Mid-Morning Art Thread

Battle Of Vienna
Pauwel Casteels

Venimus, vidimus et Deus Vicit

Posted by: CBD at 09:30 AM

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1 Sponge!

Posted by: rickb223 at December 15, 2025 09:30 AM (QVuuq)

2 Corgis called.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 15, 2025 09:31 AM (QVuuq)

3 Charles Martel up!

Posted by: rickb223 at December 15, 2025 09:31 AM (QVuuq)

4 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 15, 2025 09:31 AM (Zz0t1)

5 This one looks familiar.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 15, 2025 09:32 AM (Zz0t1)

6
All that carnage.....

over tiny sausages....

So sad.

Posted by: Soothsayer's Historical Facts at December 15, 2025 09:32 AM (KPKlu)

7 "We Came, We Saw, and God Conquered"?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 15, 2025 09:32 AM (wzUl9)

8 Where is Corey Booker in all this?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 15, 2025 09:32 AM (Zz0t1)

9 All that over some sausages?

Posted by: fd at December 15, 2025 09:32 AM (vFG9F)

10 Rob Reiner been moidered.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at December 15, 2025 09:32 AM (Kt19C)

11 Austrians then: DEUS VULT

Austrians now: Are we giving you enough in welfare payments my poor dear Muslims refugees or would you like to have sex with my wife as well?

Posted by: 18-1 at December 15, 2025 09:32 AM (sKqQm)

12 Looking for Husars ...
(We could use a few, ourselves)

Posted by: YellowBird at December 15, 2025 09:32 AM (MEbkQ)

13
Casteels originally titled it:

Das Veenie Roast

Posted by: Soothsayer's Historical Facts at December 15, 2025 09:33 AM (KPKlu)

14 That's a mess. Probably much like the actual battle.

Posted by: the way I see it at December 15, 2025 09:33 AM (KDPiq)

15 Excellent, CBD!

We need Jan Sobieski, and many others like him, now more than ever.

Posted by: Bulg at December 15, 2025 09:33 AM (77rzZ)

16 Waiting for that painting to be put in storage in deference to the trauma inflicted on peace loving Muslim refugees.

Posted by: NR Pax at December 15, 2025 09:34 AM (lXoJ5)

17 Fun note the croissant comes from the Siege of Vienna.

The Turk's symbol as a crescent star, so to celebrate the Austrians created a crescent shaped pastry.

This then later went to France from Austria, and then to Britain from France which is why we think its French

Posted by: 18-1 at December 15, 2025 09:34 AM (sKqQm)

18 Really pretty dim, like so many modern movies. It's hard to make out details even when you embiggen it.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 15, 2025 09:34 AM (wzUl9)

19 Their sausages suck.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 15, 2025 09:34 AM (Zz0t1)

20

December 26 sale at Macy's!

Posted by: Dirty Frank at December 15, 2025 09:34 AM (Q43RC)

21 Virginia's really fallen on hard times from the look of it.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 15, 2025 09:34 AM (NwnyJ)

22 I admire the detail in this piece.

Posted by: redridinghood at December 15, 2025 09:35 AM (NpAcC)

23 Thinking about how the battle went, Tolkein's Battle of Pelennor Fields must be based on the Siege of Vienna right?

Posted by: 18-1 at December 15, 2025 09:35 AM (sKqQm)

24 Where's Sobieski in this painting?

Posted by: Bulg at December 15, 2025 09:36 AM (77rzZ)

25 I see Waldo.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 15, 2025 09:36 AM (6mzr3)

26 He painted this in 1683-84, not long after the battle itself.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 15, 2025 09:36 AM (wzUl9)

27 December 26 sale at Macy's!
Posted by: Dirty Frank

December 26 is Boxing Day, so it's appropriate that they're fighting.

Posted by: Bulg at December 15, 2025 09:37 AM (77rzZ)

28 "Posted by: Soothsayer's Historical Facts "

The attempt at foisting Vienna Sausages made chiefly from penguins on the pork adverse Muslims led to the animosity that continues to this day.

Posted by: Penguin Facts at December 15, 2025 09:37 AM (vFG9F)

29 I'll have to come back to this again later. Suspect my tiny dim phone screen doesn't do it justice. At least the fleeing turbans stand out.

Posted by: She Hobbit (out and about in Middle Earth) at December 15, 2025 09:37 AM (7tboY)

30 Australian Joo shooting called terrorism due to choice of weapons. A straight pull rifle?

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at December 15, 2025 09:37 AM (Kt19C)

31 The sausages in the can at the time of this battle are still edible.

Posted by: Libby's and Armour at December 15, 2025 09:38 AM (oftw2)

32 Next time it will be the Muslims fighting to keep the infidels from the city

Posted by: Skip at December 15, 2025 09:38 AM (FIUji)

33 An optimistic painting today. I like it. Here's hoping that, if history doesn't repeat itself, at least it rhymes.

Posted by: Moron Analyst at December 15, 2025 09:38 AM (ycI94)

34 Nothing like a good war scene. I like the mortar hitting the city wall. Would hang

Posted by: Maj. Healey at December 15, 2025 09:38 AM (abIsI)

35 I admire the detail in this piece.
Posted by: redridinghood

If only we could see more of it...

Posted by: Bulg at December 15, 2025 09:38 AM (77rzZ)

36 America might soon need the 21st century equivalent of Polish heavy cavalry charging through Dearborn and Paterson and Minneapolis.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 15, 2025 09:38 AM (n9ltV)

37 Largest cavalry charge in history, 18 k, including 10k Winged Hussars under Sobieski. Would hang.
Great choice for today, thx CBD.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 15, 2025 09:39 AM (D+mpw)

38 A very good choice for the day!

Battle finally won by the greatest cavslry charge in history, and the most glorious moment ever for the Polish Winged Hussars.

Think of the Charge of the Rohirim in Jackson’s film, then think of it several times bigger and better.
And no ghosts at the end, save for those of dead Turks.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 15, 2025 09:39 AM (k5cxK)

39 This painting could probably use a cleaning.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at December 15, 2025 09:39 AM (36PRH)

40 Where's Sobieski in this painting?
Posted by: Bulg at December 15, 2025

***
Always glad to see LeeLee. But I doubt she was anywhere near this battle.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 15, 2025 09:39 AM (wzUl9)

41 This is about the meeting between Ericka Kirk and Candace Owens today, isn't it.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 15, 2025 09:39 AM (Zz0t1)

42 *Erika

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 15, 2025 09:40 AM (Zz0t1)

43 Well, it's certainly detailed and well-staged, though a bit murky.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at December 15, 2025 09:40 AM (WPL6O)

44 30 Australian Joo shooting called terrorism due to choice of weapons. A straight pull rifle?
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats

I watched a few videos. That maniac could rack a bolt with the best of them. Had to have been trained somewhere.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at December 15, 2025 09:40 AM (abIsI)

45 Ah small the glove, we’re on the same wavelength!

There was a great blog site for a while called Gates of Vienna, I don’t know if it is still around.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 15, 2025 09:41 AM (k5cxK)

46
And the Casings, Go Rolling Along - a limerick

Cavalry shot down from the saddle
And foot soldiers slaughtered like cattle
All of this to pick a winnah
In the city of Vienna
Throughout hist'ry we never sausage a battle

Posted by: muldoon at December 15, 2025 09:41 AM (/iMjX)

47 IIRC, King Sobieski showed up the next day, 9/12.

Posted by: no one at December 15, 2025 09:41 AM (W7XSX)

48 [i39 This painting could probably use a cleaning.
Posted by: Chairman LMAO ]

Bring it to a conservator and the value will increase twofold.

Posted by: Antique Roadshow at December 15, 2025 09:42 AM (abIsI)

49 Always glad to see LeeLee. But I doubt she was anywhere near this battle.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

Just did an image search on her. Very Helen Huntish, but not as pretty.

Posted by: Bulg at December 15, 2025 09:42 AM (77rzZ)

50 I'll bring the horses.

Posted by: Ben Had at December 15, 2025 09:43 AM (sDNVV)

51 Throughout hist'ry we never sausage a battle
Posted by: muldoon at December 15, 2025 09:41 AM (/iMjX)

National treasure. We need a monument built.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 15, 2025 09:43 AM (Zz0t1)

52 Too much going on in this painting

Posted by: It's me donna at December 15, 2025 09:43 AM (VE6XX)

53 23 Thinking about how the battle went, Tolkein's Battle of Pelennor Fields must be based on the Siege of Vienna right?
Posted by: 18-1 at December 15, 2025 09:35 AM (sKqQm)

That’s a good observation, there are a lot of similarities. No witch-king, though.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 15, 2025 09:43 AM (k5cxK)

54 Too much going on in this painting
Posted by: It's me donna at December 15, 2025 09:43 AM (VE6XX)

Really, there's only one thing going on in this painting.

War.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 15, 2025 09:44 AM (Zz0t1)

55 There was a great blog site for a while called Gates of Vienna, I don’t know if it is still around.
Posted by: Tom Servo

It is.

Posted by: Bulg at December 15, 2025 09:44 AM (77rzZ)

56 Kara Mustafa Pasha - when will you realize, Vienna waits for you?

Posted by: Archimedes at December 15, 2025 09:44 AM (Riz8t)

57
Leelee Sobieski > Jan Sobieski

Posted by: naturalfake at December 15, 2025 09:45 AM (iJfKG)

58 National treasure. We need a monument built.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer

Sure. A giant canned ham would be appropriate.

Posted by: Hormel and DAK Could Sponsor at December 15, 2025 09:45 AM (oftw2)

59 Bring it to a conservator and the value will increase twofold.
Posted by: Antique Roadshow at December 15, 2025 09:42 AM (abIsI)

But not to that Spanish lady who conserved “Ecce Mono”.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 15, 2025 09:45 AM (k5cxK)

60 Whee are the kangaroos?

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 15, 2025 09:46 AM (udlma)

61 The Christians had a chance to stop the Turks before they were firmly implanted in the Balkans in the Crusade of Varna in 1444 but they failed...

Posted by: 18-1 at December 15, 2025 09:47 AM (sKqQm)

62 How big is this painting in real life? Seems like it would need to be quite large in keeping with the subject.

Posted by: SH (no more socks) at December 15, 2025 09:47 AM (sX1BW)

63 FOODFIGHT!!!

Posted by: Kara Mustafa Pasha at December 15, 2025 09:47 AM (dyewR)

64 Venimus, vidimus et Deus Vicit

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Is this part of the title, or CBD's editorial commentary?

Posted by: San Franpsycho - RESIGN ALBO! their blood is on your hands at December 15, 2025 09:48 AM (X1/SD)

65 Here's hoping that, if history doesn't repeat itself, at least it rhymes.

********

Hmmm. That gives me an idea...

Posted by: muldoon at December 15, 2025 09:48 AM (/iMjX)

66 Venimus, vidimus et Deus Vicit

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Is this part of the title, or CBD's editorial commentary?

I believe it is how the Christians reported their victory to the Pope

Posted by: 18-1 at December 15, 2025 09:49 AM (sKqQm)

67
"You call that a battle?

