Wednesday Morning Rant

Cynical Empathy

For a little while now, there has been a new term that keeps cropping up on the internet. That term, which was apparently popularized by Gad Saad, is "suicidal empathy." I think "pathological empathy" is a bit more accurate, but it's more or less the same thing. The "suicidal empathy" concept is that the desire of some - usually leftists, and usually AWFLs - to be "caring" or "compassionate" has become destructive to themselves and the culture.

Cases of rape victims who refuse to describe their attackers when the attacker is a minority because they don't want to accuse a minority of a crime and "contribute to the problem of racism" or somesuch are often pointed out as micro-level examples of "suicidal empathy," as are cases of the parents of children murdered by illegal aliens publicly emphasizing how much they support unchecked migration and the dissolution of borders. At the macro level, examples are usually things like open borders or elimination of prisons. At some point, the desire to "do good" or be one of the "good people" (and not ever a garbage person like those MAGA people!) becomes so destructive as to be fatal. There is some truth to that, at least among individuals.

Individually, I think "suicidal empathy" or "pathological empathy" are very real phenomena and there are countless people who would happily see the entirety of civilization fall to avoid being seen as unempathetic. These are the idiots who will happily ride the train directly over the cliff, celebrating the entire time. It is a huge problem, but it does not explain much of what we see. What we see from many people in power smacks of "suicidal empathy," but there is an obvious undercurrent of naked corruption beneath it.

The prime example from the recent news cycles is the looting of Minnesota by Somalis and the use of stolen Minnesota taxpayer dollars to finance Somali terrorism abroad. In a recent article that Ace covered, a number of state employees place the blame firmly on Governor Walz. In the article was a segment that I think is illustrative of the power elite manifestation of what could be described as "cynical empathy:"

They allege agency leadership handpicked by Walz "willfully disregarded rules and laws to keep fraud reports quiet" and filled top posts with political allies who were "not qualified for their jobs." Staffers who witnessed or documented fraud were "shut down, reassigned and told to keep quiet," the statement said.
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Walz has pushed back on the criticism, telling The New York Times that his administration "erred on the side of generosity" during the pandemic and disputing claims that concerns about racial optics slowed the state's response.

(emphasis mine)

Tienanmen Tim allegedly knew - or at least, people told him repeatedly - that these programs were being looted by Somalis who then used at least some of the money to finance terrorism abroad. He knew, but did nothing about it. The theft was consistent with his worldview and political objectives. Looting the taxpayers to hand money over to preferred minority groups in openly fraudulent schemes was just fine by him. When called on it, he brushed it off as merely "[erring] on the side of generosity." He justified his behavior with an empathy-based argument.

But is this yet another example of "suicidal empathy?" I don't think so. Unlike the useful idiots who vote for people like Walz so as to be "good people," Tienanmen Tim doesn't believe a word of it. He isn't trying to be "generous." He isn't trying to be compassionate. He isn't exhibiting empathy. He is stealing and supporting his allies - who are, by definition, our enemies - by doing harm to the people of Minnesota. The "empathy" is just a cover.

But it may, perhaps, be a distinction without a difference. Whether suicidal empathy or cynical empathy, the outcome would be the same.

Posted by: Joe Mannix at 11:00 AM

Comments

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1 Sponge!

Posted by: rickb223 at December 03, 2025 11:00 AM (Uy7Y9)

2 1st!

Posted by: Bulg at December 03, 2025 11:00 AM (77rzZ)

3 Dammit.

Posted by: Bulg at December 03, 2025 11:00 AM (77rzZ)

4 Tienanmen Tim. I like it.

Posted by: Bulg at December 03, 2025 11:01 AM (77rzZ)

5 Cases of rape victims who refuse to describe their attackers when the attacker is a minority because they don't want to accuse a minority of a crime and "contribute to the problem of racism" or somesuch are often pointed out as micro-level examples of "suicidal empathy,"

F 'em then. No report? No crime.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 03, 2025 11:02 AM (Uy7Y9)

6 Corgis called

Posted by: rickb223 at December 03, 2025 11:02 AM (Uy7Y9)

7 There's a fined line between suicidal empathy and just being a weirdo retard.

Posted by: Heavy Meta at December 03, 2025 11:02 AM (NgqoH)

8 Walz, among others, was making money off the Somalis scams. They created the conditions for it to flourish... so they'd make money off it.

That it pissed off the conservatives is just part of the kink.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 03, 2025 11:03 AM (NwnyJ)

9 Tienanmen Tim allegedly knew - or at least, people told him repeatedly - that these programs were being looted by Somalis who then used at least some of the money to finance terrorism abroad. He knew, but did nothing about it.

Then he gets no legal cover.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 03, 2025 11:03 AM (Uy7Y9)

10 naked corruption

No pants either.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at December 03, 2025 11:03 AM (Kt19C)

11 [Tangentially-Related (Minnesota hits keep coming):]

Karoline Leavitt
@PressSec

Trump Admin Uncovers Massive Foreign Trucker Illegal License Operation in Minnesota

https://is.gd/GGu9Kz

[Unexpectedly!]

Posted by: ShainS -- The Neo-Jacobins: Anarcho-Terrorism & Assassination Culture Since 1789 at December 03, 2025 11:03 AM (LlvtX)

12 5 Cases of rape victims who refuse to describe their attackers when the attacker is a minority because they don't want to accuse a minority of a crime and "contribute to the problem of racism" or somesuch are often pointed out as micro-level examples of "suicidal empathy,"

F 'em then. No report? No crime.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 03, 2025

Or they are afraid of being revictimized by the fire breathing monsters who do just this.

Posted by: Piper at December 03, 2025 11:03 AM (Wmg4n)

13 Tampons in boys restrooms is just erring on the side of generosity, too, you know.

Posted by: Tim Walz, one of the paragons of the New Masculinity at December 03, 2025 11:04 AM (0sNs1)

14 Every semi on the highway I give the Side-Eye to now.

Posted by: tubal at December 03, 2025 11:04 AM (pDt9x)

15 Walz has pushed back on the criticism, telling The New York Times that his administration "erred on the side of generosity"

Err on our side. Just once! Unless, of course, there is no error...

Posted by: t-bird at December 03, 2025 11:05 AM (upeQk)

16 I love how Trump got the FNM talking about Walz and the mess in Minnesota by calling Walz retarded. Trump can still get the FNM talking about something they normally pretend doesn't exist by using a triggering word or phrase to attack one of their own. Like a cat chasing a laser dot they just cant help themselves.

Posted by: PaleRider at December 03, 2025 11:05 AM (hhkIi)

17 As somebody pointed out here yesterday, you can only "empathize" with someone if you've been through the same kind of shit that they have.

AWFLs can't empathize with Somali "refugees" by definition.

They're just acting out their daddy issues.

Posted by: Bulg at December 03, 2025 11:05 AM (77rzZ)

18 I think at least half of the Psycho Empathizers who express Psycho Empathy are not sincere about it. They do it because Leftist Culture instructs them so.

Posted by: Bad Andrew at December 03, 2025 11:06 AM (6qf1m)

19 Mannix!

*Jazzy music plays*

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 03, 2025 11:06 AM (xcxpd)

20 pathological empathy

Or just plain pathological.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 03, 2025 11:07 AM (y3bZw)

21 I don't think this has anything to do with empathy in any way shape or form.

The lefties I talk to support unlimited immigration because:

1) They want cheap labor
2) They want votes for leftwing pols
3) They want to "eliminate whiteness" and cause the great replacement
4) They get paid by the immigration/welfare complex

and on and on

They all have a personal reason and if your average Somali or Spherical Guatemalan was voting R and paying taxes these lefties would be demanding these people be sent home.

Remember the German refugee family that was sent home because the Fourth Reich won't allow home schooling? Hell, how about Elian G? Note...no "empathy" for them...

Posted by: 18-1 at December 03, 2025 11:07 AM (sKqQm)

22 "erred on the side of generosity"

Easy to do with other people's money.

Posted by: fd at December 03, 2025 11:07 AM (vFG9F)

23 Mannix!

*Jazzy music plays*
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 03, 2025 11:06 AM (xcxpd)
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*twirling girl gets two thumbs up*

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at December 03, 2025 11:07 AM (0cOaq)

24 and willowed:

I miss Willow

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 03, 2025 11:08 AM (xcxpd)

25 Cases of rape victims who refuse to describe their attackers when the attacker is a minority because they don't want to accuse a minority of a crime and "contribute to the problem of racism" or somesuch are often pointed out as micro-level examples of "suicidal empathy,"

F 'em then. No report? No crime.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 03, 2025

Or they are afraid of being revictimized by the fire breathing monsters who do just this.
Posted by: Piper

No. That's different. That's understandable. These are the ones that WON'T accuse someone because of the color of their skin.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 03, 2025 11:08 AM (Uy7Y9)

26
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Monkey rant is really great!

Posted by: Robot Cheerleader at December 03, 2025 11:09 AM (vFG9F)

27 Good morning good people.

Posted by: Tonypete at December 03, 2025 11:09 AM (cYBz/)

28 Leftwing politics isn't about a single damn thing they claim it is about.

It is about getting paid.

And the welfare/immigration complex is the most profitable scam they've ever come up with.

Posted by: 18-1 at December 03, 2025 11:09 AM (sKqQm)

29 Tim Walz claims to have visited China 30 times. He's a commie stooge.

Posted by: mr tmz at December 03, 2025 11:10 AM (rJ48h)

30 There are loci of the badness and lunacy we are surrounded by. To point them out will get pushback, here, there and everywhere, but the fact remains that they are blatant.

Posted by: tubal at December 03, 2025 11:10 AM (pDt9x)

31 10
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Monkey rant is really great!
Posted by: Robot Cheerleader at December 03, 2025 11:09 AM (vFG9F)
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Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at December 03, 2025 11:10 AM (0cOaq)

32 I miss Willow
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards

She showed up when JJ announced his health issue last year or the year before, and wished him well.

Posted by: Bulg at December 03, 2025 11:10 AM (77rzZ)

33 Empathy for criminals is cruelty to victims.

Posted by: Jack Squat Bupkis at December 03, 2025 11:10 AM (GD2xa)

34 Thank you for challenging this as "suicidal empathy."

I think a closer term is "self interested cowardice."

Or "rationalized cowardice masquerading as empathy and justified as a virtue."

Cowardice is the main driver though.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at December 03, 2025 11:11 AM (Ct3NL)

35 So the mayor of St Paul doesn't want the Somalis prosecuted for fraud. This must be pathological fraudulence.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 03, 2025 11:11 AM (y3bZw)

36 I hope Minnesotans feel good about themselves that their state government has been so generous.

Posted by: Oglebay at December 03, 2025 11:11 AM (2ap+5)

37 28 Leftwing politics isn't about a single damn thing they claim it is about.

It is about getting paid.

And the welfare/immigration complex is the most profitable scam they've ever come up with.

Posted by: 18-1 at December 03, 2025 11:09 AM
It’s the web and woof of their tapestry.

Posted by: Eromero at December 03, 2025 11:11 AM (fcLFo)

38 32 I miss Willow
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards

She showed up when JJ announced his health issue last year or the year before, and wished him well.
Posted by: Bulg at December 03, 2025 11:10 AM (77rzZ)

I'm glad to hear that. I just miss having her around here.

Same with USNtakim

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 03, 2025 11:11 AM (xcxpd)

39 Or they are afraid of being revictimized by the fire breathing monsters who do just this.
Posted by: Piper at December 03, 2025 11:03 AM (Wmg4n)

But the next victim? On her own, I guess.

Posted by: Doesn't Matter at December 03, 2025 11:11 AM (JCLJi)

40 Weaponized empathy.

Posted by: t-bird at December 03, 2025 11:11 AM (upeQk)

41 >And the welfare/immigration complex is the most profitable scam they've ever come up with.

Posted by: 18-1 at December 03, 2025 11:09 AM (sKqQm)

Karen McAWFL doesn't get paid. She is addicted to the dopamine hit when she posts her idiotic screed on TikTok. Karen needs her dopamine.

Posted by: Heavy Meta at December 03, 2025 11:11 AM (NgqoH)

42 Imagine this played out differently.

Imagine Governor Meatball allowed organized Cuban groups in FL to loot the treasury with kick backs to him, his political allies, and money spent on right wing groups abroad.

How would the FNM cover this? I'm guessing "empathy" would not be on the table nor would accusations of muh raycisms

Posted by: 18-1 at December 03, 2025 11:12 AM (sKqQm)

43
Or they are afraid of being revictimized by the fire breathing monsters who do just this.
Posted by: Piper

God made man and woman, Colt made them equal.

It is the only way.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at December 03, 2025 11:12 AM (AsaWd)

44 But Republicans want to hang gays and deport my maid. So I’m sticking with Walz.
- Majority of Minnesota voters

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 03, 2025 11:12 AM (kz78D)

45
Empathy can be a form of virtue-signalling

"LOOK AT HOW MUCH I CARE!"

Posted by: Don Black at December 03, 2025 11:12 AM (3W18h)

46 I miss Willow
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards

She showed up when JJ announced his health issue last year or the year before, and wished him well.
Posted by: Bulg

And was immediately Willowed.

Posted by: Tonypete at December 03, 2025 11:12 AM (cYBz/)

47 Spotify wrapped says my listening age is 23.

And here I am with a bunch of 29 year olds

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at December 03, 2025 11:12 AM (nL93S)

48 Its the second snow of the year in my area, but first snow of a commute day so I am working from home today because traffic is always an extra hot mess on the first snowy day. It is always a hot mess when it snows here because some people will crawl along at 10 MPH on perfectly fine cleared roads and others will not allow extra distance for slowing and stopping. Plus its often warm enough when it starts snowing that the roads are icy. ND winter roads were rarely slick and icy cuz the wind just pushed that snow across the frozen highways with none sitcking and becoming ice.

Posted by: PaleRider at December 03, 2025 11:12 AM (hhkIi)

49 Karen McAWFL doesn't get paid. She is addicted to the dopamine hit when she posts her idiotic screed on TikTok. Karen needs her dopamine.

Karen McAWFL has a roster of illegals that cut her grass, nanny her kid, and plow her when Kyle McAFWL is stuck at work late.

And her job is likely some NGO/government work that ultimately depends on the illegals and their pathologies.

