 26, 2025 12:00 PM (VE6XX)

247 Thanksgiving is really just a Zionist long-game plot to condition Americans to hate Istanbul and eventually attempt to colonize Anatolia for them.

You don't even want to know what the gravy is about.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at November 26, 2025 12:00 PM (06Hmj)

248 The Fatman's got his eye on you.

Posted by: Speaking of Christmas movies at November 26, 2025 12:00 PM (XQo4F)

249 244 I've never seen "Scrooged," but my wife says it's good.

I'm a big fan of Bill Murray, so I should probably watch it.
Posted by: Bulg at November 26, 2025 11:59 AM (77rzZ)

It's funny

Posted by: It's me donna at November 26, 2025 12:00 PM (VE6XX)

250 "Fantastic.. My Step-Grandson started as a helicopter repairman and is now a Helicopter pilot...
Posted by: It's me donna"

Did he have to re-enlist to get to pilot?

Posted by: Ripley at November 26, 2025 12:01 PM (GUOwU)

251 I'm a big fan of Bill Murray, so I should probably watch it.
Posted by: Bulg at November 26, 2025 11:59 AM (77rzZ)

I saw it at the movies, that was fun

Posted by: kallisto at November 26, 2025 12:01 PM (dCxaZ)

252 You mean occupied Constantinople?

Posted by: Boss Moss at November 26, 2025 12:01 PM (1HZta)

253 Puffer fish and Marxist share many genes.

Posted by: thug dolphin at November 26, 2025 11:56 AM (EyfuW)

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The judges would have also accepted pond or pawned scum.

Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at November 26, 2025 12:01 PM (OnxLp)

254 244 I've never seen "Scrooged," but my wife says it's good.

I'm a big fan of Bill Murray, so I should probably watch it.
Posted by: Bulg at November 26, 2025 11:59 AM (77rzZ)

I've always thought it was pretty good, definitely the funniest out of all of the versions. Nice bit of satire about network TV shows tossed in.

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 26, 2025 12:01 PM (uWKK8)

255 I thought that Candace was saying specifically that it was Mrs. Macron who was behind it.

Posted by: Bulg at November 26, 2025 12:01 PM (77rzZ)

256
Did he have to re-enlist to get to pilot?
Posted by: Ripley at November 26, 2025 12:01 PM (GUOwU)

I believe so.. He's been in for several years

Posted by: It's me donna at November 26, 2025 12:02 PM (VE6XX)

257 Oh noooo, tha's turrible... Some AWFL doesn't like Buc-ee's because she thinks Europeans won't like it.

https://is.gd/kOKbFN
Posted by: Oddbob at November 26, 2025 11:53 AM (3nLb4)

I'm a GenX'er. She can GFY in the most uncomfortable way imaginable because I can't find one single f*ck to give about her opinion.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 26, 2025 12:02 PM (Zz0t1)

258 >>I've never seen "Scrooged," but my wife says it's good.

Scene with Carol Kane is one of the funniest ever.

Posted by: Nazdar at November 26, 2025 12:02 PM (NcvvS)

259 I've never seen "Scrooged," but my wife says it's good.

I'm a big fan of Bill Murray, so I should probably watch it.
Posted by: Bulg at November 26, 2025 11:59 AM (77rzZ)

It's funny
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Yes, its really good! I haven't seen it in years and should probably rectify that.

Posted by: Crusader at November 26, 2025 12:02 PM (TN0g+)

260 and I said will you buy some frigging michael jackson, or springsteen tickets already??
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division

No, that's ignorant! I never abused those children, and my music brought joy and happiness to everyone. CHICK-A-BEAT-A! SHA-MONI!

Posted by: Zombie Michael Jackson at November 26, 2025 12:02 PM (JCZqz)

261 If the evidence for youth hating Israel is TikTok videos then I doubt it…. TikTok is the opposite of real life
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at November 26, 2025 11:55 AM (/iXAp)

It's a pathetic argument, for sure.

Speaking of not real life...

I've said this here before but the internet itself was sold on a complete lie that it was going to be this great repository of knowledge, right? The information superhighway and all that bullshit. Total crock. The internet is basically TV for the 21st century. By that I mean "for entertainment purposes only."

Folks, teach this to your grandchil'uns. You teach them film and TV is pretend, you should go the same with the internets. It's all pretend (and with ten times more advertising).

Posted by: Robert, The Love Walrus at November 26, 2025 12:02 PM (1Yy3c)

262 Ten degrees F here, and not a breath of wind, I guarantee you the wind whirligigs on the ridge up north of here aren't making so much as a milliwatt of electric power. And it's cloudy, so the snow-covered solar panels won't be putting out, either. Yet, against all odds, the lights are still on. Will wonders never cease?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 26, 2025 12:02 PM (npFr7)

263 I see that Sid lacks a very basic understanding of Scripture re: Paul.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 26, 2025 12:02 PM (Nx5jP)

264 It's really amazing how many once prominent supposed "conservatives" from that era turned out to be complete traitors to everything people like us out here in the sticks actually believed.
Posted by: Tom Servo
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A fair number of Conservative Inc types were essentially gay for pay. They did it to enrich themselves, not from belief.