Now, this is a battle"

- ~~Crocodile~~ Vienna Dundee

Posted by: naturalfake at December 15, 2025 09:49 AM (iJfKG)

68 Prince Albert is also in the can, but he wasn't present at this epic battle.

Posted by: Hermetically Sealed at December 15, 2025 09:49 AM (oftw2)

69 Is this part of the title, or CBD's editorial commentary?

Posted by: San Franpsycho - RESIGN ALBO! their blood is on your hands at December 15, 2025 09:48 AM (X1/SD)

Supposedly it is what King John III (Sobieski) said after the battle.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 15, 2025 09:50 AM (n9ltV)

70 There was also a Battle of Vienna in the American Civil War. In what is usually known as the Vienna Train Ambush, the Confederates ambushed a train carrying Union troops in Vienna, Virginia. This was the first battle in history involving a train and train-bound troops.

Posted by: Bulg at December 15, 2025 09:50 AM (77rzZ)

71 America might soon need the 21st century equivalent of Polish heavy cavalry charging through Dearborn and Paterson and Minneapolis.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo

Michigan sold 456,731 hunting licenses. They're good.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 15, 2025 09:50 AM (QVuuq)

72 Australian Joo shooting called terrorism due to choice of weapons.

==

Terrorism: "use (or threat) of illegal violence by non-state perpetrators to pursue political, economic, religious, or social objectives via coercion, fear, or intimidation directed at civilian or symbolic targets..Terrorism is distinguished from conventional warfare and insurgency by its emphasis on non-combatant targets to generate psychological coercion rather than direct military confrontation or territorial seizure."

Posted by: runner at December 15, 2025 09:50 AM (g47mK)

73 Can someone explain the use of the "word" joos rather than jews? This is neither a positive or negative comment on the practice. I just don't get it.

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at December 15, 2025 09:50 AM (8CIFn)

74 Whee are the kangaroos?

*********

They stopped for breakfast at IHOP.

Posted by: muldoon at December 15, 2025 09:50 AM (/iMjX)

75 Prince Albert is also in the can, but he wasn't present at this epic battle.
Posted by: Hermetically Sealed

I thought he was ON the can?

Posted by: rickb223 at December 15, 2025 09:51 AM (QVuuq)

76 Where's Sobieski in this painting?"

Jan?

Posted by: man at December 15, 2025 09:51 AM (XuXeR)

77 I thought he was ON the can?
___

Bad batch of Vienna sausages?

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 15, 2025 09:52 AM (Dv3i1)

78 would hang

Posted by: Gref at December 15, 2025 09:52 AM (5rh/l)

79 I thought he was ON the can?
___

Bad batch of Vienna sausages?
Posted by: Chuck Martel

That'll do it.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 15, 2025 09:53 AM (QVuuq)

80 Terrorism is distinguished from conventional warfare and insurgency by its emphasis on non-combatant targets to generate psychological coercion rather than direct military confrontation or territorial seizure."

Islam uses terrorism because it works - look at the responses to their Oct 7 attacks or hell 9/11

Which does bring up the interesting point, were the west to stop indulging Islam and respond in an escalated and consistent manner to terrorism they would almost certainly drop the tactic.

Posted by: 18-1 at December 15, 2025 09:53 AM (sKqQm)

81 You know who else was an Austrian who staged some epic battles?

Posted by: Alois und Klara at December 15, 2025 09:55 AM (oftw2)

82 Can someone explain the use of the "word" joos rather than jews? This is neither a positive or negative comment on the practice. I just don't get it.
Posted by: Northernlurker

I think it's to satirize Jew-haters by portraying them as ignoramuses, or people so consumed by Jew-hatred as to not even to be bothered to spell correctly, or both.

Posted by: Bulg at December 15, 2025 09:55 AM (77rzZ)

83 slam uses terrorism because it works - look at the responses to their Oct 7 attacks or hell 9/11

Which does bring up the interesting point, were the west to stop indulging Islam and respond in an escalated and consistent manner to terrorism they would almost certainly drop the tactic.

Posted by: 18-1 at December 15, 2025 09:53 AM (sKqQm)

*looks up above

I am pretty sure it will be minimized.

Posted by: runner at December 15, 2025 09:55 AM (g47mK)

84
That sure is a convoluted and over-lawyerly definition of terrorism.

Simply put, terrorism is the use of violence to instigate change in policy.

Posted by: Soothsayer's Historical Facts at December 15, 2025 09:55 AM (KPKlu)

85 WEINER BATTLE

Posted by: XTC at December 15, 2025 09:55 AM (UnA8+)

86 I seem to remember a painting from the art thread a year or more ago of a family fleeing a Muslim raid but can't recall the name to find it. Anyone remember that one?

Posted by: Jb at December 15, 2025 09:56 AM (yBGaa)

87 Which does bring up the interesting point, were the west to stop indulging Islam and respond in an escalated and consistent manner to terrorism they would almost certainly drop the tactic.

Posted by: 18-1

Hear me out, maybe the leaders of the West want their populace terrorized.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 15, 2025 09:56 AM (Dv3i1)

88 This battle was one of those turning points in world history.

A muslim victory over Austria/HRE gives them a foot in the door in central Europe.

Historically this was Islam's high water mark and they generally lost lands and influence from then until now, but had they won I worry about how much worse history would have been...

Posted by: 18-1 at December 15, 2025 09:56 AM (sKqQm)

89 Simply put, terrorism is the use of violence to instigate change in policy.

Posted by: Soothsayer's Historical Facts at December 15, 2025 09:55 AM (KPKlu)

you just said it was terrorism "because of choice of weapon". or were you making a joke ?

Posted by: runner at December 15, 2025 09:56 AM (g47mK)

90 Took a few hundred years but muzzies did conquer Vienna. 40% of school aged kids are Muslim in the city.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 15, 2025 09:56 AM (udlma)

91 Jan?
Posted by: man

"Marsha, Marsha, Marsha!"
-- Jan Sobieski

Posted by: Bulg at December 15, 2025 09:56 AM (77rzZ)

92 I believe the Austrians spell the name of the city "Wien." When they founded the town, the Romans called it "Vindobona." According to wiki, it was from Gaulish windo- ("white") and bona ("base/bottom").

"Vindobona" sounds like a brand name -- a cleaner, or some kind of flour.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 15, 2025 09:57 AM (wzUl9)

93 "Vindobona" sounds like a brand name -- a cleaner, or some kind of flour.

I was gonna say a lounge singer from the 50s.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 15, 2025 09:57 AM (Riz8t)

94 Hear me out, maybe the leaders of the West want their populace terrorized.

Oh I agree. There is some element of personal cowardice, and some element of grifting off our inconsistent and ineffective responses to terrorism, but much like with crime the government class wants a certain level of terrorism so they can persuade LIVs to give up freedoms for the temporary illusion of safety.

Posted by: 18-1 at December 15, 2025 09:57 AM (sKqQm)

95 Remember, this was the second Turkish attempt to take Vienna. The first had been in the 1520s under Suleiman "the Magnificent."

Posted by: Bulg at December 15, 2025 09:58 AM (77rzZ)

96 I'm puzzled about the date. A search gave me 1677, but the battle itself was 1683. So what gives?

Posted by: Eeyore at December 15, 2025 09:58 AM (s0JqF)

97 Jan Sobieski: "Hey, can I get me a nekkid lardass to sit on these Ottomans?"

Posted by: Bulg at December 15, 2025 09:58 AM (77rzZ)

98 Western leaders who support "palestine" or turn a blind eye to invasion that is killing their states, are doing it for the money. They are bought off.

Posted by: runner at December 15, 2025 09:59 AM (g47mK)

99 Speaking of Vienna Sausages - from the archives

The butcher at the end of the street
With those mega-stores just can't compete
To keep his budget leaner
He puts sawdust in the wieners
"It's so hard to make both ends meat!"

Posted by: muldoon at December 15, 2025 09:59 AM (/iMjX)

100 >Can someone explain the use of the "word" joos rather than jews? This is neither a positive or negative comment on the practice. I just don't get it.

The way I see it used, it’s meant as an insult, an implication that the people who keep talking about Jews as evil are themselves subhuman illiterates and don’t even know how to spell the object of their obsession.

It was probably a more useful tactic in the days of Illinois Nazis. I doubt the Muslims of Bondi Beach care one way or another as long as they’re allowed to kill more of them.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at December 15, 2025 09:59 AM (EXyHK)

101 Well, they brought the world Bonomo Turkish Taffy. Circus Peanuts, too, I think.

Posted by: Endorsed By Dentists Everywhere. at December 15, 2025 10:00 AM (oftw2)

102 Battle of Vienna in the American Civil War"

My old stomping grounds...Vienna, Fairfax, east to Gallows Road... kinda miss it at times....

Posted by: man at December 15, 2025 10:01 AM (XuXeR)

103 Historically this was Islam's high water mark and they generally lost lands and influence from then until now, but had they won I worry about how much worse history would have been...
___

Kim Stanley Robinson, writer of the Mars series about the colonization and terraforming of same, had a follow up series of an alternate history where Islam conquered Europe. No idea how critical of this he was, the jacket blurb seemed to indicate he was sympathetic to the death cult, which sickened me enough to avoid his writing from then on out.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 15, 2025 10:01 AM (Dv3i1)

104 My farcebook feed had these three threads near the top when I checked it last night:

1) Trump is rayciss and anti-Islamic in not wanting Somali refugees

2) Some people did some things on a beach in Australia

3) Some people did some things to some Brown college students in the US

Wonder how many people are getting how #1 is the solution for #2/3?

Posted by: 18-1 at December 15, 2025 10:01 AM (sKqQm)

105 Prince Albert the pipe tobacco is no longer sold in the little tin, or even in the pouch. You can only get it, I think, in a 7- or 8-oz. can. The same is sadly true of a lot of the old "drugstore" or "codger" blends like Carter Hall (which until recently came in a pouch *inside* a small box) and Granger.

You can still get Half & Half in a pouch, and Captain Black in its various flavors.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 15, 2025 10:01 AM (wzUl9)

106 It seems that the AI bubble may be starting to deflate in a rapid and unplanned manner. (Insty)

Oracle’s collapsing stock shows the AI boom is running into two hard limits: physics and debt markets.

Oracle’s rapid descent from market darling to market warning sign is revealing something deeper about the AI boom, experts say: no matter how euphoric investors became over the last two years, the industry can’t outrun the laws of physics—or the realities of debt financing.

Shares of Oracle have plunged 45% from their September high and lost 14% this week after a messy earnings report revealed it spent $12 billion in quarterly capital expenditures, higher than the $8.25 billion expected by analysts.

Earnings guidance was also weak, and the company raised its forecast for fiscal 2026 capex by another $15 billion. The bulk of that is going into data centers dedicated to OpenAI, Oracle’s $300 billion partner in the AI cycle.

Eventually, investors will expect to see returns on the industry’s massive cap-ex expenses — half a trillion dollars in 2024, another $550-$600 billion in 2025, and likely that much more again in 2026.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 15, 2025 10:02 AM (Riz8t)

107 It was probably a more useful tactic in the days of Illinois Nazis. I doubt the Muslims of Bondi Beach care one way or another as long as they’re allowed to kill more of them.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at December 15, 2025 09:59 AM (EXyHK)

I don't care what they think, it brings me joy to mock them regardless.

I also don't care what anyone thinks when i say "wypipo" mockingly, either.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 15, 2025 10:03 AM (JwNbV)

108 Most peoples quirks and mental afflictions aren't a laughing matter, but Muldoon has made mental illness great again!