Posted by: 18-1 at December 03, 2025 11:13 AM (sKqQm)

50 Some of this comes from the playbook of the DoJ Community Relations Service folks. They cajole living victims and family, write press releases, manage information releases, all without fingerprints behind the scenes in any case that involves the possibility that a community might get upset when a politically correct offender does hideous crimes.

In essence, a Democrat protection racket where the careerist and leftist DoJ utilized the power of government to thwart the public finding out the true costs of indulging the left's chosen pets.

CBS story, "A group of civil rights organizations is seeking an order to prevent the closure of a Justice Department office dedicated to preventing unrest and violence in U.S. cities.

The groups are suing for a preliminary injunction to avert the closure of the Community Relations Service, which was launched in 1964 to avert rioting and racial strife in American communities.

The office has been known informally as "America's Peacemaker."

As CBS News reported in April, the Trump administration was planning to shutter the Community Relations Service. "

Posted by: whig at December 03, 2025 11:13 AM (WDjG6)

51 18 I think at least half of the Psycho Empathizers who express Psycho Empathy are not sincere about it. They do it because Leftist Culture instructs them so.
Posted by: Bad Andrew at December 03, 2025 11:06 AM (6qf1m)

This - and like other things they distort because it’s rooted in nothing solid like true faith, it’s not really empathy. That isn’t even the right word. It’s very, very distorted compassion.

Posted by: Piper at December 03, 2025 11:13 AM (Wmg4n)

52 Spotify wrapped says my listening age is 23.

And here I am with a bunch of 29 year olds
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo

So which one of us is gonna be first to kick you off our lawn?

Posted by: Bulg at December 03, 2025 11:14 AM (77rzZ)

53 Or they are afraid of being revictimized by the fire breathing monsters who do just this.
Posted by: Piper

God made man and woman, Colt made them equal.

It is the only way.
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at December 03, 2025 11:12 AM (AsaWd)

handguns are kinda magical

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 03, 2025 11:14 AM (xcxpd)

54 Not in any way defending Walz or Somalia but Covid money was stolen everywhere by everyone. I remember reading that inmates in ca prisons were getting unemployment benefits. And nobody said a word.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 03, 2025 11:14 AM (kz78D)

55 There's are reasons George Floyd landed in MN after being in prison in TX for 5 years. Ellison, Walz, and other Commies are some of the reasons.

Being a long-time viewer of First 48, there have been many murderers/career criminals who absconded there after being wanted in OK or TX.

Posted by: It's Not The Lutefisk at December 03, 2025 11:14 AM (oftw2)

56 Lawrence Kohlberg had stages of moral development he claimed people went through. An idiot feminist named Carol Gilligan objected to his system because most women got stuck at stage three, where they acted to be perceived as a nice person (as opposed to developing an abstract morality, like every religion and philosophical school does). Like most feminists, she was too dumb to realize that she hadn't found a problem with the theory, but a problem with feminism treating men and women as equal.

Dim pols are indeed just cynical, but as someone else noted, AWFLs have other, deeper issues.

Posted by: The Lower Depths at December 03, 2025 11:14 AM (Dg7ng)

57 Walz practices malicious empathy.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at December 03, 2025 11:14 AM (36PRH)

58 It’s the web and woof of their tapestry.
Posted by: Eromero at December 03, 2025 11:11 AM (fcLFo)
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And still the Weaver plies His loom
Whose warp and woof is wretched Man
Weaving th'unpatterned dark design
So dark, we doubt it owes a plan.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at December 03, 2025 11:14 AM (0cOaq)

59 Being a long-time viewer of First 48, there have been many murderers/career criminals who absconded there after being wanted in OK or TX.

I remember years ago MA had a rapist who they let out on parole...on the grounds he leave the state. Because that's totally normal when you really and truly believe the person is no longer a threat.

Murdered a woman in FL not long after.

Posted by: 18-1 at December 03, 2025 11:15 AM (sKqQm)

60 There is a toxic form of Christianity out there that absolutely promotes Pathological Empathy. I find that maddening.

Posted by: tubal at December 03, 2025 11:15 AM (pDt9x)

61 I see the troll is trolling while saying he's not trolling.

I am not fooled.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 03, 2025 11:15 AM (xcxpd)

62 OT

he German president's wife is Ms. Büdenbender

Posted by: Don Black at December 03, 2025 11:16 AM (3W18h)

63 I'm glad to hear that. I just miss having her around here.

Same with USNtakim
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards
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Burnout and changes in life's circumstances happens.

Some of us remaining here are more like Richard Gere's character in An Officer and a Gentlemen. We got nowhere else to go (or really want to go as well).

Posted by: whig at December 03, 2025 11:16 AM (WDjG6)

64 Minnesota hs always tended toward a comparatively luxurious state welfare system. In a large country, though, the welfare numbers can rapidly swell. The miserable winters and dull landscapes do help counter the problem a bit.

Posted by: Oglebay at December 03, 2025 11:17 AM (2ap+5)

65 5 Cases of rape victims who refuse to describe their attackers when the attacker is a minority because they don't want to accuse a minority of a crime and "contribute to the problem of racism" or somesuch are often pointed out as micro-level examples of "suicidal empathy,"
F 'em then. No report? No crime.
Posted by: rickb223

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It was my fault for putting my dirt in Boss Paul's yard.

Why would I complain and get him in trouble?

Posted by: Luke at December 03, 2025 11:17 AM (Ct3NL)

66 The German president's wife is Ms. Büdenbender
Posted by: Don Black

I thought her name was Ethel.

Posted by: Bulg at December 03, 2025 11:17 AM (77rzZ)

67
I saw Erred On The Side Of Generosity open for The Damned at the Mudd Club in '81.

Posted by: naturalfake at December 03, 2025 11:17 AM (iJfKG)

68 "But we can't make value judgements! That would be..."
scary music

"RAYSIS!"

Posted by: NR Pax at December 03, 2025 11:17 AM (jjoN6)

69 It is comical we sent all these Somalis to MN and ME.

Perhaps a little malicious compliance from a white hat in the government somewhere?

Posted by: 18-1 at December 03, 2025 11:17 AM (sKqQm)

70 Up against the Walz, MoFo

Posted by: Joe Mama at December 03, 2025 11:18 AM (TezPK)

71 Thx Joe. A leftist friend said in an argument that Republicans and Trump should try being empathetic like every Democrat president since FDR. He's good family man, wife runs her own business , but they are programmed with this crap. I tried to explain that the hard left would crush him, but he said I had no "facts". I realized trying to explain the mass murder history of the hard left would be a waste of time. Haven't heard from him a while

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 03, 2025 11:18 AM (bfwj/)

72 We'll get the Minnesota Attorney General on this posthaste!!!

Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at December 03, 2025 11:18 AM (w9Wax)

73 47 Spotify wrapped says my listening age is 23.

And here I am with a bunch of 29 year olds
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo

So, you're proud of being immature?

Posted by: Jubilant Delinquent at December 03, 2025 11:18 AM (oftw2)

74 I am in thrall to a new puppy, so I’m here a lot, currently, waiting, and waiting, and waiting. When I am not playing, or cleaning up.

Posted by: tubal at December 03, 2025 11:18 AM (pDt9x)

75 Dim pols are indeed just cynical, but as someone else noted, AWFLs have other, deeper issues.
Posted by: The Lower Depths
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I had to read Carol Gilligan's twaddle and appear take it seriously in grad school. I got more entertainment and wisdom from watching Gilligan's Island than reading her writings.

Posted by: whig at December 03, 2025 11:18 AM (WDjG6)

76 I think the only empathy in MN right now is due to the kickbacks. Trade the Somalis for Haitians or any other disenfranchised group and the empathy will be there for them, once the scams get rolling.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 03, 2025 11:18 AM (NwnyJ)

77 Only state not to vote for Nixon in ‘72 and Reagan in ‘84. Oh and Governor Jesse the Body Ventura. Lol. Wellstone funeral. Obviously stolen senate race in 2008.

The crazy and corruption has been there a long time.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 03, 2025 11:18 AM (kz78D)

78 Its the second snow of the year in my area, but first snow of a commute day so I am working from home today because traffic is always an extra hot mess on the first snowy day. It is always a hot mess when it snows here because some people will crawl along at 10 MPH on perfectly fine cleared roads and others will not allow extra distance for slowing and stopping. Plus its often warm enough when it starts snowing that the roads are icy. ND winter roads were rarely slick and icy cuz the wind just pushed that snow across the frozen highways with none sitcking and becoming ice.
Posted by: PaleRider at December 03, 2025 11:12 AM (hhkIi)

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I wish I could work from home on snowy days. I HATE driving in the snow.

Posted by: Jordan61 at December 03, 2025 11:18 AM (DRSnL)

79 And if you check lefty forums they are arguing that this theft by the Somalis is a good thing.

It shows they are smart and entrepreneurial in contrast to what right wing racists are saying

No, I am not kidding.

Posted by: 18-1 at December 03, 2025 11:19 AM (sKqQm)

80 The German president's wife is Ms. Büdenbender
Posted by: Don Black
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I don't have any Büdens that need bending.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at December 03, 2025 11:19 AM (0cOaq)

81 NYT has advice for toilet-lovers: "Like Fancy Japanese Toilets?"

Posted by: gp at December 03, 2025 11:19 AM (4kcNT)

82 Tim Walz may be cynically empathetic but honestly above all I think that particular tool is just spectacularly and incredibly stupid….

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 03, 2025 11:20 AM (YobFY)

83
We should probably exchange Minnesota and Wisconsin with Canada for Alberta and another province to be named.

I very rarely met anyone from either of those states that wasn't an obnoxious leftard dickweed.

They won't be missed.

Posted by: naturalfake at December 03, 2025 11:20 AM (iJfKG)

84 Japanese toilet > American Toilet > The Twoilet (unless you are German I guess)

Posted by: 18-1 at December 03, 2025 11:20 AM (sKqQm)

85 I remember years ago MA had a rapist who they let out on parole...on the grounds he leave the state. Because that's totally normal when you really and truly believe the person is no longer a threat.

Murdered a woman in FL not long after.

Willie Horton?

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 03, 2025 11:21 AM (ufSfZ)

86 ‘ power elite manifestation of what could be described as "cynical empathy:"’

Practically every display of empathy masks a despicable truth these days. At this point when I pass a billboard about hungry children I just make a noise of disgust.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 03, 2025 11:21 AM (jbnUc)

87 Not that it matters but Tim Walz reminds me of a frog that just swallowed a bug.

Posted by: fd at December 03, 2025 11:21 AM (vFG9F)

88 Never underestimate how much these people hate the US.

No, not the Somalians, for them it's a given.

I mean Waltz and the authorities and prosecutors who allowed this. They saw it as federal money going to Minn. Good for them, good for their neighbors, bad for the evil USA.

Same with lots of people, including those rape victims. They have been brainwashed by decades of bullshit.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at December 03, 2025 11:21 AM (Ct3NL)

89 And if you check lefty forums they are arguing that this theft by the Somalis is a good thing.

It shows they are smart and entrepreneurial in contrast to what right wing racists are saying

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Why aren’t they using those smarts to cure cancer? They can join forces with DACA people.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 03, 2025 11:22 AM (kz78D)

90 Does anybody else get Spotify wrapped?

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at December 03, 2025 11:22 AM (BTGrj)

91 And we’ll look sweet, upon the seats, of a Twoilet built for two!

Posted by: tubal at December 03, 2025 11:22 AM (pDt9x)

92 The German president's wife is Ms. Büdenbender

She didn't take his name, to be Ms Büdenbender-Steinmeier (Jingleheimer Schmidt)?

Posted by: t-bird at December 03, 2025 11:22 AM (upeQk)

93 77 Just for correctness' sake, MN did vote for Nixon in 1972. You are thinking of MA that year. MN has the longest record of any state not voting for a Republican for President though.

Posted by: The Lower Depths at December 03, 2025 11:22 AM (Dg7ng)

94

No. That's different. That's understandable. These are the ones that WON'T accuse someone because of the color of their skin.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 03, 2025 11:08

And if this is the true reason, I understand, but are we assigning that reason without understanding why? Probably not in all cases, there are legit brainwashed people out there who are withholding this information. But there are others who will go for the jugular and start calling the victim racist because they labeled the person black, as an example. It happens in the streets, in the news and in courtrooms. We shouldn’t lose sight of this, nor should we lose sight of the magnitude of trauma involved in rape and its effect on a response to the event. Those who throw being raped around as a descriptor of an event that is merely hard diminishes the trauma greatly, and I don’t wish it on anyone. And I mean anyone.

Posted by: Piper at December 03, 2025 11:22 AM (Wmg4n)

95 I wish I could work from home on snowy days. I HATE driving in the snow.
Posted by: Jordan61 at December 03, 2025 11:18 AM (DRSnL)

Me too! Have to peel my hands of the steering wheel when I reach my destination.

And get off my tail, Mr. 4x4!

Posted by: Doesn't Matter at December 03, 2025 11:22 AM (JCLJi)

96 I got more entertainment and wisdom from watching Gilligan's Island than reading her writings.
Posted by: whig

Well, Ginger and Maryanne. Duh.

Posted by: Bulg at December 03, 2025 11:22 AM (77rzZ)

97 10
‘ Then he gets no legal cover.’

Can he get a federal charge for it?

Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 03, 2025 11:22 AM (jbnUc)

98 Ya know, we could have stopped these problems if we'd just continued hanging malefactors.

Posted by: NR Pax at December 03, 2025 11:23 AM (jjoN6)

99 We should probably exchange Minnesota and Wisconsin with Canada for Alberta and another province to be named.
____________________

Throw in Michigan's lower peninsula.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at December 03, 2025 11:23 AM (BTGrj)

100 Some of us remaining here are more like Richard Gere's character in An Officer and a Gentlemen. We got nowhere else to go (or really want to go as well).
Posted by: whig at December 03, 2025 11:16 AM (WDjG6)

I'm here because I literally have no-one else in my life I can vent to about politics or depression.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 03, 2025 11:23 AM (ufSfZ)

101 88 Never underestimate how much these people hate the US.

No, not the Somalians, for them it's a given.

I mean Waltz and the authorities and prosecutors who allowed this. They saw it as federal money going to Minn. Good for them, good for their neighbors, bad for the evil USA.

Same with lots of people, including those rape victims. They have been brainwashed by decades of bullshit.
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at December 03, 2025 11:21 AM (Ct3NL)

Nah, for Walz, it was all about money and power and fame...he wasn't a brainwashed idiot...he was a stone cold criminal...