Same as many televangelists or politicians.

Same as it ever was.

Posted by: whig at November 26, 2025 12:03 PM (WDjG6)

265 In honor of Thanksgiving, worth mentioning the Best Thanksgiving movie of all time - Planes, Trains, and Automobiles.

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 26, 2025 12:03 PM (uWKK8)

266 264 I see that Sid lacks a very basic understanding of Scripture re: Paul.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 26, 2025 12:02 PM (Nx5jP)

And if Sid got his way he'd be looking at President Vance...

Posted by: It's me donna at November 26, 2025 12:03 PM (VE6XX)

267 Scene with Carol Kane is one of the funniest ever.
Posted by: Nazdar at November 26, 2025 12:02 PM (NcvvS)

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"The bitch hit me with a toaster."

Posted by: Jordan61 at November 26, 2025 12:04 PM (DRSnL)

268 Not a fan of Buck-ees in the past, but must re-evaluate, as they are building the biggest in the world in my town.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at November 26, 2025 12:04 PM (pohLc)

269 I've never seen "Scrooged," but my wife says it's good.

I'm a big fan of Bill Murray, so I should probably watch it.
Posted by: Bulg at November 26, 2025 11:59 AM (77rzZ)

I recall watching that one and not being crazy about it. But my appreciation for Bill Murray has improved over the years. Plus, isn't Karen Allen in it too? Suppose I could engurgle it.

Posted by: Pug Mahon at November 26, 2025 12:04 PM (PSEDc)

270 I see that Sid lacks a very basic understanding of Scripture re: Paul.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke

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This is a perfect day for scripture--share something with us! (Not sarcasm!)

Posted by: Crusader at November 26, 2025 12:04 PM (TN0g+)

271 Plus, isn't Karen Allen in it too? Suppose I could engurgle it.
Posted by: Pug Mahon at November 26, 2025 12:04 PM (PSEDc)

Yes

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

272 Vcr or towel? Were those the options?

Posted by: Boss Moss at November 26, 2025 12:05 PM (1HZta)

273 >>"The bitch hit me with a toaster."

Just reading that made me laugh, thanks!

Posted by: Nazdar at November 26, 2025 12:05 PM (NcvvS)

274 I see that Sid lacks a very basic understanding of Scripture re: Paul.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 26, 2025 12:02 PM (Nx5jP)

That's way too specific. Sid lacks basic understanding, period.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 26, 2025 12:06 PM (npFr7)

275 258 Oh noooo, tha's turrible... Some AWFL doesn't like Buc-ee's because she thinks Europeans won't like it.

https://is.gd/kOKbFN
Posted by: Oddbob at November 26, 2025 11:53 AM (3nLb4)

I'm a GenX'er. She can GFY in the most uncomfortable way imaginable because I can't find one single f*ck to give about her opinion.
Posted by: Sponge
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The leftist media has its own problem with rage promoting media types for clicks and influence. They ratchet up into a flurry of idiotic illogical thoughts expressed publicly. Same reason that MSNOW is unwatchable.

Bien pensants indeed.

Posted by: whig at November 26, 2025 12:06 PM (WDjG6)

276 Thanksgiving is really just a Zionist long-game plot to condition Americans to hate Istanbul and eventually attempt to colonize Anatolia for them.

You don't even want to know what the gravy is about.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at November 26, 2025 12:00 PM (06Hmj)

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A symbol for all the wealth that they and their Rothschild masters have plundered from all the rest of us?

/

Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at November 26, 2025 12:06 PM (OnxLp)

277 Sid does understand how to tell queer sheep from hetrosexual sheep.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at November 26, 2025 12:07 PM (pohLc)

278 Not a fan of Buck-ees in the past, but must re-evaluate, as they are building the biggest in the world in my town.
Posted by: Xipe Totec at November 26, 2025 12:04 PM (pohLc)

Come in, eat a quart of Buc-ees' chili, and get gas!

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 26, 2025 12:07 PM (npFr7)

279 Oh noooo, tha's turrible... Some AWFL doesn't like Buc-ee's because she thinks Europeans won't like it.

https://is.gd/kOKbFN
Posted by: Oddbob at November 26, 2025 11:53 AM (3nLb4)

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It blows my mind that people like this film themselves and post it like anyone gives a rat's ass about their opinion on anything.