Posted by: MMIGA!! at December 15, 2025 10:03 AM (oftw2)

109 We don't need to "imagine" what would happen "if" islamonazis conquer this or that country, we are looking at it ! Look at Lebanon, Syria, Egypt. Lands that had either majority, or healthy non-Muslim populations not so long ago.

Posted by: runner at December 15, 2025 10:03 AM (g47mK)

110 "Vindobona" sounds like a brand name -- a cleaner, or some kind of flour.
*
I was gonna say a lounge singer from the 50s.
Posted by: Archimedes at December 15, 2025

***
Like the lounge singer holodeck character on Deep Space Nine, Vic Something. Yeah, I can see it. "Tonight, direct from Las Vegas: Vin Dobona!"

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 15, 2025 10:04 AM (wzUl9)

111 Via Insty - Rebel News' Avi interviews survivor of Bondi Beach massacre - transcript (Link goes to 'The Conservative Woman in UK)

https://tinyurl.com/mwnkyb8r

Horror plus useless police, callous officials.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 15, 2025 10:04 AM (Dv3i1)

112 Has the dreaded backlash in Australia begun?

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 15, 2025 10:05 AM (udlma)

113 "Vindobona" sounds like a brand name -- a cleaner, or some kind of flour.

It's crappy flour. "Vercingetorix" brand is much better.

Posted by: Bulg at December 15, 2025 10:05 AM (77rzZ)

114 Target stock:

https://tinyurl.com/ms44kvp7

Oof.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at December 15, 2025 10:05 AM (abIsI)

115 Perfect painting for the day after Bondi. Thanks cbd.

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at December 15, 2025 10:05 AM (2NHgQ)

116 Look at Lebanon, Syria, Egypt. Lands that had either majority, or healthy non-Muslim populations not so long ago.
Posted by: runner

Pope Leo (idiot), said Lebanon is perfect example of moslims and Christians living side by side as peaceful neighbors.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 15, 2025 10:05 AM (Dv3i1)

117 I think the current "problem" with AI is that it is rather expensive resource wise and as people use it more the costs are escalating because the AI companies need more expensive computing/power resources.

Amusingly this is getting part of the FNM that are being paid by tech oligarchs to soften their concerns about global warming and nuclear power.

Because hey if you plebes want to heat your homes or drive to work that is going to kill baby Gaia and that's bad, but if I want to make some money off an AI data center that is replacing writers and software developers that's good!

Posted by: 18-1 at December 15, 2025 10:05 AM (sKqQm)

118 Little Dagny kitten is sprawled on my desk near the keyboard, rolling over for petting. This is amazing. Maybe by the time she turns five or six she'll sit in a lap once in a while.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 15, 2025 10:06 AM (wzUl9)

119 "Don't get sawdust in your weiner" needs to become a common turn of phrase, now.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 15, 2025 10:06 AM (JwNbV)

120 In my area I see plenty of Lebanese Christians - these were real refugees unlike the current Muslim ones too...

Posted by: 18-1 at December 15, 2025 10:06 AM (sKqQm)

121
Battles for Vienna Sausages are fierce affairs.

Avoid them at all costs.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 15, 2025 10:07 AM (GksGT)

122 As Insty said this morning about another group focused on political violence:

"Tit For Tat Hasn't Happened Yet"

https://instapundit.com/762397/

Not that I'm advocating violence, but it is a simple fact of human life,

that the aggressor, bully, which in this case is muslim worldwide, won't stop until visited with the same level of violence or worse.

Globalize the Intifada?
The response will be global if they get their wish.

Posted by: naturalfake at December 15, 2025 10:07 AM (iJfKG)

123 AI is a tool. Like any tool it can be used efficiently or inefficiently.

I set Paolo Comment here.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 15, 2025 10:08 AM (udlma)

124 The Sheriff who doesn't like jailing violent criminals

-
Chester: Mr. Dillon! Mr. Dillon! The Clantons are raping, robbing, and killing!

Matt Dillon: Time for me to get the hell out of Dodge!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 15, 2025 10:08 AM (L/fGl)

125 Globalize the Intifada?
The response will be global if they get their wish.
____

Moslims are close to getting their hands on nukes. No, not in Iran, but in Great Britain and France.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 15, 2025 10:08 AM (Dv3i1)

126 How appropriate. (I hope.)

I am astonished by the detail and careful use of color. The power of movement and clash of armies is captured so well. Considering the materials available in the 1600s, painting such a chaotic, crowded scene while keeping the details distinct is amazing.

Posted by: JTB at December 15, 2025 10:09 AM (yTvNw)

127 Posted by: 18-1 at December 15, 2025 10:05 AM (sKqQm)

I think a number of the "AI Data Centers" are just super surveillance estates being built under our noses and with an amazingly plausible excuse. I'm not usually wrong about this stuff.

Posted by: ... at December 15, 2025 10:09 AM (zALxA)

128 Little Dagny kitten is sprawled on my desk near the keyboard, rolling over for petting. This is amazing. Maybe by the time she turns five or six she'll sit in a lap once in a while.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

When you move to Indiana and she becomes a Purdue Boilermakers fan, all bets will be off.

Posted by: Bulg at December 15, 2025 10:09 AM (77rzZ)

129 Pope Leo (idiot), said Lebanon is perfect example of moslims and Christians living side by side as peaceful neighbors.

==

you must forgive him, he was born just a few months ago

Posted by: runner at December 15, 2025 10:09 AM (g47mK)

130 Force to instigate a change in policy also describes warfare.

Terrorism implies force directly against non-combatants.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 15, 2025 10:10 AM (JwNbV)

131 Globalize the Intifada?
The response will be global if they get their wish.

Crusaders vs. Infidels: This time they aren't stopping.

Posted by: NR Pax at December 15, 2025 10:10 AM (lXoJ5)

132 In most Western European cities either majorities or close to majorities of kids in schools are Muslim. 25 years from they will run the continent.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 15, 2025 10:10 AM (udlma)

133 Sabaton, "Winged Hussars":

https://tinyurl.com/32exhzcv

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at December 15, 2025 10:10 AM (IG3/x)

134 Appropriate choice today.

Just by chance I have some carpentry work going on here today, and they guys are Polish. Should I thank them for Vienna?

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 15, 2025 10:11 AM (Q9azA)

135
One of the first things rob reiner and his awful sister did after their father Carl died in 2020 was go on Twitter and tell people all that mattered to their father was defeating Trump.

So don't be surprised when Meathead's rotten sister uses her own brother's murder for her true "cause," the Democrat party.

Posted by: Soothsayer's Historical Facts at December 15, 2025 10:11 AM (KPKlu)

136
"Tit For Tat Hasn't Happened Yet"

This is the problem all over the place.

The left and Islam have figured out violence, and specifically terrorism, work.

The right and Christianity have no answer to that. Arresting Kirk's assassin or some low level jihadis after a massacre is not the "tit" that would discourage the left's/Islam's tat.

Game theory describes this pretty well.

Posted by: 18-1 at December 15, 2025 10:11 AM (sKqQm)

137 If Lebanon is an example of peaceful living I’d hate to see what a non-peaceful example is.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 15, 2025 10:12 AM (udlma)

138 lounge singer holodeck character on Deep Space Nine"

A show that also had a Del Floria's Tailor Shop...

(See previous thread)

Posted by: man at December 15, 2025 10:12 AM (XuXeR)

139 Just by chance I have some carpentry work going on here today, and they guys are Polish. Should I thank them for Vienna?
Posted by: Huck Follywood

Yes, and for their hot babes. And also for their support of strippers.

Posted by: Bulg at December 15, 2025 10:12 AM (77rzZ)

140
No matter how many
Leagues you run
Smiting Turks
Is so much fun!
Vindobona

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 15, 2025 10:12 AM (GksGT)

141
Just by chance I have some carpentry work going on here today, and they guys are Polish. Should I thank them for Vienna?
Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 15, 2025

***
Ask 'em what happened to Polski Wyrob pickles.

If any of 'em is old enough, ask him how Thomas Banacek is.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 15, 2025 10:12 AM (wzUl9)

142
btw, hollywood celerys have a long, dark history of creating Monsters.

It's rare for actors to have normal children. Quite rare, in fact.

rob reiner created his own monster with his distorted, evil "values"

Posted by: Soothsayer's Historical Facts at December 15, 2025 10:14 AM (KPKlu)

143 I always look at paintings like this and think, "As an artist, where do you start?" The intimidation factor of a blank canvas, knowing it will be filled with hundreds of bodies must be daunting.

Posted by: red speck at December 15, 2025 10:14 AM (Ve/HL)

144 Ayaan Hirsi Ali is my hero :

https://tinyurl.com/5ayfvxdu

Posted by: runner at December 15, 2025 10:14 AM (g47mK)

145 If any of 'em is old enough, ask him how Thomas Banacek is.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

My wife had fond memories of that show from her childhood. We finally got a DVD and started watching it. And she realized that the Banacek character was kind of a prick.

Murray Matheson was good as his sidekick, though.

Posted by: Bulg at December 15, 2025 10:14 AM (77rzZ)

146 Caption:

"Before all the World and God Himself, I declare that: Armour's makes the best Vienna Sausages!!!

"You godless bastard! Libby's makes the best. Die heathen!!!"

Posted by: naturalfake at December 15, 2025 10:14 AM (iJfKG)

147
'Tis food you seek?
Well you're in luck
Just fall in behind
Our delivery truck
Vindobona

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 15, 2025 10:14 AM (GksGT)

148 I knew a few Muslim people in the US prior to 9/11. They were "moderate" as in they dressed and acted like any other Americans.

But 9/11 changed all that - a few years later you could see women in Burkas pushing baby carriages down the street.

Shrub should have responded to 9/11 by deporting all Muslim non-citizens and ending all immigration/travel from the Muslim world.

He did the opposite.

Posted by: 18-1 at December 15, 2025 10:15 AM (sKqQm)

149
Also, I'll bet my left nut at least 3 of You People has a can of Beenie Weenies in the cabinet.

Posted by: Monty Hall Soothsayer at December 15, 2025 10:15 AM (KPKlu)

150 I love Vienna sausages.

Posted by: Bulg at December 15, 2025 10:16 AM (77rzZ)

151
Mr. Reiner's long race to keep his crown as "World's Crashingest Bore" is over at last.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 15, 2025 10:16 AM (GksGT)

152 lounge singer holodeck character on Deep Space Nine"
*
A show that also had a Del Floria's Tailor Shop...

(See previous thread)
Posted by: man at December 15, 2025

***
It did indeed, as a nod to Peter Allan Fields. He was a story editor and writer on DS9, and he had been one of the two or three top writers for U.N.C.L.E. in its day, penning some of their best episodes in Seasons One and Two.

The story goes that he went in to talk to Sam Rolfe, the creator and producer of the show. Fields had never written for TV, so he figured "an act a day couldn't kill you." So he showed up four days later with a complete script, amazing Rolfe, who'd expected to get only a treatment at that point. And they shot it.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 15, 2025 10:17 AM (wzUl9)

153 Shrub should have responded to 9/11 by deporting all Muslim non-citizens and ending all immigration/travel from the Muslim world.

He did the opposite.
Posted by: 18-1

Yep. The whole fight them there not here,
thing was such a disgrace in hindsight. He sent thousands of Americans to die over there while importing millions over here.