Posted by: Nova Local at December 03, 2025 11:23 AM (tOcjL)

102
Ms. Büdenbender

Bitenze mein shiny Nazi ass!

Posted by: naturalfake at December 03, 2025 11:24 AM (iJfKG)

103 Jordan61, yes its a really sweet luxury to be able to WFH, it is all computer work and my workplace was very paranoid over covid and took two years to decide they could go to 100% office occupancy, so they wanted people to just WFH for a while and then they allowed it for people who wanted to continue if supervisor agreed. Only this year over fear of DOGE did they require almost everyone to be at least hybrid and come in to the office 3 days a week.

Posted by: PaleRider at December 03, 2025 11:24 AM (hhkIi)

104 87 Not that it matters but Tim Walz reminds me of a frog that just swallowed a bug.

Posted by: fd at December 03, 2025 11:21 AM (vFG9F)

====

"I saw him. I looked into his eyes. I viewed the openness of his soul through those black and whites, perceiving no other color. Into that I saw an emptiness. Of purpose, of intent, of intelligence. He was perfection exemplified. The void into which I had been seeking answers for my whole life, from the time I first considered eternity. In this man was pure absence, and it both terrified and exhilarated me. I knew he was to die at the hands of his masters, perhaps fed to feral hogs or shot in the back of the head, left to rot in a Chinese forest, but for that moment, I understood."
-Werner Herzog

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 03, 2025 11:24 AM (GBKbO)

105 100

I'm here because I literally have no-one else in my life I can vent to about politics or depression.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 03, 2025 11:23 AM (ufSfZ

I’m glad you’re here.

Posted by: tubal at December 03, 2025 11:24 AM (pDt9x)

106 Give thanks GOD is in charge. All these problems will be resolved.

Posted by: Eromero at December 03, 2025 11:24 AM (fcLFo)

107 Throw in Michigan's lower peninsula.
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at December 03, 2025 11:23 AM (BTGrj)
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Wayne County would probably do the trick.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at December 03, 2025 11:25 AM (0cOaq)

108 I got more entertainment and wisdom from watching Gilligan's Island than reading her writings.
Posted by: whig

Well, Ginger and Maryanne. Duh.
Posted by: Bulg at December 03, 2025 11:22 AM (77rzZ)

The Howells taught me that rich people aren’t necessarily smart… a good tidbit of wisdom

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 03, 2025 11:25 AM (YobFY)

109 >Throw in Michigan's lower peninsula.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at December 03, 2025 11:23 AM (BTGrj)

Add a dozen Tim Horton gift cards and we'll call it even.

Posted by: Heavy Meta at December 03, 2025 11:25 AM (NgqoH)

110 Just for correctness' sake, MN did vote for Nixon in 1972. You are thinking of MA that year.

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Ahh. Thanks for the correction. Hard to keep track of the M states that are retarded. 😀

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 03, 2025 11:25 AM (kz78D)

111 *off...the steering wheel

Posted by: Doesn't Matter at December 03, 2025 11:25 AM (JCLJi)

112 I'm here because I literally have no-one else in my life I can vent to about politics or depression.

MA is a cold (physically and emotionally), benighted place.

Posted by: 18-1 at December 03, 2025 11:25 AM (sKqQm)

113 If we annex Alberta, maybe the Glacier team can turn Banff into something nice.

Posted by: Oglebay at December 03, 2025 11:25 AM (2ap+5)

114 94

No. That's different. That's understandable. These are the ones that WON'T accuse someone because of the color of their skin.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 03, 2025 11:08

And if this is the true reason, I understand, but are we assigning that reason without understanding why? Probably not in all cases, there are legit brainwashed people out there who are withholding this information. But there are others who will go for the jugular and start calling the victim racist because they labeled the person black, as an example. It happens in the streets, in the news and in courtrooms. We shouldn’t lose sight of this, nor should we lose sight of the magnitude of trauma involved in rape and its effect on a response to the event. Those who throw being raped around as a descriptor of an event that is merely hard diminishes the trauma greatly, and I don’t wish it on anyone. And I mean anyone.
Posted by: Piper at December 03, 2025 11:22 AM (Wmg4n)

And if the victim gets it wrong - it's dark, perp is in black clothes, painted his face vs being that face, just assumed black, etc and it's not a black, her life is over...forever...in all ways...so her positivity has to be 1 million percent..

Posted by: Nova Local at December 03, 2025 11:26 AM (tOcjL)

115 I applaud the somalis for taking what is rightfully theirs from the white slave owners who used their black ancestors to build this country and steal the wealth. Jesus preached she that is without sin must help those with darker skin.

Hopefully when they are done the somalis will come and rape me this weekend. Oh boy, I cant wait! Thanks Tim Walz!

Posted by: Karen Muddlumps, democrat scold and busybody at December 03, 2025 11:26 AM (FGMmt)

116 He isn't exhibiting empathy. He is stealing and supporting his allies - who are, by definition, our enemies - by doing harm to the people of Minnesota. The "empathy" is just a cover.

But it may, perhaps, be a distinction without a difference.
________
My guess is that there really isn't a difference in his mind. He would have to be smarter and more self-aware for that. Many people are just not capable of that kind of distinction.

Posted by: Eeyore at December 03, 2025 11:26 AM (s0JqF)

117 Satanic ~~"empathy"~~ taqqiya.

Posted by: ShainS -- The Neo-Jacobins: Anarcho-Terrorism & Assassination Culture Since 1789 at December 03, 2025 11:26 AM (LBpnK)

118 Deport Minnesota to Canada by re-drawing the border.
Mini-Sotans are Commie Canucks at heart anyway.

Better yet, trade Mini-Soota to Canuckistan for Alberta.

Posted by: Joe Mama at December 03, 2025 11:27 AM (TezPK)

119 Excuse me.....

Could I get some prayers for good health? My doctor visit wasn't bad news, but it wasn't great either. I have a feeling that being worried isn't going to help things much.

Thank you in advance.

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at December 03, 2025 11:27 AM (2J/Lj)

120 I'm in a position when my management is demanding I work in the office because they are trying to convince corporate to lease another floor so they have to show the current two floors as jam packed.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at December 03, 2025 11:27 AM (BTGrj)

121 We shouldn’t lose sight of this, nor should we lose sight of the magnitude of trauma involved in rape and its effect on a response to the event. Those who throw being raped around as a descriptor of an event that is merely hard diminishes the trauma greatly, and I don’t wish it on anyone. And I mean anyone.

A few days ago, I was reading some lefty rant about how they're being "disappeared". Because, you know, people calling you on your nonsense is exactly the same as being anonymously thrown off a helicopter into the ocean.

Their penchant for self-glorifying histrionics is truly becoming monstrous. This is on the same level as describing themselves as "the resistance".

Posted by: Archimedes at December 03, 2025 11:27 AM (Riz8t)

122 IIRC the State dept steered 'refugees' to MN because they'd get the most money/support there.
State dept needs to be cleaned out, still.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at December 03, 2025 11:27 AM (AsaWd)

123
I'm here because I literally have no-one else in my life I can vent to about politics or depression.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 03, 2025 11:23 AM (ufSfZ

I’m glad you’re here.
Posted by: tubal

Ditto.

Posted by: Bulg at December 03, 2025 11:27 AM (77rzZ)

124 >>Tienanmen Tim doesn't believe a word of it. He isn't trying to be "generous." He isn't trying to be compassionate. He isn't exhibiting empathy. He is stealing and supporting his allies - who are, by definition, our enemies - by doing harm to the people of Minnesota. The "empathy" is just a cover.

If the MN bureaucrats who did nothing about this fraud, including Waltz and Frey, were *not* getting paid off I will be amazed.

It's greed. Sure, it buys votes, but $ billions in cash and no one local got paid to look the other way? Impossible!

Posted by: Lizzy at December 03, 2025 11:27 AM (GbwPZ)

125 119 Excuse me.....

Could I get some prayers for good health? My doctor visit wasn't bad news, but it wasn't great either. I have a feeling that being worried isn't going to help things much.

Thank you in advance.
Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at December 03, 2025 11:27 AM (2J/Lj)

Okay.

Posted by: tubal at December 03, 2025 11:27 AM (pDt9x)

126 119
Done, Madame

Posted by: The Lower Depths at December 03, 2025 11:28 AM (Dg7ng)

127 Prayer up, Madame.

Posted by: Doesn't Matter at December 03, 2025 11:28 AM (JCLJi)

128 If it weren't for America, the World population would be 848.

Posted by: thug dolphin at December 03, 2025 11:28 AM (EyfuW)

129 My guess is that there really isn't a difference in his mind. He would have to be smarter and more self-aware for that. Many people are just not capable of that kind of distinction.

Honestly I think he knows. Smaller scale versions of this grift are pretty well understood - the guy collecting donations for some charity he works at...that doesn't actually do anything other then raise money.

This is the same idea, except he's looting the taxpayers directly because he doesn't need to ask for donations

Posted by: 18-1 at December 03, 2025 11:28 AM (sKqQm)

130 State dept needs to be cleaned out, still.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron

Been there. This is an even bigger job.

Posted by: Hercules at December 03, 2025 11:28 AM (TezPK)

131 Prayer up, Madamemayhem.

Posted by: Bulg at December 03, 2025 11:29 AM (77rzZ)

132 I'm here because I literally have no-one else in my life I can vent to about politics or depression.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 03, 2025 11:23 AM (ufSfZ

I’m glad you’re here.
Posted by: tubal

Ditto.

Posted by: Bulg at December 03, 2025 11:27 AM (77rzZ)
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Trio.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at December 03, 2025 11:29 AM (0cOaq)

133 119 Excuse me.....

Could I get some prayers for good health? My doctor visit wasn't bad news, but it wasn't great either. I have a feeling that being worried isn't going to help things much.

Thank you in advance.
Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at December 03, 2025 11:27 AM (2J/Lj)

Done.

Posted by: Piper at December 03, 2025 11:29 AM (Wmg4n)

134 119 Excuse me.....

Could I get some prayers for good health? My doctor visit wasn't bad news, but it wasn't great either. I have a feeling that being worried isn't going to help things much.

Thank you in advance.
Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at December 03, 2025 11:27 AM (2J/Lj)

Prayers up...I've had those for the last few...partial remission, but not complete remission and no further gains towards CR...I call those appointments bunt singles b/c they get me 3 more months each time, even if nothing more...

Posted by: Nova Local at December 03, 2025 11:29 AM (tOcjL)

135 Posted by: Madamemayhem

Prayers up!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at December 03, 2025 11:29 AM (AsaWd)

136 Prayers up MMayhem

Posted by: PaleRider at December 03, 2025 11:29 AM (hhkIi)

137 Madame,
Done!

Posted by: Diogenes at December 03, 2025 11:30 AM (y3bZw)

138 I just thought budenbender was a funny word

Posted by: Don Black at December 03, 2025 11:30 AM (3W18h)

139 I feel like a bigshot when tipping big (for me).

Never had the opportunity to be a bigshot with other peoples money. I bet it's fun and rewarding.

Posted by: connected and litigious at December 03, 2025 11:30 AM (s9EN2)

140 Allie Beth Stuckey has a book out called "Toxic Empathy," that details the way in which women and Christians are manipulated to feel empathy for all sorts of bad stuff. They are sold a carefully crafted narrative designed to make them focus on the wrong victims (or "victims").

Sure, these women should do better not to be so easily tricked, but her intention is to teach women to look for the signs, ask questions with each new MSM/political narrative that insists we feel empathy for one group over another.

Posted by: Lizzy at December 03, 2025 11:30 AM (GbwPZ)

141 Could I get some prayers for good health? My doctor visit wasn't bad news, but it wasn't great either. I have a feeling that being worried isn't going to help things much.

Thank you in advance.
Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at December 03, 2025 11:27 AM (2J/Lj)

Of course, dear lady. I have to go outside and shovel in a bit, so I can take the time for a rosary.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 03, 2025 11:30 AM (ufSfZ)

142 I just thought budenbender was a funny word
Posted by: Don Black

Most German words are funny.

Posted by: Bulg at December 03, 2025 11:31 AM (77rzZ)

143 Being generous with other people's money is theft.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at December 03, 2025 11:31 AM (n5tGW)

144 Prayer is a beautiful thing. It pleases God, and, rightly done, humbles us before Him.

Posted by: tubal at December 03, 2025 11:31 AM (pDt9x)

145 Could I get some prayers for good health? My doctor visit wasn't bad news, but it wasn't great either. I have a feeling that being worried isn't going to help things much.

Thank you in advance.
Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at December 03, 2025 11:27 AM (2J/Lj)

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You got it.

Posted by: Jordan61 at December 03, 2025 11:32 AM (DRSnL)

146 You are in my prayers. Madamemayhem!

Posted by: Lizzy at December 03, 2025 11:32 AM (GbwPZ)

147 Prayer is a beautiful thing. It pleases God, and, rightly done, humbles us before Him.
Posted by: tubal

I'm still trying to figure out how to do it properly. Practice makes perfect, I guess.

Posted by: Bulg at December 03, 2025 11:32 AM (77rzZ)

148 Being generous with other people's money is theft.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at December 03, 2025 11:31 AM (n5tGW)
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I was erring on the side of generosity!

Posted by: Willie Sutton at December 03, 2025 11:32 AM (0cOaq)

149 56
‘ Lawrence Kohlberg had stages of moral development he claimed people went through. An idiot feminist named Carol Gilligan objected to his system because most women got stuck at stage three’

Hoe_Math?

Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 03, 2025 11:33 AM (jbnUc)

150 147 Prayer is a beautiful thing. It pleases God, and, rightly done, humbles us before Him.
Posted by: tubal

I'm still trying to figure out how to do it properly. Practice makes perfect, I guess.
Posted by: Bulg at December 03, 2025 11:32 AM (77rzZ)

A life’s work is my take.

Posted by: tubal at December 03, 2025 11:33 AM (pDt9x)

151
Been there. This is an even bigger job.
Posted by: Hercules

Funny I thought of using Herc in the post.
The current stable larger and more full of it.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at December 03, 2025 11:33 AM (AsaWd)

152 Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at December 03, 2025 11:27 AM (2J/Lj)

Prayers up MM ...

Posted by: browndog moving slowly at December 03, 2025 11:33 AM (3sXRv)

153 Being generous with other people's money is theft.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at December 03, 2025 11:31 AM (n5tGW)
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I was erring on the side of generosity!