Posted by: Jordan61 at November 26, 2025 12:08 PM (DRSnL)

280 I'm especially grateful and proud my oldest (right out of high school) recently successfully completed Marines boot camp and Marine Combat Training and is now starting aviation helicopter maintenance and repair program at NAS Pensacola. He is going to learn a lot, have great adventures and be a great Marine.
Posted by: Ripley at November 26, 2025 11:59 AM (GUOwU)

Fantastic.. My Step-Grandson started as a helicopter repairman and is now a Helicopter pilot...
Posted by: It's me donna
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A fellow Vet, and ex-roomate, was a helicopter maintainence troop in VN. He now does volunteer work with/for these folk:
https://armyav.org/

In the aftermath of The Storm, they didn't wait to be asked, they didn't wait for government organzation, they flew in two Hueys here, and began airlifting food/supplies to those mountain regions where there was no longer road access. Incredible.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at November 26, 2025 12:08 PM (XeU6L)

281 He finishes telling me all this, and I said will you buy some frigging michael jackson, or springsteen tickets already??
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division
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Michael Jackson is mort and Springsteen became a troon apparently as he resembles and sings like Mary Cloggenstein from VT nowadays. So the guy's record is still intact.

Posted by: whig at November 26, 2025 12:09 PM (WDjG6)

282 That's way too specific. Sid lacks basic understanding, period.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 26, 2025 12:06 PM (npFr7)
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Sid Vacuous.

Posted by: Axeman at November 26, 2025 12:09 PM (krQz2)

283 Sid is a connoisseur of shit pebbles much like the commenter ASS is.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 26, 2025 12:09 PM (Zz0t1)

284 Nood.

Posted by: Nazdar at November 26, 2025 12:10 PM (NcvvS)

285 Bulg at November 26, 2025 11:14 AM

You're so old-fashioned, remembering those particular hymns.

That's wonderful.

Posted by: KT at November 26, 2025 12:12 PM (7vIsy)

286 It blows my mind that people like this film themselves and post it like anyone gives a rat's ass about their opinion on anything.
Posted by: Jordan61
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Because in the wide world of bots and other idiots throughout the world, any hot take is going to attract some likes. Kind of like how MSNOW keeps doubling down because it values the moonbat audience that it still has more than gaining new watchers.

The internet is a fun house mirror of society just as any media previous to it was except now you have the whole world participating instead of just one country's idiots and bien pensants.

Gresham's law of money where the bad currency get circulated with the good hard currency like gold and silver is hoarded comes to mind.

Posted by: whig at November 26, 2025 12:12 PM (WDjG6)

287 It blows my mind that people like this film themselves and post it like anyone gives a rat's ass about their opinion on anything.
Posted by: Jordan61 at November 26, 2025 12:08 PM (DRSnL)

Why should anyone do these? Especially if it's just to insult someone. Ah, that's the reason, innit?

"The stuff you like is stupid and I hate you. So, I'm making a video to tell you how much I hate you and how stupid you are. Join my patreon channel."

Posted by: OrangeEnt at November 26, 2025 12:13 PM (uQesX)

288
h, oh...may trigger the debate of Alastair Sim vs. that other guy.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc.

Reginald Owen?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at November 26, 2025 12:13 PM (pkeXY)

289 Posted by: It is What It Is at November 26, 2025 12:06 PM (

New handle?

No thanks. I don't debate that. Nobody is going to change my mind . I'm not going to change theirs.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 26, 2025 12:13 PM (Nx5jP)

290 As I started approaching 29, I occasionally found myself indulging in the "If Only"s.

If only I'd done this, if only I'd done that...not that I hated my life or anything like that. I just felt I might've done better.

Then one night I suddenly realized, when I examined the whole idea thoroughly, that any of those changes giving me a "perfect" life, would mean that I wouldn't have the lovely and exciting Mrs naturalfake or the kiddos.

And no that would simply be intolerable. They are the best thing in my life and we as a family, despite our ups and downs, despite some hard times, have been very blessed by God.

And furthermore, I was being a huge dickweed to God by not acknowledging his complete generosity and being grateful for it. So, I decided that I needed to change the way I think.

I try to end every day thanking God for my life and my family I grew up in and my own family now, and for the day.

Anyway, these are the things in my life i'm most thankful for.

Posted by: naturalfake at November 26, 2025 12:14 PM (iJfKG)

291 In the aftermath of The Storm, they didn't wait to be asked, they didn't wait for government organzation, they flew in two Hueys here, and began airlifting food/supplies to those mountain regions where there was no longer road access. Incredible.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at November 26, 2025 12:08 PM (XeU6L)

Mike, in regard to the need for a dining hall for the needy veterans, I asked the other night about maybe using a camp dining hall/cook shack made of portable units as found at oilfield and construction sites. Could that be done in Asheville, or maybe just outside city limits if the town is persnickety about "trailers"?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 26, 2025 12:15 PM (npFr7)

292 Too late to comment
but I am thankful
roof over my head
clothes on my back
food in my belly
diamond in the back
sunroof top
diggin' the scene with a gangster lean

Posted by: Don Black at November 26, 2025 12:17 PM (AOsQT)

293 227 If the evidence for youth hating Israel is TikTok videos then I doubt it…. TikTok is the opposite of real life
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at November 26, 2025 11:55 AM (/iXAp)

Tell Me you’re 29 without telling me. 😃

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 26, 2025 12:21 PM (HW6XE)

294 @151/Joyenz: Thank you for staying with us and keeping your Dad's flame alive.

God bless you.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at November 26, 2025 12:21 PM (O7YUW)

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