Hope he burns in hell for eternity with Cheney.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 15, 2025 10:17 AM (udlma)

154 So I guess Sally Struthers is the last-surviving regular cast member from AITF.

Posted by: Bulg at December 15, 2025 10:17 AM (77rzZ)

155 Battle Of Vienna

The cheap labor to do the work that Austrians won't do is here! Let them in!

Posted by: Austrian GOPe at December 15, 2025 10:17 AM (Bq1P8)

156 Posted by: 18-1 at December 15, 2025 10:15 AM (sKqQm)

He needed to close every mosque permanently on 9/12. For a start.

Posted by: ... at December 15, 2025 10:18 AM (zALxA)

157 125 Moslims are close to getting their hands on nukes. No, not in Iran, but in Great Britain and France.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 15, 2025 10:08 AM (Dv3i1)

And they already have them in Pakistan.

Posted by: XTC at December 15, 2025 10:18 AM (UnA8+)

158 IMO, Vienna sausages became inedible when they started making them from chicken and turkey offal rather than honest, god-fearing beef and pork offal.

The same thing happened with hot dogs, except that you CAN still buy premium beef and pork hot dogs. Not so with Vienna sausages, or at least not that I've seen.

Poultry is delicious in its place, but that place isn't anywhere near anything called a "sausage".

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at December 15, 2025 10:18 AM (IG3/x)

159 If any of 'em is old enough, ask him how Thomas Banacek is.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius
*
My wife had fond memories of that show from her childhood. We finally got a DVD and started watching it. And she realized that the Banacek character was kind of a prick.

Murray Matheson was good as his sidekick, though.
Posted by: Bulg at December 15, 2025

***
Yes, Banacek was. But the plots were dazzling -- John Dickson Carr "impossible crimes" come to TV.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 15, 2025 10:18 AM (wzUl9)

160 I love Vienna sausages."

I prefer Norm's Beer and Wine in Vienna...

Posted by: man at December 15, 2025 10:18 AM (XuXeR)

161
Also, I'll bet my left nut at least 3 of You People has a can of Beenie Weenies in the cabinet.
Posted by: Monty Hall Soothsayer

We keep our beanies separate from our weenies, thank you very much!

Impure thoughts abound when those two get together without adult supervision.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 15, 2025 10:19 AM (GksGT)

162 I got yer Polish Sausage right here
- Paoloski

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 15, 2025 10:19 AM (udlma)

163 148 Shrub should have responded to 9/11 by deporting all Muslim non-citizens and ending all immigration/travel from the Muslim world.

He did the opposite.
Posted by: 18-1 at December 15, 2025 10:15 AM (sKqQm)

Shrub's family was owned by the Saudis, especially by prince Al-Waleed Bin-Talal.

Posted by: XTC at December 15, 2025 10:20 AM (UnA8+)

164 Yep. The whole fight them there not here,
thing was such a disgrace in hindsight.

We couldn't very well have had W say, "Don't fight them once they're here!", could we? Even though it is the same.

Posted by: The UniParty at December 15, 2025 10:22 AM (Bq1P8)

165 117 I think the current "problem" with AI is that it is rather expensive resource wise and as people use it more the costs are escalating because the AI companies need more expensive computing/power resources.

Amusingly this is getting part of the FNM that are being paid by tech oligarchs to soften their concerns about global warming and nuclear power.

There was an article a couple of days ago that described a push by Elon and others to eventually build data centers in space. This would have the benefit of constant solar power, radiative cooling, and no need to use up yet more terrestrial real estate for data centers. (A large nursery in Manassas was just sold for $160M for a data center.)

The cost of getting all the necessary hardware into space is an obvious impediment.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 15, 2025 10:22 AM (Riz8t)

166 Mr. Reiner's long race to keep his crown as "World's Crashingest Bore" is over at last.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 15, 2025 10:16 AM (GksGT)

He carved out quite a niche for himself.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 15, 2025 10:22 AM (dK+Kv)

167 Were the Aussie women police told to stand down while the shooting kept going on for 45 mins cowardly or told to stand down? I could believe either at this point.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 15, 2025 10:22 AM (Dv3i1)

168 Battle Of Vienna
Pauwel Casteels

Venimus, vidimus et Deus Vicit

👍

"The Siege and Battle of Vienna[a] took place at Kahlenberg Mountain near Vienna on 12 September 1683[2] after the city had been besieged by the Ottoman Empire for two months. The battle was fought by the Holy Roman Empire, led by the Habsburg monarchy, and the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, both under the command of Polish King John III Sobieski, against the Ottomans and their vassal and tributary states. The battle marked the first time the Commonwealth and the Holy Roman Empire had cooperated militarily against the Ottomans. The defeat was a major turning point for the Ottoman Empire and their expansion into Europe, after which they would gain no further ground." Wikipedia, in part.

Venimus, vidimus, Deus vicit (or Venimus, vidimus et Deus vicit) is a Latin phrase meaning "We came, we saw, God conquered," a religious adaptation of Julius Caesar's famous "Veni, vidi, vici" ("I came, I saw, I conquered"), famously used by Polish King John III Sobieski after his decisive victory over the Ottomans at the Battle of Vienna in 1683, attributing the triumph to divine intervention. (AI Overview)

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at December 15, 2025 10:23 AM (NFX2v)

169 @167 - who edits these comments? Are we supposed to self-edit or something?

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 15, 2025 10:23 AM (Dv3i1)

170 Shrub's family was owned by the Saudis, especially by prince Al-Waleed Bin-Talal.
Posted by: XTC

The Bush family was such a malign influence on this country.

I guess he really didn't have any choice, but choosing Bush Sr. as his running mate was Reagan's greatest mistake.

(Bush Sr. was still a better veep than Ford would've been, though. At least Bush supported Reagan while veep. Ford would've only tried to undermine him, a la Mike Pence and Trump.)

Posted by: Bulg at December 15, 2025 10:24 AM (77rzZ)

171 Back to the Bush boogeyman.

Posted by: the way I see it at December 15, 2025 10:24 AM (KDPiq)

172
When our "Intrepid Liason" shows up, you'll see. Of course they will politicize this. Of course they will blame Us & Trump.

But how, Soothie, you ask?

It will be easy for them.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 15, 2025 10:24 AM (KPKlu)

173 Have all been following the TPUSA inanity? Candace Owens and her merry band of online retards have been on a jihad to prove that Charlie’s murder was an inside job. Erika Kirk orchestrated it all with the help of TPUSA’s leadership, Israel (of course) and also France.

It’s like the new JFK nutbaggery with all sorts of theories about cell phone calls and who was where and when.

It’s got so insane that TPUSA is having an online thing today to address it.

There is a non significant number of people who are straight up imbeciles and will believe anything. It’s like Qanon but on steroids.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 15, 2025 10:25 AM (udlma)

174 You guys make about as much sense as the DU. Time for another break.

Posted by: the way I see it at December 15, 2025 10:25 AM (KDPiq)

175 "Tit For Tat Hasn't Happened Yet"

This is the problem all over the place.

The left and Islam have figured out violence, and specifically terrorism, work.

The right and Christianity have no answer to that. Arresting Kirk's assassin or some low level jihadis after a massacre is not the "tit" that would discourage the left's/Islam's tat.

Game theory describes this pretty well.

Posted by: 18-1

We're just not there yet. We have an answer for that.

Ending bloodlines is just a start.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 15, 2025 10:26 AM (QVuuq)

176 The Reiner murder is probably going to end up being some sort of run of the mill robbery gone wrong.

This will be blamed on Trump for not fixing inflation in 2022.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 15, 2025 10:26 AM (GBKbO)

177 154 So I guess Sally Struthers is the last-surviving regular cast member from AITF.
Posted by: Bulg at December 15, 2025 10:17 AM (77rzZ)

Meathead never should've left her for that commune in California.

Posted by: J. Frank Parnell at December 15, 2025 10:26 AM (0bjKf)

178 We keep our beanies separate from our weenies, thank you very much!

Impure thoughts abound when those two get together without adult supervision.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 15, 2025 10:19 AM (GksGT)

We like to keep our beanies safely stored below the weenies after a youthful mishap.

Posted by: Ted at December 15, 2025 10:26 AM (dK+Kv)

179 Explain how GWB *wasn't * a horrible President.

I'm all ears.

Posted by: Sexual Tyrannosaurus at December 15, 2025 10:26 AM (Wi4mf)

180 Vigilance morons.

@jsolomonReports
·
5m
>>FBI arrests alleged pro-Palestinian group members accused of planning New Year's Eve bombings in LA

Posted by: JackStraw at December 15, 2025 10:27 AM (viF8m)

181 "Weenie Beanie" would make a good brand name for condoms.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at December 15, 2025 10:27 AM (IG3/x)

182 I heard that Ranier erupted?

(too soon?)

Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at December 15, 2025 10:27 AM (onZb0)

183 Elon Musk on data centers in orbit: “SpaceX will be doing this”

https://is.gd/odS5aj

Posted by: Archimedes at December 15, 2025 10:27 AM (Riz8t)

184 Explain how GWB *wasn't * a horrible President.

I'm all ears.
Posted by: Sexual Tyrannosaurus

The only thing he did that I approved of was Stuxnet.

Posted by: Bulg at December 15, 2025 10:27 AM (77rzZ)

185
What's "LA?"

Los Angeles?
Louisiana?

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 15, 2025 10:27 AM (KPKlu)

186 I heard that Ranier erupted?

(too soon?)
Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks

Well, he used to. Into Grace Kelly.

Posted by: Bulg at December 15, 2025 10:28 AM (77rzZ)

187 "Weenie Beanie" would make a good brand name for condoms.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia

*snort

Posted by: rickb223 at December 15, 2025 10:28 AM (QVuuq)

188 What's "LA?"

Los Angeles?
Louisiana?

Posted by: Soothsayer

Both.

Posted by: Bulg at December 15, 2025 10:28 AM (77rzZ)

189 A large nursery in Manassas was just sold for $160M for a data center.)

Not Merrifield Garden?

Posted by: man at December 15, 2025 10:28 AM (XuXeR)

190 Art: Fair- looks like some painstaking work there.

Posted by: Bad Andrew at December 15, 2025 10:28 AM (6qf1m)

191 Muldoon has made mental illness great again!

*********

Asylum Seeker - a limerick

That gives me an interesting thought
Just act crazy if you ever get caught
They won't torture you or shoot you
And they sure won't execute you
Instead you'll get three 'hots' and a cot!

Posted by: muldoon at December 15, 2025 10:28 AM (/iMjX)

192 My wife had fond memories of that show from her childhood. We finally got a DVD and started watching it. And she realized that the Banacek character was kind of a prick.

Murray Matheson was good as his sidekick, though.
Posted by: Bulg at December 15, 2025

***
Yes, Banacek was. But the plots were dazzling -- John Dickson Carr "impossible crimes" come to TV.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 15, 2025 10:18 AM (wzUl9)

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

Similar experience -- loved Banacek as a kid, but it didn't age as well when the wifey and I tried to watch it about 5 years ago.

As was common with shows from the period, every episode had a different beautiful guest-starring woman to be the love interest of the week.

Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant and GayFontoPhobe at December 15, 2025 10:28 AM (LkTFp)

193 Venimus, vidimus et Deus Vicit

Posted by: CBD

Indeed!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at December 15, 2025 10:29 AM (kfTpm)

194 A large nursery in Manassas was just sold for $160M for a data center.)

Not Merrifield Garden?