Sooner or later, you run out of other people's generosity.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 03, 2025 11:33 AM (Riz8t)

154 Sure, these women should do better not to be so easily tricked, but her intention is to teach women to look for the signs, ask questions with each new MSM/political narrative that insists we feel empathy for one group over another.

The problem with this line is the women that should try to learn this will not

As soon as they see something pointing out the FNM empathy line is...deceptive...suddenly the accusations of racist/sexist/whatever-ist come out.

And...its not really that they don't know. Its that they don't WANT to know

Posted by: 18-1 at December 03, 2025 11:33 AM (sKqQm)

155 143 Being generous with other people's money is theft.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at December 03, 2025 11:31 AM (n5tGW)

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Does it make any difference that the money Walz is stealing was already stolen?

Posted by: Oglebay at December 03, 2025 11:33 AM (2ap+5)

156 Madamemayhem
get well soon!

Posted by: Don Black at December 03, 2025 11:34 AM (3W18h)

157 Off bank-robbing sock.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at December 03, 2025 11:34 AM (0cOaq)

158 Being generous with other people's money is theft.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at December 03, 2025 11:31 AM (n5tGW)

Other people's extorted money, I would say. Being generous with money willingly donated to you is charity.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 03, 2025 11:34 AM (ufSfZ)

159 BabylonBee: Minnesota Added To Trump's Third-World Travel Ban

Posted by: SMOD at December 03, 2025 11:35 AM (RHGPo)

160 MadameMayhen, I pray that your mot so bad or good news was followed by the doctor saying ‘ and here’s how we fix that ‘.

Posted by: Eromero at December 03, 2025 11:35 AM (fcLFo)

161 > Being generous with other people's money is theft.
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it's being a Democrat

Posted by: Don Black at December 03, 2025 11:35 AM (3W18h)

162 We're Here Because We're Here, Because We're Here Because We're Here.

(This was a song during WWI in the trenches. Seems to apply)

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at December 03, 2025 11:35 AM (Ct3NL)

163 Noem: 50% of visas are fraudulent in Minn.

Posted by: SMOD at December 03, 2025 11:36 AM (RHGPo)

164 MP4, remind me again, what was the name of the murdered director you're writing your next novel about?

Posted by: Bulg at December 03, 2025 11:36 AM (77rzZ)

165
I'm still trying to figure out how to do it properly. Practice makes perfect, I guess.
Posted by: Bulg at December 03, 2025 11:32 AM (77rzZ)

There is no proper way to pray, except doing it with authenticity.

Posted by: Piper at December 03, 2025 11:36 AM (Wmg4n)

166 President Donald Trump pardoned Texas Democratic Rep. Henry Cuellar and his wife in a federal bribery and conspiracy case on Wednesday, citing what he called a “weaponized” justice system. Trump, who has argued that his own legal troubles were a partisan witch hunt, said on social media without presenting evidence that Cuellar and his wife, Imelda Cuellar, were prosecuted because the congressman had been critical of President Joe Biden’s immigration policies.

Posted by: SMOD at December 03, 2025 11:36 AM (RHGPo)

167 [Tangentially-Related:]

@MJTruthUltra
HOLEE SHIZZLES‼️

Starting next week, 21 Democrat-controlled states will lose federal SNAP funding for refusing to comply with USDA anti-fraud data requirements.

- in the states that did comply, they found 186,000 dead people social security numbers being used

- 500,000 people that received benefits more than twice

- multiple people received benefits in 6 states

- In February, for the first time ever, the Federal Government asked for alls rates to turn over their data to root out the fraud.
—— 29 Red states said yes
—— 21 Blue states said no

“So as of next week, we have begun and will begin to stop moving federal funds into those states until they comply.

California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, Virginia, Washington

https://is.gd/zmFci4

Posted by: ShainS -- The Neo-Jacobins: Anarcho-Terrorism & Assassination Culture Since 1789 at December 03, 2025 11:37 AM (tfdic)

168 Sigh.
Something that really annoys me is on sites like LinkedIn, so twitter Ive never heard of, says something stupid like: "I think this is something we can all learn from." in a topic I could care less about.
Ugh.
Rant over.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 03, 2025 11:37 AM (y3bZw)

169 98
‘ Ya know, we could have stopped these problems if we'd just continued hanging malefactors.’

I’d be happy to start again.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 03, 2025 11:37 AM (jbnUc)

170 Jose de Mannix, this was well stated.

Posted by: Earl Schlobodowicz at December 03, 2025 11:37 AM (P7Iz+)

171 Still grateful every day that the frog who ate the bug is NOT our VP.

Imagine what they'd be up to now?!

The horror...

Posted by: Doesn't Matter at December 03, 2025 11:37 AM (JCLJi)

172 2X benefits should be the limit.

Posted by: Oglebay at December 03, 2025 11:38 AM (2ap+5)

173 >>Nah, for Walz, it was all about money and power and fame...he wasn't a brainwashed idiot...he was a stone cold criminal...

Agreed.
One can be dumb and greedy at the same time.

He knew exactly what was happening - there's no way *not* to notice a government program goes from $5 million to $355 million per year in only a few years, and ask why.

Posted by: Lizzy at December 03, 2025 11:38 AM (GbwPZ)

174 173 He knew exactly what was happening - there's no way *not* to notice a government program goes from $5 million to $355 million per year in only a few years, and ask why.

Posted by: Lizzy at December 03, 2025 11:38 AM (GbwPZ)

======

"After Trump bungled COVID by not sending out enough tests, we had to do something to help everyone who couldn't get to work."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 03, 2025 11:39 AM (GBKbO)

175 There is no proper way to pray, except doing it with authenticity.
Posted by: Piper

Sometimes, it's hard for me to keep focus, and my mind wants to wander off to other things when I'm praying. But I seem to be improving on that score.

Posted by: Bulg at December 03, 2025 11:39 AM (77rzZ)

176 10
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110
1000

Monkey rant is really great!
Posted by: Robot Cheerleader at December 03, 2025 11:09 AM

*snort*

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 03, 2025 11:39 AM (bFu5X)

177 🚨 BREAKING: USDA Secretary Brooke Rollins says she will be moving to HALT federal funding to states who refuse to turn over SNAP data to help root out fraud

“21 states including California, New York, and Minnesota, blue states continue to say no. As of next week, we have begun and will begin to stop moving federal funds into those states until they comply.”

Posted by: SMOD at December 03, 2025 11:39 AM (RHGPo)

178 Would like to see Ellison burn also. Another Commie. Nice to see the tapes/recordings bubbled back into the newscycle. Nice write up, Mannix, thanks.

Posted by: scampydog at December 03, 2025 11:39 AM (2bFN5)

179 David Horowitz talks about this phenomenon in detail in his book Radical Son, and most people who have made the journey away from a leftist world view came to similar observations and conclusions.

Re-evaluation of long standing beliefs is extremely difficult. Admitting you were wrong about something is just a bridge too far sometimes. What I’ve noticed is my leftist friends and co-workers grew old but they never grew up. They are in a seemingly permanent state of adolescence in terms of snark and maturity.

There is another strain of revolutionary mindset, that Horowitz talks about. They don’t care about being hypocritical, and with many, intentions matter, not results. So they are willing to ignore anything that doesn’t comport with how they wish things to be, rather than the reality. Your death before their dishonor, they will not ever admit their philosophy is bankrupt, immoral, or unworkable. Indeed they will double down. The seeds of their destruction is already preordained in that sense, the problem as always is the collateral damage to everyone elee.

The 20th century alone witnessed maybe 100 million murdered by their governments, experimental totalitarians.

Posted by: Common Tater at December 03, 2025 11:40 AM (HKCc2)

180 California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, Virginia, Washington

https://is.gd/zmFci4

Posted by: ShainS -- The Neo-Jacobins: Anarcho-Terrorism & Assassination Culture Since 1789 at December 03, 2025 11:37 AM (tfdic)

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"Oh boy, this is gonna be great!"

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 03, 2025 11:40 AM (GBKbO)

181 165
I'm still trying to figure out how to do it properly. Practice makes perfect, I guess.
Posted by: Bulg at December 03, 2025 11:32 AM (77rzZ)

There is no proper way to pray, except doing it with authenticity.
Posted by: Piper at December 03, 2025 11:36 AM (Wmg4n)

Just talk to God in a spirit of submission to Him. He knows what’s in your heart already so you can’t really mess up.

Posted by: tubal at December 03, 2025 11:40 AM (pDt9x)

182 168 Sigh.
Something that really annoys me is on sites like LinkedIn, so twitter Ive never heard of, says something stupid like: "I think this is something we can all learn from." in a topic I could care less about.
Ugh.
Rant over.
Posted by: Diogenes at December 03, 2025 11:37 AM (y3bZw)

More and more I see only complete nonsense and self aggrandizement on LinkedIn… I only keep my account in case I need to network for a job search

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 03, 2025 11:41 AM (YobFY)

183 He knew exactly what was happening - there's no way *not* to notice a government program goes from $5 million to $355 million per year in only a few years, and ask why.

Obamacare subsidies started at $13B, and are now about $140B. Did you know that before the shutdown? I didn't.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 03, 2025 11:42 AM (Riz8t)

184 This "suicidal empathy" (And Gad Saad has written quite well about it; I think he originally identified it with Jews who ally themselves with the Palestinians) is becoming the hallmark of all leftist thought and programs. Don't you care about the environment? Don't you care about poor people who need "environmental justice"??? Well destroy your economies, give up your standard of living, to show how morally pure you are in your empathy!!!

It is a complete corruption of the religious impulse all people feel, turning it into a weapon of self destruction.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 03, 2025 11:42 AM (uWKK8)

185 >>The problem with this line is the women that should try to learn this will not

As soon as they see something pointing out the FNM empathy line is...deceptive...suddenly the accusations of racist/sexist/whatever-ist come out.

Stuckey is speaking to Christian women primarily, in attempt to curb the woke church stuff -- using Christian values to sell socialism, abortion, etc.. She does good work.

Posted by: Lizzy at December 03, 2025 11:42 AM (GbwPZ)

186 “So as of next week, we have begun and will begin to stop moving federal funds into those states until they comply.

California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, Virginia, Washington

https://is.gd/zmFci4
Posted by: ShainS -- The Neo-Jacobins: Anarcho-Terrorism & Assassination Culture Since 1789 at December 03, 2025 11:37 AM

Great...cue the Grinch memes. This is all I'm going to hear about at work for weeks. Not that I disagree, but I'm behind enemy lines here.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 03, 2025 11:43 AM (bFu5X)

187 "pathological empathy"

Here is the flip side and may be of some use in debate with the limp-wrists --

If I directly robbed someone of their hard earned possessions however meager I deserve whatever it takes for them to stop me from robbing up to suffering painful mortal wounds if not outright killed if that is what it takes to stop me.

Anyone who robbs anyone has earned that end.

Anyobe who opposes it is an accessory to robbery and deserves the same fate.

Posted by: Operator Error at December 03, 2025 11:43 AM (rGPrJ)

188 184

is a complete corruption of the religious impulse all people feel, turning it into a weapon of self destruction.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 03, 2025 11:42 AM (uWKK

Nailed it.

Posted by: tubal at December 03, 2025 11:43 AM (pDt9x)

189 They don’t care about being hypocritical, and with many, intentions matter, not results. So they are willing to ignore anything that doesn’t comport with how they wish things to be, rather than the reality.

A common feminist argument in the late 90s was that women should be ok with being raped by Bill Clinton as long as kept abortion legal.

And honestly that should be read as "other women being raped by Bill Clinton".

Posted by: 18-1 at December 03, 2025 11:43 AM (sKqQm)

190 "Suicidal empathy" is just mental illness. It's not new either. The pathology of deliberately choosing bad options that almost certainly will result in misfortune or even death has existed since caveman times. It's particularly pronounced in political decisions, and always has been.

How many people lined up to vote for -- and supported -- dictators who were little more than vicious thugs? Marx was a disgusting, filthy human maggot (literally), but he understood this far better than most. His idea -- brilliant, really -- was to package this pathology in shiny boxes with "we are all equal" stamped onto the sides. It worked, sadly.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 03, 2025 11:44 AM (iFTx/)

191 Well, I'm done for the day (and week). Time to dress warmly and shovel.

Thank you all for your kind thoughts. It really means more than you know.

Hope you all have a lovely day.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 03, 2025 11:44 AM (ufSfZ)

192 Enter the Hawaiian judge on SNAP soon I imagine.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at December 03, 2025 11:44 AM (n5tGW)

193 186
Great...cue the Grinch memes. This is all I'm going to hear about at work for weeks. Not that I disagree, but I'm behind enemy lines here.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 03, 2025 11:43 AM (bFu5X)

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"I'm so mad that our governor won't turn over the data so that the poor in MA can eat for Christmas. We all know there's no fraud in the data, that only legal Americans who are in real need can get SNAP. She should just hand over the data instead of grandstanding for the cameras and donations from big dollar donors."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 03, 2025 11:44 AM (GBKbO)

194 MP4, remind me again, what was the name of the murdered director you're writing your next novel about?
Posted by: Bulg at December 03, 2025 11:36 AM (77rzZ)

William Desmond Taylor

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 03, 2025 11:44 AM (ufSfZ)

195 Thank you all for your kind thoughts. It really means more than you know.

Hope you all have a lovely day.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing

Same to you, my friend. Hang in there.

Posted by: Bulg at December 03, 2025 11:44 AM (77rzZ)

196
It's been my observation that con men and fraudsters always take advantage of do-gooders, as I use to call them. Some do-gooders want to throw a bunch of money to help some poor people or some bad situation, and the fraudsters line up to help, and of course skim off the top big time.

This toxic empathy thing is the same thing, but it's much worse than mere do-goodery. It's well beyond that. And the fraudsters come right in with that as well, and they are even worse. Rather than just stealing from the taxpayers, their fraud becomes even more destructive as well, such as funding terrorists.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 03, 2025 11:45 AM (w6EFb)

197 Well, Ginger and Maryanne. Duh.
Posted by: Bulg
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Carol Gilligan would regard both being cast as hetero normative and put on the show to be subject to the male gaze.

Instead, someone like Trigglepuff and that female? lecturer (in a sky cap and yelling in a pix) at Univ. of Missouri during BLM protests should have been cast.