That's the one.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 15, 2025 10:29 AM (Riz8t)

195 The Reiner murder is probably going to end up being some sort of run of the mill robbery gone wrong.

This will be blamed on Trump for not fixing inflation in 2022.

Oh, just wait for the uproar over his latest tweet.

Posted by: t-bird at December 15, 2025 10:29 AM (Bq1P8)

196 Has Zombie Meathead tweeted that his son killing him and his wife was Trump's fault?

Posted by: kallisto at December 15, 2025 10:29 AM (dCxaZ)

197 There is a non significant number of people who are straight up imbeciles and will believe anything. It’s like Qanon but on steroids.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 15, 2025 10:25 AM (udlma)

Glorified pothead, Rogan, was shoveling this stuff early. Ain't nobody got time for that.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 15, 2025 10:30 AM (dK+Kv)

198
Damn.

They say the more stab wounds, the more "passionate" the motive. Passion, as in "hate," of course.

(don't they say that? Am I dreaming it?)

You've got one sick, angry fuck to stab the shit outta someone, and it's usually someone You Know. But your own mother??

That's one sick fuck.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 15, 2025 10:30 AM (KPKlu)

199 That's the one."

Damn. That's a shame...

Posted by: man at December 15, 2025 10:30 AM (XuXeR)

200 Ferrari is exploring radical oval pistons that could shrink engines, boost efficiency, and reinvent how high-performance gas motors are designed for the next generation.

Posted by: SMOD at December 15, 2025 10:30 AM (RHGPo)

201 South Carolina prison guards intercept drone delivery of weed, cigarettes, steak, crab legs, and Old Bay seasoning

Posted by: SMOD at December 15, 2025 10:31 AM (RHGPo)

202 What's "LA?"

Los Angeles?
Louisiana?

Posted by: Soothsayer

City of Lost Angels.

I seriously doubt someone would waste time and energy on Louisiana. Nothing against Louisiana, just not a big enough bang for their buck, so to speak.

Nothing against Louisiana, but not when LA is just sitting there.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 15, 2025 10:31 AM (QVuuq)

203 There is a non significant number of people who are straight up imbeciles and will believe anything.

Except that many of them are NOT imbeciles in the traditional sense. Academia is rife with fools, but fools are not necessarily imbeciles.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 15, 2025 10:31 AM (Riz8t)

204 200 Ferrari is exploring radical oval pistons that could shrink engines, boost efficiency, and reinvent how high-performance gas motors are designed for the next generation.
Posted by: SMOD

There is still a future for internal combustion engines. Nice!

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 15, 2025 10:31 AM (Dv3i1)

205 Finally, it all makes sense.

https://is.gd/RUmQGO

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 15, 2025 10:31 AM (L/fGl)

206 195 The Reiner murder is probably going to end up being some sort of run of the mill robbery gone wrong."

No, because it's a stabbing of both of them. A simple robber would use a gun; easier, less risk. Stabbing comes from an intense personal hatred and anger by the perp, a desire to inflict as much pain and terror as possible.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 15, 2025 10:32 AM (uWKK8)

207 South Carolina prison guards intercept drone delivery of weed, cigarettes, steak, crab legs, and Old Bay seasoning
Posted by: SMOD at December 15, 2025 10:31 AM (RHGPo)
====

Menthols

Posted by: San Franpsycho - RESIGN ALBO! their blood is on your hands at December 15, 2025 10:32 AM (UAGeO)

208 The Merrifield Garden Center that was sold is in Gainesville, not Manassas.

I'm so effing sick of the damn data centers. The wife and I drove up Route 28 to Dulles Town Center on Saturday, and those ugly monstrosities are EVERYWHERE.

Posted by: Bulg at December 15, 2025 10:32 AM (77rzZ)

209 Damn. That's a shame...

Indeed, but I've always thought it was a matter of time. That land is too valuable to store trees and shrubs on it.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 15, 2025 10:32 AM (Riz8t)

210 The art....

Have we had this one before? It seems familiar.
I'm not a fan of this one. Its dark and the muddy colors make it an almost indistinguishable blob. Yes one can see some of the individual figures, but for the most it's just hard to see anything distinctive. I suppose that could be a good depiction of a battle at dusk during that time period. . Perhaps if one were standing on a hill above the fray this is what it would truly look like.... A mass of people and horses moving around with very little distinction and very hard to really see what's going on. I suppose that makes it an accurate representation but still not a fan.
Thanks anyway CBD.

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at December 15, 2025 10:32 AM (2J/Lj)

211 183 Elon Musk on data centers in orbit: “SpaceX will be doing this”

https://is.gd/odS5aj
Posted by: Archimedes
-------
Curious to see how Musk plans on avoiding problems from radiation affecting computing results and system stability. Gref might know more about it but I recall even several years ago astronauts discussing having to do reboots several times per day due to cosmic radiation causing bit flips in memory and other issues.

Seems to be an issue affecting memory, etc. and the issue gets worse as the chip structure gets into higher and higher chip densities at smaller and smaller die sizes. Between 2-3 nm nowadays.

Posted by: whig at December 15, 2025 10:32 AM (WDjG6)

212 What's "LA?"

********

A note to follow SO

Posted by: muldoon at December 15, 2025 10:32 AM (/iMjX)

213 DDG AI: Are there Muslim mayors in the U.S? If there are Muslim mayors in the U.S. what are the names of the cities and what are their names?

Yes, there are Muslim mayors in the United States, and their numbers have grown significantly in recent years, particularly following the 2025 elections which marked a record milestone for Muslim American political representation.
As of late 2025, several U.S. cities have Muslim mayors, including major and smaller municipalities across multiple states.

Notable Muslims

Zohran K. Mamdani, NYC
Abdullah Hammoud, Dearborn, known for its large Muslim population,... reflects a broader trend of Muslim political engagement in the region.
Mo Baydoun, Dearborn Heights, Michigan
Faizul Kabir, College Park, Maryland.
Ted Green, East Orange, New Jersey,
Mohamed Khairullah of Prospect Park, New Jersey,
Other New Jersey municipalities ...
Cranbury, Montgomery Township, Mount Laurel, Mountain Lakes, Chatham, and Washington Township ...

2025 election... at least 5 Muslim mayors elected ..., & resulted in 42 winning public office in 9 states, ...

increased civic engagement, demographic shifts, & grassroots organizing w/in Muslim community

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 15, 2025 10:33 AM (uGpeQ)

214 If you are going to take Vienna, TAKE VIENNA.

Posted by: Napoleon at December 15, 2025 10:33 AM (rQwsY)

215 200 Ferrari is exploring radical oval pistons that could shrink engines, boost efficiency, and reinvent how high-performance gas motors are designed for the next generation.
Posted by: SMOD

Great news! Can I install said pistons in my Chevette Scooter?

Posted by: Lowered Expectations at December 15, 2025 10:33 AM (oftw2)

216 36 America might soon need the 21st century equivalent of Polish heavy cavalry charging through Dearborn and Paterson and Minneapolis.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo

Don't forget Philadelphia, Mecca of the West, and its ring counties.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at December 15, 2025 10:33 AM (NFX2v)

217 What's "LA?"

********

A note to follow SO
Posted by: muldoon

Mi

Posted by: rickb223 at December 15, 2025 10:33 AM (QVuuq)

218 168 "The Siege and Battle of Vienna[a] took place at Kahlenberg Mountain near Vienna on 12 September 1683[2] after the city had been besieged by the Ottoman Empire for two months. The battle was fought by the Holy Roman Empire, led by the Habsburg monarchy, and the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, both under the command of Polish King John III Sobieski, against the Ottomans and their vassal and tributary states.
Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at December 15, 2025 10:23 AM (NFX2v)

Thanks for the information...this was a turning point in history.

Posted by: Joemarine at December 15, 2025 10:34 AM (y171U)

219
I suppose the *real* reason, or, chief reason, that President wants D.C. "cleaned up" is to make it easier for our inept Federal agents to prevent terror attacks during FIFA. Yes?

Also, there's no way L.A. will be safe nor secure during the stupid Olympics. So, yeah, good luck with that.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 15, 2025 10:34 AM (KPKlu)

220 Mentioned this on yesterday's book thread. After CBD used a Louis Melendez still life painting on the art thread a couple of weeks ago I got a copy of his works put out by the National Gallery. His work is wonderful. I will be enjoying the book for years. I have a few others like this inspired by selections from the thread.

The ripples from the art thread spread in ever widening rings.

Posted by: JTB at December 15, 2025 10:34 AM (yTvNw)

221 No, because it's a stabbing of both of them. A simple robber would use a gun; easier, less risk. Stabbing comes from an intense personal hatred and anger by the perp, a desire to inflict as much pain and terror as possible.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 15, 2025 10:32 AM (uWKK

HATRED GROWING STRONGER
NONE SURVIVE MY WRATH
SUFFER FROM THE THROBBING PAIN
YIELD YOUR LIFE TO ME

Posted by: Slayer at December 15, 2025 10:34 AM (rQwsY)

222 South Carolina prison guards intercept drone delivery of weed, cigarettes, steak, crab legs, and Old Bay seasoning

Posted by: SMOD at December 15, 2025 10:31 AM (RHGPo)

I didn't even know Jackstraw was arrested.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 15, 2025 10:35 AM (dK+Kv)

223 219: Nobody walks in L.A.

Posted by: Cow Demon at December 15, 2025 10:35 AM (rQwsY)

224 The ripples from the art thread spread in ever widening rings.
Posted by: JTB

I prefer the nipples on the Art Thread.

Posted by: Bulg at December 15, 2025 10:35 AM (77rzZ)

225 I just heard from Girl F.'s FiL in Sydney. He says the situation is somber and volatile, like the "other shoe is about to drop." It is not a big community, everyone knows someone who was killed or injured. This is a one-degree of separation event.

Posted by: San Franpsycho - RESIGN ALBO! their blood is on your hands at December 15, 2025 10:35 AM (UAGeO)

226 The Merrifield Garden Center that was sold is in Gainesville"

Yeah, that's the one that opened about 15 years ago...

Posted by: man at December 15, 2025 10:35 AM (XuXeR)

227
You've got one sick, angry fuck to stab the shit outta someone, and it's usually someone You Know. But your own mother??

That's one sick fuck.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 15, 2025 10:30 AM (KPKlu)

The dude was a drug addict and being of hollywood, I'm quite sure he was on multiple anti-depressants.

But we'll never see his toxicology report, so we'll, yet again, not be able to hold Big Pharma accountable for their poison.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 15, 2025 10:35 AM (Zz0t1)

228 Would hang but damn it’s dark.

Posted by: Cow Demon at December 15, 2025 10:35 AM (rQwsY)

229 17 Fun note the croissant comes from the Siege of Vienna.

The Turk's symbol as a crescent star, so to celebrate the Austrians created a crescent shaped pastry.

This then later went to France from Austria, and then to Britain from France which is why we think its French
Posted by: 18-1 at December 15, 2025 09:34 AM (sKqQm)

As does coffee.

Posted by: Cow Demon at December 15, 2025 10:36 AM (rQwsY)

230 The Merrifield Garden Center that was sold is in Gainesville, not Manassas.

It's actually a very confusing point. Google maps has it in Gainesville, but when I first started going there, the website said it was Manassas. Anyway, it's going away.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 15, 2025 10:36 AM (Riz8t)

231 Ferrari is exploring radical oval pistons "

Honda waves... from the 70s.

Posted by: man at December 15, 2025 10:36 AM (XuXeR)

232 Throughout hist'ry we never sausage a battle
Posted by: muldoon at December 15, 2025 09:41 AM (/iMjX)

National treasure. We need a monument built.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 15, 2025 09:43 AM (Zz0t1)

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

I have a memory of an outhouse associated with Muldoon (some posted image or response of his to my calling the the artist's rendering of the Obama Presidential Library "The DogEater Presidential Outhouse and Bathhouse").

Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant and GayFontoPhobe at December 15, 2025 10:36 AM (pTQH2)

233 >>Similar experience -- loved Banacek as a kid, but it didn't age as well when the wifey and I tried to watch it about 5 years ago.

Most of the filming for that show was done in LA on a set but they did do some filming around the Boston area where Banacek was based. For one episode they rented a storefront in my town and turned it into a coin laundry.

The ladies with bird hands were quite upset that a gauche coin laundry had moved into town and made quite a stink until it was pointed out it was tv set.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 15, 2025 10:36 AM (viF8m)

234 The ripples from the art thread spread in ever widening rings.
Posted by: JTB

More wretching than ripples here.

Posted by: Gag Me With A spoon at December 15, 2025 10:37 AM (oftw2)

235 No, because it's a stabbing of both of them. A simple robber would use a gun; easier, less risk. Stabbing comes from an intense personal hatred and anger by the perp, a desire to inflict as much pain and terror as possible.
Posted by: Tom Servo
=====
Or from Turd Worlders that come from knife cultures. Like Muzzies among others.

Posted by: whig at December 15, 2025 10:37 AM (WDjG6)

236 FBI arrests alleged pro-Palestinian group members accused of planning New Year's Eve bombings in LA

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New Year's Eve is a Jewish plot!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 15, 2025 10:37 AM (L/fGl)

237 The Kirk nonsense isn’t academia or whatever. It’s sick people who are being led by grifters like candy Owens and Jimmy Dore. It’s not even a left vs right thing. Jimmy Dore is a Bernie Bro and Candy is whatever the fuck is she is. It’s not even political it’s nihilism. Burn it all down mentality.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 15, 2025 10:37 AM (udlma)

238 South Carolina prison guards intercept drone delivery of weed, cigarettes, steak, crab legs, and Old Bay seasoning

Sounds like the guards had an impromptu Christmas party that night.

Posted by: t-bird at December 15, 2025 10:39 AM (Bq1P8)

239
Honda waves... from the 70s.
Posted by: man at December 15, 2025 10:36 AM (XuXeR)

Where Honda largely failed with it, Ferrari will fart in their general direction in the long run.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 15, 2025 10:39 AM (Zz0t1)

240 "We do not have the luxury of endless academic debates about Islam vs Islamism while our national identity, sovereignty, and social cohesion are collapsing.

Political Islam has an objective.

It is organised.

It is patient.

And it advances by exploiting the weakness of Western elites"

Posted by: runner at December 15, 2025 10:39 AM (g47mK)

241 What's "LA?"

$20, same as in town.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at December 15, 2025 10:39 AM (Kt19C)

242 As does coffee."

"C'est marquis, French Roast"

Posted by: man at December 15, 2025 10:39 AM (XuXeR)

243 >>New Year's Eve is a Jewish plot!

Paris has already cancelled their New Year's Eve festival and numerous Christmas Markets have either been curtailed or cancelled altogether.

Anything we hold sacred or celebrate is being attacked. It's not random.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 15, 2025 10:39 AM (viF8m)

244 Given its Hollywood there is a decent chance Reiner’s kid was molested by either his parents or people his parents knew and looked the other way.

That’s the kind of rage that leads to stabbing your victims instead of shooting them.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 15, 2025 10:40 AM (udlma)

245 Ferrari will fart in their general direction"

Or have their wealthy clients thinking it's a "feature "...

Posted by: man at December 15, 2025 10:41 AM (XuXeR)

246
Anything we hold sacred or celebrate is being attacked. It's not random.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 15, 2025 10:39 AM (viF8m)

And our 'elites' are allowing it, aiding it and actively participating in it.

Again, they think they'll have a seat at the table when the one islhamic world is in place.

They won't.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 15, 2025 10:41 AM (Zz0t1)

247 Nobody walks in L.A.
Posted by: Cow Demon

I don't know how they can afford to drive.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 15, 2025 10:41 AM (QVuuq)

248 The sad reality is terrorism works.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 15, 2025 10:41 AM (udlma)

249 I remember after 9/11 we were on red alert for years, especially as the War started. No one was cancelling football games, or Christmas. We just invested shitton into security.

Posted by: runner at December 15, 2025 10:42 AM (g47mK)

250 M.A. Rothman on Facebook is the one who stated cage Aussue hero was Christian.
He quoted someone off X.

https://tinyurl.com/yayf4tad

Posted by: Erebus- Ex Killer Whale at December 15, 2025 10:42 AM (oWCdy)

251 This then later went to France from Austria, and then to Britain from France which is why we think its French
____

In France, croissants are part of the 'pâtisseries viennoises' that are the middle ground between pastries and breads. French have their own words for everything.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 15, 2025 10:42 AM (Dv3i1)

252 There was a story that Nick Reiner was transitioning.

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at December 15, 2025 10:42 AM (2J/Lj)

253 And it advances by exploiting the weakness of Western elites"

The left thinks Islamists are useful idiots helping it implement its model

Islamists think leftists are useful idiots helping them implement their model

Posted by: 18-1 at December 15, 2025 10:42 AM (sKqQm)

254 That’s the kind of rage that leads to stabbing your victims instead of shooting them.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 15, 2025 10:40 AM (udlma)

*sideyes trans-kids as fashion accessories*

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 15, 2025 10:43 AM (dK+Kv)

255
My point is when you type "LA" it could mean a few things.

Twitter has made Americans ILLITERATE BABOONS.

And I hate fucking baboons.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 15, 2025 10:43 AM (KPKlu)

256 There's apparently a gummint program to give free alcohol to homeless people.

Cost: $5 million per annum
Number of clients served: 20
Location: San Francisco. Because of course it is... had to be either there or Portland

I dunno about you, but I'm pretty sure I could keep 20 alkies in booze for considerably less than $5 million/year. It's not like they're demanding Chateau Lafite Rothschild.

There may be some graft involved in this "program"? Ya think?

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at December 15, 2025 10:43 AM (IG3/x)

257 It’s not even political it’s nihilism. Burn it all down mentality.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 15, 2025 10:37 AM (udlma)

Nah, it's just "the Jews are to blame for everything bad."

It doesn't have any particular group attached. Every group has them. Hell, when the CEO of Samsung was in trouble for some white collar crime he committed, he blamed it on the Jews of
... South Korea?

These are people who think their dog is a secret Jew when he shits on the floor.

Posted by: Sexual Tyrannosaurus at December 15, 2025 10:43 AM (Wi4mf)

258 don't know how they can afford to drive.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 15, 2025 10:41 AM (QVuuq)

It’s always crazy to me how there are so many luxury cars in LA. Like not here’s a bmw or Porsche randomly. Every fucking car is one. And not a 15 year old one either, brand new or close to new.

I’ve heard it said that since traffic is so bad people spend so much time in their cars they value their car more than where they live. So you have people in shitty studio apartments driving $80k cars.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 15, 2025 10:44 AM (udlma)

259 Saw a headline this morning that males taking estrogen therapy causes their brain to shrink.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 15, 2025 10:44 AM (Zz0t1)

260 Paris has already cancelled their New Year's Eve festival and numerous Christmas Markets have either been curtailed or cancelled altogether.
____

Curry shops, halal meats and Paki grooming gangs= Diversity!
Western traditions = Not Diversity

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 15, 2025 10:44 AM (Dv3i1)

261 Ferrari is exploring radical oval pistons
—/

Sure and the cost of manufacturing an oval piston engine is 2 orders of magnitude more. Round is inexpensive to make.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at December 15, 2025 10:44 AM (xvV+O)

262 The right and Christianity have no answer to that. Arresting Kirk's assassin or some low level jihadis after a massacre is not the "tit" that would discourage the left's/Islam's tat.

Game theory describes this pretty well.

Posted by: 18-1
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Ireland under the Brits and the breakup of Yugoslavia says differently.

The numbers aren't there yet for the Muslims even in most of Euroland. France is a cipher because of its refusal to do basic demographics---it simply declares everyone there is French. Even in the UK, it is still in single digits (a lot of immigrants to UK are from the Caribbean, India (non Muz) Hindus and Sikhs, and Eastern Europeans.

The difference is Muzzies are concentrated in big cities and thus more noticeable and more assholish. Same in the US with blacks and whites thinking that blacks are about double or triple their actual percentage while underplaying Hispanic numbers.

Posted by: whig at December 15, 2025 10:44 AM (WDjG6)

263
So, a still life

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 15, 2025 10:45 AM (tgvbd)

264
And I hate fucking baboons.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 15, 2025 10:43 AM (KPKlu)

You should stop it, then.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 15, 2025 10:45 AM (Zz0t1)

265 259 Saw a headline this morning that males taking estrogen therapy causes their brain to shrink.
Posted by: Sponge
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Going to lead to rather stupid and predictable cancers, and other health problems like obesity.

Having a bunch of hormones foreign to your genetic makeup is not conducive to a long life and good health.

Posted by: whig at December 15, 2025 10:45 AM (WDjG6)

266 217 What's "LA?"

********

A note to follow SO
Posted by: muldoon

Mi
Posted by: rickb223

FA away from MI

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 15, 2025 10:45 AM (uGpeQ)

267 248 The sad reality is terrorism works.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 15, 2025 10:41 AM (udlma)

Violence works.

Posted by: Cow Demon at December 15, 2025 10:45 AM (rQwsY)

268 There is a non significant number of people who are straight up imbeciles and will believe anything. It’s like Qanon but on steroids.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 15, 2025 10:25 AM (udlma)

There are also a number of people you can pay to believe anything you want them to.

Posted by: ... at December 15, 2025 10:46 AM (zALxA)

269 I suppose that makes it an accurate representation but still not a fan.
Thanks anyway CBD.

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at December 15, 2025 10:32 AM (2J/Lj)

I didn't choose this work for the quality of the art.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 15, 2025 10:46 AM (n9ltV)

270 Ferrari is exploring radical oval pistons

I can't imagine the manufacturing and QA hurdles involved with that. And oval rings?

Posted by: t-bird at December 15, 2025 10:46 AM (Bq1P8)

271 Damn, first we lose the Dulles Expo Center to Ikea, and now we lose a Merrified Garden Center to an effing data center.

Posted by: Bulg at December 15, 2025 10:46 AM (77rzZ)

272 Nah, it's just "the Jews are to blame for everything bad."

It doesn't have any particular group attached. Every group has them. Hell, when the CEO of Samsung was in trouble for some white collar crime he committed, he blamed it on the Jews of
... South Korea?