No odious male satisfaction would occur but body positivity exhibited by Trigglepuff along with gender fluidity and the obvious female empowerment by the lecturer constantly yelling at the patriachy and reeducating the males on the island to accept gender fluidity could be shown instead. This is what entertainment should be like under Carol Gilligan (and somewhat how Kathleen Kennedy probably feels as well).

Posted by: whig at December 03, 2025 11:45 AM (WDjG6)

198 >He knew exactly what was happening - there's no way *not* to notice a government program goes from $5 million to $355 million per year in only a few years, and ask why.

The Feds should prosecute all non-Somali administrators, auditors etc. for allowing the fraud; making examples of as many as possible.

As a warning to others.

The Somalis should be deported.

Posted by: mr tmz at December 03, 2025 11:45 AM (rJ48h)

199 Queers for Palestine
Gays for Gaza

True suicidal support

Chickens for KFC
Minks for Fur

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 03, 2025 11:45 AM (ynpvh)

200 William Desmond Taylor
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing

Thanks.

Posted by: Bulg at December 03, 2025 11:46 AM (77rzZ)

201 More and more I see only complete nonsense and self aggrandizement on LinkedIn… I only keep my account in case I need to network for a job search
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 03, 2025 11:41 AM (YobFY)

It used to be a decent site for business news and networking. Not so much anymore.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 03, 2025 11:46 AM (y3bZw)

202 “So as of next week, we have begun and will begin to stop moving federal funds into those states until they comply.

California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, Virginia, Washington

https://is.gd/zmFci4
Posted by: ShainS -- The Neo-Jacobins: Anarcho-Terrorism & Assassination Culture Since 1789 at December 03, 2025 11:37 AM

Great...cue the Grinch memes. This is all I'm going to hear about at work for weeks. Not that I disagree, but I'm behind enemy lines here.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 03, 2025 11:43 AM (bFu5X)
______

The Grinch was the hero of the story. He never hated Xmas. He hated people. He just wanted to be left alone. What's wrong with that?

Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 03, 2025 11:46 AM (iFTx/)

203 Scientists discover 53 powerful quasars shooting out jets up to 50 times wider than our Milky Way
https://is.gd/thYl1a

Pfffft.

Posted by: Eric Swalwell at December 03, 2025 11:46 AM (Riz8t)

204 Well, I'm done for the day (and week). Time to dress warmly and shovel.

Thank you all for your kind thoughts. It really means more than you know.

Hope you all have a lovely day.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 03, 2025 11:44 AM

Peace, out, MP4. Stay warm.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 03, 2025 11:46 AM (bFu5X)

205 "I'm so mad that our governor won't turn over the data so that the poor in MA can eat for Christmas. We all know there's no fraud in the data, that only legal Americans who are in real need can get SNAP. She should just hand over the data instead of grandstanding for the cameras and donations from big dollar donors.

I remember the governor of MA, right after the No Kings protests, demanded that Trump lower the cost of home heating oil.

And to complete the picture she had personally stopped two pipelines in her state

Posted by: 18-1 at December 03, 2025 11:46 AM (sKqQm)

206 The most reliable scam in Paper Moon was selling bibles.

Posted by: Oglebay at December 03, 2025 11:46 AM (2ap+5)

207 Why do Democrats always fight so hard to protect any kind of fraud?

Posted by: steevy at December 03, 2025 11:46 AM (YwEeS)

208 207 Why do Democrats always fight so hard to protect any kind of fraud?

Posted by: steevy at December 03, 2025 11:46 AM (YwEeS)

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Purely innocent and noble reasons.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 03, 2025 11:47 AM (GBKbO)

209 Mr. Bill for Mr. Hand

Posted by: Bulg at December 03, 2025 11:47 AM (77rzZ)

210 Surely

Posted by: steevy at December 03, 2025 11:47 AM (YwEeS)

211 207 Why do Democrats always fight so hard to protect any kind of fraud?

Posted by: steevy at December 03, 2025 11:46 AM (YwEeS)

They profit from it.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 03, 2025 11:47 AM (ynpvh)

212 210 Surely

Posted by: steevy at December 03, 2025 11:47 AM (YwEeS)

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Stop calling me Shirley.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 03, 2025 11:48 AM (GBKbO)

213 212 210 Surely

Posted by: steevy at December 03, 2025 11:47 AM (YwEeS)

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Stop calling me Shirley.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 03, 2025 11:48 AM (GBKbO)

Sue?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 03, 2025 11:48 AM (ynpvh)

214 The Grinch was the hero of the story. He never hated Xmas. He hated people. He just wanted to be left alone. What's wrong with that?
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 03, 2025 11:46 AM

Did you see, about 10 months or so ago, a video of a Peruvian drug bust where the raid leader was dressed in full Grinch costume, just to screw with the druggies?

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 03, 2025 11:48 AM (bFu5X)

215 Why do Democrats always fight so hard to protect any kind of fraud?
Posted by: steevy

A) they want the money
B) they can't win elections without it.

Thanks for the prayers everyone!

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at December 03, 2025 11:48 AM (2J/Lj)

216 >>Queers for Palestine
Gays for Gaza

Clergy for abortion and transing kids

Posted by: Lizzy at December 03, 2025 11:48 AM (GbwPZ)

217 214 The Grinch was the hero of the story. He never hated Xmas. He hated people. He just wanted to be left alone. What's wrong with that?
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 03, 2025 11:46 AM

Did you see, about 10 months or so ago, a video of a Peruvian drug bust where the raid leader was dressed in full Grinch costume, just to screw with the druggies?

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 03, 2025 11:48 AM (bFu5X)

He even ended up with medical problems in the end. My doc says if my heart grew three sizes I'd be dead...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 03, 2025 11:49 AM (ynpvh)

218 The Grinch was the hero of the story. He never hated Xmas. He hated people. He just wanted to be left alone. What's wrong with that?
Posted by: Elric The Blade

He hated the noise that the Whos generated on Christmas, so he kinda did hate the holiday.

Would love to see what he'd do to a mosque during the call to prayer.

Posted by: Bulg at December 03, 2025 11:50 AM (77rzZ)

219 217 He even ended up with medical problems in the end. My doc says if my heart grew three sizes I'd be dead...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 03, 2025 11:49 AM (ynpvh)

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The cancerous growth on Rudolph's nose eventually got to his brain and killed him.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 03, 2025 11:50 AM (GBKbO)

220 Sue?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 03, 2025 11:48 AM (ynpvh)

Boy named?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 03, 2025 11:50 AM (bss/y)

221 Why do Democrats always fight so hard to protect any kind of fraud?
Posted by: steevy at December 03, 2025 11:46 AM (YwEeS)
______

They're in on it, both financially and politically. You think Tampon Tim The Yuge Creepy Faggot wasn't lining his own pockets (or more likely, the pockets of his family and cronies) with month from this fraud? Of course he was. Probably 50% of his donors were donating spoils of the fraud. Then there were the political profits: he needed strong Somali support to win political office.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 03, 2025 11:50 AM (iFTx/)

222 Democrats know when their state refuses to scrub dead people off the voter rolls it is to facilitate fraud. There is no other conceivable reason. They know when their state refuses to turn over SNAP data it is to protect fraud. They overwhelmingly approve of fraud.

Posted by: steevy at December 03, 2025 11:51 AM (YwEeS)

223 My family's from Minnesota. I went to college there. I hoped to return there someday. Place done gone berserk.

Granted it's always been a DFL machine state, but...I don't even recognize it now.

Add it to the pile, another thing for me to mourn.

Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at December 03, 2025 11:51 AM (OUMaO)

224 "I'm so mad that our governor won't turn over the data so that the poor in MA can eat for Christmas. We all know there's no fraud in the data, that only legal Americans who are in real need can get SNAP. She should just hand over the data instead of grandstanding for the cameras and donations from big dollar donors."
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 03, 2025 11:44 AM

"It's about their privacy rights! Orangemanbad should never see this data! Reeeee!!!!!"

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 03, 2025 11:51 AM (bFu5X)

225 Most German words are funny.
Posted by: Bulg

Yeah, Arbeit Macht Frei was a laugh a minute!

Posted by: The Day The Clown Cried at December 03, 2025 11:51 AM (oftw2)

226 I want a new fraud, like I always sought,
One I hide so damn good so I don’t get caught.
- a dem

Posted by: Eromero at December 03, 2025 11:51 AM (fcLFo)

227 Why do Democrats always fight so hard to protect any kind of fraud?

Posted by: steevy

Self-defense.

Posted by: t-bird at December 03, 2025 11:51 AM (upeQk)

228 222 Democrats know when their state refuses to scrub dead people off the voter rolls it is to facilitate fraud. There is no other conceivable reason. They know when their state refuses to turn over SNAP data it is to protect fraud. They overwhelmingly approve of fraud.

Posted by: steevy at December 03, 2025 11:51 AM (YwEeS)

=======

"The cost is nothing compared to the waste of the Department of Defense. We have to cut the Department of Defense before we cut anything else."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 03, 2025 11:51 AM (GBKbO)

229 Stop calling me Shirley.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

Yeah, your first name is "The."

Posted by: Bulg at December 03, 2025 11:51 AM (77rzZ)

230 Holy
Shit.

DEI resident with us today. Is asking questions more appropriate for a first year med student. Omfg.

English, motherfucker, can you speak it? Conjugate verbs? Quit twirling your hair with your finger like a 10 year old? And she’s not even taking notes.

Holy Christ on a cracker. I may get fired today.

Posted by: nurse ratched at December 03, 2025 11:51 AM (W2Pud)

231 Just my 2 cents on prayer. One you turn your mind towards God, you have begun praying.

Anyway, for you rockers, King's X has a great song called "Talk To You" that I believe is perhaps about songwriting, but also prayer. During that period, they tended to infuse Christianity into their songs.

Posted by: Bad Andrew at December 03, 2025 11:51 AM (6qf1m)

232 220 Sue?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 03, 2025 11:48 AM (ynpvh)

Boy named?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 03, 2025 11:50 AM (bss/y)

Indeed, that's the reference.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 03, 2025 11:51 AM (ynpvh)

233 90 Does anybody else get Spotify wrapped?
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at December 03, 2025 11:22 AM (BTGrj)
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No. I don't use Spotify but thanks for the annual reminder that it's time for all of the obnoxious douchebags to start measuring dicks over their Wrapped results.

Ugh.

Posted by: ballistic at December 03, 2025 11:52 AM (5aZAZ)

234 226 I want a new fraud, like I always sought,
One I hide so damn good so I don’t get caught.
- a dem
Posted by: Eromero at December 03, 2025 11:51 AM (fcLFo)

This seems kind of insulting to Huey Lewis.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 03, 2025 11:52 AM (bss/y)

235 The Grinch was the hero of the story. He never hated Xmas. He hated people. He just wanted to be left alone. What's wrong with that?
Posted by: Elric The Blade

He hated the noise that the Whos generated on Christmas, so he kinda did hate the holiday.

Would love to see what he'd do to a mosque during the call to prayer.
Posted by: Bulg at December 03, 2025 11:50 AM (77rzZ)
___

Well, yea. Had the Whos not been such inconsiderate jolly-good assholes, the Grinch never would have had a problem. As a lone wolf myself, I sympathize with him.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 03, 2025 11:52 AM (iFTx/)

236 215 Why do Democrats always fight so hard to protect any kind of fraud?
Posted by: steevy
A) they want the money
B) they can't win elections without it.
Thanks for the prayers everyone!
Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at December 03, 2025 11:48 AM (2J/Lj)

Having answered that question, now ask yourself "Why are Democrats fighting so hard to protect the Drug Smugglers and the human traffickers?"

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 03, 2025 11:52 AM (uWKK8)

237 I'm still trying to figure out how to do it properly. Practice makes perfect, I guess.
Posted by: Bulg at December 03, 2025 11:32 AM (77rzZ)

Bulg,
Check out The Dangerous Gentlemen Society. Done by Victor Marx.
You will like it.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 03, 2025 11:52 AM (y3bZw)

238 224 "It's about their privacy rights! Orangemanbad should never see this data! Reeeee!!!!!"

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 03, 2025 11:51 AM (bFu5X)

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"You're right. The state should destroy the data completely. Who knows what kind of bad actor will get into the system? The state should collect no data at all and just hand out money to anyone who says they need it."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 03, 2025 11:52 AM (GBKbO)

239 228 222 Democrats know when their state refuses to scrub dead people off the voter rolls it is to facilitate fraud. There is no other conceivable reason. They know when their state refuses to turn over SNAP data it is to protect fraud. They overwhelmingly approve of fraud.

Posted by: steevy at December 03, 2025 11:51 AM (YwEeS)

=======

"The cost is nothing compared to the waste of the Department of Defense. We have to cut the Department of Defense before we cut anything else."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 03, 2025 11:51 AM (GBKbO)

Department of WAR...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 03, 2025 11:53 AM (ynpvh)

240 Democrats know when their state refuses to scrub dead people off the voter rolls it is to facilitate fraud. There is no other conceivable reason. They know when their state refuses to turn over SNAP data it is to protect fraud. They overwhelmingly approve of fraud.

Posted by: steevy at December 03, 2025 11:51 AM (YwEeS)

=======

"The cost is nothing compared to the waste of the Department of Defense. We have to cut the Department of Defense before we cut anything else."

Embrace the healing power of "and".

Posted by: Archimedes at December 03, 2025 11:53 AM (Riz8t)

241 Holy Christ on a cracker. I may get fired today.
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 03, 2025 11:51 AM

Breathe....

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 03, 2025 11:53 AM (bFu5X)

242 Would love to see what he'd do to a mosque during the call to prayer.

Posted by: Bulg at December 03, 2025 11:50 AM

You'd see a green haired prayer mat at that mosque.

Posted by: Frank Barone at December 03, 2025 11:53 AM (IifOV)

243 Prayer is a beautiful thing. It pleases God, and, rightly done, humbles us before Him.
Posted by: tubal

I'm still trying to figure out how to do it properly. Practice makes perfect, I guess.
Posted by: Bulg at December 03, 2025 11:32 AM (77rzZ)

There is no proper way to pray, except doing it with authenticity.
Posted by: Piper at December 03, 2025 11:36 AM (Wmg4n)

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

The dearly-missed Oregon Muse (R.I.P.) once linked a helpful image (I also have difficulty figuring out how to pray -- and unsure if this equally applies to Jews as well as Christians) and mnemonic acronym [scroll down the web page linked below to find a similar image]:

The P.R.A.Y. acronym stands for:
. Praise;
. Repent;
. Ask; and
. Yield.

https://is.gd/k0yVRx

Posted by: ShainS -- The Neo-Jacobins: Anarcho-Terrorism & Assassination Culture Since 1789 at December 03, 2025 11:54 AM (tfdic)

244 232 220 Sue?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 03, 2025 11:48 AM (ynpvh)

Boy named?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 03, 2025 11:50 AM (bss/y)

Indeed, that's the reference.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 03, 2025 11:51 AM (ynpvh)

But the preferred spelling is Sioux; sounds more manly.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 03, 2025 11:54 AM (ynpvh)

245 e knew exactly what was happening - there's no way *not* to notice a government program goes from $5 million to $355 million per year in only a few years, and ask why.

Obamacare subsidies started at $13B, and are now about $140B. Did you know that before the shutdown? I didn't.
Posted by: Archimedes

I didn't either. But I wasn't in charge of it or responsible for it.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 03, 2025 11:54 AM (Uy7Y9)

246 🚨 BREAKING: USDA Secretary Brooke Rollins says she will be moving to HALT federal funding to states who refuse to turn over SNAP data to help root out fraud
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This will be sidelined by our black robed savants before it can be put in place. The funds will be sent while the administration and the judicial coup hash it out in court over the next several months.

Meanwhile, the fraud will be ratcheted up to 11.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 03, 2025 11:54 AM (NwnyJ)

247 244 But the preferred spelling is Sioux; sounds more manly.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 03, 2025 11:54 AM (ynpvh)

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Is there a Si-Ow-X in this class? Are you present or not Si-Ow-X?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 03, 2025 11:55 AM (GBKbO)

248 Sue?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 03, 2025 11:48 AM (ynpvh)

Boy named?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 03, 2025 11:50 AM (bss/y)

Indeed, that's the reference.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 03, 2025 11:51 AM (ynpvh)

But the preferred spelling is Sioux; sounds more manly.
Posted by: jim

Sounds Fwench.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 03, 2025 11:55 AM (Uy7Y9)

249 225 Most German words are funny.
Posted by: Bulg

Yeah, Arbeit Macht Frei was a laugh a minute!
Posted by: The Day The Clown Cried at December 03, 2025 11:51 AM (oftw2)

Wow. Well, black humor is like food - not everybody gets it.

Posted by: Stalin at December 03, 2025 11:55 AM (uWKK8)

250 But the preferred spelling is Sioux; sounds more manly.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)

Pffft.
-- Boy named Comanche

Posted by: Bulg at December 03, 2025 11:56 AM (77rzZ)

251 >>Having answered that question, now ask yourself "Why are Democrats fighting so hard to protect the Drug Smugglers and the human traffickers?"

Think it's safe to assume that we have politicians and some LEO leadership in the payroll of the cartels. We have a narco state immediately to our south, and some really greedy people in power here. . .

Posted by: Lizzy at December 03, 2025 11:56 AM (GbwPZ)

252 Laufey's "Christmas Magic" might become a Christmas standard. It's a lovely song.

Posted by: Oglebay at December 03, 2025 11:56 AM (2ap+5)

253 Sounds Fwench.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 03, 2025 11:55 AM

"It is wrong...to be French."

- Al Bundy

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 03, 2025 11:56 AM (bFu5X)

254 Joe Biden was chosen as Barak Obama's Vice President because he was worse than Barak Obama.

Kamala Harris was chosen as Joe Biden's VP because she was worse than Joe.

Tim Walz was worse than Kamala Harris.

Can anyone imagine who Tim Walz would pick if he tried to run for President?

Posted by: JB1000 at December 03, 2025 11:56 AM (HJAV5)

255 Wonder if Fenelon is taking a break?

Posted by: tubal at December 03, 2025 11:56 AM (pDt9x)

256 247 244 But the preferred spelling is Sioux; sounds more manly.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 03, 2025 11:54 AM (ynpvh)

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Is there a Si-Ow-X in this class? Are you present or not Si-Ow-X?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 03, 2025 11:55 AM (GBKbO)

https://youtu.be/Dd7FixvoKBw

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 03, 2025 11:56 AM (ynpvh)

257 DEI resident with us today. Is asking questions more appropriate for a first year med student. Omfg.

English, motherfucker, can you speak it? Conjugate verbs? Quit twirling your hair with your finger like a 10 year old? And she’s not even taking notes.

Holy Christ on a cracker. I may get fired today.

I had an appointment with an ENT guy this morning. Because I'm a jerk, I take a perverse delight in asking them questions which get down in the weeds of their profession, but to which I am already pretty sure of the answer because of work I did previously. Anyway, this guy seemed quite nervous when I asked, and didn't specifically answer the question.

The nurse in the background seemed to enjoy it greatly.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 03, 2025 11:56 AM (Riz8t)

258 246 This will be sidelined by our black robed savants before it can be put in place. The funds will be sent while the administration and the judicial coup hash it out in court over the next several months.

Meanwhile, the fraud will be ratcheted up to 11.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 03, 2025 11:54 AM (NwnyJ)

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The actual pattern of the past 11 months has been:

District judge rules against with PI or TRO. Admin doesn't actually comply, but appeals. Appeals court stays district court order, so the admin's original action remains in force. Months later, the case gets decided in favor of the admin.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 03, 2025 11:56 AM (GBKbO)

259 Obamacare subsidies started at $13B, and are now about $140B. Did you know that before the shutdown? I didn't.

1) Triple the cost of healthcare so you can give freebies to illegals and grift off of it

2) Enact subsidies with inflated dollars so the plebes don't notice

3) Claim its Trump's fault when inflation goes up

4) Claim Trump is tripling the cost of healthcare if he doesn't renew the subsidies

Posted by: 18-1 at December 03, 2025 11:56 AM (sKqQm)

260 >Holy Christ on a cracker. I may get fired today.

Posted by: nurse ratched at December 03, 2025 11:51 AM (W2Pud)

Meta Boy is third year med student. From what I observed during his white coat ceremony, 50% of his class are DEI admits. It's only going to get worse.

Posted by: Heavy Meta at December 03, 2025 11:57 AM (NgqoH)

261 I'm here because I literally have no-one else in my life I can vent to about politics or depression.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 03, 2025 11:23 AM (ufSfZ)

Me too, except for the depression part. We have jackets. Made from reprocessed cardboard, however. Only to be worn indoors.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at December 03, 2025 11:57 AM (5xuJ/)

262 Hiring demonstrably or utterly unqualified individuals for positions of great responsibility certainly leads to lowered expectations.

Mediocrity or Mediocracy, as opposed to high standards, excellence, attention to detail, etc. Plus, it’s only “fair” you see.

Our enemies around the world have been taking notes for a long time.

Posted by: Common Tater at December 03, 2025 11:57 AM (HKCc2)

263 259 Obamacare subsidies started at $13B, and are now about $140B. Did you know that before the shutdown? I didn't.

1) Triple the cost of healthcare so you can give freebies to illegals and grift off of it

2) Enact subsidies with inflated dollars so the plebes don't notice

3) Claim its Trump's fault when inflation goes up

4) Claim Trump is tripling the cost of healthcare if he doesn't renew the subsidies

Posted by: 18-1 at December 03, 2025 11:56 AM (sKqQm)

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And with the weird effect of the ACA's popularity skyrocketing.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 03, 2025 11:57 AM (GBKbO)

264 And with the weird effect of the ACA's popularity skyrocketing.

It's a mystery.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 03, 2025 11:58 AM (Riz8t)

265 225
‘ Yeah, Arbeit Macht Frei was a laugh a minute!
Posted by: The Day The Clown Cried’

You made me laugh.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 03, 2025 11:58 AM (jbnUc)

266 DEI resident with us today. Is asking questions more appropriate for a first year med student. Omfg.

English, motherfucker, can you speak it? Conjugate verbs? Quit twirling your hair with your finger like a 10 year old? And she’s not even taking notes.

Is she hot?

Posted by: typical disgusting Moron at December 03, 2025 11:58 AM (oDmoo)

267 There's no special mental abnormality about these people. They're nothing but thieves, murderers, child molestors,etc., because of just pure godless hate of others and a bottomless amount of selfishness to "get what they think is owed them".

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at December 03, 2025 11:58 AM (g8Ew8)

268 >>Obamacare subsidies started at $13B, and are now about $140B. Did you know that before the shutdown? I didn't.

Nope.
Was it because they started putting all of Biden's illegal immigrants and refugees on medicare?

Posted by: Lizzy at December 03, 2025 11:59 AM (GbwPZ)

269 If there is sympathy for the Grinch, then maybe put in a good word for Captain Ahab.

Posted by: Don Black at December 03, 2025 11:59 AM (3W18h)

270 So ...

1. What percent of people in this country are illegals? 10%? 20% Fucking 30%?

2. What percent of government spending is total fraud? 20%? 30%? Fucking 40%? 50%?????

3. How powerful is The Blade's move to FIRST? Powerful? Very Powerful? Overwhelmingly Awesomely Powerful? Omnipotently Powerful?

Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 03, 2025 11:59 AM (iFTx/)

271 Hoe_Math on Twitter chalks it up to dominant culture and/or feminism hijacking women's mothering instinct and redirecting it to causes or groups other than their own (nonexistent) children. When you criticize climate change, or illegal aliens, or any other AWFL shibboleth, she reacts violently because YOU'RE HURTING HER BABIES!!!

https://tinyurl.com/bdf8w952

Posted by: MrUNIVAC at December 03, 2025 11:59 AM (qFCYE)

272 Apropos of nothing, my wife and I are having a language argument this morning about the word 'niche'. I want to pronounce it with the anglosaxon nitch, it bugs her that I don't say neesh.

How do you guys say it?

Posted by: toby928(c) at December 03, 2025 11:59 AM (jc0TO)

273 268 >>Obamacare subsidies started at $13B, and are now about $140B. Did you know that before the shutdown? I didn't.

Nope.
Was it because they started putting all of Biden's illegal immigrants and refugees on medicare?

Posted by: Lizzy at December 03, 2025 11:59 AM (GbwPZ)

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It's because costs on ACA plans have skyrocketed because government programs only grow more expensive with time because there's no incentive to rein in costs for any reason.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 03, 2025 11:59 AM (GBKbO)

274 230
‘ DEI resident with us today. Is asking questions more appropriate for a first year med student.’

Meet the future head of your hospital.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 03, 2025 12:00 PM (jbnUc)

275 267 There's no special mental abnormality about these people. They're nothing but thieves, murderers, child molestors,etc., because of just pure godless hate of others and a bottomless amount of selfishness to "get what they think is owed them".

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at December 03, 2025 11:58 AM (g8Ew

Last I checked, a child molester is definitely abnormal...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 03, 2025 12:00 PM (ynpvh)

276 Was it because they started putting all of Biden's illegal immigrants and refugees on medicare?

I don't know, but there was a big "temporary" bump for Covid.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 03, 2025 12:00 PM (Riz8t)

277 Holy Christ on a cracker. I may get fired today.
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 03, 2025 11:51 AM

Breathe....
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 03, 2025 11:53 AM (bFu5X)

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I also once got fired for carrying a firearm into the workplace.

/only half-joking, Nurse -- and sorry to hear that (prayers up)

I believe there's still a large nursing shortage -- especially for those willing to travel as contractors.

Posted by: ShainS -- The Neo-Jacobins: Anarcho-Terrorism & Assassination Culture Since 1789 at December 03, 2025 12:00 PM (tfdic)

278 Obamacare subsidies started at $13B, and are now about $140B. Did you know that before the shutdown? I didn't.

Because the Republicans are shitty at getting the facts out. This info should be dropped by leaflet from planes on cities all over the country.

Posted by: Frank Barone at December 03, 2025 12:00 PM (IifOV)

279 269 If there is sympathy for the Grinch, then maybe put in a good word for Captain Ahab.

Posted by: Don Black at December 03, 2025 11:59 AM (3W18h)

I'm sure the Japanese do, with their research vessels and all.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 03, 2025 12:00 PM (ynpvh)

280 As somebody pointed out here yesterday, you can only "empathize" with someone if you've been through the same kind of shit that they have.

Gad Saad uses "suicidal empathy" as a sort of marketing shorthand (and the title of his upcoming book) but he actually calls it being "parasitized". He likes to use the example of the wood cricket, which dies in water. A parasite that attacks them causes them to want to jump into water because the parasite needs water to complete its reproduction.

Posted by: Ian S. at December 03, 2025 12:01 PM (2ocoG)

281 How do you guys say it?
Posted by: toby928(c) at December 03, 2025 11:59 AM (jc0TO)

Both ways.

Posted by: No Help Whatsoever at December 03, 2025 12:01 PM (JCLJi)

282 "I want to pronounce it with the anglosaxon nitch, it bugs her that I don't say neesh.

How do you guys say it?
Posted by: toby928(c)"

Pee-can

Posted by: fd at December 03, 2025 12:01 PM (vFG9F)

283 Can anyone imagine who Tim Walz would pick if he tried to run for President?
Posted by: JB1000 at December 03, 2025 11:56 AM (HJAV5)

Jasmine Crockett. And I wish that was a joke, but I don't think it is.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 03, 2025 12:01 PM (uWKK8)

284 278 Obamacare subsidies started at $13B, and are now about $140B. Did you know that before the shutdown? I didn't.

Because the Republicans are shitty at getting the facts out. This info should be dropped by leaflet from planes on cities all over the country.

Posted by: Frank Barone at December 03, 2025 12:00 PM (IifOV)

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"I would have made this a center of Congressional campaigns, but I guess I'm just so bad at politics."
-Mitch McConnell

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 03, 2025 12:01 PM (GBKbO)

285 >How do you guys say it?

Posted by: toby928(c) at December 03, 2025 11:59 AM (jc0TO)

Neesh, we're not savages here!

Posted by: Heavy Meta at December 03, 2025 12:01 PM (NgqoH)

286 Hiring demonstrably or utterly unqualified individuals for positions of great responsibility certainly leads to lowered expectations.

Somali air-traffic controllers. Just give it a chance, Minneapolis.

Posted by: t-bird at December 03, 2025 12:01 PM (upeQk)

287 So....a fraudulent CDL ring discovered in MN....Somali treasury looting and fraud discovered in MN. Using the stolen cash to fund terror orgs abroad discovers in MN.

All roads lead back to the Walz govt.

What's the Trump Admin going to do about it?