These are people who think their dog is a secret Jew when he shits on the floor.
Posted by: Sexual Tyrannosaurus at December 15, 2025 10:43 AM (Wi4mf)

That’s part of it. But it’s only one component. The Kirk thing is just weird. It’s like ok the Jews did it. That’s standard go to stuff. But then they added France and Egypt to the mix. And Erika Kirk. And the entire TPUSA leadership. And the CIA is involved as well. It goes beyond the standard “Jews control the world” stuff. It’s so over the top it’s like what the fuck is wrong with you people.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 15, 2025 10:47 AM (udlma)

273 >Where Honda largely failed with it, Ferrari will fart in their general direction in the long run.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 15, 2025 10:39 AM (Zz0t1)

Honda had a fair amount of success with oval piston motors in their GP bikes - notably the RC40. As far as I know, Honda sold a street version in very limited numbers - NSR 750. Too lazy to look it up.

Posted by: Heavy Meta at December 15, 2025 10:47 AM (GTqXr)

274
Sure and the cost of manufacturing an oval piston engine is 2 orders of magnitude more. Round is inexpensive to make.
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at December 15, 2025 10:44 AM (xvV+O)

Ferrari is already making smaller displacement, high revving and more horsepower with round cylinders. The ovals will give them more room for more displacement and more horsepower. Their cars are already $200k and up. What do they care about what's 'inexpensive to make?' They'll still sell out the showrooms.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 15, 2025 10:47 AM (Zz0t1)

275 > Sounds like the guards had an impromptu Christmas party that night.
Posted by: t-bird at December 15, 2025 10:39 AM (Bq1P

There's an old Cold War story... US Embassy in Moscow, New Year's Eve. The embassy staff is drinking, eating, dancing, having a good time. One of them says "Just think about those poor KGB bastards having to sit there on NYE and listen to us party.

Phone rings. They answered it and heard the sound of a champagne cork popping, followed by laughter and hanging up.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at December 15, 2025 10:48 AM (IG3/x)

276 >>>The difference is Muzzies are concentrated in big cities and thus more noticeable and more assholish. Same in the US with blacks and whites thinking that blacks are about double or triple their actual percentage while underplaying Hispanic numbers.
Posted by: whig
----

Headless snakes can't bite.
Snakes can't bite where they don't exist.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 15, 2025 10:48 AM (uGpeQ)

277 Saw a headline this morning that males taking estrogen therapy causes their brain to shrink.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer

And they lose the ability to parallel park.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 15, 2025 10:48 AM (L/fGl)

278 There are also a number of people you can pay to believe anything you want them to.
Posted by: ... at December 15, 2025 10:46 AM (zALxA)

Yeah Candace Owens is absolutely grifting. But her followers are true believers. It’s like Qanon. There are still to this day people convinced it was all real.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 15, 2025 10:48 AM (udlma)

279 258 don't know how they can afford to drive.
Posted by: rickb223
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Short answer, they don't which is why car terms have kept going into longer and longer terms, more and more borrowers for cars are upside down longer, and today's cars may not last through the loan period due to motors and transmission problems due to CAFE bullshit.

Posted by: whig at December 15, 2025 10:48 AM (WDjG6)

280
Having a bunch of hormones foreign to your genetic makeup is not conducive to a long life and good health.
Posted by: whig at December 15, 2025 10:45 AM (WDjG6)

What? How dare you!

Posted by: Ellen "Elliott" Page at December 15, 2025 10:48 AM (Zz0t1)

281 There are also a number of people you can pay to believe anything you want them to.

According to our hospital administrators, vaccines are safe and effective.

Posted by: US Healthcare at December 15, 2025 10:49 AM (+3KVp)

282 Follow the link and read the whole thing.

>>@AGPamBondi
·
39m
>>After an intense investigation, the Department of Justice, working with our @FBI, prevented what would have been a massive and horrific terror plot in the Central District of California (Orange County and Los Angeles).

https://tinyurl.com/yc8b7x2c

Posted by: JackStraw at December 15, 2025 10:49 AM (viF8m)

283
And they lose the ability to parallel park.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 15, 2025 10:48 AM (L/fGl)

And understand normal thinking.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 15, 2025 10:49 AM (Zz0t1)

284 RIP Rob Reiner and his wife.

God grant him grace.

Posted by: Axeman at December 15, 2025 10:49 AM (krQz2)

285 Those Brown U shooting press conferences are like sit coms. They need to add laugh tracks. The gay, clueless mayor. The illegal alien police chief. The alzheimer's governor. The DEI University president. The angry lead investigator with 30 years' experience who ain't taking no crap from nobody. We could call it "Blue City Blues."

Posted by: Squidneck at December 15, 2025 10:49 AM (qUkBO)

286
According to our hospital administrators, vaccines are safe and effective.
Posted by: US Healthcare at December 15, 2025 10:49 AM (+3KVp)

It's is what Pfizer keeps telling me in all their commercials. It MUST be true, right?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 15, 2025 10:50 AM (Zz0t1)

287 There's an old Cold War story... US Embassy in Moscow, New Year's Eve. The embassy staff is drinking, eating, dancing, having a good time. One of them says "Just think about those poor KGB bastards having to sit there on NYE and listen to us party.

Phone rings. They answered it and heard the sound of a champagne cork popping, followed by laughter and hanging up.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia

That's funny.

Posted by: Bulg at December 15, 2025 10:50 AM (77rzZ)

288 Globalize the Intifada?
The response will be global if they get their wish.
Posted by: naturalfake at December 15, 2025 10:07 AM (iJfKG)

From the world's reaction so far.......it won't happen. The west has lost its courage and the core values it once had. The world, except for Russia, China, and Japan is submitting.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at December 15, 2025 10:50 AM (g8Ew8)

289 I understand that Carl Reiner was a big lib, too. But at least he was quiet about it.

Posted by: Bulg at December 15, 2025 10:51 AM (77rzZ)

290 World, Germany
Germany says it foiled a potential 'Islamist' plot to attack a Christmas market
Authorities said they had arrested five men on suspicion of a plot to plow a vehicle into a Christmas market. It was unclear where the attack was supposed to take place or which market was to be targeted.
Le Monde with AFP, Published and updated yesterday (Paris)

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at December 15, 2025 10:51 AM (NFX2v)

291 And I hate fucking baboons.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 15, 2025 10:43 AM (KPKlu)

---
Baboons aren't too happy with it, either.

Posted by: Axeman at December 15, 2025 10:51 AM (krQz2)

292 My area lost thousands of acres of farmland to Blue Oval and their EV battery boondoggle. A proposed datacenter about 9 miles from me was recently nixed when the public got wind of the idea and opposed it.

The datacenter issue is perplexing. I get that it's popular but nobody's screaming that they can't render flying cats or anime pr0n.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 15, 2025 10:52 AM (NwnyJ)

293 Yeah Candace Owens is absolutely grifting. But her followers are true believers. It’s like Qanon. There are still to this day people convinced it was all real.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 15, 2025 10:48 AM (udlma)

The world will always have dummies, yes, but now more than ever you have to question even the followers and their motives, if they have any reach at all.

Posted by: ... at December 15, 2025 10:52 AM (zALxA)

294 The two cops who stood and watched the Bondi shooters kill people for 20 minutes were both women, and likely DEI hires. The media's quickly trying to cover that up now, of course.

Posted by: Ian S. at December 15, 2025 10:52 AM (oyazo)

295 Yeah Candace Owens is absolutely grifting. But her followers are true believers. It’s like Qanon. There are still to this day people convinced it was all real.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald

About half of any influencer's follower count is peopled by bots and foreign comment mills. And I would suspect her actual US follower account to be well under Turning Point actual members IRL.

Online is bullshit, believing in influencers is bullshit because if you aint paying for it, you are the product being sold to whoever is. No more, no less than the mainstream media is---infotainment to keep the plebes down while the worldwide elites loot the West. Nothing much to loot in most of the Third World.

Posted by: whig at December 15, 2025 10:52 AM (WDjG6)

296 So I’m assuming all the moderate Muslims were constantly told are the majority of Muslims condemned the attack. Right? Riiiiiight?

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 15, 2025 10:53 AM (udlma)

297 I heard Reiner's kid killed them. He's mentally ill and a drug addict.

Posted by: MJ at December 15, 2025 10:53 AM (XOmY9)

298 294 The two cops who stood and watched the Bondi shooters kill people for 20 minutes were both women, and likely DEI hires. The media's quickly trying to cover that up now, of course.
Posted by: Ian S.
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To be fair, they blew their whistles and said, "Stop, or I shall say Stop again!"

Posted by: whig at December 15, 2025 10:53 AM (WDjG6)

299 222 ... "South Carolina prison guards intercept drone delivery of weed, cigarettes, steak, crab legs, and Old Bay seasoning

Posted by: SMOD at December 15, 2025 10:31 AM (RHGPo)

I didn't even know Jackstraw was arrested."

Old Bay is for Marylanders. In Rhode Island they use melted butter with lemon. (Unless the Old Bay encroachment has reached that far north.)

Posted by: JTB at December 15, 2025 10:53 AM (yTvNw)

300 Know islham, no peace.

No islham, know peace.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 15, 2025 10:53 AM (Zz0t1)

301 Saw a headline this morning that males taking estrogen therapy causes their brain to shrink.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer

And they lose the ability to parallel park.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 15, 2025 10:48 AM (L/fGl)

And they become terribly afraid of breaking their fingernails.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at December 15, 2025 10:54 AM (g8Ew8)

302 R A W S A L E R T S@rawsalerts 13h

The Brown University mass shooter has been officially identified as 24-year-old Wisconsin native Benjamin Erickson

@rawsalerts . . 11h

At this time, law enforcement says the person of interest, Benjamin Warren Erickson, who was previously detained, who they thought was in the connection to the Brown University shooting, has been released after investigators determined he was not involved.

The gunman remains at large

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 15, 2025 10:54 AM (uGpeQ)

303 Phone rings. They answered it and heard the sound of a champagne cork popping, followed by laughter and hanging up.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia

A college roommate had been stationed in Germany in Army intelligence. His job was to eavesdrop on routine Soviet radio traffic. Every Christmas he and his fellow eavesdroppers would each receive personally addressed Christmas cards from the Kremlin.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 15, 2025 10:54 AM (L/fGl)

304 The two cops who stood and watched the Bondi shooters kill people for 20 minutes were both women, and likely DEI hires. The media's quickly trying to cover that up now, of course.

Posted by: Ian S. at December 15, 2025 10:52 AM (oyazo)

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BREAKING: Muslim Commie Mondami Hires Two Australian Female Cops. Developing ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant and GayFontoPhobe at December 15, 2025 10:54 AM (OgZqo)

305 Did the Ground Zero mosque ever get built?

Posted by: Bulg at December 15, 2025 10:55 AM (77rzZ)

306 297 I heard Reiner's kid killed them. He's mentally ill and a drug addict.
Posted by: MJ

When I heard the news last night, I was thinking either the kid or the Muzzies as they seem to be going on a killing spree. Shot up a house with Hannukah decorations in Redman, CA among other evil acts worldwide. Nasty chancres they are.

Posted by: whig at December 15, 2025 10:55 AM (WDjG6)

307 A fitting Reiner retrospective

>>>So far as his main talent went, he was pretty much finished.