Posted by: GigantorX at December 03, 2025 12:02 PM (0ac+N)

288 272 Apropos of nothing, my wife and I are having a language argument this morning about the word 'niche'. I want to pronounce it with the anglosaxon nitch, it bugs her that I don't say neesh.

How do you guys say it?

Posted by: toby928(c) at December 03, 2025 11:59 AM (jc0TO)

Both pronunciations are correct.
It's a bitch that it rhymes with niche,
But sheesh, it rhymes with niche.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 03, 2025 12:02 PM (ynpvh)

289 The actual pattern of the past 11 months has been:

District judge rules against with PI or TRO. Admin doesn't actually comply, but appeals. Appeals court stays district court order, so the admin's original action remains in force. Months later, the case gets decided in favor of the admin.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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Pretty much except sometimes Scotus gets involved if the appellate court discards the law and sides with the lower court.

The Golden Rule applies on matters like food stamps where the Feds are paying all of it. He who has the gold, makes the rules for those wanting a piece of it. The states have to follow what the federal government wants in such matters. There is no 10th Amendment carve out for taking fedbucks and then ignoring what the feds want in return.

See South Dakota v Dole about the spending clause strings that fedgov can put on states receiving the aid. In that particular case, it was the requirement that states raise their speed limit which is much more intrusive than asking for information about how fed money is spent.

Legally, the lower courts literally have no ground to stand on except Orange Man Bad in this matter.

Posted by: whig at December 03, 2025 12:02 PM (WDjG6)

290 This one is easy.

Posted by: Rhymes with bitch at December 03, 2025 12:02 PM (vFG9F)

291 My employer helped companies transition from employer-provided medical insurance to helping their retirees sign up for ACA plans when the new subsidies were added.

Posted by: Oglebay at December 03, 2025 12:02 PM (2ap+5)

292 Here's another good one from Hoe_Math:

https://tinyurl.com/2druhe78

Posted by: MrUNIVAC at December 03, 2025 12:03 PM (qFCYE)

293 282 "I want to pronounce it with the anglosaxon nitch, it bugs her that I don't say neesh.

How do you guys say it?
Posted by: toby928(c)"

Pee-can

Posted by: fd at December 03, 2025 12:01 PM (vFG9F)

When I woke up this mornin' I ran to use the Pee-can...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 03, 2025 12:03 PM (ynpvh)

294 "Jasmine Crockett. And I wish that was a joke, but I don't think it is.
Posted by: Tom Servo"

That's a good choice. Now who would Crockett pick?

Posted by: Rhymes with bitch at December 03, 2025 12:03 PM (vFG9F)

295 Dictionary says
nĭch, nēsh

Both are correct.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at December 03, 2025 12:04 PM (n5tGW)

296 English, motherfucker, can you speak it? Conjugate verbs? Quit twirling your hair with your finger like a 10 year old? And she’s not even taking notes.
Holy Christ on a cracker. I may get fired today.
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 03, 2025 11:51 AM (W2Pud)

What time lunch bees?

Posted by: DEI Nurse Shemeka Latorunious Brown at December 03, 2025 12:04 PM (FGMmt)

297 Meta Boy is third year med student. From what I observed during his white coat ceremony, 50% of his class are DEI admits. It's only going to get worse.
Posted by: Heavy Meta at December 03, 2025 11:57 AM

My law school section wasn't quite that bad back in the day, but I'd hate to see it now. You could tell who didn't belong there. Most left after the first year.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 03, 2025 12:04 PM (bFu5X)

298 All roads lead back to the Walz govt.

What's the Trump Admin going to do about it?
Posted by: GigantorX a
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Bunch of federal investigators are already there after the state judge set aside the jury verdict convicting a Somali for fraud.

Unlike what some people seem to want, you can't arrest and indict people on media stories--it requires evidence that will stand up in court and often a hostile jury and judge in deep blue shitholes.

Posted by: whig at December 03, 2025 12:04 PM (WDjG6)

299 Meta Boy is third year med student. From what I observed during his white coat ceremony, 50% of his class are DEI admits. It's only going to get worse.

Posted by: Heavy Meta at December 03, 2025 11:57 AM (NgqoH)

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Wifey and I refuse to see younger doctors for this reason; gray-hairs FTW !

Posted by: ShainS -- The Neo-Jacobins: Anarcho-Terrorism & Assassination Culture Since 1789 at December 03, 2025 12:04 PM (tfdic)

300 Obamacare subsidies started at $13B, and are now about $140B.
Posted by: Frank Barone at December 03, 2025 12:00 PM (IifOV
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Insurance company heroin, injected directly into their P&L's.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 03, 2025 12:05 PM (Wvwtw)

301 270
‘ 3. How powerful is The Blade's move to FIRST? Powerful? Very Powerful?’

I can’t decide between ‘cringe’ and ‘gay’.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 03, 2025 12:05 PM (jbnUc)

302 299 Meta Boy is third year med student. From what I observed during his white coat ceremony, 50% of his class are DEI admits. It's only going to get worse.

Posted by: Heavy Meta at December 03, 2025 11:57 AM (NgqoH)

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Wifey and I refuse to see younger doctors for this reason; gray-hairs FTW !

Posted by: ShainS -- The Neo-Jacobins: Anarcho-Terrorism & Assassination Culture Since 1789 at December 03, 2025 12:04 PM (tfdic)

When I see my PCP, I have to ignore all the gay and trans stuff on her office walls...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 03, 2025 12:05 PM (ynpvh)

303 302 When I see my PCP, I have to ignore all the gay and trans stuff on her office walls...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 03, 2025 12:05 PM (ynpvh)

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My GP works on the seaside and hates dogs.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 03, 2025 12:06 PM (GBKbO)

304 301 270
‘ 3. How powerful is The Blade's move to FIRST? Powerful? Very Powerful?’

I can’t decide between ‘cringe’ and ‘gay’.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 03, 2025 12:05 PM (jbnUc)

Ask Garrett.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 03, 2025 12:06 PM (ynpvh)

305 Apropos of nothing, my wife and I are having a language argument this morning about the word 'niche'. I want to pronounce it with the anglosaxon nitch, it bugs her that I don't say neesh.

How do you guys say it?
Posted by: toby928(c)
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I use it both ways (because of course I do!). I pronounce it "nitch" when it just a couple of us guys talking informally about free agency in sports or something of the sort, and then use the "neesh" version of it when its a conversation about a high end watch, automobile, or house.

By the way toby and Cicero, thank you both for responding to my "flares" I launched in the overnight thread last night! I'll get with CBD or JJ or someone to get my home posting privileges restored (hopefully!).

Posted by: Crusader at December 03, 2025 12:06 PM (Ds3Rc)

306 231 Just my 2 cents on prayer. One you turn your mind towards God, you have begun praying.

Anyway, for you rockers, King's X has a great song called "Talk To You" that I believe is perhaps about songwriting, but also prayer. During that period, they tended to infuse Christianity into their songs.
Posted by: Bad Andrew at December 03, 2025 11:51 AM (6qf1m)

Yeah, they all started out in the CCM ghetto as session/touring musicians, plus did a Indy release as Sneak Preview a few years before rebranding as King’s X. Their first four releases are very good, especially Gretchen Goes To Nebraska, then they went off the reservation —they are all apostate now, with Doug (I refuse to use his stage name) coming out as homosexual. Such a waste. I hope and pray they all repent and return to Him.

Posted by: goozer at December 03, 2025 12:07 PM (BAs8w)

307 I want to pronounce it with the anglosaxon nitch, it bugs her that I don't say neesh.

How do you guys say it?
Posted by: toby928(c)

Neesh, like quiche, this language, sheesh
So fucked up I'm'a cut a beesh

Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at December 03, 2025 12:07 PM (OUMaO)

308 307 Neesh, like quiche, this language, sheesh
So fucked up I'm'a cut a beesh

Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at December 03, 2025 12:07 PM (OUMaO)

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Just as long as you produce the produce.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 03, 2025 12:08 PM (GBKbO)

309 Buffalo buffalo Buffalo Buffalo buffalo Buffalo.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 03, 2025 12:08 PM (GBKbO)

310 308 307 Neesh, like quiche, this language, sheesh
So fucked up I'm'a cut a beesh

Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at December 03, 2025 12:07 PM (OUMaO)

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Just as long as you produce the produce.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 03, 2025 12:08 PM (GBKbO)

Watch the wind wind a few branches.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 03, 2025 12:08 PM (ynpvh)

311 Dictionary says
nĭch, nēsh

Both are correct.

Yesterday on X I was reminded that Dell computers was originally called "PC's Limited", which I really, really hate. I know the 80s was the decade of misuse of the possessive apostrophe, but yikes.

Posted by: Ian S. at December 03, 2025 12:09 PM (2ocoG)

312 When there is a Anglo-Saxon version of a frog word, I will most likely use it.

I do say neesh when talking about furniture.

Posted by: toby928(c) at December 03, 2025 12:09 PM (jc0TO)

313 309 Buffalo buffalo Buffalo Buffalo buffalo Buffalo.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 03, 2025 12:08 PM (GBKbO)

Indeed. NY state has a problem with buffalos in that city.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 03, 2025 12:09 PM (ynpvh)

314 NIE-chee

Posted by: Bulg at December 03, 2025 12:09 PM (77rzZ)

315 Buffalo buffalo Buffalo Buffalo buffalo Buffalo.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 03, 2025 12:08 PM

Mom says you're trolling me.

Posted by: Wesley Crusher at December 03, 2025 12:09 PM (0sNs1)

316 Buffalo buffalo Buffalo Buffalo buffalo Buffalo.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger

You mean: Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo.

Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at December 03, 2025 12:09 PM (OUMaO)

317 316 Buffalo buffalo Buffalo Buffalo buffalo Buffalo.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger

You mean: Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo.

Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at December 03, 2025 12:09 PM (OUMaO)

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Don't you put words in my mouth!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 03, 2025 12:10 PM (GBKbO)

318 I was chilly in Chile so I ate the chili.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at December 03, 2025 12:10 PM (n5tGW)

319 314 NIE-chee

Posted by: Bulg at December 03, 2025 12:09 PM (77rzZ)

Nietzsche?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 03, 2025 12:10 PM (ynpvh)

320 318 I was chilly in Chile so I ate the chili.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at December 03, 2025 12:10 PM (n5tGW)

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Yeah, but where were the carrots?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 03, 2025 12:10 PM (GBKbO)

321 Don't you put words in my mouth!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger

Understandable. God only knows where they've been.

Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at December 03, 2025 12:11 PM (OUMaO)

322 "Because the Republicans are shitty at getting the facts out."

Way funnier than the "macht frei" joke.

Posted by: connected and litigious at December 03, 2025 12:11 PM (s9EN2)

323 BabylonBee: Minnesota Added To Trump's Third-World Travel Ban
Posted by: SMOD

Trump also to close all airspace over Minnesota.

Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at December 03, 2025 12:11 PM (w9Wax)

324 320 318 I was chilly in Chile so I ate the chili.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at December 03, 2025 12:10 PM (n5tGW)

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Yeah, but where were the carrots?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 03, 2025 12:10 PM (GBKbO)

Dems stick them up their ass, for their own pleasure...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 03, 2025 12:11 PM (ynpvh)

325
POKER MONKEY

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 03, 2025 12:11 PM (y9nCu)

326 Neesh, like quiche, this language, sheesh
So fucked up I'm'a cut a beesh

Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at December 03, 2025 12:07 PM

There, they're, their....it'll be fine.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 03, 2025 12:12 PM (bFu5X)

327 326 Neesh, like quiche, this language, sheesh
So fucked up I'm'a cut a beesh

Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at December 03, 2025 12:07 PM

There, they're, their....it'll be fine.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 03, 2025 12:12 PM (bFu5X)

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Here hear!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 03, 2025 12:12 PM (GBKbO)

328 We are at a disadvantage because explaining why government handouts are society destroyers is much more difficult than saying "Feed the Children!".

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at December 03, 2025 12:13 PM (n5tGW)

329 327 326 Neesh, like quiche, this language, sheesh
So fucked up I'm'a cut a beesh

Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at December 03, 2025 12:07 PM

There, they're, their....it'll be fine.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 03, 2025 12:12 PM (bFu5X)

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Here hear!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 03, 2025 12:12 PM (GBKbO)

What a bunch of homophones...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 03, 2025 12:13 PM (ynpvh)

330 I would call it more empathy without critical thinking or reflexive empathy.

There was a clip of some awfl asking Nigel Farage why he thinks mass immigration for Britain was a bad thing, she asked this in a manner of sneering condescension, because she thinks it's great and the only reason you would be against it is a bigot.

He listed out the reasons it was deleterious and she had this complete look of shock as she clearly had not even thought about any negative consequences in the least.

Because in here mind, if you have the right opinions then there can be no downstream negative consequences.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 03, 2025 12:13 PM (XV/Pl)

331 Picking a fight with your wife over the pronunciation of niche seems like a "lose-lose" situation.

Posted by: no one at December 03, 2025 12:14 PM (W7XSX)

332 I don't think I've ever pronounced it anything other than neesh.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 03, 2025 12:14 PM (XV/Pl)

333 POKER MONKEY
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 03, 2025 12:11 PM (y9nCu)

This could've used a Lady Gaga sock.

Posted by: far cry at December 03, 2025 12:14 PM (oDmoo)

334 So I was cooking a quitch the other day...

Posted by: Archimedes at December 03, 2025 12:15 PM (Riz8t)

335 The Commies successfully taught the left that charity is the responsibility of the government through the taxes that mostly the rich pay.

Posted by: no one at December 03, 2025 12:16 PM (W7XSX)

336 So I was cooking a quitch the other day...

Posted by: Archimedes at December 03, 2025 12:15 PM (Riz8t)

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Back off, Beesh!

Posted by: ShainS -- The Neo-Jacobins: Anarcho-Terrorism & Assassination Culture Since 1789 at December 03, 2025 12:16 PM (tfdic)

337 And Justice is a Capitalist, racist evil.

Posted by: no one at December 03, 2025 12:16 PM (W7XSX)

338 So I was cooking a quitch the other day...
Posted by: Archimedes at December 03, 2025 12:15 PM

When I was a plebe, I heard a classmate report to an upperclassman that we were having breakfast "quick" that morning. I knew that guy was in for a rough day.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 03, 2025 12:17 PM (bFu5X)

339 334 So I was cooking a quitch the other day...