>>>What he had devoted his life to more recently was TDS, and a constant screeching and hypocritical insanity and malice in his politics. He repeatedly tried to equate Republicanism, MAGAism, and traditional US faith and patriotism with Nazism and Fascism, like many other hysterical Democrats have done. After Robert Reich and Robert Di Nero, he may have been the most vituperative, vindictive and vehement critic of Trump and his administrations around, which is a bronze medal in partisan lunacy earned from a very crowded field of competitors.

https://shorturl.at/oKsfe

Jupplandia substack

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 15, 2025 10:55 AM (dK+Kv)

308
"There are no moderate muslhams, only sleeper cells."

- - - - Some Great Man From History

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 15, 2025 10:55 AM (Zz0t1)

309 TPUSA has been addressing all the accusations. If it was just fake bots they would just ignore it. Dismissing everything as just bots is whistling past the graveyard.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 15, 2025 10:55 AM (udlma)

310 Start the clock on "it turns out the Reiner kid is a troon."

Posted by: Sexual Tyrannosaurus at December 15, 2025 10:55 AM (Wi4mf)

311 Second look at Chinese treatment of Uyghurs?

Posted by: mr tmz at December 15, 2025 10:56 AM (rJ48h)

312 "Seems to be an issue affecting memory, etc. and the issue gets worse as the chip structure gets into higher and higher chip densities at smaller and smaller die sizes. Between 2-3 nm nowadays."

You are correct. Rad Hard processors are typically in the 100 of bm. A significant even becomes more likely to disrupt things with the lower voltages used.

Posted by: pawn at December 15, 2025 10:56 AM (EMg+d)

313 Nasty chancres they are.
Posted by: whig

Our attorneys will be in touch.
-- Worldwide Amalgamated Association of Nasty Chancres

Posted by: Bulg at December 15, 2025 10:57 AM (77rzZ)

314 Posted by: Aliassmithsmith at December 15, 2025 10:55 AM (0UpA0)

You DICK!!!!

Posted by: Jeff Spicoli at December 15, 2025 10:57 AM (Zz0t1)

315 Curious to see how Musk plans on avoiding problems from radiation affecting computing results and system stability. Gref might know more about it but I recall even several years ago astronauts discussing having to do reboots several times per day due to cosmic radiation causing bit flips in memory and other issues.

Seems to be an issue affecting memory, etc. and the issue gets worse as the chip structure gets into higher and higher chip densities at smaller and smaller die sizes. Between 2-3 nm nowadays.
Posted by: whig at December 15, 2025 10:32 AM (WDjG6)

Fusion-powered quantum computing with AI-driven error correction.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 15, 2025 10:57 AM (ExV1e)

316 I didn't choose this work for the quality of the art.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 15, 2025 10:46 AM

*nods sagely*

The choice is appreciated.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 15, 2025 10:58 AM (bFu5X)

317 289 I understand that Carl Reiner was a big lib, too. But at least he was quiet about it.
Posted by: Bulg

??? Reiner's personal attacks on Trump never stopped. Further -

Influence Watch
Committee to Investigate Russia
Anti-Trump Administration Advocacy Project
Founders: Rob Reiner

In part, "The Committee to Investigate Russia is a left-of-center non-profit founded in 2017 by actor, film producer, and longtime left-progressive activist Rob Reiner.

The Committee provided a left-of-center, anti-Trump perspective on Russia’s influence on America’s elections. Until its disbandment on March 29, 2019 after the issuance of the report of U.S. Department of Justice Special Counsel Robert Mueller, the Committee’s operations were primarily limited to operating a website, InvestigateRussia org, to aggregate news related to Russia’s election interference in the U.S. and research aggregation related to overall national security threats from Russia.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at December 15, 2025 10:58 AM (NFX2v)

318 And of course…

Headline: Australian leaders promise to tighten gun laws after Bondi Beach Hanukkah massacre

Yeah that’s the problem. You didn’t ban guns enough.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 15, 2025 10:58 AM (udlma)

319
Fusion-powered quantum computing with AI-driven error correction.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 15, 2025 10:57 AM (ExV1e)

Oh, that'll work........

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 15, 2025 10:58 AM (Zz0t1)

320 What? How dare you!

Posted by: Ellen "Elliott" Page
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Easily I dare, my Lord and Savior wants eternal Truths to be our guide, not human foolishness.

SAS motto is pretty good for Christians too--Who Dares, Wins. Dare to be saved.

Posted by: whig at December 15, 2025 10:58 AM (WDjG6)

321 I heard Reiner's kid killed them. He's mentally ill and a drug addict.
Posted by: MJ at December 15, 2025 10:53 AM (XOmY9)

=====

He's been arrested and booked on felony murder charges.

Posted by: Jordan61 at December 15, 2025 10:59 AM (DRSnL)

322 >>Curious to see how Musk plans on avoiding problems from radiation affecting computing results and system stability.

I'm curious how he is going to get a tech to the floating data center every time a server needs to be whacked on the side or turned off and back on.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 15, 2025 10:59 AM (viF8m)

323 Fusion-powered quantum computing with AI-driven error correction.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic
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Oh boy. I can hardly wait. /sarc

Posted by: whig at December 15, 2025 11:00 AM (WDjG6)

324 Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant and GayFontoPhobe at December 15, 2025 10:36 AM (pTQH2)

********

An outhouse picture labelled "Muldoon's Liberry" was featured on Oregon Muse's Book Thread way back around 10 years ago.

Posted by: muldoon at December 15, 2025 11:00 AM (/iMjX)

325 282 Follow the link and read the whole thing.

>>@AGPamBondi
·
39m
>>After an intense investigation, the Department of Justice, working with our @FBI, prevented what would have been a massive and horrific terror plot in the Central District of California (Orange County and Los Angeles).

https://tinyurl.com/yc8b7x2c
Posted by: JackStraw
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This is everyday work. They are supposed to be exceptional people this is what we expect of them every day.

Bondi & Company were put in place to exceed expectations.
DOJ has done nothing, no thing, that has exceeded our natural expectations of everyday FBI.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 15, 2025 11:00 AM (uGpeQ)

326 NOODlum.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 15, 2025 11:01 AM (Zz0t1)

327 U nas yest' NOOD.

Posted by: Bulg at December 15, 2025 11:01 AM (77rzZ)

328 >>He's been arrested and booked on felony murder charges.

Seems he won't have to worry about being homeless any longer. Three hots and a cot courtesy of taxpayers.

Posted by: one hour sober at December 15, 2025 11:01 AM (Y1sOo)

329 Rant up

Posted by: rickb223 at December 15, 2025 11:01 AM (QVuuq)

330 I heard Reiner's kid killed them. He's mentally ill and a drug addict.
Posted by: MJ
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Apple, tree, measuring stick....

Posted by: Axeman at December 15, 2025 11:01 AM (krQz2)

331 You are correct. Rad Hard processors are typically in the 100 of bm. A significant even becomes more likely to disrupt things with the lower voltages used.
Posted by: pawn
========
Wonderful.

Posted by: whig at December 15, 2025 11:01 AM (WDjG6)

332 Hello, DOJ, bring the tyrants to justice or resign.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 15, 2025 11:01 AM (uGpeQ)

333 And they say the schools aren't good at teaching economics!

https://is.gd/JYPn8y

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 15, 2025 11:03 AM (L/fGl)

334 I gave my girl a Vienna sausage and after that she proposed to me, but I had to turn her down, - I didn't want to live in Vienna.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 15, 2025 11:04 AM (1zOXE)

335 This is everyday work. They are supposed to be exceptional people this is what we expect of them every day.

Bondi & Company were put in place to exceed expectations.
DOJ has done nothing, no thing, that has exceeded our natural expectations of everyday FBI.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 15, 2025 11:00 AM (uGpeQ)

To be fair, exceeding expectations is stopping all the leftist protection rackets, political imprisonment, and leftist lawfare and getting back to everyday work.

Blondi/Patel have met that, mostly, but I had admittedly low expectations for American stasi reform.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 15, 2025 11:05 AM (dK+Kv)

336 272 That’s part of it. But it’s only one component. The Kirk thing is just weird. It’s like ok the Jews did it. That’s standard go to stuff. But then they added France and Egypt to the mix. And Erika Kirk. And the entire TPUSA leadership. And the CIA is involved as well. It goes beyond the standard “Jews control the world” stuff. It’s so over the top it’s like what the fuck is wrong with you people.

charlie kirk was getting to close to the truth about the moon "landing".

Posted by: reliable sources at December 15, 2025 11:07 AM (v3pYe)

337 334 I gave my girl a Vienna sausage and after that she proposed to me

not gonna check urban dictionary. wouldn't be prudent.

Posted by: anachronda at December 15, 2025 11:08 AM (v3pYe)

338 Benny Johnson@bennyjohnson . 2h

Ella Cook was just 19 years old—a Conservative, a Christian, and Vice President of the Republican Club at Brown University. If you still don’t see what’s happening, you haven’t been paying attention.

Just this year alone:
- Tricia McLaughlin threatened w/ public execution
- 2 National Guard troops shot in DC
- seditious 6 Democrats claiming President Trump telling the military to not follow orders
- Jay Jones fantasizing about murdering Republicans & their children wins election in Virginia
- President Trump experiencing 2 assassination attempts
- Charlie Kirk assassinated on live TV, the left celebrated
- Attacks on ICE officers skyrocketed over 1000%
- LA Riots and terror attacks
- Leftist sniper murders 3 at ICE facility in Texas
- Massive violent riots at ICE facility in Broadview, IL & Portland OR
- Annunciation Catholic Church children shot while praying by left wing Trump-hating transgender
- ABC News stations shot up
- Alina Habba attacked
- Ed Martin Attacked
- Rogue judges releasing career criminals onto streets, terrorizing Americans

The left’s violent rhetoric has turned into nationwide violence. If we don’t crush this thre

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 15, 2025 11:10 AM (uGpeQ)

339 312 Second look at Chinese treatment of Uyghurs?
Posted by: mr tmz

China seems accepting of Chinese Muslims.
For example, "The Hui people[a] are an East Asian ethnoreligious group predominantly composed of Chinese-speaking adherents of Islam. They are distributed throughout China, mainly in the northwestern provinces and in the Zhongyuan region. According to the 2020 census, China is home to approximately 11.3 million Hui people." Wikipedia.)

Uyghurs are the second-largest predominantly Muslim ethnicity in China, after the Hui, and Sunni Islam is an important aspect of Uyghur identity. The Uyghurs and other Turkic Muslim minorities in Xinjiang is where the major discrimination and abuses have been alleged.

>USHMM org - US Responses to China’s Crimes Against the Uyghurs, Jan. 19, 2021

CBS News, Rebranding China's conflicted Xinjiang region as a tourist destination, Jan. 7, 2024

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at December 15, 2025 11:17 AM (NFX2v)

340 Venimus, vidimus et Deus Vicit

Gonna' need another one of those soon.

Posted by: JML at December 15, 2025 11:26 AM (EtRph)

341 167 Were the Aussie women police told to stand down while the shooting kept going on for 45 mins cowardly or told to stand down? I could believe either at this point.
Posted by: Chuck Martel

🤷‍♀️

But an Aussie, female police officer stopped (shot and killed) Joel Cauchi who stabbed and killed six people and injured a further twelve in the Westfield Bondi Junction shopping centre in the eastern suburbs of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, April 2024.

Joel was targeting women.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at December 15, 2025 12:04 PM (NFX2v)

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