Posted by: Archimedes at December 03, 2025 12:15 PM (Riz8t)

Yeah, quiche is messed up in all sorts of ways.
The qui is pronounced "KEY" not "KWI", like the word quay.
The che is pronounced "Shhh" insteach of "CH"...

Damn foreign borrow words.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 03, 2025 12:17 PM (ynpvh)

340 330
‘ some awfl asking Nigel Farage why he thinks mass immigration for Britain was a bad thing’

What value does Farage think he’s getting by explaining himself to someone like that?

Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 03, 2025 12:18 PM (jbnUc)

341 POKER MONKEY
Posted by: IllTemperedCur

If you poker monkey in public, you might get slapped.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 03, 2025 12:18 PM (Uy7Y9)

342 What a bunch of homophones...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 03, 2025 12:13 PM (ynpvh)
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I'm not a homophone, you're a homophone!

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at December 03, 2025 12:18 PM (0cOaq)

343 What value does Farage think he’s getting by explaining himself to someone like that?

It's prophylactic. If he hadn't had an answer, or just blew her off, you can bet your life it would have led the "news" on BBC that night.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 03, 2025 12:19 PM (Riz8t)

344 Quay is pronounced kay.

Posted by: no one at December 03, 2025 12:19 PM (W7XSX)

345 some awfl asking Nigel Farage why he thinks mass immigration for Britain was a bad thing’

What value does Farage think he’s getting by explaining himself to someone like that?
Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 03, 2025 12:18 PM (jbnUc)
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He's a bit like CK in that he'll debate with anyone. I don't think he thinks it will change the mind of the people he's debating. I do think he hopes it might influence someone watching the debate.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 03, 2025 12:20 PM (iFTx/)

346 Now do "cache".

Posted by: Rhymes with bitch at December 03, 2025 12:20 PM (vFG9F)

347 Germany closing Christmas markets because security is too expensive while spending $30 billion on the illegals who ARE the security threat pretty much sums up Western Europe.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 03, 2025 12:20 PM (Uy7Y9)

348 She is a flagrant thespian.

Posted by: no one at December 03, 2025 12:20 PM (W7XSX)

349 @340

>>What value does Farage think he’s getting by explaining himself to someone like that?

It was during a q&a.

He is a politician and also a public speaker, so these sorts of things are going to happen.

Just looking at it realistically, no amount of talking is going to change the minds of the seeming majority of lunatics that now inhabit western countries.

But you gotta keep trying.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 03, 2025 12:20 PM (XV/Pl)

350 Because in here mind, if you have the right opinions then there can be no downstream negative consequences.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 03, 2025 12:13 PM (XV/Pl)

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OUT: Stage-One Thinking.
IN: Stage-Zero Thinking (AKA Stage-One-Only Feeling & "Empathy")

Posted by: ShainS -- The Neo-Jacobins: Anarcho-Terrorism & Assassination Culture Since 1789 at December 03, 2025 12:20 PM (tfdic)

351 Quay is pronounced kay.
Posted by: no one at December 03, 2025 12:19 PM (W7XSX)
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Key.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at December 03, 2025 12:20 PM (0cOaq)

352 338 So I was cooking a quitch the other day...
Posted by: Archimedes at December 03, 2025 12:15 PM

When I was a plebe, I heard a classmate report to an upperclassman that we were having breakfast "quick" that morning. I knew that guy was in for a rough day.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 03, 2025 12:17 PM (bFu5X)

Guy's in a restaurant, looking at the menu. His waitress, a hot looking blonde comes up and asks for his order. He looks her up and down, and says, "I'd like a quickie!". The waitress walks off in a huff. A few minutes later, she comes back, he looks her up and down and once again says, "I'd like a quickie!". Even more upset, the waitress walks away again. The third time this happens, the waitress slaps the man across the face and walks off, quite peeved. A man nearby, seeing all this, tells the man, "I think it's pronounced Quiche."

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 03, 2025 12:20 PM (ynpvh)

353 REAL MEN DON'T EAT QUICHE

Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 03, 2025 12:20 PM (iFTx/)

354 Yeah, quiche is messed up in all sorts of ways.
The qui is pronounced "KEY" not "KWI", like the word quay.
The che is pronounced "Shhh" insteach of "CH"...

Damn foreign borrow words.
Posted by: jim

Quiche is the bomb diggity. How else do you eat bacon & eggs one handed while at the deer stand?

Posted by: rickb223 at December 03, 2025 12:22 PM (Uy7Y9)

355 Hope for the best, expect nothing...

@bennyjohnson 25m
BREAKING: The House Judiciary Committee has subpoenaed Jack Smith for all documents and communications from his tenure as Special Counsel.

He is required to appear for a deposition at the Capitol on December 17.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 03, 2025 12:22 PM (mlg/3)

356 @353

>>REAL MEN DON'T EAT QUICHE

I could murder an entire spinach solo.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 03, 2025 12:22 PM (XV/Pl)

357 245 I do think he hopes it might influence someone watching the debate.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 03, 2025 12:20 PM (iFTx/)

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I believe this is the understood purpose of all debate.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 03, 2025 12:22 PM (GBKbO)

358 328 We are at a disadvantage because explaining why government handouts are society destroyers is much more difficult than saying "Feed the Children!".
Posted by: Guy Mohawk
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Because as Aristotle put it, you fight rhetoric with rhetoric, not dialectic which is a traditional conservative tactic. The argument by Democrats traditionally is solely at the level of feelings, not logic.

So you reply with something like lazy freeloaders, parasites on working people, welfare queens, or lazy cheaters. That is how rhetoric works. Instead, conservatives debate using a long didatic dialectical discussion of how long term receipt of benefits actually undermines positive development of recipients into people working in the community.

Rhetoric is purposefully designed to win debate fights for demagogues but the advantage of good rhetoric based in facts is that it persuades more people than bad rhetoric based solely on feels and unicorn sparkly farts.

Posted by: whig at December 03, 2025 12:22 PM (WDjG6)

359 "I think it's pronounced Quiche."
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 03, 2025 12:20 PM

Another played it smart with coq au vin.

"Sir, I'm not sure how to pronounce it, but it's C-O-Q au vin."

Oddly, he got the au vin part right.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 03, 2025 12:23 PM (bFu5X)

360 342 What a bunch of homophones...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 03, 2025 12:13 PM (ynpvh)
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I'm not a homophone, you're a homophone!

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at December 03, 2025 12:18 PM (0cOaq)

jim gym...damn, you're right.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 03, 2025 12:23 PM (ynpvh)

361 "BREAKING: The House Judiciary Committee has subpoenaed Jack Smith for all documents and communications from his tenure as Special Counsel.

He is required to appear for a deposition at the Capitol on December 17.
Posted by: weft cut-loop"

Merry Christmas!

Posted by: Rhymes with bitch at December 03, 2025 12:23 PM (vFG9F)

362 >>What value does Farage think he’s getting by explaining himself to someone like that?

It was during a q&a.

He is a politician and also a public speaker, so these sorts of things are going to happen.

Just looking at it realistically, no amount of talking is going to change the minds of the seeming majority of lunatics that now inhabit western countries.

But you gotta keep trying.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 03, 2025 12:20 PM (XV/Pl)

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* Charlie Kirk had literally entered the chats *

Posted by: ShainS -- The Neo-Jacobins: Anarcho-Terrorism & Assassination Culture Since 1789 at December 03, 2025 12:23 PM (tfdic)

363 NOOD

Posted by: Doof at December 03, 2025 12:24 PM (Ltmlv)

364 REAL MEN DON'T EAT QUICHE

And yet, real men eat eggs and bacon for breakfast, and love pie. Is there some kind of alchemical transformation that gays up those ingredients?

Posted by: Archimedes at December 03, 2025 12:24 PM (Riz8t)

365 Quiche? Yeah, whatever the wife calls it, I don't care. She makes it, I eat it, I get back to work.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at December 03, 2025 12:24 PM (vd6bO)

366
Yeah, they all started out in the CCM ghetto as session/touring musicians, plus did a Indy release as Sneak Preview a few years before rebranding as King’s X. Their first four releases are very good, especially Gretchen Goes To Nebraska, then they went off the reservation —they are all apostate now, with Doug (I refuse to use his stage name) coming out as homosexual. Such a waste. I hope and pray they all repent and return to Him.
Posted by: goozer at December 03, 2025 12:07 PM (BAs8w)

Gretchen Goes To Nebraska is woefully underrated, especially since Ty Tabor got one of the greatest rock guitar tones ever produced on those first 4 albums (using a weirdo Fender Elite Strat and a solid-state Lab Series L5 amp). The decline started when he changed over to generic Mesa-Boogies on Dogman.

As for Doug Pinnick, great voice, good bassist and I couldn't have cared less about him being gay. Then he started singing about being gay and calling his own audience bigots. Douchebag.

I still have Gretchen on my shortlist of desert island albums.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 03, 2025 12:24 PM (y9nCu)

367 362 * Charlie Kirk had literally entered the chats *

Posted by: ShainS -- The Neo-Jacobins: Anarcho-Terrorism & Assassination Culture Since 1789 at December 03, 2025 12:23 PM (tfdic)

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"Literally? See, it's what I've been saying from the start. Charlie Kirk is still alive. A robot was shot on that stage, a robot created by Bibi himself to convince the world to go to war in Cambodia to feed Israeli interests."
-Candace Owens

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 03, 2025 12:24 PM (GBKbO)

368 "BREAKING: The House Judiciary Committee has subpoenaed Jack Smith for all documents and communications from his tenure as Special Counsel.

He is required to appear for a deposition at the Capitol on December 17.

Posted by: weft cut-loop"

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I predict six strongly-worded letters and 12 rolled-up sleeves.

/I'm much too young to be so cynical ...

Posted by: ShainS -- The Neo-Jacobins: Anarcho-Terrorism & Assassination Culture Since 1789 at December 03, 2025 12:25 PM (tfdic)

369 Something bothering me today in the news headlines is the repub ONLY won by 8%.

That's an easy win. Nashville is still a blue city in a red state. and this was an off year, off month election. I just don't get why its a story.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at December 03, 2025 12:25 PM (n5tGW)

370 I think the suicidal empathy is more a thing with the voters than with the people they vote for.

As I’ve intimated in the past, I wonder if my generation (Y/older Millennial) just never grew up enough to realize that life is not movies/TV, and subconsciously assume every immigrant is Fievel, every environmental issue is Captain Planet or FernGully, every CEO is Mr. Burns, and any strident military/police action that upsets them is the Galactic Empire.

Posted by: He learned almost too late, that Moron is a feeling creature at December 03, 2025 12:25 PM (KzDOI)

371
Walz has pushed back on the criticism, telling The New York Times that his administration "erred on the side of generosity"

See how easy it is to be generous with other people's money? Other people's property? Other people's kids?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 03, 2025 12:27 PM (xG4kz)

372 "Literally? See, it's what I've been saying from the start. Charlie Kirk is still alive. A robot was shot on that stage, a robot created by Bibi himself to convince the world to go to war in Cambodia to feed Israeli interests."
-Candace Owens

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 03, 2025 12:24 PM (GBKbO)

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Heh (was going to chastise you for overlooking my use of the past tense "had" -- until catching the sock mock).

Hey, I think I saw Sock Mock open for somebody ...

Posted by: ShainS -- The Neo-Jacobins: Anarcho-Terrorism & Assassination Culture Since 1789 at December 03, 2025 12:28 PM (tfdic)

373
Every scientist is Bill Nye or Neil deGrasse Tyson.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 03, 2025 12:29 PM (xG4kz)

374 Yes, that too!

Posted by: He learned almost too late, that Moron is a feeling creature at December 03, 2025 12:29 PM (KzDOI)

375 And that definitely is the case with younger Millennials. Anybody they don’t like is explicitly equated to Voldemort.

Posted by: He learned almost too late, that Moron is a feeling creature at December 03, 2025 12:32 PM (KzDOI)

376 The Grinch was the hero of the story. He never hated Xmas. He hated people. He just wanted to be left alone. What's wrong with that?
Posted by: Elric The Blade

He also refused to leave other people alone and took action to destroy their happiness because the existence of their happiness made him miserable.

It's not like the Whos were coming up to his cave and bugging him to join them. They were leaving him alone as he wanted and that wasn't good enough for him.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at December 03, 2025 12:34 PM (a+4eV)

377 The dearly-missed Oregon Muse (R.I.P.) once linked a helpful image (I also have difficulty figuring out how to pray -- and unsure if this equally applies to Jews as well as Christians) and mnemonic acronym [scroll down the web page linked below to find a similar image]:

The P.R.A.Y. acronym stands for:
. Praise;
. Repent;
. Ask; and
. Yield.

https://is.gd/k0yVRx
Posted by: ShainS -- The Neo-Jacobins: Anarcho-Terrorism & Assassination Culture Since 1789 at December 03, 2025 11:54 AM (tfdic)

Thanks, ShainS, I like this.

Posted by: NCDave at December 03, 2025 12:37 PM (VQC/c)

378 Funny thing, the book was inspired by Ted Geisel being frustrated by the suffocating commercialism of the Christmas season (and this was only in the 50s), and trying to articulate what he thought the good of Christmas was (without being particularly religious, because he wasn’t, he was a good mostly-agnostic lefty to the point that when Chuck Jones’ animated version was going to show a star descending down on the Whos near the end, he objected and insisted it rise *up* from them instead).

The Grinch was basically the misanthropic side of Dr. Seuss himself.

Posted by: He learned almost too late, that Moron is a feeling creature at December 03, 2025 12:40 PM (KzDOI)

379 Maybe it wasn’t Seuss who wanted the star to rise up, but there was definitely concern that having it descend down was too overtly Christian. I’m trying to figure out where I specifically read this, no luck yet. But I do feel like Seuss was not particularly religious - he definitely had very secular lefty sensibilities (not Marxist, but he loathed Nixon and Reagan and railed about the environment and nuclear war)

Posted by: He learned almost too late, that Moron is a feeling creature at December 03, 2025 12:46 PM (KzDOI)

380 I agree with JM. The Dems have adopted the language of females and just ooze sympathy and caring. As when Gavin Newsom's chief of staff was arrested for theft, he said he worried about her children. What?

And then they also have major emotional freakouts like this Aftyn B. from Nashville, and Nashville voted 77% for her! The emotionalism is like a drug.

They appeal to women this way through emotion. That's why so many women vote Dem.

Posted by: Random PJ at December 03, 2025 12:54 PM (RRCAT)

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